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 Heciallv 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 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*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