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The Brussels Post, 1892-6-17, Page 66 .A.GRIOULTURAL„ 1 ed through en odueatioted branch inakiug Breeds of Swin� 0. s coielty of this subjeet, preet to tho cereful theorem. that ewe training ls of the higheet whoa obtain. 1, No people enter into SWil1S brecilnig to lie dewy industry is of Bevil magnitude TI -134 BRUSSELS POST, eteeletesetoere'eme.f. ,e'stee BEALPL Snnstroke—How to Treat it. lt the is he general iniprOS401/ 0101 aunstrolte extent that Amerimile do, and the lin- that it 41113)1101. 1)1)hidden under biteltel, Pprevails most as the very hottest ecason, end it demands its full equipinent of schools roreitients in the lireede have liven meritedl'Itysiiiinne sty it deeends rather upon the hreughout 11A10 e‘1411," of OW inat1,4 ry'S inneh as other trades and professions. w./10 a,013111 think non 01 „Wing a 1110, 01 1,110S being t fltetIUSomeil to the heal, history. All of the Newton.; finite:1'101 breech.; A 1'1Y hot spell in lune may be worse in its Q1 the world have Wen tested and espori. competent phyeician grailtietu item . menteil with in this country, and the lieet thing but an Uuthorizeil medical eollege, remits than the helmet, days 01 August, any. ; eer the brain beating known at etnuctrolte resulte ale oineil from Or''SSIOg 1111rChilot ViVii eneineer pureeing his etniliee to 0110)1) exposed to the 111130113 %aye straine, Porkmaieing for profit has been where liut ochool of civil engineering? 31, the cry of the Ameriettn farmer, conltho t So it should he teeth a diary intthefacturor ti"." ''' It 18 1 ID 1111.13)" I1I111 whe" We 11 EON eneeeeilod in tide tuav be demonhe ehould be thoronglay n. Vvn.Wit with j 1111111 311 overoomo by heat in n elose mom 00 ;Armtek' by the vast beetle of ;wine which that part of elnimistry teuching 1111,1 it 0 wnr!isilor. Yrein an artiolo by 0 pity:4°km , ff high standing we gather mune itoportent roam the fields and Fiume, of cur levee Products, 1 14111_ proper I1101.11 1.0 acquire cocei 1.11111 11111U 00 to treatment. farm.. A Ithonoli there are Lei lie breede to. ;melt knowledge under eompetent instrue. the t lireede that furtileh tt large pereeni. , o not cation In the tit ,y age of the pork nee the Anwriean breed of dal.rY produots has been end IS b0j1IgIltt11.111. Poland -China and the Engliell Ilerkshire„ ed IZI. tunny mdividuel cases, and what there - These two breeds have onetime the field and fore IS needed now is the blending of these distanced all eompetitors. They are both adopted to the country and. to our methods of feeding, The Chester Whites hems a0. tention, but at the groat pork -packing es. tablishments they do not come in for as much itnportanee as either ono of the other breeds. If one travels through the country 13e will find grate a number of breeds kept by individeal farmers, such OS the Essex, Small 'Yorkshires Cliesires and Dorm. Jersey, but very few of those enter into any strong VOIllnetition with the others. Anothee noticeable elutuge in imp-oved swincebreedlng iu this country is the al - 10001 Make abeenee WilitC hogs, although at one time the white ones were raised al- most exclusively. The black swine, with white markines, seem to be the favorite ones, B11100 the old euperetition died that In making their purchases the hrst day, the pork of black swine was unfit to eat. they became so engrossed 11) 0110 selection of The eroseee between the _Berkshire and their stocks tlott they entirely disregarded Poland.Chinit breeds have been cultivated the hour at whieh the noon -day hash was quite extensively, and the results have been Iu Intel cases it is fennel 1 131 the brain day teat command more or less attention, tioll• . . • and lungs aro gorged with blood, and the blood itself iS ti iUk011ed as if its watery constituents had been clisalpated by execs. sive heat. There have been several 014108 131 the Penney/tootle IlospitaLsays this writer, whieh the operation of vonesectoon was resorted to with the objeot of relieving the Internal congestion, and 111 whiell the blood was so thick that it would not run out and had to be squeezed out by pressure and frictioe. For thoee who are obliged to be 111 tile sun it is advisable to wear light clothing, a straw or felt hat, perforated to allow a free circulation of air ; drink freely of oold water end other refreshing ligtads, &lid aim to drink a small quantity very often rather then a large quantity at once. The large amount of icy fluid entering the etomitell at 0118 time chills its surface, and foecem three or forir ounces of blood to the brain in ex- cess of its natural requirements, resulting in cerebral congestion and death. Those exposed to the sun ought to bathe the face and head several time during the day. Especially little children ought to be 000led off in this manner. A man who suddenly finds he has stopped perspiring during a hot day is in great danger, especi- ally if his skin feels exceedingly hot. Ho ought to stop work, get into the shade, and bathe his head with very cold water, and drink 8)11380 10 cup of 1100 100 or milk, the object heing to draw the blood from the brain by a cold effusion to the head and a gentle stimulating drink to the stomach. In more violent oases, where the man suddenly drops, becomes unconscious, treat- ment oughe to begin at once. 