The Brussels Post, 1892-3-11, Page 3MAltcu 11, 1892
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HOUSEHOLD,
01111d and Mother.
10 1011MS 1(1111,),
0, Ilfother•M1.L0ve,11 you'll giro mo your
hand,
And go whore 1 husk yen to wander,
f will lead 0033 away tun beautiful land,
The Grottmlend that's waiting4, mut yonder.
Wolf walk 10 a 0w00t preengaien ou:O there,
\Nhrre mnunllgl11 and 0.1'010111, aro atreetn-
ung,
And t ne names and the blyde aro .filling the
tall'
With the frag3nnco and muslo of dreaming,
There'll bo no little tired out boy to vedettes,
No t(uestlols or eared to perplex you ;
There 11 bo4,o litho ,)fulcra Or buulps to mare89,
Nor notching of 81001400 to vox you ;
For I'l'l rook you away on a sliver (law stream
And eine' you to troop when you're weary.
And no ono than know of our beautiful (beam
Hut you and your own 114lo deario.
And when 1' ata tired f'll nostlo my hoed
1n the bosom that's soothed neo so often,
And the wide awako stars shall sing, in my
stead
A !Mug, Wl1lc11 nor dreamland ellen sof ten,
elOtor.MyLove, 101 mo take your dear
hand,
And away through the sterlight we'll
wander,
Away through Cha mist to Cho 1 oauttftd land,
Tho Dreamland that's tealtblg out yonder.
Three Pairs of Shoes.
There they aro, in a neat little row under
the mantle in the children's bed -room, a
pair of twelves, a pair of nines and a tiny
pair of fives, belonging to the baby. They
are all more or less wrinkled and worn, and
the pair of twelves have holes in the toes,
which caused me to say a little while ago to
the sturdy wearer of. them, that Otero was
"no sense in hie kioking out thous like
thole" and if he was not more careful he
would Met, have to go barefooted. He hoard
100 with the utmost indifference, as 1 know
from the fact that the threat was hardly out
of mymeth when lie asked. 10 of f know
e eve 1 .' 111
whose little boy he would have been of I had
never been born.
"You might havo been the little boy of
some papa who couldn't have bought you
any shoes At all," I said reproachfully.
" Oh, well," he maid mainly in the full-
ness and beauty of his childish faith, "Clod
has millions and millions of shoes, and 1
could just ask Him fora pair whenevor 1
wanted them. Don't you see, papa?"
Tlreo pairs of shoes 1 Throe peers of
'tender little fact upon the uutricd border
of life's mysterious land. Isit and look at the
little shoos, wondering where the foot that
wear them will be led in the time to come
-the little fent that
Through long years
Arnot wander on, 'end lopes and fours,
How much would I give to know the Qe
tura, that I might stand between them and
the temptations 00 sure to assail them, that
I might glide their feet aright, that Imight
shield than from pain and sorrow, if I could
There is something strangely appealing and
half pathetic to every loving father and
mother in the sight of a row of little shoes
like those I see before mo now, They
arouse the tenderest in8tlnet8 of one's na.
tura. 1 don't know why.
The wearer of these little shoes may
have been very fretful or mieehievous
or trying ell day. You may have been
"all out of patience" with them. You
may have whipped the little hands or put
the rebellious little ones to bed, (lecher.
lug that 1 hey were " worrying the life ontt of
you ; Put they are not worrying you any
non a e you go about picking up a title
0tae11tn e ere and 0 little shirt there, with
nothing but tenderness in your heart to -
Ward them. You think only of how preo-
ious the wearers of bele little clothes aro,
and thorn is no melody on earth one half so
sweet to yen as the nunsio of the baby
voices when they knelt around you a little
while ago, saying : " tio(i bless mamma and
papa and keep us all safely through the
night," You will hear no sweeter mush
than that tulle side of paradise.
You reproach yourself for your lack. of
tenderness and patience as you 100k at that
tittle row of shoes, ted sometimes you fall
to thinking of the nuutteralde sorrow that
would fill your heart to breaking if the
wearer of any ono pair of the little shoos
would wear them no 11101.0 -if you should
awaken some morning, as heari-broken
fathers and mothers have sometimes await•
ened, and find that the wearer of one
flair of the little 0hoes had crone from you
en the night: to wear the garments that
wax not old,
Three pairs of little shoes 1 There are
are in your eyes as you look at them now,
and perhaps you ideal softly to the bedside
of the little sleepers, to make sure that
they aro sleeping sweetly and safely and to
touch their little hands or their cool, moist
brows with your lips, Your heart filled with
tender memories, with hopes and fears,
with unspoken prayers, Three pairs of tittle
sloes 1 'Three little pilgrims just setting
out on the voyage of life, their frail barks
as yet untimehed and unharmed by adverse
winds and waves. Clod bring us all to port I
Ohoioe Receipts.
