No Time for Hating. Begono with feud ! swsy with strife ; Our human hearts unmating ! Let ua IK* friends again ! This lifo Is all too short for hating 1 80 dull the day, so dim the way, 80 rough the read we're faring Far better weal with faithful friend Than stalk alone uncaring 1 Tho barren flg, tho withored vino, Are tyjsw of selfish living ; But souls that give, like thine and mine, Renew their life by giving. Whilo Cypress waves o'er early gisvos On all tho way we're going, Far licttor plant where seed is scant Than tread on fruit that's growing. Away with scorn 1 Siuco dio wo must And rest on one low pillow ; There are no rivals in tho dust No foes beneath the willow. 80 dry tho bowers, so few the flowers, Our earthly way discloses, Far better stoop where daisies droop Than tramp o'or broken roses! Of what are all the Joys wo hold Compared to joys alovo us ? And what are rank and jiower and gold Com|>ared to hearts that love us? So fleot our years, so full of tears, So closely death is waiting ; God gives us space for loviug grace, But leaves no timo for hating. —.4. ./. 11. Dugannr. HER FIRST APPEARANCE. It really was "quite too awfully vox ing," after all licr preparations were made, that now, nearly at the last mo ment, such a contretemps should occur, and the more she thought of it the more was Mrs. Stewart Allenby in despair. And with good reason, for she had is. sued cards for a morning concert—a matinee musicalo, as she called it on the invitations; the first she hail ever given since she moved to the great honse in one of tho most fashionable roads in South Kensington, and she particularly desired that it should bo a success—and now Signora Belcore had gone and fallen sick at the eleventh hear, and the programme would be too short un less some one could bo found to sing the cavatina from '' Linda de Chamon nix." " I'ut in a comic song instead," sug gested Mr. Allenby, whose taste was not educated up to concert pitch. "A comic song indeed !" echoed his wife with n scornful laugh. "George, you are a fool !" But as Mr. Allenby bad heard this blunt statement a good many times be fore, he wos'not at all discomposed by it. At that moment the door opened softly. Mrs. Allenby started np. "Williams," cried she to tho foot man, "I'm not at heme! Didn't I tell you I could see nobody this morning!" "Yes, madam," the footman answered, coughing lehind his hand; " but it isn't company, madam—it's the visiting governess." "Oh! ',Mrs. Allenby was visibly re lieved. "Come in, Miss Ashton. Wil k liams, call Miss Constance ut once to ■ her lessons." Margaret Ashton came qnietly in, a little, gray-dressed creature, like a nun, with soft hazel eyes, a complexion as pale as ivory, and mended gloves upon her small hands. "Yon are not well, Mrs. Allenby, I am afraid T she said, gently, as she seated herself. " I am well enough!" said Mrs. Stewart Allenby, petulantly—" only Fm in despair. Yon don't know of any one who conld sing that cavatina for me, do yon, Miss Ashton?" "Perhaps— I conld," said Margaret. " You f Mrs. Allenby stared as if the visiting governess had stated that she conld construct a sentence in Sanscrit. "I conld sing a little once,"raid Mar garet ; " and that cavatina was one of my favorite pieces." " Yon darling !" she cried. "If only yon conld help me ont of this dilemma. Til be gratefnl to yon all my lifo long." Margaret went back to tho hnmble little snbnrban cottage where she rented three rooms—a cottage where sho sup ported a fretful valetudinarian mothvw, and a pretty widowed sister, whose life had been a failnre all tho way through. "Charlotte " she said, to the latter. " I'm going to sing at a concert next Wednesday!" " Yon !" echoed the widow. " You'll fail, for a certainty." "I can try," said Margaret, with a flattering sigh. "Your voice is well enough," said the aister, disparagingly; "but it has no volume. And you never will have the confidence to sing before an audience." The tears came into Margaret's eyes. "I must do something, Charlotte," •aid she. "We cannot live on as we are living now. Wo are in debt every where; and since the doctor has pre acribed dainties for mamma I haven't known where to look for the money to * 4 buy them with." "Perhaps I shall get something to do ■oon," said Charlotte. " But, in the meantime ?" said Mar garet, wiib a sorrowful uplifting of her •yebrows. bhe was a magnanimous little thing, this hard-worked, palo-faooil visiting governess,[or alio would have romindod her older sister that sitting all day with Otui-pai>ered lookM and dog's-eared nov els was no way to obtain a lucrative situation of any sort. " It's very hard on mo," said