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FAEM AND GARDEN. Learn how to make first-clas i.7'" AJM INDIAN SCHOOL AIM HIGH. High thinking more, high living leas, Truth telling, though tbe sky should fall, Would add to human happiness Under the heavens, unto alL Tbe lofty standard of the just, The courage to defend the right, Would more us further from the dust, And lift us nearer to the light Q. W. Bungay, in Youth's Companion.

am not travel far, and were only too glad to return. Alter completing their course of study, limited to three years, most of the pupils express a desire to remain, evincing a disinclination to go back to the old mode of life, and there are a few bright pupils who have been permitted to stay and pursue their studies. Prominent among these is James Patty, a Sioux whose picturse shows him to be a handsome, manly youth. The contrast between the pupils as they are now and as they were upon their arrival from the reservation is a marked one, both as regards personal appearance and mental culture. The transformation is complete, and but little investigation is required on the part of any one to convince him that the theory that the only good Indian is a dead Indian is based upon false premises.

winds to them, and suddenly a sweet musical voice began -to sing: 4lOh, that we two were Maying, "Hark! Who is singing!" cried Evelyn. John Elliot cane to the open window and listened. The tones rose clearei and more distinct. 'tis the voice of Miss Greenleaf, a daughter of my neighbor, Mr. Green-leaf.

She is singing to her father is her usual nightly custom," said he. "What a charming voice she has, so full, so rich," commented Evelyn, turning to young Beresford. "I quite agree wih you on that point, Miss Wyvil," the latter rem iked, and looked as If he did, as he listened quietly until the voice of the: singer -was heard no more. Evelyn was then asked to favor them with a song or two, and smilingly she rose from her seat and went to the piano, which her guardian had purchased four days -ngo for: her special use. Seating herself at the instrument she ran her white fingers over the keys, and then 'began to sing that old Scotch ballad, "Annie Laurie," causing her listeners to brush away the ready tears from their eyes so pathetic was the singer's voice.

water in the basin, and the gentle night winds stirring the dark masses of oaks and cedars, added beauty to her surroundings. She stood gazing about her with a tender smile playing about her lips and a wistful, yearning look in her eyes. Williard Beiesford could stand it no longer. It made no difference to him whether she loved John or not. He would test his- fate once more.

He was soon at her side. "Ida," he said, softly, "Why are you here and alone?" She started, for she had rot perceived him before, and turned her great, dark-grey eyes upon him. "Ida, shall I never be able to win your love?" Tell me, is it already given to another?" he cried, taking the slender, white hand that had been dabbling in the water of the fountain, and drawing her to a seat beside him on the brink. Her fine eyes flashed and her voice trembled as she spoke: "Why will you persist in seeking me?" "Why do ycu persist in avoiding me constantly?" he broke in passionately. 4 'And why shouldn't Scorn and indignant silence are my only; weapons for avenging the insult you put upon me," she went on.

"I insult. Ida? Heaven forbid Not and you can easily get first-class The best authorities claim that cream' should be kept at a temperature of aboi Utty degrees, or Detween thu and eixtV degrees. Skim.milk of a dairy is worth more be fed to calves in winter than in gu mer, but it should be fed warrnj and art (A With A llttlA nntmnol Wr destroy a calfs digestion with cold milk.1 The chief use of commercial fertilizers, guanoi phosphates, bone, potash salts and special fertilizers prepared Ty formulae for different crops t0 supply nitrogen, phosphoric acid anj potash. Butter takes nothing from the soil that affects its fertilization as do crops of It is almost wholly carbon, -which is derived by the plants from the air Butter, though sometimes high in price' is really produced from the cheapest elements known. The creamery system is the only 0D8 for managing milk and making butter that doe3 not make slaves of women, ft is the great emancipator of the house, wife, besides making more butter and of higher average quality.

As a measure of economy no good farmer should be with-out a creamery. Corn is the best crop for ensilage. Clover and grass are better made into hay, although there is, undoubtedly, a loss of nutriment in the drying of them. Corn yields more weight and bulk than any other fodder crop, and is beyond all comparison the best plant for the pur-pose. To secure the be3t quality of tho fodder it should be grown in rows three feet apart and with four or five plauts nt intervals of eighteen inches.

As it ig desirable to have the grain ripened the common corn of the locality should be plantedi Plants, like require food for life and; growth. A part of the foo of plants comes from the atmosphere, the rest is furnished by the soil. No ordinary cultivated plant can thrive without a sufficient supply of each of a number of substances needed for its food. With an abundance of all these, in forms in which the plant can use them, and with other circumstances favorable, the crop -will flourish and the yield be large. if 4-V AirAilaVtla aurrltr rf an inA nf tltim be too small, a large yield is inevitable.

