The Brussels Post, 1898-7-29, Page 2TRI BRUSSELS POST.
JULY 20, 189$
ANTONIO OMO D CA ARA
A PADUAN TALE]
Morning brought its reflections, Ile
felt that in the contagious animation
of the night, he had taken a deoisive
lltep, and there were moments when.
Ore wished that he had Hesitated,
"Higher oases and stronger interests
might be compromised by his Mealy -
merit In elle necessary duties of a
soldier. Be bad plunged Into a new
oareev, too, without taking the ad -
Vice of the woman to whose happiness
the was pledged." But the Hunger-
ian'e arrival put to flight the dreams
gf irresolution at onoe. lie brought in
eats hand the Flmperor'e signature to
the eommisaion.
You are now," said lie, not more -
le one of us but what id more import-
tvat, you are in a position to forward
Tour own objects with the Court, State
our grievances there, with whatever
plainness you like. Francis is a plain
'Man, perfectly honest; in short, a
trueborn Austrian; and, if, you but
make him understand your case, be
Rill do you justice. In the mean time
fie added, gravely, "I aha afraid that
our .hasty proceedings last night are
.likely to give you a more sudden ex-
perience of service than I should have
desired for my friend. The news from
France becomes of a still more angry
description. The republicans, like all
lovers of license, are running will iu
their zeal for every man's rights, In
their liberty, they are plundering, im-
prisoning, butchering and preparing to
rob every nation's property; and in
their promises of le golden age, pro-
claiming war against every people of
Europe. We may bate same rougb
work, even in this country, unless we
look to it with more activity than is
• un
generally found in Aulic Cccils,'—
Likely enough; but what is all this
to me!" interrupted Carara, with a
smile. "I am a soldier, and the soon-
er I win my spurs the better. enel-
cOme war, or anything but winter
waters in the good city of Milan."
The colonel congratulated him on his
having so soon found the tone of eon
dierabip; and the rest of the day was
given up to the details of his prepuce -
Con, his visits, his introductions, hiss
equipment, -has commission, and his
Styrian charger. The next day's le -
'Yee was appointed for the presenta-
tion of his memorial to the Emperor.
It was still (tusk when a knock at
,the door of his °hember roused him
from dreams worthy of Caesar or Alex-
ander. It was the Colonel's orderly.
. The regiment, was appointed to be on
parade within the half hour, and to
march within the hour. The news was
unexpected—but Carara was on the
spot within the required time. To the
inquiries which rose on all sides, the
general answer was total ignorance of
the purposes of this sudden movement.
But the appearance of a long train of
royal equipages moving from the gate-
ways of the Emperor's quarters soon
helped to illustrate the difficulty. The
regiment drew up and saluted as the
Impanel carriage passed; an officer al
the stall rode up to the Colonel, afew
words were exchanged, and the re-
sult appeared In the Colonel's sonor-
ous voice ordering the right wing of
the regiment to foil into is he proces-
sion, and move forward as the es-
cort. The Hungarian then put him -
sale at their head—a courteous smile
and a wave of the sabre were the
cony parting civilities allowed by the
time on either side; and Carara, as he
saw him plunge into the retiring cloud
of plumage and lances, felt as if struck
by some personal misfortune.
Weeks rolled along; the ground of
the Emperor's speedy retreat was as-
certained to be intelligence '1f an ar-
mament preparing to invade the nor-
thern Italian provinces, Large bodies
of troops had been colleoted at Di-
jon, to be thrown over the, route from
Nice, and flank the Austrian armies
on the Alpine frontier. The rumor
died, w -as revived, died again, and thus
the winter wore awy. The division
of the Hungarian guard left behind
to attend upon the Viceroy was con-
tinually harassed by the minor de-
tails of the most perplexing of all ser-
vices, a service of peace, in the hourly
expectations of war. teaming is the
natural resource of the foreign sold-
ier, on all occasions when he cannot
sleep. Play ran high among the Guard,
quarrels were the consequence, and
Carats was reluctantly compelled to
exhibit his swordsmanship, The
sword however, had been the only ex-
ercise of his luxurious life; and as
anything in the hands of the dexter-
ous Italian become superior to the
finest means 3n those of almostany
man of another nation, as he excels
in adroitness of touch, quickness of
eye, aand.elasticity of hem, the Count
came off on all occasions with flying
colors, Still the character of the re-
giment had degenerated, and he would
have willingly abandoned all the bon -
en that war had in prospect, to re-
turn to his own province, bury bimself
In a hermitage, and, with bis wife and
child, forget and be £orgottea by the
world.
