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A DYING PROMISE CHAPTER VII.- t.) Before he left England, and resigned Jessie to the temporary care of lr»c other guardians, they went together to the graves of their father and mother, which Jessie had made pleasant with flowers and greenery. As he stood there, Philip thought of all that they had done for him. But for Matthew Meade's beautiful charity to an orphaned child-waif, what might his lot have been ? A workhouse boy, a nameless, homeless unit In that mass of shipwrecked humanity, untaught and unloved, what chance of even a decent life would have been his ? He was glad now that he had chosen the lowly home at Stillbrookc rather than Marwell; what would the mo e brilliant-seeming life have profited him if ho had remained a comparative stranger to those two kind hearts, now stilled forever ? Yet lie must now be a nameless, an; his last forlorn hope night discover his own n looking through Mr. Papers was gone. He decided once for all to think no more Df his dubious origin, from the knowledge of which, in spite of his Efforts to learn it, he shrank, fearing ■iishonor. He felt that he ought to mow, but since he had failed to find jut from Matthew Meade, he would remain henceforth ignorant. But for the Medways, the secret would have Sied with Mr. Meade. Something more than pride or fear restrained him from consulting Sir Arthur Medway, who would probably con-Stirie that Matthew Meade had told Meade's bled by the corn-dealer himself, Jes-tie pastured at will. She had.never dreamed that the universe was so wide, so wonderful, so teeming with interest--life seemed worth living; in spite of the shadows 'kening it. One happy day ing, housekeeping, and accomplishments' "--such was Miss Blushford's translation of Philiv's request that Jessie should not be made to learn too much. "Gentlemen dislike lolue-stockings. Ladies of superior attainments should always endeavor to conceal them, lest they should be deemed unfeminine." "1 suppose, Miss Blushfordl" said Jessie, "that it matters nothing hat women think, the great point is what people think of them." "Quite so, my love." "Their conduct should bo entirely ruled by public opinion?" continued ' ' a curious glitter of her FARM ARRANG EMENTS t his occupati THE CURSE OF'MANOHMi THE REDBEARD SiAmi&iS THE EAST. OS- eyes "In everything, my sweet girl," returned Miss Blushford, pleased at signs of grace in her charge. After this Jessie read with more ardor, but less candor. She did not hesitate to deceive Miss Blushford by ighted on the "Fairy Queene;" then ■ 'alse covers to her books, most of she discovered Chaucer; Shakespeare, j which she kept in a hiding-plm e she duly Bowdlerized, had been presented had discovered under the roof-tiles to her in driblets in the school | opening from her bedroom. Here also ded to 1 she hept a store of smuggled candles vol musty who was ir Chaucer's ling t irf; he n fe of his "My lo.' And, after ' told d cared for him and hi! ' lay there beneath thi ; carve out a place ii i greater than yours, he said, after a long silence; "I owed them more." "Yes," she replied, looking up from Ter flowers with a faint smile. "And I often thought they cared most for you. Especially father. They were so proud of you." "And I such a beast," he thought. Then he asked Jessie to renew the death-bed-promise, and they clasped hands solemnly over the graves, and he put a ring on her finger. "Oh ! Phi ip," she exclaimed, when they turned to leave the spot, "it is "Ah ! but the bad lack !" "Foolish child," he said, tenderly his heart going out to her in a rusl of pitying love, "how can a true lo\e gift be unlucky ?" They sat alone together it Pluarmer's house till late that counting the minutes. Next m they drove together to Cleeve I whence Philip started for Dov his way to India. Jessie stood on the platfori the carriage-door with him tj last moment; every tick of th tion clock seemed' to beat , Mrs. expurgated, mes by Miss Blushford, blissful ignorance of ifinitcly direr need of a Mis Blushford had been too much edified at finding her pupil anything more solid than a story-book, to look for rocks ahead in books that bore the respectable word history on their backs; the ologies and ono-mies inspired hor with confidence; it was not until the sad day when she found Jessie poring over a large volume inscribed with the alarming name of Byron, that she awoke