Watering tho llllls. "Its wsterelli the bills from Hl* chambers."— P. civ., 13. Oh ' the rippling and the learning, Falling not Iroin dawn till gloaming, Where the rapids are descending, as for ages tlioy have done; On each downward platlorni taking Just a moment's rest, then breaking kit© sweet enchanting laughter at triumph won; AU tho latent echoes waking With the tun! Si Weeping Irotn their rocky portal, Kobcd at onco in light immortal, Bringing infinite reveal nigs from tho silences prolound; How the little oldies whiten, And the longer teaches brighten, Am the showers ol brilliant dewdrope ou their slivory slopes rebound; Falling into gems that lighten All around. When tho snnlieams come unbidden To behold the marvel hidden, All tho watera take them captive, to adorn their raiment white; But the rainbow tells the wonder Ot the radiance lying under, AaA the sun in regal beauty stoops to elaim his own by right, Till the ripples fall asunder — Lost in light! On the brink the moeses glisten, And the grasses stop to listen To the never-ending music ol the waters Hashing by; Overhead tho elm-trees stately. In their hearts rejoicing greatly At the springs ol welcome coolness that be neath their strongholds lie, Spread th'-ir myriad leaves sedately lo the sky. When at night the stars assemble In the hu blue heavens, ami tremble At their own reflected splendor, on the torrent home awuy. Then tho laughing waves discover How the moon—earth's timid lover- Watches for the perloct mirror they hare broken in their play; Watches—with the stars above her Till the day. Through all seasons' varied phrases, Still the waters speak their praises Ot the Power that sweeps them outward, in I their fullness to the deep; AU their rush and tumult guiding, For each drop a path dividing, Till In far-off breadths ot or can each its des- ; lined place shall keep, And at last, in calm subai'ling. Fall asleep. —Mary Rowlrt, in Sunday Magaiint. j JACK'S GREAT PERIL. I never saw such a change in a man in i my life! When we hut met, Jack— well, I must not give his real name, con sidering what I am going to relate, so I'U call him Jack I'allant—was, as he had ever ls'on since I knew him. one of the lightest-hearted, cheeriest fellows in the world, full of fun and up to every thing, and a gentle and tender a a woman, with the courage of a lion. And aow, what did I find him? Even though ; hut three months had elapsed, he had become a grave, dejected, saddened man —in a word, hardly recognizable, either mentally or physically. I was shocked, and of course Le saw that I was. He came to see me, indeed, the moment he heard I was in town, that I might learn from his own mouth what had happened, instead of at second-hand. Jack had always been more or less a spoiled boy—only sons are always more or less spoiled—and having lost his mother when quite a child, it was not wonderful that his poor old dad made much of him. Hut he had taken the ■foiling kindi y. and beyond making him Erhaps a little idle and thoughtless, it d done him no harm. There was no harm in the fellow; he spent more money than he should, hut many young soldiers do that without coming to much grief in the long run. and his father, a soldier before him, regarded the failing leniently. ' paid his bills and looked pleasant. Be yond adding that he was a rather short, dapper little fellow, I need not say much more about him ; I have only to try and put into coherent shape the strange and tragical business which had so fearfully altered him. He was coming to town one autumn evening for a few days' leave from (lun- BerslioTt. whers he was quartered. I can see him as plainly as if I had been there, springing into the first earring- that offered room, without regard to who was in it; for he was the lenst fastidious of men. without the slightest particle of " haw haw " pride and nonsense, or that stand-off-ishncsa of manner, too USUAI with men in his position; ready to make himself happy wherever he wss, or in whatever company. But it so happened, it appears, on this occasion that he got into an empty car riage ; at least he thought so, for it was twilight, and he did not observe for the first moment the figure of a woman, seated in a further corner, dressed in dark clothes and thirkly veiled. The sudden disi-overy that he was not alone rather startled him