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And spread hie choce.t eweeteal fruit To atrengthen and relieve me. Fall many a little feathered guest Came tbroah hie branabee epringing. Ibey hopptd and flew from apray to apray, Ther DoUa of gladness sieging. Peneath thia chad a I laid me down. And f lumber awet poaeetaed me ; The e-!t wind blowiug through the leaves With whisper low caressed me. And when I rose and wonld have paid My host ao open-beat ted. He only ahcok hi lofty Lead I bltaaed him and depart d. A Right in New Orleans. There were two of us chatting and smok ing cigatettes at the corner of Canal and St. Charles streets in that quaint and strange eld city, New Orleans a citv of never ending charms and queer phases of life and mysteries without number; a miniature Pa! is, with its bijou theatres in the French quarter and the English language is a foreign tongue, and where th-; men wear their hats and the ladies sip absinthe and pull dainty rings of cigarette smoke from pretty mouths 'Where shall we go to-night ?' Morlan asked me. "Grand Opera-House," I suggested. "Aren't you tired of Janauscheks dia monds yet?" Wei, say the Varieties" "Nothing there but frescoing In the lobby." "Academy." "Bah !" Wc nuoked awhile in silence, and Dually decided to see Mile. Mathilde at Le Petit Theatre Francaise, away down on Chart res tree. "If GoUon is In the crowd," said Morlan, "we'll appropriate him. Aha ' there he is now. Goleou, come hither!" A number of the young men had crossed Canal street, and were passing up St. Charles toward Common, others continuing their way a.ong Canal to Baronne. A handsome, small, delicate student emerged from tbe crowd. He had hands as white and small as a woman's, long black hair, a pale, thoughtful face, and large, calm, expressive eyes. I was introduced to him. and he grasped my hand warmly and firmly. "Have you anything to do to-night, GoL on T "Anything to do ? Oh, yes, some infernal thesis, I believe: but hang the thesis and by George ! the dissection too. Where are you going f " "To La Petit Francaise, we were think ing." "What ! Ihe absinthe and the headache! Come with me to the college. My little girl will do the tight-rope from the roof, and I'll introduce you." We turn up Su Charles sireet to Com mon, down Common to Baronne and the college. Crowds were beginning to gather at this point. We threaded our way through the throng that pressed against the tailing around the college yard, and entered a small door at the side. We climbed four flights of dark, dismal stairs, and stumbled at the turnings. We felt our way along a hall, prevaded by a stifling blackness and a musty smell, from the dessecting rooms. The light from the street below streamed meagcrly through a window, and showed us the dim outline of a perpendicular ladder near the extremity of the Loll. We climbed the ladder and crawled through a hole in the ceiling. Here the darkness was in'ense We found another close at hand, and by feeling for the rungs, gained the top and emerged upon a steep roof covered with slate. We looked around. New Orleans lay at our feet in all the glory of a starry night. On the south we could trace the river winding in a crescent form around the city, and reflecting the colored lights from the shipping. Away to the northeast could bs seen the dark, fiat surface of the lake. To the southeast lay the French Quarter, with its tall, old-fashioned houses and its narrow streets. To the westward Upper Town stretched it wealth and grandeur over a large area. Under our feet was the glare from Canal, St. Charles, Camp, Com mon, Carondclet, Tchoupitoulas and Baron ne streets. A parapet about twelve inches high was ail that could have preserved us from the morgue, if the treacherous slate had broken, cr the foot slipped an inch. Three persons were standing in the gutter against the par apet. Of these, two were rough looking men; the third was a woman in tights and short skirts, and covered with spangles and stars and gold lace. The men were en. gaged with certain pulleys and cords in drawing to a greater tension the wiie cable that stretched from the parapet of the col lege to the building opposite. The woman was standing in the snaae oi toe parapei, and looking down abstrjctedly upon the thousands of human beings who packed the itreet, and whose upturned faces, expres sive of anticipation, she seemed to oe studying attentively. "Already here, zoer assea vwwuu, u his soft, smooth voice. The woman started and tnrnea quicaiy, an expression of intense happiness lighting up her face. "I was looking for you below," she said. I was afraid, but I am strong now. You don't think I'll fall do you?" "Certainly not, ou are very foolish to ask such a question." He Introduced us his f riends, and she shook our hand pleasantly. Sue hid a -.w a-reeable face, though we could not distinctly, the only light being that of the stars and the faint glow from the lamps and torches below-. In any event she had a pleasant voice, and that was sufficient. She also was small, and delicate and young. A , i ,hmwn over her bare shoulders and arm, but her Utile hand were cold and she shivered in the mgni air. ..t th.nkinir. Goldly ," ahe said "that ,f .should fall." and. more what they would think, and how they would feel down there t" "Nonsense, little Zoe 1" She laughed softly and put her arm through Golson's, and looked up into his face with s touching tenderness and reli ance. She again scanned the crowd, and was thinking. "Well, but suppose I should. Do rou thisi they