Lucknow Sentinel, 1890-09-12, Page 7FAOTB FOR FARMERS,
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Will be the Profits.
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litotes of Interest and Importance
iihould be Bead by All.
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fertilizers, and plant food will become
gradually wealthy, and the time will Dome
when molt country will have more for stile
than ehe can consume. Fertilizers are
more lasting and permanent than gold,
and can be drawn upon for a return when
everything else fails. The Bame applies to
the individual farmer. The richer hie, soil
the greater hie reaorces and the more seonre
Get a Fodder Cutter.
•
„tee, No farmer oan afford to be without a
odder .glitter, and where 10 bead of etook
are kept, a horse power grinding mill would
be a good investment. Once upon a time,
where.6 oxen and 12 horses were fed, the
use of a nutter and a mill saved one-third
of the hay and grain•the first winter. This
wae equal to the feeding of 2 oxen and 4
horses for nothing. Such saying makes the
difference between profit and loss.,
Agricultural Notes.
Keep Down Expenses.
The profit derived ie that sum left over
from the gross receipts after all the ex-
penses have been deducted, end the more
eoonomy praotieed the smaller the
expenses, and consequently there is et
correspondingly larger profit. There are
seasons of the year when it ie difficult to
curtail expenses, but farmers sometimes
eiivoi• e • • y using • isoretion. To retain
that which entails of itself an eapenee is to
add to the expense iteelt, and to endeavor
to do more than the capacity of, the farm
permits is to add expense by.oartailing the
-uoduotive power of those things that are
more largely depended upon to afford a
profit. Bush i°lhe case when the land ie
taxed to perform a service—that of pro -
ducting a Drop—without being supplied with -
the proper amount of manure or fertilizer,
the eapenee of labor required to secure a
prop from land so treated being sometimes
equal to that necessary for the eeonring of
abundant yields.
During the Bummer season all expeneee
are lessened to a certain extent, ae the
stook go to the food in the pasture, seek
the water required, and need lees attention
to protect from the weather, while in the
winter the food and water must be sup-
plied at the barn. This handling of the
food, and the necessary management of
stook is so much expense that mustbe in-
curred on all farms, but to economize in
that direction the termer should keep only
stook necessary to consume, and there-
by convert into meat, butter and milk the
foods wbiob are beet salable in those forms.
To retain something that does not produce
him a profit is to incur an expense, and to
content with b the _produce of one -holt, of
Cows. need Balt regularly, particularly in
a rainy time.
Remove the anokers from all treee, as
A LITTLE GENEN OABD.
How it Keeps a Watch on Carless Letter
Carriers.
There is a little green oard in use by the
post-ofi'ioe department that ie a terror to
'some of the more careless letter carriers.
It is aterror only when they have once
been .caught. Very.,seldom, ,_-,indeed Ie
a-
dropped in a letter boa, and on it is
marked the time it was put in and elm
the time it should be taken oiit by the
eq,•acid,. A towed is kepi by the chief of
the carrier°, and if that little oard does not
turn up with the other mail with whioh it
is due, it is clearly to be seen that the
carrier has not taken the mail from that
particular box.
The object, of coarse, is to test the re-
liability of the carriers. Where there
ie any complaint on the part of the oitizens
about the tardiness of local mails
then at little green oard ie dropped in
one or more boxes in the district from
which the complaint ' comes. Sometimee
a/Pre_1 _.. ---r .-....-. _ .-r .. ;rr ,�..
carrier and sometimes it does not. It is,
however, not necessary that there should
be complaints, for frequently the cards are
put in the boxes of the most efficient men.
Of course they are happy when they dis-
cover them. But where a box ie missed
in which there ie a green oard, then the
carrier is bound to get into trouble, and
very serious trouble at that.
This oard has been in nee by the post
office department for a good many years in
all parte of the country. They were first
need in this country under the administra-
tion of Postmaster Huidekoper. They are
furnished by requieition npon the depart-
ment at Washington. Philadelphia Times.
Neither clover not grave should be Buf-
fered tq get too ripe before nutting.
