The panning of the horse teems about
to be followed by the passing of
gleam.
L . . . I
Naval oflloors express the opinion
that aluminum in unlit for eon vessels
as the aalt wator Cannes it to crumble
In Maine a penalty of thirty days'
imprisonment or a 8100 fine awaits
the person who Bolts oold-storage or
limed eggs for the genuine fresh ar
ticle. The French sardine fisheries, which
supply the whole world with tinned
sardines, have declined for several
years past, the shoals having gone
elsewhere. This year matters have
gone from bad to worse.
Man asks for protection against
mercenary woman in Bengal. Bnbti
Rusik Lai ltoy wants the government
to help him to suppress the excessive
expense of Hindu marriages, and espe
cially the dowry of tho brides, as "the
temptation of selling the son to tho
highest bidder has become- too great
to be restated. "
A foreign correspondent calls atten
tion to an opportunity to do some
thing for Ireland, which would bless
her more than any possible political
move. She needs a new potato. For
twenty years tho famous "champion"
potato has been tho mainstay of the
island, but it has run down in quality
till its abandonment has become a
necessity. It lasted much longer than
any potato variety, but finally lost
.fecundity as well as tho power to resist
disease and as Scotland also is giving
it up, fresh seed supplies from that
source are shut off. If soma rich Irish
American would institute experiments
with new varieties and find the one
best adapted to tho soil and climate
of Ireland, it would be a philanthropic
work of the first magnitude, which
would nUo pay its own expense imme
diately. Wo are told that Eypt. was onco a
land of plenty, and that tho brethren
of Joseph went there to get corn to
relieve the famine in their own land.
Egypt has, in the coarse of its history
been the most irosporous country -on
earth as woll as the foremost in the
arts. Its present condition, exclaims
the Atlanta Journal, presonts a sad
commentary on what it once was.
The United States consul at Cairo has
recently sent a report to tho state de
partment whioh gives a dismal account
of the present status of that interest
ing country. Its bonded debt reaches
the enormous total of 850!), 000, 000.
The population being only 7,000,000
this is a debt of about 872 per capita,
or the equivalent of a national debt in
tho United States of 85,000,000,000.
At present the productive area ol
Egypt is only 5,230,000 acres. From
the produot of this land must be gath
ered a revenue of 819,000,000 a year
to pay the interest on the public dobt
rhich amounts to an average tax of
$1.56 per acre. The outlook foi
Egypt is dark indeed. There is no
prospeot that England will relux her
grasp upon that government nntil its
bonded indebtedness to British sub
jects is paid and that is a very distant
possibility.
The sale of autographs, reported in
a recent number of the Bookman,
suggests to Truth great possibilities.
The authenticated signature of Mark
Twain sold for seventy-five cents, and
that of Mr. W. D. Howells for fifty
two cents, and the names of a number
of other living writers brought prioes
ranging from four cents to $1.15.
As there has been a great doal of com
plaint lately, among writers, about
the pay they receive for their work,
and as literary men are notoriously
without the business faculty, Trnth
feels that it would be doing them a
kindness to show how they can mate
rially increase their incomes. At the
least calculation, it is probable that
Mark Twain can write out his name
twenty times in a minute. At that
rate he oould earn $900 iu an hour.
Aoeording to the papers, he is going
on a lecturing tour to retrieve hit
fortunes, and it is probable that he
will leoture for two hours about three
times a week. Now, it would be no
trouble for a strong man to write out
his awn name for two hours in each
tweuty-four, and in that way Mr. Cle-
meus might earn $1,800 a day, which
is a fair inoome, for anyone who hasn't
corner in sugar or oil. In the same
way, Air. Howells oould earn $1,218
n evening ; and surely that would be
better than writing eulogies of Tolstoi
and detractions of Sir Walter Soott
Even a person whose autograph is
worth only four cents would probably
find the employment profitable. Here
is undoubtedly a ohanoe for authors
. to make money and provide for theil
old age. If soma of them would only
take to it kiudly, p.u liarf the reading
, - .'jlio would not stiff
Take Care of Yonrsvlf-
A farmer dropped two grains of corn
In th cold, dark earth one April morn
Together thoy sank in thotr cheerless bed,
And the earth fell lightly overhead.
