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“ For my part," says Bebe, wilfully, “ I shall wish for something I can never get, fast to prove how absurd it all is." " From time to time we every one of us do that,” says Ghendos. “ We banker alter the impoasible. I begin to fear I shall never get my heart’s desire." He glances expressiver at Bebe. “ Then think of something else," suggests that young lady, smoothly. " Your second venggza Ins-y _l_)e_more successful.” “ Only one! Oh, how moderate! Only one l Let me see,” with a. delicious medi- cnaive air, and two slender fingers pressed upon her lips. “ Shall I tell you?" "Oh, noI no," with a. pretty show of eager fear. “ If you told any one the chum would be broken, and you would not get what you went. Perhaps ‘who knows? â€"the boon I am going to demand will be the very thing You would tell me.” This with e sumo only tender glance from the lustgoue azure eyes. " Would you,"says innocent Dora. “ But :10“; shall I know what you are longing or n " (Jan you not guess ‘2" “ I am afraid I cannot. Unless perhaps -â€"but no, of course it would not be that. Indeed I do not know how to reach your thoughts. One must want so many things." “ I want only gneg" And now we all rise and saunter towards Ibo well. " It you would only wish as I do,” whis- pers Sir George to Dora, “ I would be the happiest_r_1mu alive." Miss Baateun grows decidedly white, even to her lips, yet is still thoroughly composed. “ But do I flirt '3” she says. “ I don’t believe I do. Do you believe it, my darling. my treasure, my Tito ?” to the dog. " Not you. No, no, Lord thndos ; it is not that at all.” " What is it, then 2” impatiently. “Why. it is 'every one’ who flirts with me. to be sure. And that is not my fault, is it ?” with the most bewildering assump- tion o_t injured innocence. This saucy little speech is accompanied by such a. bewitohing glance from under the said but that Lord Chsndos loses his presence of mind. “ I cannot hear to see you flirt so much as you do with every one," he matters. hsstily ; “ it tortures me. 135136, My is it ?” “Do you profess to understand what is becoming to young ladies ‘? Have you been studying them? Come, then. if you are so good ajudge, I will ask you to tell meit this but is so very becoming as they all say. Look well, now, before you decide; it is a. question of the. utmost importance.” ’fifiaglnh'al! keép to my oiikinalwinh, “At all events, you must. acknowledge bhftfiit is not begomipg.” v " How do you know what you would do if ya}: wqge I ?" “ Neither do I consider it ‘ good form’ for a young lady to talk slang,” vary gravely andnquietly. “. I wouldn’t do it it I were “'You must make a mistake,” says Bebe, provokingly. “ You know I never flirt. In the first place,Idon’t consider it good form." “ Is is fair to encourage that poor boy so Very openly ?" begins Chandoe, calmly. “What ?" says Miss Beatoun. " Is it kind to flirt so much wifih young Thornton ?" repeats Lord Chandos, still very_oa.lm. As Ohlpa leaves Bebe,r Eda ban-1.11363- quietly slips into his place. to Miss Bea.- togxl’a pvjdpnt surprise. “ Come," nay-a Miss Hastings, smiling and putting aside her dress to give him roqm 59 seat pimselfgnfihe grasp near her. “ Don’t," exolaims Thornton, putting his hands over his ears. " I won’t listen to you. I refuse to understand. Mina Hast- inga, will you permit me to sit by you? Miss Beatoun is behaving with more than her usual cruelty}: "Are we bound by law to name our wishes ‘2" asks Chips. earnestly. “ Because, if lo, I shall have to sink into the ground with shame. I'm horrid bashfulâ€"minis my most glaring fault, you know Miss Bentounâ€"and I would not disclose my secret desire for anythin you could offer.” "For nnvthina l' nnn fl nfinr" rnnnnkn "For anything I (:0qu offer," repeats Miss Bentoun. “Are you sure? Shall I tempt you? Would you not, for instance, hkeâ€"” The_eyes 33y the rest. " I remember coming here once before,” breaks in Lottie Heatinge’ voice, “ and wishing for something, and I really got it before the year was out." ' " Must one wait a. whole year ’1’" tasks Sir Msrk. “ Then I shall have to write mine down. Give you my word that if my own name was suppressed tor a year I don’t believe I would recollect what it was at the end of it.” “I hope wherever you go. I say,” pita- ously. “ don’t scold a fellow on such a splendid dayâ€"don't ; it's uncommon eflliot- ing of you; and don’t put on your gloves to: a little longer." “Why?” » " Because I like looking at your hands, though at the same time they always irri- tate me. They are the very prettiest I ever saw; andâ€"forgive me for saying itâ€" hntI always want to kiss them. Now, don’t begin again, please; remember you hnvileoture‘d me for a good hour.” " Then I have waste?! a. good hour and figpgothing. I give you up; you are past Wilder the song- And swine: the timeâ€"a. rhythmic rushing Alongâ€"along 0n the uivering branches, on quuking leaves, Where frightened soul of the aspen griews. “ I beg your pardon, Miss Bestoun. You estimate my capabilities at a very improper level. I do no end of things besides bil- liuds. I shoot, smoke, est, andâ€"talk to The cedm swsy And the reel leaves dance. and whirl and rustle Awayâ€"away; For the Master is steellng with toottslls soft, Ehrcugh the {Dress aisles to the organ 101:. The restless bird And the startled hare look