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The Exeter Times, 1886-4-15, Page 6iV EGY TIAN R+fVIA torp of Love and Wild .&(venture, founder] upon Start'', ng Revela- tions the Caree of Arabi Dash: �t10n� in�' c� � Pasha, Bet file Author el " NINA, Tice. Nlau raT CHAPTER XIaVIII, t' YOUR DAITORTER IS ALREADY res WIPE In MOSLR,U Lem." „ At THE Rep ?ID14s," r' '.LHa HUMAN' Sax, " Wealth oonfieeated 1 outlawed i for only consorting with rebels ? By Jove, what then will beoouie of ran for bestowing my daughter on this meth rebel and availing myself of his l?retectioa and countenance all through the entire affair if the Khedive's party only get the upper band again ? Can that au, Glad- stone, really mean anything more than his usual bounoo, I wonder ? Aralalbaa persuad- ed me, and I've peranaded myself, too, that it will be all amok° and no fire, just as it was nt Dulcigao. I wish I knew what those d-- ironalads really meant to be about." Thus the hanker refieoted, and it might have been as well perhaps if he had not re fleeted quite so long, for the war minieter at this moment came up with a smiling face to inform him that the Ulema had done hie work, that the Moslem marriage rite was over and that the Chrietian one was about to be commenced. " Don't you think that after all the second ceremony had better be postponed," stam- mered Mr. Trezarr. " At all events for a few days ; yoe, for a few days, we will say.,' " That is as you like," reepondod Arabi, with a alight elevation of the brows, "The second ceremony was to satisfy your own scruples. Your daughter is already my wife by Moslem law, and as my wife I shall as- suredly boa°aforth treat her." " You told mo your position was quite see euro. Tb t the fleets would only threaten 1" " I said rightly. Look out of the window and you will see the entire French squadron steaming away toward Port Said, Toe Brit. ish will soon follow them." " 1 hcpe so ; I really hope so. Bat it ssems to me that the ships of every other nation are getting away as well, and under every inch of canvas that they can spread." Arabi gave utterance to what sounded very like an oath, as glancing ill turn toward the window he perceived that Mr. Trezarr spoke the truth. " It looks strange, as though they were sunning from some apprehended immediate danger," said ho. " True I received the British admiral's ultimatum yesterday, but of course it le merely an idle threat made to please and humbug the bondholders. A Brit. ieh Liberal government will hardly dare to trample ander foot a national uprising such as ours, I therefore say °gain. as I here often said before, that it is Daloigno re- peated." Hardly had the words quitted his lips, however, when a sonorous boom came from seaward that canned every window in the house to shake, and it was quickly followed by as awful roar as though the very heavens had been rent asunder. The terrible bom- bardment of Alexandria had commenced, Nellie was in a vary agitated and hyster- foal state by the time she got indoors. A glass of wine restored her in some measure, bat her agitation grew atrongor than ever when Arabi Paella entered blue room, closely followed by a Monza or Moslem bishop in long flowing robes and a Protestant clergyman Ih orthodox black coat and white tie. " I hope you will not think me guilty of any unecemly haste, Mise Trezarr" said Arabi Pasha, coming forward, " My time holengs to tench an extent to my country that I can devote but very little of it even to my nearest and niy dearest. It is ale° of the greatest importance, both for your parents'sakos and your own, that you should all three as quickly as possible regain the safer shelter of my palace at Cairo, where at present the populace are muoh leas incensed againet your creed and race than they are an Alexandria, where, perbaps, in a very short white even the soldiers would refuse to protect you. Your parents having de- cided that it will be for your supreme wel- fare that you become my wife, I have here a priest of my faith and nae of your own, In order that nothing may be wanting to make our union a eared one, and believe me when I say that in the future you shall never re• gret it," and here ho camp to a full atop and waited for a reply. " Oh, God, have pity on me, I believe that you mean me well and that you Iove mo also, bat I cannot marry you, 1 am not yet twenty-four hours a widow and my heart is in the bloody grave of a murdered husband, murdered by the fanatics of your creed." " The fanatics of all creeds murder upon '000asion," replied the war minister, amine - what bitterly, "and, besides, 1 gather frcm :your priest (pointing towarde the. Anglican clergyman) that your mirriage yesterday was not lawful one and that, therefore, ycu have no husband. Re says that being under age you could not have really married with- out your parents' consent." " How name you to learn that I was mar- ried at all yesterday ? I only informed my parents of the fact a quarter of an hour ago," exclaimed our