"Oh, cruel fate!" orlej one la fear,
"What evil chants has brought me here .
It Is not meet that such as I
Lie In tbe earth to waste aud din.
Within this stone a nice dry shelf
Invites me to take care of myself."
The warm sun shone and the soft rain fell,
The grain In the earth began to swell.
The wine one cried from Us snug retreat,
"How prudent am I ! no rain nor heat
Can reach me here. I'm fair as at first,
Whllo you, poor thing! look ready to burst.
You owe a duty to yourself -There's
room for two on this dry shelf
Come out of the earth so clone and wet,
1'erhnps you may save yourself even yet."
"Say," answered the other one from the
earth,
"Only from pain nnd lnth comes birth.
Ol nii''h an we spake the Holy One,
'Kx.vpt It die It nhidoth alone;
Hut If a nrod of common grain
Die In tho earth, Itn death In gain,' "
So lot me yield In patient trut
To the hand that laid mo In the dunt."
Hoptonihor'n ileliln stand brown nnd snre,
Now comes the "full corn in the ear."
The grain that died in the darknenn mould
Han yielded more than a hundred fold,
While that whl-h rniwl for Itself no wll,
Men alone in the enrth, nn empty shell.
Eva M. Wr.tn.KV In Huuduy Hchool Times.
THE REASON OF IT.
BI HAItniET MOMIOE,
"Tlicro aro many ways for a woman
to fail in life," said my mint at the
climax of our long tulk, "and only
ono way to succeed, aud that is for
her to love tho right man ami marry
him. You say you aro afraid you are
falling iu love and tho man loves yon
aud he is a gentleman. Afraid
you ought to bo on your knees thank
ing God!"
I sat bolt upright in amazement.
Wm this the woman who had lived
her own lifo so gallantly, and refused
a throng of suiturs? I could not trust
my ears.
"If it interferes with your plans,
givo them npl" she went on impa
tiently. "There aro other plaus in
the universe. Do you think you will
ever paint pictures worth looking at
if you sacrifice all the great things in
lifo to them? Live, I toll you let
yourself go j paint your pictures byo
and bye, if tho wish lasts and you get
your chance. Thoy will be all tho
bettor for waiting. "
"But, Aunt Ellen, it was only last
month that you urged me to work
hard "
"And loavo tho men alone of
course I did. I havo seen too many
girls morry because they had nothing
else to do. You were a child then I
thought you might not change for
years. But I never told yon to stifle
your womanhood. If your hour has
oome whilo you are still so youug, so
much the happier for you I"
Hor voice trailed oft into a sigh,
and my startlod eyes hold back tears
as I asked: "But how can I tell
this is so sudden why should I think
it will last?"
"Look iuto your heart, Httle girl,
she said, more tenderly. "You can
tell now as well as in ton years. But
don't put up false barriers don't
think other things are more impor-
kit. There is nothing so important-
nothing."
"Aunt Ellen, why have you nover
married?" The question which I
bad nevor dared to ask was out of my .
lips before I was aware.
"Oh, I am one of the failures; but
at least I never compromised."
"Yon had so many lovers did you
never fall in love?"
"No, it was not quito that, She
dragged out her words from some
long-locked, silent chamber. "I had
lovers, but the one I wanted never
loved me."
I looked up at her, amazed, and
cried "Impossible!" aud moved close
to her and took her hand in mine
for I had always loved her best of all
on earth, aud enthroned her like a
princess to whom the world did hom
age. I had to readjust her in my
mind a little; oould it bo true that
even ono mau in all the world could
ever have resisted her, and bo the one
whom she had houored beyond any
mau's desert? I thought of the
legends of her youth tales of power
which had mude her royal to my
young imagination, aud addod a won
der to her beauty. A score and five
or ten years ago she was the belle of
seven oounties; to her, as to the lady
of Belmout, did
"Tbe tour winds blow In from every ooast
lteuowned suitors."
