HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-1-8, Page 2AGBICULTURA.L.
A Sueeeb by Die Di reefer of iixtierInten
Valens.
At a fanners' meeting iu Dorchtster, Ont.,
Diseass of E,periniulital Natulders 1 V °mistook., however, the plan hnd beeo
WaS in attendanee and snolce. adopted of eollecting the cream throe times
isms ic„„,,cd i„to a„ elaborate a week. Farmore were glvendireetions how
explanetion M the experimental farm sya. 10 set and store the whom, and three times
tetn. .lneidentally he explained the reasons week the team l'a1110 for the mirpose of col.
which had led to the establishment of the leeting the product, .A sample was taken
various In Hsieh farms, and then briefly out. front 00011 farmer's lot and lie was paid for
lined many of the mom important features it in proportion to the amount of butter fat
of the work, In the first place he dealt . which it contabled. Here fouv cents per
'with the experiments relatiug to cereals. In ;learnt was oharged, the one cent additional
this regtted he gaVO the resulta of tt series being for the extra cost of collecting, The
of wets whieh hail for their object the solu. average cluatl 13' of butter produced at that
Metory leas from 275 to 300 pounds per day.
tion of the prehl•no of the proper time of
sowing. no etplant d at %ming ,,n,, I he intention was to enlarge this work of
a! %tooter dairying next year.
tenth acre plots had been airried en over
period of el, „-„k„ ike eowleg being ' It NVaS hoped that in other important dis•
week apart. The Mai sowing was clove • teats central factories would be established
tnst as soon as the ground. was free
from frost in the spring, and sue-
cessive sowings wore done each week
over the period of six weeks. The
general results pointed to the important
fact that the earliest sowing gave the great-
est yield, while there was a steadily cleclin•
iug yield for each subsegnent week in the
series. An exception to this rule was indi-
cated in the test. with oats. The date of
sowing within a range of two or three tveeks
did not have the eflbet of redneing the yield
to ouch an extent 05 W08 observed in the ease
N0heat eild Nudity. Prof. Saunders re•
marked that this year the variety of oats
known as the Banner had given the best
results all round, He emphasized the impor-
tance of sowing, flail reached the 001.-
01881011 that the farmer who had his lard
prepared in the fall and was ready to begin
operations at the earliest day possible in the
spring, had the beet chancea of good results;
but it seemed also to be true that oats could
be sown two or three weeks later than wheat
without sttffering to the :Mine extent.
The greatest importance should. be attached
to pure and good seed, and it had been the
effort of the esperimental farm to assist the
fernier in this respect. For several years
past large quantities of seed had been die.
tributed throughout the Dominion, and in
this way 10,044 farmers had been reached
during the past two years with samples of
new varieties of grain. The object was to
gradually Milne:Ice the whole grain crop of
the 0085 try favorably. and thus enable far.
mem to make their work more profitable,
1 was explained that these samples were
Fent to tiny farmer who might apply for
them, without any cost whatever. As a
proof of the extent of the demand, it i0 Said
that some 1 8 tons ot grain WaS Pea 01r0d last
year to make up the number of three•pound states. He believed the farmers of Canada
bags asked for. The director theu referred were the best informed, the most enterpris-
to the system of seed -testing in operation lag, and Were the best workers on this con•
at the Central Experimental Farm, by which 1'11°01, and Peril0P° ofitial 10 00 farmers of
any farmen without a cent of cost to him-
self, might ascertain the exact percentage
Of his seed grain which might be expected
to germinate under favorable circumstances.
Another class of work of considerable im-
portance was that relating to oross-fertilize.
tion. The object was to produce eutirely
new eorts with a view to bring together in
one individual grain the good qualities of
two or more varieties. By this process some
114 new varieties had Iseen produced at
Ottawa, and, as the result of last year's
operation, about 100 more varieties hed
oeen added. This work would be prosecuted
in the reasonable expeetatton of producing
some varieties which will be of much value est skies overhead you ever saw. The eye
to the formers of Canada. could not detect the smallest speck of a
The import:tot question of winter clatrying
was then taken up by Prof. Saunders, He
said there bad been au agitation in this patt
ot the country for the establishment of a
creamery with a view to determining how far
it would be profitable to the farmers of this
part of Coterie to make butter during the
winter season, Our butter had net llithert0
commanded a very high price in England, • dred miles an hour—perhaps faster.
We had hove the ship to at inidmight.
for the reason that every farmer's wife con-
sidered herself a, good butter maker, an She was new and stanch, end her captain
opiniou ie which she often stood aloee. The watt a veteran of the sea, but when daylight
' commercial results following upon the gon• came to give us a view of the ocean no man
-oral methods of butter making adopted dared say our craft would live ten minutes.
throughont the country had been disastrons. Men who had sailed for twenty years felt the
ge the „„m„emimot reinediet.mene„„c qualms of seacsiekness &ewe pitched about.
