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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-7-5, Page 2rimi, OF GOOD WORKS ga).nto tbe Image of destitution, end finds ther it o softly But woman glides s out ail the sorroWe a the place,' mad puts eo quietly the doatition on the table, AT that all the family come out on the front - Steps as she departs expectine that from under her shawl she will thrust out two nootet for ttio subject „motors at wings anti goright up toward heaven, from W1101100 she $041218 to have oome dome 0 Christian young woman, if you would make yoarsolf happy and win the blesstog of Christ, go out among tho destitute. A loaf of bread or a bundle of sooks may make a homely load to earm but the Angela of Goa will aome out to watch, Anil the Lora .A.buighty will glee, his messenger hosts a charge, Seying: REV. DR, TALMAGE'S SERMON BEATRICE, NEB, Charity" and niseoursee Ineneeetaly 'Op- en the Clarions Rights Youeltsefed to Women, • Beatriee, Neb., June 24. --IA his sermon neeterday Rev. Dr. Tathuage, wise is pow on his summer westera tour, chose a sub- ject that enast awaken the sympathies of ,,Look after that woman 0:Loopy her all lovers of humanity—viz, "Sisters el Chartty." The text selected wits A.cts ix, 86, "Tbis woman was full of good work* mad aleusdeeds which she did," Starting now where 1 left off last Sale, bath in reciting woman's opportuuities, have to say that woman has the special and superlative right of blessing and comfmting the stole What =ed. what street, what house has not felt the smite ings of disease? Tens of thousands of sickbeds. Wbat shall we do with them! Shall man, with his rough hand and heavy foot and impatient bearing, minister? No. He cannot soothe the pain.. He can- not quiet the =yes. He knows. not where to sot the light. His hand is not steady enough to pour out the drops. He is not wandul enough to be a watcher. The Lord. God sent Miss Dix into the Virginia hospitals, and the Maid of Sara- gossa to appease the wounds of the bat- tlefield, and has equipped wife, mother and daughter for the delicate but tre- mendous mission. You have known men who have despised vvomau, but the axe - merit disease fell upon them they did not send for their friends at the bank, or their partner in business, or their worldly associates. Their first cry was, "Take me to my wife." The dissipated young man at the college scoffs at the idea of being under home influences. but at the first blast of the typhoid fever on his theok be says, "Where is another?" Walter Scott wrote partly in satire and partly in compliment when he said: 0 woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy and hard to please, When pain and anguish wring the brow .A. ministering angel thou! I think them:lost pathetic passage in all the Bible is the description of the lad who went out to the harvest field of Shunete and got sunstruck—throwing his hands on his temples and crying out, "Oh, ray head, my head!" and they said, "Carry hien to his mother. " And then the record is, He sat on her knees till noon and then died." It is an awfue thing to be ill away from hotne in a strange hotel, once in a awhile men com- ing to look at you, holding their hand over their mouth for fear that they will catch the contagion. How roughly they turn you in bed 1 How loudly they talk! How you long for the ministries of home! I new one suoh who went away from one of the brightest homes for several weeks' business absence in the west, A telegram came at midnight that he was on his deathbed, far away from home By ex- press train the wife and daughters went westward, but they went too late. He feared not to die, but he was in an agohy to live until his family got there. He tried to bribe the doctor to make him live a little while longer. Be said, "I am willing to die, but not alone." But the pulses fluttered, the oyes closed and the neart stopped. The express trains met in tbe midnight—wife and daughters go- ing westward—lifeless remains of bus - band and father corning eastward. Oh, it was a sad, pitiful, overwhelming spectacle 1 When we are sick, we want to be sick at home. The room may be very humble, and the faces that look into ours may be very plain, but who cares for thatt Loving hands to bathe the temples. Loving voices to speak good cheer. Lov- ing lips to read the comforting promises of jesus. In our last dreadful war men cast the cannon, men fashioned the musketry, men cried to the hosts: "Forward! March 1" men hurled their battalions on the sharp edges of the enemy, crying: "Charge! Charge 1" but woman scraped the lint, woman administered the cord- ials. woman watched by the dying couch, woman wrote the last message to the home circle, woman wept at the solitary burial attended by herself and four men with a spade. We greeted the general home with brass bands and triumphal arches and wild buzzes, but the story is too