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KIT CABSON'S 1EGACY. Gcronlmo and bis murderous band Are raiding ihe fresh young Western land ; Toriorlng women and scalping men , . flaking of ranches a noisome l en , And of Ecttlcirents a slaughter-pen. II. HI ! hi I hi 1 To tho pale-face death ! 3Inlllatc eons ere their waning breath ! Jlurder mothers , and babies brain ! Scatter bullets like peltins rain , And ccour away to ihe bills again ! IU. Bloody Apachfs , dcv'ls accurst , Over our hcmes in a cyclone burst ; Making widows of fair young wives , Taking Innocent children's lives , Gashing loved ones with reeking knives. IV. Mercy to such Is thrown away , 71e rifle-ball is their only pay ; The bayonet-prod and tbe Gatling-gun , And tbe cavalrj-cbarge from which they run Art the bravest and best thing to be done. V. Gnlltyfriends of that fiendish , foe. "Whose trail Is wet with tbe tears of woe , ILink what Kit Carson wieelv said When he cazed on a settler's"gorr bed , "An Indian good is an Indian dead ! " David Graliatn Adce. JUNE.DAISIES. . . A Kensington Romance. It was only a London garden , but it was so walled in from intrusive eyes , was so judiciously planted with flow ers that could stand the air of cities and the neighborhood of smoke , was so surrounded by trees , and the walls that encircled it were so covered with creepers , that it was difficult to real ] zo that it was actually a part of tha "Old Court Suburb" which is now a part of London itself. There was an old bowling-green that made th smoothest and greenest of tennis lawns ; there were stately alleyst planted with quaint shapes of box and yew ; an ancient sundial and a moss grown fountain ; trim walks through trellised doorways , that led to con servatories gorgeous with tropica ilowers ; and shady corners , much ap preciated by tho young people who came to Lady Mary Hazlewood's gar den parties , and that at other times were Meta Hazlewood's favorite re treat Lady Mary was the widow of a gen eral and Meta 'was her only daughter , a , tall and rather stately brunette of twenty-two , who had been out two or three seasons , and had refused several eligible offers without any very appar ent reason. Miss Hazlewood did not even give any reason. The gentlemen who had done her the honor to wish to marry her were not to her taste , she said , and seemed to think that state ment conclusive. Meta's indifference to suitors was the only point of difference between Ler mother and herself. Lady Mary trould gladly have seen her daughter snitablj * settled as , indeed , what mother would not ? but in the long run the girl always had her \ ay. "Do you want to get rid of me , mamma ? " she would ask , with one of the smiles that were half saucy , and wholly sweet ; and there could be but one answer to such a question. Nev ertheless , Lady Mary could not help feeling that her daughter was per verse. The feeling was' intensified just now by an offer from Meta's latest admirer , and. by the fact that Lord Castleman seemed likely to fare no better than those who had gone be fore him. "I can't understand it , my dear , " said Lady Mary , plaintively. "What was there in Sir John Hope that any girl need have objected to ? " "He was not to my taste , " said Meta , for the hundredth time. "Or in Captain Shaw ? And I am ntro they both worshiped the ground you trod on. " x "They would have been welcome to do that if they would only have ab stained from worshiping me , " said Meta , lightly. "My dear , don't be flippant ; when you really fall in love yourself , you will .know it is not a joking matter. " i'Ah ! yes when I do ! " said Meta. "And now there is Lord Castleman , and yoa don't scum any more favor ably inclined to him. " " 1 can't help it , mamma , " said Meta , rather wearily. She rose and gathered her work together , and left ihe field to Lady Mary. She was so lired of these endless lamentations , and she knew enough of her mother to know that she would not leave her pet grievance till she had thoroughly exhausted both that and her daugh ter's patience. So Meta put on her Lat and strolled into the garden , the shady old world garden that always seemed such a haven of peace and soli tude amid the whirl and din of the great city. It was here that Meta generally came when her mother's mood was too plaintive or too loqua cious , not railing against the kindly , nnwise woman , even in her heart , but feeling the need for a little quiet and solitude , a little time in which to gather her thoughts , and perhaps live over again the one little month in which the garden had seemed greener and fairer and sweeter than it had Ever seemed since. That was five years ao now that one month of Meta's life that had seemed to Lady Mary , so much like any other June , but that had made the very name of 3une musical forever in her daugh- Jer's ears. It was June again now , nd even in London there was a sense of summer in the air. The garden was at its best , with roses just unfolding , and creepers