RETROSPECT. Whe roses were not just so sweet, parhaps, As wo thought they would surely be, And the blossoms were not so pearly white As of yore, on the orohard tree ; But the summer has gone for all of that, And with sad reluctant heart We stand at rich automn’s open door And watoh its form depart. The skies were not just so blue, perhaps, As we hoped they would surely be, And the waters were rough thai Wise Sur boat, Tastead of the old calm sea : But the summer has gone for all of that, And the golden rod is here; We can see the gleam of its golden sheen In the hand of theaging year, The rest was not quite so real, perhaps, As we hoped it might prove to be, Por instead of leisure came work sometimes | And the days dragged wearily ; But the summer has gone for all of that, The holiday time is o'er, And busy hands in the harvest fleld Have garnered their golden store, The summer was not such a dream, perhaps, Of bliss a we thought ‘twould be, And the beautiful things we planned to do Went amiss for you and me ; Yet still it is gone for all of that, And we lift our wistful eyes To the land where beyond the winter snows Another summer les, —Kathleen R. Wheeler, in Lippincott's, ! THE LAST SCHOLAR. BY ROBERT BEVERLY HALE. hi & used to be the { fashion to go to | Miss Lepington's school when my mother was a girl. Schools came Into fashion just erinolines puffy I know for a num- ber of reasons that it was the most fashionable girls’ i school in my | “Zn mother's time; | and what makes it perfectly certain is that my mother would never have | one to it unless it had been. Miss a ghun ased to limit the number of scholars to forty ; and there were many stories current as to the early applica- tions made for a place in that school. 1t was no uncommon thing for a happy father to send in an application as soon as a daughter was born; and it was said that when Tom Snelling and Eunice Dunbsr were engaged, they wrote to Miss Lepington that in case they were married and had a daughter they wanted a place reserved for her. I don't exactly know whether to be lieve that dr not. 1 do know that my | mother applied only six years before hand ; but then her mother knew Miss Lepington very well, and so Miss Leg ington was probably willing to strain % point jut things cannot always stay in fash: Hoop skirts went out after s time, and ever so many Ccrino- line makers were ruined Even these beautiful great sleeves must go out fash have Cones fs and sleeves do of style I greatly fear that they may disappeared before this story it And Miss Lepington’s school went out of fashion, too, You gee, Miss Lepington would not have German taught at and there Miss Cartwright's school that had a second comin of Goethe's as a German teacher; and nowadays, of course, every girl ought to know German That was only one reason out of a dozen for the falling off in pupils Miss Lepington must have noticed the diminution in applications; bat not seem to She was than ever in her re quirements She had never taken any whose grandfather was “somebody, wold, Do at when ther pupils hb a Der shoo; , WAS ah did sterner not and she never the time ecame« were only thirty-five then the remsining dropped off, one by one, in a way that pains me to tell of. But Miss Lepington never thought of miving up teaching. She just as croct as in the old days, and s litte stricter : and she taught just as well as ever better, I don't doubt, than Mise Cartwright, whose ancestors were I don't know what when the Lepingtons were lolling at their ease in Levisgton Manor, or fighting for their king at Agincourt, 1 suppose one reason the pupils stopped coming was because Hanover street deteriorated so. Every one lives on Enderby square now, or else on Collingwood avenue, and you can’t really expect a girl of fifteen to walk past all those queer shops on Hanover street. Jt is a strange old place, and one wonders how it could ever have been so {ashionable, Miss Lepington had a nephew, Densil Smith, of Smith, Alen & Com: any. They lived together in an old on Paritan square, rich, ond she mast have been quite well off herself, up in his business that he never knew much about her school. He may have had some little suspicion of what was going on ; but one of his business rules | was to get everything at first hand. His news about Miss eaid, inst shi and Ones Was much herself, and thushe thought He Lepington he was sure to know the truth, was the only friend of Miss Looping: | ton's who did not know it, {ter a panse, The school grew smaller and smallor, | till there were only twenty pupils. | Then ten of these left in a body to go to Miss Cartwright's. Then the rest deserted, one by one, until—I don't | I have a new instructress, Hoe was too. They took hold of exch other's hut dogs will eagerly eat lard and He was so wrapped | a character in a story than a girl in | every day life. She was very beauti- | ful, in the first place, and very amiable, | and very good ; and she wae, as yon gee, so loyal that she stayed with Miss | Lepmgton after every one else had deserted her, +] shall undertake the first class in | French myself this morning, Constance. | I have severed my connection with Mille. Deronlet, and until such time as | I shall dis- the position my- dubing af Chmige sho au soll.” Constance took out her French | books and followed Miss Lepington out of the deserted schoolroom into | the recitation room, “Rend, Constance, if you please.” Constance read. She read so sweetly in any language that it was hard even for Miss Lepington to find fault. 