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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-7-1, Page 2• sieteeSe~e.eSSS1MieSefttSSIete,'PeSSMSOSftiSeelteSeStenteet ANTONIO 1 CA RARA A PADUAN TALE ,eiettneenesSegesgesegsmeetkitSVMSWAMailtSMOSSSIg$SSMSISMSSUMSSS, The languor of Italy in lie:tate, men - Vera, and pursuits, melts away all Individual charaotor in the central southern division of the land. But the north boasts of manlier propensities TIM wind blows vigor of mind and body from the Alps. Beyond those bills lie Switzerland, the country of penury and freedom; Germany, the country of toil, mental and bodily. Even the rough mountaineer of the Tyrol gives hia share to the general nativity of the region; and. even the Veronessehough gleaming on the luxuriant landscape -atilt spreads like the waves of a sum- aner sea to the south, feels the spirit of the hills and forests in hien, at ev- ery breath from those noble bulwarks of the land. The character ot the It- alian is thus mingled of contending elements, and, as chance directs, it is propelled to lavishIndulgences of the Neapo1itii, or to the hardy habits of the region that every morning glitters with its ten thousand pyramids of mar- ble, and its ten times ten thousand pinnacles of eternal snow above his head, M the north. The Count' An- tonio di Carara was a Paduan noble, descended from the famous Cararas, Princes of Padua.. Antonio was a true Italian, steeped to the lips in the spirit of the south, ele- gant, luxurious, and languid. But the vicinage of the north had its share in bis composition. His life was a dream. His paternal opulence flowed away on singers, dancers, and. dilet- teeth He wrote sonnets—he compos- ed cavatinaa—he even invented a new fashion of wearing the hat and plume mend was tbo first authority consulted On every new arrival of a first-rate maestro of the violin, the sword, danc- ing dogs, anything. But the spirit of the Alps was not altogether extinguishable. Antonio began t o grow weary of lingering for ever in the midst of the squabbles of bullying priests and effeminate dra- goons, the abbesses of rival cenveets, and opera singers, all perfeetion, and all ready to poniard or poison each other. The Austrian grasp, too, was heavy on the politics of his calm and venerable city. Yet it had charms still, whose spell defied even the tooth of time, and the insolence of the Aus- trian corporals. Padua, as all the world unows, the paradise /of the far niente, the ori- ginal Castle of Indolence, the Palace of Slumber; the soft, silent, somnol- ent doambed of Italy. The air itself slumbees; tete grattematherere pod on the vines; the mules tread as if they were shod with felt; and though Padua produces no longer the silk and velvet that once made her name memorable to the ends of the earth, the genius of tb both Is ineverything.All is silky, smooth, and gravely superb. A drowsy population yawns through life in a drowsy city, taught the art of t doing nothing by a drowsy uelversity. The old glories of Paduan science are is gone to sleep; her thousand doctors, once shedding wisdom into her myriads d of students, have sunk down into shed- h dem of poppies—, a few innocent old r would become dull to 0.0 intensity be- yond all Inman suffering, The request was extended to a year. His guest smiled, but told bim that matters of importance3 compelled him to think of returning homeward.; and that though he was determined to revisit Italy and the Count, some years must talapse be- fore Itis return. 1 Ceram felt as an Rabin feels on every occasion that thwarts his pro- pensities, be they what tbey will; he was In despair. There was but one al- ternative, to leave Italy and travel with this man of accomplishment round. the world, consume life thus gyrating, and die after a prolonged conversation of fifty years. The Tian garian argued strenuously against this genuine Italian romance; sat up half a night suffering himself to be convince ed, gradually gave way to all the Count s arguments, and even pointed out the means of making this Pere- grination a muth more delightful ad- venture than it had seemed to the glimpse of dawn,glided from his cham- fancy of the Count,; and at the first ber, with his valise on his shoulder, into the suburbs, ,As Padua would have been asleep all day, it could scar- cely have eyes for the simple and lonely fugitive, who threaded its dos - Ing streets at an hour when no Pa - duan on record bad ever known whe- ther it was the full blas of sunshine, or the darkness of Erebus. Els made his way accordingly; passed through atreete of palaces and walks