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THE RUSSIAN DUCTOJt.
from Roal Idto.
ADAPTED rROM THK OEIUIAS Or MMB.
ELISK 1'OKKR.J
1IY MltS. FKANCKS A. SHAW.
franilalion ropyrigMrd, IW. tjr 4. X Ktllogj
Aeu-rpaptr uompany.
feh himself a stranger, familiar laces
ad vanished. The elderly people oi
nis boyhood were in their graves the
foung had usurped their places. A
.Casino" had taken I he place of tho
oine-pn alley at the Rod Lion. Tho
bills were dotted with the summer
yiilti of rich eitv neonle. .Not lar
ti .1... .....n,l....1 lumen ct.wwl
; a 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
.immediate inclination to resume his
ti TT 1 1... ntiict
jrpracuce. lie ucciaicu iiiuh mini
.Wcontinc his social obligations to the
receiving and returning of culls, louv-
gjmng dinner and evening parties and
"afternoon eoll'ees to Marianne. The
i !.... .1 i:
cal work would engross him for some
time to come. Until that was ended
he must abjure general society.
Marianne gave free vent to her dis
t Appointment. She had hoped for a
triumphal social career by her cousin's
I aide. She had also hoped 'that he
would marry. In that event, why
should she not be the chosen one? " A
doctor is expected to marry," she said
to him. "1 venture to predict that
your hour will come; that you will
i some time fall head over cars in love "
The doctor laughed, but Marianne
said to herself that her excellent man
.. agctnent might hasten on that fateful
L hour. The mirror she that night con
f suited in the privacy of her ehambei
fS Toilceted a woman remarkably frcsb
?2 and youthful-looking for eight-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 it?
" iioktkn.sk! "
most gorgeous lines upon tree and
.shrub, only to shake the leaves in reek
less sport from the branches, and send
them torn and shriveled through the
air, thus teaching that in nature, as in
human life, the fairest things are the
most evanescent.
One evening in late autumn a mes
senger eami' 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 onlv one left at home, had
fallen violently ill of croup. Our doc
tor hurried awav, ami a few moments
after entered an elegantly-furnished
house. A servant in gorgeous livery
u.-hered him up the winding stairs to a
luxurious apartment leading into the
chamber of the little sull'erer. The
door softlv opened, and Arnim Klbthal
stood in sudden terror upon the
threshold.
"Jlortcii.ii'!" he whispered, with
white lips. In the rellection of a rosy
lamp the living image of that long-lost
one stood before him. It was the same
slender, graceful, white-robed ligure,
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 guld-duxt, Tho charmingly-cut
profile, the piquant nose, the warm
complexion all seemed tho very same.
Was he dreaming? Was he under some
enchanter'.- .-.pell? He drew nearer.
The Russian doctor," the servant
announced, and vanished.
An upturned face showed tho oyes of
Hortense gazing into those of the doc
tornot sunny, clear and confident us
in that earlv day, but sad and entreat
ing. On tho lap of the young girl lay
tho child, moaning and clasping her
hand.
" Hortense St. Hilairo!" murmured
the doctor, as in a dream.
That was my mother's name,"
eame the answer, in a foreign accent.
" My name is Desireo Duvois, and I am
French governess in this house. You
are Dr. Klbthal, and you knew my
mother as a child. How delighted I
am to see vou! 1 have so longed to
make vour aenuaintance. I sent lor
you because sure of your skill."
Her eyes now foil upon the child who
breathed heavily. In a moment Ar
nim was near her, all other thoughts
and remembrances los in tho physi
cian who examined tho patient and
gave directions in that clear, decided
way which impressed all ho mot.
"I shall remain until tho crUis is
over," he said.
Decree's oyos spoko hor gratitude.
She nodded, hut asked no question.
The child's nurso, whrt fclept in the
ni t 1 i in, entered noiselexsh. The
. , - 1 ,4'Mr,i)
lttk r.nn was laid in bed, the doctor
anil tin u.iiues silling on inner
side.
