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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-10-4, Page 7• MISCELLANEOUS READING GRA.VE AND OTHERWISE. Lelanire Moments Von Be PrOStablo Em- ployed In Carefully Beading Tese Interesting Selections. The Rock -a -By Lady. 'Who Hook -a -by Lady from Huslinaby street Domes stealing, comes creeping, ; Tae popplee they hang from her head to her feet, And e whims a dream teat is tiny and fleet- -She bringe her poppies to your my sweet, ' When she findeth you sleeping l There is one little dream of a beautiful drum— " Reh-a-dob it Rooth ; There le one little dream of a big sugar -plena, A ncl, lo thick and fast the other dreams come Or popguns that bang Ansi tin tops that ham, . Awl a trumpet that bloweth 1 And cl'allies peep out of those wee little dreams With laughter and singing; -.And boats go a -floating on silvery streams, And the stars peek-a•boo with tiaelr own misty gleams, And up, up and up, where the Mother Moon beams, .The fairies go winging Would you dream all these dreams that are tiny and fieet ? They'll come to you steeping ! So shut the two eyes that are weary, my sweet, .Nor the Reek -a -by Lady from Hushbaby street, With poppies that hang from her head to her feet, • Comes stealing, comes creeping, n• Prayer and Pooatoos." .An old lady sat in her old arm -chair, ',With wrinkled visage and dishevelled hair, And hunger worn, features; ,For days and for weeks her only fare, As slie sat in her old arrn-chair, Had been potatoes. Silt now they're gone, of bad or good Not one was left for the old lady's food Of those potatoes. And she sighed and said., "What shall I do? Where shall 1 send, aud to whom shallI go For more potatoesl" :And she thought of the deacon over the way,l The deacon so ready to worship a,ndpray, Whose cellar was full of potatoes. ' She said, "I will send for the deacon to come; He'll not much mind to give me some Of such a store of pototoes." And the deacon came over as fast as he could, 'Thinking to do the old lady some good But never for once of potatoes. ale asked her at once what was her chief want; And she, simple soul, expecting a grant, Immediately answered, "Potatoes." 'But the deacon's religion didn't lie that way; He was more accustomed to preach and pray Than to give his hoarded. potatoes. So, not hearing, of course, what the old lady said, He rose to pray with uncovered head. But she only thought of potatoes. ale prayed for patience, goodness and gr aee But when he prayed; "Lord give her peace," She audibly sighed, "Give potatoes." And at the end of each prayer which he said He heard., or he thought he heard, in its stead That same request for potatoes. Deacon was troubled, knew not what to do; 'Twits very embarrassing to have her act so, And about those carnal potatoes. So, ending his prayor, he started for home, .As the door closed behind him, he heard a deep groan, 4,0111 give to the hungry potatoes." And diagram followed hini all the way home, In the midst of the night it haunted, his room, "Oh! give to the hungry potatoes." He could bear it no longer; arose and dressed, From Ms welllilled cellar taking in haste a. bag of his best potatoes. Again be went to the widow's lone hut Iler sleepless eyes she had not shut; But there she sat in the old arm chair, With the same wan features, same wan air. .And, entering in, he poured on the floor A. bushel or more of his goodly store Of choicest potatoes. The widow's heart leaped upfor joy, Her face was pale and haggered no MOM "Now," said the deacon, "shall we pray ?" "Yes," said the widow, "now you.may." And he knelt him down on the sanded floor, Where he had poured out his goodly store; And such a prayer the deaeon prayed .As never hetore his lips essayed. No longer embarrassed, but free and full lie poured out the voice of a liberal soul, And the widow responded aloud "Amen I" But said no more of potatoes. And would you hear this simple tale, Pray for the poo; and praying prevail? Then preface your prayers with alms and good deeds. Search out the poor, their wants and their needs; ' Pray for their peace and grace, spiritual food; For wisdom and guidance—all these are good; But don't forget the potatoes 1 Words from the Sages. For where we love is home, home that our feet may leave but not our hearts. Do the duty which lies nearest to you. Every duty which is bidden to wait re- turns with seven fresh duties at its back. It is an old proverb that he who aims at the sun, to be sure will not reach it, but his arrow will fly higher than if he aimed at an object on a level with him- self. Every vice and folly has a train of se- cret and necessary punishment. If we are lazy we must expect to be poor; if in- temperate, to be diseased; if luxurious, to die prematurely. It is the most momentous