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BK CONTENT. ' IT WHITTI I. II may not b our lot to wield Tl wclri in tlia rijjened fild; ; Nor unn to bear on autnnier ve ' TU ruftjier! aong tinong tlx ahevei. Yet hem our duty' task ii wrought ' la uniwn with Ood'a great thought, Tht war ami future hlnad in one, A ad wtutarw'er ii willed is done. And our the grateful aorvioa whonoa rvmM. itav b div. the reoouinenaei Tha hope, the trut, the purpose eUyed, T' MiMftin ana me noonaaj aueuo. And were thlelife ths utmoit ipau, The only end and aim of nmn, Better tba toil of fioldi like the Than waking drcarui and ilothful oaae. But life, though falling like our grain, : Like that revive and ipringt again; ' And.evly called, how blutt ara they Who wait in hven their harveat day I . I - ' -.5 Bupiratitiun in India. .,,. There is scarcely any country in tho world to blinded by superstition oh in dia. Tie wind of a Hindoo is tinctured to such an extent with tho conviction of a snnernatural agency directing his everj step, whether for good or for ovil, that each moment almost of his lifo ho look for aome ouion indicating approval or ditxrmrovftl of what ho might at Another Ireland. the other, it ia bolioved an onion that the i. UP.,... I I l. really meditate a Journey, Lo allow the Nobody connecU the aturJy Boe, hoe to remain in that position; if not who are just now whipping the British he put thou straight and ia supposed forc(,, j tho Transvaal and silencing thu to prevent his journey. A person ....tiiinrr narks with riflo bullet, with meeting a severe low or gotting into ,ntLing like the misery of Ireland, tome tronble ia often known to attribute yom9 0f tho moat distinguished British hi misfortune to having soen some un- tidier ard aome English statesmen and lucky face in the morning, ench a that jtors icuk out plainly enough, and of an oilman or a man of notoriously bad cau tua Uoer' revolt by its right name, a character, or one who has aome bodily Wflr 0f independence, and a righteous deformity. A person blind of one eye WSr in this viow. But it take a broad is considered exceptionally unlucky, and vew jo put certain thing together and is avoidod by all in the morning or when jo gl0W that the policy of England ha a journey is about to be undertaken. iM,on( j thi Wuolo South African affair, Among othor bd omens may be men- ppy an eviction of rightful govern- tionod a snake or jackal crossing one' ment to place barren acoptrei in un- path;hcaringaperoncry when you are jjDeai hand. The last in tlie serios going any whore; the cawing of a crow wa the turning out of the Ooternment and the crying of a kite; a cat cross- 0f the Transvaal and flying the British log one'a path and the aceing an flag over tho Dutch State by a pretended empty pitcher. It is strange as compar- trausfer. The first was an actual eviction od with the bad there are but few good 0f tho Dutch settlors fiom Cup Colony omen. Among tnose may ue menuoneu jtafllf and from other stations, Iheso the following: The meeting of a dead body being carried away and no one cry ing with it; seeing a pitebor with a rope attached to it, or a Brahman carrying a jug of holy water from the Oangoa; a lizard trooping nn one'a body; hearing a bridu cry when alio is leaving her par ent and going to live with her husband; thrifty, poacoablo pooplo have been com pelled to move on and out, preciiely as a blanket Indian has to "got up snd got" beforo tho polished revolver 01 me lunti grabbcr; and if tho strong Dut'! settlors haveneithor died out by whisky ana small-pox, nor starved out on potatoes and typhus ii tnoy noi.i tneir own as noitlmr Indians nor Irish have been hearing the boll of a temple strike or a i -- i ...i. i.. , . I . . ... t . i tl.e time bo engaged in. or be about to ' " "u able to do, there is something Kinarxaoie ,vw rin & lriii niiiv - m. itiiw iiiri' 11411 mi m. iikii.ii i i . - -- .1 ai. . 1 m u-nii a a An auspicious niomont is rrr i V-." 7t. "-.": in 1110 connirjauu iuoji"io "-" . engage 111. chosen foe tho performance of ovory im nortant duty in life, and in reference to then occurrences, beyond the control of niau.Hteps are instantly taken to ascertain whether thoy are likely to prove lucky or unlucky; if the lulter, such measures are adopted bv way of propitiutory sac riilce to tho god as may oporato to avert tho impending evil. No sooner is a aon tiorn than the uruiimun, wno is mo family priest, draws np Jus horoscope and is ablo to announce whether tho path in life of the child will be smooth and unruffled, or if bo is destined to a rough and stormy future. When ho ho reached a marriageable ago, the Brah- mans again appear on tho see no anil