The Wingham Times, 1888-05-25, Page 3•
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"Well, what do you want ?" asked the
Mayor, as the old man fluidly looked hi the
door. He had been peesing and repaeaing
in front of the office all noop, osoillating in
indeoision. He was from, the country ---a
thin old fellow, with email blinking eyes
and wrinkled face. Hie limp red hair had
attained a sort of uncertain gray, In and
out the furrows of his shallow china eparso
beard bristled, leaving quite bare spots here
ane there where he bad rubbed off the hair,
rubbing with eucli a hard, horny hand, year
after year, un moments of indeoision—evi•
dently the majority of the momenta of his
life Hie mouth had been shaped by a pipe,
which, drawing down the corner of it, drew
all the wrinkles of his fade into it as into a
drain.
"You the Mayor of this town?" The
words slid without inflection or emphasis
on to a thin, drawling. nasal voice,
"Yes. What do you want?"
"Nothin', sir ; nothin' in particular —"
There was a pause, as if cogent reasons in
his mind were giving him another warning.
He fastened his eyes on the Mayor's fade as
if he were examining seedling potatoes.
" I only want sympathy, eir—sytnpa-
thy."
He closed his mouth suddenly, all to the
pipe hole, and began rubbing his chin again.
The solution of his doubts this time resulted
in bis conveying his communicationin a
monotonous undertone to himself, waiving
all claims to a hearing, which rested entire-
ly in the volition of the Mayor. The small
eyes impartially looked unmeaningly into
space.
Its only that boy o' mine. I've had o
powerful lot o' trouble with that boy o'
mine. I've nuased him, I've 'tended him,
I've labored with him, and I—I—I've pray•
ed over him ; I—I've prayed over that boy
o' mine." He looked at the Mayor for some
expression over this last item.
" Oh, your boy in trouble ?"
"He was tuck up to•day, and jedged.
He's looked up over there." He stopped
rubbing his ohin to point in the direction of
the town jail.
" Locked up, eh ? What was the mat-
ter ?"
" Resisted the perlioe, they call it. A
feller tried to 'rest him. Re knocked him
down, my boy did."
" Resisting the police, eh ? resisting the
authority of the law ? Well, I'm very glad
he's looked up. You country people think
you can come into this town and run it just
as you please. No, sir; if you all don't like
this town, you can 'keep away ; but if you
do come here, you come on our terms, and
you've got to behave yourselves." The
Mayor very generously reissued this frag-
ment of the peroration of his morning's de-
cision.
• You're right, sir ; you're perfectly ri
ht
I ain't sayin' nothin' ; I ain't oomplainin'
;
I only come for sympathy. They told me you
was a gentleman, sir. I ain't got nothin' to
say, sir ; I only come for sympathy. I'm a
stranger here myself ; I ain't been here be-
fore in twenty year—not settee before the
boy was born. -1 ve nussed that boy, I've
'tended him, and I've prayed over him"—
relapsing into audible meditation. " He as
good as had no mother. I helt him with one
hand while I " stritohed her with t other—
my old woman. Shedied the fust thing
after he wuz born, niy old woman did. He
wuz that puny and tiny and red, there wuz
no tellinwhich end from t'other 'cept by the
equallin'."
" Well, I reckon he'll never learn his duty
to the law younger."
"The old woman warn't much of e. help
or comfort either," without noticing the
interruption. ""f don't know as old women
ginerally is. Always a-quarrellin' and a-
comp3ainin' and a-settin by the fire. But
she let' the boy to me, the old woman did,
of she did die herself.—I—I—I've prayed
over that boy ; yes, sir, I've prayed over him.
We was a•goin' back home this evenin
" One night in the lock-up won't hurt
him,"
" No sir ; that's true. It won't hart him
a mite—one night in the lock-up. He fout,
an cussed, an' kinked, an' soritohed, like a
painter, my boy did. He didn't wait go to
the lock-up, that's a fact. He tared. round
consider'ble."
" How much fine was it besides 2"
Twenty.five dollars, sir."
"Twenty five ? Well, I can't let him
Dome down here and clean out the town and
invalid the whole police force for leas than
that."
