THE WOES OF FARMER FRILL.
BY PLEASANT RIDERHOOD.
My =on, Lord Byron James Fitzjamo
Orlando Homer Frill,
To poetry nas lately turned,
While I the land must till
Attuned tonature’s harmony,
Inepired by autumn’s brooze,
His tender verso my poet weaves,
Nor hoe nor spads ho seos.
Of country life, swoet rural scenes,
And happiness galore,
He's ground off “pomes” enough to reach
Fre
Ha sing
In dark and shadowy wood”
Now, I'll admit in "tater hills
Brown
nm here to Baltimore.
brown and rustling |
leaves are mighty good.
In fre fine he rolls his aves,
Wh
He
While 1 rake up the leaves,
oll up my =
of antumn's a
ab w falling
odd nuta now falling
y sound”
THE IMPERIAL DRAGON
The
served to
I iou
the paps
her re
She
fice. but
concerni
was
much t
AQrecai
new Sie
writier
Lawrence
mods
her i
VOrses
ranged
merci
Laws
referrec
Dragon”
The
generally
versifier ex;
having thus baptized ner »
but he Ly ne
avenged, and at the
name his
artery ‘thr
venge alice Be g clever wi
he made a sketch of her which
the popular impression that she
rien
y means con
ECL
embodied
was a
it
it
to
shrew ish person
was a
and
endiess amusement
himself and friends. It must be con
fessed that Miss Damon's was not the
only adverse criticism, and Lawrence was
a good deal depress d, but not
subdued. He did not intend to be snuffed
out in this summary fashion, however,
and though for a long time he ittempted
nothing in a literary way, he was casting
about for a fresh motive, resolved at no
distant to make another effort
“The Dragon” had recommended prose
he would try prose.
of uncertain age.
f
source of
date
- - * » » o
the meantime
Lawrence
In summer had come
and was to spend several
months with some friends in California.
When he returned he would go to work
in earnest,
It was a glorious day, bright and eool,
though it was the middie of July; the
sun was just rising over the eastern rim
of the cup-shaped valley; a luminous
mist shading from pink to purple was
rolling away from Pike's Peak, and the
bits of sky showing between the serrated
ridges opposite were deeply blue,
awrence, on his way to California,
had stopped to spend a day at Manitou.
He had reached the springs the evening
before, and was finishing his breakfast
this bright morning in the great Sahara
of a dining-room when the waiter came
in to announce the carriage he had or-
dered for the day, For the last half hour
the gallery in front of the hotel had been
thronged with tourists ready to begin the
day's sightseeing, and the double line of
vehicles drawn up outside were being
loaded with all possible dispatch. As
Lawrence emerged from the ATO
the last wagon drove up to the door, and
a lady was on the point of getting in
when the driver ry
“Beg your pardon, ma'am, but this
carriage is for the gentleman,”
a “But 1 ordered a carriage for this morn-
% Your order was too late. They were
all engaged. This was the last one in
the pr.3 I can give you one to-mor-
-
*
tow,”
“I shall not be here to-morrow.”
“Maybe the gentleman's to
stay over a day or two and would just as
soon drive to-morrow,” .
driver.
By this time Lawrence had come un.
“If you can give me a horse and saddle
it will answer my purpose just as well,”
he said,
‘I haven't got a horse.”
“As I leave to-morrow on the early
train,” said Lawrence, **I can not con
veniently postpone my drive, jut we
arc probably going in the same direc
tion, and 1 should be delighted
accommodate you with a seat in the ve
hicle.”
There was
going
sugoested
nothing else to be
She accepted with thanks,
handed her into the earringe, and
thought, as their eves met, that she was
not an unpromising companion, He +
a gregarious animal, He hated
nlone, especially in a crowd,
chance acquaintance was not to
He handed her his card.
raised her
» card into her hand
spised,
brows
squarely at him,
to use
"and he was much
gently and aflably treated
by the Disp stich, The writer was
wised to find so indifferent a poet
capable of producing a tale f
and i, ®«¢ il felicitous de-
PH,
scription, so fresh and unhackneyved, It
down easy, surprised
to find himself
not
su
30 pleasing
grace
under a solemn promise never again to
attempt verse, and, in consideration of
this assurance and the promise of suc.
cess held out by the latter work, it was
but just that the public should extin.
guish its resentment and take the author
to a forgiving and indulgent bosom.
There
claims
followed a eriticism
of the
too
ocension. There arose within him a de-
doubt in each instance expressed an hon
conviction, He wrote a note
asked leave to call and thank the writer
in person. He had a few copies that had
been handsomely bound, intended
souvenirs for his friends. He would be
most happy to present one as a token of
his appreciation.
The reply to his friendly overture was
written upon a card across the upper left.
band corner of which was the day of the
week io gilt lettering: on the opposite
corner was a pen-and-ink sketch of St,
George in the act of vanquishing the
dragon. Below was written:
‘Miss Damon will be at home to Mr,
Lawrence this evening at 8 o'clock, 705
West Broadway,"
This sketch, despite the limited space
it occupied, was spirited, and indicated
a knowledge of her unflattering sobriquet.