question a woman is ever called. upon to decide— whether the faults of the man she loves are beyond remedy, and will drag her down, or whether she is competent to be his earthly redeemer and lift him to her own level. There are people who understand one another at once. When one soul meets another it is not by pure word, nor by hailing sign, nor by mysterious grip that they recognize.. The subtlest freemasonry in the world is this freemasonry of the spirit. Seven Steps to Health. A noted physician says if you want to he healthy and to live to a good old age you Must climb upstairs and live at the top. The stairs consist of but seven steps, and you must make a pause on each step and follow his direetions First Step—Eat wheat, oats, corn, fruits, beef and mutton, plainly cooked, in moderate quantity, and but two meals a day. Second Step—Breathe good air clay and night. Third Step—Exercise freely in the open air, Fourth. • Step—Retire early and rise early. Fifth Step—Wear flannel next your skin every day in the year; and so dis- pose yolar 4dross that your limbs shall be kept warin. Bathe frequently. Sixth Step—Live in the stnshine, Let your bedroorn be one 'which receives a flood of light, and spend your days either out in the sunlight or in a room which is well lighted. Seventh Step — Cultivate a eheenful temper. Seelc the society of jolly folks, Don't be afraid to laugh, ' Go up this flight a stairs, Live above. Catarrh can't elimb tep there. Cycling Proverlbs. Grit makes a Man, but =bre a beating. Neither men nor bicyeles steer well with tight heads. Like a friend in need, the handle -bar is only appreciated when the road is rough, The world, like a bieycle, weld soon come to a stop were it not for the cranks. Ambition is like a bicycle saddle— though much sat upon, it generally maxis ages to be on toe. Politeness is like a pneumatic tire— there isn't much in it, but it eases eaany a jolt in the journey of life. A pleasant disposition, like oil in a bie cycle bearing, reduces friction and pre- vents a world of wear and tear. Like a link in a bieerele chain, we may not amount to much individually, but collectively we make the wheels go around. Like balls in a bearing, the lives of xnany of us must be one continual grind that others may enjoy theraelves. Bedroom Brevities. Restful sleep renews the life. Tarpentine is a sure exterminator of bedbugs. Never sleep with the face turned towards a near wall. Never have children habitually sleep with older persons. Pure air is fully as important in sleep- ing as in walking hours. "One bed for one person" is the 'best rule for health and comfort. Study common sense and comfort ra- ther tharenustom or fashion. Never set a bed in the corner of a room; there should be open space on at least three sides. Sleep in nature's season of repair; the more quiet and unbroken the sleep, the more perfect its work. Good cAdvice. A short time ago a lady was troubled with a boil on her knee which grew so bad she thought it necessary to call in a physician. She had formed a dislike for the family physician, so her father sug- gested several others, and finally said that he would call in the physician with the homoeopathic case, who. passed the house everyday. They kept a sharp lookout for him, and when he came along he was called in. The young lady modestly showed him the disabled member. The little man looked at it and said: "Why, that's pretty bad." "Well," she said, "what must I do ?" "If I were you," he answered, "I would send for a physician. I axe a piano tuner." Thought Alike. There lived. in the vidiaity of Bergerac a parish priest whose parishioners decid- ed upon getting up a subscription to pre- sent him with a cask of wine. One sup- plied the cask, and each of the rest came and poured in two litres of the produc- tion of the vineyard. One day our cure invited some of the subscribers to dinner in order to taste the beverage which formed a compound of all the wines grown in the district. The servant went to turn the tap, and came back with a decanter full of water in her hand. "Whatever is that?" was the general cry. "This is the wine out of the barrel." His reverence could not make it out; it was altogether puzzling. The guests were splitting with laughter? Each one had thought to him- self that the presence of two litres of wa- ter -would not be detected in a butt of wine; but, as it happened, they had all acted on the same idea. • HOW Many Strokes in a Shave "Now that you've finished shaving me, how many strokes of the razor did it re- quire ?" asked the man in the chair as he straightened up to have his hair combed. "That's pretty hard to tell," said the barber. "Of course it is, but you have been in the business how long?" "Fifteen years." "You ought to know by this time about how many