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else to do just now, and she'll go in a mos | ment, She’s vot ill, on'y a little headache —go, Ketharine,’ ‘Not on my account,’ said Mrs. Joilie, | rather sternly, as she caught the menacing glance directed by her sister.in‘law towards her niece, and clasped the burning, trembls ing hand she had taken, ‘I am an old wo.

POETRY.

LORNA LBA LO LLL

4 SONG FOR SEPTEMBER,

BY THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS. September strews the woodland e’er With many a brilliant color: Phe world is brighter than before- Why should our hearts be duller? Sorrow and the scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather! Ah me! this glory and this grief Agree not well together.

man, and so epoiled by baving my own way always, that you must indulge me in it now. Let this laseie go to bed, and then you and [can surely endure each other's eompany

Phis is the parting season—this ) ; : alone until my brother comes in.

The time when friends are flying ; And lovers now, with many a kiss, rheir long farewells are sighing. Why is earth so gaily drest? This pomp that autumn beareth A funeral seems, where every guest A bridal garment weareth,

We have much toask of each other,’ she added, sor- rowfully.

‘Aye, that we have,’ said Mrs. Grove, taking the cue from her visitor, and sizhing deeply, * and I shou'd be glad to oblige you, Each one of us, perchance, may here, I'm sure, and send the girl to bed, bet she’s

On some blue morn hereafter, something to do that must be done tos Return to view the gaudy year, night

But not with boyish laughter. _— ‘Those frills? Ah! well, uevcr mind!

We shall then be wrinkled men. Our brows with silver laden, | They sha'l be ready io time, if you wil! | truet to me.’

And thou this glen may seek again. ‘But F

But never more a maiden! a * I have a singie i rk Will tonch that seeming bosom, : pe soem a sores net And that a few brief months will bring | works wonders,’ interrupted Mrs. Jollis, Phe bird, the bee, the blossom; |‘ You may safely trust fo it, only let the Ah! these forests do net know lassi +e : : ’ assie go; : f beg ¢ i. Or would less brightly wither- vel - whe eh tS abe . The virgin that adorns them so the good Katie who nursed my darling, Will never more come hither! whatever is lacking from her neglect, I will a “= | pay for, and get done, twenty times over.’ As she spoke, shs draw Katharine to her, ani while the tears coursed rapidly down her face, kissed her solemnly, saying—

‘Good night, Katie, God bless you! I will not ask ycu anything to-night; tosmors morruw we shall both hava much to hear, ' and afew hours rest wlll be good for each.

Nature, perhaps, foresees that spring

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LITERATURE.

OS Nee AAAS

KATHARINE.

OF WOMAN'S TRIALS.|

CHAPTER V. Upon Mr. Grove, the tendervess, patience

was not one of her sieters who bore the faintest resemblance to the deac—or whom, with any prospect of happiness, their aunt could receive as an inmate. This onve as- certained, Mra. Jollis would havea left Bir- mingham immediately a‘ter the funeral, to escape her sister-in-law's broad bints and sugzestionsin favor of Jane or Lucy, but for her hops of Katharine. her brother upon the subject of her wishes,

plan for improving h's niece’acondition; nos thing, therefore, remained but to be satisfied | of Kathirine’s integrity. In the hope,there- fore, of establishing this, she took her darinz the evening into her own room, and when

uizht of Mary’s life, she said, suddenly—

‘Ihave a strange idea, Kate, that you know something more «bout tha! robbery than you have yet tuld us.”’

‘Have you? Why?’ asked Katharine, hurriedly, stooping to hide her confusion.

*Because it is the only subject I have spoken upon to you myself or heard others speak, on which you were not perfectly | prompt, frank, and open.’

‘Lam very sorry ’ tezan Kate

‘ Nay perhapa there is no cause for sorrow ; only be as candid upon th’s matteras | think you arg upon every other, and al! will be right.’

‘What do you want to know?’

‘ All that you do.’ | ‘TI have told you all that I can.’

‘ How can that be, while anything remains untold ?’