to the duty of tasting the child's mental food. Byron, carefully shrouded in brown paper, lest respectable citizens should be scandalized by seeing him borne openly through their streets, was promptly returned to tho dusty shelf on which he had long mouldered by Miss Blushford's own correct hands, and the works of 3 givei i Jess aed matches, which she used to light her studies after her candle had been 1 always lawrui to conceal things from children ? Jessie argued; why, then, should a grown-up baby like Miss Blushford, however amiable, know all that she did ? The pupils came little in contact with Jessie, and when they did, regarded her with no sense of fellowship. As a parlor-boarder and grown i^,™,'. up young lady, they looked up to 1 her, while the fact of her being engaged, and especially engaged to a fine young officer, invested her with all the glamour of romance. A letter from Philip created pleasant excitement unlike the pupils' letters, it was violate; Miss Blushford actually di ed not open it. The letters eai~-f«st and thick at first, Philip dotted ; second, the them ail along ,iis route, whenev •he found a post»office. "My on Jessie--My precious child--My darl- Wlien cattle arc put on a heavy ration of grain they will make rapid gains for a time, probably for two months, and then they seem to come to a standstill and make little or no improvement. A number of them go off their feed and the feeder gets himself into all sorts of trouble. Tho point to be determined is not the amount of grain that we can get an animal to consume, but the amount he is able to digest and assimilate. No other grain will put so good ncss basis. Just as . a finish on cattle as peas. A little men have made for- pea meal fed during the last month roducing labor-saving I seems to firm the cattle up and make methods ana by utilizing what was ' them handle and weigh just a little once thrown away as waste so the better than anything else I know, farmer can greatly increase the pro-j but they are such strong feed, and fits of his business by utilizing all; so hard tc " wastes and by the introduction of j usually bo labor-saving methods, writes Mr. more than five or six weeks C. A. .Willson. jit be in very small quantities. Regu- One of the most frequent losses that i larity is one of the first principles of occur is that of time and labor!good feeding. through lack of proper arrangement j An important matter is to make ately to all brigands or highwav of the farm. A great deal of thought | the cattle comfortable and induce in Manchuria, who have infested the > the planning of (them to lie down as much as pos- country since the date of the Manchu barns, but not sible, allowing no one to disturb them conquest of China. Manchuria was ii the farm. AI- j except at feeding time. A mistake of then denuded of her fighting men, who see many farms that have i which many of us have been guilty is were required to garrison the Chinese very neat fences, and show in a gen- that of tying up more cattle than towns. Chinese outlaws began" to eral way the progressiveness of the j we could feed and bed properly; so settle in the country, and these, join-owner, yet almost invariably they are j that we were compelled to use a lot ing with the worst class of the na-so planned that the lanes pass down [ of straw for feed that we should have tives, formed themselves into robber the centre line of the farm with al- used for bedding. Straw that is bands, who have defied the authorities most perfectly square fields lying on j musty or damaged in any way will ever since, attacking caravans, plun-bc-cf when used for bed- dering villages and carrying off im-t up and forced on portant personages to ransom. The ng with the better Chunchuses, in fact, are the dacoits of Manchuria, and, like the Burmese ihcjuld so plan his work brigands, their hand is against every 11 always be done at the man, be he lomething of the History of the Men Who Are Russia's Deadlf S&ss, The Chunchuses, whose esrplsits af» mentioned so frequently ia the war nd whom Admiral Alexiefl in his proclamation the other day stigmatized as "the curse of Manchuria," must not, says The ls»sdoa Daily Graphic, be confounded yvith the Tun-gus, a Siberian race of Manchu stock divided into a number of tribes, they cannot j whose habitat stretches over half of th advantage for j Siberia, from the Yunsei to tho Pa-less , cific. The term Chunchuses, or