Yet to adopt this plan was now Im-
possible, He was fairly bound to a
service which no man could abandon
while a sword was drawn against
Austria. His only solace was his cor-
respondence with his Countess, and
hie only feeling that his existence was
of use to any orte,was in his perpetual
urgency of his ease on the Court.
through his friend. But all the haz-
ards of a life in a great flatten eil.y 1
are not to be found in trials oL skill
with the rapiers of unwieldy Hunger- ;
San horsemen, Clarara's handsome 1
countenance had long hacom a topic 1
among the Duchesas and \Iarcheses of
the Viceroy's circle. Ilis animaled
elegancia, when be was animated nit
and. the graceful 'melancholy which
deepened every feature of Ole noble
countenance tato the expression of
an Antinous,. when 111e hour of ex-
citement was paste threw the crowd
of Milanese faces totally into the
barkgrotnd, Letters and presents
from unknown hands, sonnets in his
honor, and stones for his elrnirat.inn,.
found him insensible. But, the storm
of the Lender passion continued not,
tits lens to assail the frozen heart of
this;nunatural son of love-maktnr,love-
breathing and love -talking Antonin,
But the seethed revalleri were not
equally blind to this„ e
' hemi. A hangh•
ty balf-barbarian prince of the Frloulne
chose to feel insullod by a ser of
an equally haughty, but supremely
polished princess oe the Forrarese, who
had fixed her establishment, her lap-
dogs, and her lovers, under the wings
of the Court, A comparison of ibis
ruthless Visigoth with the handsome
officer of the Guard, marked him for
the direst vengeance.
A heavy tread with the foot, in the
La Scala, in the midst of one of aSlon-
talegrl's most exquisite ballets, and l'
in the moment when a Signora, Sare-
phine Cher•ubinn. was in one of her
most aerial engine, pirouetting over
her expiring father and king, to the
universal ecstasy,- first acquainted
Carara that he had an enemy in the
capital. An tomtit wbich followed, and
a reneontre which followed the insult,
satisfied his convictions on the subject,
and ought to have satisfied the indig-
' . nant prince, who left the garden be-
hind the theatre before the Signora
had made a second pirouette, with six
finches of the guardsman's sabre
' through bis sword. -arm, and a slash
across the °beak, which disqualified
i him from wearing a mustache on that
side for ever.
This journey added to his reputation
' his charms, and his worshippers, but
,it added formidably to his hazard. He
' was not left long in doubt on 'this
point. Within the next twenty-four
hours, as be was gazing out of bis
chamber -window, inhaling the mid-
night air, after a conversazione of
supreme fashion, intolerable heat, and
invincible ennui, at the Palazzo of
the Minerva of Milanese ladies, the
Countess Atene Herculaneo, and Lhink-
ing whether such grave fooleries were
,transacted in the full moon, aback he
saw then pouring down its calm sffnl-
genee in the gardens of the hotel, he
was startled from his speculation by
a carbine -loud of bullets fired directly
at the spot where he stood. The win-
dows end walls returned the explos-
ion with au universal crash, but two
of the bullets reached their mark in
bis person. Ile was shot severely in
the neck and arm, and was found by
the attendants, wbo rushed in on hear-
ing the report, lying bleeding on the,
ground, and apparently dead. The
Italian doctors are not always more;
successful than the Italian bravoes and
therefore Carara recovered: but the
recovery cost him three months of
i
confinement, and nothing but his sol-
dierseip could have made him remain
an hour among the conversaziones, the
countesses, or the oavalieri of Milan.'
A still mors painful source of anxiety
bad bean lately opened on him. Some
of the miserable suspicions, which
make• the very atmosphere of the little
Italian states, had driven his friend,
the old Marquis, from bis home, unci
with him lois wife and child had been
torcel to fly. The heart of the un-
fortunate Count was wsigbed to the
earth by this intelligence; but what
was to be done All correspondence
with his family had ceased: it had pro-
bably been intereepled, and perhaps
involved bis Incomparable and he-
roic wife and her generous friend in 1
the seventies exercised witbout delay 1
on every symptom of discontent with
the proceedings of power, His old en-
emy, the Governor of Pavia, was prob-
ably at that moment the master of all
that he valued in the round world.
