SFMWER LODOPJOS. AH! my Tisart is weary waiting. Waiting forth® May— Watting for the pieaxaot rambiea Where the fnurrant hawthorn hraiuh.ev. With the woodbine alternating. Scent (he dewy way. Ah! my heart Is weary watting. Waiting for the May. Waiting wkl, dejected, weary, Watting for the May. Spring goes by with wasted warnings. Moonlit evenings, suubrlght morning*. Summer comes yet dark and dreaajr Life still ebbs away. Mau is ever weary, weary, Waiting for the May 1 TOWN AND COUNTRY. Well, well, I wish you'd make haste aud decide," said Mr. Worthingtou, a trifle testily, to his deliberating wife aud daughter. Mr. Wortliington, who had worked his way from a oountry farmhouse to a Western! mansion, though proud of his aristocratic wife aud daughter, feebly resented this annual outlay, and was in clined to ill-temper accordingly. "I suggest Brighton," said Miss Worthingtou, whose emphasis on the pronoun seemed to seal the suggestion. "Or Hastings," sighed mamma, xe floctirelY. "No," ooolly vetoed Cordelia," "we've been there so often. "Now let me see." And heedless of irate papa's impati enoe, she fell to meditating. "What shall we do with Bert ?" she questioned, oareles&ly lookiug up, as though Bert were a superfluous piece of furniture, scarcely worth the price ol storage. "Leave her at home with Miss Mills,' said her mother promptly. "A child like that should not neglect her studies for amusement." As papa stood on the hearthrug, dang ling his gold seals and inwardly fuming, there was the ripple of a light langb without the oaken doors of the break fast-room ; then a quick rush downstairs the last three cleared with a leap—a rapid turn of the handle, and startling all, flushed, panting, laughing, a slim young figure burst into the room. "Bertha 1" . Mamma's voice was stern with digni fied reproof. "Beg pardon, all! "I thought breakfast was over. "Hector and I were having a run in the yard, you know. • 'How he barked ! "Did yon hear him, Cordelia? "And when I weut upstairs, there was Hector behind me, and—" "We are not interested iu the exploits of your canine oompanion,' interrupted her elder sister's smooth tones. "We were discussing something more important." "Oh I" Bertie said, apologetically, feeling sligntly crushed, aud still stand ing with her back against the door. The keen May sunshine showed the two faces Cordelia's regular-featured, pale, proud-lipped, with light-blue eyes, iuid masses of dim-gold hair coiled sinootlily behind her head ; and Bertie's —well, not exactly pretty, but infinitely more charming than that of the ac knowledged beauty of the family, Her long, thick hair was blown into loose waves by the cool morning wind ; her eyes were shining ; her cheeks as bright as wild poppies. "It shall be Brighton," decided Cor delia. rising, at last. "Going to Brighton ?" cried Bertie, the irrepressible. "Why don't you go to West Row ?" "West Row," scornfully. "Where is West Row V" And she condescended to look at her younger sister as she said it. "Why, don't you know—really ? "It's the place where Cousin Saman tha lives. "Way out in the country somewhere." "What a lucid explanation," sneering ly. " 'Way out in the country some where !' Well, we do not purpose spend ing the summer in a common farmhouse, with country boors for associates " "Cordelia!"—the fresh, young voice rang out in indignant reproof—"you ought to be ashamed of yourself, "If it is a common farmhouse, it was good enough for papa, and ought to surely be good enough for us. "Country boors 1 "I just wish some of yotir languid nonentities from the HSithetio Club were half such thorough gentlemen, that's all," "Bravo, Bert! "You're your father's daughter, every inch of you," cried Caleb Wortbingtou's voice, in ringing approval "It's the j oiliest old place under the sun, if it is a common farmhouse, aud I'll take you down there this Juue. "Bee if I don't." And, surprised into forgetting his pomposity, he caught his fayorite in his arms and gave her a bounding kiss. "Will you ? "Do you mean it ?" ' "Mean it? "Blest if I don't! "But 1 say, Bert," as the others up liftedly left the room, "what made you take up the cudgels,for the West Row boyB? "Was it," quizzically pinching a warm velvet cheek—"was it because ol the lad I introduced to you in my office last September? "A deuced fine fellow, eh ? "Were you thinking of him, Miss Di plomacy ?" But, blushing furiously, Bert shook her head with suspiciously emphatic decision, and, slipping from her father's arm, ran out of the room. So, when city aristocrats were crowd ing to the green gloomy of forest soli tudes. or the crush and glitter of a fash ionable watering-plrce, the names of Mrs. and Miss Worthington appeared upon the hotel register of the Royal Hotel, Brighton. And the same day Caleb Wortliington took a long glorious holiday, and cor- ried Bertie off to his native town —a straggling world-forgotten little place among the hills. And in the long scouted summer days