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MBE, TREKAINES TEMPER,
A STORY W1T11 A MORAL.
" What a imde cabmen, Orandantsmnia !"
" Tre certainly eao rude, tity dears. But
alter all, perhaps if we know something
more 'shout him, we should be sorry for him, ne10 .lp nin
instead of eroes, :teasel ' l'erhaps he ettnnut young wife, one clay, that ho had resoles.'
help it.' " to melte a voyage round the world in one of
''Yee, that is j tuft like you, g sandinamma. :he King'e shire, wino, the vont mend ilea
You bave alwaye excuse rucely for 01%07' been offered hint for tha, eerviee. When
one. the pr 1)001 of losing ion hit• a 1%1(310 Voll
''Well, :locum, if yea will came incloora sofor thin, mete the time lie e0431211b011.0431211b011.bo
sold all sit round tile deo, 1 will tell /oil awaysolawned upon her, she was quite pime.
eto0113',a11.0
, jin 1 1100111 1, WilOn )101111 li.,ted by grief, „sot on. o sow 11,y, 101,11!01
rr213043111330Wa
it 00 tiny little girl, evil woe. tho old hp 101 retained, 111(11. tile Ceptain
funny little Ahoot•waisted froalta ct bra hope to than; that he had madm
e a istake
won
an bnet." in aesepthig the commission. .
And inv children ell settle:1 0013(13' 18111111 our ',hie ! there was ever sommanng
the old-fj.shioned. hearth while their gland- , wanting in that leause ; end the clay bolero
mother told them the story which, as 11 18 110 811110t1 1110y had is violent general.. Mese
from, that time their lite 10118 ono of hourly
wrangles cull daily raeonelliatione, There
Mw nevey a day of tudwoken sweets in the
heuse ; tuul both felt., in spite of all thew
mutual love (which seemed really, to have
remained as passionete so ever), Oust thew
hi:velem inmp
coatibility of temper 1110110
1811Y permanent happinees gnpoestble.
" At length, after a remit of more than ,
ed W101011111 11022, 1
nob without 'Meres1 for obildreo 01 a
largos growth," I take leave to set dissen
for grow-H.41p readers.
It is ft000b numy years ago, 11131 dears,
as it would seem to you (she said), since
your mamma Wes a. very little girl, and poor
gromdpapa, oh, such a handsome gentle.
man. I had not been married more than four
years or so ; and one eveeing 1 1008 waiting
in the park to meet hien as he came 130100
from business. My little giel—yourmatnitte
that is—was todilling unsteadily along the
paths. It was nearly six o'elock on a beau-
tiful August ELftertwo,l, mid the sae weestill
he ruse in thu morning, ant put on ho une
form to set out by the etudy coach for Ply-
mouth, Alm Tremaine W09 still brooding
sulkily in bed, and would not dress to see
him ME But he run back, even after shut.
Ong the hall doer to hid her " good-bye ;
mom again, and to kiss her face OS Bhe lay
ou the pillow, that was hes-fleeing to be wet :
with time-etains, though her pride would ,
not allow her to respond.
" When she found that he had really
gone, however, the broke down, and sone
foe her maid to dress her. Then she
declared that she could not let her Jack go
glaring down on baby e wInte eterehes on- without seeing him again, and taking a
net, that she emehi keep pitelnug backward men-eervant with her, she ordered is post.
over her golden ourls, so that I had to stop chaise and drove tG Plymouth, where she
every minute to tie the strings afresh under arrived just after the stemecoach. 011 it
her little soft double olun.
It happened that on tae seat witereou I
sat to perform this little operation for the
twentieth time that afternoon, as it seemed
to me, there was seatel au ad lady, very
rtehly dressed in mournieg of an Mt • as a should make that year of absenee one from
ioned style, with a young person who look- another is time of trial end self-discipline,
ed like a companion (10 81(1181100 lady s.,Initil, FO that when lie roturnel, each shotild be
holdiug a silk parasol over her head. lite ohl 00130010d to querrel no more, and begin
lady was not very pleasant looking, and she their marriage 11080', with a 11030 honey -
was talking in a queruious tone to her at- numn that 111011111 111331011 be darkened by a
Umlaut settees we sat clown. 13111 as soon giga wig,
was worth the journey, child,' she has
often said to 31331, ' to see my deer Jaclee
C1'83( when h • sew me jump out of the post.
chaise! _4,1 so ho went away, heppy, after
all; and they 11008(180(1 emelt other that each
as she caught sight of us elm became silent, „ When he was gone, Mrs. Transaine did
and looked rouud in anything but a kindly leileed set herself to overcome her selfish
manner. When the bonnet was duly se- and violent disposition ; adding daily a fesv
cured, baby ran away for a few steps, and pagee to a letter which was to be sent for
in returnieg, her unsteady feet led her with Mr (leer Jack to a post -house in India, by
O bump up against the old lady'e knees. one of the East Indian Company's clippers;
Then, with a little ery, she toddled over to and when it eras time for her to send it, she
me and. leaned against nly lap, laughing. had a DOW secret to tell him, aud 000 which
But the old-fashioned lady was grievously she knew would make him very, very
put out. happy, and would help them both to live
" It is disgreceftil," she said, " that the peiseefully together when the glad time
children 01 the 'elver claseee ehe"hl he el- mune for his return. For she told himthat,
lowed to ran wild in the public parks, Mc, before he could get home, se e hoped to give
vading the privacy of aristocratic persons. hiO3 a dear little baby. She wes sure it
And the attendant led her awny, still svould be the image of him, awl therefore,
mettering (sad looking round crossly at my the most beatniful baby that ever was!
little girl, who was laughing merrily " By-ancl•by came a letter. Tho Captain
enough, understandiog nothing of the (lie. WENS well and the voyage prosperous. He
turbanee she heel created in the upper circles bad every hope of being home within the
of society. twelve.month. Mrs. Tremaine had nmee a
" VI di ble ante -tem ere('
tat a sagreea , y p enlender of the time, now, that remained
TB.E 'BRUSSELS POST.