of state as invisible as a spirit; walked through magnificent gates where no sentinel thallenged, and no Swiss kept the key, straight forward through Sousovino's bronze borseman, and 13arbarini's ; and, unbayed at by a solitary dog, reached the Cemetario grande; the true emblem of the city, weedy, calm, soundless, and decaying—a bed of but mere steady sluxaber—a Padua under gemmed. A year passed away, but not like the years before. The Hungarian was a philosopher, and the word had many meanings at the time. Ha bad seen many nations, and the view had not raised his conception of human na- ture; he had lived under various gov- ernments, and his conceptiors of the wisdom of kings and the happiness of their subjects did not prevent him an occasional sarcasm on both; he was a man of imagination, and one of its employments was the construction of an Utopia, He was a man of sciences and the sudden discoveries of the French and German chemists in the last century had kindled him into the reveries of the century before, and made him a searcher after the pintos - h ' a e the power and impulse of so much cari- on:I sneculation, inventive skill, bold heory, and actual kuowledge, pour- ng suddenly upon the sensitive spirit f an Italian aroused for the first line to a feeling of bis own sensitive- ess I It was the sudden opening of is curtains at midnight, to show him be blaze of a conflagration; the sad - en perception that there was round im, not the monotonous luxury of an alian e vivt - ity, and intellect -mil vigour of a world —a world all alive, vigorous, stirring, ierce, enthusiastic, brilliant—a world n which ambition might fly abroad, until it wearied its wildest wing; in which vanity might play its most fan- astio game; in wbich philosophy might uild its noblest conceptions, till they c to e very gates of heaven; n which science might explore the epth of things until it reached the ntre; a world 'of grandeur, beauty, trength, weakness, life, immortality; world of wonder. The luxurious Italian became the hilosopher; he rose with the sun, he tudied until midnight, he plunged in - o the mysteries of science, he grew edam, pale and severe. But the ee- ght of discovery repaid all the la - ours of the pursuit, The tennsmutra on of metals, that most. dazzling ream of science, which will dazzle o the end of time, let him onward itb enthu.sinst's disregard of all hinge but his crurible. In the menn- bile he himself bed honoree an objert t tent ion; and the Count Carara had ready marked the day and hour hen he was to become master of the rand secret of this world's wealth, hen a knock at his study door dis- rbed him in the rai.lst of the °Dent- on, and a corporal of grenadiers aided a paper to him containing an der for his arrest on the ground of eemasonry. lingerers among the shelves of her e mighty libraries, dry as their dust, sil- ent as their authors, and not half so e active as the moths that revel in their i sultry sunshine, Life creeps away In eating grapes, and. drinking the worst wine In the world; in. having the Mal- t aria fever in summer, and the pleurisy le in avinter in sitting under the shade of sunburnt trees that mock the eye I with the look of verdure, and fall In- d to dust at a touch; and in blackening ee, the visage over wood fires that make 0 man the rival, in odour, colour, and a countenance, of the boar's hatn that hangs in his chimney. P Antonio loved this velvet way of s gliding through the world, and in this t taate fulfilled all the duties that the world expects from a citizen of Pa- ' li dua. But in Padua even this grace - Int lover of his ease um not to bean 11 together tranquil. One day when ha d was indulging in the memoryf cool t air—for the reality of it was not to e be found in even bis marble palace, t the month being August, and the May- e. ens burning over the national head like or the roof of an immense furnace — the al Count of Curare, was roused f ram lys Mg at his full length on a sofa in g veranda that overlooked his ample es gardens by the announcement of a te stranger with letters of introdu.etion. ti The stranger was admitted—the lettere were from a cousin of the Count, a 00 general in the Austrian service, commending the Herr Maximilian Rial- to to his good offices, as a Hungarian of family addicted to scienre, and who was attracted to Italy by his desire to see the wonders and beauties of the most famous and lovely land of the world. The stranger was a inen of mature age, with a form bowed by either Years or stesie, and a pais but highly in telligent countenance. The e'en n pictureaque eye immediately set