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The Practical Feeding of COWS,
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: Few men would prefer silage to pod ha)
' tthief food for daisy cewe. Vet there le
, codiderable merit it well-pres:rtel .Ua''.
! for 4 is easily IllaAivate.1 digss(ea.
mis,a with May, the neixture is better tot
ntilk production than either liay or stilag,
atoms would bo. ' All the S111111.'hoWoVer,
uno, not aispeai• likely that tile a: stem of
ensilage will obtain 14 very wide sold per,
=totem pod Lion emote; the farming. jest:ekes
of the British Islatets, aud in this evesit
may mit look for it becomieg a very common
and otesueral food for the dany ::ows, some
of the urban milk daleAmen will not have
milk produced from silage,and this objection,
well toundiel Da it probeely is, will greatly
cheek tite system..
The discussion tot to a properly balanced
Intim of food for a cow in milk has not at
present developed umanimity of opinion on
' the subject. It is understood that the pro-
portion of albuminoids to carbohydrates in
the food should be about tis la; to eleven,
along with ,73 of fat but nulluta cote:Melee
has been artived ot itt referenee to feeding
for butter and olteese resnectively, And
even wheu solid concittanma hove been
reached on these VariOnS points, there will
always eemaie the difficulty of eecertaining
at once the exact proportion of nutritive
ingredients in ettch and every article of food
sopplieti to dairy 001VS. ILL order to deter-
mme this point, auttlyaus of each hayriek,
each pareel of any kied deem or oak, will
have to be made ; and so alariner- -the:Meal
farmer of the scienntle inen-e, ill have
need to beeome an expert aualythal chentist,
or otherwise to spend a little fortune in
Analyses performed by some one else. The
first is impractioable, the second extravagan t,
and it may be doubted if either will pay.
There is a chance of fernees indulgieg to
seience till they burn their fiegers.
It is coonnonly supposed ey, many who
are theorists that foott rieh in fat or sugar,
as linseed and mangels, is calculated to
directly cause an inmate in the proportions
of butter in the milk produced by the aid of
such food; but this does not always follow,
for the breed and individual properties of
the COIN' have far more te sto with the ques-
tion than has the compusition of the food
she eats. And again it has been repeat-
edly proved that food rich la alimmincsids
of fleth-forming ingredients, as distin-
guished front fat -formers or carbohydrates,
has an effect in making milk richer in
butter fat. It may be taken Ong more
and better food given to a cow will, to
begin with, rather increase the quantity of
tnilk than make it richer either m cheese or
butter; though, of mune, by inereasiug the
quantity of milk the yield of both cheese
and butter will be et oti events correspoud-
ingly increased All the sante, however,
geueroes diet, sustained week after week,
will gradually is:crease the propel Hoes of
solids- which the offik contains. But this
point, tioin, is fialueneed by the fact that
the longer a cote is in milk the richer in
-Belida will the milk naturally become.
The funotious performed by food are
varioua First of all. food susteista life,
maintains the tentperatare of the system,
and restores the W11Ste 01 tissue that is cou-
dandy going on : and h is only after these
functions have been fulfilled that the sur-
plus food goes to the produotion of milk or
of flesh, as the case may be. The degree of
digeatibilitywMchfoodpossesses is an unpor-
taut matter ; for the less easily digestible
it is, the more of it is used in the process
of digestion. Therefore the amount of
. surplus food availoble for milk or flesh de-
pends on the degree of digestibility which
the food possesses; and hence it is that
steamed or otherwise softened. fool is bet-
ter than it would be in a thy aud unsofton-
ed state. And, similarly, in cold weather
cows will milk better -this has been often
proved -and will probably put on flesh
eafaster, if the water they drink be slightly
warmed, say up to Oh F. This, indeed,
• is explained on the groundthata given portion
of the feud a cow eats goes to maintain the
beat of her body, and it ts obviates that BOV•
end gallons of ice-cold water will reduce the
tereperatureof theeowintowhosestonmeh itis
taken, and that there will be all expenditure of
vital force in raising the ternperattwe of that
water from 39 to 98 , which always has
to be time. In any case it is certaia that
pigs will fattao faster on a given quantity
anclquality of foodif the food isslightlywartn.
ed, particularly in Winter time ; and we mey
take it for granted that it similar effect will
follow :tn identical canes in cows as well es
pigs. The digestibility of food therefore,
and its temperature in coll weather, are
'adore whose impudence may be impressed
on the isotice of former/3, the remedy being
so simple and a test so convenient. The
condition of food, indeed, is, in worm of its
points, quite as important aa the quality of
; for even food of naturally good quality
is inferior stuff if out of aoudition. For in-
stance, linseed cake or corn of any sort is
inferior and dangerous if it is mouldy, and
the safest plan is to boil or steam it, in
I order to kill the insidious fungoid growth ;
and similarly with mouldy hay or straw -
these should be chaffed and steamed to moke
them harmless, if they must be notes ot all,
I hold the opinion that we do not attach
enough importance to the question of digesti-
bilitytn reference to the food given to dairy
COWS in Winter time. The grass and other
green food eaten by them in Seminar and
Autumn is succulent a,nd easily digestible;
the hay and straw of Winter and Spring are
dry and hard, and so far less digestible than
green food; hence the toil of digestion is 10.
