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The Brussels Post, 1891-8-21, Page 7U([1' 2 1, 101 AGRIOULTURA.L, zoop the °Woke Grotelng, Our aiaks are cooped quite near the dwelling homie until they are nix week. old. Amu t that Lime we take away the mother - hens, unite two tenant% in no (of twenty. two or (hirty) ftnO colonize them In the or. dinavy " A " coope, each flunity being fifty to sixty feet apart, and given free vange. These colouies are spread oat over a gravel ridge (wall grassed over) running north from our poultryhoutent, end le bordered on one side by mowing holds, and on the other by the cow pasture, aud the chicks do no harm wherever they go. We said we gave them free range. We make pens about twelve foot square, of sections of four -foot fenre, to confine them two oe throe days and get them familiar with their new home, then take down the fence and let them range, The breakfast is bread crumbs, continued until they are about ten weeks old, when they are graduated into the morning inanh such as we feed to oue fowls, About ten o'clock they have a feed of the coarsest oatmeal moistened ; about half past one o'clock a light feed of cracked wheat or cracked barley (the latter 18 11 by •tetelitot of n cereal manufactory end an excellent food), and about five o'clock, whole wheat or cracked corn, one, one day, the other the next, Twice a week we have fresh tneat (butcher's trimmings) cooked and chopped, whioh is mixell in with the coarsest, oatmeal (abou( half and half) for the sec- ond feed, NV° have, also, a Mann bone cutter, and twice or three times a week the °hicks have a good wrestling and tumb- ling over each other in theit eagerness to get the fresh cut bone, Not having a bone cutter, we should mix some bone -meal into the moistened bread crumbs for breakfast, and about three times a week we sprinkle in a little Sheridan's condition powder as a tondiment to promote digestion and. good health. We intend to vary the food -ration, continually, within the range here described For instance, one day the feed will be bread crumbs, oatmeal, cracked wheat, crack corn; the next day, bread crumbs, oatmeal, and chopped meat, cracked barley, whole wheat; the next day, bread crumbs, cut bone, oat- meal, cracked corn and so oa. The rule is to feed only what elle chicks will eat up clean and quickly, but we break over the rule so far as the last feed is concerned, and the boy goes around a second time, twenty to thirty minutes after feeding, and if it is all eaten up clean three or four handfule more are put down, so that all shall have a chance to ' till up '' for the night. If a handful is left uneaten it quickly disappears in the morning, and as it is always dry grain it does uot sour, and there is no dan- ger from leaving a little. Emit water is supplied them throe times a day, and (praa- tiredly) is always by them, so they can drink as they choose. Grit, in the shape of screened gravel, is also always by them, and ground oyster shells are„eiven them about twice a week.-1Fitrin Poultry. --- Keep Mere Sheep, 911.31.1.981 .13,1=WA111.1 is•11 rior quality of food or a 1)1)1' 011 eon - ditto)) of the 010)011, The cow ut pasture I1(0 y eat of the bitter weed known as ” romite wormwood " or by other elittses, or of other bitter weeria, of: of the leaves of yoling trims, and the amid juleee nitiy impart a flavor to her mint. This 000005 SO11011 the pasturea are scanty in feed of a better rtuality, but also eotnetimes When the cesi, i$ not in the beet of physical emulltion, and seems to prescribe " spring bitters " for herself. eating them front elwice, It some. times will be found in the milk of cows that aro near their One of calving without drying oft, and at other time when the cows hove been subjected to &midden change of feed, or have had something to cause indigestion. It then resembles biliousness or jaundice in the human ram, and may often be tleteoted in the name way, by the yellowish tinge of the " white" of the eye or the lining 01 (115 noatrits, and on very light•skinned animals on the skin. In this case give a purgative, which may be one poinnt of epsom salts, halt -pound of table salt, half an ounce of ginger dissolved in two or three quarts of water, sweetened with inolaaeos, and giro es a drench, and 08- 11801 0)) the second morning if there la not a great impt.ovement. Or a strong dose of thoroughwort tea, 110( 1088 than one quart made sweet and elven in the mine:way, may be equally effectual. Do not feed heavily of grain for a day or two, or turn into very rich pasture. Oxen are move frequently subject to biliousness or jaundice than milch cows, and may be treated in the same way, but if heavier require larger doses. If the whole herd or several of them are affected, look for the first cause in the feed, and remedy that at once by a change of pasture, or ceasing to feed damaged geain or vege- tables that are past their best condition and have begun to decay, or by gwing feed enough at the barn to stop them from eating anything hut the best grasses thef can find.. -- Teaohing Horses to Stand. An old horseman gives the following es hismethod of training horses to stand without, being tied: After young horses have once bosom° bridlewise, I first endeavor to teach them the meaning of ovary word I say to them. This