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from the stem. One
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sor, cut his hand a
,s juice got into the
D inflame •nd an er-
dpelas made its ap-
nd extendeil up his
over his whole body.
as no pain attending
.pelas, and he con -
pack his cucumbers
• shipment. To the
>ody these little ery-
i the appearance and
•s and continued to
son kept well and
led to strip himself
Di course, the news
anon spread far and
and scientific men
sous sections of the
g one thing, and one
to bleed him ; one
umbers off ; another
any water and they
r said stick a hole in
ey would die and a
r wished to wrap him
,ice of barnyard man -
to one head ; another
nattered.
remedy but all dis-
was some hope that
hell. But the small
big ones, and his
iletely covered with
s, and they continued
'?w and hang down,
the appearance of a
as. When they got
Tel and dry up ; and
p was all gone and
rocured the consent
t an autopsy to be
f science, and they
knives, and to their
esh, no blood, no
mews, no veins, no
one solid mass of
s so remarkable that
ave the remains in-
to have them cre-
concluded that she
he house. She had
he hair of the head
Spring some ot the
e of the seeds which
r and planted them.
d matured, and in -
parent stock of cu -
pickles and needed
o salt—nothing but
rels and shipping to
f course news of the
ly, and multitudes
flowed in like the
abled the disconso-
to turn the cause
port. The wind of
ered to these ahorn
11 packets of seeds
not supply the de -
from the new seed
and can be propa-
d blooms in the
Summer a bountiful
The widow sells
paper.—[ Recorders
TRADERS.
ening industry.
of peaceful trade
found in the in-
Magharah (" valley
inc,itic desert. The
, from which the
bfek or turquois—
alled Mafka—were
enoferu, ninth king
ose table:s still re-
s, and copper is also
enee obtained. The
very uncertain. It
as 36)0 B. C., but
scholarsendeavored
is open to criticism,
rage reign of thirty
ich seems much too
pare the average in
egnal years are ex-
ru, however can not
an 2500 B. C.
he great Akkadian
is usually read as
his capital on the
onquered Northern
cedar wood for the
He states, in an
overed at Tell Loh,
h his statues were
n na, " the land of
ence of other texts
untry so called was
ers to the Hebrew
in addition to this
ure n3 that the ma -
s is the same diet ite
peninsula. At this
fore, the Egyptian
fan appear to have
egion, in times of
rn the quarries was
tance of 1,200 miles
The Scottish Re.
p Right~,
t the clothes so that
he best of t1, !'
new people here,
oot foremost." "All
, " I'll put all the
side to make a show,
ant to be puttin'tho
won't hang out a
me are faded like,
That's a good girl,"
gly ; " there's noth-
impression at first.
:m." It did. The
lothes-line, and dis-
ity in the genealogi-
y. " Would you be -
ding up their hands
had three washings
re, all frills and fur -
f socks or stockings
motion.
How long have you
s 4"
" Six years, sir."
at salary are yon
a week, sir."
ine dollars ! Well,
ed yourself a most
d as showing my ap-
esty I have decided
egistered letters this
soil ?" inquired
Irishmen. " Virgin
ut a sell where the
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HOUSEHOLD.
If Mother Would Listen.
mother would listen to me, dears,
She would fro, Jen that faded gown,
She would so Mmes take an hour's rest,
And rometi a trip to town.
And it should-' be all for the children,
The fun, and the cheer, and the play ;
With the patient droop on the tired mouth,
And the " Mother has had her day 1"
True, mother has had her day, dears,
When you were about the farm anabies d the house,
And she stepped
As busy as ever a bee,
When Abe
you all rocked
o a all
to
sleep, dears,
And sentdid
AAnd lived with thewore herself ' and without.
Go den Rule.
And so, your turn has come, dears,
white
Her hair is growing
And her
peerssarebey gaining
the nighthe t away look
One of these days in the morning,
Mother will not be here,
She Thlence ;
em ll tr
herso t -e and fade away into tdear.
Then, what will you do in the daylight,
And what in the gloaming dim :
And father, tired and lonesome then,
Pray what will you do for him ?
If you want to keep your mother,
You must make her rest to day ;
Must give her a share in the frolic,
And draw her into the play.
And, if mother would listen to me, dears,
She'd buy a gown of silk,
With buttons of royal velvet,
And ruffles as white as milk,
And she'd let you do the trotting,
While she sat till in her chair ;
Thai mother should have it hard all through,
It strikes me isn't fair.
—(Margaret E. Sangster.
hours with a slice of pork cut in dice. Salt'
and pepper to taste and add eight potatoes
sliced ; boil till done, skim out potates and
slightly thicken the gravy and pour over
the potatoes.
OYSTER STEW. -Pick out the pieces of
shell, put the oysters in a stew pan with a
very little water ; boil and skim, then add
milk or milk and water. When it boils up
it is done. Add batter, salt and pepper to
suit.
The fashionable world seems to ignore and
despise pies. Many think cake and some
kind of fruit or sauce is preferable, others
thinks puddings are more healthful; but I
find nothing in my pies to injure the diges-
tion.
