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stable..
r pond its sped its
When* lent has rl
ruiewIon is ended and it Is ready to die,
The association between the sone and.
daughters and the hired man or woman le
more fntimeto on the farm tban in other
!bInds of bullies" and therefore there le
more need of oare in the charaoter of the
ti help.,"
Dr, Hoskin" olefins Chet on hundreds of
farm. wherethem are
no barn the
eon tinder the oo where the Daft e
',tend is wo th sumach or erly aa much
per ten ae tae tet�iillrtxs ef comitieroe,
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r n
One t tr a
n an Wenn h
valuable a manurial plant is beoauee it has
e long or tap root by whioh materials for
beneath the enrfeoe are brought into a
valuable shape for plant nee.
When it is understood that if allowed to
ripen eeed perfectly the gran lona all ire
rich Jaime and bemires mere thy etraw—
woody fibre, a little silicate of potash, and
e very trifli quantity of vegetable ex.
tractive ma er--the importance of cutin
p_
cutting
Ito thet 1 be eat
ttime will apparent.
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Farmer., whore whole Information re•
lative to their business ie bounded by the
narrow experience of themeelvee and
eel hbore, d . whioh may be redloally
erroneone and Mucus in practice, are often
found eo convinced t f their own wiedom
and eo dogmatic In their epiniono as to be
wholly nnlmpreguable to teeohine.
If a farmer wishes to educate his boys'
that they may become good and contented
followers of his own calling, hie first
etep should be to educate himself,
In order that he may make enaceeeful
farmers of them he must himeelf have e
just understanding of the poeatbllitioe of
his venation, and a genuine lave for farm
work.
Hard and steady work must be done to
get a bountiful harvest, but we raise a word
of caution about overwork. It le not
necessary for farmers to work themselves
to death in order that they may reap
abundantly. Is it still necessary for
farmers to continue ae their forefathers did
and work from anti to run 1 We do not
hold that a eyatem of eight hours of labor a
day can be enoceeefully inaugurated on the
farm, but we are sure that the days can be
much shortened in many instances without
detriment and even with good results.
A market gardener has a very fine cow
that was milked week after week by hired
men. He observed that the amount of
butter he carried to market weighed about
a pound more each alternate week. He
watohed the men and tried the cow after
they had finished milking, but always found
that there was no milk left in the teats.
He finally asked the Sootoh girl who took
care et the milk if she could account for
the difference, "Why, yes," she Bald,
" When Jim milks he rays to the eld cow,
' So 1 my rretty muley, so 1' But when
Sam milks he hits her on the edge of the
pail and nye, ' Hid you old brutal"
The Kansas Farmer meats that dairy
farming adds one dollar per acre to the
value oft the land, while it saves ene dollar
per acre (+the value of the land as against
grain farthing, this is two dollars per acre
—good rent, Twenty of the poorest miloh
cows In the country, that two mon oan
milk in one hour and a half in the morning,
and the same at evening will pay the
wages of the two hired hands and furnieh
greceelea for a good-sized family, by Boll-
ing cream at ten Dents a gauge. The skim
milk will raise twenty hogs that will be
worth $6 eaoh, $120, and to this may be
added $3000 worth of calves, ae a °leer
profit ever and above the crop raised by
the two hjred men.
A Cape Breton Parson.
He was a tall, angular pareon othe old
severe Presbyterian type. As the local
idiom has it, "Yon would know by his Eng.
fish that he had the Gaelic." He was
preaching in a brother parson's pulpit to a
congregation who were etrangere to him,
Descanting on the lamb as a type of gentle.
nese, meekness, eto., he said :
"The lamb is quaite and kind. The Iamb
le not like the other besets, the lion and the
tiger and the wolf. Ye will not be rennin'
away from the lamb. No. The lamb is
kaind; the lamb will not eat ye, whatever.
"And there is food in the lamb; too. Oh
yes, you will be killin' the lamb and tne
sheep when the cold weather will come In
in the winter. You will be wantin' some
goed strong food in the winter, 'and is it
then you will ba killin' the lamb.
"And there is clothing in the lamb—he is
good for the clothing. You will tek the
wool off him, and yon will mek clothing for
yourselves, And how would yon and I look
without clothing ?" eto.