WALiture CAtll,-One cup of sugar, two
eggs, one fourth clip of bu11er, one cup of
hulled walnuts, one cup of street milk two
heaping teaspoons of baking powder, sifted
in two cups of flour. Flavor to 114010. A
frosting made of the white of an egg and
ono cup of sugar improves the looks of 1t
very much,
(:l0i:Aillto Oceoviset.-Boil Ohe pith of
milk, thluk0n it with ono tablespoonful of
dour. Tho easiest way to mix them is to
put them eageth01 in a bowl set of top of
the boiling teakettle, stir them occasionally
as the butter melts, 11,1111 they 1130 smooth.
ly blended, 111111 with la 1l tale of the hot 0111k
then mix alln together; season all wi th pepper
and add a heaping uupful of shredded cod'
fish, Serve very hot.
Boman !Into -Soak In teeter over night,
Next morning 101(011 hard with a coarse
cloth or stilt bru0)1, and put 00 to boil with
plenty of cold water. Allow 11 qool'tor of 1131
hem' to each pound in cooking, and not boil
too fast, Do not remove the oleic 00111 cold;
it will come off easily and cleanly 1)100, and
t110 juice are bettor roeervod Men when. it
is stripped hot. Cult very thin when carv-
ing.
Manus Ifitocioreeite P1:nntNg,-0no cup
of auger, three spoonfuls of beater, half a
cup of cold Water, two eggs, two Dap of
flour' and two spoonfuls of Gai1iug powder ;
divide the nllixtur0, mid put half a oup of
grated chocolate into 0110.1,01E of it. Pub
00m1 of the plain into the mould first, then
the chocolate, and so on until it is all used,
Steam one Hour. To be eaten with fruit
0381100,
Catlnit11Pant. -This is an oxoellent and
Cheep dessert, Boil a oup of rice iti now
nlfils t tvnou about half cloleadul the yellow
rind of m 101noi cut fine and m little grated
nutmeg. Sweeten to taste, w11e11 vary 1111010
and tender pin, into small cups; when
gnitn cold elite 11 out end poet over it some
thiel' and modelled °ream o'stuwo,1 Boit,
It is delicious with a mixture of 011r1lt1te
Mel l mmpbarriee crowed,
BROWN 13111r.w.- Two•t11fr110 of a 0npfdl
of molesees, two cupfel0 of sour milk, one
(glide] of Sweet milk, two 1,0ag:tid els of
0 ,1Ia, one teeepeonful of salt, ono cupful of
11011', foto' cupfuls of earn meal. Steam
three hour0 aid brown a fow mhlutes lin the
oven.
MAnAno01 Ann 1'omaeo ,amore -To pre.
Imre thin nut'i1ions mud palatable (Bele
break 1110 nlaetaonl (shall pipe) into two
inalllett.gthe, after having carefully examined
i1 to sou that it i0 geed, and drop it into
boiling milk end water, egnel parte, lend
boil until perfectly wetter. One hour of
longer will usually bo 1011uf1ed for this,
Have ready a 830000 Heade 300 (0110 v0; Take
a pint of strained, stowed tomatoes, end
heat to boiling, thicken with a heaping tea•
spoonful of flour rubbed smooth in a little
water, add salt If desired, and at lent a half
cup of bot cream. Boil up together for a
minute. Mall the macaroni; and turn the
dressing evenly over it.
STORY OP A BRAVE DEED.
Trio Epinedo of torts WlltOano lloreerore
and Mersa. O'Toole.
What one likes to Archibald Forbes
"Barracks, Bivouacs, and Battles," is the
aur of freedom, the robustness, the jaunts•
nese of theso episodes in the pagont of war,
Men do their brave deeds without parade
and without false humility, but with just a
touch of assumed carelessness, Of coure8 no
man risks hie life without caring, unless he
le utterly tired of it -and in that case there
is no opeoial merit in reining after death.
But really to enjoy life to the utmost, and
put it all in peril fora sentiment or through
ambition to wear a bauble of a cross, which
mans honor -that takes 110008 ; and to do
it with a smile, tie though it wore one of
Cho polite conventions of life, which are
expected of every gentleman, 10quiries
inure than that phys1eal importababloness
which we call "nerve "-111(1001110(1100103111.
fast spirit. So in these sketches, when we
reed of Lord William Beroaford riding into
the very face of death to snatch a wounded
sergeant from the oncoming Zulus, we feel
admiration/or his humanity. Anil when we
read that the wounded men refused to go
with him because it would endanger two
Iivee ins1eed of bringing inevitable death to
one -we say he also is a brave man. But
when it is added that Lord William '(swore
with clenched Not that he would punch the
wounned man's heed if he slid not allow his
live to be saved" -the touch of humor brings
the whole scene within the range of our sym-
pathies, Itis nota phly Puy longer with
actors of another race, but a hit of ordinary
everyday life made ideal. Then we say:
"Hero is a hero." Then a third man 11p•
pears, Irish Sergi. O'Toole, and he shoots
down the pursuing 'Lulus, who are at the
very heels of the overburdened horse, and
the three comrades together at hast reach
safety, By and by the British troops sail
horse, but the news of 1110 brave deed has
Icing preceded them. Lord William is sum•
mimed to Windsor to receive see Victoria
cross. Surely he had oatmeal" loubly; but
'here is room for even more "stuff' fn such
a hero. Ho will have no honor that ho can
not ahem with O'Toole; and the queen knows
veiny when she 00%0 it and gives two Victoria
crosses. Then we say; "llere is a hero who
is not only humane and bravo hut generous
and modest, and withal he hes a sense of
humor. Why, 11e is not what the books cell
a hero -he is a man, every inch o1 him, and
I would like to take his laud and tell him
so."