The thought was madness, Feeble as
be was be flung himself out of hislbed,
demanded au audience of the Viceroy, '
obtained a month's leave of absence,'
and set out, fevered and faint as he,
A ae, for Pavia, but as the °erriage
stopped at the first barrier, for the 1
examination of his passports, he heard I
his name loudly pronounced by a party ;
riding full speed to the city. It: was'
the Hungarian .coming with a de-
tachment of the Imperial staff to re-'
join the garrison. He brought tidings
that instantly put an end to Carara's
journey. The French were in nom -
/Jowly; an unexpected army had passed
tbe Alps under the First Consul; and
while the Austrian Cabinet were idly
intriguing in Paris, the Auric Council'
fixing all their grave telescopes on a
Damp of ten thousand ecnseripis at
Dijon, an army oe sixty thousand of
the finesttroops of the Republic, head-'
ed by their favorite General, was pour-
ing down from the defiles in all quer-1
tars, unit nus at this moment in full
march upon Milan.
The news was received as all such
news must be in a vast, populous, tur-
bulent, and profligate city. A11 was
instant tumult. The Frenole parti-
sans, and they were rapidly increased
by the near hope of prey, plunder, and
revenge, openly insulted the Austrian
authorities. The Austrian authori-
ties made good use of their little day
of power, and imprisoned, scourged,
mulcted, and hanged the rioters. The
noble world packed up their last pic-
ture and their last paul, and gallant-
ly made their way out of the gates as
fast its they could. There never was
such a scattering of the "brave that
deserved the fair,” and of the fair that
reworded the brave. Countesses and
conversaziones were no more. The
Viceroy's. Court was reduced to him -
Bele and bis valets. Every scudo in
the treasury was piled in boxes, and
the boxes were ready, in the baggage -
waggons of the artillery, to traverse
the Peninsula. The ancient magis-
tracy were in despair, or refitting Lheir
perukes and gowns with cockades and
ribbons a It tricolor. The populace
were, like every retells on earth, de-
lighted with any change which threat.
erred to 1nt11 down t.heir sup'riore. The
whole nameless and still lower multi-
tude, that live on the vices of a great
city, were Instantly turned into rod -
hot patriots, and were virtuously zeta -
cars for the time to begin, when they
mlght pilfer with impunity. The
whole tribe of the danoing and singing
heroes and heroin(s, fauns, satyrs,
hamadryads, and fiddlers of the La
E'aalit, were busy, day and night in te-
hne.rsing n piece 1n honor of the Oovn-
fall of Aura rice, the triumph of Prance,
andthe reign of purity all over L11n
world.
The news still cams: tbiolr and formid-
able, A sueeession of nLLa.nks by the
various converging columns of 1. he in-
wading army \were shaking the AUS -
triune out of Lomb:Indy by the hour,
nuon•reirte was within eight of the
'rir:ino 1—ilo had grossed it 1-11a bad
routed 111,1 troops posted. to glard the
pilotage I and the news was une.gnivo-
wily vouched by the presence of the
beaten troops, who came crowding into
Milan, flogging the peasants for fond,
shooting those who wore stubborn, and
railing at the manila who had led or
left them to bo oulbuted by the Fran -
20s('». The enemy«lost no Limo, At
midnight a courier arrived to the V1oe-
roy from the General -In -Chief, Count
alas, aunounoing at once the capture
of 'roving°, the possession of Turin, and
the marob of the enemy's main body
upon the capital.
elven Austrian tardiness now felt
that it oras time to move. The Viceroy
threw himself lata his briteka, the
whole tribe of employes provided for
themselves us they oould, and again
at midnight the Hungarian guard were
roused from their slumbers, ordered to
novae, and with a blase of angry trum-
pets that startled the dreams of the
whole. city, the gallant escort moved
Put of the gates, and took the road to
]14untua.
The campaign had now fairly begun.
The evening of the <lay which saw the
Viceroy disappear, the French tira[i-
leurs were singing, dancing, and shout-
ing in the Plaza Grande of Milan. The
eleie authorities, dressed in all the col-'
08 of the Republican rainbow, were
preparing congratulations in the full-
est civic. trepidation for the conqueror;
the cathedral, with alt its aterbie
saints, was fluttering witb flags and
banners, and St, Carlos of lloromeo 1Lft-
ed' tricolor standard In his venerable
right hind of bronze. Every pane in
every window in Milan had its lamp,
and in a blaze of fireworks, the shout
of the populace, the brayiug of trum-
pets, the roar of artillery, and the
terror of innumerable hearts, the Con-
queror himself, et the head of a staff
oe renowned names, was riding through
the streets of the famous capital of
Loznbarrly,
This triumph decided the Austrian
plan of operations. To fall upon the
rash invader, to concentrate the whole
Austrian force scattered between Pied-
mont and the Adige, to crush the ene-
my, and rescue the Milanese, were the
romantic thoughts that entered the an-
cient brains of the Austrian general -
in -chief. do aide-de-camp sent ex-
press after the Hungarians stripped the
Viceroy of his escort. and to the great
joy of the corps, who were indignant
at being turned into a baggage -guard,
ordered them to join the main army
in front of Alessandria.
