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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-2-24, Page 2My Beys. HANS. 0081341., 1 a 410110 in the twilight And dream M the days one by, When here with the shadows we gathered, Xy beautiful boys and 1. The yeers have passed, 0 how swiftly ; 10 seems only yesterday That Jack Ma Ilarry 41i4 baby Fred Were here at my Oa rtt pier. 13ut where tomight ere my Inautiful boys, Jack and riarry Allil Fred? Oh, friend, only one am 1 sure of, And he is the pee that's deed. My Jack, soldier so wom1Prous brave, You'll Ind in the thickest But low sinks my heart as for him 1 ory, "0, where is my bov tomight You ask me of my other son. How his blue eyes used to shine; their light is darkened by The fatal spirit of wine. 1 bow my head and fervently pead For both these my boys tcought, Believing that He who has promised so much Some day will remove the blight. And 1 praise him for a vision Of a cause triumphant, grand, That bears inscribed on Its banners, "God, Home, and Native Land." My heart is full, so full, as I think Of Jack and Harry and Fred. Yet i thank my Heavenly Father for The baby boy that's dead. FULL OF GRIT. "The stage has gone, sir, but there's a widder lives here—and she has got a boy, and he'll chive you over. He's a nice fel- low, and Deacon Ball lets him have his team for a trifle, and we like to get him a job whenever we can." It was a hot day in July. Away up among the hills that make the lower slopes of Monaeluock mountain a friend lay very ill. In order to reach his temporary home, one must take an early train for the nearest station, and trust to the lnmbering old dusty coach that made a daily trip to Keene. The train was late, and the stage, after waiting a while, was gone. The land- lord of the little white hotel appeared in his and when we come to anything we can't shirt sleeves, and, leaning his elbow on the make out I take it over to the teacher in the balcony rail, dropped down on the hot and evening, and she is very kind—she tells." thirsty traveller what comfort could be ex. Very kind ! Who would not be kind to tramted from the opening sentence of my such a boy? I felt the tears coming to my sketch eyes at such a sudden vision of a soli doing "Would he not come in and have some a girl's work, while his poor mother held the dinner " book in her twisted hands, and tried to help ? " Yes." him to learn. "Would. he send round for the deacon's I "But all this does hot help to earn money team " Johnny. How do you expect to save if you ? I give your time. indoors ?" "And the boy?" "Oh, I don't do girl's work all day ; no, I "Yes." indeed. I have worked out my taxes on the And the dinner was eaten, and the road. It wasn't much, but I helped the men build a stone wall down by the river; and " team " came rouncl—au open buggy and Deacon Ball let's me do a great many days' an old white horse, and just as we were seated the door of the little brown house work for him'and when I aeret a chance to over the way opened, and out rushed the take any oue from the hotel to ride, he lets " widder's boy." me have his team for almost nothing, and I In his mouth was the last morsel of his Pay him whatever I make. And I work on the farm with the men in summer; and I dinner. He had learned evidently how to ".eat and run." His feet were clad in last have a cow of my own,and Isellthemilk at the winter's much worn boots, whose tavern; and we have some hens, too, and we wrinkled, yellow legs refused to stay sell the eggs. And in the fall I out an 1 pile modestly within the limits of his wood in the sheds for people who haven't any boys—and there's a good_ many people trousers. As his legs flew forward his arms about here who haven't any boys," he added, flew backward in an ineffectual struggle to get himself inside of a jacket that was much thoughtfully, brushing a fly from the old too short in the sleeves. White horse with the tip of his 'whip. "There he is," said the hostler; " there's1 After this we fell into silence, and rode widder Beebe's boy. I told him I'd hold the deacon's horse while he went to get a bite." The horse did not look as if he needed to be held, but tha hostler got his dime, and the boy approached in time to relieve mymind as to whether he would conquer thj e acket, or the jacket would conciliar him, ani turn him wrong side out. He was sunbrowned and freckled, large mouthed, and red haired, a homely, plain, patched, little Yankee boy; and yet, astwe rode along through the deep manner bloom and fragrance of the jaded road winding up the long hill in the glow of the afternoon sun, I learned such a lesson from that little fellow at my side as I shall not soon forget., He did not look much like a minister'as he sat stooping forward a little, whiskitig the flies from the deacon's horse, but his sermon was one which might have beensheard by all the boys in the land. He did not know he was preaching, or he would have stopped I think. As it was I had to spur