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The Brussels Post, 1892-6-10, Page 66 HOUSEHOLD, OhiWiese. 01 liralEABETH A DAVIS. Sometimes 1 fancy, in tItat land unknown, The eager little Mee that waits tor fl— non of blue, the sweet lips all my own— The baby feet that ileum) beside my knee. Iciest) the tiny form elose to my incest While round iny nook the dimpled arms are twitted, And for a few brief moments I am bleseed Boyoni the happiest of ell womankind, Oh, Joy to kiss the nestling golden head I • And whiaper the sweet words that uothers know— The worde that though n million times were said, • With every saying eweet and sweeter grow. ,And on my cheek 1 real the baby breath. And. hear the tones that never can grow cold ; Iror time, nor space, nor change, nor cruel death, Can take my darlbig from my loving hold, A Woman's Life. A woe mother ie carefully mating her favorite doll to bed. With tender eolici- tude she carefully removes each dainty gar- ment and fastene on the tiuy nightgown. Then with a fond kiss, she hugs her tree, eure to her and places ib in its little cradle. After patting it gently she tiptoes out of the room as the twilight peeps curiously in. A fair initiden stands before her looking - glass adding the last touchee to her evening toilet. Hee lover will soon be here 1 Her eyes are full of innocent lovelight 1 She looks eagerly at her reflection in the glass 1 How glad she is that she is pretty ! She frowns a little at a crimp that will not stay just as it should. A ring comes at the door and she hastens away to meet her beloved. A yourg wife sits anxiously watching for her husband. At each approaohing foot- step her heart beats rapturously, and then grows heavy with disappointment She will not go indoors, it is so sweet out here 1 The creeping shadows cheer her trembling soul; so she waits and wishes, and the shetdows lengthen into daakeaed night. A mother is rocking her baby to sleep. He looks at her gravely while they move to and fro, as if asking how the bright sun - thine must leave and the ugly shadows hide her dear taco from him. There is a wealth 'of wisdom in his great, sweet eyes. He holds tightly to her dress, as if to keep her near him. When at last his eyes are closed she disengages the lovine hand, kisses him lightly—as he must not be awakened—and armee to put him into his orib. Then she sinks back into her chair and begins to rook again. It is so p'easent to rest in the twilight and he is so sweet to nurse 1 A woman kneels by a fresh -made grave. The head -board stares coldly at her, and seems to say over and over twain the words inscribed upon it. He was her only child, and she was a widow, With tear -laden eyes she bends down lower and lower, till her lips rest upon the earth. She longs so to kiss the quiet form it is hiding from her And the twilight seems to hurry past and lose itself in the darkness. A care -worn old woman sits watching the shadowa come, they are friends to her— friends that she welcomes, for they always sing the same old soug to her : "One day nearer home." And she smiles on them her thanks. She, too, repeate "One day nearer home." And so life—woman's life —goes on in the twilight till rest comes to her weary body and joy to her aching heart —till her spirit reaches its home, where never a shadow can fall upon it Worry in a Girl's Life. Truly the &at necessity is to teach a girl to approach her work, physical or mental, in a normal, healthy way—to accomplish what she has to do naturally, using only the force required to gain her ..poiri ; not worrying all the time she stuntes for fear the lesson will not be learned ; not feeling rushed from morning to night for fear her work will not be done; not going &boa with a burden of unnecessary anxiety, a morbid fear of her teachers and a Eeneral attitude toward life which means strain and constant strain. A glance forward in- tensifies the go avity of the ease. Such habits once developed in a girl who is fit. ting herself to teach are strongly felt by her pupils when she takes the position of teacher. The nen ous strain is refleoted back and forth from teacher to pupil, and is thus forcing itself on the notice of others, and proving day byday more clearly what is the greatest physical need. Those who have observed this tendency are wont to say "Give the girls plenty et exercise; plenty of fresh air ; uee that they Sleep and eat well, and this greatest need will be supplied without thought." If the unhealthy condition we have noted were just malting its appearance the remedy would be suffieient As it is, such a remedy suffices in a few cases, in most cases parti- ally, but in some not at all. The hebit has stood now through too many generations to be overcome without a distinct recogni- tion of the loss of power, and a strong roan, zation of the need of regaining this power. Indeed, so great a hold on the community has this want of quiet and easy activity in study and in play that it is not rare to find young gitls who believe the abnormal to be the