At the close of the exercfses be gave ant
the following very peculiar notice, to explain
whioh I must state that ravages had been
made among the Presbyterian flock by the
influence of a divine of a different persuasion:
"And there will moat likely be a family
from X. that will be baptized here after
meeting on Friday night, but"—here he
leaned forward, and added, in a loud stage.
whisper— " ye'll no be saying a word about
it, dear brethren, as I do not think they want
it known."
The Salt of the Earth.
If the salt formations of Nevada were in
railroad oemmunioation there would be ne
market in We country for the foreign arti-
cle. In Lincoln county, on the Rio Virgin,
there is a deposit of pure rook salt whioh is
exposed for a length of two miles, a width
f elf a mile, and le of unknown depth. In
p1 nee cannons are out through it to a depth
of a y feet. it le of ancient formation,
being covered in some places by basaltic
rook and volcano tufa, The• deposit has
traced on the endue for a diotanoe of nine
miles, It le so solid that it must be blasted
like rook, so pure and transparent that
print can be read through blocks of it a loot
thick. At Sand Springs, in Churchill
county, there is a deposit of rook salt four
teen feet In depth, free from any particle of
foreign substance, whioh oan be quarried at
the rate of five tone a day to the man. The
great Humboldt salt field ie about fifteen
miles long by six wide. When the summer
heats have evaporated the surface water,
salt to the depth of several inches may be
noraped up and underneath is a stratum of
pure rook salt,' of unknown depth. Soda,
borate and other valuable minerale aleo exist
In large quantities near these looalitios, and
branoh railroads will sooner or later bring
them into market. A considerable business
in gathering borax is already established on
the line of the Carson and Colorado railroad,
If Nevada will out down her working ex -
pensee and dovolope her natural reeeuroeo,
rho will be above the neeeosity et seeking
land grants, from her neighbors or from the
General Government,
A ZQLDIER OP LUUKNOW,
Some Kurds Iletieta ensee et Temente/en
.Ustiny,
On the 6th of June, 1857, twenty.nino
years ago, just ee England had emerged sue.
careful from the Crimean war th. great linMan mutiny broke out. The' Britih arm
In lndfa had been greatly weakened in order
to tueihtein the struggle with Runlet and
coneequontly at the commencement of the
breakout the rebel; had thb gra all their own
way. As soon, however, as the news of the
revolt of the native array reaohed England,
peace having been declared with Runde,
regiment after regiment wee hurried from
Sa auto
b oto the
P 1 scone of the uprising,
The *tory of how the mutiny was quelled.
le a matter of history, but es the rare roll
by the veteran. who stormed Delhi, end
A H I
MARCHED ED W TH COLIN CAMPBELL
to the relief of telo!tnow are booming fower
and fewer,
One of those who poeeeeeee the medal for
the rebellion, with deep, for Delhi and
Luoknow, ie Mr, William Kennedy, a care•
taker at the Parliament Building in Toronto.
In conversation with Mr, Kennedy recently
a Globe reporter eves given some interesting
information about the great mutiny.
W KENNEDF, OF Q
KIN OR
A•
"I em W. Kennedy, of Kinoora," said the
veteran, " and I was born in the town of
Innes, county, of Clare, Ireland. I will be
54 years of age next Deoember. Oa the
26.h of November 1848, I enlisted in the
75th Regiment, new known as the First Bat-
talion Gordon Highlanders. I eervod with
this corps all through the mutiny, and final-
ly left the service on the 26th of October,
1860, having been allowed a year for Luck
now. I event ten years altogether in
India,"
"You must ,have seen some hot work
there, Mr. Kennedy."
" Indeed I did, but Deihl wan worse than
Luoknow. I landed in India on the 5th of
November, 1850, and ao raw the mutiny
from the very commencement, The flint
battle was at
BUDGEiELIE SURRIE,
June, 8th, 1857. When I woe in India there
was not a railway or a telegraph pole in the
country.