him down as an admirable study for a painter, and his place in the Titian gal- lery of the pelmets was fixed on before be uttered a word, Bat Antonio was equally susceptible of the charms of conversation; and the stranger's con- versation was adapted to captivate a man of his skill in tbs graceful parte of Iife. The ilerr Maximilian had tra- velled much—had seen everything that was remarkable in the pronsipal re- gions of the globe, end had known or seen the principal personages of the time. MS conversation was ads mirable—easy, fluent, and various; its Animation never flagged; its variety weer degenerated into trifling, nor its description into ettriceture. The Count, 10 man of higher capacities than atm that would be required by the bidet- ence of his life, felt his intellectual eonsciousness revived, He was, -as al/ men are, delighted with the dienov- ere; entered at once into the full en- joymeet of hia awakened tuulerstand- ing, and began to wonder what he bad been thinking ot during the last thirty years, To gaffer the fiend who had done bite this service to take his depart- ure .as atiddenly as he came, was out el' the question. Ho pressed him to make the palazzo hia residence for a week; the week passed, the request was lengthened to le month; the month visaed. awey only to eenvince the Coinat, that, without the society 00 1)14 the aceompliehed lintigarian, Padua THB BRUSSULS POST. ferruption; tee fire of tile Italian The Count was indignant at the in - character blazed out in wrath at the 1 insolence of disturbing a noble in his own sanoluery: but the corporal had no ears for remote the bayonets at his linter were better arguers; and in Ilos naked of a plantoon of whiskered einuts, the philosopher was =relied fink into the preeence of the gover- nor—who informed hirn that Ids estate was confiscated to the use of better subjects, of wham tbe governor himself was to be prem.meci the most deserving —and next to the well-known Torre di &reline. This famous remnant. of the ages of bleod,—avhich every living ta tan records as the ages of glory, when every little town of Italy had its battlemeets, its terrilorips, its slaves, its army, its despot as fierce as the Grand Turk, and its enemy within half a league, as inveterate as the Helium Tartar; its war once a month, bloody, as if the weal of the world depended on tbe sword; and its siege, storm, and seek once a Year.— 1 had been just converted into to stat prison. Yet it was the very sPo which, if Carara, had been free 1: choose, he would have chosen. Fro it suxamit, Eccelino, the most sanguin ars of the sanguinary, the moat sul tie, daring, and ambitious of an ag of civil and martial ferocity, watohe the movements of the vast thrbulen city below, then filled with partisan of all blas desperate feuds of the daa From its summit be too had watthe the stars, that as they rose or set twinkled above, or flashed in constella tion, wrote in characters of fire th fates of heroes and empires. Within its recesses, too, the matt of power and blood had plunged in those forbid_ den studies, which shook sovereigns from their thrones, disturbed popes and conceives with new terrors, filled nations with sudden tumults, and laid waste the happiness of human nature. But here he was deolared, by the ton- gue of all Italy, to have laid the foun- dations of his incomparable success; to have discovered the means of over throwing all resistance in the fiel(1, and baffling all resolve in the emu - oil; to have found wealth inexbaustibe knowledge that surpassed the react) of the human mind, sagacity that no thing could perplex, and strength that nothing could overwhelm, and to have paid, for all, the fearful price of his own soul. Sb was the legend; and when Carara entered the cell where this extraordinary being had so oft- en trod that his spirit seemed to haunt he place, he shuddered as he saw, transcribed upon the wall above his head, the tines of Arlosto— "Eccelinot—Marnanissime Urn= Che fia crecluto figlio del demonic." jULY 1, 1898 plunged into slake; it flashed, blazed, and. shook the waters from shore; it Wee extinguished, and ihe waters were as smooth as glass again, no breath , dieturbbag their blue romplaceney, the quiet mirror of the quietest of all skies, Ceraiz'a bad brought hie noble bride to his milieu°, showed bee to the homage of hie hunche(1 domestics, in now eoes times of scarlet and gold, walked with ber through hie spacious apartments, marble floored, and glowing with the frescoes of Gioegione and Spagnolet; had pointed out to ber vivid glance the Telma, the Raphaels, and the Tbetor- els ; had