The doctor ventured onlv one ques
tion: "Where does vour mother live?"
The girl's eves filled with tears aa
she answered: "Mamma died six years
ago papa long before. I scarce re
member him. I am an orphan. Dis
tant relative in Paris brought me here
a year ago that T might earn my own
living."
Her voice choked, she 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 voting creature. How hard to
see her days pass thus, loveless and
homeless! Poor Hortense to bo
forced to die leaving a daughter alone
and unprotected in a cruel world!
Knw began the 'laggard course of
those leaden hours all know who have
watched by a sick-bed, noting every
pulse-beat of the sufferer 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, the child's
breathing grew more calm, and, as the
lirst sun-beam stole through the heavy
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," he said. " 1 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
Wicdcrschcti !
The master and mistress 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, addeil fuel to Madame'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 th,i
Russian doctor asking the hospitality
of bis house for the few days prior to
her return to Paris.
With this letter in his hand, the doe
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
if she does not stay too long," an
swered Marianne. " In any event you
are master of vour 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 (.'lenient in our house dur
ing the long, dreary winter, if wo can
only manage to keep her with ns 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, I
will give her a trial, though I know
she will only hinder. I will go and in
vite her, I want to see tho much
praised furniture of those airy city
people. 1 would like to show the mis
tress of that house that other folks
have just as good a light as she to look
down upon their neighbors. The idea
of her imagining she can snub you!"
Marianne gave her head a toss and
tlouuccd out of tho room to make a
careful toilet for tho proposed visit.
Rut she did not create the desired im
pression. The mistress of the villa did
not appear. She deigned no excuse
save that she was not at lonie to visit
ors. Marianne tried to vent her spite
against the mistress by showing great
sympathy for tho governess, and invit
ing her in the most urgent manner to
the doctor's house. Sho went 'that
very evening, and was installed in the
"garden chamber," once occupied by
her mother.
The next morning her silvery laugh
penetrated to the study, and Arnim in
voluntarily laid aside his pen. The
very voice and laugh of Hortense!
What a novel, precious, refreshing
sound in that silent house! Arnim lis
tened and felt that he should work all
the better for this laugh. Rird-songs
and llower-perfumes wero pleasant
things. It was delightful to hear some
music other than the jingling of Ma
rianne's keys, some tones different
from those severe ones in which she
lectured the servants, or her plaintive
wailing over the high price of provis
ions and the inefficiency of Katho and
Ivan.
Desireo gave tho conversation an
other turn. For tho lirst time in Ar
nim's bachelor life a young girl formed
part of his domestic osUhllsliuiont.
"Sho will bother you to death," Mari
anno had propheiod. "iihu will turn
the houo upaidu down. Theo young
girls are always leaving their things
about. They never put an thing back
in the right place. I unit hope you
. I. .LItl Hli WtlUlll.-SS.
Could a fresh rosebud disarrange
these rooms? Desiree seemed to fill
the old house with that sweetest of
aromas - the rosy perfume of youth.
While Arnim sin. wed her even place
over which the feet of Hortense had
tripped in those dear old davs. while
ne pointed out toiiier in lores t and gar
don the familiar trees whose boughs
had rustled over that sunny head, a
tide of outh seemed to course through
his own xcius. With deep emotion he
received from Desireo s hands her
mother's German exercise book and
his own copy of the Kiehendorf poem.
At last, as in a dream, he held in his
hands the ball which in so untoward a
manner had led to their acquaintance
ship. Tins poor object existed still;
but where was she, the bright, joyous
creature, his lirst and only love?
Desiree told him how her father,
through ill-luck and tho treachery of
others, had lost his own fortune and
that of her grandfather. Some inad
vertent hints satislied the doctor that
Hortense had married a gambler whose
career had ended in suicide.