"At Delhi the fighting lasted from the
4th to the 20th ef September. I wap colour
sergeant under General Niaholeon there at
the storming of the Moore battery. Gen-
eral Nicholson was killed and when he -elves
shot he put his arm around my neck. fie
was a fin soldier, and the whitest man that
ever stood on two feet. Jnet before the
General was ebot he wee told that hie
brother, Captain Nicholson, had lost an
arm. ' Let him go on and fight with the
other,' he cried, At
THE STORMING OF DELHI
we lest 1,462 man inside an hoar—killed
mind you. I was field sergeant major un- li
der Sir Colin Campbell at the relief of 1,nok•
now. I served under Sir James Outram at
the occupation of Allumbngh while Sir
Colin went to relieve Cewnpore. The first li
time that we went',to Cawnpore I was there,
and was among the first that reached the
wells where the bodies had been thrown,
It was a terrible night. Do you know
WHAT OUR RATIONS CONSISTED OF
when we were marching to the relief of
Lnoknew ? One pound of wheat a day, and,
grind it yourself 7 OE course we had
nothing to grind it with, and we need to
bruise it between two atones as !well as we
could. One time I managed to secure a nook
of split peas, but I had to keep it hid in a
bole in the ground, Weide my tent "
"'Did you suffer much with march-
ing ?"
"I never had corns on my feet in my life,
and the climate always agreed with mo ;
but of coarse we had terribly severe work.
My last campaign was in Central India,
where I served under Major Brooks, and
was present at the
SECOND BATTLE OF AGRA,
on the 81h of October, 1858. I remember
marching these 36 miles with nothing to eat,
then fighting, and then doing another 36
miles. We were really not fighting natives,
they were trained soldiers and many of
them had their, breasts covered with medals
wen In the Eaglieh service. I remember
one time in Central India, the 3rd Gwalier
Cavalry charged the 9th Lancers three
times, and three times they formed right un
der our guns, but we dared not fire on them
because we would hit our own men."
" Did the 94h break the natives np
badly ?'
" The natives never were broken np badly,
"Oh, they were brave fellows, and they
told us that they were
FIGHTING FOR THEIR COUNTRY
too. Why, that time they pitched their
pistols in our facies after they had fired
them, and as I told you, we dared not pull
a trigger,"
" Did you ever have cholera, Mr. Ken-
nedy?'
"I did, Thirteen of no went to the hos-
pital with it, and I was the only one that
came out."
"Were there many British troops at
the relief of Lnoknew ?"
"There were 123,000 mon, and not more
than 10,000 of these were natives. Sir Colin
reviewed nee He commenced with Captain
Peck's battery, and it was seven o'olook at
night before he reached the Light Division,
where my regiment was, At first he could
not make out whether we were
WHITE MEN OR. NOT,
for we were as dirty as Murphy's pig.''
" You did net not get married until after
you left the army, Mr. Kennedy ?"
"No. I married in Qaebeo 24 years
ago, and I have been in the Parliament
Buildioge hero since 1862, I have a family
of five uaughtors and one,son."
" Dlsolpime was severe in the army in
your time, was it net 7"
to Indeed it was, I have seen any,num-
ber of men flogged and three shot. Ono
man was shot for striking the • deator, an-
other for
THROWING HIS HAT AT THE 00L0NEL,
and another for something else, Ever einem
then it had been the rule in the army that
when a man is brought before the Colonel
his hat le removed first."
"What do you think of flogging t"
"A man will never do any good after
wards, although his comrades will not an.
noy him about it, Lord Gough was a very
nevero commander. It was under him that
the men I mentioned worn shot."
Mr. Kennedy is a man of medium height
and very etrongly built. He has regular
feature., and shaves almost allhis face no.
cording to the mil' itary regulations. He
has always enj )yed the beat of health, and
deolares that he,has "never known a day's
sickness while residing in the old Perlia•
meat Bulldinge, 1n' spite of all that he hag
gone through, Mr, Kennedy is ad aotive as:
many much younger men, and bide fair to
nee a green old age.
An nnmined mule --Whisky straight.
