WAITING.
wail,
Till frome my veiled brows shall fait
This baling cloud, this wearying thrall,
Which holds me now frem knowing all;
Tmtil my spirit sight shall see
bute all Being's mystery,
See what it really is to be!
i wail,
While robbing days in mockery fling
Sach cruel loss athwart my Spring,
Awe life flags on with broken wing;
. Believing that a Kindler fate
The patient soul will compensate
Por all it loses, ere too late.
{ wall
The: Simmer of the soul is long,
¥es heron ta vet shall round me throng,
In pestoct pomp of sun and soug.
Im stocmless mornings, yet to be,
“I'l pluck, from life's full-fruited tree,
The joy to-day denied to me.
RIT
THE PRAIRIE FIRE,
«0h. daddy!” called a clear, girlish
Youce.
“Yes, Lindy; what's wanted?’
«Ma wants to know how long it
Tore you ready.”
«Oh, tell her I'll be at the door by
¢he time she gets her things on. Be
soi have the butter and eggs all
We're
11 be
Se
vessedy to put into the wagon,
makin’ too late a start to town.”
Butter and eggs, indeed! As if Lin-
dy needed a remainder other than the
pew dress for which they were to be
exchanged,
Elmer and 1 can to town
we. ma?” she asked, enter-
gu next
waxy Yb
CARE L
tine
toe he Bouse.
¥ iy; 1 hope so,” was tlie re-
“But den’t bother ne now; your
ea is coming already, and 1 haven’t my
shawl on yet. Yes, Wilbur; I'm here.
Just this bLuttes Lindy, I'll
es in my lap. Now, Lindy,
hier play wilh the fire or run
Te.
i,
woment more the heavy
rattled away from the
children gazing
ile, in a half-forlorn man-
Lindy went in to do her
resumed his play, and
humle
doar,
afterit foraw
Ther
Elinel
stood
ner.
wark
SO
cheerfully
After
aud 1 Andy -
everything was moving along as
is ever.
dinner. Emer went lo
teeing
rather lonely again,
went out-of-doors forachange. It was
2 WAN
of a dozen or more
The
fhe
that
fee! counterpart
whitch bad preceded it. sun shone
brightly and the hot winds L
swept
through ¢ tal i
else i toue
seers i !
her parent
place, !
prairies,
and hier
vel,
ustomed to the
She had been born on
ves were familiar with nothing
plage: as she stood to-day with that
brawn, unt
before her until it
blii H-gray off he sky
feeling of
roken expanse rolling away
reache he pale
sweribable
t their d
f alliiner.
passe round the corner
ouse with a dish of eorn In her
hands, the
ron
the gz
with gre:
It
3
Vioience
nd.
¥
wer than during the
morning.
Great tumble weeds went flying by,
turning over and with lightning-
like rapidity; then pausing for an in-
were caught by anothe
over
stant’s rest,
gust and carried along, mile after mile,
till some fence other obstacle
where they could pile up
erent drift
frow :
them rol
But
or was
FEIN i. in
4
I
Lindy did not notice t
tumble weeds, The dish of
fallen from h hand, and she stood
looking straight ahead with wide-open,
frightened eyes,
IV hat was the sight that so feightened
her?
Only a |
imply a line
baci
corn had
er
ne of fire below the horizon.
fire, with forked tlames
daring high into the air, a cloud of
stoke drifting away froth them. A
beautiful relief, this bright, changing
spectacle from the brown monotony of
of
h
the prairie.
13at the scene was without beauty for
Lindy. Her heart had given one great
Bound when she first saw the red line,
and then it semed to cease beating,
She had seen many prairie fires; had
seenn her father and other men fight
them, and she knew at once the danger
fier home was in. What could she, a
little girl, do to save it, and perhaps
herself and her little brother, from the
destroyer which the south wind was
bringing straight toward them?
Only for « moment Lindy stood white
and motionless; then with a bound she
was at the well. Her course was de-
exded upon. If only time and strength
were given her. Drawing two pails of
water, she laid a large bag in each, and
then, getting some matches, hurried
out beyond the stable. She must fight
fire with fire. That was her only hope;
but a strong, experienced man would
have shrunk from starting a back fire in
such a wind.