*I can say no more than I have done; ins deed I cannot. *

shown to

| fatally —

; and dutifulness cf hs lost child had made a

strong impreasion, sion which, faulty as he was, she had eyer and the earnest, though gentle opposition she had vainly made to the journey which had-ended so s neglect of her entresiies to be taken hom, and deafuess to Katherine's urgent representations of the danzer of de- lay—ahis own ill-employed albserce on the night of her death—all oppressed him now,

bis wiebes,

and with a strange kind of remorae, he sought | to atone for all by conveying the insnimate

body baek to that home which, in the last days of life, the spirit had been so Icath to leave. In vain were a'l Lis wife’s remous

Strances against the expenee and uselessness

Tho respectful sub nis- |

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| mind you’rs up early in the morning.’

You will I-t ber go for my sake—will you ‘Then you acknowledge there is more to | Say 7”

; only| Kathsrine romained silent, with ber eyes | fixed upon the floor. The expression of her

face puzzled Mrs Jollis, it was so resolute,

not Mre. Grove?’ *Oh, of coures, if you wish it

With a grateful heart Katharine left the

She had sounded |

and felt assured of his acquiescence in any |

thera, leading the conversation to the last |

| your name upon steel by a proc: | etching.

| (nitric acid) ;

; OF with a@ s

| but I discovered

OWN, PRINCE EDWARD..ISLAND, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1874.

AGRICULTURAL.

Wiyteine Carnace.—To keep cabbage through the winter, pack in sawdust in the barn, and allow the whole to freeze, the sawdust being such a non conductor of heat that once it becomes frozen through, it will not 1 well into April,

thaw out until

and cabbage will c me out almost as nice as when put in

SsMoke vor GRaAssHOPPR ’s A write 1 the Prei Farmer; speaking of graszhops pers. says :—‘ It was no use to fight theza,

that a little smoke drove

them away. It is not a large fire, but | smoke sends them off. Had I known this | four days ago I could have saved £500}

worth of plants and fruit. It ticable ona iel but acres.’

large field, bn few

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}? ‘ 3 Caled

Mark your Toots.—You can eas Coat the tools wi laver of wax or hard tallow, by fi ing the steel and rubbing on the warm until it flows, and let it cool.

hard mark your name through the wax with a graver and apply by aquafortis

over

the acid thoroughly witk water, metal enough to melt the wax, and wipe it ft rag. The letters will }

found etched into the steel.

Sart as A Feriitizer.—An inquirer of ithe New York 7 wants to know how much salt can be used per acre with bene- fit, to which Prof. S. W. Johnson gives the scientific answer as follows :~—“ Az to the quantity that may be applied per acre, that depends upon the crop and the climate. On asparagus several hundred bushels may be used without harm. On sugar beets and tobacco, large applications will often

| and the tobacco will not make goo

room , although the intens* agony she wes | @ndatthe same time eo innocent That | suffering seemed to bave du'led her faculties | there was a secret, wasevident: but that it | somuch that she eearcelry knew how hor! wae one for her share in which Katharine |

of this plan; he bad taken a dogged reaoles |

ticn, and if it had cost him half his fortune,

/entreaty, and when Katharine went to the |

| felt that ebe had no cause to blush, was,

release had been eff-cted, er who the powers | | Mrs. Jollis thought, equally evident.

ful visitor was.

The next time they met was by Mar.’s| coffin, It had besn opsned at he aunt's | her own thouchte. sail—

‘Mary told you the ead atary of Kate; did she not—and its ruinous end?’

* Yes, answered Kathrine, io a low voice.

room as uausl, unconscious that any one ber secret, was there, or that any change bad becn | made, she found Mrs. Jollis kneeinz and! weeping by the dead.