him on now and then by questions, to get him to tell me all about himself. "My father died, you see, and left mother the little brown house opposite the tavern. You saw it, didn't you, sir—the one with the lilac bushes under the win - clow? Father was sick a long time, and when he could not work he had to raise money on the house. Deacon Ball let him have it, a little at a time, and when father was gone mother found the money owed was almost three hundred dollars. At first she thought she would have to give up the house, but the deacon said; Let us wait awhile,' and he turned to me and patted me on the head, and said: *hen Johnny gets big enough to earn something Isbell expect him to pay it.' I was only nine years old then' but now I am thirteen.; I remembered it, and remembered how mother cried, and said: Yes, deacon,. Johnny's my only hope now aud I wondered what I could learn to sew *little, too, for inotber did not like to see holes without petehes." Mid he looked half smiling at the speci- Mans 01.I Ilk Oral lettees. " But you did. not mend those ?" I asked. " Yes, sir, but I was in a hurry, and mother said it was not done as it ought tie be. They haa tuet been washed, and I could net wait for them, to dry," " Who washed thorn ?" "I did, mid iroaed them, too, roan %mit and iron almost as Well as mother u"t she does not let you do it ?" coui,4131. " She don't mean to have me, but how can she help it? She can hardly lase her hands at all, and some days her feet are so bad she cau herdly leave her °hair, So I have hed to lora to make the beds, and scrub the floor, and wash the dishes, and oan cook 0,11O0St as svoll 13. Oa" Is it possible? I shall have to take supper with you on my, way beak to the city, and test your skilia Johnny blushed, aud I Added : " a pity, my boy, that you have no sister." "1 had one," he said, gently, "but she died ; and—if she had lived, I wouldn't aave wished her to lift and bring wood and water, and scrub, as poor mother always did. 'Sometimes I wish.' could have sprang all the way from a baby to a man. It's such slow work growing up, and it was while mother was waiting for us to grow up that she worked so hard. • "But, my deer boy, you can't expect to be sou and daughter and. daughter and mother, all in one. You can not do the work for the whole family ?" "Yes, I can • it isn't much, and I'm go- ing to do it and the work my father left un- done. I'm going to pay Deacon Ball that mortgage, if I live." "Heaven grant you may," I said, fervent- ly, under my breath, "for not many mothers have such a son." " Mother does not know I mean to do it, and she is very anxious I should, go to school and I mean to go some time; but I know where the boys in my class are studying, and I get the lessons at home. Mother eads them to me out of the book, while I am washing the dishes or doing her work, on through the sweet New England roads, with Monadnock rising before us ever near- er and more Inajestic. It impressed me with a sense of its rugged strength—one of the hills "rook -ribbed and ancient as the sun"; but I aelancecl from the mountain to the little redheaded morsel of humanity at my side, with a sort of recognition of their kinship. Somehow they seemed to belong together. ' I felt as if the same sturdy stuff was in them both. It was only a fancy, but it was so confirmed the next day;.for when I came back to town after seeing my invalid friend ',went to call on Deacon Ball. I found the deacon white-haired and kindly -faced. Be kept the village store and owned a pretty house, and was very "well- to-do." Naturally we talked of Johnny, and the deacon said to me, with tears in his watery blue eyes: "Why, bless your heart, sir, you don't think I'm going to take his money, do you? The only son of his mother, and she a wiel- der, and all tied up into double bow -knots with the rheumatics besides! True enough, I let the father ha-ve the money, and my wife, she says, says she to me, Well, dea- con, my dear, we've neither chick nor child, and we shall be just as well off a hundred years hence if the widder never pays a cent; but cording to my calklation it's better to let the boy think he's paying.' Says she to me 'Deacon, you might as well try to keep a barrel of vinegar from working as to keep that boy. It's the mother in him, and it's got to work.' We think a good deal of the widcler, Mandy and me. I did, before I ever saw Mandy; but for all that, we hold the mortgage, and Johnny wants to work it out. Mandy and me, we are agoin' to let him work." I turned away, for I was to sup at John- ny's house; but befere I went I asked the deacon how much Johnny had already paid. "Well, I don't know; Mandy knotys, pass it to her, and she keeps the book. Drop in before you go to the train, and I'll show (1o. I really felt as if I ought to commence it to you." at once, and yet 1 could not think of any- I dropped in and the deacon showed me thing I could do." :the account. It was the book of a savings " Well, what did