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, O my heart! Thr callow np«t(ln(r> «'»ep, y hidden 'nc4b t Krmcions folding wing, IS time when, frf tn -heir ulnmh^r <te?p w>k« and soar In b«*uty. - King, beast, •rfwrt O little bird, *!n* i>«Ht! Thonch nia may rail. " " though the callow brood hy o»rc require, M MO tvindoud wl h its trillt"# p*U. •ndimnvi t lie trr 'c'<»n* polden fire. O.blrdt aor ot thcciond Uki heed; a srt be Itor of elorion* *prlag; #»jr fleld to wtciod to thy nwl. wea'th, beauty th.ae. O staff, bird -vJBiaf oil my IM^, *ta|t oa, though riia nsy *'isSVi'^ poor: 5 ptnf 011: for tmmm tb® wl d will brine V fc.(i drift of sanftbfoe to thy eot<u« door, And arch the oloads with rainbow*. Kin®. heart, » bird! (tins sweet. What though the tims bo ^ "When thon «h*U rit upnn that sw>viiut bongh. jfth an sweet mate, no natMnjr* by, to hear, . The babbling «on2 ihou singes* to clad them * "'V now! . ' -i$Thy tMk was done, fulfilled in sweet sprint i .**" 5. dayn, ? • v«®» croiden summer when thy brood takes win**, Bhaltthon not still hare l<=ft a hymn ot pntse, i.'Patamn thy work is over? Simr, bird, sine! •spm, f0 «nj heart? What It thy birds have „ ®«wn? ' IThon hadst the Joy of their awakening. '; » An«l thousand memories left thee for thine own; •"titotag, tbi>u, tor task aocomplish«d. Stn& heart, sing! 3 *-Chanibei 's Journal EXPEISIVE WEDDH6 6IFT. : It was certainly a most unpleasant • *' Coincidence, that one of a pair of opal ^fear-rings, which had been given to Miss onsols for a wedding present, was issed from its case immediately after Carnegie had had the case. This wkward episode occurred at an "after- oon" held at Mr. Consols' house, at jueen's Gate, on the day previous to - i a | Miss Consols' marriage, when the wed- " |i fi; sfting gifts were displayed in the draw­ ing-room for the inspection of a crowd : ^ friends and acquaintances. The ear- ' tings, which consisted of two fine and beautifully tinted opals set with dia- Jnonds, had excited universal admira- i 'i lion, and were suid to be extremely val- iftable, if not positively unique. Mrs. Clarnegie, had, like many other people, e into ecstasies over them, but had on to inspect another group of itly offerings when somebody discov­ ered the loss. A great commotion at ||>noe ensued, and a careful search was a^jnnde for the missing ornament. Every firtielo in the vicinity of the spot was ^Shifted about and lifted up, a circle "wont else oould he mean? Really, CM, yoitr I9mtk is childish," re- " her uiu)«Bd, looker Ml her rnly. 'I may, perhaps, have conveyned rso impression of his behavior than I intendejl," said Mrs. Carnegie, twist­ ing her rings about. * "Whatever you intended, it is quite clear to my mind that he insulted yon, and I shall certainly write to biro.' At the sane time, Frances, 1 consider that you brought the unpleasanthess upon yourself." "I was not the onlypersou who touch­ ed the ear-rings," said Mrs. Carnegie, feeling suddenly inclined to cry. " What I mean is, that by visiting people like Consols, who are vulgar and ill-bred, you subject yourself to this kind of thing. I never oared for your friendship with the Consols, don't think you are particular enough about whom you associate with. You may remember that I said Consols was snob the first time I set eyes upon him." . "You so easily take prejudices, John. For that matter, you always find fault with my friends," said Mrs. Caraegif, with a flash of defiance. "For the future, Frances," said Mr. Carnegie, more severely than ever, "I must beg you not to make acquaint­ ances without consulting me. It is evi­ dent your judgment is not to be trusted. See what an awkward position this af­ fair places me in! I now find myself involved in an unpleasant correspond­ ence with a man I detest." "I do not think there is the least oc­ casion to write," said Mrs. Carnegie; quickly. "We need not discuss that. One thing is certain--our acquaintance witb the Consols is at an end," returned her husband, with a sort of gtim satisfac­ tion in his tone. Mrs. Carnegie did not venture to argue, but left her lord to himself, heartily wishing she had not said a word to him about her grievance. The foregoing dialogue has, no doubt, shown Mr. Carnegie in an un- amiable light; but he was by no means a domestic ogre. On the contrary, he was a most devoted husband, though his naturally severe and dictatorial dis­ position rendered him somewhat tyran­ nical. The fact was he insisted upon having his own way in everything, and would not brook contradiction; but sub­ ject to this, he was both affectionate and indulgent in the domestic circle. He cooled down considerably when his wife quitted the room, and even felt con­ scious that he had been inconsiderate in his remarks. But this tinge of remorse did not soften him towards Mr. Consols, J§va8 drawn around the table and the and he immediately sat down and with ^ * ' P*V' i- •#1 ) 4,' floor anxiously scrutinized, and, in fact, t-vervtiling was done without a mo- ^ipnenfc's delay te recover the ear-ring. if All the efforts proved futile, however, .for no traee of it could be found, and it "Was quite impossible to believe that, J%ith so many pairs of eyes on the alert, ** ; Jt could have escaped observation if it * tiad been lying anywhere about the room. • \ Everybody present felt a trifle un- „ ^ (.itsomfor table, but especiallvjMrs. Carne- She was a very proud and sensi­ tive little woman, and she was keenly tOQBcious that people had remarked the act that she had been the last person ' v to handle the ear-rings. Old Mr. Con- * Njjols had been rather particular in his Inquiries as to whether she had replaced < \ , ,^|fcho ornaments in their case. It was -- linPleiUKmt