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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-6-20, Page 7YOUNG FOLIC8. THE KNOT u BLUE RIBBON. (CoNT/NUED ) It would have eraprised any of "fighting Jun" acquaintances, if tiny could have known how quietly he had hetened to the foregoing conversation. But it Was a greater emptier) to himself, He had hated the eui jun; at temperance and everyone in terested in iv. There wan hardly person courageous enough to mention it before him, for he felt; that his rights were being interfered with and geuerally replied by hurling a oho,ir or brick et that speaker's head, online he felt perticularly amiable ; then he otnly slammed the door and strode off muttering curses upon "folks who couldn't the pleadieg eyes, and he could hear again the tremulous vein as it said : "Will you wear it, papa? It helps folks," How much t helped, none ever kuew save him who suffered a much benuse he seeeepted it so late. Afl thie happened years ago. Now mile would look in vain for the forlorn, tumble- dewn houee. Yoe would look in vain, too, for the neglected, friendless children, who felt thee among all the ioviog, sympathetic hearth with whith the world is filled, there was nob one to ore how great their portion of Borrow was. Instead there is a nem, enug cottage, kept in sorupoloue order. In calm mer there are well kept iimenbeds. Vino climb up and ramble over the veranda; then, keeping firm hold of tbe roof, reach down and look cautiously in at the windows to watch the inmates. Sometimes they hear Alice or Julia telling of what has happened mind their own businese," So people had at school, a few blocks away, where they gotten into the luebit of letting him alone, both teach, at which the others laugh, Oar Now Jo had nob only listened, bat some thing line retnoree had pierced his dulled conscience, as he thought of his aevful degradation and the Buffering his family had endured in cone; mance ; though th et counted as naught, compared with the tears this ehild had shed through fear of him when abusing oti e .s. Yet the loyal little heart had never wavered in its love for him. ,To knew 'twas love that shut Charlien mouth when speaking of the scattered flowers, and °emceed the hesitation as he talked of the ribbon. How careful his child was of a reputation so sullied by his own evil doing " What if he should die?' was the agonizing ory of Jo'a soul, as he buried his lace in his hancie. "Papa l" The call though faint was suf. &lent Jo brushed the tears away and, go. Ing in, sat down by Charlie's cot, asking as he did so; , "How do you feel now ? ' " A little better,„ papa." This was in- variably Charlie's answer, given with a sweet amine, whatever his condition. But the hard breathing and fasb throbbling pulse told too plainly a, different story. "She's a nice lady; see what she gave me, pipe," continued the little voioe, as the trembling hand held up the blue ribbon, "Yes," said Jo. t "Now' don't you think you oughb to go to sleep ? ' making haste to ohange the subjeob, in his uneasineas at being brought so near a temperance badge. "I can't go to sleep." There wen silence for a momenb, then, stretching out his hand again, Charlie asked: Wouldn't you wear thie, papa?' , "0 no, %wouldn't look good on my old coat. Such things are for women and little boys like you," said Jo hastily. "Bat, papa, she said it would -would - help lolka-be good." There was great earnestness in the awed blue oyes, as the quivering lip3 gave utterance to this brok- en speech. Jo moved uneasily in his chair and gaye a quick look around. He would not hale the others, who had been braught by ill usage into a state of abject fear of him, witness his discomfiture; for his desire to switch and hurl the ribbon into the fire was overcome by his fear of hurting the sick child. But the other ohildren were sleep- ing and Mrs. Cummings was with his wite ; so Jo said, soothingly : "There, there, don't you bother. 3/ our old fethee ennt worth a tear from your trete ty 'ery4es." Tears rushed into them for all that, sul ran down onto the pillow as Charlie gath- ered into his band the token he had believed would do so much; now, alas I rejected. If Jo could have known the keen disappoint- ment canoed by his waiver, if he could have foreseen the bitter anguish the memory, of that answer would cause him through many succeeding years, how different it all might have been. • ' As the days passed, the older children steadily improved, first one, then another being able to sit bolstered up, while partak- ingof, some appet:zing disk prepared by their ever watchful attendants, who were no longer looked upon with distrust, so easily does human nature yield to kindness. Even Nettie, who had felt more keenly than the other e the humiliation of having one like Elden know to what depths of poverty and dietrees they had zunk, coulkl find nothing nponwhioh to hinge an objection. Whether • washing aishes, sweeping, or aoting in cape. • city of rurse, Helen bore equally well the • test to which she was subjected, by the • viligant eyes of those who felt her coming an introsion. Bat abwas by her tender care • of