An old farmer says nine times ont of ten
it pays best to sell any crops as Boon ae
ready for market.
One advantage of duoks is that they are
easily fed, and nothing disagrees with them
if it is eweot.
Wheat is one of the best foods for hens
to promote laying, as wheat contains a
larger per Dent. of albumen than anyother
grain.
Grass that is, out by the lawn -mower ie
excellent for the hens, and may be cured
and stored away for winter use for that
purpose.
Charcoal in some form and. lime should
always be kept convenient where the fowla
oan help themselves, eepeoially dnrin the
spring and summer.
An exchange'suggests that many into
whioh are fruit paste, or would be another
season, oan be destroyed by turning the
hogs m the orchard ae soon as the ineect-
°tung apples begin to drop off.
There are no beets so good for the table
as those intended for that purpose. Grow-
ing the varieties intended for stook, with
the view of using them on the table, is a
^ir.s'icteko.—Theel tecevarietieseareatee-ceiarsee
and tough.
Small, knotty fruit of any kind is a non-
paying article. It ie better to grow a dozen
berriee to make a pint than 'to grow fifty.
With grapes, remember then bunohee
weighing fifty pounds will Bell better than,
twenty bunches making the same weight.
e flock or herd, instead of demanding the
full quota from all, or to compel the profit-
able stock to support that which is unpro-
fitable, which doubles the expense to the
3arn er and,also_rednoea_hia_profits_to.._that-
extent.
As the summer passes away andthe
cold season begins h most be kept in view
that each animal must consume a greater
proportion of food, and the rednotion of
expense must be made by rednoing the
number of animals, culling out all that do
not give prospect of immediate profit.
Expenses may be reduced also by plowing
the land and hauling out manure at sub
seasons when it can be done advante-
geonsly, rnetead of waiting " until pressing
work in in the weer ; and expenses may be
reduced by seeding down unoccupied land
with rye, to be plowed under in the. Spring.
There is no economy in diepeneing with
neoeseary stook or tools, or omitting labor
that should be applied, but everything for
winter may be made ready in advance
with a view to have all expenses reduced to
a minimum, and in every direotion.
Now is the Time to Bell.
Now is the beet time to dispose of the
poorerof your farm animals. They have"pre-
nnmeblybeen on good pasture end are in good
condition, and have been put in that con-
dition by very cheap food. The pastures
have already ,begun to deteriorate, and
from this on more expensive feed only will
be available. The chances are that even
with a liberal supply of feedthe poorest
animals will soarcely bold their own ; cer-
tainly it will not pay to feed them from
this time on, much lees to shelter them
during the winter. They will net you
more now than at any other time.When you
cull, bull hard. Aeeort out not only the
worst, but all but the beat. Why handle
any but the most profitable when there is
not any law prohibiting your having the
moat profitable
Prevention Better . Than Cure.
It will require twine as much food to re-
place a pound of lost "flesh as to retain it.
Animals too often loose fieeh at this Beeson,
because of the scant pasture or scant
drink. If a green fodder crop has not been
grown to reinforce the pastures at this
time. a serious' mistake has been mado and
it w 1 be better to cut some of the feed
cor.than to allow the animals to lose
h. Ap •abundant supply of pure, pool
r is needed. Better far dig another
well hen to allow the animals to want ror
water, or to drive them a mile through the
hot sun to some near stream or spring.
Keeping Farm Accounts. .,
I want to suggest to your readers what I
believe would lead to a very profitable and
interesting result. If a number of farmere
would ieaoh provide " himself with a blank
book and keep an account expense and pro-
duct with eaoh field he onitivetes, charging
it upon a page of its own, with ell cost of
cultivation, just of be wonld oharge a man
or a stranger, and include interest on the
valve of the field, end all taxes, poet of her.
vesting and preparation for market, and
t en npon the opposite" page credit the field
th she value of ite product, end eo with
field of his farm, keeping a true and
strict account, he would soon, et least in a
few yenta, know just how much it would
cost to rniee a bushel of wheat, corn or oate
or ton of hay, end which crop has the moat
money in it. The publication of a few of
these reoulte wonld be a very good guide to
other farmers, and a useful mirror for a
farmer to examine his own pc/form/woe in.