creased, end more of the food consumed at it
loss. The chief merit of silage lies in its
easy digeetibility. It will be found it mark-
ed oclvantage, especially with straw that it
should be wetteci several hours before it is
fed to cattle of any sort, in order that it
may be soft, and, thereforeeasier to »testi-
cate and digest. Cattle like it bettor in this
condition, ond, Mcleod, it may be wetted
several days before it is eaten without taking
any harm. Dry or wet, straw is poor stoff
alone, and not at all suitable to cows in
milk unless considerably improved by the
addition of corn. BI1Trell 0610010 will Winter
well upon it if it be softened, and etioh of
them receives three or four pounds of lin-
seed take per day. Ivor dairy cows it should
generadly be chopped, softened by polporl
roots or 'water, and improved by corn, bean,
pee, dee, maim end barley meals. Crushed
ode, boiled linseed, and so on, are all useful
and available for the purpose. There is no
advantage in chopping stmw, game with the
Object of mixing these things with it, The
least trouble with 11 14 to soften it with water.
feed it in length, and eupplemt it with imme
kind of coke. Tbis is probably the most
economical and satisfactory way, especially
when it is fed to store cattle that, are not in
Milk. When the straw ie all chaffed, the
cattle 1111166 needs have two feeds of hay per
day, to aasist rumination and prevent tome -
bound.
Every practieal farmer knows that 110
• given or prooixe quantity of food can be Mid
down as a ration gettable to all cows of any
• given ago, or breed, or size hi milk or out
of it. Some eows require much more food
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..han others, lett the big eater1 soldest mike TWOSIIRPRISI__N;G_ SBA. STORIES.
.ite most peotitable rionrn for it. Glut Meant<
tudgeoefly eenat eat, 6.6 11, Ville, too 0PtlolOb' 1 W9aZo H„,,esia V1itt on alkia,„efstse, vim
tou huge proportirin of the food gooe
o Mug 0. It 14 0 questionf digestion Etna fans Shelves.
041011,04020, ' The 00x0fitl.10,rtimnon knows 111 the year 1861, aboin inideummer, being
the peeldiarity 0± eaelt cow antler bin can, then 150 miles to the west .of the Islan1 a
r1,01,,,,se, to appet ite, anti Mole her a ecord .1 11:111 FerllanileF, 1 the Ilestotelt ship l-figh•
•agly. Ile fc:••Is tetell eon rolar .astringly land Belle we were bettritig up for the island
. hal, et herasee. Lavish mei inn 10111,0 a light breeze, with 1120 full shIp's
ardiug ie a felly all r.not.I. cattle melte eompaily na duck, when it intmster whole
Issn rtfirro for t he food they .••ti when bre:tithed silt outport bo,e and only 1(41210.
_hey get just es IltOli 11 21 211 est vp leitiste Imay. The carpettter 11116 repairing
.leanly, 14114 Willi a. 1,1141. To ,,,'LrVir 2,,11 ll itt 11 Elua boNV, 1.11111 !ORE ,/0 111 e 111,11
nail they:become baos of Isenee ia o 0211, Way 001',,4100 and pideting. Atitesi tit 116
stay, it is a mime. 50111.11 ,suglit to Ise obese; •10 saw the vshale as ISI' first pushed his houl
for on the 11 • Lulli.. I have known mist, at swe water, and our exclamations, etweeted
.1 this eort,11, 1111 11111, ill whieli til Man tontion, NO lila all 00e 10.1101,1 sow hint leo
inneperml. if a 11111.11e eowS ore habitually fore he felt beek. He shot steaight up like
poor, he will very deservedly be 11000 Will• a log, on 01111, 111111 1116 never stopped going
-elf. It is the ..strelid 1.11121, aim Webs his until five-sixthe of his body stmel 111 air, aVis
attle liberally, to 'whom pt•otit always:0mi,, all eaw that he had half 0. dozen wraps of
Witat the farm praise:es is hardly good diens itrollnil 111111, 64111 that an !Mellor 1V1161
enough for dairy eowa iu whiter, unless it 14101021 111 the corner of his mouth. He feg
Juan grows corn and uonstuneo it ; and hard back on the surliest: with an awful dash,
las then, if all the straw is else eateo, Pur- itieking up a trememdons swell, and there
..shased graiti, as it rule, 1 neceesara. to pro- he lay without a 1n1Ve1110110. 1V6 MI 011 for
it, and 15 mon improves his farm this way, it quarter of ta mile, mid then laid the ship
snakes it yield more alta better feed for hia to and lowered a boat. I 11125016 111221 charge
:stockb'ew farms are good enousfli to be of this boat, and after laymg off and on to
self-sustaining, andmodfarms will gradually see it the whale was dead finally coo-
t:i.e.:me poorer if neither cora nor maneres eluded that he was mat pulled in on
purehased. hint, While he was not:Mug the anchor
A seientiflu ration for tu/Wi in Milk is all kept him down by the head, mid
...ere well AVIlerd the fainter unierefanda the we could not got at it, tVe, however,
tuffject well, and has time :ma money te out away a fathom tw 1001e of the chain,
levote' to it; but it minuet la, left ro eer. :old found the wraps abnut his body so
vents, and the mak aud tile of dairy fanners tightly <11111111 that thy creature must have
.011 hardly be expeeted to take it much in suffered great pain. We got the bight of
land. The farmer WhO fetal?? 11114 e•nve Rhea 11 rope over one arin of the anchor but the
tlly is usually on the right track fee petit, live of us (meld not pull it out of his jew,
eel he konws that low-priced cake (sr eore and we returned to the ship mid left the
!,4 not the hest of its kind to bey. The best eareass to [loot away. Two days later it
4 generally the cheapest iu the eud, soda was fnund by the Bristol whaler •Inlm G.