aro Bskod to fix an anapicious day, nay, even tho hour and minute when tno nuptial knot is to be tied; and should, through aomo mischance, that particular moment bo allowed to pas away without tho ceremony being informed, the inurriugo lias to be put oil till some propitious day, that 1ms subsequently to be Died upon, and which in some cases might not occnr for a year or two body floating down the river, and a fox crossing ono a path. I A. n. in Jour nal of Indian Association. rerlodlcal Falls lu Temperature. bis death a man cannot bo aecuro from being mode Die victim to omens, for when that evont does happen, tho priosts are at work to ascortain wuethor tho day he diod was favorable to his happiness horouftor or othorwise, and according ns thoy ducido are regulated tho oeromouies to bo iieriormoit ami mo aucri lice to bo offered for tho ' rcleoHO of hia soul from pur- . gatory. But it is not in important event of his life only that a Hindoo will Four epoch in tho year are remark ablo for a full in the temjieratnro, and atmospheric perturbations caused there by, viz.: About the lztu ol rebruary, tho 12th of May, the 12th o' August and the 12th of November. The periodical cold of the month of May is a popular tradition. Horticul turists term Ht. Mamest, Ht. Fancrusand Ht. Hervais, whose anniversaries are on the 11th, 12th ond 13th of May, tho three "ico-Bnints." In February thcro are the aamo indi cations, but thoy aro more marked. Tho fall after tho 7th of February is very sudden, ami continue to the 12th, which gives but a ample minimum even in the middle of the ico-saiuts of Febru ary. A rebruary with us represents northern climates, everything will be extromo, tho rise as well as tho fall : iu Even after August, on tho other hand, which givos usuniileaof the tropical climates, the changes aro lcsn sudden, and the slight movement corresponding to that of tho 10th to the 1 tth of May, or in another form of the August ico-aaints, coutinuos until tho 10th. In November, as in Ancust. tho do- clino of the tomperature is aocn to bo struggling against lntluences which tond to ou abnormal latum of heat; the points of inflection correspond precisely to thnH4i of thn iillinr tlirnu mmitlm nml look forward to and bo guided by omens; one of tho Inst of them produces, on the it is huuentublo to notice tho extent to 14th, tho Martinmas suiuuior. which, in tho ordinary affairs of every day lifo, he allows this superstitious be lief to gain an oscondoney over him. Ho will not nndortake a journey unices on an auspioious day, and oven after ho has onco stTcd ho will perhaps return, hav ing on The road perceived somo omen that b9ournoy will nut bo prosperous Tho careful examination of a large number of years shows that at London ami Berlin, as at Furis, there is a cer tain agroemeut between the four days of tho sumo dato, as exhibited in thoir mean temperatures. M. Devilie ascer tained that these curious periods are to bo loumi in the most ancient of known inlhe iuntico of thoir cuuse. In tho first placo the inevitable con llict and dissatisfaction and friction with the British occnimnt of.bouth Africa which these Boers have kept up now for forty-fivo years, shows that it is not only Ireland that get into constitutional op position with Downing street and British headquarters and that it is something more than a difference of religion and chronic hatred that is the mutter. Il tho socond uluco it is not only Irish poverty. the failure of tbo potato crops, and tho water logged soil of Ireland, that rakes it people rebellious; lor the ciimineanu soil and material prosperty of those South Amorican Colonies are wonderful, vot still there is war. As Colonel Butler romarks in the last "Contemporary Ito view," if South American rivors do not yield a continuous water supply to tuo countries in which they lio, nor the Drakensberg a permoneut water-sited, there is a never-faihug out now of blood shed to mako un for it. For fortv-flve years tho Dnteh have boon "evicted" from ono settlement af ter another, and tho foot that ah ofilcer, of the British Army has tho courage to number thoso "rack-rents,', ami to put the blamo whore it belongs, should help ns to sco the mixed Transvaal mutters as they roally are. In 1835 them was a "trek." or emigration of a large buniber of Boers from tho Capo IJolony, ovor the unoxplorod territory across tho JOrango lliver to tho north and cast. Tjiey did not fancy British rnlo, so they sild out thoir farms and houses, went f aim tho onco Dutch Colony, and started (jut into the wilderness. Then they issuoda part ing adrens, which rnn thus: "Wo quit this colony under the full assurait-e that the English