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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1892-03-02, Page 3!eon)Meals-Record 11.6Q a'xeer-41,20 to 44vance. ,+rend* Alfureit 2ptl, .)(ti8 ,v 41. ''NGiD� RIS I3ONQUR. elle? 8TQ>',iX QF Tina' ., R-AQlt 7: 1. Deem the wealth Amari. n ho currelydered to +tlso ;police ,imllaitGediately after the shooting, of •+10elle whom he found in his 4InTrealn bedroom at Cantles, Franco, v .,tastie'siimined by a<magistrate. Mr. .]ri'.tocea was calmed and gave an = (gimteitut of the incidents that led up Ojai killing of Aherne. His saki% though it dons not agree in tat details with the puliliehd ac - owes of the affair, confirms in a eireentee the drat telegraph reports c>aCttbie !shooting, In response to the ares ittrate'a questions,Mr. Deacon mat Iso•aatived at the Hotel Splon- WHOR`rLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. Astute entered the corridor he caw a Ligi t; shining through the space un - erste the door of his wife's room. rammer there was nothing in this lit'isef f to cause him , to suspect *Ata man was in his wife's com- pere!. it did for some unex- ble reason reawaken his stir Scions that his wife was un • Efiftfiettl to him. His suspicions re- gime/lag his wife's honour had been elrrasa>sed some months prior to this lily eke_ teond.uet•of his wife, but he Earl eta tangible proof that she was diiae, wrong. When he saw the r tlEin oder her door, however, his SUMMON BECAME A CERTAINTY; Biter determined to at once confirm Putin worst fears. He summoned the clerk of the• hotel and. he in cora• ne.evay broke open the door of the rs1snaa. He saw Aboitle hiding be- fehr dna arm chair and fired three times at him. Mr. Deacon added tehten;: t was not his intention to ,kill awl Mean but only to wound him. e_ Deacon asked that the snagis- e admit him to bail. Tho eregi+itvate promised to consider his aa&xlication. Fa the meantime Mr. Deacon will beers to retnain in prison. Mrs. 11.e'rrzotta was then examined. She >tobt +a story which confirmed that of husband's. Like a Dery»Arop. The dew -drop trembles on the lily's breast, ''Irreeh telleit trem the pkkloa, Whose bright rvfeetion Ites Upon surfs Qp,, by soft s►,_r3 eat'esa'd, Not long euotigh to knew 'ofItught impure, Itlingei!a.for a tvlat.I , Then, with a itappy^'.struir •' Exhales Itself again to settee secure. t babe lies nestling on its mother's breast, Bud from.eleteVis garden given ; Its beauty, s ill of #leaven, That but to view it near:is to be•hlest. Not long enough to dream of earthly sin, It lingers tor a while. • R'hon,;with a restful smile, Through Heaven's jutt open'd gate it enters in. A, sJRIEs OF ETCHINGS, FAITH. She had been almost happy all that after- noon. Even the tnoniory of that little sunny head—kissed hurriedly one night and then left forever—was less bitter than Mood. She had put a red rose in her brown hair and had smiled to ace that her prettiness was as vivid as ever—surely it would have power to hold him to her now that there waa and never would be any one else left to mingle respect witl1 love. And now there were tears in her brown eyes—but her face was resolute, Her bosom quivered hut tie gave no hint of weakness. He had burst into the room and had told her his mad tale of shame and dis- grace. They were worse than penniless, there were but a few more hours of freedom for him and the6 for her—what? He had begged her to plead for forgive- ness and leave him to whatever might come and she had replied with kisses and a shake of the head as alio clung to him. Then he had spoken of death as a release from it all. "Together?" she whispered. He seemed at first unable to speak, but looking fixedly at the clock he had answer- ed "yes." "Let it be so, then," she had said calmly and he bad gone to the closet for two glasses into which he poured something white from a phial. "Let the put my arm around yon, dear," she said and then she laid her head upon his shoulder as if prayiug. A long, long kiss and they raised the glasses. She drank first and hid her face in his neck. He poured his portion over his shoulder upon the back of his coat so it made no noise. It worked quickly. In her struggling she drew him down with her upon the floor. "0 God—how it hurts—darling." His face was thrust into her bosom so he could not see her eyes. And so she died. Then ho dragged himself to the door while his heart throbbed and his head whirled. But he could not delay. Ile base an ap- pointment upon which his immediate and unencumbered future depended. IG RATION FROM DAKOTA. 