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THEWr‘th “L the. q. xlmmln' h’ I The hernyerd fowl doe: not thrive when muted in Inge numbers. end only reaches la bl beet perfection when allowed to fol. low 0. e customs of the mgenlbore in the Indian jungles end van or at will in small Aocnmulttin filth in n prolific source of disease, «pools ly gtpu, which Is essential. ly o filth roduotion. After the hen yu-d has been c owed to sprinkle It with a noln. tion of two gollona of woter to one gill of car. bolio Acid, 3nd one pound of ooppem will destroy diuue germs. The eggshell inporons, And an fll ' very soon effect- tho meat. Eyggn '52:]: be cleaned u soon as gethered, If at all soiled, and those to be put up for winter should be eggs which have been gathered u soon a laid. Never let e get chilled that are to be uedforhe ng purpoeee. They ehonldbe collected during the cold weather every time n hen (a heard to ceckle. The rule in only end often. , During the developmentof fruit the strew~ berry uires considerable water, but we never rimmed the importance of water es we did the past season. In this seeding although the spring was wet, the imme- diately succeeding weather was dryer than is often the case in the driest weather. Strawberries had bloomed, but there came as development of fruit. Finally rain came in frequent showers extending over a riod of a week and wrought a wonderful 0 enge inthe strawberries. On June fourth we wed ripe fruit where seven or eight days one no appearance of any could be seen. Thisfaot shows that sufficient moisture is necessary for the full and perfect develop~ meet of the fruit. There is no one but must have observed the effect of extremely dry weather in wholly obstructing the develop. ment of raspberries, blackberries and our- nah , ,,,--- .. -.... -_w. u.- u a v m1 uuvucn- bug. It i. better to keép um'éa thinned out thnn to cut buck and make too close heads. Let the sun's rays in all through the tree. In gnf ' nut trees on very Inge and strong among the scion: often make a very luxurunt, hnlf succulent, growth the first season. and if this is not checked by pinching of! the ends to hasten the ripening of the‘ wood, there is always more or loan danger fighter-killing, even of the moat hardy In pruning trees of nny kind it is better to lenvo one strong branch or limb than two gran-go yenklpneg, gays fogular Garden- Good success may be had transplanting red raspberries and blackberries in every month from Marc}: to November. A: for blwk raspberries, the plnnta that came from Never lét To have a good crop of strawberries next year, there must be a good growth of plants this fall. To have this, work out beds im- mediately after bearing and work into the soil 3 good supply of well rotted manure or commercial fertilizers. John M. Stahl says fruit-growers do not phoe or roper estimate on the value of wood ashes. hey are worth more to the horti- onlturizt than the grain-grower, but cannot hke the plus of other manurra. Gooseberry bushes do best when they are well trimmed. They make renk owth. It in 3 fruit tint does beat in par shade, md if the mildew does not attack it a crop my Always be looked for. Although it is generally believed that the of fermentation does not increase the value of the manure, this much is cer- lain; it softens the hard, woody fibers and consequently acts more promptly on plant ‘=‘n ed ; and especially is this true where the mumre pile is in a yard that slopes, nail: will lose many valuable elements which flow out, or are washed out hy therein. AI‘I ‘ But the pigs should not be allowed to lodge in the manure pile, us they are liable to contth disease b so doing. The unnnre is too warm, an when they get up end come in contract with the fresh air, they ere apt to take cold or lung disease. Those formers who will try our method will find that the straw can be converted into avail- able manure in about six months ; whereas it would take from ten to eighteen months‘ before it attains _i_ts full value if left untouch- \ neas, it is well to niake small holes to the ground at short intervals, and then drop in n few grains of corn. If this be done they will turn up the entire pile in a