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The aged. farmer oi to -day will tell how
be eut all the grain witi a sickle,
tool that dates beele to auent times
When the groin cradle was hevented a
teemencleue stride wee rode, Whea
Man emelt]. met azul ley in a neet eweth,
heads ell Oae way, two to Ave acres of grain
a dity, it seereed as though petfeetion had
bee u ettained, and ati if notiliug better or
yaw expeelitiens man be hoped er wished
fere Bat the he4 eoythe has beeu die -
*eyed by the nmaing machine which eate,
nith one men and a teem, Ova te eight agree
he helf a day, te Ite drawn he durnig the
afternowe ; end th.e hand rehe, too, lam
goee, ea pelt:Ile' to eha memory of the boy,
en the farm wheulm had to reke eller '
the wagon while two pitchere were leedieg,
That wed opreeding hey in the femme!)
gave the boy sf g deem nears plenty to do:
awl made bim dread the Approach of hay-
ing. The hey of to-dey es be ridee the
tender eon horee-rake, thinkapreadion awl
rahing hay "ust inn,'
The busy housewife of those oln yea re s
U p late in the night by the dim ilieher of
tallow dip, while she plied hee needle 'ado-
trunisly te prepere, ratmene tor bcr
Ont, 9f material that she had spun awl woven. heePaulsgIV. If Your cellar te ;gage/404y
bereelf, that haa been gram* upon the farm- 1 arih Ana Aslasdir 144°. ras ou Put it there.
To -day the merry cletter of the sewirag ma- and oxPeen in to do hnod work. If Yon have
chine et heard, and the mekleg of e gerreeet A Emelt out-buete that eau be doeble-
ts tbs matter et sn hour or ss. The quids heerded with lied/dues paper between, a
oat bss been made in the 1.,„fohnin et on_ } which has close -slitting door Ana windows
ecavaratoas binn we look hack, eitenv lit 3.°1t rtheY pet it in thee, and it will perform
bewildering. To -day the fernier is eve ity`,Tatisf:34w4iir- Ut 0'04 A PIA,10 A liabrelf
lamp witkeep the teraperetere Meant ejght
manta a such An incintater qtalte comfort-
°lyi
OeQzrae, a PatKal Wha mallets poultry
raising his sole (reopen= during the whole
or a portion 0 the year will expect to at.
tend to his ditties as regularly as a clock,
regardiese o everethitra ehse- Bat the sup-
positiou is that eecia a perean will ruu the
intsieess oie a sole eaffletently loge to pay
hira for the whole of ills time.
Mother thing ;—rhel average novice
thilike he on place the maehine in the
livingnoten, or aver the kitchen steve, and
thus have everythIng right under his IWO),
Ile rney do se if hie olfactories are ha smell
a. disordered couciltien that he omelet elis-
tieguith offensive odors, hat a his p Qs* is ae
sensitive es mine, he will pith the thIng
out of the whelow ot two weeka.
matter how nice and clean it is kept, ite ex-
balatiees will tend to create rebellion and
auarchy in the heneellold.
"Then Ill pet it on the haek porc.12,bz
the wood ehe‘3, barn poultry house, or
grepary "" says the tiro. la ait of tieoee
uhwee the temperetare A:lanes up and, newel
10 to 40 degreee daily, and 1 on meat/Antler
ensure him that if he pubs his meg/thee In
y one of them, be eau mint hio chicha on
e togers of one heed.
"Thee where cep. I put itr he aslia,
ironed with the teem, Censiderinif, It SieW I
he sita tepee-hia hinder that tekee to a wenn
ale or eight net wide, And gate eud leinds 50
to 100 who 0 wheat reedy to be eleamed
with an immense eteaut threeher, that
theashea Inni0 or 1,1100 huatele of wheat in
a day. Whoa plownig, he lidea 9U a eulliy,
Whim /ee plea% hie Cern, inatead of a geeg
of men awl boys with Una and beekern
do irregolar eud uneven work, he zidea his.
pleutere whielt marine dos and covere Ms
guru wale evesteetemolpreentoo enemy acres
in dey, mid the cultivation el the crop is
done with approved retschiaery ea that the
hend-hee le A Wel inihnciall in the corafield.