variety of sorts is a gool thing for milk, Pitkins, and when out up alongside yielded
Ile most practical and important feature in abed one hundred barrels of oil. They
the feeding of dairy cows is to give them fennd one of the smeller flukes deeply im.
just so touch food, whatever it may be, as bedded in his mouth, beitig, as you might
they eat up decade and with a relish, say, a big fish hook 0/2 W111011 he had 1106O
1T111101. -feeding i6 all evil, and solo over -feed -
'ng; the "happy mean" is the thing to aim
:it, and Ile who attains it, and mainteins it,
es not far wrong it the food be good in quality
nal coadition.
Bees in Spring,
There is no longer any doubt that bees do
better if when removel from the cellar in our
northern latitudes they are protected by a
double -walled hit -e, or also when set out in
spring, a box (somewhat larger than the hive)
is set around the hive and the space between
-three or four inches -packed with and
ehavings, excelsior, straw, hay or other like
zubstances. I do not want a hive that one
person cannot easily handle or carry, 50021
when the bees are in it. Thus I ain an
opponent to chaff -hives, which tat.e expensive
withal. Yet we must be able to accomplish
Ml that the chaff -hive will secure, as we set
sew bees on their mum= stands in the
spring, Irt•ten Dur experience here at the
Michigan Experinteut Station, lad year nod
this, I feel sure that every beekeeper with
single -walled hives can well afford to make
epode' eases, or boxes, to set ensued the
hives.
We tnade twenty such cases this spring at
a cost, cover end all, of less them $1 each.
Prom appearances to -day these protected
colonies are breeding so rapidly that their
added strength Nvill amuse moie than a, dol-
lat's worth of honey above that which we
shall eecure from the unprotected bees.
Why then make chaff -hives? This box is
:seat, costs less, does as well and when the
season opens can be put DAUM in wens dry
place till late auttunn, or even till spring,
d we winter in a cellar. Then during the
honey season we have the light hivea, which
are just as valuable for service, and are very
easily handled or carried, We make our
•Ases neatly and nail them slightly, so at the
close of the chill weeks of spring we oat
pack them away in the "knock -clown," Thus
the oases take but little room in summer. -
f Professor A. J. Cook,
The Most Profitable Rens, •
One reason I think the Plymouth Rooks
we the most profitable is that they produce
broiler quicker than any other breed that
fetch from two to three cents a ?otos('
more than common stock, and as egg pro -
'dem they are second to none. The hen
makes the best of mothers and will inveriab-
ty commence tts lay when chicks are two tn
three weeks old, and continue to care for
hickseintil they are old enough to be wean -
el, The ehicks are alteongthardy and quick
naturing. (let it good strain, for thet.e ie as
much difference in the several strains as
there is in the butter making qualities of the
different straits of ersey mites. It does 11 00
cost anymore to keep thorougbdsreil poultry
than it does to keep it lot of dunghill fowls.
After trying a dozett of the most profitable
sree.ls I have aliases' the Plymouth Rock as
the most practice' hen for tho farmer and
iouitry raisers. Last year my two hundred
tens averaged three dollars end two eenti
,ffiece for the flock ana I kept a book of all
seed and other expenses and Mend that It
aist an average of one dollar naul five eents
spiece to keep them, leaviog 0 profit of one
Idler and ninety-seven cents apicce,and you
:an get fertilizer enough from two hnedred
lens to keep 0 two acre Meek pateh in geod
Map°. I take about two hours a day every
Isy and one half day each week le:aides, to
Are for it flock af two hundred. A breed
that 1166 6111011 it strong hold upon the general
'aver mus posses$ shine really valuable
pellities, and when ono mimes to °Onside
the Plymouth Rooks carefully it certainly
is a cluirable fowl, of good size, It is also
ramble of rapid growth, carrying a meaty
mine, It gives us much in this respoot for
the oost 06 10 as any fowl does. With ten-
der, juicy rneat, yellow skin, yellow legs and
beak, it is rieh and attradive looking when
dressed, end is really in every respect a de.
sirable fowl, bringing front one to two cods
tier pound more than most fowls whee sent
to market. It lays fine, large eggsand is
imam!), keeper in closeconfinement undo good
forager when given liberty. What Is it
Oat any ono can keep that does not cost
1005e than a good hen that will give 11 profit,
of one dotter 0111 ninety-seven cents por
head 2
It Made Rim 111,
Themluister wadi. groat; hands1baker-010g.
