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* A FOLDED LEAF.

j. a. PANTxiy. A foldod i>m«ln old, stained, and blurrod, I found within your book last ulgLn. I did not read the dlln dark word I aaw In the slow-waning light ; 8o put It hack, and laA, U there, A* If in truth I did not ourc. Ah ! we have all a folded loaf Thtii lu Time's l>ook of long ago We leave: u half-relief Fall* on ua when we hide It ao. We i old it down, then turn away, And who may road that page to-day? , Not you my child; nor you, my wife. Who alt boaldo my Ntudy chair; 1 Kor all have something In their life That they, aud Utvy alone, may bear— A trilling lie, a deadly aln, l A eomc thing bought they did not win. My folded leaf I how blue eyea gleam And blot the durk-browu eyes 1 seo; And golden curl* at evening beam Above the black locks at my kuoe I Ah ma ! that leaf 1* folded down. And aye for me the locks are brown. And yet I love them who sit by, My best and dourest— dear* wt now. They may not know for what I sigh. What brings the shadow on my brow. , 1 Ghosts at the best; so lot them be, » Nor come between my life and me. They only rise at twilight hour; go light the lamp, and close the blind. Small perfume linger* In the flower That tflecpH that folded page behind. So let It ever foldod lie ; 'Twill bo unfolded when I die. — CitAXBicic*' Journal.

NOTES OF A WALKER » %

i rox AND 1IOUND. I stood on a high hill or ridge one autumn day and saw a hound run a fox through the fields far beneath me. W hat odors that fox must have shaken out of i himself, I thought, to be traced thus | easily, and how great their specific grnv- , ity not to have been blown away like smoke by the breeze I Tlio fox ran a long distance down the hill, keeping ! : within a few feet of a stone wall ; then | turned a right angle ami led off for the mountain, across a plowed field and a i ] succession of pasture land. In about < I fifteen minutes the hound came in full | j blast with her nose in the air, and never once did she put it to the ground while in niv sight. When she came to the stone wall she took the other side from i that taken hy the fox, and kept about > i the same distance from it, being thus separated several yards from his track, with t lie fence between her and it. At [ the point where the fox turned sharply to the left, the hound overshot it few yards, then wheeled, and feeling the air a moment with her nose, took ui» tH-ciiv in ami was off en his trail as unerringly as Fate. It seemed as if the fox must have sowed him.-clf broadcast / :u» he went along, and that his went was so rank and heavy that it settled in . the hollows and clung tenauiouv\ . bushes and crevice* in the fence, i thought I ought to have on*»»»i«* » «w«. mint of it ns I passed that way >omc ; minutes later, but I did not. But I sup- ; ]*>*e it was not that the light-footed fox : so impressed himself ujkjii the ground j ho ran over, but that the seuse of the hound was so keen. To her sensitive noso these (rack* steamed like hot cakes, and they would not have cooled off so as to be {indistinguishable for several hours. For the time being she hud but one sense: her whole .soul was eon**<v c« titrated in her nose. It i* amusing when the hunter starts out of u winter morning to see his hound j probe the old tracks to determine how recent they are. fie sinks hi* nose down deep in the snow so a* to exclude the air from above, then draw* a lojg full breath, giving sometimes an audible snort. If there remain the least effluvium of the fox then the hound will detect it. If it bo very slight it only act* hi* tail wagging ; if it be strong it unloosen* hi* tongue. Such tliipg* remind one of the waste, the friction tliut is going on all about us, even when the wheels of life run the most smoothly. A fox cannot trip along the top of a stone Wall so lightly but that lie will leave enough of himself to betray hi* course to the hound for hour* > afterward*. When the hoy* play "hare and hound*" the hare scatter* bits of paper to give a clew to the pursuer*, but he scatters himself much more fYeely if only our sight and scent were sharp enough to detect the fragment*. Even the fish leave a trail in the water and it i« said the otter will pursue them by it. The bird* tnnke a track in the air, only their enemies hunt by. right rather than hy scent. The fox baffle* the hound most upon m hard crust of fttntra hiiow : the scent will not hold n' tl' *niooth ' head-like grannie*.