is not a diHicult matter, provid- ed too many words are not used at once. The first step is to adopt some word at the sound of which they are to understand they must stop. Words which are easy to speak and which can be made emphatic, should be ahosee, such as " ho," " whoa," eta., and every time the word is used the horse to which it is spoken should be made to obey it fully. Carelessness in regard to this matter will do more to undo what has been taught than anything else. When a horse fully understands the meaning of the word which you use when you wish him to stop and stand atilt, the greater part of the work is accomplished. Ile then can be trusted with • afety while you leave him a, short time. To take no risk, and tomtit° the work more effective, it a good plan for two to get into the vehicle to which a horse is hitched, arid, having stopped after a short drive, one should get out and leave him at a short distance. Should the horse then start, the one in the vehicle can then draw tho lines suddenly, and thus prevent, his uotting away. There will be no trouble ia teaching any horse with an ordinary amount of good sense to stand as long as 31011 desire without being hitched, if a little Judgment is used in at. tempting it. A Boston live -stock dealer writes to a Leval paper that more sheep are needed to s. 1p4 the demand for good meat. Ile says it is 0108184 to multiply argument,statement, or fact or records of experience to show the importanee of sheep in the economy of the farm. It is useless because unnecessary. Over and over again it has been the sobjeat of farmers' institute discussion, public writ- ing in joernal and book, until there is no lack of information upon this subject. There is need, however, that what is known is just now more practically enforced and brought to the attention of the farmers of this State and of the country generally than aver before ; rather than for some titna past. A new era in sheep husbandry is just opening. Now conditions are appearing and these conditions must be met. They are conditions that geow out 01 2)801' demands. One of these demands and one which farnt• ors meet try to meet is the demand for cheap, wholesome meat. in the great maikets. There is agrowing public taste forgoodinut- ton and choice lamb on the part of coneum- ers of meat. It has been slow in coming but it is not likely to be slow in going. Every farm that:is adapted for it, and every form- er who has a turn for sheep -keeping (for some men take naturally to sheep as others do to horses), should make sheep a perman- ent part of its lire stock husbandry. Last year it required 583,541 head of sheep and lambs (0 111001 the domande of Boston market alone, while of this number nearly 00,000 head were from Canada,. THE BRUSSELS POST. ()RIPPLED FOR, LIFE. 1181180 years came without 11 man's 8t111111e. idne/Intil, 01' estate. But the vietoty was Ile wee ten yeare old when it le!ppencel. complete—es near es it over is in this A larger boy maltIe)11h im tuhpo thre metof hae Ismail , t1e1sU t,Itss 111„os„,t not did not got up, We wondered that he did in tar:rated, )) gift of Gd, ' Sn ell W W 1 0ig."rlsti,(d 1n,oltP, g enl , b e h 0 flow foll• means uniot lwon t ft e1 m t to ideflotisallo111,, 1,obktE01prUtli013 ,,.,,i,,.. n neVerneedhis feesioeenert he took rock where men were blasting Icir gold, from the sehool-room door that noon, forty yearn ago, We ail went home with him that day, more than a wore of boys ; some togging at the little sleigh in Which we plestect hint, two running 801)8(008 to break the news to his mother, one for the physician, the balance forming the most touching processiou of sad ecnIng facee that ever wee Seen. The big fellow who carolesely, not malicioualy, hurt him stopped at the gate ; he would not go in. We can see him now, overgrown, but yet mere lad like the ahem, standing with bow. ed head upon folded arms, never ow:01001c ng up till the physician said we ;nest all go away, when he followed us. He turned to ue, asking " Boys, do you think his mother would like to punieh me? If ao I'll go right back to her. 011, my heart is broken ! " Days came 01111 wont, The father of the little °ripple for life was a poor team, the driver of the village stage to the ears in the next town. We soon knew that the injury was to be lifo-long but that our playmate was able to sit llp and entertain us. \Ve organize:1 velays of 0151(001, for he 00111)1 808 but few at e, time. We pnrchased a rolling-ohair tor him out of our money, and thus first learned the blessedness of giving, There were no eomforts which the 0c/entry marketa eould afford whieh were not sooner or later laid before him. And who shall describe those lime of sitting in the shadow of his cheery, heroic suffering our present, the rolling -chair, still unused. flocl only knew when it would be, but the tiny hero was ever pointing to 1( 02)11 talking of our goodness with eager hope and gratitude. His hands grew white andsoft a girl's. We used to sit and hold them. Ms face was Bm0008ite arble, save when some story told wlmioh brought clawing spot of flee on each cheek. His voice grew tender and subdued. We used to think it was somehow like what angels' voices might be as he told us of his dreams, as he commented upon our reading of the story -book or the