The Exeter Advocate, 1895-2-21, Page 2MISCELLANEOUS Ii;EADINNG
A1V D OTHERYV ISE.
Interesting Reading Culled Prem. many
Sources, of Interest to the 'Young as
well as the Old.
Another Reputation Ruined..
$ hush fella on the crowded pond,
The s'.,ators all Atauti still•
Hach feels put:titin:; through his veins
A momentary thrall;
And now, with interest and pride,
The small boy s heart dilates,
For/10W at last he's going tc see
His honoree pa on skates,
Ile's often hoard the old man tell
Of what he used to do
When he was vows the `figure eight,"
And the "spread eagle:" too
The "grapevine" autt the "outside edge,"
Toe �"Virginia rail fence,"
And he knows what he's going to see
Is going to be immense
And pa strikesails*
out aila
His heart quite free from fears.
Although he hasn't put on skates
Before far thirty years,
He strikes so bravely out, in fact,
He cuts too wide a dash-
One
ash-
a A d dawn h goes kei foot
1 left-
And
ett -
He does.r't roily break the VA-
R is ten inches thick -
But just the thought of skating noir
Mases him extremely sick.
Belimpe calibre ala+, alone1
The small boy didn't wait;
He'll sneer when la tells stories now
Of how he used t,., sate,
The Daugerreotype.
You bey to holt itsldewise
Per to make the lightness show,
'Cuz it a skit uti airs an' shifty
Till r ou git it right -'bout so 1
An' the eyes winks at veh,
.Ali' the mouth is cherry -ripe.
Law 1 it heats year new •etyle pieters,-
This old diggerytype 1
Thar's ablush at'rostthe dimples
Thet burrows in the cheeks;
F'om out them clumps o' ringlets
i'wolittle small ears peeps,
Thet brooch thet fines her neck -gear
is what they used to wear
A big gold iramethet sprawled around
a lock o'—some one's hair.
'Twas took 'fore we was married,
Thet there—.r our maw an' me.
An' times ' study ou it,
Why, 't fazes me to see
Thet fifty year ain't teched her
A. liek l she's jest the same
She was when .�,ndie Seriggens
Took Boone C. Curd's name,
The hair is mebbv whiter
'An it was in '41,.
But her cheeks is jest as pinky,
An' her smiles ain't slacked up nose,
1 reckon-love-er somethin'
Yerluminates her face,
Like the crimson't velvet linin'
Warms up the picter-case.
'3 t say, these eyard.boa'd portraits,
They make me sort uh tired,
Agri nein' t orf nun yeti
Like their very lips was wired 1
Give ree the old digerrytype.
\Phar the fare steals on your sight
Like a drenm that comes by night-time
w nen your supper's actin' right.
the form of cheery "Good morning's"
"'i'kianic you's," whieh she scatters
through her days, earn for her willing,
often devoted, service, and are most .efiice-
ent aids in helping the household ma-
ohinery to move on without jars,
The woman who, on leaving her room
in the morning, passes her housemaid in
the hall without notice, unless to rebuke
thegirl for not having done her work be-
fore, is a boor no matter whatbe her
social statics n and her fellow is the wo-
man in the boarding house who brushes
past her neighbors •without more recog-
nition thaw she would accord a stone, and
eats her meals in stolid silence -which
she unially considers dignified reserve.
Easy and pleasant recognition of per-
sons 'with whom she is for the moment
thrown in contact marks the woman of
cultured heart as welt as brain, and im-
plies no further acquaintance unless it
should be mutually desired. The woman
who is afraid, on occasion, to speak tour.
teously toa stranger, or proffer needed
service or information, must be very tui -
certain of her own position. ---From "Eti-
quette of Everyday Life," in Demorest's
Magazine for February. ,�
Blasts From the Rana's Horn.
God's supply trains are never behind
time a minute.
The devil gets a good deal of help from
the stingy moi.
Whatever sin has caused iu others it
may cause in us,
Heart work cannot be paid for in.
money.
God can do most for the one who trusts
him most.
The good do not die. They rest in God.