greenly twining and putting forth delicate tendrils , as yet unsmirched , by dust or soot The great June I iaisies that grow wild in such abund ance in southern pastures and on fcreeay cliffs by the sea , but that need ed much care and pains to induce them to grow here at all , were open ing their yellow discs , and spreading their white fringes in the sun. Meta gathered one , and put it softly to her lips. "The one flower in the world ! " whispered the girl , and then she blushed at her own thoughts , and fastened the flower in her girdle , and told herself it was folly , and worse than folly , to let anv man's words dwell in her heart like this , and come back to her across the years when ever , the daisies blew. It was five years ago now , but every June , as the great white daisies opened to the summer sun , it seemed to Meta that she stood once more by Robin Lindsay's side , and heard him tell her that he should never see their blossoms again with out thinking of this garden of his cousin Mota. ' 'Because they are Marguerites , and I am Margaret ? " she asked. "If you like. Or because they are fair and white , and tall and stately and beautiful , " said Mr. Lindsay. Shall I find them and' you still here when I come back , I wonder ? Will the daisies bloom year after year , in spite of fogs and smoke ? And you , Margaret , will you be here , in.spite of all the suitors who will try to'win and wear the Marguerite that is the one flower in the world for me ? She did not answer for a moment She was only seventeen , and with Robin Lind say , at least , she was curiously ehy. And then , before she could speak , he caught her hands in his. "Don't an swer , dear , " he said ; "I had no right to ask. I will riot bind you by a " single word. Only give me"a flower for old love's sake. It pledges you to. nothing , but I may bo glad to have it if I come back some day and find no. daisies here. " ' "One daisy will be here , " said Meta softly so softly that perhaps he did not hear ; or perhaps he would not ] Robin Lindsay had no fortune but his profession , but he was a Scots man , and as proud as he was poor. It seemed to him a baseness to. try to win a pledge from this fair young cousin of his , whose mother' looked so much higher for her , and toj whom an engagement to himsalfl could only bring years of indefinite' waiting. . | The waiting and the burden of sep-i aration and doubt and anxiety should , be his , and not hers , he told himself ; : and so he went away and left her free , ! " not understanding "that her freedom was a heavier burden than them all.1 He only wrote once , a formal letter to Lady Mary , acknowledging her' hospitality , tliat somehow found its ; way among Meta's treasures ; butj every year there came a Christmas , card adorned with white Marguerite ) daisies , and bearing an Indian post- , mark and the initials R. L. That was all ; just such Christmas ! cards as any one might have sent ! pretty tokens of cousinly remembrance that might be the emptiest of compli ments ; but Meta flusned into tremb ling delight over them , and hid them away as a miser hides his gold. And Lady Mary , looking kindly al her daughter , with the unexpected acumen which otherwise foolish , wo men sometimes display in matters oi the heart , thought to herself that if Meta had not been such a child when Robin Lindsay went away , she might have fancied there had been some "nonesense" between the cousins when they wandered so long in the garden those soft June evenings five long years ago. It was only a passing thought , dis missed the next instant as too unlikely for serious reflection , but it came back to Lady Mary with startling vividness this fair June morning as she went in to the garden in search of Meta , and found her standing by the daisies with eyes that were luminous and tender and sad. The golden bosses , surround ed with pearly shafts of white , sud denly recalled the Christmas cards that had borne them in every variety of dainty devices. And when Lady' Mary looked at her daughter with un-i conscious appeal and questioning , sho knew , with a thrill of unwelcome con viction , that tho girl's eyes fell before her own. Was this it this that Meta , her proud , unapproachable Meta , was only proud and unapproachable be cause she was already won , and won either clandestinely or unwooed ? . Either supposition seemed a dese cration to Meta's mother , with Meta standing before her in her proud young beauty ; only the daisies made a back ground to her thoughts , an unacknowl- 3dged arriere pensee that had its share in determining her speech. "Do you know that Lord Castleman is coming for his answer this morn ing ? " she asked with an attempt at severity of demeanor that was not too successful. What are you going to say to him , my dear ? " "Won't you see him , mamma ? You ivill say 'No' so much more graciously ; han I should. " "But need it be 'No , ' Meta ? " "What else can it be ? " said Meta , rather drearily. The daisies were an unconscious 