Bible, for he often begged us to read to him from the Scriptures. And as he talked to us at times not always thus, for his spirit was boyish still and full of childlike glee,of the suffering Man of Galilee, it seemed to us we never heard the preaaher in the 01100011 so eloquent as this little child. We used to come from our visits so softened that our parents were wont to say to us when stormy with rebellion. "You bad better go over and sit with little Theo awhile," Indeed we learned ourselves a secret ; and when same fellow of the play -ground grew "boist- erous rough" and careless of the rights of others, we used to plan to get '111)0 clown to Ted's, others making little excuses that he might take their turn upon the visiting list, all in hope of the blessing that the stormy nature would receive. To look back upon this lastnamed passage in that history 11000 800)08 almoSt to surpass belief that children should have shown so deep a sit ill of cure. As snapdragon or thistles, or any other noxious weed, once planted by a chance wind in a clover-fieldswill spread and spread on every hand, rooting out all gond grasses and claiming sole clomihion of the acre, so for once in our poor world this lily spread amid the village full of weeds, It scntterad its blessed seeds iuto a hundred hearts of selfishness. It sent out porfutnes of gentle patience till no angry compleining coulcl grow our:here within its reach. The field was full of lilies. For once virtue was aontagious—as true vietue always is if (1100could see the truth of it. Tbe boy's father used to come straight home when the stage was rolled under the tuveen shed.; and when the loungers in the bar -room wondered "0011111 had 0001,3 aver old Jake that ha passed the door," tin reply was that, he "010011 home now to sit watt his pretty boy who would never walk again, and they thought more of Jake for it." Likewise all his neighbors thought more of Jake ; and best of all, God did. Tho poor man thought more of himself. 110 grew more re spoctable as he Was respected, and the little invalid bad been God's instrumeut for all this happy change. As we said years have passed since then. The boys of the Hinge havg e own to be teen, strayed for and neer over the world wide. They are merchants lawyers, the captain of it steamship, a .physician, two editors, to our outran knowledge. There cannot be one of them who does not bear the happy imprint uf the sick hey's compan- ionship, Wo f reely confess to it. And so a single candle, in this nanghty world, shows far its beams. fresh and dear to man when. the fever for gold hue berm forgotten. Such was this poor 1110103 ;rippled child, of ivhont hie father dreamed prowl dreams. that he shoeld be the driver of horses, We spelt° of it as we parte,b—wouicl he, eeriously, ehoose to exellange places with tte, or any of the olcl group, and stride out into tlie noisy worirl ? Not he ; 110 had learn - tel to thank Gott for that careless thrtust wide): had °rippled him for life. Then, in a sweet, rich voice, the grand soul sung the One Hundred th 1Ss01111, NOVCV IA) be forgot- ten the inajesty of the third verse: " Kam., ye 111111 (1)8 Lord ho bal alone. It is Ile that bath 100de 08 and not we oureelves," The siek man was the giant, and SPO are the weaklings, Thwarting the Saviour. "And he did 00( 21111031 mighty works there, because of their unbelief." --Matthew 58. It is a sad fact, but as incontrovertible as sad, that a man may hinder and thwart the purposes of God. If :nen may in some happy conbination be " workers together with God," they may also stand in the un- happy position of " hinderer of his purpose find plans." Man's all but absolute freedom is a terrible thing to contemplate. That story in the 13ook of Genesis, whether n simple statement; of fact, or largely an al- legory, in either case, the r000rd presentsa grand and awful vision ; a vision of a man standing almost peer with ttod himself, froe to eat or not to eat of good or evil 11100001' to choose life or death 1 All down the long roll of the years, man has used this freedom sometimes to worship God and sometimes a golden calf. Sometimes to follow the be- hests of heaven, and sometimes the calls of folly and selfishness and sin. In one of the grandest of the Psalms of Asaph this whole matter is presented in a somewhat remark- able Way. GOd had a sublime inheritance in store for his children, but in their folly they used their freedom thwart God's purposes concerning them. God says by. the voice of his servant : " My people would not hearken to my voice. Israel would items of me, so I gave them up to their own hearts' lust, aud they walked in their civil counsels. Oh (112.11 11))' people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways 1 I should soon have subdued their enemies, mud turned my hand against their adversaries. I should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat, and with honey out of the rock shoeld / have satisfied them." Coming down to tho times of Jesus we find precisely the same thing—man standing in lus own light, blotting out God from the landscape. join passes away from Nazareth, from the land of his boyhoodancl youth, from the fellowships of his early years, and tve have this sad but suggestive record " And he did not many nughty worka there because of their