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The ad just solemn P:!ter T BICULTURAL. Ali About the Farm. BY JAMES K. REEVE. A correspondent asks us for some informa- tion upon the subject of green manuring, and wonders bow it is that a given crop - grown from a soil can enrich that soil by being again turned under, and ex- presses his opinion that no more can be given back to the land than has been taken from it. His mistake is in supposing that the eeeire nourishment of the manuring crops, especially when they consist of leguminous plants such as clovef, alfalfa, etc., comes from the soil ; en the contrary, these plants have to a large degree the prop- erty of drawing some of their most valu- able element from the atmosphere. But if they could only obtain food firm the soil, eertain of the plants would still be of valve in furnishing sustenance for certain .hers. For instance, the small grains ob- tlein their food almost wholly from the five or six inches of top soil, and successive cropping would soon exhaust this while the lower soil was yet rich in the needed elements. The roots of the legumi- nous plants go lower down and draw upon there stores, and then by being ploughed under and decomposing near the surface they again enrich the top soil. By a judi- cious rotation of clover and small grains a farm may be cropped very heavily and con- stantly increase in fertility, and if the clov- er is cut and fed to cattle, and the manure carefully returned to the land, and even greater income may be had without any det- riment to the soiL The development of a profitable dairy cow depends very much upon the treatment that she receives as a calf. The.good traits that she inherits may be still further developed, or they may quite as easily be seriously stunted and dwarfed. The calf and the heifer must be treated kindly and fed gener- ously and judiciously with such food as will best secure liberal growth of bone and muscle, together with a hardy and vigorous constitution. It is not best to breed them so that they will drop the first calf until somewhat after two years of age, as earlier breeding has a tendency to weaken the con- stitutional vigor. She should then be kept in milk as long as possible, and the period can be extended by good feeding, as the ten- dency once formed in that direction will be apt to continue. For the first five years the cow should be treated as though immature, that is, fed and handled so as to promote constant growth and development. One great benefit derived from the dairy, and one we are afraid that is too little ap- preciated, is that it affords a steady cash income, a little almost every day right through the year. There is nothing else on the farm, except the poultry, that can do this, and the poultry can only in a much smaller degree. A nice roll of good butter to sell every time one goes to town helps to- ward those little expenses, which, if allowed to run, so soon amount to big bills. Then it requires the best part of some big crop, the wheat, or the hogs, or a couple of fat steers to pay them off. Farming is a great deal easier and more satisfactory when it is followed in such a way as to dis- pense with store bilis ; but many find this almost impossible, unless they have some such means of constant income. When bills are run up there is not often the same close attention to small expenditures, and so the totals foot up surprisingly large. Injudicious feeding is a source of constant and enormous waste upon the majority of our farms. Once in a while we find, in our travels about the country, a man who has realized the economy of correct feeding and so never gives a mouthful to any of his stock where there can be a possible chance of their wasting it. Others throw clean, bright hay upon the ground in a muddy barnyard, where a good portion of it is sure to be trampled ender foot and fouled. Some men who feed under cover have no suitable feeding racks, and so the hay ispulled from the manger and mach of it is wasted. Corn also is often fed to hogs in muddy barnyards, fields, or pens, so that much of it is tramped so deeply that the hogs never find it. Corn-fodder,staeked out of doors,is wast- ed by the wind and weather and rapidly deteriorates in feeding value. Even slop, made of bran or meal that has cost good money, is fed in shallow troughs in which the animals step and wallow until half is spilled upon the ground. This way of feed - is the worst sort of folly, and is a doable Queer Facts About a Watch. loss, a loss of the labor of gro Wang the food, and of the prospective profit that would re- sult if it were properly fed out. While the liberal feeding of corn will in- crease the flow of milk, it still is not an economical food to use in the dairy. The same value expended in bran and oil -meal will give a much better return. The prac- tice is steadily growing of feeding some con- centrated food to milch cows at all seasons, and wherever tried, we have reason to be- lieve it has proved profitable and satisfac- tory. Suppose you experiment in this line when you turn your cow out upon short pasture in the spring. An unsound or blemished horse is usually