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Butter shrinks as well as other auticles and such is often the cause of errors in re, ports of sales when butter is shipped long distances and remains unsold for several weeks. When a cow steps in the milk pail she also steps into the butter. If she only kicks over the milk she simply Wastes her food. There is no time, says a wise man, to waste with kicking cows. If you have one, just put a hame-stmp in her mouth and buckle it tightly behind her horns. Take it off when done milking, of course. An Iowa. Agricultural College bulletin makes the following classifications of the relative values of foods as milk producers : Potatoes, per 100 pounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Corn, per 100 pounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Timothy, per 100 pounds . . . . . . . . . . ‘ . 50 Barley, per 100 pounds . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Oats, per 100 pounds i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 \Vheat, per 100 pounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 \Vheat bran, per 100 pounds . . . . . . . . . . 70 Clover hay, per 100 pounds . . . . . . , . . . . 80 Oil meal, per 100 pounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.45 It is always best to milk rapidly, so as to get the milk out of the stable as soon as possible, in order to prevent the absorption of gases by the milk, as the cooler it be- comes the more readily the milk is affected by odors. Clover hay, per 100 pbunds . . . . . . , . . . . 80 Oil meal, per 100 pounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.45 A great many people are under the imâ€" pression that in feeding ground food to stock it is better to make it; into a slop that the animal can drink. Prof. E. W. Stew- art truly says: “The saliva. is an import- ant agency'in the digestion of food, and saliva. is caused to flow by the act of masti- cation. When sloppy food is given there is A ccrrespondent of the London Journal of Horticultural says, in reference to the question of sex in eggs : Last winter as old poultry keeper told me he could distin uish the sex in eggs. I laughed at him, an was none the less skeptical when he told me the following secret : Eggs with the air bladder on the centre of the crown of the egg will produce cockerels ; those with the bladder one side will produce pullets; The old man was so certain of the truth of this dogma, and his poultry yard so far confirmed it, that I determined to make experiments upon it this year. I have done so, register- ing the egg bladder vertical, or bladder on one side, rejected all in which it was not one or the other, as in some itis only very slight- ly out of the center. The following is the result ; Fifty-eight chickens were hatched, three are dead, eleven are yet too young to decide upon their sex ; oi the remaining fortyâ€"four, every one has turned out true to the old man’s theory. This of course, may be an accidental co’ncidence, but I shall certainly try the experiment again. An experienced poultryman thinks the essential cause of failure in so many of the attempts to keep fowls in large numbers is due to a. lack of care. A farmer will rise at four o’clock in the morning to feed and milk his cows, will carefully clean out: the stalls and prepare the beds for the cows, and his work does not end till late ; but he will not do so much work for the hens. Yet the hens will pay, when properly cared for, five titties as much profit, in T\ropoxrtaion to labor and capital invested, as t ('3 éows. If young chicks and turkeys up ear stupid and ailing; examine them for ice. A little grease put on top of the head and under the wings will generally prove effica- cious. Treat the mother in like manner. Fumigate the hen house by burning sulphur therein, making the h‘)use as close as possi- ble for a few hours. Also wash every part with kerosene, or whitewash with caustic lime at least twice a year, and give the fowls lenty of dust or dry ashes, and there will be no trouble from lice. The only sure Way to clean out a nest should the contents become soiled, is to carry the box outside, burn the hay, and then dip asponge in kerosene and apply a lighted match to the box, first rubbing it over with the sponge. The oil will burn for a few moments over the box and then cease. If there are any lice they will have but a poor chance. If an egg is broken in the nest the result is usually lice, unless the nestis at once