Lord Selkirk tie a Colonist.
Lord Selkirk's was a practical soul. On
one occasion fn animadverting against the
North-West Company he spoke of them
contemptuously as fur -traders, yet he ova
the chief of all fur -traders, and had been
known to barter with an Indian himself mt
one of the forts for a fur. Ho held up the
1111lug upon the eition to ev ,knees of 11)4 Indianscorn of the world as s by
giving them alcohol, yet 11e ordered distil -
lei ie8 set up in his colony afterwards, saying
-" We grant the trade is iniquitous, but
if we dont carry it on others will ; so wo
may as well put the guineas in our own
pockets." But he was the man of the
mo3neut, if not for it. His schome for
colonization was born of desperation on one
side and dietr800 on the other. It was per.
sued amid terrible hardship and against in.
aes8811t violence. It was consummated
through bloodshed. The story is Oa inter.
eating as it i0 important. The facto aro
obtained mainly from " Papers rolaeing to
the Red River Settlement, ordered to be
printed by the House of Oo,nmon0, July
12111,1810."
Lord Selkirk owned 40,000 0 the ZI05,.
000 (or shares) of the Hudson Bay Company;
therefore, since 95',000 were hold by women
and ohildren, he held half of all that ear-
riod votes. Ile got from the oompany a
grant of a large eruct around what es now
Winnipeg, to form an agricultural settle-
ment for etrpplying the company's posts
with provisions, We have seen how 1)1110
disposed its officers were to pen the land to
001110rs, or to test its agrlenItural cars.
°Wtien. No one, therefore, will wonder that
when this grant was made several members
of the gleaming Oornrnilteo resigued. But
a queer dove opem8ut of the moment was
a atroug opposition froze holders of Hudson
Bay stock who were also owners in that
company's great rival, the North-West
Company. Since the enemy persi0ted
in prospering at the expense of the
old oomptmy, the moneyed man of the
senior aorporatfon had taken stook of their
rivals. Those doubly interested persons
were 3.100 fn London, so that the North.
West Company was 110 longer pueely Can•
intim). The opponents within the Iludsou
Bay Company declared civilization to be at
all tunes unfavorable to the flu' ''ado, and
the North-West people mrgued that the
colony w0ol(1 form is nlrsm•y for somas of
the Bay Company, enabling them to oppose
the North-West Compmny more oll'etW ally,
as well as affording eneh facilities for tem -
comers ea must destroy their oven monopoly,
The North-West Company denied Cha leg-
ality of the charter right0 of the lltrrlson
Bay Company because Parliainoitt had not
00nfir111Cd (ile(trles .11'0 charter.
Trioks of the Fruit.
At Covent Garden :Market English goods
131•0 disposed of mostly by private sale, cltlr•
er to middlemen ill the market 013 to the re-
tail shopkeepers. 11'he foreign goods are
sold by nucleon to all feeese8 of the trade.
Some of the auottonecrs have regular grow.
ors,who. send them Oa lrl'e11e11 ears 111
cass, Those French se idmv8 elloly a little
slip of coloured silk to hmlg out some of the
o ases, and these cases 1100 the sample oases,
a face well known, of 00nrse, to lheauction-
nee and lthm pot tees. Out nl a oousignment
of 1,000 oases there may be ken or twenty 01
these sample eases with the eolourod meek,
which ie too small for the uninitiated to ob.,
0erv0r1
.3- -30,, as
od
A leap year fanny, is a ecarf-pill in the of
form of an interrogation point.. It do- so
O igled for yoong Ladies to present to eligible ct
gentlemen friends, I t1
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THE ODITUltD OF OATS• covering of the roots. Titus the tavern
of the aced le boat Clone by moans of
11Y 11tMav a'rk- tVAFT, vaulter harrow Ora cultivator, ultller o
('ne oat crop 111 0110 of the moat 13001111 of wideli acts sea plow would do, whflo th
o lithe shall geeing, and Mader the beat aur. oommon spike harrow merely stirs the see(
Ovation may be made ono of true most rc8t- 017(1 Cure so0 together without affording any
p sutficiant covering,
able, But Its requlramoota aro not fulfilment-
ly
thegient' It goes without Baying that the boot seed
iya1llun, stoonahoindthtel'0111)0311.0111 It goes
bo sown, And as the grain
is well nntl0r01004 wo rind that ft is egltelly dctorloretos in a warm climate, it 10 beat to
exhaustive of the Poll as any other grain, rooure seed from a northern and 8001%3
but while it requires good feeding it, Is re- loeallt , sketch or /gee varieties which
markably generous In 118 return to the farm• have boon grown a year or two in Canada
or, Moreover, under the boot method of mak% oxcnglont seed, and forty p0utlda to
seeding the land to grass or clover, or both, Cha be le the lightest 1)141 should he
dela to found t0 110 the !pout !averse/ea crop sown, Soma of the Sootoh and Irish
of all that may be used for this purpose, Ise varieti00 weigh over fifty pounds to the
compared w,ib wheat, which ie eornmonly Gusher, and 111tq.rlx pounds hes been
oonodored the meet exaetinre of all the grains kxewn.
