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Ifhoy rode throngh moss, and they rode tklM(h ;i moor- gallant behind and the las* before-- loftl they oamo to a miry place, d there the aad wooer gave np the ohaee. he, " If my nag were better to rid* low her over the world eo wide. is riot my love that barfm to fall, ve lost the laat glimpse of the fray tail!" Hood. KITTY BLASE. t One bittefly cold night in the Febru­ ary of 1879 1 quitted my comfortable ftndy for the purpose erf insconsing my­ self behind a white tie, and of incas­ ing myself in those Btereotyed sable Sarments which cry, " Open, sesame," b the portals of society. My friends, the Wilkins, were indulg­ ing m » fit of insanity, and the attack, Which in the commencement promised to be of a samavphafc mild form, gradu­ ally aasnmed graver symptoms, until it Muninated in a tremendous ball. Vainly I pleaded a necessity f»r reading up a due with which the eminent tirm of Tozer & Culsome had intrusted me. Vainly I declared to Wilkin, upon the Sonor of a man and a brother, that I was out of that sort of thing," that I had fead that particular chapter in the book «f life clean through ab ovo usqu-e ad la, and that I was only good for the lahoganv; he didn't or rather wouldn't it, and with a sense of bitter injury At my heart and an unmistakable sense of frost at the tip of my nose and my Extremities generally, I pulled myself together, dressed hurriedly, and arrived f- ft Harley street in a humor the very re- $ terse of amiable, and with the full de- i lermiuation of merely showing myself 'to Mrs. Wiikin, imbibing a glass or per­ haps two of sherry, and getting back to ftesume the perusal of a novel. L'homme propose. The crush had not as yet been well 4/r turned on, so my ascent to the drawing- - looms was no very difficult task. Upon the lobby Mrs. Wilkin was standing, |>ehmd a huge bouquet which com­ manded the staircase like a great floral n ; and Wilkin was prowling in the mediate vicinity, with the air of a •§uan who had succeeded in losing half a Sovereign and was engaged in looking for it as thoagh he wanted- it very badly ^Indeed. / J, " Ah, Mr. Brookley r I'm so glad that you have come. Freddy told mo on were doubtful--all clever men are, ut you know I always believe in you, ,, «nd I look to your aid to make this lit- fcV '-tie affair go off well." , I groaned in spirit This meant stop- -|>j^? until the OJMI<UW» were annff^d out J --until the tallow-faced greengrocers f *ere paid off--until the milkman ar- £, jrived at the area railings, and until I f should be jibed by disappointed cabbies |v. *s "the cove as was a-playin' the | fianner." "J " By the way, Brookley, there's a lit* tie Irish girl stopping here, a Miss Blake. Come, and I'll introduce you as a friend *>' mine," observed Wilkin, dragging me, gre, mal gre, toward a mass of tulle lusion surmounted by a bunch of white .. flowers. Now, any Irish girls whom I had hitherto been fortunate enough to meet . Iiad, somehow or other, been always too «„•; jnuch for me. If I was blase, they were £»aucy. If I was degage, they were sen- ffj. timentaL If I was learned, they were blissfully and gushingly ignorant. I ; been invariably foiled, and my most ,y ^killfui fencing went for nothing. I had been able to score a palpable hit un- •;?/..^3er ary circumstances whatsoever. I held back much after the fashion of fill* dog being led to corporal punishment through the medium of a collar and a 1st ring--bowed a grim, ungainly bow, IUK! proceeded to fiddle with the buttons 8 of pair of soiled, bulgy gloves, and to glare in every direction save that sup­ posed to be occupied by Mrs. Wilkin's v. ^Hibernian guest , \ At this juncture an attenuated, waxen- # ; looking, half-fed artist hung in chains, IK .and clad in garments shining with • grease and threadbare from age, pro- eeedetl to pound away upon the piano, saided and abetted by a pudgey man, •who appeared to be blowing his whole person into a battered cornopean, and another conspirator, who discharged his duties to society and to Wilkin by dole­ fully scraping upon a violoncello. "This i? our quadrille," exclaimed a very sweet voice at my elbow, with just A touch of the brogue pervading it like a iperfume, and a soft little hand placed - itself confidingly upon my arm. . I had not asked her to dance--she had evi­ dently taken it for granted. Would I say that I never danced ? that <1 had sprained my foot? or invent some ^.'