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" If I -Were Fair."
were fair 1 -
If I h little bands, and slender feet ;
If to t y cheeks the color rich and sweet
luau? a�taTword and faded at a frown ;
If I had clinging curls of burnish'd brown ;
1f I had dreamy eyes aglow with smiles,
And graceful limbs, and petty girlish wiles—
If I were fair, Love would not tarn aside ;
eefe,'s pate, so narrow, would be broad and
wide.
If I were fair!
H I were fair,
Perhaps like other maidens I might hold
A tic e, heart's store of tried and tested gold.
Love waits en Beauty, though sweet love
alone,
It seems to me, for aught might well atone.
But Beauey's charm is strong and Love obeys!
The mystic witchery of her shy ways.
If I were fair my years would seem so few;
Life would unfold sweet pictures to my view,
If I were fair !
If I were fair,
Perhaps the baby, with a scream of joy,
To clasp my neck would throw away its toy,
And hide its dimples in my shining hair,
Bewilder'd by the maze of glory there !
But now -0 ! shadow of a young girl's face ;
Uneolor'd lips that Pain's cold fingers trace,
You will not blame the child whose wee hands
close,
Not on the blighted bud but on the rose
So rich and fair.
0 ! just s little fair, with some soft tench
About my face to glorify it much !
If no one shunn'd my presence, or my kiss,
My heart would almost break beneath its bliss.
'Tis said each pilgrim shall attain hie goal,
And perfect light shall flood each blinded
soul,
When days flash merges into sunset's bars,
And nightie here and then beyond the stars
1 shall be fair!
—[Edith Rutter.
La Belle Rosiere.
In France with the month of June comes
the season of rosieres, or as some per-
sons persist in calling it "the business of
the rosieres." What is a rosiere ? A rosi-
ere is a young girl on whom a wreath of
roses is bestowed annually at a certain
epoch, for what the French call "Sagesse."
Sagesse ! Dear me, another Gallic term to
define, and no easy one either. If I am not
mistaken, I think that the Anglo-Saxon
words "moral excellence" will convey, in
this particular case, the signification of sa-
gesse. The custom of crowning a rosiere
is observed nowadays but in a few villages.
So ancient and charming a practice com-
mands respect; let us therefore revive a lit-
tle chivalry for the occasion and allude to
the ceremony as a season. After all it is
difficult to believe that the graceful com-
petitors can possibly look upon the affair in
another light than that of a friendly con-
test.
The origin of the rosieres is strangely
enough attributed to St. Medard, Bishop
of Noyon and seigneur of Salency, who
lived in the fifth century. The first rosiere
was crowned, it appears, toward the year
525, and on that memorable occasion the
worthy Bishop awarded the prize to his
own sister, whom, history telLs us, public
opinion also designated as the most
virtuous girl in all the country round.
Ah ! those days of yore. The modern
philosopher must indeed regret not
having been born many, many hundred years
sooner, at an epoch when he could have con-
templated a bishop and all the members of
its diocese in complete unison. Ah ! those
happy days of yore. The good Bishop of
Noyon in question handed over the sunr,of
twenty-five French pounds and a wreath of
roses to his own sister, who, in the estima-
tion of all, was the girl residing in the do-
main of the Lord of Salency who- enjoyed
the highest reputation of moral excellence.
The edict of the Bishop set forth that not
only was it necessary that the conduct of the
rosiere should be blameless and her morality
and integrity unimpeachable, but also, and
this was by far the most exacting portions
of the decree, that the character of her
father, mother, brothers, sisters, and other
parents as far back as the fourth generation,
should be certified irreproachable 1 Such a
condition was harsh in the extreme. It was
unjust, decidedly, for a poor girl, the issue
of vicious or guilty parents, has certainly
more than ordinary merit in living a life of
virtue with such antecedents.
Then the Bishop of Noyon died, the new
lord of Salency adopted a new system and
granted unto himself the right to choose the
rosiere from among three girls selected by
the village and presented to him. The 8th
day of June was the day adopted for crown-
ing the rosiere, that day being the Saint
tdedard, The lucky rosiere was robed in
white garments ; her hair was allowed to
flow in large curls over her shoulders, and
accompanied by twelve young girls and as
many swains she walked through the village
to the chateau of Salency, accompanied by
whatever music the country folks were in
position to provide for the occasion. The
scene for the following act was laidin church,
where a special hymn was sung for the glory
of the departed Saint Medard and also a to !
deum. Later on in the day a frugal meal
was partaken of by all -those who had parti-
cipated in the ceremonies.