would care I Or would they say she was a "ttlc fool, and it served her right?" "What is the matter, pet f" "Oh, nothing nothing whatever," and she laughed again musically, "I was simp'y thinking. I remember that a long time ago, when I was a child, and my father was letting me stand on his head while be rode two horses bareback around the ring and I was terribly frightened once when the horses became wild with fear or some thing, 1 don't remember what and he caught me strong and close in his anas as I was falling, and kissed my lips, my cheeks, and eyes, and forehead, and held me in his arms quite a while, and called me his dear, precious baby. What was I going j to tell you I Oh, yes; about the man who fell from the tight-rope. That was ttrri ble ! One end of the rope was passed over the roof of a house, carried down the aide, and made fast to a wooden block under neath. It had so happened that the block had rotted off next tbe ground, and there was no weight upon it whatever. Well, anyhow, they tied the rope around the block, and the professor was half-way across the street when he began to give an exhibition of jumping. Suddenly we saw that the rope was giving away. The jerk ing had pulled the block from under the house, and was dragging it up the side. The professor turned quite pale, and stood and waited, lie came down slowly with the rope. It seemed as if it would never stop slipping ever the roof like a long ugly snake. It soon became slack, and it was, of course, much harder to balance on it ; but he never lost his presence of muid, and stood perfectly calm and straight. When the block bad nearly reached the roof it was a two-story house the rope slipped oil, I heard the block drop to the ground. I hid my face and crouched down against a wall, and 1 heard him strike the ground like something dead. Oh, it was so horrible ! " She peered around into the darkness and shuddered. "Poor fellow ! he full flat on his face. It was the crudest thing that ever happened." She sighed, and still gazed at the crowd below "DidltkiUhim?" "No, not quite, but he was delirious for everal weeks. When they picked him up the blood gushed from his nose, and eyas, and ears, and a Moody froth came from his mouth. I was a little child then and I dreamed of him every night for two or three years. I dreamed of him again last night for the first time in a great while. I thought I went to pick him up, and could feel his poor broken bones grating against each other, and his poor bloodshot eyes stared wide and cold at me." "Tou are not well to-night, Zoe," said the man of science, examining her poise attentively. He became thoughtful. "I don't think you ought to risk it." be said. Oh, I am not afraid now that you are here," she replied in her charming way. "I think you had better wait." "Now, don't get naughty. I mttt go. I tranf to go. Why, there's two hundred dollars in that crown, and my manager would be crazy if I didn't walk. Beside, I contracted to do one street walk every two weeks in addition to the lofty centre pole walk every day. Why, I've done the lofty five hundred times and never lost my bead, and why is there danger now ? "But it's more difficult to see the rope at night," I never look at my feet, anyhow, when I walk. 'You are feverish and nervous." "It will make me all the more careful." "Well, walk then," said Golson, with a shrug of the shoulders. "Now, Goldy, don't look that way." He became cheerful and bamming in a moment. The manager appeared on the opposite roof and beckoned the girl to pro ceed. The attendants at both ends exam ined the fastenings of the rope to see tha thev were properly secured. They pro duced trays in which to burn colored fires, and heaped lumps of the combustible ma terial upon the psvapet. Zoe mounted the parapet with an elastic step, and threw kisses at tbe shouting crowd below as the fires 'brought out her frail form. She looked very charming and pretty, standing, smil ing, in the intense red glare of the light. ,Give me the pole, she demanded. smilingly, of Golsen, holding out a small hand and dimpled arm. He picked up the cumbersome balancing pole and placed it in her hands. She found tha centre, shook hands with Golson, threw us a smile, rained a shower of kisses upon the crowd and stepped firmly upon the rope. She soon found a safe pose, took a few steps, and halted. She glanced back at the attendants, and regarded the pile of fire. 'Tou are burning it too fast," she said. "Good-bye, Goldy," and she picked her way over the narrow bridge that spanned the yawning chasm beneath. She was graceful and walked with considerable ease apparently, stopping occasionally to shift the pole and steady herself. "She is walking slow and shaky to-night, said one of the men. "She u not walking as well as usual 1" said Golson, (hurriedly, and looking at her steadily. His glances never left her a moment. "No ; she can beat that. I think she's in the sulks." Golsoa paid no attention to the insult, and watched her with fascinated gaze. His face was somewhat paler that usual, in spite of the red glare. He did not move a single muscle. Zoe had passed the middle of the street the most dangerous place and continued her walk toward the other end. She toiled up the Incline, the rope depressing under her tiny, nimble feet, and at last jumped safe and sound upon the opposite roof. A trwMtyJoua deVInf shout arose from the mob, and the plucky girl threw bunch of kissel at Golson. The color bad returned to his face with unnatural intensity, and the look of absorb