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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-8-25, Page 2THE BRUSSELS P OS T, 4es e eve - '£e ,Sot eircumsi:anees ashlar], allow u to rage long uninterrupted, and whil Rosanne walked on, the fields grit dimmer, and the green grayer, and the breeze chillier, and lho grass wet- ter until et last she found the thorny briers which twitched her by the show as she passed them, were beginning 1 ask her where the was going. it wa a puzzling question, To go bum among those false, scheming, trawl pliant creatures, could not for a mom A y •}-gent bo thought of. It would be mar tolerable to return and face the storm in the dairy at 1Cilerumlyn farm, and even that was quite impossible. 0n such consideration as she could give only one answer occurred to her. Sha would go to her Aunt Lizzie Muhonye her mother's sister, who had always been u good nate � red and friendly.The Mahoys, it was true, lived rther ha long step off, somewhere beyond Hew- ilsCown, still she thought she could certainly contrive to get there In th course of the next day, and she line they would be glad to see her. Afie that. her future was alt drearily vagu She supposed that she could get fief work to do, and sometimes she eve thought wildly of turning hailed sing er. Dan used to say that she had a vein fit to make her fortune; but of course that might only have been one of his lies, for it was evident you could nor believe a word that come out of his head. The furthrd her feet and her reflections travt''d, the more at- tractive grew the pioture of the Ma- hony's little white cottage, with her aunt looking out at the door, .unci say- ing: "Glory be to goodness, if it isn't little Rosanna," For the fields around her spread lonelier, and saran- . gel', and the mocu!ight began to file them cruelly with ghastly glesms and shades. At last in a great fright she orept under a haystack and shivered and dazed in inequal alterations till the dawn. It found • her bewilderingly miser- able, but delivered from the panto fears that had beset her, while the world was black and white, and she stole out of the yelloevemounded hag- gart on to the high -road Mote by. She hardly notioed that she was hungry and cold and damp with dew as she resumed her journey, upon which the July sun soon began to glare strong and fierce, The way was much longer than she thought, and she lengthened it by missing it several times, finding intricate directions all the more puzzl- ing because she was dazed for the /want of food ani sleep. Two women of whom she had mode Inquire -et end who told her of terribly many miles gave her a drink of milk, but that was all she had the wb2fe day, With her gaudy hat and her nenalessly-wisped-on shawl and bedraggled pink gown, her curly hair tossed and ruffled and her eyes wild and woebegone, she had be- come a forlorn, strange -looking figure, which passers-by eyed curiously, and on which they sometimes made re- marks. This alarmed her greatly, for solitary wanderings were a new ex- perience to her. She made up her mind never to be a ballad singer, and her aunts have. grew a more .'nd more desired refuge. At last, when the shadows stretched very long and the sunbeams had relaxed their scorch- ing grip, she came to a bit of road that seemed familiar to her, Round the next turn, if she was not mistaken, stood the little white cottage at the foot of a steep field, in the angle where two Inninger met—she remem- bered the plaice very well,. And, sura, ev.,ugh round- the cor- ner, just as she had hoped, the little white cottage came into view, a sight which for a few moments she beheld with much comfort of heart. But she had not taken many steps towards it Wore she perceived that something was amiss. On the brown slope of the thatch a thick cloud of smoke was/ brooding, dull and pale, and, as she looked thicker black clouds came roll- ing up through it in great, heavy puffs, pierced bare and there by sharp, thrusts of flame, which even under the I t sunset of the sky gleamed strong and red. Vary clearly the house was on j P fire, which was a dreadful thing; butla what struck Rosanne with still more i ee dismay was that there seemed to be `nobody about to mind it. Three small stranger boys were sitting on there triangular grass plat between the twojtr lanes just in front of the cottage, but they were busily playing some game with bits of broken crockery and tak- ing no interest in the fire. Nobody else was to be seen. Rosanne ran up tv to the children in a breathless scare. ou " Where's all the Mahonys ?" One of tI boys glanced at her indifferently to " Och, the Mahonys was put out of it ha yesterday for the rint," he said, " and 13 the colonel's burning the ould bed ret houses to hinder the people of mann' a d back to them, and squatters and wi tramps, and all manner. Give me the blue -edged bit, BiIly," "And -where's sae uncle gone to?" said Rosanne. " 1 dunno," said the boy, "unless it was to the Union below at Hewits. town," -0 Rure, not at all," said Billy; "I heard 'them eayin' Pat Mahony was gone to his brother's place, away at Tullylough." The first 'boy, who was freckled and blue-eyed and red -beaded, pub out his tongue in acknowledgment of thia correction, and the third, who was like him, said: "No, he, isn't. They've all took off to the States." nominee thought they looked quits fiendishly hideous, She was turning• towards the house when Billy said: " There's no- body in it;" but his brother said; "Yes there is, after thatl'ag'in. I teen Alec Anderson and another of the bailiff's men goin' sound wid a pitchfork awhile age." RRosanne ran desperately up to the door, and looked in. It was all a smother of smoke inside, and the flames might be heard gnashing their teeth among the crackling rafters., Then she ran on round the corner of the house, and there, sure enough, were two man, one of wee ea, Standen on the plg sty wall, wea •x;lcislg a pitchfork into the t)x thatch. ?'l» fart was then 'A.lac An- con deram who had a thrifty 'turh, had 't noticed, a fresh golden tench where Pat all 3llnhony had lately darned hie roof., to and now deemed 11 worth while to res- 5 ewe the gootl :bit of straw from the Co s cemflegration for wee on his prem' e Burning cabins is hot and thirsty w ✓ on a radiant July day, and ,Anders mood 3tad become irritable over It, when a ddahevelied bit of a vagr girl, wrapped in an :old rag of ash 1 surmounted by an incongruous g o 'hat,caine rustling up to hem, and in h s ror-stricken accents asked would a pleat; be tellin' where I1rs. :'tunny - gone, he felt moved to reply by toss just for a minyit, for 11 she isn't itostatxte—" But here a voice eallatk latterly and clearly through the half -open dour; " Dan't you offer to nee c•omiu' next or nigh me, Dan Mct'IOati. 110 no snob thing. Git away home to Maggio Walsh," it said, and Dan's sunburnt, Luce grew two 'notice shorter at the sound. 'Glory be to goodness, It's eek bernolf," he Hata, "andene heart. broke othinkiu' what had become of her carer On's since etaturdly morn• So , sure, t tt not be e0men' in - if you're not wishful, ant jewel," he said, Peering warily round awl the edge of this door, ' but what talk ray et all was that you had about Alaggee `fit Welsh." I1 was me cousin, Martha Rollly, tens was: tenni' me all manner," said Hoe- ing mune, tvho felt as if she were waken - 0111 ing up out of n very ill-favored night - at marc," ' Trust 1lfartha Reilly to be gabbin' ere about what dfesn't conearo her," said Dan, " Troth I well knew your step - hot mother was platen' 10.31 story about on this while buck, and devil a word of at, truth in it, 'Deed: Rosanne, that Paid in women isn't anyt Ou good I'm thinkin' he But sure what matter about the packet ed, them? Your .Aunt Lizzie 11lahony's ell ' etoppin' wid her sister-in-law. away at ich lh•umcnatle. I discovered that notch ylsterday'—and they bid mo'be bringin' you• to stay upt'ihcre till we would be gcttin' married afore realein' begins. Maggie Walsh betted! Is it idling me tune led be trantpin' over the country after her cm a Mondayt'morning in Ili' - down a bundle of thatch 'on her o his fork, and saying: " Ou spear t at somebody tbat kens or cares, Kizzie and tlinna be blethet'in' h away.? jlnluckily the bundle had a red - smouldering core, and as it dropped Rosanne's head, it kn.e'.ke off her la and set her hair alight, and fell scorching flakes before her eyes. 8 was fleeing away, Mien one terrift but she trapped over a stone, and f with her bead against' the wall, wh e ratunaed her into unconcern. r By the time that her troublesome world' came hank to her, she bad been dconveyed t., the infirmary ward of the Hcwitstuwn workhouse, a doleful white -washed place, where the 'last red rays of the sunset were beating on t grimy windows, Poor Rosanne's f tunes had sunk sot deeply within t ,last four and twenty hours that y would hardly have recognized her the same girl who had talked to h cousin' Martha at the gate among t hayfields, while the sun went down b hind a screen of rounded tree sops. For her clothes were blackened and drencl, ed with fire and water, and much worse, her pretty curling' hair was all burnt off, and one side of her face w scorobed. Next morning her nelghbo ion the ward thoughtfully lent her bit of broken looking -glass that "s might see the quare show she was but she had scarcely. energy to glance at 0, and was faintly shocked by the disfigured image. All the day she lay in a dazed, apathetic state, and took Tittle heed of anything. It seemed to her as if she had been there always I in a dreary sort of, dream. But cu the day after, when the creep - hag shadow on the floor had shrunk- en almost to its noontide skimpiness, she suddenly roused up quite awake. !Just