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A GOOD IWRSE.
Mow YOE Cali Tem. One when Ton See
num.
"1 °met explain what a, good horse is,"
amid a well-enown dealer. They ath es
different as men. In buying a horse you
enlist look first at his head and eyes for trips
of intelligence, temper, courage and honesty.
Clam a horse has brains you can't teach
anythiug any more than you can a half -
sited child. See that tall bay there, a
eine-looking animal, 15 lunds high. You
' iceent teach that norm anything. .Why?
Well I'll -ahoy you a difference in heads, but
imive a care of his hook. Look of; the brute'
head, that roundingnme, that tapering fore-
head, that broad, lull place below the eyes.
Yon can't tresb hhn. Kink Wi1, I guess
ese ! Pat him in a 10 -acro lot, where he's got
plenty of swing, and loll kiok the horn off
the moon.' Tee world's treatment of man
mad beast has the tendency to enlarge and
leterisify bad qualities, if they predominate.
'Mak good-natured phrenologist could not
-retain learn slapping in the face the horse
--whose ohm:toter had been to oruelly delineat-
ed, while he had nothing but the gentlest
nemeses for a ta.11, donee, sleek -limbed gor-
ed, that pricked her ears forward and look -
Intelligent enough to understand all that
nem being said.
" That's an awful good mare." he added.
.44.She's as trete as the sun. You eaa see
hreadth and fullness between the ears and
,E3Fea. You couldn't hire that mare to ant
mem or hurt anybody. The eye shoula be
fedi, and hazel is e, good color. I like a
emelt thin ear, and want is horse to throw
his ears well forward. Look out for the
bride Witt wants to listen to all the tamer -
nation going on behind him. The home thee
Inane beck his eine till they almost meet at
She points, take my word for it, is sure to
do something wrong. See that straight,
-elegant face. A horse with is dishing face
iia cowarelly, and is 'cowardly brute is usual
vielous, Then I like a Equege muzzle,
with large neatens, to let in _plenty ef air to
the lunge. For the under side of the head,
et. good home should be well cut uoder the
eiowli with jaw -bones broad. and wide apart
slender the throttle.
"So much for the head,"he contletted.
teThe next thing to consider is the build of
the animal. Never buy a long-legged, stilty
ihorse. Let hire have is sheet, etraight back,
maid a straight ramp, and 701I'Ve got is gen-
--Nieman's horse. The withers should be higb,
and the shoulders 'well at back and broad;
hut don't [mit them too deep in the cheat.
The fore -hg should be short. Gate me a
mretty straeght hind leg with the hook low
,down, atom pestern Joints, and a round
mulish foot.. There are all kinds of horses,
bnt. the animal that has these points is al-
most sure to be sightly, grenetut goodwa-
tared and serviceable. As to color, taste
diefers. Bays, browns and chestnuts are the
beet. Roans are very fashionable at pre
-
emit. A great many greys and sorrels are
bought here for shipment to Mexico and
'Cuba. They do eiell i e hot clithate, under
a tropical sun, for the tame reason that you
-End light mimed clothing the most see vice-
oble in summer. That circus horse behind
won is what many people call is calico horse;
'now I -call him a genuine pie -bald. It's is
freak of nature, and may happen any-
where."—[Albany journal. .
Coal in England.
Periodically a coal scare arises in England.
A mientiat reads is taper before a learned
society to the effect that the greatest source
of England's wealth, her coal fields, wit
give out at some stated time, end straight-
way editorals appear in the leading papers
giving warnine of the neceseity of economy.