Government has liithing more to require of us, and will allow ns to govern ourselves without its inter ference in the future." Tho Attprney Genorul of the Capo Colony Bummed up that they had, as emigrants, a right Lexington. The anoestry of this partio ular section of the South African Dutch is interesting. They ooniu from another great "trek" or emi'ration in Europe. There sailod from Holland in four ships to South Africa, 150 Frenoh Huguenots, exiled by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. They intermarried amoug the Dutch at CaH Colony, but aome of the prominent Boer of the African revolu tionary war bear tho old French names. To-day a Joubert is the moving spirit of the Transvaal war. Philadelphia Ledger. TTliat the HryaB,, Means. We have to inquire into tho meaning of the word Aryan, and this is not a diffi cult matter, or ono about which there is much question. In Kunskrit the word arya, with a short initial a, is applied to cultivators of the soil, and it would seem to bo connected etymologically with tho Latin araro and the i.nguxii ear to plow." As men who huvo risen to au ag ricultural stage t civilization, tho Ary ans might.no doubt, fairly contratt the in selves with tho nomudio Turanian noigh 'bors. who. as Huns, Tartars, and Turks, have at different times disturbed the Indo-European world. But for tho real source of the word as applied to tho nice we mnst look further.' Tho word avra, a cultivator of the soil, camo naturally enough in Sanskrit to moan a house bolder or landholder, and hence it is not s'rauge that we find it reoccmiing, with a long initial a, as.un adjective, meaniug "noble," or "of good fuuiily." As a national appollutivo whether it is in the Sanskrit, or in Zend this initial a ia always long, and there can be no doubt that tho Aryans gave themselves this title ns being the uoblo, aristocratic or ruling raco, iu contradi3 Unction to tho uboriginnl races which they brought into scrvitmle. In this sense of noblo, the word frequently oc curs in the composition of rorsiun proper names, such as Ariohurzam s, Ariuruuincs and Ariarathes; just as Old English we huvo an equivalent word ethel, or noble, in such uatues us Etlx-l- wolf uud Lthelrcd. As an tthnic mine. therefore, tho name Aryan seems to have a tiugo of patriotic or clannish self-satisfaction about it. But we shall find, I think, that such a shade of meaning has been more than justiiiod by luutory, for we have now reached a point where wo may profitably eulargo tno scope of our discussion, and show how the term Aryan is properly npplieablo.not merely over an lndo-Perxian, but over an Indo European area, comprehending tho most dominant races known to history the Greeks and Romans, Slaves ana Teu tons, with the highly composite English, whose language and civilization are now spreading themselves with unexampled rapidity over all the hitherto unoccupied regions of the earth. robruary Atlantic. Garfield's Mother. The Romance of the Tern;. Every mother should read a recently . .. J r .l ;.l.l 'IVnm the England's Latest War. Belief fu onions has so firml'v implanted meteorological documents; for instance, go away and bo no longer British sub ltaoir m the mum ol a Hindoo a to ro Hist every attempt to root out by nrgu mont the folly of this hi great weakness. nnd I have noticed with much surprino that, though a man has relinquished tho religion of his fathor as being luluo and puerile, his faith iu onions has remained unchauml, or, rather, It has taken such strong Cold of him that frequently, in spite ol hlmseu, lio is Inllueliecd by them. And more astonishing still is the fact that Mahometans, though they pro foss to have a oontenipt for Hindoo su perstitious, nro, in this rospect, in no way superior to tho lattor, liavmg as im plicit a faith in thoso ridiculous prognos tications as thoso whose religion thoy affect to despise. I shall now con cisely notice a few omens which uro till very commonly buliovod in. Should in the observations of the pupils of Gal iloo and of tho Academy of Cimento. Thoso observations extend over fifteen years ,(lb.)3-lU7U). The minimum of the ico-saiuts is found to occur on tho 12th with a remarkablo regularity. vermin astronomers, juruian nnd l'etit among the number, have attributed these friuorifle tihonomcna to niiuuu nf asteroids, 'which in thoir orbit some times comna betweeu the sun nud eurth. Camilla Flummarion. Bosslul's lllystlc Tfutcli. The following Rossini anecdote is do ing tho rounds ol tho foreign press: In tho year IH'X) King Louis l'hilitio . i . ... presented uossiui with a magnilicout ro- neater, which tho luttur un OYtrnmnlv a person about to undertake a journev or