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aLt'-'Mai; t rarer go tfnd risk their oherisfced oM reputation far spitstalnesa. How Itof most Bmile nom» that ia, if If they ever do smile." SooogiUted Luoius; and lib little bursts <3 wioked exaltation at losing the battle rapidly gave way to ever-increas- ing doubts and fears. He was sufficient­ ly grand wigneur to remain nnerushed the Percy trouble. " Va pour le beau-frerebut the other matter seemed, as he reflected upon it, to hour­ ly contain less and less of what was sweet, and more and more of what was bitter, Granting that there is always something of rapture in meeting our soul's ideal once again, so long, that is, i as she is not on the arm of a successful 1 rival, what good could possibly come ! out of this untoward encounter ? And j for a momentary thrill, a joy that was I first cousin to a sorrow, was it worth ! while to jeopardize even such very gray- ].colored domestic felicity as now be- | longed to him? Yes, the more 1m 1 thought of it, the less he liked the pros­ pect. Visions o! strange, heart-rending ! soenes, tragic duets and more tragic ' trios, began to flit across his brain by i night and day. After all, he had suf­ fered marveloosly little for the lack of ; Miss Verulam's society since his mar- 1 riage. Indeed, this had often been a i subject of wonder to him. He was really | oomfortable enough with Amelia, and as ' t o romance, passion, ecstasy--was the * The HOT,. Lucius Fitzgerald walked up : whole thing worth while? Was he not nhd down the breakfast-room at Abbots- ' getting just a shade too old, or, to pat wtt* KM*), «b4 thus ooapel yawr •Sender maid wbo placed her baadsia J golden day when first I won that bMV matron, fst »nd thir'.y-ntne, And lot* of little msldene oall me pa! £ I» a'as! "till rtmgule biird to teaT •'2 Wlt'i my poor pay *h* inoremdnR month1?! S Jfv r* ami room aatl a kitchen n;«-t I strive to put Wile, girls--our fcabe, U»e last new thing in trills. yiebojd this hero:--bravo, andtrn*, and doaghty 1 - A tciin of y«>*r* ago, but now aU day - feuttem be rite-he's sixty-odd and goaty., v And make* no alga save «hen he draw* Ml pay. •* * ' •' Jjad thin one hero the front of battle atept ia •>.v.>T« win his straps at bloody Moutetwy; ; *as no chicken then--8till is the kept is %. , A place in which he's only In the way. > & ' Sbr, when hla company goee ont on dnty, _JHe stops at home-- he cannot walk or rl WM> work than fails oa BM, bat not only'tiris oar eeniocs Soot dlriAa. i- , „ Vitro thoae whoVe waltftd long, are waftta* still, . 'Who've waited until both heads sad hearU an • v*s, fla ask the passage of the Armv bill, • And your pebtaMonwiii ever pt«y. Mo««m $ *"*'<• * Mm, X. BONi to sMfee oat aU after tbe . d Starting otaoae. ' --^IrmyandA'aryJournal. es* oM cook FITZGERALD'S HARRIA§i£ OTaithie with his hands in his trousers pockets, jingling his money. Well, he was perhaps hardly as yet accustomed to the sound. His young wife--they had <*Jy been married six months--sat at flie table, behind the tea and coffee paraphernalia, watching him, while siie wry assiduously knitted a coarse knick- jirbocker stocking. Something had evidently produced a Ibrist in the skein of their hitherto un- tlngled bliss, for the breakfast was un­ tested, and was getting cold. " It is the first request you have re­ fused me; but I suppose you do not think me good enough for your swell ao-* fiaintanoes," said the lady at last, swal-wing a little sob. "Really, Amelia, the way you put ttrings is too ridiculous. Not good enough! Because I objected to Lady Oonstantia Verulam and her daughter being invited to Abbotscraithie. What can they have to do with you? I simply do not want them." § "Yet they were your most intimate v^lliends before your marriage." , " Perhaps I have quarreled with .,,;3|»em." "Nonsense! I saw an envelope ad­ dressed to you in Miss Verulam's suiting only a week or two ago." • " It was merely a lino of congratula­ tion. The Veruiams were abroad when Ife married." And Mr. Fitzgerald, a deep flush mounting all over his face, sat down op- I pocite his wife and began to busy him aelf by unoovering the dishes. .?-Mw«Lw die persisted, "let them eomeand congratulate you in person* Br is very ill-natured of you not to have them here. Ton know I want to find a ttioe wife for Percy, and he is oomingfor the shooting on the 10th." ; " Confound Percy 1" muttered Fitz- trald, behind his mustache. " Well, as you please; 111 make no further Opposition." And, flattering himself with the idea he had striven his utmost to do jsfehtt he now resigned himself delight- fmjto > wrong-doing. , Amelia Fitzgerald is the daughter of • north oountry manufacturer,, who left l»r many thousands of pounds in hard <NMh, with part of which Abbotscraithie has lately been purchased. It is a baud- some stone house, in the center of a fair Lowland estate, bonnie with moor and tel . Hot love ^se. Then 3 ' - ' »• it plainly, too fat and lasy, for these i fatiguing toys ? !. All this time Amelia was perfectly f happy and serene; for when Lucius was j with her he was more than ever aux petite soins; and