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j Can is ton looked feebly at her, am!
• then h? laughed. :.nd his fair face flushed
I as he ventured to sit down oa the piazza-
J step at her feet. Pollv glanced di
t s
will net break the binding c
e voia
'When hands ore Idle, words a
To move the stone;
An aiding angel would disdain
To work alone
Bathe who prayctb, and Is strong
In faith and deed,
And tollrth earnestly, ere long
He will succeed.
—J! C. Rockwell.
quiringly with steady, demure eyes.
“No,” he cried. * “Miss Grey, I’ve
been most of the time about a yard and a
quarter away from you; but you never
seemed to see me!” ’
“How strange!” Folly says, wonder-
ingly. “Most people would have seen
you. now, wouldn’t they ;” .
“Women always have before,” he as
sents, with a sigh.
‘Then you must hare rejoiced in a
change, didn't you? Variety is so pleas
ant to an appetite jaded by sameness 1”
“No,” he answer*; “I didn’t enjoy it
at all. Hi tell you," he fays, looking up
GdNISTON’S COURTSHIP.
John Gordon Anncsley, Earl of Conis-
ton, sat in the cabin of the Brigh.on
boat, re:d;ng h:s evening Taper. He
had just foi led and put in his pocket a
long letter from his iriend and partner,
Sir Campbell Frazer, in which that gen
tleman announced that affairs at the
Ranch of San llosalic were going on per
fectly, but that he must beg his “dear
old Jp k” to put off his sailing dote just
a fortnight, as he now found that he
could not be in New York possibly be
fore the clear of the month /October)
later.
Coniston was in the midst of a frown
over this piece of intelligence ns he
glanced over .the paper. He hated
America and the Americans; he longed
to put the sea between himself and this
displeasing nation; be yearned for
“shooting” and the Highlands; he
scoruod the gaycties of all the American
watering places, and stopped at the Pa
vilion—solely, as he openly avowed, be
cause Brighton was an English name for
a place,, and for the other reason that
here he was within an hour of Pier 38
North River, and could step on board
Guiou boat at almost n moment's wan.
ing. Coni-ton, therefore, chafed under
the infliction of an additional fortnight
in the land of his loathing. Albeit the
Ranch of San Rosalie wa? adding a con
siderable number of thousands to his in
come, he still—just at this particular mo
ment—wished it at the Bottom of the
Red Sea.
" Perhaps, too, lie mingled with the af-
frank, I tato American women, and
you're the only one who ever inspired me
with the slightest ”
Coniston stops short; there is some
thing in his listener’s face that marks an
unerring period in his reckless speech.
"‘Well? ’ she asks, sweetly and clearly,
—the slightest’ !”
The English language is Coniston’s
native tongue, but it fail3 him now; he
feels the warm blood suffusing his face
as his mind runs after an elusive woman.
‘All, I sec; there arc some things
much better implied than expressed.
But I am so matter-of-fact that I must
translate your mute eloquence, Lord
Cnniaton——” At this instant Pnniston
Coniston ■” At this instant Coniston
is lost in calculating how many minutes
he can stand this present temperature of
his head and face—“into words, or a
word—curios'ty, eh? Come, be twice
frank—is it not so?”
“You may christen it curiosity, aud
ic clouds Lave crept over all the
brightness of the heaven? and hidden the
harvest moon from sight.
A Ci'Ii-aa instantaneous report, ar.d
Polly we? her lover stagger in his scat;
his left arm falls powerless, struck for
ever useless at his side.
She has her horse beside him in as in
stant; she comes close to his side, while
the great rain drops fall plashing down
upon them. She takes up the stricken
arm in her soft hands, and pre set her
FARM AND HOUSE.
young lips upon it.
’-“Polly!” cpiej Coniston,
“do
you love Bradford?”
“Oh. no!” she rays.
“Will you marry me?*
“Yes,” the whispers.
“Now—to-night—this very hour?’-
“Yes, this very, hour if you wish it.
Oh!’ crie3 the girl, wildly, “Jack, I’ll
be so good to you. I must b3. don’t
you sec? This—this!” She touches his
arm as he tries to gold’ his horse and
hold her to him, both. “He doesn’t
like that, and you do; and it is
need i
I'ceiling by Weight.
John*Allison, a Union county, (Ky.)
farmer says: Most persons feed
their horses oats by measure,
instead of weight, forgetting there
call it so, pro tcm., if you choose, Miss
Grey, but ■”
The earl again falters.
“Oh!” cries the girl, with a little im-
C tient wave of her hand, and throwing
ck her pretty blonde head; “how l
abhor Englishmen! They are so in
terror of even their minor emotions. A
Frenchman, a Geiman, on Italian, any
other nationality in the world is ready,
eager to put his flirtatious propensities
into the most delicious language; but an
Englishman!”—she shudders—“he stops
to wonder what he is about to feel,
and lo!. the emotion vanishes! ha! ha!
my fault—I ought not to have come out
to-night with you!”
“Thank God yon did!” *
“And,” she says, s’owly, as they turn
their horses’ heads, “besides, I—I love
you; is it not strange?”
“Very. And you will not regret own
ing a fellow as—as helpless ns I am,
polly?”
“No,” she answers, thoughtfully, and
looking at her by the lightning’s frequent
flash, he sees the strength, and warmth,
and tenderness, and love, that he has
need of.