While each rapid advanet Meat in the pre-
paration of the milk aud the cultivatien and
atherieg of the crops has been tunnel. there
eta been eee chauge, I am eorry to gay, me
meg/eine yet inveeted. diet will milk a
Conld 4 MaChine he reside that OH euceesa.
fully do the work of threeor four milkere
when oersted by eneetetsen,.it would teem
that the dairy fervor had test csaighe
;enrollee of the toilleanium. Sneh a de-
afen, t Ogles from the many fiat Wham is in
thin nireetima, will, Ilea; never be invent.
ed.
Well, an the thrilty termer who ouzel%)
oi 150 nerea remit hese raiwisieery to do hie
work ehpeditiottaly and well, thet of Ali, in,
the spring be will aetel a, plow.if he era
efford the luxuty, let it he oust ou wheels ;
bate anyway, is ehortld to a chilled plow.
Then he doesn't hem to worry hell easy or
so And perheps use liOnin big "word; became
his plow doesn't smear, Asi for harrow'he
on ride or not; ciumeot whettobuy
there are an many good. oleo, each keying
some special gate:11>cent over its rive% A
lend roller I wouldis'e want to be withinit.
It pate the land in splerelld couelitiou ler the
ream to pick up down grain and for the
mowing meohine. Many fermata are putting
the mire 'plow add* and. witug oltivetors.
Them are ale° built en wheels and -with two
homes de repid end esioativo work.
Armen are also learning that term wag -
ens with breed tires four to ;ix inehes wide,
are fee impeder to those with the ordinary
'wheels ; that in them a lieevy toed eau he
drama over the farm an the yielding Soil
with much greeter ewe In pleuting earn a.
marker ia used at leaat ono way, and the corn
is &appel. with a planter. For sowing grass
nod, in the spriag, Quo abould have a band
broacioaat seeder or a wheelberrow
This enablea one man to do effectually the un-
certain work of two or three. He, of course,
wielies to get hie hay ineerly and do it quice-
ly. Well, be will need a self -dumping hone
rake and a good mowing mainline. Than
that out five feet or over are corning into
favor, as they enable one to cut all that le
neceenry in the early part of the forenoon
and get more nun. A -wader is also indis-
pensable, as hay cures very rapidly when
stirred by it. Hineloaders don't take, at
lent not in this seetion yet ; but a lune
barn and a borsedork are positive necene.
ties. A grapple -fork that will pitch tang
or short hay well is used in this county.
In the grain field the farmer who ovens a
light reaper makes quickwork of harvesting
his grain if the weattier ispleasant,but with
little waste of grain.
When it comes to thrashing, it does not
pay the ordinery farmer to invest in a mis-
chine, as thraahing is usually done by men
who purohate an expensive mathite and go
from farm to farm making quick work of it
at each place. Some of -diets men own a
buzz -saw, and in early spring go around
and saw up farmers' wood -piles.
I have mentioned the neceasary imple-
ments that should be on the ferna of the
wide-awake farmer ; but there are a number
of epecial machines that he can buy to ex-
pedite business, such as a potato planter,
and potato -digger. A good fodder cutter,
too, so the farm team eau have a variety of
feed, is a necessity, and so perhaps are many
other things that I might apeak of, but with
the array of took I have mentioned, with
the addition of a drain drill which I came
near forgetting., a farmer will find himself
pretty well &pupped for a season's work.
M. E. 0. GARDNER.
Tem HEN TS THE INCUBATOR.
I see that Mr. Jacobs gives a sketch and
description of a hot-water incubator on page
850 of last year's RURAL. I have one very
nearly like it, and it hatches chicks nicely
when it is faithfully and regularly attended
to; but I want to say that the person who
makes this incubator with the expectation
that it will almost run itself and hateh out
chicks by the score, will be lewfully dap -
pointed. I have never been able to obtain
satiefactory hatch with this machine un-
less I changed a certain quantity of the
water once in every eight hears during the
whole period of itioubation.