A terrible shock, as the uncovered f.ce you, you stil persist in following the same she had thoug!t :ever again to sce on aarth | met her eye, thrilled through Katharine. |

‘Aud yet, with auch an example before

| hold it ap.’

| wickedness,

| and became aware of the presence of a lady,

he wou'd have persisted in it. For 4 few minutes sie could neither speak nor wove; bat at last, with a suddeo burst of tears, =he threw horsaf upon the eoftin,

After much unbecoming discussion, theres | fore, the body was removed to Birmingham; | and when it arrived in Great Charles Street,

Mre Grove became at once reconciled to and sobbed bitterly. the whole proceeding by finding a letter ‘ Poor Kats,’ murmured Mrs. Jollis, ten- from Mrs. Jollis expressing a with todefray ‘erly; ‘ [ did uot mean you to have seen |

all the cost, and a request that the funeral

should be delsyed another day, to enable

ber to be present. | fallen upon you. You were vary kind to In the satisfaction and hopes excited by _ ber,’ she added, weaping.

this welcome letter, all grief for the loss! ‘Ob Mary, Mary!’ sobbed Kate, ubhecds

which had oceasioned it sexmed banished: | ing. ‘ Why did you leave me—what wil! bes

and ful! of schemes and plans, Mrs. Grove come of me row? Oh, that I could die eet busi!y to work to prepare for the due re~ | to>.' ° ‘Hush! Kate, hush! such wishes arse |

ception of the important guest

Harraseed and worn out by bodily fatigue, as Well asthe despest giisf it was possible , for 80 youag a girl to endure without sink~| 3° $0 her. ing, Katharine, for the fret time, wa:un- ‘Det! caonot be psiient! She was my able to obey the spur of ber aunt's unceas- only friend, the only one who loved me; ing demands. It was not, however, unti] 9¢dnow that she is zone, I have nothing the last nigh'—the ene preceding that upon !e!'-

bich Mre. Jollis was expecte’, that Kath-| The tove of desolation which these arine suffered hersel{to com isin. She had words whre utterel pierced the listner’s been working hard all day, faint though she beart, and, rising from ber knees, she strove was for the want of the nourishment she wes ‘0 comfort the poor broken-hearted girl, toe exhausted to take, aud sick from the agony of an inteuse headache. She bore up bravely, however, cntil evecing, when. re- fusing with a taunt her entreaty to be allows

sinful; we must bear patiently, and work | earnestly, that in Goi’s good time we may

in

than her own. For a time the words of ususua! kindness only increated Katharine’s tears; the floods

ed to lie down. her aunt desired her to ga'e# of ber misery were unloosened, and finish the bombazine frills Jane had re-| "ot being terrified inio silence, her griet |

was poured forth uurestrainedly. Atier a whie, however, ste became calm, and was able to answer with tolerable composure al! the anxious inquiries made by her compan-

linqaished ‘I cannot, aunt: indeed, | cannot! I do not say so ‘rom: idleness; but I cannot sre.

My head aches so badly, that I can ecarecly jon.

jliness, almost: every thought and hope she had expressed, were dwe't upon with a loys ing ,earnestness which tovehed Mra, Jollis deeply ; there was no concealment of ans- thing ontil the history of the ‘ast nizht came, ani then she observed thet Katharine be- came cautious and reserved in her replies.

+ Oh, nonsense, tit @ wet cloth round it) then. My bead bas ached all the week bad enough, axd iny beart too; but l've gone on, andso must you. Hers, take the work.’

‘Indeed i cannot do it. I would not re- fuse if I could; bat I canxot to-nizht, I should on'y epoil it. I am very sorry.’

‘Sorry won't hem the frills, and bemmed they must be, so you'd better take them at once and get on; the sooner you'll begin, the sooner they’i! be don-.’

Scalding tears of pain trickled down poor Katharine’s pallid cheeks, and her eyes burned with a blinding agony. She really eould not seo, and as she extended her trem» bling band to take the work, she ujset her

This struck her be more, from Ka‘harine’s previous openvess, and the remembrance of Mrs. Gr ing

‘Katharine knows m

ve’s remark of the preceding evens

re about thes ros bery than she choosre to tell, l’m certsn

her speak, she may depend upo: it.’ To look in Katharine’a ingenious face,

gun's well-eresmmed cup of tea over the darkened though it was with sorow, and bombazine. suspect ber of collusou with thieves, was

‘You careless, good for nothing, lazy impossible ,; snd yet euspic.oa, once suggest- thiog !’ cried Mre. Grove, stariing up and ed, there was something singular in the

shaking the drops from the frills; ‘you evasiveress of her answers. There was no deserve to be made sit up all night for your Firet you pretended to be ili, to get of doing what you're told and when | you find that won't do, you try to spoil the | werk ost of spite. Bot I’mnot to bs cheat- ! ed in that way; you ehall work til! the things are finished, I'm determined.’