He R. Price Williams is the latest ,to be
heard from in this respect, and he recently
read a paper ben:lee-the Statistical Society in
London fixing the period of exhaustion for
the Northumberland and Durham coal fields
ent94 years; for South Wales at 79 years;
the eastern part of South Weld at 46 years;
the Lancashire ancl Cheshire coal fields at
'74 years; the Yorkshire, Derbyshire and
Neetinghamehire coalfields at 90 years; the
Warwickshire coal field at 53 years; the
Elierabighthire and Flintshire coal fields: at
250 the Scottiah coal fields at 02. The
average: in 97 years, so that none of the pre.
neht generation need fear such is calamity as
a coal famine. Bat long before the year
AEL110 Domini" 1086 iu is probably that
lather means of generating power, more
eczema:teal and more utivereally amenable
than coon will have been discovered. In
thee ease the exceptional advantage enjoyed
-11-y England will be forfeited, and then will
leave to be fought in the United Kingdom
the real battle of protection messes free
' .f.lrade. The status of England s tnanuiric-
tares when her coal fields shall have been
exhausted, or when steam shall have been
almost entirely despetund with, is is question
of great interest and worthy of every sae -
nue consideration.
A OLOTID-BUR$'1.`,
Tie lensinese Part �t a California 'toner,
Swept Away,
Los Aeonees, Cal., Match 21.—Great
-Acode are reported in Southern California,
A oloud-burst °connect at Venture on Sat.
umber. The water meshed dowe * mutat,
'Hooding the town and sweeping away nay
hoarsen Two Chiriamen were droweed and
scores of people had narrow mempee. The
dheeiheas part of the town wart teethed away,'
awl the loin will approximate $10,000. The
Seuthern Paofie Meek was dietroyed for is
quarter of is mile. Serious trouble le reported
no. all the tailroadeA passenger mein was
vaunted near Ethenda yesterday, but one
of the paesengere were injimed. Two Make
'Men Were Wally huen A big lendellide is
nenorted on the Santa Fe reilthed. Eight
eatloads Of Boston travellers were detained
st the motzeteine ort amouht of the wet:h-
en t,
T
TOUNG F OL
live men the puesy-willovVe
With dainty furry faseee :
I've:found the pretty violets
Abloom in shady places;
The jontpdi and the crocus
Hove told me of the spring,
Atte in the prober(' up and down
Has glanced the bluebird's wing.
But here's the purple like
That lifts ite fragrant &mos,
And sends a wait of sweetnese:
Through homely cottage rooms,
Ito hardy branches tapping
Against the farnehouse eaves,
The 11 3Were it gives ue growing
In generous waving ehes,ves.
I'm Sato the mother robin
Is very glad to aeo
The screen about her
Wee neat and fledglings three,
And father wren is singing
an pure delight today
That spring is hear already
And summer on the way.
Awl I sau glad our Father
Whose love is over all,
Who counts the stars her numbert
And sees a sparrow fall,
Has sent again thelliaos
To make the gardea fair,
And waft their howeredsweetness
Upon the wandering air.
—Ellarper e mum People,
—me
sas SLAMMED THE DOOR.
137 ItEv. EDWARD A. BABA.
B.h-leang 1
",What was that ?" nervennly asked Aunt
Pmdence, who had come to visit her broth-
er, Mr. Mildmay, and suddenly in the midst
of a conversation when he was inquiring
&boat her husband, ohildren and neighbors,
came thia violent slam, "What was
Annt Prudence again asked.
Mr. Mildwayn face was clouded. He
was biting his lip, It oarae again, "Bang -g-
er Aunt Prudence rose from her chair.
"Why, Thomas," she exclaimed, address-
ing her brother, "that must be a heavy
wind that has got into the house somehow,
and is doing mischief. Don't you want me
to go end see what: ib Is? Your wife has is
headache and I wouldn't trouble her."_
"1 will attend to it, sister," he said ner-
vously.
He sprang up, and left the room. Then
Aunt Prudence heard 'him mounting the
hill -stairs. Then she heard his deep voice
echoing out an order : "Nellie, you must
not do that again.. If you don't like what
your brother Torn is doing, mane to me,
but don't slow your displeasure that way."
Then, Aunt Prudenoe heard the peevish
muttering of is ohild's voice. Finally, Mr.
Mildreem ca.me downstairs, and resumed his
seat in the parlor by the side of his sister.
" Oh 1" thought Aunt Prudence, "1 see
now who ib was. That was my niece, Nel-
lie, and she was angry with her brother Tom
and alacamed the door."