Hunghutze," to use the more cor-3ct name, denotes no particular race, being applied indiscrimin- oftentimes giv the plar the most ;; that : A square unpractical form of a field there is ! ding thi the large number of turns ! the cattle by that have to be made when the field i feed, is plowed, harvested or the hay tak- ' en off. In plowing or reaping a field, the number of rounds increases as the distance from the centre to the "house; Ith6 sides becomes greater, it was in- i There are at least three things to be considered in planning a farm: tame I First, the general shape of the farm; of the buildings, and, third, the rotation of crops to be followed. Sometimes it is not possible to make thc arrangement ; he should i of NATIVE ( ugh, noisy, blustering i cattle The further bidden t time to her "accon ilishments," and in particular t laint a group of flowers on velve! md do some wool-work for the soft Poor Miss Blushford ! The ever ng following the procession c his dusty iiogui trt- I that x lost desire becau: id g"neral lay of the farm, it is possible the fields ; bo square, but made as ical, apey i 3 bed, ; with reqn ! good advi held The girls were gone sistant teacher was evening out. and she her parlor boarder, who was appar- f"'"i" ently taking the opportunity of im-proving her mind by instructive con versation. Miss Blushford hod con vcrseci with fluent urbanity about an hour in reply to Jessie's timid questions on history, literature, science, and art, under the impression that she was filling her listener's mind from her own superabundant stores of knowledge, when all of a sudden it flashed upon her that she was playing the part, not ofj philosopher to disciple, but of pupil to examiner. Miss Blushford quicks ly turned the, conversation to lighter titched thought-! rred wool-workj Blushford's colos" sal ignorance were normal i: < 1 mistresses. Miss Blushford was a good woman and loved Jessie, who loved her im return. She was about fifty, upright, thin, exact, self-denying, timid and rigid. What into lect she ever possessed had been worn away in mill-horse drudgery and petty anxie-ling I ties, what little knowledge she ever ion I acquiiei' frittered away in constant on I mechanic^ repetition to her pupils. I Her ■ ■Ml bad a good reputation, by it, Was • pet. Jessie had with great the | difficulty and much heart-sear Citing J *o it it was expensive Blushford was poor. lacked the s gradually tl by way of answer from jst immediately after he started for India, the neyys of the Mcerut and Delhi outbreaks thundered through England, to be followed agic tidings through- 5 the bar Id not dot them j t submit herewith plans for a 160-e: they too were acre farm. While not exactlv suited md full of heart- ;fcr aU farms vet the p.cn,,rai i(lea may :""; u";eli' ,b"v'be incorporated into almost any evoit of I tulip s; j farm cspecially ono that has> M yet, not. been much improved. If a farm is oblong in shape the buildings should never be placed at one end or a corner where it is possible to place them at the centre of one side. if Uie buildings > and heart- , befell The ideal location for economy's sake would bo centre of the farm, but tho home and social side of life on the farm must be c man is worse than useles farm. There is no royal road t cess in cattle raising; it is the attention to, or neglect of, the apparently trifling details that makes j tvelled i Mai i the s the There . | offers the advE . plac ?idence that making the ful as that raps among h tragic episode ma of the Mutiny unfoldejTitself and jhome surroundings beau! was told in England with -aU the of the farmer except pel exaggerations of fear, mastery, pity, 'rustic mountain scenery and indignation, a sort/ of madness j there is such an utter disregard seized upon the people?, to whom , among our farmers of their immcdi-the knowledge that Chiislrtan women j.ate surroundings, which) should go to and children of their owl race were \ make farm homes beautiful and pleas-slaughtered and torturid by that I ant, that I cannot refrain from mak-inferior and subject heaSlhen race ing a fcw suggestions here ns to the they had been accustomedifco hold so improvement " cheaply, was a. horror b*/l en- too oftcn durance. War, which to Wmer na- },omo ;s devoid of tions means invasion and the suffer- thinK8 that go mg, if not the slaying, of won en arei e„n-0uiulings cheerful and homelike children, the