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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-6-17, Page 3jUNE 17, 1892 FOR THE LADIES. Keep up With the (Milken. She was a wotneu ol middle ago, thin and ;wear, plain, with no elaim to beauty (-tempt the sow (to. --1 esia ,nps of OM lb 10 -4110 a delightful clutngo in these eager, dark eyes shining Morliko from e, none, ens.mdf cup nf butter, onoMalt !me mit 1030 •'n irely free from terty bine wistful, care -lined feat Twenty ytars itgo of leak, whithe of fortreg4s, elle cap ,,f lino The hi( o3' of the mumeits fat. made she had slipped her teretful hand into that while sugar Beat together the sugar and to pitts, e'.thadian two•rewed burley on the of another, and wielding the world well lost Englieh nuteket is well worth a little et. for the sake of her love and fail IL had 011101' ad upon a life of suell toil, privation and heroic endurance as only womon ln frontier eettlentente, Amid primitive conditioee, know, " I have tried my best," ehe said elin ply, " to keep up with the children. Fathee and I resolved, when oue first boy was a baby, that, stint and ;tempo end contrive am tve Might, we'd educate all that heaven sent us, And we have done what we could, I willing that my (Chiron shottld get ahead of mo ; I've tried to study their lessons with them and to enter into their feelings. I don't want them to outstrip no in the rage." This mother had been ono of those to whom early rising and let's retiring had been always essential, in order that the routine 01 1110 honeework should not suffer. In that partt of the oorintry whore she lived hired help for domeetio purposes was almost un- heard Of; women did their own work, a neigh- bor's daughter sometihnes lending a kind hand in all exigency, and the mon of the family doing their ehare et need. -In her de. terminad effort to keep step with her ohil- dree their intellectual development, she had in another direstion bailed bettor them she knew; for the children. boys and girls, had early boon pressed into her service, anti had, as she explained, "taken hold." of what- ever was to be done. The boys oculd metro beds and set tables as well as draw water and split 10001 The girls were facile house- keepers, with practical knowledge of cook ing and humiley work-in American soci- ety as eisential in the outfit for lite to the riohest as to the poorest. Though the ing in the household was plain, it was abun- dant, and the Heal snit before the family WAS something nobler than a more strife for wealth. Everythieg WAS open and above board. Books were read and prized in cem. mon, aud so much was going on to interest everybody that there WaN no temptation to devour poisonous tidbits in secret. So ft came to pass that the keeping up with the children brought great good in its wake. At last a day dawned when the mother felt as if the first stone had been sot in a well of separation. Two of her brood had found their wings. 11, daughter was going to college. A son Well entering upon a business career. The little wistful woman yearned to keep pee° with them both, yearned perhaps to ordain the pathway of both, as she al- ways had done. But it was inevitable that there should be some parting of the roads. Breve as she was, she kept down a heartache under her cheery show of courage. "Have comfort, deer," said an older friend who had been through a shnilar ex- perience. " The children will never out- grow you; you had a 20 years start of them. And you have so disciplined your mind, and trained your heart, and elevated your OW11 thoughts above the daily rut, the fret, and the stir that you dwell in a serene atmosphere, favoroble to expansion of every faoulty. They may acquire facts, but they will fiy like honey -laden bees bade to the hive. The mother who has kept pace with her children from babyhood to adolescence will never lose them.-Harpor's Bazar. THE BRUSSELS POST. of !lour, two tableepoonfuls milk, ono teitepoonful of baking powder, 1111,05 737140. 1 lulu tablespoonful in a bettered 'nip 'eel steam 20 1101i 10111117 110 Willie Oar liarley Trade Winh England, 1.1.'fil.S SAILOR'S BEORET. Following is an extract front an Bngliak letter le the foron10 Globe of recent oew wee Diseovered ond date thii t will 101 road with the greatest Brought. interest by femora all over Gelman, lifting, We had cow 1101011 74 Ole port of Sydney, A 'tette] is , rent 11 ladiey voyage to 1110 Solo- mon 10113,1(10, awl wore In:wilting out cargo when I mot with fill 11.707011711G that sent me 10 the hospe el, 1 lia,1 been there four or five day'', when a mallornian, who was in Ilia last stag:et of cousiimption, was admit- ted. During the following week he awl I became pretty well main:tin 101, and I learned that he had spoilt mem of his days among tho Mande 1,, t he weet of Austrolia, lie Mel brought wall him to the hospital as baggage a bundle wrapped (31 1311 old oilskin coat. As far 0.8 any of us 00011 determine, the contente conetetod of an old suit of alothee, and the peueamtione he took that no one should rob him seemed very abetted. Ho insisted