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dew :
"' The water is rising In the apt
and I'm afraid all the milk and urea
the spring-bouae will' be lost; you
better see to it at once.'
Of the roil rose her i w sure ?,' oan'b gc dawn th
f d heir was glossy an mother, in alt thin rain,: I've just oho
the wing of the bird ; a voice street and ed my alobheo, and don't want to
blithe as a spring bird ` a brisk firm c ea
g P a h theme wet,' said Joe, looking oomplac
ootetep that never failed to bring a l down ab h fresh light
heightened color into the swarth cheek Y ghb geahirulb...-
lt At that moment one: of the hired m
of my oldeat scholar, Joe Dentis, who had been pitbin in the .oro o
She had been hia favorite schoolmate forward and seem gMrs. Dennis h,
always, end now that he was ororafn the ing, g n a pre
threshold of manh od sg to, hero herself, he took the amts
o , he had a Bart. from hand.
hi all his dreams and plans ; and though "" Never you mind,' he said ; ' I r
there had been no formal betrothal, yet on the rain won't spoil my clothes ; t
he knew that he loved her, and that the need washing, anyway,' and latt
in full measure, returned hie affe°tion. I pleasantly, he startd n a run for
knew it also ; knew it by the deepening epring.honae,
and widening of the rose -flush in her' "There was a shadow on mys iri
face when he eat beside her in class, or 'I rejoined the familyin the ei in Pro
lingered at her desk to consult her about but I resolved to wtch closely, the o
lessons. I had taught them for a few duct of him who had been ao ranch to
menthe each winter for 'year,, and had and to weigh ib impartial) let it e
learned to know them well. And as what it might. y,
they both grew more and more oenfiden• " But Joe rose. as I entered, placed
teal with me, it was quite plain to ° me a chair, and sprang quickly to pick
that they meant, Glad willing, to walk the handkerchief I had dropped, and
through life together. And when I ao- In all things kind and attentive to m
oepted a situation In a distant state, and ever. Bat his atbenttona were not reoe
parted from ray pupils and all the scenes ed with the pleasure theyusual) gave,
and friends of my early life, I thought I I began to see that thewereythh
knew how it 'would be with theae two from members of hie family.
long before I might return. " As the rain continued to fall, moth
Ten y,eare with their changes of light accepted the kind and pressing invitat
and shadow, had come and gone again given by our horst and his wife to pa
ere 1 again saw the home of my ehfld- the night with them. Thai we did
hood. It was • a fair, fresh morning in will be to me a matter of lifelong than
June, when on my way from the railway giving, though, at the time I euffe
station eo'the old homestead I panned the greatly, for the process of dieeneha
old sehool•houee. All looked jest as it wont waa to me very painful as ib we
did when I left ib, only the henna seemed on through that memorable evening.
entailer and more weather-beaten, and " With what indignant eurpripe di
the playground lees extensive. Half a see my lover look on with indifference
score of merry -voiced, rosy -faced boys hie mother dropped her ball of the ya
and girls were engaged In some noisy she waa knitting, and made many ;;vat
game within the enclosure, while juat as efforts to obtain it without rising.
the carriage stopped near the gate, a lib- could not alt quietly, bub rose to pick it
tie girl of eight or nine summers with for her. 1 laid it in her lap, received
booke and lunch•baeket'came to the en- warm "Thank you, child," and in
trance. turning to my chair, 1 passed Joe,
" Are you going to school, my dear 1" env eyes met. I do not know what
I mea- • saw in my face that made his flush
The child lifted a pair of soft, brown hotly. Then when hie father, who
eyes to my face, aa she smilingly answer- old and infirm, left the room for a fe
ed, "Yee, ma'am." moments, Joe took the eaay chair he h
"And wko is your teacher 7" waa my just vacated. On his return, the o
next question. gentleman stood for a moment near h
"Miss Katy Brown," wan the prompt non, but aa the latter did not offer to ria
reply, in a tone of pride au affection. he .passed slowly on to another seat.