ing anxiety had passed away. His chest was broader and his eyes brighter. He simply smiled at Zoe, and did not even applaud her. The shouting below continued. The men made no preparations to remove the rope, but Golson started for the ladder. "She's comin' back," said one of the men. Golson stopped as if he had been shot through the brain. The hard, anxious look returned, and the deathly pallor came back all in an instant, "I didn't know that," he said, calmly and resignedly. He resumed his old posi tion, and watched the girl with intense in terest with a gaze in which were concen trated his soul and her heart and mind and strength a look in which was expressed the profoundest feelings of a strong na ture. Zoe rested a moment, and again stepped upon the rope. She had proceeded about ten feet, when one of the men remarked: "She's scared." Golson noticed it ; we all saw it. Her teeth was so tightly compressed that in the dazzling light we could see ridges in her checks. Her nostrils were expanded, and she stared CxMly ahead of the rope. Her breathing was short, and a tremor appeared in ber arms and knees. Instead of her usually erect carriage, there was a percep tible leanjng forward. When she had made but a dozen steps she stopped and appeared to be in doubt. She then apparently made an effort to walk backward, but was evi dently afraid to undertake it- She stopped again, mustered her courage, threw a quick glance at Golson, and recommenced her dangerous journey. The rope trembled and swayed under her feet, and in this way cauttht a swinging motion that tries tbe nerve of the most experience! balancers. When she had reached the middle it was impossible to proceed. She might have crossed safely, but the fire on our side was exhausted. She bad walked more slowly than usually, and the fire was consumed too soon. She could not see tbe rope distinctly enough. She stood still for several sec onds. The Ihs'ut behind her continued to burn, but t was of no assistance to ber- and immediately afterward it was also ex hausted. We could distinctly see the porr frightened girl by the light from below, but her face was obscured. The crowd sent up hisses and groans. The rope-walker at tempted to take another step. She succeed ed. She tried a second and failed. Her foot suddenly slipped, but she was active and alert, and caught upon her knee. Her fright Increased, and in the terrible excite ment of the moment she dropped the pole. It struck the rope, balanced a moment, and flipped off upon the ground below. There was a great scattering, and the crowd I realized that the young girl was falling. Every sound was bushed. The child i steadied herself wildly and instinctively a moment with ber arms as she knelt on the rope, and then felL ! Golson s appearance wm painful and pitiable. Great cords stood out upon bis face, which was overspread by an agony of ! ghastly pallors. His muscles swelled with ridges and knots, and his hands assumed the appearance of an eagle's claws, fie gazed at the the rope where the girl had a ' motneut ago stood. She had c-tuit by the right hand, and hung suspended over tLe , cobbles. In another moment she grasped j the ripe with the other hand, and hung perfectly srIITL Golson waited but a few j second", when he saw that the fnght had 1 taken the strength from her arms, and that j she could n-jt cli-ub upon the rope. He dashed off his hj.t, an t grasped the rope with both bands, and threw one l?g across j it ne crawled along carefully, that the j shaking might not cause the girl to lose her hold. The crowd watched him in breath- ess silence. The rope swung lower under the double weight, and the fastenings i.i ciiVful .nil ivrrmnPfl ' "Hold tost, my child," we could hear him say to the fainting girt. "Hold on, for God's sake, and I will save you !" She raised her head and looked at him for moment, and then dropped it again be tween her arm. He approached her slowly and painfully, for he was a stranger to the situation, and was afraid of shaking ber off. At length hereached her. He whis pered something tp her, and she looked him full in the face. He allowed his right knee to remain across the rope, threw bis right arm over it at the elbow, and twisted the right hand around underneath to secure a firm bold, and passed his left arm arsund the girl's waist. The strength of six men was in those supply limbs and clean-cut muscles. Us drew her toward him. She released her hold, her head dropped, and she tainted. 'Pay out the at the college end!" he shouted, His feet were In that direction. It re quired fqur of us to let it out. It slipped over the parapet slowly, and the suspended pair began to be lowered. "Pay it out !" be shouted agiis. We let it go more rapidly, and he and his swoening charge were against the build ing across the street He let himself slide gradually down until he reached the side walk, where he was met by the manager. The latter took tbe girl to her home. The crowd gathered around him with wild shouts, but he slipped away, and met us at the door of the college. "Where is that scoundrel who said she was sulking I" he demanded, with an angry look. We pointed him out. Golson walked up to him, explained bis business and gave him a stinging blow in the face that sent him rolling in the gutter. I met the dear old fellow on California street the other day, and hi little wife was with him, charming and pretty as ever. She laughingly remarked that she liked to see the circus as much as ever, but that she always felt a horn for rope-walking. I almost