proud of, and carried in his right waist- commonco any work, hoar another coat pocket every day for six years. Oue sucezo, no win consider u a good or tiiut aiternoon, as lie was showing? it to some , omen, according as the latter hut sneezed I acquaintance in the Cafe Helder, a once or twice. If once only, ho w ill do- straugo goutleiuau walked up to tho tublo lay His departure lor a lew minutes or at winch ho was sitting, and addressed put off his work till somo other day. So him with tho words, "M. Honshu, you strongly and so generally is tins be lieved iu that ofteu serious consequences follow on a purson sneezing inoppor tunely. Servants havo beeu known to Ik) dismissed by their musters, courtiers to be deprived of the favor of Friuees and luijulis for having beeu inadvertent ly tho medium through whom an un lucky omen was displayed. Tho screech ing cf an owl is believed to portend death.' So thoroughly are the people convinced of this tlmt no sooner its dis mal note are heard than quite a oommo- do not know tho secrets of your watch, aiuioitgii you have worn it for such a loner time. Will von iwrmif. inn lii m. veal them to you?" ltossini. with an ironical smilo, handed him tho watch; when, greatly to his surprise, tho stranger touched a hidden spring nnd a fata lining to tho back of the watch How own. disetasinnr joets, and so thoy journeyed away, with even this old shoe for good luck throw after their "exodus" by tho British Gov eminent at the Cape. They sot tied in the district that is now Natal. Thoi thoy fought tho Zulus and conquered Itnoni and when they hud peacefully es tablished .a government, laic out towns, and were about to pos sees tho country, down swoopel the Capo Colony Government upon Natal with a iirotoctinir detachment of t hundred British soldiers, and undo an entering wedge ry lmtting a Bntsh fin ger in tho pio. In tlirce years tlx "Ko public of Natalia" prospored tlo Brit lsh one hundred laid been noarl with drawu ana tho town of Pietemiaritz burg was a flourishing settlemert, when in IU 12 tho port of Natal wai taken possession of in tho Queen's mine, on tjie pretense of "protection" in o tiuio of peaoo. hat was really dcsird to be protected was the growing importnnco of Fort Natal. Expostulations were not even entertained at tho Cape Colony, and instead of fighting tho invaders the peaceful and religious Boers started out again to go. They crossed the mountain again into tho wilderness, and attempted another settlement south of tho Vaal river, and were met bv another i:rochi li'rttiun, declaring that also to be Iritish territory. Then they fought iu lsl'.l at Hoomplatz, wore routed, and tied across tho Yaul. Here they found a partial rest tion is created, and it often happona that , tho watch's secret, theexistenco of which tho maestro' portrait, painted iu minis- and prosperity, and here, finally, a guar uiro au j surrounded iy a wreutii of en ameled Arabic character. Interrogated as to bow he came by his knowledge of at dead of night tho whole vilhtgo turns out to drive away this bird of ill omen. Great caro is also taken not to mention tho name of a ohihf in tho night, for fear an owl should hear it, the popular belief being that it would iu that case repeat the name every bight and the child, iu fonscquenco, would pine away and die. Tho scratching of the palm of tho hand is believed to prognosticate that the person will roccivo some money, while the scratching of the sole of the foot indicates that a long journey will have to be undertaken. To Wr the word "bunder" (monkey) early in lio morning is considered very uu luckj, nd evils of ovory description ttro looked forward to at likely to happen dnring tn, jBy, ni yet a monkey is one of the Herod auiiual of the Hindoos. At Benares housands of them are al lowed to live -j gnrdens Kpcoially set apurt for thorn, M. ft.j by ttu classes of people, who in soloing cousidur they are performing an ock 0f groat charity and dovotion. Tho sua, j, novr men tioned at night, the popular belief being that it i ur to mako it a,nmanoo , his name be uttered. If thera u occasion to speak about it, the word koet (rep tile) is used instead. There exi superstitious belief that, should crerr be given for the first articlo sold in the morning, that day' business will be attended with great loss. Even if the purchaser be the best customer, the shop-keeper will cither ask him to oome again or to buy a trilling article pay the cah for it, thus enabling the person to perform bis bohre. or first eish transaction. After a person has taken off his shoes, should one fall over Kosami had never beforo suspected, the stranger avowed himself tho maker of the costly