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r. rj t THE BARRIER BETWEEN; on, REPENTED UNTO DEATH. CHAPTER III. continued. The comforter came, and calmness succeeded the Whirl of thought and emotion which had careered through her soul during the few past hours. It was Hot the apathetic calmness of despair, but that of resolute purpose, and suffer as she might in her firm teliance on a higher power, she felt she must at tength triumph over this bitter blow. Life is too great a boon to be permanently darkened by any sorrow, and already Amy was consoled by the Certainty that other hopes would arise to cheer the • path she must tread. As if to recall to her recollec- tion one source of happiness which yet remained to lier, a hand tried the lock of the door, and a fresh young voice called out: Mamma Amy, are you here ?' Please open and let Rose in." Smoothing away the traces of emotion, Miss Cunningham put back the curtains, and admitted a girl of fourteen, carrying a bonnet in one hand, and a roll of music in the other. Health bloomed upon her peach-like cheeks, and joyous, full, youthful life glowed throughout her elastic frame. Fashion had not been permitted to distort her graceful form, and her deep azure eyes beamed with mingled mirth and sweetness. Her brown hair hung in soft curls around a white slender throat, and the delicately chiselled features promised great beauty in their full 'development. She eagerly exclaimed: Oh, mamma Amy, you will be so glad, so proud, when I tell you that I am one of the few pupils elected ;by M. Morogini to compete for the gold medal he offers for improvement in music. I am determined to win if (perseverance can gain success." I am glad to hear it, my child, since it pleases You so much." The girl was so fully occupied with her own thoughts, ;'that at the moment of her entrance she did not remark T the wearied expression of Amy's face, but a vibration b the tone of her voice struck on her sensitively 'tuned ear, and she hastily said: Something has vexed you. What is it, mamma Amy ? Can I do anything for you ?" Nothing has vexed me, Rose I am only wearied with the labour of the morning, You know we held -4 reception to day And that wearied you so much ? Why, mamma Amy, I think it will be the finest time of my life, when I can dress myself up as fine as a peacock, with its spread plumage, and have all my friends coming to see how grand I am. Only wait till I am eighteen. and see if I don't make a sensation." A half smile flitted over Amy's face and she gravely Said: I hope you do not intend to become a fast girl, Rose, as some of our young ladies are accused of being ?" Fast! what does it mean but enjoying one's self ? Acting out one's oum character, and not being a Miss Primmy, like some of the young ladies I have seen at 'the few parties you have permitted me to attend. I can never pretend to be what I am not; so, if being true to myself is fast, I suppose I shall be so when I am my own mistress. But one thing be sure of, mamma Amy I intend to hold fast all the good pre- Cepts impressed on me by your ruby lips." That is something gained, Rose. But pray tell me when you expect that important period to arrive when you will become your own mistress ? I have never found a time yet in which a woman can act en- e tirely as she pleases, without meeting the severest censure." Rose opened her blue eyes to their fullest extent. Are women never free, then ?" No, my dear. They are never free from the con- o Centional rules of society-never free to violate the deeper instincts of a true nature I have endeavoured to implant in your mind such principles of rectitude as will be your best guides in the future, and time will only prove to you the truth of my assertion, that women are never free from the trammels of public opinion nor is it desirable that they should be so, if they wish to preserve their own self-respect." Rose mused a few moments, and then said I shall be very rich some day, and I am not very s tad looking. Shall I not have more liberty to act as I < otease than other girls who are plain and poor ? What IS the use of money if it cannot purchase me the privi- lege of doing what I may think right, without caringr what anyone may say ?" What is right you may of course do, whether the privilege be purchased or not. It is wrong-dcing only that I am guarding you against, my love. You may be rich, Rose; but are you not aware that your future fortune depends on a contingency P" No, I did not know that. My nurse is always telling me what a great lady my money is going to make me; but she