Prof. Robertson had rented a cheese factory lite seas were something terrible. As they
at Woodstock and another at Mount Elgin came down upon us Oat of the east—out of
for the purpose of catrying on winter dairy. that vast ocean strotelang away unbrekmi
ing. Those districts load been chosen for to the south of Anatraha—they tow& ed up
forty feet high. One who watched felt that
a commencement because they wave capable
the great wall of water must break over
of supplying the quantities of ni ilk roe tt i red
the. bows and founder the ship by dead
for this purpose. He had just returtuai from
an inspection of these creameries with a re- eight, hat as he contonted to gate with
port of most oratifyins results feat -beating heart her bows suddenly lifted
up, and she appear to climb right up the
.kt Mount Elgin they were gettins a sup-
ply Of from 7,000 to 0.000 pounds of milk wave at an angle tte steep asany houaeroof.
Reaelomg the crest, she paused for entente u t,
per day, anil the butter product varied from
rolird te starboard and back, and then went
350 to 400 pounds. The milk broeght in.
dioated an average of a little over 4 pee 81011"g down, down, until your
heart etood still for fear it 'WU all over.
cent. of butler fat by the Babcock tester
It was 10 o'clock in the morning. We
but in estineoing the results it was nacos-
had life -lines stretched fore and aft, but
sary to allow for an addition of one-aixth,
which was represeuted by small quantities of none of the 111011 were moving about. They.
water, case= and salt. At this factory the
milk was paid. for in propertiott te the
ainnunt of butter fat it contained, which
plan precluded the poseibility ot any maid -
:eight of a small object on the crest of an ap•
palatine of the milk and hail the advautttge
• preaching wave I could 1101 Make it MA
of giving the greatest pay to the farmer
whose cows produced the richest milk, A at first for the foam, but presently it 001110
sliding down the Moline, mid then I saw
charge of three items per pound on the but.
Bout it was a small raft. The structure was
ter wits made to cover the cost of makinf
and marketing. At the end of enel»nont 1 80 light and flimsy that the wonder NV1113
flti advance was made to each patron of 15 how it, held together. It was just such
cents per pinind on the butter which had raft as a couple of sailors pallid knock to.
been produeed from hi+ comialmtion of gethee half an hour's time, and in the
milk. No forum,. „Lie mad, „etil eentth of it, with hie back braced agaiost
the butter was sold and then the net pre- water keg, winch wits firmly lathed in place,
coeds wore divided, Prof. Robertson had Wail a, 0" n. His face tvas towards us. He
reported to him that the butter thus far was "ot. 0 csommen sailor man, but it captain
produced Wim equal to the best Danish or 1110" He had a lashing about his waist,
creamery rn ,ke, end it was expected that it but his hands and legs were free.
svould bring frion 33 to 28 emote pee pound in Anil new the raft ono sliding clown the
the English market. Should it bring them 23 wave like a slecl on a sterw.covered hill, and
cents it woind return to each patron about 20 I looked the man square in the oyes. He
cents net. 1 roin 0,000 to 8,000 pounds was of middle age and there could be 00 ,
W00111 l'eady for shipment to England at mistake as to his vocation, He took in our
the entl is month, and it was intended oral alowand aloft at (me glance. For three
after that time to eoniliine the prelucts of or four emends something like hope 0111T10
the Iwo f tori es mid inake shipment every iitto hie look, hut then it vanialnol. 1 I is
two weft,. II. hi, War it 11/01114 1111 pessild,i realized that it was 11 tterly out of our tmwer
to dation tte what ohne it would 1,e 1:.4 0,, ithl Min, Had there Main a thou:wit
to ship b. I irtia Britain awl the ineitna men aboard of our ship suit one of them
by whielt !.tt gittiate.a malt could lie had C0111,1 haVe. lined a hand. lie limited into
for those who titolairloid in this enterprise. my .iyes hi dumb despair as he swept pan,
10188 eyif 4,1 cal that the value of the , too far away to have caught 00 rope oven
English seirket, tho I:median loittsr had there bees ono haud to fling him,
maker wst Id ill 10 ia wa y be thoroughly My oyes may have expreseed pit y, bu them
tested, The English people wore fowl is was nothing to hid Min hope, It was ail
good but i.s, Awl would pay a fair mien na, Otall' ill tW011tV 00,00110a-1118 00111 illg Mid
it, alai in ortler S1111....Of 111 the lir.)10e10 ef going --and then he disappeared astern.
t rade (pia lit y av 3.1 Of the 11171 illiportanue• 1i0ing he litiVell at five Ones
He believed that the inforniatien whieh our speed, He did not so untch ea 111000
100111d le, Gained thie year' a'ith respeet to foot ot• rake a hand, hat eimply called foe
batter W0111,1 110.11 Oa 0, te, Offe of the lafy8t. help With 1001C -appealed tO 118 I'M' 11 brid
valuable. pleeee of work ever muler.taken apiten and then went driving into that
111 cOmmetion wi 11 Om experimental farm+, trackless waste of ocean over which we had
It, was prommul to put np fins butter in sailed week awl weeks, seemiegly tbo only
special forms of paelnigne, which :Mould living thing upon its No rine conld say from
be known as fIlinadian that:class butter 10110000 he Malley 1011 all knew where lie was
packages. It eppeared that tin -lined tuba going—to a sailor's death.