strokes of the razor it requires to shave a man, supposing, that you go over his face a second time . "I might make a guess at it." "All right; what's your guess? Re- member that I have a hard beard" "Well I should say—about 125." "You're a good guesser, I don't think. Some time ago I got into the habit of counting the strokes of the razor every time I was being shaved It is a good way to employyour mind. In shaving me you made just 782 strokes with the razor." "1 wouldn't have believed it." "No man believes it until he takes the trouble to count. In my case 1 never knew the number to fall below 500, and it has gone more than 800 at times. I call it a stroke every time the razor is brought forward and then drawn back. I should judge that there are not less than 500 strokes in a fint-elass shave. You re- member that and you can probably win a few bets. MUSIC HATH OHARMS. It WM Cure Blues as Well as Soothe the Savage Breast. When you are very iared and utterly despondent, when you want to cry your heart out and the tears will not come, do not go home and lie flat on your back or take exercise or tea or indulge in cheer- ful con'versation with the hope of getting rested and happy. Sometimes those rexn- edies work, but quite often they don't. Try instead the never -failing eure that was yours in the good old days when tired of play and half afraid of the coming dark you crept into your mother's arms and heard her sing a lullaby. Have the lights neerned low or put out. Lie doivn on the divan with your head among the pillows and listen. Do not let your musician play you stirring strains. Make her avoid classical selections. Make her play all the simple, old ballads that you like. 1V1ake her play old-fashioned hymns. By and by tears will be trick- ling down your cheeks, which you will mop silently with your handkerchief. A big lump will come into your throat as the music moans, "Could you come back to me, Douglass ?" The faet that you never had a -Douglass or any one else to call back will not lessen your grief. You will feel your heart breaking over "An- nie Laurie ;" you will sob over "The Queen's Manes." There will be a perfect rain of teare when the music drifts into the sweet Sunday strains. You will be dimly conscious that crying spoils your complexion, but you May solace yourself even then by the thought that tears will not prove so destructive of beauty as the drawn, strained look of one who cannot Ginn When it is ell over and you have cried silently until you can cry no more, you' Will be surprised to find how cheerful you are growing. Yoe will soon want some- thing to oat—tears are great Appetizers— and then you will go to bed and sleep cheerful, healtley- sleep, In the morning the tiredness will be gone, UGLY COMPULSION. THE T.,OVING STRESS Pl7T UPON THE BEARERS OF SOULS. • The Great Feast IVIMIe re'r They Which Were Not Excuse Sent Inlated eneete—The Lord's .Anx. • lety to Save to the Uttermost. BROOKLYN, Sept. 28.-- iBev. Dr. Tal- mage, who s still absent on his round - the -world tour, has selected as the subject of his sermon through tine press for to- day "Holy. Oompulsion," the text being Luke 143 28 :' Ancl compel them to come in." '..ehe plainest people in our day have luxuries which the kingsand queens of olden times never imagined. I walked Up and down the stairs of Holyrood Pal- ace—a palace that was considered one of the wonders of the world—and I said) "Can it be possible that this is all there was of this reputed wonderful place ?" And this is tbe case in many other in- stances. There are fruits in the West- chester County and Long Island farms far better than the pomegranates and apri- cots of Bible times. Through all the ages there have been scenes of festivity, and the wealthy men of my text plans a great entertainment, and invites his friends. If one builds a beautiful home he wants his acquaintances to come and enjoy it. If one buys an exquisite picture he wants his friends to come and ap- preciate it; and it was a laudable thing when a wealthy man of my text, happy himself, wanted to make other people happy. And so the invitations went out; but somethingwent very much wrong. You can. imagine the embarrassment of any one who has provided a grand feast when he finds out that the vests invited do not intend to come. There is nothing that so provokes the master of ehe feast as that, Well, these people invited to this great banquet of the text nead,e most frivolous excuses. The fact was, I suppose, that some of them were offended that this man had succeeded so much better in the world than they had. There are people in all occupations and professions who consider it a wrong to them that any- body else is advanced. I suppose these people invited to the feast said among themselves, "We are not going to ad- minister