Fon APPLE Pigs. —I take four tablespoon-
fuls of pastry flour, lard half the size of an
egg, one-fourth teaspoon of salt, cut the
lard into the flour with spoon or knife, new
milk enough to make a stiff dough, rub a
medium-sized pie plate with a very slight
amount of butter, take halt the dough and
roll out for the lower crust. Pare, quarter,
core and slice sour apples, put half a cup of
sugar on the bottom crust, then fill moder-
ately full with the apple, put on any spice
to suit and a pinch of salt, I prefer allspice
or nutmeg, wet the edges of the crust with
water, roll out the other half of the dough
and press lightly around the edge of the
plate, bake in a moderately hot oven. Pies
made of new milk are nice and tender ;
skimmed milk may be used, but is not as
nice ; sour milk and soda may also be used,
but is not as good or healthful as sweet milk.
We sometimes use.
Rice PUDDING.—Made after this rule
which makes a very good desert : Wash
four tablespoonfuls of best rice thoroughly,
put into a pudding dish, add pinch of salt
and one quart 'ot new milk, sweeten to taste
and bake in a moderately hot oven. Stir
it often. The rice will swell and thicken
the milk. It is good for invalids. I some-
times make.
PORK STEW. --Which, if rightly made is
delicious. Cut in strips three small slices
of salt pork, have the kettle perfectly clean,
put in tw c quarts of water, and add the
pork. ; let it boil half an hour, then add
potatoes pared and sliced, boil till done,
then dip out the potatoes and thicken the
gravy with a little flour rubbed in a small
piece of butter, adding salt and pepper. If
it is cold weather add a little cayenne pep-
per or pepper pod.
WHITE BREAD.—Scald one quart of new
milk, add a piece of lard as large as half a
butternut, one dessert spoonful of sugar.
When the milk cools, add one -forth of a
cake of compressed yeast ; stir till dissolved,
then stir in flour enough to make a dough,
1 thick h toId and k t'
How to Oook Veal.
The season when veal is at its cheapest
and at its best will soon be here, and with it
the season of new spinach from the home
gardens and veal potpie. This farmers' stew
is one ot the simplest of , savory dishes.
There is no possible excuse for the leaden
crust so often saved with this dish in these
days when good baking powder or excellent
cream of tartar and soda may be had. To
make a good potpie, choose pieces from the
neck or shoulder of the veal. These pieces
are full of rich juices and make an especial-
ly nice potpie, while they cost lest than al-
most any other part of the animal. Separate
the bones from the lean and remove any
superfluous tat. Take the pieces of lean
meat and season them thoroughly with salt
and pepper. They should be cu in uniform
size. There should be about two pounds
for a small family. Cover the bones with a
cold water and allow them to simmer at the
lack of the fire for about an hour. This
will make a sufficient stock, to cook the pot-
pie in. though, if there arno bones with
the veal, you can use water instead and
omit this part of the process. Melt a table-
spoonful of butter in thebottoa� of a Scotch
kettle or any other saucepan. Dredge flour
over the pieces of veal and throw them in
this butter to brown a little. Stir them con-
tinually for if they should burn in the pot
the dish is ruined. Pour over the brown-
ed pieces of veal the stock obtained
from the bones, or, if this part of
the work was omitted, boiling hot stock
of any 1-ind or boiling water. There should
be just enough liquid to cook the meat,
but not enough to cover it. Put a
cover over the pot and set it where
its contents will simmer very slowly for
three-quarters of an hour. At the end of
this time the crust should be prepared.
This should always be made from soda and
cream of tartar or from baking powder.
No other methnd gives such a light, puffy
crust. To two cups of flour use a heaping
teaspoonful of baking powder, or a tesopoon-
ful of cream of tartar and a scant half tea-
spoonful of reds. Add also a saltspoonful
of salt and the same amount of sugar. Sift
these ingredienta thoroughly together and
stir in the scant cupful of rich milk, if you
use new process flour. Pastry flour requires
somewhat less liquid. At all events, the
dough should not be hard, but about as
stiff as you can stir it. Drop a tablespoon-
ful of this mixture over the top of your
boiling stem. Do this as rapidly as you can
and replace the cover on the stew the mo-
ment it is accomplished. Set the pot for-
ward where its contents will boil a little
more rapidly then they have. In ten or
twelve minutes remove the cover, take out
the pieces of crust, which shall be thorougly
done, arrange them in a circle on a platter
and lay the pieces of veal in the centre.
There should be about a cup of liquid left
in the pot, and there should have been
enough flour used in flouring the veal to
give this the consistency of gravy. If it
seems to be too thin, however, stir in a tea-
spoonful of flour mixed with a little cold
water, and let it boil up till ite thickens.
Pourthis gravy over the veal in the centre
of the circle of crust and serve it at once.
The more rapid your movements are aftelr
the crest is taken up, the better it will be.
Hygienic Pies and Bread—Some Nutri -
YOUNG FOLIC%
Why He Failed.
" Want a boy ?"
" Yes, I advertised for one !
lookingfor a situation ?"