natural life and the other unnaturel. As one girl told me once, in perfect good faith, " I keep well on exoitement, but it tires me terribly to carry a piteher of water up stake," This I know is an extreme in. stance. and yet not so uncommon as 7 wish it were. —[Annie P. Call, in Atlantic Moebh. ly. The GlIbjed Of Moths. It is an old subject, but now the moth lays her egge and hatches the grub into its devastating feed season of from ono to three weeks, to the period of its cocoon stage. It is well to remember, says tho Upholster. ex, that the moth never destroys woolens; it is the worm. It is well to remember that camphor and all other vile odors in the world will never protect fabrics in the least If a woman puts a garment away that has so muoh as one moth egg a ton of camphor won't prevent that egg from hatehing, if there's any hatch to it. The only way to preeerve a garment from the ravages of the ' moth is to be absolutely mire in the first plaoe that li moth hair laid no eggs in it, . and this is not easyto discover, became with the mother instinot it oreepe in dark crevices, the more obsoure the better, end its -eggs are as small as the point of a pin. Tt °oak these eggs ot incrusts them with a covering, and you might beat and beat the garmeet and not in the &lightest degree hurt the eggs. Now yen. eau put that gar- nient away In a camphor ohest and heap a ton of camphor on top of it, yet if one of thee() egge hankers a worm, that worm will Mart in to feed. The only way to bo sure thete none of these eggs are put away in a gement is to keep the garment.,out under constant surveillance for two or three Weeks before putting it away, end in that; timeany nevely-hatched worm will develop into It site that eien readily be seen, Once a gar - T EC B 0/01107701011110010/1011/11110110111411% meet is absolutely free of tile ogg or tho 1000111, it eau then be tiod sqa in a, paper parcel, or anything oleo that will keep the Living moth out, with period impunity, for a moth will never bore its way into any- thing Cookery. Lenox Samna —Wet two teblespoonfals of flour with cold water and stir tato one and one.half oupfuls of boiling water, Beat one tablespoonfel of better, one cupful of sugar, the yolk of one egg and the jttiee and part of the rind of one lemon thoroughly to - gobbet., then add the hot mixture to it Wow - stirring eonateetly. Let it cook a few minutes end while hot add the beaten white of the egg, WIDEPED CREAM P114.—Lme a deep p10 110 tin with a moderately doh crust ; bake in a guiok ovou ; then spread it with any soft jam or jelly and on this P010 11 teaeupful of cream baton or whipped to a stiff foam, then sweeten and flavor to taste. The cream twill beat more easily if very cold at first. Morejelly can be spread ou the top of the main, or serve it without as pre - forced. RHUBARB PIES.—For pies the rhubarb should be sliced thin. Put a layer of 0111: ' barb in the pie pan—the under cruet should be rolled rather thin—then a layer; ef sugar and dredge with flour, another layer of rho. barb, more sugar, then dredge with flour, put on the top cruse and bake in not too hot an oven until well done. The under cruet should be nearly an inch larger then the pan, and folded over the edge of the fruit. Wet slightly with water or the white of an egg before putting on the top crust, and you will not be troubled with the juice stewing out. The top crust should be out through the centre. Two cups at rhubarb and a tablespoonful of flour is a good rule for a medium-sized pie. Orman TOAST.—Cut slices of stale light bread-- bakers if you have it—into rounds with a ceke.outter, leaving not a btb of crust. Toast to a fine yellow brown. A scorched or blackened crumb is fatal to the exeollence of the dish. Butter well while hot, sprinkle lavishly vvith salt, lay in a bowl—silver or stout ware that will stand bre—and pour scalding milk in until the toast is covered two inches deep. Set (covered) in an oven for five minutes. By this time the milk should be all absorbed. Lift each slice carefully with a broad knife far enough to pour over it a tablespoonful of cream. Taste a crumb to be sure the seasoning is right Most people make milk toast too fresh. Salt again if necessa.ey cover closely and return to a moderate oven for ten minutes. Serve in the bowl 11 11 is presentable; it not transfer carefully to a heated china bowl or saucer. The toast will be tender, puffy, relishful and excused - in gl y digestible Sa0WROLIS.—Bod onepiht of milk:when cool add one-half oup of butter and lard mixed, a little less than one-half cup of sugar, one-quarter of a cake of oompressed yeast and a httle salt and flour, enough to make a soft dongh. Let the mixture rise, mould and in the morning roll ant as thin as doughnuts; cut round, fold with a little butter spread between. Let them rise again, then bake in a quick oven. Pittston ROLLS.