:Aunt Prudence was correct in this WC -
elusion. Nellie was a girl lovely in feet-
ure, but lacking in good temper. To put
it another way, she did not try to rein in her
bad tenaper.
The next day, Aunt Prudence witnesi
ed another exhibition of peevish.
nese.
"I say, Nellie," remarked. Tom, pleas-
antly, "Ib is hot here in the elbting-room.
Let us go out into the hall.; It is not so hot
there. Weak np and down with me for
five minutes. Come, deans is good girl 1 I
am going. Five minutes, four minutes,
three—,» "five minutes i" she said pet-
tishly, yet leaving the sitting -room for the
hall. On her way there her foot caught in
a rug and she almost fell. "There, Tom,
just like you!" she ivied, Tom unprte
dently began to laugh. Nellie's face dark-
ened.'
Oh, I beg your pardon," said Tom,
humbly. "Too bad, Nall 1" Ele saw the
Whining storm and like is wouldibe jade
owns raminer at sea, shifted his rubber and
went on a different course.
Too late. The stoma broke. Nellie
hemmed., into the dining -room, and than—
bang-g-mg 1 The dining -room door closed
with each is sharp report that it eounded
like is -pietol vigorously going off.
And Tom, did lie' stay in the hall five
minutes, or a less time? No, he quickly
returned to the sitting -room as if determin.
ed that there should not be two fools in the
same house. Be sat down at the table near
Which .Atzut Prudetice war reading.
"Too bad l' reflected Aunt Prudence.
"Nellie is spoiling her teraper, if it is not
spoiledalready, and she is hurting Tom's
goodinature, end, oh, dear 1 she does not
know she is getting into a habit that will
hold her like iron. What can I do ?"
That WAS is difficult question to answer,
Mrs. Milder:ay, the mother, saw Nellie's
feult but neglected to cure it, making only
some trivial euggestione of improvement to
the girl; add she did not want Aunt Pru-
dence or any one else to manage her children
for her. She did not say exactly this to
Aunt Prudence, but its equivalent. A cure,
thoggh, was started.
Perhaps, you may say, Nellie's own good
sense broke up the habit ; that she herself
saw how unladylike it wee to fire off her
temper as if it wete v. cahnonicracker, a
temper exploding in those doonalams. No,
the cure began in another way. Nellie and
Tom had anti ncle George. He WAS at me,
commanding a ship, but while Aunt Prudence was visiting her brother Thomas,
George was expected. Nellie had never
sem this Uncle George.
"I dare my, children," observed Aunt
Prudence eo Tom and Nellie, "that Uncle
George will give you tome presents."
"Perhaps he may give no a piece of his
mind," Nellie remarked ungraciously.
"May be," said Aunt lerudence, good-nat-
uredly, "and may be not. I hope not"
"10h," said Tom, "if Uncle George is rich,
he nay give Nellie a new, areas. I have
teen him, and. he ili real generous. Yes, a
dress I"
"Perhaps so," added Aunt Prudence, "or
some nice books"
"Ha 1 Ha 1" laughon Nellie, "While we
are about it, let us hope it will be a piano,"
The text day, IVIr. Mildmay :brought
home is guest. "It is is man," thought
Nellie, looking out of is window in the upper
hall, Thou She went to the rail a the
etaitway mid leaned over, Ib was a dark,
chilly tame dam and as the two geetlemen
enteral the dioaltelighted hale the stranger,
Mopping briskly forward and accidently
hittitig
is light stand oh which Was a hardy
pot-eel:Mt tipped ettind and pot over,
" Oktoo bear. aaid the etreomet. "
repair dative:A."
"0h, no &weep (loner pleasetitly end
promptly mid Mr. Miidisay. Pot is Mit
broltee clitt :milled, and elattle Woke all
right. 'No herrn done ei - •
Bringepg 1" went 0, awe ep-etairs.