softly out, From slumber stirred; For the Master is plnjmg~the evening breeze In the lingering light. on the (crest keys. The old pines groan, And the young pines 11mm and L am ailant Alone-None; For the Master in calling out every sound From the forest shades and the air around. A revel mad. A carnival wild, do the night-woods hold, \ So gladâ€"so glad Thu the whole world in sleeping. save them and The loosened bark And the shuddering vines bring harmonies steal- mg Down from the dark And symphonies breathing from thrilling moss. Where the 0333' green arm to the measures toss. A deep, sweet sound From the Gothic domel, rails the melody Aroundâ€"around ; For the song-god is winging his magic flight Througihhtthe Marlena groves and the sombre n g . » Oh man who sleep When the work is done! on women who wake To weep. to weep I Know hthe night has its music, the storm its c eat And a. soul 'which speaks to Him who will hear. Author 0! "Molly ann,“ "Thus Baby," “Ah-y Fain Lilian," etc , etc. “ I need not ask anybody; I can see for myself. What do you do all day long but ployjilliatds '1’" And tlTe'imseen soul of their minatxelay. “ What a way to spend one’e life I" severely. " I wonder where you think you wingp to when you die ?” The flight-Wendi Song. PHYLLIS. BX TEE DUOEEES. “ More than that; I think he appears to love you very dearly." “I hope we will be very good to each other. Indeed, I see nothing to prevent our being quite happy endâ€"comfortable. Don’t you thmk he appears very fond of “ I hope youâ€"that is, I hope he will be very good to you,” I say, making the cor- rection in time. I think of Sir George’s renb~roll, and have the words, " I should think so, indeed,” upon the tip of my tongue, but desirous of keeping up friendly relations with Dora, refrain from uttering them. She evidently takes her good fortune as a matter of course, having ever rated herself at a high price, and believes she has got her bare desertsâ€"no more. “ Yes, everybody will be pleased, I ima- gineâ€"papa and mamma. especially. I don’t see how papa can make the faintest objec- tian in any vzay. He must teelfiratified.” I don’t quite 5693!! this, but reserve my sentiments. “ He is gteatly to be liked,” I say, with truthâ€"honest, good-natured George Ash- uret having won his way into my afleotiona long since. “ I don’t; know that I was ever morgdelighted uncut gnything in iny_l_ite.” "You must put such ideas out of your head, Phyllis; they are very unworthy. I never harbor unforgivin thoughts, I should hope, towards any oneâ€" east of all towards you, my sister. Besides, I ought really to be thankful to you, if anything. Marma- duke and I would have been most unsuited to each other. He is far too exigeant and masterful for my taste. George is in every way ~more desirable." “ I Sometimes feared 7"" I ntammer, utterly abaehed in the presence of so much sweetness. She has opened her Ohlldiflh blue eyes to their widest, and is gazing at me plain- tively, as though grieved I should imagine her capable of any wiefeeling. _ “My dear Phyllis, what a. curious girl you are! ' Forgive you 1’ as if I had not done so ages and ages agoâ€"ii indeed there was anything to forgive. Surely you couldn’t have thought me so vindictive, so unohristien, as to retain bitter feelings againsg you all this time 7” “ You will forgive me now. Dora 7" I my, inddenly leaning over to put my hand on are. “ Forgive you 2 Forgive what 'l” “ Well dear, when I married ’ane, you know, I thought you were rather vexedâ€"- you said so many things ; and sometimes I have fancied, since, you still think I was in the wrong.”_ “I did tell her, deer. At least,that ie, heâ€"George told her.” She brings out the Christian name of her beloved with a charming amount or dxflidenee. " He said he would like to make sure of me; and indeed I thought myself it might perhaps be as well he should be the one to mention it to he: as a settled thing. You under- stand 7” I do, and begin to entertain rather an admiration for Dora’s astuteneas. “Of course not, darling. Oh, Dora, 1 am so sorry we let mamma go wibhout tell‘ ing 139.13,} me, for instance, and was desirous of mar- rying me, and so forth. He was slightly muuuerent, I thought; buh it really signi- fied very little whether his English was good or bad, so long as I managed to under- stand what he meant.” “ I am afraid I cannot altogether satisfy )our curiosity, Phyllis, it has all got so mixed up. 0! course he told me princl- pally_ wpat I knew beforeâ€"that he adores “ I am sure whatever he has said was just what it should be, he is so thoroughly sin- cere," I remark, still anxious to get at the root of the matter. ” Very nervous. He seemed quite afraid to come to the point. You see I am always so distant in my manner,” says my modest sister, “ he had no way of judging what my answer was liksly to be." " I hardly know. It was all that Wish- ing Well. I fancy. For the luture I shall feel it my duty to be superstitious. At all events, it surely helped to bring it about, as he only wanted the opportunity to declare himself," says Dora, oomplacently. " What did he say, Dora? Was he nerv- ousâ€"orâ€"â€"” “ How was it, Dom? How did it hap- pen?” Iaak, two hours later. as Isit opposite to her, my hands embracing my knees,in my favorite position, my head bent forward in eager anticipation of be: news. until I either gain it or else find further hovigs ‘29on? . As I éat near he; in the drawing-room, I manage to whisper, "What is it, Dora? didge ?