that followed, the girl grew to love everything animate and inanimate round Poppy Farm. One evening she loitered in the great sloping gardens before the veraudnhed green shuttered house. Such gardens 1 Not the painfully regular Dutch dia grams we city folks boast—prim, con cise, boxliedge—but whole sheets of color, fragrant, luxuriant, bloomful. A gentleman passing, young, good looking, grey-clad, paused suddenly outside the low rustic fence. A moment more and he had vaulttxl over and was standing, bareheaded, at Bertie's side. . "Miss Wortliiugton, nmy I ho]>e lam not forgotten ?" "Mr, Carlyn 1* She held out a little tmined hand, a hot glow kindling under the big straw gardening-hat, "I have been-absent from West Row sometime," he said, looking quizzically at the bright changeful face under the shadow hat ; "but Mrs. Dent and I are very old frienus. "So being terribly behind-hand in my visits to Poppy Farm, 1 iuteud uow to take advantage of the weather and atone for my neglect." Somehow' Bertie fell to thiuking that, night, as she sat iu the shadow of the rosy chintz curaius, of Cordelia's last scornful words— "l suppose you 11 have some country admirers in that almost mythical West Row, but dou't lose your heart, Bertie. "They're all the same, these rustic beaux awkward, blushing, stupid." And then she thought of Reul>eu Car lyu's easy courteous manner, his quiet gentlemanly graee "And if Mr. Carlyn is a country far mer, Mr. Moon," said Bertie coolly, apostrophizing the placid smiling face ui the skv above her, "I—well, I don't really dislike country farmers, that's all.' And three days later she wrote Cor delia a long recrossed letter, saying she was going to marry a West Row boy and live in West Row for ever." And Cordelia replied frigidly that they had always known (Bertie) would disgrace the family. "Yon don't mind being a farmer's wife, pet?" Reul>en questioned eagerly. "Miud ? "Of course I mind, sir. "But when there is no other way of satisfying a troublesome boy "Bv-the-way, when shall I see the farm ?" "Soon, my darling." Caleb Wortliington chuckled aud laughed as he read Cordelia's letter. "Pack up, Bertie ; we must be home as soon as mamma. "Our pleasant holiday is over. "Don't look so forlorn, little one, Carlyn's oomiug up too," It was evening when the trio reached the city. The carriage rolled through the fashionable thoroughfares aud stopped before a great mansion. Lights gleamed from within, lace cur tains fluttered at the windows. Reuben sprang out and held his hand to Bertie. Bewildered, she passed with him, her father following, up the steps and into the long lighted drawing-room. A little silver-haired old lady, iu a dark rustling silk, came briskly forward. "Welcome, my dear. "Don't you know me ? "I'm Reuben's mother." And then, as in a dream, Bertie saw her father shaking hands with the dimin utive person in black, and Reuben bias ing her heartily. Then as Caleb Worthingtou caught sight of Bertie's bewildered face, he burst into a shout of laughter. "It is all right, Bert; but what a con spiracy it was to be sure. "Reuben's the sou of my old friend Jim Carlyn. "He was badly smitten that day in my office, and got up the romantic no tion of winning you for love. "He's done it, my girl, he's done it." "And aren't you a country farmer ?" Reuben laughed, and caught the little wondering face in liis whits bauds. "I'm a West Row boy, was born and lived there, own a nice place dowu there to-day ; but this is my only farmhouse, little woman. "Are you sorry?" "And now you've had a glimpse of your domain, hurry up, Bert, for mam ma's expecting us at home," oried Mr. Wortliington. And Bertie laughed—a little, happy, hysterical laugh—and hid her face on her lover's breast. "Oh, I'm so glad. "You naughty papa." Then, womanlike— "What will Cordelia say ?" But Bertie, so happy in her beautiful home and her husband's royal love, could not hear Cordelia's murmur of rebellious resignation— "lt is kismet. "That child to win the witch of the season. "It was West Row versus Brighton. Dear me !" Archer, the ifockny. Archer, the famous jockey, is to be married Christmas to one of the pret tiest girls in Newmarket, the daughter ef John Dawson, the trainer. Archer is building a house at Newmarket of red brick, with deep stone dressing, and handsomely decorated. It has orna mental and kitchen gardens, stables, hot-houses, an elegant conservatory and every comfort, including an enormous mastiff. There is a private Turkish bath, in which Aroher proposes to keep himself down to all but skeleton weight. He cannot take walking exercise. He is worth invested for him by .Lord Falniw&h iu solid securities.. IKT.