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AGRIOULTURA.L,
Mantzroi for Fruits:
)srnnr,mie:nl uuaunring Implies the apply
ing of such elemonLe04 are needed for pie')
growth that isdolielent in the eoi1. Ordhn
arily in average soil all that will ha neves
nary to fttt'nloh is nitrogen, potash ant
phosphoric told, And it 18 Often the stn
that thorn wilt be plenty of one or two of
these, while in others all may be needed in
order to se0ure the best results,
Generally in applying suable manure wo .
apply all of the elements needed, The ob-
jootioi to using much stable immure in the
orchard is the tendency to produce too
strong a growth of wood, (hie i0u•atller more
the onso with a young oroharl than niter it
has become well ostablichoil. And for this
reason ie is often the case that in what may
be oonsidcree a fairly rich soil, strong
stook manure often proves alenost as de-
tritttonlal as benolclel, and especially so
when it contains a oonaidorable per coat. o
nitrogen.
Phosphoric acid aml potash are generally
more needled than nitrogen. It is largely
for this reason that wood ashes and ground
limo or bone meal can be applied with maty
varieties of fruits ton batter advantage thrid
fresh stable immures. If there is any differ.
en00 to bo made ill applying the different
kinds of fertilizers to titlforent varieties of
fruits, apply ground lima to the peach,
cherry and pear trees, and tho wood ashes
to the apple, es phosphoric told is most
needed by the first named, and potash by
the latter, bot either will be beneficial to a
more or less extent by the application of
the other,
Grapes and in fact all varieties of small
fruits aro benefited by an application of bona
meal. In all cases it is necessary to apply
this fertilizer in a form that it can be read-
ily worked into the soil. One of the ad.
vantages in using either ashes or bone meal
is that they are more readily soluble, and
in eonsegnonce are sooner available than the
average stable manure. So tar as is possible
the wood ashes should bo applied to fruits,
both vino and tree, and if the evil is not
naturally rich, stable manure may be used.
But when there hs a free supply of nitrogen
in the soil the most economical plan of sup-
plying tho other two ingredients or
essentials is by using bond meal and wood
ashes, using the stable manure with other
crops.
The serest, way to make ;4 profit, is Le keep
. down the mere 'Mere oilmtlld be no hosila•
lion in prnr.t'rine, 1. hat which is needed, but
watttc sIonld not b4, allowed. Thu co -;t may
ho lessened by doing all work ae the proper
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I' time and by the use of the best implements.
'1'1 sa d,
The tau 4,d fur ra good row s rapidly
t
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' rising, A few pore ago 'tile pound rows
• wore emsree, now they are fonttd iu horde of
1 e0 Soon wo will Iliac ale etanda'cl up to
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1400 pounds and then our 200 pound friends
will probably gain another fi0 parade in
order to keep their planes in the procession.
Good burls aro the menus to the clesirell and
andgondI
td ells are 10 to had now be 1 ud 1 erY
:deep,
A OHRMSTMAS JOORNEX•
It was a regular old time Cheiatnlas'Eve
outside, the 0110W was falling softly and Si.
lonely, hovering the bleek, baro osrth with a
garment of stainless white and the Maker.
mg gas lamps shone on many a merry face
and well filled bosket as the ceaseless stream
of humanity hurried along down the bray
street, it wa f very coil too, at least so
'l'nhy thought and Toby was always can.
sidered a tip-top judge of the weather,
Yee,” sail he, drawing his thin coat
Omer about his throat and sticking his
bards far down fu his bottomless pocicots,
"It is rather frosty and that's a fact, but
when 0 roan has Christmas presents to bey
why he doesn't feel itliko—copton theca.
ners, of warm." Now to look at Toby you
Iwnnldn t think hint much of a man For he
,just reached to the place where the door -k nob
ought to be at Aunt Maria's, but then he had
a whole shilling with which to buy some.
thing nice so Toby felt five feet high at
least. "Yon see," he said to himself, "when
a man has worked hard and the next shay is
Christmas iib only fair and proper that the
should buy a present, but whether itthonld
he some coffee and a4 roll or a mince pie ib'0
ton ible hard to say—if 1 only lied Dot
now "—and 'roby's bright eyea grow din, as
he thought of his little sister who had died
only two short months atter his dear mam-
ma had loft her in his care and gone away
to that beautiful country whore there is no
cold nm• hanger nor weariness. Wben the
last good-byes had boon said, Toby's undo
lead taken thorn hone to lire with Min, but
their clothing and insufficient food soot told
upon the delicate children and before long
Dot followed her dear mamma to what7Toby
called " The happy. city," Since the loss of
his golden -haired sister his purpose in life
seemed to have deserted him --what did it
matter whether he worked bard or not,
there was no Dot to buy somo dainty rolls
for any incite, and for himself Toby
didn't much care for it seemed time he
was just as hungry after he had eaton
it as before and anyway Aunt Maria was 00
Dross. Was it any wonder that the air
seemed colder and the snow more chilling
as, with the precious shilling to his hand he
stood under the nearest street lamp and said
what so many, before him have said in dlr.
ferenbworda, "Now I'vegot it and 'taint no
use no how."
