The Exeter Advocate, 1895-4-19, Page 6MISCELLANEOUS READING
WISE AND OTUERWISR.
Interesting Reading Culled from many
Sources, of Interest to the Young as
well as. the Old..
Maintny's Logic.
De heart am 'deed a very little thing,
Salt do 1401'111104;) of sorrow,
An' u' situ' 'cuff has 'bout aliyo" wants
Wit) ont'n g whie 'r,tun' ter borrow.
Some folks bowl' ter huts trouble up Close
's if Was de greatest treasure,
An' of dee air' miserable all dar lives
Dee wouldn't have no pleasure.
Bee' way drop yo' burden on de groan',
Betide grass comet cover it over.
On'count t0' de�de siesad place lover t' went
Iealletomin' hosmean' rld Mies
Has travel'd long way toweddor;
Sometimes sunshine brighten de road,
Den agin' mighty cloudy weddah.
One time we's Irvin' way up high,
Ner time way down in de bashes.
When a e on' ee de lark up yon' in de Sky,
We kin still heah de song o' de thrushes
I ask ole Miss what to' she care
Ef life puts de wo st er de bee' on,
Ain' Mammy's big hear t alien dyah
Like tr soft ole cushion to rea' on?
Ole Mxmmv don't t'fnk no harm o' herself,
Young Mar's as�dt' say, when he joken.
She take cif her shoe, 'n of he come too neah
He know what she t'lnk by dm token,
Mighty high stepper wer' my ole Miss
Widplentg sweetttc arts an' no wonaah,
She had such a curve on her puny little foot
You could see eaylight shinin'undah
Bring up de eh ltiu' at ole Mammy's knee ;
Noes 'em au' tell de putty story ;
Dress 'e n fo' de weddin', dress "'einfo' de grave
en a robe all white wid glory.
When de war don' we has hard time ;
Miss wer' sad, 'n' look like a church paintin',
ButI say de Lord keep hack He bee' wine
'Win' de time c' oarwo'st faintin'.
An' Iteil ole Miss she do mighty wrong
To confiner to keep on er gnievin',
S'posin' de flesh pots am all gone
Ain'Mammy au de Lord still er livin'?
'Justice Not Mercy.
After eighteen years' continuous ser-
vice with a railway company a passenger
conduetor of Chicago has been " let out."
The circumstances leading up to his dis-
sbarge by the company are of a kind cal-
culated to arouse the wrath of railway
employes, although the ex -conductor
himself accepts his dismissal good-na-
turedly. " He was not the only one," as
the comic song has it.
Not 1 'ng ago a tall, emaciated man
traveled from New York almost to San
Francisco without paying fare. He in-
troduced himself to the conductor rnn-
ninq west from New 'York as an ex -con-
ductor, and said he had very little money,
but that he hoped to get to California,
where, he believed, hie life could be pro-
longed.
He said be was sufferingfrom consump-
tion, and his appearance bore out the
story. He showed a knowledge of rail-
way business, and the conductor believed
his story. He was " dead -headed " to
the end of the first run, and the first con-
ductor was good enough to " fix it " with
the conduct,r who came on to take his
plaee. He reached Chicago and proceed-
ed. westward on one of the well-known
lines. The Chicago conductor had been
informed of the facts in the case, and
consented 't0 carr thei
maII
sick yman, even,
though it was a violation of the rules.
Within two weeks after he had been
so obliging he received leis peremptory
discharge. Upon an investigation he
learned that every conductor who, out
of the goodness of his heart, helped along
the broken-down railrrrad man had been
diseharg d. The consumptive was a
" spotter."
It is said that in his entire journey
from New York to San Francisco only
one conductor remained unafreeted by
his piteous story. This was the con-
ductor on the last run, ending at San
Francisco. and he alone retains a job.
Yet, if the traveler had been a consump-
tive railroad man attempting to reach
the bland climate of the coast, the con
duct of the last conductor world have
been condemt ed by 99 of every 100 rail-
way employes.
Among trainmen it will be held that
the conductors lost their places because
they showed a humane disposition to
help along a " boy" who was in hard
luck. The eompanies justify their action
upon the ground that the conductors dis-
obeyed a strict rule. The " spotter" has
no explanatien to offer under any eireum-
etances.