-' ' W - T A peculiar Custom. When a Chinaman And* himself financially embarrassed aud is in need of money he does not do as other peo ple do, borrow it, aud eithei v• a promissory note or chattel mort age as security for the same, but he forms what in Chiuese i* called an "owey." This is something which is peculiarly Chinese and requires a minute explana tion iu order that it may be clearly un derstood, The lowest "owey" is Axial at SI for each person forming it and the highest S2OO. For instance, if a Chi naman needs SIOO he will call on a num ber of his friends, uot to oxoced ten, aud tell them that lie wishes that | amount of money aud desires to form an "owey." If it is decided thut it shall be a S2O "owey,"then Ave person in addition to i.Jio originator combine. For the purpose of explaining the "owey" the originator will be desig nated as Sam and his live friends as Yow, Yen, Kow, Chew and Hing. At the tirst meeting of the six the origina tor receives In.m each of the other Ave S2O, making up the amount he requires. This is a loan made to him without in terest, which he must repay at the rate of S2O per month. At the time this sum is advanoed the other live bid for the privilege of the "owey" for the ruuning mouth. Each one writes on a slip of paper the amount of the pre mium he will give. These slips are rolled separately and thrown into a bowl aud sliakcu up, after which each slip is unrolled aud the amount noted. The "owey" is then awarded to the oue having bid the highest premium. Yow having bid $1 premium, Yen, Kow, Chew aud Hing each pay $lO, which is the amount - less the premium, ami amounting in all to S7O; and if lie adds the amount of his own contribution it will make a total of S9O, or equal to the amount advanced to Sam less $4, which is reckoned as interest, allowing $1 for each of the four who advance the mouey. At the close of the Arst month Sam, the originator, is, by the rules which govern this system of mouev lending, forced to notify all who belong to the "owey" of the next meeting. At this meeting Yen, Kow, Chow and Hing are the only ones who are permitted to offer a premium, Sam and Yow having no voice in the matter. At this meet ing the premium ol $1 is again offered, and it having been awarded to Yen the other three pay him sl9 each, and Sam aud Yen repay their tirst monthly in stallment of S2O each. At the next meeting only three, Kow, Chew and Hing, can bid, and if the same amount j of premium is bid aud it is awarded to the tirst of tlie three named, the other two pay him sl9 each, while the other three, Sam, Yow aud Yen, pay him s2< each. At the next meeting only two, ; Chew and Hing, arc permitted to offer a premium, The oue to whom the "owey" is awarded receives from the other the amount, less the premium, and from the other four S2O each. At the next and last moeting, only one re maining, he receives from the other Ave S2O each, making the full sum of SIOO. By this method the originator of the "owey," who obtains the money with out interest, has the use of SIOO for one month, SHO for four months, SOO for i three mouths, S4O for two months, and I S2O for one month. In return for the nse of the money he is forced to net us collector from the other members of the "owey," who are required to pay the ' monthly instalments of S2O. He also assumes a risk, aud that is, if any mem ber of the "owey" does not pay at the appointed time he has to be responsibie for the amount due. The other mem bers of the "owey," who by instal ment advance money to one another, receive intere for the amount of their advances and each in turn has the use of the total amount of the "owey" iu the same proportion as the originator. This method of money lending is in yogue among all classes, and women often form "oweys" among themselves. Wnen the slips of paper before alluded j to are drawn from the bowl it often hap pens that two or more contain the same amount of premium. In such an event the "owey" is given to the one whose slip is tirst drawn. The "owey" may be composed of any number uot exceeding ten besides the originator, and the greatest amount that may be raised by such means is $2,000. Whenever an "owey" is formed and the amount to be awarded to the originator is SSOO, or in excess thereof, he is required to treat those who loan liim the money to a din ner not to cost less than $2 a head. Oftentimes a high premium is bid for the privilege of the "owey" for each succeeding month, and this gives the lenders considerable interest for the use of their money. met Hl® J>f-trtft. The man who travels on the railroad aud sits down by the side of lone fe males and tells them that he recognizes a likeness of their faces to his wile's sister, met his deserts on one of the roads lately. He sat down in the half of a scat, the other half of \hich was occupied by a pleasant-faced young lady. He looked at her, as such fellows will, and then said : "Pardon me, miss, but is your name James? I have a oousin of that name whom you greatly resemble." "No, sir," was the reply ; "my name is not James. But I think I must ask you to pardon me if I ask is your name Copper?" "Zinc or Copper? No, ma'am,"said the man. "What led you to suppose I had such names ?" "Pray excuse me," was the quiet re