one of little worth. The majority of un- sound or blemished horses are wally so because of brutal or careless treatment, and are a direct reflection upon their owner. A dark stable is not a good place in which to develop horse -flesh. The conditions under which plant life and animal life flourish, do not vary greatly. Grow a plant in a dark cellar and see how itturns out. A colt raised iu a dark stable will have just about as niucb stamina. We all know what irrigation, by giving a plentiful supply of moisture at all seasons, can do toward insuring good crops. But as irrigation cannot be -practised in encases we must avail ourselves of the best substitutes for it that we can command. One of the best of these, and the one most generally within reach, is to give the soil such a thor- ough pulverization that it will retain a sur- plue of water when it comes, and furnish it to plants as it may be needed during their growth. A deeply and finely cultivated soil holds water like a sponge. A soil may be deeply loosened, but if this loosened mass is only broken clods and lumps there will be innumerable openings between them which will set like sa many evaporating chimneys to allow the moisture that is below to escape above. Thus the water which ought to be held for future use is rapidly dissipated without having served any good end. This loss may be very largely prevented by hiv- ing a finely pulverized stratum at the top, so that no open chimneys will exist to throw off the vapor. Equally objectionable with a coarse surface is a hard surface which the water cannot penetrate, but from which it runs off, thus losing the required supply to the growing crop. The teachings of theory and the results of the successful practice of the best cultivators have abundantly proved the importance of thorough pulverization and of a fine mellow soil iu giving heavy crops through all seasons, and in preventing the disasters which to some extent always follow superficial culture. I have spoken of it frequently before, but 1 believe I esnnottoo often impress upon Married women live on an average, two my re,3ers the loss that they consttly years longer than single women, although go im er care of fertilizing one womaue et seventy dies m childbirth. materials. All through the country I have 1 THE BORROWING HADBINS. seen this winter thousands of leads of man- ure in open barnyards, bleaching and wash - "And the borrower is servent to the lend- ing away. B the time it is hauled out in By er." Times mutantnr and we mutantur with them. Solomon wrote as a rich lend- er who had everything out on cutthroat mortgages and thus held the borrower where the hair was short though the time was long. But all signs fait when yon can't remember the countersign, and it's A SHORT LANE THAT RAS NO TUztN IN. the spring, it will have at the outside not more than fifty per cent. of its original value. If the manure is to be withheld from the fields until spring, the only sensible way is to keep it under cover, and then it must be kept slightly damp, and turned frequently to prevent burning and the escape of the ammonia, one of its most valuable qualities. Where -there is not room to store the man- ure and shelter it, it should be hauled out upon the fields and spread as fast as made. This plan has the added recommendation of saving labor, and freeing you from this work in spring, when you can find plenty of employment at other duties. If plenty of absorbents and bedding are used, so as to prevent the escape both of liquids and am- monia, there is not much objection to leav- ing the manure in the stable until a load has accumulated. It is not a good plan, however, to allow the horses and cattle to stand upon it, or foul feet may result. tuernsey Cattle. An experienced dairyman writes that the Guernseys are cattle that have contributed as largely toward improving onr .native breeds as any which Europe has sent across the ocean. The fame of this breed may not be so generally known as either the Jerseys, Holstein -Friesians or Ayrshires, but the average worth of the individual animals of this breed must make them stand foremost among the improved cattle of our country. The Guernsey is a great butter -maker, and the blood from these pare -bred animals can be found in many of the good dairy animals upon our progressive farms. As individual butter -makers this breed has never been widely published, and wonderful feats of single cows have not been recorded in order to raise the value of a whole breed. Fre quently there are exceptional animals amok the other breeds which produce a startling amount -of butter, but it is doubtful if this.