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me to a condition of weakness approaching insensibility. I was consumed by a burning, raging thirst, but the dresser disregarded all my entreatieu for a drink of water. The system of treatment for cholera in those days allowed the patient nothing more than just to have the lips moistened occasionally with weak brand and water, and this simply aggravated t e torture of thirst. N owadsys champagne is given and the sufferer is al- leged to drink pretty freely. “10 Experience of a mum: Soldier in India Who Was stricken will: Cholera. I came to India. in 185 - as a private in the â€"th regiment, says a writer in Black- wood’s Magazine, and my company formed part of the garrison at Arcot. Life in bar- racks in India is very dull, and I have otten wondered that British soldiers out here are, on the whole, such a steady, well behaved lot of lads. Compare e soldier‘s life in a. smnll Indian station with being quartered even at Malta. or Gibraltar and either of these places will seem like paradise, though the “ Rock” is by no means popular and is always called a prison by the troops for the time being in garrison there. Well, we found Aroot horribly dull, and it was with greet satisfaction that we heard an order had been given for our company to march to Vellore to strengthen the garrison there, which had been very much reduced by cholera: It was then about the middle of March, and consequently later than is usual for moving troopa, u the days begin to get very hot on the plain in the Carnatic about that time of the year. But ours was special duty, and as we ahould only march in the very early morning we did not fear the inconveni- ence of the midday heat, but looked upon the whole thing as rather a lurk and a. wel- come chenge from the monotony of garrison duty. As to the cholera, not one of us gave it a thought. Not likely it would touch one of us I It was the second day after leaving Aroot that Private Thomas Atkins, who was on my right file, suddenly had to fall out. I expected him to rejoin the ranks before long, but did not trouble myself about his absence. It was not until we reached camp and had finished breakfast that I heard anything more about him. I then heard that he was buried l I knew that cholera wee awful sudden in its attack and effects. but I had not imag- ined the possibility of its carrying off a healthy men quite so rapidly. Of course Immediate interment must take place in case of death on the line of march. I had liked Atkins much, but I fancy his death and burial were so sudden that the rest of us failed to realize the truth of what had hap- pened to our comrade and half expected to see him turn up again. Anyhow, we soon forgot the incident. .- "f Late in ihe afternoon I was listening to a. description of Vellore by one of our fellows who had been there and speculating on the chance of seeing the crocodiles which Tippoo Sultan bad planed in the most) round she fort as the best: possible sentinels to prevent prisoners from camping or any of his troops from attempting to desert, when suddenly I felt: spasms and sickness. ..... .. 1 our “ Hallo, old fellow, how blue you look 1” remarked a companion sitting next to me, and as he spoke my comrades shrank terror- atricken from me. It: needed no doctor to tell me what was the matter. The cholera had seized me ! I had begged, sworn, and menaced at intervals” but no one paid the slight/ash heed to me. and I was sinking into that condi- tion of torpor which is the immedla’ce pre- cursor of the third and fatal stage of cholera when I heard voices in the panda]. The assistant surgeon was making hls lash round for the night, accompanied by the hospital dresser. With a violent effort I roused myself and eagerly listened for their ap- proach. Iwanted to hear my face pro- nounced. 7 7 _ I was hastily conveyed to the temporary hospital, where our assistant surgeon already had several cased of the disease under treat- ment and I was laid on a charpoy. I rapidly passed from the first to the second stage of that malady and by 9 o’clock at night: she incessant: vomlting an_d purging had redhead “ Mottled,” I heard him remark to the dresser. 1 was nearly deafened by the singing. or rather drumming, in my ears, so that I lay perfectly moblonless, so as not to lea a. single word of what: they might say escape me if po‘ssible. u n u w ,L“. mfl‘lâ€"ley'stopped at length where I lay, and the doctor gxggliped xx_1y_ body. The hospital was of course only a pandal, hastily constructed with palmyra leaves, with a large cuscus mat at the entrances at each end. Two large chatties of water were placed just outside each entrance, from which a coolie from time to time threw a pannikinful on the cuecua tathis, so that the wind, blowing through the wet mats, might cool the temperature inside the pan- dal. The result certainly was attained but at the cost of intensifying the pangs of the