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The Brussels Post, 1902-5-1, Page 2COIN -FUSION O CAS .li E. yS is Or Qeptility Vs, Nobility of .lolly 4)IIA1'TER 1, neck, trying to speak bravely, and Tito vicar's Wife usl.ed the Trelaw- to keep the tears out of her voice: neys to dinner ono eturiiug, and hotly wee ' thrown into great treat -- dation by the invitation. "How kind they are 1 Don't you think Dire +elliMeo.al very kind and nice ?" oro said to her husband, fn quite it eneerful tube, as they went home. fake had no suspicion, poor child 1 that to Mir. Trelawney tho entertain- ment could have been in any \lay a painful ooa She chattered happily to him about the things tbet 511e should have been glad if they had which he lived, contented to regard had Leen, and that had bean told to taken notice of you, out since they her as some mere adornment of his hor, hale not done it—well, we can both life, almost as he might regard tt 1 enjoyed it all So much more lite without their society. Your flower in his garden, a picture on his than 1 has: thought t should," she mi. tat lies in thinking that I could wall ? said simply, "cif curse rt is much c, utlnue to go to their horses With flow few things there soon came nicer to stay at iltene, nut it really out you. That would l.e out of the to Le of any kind that it was ever . was riot nearly so (heedful as 1 had question, Letty." in her power to do for him I Some thought It would be, or its it would "l:ul why ? I shouldn't mind it., few small pcscnal services—these have been if there had been a party. should like you to go," she ex- indeed she could claim the right to It was so very kind of them to have eial'ned eagerly. perform, but they were services that nobody there except chaise) •'You must take my word for it, anyone paid to de them might have wasn't 13 ?" and .1. looked up with dear, when 1 011 you that it could done as well. She made his shirts an appeal fur sympathy ante her f not bc." for him, she dusted his books, she hushend's retie that he hurt not the ^Then do yori mean—do you really kept his room in order. \tell—her heart to recuse to aile.her. menu " nhe said—rand such a piteous aunt had done all these thins fm' "Lear, dal t L • look g behave properly rt • o K of sorrow c r •e ' t e ?'a 1. into h oars before . 1 p ye t blue o s e came; h e y h cm Lo or P 0 she said, luolcirrg Up 10 uiru with her1feyes-�•"that you huge t.. Fire up all common acts had gained no added wistSut, artxion.e eyes. And then het your old friends because you have grace for him because she did them married no ?" now. She sometimes wondered wheth- lie tried to laugh at her. ea ho ever knew that it was her ":t costs me leh;y little to gave hand, and not a servant's, that thin, up. Don't trouble yourself busied itself with any one of them. about it, child," he told her cheer- Perhaps he neither knew nor would have cared to know it. It gave him no sense of pleasure to see her work- ing for him, but rather the reverse of pleasure. Bo almost preferred to see her idle. Probably he never con- nected the idea of usefulness with her nt all, but only the ideas or plea- santness, of 51(00, of a certain kind of decoration. One day, when, in a moment of sad yearning, she said some sorrowful words to him--re- gretting, im re- gretting, in her humility, that she could do so little for hint—ho almost laughed at her. "Lefty, don't make troubles for yourself," he said. "De happy --that "If they were sure that I didn't is all I want from you. Leave all afraid she did not go on chattering expect them to have anything to do the things that worry you alone. so cheerily to 1111». Of course she with me, wouldn't that make a dit Simply be happy—and I' shall be was very grateful to him for telling iereuce ?" 5he began I'10,ei, ly to ask .content." her so gently 0f the mistakes t11at• again, mwekly and piieuusly. Ile Flo kissed her as he spoke : he she had made, only his doing it rob- Lalfaod to her for a little, very kind- thought perhaps that ho had conl- bed her, inevitably, of her innocent ly, trying to make ncr understand furred her ; he did not know that pleasure. She had been rather Nut- Cho cure, but f think she was too theta was something in her heart ed when she came away from the utterly humble to feel tho 1orco of us he made his speech that was cry - vicarage, thinking that in its mild reasoning. Shu could not ex- ling out for another sort of console- hiswyy the evening had been a little l:et:t his friends to Luke notice of tion—crying forlornly for food that triumph—and it hat) not been a tri- her, she