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The Brussels Post, 1895-9-20, Page 2STORIES OF ADVENTURE "Monsieur Gerard appoara to by q little diatanee behind him, °nee or Melee he to seemed to me to look apprehensively to " o pun at i hofearo that some op t g bu dtolei f a' e H h u , t, e u e dh, y ri puffed i g p P , 44°' o G 1 . ked la bu e u I o0 , h s. Aa 6 'n ion A l o o ervt ape thingefu their Met praport on was s g grown elder he may understand that it is although Ihavp keenest sight, it woo qui not alwayo very discreet far a subaltern of cavalry to give such very abrupt refusals " I did not kuow what to say to thio, but Lasalle came to my aid. in hie downright fashion, "The lad is quite right," said he. "If impossible to BOB aoytbtug catcept t e. ragged patohea of moonehina between the great black shadows, of the trees. My ears are as quiol: as my eyes, and once or twice 1 thought T Mord a twig oraok; but you know how many eounde there are in a forest at night, and how difficult it is even to say what direction they come from. I had known that there was a promise I'i We walked for rather more than a mile, Mould not have questioned him. You I and 1 knew exactly what our destination xnow, very well, Mouaieur do Taileyrand, j owes, e long gimletgthereore. In the centre ls the shattered that if he had answered you, you weuld stump of what must at some time have been have laughed lnyotir sleeve and thought a most gigantietree. Imo called the Ahbsot's' when the burgundy is gone. Ae for me, I etoriee a ou i , t ae much about him ae 1 think of the bottle Beech abndtther eiaare SO I know many nbrave h000ly soldier who would not Dare about mounting promise you that the Tenth would have sentinel over it, However, 1 oared ae little had no room for him, mud that we should for moll folly as the Emperor did, e0 eve have lost our beet swordsman if I had crosodthe broken trunk.de As we apmade aiht for ro the old ached, heard him give up the Emperor's secret." the more I saw that two men were waiting, for us But the statesman became only beneath it. ,tier when naw of myColonel. were notstandinganxious rather be fad it, as a they were not anxious to be seen, but as we name "I have heard, Colonel de Lasalle," said nearer they emerged from its shadow and be, with an icy diguity,"that your opinion walked forward to meet ue. The Emperor of great weight upon the subject of glanced book at me, and elaokenod his pane light cavalry. Should I have occasion to a. little, so that I came within arm's length of him. You may think that I had my hilt week informstion about that branch of the well the front, and that T had a very army, I shall be very happy to apply to good look at. these two people who were you.. At present, however, the matter proaohin us. The one was tall, remark• p g concerns diplomacy, and you will permit b 1 b' hethat I had the support When I first caught art of them they 7110 to form my own views upon that question. As long as the welfare of France and the safety of the Emperor's person are largely committed tomy care, I will use every meanainmy power to secure -them, even if it should be against the Emperor's own temporary wiahea, I have the honour, Colonel de Lasalle, to wish you a very good -day 1" He shot a most unamiable glance in my direction, and, turning upon his heel, he walked with little, quick, noiseless steps out of the room. I could see from Lasalle's face that be did not at all relleh finding ;himself at enmity with the powerful Minister. He rapped out an oath or two, and then, catching up hie sabre and hie cap, he clattered away down the s looked out of the windovr Icaw the two ofthem, the big blue man and the little black one, going up the street together. Talley- -rand was walking very rigidly, and Lasalle was waving hie hands and talking, so I suppose that he wee trying to make his peace. The Emperor had told me not to think, and I endeavored to obey him. I took up the dards from the table where Morat bad left them, and I tried to work out a few combinations at eoarte. But I could not remember whioh were trumps, and I thr I them under the table in despair. Then drew my sabre and practised giving point until 1 was weary, but it woo all of no use at all. My mind would work, in spite of myself. At ten o'clock I was to meet the Emperor in forest. Of all extraordinary combinations of events in the whole world, surely the was the last which would have occurred to me when I rose from my conch that morning. But the responsibility—the dreadful responsibility 1 10 was all upon myshouldere. There was no one to halve it with ine. It made me cold all over. Often as I have faded death