en the coil, we find that an average Droll of
oats takes more fertility from the land than
��
en equivalent yield of wheat. this is shown Examine Your seed
by the following figures taken from the lto. Few farmers a reciate full
thametend reports, showing the composition pP y the losses
of the dry mutter of l5 bushels of oats and 30 that eoour by reason of im(perfoot seed. A
bushels of wheat respeotivelyy : case in point may be given. The writer had
Onus. Wheat, propetred four aeras of land at a cost of *10
Ash Pounds. Pounds. per sora for manure and fertilizer,for&crop
Nitrogen L3 Rs of mangers. Tho seed was procured from
Sul bur 8 3 one of the leading seed dealers in full °one-
Pottleh 32 38 dance of Its good quality, Bat in the azar -
Soda 1! 11 else of reasonable prooaution the sped was
Magnesia 1w 10 c&rofully examined, when it was found Loj
Ph(sphm'ic Held 20 23 have been completely destroyed by mine
erhlorin0 . 0 8 that had eaten the seeds out of the oapoule8,
In a handful of the capsules there were only
a few seeds left. And the whole twenty.
four pounds, which cost 1)12, was in the
same condition. Had the seed been sown
and this discovery not been hada, the crop
prepared et this large cost would lmv° been
a complete failure, and no evidence would
have been found W place the cause of it,
No doubt the failure of many crops may
be explained in the same way. The failure
of )rasa and clover seeding is quite comluon,
and how many of these disappointments
may be due to this cause of wor1hleas seed ?
'(11880 seeds are not trustworthy alter they
ere two or three years old, and who eat tell
without a teat if the seed is really able to
germinate f Every farmer should teat the
seed ha is about to sow now before itis too
late, by germinating a sample in a saucer
with wet sand, The experiment stations
have done some good work in this way at
au example and a warning, and in several
cases have shown that the seed wa0 not',
good. This lesson sheltie not be lost,
Another fault of rood of this kiu3 in the
mix titre with pernicious weeds. These
weeds arc often found to cover the land un-
der stew reedit g. and the farmer w,uders
whence they alone. Some think atrang° to
say, that they came spontaneously, and this
belief may be excused under the Mecum-
atence0. :But the cause will be found to be
the presence of the weed.' in the grass and
elnver seed that has been sown anguardedly.
'Po detect this fault the use of a magnifying
glass will be 101111(1 useful, for it is easy to
Jetect the !cut seeds in this way. Ono can•
not lie too careful, for it is too true that us
we sow so shall we reap.
The Feeding Problem.
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a In eight per Dent. of the nuu•riages one
1 true parties 113300 been married before,
Raflavey schools fur children of railwu
employes are maintained by the rttilw
00mp0nn10 ip India, ata very smell exp00
to the pupils,
One of the Ameer's latest acts is to ord
that funeral expenses be out down beoau
of a verse of the Koran which Wnlfetnn
prodigals to Cho lower world,
The L:e0anhire County Asylum lit Preo
witch, with 2,400 pationts,and Colneylfa t0
in Middlesex, six miles north from Lon110
with a0comrnodation for 2,250 patiauate a1.
the largest lunatic asylums in England.
Thundoretorms occurred on fifty -ono day
In 1891.
A fortnight alio "Punch" was quiet]
turned into a liunted liability company.
Mr. (lledat0n0 is a groatnovel reader, an
likes those with deep and fasolnating plot
and plenty of action,
It cost a Glasgow waxworks proprleto
Is, per 8111e to convey a lion by rail from
Lan(lon to Glasgow.
Fifty per scut. of the books talon fo
perusal from the publio libraries of Paris
London, and New York, are works of fie
tion.
leer mast he very plentiful fu the,eotch
forests, 00 vet18011 fa 0tlorud for ste'e in Ndiu
burgh just now tut 411. per lb, This i0 quit
as cheap 00 oatmeal.
It is thus seen that 3,978 patinas of grain
and straw of the oats talcs more of every
element of plant food from the soil thee
4,183 pounds of the grain and straw of wheat
except the 3 pounds of phosphoric acid
which the wheat takes more than the oats.
This 18 very different from the prevailing
opinion of farmers, who are apt to believe.
OW, oats may be grown on meth less 1rrtilo
land than wheat. Tho resile 1s that one',
very rarely finds a really good crop of oats,
and the quantify as well 300 the totality of
this grails produced per mora is rarely of any
profit to true grower. And yet some growore
do 0eettr0 oxcollontand most profitable crops
of this grain by the best method of 0trlt0re,
based on the requirements of the plant. We
roil of or sometitnea see a yield of seventy-
five or eighty bus)1010 to the acre of grain
weighing nearly twice the average of the
m'(linary crops, and there are a good many
cases in whioh oate aro really the most pay-
ing crop grown on the farm. The reason
why this is uncommon is first, (lint its char
Peter as an exhaustive crop is, not generally
known 1 second, that manure is very rarely
given to it, and, third, that the procuring
of the best kinds of seed is commonly neg-
lected.
