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The Brussels Post, 1892-7-1, Page 62 TRE 13RUSSELS POST. .......a.eeense-e.e.eereeeseeeseeaavetameetee"....".""'"'"' .A.O.RIOIJLTURAL, Field Nide& Oh, the bonny bright flea Miley In her khaki white and gold' Sifting snows like whiter drifting Ovar tflfl dew field, and weld: Breezy uplands, hoar with blossoms—now the starer bloom abounds— Peeping shyly, ereeotng slyly, tante within the , gardene, bounds, Oh, the farmer scouts and floats you, see4 no beauty In your hove. Duty eons how he may rout, you, teae, uproot yon from your place, )3mulshed from the plaaeint meadows where the tali, lush gra.ses Arming, Patient still by dusty highways, bravo bright blossoms tiod and swum, Naught care yen. whiteldrtlett daisy, for the farmer's hate nad seoze. Leading forth o our laughing legions In the dewy 811111111or mum, Per the little children love yom love you dearly With"ythey TVs' breast -high about them, while they MI each tiny band. Loves you toa the merry 101111.1011, adds Your beauty to her own, • Live you on bee breast, or gayly binds you In her clasping zone So the weary etifferer greets you from his vouch with welcome smile. For yourstarry bloom shall bring hint sweet sureeasefrom rade the while. Ats, we hail you honest daisies, growl the farmer as be will! ,Glad we are your Molds splendor falls on mea- dow, deal and b1111 ELtzaeuru P. :lintsamt. Farmers' (Nubs. Ta an artiele urging the value of &lobs ;and institutes to the farmers, a writer says that these clubs should meet oftener ; it would pay the.n to have a library, a little apparatus, a little collection of minerals, }showing what the soil was made from ; bat anyway, every club should have an herbar- Aurn. This they could make in good part themselves, When any member finds a weed or plant he does not know he should bring it to the club meeting to be mit in the terbarium. Exchanges with clubs in distant places would supply weeds not fouud la the leoality (leaving out the needs) oe they could be fnruisiserl by the experiment stations on pages of the atandard size. These home-made books of real plants might become the most useful volumes in the li- brary. Following the pages on which the plates are fastened, scrap -book leaves of the same size can be iaserted, on which are pasted the bestpublished papers on the particular weed or plant. The plants should be labeled not only with the scientific name, which is the same in n.11 countries, but also with different common or provincial names and the localities where eaeh name is used. If any member nukes special experiments and studies, and writes a monograph on a particular weed, even if it is not published it can be written ou sheeti of the standard site and Inserted in the herbarium in its proper place. Modes of binding have been recently invented which enabled us to bind or unbind sueli a volume in a few seconds, so as to rearrange the pages and insert new pages in arty way we lige, I fancy I hear a protest. "Isn't this a pretty big programme ? Do you expect the overworked farmer, who has had, perhaps, no training for such study, to make ass her- barium and a scrap book of classified knowl- edge all in one?' This is just the point I was coming to. There are maay ambitious farmers' boys who contemplate leaving the farm—leaving father to struggle on alone till the weeds and briars overwhelm hini—be- cause they can see no avenues from farm life to honor and distinction. It seems to them that ovee the gateway that leads to the -poorly.paid drudgery of farm life it is writ- ten, , 'who enters here leaves hope behind." dome of them are in the high schools and 'colleges now—not to equip themselves to snake farm management more successful and profitable, bat to escape from it, They have looked the matter aver, and °concluded that the men who have distinguished themselves in the professions, sciences, arts and states. eno,nahip were the boys who left the farm. They see farmers that have been elected to office advocating the methods of socialism that are utterly subversive of the principles un which our country was founded, and that :lave destroyed liberty wherever tried, and they cora:lade, perhaps, that farm life is un. favorableto clear thinking. Now set those farmersboys to work on the herbarium for the institute. The "aching void" which they had supposed the farm could "never fill" is gone. You will .see them digging into Gray's botany, learn- ing TO analyze plants, roaming the fields and forests to gather specimens, pressing fasten - lag, labehug, describing. Of eourse you 'must give them honor in proportion 1.0 the value of their work and the difficulties over- come. You are, thus, not only rooting out the weeds of ignorance and dissipation from their minds and planting a tree of life in- stead, but you are binding their hearts back to the farm with a cord stronger than bands of steel. with 0 " uhug•ety-chug " up ana down nice tion, the other smoothly, easily aud hori• }mentally, The first mare will pull more, and probably wear