‘‘Polly,” Coniston says, through the
pelting ’ rain, a3 they ride back to
Brighton, “it seems to me os if my whole
life had been on interrogation point,
and as if you were the blessed answer to
marry two drenched people that Novem
ber night, and that the Earl of Coniston
put off his Sailing date another month.
Fannie Aymer Matthews.
Dictions of tlio, exile some memories of
Lady Cicely Howard, and the strange
penchant he had hod lor her during the
Jut London season.
Howevcrthis maybe, Coniston’s vacant
eyes at this juncture took in a very neat
little figure os it advanced in the cabin;
it was followed by another—a plump,
middle-aged lady’s figure, much bur-
shawls ana wraps, and evi-
dened with shawls
before seating itself, both
figure and the plump duenna examined
carefully the fastenings of all adjacent
windows.
“This one seems tightly closed, Aunt
Dorinda,” the girl said, in her clear,
light voice.
‘ ‘Horrible American tone, calculated to
lacerate a fog!” mentally commented his
lordship.
“No, Polly, no; I am sure
‘‘Polly l yc gods!” soliloquized the
"’Suggestive only of comic opera.
ha!”
arh
milkmaids and parrots. And she has
short hair!—he never could abide a short-
haired woman. And-she was small.
Small women had always, from youth
up, constituted his pet aversion! Dressed
in brow if; brown ns a color was dis
tressing, in fact it was no color at alll”
Miss Grey laughs a long, musical,
ringing laugh.
Coniston looks at her, and ho won
ders if he has ever really sec-n her until
this morning? She looks like the bright
est part of the sunshine as she sits there
in it, mocking him.
“Perhaps we do avoid putting what
you call our ‘flirtatious propensities'
into words; but if you will permit
mo to say so, an Englishman is only too
ready to speak out that which he really
feels!”
“Do they ever ‘feel’ anything outside
the hunting-field and the House of Com
mons?” she asks, provokingly.
He smiles as he looks at her.
“I will tell you some day.”
Not long alter Coniston rides with
Miss Grey—a long afternoon ride on the
road by the bay and through the woods
and past the farms busy with their Au
tumn fruit-gathering.
They chat of commonplace things—
the flowers, the birds, the clouds, the
blue of sea and sky, and they come home
soberly enough, too soberly, he th ; nks.
There is a ball that night, the last of
And so it fell out that the reverend
pastor of St. Mary’s was called upon to
V
A Snow-White Ibex.
In th‘e Owl Mounts'113, Wyom’ng Ter
ritory, is seen at long intervals a snow or
white ibex. * One of these rare animals
recently killed by an old trapper and
hunter known as Shoshone Jack. The
snow ibex attains the size of the big-horn
or mountain sheep,has a coat of dazzling
white and is of the true ibex breed. It is
both active and powerful, and when
driven to bay is a most dangerous adver
sary. Its massive horns, with the back
ward sweep of two feet, are formidable
weapons and are formidably used. Some
years since Tom Anten, then a mountain
prospector and hunter, now half owner
^ difference in the weight
of oats when different lots are measured.
Some lots of oats are very heavy, and
wmojn-te light. *2 M
twelve quarts per day of heavy oats will
will fall off, when changed to twelve
quarts of light oats—there being from
five to ten per cent, le?s of nutritious
matter in them. It is always best to
feed the best oats and hay to horses, but
judgment is needed to regulate the quan
tity so as not too feed too much or too
litt'e. Many owners of horses trust
the feeding entirely to their farm hands,
who have bat little judgment and no
care for the results. Owners of horses
should determine the quantity required
for their horses, and give strict instruc
tions to have just the required amount
fed. In this way horses can be kept in
proper condition.
Spare the Surface.
A farmer writes to the New York Trib
une as follows: It is undoubtedly a last
ing injury to laud to bury the natural
surface deep down, and seal it up with
pepr subsoil, / Apparently such a surface
dries out*sconer, although very compact,
should have corn also. A goo-c should
not be too fat, as such is objectionable,
but they should be kept fat enough to
present an excellent market appearance.
The young geese that have not completed
their growth, however, cannot be fed too
liberally, as they will not become ex
tremely fat until matured.
In the process of drying grass into hay
He oils which give green
most of the volatile w _
herbage its delicate flavor and odor are
lost. But some farmers have found that
putting clover and other grassefln barns
while rather green ana mixing tjitii them
enough dry straw to absorb moistuferool
eggs and stir into the vinegar, not too j
hot, lut hot enough to make it thick. !
Pour this over the prepared chicken. Add I
salt and p-.'pper to taste.
Chocolate Pcddixo.—Grate two
ounces of sweet chocolate; put it over j
TAMING TIGERS.
Satan.»= theFeroclow Bente
gentle heat; heat a quart of milk quickly,
stir it into the melted chocolate and It t
the mixture cool; separate the yolks and
whites of six eggs, when the chocolate
is nearly cool mix the yolks with it, add
four tablespconfuls of sugar, or more if
only preserve the flavor in tlio hav, But a
portion'is communicated to the straw,
mating iTinucK Better for milch cows.
It is possible that farmers may yet take
to sowing sweet vernal grass for the sole
purpose of flavoring their winter’s sup
plies of tlry hay or straw.