2AND STITiL- THEY COME. :"sass,—I aro sure your readers felewae dead with pleasure of the great tenneeesethire lags-'atteiri �" vita cis` son. J. Carling, Minister of .,_. ^'151, cree{+H�ry`x17:=�9.1�tY.�'ti2Y�.-P.r2Jl�,'fiti'nt8:« lienee the Dakotas to the Canadian Nora -west. Your readers will no as ;tot remember that during the Besot limn tiler near one thousand at.aa shipped from Aberdeen, South De6zata, bringing with them 120 e ens,cnx settlers' effects to the Cana. trout Northwest. The most of these name former Canadians, and having Ewell the past ten years in Sonth D'a.?sota, now find themselves ruined; era Mese farmers give as a cause of tike>ar failures poor crops, wheat four *ilea five bushis per acre all other P t cc mete in • proportion—high taxes, lIU railway rates, no timber, no rant, water scarce. I know several tcrosaers that have been obliged to rased water for years two to four maks& Those difficulties make it uaci9sssible to make a living (such as K_ruratdiana make) in South Dakota. /CA;nddition to the large number of ea:migtrants that left South Dakota tat past summer, 100 farmers' dale - geese (appointed at public meetings wed for that purpose), for the pur- , ee of ,examining the agricultural wises of. the Canadian North• a :IA and report to their neighbors eve their return to Dakota. Notably ner(*ativig those delegates was B. C. Tcal'heat, Esq., of Bath, South Dakota, 01smof the Lfon. lir. Talbot, a for- mer resident of the city of London, vas at one time connected with erste of London's first newspapers, rill formerly a prominent citizen of tate • London District. I have Mr. TJ 'afifeet's report at hand as I write, Eat which he warns Canadians against mein to South Dakota, and he for - rase tells his neighbors in South Dakota that he is going to the Can- :r+8,crsa Northwest to snake his home, tern strongly advises them to do liaise. Among other things he teens his neighbors that steers Nell for fever Cents on the (roof in our North- ;, while he can only get two cents lint Sonth ll.ikota. In short he says 'nSte found that farmers make three txwi:cs as good a living in the Cana. clfraaa Northwest as they do in South Dakota, with one hrelf the labor." `''£'die is an all.irnportent work for Canada, and let us hope that the gptel work will go on under the wine direction of the Hon. Minister co Agriculture, assisted by hie ever - c general immigration agent, G. Its Claanpbell, ENq. Y011114 truly?{�+ W. R. Vr EI3STER. Landon, Feb. 24th, 1892. AN OLD FOGY. The new minister had come to take his place—come with his bright new vestments, superior air, and new ideas. For years had the dear old man minister- ed to the spiritual wants of his congregation —married half the people in the village, christened their babies, and dried the tears of many of the bereaved or oppressed. No one called on him- for help in vain. His home was a shelter for all in_tleed ; and lift' recognized no distinction of color or tongue. He had superintended the building of the dittlee-beie-k-eheirele,--ant—a eferemee eeele went up with each brick that was laid; and no grand cathedral altar was ever consecrat- ed with more religious fervor than the little wooden table at which he knelt for years, to intercede for "those who confess their' faults," and "those who are penitent." How proud he was, on Sabbath mornings, to toll the modest little bell in the belfry, calling his flock to worship—for he volun- tarily assumed the office of sexton, as well as minister, until the little edifice should be free from debt. Times have changed. All this was years ago. To -day he sits pondering on the past, and a silent tear courses down his cheek. He has just returned from an interview with his young English successor—with the full conviction upon him, of his own awful and grievous fault. He is en old fogy.. He had scarcely a noticed the grow- ing coofnese or'lrts old partahmners toward" him ; he had so little time to think of him- self. On Sundays, however, so many of his congregation had headaches, or the weather was too cold, or too warm. Dear, simple old man 1 He could not un- derstand those flimsy excuses. But the first interview with the newly arrived min- ister opened his eyes to the truth—his poo- ple were tired of him. He had outlived his usefulness to his congregation. They want- ed change—sane one to embellish the "old, old story" as he never thought of doing. He must go. He would preach his farewell sermon, invoke the divine blessing on the people who had been so ileac to him, and give them into the keeping of the younger shepherd they had chosen. Then forth he would go, into the highways where many a barn or even green tiieid would be to him "his holy temple." TI -IE BABY'S FUNERAL. The father of the de -Cd habv, it tall Ala• barna nu -re itaime-ea took up the mile little coffin, avl,i::li haul Vain all night between two hoineen a,le choirs, ;eel eemit out through the dooracny of the eIshin, atn,i'a lonely home on the,1000t iaia si,ie was made .lone- lier still. Below the cabin of the moun- taineer - taineer a little creek 1 i.