At that moment a face, whioh caused Shortly after tea, Mark Holmes
old memories to come to the front with a whom you will remember as a form
bound, appeared in the doorway, and the pupil, came in on an' errand for hie fathe
bell in the hand of my old time pupil For the first time in my life I now b
gave out a quick, cheery jingle. My gen to compare hie manners with tho
first Impulse was to descend from the ear- of Joe Dennis, and the result waa an
riage, fold the dear, little teacher in my thing but favorable to the latter. Mar
alma while I made her answer the many showed much a reverence for age ; sue
question that came crowding to naylipe. thoughtful deference to women and h
But I had once been a teacher too long opinions, while Joe waa polite and abte
not to know what a serious interrnpti:,n tive only to me. After talking pleaaan
such a proceeding would prove. So, as I ly a while, Mark rose to go. Joe follow
saw she did not recognise me, I drove on ed him to the door, but seeing how dar
resolving to arrange that we should it was, and still raining, he said :
spend the evening together, and wonder- " Stay with me to -night, Mark ; it
ing not a little why she waa atilt Katy too bad for you to go out ; and you ar
Brown. I succeeded, and when we were not obliged to go, are you ?"
alone together in my room, the ruddy "' I told father I'd be home tonight
firelight falling over face and figure, as or very early In the morning. I have b
she sat at my feet, bringing out more do a great deal of work this summer,
and more strongly the picture of what I expect to go away to college early 1
she had been years ago, I asked : autumn.'
"And how is 11, Kity that you are not "' Then atay till morning,' eaid Squir
married, and Joe Dennis la? I thought Dennis; 'for if you're going away e
it was all nettled, and that on my return soon, we won't see much more of you.'
I should find you the happy mistreee of "' Thank you,' raid Mark, as he re
the pretty farm house over on the creek. turned to his seat.
Why didn't you marry him, if the reason " Mother was tired, and I was glad
is not too great a secret to entrust to retire with her pretty early. She wa
your old teacher 1" soon asleep, but I lay awake thinking
"No, certainly not, though I have over the events of the evening. I naw
never told it to any one but my mother. now, that Harry was right, and I
It was .juat in this way : From our been wilfully blind. Presently I hear
childhood, all who knew us took 11 for Joe and Mark come into the next roc
granted that we were engaged, and as and all was perfectly quiet in the house
Joe had no sisters, I never visited there. 1 could without an effort, hear their con
Indeed, when yen Left ua, I had never versation. ; aoaroely heeded them til
been in his father's house more than two Mark suddenly exclaimed :
or three times in my life, and when I "' I must be at home early. Yon get
have been there Joe was away, so that up,at daybreak, dent yon ?'
I never saw him at home. In my home "' Yes, I do in summer,' was the reply
he was always courteous and respectful ' but In winter I wait for the fire to
to my mother, bender and loving to me burn.'
and I never dreamed that he could be "` Waib for the fire to burn !' repeat -
otherwise than gentlemanly and polite to ed Mark in surprise. ' And who makes
any woman. True, brother Harry some- it, pray ?'
times told me that the good manners for '" 'Why, none of our hands sleep here
whioh you used to commend him at yen know, and Molly, the hired girl, is
school were only , put on ; that I ought so high and mighty she says she won't
to see- him at home, for there he was get up in the cold and make fires for the
rude, careless, and selfish. If I had beat man that ever was created; and father
been older I would have inquired par. has rheumatism, so mother won't let him
ticularly into it, and aaked him to prove do it, but does it herself generally.'
his assertions. But I was so young— "'And you let your mother do it,'
only sixteen—and always indignantly re- said Mark, in a tone of aatonishmenb, not
eented any such accusations of one so anmingled with contempt. ' And I sup -
dear to me, and Harry, not liking to pose when you are married, little, Mrs.
wound me, or provoke a quarrel, never Katy may do it 1'
entered into explanations. I thought "' hhe may if she likes,' was 'replied,
he was only jealous, and fearful of loos- in a cool, half cffended way ; 'it will be
ing the first plane in the affection of quite comfortable for me, I assure you.'
his favorite sister, and that this caused "Then there was a long silence, brok-
bim to be, as I then thought, nrjusb. en, at last, by a remark from Joe upon
But I aeoretly wished that I might see some other subject. Bat if my idol had
him 'at home,'as Harry said. ,An oppor• not fallen before, it came down now
Utility soon occurred. with a oraah. In anguish and dismay I
"One warm afternoon in July, as beheld my bright, beautiful dreams van -
mother. and I were returning from Hemp- ish before unsightly realities. The love
ton, where we had gone to do some shop- whioh' had grown up with me could not
ping, we saw and felt the approach of a die without a struggle. But when re -
thunder -storm. As the donde grew epect was gone, love slowly followed. I
thicker and darker, and the lightning could not respect one who did not 'honor
flailed more brightly, and at shorter in- his father and his mother,' as I had been
term's, and the thunder rolled each time taught by my mother and my Bible bo
nearer, mother said: do. And when a few days afterward he
"' I wish we were at Squire Dennis' ; caked me to be his wife, I declined the
we will stop there 1111 the storm is over. honor (1) not merely became 1 knew the
Nelly Is Penally gentle enough, but 1 life in store for me if I accepted, but be-
don b like to drive in a thunderstorm.' cause my love and esteem for him had
" We drove rapidly on, and just as the been sueceede,l by perfect indifference.
