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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-12-9, Page 7.Di.c, J, 1892 AGRICULTURAL, A Prosperous Couple, Wan, wife, o ai fifty year ago slnee you and me An' W0110' filum WO hillyoS 1lfo together sldeby sten. wo 1(0)' prompored, luting wo, wIre Ian' how loll ort' Ivo be -- When wo sane spliced 5)o awned ono 005), ale now, gosh, we own throe, I owed five hundred on tide fawn, (Ivo hundred dollars then. But 1 hod prospered far boyond the gong run of mat, .A kindly Providence hoz shaped tbo rough 501(100 of (wanly, An' now 1 owe four Lwonty41 re an' thirtyseven odd con's, 'Twas only iletyyonraago you only haclonc tlresa To aggravate your Inanity and Morena your lot•olinosei Now you've got two scrumptious drosses, an' a most tronondono bonnet, With it monst'oushoe Bowl Prat fair a•flourishht' upon it. 'Theoo chairs wuz In our sitttn'•room but fifty years ago, But wo hov proaperod wondorf'ly, nn' now there's f(vo you know ; We've gained a lent p, a puddin' dish, an' extra yoke er steers. Amin' stone an'adingle cart, an' all in fifty years. It's all true w'at our pastor said, the wort' moves fast to•t ay. An' with a9nlolr, oleotricwhiz gods spinnht' on its wsy : Itjost goes spinniu' on its way until its work is done, But there's few spinnors, my dear wife, who'- ve spun ez we have spun. 1.i11 Insects by Plowing, Corn is out, shocked, and husked in au- tumn, and shooks are left on the ground over winter. Tho ground is plowed in spring, when the soil is made ready for oats, pota- toes, wheat, or corn, a8 tho case may be ; sometimes early, sometimes later, according to the crop to bo put in. Among the many serious pests, very destruotivo in some sections, is the corn worm, which feeds fn the ears near the top, on the growing kernels. There are two broods of this larva, the second reaching full e15e in autumn, wintering as pupt0 and re- appearing as itnages early in spring. By the ordinary method of cultivation the insects undergo their transformations unhindered, while by plowing in autumn and carting off and burning the stalks not 1 per cent. 01 the pupae would ever come to maturity. As this insect in its rivet brood attacks peas, tomatoes, and a great variety of other plants, and also eats into the stems of young Dorn, quite a wide range of exemp- tion would be thus secured. When corn is affected by the root louse, and this is the orae much oftener thou suspected, late au- tumn plowing will result in destroying a very largo proportion of the ants' nest which harbor the eggs of the lice during winter. In fact, so Generally destruntivo of ineeet Iife is disturbing the Ground in late autumn I would recommend IA in all oases whore the nature of the crop will allow the prac- tice. I believe it to be one of the very best methods for controlling certain classes of insect attacks. I especially recommend this in squash, melon and citron infested by borers, lies, and striped beetle. I believe it would be most valuable as a method of con- trolling these pests. In thus et,ongly recom- mending autumn plowing I am notunaware that it is not the best practice on some kinds of land. Soils that "leach" badly will not stand it, while heavy, rich soils are usually improved by the process. The farmer must in all cases decide from a knowledge of his own land, and after weighing possible benefits and injuries, but fall plow when• ever the land will stand it. If the prao- tioe is unwise then at least plow as early in spring as the soil will stand working. This will got ahead of many insects, and will be partly effective. Look After the Colts. Colts aro the most valuable live stock on the farm, and while it does not pay to ne- gleot any stock, either old or young, yet Dolts should receive particularly good atten- tion. They should be treated so kindly that they will come to meet you in yard or Pasture. This point is accomplished by frequently giving them a lump of sugar, an oar of corn, or something else they line. Hatter -break them when small, teach thorn to lead and stop at the word " whoa," leave them tied for an hour or two at a time, let- ting them have something to eat while be- ing tied, and there will bo little danger of their pulling at rho halter. At one year of age they can be accustomed to the bit, and may have a light harness planed on them fora few hours at a time. The modern practice of driving them to a vehicle when only yearlings is bad, for, unless extra care is used, injury will be the result. Colts should bo accustomed to the sight of um- brellas, and to strange noises. ,Keep them growing when both in and out, of pasture. Do not dose with medicine unless absolutely required and then only on the advice of a skillful vegetarian. Give them a name and always call them by ib. Flour or Middlings for Stook. R.F.S. int;uir0s whether cheap flour or " middlings ' is the most profitable for atoek•feeding when the price is the sane. I should say decidedly that the middlings, containing portions of the hull, would be the more profitable stock