•kled its way among the moss -savored rocks, and seemed to carry into the valley the intellig.•i ce of the death of the child. It Hurst have told the stc:ay, tat tiny rate a dozen 1 eighbers, men and women. gathered in the sural! room i11 151 011 the lit 110 oolliu had lain, be- fore the sun had reached the mountain lop and scattered the mist in the valley. \Chile the dead child lav there, the mother had knelt by the coffin. and seemingly prayed. The father would piecrvo the tradition of the stolidity of the own of the reginti and endeavored to appear indifferent ; stud in a voice tl, .t told of ^a7 withheld, he en- de:.vorc.l to slae:alc of trivial matters to the group of men that .stood outside the cabin door. The women sat about tete col - fin and gossiped in rumbling tones concerning other funerals that they had seen. The mother was a poor little hniy, with that far-aaaylook in her eyes, the long nese and pathetic droop of the m•n te, netieeabie in all the mountaineers of the Month. :\s she knelt by the little the rays of the early morning stn came stealing through the single window and seem 1 . e f,:r m a halo of glory about lee gee. l.,,:1. No of l..inel pincher was i❑ n• taa 1 an . , Int a..t'•r the f atat„r had car- ried the Intl: , •,:,:;i ;n his mins to the grave upon t1.• m • :', .,n /1”. 1• ' .:u,l his wife pale -1, and a :,:: 1 i; w ,s Lneo- her,nn:, I. a sn4.,, a+c-1 by tears, dis- ronneeted, it still told of a faith in God and of a confiding trust in His g.oeilness. After it was over, there were a few moments of anent)°, undit¢,µrbed exempt by the aoIbing of the women ;Alma. with an iestinotivo. sense Of Chivalry, titob'fathera raised the gtrielcqu rnotlier mid took 'her back tothan, lonely, llorne,'. Tho others lingered behind.' . A feeling of maternal tenderness came over the women ; they plucked from the moun- tain side buttereups isud daisies, .sprays et ,sweet horieyauokle, and a few daffodils, dropped' theminto the o ;ew gra\ c land then the little coffin wee covered with the clayey earth. THE AMATEUR. It was the third act,. The situation was a particularly strong one, and remelted its climax where Maurice rushed upon the stage from an upper en- trauee'and teas shot item ap ambush.. At the rehearsals, Laura had flown in upon the scene at the report of the revolver, and bendfng over the prostrate form of her lover had cried: "My—darling,—they—Lave—killed you. It — shall—be —my—task—to —avenge— you." Maurice had reached a degree of dram- atic perfection in his groat fall, which was at once the envy and the admiration of the other members of the'cast. He had reduced the whole thing to a sys- tem. One: Rush frorn upper entrance to exact spot on stage. Two: Suddenly grasp re- gion of the heart, anticipating slightly the report of the revolver. Three: Lift body upon toes of left foot. Four: Throw -right hand into the air. Five: Turn on tots. Six: Fall en face. It was in the third act. Maurice made his usual rush from the up- per entrance, and his usual frantic grasp at the heart region. There was a faint "click" from the am- bush in the upper entrance on the other side, but no report of an exploded cart- ridge. Perspiration started out on Mau- rice s forehead. - "Click ! click !" Ah ! The hammer was being lifted. He would be shot after all. "Click 1" ' Fiends and Furies ! Again the revolver wouldn't go off. He had passed "One" and "Two" long, long ago. "Three" and "Four" had fol- lowed. Nothing left but to follow thein up with "Five" and "Six" and await de- velopments. The situation was embarrassing. But Laura was a woman for emergencies. She flew to her lover's side. A look of horror passed over her mobilo features. Thea lifting her soulful eyes to the blue muslin heavens she exclaimed : "My — darling — they — have— killed— you. Another— victim —of —those —ac- cursed--air—guns." ac- cursed—air--gums." And the excited audience wildly applaud- ing never knew that the revolver