to this man's vanity, he is proud enough now; we won't go; beside that, we could all give parties if we made our money the way that man made his." So when the messengers went out with the invitations there was a unanimous refusal. One man said, "Oh, I have bought a farm, and I must go and look at it." He was a lana speculator, and had no business to buy land until he knew about it. A. frivolous excuse. Another man:said, "I have bought five yoke of oxen." The probability is he was a speculator in live stock. He ought to have known about the oxen before he bought them. Beside that, if he had been very anxious to get to the feast he could have hooked them up and driven them on the road there. Another frivolous excuse. Another man. said: "Oh, I have married a wife, and I na-n't come," when if he had said to his wife, "I have an invitation to a splendid din- ner ; it is highly complimentary to me; I should very much like to go',will you go along with me ?" she would have said: "To be sure I will go." Another frivol- ous excuse. The fact was that they did not want to go. "Now," said the great man of the feast, "I will not be defeated. in this matter; I have with an honest purpose provided a banquet, and there are scores of people who would iike to come if they were only invited. Here, my man, here, you go out, and when you find a blind man give him your arm and fetch him in; and when you find a lame man, give him a crutch and fetch him in; and when you find a poor man, tell him that there is a plate for him in my mansion; and when you find someone who is so ragged and wretched that he has never been invited anywhere, then, by the kindest tender- ness and most loving invitation any one ever had, compel him to come Oh, my friends, it requires no acute- ness on my part, or on your part, to see in all this affair that religion is a ban- quet. The table was set in Palestine a good many years ago, and the disciples gathered around it, and they thought they would have a good time all by them- selves, but while they sat by this table the leaves began to grow and spread, and one leaf went to the east and bbnotherleaf went to the west, until the whole earth was covered up with them, and the clust- ers from the heavenly vineyard werepiled up on the board, and the trumpets and harps of eternity made up the orchestra, and as this wine of God is pressed to the lips of a sinning, bleeding., suffering, dy- ing, groaning world, a voice breaks from the heavens, saying: "Drink, 0 friends; yea drink, 0 beloved !" 0 blessed Lord Jesus, the best friend I ever had, was there ever such a table? Was there ever such a banquet? From the cross uplifted high, Whore the Saviour deigns to die, What melodious sounds I hoar Bursting on the ravished ear! Heaven% redeeming work is done, Come, and welcome, sinner come. Religion is a joyous thing. I do not want to hear anybody talk about religion as though it was a funeral. 1 do not want anybody to whine in the prayer meeting about the kingdom of God. I do not want any man to roll up his eyes, giving in that way evidence of his sanc- tity. The men and women of God whom I happen to know, for the most part, find religion a great joy. It is 9,n exhiliration to the body. It is invigoration to the mind. It is rapture to the soul. It is balm for all wounds. 11 18 light for all darkness. 11 13 harbor from cbll storms, and though God knows that some of them have trouble enough now, they rejoice because they know they are on the way to the congratulations eternal. I stopped one nightfall, years ago, at Freyburg, Switeerland, to hear the organ of world-wide celebrity' in that plane. went into the cathedral at nightfall. All the aceessories wore favorable. There was only one light in all the cathedral, and that a faint taper on the altar. I looked up into the venerable arches and saw the shadows of centuries, and -when the organ awoke the cathedral awoke, and all the arches seemed to lift and quiver as the rausie earne under them. That instrument did. not seem to be made out of wood and Metal, but out of humen hearts, so evonclerfully did it pulsate with every emodon ;. now laughing like a child, now sobbnag like a tempest. At one moment the mettsie would die away until you could hear the cricket ehirp outside the wall, ansi then it would roll up until it would seem as if the surge of the sea and the crash of an evelenche had struck the organ pipes at the Sa1110 mo- ment, At one time that night it seemed as it a squadron of spirits weeping up from earth had meta squadron of descend- ing angels whose glory beat back the Wee. Standing there and looking at the dim taper on the altar of the cathedral I said, "How ranch like many a Christian's life, Shadows hover, and sometimes his hope is dim, and faint, and flickering, like a