Succ• SS is sure in any work when we
have God for our beginning.
Keep your heart shining and you will
soon have a face to match it.
One of the greatest foes the devil ever
had is a Christian mother.
Keep yourself under the blood of Christ
and God will keep you safe.
There are hymns of praise in every
Christian heart that cannot be written.
To do all the good we can itt life, we
must not let a clay pass without doing
some.
If we are faithful in the face of seem-
ing defeat, God will see to it that we have
victory.
The man who is anxiots to de right
may depend upon it that God wants to
help him.
Stub Ends of Thought.
Envy is culpable selfishness.
A. man is known by the eompany be
keeps.
A woman's conscience lives in her
heart.
True charity does not give what is ask-
ed but what is needed.
Lawyers work in the cause of justice;
doctor- ixi the eause of mercy.
A woman is not really beautiful until
she is beautiful to a blind Irian.
Time is that part of etity allowed
us to make a fair showing in the remain-
der.
Too many good people expect pie when
they say : "Give us this day our daily
bread."
A man may not eat his cake and have
it, but some men eat theirs and then do
what they can to have that of other peo-
ple.
Healing Properties in Ashes.
Some of the best known physicians in
Russia are strongly advocating the- adop-
tion in the government hospitals of an
old Cossack custom of treating cuts and
wounds with ashes, says the New York
Sun. The Cassock peasantry have treated
cases in this fashion from time immemor-
ial, and Dr. Parshkoff, a Russian physi-
cian, who has been studying the treat-
ment, recently said in an interview in a
Russian medical journal : "I strongly re-
commend the treating of severe cuts and
wounds with ashes. Experiment has con-
vinced me of the thorough efficacy of the
treatment, and, in addition, it is cheap,
takes little time to arrange, and does
away with bulky bandages, which have
always been the bane of nurses and phy-
sicians. The best ashes are those result-
ing from the burning of some cotton stuff
or linen, and only a very thin layer
should be applied. If the wound has
been made by some dirty instrument and
there is danger of blood poisoning, it
should be first washed thoroughly with a
lotion. The ashes with the blood forms
a hard substance, under which the most
severe cuts heal -with remarkable rapid-
ity." Dr. Pashkoff has experimented
with ashes on twenty-eight eases of eute,
and only two of the entire number failed
to result successfully. These eases would
have been cured too, had not the nurses
failed to apply prescribed lotions to the
wounds before the physician took them
in charge. It is extremely probable that
the ashes treatment will be adopted in
the St. Petersburg hospitals before long.
PUSSY FOD 01111' SWIMMING.
A. Philadelphia Gat That is Also An
Expert at Catching Fish.
There is in the Philadelphia zoo a little
house, near that occupied by the reptiles,
which is one of the most interesting and
yet least frequented, probably, of the
buildings. One of the curious animals
in it isa cat. It doesn't seem to be a
particularly wonderful cat, but it is.
Perhaps no animal is as much afraid of
water as a feline, unless it is a school boy.
Yet this cat in the zoo delights in water,
It eau swim like a dog and dive like a
processional diver. If is this wild state,
while it went swimming along the stream,
it spied a fish darting along underneath
it, splash the cat would go head first after
the fleeing ,fish and would soon emerge
with it in its mouth. Then it would
swim to the bank, climb a tree and make
a cull lunch of the fish, When it was
through it would pink its teeth with the
bones sod go swimming out for more.
This cat rejoices in the name of Felix. It
lives on fish, principally, although it has
degenerated to such an extent that it will
eat other things. Felix has a yearning for
rain, One day there was a leak in the
roof over the cage next to his and the
rain came dropping down on his fellow
captive's back. This animal howled, be-
cause it objected to being in a perpetual
shower bath, and Felix was mad because
he thought he was being unjustly dis-
oriminated against. He hurled himself
against the bars of his neighbor's cage
and called for blood. The other oeeu-
pants of the building were surprised,
They took sides -with one or the other and
joined in the howls of protest.