had stuck iu its lines. DESPAIR. Ten o'clock of a June night on northern Puget Sound, and the long, pale light that the sun left behind has nor. yetfaded entire- ly from sea and sky. In the east, above the mountains, where the firs stand with thin arms stretched on high, a faint glow— meaning that, by-and-by, the Moon will rise, white, mellow, vibrating, into the waiting night. A mile of black, reeking tide -lands ; and out, far out—ay, far as the eye can reach, the silver line of the sea where the little waves leap and. topple, one above the other. Last night there was a 4taor)ble struggle between the body of the land and the soul of the seta, and the sea arose in unconquerable passion and tried to beat down her fetters. Across these tide- lands she ttluiicieeed, trampling; and roacing like a million lions with wide-open jaws and lashing mantes; and she beat the cruel rocks with her breaking palms and crashed her breast on the pitiless cliffs. In vain. , In the gray dawn she crept back, panting, worn out, conquered; and to -night she lies motionless, her passion spent, too weak even to sob. The twilight fades into dusk, but still the faint glow reaches across ; and iii it, straight out to the silver edge of the waves, walks a woman with slow, dragging steps. Her arms hang at her sides ; her hair, loos- ened a little, falls over her shoulders; her eyes, wide and black, stare before her, see- ing nothing ; her shadow drifts like a black demon before her, and she follows it ; there is no passion in her face or in her move- ments—no emotion of any kind. Behind -her, -with-.noiseless -.footfallsr..pausing.:whatt•, she pauses, follows her dog. Never oneca do his anxious, affectionate eyes leave her ; and at the very last, when her feet pause at the silver line, ho comes quite close to her and lays his head against her hand—his one expression of love and sympathy. Then she turns, seeing him for the first time, with a keen shudder of rontelnbrance. Un- consciously she utters his name ; and at the sound of her own voice a desolate sob leaps from her breast that had been, a moment ago, empty of all feeling ; and burning tears come into her eyes, and she looks through them blindly, hack to the shore and the twinkling lights that she has left behind her—forever. . This is the Era of Healthy Girls. This is ,the era of the heavy -weight athletic young woman, who walks abroad with the swinging tread of a grenadier, shoulders erect, chest expanded and head held high, a young woman who can hold her own in a boxing -match, thinks nothing of a ten -mile walk, and is altogether a new type of American independence. She is the evolution of the modern college. Prof. I3ragdon, of Laassel Seminary, is authority for these facts : Since the opening of the -seminary, -in,- September .up to date forty-two young women have gained 1` pounces or over ; three 14 each ; two le one, 11),3; one, 20; one 22, and the record breaker has gained over 23 pounds in a lit tle over four months. The featherweight o. them all weighs 81 pounds, the hetviesl plump 167, and they lure the heeltbicst set of girls in all New England. So much for calisthenics, athletics, physiology and hy- giene in the curriculum of higher education, for Lassen specializes health and avoirdu• Sols even above Greek and Latin as impor- tant points of cnitut•e. It is to Lassen we mist look tocontrovert all lingering;tre•tn- dice of the debilitating effect of higher el- ncat.ion. Only Prof. Breeden must work carefolly, nr, as in the caseiof i.ady Jane,, there will be too much of them in the by- and-by. --Boston Post. Dress Drift.. Fronts for wearing with open jackets can be had of chiffon, simply gathered and at- tached to one of the high collars formed of a suc•ceasian of folds on the cress, and fall- ing from this is a deep plisse frill wide enough to cover the entire bust. These single frills or made, made in the new width, are super,. ding the bows and cravat elide of chi9- 11 wheal harm been «-urn ^n mocha Sometimes the plisse is veiled with Week lace. The pretty col lore formelal o1 bias folly of some train materials are made dis- tinct, and sold for wearing over tl:e erdi. tray dress collars. lliltynted I'hllosoplty. Toney borrowed is a fee, Veiled in kindly see:iting; Afoney, waetud is a friend Lost beyond redeeming, Ilotdrded It to 1ik,e o guest Won wltiz: anxious seektitig Giving nothing for his board Save the care of keeping. Spent in good, it leaves a op ,Twee its wort) t?ubind t; And Who thus hits. lost ithere Shall