-patent and plausible excuse? No! It would not be fair to mine ̂ hostess, so 1 sullenly resigned myself to my fate. " This is my first visit to London," chirped Miss Blake. "Oh, indeed 1" "I live in the wilds of Oonnemara." "I wish you were there just now," was my inner thought "It's the wildest place on fhe face of the earth, and the loveliest--but won't you secure a vis-a-vis ?" T* compounded with a pink-faoed youth, who was in the talons of a tall, lean, vulture-like woman, to face me in the forthcoming melancholy ceremony, and to assist in carrying out its »»d solemnities in all their* funereal details. _ " Have you ever visited Ireland, Mr. Brookley?" asked Miss Blake, at the conclusion of the first figure "I should think not Ireland is a wretched mistake." sive plaits--and her expression! Ay de mtf AlhamaS We did not speak during the qnadrilfc The pink-fsoed youth--confound his impudence--struck up an acquaintance­ ship with her, and treated the vulture- looking woman badly. I felt inclined to hurl him at his partner, impale him upon her nose, and rush frantically from the house. The charming disdain with which I was treated by Miss Blake rendered me more miserable, and it was only when the laws of society compelled her, at the conclusion of the dance, to take my arm, in order to be conducted to the place whenoe she came, that I ventured to exolaim--" I implore you to forgive me--I did not know what I was saying--I am worse than a boor. Hear me for one moment;" and in a few eager words I honestly revealed to her the irritated and inflamed condition of my mind, upon finding myself stranded in a scene so utterly at variance with my mood, and compelled, as it were, to drink the bitter oup to the uttermost dregs. My pleading was full of the redeeming influence of earnestness, and I succeeded in achieving her forgiveness. She danced with me again and again. I saw the candles smiffed out, beheld the tallow-faced greengrocer paid off, met the morning milk without flinching, and returned the playful banter of the cabbies in. a mood so utterly different from that which I had pictured to my­ self a few short hours previously, that-- Pshaw! who can control the inner mechanism of the heart ? One glorious morning in August last found me seated beside the driver of one of Biancom's long cars, which travel be­ tween Westport and Clifden, and, as a consequence, through the heart of the wildest and most picturesque scenery in Conaemara. I had, among other vows, registered one--that, as soon as circum­ stances would permit, I would undertake a pilgrimage to Boljolderun Hall--to the shrine of Miss Katherine, alias Kitty Blake. It is unnecessary for me to state that I had many reasons to urge me to take this excursion, and that I had one in particular ; in fact, my heart had, some­ how or other, slipped from beneath my waistcoat--had traveled, in company with Miss Blake, to her mountain home ; and it was* with a view of recovering it, and of taking the young lady in ques­ tion into the bargain, if my luck was up, that-1 was now perched high in the air, behind a pair of " roaring gimlets," and jogging along tbe roadway skirting that desolate, but romantic, inlet to the At­ lantic, known as the Killerin. In a happy moment I negotiated with the driver, Phil Dempsey, for possess­ ion of the box-seat, and, almost ere we had quitted the town of Westport, I had come on close, if not confidential, terms with that worthy son of the whip. Phil is a crooked, hard-featured, sen­ tentious little man, whose word is law, whose decision is an ultimatum. He knows every man, woman and child along the road--their belongings, their respective histories, their hopes and their fears. He carries small parcels for the "quality," and a letter if good cause is shown why it could not travel by the legitimate course of her Majes­ ty's mail. He has all the Dublin news, and is regarded in the light of "a knowl- bon llllXB1 * jt£ edgeable man." Inst my deal draw them back again. They were childish, rude and ungentlemanlike, I turned to her to apologize. _ The hot flush was upon her cheek, the little hands were clenched until the gloves threatened to " burst up," and er flashing eyes met mine as she hotly retorted--"You must be an English boor to say so." The pa* seul commenced, and, to use a stage phrase, Miss Blake "went on." What a charming figure ! What an elegant turn of the head I What grace in every movement! I had committed a thrice accursed nistake, and I felt it She went through the entire figure alone. She would not deigis to take--to touch my outstretched tend. I had no words at will to cudgel laAo a proper form of apology, and I was bewildered by her beauty. Lovdj blue eyes, with sweeping blue- bl&ek lasher; a dainty little nose, with • roeebudm'rath, and teeth like muffled diamonds; radiant brown hair in mas- •J tinctively I led up to the subject nearest to my heart. Me know the Blakes av Boljol­ derun? Begorra, I do thin, breed, seed and gineration. They're dacent people erf the rare ould stock. Miss Kitty trav­ eled wud me a few weeks ago; she kem from Dublin, but she was over the water beyant, in London. Sorra a much good that wud do her or any wan else." I expressed a hope that she was look­ ing well after her trip. "Och! rosy an'well, shure enough; and why wudn't she ? What wud trou­ ble her, and her mother wud burn the house av she riz her little finger. They'll not be thrubled wud her long; she's too dawny a crature for the boy- to lave alone. I tuk a Misther Crane from Dublin over to the Hall last week, an', be me soul, he was mighty tendher on her." This was alarming. I endeavored to probe into the antecedents of this abom­ inable person, but I could only ascer­ tain, after a deal of circumlocution, that he was the possessor of " an iligant