--Practical Farmer.
No Mortgages
Don't mortgage the farm to borrow
money to fend again, expeoting to makes
few dollars' profit by exorbitant interest,
or to buy a carriage, or a feet horse, or a
piano, or fine furniture, or to buy more
land. But for a pure bred bull to improve
tho bord, for a portable creamery, to drain
the wet pastures, to buy the bent haying
machinery, to build a comfortable barn, to
secure a supply of pnre water, or to add a
summer kitchei and a winter wood shed to
the home, yon may borrow safely, if yon
will only refrain from spending until the
debt is paid.
Better Than Gold.
The beet wealth is the fertility of the
soil. Taro ooantry that largely imports
A dairyman olaims that two ounoee of
salt per day to eaoh Dow increased the but-
ter product one•fifth, which indicates that
a lose may occur by the failure to supply
some inexpensive essential, though the
farmer may be feeding liberally and giving
his animals the beat of Dare otherwise.
It is estimated that some grain Drops
will take up as much as five hundred tone
of water in one day on one aore of land.
This is an enormous quantity, and towhee
the importance of keeping the surface of
the ground well cultivated, ae a loose top
Boil prevents lose of moisture by evapora-
tion. The roots of plants go down low
into the soil and bring . the water to the
surface.
The practice of allowing grass and
weeds to grow in the corn rows after the
ears are formed is unwise. The oorn land
should be kept 'olean until the Drop ie
barveeted. Every weed that grows robe
the corn of just that proportion of plant
food and prevents larger ears and heavier
grain, as well as distributing the seeds for a
Drop of weeds next season.
As a sheep dip theefollowing is recom-
mended by a breeder : Add forty pound's of
soft soap to ten gallons of boiling water,
and while boiling add one pound of carbolic
avid. This may then be thinned down with
100 gallons of cold water. The quantity
is °efficient for dipping seventy-five sheep.
Nothing ie better to prevent lose of
ammonia from the manure heap than
soapsuds. Keep the heap well saturated,
and make holes in the heap so that soap-
suds can pass -down to the bottom of the
heap. Chemical aotion is facilitated,
but there are formations of malts that pre-
vent loss.
A Drop of weeds removes from the soil as
much et the element° of fertility ea a crop
of grain, and exhausts the land just as
quickly. Do not grow weeds. Plow them
under as soon es they take possession of the
land, by which process they are returned to
the soil from whence they came.
Keroeene is fatal to all kinds of insects,
and for that reason it is frequently used as
a preventive of damage by the cabbage
worm. An objection to its nee is that the
kerosene impregnates the cabbage with its
odor. ,The remedy is as obnoxious as the
work of .the °ebbe a -worm.
Remove all s us ,honey, at the' close
of the honey soif intended for market.
Comb honey will become solid if left on the
hives during the summer. The upper
stories or surplus ohambers shotild be left
on the hives thropgbout the hot weather
and until feeding is done in the fell.
Look out for late swarms 1 The bees
may be lacking in BtereB end are liable to
swarm oht and leave. They must be sup-
plied with honey or united with other
colonies. Also look out for queeniess
colonies at this time of the season. It
colonies - are left queenlese any length of.
time robbers will destroy them.
The women teachers of Germany,besidee
a great pension association, have had tin
insurance society of their own for the last
six years. For a monthly fee of 25 cents a
member can, in osse of sickness, draw a
32 50 a week for 13 week, and for the same
period again after an interval of "six weeks.
Over 62,000 has been paid out. Women
between 18 and 45 years old who have e
dootor`s certificate of good health aro ad-
mitted. The 'society has a good surplus end
is thinking of rednoing the fee except when
an unusual amount of sickness wenn.
Mise Minerva Parker, a Philadelphia
architect, has been pinked out by the eve°.
ntive committee of the women's depart-
ment of the World's Fair to drew plane
for the Queen Isebelle pavilion to be
erected on the grounds of the women's
department.