unfolded the pimple curtaine which concealed the virgin loveliness of the Madeline of Corxeggio from the profaner eye; had given a concert to her on her arrivel, and a ball to the podestat, and every soul that called ibself noble for ten leagues round Pa- dua; and then—retumned quietly to his tranquil career, subsided out of the world' et hearing, lapsed into Elysian slumber; listened to the murmurs of his fountains and the cooing of Ms e 1 doves, till they both sent him es sleep; Elandall 110 silks and velvets of tbe land, , wrapping his soul in more than O 1, , he prepared himself to dream through - the world. el The heart, stifled by the trappings ; of Prosperity, often learns to bear only cl when!the trappings are plucked away. t 1 Carara, the prisoner in his cell, was a s ' different being from Camara, the ele- egant but weary voluptuary in his pal - • 000. The vision of bis wife and child , came before him and made him often Bat there Ls nothing wbich decays more rapidly than the imagination in prison. The first day's solitude, the second day's solitude, and the third day's solitude drove every phantom from his presence, The age of poetry was no more; the clank of the sentin- el's pike, and the rattle of the jail- er's keys, reclaimed him from the do- minion of mame, and he began to de- scend in thought to that world, to which he was never likely to descend in reality, bat on bis way to the scaffold. A prison strips off the embroidery of life prodigiously; and in the course of this operation Carara discovered that he had a wife and child. That wife he bed purchased at the cost lef the only struggle which had. marked his silken existence, ,Tulin (11 Monteleone hadbeen the moat celebrat- ed beauty of the Court of Milan, had been eought in sonnets and serenades, in love, and even in marriage, by a hun- dred cavaliers of the highest grades, had laughed at all, scorned many, re- pelled some with open contempt and finally taken refuge from the univer- sal storm of sighs in the Palazzo di Gar- en, to which she brought a large dow- er, a noble alliance, the handsomest face in Italy, and one of the highest hearts that ever spoke in coral lips and diamond eyee. The choice was made, like all the choices of women, by the eye. Carara was the finest figure, the beat dancer, and the most brilliant in his equipages of any of the myriad who, paid their homage at the shrine of the lady's loveliness. The point was then decided. The prize, however, was not to be won in a nation of swordsmen and dagger- bearers without its hazard. It cost him three duels with the in- dignant suitors, and had nearly cost hien his life, by a sturdy blow of a dag- ger in his side, as he was in the aot of banding bis bride elect into her char - lot at the door of the Grand Opera, Re fell covered with blood, Itanguiehed for O a:aonth on the verge of death, was cheered by the beautiful lady's redoub- led protestations of living or dying with him, and recovered only to be the most envied husband from the Alps to the Apennines. But tbis was but a thunderbolt forget the massive beams and iron stanohels that stood between him and those whom he loved. He revolved the hours wbich he bad flung away with them; resolved, if his fortunes should turn again, to disdain the silver stream of life, and think of the surge; to show himself fit for something better than the master of French valets, and one companion of Spanish lap -dogs; to take the goods that rank, wealth, and nature gave, and be a noble, a husband, and a father, and worthy of the names, .Bat his prison -bars were still as strong as over, the cell as bigh from the ground, the jailer ae sullen, and the day as solitary. To bribe the vigs Hance of the turnkeys was hopeless; for the first act of justice bed; been to Plunder hLm of every ducat. To ad-' dress the governor's reason was equal- ly hopeless; for the street artier of that governor was, that the prisoner should hove no means] of making any appeal. i To summon the public to the decision of hie rights and wrongs, must be de- t ferred until there was a publics; or un- til he could find any Italian in exist- f enoe who eared an inch of macaroni for i earth. The feeling of solitude grew theg painful,ihtbsitatnerd, wragoonngissinogf, ainnytothleinragbloan. t The far talents life never had such a trial, and never was more torturing. 