A Moral.
Mind your own affairs, and—One of
those men who knew it all was a chuck-
ling witness of the accident. The pretty
typewriter was hurrying to .her work,
and took a short cut by crossing the
street near the alley. The horse was
tethered to the weight, and the girl failed
to observe the strap and it tripped her
up. The man burst into a coarse laugh
ae the embarrassed girl fell at full length
on the sidewalk; and as he walked away
he turned his head. watched the girl :
"It's just like a fool woman," he said
in a general way to everybody in King
street, "they never look where they are
going."
"
The man who had shoveled in the coal
had failed to replace the cover to the
hole, and the man with a poor opinion of
women continued to look over his shoul-
der at the girl as he walked up the street,
His whole body did not fall, through the
coal hole, but his elbows were scraped to
the hone and his skin was barked its en-
tire length. He limped away, thankful
that the pretty typewriter who had trip-
ped over the hitching -strap had not seen
him walk into the coal hole,
','.hese are Recent Inventions,
A screwed rod for preventing sagging
of screen doors.
1
A. hundred a minute stamp affixing de-
vice for people with heavy correspond -
once,
A screw driver having a spring arm
connected with ,tJee point to accommodate
it to any sized screw.
An envelope provided on its inner Sap
with a sealed pocket containing an ani-
line powder, the latter staining the en-
velope should an attempt be made to
steam it open.
A wreneh in which one of the shanks,
instead of being joined directly to the
other shank, as is usually the case, is
suspended en an arm, which is pivoted
to the opposing shank.
A staple for fastening wooden .boxes
having eyelets in its parallel sides, which
are adapted to be driven into the lid and
sides of the box, and a barbed lance to be
driven through these eyelets.
.A safety oil can, ^without lid or cover,
which dam only be filled and emptied by
the spout, the latter being p
a remov able spirally wound
acts as a hydraulic closure w
City Scene.
When a horse falls in the
pedestrians stand along the ed
sidewalk to watch the frantie effor
those who are attempting to put the horse
on his feet again;
Out of fifty men in the street there
may be three men who understand horses
and know what td do at that critical min-
ute when the horse is lying on one •side,
with his head twisted upward in the col-
lar and the harness all awry,
There is usually some self-possessed
man who runs up, and. stands at arms'
length, begins to unsnap, unbuolo and
unhitch until the frightened animal is
free to scramble to his feet. He Domes up
snorting and trembling.
Then the nervous driver looks at the
horse's legs to see if they have been
bruised in the fall, and if they haven't
been he usually jerks the horse by the bit
so that he will know better than to fall
down the next time.
A horse fell in King street, and the
little crowd which assembled on the side-
walk expected to see an every -day awl -
dent repeated but when the horse was
urged to stand up he rolledover, straight-
ened his legs, showed the white of his
eyes and gave a long groan. Two min-
utes after that he was dead and the
driver had telephoned for another horse,
The dead animal was pulled over to one
side of the roadway and there lay all day,
Nearly every one who passed along that
side of the street paused for a moment to
look at him. Even a dead horse arouses
a sort morbid curiosity.
About two hours after the sudden
death a young man in a spattered suit of
"jumpers" came along. He carried a
paste bucket and brush, and over his
shoulder was a stuffed knapsack. He
stopped whon he saw the horse, and, after
looking both ways along the street, pro-
ceeded to daub the animal with paste and
spread a fiery theatrical poster where it
could be plainly read from the sidewalk.
He knew that he had put the bili where
it would be read, and he went away
whistling, moved by no other feeling
than one of professional pride.
on
Growls of Mrs. Grundy.
That affection of art makes neither
critic nor connoisseurs.
That outward manifestation of grief is
no longer the " correct thing,"
That a female arbiter is something
new and interesting in fashionable so-
ciety.
That some women never loose their
gloves until it is time t:r go to church.
That no expiring chicken struggles
more than some people to " keep up ap-
pearances."
That pretty women are said to be in
the middle class promenade of life.
That a bald head is the only thing to
make women look more ridiculous than
big sleeves.
That hundreds are for ever miserable
by trying to increase their happiness.