Mrs. Ashton, who sat with a devotional book in her laj> and a bunch of grapes on a china plate beside her. "If Margaret had been like any one else she would have made a brilliant match long ago." Margaret did not remind her mother how she had discarded Jlasil Hepburn long ago, because he was not sufficiently aristocratic and wealthy to snit Mrs. Ashton's lofty ideas—and how Mr. Hepburn had sinco booomo a rich man, and a man of mark. "If ho know how very poor wo are," said Margaret to herself, with a sigh, " I think he would bo sorry. But I could not tell him; and now that he has gono to travel in Egypt, and up the Nile, it isn't likely I shall ever sen him again." "You haven't any more voice than a Sparrow," said Mrs. Ashton. " You have never cultivated what littlo you have," said Mrs. Charlotte; "and tho idea of your standing up to sing among those professional vocalists is simply preposterous!" But Margaret stood valiantly to her colors, anil when tho eventful night ar rived she stood there on tho velvet covered platform, in her well-worn black silk, softened by bunches of pale pink rosebuds, and a drapery of misty black lace, a spray of rosebuds in her hair, and an intent look in her soft brown eves. "Now don't fail," Mrs. Allenby had whispered, as tho jtortiercrs of crimson velvet were lifted for her to pass out npon tho mimic stage. " No," she answered, qnietlyf " I shall not fail." But, for an instant, as she faced tho brilliant audience, tho llntter of funs, tho flash of diamonds, tho glitter of the foot-lights seemed to blind and daz/.10 her; a suffocating sensation arose in her throat. " I am going to fail," sho thought, and the recollection of Charlotte's dis mal prophesies occurred to her her mother's prognostications of evil, her own tormi-nting doubts. " I will not fail!" sho said to herself, and advancing boldly into the; littlo ar.-na, she faced the circle of intent eyes, and lxgan to sing. Sweet and clear, like the 1: juid notes of a lark, her voice soared up, until, forgetting her own identity in that of Donizetti's Swiss heroine, she became almost inspired; and at the closo a per fect shower of bonqnots rained down npon the stage at her feet—an ovation of voices rang np again and again in deafening applause. But Margaret was conscious only of one thing—she had not failed. Mrs. Allenby welcomed her ipptnr ously to the pretty little " green -ri' " My dear Miss Ashton," she wmt, "you are a genius—a second Jennv Lind ! Who was to suppose that you hail such a divine voice ? You are the star of my little concert—the prima donna of the evening ! No, don't take yonr bonnet," as Margarej mechanically stretched out her hand for it. "Yon must come in to the drawing-room. They are all wild to know you." " But I cannot," pleaded poor Mar garet, with a downward glance at her dress. "I am not prejiared." " You arc perfect," said Mrs. Hb'Wart Allenby, with winning despotism. " Bo sides, one of my guests savs you are an old acquaintance of his—Mr. Hepburn, who has jnst returned from Palestine and tho Holy Land." 80 Margaret was led into the midst of the glittering throng, and introduced here and there, until, like one moving in a dream, she found herself leaning on Basil Hepburn's arm. " 80 you are a great singer," he said. " I never sang in public before in all my life." " Yon will lo prouder and more haughty than ever." '• I never was humbler in all my life." " Margaret," lie uttered, softly. " Well, Mr. Hepburn ?' "Mr. Hepburn!, That sonnda cold. Hnpposo yon say, as yon used to say, Basil," " Bnt things aro not as they used to be," said poor Margaret, her heart be ginning to beat unevenly in her hreast "Can they not be so again, dear little Margaret?" he whispered, bending his tall head to the level of the cluster of rosebuds in her hair. " Can we not go lack to tho initial chapter of our lives, and l>egin it all over again. lam a rich man, now, bnt all my money cannot buy mo any treasure half so sweet and priceless as your love. Dearest Mar garet, tell me that you, too, have not entirely forgotten the past." And Miss Ashton went home from Mrs. Btewart Allenby's matinee musicals an engaged young lady. " I didn't fail, after all," she said, radiantly. "And I had half • dosen applications to sing again at private ooncerta, ami Mrs. Allenby's money will just buy my wedding dress." 