As he looked up at his own sketch upon
the wall he was conscious of a strong im-
pulse to destroy it.
At 8 o'clock that evening Lawrence,
bearing his offering coquettishly
bound in gilt and morocco, rung Miss
parlor, and ina few moments heard a
rustling of drapery behind him, As he
arose he encountered a slender figure in
a toilet of black nce,
| “Mis Vincent,” he said exulting, “I
have bzen looking for you everywhere,
{ I have written you innumerable letters,
{ and I have been four times to that horrid
{ hole of a town where you said vou lived.
Why did you deceive me so cruelly ™
“Why did I deceive you? Well,
did not think it would add anything to
your pleasure just then to know the
truth.”
A horrible presentment seized him,
“Then—then-—your name-—is not Vin
i cent?”
“¥ 8:
“You
tered,
You
“Don't you think you have
rather 1 mean advantage of me?”
“No; I think the truth would have
{ spoiled a very pleasant day
Alice
know
Yincent-Damon.”
of
me, course!” he fal-
taken
In the conversation that
3
yf the visit
Of th Visit
purpose
nd the sous
uous part
OLLA PODRIDA.
States in t
. making an }
to VanCouver
sland have about the same
miles Ariz not
Madagascar is about
Massachu-
New York,
Virginia, and
Carolina The area of
id proper and that of the State of
ile
na
after all!
New Hampshire,
sotts, Vermont, Connecticut,
New Jersey,
combined,
1
insyivas
* # :
4iTost nlical.
How Moons Ear Burren. —A West.
ern butterine company rec ently wrote to
the United S:ates Consular Agent at
Morocco, asking if it would
feasible to introduce their product
into that country. They received the fol
very curious and interesting
letter in reply:
lowing
i
U. 8. Cossvranr Aaexr, J
Casanraxca, Morocco, July 19,1829, {
Messrs. : Your favor of June to
hand and contents noted ; and in reply I
am sorry to say that nothing can be doge
| in this locality with the class of goods
| you speak of. Native butter is too plenty
j and too cheap to undertake to esmpete
with it at the distance you are writing.
And, again, you give your goods a very
| bad recommendation to sell to the na-
tives, Yon say it won't turn rancid; by
that the Moors would imagine they could
get no stink out of it, in which case it
| would be quite tasteless to them, They
say of butter: No stink, no good!
The Moors never put’ salt in butter,
and to prepare it for use they press it into
stone jars, containing from ten to forty
pounds, the aperture just large enough
to pass their fist through; when full, or
nearly so, they plaster the top over with
soft cow dung, then bury it in the
ground, and when it has been there from
three to five years itis taken out all
ready for use, It then contains all the
colors of the rainbow, and as many differ.
ent tastes and scents, Butter is of nf use
to the Moor until it is toned up to that
pitch, and unless you can conjure up an
article that will outstink the Moorish
butter when prepared for use, don’t write
me any more on that subject, Ever at
your command, J. Conn,
22
ni
Salt and videgar,
good for clean we ge he
which should
afterwards be th fine ashes.
BOAT DWELLERS.
HONG HONG'S IMMENSE LIVER
POPUL ATION.
Fine
These
Strictly
How
Municipal! Regulations
forced on the Waters
Dwellers Thrive,
One of the
around Hong Kong is
and its city of boits
is estimated to number
people who recognize ne
interesting sights
‘river popu aliun
This floating city
ROTIRG
most
these boats, and whose lives are
from birth upon the river;
ane permitted to know
kabitation, Thos
different sizes
larger number being sampans or
boats about twenty feet Is with n
i ofs of
in
any
boat homes ar
not
i}
and various shapes, the
able te
them for about one}
As somll as these b
nmodate
1680 opie I
noe
nee yrding to
that
« fitte i
in of their faith
4
3 tx in thi y i
OAS In This mo
the most singular
Tar
them containing as many
boat The
Hv twice
naps
which thes
many of
’
ol uc Ks
geese
RS sey
ducks are
eral hundred in on
sent out us
ong the marshes
ire, and thes
wn 6 whistle
iT ed
At
st antly CinEre
“ir respective boats with a prom;
is simply astonishing. The
latest 13 always taken up
arrival
the next recall that duck is invariably the
firet to come on board, thus showing #e
wonderful efficiency of the bamboo in
inculeating punctuality,
In the midst of this gay life may be
seen the funeral boat passing silently hy,
in the center
a heavy pall
This
member of this
During ‘life
on shore, but
the coffin, covered with
In almost every way the land and river
ooks down upon the latter as an alien
marriage between the two
classes 8 unknown. Nevertheless, in
apite of their peealiar surroundings, these
ably.