that run*. Ui* soft wrapping of Air conOtitis the muscular play and effort that is oo obvious in the hound that pursues him, and ho comes bounding along prsoWy as if blown by a gentle wind. Hi* maarive tail is carried as If It floated upon the air by its own lightness. The hound is not remarkable for his flaetnes*, but how be will hang I— often running lato into the uight and sometimes till morning, from ridge to ridge, ftom peak to peak ; now on the mountain, now crossing the valley, now playing about a large slope of uplying posture field*. At times the fox ho* a pretty well-defined orbit, and the hunter knows where to intercept him. Again he lead* off liko a comet, quite beyond the system of hills and ridges upon which he was started, and. his return is entiriy a matter of ooigecture, but if the day bo not more than half spent, the chances are that the fox will be back before night, though the M|K)rtinan's patience seldom holds out that long. The hound is a most interesting dog. How solemn and long-visaged he I* — how peaceful and well-disposed ! He is the Quaker among dogs. All the viciousness and currishneas teem to have been weeded out of him ; he *eldom quarrels, or fight*, or plays, like other dogs. Two strange hounds, meeting for the first time, behave as civilly toward each other as two men. 1 know a hound that has an ancient, wrinkled, human, far-away look that remind* one of the bust of Homer among the Elgin marbles. He looks like the mountains toward which hi* heart yearn* so much. The hound is a groat puxzle to the farm dogs ; the latter, attracted hy hi* haying, comes barking and snarling up through the fields bent on picking a quarrel; he intercepts the hound, *nub* I and insult* aud annoys him in every way possible, hut the hound heed* him not; if the dog attacks him he get* away as best he can, and goes on with I the trail; thfi cur bristle* and hark* and ! strut* about for s while, then goes back to the house, evidently thinking the hound a lunatic, which he is for the time being — a monomaniac, tbe slave I and victim of one idea. 1 saw the muxte- of a humid one day arrest him ill full ; course, to give one of the hunters time to get t<» a certain runway ; the dog cried and struggled to free 'himself and would listen neither to . threat* nor caresses. Knowing lie must 1>e hungry, 1 offered him mv lunch, but he would not touch I it- 1 put it his mouth, but he throw it i contemptuously from him. We coaxed j and petted and re-assured him, but lie was under a m|k»11 ; lie was bereft of all thought or d«*sirc but tbe one passing to pursue that trail. * * - ^ "• f- * occasion to be Kin-prised at the resource* ' ' '* »•» I <mttle play with her ; her sleeve is full of earth, ! and many of tliein art- .trumps. It is in Iter plan, fur instance, to keep the j ground constantly covered with vegetation of some sort, and slie has layer upon layer of seed in the soil for this purpose, and the wonder is that each kind lie* dormant until it is wanted. Defeat her on one, and she plays tbe , next and the next. Turn over the sward, and up spring rag-weed and pig1 weed and red-root ; demolish these, and up come* •fpUHlev* a great, fat, tender, lubberly weed; sweep the board of^i* trick, and down come* a bower in the shape of twitch -grass, or fox-tail, or some other pest. Pre** Her further, and ' probably «he will go through the series again and play rag-weed and red-root*, or * matt-weed, next time. Sprinkle wood 1 | ^ mm hob ii|a»n trie soil, and white clover springs up and chokes your struwherrie . In the spring I covered some rock* with soil taken from a depth of two or three feet in the earth; before fall it good crop of weeds wax flourishing upon them. Prevent the wild onion from multiplying by seed at the top, and it will multiply at the root. Here, all about the fields, is the wild carrot. You cut off its head, just la-fore it seeds, and , y»»n think you have squelched it: but j this is ju*t what Nature — or the devil — Wanted vou to do. In a week or so * there are five heads In room of this one; cut off these, and before fall there arc ften looking defiance at you from the , same x|mt. It is like killing flic*; a , dozen conn* to the Itinera! of every one | you kill, Nome fields, ureter the plow, arc always infested with cockle, or with blind ftotttet whenever the award i« ! broken they appear. Yet it i* pleasant | to reire 'tuber that. Ill our elimnte.'Mliere