food. Both bran and middlings vary in their composition and value according to the different processes of their manufacture, and the published anal- yses vary a000rding to the ohmmeter of the samples analysed, but all the tables give a greater fending value to whole wheat than to fine flour and a greater value to bran and middlings then to floor. The value of food depends largely upon tho percentage of nit. rogenoue or mosaic forming material, There is more of this in grain than in straw, more in all sends than in the plants which pro. doe them. There is also more i11 whole wire at than in fine flour, and more in the bran than in the Actor. Middlings usually resemble bran in their composition much mote than they do title flour. Wo find Canadian flour of average quality conteine of emote formingg. material 10,9, carbohydrates or heat producingsubstances 77.7, while in middlings the ramp of mus. Me material is from 12,7 to 54,6, and of heat ptoduohlg substances 61.8 to 63.8. To ponces with a weak atomaoh floe flour May be more easily digestible as the flour contains little or no erode fibro, but crude fibro is digestible to a considerable extent and most animals will do bettor on food con- taining a due proportion of it, It is eas- ed, autl probably with truth, that fine meal or flour, mingled with some esarsor sub- stance like bran to koop it from close pack• ing in the stomach, is much more easily aotednoon gby the digestive &nide of the stomach, Pits is why many have recom- mended moat with wet out hay for horses std for cattle an well, In the naso of (hair and middling tv0 think It. it. S. will And that his animate will Had the latter bettor than tate former and consonantly oousume morn and make greater gain in flesh or othat' isodnot. There may be mune clangor that cheep flour is node from wheat that ha' lost some of Ito vale° by butt weather at harvest time. Mnaby food is loos valuable than sweet, A Q0,111iliowor Experiouoe. Tho Drop of "moral relleetiolts" in my garden line boon extremely largo the past season. The insignificance of man's power is never more clearly demonstrated than in hie futile attempts to conquer tiny food whiffle appetites are more voraaiono and por• militant than his own, Intimate acquaintance with the smooth velvety eabbago•worm fs enough to take the aoneeit out of any of us this year, for Pieria rapao, the cabbage but• tinily, hos hold high carnival, and Re humus developed with unpre05dontod rapidity. A oontineous supply of worms of all ages and sizes jeopardizes the theory that two broods only aro to be expected. Mine is chiefly a cauliflower experience. Cabbage folds have suffered more than usual from those pests, but the price of a cauliflower this year is eternal vigilance, a lavish use of insootioides, and touch loss of time and temper on the parb.o£ the grower; while the consumer may thank his stare if he can snore an Indifferent head for twenty. five cents in country markets. Last year my stock was largely composed of Early Boston. The heads were very solid and not so panioled as Early Snowball, and preferred by some for this reason, although I think the flavor le not as delicate. But amateurs are sometimes disposed to be critical and rarely content to leave well enough alone ; the suponnbunclancoof leaves of this variety suggested much ado about nothing. Cense. queerly I yielded to the temptation of the Ideal. I saw in my mind's eye prize speci- mens averaging Dight pounds, and extra heads oven tippingthe scales at higher fig. urea. In reality I find it an ideal variety, if it were not for the butterfly audits larvta. Tho lower leaves are upright will &six Moll petiole or leaf -stalk furnished with narrow stipules ; Tho blade of the leaf is also nar- row at the baso, which adds to the eon• venienoe of the butteffly, for, as the leaven aro not close together, it is all plain sailing to the concave surface of the heart loaves. These loaves lap over the heads, and a more un-get•at•able nursery for the broods to hatch in, can hardly be imagined. Hand• picking is disastrous, rho leaves are so brit- tle, andno thorough work clan bo done with exterminators until the pulp of the inner leaves is eaten up; for until this is done,. man is powerless, even though ho sit up nights and work Sundays with a loaded bellows. Sunburn naturally follows, and even when the remaining leaves are tied over -head the growing end pushes itself out between the lattice work at the base, and borne in streaks. Whoa this point is reach• ed the worms work on the inner aide of the Inrger loaves greatly to the detriment of the head below. I find a good brushing with a whisk. broom improves their individual spa earanoe and consequent market value, Evidently too muoh of a good thing is better than not enough. Give mo varieties hereafter which grow leaves enough for their own protection and a few to spare for the inevitable foe.