She fully realixed tue danger; but it
was possible escape from otherwise in-
.evitable destruction, and she hesitated
soet an instant to attempt it. Cautious-
‘ly starting a blaze, she stood with a wet
bag ready to smother the first unruly
fame
i
|
i
i
|
i
|
|
|
i
{
|
|
1
The great lire to the southward was
rapidly approaching. Prairie chickens
and other birds, driven from their nests,
were flying over, uttering distressed
cries. The air was full of smoke and
burnt grass, and the crackling ot the
flames could plainly be heard. 1t was
trying moment. The increased roar of
the advancing fire warned Lindy that
she had but very little time in which to
complete the house and barn, still, if
she hurried too much, she would lose
control of the fire she had started, and
with all it hope of safely.
The heat was intense, the smoke suf-
focating, the rapid swinging of thejheavy
bag most exhausting, but she was un-
conscious of these things, The ex-
tremity of the danger inspired her with
wonderful strength and endurance.
Instead of losing courage, she increased
her almost superhuman exertions, and
in another brief interval the task was
completed, None too soon, either, for
the swiftly advancing column had near-
ly reached the wavering, struggling,
slow-moving line Lindy had sent out to
meet it,
It was a wild, fascinating, half terri-
ble, half beautiful scene. The tongues
of flame, leaping above each other with
to toy with their virtims before devour-
ing them.
A sudden, violent gust of wind, and
then witha great crackling roar the two
fires met, the flames shooting high into
the air as they rushed together.
For one brief, glorious moment they
remained there, lapping the air with
their fierce, hot tongues; then suddenly
dropping, they died quickly cut: and
where an instant before had beens wall
of fire was nothing now but a cloud of
blue smoke rising from the blackened
ground, and here and there a sickly
flame finishing an obstinate tuft of grass,
The tire on =ach side meeting no obsta-
cle, swept quickly by, and Lindy stood
gazing, spell bound, after it, as itjdarted
and flushed in terrible zigzag lines far-
ther and farther away.
3 HY md " !
Oh Lindy!” called a shrill little
voice from the house, Elmer had just
awakened.
“Yes, I'm coming,” Lindy answered,
'
turning. Bat how very queer she felt!
ere Was a roacing her ears louden
fire
before hel
in
{hie had made: evervthing
: & Leven ln t
ed suddenly e ceased shining.
y hay
. y hi §
Wiis so dark. Reaching the house
hh
x a
e sank. faint,
bed by
a great effort, s
uj
dizzy
and trembling
her
brother's side,
Amer, frightened and hardly awake,
to ery, and as he never did any-
thing in half-way manner, the result
His frantic
cries ronsed
was quite wonderful. shrieks
his half-faint-
he
‘ween
* wiv 5 + fF 3
effect i t NH had
Her
bs
¢ face,
and
the exhausted body.
praclic al nature am Ong HH
in asserted themselves, and instead
rr
{ wling of weakness and
her sun-bonnet
| .
hlckens thei
of vielding to a fs
prostation, she {
firmly, and gave the
delayed dinner.
1
foyryor
FONE
But when, half an hour later, her
father found her fast asleep, with the
glow from the sky retlected on her weary
little face, he looked out of the window
for a moment, picturing to himself the
terrible and
then down brave
the afternoon,
‘A
smoothing
scenes of
at his daughter.
murmured,
with his hard, brown hand
—.* a brave garil”
girl” he the
vellow hair
’
4
Napoleon's Method o (nestioning.
Prony. with his hair nearly in
my plate, was telling me most enter.
taining anecodotes of Bonaparte, and
not
striving to show learning or wit
the contrary
quite
frank. open-hearted
us, delighted to be together at home
and at ease ‘his was the most flatter
ing and agreeable thing to me that
could possibly be, Harriet was on the
off side and now and then he
turned to her in the midst of his ance-
dotes and made her so completely one
of us, and there was such a prodigious
noise nobody could hear but ourselves,
Both Cuvier and Prony agreed that
Bonaparte never could bear to have any
but a decided answer. “One day,
said Cuvier, “I nearly ruined myself
by constdering before | answered. He
asked me ‘Ought we to introduce beet
sugar in France ?’ ‘In the first place,
sire, we must think of the colonies,
‘Shall we have beet sugar in France ?’
