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VICAR'S GOVR ESSO
VIZI,
1 ' CHAPTER
14 " Is alio not passing fair, I"
—Two Gentlemen of Verona.
The day . at length dawns whoa Miss
Broughton choose§ to put in an appear-
.once et 1'ullingbam. It is Thursday
evening 00 wblc1i she arrives, and as she
yea elected to go to the 'vicarage direct,
instead of to go to the vicarage desired,
nothing i8 left to the latter but to, go
down on Etiday to the Redmends' to
welcome her.
She (Olarlssa) had taken it, rather
badly that pretty Georgie will not come
to her for week or eo before entering
on her duties; yet in ber secret soul she
cannot help admiring the girl's pluck,
and her determination to let nothing in-
terfere with the business that must for
the future represent her life, To stay
at Gowran,--to fall, as it were, into the
arms of luxury,—to be treated, as she
know she would be, by Clarissa, as an
equal, even in worldly matters, would be
only to unfit her for the routine that
of necessity ,must follow. 6o she ab-
stains, and flings far from her all
thought of a happiness that would in-
deed. be real, as Clarissa had been dear
to her two years ago ; and to be dear to
Georgie once would mean to be dear to
her forever.
The vicar himself opens the door for
Clarissa, and tells her Miss Broughton
, has arrived, and will no doubt be over-
joyed to see her.
" ,Vliet a fairy you have given us I"
he says, laughing. " Such a bewilder-
ing
ewildering child; all golden hair, and sweet
eyes, and mourning raiment8. We are
perplexed—indeed, I may say, dazed—
at her appearance; because we have one
and all fallen in love with her, hope-
lessly, irretrievably,—and hardly know
how to conduct ourselves toward her
with the decorum that I have been
taught to believe should be shown to
the mstruetress of one's children. Now,
the last young woman was so different,
and --
"Young," says Miss Peyton. •
"Well, old, if you like it. She certain-
ly, poor soul, did remind one of the sere
and yellow.' But this child is all fire
and life; and really," says the vicar,
with a sigh that may be relief, I think
we all like it better; she is quite a break
in upon our monotony."
"I am so glad you all like her 1"says
Clarissa, quite beaming with satisfac-
tion. 'She was such a dear little thing
when last I saw her ; so gentle, too,—
like a small mouse."
"Oh, was she ?" says the vicar, an-
xiously. 'She is changed a little, I
think. To me she is rather terrifying.
Now, for instance, this morning at
breakfast. she asked me, before the chil-
dren. 'if I didn't find writing sermons
a bore.' And. when I said—as I was in
duty bound. to say, my dear Clarissa—
that I did not, she laughed out quite
merrily, and said. she 'didn't believe me 1'
Need I say the children were in rap-
tures? but I could have borne that,
only when Mrs. Redmond forsook me
and actually laughed too, I felt the end
of all things was come. Clarissa" (sev-
erely), "I do hope I don't see you laugh-
ing too."
Oh. no 1—not—not much," says
Nfisa Peyton, who is plainly enjoying
the situation to its utmost. It is
very hard on you, of course."
"Well, it is," says the vicar, with his
broad and rather handsome smile, that
works such miracles in the parish and
among the mining people, who look upon
him as their own special property. It
is difficult for a man to hope to govern
his own household when his nearest and
dearest turn him into open ridicule.
Your little friend is a witch. What
shall we do with her 4"
"Submit to her," says Clarissa.
"Where is she 5 I want to see her.
"Cissy will find' her for you. I dare
say they are together, unless your
Madam Quicksilver,' as I call her, has
taken to herself wings and flown
away."
He turns, as though to go with her.
No, no; " says Clarissa ; "I shall easily
Enid her by myself. Go, and do what
you meant to do before I stopped you.'
Moving away from him, she enters
the hall, and seeing a servant, is con-
ducted by her to a small room literally
strewn with work of all kinds. Books,
too, lie herein profusion, and many
pens, and numerous bottles of ink, and a
patriarchal sofa that•never saw better
days than it sees now, when all the chil-
dren prance over it. and love it, and
make much of it, as being their very'
own.
On this ancient friend a tiny fairy-
like girl is sitting, smiling sweetly at
Cissy Redmond, who is chattering to her
ga�yly and is plainly enchanted at hav-
ing
av-
wme one of her own age to converse
The fairy is very lovely, with red -
gold hair. and large luminous blue eyes,
soft and dark, that can express all emo-
tions, from deepest love to bitterest
scorn, Her nose is pure Greek; her
lips are tender and mobile; her skin is
neither white nor brown, but clear and
warm, and somewhat destitute of color.
Her small head is covered with masses
of wavy, luxuriant, disobedient hair
that shines in the light like threads of
living gold.