manner that will meet with the approbation of the owner. A great many farmers, especially in the weltern parts of this country, use only one- third,'or one-half , their annual supply of straw for feed and ding their stoc ; the remainder is 002331er into nfirurei as sogn ape-lbl'e. isgenery one y throwing it around over the barn-yard where the stock can trample on it. Straw thus scattered and trampled on, if left un- touched will not ferment and consequently cannot do all the good it ought to do unless it is left in the yard a year or more. Its value, however, can be considerably inoreaao ed and become available sooner, by simply turning it up frequently, and this can be done at the expense of but little time and labor if our met ed is made of. Every farmer keeps pifis, on they will do the job for him effective y. Scatter some grain or corn over the straw and manure, 3 say once every two weeks, turn in the pigs 1 and they will turn up the w ole pile, in i search for the grain, in a very s ort while. If the manure lies \t a considerable thick- 24. 2- _-II A, , -‘~V_..J â€"â€"â€"-r|l~uv to August if cufiback :1: least two TURNING Srmw mm Manna. Forum! Norms. Pb: ӣ331."! :01] 5'; day, n’ u we an at manly We'll has love to lloht 00: Wt, ' Fm you" the (101': 0' My. Moi when yer n' my do We'll I n hm o‘er I‘dl, Gordon hoowwlen we were can Ayont the MP: 0' bulev. ' When night In young 311' only, loot Inc by the blrken than Ago!“ the M'- o' buley hen I'll tell yo n' my Juan“. , Lon no'or want. for huppy an“ ' A paladin l' uture mull. Ayont the M'- o' bulry. [Ado when you: hurt. in right. “my: a: ":3 'x-m-u... g o o Ayout the flora 0' day. Bluhu than l own no. 43:“ l ken thorn Mon 10! no Whoa yet bonnie now 1 pa... Mom the flora o' Buloy. GARDEN Nous. years 91 Although as far back as the civil war in the United States, it was proved beyond doubt that cavalry armed With swords had not the remotest chance of success against those armed with revolvers, and althou h almost every nation in Europe arms fts oaval with tl‘ latter weapon, the English War ce, with even more than its usual inaptitude and obstinaoy, refuses to fur nish our cavalry with this weapon. The revolver is a weapon requiring much rac- tice to be of valve, but in the hands 0 one who has mastered its use it is a terrible weapon. A cowboy of New Mexico is not regarded as a good shot except when riding at full speed a on a line of telegraph poles heeanputaball toeachashe es it; and the result is that, although t e Indians consider themselves as more than a match for the re lar cavalry, they will fly before a narty o cowboys, even if they outnumber them many times, while a hundred cowboys would rightly consider themselves as a match for a whole regiment of regular cavalry. The sword was an admirable weapon in the old days, but a soldier armed with only a sword might be as well unarm- edaitogether were he to meet one armed with a revolver who was an adept in its n-.. Of all animals on the farm, the sheep is usual: credited as being the beet weed and briar tor known; but the long continued drought in Central Illinois in making for him,hoata of competitors for honors in this direction. “'e see calves and pig: eating stumps, or button weeds, and cows brown- ing on burdock. where hone- and colts eagerly devour almost anything u, even reaching for the leaves and lmnfirotfnnchea of trees over-head. Red clover puturea are the only once affording feed worth the mention here now. Course-woollen! sheep are more liable to be infected with ticks than Marines. slained. In the centre are the lactiierous ucts which run into each other in precisely the same manner as the cells of a sponge ; around these ducts and holding them, as it were, in place, is a fibrous tissue which is ex- tremely elastic, which is a part of the fibrous structure of the udder. Around this mass of tissue and the connecting ducts which ramify through it, is a la er of glandular tissue which is the same as t at of the udder. These glandsare made up of vesicles cluster~ ed upon fine tubular ducts, like grapes upon their stalks, secreting the milk which flows through the fine ducts into the larger ducts, where the milk secreted from