toy, but oddly onongh positively Inclined to cxplaiu tho signification of '.ho Arabio words encircling tho likeness, although repeatedly and urgently solic led by Uossiui to do so. From that mo uent llossiui, convinced that some evil )oll must bo contained in the mystic eluraetors which their author stead fastly refused to interpret to him, con ceded so unconqiieralile a fear of the watdi that ho never again wore it. After his tenth it was found by his heirs so-ojirvk- sealed up and hidden awav in on old nmmoile which apparently had not won jpenea lor several years, a its con touts re covered with thick dust. A bkiryt told of Van Autburgh, the grein) lion tvmor, now dead. On ono oc Ca?io, HN bur-room, he was asked tow ho s.0t hi wouderfnl power over annuals. J. ..It j8 by Bhow ing them that I u uot tho least afraid of y on the fellow who was sUrHill(r uw hjt he u-,V"";i'ow? Ilea . .. uiuiou come across r"r:iTTl -tear word o him " Sitting do he.ri,;.. Wadyeye on the m,n. Sr-Mnfi- ' them, and by keepng mjeye 8toaailv theirs. 1 11 give vo, ,u example of I telKw .tightened haliVlr m. IPAmAmli... 1.1 mt wwlWH U1UW 11 n A k. a knocking bin. clear over C cL9if "ft U.e remark. 'Vou'll ta,lchi,'Ji ft -- -ijvui nntee was signed in LSo2 bv tho British Government a trading and friendly agreement that acktowl edged tho independouco of the Transvaal, nud, two years later, the Orange lliver State, lyiug south, was ae knowledged to belong to tho Dutch farmers who bad settled there. For twenty-five ycaxs tho Transvaal managed its own affairs, until it began to grow too rich as a neighbor. In a single year 12,(HKj ounces of gold had beou dug out by the miners; copper, cobalt, coal ami iron mines were opened, and, as with the discovery of tho diamond fields iu Gri qna Laud, there was a rush of adven turers iu that direction British, carpet baggers. It wim about this time that tie Presi dent of tho Transvaal undertook to buy a seaport. The only outlet was a long road through Natal to Durban. Nego tiations to purchase Delagoa bay were undertaken, liy arbitration it has beeu divided (by Marshal McMahon) that Delagoabay belonged to Portugal. If the Boers bought this, and made their railway from Pretoria to the port, there was a "menace to the tnde of Natal. Eng land lines "free trado that no one -iso shall interfere with, but it must be in British ships to British ports, and there must be no other port in the neighborhood if she cau shut it. So tho same trick of a proclama tion was again put to work. The Trans vaal was aunexed not by a voto cf tho Boers, but by a purchase, it is supposed, of a Boss or two under the same old shadow of British "protection" against the natives that had served before. But the Transvaal bad bred up by this time a body of people not weak, but brave and determined. They are in earnest in their fighting this time, and they are in the right, as much so as the farmer were at ' Another African "difllcnlty" ha just arisen. It is stated that King Ctffee of Ashnuteo has "declared war" against England. Whether that be so or not, ho swoms to have taken a long strido toward the offensive. Telegram from Cape Coast Castle report that his '.'ambassa dor" demanded from the local British authority the surrender of a refugoo na tive chief, grandly notifying at the same time that if tho request wore refused "the colonial government must take the oousoqueuces. The governor, of course, politely declined to gratify his sable mai esty of Coouiassie, who, if he keeps his word, will forthwith mako war. 15v way of precaution the governor had placed "a company of Houssas, with three guns at Prahsuio," and no doubt the west coast squadron has, by this time, put itself into position to reudor help, should the bellicose monarch fulfill his threat. The nows is vorv disairree ablo, not only iu itsolf, butbecauso thero are so many troubles, actual or imminent, within the largo sphoro un der tho control of Her Majesty's govern' mont. W'e are tempted to ask whether King i olleo rends the nowspapers, keeps his eye on affairs in Europe and Asia us well as Africa, and whether he bus chosen his time for "tho great revanche?" l-oi haps he has heard of the Greek, Boer, Irish, Afghan and Turkoman questions, and hopes by striking in now to compel the restoration of the famous umbrella which adorns tho South Ken Bingtou Musoum. At any rote, his audacity may be most vexations, should it load him to iuvado tho colony. One Ashnutoe war in a generation is more than enough, and wo may hope, for everybody's sake, that meaus will bo found to restrain tho African savage.nnd avert the necessity for a second edition of the brilliant march to Coomossie. (London Telegraph. The Dysart Scotch Pee race cassU J " I . . 