'The notn should be placed in tho shade, ice water should be poured on his head or kept against hie head by means of cloths, and ordinary cold hydrant or well water poured over his body until a physicien arrives, who should be sent for at once. Sunstroke ought never to be regarded as of slight importance or be neglected family reason. The mortality is useally high in sunstroke cases, The hospital recipe& give the deaths, in some years as one-third of 1.11080 admitted, in spite years, treatment, individual casee together in 0110 tonform whole. The result would, of course, be uni- formity of the highest standard, anil just 8110)1 a lofty goal should be the emulative mark of everyone conoerned in dairy work. It is futile and untvise to carry on the labor of improvement in just the leanufacturine department alone. Produfieg dairymen must co-operate or the best eflorie of 113.41101' 18001110138 are aborted. 011 001111-0, that noble instittaion, the Farmer's Institute, must keep pounding vigorously away to aecom. plish this, and gradually existiug evils and defects will be cernered.—Kleo. E. Newell, in Prairie Farmer. Already Punished, Samuel Goldgmbher and Isaac Thaler dracker 001110 to London to buy mods, 80.801103037 in eVery My, 80111C prefer he park of the cross to that of either of the original breeds, and chain that it is superior in merit, The heavy 031:3110(1 108800 of swill° thoongh disease finally creat- ed a great amigo in pork -raising, The exclusive diet of Indian oorn for fattening pink brought its evil results atul teught the swino•breeders tha0 to violate the laws of nature was an unsafe rule. Feeding the hogs 011 sweet, juicy grasses preveuted the disease aud aleo accomplish - served at the cheap boarding•honse itt winch they were staying. But the violent de. nutuds of the inner man must be appeased. $o they turned to the merchant from whom they had purchased their stook, and asked to be directed to a nearby restaurant. As our friends Sninuel and Isaae had both displayed comfortable rolls of hank -notes, the merchant did not hesitate to direct them to the Blank Hotel, which was in the im- mediate neighbourhood. Tho descendants of Abraham, with all the pemp nnagmable, took their seats 111 the ed another reeult. It converted many anti - ugh -toned restaurant, and called fora regu- pork eaters into lovers of the swine meat ' They realized thee grass fed sagas make lar chimer, but as the quality was excellent, the glee of their bill was aegmented by an meat so sweet and .10103' that all desired it. occasional extra, order, 11 hen ready to go, they were told that their bill amounted to eighteen shillings each. "Eigeiteen shillings !" they shrieked in theme, and as Samuel groaned and held his head in both his hands, Mr. Thalerdracker explained, excitedly : "Thy, vete 130 11031101 from ve zed a mot skoware meal for six- pence " "Man, you are crazy 1 This is the Blank Pork made front grass toglay finds ready sale among thoee tvho axe particular in their meat, and. grass must be the future food for the swine. How to Ourr,7 a Horse. There are several reasons why a horse should be regularly and thoroughly curried. No self•respecting 3111.31 neglects the bath. If be does—if circumstances compel lam to forego such luxury—he becomes a different Hotel !" " The Blank Hotel !" shrieked Sammy. Fader Abeallani, ve vas m for 11 ! W'ioh the utmost reluctance the two men raid their bills and silently left the restaur- ant They walked slowly up the street for a few yards whet Sammy broke the silence: "Soy, Isaac, dot is a mean man." There was no reeponse, and the twain walked on in silence until the feelings of Mr. Samuel 0 oldgrabber again overpowered him : "Isaac, dot, man never hrosper." EV131I thio did not break the ruminative silence of ML ham Thalerdracker, who was evidently calculat/ng how many dozen coats he would have to sell at an increased profit before he would get even with the cost of his feed. But Samuel's agitated feelings were not thus easily suppressed, anti turn- ing to Al r. Tiede sit molter he exclaimed with increased vehemence : cell you, Imam der Lord vill,punish dot men 1" " &nutty, said .',Jr. Thalerdracker, im- pressively breaking his longmontinued si- lence, "The Lord has already punished him. I hof got six of his silber 'moons 1" 11101) 111 every respect, mentally as well as pllysicelly, and if such neglect be long con- tinued, as in the ease of men deprived of liberty, the lack of cleanliness helps tobreak the spiritand to rob of vitality, energy, and self- respect. The effect is similar upon a horse. The chief object of the curry is purely sanitary, to keep him clean. If this he done thorough- ly other objects are attained, Health is aid- ed, the spirit anti the fire of the horse are maintained, and the appearance of the horse is as good as it C01/ be. .All these come from systematic curryine, provided the horse is properly fed and housed, There is another object in currying, quite as important to the enthueinstio horseman. Of course, the man who can afford it wifl employ a stable boy to do the currying, but if the man wishee to get the most out 01 1118 horse, if he WiSkeS 10 the horee'a eon- fidence, affection, and willing obeli...nee, he will curry tho horse himself, if not regular- ly, theo often enough to keep rip the no- maintance and friendship that may exist betweeu a. man and his horse ; so often that the horse will learn the difference between hie master's hand and that of the stable boy, who mo s be rough and "unconsoious;" so often that. the horse will look for his master's coming, and by unmistakable signs show his pleasure and affection. All domestic animals, from the canary bird to the ox, delight in having the bead Tubbed. The horse is no exception. He will rest his head on the edge of the manger, and half close the eye in dreatny forgetful- ness when the brush in gentle hands is ap- plied. Many horses are injured by the rough curry by the man who hurriedly drives the metal comb harshly over the bony parte, against the ears, and over air eyes. A horse subjected to such treatment—and there ere tens of thousands of them—dreads the hend of man—any man—and dodges and learns to hold the head high when the bridle is to be put on. Let the man who wishes to be on friendly terms with his horse go, over the head with a stiff yeb pliable brush, rubbing back and forth on every part, parting the roseat on the forehead, brushing vigorimely between the jaw bones, a, place the horse cannot reach, and doing all so quietly and gently that tho horse stands motionless, apparent. ly oblivious to all surroundinge. And over the batty of the home use the metal currycomb cartfully, 1100 a11, aud use it, or better, the stiff 113300711 brush, not offly to straigten the hair end remove staine, but also get below the surface, to remit the skim that every pat tiela of dust and dandruff be beushed out. Then what have we ? A horse with a glossy coat that glistens like satin in the sunlight --horse that feels as a man feels who has been to the barber's and bathed, been shaved and shampooed. The glossy ooat depends upon the food, but if it be right and the currying be thorough the horse may be not only the pride bet also the affectionate, appreciative oornpan. ion of the owner. --(George Appleton. Dairy Edueation. Did you ever istop and think what an influence on future agricultere 10 this eoun- try the established system of Agricultural schools isgoing to wield ? People at least, bay 10000.110318(1 10 the long apparent fact that in contitnents handing down of the formula of forming from father to son tho general system might become degenerate, As rogarde the dairy pert 011 11 tho benefit, hemming is already taking effect. This is 011 ago of intellectual work, an31 to make any ocoupation altering to the yomm men now oorning in to tho field it inust have some mental stimulus 0.1>001 )0, The States as commonwealths 1111101, 00 they are already ,beginning to de, load the van of progress in long negleated agrinul. tore, and its valuable adjunct, diarying The dairy operator who learns the testing ' of milk in a, eheinical laboratory under . proper instruction, stands a better chance , for future success than tiro man whose knowledge is euperficial. There is nothing ahead of systenna, training for dairy work, and it must bo ap. The Rabbit Pest In Australia, The following figures will give an idea of the enormoes number killed since the be. gentimg of the present year on some of the etations in the Western division of New South Wales. The majority were 11801117. 0(1 by water poisoned by arsenic. It is 00- 11131101511 that the number given A independ- ent of rabbits killed by the drought, which, it is estimated, considerably exceed the number poisoned. The numbers are:—Bil- 1111a, 150,000; Aloorara, 300,000; Cuthera, 150,000; Notley, 300,000; Outer Nettalie, 80,000; Menthe, including Mount Murohi- eon end Purnania, 1,001,000; Kilfera, 1,- 150,000; Mattel( , 147,000; Mount Almeria 150,000; Baden Park, 30,000; Fulham, 70,- 000; New, 62,000; Tileha, 250,000; 48-11111e tank, Boehm' Road, 17,4003 35 -mile tank, Booligal Road, 40,000; 26.mile tank, 73,• 500. A Description of "G iotoria's Throne. The English throne, used in the corona. Hon cieremonies of the kings and queens of Gnat Britain, is simply au old oakeli chair of curious pattern and great antiquity. Ages uf use (it is known to have been used in ite present capaoity for more than 700 years has 'nada the old 100)310 00 bard 0:10 108 tough as iron. The magic powers attributed to the old relic lies in the seat, whith is a large, rough sandstone. Ages before it was trim- med in velvets and gold for the nee of the Stuarts and the Tudors, it served as a seat for the early kings of Scotland ; tradition even asserts that it is the identical stone upon which the patriarth, Jecobe rested his heed the night he had his wonderful