As she spoke, she tursed sharply round,

more of the robbery and robbrr than she told; but if she did not, why did she eo evade the eubject? and when questioned upon it, so hurry and curtail her replies? It was strange ; avd Mrs. Jollis, hoping to obtain a satsfactory explanation, wisely

thoughts and mnds of both were calmer. who stood a few peces within the door. She bad taken a strong fancy to Katharine,

*Your servant announced me,’ aaid the stranger, edvancing; ‘but you were too

much occupied to bear her. My aoame is

seeing how unkind y she was treated, re- solved to take her back to Scotland, it the

Jollia! ’ | careful watch she should keep upon ber ‘Mr:. Jollis!’ stammered the horrified | actions was satisfactory. Of these inten» tormagant tions, however, she said nothing.

A bleak aud lowering day dawned that of the funeral; like the ooz ng of great waters, the slow rain dripped unceasingly—the leads eo sky was uchroken by «@ single gleam— and even the wind sas ctill. Wuithbia the damp, dark church the ;ent heavy air wrap. ped the mourners as ia a shrocd, and the foul smell from the opened vault, unable to escape through the thick atmosphere, made those who breathed it shudder:

It was a terrible day in Great Charles S:.

‘I am sorry to have taken you by sur- prise; but leaving Scotland some hours earlier than | had hoped todo, I arrived thie evening, instead of to-morrow, and being of course very anxious to see you, I merely took some refreshment at the hotel, and came op at once. Is my brother at home, and bow is he?’

* Very tad, poor man—he frets bimseif to death; but I think be's at the factory to~ night, though I’m sure be wouldn’t have) gone outon no account if he bad known of you coming, Ren down Kathbarise, and send for your uocle—look sharp, now!’ - visit of death among them, were silent and

i : : aD , ‘lie and Katharine, if ‘Ne, ro!’ eried Mrs. Joilis, stretching | "FOSS; aod Mrs. Joli as es

out ber band to impede Katharine, ‘I can wait. Pardon me for contradicting your orders,’ she ea:d, turning courteously to her astonished bosiess ; ‘bat I should be grieved if you distressed this young lac- on my account, and I am sure,’ sbe added, looking stesdfasily into Katharine’s blanebed face, *ehe is suffering too mech already, to be able to make any greater exertion than that fidence, make her the offer of a home with requisite for going to bed. [ will wait my ber. Mr. Grove’s family had pained aad brother's retors with pleesare.’ ‘disappointed ber; in vaio she had looked

*Ob, | coulda’s think of such rudeness!

| yet eorrowed bitterly. This mutual grief drew Mrs. Jolis aad Katharine still closer together; and upop | the evening of the second day alter tue fo- neral, Mrs. Joilis determined at once to re-

this; you have borne a great deal a’ready, | poor child, and this addition shou'd not have |

whose so-row seemed so much greater even |

Every circumstance relative to Mary’s|

bot after to-morrow L'il Gnd a way to make |

reasor, of course, why she should koow |

deferred all further interrogations until the”

both for Mary's sake and for her own; and |

—even Mrs. Grove was subdued and tearful, | while the children, awed by the first solemn.

not mourning with those who have no hope,

solva ali her doubts o! her favorit=’sintegrity; and if sbe found thet she deserved her con-|

| sinful s-cret always ende! Do wot think that | L spenk unneceasarily harsh words, Kate. I | would not willingly do eo. Bet what other | than a éinfu! secret can that be, which is con- nected with the conceelment ef a theft ?’

‘ Allthat I can tell you, i have told you,’ replied Kate. ‘ Anything more, I iave pro- mised never to tell; anderen in saying this

to you, | have said more thaa I have to any one e!ge—-and more p*rhaps than J ought.’

