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I u -, ( /oS*— rwß PA RT 1. JERKY. •Bwt. then, your old endear ng ways, What study e er canid catch them?. You: pie: v ge tures, endless playa. What vH’iVr--, e er could j» ateh them? Your lively leap of merriment, Your murmur of petition. Your serious silence of co ntent, Your laugh of recognition. •Here were a puzzling toil indeed I< r art a most fine creations. Grow on, sweet baby ; we will need ’ To note your trau«forinnti<>!>». I Hereafter, when revolving years Ha\« made you PaU, aud twenty, B And brought yo',. blended hopes and fears. Ana sigus, and slaves, in plenty. chapter I. THE HEIRESS AT FIFTEEN. y “No. really, Jerry, I cannot have it. N>. my dear child, you really are—this really is more than I can put up w th. I have overlooked a great deal, for. of co.ase, lais is all out-of-lhe-w av place, and dress is not of much consequence here: but you seem to have no Conscience in the matter. And really, tor a great girl of fifteen to lie going atout such a figure why, who. seeing you to-day, would ever dr, am of taking . you for a young gentlewoman? They would take you oralishermansdaughfter—nay, or the fisherman himself. 1 should rot be in the least surprised if lanybody meeting you going about as I you are now were to take you for one ’of the fishermen of the villagel” I The suggestion was, sooth to say, not ■altogether unmerited. I “Jerry” a fond granddame’s abIbreviation for the more elegant “GerFaldine’’- had, tor convenience sake, I inserted her brisk, healthy young per|son into an ancient yellow oilskin lish- | ing coat, which completely covered [every feminine garment underneat i. ‘ and the collar of which, standing up around her ears, was lost beneath the ’•shade of one o' those seafaring g'a e i (reaps known as •sou’weteis,’ whoso I long flap wo Id obviously ward off the ■Severest wetting. With bare hands plunged deeply in ; capacious pockets, and a pair o the stoutest boots which the village Ijootmakor a man accustomed to make for ploughboys and fishermen could produce for none but these would have pleased h.s [resent customer the daughter of an ancient house and s >le heiress o a large estate, presented an uppearatucwnieh.it must frankly be [confessed, was liable to confuse the | mind of any ordinary lieholder. ; “It really is too much, quite too i much.” murmured Geraldine's grandt mother. in the piteous accents of weak disapproval, common to those who |have long since found their tyrants. “1 reaby ought not to allow it: I kn?w I ought not." , Jerry s eyes twinkled. “Whoever sees you,” began the old lady aga n but time was passing, and lit was necessary this should be put a I stop to. "Who is there to see me?” cried tho defaulter merrily. "I say 'who?' and 1 Echo answers 'who?' .Now, my dear ‘ granny, you had best say •who?’ yourself. and let me off, there’s a dear.” "How can you tell whom you mav meet?” “But I never do meet any one.” "That’s not to say you never may. And for you, a youug lady, my granddaughter. to be marching all over the place ” “Oh. dear. I never thought of marching. Not but w hat 1 could march finely in this nice, comfortable coat.” shaking herse t anew into it. "but ihur.-g th’s ilinii tihv that there's no road where lam going, and one can hardly march through peal-log and birchon-wood. Oh, we are only going to fish the burn, and 1 never meant to be seen at all. not even by you. granny. 1 had been going to slip out by the side door, a .1 scuttle along by the garden wall. only that I had left my rod and line in the window here, and you were such a tiresome, mischievous old granny, that you popped out upon me before Ico ;11 escape. It was a shabby thing to do, dear, it was indeed " and the so ;’wester’ wagged from side to side reproachfully. "You madcapthing!” “Oh, madcap th ng,” quoth Jerry, philosopniealiy. "you often call me that, you know. And if these clothes keep me from getting wet — "Clothes: my dear child, call things by their righ: names. This sailcloth mi .1 oil skin -—” "Well, this sailcloth and oilskin. If it keeps me from getting a cold and sore throat "Oh, if you must go out in the rain, it is certainly better not to run the risk of getting a celd and sore throat. But it is really high time tor you to give up this sort of thug. Jerry. A young lady like you "Ought to be sitting perked up on the great drawing-room sofa, winding skeins of worsted, or scribbling over yard* of music paper,” cried Jerry, witn indignant contempt. "No, thank yon, dear, not as .ong as I can help it. And I do not believe you will ever turn me into a vouug lady o’ that sort even if I should live to boa hundred, ora thousand,” added she. still more energetically. "As if I could sit down and yawn beside the re in that great hot crawing-rcom this glorious alternoon, when the wi“<r ails are crashing over the rocks, a:J the big trout below will be all on the alert, and it is but throwing a line to have them bouncing after you! < h. I couldn t do it. I really could not do it. if I tried ever so. And what's more, you would be sorry for me it I did. Madam Granny: and then I know how it would be. you would relent just wo late, and never, never, never forg . e you. self for the cruelty of it. So there kiss and be friends and don't keep me one other single second. there □ a dear, guoa, kind granny.”