about as well es the othev under the oonditions whith surround Ole draphorse, but he would, not last at all ender the conditions which obtain on the farm. Suels to mare alsould never be driven faster than a walk, and the time is not yet when the farmer ears afford to beep work !novae which cannot trot without !Our. lug themselves, -- Roar to Destroy Gopllere- A subscriber iaquires for the best method of destroying gophers. A correspoudent gives the following directions as to Ids method: The best time to destroy gophers is he the spring, wlieu they have used up their win. ter stores. Such roots as they find are of last year's growth, mostly tough and not juiey or well flavored. They are hungry and ready to eat anything that is eatable. They are fewer in number than they will e later, end they are well grown, active gers, The fields are bare and theie work is easily seem Of all things their pet morsel is a sweet apple. Test it yourself; 1 1 you like it, the gopher will, Cut your halt in- to pieces not larger than a cable inch. Have a stiok one-fourth the i,o of a lead pencil with the end blunt. ala.ke a pocket. shaped cut well to the centre ot each pietas On a flue pointed splietee lift one-half the size of o grain wheat ot strychnine or five times that bulk of arsenic. Wit 1 your blunt stick push the poison deep into the cut. Having prepared enough of the pieces, put them in some vessel where the poison eon nerer do any harm. Take your spade and go over your field, Wherever you find gopher work that is fresh, dig till you have towed a place where the hole is not filled with soil. Place one of the pieces as far back into the hole as you can, leave the hole open and go your way. Nine times on t of ton the gather will ...lose the end of the hole, eat the aft and die. Go over o our field a few times until you aee no fresh work and yon are safe for that season. If your neighbors will do the same and follow it up year after year your locality can be freed from the gopher and kept so. If the whole country would work out this plan the gopher would soon be looked for to furnish speci. mons for 110005 in collections of stuffed skins. Gophers will teke the bait with more or less certainty at any time of the year. Next to sweet apples I have found them to eat best, is, the order mined, sweet potatoes, carrots, common potatoes or beets. The Men who Slideeed in Dairying. In every dairy community in the /and can be found dairy farmers who 01,0 making a tine success of the business. ‘1 ould it not be wellfor the greatbody of farmers who cry " dairying don't pay," to inquire what sort, of ineis these suceessful ones are. Almost invariably it will be found that they are men of Intelligence who have had sense enough to send their brains ahead of their bands. They are readers of the experience and thoughts of other men. They are students of the prinripleo that underlie the practice of successful dairying. Men who starve their bodies have no strength to work. If dairymen do not constantly feed their minds with dairy knowledge, how can they expect to succeed. The richest experi- ence of others may be recorded a thousand times, but they will know nothing of it. Good Horse Point. In writing about the best build of a good horse a noted Western breeder says, in the Breeders' Gazette, that the farm horse needs a pastern of different shape from that of the draft horse proper. The pastern hoe an important office to perform. The bones serve to throw the tendon of the foot which runs over them farther from the center of motion, and more than this, 000 05 springs to prevent conetursion and absorb motion Which with unusually short and straight pas- terns is passed on to the upper portions of the limbs and shoulder. Hence the easy, springy, elastic motion depends inostly upon the length and obliqueness of the pastern. The dray horse needs little of this sort of motion, He is not required to go faster than a walk, and short, strong pasterna arepreterred to large springy ones. But we must think something of the horses kept on the farms, Farmers are be - beginning to study thie matter, which it Ole past has been ,greatly neglected. We have readied a point where we are forced to study it, for upon the pastern depends to a great extent the wearing gealities of the farmer's home, For instance, the other day I happened to be driving a team of grade draft mem to the buggy. Ono mare had two orosees of imported draft blood in her veins, the other but one. As they trotted along itwas very easy to see which had the greater amount of draft blood simply by observing the top of Ole collar. The feet of the "three fourths" rims streak the ground with a thud much after the style of a pile driver, and her pas. terns being abort and upright the shock was ctommunicated to the entire front quarters, mewing Gee cellar to jolt up and down on het neolc with every etep. The other mare, an aunt, of the first one, trotted along wieh fscarcely a jar, and the motion of the eollar Consisted entirely in aecomodatIng itself to Ole shifting positions of the shoulders 1 them Wee no tip and down motion of the collar tnatever, This mare's pasterns were longer and more elopieg, me11 performed their auty ttl reliev- ing the upper limbs and shoulders from the ceneussion naterelly mused by the feet }Wiling the ground, The 0210 mare wont ,110111110.1101.