you do ?" I asked, bank of a neighboring town, and on its quickly, for I was afraid he would stop, and Pages were credits of all the little sums the I wanted to hear the rest. , boy hail earned or paid ;and I saw they Welt, at first I did very funny thinwere ateadia to Widow Beebe's name. I for a boy. My mother used to knit socks to seta and • he sewed the rags to make rag carpet, and—I helped." How ? at hat could you do ?" "Well, the people who would like a car- pet could not always get time to make it. So I went from house to house among the farmers, and took home their rags, old coats, and everything they had, and out in the woodshed I ripped and out them up. Thenanother sewed them, and sometimes I sewed some, too, 8,nd then I rolled them lute bells and tookthem beak to the oWners, all ready to be woven into carpets." "But did that pay you for your work ?" "Oh, yes; we got so much a pound, and I used to feel quite like a merchant, When I weighed thein out myself with one of our steel yards. But that was only one way; we have two or three olcl apple trees otttin the back yard by the wall, and we dried the apples and sold them. Then some of the farmers who had a good many apples began to send thein to us to dry, and we paid them so many pounds all dried, and then had ail the rest t� sell)/ " But surety you coeal toe do 0111011 in ways like this V' No, not much, but something ; a,ncl then we hadthe knitting," "Did you knit ?" "Sot at first, but after a while Mother began to have the rheumatism in her hands, and the joints became swollen and the fingers tsvisted, and it hurt her to move them. Then I learned to knit ; before that 1 always woenci the yarn for her, I had to grasped the deacon's hand. He was look- ing away over the house -tops to where Mon- adnock • was sniffing under the good -night kisses of the sun. "Good-bye, sir, good-bye!" he said, re- turning tny squeeze with interest. "Much obleeged, I'm sure, Mandy and me too; but detat you be worried about Johnny When we see it we know the real stuff it takes to make a man—and Johnny has got it; Johnny's like the mountain over ther— chuck full of grit and lots .of back bone." The Death of Sobiller, .111W. 5. SURILW503. Slowly, slowly Sinks the dity•star 'Neath the waves of purpling light, tike a holy freighted vessel Fading palely from Our sight. As the Waters that between us Vise in long red lines and screen 118, Lo yon moon, in veil of crimson Mounts the orient even' sky; Sadly from her inmerial throne Weeps her waning destiny lier lonely dirp across the sky— Must every living creature die I "Raise my head," cried dying Schiller, • "Let me see the totting elm ; re tO.ntorrOw," cried the poet, And life's journey will be run. " Now turn me to the moon,_" he cried, And Westing all around, he died. An elderly Boston man, who Was ihatICCCI to try the tebaggan slide and is laid up with a broken leg in consequence, wrote to Sam James the other day : "Go for tobog in your next sermon, He just awful 1" HEALTH. Porn as Feed for Wu.. The time was when corn bread was the rhaiiple food for the afflabiteets of thie sec - tea ef the world. Wheat breed was rare. The (awn product, hogs, whiskey, eto., woes almost the only article of greet value in thie ectioa of the eountry at that dine, people Om were raised 011 this on bread, eto., have never lost their taste for it. Those mato were beys during this corn period, and awe pawn up to prosperity or otherwise, have never forgotten its taste. Of this class are the older people of the present time, and among. them we and the ooru bread made ni the same old way as a part of their food once or Wale a week, if not once or twiee day. And then there is the fried aickled pork which goes with it and. grati- fies the Appetite long ago formed. As the country grew more prosperous, subsequent to the uuiversal corn period of which we speak, wheat bread came into very general use, and even now Among the younger peo- ple there are many who know little, if any. thing, of the taste of corn bread, though some of the other corn produots are not en- tirely neglected. For many years past corn goods have been neglected, and it is only within the recant past thet changes have been made in this direction. The new pro- cesses of corn milling have had something to do with it. The corn prodnets are more In- viting, they are of a better quality than be- fore. Men of business push are behind the corn mills of the present time, and they are taking measures to educate the general publ ha taste favorable to corn foods, and the possibilities are strongly in their favor, for the reason that in corn food we find a meri- torious product which has only to be pushed , to find a more general recoguition. t1Te no- tice an advertisement of a oorn product of oue of the largest establishments of its kind in this country, though as the advertisement reads no one would suspect that the food.. was a corn product, it being disguised under another name. It is stated that it is