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 nt .-^t'H^-' w .•»' !. ..{»- »"â- â€¢ ^^du ,.)!:â- â€¢" tV' .^ftp â-  »^ • '^â- ^ ' â-  A LUCKY MISTAKE. "Tcm,' said my father to me, one cold November afternooD, as we stood iathe flag- pave i hill of our old-faEhioned farm-house, •'yon'd bettCT put the little bay mare in the dog-cart and go into Worthington for that saddle. I clean forgot to call fur it yester- day, and as I want yon to po out with the hound* on Stfturday. vou won't have another chaalee oi getting it. TbtA' said my Stalwart, weather-reddened, gray-haired old sire, aa he put on his rough nat and took his thick walking-stick from the stand preparatory to going about the farm. It was about 3 o'clock, and dinner was j ust over for the time of whicfc I spaak was twenty years ago, and the Jarmer had not then learnt to live according to the laws of a fashion unsuited to his income and occu- pation, or lo ape the style and expenditure of his landlord. My father was an old-fash- ioned yeoman, who tilled the land which his great-grandfather had tilled before him, and even had ho Mred in these days, when men of%is type are rare, he would have kept to the old-fashioned ways. I was nothing loth to act upon the parent's suggestion, although it meant a long drive in the biting cold, knd although the return journey would have to be done in the dark, or with very indifferent fnoonlight. We were utterly isolated at the ^^listletoe farm, for we were seven miles from Worthington, our nparest town, and ten miles in the oppo- site direction from the nearest railway sta- tion. My father farmed nearly five hundred acres, some of the landâ€" especially that ly- ing toward Worthington â€" being very poor stuff, and only fit for sheep. There was not even a village near, the laborers lived in cot- tages scattered over the estate, and in the depth of wmter, when there was pnow, or when the floods were out, we were oiten a week at a time and never saw a soul besitles ourselves and our employts. But we always had a good bit of horseflesh in the stable as, indeed, was absolutely ne- cessary, when our only means of communi- cation with the outer world was the road, and when the distances were so great and the roads so bad. The little bay mare that I was going to drive â€" Fly-by-night was â- ^he name we afterwards gave her â€" was a ^jg one of cur own breeding, clever as a cat and docile as a dog. From her infancy she was my play-fellow would come to me when I whistled to her, eat out of my hand or my pocket; and when the time came for I'acking her, there was nothing to be done. She had perfect confidence and trust in us all, and especially in me the cat by the fireside could not be more gentle or more easy to control. If only people would learn that a horse can, by kind treatment and constant association, be made as tame and affection- ate as a household pet, there would be fewer broken bones from back junipers and runa- ways. bhe was a world too good for harness, 1 thought to myself, as 1 led her out of the stable and proceeded to put her to the old- fashione;'., square dog uart, which turned up behind, and looked like ;i mail.cart â€" barring the color, which was a dingy gray. The lit- tle mare was my hunter wheu the hounds were within reaca and my father would let me go and she carried me as gamely, even after twenty miles uf harness the day before as if she was one of the squire's cracks, and went out only once a week. As we trotted quietly down the drive, my father put his head over the hedge and call- ed to me "Maybe the saddle won't be finished," he said, his red face glowing with the cold, his eyes glancing critically at the mare. "If so, you can put up at the Angel and have your tea but don't be later than you can help. Have you got your watch on you " "Yes," 1 said, wondering at the question. "You'd better give it to me," said my fa- ther, stretching his arm over the liedge. "I heard yesterday, at the ordinary, there was a t^entlemati stopped Monday night on the road. You l;aven't got too much money on you, I suppose '"' "^o danger," said I with a laugh, a.s I put my watch and chain into my father's bi^' brown hand. "They won't get much out of me if they try it on." And off v.'e went, turned into a high voaJ, and sped at a quick trot through the gather- ing twilight ill the direction of \V oitidug- ton. It was dark when we reached the out.