believe that her dimples are as pretty as on the night she threw kisses to a great crowd in the street. It it estimated that2S,000 people la Surope are engaged la sea IsberUa. Tbe Fiend and Bit Lawn-Uower. "Whirr-r-r-r-r-r!" Klast him I Z-z-z-i-g 1 1" Blast him again ! "Kr-rr-rr-rrt" Turn over in bed and vow that you will shoot his hens, poison his dog and leave fish bonis where his cat will find them and choke to death : Why? Why. that triple-plated, bomb proof, iron-coated and bard-hearted next-door man who went to bed at sundown for no other purpose than to get up at 5 o'clock a. m. and gallop his own lawn-mower around! "Hattle! Whirr 1 Bang! Br-rr-rr." Oh! he's there 1 He simply stepped for a moment to spit on bis hands and get ready for a new twist. Just S by the bells, and some fool of a doctor baa told him that the morning air is good for him 1 He knot's that be is disturbing every man, womau and child within a block of him ; but what does he care ? 'Cliekely-te clickety-click -click !" There he goes I He's got bis coat off. his pants in Lis boot-legs, and he's thinking bow nice it must be to live in the country and canter around over the dew-wet sward. Country be hanged! Lawn-mowers and next-door neighbors be hanged. Tbe man who sold him that lawn-mover warranted it to be noiseles). Just remember that when you get to shooting. Noiseless, oh, yes! "M-m-iu-m! Bur-r-r-r-r! Z-z-z-i!" The baby wakes up with a howl. Why shouldn't he f Gtn a baby stand more than a horse ? Everybody wakes tip. If you think people can sleep on and dream of the gates of heaven while a man is pound ing sheet iron with a hammer you have lived in vain. "G-urr " Good. His old machine has struck a stone. Hope the contact has wrenched off every wheel twisted every spring out of place, and flung the villain bead over heels against the fence ! Nobody but a villain would have a lawn to mow in tbe first place, and nobody but a mutton-head would go slashlug around on an empty stomach in this nialoricua climate. His health ! What is his health compared to the peace of his neighbors? Who cares whether be gets fat and lives on, or grows lean and diet f He ought ! Clickety-te-click-click-click-click !" There he goes the old machine making more noise than ever! Hit him with a brick ? No, don't do it. Such a man as that couldn't appreciate a decent clip on the ear with a missile made by Luxisn hands. Draw a bead on him with a shot gun ? Never ! Keep your ammunition (or fowls. Owls have sense enough to sties by the roost until seven o'clock. Ar gue with him I Not much t You couldn't convince such a man that he ought to be run over by a drove of Texas steers any more than you could make a Turk believe that he ought to pay 10U cents on the dol lar. "Gurrg-g-gl Z-z-z zl Bang! Katt'.e-r-r, rip!" Let him alone! There is a Providence, and that Providence sometimes gives a villain rope to play with, Just to see him squirm when be is brought up with a sharp turn, l hat mower may explode. If not, the morning air will bring on sore throat, tiothache. neuralgia and chills. May he have them all jump in on him at once and stand by him like an Indian's memory, and may every neighbor whom he has distill bed by his villainous noise grow lat and sleek, a.id rich, and live to beat him for the only office he ever cored fori The Moor In Portugal. To any cne who has been in the Eastern countries, the luipns i:n of Orientalism in many of the cub; o us and hab'.lt of the peo ple of Portugal is very perceptible. A hundred little circumstances in daily life, insignificant in themselves, are constantly reminding the traveler bow much the peo ple around him must have learned from ttfc singular race who were their masters for so many centuries, and with what tenacity these lessons have been retained. The "aocco"' or wooden slipper, worn by both men and women by a woman only on gala days is precisely the foot covering to be seen in the bazaars of Cairo and Damascus; and tbe Portugese will shuffle off these slip pers in token of respect, as they enter a bouse or a church, just a an Oriental will leave his at tbe entrance of his mosque. If the gold ornaments worn by the women, are closely examinedtheir admirable form and pattern will be found to be of pure Arabic type and origin. Tbe crescent and the circle are the prevailing "motives' of the work, combined and entwined with all the elaborate intricacy of Eastern artifice. Ihe patterns never change; and the orna ments are repaired, but never recast The priest at a place near Borcelloa, said the ornaments which covered a Madonna in his church anted from the time of the Moors. They had every appearance of great an tiquity, even if they were not quite as old as the priest believed; nevertheless, except that the work was a little more delicate than that of the present day, thrsj orna ments were identical in design with those now worn. Although the jewelry is deli eatery worked, yet considering the absolute indestrnctabiuty or gold except by aciuil violence, and considering also the ore isions on which they were worn, we see no improb ability in some of the ornaments worn by the Portuguese women at this day, having been actually the work of Moslem artificers. Another instance of the prevalence and en during character of Moorish art-forms is found in the "canjas" or yokes of the oxen. While the ox cart itself is purel) Kotnan in shape and appearance, without having un dergone the smallest change in its construe tion during fourteen centuries, the yoke is Onea'aL. It l in shape, a