hereafter find it. THE STORY OF TITO, Tito was a brown little Peruvian Indian with coal black hair, beadlike eyes and teeth so clear and white that they looked like a double row of pearls between his ever -smiling lips. My, acquaiintance with Tito cailteesrlanut fn . this way ; 1'a 1887 1 began a small job'printing business in La- redo, Tex. It was not long before I formed the acquaintance of Senor Juan Schleicher, who, in addition to the manufacture ot rubber stamps, was also engaged in job printing. Our acquaintance soon ripened into a friendship, which resulted in a co- partnership, I moving my litt.e plant into the "Tienda del 'lien"—railroad store— which was store, stamp factory, printing office and residence of the Suleicher house, hold, consisting of father, mother, two daughters, Juan and two Peruvian Indian servants, the youngest of whom, Tito, is tete hero of any story. Maximilian 'Schleicher, the head of the family, was a sturdy old Prussian who, turning his back on the Fatherland away back in the '40s, made his way to Peru and amassed 11 comfortable fortune and attain- ed distinction as an officer iu the Peruvian army. When the war with Chili came on, Gen. Schleicher was so unfortunate as to be defeated in an important engagement and had to fly to escape the wrath of his au- periors. ^ Reaching our .hospitable shores with his family and a remnant of his for- tune he settled at Lasedo, and commenced to furnish his neighbors with groceries while Juan made rubber stamps and print- ed letter heads, The general was a scholarly man of varied literary attainments, possessed an exten- sive, well-chosen library, and was withal a delightful conversationalist. He would discuss iilosophy, religion, history, science and polite by the hour in three languages, while his b .fin little' Mexican customers would clamor in vain for five cent's worth of sugar and a dime's worth of coffee. His books and conversation had drawn around him a circle of congenial spirits, among others, Senor Cataront Garza, of present revolutionary fame. Garza was hand- some, courteous, learned and brilliant, esteemed by all in this little coterie ot culture. He, with a brother, had previonsly been engaged in the publica- tion of a Spanish newspaper, El Hori- zonte, popular on the Texan side of the Rio Grande, but execrated by the Mexican offi- cials of the State of Tamaulipas. Rumor had it that a prominent official of that com- monwealth, tiring of the paper's denuncia. tory utterances regarding his administra- tion, had hired assassins to summarily put a quietus on the Garzas. At nay rats, they were attacked in the office one night and Cutarino badly wounded, while his brother was killed, which resulted in the suspension of El Horizonte, Senor Garza lived alone near the "Ticnda del Tren," in an old rambling buildiug, which, with a high wall, surrounded a gloomy, neglected court. At the time I first became acquainted with hini be had set abort an, arrangement for reviving -El Horizonte, but had been warned by anony- mous. letters. that he did so at the peril of his' life, .. Disregarding these cone nilly. threats,be (.-ontinuetl his preparations and engaged me to assist him in some of the pr-el-iu laey -steps. - The -paper„ was to.. be_ partly in the:English language, and the im- pression became prevalent that I was to conduct that department, though I haat not definitely agreed to do so. Chancing to be in Nuevo Laredo, Mex., one evening about this time, I was accosted by a villainous• looking official wboln I bad seen lurking around the tienda several times, asking if I had engaged with Garza in resuscitating El Horizonte. On replying that I had made no definite arrangement to that effect, he ominously rejoined : "It will be well for yon to drop that man, He has long been a source of annoyance to our government, and it will be worse for him and his abettors if he renews his at- tacks," and looking significantly into my eyes he passed au. I reported the occur- rence to Garza, but a muttered curse be- tween his teeth was the only cep -anent. ''T ivo dti;c's`Iaferilie ofTrefal-ciai]ih' iii'tb"`tile' tienda to inquire' about some rubber stampa and remained some time. While he was present, Tito, the Indian_ boy, came in from the postothee, and on seeing. the stranger darted aside with a freightened look, threw the matt on a desk and scampersd into the- library, helibrary, whence from his refuge behind a bookcase he watched the evil -eyed officer until he departed. The boy then came to the door and