If all the other conditions for a profitable crop of corn, potatoes and other plants are fulfilled in the soil, except that potash is deficient, the. crop will surely fail. But if the potash be supplied the yield will be abundant. A heartv cow. fresh in milk, observe the New England Farmer, and dry food, will frequently drink five or more ordinary pailfuls of water in a day.

If thi3 be taken into the system near the freezing point it must be warmed by the heat of the 'body, which heat costs the farmer money, just as the heat from the wood or coal we burn in'our stoves osts money. It was long ago discovered that heat saved by tight walls and roofs is cheaper than the heat produced from hay and grain. It is now being learned that wood, coal and kerosene oil is cheaper fuel for warming water for animal than hay or grain. One feeder estimates that during the present winter five cents' worth of fuel used for warming the drinking water for his cows, has returned him $1.50 worth of butter." Farmers are every year learning the importance-of sowing grass and clover seeds very early. It it is best to seed when the ground is frozen, and when still further, frost may be expected.

The suriace is tnen damp, ana the line Seeds are covered sufficiently to insure their rooting after they germinate. It is better even to ttamp over the fields through the mud than to wait for the surface to become dry. Generally, how-ever, there are light frosts at nipht at this season, and the sewing can best be done on still mornings before the mud has thawed. The reason why grass seed sowing must be earlier now than formerly is because vegetable matter in the -soil decreases with continued cultivation, ahd prevents it from holding jnpisture as long as it used to do. If gtass seed does not get rooted early it is quite apt to dry out and perish when dry weather comes.

Cutting a tree down is a ouick and in- expensive way of disposing of it. Of course the stump is left, but if sprouts are burned off next July or Aucust, it will not sprout again to do any hurt, and will in time rot out. Whoever tries grubbing out trees as a means of clearing land will tire of it. There are places where it will pay to remove a few and have valuable land at once available for other uses. But ordinary farm crops will not pay the expense.

It is a poor little tree that does not require three square to be grubbed over to get it out by the root. This is just one square yard. If it could be done for three cents it would make the land thus obtained cost 300 per acre, gome calculation of this kind is apt to come over a man when he has been working a whole day to grub out a tree. The next one he tackles will be cut down in the old-fashioned way, and leave time to do the grubbing. A Prince's Pipes.

Prince Henry, the Emperor Frederick's second son, smol cs his pipe in English fashion, and smokes it morning, noon and. night. You could meet him, when he was at San Bemo, 6trolling about after breakfast, with a well -colored English short clav. nr rnffir Tn the after noon, he made just this sacrifice to fashion he changed clay for a Jjrier-root. It is related of him in San Bcmo that, going to church one Sunday afternoon, he started with his prayer-book under his arm and his brier-root well alight in his mouth.

A young English friend of his, who was staying at tfao Bemo, ventured on a mild remonstrance. "My dear boy," said the young English dandy, are hot going to church with that thing in your mouth?" rPrince Henry took the pipe out of his mouth, and looked at it. "I beg your pardon, old fellow," he said; "I forgot it was Sunday." He ran back home with the brier-root, and reappeared with a meerschaum. Argonaut. A Representative of a Large House.

A Philadelphia drummer saw a man in a railroad car whom he thought he knew, and, slapping him on the back, asked him how he was. The man looked up, and the drummer saw that he was stranger. He apologized, saying he thought that he was a friend of What followed is thus told by a Jersey tewspaper: 44 I hope I am a friend of the man said, and they got to talking, and the commercial man, seeing the gentleman's gripsack, thought bj must be a commercial roan also, and asked him what housa he represented. 4I represent, said the gentleman, 'the largest house in the the traveling man, if you represent thfl largest house in the world you certainly hare a snap. What house is it! 'The Lord's house, sai4 the gentleman: 'my name is Bishop Scarborough, of thfl Protestant Episcopal Church." One Method of Teaching Calves to Drink.

F. W. Dunn, Riley Kansas, writes. The Prairie Farmer gave several suggestions about teaching a calf to drink but they were confined to the upper-lip method, as I call it. The difficult part is teaching the calf to put its nose into the pail.

This is easily done by the under-lip method. Back the animal into a corner, holding the pail with right hand assisted by right leg. Put left arm over the calf neck, placing the fingers in its mouth from te tinder side. In this position the calfs lower lip rests in the palm of the hand and it hunts down for its feed, and thus puts its nose into the pail of its own accord. When the calf begins sucking, slowly withdraw the fingers, allowing it to feel about for them by keeping the finger ends against its lower lip.