single board set edgewiss upon the necks of the oxen and is ornamented on each face, sometimes profusely and very beautifully, with char acteristic Moorish inciaed designs. The commoi earthenware vessels, the cooking pots and water jars, might many of them have been turned on a potter's wheel in Morocca or Algiers; so, likewise, the whole economy of the kitchen, in a peasant house hold, is conducted on simple Eeasteru prin ciple. Cream Glohatea. The best of the cream globules rise soon est to the surface, because they are the largest, and flavoring oils rise with them because they are the most vola'ile; hence it is that the finest butter made from cream that is skimmed be fore a 1 of it that it will rise to the surface, while that which rises afterwards but tends to reduce the quality. Cream is a singular prod, ct; all of it will not rise would not rise for a month, even if the milk could be kept sweet during that pe. riod, and some of the globules actually sink instead of rise, whilst others remain in sus pension, neither going up nor down. Thus '. the specific gravity of tbe globules varies, ' not on account of composition; but, in any case, the cream which, under ordinary con dition, rises in the first twelve hours, will the finest bolter. Burrowing Xelxhbora. "Did I ever live next to a borrowing neighbor f I bad that pleasure onee and am not liable to forget it I want to tell every woman in America (who does not borrow) bow I fared and how I defended myself. A new family bad moved into our neigh, borbood in a small country village, and the first notice we had of their existence was in the shape of a small tow-headed boy with a tea cup and a pitcher. "Mother wants to borrow a drawing of tea and a pitcher of milk." That was the beginning, bnt alas ! not tbe end. There was something less than a dozen children, and they put in their solid time in running about the n .-ighborhood from house to house collecting supplies. This was not. from necessity, for lucy were in as good circum stances as their neighbors, but apparently from sheer force of habit They borrowed molasses, and thread, and black pepper and shoe blacking, and clothes lines, and John ny's Sunday suit to get their Johnny's pic ture taken, and my black shawl to wear to a funeral, and the good man's fine shirt for the other good man to wear because he bad to 'go on jury' and bisen wasn't ironed; noi of us only but of 'all the region roundabout' And finally as I am a sinner! they borrow ed a houe moved into it without the owner's consent, and tbe blessed laws of Michigan could not route them short of a six month's legal process. Well ! I stood this sort of thing fur four weeks and then made up my mind to break it up or move out of town. I bad by that time become sumciently familiar with their circuit so that I could guess pretty well what they would be after next and about when to expect them. I resolved on a counter irritant So next dinner time I sent Johnny with a plate and a pitcher and a teacup with instructions to ask for a plate of butter, a teacup of niolzases and two tablespoonf uls of gtujrer. Poor child! he opened bis honest little eyes, and. looked at me in a way that made me fuel terribly small when he asked, "Are we poor, mother?" But I persevered, and at tea time sent Susy to borrow a loaf of bread and the chopping knife (I knew they had none! ) Next morning I sent for a cup of raisins and two sewing machine needles. By this time my sixteen-year-old Jim took in the situati to, and half bursting with fun. went himself to borrow a rake, a curry comb, aud a wheelbarrow. Ami so for ten days I never let a meal pass that I did not ask them for something. I very seldom got what I asked for. All the better, I did not have to return it By that time the borrowing nuisance was quiet perceptibly abated. So then I checked up until it be gan again. Then 1 began. I borrowed their clothes-horse, and their dishes, the children's shoes, and the good man's Sun day coat, to cut a pattern by ! 1 borrowed Ihe almanac, tr.ed to borrow writing paper; got the scissors and forgot to return them; and early Monday morning, before they got started out, 1 sent to them for blueing, soap aud starch. 1 got neither one of the three, but of course, alter sending for them, they would not send to me for the some article on the same day. After that for a whole week there was peace. 1 nether bad occasion to borrow nor lend. But on Sunday morning there were faint siirns of a renewal of hostilities in the sharje of a modest request for the loan of I three five cent pieces to carry to Sunday school 'because father forgot to get his mouey changed lasimgut:' true to my policy I had my revenie before 1 slept I HCt lbOl7ltB Vf n i M CT fc4r7W I Oenr rVilife I " a - - , uuu uu Ut tat OUVIIU I , BUU um IH note to Mr. , our neighbor, and 'would I used. They were far frjm being rich. he be so kind as to lend me hi? Choral Their tables were lean and their beds cold, hymn book for the evening, as mine hod i and sometimes the little that Uncle Wil bcen mislaid' (I knew he sang in the choir, liam ate was missed by the hungry chil and was extravagantly vain of his voice, dan, but no one ever spoke unkindly to aud the choir was short of books). him nor hinted tint he was a burden. - - One nis;ht last week, after the old man A French country Home. haU sought his bed and the children were French country hospitality differs in ! asleep, as husband and wife sat down to many respects lrom English. More U j say to each other that wrk was scarce, made