HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-2-25, Page 2THE 'ARte. art AROTIO ADVEDITURE.
Breaking ?rairie
Thegreat problem with the.prairie settlor
now to subdue the wild prairie sod and
got it in proper condltien for oultivatlen, for
thereon depends his bread and butter. A.
new comer will reoeivo plenLy'of advice how
to do it, and in almost as many different
ways es he has advisers,. Ging to Manito-
a from all parte of the world, they nearly
think the way they farmed athome im
leo the proper way there; and if the season
is propittoue--as the one justpast has been,
most of them will aucoaed, in a measure, the
results vaiying with the condition of the
lesson and the character of the eeil they
have to deal with. Others going from one
part of the territory to another, auppoeo that
al !prairie eel! may be treated alike success-
fully, without oonsidering that the territory
is large, and embraces a great variety of
soils. In the wheat fieldaof the Red River
valley, where the cod is a deep bleok muck
with a wet clayey subsoilethey cannot break
suecessfuly over three inches deep ; experi-
ments have proved, that breaking four or
five inches deep will delay the ratting of the
sod two -or three years, and Bats wheat ie the
staple crop and cannot be well grown,
except the and be well rotted, it makes
quite a difference with the farmer. Where
the soil is of a lighter nature, underlaid
with a very dry, calcareous subsoil, the sod
may be turned over four and five inches
deep ; a Drop of corn taken off the firat year,
and by thoroughly scarifying the surface
the second year, the farmer oan secure a
good (rep of flax or eats, or even wheat.
The secret of s'nooess in breaking up sod
to have it rot quickly and thoroughly is, to
do it when the grass and roots are in en
active stage of growth. An equally good
rule, if any rule can be adopted, is to wait
until the cattle oan get goad feeding an the
new grass, and not creak later than July
first. Too early breaking is preferable to
too late, as it gives an opportunity to get
in a sod crop early, though, if the season ie
at all wet, that early broken will grow up
grass aimed as bad as it was before, espe-
cially in low places The true breaking sea-
son, all things ooneidered, le during the
month of June. Some farms have a num-
ber of gravel knells to contend with ; these
spots should be attended to se aeon as the
frost is out of the ground in the spring;
then with a good team and plow, they oan
be entirely turned aver; but if you wait
until the ground settles and the soil becomes
dry, it is the next thing to an impossibility
to make an impression on them with any
common team. The disc harrow, in its
place and season, is a grand tool ; but to
use it on breaking in the spring without
back -setting one or two inches deeper than
the sod was broken, is a mistake that makes
many a bushel difference in the crop in the
fall. It simply cheps the sod into stripe and
blocks, leaving it in such shape, that the
wind and sun will dry out every particle of
moisture it contains, which should go to-
wards feeding the crop. An experiment,
which I made one year en twenty acres put
into cern„ which was a total failure, so far
as corn was concerned, was evidence enough
for me. If the harrow is used in the fall on
ground that has been wail back -set, the
ground has a chance to eettle and become
arm before spring planting.
The cultivation of prairie soil seta at
naught all rules and manus of the Eastern
Provinoe-a ; to wait in corn planting until
the oak leaf ie as large as a squirrel's ear
eprovided we could find either), would not
insure success ; nor is it necessary to wait
until the groend is warmed np , The
ecu is usually so dry in April, that seed
does not ret when planted so early, but le
ready to germinate eo soon as heat and moi-
sture combine in properdegrees,
Fresh Meat in Winter.
To secure fresh meat is often very difficult
in neighborhoods remote from a market.
it is not often that farmers can get fresh
mea.in summer,as theydesire,e, 1nl(aat
they
are fortunate enough to be cheep growers,
and can kill aeheep occasionally, to obtain
a supply. But frost is a great preservative,
and in our northern climate fresh beef, pork,
or other meat, hung up where it will freeze
solid, can be kept almost any length of
time, duribg occasional warm spells in win-
ter the meat may be packeu in ice, and
time preserved. Farmers who have lee-
honeea, of course, porsees a great ad-
vantage over those who have neglected to
make and fill an appendage so useful,
Winter Quarters for Powis.
A poultry fancier says that one of the es-
sentials for inducing hens to lay in winter,
is warm, comfortable quarters, With lum-
ber and building paper need so as to furnish
air tpaoss in the elect and reef, and with
no chance far cold air to come in at the
bottom, a chicken -house can be made so
warm that when well stocked with fowls it
will scarcely freeze inside in the coldest
weather, as the heat generated and'giveu oft
by the chickens will keep the temperature
abeve freezing. But, in such case, unleea
provision is made for ventilation, the air
will become impure, and the chickens will
sicken and die.