taper on the altar. But at what time God wills, the heavens break forth with =Sic upon his soul, and the air beeomes reso- nano as the angels of God beat it with their shining sceptres." Oh, the Lord God has many fair and beautiful daughters; bui the fairest of them all is she whose ways are pleasant- ness and whose paths are peace! Now, my brothers ancl sisters—for I have a right to call you all so -1 know some people look back on their ancestral line, and they see they are descended from Puritans or Huguenots, and they rejoice in that; but I look on my ancestral line, and I see therein such a mingling and mixture of the blood of all nationalities that akin to all the world, and by the blood of the Son of God, who died for all people, I address you in the boncls of um venal brother- hood. I come out as only a servant, bringing an invitation to a party, and I put it into your hand, saying: Come, for all things are now ready," and I urge it upon you, and continue to urge it, ana, before I get through, I hope, by the bless- ing of God, to compel you to come in. We must take care how we give the in- vitation. My Christian friends, I think sometimes we have just gone opposite to Christ's comman d, and we have compelled people to stay out. Sometimes our elaborated instructions have been the hindrance. We graduate from our theological seminaries on stilts, and it takes five or six years before we can come down and stand right beside the great masses of the people, learning their joys, sorrows, victories, defeats. We get our heads so brimful of theo- logical wisdom that we have to stand very straight less they spill over. Now, what do the great masses of the people care about the technicalities of religion? "'What do they care about the hypostatic union or the difference between sub-lap- sarian and supra-lapsarian ? What do they care for your profoun.d explanations, clear as a London fog? When a man is drowning he does not want you to stand by the dock and describe the nature of the water into which he has fallen, and tell him there are two parts hydrogen gas and one part oxygen gas, with a com- mon density of thirty-nine l'abrenheit, turning to steam tinder a common atmbs- pherbe pressure of two hundred and twelve. He does not want a chemical lecture on water; he wants a rope. 0 my friends, the curse of Gosi on the church, it seems to me. in this day, is metaphysics. We speak in an unknown tongue in our Sabbath Schools, and in our religious assemblages, and in our pulpits, and how can people be saved un- less they understand us? We put on our official gowns and we think the two silk balloons flapping at the elbows of a preacher give him great sanctity. The river of God's truth idows down before us pure and clear as crystal; but we take our theological stick and stir it up, and stir it up, until you cannot see the bot- tom. Oh, for the simplicity of Christ in all our instructions—the simplicity He practiced when standing among the people, He took a lily and said, "There is a lesson in the way I will feed you; con- sider the lilies—behold the fowls." I think there is work also in the way of kindlyadmonition. I do not believe i there s a person in this house who, if ap- proached in a kindly and brotherly man- ner, would refuse to listen. If you are rebuffed, it is because you lank in tact and common. sense. But oh, how much effective work there is in the way of kindly admonition! There are thous- ands of men all round about you who have never had one personal invitation to the cross. Give that one invitation and you would be surprised at the alac- rity with which they would accept it. I have a friend, a Christian physician, who one day became very anxious about the salvation of a brother physician., and so he left his office went down to this man's office, and said, "Is the doctor• in?" "No, replied the young: man waiting, "the doctor is not in." "Well," said this physician, "when he comes in tell him I called, and give him my Christian love." This worldly doctor came home after a while and the message was given him and he said within himself, "What does he mean by leaving his Christian love for me ?" And he became very much awakened and stirred in spirit, and said after a while, "Why, that man must mean my soul," and he went into his back office, knelt down and began to pray. Then he took his hat and went out to the office of the Ohristian physician and said, "What can I do to be saved? and the two doctors knelt in the office and commended their souls to God. I think there is a great work also to be done in the way of prayer, If we had faith enough to -day we could go before God and ask for the salvation of all the people in our churches, and they would all be saved, there and then, without a single exception. There might be pro- fessional