cleaned, and the best mode is to begin anew with the box very clean and fresh cut hay put in. The farmer who keeps a flock of twenty- five to thirty hens, With the usual accom- paniment of a hundred or more lively chicks, and allows them to share his domain in common with himself, his other stock and farm utensils, finds perplexity and most abominable company at; every turn. The hen at large, in her multiplied form, is worse than an army of locusts, and her following as offensive as a pestilence. A good many farmers have the idea. that milk is not just right for pigs until it is soured. This is a very serious mistake. No possible good can come from souring it, but very serious harm. After you take out the cream and the water, the most that re- mains is caseine and sugar of milk. Both are valuable. But when you sour it you change the sugar of milk int: lactic acid and lose nearly half the entire value of your milk. Feed milk sweet to calves and colts. Never let it «sour if you can help it. Why will you throw away half its value! The Farmer’s (Irish) Gazette gives the fol- lowing different ways of treating balky horses, which are recommended for trial: First, pat the horse on the neck, examine him carefully, first one side, then the other; if you can get him a handful of grass, give it to him, and speak encouraging y to him. Then jump into the wagon, and give the word go, and he will generally obey. Second, taking the horse out of the shafts, and turning him around in a circle until he is giddy, will generally start him. Third, another way to cure a balky horse is, place your hand over his nose and shut off his wind until he wants to go. Fourth, then, again, take a couple of turns of stout twine around the fore legs, just below the knee, ti ht enough for the horse to feel it ; tie in a w knot. At the first click he will pro- bably go dancing off. After going a short distance you can get out and remove the string to prevent injury to the tendons. Fifth, again, you can try the following: Take the tail of the horse between the hind legs, and tie it by a cord to the saddle irth. Sixth, the last remedy I know, is as ollows: Tie a string around the horse’s, ear, close to head. This will divert his attention, and start him. POULTRY NOTES. DAIRY News. Stock Notes. FARM. “ By oo-operation the working class, re- presented by this congress, have attained what competition never gave signs of giving them. They now own land, they own streets of dwellings, and almost townships, they own vast and stately warehouses in Manchester, in London, in Newcastle-on- Tyne, and in Glasgow. They own a bank Whose transactions amount to £16,000,000 a year. They possess more than 1,400 stores, which do a business of over £30,000,- 000 a year ; they own share capital of £9,- 500,000 in amount, and are making now for their 990,000 members. more than £3,000,â€" 000 of profit annually. The mighty power of co-operation has enabled the working class in the last twenty-five years (from 1861 to 1886) to do a. business of £361,000,- 0( 0, giving them a profit of nearly £29,500,v 000. Their splendid Wholesale Society has buying stations in the chief markets of Euâ€" rope and America. Their ships are on the sea. The lifeboats they have given ride on our coasts. They aided in establishing a Mississippi Trading Company ; they have invested £80,000 in the Manchester Canal. They issue a newspaper, minor journals and records, and a wholesale annual volume of no mean bulk and quality. They erect pub- lic fountains, they subscribe to hospitals and charities, as gentlemen do, They own libraries, news-rooms, and establish science classes.” AN‘ESTIIETIC VVARFARE.â€"-A humane Ger- man chemist has hit upon an idea which, if adopted, would be worth a dozen new ex- plosives. He makes a. bullet so brittle that it breaks when it strikes, and, a powerful anaesthetic being enclosed, that renders in- stantly and completely insensible any per- sons that may be wounded by it. The in- sensibility lasts at least twelve hours, dur- in which time the bodies may be comfort- ably removed to a hospital, with a great re- duction of suffering on fhe battle-field. Such, at least, is what is claimed. are. Imogene Fales, a delegate to the Co gress from the United States, deplored the failure of the movement on this side of the Atlantic, and gave a. gloomy account of the state of the labor market across the line. She said the average of industrial in» comes had within ten years fallen from $400 to $9.06. The purchasing power of Wages had de lined 10 per cent. The wage-earn- er was worse off than he was a. few years ago. The idle labor in 188') was 7% per cent. of the Whole. Capital owned labor, and wages were fixed by pools and confer' ences. An English labor journal. in dis- cussing the proceedings of the Congress, asks “ how it comes that cooperation has hitherto proved a. failure in America?” The gambler places his money on one side of the corner, betting upon one of the numbers or upon a. combination of numbers. In the former case, should he be successful, he receives three times the amount of his stake, less about 10 per cent. commission for the bank. Should either of the num- bers upon the corner or combination of Which he has made his wager win he re- ceives his stake, minus the same commis- sion. There are no cards or Wheel, but a pile of small round coppers having a. little square hole in the centre of each and called cash. A handful is taken and placed in the center of the table under an inverted bowl. \Vhen all bets have been made the propri- etor of the bank moves the bowl and care- fully takes from the pile four cash: then four more, and so on until four, three, two or only one is left, which is the Winning number. It is a most tedious game, for the central pile must be so large that the num- ber of cash .which it contains cannot possi- bly ‘re told, and the process of drawing them out by fours takes consideisbie time. But the poor Chinese who have staked their all upon one of the numbers hang over the table and watch that gradually diminishing pile, intensely fascinated. Having won, they try again, until they have at last lost. Losing, they go 011' to beg, borrow or steal more capital with which to try their fortune once again. The Co-operative Congress, which met at Carliele on May 30, insisted, and not alto- gether without reason, that the saying that “ co-operation is the new law of “ civiliza- tion ” is likely to be borne out by the growth of the movement in Europe. It is not a little singular that in Canada and the United States co-operetive labor does not find favor with the artisan. At any rate, if he be favorable to it, he appears to be un- able to make it pay. At the Congress Mr. Holyoake, the well-known labor reformer; made the following extraordinary statement regarding what has been accomplished in the United Kingdom : The Portuguese possession of Macao, one of the oldest European settlements in the Orient, would be of little importance to its rulers were it not that it is to the Chinese of the island and some of the foreigners what Monte Carlo is to Europeans. It is one of the gambling places of the world. One company pays to the Portuguese pro- prietors of the island $50,000 a year for the privilege of running its several houses. Fan tan, the gambling game played here, one of the simplest of games, allowing neither the excitement nor the possible large winnings of roulct, is irresistibly faci- nating to the Chinese. Tuey throng the fan tan house, crowding around the tables and placing their little earnings upon a corner of the l, 2, 3 or 4. It is not at all uncommon to see them, when all their money islost, take gold or silver ornaments from their dress or even parts of the dress itself and stake them against sums consider- ably lower than their value. The game of fan tan is learned at a glance. A flat piece of lead or other metal, about a foot square is placed in the center of the gambling- table. Its sides are numbered from 1 to 4. GARDEX NOTES. A remedy for rot andimildew in grapes, said to be effectual, is stated as follows: One pound nine ounces sulphate of copper, dissolved in two gallons of water, three pounds quick lime slaked in two and a. half quarts or water. Mix, and apply lightly with awhisk brush or by other means of spraying. The application is used as a preventive, and not as a. cure, and the first two v. oaks in July are stated to lie the pro- per time of application in the North. The fruit itself should not be sprinkled. no mastication. This sloppy food, then, is deprived of the usual proportion of saliva, and must: depend wholly upon other agen- cies of digestiop,” -_- “ A Chinese Gambling Station. The Working Man. Generally speaking, the Japanese men make kind and affectionate husbands, and the women make virtuous and exemplary wives and mothers; and the children are certainly the happiest little 'unps in the world ; their parents fondle and spoil them most efi‘ectually, and