'wore not need te any extent ontside of arm.
ado, and this was one of the forms of peek.
ago whiell Prof. Robertson bad decided. to
Use, Anothor form would be harrol.slutpal
firkins of oak, It Wea hoped that when
Mina° special forMs and brantIe MIMI to be
eSi ninth:hod in market the buyere
would feel satisfied in accepting them tts
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the guarantee of quality. 'The factory at
Woodatock WM managed in a different way
from the factory at 11101111t Elgin. At the
letter place tho eentriltigal separator was
used, and the farmers were able to tette
home the akinuned 101111 with them At
WhIeh or seven separate branches
would contribute. lty Oda means a large
area conld be covered and farmers would
not be obliged to earry their milk long dia.
tames. Under this plan one experienced
butter maker would receive the eremo from
five or six eontributing stations and be able
to turn out from 1,500 to 3,000 pound& of
butter per day, If the country could be
dotted with such factories as this—and he
believed that most formers were now on.
vineed of the advantage of bringing in their
cows so as to have ntilk for cheese making
in the winter as well as milk for cheese
making durieg the summer—it would put
a great deal of money in the psekets of our
farmers. Prof. Saunders then gave the do.
tails of a umbel: of experiments directly
collateral to the broad matter of winter
dairying. For example he dealt with
the tests which had been ruidertaken
for the pnrpose of ascertaining the value of
milk in butter fat at differeot periods, rang-
ing from three to nine months after the
period of calving. He then passed on to
show the advantages arising out rof the use
of the centrtfugal separator as against the
ordinary methods of setting. The direct
object of all this was the production of good
butter, the exploiting of the BritiM market
as a direct means of pntting dollars loto the
pockets of the farmers. In ooneluding an
address of great in terest and pv11.001001 value,
Prof, Saunders briefly referred to a recent
trip through several of the western states.
In the course of that trip he bad met a large
number of persobs who were engaged as
instrnctors and ctherwise, and he wee able
to faiely compere the work done there with
the work done on this side of the line. He
teas gratified to find that our farmers were
far m advance of the farmers ot the western
the old country. He was Eminently told
by instruotors that if, was the custom in the
western states to eall attention to the su-
perior methods in vogue in Canada. More.
over the prices for farm products were con-
siderably better than those obtained across
the line, aud the general results were more
satisfactory to the farmers.
THE MAN ON THE RAFT.
Our ship lay hove to in a gate of wind in
the Indian Ocean. It was one of the clear.
cloud, and the sunshine was simply glorious.
But how the wind 010 blow! And what an
awfu/ sea it kicked ! was a gale of
wind such as is never seen on land, with
not even the smallest island in its path for
2,000 long miles. It Was not a harrioane,
but a steady gale screaming, shrieking and
rushing to the West, ut the rate of a hun-
were gathered in groaps wherever they
could find elicitor from the howling wee and
driving spray, but ready for any call, I
was looking aboad when I suddenly caught
esing the words farther end further re.
member that, farther should be, used in Lho
eense of away from, While further hi the
sense of On toward: " 110 adVallO011 fur-
ther on his way he realized that he was ;tot.
ting farther away from home."
BRUSSELS POST* ;TAN. 8, 1892,
THE SLAVER SANTISSIMA
011 the times are hard and tho wages low
Leave her, Johnny, leave Iter.
We've stood by the ship in many 1, blew,
Anil its thne for ns I:unitive twit
This was the loud chorus to a. rousiug
chanty that lye, the orew of the Hurkaru,
bellowed eel 08 WO were hauling into the
London docks. We were homeward bound
front a voyage to Madras and other ports on
that 00481, and 118 1111 hail been away two
years we neutrally were anY.1011B 10 get
ashore to the girls and grog.
I tell you, boys, the glimpse of a bonnet
and it pretty dress mikes your heart beat
pit -a -pat after seeing nothing of the 1:ina
for four -and -twenty montits, and the first
swig at a quart pot of London porter is by
no moans to be despised.
X° wonder that our song was joyous,
The old ship looked splendid. We had put.
tied bee up mut pninted her. Her bright
work shone with the gleam of new varnish
and all the brass about her, including . four
guns on the poop, glistened like burnished
gold. Capt. Gulliver strode np and down,
proud as a turkey cock, The voyage Mid
been successful and the skipper had made
lots of money.
Ever since crossing the eguator we had
been blessed.with favorable winds; the north-
east trades were exceptionally brisk and
when we test them we caught a rattling
breeze from the westward and come up the
Channel bowling along with atunsails set to
port We took our pilot off Dover and
lig off Margate and anchored off the Novo
lightship for a tide, reaching tile docks about
3 o'clock in the afternoon.
We hauled into our berth, teinuned. the
yard iind swept the decks clown.
" That will do," said the first mate, "you
can all go ashore."