To the novice this seems easy enough to
do; but actual trial will cense him to change
his mind. He must make his calculations
to forego all sprees, parties, prolonged vis-
its, extra naps, circuses'etc., etc. aud to
be on hand promptly at the regular hour
and with the water hot, or he will have the
pain of recording a dismal failure. Two
perfume who thoroughly understand each
other, and are each willing to do their full
iihare promptly, can attend to the require•
eeld weenier, net after ell, kt
have a heililles eetwelel met-
tle puree to be tietn4 b
coal or ell a use au eil 4* -
both water and. the room) anti
veutilated
in a euitable menet
WOUIC119,y the orditiety farmer
to ere aneb a hulleinegmini fit it up with
the neeessary epperetiet is 4 qaCtitiOn. I ata
etrongly Winkled to think it *vela not, at
!teat got while hole are an willies to sit,
and so able to do a eetishietoryjole ineetteep=
ly tte they now are.
keine the value et ineubetore to the matt
who makes poultry renieg a epeeitil been,
nese, and. I know something ef the perplex.
Ing ditScultiee which beset the person who
tiedetteleee to engineer else 4124, attend to
the regular elioree aud the thounetel and 033-0
ed.d ;elm that are etwaye bobbing up int
term, and. I have come to the eenefolon,
thet, eft= all, the old ben be the eheepeet,
eetest, eeeleet meneged and meet etalefectern
lucithator for the termer even if she dote
sheet/into sot e UtUeer;riky, aud that he
had better etie,k to her.
it IA true Om rarely wants to eit when ths
weather is at zero, and ego are alteisat res
iv:arose clianielitit Ina *and beuk ; hue idles
gra 14 grows, and worme begiu to offer in-
ducement* to early hirde, the .id hen with
her bungler hunk, is geuerelly ou bend to
partake sumptuously thereon
But while the 04 heti is the beat hatchi
meehlue in existence, *he le "no good"
brood end ore for early hatehed chteke.
good brooder will donbledieconet her
keeping tbe ittle fellowe in that dry and
warm -condition noceittaxy to health and re.
pid growth. A chick that is exposed to
tither wet tir gold castles to grow, aud it it
survives it is certain to he more orlon steel, -
ed.
I make all early sittere sit six weeks, eta
histah two aettins of eggs,. Theo I put thera
Into a pen with a cook a few days, feeding
them Ail they can rat, then turn them oet
with the flock and in a few days hhey are
laying again. 'Their °Make are ratted in a
brooder.
uors_EnoL.D.
Hoeseeer.e.evect, "ho.
That season of the- yoer is approachieg
wheo the 'horde of etcetera" are, according
to their own way of thiukiiig, peculiarly
tried. It is generally believed that lava'
and enrol) day. is nmene especial everefon,
lest ba ego -mermen with the magaina he ea-
Perieneee during the hount eleanteg period,
this day is bat a drop in his cite) 01 rainry,
I do not think, myself, that is IS eXaOtly
pleasant for a mita to cone home to dinner,
tired and. bneery, and Ann a mean not wholly
tempting, a wife heated miii worried, a
house tumbled and torn topsy-turvy from
garret to cella.r—but the; dear sir, who
macre most, you from the unpleaseseat um-
rountliuge, er your wife with ell thia work, et esebneedie nutn,„enuave twent_ttuoa_
and Oati? ON her weery haede and broin . when n„rrow by kixitti4g two Yosetb;
UndoubtedIF Tos- Allawers "she."' Thea at the begloning of eaeh row uotil you are
why no you, when After dinner she asks yon down te. Ono; join tegethee /With blaela,
to bong a few bucketfuls of water, give her
For a herder, Icsit Si -adept number of
a grad' dernah and las as Y°4r"'" ltalf diamond; to go around the quilt, of all
down for an hour's real, while the wife Yoa the celom tbere are the at allti
have ?remind. to love and cherish lugs the q
There are many *ley stitehea that are rood
anti effective bat afghem or tricot stitch ia
the beet, 43 it is aasily and quickly done end
is warm. But to vary thte you may have
one stripe in tufted tricot. You ow eve
broider the light stripes er equeres. in any
figurea that you clacroae—it bright liter, or
light running viii, or a eoeventionel deafen
at any siert that tote may cliotate--or you
may leave it plebe at your own eweet will.