only answered ;she had ho could not give. umph. That was all. It did not ue,or expected such a thing ; she "You might have married some - matter a great deal, perhaps ; only no.er would think it unkind of him body who would have been so much she shrunk sucldenly into herself, to httce friends who looked down on more to you than I can b0," she with a pitiful feeling that site lead 1;01; these were the only replies that sadly said. made her husband ashamed of her. ehe would mate ; she could not "I think, Letty, the chances are Why did Nr. Trelawney s old understand that, as his Wife, it was that if I had not married you 1 friends not ask him any longer to impossible for him to ignore the should have married no one at all," their houses ? hall puzzled, half casting of :t slight upon her. the answered. suspicious, as time :event on. Letty "1 never thought of it belnee we And that would have been better, began to ask this q' estion to her- were married. If I had only once perhatus," site said. self. }1er husband lead peter been a thought that I should do harm in But when site said that she vexed man who cared to go much into so- you—" she began at last to say him. eiety, bun; yet there had always he- and then she Gnaw her aims about "If I and content with you, why fore his marriage been a few houses his neck, and burst out sobbing with need you dlstre:,s yourself ?" he an- athichiane ho visited ; ad now since a desolate puseion whose bitterness steered. "1 thought tvhen you be- hishe visited at none of ho could perhaps scarcely comprc- came my wife that you were going them. Not (re0 the Oibsons, since had. to be so happy. What halo I done, Letty had become his wife, had in- "When we are married. I will be Lefty, or what has happened to dis•• vited him to dine with them, end yet your teacher, Letty," Mr, meelawney appoint you ?" to the Gibsons' in former clays he had said to her soon after their en And then she could only cling to had gone frequently. gagement and accordingly, e. week him, and cry that he had done no- " t1'hy do you never go there or two after the wedding was over, thing—that it was only the thought now ?" slue asked him, half hesitat- he told her one day that it wee time that she was so ignorant and use - nee ono day. they should begin their lessons to- less—and that he knew everything, They had been talking of his illness gether, and that evening, with shy and didn't want her— and of how kind 111r. Gibson hod happiness, . she brought her books.. It was a sad repetition of what been at that tune, and then, with and the lessons were begun, and had happened a score of times be- tter heart heating a little faster, went on, irregularly, for perhaps tan ;fore, and he was getting impatient— lctty suddenly put her question• days or so ; and then, 010 night, she the feeble complaint was beginning "Why should I go ?" he answered put the little pile of books together, to weary him. evasively. and they were never brought out, ""Nonsense, Letty ; you must not "You used to," she 'said. again, allow yourself to fall into this way "That was in the days when I was He had too little heart for the of talking. It is silly—it Is child- s bachelor," work to keep it up, and she was per- ish," he said to her, half angrily, haps too inapt a pupil to change his and turned from her to his desk with nista to for teaching into love of it, a hasty movement that left her no Perhaps his etlorts to instil it little courage to say more. knowledge into her only tit:aliened In So she went away and left him. It him a feeling of involuntary con- was all becoming a sad perplexity to her. lie must be right, she thought in her humility, and she unreason- able and ungrateful. But yet the Ater the evening on which th happened, hie attempts to bo' is) a, 141i her education ceased. L roultlh 2. he thought the ground Was too po to bo worth the tilling --the bra too o2flI1l to repay hiin for tial spent in cultivating it. Qould he ever make o. eompanlo of her ? Could his thoughts ev become her thoughts ? 'i helve ww one' or two occasions in the earl days of their marriage when he Hind an attempt to. talk to her of th things that were most in his mind to explain sommi utg to her aboU But for a few moments at least her his work and his spoculu.tlorls+-•ba speech perhaps rather annoyed her she could not nor r,, end hien. 