The Brussels Post, 1891-10-2, Page 3()( T, 1891
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HOUSHOLD.
My BWeetheart,
1 ploy on the old gall tar ,
The seng itta my me,
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'rho menaew, siveet ivb it t -.el'
.111,1 ;deli with t Moon% of et ,ver.
The fs.ted rlhlant !shim:sing •thl
tvitere hor detionst :nose, • ;,,,I 11 -
11,en , envy 11 ste,tiola
1 fee nee for -he die 1:,,1 :
st.tel teem: th,,t ;sr rotsiets unwise 1 .
.ss ste teened, alms,. iteht is ,
ololv. even tune soith hin: oes1
Imo, it ones I °Seem,'
111tether her eyes ivere blue es the skies
n mantaity 111 septienher,
Or lamest t of smelled fawn
1 eons fop the world remittal:es ;
Ifut. \viten .11,• lifted them up itonlite
I know that my heart tingled
thne to the tender num sin; smog.
„Snd the airy eberdesite jingled.
Yet now, though sweep the (testy string.4
Ity her girlish se:pith/tunic:1,
Till out of the old guitar there trips
A melody, blithe, enehanied,
sly muses keep on their even way
And my heart has ceased its dancing,
For somebody else sits under the :spelt
Of the songs and sidehing glitneing.
The Trials of Cooking.
Sitting in her easy arm chair the other
evening after the work was done, Aunt
Lizzie tell to talking of lier first experiences
at housekeeping. Now a days She ts the bust
honsekeepee in her neighborhood, 'Her
bread. is always the lightest and the whitest,
her preserves invariably retain most of the
flavor and substance of he original fruit, her
kitchen its cleanest, her washing 12 always
out first, and notwithstanding all these
sueesses she has more time ler faney
work and reasling and entertaining younger
folks than any honneliceper in a radius of no
one knows how 1110.11y Miles, lint twenty
years ago .Annt Lizzie began housekeeping
" greener than grass," tts -She says herself,
" 1 didn't ha, e any mother," she said the
other night, " ;Elul when I started to be a
\vile to liiranc, armed with nothing but love
end a cook book, no had every reason io
tremble at t he thought of his tinily breast
13ut, mercy, how patient he was 31y
biseuits used to sink down on the pao
as flat its panealtes, and when you broke ono
of them in two it looked like gloo-aud
tasted like it, too-ltut 'Hiram used to eat
them down and aslt for more. One day my
brother Jacob came to eat with us. He luul
been in the war and spent ham months a
prisoner at Libby, which nearly killed him.
After he had eaten a little this day he turn-
ed to me and said: " Lizzie, you most excuse
me if I leave tho table. There is something
about your cooking which calls up old
times and takes away my appetite. I never
like to remember those terrible days in
prison if 1 earl help it. I am sllre you didn't
mean anything by these biscuits and that
the resemblance is purely accidental, but it
is there just the same.' 1 tried to laugh,
but vouldn't very well, anti Hiram wouldn't
see the joke at all. Ho jumped up front his
chair, aml I guess there would have been
trouble if I hadn't kno/k0,1 over the uollee
pot and scalded my hand and so changed
the subject, Patti could never dot 1st Hirain's
love afier that, no matter what. he did.
" I found out afterward tbat the most of
the trouble came from my trying to follow
my recipes too closely. I tried to remem.
ber so many details that I was sure to for.
get :sante of them or to slight some im-
portant ingredient, Reeipes are ball
enough now, containing a Indio:loses things
you don't mutt to one that you do, hut in
those days they were a great deal
Worse. To make bread -take a, pan
of flour from a barrel which has been
carefully covered to prevent destruction
by rats or nilee, after haying prepared
your yeast the night before by soalung a
half-eake thereof in a quart of water of a,
lukewarm temperature and adding thereto
a pinch of coarse salt or table salt if pre-
ferred stir in the flour, which may have
been sifted through a colander, if a sieve
is not at hand, until the whole has
reached the consistency of paste, then
leave neat. a, warm fire all night if in win-
ter Or in a Safe place if in summer ; in the
morning stir in more flour, set in ft warm
place again and wait for it to raise ; when
it has raised su6iciently, after having
heated the oven to a steady heat, neither
too -warm nor too cool, carefully insert in
the oven, shutting the door upon it, and re.
treating cautiously to the northeast corner
of the room, where you stood watch-
fully on one foot, holding out the other to
prevent, tlie bread from being jarred, stead-
ily fixing your eyes upon the poker, 'width
no good housekeeper should for 01101110111001
think of leaving on the stove lid, removing
your eyes after the lapse of forty.three min.