1 ,. -m til l . published volume entitled "From tht ceoding before the coraimtteo of VtM Log Cabin to the White House," by eges of the House of Lords, of which til iir-fi.-M xr ti,..i. hinh is dedicated Lord-Chancellor, Lord EodosdMn .. milium i -. - . i t 1 t)ll.l i...., to the boys of the United estates, it is a xu ' . nown 0et ir'Vii.-. ' ii,,t -thrt mother molds bors. AVilkie Collins is said to ba J the man " and this book proves it. Those structing a ner novel. He will hardly J who read, it-and it should bo read by able to invent a more surprising plot fl r hov as well as his mother-will man mo Btory oi tuo dysart peeranJ not be surprised that the son of such a case already reveals in real lifo. Inf .nnil.r .fm.ild. bv uheritaiico and ex- one niigui iancy uie irmi 10 ue proceed i tUn n.d.la nlmracter. the ing on tbo lines of ilkie Collins' n. indomitable energy and courage, mid the drama of . "Man and wife." Willie imrity of life that has characterized Geu- John Manners lollemivche, a youth h A-n..u l.ia vntitii nn to this appeors m the Bntibh Feoi-age as ErK time. ' Mrs. Garfield's maiden uamn was Dysart, succeeded his grandfather in flj Fbza Ballou. Sho was A ilescendaiit ol una nupiomour io)0, uu came ol g. -vr....i n.. . lTiirrpnnt of IVuuco. lust year. His right to bis poonyre ami. 1 driven from his country upon tho rovo-- r.ngusa estates w uiuru ui nearly XoO, cation of the edict of Nantes. "y". a your w cuuiioubbu a minor Ho joinod the colony of lioger v, a- cntims um uuu o.r nuj w un aucge, liams.came to America, and settled in oic" marnaBu " moiateio; f:.,ml,nrlaml. R. I. There ho built a andncir oi iueiasii-.arjoiysart.kno: ill carefully nreserved In his lifetime as Lord Uuntingtowcr- as a rolio of the past. It is known as the and the minor's mother. The repute Elder Ballou Muctmg-liouse. w nen u '"" """H" muuuu mur i;it wtrn wnrn no saw-mil s. no in inpiana oi uisiuiuur, jaw ijoru ilun. -- . i. . .., t- .i , ingiowcr, witn nis raoinor, wno wai l daughter of Sir Joseph Eurko, a G a wit I Baronet nnd a cousin of Lord Huntipv l tower. Tho late Lord Iluntingtower I a wild and always impecunious persoa I who certainly contracted illicit relation in 1843,Bhortly after he came of age,wit one of bis mother's servants -a Mis Elizabeth Ackford with whom he lived, sometimes openly and sometimes olaadeJ finely, iu Seotlaudand in various ports of! London under his family name of Tolls macho. She swears that in July, 1844 Lord Huntingtower married her in Scot J land, his valet being tho witness to tit I ordinary contract of words, but thatl afterwards his Lordship disowned th. marriugu and made her a sottlomont ia anticipation of his open marriage cere mony with his cousin, Miss Burke, it. 1851. She also swears and circum stances and other testimony seem to cor roborae her that when on one oceasiou an action was brought by her upon this! settlement Lord Huntingtower prevailed 1 in tho action by proving the Scotch mar riage, tier son, tho challenger of the title, was not born until ISott, twelve years after tho open marriage with Miss Burke. Tho issues, therefore, are stated by the Lord Chancellor to bo double, for l if tho Scotch marriage bo admitted so as I to bar the petitioner there remains the proof of the paternity beforo the chal lenger could succeed to the title. Al though "General Plantaganet Harrison." himself a person of a romantic history, who swore that "he hud army rank obroad," but who was not cross-examined on its whereabouts, testified that in his was tuiils, nnd few tools in the country. . Its galleries and pews, even its floor itro hewn out of solid logs, and put together with wooden pegs. . Here Matnriu Bal lou preached the gospel and his son, and grandson, and great grandsons after him to tho tonth sronerution. A race of preachers npraug from thW pioneer min ister, an well as many lawyers, doctors, and other onblio men, eminent for their talent and force of character. Somo of thorn llirured iu tho American Involu tion, as heroio in war us they were re nowned in neace. Abraui Garfield and Eliza Ballon, both emigrants from the State New lor were married in loiil. Aiiey had gone in IS.J0 to Orungo, Caynhoga county, Ohio, where a jear after their son James was born, beinir their fourth child. Their lo house was built when the heavy forest was but partly cleared away. The fences were not yet luado about the fields when tho father, in linht:ng a lorest tire that threatened tho destruction , of their home, overheated himaelf, was suddenly chilled, and in a few days died. His last words to his wifo, as ho looked upon h:s children, were: "I have planted four saplings bore in this forest. I must now leave them to your care. A happier family never uweit in a palace than had boen in that cabin home. Littlo Janios was but eighteen months old whon his father died too young to understand his irreparable loss, or feel the pangs of grief that well nigh crushed other hearts, ihe neigh bors came only four or fWo families in radius of ton miles-and wept with presence the lato Lord Huntingtowerhad the widow and fatherless. With thoir introduced Mrs. Tollemacho as his wife, assistance the lifoless form was enclosed and although a daughter of the alleged in a rough coffin ond buried in a Scotch marriage testified to her father's corner of the wheat field near by. No living in 1802 and 1803 with her sermon, no prayer, except tho silent mother, after incidentally testifying that nraver that went u from nohing hearts, he wos separated from tho acknowl- Winter wa3 upproaching. Could human edge may iiuntingtowor, tne aangnter experience be moro dreary than a widow of Sir Joseph Burke, and was in many left alone with her children in a ways a miscellaneous sort of a Lothario, wildornoss swept by wintry storms, the cross examination of the alleged The howl of the wolves and tho cry of "Scotch wife," searchmgly made by Sir panthers never sounded so terrible as John riollier, the Jato Attorney Ueneral, during thoso long, desolate winter has mode very sorious inroads upon the nichts. It seenud to the weary ones consistency of tho story as to the Scotch Warm Food for Few Is. The Poultry Monthly says: "After an experience of soveral seasons we have adopted the system of warmiug the food all through the winter and cold weather, both morniug and evening, aud we attri bute tho excellent laying quality of tho to a-is, in a great measure to doing this. Tho food, whether whole or broken. grain or other food, either dry or mois tened, should bo warmed well beforo feeding. Somo breeders, as well as far mers, mako a practice of parching their whole corn and are assured it is benefi cial. Where new, unseasoned corn is used for chicken food, this parching is a decided benefit, for it makes it equally as good for feeding as old seasoned corn. Ouite a number of poultry ailments are caused by feeding the new crop of corn, and parching it will effectually prevent any trouble from that scoro. Wheat, which is no doubt the best kind of graiu for the laying fowls, much better than so much corn, which latter fattens so quickly as frequently to stop the pro duction of eggs temporally, is much im proved by being heated well beforo being fed, and then given to the fowls while yet warm, uot hot. In feoding w heat, only about two-thirds as much. by measure, should bo fed, a of corn, and when fed in that manner is very lit tle, if any, more expensive than corn. Good, sound wheat only should be used, for while we see no objections to screenings on the score of unhealthinesa, screenings give but little available food. Old and faded daguerreotypes will often become a bright a new. if placed in a weak solution of evanide of potassium. that spring would never como again But at last it did come, and swept away the snow and ice. The dead things of the field nnd forest returned to lifo, save only the dead in the corner of the wheat field, and hope was not revived in the cabin. Thore was no money in the houso, there was a debt on the farm, nnd the food supply was limited. Then Mrs. Garfield sought the advice of a neighbor, who had been kind to hor in time of trouble. He advised her to soli the farm, pay the debt, and return to hor frends, believing it impossiblo for her to support herself nnd children there. Her reply was characteristic: 1 can never throw mysolf and my children upon tho charity of friends. So long as I have health I believe that my Heavenly Father will bless these two hands and make them able to support my children. My dear husband modo this home at the sacrifice of bis life, aud every log in this cabin is sacred to me now. It seems to me a holy trust that I must preserve as faithfully as I would guard his grave." Her neighbors never left her, and she went to the inend that never fails, and asked God to mako the way of duty clear to her; and whon she came from her marriage. Many of her letters wore read which seem to seriously contradict her claim. Oue was as follows: SuF.unoRSE Street, Dec, 14, 1S59. Hnntingtower: If you will give me 1000 1 can get married within a month. and in case tho man might do as vou have done, leave me to the mercy of tho world, au outcast and a beggar, I will thank you to have it all made over to mypelf, so that I may do with it as I think fit. Au early reply will greatly oblige, ' Elizabeth. P. S. I shall expect that yon will allow tho children to write to me ou the first of every month, without coming through your hands. I ousrht to have heard again from them by this time. This was written by a third hand, for the letters in her own penmanship were exceedingly defective in spelling and syntax.' A very long letter written by her to Lady Dysart, the mother of her alleged husband, was read by Sir John Holker, which thus began: Princes Squake, Feb. 5. 