heroine, sharply. The war minister looked confused for a minute, but then made answer " I cannot explain at length, but I know of everything that occurre in Alexandria. It is a neceesity of my position and of the disorganized times, Come, Miss Trezarr, or, rather, my own Nellie, surely your parents know what is best for you ? They are your natural protectors and your best advisors, your truest friends, and those that have your Interests most at heart. You will yield to their advice and entreaties, I am sere ?" " In all other maters but this present. But in this 3 would die rather." This looked very like a dead block and as it might havo proved had not the Anglican clergyman Dame to the reeone. No doubt he was a well meaning man and was, moreover, grateful to the war minister for having preserved his life, an event that had taken place an hour previously. " In France," said the minister, "whioh I need not say is a Christian country—to a great Extent at least—parents marry their children without their having any voice in the matter, and I have been trdd that such marriages, as a rule, turn out happier than those wherein daughters are left to choose er themselves. Perhaps it would not be well to follow such precedent except in ex- ceptional cases, but where such important stakes aro at Jesus as in the present instance —hem—haw—that is to say—" " Quite ao, my dear sir—quite sc. I catch your meaning perfectly. And you would have added, if I hadn't interrupted eon, that this is just one of those cases—aw—aw —where a beloved child is non compos men- ds entis by reason of severe and repeated shocks to the system, and so really does not know what ie good, proper and right for her to do," This in excited tonus from Mr. Trezarr, and the clergyman nodded assent, "Then the ceremony shall proceed," said Mr. Trezarr, still more rapidly than before, " This marriage is the dearest wish of both her father's and mother's hearts, we know that it le for her future interest, happineas and welfare, and that her choice—that ie to say, their choice—is a noble -minded, large- souled patriot, whom history will pronounce the greatest man of hie age—the preserver of his country—the—the—the—and so forth." It was et this juncture that an Egyptian male domestic, somewhat showily appareled, brought in a tray of refreshments and laid it en the table. As he turned round to retire, he winked at 2bellie and also screwed up his mouth in an odd kind of a way, yet she noticed neith- er action. But the fellow did not seem to be one bit diaooneorted, for the next instant he per- formed the same impressive tbough not par- ticulerly exproseivo pantomime right in Mr. Trozerr'e face, as the banker stood somewhat apart from the rest and nigh unto the door, and then he said in impressive, but low - toned accente, " You'll get into a mess, old cock ; you'll fall between two stools, you will," and finished up by pressing something hit° his hand. The scrap of paper proved to be a cutting from the morning a Commerce, a daily paper published in Alexandria, and though he dared not take time to read it all through, he in half a minute or less had glanced over and caught its full significance. It was an affieial notice from the Khedive,. stating that in view of the vast number of the native population who were thrown out of work and actually starving, owing to the closing of the European places of business In Alexandria and Cairo, his highness would guarantee against any toes at the hands of the rebele ail who would be bold enough to return to their banks, counting houses, man- ufaotories or shops and carry en their re- egectivo trades or buaineaaea as usual ; but that at the same time no Europeans ehonld be entitled to any indemnity who had, nave under compulsion amounting to fear of death, afforded any aid to or resorted with the rebele, whether suchaidconsisted in money, area; rations, or even thelr open oaunten• snco and support, but, on the contrary, their wealth should be oonfiricated, and they themselves should be outlawed," and then the proclamation wont on to say that "with the aid of his highness's allies the rebellion 'rvonld`very ahortly be quelled and order re- etored throughout Egypt." The expression off Mr, Trezarr't fad when he lied finished reading was the moot comi- cal one imaginable, CHAPTER XLIX. IN WHICH THE CANNON ROAR AND THE DUMB SPEAK The voice of the " loud mouthed artil- lery" spoke only one sentence to Mr. Tre. zarr, and kept on repeating that sentence, which took the form of " You've fallen be- tween two stools, for We all up with Arabi. You've fallen between two stools, for it's all up with Arabi." The bombardment opened, he knew that Great Britain had gone too far to recede with honor, too far to be able to back out without diagrams, end that she stood irrevocably pledged to stand by her protease, Prince Tewfik. But the effect of the roaring of the cannon, the rattling of the Gatlings and Norden- feldts and the shrieking beau of the rockets had a very