good to be written anywhere, save in the chronicles of heaven of Mrs. Brady, who came down among the sick in the swamps of the Ohickahominy; of Annie Ross, in the cooper shop hospital; of Mar- gart Breckinridge, who came to neon who had been for weeks with their wounds 'undressed, some of them frozen to the ground, and wben she turned them over those that had an arm left waved it and filled the air with their "Hurrah 1" of Mrs. Hodge, who came from Chicago with blankets and with pillows instil the men shouted: "Three .theers for the Christian commission ! God bless the women at home 1" then. sitting down to take the lase message: "Tell my wife not to fret about nee, but to meet me in heaven. Tell her to train up the boys whom we have loved so well; tell her we shall meet again in the good land; tell ber to bear my loss like the Christian wife of a Christian soldier" and of Mrs. Shelton, into whose face the convalescent soldier looked and said, "Your grapes and cologne cured me." Men did their work with shot and shell and carbine and howitzer; women did their work with socks and slippers and bandages and warm drinks and Scripture texts and gentle strokings of the hot temples and stories of that land where they never have any pain. Men knelt down over the wounded and said, "On which side did you fight?" *Women knelt down over the -wounded and said: "Where are you hurt? What nice thing eam I make for you to eat? What makes you cry?' To- night while we inert are sound asleep in our beds there will be a light in yonder loft, there win ho a groaning in that dark Allay, there win be (vies of distrese in that cellar. Men will sleep, and women will Watch. Again, woman has a superlative right to take care of the poor. There nth emit, - deeds and thousands of them in all oar cities. There is a kind of work that men cannot do for the poor, Here comes a group of little barefoot children to the door of the Dotcas society. They need to be olothed and provided for. Winch of these directors of banks would know how many yards it would take to snake Shat, little girl a dress? Well of these masculine heeds could fit a hat toehet little girl's head? Which of those Wise num vvoeld know how to tie on that new pair of slime? Man soinetitnee gives his charity in a rOttgh way, attd it 'Cellelika the fruit of a tree fa the wen whieh fruit Whees down so heavily that it breaks the Skull Of the roan Who le trying ti with your wings and shelter 11or front all barin," and while you are seated in the house of destitution and suffering the little ones around the room will whisper: "Who is she? Ain't she beautiful?" and if you listen right sharply you will hear dripping down the leaky 'roof and rolling over the rotten stairs the angel chant Shat shook 13ethichent, "Glory to God in the highest aud on earth peace, good will to men." Ca you toll me why a Christ- ian woman, going down among the haunts of iniquity on a Christian errand, never meets wish any indignity? I stood in the chapel of Helen Chalmers, the daughter of the celebrated Dr. Chalmers, in the zuest Abandoned part of the city of Edinburgh, aud I Said to ber as I leek - ed around upon the fearful surroundings of thAt place, "Do you conte here nights to hold service?' "Oh, yes," she said. "Can it be possible that you never meet with an insult senile performing this Christian errand?" ''Never," she said. "Never." That young woman who has her father by her side walking down the street, an armed policeman at each corner of the street, is not so well defended as that Christian who goes forth on gospel. work into the haunts of iniquity, tarrying the Bibles and bread. God, with the right arm of his wrath omnipotent, would tear to pieces any one who should offer indig- nity. He would smite hien with light- nings. and drown him with floods, and My elSten rell need lien Wait for any Such time, A Oriele will pante in your fatties, There Will be a Taermopyia3 in year own houseliold, Wbere God will tell you to stand. There are hundreds of hoteseholds where as muoli courage is demAndea of woman as was exhibited' by Grace Darling or Marie Antoinette or Joan of Arc. Woman is farther endowed to being us into the kingdom of heaven. It is easier for a woman to be a Christian than for a mem. Why? Yon say sho is weaker. No. Her heart is more responsive to the plead - Inge of divine love, Tbe fact that she can more easily become a Christian I prove by the statement that three-fourths of the members of the churches in all Christeudont are women. So Goa appoints them to be chief Agencies fer bringing this world back to God, The greatest sermons aro not preached on celebrated platforms; they are proacleed with an audience of two or throe and in private home life. A. Patient, loving, Christian demeanor in• the presence of traesgression, in the presence of hard- ness, in the presence of obduracy and crime, is au argument from the