She is barely five feet in height, but
is exquisitely molded. Her hands and
feet are a study, her pretty rounded
waist a happy dream. She starts from
the sofa to a. standing position as Clar-
issa enters, and, with a low, intense lit-
tle cry, that seems to come direct from
her heart, runs to her and lays her arms
gently round her neck,
Once again Clarissa finds herself in
Brussels, with her chosen friend beside
her: She clasps Georgie in a warm em-
brace; and then Cissy Redmond, wbo
is a thoroughly good sort, goes out of
the
vroom leaving the new governess
with her old companion.
'At last I see you,'' says Miss Brou h -
ton, moving back a 1JtCle and lean ng
her bands on Clarissa's shoulders that
she may the more easily gaze at her. S
thought yeti would never come All the
morning 1 have been waiting, and
watohingl and longing for yowl"
Her voice is peculiar, -half childish,
half petulant and wholly sweet
She
is not crying,but greet tears are stand-
ing
in bar eyes as though eager to fall,
and her lips are trembling.
I didn't like tocome earlier," says
Clarissa, kissing her again. It is only
twelve now you know but I was long-
ing every now,
as much to see you as
you could be to see me. Oh, Georgie
how glad I am to have you near mei
and ---you have not changed a little
scrap."
She says this in a relieved tone.
Neitber bane you," says Georgie
"you are just the same. There is a
great comfort in that thought. If Iliad
ound yea changed, -different in any
way,+ -what should 1. have done ? I felt,
when I saw you standinq tall and all ht
In the doorway, as if limo had. rolled
1
bask
, a
n
d wo were,
together Again
a
Dads lieIirons. Qla bow hippy
tpyt
vas.th e 1 And no v,nos
The big tears in her pathetic aes
trembl:II to their she .covers per
ace with ber h nds
"Tell me everything," says Clarissa,
tenderly.
"What is there to tell'J--ekcept that
I ano alone In the world, and very deco»
late, It la more than a year ago now
since—sipce --papa left xno; It seems
like a long century. At first I was
apathetic; it was despair I felt, I sup-
pose; indeed, I was hardly 00080101s of
the life I was leading when with, ny
aunt. Afterward the reaction set in
then came the sudden desire fpr Change,
the intense longing for work of any
kind ; and then--"
"Then you thought of mel" says Clar-
issa. mooing her band,
"That la true. Then I tbougbt of
you, and how ready. your sympathy had
ever been. When -when be died, be
left me a hundred pounds. It was all
he had to leave;' She says this hastily,
passionately, as though it must be gone
through, no matter how severe the painthat accompanies i
the telling of t. Clar-
issa, understanding, draws even closer
to her.. This gentle movement is
enough. A heart, too full, breaks be-
neath affection's touch. Georgie bursts
into tears,
"It was all on earth he had to give,"
she sobs bitterly; 'and I think he must
have starved himself to leave me even
that 1 Oh, shall I ever forget 0"
"In time," whispers Clarissa, gently.
"Be patient; wait." Then, with a sigh,
"How sad for some this sweet world can
bel"
I gave my aunt forty pounds," goes
on the fair-haired beauty, glad to find
somebody in whom sbe can safely con-
fide and to whom her troubles may be
made known. "I gave it toher because
I had lived with her some time, and she
was not kind to me. and so I felt I
should pay her something. And then I
put a little white cross an his grave be-
lore.I left him, lest he should think
himself quite forgotten. It was all I
could do for him;" concludes the, with
another heavy sob that shakes her
slight frame
Her heart seems broken! Clarissa,
.
who by this time is dissolved in tears,
places her arms round her, and presses
her lips to her cheek.
"Try, try to be comforted," entreats
she. "The world, they tell me, is full
of sorrow. Others have suffered, too.
And nurse used to . tell me, long ago,
that those who are unhappy m the
beginning of their lives are lucky ever
after. Georgie, it may beso with
you."
It may," says Georgie, with a very
faint anile yet somehow, she feels
comforted.
Do you think you will be content
here?" asks Clarissa, presently, when
some minutes have passed.
T think so. I am, sure of it. It is
such a pretty place, and so unlike the
horrid little smoky town from which
I have come, and. to which' (with a
heavy sigh.) "let us hope, I shall never
return." ,
"Never do," says Clarissa, giving her
rich encouragement. It is ever so
much nicer here." As she has never
seen the smoky town in question,' this
is a somewhat gratuitous remark. "And
the children ate quite sweet, and very
pretty; and the work won't be very
much ; and—and T am only just an easy
walking -distance from you.'
At this termination they both laugh.