The keepers did not know what was the
matter at first. F?naily they saw Felix
trying to get his tail vet in his neighbor's
cage, and then they comprehended. But
instead of cheupinee the cage so that both
would be satisfied they stopped up the
leak. Felix is a mild sort of an animal,
at d when he is not trying to drown him-
self he crawls up in a heap and sleeps.
He came from Africa originally, where it
is said that ha was the champion long
distance swimmer of the neighborhood.
His only rival choked on a fish bong at a
banquet one day, and thus gave him a
clear title to first place.
Remember that while God's eye is on
the sparrow he will not forget his child.
No matter what appearances may be
the road God pointe ant is always the
best.
Every s'nful pleasure kills a real bless-
ing that God wants to have dwell in the
heart.
We lose nothing by going it.to the fiery
furnace, when we go there for Ohrist.
If our faults were written on oar faces,
how quick we would all hang our heads.
The first drink cannot be taken with-
out giving the devil a mortgage on the
soul.
The man who lives only for himself
will not have many mourners at his
funeral.
Has anyone ever starved because he
got a stone from G•od when he asked for
bread?
He Was Not a Dude.
While walking along Third street one
day a reply made by a youngster set a re-
porter to thinking what a strange mixture
a street gamin is.
The rain was coming down in perfect
torrents ; the umbrella, the newsman car-
ried afforded Little protection, and before
him walkedthisyoungster of ten or twelve
perfectly unconeerned.
Thinking to do him a kindness the re
porter asked if he was going in his direc-
tion and invited him to Dome and get out
of the wet under his umbrella.
The fellow stopped, and sticking his
hands deep within the pockets of his rag-
ged trousers looked Up. The rain slowly
tricklei down his checks, seeming like
tears; his lips were blue 'with cold, but
with as solemn a face as e ohild of his
years mold put on, he replied :
"Say, dus yese take me fur a dude ? I
ain't a baby. I can swim."
,:,Courtesy Begins at Horne.
Coni tesy begins at home, and should be
put on with one a slippers when the feet
are thrust out of bed in the morning,
Let me see a women meet her servants in
the mernin'r, en 1 I can tell you if she be
aentlewom to or no. The thoroughbred
lady -in the n1d acceptation of the word
-leis a kindly greeting for every fellow
ereatore, no matter now lowly, with
whom her Iit`o throe slew in frequent con-
tact; and tho (little wayside flowers, in
Don't snob the Boys.
Don't snub a boy because he wears
shabby clothes. When Edison, the in-
ventor, first entered Boston he wore a
pair of yellow linen breeches in the depth
of winter.
Don't snub a boy because of the ignor-
ance of his parents. Shakespeare, the
world's poet, was the son of a man who
was unable to write his own name.
Don't snub a boy because his home is
plain and unpretending: Abraham Lin-
coln's early home was a log cabin.
D .n't smile a boy because he chooses an
humble trade. The authar of the "Pil-
grim's Progress" was a tinker.
Don't snub a boy because of his physi-
cal deformity. Milton was blind.
Don't snub a boy because of dullness in
his lesson. Hogarth, the celebrated paint-
er and engraver, was a stupid boy at his
books.
Don't snub a boy because he stutters.
Demosthenes, the great orator of Greece,
overcame a harsh and stammering voice.
Don't snub him for any reason. Not
only because he may some day outstrip
you in the race of life, but because it is
neither kind, nor right, nor Christian.
A Clever Retort.
That was a clever retort which a labor-
er once made to Lord Chancellor Camden
of England. It appears tbat in conse-
quence of the interest which the Lord
Chancellor took on behalf of Wilkes, he
became so popular that the parishioners
of Chiselhurst, where he resided, made
him a present of ten acres of common.
His lordship, who was a very early riser,
was the first to discover, in one of his
morning walks, that a poor widow who
resided on the common had all her geese
stolen during the previous night. He
chanced to meet a laborer going to work,
and thinking from being wrapped up in
his great -coat that he was uiiknown to
the man, he inquired of him respecting
the geese, and asked him if he knew what
punishment would be inflicted on the of-
fender who stole the geese from the com-
mon. The man answered, "No."