" Tht's what I am ! What do ye paY"o
" You will not do for us at any price,
there is no need of entering into any partic-
ulars."
Won't do ? How d' you know 'thout
askin' any questions? I'm older'n I look, an'.
strong an' smart—smart as a steel trap, if I
do say it myself, ad' if you want to know
more dust---
" Never mind any reference. You are
not the sort of a boy we require."
The young applicant was sorely disap-
pointed, and would have pressed his plea
still further but the gentleman turned from
him so decidedly that he knew the interview
was closed and went slowly out of the door,
where a companion was waiting to hear of
his success.
" Huh, no good ! short as pie -crust they
be in the one that
talked to me was.
e. 1l wouldn't ar old kwo rk for him
at no price."
" Don't they pay enough, Jim."
" Dunne ; didn't come to money matters
at all. The old man jest looked me over
an' said I didn't suit. Wonder what he
wants in a boy, anyhow. Wore my best
clothes, too, so as to make a good impres-
sion."
" You look all right, Jimmy ; but mebbe
you ain't big enough to suit."
" Oh, well ; I don't care much, only—say,
be von goin' in to try your luck ?"
The new -comer nodded his bead.
" Well, you can save your breath. I've
jest come out, an' they're looking for a
reg'lar saint, or a man instead of a boy, so
no use of your tryin,' for you ain't as big as
Are you
to be empty and no baking going on, Tols-
toi, in his "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth,"
tells a very funny story of himself and his.
little brothers—how they hated to be wash-
ed, and hid in the oven to escape the old
nurse. The oven heat and the darkness put
them to sleep, and they came very near
being burned to death, for the oven door
was almost closed and a servant had begun
to build a fresh fire.
In the long, long Winter evenings the
girls plait straw, while the boys braid bask-
ets, and the old grandmother in her chimney
corner tells them stories of how Moscow, the
holy city, was set fire to by the Russians
themselves, rather than it should fall into
the hands of the French emperor. Some-
times she tells them old legends of the Tar-
tar invasions, and the wild hordes who
were beaten and driven back by Ivan
Veliki, of terrible memory. Again, it may
be, the boys and girls beg to hear wha s
Peter the Great did in Holland and in
England and bow he came to build St.
Petersburg. So the long evenings pass
until the short hot Summer comes
and they can live outdoors again.
To Tell the Age of Horses.
To tell the age of a horse,
Inspect the lower jaw, of course ;
The sixth front tooth the tale will tell,
And every doubt and fear dispel.
Two middle "nippers" yon behold
Before the colt is two weeks old ;
Before eight weeks two more will come;
Before eight months the " corners" cut the
gum.
The outside grooves will disappear
From middle two in just one year ;
In two years from the second pair ;
In three the corners, too, are bare,
At two the middle " nippers" drop ;
.At three the seeond-pair can't stop;
When four years old the third pair goes ;
At five a full new set he shows.
The deep black spots will pass from view
At six years from the middle two ;
The second pair at seven years ;
At eight the spot each " corner" clears.
From middle " nippers" upper jaw
At nine the black a pots will withdrawn
The second pair at ten are white ;
Eleven finds the " corners" light.
As time goes on the horsemen know.
The oval teeth three -sided grow ;
They longer get, perfect before
Till twenty, when we know no more.
Children of the Prince of Wale3
A writer in Harper's Young People says :
I well remember seeing two lads, on a
journey from Devonshire to London many
years ago, eating their luncheon an the rail-
way carriage at the station. The luncheon
was spread out on a damask cloth laid on a
seat between the two boys, and Prince
George was busy cutting up a dainty bit of
gameforhis elder brother, who had not
been overwell, and was leaning back rather
wearily against the cushions.
I saw him years later, a tall, fine young
sailor, bronzed with travel,but bright eyed
and light hearted as ever.
The lads spent a great portion of their
time at Sandringham, the . country seat of
me by long odds." the Prince of Wales, where so far as it is
The boy stood irresolute for a minute, but possible formality is' cast aside. Not a
the thought of his need and as ort of natural peasant or a squire's son in the country but
bent for doing what he set out to do over- knows Prince George of the merry laugh
came his timidity and he started on: and witty, kindly speech. The three Prin-
' ° Hullo 1 gain' to try it after all?' eesses, Louise, Victoria and Maude, have
" Why, yes.; that's what I carte for, and been taught every housewifely accomplish -
I can't more than fail, anyhow." ment. They can " bake and brew," like
"tell, if
through witsnubbed to be lo fedethroughyou've the girl in the old ballad, " make well a
and g gy feather bed,"and few Belgravian dress -
said half your say, then go on. I've give makers can fit and fashion a gown as well as
yon fair warnin'. I wouldn't go in agin for these sisters. Apart•from these homely ac -
ten dollars, nor work for 'em if they begged quirements, they have of coarse, had
me." masters in various branches ; music and
But in spite of this discouragement the languages being specially considered, since
boy went on and entered the office door of course, the society they have in court life
with cap in hand' and a courteous bow and at home or abroad, is cosmopolitan.