Mr. Mildmay looked veted. lee tihelet-
etood it, Ile hoew what that meted tole
graph teeent. Skim Went enother door,
"You go up ateirei turn to thse right,
and tale trio first 4qov Lfl realm you eerie
iortablen' paid Mr. Midway,
The guest reeohed the gneenemon and
wee about th enter, when eh° doot mete-
riously begae to shut ail if a whirlwind mere 4
impelling it. Uufortonately he hed tfftuat
out his bend and was grasping the side of
the door, and then memo a vigorous exolanue
tion been the stranger, for his hand was
peached in the door -meek.
Oh, Uncle George 1" said Tom, rushing
up maim, for Tont here inade his appearance,
"The door bit you?"
"Yes," said Coale George, "but is girl is
in there 1 • I saw her in a looking-glase lui
aide." Then Miele George said something
else.
Unhappy Nellio 1 Tryinr to get out of
the way, she had run into the wrong room,
end fired the door et Uncee George,
And rich Uncle George—he gave whale in
the euggested list: of presents ?
Piano? No.
Books? No.,
Dress?, Noi
A piece of his mind, aa Nellie had im-
agined? Yes, and only that.
It was unfortiumee all round. However,
after that, Nellie began resolutely th dim
cipliae her troublesome temper.
"Ask God to help you," suggested that
goed kismet 03310631100. And ahe sought:
and found help.
DROPPING THROITO-H THE EARTH.
Scranton, Pae Sinning luto the mum eine
derneath the COY.
Senemener, March 21.—Eight oham-
bera in the fourteen -foot vein and those
directly above it in the rook vein of the
Central Colliery Company hews caved in
and the cruel, is still in progress.. The dam-
age that intiy ensue cannot be determined,
as the oave-in is almost in the very centre
of the Hyde Perk seotien of the city. The
coneulaion is almost under Waehburn street
Presbyterian church, and the north wall of
the edifice is dangerously pitched out of
plumb and the oeilings ate giving way. The
residence of the pester, Rev. ele Steards,
and that of Mine ,Stmerintenclent Benjamin
Hughes are thrown aszkew by the mush, and
so also are the homes of Helen Pulver and
Wesley Lenning and others in the neigh-
borhood. Much excitement prevails, AB the
oave-in gives every evidence of extending.
A Strange Scene in Loudon.
The London "Spectatar" thus describes a
scene which presented itself in St. Swithires
lane, in that city, on the 27bh alt.:
"The day had been fixed for the allotment
of shares in kr. Sbreeter'a Company iyhieh
is to work the milmiminee of Burmah, and
he streets were choked with applicants.
So terrible was the preature, that Loh
Rothschild could only be admitted into hi
own offices through a first floor window, ant
persons were forced through the pla,te-glae
windows opposite, and severely itnared. 8
high rose the mania, that £1 shares wen
sold before allotment at 45, and Founaere
themes, with 20a. paid, at £300. The idea is
that Streets:ea holds is monopoly of rublea ;
that there will be is great demend for the
stones at three times the price, carat for
mat of diamonds : and that, consequently
the mine may return aome fabulous percent-
age,"
Which Was Most Like a Ittle ?
A good story is told of two Southern
clergymen, one of whom undertook to rebuke the other for using the weed,
"Brother G.," he exclaimed, without
stopping to ask any quention, "15 it possible
you chew tobaeco?" •
"I mum! confess I do," the other quietly
replied.
"Then you must quin it, sir," the old
gentleman energetically continued. " It is
a very unclerket preotice—an uncleanly one.
Tobacco 1 why even is hog won't chew ib?"
"Father F. do you chew toba r re-
plied the amused listener.
"No, Mr," he answered gruffly, with Ju-
dy:melon.
"Then, pray which is most like the hog,
you or I?"
A Reliable Ilan.
She—" I am then really the first woman
you ever loved ?"
He—"I swear most solemnly that you
Ere the drat women I have spoken toeof
love."
"In that COW I will grant your request
to meet you in the park at two o'clock.'
" Heaven!!! Whet bliss 1"
"You will surely be there, my only love."
" You min gamble on my being there. I
never missed keeping AU tippointinent of that
kind yet."
Beauty and Apnetite.