ret large pool drops came plashing down, " When I told mother what 1 had done
Nelly stood panting at Squire Dennis' and why I had done it, she said she was
gate, and at the same time the men and glad of it, and that she had known
boys came In from the hayfield. " One of along'of` this defect in his character,all
them took charge of the horse and buggyhad meant to tell` me o .elf 1 and
while Joe and hisfather ushered ua i - fib heresel .f2 did
into not find it out: in time for. myself; She
the pleasant. aisting-room, where we were said, also, that she. was lad to
warmly welcomed by .good, mother) eta with herloner g have me
y ylonger, , and that I might,
Mrs. Dennis. Farb driving and the wind if 1 wished, go way from home for awhile
had so tangled my curia that I. hesitated I entered the seminary at I.innvills, In
when the asked me to take off my' hat, the autumn ; in two year, I graduated
seeing' whioh my kind hostess led me to and for several years have boon our un -
a little bed -room Prat off the sitting -room worthysuccessr -in your
d arranging gt� the old oohool house
an after arranging everything for my And what of Markt 1 asked when
toilet, she went out, leaving the door she `paused. '
ajar, so that as I stood before the lass "He radnated in three ea
g g years, and is
brushing out my hairy I couid see and now principal of a hight,tiehool for boys,
hear what assed In the room adjoining. in Hampton," she said, y '
P J g , proddly.
Mrs. Dennis stood In the doorwaywatch-" And h
have you never regretted yonr
ing the dashing, pouring rain; Suddenly refusal of your old lover 1" I asked again,
Never did a oountr'y school-beaoher re.
joioe in a leveller pupil 'than I bad in
pretty Katy Brown. Fair, round °beeke.
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F' If I bad been bewpted to do so, 1 need
only visit Mrs. Joe Dennis, as I do very
frequently, When I hear her huebaud,
order her tie get him* drink of water, to
replenieh the Are, to find his coat, his
slippers ; yea, and his tools. I thank my
stars for the light they shed upon bis
character that enamer night in the home
of hie childhood. And though he gram -
bias if his meals are late or irregular or
improperly cooked ; in fact, la positively
rude and unkind to her sometimes yob
to me, or any other vieitor, he la polite
and pleasant as need be."
"He used bo be a handsome boy ; how
does he look now 2"
"He is, considered handsome now,"
said Katy ; " hie health la perfect, and he.
fa just in his prime -•-a remarkably fine
looking man."
"And she?"
"His wife ? You will see '' her to -mor -
raw, but I fear you will hardly recognize
in her the pretty, plump, rosy Amy Har-
ford, one of your old pupils. But mother
says she andher mother•in-law are great-
ly to blame that when Joe was a boy at
home, and kis father was unable to wait
on his mother, she should have required
it of her son ; and instead of bringing
wood and water, making fires, and the
like, she should have have compelled him
if necessary, to do thew things, and
taught him that ib is wrong and disgrace-
ful of men to allow women to do such
thinga for them ; and that hia' wife should
leave such things undone, as a matter of
coarse, until he does them or hires :'acme
one to perform such dubtee, aa he is per-
fectly able to do either."
"But, Katy, alt men are not ao an•
gallant and selfish -Mark Holmes, for
exempla. Have you ever bean in his
home 1'
A wave of soft color spread itself from
the delicate chin to the long, thick lashes,,
veiling the light in the blue eyes, as she
answered:
" Yea, often ; I have seen him, and
hie mother and sisters, and I am not afraid
that he will treat his wife rudely or care-
lessly. His gallantry is nob pub on to
meet atrangera, bub being a gentleman
tothe gore, he cannot act otherwise than
curteouely and kindly at home or else,
where."
"Ah," said I, "when Joe Dennis ask-
ed my little `pupil to marry him, Katy
didn't. Bub Mark. Holmes has asked
her, and Katy will."
And the answer came in a tone, low
and sweet :
" Yea, Katy will,"
Woman's Best Friend.
THE EPA•BM.
Nen Who Succeed With Vheep.
