The Wingham Times, 1885-09-18, Page 6p
'UR THE FARMER.
A Harvest song.
The odor Sweet Qf new- sown
le wetted o'er the land ;
Piled high the Sheaves of golden grain
Wait for the thresher's band,
Wide, billowy fields o1 corn uplift
Their banhere broad and green,
• With plenty'] proihiae graven bright
Qn each, in glittering sheen.
The leafy vine bend] low with weight
Of juicy eluates fair.
Springtime'e glad propheoies fulfilled
The burdened orchards bear.
O'er all the land brown.handed Toil
And patient Thrift have wrought
Day after day, till dreams have been
To lull fruition brought.
Yet not to them all praise be given,
Notall to Toil at d Thrift ;
" Who gives the inure deo," ua to Rim
Our grateful hearts we lift.
Who can the richly vari.d store
01 goodly gifts behold,
Nor say with lerael's,propbet bard,
" Thy works, bow manifold i"
Let the Boys see the World.
" Is it alive ?"
" It moves."
" When did it get in ?"
Are some o£ the remarks we happened to
overhear not long ago as a crowd of neatly
dressed, " fly " young city gents passed by.
Glancing across the street we at once saw
the object of their merriment. Honest John
Plowman had come to town to see the eights
and from every indication, was not going
home without having accomplished his ob-
ject,
Now John is one of our acquaintances and
as he crossed the street and approached, we
asked, " John, why don't you pull your
pants out of your boot tops, and raise your
hat off your ears ? Can't you see those fel-
lows are laughing at you ?""" Let 'em laugh
they are a pack of yer city dudes and -I can
clean out the whole crowd," said he grind-
ing hie teeth and shaking his formidable fist
No doubt of it, John, but wait a moment ;
suppose one of them was to go home with
you, won dn't you smile to see him milking
cows with that suit of broadcloth.? wouldn't
it amuse you to see him pitoh'liag in a July
sun a ith that stiff hat and choker ?"
"You bet your life, I'd like tog t one of
them on a harvester for just one day. I'd
make him Iaugh out of t'other corner of his
mouth, I d also A him 'that it is better to
have a pair of lege that are usef al, than orn-
amental, -
" Wait a moment John, let me tell you
something ; you are not in the least inferior •
to these boys ; all the difference is, they are i
educated differently from what you are.
Your shoulders are broader, your cheat is
better developed, your mouth ie not deform- .
ed by the use of tobacco and liquor, there is
e look full of business .in your face that at
once recommends you much better than all
the letters you could carry, were you in
quest of a position. The point we wish to
make is this ; boys raised on a farm at a
general ru'e are n t allowed an equal chance
in eduction with their city cousins. When
they go to town they feel out of place. They
would give anything to be able to walk
along the street and not feel that everybody
is looking at them,
If they only knew whether toe .put their
hands in their pockets or hold• them straight
clown, they would have learned ,one very
useful lesson in ease and comfort, If they
were educated to see the difference, , the
shrewd clothing merchant' could` not palm
off his last year's coat and two year old vent
with a hetet still more ancient pattern upon
them. We say give the boys a chance. If
you live near a town—and all do now—let
Tom and Harry and Rob attend school there
one or two winters and learn the ways of
city life, But, one objects, we can't afford
to send our boys off to town alone, they
would get into bad company, (earn to drink
and fall into all the attending evils of city
life. To such we would say, some time
they are going to go out frons your door to
meet all these temptation), and if they have
been kept too strictly, Without any chance
to see the follies of evil or Iearn to avoid the
snares, they will be ilia very vietim »the •
sharper is after ; they will suddenly find
themselves turned loose in an unexplored
pasture full of anares so artfully concealed
by the moatw tempting baits that he 'who
stears clear of them is indeed a favorite of
fortune. The boy who le kept too closely
haltered to the farm sickens to it. Ile longe
to go to the exciting scones of the city where
he sees most people wearing good clothes;
in fact he never sees those who wear poor
onea, he is so struck with the flaeh of gold
chains, high hats and polished shoes. Row
much safer it is tolet hint see and ihetc all
these things whilh'yon'tare'able to hold him
in cheek, than td • %neh him ,ridalone un.
guided by love's irresistible reins, to turn
headlong into them. Besides all boys rais-
ed in cities do not eomt td `titian, nor alt boys
brought up on ferries become angels. We
hope i£ this finds its way to the household
of any sturdy old farmer who taken except-
ion to its doctrine, that he will reply to it ,s
lent their own neating places in the barn o
among the bushes or grave the vicinity
o
buildings, but the profitetotheirowners uncle
such circumstances are not always sure to b
satisfaotory. Heng in the garden are gen
orally unmitigated nulswnoes, surely so i
they are your neighbor's hens. Many per
sons seem to think that poultry cannot b
profitable unless they ono have their ful
liberty, and can obtain mast of their livin
from 08
what they 0 pick up while foraging
on their owna000unt. But tale ie a mistake
gene running at large, unless closely watch
ed and oared for, seldom pay very well.