unite. liet." In teeth we have a strange, sad pic- ture of the bellied Christ I A mon may open the door of awilling mind, and welcoming the divine poet, may become rich ta the most enduring wealth, or he may close the door and give no heed to him who stands and knoelts, and so shut God out of his soul, This not oely may be done, this is clone every day, every hour, and the pathetic words 01 )88000 echo still : llow often wottld J 5 But ye would not 1" and so from Nazareth, as from other places, Jesus burns away baffled I Now let us look a little more closely into this matter. What do wo mean when we talk of eubelief I It 18 11)' no means a imp - Gee condition. On the other hand, it is deciderl, positive, often aggressive. Tho condition 01 )101)1)1 that finds belief difficult ncl pauses and ponders and waits, that is not, the condition, sincere and honest, gen- erally oontaine the grain of mustard seed that 111 good time grows to the fruitful tree, The unbelief that stays the hand of Christ, and so often sends him sorrowfnlly away, is dm determination not to behove. The vanity ol modern unfaith toys, " I cannot believe," and having said so much, smiles complacently as though there WM 801110 goat virtue in modevn nnfaith, But if modern unfatth wore as honest, n8 it is vain, the formula would be changed, and 'nstead of saying ''1 ean not," would eay " I will," The tnoctorn unbeliever seems wttlieg to oocsupy a petition in whieh he will take nothing fat' granted, nor trust a largo or lesser hope. -He will only believe what he Must Of what, yahoo, then, to hie belief ? Cheist must take him by sthrm, or Ito will not be token at all. This in not the divine oder. We are to be followers of God as little trustful children, Feeding Pigs Profitably, The tlat-r;ean Cuttiertger, in a late issue, points out the most common error In feeding pigs, as follows : Alany seem to think that a hog cannot be oaerfed, and Otat, it makes no difference if they do leave a lot of feed at one meal, they will come brick and eat it up when they aro hungry, Po that there is nothing wasted, after all, says the Swineherd. But it is easily possible to eo to the other extreme —to either feed too little, so as not to secure u, steady gain, or to feed too much and so in- crease the cost aato materially lessen the pro- fits. Feeding too little is 11 loss, while feed- ing too much is a waste. A wood as well as an economical plan is to feed regularly at stared times' and then feed when fattening all they willeat up clean. They will keep healthier and thrive better than is possible by keeping feed before them all the time, It is what the animals digest,11.011 not what they eat, that determines the gain in proportion to the amount of food supplied, Feed left over is, to say the least, distasteful to a hog, while if it is soaked before feeding it will ferment and get sour to a greater or lese extent. The hog, whether growing or fattenieg, should relish hie food to dome the most ben- efit from it. Awl they will hardly do this if they eat S011at they want, go away and leave it, and then are obligedto cenne back and finish 1( 101). This isnot economical feeding, and when tho margin of profit is small, the waste in feeding in this way will greatly lesson, if not (naively ant oft, the possible profit It is an important item at all times to feed stook well, and fattening stock should II:wean that they will cat clean, and be sup. plied with a good variety 112 ortlet to sooty as.good a geowth as possible ±1 bet beyond Uns it is unprofitable to go. Provide good, tight troughs for feeding slops and soft food of every kind, and generally it will pay to provide a tight floor for feeding grain, so that it can be keel; clean and free fromwaste. blo ration can fie netted that may by any means be considered applicable under all aonditions, Generally the ration must b determined with each lot of hogs on ovary farm, and the medal feeder will know the amount: that should be given with more certainty them any one else. But whether hogs are fed in a dose pen or in 10 good pastawa they should be fad liberally, butt withont waste. Bitter Milk, The came of Ode too common 0011100,1a is given by the Cultivator, as follotes Tho causes of bitter milk ancl oream may TIM Benefit of 'Walking. Sonic one has maid that were a census to be taken of any of our modern towns and cities 1( 00001(1 be found that only a very few persons enjoy perfeethealth ; 1I10( 181105 undo', tho itnpulte of a bounding life whielt makes work n. pleasure and inactivity a burden. That there is truth in this statement is eel - dent from the great: numbers of half.siek people ono meets with in the course of a day, Theae persons are not fatally affected in way vital.point, cannot be said. to be seri. ously 01; simply that their bodies are not properly perfortnino their functions. Tore. lieve this state of things many resort to nauseous drugs and highly -recommended cure-alls, not knowing that a simpler, cheap- er, and more effectual eemedy is at hand. This remedy is nothing other than walking. Says a writer in Bellorcto Mageoine who has himself tested the value of his own medicine and withal speaks from the vantage ground of sixty years of life : "Few things, if any, are $o effectual in building up and sustain. ing the physical organization