to be singled out from ' ^aTroom full of guests to answer ques­ tions of this sort, especially as the pro- * drew general attention toward h*»r. course, she did not for an instant ine that she was seriously sus- of purloining the ear-rings, but ie very fact of having a perfectly clear -^conscience, and feeling that her honor above suspicion, rendered her in- ed to resent even harmless and nat- questioning. Her temper was htly ruffled by the ordeal, and on first opportunity she went up to the tess and said good-by, taking care, towever, to conceal her secret vexation. If Mrs. Carnegie could have got clear |^way after this, the matter would no ioubt have blown over. Though she as quick tempered and sensitive, she not the kind of person to harbor y resentment, and a little calm re- j ^flection would have completely restored t*«r equanimity. But as ill-luck would •i *«fcave it, she came face to face ftfr. Consols in the hall below. V .,i'jMr. Consols was one of the . iiearted old gentlemen in tht J Ip11' he was rather vulgar, and t ^ i|(Wunt way of expressing himself /••'•."'•^jften gave offense when none was in- i , jjlenfled. He was evidently very much . mi oat about the loss of the ear-ring, /'fend on perceiving Mrs. Carnegie he at Jooce advanced to speak to her. •.v' "I am regularly mystified about that •r jVJ|e»r-ring, Mrs. Carnegie," he said, rath- ' '"«f; abruptly. "Everyone I have spoken \w, Jt» says you had it last in your hands." "That is quite possible," returned §^'5sg]Mr8. Carnegie, turning pale with sup- . -/Jpressed anger. "I am not responsible j'> • *mor its disappearance, nevertheless." •f- "You are sure you returned it to the "f ^oase?" suggested old Mr. Consols, with i\ • *ather unnecessary persistence. '§1 "Keally, Mr. Consols, I can not sub- . t> *ait to further cross-examiuation," ex- ^claimed little Mrs. Carnegie, drawing ^ * *>•> iherself up. "I have answered your -Tsquestion over and over again." "Where the denoe can the ear-ring ^have got to, then?" muttered the old »&|geatleman. sulkily. ,f. .* The probability is that old Mr. Con- v -:sol8 gave utterance to this reflection of all proggnfiea to the moMS « lelia A pood and the Ipstont heir hus­ band Ittd started tor town die went up to her roo*i to get the ear-riug. for the purpose of diMMttohing it by registered post to the Consols'. But when she opened the drawer to look tor it, she found, to her amazement, that the case in which she had placed it for safetv had disappeared. This shock was quite as startling and .unexpected as the one she bad already sustained. She could hardly believe her eyes, and turned the drawers inside out in a frenzied search. It seemed im­ possible that the case could have van­ ished, yet it was clear that such was the fact. The servants, when questioned knew nothing about it, and declared that nobody had touched the drawer. It was absurd to suppose that a thief from outside would have come in and stolen that particular case, especially when the whole household was astir. It never occurred to Miss Carneg that her husband might have taken it, until she suddenly recalled to mind that when last she had worn the bracelet he had said something about having some al teration made in it Extraordinary and unlucky as the coincidence was* she ended by becoming convinced> after re­ flection, that this must be the explana­ tion of the mystery. But this was doubly annoying, be­ cause her husband would find* out that she had concealed the discovery of the ear-ring from him.. She would not be able to deny that she knew of its being in the case. It would be too barefaced to pretend to be ignorant how it got thero. Her husband might; therefore, not unreasonably sn«p<w that she had 80me unworthy motive for hiding it and saying nothing about it. At the least he would be vexed with her for her re ticence, and she passed a very uncom­ fortable day in anticipation of "the scene which, waited her on her husband's re­ turn. description fAr*',' from sheer perplexity, and without the |£^(i.5«ligbtegt intention of wounding his i%>. .^guests feelings. Bnt Mrs. Carnegie chose to take the remark as conveying a deliberate aspersion upon her integ *»ty. and certainly Mr. Consols' tone and manner manifested a lamentable want of tact. Her temper immediately ^ flared up, and but for the opportune . if,.Star"Tal 80me other guests she would . * • have probably answered her host in a (JL manner that would have astonished i, # k'm* As it was, the took her departure ^without another word; bnt her rage _ t' and indignation were so great that on , i«r*\ reaching home she conM not refrain n from confiding hur wrongs to her hus­ band. Mr. Carnegie was furious at the re - ^ cital. He was one of those men who ' J always seem rather glad of an excuse to , X quarrel with their neighlmrs. He es • % poused his wife's canse warmly, and ( -1 declared that he would make Mr. Con- sols apologize for his behavior. Know- ing his dangerous tendency to magnify ^ grievances, Mrs. Carnegie endeavored to smooth matters over a little, when " (she perceived how enraged he was, but only succeeded in bringing down share of his indignation ui>on herself, i "My dear, it is impossible tr» find an 1,: excuse for him; his conduct was delib- emtaly inHDIt,ing." he said impatiently, "I don't think he meant to be delib* '< * great gusto wrote off a letter to that gentleman which gave vent to his irrita- ted feelings. He was an adept at epis­ tolary lucubrations of a stiuging and exasperating kind, and the specimen he dispatched admirably fulfilled its pur­ pose. An angry warfare ensued be­ tween the two gentlemen, which re­ sulted, after a sharp exchange of amen­ ities, in complete estrangement between