_ Ag§a_you:_â€"” '7 PEylliu', it is your turn now. Will you not descend and court fortune ‘1” calls Harriet. Here, at an early supper, we all find ourselves in the wildest spirits. Glsncing curiously at Don, attracted by some name- less new expression in her eyes, I feel eon- vineed the day has been to her one of unmixed triumph, and that already the Wishing Well hes granted her desire. “ Yes he did: and I am,” responded Dora with a smile of unusual livelinesa for her. “ To-_night you; shgll knpwigll." I am deeply engaged listening to mamma while she reads fio me Billy’s Inst efluaion from Eton, to which place he returned the second day after our _ba.ll. “It; is 'a pity to dxsburb Mrs. Curing- tcn,”says Sit Mark. “She told me this mugging sb_e pad nap awipl; leffi ungratiflgq.” Mariimduke raises his head” quickly, and, flushing warmly, ‘turna a. pleased and mth_e_r surgriped glangg at me, “ Nevertheless, I will come," I cry incan- tionsly, springing to my feet, “ and beg for the continuance of my happiness, which includes everything.” " 0h, Phyllis i” cries Babe. “ Oh, Mrs. Onrrington,” exclaims Sir Mark ; “ what a rash proceeding! Why did you say it aloud? You have destroyed every chance o_t receiving that good gilt.” The principal business of the day being concluded. our party once more breaks up into detachments, some straying out of sight in pretended search of scenery, some following their example in an opposite digeetion without any pretence at all. _ Sinking down again by mobher’s side, I content myself with he: and Harriet, while Marmaduke and Sir James stay to hear us company, and smoke unlimited cigars, while offering a. lazy remark every now and then. " Yes," say I, "how provoking! Never mind, contentment still remains; and that, I have heard, is quite as much to be desired!" Everybody laughs heartily, and Marina duke says, " You will get nothing, Phyllis!1 it ygg @golarq you; wants so openlyf “ Do you feel no desire to investigate the neighborhood ?" asks Sir Mark of me, carelessly, as he passes by ; and as I answer, “ No,” with a. smile and shake of my head, he sauntera off towards Lottie Hastings, with whom he commences a flxrtation, oal~m bu_t vigorous. Somehow it is a. peaceful hour we spend, and one that drives me from the vague irritation that before tormented me. In the quiet of the present I forget all life’s vexatione and remember only snob good things as are within my grasp. How paltry now seem the troubles that oppress me] I fearâ€"yet know not what it Is I fear. I doubtâ€"yet,it compelled to do so, would find a difficulty in giving my doubt a. name. This sweets-r mead oohtifiues, and travel: home with me, although we do not reach Stgmgempre until ig is nearly nine. “Neinher happiness nor contentment. how dismal!" exolmm I, laughing too. "Well,I shall keep my third andlaat thoughg to myself.” And having hoped in my own mind that Lord Chandoa would very soon again ask Bebe to be his wife, I go through the form of drinking a little of the pure spring water Master Chips offers me with due Bolemnity. _ " So I was ; bubâ€"I forgot something, and had to return for it." “ What did you forget ?â€"your pipe ?" “ No, my gun," replies he, in the most balanced taahion pouible. "Oh! how could you frighten one so ‘1’" exoimms Bebe, coloring, and speaking ungratefully, as it seems to me, considering he has just saved her from a heavy fall. “ I thought you were out; shooting with the others." As for Bebe, between looking suddenly round and surprise at his unexpected pre- sence there, she loses all idea. of balance, and is in the act of coming with undue hurry to the ground, when Lord Chandos, stepping quickly forward, ostohes her and ightly llffis her down. Aflmoment late: Lord Chdfiaidéfififishes open the door of the eonservatory, and, entering, stops short, his gaze fixed upon Miss Beatoun. One by one they fall into her basket. Has she no conscience? Or has she forgotten it is already October, and the flowers grow scarce ? I confess to some faint indigna- tion as I regard her, and have almost decided on rousing to remonstrate with her in per- son, when a firm but hasty foctstep upon the gravel outside excites nly cnzjosity. I watch her dreamily, as with a business- like air she drags the light garden-ladder forward, and, mounting, commences to clip my very choicest blossoms for _her own secret purposes: VThe door opens; with 9. start I become aware of Bebe’s entrance. To admit I am present means conversation, and converse.- tion with this drowsy fit on me mesns misery. I therefore keep breathless silence. and Bebe, all unconscious, ssunters past me, basket and scissors in hand, and goes into the popseryatory: Steadin I turn page after page. I feel I am growing interested; & very little later I feel I am growing sleepy. My lids drop. Put- ting my book down upon my lap, with of course the settled intention of taking it up again directly, I yawn mildly. Crossing the hell and the smaller draw- ing-room, I meet no one, and entering the larger apartment beyond, seek my favorite seat in the bow-window, where, book in hand. I enieonoe myself behind the our- teius, and, stretching myself upon alounge, prepare to be lazily happy. “ Is Lady Ashuret all that you say ?