as walking, if resolutely and judiciously followed. It is a perfect exercise which taxes the entire system. When you It -Rik properly, every member and muscle, every nerve and fibre has something to do. Every sense is em- ployed, every faculty alert. Progress under such oonditions is the very eloquence ot motion. What is the offset? The flesh is solidified, the lungsgrow strong and sound, the chest enlarges, the limbs are rounded out, the tendons swell and toughen, the figure rises in height coul dignity audio clothed in grace and suppleness. Not merely the body but the whole man is developed." As wit - nooses of the benefits of walking he cites Dr. Felix L. Oswald, Prof. E. L. Richards, of 'Itale College, Ralph Waldo Emerson mul others. Perhaps the most remarkable in. stance is that of Luigi Comoro, the Vent:. Ban, who after Indulging i1 nearly every form of popular dissipation in the fastest city in Europe found life a burden at the age of thisty.flve. At forty he was told by hte physicians that nothing would prolong his days beyond two or three years. Sud- denly then he changed his mode of living. Ere became an ascetic in his diet, and gave his mind to the contemplation of fine scenery, noble building$, beautiful com• binations of color and memo, " these studies keeping him the most of the time in the open air, and tootling him upon many and censiderable pedestrian tours. The result was that at the age of 83 Cornaro began a series of written discourses on " The Ad. vantages of a Temperate Life," the fouvth and last of which was prepared when he Was 05. Ho (lied without pain," and like oue who falls asleep, " at the age of 104, But why if walking is so beneficial, if it lengthened the days of Emerson and helped to sweeten his disposition, if it so improved the health of Prof. Richards that for years he had not called upon a doctor to prescribe for him, if it enabled Cornaro to cheat death of his prey for more than sixty years after his physicians said be must die, if in num. berless other instances it has rendered life a joy and &pleasure, why do not more persons ,wail themselves of this convenient and in- expensive menus of exeraise. Perhaps the most prevalent and potent reason is the very commonness of the means, the " vulgarity" of 11, as Charles Lamb woulct say. Being so mine at hand it lacks the enchantment that distance lends, beings() simple and inexpen. sive it contradicts the notion that things are valuable as they 0.00 mysterious and difficult to procure. But this disdain of walking will Ito doubt pass away 111 Lime, and its value ELS a health -promoter mod re- storer be duly recognized. ViffOld OF A BIAGI SPIDER, It nrougnt uvrou tenger Almost le the P01111 Or 011811. Airs, Bryon Miner, who has been ill at her 0101118 ill PildlipShar!, N. J., for the last THE MAORIS, New S.calittist's Aborigine& Ube Maoris forIul au integral portion of the eumninnity, with revognize i place and rights. It is wit considered at all improper week from the 1,1 01 a Week 81) 1100, has for 0, while man to marry a Maori WA, 80 far 1errwere.1 that she is able to sit. up, ! atpeuialli !tette is heiress 0 a tract of0e(1 She hart lost the use of her loiver Ihnbs since . land. tlhey are a mirldle-eizeO, stuggy Moe. being, bitten but Dr, J. M. Beese, who hat 1 and though some eay that they are dying been atteuding her, says that he thought It but a question of days whon Mrs. linger would be able to walk again. Mrs. Bilger 0008 hitten on the meening of the Oth. At 10.30 o'clock she went into the yard for an armful of fireweed. As she wee returning to the house she felt %sharp sting. fog pain at the right corner of her upper lip, It was as if she had beee bitten by an insect. She dnl not see what the insect was, but raising her right arm she brushed it away, and gave the matter 110 more thought. Al- most before she reached the house her lip began to swell. Mrs. Bilger 18 11 large, mtrung woman, with an even, cheerful tem- perament, and she was not a bit frightened by the swelling. 13ut some of liar nelghbors who raw it were not disposed to treat 11 50 lightly. They had read of severed cases of death from blood pr. isoning supposed (0 11000 been caused by the bites of insects, tied they feared that some such misfortune was al:out to befall Mrs. Bilger, so they advised her to send for a doctor. She only laughed and told them not to be frightened. She prepared dinner as usual for her husbang,Nvho works in a neae•by rolling mill. Before the meal was finished the pain in her Lace became almost unbearable. The swelling had extended 0001 (118 eutire right side of her head and neck, and her face had began to turn purple. The swelling had 8. most peculiar appearance. It hacl 1101 affected the lower lip at all. But the upper lip on the right sods was four or five times its natural size. Her right cheek was puffed out like a cushions and her right eye VMS entirely closed. The swelling extended up into her hair. Below the right ear was a large, purple bunch, and below the angle of the jaw the swelling was pronounced and discoloration wee plain. The pain, Mrs. Bilger says, was terrible. It was as if some one was pounding her head between two large stones. All the afternoon the swelling continued to grow and the pain increased with it. Mrs. Bilgax tried everything