-^kirts of the little town, and the lights, not very brilliant if tried by modern standards, sparkled cheerfully enough in the windovi's. Past the blacksmith's forge, with the great bellows roaring[and the sparks llyiug from the glowing cinders; past the butcher's, with a goodly diplay cf our best beef past tlie grocer's, where the half-tlozen chiliiren, who were flattening their noses against the panes turned to look at us, and so, clattering over the uneven cobbles of the pavement, to the saddler's shop. The proprietor himself, a staid and portly person, conscious of the im- portance which attaches to his position in a country town, came out and nodded a greet- ing. "A cold night, Mr. Tom/" says he, with a shiver, as the wind took his apron. "I'm not quite ready for you. Your father didn't come in yesterday, so I thought you would not want) the saddle till rext week." "I want it for Saturday," said I, leaning sideways out of the trap. "The hounds are at the coppice, and the little mare and I are going. Can't you do it for me if I put up? ' The saddler thought for a moment. "Ay, I can do that," he said at length. "Will you call in between 6 and 9 und it shall be ready for you." I agreed, shook up the mare, and, a few yards further down, turned in through the narrow gateway of the Angel into the dim, deserted inn-yard. From a single, half-open doorway came a stream of light. A figure issued torth in answer to my summons. "Good evening, Mr. Tom," paid this per- son, approaching and patting the mare's neck. ' 'Hallo, Jack is that you " said I, as I drew the reins through my fingers and alighted, recognizLnp' as I did so, Mr. .Jack Plover, to whom was intrusted the import- ant duty of conveying the Queen's mail-bags from Worthington to the railway town. "You'll have to wrap up warm to-night." "Ay I bitter cold, that it is," answered Jack, undoing the traces. "But law bless me I'm used to it. If only I'd got as £[Ood a thing between my shafts as you have here, I'd think nothing of a se\ enteen-mile drive, I do assure you, sir." "Your old pony isn't to be despised. either," said I, holding up the shaft while Jack drew the mare out. "A new pair of forelegs and sound bellows would improve him, but «X9ept for that " "Weil,' he ian't quite N»im^Hcirt pt Poo- caster, 1 flo confesF," said Ja«l^ leadUng the mare in throiigti the open dobrw'ay and put- ting her in a vacant stall. "But he's good enough for his work. I start early and we take it easy. You won't have the collar off, •ir?" "No," I said. "I am off ag^ in an hour or so. Wfit you hafe a drink. Jack " We c-ossed the yard, passed through » swing door, and found ourselves in the warm cheerful bar, where the bright light maddna wink after the daiiuieaa bataide, and the huge'f re sent a leaping, ruddy. glard on tte red curtains, and a reflection that danced merrily on the trim rows of bottles and glasses. The barmaid, buxom and fresh- colored, smiled a welcome, and rewarded my compliments on her pink ribbons and the roses in her cheeks by "Go along with you," and a couple of glasses of steaming whisky and water. There was only one other occupant of the bar, a stranger to me. He was a man ap- parently verging on forty, buttoned up in a shabby great-coat, aud with his hat slouched over his eyes so that his features were hard to b- discerned. To the saluUtion which I gave him on entering, he made no reply, but with arms folded, gazed fi.xedly on the floor. "My fervice, sir," says Jack, raising his tumbler to his lips and taking off the con- tents at a drauL'ht. "That's the stuft to keep the cold out. Although this is a bit too early. I ought to have waited until 8 o clock, just before I started." "You can have another then, if you like," said I, with a laugh. "Nay, sir," reuiocstrated Jack. "I didn't mean that-. Is the clock right miss ' he in- quired ot the barmaid. "Tlien 1 must be going about my work," he added, receiving an answer in the allirmative. "Good night, sir, and thank you kindly." And Jack Plover, who was a sporting- looking figure with his queen's livery and clean-shaven face, touched hin hat politely and passed through the swing door. The man with the slouchei hat looked up as he left, and, addres-ing nobody in partic- ular, inquired in a har^h, rough voice, with a queer burr in it â- â€¢What time does the post go out here?" "At S o'clook," replied the barmaiil, look- ing at her interrogator with no particular favor "That is the driver of the mail cart who has just left." 