patient, whose thirst was tantalizad by hearing the spianhing of the water. I: w", V V", "He is insenaible already, ” the doctor continued, “and will nob last; long. So Webherall will make six 1” “ Make six?” I said to myself; “ make six what 3" “ SIX corpses, of course, for burial ab day Jighb to- marrow morning,” a voice eem_ed to laugh 0.11}: with fiendish exultabiou. The drains: Enid something which I could not distinctly bear. but the answer enlight- ened me as to the subject: they were discuss- They had gone, and the place was in dark‘ ness save for the glimmer of a cocoanu’avoil lamp. I heard the scratching of mumoobiea jus't outside the panda]: A. ,, £41,... fag), for two more, if pepeasary.” It was the nollée made by the camp-follow- ers who were digging a. common grave for six of us, leaving room for two more, if necessary I . . . -. -. . um I fell: utterly stunned and quite indifferent as to my fate, which of course I considered settled after What 0118 assistant surgeon had said. My tongue was like a piece of dry leath- er in my month, which had long since ceased to yield any saliva to relieve the agoniz- ing burning of my throat) and palate. I could not: have made any Bounil had I attempted to do so, but I did nob try. fer the antenna- ants were all strebclmd on the. ground fast asleep. I felt; I was desertedâ€"left: to dle. 1 r. _ , , I wens beginning to wamder, I think, and was back again in the bright: {green English meadowa, picking daisiea with my liable sister, and so I ahouid. have passed away. Bubjuet at thab moment), the coolies who hmi finished digging the graveâ€"my gmveâ€" passed fihe enhance to the pandal, and one 7“ 0_h, yes, there v_v_ill be roomuonough ; in A DRINK OF WATER. of them, with more consideration than his clans usually show, ‘hrew a pannikinful of waver on the mucus tathi. It was like a galvanic shock to me. I resolved to have a drink at any riak. Ihnd to die, so what matter if I hastened my death an hour or two by drinking cokl water! At least I should be relieved. from the torture of thirst. and idie happy. I rapidly recovered, and, as I had never indulged 1n the pernicious country arrack sold to soldiers out here, I was soon quite strong ogcin. I was made sergeant very soon,and I remained upward of twenty years, serving with dlfi'erent regiments out here, but it was sometime before I told any one how I recovered from my attack of aholere. However, I told the docber one day all about: it, and though be field the cold water ought to have killed me, I observ‘ ed the poor fellow: who were In the hospi- tal with cholera. got 1m extra. allowance of I tried to get up, but I was too weak to stand, and fell down at once. Then I re- flected that I was more likely to be seen if I walked, and if detected in my attempt I should be brought: back, and perhaps be strapped down to die. So I tried to crave 1. , A7_ __.__ .-u unwrr-.. “v..- -v _ I was about ten minutes dragging myself the forty feet from my cot to the entrance, and I wriggled under the cuscus tathi like a. snake. There were the chatties before me ! The first I seized was empty, and the disappointment nearly made me swoon, but the second was brimfull. I threw my arms around it and dragged myself to it. I. plunged my head into the delicioua, limpid water and devoured, rather than drank, huge mouthfuls oi the cool and heavenly fluid. I felt my stomach swelling with the enormous draught! I swallowed, but I laughed and dxenk again and again. I racked naught of life or death then. without you. Bib I 03.1.: not understand how it: is you are alive. Most extraordin- sry X" At length I could drink no more, and then dlacip line angel-ted itself. I knew I had no rig hop to be out there, and I thought if I were missed from my ooh I should be reported. 80 Icrept back the way I had come, and shortly nicer fell into a yprofound sleep. ,,.I It w7a's [Maud défiigho‘when I make, and saw the assistant surgeon and dresser stand- ing Enid? me. . . -.. . . .. s ‘ um,u, "Please, air,” skid I, “I am feeling much better, and have no wish to make the sixth this morning.” He knew I had overheard his remark on the proceeding night; ; he smiled sadly, and said: “I am sorry 13.0 any thgre vzere six flankâ€"g; iuzfiia Y" asked the doctor. “Webb- erall ought to have been {lead 2:’ _ water. Colored People Misrepresented. In his Arcana Mr. Froude was very hard upon the coloured people of the West Indies. They were in his estimation almost every thin that was bad, immoral, revengefnl towards the whites, dishonest, and much else, while all that he said about them was in that scornful, fijppant way which seems to have been so assiduously cultivated by Mr. Froude as to have become a sort of second nature. The great man, however, has not had it all his own way. Mr. J. J. Thomas, a negro himself, but a highly cultivated and well educated one, has taken up the cndgell for his maligned race, in a book which he styles “Frondacity; West