This was the most welcome weed NVG had
heard in a long while. Accordingly ive rig.
ged ourselves out in our Sunday go.to-ineet.
ing togs, which were not half so swell and
swagger as we thought them to be. We pro -
seated a strange and motley spectacle as
we rolled out toward the dock gates, where
we were stopped by the Custom }tense men
who overhauled us from stem to stern for
contraband articles. Beyond the confisca-
tion of a few plugs of tobacco they got
precious little for their pains. Oetside the
docks a small army of boarding-house 0011 -
nem and crimps was waiting to gather us
in. They had heard of our arrival and their
mouths watered for the prey. A sailor
homewerd bound from the East Indies after
two yeavs' absence is anti. and juicy morsel
for the London landsharks. Pretty soon all
hands, with but few exceptions, Wore taken
in tow.
Mind yon, lam talking of forty years ago,
when sailors were trusting and liniment and
before they lottl joined the Union and learn-
ed to be sea lawyers.
I note listening with rapt attention to the
honeyed eajolings of a fat bald-headed He-
brew, representing the firm of lifoses, Levy
nlo. of Tower Hill, clothiers to Jack Tar
and general philanthropists, This oily
humbug had buttonholed me and I was fast
succumbing to his effective eloquence. Ho
was going to rig Me Out in such gorgeous
raiment that the girls of Wapping would mn
foot races for me.
I WM just on the point of hauling down
my flag and surrendering, for like the
woman who hesiteted, wag lost, when up
came Capt. Gulliver. The first thing the
old man did was to hit the Jew between the
eyes with a well•directed blew straight from
the shoulder. Ilia next 'lotion was to seize
me by the collar and almost shako my liver
out, for the old mati's grip was like iron aud
he had a most wonderful biceps. The jew
picked himself op from the pavement and
waddled off as fast as Ws fat paunch and
short legs would permit, twittering maledic-
tions as he disappeared round the corner.
You young swab," satd the skipper to
me, " you've begun your pranks early, but
I'll bring you up with around turn. You're
going right home 10 your mother instead of
gallivanting about the highway and sending
your soul to hell."
He never let go his grip, and he legged
me up Thames street on the way to the
Londoo Bridge Railway Station.
I had been the bad boy ot the family,
hated by all hauds and thestook, always in
loot water and mischief, mudlarking on the
beach, running away to sea, and aetting
evil example to thogood little boys of Ports-
latle-by-Sett. The effeminate curate once
preached a sertnon about me in the old ivy -
clad church, but I ttt even with him by
climbing through t vestry window and
bedaubing his surplice tvith Mr. I was only
14 years old, and my mother's grandfather
bed been a privateer, or perhaps, a. pirate;
so, according to the delightful doctrine of
Darwin, I was notiu the least to blame for
my winked behavior, lint the curate me
the last straw. I had to go to sea or the
workhouse. I preferred the former.
ith Lb ranklilig sense of injury against
the cowardly curate mean enough to attack
a child from the pulpit, I shook the dust
of Portslatle•by-Sea from my shoes and,
pursuant to arrangements made beforehand
shipped ou the Hurl:mot as " midshipma n "
iod eave the mark I I found out after-
ward that my mother bad sent n, pathetic
letter to Capt. Gulliver, urging him to look
after me, m10100'110 dicl. He icept his weather
eye on me all the time front the hour we
took ma departure from the Lizard to that
eventful afternoon when we hauled into
dock. That Jotter gained for me many a
severe ropes•endin
After two years of virtual slavery I want.
ed a little relaxation, Peat:lade and the our -
ate seemed just a trifle worse than the in.
reefed risgions, but I had to go as the skip-
per tank me to the Station and locked me
np teem artment with strict injunctions
to tho guar( riot to let me out tali I reached
my destination. Of course I could have
jumped. out of the Whitlow but to tell
the truth I was seared to death of
my (amain, whose last injunction was that
be would tt rattle my rigg lig down" in the
most approved st yle if I did not obey his
orders, I heal no alternative lint to grin
and bear it I wen 1. home and, strange to say,
found rather en juyithic, I =Via' 1.100allitt
reit/moiled to the aerate, however.
eNfter fortnight's loafing I longed to nee
my ehipmatea, I got leavo of absence
and a tempound note and started for Lon-
don, On my areival there 1 steered all Mat.
ern course for Itatclifte Highway, knowiug
inttinetively that each of my ship's crow tie
hadn't been I oreed by want of money to go
to sea would be foiled eruising tlioae litti.
tulaulmi..olo't been long on my comae when 1
sight ,..1 itacited group of Men and women
forming It ring. I forced my way through
and there, struggling on the ground, saw
my old thipmate, Manuel Iteraza, He was
afflicted with dtariton, trisnens, known
among seamen as the " horrors," q'lle mot.
loy crowd of seen and vvomen that smolt,
chid him took great pleasuist in his antiaa
lIo evidently saw snakes and dritgone.
Manuel was ft meet myeterious mid re-
served num. /la was about fin years old,
Mid Was a Spaniard hy birth. Ilts spoke
well, howeeer, and seemod hove
some queer dislike to num of hie own nation.
STILL-RUNTING.
;tiny. tinnuel and I had been inhales, Ito
had tangle me to spilee and steer, and I :Some :intend:it Adore ttri.int 0 Prom:est
The ideal still.hunter allould be noiseless,
odoelosaand invielble, saya Henry 13rowning,
11181u:0c Unfortunately the ideal 18,
in this ease, impel:Bible, hub the noiwer the
roquircd eondlt ton can bo approached the
Was ilot going to allow him to wallow In the
gut tee and he jibed al, by the jeering crimps
and grinning harridans of the highway.