(The hand is down in the milk. I have been equally successful with this method whether the calf sucked its dam three days or two or three weeks, and never needed allow the calf to suck my fingers after the fourth feeding, and several drank readily at second. Calves taught to drink by this method seldom bunt the pail about, thus the milk. Do not attempt to teach to drink until they are thoroughly hungry. Sunflowers and Malaria.

The sunflower has long been" popularly supposed to be a preventive of malarious diseases. The opinion is well founded, and for the reason that hairy soft leaved plants are supposed to greedily take up malarial gases. The sunflower has broad leaves, and in relation to the size of the plant a large leaf surface. The leaves of the sunflower were long considered to be a specific for asthma, when dried and smoked in a pipe. The value in this direction has not yet been successfully controverted.

We recommend the planting of the sunflower freely about the house in all regions where malarial emanations are likely to be found. This is always the case in all prairie regions or those where the original sod is turned. The seeds are produced in profusion, form a fattening food for poultry, and may be fed to all farm animals occasionally profit. The stalks broken up make excellent kindlings for fires, and thus every portion of the plant may be put to good use. When raised in Tegular field rows, plant four feet apart between rows by tnroliro tnAVAa irk fha rnnr PSllHvofo rrf.

cisely as you would Indian corn. When the heads are ripe cut and carry to the threshiner floor, or cut partially off let them hang down on the stalk until dry and then thresh. The stalks may be cut next to the ground and stacked up until wanted for fuel. Farm, Field and Stockman, Onion Culture on the Farm. Levi P.

Warner, of New Hampshire, says in the American Agriculturist: The writer has had thirty -five years' experience with the onion as a field crop, and has. not been able to discover any change in those fundamentale principles which are" indispensable to its growth and perfect maturity. It requires a fine firm texture of soil, drainage, rain-fall (or irrigation) at suitable intervals, and if the soil has been exhausted of its fertilitv by repeated croppings it will refuse to yieiu a narvest even in mese mouera times, because the onion has nothing in itself to made a crop of. In the matter of rotatiou we have increasing evidence that, with proper tillage and fertilization, onions maybe grown upon the same field for a long term of years, with reasonable prospect of success. But methods ana systems have changed, it was formerly said that the man skilled: with the hand-hoe who would start early and work hard and long would be 6ure to succeed with this crop.

While the hard work has not been eliminated something more is required now. New and improved implements have been introduced, whereby labor has beeu very much abridged. Chemical feitilizers are more generally used. The demands of the market are constantly changing, and there is competition on every 6ide. The successful onion grower of the present time must be not onlv a willin co worker, skilled in the use of improved I 1 A A II implements, duc ne must De a weiweaa, careful observer.

The soil upon which our onion crop has been grown is alluvial, heavy loam, but easily cultivated, nearly level, and absolutely free from stones. The recent practice has been to plow in antumn, after applying a half-dressing of farmyard manure, to be supplemented -with" chemical fertilizers the ensuing season. In early spring we apply to eachl acre two hundred pounds of high-grade sulphate of potash, an equal amount of plain superphosphate, and one hundred pounds sulphate of ammonia; harrow, drag and hand-rake Until the ground is very fine, firm and free -from all rubbish that would obstruct the seed-sower or push-hoe. We sow four pounds per acre of yellow Globe Danvers onion seed, in drills fifteen inches apart. The demands of the market must, however, regulate, to some extent, the variety and amount ofseed used.

The after-culture consists in keeping the crop free from weeds, and thorough but shallow cultivation oft repeated until the crop ia nearly grown. We usually apply one hundred pounds nitrate of soda broad-east early in July, and if the crop seems to require it, repeat the dressing after an interval of a week or ten days. During the last half of September the crop is ready to harvest, when we pull the onions and allow them to remain oh the ground to dry, four or fi ve days before and perhaps as long after removing the tops. Then, if the weather has been favorable, they are in fine condition to stored or send to market. We invariably prefer the latter, because it gives more time to attend to other farm-work, which always crowds at that season of the year, and also saves cost of storage and re-sortinc, though others prefer another course.

Our loss from smut, blight, or maggots has been quite small, and we regard the crop as reasonably 8 ure. Still, there is an occasional shortage which amounts to twenty, thirty, and sometimes even fifty per cent, of the crop. It comes alike on the well-cared-for and the neglected fields in the locality, and sometimes over a wide extent of country This result occurs, perhapsTnot more frequently than once in a decade of years, and we have not been able trace it to any well defined cause. Farm and Garden Hints. The safe way to get good milk cows is to raise them.