Indian Fables Explained.” Mr. Thomas, while always maintaining his dig- nity and temper, handles the maliguer of his race without gloves. He shows clearly that Mr. Froude set out on his visit to the West Indies with his mind full of prejudice, that while journeying from island to island he never personally came into contact with the ex-slave population, but gathered all his in- formnton from the class which is straining every nerve to keep the mulatto and negro population out of the political rights which they are claiming, and are using every means, fair or foul, to prove that they are too degraded for these rights to be con- ceded. It has been the strange infatuation of the West Indian whites all along to put themselves in a position of antagonism to the colored population of these beautiful islands and to act on the principle of either ruling or ruing abso- lutely and for all time. Mr. Froude may affect great contempt for his West Indian assailant, just as he did for the Australians who corrected his gross misstatements and misrepresentations about the people in that great Southern Continent, but he will not escape the condemnation of All fair minded men, as one who. though a brilliant writer, is so warped with prejudice and insular class feelings that his representations of facts are of little historic value and his des- criptions, whether of scenery or society, are so embellished by fancy and so perverted by prejudice as to be little other than romances which have not the recommendation of ordinary fiction that it is innocent at any rate. This new Act enacts that children can testify without being put on oath, that a husband or wife may give evidence against the other ; that any police court can order a new guardian for any ill-used child, that is, can take a child entirely away from its parents, so that they con have no more claim upon it than any stranger, that ill» treatment of ohildren, whether by parents, nurse maids, tramps, drunkards, baby ferm- ers, etc., is illegal, that a house where it is even suspected that a child is ill-treated, can be entered and searched by a search warrant, that child hawker: shall not run the streets after ten o'clock, that those who send children out to beg shall be punished, not the children sent, and that no child shall be employed in any place of amuse- ment before 7 years of age, and none be tween seven and ten without Magistrate’s license. Now all this is not so stringent as it ought to be. But it goes a. good way, and the sooner we get something similar in Canada. the better. Many people have scarcely the faintest glimmer of how cruelty is inflicted upon poor children in this On- tario of ours, and in this Toronto. it is an ‘ awful shame. But it is a fact all the same. No one can my What may take place in France at) any time or Whit manganese may be for the hour uppermost). B11; the gem and feeling among aeuaibie mm is that: V 'â€"D " ' ' rJ Ramangsr is (1011711 xzever tn rise again. It i3 acme of the would~be Caesar being in. the guiiter and hopelessly in that nob very dignified position. 50 be it, as all good people will pray. A New Law. As comes about very frequently, the pro- phesies of evil about the crop in Manitoba, are not turning out: as expected. The injury by frost, etc., is far less than expected, and the yield is really about the beat that: the Manitobans have yeh had. The average about Portage La Prairie is 28 bushels to the acre and there are some fields as high as 40 or 5 0. Thorndike Rice, late Editor at the North American Review, was no ordinary man. Mr. Gladstone in writing ashorb account: of his career my: 2â€"- . . c ~ u, A “In another point of View, I view the career of Mr. Rice with interest and res- pect. Mr. Rice was, as Iunderntand, a man of lndependen‘ fir-tune, and being unoh he nevertheless gave himself to a. laborious oo- cupation. The growth of a. class of idle rich men would, in my opinion, be a great mil- iortune to America, as it must be to any other country, and I take it as a sign of mind uplring to public virtue when the rich man frankly and practically owns himself to he omenable to the common lot of hon- ourable duty and labour.” You (the whites) have had your revolution- ary and civil were, and we here predict that at no distant day we will have our race war, and we hope, as God intends, that we will be strong enough to wipe you out of existence. It in bound to come, and just such hon headed creokl as the editors of our Democratic journals are just right to beaten it]. The words were wild and foolish, no doubt. but as Herpen’ Weekly point: out, they are only the Acceptance of a challenge thrown down by the whites. The shite of affairs is so unhappy that Canadians, while valuing their freedom from such complica- tionl, will feel the heertieav epmpathy with the people who have so difficult aproblem to solve. M. VanKoughnet, ,u w o Superintendent of Indian Aflairs, has just visited