Georgie seems to have forgotten her
tears of a moment since. and herpas-
sionate burst of grief. Her lovely face
is smiling, radiant ; her lips are parted;
her great blue eyes are shining. She is
a warm impulsive little creature, as
prone to tears as to laughter, and with
a heart capable of knowing a love almost
too deep for happiness, and as surely
capable of feeling a hatred strong and
lasting.
The traces of her late emotion are
still wet upon ber cheeks. Perhaps she
knows it not, but, "like some dew -
spangled flower, she shows more lovely
m her tears." She and Clarissa are a
wonderful contrast. Clarissa is slight,
and tall and calm; she, all life and
brightness, eager, excited, and unmind-
ful of the end.
Oissy Redmond, at this juncture,
summons up ,sufficient courage to open
d
the door ancome in again. " She ignores
the fact of Georggie's red eyes, and turns
to Clarissa. She bas Miss Peyton's
small dog in her arms,—the terrier, with
the long and melancholy face, that goes
by the name of Bill.
Your dog," she says to Olarissa;'and
such a pet. He has eaten several legs
off the table, and all my fingers, ]iiia,
appetite is a credit to him. How do you
provide for him at Gowran Do you
have an ox roasted whole occasionally,
for his special benefit'?"
"Oh, he is a worry," says Clarissa,
penitently. 'Billy, come here, you lit-
tle reprobate, and don't try to look as
if you never did anything bad in your.
life. Lissy I wish you and Georgie
and the children would all come up to
Gowran to -morrow."
"We begin lessons to -morrow," says.
the new governess gravely, who looks
always so utterly and absurdly unlike a
governess, or anything buta baby or a
water -pixie, with her yellow bair and
gentian eyes. "It will be impossible for
me to go."
But lessons will be over at two
o'clock," says Cissy, who likes going to
Gowran, and regards Clarissa as " a
thing of beauty.' "Why not walk up
afterward?"
I shall expect you," says 'Clarissa,
with decision ; and then the two girls
tell her they will go with her as far as.
the vicarage gate, as she must now go
home.
There she bids ahem good -by, and,
passing through the gate, goes up the
road. Compelled to look back once
again, by some power we all know at
times, she sees Georgie's small pale face
pressed against the iron bars, gazing
after her with eyes full of .lonely long-
ing.
(To Be Continued.)
Hammer Worked by Flea Power.
At, the great works of Herr Krupp, in
Essen, is a hammer that is to ile seen
weighing eighty tons, WILL this in turn is,
placed on an anvil bleak weighing 120.
tons. A Swiss, calling himself Prof.
Schumann, who has devoted much of his.
li.fo to training
fleas, at
Berne, in
Swit-
zerland, recently visited
Essen, and
looked upon the Mighty hammer. On
his return to Berne he began a model
of the great hammer, but on such a tiny
scale that it could bo worked by flea
power, instead of the mighty engine
which operates the one in Essen. In its
completed state this marvellous minia-
ture steam hammer, pulley, anvil, block
and all weighs but half a grain. The
hammer and -anvil are of solid gold, the
pulleys German silver, and the Imam -
work of platinum. A flea trained by
Mr, Schumann will, at the word of com-
mand, hoist the hammer to the top of
tho frame; there it is automatically set
free, descending in precisely the same
manner as the monster after which it
fa modeled. I' . ;.,i',
TEE LI iIE ELN 0141 11
An Jnlereettnil:eeitlre by the Ile}1, WAY-
t'ere sf eckxon,
It woe known to most mambo= of the
Ii 9 Kilo Clubthat the
ilon.WhY
fo
io
Jackson, of Louisiana, was in town, the
guest of 'Brother. Gardner, and no one
was therefore greatly surprised to hear
the president announce at the opening
of the Saturday night meeting that the
distinguished visitor would consume the
evening in delivering his world-renown-
ed lecture on the subijeot of `"Flumen
Man.
As soon as the meeting had been duly
opened Giveadatn Jones and Waydown
Bebee escorted the orator into the hall.
He looked to be a short, fat, one-story
man of a faded raspberry color, but he
had the dignity of a man who knows.
