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 '»:^:'V.'»iJJBpfe^^ ' ""i^'yyJWJSJijjSi:^^ iiwat I iiwi iMwaBMi UBS. BOWSEB'S SUSBABD. •If* m WwM r -si- â- â€¢w He Iacl*Heasl7 Failed to Make a CSar« demâ€" HU Kaowledce ofVegetablea. " Well, I'm going to have a ijarden this Spring," aimoanc«a Mr. Bowaer, as he en- tered the honae the other day. â€" " Yon â€" yon can't mean it " â€" ' Mrs. Bowser, when I say I'm going to have a. garden I don't want to be onderstood as meaning that I'm going to have a brickyard." â€" " Bat you remember last year?" â€" "Certainly, 1 remember last year. What of it I set out to make a gar- den, and yon and the dog and the neighbor's hens and a haU-storm and the bncs beat me ont of it." â€" '• Well, of course, you will do as yon think best, but I'm sorry to see the yard all torn up for nothing." â€" " For nothing I" That's just like you No matter what en- terprise I have on hand you always try to discourage me. Yon are a nice helpmeet, yon are I might as well fold my hands and sit down and wait for the poor-house. I diall begin on the garden to-morrow." A year ago he came rushing into the house one Spring day with some seeds which some one had given him, and announced that he was going to have a garden. Most of our back yard is in the shade, and no one of sense would expect anything to grow there, but Mr. Bowser had it spaded up and m»de into beds, and his enthusiasm was wonder- ful. " Don't want a garden, eh " he chuck- led, as he brought me to the back door to survey the beds. "Dosen't this remind you of old times on the farm?" â€" "Yes, but I'm afraid Che soil will be too cold." â€" " Oh, you are Perhaps you have been readins; up on soils, and are preparing a series of articles for some agricultural paper I You can go in and attend to your rick- rack." â€" " But you can warm the soil by running steam pipes under, and I don't think it would cost over $1,500 " If I hadn't shut the door I think Mr, Bow- ser would have hurled the spade â-  me in his sudden anger, but after a few minutes spent in reflection he began measariog back and forth and sticking stakes, and he after- ward acknowledged to me in a buret of con- fidence that he intended to try hot bricks at five feet apart He made a list of the stuff to be put into the ground. There were pumpkin, Equash, cucumber, water- melon, cantalope, and turnip seeds, and he put in some seed onions, made a bed for lettuce, and his work was done for the time. He had broken three pairs of suspenders be- yond repair, spoiled two pair of pantaloons, ripped three sbirts down the back, and lost a $20 gold piece in the dirt, but he was happy and enthusiastic. " Just think, Mrs. Bowser I" he exclaim- ed, as he waved his hand over his garden, " of walking out and cutting your own veg- etables, grown on your own land, and cov- ered with the dews fresh from heaven 1" â€" " And covered with our own worms and bugs, I suppose." â€" •* There you are 1 You'd die. if you couldn't say something mean I I used to wonder why some families didn't get along better, but now I see through the mystery." â€" " Has anything sprouted yet " " None of your business I Don't you dare to even look over my garden 1 If I raise fifty thousand big, luscious melons you shan't have even apiece of rind." The next week he brought home two dozen tomato plants and set them out. While he was down town I went out to look at them, and when ha returned I asked him if he was cer- tain they were tomato plants. â€" " Am I cer- tain that I am alive at this moment " he roared. "Perhaps I have travelled this country from Maine to Texas to be taken in by a farmer "â€" " Well, I hope they'll turn out to be tomato plants, but they look to me likeâ€"" " Bosh Most things look queer to a cross-eyed woman J" I am satisfied .that Mr. Bowser used seeds enough in that garden to plant it five deep. Whatever he could hear of he got, and what ever he brought home went into the ground before he could rest. His tomato