What 811.1111 Ohildren Read,
111 n. very ,3111.11181110110(1 work by the very
chl•fathioned Nita liannalt More, 11. 130013
NV111011 hi BO utter!) devoid of the 'stook 131'
0110(118 of fiction that, it would be lt W1111 1111'
agination that meld .110W characterize it as
'' novel," the 1(08101111!0411131(01001101)11113 0.
scene which lute e. moral for all whom ain-
terested in the mental growl 11 of ebildree.
The pape of the lovely young 000(01800 101.10
18 (1111113' 0110001 by the very propel. 0,1,1
eligible taelebs who writes the story is bless -
el with a lumber of ether olive beatiehee
whom he le tanning in 1.130 10113' they 011(1(1111go. To teilebrete the birthday of his (laugh.
ter Kate, he lins Wilily gethering on the a
trim Engliell lawn, and reads ''J01111 Gil.
11111" /DV 1 110 benefit of little maid, who,
having eciselled thn
e 'nature ((go of seven, is
to give up her ohildiell booke and 1)0 intro-
duce 1 to etanclarti works. By the ceremony
of publicly bestowing all her baby literature
(miler younger brothers 0101 sisters, littl
Illietress Kate is debut -roil from undue li
geeing, and being admitted to highee walk
of reading et new, thereupon ('0(011008 LI1
importance of ''living" (33' to hor enlerged
literary privileges.
It would be well 0 every child could pass
through 901110 such experience as this. With
what delight the little scholars give up one
reeder for another of higher grade, 1011111100'
defieitely the old book is laid aside I Now
why shoulcl not 80011 0118 pass from nursery
books by gentle bet alweys asooncling steps
wait the high level of fiction is reached, and
O teste for Gm very best formed? While the
young reader is commons only of the
" story," and iguores the subtleties of
criticism, is densely ignorant of ''eobjecte
1310 (011(1 " objective," and thinks everything
"
" realistic,the mind is rowing, and life-
long friends smile front the pages of Scott,
Tbackerary, 11ickons, dear Miss Aesten, and
Maria Edgeworth.
Another argument for finely reading lies
in the fact that the works of ell these
authors, ((114 of elder ones as well, ere sup-
posed to be inoluded in et polite education
but if acquaintance with them is to evait
until '' Mey glides onwurd into 3(31,8,", their therm is never so fully appreciated,
and they are voted slow by a generation
1 which ciewdles long 03180 111108813' tales, and
: then skips into ephemeral literature, light
indeed, but ruinous to good mental diges-
Gee. People N11110 ha' e never read Miss
Burney in their youth smile over the ad-
ventures of Hyaline, anal run hurriedly
through the novel, wondering what there
was in it to create such a these:tams more
than a century ago. But the woman who
read it first when she was a little girl of
eight ean never forget the pleasure of mak-
ing acquaintance with so lovely a being es
Beeline:, end so ideally perfect a hero as
I Lord Orville. Later, she enjoys MisssBur.
' ney's Diary with greater zest, and found,
, with exalustion, that Lord Macaulay, that
I great and 00010000115 reader, 11018 ever true
to his early fondness for old-fashioned
novels, and that he pee 300.183881 praise to
tbe Miss Austen who had always had Buell
a special charm for her own small. self.
old woman 1" I said to myself. before ho was to COMB home and she used to
Presently I saw that the 8(0(7.0(18 1(0(13' was take a pen every morning, as soon as she
sitting alone an a chair a little way off, and rose, and strike out one more of the days
that her attendant WaS coming towards my that sonarated her from her Jaok.
seat. She sat down beside me though -
" At last there wore only weeks instead
*ooking rather emberrassed (1(01, entered
of menthe ; and now her attention was more
into conversation after a little while.
fully occupied, for the baby had really come,
"I am sorry," she said, " that Mrs. Tee -
as she expected, and was a beeatiful boy,
maine should have spoken so motels, when
30 with sunny golden locks and blue eyes, just
your little girl ran up "—and she 18.1,1
like his futher's—eyee which almost made 1
hem d upon your mamma's. shoulder—" but
her forget her loneliness when ahe looked
I must apologise for lien She is not quite
right in her miod, and sometimes speaks
very unkindly and unfeelingly, though she
has really a gentle heert and would not like
to give pain to anyone.
,"
Oh," I said pleasantly, "please do not
sey emything more about it. I WAS a little
bit hurt, but if the poor lady, is out of he.r
mind, of course 1 should not take any
notice."