different effect on Arabi Pasha to that it had on any of the other auditors in that room assembled. It seemed to change hie aspect, usually so calm and benignant, into that of a perfect fiend. " I have been deceived, betrayed, lured on by false hopes only to be crushed at last by t',e moat unexpected of events. Caree the British government for not being consis- tent to its duplicity and for raising the lying cry of ' Wolf , Wolf 1' so often that at last no ore believed that the animal would ever be unchained. But this is no time for idle words, for great deeds are expected of me, and by Allah and the prophet, great deeds shall yet be wrought. Ladies and gentle- men, you must at once take refuge in the underground cells and °ellare, where alone you will be safe, for this building stands di- rectly open to the fire of at least three of the British ironolads, whose huge balls may at any moment knock it into te shapeless heap of stones, and yet you are a hundred times safer here than you would be in the streets," he said, Nellie's expreselon of face betokened that ebe felt safer now than she had done five minutes previously, before the bombardment had commenced, and the war minister no- ticed this and bit hie lip savagely. He clapped his hands thrioo, and then walking across to her said brusquely : " You are my wife, little one, whether you like it or no, and so you will have to submit to the will of Allah and to content yourself with what cannot be avoided, He throw his arm around her and would havo kissed her had she not etruggisd vio- lently and so escaped the embrace. Her mother did not censure her for so doing, but sat phlegmatically still, and Mr. Trezarr did not even notice the action, for he was still muttering " D ---Gladstone 1" and " I've fallen between two stools," by turas. Arabi Pasha plainly enough noticed the change in Nellie's parents' sentiments to- ward him, and equally plainly knew the cause, " If after all I can climb to the top of the tree and maintain myself there I will show them that I remember it, and give them good reason for remembering it also," he mutter- ed to himself, but as his two orderlies at this juncture entered the room in anewor to hie handclapping he turned round and said to them : " Ratib and Khassim, escort these, my honored guests, below stairs and make such empty cells as you have at disposal as mom fortable for them as posaiblo, with oarpete and other necessaries taken from the rooms above. Place at their service as a guard over them—a guard, L mean to say, for their protection—such men as you can depend on for fidelity, and remember that you two will have to answer to me with your lives, If necessary, for whatever evil happens to them whilst they are in your keeping." Having thus lashed his instructions he turned again to Mr, and Mra. Truett and said : " You will do well to at once fo bei, my orderlie e, and: to take your daughter, my wife, with you." Ile then again tried to take l'ollie's hand, and this time she gave 11 him, for she did not like to part with any one in anger, especially when there was a possibility that she wold never pee themmore. Butwhen eeneoaraged by this notion, he essayed to kiss her, she ouoo more repulsed him and her eyes flashed angrily Fie elle did Ba, flo made no further effort, but said, some what pointedly "Farewell, then, my wife,until we next meet," and nodding haughtily to them whom he oensidercd to bo his father and mother -imam he adjusted hie sword and sallied out of the, room. No sooner had ho gone than the ordr rlics (the same twit who, on the preceding day, oouduetod Captain Donelly to his plane of ilia imprisonment), made a sign to the Tru' zarr party to follow them, which they lost no time in doing. They soon found them- selves in a narrow paesago, and descending a somewhat steep incline into what was evidently, from the humid email that cams up from holow, some sort of a subterranean. When they bad got to the bettors they came to ranges of doors on either side, some of which were open, others oluaed and fast- ened with hoavy ohaina and bare. A minute or two later she beheld her father and the clergyman pashed into one of there presumed dungeons, whi1at a few seoonde more caw her mother and lrereolt• the tenants of another, and before leaving them there one of the orderllea said in It mixture of French and Egyptian, which Nellie could just make out the meaning of : " We meet look you up, but not so much to prevent your getting out as to hinder others from getting in to cut your throats. But that our lives would pay the forfeit we would gladly do that ourselves, but as his excellency would have our heads, even if others did it, we will take the greatest care of you, for great is the self love of moat men," "I don't think that anything can hurt us hare," said Nellie, " for the ground rises outside even to half the height of the win- dow, and the bottom of that is at least four feet above our heads as we stand upright, Oh, there is a strange noise at the