Remove the seeds before feeding-pumpkins to cattle. Dampness is a great producer among poultry. Dirty boots are as much out of place on Ih3 hay as on the carpet. Keep the poultry, old and young, out of the spring slop and slush. are fond of milk and butter-milk, and they promote Jay ing.

now THE LITTLE REDSKINS ARE EDUCATED. The Boys Taught to be Blacksmiths, Carpenters and Farmers, and the Girls to be Cooks and Housekeepers. A Wabash (Ind.) letter to tho New York World says The civilization and education of the Indian is no longer an experiment, as the results which have attended the efforts of the management of White's Indiana Manual Labor Institute, south of this city, conclusively demonstrate. This school, founded in 1852 by Josiah White, a benevolent Quaker of Philadelphia, though originally devoted almost exclusively to the education of white and coloredchildren, is now virtually an institution for the education of Indians. Mr.

White, in the year above named, donated about $9000 for the purchase of a tract of land and the erection of the necessary buildings, and with this, sum 760 acres of the most fertile land in the Wabash Valley were secured, and a plain brick structure, serving the dual purposes of a school and boarding-house was erected. The grounds about the institution were laid out with great care, aud a considerable sum was expended in beautifying and improving them. GROUP OF SIOUX INDIANS. Some five years ago the National Executive Committee of the Society of Friends conceived thej idea of undertaking the education of Indian pupils after the manner of the schools at Hampton, and Carlisle. Pa.

Application was at once made to the Secretary of the Interior for permission to-take from the reservations in Indian Territory and Dakota a number of pupils to receive tuition at the institute at the expense of the Government, and in March, 1883, twenty-seven children arrived for a three-years course of study. The picture just above represents a group of Sioux Indians from Pine Ridge, when they arrived at the institute last August. They were unkempt, ignorant and coarse, and to their natural instincts were as shiftless. An allowance of $150 per student was made by the Government to the institute people, and this was continued until two years ago, when it was reduced to $125. In the mean time the class of twenty-seven had been graduated and returned to the West, while about seventy more childi en of various tribes were brought to the school and were receiving instruction.

There are at present seventy-seven Indian pupils in the school-in fact, the work of the school is now; in the line of Indian education. Of the seventy boys and forty five girls, nearly all of whom are members of the Sioux tribe. Industrially the boys are taught husbandry, together with carpentering, glazing and blacksmithing. and last winter another occupation, that of the manufacture of was added, the broom-corn being produced on the farm and the brooms finished by the Indian boys. In all branches the little redskins evince marked aptitude.

They possess wonderful memories and the faculty of imitation is developed to a remaikab'e degree. They discharge the duties'of the school room, workshop and farm with an intelligent interest and perseverance that would put the average farmer boy to the blush. They never grumble at any task 'which is assigned them by their tutors. The girls are taught housekeeping, and upon them devolves the labor (of keeping the interior of the buildings in perfect order, of performing tbe laundry work, sewing, washing dishes and cooking the meals. They are quick to learn and in a comparatively short time after their arrival become as proficient in the discharge of household duties as are their instructors themselves.

In the school room they apply themselves diligently; to mastering the common branches for ten months in the year, the pupils being divided into two sections, one of which attends school in the morning, and the other in the afternoon, the time when not employed in study spent in manual labor at the bench or in the field by the JAMES PATTT. boys, and in ihe kitchen or laundrf bj the girls. Bookkeeping, theoretical and practical, is taught, and vocal and instrumental music also receives special at' tention, many of the girl pupils attaining onsiderable skill as pianists. An accurate record of study, recitation, work and conduct in and out of the school-room is made each day, a monthly average is struck, and upon this depends the allowance for clothing and spending money, credited to each pupil anjd drawn as needed, This incentive to dili gence and good behavior has a strong especially upon the boys of the institution, and the number of iccorrigibles among the Indian pupils has been singularly small. These children come to the Institute of their own volition, not a pupii having been brought here against hi3 will.

At the Dakota agencies there were many more desirous of coming than the school could accommodate, fathers arriving with their offspring from points thirty miles distant to send them to school. Except in "studies requiring close reasoning, the progress made by the pupils after mastering the English language is as rapid as that of ihe average English student. They appear, however, unable to arrive at logical conclusions and reach deductions intuitively. Barely, indeed, to they betray any sign of homesickess, and though on two or three occasions boys have run away, they JOHN ELLIOTS WARD. BY BLANCHE COLLINS.

It wa, night and raining fast. A damp, miserable night, in which one could not wish one's enemy to be homeless, without food and shelter. In the library of a large, stone mansion in Louisiana sat a gentleman apparently forty years of age reading by an open grate. Everything about him was tasteful and luxurious from the handsome gas jets above-Tiis head to the rich Brussels carpet on the floor. John Elliot was a wealthy planter.