Croeheted equarea after direetione for
an afghan, given in a tete number
of the Country aentIonan by Meddle-
ainee Mattie," Weald Make haudeome
bed spread, awl eeald, do very well
under the name of the Harlequin as Well AB
pattern kat of dtamouds, whiole are kult
le garter witch. Cot on one. etitch fer the
not row, widenieseaelerow, atthe beetling
big pane of water front dietaut spring or ie
hard-working pump! Yea " not time"
either, it, ie the "between times," she aete
Ott
to hang an unwieldy picture, adjoet a
eh mutate polo or dot the heavy empetie
You iseere to forget that at this busy eea-
san hard-working wife, as Well as
On, /hen an extra beeden threwn apon
c and it is not at all bitely that she
i as able to bear an additioaal weight
o toil and tenable as yen with you
soma health, yoor etropg Arnie and you
heave heart. if your wife doe eek you
to do too emelt inna sumo wives do,
knew.)11 really eautioe gad tune for
all these helpful ions, why, In the
rat of moor, eau you not weer 4 cheerful
nteemeo, and usa kind warda and pleas.
Pies in anSWering her vine/MT Thet
n be more heel:nod-like, eurely 1 Your
tie may be alittle frettul, not quite So tidy
end wernewhet exeetieg at this partiouder
time of this particular eemien„ but whet% the
rabbles, scrub/slug, poltahing open is over,
you, Well She, Will COPY the bletned.
woe 04 Clean and orderly home. Md them
1 einfort that. It mey met put food le
the ettomoch and clothes on the ha*, but it
auto of the eeeetworlea ,of civilized life
high Marlin the line betweeit himum neture
nil the brute. The unprepitiotia state of
temper Imo which the hougeoleeniag epoch
preeipitAtee the average " lord" le pro,
verhifil, and I need no e dwelt upon the truth
avel zetneeonviblenets 0 It any farther, more
then to oy Oust it doe not aSauredly
eete the charateter 0 a true mw,*goocl bun
ruin, and. a geoultie Chrlidiee. It MOUS
thin %gra 40 leo than seldtleuesa with
er ineetilied let the biggest Aud
rved that with the ademit e
Its another Nero 0 hitter
hickerieg Nine homes,
that bloom la the epritts
ted plants that Vora in
loo, e iseed of dlecord fir 'Oran -
in tw tea a bullhead. and wife
whIch grows illtO a mighty tree, prosper*
on spreads it; lecaucho ever the Inner
ome life until deAth, with the mAtlock of
remorse, And the Me of fergetfuleen, rode
up, bowel it to pines and eseta it forever
from that home. It is heed fur the refined
and beauty loving hothead to believe that,
there are men who eulttvete an inborn Ma,
like for plants awn floweret, Vann tho vis.
bit bloasiersing it*simplieity, to the water
lily growing and blooming in ell ito queenly
Vice, no flower thnis fever in their eyes.
Now vrhen one of these flower.hating
do" Is tieiten in niseriege to a woman
efantbetlo tastes, the budding and growing
g time is looked, forward to by both
d e.apecially by the wife with an nervous
pprehention. The vines !small be treined,
the hushes and ahrubbery teimmed, freeh
entit and and areneeded. for thonlowier Ws,
to, Seek laborleas work the wife is not
able to do mid elle (gimlet be happy without
her "dear Rower* ;" Rho appeals to tho
amily " bear" for help, lie growia, grumbles
end snarls in a manner charaateriatio of the
species. Thou there are hark worda, eyes red
-.with weeping and at least one sore boarb,
Not often more than ono, though, for the
man that can go brutally traniple upon bia
erife'a delay* washes is not in poinaiation of
such an article. If he has one, it is a little,
ineann contracted, wrinkled -up thing,. with
room in it for nothing beta magnified image
of the owner's worth. I hope there aro tot
many such, but there are a few, for I have
met them, talked with them, observed their
actions, and noMd thia particular trait If
you, " my lord," do think that the work of
tending flowers is "noneenee" and "waste
of time, ' do you enplane that all your tastes
and habits are congenial to and approved of
by your wife ? Ten ohances to one you are
a slave to tobacco; year wife a.bhora it.