at the same time never lose their control over them. The non-ir- ritating nature of the native diet has much to do with such serene nerves and tempera- ments. One never sees a child whipped in Japan ; a reproving mother may administer a mild slap over the head, which correction invariably brings the little recalcitrants to order. The husband has absolute control over the person of his wife;at the same time, one never sees a man strike a woman in Japan ; yet there is considerable pinching and slapping done on occasions when those strange and ungovernable spells of exas- perating ugliness known as tantrums settle down upon their matrimonial horizon. On these occasions there is considerable free hitting, biting. and scratching indulged in on both sides of the house ; but the greater strength of the husband invariably leaves him master of the situation, and the belli- gerent household speedily resumes its serene and happy course. On such occa- sions, unless physical force were resorted to, it would hc difficult to say where matters would end; for the women are very child- ish, and in their paroxysms of fury might speedily demolish the household, unless re» strained. These family jars are not of fre- quent occurrence, but they make up in in- tensity for their rarityâ€"Brooklyn Illega- zme. SKIN HEAT.â€"Though the interior of the body retains a quite constant heat of 98 to 100 degrees, the temperature of the skin varies considerably in different parts. Prof. Kunkel, at VVurzburg, has just found that in the face in adult men it ranges from 85 to 89 degrees. The skin of the more exposed parts of the body, the nose and the ears, shows a lower temperature, seldom exceed. ing 75 degrees, and even descending to 71.5- The highest surface temperature appears in men in the full vigor of life, and the remark» able fact is obseived that the skin of child- ren is cooler than that of adultsâ€"being from 77 to 84 degrees. To clean windows, wash with lake warm water, rub with any clean, dry cloth to take of? the first dampness, then finish with a. piece of Chamois. A large one can be pur-‘ chased for 50"cents, and it will last a. life- time and will save so much hard work, When soiled, wash in soapsuds, rinse Well and dry, then rub it in the hands to make it soft. For silver it; is unequaled. Also wring it in tepid water, and use it to rub off the finger marks on the piano, then rub with a dry one. Vinegar is better than ice for keeping fish By puttinga little vinegar on the fish it will keep perfectly well, even in very hot weather. Fish is often improved in flavor under this treatment. Rain water is the best for toilet purposes and keeps the skin soft and smooth. Boiled rain water is considered as effective as a, Turkish bath in removing tam. Sunshine on mirrors will injure their lus- tre, therefore do not hang opposite a. door or window. As far asbiblossible iron by the thread â€" that is, pull the material straight and endea- vor to move the iron in the same line with the thread of the cloth. Cayenne pepper blown in o the cracks Where ants congregate will drive them away The same remedy is also good for mice. A pretty hammock pillow is made of bright awning cloth, with some simple design set between the stripes. Peach leaves pounded to a pulp, and ap- plied to bruise or wound from rusty nail, or a} simple cut, will give immediate relief. Pauper will stick to walls that are washed in a solution of one-forth pound of glue to a gallon of water. Egg shells crushed and shaken in glass bottles half filled with water will clean them quickly. The juice of half a. lemon ina. glass of water, without sugar, will frequently cure a. sick headache. Tissue or printing paper is the best thing for polishing glass or tin ware. To remove ink spots, dip the spotted part in pure melted tallow, then wash. Herbs used in cooking should be pounded, sifted, and put into bottles or tin boxes. A bit of soda. droppedin the cavity of an aching tooth will afford relief. A paste of whiting and benzine will re move spots from marble. Medicinal herbs should be dried, put in paper bags and labeled. Alittle molasses upon a. mustard draft will preveno blistering. Use a warm knife in cutting warm bread and the like. A layer of leather in the iron holder makes it cooler to use. Iron rust is removed by salt; mixed with lemon juce. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To brighten stove-zines, rub with kero- sene. Domestic Life in Japan. 