Suddenly sr he hesitated a bright, light
shone across the street, they were lighting
the gas in a store over the way. In the
window right opposite Toby, was displayed
a wonderful painting, the like of which he
had never seen, The central figure of the
piet0re was that of a shepherd deeding far
up on a perilous mill' with 0 tiny lamb m his
terms. The petit was rough 111111 0010014. and
had the lamb been alone it would certainly
have clipped and fallen but rho "Good
Shepherd" was holding it so tenderly and
lovingly that it was quite safe. But the
face—Toby could not take his eyes off it, it
was so beautiful,
"An"' said ho, with a little catch in his
breath "that must bo the "Good Shoplord"
who will come some clay, as mother sail, to
take me home to her and Dot. Perhaps if
I had that picture he would see how much
I loved him and come sooner—poor Dot
must be tired waiting for nh0," Crossing
the street ho looked again at the wonderful
painting and noticed a tiny copy lying by
its aide marked on a Large ticket, la. Pie
and coffee were forgotten n a second and,
in less time than it takes to write it, Toby
was marching home with the precious pic-
ture clasped to his heart,
"Yon bad ungrateful boy," screamed
Aunt Maria as he entered, "after all melted
Hiram's done foryou and your useless sitter,
to be gadding off like that with never a
'by your leave' and mea slaving." But Toby
had disappeared up the rickety stairs to the
tittle attic where ho slept alone.
When they had all gone to bed and the
winter moon peered through the drifting
clouds down through the many cracks in
the at1fo roof he took out his picture again
and looked long and lovingly at the face of
the "Good Shepherd," then kneeling down
he said the little prayer which Dob had
taughb hint about "Jams, tender Shepherd
hear me," adding at the last, "Please come
soon or Dot will be tired weltingand don't
forget the picture." Toby fell asleep. That
night the weather changed and grew nobler,
so much so that it was long remembered as
the coldest night for years, bull for once
Toby clic' not feel it,
"Toby," called Aunt Maria, next morn-
ing, " Toby, drat the boy he's always be.
hind whon 11o's wanted—Toby 1 say ;" still
no response, and grumbling all the way
Aunt Marla wont up stairs. On the little
sack of straw, the thin quilt half covered
with drifting snow, a happy smile on his
face and the picture clasped to nus lips, lay
Toby—quite dead.—"Poor child," you any
—Ah no, on that lovely Christmas morning
Toby had gone far away with the Good
n u
Shepherd tanto the happy arty where
mother and Dot were wanting.
Bot to (4Loor1•tsnsek.
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Using Fertilizers,
The basis of all farm operations is manure
or fertilizers. There is no immunity front
the use of these : the farm most be replenish•
ed—fed, or utter sterility is reached sooner
or later', depending upon the original fertil.
ity of the soil. ]'lore should be yearly
supplied all the fertilizers that aro at com-
mend. A soil once exhausted requires years
of mead treatment to bring it up to
anything Ilse its original condition. In
fact, no artilioial applications and manage-
ment can put ht into that perfect productive
condition it was when in its virgin perfection;
yet much can be done toward this end.
1f land be !wren out or thin, first eproad
ever it as liberally as the supply will allow,
in the fall, barnyard manure ; 1f the ground
is not Loo poor, oats may be sown and crop
taken off, but if very poor, sow rye and turn
it under. Then may follow a atop of wheat,
and with the grain sow ab''ut 200 point's of
good commercial fertilizer, Then the land
may have a run of a few seasons in clover.
By such a process land will rapidly improve,
and some compensation in the way of props
bo returned.
To increase the barnyard supply of forti-
lizer, all the straw or forest leaves that can
be used, should bo used, as. bedding for
stork. This is the farmer's main depend-
ence, and such give more enduring food to
the land. Commercial fertilizers work
amazing results on thin land, in the way of
staking crops, but they do but little in the
way of bringing up the land itself. Too
many fanners, we think, depend on coin.
menial fertilizers, to do both these offices,
and buy and supply then to their lends, In-
stead of using homemade manures. Wo
use both, and have noted results where used
by others, and must say that we do not be-
lieve that, where the land in inch in avail.
able plain food, any beneficial results are de.
rived from the use of the commercial fertili-
zers.
Their greatest benefit to the farmer is to
push, or rather make the crop where such
is sown to keep up, or bring up exhausted
land. A field too poor to yield a clover
crop, may bo Wade to do so by the use of
commercial fertilize• sown with the seed,
where often it would bo impracticable to
use barnyard manure. Ashes aro very good
in this respect on account of the potash they
oontain. Lime also, is valuable, in releasing
and making available plant food that other-
wise would remain unavailable in the soil;
but these elements may be there, else little
or nothing is gained. Commeroial fertili-
zers contain the elements required, and
hence will give the start to other Drops
which will, in turn, furnish plant food to
the land : among which clover, peas, beans
and rye stand highest on the list. 'These
fertilizers are rather costly for broadoasting;
broadcast all theavailable barnyard manure,
thou drill in, or put in hill, the fertilizers.
Their action is quicker than manures, and
gives the young plants an early and vig0r0ue
start, and, of amino, adds much to the in-
crease of the crop.
General Notes'
Granges and other farmers' organizations
ought to work hand in Hand with the ex-
periment stations,
Apple trees do not produce as nicely
colored fruit on plowed land as those grow.
hug on grass land.