then had sheWt gained I her own way in the matter of inviting | these Veruiams? i And they were coming, too. "Were going to pay other visits in the neigh­ borhood, and should be so delighted," Lady Cons tan tia's note had said. I For some days before they arrived i Mr. Fitzgerald had a good doal of spare | time ou his hands, with which his wife i did not interfere. She was so engrossed i in her first hospitable preparations, and | in adding touches of beauty to the some- j what hastily furnished rooms, that she I had little leisure to bestow upon her i husband. The quittance would have been, perhaps, something of a mercy at any ottier time ; but as hour after hour passed on, and the time approached nearer for the arrival of the Veruiams, Mr. Fitzgerald grew more and more de­ jected, till at last even Amelia was com­ pelled to notice it, and she inquired with some solicitude what ailed him. Of oourse he brisked up suddenly and said: "Nothing." How could he own that he either longed lor or feared the arrival oI these people? In point of fact he was absolutely beginning to dread it. "You will go and meet them at the station, Lucius ? It would be so uncivil to let them come up here all alone. Bat I think I had better stay andreoeive them in the hall; that is the way, is it not, in your world?" " Yes, yes. You always hit the right mark, lovewhich was more than he did, for he bobbed down and kissed her plump on the nose, and barely at his mistake. With this he dashed out of the room, leaving Amelia a little bit disconcerted at his ill-concealed excitement. A mo­ ment later she heard the sound of wheels, and looked out of the window. Mr. Fitzgerald, in a wibitecliapel, was going down the drive, " Gone to meet the Vernlaaurin that thing! Impossible !" cried his wiia. " I ordered th e carriage." But Lucius Fitzgerald had gone to meet the Yeralsms, and so had the bar­ ouche. He would just drive himself to the station and &ee them into it, he thought; after ail, it would only be courteous. Half past 3, and the little station at Abbotscraithie is in a state of flutter, for the train from the south is due; visitors, too, are expected up at "the house," and porters are running hither and thither, each more anxious than the other to show assiduity and attention. And natural enougn, too. Other peoole may be looking out for friends who may be false, for relations whom they may not love ; but these honest fellows are welcoming silver charms most unlikely to prove false, and of whose claims upon the heart not even skeptics are skeptical. No one, however empresse they all seem, is in so great a state of real fluster as the master of " the bouse " himself. Im- passive as he looks, standing there on the platform, his usually long, pale face just a little longer and paler than ever, his large dark eyes burning just a little more brightly in their deep setting of heavy lash. At last the bell has nmg and the trsin I»aiits with a slow dignity into the sta­ tion. Still 'Lucius Fitzgerald does not move, but leans on, as though watching to be reeognissed, against the office door. A second more and the bright color motmte to his brow, then suddenly fades away into a sort of blu j pallor. He walks forward to a carriage, but with no haste; yet, from that carriage window is li»>>irt to | gszing on him a fair jroung girlish face, a face such as even an indifferent passer­ by in a crowded thoroughfare would turn to look at; such a face as a painter might have chosen for a Galypso when looking seaward from the shores of Ithaca. It had the stamp of a blighted love upon it A busy porter opened the carriage door, and Lady Oonstantia, fat, rubicund and 50, came tumbling out, *' How do you do ?"-ing with easy familiarity. He gave his hand to the girl. 8ne did not attempt to speak as she stepped down on the pktform, though her hand seemed to linger in his just a moment longer than was necessary. Perhaps it was the whispered " My darling!" which he uttered, in a very low tone . as she stood l>eside him, which so sur- there ' prised her that she forgot to be oonven- ' tional. apart, she is a lovable ugh; yet Lucius does and for no more valid she is not somebody have married her ? The Question is only too pregnant, the an­ swer too obvious. When a mutual "friend, a match-making woman, had orst broached the subject, to him, he an- ; 4pwered at once: S^"Cau you ask ato? If the young Jfcdy is tool enough to marry me, here I ta^and let's waste no more words about Amelia Hoggins was not long from the * lool-room, and full of sweet school-room views of love. The younger son of an _ . Ave feet eleven, handsome, and ap­ parently charmed with her; what more foald she want ? j%Nbw, Lucius was no abandoned ,wretch. He was simply a young man yfrhose six or eight years of life had dis- sewed him of about double the num- of thousands which had ever belonged tern--oh, a very vulgar miracle as times go--and he had latterlj--that v|s, for the past yew or two--saddled , lx«jj«elf with a desperate passion for Bar- flfha Verulam, and which, alas, she full ^'Iratnriied. As neither of these ill -starred 1 overs h ad Svjpny money, or even a reasonable expeefc- '<" > < Ration of being left some, Lucius felt no '* v" / " sort of scruple in < ' < ' b i l l i n g A m e l i a . C a l m l y c o n s i d e r e d Pr'i'c 'i&kjimpartial observer, the transac-- ; / i-^tlon might look very like selling an es-a heavy undeclared mortgage V"To the honorable, yet impe- fL . *'r'yK ,*fjcunious, Fitzgerald, however, it appeared . ,^but in the light of that time-honored ' course, "The only thing to do, by Hf/' S " uf'< And he •ffould do his duty like a man, §fe" would. No more flirting now. > Of pS .. . r ^course, if they met much,* it would be * Jiu *wkward--deuced dangerous (with an- "by Jove!"). Well, they mustn't W '• ' f meet, that's all. You see £<ucius thought himself quite fee : a good man. I don't want to say a word r- y<v.4. ^ •g**nst him, only if he is one then there Sk, " '•• '* are plenty of good men about, that is I"-,-' • ^ •. 'M *11. So much the better that f, 4 V W: should be, of course. 7-i His young wife, though hardly off What right had he to call her "dar- ^ • "A' -i; W? s^ong character, ; ling," with Amelia sitting at home wait- r . i F J * l»r«» i for them, and in spite of the far-off P v t ' ?! that pertuumty which he had pained look in the sweet Birdie's eyes, f?3 • * turned to such good account; and she : 1 ' - " - i „ . . pours out the coffee this morning with Ife- ' fJil, * sn air of innocent triumph in her bins eyes at having carried tier point. " And so Mrs. Fitzgerald insists on taring; widow •ndhad, ^mMHypM^nttOtafcaewwasiitter- Se first lore flatts/a îtatod •o she taaigMd him, gave him with her own free wfil to Amelia, fthe had a morbid tooging to viftaaw the snooess of her work, aad had aocompanied her mother to AbbotsoraiHue, deluding her- •elf with the Idea that she would hence­ forth endure the void In her life with leas bitter pangs if she were but al­ lowed to see Lucius rich, happy and contented. So when Lady Oonstantia told her that she had received an invitation from Mrs. Fitigerald, and in her blindness and hear lore of living at other people's expense suggested that they should ao- oept it, Birdie had offered no opposi­ tion. She got into the* carriage and seated herself by Lady Constontia's aide, the maid opposite. Lucius preceded them in his cart. He had chosen wisely in leaving Birdie to her reflections for a while; furthermore, he went up the back way into the stable yard to avoid being present when Birdie an^ Mrs. Fitngerald should meet. , He could easily make an excuse for not being at his post to fulfill the cere­ mony of introduction. Perhaps, even in the abstract, ho was right, although his action, or rather inactien, in the matter was due on this oocasion solely to his inclination. Where persons are bound nolens TO- lens to make themselves acquainted the formality of an introduction is verf like­ ly better omitted. At all events, in this instance the affair passed off oomfortably enough, and the impression on all sides was favorable. But this fact by no means tended to mend matters as far as danger wa» concerned, and Miss Veru­ lam was too wise and too honest to de­ ceive herself into a contrary belief. When a woman allows herself to tore a married man, she may tell her eon- scince that every fault from the wife pal­ liates her guilt; but she must be moral- Iv blind indeed if she imagines that all the qualities of all the angels centered in the wronged one would ever have weighed with her in the indulgence of her unlawful passion. There was something artless--an evi­ dent desire to like and be liked--about the woman in possession wbich went straight to the Birdie's heart and dis­ armed her --disarmed her df any ill-feel- ing against Lucius' wife--thai is to say --no more. " This is the first time I have ever met any really great friends of my husband," said Amelia, pouring out the tea, " and you don't know how I have been looking forward to your coming." Lady Oonstantia demand herself de­ lighted to be there but the journey-- " Oh, that railway carriage 11 thought I should have died of heat apoplexy, and that horrid ©Id-young man--ridiculous creature^ he must have been 50 at least --would insist upon having the windows up all the time, and Birdie would not snub him. Why would yon not. Birdie ? Oh, he was good looking--very, bat not my style; in fact, quite ona of the 'have beens.'" She was something of a rattle, was her Ladyship, and not over-particular about being listened to. This the'Bir­ die had long since ascertained. At that moment she was dreamily contemplat­ ing Amelia. " How a man might love that sweet little woman, if she hod only got the first chance of him t " was the mental ejaculation. Dinner that night was a not altogether successful attempt at being festive. Percy had arrived just before, and, de­ cidedly second-rate as were his jokes and geueral behavior, more tban one of those present felt grateful to him for keeping up the conversation, his brother- in-law, perhaps, the most of all. Next day two or three men, invited by Lucius for shooting, put in an appear­ ance, and the master of Abbotscraithie, in doing the honors to his male friends, avoided on all possible occasions being brought into anything like close com­ panionship with the ladies. Only he would look at Birdie sometimes with such a longing, wistful look in his large, flaming eyes that it made the girl more than once creep away up to her room, and'send the excuse of a headache, in­ stead of reappearing at dinner. Mean­ while Amelia saw nothing, except that Percy's attentions were received by Miss Verulam with ©old disJain^ and that Lucius looked sadly wearied and jaded, which she entirely ascribed to his hav­ ing overwalked himself shooting on the moors. Thus a week passed, and Birdie suggested to Ladj Oenstantia that it was time they took their leave and went to the house of some other friends; but Lady Oonstantia was comfortable and contented in luxurious Abbotscraithie, and she would not be hustled. Birdie must endure her torture a little longer. She had gone out alone one lovely September afternoon, taking a volume of Shelley to dream over, not to read. In Birdie's frame of mind all the lines were one blurred mass, all the words were indistinct. She sat down in a little arbor that had been built at the edge of a wood, hanging over ss. extensive Ticsr of heathery moor, and there, till the dressing-bell rang, she felt she could weep and think in peace--at least, so she hoped; but a quarter of an hour had scarcely passed away when she heard a man's footstep approaching the arbor, and she almost sprang up, with a little frightened cry. Not Lucius, no not Lucins, then alone; she could not bear it. It was Percy, and she sank bade into her seat as though relieved from a great fear. Not that she wanted Percy's com­ panionship--far from it; and had he been a man of the world and a gentle­ man her monosyllabic replies would speedily, have induced him to pursue his way to the house. But Percy, like his sister, was not easily daunted; he could not understand the word "no" unless it wms written in very plain letters be­ fore him, and he actually had tbe audac­ ity, though he had nevt r received at any time the most remote encouragement,, to supplant Lucius in her hlja^ te wrok; lw was pla>Mi7to call the arbor willatatattotLe* word, walking rwpidiy aloogito path toward the house, when he was abont half way some sound attracted his attention ana ha looked around. Lucius, strolling back, gnn in hand, and alone, had readied the arbor and stopped; another' second and he had pa*-««d iiis tle and ont nt v *v. "So--i«o, my lady! 'Please leave me; I would rather be alone I' Of oourse you woqld. But you will not carry on your little games at Abbots- erafthie if I can prevent it" In less than Ave minutee Amelia, fore­ warned by Percy, was creeping along through the buanwood to the back of the arbor, in order to learn, if possible, herself unheard, something of what was going on between her husband and Birdie Verulam. " I would never have oome if I had known; but, oh, Lucins, I thought I could have borne it. Why did yon let her invite us?" " My darling, I did my utmost to pre­ vent it; but she was very positive, and I •--•well, you bade me marry her, and I-- well, you see, I did not think yon would care so veiy much." " Oh, Lucius, I should have made no sacrifice for you if I had not really cared, but I thought I was braver. It only Lady Oonstantia would be persu*- ded to take me home " " My poor, poor, sweet love. Birdie I" was all the mau could murmur. There was no consolation to offer now. " You must not kiss mo, Lucius--well, only this once, my love. Now go. I can not stand it if you stay longer--I can not indeed. Beside, it is not right to yourself or her." He took her in his arms for a moment, m ft* 10th to Ouun ehopped «traw, old or mm, i§ the baa! atttarial lor mulching straw­ berries aad other ]ianta. Am noBNau «nr ta generally aa in­ ferior milker. An animal with a placid, ruminating disposition yields the most milk. LAST year the average yield of sugar from beets in Germany was on* per cent, higher tban the year before--the effect of a warm season. IN NORWAY fish is used to a consider­ able extent as food fer cattle, and in a book on Ioeland, published over one huudred years ago, the use of fish foif feeding cows is mentioned. STANDARD Peruvian guano contains 8 per cent of nitrogen, 4.8 of solu­ ble phosphoric acid, 5.1 of reverted phosphoric acid, 5.1 of insoluble phos­ phoric acid and 3.1 of potash. HKNS sit 19 to '24, generally 21, days; turkeys and peafowls, 26 to 29 days; geese, 28 to 33 days; ducks, 28 to 32 days; pigeons, 18 days from last egg; canaries, 13 days from steady sitting. Tirs time occupied in digestion in cat­ tle and sheep is comparatively long. It has been found by numerous observa­ tions that, after a sudden alteration of the feeding, the remnants of the former fodder are still recognizable in the exere- alents for as many as five days. * A NEW YOHK farmer prefers apples to roots for feeding stock. While the ap­ ples may not be more nutritious, he think they are medicinal in effect. He thinks a horse would do better with a peck of oats a day and apples than with twelve quarts without apples. He pre­ fers sweet apples, as sour fruit sometimes makes the teeth sore. THE highest bred cows, it must be re­ membered, are not often the best milkers and often the ugliest looking cow in the left on her lips one more forbidden herd yields the most milk. Good milkers burning kiss, and was gone--not toward ! invariably show very angular outlines, the house, but down the hill on to the for it cannot be expected the cow should moors, where, with nature reigning in wild beautjy all around him, he could fight uncludden with his raging love. In th© arbor, for a long space, the soft, buzzing, lazy summer sounds were disturbed by Birdie's sobs; while out­ side, with nothing between them but the thin, bark-covered wooden partition, sat Amelia on the ground among the under­ wood, her head on her knees, which were surrounded by her clasped hands. She heard it all ana was thinking it over bit by bit What should she do? The future, which but an hour ago seemed so bright to her in Lucius Fitzgerald's love, had suddenly become dimmed by a mist which looked eternak She could not aee through it; it was thick as that which gathered about the summit of her own north oountry hills. Still she must try and see through it; and as she sat there motionless, listening to the sobs within, and thinking more earnestly than she had thought in her life before, a depth of feeling was awakened in Amelia's heart for which no one who knew her only in the light comedy of life would have given her credit She was the first to move--very carefully lest Birdie should hear--and go slowly to the house. She met Percy at the door. " Well, what waa up in the arbor?" " Nothing. I believe you purposely sent me on a wild-goose chase. Lucins has gone down toward Bnbnrn's farm." What an invaluable article is stupidity in the proper place! Two hours later the husband and wife met at dinner. Birdie had one of her usual bad headaches. No one eoukl have guessed that Amelia had learned the %' truth ; only, perhaps, Lucius noticed that she was even more tender and womanly in.ber manner than she had ever been before. For many days Birdie lay ill up-stairs in a darkened room. Amelia never in­ truded herself unbidden into the sick girl's presence, but all that love could think ot and attention carrv out she gave to Birdie, and #vith no demonstrative outbursts. Nor did she ever tall Lucius that she knew aught of the past, but helped him quietly with soothing tender­ ness to bear the anxiety and irritability produced by Birdie's illness. Amftlin had seen her way through the mists, and the road along which she had elected to travel was that of patient sympathy. As months passed on and' time cicatrized the wound in Lucius' heart that destiny had made, was not much of its healing due to the woman who loved him well enough to bear silently, and un- murmuringly her share of the burden with which he was so heavily Weighted? Birdie Verulam had never married. She went abroad with Lady Oonstantia for a while; on her return she studiously avoided all meeting with Lucins, and pointedly refused to pay another visit to Abottscraithie; but she is always on friendly, almost loving, terms with Amelia, who scarcely ever undertakes any scheme of importance without first 'consulting Birdie.--Tinaley's Magazine. •m •M m:* which should have thrust the word back unspoken into his heart? It did not bring a glad look into her face, as " dar­ ling "uttered by Lucius Fitzgerald six Lftdv V«ml<.«r««\r "u i mouths ago would have* done. All the f daughter being j sunshine and joy had died out of Birdie "" ' " Verulam's life since then. She turned awav from him and spoke to her maid about the luggage, as though seeking | refuge in a triviality. Why had she I come to Abbotscr<titbie ? Even Amelia, had she been at the station that day, | could not have failed to notice that j Birdie Verulam had been to Lucius in 1 the past what every law of honor for- j bade that she could ever be still in the | future. Like Lucius, Birdie was accoin- , plishing her destiny; like Lucius, she ; had a firm belief in her own strength. 1 How utterly weak they both were per- Bather Curious Law in England. A British Member of Parliament, Mr. Macfarlane, has been comparing some of the sentences recently inflicted upon offenders of various grades, and h« has < reached the conclusion that, in the eyes j ef British law, it is a much lighter of- : KM, i-u kick a woman to death than to pick her packet. A man who kicked his I wife to death was sentenced to six weeks' [ hard labor, and in the month following a j man who had picked a woman's pocket, of nine shillings was sentenced to penal j neg^ude for ten years. Nor are these ! exceptional cases. The penalty in a ! ease of knooking down a wife and kiok- i ing her savagely in the face was three j months' hard labor ; for knocking down I and kicking a woman, a fine of £A; for j trying to kill a wife with a razor, being | a second offense, twelve months. Against j these are set such sentenoes as for steal- [ ing ooals to the value of two shillings, eight months' hard labor; for stealing a | watch, five years' penal servitude. It would be interesting to inquire how ! much of this scandalous leniency to j brutes is dne to the ancient tradition that ] makes a man's wife his. slave. But it | does not appear necessary that the I woman attacked should be the man's ! wife in order to give him practical im- be yielding a large quantity of milk and putting plenty of flesh upon her bones at the same time. IF ONLY one crop of grass is to be ob­ tained, probably the best time for cut­ ting is usually when the plants are just beginning to blossom. At this time a larger crop is obtained than if cut earlier, while the digestibility is not seriously impaired. It is during the ripening of the seed that the most extensive changes in this respect occur. If a high, nutria tive value is desired rather than qman- tity, of course a still earlier harvest would be in place. LAMBS do best upon good pasturage. If fed in tbe stall they must receive only the best and tenderest hay. If* the lat­ ter is even slightly too coarse or is un­ palatable from any cause, such as unfa­ vorable weather during its making, the animals will not eat a sufficient quantity and will be much retarded in their de­ velopment. Even hay of average qual­ ity requires the addition of grain, best of oats, or of some other nitrogenous feeding-stuff. A PRACTICAL gardener gives the follow­ ing brief statement of his mode of rais­ ing green peas: "For a succession he formerly planted two weeks apart, but the late plantings had small crops and mildewed pods. He now plants all at one time, and as early as the season will permit, using early and late varieties. When planted deep the plants continue longer in bearing and endure the drouth. He plants early "sorts six inches deep and the late oneB rather deeper. For this depth it is, of oourse, necessary that the soil be loose and porons. A MEMBER of the Oneida Community, writing on the importance of mulching fruit trees and plants of every kind, says l£hat he mulched a row of the Franconia raspberry, and also one of the Philadel­ phia, side by side. Th© effect was very marked. While the Franconias, which were jiot mulched, were literally scorched and the leaves crumpled in the sun, the row which received the mulching carried through nearly double the crop of fruit. The material used for mulching was old, half-decayed buck; wheat straw, eto. M. ©OFFART says: " We must dude that maize ensilage in tbe m&t of retaining water is a well-balknce food, since it furnishes to animals, in^ most suitable proportions, food and drink. Each one of my ensilages m be regarded as an immense cylinder,'and its covering of plank, a gigantic piston ; the heavy substances with which I load the plank act as a motive power, causing tli© piston to descend and compress the ensilage, leaving between the planks an outlet for the air, which the impression is intended to drive out. THE Westphalian hams, the most cel­ ebrated in Europe, are principally cured at and exported from Hamburg. The smoking of these is performed in exten­ sive chambers, in the upper stories of high buildings. Some are four or five stories high, and the smoke is conveved to these rooms from fires in the cellar through tubes, on which the vapor Is ooadenaed and the heat absorbed, so that the smoke is both dry and eool when it comes in contact with the meat The hams are thus kept perfectly dry and acquire a color and flavor unknown to those smoked in the common method. THB soya-bean is a half-pea, half-bean in appearance, with singular leaves and pods. It is a prominent article of food among the Chinese and Japanese, and within a few years has come into culti­ vation in Europe, and whether grown in China, France or Hungary, it maintains the same fixed characteristics in its chemical composition. It has been pronounced by agricultural chemists to be the richest of all human food. James J. H. Gregory says it is hardy and pro­ ductive, and ripens as far north as cen­ tral Massachusetts. The plant yields leaves and stems more abundantly than the cow peas of the South, and may prove superior to them in value for fod­ der purposes. THE time at whieh hay is made is of the greatest importance, as the young 1 plant always contains a larger per cent of albuminoids and less crude fibre than when they are at a more advanced stage of growth. Oxen were fed at Mockern, in Germany, with clover cut before flowering, May 20; then with clover make Miss Verulam a formal tender of : munity. In a case of violent assault | cut after flowering, June 7 and June 20, to*! '<•- mvited," mused her .husband. "The v*. ' *,eruJLams of people in the world! k- fot fercy. too I As if Birdie Verulam " <as sbe was familiarly called, her real name being Bertha,) would marry P«r- • ; «y I" • * l*®roy is Amelia's brother, older than •she is by four or five years. Rich, of course, Huggins Senior left his thou­ sands equally divided. But the son had not acquired any of that gentleness and good breeding which seemed to have come to the sister as if by magic. In Lucius Fitzgerald's mental phrase, " He is an insufferable young cub, talking j haps they both discovered with startling slang by the yard, and only fit to herd \ reality as they stood aide by side on the trith baigmen and shop-boys." Abbotscraithie platform. Yet he is his brother-in-law, must Lady Oonstantia was Birdie's step- his hand and possessions, looking quite surprised, too, when she got up and told him that she regretted he' had made so great a mistake, such an alliance being impossible. - " Impossible I" he repeajbed# "fin- possible that you should ever care for me ? " And Percy, whose belief in himself was immense, looked at her in absolute as­ tonishment Under happier auspices Birdie would have laughea. As it was, she turned from him with a sort of diî ust merely saying very quietly : " Please leave me, I would rather be alone." A hot flush rose into Percy's face as she spoke. This son of tbe people im­ agined that Birdie, being the daughter of a great house, was flouting him, rfhd he resolved to be revenged. Poor Birdie! Of the social chasm that lay between them she never thought; upon a woman in the street, the ruffian was fined forty shilliugs, and in another sase where three men ill-treated and killed a woman they were imprisoned, one for sixteen months and the others for six months, while a man who stole a knife and some keys got five years. All this seems to show that the equal pro­ tection of English law is not meant to extend to women.---Philadelphia Timet. SAID George Eliot: "Ohildhood has no forebodings; but then it is soothed by fact might no memories of outlived sorrow." You see, George never had any children, and didn't know. Where's the boy of 10 who hasn't the memory of outliving the sor­ row caused by the old man's trunk strap, when he £ut a wet sponge in the old man's boot tnat squirted water dear up the old man's leg? And hasn't the boy forebodings when he thinks tbe old man suspeots aim of patting tar on his hair brush? oUtarf early fee soil for jfhioh, if sown Jfcely, wfll us niall' 'sMees •heady growing, and supersede coarse grasses and noxious weed* After tbe seed is sown the land should be carefully rolled. It ia always a sound practice to sow these seeds upon a thick top-dressing of any decayed material mixed with good soil. The earlier the seed is sown the better, as the old grass will protect the young from frost HOUSEHOLD HELPS. »ad clovers) " to loijeen CI WW|' occupythe the AWE IENI0Y HM Burr** SOOTCH.--Butter Scotch, the children's favorite, is made of one cup of butter, one cup sugar, and one cup of molasses. Boil until it hardens in oold water. Then spread it thinly in pans, and mark it in little squares or diamonds. STEAMED JOHNNTCAKK.--Beat one des­ sertspoonful of sugar with two eggs; add two teaspoonfuls of buttermilk, half a teacupful of sweet, rioh cream, two even teaspoonfuls of soda, or enough to sweeten the buttermilk, a little salt, one cupful of flour, and meal to thicken. Steam from one and a half to two hours. COFFFK CAKE.--One cup of sugar, one cup butter, one egg and one cup molas­ ses well mixed together; then add one cup strong warm coffee with a teaspoon- fol of soda dissolved in it, four cups of flour, one pound of raisins, stoned and chopped fine, ono tablespoonful each of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. STEAMED GRAHAM BREAD.--Two eups of Graham flour, one egg, one table-! spoonful of melted butter, three-quarters, of a cup of molasses, two teaspoonfulsl of baking powder. Steam for an hour and three-quarters; eat while warm ; cover with a heayy cloth when you take1 it from the steamer ; the crust will be- more tender if this is done. . HTVTS ABOTTT T? -- If you to avoid having all the raisins you put in a pudding sink to the bottom, follow this rule: Cook the raisins in a little water on the top of the stove ; then, when the pudding is half done, stir the raisins in. They will be evenly distributed through it, and there will be plenty of time for the crust to form on the top of the pud­ ding. Mius PORRIDGE.--Milk porridge can be varied so that an invalid will not tire of it soon. Put a dozen raisins in about two cups of milk, boil for five minutes ; they will flavor it agreeably, though they are not intended to be eaten. A little nutmeg can be added, or the white of an egg beaten light may be stirred in just after the milk is taken! from the stove. PUFF PASTE.--Mix one pound of flour,; one ounce of butter and the juice of one lemon into a firm paste with ice-cold water. Let it stand an hour. Boll it out thin and lay over it one pound of butter in thin slices, fold over the paste from each side, roll it up into a ball, and roll out quarter of an inch in thickness. Fold over in three layers and lengthwise in three folds. Let "it lie half an hour. Bepeat the operation, let it lie ten min­ utes and repeat the roMing. When used for pies and tarts, rub over the top with a feather dipped into sweet milk. ORANGE PUDDING.--For orange pud­ ding or custard cut five or six oranges in smul pieces, place them in a pudding dish, and sprinkle one coffee-cup of sugar over them; make a boiled custard of one pint of milk, the yolks of three eggs, half a cup of sugar and a teaspoon- ful of cornstarch; pour this over the orange after the sugar has dissolved; make a meringue of the whites of the eggs with three tablespoonfuls of pow­ dered sugar beaten in; put this over the custard, and set in the oven to brown. If the oranges are very sweet less sugar can be used. GOLDEN EGGS.--Eggs are invaluable in an impromptu dinner, and golden eggs are not only very nice but very pretty. 'Boil some eggs thoroughly hard, then cut them in halves, and place them yolk downward upon a deep dish ; a glass one if it is strong enough to bear heat, is more enticing; ranged carefully in rows, like little white mounds. A sauce is made by frying an onion with curry pow­ der and adding stock, thickening it and straining it over the eggs. This pretty dish should be accompanied by boiled rice, but should not be garnished with it, as the bordering of rice takes away from the light appearance of the eggs in contrast with the golden gravy. BICE FOR DESSERT.--Bice for dessert is very nice when prepared in this way: Wash half a cupful of rioe, add to it ft large half-cup of sugar, a dessertspoon* fill of salt, one quart of milk, and some grated nutmeg. Set it in the oven t<t bake, stirring it from the bottom every, few minutes with a long-handled spoon. When the rice is cooked so that it is per­ fectly soft, stir in half a teacupful of corn-starch, which yOu have rubbed smooth in a little oold water. If amjr brown crust has formed on top, remove it before you put in the corn-starch; This is suitable to serve oold for tea, of warm for dessert Send it to the table in cups or glasses, with a spoonful of jelly or jam in each cup. FOK SALE BY ALL DRimOÎ TS. 8' Above is an exact portrait of s MRS. SARAH J. VAN BURENpv DISCOVXRKR OF -- LADIES'TONiC A preparation which it wuqualed f«r Purifying tkt Blood and Timing , Up the FewtaU SysUm. lABin' Tome U prepared t>y Mrs. Van BurM, at Ma Franklin St., "Buffalo, N . Y., and has beea Med MiccessfuUy by ladies for years, It is a turt curt forkll Female Complaints, Low Fever, Agua, Scrofula, Sick Headache, and «// wcakoeoes eaued by those irregulari{ies which are so com­ mon to womankind. This is no Patent Mtdicitu, Kilt is prepared by Mrs. Van Bureri,after years N experience, and recommended by her, as she kaiow5i ic wilt give new life to any broken-dowa, WOra-out or over-worked member of her sex. Wivss AND MOTHERS need something to aaeiat ' Mature in holding her own under the constant strain which is constantly dragging them dowm. Mrs. Van Buret answers all letters ^w. Sottd tor Circulars. For talc by Druggists. Price, per hottlo. they digested respectively 71 per cent,, 65 and 59 per cent of the albuminoids, I and 51 per cent., 47 and 40 per cent of t the crude fibre. The digestibility of ! the extractive carbo-hydrates was not | greatly affected. At Hohenheim the same effect was noticed in feeding sheep with clover cut at four different periods; the proportion of digested albuminoids falling from 75 to 59 per cent., and that of crude fibre 60 to 89 per cent Many other experiments showing the same l>e adduced. The greater digestibility of aftermath is undoubt­ edly due to the more or less tender con­ dition of the nutritive principles. THOUSANDS of meadows and up-land pastures are producing less than half the quantity of hay and feed which the land is capable of, from a deficiency of plants of those kinds which %re most produc­ tive and suitable for the soil. In many cases great improvements can be effected by merely sowing renovating seeds Why Named "The Thunderer.9* In an interesting work entitled "Eng­ lish Journalism and the Men Who Have Made It," Charles Peabody tells the tale in regard to the naming of the great British paper : " There was no writing in the press in those days (1830-40) like Edward Ster*' ling's--nothing to be compared with it in boldness, freshness, point, and vigor. It was the thundering of Jove; and, in fact, it was the writing of Edward Ster» , ling that gave the T<me» the name of ' 'The Thunderer.' The story runs thaif Sterling began one of his articles in thiif ' i style : ' When we thundered the day be» fore yesterday.' And the I'imes hence»; forth, halt' in mockery, half in admira» tion, came to be called * the Thunderer.* Captiiiu Sterling was the Thanderer, an<l^' Ceil vie has giveu us a picturesque sketch, of tlie Thuuderer at work. 'At 1 in thi morning, when all had vanished into sleep, his lamp was kindled' in his' library; and there, twice or thrice a week, for three-hours' space, he launched his bolts, which next morning were to shake the high places of the world.' The whole country listened to the voice of the Thunderer, and generally recognize® { its own voice in the voice of the f'imeK- This is 'what the multifarious Babet^ sound did mean to say in clear words-* this, more nearly than anything else and it waa because Sterling did this, and did it so well, that the Wines beoamf̂ the power in the world at the time, v , Tirana is a proposition to pass a law making it an indictable offense for an individual to send out a Polar expedi­ tion, unless he goes himself. 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