for a moment, and it may he. as lie said, that the eve ning before having been n guest night at mess, his nerves were not quite up to their usual tone. He was not the lad, however, to be long in such a situation without making some remark to his fel fow-traveier, though in this case an un usual hesitation to do so came over him, •wing to her mysterious appearance and extreme stillness. The between-light* •fthe carriage lamp and tfie evening sky prevented him from discerning details: but there she sat, perfectly rigid, and with not a vestige of her face visible, through the thick hliu k vail. %" Ahem! ahem!" he said at last, shift ing one seat nearer to her and nearly op posite:*" I hope I have not intruded on jou; I thought the carriage was empty, 1 may be tfislurbing you, I fear." He woula say anything, in a random sort of way, to break the fee, as he railed it. Ho answer. A long pause, " Very singular," he thonglit; and he moved to a scat exactly opposite to the figure, making another commonplace observa tion. No response, or any movement. " Asleep, I suppose," he said to him self; and he sat quietly watching her, while the train rattled on for a mile or two. A station was reached and a stop page made, with the usual accompani ments of screech snd whistling. Jid slam ming of doors, hut without producing any change in the posture of the occu pant cf the opposite corner. The train ttgnin moved on. "Cnn't ho asleep,' lie muttered. "\Vlint's the mutter with li or i>' 'J he window wits hut clone; lie lot It down with n tremondoUH clutter unil bung, remarking tlint " he hoped, en the oveiung was fine, the wonthor warm and the carriage clone" (for he declared to me there wan a peculiar odor hanging about which struck him from the first) "she would not olyect to a little air." Still no reply. Then ha said "he feared she was not. well. Would she like him to pull the hell for the guard and have tho train stopped again f" Hut nothing lie could nay or do elicited any sign ofiife from hor. Jack now became seriously uncom fortable and alarmed on her account, lie thought she could not be asleep, hut had fainted. Suddenly it crossed his mind that she was dead. Night had now closed in. but as the last tinge of twilight faded from the sky the carriage lamp gained its full power and revealed every otneet more plainly than hitherto. Jack leaned toward the motionless form. A long lilaek veil, falling from a close-fitting hat-like bonnet, enveloped nearly the whole upper part of her figure; Indeed, on close Inspection, it hardly looked like an ordinary veil, hut more like a large thin, black silk hand kerchief. ller dress _wns of common black stuff, much worn and frayed, from amid the folds of which appeared the ends of a piece of rope that must have been fastened round her waist j and one hand, encased in an old. ill-tittmg black glove, lay placidly on her lap. Full of uncomfortable sensations, Jack was about to lift the veil, when, for the first tintc, the figure moved; its hand stole slowly from underneath the folds of the dress, and the veil was gradually* lifted and thrown up over the head. Involuntarily ray friend shrank back into the corner of his scat, for a face was revealed to liini which no one could have looked upon without a sense of awe. It was that of a woman somewhat past middle age, thin, haggard ahd pale to a degree which only cen supreme lieauty, while, though the iron-gray hair looked a little disheveled and unkempt. Mi* glance of th eye was steady, cnlm and determined. In this glance {ay, chiefly, the awe in spiring expression of the face, for, in ad dition to the penetrating look, there was a persistcneey in it. and at tie' same time a fascination, o you know that place?" , She seemed to answer in the afhrma i live ky a slight inclination of the head xs j before. j "Ah! you do. flood! Ixmgmoor." | he went on; "then I don't mind telling you a secret." Hi paused. ("I'll ! frighten her," he thought.) "Criminal lunatics," he said aloud; "I am one of j them. 1 have just escaped from thovl He leaned forward, as if to impress h- him self, to have • *ca|>ed injury (and he con cluded that this was Ilk' ly). might she not. with the stealth ami • tinning inci dental to hir malady, !