dream. In Germany there two 620,087 persons monad Muller—one.seventy-third of the population, The custom of placing crape on the door of a house wboro there has been Patient death had its origin In the aeciont English heraldic customs and dates as far beck at least as the year 1100 A. D. At that period hatehmente or armorial eneigue wore placed in front of honses when the nobility and gentry died. Thtso hatchments were of diamond strive and contained the family arms quartered aucl colored with sable in such a manner that the spectator at a glance oould tell what branch of the family was dead, whether the the deceased was young or oldonarricel or single,widow or widower. T1111 1,,,,ion, Ont., Gazette of last week 001131)1,, l.1, 0 3131 810 : WO ilOVO it epee authority wo fee: 000 0011 safely depend upon that no less than 22 miles of note are being used in tho vicinity of tho uppor gap, foul so on out into the lake, which are being operated, it is alleged, from the ttig Thistle. 10 10 said corks 6 1.2 inches in length and 7 Maims around—from ono.quarter to half an Moir larger than those nsually used—havo boon eubstituted for .1,111,110r Ones, so as to keep the net, ooeitIon throughout tho season, Thene ,,e thrown 11.110130 11811 runways, and, , 1 -.1..3, • Mies, are taken in et (3111) 8)110 of 1.1•• a, • oo fish being remov- ed, mid the nets /awed through the vestal and thrown into the water on tho opposite Aloohol and Insanity. Some Interenting facts have recently been develeped in relatiou to the causation of in- sanity, through Ole offorts of a committee of physieians in San Fraucisco. The ex- tent to which ono cause, at least, acts, it would appear, has heretofore scarcely been duly appreciated. We have reference to alcohol, which may bo held as directly or indirectlo responsible for at least, one. fourth of all the eases of insanity in this country. Cemmenting on this subject the Journal of the American Medical Association says : There is no condition of the human inind that more strongly „predisposes to insanity than protracted anxiety, which consists in it 3)10130 )0 less intense desire for the aecomp- /Aliment of a certain object, coupled with a constant fear of failure. The ranks of the great laboring classes, especially in this country, are full of indivi.I nate 011d 114111111es inspired with the anxious desire to improve thew pecuniary, social, and educational condition but whoee beset passions and oleic:cite iedulgences either absorb so much of their earnings, or tempt them into such unlawful acts, as not only disappoint aud disgrace the man, but seed the arrows of long dreaded disappointment and despair deep into tho minds of wife and children. One of the most prolific causes of intense and continued anxiety, ending often in both physical and mental mail, is the use of alco• holic or fermented aud 11111)1110(1 (111111(8, that takes directly from the earnings of labor in this country more than $500,000,000 annual- ly, and brings the most intense and protract. ed anguish to the minds 31 131311)33 thousands of innocent parties. Booking Their Health Away. A ohance reference in reading cheother day has convinced me that Plato did not reason well every time. What lie did not know about putting babbitt to sloop, for instance, would fill a book. In his WITli upon " Laws" he lays clown the rule for the management ot infants that " they should be kept in per. p031110111001i011 and live as if they were al- ways tossing at sea," And why 7 13ecatuie (he opined) fear is the emotion to be sub. clued—. a, fear °aped by something that has gone wrong within ;" and the remedy for " an internel agitation is to counteract it by an external one." Which prectically interpreted means If poor baby is afraid that he will not ha allowed to look at the pretty medic light, or is worried by a, pain or pin—trot him Momently and vigorously up and clown, churuing his little digestive apparatus into disorder • rook lam until the head, bobbing helplessly, becomes dizzy and dazed in a mild form of congestion and in sheer despair unable to express his feelings, the " agitated" baby takes refuge in an unhealthy sleep. I do believe that large proportion 01 1)10 diseases of the brain in young children is caused by the nervolis, foolish, cruel practice of keeping in perpetu- al motion the delicate and susceptible little bodies and heads. That I may further amp - port myself in the position 1 have token against the greet Plato I will instance the case of a woman who had been brought into tho state of insoninia by mean ol a con- tinual mpinal headaohe whieh confused hor mental porvers. A new phyieitut having been called he observed hot. during the first week of hie attendairee. Ono day ho said nbruptly : " Madam, you need no medi- cines. f3hriply abandon your rocking chair 1" She had the habit 0011101011 to women—that of always sitting in tt rocking choir, rocking incessantly, though goaly, whenever oho sat down, Banishing the rocking olurir, Si10 recovered from both sleeplessness 0:111 110011. echo. .A, human body, 11311011 cremated, leavea