-; is of any real value to the farmer. The= prices of such animals are way above any- thing which the average dairyman car af- ford to pay, and it is also a question whether the rest of the breed is helped by these few exceptions. They are rather abnormal ex- ceptions, and in the eyes of many it injures the standing of those which are normal pro- ducers. Reading of the wonderful records of a few Jerseys, the purchaser naturally expects similar astounding results from his less expensive animal, and the result is he is generally disappointed. The average of the Guernseys is good. As a race of special butter -makers all of the registered animals stand high, and a few do not go above the average to astonish the world. They form the backbone of most of our large dailies. They are good working and profitable animals, yielding good work the year round. They are not owned by fancy breeders and societies who are simply desirous of pushing their price up by pub- lishing their wonderful records. For this reason the Guernsey breed is probably bet- ter suited to dairy purposes than any other imported from Europe. The breed comes from the Channel Islands, where so many of our famous breeds originated, and they have been bred there for a time longer than man can remember, simply for butter -making. The milk and cream that they- produce are wonderfully yellow and rich, and the butter very seldom needs artificial coloring at any season of the year. The animals are gener- ally larger than the Jersey or Ayrshire, and very gentle in disposition. They demand. fair grass for their best efforts, but they are not as dainty as the Jersey. This breed has never been bred for the color, as most of the other breeds, and their owners have simply tried to develop the points in good butter -making, allowing nature to take care of the color of the hair. A fine, pure bred herd will produce good quantities of butter, every pound of which will often sell for 50 cents. It is of superior taste, flavor and color, and when a market for it is once es- tablished it is an easy matter to get such prices for it summer and winter. The chief merit of the Guernseys is that they can be judged as flocks and herds, and not as in- dividual animals. A good herd shows that the average is high, and it is this which is so essential to a dairyman. Individual animals do not count so much as the high average of the whole herd. Open your watch and look at the little wheels, springs and screws, each an indis- pensable part of the whole wonderful ma- chine. Notice the busy little balance wheel as it flies to and fro unceasingly, day and night, year in and year out. This wonder- ful little machine is the result of hundreds of years of study and experiment. - The watch carried by the average man is com- posed of ninety-eight pieces and its manu- facture embraces more than 2,000 distinct and separate operations. Some of the small- est screws are so minute that the unaided eyes can not distinguish them from steel fil- ings or specks of dirt. Under a powerful magnifying glass a perfect screw is revealed. The slit in the head is 2-1000ths of an inch wide. It takes 308,000 of these screws to weigh a pound,and a pound is worth $1,585. The hair -spring is a strip of the finest steel about 9 inches long, 1 -100th inch wide and 27-10,000ths inch thick. It is coiled up in spiral form and finely tempered. The pro- cess of tempering these springs was long held as a secret by . the few fortunate ones possessing it, and even now is not generally known. Their manufacture - requires great skill and care. The strip is gauged to 20- I000ths of an inch,but no measuring instru- ment leases yet been devised capable of fine enoughgaugingof the strip what the strength ofthefinishedspringwill bee A20-1000thpart of an inch difference in the thickness of the strip makes a difference in the running of a watch of about six minutes per hour. The value of these springs, when finished and placed in watches, is enormous in pro- portion, to the material from which they are made. A comparison will give a good idea. A ton of steel made up into hair -springs when in watches is worth more than twelve and one-half times the 'value of the same weight of pure. - gold. Hair -spring wire weighs one -twentieth of a grain to the inch. One mile of wire weighs less than half a pound. The balance gives five vibrations every second, 300 every minute, 18,000 every hour, 432,000 every day, and 157,680,-. 000 every year. At each vibration i E rotates about one and one-fourth times, which makes 197,100,000 revolutions every year. In order that we may better understand the stupendous amount of labor performed by these tiny works, let us make a few com- parisons. Take, for illustration, a Iocomo- tive with 6 -foot driving. wheels. Let its wheels be run . until they have given the same number of revolutions that a watch does in one year and they will have covered a distance equal to twenty-eight complete circuits of the earth. All this a watch does without other attention than winding once every twenty-four hours. When a boy, in the halls of my fathers— we had two halls, front and back, and then later en I married a Hall, that made three ; in the halls of my fathers, then—I had only one father, itis true, but as he is in no wise a singular man I mention him in the the plural—I remember a neighbor who located a claim adjoining our own happy and peaceful demense, where we abode under our own vine and fig -tree, and chil- dren clustered "like olive plants round about the table" three Limes a day, and fluttered and swarmed like barn swallows the rest of the time. The new neighbor came in the first day of his arrival to borrow