outside the door, which was close to her bed, she hoard a familiar voice • speaking—the voice of Dan McClean. Rosanne held her breath as the nurse, a square -framed stolid person, was called out to interview,"' a young man from abut Kilbracken, that NN as coma cxin' after a girl," Dan'a voice would have sounded like heavenly music to her, if the echo of Martha's had not conte harshly through it; and jarred it into discord. he middle of havreakin' : So hurry, up, or- honey, and git all',right. agin, the way he I caw be corrin' to fetch you. P11 burry on Jimmy Byrne's side -ear." as " And did you beats tell the quare er awful thing I done at the farm—throw- he En' e- a ll 2lrs. Ccmruv's, grand creme to the pigs?" said Rosanne, the reeollec- tioltn of this disaster now beginning to emerge from the chaos of troubles which had overwhelmed and obliterat- ed it. Bat Dan replied unappalled: 00 " Why to be sure. And was that any r reason for you to bet hrowin' yourself a after fit, so to spako? Not if every he' sup of creme in Ireland was spilt, and J, "Beg your pardon, ma'am," she heard him say diffidently, "might there be a girl by the name, of Rosanne Tier- ney. in it?" ' Is it the named" said the nurse, sure 1 couldn't be tellin' you the names. of the half of them that comes and goes. What sort ite shed" " Ooh, a slip of a girl," sada Dan, whose descriptive powers were not great, " a slip en a girl—wid blank hair —and a smallish size she is." " There's plenty of themo1ike that, if that's all," said the nurse, "we have a black -haired one came En the other day, not over big. dome sort of e. tramp she is, and got a crack on the head wid a bit of the, roof slippin' duwn on her; but I could be axin' her her name. Rosanne Tierney did you; say 1 And what might you/ be to her sup- poadn' eke is d Her brother maybe d" It seemed to Rosanne as Jf an end- less pause followed this, question; yet Dan only hesitated for a moment be- fore the answered: "Cele wall, ma'am," he said, " you might '`try I'm as good as a brother, anyway." And with that a stormy darkness fell upon Rosanne. For what could " as good as a brother," signify, except marriage with the step -sister, Maggie Walsh? She hoped to gladness she might never have the misfortune to set oyes on either of the two of them a the end of her life's clays—end she'd a lief that mightn't be very long—a air of black -hearted rogues—the en- do might just go back the way he me. When a minute afterwards the nurse turned to make her inquiry, the amp kept her Bead• under the blan- ket, and would only nutter in a husky, mumbling way: ' I dunno any such people at all—bid him gel along out of that—me name's Isabella Hill," facts etch were at once reported to Dan tside in the peesage,. with the addi- anal details that thetcreature seemed be a cross-temlrered one, and pee- ps not quite right in her senses, in at this moment another visitor ate, in the shape of a small freckled' n red-haired boy, who was carrying th an averse expression; of counte- nance, a large, gaudily -wreathed straw hat." And what, might you be wantin', Matthew Flanigan ?" said the nurse. ' Me matter bid me bringin' th' ould hat," Bald Matthew. It dropped! off the 13irI that got hutted up at Pat Mahcray's on Friday, and me brother brought it, home, but: she sez it might be 5 loos to ehe;brethur that owned it, so she sent me along wid it, and it's' him she'd a right to ,ha' sent— "13e the powers of smoke 1" Dan exclaimed, seizing hold of the bat,• that's belongin' to Rosanna Tierney; she got i1 ,new at Easter, and as proud Of herself in it'she was as a little pay - cook. Sure I remember this tuft of yeller rases will red glass beads in them cocked up ae the side of it; I 1 Was tenet.' her ell looked for all Lha world like one of our old donkey's ears; and was axle.' ',her why wouldn't she be snaking upirthe other to match it," "For the matter of the,t," said the nurse, " there's dozens of quare hats gain' about the world, hand all of them • emdnted-loolrin you'd be hard set to tell thepcne from the other, The aquil of the outlandish gazeboes 1 you see on people these times Intent wltuessetj," all the pigs in the country swimmin' in the middle of it wave, and your stepmother and her daughter„ and lfarthe Reilly, that can't be airy unless deers gabbin,' along wad the lot of them," So a few Sundays dater Rosanne Tierney was married in her gay buff and crimson wreathed. bat, It was clightl,; battered and the worse for its travels, but it would have been un- grateful for her to .discard it, as only for its timely turning up on a former critical occasion, it mightiprobably en- ough at that moment have, been worn by a forlorn tittle distracted vagrant, instead of adorning ibe prow' and ]tep- py head of Mrs. Daniel McClean. Inc Ead.