their respective families. However much Mrs. Carnegie de­ plored this, she had to put up with it, and, indeed, she was too loyal not to side with her husband. Consequently she saw and heard nothing of the Con­ sols for some weeks, and was, of course, ignorant of the ultimate fate of the ear-ring. One morning she happened to remove from her wardrobe the cloak she had worn at the Consols on that unlucky afternoon, and was naturally reminded of the incident. Just as she was beginning to wonder vaguely what had become of the ear-ring, and whether it had been found, she heard something drop at her feet, and looking down, beheld, to her horror and amazement, the subject of her speculations. Of course, it was obvious how it came there. The cloak she held in her hand was lavishly ornamented with] fringes and lace, and it was evident that the ear-ring had adhered to some part of the garment. Whether she had swept it off the table, or had accidentally dropped it instead of replacing it in the case, it had undoubtedly been hidden in some fold of the cloak, and had only now been dislodged. The explanation was simple enough, and it flashed across Mrs. Carnegie's mind on the spot. She,, therefore realized, without loss of time, the very awkward position in which she was placed, and almost fainted from sheer dismay and vexa­ tion. She hurriedly snatched the ear-ring off the floor, lest her hus­ band, who was in the adjoining dress­ ing-room. should happen to catch sight of it; for she instinctively shrank from letting him know of her discovery. Of course, she corfld not expect to hide it from him altogether, but at the moment she felt much too agitated and startled to break the news to him. She pulled open the first con­ venient drawer and slipped the ear­ ring inside a case containing one of her bracelets which chanced to catch her eye. It was done in a moment, and she moved away to another part of the room, being almost morbidly appre­ hensive that her husband would suspect her secret. The truth is that, owing to dread ol incurring her husband's wrath, com­ bined with her own sensitiveness and pride, she was considerably more upset than there was any occasion for. After all, the accident might have happened to any one, and she was in no way to blame. The disagreeable feature was the angry correspondence which had passed between her husband and Mr. Consols, and for which she was respon­ sible. After this she would feel ex­ tremely foolish, to say the least, in hav­ ing to confess thut the ear-ring had been in her possession all the while. The Consols wonld have an exense for sneering and making themselves un­ pleasant in speaking of her conduct to mutual friends. All this was very gall­ ing to contemplate; but. in addition, site would have to face her husband's righteous indignation. He was a very just and scrupulously honorable man, and would feel bound to humble him­ self before Mr. Consols, aud to apolo­ gize for his wife's misadventure. The effect of this upon his temper Mrs. Carnegie could very well imagine, and, of course, she wonld have to hear the brunt of it all. Mrs. Carnegie descended to the breakfast-room without venturing to go near the ear-ring. When her husband left the house, she would put it away still more carefully. Meanwhile, it was safe from observation, for he was not likely to open any of the drawers in her room. During breakfast she de­ cided that it was not necessary to make a disturbance by revealing her discov' ery to anyone. She would return the ear-ring to the Consols anonymously, and so avoid future unpleasantness. Khe felt that this was rather a coward­ ly course, but the gain in peace and wonl4* she^onsj^^ Mrs. Carnegie had guessed that Iter husband had not noticed the ear-ring when he took up the case before leaving the house, or he would certainly have said something. Probably he had carried off the bracelet in a hurry, with­ out looking at it, or had merely glanoed inside the case to see that the' bracelet was there. But when he came home in the evening, she at once perceived from his maaner that he knew nothing about the ear-ring, even to that moment. It seemed very strange that this should be so, but surely he would not other­ wise have looked good-humored and cheerful. She could not summon up courage to ask him the question, until he happened tosay: "By-the-bye, Frances, I meant to have told you that I took your rnby bracelet to town with me this morning. Did yon miss it ?" No. At least, I did by chance," said Mrs. Carnegie, awkwardly. "I guessed you had taken it*' "I've been intending to do so for some days past, and this morning I thought of it just as I was coming down to breakfast. I explained to Bevis what I wanted, and I think he will make a neat job of it." "Oh! you took it to Bevis," remarked his wife, nervously. Did --did you open the case?" "Open the case! What makes yon ask?" inquired Mr. Carnegie, evidently struck by her manner. "To see that the bracelet was there?" said Mrs. Carnegie, hurriedly. "I didn't--but Bevis did. I suppose it was there all right. In fact, I'm sure it was, for I saw him take it in his hand." returned Mr. Carnegie. "Oh! I thought, perhaps, it might not have been in the case," said Mrs. Carnegie, as carelessly as possible. Nothing more was said, and Mrs. Carnegie did not know whether to feel relieved or the reverse at the turn of events. It was satisfactory to find that her husband had not discovered her se­ cret. On the other hand, she wondered uneasily what had become of the ear­ ring. She had certainly put it inside the case along with her bracelet, and yet Bevis, the jeweler, had apparently not perceived when he took out the bracelet, or he assuredly would have drawn her