plants didn't do well. They got liver complaint and turned yellow, and they got malaria and shivered all day long, and one afternoon he bronght a friend up to see what ailed them. The niten pulled up one by the roots, put it to his nose for a second, and then laughed "Bowser that's a potato stalk or I'm a fool?" " No 1" "Well it is, and you might as well pull up and throw the others away " I heard it all but never let on. In June some of the things began to sprout, and our garden was the talk of the neighborhood. There were wheat, oats, lettuce, barley, clo- Ter, onions, broom-corn, water-melons, pig- weeds, and beets all comin? up together, and men hung over the fence and laughed till they cried. Mr. Bowser treated the subject with such a lofty air that I asked no ques tions, but one day when I had been over to mother's I returned to find the garden gone and the sods restored. "Wasn't it a suc- cess, darling?" I asked that evening " Wasn't what a success "â€" " The garden, of course." " Could a garden be a success with people throwing hot water and hair- oil bottles and old shoes at every sprout that showed its head above jround Mrs. Bow- ser you were maliciously determined that I should not have a garden, and you've tri- umphed for the hour, but beware I It's a long road that has no turn " Fighting Hones. Theodore Roooerelt is contribatiiig a series of separate papers on ranch life to tiio Century, which FredTerick Remington illus- trates from his own experience. From the JTome Ranch in the March number we quote the following " Some horses, of course, are almost incurably vicious, and must be conquered by main force. One pleasing brute on my ranch will at times ' rush at a man open mouthed like a wolf, and it is a regular trick of the range-stallions. In a great many â€" indeed in most â€" localities there are wild horses to be found, which, al- though invariably of domestic descent, be- ing either themselves runaways from some ranch or Indian outfit, or else claiming such for their sires and dams, yet quite a4 wild as the antelope on whose domain they have intruded. Ranchmen run in those wild horses whenever possible, and they are but little more difficult to break than these so- called " tame " animals. But the wild stallions are, whenever possible, shot both because of their propensity for driving off the ranch mares, and because their incur- able viciousness makes them always unsafe companions for other horses still more than for men. A wild stallion fears no beast ex- cept the grizzly, and will not alwajm. flinch from an encounter with it yet it is a curi- ous fact that a jack will always kill one in a fair fight. The particulars of a fight of this sort were related to me by a cattle man ^ho was engaged in brinaring ont blooded stock from the East. Among the animals under bis charge were two great stallions, one gray and one black, and a fine jackass, not much over half the size of either of the former. The animals were kept in separate pens, but one day both horses got into the same enclosure, next to the jack-pen, and began to fight as only eu raged stallions can, striking like boxers with their fore feet, and biting with their teeth. The gray was getting the best of it but while clinched with his antagonist in one tussle they rolled against the jack -pen, breaking it in. No sooner was the jack at liberty than, with ears laid bactc and mouth wide open, he made straight for the two horses, who had for a moment separated. The gray turned to meet him, rearing on his hind legs and striking at him with his fore feet but the jack slipped in, and in a min- ute grasped his antagonist by the throat with his wide-open jaws, and then held on like a bull-dog, all four feet planted stiffly in the soil. The stallion made tremendous efforts to shake him off he would try to whirl round and kick him, but for that the jack was too short then he would rise up, lifting the jack off the ground, and strike at him with his fore feet but all that