Under the above head the Breeder,' Ga,
vette makes some sound, and sensible re-
marks,; Depressed and unpromising as
sheep farming and all other farming le rapt
now, there are, novertbeleus, some who
make It pay,
The mon who make a succeed of sheep
hnslaandry are oonf nod to no special to.
°silty, are found wedded to no particular
breed or variety of sheep, evinoo no oher-
raoteristlo in common beyond a persistent,
intelligent determination to adapt their
surroundings to forging the beat possible
results from their expenditure of labor and
money.
They are found among the owners of
high•prleed lands dividing the busy cities
of the eastern and older statue, with round•
bodied, early maturing sheep, always ready
to respond to the metropolitan demand for
first-class mutton,
They are found on the grassy hillside. of
the middle and manufacturing States, where
near -by markets and fleeces and camas -see
render the hook a favorite investment for
those who know how to get the beet reaalts
from it,
They are found in the grain growing re•
glens, where corn and oats and hay are
marketed in the form ef welifattened mut•
ton oareaaaes and weighty fieeoes, leaving
the land as rich as they found it and reduce
ing the toll of the common carrier by many
fold,
They are found along the frontier, where
free' pasturage for rammer and cheaply
raised grain ler winter are enured fact..
Scattered as they are, all over the coun-
try, addicted of necessity to adverse eye -
toms of management, nevertheless the men
who have made a suction of sheep hus-
bandry willbe, found to Suess certainuni-
form oharacterletice, " They are intelligent,
experlencedeprudent, persevering. Intel-
ligent enough
ntel-ligentenough to' 'appreciate their own'Nur-
reundinge and • to knew the type of sheep
best suited thereto. Sufficiently experi-
enced to know that their btisinese le not
necessarily a failure because prioee for ite
product are not uniformly high, Prudent
enough to eeoape the panto whioh periodi-
cally seizes their weak-kneed oo laborers,
and to profit by the mistake's of those who
persist in selling ;.when sheep are low and
buying when, as a reault of much folly,
prides again advance, Persevering, with
faith in that average of regain whioh hate
made sheep husbandry as good a record for
profit as can be shown for any other agrioul•
aural specialty.
These are the men to whom these young-
er ones who think of becoming flock -own -
ere should lock for Tenons, rather than to
that blase of talkers and writer, who at
• times occupy the public attention,
A hairpin is a woman's beat friend. Ib
fits a multiplicity of uses, and she !e
never without one. If her hair is short
you can depend upon it that in a recess
of her purse or a pocket of her reticule
you will find the hairpin, and who ever
saw a woman button her gloves with any-
thing else ? If her head itches does she
scratch it with her finger? Nonsense I
She whips out a hairpin and relieves her-
self. Suppose a nickel has dropped be-
tween the bars of the wooden foot grate
in the street oar. Does she soil her
fingers as a man would, and then not get,
it ? Certainly not. Out comes the hair•
pin, and the coin Is lifted out without
trouble.
If herehawlpin is lost, where so good
a aubatitute as the hairpin? If she eata
a nub does she take a nutpick ? Mont
assuredly nob. The hairpin again. It le
with the hairpin that rhe rips open the
uncut leaves of a book; if a trunk key is
missing a hairpin opens the refractory
lock as neatly as a burglar's skeleton key
would; with it she cleanses her finger-
nails and, if it is a clean one, even picks
her teeth. And the feats of hair -securing
that she will make a simple bow-legged
hairpin accomplish nearly surpaesee the
belief of man. Altogether, ib deserves to
be clamed among the great inventions of
the world, and the grave of the original
man who created'the first one could have
no prouder epitaph than this ; "This le
the kind of a hairpin he was."
Peculiarities of One Hundred Years Ago.
An Englfeh, paper whioh has a taste for the
things of yesterday, reprints the following
paragraphs from the Stamford Mercury of
1786
February 1.—Eliza Masi died at Florence,
aged ninety. She has had .even husbands,
marrying the last at the age of seventy,
She ordered by her will to be buried next
her fifth husband.
June 15.—Mrs, Hartle, of Hill Farm,
Berkshire, aged nearly eighty, was married
to her plowman "a stout young fellow of
twenty."
July 20.—Married at Formby, Lancashire,
Mr. Norman, age ninety, to a lady of sixteen
with a genteel fortune; and at St. Law•
renoe's Reading, Mrs. Matthews, widow,
aged seventy-four, te Mr, Allen, aged twen-
ty-two.
August 9.—Two ladies were oonvioted be-
fore the Lerd Mayer of London, in the pen-
alty of twenty-five dollars for wearing chintz
gowns.