that he bas $5 in nosh in his pocket and
hisboard paid in advance, and no visible
signs of embarrassment were apparent
as be surveyed the audience before him
and began:
"My frena, de subjick of my orashun
to -night is 'Human Mon.' It is an oras-
hun dat I erected myself, widout any
help, I didn't steal it from Shakspeare,
an'I didn't hire nos kite man to write it
(Sensation) I was ober ten y'ars gettin'
dis orashun together. l: went slow an'
sure. Ir didn't propose to fall into any
mistakes. I knowed dere was a heap to
talk about, an' I wanted to git it all
Aar' 1t belonged, I will now Pur -
"Man Who an' what is man What
was man created fur? Why was he
created in de form of a man instead of
a hyenas What use is he? What was
he bo'n furs In eeekin' to answer dese
guesbuns, my (rens, you insensibly find
yourselves delving into de ,regions of
philosophy an' follerin' de unknown
Paths of speoulasbun• In de fust place,
what was de use of all dis world widout
man ? .It would simply be so much land
an' water gwine to waste. (Cries of
' Hear ! Heart') 'Spose'n all dese yore
rabbits an' possums an' chickens war'
tannin' around widout anybody to make
use of "em—what a shameful waste of
meat it would bel (Groans.) Dat's one
reason man was put yere—to eat chiok-
ens an' rich ('Yum. yum 1')
"What is man i" continued the speaker
as he shifted his weight to his left leg.
"He's a substance composed of skin,
blood, bones, teeth, toe -nails, brains,
hair, and so on. He was created fast,
an' out of de best goods in de market.
Dat's de reason he's a heap purtier dan
a dog or a cat. (Sensation.) If he had
happened to bey beencreated along
about fifth or sixth he might hev bin a
ground -hog or . a whale. (involuntary
shivers.) Dar ar' seberai different sorts
of men, as moss' of you probably know.
Dsy wasn't all mace of de same color
nor in de same shape. kase dot would
hev bin monotonous. It would hev
tried de eye, same as lookin' at a flock
of white sheep. Dar' am no sort of
queshun in my mind dat black used to
be de meas' popular color in de begin-.
pin' nI things. ('Hear) hear]') but de
white man fo'eed his way in an' got his -
self boosted up to de top by some sort
of gum game. (Growls and mutterings)
"Did you eber stop to think why man
didn't grow to be ten feet high an' to
weigh a ton? You probably neber did,
an' yit de explanashuns ar' right to
hand. If he was ten or 'leven feet high
ho couldn't walk around no back yard
widout sawin' his neck on a clothesline,,.
an' if he weighed a ton, an' de roof. of
his hen house sprung a leak, how'd be,
eber git up dor to fix its (Great sen-
sation.) Man was bo'n to walk up-
rightly. Why wasn't he bo'n to go on
four legs like a dog? His philosophical
queshun probably nebber occurred to
your intelleck, but de reason is plain.
You couldn't hev crowded ober ten of
him into a street kyar to once." (Cries
of: "A -11-h 1"
The speaker here paused to wipe his
heated brow and moisten his throat with
a potash tablet, and after a brief rest
continued:
'While man is de hignest'order of cre-
ashun, he bas at de same . time got de
moats' low down traits of character about
him, While on:myumbreway fllaromfrom Canundeadar.
some man stole my
my very nose (decided sensation) an' on
two odder oecashuns efforts war'
made to despoil me of my satchel. Dat
was de work of man. Would de hon,
de tiger, de elephant, or de grizzly b,ar,
descend to'sich petty meanness? (Cries
of 'No l never I') Wolves lib together in
harmony, but man is allus in a fuss. De
btaistlusIIatotbtrteumnaswmetthing,
an' old hoss or a mewl en' .you. kin de-
pend
o-pend upon him ebery•day in de week.
expect to find him twice alike de same
except to find him twice alike de same
day. (Applause from Elder Toots,
which was broken short off by Giveadam
Jones giving him a kick.) Of what use
is man ? He thinks he's a heap of use.
but he's dun mistaken 'bout dat. De
world was heah befo' he cum. It would
bev bin right heah now if nobody had
ober bin bo'n.. Man jist comes, sloshes
aroun', kicks up a dust, departs, an' de
blackberry Drop of de next y'ar is jist
as large as if he had. Jibed on." (Samuel
Shin sheds tears,)
"My frens,' continued the orator as
he tightened his left suspender byan
inch, man is a pore, useless, misguided
critter. He's generous one day an'
stingy de next. He's way up on de pin-
nacle of greatness at 10 o'clock in de
melanin', and at 9 in de afternoon he'll
dodge around a corner to got shet of
givin' a blind man a cent. (Cries of
That's so, old man 1") One day, he'll
put bis hand into his ppocket an' give an
orphan asylum a hundred dollars, an' de
next he'll sue a pore man fur do value
of two Mifflin's. (Yes I Yes I) It ar' my
candid opinion, based upon long y'ais
of observashun, dat man ar' a failure as
a man. (Sensation.) He would hev
made a fust -rate animal or a bird, and
would hev bin a decided snceess as an
alligator. I hey no recommends to
make. Man is as he is, an' he can't be
no different. (Groans.) . After de
meetin' is out a colleckshun will be took -
en up fur de benefit of de undersigned,
who's mighty sorry he warn t bo'n• a
rhinoceros. Thankln' you fur your in-
terest an' courtesy,,I will now bid yon
a percolated good night an' stand at de
doab as you go out."