— [G. A Woolson. R^ The File on the Farm. Tho file is a more important farm tool than many farmers, who during all their lives have never filed the outting edge of a hoe blade, are aware of. If such mien have a practical demonstration of the difference between a dull and a sharp hoe, they are certain to purchase a small flat file for the workmen ID carry in their pockets when engaged in work requiring the use of a sharp hoe. File the hoe upon both sides of the blade, and it will retain an edge longer and out smoother than when the filing is all upon one aide, although it should be filed most in the inside. Both a fiat, a three - cornered and a round file should be kept on haul. Their use will often save a trip to the shop in a busy time, and they pay for themselves many times each year in sharper edged tools. GRAN'1)ADDY GAME AT LAST. The Children Left lllm to Die, nett n 110311,, only Chariot Took alai lip. It was a lonely road running through the pine, and I was deep in the wood when I came across an old negro man seated by the roadside, He was blind, toothless, bald, and evidently more than 80 years old. While I was yet thirty foot away I heard him calling in a quavering voice 1 " I knowed it, ohilleu—I khowed yo'd come back fur gran'daddy I 1 knowed yo' wouldn't leave do ole man to die in de woods 1 " ' Who are you?" I asked as I halted be. side him. 'Fo' de Lewd 1 but who's dat? Han't de chillen cum ? " "No 1 How did you cone to be here in this lonely place? Whore are your chit. dren? " " I nebber dun hoard yo'r voice befo'," he slowly answered. " No ; I'm travelling." "Yo' see, I'ze ole au feeble an han't no good any me. De ohillen was movie ober to Alt/help', and dey didn't want to take me gong wtd 'am. So—so--" "You don't mean they left you hero to take care of yourself ?" "Yes, dey dun put me outer de cart right yore 001 drive on. I called to'em, but dey wouldn't stop. I heard de leetle ohil- len o'yin fur gran'daddy, but William wouldn't turn back. I'ze bin p`ayin au p'ayin', an when I heard yo' emu I felt suah it was William." "If ho doesn'1 return what will you do?" I asked. "I shall ax de Lewd to take knot' o' me, an ho will do It." I promised to send him help and rode away. It was already late in the afternoon, and by the time the proper county oiliaial was found it was evening, and a storm was raging. He would not move till morning came, and then I rode bank with him. The old man was lying very quiet, and we thought him asleep. As wo lifted him up he opened hie oyes and smiled and whispered : "I keep hearth, de tootle ohillen oryin' book for gram' daddy 1 I'ze oomin', °Milan ; I'ze tryin to ootch up wid do cart I" While we wore trying to revive flim from the fainting spell whish followed he straight. toned out and breathed his last, bub with 1110 Iasi breath he oalled out: "Role on, chillon, bolo oa 1 Yo'r pore grau'daldy ant diol oomin'—colnin- 00(0 I" "Life fn this country," said the phiioso• Sh, "i8 e, heap like going to the circus. oon as a man gets to the front all the fel- lows on the back spats Metal; on hen sitting down out of rho way." Dr. lborldoe tolls us that there 10 a direct relation between men's penults and tho coin of their 11air, An utn1aial proportion of anon wil.h dark, straight hair otter the ministry, ; red-whiskerod 111011 aro 'apt to be Overt to sporting and horse flesh, while the tall, vigorous blond mon, 11815181 11000011• dahts of the Vikings, still eon 1.riltute %largo contingent to our .travellers and emigrants. T1513 BRUSSEILS PAST, SEASONABLE In the soup—Moat, An adder's bite—The hank clerk's lunch, Neckties that aro never cast aside—Fe. male arms, Exhorter—"Come, thou !lenity laden.' Ohl Songhk—"Don't look at mo that way. I ain't half loaded yet," The sluggard is usually told to go to hie ant, tett, with the perversity of human nat- ure, he tonally goes t0 his uu010. Willie -- "llappiuess cones through mighty little things sometimes," \\'allaco Yes, I have frequently gotten it through 0 straw." Adorer—"May I, be yore pilot and guide your bark through the stormy sea of life?" Fair Widow—"No, dear 1 but you may be my second mate. Young Staylaight (fishing for a compli- ment)—"Can you imagine ire looking pic- turosque, Miss Amy?" Amy—"Yee, Frame yourself in the doorway." Diggs—"I like 181108 Miggs booanso she is coonomical," Biggs—"How do you know sho is economical ?' Dlgga—"\roll, there is very little waist about her," Mrs. DeGoode-"Why are yon throwing stones at that little boy? Answer me that, sir," Small Boy (very good at excuses)— "'Cause his tolke dosen't b'long to our church." Knowitt—" Animals are naturally of a quarrelsome disposition. As the poet says, dogs delight to bark and bite." Howitt -- "Yes, and even the oyster often gets into a broil. "Do you over shed tears—real tears—ort the stage?" "I did the first two or three titres my trunks were levied on," replied little Eva, "bot after that I sorter got used to it, eee ?" "Women used to sell themselves for rich husbands," says n desolate man. " Now," says he, " the marriage ceremony is n pawn ticket and they can redeem tdtomsely s at any time," I think I'll have an oil portrait made," said Dir. Derrick, wino had become sudden- ly rioh in