he gain ed by this was to shin his foe's front legs without making him lose his hold. Twice they fell, and twice the stallion rose, by main strength dragging the jack with him but all in vain. Meanwhile the black horse attacked both the combatants with perfect impartiality, striking and kicking them with his hoofs, while his teeth, as they slipped off the tough hides, met with a snap like that of a bear's trap. Undoubtedly the jack would have killed at least one of the horses had not the men come up, and with no small diffiaulty separated the maddened brutes." Getting s Little IHm Out of an Engliflhinu. " I don't know that I ever saw «e wone cut up diaa Bi^gs was to-day. You know he's always getting off.praotical jokes, ^d would chaff or sell his own father if he could amuse himself by it." said OoL Miles, twist- ing his plentitude of mustache. 'This'after- noon we wiere walking up and down the cor- ridors of the Windsor to whUe away time, Boggs, as he always is, looking ont for game, when he suddenly said " ' See that little Englishman over there 7 He's just gone in. Came by the steamer to-day, I guess. Pure cockn^â€" London to the backbone. Hasn't shed his checks yet. Honey, Children would rather eat bread and honey than bread and butter. One pound rf honey will go as far as two pounds of butter, and also has the advantage of being far more healthy and pleasant tasted, and always remains good, while batter soon be- wmes rancid and often produces cramo in the stomach, eructations, sourness and dianrhcea. Pure honey should always be freely used in every family. Honey eaten ffii. bread is very beneficial to health. The use of honey instead of sugar b almost every kind of cooking is pleasuit for the palate as it is healthy for the stomach. In preparing blackberry, raep- beiry or strawberry shortcake, it is infinite- ly suj^or. It is a common expression that honey is a luxury, having nothing to do with the life- »jm!pnnoiple. This is an error honey is rood u one of its most concentrated forms. »ue. It does not add so much to the growth of musde as does beefsteak, but it does im- part other properties no less necessary to ta^th and vigorous physical and intellec- tual action. It gives warmth to the system, Momies nervous energy and gives v^to •U the vital functions. To the laborer it nves steengtii, to the buriness man mental force. Its efibots are not like ordinary stimu- bMlthy aotion. the rendta of whiofa are Mjd pe rm a nent a nreet d^ori- My Little "Visitor. BY MES. A. M. MARRIOTT. One summer, while living in Colorado, I frequently had the moat charn)ing little vis- itor you ever saw. You could never guess what it was, so I will tell you it was a lit- tle deer. It belonged to a lady living near us. She bad bought it from some Mexicans who had bronght it in from the mountains a few miles distant. It was a light brown color, with white spots on its side and had such soft hair and silky ears, and the most beautiful, eyes I ever saw. At first it was very shy, but in a few days it grew tame, gat accustomed to its new home, and as we lived near, and there was no fence between the houses, it soon got in the way of coming to see us. It would come into the kitch- en where I would be preparing dinner, and putting its nose in my hand, beg in its pretty way for a bit of bread or cake. It was very fond of vegetables, especially cab- bage, and would often go through the whole house in search of its favorite vegntable, frequently going to the front part of the building, where my husband kept a store containing all sorts of groceries, provisions and fresh vegetables here the little deer felt quite at home (unless there were strangers m, when he was very shy), and would help himself to anything he wanted, sometimes going behind the counters, where he would hunt among the different sacks of dried fruit for currants, for which he seemed to have an especial fondness, more than once eating his fill of them, until my husband said " Dicky " (that