i ,*^ OU J W nf>t S°far, dear child?” I "I-ar? ?ot I. I have no need to go h r ' anno - you hear them? Why, the falls have been roaring ever since noon, with the spate from the hills in , the night: but it was no use sis ling till they had gone down a little: they will be just in trim now at least the pool will ” Those deep pools'” "1 11 take care I will indeed, dear.” touched t>y the sigh which, wh le it betokened the close of the contest, also a pealed to the generosity of tho conqueror. "You don't know how careful 1 am,” protested Jerry earnestly. "You are not going alone?” “Donald goes with me, of course.’’ ell, Donald is .something,” conceded her grandmother ruefully. She could not say "somebody,” for she could hardly recognize a person in the ragged, bare-footed, 12-year old brat, who was Geraldine's self-constituted attendant out ot doors; but she could allow that the presence of a cat-like creature, with eyes to dart, and long supple arms to catch, and a high yelling voice to shout, was at best better than absolute solitude. "Donald is something,” she said, "why is he not here " "He is here. He has been waiting for me down at the white bridge for ages and ages. He must think I am never coming. Oh, Donald and I will be all right, never you fear: and we shall bring you in such a basket of beauties and see, the rain lias stopped, and there is the blue sky overhea I - and look, look, such a glorious stream of light has broken outoverthe water.' Oh. you will never stop in the bouse yourself now: you must get out at once —this very minute. Send for Jane, and bundle on your things: and I'm off, I'm on. and away over the hills and Tarawa', tra-la, tra-la. tra-la.’ ” and bang went the huge oak door, as with the joyous whoop of a school-boy, and thejpai eof a whirlwind, away flew Miss Geraldine Campbell of Inchmarew, the greatest heiress in the length and bread'h of Argyll. Mrs. Campbell stood still for a moment ere she turned and re-entered the deserted drawing room. "She is only fifteen. '’ she murmured, in a tone little resembling that in which the “great girl of fifteen” had been exhorted to better ways. "Only fifteen and there are yet’ three luil years belore she need be presented to the world. But what if she goes on as she is doing now? No, she will not, she must not. No, we shall see a change ere then. She will tone down, soften, grow less wild and careless, improve in shape. At present she is all arms aud legs, and though she carries it off well, still her figure is that of a child —a line, growing child. She will be tall presently, every few months there is a difference. Her waist is too large but waists are largo at her age. 1 wonder if 1 am partial, but it seems to me the child needs nothing that time will not bestow upon her. Such complexion such a color! Fairness itself, without a trace of freckle or sunburn, though she runs in and out hatless' half the time. But this moist climate is certainly a charming cosmetic: and Geraldine is right, little as she thinks or care a out it, when she eschews the hou.-e. an I the warm rooms, and spends her life in the fresh air. sitting over a fire would be the wreck of her bloom; and as for her shajie ana .(carriage, not one of her cousins, with all their gymnasiums and riding master.-, can show such a straight t*ck and open chest, and walk with such an elastic step, as my Geraldine. After Her own fashion, my child is grace itself; and if only she would not overdo it. and would not make herself such a guy-but, however, I suppose she will meet nobody, and the . ervants must be accustomed to her ways by this time—and she is a dear cbild.jand would obey me if I seriously desired her to do anything, so why should I thwart her iti a t isle? After all, I need not mind what her aunts say. My own daughters! I brought them up without any help fromthemsei.es, so surely I may be trusted with my grandchild. Charlotte was jealous, and always was: and Maria would like to have had poor Diarmld's daughter to bring up herself. z\nd really, cons! :ering that I was both able and wiling to undertake the charge, she need not have wished to see me laid on the shelf quite so soon.” And the old lady drew herself tip and bridled, although she was alone, and no one could have the l enefit. She was not really old, being only a little over t>o, and was still handso lie, cheerful, humorous, overflowing with energy ana with an aeklowledged zest for neigbliorly intercourse, pleasant scenes, summer galas, and winter dinner parties. Above all. however, did