‘But, sire, we ought to study the sub-
ject,” ‘Bah! [ will have to ask Bert.
hollet.?” This despotic laconic mode
of insisting on learning everything in
two words had its inconveniences, One
day hie asked the master of the woody
at Fontainebleu, ‘How any acres of
wood here?’ The master, an honest
man, stopped to recollect, *‘Bah!™
and the under master came forward
and said any number that came into his
head. Bonaparte immediately took the
mastership from the first snd gave it to
the second. Qu’ arrivait il?” con-
tinued Prony. Therogue who gave the
guess answer was soon found cutting
down and selling quantities of the trees,
and Bone arte had to take the ranger
ship from him and reinstate the honest
hesitator,
Le
i
every
“s
Rice, Bark and Sik Faper,
Rice paper is a meterial so delicate
and filny that at the first glance one
would think it ill adapted to receive
writing or printing: but it is much
used for those purposes, and we have
seen a beautiful little volume composed
of and filled with exquisite paintings of
flowers, it is made from the pith ol.a
leguminous plant, which the Chinese
import from India, and the island of
Formosa, where it grows in abundance,
The pith, having been prepared of the
desired length tue sheet, is cut
spirally into a thin slice, which is then
flattened, pressed and dried. It obtains
its name by receiving a sizing wholly or
principally of rice water. The similar-
ity of this process to the preparation ol
papyrus is so striking as to render it
probable that by
it.
Bark paper 1s wade from the smaller
branches of a variety of the mulberry
tree. The bark, after being separated
from the stem by boiling in lye, is
macorated in water for several days;
the outer part scraped off, and the in-
ner boiled and stirred in Jye until it
separates. It is then washed ina pan
or lve, and worked by the hands into
pulp, which is afterward spread on a
table and beaten fine with a mallet.
It 1s next placed in a tub with an in-
fusion of rice and a called oreni,
and all thoroughly mixed. The sheets
are formed by dipping a mold made
of strips of bullrushes confined
frame After molding,
the sheets are upon another
with strips of reed petween. A
loaded with weights is then laid upon
the pile to express the water, and when
that is accomplished they are separa.
the sun. This paper
than the rice; so
is necessary to
sides of page two
Ninnaas
SUPpPOSsIT
it was suggested
root
0
nt
into the vat.
laid one
board
ted and dried in
is even more delicate
much so that when it
write both
must
as the natural order seems to
“a
on
be glued together. ig,
suggest.
was ihe
that the rice paper
the bark the second
nese, we have here the first appearance
n the manu- |
paper, made |
made
of the pulping process |
facture, The bamboo
from the
und almost
been fo
rect, [OT ILS cOlnmon: sy
made of a few silken
refuse silk may occasional
with other material,
hemselves be reduced
ble for making paper.
factured
times mingled with
pulp,
The
pared bs
possil
i
and
rags, co
Deing
They are then bicached
inaceration ©
converted into a pulp. This i fade |
into balls weighing aboul
which,
having been
water, are spread upon a frame of
reeds and pressed under heavy weights
of the sheets upon the wall of a proper
bv
polished
room: and they are finished
being
and
hard
sometimes of
twelve
coated with gum size,
with some smooth, substance,
very large
{eet
The sheets are
reaching
witl
dimensions !
ing |
correspondin
managed by |
1
length
breadt
i“
molds being
hh.