The rosieres had been forsaken for a long
time when, toward the close of the eigh-
teenth century the custom was revived
suddenly and rendered more brilliant than
it ever had been before. At that epoch, it
should be borne in mind, economists and
philosphers had undertaken a sort of rappel
a la nature ; rustication was to be the order
of the day. The drums sounded the alarm,
the heralds proclaimed the fashion, and as
usual, the public, ever eager for a change,
responded to the call. Agriculture, the green
fields and the meadows gay, village fetes
and " rustical society" came into favor once
more. It was bon ton for the nobility to
iblay the county/ Squire.- A few wealthy
irds, fed seemingly on Rousseau diet, re -
'Wye(' to re-establish on their estates old
Iistoms and cast -oft traditions. The most
litique souvenirs were brought to light
egain, and Freron, notably in his " Annee
Litteraire," gives a resume of the principal
historical features of the feasts, after some
eld documents he discovered at Noyon.
!Mae village ot Saleney shown once with
Imre novel brilliancy. Paris this time was
hot too proud to speak of it or write about
it. The Marquis de Pesay, unifier the title
of La P.osiere wrote the libretto of an opera
eomique -to which the celebrated Gretry
tet music. In his Fae'tes port Lemierre de-
toted a few lines to the rosiere. They well
leserved a perusaL Refine de.tios jardinos
tux mille couleurs Sois fiere desormais
l'etre le prix des moeurs Et de voir eclater
es beanies printanieres Snr le front ingenu
des modeates bergeres ; Sois plus flattee
encor de servir en nos jouis De couronne
aux vertus gee de lit aux amours. La
pomme a la plus belle ! a dit l'antique
adage, Un plus heureux a dit : La rose a la
plus sage!
And so the chapel of Saint Medard in the
tillage of Saleney which, prior to the revival
)f the festivals, cent "„wined no other souvenir
of the happy days of centuries ago than a
painting representing a prelate in pontifical
raineent depositing a wreath of roses on
the beautiful head of a young girl: kneeling
down and gowned in a white robe, once
more reconquere-a its past glory. In the
mar 1775 Saleney ceased to --hold the mono-
poly of relines aad many analogous institi-
tions were founded. But never did an
village derive from the custom the amoun
of prestige enjoyed by Salency. There th
rosieres, independently of the honor that
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Renin of a Vast Grazing Ground and Star.
ONE CIGARETTE STUB.
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always ys fell to their lot were certain in the
course of the succeeding twelve months,
however humble their condition mightbe,to
find a husband. And it is a fact well worthy
of note that when the festivities were reviv-
ed in the-eighteesi�th century the inhabit-
ants of Salency were good people, honest,
sober, and industrious. They mustered
about 500 and could boast 150 homes. They
did trot work with plows, but all cultivated
their own small; piece of laud and they were
happy. Never was there a case of crime
committed at Salency by an inhabitant of
the village, not even of any evil conduct,
still less any weakness on the part of the
gentle sex, while the peasants of the neigh-
boring villages were as brutal and vicious
as anywhere in the country.
Nowadays the most celebrated corona-
tions of rosieres are those of Saleney and
Nanterre, the latter being most brilliant,.
Nanterre is a village situated about seven
miles west of Paris at the foot of Mount
Valerien and is equally celebrated for its
slaughter houses, its prison, its cakes and
its rosieres. It is an old village dating
from the time of the Druids and is said to
be the birth place of Saint Genevieve.
The well from which Genevieve's parents
drew water is to be seen at thepresent day
and visitors walk to its brink and look
down into it because the saint is said to have
restored her mother's sight by bathing her
eyes in its waters.
The young girl elected rosiere, in addi-
tion to the wreath of roses, receives from
the mayor of the village a sum of money
voted by the municipality.
Making Guests Comfortable.
How to make your guests comfortable
and entirely at ease and at the same time
give yourself a sense of freedom is a prob-
lem that few women comprehend. A good
deal of what we call entertaining is an art
but after all, the corner -stone of it is an in-
tuitive knowledge of how to leave . your
guest alone. .9, wealthy and famous lady
who has a summer palace in one of the love-
liest spots on the continent is an ideal en-
tertainer. Here is an example of her
way of doing it. The newest arrival was a
gentleman. The hostess, with undoubted
sincerity, told him he was welcome. "Fran-
cois," (this to the butler) "show Mr. BIank
to the blue room." (To the guest) "Dinner
will be served as soon as you come down."