of each guest, and he or she is al- the rent behind, the fuel nearly gone, lowed greater Dcrsonal libertv. Nobodv'and is bound to come down to an early break-1 last I be host ana nostess are not ex- way, a if ashamed of their thoughts. The pected to show themselves before the bell cold wind whistled around the outage as if rings at eleven or half past eleven for ' hungering to nip little toes, and the wife dejeuner. If you see a lady muffled up shivered and said: walking in the grounds you are not to get j "He's s old and feeble let ns wait a in her way unlets she come towards you; few days longer." and in walking with her you are not to offer "I haven't a dollar left," mused the man your arm. The reason she is to be avoided ' as he glanced at the cupboartL until she shows herself sociably disposed j "But he eats only a very little," protest is based upon the supposition that she is I ed the wife, not made up for the day, and has, while j "We have only a small house." the femme de chamber is preparing the "But he sits in a corner." war paint and arranging the artificial They looked at each other a long time tiesses, run out with capeline thrown on without speaking. A vision of a poor old her head to enjoy thedewy freshness of tbe i morninif. In France there is a well bred fiction which is acted upon by millionaires who invite you to their country seats. It is that in accepting tbe invitation you do him the greatest honor, i ou may be poor I as Jol, and known to be so, without in ' cheated of its prey. the slightest degree ceasing to benefit by j Morning came with its meagre c'd brcak this fiction. French society, when seen fast There was not enough for four, but at in best, practices equality. We all j it must do for seven, and the father forced rise early here: the mornings are very fine ! a smile to his face as he opened the old and there are delightful walks ana anves in all directions. We bave a pnvate omnibus with seats at the top, and seven of the chars-a-bonc, in which the Emperor Napoleon's guests used to drive to the Conipeigne meets. These vehicles were bought at civil list sale, with many other hunting "properties)" of the Third Empire, Over-night excursions are projected and debated. In the wild freshness of the i morning they are carried out, and back we come with keen relish for the de, ' jeuner, which is served at little oval tables in a great dining-room. When there are from thirty to forty persons to be served, this is more sociable and jolly than ample board. Talk can be brisk and lively with out becoming noisy. At those little tables birds of a feather do flock together. There is the same concert pitch; and where there is opposition it docs not induce discord. The pheasant shading in low copses, in which the birds are bred and fattened is fol lowed by gay dinners. It takes nothing out of the sportsmen who blaze away at the birds which keepers drive before their guns. Partridge shooting is execrated by the ladies, who dislike the fatiguing tramp ing through turnip-fields and stubble. A sportsman who returns home with a bag of this game is also such bad company His hunger appeased, bed is all be thinks of, and at dinner be has not a word to cast at a fair neighbor, though in the morning he was at one of the little tables her admir ing and devoted slave. The Trnwa Tard " The Told stvle front yard, with its im mensely, high fence, and its sweet briar, southern-wood and morning glories, served good purpose in its day. But we want to see a clearing up of these old front yards; we want tbe high fences removed, tbe ground graded, and neat walks laid out across the little lawn that will be thus formed. Love tbe old-time shrubs, and peonies and roses to be sure, but add also some small attempts at modern ornamental gardening, and see if the front yard does not afford you far grea'er satisfaction than It has ever done. But this single instance is by no means, a representative of alt the farm homes In the land. In how many, many cases, even among thoae who are gtylsd independent farmers, are tha door yards exposed tj the highway, often filled with wood, lumber, tools, farm Implements, weeds, hens and sand. Not a thought is ever given them, not an effort ever put forth to keep them neat, much less to em bellish or adorn them with flowers, shrubs. 'climbing vines and the like. It is so much a cause for surprise that the boys and girls leave these homes; that there is no im provement, ana little sociability in such a neighborhood t It is a very correct obser vation, that the front yard is an index of the heme and the home life. It may not be so completely an index of the style of farming which the owner practices, because the hard work of the farm is one thing, and uie beauty of the home surrounUiuirs is another. A man may be an excellent far mer, have good cattle, keep his fields in trim condition, aud yet have no particular idea of neatness about the front yard. The spirit which manifests itself in beautifying the grass plot at the front door, setting out a few rose bushes, and sowing a few papers flower seeds, usually resides within the house, but it must be reciprocated from that without, or little can be accomplished. Some hard work must be done, which t) wife and daughter cannot do; there is dressing to be provided, spading to be done. and some cleaning up about the premises. which is of too heavy a nature for the "wom en folks" to perform. This must be done by the rtrong arms of tbe men. An hour or two after supper, for a few days, will work