she affect the London season on the flowery, showery May days, when the luster is yet upon it. when the a alens and hyacints in the parks are still more brilliant than the many-tinted throngs around them: when t.ho shop win ows are gayest and the roar of wheels is loudest- and even the dingiest, di stiest alleys in the background put cut their little flower pots und make a feint of enjoying life. It was the thought o. all this, and the prospect of some day returning to take her [art in it, which, more than any matronly anxiety, occasionly found vest in remonstrances such as those with which our chunter Opens: it was the determii ation that m duo time the heiress shoahl be by all tho world admired, honored and perchance envied, which made her every now and then discontented with the humble pleasures ana modest aspirations of her darling. For Jerry hated the very idea of London. She had never been there — vowed she never would go there. What did she want with a dirty, smoky old town, with nothing but rows of houses, shrieking underground trains, rattling omnibuses, and every kind of horror? Ch, she knew -she had heard about it all It was all very fine for granny to smile. She always knew that “grown-ups” liked towns, and she could remember how. as a child, she had been used to see the men-servants and maid-servants in high glee when the time came for going into Edinburg for the winter, and how she had been by them instructed that it. was very silly and naughty for her not to be glad, too. when she ought to be thankful and . proud that her papa had a fine house

in Moray Place to take her to, instead of having, as many papas had, to stop all the year round in the nasty, eold, wet Highlands, where there was no one to be seen, and not a shop nor a kirk to be reached, once the weather turne 1 ba 1. That was what the stupid maids bad said. wh. n all they wanted was to get to Edinburg to see their stupid sweethearts. She knew better. It had been nothing but “you must do this," and "you must not do that,” from the moment she had arrived at Moray l lace. She had not been allowed to stir outside the doors, be the day ever so fine, until Katie ha l lieen free to attend her: she hud not been allowed to give her dog a run without putting on hat. gloves, and even boots. There had been no rushing round stables, and kennels, and gardens in the dusk after lessons: no dairy, no poultry-yard to take refuge in; no hens, no pigeons, no young rabbits nor ferrets to feed: no anything. Ten to one when she had lieen let loose from the school room it had been. "Miss Gera dine, your mamma wishes to see you in the drawing room: she has ladies with her.” Aud, of course, nothing had been worse than that. Now at Inchmarew there was always something to do or to see—nevz puppies, or chickens, or something. And there was the shore; and on the shore there wfls always something. And there was her pony. But Geraldine was not pronetodwell upon the pony, for in her heart of hearts the young horsewoman was aware that if the truth was out, her rides at Inchmarew over a rough, hilly district, and always along one monotonous road, with onlyacboicelietwixt turning to the right or the left as the rider emerged from the lodge gate, would ill bear comparison with the grand sweep of country to be traversed in all directions round the Heart- of Midlothian. It had lieen enough that she could affect to add this to her list of grievances: and so it had gone in with the rest, and helped to add up the Yes, she had hated Edinburgh, and she was sure, quite sure, she should hate London equally, if not more. In vain granny had protested, dilated and assured. Jerry lad invar ably listened with as much intention of being convinced, and of budging one hair’s breadth from her position as a young mule and by this time every one knew- with whom lay the reins of power at Inchmarew Castle. Jerry’s varents had been affectionate. but they had also been selfish; in conse iiienee of which she had never been able to lord it so completely over them as she had, since their death, contrived to do over their successor. Bit by bit granny had yielded on almost every contested [joint, until at last it had come aljout that even the spoilt child herself was fain to be gencro is. und at times ashamed. For Geraldine hail a finer nature than had ever yet been manifested. One circumstance, it must be added, had strengthened the young girl's cause when pleading to be allowed to remain in her Highland fastness undisturbed and unmolested, and this was the ass