Real merit of any kind cannot long be
concealed ; it will be discovered, and no,
thing can depreciate it but a man's exhibit.
ing it himself. It may not always be re-
warded al it ought ; but it will always be
known,
BILI3AO TO ZAl AOO,34 ANO SAQX,
ET A YOnent Uinta
Oa Monday morning the 12.4 of April,
L. and A. and I, with Prenoisca carrying
the baggage, rode to Bilbao by the seven
o'clock train. After a cup of coffee and a
bun tall), we went to the station to °atoll
the 8 30 train for Miranda, We took tick-
ets for 3rd olase but bad very rospeotable
people as follow•travellern, After leaving
ililbao, the, railroad ran alongside of the
Norden, the river which runs , threagh BR;
bp.", and aoroes which merry pioturerque and
aubatantlal bridges are built The iioonory
wail very pretty with the vfne•fields and
peature lend and the Nervlon winding be
tween them and in the •dietanee the moan•
tains a bright bine. Aa we appruiwbed
Ordune, the scenery became more mountain•
ons and wild, Orduna IF a small but fortlfi• d
town ei'ueted at the entrance to a large
concha or bean shaped valley round which
the railway runs in a gradual ascending
oarve, until it leaves the concha about a
third of a mile from where it entered, after
having made a carols of 6? mike and hay.
ing risen about 600 feet 1 the rooks round
this valley are very high a id perpendicular,
and make amoatPar#ecircle except tor
that third of a mile, The Nervion rime in
the uiountalaa near this valley and
FALLS OVER A PERPENDICULAR ROCK
forming a beautiful cascade of 220 feet in
height,: Wo saw thin at a favorable time,
previous rains having added power and
volume to the leaping torrent, ' After
leaving the valley, we passed through tho
grandest mountain soenery I ever imagined,
the railroad constantly winding and at the
game time ascending rapidly, We passed
over the top of the waterfall of Altabe, which
is 600 feet high. Just above ue was a rook
which ferule an almost perfect representation
of a monk's head and shoulders, with the
hood of hie cloak pushed off hie head and
resting on his bank. It is palled the Fraile,
or in English the Friar. Miranda reached,
we refreshed ourselves with the ever -ready
and delicious coffee and then started afresh
for our terminus. The country now appears
to bs almost entirely cultivated for vines,
and every possible and often almost inacces-
sible plaoes were planted. Semetimee, part
way np a stony bare kiliside one would nee
a field or two of vines. Those grown here
are not the climbing vines, but email creep-
ers, whioh, however, bear profusely. They
are planted lu rows like so many turnips,
not at all my idea of vineyarde. Gradually
the vineyards gave way to olive•yarde, and
as we went onthe scene became very monot-
onous. The soil appeared to consist mainly
ef mud, and seems to indicate a comparative-
ly:recent emergence from a 'subaqueous
state. The oountry wan very flat, with vil-
lages here and there of mud -houses, mad
walls and fences, and a mud church.
OLIVE -YARDS, ROWS OF POPLARS,
threshing -flame, mud villages, and dry river
beds became tedious with fro quent repeti•
tion. At Caetejon we had to wait a while,
and as soon as we started again, we settled
ourselves to sleep, but were aeon roused by
our fellow travellers, who had passed their
pigskin of wine round eo often that they be-
gan to feel merry. They had entertained
us some time before, by flinging acme of
their church hymns and litanies, but now
they Bang national songs, accompanying
them with dancing and all eorte of gesticula-
tions. From that time till we reached Zar-
agozs we were kept wide awake watching
them. At 10.15 p. m, we arrived at Zara-
ge z e and were very glad to get into an om-
nibus and drive to the Europa Hotel. Next
morning we first got a general view of the.