—One quart of flour, three eggs, three.quarters of a teacup of good yeast, a -piece of butter the size of an egg. Sift the flour and pinch up the butter in it until the two are well 'nixed; make a hole in the middle of the flour, and into this pour the eggs, well beaten, the yeast, and enough warm water to knead the dough without its sticking in au unmanageable way to the tray. Use strength and work it well for 10 or 15 minutes, and then put it in a stone jar, into which a little flour must be dusted first, and set by the fire until morning to rise. Extremes of heat or cold will spoil the bread. Work it well again next morning, using a little flour. and a little more butter if very rich and short bread is liked. Grease the baking.pan with oold lard, putting in a think layer; melt some lard and touch each roll, as it is made out with the hand, around the edges with the warm lard to keep it from sticking to its neighbor. Cover the pan and set it in a slightly warm place for an hour to rise, and ehen bake until the crust is a delicate brown. The rolls ought to be a rich oream color, of a feathery texture, and fairly over- flowiug the pan. Bread resembling the honeycomb is never good. Manufaotnrine Cripples. The Gingerbread Fair, as it is called, which is held every spring in the Faubourg St. Antoine and the Place de la Nation, Paris, is, seys a correspondent, notorions for the number of artificial p henomena exhibited there to the public. This year their num- ber has been greatly increased by the an rival of about twenty cule-de-jatte, who are wretchedly lodged in huts on a piece of waste ground in the Cours de Vincennes, These cripples, whose minute shrivelled -up legs are curled up on the boor& on which they sit, form a colony, whioh calls to mind the Cours des Miracles of former times. Every morning they all issue forth, propel- ling themselves with their heeds, to take up their respective places at the Fair there, to await the pence which may be thrown to them by the compassionate passers.by, Their aspect is so pitiful that kis said many of them make a real harvest, which, how- ever, of course goes to the beggar "farmer." It appears that twenty or thirty years ago the culs•de-jatte vere almost unknown in France, and that these deplorable looking cripples are the product of what may be called an industry, Almost all the numer- ous deformed little creatures who roll them. selves about on boards mime from Spain, and more especielly from Tolosa, or the neighborhood, situated at about twenty. two kilometres to the south of St. Sebastian. They are the outcome of the abominal prao- tices of beggar 11 fanners," who seek their victims among the children of the peasants. When there is a weakly boy- in the fatnily, they persuade the parents that he cannever be anything but a burden to them unless they consent to have him transformed into onle-delatte, and promise to pay them a trifle B. day so long as the ouls.de-jette is loft with them. The bean:loss wretches, assuming the oharewotor of huntano factors, pretend they thus provide the, weakly child with the means of gaining hie livmg, and also procure tho patentor a eon. sidorable pecuniary advantage. The open ation to which the unfortunete creature is subjected is as effectual as ilia simple. The logs of the child ere so tightly compressed that the °insulation of the blood in them le stopped. Lietio by little the legs wither away, and the ouls-dewjatte is menufaotheed, On May 20, the lose broad -gauge rail- road in England, that of the Greet West- ern, was narrowed to the standard gauge of 4 feet 84 inches, Lady,looturer on women's rights, waxin werm: "Where would man he if it had not been for woman?" After a pause, and look. ing around the hall—"I repeat, Where Would man be if it heel rot been for woinan?" Voice from the gallery; "In Pt -radio°, nut'am 1" BRUSSELS P 0 T. FITRIO Cf$ WITR .TBALOUS svarsaw 10 54hoolt;1743, the ensile of a Woman of Noble Mirth. A recent despatch froon Warsaw, says --A terrible inueder lan bsels eominitteil in this city by a 1100114411 of noble family named Boguslawa Orezioka. The vietitn was a ballot dancer named Josephine Gerlach, and the motive, as might be surmised, wee furious jealouey on the partof the high-born Josephine Gerlach had the reputation of being the most beautiful ballet girl in War. eaw, and ever sinew hee advent on the stage here ales has been the craze among the Palish nobility. Josephine encouraged and profited by these atteotions and seemed to enjoy the unhappiness of the noble }wig ladies who found themselves deserted for the star of the ballet. .A few days ago the town was shocked by the announcement that Josephine Gerlach had been found murdered on her lodgings. The condition of her room showed that ehe had been taken by surprise by some visitor. Her skull Was bootee in, evidently with some blunt lustre- ment, and her hale was matted with blood and brains. There wore evidences of a ti niggle and the girl's disordered attire showed the clutch of bloody hands. The finger marks left by the murderer were slight and indicated to the police that a woman had done the deed. The apartment had been ransacked and jewels aud money