Charlie that their hearta were won ; noting with what solicitude she strove to relieve his sufferings, as day by day his breathing grew more labored and his strength waned, though the baby voice ant an- swered, cheerfully : " I'm a little better, now." Nebtie was surprised at the change in her own feelings, but more so at the change in her father, for never once during' all these anxious days did he go to the grog shop. Hi n devotion to Charlie was expected, but when he went so far art to seem interested in the others, and actually entered his wife's room one day and sab by her for an hour, •even talking kindly to that patient, long suf. fering woman Nettie felt that the miracle needed for his reform was indeed being wrought. Finally the time came when the doctor •shook his head and said: "We on do no more, he will soon be at rest." And in a few hours the white lids had forever closed over the sweet blue eyes, and Charlie was not only "a little better," but entirely healed by the loving hand of him who so long ago call- ed and blessed little children. They found the ribbon closely held in one of the waxen hands, At sight of it the Wretched father's teem burst forth atreah. "Ho wanted me to wear ib; he thought 'bwould make me better; and I told him no, Oh, I didn't mean to herb him, I didn't mean to," sobbed Jo in agony of remorse. "He was an angel and I broke his hearb -- what's the good of being sorry when its too late ?" he fiercely asked. "It isnot too late," said Mrs. Cummings, gently: "There is joy among the angels °one one repentant nun" • "Da you think he could know ?" asked JO; with sudden interest. "I am sure of 111 See; it is as though he was holding down from heaven this badge to you," said. Mrs. Cummings, touching the ribbon. "You will not refuse it the eecond time ?" , • "You think he would know, and be glad?" asked Jo, hesitating. "I do, because ample are made happy when wanderers return," was the confident reply. "Then, by the help of tlao Lent, I'll do it! I will give up the acclaimed stuff I" geld So, vibh great decision. "And he will help you, titmice be unto his holy name," responded Mrs, dummies, reverently, as she drew from the closed fin - era the ribbon. "Not all, not all," cried Jo, checking her. t 'Let hint keep part and I •sh .11 feel as though he was loading me," • SO they laid Helen's 'nibble reortilt" away, holding faet to hie part] of the badge, "What Weld it have meant 'I" milted those vehe maw 11 111 the tiny nand. It meattt to jo e strong bond -which should reunite him to hie beby boy, He carried ha part care fully folded In eoft white paper, and when he looked at Ite he eleo Saw the dear face, Nettle, who Is housekeeper, relates 801110 ex perience she has had. Sometimes tbe door opens and a young lady enters, whom the family cordially greet. We recognize her as the Helen of other yeare. Between herself and Nettie a luting friend- ship exists, neither one of them knowing ex actly how it nine about '• cnly thab vehert the sad days were over and both Mrs. Jones and Charlie were gone, they felt that they needed each other. All is not joyous that the vines see and hear as they peer in•'for eometimes they see the father bow his head, tears gathering in his eyes, and hear him say, "Oh, if my wife and boy oould have lived to see this happy day." "How wonderful it ia," Nettie says to heroin as she compares the present with the wretched past. And ye e it all came about very simply, only a. young girl seek - bee something to do for the Master, little thinkinghe would, through her, lead a stricken family up into the light. But the work stood waiting, and, one undertaken, Helen Hardy never stopped to ask if, it fitted her. She did, in a loving, earnest way, the duty that came first, and so the question which troubled her, "What wilt thou heve me to do," was answered. „ (THE END.] DIED OF GRIEF - A 'Circus. liorse tett- Behind the Caraean -Expires of a Broken Heart. "THE cur O TRE GAN." The Worship :tad Wealth el Me Holy River el India. During the past three weeks I have tra Med 600 mien arouud the holy Ganges Rn ver, and the click of my type -writer now falls upon the air in unieon with the prayers ad the eplashing of the • thousands of pia grime who are bathing baits waters. Benares is the bienn. Cf the Hindoos and the Ganges is to the Iaclian more then the Jordan is to ehe Christian. Oe the top of a house -boat, with six rod turbaned, black faoed and bare -legged row- ers. I slowly drifted past the bathing ghats this 'lemming, The sun was just rising, and over the fields of green extending for miles away on the left of the river it rays emu to gild the brass j srs which each pilgrim carried, If the Hindoo in minute of prayer utters the name of this river within 100 miles of Ito banks the act atonea for the sine of three prev-ion lives, and if he has his head shaved at the point nvitich lies two hours' ride by train from where I am now writing, and the heirs fall into the stream, for every hair that fbate away he will have 1,000,000 years in Paradise. This place is at Allahabed, where the river jumma flawa into the Gengee, and here at certain times of the year