Hug clown like a vine. Otto day he shook is
boy's hand and gave it an awful squeeze a%
110 80,111
" My little fellow, I hope you aro pretty
we'd to day 7"
With tears in his eyes the boy answered,
'1 was till you othook hands with me."
The saddest womb; of tongue or n,
Are these o06words : "Hay, lent mo ten."
White eash curtains, of dotted or sprigged
muslin or lace tied back with white ribbon
bows, are the fad of the Fifth avenue egein
Otto epries. •
Physicinai (refteeti I The
ease is mut, I think, that willyield too mild
stimulant. Let me see your bmisue, Madam,
ff you please" Titieband of patient (hastily)
---"Doetor, her taunt: doesn't need Any
stimulating."
caught, and this anchor, together !Kith
sixty feet of chain was afterward Identified
by tlte Russian. brig Cronstadt. This brig
was at anchor 00 the north side of the is-
land one day a week before, when the whale,
whose presence was entirely unsuspected,
picked up her anchor and towed her half a
mile, 1 lreatly alarmed at being towed out
to sea by an invisible power, the Captaiu
ordered a shackle pin slipped, and thin
stopped his headway et the expense of an
anchor and sixty or seventy feel, of chain.
Later on the three vessels I have named
found themselves in Valparaiso together,
and it was easy to fit all the details together
and nuake e. straight case, We had the
proofs right there, and the RUSSian signed
a receipt in black and NN'11100 for the anchor
40 strangely recovered, arid we hung our
bit of chain itt the office of the English Con-
sul. 'Vet, despite all this, I have seen sever-
al Amore:on newspapers which referred to
the incident "as tt yarn which even children
would take no stock in."
During the last year of the American war
15.as Captain of an English brig whielt
voyaged to Guinea. On the voyage of which
I speak we tattled at Trinidad and then con-
tinued our course to the south. We had
stool to the east and got our oiling from
Trinidad, and the course had just been laid
for Georgetown, when estrange cieennistence
oecurrea. During the forenoon we had
observed two waterspouts at a disteuce, and
at 3 in the aftemoon tho lookout reported
one bearing down -upon us from the east, in
whieh direction the whole ocean ley before
us. The wind, what Him's was of it, was
froin that direction, and RS we bad 410 gun
aboard every one was alert to keep the brig
clear of danger by rapid and skilful manage-
ment. The spout came dancingdown our
way in that eccentric ±0211100 00 ahornateristic
of them, and we could not fail to observe
that it WEIS an unusually large one. While
its top WaS 1060 its the clouds, its base and
stem kept growing larger and larger until,
when it was within hall a mile of os, four or
rivet:Ares of surface were terribly agitated.
There was a hissing, swishing soiled as the
waters were sucked. up, and the spout travel-
led right at us until not .more than twenty
rods away. Theo it &Ahmed and passed us
astern, For five minutes there was a
great downpour of wateron our deoks,
and the sea least to oonfused that the
brig was knoeked abed like o, cork,
The spout oontinued to the west as tar as we
could see but the rain had no sooner ceased
thao WO fotunt the decks litteredevith strange
objects. There were many small fish, 0 tur-
tle weighing quite two pounds, and an eel
at least six feet long. But we had little
interest in those things, for among them teas
0 straw hat, several lengths of rope, two or
three ldts of cloth, which proved to be
handkerchiefs, the wreck of 6.1i umbrelits, a
handbag, and a sailor's jacket. These things
hod all been rained down on our decks, and
when we come to look over the sides we saw
planks atul other wreckage.
• Now, what had happened Was this : A
sehooner yacht in which a party of wealthy
Germans from Paramaribo --there were nine
of them, and all men -were , cruising for
pleasure had been caught up in Mutt spout,
mid hurled to desteuation. We heal the
proofs of it, and ‚inc alone could • tell what
became of the tutfortunates. It was our
testimony ond the artieles 31111011 1104 rained
down upon our decks which settled proper.
ties valued into the hundreds of thousands,
tnd yet the matter has been holdup to lIONVS.
aper Hilted° and classed as a snalor's yarn.
The Merino for Mutton.
A correspondent in a letter <totalling slits
experietmos with different brae& of slteep,
Cotswolds, Southdowne end Oxfords, which
latter he has decided to keep in preference
to the others -has this to say of the Morino 1
Many people will be surprised to know
that Morino sheep furnish about three.fifiths
of all the insigne consumed in America to -
des,. We at one time ONV110(1 a (Moto flock
of Merinos, and took a number, put 1110 lot
by themselves, weighed every bit of food
condoneit ana asst per head, and we are
free to confess that Oho result was a mum
Mete surprise to us, 'We actually kept throe,
Merinos weighing 83 pounds each Hint dur-
Mg the time of teat, which extwided for a,
year, produced a lamb each, clipped an
average of 14 pounds of Wool iter head, or
253 pounds of mutton win pottnds of wool,
on the food thet it, required to lteop one
Cotswold that weighed 185 pounds and
clipped 17 pounds of wool, brought more
PCI pound, and the Cotswold nintton more
per poend, but the Merino more of Gad, so
could afford to take less awl still have the
balance on the right side. Friends will do
tvell not to derptse the Morioos as mutton
esee
Plebeian State Rebuked,
Nellie -43o5, 1 don't like strewberries this
One of year, atonic ;I'd rather waft a month
until they are :motor and batter,
A untie-'Ves I dare sa 00 would refer
LatestFrom Europe
England end Germanr Turkish Justice-
. The WatlXin TOWer.