Neverthelese you fill the house with smoke,
the spittoons with nauseous quids and
juices, and your breath and clothes with an
nnaavory odor. You may have other clia-
agreeable habitis and "queer" tastes, too.
Your wife, if she is a true wife, tolerate
your eiuless foibles, and encourages your
lawful tastes for the sake of the love she
bears you. If you are a true husband you
will do likewise. We do not all have the
mime tastes and desires. It is not unusual
to find that what the wife dotes upon, the
husband despises ,• what he loves, she
loathes. The man who has taken upon him-
self the duties and responsibilities of married
life should itot forget this fact, and should
remember also that in every happy home,
forbearance is the animating spirit and love
is the chief staple.
Rig Price for a Tree.
Curly Walnut is highly valued leo veneer
makern if it contain the right kiwi of figure.
A euvious story cornea from West Vb.
about a curly wannut log. A eva
found it tree aomettliere In the region aho
Kanawbe Fella that he concluded was very
valutnne. neared a sample and forvrard-
ed it toe. handler of ouch wood in Baltimore.
The result wee that the discoverer received
atnoffer for the tree, probably amounting to
Venn°. Subaequeritly the Baltimore man
eold Aare of the ohrince to an Indianapolis
dealer, wbo opened negotiatiooa with tho
woodsman. for possession of the prize, a
lag* going to West Virginia. to prosecute
the enterprize. When the affair had reach-
ed this stage the 'woodman concluded that
the tree was worth $3,000, and demanded
tbat sum ior it, or be would not yid.' up
his knowledge. Seeing that the Indianapolis
man was beund to find the tree, if ranble,
the diacoverer out it down and kneed it in
the earth. A thorough search has ao yet,
failed to reveal the hiding -place rethe log,
and the man who holds the seeret deolates
that nothing but $3,000 will bring it to the
surface.
Remember the Mothers.
It is the mother who is the regulator of
the home-life—it is her words and ways
which must be the main influence in the
lives of the little ehildren for a working-
man can of neeessityn seebuttlittle of bit
children—it is she who is responsiblefor the
household arrangemeuts of the family, and
if she regards the considerations of comfort,
decenoy and order as 0 little or no import.
awe, then the home will be devoid of those
safeguards of virtue which are necessary for
the well-being of the family. But how are
we to reach the mothers ? . . Ladies
have said to me, I should feel as if I were
interfering if I began to broach ou such sub-
jects as are mentioned on the card." But
those who have gone in and out amongst
taothers will tell a different story ; if we ap-
proach them as mother speeking to mother,
both anxious for their own. children's wel-
fare in this world and the next, many a
helpful hint may be dropped, many am en-
couraging word may be spoken; and un-
doubtedly we shall learn. as much se we
teach, for the lives of these workingwomen
have much, much to teat& us.
Great Catches ot Eels.
.Numerous huge conger es& killed by the
frost have been washed. up on the southern
coast of England. Some of them -weighed
fully seveney pounds, being seven feet long
and twenty four inches in circumference.
I'oeimilar ocourreece has been known since
the Crimean war, so say old fishermen.
Extraordioary catches of live eels are alsO
being made in the English channel. Up-
warde of ten tons were lauded itt one day at
Folkestone and sant to London market.
Some of the eels were of enormous size.
THE FRE,1011T lutommAx,
Nana' liartbillitna 4.tts IR cold
4. tiventher.
Elareiehurg, r*., correspoedent says
On One of the very celelest and stormiest
days of this winter I was in the 'Alice of a
Penneyleiosia reilroad official overleiaMag
a vast yard- 0 eudlees ewitchee and. sidings,
over which shifting taints and locomotives
were moving 'Ike so many huge shattles.