80 the current of true love wea run ning smoot 1 'J "Wain, after aIL CLIPPINGS FOR TilK C UIMOUS. Tho coffee shrub grows about sixteen feet in height. There are petroleum wells on tho Jrrawuddy river, in Rurmnh. Carpenters were originally makers of c arjtenta or carriages. The ancients always harnessed their horses abreast, never lengthwise. The real ami personal property in the United States iH valued at 870,000,- 000,000. F.ight bushels of good lime, sixteen bushels of sand ami one bushel of hair will make enough mortar to plaster 100 square yards. Ono thousand shingles laid four inches to tho weather will cover 100 square feet of surface, and five pounds of shingle nails will fasten them on. The greatest length of tho United States from east to west is 2,800 miles; greatest breadth from north to south, 1,000 miles; average breadth, 1,200 miles. The Gainsborough hut in named for Gcorgiana, Duchess of Gainsborough, who wan so liratitiftil that a laborer said of her: "Oh, I could light my pij>e nt her eyes, bless her 1" That a human bite is as dangerous as that of any animal is shown by an oc currence in the Ot riaan city of Mun ster, where a man who was bitten in one of his lingers during a tight has had tho alternative of lifting his arm or his life. Blood |M>i*oning Hot in, and speedy amputation at the shoulder be came necessary. Perhaps the largest pasture in the world is tho property of Mr. Taylor Maudlin, on the border of Texas, having forty miles of rook fence on one side, and yet requiring two hundred more to inclose it. The owner exp-ctH to raise one thousand tons of oats upon it, and to feed one hundred thousand head of eattle. There is now a dog infirmary at the West End of London, controlled by a member of the Koyal College of Veter inary Surgeons. Tho wards are com plete with every modern convenience for the health and comfort of patients. A sanitarium has been arranged for the reception of healthy animals, when own ers have no convenience for them. Special ward are also provided for cats and birds. Annual subscriber* of {?.* have all the privileges of the infirmary. A physician of Germany, who recently died at a go at age, asserted that his long lif" was due to the fact that he always slept with his heal to tho north. He declared that the iron contained in our systems, finding itself in tho direc tion of the magnetic current which con tinually flows over the surface of the globe toward the north pole, becomes magnetized and so incr<-as<-s the energv of the vital principle. SCIENTIFIC NCIUFH. Hatum is 900,000 mib-s from the sun. I >i 1 or essence of pineapple is obtained from a product of tho action of putrid cheese and sugar. A hornet's nest, Iwing the finest woody substance known, is the Wst polisher for glass lenses. According to seamen a green hue of the ocean indicates soundings, an indigo blue, profound depths. Spirits of camphor makes a good barometer, a* it is cloudy before a storm and clear in fair weather. It is a popnlar mistake to call a thin, flaky, semi-transparent mineral isin glass. Isinglass is fish glue and has nothing to do with the mineral, which is mica. If a lamp chimney be cut with a diamond on the convex side it will never crack with the heat, as the incision af fords room for expansion, and the glass after cooling returns to its original shape, with only a scratch visible where the cut was made. M. 11. Pellet t has tested plants, mus cular juice and yeast for ammonia. In plants ho finds it to be widely dis tributed. In 100 gramme of beef he detected 0.15 of ammonia, and in yeast an average percentage of 0.059. Pepsine is proving itself to be of ex traordinary efficacy in destroying worms in the stomach And bowels without caus ing any injury to tho highly-organized tissues, even when it is deemed neces sary to use very largo doses. Drs. Wagner and Prinz recommend that instead of applying farmyard manure to vineyards and chemical manure to arable land, exactly tho op posite course should l>e adopted to se cure the best productive results. The composition of oats, as ascer tained from 120 analyses by MM. L. Grandean and A. Leolerc, is as follows: Moiatare, 10.01; nitrogenous bodies, 9.80; non nitrogenous extractive, 59.09; fat, 4.58; cellulose, 11.20, and ash, 3.02. When ft mftn discover* that tho world U mvl<> np of diftftgrflflfthle, quarrelsome people, it is time to look ftt himself through the big end of ft apy-glftM to see if he can't find ft fault or two ftt home. FOR TIIK FARM AMI lIO.MF. .Virion* nnil H<inii*hr*. Last year, as a test of a frequent practice among growers of melons and squashes, I pinched tho ends of the long main shoots of the melons, squashes and encumbers, and left some to run at their own will. One squash plant sent out a single stem, reaching more than forty feet, but it did not bear ono fruit. Another plant wus pinched until it formed a compact mass of inter mingling side-shoots and main brunches eight feet square, und it bore sixteen squashes. The present yeur a plant of muskmolon thus pinched in covers the space allotted to it and it lias set twenty-three fruit, tho most of which, of course, has been pinched off. Tho pinching causes many lateral branches, and these prodtico.tbc female or fertile blossomH, while the main vines produce only male blossoms. Tho difference in tho yield of an acre of melons by this pinching may easily amount to one hundred barrels.