the nation’s wards in British Colum bia. He says of the Western Indiana that they are slightly higher on the ladder of civilization than ours in the East, and for two muons. The first is that they are entirely self-dependent. “ Our Govern- ment grants them no annuities, and all the money lthey obtain is the outcome of their profitable labours. With us this is not the case. The granting of annuities, in accord- ance with old treaties, has fostered a Ipirlt of semi-dependence and lazineal among the Eastern triboa which is the reverse of satisfactory. The second reason is Tthat Indians in Britilh Columbia, generally speaking, mingle in their daily punuita more among white men than they do in the Eat.” These are the words written by the colored editor at Selma,A1abama, which put the Southern whites into a frenzy the 0°13? day ... _. . 1 7.77.37" The believer: in Mrs. Maybriok'e inno- cence are still agitating for her pardon. In England they are exceedingly busy, and in the United States they are prep-wing a petition to be signed by a hundred thousand persona asking for her release. It in easy to understand the activity of the people who cannot think the convicted woman guilty. The belief that an innocent person is aufi‘er- ing is enough to move the moat celloua. It is not: at all an extra-ordinary thing for the guiltlean to receive punishment for crime. A case of this nature has just been revealed in Misaouri. In 1884, in the town of Florida, in that State, a. man named Williem Vander- venter and his wife were murdered. A negro named Duly was arrested for the crime, tried, convicted, and hanged. Last week there died at MaconLAinjhe name Some publicists aerate the line are deplor- ing the presence in the United States of so large a forelgp-born population. Bishop Coxe of Western ew York, one of these, asks :â€" “Shall our children’s children see another centennial celebration of Washington and the constitution 2" And he makes mournful answer that “ we are governed by aliens,” and that “ every thoughtful man must pro- nounce sueh a consummation improbable in the extreme.” In reply it is stated that the foreigners are quite as loyal to American in- stitutions as the natives. However this may be, it is certain that the foreign-born resi- dents are more demonstrative than the des- cendants of the original settlers. They are more violent, for example, in their expressu sions of dinlike for Great Britainâ€"expres- sions which they appear to regard as neces- sary in proof of their attachment to their new home. ébgtg. a m'anrixrsmed Perry Thrsli, who on his deathbed confessed chat: he committed the crime for which Duly was pub to death. Our Canadian copper coinage is a mixture of authorized coins and old bank tokens. The tokens, leaned as they were by the banks before the Government took control of the copper money, are apt to be despised. They are old, buttered, and worn, and therefore, in the opinion of the average citizen, useless. But they are really ec- qniring a. new valueâ€"a. value based upon their rarity. A short time ago in New York a. token of the Bank of Montreal, dated 1838, showing a side view of the bank build- ing, and on the reverse the oval shield of the city and the words, " Bunk token. One our. A L,“ _____ pennyj’ waajbla ”for, $51. A half-penny typgpf t‘he same kind of token went for $29. n,,,L _t 'Il-_l....u.‘ ”J r A side View penny of the Bank of Monbreal brought $53, and a half-penny token of the Bank of Upper Canada went for $50. It re- presented Britannia presenting two children to America. It: is not safe, therefore, to think lightly of the old hokens. A numisma- tisb might prim them highly. There is a great; deal of good sense and undeniable fact in the following statement which name of our mad Anglo-Israelites would do well to cannidfr : “ There are no Lost Tribes," is Mr. L. N. Demlitz's verdict: in “The Andover Review.” The ten tribes were never bodily deported‘ to Alsyria. Most of the Israelites were left behind in the country they always occupied. ‘ At the fall of Jerusalem Titus carrled off only thy inhabitants of J mine}, who were sent across the Mediterranean to Italy and S pain. Hadrian afterwards led the Galileans into captivity. and located them on the lower Rhine. From themâ€"the “Ten Tribes" â€"â€"the bulk of the J awe of Germany. Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Roumania are sprung ; and these have in very modern times sent offshoots: to Northern France, Holland, and the United States. Between Ierael and J udnh there has always been a rootei antipathy. and in America the Jewish families will notI aeeeciate or internmrry with those of Isarelite deecent. But the latter form more than nine-tenths of the Hebrew nation to-day.” MISCELLANEOUS A Vermont Baptist; minister who is not too grave and dignified to enjoy a. good joke, even when it is on himself, narrates a. ludi- crous incident of his early life. Soon after being settled nver anew congregation, he one day received a note asking him to be at home that] evening at: eight: o’clock. The writer added that he was intending to “be married at that hour, and would call at. the parsonage with his bride. L Jr..