With tearful eyes the young girl
dwelt upon her mother, and the life,
happy in spite of all its trials, they had
passed together. With bated breath
she described the slow dying-out of
that always fragile existence of the
great transfigured eyes, of the final
falling asleep, which had been painless
Tin: sKi.r-s.v.ME bam..
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 forest house. She
had told her child much of Arnim
Klbthal and of those happy days when
she had been his pupil. Then came
for Desiree that loveless, jovless sojourn
iiuiong str.ingeis -first under the roof
of a distant relative of her father, a
stern man who considered the homeless
orphan a burden, and ere long -cut her
to the cloister of the Sacred Heart,
where she might lit herself for her
future vocation of governess.
This one year had been to her as an
oasis in the desert u brief rest in a
Ilowery garden, an asylum of peace
and love. The bitterest tears she had
shed since her mother's death had fall
en at parting with the pious sisters.
When placed by her relative as govern
ess in the house of the wealthy mer
chant she was ill from homesickness
for the silent cloister. Kre long the
exacting duties of her position had left
no time for unavailing regrets and
tears.
" 1 was not HMed for the place,"
she said. " I soon found that I had
much, very much, to learn. Uoetor
K'lbthal, if you would make me 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 become 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 the young thing
busy and relieve her of tho hapless
task of inhiatinga French girl into the
mysteries of an art in which only Ger
man women were fitted to excel.
Desiree grew happier day by day,
and ere long reveled in the natural
joyousness of youth. Sho blossomed
out like a llower that has found its
native soil. A sunbeam had entered
the doctor's house. It must be coaxed
to remain and brighten the coming
.inter. Rriof as had been its stay un
der his roof, Arnim felt that without its
presence, life would be desolate. He
grew restless if for a little time he
missed the young girl's light step Hit
ting past his door if the soft, rythmed
melody of her voice ceased for the mo
ment to penetrate his studv
CHAI'TEK III.
KSIRKK introduced
now and then some
pleasant little in
novation into the
immaculate prim
ness of tho vine
wreathed house.
With Ivan, always
TBI
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her faithful ally, she foraged tho gar
dens of tho town for plants in full leaf
and blossom, and with them adorned
tho doctor's study. "Tho plaoo where
ono works ought to bo bright and
cheerful," she said. "Now that winter
is near, we must have a moniory of the
sunimor and a prophecy of the
spring."
Arnim awaited with impatience the
hour for lessons whon sho would come
bounding into his study. What stolen
glances lie would cast at her over hU
manuscript! How full of grace and
charm was hor everv movement, how
Tho C.at receives from his troai.
ury i 111 curs every year 9. 000, 000 rubles
for IiounthoM expenses and 2.000,000
rubles for his Ma bio. A ruble is worth
On cuius, hi- addition to this, tho
Crown Prince, now a boy at home, ro
oelves L 000, 009 rubles a year until ho
Is of age
17. wr
AMERICAN MONKEYS
I'rof. Illckniorp l)ill t'pon tlir Vlrturnol
tlio 'llnwlpr."
Professor Albert S. Bickmore's lec
ture at the American Museum of Natu
ral History rece ntly was on "Monkeys
of the New World." The word
monkey, he said, hail been derived
from mauakin or nwmakin, and meant
"unfortunate little fellow." In South
America monkey are to be found on
and outh of a line 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 pecu
liar species was the tete, only live
inches high, which has two mom teeth
than any monkey in Africa. Another
was the bearded monkey, so named
because of a beard which surrounded
his face in a fashion made notable by
a celebrated journalist some veins de
ceased. The animal (the monke)
was very careful of his beard and
never wet it when drinking. He 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 hi- other hands he would
carefully press his heard 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 the white-
throated monkey, and still another,
"Humboldt's monkey," discovered by
that great explorer, and sometimes
culled the "negro" monkey because of
the curly wool upon its head. Other
monkeys hud tails so sensitive that
when their owners were passing
rapidly through the forests, drag
ging their tails behind them,
they could tell instantly when
their caudal appendages came into
contact with any thing good to eat.