184j. Madam: With thankfulness and grat itude to you do I acknowledge the re ceipt of your kind lotter with five pounds enclosed. I will attend to all place of prayer sho felt that new light your wishes in every respect and shall be and strength bad boen given to hor. She (flad to inform you the moment matters called her eldest son. Thomas, to her. his anally arranged on the uart of Lord and, though ho was only a child 10 years H. if he will do anything for me I have old, she laid the whole case bofore'him. no doubt Madam with your kind inter- With the resolute courage of his race be fearauces hia Lordship's feelings may gladly promised that ho wculd plow and aulter towards roe nnd his poor children sow, cut wood, and milk the cows, if she I am 8'iU willing to give up the letters would only keep the farm. So this brave as I do not wish to hold anny papers of mother aud son commenced their work, "is ijorusnips mat I may the sooner lor- She sold part of the farm and paid every g6' that I ever knew such an unhappy dollar of debt. Thomas . procured a man but in the faces of his children do I horse, plowed and sowed and planted. see tho very imadge of himself which Iho mother, with her own hands, split calls to mind all my wickedness. tho rails and completed the fencing. But The last word, "wickedness," the tho harvest was still far away, and tho witness now says, was miswritten for corn was running Jow. Iho mother carefully measured her precious grain. counted tho days to the reaping time, and finding it would be exhausted long boforo that time at their present rate of consumptiom, she resolved to live on two meals a day herself, that her children might not sutler, llien, as tho littlo store rap idly disappeared, she ate but a single meal herself, concealing her self-denial from her children, until the blessed bar- vest brought lehef. That year it was very abundant, aud the wolf of hunger never came so near their door again. Still, there were many years of hard' ship and self-denial, in which the brave woman had to be father and mother, toucher and preacher to her children. Sho was the wiso and tender friend, guiding them in tho right way. and in spiring them to choose the best things in l&e. She still lives to see her great re ward, "and her children rise up and caU her blessed." The Nation's Capitol, honored as it has been by noble women, has nover received "wretchedness." TJnon this the Lord Chancellor, after critically examining the writing, quietly said: "The sugges tion is a plausible one, though I still retain my own opinion in tho matter." The alleged witness of the Scotch cer emonyLord Hnntingtower's valet is dead, and there is only tho testimony of tho alleged widow and some evidence as to repute and ncknowledgment of marriage to support the claim of her son, now eighteen years old. From the questions occasionally pnt hy the Solicitor-General of Scotland, who is watching the case for the crown, there does not seem to be much doubt that the acknowledged grandson of the lato Earl of Dysart will miiintairi his claim. The earldom was created by Chales I. for one of the gentleman of his bed chamber, who took for his motto two Iiatm words, tue signification of which, too liberally acted upon, it seems, by the alleged Scotch widow, mnv be ren dered as "I confide: 'I rest easy." A devoted Methodic, it is said, asked wimm its uoors a grander, more neroic, Joan Wesley what he thought as to mar anil nooier woman man it will have in lying a certain woman well known to the person of the mother of President both. Garfield, and she is not only an object of of it. the Nation's admiration, but the recipi ent oi its homage Wesley advised him not to think "Why," said the other, "she is a member of yonr church isn't she?'' "les" wa the reply. "And you think she is really a christian woman?" "Yes" said esley. "1 believe she is " "Well then why not marry her?" "Because," re- It is said that pork fed on Cincinnati whisky is never afflicted with trichinosis. When the parasites get a whiff of the plied Wesley "been use, my friend, the whisky they take pity on the pig and Lord can live with a great many people a, uut ;va ana i cm i.