The Ice Crop.
This crop, usually abundant at this season,
is not the least important one to the farmer's
saintly. Every farmer, and especially every
one who has a dairy, should harvect and
securely house a portion of the crop for use
during the hot snmrator months. An ice
house can be easily and cheaply made, and
most farmers have plenty of time now to cut
and haul ice to fill one. No ruralist, mind-
ful of the comforts of home in summer, will
be likely to neglect securing his share of
the too crop while it can he done to advan-
tage.
Disappearance of the Euphrates.
The Euphrates river, once a mighty
at, -c am, seems likely to disappear alto-
geiber. Per some years the river banke
below Babylon have been giving way so
tba•t the stream apread out into a march,
nail steamers could not pees, and only a
i:nrrow channel remained for the native
boats. Now the passage is being filled np,
and the prospect is that the town on the
banks will be ruined and the famous river
itself will bo swallowed up be the desert,
..�_..m. - -.sea e
There le in Australia, it is said, aplant
which in its growth so much resembles a
sheep that in the days of the early settle-
ment the pioneers were often surprised by
the apparation of flocks of sheep on the die
tent hills. The pleut fa of the order com-
positae rind belongs to the genus Raoelea,
ft grows in a dense kidney -shaped macs
about eight feet acrossand three feet high,
The leafy branches sire densely packed to
gether and the whoio mase of t e iowwhite
color. Tho flowers are mlorosoople and
hence there le never any variation in the
appearaftoe of the vegetable sheep at ams
soaton.
I47i rearoaraice SCUWAT1U.
We had bean toiling up a frozen river for
three or four days, trying to reach its head
and determine if we couldet through the
monntaine said to be there $ the las uimau
musk-ox hunters, fax en by
a pare
through them that would be available for
doge and heavily lathe eledges depended
whether we could make af6 beeline" to the
Arctic) . Ocean from Redwine Bay next
spring, or whether we would have to make
a great detour to avoid them,
By we I mean besides myself my Es -
club= deg driver Toolooah and hie wife
and baby boy, for the Esquimaux always
take their families with them on a journey,
the women being as necessary to sew and
repair the foot -gear, worn out eaoh day,
and nook the meals morning and night, as
the men are to build the snow -houses and
kill the reindeer which the women 000k.
It was in the depth of an arctic winter,
the early days in January, in fact, and the
spirit thermometer was ourliug up in the
bulb trying to keep warm, dragging in its
toes under the scale till they marked 50 and
60 degrees below zero. Nearly all the rein-
deer had migrated farther south, so cold
was it, the birds had long since flown, ono
all we saw was an eocational hgaunt arctic
wolf flitting over the barren hills covered
with snow, or a polar hare go running to his
snow -house over a pile of rooks.
When Toolooah dull the ice -well to get
fresh water es we camped, I noted that
the ice was six and seven feet thick,
for I had to allow that muoh more on the
length of my fish -line when I dropped it
through the ice -wallet( fish for the salmon
that there abound. Of such thick ice of
course no one could fear ; for it appears that
it needs but an inch and a half to support a
man, four inches to support :horsemen, five
inches to support a field cannon, ten inches
to support a multitude as think as they can
stand and eighteen inches to support a rail-
road train ; six and seven feet, therefore,
should support a mountain. The river we
were ascending seemed to be a series of long
lakes, two or three miles long, ;joined by
shallow connecting streams seldom ever a
hundred yards in length, and only a few
yards width, and through the ice the large
stones often protruded indicating their
depth. I noticed in walking over the ioe of
these parts of the river that they gave forth
a reverberating sound, as if they were hollow,
but I paid little attention to that, thinking
they were safe enough. It was In the mid-
dle of the afternoon when we were oroesing
one of these places, Toolooah and the eledge
being a short way ahead of me, when I heard
a shivering crash in that direction, as if the
whole glass front of a store had been batter-
ed Inas one blow. The sledge had broken
one runner through the thin ice on the rocky
portage. I rushed toward the plane, but
before I was half -way, ss if a glass trap-door
had given away underneath, with a jang-
ling of broken ice, one leg went through it,
but my foot struck on a atone underneath,
and from here I scrambled back, and Too -
/posh motioned me to the shore, which' sought
by the most direct route. The dogs were
taken off
the sledge and a long, strong walrna
line extended from the protruding runner
to :he "shore, where the dogs were again
hitched, and by carefally unloading part we
soon had it out. It was not until after we
were safe oil the next lake that I learned
from Toolooah how narrow an escape we had
had.