• JULY 1, 1892. ODD NAILS OP MINES, Little Sass -Dew, Daddy's Deligki, Thema- aene und other Posiguatlens, In traveling through the mining distviete of the Rooky Motieteans one is often sea - primed and mused at the queer, fanciful, or poetic names given by }dem to their Maw ordalms, ei} even to the little log eabine in which they live, The writer has in an old note Wok a list of such names, gathered in end acound Leadville. The Itst begins with Sweet Marjorie, a name giswis to an undeveloped clam: far above timber -line. Near by WAS the Girl I Left Behind Me, owned by a manly, hou• eet-loolcing young fellow of twenty•two or twenty-three, who, uo doubt, had many happy, helpful thoughts of the girl ho had left behind him, while working eagerly and hopefully on the Mahn that might make them both rick. Down in the guleh a brawny, full -beard - man was wielding the pick vigorously 111 Ole tunnel of the Baby Bell mine, while a post driven in the ground not far distant indicated the location of the Little Seas.Box olaim. In another galoh were claims called My Sweetheart, Dandy Jim, Just My Luck, Dainly's Delight, and Gun of the Range. The Pretty Polly Pemberton had become a pitying mine, while near by two boyish - appearing young fellows had staked osi Ole Last Cent Claim. "It moans," olio of them said, "that we've spent our last eopper for tools and grub to keep ns alive till we tee if there's anything in this piece of ground." " ,'mud if there m not?" 1 asked. " Well, then we'll get somebody to grub- stake us on a claim until we strike fisme- tiling. People don't etarve to deat in this couutry anyhow." "Nevertheless there was a claim not far distant called the Starvation.' " "The Fairy Queen" and "Morning Star" wore fevorite names among the miners, and Ole "Last Chance" and "Last Hope" were not uncommon. One deserted shaft had a bit of paper tacked to a post to indicate that its name was "The Fair Dream." The long deserted shaft and the sunken roof of the cabin near it told their own ead story of a "fair dreson" that had come to naught. Over a cabin door was a pine board, on which was painted in black letters "The Missouri Lead." In the cabin therelved a boy of nineteen, who was prospecting "011 Ilia OW11 hook," as he himself said when he LATE BRITISH NEWS, A, gas ougiue hart beim made in England thee runs et the rate of 510 revolutions te mine to, An underground railway about seven miles long mule eirenler subway of the mune length are in memo of eouetruetion in Mae- gow, Scotland. A reduction lissome nf the fees for British patents lute been paused hy the British (lev- eret:wt. A grand hamar wee bola in Cork on the 22nd of J ane, One of the prizes 00111 0 "re- turn ticket for Chicago," Teseelated pavement hos been applied to teeny of the lavatories, passages mut other similar places on board the new English men-of-war with capital effect. It offers a, good foothold mid is not slippery. immense damege leas been done iu the County of Essex, England, by the pea wee- vil. in many cams whole fields of peas have been destroyed end have had to bo plowed in and oats sown in their place. Miss Annie Young Wilson Spence, daugh• ter of a doctor of Linlithgow, passed the examinations of the Pharmaceutical Society in Edinburgh recently, and is now regular- ly registered as a chemist and detiggist. She is the second woinan in Scotland to attain this honor and position. Two human skeletons have been forma on Gem Island, he the Alvolhos, western Aus- taalia, supposed to be the remains of the Pelmet expedition to that island in the sixteenth century. Dr. Conan Doyle lately dramatized his short story " 0. Straggler from '15 ; the story of a Waterloo Veteran." Irving saw it, and was so taken evith the ohmmeter of the old soldier that he bought the piece and will play it himself. The Landon County Council leave passed this resolutimi : " That all contractors be compelled to sign a declaration that, they pay the triode union rate of wages and ob. serve the hoers of labor and conditions re- cognized by the London trades unions, aud that the hours and wages be inserted in and form part of the conthaet by way of schedule, and that penalties be euforced for any breach of agreement." There was a novel development in the eightthour movement in England the other day when the domestic servants at West Hartlepool turned out in to parade by mem to the door with his hands covered with way ot " demonstration to emphasize d� - dough from the "batch of biscuits" he was mantis for shorter hours and a weekly half - making for hissupper. teliday." The young women marched A humorous vein in the owners of some 1 hi oeteh the streets of the town in regular claims was indicated by such names as the "Thompson's