husband's attention to it. Either the ear-ring was again missing --in which case she would consider her­ self responsible for its loss--or else Bevis had overlooked it at the moment, but had probably since discovered it. If she could only see him before he communicated with her husband on the matter she might yet restore the ear­ ring to the Consols, and avoid a dis­ turbance. The hope of attaining this desirable consummation, and a nervous fear that the jeweler might innocently frustrate her designs before she could enlist his sympathy and assistance, caused her to pass a sleepless night, and the next day she took the earliest opportunity of calling at Mr. Bevis' shop. "Mr. Bevis, my husband, Mr. Car­ negie, left a bracelet of mine here yes­ terday," she said, addressing the bland, bald-headed, keen-eyed little man, who advanced politely to receive her. "Certainly, ma'am," responded Mr. Bevis, rubbing his white hands softly together. "Was there anvthing inside the case but the bracelet ?" inquired Mrs. Carn­ egie, with a tinge of embarrassment. "No, I think not. In fact, I may say I'm sure, for I opened the ease myself, in Mr. Carnegie's presence," said Mr. Beyis, unhesitatingly. "You are--you are quite sure of that? said Mrs. Carnegie, considerably taken aback, and stealing a glance at Mr. fievis' imj>erturbable face. "Most certainly. Have yon missed anything, ma'am ? May I ask what you expected I should find there ?" inquired Mr. itevis, with suave politeness. Mrs. Carnegie bit her lipfe, and was silent It would never do to hint at having had the ear-ring in her pos­ session, now that it appeared to be lost. There was something in Mr. Bevis' man ner which filled her with vague dis­ trust, and made her almost think he suspected her, for no doubt the news of the Consols' loss had reached him, since Mr. Consols had offered a reward for the missing ear-ring. She would have thought nothing of getting him to assist ker in restoring the ear-ring, but it was quite a different matter to let him into the secret when the ornament had vanished. He might, in the latter case, circulate a report that she had misappropriated it, and, at all events, there was no reason why she should confde in him. She, therefore, did not volunteer to enlighten him, but left the shop with her mind full of speculation as to the fate of tho ear-ring. l>ut the more she reflected, the more she was driven to the conclusion that Mr. Bevis had de­ ceived her. As her husband had taken the case and had handed it unopened to the jeweler, the ear-ring must have been there. It could not possibly have fallen out, nor was it. the least 1 ik«ly , Bevis had failed tone© it vsl^eu Carnegie ;be- har suspicions soon of absolute convio- vis wai gnilty of a dishonesty, and had the ear-ring. 1 reeogaized it, by the Conspls had circulated, Mid waa shrewd enough to foresee that nobody but the legitimate owners would venture to claim it. If this was his idea, it turned out to be perfectly well founded. Although Mrs. Carnegie felt no shadow of a doubt that Mr. Bevis had stolen the ear-ring, she could not bring herself to denounce him. It would be no good going to him alone, for this she had already done. If she confided in her husband, she.could prove nothing, and, besides, she natur­ ally shrank nom confessing her share --innocent though it was--in the mys­ terious disappearance of the ear-ring. It wonld give people--and especially the Consols--the opportunity of saying ill-natured things, while it was by no means certain that the ear-ring would be forthcoming after all. Consequently Mrs. Carnegie, very reluctantly, kept her own counsel, though her conscience smote her a good deal when she re­ flected that the loss of the ear-ring was directly attributable to her. A month or two later when time had somewhat soothed her susceptibilities, and had even caused her to wonder at odd moments whether she Htul not, after all, wronged Mr. Bevis by her suspicion, her husband came home one day and said: "Guess whom I lunched with to-day in the city. Well, you may spare your­ self, for you would never guess. I lunched with old Consols." "Really!" exclaimed his wife, in gen- nine surprise. "How was that ?" /'Oh, he isn't a bad old fellow. Vul­ gar, of course; but most of those city men are. He ran after me in the street, and held out his hand. He took me by surprise, and before I knew where I was, I was sitting at lunch with him at his club." Did he say how Mrs. Consols*and the girls were ?" inquired Mrs. Carne­ gie, with deep interest. "They are all right. By the by, yon remember the missing e'ar-ring ? Well, it has never turned up; bnt Bevis has managed to replace it. Oddly enough, it was I who mentioned the matter to Bevis that day I took your bracelet; and just as old .Consols was in despair at not being able to procure a match for the ear-ring that remained, having tried everywhere, Bevis come forward and undertakes the job. The opal he lias furnished is a fac-simile of the missing one, and old Consols is de­ lighted. He had to pay a long price for it, though. Bevis doesnU do a job of that kind for nothing, I can tell yon.", --London Truth. down to tlis aextliags "aeath iwitfcat fable, bird, sine. tan wtoapffcat by aad by AGUCtJLTl/KAL. ' - J ^ - • ' " • • • • • ' - - • - . . x this year raised THE FAMILY DOCTOR. BREAD AND MILK--For the yonng, it is manifestly true that milk should be a prominent article of food, eaten with bread, real bread, that made of unbolt­ ed meal, instead of the impoverished white, fine flouw, with mush, that of corn, rye, oats, barley and the like, all simple and containing the elements needed in building up the young body. And here I will remark that the fine flour