force ot wbielt no man can eseane. Lastly, one of the specific rights of WO - 111811 is, through the gram of Christ,flual- ly to reach heaven. Oh, erbat a multi- tude of women in helix= ; Mary, Christ's mother, in boaven • Elizabeth Fry in heaven Charlotte Etizal eth in heaven, the mother of Augustine in heaven, the Count ass of Huntingdon—who sold her splendid jewels to build chapels—in heaven; evbile a great many others vela) have never been heard of on earth of known but little have gouo to the rest and peace of heaven. What a rest 1 What O thange inwas front the small room, with no fire and one window, the glass broken out, and the aching side and worn out eyes, to else "house of many man- sions 1" No snore stitching until twelve o'clock at night, no more thrusting of the thumb by the employer through the work to sbow that it was not done quite right. Plenty of bread at last. Heaven for aching heads. Heaven for broken hearts. Heaven for anguish bitten farm - swallow him with eathquakes, and ors. No more sitting up until midnight damn bine with eternal indignations. for the coming of staggering steps. No Some one said: "I dislike very much to more rough blows across the temples. see that Chirstian woman teaching these No more sharp, keen, bitter curses. bad boys in the mission school. I am Some of you will have no rest in this afaid to have her instruct them." "So," world. It will be toil arid struggle and said another man'"I am afraid too." suffering all the way up. You will have Said the first, "1am afraid they will use to stand at your door lighting back the vile language before they leave the place." wolf with your own hand, red with earn - "Ali," said the other man, "I am not age. But God bas a crown for you. I afraid of that. What I am afraid of is want you to realize that He is now malt that if any of those boys should use a bad ing it, and whenever you weep a tear he word in that presence the other boys sets another gem in that crown, whenever would tear him to pieces and kill him on you have a pang of body or soul he puts the spot." That woman is the best another gem in that crown, -until after sheltered who is sheltered by omnipo- awhile in all the tiara there will be no tence, and it is always safe to go where room for another splendor, and God will God tells you to go. It seems as if the say to his angel, "The crown is done; let Lord had ordained women for an especial her up that she may wear it." And as work in the solicitation of charities. ! the Lord of righteousness puts the crown Backed up by barrels in which there is no upon your brow angel will cry to angel, flour, and by stoves in wIsich there is no "Who is she?' and Christ will say "I fire, and wardrobes in which there is no will tell you who she is. She is the one clothes, a woman is irresiseible. Passing that came up out of great tribulation and on her errand, God says to her, "You go had her robe washed and made -white in into that bank or store or shop and get the blood of the Lamb." And then God the money." She goes in and gets it. I will spread a banquet, and He will in - 2000 is hard fisted, but she gets it. vite all the principalities of heaven to sit She could not help but get it. No need at the feast, and the tables will blush of your turning your back and pretend- with the best clusters from the vineyards ing you don't hear. You do hear. There of God, and calms= with the twelve is no need of your saying you are begged manner of fruits from the tree of life, to death. There is no need of your wast- and waters from the fountain of the rock ing your time, and you might as well will flash from the golden tankards. and submit first as last. You had better the old harpers of beaven wilt sit there, right away take down your check book, making 31111SiO • with their harps, and mark the number of ,the theole, fill up Christ will point you out amid the cele - the blank, sign your name and hand it to betties of heaven saying, "She suffered her. There is no need of wasting time. with me on earth; now we are going to Those poor children on the back street be glorifled together." And the ban - have been hungry long enough. That queters, no longer able to bold their sick man must have some farina. That peace, will break forth with congratula- consumptive must have something to ease tion: "Hail I Hail 1" And there wi his cough. I meet this delegate of a re- be handwritings on the wall, not suchas 1 lief society coming out of the store of stash' struck the Persian noblemen with horror. a bard listed man, and I say, "Did you but with Bre tipped fingers, writing in get the money?" "Of course," she says, blazing capitals of light and love and vic- "I got the money; that's what I wont tory, "God has wiped away all tears for. The Lord told nee to go in and get from all faces." itan d he never sends me on a fool' errand." Again, I have to toll you that it is wo- man's