When the first severe cold snap of the
winter comes, and the lakes and rivers are
frozen over, many small springs and water -
sources are obliterated. and the rivers and
streams fall considerably as a consequence.
Over the wide parts of the rivers the ice falls
with the water, but in these shallow parts
the protruding stones, acting like piliars,1
hold it up, and there is a thick stratum of
air between thin ice and roaring river be-
neath, thick enough to prevent the Iatter
from again freezing. Thus, while we may
have six and seven feet of ice on the river -
lakes there may not be one third as many
inch
es on thee(_rooky pasta, and buoyed up
in a moat trap -like manner to engulf one in
a place where eine cases out of ten the un-
fortunate would not escape. I can see that
black rushing torrent sweeping through the
great bowld era yet that was revealed oaf pull-
ed my leg out of the hole in the sheil ice, my
own foot striking a stone in a most miracu-
lone manner, Toolooah blamed himself for
being so careless at a place where the Es-
qulmaur are always eo exceeding careful,
for of the accidents known few have escap-
ed, Ice a couple of inohea thick may bear
a man if resting on the water, but if buoyed
above a roaring rapid Iike a watch crystal, it
he a most dangerous trap.
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The Dawn of Worship.
The " dawn of worship" is to be found in
the flint hatchets and other rode implements
deposited with the dead, as by modern sav-
ages, testifying to some sort of belief in
spirits and in a future existence. Thie
clearly prevailed in the Neolithic and pot.
eibly in the immensely older Paleolithic,
period, though the evidence for the latter le
at present very weak, and the first object
which can be affirmed with any certainty to
be an idol or attempt to represent a deity
dates only from the Neolithic period, ae do
the cannibal feasts, which can he proved to
hate not infrequently accompanied the In-
terment of important chiefs. For anything
beyond this we have to descend to the his-
torical period, and tarn to early menuments
myths, and snored book. The earliest ret
cords by fax aro those of -the Egyptian tombs
of the first four dynasties, and they tell us•
little more than this, that with a highly de-
veloped eivllizatien the idea of a future life
was very much that of v continuance of the
present life in a tomb which was made to
resemble the deceased's actual house, anile
with nnrroundings which repeated his actual
belongings, white the whole eomplfoated
Egyptian mythology of symbolized gods and
deified animals was of later origin.. If we
tarn to the oarlieet mythologies of the
Aryan and of the mixed Semitic and races
of Western Asia we find them plainly or
iginating, to a great extent, in the porsoni.
fication of natural force, mainly of the pun,
on wfiioh aro ingrefted ideas of family,
tribal, and national goris and of deified
hereon+, Sometimes, as the original mean.
lag of the names andattributes of. thee,^,
Bode came to be forgotten, the mythologies
branched out into innumerable fable(; af,
other times, among more simple and covers
raced, or with more philoeophio minds in
the inner circle of a, hereditary priesthood,
the fables of polytheism wore rejected, and
the idea prevailed, either of a unity of na-
ture Implying a single anther, or of mach a
preponderance of tee national god over all
others es led by a different path to the
aante reaultof monotheism. The real merit
of the Jewish race and of the Hebrew Scrip-
tures ie to have conceived this Idea earlier,
and retained it more firmly, than an of
oho leas philosophical and more immoral re-
ligions of the ancient world ; and thio fa a
merit of which they Call Hover be deprived,
however muoh the literal mauoy,
and son.
ee qtentl the sus iratfon end miraculous
at-.
tributesof th
, Dao venerable .books may be
disproved and disappear,
YOUNG FOLKS.
1Ved'e Ohoiee.
She baa not rosy obeekt.
Nor eves that brightly dello;
Norolden curse, nor teeth like pearls,
This valentine of mine 1
But, oh, she's just the dearest,
whe Irueet and the best;
,And one more kl.,d you will not find
Iu many a long day's quest.
are (Meeks are faded now
11er deer old eyes are dim ;
Hot hair's like snow, her steps are blow
Iter figure isn't triol ;
nut. oh 1 and oh 1 1 love her !
This grendmamma of mine ;
I wish that she for years may be
Aly dear old valentine.
Moppet's Valentine.
r�
Oh 1 oh 1" said Moppet, with a soft
,little sigh. "I with I'd have ono. I never
had oue 'long's I've lived—not an honest-
truly one, you know,''
" Yes, I know," said mamma, ensiling.
She had been reading Moppet a nips little
valentine story from one of Moppet's own
papers, which somebody was kind enough
to send her—a story of a lovely valentine
that one little girl sent another little girt to
make up friends again.