■ billing, and bp thus further eluding detention, become, with her homieiccn laid in an ominous row at the foot of one part o :th' embankment. Her* was not among them; he could find no trace of her. At length, as a sfckly dawn was be ginning to mat e the search easier, lie en deavored to discover the *pii where the carriage he had occupied had fiill'-n, and to retrace his step* (quite to the rear of th n train, hy the way)to the ptnee where he found himself lying after the catas trophe. Hy this time he had nuid< known briefly to some officials that a woman was missing who had ben in the < arriap" with him. and one or two of them followed him in his quest. Pres ently he realized pretty well where lie had been thrown: he all but identifies! the snot. Then he scrambled through the hedge, and there, on the opposite side, on the sloping hank of a ditch, he hebeid. lying quite stiil. her dark, un mistakable form. lie ran forward, and. bending over Iter and looking down upon the marble, up-turned face, saw at a glance that there was nothing dangerous nlsiut her now—those terrible eyes were dosed for : ever. Except for a slight wound on one temple,whence a little blood had trickled, and the distorted hut now rigidly closed hand, which bail been so lately at Ills throat, she looked ns calm and unln j jured as if she were merely sleeping. while dentli had restored for a brief ; period much of that beauty. the traces of which had struck him wlien her vail was first lifted, j One of the surgeons here came hurry i ing up. in answer to summons, j "Good heavens!" lie exclaimed ; "here j she is, th'm, at last! Why, she must ! have been in the train. How on earth did she manage it?" "Who is she?" inquired Jack, earn ! estly. witli a strange return of the old. inexplicable sensation. "Who is she? You appear to know her. Pray tell roe." I "Oh. one of our inmates; she got awnv yesterday morning; no on' knows how was the answer. "You are from Longmoor, t'ten. How long has she been there? What is her name ?" "Oh, she has been there up ware' of twenty years. 1 believe; long before my time, "And her name?" "Upon my word, at this moment, I ran hardly," went on the doctor, me chanically passing his fingers over one of the pulseless wrists hefore him. and with a calm hesitation which contrasted strongly with Jack's earnest. Impetuous manner, "I can hardly remember. I think she was committed for the murder of her own little girl. It was n sad cose, I know. All! her name: 1 have It, went on the doctor suddenly; "her name was Pallant—Rachel Pallant." Jack sprang from the kneeling posture In which he was as If he had !>een shot. Why. tliat was his own dead mother's name! But. pshaw! what of that? Well, It was rather a startling coinci dence; that was all. Ay, hut was it all? Indeed no! The nquest led to a revelation. Tliat inquiry fully explained what had been the nature of the influence which the weird, pale fnee and strange presence had had upon my friend. The strong hut subtle link, which no time or absence can quite sunder, exist ing between mother and son, had made itself felt the instant those tWo sat face to face, for the unhappy woman was In deed ticno other than Jack 'sown mother He lmd never been told—ln fact, Blind been carefully kept from him. Why run the risk of clouding for life thai 4<|ight and happy temperament? He was only four years old wh'-n the dread ful business happened. Ilenee he had scarcely known a mother's care; she was lost to him anil to the world a* com pletely OH if she had died. Nay, death would have been a mercy by compari son, and it was generally assumed that she was dead; only a very few inlimute friends knew the truth. The poor lady's mind had given way suddenly after tlie birth of a cTiild, who did not live. Within a week, tlie homi cidal mania possessed her; by the merest chance she had been prevented front committing some frightful outrage upon her little hoy, my poor friend Jack; and restraint not having been put upon her in time—for her malady had hardly Ix'cn suspected, so unlooked-for was its appearance site consummated her dead ly propensity upon her eldest child, a girl fifteen years of ago—killed her, in a word, as she lay asleep. And here, after a lapse of twenty years, was the climax and end of the tragedy, as dreadful as anything that had gone be fore. Tlie order for release, when it came, brought with it as much suffering ftoall but one) :w hod the