Nor the least interesting to women of
all the World's Fair wonders will be the
Amazon warriors of the King of Daho-
mey, who will form a part of the popula.
tion in the Dahomey village to be exhib.
ited on the grounds, Sixty or seventy
of the fearless women soldiers will be
quartered there,
Skirts with a pu
fall of luce which almost conceals it, are
among the current styles, Dresses of
thick silk have three narrow ruffles of
velvet at the hem of the skirt, and leg-o'-
mutton sleeves and vest front also of
velvot, ’
Three hundred and sixty different
nountain peaks within the limits of the
United States each exceed 10,000 feet in
A PYTHON'S VULY
den Superintendent,
Superintendent Stephens, of the Cin
cinnati Zoe, daily takes his life in his
hands while attending to his duties, He
has been the vietim of several m shaps,
but his latest adventure came near being
his last, Nothing but pure luck saved
him from a horrible death. A consign.
went of venomous snakes had been
ceived from Texas, and for lack of other
QuUEners it became net to pla «
them in the cage in which are kept the
pythons, procured
a box in which to place the creatures un
He
box beine loft
He
the
and had succes
Fie
CRRATrY
boas and Stephens
til he could prepare a cage for them,
entered the cage,
the
dzed the snakes
sitting all in the box
wefore rem
opened door of cage,
but the py
wing the python, Stephens
to wal the snakes
tartled by a fier
stopped 8 moment
(REELS BN
(slancing or
Mexican Coffee,
8 Are
from the
fire set out it
ery
"of 200 trees per acre,
will vield about 1
Ear h coffee tree ¥i
of but when
the amount
is not greater than to
pounds, The washed or pulpless coffee
20 pounds berries,
f
irom one seven
is steeped for several days in water prior
come off more readily
In Mexico every Indian who owns a few
feet of ground, especially if his land lies
on elther side of the sea-facing slopes,
which extend for a great distance, from
the table-land of the interior to the sec-
ond plateau, usually has his hut and
vegetable patch surrounded by a high
hedge of banana and coffee shrubs or trees
planted alternately. The banana grows
rapidly and soon unfolds its broad leaf.
age over the slow growing and beautiful
little coffee shrub to protect it from the
glare of the sun by day, and the light
frosts of the upper and middle plateaus
by night. When two or three years have
passed, the delicate shrub has become a
large bush and is no longer so sensitive
to sun and frosts, At five years of age
the p'ant, if not eut back, will stand
twelve or fiftean feet from the ground
and will then begin to give back to the
owner an ample payment for its cost. As
carly a= April the coffee twigs will begin
to break out into small white blooms, as
waxy and exquisite as trailing arbutus,
as sweet and white as orange blossoms,
and as finely contrasted with its waxy
shining green leaves as are those univer-
sal bridal blooms, By the middle of
May the coffee tree will be in the green
berry, but will still be yielding its fre
grant white blooms, for, as if in love
with its own dainty beauty, it ir seldom
wholly out of flower, In November it
will stand slightly flecked with white
blossoms and some rem. berries, but
glistening with the added beauty of clus.
tree, so lightly cared for, the owner wil
y, & pound or more of excei
—{American Agriculturist,
i
ca
THE BODY AXD ITS HEALTH,
Yexriatiox, —The
in a room is one ig
whick the air is changed to the extent of
feet per har por adult in-
The alr sdmitted need he
warmed alr, so long as it is fresh,
course, preferable to cold in win
#OMe the air must be
if gre to in
There are various ways of doing
i cold air 80
ix toward the
t th
Tur Scigxeey op
mate, not
is, of
ter, but in WHY ir
brought in WH continue
gh
health
TOO IB 2
1 stream is
ti
puaseare nx it falls to
2
the ©
Sut
in
this
skirting
heated
should
about two 1INCass more
than carm
*For ti
the arms at full length
and the hands grasping the
the end of the |
side
ty sec
“Here pause and take two long deep
breaths of five seconds each
“To strengthen the muscles of the
back and rid the abdominal muscles of
fat: Holding the cane as in the last posi
tion at arm’s length above the head, bend
forward and bring the cane as near the
floor as possible without bending the
knees or cibows: then swing as far back-
wards as possible without losing your
balance. Do this briskly for thirty sec.
onds,
““This will make a large waist smaller,
if persisted in. It is good for lumbago
also, and will help those who bead over
a desk all day,
“To steengthen the forearm: Grasp
the cane in the middle with one hand and
extend it at arm's length, on a level with
the shoulder. Then twist the cane back
and forth, l'ke the spokes of a wheel, for
twenty secen ls
With
head
in
r from
£
aa
muscles of the sides
above the
Cane as
ist exercise,
to side as far as possible: time, thir.
sWin
onils
Intelligent Indians,
The Pimas are diligent farmers and
most of them wood workers. This year
they raised 7,000,000 pounds of whest,
and that is about the general average of
their crop. Of this amount they sell
4,000,000 pounds and hold the remain.
ing 8,000, for seed and for their own
bread. The Government has erected for
them a small mill on the reservation and
they grind their own grain. The Pimas
are also extensive stock growers and
raise a great many cattle horses. The
Government gives them the tnormous
price of nine cents a pound for bref cate
1 the mii po ith
supply some of mite. y wil
or They are more than — in.
telligent Indians, and many of :
® English fluently. On the reserva
tion are four stores conducted by white
men, but most of the clerks are