upon the battle- field, I have never known what real fear was until thee moment. But then (con- sidered that after all I could do my beat like a brave and honorable gentleman, and above all obey the orders which I had received, to the very letter. And, if all went well, this would surely be the founda- tion of my fortunes. Thus, swaying between my fears and my hopes, 1 spent the long, long evening until it was time for me to keep my appointment. I put on my military overcoat, as I did not know haw much of the nightI might have to spend in the woods, and 1 fastened my sword outside it. I pulled olf my hussar boots also gaiters, that I might be lighter upon my feet. Then I stole out of my quarters and made for the forest, feeling very much easier in my mind, for 1 am always at my beat when the time of thought has passed and the moment for action arrived. I passed the narracka of the Chassears of the Guards, and the line of cafes all filled with uniforms. I naught a glimpse as I went by of the blue and gold of some of my comrades, amid the swarmof darkinfantry coats and the light green of the Guides. There they eat, sipping their wine and smoking their cigars, little dreaming what their comrade had on hand. One of them, the chiefof my squadron, caught eight of me in the lamplight, and came shouting after me into the street. Ihurried on, however, pretending not to hear him, so be, with a curse at my deafness, went beck algae to hie wine bottle. a ly so, ant of a very spare frame, while the other was rather bele w the usual height, realizing that he was treading on dangerous and had a brisk, determined way of walk. ground. "Hat ha 1 ha 1 Do you remember how I tried to put down that bedroom carpet and nearly' killed myself to eave fifty cents 1 That was one of my cranky ;lotions. And don't you remember how I tried to olefin L 1 )J118, BOWSER THE HEAD DF SHE FAIVIILY IN A CgEERFUT, PIOOD. Ile Admits Tlset be lv the l.reat000 Frelilt— Set atulle Word Kindles 0 sew Ramo —Thom the 01d•T17100 newaer 1a on the Nceng Apnln& Mr, Bowser had being reading for an hour the other evening when he laid aside lila paper and eaid to Mrs.11owaer, who eat near him sewing "1 was just wondering what man do who have no homes, and how many of thoaa who have homes appreciate them use I do wine," "I am glad to know yen are eatiefied with your home," replied Mrs, Bowser, "Of oourae I'm satisfied—Whyahouldn' I be? I don't believe there's a house better kept than thio. It Di always Apia -span oloan, nothing io wasted, and your bump of order is eomebhing remarkable;" "I'm awfully glad to hear you say so," replied Mrs. Bowser asher fade lighted up. "I try to do my beet, but there are times when—when—" "When I'm a regular old Drank." he fin. lehed with a laugh. Well, don't let that. worry you. No matter bow big a orank I am, you are duly appreciated. It's. funny what notions a man gets into hie head, isn't it?" "Y -es," she reluctantly replied, fully Kra. Bowser continued her work and, maintained eilenee, In my good natural partially admitted that I bcughb te hammook for $2 whioh WAS well worth $4, and what do you do but hop on to one and, charge me with 'being the biggest fool in Mamie% I That's just the way with all wives ; give 'ern the ell ghbeob latitude and they will try to walk right. over the husband. Mrs. Bowser 1" Mrs. Bowser held her needle suspended initer hand and looked up, " No wife eau be happy with a fool of a hueband 1 For the next two hours I shall be busy in the library arranging papers for the lawyere to see tomorrow 1 We will try and avoid eoandal, and I shall allow you enough to live on oomfortably until you find another hu'sband—one Who has no faults 1 If any one calls say that I am not home. \ ernon, good night 1" Mg. They each wore black oloake, whlo were slung right aerates their figures, and hung down upon one sidelike the mantles of Murat'a dragoons, Theyy' had flat black oapa, like those which I have since seen in Spain, which threw their faces into dark. nese, though I could see the gleam of their eyes from beneath them. With the moon behind them and their long black shadows walking in front, they were aueh figures as one might expect to meet at night near the Abbot's Beech. 