that the buudle should renutin In his chergo, and he earned it about with him by day and used it for a pillow at night. His 1301110 3000 recorded as Robinson Andrews and his age as 50. When Andrews was told, three or four clays after entering the hospital, that he had not long to live, he was very abusive of the doctors, declaring that he had only taken a severe cold and would soon be out, end that they were Sensible Outfit fot Baby. The babies of to -day are more oomtorta.. hly dressed than toe or oven five years ago; then every garment was belstling with pins, where (IOW one suffices for the entire wiled - robe after the first two or three weeks or when the little (11001181 1(0(11) is discarded. ln looking over (0 little one's outfit I found something whielt pleaeml me; it Wag the Gretchen flannel 81110)1 (110(10 long with a, box plait in front and back 113 far as waist line ; this arrangement allowed lotting out as baby grows. The shirt also had long slecems asui buttons in the beck. The Gre- tchen skirt similar to the shirt opens on the shottider and is sleeveless, The waist part is better made of muslin, the skirt of flannel plaited 011 waist, then the comfort- ble Mother Hubbard dress ancl in winter a rocheted sack is added. With the flannel s and, diaper and little knit soaks this com- prises the day outfit. There should be a hange of elcirt mud dress at night for the hild's comfort, and I lift 103' voice topro- C,.est, against the rocking, the jouncing and "olting some mothers aud even nurses sub- eob the innooent babies to. Far better or mother and chil(1 to teach the little ono rom the first to sleep without perpetual motion. Try it mothers and see, To Gecl Rid of Wrinkles, Wrinkles come first to the girl who laughs the heartiest, to the girl whose face, front ohin to forehead, is one broad smile. To defer tho coming wrinkles, girls &meld laugh only with the lips, and never extend the laugh to the corners of the oyes. Girls full of fun will find this difficult to do. Cold, dignified women, whose fame seldotn brighten with hearty laughter have the fewest wrinkles, and to thom they come late, butt er, add the milk and one unp ot flour; then the hell oup of !lour into %Odell twe scant teaspoonfuls of baking powder have been mixed ; lastly add the whites of the eggs boa! el, stiff and mum citron cut tine, Flavm with 11,111011 or alitunid, 1th 'maim aen Bluest/ AND IL 111,1/. 11(1(4 -Prepare the rhubarb as ior a pie ; cover the bottom of it pudding (Leh with 'dices of broad and butter ; uovee with a layer of rhubarb cut in short pieces eprinkle thickly with sugar ; put 011 n nether layer of lwend end butter, and so on until tho dish le fell, 'Cover and steam for half an hour ; then remove the 11(1 and bake until Mealy browned. Mueettes.-Suald and 000l ono cup of milk, add ono -fourth cup of yeast, one te0. spoonful of sugar, ono.holf teaspoonful of salt, one ogg, then liour to make a "drop" batter. Raise and svhen ready to bake stir 111 0110 tablespoonful of molted but- ter. Fill little tins two-thirds full and bake in a hot oven. Hints on GleYe Mending. Fine cotton is better than silk thread to mend kid gloves. Cotton soon soils, and, tah Mg the oolout of the glove, will not be observed ; while silk has a gloss that pro velits it from harmonizing with the tone of its surrounding, mici ettention is consbently being called to tho foot tint your gloves aro mended, for the Table. A QttinK Larnft Cann. -Two eggs, one otip of sugar, two heaping mane of flour, two heaping teaspoonfitis of baking powder, a scant elm of 011111, 11100 tablespoons of melt- ed butter, Pub all the ingredients into a mixing dish 10(1 110131 vigorously together for fivo minutes. 13ttke in lour thin sheets. For a raisin filling boob the whites of two eggs until stiff with four tablespoonfuls of powdered engar then add a lap of seedless raisins chopped fino. 8.110W0 0A1014. --TWO 011P0 of gra. ham flour, two heaping toespoonfels of baking powder, 0110 111011 teaspooefill of Falb, 0110 and one-half oups of sweet or...am. 11011 out in two largo cakes about half an inoh thick. Lay ono in a buttered tin,, brush over the top with molted butter and. ley the other cake npon it. 13n,ke 10 minute0 in a colok oven. When done lift off the upper coke and spread sugared strawborries, blaokberriee 00 apple eance between sud over the cakes, Coux MOAT., Domrotets.-Two arms writ mon! thoroughly Wet, with suffioion,, boiling inn to bring it, 7/0 1110 consistency of stiff Mesh, Add two beaten eggs, ono level toespoonful of salt, ono tablespoonful of cream. Malto into net cakes And fry in butter or into balls and brown in hot lard, 1214030 DAtAs.