After dinner this ideal hostess said to her
guest : ''We hope you are prepared to
make us a long visit, as we know we are
prepared to make you comfortable. The
blue room is your castle while you
remain, and you are to come and
go with freedom. Our breakfast hour here
in the country is 8 o'clock, but you can
breakfast at what hour you please. It is
our custom to drive every morning at 11
o'clock. There will be a seat reserved for
you in the carriage, which we shall be glad
to have you occupy ; but if you do not care
for that there are the boats, the fishing
tackle, the billiard room, and—and—well,
whatever you can lay hands on. Francois
will see that you have anything you
want to eat and drink. We shall feel free
to enjoy ourselves and you will add to our
pleasure if you will exercise equal freedom,"
This is truly royal hospitality. There
are many little details in the way of mak-
ing one
sest comfortable that are not
suggested by the foregoing remarks but
which some experienced observer has form-
ulated-:
See that your window curtains are good
and that your guest knows how to manage
them. Nothing is so unpleasant to a visitor
as to be compelled to pin articles of cloth-
ing to the window -frames because the shades
won't come down, or to be compelled to ex-
periment with' noisy curtain fixtures at
night. Be sure there are the following ar-
ticles in the room, however small :
Some good soap, a large pitcher of fresh
water, a clean glass of drinking -water, a
supply of towels, both fine and coarse, to
suit all tastes.
Be sure the pin -cushion is supplied with
pins. Supply the bed with plenty of pillows.
Also place in the guest's chamber a few en-
tertaining novels. One may serve to while
away a sleepless hour in the night or early
morning. Without any toadying to your
visitors, you should do all you can to pre-
vent homesickness on their part. Home-
sickness is caused in a great measure by
people expecting guests to do all sorts of
things that are distasteful to thew.
Until you learn the taste of your visitor
never serve any risque food—such as tripe,
liver, fish, brown bread or salad, without
preparing a second dish known to be liked
by your guest.
In serving stranger guests it is well to re-
member that beefsteak, roast beef, veal,
lambs, eggs, wheat bread, tea, coffee, apple
pie and sponge -cake can be eaten ny
nearly every one ; while too many such
viands as ham, pork, mutton, Graham
bread, chocolate, cocoa, custard or cran-
berry pie, and chocolate cake are entirely
distasteful.
Can a Small Boy Lift Six Tons ?
Mr. Gosse, in " World of Wonders," re-
lates the following remarkable story of the
strength of a beetle, and gives some ingeni-
ous comparisons : " The three horned
beetle has just astonished me by proving its
wonderful bodily strength. When it was
brought to me, having no box immediately
at hand, I was at a loss where to put him
until I could find time to kill and preserve
him. At last a happy thought struck me.
There was a quart bottle of milk sitting on
the table, the bottom of the bottle having
a hollow in it and large enough to allow my
prize to stand erect in it. I soon put him
in his glass prison and turned to my work.
" Presently, to my great surprise, the
bottle began to move slowly, and then
gradually settled down to a smooth gliding
motion across the table. I instantly divin-
ed the cause. It was being propelled by
the nt scalar power of the imprisoned in-
sect beneath. The weight of the bottle and
its contents could not have been less than
three and a half pounds, while the weight
of the beetle could not have been any way
near a half an ounce.
Thus I was watching the strange eight
of a living creature move 112 times its own
weight under the most disadvaatageous air-
cumstances. A better notion than figures
can convey will be obtained of this feat by
supposing a lad of twelve years to be impris-
oned under the great bell of St. Paul's ca-
thedral, London. That bell weighs six toes
I€ e. boy of the age mentioned could push
within and cause the bell to glide along the
pavement his strength would not be equal
in proportion to that of the beetle under the
bottle 1
A divorce can be obtained in St. Helena
for less than $7.50.
The luxury of doing good surpasses every
other enjoyment—{Gay. -
While the farmer is in town working his
jaw in politics, the weeds are getting in
their work just the same.
vatioa of Thousands of animals.
s.
A number of hunters in the Gros Ventre
range, Wyo., one day in August, 1889, were
smoking as they rode along. One carelessly
cast his cigarette stub on the grass beside
the trail. Usually it would have died there
and no harm come from it, but a breeze was
blowing that fanned it till a dry blade of
grass flamed up. The hunters had just
passed around a bend and did not see the
flame. An hour later a fire that threaten-
ed all the grass south of the Gros Ventre
river was raging and the few settlers there
were riding from ranches even thirty miles
away to save the range their cattle needed.
One man followed and brought back the
hunters and for the rest of the day more
than a score of men with horses dragging
bundles of green brush galloped up and
down to confine the flames to the canyons
and mountains east of the valley. They
succeeded, and the ranchers worn out rode
home to rest. Some hundreds of square
miles of mountain sides and the bottom
lands in the canyons were burned over.
