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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1892-12-28, Page 5IOW r Rt. tri nit tat,t 106 Narie he* ' k140 OR101411q:attAIL, , Matittrop rtititp mow 'manuring woes the Ayr noh. elemento are Oeeded for P that le deficient, IA :the eoil. Ordin. Merageseil all that, Will he 40900 tOrbieb nitiorn; poteelt and brig is often, the cage it- will bo-ptel Of epe Or two of 'Ile in 44400.01 meY Pe needed in Peoure .the beat reintits, ally. applying static 'Thannre. wo all 4t the elemente -needec4 The ob- to netng .0)ush etoble manurein the , the, .teAdency to. produce : too 0)1000'0 wood,- thia is rather mere :*ith, a young °WIWI than after it genie well established. And for tbie 40 le often thecae° Oat in what Play OW a , rich sell, strong (0411'0,040n proves igitioSt as de - tat ae . 1)0)3461%4 atid,.. especially Ho 0 Contains a 'considerable per cent. Of n. phorio acid and potash are generally ceded than nitrogeo. It is largely reaeop that wood ashes and ground bode nieal cap be applied with Meek ea of fruits to a better advantage than table,manitrf3s. If there.10 any differ- • be made in applying the different et fertilizers to different varkitjerief frut 4, apply ground lime to the peach, 4<tirrr and pear trim* and the wood ashes bilite'fapple, as phosphoric acid ie most 410044 by the first pained, and potash by ,tittlatter,llut either will be beneficial to a more. or lees extent by the application of the other. ,ili,apea-and in fact all rarietiea ot small :10,00ari.benefited by an application of hoeo. IflCftI. In alt csseil it is necessary to apply '41.401Ortiliset in a form that it can be read - Hy into the soil. One of the ad- . •,:Onitiiges in tieing either ashes or bone meal „Ili' that they aro mere readily soluble, and itt'eSeeequenee are sooner available than the•, 'Ittetage stable manure. So tar as is possible ••Lee;Wood, ashes should be applied to fruits both vino and tree, and if the soil ie no; naturally rich, stable manure may be used, llee'Wheo there is a free stipply of nitrogen :.14;the soil the moat economical plan of sup - Plying the other • two ingredients or haentials is by using bone .meal and wood !,2140a, using the stable manure with o er , Using Fertilizers. , The basis of all farm oparations is manure • Or fertilizera. There is no immunity from lite use of these : the farm must be replenish- tdr,1-fed, or utter sterility is reached sooner it later'depending rip= the original fertil- ity Of the soil. There should be yearly 'applied all the fertilizers that are at corn - eland. A soil once exhausted requires years Or careful treatment to bring it up to tnything like its original condition. In r!i.ct, no artificial applications and manage - „tient can put it into that perfect productive •ioddition it was when in its virgin perfection; ket.much can be done toward this end. •,fff land be worn out or thin, first spread infer it as liberally as the supply will allow, la the fall, barnyard manure; if the ground isnot too poor, oats may be sown and crop -taken off, but if very poor, sow rye and turn Wunder. Then may follow a crop of wheat, and with the grain sow about 200 pounds of good commercial fertiliztr. Then the land ay have a run of a few seasons- in clover. y illicit's, process land will rapidly improve, some compensation in the way of crops 0 increase the barnyard supply of ferti- r, all the•straw or forest leavea that can be,used, should be used, as bedding for :steak. This is the farmer's main depend- ence, and snob givamore enduring food to the land. Commercial fertilizers work amazing results on thin land, in the way of making crops, but they do but little in the way of bringing up the la,nd itself, Too ' many farmers, we think, depend on com- • mercial fertilizers, to do both these offices, •!tnd buy and supply them to their lande in- ' stead of using homemade manures. 'We --use both, and have notod results where used by others, and must say that we do not be- lieve that, - where the land is rich in avail- able plain food, any beneficial resulteare de- • rived from the use of the commercial fertili- •.sers. 'Their greatest benefit to the firmer is to push, or rather make the crop where shah ls sown to keep up, or bring up exhausted 'land. A field too poor to yield a clover • crop, may be made to do so by the use of commercial fertilizer sown with the, seed, Where 'Often it would be impracticable to usebarnyard manure. Ashes are very good in this respect on accout t of the potash they contain. -Lime also, is valuable, in releasing and making available plant, food that other- wise would remain unavailable in the soil; hut these elements may be there, else little er nothing. is gained. Commercial fertili- zers contain the elements required, and hence, will giye thfa start to other crops inaturna furnish plant_food to , the land: among which clover, peas, beans and rye stand highest on the list. Theaci fertilizers are rather costly for broadcasting; broadcast all the available barnyard manure, then drill in, or put in hill, the fertilizers. • Their