a hatchet ; theirs was nailed up in one of their boxes, and they wanted to unpack their things. That was all right, but I wondered all day how they packed the hatchet; I had an idea that one of the boys must have crept into the last box, and nailed the lid on top of himself. However, that wasn't the way of ie at all ; I might have known better. But I didn't and I watched the new neighbors unpack all that day with curious.interest, expecting every time they opened a new box to see the boy crawl out, a little rumpled by and compressed by the long journey from Ohio, but with that certain air of newness that things long packed are apt to have. I was sorely disappointed when -the last box was emptied and no boy seemed to he missed. The Hadbins—the man's name was O. E. Hadbin—were neighborly people. Mother said she thought we would like them ; but then her gentle, Ioving nature always thoughtwe would like everybody. Of course they had Mo time for :baking the first day, so theTborrhwed nearly all the bread we had in the houseand mother sent quite all the butter with it ; that was all right ; the Illinois idea at that day was that your house BELONGED TO YOUR NEIGHBOR until he got settled, and it did. In th day, if there wasn't enough to go round, anybody had to sleep in the shed and hungry, it wasn't the new -comer, it w the older inhabitant, and the older inha tant remembering how in like manner had been received, never complained, a never acted as though he was conferring favor on the new -comer.. I don't know th the children were quite so unselfishly war hearted as the parents. I know Itehoug rather ruefully that night at sapper of Hadhins eating our good butter spree thick as mortaron their bread, while chewed the cud of bitter fancies with m butterless bread. For I hated dry bread Ido to this day. And I hate bread crust I am yet given to hiding it around th edge of my plate, and when 1 see a m eat crust willingly and without compulsion I harbor dark suspicions of that man. believe him to be designing and deceitfu Next morning one of the Hadbin childre came over to borrow a scythe. It was lat in November ; there wasn't a thing to mowed in all Peoria County, and there neve had been anything to mow on their reserve tion, anyhow. I suppose now that the wanted the scythe to cut bread with ; th occasional study of the subject during al these intervening years has reached n better solution than that. But we gave the the scythe, and wondered. In the after noon we saw one of the children comin away from Gregg's house with a tub, an concluded that the Hadbins were extendin their lines toward the left, and were recon noitering all along their immediate front The surmise was confirmed in the evening when err. Lloyd stopped a moment on his way to the store to say that ,the Hadbins had borrowed all -bis lamps, and he was go- ing down town to buy some candles. " What are candles ?" Oh, I don't just exactly remember what they were myself, dear ; you never saw any. They were white straight things, that we .used to light at one end to see by. " Something like gawz ?" Yes, dear something like gas ; something like it ; the bill was about five times stronger than the light. Well ,the Hadbins grew more familiar as you became intimate with them, and the better acquainted you became with them at if go as bi- he nd a at m - ht a d I y e an I 1. n e be r y e 1 0 m g • d g THE MORE YOU KNEW OF THEM It is this, way with some people. About the end of the first week one of the boys came in and borrowed John's sled. We told him there wouldn't be any snow before the middle of -December, but he said he could wait, and patiently dragged the sled away with him. I think we began to get a little scared at that. and father said he un- derstood now why they borrowed the scythe in November ; it was to have it on hand against hay harvest next year. But mother said wee musts.% judge before we knew about them and so hushed us up, and went onto tell what a sweet, soft voice Mrs. Had - bin had. "Why, when did you hear it?" asked one of my sisters. And mother bent her dear face a little lower over her sewing—I can see the faint blush kindhng her cheeks like a dream of dawn—as she was obliged to confess that she heard her asking Mrs. Phillips for the loan of her quilting -frame, and " could she tell her where she could borrow some clothes props and a couple of flat irons ?" The shout of applause that went up saved mother from acknowledging that her own department had honored the full requisition for " props"" and issued half rations of irons. The Hadbins were Baptists,.and I suppose for that reason they raided my father's in- heritance'oftener than they did the borders of Philistia and Edom. They knew the practical duties of the diaconate. The first time they came to church Mr. Hadbin asked father if he might sit in our pew that morn- ing. Certainly, Brother Hadbin. And in sailed Brother Hadbin, Sister Hadbin, Ellen Hadbin, George Hadbin, Jack Hadbin, Gad Hadbin, Kittle Hadhin, Jane Growl—Had- bin's hired girl—and the Hadbin twins. They settled in our pew and SPREAD OUT OVER ADJACENT SECTIONS - of the court of the Gentiles. .We scattered