One is now Senator from a Western
State. Another is president of a half
a down railroads aud banks aud luin
ing companies. Another is the clo
queut Bishop of I dare not tell what
diooeae. It was he Ood save the
mark) who was lamed for. life iu
that mad duel down near the marshes,
by the hair-brained, brilliant son of
tho Governor of Maryland, the day
after the rash young Southerner out
flanked his attack upon their lady and
made her laugh at him. And six
months later this gay young conqueror
we spoke his name in whispers al
waysafter a fierce quarrel with his
mistress, aftor a night when love aud
wine had fired his broin to madness,
put a bullet in his heart aud went to
his account. We spoke his name in
whispers always nnd thought of him
as the hero of a wild romance, aud
wondered if the lady for whom he
violently died had loved him after all
aud reproached hersolf and mourned
for him, in spito of having given no
sign. Tims did tho people theorize
picturesquely to explain her single
life; nnd from childhood I had given
car with tho rest nnd accepted the
plausible tragedy. Aud now at last
she was denying it, unveiling another
idol in tho secret chnmhor.
"Aunty dear lady," I cried, iu
scorn of this new figure, "Who was
it, what was ho?"
"You need not disdain him, doar,"
she said, quietly ; "he was finer than
the rest I felt it then and I know it
now. Ho had a different way with
women, a more innocent way. I sup
pose there was something evil in me,
for men crowded around mo and I
could not help using my power. I in
flamed them somehow I gavo them
poison, and then tho fever iu their
eyes and voices would nnnnca'.o me."
"But this ouc?" I recalled hor to
her story ns her head sank back,
heavy with memories.
"This ono was different, and so I
failed with him tho only man I ever
failed with, I suppose I eared too
much, and lost my head. When I
know him ho was a good comrade with
women exactly as with men nothing
more ; for not till years after ho left
us did that Western woman mako a
lover of him. 1 remember one day
when wo were going to a picnic a
crowd of us. The rain had snollcu a
little stream and tho logs wo crossed
wore rather rickety. Ho stood in tho
middle and helped the girls over. I
believe my new white dress, with its
fluted flounces, were too much of a
temptation to him ; for the logs
swerved a little, and down I splashed
into two feat of water. There was a
twinkle iu his eyo under all his apol
ogies, nnd I told him I believed he
had done it on purpose, and refused
to let him pull me out or take mo
home. But ho enjoyed tho joko in
spite of me I believe ho cujoys it
still."
"He was a brute," said I, "he had
no chivalry."
"Woll, I used to gut rather tirod of
chivalry ; it went with queer ideas of
right aud wrong, alter all. Thare
was that Maryland fellow he was a
true specimen of chivalry ; be would
have brokuu his btck rather than let
me pick tip a glove. Yet how many
women had Buffered for him broken
hearts ruiued lives?"
"Yet he died for you," I pleaded,
reluctant to give up the old romance.
"Died for me !" She rose to her
feet, aud a splcudid gesture empha
sized tho protest. "He diod for his
own vanity and passion. I never de
ceived him or any of them. He
came to mo druuk one night after I
had warned him. I sent him away
forever what else could I do and he
shot himself. Baht he was not brave
enough for self-control.
"I played them off agaiust that
other," she went on, "let him see how
I was pursued, tried to excite him. to
eraulution jealousy. But it was- no
use. Oue day I overheard him. saying
to one of the others that he never
could care for a woman who had a
troop of men around her ; and sudt-
donly I folt ferocious and could have
murdered them, one aud alL"
"He was a fool !" I cried ; "is- it a
woman's fault if she is glorious and
men worship her?"
"No no I have thought it all oat
there was a righteous intuition in
him. He was rare the oaa man in
teu thousand who loves but once aud
never looks at any other. - For such
as he we are not good enough we
creatures whose imaginations are
heavy with knowledge. The centuries
are ransacked to make us wise; we
fool thiugs forbidden and thiugs
divine. There are no aoorets hidden
from us, except the secret Eve left in
Eden, which the cherubim guard with
flaming swords."
"But you can give heaven and earth
to the men you love.
"Earth perhaps don't bo so sure
about heaven. I oould have given
him a great career. It would have
been the easiest thing in the world,
for he had power euougb, A little
faith, a little care and be would have
been famous the world over. But
what is all that? He we fulfilling,
the higher law." '
"no did nothing, thon, with his life
this man who was too good for
you?"