He had several shares in a Western mice, and was considered a very popular individual in the eyes of his neighbors. The gas light reveals a finely-shaped head, covered with curly black hair, bushy eyebrows, beneath which sparkle a pair of keen gray eyes that are not wanting in beauty and intelligence. His is a face that men respect and honor, and one that women trust and admire. He lives alone, with his widowed mother and a retinue of servants. He now holds in his hands in open letter which his mother had Elaced in them a moment ago.

The etter was from his old love, AnnaWyvil, who twenty-one years ago had turned from his honest love to that of a handsome young Englishman of wealth, nn the plea that she never could marry a poor man, for John Elliot was poor in those days. Now beautiful Anna Wyvil, bad written to him begging him to be guardian to her beautiful young daughter Evelyn, who was the possessor of Wyvil court, a fine old estate that had come down to Evelyn on the death of her father, and of several thousand pounds besides. Anna Wyvil wrote that she was slowly passing into the next world, and that she could die happy trusting ber precious daughter to the care of himself and tender mother. There were a few lines written concerning the time that Evelyn would be likely to arrive in America, etc. "And so I am to be a guardian and rightful protector to the girl until she arrives of age and then she will probably return to her possessions over: the sea and wed some young English chap for a husband," mused John Elliott.

Then he sought an interview with his mother, and the result was that the very next morning a letter was dispatched to Anna Wyvil which he thought might reach her before it was too late. John Elliott sat looking into the fire long after midnight thinking of Anna Wyvil, and his ward that was tole. "Oh, Anna!" he cried, if only you could hare been mine. Your daughter shall find a true friend and-guardian in John Elliott. Along winding stream, bordered by fine old oaks, and small, slender willows, a long stretch of grassy just visible in the background a large stone mansion with wide verandas covered with fragrant climbing roses.) A flight of marble steps leading down to a spacious garden, in the midst of is a fountain playing A small miniature lake beyond, and two gaily decorated boats floating about on the surface.

All these seemed like some glimpse of fairy-land to weary Evelyn and her companion, "Willard Beresford, as they met their sight. With a prancing dash which displays the driver's skill, the coach in which Evelyn and Willard Beresford are seated arrives at the hall door, and Evelyn has a good opportunity to examine the guardian in nose care her mother left her. as with uncovered head he came slowiy down the steps. She sees that he possesses a face of dark noble beauty and a certain air of command about him that distinguished him somewhat. coach stops, and Evelyn and her companion alight to the ground.

Welcome to Rose Bower, my child," exclaimed John Elliot, taking his ward's small hand in his own and pressing it slightly. "Allow me Mr. Beresford, who has been my escort during my voyage," said Evelyn sweetly. John Elliot greeted the handsome young man very cordially and then led the way to the library, when his mother awaited the new-comers. She clasped her son's ward in her arm! and said: "You shall find in me a mother, dear child vou shall be Jiappv here with us." you, dear Mrs.

Elliott, I am sure of that." Evelyn was very pretty, with soft dark eyes, auburn hair, rose-leaf skin, and dimples that came and went in her cheeks, as she spoke or smiled. Her slender girlish form was clad in mourning robes, and she looked to be barely eighteen as she stood beside the tall form of her guardian. Wc did not expect you to-day, my dear, or the carriage would have been "sent to the station "for you," observed Mrs. Elliot to Evelyn, after she had shook hands witfi Mr. Beresford.

"Oh, it is just as well as it is, Mrs. Elliott. How restful and lovely everything is here," returned Evelyn as she glanced around the pretty room. The walls were covered with a delicate paper of a silvery white ground with running roses over. A rich carpet strewn with roses lay upon the floor, and windows, chairs, sofas and foot-stooU were draped with white lace over pink damask.

A rosewood piano of exquisite workmanship stood on one side of the room, while a large collection of books stood on the opposite side. Upon the centre table lay several richly bound folios of rare print, and over the mantle hung a huge mirror that gave back the reflection of the whole pretty room. It was evidently intended for a lady's boudoir, thought Evelyn. "I am glad that you are pleased with me roonvior it nas been fitted up. ex pressly for your use," answered Mrs.

JblUot pleasantly. I am morethan pleased -it is a per fect gem of a room," responded her son's ward with warmth. "It gave me great pleasure to take charge of your ward during the voyage, and we should certainly have arrived here at the date set but for my mother and sister who were determined to keep Miss Wyvil until the very last," explained young Beresford to his host. I understand, but you will remain here as my guest for a month at least, Mr. Beresford it will give us much pleasure to have you," returned John Elliot.