trance privately received by Mrs. Cambell that a few years’ retirement would enable the horses to take her place in the world more fittingly when the time came for doing so, than if the money were to be frittered away in town houses, expensive journeys,and the like, beforehand. Now, of all things, as we have said, the fend grandmother desired so see her darling a great lady, and a great lady fulfilling all the duties and obligations of her high estate. That Geraldine should be good as well as great she sincerely wished and devoutly praye 1: but she desired both. It was, to her mind, fitting and seemly that a ampbeil of Inchmarew should go abroad among the great ones i f the earth. She had herself wedded a Highland chief, with her head full of all the glories of doing so, and had found all too late that she, an Englisnwo.i an born and bred, was by far tin greater Highlander of the two. The disappointment had been keen, and it had been repeated, for her onlyson had followed in the steps of his father had discarded the kilt, never acquired the Gaelic tongue, and knew nothing and cared less about the legends, customs, and traditions of the house She had felt herself fairly checkmated, and it had cost her many a pang. And now. behold! just when it was not wanted, and could well have been dis, ensed with, all the wild blood that t.nese two very tamespecimens ot ranting, roving chieftainhood ought to have possessed and never had possessed, came surging up to light through the bice veins of a fair girl, and was not to be repressed, Ao BE CONTINUED. [ 111-Advised. in dealing with royalty it is necessary to have "a pretty reason” ready for any awkward situation; for kings and queens can never be made responsible for failure. When Victoria was a very young sovereign, she sat down, one day, to play chess with the Queen of Belgium. She. had never played before, and Lord Melliourne with Lord Palmerston stood behind her chair and advised her. Later, Lo - d John Hobhouse took their place, and became somewhat confused oy the diiiiculties of the situation. A good deal of misunderstanding was occasioned by the fact of having queensou the board and two queens at the tabla Moreover. \ ictoria was constantly asking, "What must I do?” so that the adviser felt incapable of making awe U-considered decision. He lost the game, but next night the Queen, undiscouraged, played again. When Sir John entered the room, she ran up to him, laughing, and exclaiming: • I’ve won! How did 1 happen to lose yesterday?” This was a poser. Could the courtier reply. "Because your Majesty had not learned the game?” Dr no means. ‘•Because," said he, “.our Majesty had such bad advisers!” Altho-oh England’s fartne smake a specialty of choice mutton sheen, and Australia also supplier the London market with frozen meat,yet the prices so good mutton keep pace with the demand.

REVIVAL OF BUSINESS CALAMITY CROAKERS NOW OUT OF A JOB. Prosperity Follow* Clone Upon the Heels of the New Tariff—Census Figures that Talk in Thunderous Tones — Wheat* Grower* Are Benefited. Facts that Are Facts. Calamity croakers will have to take a back seat. Prosper!t ? is following closer upon the heels of the new tariff bill than the greatest opt mist dart d to hope. Business of all kinds is starting up and prospects for the future are unusually bright. As an answer to tho=e who insist that the new tariff law is destructive to business, the Syracuse, N. Y., Courier publishes the following list of that have resumed, a e making additions, etc. The-e facts relate to time iur to Sept. 15: ihe Providence worsted mills are running full time and full capacity. The woolen mill at Manteo. R. L, Is to be reopened after a shut down of several years. The Grezory woolen mill of Wickford, R. L, is once more running full lime. The Stonewall Cotton Mill Company. Stonewall, Mass., is putting in new machinery. The Ruddy Thread Company, Worcester. Ma*s., ill erect a 150x53 foi,; dye house, two sv rie*. with boiler house attached. Bliss, i aft & Co., of Norwich, Conn, woolen waste manufacturers, have ar-

THEIR “NEW” LINE OF FALL GOODS. T ~ tWSra wS if skfe ’ 'SArt or LRCB gaK \ ■FA \f. |> OCT K" a NIG.--®,; I S. U -.-.£»lY lil la /V. ''"j l ’ COAT. K Noisy high-tariff curl stone fakers arc trying to do business at the old stand