'Ho I judged," replied the man, rising, and putting some money on the table, "is that right Good-night to you." And with a heavy, s'.ouching gait, he strode to the door and was gone. After tea in the half-lit coffee-room and a pipe in the bar, with the barmaid to tell me the gossip, I started at about half-past S, called at the saddler's, put my saddle under the seat, and set out for home. As we pass- ed the blacksmith's forge at the end of the street there was a pony being shod, and Mr. Jack Plover, in a big great-coat., was look- ing on at the process. "Cast a shoe, Mr. Tom, and had to turn back," he called out as I passed by. Out into the country, looking doubly black and dismal by contrast with the cheerful light and warmth that we were leaving be- hind with the slanting rain driving full in one's face, so that it dazzled the sicht with gray piles of clouds hurrying overhead; with a veil of mist and darkness blending hurdle and hedge-row, field and tree into a vague, indistinct, gray mass. 'The road is muddy, and, albeit the high-road, in bad condition but the little mare has got her head home- ward, and pulls her hardest toward a warm stable and well- stocked rack and the society ot heavy Dobbin and his brethren. Not that my little h inter is to be permitted to pull lierself to pieces through ruts and over ill- laid stones, for there is Saturday in pros- pect, and, with the country in this state, we shall want the very last ounce. Now we are climbing a hill, and, anon, we are on the top, and the rain and the wind beat savage- ly upon us and the prospect on cither hand is dreary enough. Now steadily down the siieddiiig ground, with a tight rein and a careful lookout for loose stones; for Ihis is deep descent, aud one false step may take £20 off the little mare's value. The banks are high, at all events, so tliere is some shelter, and down at the bottom there arc trees on either hand. It was pitch dark in tliis hollow, but I let the mare out at the bottom of the hill and gave licr her liead. Suddenly-, w ith a loud snort, she swerved violently, ran the wheel of the trap into a heap of wayside stones, put there to mend the road; and in a second we were over. I went out, of course, and the driving-box, the saddle, uud a debris of miscellanccis ar- ticles after mo. I landed partly on my shoulder, partly on my head, and was up again in a, moment, although a bit dazed. Tlie moment I gained my feet I was seized by the collar, and a harsh voice exclaimed-- not to me, but to someone else "Hold his head down â€" hold his head down " A dusky form sprang to the mare's head and kept her from attempting to rise. A third form knelt on the trap. "By Jove " exclaimed this last fellow in an angry tone, "we've got the wrong man!" "What?" said he, who had hold cf my collar. "Do you mean to say it isn't the " With a volley of oaths, the other replied in the negative. The man who had hold of me released me and joined the other. They whispered together lor a few seconds. Then the first one came back to me and said, with a fine pretense of indifference "Nasty accident, sir But it might have been worse. It's lucky wo were at hand to help you. ' "I don't know about that," 1 replied, with no small acrimony, "for my hcrse shied at one of you. She never did it in her life before. You'll oblige me by helping to get her out,' In a twinkling we had the harness un- done, and the mare, with a flounder and stagger, was on her feet, and shook herself in a disgusted fashion. The men said no- thing, but obeyed my directions. Luckily nothing was broken the mare had rubbed a little hair off her, as well as I could tell, but her knees yvere all right. In seven or eight minutes from the time we went over, so quickly did it all happen, I was in my seat again, ready to start. My assailants, or assistants, whichever they were, made no opposition, and seemed only anxious to get rid of me th°y dis- patched me without a word, and 1 was a mile on my road before I fuUy leahzed what kkd happened. As is alwaf*the case in an accident. I couH »ftafy i^?J,.'