"I shall be only too happy to accept of your kind invitation," was Willard Beresford's answer. That evening after tea the little company gathered in the parlor to chat and njoy themselves in their own way. The night was an extremely warm ono for the season, and the windows were thrown open to let in the cool night air. The icuadj of music were waited oa th for worlds would I insult you, "he cried, reproachfully. "But you forget Evelyn, the woman you are about to marry." "Believe me, Ida, I have never loved her never intended to make her my wife.

You have labored under a great mistake. But tell me," he continued, 'if you were certain that I loved only, yourself, would you marry me, my peerless Ida?" "I I'd think about it," she replied coyly. "Well, then, you may be sure that I love you, and no other woman but you. May I call this fair hand mine forever-more, dearest?" "Yes," she answered shyly. Just at this interesting moment John Elliot came full upon them.

"I beg your pardon I was not aware "he began, looking first at one tell-tale face and then the other. "Congratulate me, Mr. Elliot, I have succeeded in winning the hand of the loveliest and best of women," said Willard Beresford, warmly. "I do congratulate you both with all my heart," answered John Elliot, while a sad look stole into his-eye3 as he watched the faces of the happy lovers, i "I have to return to the house for a moment to speak with "Never mind, I will take Miss Green-leatback to the ballroom," said John Elliot, as Bereford hesitated and looked at Ida. "Very well, I will trust her to your care for a moment," laughed the young man as he hurried on ahead.

Evelyn had come out onto the veranda steps. Her heart was hot and restless with a vague pain which she had never experienced since her mother's death. She was obliged to acknowledge this to herself. Her eyes wander, to where her guardian and Ida Greenleaf stand. He holds her hand in his arid appears to be murmuring soft words to her, while she stands with her eyes cast upon the ground, a beautiful flush mantling her cheeks.

A swift, sharp pain shot through Evelyn's heart as she watched the two. "Ah, I was not mistaken. He loves her," she murmured, sadly. "Oh, how can I see him lavish fond caresses upon her caresses that might have been mine," she mused. Then as the two moved Evelyn re-entered the ball-room again.

At last, to her relief, the ball broke up and the gay assembly vanished. The next morning Evelyn remarked to young Beresford in her guardian's presence, that she was going back across the Atlantic, arid although she appeared quite unconscious of it, she saw her guardian start and grow a shade paler. "I think that we have neglected to inform Evelyn of the fact that our negh-bor, Mr. Greenleaf, is about to be married to a young widow whom he met last winter, and that our friend Mr. Beresford proposes to take Ida off his hands very soon, with Mr.

Greenleaf's consent," remarked Mrs. Elliot. Evelyn started. "I am so glad for your Mr. Beresford," she said simply.

"Ida is a dear girl and one of the best of friends." "Thank you, Miss Evelyn," said Ida's lover. A moment after Evelyn was on her way to Ida 's home when she was accosted by her guardian "Evelyn listen to me. I love you have loved you from the first moment I saw you. Will you Jet me be your rightful guardian and protector through life's journey?" he said gravely, taking her small hand in his, and looking into her eyes. Seeing the world of love and tenderr ness that was written on his countenance, Evelyn flung her beautiful arms about his 'neck, crying: "Oh, Guardy, Ihave loved you all along, and you, blind man, could not see it." "Never mind the past, now.

that we have the whole future before us, my darling," he returns, as he presses her to his heart again and again. Just two months from the night of the ball a double wedding was celebrated at John Elliot's home; and the two beautiful brides given away were none others than our old friends, Ida and Lynn Mass.) Bee. Womanly Unselfishness. Mrs. Mary Chapman, the young wife of a settler in the central part of Dakota Territory, remained alone at home while her husband was away looking after his cattle.

A storm came on suddenly, and it was nearly three days before he was able to get back through the drifts, and when he entered the cabin he found his wife lying insensible on the bed. There was just food enough left for one meal for her husband, and she had gone without eating for two days rather than touch a crust of it. When brought back to consciousness the noble little woman threw her arms around her husband's neck and cried: "Oh, Jim! I thought you might come home nearly dead with hunger." This typical wife had a true soul sister in the heroine story that was not long ago published in London papers: A little girl lay dying in a hovel at Shoreditch. 'Now there will re enough for the rest to eat," she said. Detroit Free Press.

An Ocean Vampire. A devilfish or ocean vampire was accidental jy caught, near Tampico, Mexico; in a fishing seine recently. Ropes were thrown around the monster, ana by the aid of horses it was drawn to the shore. It weighed two tons, and, when spread out on the beach dead, pre 'ented every appearance of an enormous bat or -ampire. It measured fifteen feet long and seventeen feet wide from the edges of the pectoral fins, and its mouth was five feet across.