'There husband then touched hiin, only came an eager, bewildered, "Letty, you don't know what you strained look into the childish eyes era saying.. This is .0 Mutter you as site struggled to follow him in his cannot interfere with," he answered explanations—a look of anxious de qulokly, sire to understand, of piteous COD - Vet a few minutes afterwards he sclousness that understanding would spoke to her more gently. not some. Was it to be wondered et "You must not think that it is it he ceased to speak to her soon of anything to me to tote up Slatting things too great for her•, and put hor those people," ho said. '•1'ermtps I gently out of his own world in is v11 ly or in 0 51' r0 1' 0 e t t told her, a little reluctantly—Yes, she bad believed 'Very nicety—tory nicely—on the whole. Of course, if at dinner she had not .celled a0 mach afraid of Bir. Penrose It would have been better, he said—and fn fully. future slio must not call hint "sir." fiat she could not help troubling No lady called a gentltman "sir." he•aelf. She strngeaed u'Jt.h her onio- n, was quite natural that she snuuld tion for a few moments, and then not know that—hut for tlho future rho cars mote, she must try to remember it, 'shat was all he had to end fault with, he said kindly. Iver r311111er to airs, Penrose had been very n140 indeed ; Ile did whet he could to console her, but tiro blow had struck heavily and she could uot be consoled. In her chitdksh ignorance she had mar - end you looked very pretty, nfy 1 el 11'tn so joyfully, not knowing Letty," he added gently, and bent %that it would cost 13110 to make r01' his wife, and now the lesson eine MI5 coming to learn seemed to hor eo r•ruel that she could not Luau' .t. Was he to he punished for having Leen so good to bar ? down and kissed the anxious little face. • It was a kind kiss, but it lad lit- tle of a Lever's warmth in. it, aad atter ho had given it to her, and after ho had made his speech, I am "But people don't stop going out to dinner when they marry. dear," oho said timidly—and went to him, and with a nervous movement put her arm round his nock—"dear, if it Is anything about me, don't let that tempt for the feebleness of the brain make a ditierence." that found the acquiring of law - "Nonsense, Laity r" he said, ledge such a difficulty her patient "l'm afraid it's your hatingmar- labor, instead o1 t..,.al,, , a,100st rigid me that is the cause why poo- irritated him. to don't ask you—isn't, ?" a tit he ", P s [ y .ant vex yourself elf boa i (Omit t mid tremulously. And then, when 110. Letty,", he said to her on that last made no answer for a moment—"1 night "1 will think of Borne good didn't understand et first—hut sure- book that will do for us to read to- ly it must be that ; don't you think gether, and that will a better for 1,0 5" she said, "And if it is, it's you, I daresay, than lesson -learn - such a pity, because of course I ing." don't expect them to have anything So he found a book that was in- to do with me. I should never think structivo and interesti ,g, and that of such people as Mrs. Wetherell, or he considered suited to l:er capacity, Mrs. Sinclair, or even lure. Gibson, and for' a little whirr• they had a inviting me, you know, Don't you nightly reading from it ; but after a think, dear, you could let them weep or two—silently, without a understand that ? For if they leave word—this eat= also ceased, and off welting you just because they the unfinished volume, with the hark She wee learning her inevitable think they would have to ask me in it at the place where he 1101 left lesson slowly and painfully, learning too, it is such a 1niStltke, and—and off reading stood on his shelves years what it was to have to boar her bus - It vexes me so." afterwards, untouched sirru the last band's kind indih'erence, to wait in She was sta.ading beside him, the night when Letty's hand 11ar1 placed weary silence for a word of recogni- poor little hand clinging to his it Ilene, tion, to offer a love that was neither CATARRH s)9 4S CORE k Boat dkceat to the dlauased pa t br 1ha Improved Waiver, F(1aris am etcert, *lean the els puaagoa, stops droppings In the. threat and pere,pnaaity gurus Catarrh and flay ?MOM. Plower rr,,c, All dealera,.,sr 1)r. A. 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CARNIVAL OI' SLAUGHTER. 