specific right to comfort tinder the stress of dire disaster. She is ealled the weaker vessel, but all'profane as wed as sacred history attests that when the crisis comes she is better prepared than anan to meet the emergency. How often you have seen a woman who seemed to be a disciple of frivolity stud indolence, who, under one stroke of calamity, changed to a heroine Oh, what a great mistake those business men make who never tell their business troubles to their wives 1 There comes some great loss to the store ur some of their companions in business play them a sad trick and they carry the burden all alone. He is asked in the household again and again, "What is the matter?" but he believes +it a sort of Christian duty to keep all that trouble within his own soul. Oh, sir, your first duty was to tell your wife all apout it. She perhaps might not have disentangled your finances or extended your credit, but she would have belped you to bear misfortune. You have no right to carry on one shoulder that which is intended for two. There are business men who know what I mean. There comes a meets' In your affairs. You struggle bravely and long, but after awhile there comes a day when you say "Here I shall have to stop" and you call in your partners and you call in the most prominent men in your employ, and you say. "We have to stop." You leave the store suddenly. You can merely make up your mind to pass through the street and over en bridge or on ferryboat. You feel everybody will be looking at you and blaming you and denouncing you. You tell year wife all about the affair. What does she say? Does she play the butterfly? Does she talk Omit the silks, and the ribbons, aud the fashions? No. She comes -up to the emergency. She quails not under the stroke. She helps you to begin to plan right away. She offers to go out of the comfortable house into a smaller Mae and wear the old cloak another witater. She Is ono who urtdertsands your affairs with- out blaming you. You look upon what you thought was a thin, weak woman's arm holding you me but while you look at that arm there comes into the feeble muscles of it the strength of the eternal God No aiding. No frettleg, No ten ilng you about the beautiful lipase of her ; father, from which you brought ber, ten, tvventy, or thirty years ago. You say: "Well, this 18 the bappleet day of mv life. I am glad;I have got from under my burden. My wife &ant: care—I den% dere." At the moineat you were 0100717 exhausted God sent a Deborah to moot the beet of the Asnalekites and scatter them like chaff ovor the plain. There are sometitoes vvomen who at reading sentimental novels and who wish that they had some grand field in wbich to display their Christlen powers, Oh, What grand and glorious things they could do if they only had an opportunity! Napoleon's Sarilonic Pleasantries. The king of Sweden, had claimed re- presentation both as Duke of Poinerania and as a guarantor of the peace of West- phalia; to that end he had sent as his delegate Count Fermis, a snreeva agent, once Swedish ambassador in Paris, the friend of Marie' Antoinette and known everywhere as an intimate counselor of the Bourbons. Bonaparte, outraged at such effrontery, summoned the envoy to his presence, and tramping on the forms of a hollow politeness informed him with O few biting words that his presence was mot desired. The envoy tarried long enough to assure himself that Austria was quite as hostile as France and re- turned to Stockholm. It annoyed Bonaparte even more to find that the imperial delegates had net yet arrived. But he passed the interval with considerable satisfaction in pleas- anteries with the varlets personages who were on the ground. "How," said he to a canon of Wurzburg, "can the station of an ecclesiastical prince of the empire, a man who is both warrior and spiritual ministeraccord with the precepts of the Scriptures with the poverty and lowli- ness of early Christianity?" "Where will your master live?" he said to the agent from the bishop of Mainz; "when, he loses his present residence?' The hollow shells of wornout institutions rattled wherever this innovator stepped.—Profes- sor W. M. Sloane's "Life of Napoleon" in Century. A neat Sneed Down the ethane. There has been launched from the Walker shipyard of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. ‚alt ice-broaking steamer, vvhich the British press states is very powerful, although few details of her equipment are given. The vessel is in- t ended to be, employed in conjunction with a large railway ferry transfer steam- er in transporting railevay cars across the Volga River. The vessel Is about 150 feet twig, thirty feet beam, and will be fittee with twin screw engliece of 1400 horse power. A novelty in construction Is that the vessel is divisible longitudin- ally. The canal locks through which the voPsel nilst. pass between St Petersburg and the Volga: ilea bet twenty-eight feet widewhlle tbe steamer, as stated, is of thirty-six beam. The bull is, theretore, so avranged that it can be divided, into two parts longitudinally for eassage through the locks and subsequently re- joined afloat. The frames of the vessel ere closely spaced, in the bow portion they are doubled, and 1011011 of the shell plating la an ineh thiek.