Mule,""Hello," "Sassyjane," "Busted," "Banner Mader" and "Here We Air" claims. The ownere of claims with such names as these were likely to be quite as happy with- out as with the fortunes they sought for in the granite ovens of the mountain slopes. In many eases thoy were better off seeking wealth than they would leave been in the sudden possessioe of it. A Ohronide of the Hen -yard- " The inoident of my life which impressed my mind 'nest deeply wits a calamity that befell my immediate family daring my early boyhood," said & Government official to the writer. "My father was a 'farmer. We kept chickens, about 200 in number, tlie eggs and tender progeny of which were sent to market ana furnished a not ineo11. siderable fraction of the family income, " One summer, at the season when fruit was ripe, my mother made &great quantity of cherry -bounce,' for the brewing of which ebe Was famous. After completing Ole proaees, she directed 100 to throw the refuse of fermented cherries away end I did so, I threw the stuff near the chicken - houses, thinking that the fowls might relish it. Later on we heard a good deal of ex• cited squawking from that direction, but paid no particelar attention to o0. After supper I went out, as was say usual duty, to ems that the poultry had gone to roost all right for the night. You can imagine my astonishmett and dismay when I found all ot the ohickens—hens, roosters, pullets, and cockrels—scattered in and around the chicken -houses, every one of them dead. "I need not ieveli upon the consternation occasioned in the family by thisappalling mis- fortune. Two hundred fowls, W11i011 short time before had been apparently as healthy as any poultry that ever scratched for worms in a barn -yard, were stiffening in death. It was no ihne to indulge he un- profitable grief, however. As my mother suggested, while drying her eyes with her apron, the only thing to do was to pluck them immediately n,nd send them to market in the morning, " With all handa busily engaged, Ivo fin- ished the job by one a.m., stacking up the plucked chickens on tables and in corners. It was a melencholy task, but we tried to console ourselves wide the reflection that the money they brought for flesh and feathers would purchase a fair nucleus for a new flock. So tired were we that none of us woke up until after six, which is pretty late for farmers. I was the first to go (Iowa stairs. To my amusement and horror the result of our labors of the previous evening had vanished, Of the 200 neatly picked. fowl which we had made ready for market, not one remained. The kitchen door, left ace- oidentally unfastened the night before, now swung wide, opening through the woodshed to the garden, and showed how the robbers had entered. "Just as I was on the point of giving the alarm Iheard a familiar heookaacloodle.doo 1' and a most remarkable -looking creature, which I hesitated monienterily to identify as a bird, hopped upon the threshold and °revved thrice. I ran to the door of the wood -shed and there, in the garden, were all of oite ohickene-200 et them, plucked but none the less alive—busily }watching up the vegetables, A family council quiek- ly summoned, found no difficulty in analyz. Mg the situation. Evidently the fewis had fed upon the fermented cherriee, which I had throWn Where they weld get them, and W116Il we hani supported them dead, they were in reality dead drunk. While we were asleep they recovered their sensee and walked out of doors, Happily, none of them seemed to be injured at all by the morose of plucking they had undergone. The hens kept on laying jnst, es well and the roosters were as proud as ever. In lad, my mother afterwards said that the feathers brought her a oonsiderable profit, and ehe gowned to think Gnat perhaps °Mekong would yield better mimes if they were de- prived of their plumes, like sheep of their wool, at judielous intervals. The Day of Pentecost, " When the day of Pentecost was fully oome."—Aots 11., 1. Sometimes a day is so rich in events that it becomes the dawn of a new era, the inauguration of a new epoch. The day of Pentecost takes its place among the great. est days the world has ever men, Every re- currence of the anniversary of Pentecost gives ample material for thought, and serves to emphasize the great lessons and revive the hopes with which this day stands forever identified. The day of Penteoost was the first day of that glorious age, which has won for keen the name of the Apostolic Age. That age has never been fully under- stood. No words could exaggerate the wonderful work that followed immediately upon the descent of the Holy Ghost. The band of apostles was summoned by this sacred outpouring to a sublime mission. They little dreamed what glorious things Ole immediate future had to bring. That every day the direet results of their preach- ing were such as to lay the foundation of unfaltering faith in the universal fitness of their message to men, the manifold needs of all sorts of men. We need nob try to limit the marvelof Pentecost to the thought that every man