thonands of Hindoos may be seen on the banks of the river holding their heads above the water and allowing barbers to shave them, as ib were, ,into heeven. nAT8IUG IN THE GANGES. The °Motional life•of the horse is remark- able. There are instances on record where the death of the horse has been traced di- rectly to grief. One instance is called to mind which occurred more than twenty years ago.. A circus had been performing In the little town of Unionville, Pa., when one of the trained horses sprained one of his legs so that he could not travel. He was taken to the hotel and put in a box stall. Ile leg was bandaged and he was made as comfortable as possible. He ate his food and was apparently contented until about midnight when the circus began moving out of town. Then he became resbless and tramped and whinied thc A....... Wined pelt the notel he And do the people really believe this? I enure you they do, and their belief is a practiced one, too. It is not a faith without works by any means. Just now the morn - Logs are cold, and the air is raw and pierc- ing. It is the duty of every one of these people to oome before their breakfasts and bathe in the Ganges. I found the • banks of the river filled with them this morning. The city lies close to the river, and for three miles along its banks are great temples, from the walls of which sto3e Et3ps lead down into the Ganges, going under the water and out into the bed of the stream. Etch of these temples has, perhaps, KO of these steps from its base to the water, and these three miles of molt steps were filled with werenippers. • All were Hindoos and none were olothed In anything but the thinnest of cottons. There were shrivelled old men and women wrapped around in the single ' breadth of dirty white cotton, standing up to their waists in water and holding their long, thin, bony arms upward while with chattering teeth they muttered prayers to the gods Siva and Vishnu. Now and then they ducked down into the water, and as they came up they guyed and looked colder than ever. There were plump girls whose nut -brown skins glistened as the water triokled down them, and whose bright eyes flashed a halt roguish glance at me between their prayers. As they raised their arms I noted that each had gold and silver bracelets upon them and some of the country maidens had bracelets one after another from the wrist to the elbow and from thence on to the shout - dere. Many wore great nose rings and as they threw beek their beetle I. 40141d see th h a ne that their ears, were nraiettited with many holes mil that exch hole contained a bit of gold or silver. Most of them, however, hid their faces and not a few were high caste Hindoo maidens. As they stepped out of the water their bare limbs shone under the sunlight and against the dark brown back -ground flashed heavy silver anklets. They did not bathe with the men and as a rule they huddled up in little groups by themselves. Mixed with this gaudy, splashing, sput- tering throng jest above the water were eguare benches covered with umbrellas as large as the top of a Summer -house, and under these eat wrinkled old priests with boxes of red paint beside them. Bich worshipper came to these priests as he finished his bath and the priest, dippieg his finger into the paint box, made one, two or three marks upon his forehead. These marks were to remain on until the next day's bathing and they were the signs of the gods. Among the bathers were peddlers of Ganges water. These carry the holy fluid in jars to villages far out in the country and each pilgrim who comes takes a load home to his relatives. The Ganges nob only male but she nour- ishes these plains. She is well called by the Hindoos "Mother Ganga." From her source in the Himalayas to her mouth in the By of Bengal ahe has a fall of more than two and one-half miles, and as a fertil izinghearer she surpasses any river on the face of the globe. Egypt is the gif t of the Nile. You could lose Egypt in these plains, which are the Gift of the Ganges. The mighty Nile, with its unlenown source, does not carry down as much water as this holy river of the Hindoos, and her maximum discharge at a distance of 400 miles from the sea, with meny of her tributaries yet to hear from, is one-third greater than that of the Miseissippi. Where the Ganges rises bursting forth from a Himalayan glacier it is twenty seven feet wide. It falls 3500 feet in the first ten miles of its comae and it has an average depth of thirty feet 500 miles from its mouth. Its delta is as wide as the, distance from New York to Washing ton, and hundreds of mouths run from thie width back in a sort of paralellogram for 200 miles more where they. unite. The water of the Bay of Bengal L discolored for milee by the mud brought down by the Ganges and the whole country is fertilized by it. The wateris the color and thickness of put soup and the silt or mud is so rich that these vast plains use no other ferbiliz Ir. The crops are harvested by pulling the stalk oub of the ground. No cows or horses are allowed to pasture in the fields and their droppinea are mixed with straw and mud and then dried and used as fuel. In