1 can remember that they had a stealthy way of moving, and that ae they approached, the moon- shine formed two white diamonds between their lege and the legs of their filmdom. The Emperor had paused, and these two 'Avengers name to a stand also within a few paces of ue. I had drawn up close to my companion's elbow, so thatthe four of us. were facing each other without a word spoken. My eyes were particularly fixed upon the taller one, because he was alightly the nearer to me, and I became certain ae watched him that he was in the last state of nervousness. ilio lean egore was quiv- ering all over, and I heard a quick, thin panting like that of a tired dog. _Suddenly one of them gave a short, hissing signal. The tell man bent hie back and his knees like a diver about to spring, but before he could move, I had jumped with drawn sabre in front of him. At the same instant the smaller mac bounded past me, and buried a long poniard• in the Emperor's heart. My God ! the horror of that moment 1 It is a marvel that did not drop dead myself. Aa in a dream, I saw the grey coat whirl convulsively round, and caught a glimpse in the moonlight of three inches of red point whioh jutted out from between the ehoul- dere. Then down he fell with a dead man's gasp upon the grass, and the aeeasain, leav- ing hie weapon buried in his victim, threw up both his hands and shrieked with joy. But I—I drove my sword through his midriff with such frantic force, that the mere blow of the hilt against the end of his breast -bone sent him six paces before he fell, and left my reeking blade ready for the other. I'sprang round upon him with suoh a lust for blood upon nee ae I had never felt, and never have felt, in all my days. As I turned,a dagger flashed before my eyea,and I belt the cold wind of it pave my nark and the villains wrist jar upon my shoulder. 1 shortened my sword, but he winced away from me, and an instant afterwards was in full flight, bounding like a deer across the glade in the moonlight. But he was not to es00p0 me thus. I knew that the murderer's poniard had done its work. Young ae I was,'I had seen enough of war to know a mortal. blow. 1 paused but for an instant to touoh the cold hand. "Sire !'Sire 1" I cried, in en agony; and then as n0 sound came back and nothing moved, save an over -widening dark circle in the moonlight, I knew that all was indeed over. I sprang madly to my feet, threw off my great -coat, and ran at the top of my speed after the remainingaeeassin. house—ha 1 ha 1 ha 1" "But we get alongall right," mid Mre. Bowser, wondering how she could lead the oonvereation to some other subject. "Of course we do,though,there are times when I ought to be kicked for my foolish- ness. On the street' car the other day 7 got to thinking. about my buying that fire- eeoepe, and I laughed till everybody looked at me. Wasn't that a daisy—that fire- escape—ha ! ha ! ha !" "Any news in the evening paper," she queried ae heheld hie aides and gurgled. " Nothing to speak of, and don't you temember of my taking a fit to sleep in a hammock on the roof, and how, one of the ropes broke one night and—hal ha 1 ha I If some of these funuy men could get hold of my adventures what o lecture they could make 1 Have you forgotten when I took a dose of that dandruff -eradicator for spring tonic—ha'1 ha ! ha 1" "That was funny, indeed 1" laughed Mrs. Bowser in spite of her tears. "Funny1 It was dawg•gone funny 1 And the time had the grippe and thought I was going to die—hal hale hal I expect I'm the boas crank in America, and you deserve a pension for bearing with me ao patiently. Do you recall the day I came home Mad jawed around about the set of my collar, and you discovered tbatl had been wearing my night-shirt all day—hal hal hal It's a wonder that you have stood it with me as long as you have." "You've hsd a good many whimo and notions, but I hope you'll reform inthat direction. I expert you've thrown.. away $3,000 since we were married in indulging in your oddities." How thrown away?' sharply queried Mr. Bowser as he instantly sobered up. "Why, you've paid as high as $300 for a horse not worth $50; you've bought pigs at a high price which you had to give away ; you've bought hens at $2 apiece which never laid an egg, and—" "Are you talking to me, Mre. Bowser 1" he demanded as he rose up and stood be- fore her, "Why, yea," she replied. "We are ham ipg a good-natured talk about home of the foolish things you have done, and I--" "What foolish. things have I done 1 Just name one single thing, will you?" "Didn't you pay $300 for a horse. whioh ran away and smashed everything and nearly killed ue both the first time you drove him ?" she timidly asked. "I bought a horse for $300. He was a beautiful animal and as gentle as a child. You opposed his purchase, and to carry out your fell deeigne you went out to the barn in my absence and drove tacks into him, and pounded him with the anow.abovel, and otherwise abused him until he was frightened to death." "Why, Mr. Bowser 1" "Don't 'why, Mr. Bowser,' me ! You have oharged me with throwing away thousands of