A mach happened to be passing, driven
by a 1110111 with an honest (meat:maims I
hailed him, lied tolling him that the man in
the water waa a friend of mine, enlisted his
eymnathies. It was a task of tie little tact
to get filenuel into the easels The imitate.
tors were Intli to lose him, as he had long af -
Netted them a free exhibition, hut att he
looked more ragged than rieh the coachman
and 1 at last got him into the vehicle and
started for a lodging house of respectability
in the neighborhood of Pewee Hill. There
I found modest quarters for him, and made
up my mind 00 stick to him until 110 got
well or died. The husbaud of the landlady
w ag a nurse in one of the hospitals. Ile
told me to dose hint with strong black eoffee
until he got better ; to put ioe on los head,
and to give him oceasional doses of lesela.
num This may not hove been orthodox
treatment, bot Manuel recovered and in a
week Was on his Iffns again,
Strange to say, he was not ungrateful.
He asked me how he could reward me for
what I hnd done for hum
" Alaeuel," said, " you remember that
slave ship with 250 skelototta in the hold
and the beautifully dressed woman that fell
to pieces when the skipper tonohed her, that
the Hurl:are fell in with south of the line ;
tell me whet yoe know about her. That
same night, when you were half -seas over.
you said you were acquainted \Vial 110e
history, Let's have the yarn."
The topic was evidently a distasteful ono
to the old salt. He hated to tell the story,
but he could not refuse me. It was a long,
disconnected yarn, but when reduced to
coherency and brevity it ran something like
thie :
The slaver's name was the' Santissima
Maria. She had been built in Cadiz es.
peeially for the Mare trade between tbe
Congo asid Cuba. She was commanded by
a (lathing captain whosename was Don Dia.
go de Ramires„ an aristocrat, member of an
old Cast:Ilion family luta handsome as he
w as cruel and lawless. Many a eargo of
live stock lie hod carried to Cuba, to work
on the plentations, his agents having a
depot e, few leagues up tho Congo to which
the Africans were brought from the interior
by the Arabs.
Shuttle]. had been a page to the mother o
Capt. Ramirezmulacted as a sort of cabin boy
on the Santissitne. Maria, On the day that
the slaver sailed from Havana on her last
voyage, Capt. Ramirez hail kidnapped the
lovely daughter of a wealthy sugar planter
and had carried her off to sea. Ile was inad•
ly infatuated with her, but strange to say
would not take advantage of her unprotects
ad and helpless condition. He implored her
to i»erry him but she refused. The voyage
went on as usual. The 250 negroes were
shipped and the schooner set sail for Cuba.
She was never, however, able to get out of
sight of land. Just 00 the seedy shores of
the coast were about to fade from view, the
wind would suddenly drop, and. some mys-
terious current would dinft the schooner
back to shore.
The captain greW frantic mill rage. He
peepett•ated unheard of cruelties on his orew
who in turn plotted his death, Stories of
the beautiful giel in the cabin were taken to
the forecastle by the steward NV110 told of
her prayers and team The savage sailors
associated her with the non-success of the
expedition, thinking that she exercised some
supernatural tulluenoo on the weather. She
was also dew's •1.
One afteritnon the ringleaders mnsfe a
dash on the contain and his two mates as
they were conierring on the quarter deck.
They cut their throats ana throw tilde
bodies overboard. Then they looked the
bettor the huntor'e chalice of RueeeSS. 0010
min walk through tvoodti onleelessly oy b
ing properly 011001 end by using ow • in tl
selection of a Minting suit he can IBILIS4 11111
self practically in vielbie W11110 motionlee
Danger of detection by the keen nostrils
the woodland deer can 11ever he guard°
Telma with a certainty of success, hut 11
selection of auitable elothing and footive
is of prime importance and should never
negleoted,
Most sportsmen jump at the conclusio
that a tan-calm:oil Boit of corduroy or due
ia juat the thing for a deer -hunts bat
worse mistake could not be made. tla
mean approximating the color of the dee
inust be avoided—there being a daoger Go
can hardly be over -rated of getting shot b
some (melees oe excitable Minter Who mak
it a rule to shoot first and think afterward
Hence, the coltie adopted should be as nem
ly as possible the color of the background
and this, of coarse, changes with the natut
of the ground hunted over, the character
the forest growth, and other causes th
the hunter will learn to recognise and cot
sislor—always supposing that the colo
selected be not. too near that of the dem
for the reasons given.
While deer.hunting, all moving object
should 11.• closely watched until their iclen
tity ehlald181100. A glimpse of a deer
o'leti misleading, as they show differentl
different lights. A patch of hair wit
the sun shining fairly upon it will look
too hito for deer ; while the same pateh,
if seen in the shade with a dark bask.
ground, will appear almost black, Thus
the circumstances under whit& objects are
seen will sometimes deceive the eye of the
most expert ivoodsman.