ranged U» locate a branch office at Niagara Falls. lhe uev Dilling cotton mills. King’s Mountain* N. U, will be in operation in about two or three weeks. Thti Baltic Miiis Company, Enfield, N. H., has enlarged its plant. i he Ea’t Pond Manufacturing Company. Newport. Ma, is to add ten more looms to the woolen mills, which will give an output of one-third more capacity than now. The Neniadji woolen mills, a new corporation at Superior. Wis., is capitalized at 52u,000. The machinery of the K verside Woolen Company at Lebanon, N. Y.. is being Increased. At a recent meeting of the stockholders of the M-idena cotton mills. Gastonia, N. G, it was decided to put on 70 m re lo rns and 3.000 spindles. Hurst & Kogers, manufacturers of tapestry cartels at Philadelphia, contemplate putting in additional looms. The erection of a cctton mill Is contemplated at Tifton. GaThe Hartwell woolen mill. Old Town, Me . will be improved and new machinery added. An addition of 20x12 and another story are being built The Lowell, Mass., machine shop has orders on hand for 300 ring spinning frames from the Tremont and Suffolk, and one for like machinery for the Duffle mills of Fall River. Enlargements are being made to Rhodes Brother-*’ factory at Ashton Mill, Pa. The Edgemount Company of Omaha, Neh, is building a woolen mill at Edgemount, Neb, and will begin production in three months. The Linden Manufacturing Company. Davidson, N. C.. is making plans for enlarging its mills bv the addition of more looms and other machinery. A company has been organized at Sauk Center. Minn., to manufacture woolen goods. The Nonotuck Silk Company intends building an addition to its mill at Hartford, COiiU. The woolen mill at East Lyon, R I . wi.ich has been idle for several years, has orders ahead for a year, and wiil start up. The Pineville cotton mills Pineville, N. C., have been sold to Siephen A. Jencks. of Pawtucket, R. I. The mills will bdoubled in size. The Globe Mill. Clark & Co, proprietors. Augusta, Ga., manufacturers of yarns, have lately put in four looms, and wiil maaufacture drills, sheetin', etc. They expect to commence operation in three weeks A new mill, the Tuckapahaw. is being built near Wellford. S. C. It will be five stories high. 300 feet long and 1 i feet, wide, with a capacity of 30.000 spindles. Nearly all the stock (5i.000,0001 in the new Melrose cotton mill at Raleigh, N. C., has been taken, and the work on the factor will probably he camm<*need Tld, full The new addition now boing built to Odel] Manufacturing Comp:«ny’s n 111 at Concord, N. G, is to be a cloth and sla-h.-r bui ding, two stories high, 65x30 feet. Fifty-four Whittln looms will be put in and 1,800 mure spindles fur manufacturing white cloth. Hertzer & are building a ne-\ hosiery at Pa J. W. Wazley is about to start a small knit goods factory at Hannibal, Ma A new company has incur orated at Barnesville. Ga., to manufacture knit anThey commenced manufacturing Sept 1. New hosiery mills are re ported a* about to be built at Reading and Womelsdorf, Pa. The Nazareth Manufacturing Company of Nazareth, Pa., has let the contract for additional buildings. Tho Globe Knitting Mills. Norristown. Pa., have completed ’-rec-story buildin ir. About £25.000 are being expended by the Kilburn Knitting Machine Company In enlarging its plant at Martinsburg, W. Va . and erecting a dyeing plant. The Forsyth Dyeing Company, of New Haven, Coan., is adding knitting machinery f r the manufacture of hosiery, Kelley & Elser is the name of a new concern running a knitting mill at Wakefield street, Germantown. Pa. he Roxford Knitting (ompany. manufacturers of men and WL-men’s underwear, has been lnc'”P”rated at Philadelphia, with a cap! :ock of $50,000. A movement for .ie establlsnment of knitting mill at Madison. G.l has been inaugurated. The Patent Knitting Mill is a concern just started at Towanda. Pa. J. Taylor, of Na 835 Arch street, Philadelphia. reports the sale of knitting machinery to James A. Parr, of Amsterdam. N Y.; A Boyle & Bra; John Meir, of

Valdese. N C : Joseph W. Durbin; the I*aten< Knitting Mill of T,wanda. Pa.; the Forsythe Dyeing Company, of Sew Haven. Conn.; Kelly & Elser, of Germantown. Pa.; and Pfeiffer’s Mill, of Klver-lde N. J. The Star Knittfnx Company and 11. Strauss Knitting Works. Chicago, have put in a full line of Nye & Tredlck automatic knitting machines for ladies and men’s ribbed underwear. James A. P <rr is starting a new mill at Amsterdam, N. Y., fur the manufacture of hosiery. Farmers’ Gains. The additions to the free list in the new tariff will save the people of this c untry many n illions of dollars. It will sate them directly more than sl].010.0 0, the amount of tax paid in 1803 on the prin i; al article* nw added to the list. It will save them the much