A representative of ono of the largest'
berry -box mmnufaoturiug establishments
says that they make 17 different sizes of
quarts, of which only two will hold equate.
One of these days, 1totWibhstending the
opposition of the atanke aid (also liunani-
tariens, a oow wearing a horn will he look-
ed upon as a curiosity and her owner art all -
other.
Self conceit, egotism, obstinacy, amount
simply to the beading of a Chinese wall
about ourselves to shut out all thee the
rest of the world knows. It ie a grime mis-
take, yet one that is freitently inatle,
The present system of institute instrtt0.
tion, as carried on in most of the agricul-
tural states, is a powerful instrumentality
toe the dissemination of farming knowledge.
Its effects ere plainly traooab]o wherever
introduced.
I have attended very many of these faire,
and very rarely have I been able to discover
a single point that justified Choir exist000
—resuming Both existence to have for Its
object t10 odnoation and elevation of the
limner.
Tho law of supply and demand largely
determines the price of commodities, but
the cost ofprodIotiol determines theirpprof-
ito blooms 1 and all mann able ease should be
taken to 0od300 rho cost of production bo.
taw th3 selling price,
!Canadaold ricurn•Pneumuouin.
A cablegram from London states that:—
"Mr. Gardner, chairman of the Board of
Agriculture, has given a plecdgeoe behalf of
the Imperial government that the restriction
recently imposed upon Canadian cattle im-
ported into Groat Britain and Ireland will
bo romoved as soon as Canada hes proved
beyond a doubt, that the Doutiuiou hs frog
from pleuro -pneumonia. The high commis.
sionor Inas oommunioatod with the Dominion
authorities to have the necessary inspection
made and the proof of the country's inllntlll-
ity from the disease forwarded to London,
Meanwhile, those interested in the Canadian
cattle trade, particularly in Scotland, a10
keeping hp the agilntion to have the sche-
dule aggainst Oallad100 cattle at once =now
ori, They maintain that no oases of pleuro.
pneumonia were 10und 10 hevo existed in
any imported Oauadia3 eeh:tle, Tho oppon-
onto in England of the Canadian export
Credo aro not, however, idle, The farming
clubs are now meeting and are urging rho
13oard of Agriculture to secure rho paosago
of an act requiring tine all foreign stock bo
slaughtered at the port of landing, whether
any contagious disease is reported to exist fu
the country from which they aro exported
or not. The Sootoh Brooders' es004i0tion,
the Smithfield dub old other leading agrt-
ouleurat bodies are sharing 131 this mov0-
1110mt.
The Carleton Club, of London, is the
01011001 in the world. I1 has 4,001) members,
THE BRUSSELS POST.
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ANENT 13IGII1YAYMEN• OVER THE WIRES, I b •al:•'nnl , and " gi: Ltunded with
'Teal In .135711' Illi 14 4 4 Ur li !taunt"' i1 ho liked,
11as l;neeloped 1011111141 1:4,1,'400'
1'acr l was a tittle in morrio Eneleed wb
en
the highwityruatt and the pirate were seem•
thhu'4ef e a
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ilr 411 {{e'4,
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ori into a position in liottun from which 1,u,
WW1 Clink:Olt to dislodge thein, ol'snatch the
eoltbtental halo of romance from their'
beetling brows, Claude Duval, Dick Ter-
pin, Blue Skin, and Sixteen-striug Jack
plc ed havoc In ramanoo for a long !lino ;
and whim the "yellow -boob literature"
sprang into popularity a scorn of years ago
to glorify 1,110 hardy Indian fighter, the
knights of the road galloped back into a
position of prominence to lire the Imagine•
tion of the boys who read them on rainy
days and in scarce Only a few years ago
there woe a tendency in sensational sheets
to glorify the James boys ; but the weal.
oat trend of these tunes has been to stow
roistering daro•devils in their true light, the
emulation of whose criminal lives is to finish
in the prison or of the scaffold,
1'1fA'rt o AND rrtl.t10000014e,
The pirates and buccaneers, William
Morgan and Capt. Dane, the 1Or00101,0
Ildividnal known as Blackboard, and the
daring freebooter Captain Kidd, Wine, long
ago coaled off In chains and hanged at the
yardarm, so that the pathless deep and rho
tropical isles of the Spanish nate have beer
freed of these wenteges, and the possibilities
of their example being successfully follower
is indeed remote. Still, we confess thorium
on horseback is an ambitious and danger.
ou0 revival and Chicago entertains hint
grudgingly, Undoubtedly the location of
the Wolds Fair will bring into this oily
an undesirable lot of " transients," whose
faces are preserved with care in the rogues'
gallery ; bet it is the ridiculous distortions
of fact that give Chicago a monopoly of this
clam. If it seems to increase the police
force, a weakness long ago patent, it will not
be without sable al a warning. Thee other
cities hevo their share of troubles in this
lino, a single citation from an exchange
published in the quiet and goodly city of
Philacl•lphia will show 1 "There is nothing
the thieves of this city regard as sacred,
They steal overythiug they cal lay their
hands on, from a suit of olo1hos to a yawl.
boat, .and what is especially exasperating
nobody' 0011 catch 1110m as ib. Twice wi111-
in a week the houses of policemen Item
been robbed, and if tho thieves don't steal
a policeman next le will bebouauee they
can't pawn or sell him. It looks as though
the people of this town may have to join in
is petition to tho thieves to leave at least
the carpets on the floors and to change of
clothes for coop member of rho household.