" There's always something happenin' to
that boy ever since the old woman died. The
fast time I washed him he 'moat drowned in
the piggin o' water. Pe could scarcely crawl
'fore he went to wailer in the fire. He's
fell down and broke his arm. He's shot his -
self with knivest allal. He's cut his self
and hatches and axes. Every-
thing that could cut has out that boy."
" How much money haveyou got Y'
" Me 1" The cid fellow's band stopped of
itself in astonishment. His jaw fell ; the
pipe, if it had been in pleura, would have
broken to pieces on the ground. " Me ? I
'sial got no money. I come from the mount-
ing."
" What did you come to town for, if you
haven't got any money 2"
"The boy, he wanted to come. He wanted
to see a town for onoet in his life. He brung
a live 'coon with him, sir,what he caught, and
some skins—otter-skins,"
" Well, what did he do with them 2"
" Traded 'em off, sir. A aide o' green meat
wuz what he calkerlated on. But he took
boots, air—boots to come up outside o' his
breeches." He gesticulated towards the
place where, under more favorable circum -
games, the calf of his leg might have been
visible under the patched trousers. They
wuz hand some boots. He wouldn't take 'em
fust. 11e wanted me to hey 'em. Me with
boots outside 0' my breeches 1" He would
have smiled if his mouth had known hew.
" Suppose I make the fine five dollars 1"
"That's reasonable, sir; that's reasonable.
But just as you please, air.—I've had a
mighty heap o' trouble with that boy. I've
nuesed—
"You look around and see if you can't
serape up the money, and be ha the court-
room early to -morrow morning. Good -by ?"
The next morning by daylight the Mayor
was suintnoned. As he deeded the stairs
of hie roaideneo he saw a greyish -red head
oautioasly thrust inside the front door and
withdrawn fear or five time,.
" 1101101 What are you doing here this
hour of the morning 2"
" N•othin', sir ; only to see you 'ant for-
got." >
""Well, I haven't."
"i 11y' fs. there, sir
a.wa ban ' e here for you. e look-up,
nay boy
set up with him all night, on the outside. >G
wuz bound to be there. He wrinohed the
bar out, an' he drapped out, 'most on top o'
me."
" The devil he 414 1"
" He ain't calkorated to spend the night
away from me, ,lie never did that mice he
wuz born. No, sir. But he went back fair
and square, climbed right bank, when I
explained to him ; an' he staid thar all
night, in the look -up. He wuz reasonable,
sir, mighty reasonable. He wouldn't talk
much ; he didn't want to disturb no one.
We only looked at each other, air.—I've had
a powerful heap o' trouble along o' that
boy. I nuesed him ; I 'tended him ; I ac-
tually prayed over him."
" Here! I can't stay any longer.'
"You wouldn't take these here tor the
fine, would you ? They mought fit you,"
Ie fetched the hand that did not attend
to his chin from behind his back and held
up a pair of boots,
" Ile tuck 'em right off, my boy did. He
said he didn't wurnt the darn things noways;
he'd ruther go barefoot all his life. He's
there, sir, in the lookup, a -waiting on me,
He said he'd wait on me, and he won't go
back on his word. But he's in a mighty
hurry to go home, my boy is. He's done
said he'd stay there, though, twell I Dome
back. He alleys stays if I stays. When
the old woman wept off and died, he staid
with me. He could 'a went and died as
easy as not.—A missable, puny—"
" I said five dollars, and I stick to it—
here ! "
The door closed, and the Mayor retired
upstairs. The old man looked at the five•
dollar bill which had been thrust into his
band. " They told me the Mayor was a
gent leman, and they told me to come to him
for sympathy."—Harper's Weekly.
IdIATIP.4XINa Poreerere.
A writer in the London Garden gives en
a000uut of the method he adopted to in-
crease a high-priced potato. The variety
was a kind known as the Pride of Arnerita,
of which he gave something like a dollar for
two tubers, one of them large and sound,
and the other small and diseased. l.arly in
Maroh they were laid in a pan, covered with
fine soil, and set on a warm staging in his
poaoh-house. They soon spfouted, and
when the sprouts were three inches long,
they were carefully pulled off, and the tubers
returned to the soil. The sprouts were pot.
ted off singly, in gond loamy soil, previously
warmed, 3i -inch pots being used, Tney
were set on the front staging and watered.