" I shouldn't think she could have been
mad any more, should you, mamma ?" ask-
ed Moppet, eagerly. "'Cause 'twain so
pretty—all posies and everything ! Don't
yen capese'twas orfie pretty, mamma?"
" I wonldn't wonder, dear," mamma an.
ewered, putting down the paper and taking
up her work, But Moppet wasn'tthrough
yet.
" Did you ever see one, mamma ?"
"Yee, dear, a long time ago ; but it
wasn't like that, I guess."
Moppet looked sober,
" I didn't ever much as sec one, only what
you made, mamma," she said. "I didn't
even see a bonghted one."
That was very true, because in the little
out-of-the-way town where Moppet had
lived ever since she was a baby, people
never thought of such a thing as sending a
valentine. 1 don't believe, if you had shown
one to Mr. Prime, who kept the village
store, he would have known what it was,
even.
So there were none to buy. If there had
been, Moppet's mother would have bought
one—one that didn't cost too much. And
it was quite too late to send for one now.
"I guess you'll get one next year," sald
she.
But next year was a long time off, and the
thought of what might possibly happen then
wasu't much of a comfort to Moppet.
" I wish I could to -morrow," she said, so-
berly. Mamma didn't believe she could, but you
wouldn't have caught her saying so. She
smiled, and began counting the stitches on
the heel of Moppet's little red stocking.
Just then Me. Frazer took his pipe out of
his mouth, Mr. Frazno was a tin -peeler
man, who often et'pped for dinner, and
sometimes for an after dinner smoke. He
was a veep pleasant looking man, Moppet
thought, an° ho almost always brought her
an apple or a piece of candy when he came.
" So yon never had a valentine, eh ?" he
asked.
" No, sir," said Moppet, bashfully.
" And never saw one ? Well 1 well 1 now
that's a dreadful pity 1"
Mr. Frazer's eyes twinkled. Was ho
laughing at her? Moppet wondered. But
before ane could quite settle the matter in
her own mind, she heard a little tap at the
window.
"Oh, it's Dovey Diamond 1" she Dried,
forgetting for the mement everything but
her pretty drab and. white pet outside,
" And he's come after his dinner."
So Moppet opened the window, and got a
handful of crumbs, and fed the dove half of
them, and left the other on the table.
And nobody but Betty, the eat, saw Mr.
Frazer put those crumbs into hie great -coat
pocket when he was ready to start. And
Betty
y
ell ° though maybe b
o she
won-
dered what he meant to do with them.
" Good -by," he sang out to Moppet, after
he had harnessed his gray horse into hire red
pang. "Look out for the valentine, now."
And then Moppet felt vary sure he was
laughing at her, and she hated dreadfully to
be laughed et.
But the next morning she had something
else to think about. Dovey Diamond didn't
come to Ws breakfast,
He didn't come to his dinner, either.
" Where do you e'pose he is, mamma ?"
asked Moppet, the tears just ready to fall.
" He'e always come before every day this
winter. 0 mamma 1 elo you a'pose sa"mo-
body+'s o caught him, and baked him in a
p pie ?„
"No, no, dear; I geese not."
" Then where is he, mamma ?"
" I don't know, my ohild."
Then Moppet curled hercelf up on the
lonuge and had just begun to cry in good
earnest, when " Tap 1 tap 1 tap 1" came a
sharp little beak against the window. She
sprang up, almost wild with joy.
"Oh, it's Dovey 1" she oried, flying to
the window, "0 mamma, come quick 1
What is that he's got on, mamma ? Oh,
look 1"
Mamma didn't need to look --she knew
without looking.
ar I guess," said the, smiling, " I groans
it's an honest -truly valentine, dear."
That ie just what it proved to be,
Mamma let Dovey Diamond in, and un-
tieda silken string which held the large
white envelope under hie wing. Then Mop-
pet opened it, trembling with eagerness.
"Oh 1 oh 1 oh 1 oh 1" she cried, too full
of joy to do rnything besides screaro. "Sce
the flowers, mammal o -oh 1 and that little
girl with a wreath on 1 Where did it come
noun ? I never saw anything half to pret-
ty ! 0 mamma ! mamma 1" .
And would you believe that that foolish
little Moppet began to cry again with her
acme tight round Ler mother's nook 1
"I s'pose ft's 'cause I'm to glad I don't
know what to do," she said, beginning to
laugh next nsinnto, "0 mamma, who do
you 'epoee rent it 1"
Mamma knows, or think she doer, which
is quite as well, She thinks Mr, Frazer
could tell more about it than any ono e1me,
And Betty known, too, -she knot✓( what
Mr Frazer meant to do with thou crumbs,
But Moppet haan't begun to guess yet.