she could think of to relieve it, but without success. A poultice of pounded onions and tea, leaves did help her. Everything that every body could suggest was tried, but without the desired result. Mrs. Bilger still refused to send for a. doctor and set about getting her husband's supper. When Mr. Bilger returned from his work in the evening and found his wife still suf- fering suet agony, be hustened to 81.101111011 medical aid. When Dr. Reese saw Mrs. 14ilger's face, his first inquirk was why a physician thitcl not been summoned before. He aaid that the swelling NOBS undoubtedly caused by the bite of a black spider, and that it was a very serious affair. He ex- pressed grave doubt as to Mrs. Bilger's recovery, because he feared that blood pole- oning had set m. The Doctor gave Mrs. Bilger morphine to quiet the pain and whiskey as a stimulant, aria left other medicine to connteraet the poison and reduce the swelling. It Wan after 8 o'clock in the evening when he left the house, and within a very few minutes Mrs. Bilger went into convulsions. The convulsions lasted front ten to fifteen min- utes each, and occurred at intervals of a few minutes all night. Mrs. Niger became delirious, and was very difficult to manage. Sometimes it required the united strength of four or five of her nurses to keep her in bed, and she constantly threw the bed cloth- ing from her or tore it to shreds. When. aver she could get the chance she bit her nurses, and in several instances the bites were quite serious. Dr. Reese was with Mrs. Bilger nearly all the next day, but was unable to stop the convulsions although be decreased their violence and frequeney. For four days MrS. Diger was delirious, and. the convulsions were not stopped for nine daya. The swelling in Mrs. Bilger'a face is al- most entirely reduced 01000 and the pain has left, but she is weak and nervous. It will be some time yet before she will recover. Frederick Vance, a well-known resident of Mooreston and a prominent G. A. IS. man there, died yesterday of blood poison. ing which was caused by the bite of an Insect supposed to be of the same kind of a black spider as that which bit Mrs. Bilger. Vance was bitten on the right arra. His arm Wan molten to several times its natural size, He endure,1 terrible agony for three days. but nothing could be done to relieve hint. The other day we saw the invalid again— now blind as tvell as crippled. The stage - driver had loft earnings enough for his housing and feeding ; the patient mother had entered into rest. Hired attendants only were about the gray-haired man, but they loved him filially. When he rides along the street the driver, who knows all his friends, whispers to the cripple the names of those they are about to pass, and the old mon bows and solutes them each in turn so cheerfully that you would not know that he was blind. When evening hangs golden in the west, young people come to Bit uncle:: his bower; as long as we were ht the village this summer scarce a twilight mine that we eould not disory the flutter of summer white and hear the merry peals of middens' laughter front the oozy garden. So lovable is he, he knows all the lovers' secrets, and is always bidden to the wed- ding. We saw him at a wedding, tho occasion of our visit. A. stronger would hare called that hunch of human deformity offensive at first sight of the yelling chair, but the face was divinely beautiful I You forget every. thing in looking at that Inc, Item of pain had chtselod from 1( 0001')' grosses tram of the animal which ia part of human nature, He had been with Christ and learned of Him. In a 11100100 1111 was evident that all mon loved this num Who entered and did not speak with him, and that, too, not patronizingly, but as if it wore n, privilege? What quiet moment was there when his be- nignant speech was still? From the rich stores of knowledge garnered with wide re. searah, of clays when the others of us were too besy with toil, of nights when we slept but ha Goulding), digested by ripest troclit0 tion awl musings of truth, who (meld aceost him and find hint ignorant? Who, though itt was a grand occasion and proud soholars Ivor° there? But the host of all was the rule over hearts which the oripplo bore. The bride fluttered past all others to open n.latte before him, as 11 118 had eyes to see ; she draw the youth to his side, when the crowd did not observe, that the old friend might hold their two hands hi his and ootuteil and bless them. The Lair girl kissed him, among the few at the last thus saluted good -by, the coach in Waiting, Wonderful lifo I We eatwith it, 00 111. stn. net Xays, by tho bout, God was its portion ; Chyle!: its salvation, There had been days of battle, of hard, long, bitter stveggle, as out, better authorities maintain that thny. are holding and will continue to hold them own, They hare representatives in both Houses of Parliament, and any of these, if unable to epealc English, is allowed. an interpreter, who stands up beside 111:11 and translates his speech sentence: by sentence. riolo double.barelled membership loolce odd, but it works well. I heard. Taipuo, one of the four in the House of Representativee, make a speech after this manner on a proposed native tondo bill. As a parliamen. tory utterance it was a miracle of eoadensa- tion, perhaps