-- .Vine York Sun. sprouting Ifools. This, says an exchange, is usually a sign of an unhealthy tree. The common method of getting rid of sprouts is to chop them off with a hatchet or spade. This only increases the trouble. A stub of more or less length is left standing, and this in tiino throws up three or four sprouts to one cut off. A second trimming has only the same effect if carelessly done. The proper way is to remove tho soil below where tho sprouts start ; then with a sharp knifo or chisel carefully remove the sprout, taking care not to bruise any of the adjacent bark. Then fill in the soil, and in most cases there will bo no necessity for a second trial. Hpronts are caused by latent buds or abraded bark, and usually in dicato a diseased condition of the stem. After attaining any considerable size very few trees throw up sprouts from their base. fooH for Fowl*. Aw riter in the Country tlentleman dis cusses the subject of llavor in fowl's flesh. Among other remark* he says: That brei*l has something to do with it may not Is- denied, but that food ha* more can safely IK? credited. Food not only affects the flavor, but the quality and quantity also. Fowls that are fat tened on corn alone produce not only a sweet flavored flesh ami plenty of it. but the fat is apt to be oily, ami posse** a strong, unpleasant odor. This is in a great measure governed by the breed. That small fowls are superior where quality is desired is a decided fact; but where quantity is tho desideratum, irr- - hjootive of other qualities, the larger fowls mar be cultivated, es|>eciallv the Asiatics. Buckwheat make fine, white flesh, but nothing flavors it like ground corn an I oat* intermixed ejna!- It, and scalded or moistened sufficiently with either milk or water, but not enough for the milk to run. This should 1K given fresh each day, and net allowed to sour or ferment. Fowls require good, sweet food. Musty meal or moldy grain are always unsuitable. For table use, where a flue flavor i* desired,fowls should '*> confined in clean quarters, and l*?fed on wholesome food for at least une week before slaughter. Where fow Is are con fined in small compass, some absorbent should le used to neutralize the drop pings, otherwise the flesh will become tainted from the disagreeable odor arising therefrom. For this purpose there is nothing lietter than air-slacked lime or unleaclicd w<>od ashes, where there is sufficient ventilation. Ilifrs Fnddrr *ll the Vrar. Mr. O. B. I'otter, of New York, writes as follows to tho American Cultivator • I have practiced this system for three years, have applied it to common fod der corn, red clover, pearl millet. West India millet or Guinea corn, green rye, green oat* and mixed grasses in which clover predominated with entire success in every case. The last year I preserved about 100 tons, and during the summer I have put down aliout 200 tons, and have added sorghum and sugar cane to the varieties of fodder I have liefore preserved. I have never lost any fod der thus preserved, bnt during the whole experiment it has lieen perfectly preserved and better than when fed fresh and green from the field. As the first fermentation is passed in the pro cess the food thus preserved has no tendency either to scour or bloat the animals fed. It is cstcn up eagerly and clean, leaf and stalk, and stock thus fed exhibits the highest condition of health and thrift. For milch cows, to which I have mainly fed it, it sur passes any other food I have ever tried. It increases the quantity of milk much beyond dry food, and the quality is liet ter than that produced from the same fodder when fed fresh and green from the field. The process in its results upon green fodder is not nnlike that by which sauerkraut is made. Ho much is this fodder improved and so com pletely is all waste of fodder prevented by this process that I think all who try it with proper facilities will find it mor e profitable than the present method of soiling, with tho crops already men tioned fresh ont from tho field. In adT • - ' dition to tho fact that the fooder thus pratorred bun no U'lulnncjr to scour or bloat cattle, another important advan tage is gained by thin process. Tbeae fodder crops