` EAST INDIAN WIVES, ;; romm N.VW,K1{hY h(eofri wllil'ihYthttiYiM,m! AgR"dcu Lural hetetlenneW,IneenerniceneetMentAtenTHII; INI'LUI;NeJI Ole RIX.t'K, In gl'afting fruit trees the rel tine: influence or shirk and soden very important. In performing week eine is doing it ful'.80me part lar results. That. is lee grafts a eh sewn to a good sound stook for purpose of tttereasiug and Mimeo t'h'e' fruits of the scion, in some vas he finds his efforte neutralized tvhul Or in part by some peculiar tuft once which the stook exerts ov the sedan. Otviug to tilts uncle lainty as to which will get C ascendency, grafting is not Iso ea ht grow the pigs and, lambs, or s fill the pail, the more they mill lndurei to eel, digest, and assim tlate, for Mat purpose, the more pr {{y ritaMe 1he'.v will prove. ;For the yeung and growing ani- g mal, 111e day that does not ttie net iue.reuse to weight is a any to SEPT, 1, 1899 to neeecenteet+D06WOnm.p00O9000000 be l About the House. "'• •m iw MY LLTTLE BOY, 81 Agninal. my' knee, a little head le ly- Is out of 118 lila, anti a clay's in oft ing, tt Two eyes of blue are looking' into a mine, It The breath of twillght in 'the lilt' is 12. sighing, sighing, r,0 And twinkling steins amid the azure e- seine. w 1i'itlt mother lova the winsome face. I 1, kiss, s- And fold the !lands so weary Of their e p1ny, this emend, It is not necessary the the pound of gniu should be Putted «'1 fat added to the nettle in kill it, be tt pound of healthy growl Ito This Is none the less true invitee •Eng there may oe days whew eases b re yund It feeder's control may oho ly cy less ie w•eiglit ittslend of a gall u- yet Huth days should ,be coulee/1 stele Gtr by odber dugs, when 111 n' uidea - ev cause of this trouble having bee n'- discovered and remedied, or pitsse. he , away as it mune, there will be better appetite or better tE a ti teff La iia results 00 one caul 1 wish, It Es quite evident that the ag of the stock has touch to do wit t , the manor, A, young unifier scion will generally assert ilsel 11 No sweeter joy rt mother holds the d this, a Too soon, alas 1 the little fent wi 1, . stray, - c g s ua ancl, the gam uo lncreasnd. d I In w feeding experiment al' the Kansas Experiment Static it was e ; shown clearly thu s which i it, cost (bre most to feed were the ones wheat It was most profitable In I to keep, and if there were excep- t, j tions where same ate heartily turd failed to digest at all, such eases du not: weaken the application of the e rule in meet cases, and possibly a n 'little medicine or a change in Lind- e ing methods, or of the kind of food t given, would have made them conform to the general rule, end the stook will have tittle ib flucusca on it, espooially 0 the stock i old, Where both the stock and sero are young, vigor,'us and uniform, th two will blend together in a way Lha will produce marked improvements in the fruits. It would be difficult la such a oase to determine before - band which will have the greater influence, 'Usually the influence of scion on root is more potent in rout grafting than that of root on sedan. We are gradually reaching a better understanding about the blending of two vaeretles of fruits by grafting, budding and riot grafting. There was a time, a few year's sago, when information on the subject was very scarce. A few horticulturists were supposed to monopolize most of the knowledge, and they kept their information to fkemsolves, But Lo -day it is quite apparent that grafting and budding are very simple operations, ;that any man with a Little knowledge of horticultural methods, can per- form. It Is this process, however, hat has produced some of the greatest ;marvels of modern times, brunt these grafted fruits we have produced new products that have attracted world-wide attention. The very sianpienees of the work should' attract - every grower of fruits to attemkt to make improve- ments through it. There is a fas- cinating study. in oringing two distinct varieties of fruits together to one stock, and then watching fo be results. These results may not •ways be what one May earnestly esire, but now and then great oat is accomplished. Wonders may flea be wrought inanorchard that oes not pay by grafting the trees with cions taken from trees that yield snar- e table fruits. It is much easier and Looker to graft the old trees with ew var.',ties of fruits, than to ttempt .. p raise a new orchard, nd after all the grafted fruit is ore apt to be true to its kind an the seedling, whip', Inlay ange and degenerate in the grow - Until the day of her marriage the t East Indian girl has been the spoiled a pet of her mother, but the Meer that d sees her put into a planquin, shut up o tight and carried to her husband's d house changes all that was happiness a into misery. She becomes from that e q a A en th ell Leg CANALS COST MONEY. nnl 9'Acir P4•ellts Are rerr hat•„e When ever They frown Kureee5aral. The Mnnohester Ship Canal, connect- ing Manchester and Liverpool, coat $00,000,000, or $15,000,00e more than the original estimate. The cost of the I Nicaragua Canal, to connect the Allan- ' tic and the Pacific through Centred America, and thereby shorten the dis- tance between New York and San Francisco from 15,600 to 4,000 miles, is variously estimated at from $100,000,- 000 to $200,000,000, according to the route adopted. The Suez Canal cost $100,000,000. The North Sea Canal in Germany cost $37,500,000, the North Holland and the Corinth canals $15,- 000,000 each, and the Panama Canal has cost to date e25D,000,000. Canals when successful are generous- ly so. The Khedive's shares in the Suez Canal, purchased by the British Government in 1870 for $20,000,000, aro wow worth more than $120,009,000, and there are many indications that the future value of the Suez Canal shares will be even greater, in view of the r fact that this canal enjoys a peculiar monopoly of business which enables it without danger from competition to charge very heavy tolls and to enforce their collection without danger of Gov- ernment interference, the canal being practically owned by the English Gov- ernment, which is administering the ftnonaial affairs of Egypt. Another country in which the canal system is a source of large profit is Holland. Holland has nine miles of canal for every 100 square miles of area, a proportion not equalled else- where and four times as great as in the United Kingdom. The Dutoh canals have an aggregate length of 1,830 miles, and for their maintenance the State expends $3,000,000 yearly, The Helder, begun in 1819 and completed six years later, is 6D miles long, 120 feet wide and 20 deep, allowing, two merchantmen to pass abreast and navigable for the largest vessets, The North Sea Canal, built in 1863-74, is 4220 feet wide and 82 deep, and brings Am- sterdam within fifteen miles of the sea; length, 14 miles; cost, $10,000,000. The success of the Kiel Canal, con- necting the Baltic with the North Sea, has led to increased popularity for canals in Germany, and there has been organized in that country e. company to construct a mid -European canal connecting Germany with European Turkey. The proposed new route uses the existing connections between the navigable river and canal systems of Germany and the Danube, in Austria, There are now 9,000 miles or waterways in Germany, of which 07 per sent, are rivers and 33 per cont. canals; and while the proposed extension of the Gorman canal system into Austria would entail a large expenditure, the benefits of it in a commercial way would be considerable. Plans have al- ready been adapted for connecting the Danube with the Elbe. Unlike railroads, the revenues from the operation of which can be estimat- ed in advance with some approach to accuracy, canals are constructed with- out any assurance of repayment to pro- jectors, The Erie Cenal, Ole chief, cunni in Lha United States, the oon- atrnotion of which cost about• $100,000,- 000, has paid in tolls collected $130,000; 000 regardless of the fact that a num- ber of years ago the canal was made moment the little slave of her mother- in-law, upon whom she has to wait hand and foot, whose lightest word is law and who teaches her what dishes her husband likes best and how she is to prepare them. A kind mother -in - :law is a thing seldom, if ever, met 201x11, and rarely does she give the lit - Ole bride leave to go home and visit her mother. Of her husband the girl saes little or nothing, She cannot complain to him of the cruelty of his mother, for he would never by any chance take bee part. He sends in to her the portion of foud he wishes cooked for himself, her and the children, and when it is ready she places it upon a large plat-' ter and it Is sent Into his room. Ile eats all ho famine of it .end then it is sent back to her, and she and the children sit upon the floor+ and eat whatever is l,;ft, The girls are married as young as 3 yaare of age, and should a little boy to whom ouch a baby is married; die 'she is galled a widow, and Pan never marry again. Married life is hard, but far harder and more sad is the lot of a widow, tor she is considered dis- one day in two weeks she must eat only the very coarsest• sort of food" and one day in two weeks she must fast for twenty-four bourn. Her food and always be eaten away from other wo- man, and she must never dress her hair, never sleep upon a bad and never wear any jewelry, A piece of matting upon the hard floor comprises the couch of a widow• and sometimes even the strip of mat- th, trese is denied her; no matter how cold but the. night may be, she is allowed no tag covering except the thin garment eat GOOD BUTTER, In makiug good butter, aside from the processes themselves, there are at least three essentials, namely, good milk, pure air and perfect cleanliness. Most of the ele- ments which render milk bad are the ferments. They are "leaven," of which, according