as sheep without a shepherd that Sunday, and afterwards camped on an abandoned claim that nobody would think of borrow- ing. That night all the male members of the congregation of our home tabernacle— father and the boys—nailed their boots to the floor before going to bed, to prevent their being borrowed before morning. The next day passedoff quietly, and none of our out- posts were driven in, but Tuesday morning George and Gad came over to borrow our dog to go hunting with. We loaned the got lather sorrowfully, although mother bald, " Why, let them have him, you foolish boys ;; Zech will come back himself." That sounded reasonable, but -as I am relating a matter of history I cannot conscientiously omit any parte truth—he never. did. He came home with the Hadbins all right, but he never came back to us. They didn't tie him up, but the dog seemed to realize that he was borrowed by aborrowing family, and that settled it. He knew he was doom- ed never to be returned. He would come. to the fence sometimes and lock in at us so earnestly and longingly that it would melt a heart of ice, but when we called him "good old Zech," and tried to coax him in, he would wag his tail sadly and go droop- ing back to the Hadbin reservation. Once Mrs. Hadbin came in, and in the sweetest tones you ever heard, begged mother to save all our meat bones for the dog ; they used all theirs for making soup, she said. Soon after they heard a mouse in their pantry, and came and borrowed our eat. We never saw the cat on our own ranche again. Sometimes, in the silent itches of the night, we could hear her wailing in plain- tive cadences, as though her heart was bre'king with nostalgia—she had always been inclined to nostalgia, and even when she was young, she would make Rome howl if we turned her out of the kitchen at night —but she returned to the home of her child- hood no more. She was borrowed. So things ran on, and week by week our little hohtae began to lock more desolate and bare, as one thing after another WENT INTO THE MAELSTROM until finally Mr. Hadbin, who seldom did any borrowing in person, struck father for his autograph on a little thirty -day note for a trifling amount --forty dollars. Father yielded ; the note fell due ; and the owner of the borrowed name had to pay it him- self. " Don't worry'tr. Habdin about it now," pleaded my mother ; " He'll pay you some time." - "I haven't said a word to him about it,' said my father grimly ; " he is enough of a business man to know how these things o' g That evening Mr. Hadbin called. He looked very angry. "Deacon," he said. " I heard that you took up that note yourself to -day." " Yes," father said he did ; he didn't want it to go to protest, and so he paid it, and Mr. Hadbin could pay him when times were a little easier, and—" But Mr. Hadbin waved his hand with a gesture at onceainjured and sorrowful. " Well," he said. " I would never have believed that of you. Never." And lie was gone. Mad was no name for what he was. He told people that he had been deceived in men before, but never so bitterly as he had been in Deacon B.—never. He wouldn't have believed that one man could treat another so. He had heard of ' mean men in. Ohio, but he had to come West to find them. And a brother in the Church, too. When he thought of that, he could stand it no longer. He went right off and joined the Children of Light, a new sect in that neighborhood that was running a sort of a faith cure fake on commission. The Hadbins moved the next week. The day they moved they sent word that they would be beholden to us for nothing, and so sent back all our old things. They sent via the side fence line, three tubs that belonged to Greggs, Lloyd's lamps, Knowlton's wheel- barrow, Mrs. Richardson's preserving kettle, Warner's spade, Phillips' quilting -frame, Weston's buggy harness, and a variety of things belonging to everybody in the neigh- borhood except to ourselves. , We had a re- ception, and the neighbors came in and identified their property, and took it away, and we saw the Hadbins no more. But I have often thought that people hadn't got borrowing down to an exact science when Solomon wrote, and that when Poor Richard said, "He that goes a borrow- ing goes a sorrowing," he must have meant that one fellow did the borrowing and. the lender did the sorrowing. I am older now, my children, than I was when I was young- er, and I have learned that there is nothing in the world that will make a man hate you so bitterly as to owe you borrowed money that he cannot pay. "But why should that make him mad at you ?" I do not know, children; I do not know. ROBERT J. BURDETTE. The Fecundity of Flies. A common house fly lays four times during the summer season, each tim e an average of eighty eggs, which makes One-half of these are supposed to be fe- males, so that each of these four broods produces forty - 1. First eighth, or forty females -of the first brood, also lay four times in the course of the summer, which makes. The first eighth of these last, or 1600fe- males, lay three times, making a "setting" of The second eighth lay twice, or eggs to the number of The third and fourth eighth lay at least