"I love all that is baiudful in art and
nature," she was saying to her teethed° ad-
mirer ;" "I revel in the green fields, the
babbling brooks and the little wayside
flowers; I feast on the beet:ties of earth
and sky and alt; they are my daily life and
fo,od,, '
"Roadie 1" cried out the mother frorn the
kitchen, notknowing that her daughter's beau
Wee ill the parlor' " Maudie, 'whatever made
you go and eat that big dish of potatoes
teat was left over from dinner? 1 teed you
we wanted them warmed for supper. I de-
em if your appetite indb enough to bank-
rupb your pa.' •
A Lost Opportunity,
Jiggers—"Durn an ignoramus, anyhow.,
Wiggers—"What's the matter now?"
Jiggers—"I waa calling on little Mise
Pertly lab night, and she asked me what
the phrase 'indulging in osculatory exer-
dee& meant. Said she foued it in a
"vWeligngere—"Well, did you tell her?" ,
Jiggerri—"I didn't know what it meant
until I looked through the dictionmy this
morning."
A Youth's Rejoinder.
" Fools tush in where angels fear to tread,"
was the slam -ply -spoken remark of It lady to
a young man who had jure! trodden on the
train of her drew.
"X beg perdoni" Iaid he apologetically,
ad.ding after a pause. " You must admit,
madam, that the angels could not be blamed
for beieg afraid."
Aoourately Expressed.
" Whie is a fearful existence of mime," mkt
is Weber to a traveling Man who was one of
his regular oustoniees.
"Don't you like it ?"
"Well, 1 should say axob, Thia thing of
fixing up old white headed men to look like
youths of ewenty or twenty -oho is getting
miserably eionetonoue."
"Why,Yen talk like a Man who was
died of living,"
" NO ethet does not quiet) eeprees it ; rto
tired of zyetog."—Moroliatt Trweeller.
MAPLE SUGAR SEASON.
MERRY-MAZING AND SUGAR-NAK-
ING IN THE WOODS,
The Early Sluing Yrolie. Tappleg the Trees
and Sugaring 4011,
"Now Maple Seger" is the legend print,
ed in !ergo type that meets the eye in many
shape als b1xi seimou of the year, and the
eight of the breven sweetness calla up happy
memories of bygone days. You ready Immo
to feel limiter zeiniimentin, when it auddenly
occurs to You Of you are femili se with theist.
duitry) that it el eather early for eugaranele,
ing, and is feeling of indignation pervades
your beine thet you nave allowed your -
Pelf to be led ioto reverie by a lump of brown
sugar, boiled down from lost year's syrup.
So, with is sigh of eentempt for the Medea -
men who Mame imposed upon your most n-
one feelings, you hurry on, The time, how-
ever, is near et hand WI1611 the new sugar
will he with isa, if the vmsether k as it ahould
be. Freezing nights and warm sunny days
are necessary to Mart a good run of asp. A
nuraber of formers in embark and Quebec
now own maple groves, and many of them
realize quite an lucerne from their product.
Some tap as many as nve hundred treee,
while others only is hundred or leas, as the
me may be.
TRIS SEANCE OP ushrua's wenn
manes at is Berson when there is little else of
importapoe to do, so that most of their time
and attention is given to the manufacture of
this toothsome and healthy dainty. In fact,
one rarely meets is person, old or young, who
ledulgea in sweeter at all who does not show
is decided taste for maple augar.
Sugar time is hailed with delight by the
younger members. of the farrnms' fansilles
throughout the wooded distriote of Ontario.
Visions of countlest jollificetions and many
surreptitious draughts of delicious sap crowd
out yesterday's realities of skating and coast.
ing. When the weather is jut right farmers
and Sons start out to tap the maple. A
lent -inch hole is bored in each tree on the
southern exposure. Into the hole is insert.
ed a small wooden trough about six inehes
long. When the sun throws its warm rays
about the trees the sap trickles through the
troughs and down into the tin pails hung be-
neath, making sweethausic in the album of
the grove. There are patent &ratites used
for runnigg the sup into the paile, but all
farmera do not etveat in them. The home-
made article ia cheaper, and whittling in not
counted as work. It is done en odd. times,
generally on stormy days, when the " wan-
k:Ike" congregate in the barn, each armed
with is good stout jeok-knife and plenty of
the right material to work upon. There
they tell stories, discuss the price of potatoes,
and gossip just is little.