because he had time to think over 0011111 110 was going to say next, while the interpreter explained in English what he had said. " You have passed twenty acts about onr lands in as many years, and they have all beau bad. This is the worst. You propose to tax our land. Ilad you not better leave the matter to ourselves 1 Or, ite there are ram a number of our leading men in Wellington to give evidence 0110 dieputed will case itwolving land titles, I advise you to take counsel with them. They eau give you light, if light is what you want. At any rate, keep lawyers away from us." Thus spolte Dupla, and, amid the cheers and laughter of the House, took his seat, leaving the ministry in no doubt as to the side on, which he intended to vote. Some uf the Maoris etill keep up the old hideous practice of tattooing, the men puncturing the whole face to iucrease their importance, and the women their lips, chins, and eyelids to Increase their personal:totem. tions. A friend of mine told a married woman in Japan that he wondered at her disfiguring herself by blacking her teeth. "Whet do you mean?" was the indignant answer. "Any dog has white teeth." Probably the Maori damsel thinks along the same lino, but after looking ether slaty -blue lips I thought her mistaken. The Story of a Nihilist, Of another lodging in a new house in the Avenue du Maine, I have retained a shiver- ing souvenir. This was formerly the dwell- ing of one of the chiefs of the celebrated Central Committee which amused so much talk in RUSSIA in 1879 and 1832, Tikhomir- off, who has since been converted to less revolutionary doctrinea, and so been enabled to return to Russia. It was he who wrote the famous manifesto to Alexander III. after the assassination of Alexander II. Tikho- inirofl's eye is prominent and restless. In. the street he is constantly turning round. He is perpetually in a half -trembling state, For that matter, (ho maa is sympathetic, excessively intelligent, ani impartial by temperament. He is married, father of a, family, and much preoccupied with the future of his children. As for his fear of being followed and watched, it is justified; no malt ever heti more spies after him. Be- fore his pardon, he could never take a single step without being followed. His lodging was the object of a perpetual survoillaace. Ile had horrible souvenirs, of which the fol. lowing is 0 specimen : After the assassination of Alexander II., at tho time of the terrible trial, those who were condemned to death were Tikhomiroffs friends and his colleagues of the terrorise committee. He himself was under a per- petual menace at St. Petersburg. If he were captured, his fate was certain and in- evitable : he would be hanged. He did not dare to fly from Russia, or even (0 10800 his home. He told me that if it had not been for his family and for his duty as a father, he would perhaps have given hitnself up, so dreadful was the feeling of insecurity. Be could not sleep; he had uot a minute's re- spite; always the grim expectation of the police officer, of impriaonment, judgment, the scaffold, and of his family left without support. Well, to these terrors yet another was added, and to these horrors a fresh horror —the carts with those condemned to death had to pass along the street under Tikho- mtroff a window. His servant knewby sight several of the victims, because she had seen them at her master's house. Than took plece this thrilling scene : Tikhomiroff, his wife, and the servant stood at the window, waiting, like the other inhabitauts of the house, for the passage of the sinister cortege. This was inevitable ; for if the terrorist had not appeared at the window, he would cer- tainly have been suspected by. his neighbors and denounced. We eon imagine the un- happy man's state of mind, (110 0300)' of his whole being, And, in the midst of all that, one incessant question, returning like the fixed idea of a madman : " Will the servant recognise the victims 1,— will she recognize them ?" If she recognizes theta, if she makes a ges- ture, if she utters a (try, if she sighs even, it means death. Tikhomiroff waits. He is on the point of fainting. At last the carts pass, with the culprits in their costumes of execution. Tikhomiroff watthes the face of his servant. A vague rumor—the whisper- ings of a great crowd—the coetege reachea the window... Is it life? Is it death 1 11 is life 1 Tho s.ervant did not recognize any of the victims. 13ut who can measure the immensity of such moments of anguish, aud who will feel astonished that the man who passed through this trial hos lived ever since in perpetual alarm and distrust ?