«-haV *f *i place immediatriy yiota adtlmmediately after, and for that very reason the words ut- tered by the n.en were more vividly impress- ed on my memory. What did they mean It flarfied into ray mind' like a revelation. They had been Hdslea by the shape of my trap wtuob.as I «dd,was= square behind, and looked like a mail-cart, while the dark- uess was too jiieat in their place of- ambus- cade for tiiem to ree the color. The time of my arrival was about that of the mail, had i»t Jack Plover been obliged to turn back and the oarefal pace at^ which I had come down the hill accorded very well with the steady movements of Jack's nag. And the voice? I had heard it somewhere latelyâ€" the man in the Angel bar. who ask- ed, too, the time when the mail left. There was no doubt of the men's purpose. How to prevent it » How to warn Jack in time There was no road back but the one by which I had come, unless I made a detour of several miles. Neither was there a house near, whence to get assistance. I pulled up and thought it out. A bruise on my right arm suggested something. I had fallen on my left side, and this bruise was caused by the saddle tumbling after me. I made up my mind at once. Turning in through the first gate I came to, 1 droveoverthcturftoacorntr of the field where there was a group of trees. Here I took the mare out put the trap under the elms, ^nd turned the cushions took off all the harness but the bridle, aud saddled her. Luckily the bridle had no blinkers. I wound the long reins round and round my arm, mounted, and, thanking Providence for my knowledge of the country, rode at the nearest fence. There yvas a faint moonlight to help us, but it was terribly dark. Sly heart was in my mouth as we went at the fence, which was a big upstanding one, but I knew there was no ditch on the taking-off side, and I gave the little mare the word at the right moment. She jumped clean from under me, and landed me on the crupper. I never shall forget that leap If there had been anyone to ste it I could have sold her almost for her weight in gold. We were half way across the next field be- fore I had regained my seat properly, and then the mad exhilaration of tue thins: took possessicn of the both of us. There was a flight of hurdiea next which v.e took in our strides. Then a bank and a close cropped hedge that stood up, black as Erebui, against the gray of the ught which we jumped as though it were twice its height, 'iheu a flock of frightened sheep went scurrying away into the darkness. It yvas all turf, and, for the first time, I blessed the poverty of the land that made it worthless to plough. A dozen fences negotiat- ed in the same mad fashion bi ought us into a field that skirted the road aud here we were pounded. There was a big bull-finch into tne road, with a deep drop. To go on, parallel with the road vi-as impossible, for there yvas a made-up bank yvith a cropped hedge, full of stakes, and a deep drain as I knew, ran on either side. I rode up and down by the bull-finch in despair. Was all my trouble to be in vain At last I made up my mind, and rode, not too last, at the great, towering, straggling hedge. I put my arm across my lace, shut my eyes, into it we went, and out of it, with a scramble and a flounder, we came â€" sepa- rately. The bull-finch merely brushed me out of the saddle, and the mare and I drop- ped side by side into the road, both of us on our legs. Before I had time to remount, I heard the sound of approaching -.vheels, and a man whistling merrily, "Pull up. Jack " I called out. Jack's whistle ceased, and a more aston- ished countenance I never beheld than the one which looked down from the mail-cart. In half an hour the constable aud I yvere seated very uncomfortably on the back of the mail-cart, and driving along as fast as Jack's pony could be induced to go. Our only fear yvas lest the fellows should have got tired ot yvaiting, for it yvas quite an hour and a half later than the time when the mail should have passed them. Down the hill yve went, our hearts thumping away with excitement, not to mention the difficulty ot holding on, and Jack performing "My Pretty Jane" ^^ith exquisite variations. Well, to cut my story short, we got one of them. The constable, in