The sap pails, which hold about is gallon,
must all be hung at right, or very early in
the morning, end when night comes again
the same ground is gone over, the brimming
pails emptied and hung again in place. To
look at this colorless liquid one would hard-
ly think it could be boiled into anything re-
sembling syrup or sugar. But " tirae con-
quers all thinge," and thie liquid which tastes
and looks like sweetened water, eventually
A ,DEsras, 63E FIG ay.
The Owner on Cheboygan Iteor* liitled be
S herrn'.
Delich.'Minch 27,—Qharle
Smith is tee proprietor ef is itemize of low
eharaeter near the redhead :Upon in
this otty. Oa Saturday eight Sheriff almet
heard the eouud of disturbance in Sation'a
place. The sheriff at once entered the hoese
and endeavored to quell tlae commetien by
remonstrating with the proprietor. Smith
was greatly angered by the sheri"s interfer-
ence, and spriuging over the munter drew is
revolver from a drawer. elaraball B such:1.rd,
who accompanied the theariff for the puepoae
of assisting him if necomary, iramectieteiy
ran babied the be and grappled with Smith.
In the effort to monis, the revolver front the
enraged man Bouchard Mut:lb/ere and at the
same moment Smith shot hien throegh the
face'the ball entering one cheek and ooraiog
out the other. The wounded man fell to
the floor unable to return the Are. As the
smoke cleared away Smith levelled his re.
volver at Sheriff Reyes, but the sheriff was
too quick for him. He drew arid fired, the
ball passing entirely through'Smith's throat.
It staggered him, but 41a not finith him,
Still clutching his weapon, he sprang upset
the theriff. The latter etrualt "Smith's re-
volver aside juat art it was die:charged, tha
bell whizzing pub the offioer's head and
burying itself in the wall of die room.
A. dem struggle mud,. Smith, not.
withetanding the wound in his throat,
fighting swepgely. Firtelly Sheriff Hayee
managing to press the muzzle of his revolver
again:it the side of his desperate opponent,
pulled the trigger. The shot dropped Smith
to the floor. Sheriff Hayes and others oarri-
ed Smith to the open where he shortly
afterward expired. Before he passed away
the dying man asked the sheriff ro give him
his hand. Holding it he said, "Hayes,
you've killed me, but I don't blame you for
it," Hayes is fully exonerated from all
bleane in the matter, for Smith was is most
desperate character. His look before the
shooting meant that he intended to kill all
officers who went to arrest him. Marahall
Bouchard is resting milady and the phys-
oians say he stands is good chance of receive
oneOeS eons, BREAILEAST TABLE
as maple syrup, or qualifies some one's
sweet tooth in the shape of sugar. The sap
is put into is huge pan and set over an enor-
mous wood fire, where it soon boils and
bubbles right merrily. It is one person's
duty to tend the fire as the sap nausebe
kept at boiling point More ssdvancedenear-
makers build a sap house in the grove, and
there all the work is done on scientific prin.-
oiples. Each day's yield of sap must be
syrup or sugar before the workers can
rem. That is to say, what flows to -day
would be put over the fire to -morrow.
This is not desirable fcr farmers, as they
lose many hours of rest thereby, which can-
not be made up in the morning. Bat with
all their discomforts, they ere prone to de-
rive just es much enjoyment frona everything
as they poseibly can, and no chance escapes
them whereby they can bring together a
goodly company.
" strolnaleG ore."
Some fine, orisp morning net after a light
falleof snow, your neighbor's son drives up
bo thedeor with:mho two-year-old wilt he is
'so proud of and einvites iyou in an off -hand
way to " come over tont ght—we're going to
sugar off," and. then dashes off again with is
merry jingle of bells and calling back to you,
"Be enrol* come." Early in the evening
you fiaa yourself at your neighbor's helping
to recieive the fast arriving guents. The
merry jingle of sleighbells, the creak of the
snow under the runner:h. the laughter and
musk of young voice, are quite enchanting.