more digestible than buckwheat when made into cakes as a hundred is greater than thirty- seven, and by an exact analysis its true food value is greater than buckwheat as a hula dred is than thirty-four. There can be no doubt that the public at large is not fully conversant with the possibilities of corn foods. The dishes that may be prepared from its various forms are a muoh greater variety than from the products of wheat, and because of the merit that there is in corn foods, we may expect to see and know of its rapid progress in the favor of the in- habitants of this and other civilized nations. Iauty be allowed and enj )3704 ; IA 9144 ex- haustion, relative and in some wee 'abaolute Yrevention or Diphtheria. Diphtheria is a dreadful disease at any time, especially does it become so when it breaks out in a family of children or in a school. It is both dangerous and contagious. The germs are easily carried in clothes, from one person to another. Probably the best disinfectant is sulphur. Besides pre- venting the spread of diphtheria, sulphur has a salutary effect on those already afflict- ed. Great care should be taken in schools. No children should be allowed to attend from families where the disease already exists. The schoolroom should be thorough- ly fumigated every day after school hours. In families where there are two or three afflicted at the same time, they should be isolated and confined in one bed room, and all the children not afflicted should remain in a secluded room or, if feasible, should be removed entirely from the the house. In any case every room in the house should be fumigated with sulphur two or three times daily. An easy way of fumigating is to drop a pinch of sulphur on a hot stove, or if a stove is lacking, a few coals on a shovel will answer the purpose. A little experi- ence will determine the amount of sulphur needed for each room. It is not necessary to fill the room to suffocation. If the fume is offensive the windows can be raised for a minute or two. There are other useful disinfectants, but sulphur is as good as the most expensive. We breathe freely its fumes and our clothes become saturated with them. Families having fear for their children would do well to fumigate daily. This will often prevent outbreaks of diphtheria, in families who would otherwise suffer. In any event the use ot sulphur can do no harm. Tight Lacing, Mr, Richard A. Proctor, the well known lecturer on astronomy, once tried the ex- periment of wearing a corset, and thus de- scribes the result : "When the subject of corset wearing was under discussion in the pages of the English Mechanic, I was struck," he says, "with the apparent Nveight of evidence in favor of tight -lacing. I was in particular struck by the evidence of some as to its use in reducing corpulence. I was corpulent. I also was disposed, as.' am still, to take an interest in scientific ex- periment. I thought I woula give this mat- ter a fair trial. , I read all the instructions, carefully followed them, and varied the time of applying pressure with that 'per- fectly stiff buelt- ' about which correspon- dents were so enthusiastic. I was foolish enough to try the thing for a matter of four weeks. Then I laughed at myself as a hope- less idiot, and determined to give up the at- tempt to reduce by artificial means that su- perabundance of fat on whieh only starva- tion and much exercise, or the air of Anteri- ea, has ever had any real reducing influ- ences. But I was reckoning without my host. As the Chinese lady auffers 1 ani told, when her feeb-bindings are taken off, and as the flat -head baby howls when his head -boards are removed, so for awhile was it with me. I found myself manifestly bet- ter in stays. I laughed at myself no longer. I was too angry with myself to laugh. I would 118 80011 have condemned myself to us- ing crutches all the time, as to wearing al- ways a busk. But, for my own month of folly I had to endure three months of dis- comfort. At the end of about sthat time I was my own man again. Health Notes. rest is demanded or ord aseive exercise for a shorter or longer time, as may be ae- eording to special peculiarities of the indi- vidual. In cases of undue sweating of the feet, ac- companied by soreness atal whitening of the skin of the sole, a cure may be readily ef- fected by the application, once a day, of equal parts of citrine ointinent and ung, aq, roue. The feet should be bathed fre- quently. A growing inability to sleep in sickness is orninots of a fetal result; in apparent health it indicates the failure of the mind and mad- ness • so on the other hand, hi clieetuse or dementia, a very slight improvement in the sleeping should be hailed as the harbinger of testoration. A had breath may be cured as follows, no matter what the cause : Three hours after breakfast it teaspoonful of the following mixture : Chlorate of potash; tvve drachms ; sweetened water, four otemee ; wash the mouth occasionally with the mixture, and the