never hinted that I might lose it. Ilow is that, mamma Amy ?" Sit beside me, Rose, and I will explain your true position to you, for it is time that you should be made aware of it." Rose settled herself in a listening attitude, and Miss Cunningham went on: You have not forgotten Mr. Trevor, the old gentle- 1 man with snowy hair and beard, who used to make so great a pet of you in your childhood ?" No, indeed. I remember Mr. Trevor perfectly. I ■ have many of his beautiful presents now." He had an only son-a wild, reckless youth—who ran away at the age of seventeen, and went to sea. Albert Trevor was heard of at intervals for several years, but at length all tidings of him ceased to arrive. Every enquiry was made, but only vague in- formation was elicited, which led to the belief that he > had perished on one of the Pacific Islands. There was, however, no certainty that it was true, and when Mr. Trevor made a will in your favour, the gift of his fortune was conditional. If his son ever returns, and brings with him proofs of his identity, the wealth of ^at.^er returns to him, and my little Rose will only be entitled to two thousand pounds from the estate." The young girl listened with absorbing interest. An expression of disappointment swept over her bright face, but it was only momentary; she smiled sweetly as before as she said: So my claims to the state of an heiress are in -shadow-land, after all; for I shall look upon this money as absolutely belonging to another person, and I shall be afraid to appropriate any portion of it, lest 'the real owner may re-appear and demand an account from me." Your old friend guarded against that, Rose; for he wished you to be really benefited by his bequest, even if his son should come back to his own. The property is to accumulate until you have completed your seventeenth year; for your education JE300 was annually allowed, and after you have reached that age the income is to be used unreservedly by yourself. Should Albert Trevor ever return he will only be entitled to claim the estate as it was left by his father. The accumulations from the income of the £ 20CK) "~°UrS' *Q Edition to the legacy of What a good man Mr. Trevor must have been, and how kind of him it was to provide against a claim which would have rendered his money nearly useless to me. I am sure I hope that Albert Trevor will ,come home some day and enjoy his own fortune. I shall have quite enough without it. How old is he mamma Amy, if he is still living ?" Too old to make a romantic marriage between you .and him, my dear. It is now sixteen years since young Trevor ran away from his father—he was seven- teen at that time, so you see he is at least thirty-three years old." Rose blushed vividly, and a smile dimpled her rosy lips. I really was not thinking of that, mamma Amy, though it would be as nice as some of the things about which we read in books; only Mr. Trevor is BO very old—he will soon be quite venerable. Amy laughed at her idea of age, and replied- "He is only three years older than your cousin arold, and you do not consider him such an antiquity. tfl ^T°' indeed. I am a silly child to talk thus. ousin Harold is young enough and handsome enough 'l°hoan^ ^or my pretty mamma Amy; and Hush, child. That subject is one I have never r-itted you to discuss with me. Now, indeed, it harried" Juried past. Mr. Danvers is and Rose looked wistfully into the nothing °V«?^MS0 was Pale> fixed—it betrayed BnpiVif'nn « 1 *10Pe(l) I wished, but I dare not around wT'- ajd she impulsively threw her arms around her friend, and burst into tears. bukingl^id—°rt Amy steadied her voice and reo- kmgly saId- has d° 7ou weep because one you love found a wife to make him happy ? Harold has too long led an aimless, wandering life his marriage will bring him back to his country and his friends. Young as Rose was, she had too much tact to at- tempt to explain the cause of her tears. She smiled through them, and said— You will pardon me, but I believe that I am jealous myself of this new wife. I hope she is not so beautiful as to eclipse all the rest of us." She is not beautiful, but I am sure she is fascina.. ting, elegant, and high-bred, or Harold would never have sought her. Her portrait hangs in the library, where it was placed this afternoon. You can go and examine it." Rose waited for no second permission; with her girlish curiosity on the qui vivo, she went at once to the library. No voice responded to her light knock upon the door, and she ventured to enter noiselessly and approach her uncle. Mr. Danvers sat in front of the fire, gazing