ply, * 'but I thought you must be a first cousin to a brass foundry." The man knocked over a bird cage iu his haste to get into the. smoking oar, while the young lady quietly smiled behind her handkerchief. Jim'* OJ'tlet I'.urml. There wn§£ strangvr funeral from tbe undertaker's thop 8J Greenwich street. New York, the other afternoon. No min ister, no weeping relatives, no flowers, no tears were to lc seen. Only a coufde of dozen muiiV. then went into the shop, sin gly or iu couples, and look a look at I lie corpse, it was'rbe body of a uiao of SO, with a tiigli forffliead, prominent nose, ami the expression of a man who had seen lite ut some of its roughest places. Toe un dertaker sal 1: "there .is no use iu publishing him. His last request was that it should be kept seen t, iK-eause da' not wish iuk poor old mother tq know pf it. She is 70 years old, ami liv/bjf "ill '* a con fort able home down Euet, which he provided for her. Ho said it would not do any good to let her know lie wus dead." "lit whs the slickest handed man that ever tossed a pasteboard,"" said one of the bystanders to,a reporter. "He went by the name of Jordan, but his real name was Btuee. He. was well known among the sporting fraternity a* the original 'Slim Jinn king pt the three ea\d nmijtc men.' His real jiame was j ames firuoe, and tie was a farmer down In .Malta up to lNrttV One day he went to a county fair and faw a man. tossing the three cards. He .thought he could pick out the little joker. It lKked so easy to make $5 by saying 'that's the'card,' when he saw the corner turned. He bet and lost, aud bet and lost as many a greenhorn has done before and since. In trying to get $24 out of the the three card mouie man, on what lie thought a mire thing, he lost $25. Then to? made up his mind it would be ft good game to learu. lie learn ed it so well that he made over #400,000 out of it. "Jim was 5 feet 11 idches tall, weighed 150 pounds, had a suuoth face anujlooked like a natural verdant or 'sucker.' To look at hun when lie was made up !r business you would think hiju a country lout, who needul to be taken eate of. He used to wear a suit o! 'dungarees,' or brown coun try garments, that made him look like u farmer's man in store clothes. When lie got on those dungarees, with u straw hat, lug lands wi'h his psnialoons tucked in, and a hunk of gingerbread, he was reaoy to skin auy countryman that ever tried to roh a monte muu, bv pretending to guess a card when he thought ho had it sure. "Jim, dressed in this rig, would stum ble into an ex pi ess train at a country sta tion, sprawl over the floor, spill a few oiu of a-bag of f2o gold pieces, swear that he had been roitied of a part of the money lie had got lor selling ids hum, and in a clumsy way bring out the cards to show how the gamblers got the best of him. Ills cappers or confidants would gather about and soou Jim would have a flr>t class game under way. Ihe greenhorns would be sure to bite, Jim would turn up the corner of the ace in such a clumsy way arid let them win ale w times to get them excited. '1 hen the a mplelons would oel all they had, aud Jim would scoop it. "For years Jim has been known-at races fairs, ami on the principal railroads. He worked them aI J as long as he could. He was very successful on the Union Pacific ami Central Pacific Kailrocds, and was ihe best 'sure thing* gambler m America. He was ttie equal of the ceiebrutcd 'Canada Hill," the three card monte man who died in Philadelphia recently. ' Jiui offerid Ihe Union Paciuc K dlr >a<i Company $lO OOU for permis-iou to ply his game on their road in I.sJC, and agreed that he would uot llcece anybody but dea cons ui d clergymen, lie used to say that it was a perfectly lair thing to swindle the pious people who were trying to cheat others by betting on what they thought was a sure thing. "Jim was well known in Utah, Califor nia, Nevada, ar.d, in fact, throughout the West. Olten the rai road companies would put detectives ailer him to keep film off the trains. Luturiy lie worked the trains between New York and Washington He was not without syjnp iftiy. It he won from a man who could afford to lose be would not care how much he lea k away from him. Hut, if he thought the victim could not spare it, he would give hack part of the money with the cod advice: 'Don't gamble; don't even bet that you are alive.' "Jim was registered at (bo P*rk Hotel, Mat Goodereou's old place, as Jatues Jor dan and by that name lie was generally known. Two weeks previous to his death he wa9 out with som friends preity well on to Sunday morning He gt sen filing, all in fun with Mat Carroll. Carroll goi irto a sen file with another man and shot at him hitting Jim t>y- mistake. Tne ball lodged in the groin and he was taken to Belle vue Hospital, where he died. Some of the boys visited him in the Hospital, and did what they cou'.tl for him. They raie slTiOtobury hini decently, acd some of the in sat up with the body on the last