Ines end observing the broom standing
neatly in one corner of the kitchen, where-
upon you advance carefully, and, selecting
a long straw, as clean as possible, there.
from, you softly approach the oven, opening
the door of whieh, you firmly insert the
ssraw in the well -heated pan of bread, upon
which if you observe traces of unbolted
dough the bread is not done, but if other-
wise may bo taken out, removed diagoeally
across the room in the right hand, holding
for convenience a towel or flannel holder,
to avoid burning if possible, and may be
sliced with tt sharp knife and served with
bettor on a large plate deposited lit the cen-
ter of the table for convenienee."
Aunt Lizzie leaned back in her chair and
laughed at herself until she had soite ex-
hausted the remnant, of breath which she
had le ft after rehearsing her reeipe. "Well,"
she said 'when she could speak again, " it
may not have been quite so had as that, but
the suoner any Wolnall Who wants to learn
tO cook makes up her mind to take publish-
ed laxities at no more than their true value
-to depend upon them for a general idea
and not for detail, which Can bo secured
only through experiment suol experistooe.-
the bettor she will succeed."
Geod. AdviOe to Girls.
Scarcely day passes without its news.
.paper story of somo young W0111011 who met
mall so interesting that she thought she
ouldu't lire With011t him, so she married
him in haste and afterward learned that he
was an ox -convict or a brute or already had
wifo or two from whom ho had separated
without the formality of a logal divoece. 1n
Both oaths the blame is laii2 upon the man,
who generally deserves more abuse than Ito
gets. Ent, gods, look at the matter seriously
11, few minetes and see if tho trotiblo might
not have been avoided if you had not boon
in too much of a htirry,
Marriage means partnership for life ;
clooroth of clivoreo aro merely exeoptions
that prove tho rule, Would any man enter
into a, business partnership with as little
knowledge of the other party as you 000111
SatiSfied With? Well, no -not unless he
woro a sweet soulod lunatic. Talk is cheap,
givls ; can he trade to order as fest as tho
tongue clan run, espeoially W11011 there hi 51,
pretty face te inspire it and two ears willing
to memo it.
Don't fear that 80)130 other girl will get
TEEM BRUSSELS POST. 3
11111,,,1,4 y 11 secure him at once, A
fish that any one cen eateli isn't Worth
throwiug 0 lino for. Play lain to 1111E1 out
whether he attionnts to anything. If 11,,
imirctient and dashes aWay, why,
/011.,w Doolterry. -thank (sod that you re
rid of a krave,
Haw to Mating a FI us band,
tlyits; :jots to women 11,4
10 11( 10 (, ret caning their hits-
balta's ir .1...onlin in Lilo eXtrcithr.
Tho faet Nutt muelt tif (hie 1-1 en by
those spinsters who hart' lovoly theories
rather than expericnee as a guide may have
made much of this quire impractioal, How.
ever, 1 heard a that, botween two olover
little women the other day upou which 1
latre heeti pandering eon, esme. ym,31
said Mrs, A , am awfully fond of my
and he is a eplendid follow, but
do you know 110 has SoinelloW Required the
110112 of embelishing his little stories 11111011
he tells 1110 111 the most elaborate fashion?