"You shall now see," said the Col-
onel, as he rode by Carara, "what you
will think possible in no other service
since the flood. You will see, in the
first place, a fine army commanded 'by
au old fool of eighty, C h fitter
h who w is much
for his bed thus for a field of battle.
In the next, you will sae that old fool
controlled by a council still more £ool-
teb than himself; and, is bias third,
you will see a Cabinet more foolish
than eitber, first blundering into war,
then blundering out of it; beaten into,
e peace that no defeat could justify,'
and, of course, inviting the very war
for which it has disabled itself. And
all this in the presence of a young
general, in whom genius supplies the,
place of experience, in a eontawt; with'
a young government, in which faro -
city Ls the pledge of success, and in !
defiance of a nation of thirty millions
of madmen with the determination to
Will or be killed, to conquer or be con-,
quered, to hold the sword to the throat
of every kingdom of Europe, orplunge
it in their own."
The sight of the Austrian lines was
superb, and Carara, with the instinct
of the warrior, or the warrior's horse,
often the wiser animal of the two,
felt his blood glow at the sound of
the trumpets, the flashing of steel, and
the general brilliant display of the
field. The sun at Last rose on the
memorable plain of Marengo. The de-
tails of this great battle are for his-
tory. The Hungarian Guards were
drawn up with the division that mov-
ed under .the gallant Gloritz, round
Ceriolo, to outflank the enemy's right,
The march continued two full hours,
while the infantry on both sides were
engaged, with dreadfuL havoc. But
the firing evidently advanced • the
heights on the route o1 the cavalry
showed the enemy retreating along the
whole extent of their line; and the
heavy columns of the Austrians cams
on, trampling down all obstacles. At.
length the leading squadrons of the
Guard, turning the village or Ceriolo,
oame within view of the battle. It was
all confusion ; the enemy were main-
taining a desultory fire iron the cot-
tages and garden wvnlls of 1Marsngo.
The Austrians were still pressing on,
when a column of the enemy'a horse
charged down upon the advancing in-
fantry. The cavalry were already
within a hundred yards of the line,
which they must have trampled lit
dust, when Gloritz gave the word to
fall on.
"Forward, gentlemen or Hungary,
charge 1" was the simple exclamation
of their Colonel. A11 the oratory of
man could not have been more effsa-
tual. At the word, they gave the
,spur, and dashed on. They fell on
the opposing cavalry like a thunder-
bolt, the weight oe their powerful
horses overturned the enemy's feeble
oharget•a, and the sword in the hands
of Inc athletic and highly disciplined
riders soon stripped every saddle. The
sudden uncovering of the French flanit
now gave another opportunity for the
services of this fine corps; The di-
vision of Lannes, the conellalmr of
blontebello, opened fire from all its
over1 wva
age u. "Another charge, and
out up tbo leading brigade," exclaim..
ed Carara. to the officer who now rode
up from the general'saaide to Lake the
command of the corps. "1 must wait
for orders," said the offioor, who was
an aide-de-camp of Malas, and luspir-
ed with the lethargy of his chief. In
another moment it was too tate, The
chola body of the French borate, thee
unohe°ked, bad fallen noon Lbs •Aus-
trian line befoie it had time to throw
Steele into squares. The battalions,
exhausted by long fighting, were brute -
on by the impulse; they gave way, and
the entire French line advancing,
with drum limiting, pushed their late
couqueror:s across [ba plain. "Lot us
try but: one charge more," expostulat-
ed Carara with his new leader. "We
may cheek the enemy, and at least
cover the troops; %nay may rally yet,"
He fixed his impatient eyes on the im-
movable aide-de-camp. "13ring nee
the orders, sir," was the solemn ans-
wer, "Prom whom!•' burst out Carara
—"from whom? from the enemy, or the
devil!" exclaimed the gallant muti-
neer,
"From both, if you please," was the
saturntne reply; "in the mean time, I
order you under arrest."
To 135 Continued.
SPEED,
INCREASED RAILWAY
Loeeniativen Ileo be trace to nun one
en/mired Lilies an hoar.
! 'Alt I want is the opportunity and
the proper conditions to demonstrate
to Chicago engieeera that I can run
• a locomotive, equipped with the Cleve-
land cylinder, 500 miles in five hours."
A. bt. Peterson, a wealthy Canadian,
who is at the home of his brother, C.
W. Peterson, 2.140 Prairie avenue, with
a took of perfect confidence in his eyes
made this assertion, says the Chicago
Times -Herald. lie is a big man
with a square chin and talks not eves-
ivaly, but (tu•ectly and impressively.