A raa_eved-looking.eoeng ono, wearlog A cep,
rnettr blae reefing jeaken a blue flannel
Qat
and baggy trousers oteffea in iiigle rub-
ber boote, emend the entice, took off his cep
and, as soon SS he ceald get lain breath,
thee addressed the ofeeial
'I want to leave my nanin for the job e
brakite on freight trent 30. n.reety Itileyht
out et it Hengist got eitt in two up in the
yard. The toga was coedit' in Party lively.
Se the Cara was ley 013 top, The engisteer
whia' tied fer brake* an' Jimmy started to
nun over the, tep ee the trsin, napped
and betwixe two cews. He bit on the
hamper au' grabbed to Save 2110ISE.H., but he
eame number of half deemenna m inane, eouldn't ketch aethue , an dropped on to
wino* 00 in ehe other, 0.0 asi t4:, 'Apure the rail. Both treeke went over 111041
plebe edge all KOWA an' anetber feller was there, au' we started
/Toro as °Bo mom strip whiet, is equally for here as fat as we could get to ask fer
pretty for a gent or pillow, to. Set up ‘iliee'V's Place- I got here Arett likto
saven 441t4"; in mche; vai" seven' /44411- theTii°04r:rirto-agr anaciYar pc;o4mitegdixtese ifetettlanItle%
we, lochaling the tem in your aeedle. Work
heek by drawieg your wool threngh ono,
then throuelx two, through four, thritegh
two, through two,
second ren„plek up Inno firoe kne when the men ban gone, "s0 beset with
he front, thee. the one in chain between the dhoser aed herdahipa as that 0 4 rallweel
next two loag loope, then draw the wsni,1 beekeeetee.opolally, en lops freight trains;
through the little elmia at the twit 0 the talYete tf there Agog tweet), lerekomen
-
an tide or may other reel tteday there
application fee censideretion, and tha man
went oat evideatly wen pleased.
"There is we nelliitg," geld the ofneial
greup 0 four Ion, tweet through the chent
between the two lees lope and laittly,
threugis the feet two leug lops end you
leave egeits seven lops in, your needle. lie.
peat thew two rows yeti) your Wipe is lees
eeough ; jelts with Wok. Crochet a herder
around it large Agile with bleek and
pumpkin yellow, taxed.
Ver a ebild's Tuft, take quautity of old
Chtietree's, Beeter, or other verde, misuse'
them le rows eireoft elleeie AO thOthey nisy
bo felded ep oidly. Or yea can hevethero
woyt Home derk bluoand red twilled
musliu, tom It le istripee the width of your
sands, and merited off in squares. Theis be
Alternate Novato task a ord, leavieg blue
nd, red, eqnere between, and the effeet will
he very pleating, Line with *orate pretty
mum ; theme with londeeapee would be
eielly pretty. Then you on turn it
erer whet% IMO wide bile pleolog, end
Ve 4 fresh moo of iniewseineat.
MINT Antitn,
WWII%
lilting or wale in the water ye
rable te seep for cloning windows a
nt.
be lustre of inereem may be restored by
varnish:Mg it with the Whka of an ea. Ap-
ply with a /Tense
To *top the bloodies 0 a wound set
meta 0 woollen rap Oil tire toad hula the
ittilloted pertewer them in the smoke.
The moils effectual remedy for slim and
greasy dram' end pipes is copperas I
ored and loft to work graduelly through t
Mem.
Te remove the soaves. from sleet value
and the slow look from the elbows au
mew, rub with. a cloth dIpped ern
A tee made 0 hipti or dried whorele.
berth*, and drat* us the piece 0 wiktsr,
inikepeedy cure for meny forms at scrofulous
difilaultien
When lend *way for any length 0 time,
linen Mu:minim omitted, rough (hied with-
out Inning, *Ea laid in 100410 fold' without
Touch wolgitie on it.
4. Belgien gardener vonterals *het after
tryieg the Imbue speolsd manufactured
inecotflidee, he le convinced that tobacco
ke in it* different torma is Anil the best
wetly.
Boiled potatoes ought to lee loid out on
pieta, anti aro then as good for frying or
reselling as they were freshly cooked. If
left heaped up they will often spoil in one
night.