100,000 Philippeans have 5erishe Sines the American Oon- quest, Ono hundred thousand inhabitan of the Province of Batangas, Luzon have .I.teriehed by war, disease an starvation since the American col1- queet of the Philippines, says Washington despatch. This torrib charge is made by the acting gore nor of the province in a report t the Philippine Commission, the pu port of which.which.became known ye lerclay. Before the American Deet pation of the province there ever 800,000 persons resident in the pro t•ince, and now there are only two thirds of this number. The ac0n governor, discussing the extlrpatio Of loyal sentiment, says "I 11102 that such at sentimen once existed. Of late, by reason o the conduct of the troops, .such a the extensive burning of the barrio in trying to lay waste to the Cour try so that insurgents cannot 0 eupy fC ; the torturing of natives b so-called water cure and other eae thods, in order to obtain informa tion ; the harsh treatment of native generally and the failure of 1110x0 rienced, lately appointed lieutenant commanding posts to distinguish bee tween those W110 are friendly an those unfriendly, and to treat ever native as if he were, whether o Lot an insurreeto at heart, thi favorable sentiment above refereed to is being fast destroyed and deep hatred toward us engendered If these things need be done, the had best be done by native troops so that the people of the United States will not be credited there- with. Almost without exception, soldiers, and also many officers, re- fer W natives in their presence as 'niggers,' and natives are beginning to understand what the word 'nig- ger' means," Senator Patterson, of Colorado, says that the reports of the acting governor of 'Batangas and Major Gardener, civil governor of Tayabas. showed a condition of affairs that was appalling, "These reports and the charges made by Major Waller against Gen- eral Snaith establish that a most de- plorable state of affairs exists in the Philippines," he said. "There has been simply a carnival of slaughter in the Islands. The army has either demanded absolute submission or has given no quarter. OTHER PROVINCES MENTIONED. d is , rt le r- 0 r^ s - c g n t 5 .S' 0- y s e- 5 d Y s • a Y "General ]Bell's orders regarding the conduct of the war in Southern Luzon show that every man should he considered as an enemy who fail- ed to prove that he was actively a Mead. This was a Itemise to the American troops sent out on expedi- tions to kill and burn. Thirty days ego T could not have believed that American soldiers who act as these reports .show. It seems to 100 Some remedy should be applied, but I am fearful that nothing will bo done. " It is the purpose of the Senate Philippine Committee to ask the War Department for additional re- ports received by Secretary Root, which, it is stated, will show that other provinces have suffered as se- verely as Batangas and Tayabas•„ WHAT MAN CANNOT D0. A man cannot do two things at a ime, A woman will broil a steak, nd see that the coffee does not boil ver, and watch the cat that she oc5 not steal the remnant of meatn the kitchen .table, end dress the oungest boy, and set the table, and ec to the toast, and stir the oat - ea] d give an 'v• orders g o e s to the butcher, /01 she can do it all at once and not alt try. Man . has done wonders since he erne hefore the public. ITe has investigated tho ocean, he as penetrated the mysteries of the errs heavens, he has harnessed the ghtning and made it pull street rs and light the great cities of the orld, But ho can't find a spool of thread 1 his wife's work -basket; he cannot Log out clothes and get them on c line the right end up. Be cannot old clothes pegs in his mouth while o is doing it either, lie cannot be olite to somebody lie hates. Ile ould never think of kissing his ri- al when he mot him, as a woman ill kiss her rival, In short, he cannot do a hundred lungs that Women do instinctively. a 0 d 0 rn h c 11 st I1 ca w h th h 11 p 1v w 1 )3Ii1TTER LEFT UNSAID, Ata public dinner in tho country a farmer, while relating something to the company about two Chinese women Said: "I declare they were the ugliest women 1 have seen anywhere." There happened to be two maiden ladies present of no remarkable beauty. The farmer, who was a lit. 310 misty, began to think ho bad made a snag of it, and that they would imagine ho was alluding to them, so to put matters straight as ho thought, ho added: "Present company excepted," Roars of laughter ensued, and in a few minutes both farina and ladies had vatifolled. tittle Boy oto theatrical manager) --"Papa, why is this Called a free country?" bfanagoi'--"'Because every- body wants to get in without Pay- ing," STO V Il-RIa7L'RTGLRATOR. IIeat and cold In trio sante apparatus in the design of a amw device patented by a woman, it resembles a luncheon hamper and le ten by Leri inches at the side and seven and otic'-httli inches high, 13y use of unique fates, burning without dame or smoke, food In the upper section Is kept warn,, while the lower part, of the arrangement, acts as a refrigerator, it is claimed, and