larger sum that the protected manufa< turers and . reducers were enabled by the tariff to charge for the domestic articles. The duty on some of the articles now placed on the free iLt was prohibitory. For example the duty ou iieiroleiim shut out ail foreign competition. The tax on binding-twine wa- so large that it gave to the Cordage Tru t the monopoly of the business and enabled it to fix its own price. It is evident, therefore, that the tax must have cost the farmers more than the $24.1.7 whi h was the whole amount collected by the government on bind ing-twine in ]rt3. The duty on hoopaud bana iron manufactured wholly o - partially into ties was also nearly prohibitory. In Is.i. the i .overnment r, cei. ed onlv -12.211 from this tax, and this was [ aid by the farmers who grow cotton, it was not all that the.e farmers paid, however,

for the tax of 40 per cent, permitted the ir< ninasters of Pennsylvania to increase their pri< es to the p int at which importation was too expensive to be profitable. L’nder the new law the cotton-planters will be relieved of the tax on the iron ties for their ba es. The wheat-growers will bo benefited still more. I'e-ides binding-twine, burlaps and bags for grain are made free. Tne tax paid on these articles amounted in P -1 to the very large sum of $2,02 »,331. The farmer did not pay all of this, but he > aid a go d deal of it. an 1 he will find that the removal of the tax wi 1 mare his crops of grain inure valuable to him. Another article which is necessary to the farmer is salt. In 1>:»3 the tax collected on salt amounted to $ 02,000. For many years the fish-packers of Now England have had their salt free of duty, but the farmers have paid the tax on the salt used by them for curing pork and feeding their cattle. Now both stand on an equal footing under the revenue law of the country. —New York World. Nothing About MrKlnleylsm. The mo.'t remirkablo things abou the present Republican campaign are the things not discussed. Not i nly is the “hated” income tax treated with silent contempt, but next to nothing is taid about what kind of a tariff we may e .pect when the Republicans aga n have full sway. Even McKinley is not promising that his “bravest and best tariff measure ever pa sed.” as tho New York Tribune fondly styled it. wiil be re-en'orc d when the Repi b icans are again in power. Tile most that he will ay is that the country must ha.e “protection” and will not survive witi>out it. Harrison and Reed are, if possible more unsatisfactory than McKinley upon this point. They conlin ■ their efforts mainly to the "hard times” that are the re-ult of Democratic rule. ; eglecting to state that these hard times began while Republican laws were still enforced by Ftepublican officials, and that prosperity ha - begun to return swiftly as soon as ihe McKinley law was abolishet. Thus lar only one Republican orat r could be inveigled into making any definite ■ tatements as regards the prospects for figure tariff legislation under Kepubli an sup emacy. In II inois Senator Cullom was asked by Franklin MacX eagh, the Democratic candidate for I nit d Sta es Senator, il the Me.-vinley law would be re-enacted if the bepub lean regained, power. The Senator ha ard d the pr. d eti m that the McKinley law wo Id no b» re-enaitad in its entirety. Tie said that after it had been in fore.' four years it needed revising, and that if tl.e Republicans hal continued in power they w0..1d undoubtedly have revised it in accordance with their policy in the past. T. e Senator did not exiilain his De ph c answer by stating if .he meant a revision u wards or one downwards. The “policy” of Repu ric.ns, as stated in their platforms. is to reform downwards: their [iractice has been to reform upwards. Thi- leaves us still in the dark—. ust where all shre vd 1 epublicans intend to lea.e us. They don t dare say McKinley bill w - again, and of course they can t promise to do just what the Democrats are doing. But it doesn t matter much, anyway. Republicans will never again make any tariff laws for us. Theie may be a few Republic n victories this fall, but they are possib e only because the people know the Republicans will be powerless to do harm. After one or two years of sober reflection under a Democratic tariff Lw, the i eople will conclude that they have no mere use for a party that stands for monopoly and nothing but monopoly. A GRAIN of fine sand would cover one hundred of the minute scales of the hi man skin, and yet each of these scales in turn covers from 300 to 500 pores.

FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. A TRUE FAIRY TALE. Do you know of the house Where ginger-snaps grow? Where tarts for us children March out in a row? Where wishing is having, Where. —isn’t it grand! Just up in the garret Is real Fairy-land? Where youngsters can caper And romp and halloo, For they always do right, Whatever they do? You don’t know the house? Then oh deary me, I’m sorry for you I Why, it s Grandma’s, you see. —[Youth’s Companion. PARROT STORIES. To a large number of people the parrot is perhaps the most interesting of birds. It has such a human way of chattering that even when it does not talk in words it seems to be saying something important, and you often feel that it is your stupidity and not the parrot’s which makes its jargon unintelligible. Once, a long time ago, there was a parrot that belonged to an old lady who lived in a small town. It had been given to her by her husband, a business man, or merchant as he was then called. Poor Polly had lost one of its legs, and no sooner did anyone remark this or ask how it happened than Polly would reply, "I lost my leg in the merchant’s service; pray remember the lame.” Its vagi / was frequently hung on the -/a. where its greatest delight . j! 1 to be to whistle to the dogs c ' ” r them go ~y had 5t.,|,]..-d: and voice- was so natural that the ■iors< s and dogs obeyed without thinking they were being fooled. Poll would laugh long and loud when the commands were thus obeyed. Another parrot that belonged to a man living in the same town was very fond of the cat, and any little tidbits that it didn’t want it would give to puss, calling the cut under the cage and tinn dropping the morsel on the floor. This same parrot was once chained to a pole when a strange cat appeared. The cat crouched readv to spring at the bird. Poll was greatly alarmed and cried incessantly, "Dear puss, pretty puss, nice pussy.” keeping one eye fixed on the cat until assistance arrived. —[Atlanta Constitution. SIRRAH, THE SCOTCH SHEEP DOG. You often hear a great deal about dogs destroying sheep; and some persons would like to kill all the dogs in the country. That is very foolish, because the dog is really the sheep's best, friend, and if, instead of hating dogs, each farmer would get a good one to look after his flock, they would be quite safe; he would not let any strange bad, fierce dog hurt the sheep that were in his charge. Such a brave and faithful animal was Sirrah. He lived in Scotland a good many years ago, a collie of the best and purest breed, and as handsome as he was intelligent. He had a beautiful white frill and the clearest, most honest and affectionate hazel eyes. Now Sirrah held a post of great responsibility. He had to take care of the lambs. Not of a few lambs, a dozen or so, but of seven hundred. Just think how hard it would be to count seven hundred lambs! But that was what he had to do. He was expected to keep watch of all and not to lose one. One very dark, stormy night the sheep managed to break out of the fold. No one knew what started them, but t hey followed each other, as sheep will, being very stupid animals, and before midnight the fold was empty and the sheep and lambs were scattered in three separate parties over the wile range of hills. The shepherd called Sirrah, who was sleeping after working hard all day, and started off with his men. It was pitch dark and they could not see the dog. but he knew his duty and went off to look for his lambs, while the men hunted for the sheip. They found them after awhile and then sought for Sirrah and his charge, but no trace of them was to be seen. All night they wandered over the hills, till finally they turned towards home in despair, having made up their minds that the lambs were all lost and that they should never find them alive, for there were many steep precipices and places where they might all have fallen off and been killed. It was now getting light. The shepherd and his men were going slowly and sadly along, when as they passed a deep hollow among the hills they heard a bark. They looked down and saw some lambs and the dog in front looking round for help, but still at his post. Then they did not feel tired anymore, but ran down the side of the hill, and Sirrah was glad enough to see them. He came a little way to meet his master and the look of care and responsibility left his face. Not one lamb of the whole seven hundred was missing, but how they had ever been got there, how the dog, all alone, in the black darkness, had ever managed to get them all together and then to bring them safely down the sides of the deep hollow, no one could ever tell. Sirrah had been all alone from midnight till sunrise. He had no one to help him. and yet all the shepherds of the hills could not have done the same in so short a time — [New York World. Detroit, Mich., gets natural gas for twenty-five cents per