They often have to scratch too hard fo
their livirg, and what eggs they lay ar
largely lost, or in some way -wasted. Then
the chickens get caught by hawks, foxes or
other animals of prey.
If hens can have good pure air to breathe,
Olean water to drink, and suitable food in
abundance, they will get along with very
little room for exercise, and will, pay well
in eggs for the table, But if saving eggs for
setting, it would bo better to give more,
exercise, that the chlokensmay be more vig-
orous. We o my allude to this, experiment,
a forced one on our pert, to show how small
a range a few hens can be kept on and yield
a generous profit for the care and keeping.
Almost every family has waste scraps from
the kitchen that could be utilized in no bet-
ter way than to feed to a small coop of lay-
ing hens.
surtBE&XS.
✓ The first Hindoo lady who ever went
o into trade Jure opened a bookstore in Born-
. bay.
f Edward Everett Hale reiterates Bulwer'0
• insertion that three hours of daily brain work
e as ample to get from a man the best that is
1 in him.
g The Engliah language is coming auto nee
by the natives of India; and, owing to
, their sources of learning, they leave out
. and put in Hs like Engliebmen,
The residence of an Omaha woman eon.
✓ silts of an old organ box, with a dry geode
e box for an extension, and a broken milk can
in one side for an ov n.
In seventy-five cities and towns of Wis.
eonsin, since the liq'torlicense fee was raised
from $75 to $200 a year, the number of sa-
loons has fallen off 4n. But the amount
received for licenses has inoreased more than
$224,000.
An Ocean -Bound Home.
Probably the remotest and loneliest spot
on earth is the little island of Tristan
d'Acunha. This speck of an island, which
is only seven miles long and six wide, lies
almost midway between Africa and South
America, and a thousand miles south of the
equator.
When Napoleon was imprisoned on St,
Helena, it was thought' that the loneliest
place in the world had been assigned to him
as a prison. But St. Helena is fourteen
hundred miles nearer a continent than is
Tristan d'Acunha. Many hundreds of miles
of ocean lie between it and the smallest is-
land nearest to it. Tristan, in short, is a
tiny oasis in aboundless wilderness of water,
go from it in which direction you will,
It is a rocky and cliff -girt little isle, with
a solitary mountain a thousand feet high
rearing itself from the midst. Weeks and
sometimes even months elapse, without so
much as the film of a ship's sail being espied
in the distance from its shores.
Yet on this lonely speck of rock and earth
there lives a bright, cheerful, thrifty Chris-
tian community which is, seemingly, quite
happy in its isolation from all the rest of
the world. There are about ahundred inhabi-
tants, all Englishmen and Englishwomen.
Theoldest inhabitant is a man of seventy
eight, who was wrecked on the island fifty
years ago, and has ever since dwelt there,
and has become the patriarch of the little
company.
An English captain, returning from a`lorig
voyage in the course of whichhe anchored
.at Tristan, has recently given a very inter.
esting account of the community. Those
who compose it are one and all farmers,
cattle -raisers, and shepherds. In the valleys
of the island are fertile fields, where pota-
toes mainly are grown. On the elopes
were grazing some seven hundred head of
cattle,and as many sheep. The food of the
people consists for the most partof beef,mut-
ton, fowls, potatoes, and fish.
As to the dwellings, they are described ae
being kept very clean and tidy, as we might
expect from English people, and the people
.themselves are healthy, robust and long-
lived; They have whaling-boate,and are very
adventurous in their sea -roaming after
whales, They someatimes row as far as
twenty miles out to sea to interc' pt a pass-
ing ship.
It is often the case that that region in as.
ailed by mighty tempests of wind, while the
island is subjected at times to what are
caildd "rollers"—huge masses of high -raised
water which fairly inundate the lofty shores.
Tristan used formerly to produce many,
fruits and vegetables whioh can no longerbe
grown there. The reason of this is that the
island is overrun by rats, which escaped
from a ship that anchored there, and which
the people have never been able to extermi-
nate.
The people have preserved the ouatoms of
their English native land. In the centre of
the settlement stands the little English
church, to whioh all the inhabitants repair
on Sunday morning. Thus the church -bells
of England and the prayer and praise of the
home churches find a faint echo across the
leagues of ocean which stretch between the
motherland and the lo nelyleek of the South-
ern seas.