with rapt attention upon the face of his daughter-in-law, as if a spell was laid on him by the subtle attraction it possessed, in spite of its want of beauty. The young girl stood several moments silently con- templating the portrait, and then, with characteristic frankness, exclaimed: "Did cousin Harold have to go all the way to Paris to find that ugly little person for his wife ? I declare she is not much better looking than the old applewoman who sits at the corner of the street near Madame Duchatel's house. Poor Rose she had disgraced herself for that day. Mr. Danvers turned on her with his most awful frown. I am afraid that madame has performed her duty very remissly, since you permit yourself such liberty of speech as this. Miss Rose Chard, is this the greeting you owe to the bride of my son, and the daughter of my house ?" The emphasis was perfectly overwhelming. Rose blushed painfully, then a half smile would peep out of the corners of her arch mouth, and she demurely said: Pray, pardon me, sir. I did express myself too strongly; but, with your permission, I must still think that cousin Harold could have found a hand- somer bride at home. Mamma Amy, for instance." The old man winced he quickly said I do not think your mamma Amy, as you choose to call her, ever intends to marry. If she does, she would hardly have refused Harold, as she tells me she did three years ago." Rose looked incredulous, but she did not reply. Her feminine tact taught her several things of which Mr. Danvers would never have dreamed. After a pause he condescended to ask the young girl: Doe? not this face attract you, Rose, after you have had time to scan it thoroughly ?" No, sir, it does not," was the prompt reply. I have been studying phrenology and physiognomy lately, and I think I could analyse it; but you would not like me to do so, sir." Both the so-called sciences you refer to are hum- bugs but what does this face reveal to you, as judged by their rules ?" Rose replied with reluctance I would rather not, uncle. If I speak at all, I you must tell the truth, and it may offend you." No, I shall not be offended; you may speak frankly." Thus urged, the girl raised her arm, and pointed to different portions of Mrs. Danvers' head and face, as she slowly said: Craft, guile, wilfulness-little conscientiousness and large acquisitiveness." Mr. Danvers started up, exclaiming with great ex- citement Child child do you realise that you are speak- ing of Harold's wife? See how utterly false your judgment must be, for he could never have chosen such a woman as you describe." Oh, I hope not-I trust not, uncle for I love him too deeply to wish him any evil. Forgive me, sir, if I have offended you." No, child, I told you I would not be offended, but I am hurt that all of you should depreciate my new daughter's appearance. You shall read her letter to me, little one, and when you can write such elegant French, I shall consider you a credit to Madame Duchatel's instructions." Rose gladly accepted the permission, and after attentively perusing it, she confessed that her judgment of Mrs. Danvers must be erroneous a refined and cultivated woman only could have pennep this charming epistle. (To be continued)
"THE HERO OF SURGICAL SOCIETY."
"THE HERO OF SURGICAL SOCIETY." The London correspondent of the Manchester Guar dian reports what he describes as the nine days wonder of professional circles. The little daughter of a well-known Roman Catholic writer on evolution and similar subjects, was sucking a pencil which had a metal guard. She accidentally sucked the guard off the pencil, and it slipped down her windpipe to her lung; there it remained, completely stopping up one of the principal air tubes, which it exactly fitted. It was then endeavoured by making the child cough violently, and by similar methods, to force the sheath back again up the windpipe into the mouth; but it was too firmly embedded, and all attempts to dislodge it failed. Meanwhile the little patient could breathe perfectly with the un- touched lung, and suffered no inconvenience. The prospect, however, was that the foreign body in the air-tube would presently set up irritation and cause an abscess, which, from its position, would cause serious results. It was, therefore, determined to operate. The chest was opened, the sheath extracted from the air-tube, and the wound closed. The opera- tion was absolutely novel, and a special instrument had to be made for the purpose. It was completely successful, and the distinguished operator is at the present moment quite the hero of surgical society.