city from across the wide bridge over the
Ebro, the prominent objects being the two
cathedrals, the leaning tower, archbishops'
palace, and the tall, quaintly built houses
with their red tiled roofs. Re-entering the
city by the Puerta del Angel we went into
the cathedral of Lo See. Inside there was
indeed, a " dim religions light," partly
owing to the windows being' so high, and
my firstimpreseion on gazing around wag of
Intense awe. Several kneeling figures oeuld
be discerned at the various altars and a fu•
neral service was proceeding at one of the
chapels. This was well lit by candles, and a
highly impressive scene it was, the voice of
a priest chanting In monotone, then the re-
sponses of the ether priests in a plaintive
minor, then all walking round the ocffin,
bearing lights and still chanting in a law
minor key. After passing round the cathe-
dral jest looking at the numerous small
chapels or shrines as we went, we passed in
front ef the high altar. The retablo of this
altar is alabaster moat beautifully and ela-
borately carved. The trasooro or outside
of choir is richly ornamented in etucco re-
lief illustrating 00enen from the lives of the
saints. One story is that a young ohild
martyr, an acolyte, was crucified for hie
faith in Christ, during one of the early per-
enoutions and that his
BODY WAS THROWN INTO THE RIVER,
where it floated, until some pions Christian
brought it to shore and in triumphal proces-
sion to thie Church when he was burled
and an altar raised over him. In thin
cathedral are shown the swords whioh are
said to have been used in the martyrdom of
San Pe iro Abnes in 1490. We loft La Soo
fox breakfast at 11, and after breakfast
vie#tedthe ether ,00110 ra# of El .nor, The
exterior appearance of this ie very, bralIlent,
the root oonefsting of revere' demee of bright
oolered tileie -blue, green,.xellow and white,
The inside le on , the whole poor' and the
decorations tawdy ; optic altar was bedeck-
ed with a number of wax models of aria;,
lege, }made, eyes, & e„ ae thankeofferings for
the ours of Mimeo) in these epeolfio parte,
the etLIedral taker its name from a tragi-
inn at on rho Ipot it now stipule, the Dir•
gin ones descended from heaven upon a p11•
Aar, whioh pillar to enclosed in a grand altar,
except one small portion which is left expos-
ed to reootve tho kW' of : the faithful,.
Many performoa this devotion while we.
were there and the stone le much worn
with Cana tant '.kissing. Unfortunately the
choir, whioh ie noly,oarved in bae•re.
lief,, wM shut or, by eoaftoiding end
the ratable of the high altar, wee ourtaiuod
during repairs, No that the only things worth
g�
seeing were not visible. Into.the. daylight
again, we walked on to the Torre Nueva,.
ae the leaning tower Is called, entered and
olimed its 270 eters to the top. A magnifi•
tient view lay below and about us, the
winding river fertillsiog vine and olive
yards, the pasturelande and in the far,
tar distance the shadowy Pyrenees, The
town !tee tfs
i a very pi
otnxe g
q a ue eight, h
,
t with
ire narrow and tonneau' street
THICKLY CLUSTERED BED-Ro. Fr D H°USES,
With their open garrets and balconies in
every poeeirlo ; place, and its numerous
oharebes, Leaving the town we went out -
aide the pity walls again to see a Moorish
castle -the Aljaferia. It le a large square:
building in geed condition, and now used
as a barracks, As we ,were not allowed
to enter it without a special permit, we
saw no further and returned to tbo city
where our next visit was to an old family
mansion. It was built in a quadrangle
shape with a email courtyard within, upon
whioh the windows and doors opened, and
a etairease leading to an upper gallery
whioh we muoh admired, it being highly
decorated with artletl° work and carved
balustera, From thence we went to the
convent of Santa Engraofa, whioh suffered
severely from the French in 1808, a richly
carved white marble front and gateway
only being left. Also the crypt whioh le
now used es the ohuroh, and where the
saint is burleu with other hely martyrs
whose relies are fondly exhibited.
During the evening A. went to the
Protestant Minion room where a prayer.
meeting was being held and was attended
by about 40 persons. These meet with con-
siderable opposition but persevere in hope,
and during the annual fair actually sell bi-
bles and testaments at a stall In the open
street. Next day, Wedneeday, the ohuroh
of San Pablo wan brat vlafted, in whioh we
remarked, as we had done in the cathedrals
the ugly and sometimes ladtoroue faces of
even the altar images. In many casae these
images are ordinary wax Jolie, such as
children play with, dressed in gorgeous
fashion and not forgetting a lace -edged
handkerchief. We were
BENT ON SEEING ALL WE COULD
In our short atay to the city, and the same
morning saw tie at Le Longa, or the Ex.
Mange, built in 1551. The eaves are very
prettily ornamented with stucco work.
The Weide is one large saloon, with two
rows of fine pillars and a raised dais at one
end, The ceiling is rather like that of La
Seo, stucco with gilt rosettes and wheels.