may be allowed to attain a much larger and more snb atantial growth before cutting than is practicable when the aamecropa are fed froth from tho field. During my ab aence from home during the Hummer of 18711 my foreman had inadvertently allowed a field of about four acres of pearl millet to attain HO large ami hard a growth that my cows wholly rejected the HtalkH, and would eat only the leaven when the millet wan offered them green. Byway of experiment, and without much confidence in the result, I cut about one-fourth of the field and filled one of my pita with it. Tho remainder of the field wan cured by drying in shocks in the ordinary way. Thin last wan found HO nearly worthless for feed ing dry that it was used for litter in the barnyards and for covering ice. That preserved in the pit was opened and fed in April last. My COWH ate it all, leaf and stalk, eagerly, without any loss or waste, and it was fully equal in value to the same quantity of the best corn fodder preserved in the pits. 1 have this summer filled one pit with fodder com, after the stalks had at tained full growth and the ears were well formed. Of this corn, when fed green, my cows rejected fully on?-half the stalks. 1 have no doubt this corn fodder, when fed from the pit next winter or spring, will IK? f< itiml as valu able as any corn fodder in my pits and bo eaten up eagerly and entirely cb-an. Oreat economy may be found in allow - I ing fodder corn and other fodder crops | to attain a heavy growth and then cut : ting them all at once, instead of j cutting and fceding them piece | meal in tho mode usually practiced. ' The process of preserving fodder in pits is exceedingly simple and easily practiced. The conditions of success ! are these First, the preserving pits j must be wholly air-tight, so that when j waled the air cannot come in contact with the food preserved. Second, the 1 pits should IK? of such form and dimen sions as will bt-.* facilitate the settling and compacting of the food in a solid ; mass, and when opened for feeding will ' expose a small a part of the surface t • the atmosphere as practicable. Third, the fodder mnst be cut green when in the best condition, or in bloom, passed immcdiat'lj through the cutting ma chine to redm e it to uniform short lengths of not more than one inch, and at once be deposited and trod firmly , into the j it, sufficient salt being us- 1 to render it palatable, but no more. As fermentation—which will commence at j once prooe ds and the mass settles, I the cutting and treading in of fresh fod ' der mast l- continued at intervals of j from thirty-six to forty-eight hours (de pending upon tho rapidity with which fermentation and settling proceed), until settling has ceased and no more j can be trod into the pit. Fourth, the i pit as soon a* completely filled and set tling has ceased, must lie securely sealed . to exclude the air wholly and arrest far* . mentation, and mnst IK? kept so scaled | until opened for use. I'nrrn nnal (inrdm Stales. A cow wintered upon two tons and a half of bay wilf produce not far from five tons of manure, provided she be well littered and n<?ne of the excrements , lie wasted. Tomato vines should always have some kind of support. The fruit will | grow larger, ripen sooner and more | easily, and will IK? letter flavored than if the vines are allowed to lie on the ground. lampne and dew arc fatal to young turkeys. Therefore they should lie kept in coops until the dew is off the grass. , A great many young turkeys die from i this cause, while breeders wrongly as cribe their death to impnqier food. Foul try need as much protection during the summer from the fierce rays of the sun as they do in winter from the severe cold, although far too many breeders lose sight of this very import ant fact, and suffer corresponding losses in consequence. There are farmers who make a prac tice of planting certain crops each year at the same day of the month, whether it is s forward or a backward season. The better wny, however, is to be gov erned by tho season. Many farmers take the foliage of the tree* as a guide for planting com. The old Indian's maxim is not a lad one: llant your com when the leaves of the oak are the size of a mouse's ear. Frequent washing with soapsuds, ssya Colonel F. I). Cnrtis, in the Rural Now Yorker, does pigs a great deal of good and should always 1h? practiced if they get dirty. Young pigs will never thrive well in a filthy pen. If the dam is nnclean the pigs are liable, when suckling, to get sore about the bead and around their months, which will stnnt them. When this is the case they shontd be thoroughly washed and oiled. Get ready