contains but a small part of the bone materials of the whole grain, but a small part of that intended for the muscles, that there may be strength and endurance, and but a small part of food for the brain and nerves. These very important constituents are fouud just beneath the hull, the dark portion between- this and the central mass of starch, or fine flour, which contains all absolutely needed, with water to sus­ tain life, while one would abso­ lutely starve in a few weeks if fed wholly on fine flour. The grains are made right and any change by bolting must reduce their power to sustain life. No three articles are so well adapted to sustain human life as the whole wheat products, milk and eggs, milk being more especially adapted to the young. These are sim­ ple, easy of digestion and contain the elements of nourishment in a remarka­ ble degree, as may be inferred from the fact that the chick grown from the egg alone, the young live on milk for a pe­ riod and bread is the acknowledged staff of life." These articles may well be given to "young" girls in the ex­ pectation that their bones will grow strong, their mtusoles enlarge, their bodies be plump and full, their brains active, their nerves in their natural condition, affording evidence erf health, power, vigor and enduranee. Suoh food produces real body, not fat and flabbine8s. The excessively fat and lean, alike are unhealthy, the medium being the most desirable.--City and Country. How TO CCBE A COLD.--Go to bed. Take off your eloihes, including under­ wear. Lay a wet towel (so it wont drip) over your chest. Wrap yourself up in a soft, warm blanket. Put another over that Pile more on that. Then quilts. Become a huge roll, with only the head exposed. A living mummy. Mind! all these wraps must be tightly folded about you, especially about the neck, so that no warm air may escape. You must be rigidly tucked in from head to foot You must be hermetically sealed, so far as blankets can seal yon. Now you are in for it The object is to make you sweat. Sweating is nature's effort to burn out her chimneys and make them "draw.** The operation may not be pleasant. You will feel very hot and uncomfortable. Yon will feel hot waves roll up and down your body. You will experience smothering sensa­ tions, and all manner of miseries of this character. The more nervous, sensitive and imaginative you are the more mis­ ery. Minutes stretch into small hours. The forces inside of you are working to throw the dead matter out. If you have hovering about you any friends who have recommended this treatment and who are doing all they can for you, you will regard them as friends. You will burn inside for half an hour or more. Then you will l>egin to sweat Yon will want to have the treatment over a few minutes after you commence sweating. Your friends will tell yon you must remain "in pack" longer much lenger, possibly an hour. You will put yourself do* n as a martyr and a hero for every minute you remain in the blankets. If yon do stay an hour you are a hero or heroine as the sex may determine. Now jump out and sponge the body lightly and quickly all over with cold water, put on your flan­ nels, jump into bed again and cover with the ordinary amount of bed cloth­ ing. You are in a comparative heaven The throat or lung soreness is diminish ed or gone entirely. The cough is no longer hard, but loose, the expectora tion freer. You feel no longer as if you were bringing up tacks and , brass fil ings. The skin chimneys and flues are cleared out. The draught is restored and the fires of life burn freely.--Ntw A VlBOlKU ninety Iamb* from sixty-seven Shrop­ shire Down sheep. WHOBVK* depends on the milk-strain­ er for securing clean milk will never make gilt-edged butter. A FARM of twenty-seven acres near Rochester, New York, is entirely devo't- ed to raising cabbage. MB. H. H. PXABSOJT, of Copiah coun­ ty, Mississippi, says: "To protect fruit, trees from the borer, I take leach ashes, scrape the soil one or two inches deep around the base of the tree, end put the 'ashes all around the tree, and never al­ low any earth thrown on them. I have Eracticed it for twelve years, and find it eneficial.'. MANY farmers who secure for them­ selves all the labor-saving improve­ ments are slow in arranging similar helps for their wives. A reaper or mower is used, at the most, only a few days in the year. A creamer, to make butter-making easier, will be in use nearly or quite every day in the year, and the butter product will bring enough more to pay heavy interest on the first cost, besides the saving in la­ bor. IT is most profitable to make pork from young pigs. A bushel of corn will produce more pounds of increase in weight when fed to a pig three months old. The cost of producing a given weight of pork increases with the age of the animal. It is desired to produce an increase of one ton of pork by feed­ ing one hundred swine, that jncrease will be more cheaply obtained by feed­ ing pigs under six months of age than by feeding those which are a year old or older ones. The man who allows his young pigs to have a scanty allowance of food, permits the opportunity for profitable feeding to slip by, and is obliged to produce his pork at an in­ creased cost by feeding when the swine are older. A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gentleman says he has used a barbed- wire fence around his hog pasture, and thinks it a success for hogs over 7 months old, also that it could be made so for younger ones. "I put our first wire (which is double-barbed) six inches from the ground, and the second one eight inehes from that, and the third and top one one foot from that, only using three wires. The trees were used as posts, and