these glands meets the milk which flows down from the udder, so that the teat is really a part of the udder and does its part in producing milk, and is not a mere channel for its pass- age from the udder. Dairy heifers should always be handled familiarly from ‘the first and there will be little trouble with them. But a heifer that has never been handled until she drops her first calf needs to be educated by gentle means. It is too often forgotten that such animals are timid and nervous and do not know what is required, and the boot or club is a plied to subdue them. This is all wrong. If t e heifer is to be madeauseful and pleas. ‘ ant beast for the diary she should be hand- led and accustomed to all necessary mani- gulations from the time she is a calf. ll airy animals, whether old or young, she Id be taught to regard their masteras their best friend. Rule by creating confidence and never by force. A 'I:he structure of the test may be thus ex- The Only Pemalé nayor. Seat] Fm DAIRY None. A slow, dilatory milker makes a great lose in the yield of milk, except, rhapa, when cows are going dry at the en ,0! the season. To be a good milker is an accomplishment which some persons can never attain. It requires a muscular hand, houeaty or con- scientious integrity in diachar e of duties, good nature or complete oontro of temper, at least while milking, and a scrupulous re- gard to oleanlineu. floor, nuts, 'imlll nnd perchu. or use a Iolution unlphuric held, any thirty parts of acid :0 one thouund of water, and a ply In the mo wny. on better if walla: by means of a broom. _: _ . Hem liken variety of food. end we ehould elm to give them ea much in thet line u poeeible. 0n the oil“ morninge ive A feed of equal port- oi corn end out me mixed with hot milk, or boiled turnipe or pontoon mixed with e iittifiwheet bren. Ail ecrepe from the table end reiuee from the kitchen ehould be mixed with the morning feed. A daily eilomce o! 3 email anemia of meat, round bone end oyeter eiie ould not be orgotten. The following in recommended M e diein- ‘ fectnnt in chicken cholera: Dissolve three pounds of co roe in five gallon! of water and odd h n pint of crude cerbolic Acid. If the epid on not be hed convenient. 1;, nee the copperee without it, sprinkle the Swords and Revolvers. nooks. This. In on. gmt reason why many poultry lulu beoomeo hiluru. S'rocx N eras. A d “Why A rettleeneke In No- bmke, steed dying developed In dro~ phobie, end bit fourteen bend of cett e, all of which died. Gunning Tomatoenâ€"I notice there ere seversl weys for conning tomstoee in tin ‘onns, end I will give 111 wey for cunning in glass cons. I do not 1i e tin cone for tome- toes, es the fruit will teke the pewter off of the tin. One can see this for herself b stewing some in tin dishes. I peel by son] - ing, out in such sized pieces ee desired, put into earthen or porcelain, and etew quite 3 little time, say twenty minutes. stirring to lee from burnin . I put them into cans whi e hot, and mi The longer they stew the better success I have in t eir keeping. I have used this plan for years with good‘ succees. "â€"w- hdf an hour, and rub alif htly before putting to boil, then the ittle mbbinp after bging boiled, 3n the clothes look w to And Washing Fluidâ€"We have used the fol- lowing for several months, and like it well: 2 lbs. of at] sodu, 1 lb. of lime, 2 gels. wa- ter, boiled together n few minutes. Let it nettle until next day. when dip off into in end keep for use. Use helf a pint of t e fluid to e boiler of clothes, tobe at in when the water is hot, n slao the c othes, well amped. We seek _cleth_ee in warm Inter (7qu pounded in a mortar and roasted on an iron lute, sugar burned on hot coals and vine rgoiled with myrrh and sprinkled on the cor and furniture of s sick room are ex- cellent deodorizers. To remove epola from carpets sud make them look fresh snd new. sdd s. tesspooniul oi smmonis and the same amount of beef- ‘ l to every .glut of water used. After rub- ing well wi this, wash in warm wster. For cleaning brass snd co per vessels kee s solution of oxslic sci A ply it witg s soft woolen cloth. being careful not tohsveit sostrong ssto burn the hsnds. ‘It issn sotivepoison