ilegetiat Moe with England onwerning
territory in Africa had almost readied the
point of an exchange of ta protocol et:needing
to lermany a sphere of iniinunee extending
from the east isms( to the Cenge Free Std
when Lent Seliebney, the Britith Prime
NUM./ter, reset Ills 1.111 oy, Sir Percy Ander-
son, eutplettie males* te enspota emninunieti-
lions and await theism:Bons. Sines then
Sir Etle ant Malt,t, the Uri tielt Anibiteeador
at Berlin, title intimated thot the negoLies
Hone will only les resumed oe the basis of a
recognition by Germany of English rights
on the west (bust of Lake Tuatganythe: tool
the territories:102.th of Tanganyika Mel tuling
Uganda.
The 'Foreign Ofilue here interprets the
changed attitude of Loiel Salisbury to the
public clamor in Engin/id over the threaten-
ed tlispoesession of the English ft•ont the
territories connecting the Beitish Empire
in South Alden with the sources a the
Nile. Whatever is Lord Sallabury's motive
it hits evoked an energetic prded from
Chtineellor von Caprivi, which tho Emperor
either Welshed or indorsed. Only strong
•t4tote etnithined with family reaeons deter.
mines the Empires to peratst cordial
relations with the English governor.
The ROHS ao•man (intette,Avnose direetor
mainly heal several intervitem with the
Chancellor Von C111/V1Vi, ebbs:Medi aemi•
ollioial communication advocating a cou-
tin-gam:a of the English occupation of Egypt
ao OSSellaal 10 the prosperity of that collo.
try. The article obviously pointed out
that the (hellion Government was ready to
support P. permanent oeeeptition of hami
by the Britiaff The Goes/ le did not state
thoterms, but suggested that if Germany
obtained a hold in the distriuts in Central
Africa slainted by England the British twiny
would be tandirintal in the occupation of
Egypt,
The Turkish officer and the five students
who were <wrested by Russian sailors for
aasoulting the wife and daughter of the
Chief Dragoman of the Russian Embassy in
a, garden at Buyektlere and delivered by
their captors to M. de Nelidoff, the Russiaa
Ambassador, who et first declined to turn
them over to the Ottoman oil -idols, fearing
that they would escape punishment, ware
till:01:11y delivered to the '1`ttricisit authori-
The offenders were promptly put on trial,
found guilty and sentetsced to undergo Ino
prisonmeut for six months. In additiou to
this punishineut the Sultan has issued it
special edict ordering thins 3111011 the sent-
ence expires the offenders shell be banished
to Tripoli for life.
M. de Nelidoff is satisfied with the punish-
ment balloted and has sent lettter to the
Suiten thanking him for the prompt action
bthen .by the Turkish authorities in the
case,
'rhe tower with which Sir Edward Wat-
kin inteuds to out -Eiffel Eifel will be erected
at Willesden, it western London suburb. The
promoters Lave not got money yet to carry
out the work. Bet they appet5r conffilent of
getting all they want, and they have already
entered into preliminary contracts for limn-
ing 250 acres .of land whereon to erect the
monstrosity. Watkin has an eye to other in-
terests in the promotion of this scheme, for
the selected site is close to the underground
railway of which he is Chaiernau, and the
hope is that the totver may prove sufficient
rtgraction to the sight-seeing Briton to add
another unit to the railway dividend. The
new tower is to be ,950 feet high.
Birds During Oourtship.
At the season. of birds' courtship, when
the conditions of life are most favourable,
vitality is at its maximann, and naturally it
is then that the proficiency in all kinds of
dancing antics, model and terrestrial, ap-
pears greatest, end that melody attaius it
highest perfection. This applies chiefly to
birds, but even among birds there are ex-
ceptions. The love -excitement is doubtless
pleasurable to them, mid it takes the form
in which keenly pleasurable emotions are
habitually expeassed, although not frequent-
ly with variations due to the greater hams-
ity of the feeling. In soma migrants the
males artive before the females, and no soom
or have they recovered from 'the effects of
their journey than they burst out into rap.
throes singing ; these are not love -strains,
since the females have net yet waived end
paiting time is perhaps a mooth distant
their aniging inanely expresses their over-
flowing gladoess. The forest at that season
is voted not only with the fine melody of
Otto time aongsters, but with hoorse eawmgs,
piercing criee, shrill duets, nolay choruses,
druninengs, boomings, wood -tap.
pings -every sound with which different
species express the glad impulse • and birds
like the porrot, that only axed their power-
ful voices m sumamings-beeause "they eon
do no oither"--then sermon their loudest.