hi.s eagerness, jumped down directly the first mau had seiaed the horse's head, and the other two fellows made off. We got the right gentle- man, thoughâ€" the identical fellow who had been in the Angel bar, and whose voice I had. recocrnized. He was tried at the assizes, and, two other convictions being proved against him, yvas sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. I went out with the hounds on Saturday and my little mare was the heroine of the hour. The squire himself came up to me and after complimenting us both oa our achievement, said i "What do you call her " "Well, squire," I repled, "we haven't given her a name yet." "Call her Little Fly-by-night," said he. And that s how she got her name. Everybody wonders why the French should be to bent on annexing Tonquin ihey are not born merchants, as the Eug. hsh are, and will never transform Tonquiu mto a trading centre. They will simply im- port and sell cheap perfumery, and photo- graphs, cosmetics, and hair oil in fancy bottles. T here is no cason why the French should go there. It is true that in M^un one of ^i'T'^r" Tonquin is described^ one of the inest countries m the East forpon- ulation, ertility, and trade but asreg^^s that, though they are dexterous, active and ingenious, " they have more apTitud; for imitation than invention." Thev bv^ m houses built of mud, or "hurdKaub ed over with clay." The countr^ is 4^ miles m length and 380 in breaS S trench possess the neighbormg colony of nof^n; "" '"â- Â°?" be considered a/im! portaat commercial emporium. Most Ori entals are born merchants they are a ways bartering and bargaining. It needs herefore. people akin to the nation of hopkeepers to compete with them Ifter he Americans and British the Germans ollow by a long distance and at a s^m longer one the French. "" The Present Condition f ^grv^ Mr. Villiers SCaarii a member .Off tje British House ot Commons, ^^ ^^" *S! ago appointed by t^e »ome G«Y^"»'gf°|^ i»ke a thorough aiid «^'"»*'^-«,"fl»^. into the social ^^^ P"""^K?^'\i""t^^ KrfVi. His repost has recently been pre- feSl, by comniaud of the Qirteu, .«. both Home; of Parliament. A mteful pef«»al^ the report enables one to judge "jore fttWr of the importance of the task whiob Mr. Stuart ODdertook knd carried ^uut so well HiMTinrf been a/reqaeut visitor to LffiJ^pt and beinfi an accomplished student of the history and literature of that ancient andic^terestin.^ conntry, Mr. Stnart wm welUnalified to perforfft the duties which he assumed during, his late tour of inspection through the Delta 1 of. the Nile and Upper Egypt. A. already atfaid. â-  he visitedall *»e pronnoeB of the Delta from December, IS82, until Marph last, and examined 44 witnesses and jjronps of witnesses in 26 different villages and com- munes. He then returned to Ujjper Egypt, where he held 35 separate inquiries, and ex- amined a great number of persons of all classes. His observations show that he has obtained a clear insigl-t into the social con- dition of the people. The provincial in habitants of the Delta, he informs us yvith- out hesitation, are favorable to the English, and are prepared to welcome reforms at their hands. That such reforms are urgenU 'y needed is manifest from facts which show how corrupt, venal, and oppressive is the system of local administi-ation. The people wished success to Arabi, bee-use he had pro- mised to cancel the village debts, and to banish the usurers. The latter are THK MODERN PLAGUES OF KGYPT, bringing in their train all the desolating effects of the plagues of old. The agricul. tural condition of the people contrasts favorably with that of the English farmer. If they had not their " gombeen men " to fl^ce them, they ought to lie prosperous and contented. Cotton can be grown any- where in the Delta, and is yvorth from £15 to £20 an acre, and the aftercrop of wheat, worth £5, can be grown in the same ground. In the following season the land would be cropped with green crops, eaten off by sheep and other live stock then by the maize or dourra, and then by wheat, the three crops within the year being worth from £12 to £14. Beans, lentils, and other leguminous crops are also grown. On an average the crops of the fellah are worth £16 a year, while the English farmer's best crop of wheat is only worth £12. The fellah's land tax, which is, in fact, his rent, is not more than .