this Ganges valley nature is always giving, but never getting. Every atom of natural. fertilizer, save this Grange silt, is taken from the soil. 5till the land is as rich se guano and it produces from two to four crops every year. &bout Cal. outta the alluvial deposit is 400 feet deep and a experiment waa lately made to get to the end of it. A Well was sunk, but at the diatom° of 481 feet the augur broke, At this point the end of this rich soil had not been reached. The amount of fertilizing material brought down by the Ganges has been lately esti. mated and scientific investigation allows that some distance above the point where it unites with the Brahmaputra ite yearly burden is the enormous amount of 355,000,000 tons. Daring the rainy treason the whole delta of the Genges is covered with water to the extent of about thirty feet. You see only the tops of trees and villages which are built upon the hills and the river further up the country ie diverted by male front its coarse to every part of these van plain. The beet of the wheat is irrigated and the water, being allowed to lie upon the land &elm thiri fertilizer and enriclies 11. All over India, or through the past which I have travelled, I see tido irrigation sten now going en, Itluch of it is done in the moat primitive way. Two half naked mon stand just abbve the rivet with a heeled and his anxiety and distrens beceme pitiful. He would stand eel h his ears pricked in an attitude of intense listening, and then as his ears caught the sounds of the retiring wagons he would rush, as ben he could with his injured leg, from one side of the stall to the other, pushing at the door with hie nose and making every effort to eacape The stableman, who as a stranger to hini, tried to soothe bim, but to no purpose. He would not be comforted. Long after all spun& of hn circus had ceased agitation continued. The sweat poured from him in streams and he quivered in every part of his body. Finally the stable man went to the house woke up the proprietor and told him he believed the horse would die if some of the circus horses were net brought back to keep him company. At about daylight the pro- prietor mounted a horse and redo after the circus. He overtook it ten or twelve miles away, and the groom who had charge of the hajimed horse returned with him. When th'ey reached the stable the horse was dead. The stableman said that he remained for nearly an hour perfectly still and with every sense apparently strained to the utmost tension, and then without making a sign, fell and died with scarcely a strug- gle. 1. Mormons in Canada- Be.cause more Mormon settlers are reported to be taking up some land in Alberta where a small colony of them already exists, some timorous critics are alarmed at future poasi- bilities. Mormons who come to Canadian territory will find that with our Government there is one law for all. A deputation of Mormons who visited °naive lastyear were given distinotly to understand that they oaten conform to the law in every way as other citiz ins do. There is no mieunder- etanding in the matter, and polygamy they know well, is illegal in Canadian soil. There Is this difftrence between the Mormons in Utah and in Alberta. The Utah settlement was formed when that par b of the American continent was a wilderness and the place was thought to be so remote from Christian communities that no interference need be apprehended. But thetnited States settled faster then these people supposed, and they had to reckon with the strong arm of authority. A few of them in coming to Canada understand perfectly well thab no polygamy will ever be tolerated here. Other- wise, as law-abiding and industrious chime, the Mormon settlers have nothing to fear. Do Not Sign Specious Centred& It would seem that the Bohemian oat swindle will never come to an end. In the Madison County, Ia, court, ten suits were lately decided in favor of the "Innocent purchasere" of the notes. The court held that the notes were given in consideration of a bond executed and deliveted, to the Maker of the notes, and aa such Were not gambling bontraots within the Meaning of the statutes. The court &mounded the or. ignalo transaotion as a fraud, and said that the notes as between the original parties would have been void, but having been sold to an innocent purchaser before maturity, were protected by the roles of commercial lew, and were collectable, dile Sapreme court has nob passed upon any of these cases, though there hey° been nations decision in tho lower courts ot thie and other statee. There id an eaey way nob to be taken in by trowelling frauds. Buy your goods of regular and well-known firms, who advertise their wares legitimately. But to long as the cupidity of ignorant meet existe-men who think themselves smarter than those whose busineee is fraudulent misrepresent- ation -we suppose that the courte will have plenty of lousiness to uhtangle the InesheS by which deceit lives and thrives. We have often adeised lamer' no to sign contracts with Men Who were not known to reipeot. able business; mat of the vielility whose pOttt eves anown to be good. hung bylong mein between them. This