-.rem.—e,
A Fatal Game of Cards.
Thomas Turley, aged aged 22, of Jersey
City, was admitted to St, Francis Heapi-
tal, in that city, en June 14, snffering from
a fraoture of his right elbow. The .surgeon
told Turley that he could not live many
hours. Turley then sent for one of the
hospital Sister , and told her that he really
got in a fight with Charles Gallagher. , He
said Gallagher and he were playing cards on
June 7, and they get Into a dispute, whioh
ended in Gallagher hurling a atone at him,
The stone hit hie elbow, Turley said he re-
frained from telling the truth about the
matter before because he did not want to
injure Gallagher, who, until the time of the
fight, was his boat friend, The Sister no-
tified the police; and Gallagher was arrest-
ed. He was taken to the hospital by a
poliaeman, and the dying man repeated his'.
ebatement, Gallagher acid nothing, Tura
ley at first thought nothing of his injury,
and did not realize his dangeruntil inflam•
motion had set in,
Mrs, Hendrlake, the landlady (to
boarders)—I have jaot sent Bridget to the
grooer's for come eggs, They will be here
presently, Bridget ,(returned front the
grocer's)—The mon slat me book to ax ye
if ye want the kind of eggs ye got for tonin'
or the kind ye get for om'ieta 7
The Queen of Spain had given the
sword of the late King. Aliondo to the
Royal Escort Horse Guards of Madrid,
having had inaoribed on it, "Guard the
sword of him who guarded in life."
Timely Bue'Peationa.
The old saying 1e that one cannot eat his
oaks and have it too; but it ie possible to
dig Nome petatoee out of a hill early with-
out dieturbing the planta, and then by re-
placing the earth have the roots throw out
a new set of tubera. This le an economy in
growing early potatoes that may bo prao-
ticed when the first tubera ready for
market bring high prices, but not enough
to warrant pulling up the vines for halt a
crop.
Canada thistles that have an even start
with either oats or barley will ripen their
Beed before the grain to ready to harvest.
This'ehonld be prevented, if possible, as
thistle seed going with grain straw into the
manure heap is ono of the way. in whioh
this peat is spread, A man with a sharp
hee will out ant the thistles in the grain
while it 1e yet email, and In many cane the
gain to the grain crop will entirely pay for
this expense, leaving the check to the
thistles as olear profit from the operation.
Lath make excellent• bean pole.. Drive
In two to the hill, starting at an angle of
eay 75 degrees, remembering that 90 de-
gree,ls a point direotly overhead. Let
the., lath meet at the top. When the
vines reach the ends allow them to lap over
a foot, and then pinch them off. You will
get more beano, even of Limas, than if al-
lowed to grow six or eight feet high. Try
it In a small way and Net me right if I am
wrong. 'I have made mistakes a few times
in my life and hope to again.
Thin ont the fruit. If we would have
large; fine fruit, a certain proportion of.
leaves to fruit must be established. It
seems a waste to out off a dozen bunches of
grapes' upon a single oane; a waste to de-
stroy six young apples where there era but
nine. Still a green plant oan only do so
much work. Take your choice between an
abandaaoe of inferior fruit or lees of the
best quality.
John Tacker says, in the Farm Journal,
that it does him geed to hear people talk
about clever and hogs. There is no way a
farmer can improve a field faster than by
seeding it down and pasturing hogs on 11—
nnleas it is to sow peas in a lot and then
let the hogs eat them en the ground, A pint
of cern fed to a hog every day in a clever
pasture will make it fit for killing before
oold weather. Two quarts of middlings a
day wet up and fed to a hog, wintered ever,
In oonneotion with good pasture, will make
it ready for the market in autumn. In this
oheap way the hogs may be fitted for mar-
ket early and the land fitted for a geed crop
c f Dorn the next year. The shut -up system
of making pork is mighty poor economy.
The hogs will do a great deal for us if we
only give them a chance.
The Boer's Retort.
The Tranevaalers are generally offensive-
ly rude to Englishmen; but, as a rule,
their insults lack point. There is, however,
something almost like wit in the Boer's re-
tort recorded by Mr. Anbertin in his "Six
months ina
C e Colony
and
Natal."After
a hot wrangle : "What at ie • the use of a
handful of rude animals like you," eaid an
Englishman, " pretending to beat a coun-
try like euro? Do you know that the sun
never sets on the Queen's Dominions?"
" What ef that?" asked the Transvaalor.
" Why, it shows our enormous power."