door." "1 believe It is some one trylag to speak to us through the keyhole. Hist, Nellie." At first it aounded like a mere blowing through the keyhole—a blowing that was first cousin to human whistle, however— but on Nellie going close over to the door and bending her head down until it wan al- most on a level with the look, the whistle changed into 'wanly articulated words, and this was what the words were : " I'm dumb, but I've my wits about mo, so cheer up, for fair and easy goes far in a day and all's well what ends well, only the ending ain't come." Then the voice ceased and the seuud of stealthy receding footsteps took its place. CHAPTER L. STONE WALLS DO NOT A PRISON MARE, NOR IRON BARS A CAGE. Sorely no propphesy, even of the Sphinx, could have beon much more Incomprehen• Bible to the uninitiated than the one which had jest been telephoned through the key- hole. It was intended to give hope, that was certain, and it was spoken in Eaglish, which perhaps, was the moat hopeful thing about it, but more then those two facts had to be guessed at. It is impoaalble to detect the natural tones of a man's voice when it is sent through such an orifice, more especially when it is reduced to a whisper, so that Nellie, convinced of the futility of the at- tempt, anon gave up even guessing, and her mother had never commenced to guess, Perhaps it would have been just as well had both ladies 000upied their minds in that manner, since it would in some degree have relieved the monotony of their con- finement, onfinement, for it was impossible for either of them to climb up and look out of the upper portion of the little square window (the lower half was beneath the level of the ground outside) as Frank Danolly had done in his Dell the preceding day, but was not now do- ing o- In rhe reader may wander e.t this and think it moist atrange that he should not be seeing all that he could see of the momentous events that were oocnrrina without. But the fact was that like a tree Irishman Frank didn't care much about a row unless he could plunge into the very middle of it ; and besides, he was turning the terrible ex- citement and the terrific din to (Aa he most sincerely hoped) better account in another way. For he had found in one of his pockets one of those knives that seem to comprlee an entire tool chest, the majority of his in. struments being o'erlapped at the back by a crooked picker for getting a stone out of a horse's shoe, and the young officer had taken it into his head that with it he might be able to pick his way through a stone wall to freedom. He thought he remembered that the cell next to his own on the righ` was unoccu- pied and the door open. If, therefore, he could tunnel through the wall Into it he would have no further ob- ataoles to overcome save the living ones, and he decided that he wouldn't oven think about them just yet. So he sat so work at once, and as modern Egyptian mortar is very poor and Egyptain stone of a very soft and crumbling nature, he now discovered that in all probability his task would be an easier one than he had at first calculated on, As, however, under the moat favorable circumstances, it will take several hours to accomplish, we will leave him at his monot- onous labors and perhaps pop back to see how he gets on by and by. For the present, place aux dames, Not that we shall gain muoh by the change of scene, for one prison cell is very like another, and oven lady captives are not wont to bo very lively companions, Once their dungeon door was opened to admit of a quantity of rugs and cushions being thrown in, to which was presently added a basket of aomowhat daintycorse atibles, a jug of sherbet and a couple of obibo 'quem, with the noceseary accompani- ments. Nellie spread out the ruga, arranged the cushions, and generally set their little room in order, though more for a mother's ease and comfort than her own. Meanwhile, the thunder of the monster guns continued without interruption, min• gled with the ehrioking hiss of rookota and the hoarse rattle of the Nordonfeldts and Garde as, Nellie would have given much had she only been able to clamber up to the window to look oat, hut there was no wooden s trotoher bedstead in this cell, as in Frank Donetly's, to drag underneath to mount on, and even had there boon, with the block pillow as well, Nellie, when standing atop of both, would still haws been too short by a good head and shoulders to have been able to see out, As for eating, she felt that the mere at- tempt would choke hor, but the cool, roe' teething sherbet was meet gratefulto her parched throat and her hot, fevered lips; for, added to her mental tortups and the deep grief which sho felt for her husband's supposed death and which she did not dare to express openly, the blows and lathes which the oruel and vindictive princess had infi i ofed on her etill1 pained her exoensivof . I t^^� Once or ttyieo the wondered how her father. and the Anglioan clergyman woro get ting ou in the adjoining cell on