to Scripture, a little "leavens the wbole lump." Therefore, ft takes only a little Poor milk to spoil a considerable quantity of milk that is nnobjeo- tionable. Milk from cows close to. calving time often contaminates a serge quantity of goodanilk. Nothing Is more susceptible to bad odors than milk and its pro- ducts. Pure air is so essential that good butter cannot be made when the daisy room is file kitchen, or 1s immediately connected with it. Cleanliness, too, is on00f the essentials that even outranks godliness in but- ter making. elect utensils must be Olean, and must be washed with luke- warunl water and tt brush and soap, or some other cleansing preparatiun,lwith careful attentto•n to the seams of the weasels, and then they should be scalded in boiling water, and by s we mean wales that is really ling, net much as bas been boil. and has been poured tram ves- until it cools, 'Such vessel should that she has worn during the day, She may never look on at any marriage ceremonies, for it would, be an evil omen for her to do so; she may have been a half-caste woman, but upon bee coming a widow even the lowest ser- vants may order her to do work that et distasteful to them, and no woman in the house may even speak one word raft of comfort or pity to her. Any wo. ho man who so far forgets herself as to its a thew the slightest kindness to a widow on 10 supposed to infallibty become a inn receive its full share of airing and sun- shine after scalding. These are punts not now at all, but they are pouts on which it is necessary to have 'line upon Eine and precept upon precept." What one' does every day, and clay after day, as fs tlhe case in handling k, there is always clanger that will do cerelesetly at times. It matter' of common remark that railroads it is the old band who ought in making couplings; it is widow herself before long. Such bare barons bobavoir is hard to understand and yet these widows take their miser- able lot err a matter of course, not even having the spirit to rebel against la injustice. PRONE TO SUICIDE. Statistics show that the (medical pretension is more prone 10 suicide than any ether. During the last throe years the number of suicides oc- curring among Phyeiciane has been, respectively, 48, 40 and 47 per annum, tun' average of nearly ane to 0,000; or, as the death rate among the physicians s:about 2b to 1,000, nearly one fiftieth, of all the deaths in the profession have been by suicide, Alli bat I couldn't be mistook in is one by any manes," said Den tinning to examine the' hat; "sure wgesitttn' in front of me to the trap the way driven' over from' her place our ielacle and. back agin of Easter undcy, an here itt is the very same., 1 uldu't I he seem' the lel ma' TINE BEST EXERCISE. Of all the athletic exereisos the very best is digging, Probably every 'sin- gle muscle, vain, artery, and nerve In he body is vigorously exercised in the processo the one who has bean doing it day after day, month after month, and year after year. It is he who be- comes careless, aped so lei is in hand- ling milk, among those who know. The task that is repeated' day after day is one that needs the watching, otherwise it will She carelessly dune. FEEDING. tWo do not care what the animal May be, theme is one rule for feed- ing that should never be forgotten, end. that 18, to ' feed something m0'r0 than just enough 10 keep the a,nienal alive. The 00w, sheep or 8Wtne with young needs perhaps us much care against. overteeding es at tiny Unto in their existence, but they need food to built( up the ttnborn young ne well as to sustain their own tiro, And when they ore expected later on to produce milk n 11 Again I press flim to my hungry heart. All, Inn I If 1 might shield hitt, ever so I Mayhap some day he'll hiss mo and depart, And I shall sorrow as 1 watch hien go, Secure I hold hlm in my arms to- night And mother -like I lay bine down to rest, Hie curly head upon the pillow white, ,His dimpled hands soft folded on the breast. I ntay not go and leave my darling there, So fair he looks within his cozy bed, Ere one last touch upon the wavy hair, One lingering kiss upon the lips so red, "God bless my darling I" low I whir per then, And silent as a watcher of the night, I close the door, low breathing o'er again A. mother's grayer to keep his steps —aright. POINTS FOR TI3.E HOUSEKEEPER. With the crusade against dirt, visi- ble and invisible, the cane -seated chairs should come in for their share of at- tention. They require a vigorous scrubbing with brush( and warm suds, to which a little hooneholcl ammonia ]las been added. Scrub both sides of the seat, rinse well and dry in the open air: Willow chairs aro :benefited by a bath in warm salt watee. If they have lost their natural color, it is said that a solution of chlorine will restore Et. To renovate the tops of writing - tables and I'leather chairs, sponge