residttum of about eitdrt ouneeti, A, clergyman, in Gardiner, permits his oongrogation to seloct the texts for his sermons, Tiro buttrossee of " Trojan's Bridge,' which aro still to be soon on tho Danube, aro the remains of what WAN in tome rill apatite, the most remarkable struoturo over orooted man. It was 310)1 10 moro floating bridge of largo boats and massive timbers, but was a permanent fitructure carried on piers 1130 foot high and GO foot wide, eon,. twenty ;Intros, extending altogether 4,170 Ilmnan foot, ANNIE LAURIE. Tao Truth About the Heroine or the Old and Popolor Ballad, Max wol 1 t own's 113800 ,810 bonnie, where early ites he dow, And '3 was 1111313 that Annie Laurie Med me ill, PV0111 40110; (i1Oli 1110 hp' promise true is, er rorgat wad he, .A11,1 foc heinito Anne. Laurie I'd MY (10 11111111 awl deo: ?longing. Imagine Annie Laurie'of the immortal song, old and wrinkled, taking fine front a tievree "011001.111' mull" with a miniature of Prince Charlie pointed on Its 1" 3)313111111 lid 1 Or flutes, Dim:clan of leingland, grizzled and go)) 1)', lariehing ovor the youthful folly that impelled a hardelrinkIng Javolike laird to weite love lyrias on the girl of his fitney, Yet, preemie es these pictures may ap0 pear, history proves them true. The Annie Laurie 0/rom01l11e 01305 38 conmemplitee gen- tlewoman in real life ; and BO for from keeping her "promise tette," she faithless- ly jilted the rhyming wooer to wed 14 wiser 1411 11 wealthier mon. Beyond the confines of [11313 own 3)0101 0013- 11013 of Scotland, tho true story of Annie Laurie has seldom troweled. That " StareSpangled Scotehman," even, Sir. Andrew Carnegie, in hie " Four -in - fiend itt Britain," expresses considerable surprise at discovering a di:800111111111 al Annie's in Dumfriesshire, " While we were at the mansion of Friars' Corse," he says,. " grent.great.graeddaughter of .Anine Lactrie actually came in. I know 010,0 young lady whose ancestress ie so widely and favorably known. We wore all startled to be brought so near the Aenie Laurie of our dreams. It only shows that the course of true love never runs smooth, we said, when 3130 heard that she did not marry the pootle lover. Well, maybe She 0000 happier with a dull country 11)11118 Poets are uot proverbially model husbands; the better poet, the worse husboold, and the writer of Annie Laurie' had the e3oc3ic temperament pretty well developed." In order to settle definitely the question of the Nithadale heroine's identity, the tvriter requested two a her immediate dos. cendants—Capie Robert Cutler Forgusson and Miss StuartMenteith to relate the particulars of her life, In response' Capt. Cutler Fergusson the present lairdof Craigclarrooli, Dein/ries- shire, Scotland, and a grandson 01 0)10 Ver. gusson mode famous by Robert Burns' perm " 'The Whistle," writes as follows : CHAIIIDARROOR, IVIOXIAVE, DUATIMIESSIIIIIH, N. 73. April 28, 1892. Dzoit Snt—My ancestress, Annie Laurie, was unquestionably the heroine of the fem. ous ballad. She {vets born on December 1(3, I 682, nt 6 a. In., in the manor house of Mex- welltown, and baptized a few days later in Glencairn Kirk. Her father was Sir Robert Laurie, Bart.. of Maxwelltown and her mother Annie Delzell, e.randilangliter of the first Earl of Carnwatle She married in April, 1700, Alexander Fergusson, laird of Crelgdarroth'and N11118 the mother of one sou, Alexander. She lived to be nearly 80 years of age, dying not long beim% tho marriage of her granddaughter to Thomas Loughran, Esq. With roomed to the song of " Annie Laurie, " 1 WAS originally written to an old air by William Douglas, of Fingland. Both words and tune were altered by Lady John Scott, sister of the late Duke of Buccieugh, and were published by her, 10 their present coin/Rime for the benefit 01 )1110 widows and orphans left by the Crimean war. Douglas, of Fingland, wean cadet of the Queensberry family, and a Jacobite refugee, I am afraid that he was jilted by my lair progenitor, but he eubseg000tly consoled himself by marrying a Miss Clark, obtaining hie pardon from Kin Oeorge, mid settling down to a collet country life. Ho wrote 1l10037 3310000, but none equal to ".Annie Laurie." inclose you a photograph of Annie Lau- rie's picture at Maxwelltown, and another of the heroine's descendent, Miss Annie Stuart•Menteith, who ia stad to strikiugly resemble the older Annie. The painting of Mrs. Pergusson (Annie Laurie) at 'Maxwell. town WS evidently executed 'When the oeiginal had passed the ineridian of life, and ispossibly even a posthumous portait, as the head-dress, which belongs to a later period, would indicate. I also send a view of Craigclarroith House wherein Annie passed half a century of her existenoe. The winding path on the right of the pietnre still bears her name. Old Maxwelltosth manor house has been destroy. ecl, and the Laurie family is now represent- ed in the female line by the Rev. Sir Entities Bayley -Laurie. 