--Baiiroad Gazette. A Distinction. A nobleman who was in the habit of speaking to soldiers in an affable maneer Was much amused vvhen a guardsman Hain to blin inn hearty and genial way: "I like you, my lord. l'here'e tothing of the gentleman about yell. "—London THE FARMAND GAltDEN. .11,:t11 at the same time the land Lettuce eleede a richanellow eoile Work - ea deep, and 110 lAt1011 watt either in MOTS AND NEWS NOTES bash or olitdOors when the weather is cool, Per City and, Country—Clippings aud tame are made; Of the Taylor the following observe - Original Articles Which. Have neon This is snore hardy audmoreproduotive Prepared for Our Readers. than either of the two last mentioned -- : varieties,bat it ripens from one to 10 days Ientint Notes. , later, whell prices are often nerY low. t Mulioallvtinhgnotoaldulo ItWee°Prska"nelarntfwreicteful7astes I I0tfhtabsegAeiffearIallyilbbeemstairtlee: from disease i mi. very productive, but in one or two The wise dairyman provides soiliug oases 15 1208 'aeon reported as unproductive, crops to patch out tho dry pastures during And during the past season has, in several She summer time. places, been injured by a fnugus disease Some 1000 do not seem to understand atatoking the loaves, that there is just as much need of care and Prof. Maynard as a result of investiga- tnorough methods in growing grass as in tions of blackberries says, of the Snyder: growing grain or °gibe crops. This is one of the most barely, vigorous After each ram the ground sholeld be and productive varieties in cultivation, cultivated lightly in order to prevent ova- but the berries turn rod so soon after porationof moisture. The loose dirt serves Picking that they aro unsaleable after as a covelang and shields the earth from standing in the boxes more than one day. the direct effects of dryiug winds and the For a local market it is very veluable, heat of the sun. A. subscriber advises' that onion sets be There is abundant moisture in the soil planted with the bulb only half buried, early in spring, and at this seeson it is and that tomato plants be put into the only warm near the surface. The more depth of two or three inches only, 05 deep - shallow all seeds aro covered:the better er planting induces them to make new will be their chance toe vigorous growth. roots, which, he claims,. they should not This is especially true of potatoes, which be compelled to do. It may be claimed, oftwe root before the shoot can make 1.58 howeveathat doop planting assists against way through four or five inches of cold drought, while abundance of roots gives soil, though this is none too deep to plant greater feeding capacity. potatoes late in the season when the soil is , Cucumbers aro another standard crop. warmed deeply. If the drill be used to The White Spine is the only variety to sow springlarains it should be sot to go in grow ander glass, mid is also good, ,for it entirely smooth. Some farmers prefer fail in deep holes, and then following it to broadcast spring grain, first dragging very shallow, or, 'better still, the stitooth- making it more compact, besides making ovrreehitee is always = overithe surface so that the seed shall not late 0 with the smoothing harrow. Even the seed grain left on the surface will grow if a good rain falls to wash a little loose dirt advantage in getting stadt is ' earlier; Stone Mason best late. Winning - in rich, not too moist, garden soil, where , field and Henderson's Summer are best the Boston Pickling, planted June 20th to July lst. Early cabbage thrives best of manor°. Cabbage grown partly with no cabbage kind has grown for three years; abbage likes sward land, with plenty fertilizer keeps bettor than if grown ex- clusively on manure. Early Jersey, Wake- field culture. For pickles, the best sort is Ing harrow should be run over the surface popular with dealers for summer seed potatoes grown on different ground and fall trade, but not profitable to the from that you intend to plant, provided grower. In beets, the Egaptiatn is the yon are sure that the potato vines from standard early, Edwards for general Pun - which the seed is grown have always been poses. For tomatoes, Atlantic Prize is beat vigorous and healthy, Growing the crop for early use; Acme and Perfection for on the same kind of soil each year tends to general purposes. degenerate it. Potatoes ri;grown on sandy Asparagus seed may be town either in soils are apt to be good foe eating, but the the fall or spring. The ground of the seed probabilities are that the vines have been