the tight, and oftener etill she wondered what e strange kind of soraving nolee would bsti.lsen against the ether side of the wall ou their left, which, having a very sharia ear, she could plainly distinguish whenever there wan any poroepttlble lull in the fury of the bombardmeut, When she galled her mother's attention to the foot the good lady said first of all that it was sheer imagination, and then declared all of a sudden that elm heard it distinctly, and that it was the death watch and fere boiled their own immediate slaughter. This cheerful way of regarding the phos• omonoa hindered Nellie from makiug any further refercnoc to lt, and ro the day wore on, and on, and at Met the increasing dark - nese (where it had been dimness and gloom from the first) told them that night wee at hand; indeed, the thrill Muzzln cry, whioh from the many minarote rose above even the thunder of the artillery, bad pro- claimed the suuset some minutes previously, even aft in peice and war alike it had pro- claimed it for nearly two thousand years. All at once, too, the rear of the oaunon, which had continued without intsrmissien for ten Itouro, coased, and the atillnost ap- peared heavy opproasive after so muoli noise, And yet it was not a complete silence, for now that all other sounds were still, that monotonous scraping and tapping Doul( be hoard more plainly than ever, as well as Mrs, Trezarr's oft repeated ej sculation cif " The death watch ! The death watch 1 No doubt about it !'' It teemed to give the good lady a kind of morbid eatisfaotion to bo oontinually creak• ing forth an i11 omenod prediction, but after awhile Nellie ceased to hear it, and for the simple reason t at sheer exhaustion at lengilr won the victory over her mental and other aufferiegs and plunged her into a deep and clreamlees sleep. 'Twas destined, however, to be only of a very few hours' continuance, and to be dim turbed in a very strange, alarming and un• accountable manner, tor she was suddenly aroused by some ono tumbling over her, and then as she opened her oyes, eh° felt two hands feeling hor fano and heard a voice ex- claim in half angry and half despairing ae• cents : " All my labor has been in vain, then I thought thio cell was empty and the door open, instead of which here is another un- fortunate, and doubtless as securely locked up e.s I was. I have turned two dangers into one, that ie all, confound it." "Nellie. don't bo talking in your aleap," grunted Mrs. Trezarr in a semi-conscious etete, but the fair girl never heard the pro - mit, for her heart stood still at the sound of that other voice, which seemed to be so strangely familiar to her. Tha owner thereof had, however, caught Mrs. Trezerr's worda, or at all events the word to him most important ot them, the name of Nell, and now he. exclaimed in an excited whisper : " For Gods sake, speak, I cannot, dare not auk who you are, Speak 1 genie 1" Bat there was no need of speech, for at that instant the eleotrio light from one of the British ironclads (again Beare ring along the shore to discover what the Egyptian% were about inside their batteries) threw a radlauce as of a newborn day into the dun• geon cell and showed the wife unto the hus- band and the husband onto the wife. In a moment Nellie had sprung to her feet and thrown herself into Frank's arms with a glad cry; whilst Mrs. Trersrr, turning her heavy head on the pile of oushions which she had heaped underneath it ere consigning herself to the arms of Morpheus, at het auo• ceeded In opening her eyes, which no sooner had she done than (taking in what looked very like a most ghostly stage tableau with lime -light effects) sho screamed out: "Their spirits ! Their apirite ! I knew that the death watch didn't tick for nothing," and would undoubtedly have gene into hysterics under the supposition that her daughter had been dragge 1 forth and murdered whilst she slept, and that her ghost, in cempaay with her previously slaughtered husband's, had come to visit her m this melodramatic manner, had not yet another cause of alarm anted as an antidote. This second cause datum lay in the sad- den opening of the dungeon doer and it voice exclaiming thereat, in art angry whisper : " Dry up, wilt ye ? B:dad inn' if tis ° fay. mole tongues don't bent to mill wheel at clichleg, I Wender ho ;et; bear if, ofd lady• if ye wee as deaf and dumb as ram sell ?' (To BE CONTIN( ED,) A Hopeless Minority, A oto: y ie told of a. Toronto dna/ewer who was detaiced et a smell town in Woerern Canada a while ago,- where a reg ival meeting was iu pregross. He bad met it pe.rty of cenvivial frionde during bis shay there, mad hod .ghat is popularly known as "a load on " Nevertheless, he drifee:l into the revival meeting and tock a scat well up in front. It was rather close in tho church, and the warm air was conducive to sleep, The drnmmcr yielded to the drowsy god, and, after nodding a little, sank Into a pro- found slumber, and slept through the minis- tor'a rather long and dry