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THE JtUSSIAN DOCTUK. Trogio and Romantic from Roal Lllo. Story itAnAPTKD FIIOM TUB UKUMAM Et.lSE 1'OBKK. or MllE. IIY SI US. FKANCKS A. SHAW. Tramlation CopyriqMtil, tin, by A. X Keltogj Snc4aptr Company. fch. himself a stranger. Familiar faces :ul vanished. The elderly people of nis boyhood were in their graves tho fining had usurped their places. A "Ciisino" hud taken the placu of the nine-pin alley at the Rod Lion. The bills were dotted with the summer illlas of rich city people. Not far trom tho viue-wreathed house stood n charming Swiss villa, inhabited by the family of a wealthy merchant of the nearest sea-port town. To the great surprise of his house keeper, the Russian doctor showed no Anmediate inclination to resume his 1 .!..- U .1 l.nf lw ...not a 'practice, ail- ueuwui-u niiii nu umai .,confine his soeial obligations to the f receiving and returning of calls, loav g ing dinner and evening parties and I sifternoon coffees to Marianne. Tho I -writing of a long-contemplated medi cal work would engross mm for some time to come. Until that was ended lie must abjure general society. Marianne gave free vent to her dis appointment. She had hoped for a triumphal soeial career by her cousin's aide. She hud also hoped that ho would marry. In that event, why should she not bo the chosen one? " A doctor is expected to marry," she said to him. "I venture to predict that your hour will come; that you will some time fall head over cars in love " The doctor laughed, but Marianne said to herself that her excellent man agement might hasten on that fateful fliour. The mirror she that night con (suited in the privacy of her ehambei . t t. i.i .. i. i reilCClCll a woman rouuiikaiiy iiuai f'and youthful-looking for oight-and- thirty. Our Russian doctor had lived three months in the vine-wreathed house, lie had heard the nightingales sing their old-time songs to the roses; he had seen these roses bloom and wither Autumn invaded the land, lavishing its " iioktknsk! " most gorgeous linos upon tree and shrub, only to shako the leaves in rock less sport from the branches, and send them torn and shriveled through the air, thus teaching that in nature, as in human life. th fairest things are the most evanescent. One evening in late autumn a mes senger came from the Swiss villa sum moning the Russian doctor in all pos sible haste. In the absence of the fam ily and their physician, the youngest child, the only one left at home, had fallen violently ill of croup. Our doc tor hurried away, and a few moments nftor entered an elegantly-furnished house. A servant in gorgeous hverv ushered him up the winding stairs to a luxurious apartment leading into the chamber of the little sufferer. The door softly opened, and Arnim Elbthal stood in sudden terror upon the threshold. " JJortcnse ! " ho whispored, with white lips. In the relloction of a rosy lamp tho living imago of that long-lost one stood before him. It was the same slender, graceful, white-robed figure, only taller and more- developed than the blooming child of those olden days. Here was the same head enframed in wavy brown hair which seemed strewn with gold-dust. The charmingly-cut profile, the piquant nose, the warm complexion -all seemed the very same. Was ho dreaming? Was he under some enchanter's spell? Ho drew nearer. "The Russian doctor," the servant announced, and vanished. An upturned face showed tho cyos of Hortenso gazing into those of tho doctor-not sunny, clear and confident as ;in that early day, but sad and cutj-eat- 'jug. On tho lap of tho young girl lay ho child, moaning and clasping her hand. 'Hortenso St. Hilaire!" murmured the doctor, as in a dream. 'That was my mother's name," came the answer, in a foreign accent. "M name is Desireo Duvois, and I am French governess In this house. You are Dr. Elbthal, and you know my mother as a child. How delighted I am to see you I I have so longed to make your acquaintance. I sent tor yjfu because sure of your skill." Her eyes now fell upon the child who breathed heavily. In a moment Ar iilm was near her, all other thoughts and remembrances los. in tho physi cian will) examined tlio patient antl( 2We directions in tliat clear, duuidud 'Way whiih impressed all ho mot. "I shall remain until tho crisis Is 7'ver," he said. w. , - i. I W I S CM'S bIMIKU her gratitude. J Svi 11 nodded, but asked no question. 