wore missing. This was taken as evidence that robbery had also been a motive. The police ascertained that a lady, finely attired and apparently somewhat disguised, had called npon Josephine. • Ingitiry brought out the fact that Bogus- lawaCrezicka had been heard to utter threats against the ballet girl. She was jealous of Josephine, and this fact {vas well known througheut Watsavv. The police took her by surprise, and were astonished to find upou her conclusive evidences of her guilt. She atilt tarried with her a hammer and a deg- gor. On the hammer was blood and hair, and the dagger was stained with fresh blood. The lady confessed both the crime and the motive. Josephine Gerlach, she said, had ruined her happiness and she resolved upon re- venge. She went to the girl's room as if upon a friendly visit and watching her chance struck her with the hammer. The girl attempted resistance, but Boguslawa struck her again, this time breaking her skull end bramiug her. She then stabbed her repeatedly with the dagger. After coon- mitting the deed she robbed the room of the jewelry and money she found there. The news of the arrest caused extreme ex- citement among all classes, and crowds flocked to the magistrate's court to see Boguslaws, arraigned for her crime. It is believed that she will be sent to Siberia for life. ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED. --- Judge Skinner, Brother of the Member of rarllament, Thrown from Ills Canoe IVIttle Fishing—Ills Body Swept Down the rapids. A despatch from Moncton, N. B., says:— The News has reached here from the Mira- michi of the accidental drowning of Mr. 11. O. Skinner, judge of the Probate Court of St. John, and brother of Mr. Skinner, M.P. It appears that Judge Skinner and a party of St. John and Fredericton people were fishing in Miramichi at Indiantown, about 15 miles above Newcastle. Last evening about five o'clock Judge Skinner and a friend named White were fishing from a canoe anchored in the rapids. Skinner was standing upright in the canoe, which from the work of the rapids had shipped oonsid- arable water. Suddenly a log came rushing down the rapids, struck the canoe with con- siderable force, and Mr. Skirner losing his balance fell into the rapids, and in an in- stant, before his horror-stricken companion realize5 the feet, was swept away. On the banks of the river were friends from both St. John and Fredericton powerless to help. The tragedy was over before the canoe could be released from its anchorage. Skinner swam a little, but the force of the current was too much. Mr. Jordon, of St. John, waded out from the bank as far as possible and threw a stick toward Skinner, who seized it, but it was useless. lie soon re• leased his hold and sank out of sight. The body was recovered. Wonders in Miniature, In a museum of curiosities atSalem,Mass., there is preserved a common eherry seed or stone, hollowed and fashioned like a basket. Within the basket are twelve tiny silver spoons, the shape and finish of which oan- not be distinguished with the naked eye. The name of the artist who construoted this little wonder has been lost, but the actual existence of the thing itself can not be ques. tioned. Dr. Peter Oliver, who lived in England (luring the early pare of the Eighteenth Century, tells of seeing a carved cherry stone which would be a wonder even in this age of fine tools and fine vvorkinanship. This stone WM one from a ;common cherry, and upon it were carved the Ilea& of 124 popes kings, queens, emperors, saints, etc. Small as they must necessarily have been, it is announced on the authority of Professor Oliver that with a good glass the heads of the popes and kings could readily be dis- tinguished from those of the queens and saints by their mitres and crowns. The gentleman who broug ht this little wonder to England purchased it in Prussia, allow- ing the original owner 55000 for his treas- ure. Think of it, 525,000 for a cherry seed The Pedlar's Courtship. A pedlar, well known in the Scotch High- land districts'lately buried his seemed wife, 13eing one of those who think it no part of wisdom to embitter the present with the recolleetions of the past, lie mon turned from bewailing.the dead to addreseing the m living, Ho olted out n neighbouring spinster as well suited for being his third mistress, and lost no Mine in making his desires known, Jenny, it seems, turned up her nose at the offer ; and John, 'nixing her to hor fancy, departed, saying, " eel, wool, a' the world does not think like you," whieh was quite true. Before reaching home, the pedlar inet more compliant fair one. Jenny, in tile meantime, reflected oft the dangerous con- eequenoo which would probably result from her ruse, and resolved in fame to be more kinel ; ales! ill 06111. Next day, as the pedlar wets paseing by., jouny called him in, and stated her mune- Con for the hard words of yeeterday. John heard hoe through, then replied. " Weel, weol, Pre mere far on wi' °slither me now to think o' gam back, but 0 she happens to be nao lang liver, 791 no forgot to melee you niy fourth wife." Innocent " Why do the gentlemen always go out between the acts at the opera ?" Experienced I " My brother says to get an opera glass," JuNE 10, 1892 YOUNG FOLKS, TWO BOYS, By VAIthlaNt 0011018041. "Hallow Tribby ' !" " Hello • Newsy ' 1" and the boy with his leather bag full of Tribuues galloped by on hie pony, while Iloury trudged along the side walk with his petters under his ann. "If I oould ouly deliver on horseback I CoUld lave more thue for base -bell and fen, as Fred does. The bop; are gmng in swim. ming this morning. 