-One eup of sugar, 0110 oup Low Prices and Hata. Times, Although with the advent of spring indi- cations are plentiful that business is looking up, farmers end others are still complaining of low prices and hard 1111105. A carafe -I study of oommereial history S110 WS 0 univer. sal deo and fall occurring with so much reg- ularity that books have been published showing thet these changes occur in cycle and that within certain limits they 01111 predicted. Rural philceophors have even at. tributed them to sun spots. For several years east prices ruled high. Now they are low. In Great Britain, and indeed, all over &trope, this depression in penes is far more severe than ill tho United States and CSonada. British journals trace the trouble in that country to the Baring failure and the Argentine bankruptey, which have largely prevented foreiguers from buying British goods, and to the McKinley notion in the States, which encouritges manure°. tures there, (Old by so much lessens the de- mand for foreign goods. Like the general Canadian view that this country iseuffering more than others, this is too narrow, al- though there is no doubt that these 0011588 moot have had some effect. The general failure of crops in Europe last year was a much more potent factor in the ease, as the people generally had less to spend for other things, being obliged to save in order to buy bread. The London E.007201ttid shows, in a recent issue, that of thirty of the most common articles of neoes- sity, two thirds fell in price during the first quarter of the present year, and prices of produce and tnanufactured articles fell es, tho same rate. The net deeline 10 prices of all products in the throe months was S per cent. /The "range of prices," says the Economist on April let, was " within a little mme than 2 per tient. of the lowest ever re- corded." hely, France, Germany and Russia are steadily adding to their over- burdening debts, because political 0011(1!' 1,10118 are so critioal and dangerous that large standing armies, and war supplies, most bo kept ready for probable emergeneies. Eng- land ostensibly has froo tresde in foreign products, but the burden of taxation there is in exam of what we have to pay, even W 11011 the indirect taxes and tariniuties are reckoned. The new cycle will seen mune around, and prices of farni produce will rel- atively improve, but the farmer must not be surprised to find that other products will be on a parity with what he hes to sell, and that the net results will bo about the same ea 11030. Little Tommy. But a few days ago ho 30710 W1 111 A bright, healthy, promising Ind, - 111113110(0 helm 111180031 10 the schoolroom, And yet mom in the home 01101)0 001), God said to his angels 000 01001111114, " Little Tommy is sick unto death, Go flown 10 1(10 homo by the N.alley, And carefully watch his last, breath." " Tako Marge of that pure young immortal. And tonderlybring him to mo, Gore never shall mei:nese attack Mit, From danger and death bele free." "Give comforting thoughts to his parents Toll Mary, and Horry, and Roe, Boll watch 011 the benks of the river When 11103, 00010 to partake of his joy." " Get the teacher to marshal] his schoolmates On 1118 3103, that your mission is done, Lot them sing as they mareh 10 1110 Graveyard. For then his new life la begun.' " His love for the beautiful. flowers. 'Which early tit life bo disclosed, Will horn be enlarged end exalted, To all forms of beauty disposed.' " To the Garden allotted to Tommy The illy will alway he found, White 10008 (1.8(1 sweot-soented tulips, And -amen 01 11110 woodland abound." While the children wore singing so sweetly. And the body 3000 001112 In (Sulgrave, Little Tommy Wag borne by 100 1.110010 Back again to tho father who gave Whon 11103, 0(1(110 to the beautiful pedals, They heti eat a, moment to watt, For the ohorue had pee up before them, And the Angels had opene0 1110140,11e, Cloonon, The Sabbath Ohime, As p031135 010 heart tor cooling strolling, When heated in the (Attlee; So longs my soul, 0 God, for thee And thy refreshing gram. For theo, my God, the livtng God, My thirsty soul cloth pine; 0(30(10(381111.11 1111310131 1.1(3, 1100, Thou Majesty divine) Why restless, why cast; down, 103, 001511 Trust God, who will employ His ald for then. and Omura those sighs To thankful 10'01110 of joy. CI od of my strength, how long shall Lilco 0710 7'047011011 mourn, Forlorn, forsakon, mul exposed To my oppressor's seem! My 1101101 18 pierced, as tvith a sword, While thus my foes upbraid : °Vain boaster, 1)110.10 1011000 111Y 001.1/ AnilwhSr(1 his promieod Why rostioes, why east down, my soul? Hone still 1 end thou slutlt sing The praise of Him who 10 1113, Clod, Thy health'e eternal spring, Two thousand ohildron under two years of age die yearly in Paris from tubercuinsis. History fails to rowed that any Indian has over been killed by lightning. 