lightly with warm soapsuds, then wipe over with the white of eggs, whipped stiff, To clean painted walls, wash with a large sponge. dipped in warm water in which soda, has been dissolved, us- ing always tg downward .movement, Change the water often, , Wipe dry with waste or soft flannels, IA bit of soap applied to u creaky hinge will usually cure its stiffness and silence its creaking. Sand soap Is recommended as special- ly useful in the case of small boys, whose hands often refuse to yield to the Hotter persuasions of ordinary soap and water. It may be made at home much ohaaper and better than it can be purchased. Cut, into small pieces arty pure soap unci malt it, When quite soft, remove from the 2110' and stir tato the mixture about half the quantity of clean, dry sea sand that has been wall heated. An soon ss the mixture is cool enmesh to handle, roll into belle or cut into squares, and put in a cool place to dry and herden. A. little salt sprinkled 011 a hot stove will remove any, disagreeable odor. Few things are more irritating than to be ready; to tie up a package and find no string, or to carry it few apples, oranges, eggs or bulbs a short distance ansi find 110 bag (0 hold them Strings should attempt be wound in a ball and kept /ready for itnmed.iate use where the family may find thehn, and paper bags, as soon as emptied, sbould be folded neatly, and load in a drawer for use as needed. No better covering: oan be towed for the milk or cream jug, the opened oan or the gravy boat, when sec away with their confronts„ than a paper bag pulled over the mouth. e'OURTESY IN THE ROME. What is it that makes our home at- tractive to the tamilyl writee Aunt Mollie, es it the beauty of the furn- ishings, the immaculate neatness of the table or the fashion of the dress that is worn 11 These things may cul- tivate an esthetic taste, but do they really attach children to their homes? I have observed that children of poor parents, yes, tend dissipated once at that, show trnore affootion for their wants and their childhood's borne halt do many of the rich and well -to- o, Why is it? It would seem that be more beautiful the home, the more eve there would be for that home. But it seems that adverse circnmstaucse, yes, and ninehing poverty, cement the love of the family more and more. The pont has truly said, "Be it ever O humble, there is no place like one," What really makes a pleasant appy home? Wo think it is the one; • of interest, the sharing of what , have with other members, the un- elf/shims which is awakened in the eart by adversity. In many of our odern homes the children are first vcrywhoro, Limy never have to give p their' wilt to other's, they aro exaat- g of their parents, and of each oth- or, forgot the courtoyy that belongs o TOfiuement, I wish young people ash st1rtiing to make to home for hemsolees, would show the eame ourte,ey t each other go in their ometidng days, and as the children Inc, teach theta by precept and ex- rele, to bo kind, oourtuous and wi- 'fish to each other, Truly there o plana like bore to edueatechit- ren in true courtoslq, all and all toll charges were p removed. In the general opinion the t success of the Nicaragua Canal will be d ns great in a peeuniar'y way as that 02 t the Suez Canal. 1 JefLLZAItD BALLS, It requires skilled Jaber Lo turn out a billiard ball, One hail of it to first turned, an inalruhnent of finest steel being used for the work, Than the half-tunas<Jt ball is hung up in a not, and la allowed to remain there for a year to dry. Then the second half is turned, and then comes the polishing, Whiting and. water and a good deal of rubbing are requisite for this, It is necessary in the end that the ball shell, to tho veriest fraction of a grain be of a certain weight, SEtE ICNEW. " A1," ha cried, kneeling at her feet, "say you will marry me, and I will be your devoted slave for lite," "Arise, henry," she answered, "you will not do, That tens what my first husband said, and before we had got fairly out of Ole antra he began tell- ing me how he wanted tee to wear my hair." s h b we s h m e u in 1 c 0 00 a se d DOW TO LAUNDER LININ. Make a lather of pure (mettle seep •tieing oopnloreably, hot wince and enough soup to make n good lat.hoi', To EC• add a teaspoonful of powdered borax„ Oleense Ole Linen by plung- ing up and down in the water, rub- bing out. any stains between the Jeanie. The borax tapes out the dust and whitens the geode. 