portmantle," aud that he was " a nice man, an' a nice-mannered man." "Good morning, Father James, good morning kindly." This was addressed to a Catholic clergyman, who was swinging along the road with a jaunty air, bespeaking the motion of one to whom a twenty-mile walk was no uncommon occurrence. " That's wan o' the most knowledgeable min in this counthrv, sir," observed Dempsey, when we had proceeded a lit­ tle distance ; " but he was wanst bit in- tirely, cute as he is --an' there's the spot," he added, pointing to a small patch of strand directly beneath us. " This is how it kem about sir. Git up, ye bastes ! " (addressing the horses) " don't let the gintleman see yez tlirate me that way; git up. Well, sir, Father James was on his bades and his brevary one winthry mornin', and he was pray- in' away, whin a' boy kem runnin' up the boreen cryin' murther, an' that a man was wracked below on the rocks fornist ye, an' that be wasn't expected for to live, an' for Father James to run to him at wanst, for the love of Heaven 1 So Father James run the bades and tbe brevary into the pocket of his small clothes, and awav wud him to that very spot, sir, as nimble as a roe; an' shure enough, there was a poor sayfarin' man lying for dead on the say rack, an' not as much breath in him as "wud cause the eye av a midge to wink. " ' Have none of yez a tent of sperrits about yez ?' says Father James. 4 Have none of yez a tent av sperrits to put be- tune this poor man's shammy an' the cowld?' says Father James, risin' at it " Now, sir, they were all afeard to say ' "Yes,' bekase he denounced potheen from the althar, an' if they wer to say 'Yes,'they'd be only kotclied be tha holy father. At last Biddy O'Donoghoe, who is always as bowld as brass, says : "' Arrah, where would we get it, Father James ? Maybe ye'd have a dhrop in that bottle that stickin' out av yer coat-pocket* " ' How dar' ye, ye owld faggot ?' says Father James, but he pulled up short, for, shure enough, whin ho was lavin' the house, he ruu it into his buzzum, thinkin' it might be wanted, an' forgot it intirely; so he lifted the poor say­ farin' man's head up, and gev him a scoop. Bedad, but it put life into him, sir !' cried Dempsey, giving the horses a tremendous cut, probably with a view to instilling a little life Into them--' it put life into him, sud he gev a great sigh. " ' He wants another sup, yer river- ance,' says wan. " ' Let me hould tbs bottle, Father James,' sez another. that ye ! James. "The sayfarin' mail made a great sthruggle, an' screeched, loud enough to ; be heard in Leenawn, * Down with the ' Pope an' he died, air, an* that's how Father James was bit intirely." I The car was pretty well crowded, and [ upon one side, among the occupants, j was a sergeant of a militia regiment proceeding to the depot stationed at Gal way. This gallant son of Mars was seated beside a very good-looking young girl, to whom he paid the most chival­ rous and marked attention. Now, it was the sergeant's habit, at intervals along the road, to bound gayly from the car, enter a shebeen, remain there a few min­ utes, and then rejoin the vehicle, be­ traying all the symptoms of having "laid on" a little refreshment during his temporary absenoe. His attentions to the young lady became more marked as we proceeded on our journey, and such exclamations as "Gelaug ow o' that sargint," "Lave me alone," "Sin­ gle yer freedom, an' double yer dis­ tance," tended to prove that the gallant warrior's potations were carrying him beyond the laws of conventionalism. At length, after a playful but elephantine effort to snatch a kiss, the young lady appealed to the driver. "Misther Dimpsey, I'd have ye to call to this young man--he's insoltin' me, air." Thus appealed to, Mr. Dempsey quietly turned in his tieat, and, eying the sergeant sternly, exclaimed : "See here now, sargint, av ye don't lave that young woman alone, I'll take three sthripes aff yer arm, an' lay them across yer back." A roar of laughter from all the oocu- pants of the vehicle followed this sally, in which the gallant sergeant joined with a heartiness and good-will that clearly demonstrated how keenly he enjoyed the observation, although it told against himself. "Are ye expected at Boljolderun, sir ?" " Well--yes--oh, yes, certainly," I replied somewhat confusedly. " Yer an English gintleman, by yer way av talkin', sir ?" " Yes, I'm English." " May be yer from London, sir f "Iain." 1 "And seen Miss Kitty over there. Whew!" Here he gave a prolonged whistle, which might hare been in­ tended for the horses, but I felt that it bore direct reference to myself. " Troth, thin, you are expected, sir, and there'll be bright eyes and red cheeks at the cross-roads when we rache there, or I am boccagh--Miss Kitty will be there, sir, in her own pony-oar- riage." I did not know whether to be amused or annoyed. " You seem to be well aware of Miss Blake's movements, Mr. Dempsey.