These 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 were shot
when in this position he would not
fall; he would simply continue to cling
there until decomposition set in. The
natives shoot monkeys with poisoned
arrows, which they blow out of long
hollow reeds. When the wounded
monkey becomes unconscious from the
effect of the poison the hunter runs
up ami puts some salt into his mouth,
after securing him, and tho salt being
an antidote for the poison, tlx; huntei
gets a live monkey as good as new.
Natives of the Amazon cat monkeys.
In fact, they are the chief food supply
of a large section of the people. The
meat is said to be nice and tendei and
very nutritious. The lecturer related
an anecdote of an explorer who was
given a dish of monkey meat and
found it excellent. He would have
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. Kach group has a champion
howler, and when two groups meet
one howler from each sits opposite the
other, surrounded by the rest, and then
deli tries to outhowl the other, the
respective groups joining in the cho
rus. This din can be heard at a dis
tance of from two to three miles, and
the terror of a huntsman who goes to
sleep in the forest ami 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 the
breadfruit,- which grows abundantly in
the luxuriant forests of South America.
A'. 1. Times.
MILES OF CANNON.
How (iri'llt Itrllliln Iiiim 1 orlillrd I 111. Itock
ol Cupii talltraltiir.
The great sight of Gibraltar is the
fortilicntious, which are on an immense
scale, as the whole circuit of the rock
is seven miles. Rut not all this re
quires to be defended, for on the east
ern side the cliff 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 ono thousand feet below.
The only approach must bo by laud
from the north or from the sea on the
western or soul hern side. The two
latter are defended by a succession of
batteries carried along tho sea wall
aiyl up to the side of tho rock, so that
there is not a spot on which an assailant
can set his foot which is not under the
fire of the guns.
The northern side is pierced by great
galleries cut in tho rock, which are the
unique feature of Gibraltar that dis
tinguishes it above all tho other fort
resses in tho world. These were begun
more than a hundred yours ago dur
ing the great siege, which lasted nearly
four years, when the inhabitants had
no rest day nor nlghl. After we have
passed through one tier, perhaps a mile
in length, we mount to a second, which
rises above tho other like the upper
deck of an enormous line-of-battle
ship. Kiiormous, indeed, it must be, If
we can imagine a double-decker a mile
long.
As we tramped past theso endless
rnwM of cannon, it occurred to mo that
their simultaneous discharge must be
very trying to the nerves of the arlille
ryiuaii(if he has any nervuh). an the con
ciHsiou against the rock is much great
er than if they wore llrud in tho open
air, and 1 asked my guidolf ho did not
droigd It? He confessed that ho did,
but added, like the plucky kohller he
was, "wo'vu got lo sUtnd up to 111"
ScrtOnci'a Muyuzwe.
FIRST CLASS HORSES.
Ample ltMrl Awnlt Hrppilor wlm Tro-
ilurn Thrill.
Respecting horses, there is one par
ticular, only one, in which all ato
agreed: they should be handsome.
Large or small, fast or slow, black,
bav. white or mixed, they will suit
somebody if symmetrical. This points
a moral: appreciation of beauty is a
divinely appointed faculty; not to re
spect and cultivate it is to ignore an
effective agency for suppressing the
sensual and satanic anil developing
spirituality and refinement. A beau
tiful horsi is a constant gratihcation
to its owner; it is Kindly cared for;
friendly relations are established; the
noble beast repays every kindness by
faithful service it is very bad for own
ers not to be attached to their horses.
Horse, like men, are sometimes rather
unlovely; better breeding and just the
right training will make them all
right. Unfortunately, nineteen horses
out of twenty fall below a proper stand
ard ; they are noticeably defective in
their makeup head and heels too
large ; muscles, mane and tail too
small;, bones too high ; neck and head
too low : parts 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 und buggy horse, a l.'.'OO
pound coacher.a l.liOO-pound cart horse;
all these are wanted; but each class
should be bred and kept distinct from
every other class. Promiscuous breed
ing brooding to no definite end, after
no definite model; liuplia.ard mixture
of odds and ends has filled this coun
try with unsalable horses, not pleasant
to look at and not etlective 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 find
ing it I have seen it fried repeatedly.