1] should like to hear her read Russian, but then I was always very fond of Constance Alford. “Look out for your ‘puis,’ Constance. Did not Mademoiselle tell you how to pronounce that word? Now after me: puis, ! { “Pais,” said Constance. “That is more tolerable ; but practise it, my dear, before the mirror. The lips must move in one particular way. You can always discover a Parisian by the way he pronounces ‘puis.’ And so on, till at last the French was over. Then there was the study hour, and then the English literature class, which Miss Lepington taught herself, for she had “‘severed her con nection” with all the assistants except | old Miss Nutting, who eamein to teach drawing once aweek. And Constance | Alford often told me that she was very glad to get rid of the other i tor Miss Lepington WAS an USLrNelors, excellent teacher, though perhaps = trifle too OAITOW IN Some WAYS After English literature came This was the first break in the dignity of the 1. Constance found a chair and drew it up close to Miss Lepington’s, and then they ate their lunch together, and talked affection- ately, for they were very fond of ench other. a schoo “Did vou know I waseighteon years! old to-day?" ssid Constance. “Why, my dear child?’ eried Miss Lepington “And 1 have not given you a present " “Yes, you have, said Con- stance (she never called Miss Leping- ton ‘‘dear” during school hours). “You give me a present of something every time yon teach me. But I have some- thing to tell you; bat I hardly dare.” “Not quite so many ‘buts,’ ” said Miss Lepington, stroking her favorite and only) pupil's hand. “Yes, dear, all the ‘buts’ I want in recess,” said Constance, mischievously, “What do you think I have done p! “Become married 27 | out laaghing. | Oh, how ro-| I never should ds TY a engaged to be Constance burst “Right the first time! mafitic yon are, dear! have believed it." Miss Lepmgton romantic, my child { know a little of the world I hope that you happy. I am confident that the gentleman both is and will be so Who is he “Tack Mackenzie,” said Constance “He's splendid, Bat I haven't told you everything. I thought-—1 hoped vor wouldn't mind-——1i I think that he rang the door just now Did vou hear it? I asked him to come here to see you and me You don't mind, do you, dear?” Miss Lepington tried to lock stern; but she couldn't. No one could look stern at Constance, Miss Lepington did look in the glass to spe that her hair was all right, snd then changed her spectacles for her eyeglasses. “You were indisercet, my child, to ask young gentleman to a girls’ but since he is here, we must welcome him Mr. Macks in." “| hope you will pardon my intru- I Tank as he eame forward anxions to meet the lady who has been so intimate with Constance : and Constance would have me see vou where she had known you and grown so fond of yon Will you forgive me?’ Miss Lepington blushed again, She was not used to fine speeches from | No ean be dis pleased with Constance,” she said, “and I begin to think that her fiance shares her immunity.” After that the three had a nice talk about the old school; and Constance told several anecdotes, which Miss Lep- ington had never heard before, about things that had gene on under the teacher's nose; and Miss Lepington told the two young people stories about their mothers, who had been class mates, and pointed out the desks where they had sat, The time for the recitation in nat blushed. “Not Perhaps it is that My dear Constance, will be YETY, VOI 11 well ih hell a school : of conrse Jane, show nie as 80 young men, one | ural history waa past, and they were in the middle of the hour for Latin grammar, and still Jack stayed on. At jast he rose to go, and Constance rose, hands and stood facing Miss Leping- ton. And then suddenly Miss Leping- ! ton understood what was going to hap- | en. Jack had come to Sake Constance i away. Lepington’s | weliool was always derived from Miss | Miss Lepington wes a consummate mistress of her emotions, ond yet Con- stanee is very sare that her dear old teach ors eyes were full of tears, “(350d by, Constance.” she said, af- “IL need not tell you to be & good irl. See that you deserve her, Mr. Mackenzie.” of ean't,” said Jack, “but Tl try.” Constance and Miss Lepington kissed each other and parted; and the two like to say it—until Constance Alford | lovers went ont, leaving the teacher was the valy pupil in Miw Lepington's | the worst is said, | Ana now were to have a school A would be school, for if any one with one sche the 1 alone in the deserted sohoolroom. Just ne Shey passed the doorway, Constance looked bask and saw Miss Lepi | ject. | ford and