a dust lwth for the fowls in some bright, snnny place. If it oan be put under a shed with a southern x -posure, where the sun will fall on, It a part of the day, and where it will he shielded from the rain, ao much the tetter. J load duat and sifted coal ashes, with a plentiful Hprinkling of aulpliur, ia the heat. Never use wood aahoa. Do not apread it ateut, hot mound it up. The ben* will aoon scat ter it. Keep your farm buildings and all your premiaea ahaolutely clean. I'ae ahaorhenta, auch an dry earth and aahea, and all offeoaive gases will dis appear, thereby promoting health and proafierity. Keroaene oil poured on the neata of caterpillars until thoroughly Haturated will deatroy them. Do not allow the aoil ahont young fruit tree* to tecome hard and croated, hut keep it clean and conatantly mellow. Excessive drinking of water by farm animals ia said to increase the con sumption of fat in the body. Too watery fodder and too much drinking should h<- avoided, especially in fatten ing, if we wish to obtain the moat rapid and abundant formations of flesh and fat. The cheapest meat for the farmer, says an exchange, is mutton. It may safely te- said to cost nothing, as the fleece from a sheep of good breed will pay for its keeping. Then, for addi tional profit there is a lamb or two, the pelt of the animal, if killed at home, the excellent manure from its drop pings and the riddance of the pasture from weeds, to which weeds are de structive foes. With the exception of poultry, mutton is also the most con venient meat for the farmer. A sheep is easily killed and dressed by a single hand in an hour, and in the warmest weather it can be readily disposed of before it spoils. Science and experi ence tetli declare it the healthiest kind of meat. II l|ra, I'l MI KIV I'M. Cut the pumpkin into as thin slices as possible, and in stewing it th< less water you use the better; stir so that it shall not burn; when . cooked and tender stir in two I pinches of salt; masli thoroughly, and then strain through a sieve; while hot aid a tahlmpoonful of butter; for every measured juart of stcwr-d pumpkin aid a quart of warm milk and four eggs, lasting yolks and whites separately; sweeten with white sugar and cinnamon and nutmeg to taste, and a salt spoon of i ground ginger. Before putting your j pumpkin in your pie* it should be scalding hot. SHEET*"- Hi u> Son. Cut the loins j and lights into umall pieces, an 1 stow them in four quart*-of water with some onions, carrots and turnips, one cup of rice, pepper and a few cloves, a little panhy and thyme; stew until : marly tend r, strain, and when cold re move the fat; when used thicken with flour and batter. PII 'KIJEI> < >SIONS Peel the onions and let th'-m lie in strong salt and water nine days, changing the water each day; then put them into jars and pour fresh I salt an<l water on th'-m, this time boil ing hot; when it is cold take them cnt | and put them on a hair sieve to drain, ' after which put them in wide-mouthed tettles and pour over them vinegar prepared in the following manner: Take vinegar and boil it with a blade of I moo, some salt and ginger in it; when • cool pour over the onion*. Levin* Pi IHHNO Put in a basin one quarter pound of flour, sane- of sugar, some of bread-crumbs and chopped ! suet, the juice of one good-sixed lemon. | and the peel grated, two eggs, and ! enough milk to make it the consistency of porridge; boil in a basin for one hour; serve with or without sauce. Itaa-hal4 lltala. Take a eup of cream off the milk pan* every morning when you make bread; it will make the bread moist, white and delicate, and yon will hardly miss it from the cream. A merino or cashmere dre*s may be mended neatly by wetting a piece of court plaster of exactly the name shade as the goods, ami putting it on the wrong side, pressing down every frayed >*lge and every thread, and laying a weight on it until it is thoroughly dry, 15* sure when yon boil corn in the ear to drain it well, ao that no water will be soaked in to run down one's arm when eating the corn. Cauliflower is delicious when, after boiling until it i* te.ider, yon turn off all the water, and add a little milk, butter, pepper and salt. It it nice also browned in batter, after it is boiled. When making pie* of eanne.l pumpkin use as little milk as possible, then one egg will be enough for a pie, otherwise ♦he custard must be thickened with several eggs. Old potatoes m*y be frenhened np by plunging them into cold water before cooking them. Bugging sorrow ia not the way to lessen it, though, like the nettle, trouble si ngs less fhen it nnniy
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