3ackground to her thoughts also. The , laisies that had brought only happy nemories and golden dreams to the jirl in her teens , had come to have juite other meanings for the woman of ; wenty-two. Five years ! Was it likely that tho ive-years-old story could seem any- ; hing but a boy and girl romance to [ tobin Lindsay now ? That was the juestion that the daisies had been ask- ng Margaret Hazlewood this morning , ; hat they had already asked her more ; han once as tho empty years .went by , ind Robin Lindsay gave no sign of ilaiming "the one flower in the world 'or him. " "Need it bo 'No,7 Meta ? " said her nother once more. "Lord Castleman s well born , distinguished , a polished rentleman , and an upright man. tVhat fault can you find in him ? * ' "None , " said Meta , wearily. She ; hought that life would have been jasior to her if her suitors had been a ittle less unexceptionable. "Then , my dear , why do you not ac- jepthim ? Do you know , Meta , what s the natural conclusion when a girl ) ehaves as you do ? " "Yes , " said Meta , hastily. "The latural conclusion , the .only conclu- iion , is that she likes her home and ler mother too well to leave them. " Lady Mary put aside the flattery vith lofty indifference. "The natural conclusion is that there s some one she likes better or fancies ihe does , " said the mother considerate- y changing tho form of expression as ihe saw"the sudden flame in Meta's iheeks. It faded as quickly as it had some , and Mela said steadily "That is not the case with me , mam- na. " It was not a willful untruth. Her norning's commnnings with the laisies had brought home the convic- iion that Robin Lindsay had forgotten ler , or thought of her only as a' sonsin , and nothing could therefore . .f.Q. . - [ be more evident to Margaret Hazel- wood than that her own leelings must have undergone a similar change. I "I am relieved to hear it , " said Lady > Iary. "I had really begun to won der absurd as it seems it there could \have \ been anything between you and Robin " "No ! oh no ! " cried Meta vehement ly. "How could you think so , mam ma , when ho has never " She stop ped , afraid of her own voice. What was shegoing to do ? To falter and break down before her mother to be tray the weakness that had robbed her girlhood of its brightness , and that instead of being conquered as she had believed , seemed ready to overwhelm1 her now with a sud'den despairing shame ? She paused a moment , steady ing herself against the garden seat , and then she said with a nervous little laugh "How could you be so absurd , mamma ? I should have thought you , knew me better than that. " The two women were both too much excited to notice outside things. It came upon them both with a little shock , when a page appeared before them and an nounced that .Lord Castleman was in the drawing room. " 1 will come , " said Lady Mary ner vously , and then she looked at her laughter. "My dear , what shall I say. You will not sacrifice your prospects your h..ppinesss " "My happiness is not in question , mamma , " said Meta proudly. "You can send Lord Castleman to me. " Lady Mary did not venture to ask any more. She kissed her daughter , and went off to her guests , rejoicing. Meta would not haVe sent for him. only to reject him , she felt sure. And' as for the doubts which the daisies , had suggested , if Lady Mary did not ; believe her daughter's protestations' as entirely as Meta would have wished , she believed in the healing power of time and the evanescent nature of. human emotions , with a fullness of ! conviction that Meta herself would ! probably never attain to. She turned1 for a moment and looked at the girl's. ; white clad figure with tender ma- ! ternal pride , and then she went on to the house and into the drawing room- ' glowing with satisfaction and good will. ! Lord Castleman was standing by the table with a face tha was becoming anxious and grave , but he flushed into eager anticipation as Lady Mary came into the room. "You bring me good tidings1 ho cried joyfully. "I see it in your eyes. " "I "She will see you , " said Lady Mary , beaming with smiles. "You will find her in her favorite corner by the con servatories. " He pressed her hand , and went , see ing everything a little mistily through the sudden dazzle of new hope ; but pleading his cause with as much humility as though he had not just seen Lady Mary , and drawn his own deductions from the encouraging interview. And Meta sat with downcast eyes.and listened to his tale in a silence he felt to be still more encouraging ; but when he would have taken her hand she drew it back. "Wait , " she said ; "there is some thing I should like to show vou first ? ' She took from her pocket a faded leather case , and opened it with fin gers that trembled a little in spite of her efforts to keep them still. Inside were the Christmas cards with the pretty frosted daisies , and the robins that used to be so seldom absent from Christmas cards , but that had. perhaps a special reference in