â€"30 very terrific? How unhappy you make me!" she murmurs, plexntively, demurer ignoring other parts of his speech. CHAPTER XXIV. Fresh and keen, and decidedly chilly, blows the October wind. The men have all deserted us, and gone out shooting. The women are eethered through bhehouse. Dore. smiles, her usual soft serene smile, untouched by ooquetry that experience has taught me means so littleâ€"and raises one white ha.n_d in deprecatioq. pagse. “ Sir George must be a favorite with the gods ; let us hope he won’t die young.” says Sir Mark, bending over Dora. some time during the evening. “ He has had every- thing he could possibly desire from his cradle upwardsâ€"money. friends, position ; and now he must get you. I think”- in a playfully injured toneâ€"“ the good things of this life are very unequally divided. In common justice. Ashuret should have been forced into matrimony with a woman as ugly, ill-tempered, and altogether disen- chanting as his manners, instead of which Secretly. I feel so assured of dear Dora’s being a “ match" for any mother-inJaw alive that I endure no uneasy pangs on this account. She is indeed as perfect in her new role of bride-elect as though she had sustained the part for years. “ Because,” says Miss Beatoun, “ we all know where that will lead. When Ashurst’s brother married Lady Octavia Daring, his mother invited herself to pay them a month’s visit; and she stayed ten: and it was the doctor and the nurse, eventually, who insisted on putting her out, shortly after the boy was born. They say poor Lady Octavia nearly went out of her mind one morning when, on going into her nur- sery, she found the old lady deliberately pouring some nauseous allopathie medicine down the child’s throat. Octavia told me herself, with tears in her eyes, the poor little fellow was all but in a fit for two hours afterwards. She is really a shocking old person, and should be suppressed. 1 do hope Dora will gather together all her pluck and try_to_be a match for her.” “ Yes, I really think he does,” says my sister, runniniher fingers lazily through her silken yellow air. ' “ And you, Domâ€"do you love him?” “01 course. dear. Would I marry him else? Am I the sort of person to sell myself for mere money’s sske ?" Indignu- non of the mild. and virtuous order is in her tone. “ No,” says Dore. calmly looking me fair in the eyes. “ I would not marry a man unless I loved him-not if he had hhe mines of Golconda. We chatter about it all next day, and tell each other we had seen how it would end from the very beginning. We dilate on the charming place he has in Surrey, his palace in the north; and then we whisper of what a detestable creature is his mother; while Bebe hopes Dora will have cour- age to put a veto at once. geinet any lengthened visiting 013 her part. This ennobhng sentiment is, I feel, aimed at me, and justly judge in will be unwise to press the matter further; so 1 any. " I am so glgd, darlin 1”_ but say it v_ery weakly. “ Nevertheless,” goes on Dora, alter a. moment’s pause, “ as I do love him. it is very fortunate he should be so well off. Yesterday he told me he had twenty thous- and pounds a year. Rather more than you have, dear, is it not ?” No. Dora. has not yet forgiven me. " A great deal more," I say warmly ; “ we have only fifteen thousand. But then, Dora it was only to be expected you would make a far better match than I could." Every one in the huoee is immensely delighted. An engagement, even when everything belonging to it goes smoothly, and suitably, cannot fail to awaken inter- est in the heart of a woman ; and, Dora‘s lover being uneoveted by any of us, no jealousy shows itself to mar the universal good feeling. “ Well, yesâ€"perhaps so,” admits Dora, casting an admiring glance at; her own pretty shell-pink face as it smiles back M heifrom an opposite mirror. “ I think she has become engaged to George Ashurst," returns ’Duke, coolly. “ Why, you foolish child, do you 09.11 that news? Aahuret has told every one in the house of his good look by this time. If I were you, Dore, I would breakfast in my own room to-morrow morning. You will never he able to stand all the congratula- tions.’ “ How can he be so absurd l" murmurs Dom, for once in her life genuinely con- fuseg, and a rig!) red colon:in tier cheeks. V “ I congratulate you with all my heart," says ’Duke, kindly kissing her. " You have got as good a. husband as you could desire, and as rich & one, 1500, without doubt. We shall be small people, Phyllis, you and I, next to my Lady Ashurst.” “ I must not stay to hear any more flat- tery. Thank you very much for all you have said,” replies Dom, gracefully, and, having hidden us both good-night, goes off to her own room. _ The door oizéns, and Marmaduke comes m. “ Oh, ’Duke," I cry, rising, “ just funny! Dora. Is~but you shall guess my news- what is she ?" “ That is a. rather embarrassing quea- tion," says he, smiling. ” Were I to tell you all that Dora is in my eyes, we would get no sleep to night." Dora. laughs, and I say: “ Nonsense! A list of her perfection: would be no news; we all know them. Tell me what you think has occurred to her since this ‘morning." He sighs audibly, and makes an eloquent The Governor-General will attend the opening proceedings in Montreal in con- nection with the forthcoming meeting of the British Assaaiation to: the Advance- ment of Science. Striking 