bed should be well ("rattiest, but fairly re- injured by dry, hot weather. The potatoes tentive of moisture. It should be made on a rich, deep soil over a clover ley will rioh by incorporating -with it a liberal hold their foliage longer. Seed from such amount of well -rotted stable manure, and potatoes will snake a stronger early it -should be well and deeply pulverized. growth. But if you buy ;potatoes see to A spade is the best implement for proper - it hat they are of good size. As single ing soil for nursery rows of asparagus planting of seed cut from small potatoes plant. Straight lines should be marked may bring a good crop, but it cannot be and an opening mado about an inch deep. depended on. The difference between the In this the seeds should be dropped three cost of the poor seed and that of the best or four inches apart. The covering may quality is only a very small part of the be done with a hoe bat the soil should be cost of growing the mop. It is labor that well pressed einem with the foot. The oule costs most in making a potato crop, and tivation of the young plants consists in it does not pay to have labor go for less keeping the soil about them free from grass than it might produce in order to save a and weeds. Most of this work can be done trifle in the cost of seed potatoes. with a hoe and rake,but some hand weed - If the faxmor has time to spaee for such ing is generally necessary. The roots can work, or rather has extra help to employ be transplanted to the places where they in it, spring is the best season to dig un- are to stand permanently when they are derdrains. The ground is soft at this time one year old, but many allow them to re - and if care is taken to lift out the dirt. as main in the nursery rows till they are two fast as loosened the mud in the drain will years old. The directions given for rats - be less an obstacle than will the hard soil ing asparagas plants also apply to raising after it has been dried out cluringthesMn- rhubarb plants. All the plants produced mer. Mach more work can be done dur- from rhubarb seed, however, will not be Ing the stuntmen Meech lame work can desirable to keep for cultivation. It will be done in a day in spring time than in be soon observed that some of them are fall. It is really not mere unpleasant to inferior, and these should be pulled up. work in spring, for tho ability to get a Live Stock Notes. long stretch of ditch dug to a depth of three feet offsets much oath° discomfort If you have better sheep thstn your neigh - of muddy boots and clothing. Usually bars they are none the poorer while you when ditches are dug in spring the drain, are the richer. While very large yields of three feet deep, will tap springs at the milk are desirable, the question of cost tO bottom, and in seme places a permanent produce them must always be considered. flow of water may be thus secured. This Out hay with ground feed is the most, Is especially tame of hill skies where a economical, and horses will do the hardest spring has once beeri known to exist. work on this feed and lseep in better 0011 - Such places need only to be dug a little dition than on oats. deeper,and the old spring wilnif protected At a recent stook -sale in England pure - by stone work, secure a permanent supply bred Suffolk pigs iold. as high as 00 each. of water for the farm. The attendance Is reported to have been on It is much better when preparing the thousand. It looks as though interest had corn ground to do all the deep cultivation not wholly dropped out of British agrictul- that is required to mix the manure with tare. the soh than to put it off, thinking it can It is not too late yet th put in some beets be done by cultivating after the corn is to grow for hog feed in winter. There above ground. It is possible that for the is nothing better as a part of the ration of first few days after the corn is up the deep breeding sows, both befere and after they cultivation between thanows may do good have farrowed. The dry -grain diet, or rather than barna But it would be bet- even tnat of milkedoes not keep the diges- ter even then, if this work were done tion good, and above all it favors fattening earlier. After corn is planted it is impos- rather than providing material for the thorough, all the later tillage should be needs and there is none better than the sible to pulverize lumps under the hills, pigs the breeding sow carries Milk -pro - shallow, merely enough to destroy weeds sugar beet. It is preferable to the mangel as they germinate and leave a mulch of as it is sweeter and leas more nourish - if the cultivation before planting has Peen deicing, green food is just what the sow two or three inches of fine soil on the sur- ment. face. Any one who leaves growing corn a Present indications are that all kinds of single week in July with only shallow coarse grain will be dear another year. It culture