A number of them had been seen for some time, but all efforts to one, had proved futile, Through Evelyn, Willard Beresford had come to know Ida Greenleaf, the planter's daughter well, for the two girls were ever together. The latter often spent an evening at John Elliot's home, and it was no uncommon thing for Evelyn to be found in Mr. Greenleaf 's parlor, and occasionally Willard would be found there, too. One day, from a window in the Greenleaf mansion, the words of the song "Can she make a Cherry pie, Billy boy, Billy boy? Can she make a cherry pie, charming Billy Float out in a sweet silvery voice, and "I can make a cherry pie, quick as a cat can wink her eye, Fm a young thing and cannot leave my In a rich masculine cadence finishes the strain, while at the same time a handsome, laughing face, surrounded by curly locks, appears in the broad low window, beside which, at a table, stood stately Ida Greenleaf, her round, plump arms; bare to the elbow, while her dett fingers were adjusting the crust of a half dozen cherry pies. Knowing Well her father's for 'cherry pies, "she had attempted to make him some herself as she thought he might relish them better if made by her hands, and so had stolen intg the kitchen unknown to the cook.

A swift wave of color mantled her pale cheeks and she bit her lips with vexation as she retorted: "Why are you so far away from her then?" "Watching you, to be sure, a sight that would repay me for coming twice as far," was the gallant rejoinder. "May I have a piece of that pie for my pains?" "No, they are not to be cut until my father's arrival," returned Ida coldly. Unheeding the cool reply, Willard Beresford stood leaning against the window, regarding her in wistful silence. Not for the world would Ida have had him hear her sing those words, which to her proud nature seemed like a tacit confession of her thoughts. She would rather have died than to have given him that knowledge unsolicited.

And the half-tender, half-expectant light that ihone in his blue ef es fired every spark of pride and resentment in her perverse little heart. "Will you make a cherry-pie for me, Ida?" he asked, with a world of meaning in his tone. For a second only Ida hesitated and said: "No, indeed, your mother can make good enough pies. You should not covet other people's." "One from your hand would taste better than anything else I could conceive of, Ida," he began wistfully. 'Now don't flatter I have no time for nonsense," Ida broke in remorselessly.

"Why do you not ask Evelyn to make one for you," she asked at length. 'Thank you for the suggestion Miss Ida," he cried as he turned away from the window. "I am glad I have sent him back to her, for it was only yesterday that she was singing his praises to me and quoting his words until it was a relief to hear her talk upon another subject. And Mrs. Elliott has hinted to me that the two-Evelyn and Mr.

Beresford are not indifferent to each other by any means that they will probably marry when Evelyn arrrives of age," reflected Ida. And what if he should marry Evelyn? 8he didn't care. AK, she had no right to care now; had she not sent him from her repelled and silenced the words that were trerublingon his lips. It seemed to Evelyn that her grave guardian was at times rather cold in his manner toward herself. She wondered at his manner what had she done to cause this coldness and apparently indifference on his part? she asked herself.

His mother was all that her son was not tender and though ever kind and indulgent, he is nothing more. At last Evelyn resolved to be as coldly indifferent to her guardian as he was to her, and she kept her resolve, though at times when 6he found his dark reproachful eyes fixed upon her as she jested with Willard Beresford she could have wept with a vague pain. She even tells herself that she hates him. She tells her pride that beneath his roof she will no longer stay; that she will go back to old England to the friends that appreciate, her. And though they have become, coldly indifferent to each other, yet in his Tjresence there is n.

fusrinntinn a magnetism that bound her. The days draw out into weeks, and still Evelyn and her guardian remain the same as ever. But in fair Ida Greenleaf presence his entire nature seems to change. Three years have passed. In honor of Evelyn's twenty-first birthday a grand ba'l is to be given by her guardian.

At last the night of the occasion arrives. The house is ablaze with lights. In-Bide the large parlors are brilSant lights. Bare flowers fill every alcove and recess with their sweet perfume, and the gaily-decorated figures of assembled guests add beauty and life to the whole scene. Evelyn is the acknowledged belle of the evening.

She counts her admirers by the score. Very lovely is she in her trailing robes of creamy white lace over pink satin. Her only ornaments are a single rose bud twined in among her rich auburn tresses and necklace of shimmering nearls at her beautiful thrnat And a Ida Greenleaf is present, too, looking statelier than ever in her plain rich robes of trailing white silk and a cluster of full-bloomed roses at her corsage. Willard Beresford rhas crossed the sea again to attend this ball, but he really thinks more of I meeting the woman whose image has ever been in his heart he met her at John Elliot's three years ago- Apart from the rest he stands, his eyes follow ing every motion of Ida Greenleaf. He sees her leave the crowded steal out into the moonlit garden.