1 was sorry for the attendant, who really
seemed gnite grieved at 1130 0113 lady's rude-
ness, and who was a pleasant, kiallyspoken
person, My little girl had begun to play
with her dress, and by this ti:ne had in•
sited herself to sit on her lap, where she
sat, looking shyly backwards ancl !inwards
at me, while the ettendant was patting her
.theek lightly, and seemed pleased at her
obildish eonfidence.
"She is not really out of her mind," said
the attendant, gently—" only a little bit
'funny; ' and on some days she is very
unhappy, and nothing seems to be able to
•comfort her, That is how she feels now;
asal she has sent me ENWESY in order, as she
says, that she may think of her 8010010
alone
"Poor thing !" I said to myeell "After
all, riches and a,great position are not the
true happiness.
"Poor thing! Yes," said the attendant,
"she has had a. sad life. It is thirty-five
years this winter 8118 1.108 been in mourning.
Some days she is just quiet, like this; and
at other times she le quite uncontrollable,
and walks upstairs and downstairs and all
over the house, sobbing and wailing and
wringing her hands, from morning until
night. Then, the next day she will be
glint, ((2111 (1.082 not speak to anyone, but sits
in one room, INIA. 100k$ MB the wall or tho
Eremlece, saying nothing, and doing nothing
but sigh, and sob, and brood."
" What is she grieving about?" I asked,
for the woman seemed au though she wished
to talk about it, 3(001103(8 (0 account for the
old lady's rudeness.
"She is mourning for her hesbaud," she
answered, with a sad shako of her head.
' It is thirty six years B10000118 WW1 married.
Ile WU MO officer in the Royel Navy.
Handsome Jack Tremaine '118 was celled,
as she is very fond of telling me ; and noth-
iog could have seemed brighter than their
tuture promised to be. He wee rich, and
had diatinguished himself in his profession.
Tho wars evere over—it was jnet after
Napoleon, the Froneh Emperor, bad been
sent away to safe keeping in St. Helena,—
Caplan Tremaiue had every opportunity to
settle clown into a comfortable poeition as a
country gentlemen. He adored his wife,
into them.
"And exactly a yeer and a day after the
Captain had sailed, he cense book, and, oh,
how proud and delighted my lady was to
put his baby in his &ems 1 But on Captain
Tremaine's face there was something wrong ;
he had not the old heartiness and eteengtb
lie had contracted 8.3 (1(17.10, while on shore
in Central America, which, he said, bad
never entirely left him, What of that,
however? .A few weeks of English sunshine
would soon put 11. 01(1111, and he, would be
himself again ; butfor the first week or two
he 0110014 take things easily,—and besides,
11(008 33(10 the baby to play with.
"But tho English sunshine did not do its
work, and the poor fellow, from going to
bed early, had to take to Imbed altogether,
attended with the most frantic anxiety and
affection by 11 18 wife. Nothing could be
too good for him—no care too great She was
at hie side morning, noon, and night. And
to make metters worse, the baby fell ill
also, and pined away and died 1 The Cap-
tain never rallied from that shock. Within
O few day's of little Jack's burial, he died
in his wifee arms, fondling her and mur-
muring her name with tender epithets in his
last breath.
"For many weeks it was supposed that
she would have died too ; end st had. been
better for her to have joined her husband
and her babe—poor soul. When she re-
covered, she was as she is 11030-021e day
violent and passionate with grief, another,
just vacant and brooding.'
I looked up to where the poor lady was
sitting. She had buried her face 10 her
handkerchief, and was rocking herself to
end fro in het sobs. The attendant Intatily
arose. But my beby—your mamma, my
dears—had slipped from hey lap some mita
Mos before, and WM standinx. now by the
side of the strange lady, plucking 1100 dress.
I ran to draw her away, but the attendant
touched my arm.
"Bo not go," she said, " the little one
will bring her to herself."
So we saw her stoop and kiss your libIlo
mamma's golden hair ; and ptesently the
lady rose and led her tosvards ow 13y thie
time her eyes wore dry, and she held the
child by the hand, looking down very kindly
at the little hum. Still, to me S110 WKS not
very polite.
" Why do you tie your °Mid's bonnet.
stringe wider her chin like that, woman 30 I
She said.? " don't you know that they will
make an ugly ridge tinder her chin, and ,
make it impossible for her to wear evening
drossee when she grows tip ?"
To please the old lady I stooped rind tied
the strings at the back of tho little curly
and the people used to turn round and look
knob. And the old lady smiled approving.
after them ae they walked along the country
,
roads together, or galloped on borso.baok lyand kissed the baby a(1ain,
.11181 then, yam grandiespe came up, and
by 158.1)3 weys or grassy lanes, and say,
there go the two happiest people in Eng. aby ran to 111081 11351.
land 1.' "(111,1 that is why, fiail grandmamina,
" Btit after m while &mule eamo. Mrs, " that I am not, so ready Its I once was, per-
Tremaine had a violent temper, end could haps, to be ernes with people 331110 do not
behove as nicely 0.9 2111 sure all of you, my
dears, always behave to everyone I"
not tolerate the liehtest word (sf rebuke,
The Captain, as she says herself now, in the
bitternees of her aellreproaoh, was RH loyal
and noble a fellow as ever stepped ; but
Mee. Trernaine 00014 01,31 believe in him. Ile
NVINS BO handsome, and she ao fond of him,
that she most needs believe that every
womrte tbe Hunt Pala or oven at the vile
lege Chttroh,waft reakingoyes Inm—though
he 1.104 00 ere for anyone but her. If he
wore out of hor eight for half o clay she
Would work herself up into 0. fury of
ouay, and when ho returned would essail
him with a sterna 'of acausmtion and enapi-
eion. So things went on ;no man living
(she earn could have tolerated her whims
With petionee ; and one day he retorted
slpon her 'moldings, and, uphrelikel her
bitterly for hor mean suspicion8 and sauna
wining jealousy. 13130 replied furiously; mul
Carefull, Zdttereted.