111 heve to walk feat or they 10111 1)0 throagh before 7 get there." And Henry dodged:briskly in and out of many a gate, deconiting bell landles end doorknobs as he went His papers 11000E flew away. Henry was old enough to understand that 11 115 wished to become am:easeful business men—and he did wish it—he must be thorough and painstaking now while a boy. When people Aubsoribed for the News they wore sure of its delivery, His customers gradually increased while the Tribune seem- ed to lose favor. Glad I sell News now. I wanted the Tribune first, but Fred was bound to have it and his uncle in the post -office helped him to get it. He started out with twice as many names as I had. Now I have the most trade. Strange 1 "This is a Moe piece. Fine old gentle. man here. Paid me a dollar in advance. Tribby delivered here until last week, and now I do, for some reason," mused Henry as be fastened a paper under the bell handle of a hancleoine brick house on the corner. As he turned away, the door opened and the "fine old gentleman " greeted him with, "-Good morning, young sir. You're the boy for me. Paper as regular OE clock -work and as sure as the sun," "Thank you, sir," said Henry respectful- ly touching his cap, "It's my business not to forget my customers." "Well that Tribune boy doesn't mind whether we get his paper or not. He makes sure of his pay fast enough, then indifferent- ly delivered the paper. Too lazy to get off his home, I take it. If the gate is open'he rides up the walk and throws it on the poroh. 'If closed, he throws it over the fence. Three mornings in succession the wind blew it away before I had time to ;some out and get it ; the next the puppy chewed it up, and the fifth was ruined by rain, $o I quit the Tribune and subscribed for the News. ' Henry walked thoughtfully away. This acenented for the lengthening list of names book. At the same time Fred was riding gaily about town, throwing papers in the yards and leaving them to their fate. "I've delivered them and that's enough," he said, excusing his shiftlessness to himself. "Henry always was a lucky fellow, any. how. He's getting all iny trade. But then, I can't be as fussy as he is. If people don't want their papers bad enough to step out into the yard and pick them up, 'tisn't any fault. I can't bother to get off my horse every time," and Fred turned his horse into a gate that led up to the front door. Biddy, the girl, with her head tied up in a red tidy, busily sorubbing the hall floor paused in her work. "Miens says she doesn't want your horse or paper any more. That sidewalk wasn't; intended for horse races, ye, young saphead, and that's the third board he's broke with his hoofs, and yisterday he stepped on the flowerbed Misses just set out with Woe cuttings, and she felt powerful bad about it too, I can tell ye. Shure, and it's no sense ye have at all," said Biddy, her temper warming as she Weed. Fred jerked his horse and clattered out of the gate, looking very glum as he rode away. "There's no money in selling papers, any- how," be grumbled. "Guess I'll sell out to "Newsy," I can't seem to get along at all ;" and Fred fell to blaming others for his ill luck, caused by his own unscrupulous- ness, So it happened that Henry took the ageney for both papers, carrying a bag at each Nide, on his morning tripe. One day in early autumn Or postal card in- formed him that there was a package at the express office for him. What he found was a beautiful new safety bicycle from a rich uncle in the city who was watching Henry's career with much interest. When, in some round -shout way, he heard of the boy's success and his thorough methodical business habits, he said it was time the boy had " a lift." Of course there was not ow happier boy in town than Henry ; nor, after a few clays, perhaps, was there another as black and blue as himself, but he learned to ride very soon, and his beloved machine flashed bask the sunlight as he skimmed up and down the streets, delivering his two bundles of papers, and although it would have been so easy to throw a paper over a. fence as he glided past, he never once yielded to the temptation, but continued to decorate uhe doors as carefully as before. JACK. I am proud of my thirteen-yearmld friend. I think he showed real pluck. Acid all this story is true, excepting the name by whioli I call my boy. Of course Jeck 1008 " ikylarking." But, unless some care 18 takeii a boy may "sky- lark" himself into trouble. That is what Jack came near doing when ho steered his sled between the fore and hind legs of a horse, "But the 'cop'" (by which I understend a policeman wee meant) "Feud that the boys had a perfect right to slide on that hill." So if horses came in that way, the} did so at their owe nick. However, that is not what this atory is about. They were playing "Tag," my Jack and the doctor's son. Playing with all their might and main, 7 suspect. Jack's sturdy knickerbockers look as if they mould make good Gine when it oomes to a run. He enslicid after the doctor's son, and tho elector's sou "went for" him, "Round comet end round about And round about they spun," and Jack Was °lose to the big front door they sped. Up the steps and into the vestibule they tumbled. Jack would have seized the doe- tor's son lad not that youngster burst open the inner door and whisked into the hall, slamming the door in his purseerle face, and shouting, " Pawed you last!" ,Tack thrust mit an eager arm just es the portal (dosed, Bang I through the long glass panel crushed 111,8 howl. Clatter, clatter, clatter, rattled 1,10 broken glass, It's aharp edges rattled—"tagged" Jaelt's wrist tin. mercifully, The blood spurted. You may believe there was a commotion, Then Jack was led, keeping tight hold of his wrist, into the (looter's office. 8oroain 7 No ho 515 no/ ii; reign. Cry? Not he. Is stood up as 0111,17 it ram- rod and let tho doctor tome i o, "This must be sewed up," 1; ant.T.d the physician, gravely, indeed tlie out looked serious. "7 will give you ether, Jack, to deaden the pail' of the openttion." Bat Jack vaulted ether. "I've tried Oat before end I don't like It," Wo will eend for your mother." All I that woold be a ootofort. What boy, in mesh a rewrap°, would oaui like his mother to eympittilize, to console, end to euetain ? But Jaele loslJoouglob himself, The father is meow, cruising in Southern seee, It lute been Jack's business to care for his mother, not to worry and distamee lior. She lute gone to an afternoon tett. I won't have ber bothered," deckled Jack. So he hold oue his wrist, and made no moan while one, two, three, seven stitches drew the gaping flesh together, HO W01111 home when the wound was bound p. It was not till the mother reached her 1101180 that she Nerd of the aouident. She flew up stairs, with her heart in her mouth. But elle found Jack as cheerful and mil. ing se a June morning. " Don't lm frightened," he told her. "It didn't hurt much." For days the wrist has been bandaged, but not onoe has Jack whined, I think that shows good nerve end spirit, don't you ?—[lierpor's Young People. Getting and Keepine Bees. My bo', you can have all the honey you eau eat, not for the asking, but for the tak- ing. Get a hive ; if you cannot get 0 mov- able frame one, gat whet kind you can, one 11 11 is a box or a keg. You oan get I clean box et the store wbere your family purchase thole supplies, and make it over if it does not suit you. When you have your hive go to a neighbor who has bees and have him put in a first swarm for you during swarm- ing time. If the bees were given to you, you would not take care of them, and would lose your self-respect besides ; but if you work for them thou you will value them. 11 3010 cannot buy them, put up aorne boxes in trees as decoy hives for swarms which the owner would never look after. You may get a swarm in this way. The law says that no one can claim a swarm of bees after he has once lost sight of them and if there was no box for them to go hit° they would enter a hollow tree, ohimney, or the side of a building if they find an aperture. So if they enter the box they are legally youes. On the prairies hollow trees are soiree. A friend had three hives of bees die during a cold winter. He was disgusted and de. clewed that bees were no good, and left the hives where they stood. During swarming time some of the family noticed bees corning and going from the hives, and an investiga- tion allowed all to be occupied. Soon after this same man had hard work to prevent a swerm entering a hole through the weather boarding of the house, Surplus boxes were put upon the hives, and in autumn the bees had a ;supply of honey for themselves aud for the family. Where an apiary is not located near a stream water sheeni be provided for the bees in suitable vessels early in the season before they have located their drinking places. After having chosen a drinking place they will frequent the same during the season. Bees drinking at neighbors' wells and water troughs have been the source of disputes and grievances, for horses and cattle will suffer with thirst rather than clrink water border- ed with a row of bees. Wooden tubs, such 00 butter is shipped in, make good water re- ceptacles, much better than orookeryware, for noes can climb out of a wooden vessel if they fall into the water, but they cannot from a smooth, glossy teceptacle. Put some cloth into the water and let it bang over the cub. It will act as a siphon and the bees will