A lump of soda leid -upon the drain pipe
dowu whiell mato water peseta will prevent
the elogglng 0 the pipe witla grease, tape-
oially if the pipe la flooded every week with
boiling water.
A tnifeago father olTered his bookkeepe
a well eancated young men, en5 if he conld
learn the school lessons set tor a. gir112
years of ago in the time ellotted her, and
the bookkeeper made a failure of it.
ArliT ArtclunT.
would he as many kiiiplicAnta ler each men a
o.1 wan as the news 0 leiti deetle Ise-
kuown, The Mal %ha Was Stint heve
ye.witnette Rileytifeightiul deeth,
04 whatever frepreetioit in made upon
him wee* Unit in Appreciation 0 the feet that
the ileAl man heti left a Vomit to be Med by
stone auto elee. This prompted him ett et
veep, apd, he loet tett a 'tweed. seeurieg all
the velveutege priority of eppliestien might
give him.
"very milreed has housing wheat ita
wale ited etediows a emelt Army of tlieSe
anvbiva applicente for ehaueee to Meta loto
deed mentiallara. They are ehiefir moo who
boo foliewrel railmeding all their liven, and
who have lot their jobs for value comm.
Reilmadinte, good cteal like volitive, If *
nem gen lobe it owe he isn't worth is eilap
for anythieg vise, Anil so if he gets ent
` eenetently an thaloOkOnt ter tbe op-
eity time he telievee mot etene to let
gelet. Time Islet ente emus this
ramn WO to who doe ape feel
sorrow when is relleowl Man is kill.
xtet arm 0 them would hesitete to
own life to *WC that Of say trainMan,
althesig„le tnietlie were 00
that num uvula ore *
pine 9U the reel ; net they
and the genteel yards day
ehing the switching And the
goiter el trains, knowing that
ter Remo one 0 the men on than
Is hound to be killed or maimed into
helptersueee. It Hotta tliet there were only
e of theee won near to witeeee the shoek.
ottle el Ilfloy today, aud wheu othere
it eutl that en Application for Itiley's
was put in AU bow or SO abeati of
they will bemome the hard luck that
hem from lielug preeenb wheel the
in; ocentred mid robbed them 0 ea,
u intermit restehing my ear grab. It be
by mom then the young teen
he WM just hero will be altbough
1 Ivey. If he kat nivel) Riley's. pine it
I not break 14e fmtli nor that 0 any 0
is kind in the Importance of boning only
intelligetice tAtal aceideute to treinenen
and 0 hilieg early in my ofAcewith themews
soad the opplication, or, if the accident
ercurs eemewhere else, 0 the °Ohio of the
oue in. autherity there."
I walked through. the railroad yard and to
tha *pot where poor Jimmy Ditty waft
illed. Hie mangled Indy bed been taken
away. A grimy, oneearmed awitoliman
pointed out to auto where the unfortunate
braltenum fell on the 1.411 and explained how
it all happened.
44 This has been a. hard winter on 'cm,"
eaid the switchman. 44 Jimmy makes four
this week so fee. Three of 'era wits took
jfiet him, end t'other un was flattened
nevixt the bumpers while be was cone:dint I
could.* toll you how many has been
caught up aloog this line, but I've been
noticin' that there's is good many strange
bodiestneu on tome of the traius that comes
in. There's five fellow in three gauge alone
that I don't know. I haven't had the heart.
to ask where the obi hatuis are, for npoae
I'd be told that this one had been kimeked
off bis car by a bridge, and that one had
mined couplin' an et the bumpers, an'
that another ono had ppod from the roof,
11
BED QUILTS lIOR INVALIDS.
If you have an invalid friend to whom
you desire to make a present of sorne work
oi your own hands, none can possibly be
more acceptable than a knit or crocketed
bed quilt. As to their warmth e.nd perfect
ventilation they are unequalled. Then the
bit of color is cheering to sick persons, land
the patterns will interest there, and help to
pass some dreary moments. They can be
either in stripes or squares or diamonds, but
the colors of either of these must be soft and
cool rather t tan gay or bright—alternate
shades of pale gray, dove, or fawn or light
maize, or fielice,te puce, with pal; blue or
soft sea green and °lariat with a judicious
mixture of black and white, and any other
of the many beautiful shades that now come
in wools. A very little pumpkin yellow may
be introduced in connection with black,
and is dull`shade of electric blue verging on
gray. Have four threaded fleecy or double
Berlin wool and a crochet needle number
five. 11 you do not mind a heavy piece of
work set up twenty stitches for is stripe and
the same number will do for is square.