911.0®-e'
" sudden Calf:"
A Washington correspondent tells of a
death there recently which id aeneational in.
its details, A yonng doctor, handsome,
strong, and of great promia°, was called to
attend a lady in a carriage at bin door, Re-
ceiving no answer to his greeting to the
patient, he thought she had fainted.' He
stepped into her coupe and found her al -
matey a tempera He drove by the side of
the dead woman to her hours and thence to
the hospital, where he was expected to per-
tiolpato in a meeting of the massagers. Apo'.
o izln for his iatcueea - hep
g g rc,Idted his ghast-
ly experience. Then reuarkfng, "r feel.
faint," he fell, drunk dead byanal
p site
Born to blush unseen ---Colored ladies,
The rower of iGeu'tleness.
It is related that a belated stranger stay-
ed all night ata farmer's house. He
noticed that a Blender little girl, by her
gentle ways, had a great influence, in the
house. She seemed to be a bringer of
peace and goodwill to the rough owes in
bite honsahild. She had power over anl-
mais also, as the following shows Tho
farmer was going to town nexb morning,
and agreed to take the stranger with him.
The family came out to Bee them start.
The farmer gathered up the reins, and
with a jerk said, "Diok, go 'long 1' But
DIok didn't "go 'long." The whip crack-
ed about the pony'e ear, and he snouted :
"Dick you rascal, get up 1" It availed
nob. Then came down the whip with a
heavy hand, but the atubborn beast only
ahook his head silently. A etoub lad canoe
out and seized the bridle, and pulled and
yanked and kinked the rebellious pouy,
but not a step would he move. At this
crisis a sweet voice said, "Willie, don't
do so," The voice wan quickly recogniz-
ed. And now the magic hand was laid
on the neck of the seeming incorrigible
animal and a simple low word was spoken ;
instantly the rigid mausolea relaxed, and
the air of stubbornness vanished. "Poor
D'ck," said the sweet voice, as she stroked
and patted aoftiy his neck with the child-
like hand. "Now go 'long, you naughty
fellow," in a half -chiding but in a tender
voice, as she drew elighbly on the bridle.
The pony turned and rubbed his head
against her arm for a moment, and start-
ed off at a cheerful trot, and there was uo
farther trouble that day. The otranger
remarked to the farmer, "What a wonder-
ful power that hand possesses 1" The
reply was, 6 Oh, she is good 1 Every-
body and everything loves her."
Japanese Fishing.
A recent traveler in Japan tells a fish
story which differs from the ordinary va-
riety, principally in the size of the fish
concerned.
Oar party of Americans and English-
men had been charmed away from the
city by a delightful summer resort among
the hills. One day they naked us if we
wouldn't 'like to go fisting. We were
enthusiastic followers of the gentle Eng-
lish patriarch, IzaakWalton, and we eag-
erly assented. OurJapanese friends prom-
ised to furnish tackle, bait, and boat.
The lake was near at hand, and we were
soon afloat, Oar;gutde anchored as about
twenty feet from the shore, and dis-
tributed the tackle. The rods were of
reeds about a yard long, furnished with
double that length of line, which was tip -
pod with a tiny hook that did not appear
half so effective as the bent pin of our
earliest fishing experience. With bated
hooks we tossed oar lines into the water
and waited for sport. The fish were
abundant and bit well. But they were
only minnows—little fish like the shiners
which ;we use for bait in Canada. It
was such a ridiculous sight to see six full'
grown mon fishing for shiners that we
could not help laughing, although our
laughter was evidently a puzzle to our
guide, who thought the fishing excellent.
About Shoes.
The immediate predecessors of India
rubber shoes, for wear in the cities where
paths were prepared during the snowy
seasons, were articles technically describ-
ed as "galcchea. " They were, in fact,
leather overshoes, save that the protection
came to the sole of the foot rather than
to other parte. The prototype of the
shoos was the ancient " clog," which, in-
deed, was worn az shoe or foot covering,
instead of an extraneous protector. In
later yearn the "patten" of England was
g
kindled to the 6i;r;aloohe." There was
always something natty in the appearance
-f this article, and the facility with which
it could be donned was in its favor as well.
Yet, woe to the individual who attempted
the nee of a new pair upon lay walks
where the hard and smcoth solea beguil-
ed frequent downfwiling to the uninitiated.
The original vulcanized rubber shoes had
a leather bottom, and it constituted an
objection hard to overcome because they
were so slippery. The use of bottoms
Dame as a benison to the appreciation of
this species of footwear,—{Shoe and Lea-
ther Reporter.