petroleum. " There you go talk. ing shop again I" exclaimed his wife, who was taking lessons in culture, The Husband --"You're not economical." The Wife—"Well, if you don't cell a wan. an economical who saves her wedding dress for a possible second marriage I'd like to know what you think economy is." Little Brother—" Mr, Johnson, won't you go and stand before the window ?" Dir. Johnson—" Certainly, toy little man ; but why ?" Little Brother—"Oh, ma says she can an through you. I want to see if I can." "Did you take much pressing before you accepted Jack?" asked one young lady of a friend who had just got engaged. " Olt, a lot. And then Jack is so strong you know. He nearly squeezed all the breath out of my bo" Sudyitor—".Madam I love you 1" Widow— "That's an old story." Suitor—" I adore you 1" Widow—" A hackneyed phrase." Suitor—"I cannot live without you and wish to marry you." Widow—" An orig- inal idea at last ; yes I like that." First Masher—" Well, did you make the acquaintance of that strange gid you were raving over?" Second Ditto—" Yes; fol- lowed her home." First AL—How dial she strike you ?" Second Ditto—" She didn't at all ; she got her big brother bo do it." "Have you been reading poetry lately?" said the bank president to the °ashler, " Why, yes," was the reply ; "I have been troubled with sentimentality of late." " Well, I wish you'd give it up. You are getting that ' far -away look' 111 your eyes, and it worries the directors," Sang-Froid of a British General. A correspondent, writiug of the late Lord Strafhnairn, says bo was the most indolent, lackadaisical, languid person who over dawdled along Piccadilly. When he was devastating oontrallndia, winning the splen- did victories that immortalized his name, he was so lazy that he could not be got to dictate the dispatches recording hie own triumphs, says the Sheffield (England) Tele- graph. Months elapsed before these docu- meats could bo extracted from hint, and then they were brief and meager to the last degree. Ono day, when Sir Hugh Rose, ho was en- tertaining a gallant company to dinner dur- ing the crisis of the mutiny. With the utmost sang-froid ho was delight)ng those near him with one of his best anecdotes. In the middle of it his orderly entered and, after saluting, exclaimed : " V',re have cap. tured 200 rebels, sir." To him the general turned and, with that elegant courtesy of manner on which he prided himself, serenely replied : " Thank you, sergeant." Bab the man still remained. Again inter- rupting his chief, Ito said : "But what aro we to do with them, sir?" "Oh," replied Sir Hugh with a soft smile, " hang them, of course,' and he resumed his anecdote. In a little while Sir 'Hugh was again inter. rupted in the middle of another story by tho sergeant, who came in and said ; " Please, sir, we've hung the lot, air," Tho general turned, bowed slightly; and in the sweetest manner lisped : Thanks, sergeant, very many thanks," and then went on with his anecdote as if nothing had hap- pened. This story came to the ears of the queen and she was so angry that it nearly cost Sir Hugh his peerage. A Remarkable Tree. Growing near the baths of Allies, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, almost with. in a stone's throw of the most popular ho. tel, 4500 feet above the level of the sea, stands the most remarkable true in the world, 1(10 trunk of this curious tree is 10 teeters, ora little over 30 feet in dianoter at the baso, About live yards above the ground seven offshoots put out, from the south side. Bontand gnarled at their place of starting, these side. trunks soon straighten themselves up and rise perpendicularly and parallel to the main stem. This feature alone is tot, perhaps, unraralleled, but another most curious tact is that the two largest of tho side trunks aro connected with the main breo by sub-gnadrangular braces resembling girders. These beanie have probably boon formed by an auosto- nosing of bra/mhos, which, although, com- paratively common among agosperm0, has novorboforo been reported in a conifer (rho remarkable subject of this aketelt being tt fir). The places whore tho side girders eater the mala trunk aro an smoothly bark• od over ns to MOO it impossible to asoor• fain the manner in which nature forme,. the remarkable union. Haw a limb (originally intended to grow Moo and boas foliage, email havo been absorbed ani converted into a living girder is a mystery width affords a now illustration of the power of nature to adapt itself to estyand all oirount• sl.an080, TEE hUNK AND EIS WAYS, ANato ratiet's Entertaining Beset l.often of the .Wit Intik r anise's,. The little fer•bearer, whose color lute been painted darker than Itis, and singularly made Ole I) 11100 proverbial for blackness, to an odd but not so familiar au acquaintance of the angler and sportsman as he was of them and of the oomriry boy of two score years ago, It was a woeful clay for the tribe of the mink ,when it beeem8 the fashion for other folk to wear his coat, which ho could only doff with the subtler garment of