They soon became well established, and
were transplanted, The tubers gave a
second and larger crop of apronts than be.
fore, and these were treated like the first,.
A third, but smaller, crop of shoots was ob-
tained. All the plants formed a row in the
garden 51 feet long, op a deeply dug, thor-
oughly pulverized ground, 8 Inches apart.
Inverted flower pots protects them from
any threatened frost,and evergreen branches
were used for the same purpose later on.
Two bushels were obtained from one pound
of seed. The above is substantially the
process given in the Garden, greatly re-
duced and condensed ; and it may afford
useful suggestions to those not familiar with
the process adopted by gardeners for rapid.
ly increasing rare and costly sorts.
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Things to be avoided ; Sorel) mock, scrub
crepe, and scrub families,
Sulphur dusted over the seed pieces after
they are deposited into the furrows is said
to prevent scab,
The damage done to fruit trees by rabbits,
borers and insects, may be prevented by
applying pine tar to the bodies of the trees,
Warm the tar and apply with a brush.
Frequent and thorough cultivation is gene•
rally tully as effective in protecting vegeta-
ble plants against injury from drought, as
the beat mulch moat carefully applied.
Toads are the policemen of the garden,.
They speedily transport insect depredators
to a plane where they will do no more harm,
And this interior ' .i1 is quite capaoioue.
Sprinkling garden vegetables or vegetable
plants is of no account. If you want to
water them, give the ground a thorough
soaking—afterwards mulch or keep well cul-
tivated.
Farming fa too complex an art for a man
to leain it all in an average lifetime and by
his own a irperience alone. There are both
wisdom and profit in utilizing the experience
of othere.
When' we put our plows away last fall
every one of them got a coating of grease.
Now they are as bright as need be. Not
much sympathy for the farmer with the
rusty plows.
Plant potatoes deep enough so you can
use the harrow at the time that the young
plants are just coming up, and then use it
thoroughly, -pulveriziol,, the soil finely and
killing every weed.
If you have a shady spot in the garden,
leant it with lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower
or any crop used for salads or greens. The
warmest and sunniest location is needed for
melons, tdmatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts'
etc.
How '1.O PLANT TREES.
On receipt from the nursery, the trees
should be carefully heeled -in. If they are
to remain several days, the trees should be
shaded. If they are very dry, tops and all
should go into the,trench, and the covering
be made quite damp. The boles should be
dug four feet in diameter, and deep enough
to admit the planting. of the trees a little
deeper than it stood in the nursery. The
filling of well pulverized soil having a liberal
amount of ground bone and ashes well work-
ed into it is placed beside the hole. Care.
fully examine each tree for borers, cut bank
one-half of last year's growth, remove .all
broken limbs with a sharp knife, and coat
with shellac all cuts and shafted places. All
broken roots should be out smoothly with an
upward slant, and after all the roots have
been dipped in thin mud, the tree is placed
in the hole. Spread the roots carefully,
drive a stake beside the tree, and fill in the
soil, working it thoroughly under and among
the roots with the hand. Give two or three
sound treadings during the process of filling,
which should reach the height of the nursery
setting, and fill the rest of the hole with a
mulch of coarsehay and straw. Place a
piece of woolen cloth between the tree and
stake, to prevent chafing ; tie firmly, and
the following day give the tree a thorough
watering.
The School of tho Soldier.