The petitlol 1019111 contain a postscript to
the effect that if t110 :rooks would just steal
the cobblestone pavements all would be
forgiven,"
T1(0 0,13 0101(3 "OVTLAW "
To refer to history as it touches our ear -
loon, the mist refer in guarded terms to
the fatnotts fictional favorite Robin Hood,
tlo was a well-bred outlaw, the product of
the peenliar ad,lition of the times in which
ho lived; ata late' day he might have been
regarded liko Rob Roy, as a real reformer,
whose slogan cheered the oppressed, whose
trusty sword was wended in a good cause.
Robin Hood was no pot -house roisterer; the
king's deer tva0 his meat, and the king's
men his mark, He was romentio and sod.
able in disposition, had a liking for stories
and songs, and fresh air. When it came to
a question of a " touch -down" with the
Sheriff of Nottingham, relieving the tax.
gather of the king of extorted pelf, or de-
fending some hapless maiden from being
forced into undesirable wedlock, Robin
Hood came to the front but he never wore a
mask. If he were among us to -day he would
probably bo the bean ideal of a center for
the rush line in foot -ball, the Little john
and briar Took for stalwart " half -backs,"
The outlaw of medieval times, while bis
pranks were censurable, he has frequently
been miselassed ; ho is to be regarded, If
history and legend picture hint properly, ns
superior in all parte to those who warred
against him.
Aterearrcah.o and amixing finer:lenre 4,J' e„:; a me those jaw 0:fn'nt,• 1 bap.
I the Earle Dees 4,l' (40 T1gegietpJ1 34,
It arty servo to show the (mien impret
Alone inside upon shtg11eemind0d pommy L•y
the iutr,l00 0 of the poles and wirer of
the dorso Tel, graph, if the editor gives a
few instnxtcee of smarts he luta witnceried
!luring his Oatly days 00 an operator. My
poet Gree the old town of Altltlrretllurg, lel
the south-west corner of Ontario, then the
most westerly olden in Canada. By bang -
Men of rho class of Thomas Dun occupy
epees in the Newgate Calendar for cause—
murderers from oholco, criminals destitute
of every humane and generous principle-. A.
town was named after this despicable man
of blood, but it trust have been done in an
unguarded moment.
Tt0Ihlyna AND ML'I4D301100.
A great many stories are told of Old
ilob, who, after longyears of daringdepre-
dation, paid rho penalty with his lifon the
gallows at Tyburn. He had a rugged vein
of philosophyNeitbout compassion in his com-
position that sustained hint even against the
arguments of fair 34.01110// Once he stopped
a acacia and demanded a lady's moroy. She
replied that she was a poor widow and
hoped that, ho would have compassion on
her, "And. is the losing of your husband
any argument why I should lose my booty?
Your tears, madame, can't move me ; for 1
remember the old proverb—rho end of a
husband is a widow's tears, and the end of
their tears another husband,"
Tont Cox, a Blanford man who flourished
in the Limo of Charles IL, was known us
"a gentlemen thief," One day he met
Rillgrow, the King's fool, and addressed
him in the usual phrase, " Stand and de-
liver I" " Are you in earnest, friend ?"
" Yes, I certainly am ; for though you lien
by jesting 1 can't."
Claude Duval, if accounts aro to bo relied
upon, was the most aristocratic) highwayy-
man that ever' flourished in old Ragland,
He was elegantly caparisoned, dashing,
graceful, and the polished style in which 1 e
demential plethoric purses caught the fancy
of ninny of tho old-time novelists ; but to
eventually attained his proper position on
the scaffold, and was hung with a nnnt er
of ignoble thieves who trope down dark
alloys while he patrolled the highroad.
Thera is nothing in the lives of those
lea'liog lights ill crime, utilraotivo as gush-
ing fiction may have portrayed them, to
inspire anything but oxeoration from eivil-
sation.
Tho 01d Year and the New.
Tho snow ley thick and soft mud waren,
And the stars hold topers bright ;
And the wcnt'ld of enol toe a space stood still,
For the old year had died last night.
Ho boated not the passing bell,
So over sad its dole ;
With the echo of its latest 1cn011,
Spot tho patient old year's soul,
The bravo old year SIMS Von to us,
Though grief lie brought cul run to net
Old felon144 are cone, may new-born year
Grote clear, as (regrow dear to 110.
SYilh gladson0 shout an1110001'y rout,
Yen hailed (heeled young yon.',
The King is dead 1 Long live tho lt.tng 1"
The merry young King is hero 1
Ito ives 114 hope, rho mnnt0r011 gay,
Ills favo'0 am showered free,
0 Weeks, i0,11 friends, that our days two
stared,
111ts Now l;oar'e day 10 flee.