'ben flip in ono water after another till no Soap re- mains, If the colors rano pour water through the linen until the color Is Parried off, i'Ite colors rarely ran ex- cept'in first washing, if Lite best silks are used. . Tho water should be squeezed nut, and the article tbon tossed In a fresh towel 1111 partially dry, when it may be hung up, It should be absolutely dry before being pressed, for bent do - trays the silk if applied when it is wet. Hero ' is where many fail in taking Dare of their tineas; the linen must bo dampened in order to iron it properly —to stiffen it and make it perfectly smooth and fresh—but the sick not at all. When the steam caused by tits hot iron on the wet silk goes through it dulls and flattens it, so that it. oven takes the stamp of the warp of the ironing sheet. A damp cloth on the back of the work does the same thiing, and both will force the dye wet into the linen, To iron properly: 'When the piece is dry, lay it, right side down, on a sheet folded six or - ed,gbt ,times, With a wet veleet sponge dampen sections of the linen —ole a centre piece, for instance, about one-fourth. Pass the sponge quickly over the embroidery, for the linen will absorb the moleture more readily than the silk. Now draw the linen and the stitches of the embroidery into place, A hot iron, ono that will just escape scorching, should be al hand and should be passed quickly over the piece, with no iutermediale cloth be- tween, but directly on the reverse side of the work. Iron with the grain of the linen, never on the bias. It le very necessary to remember this when pressing arouud linen. Com- mence with the scallops on the straight; afterwards, in a second teaching up, these may be pressed dir- ectly out, thus pointing them firmly into place. It is best not to iron over the second time, for this takes nut the stiffness the first has put in, A very hot iron will do the went perfectly in the first going over, if properly htuud- led. The piece should not be folded, but ahould bo rolled on a tube which may, be male of a piece of stiff paper or cardboard. EMBROIDEIRING ROif NATURE. Everyone who embroiders is almost sure, at one time on, another, to take flowers for her subject, and yet how comparatively few there aro who, while engaged on working a flower de. - sign, will gather a handful of theblos- soms, study them and endeavor to re- produce, as faithfully as may be, the exquisite forms and infinitely varied tints of Nature's own models. Once realized, the delight of thus drawing one's inspiration from the fountain- head will increase a hundredfold the actual pleasure of working, and ren- der tediousness an imposaibiliLy. Nature is the moat interesting of teachers, and in going to her for a lesson the dullness of details vanishes, and repetitdou ceases to be wearisome, in the wonder and delight of the never - failing fund of variety and novelty she will provide for us. Worker's wile are possessed of the gife of originality, or who aro endow- ed with an average amount of artistic Perception, will not be slow to Teel the desire to strike out a line of their own, and to evolve designs for !)hemsolves, and here 0 is that the study of Nature is the truest and surest guide to good aohievem0nt. The first step le to study the flowers closely—not at one time only, but et all stages of their growth -.and then, having gained an intimate acquaintance with Cho sug- gestions which Nature has placed at our disposal, consider well bow these suggestions may be applied to pur- pose of ornament: In the conventioihal adaptation of any flower or plant, the idiosynoraoies of its growth are often omitted or overlooked, whereas they should be mads' use of to the fullest extent, The arrangement a.nd growth of the petals in any particular flower, or, in - any peouliarity by which it is merked, sbould always be carefully noted, and cine weight given to it in the drawing of the design. In worst- ing out any of those given and using the natural flowers as a guide, the worker will find in how strong a de- gree they Parry out the principles 01 true conventionalism in "following, but not defying Nature." If ahs be desirous of making an excursion for 7hersolf into the fields of design, they will doubtless prove of assistance to her du the undertaking, YOUR DREAMS, One of the most interesting features of nightmare to psychologists is not so mai the peculiarity of the more grol- tetluq dreams, but the fent that every individual has one decant peculiar Lo hilt] or hereelf. With most people the recurrent dream dates from elnidhocel, dooreasing in frequency us the sub• jeot grows older, and seldom persist- ing past majority. The terror that, the recurring dream Inspires seldom diminishes in its in1cnalty, but simply giOwe less frequent in its visits, fin- ally disappeario,g attogother. In g0Lte a number of oaoes when the re- curring dream line been absent so 1011 j that it is utmost forgotten it baa re- curred La a spell of severe sickness, end hundreds of dying people bnve shown by thele actions and .mutter. legs, when in their death stupor, thal: that old dread. of their babyood has .re- turned( as they breathe their that, A: Half -acting electrte switch for trolley roads, wlaiall Is olyerateti by the motorman steeply touching a small lever on this car, has been invented by a Philadelphian.