The loquaoione man is not always a fool;
he may be talking to keep from hearing
other people talk.
An American LL.D.
A correspondent writes to a contempor-
ary : Considerable amusement was created
in a Scotch police court when a sweep
about to give evidence in a case of assault,
was asked his name and replied : " Dr.
Thomas Macleod." "Doctor!" ejaculated
the sheriff, "doctor of what ?" " I dines
ken," the begrimed individual snawered,.
" but I'm whet they ca' en LL.D. end
that, folks say, is muokle the same thing."
" Wella" asked the court, scarcely able to
maintain its gravity, " how did yon
acquire snoh a distinguished academical
litSsuC7Y:a6—`-WeelTsti ieWa' a li e�tli�ie. A
Yankee ohiel that wae agent for yin o' the
colleges in his ain country Dam tee bide
hereaboota wi' hie family tor the summer.
I soopit his three plums thrice, but deal s
bawbee could I get Dot o' him. Ae day I
/yokit sear at the oretnr for the Biller, an',
says he, ' Weel, Tammae, I'll make an
LL.D. o' ye, an' that will pit Its even.' I
just took him at his offer, as there seemed
to be naething else for't. I've gotten my
diplomay framed at hams, an' I can tell ye,
sir, a bonny picture it mek's."— Kirkcaldy
(Scotland) Mail.
Great Britain's Silver. Coinage.
In the silver coinage in Great Britain
last year the chief demand was for half-
crown pieces to the value of £601,495, and
for £451,806 in crowns. No " fourpenny-
bits"—save a few for the ancient "Maundy"
—were struck. The "fourpenny" indeed
has been doomed for years, but the e three-
penny" is still highly popular—witnees the
item of over £1,000 supplied in the form..
of this little coin " to private person's,"
and that although private app'icaota for
this coin were up to the end of last year
referred to a certain London bank which
held a stook of these coins in excess of its
requirementa. Crowne and doable florins
were freely naked for by the larger em-
ployers of labor, who find them convenient
for the payment of wages: The extraor-
dinary demand for silver is officially attri-
buted to the revival of trade, in the United
flo
Kingdom. The ooinege of rine, shillings
and sixpence's reached, the respeotive totals
of £297,356, £351,981, and £218,473, and
the value of the threepenny -pieces isened
•amonnted to £57,393. The bronze coinage
amonnted to £68,474.
A New Anaesthetic.
I am told that discovery has been made
of a new lccal drug for producing ansaathesia
of the akin. The discovery is said to be
due to a German medical man, who had
intended bringing his investigations and
results in oonneotion therewith before the
International Medical congress now sitting
at Berlin. This, however, wee found to be
impossible, and some time will yet have
to elapse before the profession can be made
acquainted with the name and properties of
the new drug. net the introduction of
mush a drug will be bailed with immense
gratification by doctors is conceivable
enough. At present there is no preparation
the properties of which are snob as to
render the akin insensible merely by loos:
applioetion, and.yet in the performance of
minor operations nothing would be more
useful.—London Correspondence Manchester
guardian.
The Longest Word.
A word on another enbjeot : An inquiry
recently appeared in your oolmmn° ae to
the longest word in the English language.
Here it is : " Honorifioebilitudi'nity." The
word is given by Nathaniel Bailey in his
English dictionery, published °boat 1721,
with. the definition " honorableness."—A.
D.S. in the New York Sun.
" What aro yon laughing at so ?" he
asked, suddenly starting up in bed. The
wife checked her laughter at once. " I
couldn't help it, John. I dreamt I was a
widow."
' The last report of the work of the " Slnm
Evangel°" in London shows that the
number of workers has increased from two
to 80. They give their whole time to
honee•to-honee visitations, to nursing
the siok, feeding the hungry and
doing gospel work. Though they were
cooly received at first they have succeeded
in winning a welcome from those among
whom they labor. In one year more than
100 young women were rescued and 6,000
children were cared for.