night. Who were thevf Well, perhaps there is no use saying who they wore, as the man was crooked. But, though he was a crooked man, he had a good heart, and many is the dollar he took from those who could afford to lose it and gave it to some poor emigrant without a dollar in the world." The facts with regard to the shooting of Bruce were as follows: On a Sunday af ternoon a shot was heard in Park How, and immediately afterward a thin man limped across the rood to Frankfort street, a stout man fell ou his back on the foot way, and a man in aw hite slouch hat was seen running along the sidewalk toward the aide walk toward the postoffloe with a revolver in his hand. He was pursued and arrested. In the Oak street station he was accused by the fat man, who said his name was Maxwell, of having tired at him. The prisoner was identified as ''Bos ton Jack," a confidence man. In the meantime a reporter had found that the thin man. who had been forgotten in the excitement, had been wounded In the thigh, and that his name was James L. Jordan. He was taken In an ambulance to Chambers Street Hospital, where it was found that the ball had passed through the thigh. He said he was 32 years old, had been in the city two or three years, and was living at 9 Chatham street. He would give no further information, lie was sent to Bellevue the same evening. This was James Bruce, alias Jordan. Bos ton Jack, who gave his name as Frank Hamsley, and Maxwell were brought be fore Judge Murray the following day. Hamsley was committed, without bail, to await the result of Jordan's injuries, and Maxwell was tined $lO fur being drunk, and was held in SSUO bail to keep the peace for six mouths. Jim, the king of all montc men, was buried iu Weeliawken Cemetery. luYlorrt. One of the notable personages of Rus sia during the last reign was the Em peror's dog "Mylord." The animal was a great lavorite of his master, accom panied him on his various campaigns and was constantly the object of as siduous care. He lias just died of old age m the Princess Dolgoronky's hotel at Pau, and hat been buried In the garden of the villa belonging to General Gaillard. A white marble tablet will be raised over the grave. Pchu* And ThniikMKlTlntc. Thanksgiving was regarded as cacred time in Connecticut a century ago. A negro slave of Governor Huntington, of Norwich, was thoughtlessly chopping wood on a Thursday, Thanksgiving Day in late November, One of the youug ladies called to him, "Sambo, you mustn't cut wood to-day ; it is Sunday." "Sunday," said Sambo, reflectively ; "we no hub baked beans last nigbt." A traveler in prairiedom rode up to a log houso on a Sitnrday as the family wore sitting down to supper. His flrst salutation was, "When did you hear from Connecticut last?" "How did yon know wo were from Connecticut?" "By your beau pot, of course." Was not one of the good dames of those tunes famous throughout the col ony for the thickness and richness of her beau soup, whose husband, it is re ported, invited a Governor or some other dignitary home to dine with him promising him u rare luxury ? It was late, the family had dined, ami the mis tress had gone out for an afternoon visit. "Never mind," said the host, "here is the porridge pot, still ou the crane in the chimney," and forthwith bowls of steaming liquid were spread upon the table. "Wife's soup's not as good us usual to-day, by crumbling bread iut ii they managed to make a meal. At tea the husband said : "My dear, seems to me your beau soup was not as good as common." "Where did you get it?" "Out of the pot 111 the chimney corner." "Bless me," says the horror stricken wife," "that was my dishwater.' Baked beans, baked salt i>ork and rye and ludiuu bread were the luxuries. Beans every Saturday night or the oyen tops would fall in. Why on Saturday night? It was said to be commemora tive. In Indian war times an alarm sent tin* settlers scurrying through the woods to the block-house. It was Sat urday and provisions were short. One lady said she left an oven full of good things and two adventure as men stole through the alder swamps and returned with whole scalps, and the whole garri soned cammuuity made a supper of baked beans and brown bread, and thenceforward the custom prevailed till it hits spread over the Union, along with liasty pudding, to which Barlow dedicated an ode, and succotash, which the Pilgrims learned to make of tiie red Caja* Coilites. ' s L>iril(iliii llclloiiildKUd tlif CUIMIMII. Mr. Duviu, in his most delightful lecture ou "Down the Gulf and by the Sea," lately delivered at Wiunepeg and Hegma, tells the following very clntrac t. ristic story ol the veteran statesman at the head of the Canadian Govern ment: "In due course the party trrived at Quebec. The visit to the Angelicau Cathedral brought ou some new- and original ideas on the subject of church decoration trow Mr lioby, the visit to the Citadel, the St. Louis Hotel aud Mount Hermou Oemetary idso contri buting to the