"She did nothing with it. She was
jagged and primitive, like mountains
a woman of his own kind. I saw
her once, and after that I used to frot
about him I could fool him wither
ing on her rocks. But of Into my
feeling has boon different."
"Yon are reconciled?"
"Wo explaiu mysteries at last by
confessing we cannot explain thorn. I
take refuge in tho vastnoss of the
universe What am I that I should
mcasuro the motives of it, or explain
the growth of souls? Worlds whirl
into shape and bloom and perish, and
still the plan is incomplete. Thore is
a spirit in all things which must work
itself out in its own way. ' By yield
ing wo feel its power and beauty. Wo
cannot choose, we cannot judge all
Hint is loss is waste."
We Rnt together long in tlio twi
light, whilo behind shut eyelids her
thoughts roso beyond tho reach of
speech. In trying to follow it I for
got the riddlo of her life, the puzzlo
of my own. Suddenly hor eyes openod
full upon mo, ami the appeal in them
brought me back to tho place, tho
hour.
"If lifo is made easy for you, why
should yon resist? You aro young
and lovo seems too insistent nn im
perious rival to ambition. But as
time goes on you will noed it moro
and more."
And so I knew why sho had given
me tho secret of her lifo. And I put
my arms around her with a sudden
hot, conquering joy, and know that
my struggle was ended. Now York
Advertiser.
A Steel Bird's .Vest.
A very remarkable thing in tho way
of birds' nests is preserved in tho Mu
seum of Natural History at Solcure.iu
Switzerland, whither it was brought
by one M. Rudolph ltuedur. It is a
Host made of steel.
Thero ore a number of clock-mak
ing shops ut Soloure, and in tho win-
lows of theso shops thcro aro often
found lying disused or broken springs
of clocks.
Early lust summer M. Ruedcr, ono
of these clockmakcrs, noticed a bird's
nest of peculiar appearauoo iu a troo
iu his yard, lie examined it and found
that a pair of wagtails had built a
nest entirely of clock springs, which
they had picked up horo nnd there
about the village. Tho nost was moro
than four inches across, and a per
fectly comfortable ono it was for the
birds.
After tho feathered architects had
reared their brood, M. Hueder pre
sented the nest to tbe museum of tho
town, whore it ia preserved as a strik
ing illustration of the skill of birds in
turning their surrounding to advautago
iu building nests.
Probably next year tho bird's will
build another steel nest, and unless
the clockmakers of Solotiro guard
their springs more closely, stool nests
will not be so much a curiosity as is
this first one. Pearson's Weekly,
Worthy of a Testimonial.
Some of the older oflloers of the
Brooklyn Fire Department are en
gaged in eolleotiug the means with
which to present former Chiof Thos
F. Nevins with resolutions and a more
Bubstantinl recognition, of his services
daring his 25 years' connection with
the department. The testimonial will
probably take the- form of a handsome
tea service.
Among those most actively employed
in contributing t make the proposed
testimonial a success- is Inspector I'latt
Van Cott. Bofore. entering on the
work Mr. Van Cbtt aeenred the ap
proval of Fire Commissioner Wura-
teu.
"There is no coercion about the
manner of collection," Mr. Van Cott
said to a frieud, "and the testimonial
to Mr. Nevins ia a popular move in
the department. He .doscrves bis
popularity among those with whom
he served so long. He was manly,
high miudod aud kindly in his treat
ment of the men, and they da not for
got him. No assessment is levied, nor
is there any foroe exercised to make a
man contribute. As a matter of fact
the old men in the dopartmeut aro.
only too anxious to show tbeir regard
for Mr. Nevins by aiding the testi
monial fund."
A Death Custom In Jamaica.
In Jamaica, when death occurs in
a house all tho wator iu tbe bouse is
immediately thrown out aa poisouous
and dangerous to UBe. The people
say that when death has oomploted bis
job, ho prooeeds to cool bis "at tug "
by dipping It into the first water be
finds. As death is invisible it is held
I safest to throw out all the vater ia the
uousa.
FUR FARM ASD UARDEX.
DEPTH OF Pt.OWtNrt.