life. Throughout the term of his exaltation to rho favor of fashion, be was lain in wait for at 1118 05)11 dooraud on hie thoroughfares and by-paths by the traps, death•falls and guns of professional and amateur trappers and hunters till the fate of his greater cousin, the otter, seemed to overtake Mtn. But the tickle empress who raised him to such perilous estate, changing her mood, thrust him down almost to his ignoble but safer rank, just in time to avert the im- pending doom, of extermination. Once more the places that knew 1115) of old know hint again. In rho March snow you may trace the long span of his parallel footprints where hot with rho rekindled annual fire of love, he has sped on his errand wooing, burning not aside for the most tempting bait, halt• ing not for the rest, hungering only for a o weetheart, wearied with nothing but tona- l/nese. Yet weary enough would you bo if you attempted to follow the tract' of but one night wandering along the winding brook, through tho tangle of windfalls and across the rugged ledges that part stream from stream. When you go fishing in the first days of Summer you may see the fruits of this early Springtido wooing in the dusky brood taking their primer lesson in the art that their primo•genitoro were adopts in before yours learned it, How proud ono baby fisher is of his first captur- ed minnow, how he gloats over it and de- fends his prize from his envious and less fortunate brothers. When Summer wanes, they will be a nattered family, each member shifting for himself. Some stilt haunt the alder thicket whore they first saw light, whose netted shadows of baro branches have thickened about them to continued shade of leafage, fn whose midday twilight the real fame of the cardinal flower burns as a beacon set to guide the dusky wanderer Thome. Others have adventured far down the winding brook to the river, and followed its slowing current pas: rapids and cataract to where it crawls through the green level of marshes beloved of water fowl and of gunners, whose wounded victims, escaping them, fall an easy prey to the lurking mink. Here too in their aea0otl are the tender duokliugs of wood -duck, teal and dusky dusk, and all the year round, fat musk - rate, fueuiohingg for tho price of conquest a banquet that the mink nto8t delights in. In the wooded border are homes ready builded for him under the buttressed trunks of elms or in the hollow bolls of old water maples and hidden pathways through fallen trees and uuder low green arches of ferns. 1With such a home and such bountiful provision for his larder close at hand, what more could the heart and stomach of mink desire ? Het ho may not be satisfied, but longs for the wider wabos of the lake, whose translucent depths reveal to him all who swim beneath him, fry, innumerable, perch displaying their scales of gold, shin- ers like silver arrows shot through the green water, the lesser boas peering out of rooky fastnesses, all attainable to this der. ing fisher, but not his great rivals, the bronze•matled base and the mottled pike, whose jaws are wide enough to engulf oven him. Here, while you rest on your idle oar or lounge with useless rod, you may see him gliding behind the tangled net of cedar roots or venturing forth from a cranny of the rooks down to the brink and launch- ing himself so silently that you doubt whether it is not a flitting shadow till you e his wake so silent that you wonder that it breaks the reflections lengthening out behind him, Of all the swimmers that breathe the free air non0 can compare with him in owiftnese and in grace that is the smooth and 0vou flow of the poetry of motion. Now he dives, or rather vanishes, from the surface, mar re- appears till his wake has almost flickered out. His voyage accomplished, he at once sets forth on exploration of new shores or pro. grassthrough hie established domain, and from vanishes frosight before his first wet footprints have sight on the warm rook where ho landed. You are glad to have seen him, thankful that ho lives, and you (tope that, sparing your chickens and your share of trout, partridges and wild duoke, he, too, may be spared from the devices of the trapper to fill his appointed plane in the world's wild• nods. FRIVOLS OF TBE PAST. Bangs wore first worn in the court of outs X[V. Greek ladies had 137 different styles o dressing hair. Catharine de Medici imported mug's into Franco tram Italy. Corsets have been worn 011 the waists of Egyptian mummies, On festive occasions both Greek and Ro- mans wore garlands of flowers, Shoes with heels 6 inches high wore worn at the court of Louis XIV'. Gloves with separate fingers were un- known before the twelfth century, The huge .Elizabethan ruff was hold in place by au under proppiug of wire, Greek women wont barefoot indoors and wore sandals wihen walking abroad. Fashion plates 0185)0 1111:0 u8e during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Several thousands of hair pins, in many styles have been recovered from Pompeii. Two Imperial Spendthrifts. It is not generally known that