A PENHOLDER IN A MAN'S BRAIN.
A PENHOLDER IN A MAN'S BRAIN. A most extraordinary case has just been investi- gated by the East London coroner. It seems that a commercial traveller named Moses Raphel, of 100, St. Paul's-road, Bow, was taken ill, and was removed to the London Hospital. His death subsequently took place, and at the inquest Dr. Doyle, who had had the man under his care, said on opening the head he found a penholder and nib, about 3 in. long, attached to the right orbital plate. It must have been there for a consider- able time, as the bone had partially grown over it. The only way that it was possible for the pen and holder to get to the brain was by passing through the eye or up the nostrils. Deceased's widow stated that her husband had never complained of any accident, but that lately he had suffered from pains in his head. Dr. Doyle said it was a mystery how a pen and holder of such a size could get into the brain without the man's knowledge. It was the most singular case he had ever heard of. An open verdict was returned.
FLEECING THE FOREIGNER.
FLEECING THE FOREIGNER. A reputation for great wealth would appear to have its disadvantages, particularly when the indi- vidual thus distinguished is a foreigner and a Prince. The Guikwar of Baroda has just had an unpleasant experience of the cost of lodgings in Paris. The landlord it is alleged, increased his charges from two hundred and forty pounds to eleven hundred and twenty pounds. As the stay was a comparatively short one, this seems to have been a proceeding quite un- warranted. It is possible, however, that all the facts have not yet been made known. In the year of the first Great Exhibition in London, there was a tale current to the effect that an Indian visitor of distinction took a cab one day from Trafalgar-square to St. Paul's Cathedral and asked on leaving the vehicle how much he had to pay. The modest reply of the driver was, I hope your honour won't think a five-pound note too much." It is probable that if the French land- lord had put the matter in this way, and had been content, as the cabman was, to make a considerable reduction in his original demand, the Maharajah would not have made a very determined stand against any demand at all bcj'ond that which the agreement entered into could justify. But the Frenchmen insisted, and the Prince very properly remained firm.
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I.f IT is said that the rain falls alike on the just and unjust. In the case where the unjust has appro- priated the umbrella belonging to the just this does not hold. STABTMNG.—He (rapturously): "And now that's all settled, darling, what kind of an engagement-ring would you like ?" She Oh, gold this time, I hope, dearest. I'm quite sick of wearing imitation engage- ment-rings.' Tableau!
-|THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.
THE EUROPEAN SITUATION. No action (a Berlin telegram says) has yet been taken by the Powers with regard to Prince Ferdinand. The Central Powers are still awaiting the initiative of Russia. A telegram received in Paris from Vienna states that General Kaulbars, in acknowledging the New Year's congratulations of a friend, said: I recall with pleasure the time we spent together at Vienna and Sofia. Since then many things have changed, except the fixed resolution of my country not to give way under any pretext on the least of those questions concerning which I declared to the Bulgarians in 1886 that the world might come to an end rather than concessions be made by us." Mean- while, in spite of all statements to the contrary (the Vienna correspondent of the Times says) the con- centration of Russian troops is being continued. Another military conference, which is not mentioned in the newspapers was held in Vienna on Wednesday, for the purpose of deciding on those measures which might be rendered necessary by the admitted fact that two more divisions are being moved in Russia towards the Galician frontier. It is reported that troops continue to arrive in Bessarabia, and that intrenchments are being thrown up along the Lublin-Dombrova Railroad. At Suwalld, on the Prussian frontier, large barracks and huts are in course of construction. From Bucharest also it is re- ported that the displacement of Russian troops in the immediate neighbourhood of the Roumanian frontier still continues, and a gradual and successive advance appears to be taking place. A diplomatic personage who has a property near Jassy states that four days ago a largeforce of Russian Cossacks entered Scuteni, on the Pruth, six hours' journey from Jassy. The Vienna correspondent of the Standard says :—" If the general situation has changed at all it is for the worse. 