action is quicker than manures, and • gives the young plants an early and vigorous start, and, of course, adds much to the in- crease of the crop. • Ceneral Notes. • Graikes And other farmers' organizations 1 ought to rat* hand in hand with the ex - f ' perniient stations. Apple trees do not produce as nicely colored fruit on plowed land as those grow- ing lin grass land. A • reprententative of one of the largest berry-boit ' manufacturing establishments ;aye that they ratite 17 different sizes of euarta, of which only two will hold muart. One of these. days, notwithstanding the *position of the dranks and false humani- tarians, it cow wearing a horn will be look - ba upon as a curiosity and her owner as an- ther. t eif Ooneeit, egotism; Obstinacy, -amount ply to the building of a Chinese wall tib ourselves to shut out al1. that the •Of the World knows. It is a great mitt- i. take, yet one that is frequehtly made. ' The present system of institute instrue at parried on in most of the agricul- 3; tura' atates,alis it powerful instrumentality for the diaseinination of farming knowledge. Itti effects are plaiely traceable wherever introdticed. I halte attended very many of these fairs, ,And very rarely hate I been able to discover A 'single pOi&..:: ;that justified their existence • 6.--pitannting such existence td have for its , abjetit the erhicatlen and elevation of the farina. , • The law V !nippy and demand largely Ileterritines the price of commodities, but . the costof prediiction determines theirprof- itablenam ; siad all reasonable care ahould be to redtide tin coat uf production be- •' IOW tits .milring ptioe. . Thenortnit warle.make. moat is to keep down tho cost. There Shetild be n'et tion in procuring that Which is flooded; but waste ..houldnot be LIowed. The;Ottitt`ninY be loosened by doing all work at the proper 000 and by: the use ;of the hest implements. Tha standard for a Seed now 10 rapidly ears ago OP ponnd, can" they arefoundin herdsior 111 have tlie ;standard -41x to en. POO WV Peutid:frientle aln ao•ther. 50:',..PO4•40 10 - Or place! itt. the Pr00.0118194. 0 rdeOhia to tbo. tiesiredood • are now to bo had veil' rising. 4 few woo goaroo, no 20.' 00oh we og)peundir.an will.. probably order to keep t Goad bade aro 001004 bulls cheap. ' 4 OHRIOTNA8 ow:40It r. „ . was a reviler old time Christmae Eve outside the 'mow woe falling softly and si, letttly, covering the bleak, bare earth .with garment Of stainless white and the Molter. ing gas lamps shone on many a merry fags and Well filled basket as the ceaseless stream .of htntianity 40404 along. down the busy etreet. It wat very cold too, at least so Toby thought itild Toby Was always -von: aidered a tip-top judge of the weather. " Yea," Paid lie, drawing his thin coat closer about his throat and sticking his hands far down in his bottomless pockets. "It is rather frosty and that's a fact, but livhen a inan..has Christinaa presents to buy why lie doesn't feel itlike-'eept on thecor- hers. of courae." Now to look at Toby you wouldn't . think him much of a man for he just.rettched to the place where the door -knob ought to be at Aunt Marine, but then he had O whole shilling with, which to buy seine - thing niee ea Toby felt five feet high at least. "You see," he said to himself, "when a man has worked hard -and the next day is Christmas it's only fair and proper that he should buy a .present, but whether itshould be some coffee and a roll or a mince pie it's tertible hard to say -if I only had Dot now "-and Toby's bright eyes grew dim as he thought of his little sister who had died only two short monthe atter his dear mam- ma had left her in his clue and gone away to that beautiful country where there is no bold -nor hunger nor weariness. When the last good-byes had been said, Toby's undo _had taken them home te live with hint, but their clothing and insufficient food soon told upon the delicate children and before long Dot followed her dear mamma to what Toby called "The happycity," Since the loss of his golden -haired sistdr his purpose in life seemed to have desetted him -what did it matter whether he worked hard or not, there was no Dot to buy some delay rolls for any more, and for himself Toby didn't much care for it seemed that he was just as hungry after he had eaten it as before and anyway Aunt Maria, was ao cross. Was it any wonder that the air seemed colder an 1 the snow more chilling as, with the precious shilling in his hand he stood under the nearest street lamp and said what so many before him have Bald ,in dii- ferent words, 'Now I've got it and 'taint no use no how." Suddenly as he hesitated a bright light shone across the street, they were lighting the gas in a score over the way. In the window right opposite Toby, was displayed a wonderful painting, the like • of which he had never seen. The central figure of the picture was that of a shepherd standing fat up on a perilous cliff with a tiny lamb•in his arms. The ath was rough and narrow and had the lamb been alone it would certainly have slipped and fallen but the "Good Shepherd." was