Wife (pleadingly)—I'm afraid, George.
you do not love me es well as you used to,
flusbena—Why Wife—Bectone you al-
ways lot me get up to light the fire. Huta
band—Nonsense, my love. Your getting
up to light the fire makee me lova you all
like Jitnmy eist now, an So on. It rney 'be,
the mare.
Prof. Tyndall has provecl that atm -
spheric germs can not pasa through a layer
of cotton, and it is now said that preaerven
fruit may be kept in perfeot condition by
covering:the jar with cotton batting. Putre-
faction as caused by minute atmospheric
germs. These are expelled by cooking, and
the cotton batting prevents their return
when the frait cools.
When you are particelarly anxious to at-
tend the concert or party of the season, aed
feel that prickinct pain and gee the fatal
little spot of red on the eyelid that surely
foretells the coming of a sty, lia.ve no fears
for the result, but put in a small bag is tea-
spoonful of bleak tea, on which pour
enough boiling water to moisten; as soon
as cool enough put it on the eye and let it
remain until morning. The sty will, in all
probability, be gone; if not, one more ap-
plication will be certain to remove it.
Inc PoisOlTnro.—The best of all remedies
is hot waiter. All other remedies that I
have tried, (and I have tried many) only
aggravated the poison, but hot water, as hot
as can be borne affords instant relief. It
must be applied hour or two, or as
often as the itching returns. Isa a couple of
days a oure is effected. Poison sumac
yields to the same treatment. The inila.m-
rnation, and with it the itching and burning
are allayed at once. I am poisoned dozens
of times every year, but suffer no incon-
venience except the trouble of applying the
hot water. --Cor. Scientific Amman,
I hope you employ your -whole time,
whioh hot* people do; I call company, walk-
ing, riding, ese„ employing one's time, and
upon proper occasion, Very usefully; but
what I can not forgive is saulatering, and
doing nothing at all with a thing so preciioue
as time, and ao irrecoverable when lost.—
Chester field.
though, that some of them are only laid up
with a few fingers off or an arra twiated out
0 the sockets or a foot run over and smash-
ed, or some little thing like that.
"What mikes brakite SO dangereue? A
good many thins. For instance, there's.
°Gupta'. That's always o -t the top notch of
dangerous from one IsTeW Year to another,
every day in the year, year ict an' year out.
&nit now the ice an' snow on the oars is
dangerous. It isn't an easy thing for a man,
to run along bhe tops of cars going 20 milen
an hour, even when there is no ice on the
boards an' the wind is light. Bub when you
take it like it has been for a week or so,
with the oar roofs like glass, and the wind
tearing aloug faster then the train does'I
want you to know that there's got nobe.
nerve in is man for him to climb up the top,
of a oar and run over half a dozen or so
every time the engineer calls for brakes.
Then, mind you, a brakesman has no right
to tide anywhere but on his car, no
matter if the snow is falling on him by
the ton or rain drenching him or hail is -pelt -
Inc him like 'hot shot. Then he's apb in the
night to run his head against some bridge
that spans the track. But wept& is what
carries the most of them away. I used to -
be is freight brekesman myself, and one day
I stepped between two oars to coupe them,
having at the time two as good arms as any-
bodyever. had. When I came to my seneea.
my right arm was gone. The bumpers took
Id off. These link and pin couplers aro-what
ruins the boys. Every brakeman. knows
that just for having to do that he has to pay ,
six times aii much for insuring hie life as the
man that aits in a warm office and makes,
out the train way bine dem Then brake -
()halm is apt to part, too, when the brakea-
man is twisting tip his wheel, and away goes
the bra-kennel:I to tlae ground. If he don't
get in under the wheels he's apt to get his
head or his neck or hie kgs broken by the