Mr. Mackenzie are engaged “Donsil,” next morning at breakfast, ‘I am go- ing to discontinue teaching. Yester- day was the Inst day of school.” Mr. Densil Smith looked up with his egg spoon half way to his mouth. “Have your pupils been dropping off?" he inquired, “Yes. loft yesterday.” “Why, that's too bad. But think of the rest of them,” said Mr. Smith sym- pathetically. ‘Don’t leave them sud- denly this way.” ’ : i | “Thank you for your kind interest, | Densil. But I assure you there is no alternative. Let us change the sub- Have yon heard that Miss Al- to be married? I have been thinking | of what I shallgive them for a wedding present, and have finally definitely de- | I have | cided upon the school-house, no further need of it.” And that is how Constance and I came to set up housekeeping in Han- | over street. —Munsey's Magazine. - rent — A Rawhide Cannon. named La Tulip, known as the A Syracuse man has invented a cannon La Tulip rawhide gun, of which great | things are expected. One of the guns, made by its inventor, was tested at | It weighs in the | Onondaga Valley. neighborhood of 400 pounds, while the cannon of the same calibre in use by the army weighs nearly 1500, Its pe- culiarity lies in its lightness and the easy manner in which it can be trans ported. Across the bre ach it measures sbout fourteon inches, and tapers to about six at the muzzle A forged steel cone forming the barrel runs to the full length, and is only three-quarters of an inch in thickness Then comes layer after layer of the finest rawhide, compressed until it has the strength of steel. In fact, its toughness and staying powers are said to exceed ste el. The rawhide is put on in strips coiled around and around, and is several inches in thickness, On top of this lie two coils of steel wire wound to its strong- est tension and then filed smooth. The cap placed at the breech can be easily removed for inspection of the rawhide filling. The tests were pronounced saecessful, snd further trials will be had. A five-inch bore will be con- | structed as soon aa posuible, and when mounted npon a movable carriage 1t will then demonstrate whether it can effectively. The five-inch cannon will be smooth bore and used to discharge dynamite csrtridges, a trial of which will be made, Freder- jek La Tulip, the inventor, has been a worker of rawhide for twelve years and be used ix conversant with it in every detail Rome (N. XY.) Sentinel, EG — Origin of the Word “Trolley.” Most persons w ho nse the word “‘trol- ley” probably do not know the origin of this term, or why this aame was given to that apparatus by which the electricity is conveyed from an a rial Twenty years ago, the word was ased to designate form track can be tilted, for carrying rail road materials or the like This is the only definition of the word in Webster's Dictionary of the edition of 1848. In the edition of 1892 of the same work, three other definitions sre added. 1. A cart that pushed by hand or drawn by an ani. sal.” Tt is noted that this meaning of the word is in use in England, not in the United States “A truck from which the load is suspended on some kinds of eranes.”” This meaning ia technical, according to Webster, and employed only in speaking of machin- ery. 3. “(Electric railway.) A truck which travels along the fixed condue- tors. and forms a means of connection between them and a railway ear.” It is easy to see how the primitive form of the electric trolley, which travels up wires, came to receive ita name from the resemblance to other types of trolley ; and the name, having been immediate iy given to its prim- it ce was naturally retained when the method of connection was changed from a little truck moving on a wire, to a mast having at its end a wheel pressing on the lower service of the Detroit Free Press, —— A Rattler’s Bite, wire “eg which narrow 1% " sid the wun MP VE au wire. I send you recipe for the bite of a rattlesnake that 1 will warrant to cure in ninety-nine cases out of every hun dred. I have known it tried for forty voars in lllinois and have used it on several animals that were bitten by rattlesnakes since coming to Florida, | and have never known it to fail ina | single instance. swelled part with pure hog's lard, and lot the patient drink one hall pint of | In severe cases re- | | peat it in half an hour and give all | | hungry, so that when you make the this melted lard, | the sweet milk that patient can drink. | This kills the poison almost immedi ately, and the swelling will disappear in a fow days. A horse or a cow must ' be drenched with a much larger dose, drink milk, even when their heads aro | so swollen that their eyes are closed and the yellow saliva is running from their montha, Don't eall in a doctor if bitten by a rattler (as they are more dangerous than the snake), but use the above remedy, snd I will warrant | eure, —Jneksonville Times-Union. Li is III - Action of Cold and Heat, The generally ncoepted theory of the cooking of mest relates to the appli- ention of heat, but Dr. Sawiczovosky has called attention to the fact that almost precisely