An Ohio farmers tells the readers of
the Country Gentleman that he last year
raised 300,000 cabbages, and kept the
flea b:c!lcs away at the cost of only a
singje dollar, liis method is to pour a
gallon of spirits of turpentine into a bar
rel of land plaster, and when the plaster
is dampened all through, as it will be in a
few days, spread it broadcast over the
field. It is better than lime or ashes,
and may be applied when the plants are
not wet with rain or dew. It is also said
that the mixture will keep for sc viral
years without losing its strength.
An exchange makes a good suggestion
through it and its evaporation. Humus
is nfwiws humid TIuw>M tvnnl “Immi ”
is always humid. The old word “Iiumi,
from which our word is derived,
literally “on the damp,” that
the
ground.” Any culture which does not
provide for a maintenance of the natural
surfacing of humus is destruc ive, aud
must sooner or later bring about fatal
exhaustion of soil. But all the reasons
for this are not so fully known as could
be wished.
As implements of ^oil-culture both
plow and spade are inferior to scarifier
and digging fork, because of unavoid
able inversion of soil by their use. This
inversion is very well when the whole
depth moved is equally friable and car-
bonaceous, and it often gives the advan
tage of burying insects or seeds to
the noted Bonanza oil spring. Big
Horn Basin, came near losing his life in
an encounter with a snow ibex
Owl Mountains. Tom w T ns in pursuit of
a band of blacktail deer, when he espied
ahead of him what he at first took for a
moving snow heap. Soon, how-ever, he
saw it was an animal, and a moment later
knew that it must be the famed mountain
rara avis, a snow ibex. The ibex, an old
ram, was within fair range, and Anten
pulled down upon liim. At the
depth which they cannot rise from to do
any injury, at least for that season. But,
as a general rule, in all thin soils, 1 * while
it is an essential advantage to. lift, break
and stir them deeply, it is best to keep
the natural surface layer at tire surface.
It constantly absorbs heat, gas and vapor,
retains them, favors necessary chemical
action, and remains open for free admis-
of air through the soil.
Conistou had all his nation’s prejudice in
favor of brilliant hues.
She is alert, bright, vivacious; all that
a woman should not be; what a contrast
to Cicely, who was the perfection of
languor, dreaminess and repose!—and
yet Cicely was. sometimes rather of a
Ho wondered if this young person was
a bore? Now that he inspected her, he
observed that she had a certain reticence
of face and manner that was wholly un-
American. She had fee him looking at
her, of course. By Jove! where was his
paper? on the floor! and yet for some in
scrutable reason she did not return his
gaze squarely out of those large eyes o!
hers. It was strange! It *
struck uonis-
ton as a remarkable fact, worth record
ing, that he had encountered one Ameri
can girl who declined to reciprocate the
such a
Why l there came M
- capital fellow for an American.
Bradford knew her.
She smiled at Bradford, and allowed
him to sit beside her, and gave him her
wrap to hold.
To bo sure, Coniston remembered that
he had always thought Bradford very
much of a cad, and not a nice fellow by
any means.
And Bradford held her wrap,and they
all went off the boat together in the
friendliest sort of fashion, with the maid
trotting after them with the satchels and
dogs.
No, he had always had a special aver
sion for that Bradford! And as for small
women, with short hair,dressed in brown
—well, his disgust for - them was not to
bo measured by any language.
Novcrthless, as Coniston wilily argued
with himself, -“a man* must filluph ; s
time;” so, in an off-hand way he just in
timated to Bradford that-he didn’t care—
if the opportunity offered—if ho did in
troduce him to Mrs. .Waddle and her
niece, Miss Grey.
Bradford was apparently magnanimous
besides, he had never presented an carl
to Miss Grey before—aud be did the
deed with satisfaction to himself at
least.
Miss Grey bowed slowly to Coniston,
and then she turned her attention to I
group of lady friends sitting near, leav-
ipally with' Bradford. He stalks
out on the piazza,brilliant with lanterns,
and then saunters to the other end^where
it Is comparatively quiet.
Polly sits there, and Bradford—Brad?
fojd!—is bending above her; he even
hasher hand; and now he goes in and
leaves her.
Coniston is a madman as he rushes into
the other roan's place, and leans trem
bling over h?r chair. She is quiet, # si
lent. -* '
“It is I,” he whispers, brokenly.
“I know,” she replies, softly.
“Oh, child l” cries he, “you must listen
to me; I am a good-for-nothing sort of a
fellow; I have had no religion, no any
thing, until I have known you, and now
you are my shrine. It seems to me at
S ur feet I should lay rare spices, per-
mes, flowers, jewels—and all I dare lay
there to-night is a human heart—a
human life, Folly,” he says, lowly, stoop-
ing his blonde head to hers. “Will you
have me!”
• He secs her face as she upturns it in the
flare of>the list lantern; it is as he has
never seen 'it—pale, stricken, awful,
calm.
‘Weill” she says, at last, with that
clear, bright voice of hers, a trifle hard,
a trifle matter-of-fact.
“Oh, I love you, my soul! my queenl
I love you and need you,” cries he, over
come by the sight of her pallor.
“I know,” she answers quietly, “I ap
preciate, value your love; I would not
have it otherwise; I should have been
disappointed always if you had not loved
me. Ah?” burying her white face in her
hands, “I revel in it!”
And he had once thought this woman
inerlicial, uulikabl
crack of the rifle the animal fell in its
tracks^ Hastening up to secure the rare
prize, Anten suddenly found himself
confronted by the infuriated animal. A
most treme ndous “butt” sent the hunter
flying into the air, and when he struck
the ground the ram was on top of him.