There was a roar of applause which
should have made the orator proudof
his talents, and ho stepped down with
a patronizing smile and took a,position
Where he could shake hands with each
member as he passed out. The collec-
tion figured up nine conts In cash, and
When he had counted it over three dif-
ferent times the Hon. Mr. Jackson tos-
sed the pennies in the wood -box and
Walked. down stairs with his toga wrap -
about him and disappeared in the
rknean
THE FARC.
Value Of Crop 1lotalioll,
The farmer of to -day who wlabea to
succeed must keep up the fertility of
The
1 T
1inevitable, his an rit e
d o failure is inev a
benefits to be derived from a speeifie
rotation of crops is the little tinders
stood by the average farmer. The Jm-
portanoe of adopting a specific rotation
ie morin apparent when coo become fa-
miliar with certain relations that our
soils sustain to the, ami;ire
al kingdom.'
Different crop's extract from the soil
different elements of fertility. We
have all seen praotioal'examples that
substantiate correctness of this theory
fox''' instance, we have seen fareas given
up to the production of a single orep
until they no longer gave profitable
yields, But when a different Crop Wes
planted, or a rotation of dissimilar orops
commenced these hinds produced abun-
dantly. The average productiveness of
I our soils is diminishing, They are in
I bad mechanical condition, and aro lack'
ing in fertility. A full knowledge of
tbis should Lead to a search for 010-
•thods by h ot only present
standard ofwhicfertilitynmay ba maourintained,
but a higher standard secured and in-
definitely held, in which clover (that
life-giving and healing balm for
worhiwut soils) should always be givenold
the first place. By constant cropping
we long since okhau'd fertili
of our soils. It was calcsteulatedthe by na-
ty
ture to not only furnish a vast atone
of fertility to our soils, but to put them
in such mechanical condition that they
might be easily reduced to a fine filth,
and at the same time assist in liberat-
ing the latent stores of fertility. Plant
growth is the transformation of in or-
ganic into organio substances. All
plants require certain elements for their
growth, but not all in the same propor-
tion. The combustible parts, of all
Plants contain nitrogen, oxygen, hydro-
gen and carbon ; all these except the
nitrogen of some plants are received
directly from the atmosphere. We can-
not add the exaot amount of necessary
elements and be sure the plants will
extract them, for we cannot know the
power of the plant, and the effect upon
the required chemical action of the heat,
moisture, eta, which are beyond our
control. Nitrogen is the element most
likely to be absent in sterile soils, and
if it can be supplied the fertility of the
soil is renewed. Hence we should have
in our rotation a crop that is able to
supply a vast quantity of humus, in
order to change soils from their pres-
ent obstinate tendency to a more till-
able eharacter. Clover is well oaleu-
lated-to do this, and because of its being
an excellent and safe antecedent of any
grain or vegetable Drop, it should be
found first m order of every rotation,
whatever the further order may be.
Clover is a nitrogen -storing plant, and
I would advise a four or five years'
rotation. By this, if our clover is so
fostered as to develop an abundant
growth of both roots and foliage. and
tbe plant allowed to return ,humus to
the soil in vast guantities'by plowing
all, pr nearly all, of the crop down,
and m addition to, this, if all the barn-
yard manure (carefully saved) that it
is possible to manufacture by feeding
all the coarse produats of the farm to
stook: is applied, we should not only bo
able to maintain, but to constantly in-
crease the productiveness of our soils,
which is the only safe. basis on which
we may build, even hope for continued
success in the business of farming. For
if we keep on taking away and adding
nothing to tbe soil, we will soon have
not enough left to let our friends know
where we are. A man with a limited
capital has as good a chance of drawing
indefinitely on his bank account" as the
farmer has of reaping an indefinite
number of grain crops from hisland,
without the certainty of getting both
his land and himself in bankruptcy.
Summer fallowing, whish bas usually
been looked.upon as a first-rate way
of adding to the fertility, is, in the
main at its best, only a means of ren-
dering more quickly available the dor
mant stook of undeveloped fertility
which nature has slowly accumulated.
A, moderate application of barnyard
manure is frequently found equal to
fallow as a stimulant to the produc-
tion of a paying crop of wheat. But
the underlying secret of success of both
methods isthat the capital account in
the abape of fertilizing material is being
worked off, and nothing put back to
replace the perpetual draf ts made upon
it. The rapid exhaustion of decayed
and decaying vegetable matter, tends
to alter very much the mechanical con-
dition of the soil, and the alteration is
always in the wrong direction. Rota-
tion, the best way by which crops can
be had with the smallest waste of fer-
tility, is not only the best course for
preventing soil exhaustion, but the best
means for preventing the multiplication
of weeds 'and insects. My rotation is
clover, corn, oats, wheat. It is hardly
safe to lay down a adagio rule or mode
for every body, or for all kinds of soil.