When centrtship begins it has 111 many eases
the effect of inereaaing the beauty of the
performtanoe, giving adaled sweetness, nerve,
and brilliance to the song, and freedom and
grace to the gestures rand motions. -[W, 11
IItulson, in Longman's Magazine.
Obedient to the Sun,
It would almost seem as 0 oue globe were
always trying to crimp?! from the tinaldom
of the son, Who, knowing how fatal to us
sueh an escape would be, incessantly inter -
foes to prevent it If only the 8011 were to
withhold that attractive power by which
the earth is tneintkined to 0110 course at pres-
ent followed, dire dimity must result,
Thie globe Of 01.11.8 is now hurrying along at
a pace of eighteen miles a edmint, and if the
sun's attraction no longer restrainecl us we
shoidd not continee to revolve in a °Mole,
but would at ono start off 0, straight line
though Roma Every minute would take
us more then a thotteand Mild, and by the
011110 11 111111C1Ved days Mut elapsed NV6 should
be twine as far item the sun as we are et
Versant. His light and Ms heat would be
reduced to one-fout•th part of what we now
enjoy. With every successive minute the
aun's infitence would still further abote, end
10 10 ohnost necelleas to add that all known
forme of lifoonnat vanish from the globe,
Ms, therefore, satisfactory to know that
Wep(000000 every security Oat tho sun's at-
traetion will nevor decline from whet it i$
at Our present mamma, and therefore there
is no ground for any appeoltension that life
shell be Omni from Ode globe- by a clissoitt.
tion of tho bond of ettraution between the
erarth and sun.
. , Y 3 1) .
to waits until they aro hawked about tho
streets, Well, ohild, if you do not Me isolo. InIumner (woarily)--"There doson't seem
berrice 110W bettor than sweet onee when to be anything going on in this Wren."
they aro to be had by thm
e comonest/maple, Patrick (rohnkin ).- -"Not'in' goile 011 1
yon are lacking in the first elements of ims Sure there's fufteen ig stroikes pin' on this
o1uelvene$8..-I4bt • vttry minute,"
Talithit &anti,
And boom Ono of the riders, attir,1s. by noine
M110111. 6144. Sold besought 14111 grentss, soy.
ing, my ilttle dauginer !loth at Ow eight of
eels ilt ; come and lay shy hands either ond she
shalt live: . , \bee he had out them
all outs it' took 110V It !lie 1111011 and ^nit,11 111100
11012;.-..rnill 1141 V11111/, 111111 straight Way 1110
110111601 , 11,404,
11.6.0 tvitit gladness, patient wateter,"
Waiting fes rellelOpl10111.15
641 111,' day'a prophet h' signals
Crites, mod in the glowilig alties
Pritiee tho Mabel. Coil, -
Praise the Spirit, light, seloreisig
Viable the Sou, who gave the message
.1/on/...s,,from rho a 51.01.
1,6tIV11 the lore the weed disemet,
In this thrive, told gospel dory I
t ;leen its golden grains ef prentiee
len. the 'einem' in thev lasstet
Love the loving, helpful alaster,-,
Let thy life reveal /1161 glory-
\ Vie, Is ill grant thee life isternel
1\i:en Ile mulls thee from thy rest,
lie not faithless ; trust hint fully •
"l'hough the joy -lights iale around thee,
'I'hough the darkness seems the denser
For the noontide brightness 11.e.1, --
'Twee His tender loting-kindtwas
In the bygone days that found thee, -
There is life's pereenial studight
O'et• the driftway overhead.
Call for Jesus : bide His coming
Though He tarry, bearing bleseings -
'l'o some lone one, sad and iveary,
Welting for Him by the way,
-
Still lie feels thy sorer 0000011',
And for all thy lwatt's distreasinge
liath 15 halm of peace anti heating
That will compensate delay.
It may be, -the garnot•ed reinshine
Thou for yeaes Mud been reecivittg,
Makes thy spirit feel the keener
All tide sudden crucial mtin ;
It'ait,--while Otis tme- -knowing only
Bittee impotenee and grieving
needles ont her weary fingers
For her ehildhood's life tigeht -
Wait 1 His gifts have no ndapitwings-
Tiones delays are bright surprises. !-
Noise may olaim the bnon thou modest -
It is thine and thine alone :
In the secret of His presence
Thou shalt know what love devises :
When He saith :-".7adirka earn f,"
Thou shalt stan21 before the g'In•one.
LLEIVIII,LYX A. Mdfunsde.
'Ttoo Elturs," Toronto,
A Pew Questions.
Do ships have eyes wheu they go to eea •
Are there springs in the ocean's bed
Does "jolly 0012 0040 from a tree?
Can a river lose its haul?
Will a blacksmith's vise condemn his sottl?
Can books be white and read 2
Ts whoa Lissa Ohs chnrch bell pay its toll?
Who shingles it water shed?
If a minstrel boy can sing Ids lay
Can a ship sing her "lay -to ?"
Do tigeee ask for erace when they prey ?