keeps drinkables cold, Mf� ON TUE s9 f . CA af~':y y�P"A�l't'xti3,�! `?I '4 Shp' �i 6». eJ 9,6529 " 1I0i1iD INDUSTR1I3S. We rail at the trusts and monopo- lies and bemoan the crowding out of small dealer and the individual, lit- tle realizing that unconsciously we are pushing our local shopkeepers and machinists to the wall by our lack of interest end patronage. are in better condition for use by 311 next crop, while a larger proiorLiu of 'nitrogen is also left in the soi than (Misted before the clover i grown Experience has taught farm Ore that wheatand corn are i'aplt)I of ftllftlg places In the rotation, and hence ell some fcu'tn5 there 1.'; u, sys tens of rotation by which grain, elo ver and potato°, aro used, when and corn being nearly always grown when clover Is the •mainstay of the source of fertility in the rotation. B,otatioa is also, intended to de- stroy weeds on farms. In some sec- tions the practice is to have a hoe crop that is, in addition to the use It 'we live within a few miles of a of the cultivator the hoe is used at least 011ee over the cornfield 1n or - large city, each one of u$ hastens der to more thoroughly eradicate thereto for his supplies for every weeds but farmers object to the fa- rmed, claiming that better' satistac- ,;or of hoeing corn, and resort to the growing of potatoes, cabbages, turnips or carrots if the hoe is ne- cessary. Those who use the hoe in c HU AND LOGO OTIVNL LEAPED 1POB'TX FEET ,A,03/OSS A DEEP' GULLY. Btrang) Tale Related by an 3n,- gineer, Thought Buck Was Trapped. have often heard or read the inquiry as to how far a deer could leap 1n alight from danger," said an, old-bailesor ullaries, ones to1t,d caedngreiaederm, an"yand reI "1 remember that sumo ono who aid he nheustn•ed a, doer's Leap once and found that it covered 85 feet was very generally and in some in* stoma 0'a ateely discredited. Not by me, though. If that man had said he measured a deer's leap and found it covered 50 feet, 1 wouldn't have disbelieved 1111, for 1 sate a .door male a leap once,and the question with me would be not how far a deer can leap, but how far it needs) to. "I was engineer of the first train Out ran 'on the 1B. Ii, and IC Rail- road through the hemlock wilderness of Northern and Northwestern Penn Sylvania: The region then abounded 111 hens kinds of wild animals, for It was as near a primitive country as might he'. I remember that on that round trip --the. road was only, 30.1111es long—we saw six bears, a wlcat ld and three deer, besides the. s door I em speaking about, "Tho bears peered out f1'om behind e trees and bushes as tho train sped along, and the wildcat followed along with us by bounding from tree to tree, for more than two miles. t Then I gave my whistle a toot, and away he went into the woods as if the. old boy was after him. "Just before we reached what teas called Long Gravel Cut, a narrow pass a mile long, with high steep banks on either side, out of the hushes at the right of the track, and perhaps 100 Feet ahead of my engine, bounded a big buck, square on tale track. Re stopped in frightened un- certainty, gazed for a second in big - eyed astonishment at the approach- ing train; and then turned and bounded into the cut. 15 THE CST. "Neither my fireman nor I could see how that could but be fatal to the deer, because he could not escape from the cut until he reached tho other end, and at that end of the cut a half -mile trestle started right in, so that unless the deer could run a half mile of open railroad ties or Jump a forty foot gully, 11e might Just as well have stood still and let the train run over him. "The road was downgrade through the cut, and I thought I would see whether a frightened deer could travel faster than a railroad train or not, so I pulled her open and let the train slide. I don't be- lieve we were much more than a minute going through that cut, but the deer kept a good ton yards' space between himself and 'the en- gine with ease. The road took the long, high trestle at the end of the cut by quito a stiff curve, and at the left was ILane's Gully, a ravine 40 feet wide and eight feet deep. "If the buck attempted to cross the open trestle he was sure to fall between the ties and tumble into the hollow over which the trestle carried the railroad, and for him to leap tho gulley seemed impossible. A. tragic end threatened him on every hand. That buck knew his capacity, however. "When ho got to the end of the cut lie left the track, paused an instant on the edge of the ravino to gather himself, and then shot across that 40 feet of chasm as lightly