these , and with them a letter that was a little frayed about the edges now. Lord Castleman stared , as he might perhaps be excused for doing. "What are these ? " he said. "Par don me ; I don't understand. " "It was very foolish and it was all five years ago , " faltered Meta , "but I thought you ought to know. " I He understood now , and his brow I lowered ominously. He was all Lady Mary had called him he was well born and distinguished , a polished gentleman , and an upright man , but e was not large soulcd. The confes sion that Meta had made , with a pain ho could not even understand , moved him to no generous sympathy ; it only wounded nis vanity and stung his pride. He took the cards and the let ter from her , and tore them into a thousand pieces , and then ho turned upon his heel. "Miss Hazlewood , I have tho honor to wish you good morning , " he said , with a stiff little bow. "I appreciate your candor , but you will understand that a Castleman does not care to bo second to any other man. " _ He went away with his head in the air , knocking over his chair in his ag itation , and Meta was conscious of a . very unheroic feeling of relief. To please her mother , and to save her own pride , she had brought herself to think that she might accept Lord Cas tleman , but the sense of relief showed her how great an escape she had had. How long she sat where he had left her she never quite knew. Her eyes were on the torn and scattered frag ments that were all that remained to her of her girlhood's dream , and as she sat and mused her face was grave and sad but it was a sadness in which Lord Castleman had neither part nor lot The opening of the garden door roused her at last And then for life is sometimes kinder to us than our deserts or our imaginings she lifted her eyes and saw some one coming up the walk some one whose coming her own pride had come near to making a curse instead of a blessing. For tho some one was Robin Lindsay , come back at last to explain his long ab- sence , and the untoward fortune that tiad till now made it impossible for iiini to come and ask for the Margaret who was still to him "the one flower l in the world. " 1 1p Somebody says tnat the odor of fresh paint may be removed from a room by placing a saucer of ground coffee in tbe apartment. tfow we understand why it is a man generally . chews ground coffee when he is painting the .own. Puck. * "All I want is a single heart , " writes a JI Js joetess. Trying to fill a h6b-tall flush , eh ! I Neicmcm Independent. \ * . INDUSTRIAL TOPICS. How Farm Animals Are Likely To Be Neg lected by Tlielr Owners Durlnsr the Sum mer General Industrial Miscellany. Care of Stock In Summer. On many farms , says The Chicago Times , all kinds of animals except work-hoises are sadly neglected dur ing summer. Their o'wners think they have too much to do in the field at this season of the year to devote much time to their stock. The corn must be cultivated , the potatoes hoed , the hay made , and the grain harvested. Each of these must receive attention at the proper time , and they afford , little leisure for anything else. Farm ani mals are not likely to be neglected during the winter , because their own ers have little to do except to take care of them. There is no work to perform in the field or garden. The weather is often so unpleasant that there is no pleasure in leav ing the farm to go to town. All the animals are accordingly well taken care of. They are fed and watered with great regularity. The card and brush are used on the horses and cat tle. The pigs are supplied with bed ding to keep them clean and warm. If the weather is severely cold they receive some warm food. The calves receive rations of meal and oil cake. The fowls are looked after at least twice every day. In short , during the season of the year when animals and fowls are only expected "to hold their own" they are well cared for. There is plenty of time for doing the work required , and necessity demands that it be done. Neglect to do it would in sure the death of the animals. The greatest neglect of animals and fowls Is shown during the summer season. The former are generally turned out to grass and allowed to re main without care or attention. It is presumed that they will do well enough by themselves. When the grass is growing finely they generally thrive. There is enough to eat , and if the pastures are supplied with living water there is enough to drink. It is not always the case , however , that the pasture produces a sufficient amount of grass for all the animals that are kept in it. The growth of grass de pends almost entirely on the fall of " rain. If there is no"rain for several months the feed in pastures will be small in quantity and poor in quality. The supply of water afforded to streams will also become small. At such times animals require attention every day. If the grass in the pasture does not afford sufficient food it should be obtained from the field or granary. The growth of the animal should not be