general amusement and interest. And the first chapter of what is really a novel in three chapters concludes with this scene, which we believe is historical, and took place this summer. On reaching the St Louis Hotel tliey saw Sir John McDonald, with liis thoughtful face and dark curls, which still fight hard ageinst the blanching touch of time. He was sur rounded by a lot ot cabmen all crying: "I'll take you, sir, I've a fine horse, Sir John." Then our friends bad the opportunity of witnessing one of those acts which more than even his great ability has endeared Sir John McDonald to a large portion of the Canadian peo ple, Sir John asked whether Jim McCullougli was there. Jim was not there, but a little boy said Jim was on the stand, and lie would fetch him. Many yeare ago, when Parliament met in Quebec, Jim always drove Sir John. Jim now came, old and ragged, driving the worst cab in Quebec. Sir John shook hands with him, inquired how Biddy and the children were, and then amid cheers, in which even the disap pointed cabmen joined, drove off to visit the Governor Ueueral and the Princess Louise." Hrotd. ! This Article of food was transmitted by the Greeks to the Bomans, and either the latier or the Phoenicians may have intro duced trie cultivation of corn into G iul. While, however, the land was maiDly coven d with immense forests a long time must have elapsed before the practice of eating acorns, chestnuts, and beeoh mast was abandoned, and even when corn was regularly crown, ripened and harvested, the grains were merely plucked from the ear and eaten raw or slig'jtly parched. The next step was to infuse the grains in hot water for the nmkiug of a species of gruel or porridge, nbd a long time afterward it may have occurred to some bright genius to pound the corn in h mortar or rub it to a powder between two stones. Subse quently came the hand-mill; but u was not until alter the first crusade that the wind-mill was mtnxluced from the East, whither it had probably found its way from China, The tirst bread was evidently baked ou the ashes atul unleavened, aud the intolerable pangs of indigesrion brought on by a continual course of "galette" or "damper" may have suggested the use of a ferm was, ugeut, which, in the first instancentmg probably, stal bread turned sour. Pliny has distinctly told UP, in bis "Natural History," that the Gauls leavened their bread with yeast made from the lye of bet r; yet, strangely enough, they abandoned the use of beer yeast, and did not resume it until the 17th century. Its revival in France made the fortune of many bakers; then the inedioal faculty sounded an alarm, declar ing that yeast made from bear was poison ous. Its employment was prohibited by law in 1866 but the outcry raised by the bakers and the public was so vehement that in the following year the decree of prohibition wes cancelled, with the proviso that the yeast was to be procured only from beer freshly brewed in Paris or its immediate neighborhood. Some form of fermented bn ad, however, the French had been eating'tor 1600 years, in contradta. Unction to the gruel ami pulse eating Italians and Levantines and the purely vegetarian Hindus. H IWI 9ea!e Begin Life. Of the different sorts of North At lantic seals all but two ere migratory— that is to say, the whole body of them move from north to south each Autumn, and back from south to north each Spring. The annual southward*journey of the restless harp-seal furnishes a vi vid picture of these great migrations which are so prominent a feature of polar history. Keeping just ahead of the "making" of the ioe or final freez ing np of tho fiords aud bays, at the approach of Wiuter they leave' Gree nland, and begin their passage southward along the coast of Labradore, freely entering all the gulfs and bays. Floating in with the Aretie current, their progress w extremely rapid, tfnd in but one short week the whole multitude has passed. Arriving at the Straits of Beliisle, some enter the gulf, but the great body move onward along the eastern portion of Newfoundland, and thence outward to the Grand Banks, where they arrive tiix>ut Christmas. Hero they rest for month, and then they turu northward, slowly struggled against the strong cur ing rent that aided them so much in their southward journey, until they reach the great ice-fields stretching from the Lab rador shore far eastward—a broad con tinent of ice. During the first half of March, on these great floating field* of ice, ure born thousands of baby seals - all in soft woolly dress, white, or white with a beautiful golden lustre. The Newfoundlander! call them "white eoats." In a few weeks, however, thej lose this soft covering, and a gray, coarse lur takes its place. In this uniform they bear the name of "ragged- jackets," and it is not until two or three years later that the full colors of the adult are gained, with the black crescentic or harp like marks on the back, which give them the name of "harps." The