My own experienee taught me bow casiltyt
ono may be mistaken. 1 once mistook
boar for a calf but, following my old role of
reducing possibilities to certainties, discor•
ered my error in time to bay the game.
Again, sow, in some bushes, what I took
to be a skulking buck. Waiting a 11)00050
to be sum, the animal came out in full
—a whail', big" grey well. No ono might
eVer to fire a 91111 uniess they It niv positive-
ly what they are sheeting at. There is
acceptable excuse to be giveu foe shooting
brother hunter. (hie may plead a mistaltet
iu the ordinary transactions of life but no
this.
AV Fah hunting, walk as rapidly as priest We
e-ilthout making uneecessary 310180 bot
never go more than 100 yards hetere stop;
ping and looking carefully in all direction
for at least live minutes, Walk in it straight
line as near 115 yon can, and keep a big tee
a thicket, or any natural object direetly i
el;
trent ; for by this means you keep hidden
from any deer that may be before yeti.
Most amateur hunters are always looking
for tails—stalking through the woods at it
swinging gait with their eyes forever rivet -
ted ahead. This is a very good way to see
deer tails, but, while you follow such tactics,
you cannot hope to see anything more,
Green bands at, still -hunting are always too,
anxious to see deer, and, tu consequence
cover too much ground.
'the golden maxim for still-huntels is,
" Don't hurry." 'I'hree mace is enough to
hunt over and hack in one day. This art
tails a six miles walk, and the time not
speut in walking ean be occupied In watch-
ing to great advantage. Deer alwaye have
well•established pass -ways from one scope
of woods to another, and it is a good plan
to Mint along those, regardless of time of
day ; for the deer will often lie down on o
un to 1 50 yards, tool with all the ametsation
that eau Ito twoured. it should ie largo en.
outfit in eatiber " bleed " a dime the first
Ijump that lio makes after being ettnek—for
there /ten very few dem, ehot dead in their
trtici:;• in initel that there am only three
things that will invariably drop It floor dead
in its teach ; tool they are It br0111010 beak or
o peck, or a shot through the braln. If a
°' deer ref own to tumble nt, tho crack of your
glin don't take it for granted that you haVe
1' scored a miss, Go whore the animal stood
find look oarefally for heir or blood, It is
eimpty impoesible to get a bullot into a
" deer without knocking offmore or loss hair,
'° and will always be found where the game
WaS stendiug ; but sometimee it deer will go
"o considemble distanee before blooding a
drop—eapecially if sliot with 15 small (AU -
L' bored rine. Even when shot with a 45 or a
'1- 50 caliber, tho bleeding is sometlines 'wind-
', pally internal. However, a eareful itispec.
1:- tan of "810 " will tell if the game ie hit,
5 and if such la the Me, itlWays Wok to the
10, trail jest lo»g ynn possibly can, 00 till
Y the deer is found, It always pays to follow
es up your shots, litany fine deer luts been
0. lost that probably never went over 300 yards
r^ after reeeleing the bullet. Don't erowd
1 your deer if yott know. it te be shot in the
'0, penult (and the sign left ou the kali will
°I invariably toll if this is Gm case). Clive him
al time to lie down and sieken, then he is
onsily SeetWell. Atill finally, if your deer
r gets into water and siolts d.on't give it up.
t A deer! if not shot in the paunch, will al-
wnys rise within from one to throe hours—
o the time depends on the contents of the
deee'a stomach and the temperature of the
i° water. Few hunters know this, but ib 10
Y nevertheless a fact.
girl up in her stateroom heedless to her 0510S their regular paths, Alwnys Iota
cries. After battening the hatches down against. the wind. when it is steady. If it i
they deserted the schooner, leaving her t unsteady or very high it is best uot to travel
her fate. They made for the shore in the much, lint sit down and wateh 1 for deer
boats, and soon after landing .it ere taken are restless on windy clays. and, when on
prisoners by a baud of marauding natives, foot, keep moving almost continually. A
b1anuel succeeded 111 escaping to the slave fault with Many hunters who ought t
depot, and worked his passage to Cuba tit know better is, that they will pick out a,
the next slaver. Hs never itilew what be.
pl'alareteicTlekrisUpaotdtettela,alinidau"dP Su! 1
gonuitt "; fpoet,r itiultio;st
came of 0 he crew of tho Semtissitne, Movie,
and the last time lie saw the schooner. u,,,A. Juinruf a deer or two oa the way that
,.„„„;„g seaward wail, ah,„et hair „ pie 0f hunting instead of blundering blindly
the Hurkarti's men boarded her, site was mig It owe been killed if they hail been
wind behind her, p.na wo., soon lost to view. through the woods. There 18 only ono way
Ho seid he recognized the vessel at once, to profit by ttll the chances, and that is to
and that the girl was foond in the saino 1'0 milv11-70 on the lookout, and to aut as
position aS when she sva.s loft. Tho crew, though you had a big buck in sight and was
he wail, bad become convineed that the " making it sneak on him.
school er was bewitched and that she would Beer are of ton found in the moat unlikely
never lotto sight, of teed. As for the wretch. looking places,—wherever a man skilled in
hunting, and thoroughly pasted on the habitat
ed slaves sweltering in their manacles below
they never gave t.hein a thought but loft of "er frcs" years of observation, would
them to starve. !levee thiult of looking for one. No ono
Such was the mystery of the Santiesima would think that an old buck would teeth'
Maria as unfolded to me by Manuel 13eraza. over miles of rongh woods and through neves
t finely believe the od ma„ was speaking of dense thickets to lie down, finally, in the
thc truth. A. J. It. broad glare of day, within thirty yards of a
SHOE SIZES.