" Good -morning. Princess Maude, the youngest sister, is
"I heard that you want a boy ; and I not only the prettiest of the trio, but is
said to be the cleverest. But she has for
some years been very delicate, and great
care has to be taken of her.
The Duchess of Fife is a woman of sound
common sense and exquisite tact, -in her new
home this quality has been most appaieut,
for she has been obliged to east aside some
of the state in which she was born and bred,
and yet to hold her own as the Prince's
daughter.
The second of the three sisters, Princess
Victoria is an ardent lover of out of door
sports, fond of the country, never so happy
as when at Sandringham. At the house of
one of the feu intimate friends of the young
Princesses I remember seeing charming
photographs, amateur work, of this Prin-
cess with her dogs about her. She had evi-
dently been out for a long ramble or scam-
per, as her dress was rather " rough and
tumble," her jacket buttoned crooked and
her sailor hat somewhat awry, but the
bright sweet face was very pleasant to look
upon, just as the, girl herself is when one
sees her in the park during the sunny Lon-
don season.
All three are plain likeness of their still
beautiful mother ; yet they are bonny look-
ing, fresh and clear eyed, with upright fig-
ures, well poised heads and a graceful car-
riage • They have not what are called
"households" of their own. Since school-
room days are over each has a lady com-
panion and a "dresser" or maid, each her
own special apartments in Marlborough
house and at Sandringham, while a special
" major demo " and a page are on duty for
the two Princesses now at home They are
their mother's almost constant companions
and are very young for their years, as might
be expected from the sheltered lives they
have lived.
nearly is enough moi cep s ir- called to see if I could get the place, if you
ring until itis smooth and light like cake ; -please."
let it to rise where it will keep warm but " hes ? Well, we do want a boy ; we've
not liot, as much heat will spoil the bread.
When it has risen light mould and put back
to rise again ; when light aiid spongy mould
and put into two tins.- When the loaf be-
gins to look spongy and full of little holes
next to the tin, put in a moderately hot
oven ; bake three quarters of an hour.
I cannot believe that pigs' feet and legs
made into a "chicken pie" can be healthful.
We always salt pigs' legs and cook with
boiled dinners. Our men like them but I
do not like them, knowing that they have
stood and waded in filth while piggy was
alive. Will the editor explain what the
place in the pigs' legs where a waxy sub-
stance discharges is for ?
I think food and drinks should be warm
when taken into the stomach. A cup of hot
water sipped will often help indigestion, be-
cause it helps food to digest; it is excellent
for a cold taken in connection with a hot
foot -bath.
Eat slow ; chew the food well, take as
little liquid as possible while eating.
Bathe often, and keep clean; air your
sleeping and living rooms.
Be gentle and kind to all, and especially
so to the sad one whom you meet. Be kind
and pleasant to the home circle, and do not
be afraid to say to them " I love you." Help
tired father and mother, and be helpfulto
brother or sister ; by -and -bye it will be a
great comfort to you to think that you tried
to do
tions Pies and Stews.
I believe that dyspepsia is caused oftener
by overcrowding the stomach than it is by
sating over -rich food and that a small
amount of pickles, mustard, vinegar, coy -
sine and `spices may be used with no harm-
ful results. I know of a case where a per-
son was greatly troubled with indigestion
and after every meal he took from one-fourth
to one-half teaspoonful of cayenne pepper
in water. He followed this practice for
years with good results. I am quite sure
that cayenne pepper can be taken often with
beneficial results.
BROWN BREAD AND BAKED BEANS.—My
rule for brown bread is one pint of lake -
warm water, one-fourth cup of sour milk,
two tablespoonfuls of molasses, one-half tea-
spoonful of salt, one-half teaspoonful of
soda, dip in two large tablespoonfuls of rye
meal and one of Indian meal and stir, using
the rye and Indian in that proportion ;
make it much thicker than griddle cake
batter. If the meal is coarse it will not
need to be so thick as the meal will swell.
Bake in an iron dish if possible. A bread
tin made with slightly slanting sides 12
inches long by 4 inches wide and 6 inches
thick is in good proportionsfor brown bread
as it slices off so much better if the loaf is
narrow. Have the oven quite warm and
let it increase in heat a little until the bread
is done.
" I think "L.D's " baked beans must be
very unhealthful ; one pound of pork to one
pint of beans is too much meat for the quan-
tity of beans ; they would be filled with
grease. I pick over and wash my beans
thoroughly and to one quart of beans add
soda the size of a small pea or less. Boil
sill the skins are tender, pour them in a col-
urder and rinse, put them brek in the ket-
tle, put in one pound of nice fat salt pork,
two tablespoonfuls of molasses, one tea-
ipooiaful of salt. Score the rind of the pork
lad oil all till the beans are quite soft, then
set them in a moderately hot oven and.bake
three or four hoax,. Pour in hot water en
Nigh to keep it up to the rind until the last
sour when the beans may dry off. Brown
bread baked with beans is better as the
steam keeps the bread from drying up with
I. hard crust.
BEAN STEW Is Exceotiest .AND CH$sP.—
Wash a handful of beous clean and boil four
right.