"Well, then," said his lordship, "he
would be transported for sev' n years."
"If that is the ease," replied the labor-
er, "I will thank your lordship to tell me
what punishment the law would inflict
on the man who stole the common from
the geese." -From Harper's Young Peo-
When You're a Bride.
Married in white,
You have chosen all right.
Married in gray,
You will go far away.
Married in black,
You wiilwish yourself back.
Married in red,
You'd better be dead.
Married in green,
Ashamed to be seen.
Married in blue,
You'll always be true,
Married in pearl,
You'll live in a whirl.
Married in yellow,
Ashamed of the fellow.
Married in brown,
You'll live out of town.
Married in pink,
Your spirits will sink.
"In fact, his exaot words were that be
proposed to lead her a merry dance."
',It's time he did."
"Do you really mean that?" she asked
anxiously.
"Of ourse I do, I---" Then he stop-
ped and looked at his wife sharply, '"Look
here, 3'ane," he said. „What are you
driving at?"
"Well, he ended by explaining that he
meant be would take her to the charity
ball, and if you really thinit that it's
time—"
"'I'll take you, t he interrupted quickly,
""You've earned it, but I want it distinct-
ly understood that I will never listen to
neighborhood gossip again,"
Then he settled back in hischair and
growled., all the rest of the evening.
Ile stood Out For Acquittal
"I saw a man seven iron life imprison-
ment or hanging once by the one wise
than on a jury, who stoon out against
eleven fools," said T. J. Stec hens, of'Bal-
timore, at the Laclede. "The man was
found, standing over a dead body in a
field with a knife in his hand and blood
smeared over his clothes. He swore he
had found the man lying dead and had
drawn the knife from the wound, where
the murderer had left it sticking. It was
shown that the men were enemies and
that the accused had even threatened re-
peatedly to kill him. On this and other,
circumstantial evidence eleven of the jury
were for conviction. The foreman alone
stood out, and so steadfastly that at
length, one by one, the others joined him,
and the prisoner was acquitted. Many
thought the man guilty, and he finally
left the country because of the cold
shoulder he got from old friends. Years
afterward, when the foreman of the jury
was dying, ho acknowledged that he kill-
ed the man himself. It was in self-de-
fence, but he had no' witness to prove it.
When the innocent man was arrested he
managed to get on a jury, determined to
save him, and lee said if he had been un-
able to do so otherwise he would have told
the truth."
Something for Girls.
I am not one of those people who fancy
it a dreadful thing for boys and girls to
be friends. Why should there be any
question on the matter ? I am sorry
when I notice, as I do once in a while, a
tendency on the part of a girl to blush
and simper and look conscious when boys
are around. This is very silly indeed,
and no sen,;ible girl does it. Boys and
girls should bo comrades, and should
meet and know each other in a simple
natural fashion, as brothers and sisters
do. Now that winter is here with its
chances for out -door sport -skating,
sleighing, tobogganing, and whatever
else winter brings in its train, the young
people of a neighborhood ought to have
many delightful outings in common.
And if, as is often the the case; the sons
and daughters of certain families are in
school together, side by side in recita-
tions, there is all the more chance for
their having fun when school is over.
Jack is apt to be polita to Jill if she has
helped him out in bis arithmetic. Do
you remember Whittier's pretty stanzas
about the school -house and the little scene
he recalls? -
"I'm sorry that 1 spelt the word,
I hate to go above you,"
Never, dear girls, indulge in anything
which has an air of mystery in your deal-
ings with boy friends. Let the walks and
talks and drives be open and under the
eye of your older friends, and you will
find that the breezy, bright companion-
ship o a clever boy will be a thing worth
having.
Sisters should look out for their broth-
ers in countless little ways. A sister can
make home so pleasant and cheery that
her brother will prefer it of an evening
to any other place. She may take pride
in having her brother's escort when she
goes about, and even if she does not par-
ticnlarly care to go somewhere when he
proposes it for amusement, she will oblige
him if she is the loving and unselfish sis-
ter I have in mind, and sacrifice her own
inclination to keep him company. -From
Harper's Young People.
It is Past.