the Ger. man Empros8, in spite of her many oxoollent qualities, is very extravagant, and owes large sums of money to many of the Berlin tratl80mm1, one firm alone having n bill of 800,000 marks, or 1140,000, against Her Majesty. Tho Einpress never wears either a dress, 0, mantle or a bonnet the second time In public, mud everything that oho buys is of the vary best. Itis all 8110 marc surprising 5)11011 it 10 recollected liov ox. tromoly elm plc her snrromrl ings wore before het marriage to Prime Wilhelm of Prussia, and oven after hor marriage until her hus- band suoeooded to the empire. The Emperor is oleo very largely in debt, inn spite of the handsome present made to Inion last spring by tho ll,npross I!rodoriok, wino advance& him 1,500,000 marks, the 'Emperor has, unfortunately, not the slight. est idea of money, anal entities it right and oft, to the groat horror of meet' .,f h a loyal tubje010. All that most 111mt have 01 the world is what they are going to got, • LION HUNTING, [ FOITit-FOOTED OtTTLAWS, atetuarltablo l$xperlenres oro Sportsman ill the par'reta or Abyssln/&. Lieut, Egerton, whose life, front choice, had been one of vicissitudes and remarkable adventure, o°ntrary to Ids wont, seemed 0110 night to he in a communicative snood, am i1( response to a request for a yarn, prefer- red by myself, related the following : " I think that the few months I spent In Abys• Arabs, near the Sottito river, among the oi r s, wore, take it all in all, the pleasant, est of my whole life. They received 1010 with open-hearted hospitality, and nothing was too good for bite " white etrangor. They are the most fearless and active lion - tare In the world, and will attack any ani- mal whatsoever, from the elephant and lion to the rhinoreroe and buffalo, armed only with astraight, two-edged sword, This weapon Is sharpened to tho f I1Oneas of a razor, and the Made is protected for several ,echos above the cross -lull with a thick string, whioh they wind tightly around it so as to afford a grip for rho right band, while they grasp the hilt with the loft in the ordinary tnanncr. This converts ib into a two.handed sword, Such is the dox- terity and force with which they use this terrible weapon that they ofttimes sever an enemy clean in two with a blow delivered at the waist—which by the way, is a favor. ire stroke of theirs. Tiley invariably hunt on horseback in parties of two or three, and I was present, es a spectator only, at a lion hunt gotten up for my spooial edification. Game was abundant in our neighborhood, and so there was always a good supply to satisfy the wants of the numerous lions thereabouts. Ate a consequence, they never showed any disposition to meddle with man unless previously attaokod, but in snob event maintained their old-time reputation for oourage and ferocity, as my tale will shosv. The dew's of the day appointed to' our expedition saw us (that is, three Arabs and myself) mounted on oar mettlesome little horses ready fir a stab. No time was lost in quitting the camp and making at a rapid gait for the s0tne of our expected 'marry. Karim, whose hoepitallty I was onjoying and for whomI entertained the sinooreat affection, exploit° 1 to me the method to be adopted in hunting the lion as we proceed- ed on our way. It seemed to mo t0 be par- ticularly foolhardy, but he assured me that it had been the custom from time imme- morial end that on accident seldom if ever occurred, adding with a pardonable touch of pride; "The lion is strong and mighty, but Kerins knows how to overcome him.' P.11 hour's ride brought us to a sandy plain, dotted at irregular intervals with patches of nabbuk bushes varying in density and area, and where, as my mentor assured mo, we should be certain to find "plenty lion." It did not take long to find traces of a beast which, front his tracks, must have been of more than tho ordinary size, and as they wore plain and distinct we had no difficulty in traoking him to a small patch of nabbuk bushes. The next thing was to get him out of his cover, and Karim, without a moment's hesitation, dismounted, tethered his horse, and plunged forthwith into the prickly jungle. For a long time we heard no sound, and had not the faintest suspicion of what was going forward, the Arabs all the while encircling the nabbnk patch tvibhoot a moment's rest, whilst I, fearful of my friend's safety, could do 110101ng but wait for the ter,nination of this foolhardy affair. A little later, whilst both of the Arabs were on the other side of the jungle, the lion broke oover not far from where Istood, and just as I was noting his magnificent peeper - tons, and the angry manner in which he was lashing his sides with his tail, and hop- ing devoutly that be would not turn his at- teutiou to me, for I was unarmed, Kerim also emerged from the jungle, and, seizing a rock which happened to bo handy, hurled it at the retreating beast with all his foroe and struck him squarely with the missile. The great beast turned with a roar whose vibrations seemed to shake the very earth, and made rapidly