the same chemical and physieal changes can be socom: plished by ex treme cold. anid Miss Lepington the One of the dearest I ever had | of our ferrets do know their | of died, | onsily trained, or more useful when ! do this the first time or two Thoroughly soak the wound and the | SHOOTING WITH FERRETS. TRAINING BITS FROM THEIR HOLES, Points About Muzzling and Working the Creatures and Choosing the Ground to be Covered, LTHOUGH there are a goodly number of hunters who think the créam of sport does not & arrive until the snow is on the ground, they ean get after the rei bit, and by the aid of the ferret, drive him forth to get a good running shot without all the tiresome tramping, along the scent of a rabbit in search of food, often to get no nearer to the quarry than several hundred yards Truly the ferreter has the best of it when he knows his business and has a good ferret that knows his equally well. The great trouble is that so few business, or, to use a common phrase, ‘one end it.” The fault of this lies in the owner of the ferret, and is easily reme for there is no animal more trained, than the well-bred ferret. | was talking to a man the other day who breeds ferrets and makes quite a business of it, keeping them on » farm, snd having them divided off in | yards and hutches, just ws if they were prize rabbits. I wanted to buy a couple of young buck ferrets for the coming season, and asked him if he had any bred from parents that had been properly trained? He replied “When 1 first commenced this bum ness I had ferrets on hand that were trained like bird dogs, and, of course, 1 valued them sccordingly Do vou think there was any demand for them ? Well, there was not, and when I asked 815 or $20 for a perfectly trained for ret people thought I was crazy. Sol gave it up, snd have neither traded ferrets nor ferrets reared and bred from trained stock It does not pay.” now I was surprised st and picked out a pair to do my own training, ready for the first tracking snow. As from this it would sppear that a great many people who use these animals do not understand the advantage to be gained from a trained one, well make it plain before I further I think all there are few things more annoying to the hunter than to have the ferret “lis up” when put into a hole, result- ing in the loss of sport while you wait his pleasure shout ecomi mt, or if he is left, the of the ferret, say, $10. That is only the first evil, the others are when he will not work at all, refusing persistently to g an earth, or when | a rabbit, he will kill and eat 1 of dragging 14 ont, iden of answering the volos mas tor In Germany, Frenee and Eng land the ferret all « f this, nd there is, with exceptions, no bother and no delay to sport this, I may as gO ANY will allow that LEE Tom value, y Into we enters, and finds ustend and has no bis or call { dH gis ia tan few : Obtain a young animal, and see that he is healthy, has clean feet, wi them or having been any, for “hutch ret” fellow sensitive fo apt to shirk Take and have for his home a moderately warm, dry, clean huteh, and mind that it is kept so. This is the most important item of them all. Then commence the training process, which done through the medium of food When you go to bed feed him, make a oun ous squeaking sound like s rat squeal ing, produced by pressing the tongas against the side of the teeth and strongly sucking the sir through the interstices. Any boy will give you a Do this whenever he fed, 80 a8 to impress upon the mind that the sound is connected with food, and half the training is done to handle him Make to the fact that when hand down he will think It Lt hd pA $3 3 with n senbs | any sign of there sign of M1 # . . his 18 a sign of and will make fhe hard weather, and him home 1% lesson 1% Then begin ap von your mina put Y 18 BOM Our to ont. and will raise up to it, that the hand away in a sudden manner he will be quicker than you, and will seize 1t, “nos and if you draw | giving you sa pretty bad bite ; but that if you keop the hand moving stea lily and fairly down, in a fearless manner, the ferret will find out his mistake and not bite. This is one of the hard est lessons the trainer has to learn, as they hMoodthirsty looking littl cattle, and it requires some courage to Having overcome this diffienity, handle the ferret at all times and all seasons. You ¢ not overdo it, and after a time you will take quite a fancy to the lit- tle thing. I never earry a ferret bag, but carry them loose in my pocket, which ia fitted with a flap and button, Having progressed so far, take the ferret out in the open, and take him are eall he will be keen to come to you, when he must be rewarded with a piece of meat or liver. If he does this | well, advance him to the hedgerow or brash, and get him so that he will come to you whenever you make the | eall. When the hunting commences, be oareful and have the ferrets well fed the night previous, but not the morn- i ing yon go out, unless it is very cold, | when a very little milk may be given. This will insure better work, Arriving at the oarth, either