holding it so tenderly and lovingly that it was quite safe. • But the face -Toby could not take his eyes off it, it ivas so beautiful. " said he, with a littlecatch_ia his. breath "that must be the "Good Shepherd" who Fill come some day, as mother said, to take me home to her and Dot. Perhaps if I had that picture he would see how much I loved him and come sooner -poor Dot must be tired waiting for me." Crossing the street he looked again at the wonderful painting and noticed a tiny copy lying by its side marked on a large ticket, Is. Pie and coffee were forgotten in a second and, in less time than it takes to write it, Toby was marching home with the precious pic- ture clasped to his heart. "You bad ungrateful boy," screamed Aunt Maria as he entered, "after all me and Hiram's donoforyou and your useless siater, to be gadding' off like that with never a 'by your leave' and me a slaving." But Toby hall disappeared up the rickety stairs to the little attic where he slept alone. When they had all gone to 'bed and the winter moon peered through the drifting clouds down through the many cracks in the attic roof lie took out bis picture again and looked long and lovingly at the face of the "Good Shepherd," then kneeling down he said the little prayer which Dot had taught him about "Jesus, tender Shepherd hear me," adding at the last, "Please cbme soon or Dot will be tired waiting and don't forget the picture." Toby fell asleep. That night the weather changed and grew colder, so much so that it was long remembered as the -coldest night for years, but for once Toby did•not feel it. .1!iilay,"' called Aunt Maria,,next morn- ing, "Toby, drat the boy he's always be- hind when he's wanted -Toby I say ; ' still no reap nse, and grumbling all the way Aunt Maria went up stairs. On the 4ittle sack of straw, the ,thin quilt half covered with drifaing-eno w, a happy smile on his face and the picture clasped to his lips, lay Toby -quite dead. -"Poor %hilt'," you say -Alt no, on that lovely Christmas morning Toby had gone far away with the Good Shepherd unto the "hapaler laity" tvhere mother and Dot were waiting. - BELLE Macre-MP:SON. Canada and Pienro.ritenturonta." A cablegram from London states that - "Mr. Gardner, chairman of the Board of Agriculture, has given a pledge en behalf of the Imperial government that the restriction redently imposed upon Canadian cattle im- ported into qreat Britain and Ireland- will be removed as soon as Canada has proved beyond a doubt that the Dominion is free from pleuro -pneumonia. The high commis- sioner has uomniunioated with the Dominion authorities to have the necessary inspection made and the proof of the country's immum ity from the disease forwarded to London. Meanwhile, those interested in the Canadian cattle teado, particularly in Scotland, are keeping up the agitation to have the sche- dule against Canadian cattle at once remov- ed. They maintain that no cases of pleuro- pneumonia were found to have existed in any imported Canadian cattle. The oppon- ents in England of the Canadian export trade are not, however, idle. The farming clubs are now meeting and are urging the Board of Agriculture to secure the passage of in act tequiring that all foreign stock be slaughtered at the port of landing, whether any contagiona disease ia reported to exist in the country from which they are exparted or not. The Scotoh Breeders' association, the Smithfield club and other leading agri- cultural bodies are sharing in this move, ment. . The Carleton Club, of London, le the richest in the world. It hae 4,000 members. . .-41tONT; AMI4YATMEN, , Teas/ug 'AWAYilie ruit ope.140,iimuu0 .irk,!, me* EAtyetetbelt owes ,stebhaire, , ', %%eve wee A ,Sleic't MOyriegngiend When • the highwayman atig the pirate were some. thing Of popular personages., anttwere punkt., ed litle0 0 Iattaittetn.in fiction from_ Whiott it WOW tiMe il it lo.disiell e;tbiim, pranatek' the 14 8entimcnt,„1 *do, of OMAnCe, fro*, .t.heir. ,beetlioltbrows„ pan o Revali, Vick 7e.itr.- Pi:ki.,41441.8icin;' and .01itteenitring . Onok: played'ittioo. in roMance Or 0 Vong:. tinint: arncl *bell .., the.' ff,yellow-InsOliAitti,raturo"; spraog4nto.popularity,a, 400re 41..ifeara"agR .to 'eerily ;the .„ hardy Indian . fighter, : tin" :knights of the toed , galloped- littok .intea Position of kominetnieto tire the, iffiagies. -titan of the -boys- who isitttl thenn att relay' daye andia: xieerqt, Only a NW year ago there was a tendency in eenaational eheets to glorify the jantea boys; but the practi- cal trend of tkose tuneit has been to eaow roistering dare,tleyilein.their-true light, the emulation of whose erlininal„liveil is toilaish ip the prioon or on tho scaffold. . • riitions AND ritetiBOO.TERSI. The pirates and' buccaneera, William Morgan and Capt. Dane, the ferocious individual known as Ble,okbeard, and the daring freebooter Captain Kidd,. -veere long ago carried off in chains and hanged . at the yardarm, ao that the pathlessdeep and the • tropical isles of the Spanish main have been freed of these eeourges, and the possibilities of their example being