heard in his own tongue or dialect the wonderful works of God. The keynote of all the sermons on the day of Pentecost ;vas to be found in these words " To you is the gospel of this salvation seat." The word spoken was not a word that simply reached the ear and addressed Ole understanding, it was a word—that is to say an intelligible message—spoken to Oho moral condition of the hearers, The apostles said : "This gospel is for you!" And thousands on that eventful clay bit that the gospel was to message of wise and wonderful love that met their case and an- swered their 3ondition perfectly. And they heard with the hearing that accepts and bows in loyalty before an all -commanding impulao. The men whose names are for- ever identified with Pentecost were not men whose personal greatness or great tnagnetic power would in any way account for those wonderful triumphs of grace. We know hew they had but a very few weeks before given up every hope of this kingdom of heaven. They had pee back to their boats and nets, to their early asoodatione and callings, and it was not tall after the night of fruitless fishing, when the patient Say. iour waited for them as they came to land, that their hopes revived. Then they held sacred fellowship with Him till at last they saw Him rim from the brow of Olivet; and before He rose He charged them to go into Jerusalem and wait. What a trial Obis must have been to these already tired men. They were anxious for work; they wanted to see the power of God made known; they longed to see this kingdom of heaven established among men. But they were told to wait, hoed ib wee just when Ole ovaiting had breaght them into the right receptive mood thoe the great power of God fell upon them. They had made their hearts consecrated alters and tho fire and flame came down, They opened the window a of their souls and the heavenly gales swept gracious gospels in. The pow - 01 Pentecose domes now to those who stand and wait with trusting souls. Ceme, holy spirit, come I Boavali»g-hoese keepers should never eato an old hen ect the hoed of the table. tnilitary order, neatly dressed, with sonse show of uniform, and carrying emblems of their calling, such as coal scattles, flatirons, scrubbing brushes, and other kitchen uten- sils. A Servants' union is in process of formation. The London County Council adopted an ordinance prohibiting the playieg of dance music in the peeks on Sundays, although John Burns, the agitator, showed that "(.11d Hundred" is a dance tune. The Duchess of Albany has gone to Ger- many on a long visit on account of it disa- greement with the Queen over the question of mourning. The duchess who was Prince Leopold's so ife, has lived in seclusion for eight yearn, and at last concluded that she might take up life again a little and p110011 her black. But the Queen protested vigor. ously, even going so far as to declare that " Mee 0 widow, alwaye a mourner " otight to Ise the ride of the royal family. So the Duchess left England. A small day tablet made of Nile mud in- scribed with about a hundred lines of multi- form leseriptions has been found in the British Musette, which, being translated, appears as the marriage proposal of a Pharaoh for the hand of the daughter of Ole Kiev, of Babylou. It is apparently the office copy of a letter wraten about 1520 B. C. The French are amazed that the English should have built the Royal Sovereign, their biggest ironclad, in two years and a half. The Neptune and Magenta, two French ships, have been twelve years build- ing. The Messrs. Yarrow lately offered to build a small vessel in thirty days. The Farmers Alliance in Norfolk appears to be as thoroughly organized a trade union as exists. Fear young laborers who wanted 13 abilliugs a week refused to work for 12 shillings, and they got a job on the Great Eastern Railway. In two weeks three of them lost their places on account of the pres- sure brought to bear upon the railway by the Farmers' Alliance. England's new magazine rifle, tried against the Martial -Henry, has shown a superiority in target shooting equal to about 15 per cent. An alligator at the London Crystel Palace lived in perfect, health upon noth- ing for eighteen months. It lately took mo niece of very high mutton with relish. The smell guild ot draughtsmen who have the franchise to (haw pictures on the London pavements have suddenly taken to cultivating a higher style of art. They have improved greatly in their profession and are going into political caricature, something they never used to do at all. The heaviest of British battle ships, the Resolution, was launched o oouple of weeks ago, her weight on the stooks being 7,500 tons. Ibis a twin corew men-of-war of over 14,000 tons displacement. She will carry 67 -ton guns, besides other arms. The hull is divided into 221 water -tight compart- ments. The steeliest pony in the world recently arrived on the famous Shetland pony farm of the Marquis of Londonderry, on the lel' and of Breseay. It is a little colt foal that weighed but sixteen pounds and was only nineteen