Lhe i
ald of pulleys |
the
santa Hosa,
The little schooner Santa Rosa arriv- |
ed in at San Francisco from Santa Dar-
bara a few days ago,
this city twice a year lo secure provi- |
sions, clothing, lumber, etc, for use on
Santa Hosa Island, being owned by the
great sheep-raiser, A. TP. Moore,
owns the island and the 80,000 sheep |
that exist upon it. Ths Island is about |
thirty miles south of Santa Barbara, |
and is twenty-four miles in length and
sixteen in breadth, and contains about |
74,000 acres of land, which are admir-
bly adapted to sheep raising. Last June
Moore clipped 1,014 sacks of wool from
these sheep, each sack containing an
average of 410 pounds of wool, making a
total of 415,740 pounds, which he soid
at 27 cents a pound, bringing him in
112.349, or a clear profit of over
£40,000, This issaid to be alow yield; so
it is evident that sheep-raising there,
when taken into consideration that
shearing takes place twice a year and
that a profit is made of the sale of
mutton, ete., is very profitable. This
island is divided into four quarters by
fences running clear across at right
angles, and the sheep have not to be
herded like those ranging about the
foothills,
Four men are employed regularly the
year round to keep the ranch in order
and to look after the sheep, and during
shearing time fifty or more shearers are
employed. These men secure forty or
fifty days’ work and the average num.
ber of sheep sheared a day is about ninety
for which five cents a clip 1s paid, thus
$4.50 a day being made by each man, or
somethingjover $200 for the season, or
over $400 for ninety days out of the
year. Although the shearing of ninety
sheep a day is the average, a great
she comes up
who
many will go as high as 110, and one
man has been known to shear 125, Of
course every man tries to shear ns many
as he can, and owing to haste frequently
the animals are severely cut by ihe
sharp shears. If the wound is serious,
the sheep immediately has its throat cut
and is turned into mutton and is dis-
posed of to the butchers, and the shearer,
if in the habit of frequently inflicting
such wounds, is discharged. In the
shearing of these 80,000 sheep a
hundred or more are injured to such an
extent as to necessitate there being
killed, but the wool and meat are of
course turned into profit,
Although no herding is necessary,
about two hundred more trained
goats are kept on the island continually,
which to all intents and purposes take
the place of the shephered dogs
necessary in mountainous districts
where sheep are raised. Whenever the
animals are to be remeved from one
quarter of the island to another the
man] in charge taking out with him
several of the goats, exclaims in Spanish
“Cheva'' (meaning sheep).
Or
band and the sheep accept
leader, following wherever it
Frys
gOes,
band.
them a washing twice a year.
having so many on hand, found it nec-
this whereby not so
would be incurred and
After
much
time
experimenting for some tune he
witsted,
In this he put 600 gallons of water, 200
pounds of sulphur, 100 pounds of lime
and 6 pounds of scda, all of which |
heated to 130°,
to the further end, thus securing a bath
and taking their medicine at
coms IIA 5
Death of George The IY,
NO
his burdensome life,
luptuous and petty, magnificient
the last, passed in
useless,
5.000 beads on |
buckle
vatrivaled those
nas
Hw new
1ffect with bra:
t
Of Dear, honol
CO
1
deceived mer
WOIlllen . Wa
hils frie cajoled and
creditors, hated and impos.
fed his
COIRMnerciag
inisters, and bunds
the days of
m by
With prize-figl
il
ne fie
pressi boundless ext
ers, )
Favagance,
wekeys, tatlors and
$
ity
pe German pride he iheriled never
permitted him to be friendly with
aristocracy.
life, and, now that
come, ncne were found to
inevitable death.
his
'
regret his
to the Marchioness, {(1Lady Conyngham ,
he rotired to bed, without feeling any
symptoms ef illness; but at two o'clock
Wiis
him
SOO
up.
Waller
raised
bs
his bedside
ble
with one short gasp he fell back dead.
—--——
secidents from Overloading,
railroad circles here. When the roads
used iron rails accidents were of much
Jess frequent occurrence than they are
now with sixty-pound steel rails. The
accidents are therefore not believed to
be due to the inferiority of the rails now
in use. Bailroads officials all agree
that the rails are as good and strong as
can be procured, but the trouble is, that
the practice of overloading cars Las be-
come 00 common, and that the rails
cannot bear the heavy strain they are
subjected to. Formly a common car-
load was ten tons. Now this has been
gradually increased to 25,000 pounds.
The only remedy is believed to lie in
reducing the tonnage loaded on a car.