Later came winter and the deep snow
common to that country. With the snow
came herds of elk from the mountain tops
to feed in the thickets along the brooks be-
tween the mountains. It was their regular
practice, and they had always livedthere in
peace the winter through, for the settlers
killed enly what were needed for food. But
this winter, instead of nourishing grasses
and twigs, the Chautauquan says, the un-
fortunate animals found only charred stubs
and blackened scds. Goaded by their
hunger they came out on the plains and
about the ranches of the settlers. At first
they fled at the sight of a man, but by Janu-
ary cared nothing for one. They mingled
with the cattle ; they leaped over fences
built high to exclude them ; they attacked
the haystacks in spite of_armed men stand-
ing there on guard. They died of starvation
by the thousand, and one who drives up the
valley sees hundreds of whitened antlers
where the elk fell on the plains and thou-
sands of dead and blackened tree trunks on
the mountain side.
Bow to Maintain Fertility.
BY PROF. C.C. OEORGESON.
Many farmers on our prairies still cling
fondly to the delusion that the fertility of
their farms will never gis e out. Emphatic as-
sertions to the effect that manure is a posi-
tive injury, or that the land will remain
just as fertile as it is till it is worn ten feet
deep, are not, infrequent. And I• regret to
say that they sometimes come from those
who, by reason of education and opportuni-
ties for observation, ought to know better.
It is useless to argue with such people.
Nothing but experience can convince them.
To them the evidence of statistics and the
experience of others count for nothing.
Nor are these lines directed to them. There
is another large class of intelligent farmers
who admit the possibility of soil exhaustion
but who, nevertheless, fail to take measures
to prevent it. They are convinced that im-
mediate measures are needed. They have
become wedded to the pioneer practice of
limiting farming to sowing and reaping,
and to doing this with the least possible ex-
penditure of labour. They can, therefore,
never find time to haul manure from the
feed lot, or
to bother with clover and tame
grasses ; and as for rotation, that they ad-
roit is doubtless a good practice, but there is
no chance for it, since they grow but
wheat and corn, and the corn is always
surest on the low-lying portions of the
farm, whe rens the wheat does fairly
well on the high ground. This class, though
open to conviction, require positive proof
of the need of a change before they consent
to alter their system. There is stili.a third
and large class of excellent, wide•awake
farmers who keep abreast of the times,
whose farms are growing richer as the
years pass; these need no advice on the sub-
ject.
If you would he convinced that our
prairie soil and even our rich bottom lands
can suffer loss of fertility, compare, when-
ever' opportunity offers, the crops in average
years on new land after it has been under
the plough a couple of years with crops on
adjoining fields which have been cultivated
for years. If the eye fails to detect a
difference, let the bushel measure decide the
case. Should this fail to prove • it to your
satisfaction, study the practice of farming
communities in the older settled portions of
the Mississippi Valley,and note the history
of that practice. The farmers who to -day
are prosperous and successful in Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa and Missouri do not rely on
the unaided native fertility of the soil for
the growth of their crops ; they have laid
aside the pioneer system and adopted the
reciprocity plan in dealing with their soil,
by which they give as well as take, and
they find the more they give it the more
they can take. That soil was once as fertile
and as " inexhaustible " as the best Kansas
soil now is. If a change has been found
necessary there, will it not be needed here?
Finally, applying the test of common sense
to the problem. It is evident that it must
take a large amount of material to grow a
field of corn, or wheat or anything else.
Where does it come from ? Though water
and air furnish much our field crops are not
air plants ; the essentialportion must come
from ,the soil. Now, roots cannot bite off
and swallow particles of soil as was once be-
lieved ; they can feed only by absorbing
water, and with it the nourishment that it
may have dissolved in the soil: But soil
does not dissolve like s>;igar or salt. Only a
very small per cent. of its weight can thus
be dissolved in water, and it is this small
amount which constitutes its fertility ;
when that is used up its capacity to pro-
duce crops is gone. Anyone can see that
with continuous heavy cropping the stock
of fertility must in time be reduced, and if
nothing is done to maintain it, finally give
out ; and then we have an abandoned farm.
How to maintain the fertility of our
farms is a problem that ere long will force
itself in our attention It is the wist
es
course to solve it before it becomes pressing,
for the old adage that "an ounce of preven-
tion - is worth a pound of cure " had :never
a more apt application than there. What
to do to maintain the fertility can in a
general way be formulated in a few brief
rules :-
1. Save every scrap of manure, whether
produced in the stable or in the feed lot.
The era when it could be most profitably
disposed of by dumping it in the river is
gone, never to return. One cannot fully
appreciate the value of this pre-
cious material until he has seen
the farmers of Japan or China
go along the public road and carefully col-
lect the occasional droppings from passing
horses.
2. See that the best portion of the man-
ure is not wasted by leaching: Allow no
coffee-coloured stream to meander leisurely
from the manure pile to the creek ; for it
contains bushels of corn in the undeveloped
state.