11017812110111). My Charming Little Housekeeper. Received a bright and joyous throng, Rich voices swelled a marriage song, To me youyrgmisgq _to _belongâ€" What wonder that I love herâ€"thenâ€" Aa muchâ€"and even morefithan when Last May, the church beside the glenâ€" Oh, channiug little housekeeper. She sings to me with dulcet voice (Fair Patti? notes are not so choice.) bbe dqt}: my claqaiu ypui rejoice, Nor doth the prose of cooking slight, Her bread is sweats, and white and light, Her bigwitsfire a_ goggly sightâ€"i She reads with me the magizines, Although to one the aways leans ; She makes the moat artistic screensâ€"â€" She dusts the Sevres and hric-aâ€"brac, With just the damiest little knack, And ul_vyay§ puts_my_papera back.â€" Rare jellies makesâ€"meringues and creams More nur than ever poet‘s dreamsâ€" Like drifted snow your frosting gleamsâ€" My charming little houeekeeper. My cl'mnuing little hBuseEeeper. My charming listle housekeeper. Hyfiarling little houseieeper. Mfchlrminé little hous ekeeper. (Ah, charmiKg litfle fibusekeeper.) BY HELEN CLARE. This insect, although exciting considerable alarm, will easily be subdued by arsenical poisons, the use of which is well under- stood in Texas. Mr. Johnson has already applied Paris green in its dry form with good results. The haTbits and general appearance of this new apple post are quite aLmilnr to those of the grapevine flea. beetle (H. Ohalybea). The larva is rather slender, dark yellow- brown in color, with darker head, and pro- thorecic shield, and each segment bears four transverse dorsal warts. The legs are black, and project out at the sides of the thorax. The adult beetle is shining green mther that steel~blue, and is distinguished from the grapevine flea beetle by its lmall size and by the numerous minute impressed dots on its thorax and Wing covers. As long ago-as 1872 I found the larvae of a, little flea beetle known as Halticaypmzcti- pennis in Missouri, feeding upon hawthorn. In 1877 I found it again in Colorado, but the species has never been considered in- jurious until the present year. This spring, however, it has appeared in great numbers in the vicinity of Dallas, Tex. and of Gainesville, Tex. Mr. J. R. Johnston, of Dallas, writes that they appeared in great numbers about the first week in May, and that within two or three days thereafter they had destroyed his entire lot of apple and pear grafts. They then removed to his one and two year old apple trees. Mr. Johnston had never been troubled with them before, although, he remembers behave seen them in limited numbers in 1883 upon his young apples: A severe electric shock was felt by a. telegraph operator of Nice during the earth- quake of February 23. A study of the phenomenon has convinced M. Onimua that earthquake movements are normally accom- panied by strong electric currents. In late experiments a. red-hot wire was made to serve as a telephone transmitter. A fine platinum Wire, several inches long, was placed in a. circuit with charged accum- ulator, an induction coil and a receiving telephone ; and when the current had heat- ed the wire, words spoken to the latter were audible in the telephone. An American inventor announces a. com- bination of telegraph and type-writer by which seventy or eighty words per minute can be sent and automatically received in printed form. Among its advantages he claims that the stealing of messages, by cut- ting the Wire and inserting a sounder, as is sometimes done in the Morse system, will be impossible, since the signals would be meaningless without his complete apparatus. This comparison, of course, takes no ac- count of the frightful waste entailed by the sacrifice of the labor of able-bodied men dur- ing the period of military service. WHY THEY RAISE GOOD HORSES, As shown from authentic reports, the French government expends annually upon its horse-breeding establishments no less than $1,348,600. The government of Ausâ€" tria. gives something over $400,000, and that of Hun ary $582,500 toward the encourage- ment 0 horse-breeding, but a. large amount ($80,000) in Austria alone is spent on the purchase of promising-looking young horses from private breeders for incorporation in the government establishment. The total asked for the purpose of improving the breed of horses in Austria. alone is little short of $700,000 a. year. In Prussia there are eighteen establishments, three of which con- sist of stallions and brood mares. The re- maining fifteen are situated in the various provinces, and are depots for the stallions bred in the three studs referred to. The cost of the breeding establishments may be roughly estimated at $400,000. ‘ France . . . . . En land. . . . Ho land. . . . Prussia . . . . . Russia. . . . . . Denmark . . . Italy . . . . . . . Austria . . A . . Switzerland. 