men there, political men there, worldly men there, men who had not heard the Gospel for twenty years, men who are prejudiced against the preachers, men who are prejudiced against the music, men who are prejudiced against the church, men who are prejudiced against God—I do not care—they might be brought in by fervent prayer—you would compel them to come in. Oh, for such an earnest prayer! People of God, lay hold of the horns of the altar now, and supplicate the salvation of all those who sit in the same pew with yen— yes, the redemption of all who sit in your °hurdles, What a momentous hour? God help! At the dose of a religious service, and When the people had nearly all left the building, a pastor saw a little girl with her head bowed on the back of the pew, and, passing down the aisle, hcesaid to himself, "The little child has fallen asleep." So he tapped her on the should- er and said, "The service is over." She said, "I know it is over; 1 am praying, sixe I am praying." "Well," said the minister, "whatsoever ye ask of God., be- lieving, ye will receive." She said, "Is that in. the Bible?" "Yes," he said, "there is a promise of that kind in the Bible," "Well," she said, "let me see it." So he turned over the Bible until he came to the promise, and she said, "That's so, is it? Now, 0 Lord, bring my father to this church to -night." While she Nits praying her father pass- ed into the door of the church, and carafe down by his child and said, "What do you want of me ?" 'When, that child had begun to pray One hour before for her lather he was three miles away ; bat by Some serange impulse that he could not understand he hastened to the elnhiche and there the twain knelt, the father's a= around the child's neck, the ehild's erne around the father'neck, and there he entered on the road to heaven. "Whet- sqever ye ask of God, believing, ye shall receive. That was an answer to the child's prayer. What did she do? She eorimelled him to come la, I tell you to -day, my friends, of a great se/Nation, Do you understand what it is to have a Saviour? RO took your plane. Re bore your sin. He wept yoursorrows: He is her now to save yonr soul. A sol- dier, worn out in. his country's service, teok to the violin as a mode of earning his living. He was found in the streets of Vienna,. playing his violin ;but after a while his hand became feeble and trerau- Ions, and he could no more make music. One day, while he sat there weeping, a man passed along and said, "My friend, you are too old and too feeble; give me your violin"; and he took the ixtan's vielin and began to discourse most exquisite music, and the people gathered around in larger 9,nd larger multitudes, and the aged man held .his hat, and the coin poured in 'and poured. in until the hat was full, "Now," said the man who was playing the violin, "put that coin in your pockets." The coin was put m the old inan's pockets. Then he held his hat again, and the violinist played more sweetly than ever, and played until some of the people wept and some shouted. And again the hat was filled with coin. Then the violinist dropped the instru- ment and passed off, and the whisper went, "Who is it? who is ib?" end some- one just entering the crowd said, "Why, that is Bucher, the great violinist, known all through the realm; yes, that is the great violinist." The fact was, he had just taken the man' e place, and assumed his poverty, and borne his burden, and played. his music, and earned his liveli- hood, and made sacrifices for the poor old man. So the Lord Jesus Christ eomes down, and He finds us in our spiritual penury, and across the strings of His own broken heart He strikes a strain of in- finite music, which wins the attention of earth and heaven. He takes otir poverty. He plays our music. He weeps our sor- row. He dies our death. A SaCrifiCe for you. A sacrifice for me. Oh, will you accept this secrifice now? I do not single oat this an.d that man, and this and that woman. But I say all may come. The sacrifice is so great, all may be saved. Does it not seem to yon as if bea,ven was very near? I can feel its breath on nay cheek. God is near. Christ is near. The Holy Spirit is nean Ministering angels are near. Your Ohris- tian father near. Your glorified mother near. Your departed children near. Your redemption i$ near. THE FARM AND GARDEN. AMATEURS IN THE GARDEN. Notes of Interest to the Plower, Fruit and Vegetable Grower, and Talks on Trees and Shrubs. VETERINARY NOTES. Don't feed the cows heavily for ten days or two weeks after calving. If you want to know how to train a colt, ask some one who never had a colt to train. A poor cow can so effectually hide her- self among a lot of good. ones that the ordinary observer would never find her out. If all drivers were struck each time they strike a