sip the water from the sunny side. Re- new the water often raid change the cloths ; part of the vessels should contain water slightly brackish (ahont a teaspoonful of salt to a pailful of water). Give warm water on cold, frosty mornings, for if a bee loads up with cold water it may get chilled and not be able to return to its hive. I have seen them sipping around ice, and some got so benumbed they were not able to take wing. A bee in the early spring is worth much -more than at any other time'for it is needed to rear bees, to harvest the lioney crop. Stealing a Rouse, A man has stolen a house in Paris, Frame —that is to say, not merely the contents, but the house itself. The facts of the ease came out at a sitting of the Municipal Council at the Hotel de Ville. M. Gamard, one of the members of a committee, was addressing the meeting with the object of obtaining a credit for the purchase of some land adjoining a house belonging to the municipality at the corner of the Rue des Annelets and the Passage de l'Encheval. Hereupon another member, M. Grebauval, said he would like to ask the Director of Works what might sum an odd question. Was the house Btin in existence ? "Of course it is." was the reply of the Director. " Well," said M. Grabituval, amidst loud laughter, "7 live in the neighbourhood, and I can certify that this morning the house WOO 710 longer there.", Sabsequently an ex- planation was given of this mysterious die - appearance. The tenanb had been pressed by the mimicipality to prty his rent, which was greatly overdue ; but instead of doing so, Ito went and removed the house piece- meal, and reeonstruated it on an eligible plot of land he had secured. "P1415 is tho sort of thing one would expect to happen in Texas,'" said one of the counoillors. The joke was considered to be so good that there was an evident disposition not to be hard 011 tho culprit. It was explained that the municipality really did not want the house, and that they only bought it in order to Require the lend on which it stood. In all probability, therefore' the house thief will be left in undisturbedpossession of his ill.gotten brieke and mortar. The Perils of Welsh Mountaineering, An exciting adventure is reported by a party of tonnes from Liverpool and Maso. cheerer on Ceder Idris, Three gentlemen started by Barmouth to ascend the moun- tain, W111011 WOO already heavily capped with snow. On rettehing the ridge they were caught in li storm of wind, hail, and snow. They were in the midst of Ceder procipiam end their livoe WOVO imperilled by the 1:Holding storm. After groping about awhile they found shelter beneath a huge boulder. The dilfts wero so florae that the tnettrattineers became oompletely snowbound, and when the storm ceased they load to out their way out. They then endeavoured tO cross the siumnit of the mountain, but again lost their way in the snowdoeft, and found two other Englishinen In the same plight, They sheeted for help, and throusch the guichoum of SOme shop. herds found their way to Dolgolly in the evening, after a, moat exciting dity's exper. fence. Barber; "You say you've boon bore be - feral I don't remember your Moe," Vic- tim; "It's all healed up nowt" "A man," says a sorely•triect father "never fully realize:, ilos wealth of infer. 'nation ho doesn't poseese 011 his first ohild begins to ask questions," LATE BRITISH NEWS. --- Immo Holden, H.P Iauo juir returned from a trip to Arden, at the age of 85, He attributes his remarkable physical vigor chiefly to =ecru' pedestrianism. The indium tiger shooting are begiun ing to discard such precautione 08 elephants and platforms in trees, and hunt on foot. Primus Vokhateingji, who is credited with killing 200 tigers anci panthers, not only goes on foot, but all Moue. The new small-bore rifle has allowed its Powets in a terrible Ivey at Aldershot. A soldier happened to fire his rifle. The but. lot passed through two doors, wounded one man slightly, plumed through the thigh of imother man, and filially through both thighs of another man, who died two hours at terward. About 200 tons of coal fell etuldenly on Monday morning at Manders Malo, Colliery, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, burying five men. Albert Johnson and James Wood, a boy, were killed,while two ahem were set, lonely injured. Fire broke out on Tuesday morning in a building at Pontypridd where la horses were stabled, and six of them were roasted alive. The Horse Accident Prevention Sooiety in London reports that a thousand horses fall upon asphalt to five hundred on wood. The Israelite Alliance has sent to the Sultan of Turkey an address in oommemora- don of the admission of the exiled Spanish Jews to the Turkish Empire in 1492. .5 postman at, Tattenhall, Cheshire, named Arlatns, has just completed a servi- tude of twentpone years, during which period he has walked on an average 20 miles a day, save on Sundays. Adams eatiniates that his walking tour has extended to, a little over 131,000 miles, The value of the worda "nob