.Apopular officsial in Ottawa once wont
flailing with &clergyman. illtee were plenti-
ful, latt tho official seemed to got them all.
The clergyman waited potiently and at last
was favored with a, nth le. lhon the line
parted and his hopes and a part 01 1110 fish.
ing tackle vanished simultaneously.. Ile
said nothing for altimat a minute, and then
turtle to his /Heed remarked:
"John, i1y eerly edneatton had been
neglected what do you suppose shoal/say
11011,
11; milso according to our hopes, and
perform est:medial; 10 our fame,
Who Disoovered Eire?
The Revue Seientifique prints a miens
paper by Professor Joby in wino!' the in.
citury is made, by whom and svhen was fire
fleet discovered ? Alluding to the fable of
Prometheus 11 10 101111d to be of Julien ori-
gin. In the Vedas, the gucl of fire, Agin
(compare with the Latin, /gins) is concealed
in a :secret place whence the god Mather-
ishean forces him out and makes him com-
municate the celestial fire to Menem the
first man. The very name of Peometheus
is traceable to the Vedas and calls to mind
tho process employed hy the ancient Brah-
mins to obtain the sacred fire, For this pur-
pose they used a atith called 11 pre,metha,
which they ignited by friction. The prefix
pra gives the idea of taking by force, a
circumstance which strengthens the evi-
dence isfeorded by the resemblance of that
word to Prometheus.
There aro several ways of obtaining fire
by fiction. The 111081 3(31031(180 one consists
In rubbing two pieces of dry wood against
eaell other ; bob this was improved on in
course of time. Next a stick was mecle to
elide, very fast up and down in a groove ;
then mine the "Bre aonsieting of a
piece of wool heving a cavity in which ct
stick was inserted which was pressed by the
operator, who ab the sante time made it
turn very fast, after the fashion of a wim•
ble, The Brahmin made this drill, but with
O cord wound about it by pulling which
they gems an alternate, rotary motion to
the stick.
Another mode of obtaining fire was that
of striking tsvo flints together. After cola
skiving these squirms modes of obtaining
the ever useful, Professor Joby 08310(18 10
the question as to whether 3(101.118.
lorismanwaolnp000eseion of fire. Some have
gone solar as 10 8113' that it was an element
in use by men of the Miocene period because
cherceel and vitrified sands have been found
along with bones of the mastodon. This
hovever, bas not been sufficiently proven.
It is k 11 0 W11 that quatternary man did use
fire, many flee places with miles, cinders,
broken pottery, etc., having been found in
taverns pertaining to the period ot the
reindeer, the eavo bear and polished stone.
AGRIauLTurt AL needed farm and garden thole MA 1/111110.
• 111011 itre examined enil pet in melee, 1811,1
101013 113331' 0502 01.011101111 00 1111141 be req1121ed,
The Season for Work. Nothing is more voxatiotte than to lind out
April is IN very hney season vote farmers (1(01 (10 you want to 1010 1411 1111))101110111, that
awl gardeners throughom. Of all seinaone 11 is out of retedr, or BO 101(011 IIIBL 11. II"
00 du, farm tine 18 1 ho one fee capneka, 100011 got to be roplaeod ity a new ono. Every
when the faeulties of both nilml and body termer should guard agehist suels c mein.
natty laity be brought into requisition to gooe37. by providing in advaliee sell:never
atl ventege, indoecl DOW 11ON1 8110111g 1108 111011111028 may be neeessary to prepare the
really 130(110 With its bright, alumni,10 and ground for, and to plain anti cultivate the
genial etinosphore—as elso the poote 103.013' (.1r011fi to be peolueed.
Co:vela, singing birds, lowing herds, anti 010111.1 11 D AND ('(1(31' (1.1111/00,
other pleiteent avvompaniments cif the leanly .Apeil ie nemth of activity with fruit
vernel sew:ono-it hi 11100101 0111 11)1011 lIro 011i. growere. 'Whet, times, sheen', eta, nee re.
ceived Irma the nursery, no ono13 boo; sem
in—that is, temporariay Miry the roots,
After they nee thee sueured, phoning iney
be clone at leieure, Tree Intoning is now
timely, in meet sieetsinns, and fel' 111.18 110 8011
B110111t1 110 well prepared tuul the work clone
carefully. Fruit trons need 1111110 1111(1 deep
holes, so that their roots will hesm ample
toam to grow and spaniel. Keep a recast]
of every tree planted, sus es to know none
and location. Grafting may 110)1' /01 done,
if dormant salons cm be obtained, 11 (101 a
skilled griller, take lessons 01)011100y an
expert nut manure 11.1 the roote of bar.
reu trees, end (man and thin out their heads.