That fashionable friendships are never
as strong as spirits of ammonia.
That millions continue to believe in
the efficacy of half -past 11 repentance.
That the missing screw in the social
fabric is known as moral principle.
That the firsty ear of married life
is the test of mutual patience and for-
bearance.
That their should be schools establish-
ed to teach people to mind their own af-
fairs.
The Coldest Winter.
The most notable thing about the
spell of cold weather through which we
have passed is its widespread intensity.
All Europe has been in the grasp of the
ice kin;, and his antics are more talked
about than those of any other monarch.
In fa'r Asia Japanese sailors were frozen
to death while training their guns on the
Chinese forts and fleet at Wei -Hai -Wei,
and even in Northern Africa snow fell
for the first time in so long a period that
grown men gazed at it with wonder.
What does it all mean ? Scientists
have been at work for years to figure out
a law of climatic and weather changes,
and their conclusion is that it takes be-
tween thirty and thirty five years to get
from the extreme of heat to the extreme
of cold. Just why this is they cannot
tell, but their delving into the olclrecords
convinces them that there is some natur-
al law at work, and that sooner or later
it will be discovered.
Five years ago a Swiss professor,
Brueckner by name, published a book
called. " Chimatic Oscillations Since
1700," and strangely enough, his calcula-
tions made it appear that one of the cul-
minating periods of extreme cold would
come around about this time perhaps in
this very year --to be followed by gradually
increasing warmer weather, which is
scheduled to reach its highest point
about the end of the first quarter of the
next eentury.
While we think of our present suffer-
ings, we may, therefore, turn with eon-
solati •n to 1925 or 1930, and revel in the
anticipation of the mildest winter that
we can secure in this latitude.
Quaint and Odd.
Scotland's Roman Catholic churches
has 352,000 members.
A London omnibus carries on an aver-
age 2,500 passengers each week.
Over 800 British criminals have been
executed in England sines the accession
of Queen Victoria.
Hair from the heads of criminals, pau-
pers and dead people in China constitute
an article of export in that empire
amounting to $500,000 yearly.
A new railroad uniting the Atlantic
and Pacific is nearly completed. It
crosses the Andes and brings Buenos
Ayres within forty hours' ride of Val-
paraiso.
The Berlin Street Car Co. paid $250.000
into the treasury of the city for the priv-
ilege of crossing the principal avenue,
Ureter den Linden, at one point. ,
The chief exponents of music in Japan
are women. Most men would consider
that they were making themselves ridic-
ulous by playing or singing in society,
The Lord Mayor of London takespre-
cedence of every other British su j
s blest
within the jurisdiction of that city, the
Prince of Wales oven not being an ex-
ception.
The city of Buenos Ayres has the larg-
est street ear system, in proportion to its
population, of any city in the world,
The total number of Passengers carried
last year was 71,846,564, while the month-
ly average was 5,955,547,
To
it Aix
" What:,
you ? ' asked'
I am only
` Why, you
peror, with a la
I thought you w
Napoleon wassu
to enjoy telling his
cards. At one time he drew three cards
from the pack ; two of them were two
spots, and one of them was a king."
" Humph!" he said. "1 seam to be
raising the deuce, rather than a dynasty,
by two to one,"
set, and through each opening there
otruded a ,human, face asblank as
arcoal, The faces *ere grinning at
e awe-stricken. spectators, .and when
the thick lips rolls Hack rows of big white
eth could be seen,
was thatanyone who
^listed ,reparation would
have teeth • ii * '" trong as these
i la1Ryed b �C' � ys.
w d. al ll l 1„ade a living
If ,g �,1 ..s:+, f . performanee
y impress the
” There is one unpleasant feature
about dying," said Talleyrand, ; " one
cannot read one's obituaries. I should
like very much to read my obituaries."
" So should I," returned Bonaparte,
dryly. " Hurry up and die, will you ?"
" I think I shall write my autobiogra-
phy," Fouche said one morning to the
emperor.
" I wouldn't ill were you," said Napo-
leon. " You know yourself too well, :and
if yon told the truth it would ruin your
reputation."
" I really never loved but one woman,"
said Bonaparte.