'possess several letters of Annie Lnurie. She wrote uninterestingly and invariably signed her name " Anna.'' I beg to remain, Yours, etc., R. °UTTAR FERUUSS DN, Captain. Miss Stuart-Menteith, wrote as follows : " 'I'llat Annio Laurie, of Maxwolltown was the heroine of he song bearing her name, can bo proven beyond doubt by any. ono who tnkes the trouble to look through 1.110 old papere now at Cralmlarroeh end Maxwelitown. The song WAS written by Doughio of Ifingland, first ftp. peered in an Edin, burgh newspaper, and created quite e sensation. Douglas was an adherent of the exiled Stuarts, while Sir Robert Laurie, father of Annie, was a can. ny gentleman who believed in standing by tho stronger side. Douglas first Met Aimie at a ball in Edinburgh and was greatly struok by her beauty. A love affair sprang up, to cheek which Sir Robert Laerie cerriecl his daughter back to Nitheibtle. Thither however, Douglas followed, and for 1110110)10 the fevers met clandestinely in the woods and braes around Maawcfitown. Finally the rumor of an impending Stoat invasion lured Douglas baok to the capital, but traditioii [1)10 1)1 that on the night be. form his departure 110 wrote the ballad of Annie Laurie.' As well as 103111 reciolleet, the old version of the song differed little either in words or air from that 1101v in use. Douglas' trip to Edinburgh proved fatal to his love alfair. Hie Jacobite intriguee wore suspected, and ha was foroed to fly to the low eountrice, Whether he oorresponcloil with Annie Laurin from thii continent, or left lior without 1101130 01 his whereaboute, I knotv eot, At any rate, Annie was not M- 001106101)10 for his loss, She amused herself with several love effities, paid mar. riod Aloxandoe Forguseon, laird of Craig. darroch. Fergusson was not a poet, but his estates were hum and Ws family old as the Mlle. With hint Annie Laurie lived long and happily. Beagles obtained par- don from the government and returned to Scotland, but there is no tradition of his over again meeting Annie Laurie "She survived hor husband and became the lady bountiful of Nithadalc, 'Under her directions the present in:vision of Craigdar- ro011 was built, and a roll° ot lier tosto is still prosorvod in tho formal Georgian gar. dens in tho rear of the house, in het, old ago obe battalion notable match -maker, probe ably using her ONVII W11)01'101100 in 010 side°. ton of husbands for the young ladles of her 3101,11111111101100. She was very road of letter writing; but In all her ,orrespondonco wide') 1 have seen there is only one ruforeiwo to William Doug. las, I ter cousin, Alm. li1411101, of Okinriel- del, had mentioned lowing Ihnights at 44 1/141 111 Mrs, Forgeson wrote in ro. ply : "I trust that he bite forsaken his tea. sellable opinions end that he is ,snitent," Very unromantically she dlemi,,a hot. old lover N1'iti1 that eon ton 00, and prom:oils to dwell upon tho (entitle nupt ;ale of ono of her 1110004. She died in t hs year 1710 at the age of 79, and was Inirietl in the old oraveyaril at 0.1am/unwell. Potemits of her are 'veneered at Mitewi.11town and at elanefield, the sent of Sir C. Stuart Mee- teith, 111 appear:time elm was slender mid graceful, with large blue eyes eed brown hair, which she !weer powdered in spite of the fashion of the times, Her face 800300 310 have been rather long, ,.ml her features fol. lowed the (1130010,1 type, Tradition has it 1110811 1101' feet and bands 01)0115 1)03)' small, so that Douglas' heautiful shell° of ' dew on the gown lying' had some fouielation in facie" Some years ago the writer journeyed up the banks of With from the "guid toun 0' Dumfries," by "Mexwelltoun braes," to Craigclarroch. The evormlianging scenery had all the wild beefily of the 3)0001 and glen, 5014100 11.11(1 woodland teemed with pm olio recollections. Altogether I felt won. drously romantic, and email not help sing- ing softly to myself the tender utelody whioh ham given deathless fame to the name of Annie Laurie. bet when I entered Crnigilarroch House and found myself con- fionted with a thousand relics of the real Annie, this veil of 1.0111011e0 0000 rudely rent aside. It 'was hard to find that she who should have welted long years for her Jacobite troubadour, had actually thrown him over to wed a Dninfreissinve with a pancity of tcleas and a plenit mle of "sitter. " It was etill harder to find her transformed into Sirs. Fergusson, the goo. siping, match -making mistress of Craig. ilarroch. But romance 0000 completely rotted when a snuffbox was shown from which Annie's white fingers had taken many a titillating pinch. It 00100 explained that Mrs. Fergusson did not, become partial to snuff until late in life, but the bare idea of her practicing the habit all themed too terrible to contemplate. The writer sadly left tho andel 0010.11810,1 in which he had expected to find SD 'rimy tender memories of Annie Laurie's gracious life. He did not linger in "Annie's walk " by the winding Nith, or under the realist of Maxwelltown, where Douglas had wooed and lost. On the contrary, he hastened bo Dumfries convinced that Annie Laurie, like most cherished heroines of romance, is most charming when admired from a dis- tance). Bootee. C. WANDESPORD, The