breath will be as t wed, as an intent's. . ..1m,ryworim11«abeisarruPATraufte.onr.exl In cerettai exhaus hoe, active mesetuar exercise iti reasonable °meant and variety This' story aateGI'bto°1(4111•byt°arYT4orouto deotor about an epooll in his very early .cereer, when he was c011eotiug bills foe a subsciapton book publication firm, emae where in the interior of the Province, and stopped to lodge iu a housea where the only sleeping -place that could be provided for him was in, the room with a eerpse, He hecl been indiscreet tmough in engaging his lodging to thew his roll of bills. He heard suspicious move- ments alma the house in the night ; the entrance of some wee by a back door and a whispered consultation somewhere. His °audio had been taken out after he had got to bed, Presently there was a hoarse whisper from some one in the centre of the room where tee corpse was laia out— " Come here . His blood froze in his veins "Come here 1" the whisper repeated. Obey- ing an irresisistible impulse, he ost, trembling, to the side of the dead, corpse was sitting bolt upright upon the table where it had been laid. "Look out 1" said. the corpse; " they are after your money, and may murder you—they're cap- able of it." The young maat took up a post by the window, Waal couldn't be opened, however. But he stayed there, and by- and-by, when some one crept steelthily into the room, ami he heard the ghastly Inn in of a knife into the bed clothes where he la lain, he teemed through the window, and took the sash with him as he went out. As the doctor began to tell his story, the wood fire on the hearth, which had been blazing brightly, flickered and burned low, as if cold, damp blasts had been blown over it. When he described the rasping accent with which the dead men uttered his call, "Come here !" the fire suddenly went out, leavin only the glimmermg fringe of light 1110011 the edges of the lighted sticks. A. current of colcl rain come from some unknown quarter just as this moment. The "condi- tions were favourable" for the narrative. When it was over there were any number of questions. Was the dead man really alive? Did he revive for the moment only and sink back into unequivocal death when he had delivered his warning? Of course the doctor, who had not remained to dis- cover the secret of the thing, could not answer these questions, FARM. WREN TO SOW GP,Ass SBED„' Some farmers sow their ernes see& on the snow, trusting to the even distribution thereof by the downward tendency of water end the use of the farm roller for covering after the frost has floished upaeeviog the soil, seta the Philadelphia Record, but it is cloabefel if the preettee of slowing clover and othergrass seeds so early in the season is the proper mode. Although such seeds do not easily lose vitality, yet there is damage done by. the oola, and the Iniegry birds 40 not mass the opportunity to take their sham while the proper "catch" largely depends upon the conclitioa of the soil. It has been demonstrated shat when the harrow is used over the growing wheat early in t4e spring the result is beneficial, and it is when the wheat is harrowed that the grass seed should be sown, if grass is to fol- low a grain crop. It is important that the seeds be covered, and if the field be harrow, ed there will be less loss of seed and greater chances for a good stand. As an application of nitrate of soda, on wheat in the spring pushes it forward very rapidly it soon reach- es sufficient height to shield the young clo- ver from the extreme heat of the sun, while the clover will at the same time melee eta - dent growth better to endure the warm weather. The harrow may also be usefully employed to mix the fertilizer with the soil at the eame time. The ground upon which the seed is to be sown deserves more attention than the grain crop, the grass seed or the mode of cultiva- tion, for if the grass crop he intended es a permanent pasturage it must not be over- looked that weeds will spring up to compete with the grass, and for that reason the ground must be very clean. It is best, theiefore'that the wheat crop to be grown should be on laud that was previously in corn, as the extra cultivation required for corn better prepares the land not only for wheat but for the grass which is to follow. If, after the corn crop is off, the land is put in rye, which may be plowed under in the spring, and millet or buckwheat sown and plowed under when green, and wheat sown in the fall following, the ground should be iu a very clean condition, and fitted for any crop. The Lunatic. During one of his visits to Paris, Baron me von Huboldt expressed to his friend Dr. Blanche, the distinguished authority in matters concerning insanity, a desire to meet one of his patients. "Nothing easier," said Dr. Blanche I "wine and take dinner with me to -morrow." The next day Hum- boldt found himself seated at the dinner - table of the famous alienist in compauy with two unknown guests. One of them, who was dressed in