** "Arrah, didn't she tell me herself, the crayture! Didn't she say to me, says she, ' Dimpsey, take care av a very nice young gintleman that's oomin* to see me from London,' says she. 4 Is it the gintleman that I posted all the let­ ters to in Westport, Miss ?' * Go ow o' that, Dimpsey,' says she. Blur-an'- sgcrs ! why didn't yer tell me ye wor Misther Brookley, and I'd had roused the griddle for ye, sir, an' no mistake." I could have taken Phil Dempsey to my arms and cherished him. "Begorra! there's the cross-roads, anothere's Miss Kitty in her basket- shandhradan like a pitaytee creel. Didn't I tell yer, sir, how it wud be ?" It is scarcely necessary to observe that I experienced that sinking sensa­ tion of the heart which the immediate prospect of a meeting with the adored one never fails to create; that 1 pretend­ ed to bo looking the other way, and not to have perceived her; that I bounded from my perch with the agility of an acrobat, and that I 44 tipped" Phil Dempsey to the utmost limit of his sat­ isfaction. " I tuk good care aT him," observed that worthy in a tone known as a pig's whisper, " and he was as wild as a young coult in me hands; but he's a nice man, an' I wish yez joy." "Stupid creature ! I never can under­ stand him," said Kitty Blake, with a saucy toss of her head ; 44 I'm afraid he has been taking the mountain dew as he come along." At this crisis we were joined by Mr. Blake pere, a splendid specimen of pat­ er familias, who welcomed me to Con nemara con amore ; my portmanteau was placed in the basket-carriage, and Kitty rattled away with it, leaving me to walk across the mountain to the hall. And such a mountain, bare and bleak and precipitous ! and for any step I made in advance I made two in the opposite di­ rection ; but I pushed bravely on, and sacrificed a brand-new pair of leather buttoned boots during the excruciating process. But what cared I for boots, or mountain, or physical anguish? Was there not love-light in the eye of Kitty Blake ?--was I not approaching the Mec­ ca of my hopes ? I remained a month at Boljolderun Halt I held the stereotyped interview with Blake pere in his study,"which ter­ minated most satisfactorily And ^ Well, yes I am to return to Connemara before Valentine's day, and daim the hand of the sweet little Irish girl who called me an English boor. Sayings of the Little Ones. MAUD wanted to go barefooted like (he boys. In a little while she came in, saying, rtMamma, my feet are all wear­ ing out, and papa will have to get me some new ones," MART was inquisitive, and very curi­ ous about relationships. A man stop­ ping in the family often told her of the sayings of his "little stepson." One evening, Mary came to him and said, "Please tell me some more about your door-step-son, and what made him that kind of a boy." WHEN Lottie hurts her, she says, "I want to be pitied," and mother's pity often makes her well. They were can­ ning cherries at Lottie's house, the oth­ er day, and some one remarked, "We canned very fast, for Jane pitted them." After a moment's study, Lottie looked | up brightly: "I know why Jane pitied i them, mamma. It was because their | little stones had to be punched out Didn't you pity them too, mamma?" 4MAMMA," said a little boy, waking up from a sound sleep, and hugging her, "I love you. I love your head, and your hands, and your feet and your soul and yonr body and all your stuffing^." TOMMY and Jennie were playing cars. Tommy got cross and hit Jennie with a stick. Her cries brought their mother with inquiries into the matter. 4 4Why, don't you see?" cried Tommy, "we was playing cars, and I just switched her off the track a little ways." So Jennie thought it was all right, and played on. Whist, ye haythins !s says his river- ance, houldin' up his hand, for the poor sayfarin* man was thryin' to spoke, but the rattles was in his throat. " 'Say wan little word to let msknow c IN 1880 there were 12,412,000 milch cows in the United States, or 3^476,800 more than there were 1870. The in­ crease in the ten Northwestern States is the last ten years was 63.3 percent FABS NOTES. OBOTXABY stable manure contains up­ ward of seventy per cent of WFCFCFR. CONNECTICUT established the first ag­ ricultural experiment station in America. POLAND China pigs are being seat from Illinois to Gerthany for breeding purposes. HOOF and horn shavings contain more than twenty-five times as much nitrogen as is contained in average stable manure. SHBKP fed on dry feed are frequently troub ed with sore lips. An application of snlphur and lard once or twice will generally effect a cure. CORK trees are being successfully raised in Georgia* The cork on some specimens planted there is already thick enough for use. It is supposed these trees can be successfully raised in most of the Southern States. IT BKQT7TRS8 about 5,000 young fish to stock a pond of one acre in extent Of fish weighing from one to two pounds 1,000 to the acre is a liberal estimate and these will require artificial feeding unless the pond is very rich with food- producing vegetation. POTATO flour, or the dried pulp of the potato, is obtaining great importance in the arte. It is stated that in Lancashire, England, 20,000 tons of it are sold an­ nually, aad it brings at present in Liver­ pool about double in the market as wheat flour. It is used for