The present maximum amount, 25,000
pounds, is believed to be much too large
and it is claimed that no more than from
15,000 to 20,000 pounds should be al-
lowed to be loaded into acar. Itis
probable that a meeting of railroad
managers and superintendents of the
various railroads in this country will
soon be held to take this matter into
consideration and try to provide means
by which a remedy for this serious evil
can be effected, '
«The average of the pulse in infanc
{8 120 per minute; in manhood 80;
years, 60,
————— A ——————
The Need of Hest,
“nervous prostration,’” It is prevalent
rest and relaxation, men who carry
mestic cares and worries,
strange how much
food, clothing. ventilation, draining,
exercise, and other things which have
influence on
ens sm ssn e S P HAASAA AO
include brushes, combs, soap and per-
fumery. On receiving these, the
bride
away and wash her, dress her hair and
perfume her pocket-handkerchief. Thus
and the bride’s father gives his fatnre
son-in-law the marriage portion, which
he takes home in 4 neat bag,
The next morning he returns for the
She receives him with 1
her han
not to do something, and when to jet
the patieni alone. A combination of
They are married by the ceremonies of
the Greek church, and the old folks
never go to wedding dinner,
Those eternal bridesmaids,
they must hate by this time, are
however, still on duty, and the evening
closes by the bride pulling off her
1 »
Liif
whom
were,
hus-
half the sick people in the world ; a
man's enemies cannot
much damage his
as friends,
when on man is taken il
kept
must be up, an alternation of
nursing and fussing ; while preternatu-
ra
pathizing friends, tearful relatives. and
Nurses
{0 the
1156 ROMeINiY 18 ill ay d
We
gotten rid of the old notion of
chattering add their
bution NTOng side, and all bee
needs chiefly
rest have not most of
cients that disease is a personality
air, that
our dwellings and
something that is in the
about, enters
in the minds of the ignorant to a goblin,
ghost, fiend, demon or wilch,
only pills or potions can exorcise, kill
We are confident t
sensible physician will say, if the patient
will let him, that two-thirds of all the
in the world
would get well in a few hours or days,
fl
maladies of all the people
paances such as instinet would
suggest and common senseemploy. But
estimate the
iby the wonderfully wise
. and tl
its oitlen
* Assumes ie extent or
sick
izing, and
variety
and
unsympat
HICIOUs, t 18 LO
+ that
CASS,
Tue
understood, «
1 4
speaking of extreme
t of most ol Lne jis ¥
rir lo--the 1 ibies wiuch
ait
1 overworked men and women, so
many of whom we find all around us in
thie nmahiine
L118 PENIIER .
competitive age. Their
{ remedy, if they can take it, 1
sat be impossible, we can onl
- =e
How Jlussian Girls are Courtfed.
catiin $1 woesr led SPE
ame Lhe worla over, bus
managed very differently
nirie Russian court-
» middle
Whit
acknd
CLASES, 18 pect
after the
1
IGAY
ywiedged by her
narnageanie
VeArs, she
’ sburg summe:
| promenade,’
e daughters of the
thelr
and down
$
with
, pretend to chat
enc and io t ' Oo notice
_ 3 v - *} . i & Ty s
YOURE men Lhe Wvadesinen 's
- i 8 . é l
sons. dressed in their best clothes—who
another procession on the other
and then
of
to the
However, every now
some young fellow slips out has
i adds himself
on the other
particularly.
rank and
the
10
side,
The
in the conversa-
1 soon they
noments, and
ol mifis
Oe
parents of the
girl join
tion in a few
Gene-
but on this occasion every
On the
female confidant calls
over before,
next
the gz
a on
her
relations
day
parent 8 and requests
hand, This granted, all the
to be given with the girl. If
this is not satisfactory all is al an end,
if it 1s what is expected the betrothal
The bride and bridegroom kneel down
upon a great fur mat and the bride
takes a ring from her finger and gives
it tothe bridegroom, who returns the
gift by another. The bride's mother
meanwhile crumbles a piece of bread
over her daughter's head and her
father holds the image of his daugh-
ter's patron saint over his future son-
in-law’s well brushed locks. As they
arise bridesmaxis sing a wedding song.