followed the retreating forms with his bead-like eyes until it disap- peared in the gathering shadows of the evening. In answer to my inquiry, he spoke a few words rapidly initis mother tonguoand ran into the rear apartments of the house. His brother informed me that Tito had heard the official make some (lark threats against Senor Garza in a cantina that- morning. Next evening Garza and I were snaking out an order for printing material, in his library,a rear apartment of his house which opened out on the court. Darkness had fallen and,we had just lit the lamps, when someone began to knock for admission at the gate which gave ingress to the court through the wall. He went out and on asking who was there, the name of au: inti- mate was given in a subdued voice. As he placed his hand on the latch to open, a childish voice cried : - - "Do not open ! Do not open 1 They will kill you 1" Then we heard enraged cries in concert, a pistol shot rang out, followed by the screams of the child awl the noise of scam- pering feet.. Garza threw the gate open and emptied his revolver at the fleeing forms of three men as they vanished in the chapparal. On the ground lay poor Tito weltering in blood. Returning as usual from the post - office his sensitive suspicion was aroused by three men whom lee sate emerge frorn the brush and knock at (ia rza's back door. On approaching he saw they were Masked and carried arms, and he gave the alarm. See- ing they were baffled the would -bo assas- sins avenged themselves on the innocent betrayer of their murderous designs acid Bravo little Tito 1 He had all but lost his nava life in saving ours. Tenderly we c•o1a'eycd hint to the Hernia, and summoned a snrgenn at once. His wound, thnngh serious and painful, p?>ved less dangerous than we at first believed, and the faithful little fellow soon recovered. 1:1 I1•,,,izonte rever reappeared. For my pert 1 had enough with incendiary Mexican 11tera1 me, w h^1 her evolved en this or the other side of the ilio 1 r•ando. But danger cnn1.1 u t he'd 1amas's restless spirit dawn, and .II 1,,e wend I:unws of tice incipient revolution cleat now gravitates to his in Norther:: Mexico. To KM) BOYS ON THE FARM. Qne 'WJtose eniterest Uwe Been richt lip TeI1s HIS Iiletleodes, There are many kinds of traps;'the most vainable,. I tliiuk, is the steel trap for all kinds of game, The next is the hoz trap. There is a trep made of boards for catching muskrats, of which I give a sketch, leaving the top of the • box, to allow how the wire ends "are inserted. ;Slake a board box, leave open both both dud$, hang a wire gate so the muskrat can r(tise it to enter, then it abuts behind and rtiEliO he is your prisoner. In this way you can get three or fur rats Tsar WITH WIRE ENDS.at One time. It needs no bait. For rabbits and' partridges • u fence. is made of green boughs, with a gate through which they can pass from one side of the fence to the other. They like to wind around the crooks and bends in the fence. At the gate is fixed a snare of copper wire. As they walk through, the head slips through the snare and as they pull it slips out close to the neck, A pole that has been bent over for the purpose of hanging these inno- cent creatures is held down by a stielt that is fitted in a notch ; the pulling ot the imam causes it to slip from the notchy and the pole hies up and hangs thaem, I put sweet apple through my snares, If the loop or snare is too big the rabbit will get al- most through before be is caught. It will not kill him and he will jump and• kick, and most always he will break the snare and get away. I had one break the snare and get away, then I caught him in another snare with the old snare on him. It ie a good thing for catching partridges, and eheaply made. A dead fall is the thing for a skunk, as it kills instantly, and pre. neapthe odor that is offensive to many folks. The most com- mon way of catching crows is to set a steel trap covered with earth or something A SNARE TRAP. else. The crow is a sharp bird and will mistrust something is.up if the trap is not carefully hid under the earth (not so deep as to prevent .it springing). Cover it with' corn or put an egg on the pan. I have• caught thein in less than hall an hour after setting the trap. 1 set a box trap for a rabbit, baited it with a sweet apple, went to it one winter day, and found the lid was. down. I looked in and there sat a black crow. 1 got him out and went to take bice home. He bit my hand with his beak, but that was his last feat. Last year I got