810 stellions, tho property of Maj. P. P. johnson, of Lexington, Ky., wore lammed loose into the hall of the stable one night recently and they wore founcl in the morning in 0 horrible condition having fought like bigers. Fortunately none of 0001 won killed, but they will all boar the merits of the battle royal for life, As 'Maier ,Tohnson president of tho National Trotting As. emotion, it has been suggested that the met Was done in revenge tar some of tho penalties inflicted by tho Association, 1011( 110 on the part of taiissliou rennet s and all who are interested in the Anglo.; %to:glom For it is a himory with tt moral, and a very practical mbrid, which really Igoe Is the root of the whole Mildness, Ties will Ito scum from the following 1101.104, which ore the reeult, of same iielopmehiet inquiries in praotioally querters whenee thoroughly trustworthy information eould be obtained cm the subject. There 11 1(0 room for 1)05(111 300 to the ex- cellence and euitability for 'netting purposes of some simplex of Canadian two.eowed bar- ley whielt reached this country 13 1 1890 and 1891. The barley of the latter orop especial. ly attained a high standard of excellenee, The very favorable opinions pronounced upon them and circulated through the High Commissioner's office hero have been amply confirmed by tho judgment of browere and agricultural authorities, whose views I have sought and who weepy a wholly impartial and disinterested position in the matter. Further, it is equally 11110 that barley of high character is assured of a good price on the English =Act, On this point the tes- timony I have obtained is unitnimous. Country brewers agme with London ex- perts in the trade 071 1110 110111(1, for the de' 11011(1 for really high class barley for malt. ing purposes is great, and our dependence upon the 'foreign suppliem increases from year to year. As a matter of fact in 114111 the official returns show that We imported barley to the velue of nearly .C6,0310,000 sterling, and any fruit source of supply out- side the United Kingdom will be welcomed by olb con wetted, provided -and the proviso is all important -that, the high uniform quality insisted upon by moisters is scrupu- handy maintained. It may be interesting hero to explain how it is that the demand for foreign bar- ley has so considerably increased of lato, and on this point 10111 able to give a few lines from one of our best agricultural ex- perte-Dr. Erearn. " The truth is," he tells 100, "during the past eight or ten years we have not been growitig in Eng- land samples of malting barley egeni 111 ohmmeter to those previously grown, This fact arises from the excessively high manur- Mg to which so much land has been sub- jeeted in connection with sheep farming. In the old days it Wall 1101 necessery to farm so high as it is now, for in connection with sheep ferning there have been two very noteworthy developments of recent years. One is that moat sheep breeders have aimed at early moturity, so ae to be able to turn the mutton into the market two or three years earlier than used to be the ease. The other is the attention paid to ram breeding to supply the foreign de- mand. The consequence has been that farmers IlaVe fed their sheep so well, in fact so muoh better than a decade ago, that the land has been numb more high- ly manureci, and the further conse- quence is that on the light lands of our typical sheep breeding farms they now grow barley which is a good deal richer than the old barley, 111331 (8, it contoins more nitrogen and loss starch. This barley is a better feed, but is less voluo.ble foe molting. In this way it has come about, as I have said, during the last eight or ten years that the number of first-olass samples of melting barley from English farms pat upon the market hae steadily decreased. The. de- mand, 00 13110 other bend, for barley .31 11110 class continues as strong as ever, and as big O prioe as ever is paid for it. Looking at the question from a purely agricultural standpoint there is no prima fame reason why Canada should ;lot get a fair shore of this trade in foreign baeley, especially as she 110.9 11030 begun growing twc-rowed barley in preference to six -rowed barley." So 1110011 for the purely agricultural side cf tho question. There is some justi- fication, it will be seen, for the eulogistic statements whieh have been indestriously circulated in some quarters with reference to Canadian berley and its prespects on tho English markets But there is all the (111. 10001100 in the world between theory and practice in this matter as in others, and the basiness side of the question has to he taken just as carefully into amount as the facts I have summarized above. Experimental shipments of Canadian bite - ley made during the pest six or twelve months have very conclusively established the importance of tins side of the matter. Many of these shipinents have done this in- fant trade more 1100171 than good, They have injured its prospects at a very critical atone, They lutve prejudtced buyers just when it was tnost necessary (341(1 desirable that their confidence should be won, for in every quarter in which I 11000 10(1)5 inquiry on the subject I hear the same tale. Many of the consigmnents sent over were not up to sample in miler or quality. In some oases contracts as to delivery were not kept, and were indeed invalidated through the arrival of the shipments a considerable period behind thee. Canadians interested in the matter cannot too quickly grasp the fact that them is no more sensitive grain market thati that foe malting barley. A very small quantity of bad barley is oapablo of deteriorating a largo bulk to the extent of many shillings per quarter. Of