And now the Lcavy, curved horns
of the furious brute were dashed
again and again against the
anatomy of the hunter. Every bone and
joint felt the fearful punishment. Finally
Anten succeeded in grasping one of the
Feeding Swine.
It requires a certain amount of food to
enable an animal to live, and it requires
more food than this to enable it to grow
The waste in the system must be
replenished before any increase is to be
expected. Scientists have studied the
chemical composition of animal bodies
and different food substance», that they
might determine which' foods were best
adapted to replenish the natural waste,
and at the same time increase the weight
and aid in the development of the nui-
mal. It is unnecessary to hero consider
the exact chemical .composition
different parts of the body and different
foods, as some of the conclusions ar
il cavy horns, and dragging himself to
his knees, confronted his furious assail
ant. He held on desperately, and was
forced to the brink of a rough and steep
mountain wash-out. Hera Anten suc
ceed, d in drawing his hunting-knife.
He made several ineffectual passes with
this weapon, and the closely clasped foes
went down the wash-out together. The
ibex struck the bottom underneath, and
the keen and ready blade. of the hunter
drank deep of it? life-blood. Again and
again did the knife strike home, and the
snow ibex was a corpse. When dressed
the carcass weighed 125 pounds, and
the flesh proved excellent eating. The
Owl Mountains seem to be the only
Wyoming district in which the snow ibex
cold, s
‘My darling!” Conistou says, reaching
out his hand for hers.
‘But,” whispers the girl, drawing
away into her silken wrap, “I—I—am
engaged to be married to Eugene'Brad
ford. I have been for two years !**
Sir Campbell Frazer had arrived from
ing Coniston to the agreeable knowledge
that he was at liberty to salute her the
next time he met her on the piazza or the
corridor.
' It didn’t satisfy him.
lie went off and smoked a cigar, and
conjured up Cicely in the fragrance of
the Havana.
Even Cicely did notsceratobsas com
plete a boon as he had fancied she ought
> be.
For five days ho wandered up and
down, and round and ronad the hotel,
“lounging,” he called it; but the more
correct term to describe these peregrina
tion? would be—politely chasing Polly
\1 should
tout supply of
rived at tullSuffico.
In thttf-fira^rplaee,
havo an abundant and
, fresh water. Water from welt
Barnyards, or manure pits, or carried
through leaden pips/should no more be
given to lio^s than to human .beings.
When it is desired to give hogs access to
found.*" There are said to be a few
certain localities of the Montana Moun
tains.
Stock Exchanges.
It costs $25,000 or more to become a
member of our Stock Exchange, but the
charge for entrance to the first stock ex
change ever started—that in London—
was only sixpence. This was in the
Stock Exchange Colic3 House in Thread-
needle street, where the brokers met, as
they do to-day, to drink and talk about
values. Fulls and bears were not then
in existence. Mention is made of a Stock
Exchange in^Loadoa before the American
Revolution, bnt 1798 appears to have
been the date of the origin of the present
one. The first meeling place for brokers
was the Rotunda of the Bank of
England. At the beginning of this
century $100,030 was raised and a build
ing put up jmd members elected by bal
lot at a subscription of nbaut $55. When
a new member is now proposed for elec
tion he must be recommended by three
members of not less than four years’
standing, who engage to pay $2,500 each
Finally lie beheld her alone. Neither
aunt nor Bradford, nor friends—heaven
be praised—were anywhere about.
lie drew near the big rocker, where she
sat with a book in her lap, and suddenly
Coniston remembered that he should
imve to say something beyond “good-
morning,” and for the first time in forty-
one years he actually wondered what it
should be.
She spared him the attempt, however,
and glancing up, said:
“Ah! good-morning: you have been
up in town, I suppose, ever since the
day Mr. Bradford presented you?”
“Up in town?” This was too much,
when nc had followed her like a detective
the entire time.
the West. * The Arizona was to sail Tues
day, and both he and the Earl of Con
iston were booked on her passenger list.
It was Monday night—“midsummer
come again,” people said, lounging about
the piazzas of the big hotel—warm, sul
try, with great banks of blue-black
clouds hovering above the golden rim of
the west.
Bradford was up in town, detuned by
business, as Coniston .had discovered.
Miss Grey was sitting at the corner of
the piazza. He went up to her for the
first time since tac ni^ht of the ball
“May I sit down?”
She looked assentingly.
“I am going to-morrow
Arizona.”
“I know,” she answers, whitening.
He wonders why, and, Heaven help
him! he gets up and goes away, when
he would rather far have-taken the frail,
vivacious, alert little woman to his heart.
Presently he saunters back.
“Would you take a rido with me to
night ! You know we shall never on
earth see each other again. Would
to his creditors in case he should be de
clared a defaulter within four years from
the date of hi?admission, bnt if the can
didate has been a clerk in the Stock
Exchange he requires two sureties
only for $1,5G0 each; - In the first case
the entrance fee is $525, and in the latter
$315, wuh a subscription fc? of $112. A
notable feature of the London Board is
that ther£ is no official tariff for com
missions, and competition is allowed full
play among the brokers, to the great
benefit of the speculating and investing
public. Each broker must h »ve a license
from the city, the same as a peddler,
which cobts $25, but this carric? with it
no right of admis?iop to the Stock.Ex
change. Members are forbidden to ad
vertise, which deprive? the newspapers
of some profit. DMaulte s must have
raid at 1
flash, her lips quiver;'she
her finger back and
tc says, quietly, “I will,
my habit and be down pres-
turns the ring
forth.