stopped because the growth of grass has. The water supply should receive frequent attention. During hot and dry weather all animals require a large amount of water that should be pure and fresh. If streams do not afford the requisite amount of good water the well must be made to supply it Every stock-raiser should keep in mind that the gain in the weight and condition of animals is principally made during the summer. Unless they are fed on expensive food like corn or small grains during the winter they will weigh no more in the spring than they did in the previous fall. The summer is the time to lay on flesh and fat. Animals intended for slaughter should have all the re quisites for becoming fat during warm weather. There is no good reason for waiting for cold weather before com mencing' to feed them corn. If there is not sufficient grass in the pasture to enable each animal to obtain its fill with ease and comfort it should have an allowance of corn or some other de sirable food. A given amount of grain will make more beef , pork or mut ton during warm than cold weather. The best meat for the table is made by feeding gram in connection with green ajrass. Calves , colts and lambs re quire good care during the summer , kt the period of weaning they should lave much attention given to their ood. They should not be allowed to aecomo poor during the first summer ) f their existence. If they are not in 2jood condition when they enter their .vinter . quarters for the first time the chances of their ever becoming super- or animals are very poor. Industrial Brevities. 1 Where limbs have been sawed off sarly in the spring , the exterior wood jecomes drv in a few weeks and will ; hen receive a coating or covering to jxclude rain and prevent decay. An ) ld and much recommended applica- ; ion is a solution of gum shellac in al- : ohol , applied with a brush. Itanswers t he purpose perfectly , and makes an lir tight covering. Grafting-wax is good , but not so easily applt- ut , after j-ears of experiment , ve find common oil-paint as good as mything , and nearly always at hand. ) ne of the small tin vessels with eady mixed paint , sold at the hard- vare or drug stores , answers every mrpose , and this is more easily ob- ained than the shellac solution and nore readily applied than tho graft- ng-wax. A novel use , says an eastern paper , 8 being made of oyster-shells by a lartford , Conn. , man , who is coining aoney in his new enterprise. The hells are placed in a patented mill , nd ground. It has a capacity of five ons a day. Ban ingenious arrange- aent sieves are kept at work assort- ng the dust into fine , coarse , and m- ulliciently treated. The fine and the oarse are taken by elevator-belts t > he floor below , where , through can- as chutes , regulated by wooden lides , barrels are rapidly filled. The iroduct is sold for chicken-feed , twenty tons and more are sold yearly o San Francisco , orders are filled rorn western states , and Bermuda nd the Sandwich islands have been upplied. A writer makes a correct compari- on between thinning turnips and hinning timber trees. ? To gardener ver expects to raise a crop of good- ized turnips by allowing them to row at random without thinning , 'he only difference between them is , hat the turnips show the effect of hinning in a very short time , while ears may be required for the more lowly growing trees. For a similar eason no farmer would ever expect o raise a crop of fine corn by allow- ing a dozen stalks to grow in euo ! hill. Tho removal of a needless tre < may add to the bulk of a ueighboi to a greater extent than would have been obtained from the needless tree had it remained , beside the improved quality of the growth. Much attention is paid in England to the manufacture of sanitary wall papers. The best English dealers guarantee their paper free from arse nic or other poisonous coloring mat ter. It is wise to select smooth pa- Eers , as they do not collect the dust ke the embossed and ( locked sur faces. If flock papers are used at all they should btTwiped at least once a week. Light colors should be chosen and small all-over designs. People have hardly begun to under stand tho influence of color on health and comfort , or to know that a care ful consideration of this subject is , more important from a sanitary point of view. While reports of tho hay crops coming from various western states are very encouraging , the news comes from New England that there it is most disappointing. In Vermont it is represented as being the lightest for ten yeard , reaching 850,000 tons , or , 200,000 tons less than last year. In New Hampshire and Maine the crop is reported as 10 and 15 per cent re spectively less than last year. Causea ' assigned for it are bad weather and' damage by insects. The hay press ! will be in demand in tho west to put , the good crop in proper shape for transporting east. The annual weeds have mostly such extremely small seeds that the begin- ings of the plant are on the most in significant