It rather shows something else, in '-my
opinion," " What may that be ?" "It
shows you are such a set of rascals that
Providence can't trust you in the dark 1"
She Didn't Wish to Appear Stiff.
" My dear," said a mother to her
daughter, "shall I hoip you to Bones of
the Dorn starch • pudding 1"
"No, ma, I cannot eat theuddin to-
daday," th un l , "for g
y, p e young lady you
know Charlie is coming to•nlght."
Ma looks up in aurpriee at het daugh-
ter, wondering if the young lady • had
become deranged.
" You see, tea," said the young mise,.
"if I eat Dorn starch pudding it might im
part a abiffneas'' to my manners, and
Charlie would ° think that I did nob love'
him as well as ever."
THE INSANITY 01' Qk QEG.E Ili.
Sketek et his One lay a (treat realuab
George 111., who was en the throne ter
fift7 aslne years, and who died at the ripe
old age of 82, had no leas than five diettnot
attacks of insanity. The first attaok allow-
ed itself In 17(16, after he had been on the
throne for five years, when he was only 27
years of age. F'r'om this ported until 1810
he had relapsed, amounting to five attaolts'
in all. He made, apparently, complete re.
°overtop from all these exoept the teat,
whioh occurred ten years before he died.
These periodical attaoke of insanity we
of short duration, the average being s
menthe. The symptoms of the first w
studiously kept from the world at largo a
from the members of hie family and hone
hold. During his illness Seven physioia
ministered to his wants. Pitt was lath
aatoniahed at having revealed to him ee
important State secrets from the Kin
His condition was one of melanohoiia, a
tended with shedding of teare and mu
constitutional mischief. He was irritabl
119 one dared to oppose him or to cent -real
him in anything. He did not often real!
hie real amental state, but won
declare that he was as well as he had e
been in his life. He would, without au
reason, beoonte dfseatiafied with his 'Mini
tern and draw up, a list ef fresh ones. D
Warren was his chief and favorite phys
Dian, This eminent Doctor war, in additio
to being the royal phyaioian, ale° retaine
as medical` attendant by the leading state
men of the time -Burke, Fox,and Sheridan
He wasprofeeabon.
.00nsidered to be the head of'h
Dr, Warren being, a generalphysioien,
wee ultimately' considered desirable to ha
a apeoialist in attendance on him, Th
R. Dr, Frannie Willie was chosen for
this eject. In addition' to ministering t
the spiritual wants of his parishionera,•h
would try hie skill in brain affections, an
to ;auk an extent were his efforts sucoesefn
that he established an institution for th
°aro of the insane, and, having made a nam
in that branch of Lie profession, was chose
ar the " mad doctor" to the King. Thoug
at the age of seventy years when appointe
to the post of medical speoiallst to Georg
III., he fully retained his talents and lapel
Hee to the very utmost, "a man of
thousand, open, honest,' dauntless, light
hearted,inneoent,and high-minded." H
tosk'up his residence at the palace, bein
always in attendance on hie Majesty.
Ihe medical treatment was arranged In
morning consultation ; and It was under
stood by the othet doctors that that Dr
Willis was not to undertake any decide
step in the treatment of hie patient nail
after the physicians had met, the °the
dootore visiting in stated order and rotation
Two surgeons and apothecaries were ale
retained, doing their amount of duty as pre
presoribed. The medicinal treatment w
purely 'ef`a tonic and saline denoription, the
remedy principally used being cinchona
bark, At the time of whioh I write me
ohanioal restraint occupied a prominent
part In the management of the insane, and
to this now almost exploded form ef treat-
ment the King' was subjected. There was
nothing, however, in his condition whioh
jnatified the nee of it, judging from our pre-
sent view of the matter.
The King himself did not after his oonva
lasoenoe regard the restraint oystem as harah,
for one day walking through the palace after
his reoovery from one of hie attack', he re-
marked "It is the beet friend I ever had
in my life," alluding to a strait waistcoat,
which had net been put away. In 1781,
during his second attack, is consequence of
ite length and the gaestionn before Parti -
meat being of the meet vital importance in
their Iuueit was found necessary to draw
the attention of Parliament to thedesirabili-
ty of providing a regenoy to manage the
State aflaire. It was universally agreed that
the Prince of Wales should aot as Regent,
There were, however, dieuenrionn between
the Whigs and Tories as to what powers he
should assume in his regency.