The warm, soft night air was heavy with the rich perfume of the flowers, especially of white lilies, which grew plentifully there. There was a subtle radiance of the moonlight, adding to her beauty just that softened chann which it needed most, The silver splash of dropping Oscar Prettyback. Elinore Little Chief. Mary Shoulder. Frances Blackeyes.

Vina Eed Horse. Superintendent Coppock, of the Institute, last summer made careful inquiry while in the West as to the condition of the pupils graduated i from the school, who had returned to the reservations, and with a single exception found that all were employing in a practical manner the knowledge gained at. the institute. Many were teaching school, the. girls were erjgaged in housework abouit the military posts and towns, and the boys emploved at the trades and in tilling the soil.

The temptation to return to their wild life, with the savage influences surrounding them, is no doubt very strong, and in some instances cannot be withstood, but in the majority of cases the environment will -not cause them to forget the instruction they received in the Fast, and the young Lo's will become good and prosperous citizens. Much pride is taken by most of the students in their dress, and it affords them great delight to procure any new article. The last picture is a faithful representation of the group from the Pine Ridge Agency, as they now appear, after seven months' of civilization. Now they are ambitious to study and work and take particular pains with their clothing. Despite the fact that but little time is left outside of school and work for recreation, every moment is improved, and last winter coasting and skating were the popular craze.

In summer the boys fish, hunt, and swim, and a passion for baseball and other athletic sports is observed among j1 rwl A 1 i inem. iney are amDiuous ro eicei iu their studies, however, and never permit amusements to interfere with the duties that devolve upon them. The health of the pupils is an object of great solicitude to the management, and though the climate I of Indiana differs materially from that of Dakata and Indian Territory and the habits of the children of the wilderness are radically changed, thei have been but two deaths in the past five years among the Indians. The race, hyiologis(s maintain, is predisposed to consumption, yet that d'seasa has not manifested itself at the school. The pupils are also susceptible to religious and take a deep interest in the study of the scriptures.

They absorb high ideas of morality and honesty and rajely indeed is one of them found guilty of any one of the petty offenses so common among the pupils of the public schools. In the presence of straDgers they are modest and retiring, and, though responding readily to questions asked, never engage in conversation. Every movement of a visitor is closely watched, curiosity; being a pre: dominating trait. In a Confectioner's Workroom. His manufacturing room may look a little like an alchemist's den, if you choose.

Here arc large coppered kettles, full of steaming syrup; there, men are at work picking up Alalage grapes with a fine pair of nippers and dipping them into created sugar; at yonder table one is cutting up a pile of candied figs, and a pile of preserved cherries lies beside bim while still another i3 sugar-coating almonds in an oscillating kettle. Iu the middle of the room are, low tables covered wth marble slabs, on one of which an operator will perhaps be working out; stick candy, and on; another you may' 6ee long, shallow canals, or rivers, of congealing peanut or molasfes candy, confined on the slab by long, solid iron bars. i Scattered around are the workmen's simple tools-j-spatulas, strainers, molds, paste, syringes and the like. The materials of the candymaker are equally simple and few, consisting in the main of only three kinds of articles sugar, flavoring and colors! The flavors usually employed are the essential oil of. various aromatic plants.

Mixed with' spirits these oils form extracts and essences, the extract being a stronger flavoring than the essence. The extracts of lemon, wintergreen, peppermint, clove, cinnamcn, vanilla and ginger are used in great quantities. Extract of lemon is best prepared fresh by grating the rinds of lemons either with a grater or with cubical lumps of hard sugar, the operator being careful not to get down to the bitter white portion which underlies the outer yellow skin. As to. the vanilla vine, the best Mexican pods will, if macerated in alcohol, give a fresher flavor than that of the bottled extract.

Popular Science Monthly. A True Love Match. Prince Oscar of Sweden and his wife, Ebba passionately fond ol both sailing skating. It was upon ivc iuul iiio mu 31 uicb, auu mOSI I of their love making took place flyin side by side over the frozen plains, on steel runners. Of course, the laws of Sweden forbidding marriage with a subject, the kirig and queen opposed their son's fancyj for the lady-in-waiting; finally the prince, by giving up all claim to the throne, resigning his state allowance, and all royal privileges and emoluments, secured a consent to his marriage.

All that is left is hU barren title, his children not inherit; his position as admiral in the fleet, which was fairly won during his long naval service, and a small private fortune. His wife, however, has money enough for both, and they have gone to Bournemouth. England, to live. 5 "We never see a tear in the eye," says a celebrated writer, we are re minded of a warm heart." i G. L.

Berry, a ranchman, near Lar nie, claims to have kLed fourteen bea.