7 Tlir ill I.I a IlllliO U'llO KlflU ill till! nt'x n-1 1, i. tired noiscleash. Tlio little f jrm was laid in bed, tho doctor Hie- . i-mcss Billing on culler side. The doctor ventured only one ques tion: "Where docs your mother live?" The girl's eyes tilled with tears aa she answered: "Mamma died six years ago papa long before. I scarce re member him. 1 am an orphan. Dis tant relatives in Paris brought me here a year ago that T might earn my own living." Her voice choked, sho bowed her head and hot tears fell upon the tiny hands of the sick child which clutched at the lace trimmings of the satin quilt. Poor young creature. How hard to see her days pass thus, loveless and homeless! Poor Hortenso to bo forced to die leaving a daughter alone and unprotected in a cruel world! "Now began the 'laggard course of those leaden hours all know who have watched by a sick-bed, noting every pulse-beat of the sufYerer who is struggling with life and death. At the foot of the bed cowered the old nurse, panic-stricken and helpless. The other servants, anxious and ex cited, gathered in tho kitchen and gave vent to their fears in sepulchral whispers. At last tho violent paroxysms subsided, tho child's breathing grew more calm, and, as the lirst sun-beam stole through tho he.rvy curtains, the doctor's deep voice mur mured: "Saved!" For answer, Desireo bent over his hand, and kissed it. " Now have tho family physician summoned," ho snid. " I was only his substitute. I think. Mile. Duvois, that, as soon as tho child's parents re turn, vou mav feel free to visit the house where your mother lived as a child. My cousin Marianne will be delighted to know you." With a beaming glance Desireo reached him her hand. "I shall certainly come to thank you and to talk with you of my mother. I bless little Fanny's illness which has brought to me the friend of her youth." They parted each with a hearty auj TJ 'iedcrschen ! The master and m Stress returned at evening, the former very grateful to the doctor, the latter, a parvenu who stood much upon ceremony and had great ideas of her personal conse quence, enraged that Desiree had taken upon herself the responsibility of sum moning a physician who had not even sent in his card. The old nurse, jeal ous of the child's affection for the gov erness, added fuel to Madanie's wrath by representing that little Fanny had not been alarmingly ill and it would have been safe to await the family phy sician. In spite of her husband's pro tests the imperious woman gave her governess notice to leave at New years. Desiree begged permission to leave at once, and dispatched a note to tho Russian doctor asking the hospitality of his house for tho few days prior to her return to Paris. With this letter in his hand, the doc tor sought Marianne, requesting her to go in person and invite Mile. Duvois. "1 knew this young girl's mother as a child," he added. "She loses her place on my account, and I feel that she has claims upon me." " I have nothing against her coming ii sue does not stay too long, an swered Marianne, "in any event you are master of your own house. I hope I shall like the girl." "I am sure of that. She resembles her sunny-tempered mother, and will be a genial element in our house dur ing the long, dreary winter, if wo can only manage to keep her with us until spring. My medical work will occupy most of my time, and you will need some companion. " "Not one of this sort," replied Marianne, "French women are frivol ous and coquettish, and few of them can endure a well-ordered household. If this young girl want, to help me, 1 will give her a trial, though I know she will only hinder. 1 will go and in vite her, I want to see the much praised furniture of those airy city people. 1 would likv to show the mis tress of that house that other folks have just as good a right as she to look down upon their neighbors. The idea of her imagining sho can snub you.'" Marianne gave hor head a toss and flounced out of tho room to make a careful toilet for tho proposed visit. But she did not create tho desired im pression. The mistress of tho villa did not appear. Sho deigned no excuse save that she was not at homo to visit ors. Marianne tried to vent hor spite against the mistress by showing great sympathy for tho governess, and invit ing hor in tho most urgent manner to tho doctor's house. Sho went that very evening, and was- installed in tho "garden chamber," onco occupied by her mother. Tho next morning her silvery laugh penetrated to tho study, and Arnim in voluntarily laid aside his pen. The very voice and laugh of Hortenso! What a novel, precious, refreshing sound in that silent house! Arnim lis tened and felt that ho should work all tho bolter for this laugh. Bird-songs and Uower-perfinnes wero pleasant things. It was delightful to hear some music other than tho jingling of Ma rianne's keys, sumo tones different from thoso seven ones in which sho lectured tho servants, or hor plaintive wailings over th high price of provis ions and tho inellleioney of Katho and Ivan. Desireo gavo tho conversation an other tut u. For tho first time In Ar iilm's bachelor lifo a young girl formed part of his domestic establishment. "She will bother you to death," Mari anne had prophcided. She will turn the houe upside duun. These oung girls are always leaving their things about. They m-ver put ant thing back m the right place. I only hope you and ..... ..... I.j'ti.l o,t uilldiiOit Could a fresh rosebud disarrange these rooms? Desireo seemed to till the old house with that sweetest of aromas-the rosv perfume of vouth. While Arnim showed her every place over which the feet of Hortenso had tripped in those dear old (lavs, while no pointed out tinner in