We then revisited La Seo to inspect et lei-
sure its many objects of interest. This time
the baptism of a child, 24 hours old, was
about to prooeed, and L. and I went near to
see the ceremony. Presently the priest
mime up, and imagine our dismay et being
addressed by him in the moat peranaeive
tones. Then and there he urged our en-
trance into the Roman fold, and pleaded
how he "would enjoy baptising ue into the
true church," as he was about to do for the
infant, This of course in Spanish, whioh
both L. and A. speak. At last A., who
had been standing apart, but listening to
L 's arguments against the old priest, came
up and soon silenced the old man, who not
being able to state when and where it was
Jenne said " All who remain outside the
Holy Catholic' Church shall go to hell"
turned the subject, and then began to think
of the poor little baby who was waiting all
this time. There was quite a email 000gre.
gation by thie time, who laughed and seemed
to enjoy the discussion immensely. The
baptismal ceremony is very curious, The
priest, at the gate of the baptistry put
SALT ON THE INFANTS TONGUE,
then led it up to the fent, its face being
covered by the end of his stole. At the font
he owned its ears, throat, mouth, forehead
and back of neck with oil and then poured
about a saucerful of water over the Drown
of its head, after which he declared it to be
a member of The Churoh. We then left
La Seo and wont to the ohuroh of Santiago,
which, ie said to be built on the very spot
where Si, James` ledged when on his way
through Spain, A. 1). 40. At 4 the next
morning we were up and soon after to the
atatloa to start for Pamplona, In our car-
riage were some country folks who were
highly interested in A's map of the district
whioh he explained the nee of. The opera
glasses were also a novelty to them, and
caused much wonder. An interesting eon -
venation wee started and religious topios
oolntng uppermost, L. and.. were nothing
ieaath 00 turn it to good a000npt, the id e
prov1� .lent mates the uncduoated: class to
what, Rretptltiiate are and believe, 'being
mint rldtoul#fab and stupid.. A.pleo. ant epirlt
pprevai#ed wb#lo an anhweted argument bra.
keptup and'.at the end A, ave thein e
Now Testa eat In Sp anieb which they
seemed leased to accept, Wo arrived, a
Pambloua at o'o eok end after din•
a # a
nor went round the town,whiohWas etrongly
fortified. It has been the 104130 of a good
many battles and siege. both in the Penin
solar and Carilet ware,. 'ilio cathedral ie a
pretty little place, though much spoiled by
the ireall�r hideous faced ,'tinge.. The
street are narrow, dirty and :story, the
ebops,very poor. We walked on the walla
from wheel; we obtained an extensive view
of a flet ooantry dotted with a number of
Amall bills at whose summit It was generally
ra
1Y
build a f t or email v iia a bt as al
l
builags abgt here aro formed with mud
brick., we ooaid hardly distinguished them
from the surrounding country, Olive yards
with the trees, , -,apparently growing out of
water, owing; to recent rata and heavy clay
and mud soli. `The small bill", with their
mud colored forts sad a river winding be.
Ptwoaennrp rhouehIais md.
s
aod
ae ea mWorh
aencaa erioauksintBh
aonf
the cathedral, Iforgot
to mention that the
eaorfetan took us, at oar ri queer, into the
sacristy and showed some .,f the biehop'e
robes, whish were embroidered eo thickly
and elaborately in gold as to be quite stiff ;
also n solid silver canopy used to carry over
the Vlrgin'a effigy when taken through
the anon in precession, and a large gold-
en oaupiflx for a similar purpose, Then
he took, ns into the cloisters, which.I thought
the most romantic and lovely spot I ever
mew. An open a gaare, in which flonriehed in
the riobeat-profusion, lilacs, rosea, elderber-
ries and other flowering ehrabe, all round a
covered walk under whioh were the tombs
ef eooleeiastiop for centuries batik, all se per-
fectly winded and oat off from the world,
so 000l and tranquilizing, the influence of
the place, so old fashioned and dreamlike its
features, that if some of the old Wallops
buried there had risen and begun strolling
around, one would hardly have felt aston-
ishment, In the evening we saw the curi-
ous little church of St. Ignatius Loyola.
The walls are nearly covered with immense
paintings representing the chief Incidents in
Loyola's life. Next morning the 4 o'clook
train carried us to Alaaeua, whioh we reaoh-
ed,at 6, after experiencing the only disagree-
able company in the whole journey. A train
CROWDED wag RECRUITSAND SOLDIERS
off their term of years and just going.home,
Ie not a quiet plaoe. Oh the noire—shouting,
screaming, singing, dancing, jumping, thump.