001,000; Switzerland, 211,035; Austria, 182.676; Belgium, 1145,66,); Holland, 69,971; Italy, 59,956; Scandinavia, 50,- 968; Spain, 41,703. In North America 1tahere are 7,300,042 foreigners; in South America, 6,033,105 ; in Asia, 1,584,344, and in Africa, 140,383. England takes the lead in the number of people who leave her shores. At; the present time 4,200,000 of her sons are scattered over the world. Ger- man} comes next, with a total of 2,601,000; strangely enough 82,000 of these are residing in France alone, while 2,000,000 are in the United States. The other nations rate in following order: Italy, 1,000,000; Scandina- via, 795,070; Belgium, 497,000; France, 382,662 ; Spain, 453,400; Austria, 337,000, of Whom 118,000 reside in Germany. COST OF WAR AND EDUCATION. The Pall Mall Gazette gives the following figures, showing the contrast between the expenditures per head on war and education in the various European States, as compiled by M. Leon Donnat, a Belgian statisoian : TH E CHICAGO ELEVATORS. Chicago elevators contained last week~ 15,- 202, 521 bushels of wheat, 5,583,433 bushels ‘of corn, 1,311,895 bushels of oats, 120,912 ‘ bushels of rye, and 27,762 bushels of barley; total, 22,246,523 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 11,827,937 bushels a year (go. THE BIBLE SUPPLY. The American Bible Society issued during the year, 1,675,897 copies of the Scriptures, making the total number of volumes issued by the society since its organization in 1816 48,324,916. The last year has been the fifth in which the society has been engaged in its fourth resupply of the Bible to the United States. In the course of its work it has found that every eight family visited is without a. Bible. Of families visited 400,000 received it when offered, and more than 150,000 rejected it. THE EMIGRATION OF THE WORLD. Recent statistics show that 19,000,000 of people are residing in other than their ne- tive country. In England there are 203,000 foreigners ; in Russia 344,000 ; France 1,- The annual product of butter in the State of Vermont is stated at 27,600,000 pounds ; of maple sugar at10,000,000y0unds; of‘wool at 3,0U0,000 pounds, and ‘of hay at 14000,~ 000 tons. A New Apple Post. VERMONT PRODUCTS STATISTICS. War Education Some very extraordinary views and opin- ions were expressed in the Senate the other day by a number of gentlemen on the eulr jeet' of Canadian loan companies and their operation. The immediate cause of this curious criticism was the second reading of a bill to enable the Canada Permanent Loan and Savings’ Company to register its stock in Britain as well as in Ontario, and to do business in other rovinces of the Dominion than this. Mr.‘ ark, in demurring to the passage of the bill, desired " some roof that these institutions were really oinzr good to the country.” He spoke sadly of the Ontario farmers, who owe these con- cerns some $80,000,000, and pay $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 for the use of it, and had “ strong doubts whether it is really for the advantage of the Maritime provinces to al- low these companies to go there and lend money on the terms they lend at in Ontario. Our country is too poor to hear such bur» dens.” STELLAR INFLUENCE ON CLIMATEâ€"In a aper to the Liverpool Astronomical Societ , Mr. W. H. S. Monck suggested lately that the puzzling climatic variations recorded by the rocks may have been produced by the near approach to the earth of intensely hot stars. This may have been due to the traveling of the star itself, or to the motion of the solar system in space. Moving with the earth’s own rate, a. celestial body would traverse in 50,000,000 years the distance separating our globe from the most remote of the 70,000,000 stars visible in the most powerful telescopes, making it possible that, with suitable proper motions, any or every star known mav have visited the solar system during the period commonly assum- ed by geolo ists to have elapsed since the first down 0 life. Intensely hot stars may have added materially to the earth’s heat without coming sufficiently near to greatly derange the planetary orbits. W8 know he did not perish, so we still wait. Yes, we wait for the dawn of the eternal day, for we sorrow not as those withâ€" out hope. And yekoh ! tears are bitter, and mine are a. mothers’ tears !