'Why, al, first I felt dreadfully ovee it and
wept, not oceans but little lakes of tears and
fancied myself one of the most deeply injur-
ed of women. Did 1 ellide him, or reproach
him, or did I tell him that I should never
more have faith in 111111 1 Not I. just sat
down and gave iny best thought to the
matter and decided that if I did that it
would he simply ruinous to all our happi-
ness ; that Ins pride would be gone and
he so deeply humiliated as to no
longer strive for my love or admiration. Of
course I ant not, quite an idiot, and Arnett 01.
woman must need hove a phenommial mem-
ory, to be an artistic liar. NOW this, fortu-
nately for me, perhaps, my husband does
not possess, so when ho mimes home late
with a most interesting aecount of the sup-
per wlEielt he gavo to one of the boys who
sails for Europe next week I take it that
he I idn't leant to come 1101110, and spared
my feelings by this exeuse, When he has
forgotten this and the flapper is really given
and lie again stays away, I have 80 far
gaitied control re myself that 1 fail to re-
mit:11 him that it 18 the second compliment
paid to the departing friend, and though it,
1011 t a littie bit easy, you may be sure that
1 find it 0 most satisfactery condition of
things. So I have laid it down as one of the
cardinal rules of domestio bliss, first, that a
women must always believe implicitly in
what her husband tells her ; second, that if
she cannot believe it sho must to school her-
self as to assume that faith, ;old thus shall
she secure her own comfort and that of her
husband by the subtle flattery thus im-
plied."
Deborah's Brown Hain
Thirty.seven years ago a Yankee fishing
skipper of 1Thial Haven, Me. named tiolomon
Marshall was courting DeLorah Sholes of
tipper Port La Tour, N. 8. While at her
home he had bogged a lock of hey beautiful
golden -brown ham During the succeeding
winter, whioh he spent at his home, he re-
ceived the news that the young lady of his
heart had turned fickle mid was allowing
another the houot; of her composts, to village
merrymaking%
In his despair he ancl a friend named
Colby, who was afterwards killed in tlte
war of tho rebellion, bored a three-soutrter-
inch hole into a white birch tree then about
live inches through, put the hair in and drove
home after it a pine plug. Tito next sum-
mer 110 went back to Nova Scotia and mar.
ried the fair Deborah, in trimnph over his
rival, cunt brought, her to the states, where
he afterward died. He never thooght it
necessary to reolahn the hair, and there it
remained for year after year, the tree wax.
ing large and strong, Etna covering over with
its white wood and paper bark the precious
token hid in its bosom. This last winter
Mr. Edwin Smith, who 110W owns the old
3Iarshall farm, out the tree for fire wood.
In splitting the wood the ax happened to
hty the tree open exactly on pine plug,
With a 10012 of beautiful hair behind it. The
outside end of the plug was covered by three
inches of solid wood, which consisted of
thirty-seven annual rings, The hair and
plug are new in possession of lIrs. Margaret
Turner of Isle au Haut, Me., the sister of
the heroine of this little romance, who is now
Sirs. Saunders of Lockport, IsT. S. ,
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A Royal iiair-Ontting,
In some Eastern countries ohildren's hair
is not cut until they are 10 or 12 years of
age, the girls then being considered mar-
riageable, Up to that time it is coiled on
the top of tho head and adorned with fresh
flowers. When tho great day for eating
comes there is a grand ceremony and much
10000ittient'Vlio was present at a royal liminsut-
ting tells ns that the darling of the harem
was robed in long, flowing garments of silk
and lace. confined at the waist by u. golden
g1rdle. Her long hair coiled for the last.
tame, was fastened with,diamond pins 91111011
gleamed and glittered among fresh white
finwers and green leaves like pearly drops
of morning dew.
There in the presence of the ladies, her
father and an officiating priest, surrounded
by her =Woos, some 200 in number, elle
knelt mider a canopy of flowers and loaves
while prayers were elianted.
Then, the beautif el tresses being on.
bound, het. royal father, dipping Iris fingers
in rose water and drawing them carelessly
over her head, clipped oft' about on eighth of
an inch of haw and threw it into a golden
basin, depositing at the same tim0, on a.
great solver. placed ready to receive them,
presents Of jewele and gold.
The priest out the next piece, her mother
the next, and so on, each guest, serving in
turn until the little lady N1•140 8110111.
All gave costly gif to iutended ler her
marriage dower, Princes, Ministers of state
and dignitaries of ell sorts, who waited in
the outer courts, send -Mg in theirs by tho at-
tendants. The day ended in feasting and a
display of fireworks,
Tito fastest mile over made by a, running
horse was ran in 1 10111, 35,S secs.
11,161es of Oggs may be beaten to a stiff
froth by an open window when 3 would he
impossible in a steamy kitchen.