as 0 he were jumping a six-foot ditch, clear- ed it with more than n foot to spare and bounded away into the forest. "X began to hold my breath when I saw the buck gather himself for that stupendous leap, and I don't believe I began to breathe again un- til we had crossed that half -mile trestle. The leap of that deer across that apparently impassable chasm was a grand and thrilling sight, and if the people who scoff at the idea of a deer's being able to leap 35 feet had seen it I. think they would agree with me that it isn't so much a question of how far a doer can leap as it is how far it needs to." tion 1s obtained where one has a larger choice. Should every family in a village patronize the local establishments the cornfield claim that, 21111» the the result would be surprising. With cost of labor is greater, yet the increased trade the local merchant would enlarge and vary his stock, study the tastes and requirements of his patrons, be able to sell goods on less margin of profit and in turn said to be complete, however, that could buy more produce of his clews not include 801110 kind of crop neighbor than before, because of his that requires the hoe, such as car - prosperity. rots or 'potatoes, while in some As soon as increased activity in countries, such as England, the ro- trade developed, so soon would the talion also includes the hurdling of village become more attractive in a sheep on the ground, turnips and hundred ways. Prosperity for a half- rape being grata for the animals to feed off the land, I'armess 8noul(1 not, therefore, tote a ectero15 system. of rotation, but aha to employ as many crops as possible, as the land will then suffer less from loss of plant foots and the fertility of the soil will be store easily maintained. All soils contain fertility to acer- tain degree, and in even the most weeds aro more 00bIPLET'hnLY REMOVED, But no system of rotation can be dozen local merchants is a pebble cast in the trade stream that widens surprisingly the circle of moving cur- rents, which before lay stagnant. Everything that tends to increase the prosperity of a village causes a 1'150 in property valuation and =See farm land more valuable and easier to dispose of, if one so desire. Your neighbor's success is your own, fertile soils there is a predominant of in a way, for no ono of its stands insoluble substances, varying in am - alone, and individual prosperity is position, but which cannot; he ap- the leaven that may leaven the whole lump. Now, listen; just maks up your mind to plant a big lot of sugar corn this season; it is the best of eating in the fall, toothsome and nourishing, and if you can not use it all it is just splendid for the horses. The teams fatten on it. Two acres are none too much, planting two weeks apart up to July. Now that farm labor is scarce and high. in price let us chip in and work together with the neighbor over the way. Often =eh is gained by such co-operation, Tools and Imple- ments can he bought in common to advantage. Joint ownership and jointwork are often profitable: ROTATION 011' CROPS. The land gives the largest crops when the farmer provides plant foods liberally and rotates crops grown, When the farm is forced to yield to its fullest capacity there fa taken from the soil those elements that principally contribute ifs riches or fertility, and unless the soil is provided with material containing Hose elements of fertility it will in he course of time fall to repay for he labor and capital retiuired in 135 ultivation. Many farmet•s are aware f the fact, and rise barnyard man - ire and commercial .fertilizers in or- er to supply the deficiency. The fanners have within their power, however, the means by which tiro 051 canbe recuperated and i ('5101 1(1 o fertility, 101(1 every enterprising farmer takes advantage of such op - or tonit!es in order to bring his arm to the higliret degree of pro luctivene55 The practice of some ysterrl of rotation of crops is now orlsiderod essential to good farming nd experience teaches that nothing 0111 equal tt rotation of crops in naintaining fertility in proportion o cost, although cuticle• methods nay be resorted to if the expense is of a matter of consideration in the or'k. Itr is not ditllcult to understand ow rotation of crops benefits the and, for plants like animals, (lifter n their anodes of existence, and ca - fixity fol' feeding, When a field is =pied by clover the growing or matured crop, 3511011 plowed tattler ✓ fed to stock on the far'in and returned to the farm fu the orm of manure, adds ADDITIONAL PLANT PO OD o the soil, When