A 7011/18T tlumuoci .E,
Two Oregon Panthers Blight to the Death
For a Pioneer's Benefit.
I have often wondered what hindered
the oongare from being very plentiful. They
are monarchs of the woods, and are very
sly, with plenty of game and cattle to live
eet . .., , ,,, , , ... ;fit. - , . �;
cruiser (a man who hunt's for timber and
good laid claims), who had followed the
bneineea for the last twenty yore in
Oregon end *hie Stele. Ere :ever taker a
gun, bat carries only a blanket and a
small axe. He related that one night
when he was oamping in the
head of a ravine, about dark, he
heard a cougar scream on one of the ridges
and this one was answered by another on
the opposite ridge. They kept working to-
ward the head, ,until finally they name
together some 300 yards above
sepalhim in some quaking sepal ;
and snob a row and racket as they made he
had never heard before. They rolled downa
. •
—seeiriels; 4a- AIL.-
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A.LQOHOLIBII.
In the volume prepared by Mr. •Helbonr-
ner, containing extracts from the dome -
melees and reports presented to the Social
EocTnomy eeotion of the Petrie exhibition,
and printed by the Canadian Secretary of
Stege, there is a chapter upon the meane of
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The eeveral kinde of brandies are deeoribed
in order, 'showing the increasing nocuous -
flees, brandy made from wine hevir• g the
feast toxio property and brandy made from
potatoes the greatest. An exiraot ie quoted
from Zeohokk, the Auetrieneconomies, who
(says : " All the law° are powerless to ex-
tirpate an evil which bee taken root in the
lives of the people ; it is with the people
themselves that the moral reform muet be-
gin, and no Government ie esrong enough
to do it." Then the report` continuee
" The law on drunkenness, as we have
shown in our report, produces no salutary
effeot ; it does not prevent the habitual
drinker from rela . sin •
e was pretty well seated ; but he kept up
a big Bre and stayed behind that. They
quieted down inea °Duple of hours, and the
next morning, when it ,wps light enough, he
went on to the battle ground. He found/
one of them lying there dead, all out
and torn to pieces. It woe' a very large
one. Four days afterward, as he was
coming back the same way, some 500
yards from where he had found the first
one he had stumbled upon the other one,
dead. Tbie, too, was all out end torn as
the Brat had been. At another time, in
Oregon, he heard a big fight going on, but
did not go to see the results. He was stop-
ping one night with an old Indian who
had hunted and trapped all his life, and
was telling him about the fight when the
Indian said that that was the way when
two old males met ; one or the other was
killed, and very often both ; and that
whenever the male would find the young
ones and the mother absent he would kill
the last one of them, but if the mother
were with them she would keep him off.
That must be the reason that the mother
goes with the young until they are nearly
two years old. They say that ell
the oat kind will kill their young. We
know that this is so with the dome°th,
cat —Forted and Stream.
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EXTSAMINA.TIGN INTENDED.
'The reoent edicts of the Russian Govern-
ment against the Jews are exceptionally
severe. It is ordered that in the future
Jews -shall -reside only in towns and not in
the country. _. No Jew will any longer be
permitted to own land or even to farm
land. To intensify the severity of this
edict, andwiden its 'Dope, the Govetpment
officials have included many hundreds of
small towns in the category of country
villages, and expelled the Jews from those
towns. Tens of thousands of souls will be
thus rendered homeless. Jews are no
longer allowed id be in any way connected
with mines or mining industry, nor even to
hold shares in any mine. The Jews will
henceforth be practically 'debarred from
partaking of any educational advantages,
whether in schools gymnasia or waiver -
pities. . Hitherto they have been allowed
admission subject to the limitation that
their number should not exceed 5 per Dent.
of the total number of students. Secret
instructions have already been sent re-
quiring the rednotion of this° small per-
centage to . still lower limits, and from'
many of the higher ednoational institutions
all Jewish students have bean expelled.