horse, whips would soon dis- appear. The "necessity" for them would cease. Provide as much fresh air for your horses on warm nights as possible. If they are kept in a stable where the doors must be dosed, have a slat door made. .Wherever clover can be grown it fur- nishes the cheapest source of nitrogenous manure, and nitrogen is the most expen sive of the elements in all complete man - A very large percentage of the sickness among our horses is due to the teeth be- ing m a bad condition. Have them looked after by some competent veterin- ary surgeon. A breeder that cannot recognize the merits of the various strains of blood and the good qualities of any animal, whether he owns it or not, will never make a suc- cess in the business. When you begin training the colt, al- ways do it with the open bridle. This allows him to see objects around him, and he thus learns that they are not going to harm him, and he is therefore not afraid of them. A REMEDY FOR THE BEA'VES. A subscriber to The Farm, Stock and Home, says he has never found a remedy tor heaves equal to the compound of eggs honey and vinegar. He beats three eggs, into one quart of pure fruit vinegar, and after about three days, or when the mix- ture is well together, he adds one pound, of strained honey. In tablespoonful doses it can. be given with the feed twice a day or placed on the tongue of the horse. LIVE STOCK NOTES. The flesh of a well-fed 0euieea is equal to that of a wild duck. Have a system in feeding; give an. al- lowance of varied food, all that they will eat up dean and yet want just a little more. Keep the stock hogs and young pigs growing, if not fattening right along. A. day peened without some grain is a day's ration lost. , ECONOMY or FEED. The fodder matter and feed grinder will have to come into service in many new quarters this year. The hay erop is al- ready settled and silage end foclder are the naturel substitutes for tho corn belt. Now the corn crop is aiso failing and the shortage will necessitate the most econ- omieal use at high-priced feed. Ground grain and cut feed will effect a large sav- ing, and where practicable shouldbe re- sorted to. Many use cheap grinders with wind power that soon pay lox themselves, and where greater capacity is wanted steam, horse or tread power, serves the purpose. Yeed cutters are made ii all sizes and patterns for hand or power use, These methods, 1 am well Ware, are often regarded too expensive to be praeti- cal; but when. corn. roaches fifty cents a, bushel, as it promises to unless crop con- ditions take a favorable turn, and hay Afteen dollars a ton,economy of feed is money saved, and this matter becomes a decidedly practical problem. MN NESTS.. HOW shall we make our hens' nests is 110,VadayS a question 11111611 discussed by poultrymm A. great many humbugs have boon invented—wire and cloth, or sack nests, 0(4—each one recommending hie or her invention, but none are as good. as the old box nest. Fill well with new straw or fine hay. Keep them SO they are tempting to the biddies. Wood is a great protector agginst uncleanness, of which cloth is not, wire is very good. No xnatter what kind of nests you use, always keep them dean. there is no part of the hen house worse to breed ver- min then the nest ie., The hen wants warmth to the nest in winter,ewhieh is what will drew the ver - Never allow one lot of straw to re. main over two weeks, unless the hen is sitting, then it is a good plan to throw in sulphar and lime =nod equally. It is a great enemy of lice and will not hurt the eggs at all; put this M twice during the three weeks of sitting, Do not let the pest get the best of you. One hour a woi,k, now will prevent ten days when the warmer weather comes on. Wheu you take old straw out of the nest always burn it. CO-OPERATIVE BUTTER -MAKING. The Maine Farmer gives these two rules for success in co-operative butter - making: 1. Keep the expense down to the low- est practicable figure. 2. Make good but- ter. Co-operative enterprises are fre- quently open to the criticism of not being particular in the Matter of expenses. For some reason no person hardly will pursue the same course in conducting public business or for a corporation that they would if conducting the same business for themselves,and especially is this true in the expenditure of money for expenses. There is no good reason why there should be any difference'but it is rare to find one who will use the money of others as carefully as they would if the same came out of their own pockets, and for that rea- son the advice comes with a good degree of force. The managers of a butter - making establishment should practice close economy not inconsistent with the interests of the establishment. And the making of good butter is one of the chief elements of success, for