lorest and gar don the familiar trees whose boughs had rustled over that sunny head, a tide of outh .seemed to course through his own wins. With deep emotion he received from Dcsiree's hands her mother's German exercise book and his own copy of tho Eichondorf poem. At last, as in a dream, he held in his hands tho ball which in so untoward a manner had led to their acquaintance ship. This poor object oxistcd stm; but where was sho, tho bright, joyous creature, his lirst and only love? Desiree told him how her father, through ill-luck and the treachery of others, had lost his own fortune and that of her grandfather. Sonic inad vertent hints satislied the doctor that Hortense had married a gambler whoso career had ended in suicide. With tearful eyes the young girl dwelt upon her mother, and the lifo,' happy in spite of all its trials, they had passed together. Willi bated breath sho described the slow dying-out of that always fragile existence of the great transfigured eyes, of the final falling asleep, which had been painless till ! 'vTTaI I r Till: SEU'-SAMK II AM.. as that of a tired child in its mother's arms. Her mother had cherished one dream to the last that of return to Germany and to the lorest house. She had told hor child much of Arnim Elbthal and of those happy days when she had been his pupil. Then came for Desiree that loveless, jovless sojourn among strangers first under 1 he roof of a distant relative of her father, a stern man who considered tho homeless orphan a burden, and ere long souther to the cloister of the Sacred Heart, where sho might lit herself for her future vocation of governess. This one year had been to her as an oasis in the desert a brief rest in a flowery garden, an asylum of peace and love. The bitterest tears she had shed since her mother's death had fall en at nartiucr with the nious sisters. When placed by her relative as govern ess in the liou.se ot the wealtliy mer chant she was ill from homesickness for the silent cloister. Ero long the exacting duties of hor position had left no tune for unavailing regrets and tears. " I was iot fited for tho place," she said. " I soon found that I had much, verv much, to learn. Doctor Ebthal, if you would make nio happy, give me some instruction during these days I remain with you. You will not have to complain of any lack of indus try in your pupil." More than delighted to bnconio the young girl's tutor, Arnim drew up a programme of study which was strictly adhered to on both sides. Marianne was in raptures at an arrangement which would keep tho young thing busy and relievo her of the hapless task of initiating a French girl into tho mysteries of an art in which only Ger man women were litted to excel. Dosiroo grew happier day by day, and ore long reveled in tlio natural joyousnoss of youth. Sho blossomed out liko a flower that has found its native soil. A sunbeam had entered the doctor's house. It must bo coaxed to remain and brighten the coming .inter. Brief as hail been its stay un der his roof, Aruini felt that without its presence, lifo would bo desolate. He grew restless if for a little time he missed tho young girl's light step llit tincr past his door if tho soft, rylhmed melody of her voice ceased for tho mo ment to penetrate his studv CHA1TKR nr. ESIREE introduced VI nnw niwl flii'ii Rome pleasant llttlo in novation .into th immaculato prim ness of tho' vine wreathed h o u s e, With Ivan, always her faithful ally, she foraged tho gat- lens of tho town for plants In full leaf and blossom, and with them adorned tho doctor's study. "Tho place where one works ought to bo bright and cheerful," sho said. "Now that winter is near, wo must havo a memory of the summer and a prophecy of the spring." Arnim awaited with impatienco the hour for lessons whon sho would come Itoundiug into his stud-. What stolen 'lanoos ho would cast at hor over his naniiscrlpt! How full of grace and charm was her every movement, how i Tlio CV.at rocelves from Ills troav ury i Ulcers every year 9.500,000 rubles for houoho!d expeues and 2.000,000 rubles for his stable. A ruble Is worth 62 ten is. In addition to this, tho Crown Prince, now a boy at home, ro- c ivcs 2,000,000 rubies a year until ho U of age. AMERICAN MONKEYS I'rof. llloktnor,. I)nIU Upon tlin Vlrlurnol tilt' "lllWlT." Professor Albert S. Bickmorc's lec ture at the American Museum of Natu ral History recently was on "Monkeys of the Now World." The word monkey, he said, had been derived from mauakiu or uxiuakin, and meant unfortunate little fellow." In South America monkeys are to be found on mid south of a lino between the city of Mexico and Vera Cruz, but none above that line. The American monkeys have a broad nose and their nostrils turn outward and downward. A pcoti lirr species was the tete, only live inches high, which has two more tooth than any monkey in Africa. Another was the boarded monkey, so named because of a beard which surrounded his face in a fashion made notable by a celebrated journalist some years de ceased, i lie animal (tne monkcv) was very careful