I think were not near enough, as the inequalities of the ground leave the lower wire in some places as much as ten inches above ground, and allow small animals to pass under. A fence made with the posts twelve feet apart and the lower wire four inches from the ground and the next one six. inches from that, would probably keep in any hogs." AN old wheat raiser, in the Country .Gentleman, says: "Probably the very best crop to precede wheat is red clover. Next to a clover sod is a well- manured, clean-tilled crop of some kind, which leaves little or no stubble to be turned under, to keep tbe soil loose and open. Having the soil well fitted, and the right seed suitably pre­ pared for planting, the manner of sow­ ing becomes an important question. The advantages of drilling over broad­ casting are so well understood that it seems unnecessary for me to dilate upon it. The important item is to get the seed evenly distributed over the sur­ face and covered at a uniform depth, while the soil above is suitably com­ pressed in contact with the seed. It is also important that the seed be placed in contact with fresh, moist soil, so that germination may proceed at once in­ stead of waiting for rain. CARE OF THE BAM.--Keeping a ram In a flock in order to conform with custom, and keeping a ram for service, are two separate motives. The ram is one of the most serviceable males that is found on the farm, for he is capable of improving large flocks at but little expense, a single season often witness­ ing the yield of wool and earcass dcuble by reason of the presence of an active, vigorous, thoroughbred ram. Farmers, however, while. ea£e£ul to exercise judgment aud discrimination in the management of stallions, boars and bulls, seem content to turn the ram in with the ewes without paying due care to the proper time or the number of the flock. The ram should be- fed more highly than the ewes, and should be kept in the best possible condition, which cannot be done with him when allowed to remain continually with the flock, as the food intended for him he will permit the ewes to have. It iabest, therefore, to permit him in the flock only as occasion demands, the proper method being to pen him from morning until evening, and the ewes not requir­ ing his company should be separated from the others. Another mistake is in having too large a flock of ewes and too few fams. It is better to have several rams and separate flocks than to> keep a single ram with a large flock, or sev­ eral rams together in one field. Fights will be the result if they are not sep­ arated, and tliw should never be allowed. In feeding rams, there is nothing bet­ ter than a liberal supply of ground oats and finely cut hay. Sliced turnips should be- given at noon, and the oats and hay in the morning and evening. A lump of rock salt should be conve­ nient, and a small shed should be placed where he can protect himself from the weather. Confined in a small enclosure, and fed well, he will be in better health and more vigoroua4han if allowed to run with the flock at all times, and the lambs will be sponger and larger. As soon as the season is over, the ram may be permitted to re­ main with the ewes. It might be well to remind breeders that a variety of feed is an important matter, and it would be well it farmers could be in­ duced to allow a few gills of bean meal once or twice a week. Oil cake is not desirable, but a little bran mixed with the cut hay will be found very beneficial. --U8EKEEPEB8* HELPS. BAKED BEETS.--In the "cook's cor­ ner" of the Benton Harbor Palladium is a recipe worth trying. It says: "These excellent vegetables are quite as good baked as boiled, and the sugar is better developed by the baking process. The oven should not be too hot, and tbe beets must be frequently turned. Do not peel them until they are cooked; then serve with butter, pepper and salt" BISCUIT.--Dissolve one rounded ta­ blespoon of butter in a pint of hot milk; when lukewarm stir in one quart of flour; add one beaten egg, a little salt and yeast; work into dough until smooth. Set in n warm plaoe to rise. In the morning work softly and roll out one-half inch and cut into biscuit and set to rise for thirty minutes, when they will be ready to bake. These are easily made, and are delicious. WHEAT PUDIMNQ,-- l'udsliog »F cracked wheat is very agreeable and nonfiaMissr- To - milk allow nearly liidp a cupful ol cracked wheat; put it in a puddmgdish and bake slowly for twoltaurSt st&rinp it several times. If y«m awwieto do so, yon can add raisins and a little cin­ namon for flavoring, but most people prefer it well salted, and to eat it with a little cream and sugar. This is nice both warm and cold. SDOARED POT-CORN.--Put into an iron kettle one tablespoonful of butter, three tablespoonfuls of water, and one cup of white sugar; boil until ready to candy, then throw in three quarts of nicely popped corn; stir vigorously un­ til the sugar is distributed over the corn; take the kettle from tho fire and stir until it cools a little, and in this way you may nave each kernel sepa­ rate and all coated with the sugar. course it must have your undivided at­ tention from the first to preVent scorch­ ing. Almonds, English walnuts, or in fact any nuts, are delicious, prepared in this way. VIENNA COFFEE.--Leach or filter the coffee through a French filterer, or any of the many coffee-pots that filter in­ stead of boiling the coffee; allow one tablespoonful of coffee to each person, and one extra for the pot Put one quart of cream into a milk boiler, or, if you have none, into a pitcher in a pail of boiling water; put it were the water will keep boiling; beat the white of an egg to a froth, then add to the egg three tablespoonfuls of cold milk, mix the egg and cold milk thoroughly to­ gether, when hot remove the cream from the fire and add the egg and cold milk-; stir it all together briskly for a minute or two, and then serve. Swiss PUDDING.