fed to animals my a portion of the crop is ra- mmed, but when the whole crop is lowed unde'.thero is the advantage f the sod and roots adding more ertility to the soil. Clover is a rop that demands both lime and otesh, and requires but little (w - lied nitrogen to make growth, but y shading the soi[ and utilizing the '00 nitrogen of the air, assisted by acteria in the soil, it returns to the oil more nitrogon than do those Crops to which nitrogen IS applied, As clover takes from the soil con- fderablo lime and potash, when the Dep f5 plowed under those elements proprtated by some crops, though easily available for others. But if such elements are not appropriated by the crop occupying the ground they are being gradually reduced or changed in composition, so as to be put in condition for the succeeding crop; hence rotation, therefore, not only prevents the loss of certain sub- stances in the 'soil, bttt assists in converting the locked up elements of the soil into available plant food, In this country no system of rotation is deemed complete without clover, while in England turnips and sheep are considered essential to success. Rotation largely depends upon the soil and its Conditions, but all soils aro subject to mechanical changes. It is being demonstrated that green crops are valuable in restoring fer- tility and limo has been found a val- uable assistant, especially in prepar- ing the soil for the work of bac- teria, by neutralizing the acidity, but the bust resultsare obtained by not only varying the crops grown but also by studying the character- istics of the soil, DAIRY ANI) STOCK. Running water In yard and stable now proves p it -r v its value. Whether icy or windy no stock ought to time La go far for water, Co easy with the horses with the first work. They are not hard yet. Lot them come into it gradually or you may lose the uSe of them for the whole 5ert8oll. A secret of success with pigs lies in reaching out each year or two for a hoar not related to the sows. ln- breeding weakens and renders it dif- ficult to rear the progeny. It is nut worth while to turn calves out until tho ground is lvitrm. A chilled calf is a sick calf, alai sick calvesro a apt to die, Keep 21101» in the barn out of the cold and <lantp. The clog and cat have their pro- per. place on the farm, but like the SOW they must be of the right sort. and quality. A good mouser Will save dollars for lrer owner every year in preventing 1110 gnawing of hags, grail and buildings, Tho young 1lonses only partly broke en, sh0111d ileee only one driver, Ar• range if possible when beginning the spring work so that melt team. shall bo used by the sable ran each day. The horses get used to the trays of the driver and there is lass wear and tear and nervous excitement, A PLEASANT PROSPECT, A. young man named Mooney en- listed in the army. After ho heel been in 111(1fa about (Ivo months he. received tit pathetic letter from 11!s parents, which said that if he slid not send theist seine money they would be forced to go to the work- house. The young man sat down and an- swered the latter as follows: "Dear Pother and Mother; -Try to Imo out of the worklrotlSe for six years and seven months, until 1 come home, and 1 11C1 3110 three of its will go in together," THE LETTER T. An old one is the letter ", for Thee begins with it, you see ; it is the starting point of Truth, the virtue which we teach our youth, It starts the Tattler's busy tongue, is in tho Tie when Olen lire hung, isat the head of every Train that pounds the malls o'er hill and plain, 1111 Trouble stares with it, and when peace is established once again the 51i111y character we see at the ]read of sheet Tranquillty. fie Talk it always takes the lead, from Turmoil it i8 110Ver• freed, 'tis - fot.tnd ai, root of uveas Tree, it loads the Tem- pest mil the sea, 'Tis always found In Toil and Trade, 111 every Theatre 'Us played, 76 leads our Thought, and w110f1 we die is i11 00 the Tonf11 fu which'1(5 1f0. i•_ !1'1111 i1IIASO N 5131TY, ITe was ono of the wisest and kind- est of teachers, hilt now and then his wtttchf111n055 made 1111» su1pirlous, 3.0 Alm close the' other clay his eye fell upon a boy who seemed to he eatilig Something, "John," said he sternly, "(131(0 that sweet out of your -mouth at once:" To his astonishment a giggle event round the vomit, 0nd the next inti stant peer .)01113 nhs'a'ererl: "I cam103, sh', it's a glsrlbell." Owinge to th swayings of the moon we aro able from the earth to see a little more than half her 04U - face, Wo alio 10 Square itliies' out of every 1P't of het aur1aeld,