sizing and other manufacturing purposes. IT IS estimated that with abtmdant fodder, a medium-sized animal will pro­ duce iu a year the following amounts of manure: Horse, exclusive of loss dur­ ing work, nine tons; ox or cow, ten to twelve tons; sheep (October to May), three-quarters of a ton, and a hog one and a quarter to two tons. MANY dairymen practice milking their cows steadily without allowing them to go dry. They feed heavily on corn meal and oil cake until the milk fails, when the cow is replaced by a fresh one. A dairyman who keeps one hundred and fifty co *s says such a practice is more profitable than to lose the time between their going dry and opming in. BE CARKFUII about permitting cattle to drink from ditches or from pools in which their droppings are deposited. Such impure water is not only liable to injure the health of the stock, but is also a fruitful cause of malarial and typhoid fever among those who use milk product from cows thus watered. THK general food of the Norwegians is rye bread, milk, and cheese. As a particular luxury peasants eat44 sharke," which are tliiu slices of salt hung meat, dried iu the wind, but this indulgence in animal food is very rare indeed. A com­ mon treat on high days and holy days consists of thick hasty-pudding or por­ ridge of oat meal or rye meal, seasoned by two or three pickled herrings or salted mackerel. THK qualify of stable manure depends upon the quantify and quality of the feeding stuffs used, and on the amount of milk or other products obtained from the animals. As a rule, but a small pro­ portion of the manurial elements of the food are permanently retained in the body or excreted as etc,; while the remainder passes into the manure. As a consequence, the richer the feed the richer the manure. Good feeding pays not only, through increased production by the animals, but through the improved quality of the manure as well. UNDER drains were used by the Bo- mans and constructed of wood. Even brush drains have been made in various parts of Englandi Thorough drainage came into practice about the middle of the present century, through the exer­ tions of Mr. Smith, of Deanstone, and for a time stone was the principal mate­ rial used in their construction. They were either thrown in promiscuously or laid out in throats or channels. When tiles or pipes came into use stones were laid around them, but it is found that less soil percolates into the tile when the earth is close around it THB following is given as an excellent method of plucking poultry : Hang the fowl by the feet with a ligb it cord; then with a small knife give one cut across the uppar jaw opposite the corners of the mouth ; after the blood has stopped running a stream, place the point of a knife in the upper part of the mouth, run the blade on into the back part of the head, which will cause a twicliing of the muscles. Immediately following this operation is the proper time for plucking the fowl, as every yield as if by magic, and there is no danger of tearing the most tender chick. HISTORY snows that the establishment of the beet-sugar industry in France and Germany was the outcome of not ene year, but twenty years, of careful scien­ tific work. Many experiments proved failures, and many men were found who said from the first that the manufacture of sugar from beets was a commercial impossibility. But in spite of adverse criticisms, partial failures and the oppo­ sition of many interested parties, the beet-sugar industry did succeed, and to­ day two-fifths of the sugar consumed by the oivilized world is manufactured, at a profit, from sugar beets. IT is a practice with many farmers to place a load or two of somewhat green nay on the top of the mow, thinking that it will dry under such circumstances without injury, and finally turn out pretty fair hay. This is a mistake. The greenest hay should be placed at the bottom of the mow; it will heat _ soipe and throw off the moisture, and the hay will come out bright green and full of aroma. Place the poor bog hay on the top of the mow, and it will absorb such moisture as ascends trom the sweating hay bek>~, and though un­ doubtedly it will prove somewhat musty, yet such would also be the ease with ths good hay if placed on the top of the mow. If farmers will try this plan, they will find they will have first-class hay in all their mows. A NEW YORK exchange says the farmers of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, N. J., use goats to protect their sheep from dogs. Two goats can drive away a dozen dogs, and two are about all each farmer puts in with his sheep. As soon as a dog enters the field | at night the goats attack him, and their butting propensities are too much for I the canine, who soon finds himself roll­ ing over and over. A few repetitions of this treatment causes the dog to quit the field, limping and yelling. Formerly, when a dog entered a sheep field at night the sheep would run wildly around and cry piteously. Since the goats have been used to guard them they form in line behind the goats, and seem to enjoy the fun. The idea of utilizing goats in this way came from