Though it is impossible to make the young
soldier, say of two or three years' service,
physically old : though we cannot give him
the hardened muscles and the steady nerves
whioh he will have some six or seven years
later, we can to a certain extent make him
a veteran by giving him perpetual praotioe
in peace of the work which he will have to
do in war. No doubt, as I well know by
my own unpleasant experiences in the
Franco-tderman war, the actual whietlnig
of bullets, the crashing of shells, and the
sight of friends killed and wounded, have
an effect which cannot be simulated in
peace ; but it is certainly possible to give
the young soldier such instruotion that all
the phases of the action will be familiar to
him, and that he will instinctively know
the right course to pursue under different
circumstances. So long as fighting was
conducted in stiff lines or heavy columns,
the regular drill, which still goes on in the
barrack yard, was undoubtedly a very val-
uable training for war ; but the case is altered
now, and we are handicapping ourselves
if we do not give to the young soldier
constant instruction in all those fighting,
exercises which have taken the place of
theatarched movements formerly in vogue.
If the chief portion of his time is spent in
the ordinary drills, whereas on the field of
battle those drills will absolutely disappear,
we are not training the man for war, but,
on the 'contrary, training him for samething
different, so that when he finds himselt in
the presence' of an enemy everything will be
comparatively new to him. To the effect
on the nerves produced by the bullets and
the sight of wounds and death we deliber-
ately add the confusion which arises from
hie having to perform movements to which
he is unaccustomed, or at least little ascus,
tomed ; and by such training we are de-
liberately unfitting him to be steady on the
field of action. It is said with justice that
the best training for the soldier and that
which soonest changes him into a veteran
is the actual praotioe of war. We should
therefore endeavor to make our peace train-
ing as like that of war as possible. By this
means we shall, soonest ingraft the qualities
of old soldiers upon those of young ones,
and shall have done all that in us lies to
obtain the steadiness of the veteran in com-
bination with the fire of youth. Another
quality which may be impressed upon the
young soldier with great advantage is that
strong esprit de corps which gives much of
their tone to soldiers, old or young.
A TICULITtorrialEe
We Telff+ •ey 4 TA14po7 RA.
Ur. John Brown came home one ov
lately, and being very thirsty, poured Ogis
for himself a tankard of water in a gla*
which be thought was empty. Imestfne l*
surprise and consternation when his so
Tommy, aged eight, time running in, tad'
as hie draught was finished and 4rlek04 i
" Why, papa 1 you've swallowed my t
pole l"
"" W haaat 1 1"
shouted the alarmed father,
" You young idiot 1 ran for the doctor 1"
But the enly medical man who 'could be
got hold of at the moment was a Freach-
inan, visiting in the neighborhood. On the
him byfthe noher ineoherentlw thoroughly frigG explained
fdto
am-
ily, he aaid ;
" You moat rake Neem sake."„
”" But my hu band can't swim, replied
poor Mrs. Bra a tears."'
" No, it is apt v man zet shall team, it fs
zs leetle frog who shall avim, you know, gu it
Taut que le poisson nage, so you fill bum wiz
ze eater to his teeth, zen ze leetle frog he
vill avim up to ze moat of Monsieur, and van
he see ze light he vial rihomp out, ao."
And they gave him bucket atter bucket of
water till he become horribly sick, but no
tadpole r" chomped out."
By this time poor Brown was =geeing
agonies. The tadpole, or the large quantity
of water, one or other, was causing bun
great pafn, added to which he himself was
in a state of mortal and indefinable terror.
Just then the family phyeioian made hie ap-
pearance and tried to allay their fears, but
all to no purpose, something practical must
be done. Thinking a little stimulant would
do hie patient good after the drenching he
had, he said :. '
" Now, L should recommend you, if you
want that tadpole to jump, to give him a
good dose of brandy, that will make him
frisky and perhaps he will then, under the
influence of liquor, make his sudden appear-
ance, and relieve you all."
The plan was tried on a most wholesale
scale, but instead of making the tadpole
frisky, it only made Mr. Brown somewhat
tipsy, in which state he became what the
Scotch call "greetin' fu'."In a maudlin
way he bade his weeping wife an affecting
farewell and insisted on being put to bed to
die.
The doctor however, seeing that the poor
man, as well as his family, was suffering
agonies of mind about the unfortunate little
polliwig, determined to take active measures,
and bring matters to a satisfactory crisis by
a little scheme of his own. He•ordred Mr.
Brown, who was now in bed, to be partially ,
undressed, promising to return in an hour
with his assistant, when he hoped to be able
to relieve him permanently.