dire:murse. The audience sang a hymn, and the drummer slept on. Then the evangelist began his ad- dress, and wound up his fervid appeal with this request : "Will all who want to go to (leaven please rise?' Every one in the church except the sleepy drummer arose. When the evangelist asked them to be seated one of the brothers in the earns pow an the sleeping drummer accidentally brush- ed abalnat him as he sat down. Tho drum- mer rubbed his eyes, and, partially awake, hoard the haat portion of the evangelist's re- quest, which wee : "Now I want all of you whe wantto go to Hell to atend up." The drummer struggled a little, leaned forward unsteadily, and rose from hia neat in a dazed sort of way. .A sort of suppressed laugh he heard from some of the younger people, and an expraseion of horror he noticed on the faces of some of the older ones, Steadying himself against the rail he looked et the evangelist an instant, and then amid : "Well, Parson, I don't know just exactly what we're voting on, but you and I seem to be in a hopeless minority." Standing on a Technicality. John Austin was helping load a mov er on a wagon—"Look ont for the Doge," said the man, handling the pole of the ma- chine. John was rolling at the wheel!. "Ouch! Ah 1 Wow 1 why didn't ye tell a fellow bo look out for hie finger&?" "1 told you to look out." "Ha 1 yes ; why didn't ye bell me to look out for my fingers? The Doge can take Care of themselves," .Ansi°- Tho only way in which to permanently settle the. Indian question is to permanently mettle the country they live in. Itis proposed that a medallion portrait of the late Chariot Reade, modeled from a cast a few hours after death, shall be placed In St, Paul'e Cathodral, London, Ups. Sue's Matters.. A good many aro thinking that pop:+ibly rhe run o/'sap . is not So much an upward Low as wan aupposed. Somo now liken it to a proreur4 ot artp from all eiders, there to ec a reservoir of sap, so to speak, In the wood ; and when we emir the pores of the wd, aisarom sides oausoeoothe runthe. 1fprthiouro be sfo, thenetil a very small hole, and potently a very shallow one, la boot, When I was a boy a three,quarter bit woe used for tapping trees, the eerie made deep, and soon a aeoond hole bored close by. Now we aro down to threa,elghth Inch bites and fuck deep holes, and no second spout, and we neem to be getting the sane amount of syrup and sugar, That the quality is better is undisputed ; but at the same time we are cueing better and casttier uteaaile, and far loss wood to disoolor sap and syrup. Pregame collection oj, sap and rapid boiling Are the first requisit,s of success in maple auguring. Sep quickly begsas to lose quality if not boiled at once, and it should be the aim of the maker to have largo bail- ing capaolty, so there shall be no largo ao- cumulatione of sap on hand. A few dollars invented is an extra pan for tho arab, so that the sap may be tawnier boiled, and leas neoeselty exist for night boiling would be judiciously expended, it looks as though with metal utensils and evaporators, with continuous flow, some makers had with the limit of actual perfection and wore sacrificing color and flavor both. Water-whito syrup will not sell without a envied= that it has been " stuffed " with white auger, as our makers found out last season. A beautiful amber tint is wanted, audit should he the makers' aim to keen as cacao as possible to natural Witte and flavors, and not attempt improve- ments upon Nature and her gifts, Ths plan of canning syrup is .alwayo up for discucaion, and both not and cold plans are advocrsted. If it wore not for a alight deposit in the onus, I should favor canning hot at the evaporator. I never saw syrup that had become cold and was thea re• heated but had heat a per cent. of iia flue flavor and had its color darkened. Fur home use, whoa a little silica sand in the bottom of the can is not to bring the charge of " sanding," there is no other way so nice, The syrup own be thoroughly strain- ed through double thicknesses of flannel, and will be strictly pure. If cans are filled absolutely full, cold•filled will keep all right eepooially if the temperature be umform at about 45 The wholesale adulteration practised by city doelere, using a good deal of glu- cose syrup with a vary little fine maple syrup as a flavor, should be circumvented in some way, for it weakens the market to the farmers' disadvantage. If makers would deal as much as possible with con- sumers, and as nearly as they can with commission houses who will not dual in adulterated goods, a great gain would be made, for this would tend to restore con- fidence in the parity of the syrup and bring more ataieiactory prices. Management of Young Lambs. The sooner the young lambs'are docked, and the males are emasculated, the easier the operations may be performed. We have been In the habit of going through the flock once a week with a pair of sharp sheep shears, and clipping the tails and castrating by one single clip, The lamb is held under