The safo depth to which to plow is
as far as tbe soil is fertile ; the infer
tile subsoil should not bo brought to
the surface until it has boon enriched
by manure. It is always to be remem
bered as a loading prinoipal in tho
culture of the soil that the seeds of
plauts grow near the surface, anil for
this reason the surface soil should be
the richest in available plant food, so
that the young plants may find abun
datitlimtrtmout at tho time it is most
needed ; and, if doop plowing, the raw
infertile subsoil is brought to the sur
face, the newly germinated soods will
perish for want of food for the growth
of tho young plant, and it will nevor
reach thnt beyond tho wook roots and
below tho surface. If it is desirod
and it should always bo desirod that
the soil be innjj doopor, it should
ouly bo done a little at a timo, and by
tho holp of sufllciout manure to onrich
tho now soil. Deep plowing should
be done in tho fall, so that tho winter
frosts mny exert a beneficial influonco
on tho frosh soil. Now York Times.
n.ANT.1 and Ei.ncrntciTV.
Years ago the application of eloo
tricity to tho root of plants to stimu
late growth became quito a fad among
amateur gardners, or with lawyers
and doctors who happened to hav
littlo front or backyard gardens iu
which to experiment. Groat wore tho
results as thoy appeared iu print, but
the thing soon died out, aud tho ex
periments themselves woro left iu
doubt as to the real causa and elTict
ns it appeared in the growth of tho
plants experimented upon. Light
ning at the roots appears to have boon
forgotten, nnd light overhead is the
latost lino of investigation iu some of
our experimenting stations. Tho Into
General Pleasantou of Philadelphia
proved to his own satisfaction many
years ago that light passing through
bluo glass was just what plants needed
to keep thorn healthy. Now oomes an
ndvancod professor of horticulture
and assures us that it is the clear elec
tric arc that is uoedud, aud this all tho
night long if wo would keep our crops
booming, without any cessation dur
ing the entire twenty-four hours. Its
a bonutiful thoory but wofully im
practicable, and utterly useless except
to theorists. Now York Sun.
BAU WEED IX OIUIS HTCIIirLS.
Wherovor winter grain is sown there
is sure to bo in tho Bubble at harvest
growth of rag wood, which will
usually overtop tho clover. If loft
nbnie it will soriously injure the clovor
growth in tho full, especially if tbe
stnbblo is pasturod. It is a good
plan as soon aftor the grain crop is
off as possible to go ovor the Hold
with a mower sot so as to out the rag
weed aud occasionally some of the
tallest clover. This, Joft to fall as it
is cut, makes an excolleiit mulch over
the surface just heavy enough not to
injure tho clover. A hotter result is
that it puts the rag weed back, and if
a good rain soon comes, tho clovor
will quickly outgrow tho rag wood so
thnt very little of it will be soon that
fall. This will not interfere with out
ting a erop of clover hay in Septem
ber frous the seediug iu March. We
have- know a fully a ton of clover to be
cut per acre on land treated thus,, aud
the clover was left in better conditiou
foe winter than if it had not been cut.
Managed ia this way the rag weed, is
cut each time bofore it can seed, anil
the future crops of this past are thus
lessenod. Bnt if left to seed there
will be no trouble with rag weed ia
the- clover next yoar exoopt iu plaaos
where tbe clover soeding may have
missed. Bag wood does not start ex
oopt whore the soil is loosened, in
spring. But where the soil is loosened
the rag weed seed will start to grow
as soon as the frost is out of the
ground, and its first growth, is
stronger and taller than that of clovor
though aftor the clovor gets a broad
leaf it will smother most of the aunual
weeds. Amorioau Cultivator.
AM FOB STOCK.
We are surprised, when passing
through the country, to find ao few
farmers who use rook salt f.r their
stook. Whenever we find a van who
uses it he always speaks of it iu the
highest terms. The writer can say
from experience tbat there is no other
wuy of suiting stook nearly so satis
factory in every way as by the use of
tho rook.