and a htvlf inches high 00 1(5 birth, It is 0 perfectly healthy, well -farmed ani- mal. The great object of the breeders of Shetland ponies is to keep down the size of the animals. The price increases in inverse ratio to size. Thie is partly from faney and fashion and partly because the smaller the ponies} the better fitted for working it the seams of coal in the mines where they find their chief usefulness, The handling of that treille regaired 18,000 thstinet lover motions and 20,000 eleetrIcal signals. Ls four houre 173 switching opera- tions were performed from the box. The old box wee too smalljor the work required. Eistory of the Mayflower. Though not a little is known of the his- tory of the Mayflower, of her fate nothing Is known. There were a number of vesseht bearieg that mune at toboet the same time asul this feet has produced the tanifuslon, It Is possible, however, le trace the Pilgrim Mayflower front the lime of her tiret trip to America tintil her last in 1030, when she made one of a fleet that brought ovev Governor Winthrop and his party to Mao- siteleueetts Bay. She }Jailed from Boston in September, 1(130, and mew again crossed Ole Atlantic. For twenty•five years she was engaged in the Haat, Luba trade, and 1(1 1059 was lost while making a return trip to London. She sailed from Maseilipatam iimm Cetobev 1050, The many attempts that have been tnade to trace the earlier and later weer of the Mayflower have borne smell fruits. Hun- ter, in an appendix to his " Founders of New Plymouth," has S110W11 hoer common as a ship nante Mayflower Wati, and about all that eau be learned of her history is that she was chartered at Landoll in June 1020, by agents of the Pilgrims, and that they finally embarked in her, at Southampton, September CI, 1620. After a long and tedi- ous voyage they sighted Capc Coil, Naveni. her 0 the same year, and landed ou Ply- mouth Rook, Decetnber 11, 0.8. The Mayflower remained In anchor irs Plyinonth 13ay until April 0, 1(121, evlien she toiled 011 her return voyage to Eng- land, where she arrived May 6, aecord- Mg to Bradford's Jonrnal. Not one of Ole Pilgrim's returned in leer, The May- , Hoover Waa a vessel of 1110 tons buraen, and was commanded hy Capt. jones in this voyage. In 1 609 the Ilayllower 0000 one of the five vessels which conveyed Francis Higginson's company to Salem, and in 16:30, according to Savage, she was oue of the Ileet of ten vessels which brought over Coy. John Winthrop and his colony to alassnahusetts Bay, at which time she also departed ftum Southampton. 'What her subsequent fate was, with the exception of the statement made in American 1Voics and Queries, on the authority of Sir Edwin Arnold, "that she was chertered in 1659 by the East India Company, and went to Alasulipattion from Goinbroom for a cargo of rice and general produce, and was lost upon the voyage home" is not known, A Novel 17n:thralls,. The latest novelty in umbrellas is ono that curls up arouted the rim when opened, forming a complete stater like those round Oho eves of house& This keeps Oho rain from running oft the umbrella and splashing one's trousers. When the gutter gate full " By a slight tilt," we ere told, "Ole water is caught and thrown to a common °were, where a pipe leads clown through the um- brella handle to the ground," It seems to ue that this involves some risk of the Water emitting down the sloeVes, which Would be somethieg worse them making the trousers wet,. ThO d'one bug makes more tibitie tlitun to Wasp, but he dodo not oommmul half as much res0e00.-113ingliamten Republi Woman was Emanotpated, It was many years hence, and the ?move mem, for the emancipateon of woman Frain Ole thraldom of ages tuul been crowned with complete success. Two persons were sitting in the front, par- lor. Even in the dim, uncertain light of Ole coal flre—the supply of coal was not yet exhausted—it wasplainly evident that they were a slender girl, a brawny youth, She was on leer knees, with clasped limule and tearful eyes. He was on the sofa. with downcast mien and inany a hot, tinpultuone 1)111311. "I may confess my love," she exclaimed passionately. Rio big brown mustache twitched notice. ably and he swallowed the lump in his throat " Why so cold?' hotly demanded the kneeling woman. And then, acting upon the madam im- pulse, she seized his hand and contemplatea through blinclene tears the callouses upon Ole muscular paiin. "139 mine," -she urged. The young man was much ilistraeght, and his lower register bass voice trembled when at last he spoke. ''it's so sudden," he faltererlaond nervous- ly fingering the hem of his coat, She sighed. " Edwin, you must limy° suspected." " No," he replied simply. " It is not the place of a map to suspect, 10 Is for us only to await the asking." 