was his name), must do better than that, or stay out of the store. Once during an illness that kept me con- fined to my bed several days, Dicky would come every day at about the same time, and stamp on the door stop with his fore foot, until some one would open the door for him, when he would come in, and coming straight to my bed, lay his hea-i in my hand. I grew very much attached to him, but as the weather grew cooler, he often wandered away from home, and would be gone two or three days, and finally, much to the grief of his mistress, disappeared altogether. She thought he had been stolen, but I think it was only his wild nature asserting itself, or he had fallen in company with other deer, preferrmg their socie^ to ours. One day during the following summer, whfle at sup- per, m a room opening off from the etore room, and adjoining the kitchen-the doors being open clear throughâ€" a large deer stepped mto the store, and coming on through the room where we were, without, however, paying much attention to us. TOlked out into the kitehen and coolly pi^ od up a smaU loaf of bread that I had just bronght from thebaker's, and walked out at I the back door. When I had recovered from my astonishment sufficiently to think I went to the door to look for him, but he j nowhere to be seen, nor did we ever see him â- gam. He had grown wonderfully, but I i am sure it was Dicky. Let's get a little fun out of him." " I wasn't unwilling, but stood off, a lis tener. Boggs advanmd with " ' From England, sir, I presume ?^ " ' Ya-a-8 I' said the little man, rather startled. '"Came in by the steamer to-day, of course?' " ' Yaas 1' with more C3nfidence, but con- siderable drawl. " ' How do you like the country, sir ' ' ' Aw I chawming I Very much pleased, I'msure.' V " Pleasure or business, sir?' " Both, aw I've just come to hunt, fish and twavel and look at wailwoads, and if I like 'em 111 buy one or two. y the way, how tar shall I have to twavel before I cam find buffalo and Indians ' " Oh 1 you'll find Buffalo four or five hundred miles away. And Indians, w lat we haven't killed off, in the same vicinity.' " ' Then you still follow that inhuman practice, aw, of slaughtering the red man?' " ' Yes, but we leave it altogether to the boys of ten and twelve. It's no longer men's work. I did it myself years ago.' " • Did you You've killed Indians your- self, aw ' said the listener, much excited. " • Oh, yes, dozens of 'em. Niggers, too, and Chinamen. But you can't kill a nigger since the war without raising a fuss, because he's a voter and as to Chinamen, its get- ting to cost as much as it used to cost to buy a nigger.' " Mr. Checks looked horrified, but went on. ' Are murders as frequent now. aw, as they used to be in the West In Chicago, now aw, they say they used to average about tep a day.' '• 'Well, no J not as mnch, because they've got a way of retaliating in a family, and if anybody kills my father or my brother I shoot him down at sight, but a stranger in a place or a foreigner has very little chance, because every man goes armed, though the fashion of carrying rifles in the streete is going out. I don't approve of it myself.' " ♦ They say, aw' that it's considered a deadly insult to refuse to drink when you're asked, and the law, aw, justifies the shoot- ing in that case.' " • Yes, and very justly too. Otherwise how would our elegant bar rooms, the pride of the land, be supported By the by, we've about talked ourselves dry will you take a nip " HISCELLAVEOIJS ITEMS. Well, aw I don't drink, but I won't go against the customs of the country. ' " vVe moseyed up to the bar and drank, and I noticed that Mr. Checks, for a man that didn't drink, took a most sizable horn of whiskey straight. Then, excusing him- self, as seeing a friend in tbe crowd, he shook hand with Boggs and hastened away. As he went Flibbetsâ€" you all know Plibbets â€"came up and shook digits with Mr. Checks as he got away. " 'What ' said Boggs, 'do you know that man Why, he's just arrived to-day from England.' " 'Of course he has,' said Fabbits. 