A, Wetted or an. Inch stakea witem—Tile
bur or wrting on.
A third of an inch gives us 0 full eize in
length oi shoe ; sixth furnishes the inter.
mediate point. betweco two sizes the naving
of which is desirable, i f praetteatfie ; a small
frection of breadth goes a good way in ee.
curing ooto fort, and in girth of bolter instep
an infinitesimal part of an inch is sornotbnes
an ell of freedom ; quarter of an inch is u.
good deal of letting down or elevating at the
heel, and the difference of a sixteenth is
readily perceptible at the tole.
For these reasons suddett and extreme
main road where waggons were passing al
most hourly. I once slow.tmilod axle fo
five twig houra and at last jumped Inin on B
pnblio road, He was lying in animal thick°
of persimmon boshos and blacklists.), briar
and would have let me peso hint by if th
opportunity had been granted him.
arale, amateur hunters allow them
selves to be guided too much by impressisn
that lack substantial foundation, Tramplog
through the woods with their guns ott theii
sheolclers, they often discover carbon spot
NEGRO ELOQUENOE.
InIshons ratted to noose a Colored
congregation.
White preachers cannot move a colored
congregation as the negroes can and do, In
November, 1860, when the general conven-
tion of the Episcopal Church met in Rich-
mond, the pastor of the largest colored con-
gregation there --the Baptist Church, which
hed bought- and owned its pastor—courte-
ously invited some of the bishops to acid vese
them, The choicto fell on Bishop Williams,
of Coneectieuthild. Bishop Clarke, of Rhode
(eked, booth extremely eloquent prenchers,
and they stood up before 3,000 hearers and
did their hest to valise them, The colored
pt•ople sat silent and admiring before the
two prelates, bolt gaVe 010 out ward sign of
'merest. Presen tly the Pastor arose, thank.
ea his vieitors 111 the nal»0 of hia fleck, and
then Went, on to make applieto toe of ivhat
they had heard. His first wniale were like
it breath of wind over a field of ripening
grain. Every head eespoitiled. Then came
sighs, groans and shouts as the great deep
of human feeling waa broken up, aud 3,0011
people were in tears and tit tho oes of
sympathy. " tell yell," said ono of the
hishope afterward, in earral ing his experi-
°Dee. " I WWI ashamed of myself when
watched the power of the eolored preacher
and recogniZed my own renews"—
The following waS overheard 010 a country
road. Little boy to earter-- " Hey, man, yer
horse has been oatin' barrels. " Hoe dne
ye ken that?" " 'Cause I aee the girds shin-
througlet."
Samples of Caoadian twerowed Imlay of
this year's crop are nOW in England, and the
Canadian Government authorities there ore
doing all they can to promote the interests of
an export trade in that article to the 11 other
Country. Tho samples are eidlit in number,
good judges say the gram is bright aucl
plamp, and the weight renims from 53 lbs. to
57 lbs. per bushel. The etimplee will be
divided amongst British brewers and =R-
iled applied for
eters, some of whom
specimens of the Canadian product, The
Edinburgh Neetsinati says " it is considered
to be established that Canadian berley of a
good qnality can be placed in fIreat Bei tain
at a profit ' This is satisfactory, and as
Canadian products have generally a high
reputation In England, it would 5100. be sur-
prising if the new barley succeeded well.
Trouble must, of course, be taken, but the
Canadian farmer will take it if he is reason-
ably sure of good price.
AN EAST INDIAN GAOL.
Sertline Otillerean or Prisoners.
Tho latest Indian papers report a serious
outbreak in Rampur Heel, Itappears that cm
Smulay, October 35, Major Vincent visited
the gaol on an -tatter uouneeted tvith the dis-
posal of criminal Itionties. On his arrival
he was infoemed that throe prisoners had
been giving tronbie and had a complaint to
make abont 1110 DOW order that prisoners
should woar gaol clothing, The men were
sent for, but only two appeared. They ware
asked where the third man WILS, but instead
ot answoriug, they suddenly rushed away
into the gaol fitotory. Major Vincent bad
two oed mil es tenth him, and these WOV0 sent
'.' to recall the item. The ordeelies had no
S sooner entered the factory than they wore
set upon by 30 of tho 'prisoners 00111001 with
s bamboo poleta and carpet knives, They were
° knookod down and severely wounded before
they had a ohanoo of defending theinaelvea.
' Majoe Vincent weet to their rescue mid
s was hinsolf attacked.' He managed, how-
ever, to get the two men away, and with
the assistanoe of the guard outside closed
5 the gates, thus preventing the escape of the
priseners. He then prooured the aisistance
of troops, lint before these arrived the whole
pla00 waS in a ternioll. Tho prisoners had
broken off their fetters, emu isome of them
had armed themselves with swords'and re-
volvers of the orderlies, They were called
upon to surrendet and retire quietly to
their quarters, but they obstinately refused
to do so. They were eventually fired upon
and they then lied to their barracks leaving
ono of their number dead. on the ground.