scale. Slightly brushing the surface of a field twice a week will kill every one just as or before it' , conies above the surface. A weed seed : that is barely sprouted is destroyed as : effectually with a brush of tho hoe ori garden rake as it would be two month later when the strength of a man ; might bo required to uproot it. Fre- quent cultivation kills more weeds for another reason , which is that it } encourages more weed seeds to start. A California paper says : Wo are in- formed that a complaint has been filed in the superior court of San Diego ! county , in which tho plaintiff com- ! plains that he has thirty acres of Muscatj grapes , raised for the express purpose * ef being made into raisins , and that ! owing to the great number of bees ] kept by his neighbors he is unable to utilize the grapes for the purposq named. The prayer of the plaintiff * i that the court may adjudge tho keep-j ing of bees to be a nuisance which , should bo abated , and that he may ! recover damages from tho defendant.- It is generally found that a cow kept by herself will give better results than' the same cow in a herd with others. ' The single cow will be better fed , and1 a more important point , so far as but ter-making is concerned , will be the fact that nearly all the butter will bej got from the cream , which is nevci ; the case when tho milk and cream from a herd of cows are mixed beforej churning. Owing to difference in size- of the butter globules the milk fromj cows varies greatly in tho time re quired to bring the'butter. On the Kankakee marsh , along tho Kankakee river in Illinois , there are , large tracts of land which arc used yearly for grazing stock. It has been the practice of farmers who had good gram farms to send their young cat tie to these marshes and have them , pastured through the summer at a cost of about $2 per head. Dry season,1 stock will do fairly wall , but after weft seasons the cattle will come home lean , being all horns and legs , weighing in ! many cases no more than they did in the spring , According to experiments reportedj by the secretary of the New Jersey ] Horticultural society ; and continued ! through two years , the earl } ' Ohio ma-j tured eight days before early rose and beauty of Hebron , in 1881 , and eleven : md seventeen days sooner in 1883. En another series of experiments by tf. W. Parcell , tho early Ohio wa ? six lays earlier than Vermont and He- 3ron , and sixteen days earlier than jarly rose. It is now confidently believed that' ; he shipments of wool from New ! South Wales for the statistical year- snding June 30 will show a reduction } n last year's quantity by at least 28- )00 ) bales. There will be a deficiency ilso from Victoria and Queensland ) ut an increase in South Australian ihipments will more than make up fon , so that the total deficiency for air Australia will bo about 20,000 "bales. An attempt is now being made to. t > ore an artesian well on the large > lantation of Messrs. C. J. and J. C , Foster , near Shreveport , La. This is ho first attempt to bore such a well in he Red river valley , and its success , vill prove a matter of decided conse- [ iience to tbe people of that section. , L'he contractor in charge of the works ; ' s confident of success. Another insect pest has appeared in ( Canada in the nature of a small ] vorm , which secretes itself in the , teads of clover , entirely destroying he stalk. The spread of the pe'st is' o rapid that the clover crop through-1 mt the country will bo almost a total ailure. Barn cats should rarely be allowed , o come to the house , and never fed here. All they need is plenty df nilk. Compel them to get the rest of heir living , and they will find it about he barn , granaries cribs , sheds , and The quantity of meat thrown into he Atlantic is greater than most peo- ile imagine. Last year , 4.856 animals rere thrown overboard , 281 were anded dead , and 317 were so much ajured that they had to be killed on anding. Marshal P. Wilder has had the larg- st apple-tree in the country photo- ; raphed. It grows in Chesire , Conn. , 3 60 feet higTi , spreads 100 feet and ields 75 to 110 bushels per year on Iternate sides of the tree. Furs are now preserved from insects a cold storage houses with cheese nd all kinds of food products. Georgia's orchards now hold thq est crop of apples , pears , peaches nd plums in twenty years. Gathered1 at Bandcm From Hiss Bose Eliza beth Cleveland's flew Boofc. J No secret of hydraulics could causo 'a dewdrop to hang upon a roso leaf in a cube. 1 never knew a good man or a good woman who was not practically an op timist. The past is simply humanity. It is thouand I , a vast congregation of. thous and I's. , I / I An acorn in the mind is worth morej than an oak forest at the end of tha tongue. Tho noble soul would choose rather not to be than to be somebody in ) particular. I So fine an irony has history , that that which makes the shnjne of its4 wives makes the glory of its kings. Manners are made in the market