wonders al this garden preparation, and with the heavy work out of the way that of planting out, sowing seeds, and after care can be almost whollv attended to by fairer hands. Do not put this off as of no consequence. It is the one thing aliout be farm that is sure to pay. There is an actual money value to a neat yard, a little lawn, to climber?, to roevs, to a bed of ver benas, to geraniums. You may not eat tbcm yourself, they may not help feed your cattle, but they will feed the souL and the mind and heart under their refining influ ence will be improved, elevated, and made better. A single front yard neatly kept, and holding a few beds of pansies, phlox, carnations and gladiolus, is a good mission ary station for an entire neighborhood; and sociability, gentleness, refinement and love will flow out from such a borne and such a garden, as naturally as warmth lrom a heated stove. It will be the centre of at traction and good influence all through the summer, and the home itself will be hap pier, and the inmates better for the pure influences of plants and flowers. Don't neglect to trim up the front yard, provide a few flower beds, and keep tbe home sur roundings in neat condition all the time. One of these days, you will fiud yourself loving and caring for flowers, and a better farmer for it alL Cnrle frilIUm. A year ago there was a quiet funeral on n likens street, Detroit, and when it was over an old man called "Uncle William," was left without home or anv mends, and with no means to help himself. Strangers said be would have to go the pnorhouse, but when the trembling and half blind old man wiped the tears from his eyes, a neigh bor said: "I will take him to my house and care for him for a month, anyhow." 'And then 1 will take him,' added an- other. "And then my roof shall shelter him," said a third. So the old man found friends. One took I h!m and tKon anntliuF at e.) V oil ! Here they looked at each other in a shy man battling with the fierce winter gale came to either and stood between them with hands crossed in supplication. "He shall stay !" they whispered togeth er as they rose up and made ready for the night, and the gale banged at the door as if man s door and called : "Come, Uncle William, you shall have the warmest place and the biggest dish." There was no response, and when they bent over the old man tbey found that no man would ever again find him a burden. " See ! " said the wife, be may have beard our whispers, for there is a tear on his cheek !" "But he knew the resolve of our heart -i. fix he died with a smile on bis tace," added the husband. "Oh! he's dead poor old grandpa is dead!" cried the children. "How glad we are that God will let him have a big warm corner and lota of everything to eat!" 'If we could have done more for him," sighed the wife as ber tears fell, and yet their charity was greater than his whe had subscribed his thousands. e Tow Want to Marry Bar? One of those timid young men who can never work up sufficient courage to even hint marriage to a girl, bad for months paid bis addresses to a beautiful damsel in the suburbs of Quincy. The ob ject of bis adoration expected the momen tous proposal at each visit, and had thor oughly rehearsed her part, but visit after visit went by and the proposal came not As tbe two sat in sparkable proximity on a recent Saturday night, tbe sided jot opened and the girl's father marched in, clad just as he was when he slid out of bed a mo ment before. The girl h d her face in ber hands and said : "Why, father '." and the lover turned pale and began to look for bis bat. Giving his hair a twang the old man said: "Toui, do you want to marry her !" "Why. sir, I indeed, sir " "None o'that, confound you yes or no !" roved the parent "Well, sir ye ye-yes, I do !" Turning to the girl the old man said : "Martha, do you want him i" "Yes, pa!" ''Thar, now t I've done in just half a minute w'at it'd took you silly fools a month to git at ! Now snuggle np agin' an' gq to talkin' about houaekeepm'! ' And the old man went back to bed, and was soon dreaming of a fvttur tuo-in-law. Queen CaroUne. The Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., was married in 1795, much against his will, to Caroline of Brunswick, bis cousin. Jealousies and recrimination aud inveterate dislike ensued, and in 1797. after the birth of their daughter, the princess petitioned for a separation ou the ground of brutality. At this time the Lord Chan cellor, who was appointed with others to conduct the negotiations, wrote: "The prince is flattered with the prospects of living apart from the prince and having the disposal of a large income. The pi ince, on his part, would give his right bairi for a decent excuse lo force matters to a separa tion." The controversy between this royal pair continued to bring disgrace upon the nation for a quarter of a century. Caro line took up her residence at Blackheath. and scandal was rife concerning her life there. In 1 HOd ihe half insane King George 111., who was friendly towards her. allowed an inquiry to be iustiu:-d into ber con duct, w hich investigation resulted in acquit ting her of any psitive dereliction, but it brought to light many iuiproprie:ies. In 1S14 she left England, visited Germany, Italy and the Holy land, and during her so journ in these places, says Lord Campbell, "she certainly con.lucUM heru-lf in a most unbecoming manner, although it could not be safely determined to what extent" Her conduct and deportment with Bergami, the Italian master of her household, caused much