3. Save the straw and use for bedding
for the stock what is not used for feeding.
It willmake the cattle more comfortable,
and serve as an absorbent of the liquid
manure,' besides furnishing much that is of
valve itself.
4. Haul the manure on to -the corn land
during winter, or early spring, and plough
it under as soon as possible. Never manure
directly for wheat and oats unless the land
is very poor. It is those who do so who con-
clude that "manure is injurious to this soiL"
In a wet season it may cause the straw to
grow so heavy that it lodges, and in tbe
dry season it may make the soil too porous
to retain the necessary moisture ; but none
of these objections apply to corn.
5 Adopt some system of rotation so the
same crop shall not occur two years, - or
at least not more than two years in succes-
sion in any given field.
6. Let red clover and tame grasses,
especially the clover,be a prominent part of
this rotation. Seed it early in the spring,
either by itself or with some mixture of grass
seed, but not with any grain crop. Useit
for meadow the first year, for meadow or
pasture the second, and the third, plough
under a good growth • of young clover as late
in the spring as practicable to prepare for
planting, or pasture it till mid -summer and
then break it up early and thoroughly for
wheat. If done before harvest it is better
than later.
7. If for any reason such a rotation is im-
practicable green manure fields in turn for
the corn each year, for which use somelegu-
minous plant if possible. The Southern
cow pea is the very best plaat for this pur-
pose. Let it fellow wheat, and plow the
land and sow the -cow peas broadcast, two
bushels per acre, early in July immediately
after wheat harvest. By the middle of
September there will be a heavy growth
which should be turned under before frost.
Other means for keeping up the fertility
will suggest themselves to the practical
farmer ; but if these points are adhered to
his land will never fail him, nor will he
need to patronize the artificial fertilizer
manufacturer who, in the East, profits by
the thoughtlessness of a former generation
of farmers in letting the land run down.
Curiosities in Marryin-
A work ingparson, whoseexperiences have
been gathered in large town parishes, tells
in " The Cornhill " some amusing stories
chiefly relating to the wedding ceremony.
Once it was his lot to be embarrassed by
the appeals of two young women who want-
ed to marry the, same bridegroom. The
first corner of these had scarcely told how
her faithless lover had actually put up the
banns in the East -end parish, when the
deliquent turned up with an idiotic grin on
his face and a gaily -apparelled young woman
on his arm. What could the parson—then
a young and bashful creature—do but invite
the trio into the vestry -room, there to dis-
cuss the business. Luckily for him, it
speedily leaked out that there had been no
legal residence in his parish, which afforded
him at once a sufficient ground for declining
to perform the ceremony. On another occa-
sion the awful discovery was made that
the bride had by accident been described
in the marriage licence by her pet name.
It was suggested that an affidavit of identity
sworn at a neighbouring police -court
might repair the blunder. This was done
just in time to complete the cere-
mony within canonical hours ; but the
accommodating clergyman afterwards re-
ceived a stern admonishment t from
high
g
quarters "not to do it again." Another case
was that of an elderly widower who was so
dull and stupid that it was very difficult to
marry him. When told to give his right
hand he gave his left ; when the minister
said " Say this after me," he immediately
remarked " Say this after me," But when
the words he was to repeat were given, he
was stolidly silent. "At last," says the
narrator, "he saw that I was somewhat
bothered by his extreme stupidity, so in the
middle of the service he upset my gravity
by volunteering the following apology :
'You see, sir, it's so long since I was married
afore that you must excuse my forgetting of
these things.' " One more sample. It
appears that it occasionally happens
that a couple who have been content to be
married at a registry office are some time
afterwards seized with a desire to be married
again, as the law allows, in church. The
working parson" having one day got such a
couple on the steps of the altar, he was rather
nonplussed by the answer he got to the
question "John, wilt thou have this woman
to thy wedded wife?" "When sir,"replied
the bridegroom, "1 told you we was married
two years ago."
The French Navy.
The French Chamber of Deputies on Mon-
day, after adopting the credit of 200,000 fr
for Colonial Missions, resumed the debate
on the supplementary credits for which M.
Cavaignac, the Minister of Marine, has
asked in order to bring the navy up to the
the desired standard. M. Brisson complain-
ed that the Budget of Marine was always
increasing, while the defensive forces of the
navy diminished. Passing on to a criticism
in detail, he condemned the defective or-
ganization of the Admirality, and said that
under existing circumstances a mobilization
in case of war would be attended with
difficulty. M. Brisson further declared
that, although the money had been voted
for the purpose, the ships were not yet
armed with quick -firing guns. M. Cava-
ignac replied. He said- that the supple-
mentary credits were necessary in order
that the naval programme adopted by The
Chamber might be carried out. He urged
that a strict pursuance of that programme
would have the effect of nearly doubling the
strength of the first line, and in particular,
the number of swift cruisers would be in-
creased. If the Chamber wanted the
marine time defences of the country to be
brought up to the level of the land forces,
it would have to pass a naval budget of
250,000,000 to 300,000,000 francs. The
generaldebate then closed, and severll votes
were agreed upon.