for his daring aggressor. The bold fellow stood undaunted with his sword flung baelc over his shoulder to give his blow full force, but I felt that his hoar had Dome unless assistance speedily arrived. Just at this moment the two otherAt'abs came careering round the far end of the jungle at full gallop. It was a race for life and death. All this time Karim was not only undlsmayod, but even was taunting the lion all lie knew how, calling hint cow- ard and robber, and heaping aspersions on this mother, grandmother, and all his pro- genitors for generations back, the Arabs being firmly convinced that the boasts un- derstand what they say, and in that belief thus abuse them in order to metro a fight. LIFE IN A PIRATE SHIP, Merit and Bravery Rewarded and Dis- honesty tory Severely Punished. The customs and regulations most com- monly observed on board a buccaneer aro worth noting. Every pirate captain, doubt- less, had his own set of rules; but there were oertain traditional articles that seem to have been generally adopted. The cap. tai's bad the state cabin, a double vote in elections, a double share of booty, On some vessels it was the captain who deoided what direotion to sail in, but this and other mat. ters of moment were oftener settled by a vote of the company, the captain's vote counting for two. Tho affioers had it share and a half or a share and a quarter of all plunder, and the sailors ono share each, Booty was divided with scrupulous oare and marooning was the penalty of attempt• ung to defraud the general company, if only to the amount of a gold piece or a dollar, Every man bad a full vote in every affair of importance. Armes were always to be clean and fit for servioe, and desertion of Unship or quarters in battle were punished with death. On Roberts's ship 0 man who was °rippled in battle received 8800 outof the common stook, and a proportionate sem won &warded for lesser hurts. Lowther allowed £150 for the loss of a limb, and other 018ptains instituted a sort of tariff of wounds which extended to ears, fingers and Loos, In chase or battle the captain's power was absolute. Ha who first opted a sail, tithe proved to bo a prize, was entitled to the boat pair of pistols on board her over and above his dividend. Those pistols were neatly o0votod, and a pair would sell for as mucin as £30 from one pirate to another, In their own common- wealth the pirates aro repotted to have been severe a tot tho point of honor, and among Roberts's crew it was the practice to slit the cars or nose of any niter found guilty of robbing his follows. Sault feeble interuotthat now attaches to what was ouco the formidable falhl0 of the pirates is not even testhotio, 08 is merely antic. No imaginative essayist disposes piracy as a lino art; butPenlJonee f8 rostra. rooted as rho hero of a musical, burlesque, Poor Paul 1 And he is almost the only ono of the whole buucemeering race when story discovers a mien of the legendary gallantry OF preacy. Paul, whose father had boon head gardener to Lord Selkirk, plundered tho Selkirk mansion of its plate, which he sib• eminently t'Otorne1 in a parcel to Lady Sol - kirk with a lector of polite apology. Beasts of Prey That Defy Civilization in Nearly Every Oountfy. ,'lathes 0f wolves, I ones entl .lacltnlm--- TorslolontStu'vivitlofLions in the la - than Province l:uzernt. In the course of the Iaet 100 years some 10,000,000 door must have been killed iu the Canadian North-West and tho States of the Atlantic slope alone, and probably twice as many west of the Rocky Mountains and in rho °oast jungles of the Gulf States. The hecatombs of bieons can be estimated only by the pioneers of the Western prattles, Boars and wolves have entirely disappeared front an area representing at least one-fourth of our national territory, while both are eti11 found fn such longg.settled countries as Franco and Spain. Even in Bolginm, the most densely populated country of the mode ern world, utero are still wolves enough to retinae the total profits of sheep -raising one- fifth. At Herbomout and St. Ceoil, fsthe upper valley of the Moselle, the farmoro or- ganized a circle hunt this summer to re- venge the ravages of a pact' of wolves that had victimized nearly every isolated homestead, but always contrived to regain the highlands before daybreak, Only a few dozen milds south of Buda•Posth the shep- herd!' of the Bakony Forest have to keep wolf dogs, and eon 000 the track of prowling murderers in the snow at the very door of their stables in hard winters, European Russia has been under cultiva. tion since the middle of the eevonth cen- tury, and uuder an organized government since 856, yet even in the western provinces of the em(fre wolves are still more numer- ous than fn any part of North America south of the Saskatchewan. The hue and cry announcing the appearance of the four - legged marauders is still heard in broad. daylight, and often in the neighborhood of large villages ; not in the iighland8 of the that only, but in the fertile plain of Grodno and Volhynia. Tho wolf's little 