In the succeeding half hour the patient
suffered all sorts of pains, real and' imagin-
ary, and was more than ever convinced of
the activity of hie unwelcome tenant.
The doctor, however, meanwhile, had
offered half a dozen small boys a handsome
price for the first tadpole they would bring
him, and the fact being noised abroad hie
house soon resembled Pharoah's palace. -dur-
ipg one of the plagues of Egypt. It was
filled with frogs and froglings of all aims
and ages, causing great consternation to the
medical household.
But long e're this the doctor and his.
assistant had atartad..offto finally cure th.'
patient. The doctor \Ogjed a healt
pollywig in a small bottle, en, anis poo
the assistant a powerful eleotricb,tte
a valise. Turning everyone out of"
the conspirators quietly hid the bat : y
under the bed, after adjusting it to. its ut-
most power. The new pollywig was then
carefully placed on the pillow near the des-
pairing man's head, one battery' wire was
arranged under his chin and at a signal
from the doctor, the other, with the full
power of the battery, was suddenly • liplied.
to his stomach. With a horrid yell the
poor wretch suddenly sprang up in bed,
and the doctor and his assistant both: shout-
ed : " Hurrah 1 he is out at last !" The un-
suspecting family, hearing the yell, rushed
in to see the startled Mr. Brown sitting up
in bed, the poor little tadpole lying beside
him. Ho was soca made aware of the
change in the state of affairs, and warmly
thanked the doctor, as did all the family.
"Se gave me an awful spasm as he got
out though, but thank Heaven it is now all
over."
Just at that moment however,. the ever
unfortunate Tommy came rushing into the
room with a glass in his hand, saying
" Why, papa 1 here is my tadpole ! You
never swallowed it atter all 1"
If a bombshell had burst in the room the
consternation could not have been more
complete. The father, now cured,euspeeted
some trick, he did nor exactly know v0e1t,
but seeing the doctor and his assistant co
vulsed with laughter, he angrily requea"
their immediate withdrawal from his house
and they, nothing, loath, were,pmy toe-. d
to escape into the open air7"The story mobil
leaked out, and while t doctor was highly
praised for his treatenefit, se much so that
he was ever after called& Dr. Tadpole, poor
Mr. Brown hada hard time of it. He soon
got so disgusted with being nick -named
•' old Polliwig" that he left the country,
and returned permanently to town, where
no one ever knew of the bad time he had
when he swallowed the tadpole.
No farmer can afford to continue raising
sorub stock. Between twenty years of
farming with scrub stook, and twenty years
of farming with improved stook, there will
be a difference• in profits equal to the price
of a fine farm.
The carcass tf every animal tat dies of
disease should be burled. Only by this
process can the virus and germe be annihil-
ated and the spread of the disease be pre.
vented. This is especially true of animals
dying of diseases known to be contagious.
Set sweet potato plants after the soil has.
become thoroughly warm. The ground
need not be rich, but should be fertilized in
the hill or drill, either by well -decomposed
barnyard manure, or (what is generally
preferable in our soils) by a good special
potato fertilizer.
We would rather have one pan of milk
with quarter inch cream, than four pans
with one sixteenth -inch Dream. By the
same token, twenty acres of land, with a
rich, deep soil, may be more desirable than
a thin-skinned tract of one hundred and six-
ty acres.
ABOUT INOiTBATons.
Few people realize the importance of let-
ting the incubator alone after the eggs be-
gin to pip. Having tried many means of
supplying moisture in theegg drawer, we
are satisfied that spraying with a florist's
bulb, having an exceedingly fine rose, is the
best. Tue eggs should not be turnedafter
the 19th day (never fear of their pipping
on
the under side).
If the chicken is strong enough to come
out, this is of little consequence, he is
bound to come. At the last turning of the
eggs, they should be sprayed thoroughly
with water at least 110 0 or even 115 ° would
not injure them. The drawer should be
closed immediately, and left so for 24 hours
at least. In hot water machines 36 hours is
even better.