• # Z * • natural covering of the fields. There t ore but one or two weeds Uiat it will * not run out in a good soiL We crop it - and mow it year after year, and yet, if i the season favors, it is sure to oorae i again. Turn a sod over, and sometimes the grass will reverse itself and grow up * the other way. Fields that have never i known the plow and never been seeded, are yet covered with gram. Weeds are • Nature's make shift; they are quick and hardy, and shade the ground while tbe - grass is slowly forming beneath them; they will grow, also, on iofl too poor or i too dry for grass. If your grans-»eed - takes and thrives, all right; if it does i not, behold the weed* with which I Nature seek* to cover her nakedness! i Most weeds have some virtue*; they are 1 not wholly malevolent. Even the hate- ; ful toad-flax, which nothing will eat and | which on poor soil will sun out the gross, affords honey for the bumble-bee. > Narrowleuved plantain is readily eaten by cattle, and the l>ee gathers much pollen from it. The ox-eyed daisy makes tolerable hay, if cut before it get* ripe. ; The cows will eat the leaves <ff the burdock and the stinging nettles in the woods. But what cannot a cow's tongue stansi? She will crop the poison ivy with impunity, and I think would eat thistles, if she found them growing in the garden. Leeks and garlics are 1 readily eaten by cattle in the spring, and are aaid to be good for them. They [ kill the lice, but spoil the milk. Weeds that yield neither pasturage for bee nor i herd, yet afford seed* for the fall and winter birds. This is true of most of the ' obnoxious weed* of the garden, and of 1 thistles. Some of the most troublesome ► and ]>ersisteiit weed* have escaped from ^ cultivation, like "live-forever," a plant 1 that defies the plow and the hot* and the scythe, — for it it is almost an air1 plant, — and one that nothing but graz1 ing eattlejwill exterminate. A* soon a* it come* to the surface to breathe, they t-Lcuoap d. and. ;*a — p»«Uhn« . Wood* are like rats and mice — they i multiply and spread, though every hand i* against them. In this country the highway is their great refuge. Driven I from the fields bv the plow and the ■ scythe, they establish themselves hy the roadside, where they are seldom disturbed, and whence tlioy keep up a sort of guerrilla warfare upon the farmer. Eleeam|»ane, mi Ik- weed, teoxles, thistles, golden-rod, and many others keep n , foothold here, and make incursions : upon the land. Weeds seeni to trr.v:' b% %..« oignwjty, too. Indeed, 1 think J they take the train from one section of the country to another, like the Colorado te-etle, a* an incursion of a strange weed : i* often fir-*, noticed a!on«r ♦!,* liu#>of | u i . ot (iH-v.mmrv, well Known tome, where I had never seen the wild carrot, and Wjterr i uV 7..V.L M • J# did not exist. But one, slay in my rambles. 1 found two plants in bloom in a field that lav high up on the side of the mountain, and j wondered where they could have come from. Not long after, in crossing a mountain several mites distant, I beheld a flourishing colony of the carrot* by the road-ride. "Ilere is the camp," I said, "and from here the peat* will distribute themselves over the land.'-' : Already I could see little groujis of them ; about the adjoining medows. l\ a dozen years, the farmer* of that section will !>o fighting the fire that, so easy to squelch at it* beginning, is so baffling ' when once it got* under full blast. Part of tbe duties of the road commissioner of every township should be to fee tlint no noxious weeds are allowed to flmirisb unmolested bv tbe highway. f Tliere will be enough weeds left to fill up tbe waste places, however vigorous the warfare we wage ujion tliein. Nature ( seem* unduly wjmn their side. Where she has not given them .wing* to fly with, or feet to walk with, she has armed them with honks and claws to seize u|>on the skirts of every passing 1 object, and thus get themselves disKom- I mated. Of human weed* I shall not now speak except to*ol>serve how *«»cdy they are. ' how they increase and multiply over j the more valuable and highly cultivated plants. air-food. It i* n very suggestive fact, which vou , . may rend in any of the agricultural , book*, that grmving plant* — grain, | grass, t9W, etc,, draw from ninetv-five j to ninety-eight per cent, of their material from the atmosphere, leaving n very small fraction t»j te« taken frem i ihe earth, ll i* quit startling. We