i basket s waternfght and by a 8.140giug motion they noel) it down ieto the river and lifb the water up into a canal loove, from whenee it rune eff into other canals over the fielde, Here at lienarea bullocks are largely used, The water is stored In great wells and it is drawn from them In skin bowls, eaoh of which holds about a bushel ef water. Tao bowl is a pig's skin kept open with a hoop of wood and to its top by four strings L faetened a rope. Tale rope rune over a rude pully eb the top of the well and ab a dist/twee of twenty feet from it is tied to the yoke of a bullock, which led by a men mine the bucket to the top of the well. Here it is pulled over into a trough. I am told that this mode of irrigation is faster and cheaper than any of the median methods employed arid I see it everywhere. This valley of the Ganges has more peo- ple than it can eapport, ani it is probably the most densely populated part of the world. The people live in villages, and the average country town °owlets of one story mud huts too poor and ill ventilated for Canadian pig pens. You would not think of having such outehouna as the reeidences of the mejority of this vast pepulation would make, and in a largo part of India, and especially in the best pert of this Ganges country, the hole' inge average from two to three acres apiece. At four to the family this represents a half aore per person, or over 1200 persons per square mile, When it is remembered that these people liva by agriculture, it will be nen that this condi- tion is fat worse then that of Crane or any parb of Europa. And atilt the people are bright. They are brainy, too, and you will find few sharper buelness men, better eat faces and more polite people than these people of Leah. FRANs G. CARPENTER. HOT -SHOT FOR AVGARIGLE. AGRIOULTIJRAL REMEDIES FOR CUT WORMS. ingeiries are being niastantly received for reniediee for out woven. The New York State Museum of Natural History have nub out a bulletin whieh contains muoh neeful information upon thia subjeon Tse Fenn and Horne Imo coudeneed this, and presented It to their readers in this drape Many farmers agree in recommending tbe application of salt, -about one tablespoonful sprinkled on the hill Of corn or other planted Props -as s remedy for cat worms, wire wenn, et. It is Bond that the dasaolved salt is taken up by the young root3 of the crop and that, though sett itself will not injure out worms, they will not oat young corn if there is a little salt in its sap. Soak - ng the seed oorn in a strong brine twenty, four hours btfore planting is aleo mentioned, and may be gait° as effectual as the applica- tion upon the ground. Another thinner sow- ed 250 pounds of ealt to the acre the day after the corn was planted on a fi del that was alive with halt grown out worms, and not a single hill was cub by the worms. Seeking corn or other seed in e solution of half a pound of oepperas in three or four pails of water is reported as efficacious. A weak solution of saltpeter poured about the roots of plaiets infested with out worms is very frequently mentioned, killingthe pests and at the same time furnishing 41 nitroge- nous fertilizir whichatdds to the thrift of the plants and enables them. to resistattarat. A pound of common white hellebore db. solved in forty or fifty quarto of water is a solution in which, if tobacco stra wbeny and other plants are dipped before being set °eh, will protect -them perfectly against cut worms. The tettimony en this point is quite egnolueive. On plants already set the powder may be sifted from a muslin bag or may be sown broadeast. Sand thoroughly moistened with kerosene oil and scatteaed about the plants to be, protected is another remedy. It ill claimed that where land is not allowed to lie in sod tor over two years at a time cut worms will,not accumulate in it. Planting more seed than is needed for maturity has frequently been found of ger- vice, but this 15 aot good policy, the relief obtamed being only temporary, for the nu- merous progeny of the worms' the extra plants help to mature may the following !meson eat up every bit of the crop. • The efficacy of late plowing in autumn or winter, infollowed by a hard fret z has been much rent/amended as certain destruction to cut worms. Lite plowing in the spring, just before a late planting, is advocated by some for !refuted sod land, upon the theory that the cub worms will have fed to maturity upon the sod, leaving the corn or other orops to spring up untouched and. with a more vigorous and healthfat groevtb, in the warm- er soil _and temperature of the advanced. season The Socialists Denounce the "Reedier," the Judge, and the State's Attorney. In their weeklyniecussion at Waverly hal yesterday the enialists referred to the re- turn of "our honored oitiz3n," W. J. Mc- Garigle, in sumac terma and also suggested tha; the Haymarket statue be pitched into the lake. In speaking of the exile's return Tommy Morgan mid: "Leek upon the pie ture of that repreaentative of law aud j estice, the judge who stopped the machinery of his court upon hearing that McGarigle wee aek- ing a fever: When one of Chicago's biggest thieves and