of his beard and never wot it whon drinking. Ho would hollow his hand into the form of a cup, dip it into and till it with water, and then drink from his hand slowly while with one of his other hands he would carefully press his beard out of the way of contact with any drops of water that might fall. The picture shown did not represent as handsome a monkey as one might suppose so fas tidious a monkey to be. Another odd species was tho white throated monkey, and still another, "Humboldt's monkey," discovered by that groat explorer, and sometimes called the "negro" monkey because of the curly wool upon its head. Other monkeys had tails so sensitive that when their owners wero passing rapidly through tho forests, drag ging their tails behind them, they could tell instantly when their caudal appendages came into contact with any thing good to eat. Those same tails were very powerful, and their owners could hook them over a limb and, hanging by that support, go fast asleep. If a monkey wore shot when in tliis position he would not fall; ho would simply continue to cling there until decomposition set in. Tho natives shoot monkeys with poisoned arrows, which they blow out of long hollow reeds. When the wounded monkey becomes unconscious from the effects of the poison tho hunter runs up and puts some salt into his mouth, after securing him, and the salt being an antidote for the poison, the huntei gets a live monkey as good as now. Natives of the Amazon eat monkeys. In fact, they are the chief food supply of a largo section of the people. The meat is said to be nice and tender ami very nutritious. This lecturer related an anecdote of an explorer who was given a dish of monkey meat and found it excellent. He would havo enjoyed the meal, he said, had he not been so nervous over the thought that he might be devouring one of his re spected ancestors. The lecturer described in detail the species of the South American monkey known as the "howlers." These monk eys travel in groups and they are very jealous of each other's abilities as howlers. Each group has a champion howler, and when two groups meet one howler from each sits opposite the other, surrounded by the rest, and then o'eh tries to outhowl the other, the respective groups joining in the cho rus. This din can be heard at a dis tance of from Iwo to three miles, and the terror of a huntsman who goes to sleep in tho forest anil is suddenly awakened by a group of howlers in the trees above him can be better imagined than described. Monkeys like bananas better than any thing else, although they are fond of green corn and tho breadfruit, which grows abundantly in the luxuriant forests of South America. iV. '. Times. MILES OF CANNON. Ilmv Creut Ilrltiiln Iiiim l iirtllli'il tlio Uiicli ol' Cupe lilliriiltiir. The great sight of Gibraltar is the fortifications, which are on an immense scale, as the whole circuit of the rook is seven miles. But not all this re quires to bo defended, for on the east ern side fh(! clilf is so tremendous that there is no possibility of scaling it. It is fearful to stand on the brow and look down to where the waves are dashing more than one thousand feet below. Tho only approach must bo by land from tho north or from tho sea on the western or southern side. Tho two latter are defended by a succession of batteries carried along tho sea wall and up to the side of the rock, ho that there is not a spot on which an assailant can set his foot which is not under tho lire of tho guns. Tho northern sldo is pierced by great galleries cut in the rock, which arc the iiniquo feature of Gibraltar that dis tinguishes it above all tho other fort resses in tho world. These wore begun more than a hundieif years ago dur ing the groat sloge, which lasted nearly four years, when the inhabitants had no rest day nor night. After wo havo passed through one tier, perhaps a mile in length, we mount to a second, which rises abovo tho other liko tho upper (look of an ouormoiiH llne-of-battlo ship. Enormous, indeed, it must bo, if wo can imagine a double-decker a mllo long. As wo tramped past thoso endless roviM of camion, it occurred to me that their simultaneous discharge must bo very trying to tlio nerves of tho arlillo ryinan(if he hits any nerves), as the con clusion against tlio rock is much great er than If they wero II rod in the open air, and 1 asked my guide if lie did not dread it? He confessed that he did, but added, like tlio plucky t-oldlcr ho was, "we've got to stand up to itl Scnbtier'i Mayuzme. I Ampin Itntrnrtl Awnlt llrenlom who Pro- ilu- Thpiu. Respecting horses, there is one par ticular, only one, in which all aro agreed: they should be hnndsonio. Large or small, fast or slow, black, bay, white or mixed, they will suit somebody if symmetrical. This points a moral: appreciation of beauty is a divinely appointed faculty; not to re speot and cultivate it is to ignore an effective agency for suppressing the sensual and satanic and developing piritualitv and refinement. A beau tiful horse is a constant gratification to its owner; it is kindly cared for; friendly relations aro established; the noble beast repays every kindness by faithful service it is very bad forown- rs not to be attached to their horses. Horses, like men, nre sometimes rather unlovely; better breeding ami just the right training will make them all right. Unfortunatelv, nineteen horses out of twenty fall below a proper stand ard ; they are noticeably defective In their makeup head and heels too large; muscles, inane and tail too small; bones too high ; neck and head too low ; part not compactly joined together "composite order" care lessly composed. A horse may, accord ing to the service required of him. be a 1.000-pi mid buggy horse, a l.'