will be astonished at the mass of will not pay to feed dear grain to poor fine corn rootlets that will be found just stock, and the sooner all such is sold the under the depth that the shallow. cultiva- ritore money the farmer owning it will tion bas reached. These roots cannot be have at the end of the winter. After an- ent into without injuring the orop, and if other year it is probable that prices of stock dry weather follows deep cultivation of will advance. Secure some of the best to corn the crop is nearly ruined. The plow breed from, such as will pay their way on long ago went out of use among corn with dear feed. When the rise in price comes Northern farmers. We are learning that the best stock will advance in price more very deep cultivation is often nearlyas in. than any other. The best time to change jurious. . from poor stook to good is always now. It is a curious fact that in England, Ducks like water rind will swim in it where the land is much dearer than in whenever they get a chance,however small this country, nearly all the fences are they are. Yet it is not good for young hedges. It is a relic of times when the ducks to have water except for drinking. surrounding of fields had to be done so as Until their feathers are nearly grown the to exclude human intruders and wild ducklings , cannot oil their covering of beasts as well as domestic animals. Often feathers so as to excited° water. When hens the hedge was flanked by a moat with. are set with duck eggs and have the care water. Somethnes there was a moat on e, yot , g m ducks they will go through wet both sides of the hedge. There are maw — grass and leave young clucks draggled and of these moat hedges in England to this ready to die as if they were so nutey young day, though many of them have been chickens.' yhe Pekin variety of ducks had broken down. The reason why mare better be kept from water except in sum - hedges are not replaced by other fences is mer, They are very liable to injury from that in England wooden -fence material is too much water at any age,the oldest and almost impossible to got. Even the hedge finest looking ducks often going lame trimmings are useful as kindlings in sorne from a very little exposure. This suscep- European countries, and are gathered by tibility to cold and wet is almost tho only 'vesemen and children, tied into bundles and draveback to this excellent variety. dried. It has been regarded as a costly operation to root out an old hedge row, After the hedge was destroyed, aud the old moat leveled down, it asually rdstores to oulbivation some very rich soil. Tee ads vantage of having large fields ie becoming more obvious Mel year. Doing away with fences of all kinds is in 'progress among fanners everywhere, Not more than throe or tour fields are now needed. foe 0 largo been, esthete: under the ideas of farming prevalent oven 50 years ago five A colt slemelcl be kept in a specially healthy, growing ootectition the fleet year or till he gets his first nippers, when 110 0011 better help himself.1 clo not mean that he should be feci toe high on grain, but have plenty of good hay and water and a small pertion of mita and. if a little bran is mixed with thenn it is an improne- motet. He should be bitted and taught r Where to carry his bead when past' two years 01(1, 210(1 then brolten to harness stad tl , • 1. 1 I timos 023 maay were leetet as e Ho Waitaki notbe driven ll too. tirods ly I in portant. Caro should be taken not to break clovvn norticultural Notes. his spirit. Many a good horso has been • An annual application of potash should spoiled by Want of a little judgment and be inado upon bearing orchards. care when a colt and first called upon to , orIve years old andOf the mariate from500 to700 punIdoseViceWtenheisfi may be teed to the (tore in mature or non Want te sell him, put hint In good chards. I flesh. 4.1 this time fat always brings a good mace and pays the seller a good pro - Sod is sometimes allowable in apple and good pear orchards, lent never in °thee titt fruit pletitations'. but even then it should be pastured elosela with eheep or hogs, if Tim best of jol) priuttrig at flits office. • PERFORATP) TRIMMINGS. irheY Ate Ihied Line the Perferitted Olathe et the Winter. Perforated embroideries are following In she wake of the perforated cloths. which were wont so umeh during the winter. 