Vanderbilt and the Preachers.
A correepondent writes that Com-
mcdore Vanderbilt did not like ministers,
and never admittedone to his presence if
ho could help it, But after he became
acquainted with Dr. C. F. Donnas he liked
him pretty well, on account of his cff hand
business like manner. He talked with
him and urged him to call often. One
evening the talk fell upon clerical beggars,
and the two then agreed. "I've never
asked you for a cent," said the Doctor.
"TM.at'r so, Frank," said the admiring
millionaire. "And I never uhall," added
the) minister, "as long as I have the breath
of life." The Commodore looked a Maio
reaontful. "If you have lived to your
age,"" went on the Doctor, who really de.
sired a church very much, "without hav-
ing the sense bo sea what I want and the
grace to give it to me, I (Mall never tell
you ; you will die without the eight. "He
wont away, and within a fortnight the
Oommodcre sent him $50,000 in green-
backs with which to bey the meeting
hortso which became the Church of the
5 ;ranger,,.
Care of the Ilia/ids.
There are alruple unease by which the
hand& may be kept in a presentable con-
dition, as the use of glycerine rr hon.oy
after washing them, and a little bran or
oatmeal to be used aometlmee instead of
soap. Wearing gloves when the work is
rough or dirty is quite admiesible. Ladies
who have rough, ooarae hauls should rub
them with cold cream, and they may wear
loose gloves. Should the handl become
hard and horny, treat them with pumice -
stone and Ioteon. Lemon is always good
for the hands ; it cleanses them as well as
soap and inalres them soft;
Yon should clean tho nails with abrush,
if neoeseary, but it is bettor. to tub the
fingers and anile with the half of a lemon,
thrusting the fingers into it and turning
until the milli are perisetly olein. Lem°
on will likewise prevent the akin at the
root of the nalla fromrowln u ;card.
g g p
Use cold cream and glovea'atnlght, which
will keep the nafia soft and prevent therm
from ctacking.
THE HEATHEN 110100o..
AN INTEIIiSTING RSFORBNCE To CANADIAN
MISSIONS IN BRITISH INDIA.
The Rev. T. R. Inglis, a Canadian min,
sionary writing from Northwest India,
says ;—Mhow is a cantonment town and
everyone knows thab the general influence
of Bridal soldiers in India is nob ouch as
to render the missionaries' task easier, but
rather to make ib more diilloult. Their
cruel treatment of the natives, their dis-
solute life, which the people of India point
at in derision of the gospel, cannot be a
stimulus for God. Mhow being a canton-
ment town the native population le not
oharaeberlstto, but rather is made up of a
mixed multitude of all caste and religions,
whose sole object is to make money and
who are there for a time. Suoh a mass of
ever changing avaricious money makers is
not the meet hopeful flail for a mission in
its initial life. The work cannot be per-
manent and therefore is a neodlesswasbe of
time and money, The political aspect of
the case is nob promieing either, for while
in the cantonment itself safety to lifa and
freedom to preach are guaranteed to mis-
sionaries—a freedom that is enforced by
the over looking fort that bristles with
English cannon ---they are circumscribed
by .Holker'o edict if they venture beyond
a radius of 20 miles. Such a freedom is
not helpful to a right view of the Gospel
of peace and suoh a restriction, by no
magna unaggressive, is in no way promi-
sing for a progressive work. It is plain
then that Mhow is not a proper plane for
a beginning. It may be asked why not
abandon it then, or, if necessary, make it a
aub-station to Indere. This is precisely
what I would advooate. There 1a no mis-
sion property to be lost by the change
there is no work that could not be as well
managed as now and it would liberate men
and means, which applied to a centre of
properly called native work, would multi-
ply ben fold, whereas now the inoreaee 1s
nil. Read the report of therm faithful men
and women for last year. Not a day has
been wasted, not an opportunity lost, per-
haps, and yet not a convert reported. En-
oonraging signs they are ; but who can
live on encouraging signs in the midst of
this seething mass of ignorance, vice and
irreligion. We are quite enamored of the
climate of Trthow and its scenery. They
do not have the contrast of summer heat
and winter (old from which we suffer.
The changes of season thoreare very alight.