Cut off and bean 011311 twige that harbor the
lent caterpillar, and guard against other
poets.
Plant cuttings of grams -vines, currents
ete., 113111( 10010 kept through the winter.
0 row more grapes, strawberries, raspberries
blackberries, currants, and other small
feel's. If you have none, get and try the
best varieties can yon con vemen tly , and melte
beginnieg —and if you have 1110110 11. 8111.21,
increase your pletnations. In case you
don't know how to bectin, consult.the print.
ed atithontiee and interrogate expert culti-
vators, Choice fruits, beetles beiug benefi-
ciel in the family, new 130 prolitittly mese
koted in mealy 10001) 188.
'lepton: of earth 8 311111 and valuable pro•
ducts to 001115101100 preparationt, 1011 018/3(
11110111101 1011 111 /110 110101 of reoelv;;;;"; ;;;ban.
dan 1 (01 110111 for whatever labor and meant:
may be devoted thereto, t this joneture
it in eseential Gott ferment and hortieultur.
ists shoull be up itml doing, while those on.
snail In dairying or stook raising must
nevus:wily give much ettention to the care
and management of their flocks and herds.
It is the time for outmost averk in field,
den and orolord—a 8008011 011011 both mind
inneele shoul11 be on the alert, plenning
and performing to the best advantage It
is 55001(11(11 1.01' the farm mnimger to noiv
" Como, boys !" and lenal and direct in pus -
son , for only he who seism intends and knows
what is clone on his prernives is the wise
Inuthauclinan. Tho 01(003311 1(103001' will tear -
01101 his men, teams, and machinery and
commence tho outset for subsistence in the
hope of being abundantly rewarded in au-
tumn 10r whatever labor and means are in^
vestel in the spring and sennner campaigns.
raustre 111121'.111.1T10:11,018 111.00121011.
:March proved so unfavorable for outdoor
°per/Goes that much of the yreperatory
work for planting spring orops must be done
in Ape!, and this will necessitate prompt
and systematic action on the part of most
cultivators. Farmers w ho devote 8301137 00100
to spring cereals and hoed crops have much
to do in little time if they properly prepare
the soil by plowing and other essential
manipulation in season for seediog. In this
preparatory labor, as well as for after ed.
tare, it is true economy to use the most
approved hnplements, employ only comps.
tont mou end. teems, and see that the work ia
clone in the best manner. Meny farmers
"miss it" every spying, by trying to bore
auger holes with ginilets—attempting 10
raise good 01.0310 with poor help, tools en13
withont proper tillage and manuring. Those
who farm it for profit 0110811 111135000 a wiser
course by providing all the requisites for
profitable crop production.
011000 011005.
Home has the First Claim.
The first tbought of ts ante or a mother
should be her hotne ; all things, no matter
how import:ens, aro seconclmy to that. No
matter how rampant nuty became certain
pubhic evtls, let her see to it Mutt sho keeps
the evil out of her home and she performs
her greetest dray to her God, her family
and mankind. \Viten it woman Wes to
remedy an evil by striding the lecture plat.
10001, warning othere, when that very evil
is invading her 110010 by her absence, 9110 18
mistaking her inission in life, aml she 0013.
not 18(011118 11 too soon. The good that a
woman cite do toward. the great world at
large is as nothing compared to her possi.
1)11(1100 113 her OWn home if she bo wife or
mother,
And the first duty of man, as well as of
Woman, is to home, to his NV1 la mid his dill -
deem As a, husband, (t father, an exempla
to his 00114 and. claughtere, their tenineelor
told friend, he :should be the light and joy
of his householil, their strength for duty,
their encouragement to exuellenee, their
comfort mul help in all that prepares for
usofulneas [ma makes heine eta -active to MI,
When Mishima and wife, father and mother
make 'tense what it shoeld be, the Wee
temptations of the world will loso thotr
power, and children will grew up to be the
joy of parent and cs bloc:Ong to themselves
and to the world.
Looking at the Giraffe,
Mrs. 0"17oole—. An' phwat is that,
Minya"
Mr. 0"roole—" That ? That is (to os.
teach,
Mrs, 0"r01110—" Ostrich. 1 Phwere's the
fedders, thin 1"
Mr. O'Toole (in disgust)—'' Don't sliosv
yet; ignores= off, dummy, Th' bora is
monithi',"
Spring wheat, the first field crop to be
sown iu all sections 11111C110 11 1.18.110(1, should
go in as soon as the soil can be pimparech
Then come oats, barley, won, beets and
potatoes. The sowing or phoning of theme
will depend much upon the condition of the
eon, which ought to be not only properly
prepared, but unproved by proper under
ands:I:lace drainage when necessary. Extra
tillage to make a good seed bed, plenty of a
doh fertilizer, and proper after culture, are
items which count in raising hoed crops—
such es corn, beets and potatoes.
Oats shonIcl be sown very early. Sow a
variety with ample foliage that produces
largo and ishmulant gram. Then, if the
gram falls, you will be likely to get a good
11I'0)0f forage.
Clover seed may he sown this month, the
earlier the better, on winter grains 01111 011
grass lands foal down last seasou. Running
a smoothing harrow over the ground will
prepare 11 (00 the seed without tearine up
the crop injuriously, Should there be a
slight fall of suow clover seed may be sown
upon it to advantage.