â€" Is Borrowed Money an Injury. But out; in that fierce storm “ Christ wall:- ed upon the waters,” and when death seized our darling his clear, childish faith would exclaim with the sailors of old, “ Save, Lord, or I perish l” In the darkness and storm God had called a. little child unto Himself. The Petrel had gone down, and father and son were lost to each other in the shock of striking the rocks. Hal was saved by a. fishing smack which safely outrode the storm, but we an, father, mother, and boys, wait till the sea. gives up its (lead "for the touch of a, vanished hand, and the sound of a. voice that is still.” It; was again evening when at last a. hand â€"â€"the hand I had deapuired of ever clamping againâ€"took mine firmly, and my husband said, in stranger 'altered tones, “ Come home, wife. (10mg home, Dick.” H31, bhank God, was'safe! But where “.9 my b9y? Not a. soul was astir but Dick and me. We stood in the shelter of the trader and looked yearningly for those whom we wait} ed. The sun rose, and still we waited. The village awakened, and kindly laces gathered round us, but our watch was un- ended. Gentle hands tried to lead us home, but Dick and I were not to be moved. We waited. At the fixst streak of dawn I woke Dick, my second boy, and together we braved the gale and fought our way to Leaâ€"the only place where it would be possible for a boat to run in. How quiet the little harbor look- ed ! How safelv anchored the one ship which lay in _port I - I was busy at home all day. The wind blew fresh and the Waves broke heavily, though I did not heed them. ‘ Evening cloa- ed in, bun father and the child did not come. The Wind rose to a. gale, and the waves broke like turbulent giants. Later on the neigh- bors came in and asked whether Hal had re- turned, and one went: in to Lea but came back without tidings. Oh, that weary Bight when I waited and watched alone! But there came a. day when my first dread of it returned, reinforced by a. mother’s fears as well as awife’s. Halihad started out betimes, taking our eldest boy with him in his own boat. They had put off from a. creek close by, crept round the point, and made towards Rockham, where they had set their lobster pots, and then intended to put in to Lea, Where they hoped to sell their lobsters to the visitors who crowd that little place during the autumn season. The September gales had not harmed me during twelve years. Other Wives on that dangerous coast hed cause to remember them with grief, but God permitted us to tread a prosperous path heavenwards, and our earthly home was unbroken while we to- gether strove to prepare for a. more abiding one, where “ there shall be no more sea.” Experience, however, made me brave. Many times Hal faced the terrors of the deep in his performance of duty, and God gave him back to me unharmed. I grew to love the sea, and our babies knew no sweeter lullaby than its song ; for, like their father, they were born sailors~yes, every one of them, for they were all boys. “ 0h, Hal 1" I cried, “ I shall never dare to let you set sail on that dreadful sea. I hall not know a happy moment while you are abroad in such danger.” Was this the sea. of which Hal had said that it laughed in the sunshine, and sang soft melodies when the moon lit a. track of light to the heaven’s above? He had spoken of the joy ofa fresh breeze and a. full sail when the I’etrel skimmed the waters more lightly than its nemesn ke ; and now he show- ed me thisâ€"~this awful seething deep , Where brave men perished and left their wives to weep. \Vhen Hal married me in London, mother was caretaker of a. house set apart for offices, and Hal first saw us when he came on busi- ness to a. shipowner’s. Our life was restrict- ed, as we lived underground, and only ap- peared upstairs after office hours. You can fancy what a change I found it when he took me away to his seaside home at Morthoe, in North Devon, where he was coastguard. I first saw the sea in September, when a. gale blew. I shall never forget; what I felt when Hal put his arm round my waist and led me along a jagged path to a point where we overlooked the Mort; Rock. The waves were rolling inwards like heaving moun- tains, which tried their strength against the rock of death, and then gathered themselves together again to break on the shore in a. voice 01 thunder. THE COASTGUARD’S WIFE.