sueeesefully followed is indeed remote: Still, we confess the man on horseback hi an ambitious- and dangers ous •revival and Chicago entertains Mtn grudgingly. Undoubtedly the location of the World's Fair will bring into this 'city an undesirable let Of ".transients,” whose feces are preserved with mein the rogues' gallery ; but it is the ridiculous distortions of foot that give Chioagoa monopoly of this class. If it. /seems to increase the. police force, a weakness long ago patent, it will not be without value as a warning. That other cities have their share of •troublesin 'this line, a single citation from an exchange published in the quiet • and, goodly city of Philad,lphia will show: "There la nothing the thieves of this city regard as eacred. They steal everything they can lay their hands on, from a suit of clothes to a yawl. boat, and what is especially exasperating nobody can catch them aa it. Twice with- in a week the houses of policemen have been robbed, and if the thieves don't steal a policeman next is will be because they can't pawn or sell him. It looks as though the -people of this town may have to join in a petition to the thieves to leave at least the carpets on the floors and a change of clothes for teach, member of the household. The petition might contain a postscript to the effect that if the orooks would just steal the cobblestone pavements all would be forgiven." THE OLD-TIME "OUTLAW. To refer to history as it touches our car- toon, we must refer in guarded tams to the famous fictional favorite Robin Hood. Ile was a well-bred outlaw, the product of the peculiar addition of the times in,which he lived; at a later day he might have been regarded like Rob Roy, as a real reformer, wheete slogan cheered the oppressed, whose trutty sword was wended in a good cause. Robin Hood was no pot -house roisterer; the king's deer was his meat, and the king's men his mark. He was romantic and sod- abld in disposition, had a liking for stories and songs, and fresh air. When it came to a question of a "touch -down" with the Sheriff of Nottingham, relieving the tax - gather of the king of extorted pelf, or de- fending -some - hapless maiden from' being limed into undesirable wedlock, Robin Hood came to the front but he never wore mask. If he were among us to -day he would probably be the beau ideal of a center for the rush line in foat-ball, the Little John and Friar Tuck for stalwart "half -backs." The outlaw of mediaaval times, while his pranks were censurable, he has frequently been miselassed ; he is to be regarded, if history and legend picture him properly, as superior in all parts to those who warred against him. Men of the class of Thomas Dun occupy space in the Newgate Calendar for cause - murderers from choice, etiminals destitute of every humane and generousprinciple. A town was named after this despicable man of blood, but it. must have been done in an unguarded moment. THIEVES AND MURDERERS. A great many stories are told of Old Mob, who, after long years of daring depre- dation, paid the penalty with his life on the gallows at Tyburn. He had a rugged vein of philosophy without compassion in his com- position that sustained him even against the arguments of fair women. Once he stopped coath and demanded a lady's mmey. She replied •that she was a poor widow and hoped that he would have compassion on her. "And is the losing of your husband any argument why I should lose my booty? Your tears, madame, can't move me; for I remember the old proverb -the end of a husban-d is a ifiaw's tears, and the end of their tears another husband." Tom Cox, a, Blanford naan whb flourished in the thne of Charles II., was known as "a gentleman thief." One day he met Killgrew, the King's fool, and addressed him in the usual phrase, " Stand and de- liver !" " Aro- you in earnest, friend ?" " Yea, I certainly 'am ; for though you live by jesting I can't." Claude Duval, if accounts are to be relied upon, was the most aristocratic highway- aaa-aataacarse , t wr,14.214 0. old,Faland. He was elegantly caparisoned, dashing, raceful, and the polished style in which 1 e emended plethoric purses caught the fancy of many of the old-time novelists ; but he eventually attained his proper position on the scaffold, and wee along with a number of ignoble thieves Me crept down dark alleys while he patrolled the highroad. There is nothing in the lives of those leading lights in crime, attractive as gush- ing fiction may have portrayed them, to inspire anything but execration from civil- ze,tion. The ma Year and the New. The snow lay thick -and soft and warm, And the stars held tapers] bright; And the world of men for a space stood still, For tho old year had died last night. He heeaed not the passing bell, So over sad its dole; With the echo of its latest knell, - Sped the patient old. ear's soul. The brave old year was true to us, Though grief he brought and rue tb us; Old friends are dear, may new-born year Grow dear, as he grew clear to us. With gladsome shout and merry rout, Men hailed the glad young year, "The King ie dead Long live the King I" The merry young King is here' He gives us hope, the monaroh gay, His favors are showered free, o thants, kind friends, that our days are spared, This New Year's day to gee. There's asinine and a tear for the brave old year, And a weleotne for the new tons; And grace and goodnesa mark his reign, And truth as he IS ttue to 10. -Marlette Whitcomb. 