Extraordinary Burglary
In reports dealing with crime in our
Australian colonies, mention is made of
an extraordinary burglary recently perpe-
trated at an office in Sydney. The employes,
coming to work one morning, found that
the door of the strong room had been burst
open. A hole had evidently been drilled
through the iron door, and a charge of
dynamite inserted and exploded. The
outer door of the room was torn off the
hinges, and the glass of the window shat-
tered, while the steel and iron of the door
was twisted into a variety of shapes. After
all their trouble, the burglars only obtained
$2.80. -
Putting It More Direct.
" Ah, Wadleigh, do you hrppen to have
$5 that you don't need ?"
" Indeed I haven't."
Midgely thinks the question over and is
uncertain.
" Well, I say, Wadleigh, do you happen
to have ,$5 that I need badly!"
" There is but One Book."
(From the last words of 4ir Walter Scott.)
Fetch me the buke, d r Lockhart;
- An' gie me ane swe ward.
What buke ? There i nae ither—
The life o' th' incarnate- Lord;
I fee' the shadows creepin';
My licht's nae burnin' lang,
Sae read from the bleesit gospels
A bit, thiel, ere I gang ;
Fin' whaur he helpit the needy;
His pity wi' his micht !—
Oh,mT soul's sair hungry, Lockhart,
For the livin' bread, the nicht!
I think o' the dear disciples
Bae tassit on the sea
An' the wards he spakt tae Simon—
I kenthey'd comfort me ;
Tell o' the chitterin' sparrows—
Nae wan o' them can fae"
Tell hoo he callit the bairnies—
The dearest thocht o' a';
Read owre boo the ravin' tempest
Seekit silence i' the deep ;
Sae the surges i' my bosom
Are croonin' a' tae sleep.
Ye mann Batch the roll o' Jordan
r his wards to tbe Pharisee,
But ye'll hear him prayin', dearie,
r the sough o' Galilee ;
Dinna fash 'bout Judas' kisses,
Nor greet i' the garden dim,
But joy hoo the dyin' beggar
Foun' paradise wi' him ; -
Nae hent o' Thames dootin',
Nae ward hoo Peter fell;
It grie's me sair—their weakness,
Wha ken'toor Lord sae weeL
Read o' the walk tae Emmaus
That lang and tearfu' day,
An' Iat oor hearts burn, Lockhart,
As we gang the countries way,
Pluck me a lily, Lockhart,
A' Biller-dewt an' sweet ;
I see the rose o' Sharon,
An' mell the growin' wheat;
Let's join the throngin', dearie,
An' wait i' the wee bit ships
For the wards, like beads o' honey,
That fa' frae his hely lips.
Hoo sad the gospels, Lockhart,
Wi' his wan'r n' hameless lifo;
But there's ane grief fetches comfort,
- Ane rest that comes o' strife:
Noo tak' me, kin', gude Lockhart—
Aye tenner and true tare me!— -
Oot wY the dear disciples
" As far's tae Bethany ;"
I sair need rest, beloved,
An' the Iicht's a-wearin' dim;
But heaven's nae far fro Bethany,
An' sone I'll be wi' him.
An Amateur Bull -Fight.
Chappes, a little village near Clermont-
Ferrand, France,was the scene ofsomething
very like an amateur bull -fight, which left
nothing to be desired in the way of excite-
ment. M. Manuel, a farmer, was leading a
cow to the local fair, when the animal sud-
denly broke loose and started off to rush
through the street at the top of its speed.
The first victim was an old man of 70, whom
the cow hurled violently into a ditch. The
infuriated beast next attacked an elderly
woman, and pitched her a distance of 15
feet. After upsetting several peasants, and
injuring thein more or less severely, the
cow tore into the village of Chabreloche,
where it stopped suddenly in front of two
gendarmes, named Clavelier and Pommey-
rol, who placed themselves in its way.
After eyeing them for a few seconds, the
cow made a rush at Clavelier,who fortunate-
ly stepped aside, and hid behind a tree.