all grain perhaps barley requires the most care and thoroughness in preparation for the market. These considerations unfortunately seem in most eases to have been overlooked in Can- ada, as regards most of the consignments hitherto sent, and the result has, as 111008 said, been extremely injurious to the pros. peals of the trade. Even now, however, the field lies fairly opon, despite this bad start, If Canadians liko to throw themselves into the business in a proper spirit and bestow due ore upon itAhey Call 1111d0111)LOilly ensure getting a top price in the English market for every omisignment of molly tine malting barley they eon eond, but it is absolutely essential that sovoral conditions overlooked in the post should be borne in mind. In the first place it is very dosirehlo that the barley shoulclbe grarlal like wheat, so that thorough mid undeviating uniformity of quality 03311 be secured. In the second plitee, timeh more =emulous atttontion nwst be paid to con- tracts, Thirdly, growers should invariably allow the matin to beeonto fully ripe prior to (suiting. 'They should keep 11 111 the stacks a month or two tn (0.,,.,, 33 before threshing. A LOT OP ISCOMPETB:ITS who didn't know what they were talking about. However, after a bit he canned down and seemed to realize that his end was near, end one afternoon, hail we not been interrupted, he would have unburden- ed himself of some secret which seemed to be preying on his mind. Before we came together again he died. It was the rule at that time, ancl perhaps is yet, to sell the effects of a dead 501100 by (motion as soon as lie Wall buried --that is of course, 11 11 could not be aecortained that he had triends near at hand. Robinson had 'mid that he had no friends. There were 101101113 1. dneen of us in hospital at the time, and there was considerable merriment over the sale. The bundle was not even undone. " Gentlemen," said the steward, who acted as auctioneer," here ore a shirt, vest, and a pair of trousers whioh have sailed the high seas, end met with wonderful &clean - tune It's a case of unsight and unseen. They may be patched with tive-pound notes or they may be fit to go (.0 01100011 in next Sunday. How much ?" He continued in this strain for ten or fifteen minutes, crying one bid after another, and the bundle tVEIS filially knooked down to me for an English sixpence. Everybody had a laugh at my expense, and I handed lay " bargain" over te an attendant to be laid away until' called for. Four weeks later, when I loft the hospital, I should have for- gotten it but for the good-natured ridicule of some of my fellowTatients. The trading schooner of which I was mato and owned a half interest had made a short run and returned, and on leaving the hospi- tal I wont directly aboard of her. Capt. Hicks would have had me throw the bundle over -board at once, fearing some contagious disease, but I decided to examine it first, There was, as the auctioneer had said, a shirt, vest, and a pair of trousers, all well worn and of no value to any one except the ragman. The Captain was guying me about the pm:chase, when I took 1011(1 tobacco box from one of the pockets of the trousers. It appeared to be empty, but when I sprung up the lid I found n folded paper as large as a sheet of ftelscup. It wasn't, writingpeper, 1)111 0, square piece out from paper which had been used to wrap up goods. 11(000, as we instantly SaW a rude chart or drawieg, and the writing below was ln pencil and display- ed a very poor hand. Here is a reproduction of the drawing: North or Timor Lout obout govonty-throe. Enter north bey. firing up In line with three tall (4008 011 hIgh. 001 1011113, (3011 18 fly° fathoms. Spring of frosh 000100 (0 loft of big rook on port bow. The articles of el /thing were tossed aside, and We at once sat down to carefully study the chart. The drawing was probably meant for an island. We got out our chart of the Banda Sea, found the island of Timor Lout, and then measured off SEVENTY-TIIREE 100.50 to tho north. This brought us among the thirty islands lying off the west coast of Now Guinea. We inspected each in turn and compared it with the rude drawing, and finally settled on the one celled Pope Islancl as the one meant by the drawer of the (Mart. Neither of us had ever landed there, but understood that the island was not inhabited. We satisfied ourselves in a tow minutes that we had found the island, but as to the writing we could come to no conclusion. The instructions were to enter the north bay and bring up at a certain spot. What for? The existence of a spring was men- tioned, but why should we go ashore? Un- less there was something of value on 01' about tho island, why had it been chartered and the oliart carried around by a sailor? Why hadn't the writer filled out the memor- anda and given some point to start; from, or Wea his relereneo to the spring a hint in this direction? The Ottpbein end I talked the matter ovor and over, but oould make i1 no plainer. It was natural under the eirouinstances that our mincis should run to buried treasure. 