'Went over a month ago. That's Billy Brite. He's the foreign buyer for the house of great Smith, Jone Co." "•But he's an Eaglishman, ain't ho?" gasped Boggs. " ' Well, if being bom and raised in On- tario makes him so he is. He's the smartest Cannuck unhung.' " Boggs swears now that he'll never enter that cussed Windsor Hotel again as long as hehves." e Bndorsinfi: a Cheque. Many women otherwise intelUgent are smgularly lacking in business capacity, and when, as often occurs, they are thrown on their own resources, they do not know how to conduct the most ordinary business transaction. The woman mentioned in the following incident, narrated by an exchange was evidently lacking in business training.' bhe entered a bank in order to get a cheque cashed, so she went to the receiving teller's window and thrust it in. The teUer shoved It back " Next winder," said he. „;"f^*T" '^^' L «"' '^w* till next winter I" exclaimed the lady. ^^ " 1 said next winder." shouted the clerk w-i-n-d-o w, winder 'tother winder." Oh, yes; but this is the receiving win- dow, isn t It " 8 " « r^'t^"*^*'" "'*««* any money here." « w \â„¢ ""'S *° receive it, ain't I?" • i*"' l\o" yon ain't; go to the other winder, lady he'll fix you." Jt ^*t â- **? ""certain, but she went S?â„¢!??jf t '?."'e«k. The poUto official JSdhe notendors^, madam." 11 Not endorsed What does that mean t" ' hi your name Tucker " " WeU, what if it is " theJhJ?kV°" """ •""" '"'*•'« '««" •| Yes. it is." « ^*!?? "?°' y°° "" endorse it." youSll"?J^'^*y~"'**^"«- What do h^Vohv^ ^^ your name across the « J?°^?y ?*"'• "» »* already." "On the front. That ain't enough- it must be across the back." ""'â- go. n "Oh, well, gi' me it." She took it and Ten cents an acre was all a farm of 964 acres broi^ht recently in Greene county, Ala., when sold under mortgage. Mrs. Sarah P. Bartlett, of Hope, Me., is 90 years' old, and has just taKen her first spoonful of medicine. She has decided not to be a centenarian. There is a five-year-old cow in Clay county, Dakota, that stanns 16]^ hands high and weighs 1,888 pounds. Circus men are bargaining for her. Four generations live in a house in Cen- tral Fells, K. I. There are a mother, daughter, daughter's daughter, and daugh- ter's daughter's daughter. There is a large and healthy moral in the boast of a saloon keeper of Danville, 111., that his two grown sons have never tasted whiskey, never used tobacco, and soldo at swear. A large copper medal, minted in King George's time, and evidently worn by some British soldier in the Revolution, was ploughed up recently in a field near Mon- roe, N. C. A " size " in a coat is an inch in under- wear it is 2 inches in a sock, 1 inch in a collar, i inch in a shirt, inch in shoes, inch in pants, 1 inch in gloves, inch, and in hate, of an inch. In order to cure whooping cough in War- wickshire village, Eag., they cut a piece of hair from the nape of the child's neck, chop it very fine, and spread it ou a piece of bread and give it to a dog. John Lamar Acree, of Lower Lee county, Georgia, died recently from a brass har- monica. The harmonica was a Christmas present, and in blowing it the harmonica poisoned his mouth and lungs. A young man is digging for a red tin box containing $600 in gold, buried in the woods at Villa Rica, Ga. He claims to have been cUled out of the house to the front gate of his yard by a ghost, and told where to find it. Four fishermen at Enoxville, Tenn., re- port that while crossing the Tennessee in a small boat a fish like a serpent, and fully ten feet long, capsized the boat and broke it into pieces, the men barely getting ashore with their lives. Albert Frszer, a convict in the Michigan penitentiary, escaped, and a reward was of- fered for his capture. He communicated with his wife, who was having a hard strug- gle with poverty, and induced her to deliv- er him up and get the reward. So she did, and Frazer is happier than he has