01] Instead oi \aner. Thomas P. Miller, proprietor of St, James’ Hotel, St. Louis, owns a. term in Lincoln county, near Silcox, which he has been using as a stock and dairy farm. For some days workmen have been engaged digging a. well on the place. When the depth of some fifty feet was reached de- cided traces of oil were noticed, and soon oil and inflammable gases gushed into the cavity, driving the laborers out. There is every ev1denae that oil has been struck, and an expert. who is thoroughly conver- sant with the handling of 01] wells, has started to investigate. An Egg to Twenty Men, Twenty hungry man, says the New York Sun, recently set down to a. meal composed of a single egg. It was an ostrich egg. For a. whole hour it was boiled, and though there were some misgivings as to its being cooked the shell was broken, for curiosity could no longer be restrained, and a three- pound herd-boiled egg laid upon the plate. But aside from its size there was nothing peculiar about it. It had the white and bluish tinge of duck eggs, and the yolk was of the usual color. It tested as it looked â€"like a duck eggâ€"end had no flavor peculiar to itself. But it was immense l As it takes 28 hen eggs to equal in weight ‘ the ostrich egg which was cooked, it is evident that the host knew what he was about in cooking only one. There was enough and to spare. Pinkerton and Fugitive Slaves. There are probably living in Canada at this day some colored men and women who owed their liberty. when slavery prevailed in the South, to Mr. Allan Pinkerton, the noted detective, who has just died. By his efforts and energy many is furnished and hunted negro. who, guided only by the glimmering light of the north star, had broken away from the bonds of slavery and made his way to Chicago, on the terrible i journey to the welcoming borders of ‘ Csnsds, had been fed and clothed and passed safely on his way, oftentimes under the very eyes of the officers of the law, who were ready and anxious to sendvthem back to servitude and punishment. In those days it was not an uncommon thing to see Mr. Pinkerton’s doors besieged by numbers of prayerful negroes, seeking his aid in behalf of some trembling fugitive whom the law was about to consign to a. physical eon- dilion worse than death, and it is needless to say these appeals were never made in vain. “You strike at the very root of all romance,” protests Bebe, with 9. rather and smile. “ Is that the truth, Bebe '1’" says Chau- doe, more quietly. “ Is pride to come between us now? Darling listen to me. It you for one moment imagine I think badly of you because you refused to marry a poor man, you wrong me. I think you acted rightly. Even as I asked you that day I felt myself a coward in doing so. Was it honorable of me to seek to drag you down from all the luxuries and enjoyments to which you had been accustomed, to such a. life as it was only in my power to offer? Had your answer been diflerent, do you believe we would have been happy ? I do not.” “This is ungenerouaâ€"unmanly," she falters, her words halt choked thh emo- ticn. " Contradicfi me,” ha reiterates. “I can; I do.” murmurs she, but so weakly that her voice can scarcely be heard. "Why' don’t; you admit you had no intention of shooting to-day? It would have been much honester.” ” Oh I” cries Miss Beatoun lengthily, and thenibey lgotkluugh. “ Because admissions are dangerous. It is always better to leave people in doubt. Yet, as I never class you in my own mind under the head of ‘people,’ I will confess to you it is not so much torgetfulnesa causes my presence here just now as 9. set- tled determinasion not to remember. My conscience was anything but clean when I said I had. mislaid something. and should come back to find it.” “ Was it really your gun 7’” “ No; I think I put it on cartridges, or a handkerqhieg, orgâ€"I am not clear what." “And why ‘2' What was your motive? I fancied you an indefatigable sportsmanâ€"â€" one impossible to turn aside from your Preyi' .. “ Shall I tell you my motive ‘2" asks Chandos, in such an utterly changed low tone that Miss Beatoun, standing near the ladder, lays her hand suddenly upon it to steagy herself, am} retreats a. step. _ " What do you mean by that 7" exeleime Chandoa, passionately. " Is the very money that I hailed with delight, princi- pally because I dreamed it might brmg me closer to you, to prove a barrier between us? Presumptuoue as it may sound, I dare to believe I am not quite indifferent to you. Your manner when we parted, your eyes when we met again down here, have ioetered this belief. and yet you shrink from me.” A little inarticulate cry escapes her. One hand goes to her throat; she tries vainly to‘withdravl the other from higgrasp. “ Contradiot me if you oan,”whe gays, in a. low but vehement tone. “Better not." she says, in a. ‘voioe that tremblea apprehensively, in spite of all her efforts to be calm. ” Remember what you said a. moment since: ‘Admiasiona are dangerous.’ Better leave me in doubt." “ I cannot. Besides, you are not in doubt. You know what it is I am going to say. I have come back here again today to tell you how I have tried, and found it impossi- ble, to cruph the love_I beat you.” What shall I do? I put my fingers in my ears as a. last resource and tightly close my eyes, but somehow they will not keep shut. Every now and then I cannot help glancing to see if they are gone or going ; I cannot resist removing my fingers to hear if the conversation has taken a. cooler turn. Every moment I linger only makes my declaring myself more difl‘lculfi. I end by giving in, and sharing and listening with all my might. “ Lord Ghandos, I implore you to desist.” entrants Bebe, hastily, raising one hand, to prevent his further speech. " It is worse than useless.” But he only imprisone the warning hand and continues : “ Nay, hear rueâ€"«that; is all I askâ€"and than, if I am again to be rejected, be in so. But surely I have been wregched long enough, and you ’ ’ “ I will not. listen,” murmurs Bebe, more deeply agitated. “ The answer I gave you when you were poor is the only answer I can ever give you now." Her voice dies away, _e.lm<_)st to a. whisper. At; this juncture I become aware I am in for a. scene. The certainty is horrible to me. I am in such an unhappy position as enables me to see them without myself bemg seen. I can also hear every word they utter. In fact, there are but very few yagle pegween gs. With shame I now recollect that Bebe once said of me that never would I be accused of “pouncing” upon delicate situations; yet. it I go out now. I shall 0033); them both with everlastingcontueion. Ah 1 why does Bebe look so deter- mined? Why can’t ehe yield gracefully and be happy? I would at; once, were I in her plece,s.nd feel no degradation in so doing. She is flushed and miserable to look at. her large eyes seeming larger and darker than usual through pained excite- ment. Yet still there is so much mistaken pride impressed upon her features as makes me fast for the part she will take in the interview. If she would but listen to her heart's dictation l (To be continued The use of blood as a. food for cattle has, it is stated, been the subject of experiment in Denmark by a. chemist, who, as a. result, has now invented and patented a new kind of cake. in which blood forms one of the chief ingredients. This new food is stated to be exceedingly nutritious and whole- some, and is eaten with avidity by all sorts of animals, and even by cows and horses, which have naturally a. strong dislike to the smell of blood. What is known as the kerosene emulsion V .7,. Josiah Hoopes. of Eastern Pennsylvania, says that experiments with many leading fertilizers have established the fact that nothing can compete with the best animal manure for producing vigorous growth in young trees and shrubs, Applications of wood ashes, ground bone, phosphates, else, answer an excellent purpose in con- nection with stable manure, but alone they are less successful. Many fuchsias and eactuses bloom only in summer; the best place for these is on the verandah. Hanging baskets are best watered by plunging them in a. pail or tub of water, until the earth is well soaked through. Boxes upon the outside of the windows ghould not_l_)e allowed to get dry. An old farmer has made his granary dis- tasteful to rats by daubing all the angles on the outside of the building with hot pine hat for the width of three or four inches, and also any seam or crack where a rat or mouse can stead to gnaw. In several pountries in Asia. and Africa, in which cows and goats are kept and in which butter and cheese are made, no milk is drunk and none is used in tea. and oofiee or for any cooking pqrposes. In some parts of England bees are never sold for money. They are exchanged for fruit, grain, vegetables, and animals, but their owners believe that ” bad luck ” at- tends persons who sell their bees fo_r money. The rule to mow the lawn once a week should not be followed blindly. In a dry time, when grass grows but little, mowing should be suspended. Be governed by the condition of the grass. Ventilation in the dairy should be done at night or early in the mormng, when the air is the coolest. flow h from the \thar Midge. The presence of the wheat midge at this time or the year is made known by large numbers flying in at the windows at night, covering the lamps, the papers, etc., on tables. One practical remedy that has been recommended is to burn all the screen- ings of affected wheatâ€"all the refuse of the tanning mill, the sweepings of the barn- floor, or any place where the grain has been stacked, and where the insects would nat- urally be shaken out. Another remedy is, that in the fall the infested wheat-fields should be very deeply ploughed, with the ob ject of burying any insects that might remain, as far below the surface as possi- ble. The advantage resulting from this mode is, that in the following year they would not be influenced by the warmth so early, as otherwise their development would be retarded, and in all probability their appearance would be too late to be followed by any great injury. By these several methods they would in fact be starved out. Besides these remedies another has been proposed, viz: that spring wheat should be sown late and fall wheat as early as possible ; the object being that the former should be matured too late, and the latter too soon, for the attack of the midga in the month of June. Other Rural Jottings. Let the hens run in the orchard. They will do much towards keeping out the canker worm. WHAT TO DO WITH THE WHEAT MIDGE. (A Practicai Agriculturist's Weekly Budget) It is the experience of the best wheat growers in our own and other countries that a superior quality of grain