sud should be kept lsbeled. Po bags, in which my srticles are sent In the Toasty store, should be saved fox-use when lscking s stove. You can slip the hand into one of those sud bundle the brush just ss well, and the bud will not be soiled, and when through with them they osn be dropped into the stove. A mm for trees sud fences, or my out-door wood-work, con be msde to stick by sdding clean grosse to the lime,when slsckening it. To a neck :1 lime use s gel- lon of grease and enough hot wster to mix well. Afterwards odd wster as needed to make it of the proper consistency to spply easily. As economical substitute for butter can be msde by melting a piece of nice fst pork and sh‘ninin it through s fine sieve or cloth into jsrs. a’hen 0001, use it instesd of but- ter. Another good substitute is beef suet, either tried out with lsrd or mixed with equal parts of lsrd when done. Some per- sons use the suet slone. Berry 3min: on the hmda and clothing can be removed by the smoke of a burning anl‘fhur mntch. Moisten the stained surface on expose it fully to the smoke, which will take effect st once. White spots can be removed from varnished furniture by pouring on t exn e few drops of alcohol and rubbing brie 1y for a few min- utes. Sometimes 5 second application is required. - Vinegar in aid to be better than ice for keeping fish. Many think. too, that the finvor of fish is improved by soaking it a little while in vineger before either boiling or broiling it. A teaspoon/”Id of kerosene in a quart of starch, of medium thickness, will keep clothes from sticking to the irons, and, be- aldes, gives a desirable gloss. ‘ Glaze the bottom crust of fruit pies with white of egg And they will not be soggy. Kid than may be kept oofl and frog from crack: by rubbing them occasionally with pure glycol-inc. Puta small piece of charcoal iii the pot when boiling cabbage, to prevent it filling §hn Inn-u... m.sl. a.|._ __.__u the house WEE rvtiagwfu-lgli: I have succeeded this winter with geran- iums in bloom since Christmas, petunias that just “ bloom," callas that delight the eyes of rs~by. But my success was s nasturtinm. Planted in e small Willow bes- ket on a bracket close to the window glass, its scarlet, sweetecented blossom have been a deily delight since February. Pink oxalis in a row of small pots make an upper ‘shelf a blaze of colour. These, too, only succeed close to the glass. An ivy geranium on a bracket is another success. Also Kenilworth ivy, and a love- ly musk plant. Try these, my amateur popular gardeners, next fall. Mske one rule and stick to it. Never buy 5 plant in bloom. If your heart yesrns to possess some lovely greenhouse dsrling, et esmnll slip snd stick to the florist tfllfime tells you exactly whet to do with it. But sag your desire to grow wonderful plants up see what you can do with common ;’ The rock thet the amateur flower lover dashes her hope. upon the soonest is to take some choice hot~houee lent in bloom when bought, And try to 11150 it grow in on or- dinnrf fitting room, and thh the small know edge she my have of its nature and treatment. . P1 Pnu ' white dudes. I low you IO. Unusual buds 01 snow. Pram! whit. dudes. I love you no. Buuuml bud. 01 snow. I-‘Ided tad wither“, [jay yng by, un.n-‘- A- _ Realms lovingly on III. bunt. Nov wd lulu my “p3,! pun-I go ”If p991- _| 99!! “ml. . ---- v..-” mu? éhiu'duuu. 1 Ion you 00. 11--.. lL-I L..)_ . mexgs P08 tux BAY meow. Housman) Hxx'rs. HOUSEHOLD. Wum Dawns. â€"â€"v â€" u-w uvv WIlI|l| |W. Ill-II lingered non, mo Msry’ I little lunb, and w uuv u . " " um“ "OHIO I" The all)? looked as Who knew, and wagged his quickly. "Go this instant," laid the mother, “ and find Nellie and bring her home.” Out over the gate flew the dog and started down the street to a neighbor's home not far off. Nellie was playing there, inside the house, and saw the dog come and scratch at a veranda window. " I know what he wants," said the little girl ; ” he wants me to go home, but I ’m not going to do it t”. The (19“ '39 not admitted, but he The other dny n Newfoundland dog was ploy on the porch with a little girl, four years 0 d. All At once ehe took 3 notion to go to e neighbor’s house, and opened the