up as soon as I could see, and started for my traps every morning while the trapping sensun lasted. Some mornings I would have two and three rabbits, others none. \Vhen caught in a box trap the rabbit can not gnaw out. As you take the rabbit out of the trap he jumps and tries to get away, at the same time uttering shr'illi cries lilte those of a crow. The rabbit never bites but scratches. I know a boy - that let one loose be- cause it ' scratched him. The way that I kill them is by rap- ping their heads against a tree. Pon' A nos eater. have to break their skulls to be stere that they are dead, as they will often play opos- sum. My cousin rapped one's head against a tree and laid:it `down. \\'Vile he was setting'his trap the rabbit got up and ran, away. I have had them yank away from •me. The first one that I ever caught ,jump- ed through the open space in the trap as I was trying to take him out. Skunks conte• out of their holes most generally after a. thaw. If caught in a steel trap they will; gnaw.off their legs if given time. Musk rats wil) perform the operation much quicker. Most generally the latter wild �utity etlisYs Ibgs.in gurgle rr ,irt: Wtllie- Judson's prize essay in Farm and Home. • Ma A Tough Customer. The entomologists of Cornell University have been trying conclusions with that wriggling and remorseless enemy of the farmer, the wire -worm. In order to make• sure that the wire-worin should have hair play, and that no mischief should• be laid at his door for which he was not :dearly accountable, seeds were sown in pots.cov- ered with glass cylinders to which the• worms were afterward introduced and al- lowed to go their own gate without inter- ference. A firet trial was made by coating the seeds with a paste made of Paris green and flour. This was found to retard the germination of the seed; but the worms ate it with relish, and it appeared' to agree oat• thein•.�� Tar was then tried asqa`♦ coating for the sect; with -u-Til=e result; t'he worms thrived upon, it. The experimenters then soaked one parcel of seed in salt brine, and another in a solution of chloride of Tinto and copperas for 20 hours, and still other parcels for 14 hours, one in kerosene, one in spirits of turpentine and one.in a strong so- lution of strychnine. All these, in the order of their preparation, the voracious worms ate, digested, and kept their health and appetite. Not altogether disheartened,. the ento- mologists filled a pot with earth baked so as to destroy any life-sustaining germs, and into this they introduced a few worms in October, 1890. In August. 1891, the pot was examined; the worms were there, lively, hungry, and. ready fur any further business before the meeting. There exists -;.etion in the rliral mind that the wire - worm will not live where buckwheat, mus- tard, or rape is growing. But the Cornell wire -worms ate the buckwheat and rape, and lived for two years on it steady diet of mustard. Crude petroleum and kerosene, applied in sufficient quantity to kill vegeta- tion, only acted as a discouragement to the worms. They refused to eat poisoned dough. There are subltances, however, which sv�l kill the wire -worm. Bisulphate of i carbon, 1,000 pounds to the acre, will do it e3'ectually; hat it would break up the Van- derbilts to pay for the bisulphate. Salt, eight tons to the acre, and gas -lime, twenty to forty tons to the acre, kill the worms—and everything else. Lime, muri- ate of potash, kainit, ie large or small quan- tities, were of little or no avail—the obdu- rate worms would persist. It is now considered settled at Cornell that prevention, in the case of the wire - worm, is snrer than cure. The snapping bug or beetle, from which the wire -worm derives its existence, may, so to speak, be caught on the fly. Stirring the soil daring the last ten days to July, when the worm takes on the leg form, is a fatal proceeding. Plowing about six inches deep in the fall is also uecommended. Ilut the wire -worm is spoken of at Cornell with cautions reserve, and the question of his extermination re- mains an open one. Plowing in Snow. It is a common belief among farmers, of some communities that to plow the ground when it in covered with snow is beneficial, the snow serving as manure to a cii%iin extent. This belief has probably arisen from the fact that the falling snow brings Clown some of the gaseous matter in the air, but the real henelit arises from loosen- ing the soil and permitting the air, frost and warmth of the son to render portions 'ho insoluble matter of