1 11 In high quarters here I again notice the prevalence of uneasiness and embarrassment. The cause of this feeling is probably to be found in the tenor of the latest reports received by the Intel- ligence Department of the War Office. It is notorious that when Russia talks loudest of peace she is most assi- duously making preparations for war. Her recent movements are regarded by competent military ob- servers as the commencement of a hostile march or the first step towards the outbreak of hostilities. Under these circumstances, it is not wonderful that the Emperor Francis Joseph should be having fre- quent audiences with his Minister of War, and taking counsel with the rest of the Cabinet. The situation is the more embarrassing as, for reasons of its own, the German Government feigns to believe in Russia's peaceful assurances. As each regiment is moved up to the frontier there is a fresh protestation of Russia's pacific designs and the Czar's sincere love of peace, now by the mouths of her Ambassadors or military attaches, now by her official or semi-official news- papers. The Russians being consummate masters of dissimulation and honeyed falsehood, of course no one believes a syllable of these pharisaic protestations. Yet they have had the effect for the moment of tying the hands of Austria and preventing this Government from making good the threat uttered by the Frern- denblatt a, few weeks ago, when it declared that the further massing of Russian troops on the frontier would compel Austria to look after the safety of the monarchy. AUSTRIAN FEELING. A Vienna correspondent writes; under date of Monday: A semi-official letter from St. Petersburg pretends gravely to discuss Russia's -position towards Bulgaria, and recurs to the old contention that the Powers are bound to expel Prince Ferdinand, "after which," adds the letter, "Russia will be ready to accredit Prince Cantacuzene, the ex-Bulgarian War Minister, as Diplomatic Agent at Sofia." People are becoming very tired of all this straw- splitting over the Bulgarian question, at a moment when Russia's rapid and vast concentration of troops shows that there is not the slightest inten- tion at St. Petersburg to let the questions at issue between Russia and other Powers be settled diplomatically. It had been expected that Russia might make some proposals about Bulgaria, because rumours had been adroitly circulated in Russian circles that such would be the case. Con- ciliatory articles in the Press, diplomatic hints of a desire for compromise, vague assurances as to the maintenance of peace — all these ancient artifices have been employed to gain time while Russia poured torrents of soldiers towards her western frontiers. Even now it is possible that some proposals will be made to gain further time, and European statesmen may have to go through the comedy of assembling round a council table to discuss problems which every one of them will know can only be solved ultimately by a coup d'etat or by war. Russia in her Eastern policy has generally proceeded by surprises and accomplished facts. A palace con- spiracy or a barrack mutiny overthrowing Prince Ferdinand, and flinging Bulgaria into the convulsions of civil war, would do more for the Panslavists than any congress, and all their efforts now, as heretofore, are being, and will be, directed to effecting a consum- mation of this kind. As the people of this monarchy see more and more clearly into Russia's game (continues the Vienna cor- respondent) their sentiments towards Prince Ferdi- nand are gradually turning into sympathy, not un- mixed with respect. The wild vapourings of the Berlin press about the Prince being an audacious usurper who ought to be turned out bag and baggage find no echo here. Even the Fremdenblatt asks how the Prince is to be turned out. It seems to be forgotten at Berlin that Prince Ferdinand was elected because Russia tried to prevent the Bul- garians from electing any Prince at all. Bulgaria stood in the position of a young lady one of whose guardians insists that she shall marry nobody except a man of his choosing. Bulgaria chose for herself, and out of deference to the one cantankerous guardian the other guardians say they can hold no intercourse with the bridegroom. But between this and coercing the bride into a divorce and a forced marriage with some- body else is a very long step. Those who feel no interest in Prince Ferdinand himself are at least grateful to him for having practically demonstrated that Bulgaria, if left to herself can become a well-governed little State. They maintain that the present condition of Bulgaria better fulfils the aims of the signatory Powers of the Berlin Treaty than the disorderly state of things which Russia has been trying to produce.