black, with white cra- vat, gold -rimmed spectacles, aud who had a smooth face and very bald head, sat with great gravity through the entire dinner. He was evidently a gentleman of uncloubt. ed manners, but very taciturn. He bowed ate, and said not a word. The other guest, on the opntrary, wore a great shock of hair brushed wildly into the air; his shabby blue coat was buttoned askew, his collar was rumpled, and the ends of hie cravat floated over his shoulders. He helped himself, ate, and chatted at the same time. Story after teary did this incoherent person pile up. He mixed the past with the present, flew from Swedenbrog to Fourier' - from Cleopa- tra to Jenny Lind, from Archimedes to Lamartine, and talked politics and litera- ture in the same breath. At the dessert Humboldt leaned over and whisperd in his host's ear, glancing at the same time at the fantastic personage, whose discourse was still ruining on, I am very much obliged to you. Your maniac has greatly amused me. "My; maniac ?" said the doctor, starting back. Why that isn't the lunatic! It's the other one." "What—the one who hasn't said a word ?" "Certainly." "But who in the world can the man be who has - talked. in this fashon all the while ?" asked the Baron. "That is Balzac, the famous novelist." How Strong the French Army Is, If General Boulanger has his way ten new cavalry regiments will be created, not for of- fensive purposes, as the authorities are anxious to assure us, but for the simple rea- son that the Germans are numerically stronger in this arm than the French. On the other hand, the artillery will be left in stain quo. It is considered that this branch of the service needs no improvement nor ad- dition, and we are told that it is superior in every way to the German artillesy. Cer- tainly, the artillery is the favorite arm in France. The regular army is composed of 19 corps, including the one in Algeria.. In time of war these 19 corps could be raised to 28, without infringing on what are called the second and third lines, to wit, the ter- ritorial army, which comprises 145 regi- ments of infantry, 13 regiments of.artillery, 144 squadrons of cavalry and. the reserves of the regular and territorial armies. Each of these 28 corps.would consiet of about 38,000 men. But General Boulanger contemplates reducing them in war time to 22. These 22 army corps m ould contain 5 infantry bri- gades instead of 4, and would each number 44,000 men. Thus the first line would coin; promise nearly 1,000,000 regular troops, the second line or territorial army an equal num-- ber of men, and it is estimated that in a fortnight after the declaration of war these 2,000,000 woitld be mobilized and available for any operations. A Faithful Servant. In one of the backwoods settlements in the province of Ontario, some years ago, the people had no minister, but at last doticlud- ed to try andgetone. Oneman by the name of Dorr, strongly opposed the scheme, till at meetitig that was held, when Dear Was bit. terly opposing the wishes of the people, a half witted fellow arose and intimated that he would like to telt a dream he had. He dreamed that he died and had gone to the lower regions mid when his Satanic Majesty saw him, he asked: "Where from I" I replied, "from Lye Ontario. Oh, and what are they doingthere ?" "They ere tying to get a minister." "Get a minister ?" says Satan. " Then ; get me my boots and hat. I must go to Lye at once and stop this." I then told him that it man by the name of Dorr was strongly opposhig the people in their encleavotirs. Ha," he said, "that alters the ease ; tny servant Dort, my Servant Dorr. Take be& my boots and hat, If my servant Derr is attending to my intereste there is 110 inle of iny going to Lye." It is needless to say the rminiater was itp- ' t d MAKING GOOD MILKERS. No matter what breed you have, says a writer in the Practical Fanner, something further is necessary in order to reach the best success in raising good milkers. Good blood, whether Shorthorn, Jersey, Devon, Aryshire, grade, or native is not everything, but lies at the foundation. Something can- not come from nothing. Treatment in rais- ing a milker should be something different from that in raising a beef animal or au ani- mal for labor. Begin as soon as the calf is a day old; see that it has sufficient to eat and is kindly treated and regularly attended to. Never pamper or overfeed, but give it good, generous food, to cause a regular, early and steady growth. Accustom it to be handled, but not to such an extent as to acquire objectionable habits as a cow, but rather to be fond of the presence of the keep- er. Kindness helps to create a quiet dis- position so importaut in the dairy cow, and this education must begin when the calf is young. Any habits acquired when young are apt to clingeto the cow when grown. For a milker I would have the heifer come in at two years old. She is then old enough to become a cow. I would not, as it rule, allow her to go farrow, but milk her