1,i adoration she gazed upon the agitated figure before her. Fairly intoxicated with Ole vision she forgot herself for a moment. With a sudden movement she threw hsr arms about the shrinking form of the youth and in a moment would leeve imprinted a kin upon the dewy lips. With a frantic effort he freed himself. "You stop," he fiercely cried, "or I'll acream." "Edwin," "Go away from me." "Do you dismiss me forever 1" " I do. 0o." As she left the room she crushed her spring hat over lier eyes and gleaned. People who met her on the street noticed that her face was pale mid set and that she WM muttering bitterly. It, was many years henee, and the move. ment for the emancipation of wommi from Ole thraldom of ages had been downed with complete suecess--EDetroit Tribune, The ownership of an ampubeted arm was disputed at law. The eon of a man in Eng- land, named Housley, had his arm amputat. ed at an infirmary, and after the operation Heasley asked for the arm and the surgeon refund to give it to him. Soon afterward he brought a box to the infirmary and asked again for tho arm. Then the boy died, and Ole father asked for the UM a third thee uneucceadtaly, Then Hensley sued. The judge gave judgment for the defendant, What is described as the biggest signal box, or switch tower, in the world, that is, from which the largest number of awitoh and signal lovers} and electric eignale are operated, was opened he London tWo weeks ago. It is at the Waterloo station, whore twenty.two tracks run to as many plat - forme and eliding& The switching ancl block eignalling arrangements are to be controlled iu the 11050 box, On the day of the Universities' boat moo 810 trains passed the old box 'between claybrealc and mid - nigh t,an average uf forty-five trains an hue. The Only Female .Freemason. The only female Freemason in the world lives la Oakland, Cal. Her name is Mrs. Salome Anderson, and her portrait adorns the temple of Live Oak lodge, No, 61, where it is placed in a position of honor among the pictures of the past masters. The story of how she became one of the eraftsmen is in - tweeting. She was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1818, and becoming an orphan at an early age she went to Paris to reside with her ulnae, who was a zealous ahd. prominent Mason. The lodge meetings were hold in his house, and with the curiosity of her sex she coutealed herself in the room during a couple of the sessions, and thus learned some of the myst :ries of the order. She was, however, caught while thus hiding, and the secrete that she had discovered were then made a sacred trust, for she was received into the fraternity. She located in Oakland in le54, and in 1565 her husband woe eked - ed to the °By council. He died in 1867 and sinee then she has devoted herself almost entirely 10 charity, her attention being, however, foremostly directed to Masonic enterpriees. She was elected a member of Ole board of trustees of the Masonic temple, a ciraurnstaitoe unparalleled in Oho history of Freemasonry. She is also a charter member of Golden Gate chapter, No. 1, Order of the Eastern Star, and ia a member of Oak Leaf chapter, No, 8, LATE CABLE NEWS. *toe Perdinitud--Dostitute Aliens— King Burnbert itt Barna, Mum Ferdinand of Bidgaria hasi eft England without any public announcement as to the progress of hie matrimonial pro- jects, but there is reason to believe that en authoritative statement which will not be pleasant to Russia will be made before long. The Russian newspapers have loon coin. tnenting very sharply etpon the atteution shown to Feediteurd in We country, and one of them, the wellknown Novoe Vremye, luta deal:wed that Russia will have to make Eugland feel la Asia, her only vul- nerable point, the necessity ineumbent upon leer of preserving it neutral eta.. tude toward Russia, in European affeirs, The impression of the men who study Central Asian polities closely, because they are always intereetieg, is that there will be 0 1,001' t1118 year between the Amcor of Bokhara, the vassal of Russia, and the Amoco of Afghanistan, who is the sub- sidized ally of England. The latter is just now engaged in chastising insolent frontier tribes, work which is pretty well :ohmic with him. The latest news says that Ito had 500 men of the Kedizallxici tribe emelt- ed and their chief tortured era imprisoned. Afghan armies are not partioolar aboub trontier posts and snoli like trifles, and Bok bare iney easily obtain 01,00110 Probably Ishe greatest regret that is felt over the coming dissolution is that the gov- erument hes not been able to take up it$ Destitute Alien bill and deal with a crying ovil of itnmigration which is the direct cause of so much Idleness and want among the working classes. During the past four weeks the numbee of aliens landingin Eng- land is no less than 22,205. A majority of these clone from Poland and Russia, The leading topic of conversation in court and diplomatic cirolesisnot they isit to Berlin of Kele Hinnbert, lout the projected confer- ence between the Ozer and Emperor Fran- cis Joseph. It is understood that the eon - termed} was first suggested by Emperov William at the recent meeting between him- self and the Czar at Kiel. Commnnications on the subject have since been exchanged between St. Petersburg and Vienna, which promise to result in the extension