dollars foolishly. I am either a sensible man or a fool. Give me an instance of my wasteful extravagance.' don't thing you wastefully extrav- agant. Sion simply do odd thi>1eo and have cranky notions." "I do odd things, do I? Just mention one inatance, will you? I have oranky notions, have 1? Just specify one of those cranky notions 1" "Wasn't it odd about your wearing your nightshirt around all day?" ' No, ma'am, it wasn't—not when the oiroumstances are considered. It was simply a put-up job on your part, and I won't forget it if I live to be a thousand years old. Now, about being orauky. When hove you discovered any evidence that I was a crank?" "Wasn't that fire escape a cranky idea?" she hesitatingly queried. "Not a' bit of it—notthe Ehghtest! 1t was juat such a purchase as any senelble man would make, and the only reason it is now in the garret le because you cut the ropes and atrape to pieces to display your spite. Mre. Bowser, you have acoompliehed your object." W—what object?" "When you saw me taking oomfort in my own home you made up your mind to spoil my evening. Yeti have done so. I was never better natured in my life. I set out to laugh and have a good time, and you maliciously and villamouely turned the conversation into a channel to vex and degrade me. I hope you feel bettor 1" Despite her years of: married life, Mre. Bowaer had mono the mistake of opacifying her husband'e faults to hie face, even though he voluntarily brought the matter: up and eonfeesed them one by one, and. elm now decided that eilenoe was her safest refuge. "Right here in my own house and by my own wito I have been called notional,. whimsical and cranky 1" exclaimed Mr. Bowser ae he walked up and down. Mre. Bowser plied hor needle and made no reply. +' I have thrownaway millions of dollars —I have acted the fool—I am an object of. ridloulo SEVERE WINTER IN AUSTRALI A. while we swelter, the Antipodean$ Are Flavin,; the boldest Weather. Melt advices from Australia nay that from ell pelts of Auetralia,wordis received of severe cold and terrible suffering, many running rivers and large harbors being rozen over for the first time in thirty years. On the Fourth' of July, Lyttleton Harbor, New Zealand, was covered with a thin sheet of ice. (Since then the toe' has become so thick that men and teams are passing. to and fro. This has not mom red before n the memory of the oldest settler.. It is not very hard to get into the forest at Fontainebleau. The scattered trees steal their way into the very atreet8, like the tirailleure in front cf. a column. I turned into a path, which led to the edge of the woods, and then 1 pushed rapidly forward towards the old fir -tree. It was a place which, as I have hinted, I had my own reasons for knowing well, and I. could only thank the Fates that it was not one of the nights upon which Leonie would be -waiting for me. The poor ohild would have died of terror at the sight of the Emperor. Be might have been too harsh with her— and worse still, he might have been too kind. There was o half moon shining, and as I came up to our trysting.place, I caw that I was not the fret to arrive. The Emperor 'was pacing up and down, his hands behind him and Ins faoe sunk somewhat forward upon hie breast. He wore a grey great- coat with a capote over his head. I had seen him 10 such a dress in our winteroam- paiggn in Poland, and it was said that he need it,beoau0e the hood was such an excel- lent disguise. He was always fond whether in the camper in Paris, of walking round at night, anu overhearing the talk in the cabarets or round the fires. His Sgure, however, and hie way of carrying his head and his hands, were so well known that he was always recognized,and then the talltere would just say whatever they thought would please bim best. My first thought was that he would be angry with 1O0 for having kept him wait, ing, but as l ..approached him, we hoard the big ohuroh clock of Fontainebleau Siang out the hour of ten. It was evident, therefore, that it wee ho who wail too soon and not 1 too late. 1 remembered his order that I should make no remark, so contented myself with halting within four paced of him, clicking mys ars together, grounding ney sabre, and saluting, He glanced at mo, and then without te word ho thrned and walked slowly through the forest, I keeping always about the 0am0 Ah, how I blessed the wisdom whioh had caused nee to come in shoes and gaiters 1 And the happy thought which had thrown off my coat. He couldnotget rid of his mantle, this wretch or else he was too frightened to think of it. So it woe that 1 gained upon him from the beginning. He must have been out of hie wits, for he