Tho fent is that this grain requires quite
careful preparation of the soil es wheat
does. Instead of a shallow scratching of
the ground in the Spring, when by reason of
tho condition of the soil the plowing must
be done too late for the best growth of the
plant, this work should be clone in the Fall.
so that advantage may be tako) of the first
opportunity of getting in the seed, which
may he done quite of ton when the !root is
still in the ground a few inches below the
0ntfae0. Early sowing is indispensable for
a long season, and cool weather is needed
for the best development of the plant. And
when thfe is Bono, by the exercise of care
and forethought the effects of adverse elf•
mato are frequently neutralized. Good
crops are thus produced when otherwise
the yield would be small and the grain
light.
A study of the above fig1re8 will give a
clear idea of what is needed in the way of
manure or fertilizers for this grain, ;t'he
boob quality of stable manure contains
everything needed, except, perhaps, the
soda and chlorine, and those are easily pro-
vided in the form of common telt (chloride
of soda.) It is doubtless on account of this
need for salt that we find the oats grown
near the sea are heavier and more produu.
tine than in inland localities, but this is
not necessarily 80 when the necessary salt
may easily be provided. The oats of Soot.
land, Ireland, Norway, Nova Scotia, and
New Brunswick 1311 expel in quality and
quantity, and it may very reasonably be
explained in this Way. As the clover con-
tains a large quantity of every element
needed by oats, a plover sod turned under
is an excellent preparation for the orop. If
the oats be sown on stubble and no manure
10 to bo 0pared for it at least 500 pounds of
a complete fertilizer should be applied.
This 81on1(1 consist of auperphoepbato of
lime, potash salts, (which will supply the
potash, magnesia, and the salt needed,)
and a seflielent quantity of available nitro-
gen, whioh is best supplied in the form of
nitrate of soda.
Thin fertilizer alone has proved exceeding-
ly useful to this grain, and an application
of 150 pounds per nerd has given an increase
of twenty bushels Of grain and 1,220 emends
of straw to the acre. In South Carolina,
where th10 grain is the lightest known, on
account, doubtloes of the warmth of the
climate, an increase of 400 per cent, of crop
has been made by 118 use. Mr. Joseph
Harris, rine of the first authorities on fere
tiljeers and general farming in America, says
that with 150 pounds of this fertilizer he
has made eighty-four bushels of grain of
forty pounds to the bushel per acre, which is
more than I00 bushels of tho legal weight of
2 pounds. But, In addition, he says " the
wheat following was e. fine Drop, and the
clover was simply gruand. Itis one of the
compensations of good culture of 11uy crop
OM those the' follow it are also benefitted.
And thne the liberal treatment of this crop
Wes returned in the two succeeding ones. A
fanner of Now Brunswick reports that the
neo of 119 /fourth of nitrate of soda &Io1ne
gave him a yield of 04 bnahols of 41 pounds
to the bushel, whioh i8 equal to 82 bushels
of 32 pounds, Without the nitrate Cho
yield was only 30 bushels of 33 pounds.
Bet where good stable immure alone is
(applied liberally the yield is always satis-
factory, The writer has grown, from fresh
seed of Oauadian growth, weighing forty-
five petnds to Cha bushel, oveietioventy-five
hesitate of grain, by measure, and of fully
equal weight, whioh is egt1111 to s0nlet111ng
over 105 1111ahols per acro of legal woig+ht.
In thin case the land Was plowed in the Fall,
the manure was spread of the snow and was
made by 8 flock of einem fed for fattening,
the ground was thoroughly wedsud by en
Acute harrow, which is really a gang of
small plows, the Beed was envei•0(1 fully
throe helt0s deep, (a most important point,)
and it was Sewn ill a mild 8pe11 of weather
in March, All those points m•o essont.ial to
the complete 0nece00 of this crop..weel•pro.
pared land, liberal use of gond inmate°,
thorough mingling of the 111ntire With Lite
soil, deep oovering of tho seed, and early
sewing ma(10 possible by previ0110 prepara-
tion of the gronn(1.
The sowing of then grain is important.
Many farmers think that the seed In11y be
sowed any way, and if it is may on the Roel
it is tie will. as if in it, This 1s a great (11111
fetal mistalte, No other grain nee is bet ter
vt+Ping, 8o that the roots may bo preeerv•
from any dry wetl1113,0 in its met etetge
growth and may t.akea firm hold ne tho
Il, It is a ahallnw-roofed plant, end with
11 ample covering 6110 roots do not go
own into the soli to a safe depth, Moro -
There is no more momentous problem oc.
copying the trends of farmers, dairymen,
and poultrymen nowadays than that of
economic feeding. Itis of all mattere one
of the greatest rrnportaoce, and can tlo
longer he rolefsted to the ignorance and the
indifference of the routine pursued in years
and in ages peat. The time was when gross
was of little value as a marketable crop,
and corn so cheaply and easily grown on
land generously supplied with the elements
of plant growth, that men took no thought
either of yesterday or the morrow, and fed
grass one-half tho year and corn the other.
13u1 now we discover that while both of
those are fit for food they neither form of
themselves n fitting tood for the growing o'
maturing animal. Digestion has much to do
with assimilation, but this is not all that is
called for. Warmth, comfort, penoe, and
ebtr11110nee of good water, and quite a num-
ber of other titin30 are called into 'emula-
tion both to aid the one and promote the
other. But, after all, if the variety of Mt -
Sheila -111e foods aro not Forthcoming in the
conditions and proportions called for by the
nervous, musoular, and belly etruotme of
the animal in their building up and develop,
monD the inevitable consequenceia, meat be-
am imperfect animal even at mature 0310.