up to within a few weeks of calving, even if I did not obtain but little at a milking. A cow thus trained will give more milk and be more likely to hold out long in milk if her after care is judicious ana liberal, as it should be. Such treatment tends to form the ha • bit of giving milk, and, as we know, habit is a sort of second nature. Couple the heifer with an older bull—one, two or three years older than she is preferable to a yearling—and better stock is likely to come from such. After the heifer has come in her feed should be regular and liberal. Good clover hay is the best of all, but we all may not have this for stall feed; then we must make up for what is lacking in some concentrated food, such as oatmeal, shorts, oilmeal or the like, but great care and good judgment must be used not to overfeed. LIGHT AND HEAVY HAY. In the various rules for estimating the amount of hay in bulk not enough difference is allowed for the variation in weight de- pending on the condition when mired, the exposure to rains and othei causes. The same sorts will have much ess weight in proportion to bulk after being dried out by a cold winter. Hay that has been bleached by long exposure to rains will always be light in weight, and be proportionately less valuable than even its weight would indi- cate. The soluble juices svinch give hay its greatest value have been washed out by rains, leaving an undue proportion of woody fiber. There is, besides, a considerable variation in the original constituents of grass and hay, depeuchng on the character of the soil ou which it is grown. Farmers on wet, mucky and over owed land com- plain that their large crops of hay do nob peat out well when brought to the weighing scales. Timothy grown on such son has coarse, hollow stems, with smaller propor- tion of leaves. Such soils are often deficient in mineral fertilizers, and a dressing of phos- phate when the land is seeded makes the crop better and the hay richer and heavier. Still this coarse hay is salable and does not exhaust the soil as does hay grown or. upland. This may be one reason why the bulk of hay sold is grown on low, mucky and overflowed lands. STORING HAY WITH STRAW. Where the hay is put up rather green it may be saved in good condition for feeding by mixing with straw. The surplus mois- ture of the grass is absorbed, and with it much of the aroma which gives good hay its delicate flavor. It can hardly be said that the nutritive value of the straw has been made equal to hay by this pneeess, for its constituents have not been °hanged. Bet in making straw more palatable there is a decided gain in its nutritive value, as what- ever is eaten with a relish is digested so much better than that vehioh is not. If strew a,nd hay are to be stored together next Slimmers the grave must be saved in good condition now. Many farmers who well know the benefit from this practiee scarcely ever try it, for the reason that at haying time the old straw is all gone, and that from the new grain crop is not yet threshed. A curious habit of deer is that of eating bones. If a dead deer is left on it hill, when birds and insects have eaten its flesh, its hones will often be consumed by its own re- lations. Deer will also eat hortis that have been shed. The rinktum hem vanished, the skatuni has fled ; the rolltun is banished, the wheel um is dead. Tobog is the daisy that now rules the day I let's tobog till we're crazy, ri.tu. ra•li-lay LATE DOMINION NDWO. There are coinplainte Of gatablIng at Trot- , . - tonbam. Brockville drainage end frontage by-laws hew been defeeted. The Salvation Army in Wionipea is over five hundred stroug, Joseph Dupree, of Quebec, 87 years of age, is alleged to be the oldest printer in Cenede. ^ .A young man was foued at St. Thomas the other morning with Itie oheek frozen to a lamp post. Recently a cow belonging te Mn John O'Day, of Brookliu, reached home with four -pronged fork sticking in its side. Arthur Pinot, the Toronto Postoffice clerk oonvicted of stealiag registered letters, maie sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. The Edmonton Bulletin anjouees that the Indians on the Peace River 4e suffering terribly and that there have b en is great number of deaths. It is estimated that during October and November 150 persons died of measles at Lesser Slave Lake, Whitefish and Sturgeon Lake settlements in the Northwest. Archbishopltbe, of Montreal, has issued another circular to the clergy of his diocese calling upon them to forbid their parishon- era holding or taking part in political meet. lugs on Sundays. A cigar firm at St. John, N. B., offered a cane to the gentleman who in two menthe should smoke the greatest number of their cigars. The successful contestant smoked 245 weeds within the period named. It is understood that the Government have decided to refuse permission to the Queen's Own Rifles, of Toronto, and the Royal Scots' of Montreal, to visit England to take partin the Queen's Jubilee celebra- tion. Big