CJarpenter Spoke, Thackeray tells an musing story respect- ing Sir Richard Steele, the oelobrated .Eng lish humorist. Sir Richard, at a 111110 0011011 he WILS 11111011 00011P/611 with theatrical affairs, built him- self a pretty private theatre, and before i WaS opened to his friend% end guests, wes ;melons to try whether the heel wa8 well adapted for hearing. Accordiugly lie lilac- od himself in the most remote part of the gallery, and begged the carpenter who had built the house to speak up from the rtage. The Irian at first said that he was unac- customed to pub:ie speaking, ancl did not know what 1000y to his 110)10:113: but the goodmatured. knight called out to him to say whatever was uppermost ; and alter a moment the carpenter began, in a voice per. fectly audible ; "Sir Richard Steele 1" he sold, "for three months pest, 3110 and my trien has berm a -working in this theatre, and we've never seen the colour of your honour's money, We will be very mph obliged if you'll pay it directly, for until you do we won't drive in another nail," Sir Richard said that his friend's 01001311011 0088 porfeot, but that he didn't like his sub• ect inuch. Then Art Not Near. Thou art not near me but I see thine eeee Shine through ti1S gietun like stars In Winter 011150, Pointing the 0011.7 1317 longing etops would go, To oomo (0 01100 380000001 love thee so. Thou art not near me but I feel thine arm Soft folded round me, shielding mo from herrn, Guiding.: 1)10 011 as in the clays of old, When Itte was dark end all the ways wore cold. Thou art not near me, but hear thee speak, Sweet as the breath of Juno upon my feet, Anti as then :weakest I forget my fear% And all the darknes,... of the lonely years. 011, love'my love, whnto'er me fate may bo, Close tothy side or never more with thee, Absent Or 0080/111, 31001' 00 1,3,1' neart. Thou haet 101)0and 0111ust my whole heart. F. D. IN'awritattLY. Tho Text, Tho eoegregetion sat expectant, The minieter heel jest lmen married, and his bride had promised 10 003130 to the ohnrch to hear her husband pratfall. When they made their appenrance there was a, hush, followed by whispered cont. rnents. The gallant clergyman escorted his young wife towards a front pow, and then prondly ascended the mapiteateps. The singing proved unusually good, and the prayers wore repeated with much fee. velum ; but the minister himself altered the happy condition of affairs by taking for his discourse the folh»ving text ;—" Behold, I heve played the fool and have erred exceed. thg1Y 11.At'o' ry does not record if the nowly-mar. riod couple walked home together, The Weight of Drops. It has been repeatedly domoosteated thet the weight, and size of drops depends upon the exterior diameter of the dropping tube, tho interior diameter having no inlinenee except upou the velocity of the flow, using a dropper of ouccighth inch in diameter, and determining the weight by vary deli- cate balances, the following results h ave boon obtained, fifteen grains weight being tither' as the unit, dietiIlod water, 20 drop; aleohol, at 60' Ifele, fifty-two drops; Mee. hol 0100, 013007.0110 1150)03; ethereal tincture eighty•two drops; fatty oils, forty-eight drops 3 aqueous solutions, whether diluted or saturated, twenty drops ; wino, thirty - throe to thirty-five drops ; laudanum, about the same as wino. A hot spring in Boiso City, Idaho, sup. plies heat to many of the dwellings, "Lady (to Tommyorgoll six,who is home for his first holidays) -.." Stippose you 1101133, ery over mine lemons notter Tommy (bash. fully)—"Somotimee." Laely---" Why ; do you find that it helps you 0" Tominy— " No ; but it In inge feeneimily clee to help me" JUNI; 17, 1802 MR, AND MRS. BOWSER. " 11011, what is it 'me?" asked Nil,. Bow • 1301! 10e110 mine mono eveolog 1O81. win. tee and began milling and mulling and 151110iiing (wound the Slt tom room. Nmothiott," replied WS, ii0W1101., try- ing hard to smile and louk happy, '1 But I smell camphor," " Y", 1 1114V0 14 little toothaulte—just trifle, you know." 11111 I Toothache I Well, don't look for any sympathy from me. If people will be caeolefei they must expect to staler for it." " But you- -7011----" " Never, Mrs Tiowser I Never had the toothache in my life, end nevor expect to have editle 1 keep my Bowes. If a 1170111011 don't know any more than to go barefoot around the house in winter tune lot, her suffer for it," " But you know I haven't, been so silly as that 1" she proteated, " Then it 11305 something olso just ea foolish, Don't. expect me to pity you. WS 35 11.011 1.10P to inn that you heven't got forty different ailments histeed of one. if 11 wasn't for the renstant vigilance of tho husbands of this land the wivea would die off like flies." " You may have toothache 50010 day." "It Is barely possible, but if I do you won't know it, and 1 shan't want any of your sympathy. There may be a few hus- bands in the world who upeet the house when they happen to haven pain or an ache, but not one of them. If that tooth isn't all right to•morrow morning you'll go clown and have 11, yanked out." The other 