the left arm, and the skin of the tail is slipped up toward the root with the fingers of this hand ; the tail is than clipped off with the sheers. A pinch of powdered bead stone (sutpheite of copper), is put on the wound, and the wool le drawn down and matted together with the little blood whioh wages. Nothing more is required, and the wound heals quickly, the lamb evincing no indications of °suffering. It is best to cut the tail about two inches from the root, so as to leave suffioient of it to (weeps injary if the atump does not heal favorably, and the joint next to the cut alougheoff ; this, however, rarely happens if the shears aro clean, and at the name time sharp. Live Stock in April. Bathe the horses, shoulders with cold water or brine as quick as the collars come cff, before the sweat begins to dry, and rub off the oallara and eaddle pieces with a moist cloth. This will prevent sore should - era, All ohangoe of food should be gradu- al, but in proportion to the work. Heavily taxed muscles make demands on the stemma ; hence, increase the feed after work begins—never in anticipation. A horse fed up before he is called to work tete soft and fat. Be careful to protect horses from drafts when warm ; rub down, blan- ket, or let them stand in close stabled, Cows at calving reed little care, the lees the better if in a loose box or the open field. " Fussing " over them is always pro. vocative of injury. Give no grain, but a loosening diet of bran and roots for some days, and gradually increase feed as feverish symptoms plea away. Keep calves grow- ing thriftily ; skim -milk with a little linseed meal scalded and added to it as a substitute for cream, is jaat as good for them am whole milk fad from the pail. Shoop must be kept in dry yards or there will be danger to their feet. Ewes with lambs should have grain daily, at least until they come to pasture. Swine.—Those who buy young pige for ceding should buy none but half- bloods by the Berkshire, Yorkshire, Poland or other pure sire. They grow faster and fatten with lest fend. Poultry, --Reduce the stock of fowls as soon as this year's hatch Is well provided for, but hold on to old turkeys and old geese, they get used to the ways of the farm and are worth much more as breeders than young once. Ducks also are good till three years (A. A tur- key is in her primo at five, and a goose at twenty. --�'- — Buried in a Stone Jar. Near Burkesville, Ky„ on the Camber - land River, a man named Raven was one day fishing oft the bank, Thin was in 1866, or a year later. The bank was of clay, six or eight feet above the water, and Raven sat with his lege hanging over. He had been sitting there for an hour, swinging hie heels agaihst the hank, when hie boot struck something whioh gave out a curious sound, and he instinctively looked down. Between his feet ho saw a steno jar, or at least a portion of ono, protruding from the bank, It was at least four feet below the nurfacs, and ho had considerable trouble) to unearth it. When he had done so, however, and removed the wooden cover fastened' over the mouth, ho found the contents is bonelet of a gold watoh, three or four gold rings, six diver tea - anomie, $300 in Kentualsy State; bank bills, $50 in gold, $20 in silver half dollars, and about a quart of dimes and fivo•cent'pioces. Although the jar was tightly oorked, the dampnosa had got in and mildewed the bank notes f nn,f il they frill to pidaea in his bands, Hod they been all right, however, they would leave been of no isItrincie value, as cattle) State bank 044nl04oa had given plate to groonbeolew Spooulption as to whoplisntod the jar' brought no three to tho owner further than that it could have been uo resident of the gountry. 11 had probably boon in the ground many years, for the river had boon eating away at the bank with each freshet, and finally brought it portion of the jar to light, It must have been burled six or eight feet from the bank at first, JUMBO AND HIS SKELETON, IIe Hie Been Stalked. and Will Joins the Cit. ens Again. " When Jumbo tried to knock out a freight f000nzotive at St, Thouaas, Ont., last Sap. ten:rhor, ho not oaly made a failure of it, but got so badly mangled that he died three minutes tater. If this had happened in England, the chances are that Jumbo would have been buried, the Prince of Wales would have worn crape on ids arm for re while and a ton tombstone w old have held him down. Bat Phinoas T. " .for Barnum )Y, to Sneer that th• Amarines people would never forgive him if he let Jumbo slip out of sight lu that way. He wrote to Professor Henry A. Ware! of Roaheeter and asked him if he would set the beg elephant up in such shape that everybody who had ever seen him bon- ing things in te aircue prooeasion would know him ae once, So since October last Profes- sor lila; d and four of his men havo bean at work ou the reproduction, It is now fin- ished. A tewny ]:aired poet named Tedy Hamil- ton guided six young Now York citizens to Roohester to ace the elephant, They