111(100(1, 108 couldn't get rid of the teethig 11101 1110 sailor who had died in the hospital liad planted something of value on Pope Island, and that being the case we decided to have a try for it. What hastened our de- cision NVIBB a conversation overheard between two sailors who had been at the hospital in. (miring about Andrews and his effects. They know he had a chart of an island, and hod been trying to get his secret before he entered the hospital. Plnding him dead, they wore trying to discover the buyer of his old olothes. They believed in the existence of a ttiononre, ancl (c third party was ready to back thetn in a Bearch as soon as the !chart was found. We cleared from Sydney for the Spica Islatuls, carrying three Malay seamen anti a cook, and so far as we know no one had any sus. pioion of us, It was it matter of Mann 011 intltAn with the Captain anci myself. While we owned the schooner in partneeship, sve had bub littlo melt on howl, and here WaS 0 voy. age of 000 miles out and back. It took and they should Ito careful to two only the every shilling we had and rmt ns into debt host verieties of seed and should look after considerably to 1111 001, and we wore in bal. last at that"We 110d scarcely loft port when both of us W000 0004(10 10 1110001 up tho W11010 0111410, 1111C1 but tor the coining of a gide which h11001011 ea 1 0 1110 1101')!) we might the land well. Editorial 'teal,' "Friend "So they sent your poem hack?" Rhymer 4 " Vert, brit the editor gave 1110 yory favourable ori deism," " What did he say ?" " 00)1) 110 WaS glad to see that I had at last learned to write only on ono side Of the paper." have put abou13 and returned to our logiti- mate trading. I think it was on the tweed v.thbal (fey out of Sydney that 5130 011 1011111 the bey on the north side of Pope island, 11 ill abont three miles long, and at tho sp it whore Nve dropped anehor, tweet:ding to (11( 0(11)1(8, 113 3000 not over 600 feet acrok.s. Wo got in .941MaIMIEMAN 3 LAT -1 CABLE -NEWS about mffiferenoon, 4101 the Captain and I at °nee went 'whore, The Malays were told 1I,aL )1 Were looking for whist they (1(31113, ",11V,1111 stone." They hare legends Of milt a stone and befieve that whoever sleeps with it under his pillow will cheam nr u, way to become very wealthy. Go revelling the eliore we (.00111 1118 sprizig but, (10 We btood beside it we looked 10 1.0011 ((11(01' and attired what should 110 the next move, Tho island wog thickly wooded, and we soon realised that we had Isttter ltuuted for 1101"!!,, in It haystaek 131, home, The chart mentioned three tall truce in tt group and the spring. We found the trees bungling hack 0 quarter of a mile from thct beach, with 110000 3(1111.111 of any sort nit the trunks to furnish us a hint. The spring 30110 1(1(01113 200 feet gl:ove high tele, but 1111)11130 011)111(1 it furnished the clue We W000 after, For a week after out: 401104 we had oval man &shine on the hunt. We paeed oil so many paees from the spring in every dire°. tion and then dug Into the roots 01 1.110 riutits TALL Taall0, and then at ton, twenty, and thirty races. When the tido was out we dug up the beach in 0 dozen places. The Wand Was fihalty explored in every direction, but we had our toilsome work as a reward, On tho after. noon 01 (1110 eight day we gave it up. We aid not doubt the existence of a treasure there, but we were satiefied that we couldn't lay hands on it. We pulled off to the schooner about three o'elocic in the after- noon, and had there been any breeze we should have weighed. 0001100 mid put to sea at once, it, had fallen :lead calm, and tho (lay was hot. On getting aboard the Captain and I sat down co luncheon while the .Malays went overboard for a bath and a frolic; in the water. We heard them shouting and splash- ing, but we were very glum. We'd made a failure of 111311(1 were financially busted. Uncler suoh circumstances some one 10001 he held blamable. The Captain suddenly began to 111101118 1110 for the biggest tool that ever lived, and in the course of (300(11)10 of minutes our conversation was a groat deal hotter than the weather. We'd been "pards" e, long time without a word, but W000 now on tho point of walking into each other tooth and toe nail when a wild yell from the Malays called a halt. "Nipped by 00110011, just as I expected!" growled 00 Captain as he made a dash for tho deck. I followed, of course, and as I reached the quarter oeek and looked over, the four Malays were in the yawl and one of them was holding up something for the Captain's inspection. We both knew what it Wall before it was passed up to us. It W55 a monstrous panel oyster. "Where dici you find it?" asked the 00)1. 