9743 r 4,1 rt icolarkoble aad AoloOlog„tiamilonti. •r Ike *MT 000 er, Ib VelfgroPh. Itt • It max serve to show tilt,' undone iMpre.ST”, 819118made veil alraVe-rowed persons by thO'InapCNOPIOA:Or t 9.1100* And *irSS:of the 1)1oroe Telegraph, 11 tho editor 'Sivea 'f0W, lasmneeaof ocenee. be, 40, wi54011q4. during bto gaily days as ttikoperaton:. My !•Pest was the Old town 01 AniherstbuO itt :the nouth.vost earner of Ontarlot thou the. ,most; Weeterly °Sloe' in "Canada. . haufr,.. ing abOutAko, telegraph; :ofSoe alt odd 'hours .andl at , nighte,r,the Office being itt 0 robin' above tho oottittry Effete of my brother; in was clerk. -4. hail learned to receive, Ankoond inessageo after a faehion, Angus Poo, clieery„ bright.faced Operator .kindly coaching.me; Ono 'Ono day Angus had an oiler.ofa Ottuatiaa in Detroit AS pri- veto Swami* to the late" W. K. Noir , who wee then superintendent of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway. Naturally etteugh, he wiaa : eager to go, and at ones•propoaed that I should Cuseeed 'him, The ease was urgent, and, after consulting. Mr. OWight, the To - rent° euperintendent, and my, brother, Angusarranged to go, and .in'twe or three OOP left mo " With all any imperfections on my head," iii ()beige of the intereatii of the Montreal Telegraph Company in that corner of .Essex. I don't know whether I most swelled- with importance or (plaited with responaibility for the first week or two ; but there 1 was, with very imperfect knowledge of my business and no one but a SOMEWHAT InfrATIEls'T operator, twenty miles off, ,at the end o -i wire, to advise me. Thia. wee Frank Baker .-and 1 haye often thought I must have made his lite it; burden with my.telegraphic pot -hooka and iny "wanting to know, you know," all sorts of things about the battery, the ground -wire, the cheeks and forms of account. Amherstburg being a port of call for tug- boats; wood -scows, propellers and vessels, core fuel being cheap there -ranging from - $1 the cord, if soft, to $2.50 for the best hardwood -much of the telegraphiug done was by masters of these craft to Detroit and lake ports. Rough diamonds they were, many of them, full of quaint nautical (like- wise profane) forms of speech, and fond of bullying yoang chaps like me when eicpeat- ed replies' to their messages'. would •nat come. "Say, shake her up again, will you? "Heave her taut, sonny, — ;" "Give the old machine another half turn ahead," and so on, when the weight which moved the lumbering mechanism of the paper register showed algae of reaehieg the floor. Many a night did I sit up to oblige vessel men; trying for instance, to procure a tug to pull their vessels off Bar Peint, and thinking myself well repaid in hearing their narratives of collisions, wrecks and fires - narratives sometimes in a patois resembling that of the now celebrated Ballad of the Lac St. Pierre, in which, as related: Hit was dark night hon Lao St Pierre De win' she plow, plow,.plow, De crew of de wood -scow Laplante" Got scare.- an' ron below. For de win' she's blow lance hurricane- Byan by she's blow some more, Dat scow's bus' up on bac St, Pierre, Tree beeves from de shore! My charge extended some miles up the Detroit River'and included the care of a cable across the Rivere aux Canards. Being part proprietor OF A SAIL -BOAT, it was a grand outing to sail with my chum, Gus Kevin, tip the noble strait, of • the De- treit, and into the mouth of 'its tributary, the Canard, on a repairing expedition, rather than ride by land in a prosaic buggy,. On one of these repairing expeditions, while going through Petite (kite, in Essex, one evening, with a repairer, -we saw, where the long vista of ‘,! snake" feace ended in- distinctly in the marshes of che Riviera aux Canards, a peasant woman at -her Dent door, sedulously gazing at the wiree some, dozen yards away. Addressing the woman, my companion asked why she looked so 'bang at the wires. To this madame replied :- " Dere s long taime ah'll took dose ting, me-sometaimeinerneen'i semetaime he'ev'- nue, but ah'll never see someting go pass on 'eon. How ees dot t" • She was told, jokingly, that the mes- sages went too feat to be seen. " Mantra!" was her eminent. " tir'en I look, look, long time, by'm- bye he's mek sometaim curieuse nettle la,k sing" -alluding to the vibrating hum of the wires -"den all spose he's hurry, hurry, triore fas' as ever; but all de taim I can't see someting any more. . doa' honderstan', me." Desiring, in •my juvenile wisdom (lately acquired), to enlighten her, I offered an ex- planation that the signals; went through the wire, and that of course paper messages could not go over it. Her Open-eyed "Diantre ! que cette ligne est creux" (hollow) -showed that this was a greater