breaking up of u~ ■ homes. :i admitted t of their throbbing hearts: they And she had nothing put "•ych other's hands, and when j age or sickness. She wa= t bell clanged and their hands ' womar, yet she had many forced apart, the jangling I port, crashed on the two bruised I In most famil' The engii Philip looked back till bend of the road syvallowed hin nd he could nc longer see J nd the yearning gaze of each let by vacancy. Then Cousin Jane, yvho had landing at a bookstall showering jars upon the monthly magazines, verge oi bankruptcy line bustling forward and bid Jessie Blushford perpei make haste home to Miss Blushford's. "Hell write from Dover to-night," tnber dependent on the rest, it the | was so with the Blushfords; one i up | daughter was imbecile, Miss Blush-:ssie, ford supported her in a private house was One male Blushford had failed in business and passed his prime in been hunting lor odd joos, looki homes, th famine, fire and pestilence, has a milder face for inviolate England, whose soldiels alone taste its immediate horrors. All the prejudices and antipathies of religion, race, and caste were stung into fierce vitality by the suffering and degradation of !"-helpless English in Idia, whose ;,i countrymen at home were powe less ; to""th' to succor them. A wave of passion- i make e lonely I ate vindictiverier s swept over men's ! humblest home sup- hearts, an unspected trait in the ; beautiful, national character was brought tocatalpas, light. Not only in Idia, where their shrubs a! and yet they will wonder why their boys and girls will leave the farm for places more beautiful in thc city. The farmer has such chances for landscape gardening as the city resident because of more room which" A careful selection and plac-•ces, shrubbery and flowers, with a well kept lawn, will comparatively small cost the irroundings look as that a band hese robbers landed at Takusban, lurishing port near the Yalu Riv-and billeted themselves upon tho n, making the most exorbitant de-: mands upon the inhabitants, which - • | were all complied with. They then HOME-MADE WEEDER. j travelled about the country, levying tribute everywhere, arid when troops Take three pieces of oak, three by were at last sent against them, they throe feet long, make the front ends took ship and quietly sailed away, of outside pieces round and bolt all Williamson adds that the robbers re-three together with two strips of ceived their name of "Hunghutze," or iron at front, one on top, the other Redbeards, owing to their custom of on bottom. so outside pieces will painting their faces red and wearing work on hinge, fasten handles to cen- fa]ge beards of colored horsehair. piece, for back braces take two The great trade highways of Manes of old wagon tire two and churia are infested with them, and one-half feet long, fasten to each at one time, owing to their activity, outside piece at back end, punch trade languished to such a degree four holes in each brace and bolt to that the "Redbeards" were in danger piece; by punching several of losing their means of livelihood, holes in the back braces you can They then established a peculiar sys-widen or close the weeder to suit the tem of insurance throughout the width of row; join handles to centre country, the merchants who paid piece and brace handles; take them toll being supplied with a small 12 harrow teeth and 'shape triangular flag, which, placed on the like shovel ployv, saw a notch on top of each cart in the caravan, in-outside piece two-thirds the depth sured its safe passage through the of tooth, fasten teeth with bolts by most robber-infested country. The boring one hole through the outside same little flag is still used to show piece and another half way, in the that a cart is insured against being form of a stable; by this method you robbed, and from, the fact that carts the teeth as de- so distinguished are seldom or never LD TIT-" E SCHOLARS. Books and Pupils in a School ' 000 Years Ago. E.'.i the 1 i of King : .000 years ago, was in a flourishing condition. Vin- who fight wii cent Scheil, a German archaeologist ation, and l'n recently unearthed a schoolhouse in their encomit Babylon just opposite the great tem- Mr. Alexandc pie. From inscribed books, inscrip- Manchuria, s; tions, etc., Fa*her Scheil has recon- recognized pr structed thc life of au ancient Bab- province, anc •ering o , whew Pi uke.i thc by their impotence. 