" What ?" cried Bourrienne. with a
doubtful smile.
" net one time," returned the emperor.
" Prussia shall never wear your col-
lar?" cried the Prussian king.
" It will feel my cuffs, however," re-
torted Bonaparte ; " and what will be
more ridiculous, it will get them in the
neck."
At St. Helena Napoleon was asked
what he would have done had he defeat-
edWellingeon at Waterloo.
"I should have smiled," replied the
fallen emperor.
" What is the matter, Bourrienne ?"
asked Napoleon of his secretary one
morning. " Yuu look blue."
" I am blue, sir," returned Bourrienne.
" I've written you up, and, as far as
you've gone, you won't make more than
one volume. The public likes its biogra-
phies in two volumes."
" We'll fix that," said the emperor,
quickly. " I'll invade Russia. That
will provide you with two more chapters,
anyway." And he did.
A SIIPERFLIII EY.
He Wanted to Get Rid of It, But Was
Restrained.
The policeman was standing dreamily
on the dock looking out over the silently
moving water when a man, evidently
from the rural districts, came up to him
excitedly, says the Detroit Free Press.
"Say, Mr. Officer," he exclaimed, "is
the water there deep enough to drown a
mflnY
O f m size ?
n
"Well, I should smile," grinned the
officer,
"You s'pose I'd drown if I'd jump into
it ?"
"Likely enough, if I didn't fish you
out."
"You wouldn't do that if I didn't want
you to, would you ?" he asked in a hurt
tone. .
"I'm afraid I'd have to."
"All the good it would do me, then,
would be a wettin' and a suit of store
clothes all drawed out of shape ?"
"That's about it."
"I guess I might as well hadn t, then,"
he said resignedly.
"Just as well, I guess," coincided the
officer.
"But I wouldn't be responsible," said
the man, looking wild again.
"Of course you would be," replied the
officer.
"I guess not."
"Why?'
"Idiots ain't responsible, are they ?"
"No. But you are no iiiot."
"Ain't I? Well, I guess you don't
know me."
"You don't talk like one."
"And S don't look like one, I hope," he
said more rationally, "but a snoozer up
town here took me for one awhile ago
and he didn't miss it a millionth part of
an inch."
"What do you mean?"
"Just what I say. I come to town this
morning from up this country with $27
in my pocket. I got to talking with a
feller in the depot, and after a bit he ask-
ed me over and paid fer the drinks. Then
he walked me down town and in front of
a big store with a bank in front of it ; he
stopped, and said he had a bill to pay in
there and would 1 loan him a few dollars
on his cheque and then we could go to
the bank over the way and get it cashed.
The cheque was for $50, and he said he
though the bill was $25, but if it was all
the same he would take the $27 that I
told him I had and would come right back
if I would wait outside. So I took his
cheque and Waited, keeping my eye on
the bank all the time like as if it world
git away. Well, I waited around there
till I thought they'd sic the dogs on me,
and he didn't come, and then I went over
to the bank. They looked at the elope
and—well, you .know the rest. If 1 ain't
a jack idiot. what am I ? Now git out of
the way and let me jump in there. There
was enough dura fools in the world before
I got the habit, and I guess I won't be
missed. Git out of the way," and he be-
gan swinging his arms but the officer re-
strained him and finally/got him headed
up street, and watched„ im nntil he dis-
appeared.
City Life.
Only the strongest and moat combative
could force their way up to the window
to get an uninterrupted view of what
was inside, The others were fighting
manfully, however, and when someone
at the window marvelled to his entire
satisfaction he backed out and many peo-
ple pushed to get into the place ;vacated.
The roan proceeding along Munroe
street was in a hurry, but he couldn't
afford to miss a good thing, so he worked
his way into the crowd, and after some
wriggling and elbowing succeeded in
getting a first-rate view of the wonderful
exhibition r
Behind the window was suspended a
curtain or sheet, on which was printed in
large letters an alluring advertisement of
a preparation for cleaning the teeth.
There a ore two oval openings in this
ENT OF SOCIkL
EFORM.
W. Galbraith, LL.B., Pastor of
film Street Methodist Church, To-
route, Has a Good Word to Say of
Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder.