Each swain carefully lifts out his duksinea
from the depths of the sleigh robes and air-
ily, bat not always gracefully, planta her on
terra -firma, se tbough lifting out country
girls were is trifle, even if they do dip the
scales at 150 pounds. Soon the are gather-.
od in the house, where fun andfrolic hold
high carnival. They' are here for a good time
and are bound to have in " Uncle Bill "
arrives•later and this merry company takes
little time in finding pieces. The equeemy
fiddle does good work„ and the (lancers do
nob laokin agility and vigor at least. How
these country girls and boys learn to d,artoe,
is is mystery. It is a fact, however, that
they do dance. and many of them are menu.
ally graceful.
•
coutiTRY MERRY trAKING,
The music and danoing are programing
finely, when the shout is heard : Get your
pans and dishes, the sugar's here 1" In an
Mutant the music has ceased, the dancers
with one accord melee a grand rush for the
old-fashioned pantry, where piles of tins are
ready. Each helps himself and rushes out
of doors regardless of night air. No time
Is eo be los; the sugar must be jusb right
or the flavor is gone. Quickly every plate
is filled and banked up with the fresh new
fallen mow, awl then the merry company
troop into the shed, melt holding his or her
plate toady to receive the Iadlett full of seetie
mg syrup, which., as it falls upon the sinew -
congeals into is fentaatio mime of aweetnese.
Only those who have enjoyed thin meat of
Datne Naturo's can fully appreelate maple
sugar. Marty titnee the dishes are returned,
till all helm had their flit It has nor that
extreme streetwise then comes when the sug-
ar granulates, but te jinn is gummy mato of
gooduese. Nov, the merry crowd troops -
back into the house and the dance 10 mintier-
ued. The antiquated fiedkr einem his bow,
and wrestles once more with his ateicht gl-
•dlei but the dancerare not at all Mama,
and all goes merrily petal the orchestra, col-
lapses and falls out of hie chair quite ex
-
berated.
Xrotir COMM th0 good man with his 'Mk
from the pantry laden down With good
things—cider and apples, popcorn, golden
btewn doughtuutei aimed enOtigh fdr a antall
&May, Time the evettieg paned away with
talk and mitch goasip. 01 course orie ci
poets thee. It ie the Woe of oeutitty 1115,
and it it is safe to say thet e " intgering off " ,
is Well soaoonod with 11.
my.
Common Onurtship in the U. B.
Shirley Dare, in his series ea articles upon
courtship in America, says "Wherever it
was wlaen I called upon is young lady, I
either saw no other member of the family,
or if I found the young woman's mother in
the front room she was preparing to vacate
it. Usually the mother wore an apologetic
mien and made evident haste to withdraw,
greeting me with is few words about the
weather before she retired for the rest of
the evening. Often and often wheel my
knock or my ring was mistaken for that
of some neighbor or friend of the family
have I known a general scamper from the
trent room to follow the first sound of my
voice in the hall; usually, though, it was
the young leely's voice that did the work, as
she exclaimed, purposely, aloud 'Why,
Mr.--; I didn't expect you,' and so forth.
In very few country homes did I ever see
the members of the family. That happened
10 some of the larger towns, but the rule in
such plemes alwaye was for the interlopers,
as I considered all except the young lady,
to retire s ery early, leaving her and myself
together and undisturbed for the rest of the
evening. -
" I would net like to say how late I often
stayed on such occasions. That 'I followed
the general crest= in thia respect!, however,
was thoroughly proved by the fact that,
whenever I had friends who spent their
evenings in the same way and agreed to
meet elsewhere, they were as late as I wee.