PACIFIC DECLARATION BY THE…
PACIFIC DECLARATION BY THE CZAR. In acknowledging the congratulations of the city of Moscow in a rescript to Prince Dolgoroukoff, the Czar expresses the firm hope that the New Year will be a year of peace and prosperity. Much importance is attached to the Imperial declaration.
ARREST OF BENSON IN AMERICA.
ARREST OF BENSON IN AMERICA. The police authorities have received a telegram from America announcing that Harry Benson, who was implicated in the Turf Fraud Case, and sentenced at the Central Criminal Court, in April, 1877, to 15 years' penal servitude, in conjunction with Kerr and others, has been arrested in New York, where it is understood he will be handed over to the Louisville (Kentucky) Police, who have been seeking him for a very long time, Benson having almost immediately after his liberation in England gone there, and com- mitted a series of forgeries. Benson is "wanted" both in England and France. The Central News learns that another of the persons convicted in con- nection with the Great Turf Frauds died suddenly in London last week.
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COLLIERY WARNINGS. Following the long series of disastrous explosions previous to the year 1881, the Press Association, with a view to reducing the terrible loss of life which was going on year after year, arranged for the supply of notices intimating to miners the periods of weather changes attended by increased danger to collieries. These colliery warnings have now been issued for seven consecutive years, and, as evidence of the interest taken in them by the miners whom they affect, votes of approval have been duly passed at miners' conferences. The average loss of life in the decennial periods ending 1860, 1870, and 1880 amounted to 244, 227, and 266 respectively, or for the whole 30 years an average of 246. In the seven years, 1881-1887, this average has decreased to between 160 and 170. The introduction of warnings may, therefore, be taken as an important element in the protection of life.
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THE Post Office regulations now require that the time a letter is received at the local office shall be stamped on the front of the envelope. This will maktj etters still more frequently behind time.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS. BELIEVERS IN THE VIRTUES of on old-fashioned winter may be regretting the mildness of the weather, and for various descriptions of farm work a hard frost at this time of year is seasonable. But between a long and severe winter and a comparatively mild one, no experienced farmer, whose judgment is sound, would have any hesitation in pronouncing in favour of the latter. Some of the best of corn harvests have followed mild winters, with just enough frost to check the too rapid growth of wheat and other autumn- sown crops, and this has especially been the case when, as often has happened, a considerable pro- portion of the wheat crop was sown rather late. The real danger of a winter of comparatively high temperature consists in the great rainfall which often accompanies it. Apart from that evil, with its impoverishing effect upon the soil, and its weakening effect upon the growing crops, there is every reason to welcome a season from the sharp trial to vegetable vitality occasioned by prolonged frost. It is very rarely that we fail in this country to have freezing enough to check vegetation sufficiently to keep it from getting too forward at this time of the year, and the root growth that takes place when the soil is neither frozen nor saturated with water is entirely beneficial. Of course, the land ploughed up for spring crops requires frost enough to make it work well; but that is seldom lacking, two or three nights of freezing being sufficient, unless a lot of rain comes afterwards to cause the soil to run together" again. Even with respect to in- jurious insects, entomologists are generally of opinion that destruction is by no means insured by a severe winter, the insects usually hyber- nating out of the reach of frost. It is the frequent changes of our climate which render an English wiriter fatal to many insect scourges which flourish in colder countries. From this point of view, as well as for safely checking vegetation, the late-though not the very late-frosts which are in some respects unwelcome are, in reality, valuable agencies for the farmer and the gardener. It is further to be borne in mind that food for live stock is much more economi- cally consumed in a mild season than in a period of prolonged cold weather, when a great deal of the fat- forming constituents of the fodder is wasted in merely keeping up the animal heat. The autumn-sown crops are now looking remarkably well in this country, and