been for years. The cook in a cowboy camp near Chey- enne was told that he had drawn a lottery prize of $15,000. He at once invited the boys into town, and in the carouse that followed spent every cent that he had saved for a year. When he got sober he learned that he had been fooled, and then he made a desperate but ineffectual attempt to kill himself. Mr. Clarence Ganu, of Corinth, Mich., has attained notoriety in the easiest possible way, simply by putting this badly written note in a barrel of apples, which was opened recently in O^hkosh " I write this line to a frend unknowen, won't the furst young lady that gits apples ought of this barl to right me a leter gust for the crusicy of it and if you due I will make you a present of a barl of chous apples next fall." A French physician mentions a curioiu case of left-handedness. One child in a cer- tain family was left handed, and a second appeared at the age of 1 year also to be left- handed. It was then learned that the mother always carried her c lild on her left arm. She was aavised to carry the child on her right. The infant, having its right arm free began tc grasp objects with it, and soon lecame right-handed. In 1855 Charles Strong came to Boston from Germany and began trying to make a living by repairing clocks. The other day^he was found dead in t'ae house where he lived alone. Four rooms were full of rags, one heap serving as the miser's bed. Gold and silver watches and chains, a great number of old and new clocks, copper coins, and other like articles were strewn around the rooms. It is said that Sirong left property worth at least $70,000. The paper doors now coming into use are claimed to possess the advantage over wood of neither shrinking, swelling, cracking, oor warping. They are formed of two thick pa- per boards, stamped and moulded into pan- els, and glazed together with glue and pot- ash, and then rolled through heavy rollers After being covered with a waterproof coat- ing, and then one that is fireproof, they are painted, varnished, and hung in the usual way. J10 iMfiVft T^ 'Nj^ No news comes v.* ff?"' U Emm Pasha, and S^.Uti naturally increases 1^ tfi* good news. In this ol"^- ' more ominous of evn '^,' 1 ever, serious reaso.^forVi;^* Since he was last K»S»^ ft* ered unj J.- s"»r(iib». has had by scattered anddi^ve^^^^aU. country through wh eh^iil passage and hardest "JSh Moreover, white it l^. " W" able opposition to ston tK. " » h pdi_tion.anyoneoM:!«?*i^ intercept a solitary ^^^^ riS, ley reached W.delaiSf; "M^o f? " rewonably beUe^^:^'"N, that no definite news K »m5 to rewind m conn ne^s would have ^7 of Zanzabar 01. k Congo. Toe latter roUi.*'^«i I said, uncertam. The fcL" *• ^\ BO. With Uganda Jttdfc" "till utmost distarbance. it win?!""" Bible to send a disMtch f Jl "'«i»: East Coast. It S to th! r" "^^iS to look for th?t°'^tJS steamer coming down ^.."tT^ "" j eagerly for tifings'^ftt^^ The next steamer that can £? ' message is the Stanley w},i„i, • °f •«?« poldviUe about mS'i?"^?""""!, whether Major Barttelota Y^H heard anythmg of the expediLT^If out irom his camp mtoXS L^?} he had not, anxiety wiU^ e!!?" I hope will not be destrovS " dence »haken.-.V. Yf^^' "•" Old Sam. There is in the City of Coldw»ter a large sorrel horse known as 0?d s' "1 IB the most popular horse in the ttS his younger days he was uirj bus horse, ajud he and himate."!? were so well trained that they wSJ up to the principal hotel andWS bus up to the sidewalk toIettheH driver" ""°" '"' '" ""M One stormy night the train wa. Ute.J while waiting at the station for paZ! the driver fell asleep. Old SamjS companion, after standing about u lw| usual, started up town on their owni backed up at the hotel in the nmal i and then went over to where they were kept. When the war broke ont, the citizaj Loldwater equipped the Loomis M with some of the finest horses thatwmij the Army, and among them wa« Old S He was in a great many batdes, bat 0. out unhurt, and at the close of the tsl soldiers