Forage crops, such as peas, spring rye,
etc., may be sown in succession, oncein two
weeks. Parsnips should be sown early.
Mangels 84111 00(100 beets are also hest 0111011
put JD as soon us practicable, but carrots
may bo sown in any time before midsummer.
0010E 017 LIVE: STOCK,
Most fartn animals will require care and
good feeling uetil warm, settled weather,
and oertitinly should not be turned out until
the grass has sufficient growth to furnish
nutrition. To preventloss or suffering give
careful attention to dams ithd their young,
especially chming inclement weather.
Work horses steed plenty of strengthen-
ing food, reguliwity in fee ding and watering,
and good grooming. Guard against galls
by keeping the -harness clean and. soft.
Many horses work best on soft ground when
they are bare -foot. Proteot heated teams
from drafts. Give brood seems roomy
quarters, watchful care, and treat them
gently.
Cows require extra. care 1413 this season.
Give those about to aome in good, roomy
pesters, and treat them kindly. Guard
against abortiott and accidents. To preve»t
gavot and other troubles reduce their food,
though plenty of good, soend bay may be
given solely. Keep all the good heifer
calves, and remember that teaching them to
feed from the pail saves trouble.
Sheep 'should bo kept in dry 31(11(10 10 pro-
tect thew loot, and also guarded against
storms. Ewes and lambs need good shelter
and liberal rations to prevent su flaring and
keep them thrifty. Spring lambs well cared
for and fed liberally will soon sell at &profit.
Pigs and potiltry pay for good care and
keep. The pigs will do good by destroying
many. 1,15001 enemies if allowed to take steer.
caso in the orchard. Give breeding sows
bran and other cooling food, but no corn er
meal. Poeltry " shell out" the profits now,
if eVer 3 so care well for the birds if 37011
W11.11‘ fresh eggs and chickens galore. Pro.
teat them from vermin by using kerosene
upon the roosts itml walls of the poultry
house ; and do whatever else that will tend
to promote their oomfore, health and conse-
quent pro(lnotiveness.
21,0110, PLA:v.rs, .201) 11I111.1110
11110 successful cultivotor is generally .e
good guile to follow in the matter of select.
ing seeds, trees'etc., for planting, 11 1101(0(1
he svill bo very likely to adviee you that the
planting of good, pure seed, of en approved
variety, is the first requisite to prolitable
orop production, And yet, though 1110 80)110
adviee bo widely reiterated every spring,
comparatively few farmers and gardeners
head the tenth that in most instanaos the
seed exerbs a controlling infinence upon the
quality and (10,1011(37 01 the cron produced.
111(037 of onr venders are at fault in this
matter, we urgo thom to institute 0.501111(003'
reform, and to "plant only good seed" --the
beet obtaineble.
Phone, vines, slornbe, and trees, for set.
ting out this epilog, should DOW 110 seemed
by all who need them and have not son
proeurel a supply. What we hnee Raid
abou3 seeds, applies with 0.110081 8(11)1(1 fame
in this ome11e00031, Consult the females of
the family itt selecting (fimin the entalognes
of honest de(1lers) ornemente(,1,sleeistuillsIsgpo
,virk,
010,, 10 he planted near tho .1
alike to quality, variety, and adaptebility
ttio.olocation, but go slow when tempted to
invest in 11)33011p111104 bob hd n
igh-pri000vel•
1(‚001.8 AND )31I'1111(31100934,
Soo that every implement is in order and
in its place 1 harness sound mid well oiled ;
plow.% herrows, end trimmings repaired:Lod
ready for worlt. Those who have not al-
ready clone so, should at 0000 kee
12110 11ITN111 EN DARDEN%
No faem is oomplete without a good gar-
den, mid now is the time to smell works
therein. The lint requisite is a rich, wall -
drained soil, and southern exposure Is the
best. Carden ground should be heavily
miusured mud thoroughly prepared as soon
as (1. 11(5(1 ba worked. Goed seed is a prime
ranter. Plants enough fee a fariner's garden
call be started in wunlow no kitchen boxes
thus dispensing with a hot-becl. Relishes,
lettuce, and early pees isre usually the first
crops sown. Beets, spinach, ontons, etc.,
;ton% ostomseoisriyhte b(u)t 011)01,1nfen,,n1olityen alba enirte,„.
toes, etc., aro too tenler for sowing before
the corti-plantiug setteon. Cabbage end
t mato plants uan usually be bought cheaper
thau they can be 'Mead. Asperagus and
pie plains should bo growls plentifully ni
every garden. Seceession crops of reclishea,
lettuce, eto—aud 'leo of sweet 5000, Inane,
peas, ete.—may be scoured by sowing at
intervals of a week or ten days through
their respective semeone, Any farmer can
have a good garden by preparing 1h013001111,1
well, planting properly, and in season, and
giving it timely and thorough cultivation.
ersowert OAR1/0211 (01) 34100.
In most Northern localities April is the
time to " sliok up" about the dwelling.
Whether one bas ft lerge laWn or only a
dooryard, it needs cleaning antl. im-
provieg at this season. Rubbish of all kinds
should be raked up end removed. Trees
and shrubs that have been injured clewing
the winter require attention. Everything
alsontthe realm! suburban roofstree should
be pat in order and inade pleasant and at•
tractive. Most farmers have plenty of
space to eammeut the beauty of their homes
by the planting of flowers, vines, shrub%
and trees, and the building of neat fences,
trellises, and arbors. Snell improvements
eost little, while they b11. to the intrinsic
value of the homestead and afford real
pleasure to its occupants. Every farmer
who has a family is in duty bound to adorn
home and its surroundinge, and 11010 lo the
season to make efforts in that direction.