never tried to bury himself in the darker parte of the woods, but ho flew on from glade to glade, until he came to the heath -land which leads up to the great Fontoinebleau quarry. There I had him in full eight, and koew that he could not escape me. He ran well, it is true -ran as a coward rune when his life is the stake. But I ran as Destiny runswhen it gets behind a man's heels. Yard by yard 1 drew in upon him. He was rolling and stagger- ing. I could hear the rasping and crackling of hie breath. The great gulf of the quarry suddenly yawned in front of hie path, and glancing at me over his shoulder, hegave a shriek of despair. The next 100000t he had vanished from my eight. Vanished utterly, you undoretand. 1 rushed to the spot, and gazed down into the black abyss. Had he hurled himself over ? I had almost made up my mind that ho had done eo, when a gentle sound tieing and falling came mit of the darknese beneath me. Itwas his breathing once more, and it showed me where he must bo. He was hiding in the $ool•house. (To no eaNTINII>ZD.) THE FARM Fall Seeding Tor Pasture, The early drought that has' prevailed over many eeotiona and the failure of olovep mid g ras e acrd ao a has placed many farmers in seriously alone places se regards pasture. Permanent pastures show failing spots and have pot yielded their usual aniount of forage. NOV the farmer who is short in amount of paature and hs,s failed to get a stand from Met fail and spring's Beading is doing some solid thinking aild planning es to how he shall prevent a siml• lar occurrence next year and, come out without too serious a loss. Ip many see. pions Timothy 10 sown as the pasture and hay crop, other grosses being indigenous to 'some extent, blue grass and: rod top. Where these latter do not opine bn natural- ly, Timothy le often the whole dependence. Without special care, top dressing with manure or other fertilizers, it will get A telegram from Broken Hill dia'triot tells of suffering from cold and hunger among the miners. The Government has sent $1,000 for immgdiate relief, and more flnaneial assistance to to follow. From many other mining districts comae the same news of distress, and the suffering among the poor is worse than it was during the troublesome times of last. aummer. A telegram from Berry, South Australia, states that the weather is terribly.00ld,the themometer registering lower than it has in thirty years. Berry River ie frozen over. At Bombala the toe ie: two hushes thick' on Bombala River. For the first time in the history of the oity, hundreds of people were skating on the river. Fuel is very scarce, and the city, authorities are provid- ing for a large part of the population. At Guildburn, N. S. W., all the water. tape in the city buret. There is a ooksity of fuel and universal distress. The ther- mometer reaohed the lowest point it ever reached before in that town. At Moruya, South Australia, there is scarcely any water at all for oattle or igen. 1t is extremely dry and bitterly cold. A large number of people are living on a few drops of water a day. At Wentworth the weather is very dry and extremely oold. There is not much business being done. Citizens are helping each other in the struggle for existence through the terrible weather. Similar reports are coming in from almost all parts of the colonies. Drought is prevalent in almost every plaoe where the cold wave has saruck. The Queen is Liberal. Ali the English papers are talking about the cashmere shawl, the jeweled bracelet and other costly presents which Mies Mo. Neill received from the Queen and royal family on the occasion of her marriage to the Duke of Argyll, near fifty years her senior. Not, one of them, however, makes mention of the fact that the Queen, in ac- cordance with traditional custom and usage, furnished the trouemeail of the bride besides presenting her with a check for $1,000. The Queen does this for each of hor maids of honor or bedchamber women thatmay happen to wed with Victoria's eminent during their term of office, and PrinceeeLouioe's new mother.in.law in no exception to the rule. RUSSIA'S NEW-PEN AL CODE. About to Ole Promulgated After Fourteen Years of Study by Experts. Russia ie about to promulgate a reformed penal code upon whioh experts have been at work for the past fourteen years. Alexander II1.appointed fu 1881 a Commis- sion to prepare the new code. A previous Commission had reported' the need of an improved .code after preparing the law of. Feb. 27, 1879, upon the general adminis- tration of prisons. The Commiasirn, working through a committee of experts, collated all the penal Taws of the empire, and those of the most enlightened