the soil availa- 1e. A 1REACIIER UNDER A ILQUD, sinuous 4,114.11ORS ,4Oetl$S2' A DIME. - In the Tamworth, England, police court, Rey 1.1r, Goodall, a local preacher, was arraigned on the obarge of attempting to aseaols litre, Siddala, who svae fellow -passenger - of the reverend gentleman in a rail- way carriage on the evening on Jon. 11 last. As the train approached Tamworth the lady was seen cling- ing to a railing of a coach, while maintaining a precarioue footing on the footboard. She was much ex- oi id, and before the train stopped she tell or jumped from the foot- board. She was much excited, and on striking the ground. sustained. serious injuries. She was uncon- scious whon picked up and could give no account of what had hap- pened, but Goodall, who was in the compartment from which the lady had enlarged, was held on suspic- ion of of having militated 'her and having caused her to jump from the train, It was not until Jan. 25 that Mrs. Siddalle recovered con- sciousness, and she then aoo9sed the minister of having attempted to take improper liberties with her on the timi,u.. She said that when he found: that he could not overpower her, he thrust her eu•t of tho ear, and in her excitement, though ebe had at first caught hold of the rail - she was tumble to retain her grasp and fell to the ground Goodall claims that the wotnau mis- construed a polite effort on his part to enter into conversation with her for the ptirpoae of passing the time„ and that being apparently an ex- tremely nervous person she became excited and attempted to leave the car. Ike oleo says that her declam- ation that ho attempted to assault her should not be given such weight as her physician adasite that she was not in, asound mental condition After the accident. Notwithstand- ing this plea in his own defense, the min.ieter has not succeeded ire altering the general opinion that he is guilty, and the common expects- tion is Olathe will be convicted and punished severely for the atrocious offense which Mrs- Siddalla charges against him.. • NICKED -U I'. The average maroyiug age of a. Frenchman is 30 years. To every 1,000• males in London there are 1,123 females. The value of property in London - has trebled since lain. The world's press is stated to include 37,000 newapapers. In California strawberries are now ripe and in plentiful supply. `The Italitrn'-G,otrerninent- raises" $15,000,000 yearly by holding eiotteries. The total income of the Church of England in about $1,000,000 a week, Gladstone hate shrunk over two inches in stature since he was in middle life. Ths population of the United States increases by 1,000,000 per- sons yearly. All petitions to the British House of Commons must be in handwrit- tisg and may not be printed. In ,proportion to its size, Eng- land has alight times as many miie9...9f mamas_ as the Unitett States. In proportion to population, ex - exactly three times as much spirits are drunk in Scotland as in England. A London money lender recent- ly ecently sued for eepayment of a loan on, which he received 600 per cant.. interest, The number of passengers carried: on Egyptian railways in the year 1890 was 4,696,286, OR against 4,- 378,463 in 1889 being an increase, of 317,833. The number of milea.- af line open in 1890 was 970, as. compared with 94$ in 1889. • NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SW, CESS. Burdock Blood Bitters is a househoTtt romedy for dyspepsia, it expels rheum- atism and neuralgia from the system, acts as an antibilious agent on the stomach, liver and bowels,. antagenizea blood poison, builds up and revitalizes the bodily functions and materna anti_ purifies the entire system. —At Emerson, Mich., the other day some drunken charcoal burners threw Lucy Webb, keeper of an notorious resort, into a smouldering kiln and kept her in there five hours. The woman was cooked to a crisp. A TRAVELER REJOICING Summereide, P. 1';. L. Oot. 10, 1SSS, "Having used St J..cobs oil for a 1 dly sprained knee, I can testify to its p •en- liarly curative prepertles, as less • tart one battle completely cured the epr GEGnE GREGO, Traveler for J. C. Ayer & Co. - --Henry Ililltert, of Berlin, Ont., look a fit of coughing at Br slaw yeeterdoy, hemorrhage of the longs followed end he died in 10 minutes. Shakeapeere w.l please recite.. es if we notify him thus : Thrice is he 'lad who hath his system strengthene•1 sitlr, Ayer's Sareparilla, and he but nee ed, though errsyed in furs, whose bee 1 is poor or with disc. currnpted, A , in- comparable medicine !