The eye does not rest on a monobonons
plain, as with ns, but it is relieved by gen.
tle undulations, verdured valleys, and
wooded hills. I visited Indore, Holkar's
capital, and there found a characteristic
city of India. As a field for mission work
Indore fa not excelled, perhaps, from
Cashmere to emporia, but the hand of
the tyrant is uplifted, and says no to the
entreaties of the missionary. Whab little
freedom is granted was obtained by strug-
gle inch by inch. Schools are unmolested,
Zenana work carried on under protest,
but preaching in the bazaar quite forbid-
den. Bat Indore has its minion property
and perhaps there is wisdom in standing
ground against the power that would
crash, if it could, the life out of the infant
church, but it is, to say the least, an open
question whether bhe cantonment of Mhow
should be made a centre with Indore only
fourteen miles away and rail between.
Inventions by Boys.
The gentleman who asked a crowd of
youngsters what boys were good for, and
received as a reply, "We're the stuff
they make men of," will find still another
answer to his question in the following
paragraph :
The invention of the valve moticn to a
steam-engine wan made by a mere boy.
Newcomen's engine was in a very incom-
plete condition from the fact that there
was no way to open and clone the valve
except by means of levers operated by
hand. He set up a large engine at one
of the mines, and a boy (Humphrey Pot.
tor) was hires to work b sere valve laver(.
Although this is not hard work, yat it re-
quired his constant attention. As he was
working the engine he saw that parts of
the engine moved in the right direction,
and at the same time he had to open and
close the valves. He procured a strong
cord and made one end fast to the proper
part of the endue and the others end to
the valve lever, and the boy had the sat£s-
faotlon of teeing the engine move with
perfect regularity of motion.
A shorn time after the foreman came
around and saw the boy playing marbles
at the door. Looking at the engine he
saw the ingenuity of the boy, and also flee
advantage of his inventors. The idea
suggested by the boy's inventive genius
was put in practical form and made the
steam-engine an automatic working ma-
chine.
The power -loom is the invention of a
farmer's boy, who had never heard of
suoh a thing. He whittled out one with
his jack-knife, and cites he had it all
done with great enthusiasm he showed 11
to his father, who et once knocked it to
pieces, saying twat he would have no boy
about him boat would spend his time on
such foolish things. The boy was sent to
a blacksmith to learn a trade, and his
master took a lively interest in' him. Ho
made a loom of what was left of the one
his father had broker up and showed 11
to his master.
The blackanilth saw that he had ria
common boy as an apprentice, and that
the invention was a valuable one, He
had a loom constructed under the super.
vision of the bey. Ib worked to their
perfect sabiefecb.on, and the blackemibh
furnished the means to manufaobnre the
looses and the boy received half bite pro.
fits.
In abeub a year the blaoksrn£th wrote
bo the boy's father that he should bring
honno with him a wealthy gentleman who
was the inventor of the celebrated power -
loons. Yon may be able to judge of the
aatoninhment at tiro old home when his
iron wars presented to hila as the inventor,
who told Mina that the loom was the same
as the model that he had kicked to pieces
bat a year before.
M. Booion, "of the Cantonal ' Industrial
ah000l of Lousanne, Switzerland, ro orbe the
dleeover in
Lake Leman o
fa.
y `tri ht c
g green
mess growing in the bottom of the lake on
the oalearioue Tooke, two hundred feet below
the outface) No other moss has been found
at so great a depth under water, and hots
ohlorophyl could have been so richly dame.
opal so far from' the light ie a problem.
Blind to Colors.:
There hail been muoh opposition among
railWay men
to ,
w the
n
y
owl
law compelling ex-
aminations for color-blind/mem Bab if
there ars many ouch cases as the following,
the law will easily v£nd£otbe itself ink
minds of bhe brevetingh
land " "pgblio. The pieve-
Loader reportsthe incident :
The patient is an employee of the rail-
way company. He is a man about forty`
years old, and is a fireman. Mr, Kin
made three teats in his OEM. First col
ored glass globes ware placed over a gas
jet, and the man, at a distance of twenty
feet away, asked to belt their cohere. He
named the red globe correctly when it was
first used, but on a second trial declared
it to be green. Then railway 'aignal:flags
of different colors were waved before him,
tie called the red flag green, the green
flag red, and when two flags, both red, but
of different shades, were waved, the fire-
man insisted that they were waned,
Red
and green flags hold up t'og'if-a ter he de-
clared to be green. The nexb test was
made with a -small rack in which hung
zephyr worsted of different colors. The
ataudard color of green was pointed out
to the man and he was asked to select the
worsted in the back of the same color.
He immediately pinked out bright red,
old gold, and light brown bunches. The
unfortunate fireman had to be discharged.
Mr. King said to a "Leader" reporter
that he had examined a very large num-
ber of men for color bllndneoa, and that
about four men in every one hundred are
defective in their eye -sight in tide respect.