Old Time Dishes.
RELIABLE ()Alun,—One cup of sugar, one
and one-half cups of flour, one-half cup of
milk, one egg, two tablespoonfuls of butter,
one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking
powder. Flavor to suit the taste. Beat
eggs, sugar, and butter together, then add
rest of the ingredients.
A BEAN STEW.—He is something we al-
ways like. Take a good beef bone and boil
until tender. Have some beans well par-
boiled, and to five pounds of beef take two
quarts of beans, and salt and pepper to
taste, and put in enough potatoes for din-
ner. Thicken with three tablespoonfuls of
indian meal. My mother used to make
dumplings of meal and boil, then eat with
maple syrup. This bear stew or porridge
can be kept and eaten when hungry, accord-
ing to the old rhyme—
Beane cold
Beaaporridge best, wheide hot. beann nine orriddays old,
Hulled corned can be added if liked, also a
little milk and brown bread broken in.
When you take bread out of oven, grease
with butter over top and see how nice.
I regard tomatoes as healthy as any gar
den vegetable, and know people who have
had cancers . who never ate tomatoes and I
think that more die of cancers accord-
ing to the number of people than did 50
years ago.
Had- this Dog only Instinct ?
had several applications, but none of them
seemed to just suit. Are you at work any-
where now and want to make a change ?"
" Oh, no, sir. I've always been to school
but now pa's dead, and so—and so—"
" Yes, I see ; you are going to take his
plats as bread -winner as well as you ate
able. Our work isn't hard, but it requires
attention and trustiness. Have you refer-
ences?
The boy produced two, one from his day -
school teacher and the other from his Sun-
day -school - teacher.
The gentleman read them and said :
" These are satisfactory. I know one of
these writers very well indeed."
After a little more talk the boy was en-
gaged at fair wages, and was asked to be-
gin his labor the next morning, to his great
delight and also to his surprise.
" Thank you, sir, I'm so glad, for I -didn't
much think I'd get the place."
"Why not ? Had you tried so many ?"
•"Oh, no, sir.; but a boy just came out of
here saying it was of no use, and he was
larger and stronger than I."
That had nothing to do with his rejec-
tion. Shall I tell you what was the reason
he was refused? He came in and slammed
the door, stood with his hat on his head and
hands in his pockets, and talked loudly and
slangily ; and as part of the work we want
done is errands to other offices such man-
ners would not do at all. So you see he
earned his dismissal, and you your accep-
tance ; and if you enter other offices as po-
litely as you did ours you will be a credit
to us as well as yourself."
A gentleman in Connecticut took not long
ago a collie from the Lothian Kennels at
Stephey. The dog, after the fashion of his
kind, soon made himself one of the family,
and assumed special responsibilities in con-
nection with the youngest ctione a girl
three years of age. It haFpenday in
November that the father was returning
from a drive, and, as he neared his- house,
he noticed the dog in a pasture which was
separated by a stone wall from -the road.
From behind this wall the collie would
spring up, bark, and then jump down again,
constantly repeating it. Leaving his horse
and going to the spot, he found . his little
girl seated on a stone, with the lie wag-
ging
his tail and keeping guard beside leer.
In the light snow their p plain-
ly seen : and, as he traced it back, he saw
where the little one
e 1 in the pasturewalked •
times around an open w
Very close to the brink were the prints of
the baby shoes, but still closer on the edge
of the well were the tracks
the
collie,
whoo had evidently keptyou the between her
r and
sof
the well. I need not telly g
the father as he saw thetfideen l t he shies orb
b
creature, walking
what might otherwise have been a terrible
death.—Pur Dunib Animals. -
Gambler—" Have a game of poker, sir ?"
Traveler—" Thank you. I beg to be ex-
cused." you objectgames
Gambler—"Perhaps to
of chance ?" What I object to
is playing a g
Traveler—" Not at Which I have ono
.
chance," .
The Story of a Postage Stamp.
• Some four years ago, among the letters re-
ceived by the Ex-Ameer of Cahul at Mas-
soorie was one addressed to "His Majesty,
King of Afghanistan," which ran nearly as
follows : " Your Majesty—I am a little
German boy, and am making a collection of
stamps. I wish very much to procure some
stamps of Your Majesty's kingdom, and
shall be very much obliged if Your Majesty
would send me some." The letterwas
made over to the English political officer in
charge of the Ameer, who goodnaturedly 1 npw-'rd of one hundred and twenty thou -
The Progress ot Three Rivers,
Mr. Nicholas Smith, who married a
daughter of the late Horace Greeley, is
United States Consul at Three Rivers, Que,
whence he has sent to the State Department
at Washington an interesting report on the
trade and industries of that city. The docu-
ment describes the efforts to boons the town
as a site for manufactures. It was a very
conservative place until it awoke to the
necessity of preserving itself from stagna-
tion. Sites for factories, financial aid, free
of cost and taxation, were offered,and sever-
al establishments located in pursuance
thereof. In the report Mr. Smith says -
Forest Cities -
The " forest of Paris " or the " forest of
London " would he regarded as a singular
and contradictory expression, but, thanks
to the modern fondness for seeing trees even
in a crowded city, the great cities of the
world have come to contain more trees than
many forests of very respectable dimen-
sions. -
For instance, a census of the trees of the
city of Paris reveals the fact that within
the limits of the capital there are growing
answered the letter, inclosing a small col-
lection of Cabul stamps. Iu, due course
came a reply from the little German boy :
"Kind English Officer—the stamps which
you so kindly sent me have arrived, and
are valued by me in my collection. I show-
ed them and your letter to a distinguished
German officer who is now staying at my
father's house, and he is so pleased with the
kindness of an English officer to a little
German boy that I asked him to give me
his photograph to send to you, which he has
done, and- I hope you will accept it." The
letter contained a photograph, with the
autograph. "Von Moltke, Field Marshal."