£1 13s. an acre, while the English farmer's is from £2 to £2 IDs., and he haa very heavy taxes to pay besides. Irrigation is carried on from the Nile by waterwheels or steam power. A 10 horse power steam engine suffices for 100 acres for the season, and the farmers club together for one when they cannot afford to have one for a single farm. They hire then nut also to their neighbors at from 1(3 5. t' £1 an acre for each watering. If they were not burdened with local debts they woukl improve their lauds still more. They are paying a ruinous rate of interest, from 42 to 6.3 per cent, per an- num, and even as exorbitant as from 100 to 120 per cent, per annum. It is suggested thit the Government should make advances at a low rate of interest to pay off their debts. Every landowner up to 100 acres is liable to forced labor for the Government, for which no remuneration whatever is given, and the hardship of thi.s is aggravated by the practice of sending the laborers to distant parts of the country. Mr. Stuart think.s that the land is yvell able to pay the land tax, but the fellahs complain of a tax on date palms and on sheep. An erroneous impression has prevailed that the taxation of Egypt was increased in order to support the extravagance of the late Kiiedive, but this is not correct. The present .scale of taxation was established before the b;'gin- ning of the reign. As to the administration of justice iu the native courts, it i-' he sa\ s, -\ " Fiuriii; OF '-^PEjxii." The decisions are sold to the highest 'uidiier. The ni;xfd ti'ibuiialsoi' natives and foreigners are yvors^u. T.'icy are mide instrumental ir perpetrating the grossest e.xtortion and fraud. Natives who obtain consular ap- pjintmeuts claim the priviK'ge of having cases tried by these tribunals, and ai\- thus enable -I to make them the means of dt-fraud- :ing their neighbors. The Greeks are the grea'est extortioners amongst foreJL'ners. The punishments too are barbarous." The use of the " courbash "â€"a whip m.idc of the hide of the hippopotamusâ€" and of the stick has increased since tl:e rebellion, aud persons have been bastinadoed in order to make them confess matters of which they knew nothing. Venality and corruption are s) universal that nothing but the strong hand of foreign intervention can eradica"te the abuses. One of the effects of giving power to the mixed tribunals is that the law which enacted that a fellah could not be dispos- sessed of his land yvithout his consent h:w been set aside, and now the Greeks and other money-lenders, who have accumulated a load of debt upon them by extortionate interest, have got hold of their lands and driven them out. This grievance was at the root of the discontent which helped to recruit Arab! H ranks. In Upper Egypt the popula- tion 18 pauperised to such an extent that they are unable to cultivate the land proper- ly, and are living at the point of starvation 1 he consequence of one single low Nile would be a famine. Their condition con- trasts with that of the thriving population of the Delto. Their destitution is owiig amongst other causes, to arbitrary confitca tion ot their lands during the late reign, MKRCILE.S.S RACK-REXTIXG, froml^^"'""' ""l"'" Withdraws tiic hands from their own lands, and the borrowin- of money at extravagant interest. Mr. HtSart offers a series of practical suggestions to in- crease the productiveness of the land, estab- ibuse ""Tn \T^"' \^^ """' *^« 'Obvious t? th. f f PP^'r ^°3Tt. Arabi appealed Uon butThfJ'"' °^ '" Mahometan ^pula- *h?r«nr y^" """ undeceived afto his character, and proclaim him an impo3t.r ihe London Standard, in conimentina lou this report, doubts whether Lord DufT -in^fl'pt-as the Drjftfliie enemi of thf pfcpulatbu'.- 'v^^thi/"*-' tfeert 'any material ber««?' *iili thent for this outrage on ffc"^^ tf retoncile them t, onr!:*'"5' fase to assume Eiitiicient^""'":e.'ft' enable ua to do the peopU^P'^^^ini' upon succe ur^r^'" '^«y '^^ possibT^be pJ^UrS;, W^ DufiSL-^e: o eX"^^^v^^u*"' ^^^^«*^y tSnrhim to Egypt any higher than it was before ha lSr^\Z:""' ' "" adde^to his 'own coltfd^nrv-^fThrfiLlJry^^t^^^ follow us, and a second T^^^'K to follow in the steps 0: tlu «' *°"»it be too explicitly, stated 7 "'â-  Itl ed, that from thedavu-h.. °^"«a- artny out of Tel-el Kew"Si Tewfik back to Cairo we hL'",^ «» ly^nothing for the genut^'^^^eaL practical reorganization f^*r"'»*!j troops are there, aud oueht ..u'^P^ no real use is being madeofa"^. We are adding to'the t!lVp.