transferable," usually printed upon season tickets has been tested in an English eourt, and it has been decided to be unimpeachable. A lady loaned two of her servants a couple of Ma- rion tickets to the Crystal Palace. They were suspected and questioned, and the fine imposed by the Court amounted in all to about 515. A second halfpenny morning paper will shortly be atioted in London. It will be called the Morning Leader, and will consist of eight pages, the size of the Pall Mall Gazette. In politics it intends to espouse the Liberal cause. The Liverpool polies are investigating circumstances under which a girl, aged eight years, has twice attempted to commit suicide. The (Mil& 10110 has lost both father and mother, resides with an aunt in Needham Road. She had attempted to hang herself, but was ant down by a neighbour in time to save her life. On recovering, she tried to cut her throat with a table knife. She said she wished to die. The girl 15 11010 in a children's shelter. On Saturday night, at a quarter past ten, a front, room on the second floor of a pri- vate house in Union St, Tottenham Court Roitd, London, was the scene of a fatal fire. A wotnen named Mary Flood, aged 39, and a child two years old, Avis Bradley, were burnt to death, and the room was gutted. Weil° two men were removing furniture frotn a farm -house at Oonsett on Wednesday, a breeohloading gun exploded in the hands of a man named Anderson, and the charge entered the forehead of another man named Garry, who expired shortly afterwards. Anderson has been apprehended on the charge of causing the death of Garry. On Monday morning,Signalling•Sergeant, George Morris, of the Royal Lancaster Regiment, at Aldershot, was found dead in bed with a knife by his side. The deceased had evidently shot himself by means of a boot -lace fastened from the trigger to his foot. By his side was n photomap!' of his deceased wife. He had been in a despond- ing state of late. An inquest was held on Tuesday at Glee - hill King's County,lreland, ou a man named Dawson, who had met his death under sing- ular circumstances, on Monday. He attesd. ed a local fair, and in the evening was 81113. jected to a mock trial, a custom of the district. He was sea -tamed to be imprison- ed 10 80 outhouse, and while endeavouring to escape fell heavily. Medical evidence was to the effect that the skull was fractur- ed, and the jury returned an open verdict. A Little Girl's Sewing. The baby of two years old will beg for a needle to sew, and, in her small rocking - chair, work industriously at nothing at all for many minutes, but when three or four years of age, can, with time said patience., be taught to wear a thimble, thread a needle, and make a garment) for a tiny dolt, one of those that is completed when two inches ef running up the back, six inches of hemming around the bottom, a draw string around the neck and two holes for the arms completes the deem, end from this on to big dresses] for big dolls, whioh cover, when neatly made, all the ground sone over on a larger scale on a freak for herself, and then to the machine, where her own skirts and aprons can be so quiokly put together, is all within the range of ploasitnt possibilities. The Domestic Monthly thinks stooking.darning must be beguiled with story.telling, andsomesugary eoweirel, but should be among the first les - eons in repairing taught, and that seven years is not too early for agirl to begin this part of her education only she should not be confronted at die outset with some old stockinggaping with rents, but rather j a pair with ust the tiniest hole making it- self seen; then it will not be long before the mother can say, "There, your stockings are mended, and you can run and play," and with a cent to spend or a oreamdrop or aarmel as a prize, there will nothing unlike, mit be connected with darning stockings. and it is aerange that it should be 'needy regarded ail et disagreeable, if not a hateful table, In connection with the darning, teach Mk daughter to leave off stockings as mon its they begin to show white patches, libretti -1 elle inky line now fashionable, for small holes ate not so tiresome to fill up as some great tont in the heel or knee. The sewing ou of shoe -buttons is also something that, should come under the delight:orris care at an early ago, and she should be Wight blab a button off her shoe is a mark of greet carelessness end untidi- nese, and it is more than likely that stock. legs oan be darned, ahoe.buttons sewed on, and other maim made in the early hours of Saturday morning, and in no ways interfere with the hours for play, and 0 Soloos begun right off= breakfast, in winter or eummor, before noon there is a restless, uneasy set of children in the house or garden teasing one another, and asking more dutti once, "What cen 1 clo now, mamma?" while if a litMe time has boon spent in umful comp), tion, many things will suggest themselt es for the hours of recreation, "Avoid whiskey end water my son," skid the fond father. "It is it dilution and a snare," 1