The little German boy was the son of a well-
known manuracturer who had been most
liberal in providing benevolent institu-
tions for workmen in Germany and who
was the Field Marshall's host during the
manceuvres in the neighborhood of his pro.
perty.
Winter Legends Told to Children In
Northern Russia.
Little Russians are a jolly, warrnblooded
race, and cold weather has few terrors for
them. Clothed as they are in sheepskin
frocks reaching below the knees, with a
high, loose, fur collar coming well up about
the ears, and fur caps and mittens, to say
noticing of warm, home-made shoes of calf-
skin with the hair turned inside—I doubt
if in Canada they dress as comfortably. Do
you wonder that they are right glad when
old Daddy Winter lets his " white geese
fly ?" They have famous sliding upon their
hills, too, although to look at the heavy,
clumsy sleds one wonders how they can
enjoy the sport—as undoubtedly they do to
seg the rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes -of
the children tramping home from an af-
ternoon on the hillside. Stouttrencher-
men they are and marvelous the amount
they consume of broken 'bread and kasha
(buckwheat porridge mixed with butter)
and cheese of goat's milk, with—some-
times-beer, made of fermented cabbage ;
but this is a luxury among the poor classes.
Tea every one has, and the little folks, as
well as theirelders, drink it all day long.
But the strangest custom they have is that
of sleeping upon: the top of the stove, usual-
ly a huge porcelain affair, and sometimes
the children creep into -the. oven if it chances
MEN AND- ANIMALS MEM
in many Gasesf-A, Atitelitnilases,1300101
eir.&shoos.
The impulses and mptives which :,lead to -
the commission of crimes are essentially the
same in beasts and in man, and stadento of
penal jurisprudence are just beginning to
learn that the psychology of criminality in
civilized;soeiety can never be fully under
stood except by a careful scientific study of
it, not only in savages, but also in the lower
animals. Many actions, such as the killing
of deformed. or sickly infests and of
old and infirm individuals, are com-
mon to barbarians and to beasts
and are regarded as right because
they contribute to the collective strength
and consequent safety of the tribe or herd ;
but with the civilization of man and the do-
mestication of the brute this precaution is
no longer needed and the primitive practice
is abandoned. Mice take excellent care of
their aged, blind, or otherwise helpless kin,
concealing them in safe places and provid-
ing them with food. It must be remember-
ed, however, that the mouse has lived in a
semi -domestic state as the companion of
man from time immemorial. In the develop-
ment and organization of social and civic
life thebee and the ant held the fore-
most place among articulates, corresponding
to that of man among vertebrates. They
stand respectively at the head of their class
and represent the highest point attained by
insect and mammal in the process of evolu-
tion. As regards form of government, it is
a mistake to speak of the bee state as a
monarchy ; it is, on the contrary, the most
radical of republics, or rather a democracy
of the most rigorous kind, with absolute
power vested in the working class. The
claims of " labor " to the exercise of
Upon a pledge of 100 acres of land with- _supreme control in political affairs are
on the city limits and $75,000, free harbor here fully recognized and practically
age, and exempt from taxation for functions years, an English syndicate
was formed to build an abattoir and meat -
canning establishment in the city for the
benefit of the European markets. But a
rumor adverse to the local conditions reach-
ing London, a committee was sent out by
the stockholders to ascertain the facts,
when, unluckily, it transpired that the
promoter had, inadvertently, no doubt,
somewhat glossed the advantages of the
place by representing the province of Que-
bec as groaning beneath the tread of cattle
aching to be converted into English brawn
and muscle, and that these patriotic herds
were then actually being carried to Chicago
to be butchered and shipped ignominiously
as American beef to Liverpool and London.
As the committee reached Canada in mid-
winter, when snowdrifts and not short-
horns were -..rampant upon her thousand
hills and no cattle were to be seen, their
indignation knew no hounds, and long be-
fore the snow melted the company was dis-
solved. However, the projector, nothing
daunted by his discomfiture, hied him to
New York, and it is now reported, has
succeeded. in organizing a new company
upon the terms of the old.
The outlook for Three Rivers was dark
indeed, but it was the darkness that pre-
cedes the breaking of the morn. Mr. Smith
adds :
In shaping the destiny of a town, human
intelligence is of ten mocked by blind chance.