'there's a sin 110 and a tear peer the bravo ail
year,
And,, web:eine Car the note to 1
And race amt goolnoee marl his reign,
Ansa truth its leo is tree 1.o its,
—Blharlotto Whitcomb,
int; about the telegraph office at odd hot
and at nights --the office being in a r0
above the oouulry store of my brother,
whiuh 1 was clerk --I had learned to reed
and send messages after a fashion, Ang
Fox, the cheery, bright -faced opera
kindly coaching me. Ono fine day Ang
had an oteor of a eitnatau in Detroit as p
veto secretary to the late W, 13, 11,111', w
w•an then superintendent of the Detroit a
Milwaukee Beltway, Naturally (MEMO
WAS eager to go, and at once proposed 111
I should o.to, d him. Tho case wee urge
arid, after consulting ,lir. Dwight, the 1
ro0to supetentendont, and my broths
Angus arranged to go, 011(1 in two or ihr
days loft me " with all my ltnperfectio
on my heart," 111 charge of the interests
the Montreal Telegraph Company in th
corner of Essex. I don't know whether
most swelled with hnportane0 of qumk
With responsibility for the first week
two ; but there I was, with very impede
knowledge of my buslnoss and no one but
SOHlihrlJA'f IMPATIENT
seed, t. hel'ulluwint(hci,.l0ot„ whh may be
gn•m1 ',ui1stbwta:dly as it wit..+ w•1 i'f ,, 10 (4
lied
friend, by tho tau IClh,uu I1' �. Its
I,
burg, then in charge of Aeries F.,.r, (it
I,
sten(was the telegraph other. ,ti '.1311•
y011 0,1T1. brother of Colin Pox e r 1 .truit)
' One day two young Prem'hmt n woo into
the office, on, a reeldentof the 1WA111bip.
the other a Qunbeo man, Who bail been buy -
tog timber fu f+ssex, wl,i011 bo propoled to
toad for' Quebec ht the Kingston -hurl( brigs
4,'b
Dr Illea of ti
daysnll-bowed res.
tis sell with pert -holes in the stern to enable
0111 long 'sticks' of squared oak to be got into
in the hold, and invariably carrying a pair of
ve horses in their bows to ftat'ilitate the load.
as hog, Tho Quebec, man sent a message to the
for Anatolie Capital inatruoting the remittance
ua of a 311111 of money to his Oompant011 Angus
ri Melt the et,,oaage franc the hands of the
he lumberman and dispatched it at Onto, the
0. younger man of the pair watching the opol'-
hs ,tion of the brans instrument with wonder.
a Then the Quebecker proposed that they
1t should go, to whi011 the other, ,pea§ing in
'o French, 1'espande with sometime; ,bolt
r •attendee,' mod the expression of n. belief
00 that ' (moti'30 chose sleet ,1' arriver' in a
Ile row mintotee, and that, too, 'par eet.te 111 de
O telegraph.' When the 131lelpe0 4,1.411 contra
-
& dieted his companion, the latter persisted,
I (teetering that 'Jo Mouforton rna did vela.'
0' What it was that Joe Monforton told
of his credulous 11111101, Angus could not well
o make out, but presently the 0uc w•110 sent
a the message turned to the operator and
asked: ' Do you know whet this man says?'
Fox replied: ' No, not exactly, but it is
01 something about waiting,' ' Yes, he wants
vo me to wait here in the office till the looney
ie arrives by telegraph wire, which doe Von -
t! forton told him it would do.' After all, the
operator, twenty miles off, at the end of
wire, to advise me, This was Frank Bak
—and I have often thought I mast ha
made his lite a burden with my telegraph
pot -hooks and my " wanting to know, yo
snow," all sorts of things about the battery,
the ground -wire, the oheoks and forms of
account.
Amborstburg being a port of call for tug-
boats, wood -wows, propellers and vessels,
core fuel being cheep there—ranging from
St to cord, if soft, to 2,30 for the best
hardwood—much of the telegraphing done
was by masters of these craft to Detroit and
lake pots. lough diamonds they were,
many of them, full of quaint nautical (like-
wise profane) forms of speeels and fond of
13ully1n9 young chaps like ,no wloon expeot•
ed replies to their messages would net
come. "Say, shake her up again, willyou?
f", Heave her taut, sonny,---;
"Give the old machine another half turn
ahead," and so on, when the weight which
moved the lumbering mechanism of t110 paper
register slowed signs of remitting the floor.
Ilany a night dui I sit up to oblige vessel
men ; trying for instance, to proou'e a tug
to pull their vessels off Bar Point, and
thinking myself well repaid in liearin6 their
narratives of collisions, wrecks and tires—
narratives sometimes in a patois resembling
that of the now celebrated Ballad of the
Luc St. Pierre, in which, as related :
lfit was dark night lion Lac St Pierre
De win' she plots, Plow, plow,
Do crow 01 de wood -scow "Jules Jraphuhte"
Got scarp' an' roil below.
For de win' she's blots laiko tinrrieano-
13y'nl by she's blow some more,
Dat MOWN bus' upon leo Si Picrro,
T'ree hacros from de shore!
Aly charge extended some milds up the
Detroit River, and included the care of a
coble across the Rivera aux Canards. Being
part proprietor
01 ASAIL. 110AT,
33
it was a greed outing to sail with my chem,
Gns Iievill, up the noble strait of the De-
troit and into the mouth of its tributory,
the Canard, of a repeirhug expedition,
rather than ride by land in a prosaic buggy.