The cow then made a dash at the other
gendarme, who discharged his revolver
hitting the animal in the forehead. The
wound merely caused the cow to be more
enraged, and it made a second dash at
Clavelier, who fled across a field, closely
followed by the beast, at which Pommey-
rol fired repeated shots. Nine bullets took
effect, c but only rendered the cow absolute-
ly
bso e
lot -
ly mad. It attacked each of the men in
turn, until at last Pommeyrol, who had been
fortunate enough to obtain a gun loaded
with ball, shot it dead. The owner of the
dangerous beast will be prosecuted for
carelessness.
When Forks Came In.
It was about the year 1600, and in the
reign of James I., when forks were first in-
troduced into England. This " piece of
refinement," we are told, was derived from
the Italians. In a curious book of travels,
published in the year 1611, the writer says :
" I observed a custom in all those Italian
cities and towns through which I passed
that is not used in any other country that
I saw in my travels. Neither do I think
that any other nation in Christendom doth
use it, but only in Italy. The Italians and
also most strangers that are commorant
in Italy, do alwaies at their meales use a
little forke, when they cut their meate. For
while with their knife, which they hold in
one hand, they cut the meate out of the dish,
they fasten their forkes, which they hold in
the other hand, upon the same dish. This
forme of feeding is generally in use in all
Italy, their forks being for the moss part
made of yron, or steel, and some of silver,
but those are used only by gentlemen."
Before the revolution in France it was cus-
tomary, when a gentleman had been invited
out to dinner to send his servant in advance
with his knife, fork, and spoon. If he had
1:10 servant he carried them with him in his
pocket. Some of the peasantry in certain
parts of Germany and Switzerland to -day
carry a case in their pockets, containing a
knife, fork and spoon.
The Weight of Drops.
It has been repeatedly demonstrated that
the weight and size of drops depend upon
the exterior diameter of the dropping tube,
the interior diameter having no influence
except upon the velocity of the flow. Using
a dropper of one-eighth inch in diameter
and determining the weight by very deli-
cate balances the following results have been
obtained, fifteen grains s eight being taken
as the unit : Distilled water, 20 drops ; al-
cohol, at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, 52 drops ;
alcohol, at 90 degrees, 61 drops; ethereal
tinetiare, 82 drops ; fatty oils, 48 drops ;
aquec,ns solutions, whether diluted or sat-
urated, 20 drops ; wine 33 to 35 drops ; lau-
danum about the same ae wine.
1,700,000,000 Letters.
They say that the higher the civilization
of a country the greater is its correspondence
as indicated by the postal traffic. By this
test England should have nothing to -be
ashamed of ; because, during last year, as
by the official return, the Post Office deliver-
ed in the United Kingdom above 1,700,e00,-
000 letters -45 for every head of the popula-
tion. Then there were 330,000,000 post
cards, 481,000,000 books, 161;000,000 news-
papers, and 47,000,000 parcels -
"Trajan's Wall" is a rampart made of
earth and about 35 or 40 miles long, extend-
ing from Rassova, just at the big end of the
Danube, to the shores of the Black Sea.
Though only an earthwork it is a most for-
midable line of defence. Even now, eight -
teen centuries after its construction, it is
from 8 to 10 feet in height, with a clear cut
fosse in front of it.
The teacups used by tea merchaistts in
tasting tea are made especially fos itie pur-
pose of the finest French china, and have
no handles or saucers. The teas are care-
fully weighed out and placed in the cups,
when boiling water is poured on them.
Tea tasters nowadays depend more upon
the odour than the taste of teas, and some
of -the most expert do not taste them atall
bat rely entirely upon smelling.
SHOT THROUGH TILE HEART;
A Young Womr n /fettled By a Chilli's care.►-
Iessness.
A despatch from Charlottetown, P. Po
L, says:—At AIbany,Saturday,Mary Jame
aged 16; eldest daughter of Michael Mc-
Carthy of -this city., was accidentally shot
through the heartand instantly killed. De-
ceased was spending her vacation with her
uncle. She was in a room talking with her-
cousnta little child,who picked Er a load-
ed gun which was standing in the Darner' "-
andaccid'entallydischarged it with thefbove`
fatal result. The girl was being educated
for a nun at Notre Dame Convent. -
About the World's Fair.
It has been a kindly emphasized fact cone
netted with the World's Fair that women
have been given a more liberal place in
official work than has ever been granted
them before. They are showing that they
are -worthy the position they have gained
and the possession of a Woman's Building
on the Fair grounds, the design made by a
woman, is a conspicuous monument of their
success. The site alloted to the Woman's
Building is one of the best on the grounds.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, the president of the
Board of Lady Managers, was the first of
the applicants for space. and it is current
gossip in Chicago that when it was an-
nounced she was to visit the grounds for the
purpose of selecting a site the just minded
gentlemen who had it in their power to
apportion space intimated, with the assump-
tion of lordly airs and with, no doubt, cons
temptuous reflections, that the women stood
-little chance of getting what they wanted,
but when Mrs. Palmer appeared and chose
a spot which might be thought to have been
conceded with partiality, there was not a
question raised—indeed, the final fiat was
that they would have gladly given her any-
thing.