rascals wanted a favor the hon- orable judge crawled in reverence to this scalawag. He did not Bend MeGerigle to jean= escapedielon who hada three years' sentenoe ever his head. This upright judge stopped the presecution for no ocher ubject than to compound a felony, to recognize and legalize the unlawful oondueb of the state's attorney. • "And then he came down from. the bench to give his hand in frienaehip to the man who had but a moment before admitted that he was a thief -fit only 1 or imprisonmenb. He gave his consent to L mgenecker's agree meat thet this felon' nishreent ehould bo. only one thitel. Of the mount of the reward that had been offered for his amoutet to the Cook county authorities. "The $58,000 represented by the forfeited bailbonda belonged to the state. Was the money turned over? No." "Lehmann, the man who works starving girls fourteen hours a day, came to the front and paid the fine. MeGarigle can now collect h s back pay for stealing. It amoants to eev- eial times the amount uf the fine. Wasn't it arnica arrangement ?" "It was a conspiracy," said a voice. "Oh, no; it was an arrangement,' If poor men were caught making such an 'arrange- ment' there would be another hanging bee, but the rich thief, the honest prosecutor, and the upright judge make 'arrangements' and no one questions them. "The press and tho capitalists will avoid the question, but I like to hear the expres- sions on the street. One man said that they all should be hanged. I told him to keep still or the rope would be around his neok. The almighty dollar is behind it all. When we do away with the system that breeds their like we will have a few honest men. -[Chic ago Times, June 3, 1886. Three of Them- " Who are those three gentlemen der ?" "Oh 1 they are all interested in that new church around the corner. The tall man is the rector -he does the preaching." "And the emelt one?? " He's the erector -he built the edi- fice." "And the third gentleman ?" "He's the director -he's the :archi:ect of the structure." yon- For protecting single plants, angle as toma- to, etc., a band about thephuit sunk into the soil two onthree inches hi a commonenethed. For this 'purpose old tin cans, paper frames or even thick paper will.de .A 'burdock leaf or Other lenge leaf is sometimes used instead of the paper, being wrapped around the stalks as the plants are set in the ground. Allowing these bands to project a little above the ground will circumvent eurface feeding insects. Trapping the cub worms with a bed of fresh clover that has been thoroughly wet with Paris hGreen water is much used. The oloveris taped at lathe -vats between the rows in loosely tied me.ssea: or bales which serve to prolong the freshness of the bed and afford a lure for ..thelter. , Cab bage or turnip beeves dipped in a mixture of a teaspoonful of Paris green to e backeb of water are also used in the same way, or bhe side of Ouch leaves that are placed next to the ground are sprinkled with a mixture ot one part of Paris green to twenty of fieue. Such leaves are placed at from fif teen to twenty feet apart throughout the field to he protected. Two applications of this char- acter three or four days apart, especially in cloudy weather, are usually successful in ridding the field of the pest. An old way is to make several holes a few inches deep about the hills with a tapering stick to presethe oath at the sides, into which the worms fall and are unable to crawl out. Of course the beat remedy of all is to dig out the worms about the roots of the Omits. This is laborious but on smooth areas cm be done quite rapidly. It should be.known that every worrn killed means the prevention of the development of a moth containing within its abdomen more than 200 egg e each of which would produce a out worm. Many farmers who thint wouldn't pay to dig out the cut.; worms would be sur- prised to see how gaickly the work can be done. Secretary Armstrong, of the Elmira farmers' club writes : There is really but one way to save the oropaf ter the plants are once atta Ikea by. cub worms -that is, to dig out the worms .atid kill them. It is net a difficult tack, nor is it very costly. I presume that a fourth pari -cf the loss sustained would be a full equivalent of all the labor it would cost. The worm does the mischief at night, and before morning burrows in the ground near the spot where its depredations have been committed A praotioed eye will readily 'discern the entrance to the hiding place into which the worm has named and lies conceal- ed. The way to bring the pest up is to thrust a pointed knife down near the hole and lift out the earth to the depth of two or three inches, when the malefactor will lie exposed t view., and cam be instantly de- stroyed. I have known large fields to bs cleared by this process at a con of labor so slight as to bear no comparision with the loss that would otherwise have resulted. Especial emphasis is given to the salt, and also to the copperas remedy. Prof. Lintner aeys these remediesoan be relied upon for general use, and quotes much experience among praotictal farmers to demonstrate the effioaoy of these remedies asi above described. The