We have recently seen a hatch of 169
chicks frem 188 fertile eggs. They were
left in the drawer for 35 hours, and the only
means of ventilation is lj inch pipe in ,the
front of the machine, which goes to prove
that bottom ventilation from a series of
pipes is a prolific cause of unsatisfactory
hatching.
Cxoss Purposes.
What sorrow we should beckon unawares,
What stinging nettles in our path would
grow,
If God would answer all our thoughtless
prayers,
Or bring to harvest the poor seed we sow!
The storm for which you prayed, whose
kindly shock
Revived your fields and blessed the faint-
ing air,
Drove a strong ship upon the cruel rook,
And one I loved went down in shipwreck
there.
I ask for sunshine on my grapes today ;
You plead for rain to kiss your drooping
flowers ;
And thus within God's patient band we lay
These intricate cross purposes of ours.
I greeted with cold grace and doubting fears
Tho guest who proved an angel by my
aide ;
Arid tears
Because of hopes fulfilled thanuprayers de-
nied.
Then be not clamorous, 0 restless soul,
But hold thy trust in God's eternal plan 1
He views our life's dull weaning as a whole;
Only its tangled threads are seen by manl
Dear Lord, vain repetitions are not meet
When we would bring our messages to
Thee ;
Help us to lay them at Thy dear feet
In acquiesence, not garrulity?
An oblong form is better than a square
one for the home garden. Seeds sown or
planted in rows instead of little beds sim-
plifies the whole matter, and admits of the
use of the plow and cultivator instead of
the spade, the hoe and the rake, and makes
its cultivation & pleasure instead of a dread-
ed task.
To get the cream quickly from milk : As
soon as it is drawn from the cow reduce its
temperature to about 45 0' and keep it there,
and in 4 or 5 hours all the cream will rise.
The cream will be perfectly sweet, and the
skim milk will be of a very superior qual-
ity. If the cream is to be made into butter,
it should be kept at a temperature of about
65 0 , and churned at a temperature of from
55 ° to GO ° .
Pumpkins planted among corn should not
be planted at the same time with the corn
but when the corn is about four inches high.
Take an old shovel or fork handle, point
tate end of it, make a hole with this, drop
in your pumpkin seed, and close in the hole
with your foot, By this method you can
get your pumpkins just where you want
them, as thick as you want them, and being
later than the corn, the vines are not in the
way of the cultivator.
BIIOKMSEAT FOR TREE PROTECTION.
Two years ago a central Dakota farmer
planted five acres of box elder and cotton
wood trees one year old, having previously
prepared the lamp. He then sowed buck-
wheat quite thick, which grew luxuriantly,
and being left uncut, served as an excellent
mulch, protecting from' the hot sun of July
and August, the cold winter and alternate
freezing and`thawing of early spring. The
land was well seeded f rom the first crop, and
another heavy crop was allowed to grow
last year, and left on the ground.as before.
The trees have stood both winters well, and
the percentage of loss is very small. The
buckwheat • straw subdued the weeds, and
saved the labor of repeated cultivation.—
North Dakota Farmer.
DEEP SOWING FOR PEAS.
Many garden crops are retarded or injured
by deep sowing, but peas are not among
the number. With more space and greater
depth they would grow better and give finer
crops, especially in seasons of drouth. A
successful cultivator says that he gives each
plant six inches space in the lines ; and in-
stead of covering them only two inches
deep, as is the common praotioe, he finds at
least twice this depth much better, and ob•
tains larger crops. As the common practice
is to plant peas as one of the earliest crops,
and the time in many places is at hand, it is
well to remind gardeners that they will ob-
tain an item of vatuable knowledge by try-
ing both ways side by side.
FACTS ABOUT SEEDING GRASS.
In an acre there are 8,128,640 square
inches, There are in a bushel of clear seed,
of
Jealousy the Cause of Hostility.