000819, the African,. jackal, has bold his own through all the vicissitudes that changed the lower valley of the Nile from a wilderness to a hive of industry and back to a desert again. At Aloo Kao, on the road from Cairo to Suer., the traveler Gcretaeekor passed a night in camp where all the dogs of Eastern Egypt seemed to have met in general commotion, but in spite of the continuous snarling, barking and yelping he could hear all night rho still incessant howl of a jackal congresa in the neighborhood of the village. They sung in chorus and seemed resolved to main- tain the prestige of their musical reputation, for every 0111 0 al vocal effort on the part of the dog was answered by a still more soul•stirring symphony from the direction of the thorn jungle. In the caverns of Mount Lebanon a yel- lowish -gray species of bear has solved the problem of survival ever since the time ti hen the forefathers of the Phoenician founded the City of Damascus. The ursus iaabel- linois, as naturalists call that distant rela- tive of our cinnamon, is found nowhere else on the Eastern Continent, and his present existence can not be explained on the theory that his ancestors left the country during the zenith period of Syrian oivilization and returned subsequently like the French an- archists after the downfall of Napoleon. In 1850, Don Juan de Garay founded the city of Buenos Ayres, and during the next hundred years colonists from Spain and Chili settled the valley of the La Plata to the upper head of navigation, and the coun- try now known as the Argentine Republic was explored in every din ection. In other words, the civilization of that part of South America had a hundred years start of Can- ada; yet its list of aboriginal beasts of prey fs Still as incomplete as that cf Central Africa. .Cnormons numbers of sheep and cattle are every year destroyed by the pumas of the hill districts, and fn the wood. ed lowlands of the northern border the jaguar makes stook -raising an almost hope- less pur8uit. But tllestrangest instance of persistent survival is the existence of Hous in the East Indian province of Gus ora', Parts of Him, dostan are covered with jungle to a degree that makes the dislodgment of wild animals next to impossible, but Guzerat, in the north of the Bombay presidency, is one of rho best cultivated revue of llritish India, and the density of its population, 7,500,0U on 40,000 square utiles, far exceeds that of any part of our national territory, being just twice that of Ohio and Illinois, And, moreover, the oivilization, such as it is, of that populous district, dates from the very remotest period of antiquity. Cities flour- ished in the Valley of the Nerbuddaa thou- sand, perhaps thousands, of years before the foundation of Babylon, and the temple ruins of Cambay are older than the dawn of the Sanskrit traditions. Nevertheless that cradle of architecture and agriculture still harbors lions. During a three -days' hunt near Itlyagore four old lions and three cube were killed a year ago and the total num- ber of human beings annually devoured by the lions of the province varies from forty to more than a hundred. Hunting parties from Bombay occasionally beard the king of beasts in his den, but the natives with rare exceptions, content them- selves with passive restetance. At sight of the redoubtable quadruped they will skin up a tree or fling themselves flat on the ground ; and Victor Jaeqquemot had an in. terview with an old Hindoo who claimed to have conquered a lion by the formnof prayer --i. e., by kneeling in the middle of the road and imploring the man-eater to reflect on the wickedness of homioide in general and the emaciated condition of the pre80nt petitioner in particular. An Island of Salt. 1. mass of 90,000,000 tons of pare, ooni. pact rook snit, located on an island 185 feet high, which rises from a miserable sea marsh on alto route from Brasil ar 0, New Iberia, La„ is one of the natural wonders of the world. Row this island over nano into 0518to1100 in such a locality is a matter of oonjeotnre. Vegetation is prolific, the scenery being beautiful and varied. In the canter of Ihfs island, which is the only solid spot in the vast expanse of sea marsh, which extends for miles in all directions, rises Salt Peak, the largest body of exposed rook salt in the world, Haling never been surveyed, its exa0t extent is, as yet, un- known; however, those who trove visited the locality may that there is not lues than 00,000,000 tons of pure crystal salon sight. Itis needless to add that the dazzling Meer - nese of Salt Peak is in striking contrast to the eombor htgoons, bayous, and salt marshes whish surround it on all aides. As the oyster grows Miler its proportion of flush and juices increase more rapidly than its shell, as well as the relative amount of the natural nutrients in its edible per.. tions. A remarkable "Western African ostrich recently arrived as Storm Leone. Tho bird le 10 feet high, had 001111 front Central Africa, and walked a diatunoe of at least 600 miles to the British Colony,