'Whole dressee are made of this material, as well as jackets and draperies. Perfor- ated geese cloth over some bright tiat makes a beautiful gowo. ti2eati.leriethse°ftpreeinttli)er°seideorfietithoen pcer:faonirattad- varieties, Its they harmonize well vvith eveh the tine5t ef n14terilli8r.ation is an ex- enlalailee tz,l''fctplinexilemielts13:tiluerr'iitlyluosft the perthrated embroideries. The bodice is pale bine ba- tiste made tight Acting and out short on the hips Aniraped bodice of perforated, creanacolored batisbe is caught up just above the waist liue with circular buckles rart BATISTE. of blue enamel. The collar is also of the . embeoideey, draped Over the blue beneath, which ineut in Mug points and turned down in front over the embroidery stock. The sleeves are Made of a bled]: and \visite cross -stripe which also forms the skirt; and are draped with embroidery at the top. This fancy for making the sleeves of a differenb Material from the rest of the bodice is very popular. and in many cases it gives e pretty effect, but there danger of a petehwoik appeetance if the combin- ation is not artistic. FOR THE COMPLEXION - A Clear Skin Can be Had by Every Wo - 1221115 Wil0 can wane A clear, pure cOmplexion will- render irregular features attractive, and could girls with pale cheeks and blotched, color- less skins be persuaded to follow out pati - en tly and perseveringly a few simple rules, the remedy for im peeving even an appar- ently bopelessly poor complexion lies in their own power. walk, there must be the rapid movement color in the cheeks, muscular exertion for, is the general theory; practiced it works shine, and her blooming complexion is the inLarett'etih% ten or twelve miles' daily tramp, rain or finally the general exercise for calling to An English girl thinks nothing of her result. for the blood, quick breathing for the the development of the whole body, in- cluding the chest, neck and chin, and life the sluggish organs of the body. This To get the full beneficial effects of a languid, pale, heavy -eyed girl try it, moderately at time, say a three or four mile daily walk, at a smart pace, her shoulders held back, chest expanded' and head up, walking fast enough to feel O p,•Aow and to start the blood circulating freely She be surprised after a few weeks of faitbful practice at her clearer skin and. brightened color. An encellent finish to the walk, and, in- deed, a most necessary one if perspiration has been profuse, as it shouldbe, is a brisk rubbing of the whole body with a rough Turkish towel or hair-oloth gloves until the skin is pink and glowing. s Then let our patient lie down for a half hour, muscles relaxed, eyes closed, and the mind as free from thooght as possible. The resultis wonderful. Do not try to walk in heavy, long skirts, thin shoes or tight corsets. Wear heavy, laced bootsecalfskin boots are preferable, as they keep out dampness), a short skirt, and, above all, a corset -waist loose enough to allow deep breaths to be taken. These early summer days are excellent for long tramps. After the winter She blood is apt to be thick and sluggish, and in consequence the compleximi suffers. If a girl, instead of dosing herself with "spring medicines," would try simple draughts of oxygen for her blood, and plenty of exeicise to arouse the organs of her body to perform their functions, she would find her complexion quite as much benefited twit she had swallowed quarts of Envoexni °tub se mostdrugs: obstinate cases of dys- pepsia and indigestfon will yield to a practical and systematic course of exercise and diet. One of the first directions, of physicians to dyspeptics is, invariably, walk! ' Walking is such a simple remedy for so many of the ills that flesh is heir to and a cure so certain to be crowned with suc- cess, that the habit of daily exercise once established will become a delight and a necessity. nElt for a Queen." ' It is said that the Empress of Gerinany seldom wears silks or satins costing .less than £10 per yard. The materials for her demi-toilets cost on an average £4 th a5 per yard; house and carriage costumes from aa to an The latter require, in addition, an immense outlay of "extras," tats decoration, trimmings, etc. The decor- ations for the state robes are almost exclu- sively furnished by the crown treastrY1 where all gold braid, loose stones, jevvels of anwsert, the "hietoric laces," embroid- eries, fans, plumes, golden and jeweled buttons, etc., are kept under lock and key ttud ander the strictest control. Ths lens - press wears a court dress only once, or, if it be of extreraely great value, twice; bu before she dons it a sepond time ite deco r- ation8 are entively changed. A royal -wed- ding 0111 18 foe eight or tape state and full drese to i lets. 'The treasure 18 established in the vaults of the royal castle fri 13e-rlie and the own- . sianal visits of the Empress 'to the winter, palace en midsummer ate usuelly for the I sir te r le • , • for 1101111- diaoe use. This eau only' be doae in her oe the, Raiser's presettee. She has two keys to the vaults and two court' futection- aries have a key each. l'he fifth key it. held by the keeper of the tr'eastery. None of the keys will °pets the vaults utileee eimultaneously all bhe keys aye applied, 'late system wits established by the fleet King of Prussia, who had. been takets iti by his tt•easure keeper selling him his (the Killg'S) 02511 jewels at enoitaous pricers.