countries, and studied them in the light of the most recent theories upon the subject. The oode when finally promulgated will replace the code of capital and correctional punish. men0 bearing date 1845, but since muoh amended: 1t will also supersede the penal code of Justices of the Peace published in 1864. The Commission prepared a general, outline of the surname several years ago, had it translated into many languages, and. sent it to expertswith requests for criticism of the project of law, and the Commission has since issued thirteen volumes containing all that experts have said of its work, leleanwhile already the work of the Commission has been felt in the penal laws of the empire. Ic was upon the Commie. don's recommendation that the lawsof. 1884-5 were put into operation • for the suppression of workhouses and houses of reclusion. Corporal punishment io the prisons was abrogated at the suggestion of the Commiseion. Lowe against usury and the fraudulent acts of public officials hove also grown out of the work of the Com- mission, eo that the final recommendations of that body are aweited with much hope. Meanwhil6 part of the Russian press is urging that the new penal code be galled inhonor of Alexander III., since it takes the plane of that aometimescelled the Coda of Nicolas. HYPNOTIZED INTO SICKNESS. poorer every year, If plover is sown within the 'period of usefulness of the Tlmothy will be prolonged as it feeds on thenibrogee, deposited by the plover. Fields that the farmer intended to plow next spring will have to be held another year for pasture. Possibly they wer poor this year, and will be less valuable next year without help of some, kind to improve them. And many fields used as permanent pastures under dry weather conditlono have shown sparse plate where it 10 naturally expected to find the beet pasture. These paeturee can be much improved by gutting up these spots where the grass has failed or ie very thin with a disc machine of some pattern, working till a good teed bed is secured, with the .use of a drag harrow or roller. When the land is in prime order a light seeding of rye, three peeks or one bushel per acre, should be sown ea soon as possible, and under favorable weather con- ditions will give a fair amount of pasture this fall: When cooler weather domes, the usualtime for fall needing to Timothy, at least four quarte of •Titnothy Beed per acre should- be sown. This will be sufficient quantity of Timothy if it is to be followed with other grasses, bluegrass red top, and orchard grass. Such of these are suited to the locality and use for which it is desired. Blue grass naturally' belongs to limestone soils, but will do well in the prairie soils of the west. It does well sown with Timothy late in the fall at the rate of one bushel per acre. One advantage in sowing ryeas a protecting crop, it gives a quicker growth to forage than anything else that cap be sown at this time of the year. The stook grazing the rye any time that the landis in condition for them to goon it will not injure the young Timothy ; and the blue grace, as it is slow to start, will come on by the time the Timothy begins to fail. Many places in pastures where the land is spouty or wet, red top will thrive better. than Timothy or blue grass. In fact the first pieces that Timothy fails in our fields are these wet spots. It will 'thrive well if sown with Timothy in ryeas a protecting Drop. Blue grave or red top would doubt- less thrive remarkably well after clover, 80110 on fields when the clover las begun to fail. While it is claimed that it will not do. to sow clover and blue Frees together,it is a fact that blue grass thrives best with some leguminous plant to feed the soil. Orchard grass can also be sown io fall in commotion with other grasses mentioned. It needs to be sown on well prepared mil and lightly covered. We often fail is at. tempted combinations for pasture, because we are not careful enough about seeding and not using varieties suited to the soil. Nature does not leave ue entirely without resources if we have the wisdom to avail ourselves of that within reach. Watering Horses. An English veterinarian writing to the London Live Stook Journal, says: "Pre. judioo dies hard, but the hardese of all to die in the minds of grooms is that it is injurious to give a horse a drink of cold water when he is heated from exercise Years ago, when I used to train horses for racing in Podia, I grappled. with this prejudice, and clung to it with mph Lana pity that I used constantly to have horses their feed after a strong gallop One day I returned to the mew:house very hot and very tired after a long run, and