where thev are sold , and their buy- mg and selling are mostly uncon- 3C1OUS. No gift can pass between human ! creatures so divine as the giftofrec-j r ognition , for it touches upon the cre ative. To bo dramatic , and at the same time accurate , is a rare combination. . If the one is gift the other is grace. Wo can do no braver or better thingi than to bring our best thoughts to the ) everyday market. They will yield us1 usurious interest ; Milton's sublime audacity of faith" " acretes the ponderous craft of _ his1 verse and keeps it from sinking into ! the abyss of theological pedantry. Our lives are noc laid out in vasti vague prairies , but in definite do-i mestic door yards , within which we ! are to exercise and develope our facul-j ties. i Herein is the significance of sayingj that history repeats itself. It does re- . peat itself , because it repeats its f ac- ' tors the men and women who com- pose it. . i The mother makes tho man , per- ; ' baps ; but tho wife manufactures him. Sometimes tho wife in her manufac-l turo confirms the making of the mother , sometimes counteracts it. Tho born poet has no agony in tho deliverance of his song. Tho uttering ( s to him that soothing balm which tho utterance is to tho reader. It is tho weeping , not the tear wept , that gives relief. The humanity of each of us is liko some ceolian harp constructed by the Master Musician , and laid down ten I derly by Him on the sea shore , where , winds from every quarter play con 'i ' tinuously. Reciprocity , constant and equal , among all His creatures is the plan of the only maker of plans whose plans never fail in the least jot or tittle. Ho has reserved to Himself tho power to give without receiving. . i Human history is nothing but one , ceaseless flow of causo into effect , and , of effect into causo. There is nothing. j but which is consequent You and I1 are but the consequents of a vasti ) i tangle of antecedents in all time be fore. , . You come from one of George , Eliot's poems as from a Turkish bath ( * ! . of latest science and refinement , ap-j preciative of benefit , but so battered , beaten , and disjointed as to need re- . n' ' pose before you can be conscious of , I1 refreshment. In these days of ebb and quick. ( I1I I sand , when agnosticism rears its stono ( 7 wall in front of faith , and writes upon ; it in black letters tho end-all and the1 be-all of all knowing , tho unknow-j able , we have no need to know where , God is to confirm our faith in him. , ' ( An erroneous notion of the Middle } Ages. ) A tunnel of time , 1,000 years ] long , through which humanity ! < rumbled blindly in an emigrant train , ! the last skyrockets of tno Romanj jmpiro flaring up at one end , thej iirst sunbeams of the Renaissance tt shining in at the other and no lighn jetween tho no-account period of } i listory. ; What's in a name ? A rose by any ! ! ) ther name might smell as sweet : butj ' i lily , if rechristened rose , would' icver diffuse the rose's odor , nor gain , ; n addition to its own spotless per- ! I'i ections , tho deep hearted sorcery of ; hat enchanting , crumpled wonder.j vhich wo thrill in touching , as if itj oo , had nerves , and" blood , and ai mnian heart a rose ! ( A picture of Joan of Arc. ) A litx le peasant maiden , doing lowly ser-i rice in tho cottage home at Homremy ; i mail-clad maiden , leading forth hen oldiers from the gates of Orleans ; ( wo faithful feet on" fagots at Rouen ; L radiant face uplifted to the beckon- ng skies ; a crucifix upheld in shriv- ! ilmg , flame-kissed hands ; a wreath of moke for shroud ; a wrack of smoke ! or pall , a heap of ashes , and a fran- : ihised soul ! In this scientific a e this a e of conoclasm it is greatly good for usj o confront things rich , rare , out-of-i he-common-things , above our powerj o comprehend , beyond our power to ! iestroy. It is well for us who are so ! ilind to the rose color in our daily * ives to be forced to acknowledge its ! xistence in the imperishable canvass if history ; well for us , so intensely ) ' " > ractical as we are , to be compelled , here , at least , to confront the ro- nantic and the heroic. ' Tobacco as a Disinfectant "There is a gc'neral impression thafc obacco is a disinfectant , " was said to ] n up-town physician. "If you go ato a place where the air is rank oil iden with obnoxious " vapors , said ; he physician , "tobacco smoke will aid ! ou in escaping any evil results. You rill certainly nnd the air less offensive ven if it is no less rank. But if tho ! obacco itself becomes tainted , or coii- . ! < ains poisonous any substance , vou rill discover that it is r' just as good a ransmitter as anything else. A cigar- older would enable a man to escape a V ood many of the penalties that all mokers Incur , and 1 tried it for a r'J ime. 1 discovered however , that tha older became a nuisance to mv atients , and so I again began smok- ig my cigars in | the old way. " ? ork Sun. J J- Opening of the season uncovering the mu * ird pot Hoa'Mi bulletin.