- _:..LA. It was but a few mmuhea before eight: 0 'clook when the door bell rang, and a. moâ€" ment later the servant; announced that a young couple awaited the minisher in the puller. ,, _,___-_:-.: Going down into the parlor, accompanied bv his wife, the pastor found a. neatlyjdreas- ed, intelligent appearing young man and a bright‘iooking young Woman, Who rose to receive him. In great bewilderment, which the miniater mistook for natural embarrassment, the young couple timidly clasped hands, and the ceremony was about to begin when the young men said : “ Iâ€"W6â€"What ceremony is it I" “ W'hy, the ceremony of marriage, of course.” “ I am Mr. Homer,” said the young man, " and this 15 Miss Cross. ” Having another engagement for the evening, the minister said, immediately, " I received your note this morning, and we will proceed with the ceremony at once. Plane join you; right hands." "O-ooo-h!" shrieked the young Infiy, withdrawing her hand. and covering her face with a handkerchief. “ I dnn'b understand this at 9.11,” said the youn man, sharply. “ We came here limp y as a. committee from the Young People's Society of the Methodist Church to Mk you and. your wife to be present at a. publicnenterbainment we are about: to give, andâ€"â€" The mistake evidently started the first young couple into new lines of thought, for, a year later, their own pastor being ill, they called upon the Baptist pastor. and did not protest that he was going too far when he again asked them to join hands. It was now the minister's turn to' any “ Oâ€" o- -â€"0 oh, " and he said it in genuine astonhhment at: the very moment: that the maid ushered in the young couple who had “ matrimonial intentions.” One of the most sfiriking examples of this large class of unfortunate beings is the great Carlyleâ€"the men of noble heart and greet mind, capable of grasping great sub- jects and giving wise words of admonition rsgn‘ding them, and yet so difficult to live with comfortably. because he was easily disturbed by trifle: and gave free vent to an oral expression of the annoyances he felt. There is s. touch of the ridiculous, but much more that is pathetic, in the story of Car- lyle’s behsvior on his return home after an absence, during which his loved J ennieâ€" Mrs. Carlylewworked with loving industry 0 mska her husband’s home-coming en es- pegislly hoppy one. The study was made immaculately heat, the new furniture arrrenged in the most pleading order, and a. dainty touch here and there to make all homelike. The task oom- pletod, Mrs. Carlyle awaited in happy 1elxpectancy the return of the master of the mute. ”Wk-at did Corlylo do to show his appre- ciation of this loving service so willingly rendered? Did he express his satisfaction in words. or even by a. look of pleased sur- prise? Not: be. Surveying the room with critical eyes, he Walked to a window, dis- covered that the sash rattled, and vented his (ll-pleasure in unmistakable language. This one small flaw blinded hlm to all the rest of the order and pleasant: arrangements of the roomâ€"[Evening V‘Vlsconsln. Hove any of our young friends ever seen an aeolian harp? It is a musical instrument made by the Greeks many centuries ago and hung among the trees or where the wind could blow upon it, making a low, soft musical sound. The “Baptist Weekly” tells how to make one, which is very easily done and inexpensive, for most of the material can be found about the house. “Wax a piece of buttenhele twist about two and a. half feet long; tie each end strongly to a small peg and thrust the pegs down the crevice between the two sashes of your southern or western window, stretching the silk as tight as possible. It will surprise you, the sweetness and variely oi the tones the wind will bring from it. Having done this you may be moved to go further and prepare a. more elaborate aeolian harp. Take some quarter-inch wood and make abox the length of your window frame, four or five inches deep and six or seven inches wide. Bore a few small holes in a circle near what will be the upper side of the heck of the box when placed in the window with the open side of the box, fasten two bri es like violin bridges one at each end, an stretch on them several strings of fine catgut, oontriving a series of screw pins to aid in the tight: stretching necessary, and allow of their being turned to one note Then mine your sash on the windy side of the house, and the wind pming through the hole and over the strings will in its rising and falling make very sweet mafiaâ€"[American Cultivator. A bhree-year-old girl was lying on the floor the other dey pulling the tablecloth, and. her father, who was busy writing at the table Bald : “Lillie, atop pulling the cloth.” The little witch instantly replied : “I ain’t pulling iv. My arm springs out: and makes my fingers shut up.” VV nan (flu. Uunyxu no to nuuw use up :iation of this loving service so willingl rendered? Did he express his satisfaction in words. or even by a look of pleased sur- prise? Not he. Surveying the room with critical eyes, he walked to a window, dis- 1115' Y covered that the sash rattled, and vented his displeasure in unmistakable language. This one small flaw blinded him to all the rest of the order and pleasant arrangements of the roomâ€"[Evening Wisconsin. ____+__.