On one of tlloss repairing expeditions,
while going through l'etite Cote, 1l Essex,
ono evening, with Orepairer, we saw, where
the long vista of " snake" fence ended in-
distinctly in the marshes of the Rivier° aux
Canards, a peasant woman at her front door,
sodulously gazing at the wires some dozen
yards away. Addressing the woman, my
companion asked why she looked so long
at the wires. To tens madame replied:—
Dere's lone 1a!n10 shell look close ting,
me—aomstainlemorneen', 0ometaimo hoer'.
nin', but ah'll never see sonoting go pass
on'ocm. How 000 dot?"
She 301440 told, jokingly, that the mes-
sages went too fast to be seen.
' Diautre !" was her oomme e. " IV'en
I look., look, long time, by'm-bye he's mek
sometaim cltri0080 noise lak sing"—alluding
to the vibrating hum of the wires—"don
all aposo he's �uhurry, hurry, more fns' as
ever; but all de taint I can't see meeting
any moors. Ah'll don' lloudetstan', me."
Desiring, in my juvenile %talent (lately
acquired), to enlighten her, I offered en ex•
planation that the signals, wont through
the when, and that of ammo paper messages
could riot go over it. Her open-eyed
"Diantre l qua retic Mine est 0.0130" (hollow)
—allowed that this '4h as a greater wonder
than over, and that she was no nearer the
truth Chau before. With acou5tonned polite.
nem she thanked lis, however, and assured
us she w0nld tell Jacques, when ho camp
home, this wonderful thing,
A few yo0rs later the tv11380 wore extend-
ed through Colchester to Khngvillo and
Leamington, on Lake ,rhe shore, and the
builders of the lino were watched with
curiosity, not always unmixed with dread.
" honey, Is yo 9wiue ter string flat Char
line 01p clean all the way to Poting ?" asked
an old colored man who had a modest farm
h1 Malden township, wllereho raised melons
and maize first, oats and potatoes after-
wards. "Yee, uncle," was the reply,
"clear down to the hake, shore." " Ook'n,
ook'n" —and he made that0urh000 gnitnral
sound bywhiohsou tilm'n dark lee exppresssur-
priso—"look a yandorl1 Clone reckon now,
MnstaIlJeetnea,you kin run that that' thing
all 11,0 way t0 the C0,11'1 House?" ]Io wag
marred that this was likely, " Ilannah—O
Hannah I" the old m"4, called to lois wife
amt out of the house she mono with her stun
bonnet on. " Why, chile," he said, "heap's
Mrostah Joames say this berth tolo4raft
wiah's glvine for ter 'steed clap to Sand.
wide" The wonutt, not so impressionable,
replied, (rustily n " Reckon hit nlotnt run
elite ter Keilttnelt for all the good hits gwine
ter ,lo us, %elcal ;" end she curtsied to our
party whhlo the demanded 10 know why her
hatband had called her (ub, " 1Vhy, bless
you soul, Hannah, yen paint neveh been to
.Manolpathon celebration yid; and Palhson
tell mo if cloy ran tbisyorma0hcel to Sand-
wich wo no t0od 10(1 to go ; we kin sit right
loch ondaneetln that (hall Wire, an'lhoe:liken
M the folks up yandalt 0.10opin' an' a.holl-
Orin ea' a•spotutIn' 00 de fust o' Amgns'."
This story of the colored parson nlnst
have boon a cram, for in those days the tele•
phone was not, anticipated—at least uot by
primmer of
1110 LTII1TRn (NTaT,L1c11+.Nt11(,
lint Ohl aunty "4(111(1' avant no trunk with
that than fold thing. Down on the Comber -
land rive' 1 drone. hoand 'bout, it. i11t
'treated 119h1'li1' and killed rho ori faiths
Yos, soh, son,l ,1y gwino gin, the tap he's
iru'l frizzled all', tinting 'long side them
dash 'posts, Tan, my area ; no lndrody,"
And elm told 7„dial he uenld do hie own
SUSPENDED INA 144IINLNG SHAFT,
atennerminle Rnnlptrss K111'e4 do the 0014
Mine N eperin Med eat.
Anterior f'ot.uty, Cal„ nwnethe ucrvire;
man among ell mitring ai P'
a l superintendents a t,Huts'
t to the
person '1i 1'000culf who Ions charge of
(, the
Kennedy abaft 011:1 quartz 1011e. Treseott is
not touch of a talker, am1 among tbo boys
between shit to or when the works aro closed
down for repays is simply a good eon of
fellow, 13111 when such an emergency arises
as that of a few days ago ile develops a
very considerable amount of grit. ,,'ho-
shaft. of the Kennedy aline is 1,709 feet
deep, and practically a clear drop from the
mouth to the lowest drift nearly a third of
a utile down in Ih 3 oars h.
Every day for months it has been Supt.
Treseott', habit to inspect the timbering of
the mine by going crown in the "oag0,”
which is merely a platform hung to a drum,
at thio mouth of the shaft by a wird rope.