‘Ought ? Promised? Katharine! what is the meaning of this? How came you to be leagaed with people whose deeds reyui ¢ such promises? and if you sre innocent of any share in their guilt, bow dared you, with yger | poor couei.’s example before your eyer maks euch a promise ?’ | ‘I aocent! Mrs. Jollir, what do you | mean” asked Katharine ivdignantly. | ‘Simply whatI said. It may be painful | for you to hear, but you must expect to bear | thatand a thousand times more, if you per-

sist m kespng bad people’s secrets.

arins, you surprise and grieve me! 1 did | hope to have found you so very, very differs ent

The tone in which those words were utier~ ed brought tears teas in‘o Kate's eyes, and she looked mourofally at the speak-r, who, moved by the singular beauty of ber plead-~ | ing earnest face, exclaimed—

‘I cannot think you a bad girl, Katharine, however appearances are @zainst you; and | although I think that whet is rigbt should al- | ways be done from eingls, unselfish motives, yet We cannot always judgs the temptations which lead others wrong —nor estimate truly che influence of example. |

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will therefore

to offer you, if you will g ve ep this mys- tery. ‘T am, as you

know, childless, and ths place in ny home which Mary filled is now ; vacant. I came here hoping to tind among | her sisters one whom I could jove and adopt, | but I cannot see such aone. You were her chosen friend, and I owe you much for the | tenderness and unselfishness with which you noréed her, therefora I ofer you the home j which I le isve she would have wisbed you t> share. You know how she bow she earned ber sad and early fate—be wars- ed then by her fate, and reflect, Katharine, | that as I could not pardoa deceit in her | whom I loved so well, neither shali I in you. | I wil mot ask you for your anewer or confide | ence now; think over my proposal toxnizht, aod give me pour reply in the morninz.’

Oh, whats host ofthoughte and feelings chased their suadows over Kathariue’s face | during thie speech! Hope, fear, doubt, as- | tou'shment, joy, aud bitter disappoistment, | alternately appeared and vanished, until at | Jast the the former died out, and left the eager eyes and coustenace blank and sad.

Mre. Jollis watched the changes with a | painful ‘interest. Until this cbstacle was | thrown in the way, she did not know how | mueb her own beart was bound up in the

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| proof of Katburine’s innotence—how much she had begun tolove ber. Nothing, theres

| fore, could exosed her moriific:tion | when the young girl said, in a low and hus- | ky voice.

| leaves and most everyihtng else

_. | IT thought I would A long ptuse ensued; each was busy with | ve

sutat last the elder lady |

unhappy course! forgettinz that, in migery | of one k nd or the other, the Keeping of a!

| deep as | could get, on account of a ledge. | I then took a section of cement pipe, two feet in diameter and three feet long, this I placed on the ige, and filled it in on the outside with cobbles, as high as the top of the large pipe. I then covered the pipe with a flat stone in the centre, the size of athree-inch pipe, and piped it to the top of the ground, then filled the dirt back again. ! then put in acommon deep well pipe; the whole costing me when done just thirty dollar l now have the cleanest, coolest, and che pest we ll al here.” Feevixg Vatts or Ryre.—The ¥

Farmer says :—“ The use ot growing rye for feeding sheep, cows and calves, may | be very advantageously availed of when it

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| *Thank you for what you have said, and |

believe me, that altbongh | cannot comply with your eondi'ious, [ am neither so uns | gratetul nor so unworthy as I may seem.’ | ‘Ob! Katharine what madness is this! Why will you persist in doing wronz against | your better judgment?’ | ‘Because I have no alternative—I have promised!’ | ‘But ao eril promiee it is a sin to keep; | nothing osn excuse or justify it. Ob, Kaths | arine, think what you are doing, think what you lose, persisting in this obstinacy.’

The poor girl buried her face in her bands, while the tears oozed from between them; 'and Mrs. Jo'lis, pursuing ber advantage, went on eazerly—

* Ob, Kate! think what rou will exchange, | —a life of toil, dependence and misery, for one of love, happiness, and peace—a home in which you will te cherished and beloved, for one where you are wretched—a——’

‘Tempt me no more!’ cried Katharine, springing up hastily—and in her agitation almoet throwing off the hand Mrs. Jollis had Jaid laid spon ber arm.