animadversion. The court at Vienna re fused to receive her. hen George IV. as cended the throne a pension of 50.000 was offered her, provided she whould not re turn to England, but the offer was reject ed. Until the death of George HI. she had been prayed for in the litany as Princess of Wales, but upon the ascension of her hus band it was ordered that she should not be noticed in the litany, and thit she should have i.o royal rank. Ou June 5, Caroline reached England and entered London, where she exhibited herself to a large con course of people, "all queen's folk, ' writes Lord Eidon to his daughter. Her case was brought before the House of Lords. Her offences could not be construed into high treason, as they had been committed beyond seas, but a bill of pains and penalties was introduced intended to apply to ber case I'opular sympathy caused the bill to be wilhdiawn, although the votes of condem nation remained upon the journals. The trial rua-le the fortunes of the lawyers en, gatd in her behalf. One of tbe Lords aid not hesitate to say that "if it hod not been foi the ill usage she had experienced in the early part of her married life, there would have been no hesitation in coming to an un favorable conclusion upon the evidence produced." After the session of Parlia ment was over, the coronation of George IV. took place. Caroline claimed to be crowned, but a committee of the privy council decided against her. She appeared at tbe abbey, but was refused admittance. There was a vast mob and shouts of "The queen forever," mingled with others of "Shame, go to Bergami," "Go to Italy." Her health soon broke down after this dis comfiture, and In leas than a year her death ensusd. Winnipeg. Manitoba. Morning litrhl revealed to us the metro polis ot the Northwest We saw a broad main street bordered with high wooden sidewalks, and rows of shops of every shape and size. Home were rjde wooden than, ties: others were fine buildings of yellow brick. High over all towered the hand some spire of the Knox-Church. Several saw and grist mills sent iip incessant puiTs of white steam into tke clear air. Tbe street wos full of bustle ard life. There were wagou of all descriptions standing before the stores. Long lines of lied Uiver carts were loading with freight for the in terior. The sidewalks were filled with a miscellaneous crowd of people: German peasants, the women in dark blue gowns head kerchiefs, the men marked by their little flat caps; French halt-breeds, with jaunty buckskin jacket, many -colored scarfs around their waists, and their black hair shining with oil; Indians, dark, solemn, gaunt, stalking along in blanket and moc caasins; Scotch acd English people, looking as they do all the wor.d over, but here, perhaps, a little quicker and more ener getic. The middle of the street, though, there had been but a single niht oi rain, was a vast expanse of mud mud so ten. acious that the wheels of the wagons driv ing through it were almost as large as mill wnecls; and when we dared to cross it, we came out on the other side with much dif ficulty, and feet of elephantine proportion. The city of Winnipeg, which eight years ago was nothing more than a cluster of houses aliout thu Hudson Bay Company a fort, now contains over seven thousand in habitants. It is the distributing centre for a large region, a place of great business activity, and so situated in relation to the back country and the facilities for tue transportation that it is sometimes called ,the Bieedcr s roradise. It is built on a clay bank at the junction of the Assiniboine with tbe Keu Kiver. The nature of the sod ia such that it is difficult to find a good foundation for a house, and many of the larger buildings bave settled and cracked. Seasick AU Night. A ti nid-looking individual was among the passengers oa tbe Boston steamer one evening recently, and while he was sitting by the steam radiator imbibing its warmth, a toll passenger with a mysterious air ap proached, and after glancing carefully about the saloon, said in a subdued tone: Are you a stranger V The liinid-looking man was considerably flust rated by the mysterious person's strange manaer, and without stopping to consider the singularity of his question, he replied that he irj. He didn't just un derstand what or whom be was "a stranger to, but be knew he was a stranger, any way, and so he said so. "Because," continued the man with the mysterious air, leaning forward, nearly to the timid-looking party's knee, and gaz ing cautiously about, "because I have question to ask you," "Who what is it!" stammered the timid-looking passenger, in considerable Confusion. "It is this," replied the man with the mysterious air, leaning forward, greatly to the timid man's perturbation, and sink ing his voice to a hoarse whisper "Why is this steamer like the no se mode by a per son with a bad cold ! The timid-looking man drew a breath of relief. He feared the question related to a desired loan of money. "I don't know," be faltered. "Because," explained the man with the mysterious air, placing bis band impres sively on the timid party's shoulder, and speaking in a low and earnest voice that left no doubt of the sincerity of his coa victioi , "because it is the catarrhdin." The timid-looking man staggered to his berth and was seasick all night The joke lios in the name of the boat "Cataradin." "Mamma," akel a little girl, "why is it they ing in th.ircb "We'll dine uo more," aud then no right home and. dine " I" 1 1
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