But very few people are ao color-blind as
the fireman, he said. He said that women
were seldom found color-blind, as they
constantly trained their eyes in selecting
colors in ribbon and dry goods, and in dis-
criminating between delicate shades and
tints. In anewer to a question by the re-
porter, Mr. King kindly explained :, " The
theory of the cause of oolor-blindness is
that parts of the retina of the eye respond
each to different colors. When any of
these parts are deficient, absent, or unde-
veloped, the person cannot see the color
that it belongs to, leaving some other re-
sponsive part to act."
Sailor's Superstition.
The steamer, New Brunswick, of the
International Line, recently had a succes-
sion of hard voyages. Head winds and
atoms were encountered on the trips be-
tween St. John and Boston. She was due
in Eastp rt on Friday, but did not reach
that per! until Sunday noon. The sailors
and some of the officers at last concluded
that there was a Jonah on board,' and
began to look about Inc the cause of the
steamer's ill•luck.
It seems that some time ago the steam-
er's freight included a coop of hens. Dar -
hag the passage one ofta hens got out,
and an the owner could get hor back
into the coop without Anger of letting
others escape, he gave the hen to one of
the deck hands, who kept her in a box
upon the main deck.
There is a superstition among sailors
that if a hen is carried under a tub, head
down, the vessel will encounter head
winds as long as the hen is on board.
Concluding that a hen in a box was just
as ill an omen as a hon in a tub, the crew
began to mutter, and the deck hand was
compelled to put his hen on shore. Since
that the eteamer has ini avorable weath-
er, and the crew are
The Purina That Cost $1,000,000,
The largest pumping engine in the world
to that at Friedensvilio, Pa,, need to pump
water out of a zinc mine, It was built at
Merrick's foundry, Philadelphia, in 1870, at
a cost of nearly $1,000,000. Its parts were
ao heavy that all the bridges along the lino
of the North Pennsylvania Railroad, from
Philadelphia to Centre Valley, were
strengthened to insure against accident. Its
cylinder has a diameter of 110 inches ; the
piste n rod is fourteen inches in diameter,
Is has a stroke cf twelve feet, and in one
minute forces over 20,000 gallons of water,
or 30,000,000 gallons daily, cut of the mine
to a height of 130 fent.
How the Zulus Make Love.
Wooing among the Zulus of South Afrfoa
has little aentiment in it. A young girl A+
may have takers a liking to eome warrior.
She will leave her fayther's house, and at
dusk will station heileelf before the hut of
the favored one. She will remain perfectly
client, neither asking nor anewering ques-
tione. If her attentions are favored she
will be asked into the hut to stay a week or
more. Then he returns with her to the
father's home, taking a few cattle along.
These are presented and invariably accept-
ed, a sign that the parents are willing to
enter into negotiations, The price is fixed
and the couple return, and thenceforth aro
regarded as man and wife.
The child's doll 111 the earliest "naw -
dant swindle."
The one anewer to all criticism, the bet;
test of all work is—reeult•.
A brother editor says a newspaper is
not nosey, yet It frequently Brea to a bue-
tle.
Our bravcot baton .. re • not learned
through suocsa9 bat mis venture.— . Al
raft.
"Whenever my wife scolds me," saki a
hen pecked toper, "I go right straight and
liquor.
.Cho edge of religious controversy ha0
changed, It may be as sharp, but it has lost
its saw teeth, —John .Miller.
Human efforts to achieve certain alma
are very muoh like a cab trying to catch
its tail. Just as we think ve are about to
emceed, away gout the bail.
Mine. Nilsson hen won her ali'iertlar law-
suit against the relations of hot deceased
husband, M. Rouzeand, '.Choy have been
mulcted to the amount of $50,000.
Mrs, Muldoon-"
Mrs, Mdlcahoy, have
you heard the new rimidy,ior hydrophobi+?"
Mrs.Muloahe . "No, tis it faith." Phat . "
Morrrs.a Mu
idd Yeas ee Plasteur of .Perls, 'be• Ys
s 1"
A die atch says ys a ' sausage sixty-four foot
long was turned out of a factoryMaple-
ton, Pm, recent! Served.., in Maple
> y it right; we
should have turned It out if it had been our
factory,
"Thin natural"
gas is a wonderful rful thio
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remarled Mrs. I
an 10r as s e
he oat before the at Mrs Snaggs s,"Yes,
indeed it fe,"
replied Mrs, Snaggy ' "I wonder how the
y
get it, and why we never had Itbefore.. _.
"Indeed I ' "
dont know a thing about it.
I never Studied gastronomy,"
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