The 0ag5 is at best a frail affair in appear.
anal, lint is really strong enough to carry a..
ton or more of gold bearing quartz and does
$o many dame every day. Last week Tree -
cat, at the lunch hour, decided to look
over the cline and jumped on to the cage.
and signaled to the engineer to "lower
away" slowly, it'he e'ago dropped foot by
foot down the duck shaft dripping with
mine sweat," and every little way Tres-
eott pulled the signal rope and stopped the
elevator so that he might closely examine
the timbers that seemed to be rotting or
1,010 particularly any tendency to swelling
of the walls of the shaft, whioh (night, if not
at once stopped by new timbering, result in
a cavo -in that would bury a hundred men.
Treseott had gone down about 400 feet
and found the shaft in good condition, and
after a stop had signaled the engineer to
continue the decent when the Superintend-
ent felt himself bold by the catching of his
h'reach-Canadian of 1860 only anticipated "tamped'" on a projecting emit?, and the
what is now so common, the remittance of cage dropped from him. There w100 110 way
money by telegraph money order, though
1n a very different wady from what Ile
thought of."
WARSHIPS ON THE LAKES.
Is the Treaty 00 1817 Now in Force 7—Sec-
rotary Fosl ae' TIe(oiItn 111,.
Tho President of the United 8:etre re•
cantly, in answer to a resolution, transmit-
ted to the Senate the report on the agree.
went between the tidied States and Great
Britain concerning armament of the great
lakes. The resolution called explicitly fo
opinion from the State Department as t
whether the arrangement of 1817 is no
held to bo in force. The Secretary of State
in his report states that the eorresp0ndelc
exchanged in 1864 shows that it is so regard
ed. It sloes not appear, ho says, that an
British or Canadian naval vessels are now
or have been for years, stationed on th
lakes. The report says : "No information
has been received es to the number, tonnag
and armament of British revenue vossolesea
toned in those waters ; but it bas been recently stated on the authority of e. repo'
to the Treasury Department that two
vessels for the Dominion Government have
been constructed at Owen Sound, Ont., and
that although styled revenue cutters and
destined to suppress smuggling on the 8t.
Lawrence river and the lakes, they are in
reality capable of adaptation to naval pur-
poses.'
Tho secretary then adds that "additional
weight is perhaps lent to this latter aspect
of the report to the precautions that appear
to have been taken to gnor(1 then! from
ptt13lio inspection."
in which to reach the signal rope from
whore Treseott hung on the side of the
shaft. '1 lie lumbering cage rattled its way
down and the noisateverberatedin theshaft.
Treseott knew nothing of the strength of
the spike which had caught his canvas
"jumper," and mule net toll at what in-
stant he would be 0n1npellod to follow the
cage and reach the bottom a mass of flesh
a1d broken bones, The frightful uncer-
tainly as to how long he might hang
unendurable.
Treseott decide 1 that any death was pre-
forable to long suspension under the condi-
or tens, and decided to break away from his
O hold and attempt to grasp some of the cross-
. timbers on the opposite side of the shaft.
, I3e gathered his strength, and, by a super-
o human effort, tore his "jumper" from the
• spike and leaped with extended hands ready
7
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The dimensions of the looks in the St.
Lawrence river canals exclude the entrance
into the lake of any vessels exceeding nine
foot draft; and the only vessels borne in
the Brithelt naval list which appear to be
capable of p0seage from the deep seas to the
lakes aro some 41 tugs drawing eight feet
and armed with rapid firing guns, As be-
tween the two countries the arrangement
oF 1517 is to be regarded as still in existence
and only terminable in good faith by six
months' notice of abrogation 011 either side,
The circuolatanees and form of the original
arrangement of 1SI7 show it did not pur-
port to be more than a record of an under-
standing mutually reached by the two Gov.
ernnlonts for reciprocal regulation of a
matter within the administrative com-
petence of each. The question of the
spirit which controls the understanding
of the two great Goverumeuls hs
to -day of vastly greater importance to
their interests than any narrow conten-
tions respecting itsliteral observance.
The s0otetary then makes the following reo-
mmenrdaation
"It seems most desirable now in view of
rho long lapse of time and the chenges
wrought in these and other no loss impor-
tant regards, that the arrangem0at now
grown obsolete iii proatioe and surviving in
the letter only as a declared guarantee of
international peace, should bo modified to
fit tlhethew order of things, and with such
adaptation to the exigoneies of the Ranee its
prudence may forecast."
Uncle Jed's Story•
inever grouted,navor fussed, but lived hero
00111•an' I 1sea111,
For 1000 300.03•edhoro on the Idll in Pokum•
vin lo.
"Don't live here 11 Ito a snail," said 31,11, " wi th-
in ycr small shall curled;
I'll pay yor faro 8o g0 out Wast al' let yor see
rho world."
An' so I got 011 board the train an' whirled. off
Lille 0se" brupo0,100,
Bet ell I n rho trip was dirt 011' grease,
cul' teas;
Sao water, stones an' doh -like things; some-
thema brook an' hill,
Sox l to Jinn; All there aro t1ing0 I See in
t'ok,mutvtllo,''
We stopped to son N Lagar. Falls, that makes so
nnteb leu) mile,
All' %'n 000 It 11108101.' water kinder tumblin'
from n rock,
"1f you spilt hater from a spoon," 800 Ito ,nim,
xC3 f,
""l'lo'nankly the same 014413351)010011101 "•-011' .11111110
couldn't, deny,
An' wo ou'sooa1 tho hooky Mountable pun' Jim
said, "I call this grand,
"They're nothing," soz I, " but gr0at hunks of
reek 1111' dirt an' saed."