The Woman's Building faces the Midway
Plaisance, a beautiful roadway which con-
nects Jackson with Washington Park, and
will furnish many attractions of its own at
the time of the Fair. It is the first build-
ing in view at the presenttime as the visite
or nears the grounds by the railway.
The heroine of the Woman's Building is,
of course, Miss Sophie G. Hayden, the only
woman in America who has taken a four-
year course in a school of technology.
Up at the top of one of the city buildings
called "The Rookery"Miss Hayden has her
den. "The Rookery" is a rookery only in
name, as it is one of the fine tall buildings
which ate even more popular in Chicago than
in New York, and Neiss Hayden's room is
one of a suite devoted to the Bureau of Con-
struction. The room is like that of any
architect. Rough tables hold designs and
plans, and near the window on a high stool
without any back sits the young lady her-
self, poring over papers and drawings. She
is a dark -eyed girl, exceedingly youthful in
appearance, and without the smallest sign
of feminine coquetry or vanity. On the con-
trary, her mind seems thoroughly absorbed
in her work, and, like the modest rose, she
seems to have been born to blush unseen,
neither seeking nor caring for publicity.
Piled with questions from interested per-
sons, she answers in a soft, low voice and
in as monosyllabic terms as possible. As
women architects were almost unknown
until she came to the front, every word that
can be gleaned about her is sought for with
much curiosity. Shewas born in South
America, her mother being a Spanish wom-
an and her father a New Englander. She
came early to the State of Massachusetts,
and really only seems to have begun life
when she took up the study of architecture
at the Institute of Technology in Boston.
She went through the entire course of four
years, and upon leaving the school in 1890
began teaching in the manual training
school in the same city. It was at this
time that the Board of Lady Managers is-
sued the circular calling for a design for the
Woman's Building, and a friend of Miss
Hayden, who was in the Bureau of Con-
struction for the World's Fair; called the
attention of the young architect to it. This
led Miss Hayden sending to Chicago for in-
structions regarding the terms of the com-
petition, and finally resulted in her setting
to work on the design. All her thought
and attention were given to the work for
one month, and then the design was sent to
the Board of Lady Managers. As a result
in about a week she was telegraphed for,
and upon her arrival in Chicago she was
told that a decision had been made in her
favor.
The working drawings have since been
made under her direction, and from time to
time she goes down to the grounds to see
that they are carried out.
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A Cat Lett a Legacy.
Cats, as a general rule, are not set much
store by, even when their position in life is
that of a household cat. There is, however
at the present moment, and owing to
certain odd circumstances, a eat in the
French capital which has become, so to say,
a public character, in the sense that the
Municipal Council of Paris has had its at-
tention turned to it. Whether it be a fine
specimen of the feline race or a merely
common -place puss is not stated ; but evi-
dently the animal had a strong hold on the
affection of its lately deceased mistress. The
lady made a will, bequeathing to the muni-
cipality a ;ertain sum to be applied to the
educational wants of the poor children of -
her -district, on condition that the cat she
left behind her was as well cared for, for the
remainder of its days, as any Christian
could wish to be. The animal, the testa- -
trix stipulates, is to he placed out to hoard
with an elderly person of undisputed re-
spectability, who will undertake to look
after it and to see to all its comforts. In
order that the dear creature shall not suffer
from any alteration in the diet to which it
hp been accustomed for years, its late mis-
tress states that its three repasts per day
are to consist respectively of lights in the
morning, of liver at noon, and of a piece of
oalf's heart in the evening. Distinctly this
is a cat whose lot in life might excite the
envy of many a forlorn, abandoned child.
Emb:.rrassing-
In a school in Glasgow the other day, a
teacher proved that it may be embarrassing
to use one's self as an illustration.
The word " orphan " had been spelt cor-
rectly, but none of the class seemed to know
its meaning. After asking one or two of
them, she said encouragingly. " Now, try
again. I am an orphan. Now, can't some
of you guess what it means?"
One of the duller scholars raised his hand, -
and said. " Its someone - who wants to get
married and can't." -
A Big Circulation.
Advertiser : " What is your circula-
tion ?"
Business Manager of " Weekly Buster " ;
" Sir ! Our presses have a cap &ty of 100,-
000 perfect copies an hour—yee, dir, 100,-
000 an hour, all cut and pasted and fokled
yes, sir. - And here, sir, is a detailed and
absolutely perfect photograph ei one of the
presses. - -Look at it yourself."