-« without preparing for them "" 1 tiJie in exchange. J fwl j How a PaatliTr**j'a^r^;^; While the African 1;.. '%A competitors in ther has no rival 1 «th, IVlug, """^^ ti«r' '" iiJiilil stick, beginning to dcsJenJ on the cpp:; side when the lest iinpeius is i;ivenl.j hind feet, antl th-; Looy aiijhti gedy i rose, seeniiug without weigiir, caucc?:::::! the ^i'sturhance o: a Ic;.!. TOPICS FOR 'WCMES, A nvi'Man' -r.vNV nyiZ. What a l'!i.-.ssinj.' tu .i .â- i'y.i'.-!!o!u:t-:;: cr.cerl ul ^^^o:;).l;l â€" â-  â- â-  -.iLo-o spi.'its s:: aifL-eied by \i-ct. d. ;. cr lit:.c liisapj: ments, or wIiom- i,!.:;. ..'f hv.nVA 'ivâ€" does not sour 111 til-- -uushine 0: p'Oip-K Such ;i woinau in tiiv darkest iioiirbr:::: tiie !]â-  i.sij M; .â-  ;.:;!o pio:i; 0: s-j^--! weather. Tne inajnili-:.' cf i;cr sii-t:--^ elecriccl britihtiie^s 0; ::â- ..â-  ii)';? ai'.i nieuts, r.. :t e-,er/ uiU' ine cvsc to school witii a sense vf :inct:!;aj-" be achieved, and !i ;-! ccei a" â- - M'orld in a ciiciticior's spirit. ^J'â- 'â- ^ how people worry hini, i.ir c;: r.er 'p-- shines, and he wiiisp to i.:::.- â-  home 1 shall liud rc~t.' No young lady sr.uual h^ wiliingt);" wiielv rcfp^usii'ilitioj cr obligatiu:-^ â-  she is fully capable 0: taking char:; :| house. Some s-:u3iljlc pe^^ m iias sai â- -! household occupations .-ue in theffisS" intellectual and nior.il e.vorcise 0; n?^- importance, after which any lady haseE-" surplus time for books and the arto. We fully endorse the sentiment, ari t^ the improvement in our femile co-'fi^ many of which boast a wholesome ii«.i*1 ment of domestic economy. '-r In the marriage outfit ol theeMej-S'-i ter, how muny a mother lias been iw* the sacrifice of her own personal eas^^^ comfort in giv'ug up her old "i^f.^^t cook to relieve the young "'f"'=^^.M \tf| den of embarrassment and *â- ""' j^jil would otherwise fall rion her «"'â-  I siTouldersrBuTeveu with this aJ"^^ J auxiliary (now almost o.'salete since " I tinction ot slavery), there will l^^ "P^jj-jjl minor cares, duties and "'^â- ^""l " jistnJl a sacrifice of tune and ca.-.e that tW ^J may not be willing at all times to)' » mnrmuringly. iwi!""" Be she ever so happily '"""°"" i.jirjsil enviable faculty of taking ^^^'^p "|iiapi4 patiently, ever estiiuitiug little .pjij their full cost and n. more, she ^^^\ find her position one of trial ^^ • -jjeS'l ment. There mus t bo a regular ana^-^ ^^1 method in everything if thrill, ^^,,1 neatness prevail. It is iu ^i*'" trr^| early rising, and ecouoniy iQ P 'i ^1 cuisine, if the mistress be "°P""jjsioir" extravagant, and servants are ne\ ^^.^^ learning that she docs not practi teaches. -^^ inot-'l Let no young housckneperae-p .^ji trial activity ajid a pnrsonal «^ ^^««; all the rules instituted for the g^i ^^ fare of her establishment. -^"' '^^.^-r,^ until then, will wo see co\v..orh and prospentj-. --5. "H A gentleman cf truth and -..,,. to me "I was in Canada i-nm ' "•â- - beyond the St. LawrenctlnTy"" family Where I was stopi^S?' against a pile ot board, or iuU" °" or freeze, as is customarv a (the Indian name in New p'asi, ""*« the meat in the wood« close'h.- ' ' in the night to get a piece. £ i" the quarter of beef he upset x^T' of lumber which came uovvu ^^' noise, and he "lade turc-e treme from the spot. I saw tlie '1""' snow; there was not a mark bnu-i' I did not measure the ,listance J v a man did, and, I i,e],e-,-e, correc-i first jump was up hiil, thirty feet horizontal, to a lan.