wonder than ever, and that she was no nearer the truth than before. With accustomed polite- ness_she thanked us she would tell Jacques, when he came home, this wonderful thing. A few years later the wires were extend- ed through Colchester to Kingville and Leamington, on Lake Erie shore, and the buildera of the line were watched with curiosity, not always unmixed with dread. " Honey, is ye gwine ter string that ther line up clean all the way to Potleg asked an old colored man who had a modest farm in Malden township, wherehe raised melons and maize first, oats and potatoes after- wards. "Yes, uncle," was the reply, "clear down to the lake shore." " Ook'n, ook'n" -and he made that curious guttural sound by whichsou them darkies express sur- prise -"look a ya.nderl I done reckon now, Mastah Jeemea, you kin run that thah thing all the way to the Court House?" He was assured that this was likely. " Hannah -0 Hannah!" the old man called to his tvife and out of the house she cirme with her sun bonnet on. "Why, chile," he said, " heah's Mastah Jeames say this hash telegraft wiah's gwine fer tea 'atend elah to Sand- wich." The wonian, not so impressionable, replied, crustily "Reckon hit mout run clar ter Kaintuek for all the good hits gwine ter do us, Zekal ;" and she curtsied to our party while she demanded to know why her husband had called har out. "Why, bless ru soul, Hannah, you haint neveh been to Maneipation celebration yit ; and Pahson tell me if dey run this yer masheen to Sand- wich we no need foh to go; we kin sit right heah ondanes.th that thah wire, an' heahken to the' folks up yandah a-hoopin' an' a-holl. erin' an' a-spoutin' onde fust o' Augus'." This story of the colored parson must have been a cram, for in those days the tele- phone was not anticipated -at least not by persons of HIS LIMITED INTELLMENOIL But old aunty " did& want no truck with that thah fool thing. Down on the Cumber- land river I done heithd 'bout it. Hit 'thieted lightnin' and killed the erittaha. Yes, sah, somebody gwine git thd top he's held frizzled off, setting 'long side than thah posts: Tain't my kind f no indeedy." And She told 2eical he could do his barn _ hearkerilly, stodox witit ' if be Iilrod. , Not long before those juift narrated hag; meat the:following inoid oat,. which may given sulattentiallY as it wee written to a by the boo William Ifedloy. Its acsim was the telegraph efeee . at Amherst, burg!, VOA in.telterge of Angue rt.nca ringer brother of For, of .rietroit); ,$,Q110 .day two young rrenchmen came Dito. tthh; Oinf0460e4.0,400grenigegaere,t. olihaecv t1,04neebbui Mg Mealier in,Boienr; winch lie ".proposecl to load lor. 9Uebee in,the .Icingston-binit Woo or lbarques of .thoeft, flays, bltift.bowed ves. eels With port4010g in the eterA to enable long, 401014Ft' of equored oak.r..0 he sot into the hold, And invariablyearrying a- pair of horaeo in their bows to taeilitats tho load - big. The Quebeo man sent a 1110$8tkge. to the Anotent Capital inotructing the remittance of: a aura of moorly to bio companion. Angus took the message frOin , the heeds Of the Ninbarinan epud dispatehod it at once, tho younger inan'of the pair .watehing the oper atioia of the brass instrument with wonder. Then the Quebecker proposed that they shouldgo, to with* the Other, speaking in Freuch, teal:monde '.With something a.ben_t atteudiiz,' nod the expression of a belief that guelcpie chew vient d' arriver' in a feiv minutekand that, too, 'par cette 51 de telegraph.' When the Quebec mati contra - dieted his companion, the latter persisted, declaring that cslo Monferton ma dib vela.' What it was that Joe' Monforton had iold his credulous chum, Angus could not well make out, but presently the one who, sent the message turned to the operator and asked: no you know what that man says?' Fox replied: NQ, not exactly, but it is something about ' Yes he wants inc tii'wait here in the office tillthomoney arrives by telegraph *ire, which Joe Mon- forton told hun it would do.' After all, th French-Canadian of 1860 only anticipate what is now so common, the remittance of money by telegraph money order, though in a very different way from what he thought of." OLT fiDED Postsiniltable Coolness Simi Om 1414 ens Amigyor 0:444 001,, oynis the yerviesti , 011isti auperiaterieenr: ; man (MOIR mining superintendents itt this PYPintt of Treseett, who'Amis charge of, tlok Atektne0 siti"ft anti quartz lode. Troocott Is tMnoh. of Wirer,. and. among .tho boy' ; .01Weett:.shif to or when the workeare elosed , down for eepittro is oimply, a good 'sort „of, follow, WO When quoit, an entergeney'arifeA, aaypr,y.tha:olitleterasjed0440goot ohte grdetY:192.31,00:;. ejleft of the Kennedy mine to, 4,70 leen; Zulltwe10 tPhreaeitoiwcaelolyt. dariOtiteaurf.4drrryp,fric4tiolet. a mile down.in th 3 earth., TrBe:ceortYt';14hYabf9if tnr inntshp4eottttbe"tqiteireriSilkiloti the mine by going down in the "cage," whieh is merely a jplatierm• hung to a drum: at the fiteatk, of the Omit by a Wire MN The eage io at best a frail aifigr itt appear. anon, but ia really strong enough to carrya ton or more of -gold bearing auartz and doe!, so many times every day.