The Rev. Wm. Galbraith, LL.B., is
one of the thoughtful preachers of the
day. The active interest he has taken
in questions of social reform has given
him wide influence outside of his own
ehureh, where his influence is undis-
puted. His mind is of the kind that
thinks out a problem, and then he is
able to speak with force and intelligence,
He is to be credite.t with examining into
the merits of Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal
Powder, with the same bent of mind.
And what does he say? That in this
medicine he has found a remedy that
gives quick relief for cold in the head,
which is so uncomfortable to everybody,
and giving relief there it help, perhaps,
more than any other remedy to stave off
the ill effects that come from catarrhal
trouble.
One short puff of the breath through
the Blower, supplied with each bottle
of Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder, dif-
fuses this Powder over the surface of
the nasal passages. Painless and de-
lightful to use, ib relieves in ten minutes,
and permanently cures Catarrh, Hay
Fever, Colds, Headaehe, Sore Throat,
Tunsilitis and Deafness. 60 cents. Sam-
ple bottle with Blower sent free on receipt
of two 3 cent stamps, S. G. Detohon, 44
Church street, Toronto.
DOCTORS AND FLY .BLISTERS FAIL.
But One Dose of South .American Rhen-
matio Cure Relieves, and Half
a Bottle Cures.
Robert E. Gibson, Pembroke's well
known merphant : " I contracted rheu-
matism in very severe form in 1888, and
have suffered untold misery each spring
since. I have repeatedly applied Ely
blisters with but little success. Doctors
whom I consulted likewise failed to re-
lieve. I was induced to trySouth Ameri-
can Rhumatic Cure by Mr. W. F. C.
Bethel, of the Dickson Drug Company.
The first dose gave instant relief, and
half a bottle cured."
As a cure for rheumatism, this remedy
is certainly peerless.
TRIED, TESTED AND TRUE.
Thousands ,Know of the Quick and Cer-
tain Relief That Comes from
South American Kidney
Qnre.
This medicine will not more all the ills
that flesh is heir too, but it will cure kid-
ney trouble of whatever kind—no case
too aggravated. It will cure speedily—
sure relief in six hours. It is rich in
healing powers, and whilst it quickly
gives ease, where pain existed before, it
also gives strength to the weak and de-
ranged organs, making the cure Com
plete and lasting. Thousands who know
what South American Kidney Cure has
done for them will tell you so.
An Old Proverb Solved.
Sayboy—Do you think that waste
makes want?
Gayboy—Sure, Mike, the very sight of
my sweetheart's waist makes me want to
put my arms around it.
Two Did It.
Mr. Martin. notary public, Toronto,
says : " Dr. Carson's Stomach Bitters
cured me of dyspepsia." It will cure you.
Fifty cents a bottle. Allan & Co., Front
St., Toronto, proprietors. Ask druggists.
It is said that the flesh on the fore-
quarters of the beaver resembles that of
land animals, while that of the hind-
quarters has a fishy taste.
Try It,
Mrs, Rose, Gerrard St. E., Toronto,
says : " I had weak lungs and a bad
Bough . I was told to try Pectoria. Six
25 Dent bottles cured me completely."
Allan & Co., Front St., Toronto, proprie-
tors. Ask druggists.
The First Coined Money.
The first coining of money is attri-
buted to Pheldon, Sing of Argos, in the
year 895 B.C. Coined money -was first
used in western Europe twenty-nine
years before the opening of the Christian
era. Gold was first eoined in England
in the eleventh century, and the first
round coins were not made until 100
years later.
The Peace of God.
"The mind is like a hostelry where
crowds pass in and + out, and the pavement
is worn by many feet; or an exchange
wherethe products of every land are
handled ; or a palace made for a king,
but invaded by a mob. Is there any-
where a power that can marshal these
thoughts ? Resisting the entrance of
those that have no right to intrude, and
promoting the regulations of those that
justly claim admission ! The apostle says
the peace of God cep do it. He quoted
from his own experience when he, said :
"The peace of God shall garrison your
hearts and thoughts." When that peace
is within; ruling there, it reduces chaos
to cosmos, confusion to order, as a gentle
mother in a family of boisterous chil-
dren.,,
TheiTalue of .Light.