the West, where they are put in sheep pens to drive away wolves. AN AMERICA* traveler in Italy who, though noticing many fields of Indian corn growing there, yet never found either Johnny cake, hoe cake, hominy, or any similar delicacy on the hotel tables* was somewhat at loss to know what use was made of this cereal. He writes: "Where a part of this oorn meal goes I have discovered. It goes into horse-bread. Horse-bread is, of oourae, the bread on which Italian horses are fed, for all horses hereabouts are baited on loaves of bread. Passing along the streets anywhere in say of these cities, and as far north as Munich, you see a man on almost every oorner holding a loaf of bread iu his left hand and a knife in his right, and cutting of! slices and feeding to his horse. It is an odd sight at first. Examining this bread, I find it is made of wheat or rye, with oat meal and corn meal added. It is generally soft and sweet. At Milan I had grown rather tired of the iron-clad Sable bread, dry and tasteless within, but, with a crust so thick and shiny that it* was almost impervious to assault; so I went out on the street and got a couple of slices of horse-bread. It was far more acceptable to the party than the bread on which we were being fed. Some of this corn meal, too, finds its way into the "black bread " fed to the army. Soldiers are everywhere present in Italy, and every day detachments go along guard­ ing great wagons pitched high with these gloomy-looking loaves, covered with dust and dirt, and seeming entirely too filthy even for horses to eat This is the chief food for the army." The Baby. Wk»t la the sweetest thing 1 The overarching heavenly bow, Vbe greatest nuisance that yon knowt The baby. Who has a precious little nose, And ekiobby limbs and pinkish toesT Who kicks and tumbles, langhs and crowsf The baby. OB whom does mother kisses preset Who In the night screams In diat Who la the morning screams no l«ta»ts The baby. Who never has a word to say. Bat always has his own sweet way? May Heaven prolong his earthly stay-- The baby. The baby does not belong to the ani­ mal kingdom; the animal, kingdom be­ longs to him. He is a king. In fact he is always aching. Some have classed him in the vegeta­ ble kingdom. But these are dis-po-ta- to-as people. Such persons are not expected to be " treat, exoept in i-salad- ate l cases. However, a baby is often spoken of as "this wheat creature;" which is why they cradle him. You can't shock him. He is not exactly a creature comfort The baby cannot speak. He is an unspeakable blessing. But he can scream. You see the dis-scream-ination. His cream is what he screams for genert>ily. Not always. He sometimes cries for the stomach ache. Cake is not good for his stomach. f Babies have but one stomach and two eyes. To wise persons the reason of this is apparent (Fon't think, how­ ever, that a parent always has reason.) The reason is that it requires two eyes to do the cryi*\̂ that one stomach engenders. A baby cannot walk, but he makes everyone about him walk. The baby is sometimes called an in­ fant, in fanciful allusion to infantry, which he is thought to resemble because he is generally found with arms about him. The principal business of the baby is cutting teeth. He inserts teeth free of charge. The baby is sometimes twins. In this case it twins sympathy from its father, who often wishes the baby was farther. BftterfrJs* When the hunter has found a rubber tree he first clears away a space from the roots, and then moves on in search of others, returning to commence opera­ tions as soon as he has marked all the trees in the vicinity. He first of all digs a hole in the ground hard by, and then cuts in the tree a Y-shaped incision with a hatchet, as high as he can reach. The milk is caught as it exudes and flows into the hole. As soon as the flow from the cuts has ceased, the tree is chopped down, and the trunk raised from the ground by means of an improvised trestle. After placing large leaves to catch the sap, gashes are cut throughout the entire length, and the milk carefully collected. When it first exudes the sap is of the whiteness and consistency of cream, but it turns black on exposure to the air. When the hole is filled with rubber it is coagulated by adding hard soap or the root of the mechvacan, whioh has a most rapid action, and prevents the escape of the water that is always present in fresh sap. When coagulated sufficiently the rub­ ber is carried on the backs of the hun- ters, _ by bark thongs, to the banks of the rarer and floated down on rafts. The annual destruction of rubber trees in Colombia is very great, and the industry must soon disappear altogether, unless the Government puts in force a law that already exists, which compels the hunters to tap the trees without cut­ ting them down. If this law were strict­ ly carried out there would be a good opening for commercial enterprise, for rubber trees will grow from eight to ten inches in diameter in three or four years from seed. The trees require but little attention, and begin to yield returns sooner than any other. Those that yield the greatest amount of rubber flourish on the banks of the Simu and Aslato rivers. The value of the crude India rubber imported into the States annually is about $40,000,000.