Ing the seats, shaking the doors, playing
on all sorts of instruments; 40 of these men
were In our compartment. At Alaasna our
train forward was 2 hours late, yet the offi-
cials seemed to take it as a matter ef course,
despatching at the end of that time an en-
gine to seek for it. Presently the engine re-
turned with the missing train which had
stopped midway between Aleaans and the
next station, its engine failing, and had
waited patiently till some one should look
them up. Two prieete were our company
the rest of the way to Bilbao, whioh we
reached se late at night as to miss the last
tram home, se we hired a coach and pair
and drove home in grand style, astonishing
Franolaca and our neighbors, who misaiog ne
by the last tram, had gene to bed. Thus
ended a most enjoyable trip.
Questions of Economy.
Two old misers, one seventy and the
ether eighty years of age, fell into a
a diepate as to whioh was the more 000n-
omfoal.
" The proof," said the former, "that yen
have no idea of saving is that during the
half hour we have been arguing, a fly In
your sugar bowl has been having a feast,
and you have not taken the trouble to drive
it away,"
" And the proof that I am far mere sa-
ving then you, and that nothing escapes
me," retorted his aged opponent, "is that
I leave that insect in my sugar -bowl en
purpose. He ants as my spy. Whenever,
I come home and find that fly gone, I am
perfectly sure that the cook has been steal-
ing sugar."
Fair Evidence for Everybody.
No one can doubt the great merit of Pel -
son's NERVILINE, for it has been planed in
the market in 10 Dent bottles, just to give
you the opportunity of tenting its wonderful
power over ail kinds of pain. This is the
beet evidence of its efficiency, for every
person can try for themselves. Poleon's
Nervlline le a positive (it cannot fail) cure
for cramps, headache, colds, neuralgia, and
the host off pains that flash Ia heir to. Good
to take, good to rub on. Go to any drug
store and buy a 10 Dent sample bottle,
Large bottles 25 cents.
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An ode to a goat may be called a nanny-
voreary prem.
The Japanese typesetter's ease is sixty
feet long, and it is eatimated that even when
he is eat of sorts he runs fourteen miles in
setting
tttiing up the account of an ordinary dog
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OUR YOUNG FOL
Row B`vhnny Relped.
4' Dear mei .d ar me 1" raid Jchtul 's mo..
then ;in atone of roat dismay.. sol de ba-
ltove that.t old rs. ;$rand oombl u rho
iced, Look rut and lame, Johuo ."
"' Yes it is," said Johnny.
"And she always stays to tes, ' I don't
say but I'm glad to have her, but eotnehaw
my work'. .all behind to day—and now I
can't get the baby to Bleep. And my
last lar of `raspberry jam'., been working
eel isn't .fit eat, d I haven t a s pe peck e
t to
fruio
f r tea,.
Johnny wanted to ask what kind of work
am a
raspberry bei y jw inof dole but
l? .._ a;the habit h lie
knew it wan no time for questions when hie
mother was NO mach warded, He quickly
said,—
" Put baby in his buggy,!Mamma, and I'll
take him out in the garden. And don'tyou
think I could find enough strawberries for
tea, if I look hard ?" g
" You're a dear, helpful little fellow 1
Then I Can put off then -other things, and
have a nioe visit with the old lady. No,
I'm sure there are not enough strawberries
ripe,"
pe.
e
"
;But if there wore Joel a few, you oeuld
flatten 'em out in the glass dish me they'd
look like a good many; and when you said,
Have some atrawberrioe, Jeannie 1 rd say
'No, I thank yen, mamma,' just aseeber�;
and then they'd go round, you nee, mamma,
Johnny thought hie plea very clever in-
deed, but mamma only laughed and e hook
her head, as -Johnny drew bthy out of the
bank door, just as Mrs. Brand ;lowly came
in at the front one,
l Nee, anyhow," said Johnny to him-
self, for he had a very tenderfeeling for his
mother's email"Now,
troubles, Harry,
you sit still, while I get mamma socae,ber-
rieo."