is obtained by harvesting the crop when the berry is in the soft or “ doughy ” state; that is when the grain may be readily crushed be- tween the thumb and finger. It is claimed that more bushels per acre, and a greater amount of flour 0! a better quality per bushel,are thus obtained. Starch and gluten are the most valuable constituents of wheat, and the quality of these is diminished by over ripening, while the per cent. of woody fibre is increased. Every farmer can readily make a practical test of this question by cutting a part of his wheat earlier than the rest, threshing, Weighing and grinding the grain separately. The method of harvesting the grain has much to do with its quality. One of the greatest sources of loss arises from the careless and hurried man- ner of shocking the bundles. It the shock becomes thoroughly wet, as it is sure to he in “catching” weather, it not properly made and protected, the grain begins to grow, and only an inferior bread can be made from it. There are several methods 0! arranging bundles in the shock; they may be set in pairs, forming a row of ten or twenty, or in round shocks. The long stocks expose a broad surface to the winds, and may be blown down, when the well- set round shock would stand the storm. The latter form also more readily admits of ” capping.” A secure small shock may be made of three pairs of bundles set closely and firmly, with two more bundles upon each side of the double row. The heads of the bundles are brought up together and a capsheat placed over all. This cap is an ordinary bundle, with the band placed six or eight inches from the but, and the top bent out into the shape of a funnel. A larger round stock consists of four pairs of bundles, with three sheaves on each side, making fourteen, upon which two cap- sheaves are placed, each made as above described, with one side of the funnel left open where the two sheaves join on the shocks. A boy may aid in bringing the sheaves into piles, but it is no economy to employ him to shock them. It is a com- mon practice to cut and bind until night- fall, and afterwards set up the sheaves in the quickest way possible. 0! all harvest work, the shocking of grain should be done with the greatest care; otherwise a hard storm may convert the poorly made shocks intc piles of decaying straw, and growmg and nearly useless grain. Measuring slanding Grain. An officer in the English navy has con- structed a table for estimating, With all needful accuracy, the amount of wheat on an acre of land before it is harvested. The estimate can be made as soon as the grain is ripe. Make a wood or iron frame one yard square, carefully let it down over the standing grain, and then shell and weigh all the grain on the straws belonging inside that frame. If a circular “ crop form,” as he calls it, is more convenient, make in six feet nine and a quarter inches in diameter, of half inch iron. From his elaborate table, as published in the Dublin Farmer‘s Gazette, we extract the following : 2 025. per sq. yard equals 10.08 bushels per‘acre. u .. .. i as 12.60 H 22 5: l. l. 13 83 .. u 3 .. u l. 15.12 .. .. 3% II H II ll ll 4 l. l. .. 20 1,, l. .. 5 a .. l. 2531 u .. 5% u .. 29 00 u .l 6 u .. n 3025 .l u r, u u N 35.29 H n Facts Regarding the Crops of Growing Grain. These estimates are on the basis of 60 lbs. per bushel. The 2; ounces per square yard is about the average yield of wheat per acre in America; the 52 ounces per square yard is the average in Great Britain. FARM AND GARDEN. When and llov' to Harvest Wheat. John Partelo, of Btonington, Conn., 85 years of age and deaf for the past forty years, was astonished one morning recently on awakening to find his hearingcompletely restored. i The London Lancet has a. long article on the above subject, expressed in technical language, which the Scientific American sums up in a few simple words as follows : The inference is, the teeth are being gradually evolved into brain matter, and as man increases in intellect his masticetore become unnecessary. The future man will havealerge brain, but no natural teeth. He will have to depend on the mechanical dentist. I started up the fire with the bellows. heated the iron, forged it out on the anvil, shaped mend put it on ; and then drove off and didn’t leave a cent behind. But I stopped at the next blacksmith shop to have It fixed just right, and the blacksmith, after looking at the job. said. “ Mister, you may as well go on ; I couldn’t do that work better myself.” You see, I’ve remembered that; I felt rather proud of it. ' d few days ago the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered an address at the annual commencement of the Storrs Agricultural School, in Mansfield, Conn. Mr. Beecher was candid in conceding his entire inadequacy in an agricultural sense, but he related the following anecdote of his early Western life: My horse lost a. shoe. I found an unoccupied bleoksrnith’eshop. 