There is not is night constable in a country
town in the United States, I dare say, who
will not nob bear me out in stating that on
Viteduesday and Sunday nighta the puler
lights burn till long after midnight, and that
he meets the young beau i of the place on
their way to their homes in the growing
hours toward daylight. The story told of
the German maiden and the boas plumber
who spent their courting nights in innocent
slumber in their chairs was paralleled in my
experience, for one of the young women in
my list of sweethearts used to tell me that
her sister had is beau, a farmer, who always
fell asleep soon after he had come to me her.
He had done a hard day's work on the
tare; ,and she had been tiresomely employed
in the house., Neither one had any thing
to converse about, so when he fell asleep she
aettled hereelf for a nap, and whichever one
woke firat awakened the other, whereupon
the young farmer bade the young lady geode
night and went away—it might be at 11
o'clock or it might; Saab 3 in the morning:"
"Now," asks Mr. Ralph, who is drawing
attention to the lack of safeguards in court-
ship as a possible reason for the growth of
unhappy marriages and the prevalence of
divorce in the United States--" Now what
is recommended as a substitute for presen6
usages ?" The readerhad beat draw hie own
cote° Melons.
"It would seetn a sehsible proposition,
that if the young people find that their love
affairs' do not interest their parents they
shouldforce the eubjeot upon parental at-
tention. A young girl should not suffer her-
self helm negleeMd either in the room in
which she entertains her visitor or in the
counsel she has a right to demand .(and
ehould, rejetce to obtain) fromiher mother
A. young taut should not insist upon is room
apart from her family for all his mtervievra
with his lady love, and before he ventures
upon MI engagement he should *talk the 'mat-
ter over freely en his own home.
'"The custonte thet obtain in those fami-
lies that Wive preserved the European
usages are net irkaome to any cue concerned
in their application. In such families the
visits to the young .woman who is of an ago
for miirtship ate paid to her in the general
assembly room of the family.
"M, first, when the earliest visite of the
new aoquainteame are made he les apt to be
received with parlor formakty, bite mother
and sisters, or brothere, or whoever ia at
home leavieg the 'fitting room ot place of
generel °vellum assemblage, to etedrit in the
entertainment of the visitee, If he nukes
himself popular and his -dolts ere eneour-
aged, he g000 finao his way to the actual
sanctum of the household, usually a rear
parlor, and sometimes the dining room."
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She is waiting in the darkness, she ia
waiting' by the doer, and she hears the aad
sea moaning as it beats the sandy dome;
and she her the might bird crying, and
the wailing of the trees, and upon her fever-
ed forehead gently WOW'S the Southern
breeze; but in ',rein she stands and listens
'for the coming of the One who to her is prince
and hero, who is brighter than the ann.
Close the door, oh, weeping lady, close the
door and weep alone,to the signing of the
bremee, to the oceann outline moan; to the
soreatninu of the nightbird, to the sobbing
of the !rain, as it fent:like tears from heaven,
splashing on the window pane. Let your
eyes this night be rivers and your hair is
mourning veil, let yeut soul float oub to
heaven in a wild despairing wail; for the
footsteps of your hero do not echo on the
shore, and to-niglit you'll never mee him
though you're waiting by the door; hind you
will not hear the music of the wilco you
lave so well; you will only hear the moan-
ing of the oeeat's readout swell. Close the
door, oh weeping lady, look no more for
hirn you love, better look for hope and com-
fort to the Hombre eky above; to your eide
your love and here all your Watching care
not wio, for he tried to paint the city and
the peelers rari him ht.
A Case for Sympathy.
I/halt—was telling her Sunds.y.school
class of small boys about the "Sbut•in
Society," an orgenteltion whose members
are mostly eenfined with ilium to thefr
664"13Vitoftotra"racalt we think of," "field she, en-
cleavoring,to awaken the interest of toe deem
in these unfortunate, "that Would heve
lead groat sympathy fest dime thee, are et:
abut int"
"I know," mid is little boy with brighten-
ed face, "Bente one in the, -Sibley isn't it,
teablierr
"Yea," eaid MIES It—,, "and Wile, jOhtley?"
4g0110.12,1' Was t110 spirited answer.
It took Locaron fourteen days to tell his
probably the longest lie on reeord.
otory. Thiene, remeakaTheChimgo Herald,