All' wo come t0 the .l'eoitle, an' it 1110110 aim
lto•Obotnn'1,
13011. 1.10°0°0.1t - I don't x00 nothht' but some water
slo. bin' menet"
Atte wo went to emeriti olties—them W110,nothln'
thee to too,
INt joss 00 111000er honees an' sumo folks like
3olt.nInU.
Atte wak000 into Chicago---eez Jinl, "Yew's 11110
for bight
Son I. 11, a fest like Pokumville—the sane 01
thing," ADZ 1,
.[S. W3'..Foss,
Eiy'htoon Hundred and Ninety -Three•
Atantb,i;111, on my study door,
C.tm'1'i ramp illi, 0 er and 0'or,
Ami 1 board 1 (loop, deep sigh.
1 Opened to the ihenry your,
And felt upon (4,y Paco the tear
That, 001,10 with rho "good-bye,"
Senrro hrtd 11411)n100d beyond my sight,
When, in gnrnhenta pure mud White,
Came hi+ heir. Itis hold a Chaim•.
(11 11 of 11014.10, rn011 pearl a clay,
Ilo elapsed thOnh 0l1, 1 km11114ray,
The Now Yam gave 108 00110 again.
1S0s. l3. llgtitaw0y,
to grip anything that might stay the fall.
Ho caught the sill of the drift and held it
with the energy of despair. When he found
his hold was firmm he worked his body up to
the floor of the drift and was safe. Then
he reached the signal rope, had the cage
brought up, got aboard, wont to the surface
tolyl the story of his appalling danger, and
then went down the shaft and finished his
inspection. His hair is a little grayer, but
that is all the change notieable in the super-
intendent.
"OANALS," OR MOUNTAINS?
d Fresh Suggesllon with Respect to the
Topography or 1114,13.
Air, J.M. Sohaeborle of the Lick Observa-
tory has just Introduced a 11035 element into
the discussion about the " canals" of Mars.
It has generally been assumed that the
darker areas on that planet aro water mnr-
fnoos and the lighter regions continents and
Wanda. Ae the canals are dark in color it
was naturally inferred that they must be
channels filled with water,
Mr. Sohaeborle, as a result of his studies
of Mars with the groat toleseopc during the
last summer, suggests the possibility their
the astronomers may have been mistaken
about the meaning of the colors on Afars,
and that the dark areas may really be the
lands of that planet, and the light mess the
seas.
Ono of his reasons for this conclusion is
that at times some of the bright areas ap-
pear more than usually brilliant, as though
the reflecting surface warp in a state of
agitation, The contrasts, he thinks, are
like those witnessed in light reflected from
a calm and from an 0gitated1 water surf000.
But 0 lir. Sehaebeole is right then the
" canals" are not canals, not water -courses,
but phenomena connected with tho land.
He suggests that they may be the ridges of
mountain obal338 which are almost wholly
immersed in water. The double "canals"
then would represene parallel mo'mtain
ranges, such as we have upon loo earth.
A WEED THAT EATS FISH•
A Remarkable Ynstanrc ore Plaut Willett
is Carnivorous.
Commander Alfred Cargenter, writing
from Suakin, Red Sea county, contributes
the following remarkable instance of a plant
preying upon one of the vertebrate. The
instance noted was observed by him when
surveying the Parcel Islands, in the South
Chino Sea 1 " * * * * As I neared a pool
out off from the tido by the sea, I noticed
among other submarine plants a very ordi.
nary -looking fles11•oolo'ed weed,
" Bending to inspect ib closer, I noticed
nutnbets of email falx lying helpless in its
fronds, apparently with little or no life in
them. Putting my hand (10wn to pick one
of them up, I found my fingers caught by
suckers on the weed, the fronds of which
had closed tightly upon then.
" The fish had been naught in every con•
oeivabdo way, by the head, tail aides, etc.,
and some of them had been held until the
skin was completely macerated. Those of
the fi01h that were still living load evidently
been caught at different times, they appear•
ing in all stages of exhaustion,
'I regret being unable to name either
the plant or the fish, but that the botanical
cannibal really preyed upon tho finny dent.
zens of the deep thorn isn't the least doubt."
A Thought for This Year.
We soeby rho fight of thousands of years,
And tho kno ledeo of millions or mon,
The lessons they loathed through blood and
tears,
Aro outs for I.hc reading, and than all
We 011000 to I:hoir errors mild folllos entitle()
Their frail idols of mind and of stone,
And call ourselves wiser, forgetting neuritis
That the future may laugh at our own.
—1110y E. etaliltrlok.
:r Well, 111', Bronson," Raid the donhnio,
"I ihope you derived profit from the service,
this morning. Sir," returned Bronson,
inclining to 1,o indignant, " 100anre you .I
drop 'business on Sunday and attend 01100011
with no hope of profit."
Ono of the 1'114,001 Mass 0401 tann011 w05
reecived in Bouton the other day from it 104
Francisco tannery, .It is fourteen feet itt
length, eight feet in width, and weigihs 700
pounds,