“Yes,
will get
ently.”
They ride off—off into the _
silent' country lanes, where the dew
damps the air, and where the scent of
the homestead flower gardens _
with the breath of the sea as it comes to
them.
They do not talk very much,
ride fait. The twilight is gathering and
forq they can be readmitted,
change officially sends to the newspapers
the name? of defaulters. There are about
2.000 member? and about 1,100 clerks.
Only SGO of these members are brokers,
the* remainder being jobbers. _ The
brokers can only buy and sell for clients,
but the jobbers can speculate. Ttc reve
nue of the London Stock Exchange i*
$350,000, which leaves a net balance
the horses have their ’ _
Suddenly it grows dark—the blu
ist one-third of their debts be-
The Ex
saying that “a much heavier sod and
larger growth of cither pasture or hay is
obtained by sowing different kinds of
grass teed on the ra nc field, as each kind
will find the kind of soil and plant food
best adapted to its vigorous growth, and
thus prevent vacant spaces, which are
only filled as nature occupies them with
noxious weeds.” This rule is, however,
most applicable in the older geological
formations, a? where the supporting rocks
nearly horizontal the sails are homo
geneous over larger areas.
Much of the value of potatoes as a ho;
food depends upon the cooking. If fe<
largely raw they produco scouring and
do not all digest, thinks a writer m t 1 "
National Lire Stock Joumnal. This
due to the fact that the potato is co
posed so largely of starch as to make
cooking an almost indispensable aid to
digestion. A little raw potato is bene
ficial to the hog’s stomach, when fed
largoly upon corn. When fed to realize
the most benefit from them for fattening,
they should be boiled soft, and if gram
be fed with them, they should bo bailed
togethe:
It may not bo necessary and yet not
amiss to urge farmers to sow or drill a
good supply of sweet corn to cut up and
feed to milch cows during the month of
August, when pastures dry up or partially
so. There can be no doubt that such
corn is a whol some and profitable sup
plement to pasture? at that time, ~~
*i i. .. —i : :n
only tho?c
which aro
Lies should
streams ’ of runnin,
the source
known to be free from imp
be used.
certain amount of
lime potash and other min
pensable to the proper development of
young and growing pigs. Th • lormer
alt,
required, and take the pudding i
earthen dish; set m aptui of hot ’
__ . . water
for twenty minutes; meantime beat the
six whites to a froth, add to them twelve
heaping table spoonfuls of powdered
sugar, mixing the sugar very gently
with the white? to form a meringue; put
the meringue on top of the pudding and
return it to the oven to color; then take
the pudding from the oven and serve it
cither hot or cold. r
The Marshall Islanders.
The inhabitants of the South Pacific
coast islands are in many respects strange
human beings, and not the least singular
fact in connection with them is their
manner and custom of life, both in the
domestic circle and when battling with
other tribes. Some 6,000 miles from
this city is the Marshall group of islands,
the inhabitants of which lire conspicuous
for their warlike propensities, great size,
and gigantic strength, together with
other traits of strongly original character,
and regarding which little or nothing is
known to the civilized world.
• The natives arc large and powerful.
They are notunlike the New Zealanders,
being of a dark, copper-colored complex
ion. In addition to a natural inclination
for warfare they are very treacherous,
and iu some portions of the group ore
Ancient Times.—A Gaul the First
Tamer.—Modern Methods of
Bringing Tigers to Terms.
The tiger, the terrible cousin of the
harmless necessary cat, is said by persons
who have had the nerve to attempt the
task, to be not so difficult to tame as
his reputation for ferocity would incline
led
. . , affection, and de
ficiency in intelligence. Wo apply to it
the same epithets which a dominant race
applies to a weaker one when it refusi
to resign its independence. The dog, /
the horse, the elephant, sink into con- X''
the horse, the elephant, sink into coil- ZL*
tented slavery; tBe cat aid the cat tribe jf %
never. As far as mere brain power is ‘
concerned, the cat tribe, according to the
observations of Gratiolct, is superior to
all the canines. The story of tiger
taming begins with Sardanapatus, the
King of the Assyrian decadence, who
would have given his kingdom for au
emotion. One day—so the" story runs—
cannibals. Their main occupation is like
that of the Indian, loafing and picking
cocoanuts, which are prepared and
shipped to this country with considerable
profit. When not engaged in harvesting
the cocoanut crop or loafing abaut on the
ocean in a dug-out canoe, the Marshall
islander puts in hi9 time carving gro
tesque figures ou canoe paddles and iu
.whittling out raurdorous-looking war
two may be readily gives th un in their
food, ai 1 they should each day r6cciv
small quantity; it makes their food more
palata .le, and it iieatc l wi h more rel-
: ~ u The others, in limited quantities,
also necesrary, and arc f uad siffi
ciently abundant in the ashes of coal,
wood, and of corncobs. Once or twice
a week, burn what s traps of woo 1 and
such colis ns you may hav-.-, nud feed the
ashc3 to the hog-«, mixed with any coal
.shes yon may have from the house. For
nuscle forming, gras es. < lover, pea?,
and oats are gcod, and shou’d firm the
the larger part of the diet of young pigs.