once each, or 2. The second eighth, or the forty fe- males of the second brood, lay three times and produce eggs to the amount of One-sixth of these, or 1600 females, lay three times or eggs to the number of The second sixth lay twice the eggs numbering The third lay once, or 3. The third eighth or the forty female of the third brood, lay twice, or eggs toe of One-fourththe ofnumber these, or 1600 females, lay twice more, which is 4. The fourth a-ghth, or forty females of the fourth brood, have one laying period each, which produces eggs to the numo Half of theseber lastf, or 1600 females, will also lay 80 eggs each, which gives us. 320 12,830 384,000 256,060 256,000 9,600 384,000 128,000 6,400 256,000 32.000 128,000 Total product of a single pair of flies in one Season , 2;080,320 It has been estimated that if esch fly hatched should live to be 4 years of age, at the end of that time they would form a solid mass around the earth, extending to .a height of fiftymiles, or about the estimat- ed thickness of our atmosphere. A New Type of Ballet. English ordnance experts are interested at present over a new style of ballet for shoulder rifles that has been invented by General Tweedie. The bullet has a case which is closed at the base aad open at the head, the case ending about half way be- tween the shoulder and the point. Upon striking the head spreads out like a mush- room, and suddenly becomes a projectile of much larger caliber than it was at the time it left the gun. By this means it is thought to secure the advantages of both the small and the large caliber weapons. During its flight it has the properties of the small -sized bullet, little resistance to the air. When it strikes, how- ever, it does not content itself with inflict- ing: a mere wound which may or may not incapacitate the soldier struck, but it shat- ters and tears, placing the one hit hors du combs on the instant. Although not primarily intended to pierce armor of any thieknees, it has been found that the Tweedle bullet is much more effec- tive for this purpose than any of the small- er calibers that have been tried in competi- tion with it. j Golden Thoughts for Every Day. MonWday- - On mountain here mortal never trod. heights, in days of old, _While heavenly splendors shone around, There Moses talked with God, In sweet Communion, glorious, grand, God gave his promise sure. And made his covenant with man Eternally secure. His people they should ever be And he would be their C-od. While they obeyed His holy will And kept the faith they vowed. And still to us the promise stands. As by tt e Jews 'twas heard ; He will accent us as His own, If we obey His word. —[Eliza B. Sexing. Tuesday—.This boundless desire had not its original from man itself : nothing would render itself restless ; something above the bounds of this world implanted those de- sires after a higher good, and made him restless in everything else. And since the soul can only rest in that which is infinite, there is something infinite for it to rest in ; since nothing in the world, though a man had the whole can give it satisfaction, there is something above the world only capable to do it, otherwise the soul would be always without it, and be more in vain than any other creature. There is, therefore, some infinite being that can only give a content- ment to the soul, and this is God.—[Philip Charnock. Wednesday—If we consider the dignity of an intelligent being, and put that in the scales against brute inanimate matter, we may affirm, without over -valuing human nature, that the soul of one virtuous and re- ligious man is of greater worth and excel- lence than the sun and his planets. *[Thos. Bentley. Thursday.—If you would increase your happiness and prolong your life forget your neighbor's faults. Forget the slander you have ever heard. Forget the temptations' Forget the faultfinding and give little thought to the cause that provoked it. For- get the peculiarities of your friends, and only remember the good points that make you fond of them. Forget all personal quarrels or histories that you may - have heard by accident, and which if repeated would seem a thousand times worse than they are. Blot out, as far as possiole, all the disagreeableness of life ; they will come, but they will grow larger as you remember them, and constant thought of the acts of meanness, or, worse still, malice will only tend to make you more familiar with them. Obliterate everything disagreeable from yesterday ; start out with a clean sheet for o -day, and write upon it, for sweet mem- ry's sake, only those things that are lovely nd loveable.—[Bishop Wilberforce. Friday— Faithfulness in the humblest part Is better at least than proud success ; And patience and love in achastened heart Are pearls more pr ecious than happines And in that morning when we shall wake To the springtime freshness of youth agai All troubles will seem but a flying flake, And life-long sorrow a breath on the pan —[J. W. Trowbridge. Saturday—Think as little as possibl bout any good in yourself ; turn your eye esclutely from any view of your acquain ances, your influence, your plans, your su ess, your following—above all, speak as li e as possible about yourself. The inordi atene s of our self-love makes speech abou urselves like the putting of a lighted tort o the dry wood which has been laid out i rder for burning. Nothing but duty shoul pen our lips upon this dangerous theme xcept it be in humble confession of our sin Jness before God.