Care should be exercised in adopting
a rotation to know that the crops grown
are of shah a character that your soils
are well calculated to produce. It will
be the wisdom of a practical farmer,
if he gives heed to the truths which
science demonstrates, and realizes the
results deduced by the scientific inves-
tigator alike from science and observa-
tion. And it is of the highest import-
an00 that we should look far enough
ahead to avoid shipwreck A week or
two of severe drought in the growing
season means failure more or less dis-
astrous, for every farmer wbo under-
takes to produce a succession of grain
crops, even with the help of occasional
summer follows. This is the age of
specialties and specialists. The mast
successful business men are they who
attend strictly to theireown particular
business instead of venturing into num-
erous outside enterprises or specula-
tions, So in the agrioultural world, we
must make our work a business,• and
conduct it on business principles if we
would make it pay. For to succeed
now -a -days we must be complete mas-
ters of what we undertake, and unless
we devote our entire time to, it cannot
achieve the necessary mastery.
g
Coves Chok n ,
l b
Occasionally a case of choking occurs,
perhaps from .cattle accidentally obtain-
ing access to the 'whole theta or tubers,
or in a case where, from disease of the
oesophagus, other food material may
CAUSES choking, but for the most part
among breeders who do not use a pulp-
er, and who either give their roots
whole or roughly cut up with• a hatchet.
The cast -mentioned plan ie perbaps the
worst of all systems, of feeding roots,
as they are out into irrogularly-
shaped,chunks, provided with plenty of
anges, that fond to their impaction in
the ;gullet. OattOA biting a mouthful
out of a big root ]boas to chew It, and
It to generally 040011 theta and tubers,
anti µ"regularly -eat pieces, that I,ly4185)
aboning if yen have bad mucb trou=
ble with cows choking it argues a bad
system of lnanagement for where or-
dinary core' its taken choking le mac,
o n • n1 s, as
we bave
1 vl u e§
s unkn.
ei l w ,
Y
i
said, from accident or s ilea of the
t reo fathe gojletingIt j8 notoor
tomwry
to feed potatoes whole, nor is it deeir-
ab1e, for of all food material the oleos
o£ potatoes fed to stook Etre the most
liable to cause obstruction. Potatoes
given to cattle should be fairly clean
00 a quantity of soil or stones is cal-
oulated to cause digestive derangement.
If they are clean enough 'to feed they
are clean enough to pulp. In the ab-
sence of a pulper, and where they aro.
being fed raw on a small reale' to any
Mans of farm stook,, they may be ren-
dered safe by smashing them. How
best to proceed when choked depends
not a little on the position of the im-
pacting body and its nature. An In-
strument is by no means always essen-
tial in a ease of choking, but it is ate
well to have one and to know bow to.
use it in case of emergency, or when
the symptoms ate urgent,
Horses and Sheep.
Most farmers and stockmen will ad-
mit, we suppose, that tbe prospects of
breeding the above two glasses of live
stock are not now, and have not been
for some time past, especially roseate;
yet let us venture' the prophecy that
any intelligent persistentbreederwho
keeps right steadily at his business, will
make a fair thing out of the venture
in the years to come.
It is folly to leave one branch of
live stook business for another, when
other men are doing the same thing,
so that prices are utterly demoralized,
Nothing but loss can be the result of
such a procedure. The time to buy is
when every man wants to sell, the time
to sell is when every one wants to buy.
A short time ago, stockmenwere
tumbling over,,one another trying• to
dispose' of sheep, practically giving
them away. Of course any sane man
could see that the outcome of such a
practice must sooner or later make
sheep paying property. So just bold on
to your sheep, that is, all the best of
them, the sooner the oulls go the bet-
ter ; but the good ones feed up and breed
up and be ready to take the reward,
Mutton sells well even if wool is too
low for profit.
So with horses, the market for poor,
medium and common stook is not
worth much; but a good round -bodied.
cobby, short -legged, sound animal is
wanted even now at a fair price. So
also with large draft animals, well put
together.
In oonolusion let the point be em-
phasized. Give the market what it
wants and horses and sheep will still
be found of value.
NOW IT'S FALSE EYELASHES.
False Eyebrows. Teo, Are Tralneed by a
Needle and a Thread el' 'lair.