He believes the Cleveland cylinder, in
which he is interested, is bound to
medley raiiroadiug and manufactur-
ing from a mechanical standpoint. Ile
talks with authority, because the In-
tercolonial redhead of Canada, after
in,vestigation and trial, has adopted
the power -saving cylinder on its en -
gives. Locomotive No, 50 is already
equipped with the devtoe, and the teati.'
mony of its engineering wakens the
assertion that this invention is to ush-
er to a new era in railroad annals,
The device is the discovery of Wm.
F. and Eugene W. Cleveland, of Route-
thw•aite, Manitoba, Jl'or over five years
they laboured, but it was only within
the past year that success was assur-
aa,
The newcylinder is best described in
Mr. Peterson's own language. Ile said.
in reference to the locomotive on which
the invention has been applied so
satisfactorily: "The appearance of No.
59 is little changed since the Cleveland
patent was attached to it. A lengthen-
ing of the cylinder and the smoke boa
fa most notioatable, Tho main points of
the device are a double piston with rw
oentral exhaust, called the main ex-
baust. Steam is admitted at one end
of the cylinder. Near the end of the
stroke the piston uncovers a port of
' ample area, the steam escaping ex-
plosively into the chamber between
!the pistons. The chamber is connected
!with and always open to the smoke-
stack. This main exhaust port remains
open till the stroke Is concluded and
till the steam, which is admitted at
the other end of the cylinder, causes
the piston to return and cover the
port again. When the steam port be-
comes an exhaust, called supplementary
port, the small volume of steam Left in
the cylinder finds an escape into the
stuck through the muzzle. The same
operation takes piaoe on the opposite
side of the cylinder."
Mr. Peterson makes the following
(tains for the new cylinder:
No resistance in cylinder, even at -
t mosphe.rio being reduced.
Compression controllable.
No condensation discoverable.
Remarkable smoothness of action, re -
1 clueing cost of repairs and saving road-
bed.
e; A saving in fuel_ of from 25 to 40
per cent.
A similar saving in water evapora-
tion.
Increased power.
Increased speed.
Engine No. '60 has made some re-
markable runs over the Intaroolonlal
railroad during, the lane six months,
REMARK AIBL:E PLANT,
A remarkable plant has recently been
discovered in New Guinea. It is green -
leaved, with spikes o r
[ f gorgeous crime
son flowers, 20 to 30 inches long, and
as thick as an ordinary walking stick,
A specimen was lately exhibited in
' London,
guns, followed by a hail of musketry,! �. _.
'1 he Colonel was in the act of giving the "P" "' —
the 11
—,gets s
if 1,0941101e, be so planned as to leaf'
t' u t [ at 1 inside tai
room for plane c a n a s wall
p g
li 1st a sI a Ont
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riauo lao(d against r a out. d w
s
1 P g
ougels t 1' ung and chu 1 s with the
tside tmperaturo. r g0
net it clown 1 hat winding -stairs are an
expensive, iuconvGaient, daugeroue and
j inartlstio arrangement, Straight
flights are squally dangerous and more
inartistic. Flights with right angle(
turns at landing ways give a flue ef-
feat, and do not trip one up, anti chil-
dren cannot full far when they start
from the top. —�
quare an lha dining -room, ft should
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LOVING WORD -4441.411'S IN This IIOlIC;,
"Oh, I would love to take him in my
arms, and kiss ltim and kiss hint. IIs
never would let on kiss him and tell
bit how we loved him," 'J'he speaker
wee a young mother, robed In file gar -
meats of mourning, and the one who
had called forth the passionate burst
of pent-up love was her falltar,-lylrrg
there in his easlcel., taking the last
long sleep, and within a Lett' short
Inners to be laid away in the tomb for-
ever from their earthly sight, Ile
had been a kind father, and his '11J1d-
ren looked up to him with reverence
and Love, but those little signs and tok-
ens of love had been lacking in the
children's lives, Ile had loved hie child-
ren, and as one after the other had left
the home nest to take their places
in the world, the separation had caus-
ed bite grief and deepened Lbs care
lines that furrowed his dear old Noe.
Now they were gathered hums in Lbs
old homestead, but it was too late for
loving tender words— father's heart
was still and the arms could give no
anewerino embrace.
The case was a real one, and has
been one of several thatbis left a deep
impression on my mind. Hissing and
loving worde in many families are
considered foolish and silly: 1, and
probably you, have been children rude-
ly repulsed %then eouning to mamma or
papa for e, kits, and have heard the
parent say, "1 have no time for such
nonsense." Poor children l 0f course
the fermats love them, but how are
they to know if they are never told
it by loving words or actions! The
nature of children requires love and
a certain amount of petting, andjust
when this requirement ceases •is a
question.