1 cries for vengeance-- in its naked fero Hymen, peaceful laymen, people, did not hesit nq reprisals could b; she said, Then j'll hev dais he's mgagod like Philip." Jessie did e e. Look up, Jessie, 0 a fine young officer . heed, she saw noth- 1 vanishing face; it ir life had been vio-from its place, he felt that all that 3 left behind will; Jessie, while he rushed on mlessly into a blank, homeless ne thought throbbed glowing-3 breast; this agony of yearn-s tenacious clinging of the 3 for Phili cital i Ho • he 1 of CHAPTEI she educated set them out in life. Her father's second family she also educated and set out in life, and supported her stepmother till 'her death. No wonder Miss Blushford was poor. Her elder brothers were men of sub-but they that s of i were maddened i placed \-oul( lore were loud j for tho fron -engcance alone ; would appl Pious clergy- I bushes gentle, kindly i But in lay -te to say thatjningof the too seyee for „ot the only with impotent f !layl' youth ( had fall .hey mid not rriage,' beai upoi steadier vindictivencss in India. 'tore boasted progress ami civilization; it! might have been sti'.l more ghastly but for a few brave and noble men, ~J who turned a deaf ear to popular j clamor ard public obloquy, and did ! , justly, and loved mercy even in that j j™> Jessie, in the conventual seclusion 1 s(lUi of her school, where newspapers v rare, heard little of these things; she did not realize the awfulness of ; require 4,'i i the crisis; she had grown accustomed .tur~" SELF-MADE MEN. ' , the field r :ed the and children and carriage that she might have had, and drudged on, in most prosaic, unrecognized heroism, to maintain the helpless members, winning little but the contempt of all in return. feared c i.ely ■ fight it tie B of v r Ph opportunities, (he Babylon very clever people. The revised by Miss Amatboen v.ci trust contracts and probably the New Jersey point of view But tin ilex mods , high I But in those rare occasions when j The advantage of h he mingled with the outside world, j nearly equidistant fro he was horror-struck at the way in'evident when we coi rhicli people talked of "those black-year's labor and time evils," and one or two passionate :iv equalized bv not 1 xpre-'sions in^ Philip's letters made j an .the manure to tin I Jessie began : to do), j "May I ne^ wish to be indc-for bread (which t she should like 2i'al inches in height and her mental and moral growth kept pace The utter de-rly associations, the loss of home, the sudden and repeated irruption of death, gave her tional experience of years, iw of hor triple bereaval-- \\as bereft, if only for a Philip--was too great, she ared not think of it. Occupation I men l her great panacea. She had "C tlways done her school-tasks easily J forc iliingly, she now manifested a I ajr; mnger for knowledge, a hunger thatj^jkin "ss Blushford was unable to ap -1 yVha1 ase by the genteel fringes of know-. Sweetness, submission, unselfishness edge and the flimsy "accomplish- ; are the chief qualities required of ents" Wfeich composed her school females. Mr. Philip Randal justly ill of fare. Happily Cleeve boasted observed in his last epistle to me : * i fair public library to which Mr. <p w£sh Miss Meade to read less and esV-mni. was a suhecriber, and in give more time to strictly feminine t RbvMjr, wMea »w gUie trou- pursuit*!, such as needle-work, danc- ; the first ,! b her thoughts dwell j! ything because only do what me to do ?" Jessie asked, inly, my dear," Miss Blush-lied, with her little didactic is un;V minine to have strong Gentlemen always know truly feminine and ladylike. i the . the old c nental occupation. 1 r that madness lay in ;CTo be Continued.) A SHARP RETORT. He complained bitterly of the slowness of the train. "If you don't like it," said the conductor, "why don't vou get out walk?" "In afraid." "Afraid of what?" "Afraid you'd hitch the blamed am onto me and moke we d*^g it" Lastly the placement of the woods to the windward side of the buildings, where it is possible, needs no comment upon the protection they would afford in the winter. Although this plan will not apply-to all farms in every detail i applicable FATTENING I ! and 1 better results than any single variety fed alone. If any peas are to be fed it is good practice to keep them un-t'l thc close of the feeding period. was the histc i school, and the i account of the of the Greeks." ran as follows : of the Greeks