The guests cach bring forward a pres.
ent of some sort. Wine is handed
about and some one says it is bitter and
needs sweetening. Upon this the
bridegroom kisses the bride—the sweet-
ness being supposed to be provided by
this kiss—salutes the company and
takes his leave, on which the brides.
maids sing 8 song with a chorus some-
thing like this:
wrarewell, happy
Put return to be still
bridegroom,
more happy.”
Courting time hasnow begun. Every
evening the lover comes 10 his lady’s
home with a present which is always
something good to eat—generally cakes
or sugar plumbs. Ie makes love under
rather awkward circumstances, for the
bridesmaids sit about the betrothed
pair in a circle, singing songs descr ipt-
ive of their happiness,
The last evening of the courtship is
enlivened by the preseutation of the
i
Good natured bridegrooms generally
boots,
which the bride may take possession of
as balm of her pride. After the wed-
ding day the parents begin to give feasts
and keep it up for a week, and it 1s not
all this over that the “young
couple’ see those blessed
take their departure. They are
compelled to kiss them, thank
i
and give them each a present,
——————
Life in the Manitoba Woods
T
Wi sods
the story
logget
ne «
are hurrying
sf them tells a
ogeer's day He says
logy y.
the fa
which
of ed
is fitted up ins
pur Ns,
of a
rst thing to be done in
building of a shanty,
3
constructed of logs.
™. is ¥
a dhis ide
sleeping
lumber,
h bunks fo
tris i
ins ix
The ch
NGS
ith
3 3
a 0)
ity is heaters
means of what is called a ‘caboose,’ oO
which the smoke
its exit by an opening in the
The cooking is generally d
paid the 1
The fare consists
of barrel or rattlesnake pork, beans, po-
makes
roof, Of
: & % aho
a who is often jighest
man,
tatoes, dried apples and such game as
the men find in the shanty
doesn’t
woods, A
mueh time
Every morning two
the foreman's
gel to los!
man
around the house.
and a few
i heard,
after the whole shanty isalive.
helves
‘Hurrah
OFS is
while others
or
4
inding axes,
forming their ablutions and
i srs through their hair as a sort
apology for Breakfast
be different gangs }
of their work. wh
cases is from four to five miles from tb
ty, work #s always com-
menced by « ight, you can easily see
we have no chance to be late risers, The
and
are per-
j running
their finge
{ combing.
st out to
h
over, 1
scene i
1
shanty, and as
resting tode-
which is generally
3
ae
vour Llhelr ainner,
1 Pug Po
Gals BLar
«“
is reached
About
shaniy,
~~
made for the whic h
dark.
‘hunk
upper caten, Un
and
8 £ "
long alter
i men are soon
-——
A Wondertal Clock
The most astonishing thing in the
0 A
India, and
In the front
upon poles, and pear it Was a pile of
artificial human limbs. The pile was
made up of the full number of parts for
twelve perfect bodies, but all lay heaped
together in seeming confusion. When-
ever Le hands of the clock indicated
the hot.r of one, out of the pile crawled
just the number of parts needed to form
the frame of one man, pari joining
sound pealing through every room and
of that stately castle. This
§
pieces again. When two o'clock came,
two men arose and did likewise; and so
through all the hours of the day, the
number of figures being the same as
the number of the hour, till at noon
and midnight the entire heap sprang
up, and, marching to the gong, struck.
one after another, each his blow, mak-
ing twelve in all, and then fell to pieces,
_-
Mctures,
The exhibition of the pictures of Sih
Joshua Reynolds at the Grosvenor
Gallery, London, is likely to be unique
of its kind. In all the number of works
promised is now about 160, enough to
fill the space at the disposal of the pro-
jectors, This means not merely 160
Sir Joshuas, but 160 of his finest pro-
ductions,as the list from which theappli-
cations were made was very carefully
prepared. Some important works the
committee of management have not,
indeed, succeeded iu obtaining, but
there are still hopes that the owners
may be induced to reconsider their
disinclination to lend pictures which
will otherwise be missed by all serious
students of the great painter's work.
There have been a good many exhibi-
tions of his work for the last ten years
or 80 at the winter shows in Burlington
House, but a really representative ex-
hibition has not been held since the
year 1825, when about 220 of his works
were collected and shown in the British
(nstitution.