While the municipal authorities were tax-
ing their
ax-ingtheir wits and their real estate in a hope-
less endeavor to boom their charge, the
paper manufacturers of the United States
were anxiously looking around for supplies,
and in less than twelve months from the
time their attention was called to the St.
Ma•trice forest, lying within the district and
from which only the cedar and pine had
been culled, 2,500 square miles of its timber
passed into their possession.
The Laurentide Pulp Company, a New
York Asscciation, with 324 miles of these
"limits," has started a mill, the plant of
which is said to have cost $600,000; and in
1890, the first year of its existence, all un-
known andunadvertised as it was, it shipped
to the United States alone 5,426,460 pounds
of its products. The Glen Falls and Ticon-
deroga pulp companies, both of New York
have just acquired 537 quare miles of these
woodlands, and will, it is understood, pro-
ceed at once to the erection of mills at this
point to prepare wood for their factories at
home. Two large Michigan firms have
holdings of 1,683 square miles, and another
New York Company is now negotiating for
1,500 miles.
It seems never to have o_eurred to quiet,
conservative Three Rivers that these refuse
forests held her future wealth; that the stone
whic was rejected by the builder would be-
come the chief corner stone. As these en-
terprises will furnish employment for at
least 1,200 men, all of whom have to be fed
and clothed, I need hardly say there is a
boom in the town.
Punctuality a Needful Virtue.
sand trees?, and about three hundred thou-
sand shrubs. Of the trees, about twenty
thousand are in the parks, and the others
are planted along the streets.
If these trees were planted all together,
in the fashion in which trees grow in the
forest, and at an average of twenty feet
apart, they would make a wood more than
one thousand acres in extent.
Many American cities are as lavishly pro-
vided with trees as in Paris. In the United
States, the city of Washington is remark-
able for the great number and beauty of its
trees.
The planting of trees has undoubtedly
exer•ci.:ed, on the whole, a favorable effect
upon the health and upon the resthelic sense
of the people of our cities. Many other
virtues spring up with the love of natural
beauty which these trees develop.
Communities which encourage tree -plant-
ing do an excellent thing ; but to plant trees
which are sure to be unthrifty and unheauti-
ful in certain situations is not a good means
to develop the sense of beauty and the love
of nature, but rather the reverse.
It is desirable, therefore, to plant with
understanding, and to take advantage of
the'k-nowledge and experience of experts.
It is a point of wisdom to choose trees for
city planting which grow spontaneously in
the -neighborhood, or which have been .prov
ed thrifty there. -
The Editor Will Have his Little Joke.
A young man at the risk of his life saved
a beautiful girl from drowning. Her grate-
ful father seized the rescuer of his daugh-
ter by the hand, and in a voice trembling
with emotion said s
"Noble youth, to you Iam indebted for
everything that makes life dear to me.
which rowed will you take—$200,000, or
the hand' of my daughter ?"
"I'll take the daughter," replied the
heroic rescuer, thinking thereby to get both
the girl and the money.
You have well chosen;'-' replied the grate-
ful father. " I could not have given you the
$200,000 just yet, anyhow, as I - have not
laid up that amount, being only a poor edi-
tor, but my daughter is yours for lite. Take
her and be happy. God bless you my child-
ren.
realized. The so-called queen is really
the mother of the hive ; her ere
maternal rather than regal. If she May
be said to reign in a certain sense, the work-
ers -rale, deciding all questions and perform-
ing all acts affecting the common weal. Pop-
ulous and powerful bee communities some-
times relapse into barbarism, renounce the
life of peaceful industry for which they
have become proverbial, acquire predatory
habits and roam about the country as free-
booters, plundering the smaller and weaker
hives, and subsisting on the spoils. These
brigand bees seldom reform : if they busily
" improve each shining hour " it is not
to "gather honey all the day from every
opening flower," but to range the fields in
looting parties and ransack the homes of
honest honey -makers. Against these an-
archists of apian society and other foes
the honey bees often fortify their hives, bar-
ricading the entrance by a thick wall, with
bastions, casemates, and deep, narrow gate-
ways.- When there seems to be no imme-
diate danger of hostile attack these defen-
sive works, which seriously interfere with
the ordinary industrial life of thehive, are re-
moved and not rebuilt until there is fresh oc-
casionfor alarm. It has now been ascertained
beyond a doubt that in Texas and Sbuth
America,s well as in Southern Europe,
India, and�Africa, there are ants which r.ot
only have a military organization and wage
systematic warfare, but also keep slaves and
carry on agricultural pursuits. Nineteen
species of ants with these habits have been
already discovered, and their modes of life
more or less fully described. Indeed, near-
ly all the institutions and gradations of cul-
ture and civilization which the human race
has passed through, and of whichwe find sur-
vivals among the different tribes of men, ex
ist also among ants. Besides the tillers of the
soil just mentioned, there are other species,
like the Peruvian cazadores, which still
lead a nomadic life, having no permanent
homes, but wandering from place to place ;
entering the Houses ot the natives by mill-
ions, killing rats, mace, snakes, and all sorts
of vermin ; devouring oilkl, and performing
in general the useful functions of itinerant
scavengers. The slaveholding ants are of sev-
eral kinds, and differ greatly in the manner
in which they treat their vassals. Some make
them do all the work under the direction of
overseers ;others share their labors ; while still
others have fallen into such habits of luxury
as to be unable or unwilling to wait upon or
even to feed themselves, and are carried
about and provided with food by their body
—servants. In many cases this sybaritism it
the mere ostentatious love of being served
The incapacity is not physical but moral,aad
arises from an aristocratic aversion to any
kind of menial labor.