order for captivity. No wonder that Jock was an altered man. I have never seen a smile on his face since— though I trust that time, with its healing influence, may at least soften the blow. Preventing Ih* Spread of lHra<*r. The commission of experts apiminted by the National Hoard of Health of the I'nited State* to prepare H circular ni as tiglitiy as |>ossihlr, place tlie sulphur in if.n nans, support' <1 on bricks, contained in tubs containing a little water. et it on flre by hot coals or with the aid of a spoonful of alcohol, and allow the room to remain closed fugb wetting and boil lor at least half an hour. Heavy Wiwdrn clothing, silks, far*. stuff"! Ivcd eovcr*. beds and other articles which cannot be treated with the solution should lie hung in the room during fumi gation, their surfaces thoroughly ex posed and pockets turned inside out. .Af terward they should be hung in the open air, beaten and shaken. Wages and Cost of hiring. A Washington letter says Agricultu ral Commissioner I>e Due Is collecting statistics concerning the rate of wages and the cost of living among farrria horcr* throughout the Cnited States. Within the last year he lias ascertained the cost of living and the average rate of wages paid have decreased about fifteen per cent, in all parts of the country, witli the exception. ]>crhap*, of Minne sota. Colorado, California Oregon and Washington Territory. In Colorado and Sew Mexico there ha been an increase in the rate of wages paid, and a corre sponding increase in the cost of living, owing to the demand for lalmr resulting from the large mining operation* that hare developed within the last tweive months. In Slinnesota, and in the other States and Territories named, the rate of wages paid and the expense of living is about the same as it was a year ago. In New F.ngland the average pay of farm laborers without lioard is #30.31 per month, against #32 AO a year ago, a decline of about ten per cent. The aver age cost of hiring lias fallen from #9.13 a year ago, to #8.03. a decline of mora than i thirteen per cent. In New York, New Jersey and Penn sylvania, the price* paid for form labor have fallen HJ per cent, while the cost of 1 living has fallen ten per rent. In Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina and fleorgia labor I* re duced about fifteen percent, and the coat ' of living about sixteen per cent. In Alabama, Mississippi, Isiuisiana and Texas the decline In wages has been about five per cent, and the cost of liv ing about three per cent. In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin the average rate of wage* paid to farm hand* is #30.90, while west of the Mississippi the average is raised to $33.H1. The price of lalior and the cost I of living have not materlslly changed j within the la*t year—the great reduction ' having taken place in 1877. FOB THE FAIR HEX. I'M k|| oit V-'nftclea, Yellow Stockings are reproduced from f'tfj, days of Khakcspcarc, w j„, Blt ys in I wefftlii Night": "lie will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors. 1 hese stocking* itrc so radiant in hue that they are ended old gold color, and are made of the finest spun silk, and, that they may not lie come too common, are very costly. Some of those go id-colored stockings are marve ously cToekcd and embroidered with Marguerite*. Fashion just now gives to the feet extraordinary import , nine. Equally costly are elegant silk stockings of the fashionable colors, hav j ing a pattern in point duehesse, or Valen j eiennes lace set in with the Instep and j ankle surrounded with elaborate and delieatecloekiiig. Fine soft Lisle-thread i stockings copy rich Roman ribbons in I broad stripes of violet, blue yellow ami green; another style, light in appearance a* a cobweb, is in pale delicate colors, j such on sea-green, a light tint of blue, ; rose, lettuce and drab. The clouded cheva stockings show all the changing ■ delicate Is'nuty of mother-of-pearl, and others-come in bright plaids to match I the bandanna trimming* of dresses. It j is a matter of importance that the colors : of the plaid in the stocking* should pre -1 ciaely match those of the dress. For tin' display of this dainty hosiery the : shoemakers of fashlonafile estafdish ! ments make street shoe* with from six to nine straps running straight n< ross I the foot and ankle, fitted