The very latest false thing in the
way of feminine adornment is false eye-
brows and false eyelashes, which are
put in—not on—with such cunning art
that even the closest scrutiny will not
discover the imposture..
At present the employment of this
slew discovery is limited to a small
number of lyric and dramatic artistes
in London and Paris—for the pain is
considerable, the process slow and cost-
ly—but, like everything else, it will
doubtless spread and in due' time find
its way across the Atlantic to these
shores.
It was a Parisian coiffeur, it is said,
who discovered the method by which
hairs can be planted, one by one, where
they grow thin upon the eyebrows and
in the places where eyelashes are miss-
ing or short. It is said that,• when
shaded by these long lashes, ordinarily
good-looking eyes take on a soft lan-
guor that `is irresistible, and that fine
0Ye8 have their beauty much enhanced
by this device.
THE OPERATION
by which new eyelashes are put in is
as follows: Armed with a fine
needle, in which is threaded a hair
of the same shade as those which it
is to replace—a hair plucked from the
head of the victim is generally used—
the operator attacks the extreme edged
the eyelid, between the epidermis and
the :light, fatty hem which borders it.
The needle passes in and out along the
edge of the lid, leaving its hair thread
in loops of carefully graded length.
When this is done the ends of these
loops are out off and trimmed, and the
result is a fine, thick, long set of eye-
lashes. It is the finishing touch, how-
ever, which is to come which makes
them seem like nature's own. When
they are first out they stick out in the
most singular fashion, giving the per
son a peculiarly weird and uncanny
look, like a wax figure. To• remedy this.
the operator's next step is to take a
pair- of tiny .silver curling tongs, no
larger than knitting needles, and give
them the exact curve which is essential
to perfect beauty. •
The lower lid is operated upon ,in the
same way. Then the patient's eyes are
carefully bandaged for ten hours, and
the following day {:here 5s no trace of
the operation. It is claimed that these
false lashes will stay in, and with fre-
quent touehinge up with the tiny curl -
mg tongs will look extremely well for
six months. Then the process has to
be gone through with again.
Eyebrows are doctored m practically
the same way, though if the customer'
prefers he may avoid the pain and
flours et enforced seclusion by having
the place where his new superciliary
adronenmt is to bol treated with some
ohemical which it is dangerous to use
on the lids, and which makes the oper-
ation on the eye brows ;minket,
The composition of this teflon is a
secret, and its inventor, knowipg he has
ogood thing, does not neglect to theme
as mueh as he can get, and many people
prefer to suffer the physical yam in-
stead.
Barber Shop In the Pulpit.
Rev. H. H. Ford, pastor of the Meth-
odist E isco p ai' hurah at St. Louis,M
p p �o.,
preached the other Sunday morning to
the. barbers of this, city. His text was:
Ezekiel, v., 1, "A Barber's Razor," At
the right of the pulpit was a barbers
abair, towels, two mirrors and the para-
phernalia1 usually Seen in a well-equip-
ped shop. Mr. ]Ford gave a•brief
tory of the profession, its long existence"
ancient superstitions, and that of China-
men of the present day, after which he
compared the various paraphernalia to
different phases in human life, combin-
ing the worldly with the spiritual The
chair he represented as self -examine.
tion; the mirror, the Bible, the study
of which should create a light; sheers,
truth, how, after a strong apnllcatlon
Of the truth, fates ideas )vault vanish.
JANUA II 10, 1806
0I3J.N'S DEEPEST SPOT.
A PLACE HAS DEO FOUND OVER
o FIVE MILES DEEP.
ivbatKind et'L"txn Ltve dere?-secleinitie
L 7
l , ...4
Asti ii alloy AingY0lexx, itnA, M � Vlia e1r
New ramie eno more May be Eounll,
Tbe.deepest spot in the ocean bas
been found. More than five miles of
wire ran out without the bottom be,
ing reached, Tbon the` wire broke.
Thio apot was recently discovered by
the surveying ship Penguin, near the
Friendly Islands, in the South Paolfie,
Commander Balfour, of that shin, re-
ports . that this remarkable discovery
was made in latitude 20,40 aoutb, long-
itude ,75,10 west. When he firot die-
covered this extraordinary hole, which
so far as we know now is bottomless,
CaPt. Balfour attempted to take the
depth and the sounding line was run
out.
After 4,800 fathoms bad run out over
the side of the ship, the wire broke,'
and a rising sea and wind prevented
any further attempt of the kind being,
made. Upon the second attempt he
managed, to pass 4,900 fathoms, or 29,,
400 feet of the wire over the ship's side,
before the wire broke, and put an end
to the experiment.