The seasons of sadness and gloom have
begun fox the small boy. Christmas week
and New Year's are over and now the
hard prosaic life begins. No more fire-
crackers, no more Christmas trappings,
no more holiday --school is the nexttning
on the calendar. What a long, dreary,
cheerless blank strstehes benne young
Canada. The saddest words of tongue
or pen to him are these : "Holiday is
over " After a season of holiday gayety,
witbout the work of schoolbooks or other
commonplaces, the days are dull inde' d
for the average boy, It is such a li ng
time until there will be another holiday
or vacation. Itis enoilgh to steep the
soul in gloom. Despondently he mopes
around cross and unhappy,. Life i$ hard-
ly worth living in his eyes jest xiow,- and
he can't see wey there can't be more
Christmasses. It wouldn't iiicolivoniextee
a .'body. anus it would be lots jollier.
Recent Inventions.
An electric hair -curler of the simplest
possible construction appears to be a ma-
chine like a small garden roller. A but-
ton is,1 pressed, switching on an electric
current from the handle, the roller is run
over the head, and in a few minutes the
hair is one mass of curling circles.
An ingenious novice is being brought
out in Birmingham for locking the steer-
ing gear of bicycles. By aturn of the
key, it is stated, the front wheel of the
machine can be locked in any position.
If the bicycle is left standing at the side
of the pavement( -with the steering gear
locked, and a thief jumps on to ride off
with it, he will soon find himself in dif-
ficulties.
American W onian's Dictionary.
Ineorrect-Largo bills.,
Opera -Full-dress music.
Antique -Last season's hat.
Good-Ohildren on Christmas eve.
Lie -An untruth that is found out.
Home -A. dormitory for family use.
N amp Something in need of change.
Wisdom -Unlearning things we never
knew.
Year -A period of 865 days before the
age of twenty-five.
Economizing -Saving on the church to
spend. ou dress.
Quarrel -An angry dispute that some
one has with us.
Rabble -The guests at a function where
we have not been invited.
Vivisection -Picking one's friends to
pieces for the public good.
Xylophagous-Feeding on wood or a
young wife's fast cookery.
Business -A mysterious arrangement
whereby men make less money than their
wives need.
Theater -A. public building in which
to converse while plays are enacted upon
a raised stage or dais.
Mouse -A rodent quadruped of elastic
proportions capable of assuming gigantic
size and great ferocity.
Knife -An instrument consisting of a
thin, dull blade of steel, used in tearing
or haggling soft substances asunder.
Uproar -Many simultaneous sounds, as
several voices speaking at one time. (See
Ladies' Sewing Circle; also Suffrage meet-
ing).
Jealousy :Entertaining painful appre-
hensions of rivalship. A quality no wo-
man herself has ever possessed, but which
she has sometimes observed in the posses-
sion of others.
Zanzibar -A place useful for depositing
old clothes with missionaries.
TIDE FARM AND GARDEN
AMATEURS IN THE GARDEN.
Notes of Interest to the Flower, Fruit
and Vegetable Grower, and Talks.
on Tree* and Shrubs.
Diplomat of the Household..
"Did you hoar about Mrs. Do Billings?"
asked the wifesignificantly as the hus-
band settled himself comfortably in his
armchair.
"No. What about her?" ho askeb sus-
piciously.
"Well, there's a little gossip going
around the neighborhood that may mean
something. You know how fond of gaiety
she is ?"
"Oh, yes."
"And how Mx. De fillings hates so-
eiety ?
"Yes."
"And how, as a result, she got in the
habit of going out with other mon ? '
"Yen
"Well, 1 heard huts say not night that
he was tirod of that sort of thing."
'I den't blame hint."
"And that be proposal to stop it."
"Ile ought to,"
EGOS TN worrm S.
Years ago, says E. H. Davis in the
Poultry Monthly, the poultry business
was not as lucrative as it is at the pres-
eat time. During the winter months, al-
though our poultry was well sheltered
and fed and great care used to keep the
buildings clean, giving plenty of fresh
water, air, etc., we found at the opening
of the spring we had no remuneration
for our labor, as cost of grain, scraps,
potatoes, etc., far exceeded the income of
eggs.
r0 have now a better way of feeding
and most excellent results have followed.