by buttons on the foot. Another caprice arranges the ! straps in triplets clustered together on the top of the foot, and at the insU-p under a tsiw and buckle. These are mad'' of black French kid. silk or satin for common wear. The boot and shoe j generally is cut on the Spanish last to I present a flnely-ari bed instep. Notwithstanding the introduction of paniers, panier basques, double over skirts and other odd conceits, the polo nnise is still much worn, and i*. in fart, i a garment tliat ranks among the indis peiisables. The latest polonaise shows wliat is railed familiarly the " the waist, the back across the shoulders, i behiw tic waist and tic sire vs. (>n the delieat/'ly-tinted fcir> p dreases a great j deal of Breton lace is plwed. and also light-netted fly fringe made of floss silk, j Pretty crcnm-eolond. -dove-gray, water gr< en and rohhin*'-egg-blue organdie* ar< now selling for Un ' mts a yard, and when trimmed abundantly with Breton lace and satin rihl*>n compare very fa vorably witli tlie costliest dr'sw * ffect • of strongW contrasting colors in one dress. win''li meets witli favor, now promts#* the most harlequin disorder, i Great latitude i* permitted, and it will j le the effort of artist*-* t/> produce a har monious whole. Autumn bonnet* and d osses will be a- many hucd a* the dy ing leaves, and, it is lo be hoped, will be as picturesque. There are dismal prophe- : eh - of the poke lonnet. and the demand for feathers and stuffed hirds is unprerc dented. A fan is a universal ap(enilage to a lady's dre**, and is now considered in disp'-nsable for its utility, and as a graceful assistant to expressive action in conversation In accord witli the present passion for ali thing* Oriental, some of the most elegant fan* are made of the eves of the pMeoek feather* set in medallions, nrr<>unding a center of humming idrds' heads gleaming with iridescent flame Otlier* are of the mm fnraeous feather* st of tlie tilings last men tioned arc ;'*nt with a rcqu'-st to dis pose of them as sen as possible. Th amount of good that has been done an which can he done by this society ca hardly be measured. Address the presi dent or managers of the Women's Ex change, room 4. East Twentieth street. Xi w York, for aeir< ular and further in formation. There are similar exchanges to this New York institution in Brook lyn, Boston, Philadelphia and Wash ington. Every large city in the I'nited Stales ought to liave its Women's Ex ' iianee.—Sew York Sun. A mm-.111 Tub Mads Ruf. ■■Tie "home and society" department of Srnhntr contain* a paper on "domes tie nursing'' by a trained nurse, from which we quote this practical piece of advice Nothing is more easy to an experi cmed nurf- or more difficult to an in experienced one than to change the bed linen with a person in bed. Every thing that will be required must is at hand, properly aired, before beginning Mov the patient as far as possible to fine side of the lied, and remove all but one pillow. I'ntuek the lower sheet and cross sheet and push them toward the middle of the bed. Hare a sheet ready folded or rolled the wrong way. and lay it on the mattress, unfolding it enough to tuck it in at tie side. Have the c ross sic . t prepared a*> dm-rilied before, and roll it also, laving it over the under one and tucking it in. keeping the unused portion of iioth still rolled Move the patient over to the side thu prepard for liitn, the soiled sheets can then be drawn away, the clean ones completely unrolled and tucked in on the other side. The coverings n*d not lie removed while this is being done; they can he pulled out from the foot of the bedstead and kept wrapped around the patient. To change the upper sheet take off the si.piwl and lay toe clean shoot over the blankets, securing the upper edge to the bed with a couple of pins; standing at the foot, draw out the blankets and tolled sheet, replace the former and put on the spread. I-astly, change the pil low cases. TorfoU* Klitll, Tliink of the following. indies, wh'n vnu handle your tortoise wh*l) comb* \V hat i* ralh*d the tortoise shell I* not, a* I* generally supposed. the bony covering or shield of the turtle, but only the scales which I-OTT it. These are thirteen in number; eight of them fin*, and five littlecurved. Of the fiat one* four are large, bring sometimes one foot long and *cv