1010, "On the bottom," Ma the answer. "There is one great bed of hint down there!" Five minutes later we had half a dozen more, and inside of au hour we had sur- veyed the bed and fouud our treasure - the treasure of Andrews's rude chart. In bringing up in five fathoms and on lino with the trees we had anchored on the centre of the bed. Why he had mentioned the spring we could not make out, unless it might be to save time hunting for it if in want of water. You may have seen some- thing in print in reference to "The Groat Pope Island Find," ash was called. It -was not the largest pearl oyster bed ever found among the Western islands, but it WAS by long odds the richest. No hand had evor disturbed it, and the heaviest and largest shells over seen by fishermen or traders came out of the bed. At that depth of Wa- ter it was no trials at all to bring IT the shells, and the first dozen we opened more thou paid all our expenses. ?from an oyster in this bed, which weigh- ed eight -pounds, was taken what WaS af ter • ward call the 13'001) Pearl. It was ono of the largest and finest ever placed on tho market. We sold it in Sydney to a Govern- ment, official ; he resold it to am English lord, his lordship seas robbed of it in Paris, and the thief probably lost, it, as it was never heard of again. We remained in the bey live weeks before exhausting the bed, and when ready to weigh smeller WO had the schooner fairly loaded with the mother-of-pearl shells, doubt if ever so small a craft, outside of a, Spanish galleon of the olden days, ever en. toted the harbor of Sydney with a more valvable cargo. No Graft entered the bay while WO wore there, but, as was afterward discovered, we had only left it one day when three sohooners, the orews of which hitcl somehow got a hint of the treasure, made their appearance, to find Mutt noth- ing remained for them, STRANGE OOMPANIONSHIP, A cow, a Horse and a rig Form a Part nevi 111 e. A notable instance of this oddity came under the writer's notices once upon a time on a ranch that was largely devoted to stook.raising. Cattle, horses ancl hogs were kept in largo numbers and allowed to 1100 01 will upon the range. Ono clay in riding over the mesa an oddly assorted trio WaS found in a locality at a considerable distance from any other animals. This trio was made up of a oow, 13 horse and a pig, and all three were feeding side by side in dm most anuo- Erportion of dormant weed seeds in the sod. The Mining Honor -Saar and Kaiser to Meet-Oholera, in Persia. It will he fully two weeks Iniffire all the bodies are recovered from the Ilirkeitherg silver mine, and it will be filly fifteen months before the shafts can be menstruat- ed and the 'nine made mile replaeing the timbers that have been destroyed by the lire. The fragments of bodies that have been brought. to the surface filled throe wagons. The bodies that were intaet so far as the limbs are concerued were greatly twollen. Only thirteen of the rescued sur- vived, while twenty-seven of the men who volunteered for rescue work wore killed by falling timbers or other aucidents, or suffocated to death. The damage to the mine 13100(11110 to 1,- 8(1(1,000 florins. The czar must be highly pleased with the manner in which tho plans for the meeting between himself and the emperor were con- oealed till they were on the eve of being realized, The official organs here insist that the proposal for the meeting emanated from the czar, who wrote saggeiding that, the interview be held at Kiel, giving the short time at his disposal before he return. to St. Petsrsburg as the reason for his not coming to Potsdam. A stronger manna however, is his well-grounded dislike to them railway joureey necessary to reach Potsda and the possible risk of nihilist outrage, The emperor will meet the czar off the port of Kiel on the imperial yacht. Advioes from Persia state the 01101810 continues to rage in theprovince of Khoras. earl, and is increasing In virulence. By order of the shah the Persian authorities took energetic steps to prevent the spread of the disease westward in the direction of Teheran, and these efforts have been success - fol. Toward Afghanistan, however, there are signs that the disease is extending, and many cases were reported in the nefithbor- hood of the frontier. The people who are attacked reoeive 00 medical assistance and aro driven back if they attempt to leave their infeoted homes. Soldiers are stationed around the plagne.stricken villages with orders to shoot anyone who attempts tepees the line and the plague is extinguished by compelling the whole population of a vil- lage to keep together. Inhabitants who are not, stricken are compelled by force to bury the dead. In Meshid, the capital of Kho- rassan, the European residents have given. intelligent direotion to the plans of the local authorities so far as the prejudices of the latter would permit and the cholera is being gradually stamped out. Making Soil Rah. Farmers are more and more engaging in market gardening, which leads the Ameri- ran Oultavraor to say to them that large profits are often made by the gardener. They have to be large per acre, because if not, they would not afford a living for him- self and family and some surplus to lay by for future use. Often the owners of near- by land think that what oue tnan has done others can do, and so they begin to imitate as tar as possible. They usually forget one important feet. The successful gardener has been years bringing up his soil to the point where all thelabor he