bought him of the Govenmeiu,J presented him to Gen. Loomis, who i commanded the battery. On the return of Old Sam to ColdiL some of the people thought they wonk j him a reception. So they madereidjlj old stall, filling the rack with hay udl manger with oits thtn they me huiiti railroad staTion, and after greeting hkn three cheers, turned him loose, and to see what he would do First he went to the hotel, where k 1 to stop for passengers, and looked md\ little. Then he went over to his o'd 1 walked into his stall, smelt.of thehaj oats, and gave a loud neigh, as if to his satisfaction that everything wu and then began eating as if be htd awav only a tew days, instead of yean, They say m Bloomington, HL, that Dolp Kichardson, who spent all his time in poli- tics, out of which he made precious little money, much to the discouragement of his hard-working wife, was cured of his bad habit very suddenly. One day he rushed into the house and demanded dinner instant- A Watchman's Hxtradrclinary Advai A singular, and at the same timei comic, accident happened to a Faria 1 man named Parnot on Sunday night not was employed near the Caamps d^l to look after some buildings 'Which tr| course of construction, and in order »lr himself warm during the night he pnt* plauks over a cauldron of boiling bitn and covering himself carefully up, wa!| sleep on them. During the night thep gave way by degrees, and the man elii tly into the bitumen. Under normal « tions he ought to have been boiled, M bitumen was just beginning to feel tM fects of the frost, and soothe watohmsn »â-  saved from a horrible 'death. Co'"' however, the bitumen before thonnj freezing had,adhered to Parnot's clothe* flesh, and about 4 o'clock in the monuM was awakened by cold which seemed tolj entered the marrow of his bones. Wl deavoring to get up he found himsellf to a bed of adamant, and shouted ffl«! cally for help. His cries attract' matutinal marauders who were around the locality for plunder, aa" worthies instead of helping tj»« /^^ min out of his bituminous bed, »» of his WAtch, a purse containing a w*" of money, and his knife, alter wts« ^^ indulged in unreasonable ^^ff^\U ability to " rise with the lark, «» left him to his fate. Parnot was n»ny. en to death when the workmen am extricated him from his pen}*°i.J; "r â€" ^-â€" -â€" -^'"â- â- â€¢""ou uuiDer instant- 1 extricaiea mm irom uw i~'" •â- id ly, saying that he must be back to the poll- I He had to be admitted to thehiep* ^^ .„„ «!.„.._ ,c_- _.._... „ '„ tease, for notonly were hw'e«J en, but he had seriously ""Jf*^ ,°^ carefaUy wrote her name upside down across the ^ttom of the check anUhanded^tT^ iol^°?tl*' "T^ madam."" " Why^So^U^lJ?^ you ^ted it? I .i.r*L*'"?^"l,'Â¥' "»" '^to it across " Gi' S'iaS^ -*" " *-^" -M. The tdlor sighe. aid gave her tWoone- Mr. Henry Geon^'s assertion that nchate growing richer and the poor are Kfowina poorer "is not borne out, so fu as iiingland u concerned by the income tax re- turns of that country. These show that drr. "gthe past ten ysars the^nnmber of inoonies between 9760 and t^MO has increased dollar Mils, which rfJ^t.SrV'SL."' *?** 2f^iS5*r"""*-J^^«»^««^6S parasol^ r^SSf*******^"!^*** ud 95,000 Iftve not ineraaaad at aH. whll« *^^°' taose befeWMB place m five minutes. Ho sat at" the table and Mrs. Richardson placed before him a pitcher of water and a platter heaped up with election tickete. Mr. Richardson saw the point, and has since devoted mnch of his energy to providing for his family. .„*^" J *** "7 **«"« made of hard and sctft wood, each alternate stave being of the soft variety and slightly thicker than the hMd wood stave. The edges of the sta«.e foâ„¢ hf ^?" wx! ^^'"' P^«l t»««ther to £r f^^ 7"^5^ °^ ^^^n each itave from top to bottom. In this arrangement ^STti!-*""' "•"t" "*° »be soft ones S *! *L'?«'^» «? .«««d. and the extra- his energetic rise. but inel â- ffectnal ende»'«« odgei to lap over those of the hard wood ^•s, thus making the joint doubly se Wj^*^*"f ^y matohmaker had a good tei"*i " S?"P^**«1 girl to prociSea a^^ J£fi !