generally on the Continent of Europe also. IN NO PREVIOUS YEAR has the value of £100 of tithe-rent-charge been as low as it is for 1888, since it was first collected in 1836. Until last year, as Willich's Tithe Commutation Tables show, it had only once, in 1855, been below zC90, and then it was only 4s. 3id. below that amount. For 1887 it was X87 8s. 10d., and forthe present year it is £84 2s. Sid. Taking separately the three descriptions of corn on which the value of the rent-charge is based, we find that the septennial average for wheat has never before been as low as 4s. Sid., its latest value. That 2 of barley was 3s. 7Jd. for the seven years preceding 1855, as compared with 3s. 8§d. for the last seven years, but not so low as the latter price in any equal period. Similarly with oats, the average for the seven years preceding 1855 was 2s. 6d., a farthing less than for the last seven years, but on that occasion only. In spite of the continuance of the value of the rent-charge below par since 1883, however, its average value for the 52 years that have elapsed since the Tithe Commutation Act was passed is £ 1 18s. lOJd. 2 above par. THE MOST RECENT of the more heroic remedies for agricultural depression emanates from the north. At Darlington Mr. James Lowther has advocated the adoption of a sliding scale in the payment of farm wages. If wages could be manipulated by employers so as to rise and fall in proportion to the price of produce, Mr. Lowther thinks the labourers might be won over to adopt his well-known views on fiscal reform." The regulation of wages by enactment of landlords and their tenants would not, however, prove easier than similar enactments by law, which utterly broke down 500 years ago, when the pesti- lence known as the Black Death" reduced the number of labourers throughout the whole country, and increased the value and power of the remainder. Farmers should look to increased efficiency among their men. They should follow their leaders. The London Farmers' Club has pronounced in favour of promoting allotments and cow plots, but the majority of the half million farmers are opposed to such privileges, and to education, smartness, and advancement of all kinds; and they listen to Mr. James Lowther. They should read the Agricultural Gazette, and hear what Mr. John Dent Dent and Mr. Samuel Rowland- son say on agricultural depression, with other leaders like them, of whom, we venture to say, the majority of farmers-sheep without a shepherd—never heard. They should read what a thoroughly practical man says on American Farmers in the same journal of Jan. 9. The writer has taken a five mouths' tour in America to see the farming for himself. He says the climate in America compels idleness half the year, but the Yankees win the race in the other six months by their 'cuteness and go-ahead-ness. They use lighter implements of all sorts than our own. On this point, after giving the details, the writer says: Take my own case. On a 350-acre farm I am doing with six horses less than the out-going tenant did." This is the result of his American trip. Addressing his brother farmers, he says: To those who have still a little wind left, and especially young men, like myself, I would offer this advice—' Don't stand still. Do with a little less tobacco, and spend the pence saved thereby in agricultural papers. Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. If your neighbour is beating you, copy him. If the Yankee licks you, copy him, always bearing in mind you have 3000 miles of water on your side. The other plan from the north is the old one of sliding-scale rents which Lord Tollemache adopted lately on his corn-growing estate in Suffolk. The Scotch farmers are inclined to agitate for legislation on this point. Better far manage their own affairs; but since their long leases with enormous rents failed them at the fall of prices, the Scotch farmers seem to have lost their nerve. With the opening year, and much that is hopeful in the out- look, the cries and discussions on agricultural depres- sion are growing fainter, and will continue to do so, as we confidently anticipate, till presently it will be found that the depression has ceased to exist. BEFORE ENTERING FARTHER upon the treatment of lambs, let us turn our attention to that of the ewes now. Since Christmas the ewes have been in rather large folds upon a 30-acre pasture held specially in reserve for this season of the year. After the hay- making last July growth was so much retarded by drought that when rain fell autumn was already upon us, and though the grass then grew freely enough it was left untouched for the ewes to have the benefit of for a month previous to and during the lambing. A belt of trees around the pasture affords sufficient shelter