seed corn, after being soaked in the copperas solution, can be dried off with piaster so 118 not to_olog a plenter. DESTROYING CUT WORMS. Infringing on Her Einhts. Alfred (rapturously)-" Now, denting, please name the happy day." Minnie (blushingly)-" Three weeks rom next Thursday, Alfred." Norah (through the keyhole)-Av you plaze'miss, that's me reinter day out. Ytz'll have to git married in the early part of the wake.' When Lord Dudley and other noble lords were arrested in the raid on the Field gamin ling club the charge against them was dismissed by Justice Hannay, on the ground that "It would be absurd to fine gentlemen of wealth and position such a sum as 6 shil- lings and 8 pence." T118 artme week two small boys were convicted at Croydon of the crime of pitch and toss, and they•were earth fined 7 shillings and 6 pence and seven days' hard labor. - A young actor, aged 20, named Norman Cooke, wrote this letter to bis sister before committing suicide by shooting himself: "DEAR HET..—I have gone -no, thab Is very Irish -Lam going to that bourne whence no traveller returneth, and have jun taken my last cup of tea, with bitter znit. I have colored the town to such a degree that there is 13.0 paint lefb in the looker. So I come mend myeelf to Davy Jones. You will not remember my good qualities, for I never had any, and my bad ones I will ask you to for- get. With much love, I am about to be -kilt - entirely. ^ "Neiman." Among Washingtonian relies oalled te notice this year ia t he epitaph of John (testis, father of Martha Washington's first husband. Hie wife was a good deal of a Tartar, and so' indeed, was he, but she generally manag- edto say the last word in ,their wrangles. When he died he left order to his soil, OD pain of disinheritance, to put this legend on his tombstone, which was done "Uader We marble tomb lies the body of the Hon. John Gordis, Esq., of the city of Williams. burg, particle of Bruton, tortnerly of Hangar's patish, on the eastern Shore of Virginia, and county of lelortlatimpton, age 71 years, and yet lived but seven years, which wad the Ivan of time he kept a bachelor'home fa Arlington, on the enterianhore of Virginia," And ao he hat the Int wend. paratively an easy matter to capture the worms. I have someOteeS g Ahereci a pine of worms t one time along such rows or panto, By following thie plan I find their trouble the rest of the garden very little. .TUNE joeninos. Wounds mane by pruniug heal quiekly be June. Therefore if any large etubs have, been lefb from the spring pruning now is then time to out them, off closely to the trunk of the tree and they will heal over rapidly and, nicely. &rennin° the trees that were plant- ed In the spriug and nee that they do non loosen ; keep the soil firm around thero. Ine very dry weather it may be necessary be water young Wen. Do so by drawing the the soil away front the collar so as to form ae basin and after watering "thoroughly," re- place the nil and cover with a mulch of seme kind. The notes on Orchard care given in May number apply equally to June awl, especially those refining to the borer and other insect enemies. • The plum ouroulio will begin to get in hie work in June and the trees should be aping - ed with Paris green or London purple mix- tures in the same manner as for the codling' moth on the apple tree or treated with the, jarring process. Exercise care in the use of these arseniteet and do not fail to have all the pins and other utensils usedfor Paris green or London purple plainly marked Poison in large letters. The beet antidote fox Paris green is the hydratera sesqui-oxide of iron, taken immediately. Every fruit -grower and farmer using these. poisons should keep it on hand ready for instant use in case of poisoning. Ib in quite cheap and may be had from any drug- gist. SCORPIONS. Where They Are Pientiful ns Files, ande Sociable and Venomous. "If over you should happen to go down into lower Mexico," said L. T. Stanley, the electrician, "and should notice that year bed was set up on invertel tin pans, as yen have seen the four corners of corn cribs fix- ed to keep out the rata, and that the be& had a sheet stretched above in , running to a. peak at thetoplike the roof of a home, don't say a word, but get right in and go to sleep.. If yon shouldn't go to sleep as soon as .yote, get in and should hear something 'drop on tb.e sheet roof above you, and roll down an& tumble on the fieor at the side of, the bad, lie still. By and by you will hear the same drop and roll and tumble, and it won't be long before it'll be drop, drop, drop, and roll, roll, roll, and plink, plink, plinkon the 'floor - Don't getup ; if you do you might think you were STRUCK BY LIGHTNING as soon as you put your foot on the floor',, for the chances are that you would step- = a scorpion the first thing, and the scorpion has a stinger that he carries for instant and effective use. Scorpions are just abeut a. plenty there as files are up home. They hide by day and attend to business at night. The soorpion is a crab with a snake's tail, with n spur on the end if ib. It likes to get in bect with folks, and if ib wasn't for the tin pane