The banker and the lawyer were will
ing to pay 1,000 for the team, but
they couldn't find it. Our finest mares
bring Joo much money to raise colts
from, so we sell them to go into the
cities, or keep them in tho harness, or
if we do raise colts from them, breed to
poor stock-getters.
Selecting our best mares, and breed
ing them to the best French coach stall
ions, and continuing to breed to them
without crossing with any thing else,
in a few years we can raise line carriage
horses with much certainty and profit.
French coaehers have been bred for a
great many years under supervision of
exports 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 are notoriously too small; the
popularity of the Rlackhawks -i few
years ago. and 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 sacrilicing every
thing to size. They breed lo sleepy.
clumsy, loose-made stallions, llabby and
llatfooted. simply because they weigh
eighteen or twenty hundred iiuality is
sacrificed to quantity. Tho markets
certainly call for more large horses,
but they must stand the pavements;
they must have vigor as well as size;
must have action and energy. This,
then, the American horsebreeder 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 be propagated; reject from the
breeding stock every animal that
doesn't come up to (ho requirements
Contiuoiis breeding In a definite time
establishes certain characteristics; it
is just as easy to establish a breed of
black, tcii-huudrcd, four-miuute (plen
ty fast enough) buggy horses, asil was
to fix the red in the Devon cattle. As
(he case now stands, not one farmer in
lifty can make a plausible guess at the
color, size, shape of the colt his mare
will have. Is the ambition of progress
ive farmers satislied when tliey have
bred to tho fastest trotter, Ihe. biggest
('lde or I'ercheron, or the cheapest
scrub? Honor and fortune await Anier
iuins who will do for horses what Rake
well, Rates, Cruiksliauk, did tor sheep
ml cattle. lliiyli T. lirooka, in N. Y.
Tribune.
Practical F-orostry.
America is the only part of the civ
ilized world where tree-planting is not
made a special industry by Ihe owners
of lauds. In Kugland and Scotland
tiutl 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
tainingand useful work, entitled "Prue
licnl Forestry, " by Prof. Curtis, an
Irish professional forester, are given
Kiveral instances of tho rapidity of
growth of planted timber and the largo
profit derived from it. Large estates
grow all the timber for the various
purposes required, and upon one es
tate Prof. Curtis mentions that a
large building was erected of home
grown timber by the very men who
planted It, und that the yearly thin
ning of the plantation hud paid all ex
penses and u regular income beside,
In these cases Tumi unlit for cultiva
tion rocky slopes, mountain land, in
curable swamps, sandy tracts all prof
itless for other uses, are thus planted
and made valuable. A'. Y. Time.
- Gruted Sandwiches, Grate a pound
and a half of cold boiled ham hi a bow)
with a tnblospooufiil of pickle chopped
line, a tablespoouful of mustard, and a
little black pepper, bout Hi. v. on n cos of
butter to a cruani, and add tho ham.
Have thin slices of broad and butter
and 'ipi 'iad the mixture on both sides of
each slice.
THE CORN PLANT.
Important Knrt llmnotutrntxil by CtiniHto
Irnt Stuillr mid Anillynen.
Corn (maize) is the great silagocrop
The fact is generally acknowledged
that the corn plaut will produce tho
greatest weight of green growth to th
acre, and that Its form is such that th
cutter and tho silo offer the best chaiics
of feeding it without waste. It is not
strange, therefore, that our experiment
stations have of recent years given ex
tra attention to the chemical composi
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 of
the various experiments will net soma
valuable facts.
It has been supposed that sweet com
would give the best results in the silo.