1 Carara would have exchanged his be- s ing with that of any lazzarone that begged and, burned in the noon at any o city of hovels in the realm. Books, the I Pencil. musio, all the resources of a b f) On the Farm. 1$116.114114b,1/..Riveit/e6— —'14s'%'%41'THE CARE OP MILK. Milk must be removed from the eta, ble as soon as possible after it is drawn, to avoid germs and eharaoteriss tic stable odors wheel it readily tib - sorb, It is not uncommon to see a large can placed In the passage -way between the cows, where It is slowly filled and allowed to remain until the cows are turned out and the chores finished, It may be more than an hour from the time the first milk wee drawn until it ie cooled. Such delay must not be allowed. if it Is expected to keep the milk in good condition. Each pail, as soon as it is filled or when the milking of any Dow is finished, should be carried bo the dairy room. If a dairy house is located at a distance from the stable, the cane should be taken to it as soon as they are filled; and they should not be so large as to require a. long time for filling. When there are many milkers and. large cans are used, the cans ream be carried to the dairy house by suspending them on a skeleton frame between two wheels, or they may be sent across on a cable stretched froml the barn to the dairy house. If milk could be drawn in suoli a manner that no dust or dirt fell into it, straining would be needlees. But this is Impracticable, and it is necessary to remve foreign matter by some mechanical means. The sooner milk is strained the better. It should pass through a metal strainer having a fine mesh and a flannel cloth or eheeee cloth folded enough to Pre- vent running through too fast. Botla the cloth and metal strainer ought to be frequently rinsed during the milk.. ing to avoid. gutmming and to wash oaanruryiedfhitheropnarticles of dirt removed frora one pail winch might be later badly infecteras' aivnoguldthehanlveilkbern f not strained. The dirt should be re- moved from the milk so- completely hat when the milk is again strained et ha destination there will be no cause or returning the cloth through 20121011t passed to show to the dairyman the dirt c,ollected. Milk pails! are sometimes used whose tops aro covered evith tin, he center of wbich is replaced by a circular piece of wire gauze about seven nches in diameter, through whicb the treams of milk peas. This form of pail ,s of advantage in keeping out hairs r large pieces of dirt. When that milk a emptied from these pails it should e pulsed through a (sloth, and. the pail nd its strainer should be rinsed. The common strainer pail should not he sed in the stable. It offers no 0110 - bit protection to the milk and may ren collect dirt that would otherwisehe be avctided, Tcommon strainer used ver cans has flaring sides and aeon cave bottom, the wire gauze being in he center of the bottom. This only partially serves its purpose. It re moves coarse materials, but holds them n the milk streara, and the soft im- purities which are easily broken up by agitation and soaking may be forc- ed through the email openings by the constant current of milk. Celery delighCtsB`ILEn aRYso.il rather moist, a rich vegetable mould, with an addi- tion of phosphate of lime and an alkali, e o idleness, of gracefulness, or of a industry, were alike forbidden to him. He felt himself day by day more mer- u cilessly cut off from mankind, rececl- ing hourly frora existence, turning in- , e to a wild beast, degenerating into the' uselessness of a stook or a stone, and, o regretting only that with their use- lessness he had not their insensibility. t The sting of all this wretchedness was envenomed by Us uncertainty. If his enemies, or their instrument the gov- ernor, had declared to Man that bis imprisonment was to last for a year, or fifty steam or to lay him in the grave, les might have prepared. himself for the duration; he might have braced up his mintl for a oalaraity of which he knew the extant: he might have said to himself, "goy and hope are shut out for ever. I shall seek and struggle for them no mere. My dungeon must be looked on as rose final home. I must Merely conform myself to maim tartest look upon my imprisonment only as a slower death, and be contented as 7 =ay." But from the tower of Padua he might be released, at a moment, or never, He might return tbat night to his own roof, or never lie down under its shelter. While be eves speaking, the order might be at hie prison -doors for restoring him to the arms of his wife and child, or the merciless spirit that had Men them asunder might be darkly decreeing an eternal separation to them all. But it was the doubt, the near possibility of the enjoyment, that made him atilt nurture his egony. He could not beroically harden himself to endure. He mutt tremble, for ha must hope. To Be Continued. Lady (engaging a new cook)— Can you clean bicycles? Cook—No, lady; but can give you the address where I have mine Moaned. ,o/t-' ,t2) I 111? :1111 1 110 144' „ 11002 eete ems— me..etee______me---seessee.eeeee, eMe—etter. SPANISH CRUISER, VISCAVA) Which was damaged by a shell from the Melee Slatae cruiser 13rookyin during- the hentbartitnent of Sarilligie constituents which vegetable mouldms- natty lacks; if these are used there is no occasion for the direct application of dung to the plant, which does not im- prove its compactness or solidity, and alters the flavor of the celery. :When either the plants left in the seed -bed or those removed are from six to twelve inches high, or when the lat- ter have acquired a stocky growth by four or five weeks' nurture in the in- termediate bed, transplant them into trenches for blanching. For this per - pose allot an open compartraent. Mark out the trenches a foot wide, and. from 8 to 3 1-2 distant; dig out each trench lengthwise 10 or 12 inches in width and 6 or 8 inches deep, Lay the earth dug out equally on each side of the treneh; put about 8 inches of well-fer- naented peat into the trench, unless they are set in a peaty soil, then pare the sides and dig the peat and par- ings with an inch ot two of the loose mould et the bottom. Trim the bops and roots of the plants and !get them In single rows along the middle of each treach, allowing 4 or 5 inches from plant to plant, When the work is finished give the plants water in plenty, and occasionally water them from time to time if the weather be dry, and likewise let them be shaded till they strike root and begin to grow, When . they have grown to the height of 8 or 10 inches), drew earth to each side of thane breaking it fine. This should be done in fine weather, being eareful not to bury the beert, Repeat the earthing once in ten dams till the plants are fit to Ilse. Be careful, how- ever, not bo draw up too much earth to ths plants at first, lest they be craakorea, and leave the plants in a hollow that they rimy receive the full benefit; of the waterings, rains, eto. It le best in gatbering the crop to begin at one end of a row, and dig clear down to the roots, whicb then Imam with spade, and they may be drawn tap entire without breaking the atalka. To preserve this plant during the evileter, on the appreach of frost take up a part of the crop, and lay it under send; for winter use those left in the beds may bo covered with ta be removed in mild weather, it FARM SCALE, Comparatively few term coneeniences pesteineo. But In addition to the do- wel those of a good; farm scale in coliducting reran Operations on alms - Mem basis. It is very unfortunate for 10 man to be. planed In euelti a position that he is obliged to tweet the 'Weights and measures of a buyer in disposing of his produce, though we am glad to say misuse of this advantage Is come Paratively rare among buyers of farm ononm of knowing the weights of pro - due to be sold, the scale Is of Immense advantage in keeping typo* of the growth of live stock during feeding operations and in testing the feeding quality of the animals produced on the farm, as may be done by frequent weighing. The settle is also an element of Interest where boys are growing up on the fame. They have a natural In stinot for keeping traok of those things that may be found out by weighing and measuring, and the smile thus be- comes an educating influence that has greet value aileched, GRAPES IN A COLD CLIIVIATE. Plant the vines in the wannest en sunniest place you have. The so must not be wet. Sandy or gravell mils aro best, but grapes can he grown in any soil provided, it is well drain° and in good condition. When planting do not place manure or other fertili- zer in contact with or eve)] very near the roots, .1.0 the soil is poor, apply the fertilizer on the surface tater the vines are planted. Manure, chip dust, rotten straw, or similar material, emend on the grounti about the plant will serve as a mulch and may say the lite of a newly planted vine if th season is dry. After the vines comment bearing, do not use stable manure, as it will cause too rank a growth of vine, and the fruit will not ripen well, Ap- ply fertilizers which are very rich in Phosphoric acid. I believe this will came the fruit to ripen much earlier. Bangs Coming Back Again, The day of the Wan= with the low, broad forehead is on the wane, The Meth, intellectual brow is coming to the fore—not, however, in all Its unadorned. severity, but eluded, eottoned and beaute the thinking of 'gene; disilgnr- ecl in Lbe minds uf ahem by that retie of peat barbarism, the