drove through bllzz areae to Profeseor Ward's big musetu n on top of a high hill to take a look at it, Professor Ward mot the elephant huetere half way and led them toward a big yellow building that looked like a'locomotive round house. He threw open a wide door, and standing cu a thick oaken truck, and filling up half the house, with :i jovial smile wreathhsg hie tromeirdous trunk foto a gi- gentle hook, there was Jumbo as natural looking as could be, When the Cencdian locomotive got through having fun with Jumbo, ho was not much more than a heap of poker chipe and cold meat. There were 1,538 pounds of elephant hide around the wreck, and it was with thea that the Professor set about build- ing up a. new Jumbo. After the skin had been thoroughly tamed by two menth'a soaking in areenlo and corrosive sublimate of lime, it was ready for a mounting, When the hide arrived at Rochester Prof. Ward began to make a model to mount it on. Oa a foundation at nine -inch oak blame he planted Dight standards of two. inch wrought iron, Two of these were to form the core of each leg, whloh was then built out with wood. With the aid of a life photograph and an elaborate scale of measurement, made long before Jambo'a death, the builder wad able faithfully to reproduce Jumbo's giant form in wood. This frame he hammered and chlealed and planed until it looked like au elephant with his coat off on a hot day. Then began the task of laying on the skin, Every wrinkle was replaced Qtly as it used to be when Jambe wore"' t^ and all the omit rents made by the locamstive vera so carefully mended that hie own mother couldn't have found them. It took 74,480 Swedish iron nails to fasten it all en, and it naw fits him bettor than it ever did be• fore, The way in which Jumbo's mild brown eyes are imitated in glass would delight a poet's heart and make him tuna up bas lyre for all it was worth. C. A, Akeley and W, J. Critohldy, two young men who knew all about building elephants, gave Professor Ward lots of valuable help. Ae it stands on its platform 1 ` ew ole• phant weighs over 6.000 pound and le as solid as a rock. It is so traced 1 at all the travel and knocking around in the world cannot damage it. During drone hours Jumbo redivivus will be saddled and chil- dren will ride around the ring on his back like they used to when he was alive. Be- tween the performances he will ride from town to town in a specially constructed oar. Hs is the biggest job a taxidermist ever worked on. The chalk white skeleton of Jumbo stood a few feet away. The mounting of it was the biggest problem in articulation that Profeseor Ward ever tackled. Every bond in its colossal framework has not only been made to keep its proper place, bnt;the whole is made so strong that it will be able to bear all the knocking about and rough hand- ling, by Lind and sea, that falls to the lot of a ekelotcn in the clrcus business. Pre - fernier Ward in authority for the statement that it is the cnly mounted skeleton of an adult African elephant in this country, and at the same One the largest skeleton, of a modern terrestrial mammal in the world. Staffed Jambe and Jumbo's ekeloton awe the most gigantic specimens of the natural - fat's art that the American public has ever had a chance to gaze on. A Canadian Dog Story. A lad was orodsing the fields in the country, some distance from any dwelling, when he was pursued by a large and fierce dog belonging to the gentleman whose land he was crossing. The lad was alarmed and ran for his life. Ho struck into a piece of woods and the deg gained on him, when he looked around to see how near the creature was, and, tumbling over a atone, he pitched over a precipice and broke his leg. Unable to move, and at the meroy oft the beast, the poor fellow saw the dog coming down upon him, and expected to be seized and torn, when, to his surprise,; the dog came near, and, perceiving Wife, was hurt, instantly wheeled about ad went for that aid whioh ho could nnt'ren- der himself, There was no ane within reach of the child's voice, and he must have perished there or have dragged his broken limb along and destroyed ;it, so as to render amputation necessary, if the dog had not brought help. The dog went off to the neared house and barked for help, Not receiving the attention, he made an- other visit of sympathy to the boy, and then to the house, there making such de- monstrations of anxiety that the family followed him to the place whore the child lay, A Careless Cook. Ouatomer (to restanrani proprietor)—I find this piece of shoe string in my soup, air, Peopriotor—Shoo string, sea? (To veal - ter) —Here, eal-ter)-Here, yon, got tris gentleman another plate of soup and tell tho cook to strain it, (To customary apologaticeliy)—`Che gook has strict orders to strain the soup, sir, bo - fore serving, but sometimes mho farg ata, and there is always diesxtiefaotion, The difference between the modern ri i• list and organized labor is that When the latter strikes it hits something. 2�t