IIow do you exgeot,fathers and moth -
to help to mature a. loving disposition
in your children if you so persistent-
ly quell every sign ofa£f
do !
And a litl'le farther along this line,
is it any honor to a ma1n1 to tweet the
one he has sworn to love and cherish
through lifewith such coldness and
studied indifference 3 Would your
friends think less or you if you were.
even caught kissiug her on the sly? A
man took his wife to a country church
where he was acquaintea with nearly
every one, and at the Gloss of the ser-
vice, according to the custom of the
place, every one remained to shake
bands with each other. The man was
met by many friends, but the wife
stood among strangers, and he wasn't
man ennugb to stand by her and in-
troduce her as his wife. Would be haus
been less manly to have shown her the
courtesy,. at least, that he would,
have shown another lady in her place?
If custom makes it improper for a
man to showy the affection he should
feel for his wvife, shame to the custom
and shame to those who make it a
custom.
Love is the basis of heaven's first
law, and the hope of fallen num. "God
so loved the world!" Is man greater
than his Creator that he is ashamed
of his love J
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HOUSE BUILDING.
A. summer kitchen, even if it is only
a back shed, will help keep the house
warm in winter and cool in summer.
A kitchen store -house where 'the sup-
plies can be kept will save the women
times and trouble of going down collar
or up attic, and will be a daily blessing
in most families.
The bath room should be accessible
wvithout having to pass through any
other room.
If the floors are not of hard wood it
will be handy if at least one dimension
of each room is an even number of
carpet widths. Carpet comes either 8-4,
27 inches, or yard, 30 inches, wide, and
rooms can generally be multiplied of at
least one of these dimensions. A room
that is just four inches over an even
number of carpet widths is an expen-
sive Luieance.
A square kitchen seems the handiest
to the house -wire.
The dining -roan should be consider-
ably •longer than it is wide. In other
worda, it you have to skirnp on the size
of your dining -room it is better to
shave off the width of, it and arrange
for room lengthwise, The room must
be wide enough for 1 four -foot table,
and gucets on each side, and passage
way behind the guests ; that is a fixed
width, no matter howmanyare sitting
down to the table; but the table bus to
be lengthened to accommodate more;
guests, and there should be lengthwise'
room,
Tho parlor may be more nearly
ward to charge the enemy, who were
retreating by echelons, und whom ie
was of the highest importance to crush
before they could take shelter under
the guns of the village. But as he
raised lis sabre, a shot from a drain
leur atrock his arm, and he fell on
the neck Of his bores. The bone was
broken. "My campaigning is over for
the day," said he, feebly, to Cowan.
civ° the word tor me—charge." The
Patten gave it with a spirit -stirring
energy, that was answered by a shoue
from the whole column. They rushed
forward. The shock was again irres-
istible, the leading regiments of the
enemy's division were broken into a
thousand fragments, and Carara i a ins
s41101ron up to the muzzles of the
French batteries. The battle had now
continued to range till tbeaun 15(18 do -
dining over the plain. The charge of
the cavalry had cleared the field 01
the Wrench right, and Carara gal-
loped back bask to find the spot where he
had lest his friend. A Bald waggon
was found, in which he was placed
and carried to the camp. But res elle
Count shook his hand et parting, anew
roar oe artillery opened from the
B'rc•ncb position; fresh columns, which
seemed to have been allnlmaned by m-
ote, poured ollt from Lite vineyards in
the reitr; a abal•ge of cavalry ap'etf en-
de ttgered the. Austrian antic,.,1, and
the battle was evidently to be fought
ti 1NT,5 iFOR
TJ -W FARMER.
Melte AND MANURE,
\Vhlle lithe is betleficbal under certain
i condilious, yet its use, uneecompanied
by'othar fertilizers, may prove injure
Me, especially an poor soils, slues it
rouvarn the insoluble nitrogen, potash,
and phosphoric acid compounds of the
eon into forms which are rapidly taken
up by Monte or 'washed out in the
drainage, to hasten the exhaustion of
the supply of these suhatanees in the
IfOU.ITIOLD 111NTS.
To Clean Paint nilsa but little water
at onto; keep it warm and Olean by
ebanging IL often. %i1. flanno1 (doth
Lakes off all fly specks better than
cotton, ! •i oap will remove paint, so
use but little of it. Cold Loa is the best
liquid for cleaning varnished paint,
window ponos and mirrors, Never pub
soap upon glass unless it can be thor-
oughly eased off.
To Retno.'s Paint,—Ilse chloroform;
it will remove puiat lieu a garment or
Metre here, when benzine or blsnbphi(le
of carbon fails.