Bear and three fellow -prisoners who were recently released from the penitentiary have arrived at their homes. One of the number, who spoke Euglish, says that Big Bear has determined to lead a peneeful life in the future, and would counsel his tribe to remain quietly on their reserve. Great progress is being made in the de- velopment of the anthracite coal mines at Banff Hot Springs, N. W. T. A tunnel twelve feet wale and seven feet deep has been driven 225 feet into the mountain, and about one hundred men are kept at work night and day. A new town, appropriately named Anthracite, has been laid out at the mines. John Langan, 21 years of age, was ac- cidentally shot dead by a revolver, in the hands of a comrade named Henry Patterson at St. John, N. R, last week. The ball entered his right eye and death followed al- most instantly. Langan owned the revolver and handed it to Patterson to look at. Be- fore handing it to him he warned him to be careful, but the warning was unheeded. The next instant it was discharged, and Langan fell. An. Indian was arrested recently for maim- hig an ox on one of tbe resetves. It turned out a day or two afterteardethat they had the wrong man, although theadescription of the clothing worn by the prisoner exactly corre- sponded with that which the real offender wore when he left the reserve. When the mistake was discovered and the .prisoner of- fered his liberty he admitted that he was wearing the clothing of the man who was_ a wanted, but did not want his liberty, as h.I was well fed and quite comfortable in the guard-romn. . The other morning a sad accident occurr- ed to Mr. David Graham, one of Arran's • earliest settlers, itnel waich resulted in his death. Ile and his sem, nt out in the morn- • of ing to attend to the at end the old gentle- man proceeded to asce d an almost perpen- dicular ladder for the purpose of getting some feed for the sheep, and when about to step from the ladder to the scaffold he took a dizziness, to which he was subject, and fell backwards, lighting on it pole aud stake which were driven in the ground, fracturing both his shoulders and three ribs. He died a few hours afterward. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Nickerson, of Snag harbor, N. 8.1 aged respectively 87 and 83, live with their only son'Mr. Theodore Nick- erson, and across the street directly opposite lives his only son Mr. Charles Nickerson, who has an only son named Alderbert. This lad takes a meal daily with his grandfather and grandmother, great-grandfather and two great-grandinothers, as Mrs. Theodore Nickerson's mother is living with them, aged 84. As the six sit around the table their united ages are 377, and the lad is only 12 years. Only a few yawls from their door is his great -great-uncle, Mr. Nehemiah Nickerson, aged 83 years, living with his only son who has an only daughter 8,nd an only child A Great Slave -Hunting Region. The country between the Zambesi river and the lake regions of central Africa, is, , one of the great slave -hunting grounds of ' • that clark continent. An English traveler, , who recently journeyed through the coun- try says that every village shows the familiar sight of the slave in the yoke awating the departure of a caravan. This yoke is made from the forked branches of a tree ' • about five or six feet long—some are muchlonger and from three to four inches in diameter at the thiekest peat. Through each prong ' of the fork a hole is bored for the reception of an iron pin. This ready, a soft, fibrous bark, is wrapped round until the whole forms a thick collar of bark, making a sort of pad much rougher than a horse's eollar. It is often allowed to remain upon a slave for nine months or a'W y.ea, aatight and day, without being once t ' :en oil'. hen ti, ' /3 caravan is ready to •st re the men are coup. led by the yoke being 'lashed so as to form a rigid pole, binding the pair from neck to neck together. With loads on their heaths, they then turn their faces to the eastwatal and leave their homes forever. • But one Reason. Popinjay, to Augusta—" You say her fathertkicked you out of the house. Ws that the only reason for your leaving ?" ., Augustus—" Yes, father ; that was t sole reason.' e. Epernay, Marne, is it vaet subterraneW "city of champagne," For miles and mil§fr there are streets hewn out of solid chalk,' flanked with bottles of champagne of tffie, blends and qualities. Thel'e is no light •fli this labyrinth of streets, crossings, al4 turnings except what the spluttering caner dies affora, All is dark, dank, and dal*, with the temperature away down abottfla zero. The largest champagne in masfactureief 111 Epernay heave underground cellars which cover forty-five acres and cootain five 01111104i bottles of witte. There is a, whole street or Eaernay lined with fine chateaux, the prda, prietors of which possess similar establishta recut& The whole town is noneycc e with these mielergrouncl galleries for Manufacture and storage of champagne. r' '10