* f t # unci yet they take but a crumb from tbo ■oil, and make what may be called a full meal off the air. We bend all the resource* of agriculture into fattening and leavening tbe Land; we drain, and nubfloil, and harrow, and pulverize; wp mix in gypeutn, and guano, and phosphate*, and prepare the ground a* if it were no much short-cake that our wheat and oatii, or our grapre and atrawberriee were going to eat; and limn along Coin** the agricultural oheinixt, and tells ua i MMjflNil Vtor> *>«t the great source of plant food is the air, all your growiug crops want of you is a tittle salt for seasoning, a pinch of this or thai for a relish. But how imj>ortant this pinch is. I N furnishes the stimulus that digests the whole meal; the fertile and flowing air bathes all alike; yet without tbe pound or so of soluble salt* which every ton of soil oontain*, and which it is the business of agriculture to keep from falling below a certain amount, tbe land would I >e as barren us a desert. Tbe myriad roots of the plants and trees go groping and feeling their way through tbe ground, in search of these tiny particles. No California gold miner, or South African diamond hunter, ever sifted and searched the soil so thoroughly. These earth (dements, potash, soda, l»m», m*m», msgnoMte, -aUs, teist>isb th* material basis, tbe osseous frame-work of the plant; upon tliem the whole structure of the vegetable kingdom is built. Does not thi* fact in some way tell the whole story of man's relation to the physical universe, to the world of sense and experience?' He, too, U a plant rooted- to the material world by his senses, sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, through these he takes up the earth elements, the hard facts of experience, hi* moral and intellectual lime, and iron, and silica; these form the basis of bis knowhxlge; they combine endlessly with the deductions and intuitions of the spirit; tliev enable him to seise upon, and boay forth the : impressions that oorae to him from su]»or-xcnuou.s sources; in fact without them lie is not li ing. But u man's life is in hi* sense* no more and no leas than the life of the pliuit is in its roots; his head is ^ bathed in the ideal, and thence lie draws the elements that givo scope and j surer and volume to his life. The fluid and plastic ideal, the cosmic and iKiundlecn air that tbe soul inhale*, this i* the great storehouse of man's i life. His knowledge, his ideas, hi* ! treasures of art aim r a sensuous origin, just a* this fruit has a | mineral or telluric origin; two or three jxsr rent, of it came from the soil, Imt j its net-work of living tissue* >v«s built * swim above. — Joitt*>m*'s — « ♦ > —

The World Is Honest.

~ u >... vreterday loafing away, the rainy hours in u business pun-o near the ferry doek, when the conversation turned ujxm the subject of general public rascality. A citizen raid ho had given a bnv a quarter to get changed mid had never seen him again ; unotlier said lie wouldn't tru*t hi* own grandfather, ! and a third would give 911)0 to see an honest man. •4l )»uv4» nr.* kst my faith in human v. a man on a t . . % a vod may call In a | stranger to us all, And 1 will give him it $1) bill to go and get changed. If ho fails to come back I lose the money; if he returns you will see how foolish your assertions are.*1 Haifa dozen men rushed to the door. ■ X seedy, gaunt and evil -looking Africrn was |utdding by in the ruin, and lie was ' selected to make the test. "Stranger,'* said the man who hadn't lost confidence, "take this tive*doltur bill around the corner and get it changed | and 1 will give you 10 cents." The black mini departed without a word, and for the next 10 minutes tin* laugh was on the man who sent him. ll died away, however, ua the African slouched in, handed out the bill, and 1 said : "I runned all ober* an' nobody could change him." I He was given hi* 10 cents, and the | man who lost the quarter by the l»oy -wid he couldn't Imve believed such an 1 exhibition of honesty ff he had not wir ticKH«d it, and ho was willing to buy lite j cider for the crowd. It was only after the cider had been 'teat reyed and paid for that lie learned i I hat the hill given the negro Wit* a hare counterfoil which no one would accept.