- Lass week 'Jee. cott, at the lunch hour, decided to reek over the mine and jumped on to the cage and 'keeled to the engineer to "lower zkwatala"iY. :he"treafo!b foot ownthe darkThafpping4trl " mine sweat," and every little way Tres. mitt pulled the signal rope and stopped the elevator rig that he might oloaely eituraino the timbere that aesmed to be, totting er note particularly any tendency to swelling ot the walls of the shaft, which inight, if not at once stepped. by new timbering, result in a cave-in that would bury a hundred men. Trescott had gone down about 40h feet and found the iffiat in good condition, and after a atop had eignaled the engineer to . continue the decent when the Superintend. e ant felt himself held by the catching of his d "jumper" on a pro,jecting spike, and the cage dropped from him. There was noway in which to reach the signal rope from where Trescott hung on the side of the - shaft. 'I he lumbering cage rattled its way down and the noisereverberatedin theshaft. Trescott knew nothing of the strength of the apike winch had caught his canvas "jumper," and could not tell at what in - strait he would be compelled to follow the cage and reach the bottom a mass of flesh and broken bones. The frightful uncer- tainty as to how long he might hang was unendurable. Trescott decided that any death was pre- fetable to long suspension under the condi- tions, and decided to break away from his hold and attempt to grasp some of the 'errata - timbers on the opposite side of the shaft. He gathered his strength, and; by a super -- human effort, tore his " jumper" frum the splice and leaped with extended halide ready to grip anything that might stay the fall. He caqght the sill of the drift and held it with the energy of deppair. When he found his hold vras firm he worked his body up to the floor of the drift and was safe. Then he reached the signal rope, had the cage brought up, got aboard, went to the surface told the story of his appalling danger'and then went down the shaft and finished his inealeetien. His hair is a little grayer, but that ie all the change noticeable in the super- intendent. WARSHIPS ON THE LAKES.- - . Is the Treaty of ISM Now In Force ?—Sec- retary Fester Thanks It Is. The President of the United Staters re- cently, in answer to a resolation, transmit- ted to the Senate the re -port on the agaem ment between the United States and Great Britain concerning armament on the great lakes. The resolution called explicitly for an opinion from the State Department as to whether the arrangement of 1817 is now held to be in force. The Secretary of State, in his report states that the correspondence exchanged in 1864 shows that it is so regard- ed. It does not appear, he says, that any British or Canadian naval vessels are now, or, have been for years, stationed on, the laaep. The report says "No information has been received asto the number, tonnage and armament of British revenue vessehesta- tioned itt these waters; hut it hasbeen re, cently stated on the authority of a rePort to the Treasury Department that two vessels for the Dominion G'bvernment, have been constructed at Owen Sound, Ont., and that although styled revenue cutters and destined to suppress -smuggling on the St. Lawrence river and the lakes, they are in reality capable of adaptation to naval pur- poses.' The secretary then adds that "additional weight is perhaps lent to this latter aspect of the report to the precautions that appear tp have been taken to guard them from public inspection." The dimensions of the locks in the St. Lawrence river cauals exclude the entrance into the lake of any vessels exceeding nine feet draft ; and the only vessels borne in the British naval list which appear to be capable of paseage from the deep seas to the lakes are some 43 tugs drawing eight feet and armed with rapid firing guns. As be- tween the two countries the arrangement of 1817 is to be regarded as still in existence and only terminable in good faith by six months' notice tat abrogation on either side: The circumstances and form of the original arrangement of 1817 show it did not pur- port to be more than a, record of an undar- , standing mutually reached by the tweGov- ernments for reciprocal repletion of a matter within the administrative com- petence' of each, .The question of the spirit which controls the understanding of the two' great Governments is to -day of vastly greater importance to their interests than any narrow conten- tions respecting its literal observance. -. The secretary then makes the followieg roc- mmendation "It seems most desirable now in view of the long lapse of time and the changes Wrought in theses, and other no less impor- tant regards,'that the arrangement now grown obselete in practice and surviving in the letter only as A declared guarantee of international peace, should be modified to fit the new order of things, and with such adaptation to the exigencies of the future as Riudence may forecast." Uncle Jed's Story. never grouted, never fussed, but