Now the business of the breeder and the
feeder is to discover the kinds of food which
in their several varieties and proportions,
are beth adapted to mature bin steers, wetly
ere, hogs, or other stook in the shortest
time with the heaviest weight of desirable
Noah, that lie may put them on the market
without too long a delay, and make room for
others coming along. Ho has in this effort
to bear in mind that eo melt of the food is
ne10os0ary to support life and so ronah more
to promote growth, and that, as those. are
forthcoming and the surroundings of the
animals are pleasant and ootnfortable, so as
to aid and assist in healthful digestion so
will devsloprnontsprofltably progress.
To theme all, however, must be added the
skill and the intelligence of the prior breed-
er. Give all the above employed on main)
Lein sheep, wild hogs, or Texas steers, and,
whilst their effect, may bo appar-
ent, they will not begin to toll
in the memo way thee they will
if tnployed on pure blooded stood or Its
grades, It may he ;dated as a fact that
eel, her high grades or fall blooded stock
will make Flttly 50 per cent mere gain 111,1101'
skillful treatment than will native stock of
any kind ; 110ne8 the 000800lic farmer' will
tree that he eselnot afford to dilly-dally with
the latter, not °vet fie a en all degree. If
the men of the gest have bred for us by all
the aoeumulated experience, slcill, and judg.
moat the toes have afforded then) 0, race of
better stock, ie does loot. very stupid on 000
pert to avail ourselves of the logaoy. Indeed
no farmer, ri011 or poor Dan alhova to fritter
away his Glue, either on native stook o•
O0rlub methods. The fending problem will
avail but little, no platter how well known
or thoroughly dfecu08ed and worked out,
unless the basis 11) good blood is made the
'carting point and foundation.
A Outdo0l's Married Lilo'
The late Cardinal Maiming vitas Married
when (pint a ynnug 11a11 to one. of Cho elf4-'
Seem:tits of Lavington, " tie foot. celebmtt-
oil sisters," who became, respectively, errs,
5am101 \Villierforee, Mrs, 33,atnling, Mrs
George 11y(lor,aud'Alva, Henry Wilberforce,
L'hey all inherited the consumptive taint
which had proved fatal to them two broth-
ers, and all died young. 114/1111031 accepted
the family living of Lavington, (olio of the
most been Wel places ill the South of Meg -
1°,11(10 and there retrained until ho left the
Ohureh of hLl3yhtnrl, laving specially acquit,
ed so extraordinary aremit atiln as aproma+h-
(30, writer, exemp'ary parish wrest, 1111,1
learned (001110 that at the ago of--1hhrtv1 a u
Iliehop (1t„- tppoilited Iain) Archdeacon a
d111ul ester. The (leettll of his wife, inut
yours after their marring, tensed 1 he meet
bhsnfitt polled of hes life, and this hli•irnre.
me8t'telt a peemanelr1 lmprea8iol hie (:hur-
aoter,--[Louder Truth.
PEA1:iLS 01' TUTH.
of The web of our life is of mingled yarn,
good and ill together. Our virtues would
of be proud if our faults whipped them net,
and our crimes would 4100p011' if 131107 wen)
not cherished by our virtues.
ay How easy is the thought in certain mooch)
00 of the loveliest, most uu0e1l1811 devotion 1
Hew hard le the thought in the face of a
ee thousand unlovely di1Ii.:,111f08'f
00 Nothing appears men' surpri:+fug t0 th0013
e who consoler human affairs wit11 n phlios0ph.
i0a1 090, than the easiness with which the
t many are govorned by the few,
11 A bra08 man thinks no ono his superior
n who do88 him an injury 1 for he hes ft then
4 in his power to make hint: elf impeller to the
other by forgetting it.
e We sleep but the loom of life never stops
and the pattern which was weaving when
Y the sun went down is weaving when it °ernes
np to.morrow.
d A life of leisure and a life of laziness are
two things. Many, without labor. would
s livo by their wits only, but they break for
want of stook,
c Write your namo in kiorinoss, Tuve and
mercy 00 the hearts of thousands you come
in contact with year by year, a11d you'll
r never be forgotten.
If a man empties his purse Into hie head
• ne 011% takes it from hila. Ari investment
in knowledge always pays the best interest.
He is tinwia0 and tineeppy who never for-'
egate the injurice he arty he.t a+received, They
crime home to his heart. like birds of evil
omen, when thesunsllinc °f l.appiness would
bless hfm, and throw tuns Into 11 tumult t111at
o not eaeily subsides. The demon of hate reigns
1 in hie bosom, and nutkos Iunl of ,111 account-
able 01olllure0 the nest 1l1fsera111c.
• Not in any condition but in thyself lies
the mean impediment overwhirh thou (Tout
not gain the netetery. \Cblu to :haus in the
werldw'itllout fuward rolling but would be
miserable ? lie who is on, with capacities
for any under taking finds 111 fulfilling these
the relenst portion of his being. It. is the
secret impulse within ; it is Me S,reand de-
light we feel that helps us to conquer Ob-
stacles, to clear out new paths, and to over-
leap the bounds of that narrow circle in
which others priorly toil.