the reamu that good butter evil' find a ready sale at fair prices, while a poor article is a drug in the market at even a non-paying price. ABORTION IN COWS. The London. Times Stock Journal says that at the council meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society last month a detailed report from the special committee on abortion M cattle was submitted. So far as the enquiry had extended, the com- mittee believed that they -were justified in making the following recommendations: (1) For praetical purposes, and with a view to the adoption of the necessary precautions, the disease should. be deemed to be contagious. (2) for the purpose of prevention, strict sanitary precautions, including habitual cleansing and disin- fection of places where breeding cows are kept, should be insisted on, and particu- lar attention should be paid to the char- acter. of the food and the water with which the animals are supplied; (8) the treatment by the aid of antiseptics is cer- tainly to be recommended, and the evi- dence which has been already furnished in favor of the solution of bichloride of mercury appears to the committee to justify the advocacy of its general em- ployment in every case where the disease presents itself in a herd. It may be ad- visable to state that in view of its poison- ous nature it is necessary to guard against any injurious consequences arising to pigs or poultry from the careless disposal of the sweeping from the sheds in which this disinfectant has been used; (4) on the question of experiments for the pur- pose of proving whether or not the disease is of a contag ious character, the commit- tee do not feel justified in advising the society to expend a large sum of money in this direction.. At the same time it is impossible not to realize that a decision on that point is a matter of very consid- erable importance, and the committee re- commend that an additional sum of 2200 be placed at the disposal of the veterinary committee for the purpose of further sci- entific, investigations into the causes of abortion in cattle. USE FOR SUNFLOWERS. The Cultivator says that the yard. back of the house, shaded with fruit trees and too often a receptacle for waste water an.d kitchen slops, and it may be for discharge water from the kitchen. sink when there is no cesspool,iis often a source of mala- rial fever nfection, if not of typhoid fe- ver. When untsually filthy the latter is apt to be a result, but in less desperate cases there may be only slight malarial symptoms. These also may result where some uncultivated spot near the house re- ceives the evasli from the streets .and higher lands. To those who have such and do not desire to convert them into either a Rower garden or vegetable gar- den, or who may not think them adapted to either, we would suggest digging•them i over late n the fall, that the frost may work well upon them. In the spring plant sunflowers. which veill grow almost on any soil, from a sandbank to a mud - puddle, and which are said to be valuable in removing malarial germs from the soil or atmosphere. A back ground of sun- flowers is not a bad settingsoff for a coun- try residence, and the seeds are valuable for poultry feeding if not given too freely. Dandelions may be grown in such spots, no matter how shady, though in the shade they would scarcely be early enough to wed]. the high marlcet prices, but they would be none the less valuable for family- use; rhubarb plants and horse radish grow well in such spots, and the best row of currant bushes we ever saw was near a farmer's backdoor, where they received all the water from the kitchen sink, that was discharged, as it now is at many a farmhouse, upon the surface of the gromid. We b.ave thought sometimes that -such a discharge upon the surface, where mu, wind an.d rain conld purify it, ancl trees and shrobbery take up some of the waste matter in it, was 1.10t 0,5 danger- ous to the health of those in the house as the covered cesspool, where the waste matter lies negleeted a year at a time, emitting gas that Ends its way bs.ok through the pipes to the kitchen again, and thence through the whole house, spreading most freely when the outer doors are eloeed and the family are in their sleeping rooms. A Pamily of Feline Freaks. When an Auburn pussy took the first census of her brand new faraily the other day her back arched in consternation. One kitten had but one eye end this was squarely in the center of its forehead. Another that ha&seven toes on one foot, a third lacked a tail, and the fourth and last was all there and no more, but it looked lonesome in the anklet of the ag- gregation of freaks. All kittens were apparently hearty, but mtt of deference to the mother cat's evicioxib feelino's the curiosities were consigned to the silent tomb.