bung I The oolfteuee, as she deftly wane the pompadour so populer to -day, will quiet- ly inform )'Co that the very latest ed. - vim from Paris are that the severely plain pompadour will be done away with, and just the faintest susPiolon a hang will show Itself on my lady's forehead. Of courae, the little bang, whith will. d first show itself will be what most peo- y pie would call "a eringae but it will not bo long before the real article wilL d make its appearance, and women will be disfigured by great masses of Mort cut hair, tightly curled, extending aoross the tops of Male' heads. There will be one diftioulty at the outset, which may prove insurmount- able tourney women, and that will be t he refractory weave of the looks which bave been so long roiled back.1 It will be almost an impossibility to make hair e thus trained fall in the graceful aband- BERRY SUPPORTS. Blackberriee do not really need sup- port when it is possible to let them have all the space they need, but in a restricted area such/ as a garden, we have to tie them up to keep them neat and within reasonable bounds; this is done after all the old fruiting canes are pruned out. Raspberries that have been laid down for panteotion must now be taken up tied to the wires, and pruned to a uni form height. We have come to th conclusion that wires at two and fou feet from the ground strained on neat square posts, are the best means o support, and the best way to lay ou the canes. When stakes are used to each stool, or put in between each two it often gives good satisfaction, but it is a,n eternal task keeping the stakes renewed and they mealy break down when the crop is in full bearing. on wbieh should distinguish a bang, whether large 01' small. The fair maiden at the outset of all this will nut look pretty when she re- tires at night. In order to have her bang appear as it should in the day time she will need not only to put it 10 ourlera, but to bandage it flat to. her forehead, to counterbalance the up- ward tendency which it will be sure to show at firat, To see the real bang in all its awful hideousness one need only resurrect an. old photograpb of Lily Langtry. She always wore a most pronounced and thoroughly English bang. To this day , an add woe oman on10 while is dis- - (severed with a bung—one of those al- e fairs which start half way Derma the ✓ top of the head and are then combed O way down t staraightoveic; Lthheee loce. elisisact, falling half v t Another antiquated specimen will show heiself with a heavy bang extend-. , ing across the Lop of her heed, running just even with the end ot the eyebrows and as tightly curled as wool, the hair on the sines of the head being drawn book es tightly as though some one had caught bold of this back hair and was dragging the woman bank. The present fashion of wearing the hair waved all oror the head and turn- ed baok in a pompadour did away with any possibility ol false hair, ex- cept the "rat," which kept the hair out and gave tt that fluffy appearance, but with the return of the obnoxious bang we will have false pieces galore, and the poor victims of fashion will need stand before the glass for hours in or- der to get their false bangs pulled pro- perly into shape. Woe betide the woman olio has a pretty fashion of running lac0 fingers through ber locks. She will elways be in a dishevelled condition, for of all I the tyrants a well kept, well sitting bang, is the vary worst .Nothing looks ao rakish as a bang which stands ap i"cvery mina way for Sunday." Another very serious objection to the bang ,vhich will mine from the ' girl those hair is not naturally (surly will be feet it is so hard to keep curl- ' ed in the summer time. The oontaot of the hair with the farebead of a warm day, and the perspiration which forms. on the temples, tense it never elusive in any other place, is bound to make the prettiest, fluffiest bang look. straight and ugly. The damp sea air, too, is death to a bang unless it is a false one. The dampness will straigbt- en out an artilioially curled one most effectually, and, strange to say, will, curl naturally cury hair so tightly that the bang will absolutely refuse to lie, as it should, in delicate tendrils on the wearer's forehead It is barely possible that the 'ramen will make no outcry against the reviv- al of the bang. Women nowadays take - the new fashions es they come. They demur a little at fast at their grange- ness, oddity or mbeemtungness, but whether it is that after a while the fashion becomes modified or that as the - women become more accustomed to It it loses its first striking incongruities is