of to formal invilatioe by the Czar to Emperor Fran- cis Joseph to take part this autumn he the imperial h tin t gait pedi tion at .8 pa , Poland. The utmost importance ie attached to the arrangements as tending the Russian entente with France. The official feeling here iS san- guine enough to hope that a personal ex- change of views between Emperor Francis Joseph andthe Czar will succeed in detach- ing the latter from his Frenolt alliance and Med to a permanent settlement of the irate. Hag Balkan question. The Episeopal Chureh in England has 43 Bishops and 24,090 ether clergymen ; in the United States, 01 Bishops and 3800 elergymen Ireland, 13 Bithops and 1807 other dergymen, and itt Canada, 24 Bishops and 1300 other clergymen ; in Asia, 13 Bishope a,ncl 713 other clergymen in Africa, 12 13ialtops and 350 other eleegymen ; in Australia, 25 Bishops and 200 other olergymen, and in Scotlend, 17 Bishops} 00(1 280 other clergy. men ; in ectotterecl dioceses, nine Bishops and 120 elorgymen•-..14 grand total of Itif Bishops mid 32,72 other clergymen.— Omaha Boo, Poppy Chiltiyation in indict.. As the cultivation of tobacco is prohibited in England except muter a special license frotn the excise authorities, so the cultiva• Lion of the poppy in British India is for- bidden unless a license 110S been taken out. When a cultivator takes out a license front the Gpitun Department to cultivate a certain area, (usually two-thirds 01 010 mere of his own land ) he receives an advance in money to seoure his allegiance, ahd he hinds him- self to deliver to the opium aGent at a fixed price, ordinarily of 5s. a pound, whatever opium may be produced on Ids land. When official supervision is efficient, it is certainly very dillicult for 0 man to oulti• vate poppy on a larger area than is covered by Ina lieense without detection. The mil- tivation mond be concealed. It is to sort of garden cultivation, the poppy plants be- ing growu in little squares or bade intersect- ed ny tiny water channels for irrigation wherever this is possible. The growth of the plants is carefully tended 1101111 at length the time eomes when they burst out into flower, and the fields look like a sheet of silver as the white petals of the flowers glisteu in the morning dew. Theee beautiful petals] are the first prod- uce of the orop ; for the women arm chil- dren of the cultivator's fatuities come forth and pick them off one by one and carefully dry them, so that they inay servo afterward as the covering of the manufactured cakes of opium. Then the poppies, with their bare capsule heads, remain standing in the open field until it is considered that they are ripe for lancing. The cultivators then come forth in the evening, aud, with ten im- plement not unlike the knives of a cupping inetrument, they scarify the capsule on its aidea with deep incisions, so that the juice may exude. In the early morning the cal- tivators reappear With to scraping Itnife and their earthenware pots, and they tempo off the exuded juice mud coiled it in their pots. And this is crude opium.—[Bleckwood's Magazine. - The Seven Bibles of the World, The seven Bibles of the world are the Koran of. the Mohammedans, the Tri•Piti- kes of the 13uadhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the Three Vedas of the Erindoos, the Zendavesta of the Persians, the Eddee of the Scandinavians and the Bible of the Christians. The Eddes is the most recen and cannot really be called more than a semvsacred work. It was given to the world some time during the fourteenth mon. tory of our era. The Koran is the next most ancient, clue- ing from about the seventh century, A. a It is composed of sublime thoughts from pod) the old and new testaments, with fre- quent, almost literal, quotations from the Talmud. The Buddhistle Tri•Pitikes were oompoeed ire the sixth century before Christ. Its teachings are pure and sublime; ite as. piration lofty and extrente: The word -"king," as used in connection with the sa- cred word of the Chinese, eimply means "web of cloth." From this it is presumed that they were originally written on fino rolls of cloth. The Vedas are the rnose ancient works in Ole language of the Hindoos, but they do not, wording to the best eommentariee, anto.date the twelfth century before the opening of the Christian era. The Zende.- vesta of the Persians oontains the sayings of Zoroastee, who lived end worked in the twelfth century B. 0. Little Dot 1 "Mamma says when she was a girl little girls wore white stockin'a wet didn't make their feats all bleak like those do," Little Dick : " Then wet did they begin, wearin' black stooltin'e for 1" Little Dob (after some thought) 1" I guess it's beemeno We easier to wash foots than to wash stookin's,' Little Clara was out with her mother tak- ing dinner 0015 1101011/Or'S house ; and the hostess, in an attempt to be entertivining, asked leet if Rho liked kittens. The little miss shot:Iced those gathereit at the table by ) looking steipiefansly at the chicken pot.* and voplyieg 1 does not dos I drather have cake,"