A sunbeam is a small thing, yet it hat
a power to fade the carpets and Curtains,
to rot the blinds, and for this reason
some folks carefully exclude the sun-
shine. What is the result ? The family
is always ailing,, the young girls have a
waxen, white skin, and a we pinched.
Expression of countenance. Their appe-
tites fail, they fall into such a bad state
of health that the doctor is called in. In
olden days he would have shaken his
head, perhaps, and friends would have
whispered that dreaded word, "decline
Nowadays he notes tbo pens gums and
waxen skin and says "'anaemia;" pre•
'tribes iron and milk, fresh air rend exer-
cise and often a change. If he knows
nothing about the darkened tome, he
will be puzzled as to why no permaneut
improvement maulfests itself, and, pos-
sibly, the patient will seek other advice.
THE. FARM AN. !GARDEN.
AMATEURS IN THE 61-AR1)EN.
Notes of Interest to the Flower, Fruit
and Vegetable Grower, and Talks
on Trees and Shrubs.
ruWrV-GROWMA FOR FARADARS.
The American Cultivator says that it
is a hopeful sign that the demands on
nurserymen for stock this year have
quite generally been better than usual.
It is the natural result from the low
prices for most agricultural products,
especially for grain. The Eastern farm-
er cannot, as a rude, make grain his lead-
ing crop, for be will be undersold by his
competitor in the West. But the East
has generally the advantage in growing
fruits, especially those portions near the
ocean, or sheltered by large bodies of
deep water. There are fewer severe
droughts and sudden changes of tempera-
ture in the East than generally prevail
in the West. .Of course some of the
hardier fruits can be grown anywhere,
bat the finer sorts that require great care
in management have their limits pretty
strictly defined. In such fruits most pro-
fit is to be made, and farmers in the lo-
calities where they succeed will do wisely
in devoting a considerable part of their
best land to .this .purpose. The time has
gone by when it can be deemed good
policy to plant an orchard on the poorest
part of the farm and leave it to care for
itself. That plan nas been the source of
more unprofitable orchards than any
thing else. If managed as it should be,
the fruit ought always to pay a larger
profit per acre than can be made by any-
thing else. It deserves therefore more of
care, more of fertilizing and more labor
than is given to other crops. Without
those it will probably yield no profit
whatever. It must be either a great suc-
cess or great failure, and which it shall
be depends mainly on the enterprise, in-
dustry and skill of the owner. It used to
be thought that success in fruit growing
was mainly a matter of chance t r provi-
denc3. It is true that the weather is be •
yond human control. Bene the fruit-
grower
ruitgrower must use his best judgment in se-
lecting localities where the weather is
usually favorable for his work. But hav-
ing done this he will find a great deal left
that is wholly dependent on himself.
Even the severest cold does not treat or-
chards of the same kind of fruit in the
sam+ way. Well ripened wood endures
freezing that a rapid growth but less ma-
ture will not. Mulching the ground so
as to prevent the deepest freezing keeps
trees and buds alive, when without such
mulching both would be destroyed.
The farmer who aims to make the grow-
ing of fruit his chief business must seek
to grow various kinds. There must be a
certain portion of the farm devoted to
small fruits, strawberries, raspberries,
blackberries and grapes, as well as to
plums, peaches, pears and apples. This
will require him to employ a great amount
of help or reduce the acreage that he can
profitably cultivate. In most eases he
will be wise in doing both. Itis impossi-
ble to take care and market even a single
acre of berries of various kinds without
hiring a good deal of help at picking
time. But in almost every farm neigh-
borhood such a demand for berry pickers
will call out a supply to the benefit of all
parties. Whenever this supply pp1y
becomes
too small it will be well to increase it by
building houses either t t be rented or
sold to desirable parties. , All the carbon-
aceous material of wood as of other vege-
tation comes from the carbonic acid in
the air. But it is appropriated through
the leaves, and these need a considerable
amount of potash. The fruits, and
specially the seeds, need both potash and
phosphate. The chief use of carbon in
the soil is by its decay to give off carbon-
ic acid gas that will keep the mineral
plant food in condition for use• If the
s it contains an excess of vegetable mat-
ter it leads to a large growth of leaf and
wood. but not a healthy growth nor one
that tends to fruitfulness. We see this
condition in .what are called " sap
sprouts." caused by the concentration of
growth on too small a number of buds.