The London Spectator (April 28) attri•
butes the hostility of the military party in
Germanof the
German authorities to " squareto England to the " ltuesia by
allowing her to have her way in Eastern
Europe in order that Germany may have a
free hand against Prance. England cannot
afford to let ILuesie. have her way at Consten-
tfnople and the Germans are afraid the will
eombino with Austria and Italy to explode
the arrangement,
The Kennebec lumber semen, which hat
jest closed, hoe been an unusually favorable
Lake willl amottab total o shores00000,f 000 fe t,d
Timothy
Orchard grass
40,000,000 seeds
7,000,000 "
Kentucky Blue 45,000,000 "
Red To • 70,000,000 ""
MeadowpFescue 25,000, 000 "
Red Clover 16,000,000- "
White Clover 25,000,000 "
DON'T COVER TOO DEEPLY.
Many who plant fine needs have no eon-
oeption of their requirements. A lady pur-
chased some
how deepaced the other " he should sow t—"four
and
asked mep
or five inches 2" I told her if she wanted it
to come up not to cover it more than a six-
teenth of an inch. Many people fail just
this way and then blame the 'medallion.
NOTES.
Goad plowing is the foundation of good
crops.
In pruning apple orchards, many farmers
insist on cutting out the leading centre
branch to let the sun shine into the tree.
This is a serious mistake. So is the nutting
off of any large branches. It is a stabbing
and wounding of the tree that gives it a rot-
ten heart makes it weak to.resist the wind,
and leads to premature death. Cut out the
sap shoots, trim off small brancbes, and en-
courage a pyramidal growth, is the one cor-
rect plan. And early spring is the right
time,
A Hard Diamond.
At a recent meeting of the New York,
Academy of Sciences a remarkable diamond
was exhibited. It is a oompound or multiple
crystal, containing a large number of twin-
ing,, and belongs to the class termed " ex-
treme durate" by the French. It had been
out into the general shape of a brilliant,
and then placed on the polishing wheel,
where it was kept for 100 days, the wheel
revolving at the rate of 2,800 revolutions
a minute. The diamond was fixed upon the
'rotating surface at a distance of about fifteen
inches from the centre. Based on these
figures, a calculation showed that the sur-
face passed over by the diamond amounted
to 75,000 miles. The ordinary weight plat
ed on a diamond while on the wheel is from
two and a quarter to two and one-half
pounds. This was increased until finally
forty pounds were used. The wheel was
badly damage 1, the diamond ploughing into
it and throwing scintillations in all direo
tions. Even under these conditions the
diamond could not be given a commercial
polish,
Alexander Graham Bell, of telephone
fame, may still be spoken of as a young
man, for he has only recently turned his
40th year. Twenty -fine years ago he was
a poor boy in Edinburgh.
• 1,
We should he kerful how we enourridge
luxurys. It iz but a step forard from hoe-
caik to plum•puddin', but it iz a mile and a
half by the nearest rode when we have to
go back again.—Josh Billings.
Passenger—Conductor, how far caro we
from Ittoltas City 2 Conductor—•"CVs re there
now, sir ; just passed 820th street, Pas•
songer—How soon will we get to the station?
Conduotor—It's about an hour's ride.
Mr. 13. Cordial (of Boston)—Ah, Miss
Chandler, I tee you are an admirer of Mil-
ton! Mies Chandler (of Cincinnati)—NO ;
can't say I am. Why pa's young advertis•
ingman makes rhymes with a good deal plea.
Natter jingle 1.
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On the Bach.
I stood on the beach when the tide went out,
And the blue waves kissed my feet ;
They coaxed and caressed like a babe on the
breast
Of its timelier, soft and sweet ;.
Then glided away, like a child. at play,
On the smooth and pebbly sande,
And came fawning baok o'er their salver
tr oak, ,
And beckoned with shining hands.
I steed on the beach when the tide ewe in,
And the waves were foaming7bite;
They lashed the shore with t)r A Evful roar
Of the tempest in its mi ilei
They bubbled and boiled, and hissed and
coiled,
Like things of venomous breath,
And dashed against the rooks their threaten-
ing shooks,
Defiance unto death.
And I said, as I stood alone on the Natoli,,'
Old ocean, I know you well ;
Your smile is bright as an angel of light,
But your kite is false se heli.
Woe
shadoWls you± path wnsn youa.
w
doh
Death lurks in your browses fres,
In ollr ooral oa 'ee And sighing wa
G lovely, tr0aohorouw eir 1
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