Clover, or clover and bhiegia?s pa-tuus
particularly desirable for growing
-pigs. If pigs at two mouths o!d are
turned into such pasture?, and remain
thereuntil six months old, they should
have then attuned their growth and de-
elopment, and be iu a condition to re
vive a corn diet. When taken from
pastures and fed upon more concentrated
foods, the change should be gradual, not
sudden.
Figures show conclusively that an acre
of clover wi.l produce more pork than
acre of corn, estimating the yield of the
latter at fifty bushils. It i? estimated
that an acre produces 10,030 pounds of
clover, and that fifteen pound? of clover
produces one pound of pork; in other
words, about 615 ponr.ds of pork may be
produced from one acre of clover, if a
bushel of corn will make twelve pounds
of pork, and this is above the average,
there will be bnt 600 poan Isas theprod-
ucj of one acre.—'-Iltj-lhidny ani
Pork-Making.
there is, a single experiment will dispel
the doubt. Oats m iy not be a profitable
crop tc raise, and in some sections of
country they are not. but a few acres to
be fed by cutting the bu idles in a cut
ting box and feeding with bran in con
nection with other winter feed will pay
well.
Some varieties of pear arc very liable
to overbear. The Seckel is one of these,
and as usually grown the fruit is too small
to be sa’ablo. The Duchess De Angou-
lcrae is another variety which should bo
thinned when in blossim or soon after.
It should grow to large size, a3 only thus
is its fine flavor developed. A small, im -
perfect Duchess is poor eating. Over-
Bearing is often a cause of blight in peirs.
It is the formation of seeds that most
exhausts vitality, and therefore thinning
should be done early. One fruit to a
cluster of blossoms is enough, and the
crop will be worth more than if c
■were allowed to grow.
Few farmers’ wives realize how much
of the success of their gardens depends
upon themselves. Not that they should
do the heavy work—n:tby any means.
Taey have ways of interesting lure bands
and sons that outsiders do not dream of.
A mess of canned pea 9 , pickled bean? or
dried sweet corn about the tinu for
planting these vegetables, will almost
certainly make the garden a topic of con
versation at the breakfast or dinner-
table. Later in the season the housewife
can save soapsuds for the melon and cu
cumber hills, and if the has tho influence
that a woman thould. will be able to
hive the garden well cared for.
clubs, spears, arrows and other similar
weajjons. In carving they display great
ingenuity, and while the figures as shown
on the paddles are not exactly, pretty,
they are very intric ate,- and arc not un
like similar work done in China.
The figures on the paddle represent
idols, ana, according to the islander’s be
lief, if upon his boat paddle there is
carved a figure of an idol ho can safely
navigate anywhere. In this connection
it may be well to state that these island-
thc boldest and most skillful
canoe navigators in the Pacific. They
make voyages extending over many
months, trusting Providence, or rathei
rain, to supply them with fresh water.
They navigate by means of a small chart
his menagerie at Nineveh broke loose. Tho
inhabitants of the palace were in terror;
the King in the palace watched the fierce
bounds of the animals with simple curi
osity as to whom they would attack.
Suddenly a scream is heard, and ho sees
his favorite wife the object of the tiger’s
stealthy attack. He fastened/ down,
walked uu to the beast,'cried ‘^Follow
fne!” ana the tiger submitted to tho
great King. The tiger was not so early
known in Europe as the lion, but the
Romans imported them for their games.
Usually the gladiators who had to en
counter them entered the arena in full
armor, with , heavy swords and pikes.
Groat was the excitement, then, when it
was proclaimed that one daring man
•would meet them armed only with a
whip. He was a Gaul of extraordinary
beauty, bearing the Roman name of Pau-
lus Superbus. He entered the arena ins-^_
his ordinary attire, with nothing but his v
whip. There was no applause from tho
audience to irritate tho tiger. Calmly
and coolly ho entered the ring, and - tho
beast recoiled before him as lie ad
vanced. He raised his whip and
smote fiercely twice, and the tiger
roared and howled. Again tho whip
composed of small sticks tied together
lition of the varre
the point of dc-
and representing the position of the varre
islands as regards t!
parturc.
In warfare their weapons consist oi
clubs, spears and arrows, a!) of whicb
they use with the greatest skill and ac
curacy. The clubs are mode of iron-
wood, and ere very heavy. They are of
various shapes, the most murderous being
the gnarled root of the ironwood tree.
The other clubs arc of lighter character.
The arrows are made of light bamboo,
the points being of ironwood. The
spears are also made out of the same
kind of timber, and run down to a fine
point, which is tipped with a poisonous
preparation. The feather end is fantas
tic and gaudy, a regular bouquet of
feathers plucked from the rarest birds
being used and blended together with a
strict regard for color?.
The islanders,, particularly in the vi
cinity of New Ireland, have no particu
lar love for the whites, and it is not an
infrequent occurrence to find some settler
lying in front of his door dead.
Recipes.
Romaeve Sauce.—A teaspoonfnl each
of grated onions and lemon juice, a salt-
spoonful each of salt, dry mustard, pow
dered sugar and white pepper, one table-
spoonful of vinegar,and three of oil.
an excellent dressing for cold
r for dandelion or lettuce.
Golden Frostino.—Handsome and
. be made by using
the work of some native; who; having
become offended at the white
lain in wait and killed him.