The deepest spot in the ocean prev-
iously known was close to the coast of
Tapan, where a sounding had been
made of 4,655 fathoms. This is 245
fathoms or more than 1,400 feet shal-
lower than the deep hole wblch has
now been discovered.
How much deeper it goes than4,900
i
fathoms no man. can know. It s a
piece of water more than
FIVE, T4TT,ES DEEP.
What the pressure must be at the bot-
tom no scientist has yet been bold
enough to conjecture.
There is no glass instrument that
could resist this pressure. It would be
impossible with the most improved
scientific appliances to take the, tem-
perature at this enormous depth.
No living thing tbat is known to
science could exist at a depth so great
as this, where the pressure must be
equal to many, hundred or thousand
foot tons, sufficient to squeeze the life
out of any fish. Even brass and iron
instruments lowered to this enormous
depth would be twisted and distorted.
Th emost painstaking work no low-
The most painstaking work in low -
such as this will not suffice to keep it
from breaking. This is because of the
friction of the water against the wire.
In spite of every appliance of bal-
ance and spring in the machinery on
deck, designed to counteract the mo-
tion of the vessel,the increase and de-
crease of pressure caused by rising and
falling on anwave will snap the strong-
est wire when it bas been lowered to
so great a distance.
All of the water at the bottom must
support the weight of the water on
top of it. The consequence is that the
water -•in the lowest depths is compress-
ed under enormous pressure.
The theory has been advanced that,
some strange
UNKNOWN CREATURES
may live in this highly compressed
waiter. There may be fish of a kind
so peculiar that they cannot exist clos-
er to the surface, where the water is
thinner and the pressure less.
Throughcountless ages of living in
the darkest, deepest depths of ocean
these fish may have evolved forms and
natures unknown to man of science,be-
cause hitherto each vast depths have
been unexplored. What the bottom of
such a place may be like is only a mat-
ter of. conjecture.
It may. support a fauna and flora of
its own. It may have its own plant
and animal life, which some daring sci-
entist will bring to lightto astonish
and amaze the scientific • world.
" Here, where, there can jie no light, the
Bala if fish there be, must be eyeless,
like that queer breed of fish which
Darwin cited existing in the rivers of
the Mammoth Cave, but still, under the
scalpel of the scientist disclosing what
:is known in biology as a "rudimentary
eye' The fishers of these deepest
depths may have rudimentary eyes and
rudimentary lungs.
They may have been pressed hard
and flat like a pancake by the enorm-
ous weight of the water above them
and may indeed move abotitby a meth -
od
e hod as strange and curious as was that
of the kangaroo wbon first brought to
the attention of. Europe. These are
questions for the scientific world to
solve. They bavo been brought to the
front by the discovery of the Penguin
of a spot in the ocean deeper than any
that has been known hitherto.
A HORSELESS OMNIBUS.
Curious Vehicle Used to Eneland Success
rally Abent Seventy Tears Ago.
The horseless omnibus was invented
and built about seventy years ago. The
motive power was steam, and, as will
be seen, the vehicle had a considerable
carrying capacity. It was known as
an auto -car, which is not a very well
selected name. It might better be
called a " horseless oninibus," after the
anology of the horseless carriages of
the present generation.
The omnibus was used on the, Pad-
dington"Road, running out of London.
Por some time it created great consid-
nation along the roadway, but was very
well patronized. The engine, boiler and
furnace were in the rear, and ante all
attended to by one man. The steering
was done by a guide or pilot, who pre-
sided over a horizontal wheel in front.
It is not known why the managers
abandoned the scheme of running 'all
of theomnibuses by steam, but it is
certain: that this is the only one of its
kind ever used. It is very ,.probable
that the science of economy of coal
storing and of weight had much to do
with the matter. The vehicle was sim-
ply a forerunner of the locomotive
which was merely a steam omnlbtus
running along rails.
As a rule, dignitaries holding high of-
fices, select for their aides -de -damp and
for their,staff mon conspicuous for their
agreeable manners and social pope.,
larity. But Lord Wolseley, the new
Comma dBritish
Commander -in -Chief ei in -Chief theSri
of
ArHeArray, is an exception torule.
9,
p
on the
has chosen as his chief aide-de-camp, a
ear who '
p is renowned as posaessing the
most violent tem en the foulest tongue
and the most explosive character of any
officer holding the Queen's coniniission,
It is the Earl of Errel, for several years
commander of the Royal Life Guards,
which splendid regiment he converted
into a perfect hides daring Iiia terra
of office. Lord Errol is a left -headed
connection of the royal family. Lord
Errol ass the.t'hereditary,
p asses �igl�es
distinction in the United 11n gdom af-
teri ht
e the,royal famUy, being bybirth
Turd High Constable and Knight Mara
s,ha1 of iscotland