The legal profession, in which heretofore
a large number of Jewe in Russia have
achieved great eneoes, will in future be
closed ta Jewish students. Jews are hence-
forth prohibited from following the profes-
sions of engineer or army doctor, or from
filling any Government post, however
subordinate. In the days of the Emperor
Nicholas it was a subject of reproach to
the Buesian Jewe that they were all
traders and not producers. That reproaoh
has ,since been wiped away, and now an
enormous proportion have become skilled
examine, agriculturists, and professional
men, all adding largely to the wealth of the
empire. But ander the new repressive
laws all this oommunal progress is to be
reversed, the artisan, the farmer and the
professional man are all to be ruined, and
those who survive the persecution must
become traders in the overorowded towns.
It is estimated. that the total number of
persons who will be expelled from their
homes under the new law will not be far
from one million. " The consequent migra-
tion and the congestion of ' she starving
fugitivee in those cities where Jews will
still be allowed to dwell will be so danger -
one, and possibly so pestilential in its
results, that only one object oan be con-
templated by the instigators of these Per-
secutions —namely, the total extermination
of the four million Jews of Russia.
Hurt His Dignity.
Tramp (refusing some bread)—No,
madam, I cannot' accept your kind offer.
My knowledge of the laws of health com-
pels me to draw the line at that'bread.
Young Matron—The ideal Perhaps it
isn't good enough for yon. Well, what
would the Lord High Duke like to have ?
Tramp (with dignity)—Madam, I may be
a tramp, a loafer, a dead beat, a chicken
thief, a scamp, or whatever you will have
it ; but I would like yon to distinctly un-
derstand that I am no foreign duke,
prince or count. No, Ma'am.
THE census of the British Empire will be
taken next year. An exohenge says: The
Trent oalonlation is that at the opening
o the year 1890 the population of the Brit.
isle Empire was very nearly 328,000,000,
(If whom 38,125,000 were dwellers' in the
United Kingdom, 271,180,000 in India, and
the remaining 19,000,900 in other Femme
acme. Two years ago the Indian Govern-
ment estimated the population of British
Indic at 208,793,350, and that of the native
States at 60,684,378. Assnming'that the
various nuescerteinable elements of native
populetione in ell her poems/done foot up
10,000,000, and that the -natural rate of
Culture is not without its advantegesetincreaee has been maintained, the British
under certain circtifnstanoee. On Thursday
a New York saloon keeper, weighing 300
lbs., fell into the river at Staten Island.
Any ordinary sized man, unable to mina
would have stink and drowned, but not so
Schiffer. 'His onormons size and light
Empire will probably be shown to have
not far from 840,000,000 population enum-
erated end estimated. Beim and Wagner
estimated the popnletion of the world in
1882 at 1,433,887,500 monis, of which Europe
specific gravity enabled him to float for an has about 328,000,000,.or 12,000,000 less
passing beat towed"! than the expected 'result of the British
hoar and a half till a
p g causes of 1891.
him to e vessel's nide, when he wee hoisted! We have pb,idowed the man who stole
to tha deck by anomie of a ttackio i?mtb rho'
davits. ottr nmbrelle,,—Dallas Neto°.
does not reach the drinker who every day'
absorbs a certain quantity of alcohol with.
out getting intoxicated, though hen is the
moat alcoholised. To remedy this evil, we
meet regulate the bar -rooms with the
greatest care.
"Unfortunately no law has been peeved
in that sense ; on the contrary, we have
given to the retailer every facility tosell
hie products. The number of drinking
places is unlimited, no superintendence is
exercised as to the quality of liquors sold,
and the home of sale are 110 longer, we
might say, regulated; the rum -seller ie free.
to do se he pleases.
" As has been well said by Mr. A. Lau-
rent, the tavern triakes the. drinker, more
so than the drinker makes the tavern, and
when we reflect that in most of the large
cities, bar -rooms are attended by women
who give themeelvea to the first oomer, we
come to the conclusion that besides the
poisoning we have just pointed out, there
is moreover a serious mune of demoralize -
tion and a new attack on ,public health ;
this terrible evil must be hueed without
delay. It is only by regulating this un-
wholesome traffic that the drinker will be
stayed in hie downward course."