Tho people of Tristan, solitary as their is-
land is, ateadfat1y' refute to leave it. They
look upon it es their +home ; to some it is
their native land. The ships which now
and then touch upon its shores in vain offer
to bring thong beak to' the haunts of civiliz-
ation. They have grown to love their lone-
liness, and to bo content with a lot that is
trange and pathetid indeed,
Poultry in Narrow Quarters. '
Hens like to have their liberty and to 9
Team over the garden and field* and to se -
The death of an aged man was caused by
the shook of discovering that ho was only
0 years old, instead of being the oentenari.
an that he had Supposed.
Frank Jame:, the Missouri bandit, is far
gone in consumption. He says that he. hae
received hundreds of offers from showmen,
but that he is too old and feeble to Iearn how
to act in a drama illustrating his exploits,
as frequently proposed, and he is too proud
to become an exhibit in a museum.
Madame Sarah Bernhardt is now forty-
five years old, and it is said in London that
she looks her age. On the stage her face
is unpleasantly painted, although paint and
powder hide the wrinkles. Yet thisremark-
able actress and woman has still a strong
hold on popular favor, and it is believed that
her American engagement next year will be
brilliantly successful,
The discovery has been made that Mormon
missionaries do not let their foreign coca
verts know of the polygamous doctrine of the
Latter Day Saints until arrival in Utah,
A full set 01 Mormon books and tracts, used
in England by a preacher, contained no
mention of plurality of wives, and a mar-
riage service in one publication included the
familiar proviso of one wife to one husband.
A prize fight was arranged between two
young women in Australia. The pugilists
came up defiant and jaunty for the first
round, which ended in a mutual knockdown,
each receving a blow squarely in'the n se.
At the expiration of the allowable interval
the referee oaIled "Time 1" but the antagon-
ists had lost all vim, and both were weep-
ing over the possible disfigurement of their
faces—a calamity compared with which the
loss of the fight was nothing.
The explorers in the Congo Valley are
surprised by the crudity of life there. The
natives have no domesticated beasts of any'
sort, nor do they raise or catoh any animals
to eat, as they know nothing of flesh as food.
No semblance of clothing ie worn, and diet
is practically confined to s ontaneous pro-
ducts of the soil. Letters from missionaries
say, too, that the negroes there are so 107 in
mentality that any hope of Christianizing
them must be based on a long and patient
course of intellectual training. They are
too densely ignorant to comprehend the
simplest statements of doctrine.
What is known as the Priory, on hig h
ground at Stanmore, near Harrow, Eagiand,
has been turned into a hotel, and a coach
runs there daily from Charing Cross. The
Priory was occupied early in the century by
the first Marquis of Abercorn, who Iived.
there in grand style, and entertained all the
celebrities of the period. He had a peep
hole whence he surveyed new guests, and if
they were women and ugly he absented him-
self. It is recorded that he did so with Jane
Porter (authoress of " Thaddeus of War-
saw, ' then the rage) and her sister. The
present Duke of Abercorn used the place
awhile, and then let it to Qaeen Adelaide,
who died there, After that he sold it.
The production of slag wool and the in.
dustrial applications of the article appear to
be largely on the increase. By the action
of strong jets of steam the slag is transform "p
ed into a fibrous, whitish silicate cotton,
which, being minerals, is incombustib`e,
like asbestos; it is advantageously and ex-
tensively used in England in the construc-
tion of new houses with Mansard roofs, the
space between the interior lath or panelling
and the exterior covering of zinc, slate, or
tin, being filled with this slag wool, the
effeot being to protect from the rigor of frost
in winter and from intense heat in summer.
It is also said to prevent freezing and buret-
ing of taps, spouts, and the water pipes if
these are covered by the wool in winter.
A new sugar is now obtained from the
seeds of the Laurus persea, a tree growing
in the tropics. This sugar has on previous
occasions been noticed by chemists, but
was supposed by them to be mannite. It
is extracted by boiling alcohol, from whioh
it crystallizes on cooling. Ito point of
fusion is 183.5 to 184 degrees, while that of
mannite is twenty degrees lower ; it is
very soluble in hot, less so in cold Water,
and even in concentrated solution it has
no action in the polarimeter; on adding
borax, however, to a four per cent. solution,
it givers a rotation to the right of 0.55 degree.
It does not reduce copper solutions, and ie
not fermentable. Boiling nitric acid con-
verts it into oxalfa acid, Without the pro
duction of mucro acid. There are also
some other chemical characteristics pearlier
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