etc end went out. The dog did not follow er. Some little time afterward the child‘s mother came out discovered her absence end aid to'the do , " Where i. Nellie 2" Th0 do“ look“ I. ifhe knnw. Anl‘ warrant. “ The little fellow seemed to enjoy the novelty of the situstion end hopped sronud the lsrge tosd in whet must have been the most tentslising Insnner. The big toad wss shiverin like 3 person chilled through, sud bye-snd- epicked up the skin of the small one sud n to force it on his body. the process was s difficult one, but sitar several minutes of nnoeuing efl‘ort he stood hsbitsted in the out-oi! gsrments of his di- minutive eompsnion. If the efl'ect of the big skin on the little tosd hsd been comical, thst of the little skin on the big tosd was more so. The sleeves of the cost. so to speck, only csme hslf way down the um, and the legs of the trousers covered the ‘ toads legs ss though they had been knicker- bockers. Thebod of the gsrment was so tight thst the toe could not wqu either his legs or his arms, end he stood there the icture ot comical despsir. By-snd-bye he gen to swell himself up, snd that sppsr- ently stretched the skin, for he was sble sfterwsrd to move swsy slowl . He fol- lowed the smell toad into the {ashes in e di ified msnner, snd both disappeared. st the outcome of this curious exchange ‘ of clothin was I never knew, but the inci- ‘ dent sstis ed me that tends do funny things sometimes. 1 1 31in ‘Enrpose ind went mquEnding {mm} m o misfit gnrment exactly like a clown in a circus wearing the big baggy costume of them appen- in. one be an to shiver very pereeptibly wit the cofd. Suddenly the small toad hopped quickly to where the skin of the big o lay, 3and picking it up in his mouth hoppe way several feet. The big toed followed the pur- loiner of his cast off clothln with his eyes, and gave two or three appe lng creeks, but made no elfox-t to reespture the stolen goods. When the smell toad sew thet he wes not followed he deliberately set to work to don the skin he had taken. It took him some time to do it, but he finally accomplished Li. “n“... -_J *7 comical way toward their heads until the' had Poth pu!lod_tpemoelvec clear of them sac} ‘coats, rolling them up in “tile bells, an swallowing them, as naturalists say they do. I did witness the process of shedding the skins, but something much more singular than the swallowing incident then occurred. The day was raw and windy, as I said, and after the toads had rubbed their skins in a comical way toward their heads until thev . rnv" â€"v--â€"â€"vâ€" "fin-'5“ . “ During the struggle on the grou'nd the aknia of both toad- burnt open on the back, Ind lauppoaed I wu about to see the inter- esting process of toads tgkipgpfiithgir old _-II!,, , “A- Lâ€" Toans Excruxcmo Sxms. “No one knows the funny things toads will do.” said the Hon. James A. Sweeney, a naturalist and ex-member of the Pennsyl- vania Legislature. “On a recent cloudy day, Igor a hard rain, there wasa cool breeze lowin . I was walkln in a friend’s garden near eton when I card a pecu~ liar sound. Looking in the direction from‘ which it came, I saw two toads in an open space in the garden. One was quite large, and the other was at least a third smaller. They were both standing on their hind feet, facin each other. The large toad had its ‘four geet over on each side of the smaller toad’s shoulders; the small toad his left fore foot on the large one's right leg. As they stood in that way they uttered strange guttural sounds, as if they were discussing some subject between themselves. Sudden- ly the small toad thrust its right foot, or hand, you might call it, against the large one’s stomach, and the next instant the lat- ter threw the former to the ground, anda : lively wrestle between themhgen. . 