‘1 bavesworn—l have promised, and right or wrong, while I live 1 will keep my word.’

‘All is over then,’ eaid Mrs. Jollis, coldly.

‘Lean urge you no more—you must take | the consequences of your own act; bat | wara | you that they will aot ead here; evil seeds | bear no heaithy fruit. | And, with a gesture that airuck poor Ka-

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| tharine t> the heart, she waved ber haod to.

“among them for a fit successor to Mary; re | the door. | You're very good, but Katharine’s nothing dellious, seltisb, insolent, and deceitful, there

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promote growth, sometimes wonderfully; but the beets will not yield their sugar, 1 smoke. els per ities have y employed seasons than In dry. y

the happy medium

fiftec n

larger quantiti

On grain crops, five to acre, and in England been used. More can be safel in moist climates or fen bushels is perhaps

adapted for an experimental trial heat A Cuzar Wett.—A correspondent of the Massachusetts Plowghman writes >—** Hav- |

with toads, bugs, worms, in my well, n for a wel!

ing been troubled try a new pla I dug a well about eight feet across the top, and twelvo feet deep, that being as

It would be well to give the fall and winter growth,

when the ground is

is necessary. crop full chance ‘or but towards spring,

i dry enough, it may be moderately grazed | until the 10th or 15th of April. The manure of the stock if fed to any extent

with grain at the same time, would amply atone for any diminution of the mass of green crop.

generally appreciated, except by profes- siona] graziers. They well know that

few weeks of green feeding in early spring tells largely on the profits of the whole

year’s giazing. In the raising of spring | lambs especially, the value of l ITs age to give to the ewes af k will be apparent. Wister Srock Foop.—h

says of winter st food Repon m mo t portions of the Northwest represent the outlook for winter food for stock as

riunateiy the

anything but promising. F\ reports from i I

are D

one way,’ else there wou great cause !for alarm. As a rule, however, upland hay, including the product of wild and

| cultivated grasses, Is

light, while the pro- duct of the | the bogs and marshes is very much below the average of former years, Theseason is now too lar advanced, and the ground is toodry to expect any improvement. There is little hope of a

. } »W lands

fram

{erop of aftermath f meadows brown and sear,’ as mostof them < The same causes that have resulted in a short crop of

iell you whit I intended, and stilido intend |

grass have caused the straw of spring sotvn grains to be alsolight. In most sections |the extreme dryness of the season pre-~ vented the ordinary amount of Hung

and millet from being sown. {

length of stocks and fulness of foliage

Imps ‘VIN Wa It has been xteen or eighteen years t 1 i for seed over avery c eer as tosow none but the very largest kers nels. By so doing | have improved r wheat sd that have sold nearly wheat at home for seed. But in Is72] hit upon a new plan. I had a piece of Treadwell wheat that was injured by insects in the previous fall and killed by freezing

in the winter worth cutt few scattering , occurred to me that there was wheat that

so that there were ’ '

heads of unusual siz

had withstood the ravages of the insects and the rigor of the winter. I gathered enough to sow one rod square, from which

I realized twenty pounds of w!

usually large even berry, wi

ratio of over fifty bushel

harvest I bad twenty bushels which weigh~ ed sixty-six pounds per bushel. It is my opinion that we realize the best crops from

the best and most perfect seed in the veg- etable as well as the a | kingdom

VaLve oF Br a late number of this } fact that E. Dillon& Co.,

of Normal, Ills.,

had sold four colts, the produce of one brood

mare, for $5,500; and we now allude to it ‘ +}

for the purpose of stating that this Is no

by any means, an exceptional case. the contrary, it has been demonstrated over and

poss Hla y kind of st ‘uniformly pro

nstances are

over again, that it is scarcely } the general farmer to keep ar on his farm that will prove so fitable as a good brood mare. numerous where a single bro and fashionably bred, and co t series of years with popular sir has, by her produce, made a handsome fortune for her owner ; and in almost every neighbor. hood can be found mares of more

age value. The prudent, wider awake far.