a conundrum. The fent remains that they very soon accept it with fair- ly good grace, HIGHWAY DRAINAGE. • There is one fault frequently cane- mttted in the use of the road machine; there is an insufficient escape allowed for water. Those who operate these machines object to being bothered by bars, or so-called "thank you, rearms." So these are not being put in their places as they should be. If there is a short sag to be filled, it can probably be done from, mater- ial at the sides by using drag scrap- ers, then dress up with a road machine, or if the soil is a stiff dem or muok, haul on gravel, rook, shale or sand, if they are available. If not, the em- bankment shonl4 be raised to an extra height to give a quick drainage. The worst feature in the working of the roads is that they are made the gutters of the country. The ditch on the upper side of the road gathers all the water from the fields above the road and carries it to the foot of the hill; the ditch on the lower side gathers all the water corn - Lag Irene the road, and between the two our road system is being washed out. Drainage can and should be provid- ed to get the water outside of the road limits at short intervals. Water is a poor road material. Keep it from getting on the roads where possible,— Leader, Kenyon, Mich.. THE CAUSE 011' MOTTLES. The prime cause of mottles is the use of too cold water in washing the butter and the manner in which it is introduced into the churn. By using too cold water the outside of the but- ter granules becomes crusted or hard- ened like the shell of an egg, while the inside is soft, NOW ;when this mess is worked together those little shells remain in the same condition, and no amount of Working or temper- ing salt, or even distribution of sett when added, will change the condi- tione, They do nob work usi conse- quently do nob take sell:, home the fine threadlike streaks in the butter, The manner in which the water is intro- duced Into the churn is responsible for the large rnoLtles, or seeming lumps of white butter throughout the mass. In the majority of creameries throwth- oat the country, the water is pump- ed. direallyeinto the there either through a hose or a pipe. Note when the water strikes the butter these granules beoome hard and solid like shot, end when it is worked wo have the ammo conditions as in the first case only that these herd grenules are not broken down at all, and the large mottles are the result. The wash water should be tempered to within two or three degreee of the them tempera- OUTELOW OV TELE HEART. To love others is the true counter- poise of our unsteady matures. Tow- ering and infirm sell love is likely to collapse at any moment. The overflow ol the heart upon others is in the me haring of God, ilio Most infallible way of securing sanity of mied, as far as Geneeel Jettropatkin, whose appoint-. meet as Russian minister at war la an- nounced is of very humble origin, lend his greet honors have all been the re- werd cie merit. He hes Nice for a mitober 00 Fame military governor of the Trenscespian proviece, with his heeeknutrtere at Aekliebad, BRIGANDS IN 'TALI-. 13rigunange atilt nourishes in It- aly. As Signor Romaninefacar, a wells known Deputy, and a dozen other nien. were going toward Gressette, the oth- er day for the purpose ot inspecti.ng a newly constructed aqueduct; they suddenly /net a man, dressed like a. huntsman, who levelled his rifle at them and ordered them to bait. They obeyed, whereupon lho brigand. com- mended them to empty their pookette Strange to say, not one of them made the least resistance, and as a result the brigand obtained a few thomand francs, Deputy RomanineIneur's invol- untary contribution being Ave bank =1eof 100f. each, Having metered; this booty the fearless robber disaP- peered nett no trace of him eras since been fouled, .On the tollowing day a, wealthy heeded proprietor Was dab- bed and robbed by a brigand within a few miles of Rome, but fortunately the pollee were near at luand, and they arrested the miscreant before he could esoape. As this victim is said to be mortally woureled, the chances are time the orlinintile career is Practically ended, The engegement; is announced of Miss Mabel Gordon, daughter oe Col- caael W. W, Gordon, of etevannel, Ga., to lion. Rowlend Charles ISretteriele Leigh; youngest eon of Baron Leigh of England. ear, Leigh was born in 1850. The family seat, of Baron Leigh is Stoneleigh Abbey, neer Kenilworth, The family is descended from SirPima Leigh, who bort the standard al the Black Prince at Creme. ',Me latterei son,. Sir Peter, wee killed at Agineoert.