3 (C n.._:__ A‘ 1 , v--.. _-vâ€", â€"--u mun EMU will spider and fly will provi'de us \zith n’lany a charming And interesting object for our cabinet. , V -_V-_ vâ€"‘u nu wv in“ slaw and ifesm often partially agseuring the front of on engine at night. We oen im~ sgine the feeling of horror overpowering the fly, which must have so much clearer a view of such an object than ourselves, when he views this fierce pair of eyes and dreadful body following, intent on his destruction. However, nature compensates in everything ; if there were no spiders we might be over- whelmed with flies, and,_ in anyeese, both nn:AI._ _-_-‘ fl~ 7 , To e cesusl observer s spider is not usual- ly a very sttrsctive creeture. end yet the repulsion generally felt st the sight of one, or even et the mention of its neme. is quite uneerned by the insect. There is it very greet deal of interest in wetching the mo- tions of one of these ‘ sis when he is et his use, end not frivhgned by our presence. Go into eny gerden on e June deyâ€"but choose one where the sun is bri ht, or, st any rate. when s shower is not f lingâ€"end watch one of the commonest of the species 1 â€"Epeire diedeme. There he sits in the oentm of his geometric web. ,Note the . marvellous petience with which he waits for e prey ; he mey get e victim every hour, or he me be dsys withoute morsel of food; he willy put up with whetever his fete mey be. end must often suffer the pen end us of stervetion. But suddenl hind im e fly gets enten led; es by electricity the news is convey to him, and with the quickness of thought he turns, derts end seizes the intruder. A ver few minutes suffices for the killing, perti sucking. com- plete rolling up in silken shroud, end re‘ move] out of the wey of the lifeless remeins. The eyes of all spiders ere eight in number; they ere usually mounted on prominences in the heed, so as to command a complete View ‘ in ell directions, end are arranged in e a different menner in difi'erent species of the 1 insect. This slide of the eye of e foreign 1 species shows use eepitel view of the tWo l front lenses; es we look et it under the inch object gless we ere forcibly reminded of the two lights in front of e locomotive. By lemp~ltght in the evening the enelogy is still more perfect. as the long surrounding heirs with which it'is enviro_ e_d suggest the haze -_.I :e... _. Banana STORIES 0!" ANIMAL IJI‘B. A Kxovnxo Doc. Swot or flu: Snow. An Australian exchen e uyezâ€"A nee for Chinnmen'e bones, C ineee ride", We: included in the rognmme for the lat meetin of the egetnbie Creek Jockey Club, €7ictorie, end the novelty con-ed no end oi nmneement and inherent. There were three mum, end Ah Chow’s Jim Won After his rider had truted the to- ton io u very comical exhibition oi munbip. Mn. Math: J. [Arab udvi-u women and girls to skip Inch rudingln tbs dnil newl- papen u is not suitable md clout ng, 3nd " there will still be plenty of whole-one and well~written matter left. ” There'e an eccentric old gentleman in a Connecticut town who reoentl married a aomewhat hoydeniah young w e, and who has been quoted as an awful exam le of lean, folly ever since. Shortly after re~ turn ir'om the honeymoon he waa waited on mgratnlatorily by ignite a de ntation of hie fellow-townemen an local ’ atee. He had been apprised of the in visit. and waa much annoyed that his keponae waa not on hand when the vialwu ar- rived. Enquiry elicited that her where- abonte was in the garden, and he them n invited hie gueete out to he introdn to her. As they noee to accept the invitation, hie eon, alad of M, exclaimed :â€" “ Don’t do it, dad I" " Why," he demanded an ly. “ Because," answered the y. hall apolo- getically, “ ehe is up a‘ cherry tree.” How They Makevl'arme; in Ben mark. Young men are app‘renticed to the best farmers all over the ingdom for two or ‘ three years, under the oversight of the Roy- al Agricultural Society. hey work for ood farmers for one year as learners. receiv- fiig a small sum beeides their board and lodging. At the end of the year the ap- prentice is removed to a farm in a district where adifi'erent kind of agriculture is rac- tised. The socie gives each a ren ce a number of agricu tural books at e outset, which become his property upon the com. pletion of three years. The apprentices re. port to the so'ciety at stated intervals. and- rom these reports and other records where they have worked. the society judges of their pro and grants diplomas accord- ingly. manna men must get a thorough knowledge of all kinds of practical farming, but they have to work for it. as they are hard at labor