A committee of the House was appointed
to examine the physicians, the reports of
oh
anexamination being laid on the table. A
few days after this committee sat the follow-
ing queetiena were submitted to the phyla -
ohms taa
os : "Is his Majesty incapable by reason
of the present state of his health of coming
to Parliament er of attending to pabilo burl
noes? What hopes are there of recovery ?
IN yonr answer on this question founded
open the particular symptom of his Majes-
ty's ease or your experlenee of the disorder
in general ? ,Can you form any ,judgment or
probable conjecture ef the time his Majes-
ty' illness is likely to last ?.Can you assign
any cause for hie illness ? Do you see any
elm of convalescence ?"The answers were
not on the whole satisfaotory, exoept the
one relating to the probability of recovery,
whioh was answered in the affirmative.
The King did recover, but only to have a
further relapse, and during this time all
publio business was at a standstill. Lord
Eldon, the Lind Chancellor, an Intimate
friend of the King, was held personally re-
sponsible for many of the strange actions
performed by hie Majesty during tie men-
tal derangement. This State of affairs went
en until the time of his last seizure in 1812 ;
though at?times even then taking deep inter-
est IJn politics, he was generally completely
mentally incapacitated, He frequently
shed tears. He fancied that he was dead,
and one day remarked : "I mast have a
suit of black in memory of George III,for
whom I know there is a general mourning."
He talked to imaginary individuals, his
memory a complete blank, eapeolally for re•
cent events. Toward the end of 1819 bin ap-
petite failed him, and in 182011 was impoaoi-
ble to keep him warm, and hegradually rank
and die f Jan, 19, 1820,
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Mrs. Catherine Waggner, aged 111, and
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Rtbecoa Waggner,
109
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g years, live: within eight of each
ether, near Bartereville, Ky, They have
never seen a railroad, and euoh has had for
fifty years a silk dress laid away in whioh
to be burled.
India -robber la menaced with a rival.
The rdbber dealers of Eastern Nicaragua
think they have discovered; a tree whose
gum will give as mach satisfaction as ,rub -
bar, and will, in fact, take Ito place. They
say that the milk of the tuno furnishes a
meat excellent gutta-peroha, equal to the
best found in the Eastern tropics, while
the number of trues is virtually inexhausti-
ble, and the gum can be produced with
profit at twelve conte a pound.
J. P. Jaffray and R, M. Jaffray are two
Canadian brothers who publish in Chicago a
weekly journal called the Canadian Ameri•
can, fwhioh not only publishes a great deal
of news about Canadians in all parts of the
United States, but also contains a oomplete
epitome of news from all sootlona of the
Canadian Dominion, Although livingin the
United States, the Jaffray@ aro veryethusl-
testio Canadians, and no Canadian newe-
paper takes .a more hopeful view of the
future of Canada and the pernianenoy of the
Confederation than does the Canadiaa Am -
'Mid Gleaming °heaves.
arc. W. assault.
'Mid gjeamtrigehfuves—rich pilins fair_-
In eunin ee.6 high flood•titte.
Bread °hooted roans with earnest, ogre
Are swinging. brawny .arms and bare.
Strong -measured, aide by nine.
'Mid ggleaming sheaves of golden lane
sine ampere, move inline
'shell clean out track leawindin thr
Bright lades e'erarob d g 0e,
e by cloudless blue,
And vales where waters shine,
The reatleee olink of dashing steel
Resounds in accents bolcl;
Our hearts a tender pity feel
For taut-livee.orn"hed "neath ruthless heel,
To gain the wealth they hold.
The nodding block of yellow grain
Ie slowly chiselled round;
Behind the toilers etands;a train
Of amber towers a stretching lune
Between of atubble•grouno.
The throbbing hours of noonday heat
Are spent where brook-wavea play ;
The teasing ripples, sparkling sweet,
Seem °nPrines poured at Caren' feet --
Libations crowned with spray.
When leaving afternoon oast,
An robin vespers ring,
And dreaming twilight thick ns fast,
The gleaners homeward turn t laet.
Through paths where de
la)
cling.
Do they whose eyes btoadhat`brime hide
Bee nature'e beanteoue face; ..5
Or do their think of naught beside
The small due at eventide,
A. up the slope they pawl
Do flrm•winged larks that skyward sail
Sing them a song of joy?
Do they applaud the whistling quail?
Or do these sights and sounds ao stale
Their sordid eoule annoy 1
Far from the rushing world's highways
Their peaceful pathway lies;
'Tie strange if oomee from them no praise
Of spreading leas and song -birds' lays,
Clear rills and glowing skies.