01301)10)1 0.0 Mr, Bowser sat read. in)) his paper lie gave th sudden stuot, and as Mrs. 13owser looked at him he was wobbling his tongue around as if trying to bite it " Whet's the matter 7" she queried. " .Nothiug." " But you look worried." "Bash !" It wasn't two minutee before Mr. Boweer lot go of his paper and half rose up, and somethiug like a groan escaped his lips, " Something certainly ails 1" exclaimed Mee. Bowser, as sho laid aside her book. "1 haven't seen you look so pale since you fed downstairs with the bedstead." "Nonsense 1 1'11 like to know why I should look pale. I 0000 never in better health than I am at this minute. I NVILS just, thinking diet I'd go downstairs and over- haul our medicine chest I expected it needs replenishing." He got up and walked around and finally disappeared downstairs, A few minutes 111100 (11135, Bowser heard the rattling of bet. ties and boxes, and ELS she went to the head of the steles Mr. &weer was saying to 11113, self: "it's mighty funny—mighty fnnny 1 Regular old jumpino 3001)3310110, and a detible tooth at flea! 'Jewhitta.ker- to-ge0! but how I suffer "Mr, Bowser, have you found the chest?" called :Mrs. Bowser. " Yes. of oonree." " Shell 1 come clown 2" " If I neer] you I will 101you lthow." He got the mutat peppermint essence ancl dosed his aching tooth. The pain ceased almost instantly and Me. Bowser sat down and smiled in a ;Amid way end said to him- self : " Egad 0 but I thought I tvos a goner ! It have tickled el es, lloweei.lialf to death 110)10 thing had kopt on. Nothing like having your wits about--" "SIr. Bowser, what on earth is the mat- ter down there 1" called Airs. Bowser, as it 0111111' 11)140 upset and something seemed to go hopping around the voom. " 1 upset a chair," .3)15 80011 as he heard her moviog away he tried paregodc, turpentine, laudanum, and wintergreen ethence. 177he wholesale influx of remedies astonished the tooth and quiet- ed the man. "She'll Lever know a word about it—not a word 1" whispered Air, Dowser, tte be be- gan replacing the bottles. " I don't suppose it was the regular toothache, but she'd have doelared it was and made eapital out 0( 11, Wilco Mrs, I3owser gets the start of me it will be a cold—" Something uttered a war whoop. Some. thing kicked over two chairs and banged a footstool against a door. Before Mrs. BOW - ser could get out of her chair something came flying upstairs ancl made two circles of the sitting room and fell into a chair. "Mr. Bowser,what on earth A the mean- ing of this 7" Ile groaned dismally and pressed both hancls on his jaw. " You've gob the toothache 1" He moaned a groan which strung out ten feet long and shut his eyes. What a golden opportunity for Mrs. Bow- ser 1 She should have given him due notice not to expect any sympathy Orem her and added that °my man who would go and sit in an ieehouse in his shirtsleeves must expect to suffer for it. When his tooth jumped 11101 out of his chair over the divan and around the fire screen she should hove ob- served that it was a wonder he hadn't died twenty years before, and that a visit to a dentist followed by a " yank " would be the pro000 caper early in the morning. 'Then, as Mr. Bowser stood in the center of the room, his 0700 11011)1111)1 out and the fringe of hair around Ms bald pate trying to stand up as he waited for the next "jump," she could have finished him off by assorting that but for the conetant, and nnwemying vigilance of the wives of this land not a husband would live over five years at the very long. 5014 1300 she didn't. She got Min into bed at mum, put a flatiron to lus feet, made a poul- tioe for his jam, gelled his ears with oaten and was still working on him when he fell asleep at 3 o'elock 11, 11)10 0101311111)1 .4,11(1 111)0 hours later, whon Mr, Bowser got ont of bed fueling all right, be cheerfully remark- ed ; " There was a asee, Mrs. Bowser, where you mild plainly see the difference. You'd have probably boon dosing and doping and groaning n.11 night, while 1 WM simply an. noyeit for half 1405 hour 0( 00 nod then flung it off by tho exercise of will power." "But 1 thought you never had tooth. ache," she replied. "Awl I never do, Mee. Bowser—uever. 11 01115 lied been a ono of toothache I could have oat there and laughed over it," "13ut what was it?" "A case of Asiatic, actable neuralgia, Mrs. Bowser --something just 400 times worse than as if all year teeth Embed at ono, Women are never atilieted with ft, as it comes from too muuh brain work. Run 151011)1 11100' and we if breakfaet is ready, It was a simple incident—a, mem trifle—net 000(0 talking about," Mutt remains to be seen," as the boy said when he spilt the ink on the tableoloth. First Passonger—" See that splendid mansion over there. It's a beautiful pima, lett it makes 0 man seri to look et it." 8e003*11 Paesengee—" Why aor • 11, ,,,a,use of its history, for it, was 1116,1 .1 the l groans, Mane, wailings, enable( i gif/IVS, 011)1114n% old mon, and struggling omen," 11000131e05 gracious!" " "S• es, it was orcot. eil by o fitsbionable tied sucucsthil dentist,"