As a race they arc very prolific, and it
is not an uncommon thing, so> Mr. Gray
states, to see from fifteen to- twenty
children in each house, the offspring of
one woman. The natives do not tolerate
polygamy, and after marriage the women
are famous for their fidelity. A sort of
a slave traffic exists throughout the
islands, though, and single women can
be purchased for servants for aincre trifle.
Clothing is a thing unknown in most of
raised, and a^ain it descended e
cawed brute, and then the fearless Gaul
slowly retreated backwa d from his van
quished foe. The besotted Syrian Em
peror Ilcliogabnlus had a team of four
tigers hainessed to his car when he pre
sented himsel to the people a? Bacchus,
and similar stories are told of other Orien
tal potentates.
In tho East they havo b?en used in tho
chase. At least Marco Polo says: “The
Khan of Tartary keeps in his city of
Ivambalamcny lions of Beautiful colors—
white, red, and black stripes—which ho
uses to catch wild boars, bears and deers.”
These cannot have been cheetahs, or
hunting-leopards, for he says that they
were larger than the lions of Babylon.
Indian fakirs have been seen followed by
a tame tiger, like a dog, but they are care
ful to give their dangerous pet no animal
food, but only boiled rice and butter. In
our enlightened days tigers nre common
in every menagerie or zoological garden,
and tamers are quito as common. These
enterprising persons say that it is quite a -*
mistake to suppose that they begin by dc-
priving the beast of food, for hunger only
makes him more furious. They adopt
the plan of depriving him of sleep, giv
ing: him plenty of food with certain drugs •
mixed with it. First and foremost, how-
r, they trust to coolness and courage.
One ingenious gentleman, who lias
studied feline psychology, argues that the
the islands. In and about New Britain’
and Ireland, however, the breech-cloth,
is used.—San Francisco Examiner.
delicious frosting
the yolk? of egg? instead of the whites.
It w.ll harden just as nicely a? that
dees. This is -particularly good . for
orange cike, harmonizing w.th the
color of the take in a way to delight the
soul of those who love rich coloring.
Dried, or Smoked Beef.—Shave it
thin, then pat in your spider a pint of
rich cream, place oa the stove and stir it
while boiling until it is rich and thick;
then drop in the shaved beef and dish at
once. Some persons like this served on
toast; it is very nice if cold_ potatoes are
chopped and warmed over in milk and
served at the same time.
Vegetable Soup—Peel and cut up
very fine three onions, three turpips, one
canot and four potatoes, put them into a
stew pan with a quarter of a pound of
butter, the same of ham and a bunch of
Strength of the Anarchists. '
Acco:ding to the New York Mail ana
Rcpre.e, Romanoff Mczeroff, a* prominent:
Russian Nihilist, is living in.the metrop
olis under an assumed name.. In an in
terview he was asked about the numeri
cal strength of the Anarchists and re
plied :
“These figures are as nearly correct as-
it is possible to get them:.
lO.OOOiNew York.......2,5001
.Chicago* 5,000
Germany
parsley; pas? them
Farm and Garden Notes.
■Windows in stables should be so
nged that the light will strike both
eyes of the horse with equal force. They
.1. 1.7 7 ..... If nAcn'K'n
two minutes
sharp'fire; then add a goed spoonful of
flo;:r, mix. well in, in listen with two
Quarts of broth, and one pint of boiling
» :i ...
Should be pieced in the rear, if possib’e,
and if this cannot be done they should
be placed in front of tl e ho sc. When
the windows a e placed in front they
should be provided with shutters or
blinds, th&t the light may he regulated
according to the brightness of the day.
A Colorado sheep grower of large e
pcriencc, has never failed to ,K
sheep by dipping them *
milk: boil up, stirring the while; sea-on
with salt : nd sugar, strain.
Cooking Potatoes—Pare the potato
t _ lutiou of
sulphur and 1 lime, the qiroportioii bernr
twenty-five pounds of sulphur aud twelve
and onehalf p-Kinds of lime to one hu.i-
drei gallons water. The li quir is kept
at 110 degrees to 1 SO. degrees by tie
thermoraeter in the dipping vat. He
also feeds sulphur with salt regularly.
A swEne breeder says that in weaning
‘ there is something more to bi
been paid off. The Exchange is clways
in executive session, as none but mem
bers and clerks are admitted.—New Tori
Graphic.
The Heated Term.
When spring-time skies are glowing.
And cooling breezes blowing.
reflects o
; vacation;
He thinks of divers places,
And finally embraces
is countrifleJ
—TidEV.s.
from their mother. They should be
weaned gradually, so as not to get any
stunt or set back. To take pigs away
before they have been taught to eat gives
them a check for at least two weeks.
Feeding them in. a separate place to
which they have acces? will accustom
them to eating.
Geese can be fattened cheaply, as they
will eagerly consume chopped turnips or
any other kind of cheap material at this
season; but to get them very fat they
and slice it up, but not too thin.. Place
the slices in a large pie-dish, as if you
Austria 10,(X
Switzerland 12,000 Cincinnati 200-
France 8,O0O St Louis 150,
England 15,0001 Buffalo * 100
“This shows a total of 85,000 in Europe'
and 9,150 in America,” resumed Mczeroff.
after he had scanned the table he had
prepared. “We must add something: to.
this for places not accounted for,” he
continued, “and we will, put down, tho-
American Anarchist population at 10,000
and that of Europe at 95,000 all. told..