--London Times. RATHER ENTHUSIASTIC. The Wilmington (Del.) Daily Republican lately contained the following item of popu- iar interest: l>r. J. F. Speck, who is con­ nected with the Wilmington Every Evening, speaks rather enthusiastically of St. Jacobs Oil. Dr. Speck states that he uses the Oil in his family as a household remedy, a sort of universal panacea for all aches and pains, and has always found it to act most happily. His attention was called to it by the many testimonials in its favor and he one day used it upon himself for sore throat. Two appli­ cations were sufficient to effect a cure. He also usecKit on his little girl for sore throat with gratifying success. The same child had scarlet fever this winter, which left the ten­ dons of one leg much contracted. The little prattler couldn't walk without assistance and suffered much inconvenience and pain. Sev­ eral applications of St. Jacobs Oil restored her limb to its normal condition and she has not experienced any trouble since. Dr. Speck states that he has also seen the Oil act charmingly in toothache. He thinks St. Jacobs Oil is a sterling remedy, and does not hesitate to recommend it for rheuma­ tism. etc. MINISTER HAMLIN somehow strayed to a bull fight at Madrid, and, after watch­ ing the proceedings awhile, said: " Those fellows don't know how to han­ dle a bull. Why, any farmer's boy down around Bangor would know enough to put a ring in the critter's nose and hitch a stick to it Then they could lead the beast around as handy as could be." THB Nebraska City (Neb.) Press says: St. Jacobs Oil strikes heavy blows for good all around, and its virtues for rheumaiie pains are lauded upon every baud. Try it, all ye who suffer. m mi PITH AND POWT. A THING that kicks without gun. v ,... OFTEN thrown together by accident-- railway passengers. JOHNNY was hit by a ball the other day. The bawl immediately came out of hig mouth. IT takes just three people to keep a secret properly, but two of the three must be dead. THB true way for a woman to drive a nail is to aim the blow square at her thumb. Then she'll at least avoid hit­ ting her thumb. 44 Wuiiii," said an Irish attorney, "if it plaze the Coort, if I am wrong in this, I have another point that is equally con­ clusive/' A YOUNG lady in Kansas, while chew­ ing prum, was struck with paralysis in the jaw and rendered speechless. She immediately had four proposals on the spot IT is said that sharks will not bite a swimmer who keeps his legs in motion. If you can keep lucking longer than a shark can keep waiting, you are all right ^ « Ir a bank is blown up by gunpowder, the report is instantaneous. If it be burst by the cashier, the report does not come until the examiner gets ready to make it. • BOSTON girl was heard to say in a street-car, on her way home from the Soldiers' Bazar, "I think he looked like a perfect raving angel in his uni­ form ! Ha was awful heavenly 1" IT is hard to tell which is the more ridiculous, the young fool or the old fool; but the old fool has this advantage --he will never be a young fool, whereas the young fool may some day be an old fool. A PROPRIETOR of a circus in the West has lost several valuable animals, among them a fine specimen of a species of wild-cat that attracted much attention in his show. Darwin-like, he is now searching for the missing lynx. EPITAPH said to be copied from a tombstone in the cemetery of Mont- martre: 44 Here lies Joseph X., who for twenty years after the death of his wife lived in the society of his mother-in- law, and died in the oertain hope of a better world beyond." NELLIE has a 4-year-old sister Mary, who complained to mamma that her "button shoes" were "hurting." " Why, Mattie, you've put them on the wrong feet" Puzzled and ready to cry, she made anflwer, " What'll I do, mamma ? They's all the feet I've got," " DON'T you think white gloves make one's hands look awfully big?" asked Angelina, holding out her gloved hands. "Is it the gloves that make them look so large ?" asked Mary, quite carelessly. When Angelina got alone that evening she confidently remarked to herself tkafc somebody or other was a great hateful thing.--Boston Transcript. THB managers of the Pennsylvania railroad are engaged in a work of philo­ logical reform. They want the people along their line to use the word 44 sta­ tion " instead of 44 depot." This would be an improvement, but in this, as in all other respects, Atlanta is ahead. We boldly allude to our passenger station as the 44 car-shed."