Venezuela has fifty-six 1101111ays every
year. On these occasions the people cies
their strops and enjoy themsolves in clacker
tights and other tropical nmne(ment4.
A pictut•c•enllectoein Pestle a Few month
since bought for a few florins in a 0ecand
lead shop a small canvas, 0vhiult proved to
be a (rennin° Mei0suniel• It has just 1)00,)
sold in Pods for 430,000,
Japmn has a fine fleet and enemy of 150,-
000 men.
In almost every 0311001 et the lfilatates
Empire it is the custom one day in the
111141111111 to take the p11p110 out rabbit -
hunting.
The sleharaja of Pntialia has founded
twelve set olatships at the Ilunje') Univer-
sity en counmeratfnn of the visit of the late
Prince Albert Victor.
The Austrian Government lies enlarged
the Lonudarite of Vienna to such an extent
that the metropolitan area is now half as
large as London, twice as la'go as Parts, and
three times larger than Berlin. lot Vienna
has been declining in prouperity for years
past,
The smallest nen in the werta le said to
bo a midget Iron Holland, 94 years of age,
who calls himself "Prince elignon," and
who is exhibiting in Berlin. This little
cline (0 exa^fly 2 feet high, turd is a perfceb
ly formed human being ; his performances
as an acrobat are really wonderful.
Several wait 1.s in a Queensland hotel
struck 11guinst 11 Chinese cook, and the pro-
plasm 'discharged him, although lie was
very efficient. tie wits then employed by
the local pollee, and the leader of the strik-
ers was soon afterward arrested and sen-
tenced to a brief term of inprisOnment. His
chief duty was to chop woodier the Chinese
cook,
So violentis the 00nc11ss1011 produced by
the explosion of the combustibles sent up
in the balloons used in the rain-prodneing
experiment in the United States, that al•
though the explosion takes place at from
1,0110 to 8,4100 ft. from the earth's surface,
the earth scents to quake with the eltu.k,
Were there houses in the vminity of these
experiments every pane of Riese in thein
would probably be shattered.
The total revenue of the charitable instit-
utions bevies their headquarters in London
amounted last. year to over six milliou0 ster-
ling -or, to be precise, 4(1,t8ll,7633. Thea
total included 42,658,9111 101' home and for-
eign ;missions ; 4900,251 raised on behalf of
the blend, deaf and dumb, incurables, and
idiots ; 4655,790 for hospitals ; :0504,493 for
pensions and relief of the aged : 117313,1100
for tho Salvation Army, and £130,000 for
the Darkest 11031 laud Fund.
The past year has been one of the worst
hasiness 70111'0 ever known in Saxony. Over
40,000 distress warrants were issued in
Dresden alone --an inerea00 of nearly 20 per
cont„ and the number of bailiffs has had to
be considerable augmented.
Of the 14,110 miles of railway 00111011 ere
(pelted in England and Wades, 9,094 have
double or more roils, and :1,1135 single. In
1co1land, however, Ilia proportion is very
different. There, of the 3,102 miles 1,992
are double and 1,870 are single. And in
Ireland the matter is much w•Or00 ; there
only 603 miles are double as nga11,01 2,189
single, out of a total of 2,799 miles.
The Consolidated Black Cat Company is
the latest novelty in the way of the fur
trade near Puget Sound. The company, re.
gularly organized and chartered, is to make
a business of raising black eats for their
pelts or fur. An 101uuc1 is to bo purchased,
tie that tho etas cannot mingle with the
ether olds of surrounding regions, and there
the bieek brood is to bo perpetuated. These
oats will live on fish, and thus the expense
of running the big cat ranch will be redo ood
to the 1n11111110131,
The 881.otary and cashier of the Wiener
Club, Vienne, most of whose 1110111110re are
millionaires, died s0(1r0 (lays ago, and as Ito
had no family end lived On the premises,
was buried with every mark of respect and
esteem at the expense of the club. Touch-
ing letters "de faire pert" were 00111 to 111o
members expressing the club's regret at the
oath of a faithful servant, and almost 111)
the members were present et, the funeral'
services in St, Stephen'e, Vienna. On their
return the 001Omitt00 opened the dammed
seoretary'sWes and drawers, and found that
the man they had buried with so mn0tt sym-
pathy and honour had been robbing 1110111
for a long limo, end tIutt they had been de-
1'andOd of at least 20,000 florins,
Terrible Fall From 011
4 lieutenant, of tie 24th Regiment of
Masseurs, named 'Cava'118,n10t with a t'agi0
death near the port of Niee on Saturday,
At lour o'oloolt in the morning ho left Ville•
fl'at,8110 on h0r00hitek for Var, in order to
make the n0cea011ry preplaretions for t110 ex.
erela0 clay for the mon of his battalion, The
11010° a big fiery roan, become restive short.
ly after leaving headquarters, While pass.
ing the Chateau Smith the horse took
fright, mud bolted down an lluditle. Sane
ootroi eillee10 sew thio, but were tntable to
arrest his progress. 'Che °Meer 100111131011 to
steer the animal aronud Nice fort, bet
corning to a rapid enrve fu thio road at a
0poe known as liltban Capon, he lost control,
The horse ruslurd molly at a wall, cleared
11,,find hotel horse and leder went over flue
reek; info the eve. bel'oty, The most, st•,n,•
none oir"t'is hove failed 10 find either the
florae (1' tho 131,41e0.