the pasture is well drained and firm, and the herbage abundant. Let it not be thought that 11 because sheep are hardy and bear much exposure with impunity that they are not much benefited by shelter. Pregnant ewes especially should have shelter, be kept quiet, and be carefully fed. We shall give no roots of any kind this season till the lambing actually begins, and then the ewes will have a certain quantity of mangolds daily. Our dietary since Christmas has been as simple as sound—chopped barlev straw with a few oats in the troughs, pea straw in cribs and racks, and the grass. We insist upon the use of straw chaff, and we know full well how wholesome and nutritious really good straw is. With our large stacks of barley straw we have no occa- sion to touch any of the hay, of which we have an ample store of some 250 tons, which a little later on should realise some JE900 or JE1000, and prove a real help to us in our struggle with difficulties arising from the poverty of the farms which fall upon our hands one after another. WE SAW two ewe flocks recently on different farms both folded upon white turnips. There had pre- viously been a frost of several days' duration, a thaw had set in, and the poo r sheep evidently had some difficulty to wade through the sea of mud in which they were apparently kept continuously. We saw this with regret, knowing as we do from dearly- bought experience how severe is the strain upon the ewe's frame as it struggles to withdraw its feet from the sodden soil. A ewe requires from 201b. to 241bs. of food daily, and if the bulk of it consists of a mass of half-frozen turnips day after day, the loss of heat caused by the consumption of such cold watery food proves so injurious, that abortion and the death of the ewes not unfrequently spreads like an epidemic through the flock. No doubt dry food in troughs tends in some measure to counteract the baneful effects of the turnips, but it cannot prevent mischief. We have both white turnips and Swedes but neither will be touched till the lambs are taken upon them with the sheep. If we were short of grass now we should certainly turn to the Rye, which is such a full and forward plant that it would afford excellent grazing for the sheep. We know that many farmers are at their wit's end to find food for the stock this winter, yet there were ample opportunities last autumn for the sowing of green crops, and it certainly shows' great want of forethought and care where this was not done. The short crop of hay and roots upon so many farms was like a danger signal for the coming winter, and we took care to keep the number of our sheep well within due bounds, and at the same time did all we could to secure plenty of green crops for spring use, If we should have a late spring the struggle will be a severe one, and it will probably lead to the premature disposal of many a flock.
SUPPOSED MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER.
SUPPOSED MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER. Early on Saturday morning a cart heavily laden with hay, the property of a farmer at Trentham, passed over the body of a man lying in the road at Hanford, a village near Trencham Hall, the seat of the Duke of Sutherland. After the wheels had passed over him, the man gave a groan, but almost imme- diately expired. The deceased was identified as a gamekeeper, named John Strudwick, in the employ of the Duke of Sutherland, and it was at first thought he had been accidentally run over in the fog, but°an examination of the body revealed a gaping wound in his skull where the wheel of the cart had not touched him; it is therefore conjecturE d that the deceased, who had that morning been to Stoke-on-Trent to obtain warrants against certain notorious poachers had been struck on the head in the dark and left on the road to die, the cart passing over him in the dark- ness of the night. Deceased, who was a Scotchman, resided on the Duke of Sutherland's estate.
EARTHQUAKES IN ALGERIA.
EARTHQUAKES IN ALGERIA. A few nights ago a shock of earthquake occurred over a great portion of Algeria. It lasted twelve seconds at Algiers, and was there very slight but was much sharper elsewhere. In one village a house fell in and the walls of the church and school-house were cracked. In a third chimneys fell and furniture was overturned. A tremendous shock, at first taken for an earthquake, occurred at Tunis before one o'clock in the morning. During a violent hail and thunder- storm the powder-magazine of Fort Filfil, at the gates of the town, blew up. Four Tunisian soldiers were buried under the ruins. In the town windows were broken and lamps extinguished. The cause of the calamity is unknown, but some attribute it to light- ning.
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