on the bedposts it would climb up and get ine With you thet way, and if the bad wasn'Ia roofed with the sheet ib would drop on yore, from the ceiling. When you get up in the morning you will be apt to find a, few quarts of dead scorytionslying on the floor in front of the bed. They all committed suicide.. After trying to get into bed with You a few threes, and being tumbled off the sheet every time, or stopped by the tin pans, they got med, and stuck their stingers in their headier and killed themselves. A aoorpion commits, suicide on the slightest provocation. It hair a temper as hot and as quick as kerosene on a kitchen fire. If one scorpion is passing by • another one and happens to touch it, there're and two dead scorpions are the result. Par a hundred scorpions in an enclosure, and throw a little stick or piece of dirt among, them, and the scorpion that is nearest tot where the stick or dirt falls will turn and dip his npur into his'nearest neighbor, and in lean than two seconds the entire hunared will bet mixed up in the fight. The way their sting- ers and olawa and legs will fly is a, sight to see. As long a.s there is one scorpion alive thefight goes on, for if one happens to sur- vive the other ninety-nine he will pitch in and have it out with himself, and the first thing he knows he is dead. "It is a fact that acorpions, or 6100.1118 afit the blexicans call them, are at certain. seasons of , the year as numerous almost; an flies., They are within the cracks of the walls, between the bricks of the tiles on the floor, hiding inside your garments, dartintn everywhere with inconceivable rapidity, their tails' which hold the sting, ready to fly up withdangerous effect upon the inightereb provocation. Turn a corner of a rug or table spread and you disburb a flourishing colonyon them. Shake your shoes in the morningand out they. flop. Throw your bath sponge inter the water and half a ch zm of them dart out of its cool depths, into which they heel lain themselves away during the night. It is nett often that you. see one of the As the great enemy of many gerdens just now is the out worm, we feel justified in giving one more plan of getting rid of it : , A writer in Orchard and Garden gives the following plan for destroying them: In early spring, when vegetation first stoats, we must begin to look for out worms. The parents of these cut worms annals, lay their eggs in late summer around succulent plants, but the wornm being small eat comparatively little and are not noticed. When cold weather comes on they go down into the ground, where they remain in a torpid state until the warmth of spring reauscitetes them, s nd now with sharpened appetites after their long fast they will sat arty green thing thab comes in thnir way. In a veg. °table garden we can cimunavent them by pleating one or two long rows of a succulent perenniel plant. Or have in our garden on either side of the Walk -Which is some two hundred feet in lentgle-rows of hollyhooks. Iti August then great Olumps of froth look- ing green atttaob the yeerent motile to lay their egga under the shelter of their broad leaVes, ab in the following retiring It Is Com. MAHOGANY HUED REPTILES that is m ore than two inthes long, but they sometimes show up. with the formidable pro- portions of a five-meh length, and all then it implies. There is a smaller variety than the mahogany scorpion. This one is danger- .ous . It is at midday that the bite or sting of these venomous littie pests is most feared', as the nation say it is then the most poison - owe The deserted eta mines of Durango are sinaply scorpion hives, they having bred anmi increased there undisturbed for centuries. A few years ago the Government took cfficiaL notice.of their deadly presence and plandat, • bounty on them, whioh is paid on the pre- sentation of a scorpion'e tail and sting at the office of the Govetnment, agent. Many Mt - fives oarry a brass tube, • ansi in case a a bite from 8.r scorpion it la pressed over the wound, on which it acts like the bleeding • cup of the surgeon, and .draws the poisoned. blood out. A holloW key has leeen used. suconsfully in the same way. Victims of the yellow scorpion's bite have been known to lie for deem in convulsions, foaming at the mouth, and with stomach and limbs swollen tut in dropsy. Others Auger no worse conse- quences than they might from an ordinary bee sting, Brandy taken until stupefaotion, follows ie a favorite remedy for scorpion bites in Mexico, and aminenia is also given with good results. There is nothing the Mexican or Texan fears more than the yellow or black norpioin of Darango except the bloating rattlesnake of the staked Plains, and that is probably the most deadly reptile of the American contineht." A queer out of the coat represents a crochet in the Drain. When you order young trees one of the Moot impoetant points to observe is not to allow the roots to be exposed to the eon or wind, A. few natuutee' expoeure may de irreparable injury. If you cannot plant them immediately on annval "heel" them in until you are reany, and before beginning the work lob the holes be dug and ale Preparatioet vagib t� avoid delay..