Can a bugle not% come due?
Is "Fattier Time" a noted thief
For stealing the hours awey ?
Oen yon give a window -pane relief
Can you mend the break of day?
Is a purchase made when shoes are soled
Can an ate the rainbow hue?
If I keep on twisting the tale I've told
Pray what wilt your readers do?
A Singles.Stitoh,
One 6011,611 itropped as the weaver drove
His nimble shuttle to end fro,
In and out, beneath, above,
Till the pattern seems to bud and grow
As if the fairies had helping been,
And the 0110 stitch dropped pulled the next
stitch 0110, '
And a weak plod gem in the fabric stout,
AIM the perfect pattern was mai-red for aye
By the one small stitch that WaS dropped
that day.
One small life in God's great plan ;
Row futile it seems ab the ages roll.
Do what it may or strive what it can
To alter the sweep of the infinite whole.
A angle stitch in an endless web,
A ,trop
loio,
ntthe ocean's flow and ebb.
But the patter!' is rent where the stitch is
Or marred where the tangled threads have
crossed,
And each life that foils of the true intent
Mars the perfect 1100 01156 its :Master meant.
Sosaie Coos:thins.
May Time.
'Tis now the base -ball blooms, and bats grow
, ripe ;
The poet of the Spring springs into type,
The Lord of Mountain Taverns comes to
L
l'o see ir rtune sweet sloth smile or frown.
t'ItoSea•side beaches now are neatly scrub-
bed and swept;
rho cello awakes, ilk( winter vigil's kept.
In checke and strips quite zebra -like the
dude
Comps forth, and iuto soft desuetude
Now sinks the oyster filled with joyous
glee,
Vociferously glad -for him -that ho
Hath 'seeped the sauce tobacco, and a truce
is called by him who wields the lemon
joie°,
Indeed, the tvhole world's glad to molt the
day
When dates do ohange from April unto
May,
lica—ite lam
IOY 11TATLY P. Now/Mt
The weary day was ended,
And, as the evening fell,
I leaned against the casement,
Whilo o'er my spirit fell
A breath of peed.
Unheeded in the trouble
And worry of the day,
Tho snow had softly fallen,
-And o'er the landseape lay
Like purest poaoo,
Its soft white beanty rested
My weary, troubled brain,
A 501190 Of pone end eahnness
Came 0001 1110 again
With sweet relief.
I seemed to fool (locl's
In biassing on my brow 1
My doubting fled, I whispered,
"Lord, I believe, help thou
Mine unbelief,"
I know that I was ansWered,
claimed the promise full-
" E'en though your sins be searIet
They stoall itt WltIOo as wool,"
This for me I
And RR 0110 earth was eovered
With snowy mantle white,
Sonto day 1110110 ()f glory,
Ali shining pure and bright
Shall ems me.
-Our resat.
JUNF, 9, 1890.
ROMANTIC SIDE OF GRIME,
8107 Orli al% MI St1104.111)libillg 1101111 o8.
lion,
lJtttiI reontly there WaS 01054111 the big
vault, ef 0, Safe til loek eompany itt elditago
a Se0 Of burglar tessle Beg figured in one stf
1101111.4 ttt tetupte at 25 bank robbery 11,2,1
11114 l/VOil 1.01411,11.11 ill Willy a yeat.. Ab0111,
ten yeira age fifteen teipert saW burglitre
senseeived the grand plan of robbing the
Ite"isl• ill,' N.. t ••.2!•1 Bank at Louisville,
1111.1 41( 00 Av.ty With/Omit 421,000,1/111/
III 01111 1,14 41411,1 allay ill OW I/1111161 V1111118.
They went risen the hazardous undertaking
AystelnatIcally and carefully. '111112 had a
fouler, a trained sa ft. -blower or Ito itt crack •
,••1 menim of safes, 11111 ti, oeellpiell it, fall
01010.11 ie. Myths; plane, perfeeting means .d
222111 eii proparieg ls toole with wheel to
open the aveinius 1 lho gelden treasure.
Although 011..1.1. Were 11 f teen men in tho gigan,
tie ewe:ply:ley, but five Were to do tho ttet.
11111 1/4111111111 wore to be ell WILLeb
'At differ...of points. Thoorderswerfi TO silence
all pitssersby or wItelimen who discovered
anything, but to do tlw work with ,to little
110101 114 possible, using revolvers only 0( 11
last resort, The burglars got to work ahem:
11 o'cleek in the night, hexing captured tem
watchmen, eldonsforined them and stowed
them qffietly away in a roar 01103, where two
confederates watt:lied ovee them. 11 took
two precious hottrs before the daring mon got
into 0110 Minding, they being compelled lo
smy Onssugh 1111(110 i/11111011SO Will111110/111.14.