Paint upon window ,glass may be
easily removed by rubbing smith acloth
wet in hot strong' vinegar.
'J'o Clean Clientlass,—having washed
out -glass articles, let them dry, and
afterwards rub them with prepared
chalk and a soft brush, carefully going
into all tbs ealiliee,
To Clean Tine-are.—Tho bast thing
for cleaning tinware is common soda ;
dampen a cloth, dip it in soda, rob the
ware briskly, after which wipe dry.
Mildsw•.--Dip the stained cloth Jn
buttermilk, and lay in the sun.
Another way to take out mildew,
fruit and tea stains, pour one pint of
boiling water over one ounce chloride
of lime, strain through a cloth, then
add three pints of cold water. Lot the
articles lie in this 12 hours, then rinse
thoroughly.
Never apply soap directly to gar-
ments stained with fruit. If Lbe stains
are washed in tepid water, they will
generally Como Ont. It's the putting
them in the suds that sets the color,
Iron Rust.—This may be removed by
salt mixed with a little lemon juice;
put i the sun • if necessary n e n , n sear use two
applications. y
AnothPat the article into kero-
sene oil, allowing it to remain for
some time. The rust will become
loosened and easily coxae off.
Corn Muffins.—two tablespoonfuls
flour, 11-'2 tablespoonfuls corn meal,
1-2 teaspoonful baking powder, 1-2
tablespoon sugar, 1-15 teaspoonful salt,
1-4spoonfeggul, 2 tablespbutter.oonfuls milk, 1-4 table -
Dutch Apple Cake.—One-half oup-
ful flour, 1-2 teaspoonful baking pow-
der, 1-8 teaspoonful salt, 1-4 cupful
milk, 1-4 egg, 1-2 tablespoonful malt-
ed butter, 3-8 apple, 1. tablespoonful
sugar.
Lemon Sauce. — One-quarter cup-
ful boiling water, 2 tablespoonfuls
sugar, 1 'teaspoonful flour, 1-8 of a
lemon, juice taut rind, 1-4 tablespoon-
ful butter. Pour the boiling water
over the sugar and flour, which have
beenLeman. Lhoroughly mixed. Cook for ten
minutes. Then add the butter and
Baking Powder Biscuit—Two-thirds
cupful flour, 1-2 teaspoonful baking
powder, 1-8 teaspoonful salt, 1-2 table-
spoonful abortening, 1-4 cupful milk,
n.tid enough milk to make a soft dough.
Toss on a floured board, and roll gone
t1,y with a rolling -pin tbree-fourths
inches thick. Cut into biscuit and
bake in a hot oven ten or fifteen min-
utes.
eon. An old adage Is that the "use of
limo without manure makes the land
poor," for if the soil is not abundantly
supplied with organic matter, its reten-
Live power for water and fertilizers
may be seriously reduced on account
of floe destruction of the orgauto mat'
ter by the aebion Or too niwich lime,
Soils are also sometimes injured by the
use of impure forme of lune, which har-
den like cement in the soil, or of those
which contain an excessive amount of
magnesia. Lime corrects the acidity of
the soil, a fact well-known to farmers,
and it readers the soil unfit for cer-
tain plants that. thrive best on sour
soils. This is termed "sweetening" the
Boil, though it is simply the neutraliz-
ing of floe eater soils by, the uses of"an
alkaline substance.
Some plants, suth as blue grass,
thrive best on soils that contain an
abundance of lime, but other plants are
benefited by the application of burnt
lime. liven ou limestone soils the use
of burnt lime (air slaked) gives excellent;
results, According to experiments on
acid soils the following plants were
greatly benefited by the application of
lime. All kinds of beets, spinach, let-
tuce, okra, salsify, celery, onion, par-
snip, cauliflower, encumber, egg plant,
cantaloupe, asparagus, kohl rain, cab-
bage, dandelion, Swedish Lurnip, pep-
per, pea, peanut, inertynia, toba000, sor-
ghum, alfalfa, clover, barley, wheat,
oats, •timothy, and blue glass. The
plants that were indifferent to lima
were corn, millet, Hungarian grass,
rye, potatoes, carrots, red top, and
node Island bent grass. Plants that
a- J use
eared to injured 1 the use of
Pp
be n 1
Y
J
.lime were watermelons, serradela,
blue lupine and common sorrel, The
effects of lime on soils that are not
sour may give different, results, but it
is well-known that for some plants
Lime is a lerLilizer; that is, provides
plant food, which is shown by the use
of gypsum on clover, the gypsum being
sparingly soluble in water and is, there-
fore, immediately available to plants.