--One teacupful of flour, four tablespoonfuls of butter, three of sugar, one pint of milk, five eggs, the rind of a lemon. Grate the rind of the lemon (the yellow part only, remember) into the milk, which put in tho double boiler. Rub the flour and butter together. Pour the boiling milk on this and return to the boiler. Cook five minutes, stirring the first two. Beat the yolk of the eggs and the su­ gar together, and stir into the boiling mixture. Remove from the fire imme­ diately. When cold, add the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Have a three-quart mould well buttered. Turn the mixture into this and steam forty minutes. Turn on a hot dish and serve without delay. Creamy sauce, or a tumbler of currant jelly melted with the juice of two lemons should be served •tfith it. , Science and Religion. While the beliefs to which analytic science thus leads, says Herbert Spen­ cer in the Popular Science Monthly, are such as do not destroy the object- matter of religion, bnt simply trans­ figures it, scienco under its concrete forms enlarges the sphere for religious sentiments. From the very beginning the progress of knowledgo has been accompanied by an increasing capacity for wonder. Among savages, the low­ est are the least surprised when shown remarkable products of civilized art, astonishing the traveler by their indif­ ference. And so. little of the marvel­ ous do they preceive in the grandest phenomena of nature that any inquiries concerning them they regard as child­ ish trifling. This contrast in mental attitude between the lowest human be­ ings and the higher human beings around us is paralleled by the con­ trasts among the grades of these higher human beings themselves. It is not the rustic, nor the artesian, nor the trader, who sees something more than a mere matter of course in the hatch­ ing of a chick; but it is the biologist, who, pushing to the uttermost his an­ alysis of vital phenomena, reaches his greatest perplexity when a speck of protoplasm under the microscope shows him life in its simplest form, and makes him feel that however he formulates its proeessess the actual play of forces re­ main unimaginable. Neither in the ordinary tourists nor in the deer-stalker climbing the mountains above him does a highland glen rouse ideas beyond those of sport or of the picturesque; but it may, and often does, in the geologist He, observing that the glacier-rounded rock he sits on has lost by weathering bnt half an inoh of its surface since a time far more remote than the begin­ nings of human civilization, and then trying to conceive the slow denundation which has cut out the whole valley, has thought of time and of power to which they are strangers--thoughts which, already utterly inadequate to their ob­ jects, he feels to be still more futile on noting the contorted beds of gneiss around, which tell him of a time, im­ mediately more remote, when far be­ neath the earth's surface they were . in a half-melted state, and again tell him of a time, immediately exceeding this in remoteness, when their components wese sand and mud on the shores of an ancient sea. Nor is it in the primitive people who sapposed that the heavens rested on the mountain tops, any more than in the modern inheri ors of their oosmogony who repeat that "the heavens declare the glory of God," that we find the largest conceptions of the universe, or the greatest amount of wonder ex­ cited by contemplation of it Ratlier, it is in the astronomer, who sees in the sun a mass so vast that even into one of his spots our earth might be plunged without touching its edges; and who by every finer telescope is shewn an in­ creased multitude of such suns, many of them far larger.-*-PoM«tar Science Monthly. Cure of • Kitten's YanHj. There lives in Chicago a kitten that was like some people in being very vain. It seemed to think itself the loveliest kitten altogether on the face of the earth. As its owner, a boy of eight, said, the kitten had a kind of "I-know- I'm-pretty-but-I-can't-help-it"way about it. On the day when ita pride had a fall it happened to be in a room where there was a looking-glass. The mirror was on a bureau, and the kitten had been placed against the-glass by the mischievous boy. The contact with the glass had a marked effect The kitten sprang quickly away, arched its back, raised ita tail stiffly, extended its claws, and emitted a long-drown howl expressive of wounded vanity, con­ tempt and anger. But after watching the mirror olosely, it becarfto convinced that the ugly object in the glass needed thrashing. It therefore sprang from the dresser with both front feet ex­ tended and mouth open, and struck squarely in tho head its reflection in the glass. A fall followed, and the kit­ ten vanished from the room. Ten minutes later it was found crouching in the coal-bin. Since the battle with its own reflection it refuses to go near the room where the mirror is, and it is no longer vain.--Exrhanrfe. WHEN I read, rules of criticism I in­ quire after the works of the author, and by that means disoover what he likes in a comBtiaition.--Addison* A Tcx.tr told that , wife, at once 7rj membership m missionary. His rapid. He was too. on flowery beds of ease.