suddeniy thought fit to mentally put my. self in the plaoe of a race horse. -'Shall I have,' I asked myself, ' a better appetite for breakfaet if I refrain from drinking tilt I have cooled off or if I have a drink right off?' Knowing that I could not eat hearti ly unless I bad first of all a drink, I took. it, and thereupon felt so fib to eat, and went so strong over a 000088 of beefsteak, ham and eggs, quail, muffins, etc., thatI resolved to try the seine treatment on my horses. My lead was attained with aueh success that nowadays all the trainers in India give their race , horses about half e bucket of cold water to drink immediately after a gallop, and with the best results as regards the appetites and health. I have not alone never seen, but have never even heard or read of any harm to a horse from drinking cold water when he was heated, I have, however, seen hundreds of came of collo mom in horses from drinking water after being fed on mealtime when they had, previous to eating been deprived of water for some time, Were all grooms to follow my advice as to watering, I am afraid that many an honest and hard working veter- inary surgeon would find his income from collo cases seriously diminished," The Zhnbdou, with ite white feathers, and the'.Couleuee, with its grey, are per, haps the hest broads of geese, The former will often drone at from twelVe to fourteen pounds, while a pair of the Toulouse have now and then reached the vuormous weight of sixty pounds. These are rather too^ heavy r market. t.o m f b Geese aro mare- hardy and lane leas trouble than oh(o$ona and turkeys, and the profits are very much larger, During Mho summer all they need is a good pasture. They begin laying when a yf at, old an lay - from thirty to forty eggs in the amnion. Three geese are enoegh for the company of ono gander. , A NATIVE DANCE AT BULUWAYO. Description or dome lfrio,n Terpsichore eau Orates. - , A correspondent in South Africa writes describing a visit he paid to Bulawayo.. During hie stay in that town the native. commissioner, Mr. 3. Colenbraoder, sent an invitation to the various adjoining - chiefs do bring in their men and hold a big' dance in his oompeuad, near this town, for the benefit of tbo ladies and other. visitors. Owing to the shortness of the notice, and the faobthat smallpox was raging among. many of the kraals, only'a few came in y but enough were present,inoluding women A Remarkable LIt11e Dirt who Acts Lilo a Paralytic at a Word From ate 'Doctor. ' The most astounding instance of hyp. nottam by "suggestion" comes in a report furnished to the French Society of Hypno- logy and Psychology by M..Goridiohze, an expert in mesmerism. The story ho has to toll is of a little girl of eleven in one of the. French provinces' who used to ac0ompaoy a amain, who was a - oountry doctor, on his rounds, and in this way got to, understood a good many medical oxpreseione. One day she fell ill, The illness was alight, and she was on the high road to rooevory when her cousin,the doctor, happened to say unthinkingly and smilingly in. her presence, "Oh, good heaven's 1 She is paralyzed 1" At once thechild exhibited every symptom of paralysis, and she re- mained in that state et the will of the doctor. Afterwards he asked her if she woe not becoming consumptive, and im- mediately oho began to aufferfrem dreadful ooughing and blood spitting that consump- tive patients have. She seemed so extraordinarily open to every sort of mesmeric "suggestion" that the dootor tried herwithhalf the diseases known in medical annals, and one by one oho responded to them all. He needed only to remark that she was cured co have her perfectly well a moment later, Perhaps the atrange0t of the experiences ohs went through was when 000 of her sohoolmatoa got a paper pellet in her eye, From pure sympathy the child imegiood that atm had the same trouble too, and she rubbed her eye to such at extent that she felt the pain and girlo-to give an idea' of what a native dancewas like. When all wav ready first came two. • splendidly made Matsbele •warriors, of pure blood, dressed up fully in war costume, with ostrich feather headdresses and shoulder capes, skin waist dresses, armlets and legless, shield, assegais and battle-axe, who went through an imitation battle, aoeoropanying their easily under- stood actions with war cries, ehouta and horrible noises. After thio groups of natives, in every variety of nativecostume, with putt - colored turbans and waist -belts of spotted calico or limbo, ae it is termed out here— mixing somewhat inoongru0ualy with the more purely native portions of their dress —started dancing in aepnrate groups, with only