—Froin "Nihilists in Paris," in Harper's Hapazine. A Snake That Knew His 'Business, The Crawford, Ga., Herald attributes to a 'delegate to the Baptist Association at Crawford hot fall the f °Hewing snake story : Ho and his uncle were sitting by a creek - side in the State of Kentucky, fishing, and were surprised by seeing a black snake clash out of a thicket, and running to a weed standing near them, bite a leaf from it and quickly return. This he clicl several Wines, when their curiosity being excited, they followea him to see what he meant by such strange aoncluct, and found him en- gaged in Et fearful fight with a moccasin several times his own size. As often as his antagonist succeeded in biting him he ran to tho weed for his antidote, and was at him again. At length the uncle pulled up and removed the weed to see what the snake would do. Ho soon came again, and finding his remedy gone, he looked eagerly from side to side, a perfect picture of do. spair, and fell stone dead on the spot. Tho mocaasin, already badly disabled, they dis- patched. A New Grade of Grain. OTTAWA, Aug. 17. —The Slinistau of In- land Revenue proposes to introduce legis- lation to authorize tho Western Board of Examiners of Grain to eetablish a new grade, to be known 11.8 " commercial grade." It will only be included in the list of grain standards as careasion may require. Such occasion wotdd be when zt considerable por- tion of the camp of any one year possesses marked characterittics which exclude it, to the prejudice of the producer, from the grade to which it othmavise belongs. The new grade will only apply to grain growo west of Port Arthur, mod when tho exam- iners have Belected their standard of the commercial grade they axe required to dia. tribute samples to the different inspectors 100 (11011.' guidance. The selection of tho 11000 grade will Iv stibjeet to the approval of the (3overnor in council, New Zealand's Mutton Trade. Up to 1881 the sheep-mastera did not know what on earth to do with their mutton, but the discovery WEIS then made that it could be sent in a frozen state to Britain. Great was the elarm among the classes, from dukes to butchers, who controlled the Brit- ish meat market. Strong prejudices were stirred up against frozen meat,and as at first some of the mutton was clisoolored, there Wen ground for prejudice. But the New - Zealanders got hold of tho scientific truth that intense cold can bo produced in a cham- ber with walls imp:miens to heat through the simple process of compreseing, air by stetun-power and then letting it into the chamber, where it expands to Rs natural bulk. They graudally perfected their machinery and plant, established freezing - works near the ports of shipment, and sent the frozen carcasses, nicely encased in clean bags,to the freezingmhamber 01 (1)0 steamer. There they keep hard as marbleandperfectly sweet for months, and, for aught I know to the eontrary, could, be kept for years. I sailed from Plymouth in Goo steranni, and from Cape Town in the /mile, both of them magnificent steamers, belonging to different lines, anti on board both the mutton hrotight to 00 table had mule the voyage round tha Horn, an11 then been in the Thames for weeks,yet better muttou I never ate. New Zealand time sends a million careassee annu- ally to the London market. It not only spares easily, and to the actual advantage of the flocks, that number annually from its total of seventeen millions of sheep, but believes that every year the flambee can be incraaeed. Firms in Britain axe establish- ing houses in ahl the great °Wes, where the carcasses estn be stored and kept frozen till needed. Competition has brought dotvn tho °oat of freight, from three to two penee, and now, I believe, to one penny, or two cents, a pound. Great is the boon that has boon eonforred on two communities on opposite sides of the globa—moitt-producers and meat.eaters—by practical application of the familiar seienitfic truth at the basis of the teade. The gains from this one ieduatty would pay for MI the physical laboratories in Gm Empire, just as Germany makes more ftom the discovery of aniline dyes than it pends on its universitics.--alaxper's Mag. aziulet'al Ctotaines aye agaitt fashionable, the • bream:tits worn seeming to be 11101:0 &Oen sifted them ever. Who then ie free? The wise man who can govern hiniself. Mr, Hayseed, arriving at a aity hotel—"I s'poeci I kin hear the gout; here when 1( 111130 foe dinner, can'tl?" Clerk—" We hove no gong. We have breakfast froin six to eleven, dinner from twelve tosix, supper from six to eleven." Mr. Hayseed ifehosha. plryrtt, !low ton I to get time to see the oi The Strength of Inseots. The French naturalist, Plateau, 'has pre. pared a number of ingenious devices itt the shape of miniature wagons to determine the power and ability of insects. At the experi- ments Ito proved that some of the smallest insects possessed the most powerfulstrength. Especially neat ts the mudathre bermes of the beetle. It is proved that a beetle con, proportion, 11011 twenty-one times more than a horse, tvhilst the bee is able to pull thirty times more. The Slay beetle drags fourteen times and the boo twenty times the weight of their bodies, A bee °an easily carry twenty of its comrades and thus develops the sante power as a locomotive The Wolves, In the village of Roudney, in the Bort- soovsk district of the Minsk Province, the wolves hatte increased to such an alarming extent as to terrify the peasants in the vicinity. Many horses and numisrouse cat. tie have fallen proy to their ravonons hunger. They have also secured several human victims. .A. little girl 118,1110(1. Olga, Popoff, only 3 years otcl, while playing tvith some other children, was suddenly seized and carried off, The peasants started in pttreuit, but did nob succeed in rescuing the ehildt Another recent vicitim 11'0,8 Anna Some, 4 year old. She was saved from death, but was so horribly mangled that it is doebtful if she will reeover,