We feed cut green bones in fair quantity,
every other day, and some of the time`
every day. They are inexpensive, and
with a good bone cutter they make when
out fresh every day so nice a food that we
can only liken it to a nice rare steak to a
hungry man. The fowls love it. They
thrive, and the .chickens grow rapidly
when fed on it. The mineral part of this
food gives chickens material for their
growing bones, and for the laying hens
the shells, while the meat, gristle and
juices in these green bones give material
for the flesh to the growing. chickens and
interior of the egg in abundance.
So now our fowls, instead of being over -
f at in winter, are giving us eggs. Instead
of being a sorry looking, dejected, unpro-
fitable lot during the molting period, they
are wide awake and strong, and many of
them go so far as to give us eggs regular-
ly at this time. The grain bill being
largely reduced, the egg yield being in-
creased and no loss from sickness, all aid
in making our winter and spring record
very encouraging, and no one could in-
duce us to neglect the feeding of green
bong freshly cut at all seasons of the
year.
" Greenies Not All from the West.
"Some of the greenest people in the
world come from the old settled states,"
remarked the head clerk of an uptown
hotel. "Some of our far western guests
are a trifle crude in dress and care little
for style at the dinner table, but they
never refrain from pressing the electric
buttons about the house for fear it will
call out the fire department. I have
known rural visitors from the interior of
New York state . to abstain on the repre-
sentation of the mischievous bellboys,
who had caught on to their verdancy,
and who would walk down six flights of
stairs to make known their every want."
EXCHANGING STUPIDITIES.
The Fair Creatures Are Altogether Dear
if They do Blund er.
"Let's tell the stupidest things we ever
did in our lives," suggested the society
girl, one of a group sipping chocolate in
a confectionary store.
-'Put it in the present tense," said the
girl with the side combs in her bangs. "I
regularly light my alcohol light with the
greatest trouble, and when I have coaxed
it into a blue flame, shut a drawer im-
mediately below it, and whiff 1 -out she
goes."
"That's nothing," said the girl with
her hair parted in a straight line, "I
used to make afternoon tea for mommer,
but every time I lit the spirit lamp I
set fire to the lace draperies in the alcove
and called out the fire department."
"How awfully swell," said the girl in
the picture hat. ' Now my forte is fRil-
ing down stairs. I never visit anywhere
without getting up an excitement of that
kind. I just forget about my unfortu-
nate habit, and instead of clinging to the
balusters, tumbledown in a heap."
"Girls, you experience isn't a dream -
stance to mine," said the blonde bud,
holding her spoon in the air. "You
know that dear Persimmons boy -just
home from Europe -lots of money -lisps
and wears eyeglasses. Well, didn't he
go home with me the other night from
the Smith function, and when he left me
at the door he had my fan in his pocket
and forgot to give it to me."
"You never seized him for it?"
"Girls, I did. Waisii't it awful? I lost
the opportunity of guy life."
That ended the sossion of the dear stu-
pids for that day.
INTERBREEDING POULTRY.
An English writer remarks, says a cor-
respondent of Farm Poultry, that he has
bred in and from almost all varieties of
pigeons, rabbits, pigs, canaries and num-
erous varieties of flowers and vegetables
In each and every case he found that for
the first few generations they improved
and finally degenerated ; in animals, in-
variably, diseases of the head are promin-
ent; in flowers andvegetables it produced
general delicacy.
So long as man confines himself to the
species and does not breed too near akin
he will be successful in producing useful
animals. especially in the first cross, but
it is against nature to decrease the natur-
al size of any animal's head. Itis against
nature also to see a four-year-old heifer
standing on four legs that would well be-
come a full bred yearling colt.