One reason why eteitud,, is so little
sought and no Little valued is leman08 it is
so seldom counueted with Gm daily enrploy-
meats of men ::n,1 women. 11 is supposed
to be suitable only for ,lamp. abstract and
vague meditation, net au aid to practical
effort. And, when it is enforced, t1 the
head is idle as well as the 1,01)118, itis no
wonder, that it becomes a 00011ri00me and
useless period, to be shunned as often as
possible. But let any lieroteahle workman
fn any department devote a stein time at
intervals to solitary thought or reading or
:study on the gibe- -e of his wank and its
posmhle impretetee 30, 303 ,1 lie will 110 riehly
repaid by an innreesing power ell excellence
in his labor, and a corresponding increase
in his happiness and self-respect. For it is
not eo1it11,10 tea such that helps ns in our
labors, but rat her the knowledge of how to
extract the value of each, and the energy of
purpose whist enables Cls to take advantage
of Loth opportunities.
Every one has latent powers within hint
which his life work dues not bring into
action. Although it may not be possible in
this busy world to cultivate many of these,
it is within the power of every one to nour-
ish at least one that shall he Truett 0ous011801
with his taste and eapaeily. Scnleiuteeest
he should have outside of Ins daily toil, not
to play with as long es it auntses 1,1131 1101(1
then castaway, but to cultivate aSsidnonsly
and make the most of that his time and efr-
o 1ulst0uces will permit. Some will find this
resource in polities, other! in art or litera-
ture, scienoe or philantl •spy. Whatever it
be, if it is pursued faithfully and regularly
with as much intelligen(e and system as
possible, it cannot fail to hloado-n the views
to expand the nand, and to add spirit aid
pleasure to the life. It will react upon the
daily work for good else.
the Rend Surgeon
Of the Lefton -Medical Company le now at
Toronto, Canada, and nuty be consulted
either in person or by letter on all chronic
diseases poculir to nem, 11, 11, young, old,
or middle-aged, who lin i themselves nem,
one, weal; tend oxhztra,e1, who are broken
clown front tweess or overw'or'k, resulting ill
matey of the tollowing 1vnlpt ane 1 Mental
,repression, proul1t1re ol,1 age, loss of vital-
ity, loss ofmemory, tad dreams, dimness of
stela, ptlpitation of the heart, emissions,
Intik of merry, pain in the 1intley8, head-
ache, pimples on the face or body, itching
or peculiar sensation about the scrotum,
wastfug of the organs, dizziness, specks
before the eyes, twitullitg of the muscles,
eye lids and elsewltere,bashnllness, deposits
in the ttrin0, loss of willpower, tenderness of
the scalp ant! spine, weak au(1 field ly muscles,
desire to sleep, lailute to be rested by sleep,
constipation,11011110s00fhoming, lossof voice,
desire for 00litude, 0xoitebililg of tamper,
sunken oye0s11rr011ndod with (.0,1111:11 O111C1.11,
oily looking skin, etc., are all symptoms of
nervous debility that lead to insanity and
death unless cured. The spring or vital
force having lost its tension every function
511(100 in uml8equeuce. 'Those who through
abuse committed 111 ignorance nutty be per-
manently cured. Send your address for
hook on a4 diseases peoulfer to men.
Books sone free sealed. Hoei'diooase, the
syulptoms of Ivhieh are faintapolls, purple
lips, numbness, palpitation, skip Leats,
hot flushes, mall of blond 10 the head, dull
pain in the heart evit11 beats strong, rapid
and irregular, the scouts heart beat
faster than the first, pain about the bl'aset
bene, etc., can positively bemired. No euro
no pay. Send for books. Address, M. V
LIMON, 24 1'laedonell Ave. Toronto, Ont
Shookinlr Discovery at St. Petersburg.
Little more than two year's ago the British
community of lot. Petersburg were greatly
excited about the sudden and myaterlons
disappearnueo of Mies Harper, ayoung Eng-
lish lady living in the city as a governess.
She happened to have an aunt also living in
St, Petersburg, and ono8unid117 evening left
her aunt's house to go to tree her sister, who
5801'10it leg 11113514 at one radio large hotels.
This was the lase aeen m' heard of Miss Har.
per, and the most stringent tnveetigetions
gave not a shadow of a Clue as to her disep.
pearanoe. The matter coaled to be talked
about, hitt (1110 suddenly been revived by a
clue just 101104 by the police in soarolling.,
the barracks of the Horse Gu8r1s. As 18
icemen, sovoral Innrder0 have been brought
borne to 1)110 eag lent, and, amongst other.
articles, n prayer book with Miss Harper's
mane line been forma in the barracks. The
conclusion to bo drawn freta this discovery
is too horrible to votteinplato, end arouses
m feeling of int01100 abhorrence ill every'
mind,, 'Photo is no (doubt that tho nearest
road from 1.10 house to the hotel is past the
door of tho (merman whore the outrages
have omen -led, and the 0put is a lonely
dent 0110,