—[Anon. t 0 a a r t c tl n 0 t 0 0 e fu s; n. e. e a c- t - t h d b th ze so ea to au th C. be w P to pr ni iz ca mi Pu in th c do lon nO ph wit pra gr u ed, tele wir at t ver con spm bot mos for us T Cla pan pho uns gra hinas pho finit ther the So 1 be ea limi stan in the whic The "Phonophore Telegraph .° To be told that a telegraph wire which is usily transmitting a long message can a e same time be made to convey half ado n other messages in opposite direction unds like a fairy tale ; but that the thin n be done, and is daily being done, is at sted upon the most respectable scientifi thority. The discovery which . render ese astonishing resultspossible is due toMr Langdon -Davies, who has for some year engaged in rendering it practical, orkable, and in adapting it alike to tele honic and telegraphic use. It is difficul convey to the lay mind an accurate com ehension of a process so exceedingly tech - cal ; but it may briefly be said - that Mr. angdon-Davies in the " Phonophore " util- es, not the electric current, but the noises used by induction. The signals are trans- tted by a series of induced electric im- ises, and the success of the system is found the ability of the inductive force to pass rough insulations which electric current an not penetrate. A wire may be blown wn and m contact with the earth, yet, so g as it is not broken, it will carry a pho- phoric message. By - means of the onophore messages can be transmitted h extraordinary rapidity, and there is etically no limit to the number of tele- msathat may be sent simultaneously on the same. wire. And, as we have hint - Mr. Langdon -Davies' system is as useful phonically as it is telegraphically. A e which is oonveying electric signals can he same time be used for telephonic con- sation without either the message or the versation suffering in the least. For e considerable time past experiments in h directions have been proceeding, with t gratifying results, which are vouched by such high authorities as Prof. Sylvan- hompson, Conrad Cooke and Latimer rk. Three of the principal railway oom- ies have already adopted the phono- re; and it must be obvious even to the cientific mind, that phonophoric tele- phy and telephony, in so vastly increas- the electrician's power over the wires, before it a very great future. The nophore, indeed, increases almost to in- ty the number of words that can be emitted in a given time. It is obvious, efore, that it offers great possibilities in way of cheapening the cost of telegrams. ong as the number of words the; could rried by a wire in an hour was rigidly ted, it was hopeless to look for any sub - tial reduction in the cost of telegraph - but the phonophore at once increases capacity and the speed of every wire to h it may be fitted. t 9 g c s s y t Albion W. Tonrgee is reported to have said at St. Paul, Minn., that " if there is not a marked change in the attitude of the coun- try toward the colored race we shall have within the next 10 years a massacre such as has not been paralleled since the French revolution." " Did you see -this tree that has been mentioned by the roadside ?" an advocate inquired once of a witness. " Yes, sir ; I saw it very plainly." "It was eonspicuons then?" The witness seemed puzzled by the new word. He repeated his former asser- tion. Sneered the lawyer, "What is the difference .between plain' and ' con- spicuous'?" But he was hoist with his own petard. The witness smoothly and inno- cently answered, "I can see yon plainly sir, amongst the other lawyers, though you are not a bit conerpicuoua." Along the Time. I wonder if some heaven-sent thought A new, sweled et light; thePerhaps send it it brought To help some other groping one Along the line. Throngb weary starless nights of pain We have passed ; but not in vain ; Some bitter lesson leaves its sweet, '.Twill help another to repeat - Along the line. The echoing cadence of a hymn. A picture's heauty, grand though <f . , The fragrance of.a winter flower— Let them renew their magic power AIong the line. How mar,y lips have never trilled The song with which your soul is filled ; Then boldly, gladly tell it out And make it one triumphant shout Along the Pane. A smile an answering smile will bring; A hand-clasp—'tis a little•thing A word of cheer, of love of praise; Yet only these some soul may raise Along the line, Pass it along- -the watchword—brother Hand clasping hand, touch one another I Send up the praise. the trustful prayer ; Send out your love for all to share Along the line. —[Helen F. Bowden. The Baby's Feet. " How shall -we shoe the baby!" is • q uestion which naturally arises as soon as he puts on stockings. The plan generally punned is to place on the baby's foot a stiff - soled little shoe, probably incorrect in shape, though of pretty material and finish. In such shoes he begins