FEEDING HENS FOR PROFIT.
Tem riht proportion of food for
ln-
Y
lug Ilene can be scientifically ascertain-
ed, but the relative question of tbecost
of the different foods must also enter
into the question says W. E. Farmer
in Wisconsin Agriculturist, Thus ac-
cording to some authorities fowl
should receive about sixty per cent. of
grain, fifteen per cent, of flesh, and
twenty-five per cont, of vegetables.
This proportion is not absolute, but re-
lative. It serves more as a guide to the
poultryman than as an infallible rule.
Now the question of grain must be
decided according to the locality and
cost of the various grains. Where
beans can be obtained cheaper than
grains they take the place of the lat-
. ter
at-,ter very acceptably if ground and fed
in an attractive form. Mixed with
ground beans a little corn, barley and
wheat bran, produce desirable results.
Corn we know has the greatest amount
of fat -producing material in it, and
'outs more muscle -forming material,
Beans, muscle -forming malarial, eon -
Mining thirty-eight pee cent. compared
to twenty-two per cent. In °ate.
As to the meat, 'flesh or fish food, the
matter must oleo be considered from
different standpoints. brisk will to large
extent take the place of meat and flash,
and along the seacoast,whore fish tan be
obtained for alittle expenditure oe time
and labor poultrymen make it take the
place of meat entirely. The fowls not
only thrive on it, but they learn to
like it, and to prefer it to any hind of
uncal. It is cheaper, too, and may ways be substituted for flesh with good
results.
al -
'Ohs best: vegetable substance for the
fowls are clover, alfalfa, green oats, and
garden vegetables. In the west wham
alfalfa thrives luxuriantly, this is he
best green vegetable food that can be
fed to fowls. Green oats are robber ex-
pensive glean food, but garden vege-
tables can nearly always be found in
abundance if ono looks for them. The
tops and refuse of the vegetables
are erten just as good as the parts we
cat on the table, and they should be
thrown into the yard in quantities.
ICeep the bulkof them in °old water,
and feed only a fete each day.
;Cho fundamental need of farm crops
is cultivation, a (touetant Loosening and
stirring of the soil. The roots need air
quite as ranch as they do food and
water, and it a°mmuniration is closed
bsiw•ecn them and the source of supply
not only are they Gut off frons this
primal necessity of their oxlatenee, but
even their food becomes sour and un -
assimilable, nod their water is lost for
ti not, of a mulch,
Arany chaise crops have been des-
treyecl by wacd-1 (hut the over•'puxhad
farmer could not find time to meet,
lett. m1 Lhe oilier hand, many hind ninny
a finely started field has come'
lo naught for want of warning from
these weeds vagabonds. The Grope
have x0105 up well and given signs of
an abundant, harvest, but for some eon -
son or other the weeds have not abowri
their usual innin5ib and pertinacity.
The farmer goes through his Pietas ea-
caeionaily, but hie inuring locks are dor-
mant, and ho neglects or only hall does
lois cultivating, :1.'11° ground becomes
bard anti baked, aha bibs starving ernes
grow more and more slowly and finally
turn yellow and mature a small yield.
It onetime little how rie11 I be doll, or
how well watered, if no air can penetr-
ate to the roots of the Weida they will
of necessity be stnethcred in their min
and windbltlre(l within. Plenty of man-
ure 18 good., prober irrigation i>; baler,
but eulliviHon neens,l5 then both.
Crops can hardly be hoed too much.
PRESSING EMBROIDERY.
In all cases of embroidery on linen'
the work shoield be carefully pressed
when finished, and it is important far'.
every embroiderer to know how this
may le done in the simplest and safest
manner, says the "Woman's Home
Companion." The proper way to pines
the finished work is to lay the em-
broidery face down on a clean cloth
spread over an ironing blanket or two
or three thicknesses of flannel. place a
thin, dampened cloth on the back of the
artiole to be pressed, and then use a
hot iron deftly on the wet sterfaoo un-
til it is perfectly dry. A steaming pro-
cess is thus engendered, whereby the
embroidered linen is rendered smooth
and the eflectivonesa of the work much
enhanced.
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DIFPICIiLTY 1N THAT WAY,
There's no secret about the mothed
by which I gained 25 pounds weight
in six menthe, said the salwart, celI-'
proportioned nuts. 1 hadbeen amok -
frig 10 cigars entity and .i. quit abso-
lutely and for good, 1 began to bit-
ten inrinediately.
I suppose I could do that, said the
cadaverous man dubiously, but I hate
the duruedest to have to [earn bot to
smoke.
THE CATHEDRAL, SANTIAGO.