1' ..A-_L_ The New York Tribune, in its local weather review of Friday, said: “ The sudden coming of the excessive heat is attributed to a ‘ sunburst’ following sud- denly upon the series of sun spots which have existed for many days.” The Tribune is entirely correct, says the Rochester Democrat. The fact that this “sunburst” has not yet been productive of severe and general electric storms is a reason for hop- ing that it will not be followed by a severe cold reaction and frost. The last preceding “ sunburst” was followed by heavy thunder showers and several tornadoes. The reac- tion caused frost in New England and New Jersey, although the reaction was arrested by another sun storm, the heat from which was first felt in the west. We are glad to 1 note that the sun is receiving proper atten- tion in the weather observations of the day. A curious point in diamond lore has just been established, to the delight of snvauts, in Paris, where the exhibition of the crown jewels at the Louvre has made the subject very popular for the moment. It has long been laid down, says the Pall Mall Gazette, that the diamond has the power of retain- ing light and of afterward emitting it in the dark. The theory has been well buttressed by reasons, but the proof has not been easy of test. All, or nearly all, the great diamondsâ€"such as the Kohinoor, the Re. gent, the Grand Mogulâ€"cannot for pub, lie reasons he made the subject of experi- ment, and stones of a lesser size do not al- ways give satisfactory results. Happily, a private individual, the owner of a gem of ninety.two carats, and estimated at a value of 300,000 francs, has lent his diamond for scientific investigations. These have been most satisfactory, and the “ phoephores oenee ” of the stone may be regarded as proved. The diamond was exposed for an hour to the direct action of the sun’s rays and afterward removed into a dark room. For more than twenty minutes afterward it emitted alight, feeble indeed, but still sufficiently strong to make a sheet of white paper held near it quite visible in the dark. A similar result was arrived at by a very different experiment. and light was gener- ated by rubbing the stone with a piece of hard flannel. is one of the cheapest and most easily- applied insecticides that can be used. It is made by adding one quart of kerosene to five quarts of skim milk, in a. close vessel, and shaking till the two unite, after which it can be diluted with water to five 0* six times its bulk, and applied to vegetation with a syrmkler or fume-pump sprayer. It is effectual against almost the entire class of insects which feed upon vegetation. A writer in an eastern paper Bays that a roeebush may be layered with little trouble, and then tells how to do it). Make a. narrow trench, three or four inches deep, where a good, well-grown shoot can be bent into it. After blooming, in July, out a. slit in the shoot. selected at the point where it will touch the soil, press some soil into the out, bend the cane down to the bottom of the trench and fasten it; there with Home page and cover it well ,with soil. By tell it will be a rooted plant, and can be cut away and transplanted. Extraordinary and Brutal Slaughter or on lnoflendlnx German Sealer. The Chicago Inter- Ocean publishes a full account of an instance of lynch law which occurred recently near the town of Mitchell, Dakota, which was exceptionally brutal». and, as it proved, gratuitous. A man named John Smith had disappeared from the towa, and in default of other occasion tor excite ment the neighborhood chose to assumr that he had been murdered and that one Michael Bechtel, an inofiensive German. was the assassin. To establish the accuracy of this impression, a number of persons began by accusing him of perjury on a trumped-up charge, and had him put under bonds. Then they attacked him at his house one dark night with a bayoneted gun, but without seriously injuring him. And then he suddenly vanished. Three weeks later a human hand, pointing to heaven, was seen by some boys fishing projecting above the surface of the “ Jim River,” and examination brought to light the body of Bechtel, who had not only been assassinated, but mutilated awfully and brutally, having evidently been tortured until life was nearly extinct and then dragged to the river, a distance of six miles from his own house, where he had been seized while in bed. Although the brother of the murdered man fully identified his remains, the coroner’s jury of Harrison county refused to find as to his identity, and the murderers walk the streets of Mitchell, Dakota, today unharmed, though they are generally known. And now it is learned that the man Smith, who had been murdered.as it is alleged, by Bechtel, is alive and well in Minnesota. The strong arm of the law is apparently badly needed in Dakota. The command of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, which has just fallen vacant by the retirement of Colonel Duncan, will be conferred on Colonel W. Gleland, who was mentioned in despatohea for his services as Chief of Police at Alexandria during the Egyptian we: of 1882. Bey. Mr. Beecher Shoes 11 none. Owing to a. great falling-off in the emi~ gration of lush girls from Queenatown Miss O'Brien, the well-known philanthro- pist, has closed her “ Home ” at Queens- town. Mr. Joshua. Clarke, Q. 0., addressing the grand jury at Maryborough on June 103h, said he was happy to state that there were no Crown cases to go before them. The total amount received for dog license duty in Ireland in 1883 was £42,507. By the will of Lord Mounteashell his whole property passed to his daughter, Lady J we Moore. An investigation has just been held i Oastlebar into the alleged overcrowding ( the Protestant burial place there. 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