If all this is true in other stock, why
not in poultry 1 If judicious crossing will
give the farmer increased benefit, why
should he resort to inbred stock? We do
not wish to be understood that we con-
sider pure bred stock unfit for the farmer,
but we do say that a changeable standard
has compelled our fanciers to resort to
methods that have in a measure spoiled
the utility points of many of our best
breeds, driven them to the wall and scar-
ed the farmer to such an extent that he is
afraid of pure bred stock. The white
face of the Spanish, the huge crest of the
Polish and the lacing and barring and
other requirements have crippled and al-
most killed the worth of the noblest var-
ieties we have ever had. Rather than
farm with such stock the farmer had bet-
ter use fust crosses.
But we must not go beyond the original
cross. In other words, if we mate two
varieties of thoroughbreds, we must not
remate the progeny. It would be suicidal
and would drift us on to mongrelism. The
dunghill is the result of haphazard cross-
ing. We can use three breeds if we wish
HI our experiments -for instance, Min-
orca or Plymouth Rock, and to the pul-
lets of the cross mate Langshan. In that
way we get a part benefit of the three
breeds in one.
The prime reason for crossing is to get
better meat qualities. We do not believe
that any cross can be originated that will
give better egg records than the birds in
their purity -that is, we believe that the
best laying cross -bred hen will not lay
any more eggs than the best laying pure
bred. But, on the. other hand, we know
that a flock of cross -bred hens will give
more eggs during winter than a like flock
of thoroughbreds. The prime cause for
this is hardiness, the former being more
hardy than the latter.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
In the majority of cases the best mar-
ket for poor chickens is at home.
The imports of Manitoba *heat from
Buil'alo to which point considerable quaff -
titles were brought down from Port
Arthur in bated before the close of lane
navigation, cause oansidorable comment
among the :trade here. It is stated that
:tdtion may be tekou tai the part of Cent
ltdian holders of !Manitoba wheat L) iin-
,: 17rbushel
a menti f ,. per duty
p y
oil this wheat et ling from Buffalo.
When pigs are fed upon a well-balanced
ration from the beginning they are said
to put on fat and lean about uniformly,
but if kept short until six months old
and then grain fed they make mostly fat.
Wooden hen houses are often not made
warm enough, or rather the temperature
inside various too quickly when it varies
outside, Some prevent this by sheeting
up on the inside, and even filling the
spaces between the outside and the inside
boards with straw, shavings or other ma-
terial, This itt objectionable by reason
of furnishing a hiding and breeding place
for rats and weasels, as well as for the
smaller vermin that are a pest to every
poultry keeper. A better way is to give
the inside wall two or three coatings of
pine tar, welch costs but little, allowing
all but the last to harden. On the last
coat spread felt, but if that is too expen-
si'e heavy brown paper may be used.
This will keep out all draughts of air and
all dampness, and afford no hiding place
for vermin. There is no better material
for the floor than the earth, but it should
be higher than the earth outside, so that
no water can run in, and should have at
the surface a few inches of dry sand or
road dost for them to scratch in. A few
Loads, barrow loads or carloads, accord-
ing to the size of the.bui"lding, should be
put in some convenient dry place, that
this dry earth may be renewed when that
on the top has become foul with the drop-
pings.
It has been claimed that hens possess-
ing the largest combs are the best layers.
If by such it is meant that when the
combs are large, bright and red the hens
are laying., the claim is true, but if it is
intended to infer that breeds with large
c .gobs lay more eggs than breeds with
smell eombs, then the claim is not sup.
ported by facts. The Light Brahma has
>i srrlallpea oamb,and yet it rinks as one
r.f the. 'hest of our breeds as an egg pro-
decor,
ro-
c , er, It so ha - ens that near( y all of
tae pp v
...g h .. .
i7 breeds lis 0
the nun -sett? 'V er
to large
b y
g
Your husband w it l notice a great
improvement Ill your cooking,.
when
You .e•.
a .� ''0L.ENE
Your house will not be filled with
the odor of hot lard* when
you Ine T' LENE
Your doctor will lose some of his
Dyspepsia cu:.es, when
crr
You use ,oLENE
Your children can safely eat the
same food as yourself, when NE
V.11.1
Your money will be saved, and
your cooking praised, when
yo u �,.rle7p�?,iC LE NE
Famous cooks, prominent phy-
sicians and thousands of every-
day housekeepers endorse it.