his straggle for a booting in life, which he finally gains, though not as soon as he would had his clinging little toes been left to aid him, un- hampered by the bondage of a shoe. A pretty and sensible fashion which has come up during the past few years is the use of the moccasin as a first shoe. These are made of chamois, felt or kid bound with bright ribbons or braid and ornamented with fancy stitches in any way that taste may suggest. They are best if made to lace well above the ankle, au they keep in place better than if cut low. This footeere warm and very pretty and does not sramp the toes or interfere with baby's first tants to crawl or walk. The only serious objec- tion to moccasins is the difficulty of keep- ing them on the feet of an active child after he begins to crawl, and this in time leads the mothers to discard them be favor of the shoe, faulty as it is. The sole of a baby's bare foot is not unlike a wedge in shape, the broad part being at the toes, while the shoe meant for his use is often either narrower at the toes than et the heel or else of about equal width.. The perfect shoe has net yet been evoia'ed for either infants or adults, notwithezanding advertisements to the contrary, cut thew are degrees eve:* of badnesr.- The ideal s:coe should coefoten as nearly as possible to the shape of he foot and be neither too ieose nor too tight. In particular it should be amply wide across the great - toe joint and allow the toes room to spread out instead of being pressed tightly together. - Mothers should see that the baby's shoe is correct in this respect and that it is also long enough to extend slightly beyond the toes in order to allow freedom oi motion and room for growth. Having secured these essential points she can probably do little toward attaining the perfese shoe until the shoemaker has re- formed his views regarding the shape of a baby's foot. The Average John. Conjugal quarrels are so constantly the theme of ridicule and the text of warnings to the unwedded that we lose sight of the plain truth that husbands and wives bicker no more than parents and children, brothers and sisters. In every community there are more blood relations who do not speak to one another than divorced couples. Wars and fighting come upon us not through matrimony so much as through the manifold infirmities of moral nature. Most women take to married life and home easily. John's liking for domesticity is usually an acquired taste, like that for olives and caviare, and to gain aptitude for the duties it involves requires patience. He needs filing down, and chinking, and round- ing off, and sandpapering before he fits de- corously into the chimney corner. A stock story of my girlish days was of a careless, happy-go-lucky housewife, who, upon the arrival of unexpected guests, told her maid "not to bother about changing the cloth but to ret plates and dishes so as to humo3 the spots." The masculine nature has spots to be humored. One of the spots is the manly duty of some Johns to discourage at first hearing any plan that originates with a wo- man. :Fives there are who have learned the knack of insinuating a scheme upon a husband's attention until the logical spouses find themselves proposing of their own free will the very designs born of their partners' brains. This is genius. For Power to Pray. We bring no glittering treasures, No gems from earth's deep mine; We come, with simple measures, To chant thy love divine, Children, thy favors sharing, Their voice of thanks would raise, Father, accept our offering. Our song of grateful praise. The dearestgift of heaven, Love's written word of truth, To us is early given, To guide our steps in youth. We hear the wondrous story, The tale of Calvary: We read of homeain glory, From sin and sorrow free. Redeemer, grant thy blessing, 0, teach us how to pray ! That each, Thy fear possessing, May tread life's onward way. Then where the pure are dwelling, We'll hope to meet again ; And sweeter numbers swelling, Forever praise thy nan-.e. —[Miss Phillips. In Paradise. According to a Mohammedan legend, tet' animals have been admitted to paradise -- the dog Kratim, the faithful follower of the seven sleef E h Baba 'e Dere n p esus ; m ass; Solomon's ant, Jonah's whale, the ram which was offered in sacrifice instead of Isaac, the camel of Saleb, originally created out of a rock ; the cuckoo Of Belkis, the ox of Moses, and Alborak, the horse which conveyed Mohammed to heaven and back again. To these some add the beast which. the Savior rod- on his entry to Jerusalem, and the fait,aful mule which bore the Queen of Sheba to Jerusalem. When Mary, Queen of Scots, was sent to the scaffold her little -dog un- noticed, followed her, and who- her cloak was laid aside the little annual crept beneath it, nor could ale induced- to move, and was finally taken away by force. The faithfulness of the littlecreature has secured it a kind of immortality, for no artist of the last scene in Mary's unfortunate lifer omits the lapdog, and this act of devotion prob- ably inspired a recent reviewer to ineluidis.-- it among the ten fortunnate animals admitted to the Mohammedan petefitts.