*"» d-ooverS that Lre w.^ diffi^Sn^ «lf. y«»* 'fho had also found u tiie iJrencn Assem.v .^ ,f^ " ^iL\feur^?' ^^^ " ^^'^. Partfe, any onlday by ^X,?»^' War in Twenty Minn^ "The war of the rebellion," *jj Sickles the other evening, ^^^t whiskey war. Yes, whiskey »"»* beUion: I was in Con^« £? war. It was whiskey in ^° J morning oocktaUâ€" a ^nCTW ^jj^ drinkers. Then whiskey »U ?»?^a,C# and gambling all night Dri^ ;^ gress opened its nioniiDg"" before it adjourned. S'^^^Lhiskef.'r room without its demijohn 01 " ^t^ the clink of the glasses conw the Capitol corridors. !» ^ri angry speeches-were wfij^, ,0 phere was redolent ^,*'*, ;rv3wrLi excitement seeking reliei » jxcii**! whiskey addmg f^'Twin**^ Yes, the rebelUon was launch J ^^ U the French Assembly fe^t" -^ aH, while 4 -Ightlydeor.-ef'S-riEJ^ ttie tatadeoqy aiwOitnkvndmim^ia^am. wevery eligible in other ^respeetsTeach '-Peotave parent insbted upon WtSdng a STSKT.'*^." **" aiuffhterin-Sw Sri^ ii*T- Z* ' arranged that the gW should be faiterviewod whUe spinniSg t£-i? ^f^ iomut^ into a nUteinto Sh^^Lr^lf* *5»»« " iiitroduoS .**2f-?*»J* **»»»♦**»» ooat tbrowi^ The auniage took dlMonrad. declare war minutes." against The Rev. Bartholomew ofAshill, Norfolk, is the ' in England. He has josi 100th year. He has beeni^^eji. ville just seventy-five ye^ «»» the oldest Uving Cantab JSVj; a A. in 1811,. He«»«2»«^ 'S m aBABUTTE M. T ^XBRXXlvT-CCo: „k rode home, more t_ -as actually made fe had taken. His fatJ ***Jatcouldnotbutall, L orndent arrangeme tjlt iiowed all the anno: KLjoffsr has been reje K^t Uttle gigging »c. It. Well, we are quit of i^tv that Mark entangl** K; mother-in-law mto [Vfool to expect to get 1 1" u was said to his da The was left alone for M not bear to accept his at longer than needfu ujn 80 much shaken iii C^t an illness was cc home to be nursed by Bwemont was obliged g^e to finish his resid I who had been absent n Iher family, thoutrht it r gfatber and daughter b« aether at once, so that ihe benefit of her fat „j could be no doubt th^ "wid that he had deri- Iment from the year and hud been with him. It 1 [him ap a stop, but it ha {downward course. Selfie I as ever, buljthere had I I unusemento, and a wil st associates, such as J might continue, above 1 bedispensed with. Tl become aware of th |t him, and, though re( Vs inertness and dep knew that a fresh ofien I his overthrow, and ther j on his good behavior. Nuttie's task might 6thed but the poor girl rdesolatt as she ate hei I with a dull post-bag, an having seen the bous pily for her,, w»s a goo o, and very sorry for h nk herself what to do 'â- room during the hour Lys been most sure of her r company. How often shi Mng called on to practise ker's evening lullaby I Sti ht to get something up, ai I turn over and arrange of sick loathing for whi 1 with those days of i which she would so Everything had faliej Blanche and May had left ' had played there and t nd putting aside the pit lid never use atone, occ orio, very meek and po usage that Mr. Egren if she would come toi tie dread, some distaste, /and some honest resoii r way thither. Fhere he sat, in drcssing- b, and blue spectacles, wi ibruary sunsluHe carefully kked worse and more hag; I had seen him at dinner de up for company, and reased, especially as he I hpnd, but seemed to a thing she had never recognition. It was If, but it betokened full 1 he had never spoke: Dg, exasperating smful return home. â- "Have you seen the boy ' Yes they are walkino tter the south wall." sii I that shs hai peeped ' as he was carried ac I' Here 1 I want you to A man ought to be iu i a hand " [It was really distinct pe -ute; but, as Nuttie I^Kuttte read hcJ " 5!^' • rushed |. -o^t to Btretej L*l»W*da little, her finished w| r-M^f' *eu offered! K Jr pleased," rt^ whether ' j^ looked ver, "2, **• "le good Lfjfflthem? Sh/ ^^-Ww could shd ^^••Mitnre recoi ^^tter's minj ^•fWhernev LjJWng Bt He â- till oocasiMially hiiohuroh.