The prevention of most of the blights and
fungus diseases of fruit trees is to be
found in giving them more mineral man-
ures and less from the stable and barn-
yard. • This will not cure the disease
after it has made its appearance, but
after we have destroyed the fungus by
free use of fungicide, the application of
mineral fertilizers in large amounts will
do much to keep the trees healthy and to
make them fruitful. •
HORTICULTURAL NOTIas.
The plumbagos, P. capensis (blue) and
P. c. albo (white), do very well and flow-
er' quite freely in the house.
Callas are first-class house plants and
thrive anywhere, but want plenty of
water. The flowering begonias are ex-
cellent house plants, and stand the dry
air of a house well. Fuschias do well.
Old plants that have been planted out in
the garden, taken up and well pruned
back, make good window plants. Lillies
should be started in the greenhouse before
being moved to the house.
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Azaleas are very popular, especially
about Easter; while they last quite a
time in flower they cannot be grown to
any advantage in a house ; must have
greenhouse cultivation. Oinerarias last
for s veral months in the house, but•can-
not be grown on . young plants in the
house; they must be purchased when
coming into flower. Clerodondron ban
fourii makes a satisfactoryhouse plant.
Koenigna maritime, plena (double sweet
alyssum) is a useful little window plant
arc very free fiowerin. Manettia bi
eller (manettia vine) is a free -growing
and free -flowering vine, but should not
be over -watered in winter; if allowed to
get too wet it dres not Sower so freely,
and is also liable to mildew.
Orchardists and growers of small fruits
aro justreaching that point where they
are making systematic study of fertilizers
for fruits, and a new and better era will
be inaugurated when the value of this is
generally understood, How much fruits
are improved with g .od cultivation and
fertilization is never so apparent as in
strawberries. The fine, large delicious
strawb:rries now raisnd . crrulrl never be
grown wit limit highly -fertilized and euIfi-
ve .ed soil, More fertilizers are used for
strawberries than any other fruit crop,
but there is no reason why thisshoeld be
so; berries all respead almost os well to
good culture, hat in the case of most of
these the results obtained are not notice-
able the first ye•tr. It takes longer time
t7 develop a change in tree fruit than in
small fru,b such as the strawberry.
There is no fixed rule that. San be laic
down for pruning currant and gooseberry.
The sem + are provide 1 with buds very
near toge',h.cr, find in the t ooseborree the
buds are fairly crowded near the base. 1
counted this morning on, a last year`*
shoot about 29 inches long. snore than SO
buds, each capable of producing a branch,.
and the same 'bush had 30 branches of
lesser length, the total number of buds
being Probably 1,200 or 1,500. This bush..
was comparatively small. being but three
years old, and crowded in a row where
the bushes were but 18 inches apart, and
alongside a row of currants 30 inches.
distant. A full-grown gooseberry bush,
three feet high and spreading four or five
feet, must have buds to the amount of "
100,000, all struggling for development,
and any one capable of the highest de-
velopment in the form of a strong, thrifty
branch, if not choked and strangled by
competition. Left to themselves, all the
buds that have any show in the way of
light and air make a straggle for exist-
ence, and the result is that an old, un-
pruned and uncared for gooseberry or
currant bush is a mass of small spray
and the fruit is small and not of the
highest quality. On such bushes the
Houghton gooseberry grows little larger
than a marrow fat pea, but I have seen
the same fruit on young and severely
pruned bushes as large as a Concord
grape.
FARM NOTES.
There is often true economy in expen-
diture.
With good management it is possible
to keep up the fertility of the soil. A
little carelessness will soon allow it to de-
teriorate.
Keep the springs and troughs in the
pasture and barnyard clean.
We now learn that the, Wisconsin sta-
tion has about perfected an apparatus for
"Pasteurizing" milk by the application
of heat, so that it will keep at least a
week. We don't care what name the
process goes by -any simple device that
will give sweet milk a whole week of life
will vastly increase the dairy business.