Pray do not defer or neglect is mutter Must
will give great satisfaction to wife, sons,
and daughters, and add to the pleasure of
visitiug friends end positing strangers.
APRIL 29, 1802.
Bffe10e of Tobe,000 Upon the Young,
1110110 lately had zoverel questions put to
me as regartle smoking by yoeng mon and
youths. Especially by the letter, as they
are usually eery anXions to know Whether
Snloking slop% LIM grOW‘ll," 00 has any
tondeney to do tea . , Yes it has a
lendeney to 81.03( 1110 growth. How eon it
Ito otherwise) when we 001131'1er the elf:sate
of 10110000 011 141013500010, 0%110004 010 1101.-
110101, 11003010.), 0,011 1'001018 portion thereof ?
n the nave' c. tointecio epeedily induees
(need the haul, clamp perepietstiom imusee,
wit it vomiting worse then seasieknese, pallor
of inee, debility of the heart., oven to faint.
111(1 /(1111 110111X0111011 01 1110 M111(e108.
Once 1(11811 beloeging It, iny ship dislocat-
ed his shoulder while hoistmettitleg. I had
en chloroform, end mueettlar though I wise,
failed to men come the notion of the sailor's
muscles and et:ensue the clielocetion.
" you Melte ? " 1 said,
liappily he did not, though most sailors
do, I. had it pipe lit end heeded 11. 10 111111.
111 three :MentheGino the muscles wove
ilaccid enough, and the ball of the humerus
wea1 into the soelcot with little exertion oil
iny part. 1 pitied my 1)111)1! polo putient for
a time, howevels
Now, if tobacco has this power over nerve
and hen. (lotion even in a etaiong, hardy
001101-, does le ilotpuove 111111. 11 must inter-
fere :vith the nuteltion of the body of a 11011'
(1103310 sapliug of a boy 1 Be wiso in time,
therefore, and do not learn 0 1.1013113 111111
tends to injure you, simply because you
think it is manly.
Manly, indeed 1 Why, a boy never looks
more like is monkey than when 1.10 15 smok-
ing, Take e pale -faced city youth, stick a
pipe in 11 121 month, and let hint ride past you
DO 11. safety in the cat.on-thegarden-wall
style, and you mill heave (581(31.1.
" No doubt of it," you will (my. " Dar-
svin is right 1(1303(1 1110 cleseent of men."
Denton" of some men perbepa I should
add. —Portion Stables, in the Young Man,
Rapid Rate of Thereasm.
We fully agree with our esteemed London
contemporary, the Agricultural Gazette, that
it is of importance to every farmer to
know what can and might be done," in
fattening stook. The Gazette devotes over
live of its broad, pees to a closely printed
report of the Smthhelcl Fat Stook Show re-
cently held in London, from -which valuable,
instructive lessons atm be learned. by Amer-
ican breeders, One of the moat:important
of them is the rate of Morose in weight,
which is now believed to be possible with
cattle. As is not unusual se Britain, the
record for young pure bloods 1009 broaen
by a Shorthorn, Mr, 11 Gorrange's steer,
dam Rarity 21 days, or nine days leas than
two years old, weighed 1,674 lbs., an ava-
nt, 0 dilly gain item birth of 2.32 lbs. Of
ofher stem of ten years and under, a Hare.
ford weighed 1 ,s,e6 lbs. ;a Sussex 1,571 lbs.;
and a Polled Aliercleon-Angus 1,463 lbs. A
crossbred Shorthorn and Aberdeen -Angus
steer, 709 days old, weighed 1,592 lbs,
Admitting the weight of the dressed meat
to be ii: e eighths that of the live weight,
these are examples of making meat
peetty fast, not, only, be it remem-
bered, with it single breed, but with several
of tho best known, ancl also with a cross-
bred. At a former Smithfield chow, It is
reported that a fist two•year old. Shorthorn,
and Hereford oross-bred steer was purebas-
ed, and in twelve mouths his weight, by
judicious treatment, wms increased 704
pounds.
Of sheep, the prize for the heaviest was
'Alton by the long -wools. A pair ef Lin -
colts, svethers between 12 and 24 months,
averaged over SOO lbs., the heaviest being
3136 the. They were closely followed by the
short•wools the highest, Oxford Downs of
the smile ago, scaling 1310 lbs.. In latnbs,
this brood bore the palm, the highest, 311
days old„ weighing 216 lbs. We believe
these weights 01 003110 end sheep to bo mt.
tainable, in the same neither of clays, in
this country, if the stone cue ho taken in
the eelecition of the right younglings, 8.04 12)
feeding and ettending them, net they are
Instil to find, 'we do not deny. That they
aro hard to rear with liltosuceoss, we freely
admit, but the thing has been done, Lot
os koop the result. before our eyes. It is
witliiii roach, Who will take the measures
requisite (0 000000 it?