It is a sottlod fuot that stook salted
onea a week take too tuuoh when
given to theut, which has the effect ol
wasting muoh nutrition in the animal
whioh the system requires, and before
the next salting day comes around ill
offeots, are oauaed in the system by the
Uok. of salt. Tola being the. oaie, the.
farmer who depends upon weekly
salting, be he over so rogular, cannot
fail to loose milk from his cows ami
flesh from his steers and other fatten
ing stook. Home resort to the plan
of putting a little salt into tbe food
every day or two. Now, this is all
chance work, and cannot give the best
results, as the animal itself is the only
proper judge of how tnuoh to take,
nnd will never take too much or too
little, when given free access to it.
Now, when stables have been fitted np
with salt boxes in the stalls, the sup
ply can be kept constantly before
them by using either barrel salt or
rock salt tho former having to be
supplied every few days while a four
or five pound lump will last for weeks.
Another advantage of usiug rock salt
is that it can be thrown Into an or
dinary mnngcr and hot interfere with
tho food. The animals can lick at it
as desired, and no evil results or
waste iu food or salt can follow. Then
again, for field salting fn the summer,
a lump can bo thrown on the ground,
exposod to tho sun and rain, without
loss or objection, while when barrel
salt is used the box will be half .the
timo empty, nnd irregular salting re
sults. Farmer's Advocate.
AnOCT TRAINING ANIMALS.
There can bo no question that many
a promising animal is ruined by being
put iuto tho hands of a trainor who is
positively incompetent, bad-tempered,
or lacking in judgment. Over and
ovor again have I seen a young collio,
with the fluest working instincts,
spoiled by a loud-voiced, cursing,
swearing lad or man with o knowl
edge of animal nature. Tho tongno
is an unruly member, and so is the
hand, and it may be taken as a gener
al rule that the man who uses both in
moro than an average way while train
ing a young animal is a failure in
that special lino. Tho oonverse is of
courso truo as a rule. The most suc
cessful trainer is he who strives to
produce toiling effects by a minimum
use of word and touch. An animal
that is roared at, soolded in a rough
way aud harshly jorked or punished,
may becomo a fair sort of machino,but
it cunuot go to its work in the most
intelligent manner. What a difference
one sees in uion for training cattle
and horsos! Ono of tho most awkward-looking
cattlemon I have ever
seen was quite a master in training
stock to show thotnsolves off to per
fection. He himself hobbled and
wobbled through the yard like a duck,
but when he was at tho head of a
bull of heifer yon felt that every
thing was right.. The two seemed to
havo a bond of sympathy, and your
eye did not rest on the man at all, but
on what ho was loading. A harsh, ill
tempered man does a world of mis
chief, but harm' is often done by
thoughtless, although good-natured,
lads and men. Such, follows will now
and thon take liberties with the ani
mals put under their charge. They
will uip, tickle or slap the animals,
and then spring aside in order to en-
courago teeth and heels toward re- ,
sentment. Ono may have a biting f
aud kicking horse with the greatest j
easo if the bad lessons axe begun early1
enough. The certificating plan would
no doubt be useful, but I am con
vinced that farmers ami stockowners
would do a vast amount of good by
chocking faults and encouraging mer
its. Young farm hands aad budding
stock-broakers of every degree need,
like Dandie Dinmont terriers, to be
"well entered.."' London Live
Stock Journal.
FARM AND. OABJEN ROTES.
Weeds rob the growing crops b
tbe available nitrates in tbe soil.
Yellow Danveos- and Red Wethers
field are standacd market onions.
Constant stirring of the soil will I
largely lessen the effects of drought, I
Half or two-thirds bran will give a I
much batter Sow of milk than all I
all I
4
bran.
Quickness. f growth is essential
ilia minlitv and tenderness of a n v
vegetable.
Tbe flesb of the Angora goat ia
said to be wholesome, but deoidedly
unpalatable.
Unless the pullets are well matured
before cold weather they will riot, lay
before spring.
Professor ' Roberta compute . tbat
there is a loss of from forty-eight to
fifty-four per cent, In value of nannre
that is left exposed to the weather. -
Permanont pasture, if it ia to be
made the most of for grazing pur
poses, should never be mown. Mow
ing enoouragea the stronger-growitig
grasses, makes tbe pasture muoh
ooarsor, nad destroy tbat fine bottom
herbage of grassea and clover, whioh
is an essential uharaotiristio, of all
gool pasture.