squealing and bark iig at one of these immense nurseries can l>e ht-ard lor a very long distance. When the babies are very young, the mothers leave them on the ice and go off in search of food, coming back frequently to look after the little ones ; and although there are thousands of the small, white, squeal ing creatures, which to you an] me would seem to be precisely alike, and all are moving about more or less, the mother never makes a mistake nor feeds any bleating baby until she has found her own if ice happens to pack around them, so that they cannot open holes, nor get into the water, the whole army will laboriously travel by lloundering leaps to the edge of the field ; and they show an astonishing sagacity in discern ing the proper direction. It is supposed that they can smell the water at a long distance. Sometimes great storms come, breaking the ice-floes in pieces and jamming the fragments against one another, or upon rocky headlands, with tremendous force. And it is touching to watch a mother seal struggling to get her baby to a safe place, "either by trying to swim with it between her fore flippers, or by driving it before her and tossing it forward with her nose." The destruction caused by such gales is far less when they happen after the young sters have learned to swim. A baby seal is afraid of the wtiter ; an 1 if some ac cident, or his mother's shoulder, pushes him into the water when he is ten or a dozen days old, he screams with tright, and scrambles out as fast as he can. The next day he tries it again, but finds himself very awkward and soon tired the third day he does better, and be fore long he can dive and leap, turn soirerset (if he is a bearded seal), and vanish under the iceiiterally "like a blue streak," the instant danger threatens. BU Profit* ol Street Bffffitug* Happening to pass through Four teenth street yesterday afternoon I no ticed an intelligent looking man with an empty sleeve. He was begging—a common enough sight iu New York— but this beggar was an eestbete. He was sitting beside a hnge music box that probably costs 3100, and in front of it was a handsome poodle dog, care fully combed and trimmed, and in his mouth a small basket. Tlie man bad a soldier's cap iu his hand, and the group was an affective and artistic one. Curi ous to eee how the dog succoeded I stood aside for a few minutes and saw fully half a dollar dropped in pennies and nickels by the ladies who were passing, all evidently attracted by the fine face of the beggar, the clean look ing dog and the musical strains cf the tireless box as it jinglad out an aria from "Somnambula." No one stopped to consider that beggars are not sup posed to be able to buy SIOO music boxes, but eyery tender-hearted woman dropped her mite and passed on, think ing she had done a charitable action. Two hours afterward I passed the beg gar, ai d found him still scooping in the nickels at a furious rate. No doubt he realized eight or ten dollars before sunset. There is a story extant of a man who tried unsuccessfully to get em ploymeut, and at length sat down on the • curbstone, exhausted by fatigue and hunger. He fell asleep and his hat slipped from his head and lay up turned ueside him. When he awoke he found nearly a dollar in small coin in the hat, and, seeing that beggiug was profitable, sat on the same spot day after day with his hat before him. So well did he succeed that he was able at last to go out West and purchase a farm. It is quite true, and the man is living still. In* fact, beggiDg is a profession, and men anti women stand in the dust asking for alms who are really richer than those' who bestow them. The superintendent of police once pointed out an old man,to me who, he said, owned a whole row of dwellings up town, tbe rents of which were over 315,000 per annum, and all this valuable prop erty had been paid for by begging. Use voui leisure uuie tor improve ment. Country Lift in Oroooo. A drive of an hoar and a half brought us to Vertonda, the little Tillage where we were to see for the first time the real country life. Its name is Turkish, and is that of a flower whioh grows aban dandtly in the vicinity. We torned off the main road into a lane through the fields then wiring with wheat and barley ripe'for the harvest. This farm was bought sixty years ago, by the father of the present owner, from a pacha, for a diamond hilted sword worth five thou sand drachmas, or about one thousand dollars. It is now estimated at about forty times i<s value. It is very extensive and beside the grain fields, has vine yards and valuable chromium mines. The village is small—a group of ten or twelve houses, clustered about the white washed churoh. Behind this, on higher grounds, stand the house and garden of the proprietor, nestled at the foot of an abrupt and wooden cliff. A way in the distance the snow-capped peaks of Del phi*. the highest mountain of Eubcea, looms up to a height of over five thou sand feet. Its base is