--Atlanta Constitution. ON a recent dark night a man was staggering along the sidewalk in St Louis, and in front of him was a big dog running from side to side, with a lantern iu his mouth, lighting the way for his inebriated owner. On meeting another belated person on foot, the man stopped and did justice to the dog in this speech: " Yessur, 'sbet yer life, *e*s; a dorg worth having. He's got more sense 'an I have. Look at 'im. He's carryin' me home." Twas Sunday eve, and the small boy stood With lur, ear to tue key-bole pressed, And he saw hiu Biater Besny'H Head Ou Absalom Thompson's vest. Then he rail to his parent stern, and told, And the parcutrstet n replied: "There ain't no harm in a vest; slide out," But the lad refused to itlide. " There ain't no harm in the vent, I know," And his eyee flashed bright that minute; 44 But isn't it dangerous, dad," he aaked, " When Absalom I'houipeou's in it?" A VERT Bad incident occurred in Ho- boken, N. J. A man, whose wife was so badly afflicted with the esthetic craze that she had recently given a party to which only those of esthetic tastes were invited, came home in a state of intox­ ication, greatly to the astonishment of his better half, who had never seen him in such a condition before. " How dare you appear before me in such a con­ dition, sir?" she exclaimed. "It's es­ thetic," he replied. "What do you mean, sir?" asked the wife. " You gave a little blow-out the other evening, didn't you, that you said was a very con-, summate affair ? "I did," she replied, "but what has that to do with your drunken orgies?" "Well," said the man, "I*ve been having a little toot too." / The "Poor Rich Man." There are some people who have no reverence except for prosperity, and no eye for anything beyond suoop«* These are the men who fasten on to >»ch folks so naturally, and whom the richer folks than themselves, always despise. These are the men who, when told that the young man next them at dinner, or whom they encountered at their club, has recently become heir to half a mil­ lion, regard him with an interest that he sees through with half an eye, and speaks of elsewhere with an appropriate sneer. These men who know their own fortuitious gains to be vastly overrated; whose affections rush out to meet and welcome money, whose sentiments awaken spontaneously toward the inter­ esting possessors of it; these men do not consider themselves at liberty to indulge in friendship for any individual who is not richer than themselves; in conse­ quence of which, it is difficult to say whether they are most despised by those who are above or those who are below them in a pecuniary point of view; while the irrepressible self-consciousness that they are mere Dombeys make them even more distasteful to themselves than to others. Paris Self-Conceit. Parisians think Paris the centre of all creation, the aim and the end of all ex­ istence, the only place in the world worth living for or living in, the only birth-place of art Patronizes and pities everybody and everything not of Paris. Deems the rest of the universe made to revolve about' Paris. Beads his little seven by nine paper in the morning, aud considers the lest of the world and all its people sufficiently disposed of in tweuty or thirty lines, while all else is devoted to Paris. Deems every one is going into exile who leaves Paris, femokes his cigarette from which bis government has washed iu the manufac. ture all flavor of genuine tobacco, and fancies it the quintessence of Havana. ir-A.OKxiasra-- ae people - who are hopeful of a law to forbid im- Srisoument for debt A man can be unned to death, aad that's cheaper than to shut him up. 4 Mi! Oneofttaa most manly and satisfy­ ing pleas­ ures, HS well as the most •grceable.ii yachting. The owner of the yacht is one who gathers the chief com­ fort, as be s a i l s h i s craft for the excitement of the race, or for the genuine en­ joyment of guiding bit beautiful vessel over the water. Those who h a v e t h e care, man- a g e m e n t and work- almost upon the water. As a class, they are quiet, sober, careful^kil- fti! men, but their lile of ,. , - - exposure to In® elements Is productive of much rheumatism among them, and they *u(for considerably from pains, the result of cold, bruises, sprains, Ac. DT. JACOBS OIL IS A favorite remedy with these men, because of the splendid service It renders them. Captain Schmidt, of Tompkinsville, Staten Island, N. Y.. Buys that he has be»;n a g-eat sufferer from rheumatism' for many yean. He had savere rheumatic paina in nearly every portion of his body, and Buffered &o that at times ne would be entirely unable to attend to active business. He said: " I em quite well now. bow- ever, and, as you see, I am able to work without any trouble. I attribute my recovery entirely to ST. JACOBS OIL, for I felt better soon as I com­ menced to use that remedy; and whenever I feel anything like rheumatism eomhig on, I rub the place with the OIL, and it always does what is claimed lor it. Finding ST. JACOBS On.dk) me so much good, I got my family to use it whenever they had any pains or colds, and it has done good in every case when they have tried it. 1 can say that ST. JACOBS On. "is a mighty pood rheu­ matic remedy, and I don't intend to be without it." This experience is such as has been enjoyed not only by yachtsmen and others, who follow the water, but by people in every walk of life ant Variety of pursuit the whole world ever. The Best Field EMIGRANTS. AM IMMBNSC AREA OP RAILROAD AND aOTEKNMBNV LANDS, OF GHKAV FERTILITY. 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