This is the top figure. The small num
ber in Russia, which is tho birthplace of
Anarchy, may be a surprise, but there-
thc order is entirely overshadowed by
Nihilism. The fiercest Anarchists are- the-
Russian Poles and the Bohemians and
Hungarians, and they are gaining in
numbers. Ireland is omitted; from, the-
list because that country does, not take
kindly-to Anarchist doctrines. The fol
lowers of the order in England; are quite
numerous, but no trouble- is- looked for
in tbpt quarter while Queen Victoria, is
ou the thron?. A programme- of strictly
martial music is on the KBs after her
Majesty's- funeral takes place-.’* -
3iPhiladelphia .... .250
were to make an apple-pie. Pour into
the dish a very little water, drop a few
slices of butter upon the potatoes,sprinkle
then\ with salt and pepper, cover the
whole with another plate, and set the
dish in a hot oven. Twenty minutes’
time is sufficient for the baking.
Hot Cabbage Salad.—Take a firm,
white head, shred or chop enough to
nearly fill a quart dish, put it in the
dish, sprinkle the top with a half-tea-
spooaful of black pepper and two or
three tablespooafuls white sugar; put
half a cup of butter in a spider; when it
is brown stir into it the following mix
ture : Half cup of sour cream, three well-
beaten eggs, half cap of vinegar; let it
boil a moment and pour it over the cab
bage; cover and keep in a warm plaice
until wanted.
Chicken Salad—One large chicken
boiled till tender; when cool take all the
meat from the bones; use it all except
the skin; cut it up in small pieces; to a
quart of chicken, add one pint of celery
cut fine. Dressing: One tahlespoonful of
mustard, moistened; piece of butter the
size of au egg, half a teaspoonfql of salt,
a little pepper, half a cup ot vineger.
Put all Qa the stove to scald. Beat three
tiger* perceiving effects only and not
causes, attributes the courage that braves
it to some supernatural power. He is
astonished, ana thrown into a state of
timid surprise. On this sentiment de
pends the life of the tamer. All the sur-
soundings, the lights, the brass bands,
the crowds, are calculated to demoralize
the beast. Then comes the tamer with
his heavy whip. He strike? the bars and
floor of the cage, strikes right and left,
and a shudder of awe runs through the
creatures; they arc cowed, not tamed.
But of course tigers have also'been tamed
by kindness. They soon begin to know
their friends; they like to bo carrcssed,
and behave like cats, arching their backs,
rubbing up against the man, almost pur
ring. On shipboard they have been let
loose oq deck. Like man, they are most
cruel and treacherous when the pangs of
hunger tear them.—Harper** Bazar.
light two Miles Under Water..
In the Lake of Geneva Meisrs. Fol and
Sarasin found sufficient light to affect
very sensitive photographic plates at
about fire hundred and fifty feet, the
S „t at that depth being about equal at
di-day to that at the surface on a clear
moonless night. In Ihc Mediterranean
(Hiring bright sunlight the last trace of
light was lost at a depth of 1,300 feet.
But an examination of the eyes of certain
crustaceans lately dredged from the
abyssntal regions of the Atlantic con
vinces Professor S. I. Smith that despite
the objections of physicists, same light
probably reaches even beyond 12,000
feet. He thinks that, on. account of the
purityof the water in mid-occau, light
might reach this depth as readily
8,000 feet or even 1,200 feet near tho
shore.
Portraits on Bank Notes.
The heads on the National Bank notea •
of different denominations are not very
generally known, says the Toledo Blade,
and very few persons can tell what por
traits are on the different note3. They,-
are as follows:
A Substitute for Ivory.
An extensive industry has arisen in
France to supply aa artificial substitute
•for natural ivory in view of the growing
insufficiency of tho latter to meet the de
mands of art and industry. The majority
of the products formerly employed were
obtained by- injecting white wood with
chloride of lime under strong pressure^
At the Amsterdam Exhibition, however,
almost aU the products had been pre-
•100, Jas. Monroe.
$1,000, W. L. Marcy-
Gold Notes,
$20, Garfield:
$50, Silas Wright '
$100, T. H. Benton
$500, Lincoln
$1,000, A. Hamilton
Tall and Heavy.
A newspaper ia Georgia w.as extremely
proud in ir.entioaing the fact that in that;
State there were six brothers who meas-
nred 38 feet six inches, and weighed;
each over 200 pounds. A correspondent
in Lancaster, Ontario, states that they
pared with tbe tones of sheep and waste P° ssess ? tojlyofcisht brothers who
pieces of deer and kid skins. ‘ The hones I measured 52 feet 1 inches, a«d then-
are for this purpose macerated and ! un ‘tcd we.gh s amenmt to 1,720 pounds.
average of 215 pounds eaeh.. Their
ao is Coade, and they are well known
the county. The tallest is 6 feet 7
few'hnndreths’ S i-whes; the * or, “‘ 6 fee ‘ \ inche “ ; 5®
j j a heaviest weighs 277 pounds, and tn»
bath ■ Bghtest 195 pounds.—Montreal Star.
which are added a few hundreths
alum; the mass is then filtered, dried
tho air, and allowed to harden in a b
of alum, the result being white tough
plates, which are i&otc easily wVtfd
than natural ivory,
These are ia enisteaoe to day 34,00}
newspapers.