loeated before hand, or by the hound dog, take the ferret and place him in the entrance ; if it bo tenanted he will immediately go down, if not he will go ina little way snd come out. Then pick him up and try elsewhere. If he stays in, to the ground will and tell there in the earth, Pod and if THEM TO DRIVE RAB- blood on them. with ment or liver until he is an old hand at the business, You will then have a ferret that will be the envy of | the neighborhood. Bometimes the best spimals will take » fit and “lay yp,” that is to say, they will refuse to come out, and in at ene end, and bank both ends ap with a sod of grass, The next morn ing, or possibly as you return, the ferret will be found enrled up on the bed waiting for his master. The question of mMuzziizg a wii is 2 always a lively matter of argument. Most of the muzzles used are totslly unfitted for use, and one might as res gonably expect s race horse to run with a plowing collar around his neck as to expect a ferret to do good work with one of the made-to-sell monstros- | ities on his A muzzle should consist of five light, soft lesther straps, which are put together so one forms the ring of the snout, the others lying slong the under the chin, one around the nose near the eves and the last encircling the neck close behind the cars, If you cannot make one yourself take the little fel- low to & harness maker and get him interested in the matter, and he will turn ont a muzzle that will fit like a Indy’s glove, and the ferret will work comfortably snd well. Remember al- ways that the animal is obeying = natural instinet he hunts and that your aim is to assist him as much nose, ane nose, oue when A8 YOU Can As to working them with bells I am not so pre judic d If the grass undergrowth is thick one must either have bells or very great watchfulness, as it ruins ferret to let him run around loose, even for a very few min- will do if he or " utes, and thet is what he out of earth withont being The n is that the sound travels a long way through the ground, and if there are any other with rabl in them they “git up snd git” while the hunter is ocenpied with one. If they ; be of the tiniest model of sleigh bell procurable, and should be slung on to a very light strap, care being taken in putting the collar on that the bells are so arranged that the buckle comes ander the chin, and the bells one vach side and one in the middle of the back of the neck. If the bells hang under the chin they are in the way and half the time they cannot sound, while if properly dis- in the collar the weight of the buckle will keep them on the back of the ck, where they will do Re od. As most rabbits bolted from earth are shot within a twenty-yard renge, the gun must either be a cylinder bore or must be loaded to produce what is called “‘seatter’” shooting, and what is more it must be a hard-hitting gun, for the furry fellow takes a lot of killing, and frequently gets away with quits load of whot on board The orthodox load is one ounce and a auarter of No. 6 shot and thao y half of powder, using over the powder ; but many prefer No. 4 shot, and un- use wood or gets an Keen to bells objectl 1s Nu DAKSREZ CS will «ll are used they shonld posed ne most #0 aw a drachms and thick wads good hesitatingly powds r in the second barrel, both. Thas very important misty roing, black powder hangs around. Arrange- ments to {air rabbit shooting and board may be obtained as low as twelve dollars per week, and a personal visit will arrange for any number of odd days sbont the same terms, Rabbit shooting obtained this way beats tramping unknown ground out New York Recorder. - — A Carions Worm, men smokelons if not in on A from bE mi when smoke include of sight When Her Majesty's ship Challenger was engaged in making that celebrated soundings, and while meas urements of ocean de phe were being taken in the f the Ladrone falands, the sight a enrx specimen of family to the The about the nearly twenty. series of viemniny 0 iredge the creature us worm was oi & Liar inah rat 3 three inches in length, and striped and banded with all the primary colors, It had a hooked, hornlike proboscis, well equipped with powerfal teeth, each hooking downward. The horny beak was nsed expressly for capturing food, and was only 34 inches in length. Exactly what a true repres niative of the would de with a “‘oapture 4" edible may seem a mystery to the average reader, but our rain. bow-colored sub-marine curiosity had use for just such provisions When- worm speci wu ever a periwinkle's egg case or a fresh | lot of frog spawn floated his way he | instantly seized upon it with his armored beak and quickly enveloping his dinner. are revealed a remarkable state of affairs. The “dinner hook” was the same at both ends, the body of the | worm fastening around it at the mid- | dle. and the color of the “‘inside” of the worm was the same as the *‘out- side’ —that is, if anyone could tell which was which. For want of a bet. ter name the specimen was labeled | Vormes vice versa.--St, Louis Re- publie. 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