It will prove a far greater boon than the
anti oleo decision. It is remarkable that
this new device should follow the Bab-
cock test from the Wisconsin station.
It is sometimes difficult for farmers to
distinguish friends from enemies among
the birds which made their home among
us. A late writer in the Albany Culti
voter speaks in defence of the' red -tail
hawk, more commonly known as the
"hen hawk" from as propensity for
stealing chickens. The writer says that
the chief food for this hawk is mice,
snakes, moles and striped gophers or chip-
munks, and that it is too slow and clumsy
to catchchickens or other fowl. It seems
to us that it requires quite as much alert-
ness to catch mice or chipmunks as bo
catch chickens. We have had consider-
able experience with this depredation in
the poultry yard, and losing a chicken
each morning until the thief was shot did
not look as if the hawk was very clumsy.
It is true, that sometimes the mother hen
will drive away the hawk, for it is a
cowardly thief; but it will return after
an hour or so and seize a chicken that
has strayed too far from its protector. If
the hen hawk destroys snakes it is -so far
an enemy of man, as these destroy large
numbers of injurious small gbuge, mice
and other vermin.
Wherever different kinds of stock are
kept in a stable it is a good plan to throw
the excrement of each in a common pile.
Even when the food of each is the same
the voidings of the differentanimals will
vary to some extent owing to the vary-
ing proportions of food which will be as-
similated by the body. Horses are usual-
ly fed with oats and hay. Then they
make a rich manure, and their droppings
when piled up will heat rapidly, cow
manure is not so rich. It is slower to
ferment. The two manures mixed in the
common heap are better than either by
itself. There is a popular belief that hen
manure is much richer than it really is.
When hens are producing eggs, or when
they are moulting, much of what they
eat goes into these products. The albu-
men of the egg is very nitrogenous food.
Feathers also contain nitrogen, as any
one can know by trying to burn them.
They will put out a feeble fire about as
quickly as will air filled with carbonic
aci rgas, as many a housewife has found
to herr cost when she threw a few feathers
into the stove hoping to get rid of them,
an& spoiled the fire tor all the morning.
We once tried sowing phosphate by
hand on a piece of wheat where the ferti-
liser distributor was out of gear when the
seed was drilled. In this sowing we tried
to distribute rather more than the drill
would have done, and we had to do this,
sowing by hand a narrow strip of twelve
feet or one bout of the common grain
drill. Yet, despite the fact that rain
came -within a day or two sufficient to
dissolve the soluble parts of the phose
phat, this strip did not have as good
wheat as that where the fertilizer and
seed went into the ground together. The
clover was, however, rather better on
this piece, but not so much as we ex-
pected. We have often thought of this
experience, and believe that the reason is
that the seed grain while germinating
gives off carbonic acid gas, and that this
helps to keep the phosphate in condition
to be taken up by the wheat roots. The
broad -casted phosphate when dissolved
by rains was brought in contact with soil
without seed growth other than that of
weeds, and therefore quickly reverted
into an insoluble form. Broadcasting
phosphate is, therefore, not to be recom-
mended. The insolubility which it soon
acquires when mixed with soil in small
quantities destroys its effect. If there is
mueh'vegetable matter in the soil it will
give off carbonic acid gas during warm
weather. A dressing of wood ashes will
increase the decomposition of vegetable
matter, and will thus make phosphate
more effective. But the ashes should be
applied afterwards, and not with the
pho.phate or with the seed.
Electricity and Vegetation. ,
The physiologieol effects of electricity
and the electric light upon the growth of
plants have been studied for a number of
years, and the results already reached
are highly interesting for their economic
and theoretic importance. The studies
have had to do with the application of
electricity directly to the plants them-
selves, sometimes with currents through
the earth in which their roots were im- •
beded, and sometimes with the effect of
the electric are light maintained a part
or !whole of the time when sunlight was
absent.
Plants kept in the light from an elec.`
trio are not only grow as in the sunlight,
but some grow much faster and larger;
they produce chlorophyl in abundance,
they reach out toward the source of the
light and twist this way or that, they as•
sirtiilatn more potash, produce inc
albuminoids and yield a larger amour, t.
of ash. These phenomena show that tJ .
physiological quality of the are light , r
the saran as that of the sun,
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