__ How to Make an [Bollan Harp. Have any of our young friends ever seen an aeolian harp? It is a musical instrument made by the Greeks many centuries ago and hung among the trees or where the wind could blow upon it, making a low, soft ‘ musical sound. The “Baptist Weekly” tells how to make one, which is very easily done and inexpensive, for most of the material can be found about the house. “Wax a piece of buttonholo twist about two and a half feet long; tie each end strongly to a small peg and thrust the pegs down the crevice between the two sashes of your southern or western window, stretching the silk as tight as possible. It will surprise you, the sweetness and variely oi the tones the wind will bring from it. Having done this you may be moved to go further and prepare a more elaborate aeolian harp. Take some quarter-inch wood and make abox the length of your window frame, four or five inches deep and six or seven inches wide. Bore a few small holes in a circle near what will be the upper side of the back of the box when placed in the window with the open side of the box, fasten two bri es like violin bridges one i at each end, an stretch on them several strings of fine catgut, contriving a series of screw pins to aid in the tight: stretching necessary, and allow of their being turned to one note. Then raise your sash on the windy side of the house, and the wind passing through the hole and over the strings will in its rising and falling make very sweet mushâ€"[American Cultivator. An Unruly Arm. A three-year-old girl was lying on the floor the other day pulling the tablecloth, and her father, who was busy writing at the table said : “Lillie, stop pulling the cloth.” The little witch instantly replied : “I ain’t pulling it. My arm springs out and makes my fingers shut up.” Cruelty to children on the part of their parents is a very common sin, and it is carried often to degrees of fiendishness which is never known as amongst the lower animals. Every year hundreds of little . things scarcely out of their cradles, in fact in many cases, not out of their cradles, are slowly tortured to death by those " without 3 whose life they had not lived." in fact, ? this kind of iniquity has become so horrible :i in England that the worst cases are their !; own protection for they cannot be published 14, in any journal with the slightest pretence to decency or right feeling. The iriends of the ; children in Britain have lately secured a f triumph. They have had the low against ; cruelty to children made much more severe. 3, We would be sorry to prose. Wise saws are very good no doubt in their place, and practical inferences are expected at the close of a heavy, dull and long religious dis- course. But we are not in that line and though preaching is no doubt good, especially when kept in moderation and not too pro- longed, yet everything in order and all Where it ought to be. And yet the temptation is very great sometimes to administer to foolish folks the Word of admonition, and to tell them for instance not to lose to-day by help- less regrets that yesterday has gone forever, and to little or no purpose. Some people tell their neighbors that the very essence of eternal punishment is that dreadful refrain, “It might have been.” It is bad enough when the mind dwells upon it. But it is better not to dwell, and it is possible as well. “The battle is no doubt lost,” said Napoleon at Marengo, “ but it is only three o'clock yet, and there is plenty of time to gain another,” and so all his troops took heart of grace from their leader’s hopeful- ness, and after all gained the battle that has made Marengo famous. If only people would do likewise in their own little con- cerns what a different world it would be 1 Yes! an awful deal lost. Opportunities for education neglected. Bad habits con- tracted. A general ieebleness of mental tone induced. An uncongenial Way of making a living forced upon one. The glorious seed time of life gone to little or no purpose. If I ii I if l Yes if 1 These years will never come back and you will never be the men you possibly might have been. Well, what al- tho’! Are you going to sit on this account with folded hands, and sadly muse on former joys or former opportunities that now return no more? Go, you goose l The bat- tle is no doubt lost so far. Butâ€"it is only three o’clock yet i Look alive and you will gain another and perhaps a better. “Ah me i" said the Oxford scholar as he lay dying, " had I devoted my energies to the dative case, I might have done someâ€" thing to purpose. But, as it is, there has been no concentration and to life has been wasted without recall.” Pshawl pshawl How much better the view of old James Stirling, the scientific cobbler and reformed drunkard : “ i gave the strength of my life to the service of the devil. and now I have only ‘the gloamin“ for the honour of my God and the good of my fellows.” But what a “ gloamin ’ ” that Was 1 and what a sunset! The forty years wanderings in the wilderness were all forgotten in that Pisgah respect and in that “ abundant en- trance.’ Now, dear reader, there is a bit of a sermon for you. You can study along with it Longfellow's “Realm of Life ” think over what is meant by not “ retaining the sins that are past," and then go at your little bit of work with a will, neither whine- ing nor shrinking, neither fearing the iuture nor making too much of the past. Three o'clock yet? Not by a long way, and though it were, though it were eleven or even five minutes to twelve ! Don‘t be a claim, and don’t confess that you are a failure and an ass ! 1n the, Nagle habsas corpus proceedings at San Francisco yesterday Justice Field do- sorihed the tragedy at Liturop, and express or}. the opinion that if Nagle had hotshot Terry he (Field) would have been dead within the next five seconds. 0n Another Errand. People Who Fret. PROTECTION AGAINST FLIEs. The plague of flies touches a. very tender spot «the poclu t bookâ€"fur it causes animals to lose flash, or at least to nuke less gain than they would otherwise. By aflording promotion to the animals we have money as truly as we do by giving them comfortable shelter. The bzst protection for bags is the wallow. Though cattle have tough hides, flies occasion them much discomfort, and it is humane and profitable to make for them a. smuigo. In some situations this is actually necessary at certain seasons. The animals soon lento to take advantage of the smoke. Horses suffer greatly from flies), on account; of a tender skin and sensitive nervous or- genizetion. When we have them at work, their struggles against their tormentors are annoying to us. It is unpleasant to use ani- mals kicking, biting and stamping ab flies. For farm teams the cheapest protection in leather nets. With reesonsble care these will last far years. They should be cleaned and oiled at least once a month while they are in use, or the sweet; of the animals will rapidly rot: them. They increase the warmth of the animals as little as any efficient pro- bcction. The legs of horses riquire protection even more than their borlies‘ Flies choose the legs, as the skin on these parts is thinner and the blood vessels are nearer the surface. lb is strange that: we do not; of'nener see the legs of the animals protected, as the files are not much disturbed by stamping. Leggings from old overalls, or made of burlaps, are good material. The man ashamed to drive a. team so protected, about his farm, hes far more false pride than good aense. Leggings made like the leather nets for the body are in the end the cheapest, and can be 111 Mia by any harness-maker. wilt so, can the owner of the offending swarm be held amenable in damages to the injgred par‘ty. 1n the, Nagle habmm carpus proceedings at San Francisco yeatesrday Justina Field da- acribed the Lragaxdy eat thnrop, and expreas~ eé tha apinion that) if Nagle back not shah Terry he (Fieid) would have been dead 1 within the next five seconds. HONEY BEES IN COURT. A case cf considemle interesb to bee- keepers was recently tried by the Supreme Court of the Fourth Judicial Department) of New York State. The questions passed upon_Were subsbnnbially the following ; -1.May the honey he‘s become an lihhwful treapasser and &_ nuisance. " A -. . a m .- Here is the reported history of the case. In 1887 a wealthy banker of Delaware Coun- N. Y., had 9. neighbor who kept an apiary of 20 swarms of bees within 50 feet of the banker’s dwelling The bxnker com- plained that the bees \tscked and stung members of his family that they were, in tact. vicious and offensive insects, annoying his horses and other stock. The neighbor refused to remove the bees and the banker beg an a. suit for $1 200 damages and an order for the removal of the bees. The National Bee Keepers' Association assumed the defence and thus made this a. test case. The trial lasted several days and awarded the plantifi six cents and cost, thus establishing a precedent. The court at once issued an injunction restraining the defendant from maintaining the a piety on his premises. The defendant appealed and is new again defeated. It is said that the Bee Keepers’ Ausoclatlon will continue the fight by a. further appeal to the Court of Appealsâ€"the court of final resort. AG RICULTUR 9.1;. Never Give Up. AN OHIO FARMER.