puts on it will pay. The beginner may think that by carting on extro loads of manure, covering the ground as deeply as it 01173 be plowed under, he cen make the soil rich enough in O single season to secure paying results. What is the consequence ? Unless the sea- son bo extremely wet, the manure fails to rat, and drying the land still more does little if any good. For many kinds of crops the experienced gardener would not think of applying coarse, unfermented manure from thestable. He uses such manure for the coarser crops, early potatoes, sweet 00(11 and cabbages. The frequent and thorongh cultivation such crops require works the manure through the soil, and greatly helps in decomposing th it, This fills e soil with vegetable mat- ter rich in nitrogen. The seeond year stable manure is not applied, but a dress- ing of mineral manures, phosphate and nitrates of soda. or potash. These are more immediately available than stable manure, and with the remains of stable manure loft over make a better crop the second year than the first. 11 18 a great help in beginning gardening on ordinary farm land 11 11 oan be begun the first year on a clover sod plowed in the fall, and as much fine manure AB can be had. 1190(1 00 top -dressing through the winter. Where all these advantages can he had, it is possible with a light dressing of nitrate of soda to bring ordinary farm laud into. fair condition for gardening the first year. The chief difficulty will be,not in lack of fertility but in excess of weeds stimulated to more vigorous growth by such excess of plant food. It is for this reason that the coarser crops that can be cultivated mainly with horse power are neoessary, however thor- oughly the land is fertilized. One year's thorough cultivation of suoh crops under high manuring will start and kill a large able manner, At first it WM thought to be any years of perfectly clean cultivation, nothing more than a offinoiclence that the three metnbors of different families should happen to bo together, but subsequently it turned out that this time harl evidently set up an alliance offensive and defensive against all the other animals on the range. They were always together. It was a end - eel sight to me the oddly assorted trio bra - yelling over the range. The horse usually took the lead, with the oow next and the pig last of all. Occasionally the horse look- ed amend to see 11 1111 porkship woro keep- ing up, and if he fell behind a holt would be made to allow him to come closer. When footling the pig was just as apt to put his pont clown by tho horso's or cow's mouth and ondeavor to snatch the grass from be- tween their teeth as to graze on his own hook. One could almost see in 1110 001111- tenances of the large animals a sort of half. humorous, patronizing air as they regarded their diminutive eompanion, while tho pig on tho other hand walked with a bullying swagger and Br BOlf-001Ifidellt oir, for all the world like the youngster who trots along by the side of his " big brother," in the full alt- intrance that all his battles will bo fought for hint. Sile Let Him Off"That Time. " Now, this is a nice th to to oomo home," sho said, gathering hor brows liko unto a coining 'storm, " I'm sorry," ho said, humbly and 11)0- 000g!liIlgly. " 'haven't mid anything before," sho eon. tinned, " but Pm going to put my foot down. " have to put 1(3 (10(30(1 pretty hard, then," he said, " for it is a mighty small foot 811c put ff scolding him till a future time. never allowing a weod bo mature its 550 318, will not destroy all. Most weed seeds noed to be very close to the surfaee to germinate. Many years of successive plowings will every time bring some now seeds to the proper conditions for germinating. Weeds Indioating Tito foot that same kinds ot weeds only grow on rich soil, and their presence indi- cates fertility, is well understood by farm. ere The common brill thistle cannot be grown successfully on thin, cold soil. Pos- sibly its seed might germinate on such loud, but it could not amount to much. Plantain saul ittnip aro weeds that have similar prof. 0300100, the latter espectially thriving in the meighborhood of old buildings, and always 5011011 171.0W0d 111000 making a fertile spot. The (gunmen mallows, growing iu gardens and often a great nuisanoo there, will not grow in fields of only ordinary fertility, Oa the other hand, mullein and ragweed grow bettor on poor soil than on any other, pro. bably because other plants run them out if the land is rich. An English story is told of a blind man who Wall TOrY wealthy, and who hos made much of his money buying and selling land. Driving one day with his servant to n, piece that had been eommena.11 highly lie naked, " Can you find a thistle hero to 11 i toll the horse to While I walk about the land 1" "No," WM 010 response, " but here is a. mullein that will do so well." " Drive on," mild the blind man a soil that groWs inulcina rather than thistles never does for my buying." Why 114 "111(11,11)14 1110 (lay" kir the Ivoa. (ling like a naval battle? 110001100 it, is ts. marry -time engagement.