Ab011t 1.3)0 ill Itt,, morning they got at the
doors of the big vault, where paper money,
gohl and specie to the value of over $1,000, OM
were stelae]. There were alma four 1110116H
of solid obilletIsteel to bore into bofore a
t•harge of powder could he enceessfulty 101
sorted and tonehed 1111'but these ineu accent-
plielteii all this, and at about 4 o'clock in the
morning there wee to dull roar, the builithes
shook ana a. Imaxy piece of the vault de.t.
flew strand crashell to the fleor, goldett
stream flowed out of the orilise, and the
thieves erept baek to wheta the treasure
was, and began tilling the hears...StIlMe
begs they had brotight with theta They
sectu•od in all about $20,01)0, this being All
the money withill reach, the hole in the
vault door not being large enough to admit
a man. Whets they had gathered all :that
they (multi the harmless; ;started out, They
were met at the points where they, enteeed
by it hell -dozen detectives, who (Amused
the whole lot At the trial it developed
that one of the burglars was a detective,
who had leer/set tftlto'gaogst',i,Ibitgeoltottto,
aud bail ingratiated himself with them, 100 -
ally becotzung.(1ue of the crowd. The 01111t.
patty that furnished the vault that was blowe
open secured the tools thebtoglare did their
work with, and exhibited them es an wives-
tisement itt flair busineas, the dein) being
made that with the charge of powder the
burglars used half the building ought talitive
bean torn doWn, while in reality but 11
iteratively small Mein of the vault 1100V Warl
wrecked.
To .be Loved One Mut be Good,
Merely to do good is not enough to ad
love one meet good. It is woutiAttl
how some people do tuellesa good, and yet
none cares for them. Dorcas was not a
machine, actively pod bectinse entirely
wound up, People do not weep stels tears
as fell when she died for loss ,,fa sowing.
machine, useful though such might he, and
working for nothing, Nor WaSSIle a Won1611
Wi011 0 missiou-bustling, impurtant, loud
-
voiced ; useful anti needed anon may bo 1 re-
spected, but not quite loved, Net Wag she a
patroness, looking down on those upon whom
she shewera her benefits. Those who m.ork
like D• :,...es do not work for inechanieal duty,
nor for fuss or fame, 1011. for thanks. It Is
little likely that thanke were given her.
Peeple woula say--"sha has nailing else to
do. "She bas no family to look after."
"811e luts ph3itty of time on her hands." "It's
almost a kindness to take her sewing," "Sho
had sooner work thou not." !fixedly ; that
was it. She was nothing more than 11 kindly,
humblaltearted, womanly soul, that feared
God and loved men, and di141 good in solid
ways ; one whose life made othee women
glad that she was born. What more woul,l
ypu have her be? Are you. sure you under.
stand what Oat 'WU?
She became ill. lino 111,1 not tell how ill
she felt ; but lay lone anti sick, She would
not butsten others trith her pain, and to die
she did not fear. Her neighbours foun:1 It
out, and nursed her tenderly but she died.
Then there was bothing to as bat reverently
to lay her out ; to put flowers on her brettat
and in her Minds ; it wt s all the kiminese
they could do new. Irow they withal they
had done more tthen Sille WW1 alive. Then
they 011o411 .what to as twat. When one
is dead there is so little you can do, and yet
you wad 00 (10 So lunch. It is wonderful
how roach good your neighbours know to
tell of yon when you are dead, and how
musk evil witilo yon are still alive.
We die and aro not much missed, The
world. roils 011 ; yet none is quite unwept,
unnoticed. Them axe two ads of people
who will mourn, There ere those telt()
loved you, and found their jeyin ministering
to you ; 0 mother, a lover : good or had you
may have been, but they will weep over
yoargrave. Or, in heaven, they smile • in
smiles or tears they love, And thine
are those you loved ; on whose souls
ore the merks of your kindness, warmth,
holp and cheer • they will miss you. -[The
late Professor Amalie.
One Idea of Punctuality,
The Orientol idea that. time was Isaac for
SlaVell foetid illustration in mealy tainueing
ways when first a railway was opened in a
new part of Indio,. Nothing but bitter ex-
perience could convince the natives .that
train, unlike the bullock wagons they hal
been accustomed to, would not wait an M-
auling° time to plek up passengers, The de-
puty conotussioterhad on Otl000ttittjion, short-
ly after the opening of it new lute, sod his
50112E4110 Wi011 his otlioial letter bag to meet
the train, and WaS 11111011 annoyed at seeing
the man presoutly returning tvith it, haying
missed the train. " Yoe had not half 14 111110
logo, and you know that the train loft the
Otto station at three o'olock I" " truly,
yeur majesty," replied the 1111111 ill on ag-
grieved tone, but whoa it strikes three
here the train goes front there" That was
sharp prootioo of whieh he had na provioue
'aperient:0, and it was evident that he did
not thnik it very oreclitable to the compealy,
5vh14eli evidently 131606d MI Ulld1/0 value on
trifte-s.
Starting Oat,
She wanted a cottage, He wanted eit
apartment,
"ffettitee to the stveet," he said with atendor
glanoe.
"Fatto the lid," she retoeted with 0,
scornful smile.
kt, 11, --Thoy took a oottage.
Rain Mei fallen to suelt an extent in the
difdrict around Utica, E, 12,01100 the farm.
ors am disgueted with the proapeet, on
fcars id railway NVaS110111,3 REV <laming wee
iety.
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