sticks and knobkorries in their hands,, chanting meanwhile .very melodiously a rather plaintive song and chorus,.to the effect that they all wished the old times back again. The dance lasted over an hour, and the scene .at 'the linieh„ when each excited group had tried to outvie the others, was very wild and impressive, though to many of the onlookers there was something pa- thetic in the oontaaot between the depend- ent position of the men then dancing before them that day and whet they were only a few short months ago, As an encouragementto the men -for the dusky warriors are only men like ourselves,: and always do better in front of their wives and sweethearts—the native women and children otarted a funny kind of dance and song among themselves on one side, stamp.. ing alternately with each foot, and swaying their bodies about in the most extraordin- ary manner, to the not unpleasant mimic- of usicof rattles, whioh were fixed to their ankles, and the beating of oOick, ono of which they held in each hand. Some of the married ones held their little blank, glistening' babies slung in a skin on their backs, and the tiny urchins seemed to quite enjoy the dance themselves as much as their elders. At the conclusion the whole lot of natives had several oxen killed for their refreshment; and the native commissioner and his servants looked well after thebodily welfare of chiefs and men alike. Modes of Exeeution. Spain—garotte, public. Austria—gallows, public. Brunswick—axe, private. Ecuador—musket, public. Prussia—sword, private. Portugal—gallows, public. France—guillotine, public. Saxony—guillotine, public. Oldenburg—musket, public. Belgium—guillotine, public. Denmark—guillotine, public. Hanover—guillotine, private. Bavaria—guillotine, private. China—sword, or cord, public. Netherlands—gallows, public. Great Britain—gallows, private. Italy—capital punishment abolished. Rueais—musket, gallows or sword, pub- lic. United States, other than New York— gallows, mostly private. Switerzland—fifteen cantons, sword, nub- ile ; two cantons, guillotine, public ; two cantons, guillotine, private. Miraculous Escape of a Child. Poultry Notes. The beat poultry keeper is s woman ; she has mote patience and a bettor knack for the details of the buaineea ; but when this duty is left to the wife Tend a hand at the hard work,for there is hard work about it. Disease and disaster are reasonably sure to follow when foods, particularly soft stuffs, are thrown down among the dirt and filth of the floor. Ib soon enure, and it absorbs a portion of the surrounding filth ; on general prinoiplea it ism bad prae0iee. A well bred foul will lay more one, and grow to marketable size sooner. Therefore, there is more profit from it,a0d itis the fowl for you to have. Grade up yourotock with good maims, at least, and have a better lot of ohickoos 1n the next. generation, Sharp grit, meat scraps and green food mustbe it:chided in the dint of all ,poultry confined to rime, Without these articles hens cannot make eggs, Feed all scraps to the fowls while they are strictly frosh ; nothing will MONS quickly 00000 dioei'tse of it for nearly a year,than decomposing food. Conductor Frank Norris had run his freight train on the siding at Stickleys ' quarry, near Strasburg, Va., to permit a pnesenger train to pass. The train had just pulled up when he saw a moving object, on the ties, whioh proved to be a child not. yet 2 years old, wedged in, and over whioh the loaded cars had passed. The child had crawled on the track, and as the engine Moved slowly to the sidings, the cow oatoher had pushed the little one over the ties, where it lay until all danger had passer'. Barring a little bruise, the child was unin- jured. An Appropriate Name. A boy's fishing pole was fastened to the root of a tree on the river bank, and he was sitting in the sun playing with hie dog, idling his time away, as he had been fishing ell day and naught nothing. Fishing? inquired a man, passing. Yee, answered the, boy. Nice dog you have there; what is hie name? Fish. Fish? That's a queer name for a dog. What do you pall him that for? 'Cause he won't bite. Then the man proceeded on hie way. Not a Cookneyito. Mother. -What 1 Doyou intend to marry a foreigoor? Son—She is a highly cultivated, English girl, mother, lIow do you know she is highly cultivat- ed ? ultivat-ed? 'She speaks the same sort of Eagiish that ido. No Poetry in His Soul. Patrick-Phet's shot yez dug up, Moike? Miite—Only a olothea.pin.' Patrick (indignantly)—Only a clothes• pin is ft1 Othl Bunt's little poetry yez have in y'r soul, Moike, Tick av tl' socias av shwate mouths that seine clothes -pin may have been into.