-'OO- pound coachcr,a 1, 000-pound cart horse; all these aro wanted; but each class should be broil and kept distinct from every other class. Promiscuous breed ing breeding to no definite end, after no definite model; haphazard mixture of odds and ends has filled this coun try with unsalable horses, not pleasant to look at and not etlcctive for service. You may go through town after town in Western New York, making thor ough search for a coach team that a Rochester banker or a railroad lawyer will consent to ride after, without lidd ing it 1 have scon it fried repeatedly. The banker and the lawyer were will ing to pay $1,000 for the team, but they couldn't lind it. Our finest mares bring .'oo much money to raise colts from, so we sell them to go into the cities, or keep them in tho harness, or if wo do raise colts from them, breed to poor stock-getters. Selecting our best mares, and breed in; them to the best French coach stall ions, and continuing to breed to them without crossing with any thing else, in a few years wo can raise line carriage horses with much certainly and profit. French conchors havo been bred for a great many years under supervision of experts appointed by the French Gov ernment. While good carriage horses are in demand at good prices, there is also great lack of good draft horses. Our horses arc notoriously too small; tho popularity of the Blackhawks a few years ago. mid the craze for trotting horses, caused breeders to patronize small stallions till there is an overstock of that kind. A reaction has set in, and now we find many sacrificing every thing to size. They breed to sleepy. clumsy, loose-made stallions, flabby and llatfooted, simply because they weigh eighteen or twenty hundred quality is sacrificed to quantity. The markets certainly call for more large horses, but they must stand tho pavements; they must havo vigor as well as size; must have action and energy. This, then, the American horsehroedor should do: fix on some particular class of horses to raise; select a model; adopt a standard and work to it decide on the color, size, shape, speed suitable to the class to bo propagated; reject from the breeding stock every animal that doesn't come up to tho requirements C'ouliuous breeding in a definite time establishes certain characteristics; it is just as easy to establish a breed of black, ten-hundred, four-minute (plen ty fast enough) buggy horses, as it was to fix the red in the Devon cattle. As tho case now stands, not one farmer in fifty can make a plausible guess at the color, size, shape of the coll Ins mare will have. Is tho ambition of progress ive fanners satislied' when they have bred to the fastest trotter, the biggest Clyde or Porohoron, or the cheapest scrub? Honor and fortune nwuit Amer icans who will do for horses what Bake well, Bates, Cruikshauk, did tor slice)) 0w cattle. Uwjh T. Jroobs, in iv. J'. Tribune. m Practical Forostry. America is the only part of tho civ ilized world where tree-planting Is not made a special industry by the owners of lands. In England and Scotland and in European countries the culture of forests for profit alone has been carried on systematically for genera tions back. In a little but very enter tainiiigand useful work, entitled "Prac tical Forestry, " by Prof. Curtis, an Irish professional forester, are given Mivoral Instances of (he rapidity of growth of planted timber ami tho largo prollt derived from it. Largo estates grow ail tho timber for the various purposes required, and upon one es tate Prof, Curtis mentions that a largo building was erected of home grown timber by tho very men who planted it, and that the yearly thin ning of tlio plantation had paid nil ex penses mid a regular income beside. In these eases Tumi unfit for cultiva tion rocky slopes, mountain land, ln$ curable swamps, sandy tracts all prof itless for other uses, ne thus planted and made valuable. A'. Y. Times, - Grated Sand wiehos. Grate a pound and n half of cold boiled ham In a bowl with a tahlospoouful of pickle chopped tine, a tnhlospooiiful of milHtard, and a little black pepper, beat six ounces of butter to a cream, and mid tlio ham. Have thin slices of bread and butter ami tproad tlio mixture on botli sides of each slice. FIRST CLASS HORSES. THE CORN PLANT. Importnnl Fitrta DrmonUrntml tj CTim trill stuitlr nnil Anal jrnefi. Corn (maize) is the