* NOTWITHSTANDINO TTW 1 img given by the death qualites of Jersey WJUSKV, men go on carelessly handling it, thoughtless of the consequences. It Jur bottled lightning. A bartender in that flttr fell dead last week while in the act of handing a bottle of the staff over the counter. If the mere handling of the stuff will do this, the good Lord oi|Jy knows what the'.drinking of it must do. AN exchange says that "a cockroach has 3,000 teeth." Who found that out? Ot course we don't dispute the man, but it would be some satisfaction to know the name of the. individual who spent the time in counting the teeth so as to inqoire as to his ability as a count- ist. It has been stated before that a cockroach had hut 2,998 teeth. It may be, though, that this one had run its mouth against some one's boot had two teeth kicked out WHO hit the editor of the Chicago Herald so as to cause him to rise up and express himself on the mean man? He thus describes him, and by the tai- nute description it will be easy enough to recognize the individual: "He rec­ ognized no human being as his equal, but considered all either his inferiors or superiors. Superiors are all who have wealth or title; inferiors, all otheas. To the former he is obsequious and sometimes sympathetic; to the latter, severe, discourteous, domineering." H - A WRITER of mathematical bent fintls from the census returns that there are about 17,000 dentists in the United States, who, he estimates, pack into the teeth of the American people a t6t of pure gold annually. Continuing his speculations, he predicts that in the twenty-first century all the gold in the cojintry will be buried in the grave­ yards. This may account for so many grave robberies. It has always been laid to medical students, but this proves it to be gold-hunters who extract the gold from the teeth and deposit the rest of the remains in medical colleges. (From the Newman Independent.] WILL somebody please invent a sew­ ing machine that will hemisphere? TIMOTHY rode a mule into Africa and the animal "bucked." Then Timbucttjo. THE sun is so hot in Afria that the skin on the bald head of a negro has po be cut and reset like a wagon tire. There is a yonnft man at Fall Blver, * At whose yarns Eli Perkins wonld uhlver; He said in two ntuhts That he coughed up hU light*, ; And his melt and two pounds of his liver ( "WHEN Greek meets Greek, thl comes the tug of war." When fc meets mule, there'll be some kicking "tliar." <0 1 ® CHRISSIPUS, the philosopher, died of laughter at his own joke. Now let Eli Perkins immortalize himself in the same manner. ~ THE Bible says God made Eve out || Adam's rib, but there must be a mistake in the translation. She evidently Wjas maid out of his jaw. PHYSICIANS say that consumption i» not contagious. We know that the con­ sumption of gold is not "catching." We have tried to expose ourselves I© ' that malady. A NEWMAN youth don't like the rical system of measures. In speaking of his girl, the other day, he said: "When I haven't a centimeter, and she always wants oysters." AN advertisement of a new brand of cigars says: "Smoke the sunshine.' We won't do it. While we have sun­ shine for a diet we must have the gen­ uine cabbage-leaf to smoke. A STUDENT of history wants to knew why it took Rome three hundred yeaHi to die. We are not prepared to say, but presume Rome didn't take her medicine according to directions. Animals Understanding Language. Some time ago, when starting for a foreign tour, I entrusted my little Scoteh terrier, "Pixie," to theearpof my broth­ er, who lived about three miles distant from my house. I was awajr for six weeks, during the whole of which time "Pixie" remained contentedly at his new abode. The day, however, before I re­ turned, nay- brother mentioned in the dog's hearing that I was expected baek the next day. Thereupon the dag started off, and was found by me at my bedroom doer the next morning, he having been seen waiting outside the house in the morning, when the servants got up, and been admitted by them. "Pixie" is still alive and flourishing, and readily lends himself toexperiments which, however, yield no very definite results. He cer- a tainly seems to understand as much of our meaniafpas it concerns his own com­ fort to» understand, but how he does 1 cannot quite determine. 1 should be sorry to> affrm, clever as ho is, that he understands French and German, yet it is certainly a fact that he will fall back just as readily if I say, "Znrickl" as if 1 say/'Toheell" and advancoto the sound "En avantr* as well as to "Hold up !" As, in both eases I am careful to avoid any elucidatory gesture or special tone of voice, I am inclined to think that •there must be here a species of direct .thought transference. At the same time I am bound to add that without the spoken word I am unable to convey the slightest meaning to him. This, howev­ er, may be due to what I believe to boa fact, that it is almost impossible without word or gesture to formulate tbe will with any distinctness. If this theory he correct, the verbal sounds used wonld convey the speaker's meaning, not in virtpe ot the precise aouna» themselves, but- of the intention put into them by the speaker. I shcald be glad to know if the experienoeof others tends to confirp this theory, whioh I do not remember to have seen suggested hefoee- Cor. London Spectator. In a Bondo&w "Are they in society "No, not at alL" "But I hear they have a good deal of company." "Oh, yes; I suppose thev do of one sort and another. They have little re­ ceptions five times a week, but nobody goes except authors, and artists, and college professors, and musicians, and scientists and such people. Ndhe of our set would think of assooiating with them.--Philadelphia Call MODERN education too often covers, the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the --sterling. VIRTUE will oateh as well as vice by contact; but the public sttfok of honest, manly principle will dajly aoousaulaie» --Burke. ^ w - „