-t lock fi'tyt ** the third, dou-n Ii.li; ^c.ent'ytiv fer ' A leap of thirty ;eotperF.nuie,^;., branch of a tree 01- a forty-foot pC:; a fatal shot, and tailing dead aCV. hunter s feet, have bt-ea repeated " veracity 13 not questioned, andaiter all possible allowance we must a-knor there la not a creature livin-, ^03^" compares with it. "" The question then comes up iio^ ,. superiority over other animals a-t" The key to the above question wesaaT in the coiled wire spring. This «- pressed down on a b.tse aud liberated" ahead further than anv otaer-io-in.' reason is very simple. j-Ivery movcc. substance must start from a Lw moved by an outside force. Thefoiirj sprilig, wiien pressed ddKn, hecom»3i'i Its entire length. Wiieu let loose 'ik' turn jumps from its base, which L t;" cond the s.coud adds its force totiie" jumping from the tliird, and foiusra to the last, which adds its furoe aite. whole coil IS ilyiui' iruij^the outside Ie all. And this is precisely tlie case;: panther's leap. 1 he forties's and kd shot forward from the shoulders, tliepn ful muscles of the back stroigatentiif':: of the spinal columns from tne hips, v- the great posterior muscles tnroja Achilles tendon aud over the I'Mik' in the animal econoniy, add the lasting to a body already siiooticg ahead ;i: arrow. The serpentine tie.'cihilityiiiiri fully illustrate-d .n the nieDii;trie vrae: keeper thrusts his stick across the caiei orders Felis to jump ovtr it. TheiieJii-^^ shoulders rise and griceliiUy curve oferi^J^"' ° ^Y J0LIET CORSON, Oftxne and Poultry n the general rule hold "**« the most wholesor it in animal flesh use Joce symptous of ui I**",-, often eaten in "decomposition without I- ,vtotheepicuic. Mi ^% meat which has ?^ium summer tempe '^oF, for three or 'the development at tha *5^ganism, termed by tS^rio. Thisparasit, *in other meats thar Lit*, i' ^°^ destroyed 'salting and smoking mo .brine- There is no r t the flesh cf game is .Dceof this natural pr â- tion ^Vhen meats con '-tly "cooked, their cons "trie disturbance, so ^It. As game is ^enf ,d the action cf :ntcn P the septic influence of 1 iristison suggested the do with the impunity es could consume high ly has with those savag tfii fish and flesh but 1 ct that the use of game I, to please a gourmand itestinal disturbance wit med to eat it; Dr. Let ith some the slightes )i decay is suificici.t to c absolute physical deran; "a piquant touch of de â- nt in ripe cheese and 1 ' jctionable. Ccrtainh illy eaten at a point of d )uld be rejected, and lo; also favored. Seve J authorities consider lizes the eff'ect of decc 3 a considerable extent, jtic properties of the jrther counteract it. C shun the decayed fish sc those savages "adva: â- on says, "in the culti lent of gastronomy.' e considered this rathe at length with the hc] B ordered for an invaliu induced to supply i ,c, As a rule th.e fiesli c bnd tough than that cf 1 jso that there is not the fcping it in order to let it the first action ci d •iSalso more dirrcstible t! I and for that reason in r. Its coinparalive Ireei J it relatively mr.ro nut tense flavor is tempting "-J the taste of the desn nearly identical, tlie carefully preserved in ison is the most di^es and the best known, a and antelope are hi^; le sections of the countr Amor.g the sr.;a;l rrcls are both dige-/. hares have a ikul;L: ire less dii^estible uiies: ire highly flavoredi ar em, tiius Uiore near sr'i-incat. As no lar^e receipts a.'o giv' ne bird J when r.rtp ire more digestible tha: i their fat eithcrlies clo [lost in^ cocking, cr is festines of the larger vi oirds contain less blood 1 I and arc thus more delie: ^ey are not for this reas. large game birds are m' .than domestic fowl, brming element.s but tl fcitnre of their flesh mal peep them longer before which may be cooke *^. While the '.c^'i c nd poultry is mere di that of animals. Nphates, a;:d thcrefoic nor nervous iuva!ii: );rds is more digestible because less der.-e. 3f_the comparative ab-- ptively more cconon.;.' I more available fool in The flesh of the l^u Nerest, aud that of ti.e j^'gWy flavored. In I, the land birds are figestible than water- 'o i Mless the latter are i « breast of wild watci â- 18 best when fresh.. M»vor of snipe, plov i ncher than that of qi [Dutboth the latter are Mecbant of their abun. riirto meat. I'rairie pare darker in flesh. .^ Fbirds should be we phed ones may be ser â- ^itrred. This is notal 1 canvas-back ducks py cooked by roasting f: V-nve minutes, fgnne birds in season d 2 " follows ISIayâ€" ar«6dbirds, and wild ec [Julw affords the same ' ^^^sh pheasants. " MMi pigeons are t: [V ' on sale are rt frige toin^"® Virginia reed- ii^S*' '^o?d«ck in al l **Ud squabs, pigi ^pime birds are ^j.^* feathers being \wP^ with a we ^[{_ but never wa p^hout any stuffing „? oranges sliced, j nalL u '^^"^^ gamis fcf tnTl ^^^^ 'e either |do2!?\r'*hont being fJS^^ back or tr, "^.P/ Oami birds ai nnw -f„ all cDxept