Punctuality is a most useful and needful
virtue, which all would do well to cherish,
even at the cost of much personal exertion.
But he who, punctual himself, rigidly ex-
acts the same of everyone else, accepting no
excuse, making no allowance, rebuking
every delay with a severity quite dispropor-
tionate to the offense, and indulging in an
impatience and indignation far more cen-
surable than the tardiness which called it
forth, does more to bring his favorite virtue
into disrepute than to recommend it. • Some
years ago, in England, the principal of a
large business house met one morning, with
stern and frowning aspect, an aged and
feeble clerk who had been absent from his
post for two days. The latter, abashed at
the condemnation he read in his employer's
face, began in trembling accents:
"I have been very ill, sir."
"Ill, sir," repeated the stony-hearted
merchant, "ill, sir; you ought to have been
dead."
Of course such extreme cruelty was only
made possible by the unjust relations of
employer and employed, but we may easily
believe that punctuality was the favorite
virtue of this specimen of inhumanity.
The very fact that our favorite virtue is
one in which we ourselves excel should be
sufficient to make us at least doubtful as
to its great superiority. That we possess
it and value it is certainly no proof that it
excels others which we have not, and do
not appreciate. A truer insight would,
perhaps, convince ,us that out of the many
virtues to which we can make but slight
pretensions there are several of more weight
and value than the one on which we pride
ourselves. At any rate, whatever it may
be, and however essential, there is aliveys
some other of a different nature wanted to
balance and to guide it. The more we excel
in one direction the more we need to excel
in another. The man with a strong sense
of justice is especially called apon to culti-
vate bis generous impulses and the
generous: man should exercise more
than ordinary pains to hold the scales of
justice. Firmness without sympathy de-
generates into obstinacy ; and sympathy
without individuality reduces- a man to
what E Soslot conces-
sions." through the whole gamut of
virtues, each is dependent upon some other
i
f t wn best efficiency, and the favorite
Favorite Virtues.
•It is certainly to be deplored that any-
one should have a favorite vice, but it may
be thought a matter of entire congratulation •
that he should have a favorite virtue. Of
course, we do not look for perfection, we
cannot expect that anyone will have that
entire balance of character that gives to
each excellence its exact proportion and be-
trays no preference for one above the other,
save as its importance justifies it. Indeed,
deficiencies are so numerous and so promi-
nent that we are rejoiced when we see any
virtue pronouuced enough and prized
enough to be esteemed a favorite.
Neverthelesss, the use sometimes made
a favorite virtue is by no means cal-
culated to win for it from others the love
and esteem in which it is held by its possessor,
Sometimes it is made to duty for a host of
shortcomings. How often do we hear it
said, " If I am nothing else I am sincere,"
or " Whatever faults I have I am not un-
grateful," and so on through a host of char-
acteristics, each of which is supposed to be
so valuable in itself as to counterbalance
many acknowledged defects. Sometime,
this favorite virtne, thus isolated, is strained
to so unnatural an extreme as to lose all its
attractiveness. Sincerity, for example, is a
sterling and noble quality, and one all too
rare in the world ; but, divorced from kind
feeling and sympathy, it often degenerates
into mere bluntness and rudeness. He who
makes it his boast is almost certian to use it
in some way prejudicial to his neighbors.
He will call attention to their faults or dis-
advantages, or will express quite needlessly
his disapproval or dislike, thus exciting un-
pleasant or resentful feelings, and losing his
influence over -them. Often the favorite
virtue is one of minor importance, and its
prominence is made to sacrifice much that is
more 'valuable than itself. Order is an ex-
cellent thing ; it is an instrument of comfort,
pleasure - and beauty ; it saves time and
nerves favors dispatch ; it aids tuccess. In
the office -and in the factory, in the city
street and the country farm, in outdoor life
and in the home its presence is invaluable.
Yet, after all, it is' bat a means to an end-
happiness. With some persons it seems to
be an end in itself, to which all other things
must be scarificed. Not content with being
orderly themselves, and reeommending it by
example and suggestion to others, they in-
sist upon it, in season and out of season ;
they fret and scold at every slight deviation,
thus producing distress and annoyance to
all concerned. Is it worth the price? Far
more admirable and effective is that sense
of order which recognizes its use and its
limits ; which conforms itself to the comfort
of others. overlooking many failures, euietly
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one more than all others needs its comply- ; =e- a yrng their lack and abstaian'g re-
ment. V =,roach or censure.
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