great silage cropv The fact is generally acknowledged that the corn plant will produco th greatest weight of green growth to tha acre, and that its form is such that tho cutter and the silo offer the best chanca of feeding it without waste. It is not stvange, therefore, that our experiment, stations have of recent years given ex tra attention to the chemical coniosi tion of the maize. The stations of New York, New .Jersey, Connecticut, Wis consin and Minnesota have been par ticularly active in gathering this infor mation, until now a careful synopsis ot the various experiments will net some valuable facts. It has been supposed that sweet com would give the best results in tho silo. Careful investigation does not uphold this theory, but proves that tho sweot ooi u docs not possess a very high per centage of feeding value. When tho small yield of stalks per aero is esti mated, sweet corn ranks lowest in agri cultural value. Chemistry proves that it is not profitable to raise sweet corn for an exclusive ensilage crop when a large field corn can bo grown and allowed to mature ears. At the same time, when a crop of sweet corn can be grown so that the ears can be sold in tho market and the stalks put in the silo, an excellent profit is made. Chemistry shows that there; is considerable difference in composi tion between tho dilVorent varieties of corn, and that different soils pro duce different grades of grain. Rich land not only produces more corn, but belter corn than that ,jrown on poor land. 'I'his dilferenco is more marked than is generally supposed. Chem istry also shows that, when the ensi lage crop is planted so that each plant has room to produce an ear and to reach a perfect development far more nutriment per acre is produced than when the stalks aro thickly crowded into drills. Chemical analysis would indicate that an acre of stover or field corn from which tho ears are taken will yield more and bettor silage than an acre of thickly planted corn which does not mature oars. Analyses by Prof. .Johnson show that the leaves of the corn plant contain J of the dry matter, the lower half of tho stalk J. and tho husk and upper part of lo stalk the remainder. Tim leaves and tho husks aro by far tho richest in tho albuminoids, tho former containing .51 per cent, of the total amount fund in the entire plant, while the husks contain 22 per cent. Thus the leaves and the husks together eon tain about three-fourths of tho albumi noids, and we see that the old practice of "stripping" secured much of tho feeding value at comparatively little cost. But the silo has proved that tho stripped stalks ean bo made valuable too. In chemical composition thero i little dilferenco between the upper and lower parts of tlio stalks. This is con trary to general belief, as Is also tlio statement that there is very llttlo dif ference in the digestibility of tho differ ent parts of the plant. As the chem ists all insist that the stalks must bo cut or shredded in mler to insure di gestion, it is evident that tho silo af fords an excellent means of securing their feeding value. It appears that thelower half of the stalks contains onc lifth of tho ubuininoidH, one-third of tho starch and fat. and from one-third tooue hjilf of the fiber. It is evident that tho most profitable variety of corn for fod der or ensilage is one that suckers froo ly, and presents the greatest amount of leaf surface with the smallest stalks. liural A'cm Yorker. SOME WISE SAYINGS. liiiiim from Mm ltit Works or tho Worlil'a liri'iit AutliorK. T hey always talk who never think. I'riur. 'Tis late before tho bravo despair. Thompson. True benevolence Is love to all men. Confucian. The worst of mad men Is a saint run mad. I'opc. Childhood lias no forebodings. Oeorrc filial. Wiiat we frankly give, forovor is our own. (Imnvitlc. Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. tf(irti. As the purse is emptied tlio heart Is filled. Victor lluijo. Who bravely (tares must sometimes risk a fall. Htnollctl. Where children aro thoro is tlio golden age. Aovnlis. B unity is God's handwriting, a way side sacrament. Milton. Children have more need of models than of critics. JuuberU With children wo must mix gentle ness witli lirinnesH. Spurgcon. The bearing ami training of a child is woman's wisdom. Tennyson. Tho first duty towards children is to make thorn happy. Charles Jhixton. God never had a houso of prayer, but Satan had a chapel there. Da Foe. Ho who rules must humor full as much as ho commands. Ueorga Eliot. Women like brave men exceedingly, but audacious men still more. Leni6 slcs. Tho highest exerclso of charity is charity to tho uncharitable. Jiucb minster. Beauty is tho first present nature gives to women and tho llrstit takes away. Mere, The smallest children aro nearest to God, ns the smallest planets arc nearest the sun. llicliter. The good things of life are not to ha had singly, but come to us with a mix turo. Charles J.twh, A Burlington girl is learning to play tho cornet, and hor admirers speak ot horns " tlio fairest ilower that blows.'