Will you give it a trial?
Sold in itandb pound pails, by all grocer&.
• Mude only by
Thos. K. Fnirbank
Catepany,
Welllsgtou and Ann Sty.,
niowriaktAlL,
combs, but it is not conceded that non -
sitters lay more eggs in a year than the
sitters. The large oomb does,.however,
indicate that the hen is laying. Her
comb will not remain large after she
ceases to lay, but becomes pale and shriv-
els. After she has rested or hatched a
brood the comb soon begins to swoll again,
becomes of a bright scarlet rod, and may
be nearly twice as large as when she is
not laying. The bright red comb is an
indication of health in both sexes, and as
the laying hen would not lay unless in:
good condition her comb is naturally
large and red during that time.
Every breeder of road horses should en-
deavor to breed as fax as liossible with a
view to matching up good road teams.
Here is a market that will never be over-
stocked, and it admits of variation be
size. The man that breeds road hones
should never forget that appearances are
everything with him. A horse may sett
on pedigree in very ordinary condition,
but in a road horse everything must be
put forward to the best possible advant-
age. It is a gift to be able to hitch up a
horse or a pair of horses in the most at-
tractive manner and show them to the
best advantage, and if you have not this
gift is there not some business for whish
yon have more adaptation and in which
you are more likely to succeed than to
engage in breeding trotters or road
horses ?
To cure mange in a dog wash the dog
all over with warm water and soap to
remove scabs and dirt ; when nearly dry
apply the following oin*ment, rubbing it
well into the hair : 031 al tar, 2 oz.; sul-
phur, 4 oz.; lard, 8 oz.; mix. In about
four days wash as before and apply the
ointment again. Continue to repeat the
application as long as there is any rub-
bing or scratching. The dog kennel
should be thoroughly scrubbed with boil-
ing water made strong with ley, and,
when dry, the kennel should be saturated
with the following ; Corrosive sublimate,
1 oz.; salt, 1 oz.; water, 1 gal.; mix. All
straw which has been used by the dog as
a bed should be burned, and rugs should
either be burned or thoroughly scalded.
Mane is often very difficult to get rid of,
and if every precaution is not taken in
cleaning up it is liable to return as bad
as ever in a few weeks.
FASTENING ANIMALS IN THE STABLE.
With regard to live stock, the merciful
man will make even his stable comfort-
able. Horses, cattle and sheep must not
only be fed and watered, but they must
be housed, whether in barns or folds or.
stables.
Valuable horses are kept in single,
roomy stalls and generally are not con-
fined by halters. Others are tied up,
sometimes in single or double stalls.
Mates of good disposition can be made
comfortable in double stalls.
Brood mares should have a single stall.
Sheep may be put by fifties or hundreds
in a single fold, but this should be so
large that all and each can get at the
feed at the same time.
Cattle, especially the milky mothers•of
the herd, should have a full sharp of the
farmer's care and attention. They can -
'not be herded together in the fold like
sheep. They can, however, be made
c mfortable in stalls without extra par-
titions.
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PAYiM CURT.
THE
MOST SUCCESSFUL REMEDY
FOR MAN OR BEAST.
Certain in its °meets and never busters,
Rodd proofs below:
KENDALL'S SPAVIN DUDE.
Box 0E .darman lionderson Co., 111., Yoh.29,'R.
Dr. R. J. *ENnALt, 00.
Dead 8ir'a—Plea43 sand mo ono of your Horse
Rooks and oblige. 1 have used a groat coal of your
ICondaip3Spsvin Coro with goodiiteeess • it is a
wonderful medlcino. 1 once Iiid a mart, that M,t
an eosalt Fisica and 11th bottles cured her. I
keep a bottle en baud ell tho time.
Yo r truly, Cnis, fowttr.
KENDAL S SPA4��i DDES
CANTON, aro., Apr. 3,'02.
nr. B, J. IC17NnALL Co.
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think it the boli, Lintnnent yer I oused. Noe ,'a
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