PEOPLE.
Prince Waldemar, of Denmark, has
started en a scientific expedition to the
coast of Greenland.
Annie Pixley, the well known actress,
will apend her Summer holidays other home
in Port Stanley, Ont,
Acoording to a Paris newspaper the Prin-
cess Pignatellia ie serving as a waitron
in a Vienna cafe concert hall,
Mre. Gladstone, it le repported, will take
an active part in the coming election cam-
paign, in advancing her busbapd'a cause,
"It is wonderful hew the lunge weaken
when men get into the witness@ box," re-
marked Judge Rose, of Toronto, a day or
two ago, as he exhorted a witness to speak
up.
The Empress of Austria has gone to
Lake Stranberg, Bavaria. She will after-
wards visit Gaetein, where she will re-
main until the arrival of the Empress of
Germany.
James Creelmaa, a New York reporter,
has made several of the highest baleen ata
°ereione in the United Staten, has travelled
15,000 miles In a canoe. and can interview
a Chinaman in the heathen's awn language.
Mra. Ketchum of Brantford, Ont„ last
week was christened into the Wolf tribe of
Indians as "Neoskaletah,",the, lee Prairie
Rose. The ceremony was an he' orary one,
Mre. Ketchum being a special friend of
some members of the tribe.
Archibald Forbes, who was married
recently to the daughter of General Meigs
of the United States army, presented hie
bride elect with a .necklace composed of
twelve el the medals given him by European
primate for deeds of valor.
Leopold Von Ranke, being once invited
to lunch with the King of the "Bel-
gians, made himself @o agreeable at table
that the party remained seated listening
to his talk till they were told t, dress for
dinner. Thin is regarded a greatest
triumph on reoerd of genius' 'ever court
etiquette.
Chief Gardener Watkins, of the Horticul-
tural Gardens, Toronto, tbinka- there ie
special virtue In rain water for plants,
After a heavy shower whioh succeeded a
prolonged drought lase week, he remarked
to a reporter : " You can use hose and
watering can until you are old and bent,
but you cannot de as mach in a month as
snob a ahower can do in ten minutes, Its
the pure quill, fresh from the hillsides of
the olonde, and there in more plant food in
a quart of it than there fe in a watering cart
full of oity.water.
1--alssf 1
Earthquakes and other Earth Movements
We are aocustomed to: think of the earth .
at something solid and fixed; and, as a
testlmonial of tide impression, the Latin
phrase terrafyrma, firm land or solid ground,
has been naturalized in the languagee of
nearly all civilized peoples. On the other
hand, we speak of water as unstable. But
the geological history of the earth and, the
mora careful ebtervatisne of modern times
have taught um that these ideas do not cor-
rectly represent the qualities of the land-
masses and water -mama of the glebe as
compared with ene another. The ancient
shore -marks en the continents and the phen-
omena of elevation and subsidence that
have been obeerved in historic 'times, con-
firming their evidence, shows that the land
the and the ocean are continually changing
the level as one another; and it has further
been made evident, by experiment, as well
as by a priori reasoning, that It is not the
ocean tnat changes, bat the land which
undergoes alternate movements of elevation
and depression, An earthquake shook le a
phenomenon well adapted to destroy the
faith of any person who feels one in the fix -
edam of the earth ; and ouch, by the evi-
dences, is the effect for the time on all who
experience these shooks. Eben the 'l
pulsations which sometimes pass over rt
of the country
ani°
and eat zoti"e a
momentary impression that everything! is
falling over or slaking away; while the
more violent shooks that are felt in earth-
quake -infested countries produce fndesoriba-
tie terror; and such oataetrophee ua those
historical earthquakes of Lisbon and Cara,
oar, and the more reoent ones of lochia and a
the Strait of Sunda amount te a demonstra-
tion that the reason for such terror le real,
and that the continents also cannot eeoape
the general law of change and perishability.
Earth•movements—the name by tthioh
these phenoniena may be most convenient-
ly described -are various, and comprise, so
far as they aro now oonaidered, earthquakes,
or sudden violent movements of the ground;
earth -tremors, or minute Movements which
usually eeoape attention by the smallness
of their amplitude ,•' earth pulaatione, or
movements whioh are overlooked on account
of the length of their period and earth me
oillationr or movements of long period and
large amplitude—like the shifting of levels of
landamasees-whioh attract attention from
the geological importance. Same' of these
movements) have only reoently begun to at-
traot attention, . They are all intimately
associated In their eeonrrenoe and their ort.
a