Harry chatted in very crooked English to
se0e dandelions and butteroupe, while John-
ny .peeped among the strawberry vines,
greatly delighted at soon finding some ef
the red fruit.
" I thought eo," he said to himself, in
great satiefaotien ; " I thought we hadn't
had these twe hot days for nothing."
He ran softly into the house to get a paft
without mamma knowing, and then eagerly
bent over the bed, wondering all the time wh n
raspberry jam had any work to de, and if it.
worked as hard no his mother did. And if,
as the sun was hot and him book achedwith;,
stooping, it worked as hard as he was work-
ing to get these strawberries.
But Johnny was not afraid ef work, and'
laughed merrily to his small self as one after
another the berries seemed to smile out at
him as he spied them in their ,hiding -placer
under the green leaves.
Into the pail they went, and it filled up
no fast that he forgot all about the hard
work and the raspberry j am in thinking how
glad mamma would be.
And Harry really most have had some
kind of an idea ef how important those
strawberries were, for the darling turned
hie curly little head over and went to sleep
just as Johnny was ready to take the hulls
off them.
He got the glace dish and carried them In
just ae mamma was setting a dish of honey
on the table and thinking how trying it was
to have no other ranee, when all the neigh-
borhood had honey, and Mrs. Brand was
probably tired of the sight of It.
Mamma was jest as mnoh surprised and
delighted as he expected her to be.
"0 you little darling 1" she said, "yon
are the comfort of my Wee'
And when the berries were helped, John-
ny, with a very large smile on bis face,
whioh only mamma understood, said,—
" Yes, if you please, ma'am."
For there were plenty to go round.
/ORDS 01' WISDOM.
Inquieftive people are the funerals- of
oonversatien ; they do net take in anything
for their awn nee, but merely to pass it_te
another.
These men who destroy a healthful con-
stitution ef body by intemperance, do as,
manifestly kill themselves, as those who
hang, or poison, or drown themeelves.
Good manners, is the art ef making
those people easy with whom we oenverae ;
whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy,
le the beat bred man in company. •
Two persons who have chosen mob other
out of all the species, with design to be
each other's mutual comfort and entertain-
ment, have in that action bound themee'ves
to be good•humered, affable,dieoreet, forgiv-
ing, patient and joyful with respect to each
other's frailties and imperfections to the
end of their lives..
The
ives.-
The real difference between men is
energy. A strong will, a settled purpose
and invincible determination can aeoom-
peish almost anything ; and en this lies the
distinction between great men and little
men.
" How," said ene to Sir Waiter Raleigh,
of whom it was said he " could tell
terribly "—" hew do you acoompliah so
much and in so short a time?" " When
I have anything to do I go and de it," was
the reply,
For drunkenneea, drink cold water;
for health, rise early ; to be happy, be
honest ; to please all, mind your own
briefness.
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Strength and Diet.
The Roman aeldiere, who built such won-
derful
en derfnl roads and carried a weight of armor
and luggage that would crush the average
farm hand, lived on course brown bread and
tour wine. Tney were temperate in diet,
regular and constant in exercise. The
Spanish peasant works every day and dances
half the night, yet eats only his black bread,
onion and watermelon, The Smyrna port-
er eats only a little fruit and some olives.
He eats no beef, pork er . mutton, yet he
walks off with his load of 800 pounds. The
coolie, fed on rioe, le more active and can
endure more than the negro fed en fat
meat. The heavy work of the world is not
done by men who eat the greateet quantity.
The fastest or longest -winded horse is not
the biggest eater. Moderation in diet seems
to be the prerequisite for endurance.
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A Valuable Man.
Merchant—"'Well, if Sparks is a good
salesman I would like to got hold of him."
Partner--" Oh, yes, he's a good salesman,
but he's a terrible stutterer. Why the other
day he tried to give a customer a price son a
place ef silk but before he could get it out
the market prion of that silk had fallen $2 at,
yard. The woman took the ,piece rather
than ask him if he couldn't make a reduc
tion. "
Merchant--" We want Sparks."
A who man's heart is like a broad hearth
that keeps the coals (bis paasions) from
burning the house. Good deeds in this'
life are coals raked up in embers, to:make
a Ste next day,