Since Gui above was written we lieve
learned that the carcasses of steemtioncilleor)
two years old, from the Smithfi
Show will now ((00(11(10 000 pounds, a great-
er weight than the ordinary run of best bal.
looks mit to the Londe» market This,
which is claimed to he the 00100010 ef the
Club's show eystoin, repeesents the gain of a
year or more in time. I,Vhen !aced for 00'
1111311.100 at WO yew: old, tho forchor levet-
opulent of a steer is generally 1101( 00 profit-
able es when he is foci well from the nest and
riot forcel until lie im over ewo yeare, tie
will then carry more flesh and make El, more
perfect, cool more useful animal—TM:laical.
.Fermer.
Our own folloity we make or 11 lid.
Resistenoe is Backbone.
"Such fine, manly fellows 1" has been
said 01. 10003' of theme WhOse constant habit
108.8 10 01101 up 'buy fcni pleasure. Bat the
heathen mortliet celled this efleminaoy.
Others are mad,: popular heroes because
of their sellaesertion end &finance of all
proper restraint. That said the heathen
'novelists (igen, is not manliness, but brag.
gadocio.
Alanlinese mane self-respect and re.
sistence. The first element we do 1100 00
much noel to dwell on. But the word
sesist—why, Dean Stanley used to say 11
NVOS the beekbone of the world.
Reset the insolent thing which 50830'
1(111100 christens itself " public" opinion," end
which has often sanctioned the moat etre-
Mous crimes.
Resist self, its evil passions, and stside
through difficulty ae men often do through
gossamer threads npon the grass on II 50111'
(1)01' morn.
Have (01110,3(1 as well as a physical crows
ege. Let ns strive for an assertive truthful -
nese and an impetuous honor.
A coarse toast was once proposed at Eton
College, mid all but one eproom up to drink
W. Amid the jeers of his companions that
yeUng man remained seated, his glass up-
side down.. His name was \V. Hwart Clad -
S11011 men aerial' their clay and generation
beyond. measure. This is metiliness.--iNew
York Lodger.
A Young Maine Samson.
Lemont al. Leavitt nets born in June,
1806, in the old town ef Turner, Maine.
About the first thing Leinmit began to do
after be openecl his eyes and tittered his first
cry 1000 to grow. Ms strength increased
daily, and when 5 years old his skill with
the else abtracted much attention. Ho
would olicip more wood then than half of the
hired men could, and his services were much
sought by young men in the neighborhood
who 308110 too lazy to do their own 01.10083 011
the farm,
Lest summer the youthful (11(1311 1011(100011
7.33031(1110 surprise to his 110401315 0.1111 neigh.
bore. A party of own were building a wire
fence near by. A pole WILB run through the
centre of a very large coil of avire, and
everything NVELB 111 readiness to unsvind it,
when it was found that 0, man expected to
assist could not get there. Master Leavitt
hampened aloug, and, raking in the situa-
tion, picked up one cud of the pole on his
shoulder and marched off, 'seeping stop with
the mart who held. the other end in his arms
only by the greatest exertion, while the
men behind hung on to the wire while it
was being uncoiled. Thus for neerly 'half a
mile did this six-yertr•old Semson bear the
burden that would have made many a fulls
developed Man shrink.
Just think of it, not seven years old, yet
Master Leavitt taps the scales at Ion pounds
in a light suit. Ho is active, both physi-
citify and mentally, and a Iowa paper is will.
Mg to back him as being the handsomest
and strongest boy of his age in Christen-
dom,
Religion and Riolies.
There 10 something very seductive in the
passion for weelth. Under the g.ath of
honest industry" and the duty of "pr o-
viding foe one'a own household.," men will
contract the vice of twenties, which is one of
the most dehumanizing, tsoul-deetvoy 113(1
vices to whieh p001 13318300 nate re is stshj eat.
When a num hes suoceedecl in business and
becomes even eomperetively Koh, he is very
ept, as we say, to "Iso! his oats." He be-
comes prOand, self-confidont and self.suffi.
intuit, and is very apt to make hiinself very
disagreoeble in tha society in which he
moves. 11 18 1(1 the manner of religion, es-
pecially, thee the deleterious effects of
prosperity are most 'strikingly 001311311( 11.
Too ofte» ft destroys bluttbeme ION humili ler
and Guth holy charity which 000 11.38 very
life end soul of true religion. Ibis ospeo
ally in those who 13000 015013 from a, 'nimble
condition to a, degree of wealth and pros-
perity that these features aeo 03051 811013(1137
developed. Tim whole history of allure h
warns us to bo 013 0110 guard against tho se-
ductive influence of prosperity. Let the
rich roe:limo their responsibility for the right
use of their richest Lob the poor, while
they fail not in diligenee in their verioua
ceilings, learn bo "130 content with mirth
thinge as they hove," and while NVO 1111 real.
ize the clangor of prosperity, 102 112 learn to
treed the worl4 beneath our feet and. seek
diligently for the troathro whioh ontlureth
unto eternal life.
Ea Stook.
Oustomor—,, Homo you any rase old
chooser 1"
Now boy—" Yeah'. Got 41150M—rare,
000yrare, raw, or alive."
A. steamer bound for 130.1100 in the Black
Sett, with 1300 passengers from tho Persian
coast is reported lost with all on board.
Seiler& Carmel) Rodrigues; a Mexican
Woman 130 years old, bee peddled at Tug -
on, Arizona,