Careful investigation does not uphold
this theory, but proves that the sweet
coin docs not possess a very high per
centage of feeding value. When tho
small yield of stalks per acre 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 be grown
ami allowed to mature ears. At
the same time, when a crop of sweet
corn can be grown so that the ears can.
be sidd in the market and the stalks
put in the silo, an excellent profit is
made. Chemistry shows that tliero
is considerable difference in composi
tion between tho different varieties!
of corn, and that different soils pn
duce different grades of grain. Rich
land not only produce-! more corn, but
better corn than that ronn on poor
land. This dilVerenco 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 car and to
reach a perfect development far more
nutriment per acre is produced than
when the stalks are thickly crowded
into drills. Chemical analysis would
indicate that an acre of stover or field
corn from which tho oars are taken
will yield more and bettor stings
than an acre of thickly planted corn
which does not mature ears.
Analyses by Prof. .Johnson show that
the leaves of the corn plant contain
J of the dry matter, the lower half of
the stalk , and the husk and upper
part of tc stalk the remainder. The
leaves and the husks are by far tho
richest in the albuminoids, the former
containing 1 per cent, of the total
amount fund in the entire plant, whilo
the husks contain "2'2 per cent. Thus
the leaves and the husks together con
tain about three-fourths of the albumi
noids, and we see that the old practice
of "stripping" secured much of tho
feeding value at comparatively littlo
cost. Rut the silo has proved that tha
stripped stalks can be made valuable
too. In chemical composition there is
little difference between the upper and
lower. parts of the stalks. This is con
trary to general belief, as is also tho
statement that there is very little dif
ference in the digestibility of the differ
ent parts of the plant. As the chem
ists all insist that the stalks must bo
cut or shredded in order to insure di
gestion, it is evident that tho silo af
fords an excellent moans of scouring
their feeding value. It appears that
I he lower half of Ihe stalks contains onc
lifth of the abuininoiibi, one-third of tho
slnrchand fat, and from one-third toouu
half of the fiber. It is evident that tho
most profitable variety of corn for fod
der or ensilage is one that suckers free
ly, and presents the greatest amount,
of leaf surface with tho smallest stalks.
Ilurul AV Yorker.
SOME WISE SAYINGS,
(ii'iim friim tin. Writ Wnrlotnr tlm Worlil's
(Iront Aulliorx.
They always talk who never think.
I'rior.
'Tis latebeforo tho brave despair.
Thompson.
True benevolenco is lovo to all men.
Confucius.
The worst of mad muii is n saint run
mad. I'ojic.
Childhood bus no forebodings.
Ueorue Hliol.
Wliul we frankly give, forever is our
own. (Irnuvillc.
Aspiring beggary is wrotehedness
Hmt. (iolil.imitt.
As the purse is emptied the heart is
lilled. Victor Hugo.
Who bravely dares must sometimes
risk a fall. Smollett.
Where children are there is tho
golden age. Novulis,
Reality is God's handwriting, a way
side siiornniont. Milton.
Children have more need of models
than of critics. Jouberl.
With children we must mix gentlo
ness with firiunosn. Spurycon.
Tho hearing und training of a child
Is woman's wisdom. Tcnnywn.
The lirst duty towards children is to
make thoni happy. Charles Jluxlon.
God never had a house of prayer,
but Satan had a chapel there. Dn Foe.
Ho who rules must humor full us
much as he commands. Geonja Eliot.
Women like brave men exceedingly,
but audacious men still more. Lemc
Tho highest oxorciso of charity is
charity to tho uncharitable. Hitch
minuter. Roauty is tho lirst present nature,
gives to women and tho lirst it takes
away. Merc
The smallest children aro nearest to
God, as the smallest planets aro nearest
the sun. lliehler.
The good things of life aro not to bu
hud singly, hut eonio to us with n mix
ture Chnrles !.nnJ.
A Rurlliiglougirl U learnlngto play
thocornut, and hor admirers spoak of
hor us ' tho fuircst tlowor that blown.'-