a half day's ouruey from Vertonda on horsebac k, and we hoped at first to make the ascent; but, hearing on ail sides the difficulties to be encountered, we did not attempt it. One of the few people who had climbed it, however, was Queen Amelia* who was an undaunted explorer of all parts of her kingdom. The house of Mr. X. is a low cottage, covering much ground, and built around a court-yard, which we entered through a high, strong gateway. The gate and the iron barricades at the windows gave me a feeling of trepidation ; but my friends laughed at my fears, and the at tractive and cherefnt aspect of the es tablishment reassured me. Flowers were growing everywhere, pigeons were ooomg from their cotes in a little tower, and several smiling servants were awaiting our arrival. The inside of the bouse was most comfortable, and the view from the froDt windows was sub erb overlooking the garden and village to the sea, half a mile away ; bevound this lay the Boeotian Mountains, and still fuither in the distance, shining like a golden crown in the setting sun. rose the eternal snows of Parnassus. Alter a little I wandered out into a field opposite the house, where a woman was cooking at a fire built iu a rough sort of stone furnace. She had an iuwiem-e copper kettle full of soap. I said ; "You must have a large family ?" Yes," she replied with an amused smile : "thirty women." Supposing that they had a system of 00-operative house-keeping, and that she cooked for the whole vil age, I continued my inquiries, when she told me that, it being harvest sea sou, there were many extra laborer*, who were women, and she as the steward a daughter, had the supervision of them. The supper consisted only of a piece of bread beside the toup ; and this diet has but few varations, such as black olives, salad, and fruit in the season. Meat is a great r&rity ; many eat it but once a year, at the feast of L&mbri, or Easter. Then every one eats roast spring lamb ; and if one is too poor to buy it he will be sure to find somebody to give it to him. The generosity of the Greeks is extreme at Easter and New Year, as it is considered a religious duty to help the pooi at these seasons. She took her soup off the fire, and put it out in the air to cool, remarking that it was very injurious to the teeth to eat hot fot.d. As Greek peasants always have fine teeth, probably the theoryjs a oor rect one. After this she raked out her tire and put a number of loaves of bread ou the heated stones : there, she said, t hey must remain all night to be thor oughly cooked. Her work finished, she gave a sigh of relief, and sat down to await her family of thirty women, whom we soon saw approaching through the gathering darkness. As they came nearer t perceived that they were mostly girls of fourteen or fifteen years, with one or two older women who led the party ; they were a sturdy-looking, sunburned set, and, instead of seeming weary with the long day's work, were in the beet of Bpints, laughing and talking. Tke effect was most picturesque : for although clad in the poorest, and in many oases most ragged castnmes, the shape of their garments was suoh as best to set off their superb figures, and their free, tin trammeled gait gave them even a ma jestic air. The material of the dress is both woolen and cotton, of soft yellow ish-white, embroidered with bright colors : the broad sashes and the ker chiefs worn over the head are also of some gay color, beoomiDg to their dark hair and eyes. As soon as they had reached the place where we were they sat down in groups, keeping up the same lively chatter. Daring our own repast, which was soon announced. Mr. X. told us thai, these women laborers were a set o people from the poorest part of the population, who always went about to gether from estate to estate to help when there was extra work on hand. They receive a drachma per day and their food, the day lasting from sunrise to sunset. This company was from Chalcis ; but he soon expected a band of men from Salamis, whose natives are considered remarkable good workers. The conversation then turned upon the conditon of the laboring classes in Greece, whereupon he expressed much dissatis faction at the large number of feast days that the peasants keep, and said that the country would always be poor until the laborers would learn to worn more steadily. Some of his people, particularly the older ones, would never work on any saint's day j as the n'ime of the saints is legion, there woul be an average of nearly a day a week, beside the Sunday, when they would do nothing but dress in their best clothes and dance and sing. I Could not help thinking how much this sociable dancing and singing added to their charms as human beings, and wondering/whether they would come home at night from their labors with suoh an elastic step ware it not for this waste of which the landlords so bitterly complain, -•V / ' w - :r
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