Then follow quotation's from a leotare by
Dr. R. Daboia, who Bays : " It has been
-proved that ai"co-hoiiemr—Yn ed eepeai4lly -
where wine was unknown; remove the tax
on wine, you destroy at one blow adnitera-
tion ; limit exportation if necessary,nd
plant the vine everywhere ; give good w wine
cheap, andleas brandy will be drunk ;for
that purpose, reduce , the middlemen, and
favor co-operative supply societies.
" Seize, confiscate everywhere the badly
reotified alcohols; forbid the adulteration
of wine ; exact a heavy license from liquor.
sellers, and restrict their number, as also
the hours of sale, and give free scope to the
.sale of good fermented liquors which are
less hurtful; encourage the use of non-
alcoholic drinks; reward those who know
how to spread the use thereof ; remove the
tax from tea, coffee, sugar; post up tables
ehowing the relative toxio power of spiritu-
ous liquors; multiply cautions; drive
away froth the country the old offenders
who form 60 to 80 per cent. of the incurable
and dangerous drunkards. Teach hygiene
in schools, inculcate in youth the horror of
drunkenness.
" It is in large °entree that alcoholism
causes the greatest ravages ; apply your-
selves to correct the inconveniences of the
crowding of individuals; give plenty of air,
water and light.
" Poverty, grief, fatigue bring forth vine ;
suppress those abominable taxes on food,
by which the more months a workman has
to feed, the more taxes he has to. pay ;
diminish the hours of labor, inoreese the
wages of the worker ; he will thus be able
to secure a comfortable home, far prefer-
able to the tavern ; induce him to eoonom
ize ; the worker who begins to save is not
far from renouncing false enjoyments ;
give to the girls a practical education, so
that later on they make good wives. As
in America, create temperance societies,
and for that purpose ask the women to
ead the movement, for they suffer moat
from the after -blow of alcoholism, without
experiencing any of its false enjoyments.
Do not confine yourselves to physical
hygiene, preach also moral hygiene ; seek
and teach the grand natural laws ; make
them respected, by showing the numberless
miseries resulting from their inobserv-
ance ; for that purpose, multiply publio
lectures, open libraries and • work-roome,
well lighted, well heated in Winter, and•
not kept oloaed precisely st the time when
the workman could Dome.
" As a foil to ennui and idleness, favor
theatres, concerts and assemblies where
drinking is ndt allowed ; by exciting the
thirst of intelligence, you will satisfy that.
of the body."
The Societe de la Vieille -Montagne dis-
misses every workmen found intoxicated
in a workshop, end forbids the sale of
spirituous liquors in houses belonging to
the society and rented to its workmen.
Among its reeomendations are those :
" Dwellings. The first and perhaps the
beet means to keep the workman from the
tavern is to give him a pleasant home. The
working man who owns the hoose he lives
in, end tends his own garden, or even the
workingman who can rent a clean and neat
dwelling seldom becomes an habitue of the
tavern and a viotim to alcohol. And if,
moreover, that man had the luck to marry
e good house -wife, we may safely leave
him alone. A dirty tenement, ill -dressed
children, a slovenly wife ere the great aux-
iliaries of drunkenness: It is for that rea-
son that the Vieille -Montagne, finding that
the true plane of the woman is net in the,
workehop, but et home, does not encourage
the labor in fa/Am-lee of girls and women.
They forbid it in the interior of their
mines, even in the localities where the law
allows it, and they only permit it where
health and morality are safe.
"Amusements. Bat it does not suffice to
,lodge the workingmen ; we must also think
of giving .them recreations which may ,
occupy their leisure hours in an honest and
healthy way. For that purpose tbs Vieille -
Montagne has created and patronized in all
their establishmentsooioties of amusement,
orpheone, harmonics, bands, target .shoot-
ing, eto."
THE United Stake spent for pensione in
the year ending June 30th last $109,857,834.
In the year ,,ending June 80th, 1888, . the
amount was 880,288,508. What the bill
will be when all who bore 8rrec in Vac civil
war have passed from the scene nobody
rt sou goon.
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