from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m., except the meal hours. The society has started the system of apprenticing youn men in the best of dairies for three men instead of three years. ‘ overseerfs. boss, perhs a mwhanic ; but the actual workâ€"the rilling, the striking, the manual labor, is done by the natives, of whom some 15,000 to 20,000 are constantly employed, and have been employed since the discovery of the fields. in constant changing relays. Every tribe in South and South- eastern Africa, meet in this vast labor ex- change. They tramp flown from regions where no white man has ever penetrated, work a few months, and plod weerily back, loaded with their modest purchases, and fill- ed with such lessons as the compounds and the canteens of Kimberley can teach. Their ‘wsges are goodâ€"now 15s. a week. A few years ego they got 30s., but the supply of lebor has overtaken the demand. and the necessaries of life are ohesper. Onl quite lately the companies have taken to ntting their natives up in large barracks or com- pounds to prevent the theft of diamonds, which took place to a ruinous extent. ,,fi -_ .â€" - -uuu. uuu ulna PIU‘ saic and Well organized as making calioos or any other industry. The doctrine of aver. ages has fixed within pretty close limits the yield of diamonds in carats per so many oubit feet of ground, and the value of the diamonds varies according to the fluctua- tions of trade. A ood harvest in America means so many ehi linga a carat to Kimber~ lay, and war rumorsor panics on the Conti- nental bourees, aend down the barometer in the diamond marketwith surprising rapidity. The individual digger has long since disap. peared, and his place has been taken by joint stock companies, whose shares era in great demand. The pick and shovel have on superseded by dynamite. Regular min- ing under ground in coming more into vo ue instead of the open quarry system which created the huge pits and chasms that as- tonish the visitor. One thing only is con- auntâ€"peculiar to the soil we tread. Now, as ever, all the manual work about the mine. is done by black labor; the white man in an The Bride Was up a Afi-ican Diamond Makinc. A3 a romantic, precarious occupation dis- mond seeking in at an end. The whole bns~ moss is rednoed to 3; system, and in as pro- ' our story. Arriving at our gentlemarf’s . place whom we knew we told him we were sorry that the hi h water would hes us from inspecting is fine swamp tim r, having qone there for that purpose. To our surprise he told us that this need not interfere inthe least, and that he had an old‘ gray mule that knew the swamps better than he or an one else, and that we could ride her and {i trouble came, whether we got lost or water-bound, we must give her the rein and she would bring us home safe: that she could walk a leg as good as a dog ; that he had on several occasions when these freshets came (his cattle being in the swamps and in eat danger of being drowned) sent his mu s after them saying, “ Jane, go bring the cows home." The mule seeming to ‘ understand. would at once start for the swamp. This mule has been known to cross a leg when it could not be seen, being two or three feet below the surface. Hav- in done so, she would proceed to herd and co lect all the cows. After that she would make aloud bra and start for the house. The cattle wouliffollow in single file across this log to their master's h‘ouse. door. An attempt was made to drive him all, but he growled nnd held on to her dress The little girl. beginning to be frightened, gave up All reeieuuoe nnd trotted home by ‘ his side. end he delivered her. in triumph, into her mother's bends. Don't. you think he wu n Aux-rt dog 2 A Mann Tin-r Kauw A THING on Two. Lat. yeer. during the heavy reins, when eVery etrenm wee swollen to ice utmost, the writer had occasion to visit one of the ewunp plantations lyln some miles below Angela on the Seven River. Upon thin hung. nnr nfnru A _-:..1_ _ - A door. ed in put them throng the door. Then, runhing up to Nollie, be seized her dun :ith lu- teeth sud began dragging _hgr withd A_ -.-A..__- 77 when two Mia and ntly, he bra-1.1 u utvul, uuu ll 38 pm‘ =5 u lflakipg caljoos or gentleman: