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JESSIE IN TEE FANE.
' The Hold* aro olovei-laJen.
Thu bos* are on tho win*,
As J caste, loveliest maiden.
Does jrayly aaunti rinif
Mown tho breezy tano.
The merry birds around tier sin*.
Nor warble they In vain.
For Jesslh'a heart is tunod to son*.
As through the lane she moves along.
She loves the purpl<- clover,
The drone of hurrying bees,
The songs that Heat alstve bor,
The blossom-scented breeze
That niffs her sunny hair;
For Jessie's maiden heart's at ease,
(til touched bv love's sweet yields cars,
And finds dear Mother Nature
A thousand joys in wood and fluids.
And now einong the grasses.
Along the verdurous way,
Sweet Jessie alowly (mason.
And all the green array
Scans four-leaved keenly, If clover perchance
A mystic Howard glance. spray
her eager
In vain! not o'en her magic eyes
Can lure to view the fateful prize I
But see! one comes to greet her.
In sober homespun clad.
Why grows the prospect sweeter?
And why, with sinlle so glail.
Lights up h'-r glowing face?
Wor ho Is but a rustic lad.
And she—a queen In gran ;!
Ah, that's a secret who can tell?
But Jessie likes her laddie well
Bow side by side together
They saunter down the lane.
How lovdly is the wreath r!
How fair the bloomy plain,
Swept by the siimincr turl
And Jessie, ore they turn agiiln.
Knows why they seem so fair;
For, looking fora four leaved clover.
Her maiden heart has found- a lover.
—Hamer’* 1 Vteklu.
A Cold Welcome.
West Chester gossips have been wag¬
ging their tongues at a lively rate dur
Ing the last few days discussing the sen¬
sational reappearance of William Sny¬
der, who, slier an ah cnee of thirteen
years, like Enoch Arden, lie seeks the
wife whom ho deserted and finds that
ehc is wedded to another, Mrs. Hart
man Sylvester, of No. 215 Patton’s row,
is tho lady in question. While attending
to her duties as j an i tress of the Court¬
house, the other day, a bronzed and
•boulder, bearded stranger anil, turning tapped round, her she on tho
was
confronted by the man with whom sho
first contracted matrimonial relations
nearly twenty years ago. During all
tho years he has been absent she never
heard a word from him, and long ago
•he gave him up as dead. She looked
him squarely in the fan**, and as he low¬
ered Ins eyes ho nervously asked :
“Are you Mrs. Hartman Sylvester?” Sti)(jlor?”
“ I am. Are you William
the “I lady quickly William interrogated. Snyder, anil I have
am
come to ask your forgiveness,” tho long
lost one plaintively answered.
The meeting was not at all a pleasant
one. Mrs. Sylvester readily gave her
first husband to understand that she had
procured a divorce; had married a man
more congenial lo h >r tastes, who acted
as a husband and father should, and
that if he (Snyder) attempted to dearly break
up her happy homo he would pay
for it. Aft. r being thus apprised without Sny¬
der settled down to business any
more delay, lie told Mrs. Sylvester
that he was about to wed n woman in
Boston, where he had been living ever
•ice ho shook the dust of West Chester
off his feet, and that he was anxious to
ascertain if shu would prosecute him if
he did so.
“ I always hated you. I hate you now
worse than a blaoksnako,” spoke up the
incensed Mrs. Sylvester. “I don’t care
wh it you do, sii you leave me and mine
alone. Why should you come hereto
worry my husband and myself. Go
marry anybody imr you better please; but 1 hope slid
you will treat than you
me.”
Without m <ro ado Snyder hastily un¬
locked a small snohel which he had with
him, and instantly placed wife pen draw and ink
before his astonished to up an
agreement not to bother him if he mar¬
ried again. Mrs. Sylvester sent for her
husband to oonsult him before doing
this. When ho arrived he was intro¬
duced to Snyder. The latter advanced
and shook Sylvester warmly simply scowled by the
hand, but he, however,
at assented the newly-made his wife acquaintance, drawing lie
to up ti.o
agreement proposed by Snvder, provid¬
ing the latter agreed to leave West
Chester immediately and never lived return
Belong as he proving (Sylvester) acceptable there. all
The-e terms trio to
hand-, the soon settled the whole
inm.-, ami Snyder htir/iedly replace!
I,; his I in his saeliel -iml to .k
den inuie rh ibiv •! id'dii lie left We-l
<’hcs*er ii.'j, ’ 11 ' es’tin for Ids home iu
1 111 a wc.i .,„ni lept 1 i i(l u
l'.'! 'V r u“ r ,, [ \i7 , , ^v'VcV.w^lciai-v ' ! ,- 7 , ;
other d.iv found | M. S. Ny .verier bust .a
sown . Willi' a .«? “ ' ' p '. * N ‘' ‘ A, ‘
fl ixen-liairod youngsters, ehr Iron bv
licr second Husband Un I«n; |i!t'".'.
to tell ,, the , story winch has -a w. d -o
mm'i un. i ; i ilutt I.. xu_ t.ie ...d,. s.t ».
“i hie in tut in June, D-d. tv. tuned to
»m h"i:: HI Ill's CUV from a visit to mv
sister a: t oatst .he. As ,v> -u :t> I onto e
the lumse 1 called for Mr. Snvder. but
he d-d not answer. 1 he first thing that
»t!i\u"".l my a;:cn‘t"i was the .vt,.,.
ev.eo* oeimarniire, w.v.ch had be cn
taken Ofl the wa. . I i.ien > d th-ongh
tho house ami discovered that ad mv
husband s clothing had be n earned
off. l instantly suspected what had oo
curred. I ransa xed the house from
top to bottom, hoping to timl a note
from him, but vrithmit suceoss. When
Itound that he had really gone l con
eluded that tt w.inld result beiieho.allv
to me. lor during tlu> six years 1 lived
with him l never spent a happ.y day.
1 married him when I was bit sixteen
year, old. and had only known him two
weeks, so while we wore together l ha 1
plenty o' tuna to repent the folly of our
h:t-:y marriacje. 1 wo alter he
disappeared, ami l app.u*'Mo uie cosine I
for a divorce, and wa* trr:v\.» 1 one.
never heard & wn".I fr im liun since the
nieht he deserted me. and s I e -nclnuetl
ho was d ad ■ !is;1 ;
bylvosiwr, by whom l bad three chil
dren, and with whom l have been hv
mg happily ever since. I hope that
Mr. Snyder will never cross my path
again, for I have been worried enough
since h.si visitthe other day. I >a
delpAw Record.
-The fifth Rothschildg : rl is to marry
the Prince of Wagram. She is very
homely, but her | ! ain no ss is eoncei’cd
bv a dowry ot 8-'“.”'’
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Spend As Aon Go.
There is one lady in New York who
does not intend waiting until her death
to distribute her wealth for benevolent
purposes, only to have herself, like the
fate Miss liurr, shown up in court as a
vile and dirty miser, her old clothes arid
broken furniture exhibited as proof and of
her squalid and menial existence,
her intelligent capacity to give her
money away denied by the heirs and re
latives, who think it should come to
them instead of going to religious and
charitable < bjects
Miss Catherine Wolfe is credited with
disbursing in the last ten years $2,000,
000 of the large estate left bv h< r
Oil her. .she has given it to a score ■ f
insiitutions and societies, but all of the
most practicable and useful kind; to a
home for incurables; to a newsboys’ ...
lodgings , , , house; , to . Union ~ >1 „ e
, n
the education of p>»or and deser mg
young men from the South; to » school
for girls in Colorado; to an enterp .
of Christian socialism or communism on
[/mg Island ; to the flection of a mi 1 -
ing in connection with Grace Church, of
which she is a member, mainly and devo e
to club rooms for voung men young
women, where clerks, art students,
teachers and others living in lodgings
may find the best current literature,
music, bright, cheerful and elegant
club-rooms, bauii-rooms, writing-rooms, whose
etc., for the use of members,
dues (25 cents n month or *2 50 a year)
are so small as to be a burden to no one,
and tie , imlingo .. ..
yet preserve s, - -
Mpeet which relucts at using a dole; ana
where, though the club-house adjoins a
church, no religious tes ■* are cx,u.,. ,
nor, indeed, any question askci as o > s
bchef or denomination , o e
Metropolitan Museum of Ait, a >
church of which she is a mem it. ,
the addition of costly and
specmiensof ecclesiastical art andarchi
lecture, unexampled m tins country.
Ibis lies been done umior h« i >'tx n
immcdialcsupervision, sh ) i ■
ami catholic taste; a shicwd, p <
sen-e; a want of ngo i j an * « '
prejudice, and securing to her the pecu
liar but enviable pleasure o .. ■ ;
bounty eniovod ant m 8 °
realized while she is he ™. a ' n ^ ! ‘°
gather all the luxury of bom 0 honored,
loved ana adnureu.
I pleasure which the ,
he greatest ven
erablc l eter Cooper, now appro,t, t tig
a century of existence, derives from life
is the love and gratitude, shown tho deference, him when
homage and affection
he visits his Institute an s 111
rounded by scores of admiring _ pupils, ., of
hiitli sexes that are the recipients of hn
bounty, and are learning art and science
mid practical nff.nrs >v means of
schools and endowed. professorships It said his that wealth
Right long ago this spectacle h touched til(
»f so '
Munibilitiesof a hundred nullionane one
dyv and t do hat likewise. he was almost I ulviokily peisuadi for him d to an „o t
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othms, when he go u 11 '
spasni (>f generosity and liuman sympa
thy passed off, and lie sot hun-,elt at
work again to pile up higher an already
huge forluni'. But men ns mornen .11 _v
weakness was aniple proof of the genu
ineiiest of t he scone he li id w itnessed
Mr. Reuben .spunger, of Cmcmnati,
.s another of the benevolent givers who
Sir Cft! inveriments S for other ‘ people’s
bemifit. lbs rich gifts to h,s fellow
citizens have made him the idol of the
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Some New Arithmetical Problem*,
A Wisconsin school teacher lmd nine
locn scholars and she ligurcd up at the
end of throe im uths that she had lie
>' ' s '"*''** "" U ." A1 ‘
l “" . tie-' <>'.ic not received seventeen ,
® *and that dtree of the girls d
" v l ‘ ,;li,v!v - how many . ekm -d
eo of the ot - unv'ive
The atom .;e fisherman get« four nib
»>!• si" on - bdc. iml three biles to a
!.>:i, and half h - d, are w-t worth
0:1 ' ■' ,i ””' ' v this ran- how liieg
u M; , e . .-;:ent::;t. to exlaud the
"\\}\ »*. • tls mill do«r
, .. :; u„ man chip in
four, nt-apie'e ml purchase a sponge
, ,, m hi - birth-day 1‘iie as em
j, d 1\ He. eer
la :,, lets himself loo-eon the donors
. n ( ... „!,.■* s head to the
> I.. Uow niueli is each
A vo in ; i.mivw ag'-rs titty cents that
., . , : rfd! intoh;-m mth.
atl(i lu . wi# , , itP A ser .eon charges
],. in - ; f or ■ urs’ w« k n remov
j AVhat was ;hc exact ga’n in.le
iu [ r >mart ;>
A man pars '; tiftv cents extra to take
lau hil) „ w ,j P having a tooth
p,,'];.,!. ' W(>|1 t !u , dentist tx-uhlliave and without pulled
;|s a „ otu> auv
^ How mu .'h did the ptieut
k bt , h , : ,., v 0: h , hr J
n „. oaU ,„ s.Va school girl costs
K Uer * hool-bovT;s;
J . t as mu , as s tie
t . she (1 ,. vollrs oost more than her
, Than it -on>; her iee-enam vests
nil ; !V her - rend,, and the gas and
f(iel shp eotisuim s while M arking foot
twice the cost of leamiii^ her to
p^iut landscapes on old jiurs and piich
ers> There lore, how many rich? daughters
nu , 8 t a man have to be
4n Alderman pavs a teporter 85 to
wrke him a speech favor.ng the eieo
tion of a new schoolhouse, but a: ter do
ij ver i n g eleven cents’ worth of the ora
tj t , n heisinformed that there is no ques
tion before the meeting, and he talla
back and breaks a D ir of sns(-endera
worth thirU'-tive cents. How much is
tlie great man out of pocket?
—
-A Montreal policeman has a be- ,
day. whioh She lays ia two to eggs be at exhibited.- s time every^ther Lktc<x?o
EerM
Migration of Seals.
Of the different aorta of North-Atlantic
seals, all hut two are migratory—that ia
to aay, the whole body of them more
from north to south each autumn, and
back from south to north each spring.
Upon this important fact the great fleets
of fishermen depend for their success. the
Tlie annual southward journey of
restless harp-seal furnishes a vivid pic¬
ture of these great n igrations which are
so prominent a feature of polar history. of
Keeping just ahead of the “making”
the ice, or final freezing up of the forda
and bays, at the approach of winter
they leave Greenland, and begin their
passage southward along the coast of
Labiador, froely entering all the small gulfs
and bays. They appear first in
1 detachments of half a dozen to a score
or more of individuals ; these are soon
followed by larger companies, until in a
few days they form one continuous pro
cession, filling the sea as far as the eye
( _ m reach Floating with the Arctic
current, their progress is extremely
rapidj aud in but one short week the
wb ole multitude "has passed. Arriving
at the Strujts «f BeUeisle, some enter
, £be gn ;j t but the great body move on¬
i ward a \ OV g the eastern coast of Now
f()Uljdland fiiiuks, aud thence outward to the
, ’ where they J arrive month, about
Christmas. Hero they rest for a
and then they turn northward, slowly
struggling aided them against much tho strong in their current south¬
that bo
ward journey, until they reach the Labrador the great
fields stretching from
sb ore eastward—a broad contidfent
^ •
Da ^ ug the first half of March, on
(base groa t floating fields seals—only of ice, are
bon| thousands Q f baby one
; n eacb family, to be sure, but with
plonty woolly of play-fellows dress, close white by—all with in
soft white, or a
beautiful golden luster. The New
toulldlander6 ca (i them “whitecoats.”
In a few weeks, however, they lose this
KO ft coveriug, and a gray, coarse fur
takes its place. In this uniform they
bear the name of “ragged jacketsand
it is not until two or three years later
^ ^ full colors o{ tho a , Mt liro
gained, with the black crescentic or
luirp-1 ike marks on the back which give
them the nameof “harps.”
Tlie sque nling and barking at one of
these immense nurseries cau be heard
{or & long distance. When the
are ver y y OUn g i the; mothers leave
them ou ttie i(je and grfoff ia 8ea rch of
{ , comiug baok f r(;q)lou ,i y to look
ufu , r the ]ittlo one8 . and although white, squeal- there
are thousands of the small,
. creatureg which to you and me
wuul(1 8eem })re cisely alike, and all are
mov j n g a b oU t more or less, the mother
neV cr niakes a mistake nor feeds any
bleating ) baby J until she has found her
^ f ice happen8 to pack around
t | icm> g0 t i, a the t they can not open holes,
nor ge t into water, the whole armv
w yj' laboriously travel by floundering
t0 t j 10 edge 0 f the field ; and they
show an astounding sagacity in discern
j ng the proper direction. It is supposed
4 hut they can smell the water at a long
finance.
Sometimes great storms come, break
i, lg t he ice floes in pieces and jamming
^ against one another, or
J the rocky / headlands, with tre
eadous foroe Besides the full-grown
of the that weak P R . babies ri f aro suob crushed tho us ands
or llrowned> notwithstanding the daunt
less courage of their mothers, in trying
their young out of danger and
upon the firm ice. And it is touchiug to
watch a mother seal struggling together
to with it between “fy her fore feM". flippers,
swim
»r J by driving it before her ami tossing b
H[ mrd with her u08e .» The destruo .
tion caused by such gales is far less
when they happen after the youngsters
have learned to swim.
Does it surprise you that seals, which
are constantly in the water, have to
Irani to swim? Well, it might stagger
the seals to be told that men have to be
taught to W alk. The fact is, a baby
seal is afraid of the water; and if some
or his mother’s shoulder,
nushes him into tho surf when ho is tea
or a dozen day sold, he screams with fright f The f
and scrambles out its fast ae he can.
next day lie tries it again, but finds him
Sjdf very awkward aud soon tired ; the
third day he dot's better, and before long
lie can dive and leap, turn somersaults
" Iul ) U! ” me, 1^' Htemllv menuiy nie like I’wni a tune
streak, „ the instant danger threatens,
h« ho had to learn how, to begin with,
like au.v^ other annual .—Ernest Ingcrsoli
m6t. AiCAolu*.
M.ignili.' nt Tffese ---' ipe for llnssia.
1 he (• > « . \ .itorv at l*oulkovo
will s hrtly be in I possess, long 0 time n of a this gigau- ob
tie te seo/e. r a
sorvaion. constructed in 1830 by order
of i*'“ t "ir Nuh.das. posses- d the
most powertul instruments m the world,
but ot late years the seientuic progress
which has »von made in England,
France aud the l nited States has put
the Poulkovo i Heervutor, m the shade,
The Un.vers ly oi \ „g,uni. tor mstauee.
has non the .mormons McCormick tele
scope, the diameter objective of which is 2i> i
inches m and thirty-three
feet long, while the Naval Observatory
at Washington has one of the same cali
la-r.andMr. Leek, awealthvt aliforman.
is abt.ui to place a still greater telescope
on Mount Hamilton near M. Jose.
H.ur years ago the Russian Govern
inenl a.-eommgly determined to eon
struct a new instrument which both in
respect to its mechanism and optic
Power would surpass any existing tele
-eopc. Ihe astronomer Otto Hurve
was commissioned to superintend the
work, the execution ot which was ,n
trusted to >. Ah inf Lu k A: < o. . <h
t ain ■ et>s. 1 tv'ir.a^s '.co ^ - :•£
of an amalgam ban ot ’ tnt ne.-.rlv crown ^
have been in _’o: a \ our,
a °d bv the month October tliey will
be ready oulkovo for u^. telescope Die will tot^ be length fort)-, of
the 1 ero
feet, and the diameter of the glass th.rt)
inchea, exclusive of the mounting.
telos°o|>e will be placed m a mradow to
the s°U^west of the principal and building wll
of Pulkovo Obsen;ator>-. it
u P on » movable n-on turret which
" Rsclt rest on rad*. The teleseojie
wiU be sci powerful that the m>xin wdl
be brought to an apparent distance of
only a hundred railed from the earth.—
lendm FrkgrayH.
A Comstoek Hero.
The reporter had an interview with
Mr. Van Dusen. He is a rather slim
man, about five feet seven inches tall,
with a thin, dark beard, prominent nose
and lantern jaws. Indeed, he could
stand very well for a reduced photo
graph of Brother Jonathan. But
Van Dusen is not a Yankee. lie is a
native of Michigan, and 47 years of age.
The reporter found the hero of the day
in the washroom of Fitzpatrick’s board
ing-honse in Lower Gold Hill, rubbing
soap on his hands, and wholly absorbed
in the occupation. He looked up with
some surprise from Ins basin in the
wo iden smk when the reporter spoke to
him and said he wanted to interview
him. Van Dusen is not a talkative man,
and it was only in response to the jour
naliat's constant questions that the story
of his adventures was drawn from him
piecemeal. While giving a bit of infor
malion as to his perilous journey, Van
Dusen would pause between splashes in
his basin, turn up his dripping industri- counte
nance for a moment, and then
ously resume his ablutions. He was
rather amused than otherwi e that a
newspaper should think it worth while
to send a reporter to*ask him nb >nt such
a trilie as going into a drift 1,400 feet
long. 2,150 feet below the surface, filled
in part with almost scalding water poison- over
three feet deep and loaded with
ous gases that had slain two men who
l.ad mtde the attempt before him.
There was no affectation about his un
con clousness of his hiving done any¬
thing heroic. It was absolutely real.
“Oh, no; I’m not exhausted,” said
Van Dusen, as he rubbed his face vigor¬
ously with the towel on tho roller.
“I’rn feeling chipper—never better in
my life.”
He encountered the bodies of Bennett
and Callahan. Both were lying on their
backs. He merely paused as lie Then,” came
to each corpse and passed on. “
said Van Dusen, “ I got to the cooling
house and saw the boys.” the
Ho seemed to think that statement
of this fact furnished all the information
that was necessary.
“They were glad to see you, of
course,’ 1 sujjge^teu the reporter,
“Yes, but they were a darned sight
gladder to see the ice in my machine, ? i
He had to leave his lantern out in the
drift, as there was a tremendous draught
in the cooling-house, dark iu the cooling
“It was pretty
house,” said Van Dusen, “and when I
went in the first thing I asked was ltow
manv of them were alive. They said
the whole seven, and I said I was mighty
glad to hear it. ‘What do you fellows
want most?’ II says, and they said grub
and ice. They did go for my ice. [Mr.
Van Dusen chuckled at the recollection.] I couldn’t
One chap-it was so dark
])laee him—laid his arm across his
breast and began hauling it his out of my I
machine and piling it up on arm.
guess they knew what had happened to
the two hoys that went down in tho
morning, for they asked me if there
were any dead bodies in the drift. I
said there wasn’t, for it wouldn’t have
done’em lights any good that to know. carried, They had and
seen the the boys
they went out kind of sudden when they
fell, of course, so it wasn’t hard to guess
what had happened.
“They had fixed things comfortably in the cooling
house and were pretty man
aging to get tolerably cool air and
water. They wanted all the air they
could get, of course, and one of ’em
sings out to me as I was going to tell
’em on too to work the th™’ compressor. [
thought, [terhap,,.!», n.i-ht he
one or so in the crowd that was near
giving ? in, and 1 asked if anyone wanted
■ mike the riffle
k lapsac k to try to
for the shaft, but they wouldn’t hear of
it, .so I started hack. Bennett walked
down the drift a ways with me. He had
his head on him and wasn’t seated or
anxious a bit, so far as I could see.”
On 1 he return trip one of the rubber
air tubes of his knapsack got loose, and
he had to depend upon one. Then the
foul air put his lantern out, and his only
guide as he floundered through the last
300 feet of hot water was the faint
gleam of the candles of the men at the
slation One of tho doctors at the mine
S;dd thftt not ono nvln in a thousand
W(>u!d have achieved the feat accom
p i| 8 l ie d by Van Dusen, and that it was
{ n:u . ve | ous that he should apparently
suff( . r so phv-icallv and mentally
fl ' om 80 terrible an ordeal. Van Dusen
at „ vloc j. was back in the hoist
j nf r works, standing around with his
j iands j„ his pockets, taking a keen but
Pa i m interestrin all the work that was
being done toward the rescue of his
iiruers .—Viiyinia (V '7 ('Xet’.J En
un-rUe.
Cats „ 1 From ,, the ,. Holy Land. T , ,
xvru While ., it ... of - much • pleasure ,
is a source
for many people to maintain kennels o»
fine dogs, it has remained for Thomas H.
Dudley, of Camden, ex-Umsul at Liver
pool, to toad the taOaon m rairaag rare
and odd-looking eats Mi. Dudleys
beautiful country residence, a few miles
south of Camden, possesses nnmy
tractions m the way of live stock, but
Hie most interesting of all area half
dozen cat* which.were born m .Terusa
lem. Tliey are distinguished from
average back-yaru feline vanegated by the length of
of their fur and the color
their eyes. One m parttenlar has fu
four inches m length which grows m
waves AH are as white as snow and
none have fur less than two mchea long.
Red. yellow, blue and green are the
colors of theireyts. The rn^t interest
mg of the tribe is a litt.e kitten with a
blue and a gray eye. They were pro
cured for Mr. Dudley Great several years ago
at aibig excuse. care is exercised
bv the servants in rearing them. Phiia*
detphta Record.
—A ham \rt Granby, Osweiro County,
Wfls s * n i -k bv li^htnine recently, the
l> -it bem* attracied, it is and thought^ by !
lbe la ge btvnzed vane hor>e with
beav , TOd> extending into an elm
flag tered. 8ta!f The driven latter through was completely side of
t h a and the
unbumed. t be building Portions and into of the the earth, and is
v n nc were
j carr ; e d a long distance. The fine new
barn was saved bv strong *t wind blowing
fa , he ^ ht d roPtioE b some lesser
buildinir5 wpre burned. Not a particle
of nun , pU for sotBe tlPn ^ ; efore or after
buildings burned, and at the same
j > of the shock there was not
I partic ^ ) e o{ thunder or lightn ng, or »
cloud overheadL-N' T. Tunes
Chasing a Lion in South Africa.
! prowling during the. about night and lions keeping have beet;
I hideous I hurry up a
roaring, so away m front
Wlt h the prospect of meeting one stroll
» D ? hom « >n the gray light of the early
hours. The air is raw and cold, so i
march at the double-quick and reckless
*>'Hmist mv hands to the bottom of my
pockets in the Regent happy consciousness of
not being in street. My expeditions t wo n-uul
attendants in mv hunting
have developed considerably shr.veled up. and
have an ashy complexion un¬
pleasant to behold, and they slink around
shivering with the cold and donbtless
envving me mv pockets,
We so m get a considerable di- : since
"head of the caravan, and begin to keep
j nerds 1 sharp look described out for game. distance; Several
are at a
but, not taring to go f;
we leave these un.in
however, do not become more promis
' n!tn ^ ' ve begin to (oncltn.e there is
to be no sport this meriting-. Just as
Liat thought shapes itself down sinks
the guide in a crouching position, while
he excitedly wmspers: -A lion, a lion,
Instinctively we follow lus example,
Aiter a hurried glance at my rifle
cautiously raise m. head Looking in
* h(; <» ™.-Uon indicated by thy guide lion
I am morticed at seeing a line
eeureiy bounding away through 1 the
b.-ng grass. Kisng meet lie p.e
:.e,y. In:I on, im.-.a-nied, smiply
l*-‘»^ lor » momentary state and then
continues its course. Grinding out an
expression of intense vexation, and
yielding to the impulse animal in of hot Hie haste. moment, My
I riush after the
servants, less eager and more wise than
I. remain where they were. It never
occurs to me that I have double-barreled only the re¬
maining cartridge of my
rifle for a possible encounter with tha
enemy.
The movements of the lion can only
be (raced hy tile shaking of the grass,
anil with eye intently fixed on that I
dash on pell-mell, tripping, stumbling heart
and gasping for breath, while my
palpitates with the excitement of the
chase. We thus keep up the race for
about 300 yards, when all at once the
shaking of the grass cca-scs, reminding
me that 1 must proceed with much more
caution lest i rush abruptly into the
fervent embraces of his leonine high¬
ness—a consumrtiatiau most devoutly ambi¬ lo
be depreciated, seeing I have no
tion for the world’s reprobation and a
warning epitaph. Moving I on suddenly very
stealthily for some time
emerge into an open space, and as sud¬
denly halt transfixed; for there stands
the lion at a distance of a little more
than fifteen yards, with its side toward
me, and evidently awaiting shock my ap¬
proach. The momentary to*a gives
place instantly strange feeling of (W
citation. With such a splendid oppor¬
tunity for a shot I am sure of my game!
Mentally, as by a Hash, I picture my¬
self exhibiting the trophies of the
encounter to level an admiring and troop bang! of it
friends. I my gun,
To my infinite mortification, and,
as 1 think, against all the laws of
reason, there is neither the grand death
spring nor the last tragic roar. Un
wounded and undaunted, there stands
mv dangerous antagonist, It takes “staring upon
the hunter!” one or two
seconds to lot the grim realities of the
situation daivn upon ray the tables imagination. turned
Only too evidently are ammunition, and
upon me. I have no
1 dare not flee. To “fix” him with my
eye unfortunately does the not occur to me I
as practicable. On contrary,
have a very distinct consciousness that
he has “fixed” me, anil that 1 should
not be ungrateful for some convenient
tree from which I might try Hie fasci¬
nation of the human gaze. Thus for a
little space, which to me seemed hours,
stand face to face. The lion seems
uncertain what to do, but finally re¬
solves to treat me with contempt.
Turning with dignity, he gives one or
two powerful bounds and disappears in
the jungle, while I, limp and he
dragglcd, return to my men. — Good
Words.
Bob . BurdetUs Advtce y .- to . „ Boy*.
“ You say you demand the noblest
type of womanhood in your wife. If
that is the sort of woman you
want, marry Nora Mulligan, your laun
dress’ daughter. She wears cowhide
shoes, is guiltless of corsets, never hau
a sick day iu her life, takes in washing,
goes out house-cleaning, and cooks for a
family of seven children, her mother
and three section men, who board with
her. I don’t tliiuk she would marry
yon, because Con Began, the track
‘walker, is her style of qualifications man. Let us
just examine into your as
a model husband after your own matri
mental ideas, my boy. Cau you shoul
fler a barrel of flour and carry it down
t0 tho ct , llar? Can you saw and split
ten cords of hickory wood in the fall, so
^ have ready fuel all winter? Can
» von ^ spade np *^ half an acre of ground fog
t>n ? Do TOU kuow what
w j|j take the slimy taste out of the new
^ ' Fernand ’ ean yon patch the little leak
b(j klteilen r 0o£? Cau Ton bring
j £ £ b p uda wado f p , lt tv
to - t[l0 d m ,„ es iu the si-ting
window ? Ci m you bang some
c heap paper on the kitchen ? Cau you
*h e front cate so it wili not bag? Can
^ POU ,lo am tarn- ^ siout the house that
' Mv dear boy,
R f you see
£ Mulligan will have none of
^ wante a higher typo of true
‘ You expect lure to
to men
^ ma n’swork about the house, but
- ^ wife to do everything
do . Believe me,
. nine-tenths of the girls
£ ’ aud sing charm
P J 1 iano j4 so
iQ ited knowl .
^ do wn as mere ‘butterflies of
f«Mon are'for ’ are better fitted for wives than
Toa a husband. If you’ want to
marrv a firet-cla^s cr-ok and experienced
honsekeeper do jour courting in the in
tel igence office. But if you want a
wife° marry the girl von love, with 1
dimplod hands nnd a face like th© son
fight and her love will teach her all
these thinga. my boy. long before vou
baTe (earned one-half of vour own
teeson.' 1 _ Burlington Hawkfire.
-Jordan Perkins waarlowimr whTn with a
?nftnr teA a ’-1 v a fnimM and ’ tTh« i»
‘* J a f ®J n ‘0? ,7. f
'’ K ', ,' ,‘ l V,-' ’
. ‘ 1 ( ca t5l 'b ‘‘is
’ *
near1 ^ ofc
Education for Farmers.
To the average mind the word educa¬
tion is limited in its definition to wha'i
one learns at school, but that is alto¬
gether mo narrow. Education means well
growth, culture, development, as and
as the acquisition of knowledge,
knowledge the schools; again indeed, is not monopolized only by
one who knows
what he learns at school is much more
justly entitled to the epithet opportunity of ignorant,
us than he who, having no
student to attend svh >oi, and lias been a diligent There
of nature of men.
were wise men before letters were in¬
vented, or schorlsestablished. Schools,
good edacitim, sell iols, are exe -ilent auxiliaries
t> bit t'ley arc nothing
mote. It is admitted by all that, no
amount of book learning will suffice to
fit a young man for the duties of a phy¬
sician, a lawyer, or a clergyman, and
‘.he idea that it would tit him for the
profession of agriculture is absurd. Yet
each profession has its literature, which
can be reached only through the portal
of the school or the aid of private in¬
structors, and the literature of each pro¬
fession is of prime importance to Ui >se
who would pursue successfully a profes¬
sion.
The literature of a profession, farm¬
ing, for example, conserves the wisdom
of the past and records the experiments
of the present. But the wisdom of the
past preserved in books is like wheat
before i. is winnowed, nixe d with the
chaff.of ignorance and the cheat of pre¬
judice. So, also, is much of life scien¬
tific knowledge of the present. They
are both misleading and injurious to
aim who accepts them without question.
But they are great helps to him whose
mind has been trained to criticise all
things, and who accepts only that which
stands this crucial test.
Colleges confer degrees, yet these are
often M. misleading; the young man with
A. or M. 1). after his name is not
necessarily is a master "prepared of arts or of medi¬
cine. He only to enter up¬
which, on a career if he of practical the experiment,
possesses talent, the in¬
dustry, and the perseverance necessary
to the completion of his education, may
ultimately make him worthy of the title
conferred upon him prematurely by tho
school.
No amount of theoretical training will
lit a man for the successful pursuit of
agriculture; yet, without theoretical
training, of intelligent a mm rarely rises to the digni¬
ty an fanner.
Farming is a profession in the same
sense that the prac ice of law or of med¬
icine is a profession; hence tho youth
who is destined to become a farmer
should be educated with reference to
that profession. furnish The public schools of
this country the facilities for all
the literary training cities, absolutely needed,
and, in the larger the scientific
branches are taught as well as they are
in our colleges, and these are important.
While it were a waste of time to study
the dead languages, the prospective
farmer should become familiar with the
elements of natural history, botany,
chemistry, geology, and natural philos¬
ophy. These branches of science have
a direct relationship to his future busi¬
ness, and the young farmer who enters
the profession versed in them will find
that he is not only prepared for a larger
measure of success, but that his mind is
fitted for communion with nature,whose
secrets, hid from others, are constantly,
revealed to him, affording an inexhaust¬
ible source of pleasure as well as profit.
To him every expanding leaf or opening
flower has a beautiful significance, and
every phenomenon involved in the
growth unknown of plants the ignorant has for him plodder. a meaning
to All
nature to him is one grand illustrated
encyclopedia filled with lessons of wis¬
dom, from the pen and pencil of the
original author and artist of the uni¬
verse.
To the educated farmer the rocks
present their own history, written in
unmistakable characters by the finger of
God. The soil whispers to hint of its
fertility or complains of its poverty in
latiguag' fectly intelligible, and the
treasures of Flora, Pamona and Ceres
are shown, in rich abundance,ac the feet
of him who wields the magic wand of
intelligent labor .—National Farmer.
Ovcrfcil Pi'<-s
------
There has never been a J'ue when the
question of overtecdingtivesto.'kof every
character has receivedso'nni: h attention
at the hands of breeders as is now the
siderably case. Tig exercised breeders are at present con
on account of the
fearful losses Sustained from cholera,
and it has slowly dawned upon the
minds of many of the gentlemen that
perhaps the evil practice <4 overfattenz
in<r has souiethin^r to do with these
continued losses, '
Science has as yet
failed to prove the truth of this assump
tion, bat practical feeder and breeders
arc coining localities to that conclusion, and iu
many selves accordingly are bv discontinuing governing ihcm
the
practice domestic of crowding their stock' Of
all animals, the pig goes it
ups n his cheek, and at the ordinary fair,
or fat stock show, his verv fullness of
cheek is too apt to govern the awards,
Consumers, however, do not indorse
stuffed these paunriiv, porkers, knowing round, overfed and
that good pork
maU cannot generally seemingly be fed found where ani
are for lard pur
poses and that done. What is required
and demanded both at home and abroad
is the long-bodied shoulder, lean hog, ham, which affords a
deep which and sides
upon meat instead of fat is the
rule. There ha been a growing dspo.
sition to stop th practice of over-feed
ing hogs, and so general has ti.e de
wand Be« me for good lean pork that,
notwithsandmg feed the universil practice
to to the utmost capacity, breeders
are now market changing thei/views, that and send
ing to pi<_s will guarantee
good-paying reasonable block qualities. that It is very
to suppose an animal
overloaded with great masses of abso
lute fat and grease cannot be as healthy
as the one which, while sufficiently fed,
is not burdened with a mass that is only
profitable orei udealers to the American lard manufacturer. pork do
i ? in not
hesit}4le to as ' ert the sto -k of this
country is overfed, and it is to these ex
P o;ners tha * the American breeder- are
indebted for the change that cannot but
result to the benefit of the feeder, the
dea i cr and the consumer .—London
Fanner.