The troona thou occupied the gaol, and an
investigation was held by all the meinbers
f 'it t
that they will declare excellent plums for
deer. Ask thom why they Guth so, and
they will low° no sensible reason to give.
Doer will sometimes got in the way of such
hunters --for deer will commit blunders,
changes in the size or weight of shoes tiro sometimes, its well es men—but don't de -
judicious. Evan tho "paper mole" (which pond on a blunder for meat. Whon you. get
ought novor to ho worn lu any place), should on a deer rouge, the first thing to do t8 to
be replaced by ono only littlo thicker at hod out whore the game travels most, what
Bret. After the stm111100 shoo the proper they are feeding on and the time they feed.
thing is 0110 of -medium weight before the! Afterwards determine the number of doer
winter article is in order, and come that: 011 tho range, thoir age and 00X, and then
(100811't now moan a thick, cuinhcesomo thee, ' you emu hunt intelligently, Always at u
ati it once did. j the eignti, tracka, etc., carefully before
Very few shoe Salesmen have stock of wasting any lune in hunting. 01100 klIONV
patience that Will held 0011 beyond the try.' a fellow who Minted faithfillly for fonr days
mg on the sixth pair of Filmes for a wonout in a see et of woodland tellero I had never
custoniet. liming or buttoning of this seen, 0 ( yeti trot:kJ-much less u. doer, It IS
ininiber is considerable labor of itself ; 11111100e8eary In slate that ho had. 100 venison
with each now one t.rhal there le the usual to spoil on Ina hands.
amount of preliminary talk about the style, I Some gond hunter/4 are very eareful to
price, ete. avoid. getting bleed col 111010 I toots or cloth.
" Ovor them is a Watnan," says a dealer, ing. 'Privy feat that a ilea could them
" hos 11,40,1 tal4mt SU feels farther it they did. so, end (hie is prdathly
WOrHe than 040 51,11,, !Wont a, no a correct belief ; hut nothing excites a deer
has a peculiarly shaped foot, and none of the :so nitiell as the smell of fresh blood, and
Nimes, thus far. feel cot»fortabio holt ' when a deer getsexelted it will do some very
1411011 a case if the clerk ehowa weariness ho. foothill Oleg& The scent of it 1010011 they
0801i 1113 tl 8 1111101.
The alleged pteferenee of W0111011 in quest 040 lint at, tho tenon of blood they will
rondily rocognmo and 007c emir la gni ic 011.
of shoos 1.0 be waited noon by nude rather snort mild bolInd wildly, here and th01.e,
than fernitie elerh is probably dne to the thorigh trying te locate the direction from
fact that 41:eternity can tell them more about whiell the strange odor miles, seemingtv
shoos and Teatime than tho hater. Many fit veryeuriotts lind ant what it mewls, A
pair of shoes ie fetid by the aid 'of a little (leer e nese ie his best eitfe.goard and 'if it
judicinus shoe lore, even if pa1°01y itilin were eel, for his neat° 8011800f enroll a singlo
gible to the buyer, In tho matter of petf-' deer could be easily approaded--Iespecially
once there isn't moth difference botwoon the ' when feuding.
sexes. I As to the best, kind of a rifle for deer.
• almoting naive have been written, end al.
A man (loos not liko to appear in poldie '
most every man who ever sew a tater atm a
stolen hat 'manse it is not Mast*,
'rifle has wino kind of a " potent idea " on
Aluminum boor mugs prevent the boor , the subjeet, The writer, twofers a rills that
front booming fiat for a lot% time, 'will Make as level a trajectory 01.0 possible
• y 03 110-
IiH1112(1 (Slat the vising had been deliberately
planned, and. with a 1111.11A10110118 intent.
Five of tit 1 1
trial, ormilemneth to death, and foetli with
exceut ell, It has not beenetnI:ouigoillit ,tioao ;as;
,
Vincent's hand itulireetly by quietly placing
within mill a tonobor of troops KWH:lent to
overawe the inaluontonts in llintipnr, Four
hundred men of the Hampshire Regiment
similar number of the I 1 th Native In.
, , . ,
point tn. tiraiHil tOrrii01.7 Within three milos
of tho town of itempur, Th.01,0.
("entry have marched front llal:illivymterett.
main in camp witilm the 1101010 1 border
during the cold weather, Major Vincent,
whose life Wan aimed at, meanwhile remains
at Itampor.
A. woman named Mary Ann Brialtiy was
en &Imlay afternoon, in one of tho
main etreets of Bolton by being knocked
down and run ovor a butcher's horse and
trap, The (hirer, William Heleby, woe
igibsequantly arrested on a ohargo of mint
slanghter, W11.8 rommiloil by the bor-
ough Magiatratee on Monday morning until
an Inquest is held, lt, is alleged lio was
driving reeklemsly, and len. thop 0 o woman
dying in the $troot.