lived here calm an' still, For forty year I lived here on the hill in Pokum- vine. "Don't live hero like a snail," said Jim, "with - In yer small shell curled; rif pay yer fare to go out West ant let yer see the world." An so I got on board the train an' whirled off like n breeze, But alt I see upon the trip wus dirt Me grease an' trees; , See water, stones, an' sich-like . times a brook an hill, Sez I to Jim; "Alt there ere things I see in . Pokumville." We stopped togee Niagara Falls, that makes so much lon'd talk. An' we see a mess er water kinder- tumblin' from a rock. "If you spill water from a spoon," sez I to Jim, sez I. "41`is'sackly the same prIncipul "—an' Jim he couldn't deny. An' we crossed the Hooky Mountains an' .Tim Raid, "I call this grand." "They're nothing," sez 1, " but srreat hunks of rock an' dirt an' sand." An' we come to the Pacific, an' it mado aim look profound, But I soz,"1 don't see nothin' but some water slcahin' round." An' we went to sey'ral cities -there wuz nothin' there 10 800, But joss er mess er houses an' some folks like yOU an' me. An' we keta into Chicago—sez Jim, "How's this for high r Soz I. "It's jest like Yokumville-the same ol' ' thing," sez I, -[S. W. Foss, Eifhteen Hundred and Ninety -Three. Atmhinight, on My study door, Comae rapping, o'er and o'er, And I heard a deep, deep sigh. I opened to the hoary year, And felt upon my face the tear That came with the "good-bye." Scarce had he passed beyond my sight, Whota DI garments pure and white, Canto his heir. IIe held a Chain- • Gin of pearls. earth &art a day, He elapsed them on. I khelb to pray. The Nev Year gave me hope again. 111. Hathaway. '"OANALS," OR MOUNTAINS? A Fresh suggestion with Respect to the Topozraphy of Mars. Mr. J. M. Sehaeaerle of the Lick Observa- tory has just lutro laced a new element into, the.disoussion about the" canals" of MIN. It -has generally been Assumed that the darker areas on that planet are water sur- faces and the lighter regions continents and' islands. As the canals are dark in color it was naturally inferred that they mast ho channels fined with water. Mr. Sehaeberle, as a result of his studies. ' of Mars with the great telescope during the last summer, suggests the possibility that the aetronomers may have been mistaken about the meaning of the colors on Mars, and that the dark areas may really be the lan.lei of that planet, and the light areas tile seas. One of his reasons for this conalusion is that at timss seme of the bright areas ap- peal: more than usually brilliant, as though the reflecting surface were in a state of agitation.. The contrasts, he thinks, are like those witnessed in light reflected from a calm and from an agitated water surfaaa •. But if Mr. Sehaeberie is right then the " canals" are not canals, not water-coarees,a but pheaoinena conneetbd with the la.nd. He suggests that they may be the ridges ok mountade chains which are almost wholly immersed in water. The donble " canals " then would represent, piratic' meantaan ranges, shell as we have upon he earth. A WEED THAT EATS FISH. A Remarkable Instance of a Plant Which Is Ca nal vitrests. Corninander Alfred Carpenter, writing' from Suakin, Red Sea county, contributes the following remarkable instance of a plant preying upun one of the vertebrate. The instance noted was observed by him s hen surveying 1110 Parcel Islands, in theMouth China Sea " * * * * As I neared a poet cut off from the tide by the sea, I noticed among other submarine plants a very oral - nary -looking flesh -colored weed. "Bending to inspect it closer, I noticed nurnbeas it small fish lying helpless in ite fronds, appareat14.__with little or t... --fife in • s. 'my hand down to pick one of them up, I found my fingers caught by suckers on the weed, the fronda of which had closed tightly upon them. "The fish had been caught ia every con- ceivable way, by the head, tail sides, etc., and some of them had been held until the skin was completely macerated. Those of the fish that wereatillliving had evidently been ,caught at different times, alley appear- ing in all stages of exhaustion. "I regret being unable to name either the plant or the fish, but that the botanical cannibal really preyed upon the finny deni- zens of the deep there isn't the least -doubt," A Thaaght for This Year. et'e soeby the light ot thousands e years, And the knowledge of millions of mon, The lessons they learned through blood and tears, Aro curs for the readirg, and then We eneeraKheir errors and follies and clterim Their frail idols of mind and of stone, And call ourselves wiser, forgetting it seems That the future may laugh at our own.. --[May E. Matitrick. " Well, Mr. Cronson," seal the deinink., "1 hope you derived profit front the st.rvite, this morning." "Sir," returned Ns.snalre, incliningto be indighant, "1 assure you I drop business on Sunday and attend atm- /h. with no hope of profit. One of the largest hides ever talcaci *as received in Boston the other day froni A San Francisco tannery, at is fourteen itttf,11 length, eight feet tztridth. eridireigbolo-di pounds. •,1 5