The Bolton pollee matte a shocking Ws.
oovery in Beals Spring Gardens on Sunday
leading to the belief that an attempted mini -
der had taken place. William IIerper
informed a policeman thn,t his wife had at-
tempted to commit sttioido, and en ell ofiloor
proceeding to the hoeso Ito found Mrs Her -
per lying on the floor with a deep gash in
her throat, She Was removed Lo the
infirmaryiand owirg to her caked conditicin
depositions woro taloa. Sho charged her
husbnaul with attempting to murder her.
Harper, who is a moulder, 4.7 years of age,
was -brought before the Magi.strates on Miln-
clay, oharged with nutting his wife's throat,
From the statement foe the prosecution it
0,ppears tho motive for the assualt W118
jealousy, the prisoner having charged his
wife with going with mon. Harper wit
afterwards discharged, tho Coroner's jury
haying fouud that tho woman oommitted
suicide,
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Harvesting Potatooi.
It is eolunion with many 14111102S who
raise n10.1,2.110 oropa of pol..4111,:s to Mak.,
the than 01 di,..I14'ou ..,,,',11•111,!, 1 himi
wawa. of eoni et, tei,ee, awl 10 111k:1110/10 1. (.1
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are more or eovered with mud, spoilins
theie appearanee ;old inviting the rol
meth seasoos thi-, disease prevails. liege
remarks apply to limited erops, ,111,1 not to
1.11050 of( I Itils:vo piatilatloilll Ira tiro it pro-
minent source of profit, the owners of whieli
have learned a ditiloamt comas
With the ese;ption of late maturing,
varieties, or el reitio as have been planted
\Try late in the semmo, or with a dry or
gravelly soil whielt never beeomea muddy,
potatoes should 11011011 1/0 111.1g later than tho
end of August., or when the weather has
beeu so dry that the soil will not adhere te
them,. The time may then be readily select.
ed when they will cemu out with a clear,
bright and elean surface. 1110 licher is
loom:nod, and the crop is worth more than
Wilen phuitered with mud. It is better to
lose a little in their growth than to delay
the work, with ttll the disadvantages of mud
and rot.
;When harvested at this time it is Wiper.
tont to place hem Where they will keep well.
An apartment in a barn or out -house faeing
the north, so as to remain cool, and provid.
ed with a slatted floor to allow the air to
pass op freely among them, answers well.
The space below nay he the basement, and
if the wind is permitted to blow freely below
it will maintain good ventilation through
the potatoes. The slatted floor may no
mode of scantling two by three inches, pro-
perly supported by a frame, or of 110.11,01V
tstripe of plank set on edge. The distance
apart 811001(1 not be so great as to allow the
smeller potatoes to fall through. Such an
apartment as this 10111 he fotind valuable on
several accounts. Even where potatoes are
stored when wet, they will soon become
dry, und when they happen to be muddy,
the upward current of air soon ;hies the
inutl and causes it to settle all 1v11011 they
aro moved the next time.
It is well worth while for the farmer to
provide such an apartment, largo enough to
hold a few hundred bushels, or as moult as
he commonly raises for his home use. The
potatoes may be storcEl three or four feet
thick. and he sufficiently ventilated. When
from necessity the tubers have become
muddy and are in danger of rotting from
this cause, thinner strati= may be wash-
ed by clashing on water, sutlicient draining
immediately taking place, and rottiog in a,
great degree being prevented by this opera.
tion.
\Viten the slated fioor apartment cannot
be provided, the same principle may be
adopted in a more imperfect manner. Poles
or scantling or rails may be laid a few inches
apart on a barn floor, and brush, narrow
boards or coarse oorn-fodder laid across as
a support:for the potatoes, &partial ventila-
tion being thus provided. This will anstver
for a small erop, or -when there is dang,er of
rot.
There may be sometimes exceptions to
the statements which we have made in re.
lotion to the time of harvesting the crop,
but as a general rele, applying to most
localities and to 01001 soils, the time /or
digging shouhl be earlier than many farmers
have adopted, and the practice wouhl load
to ettelier planting, and to omitting the
raising of very lute Nutrieties and late crops.
-Albany Cultivator.
Pointe in Poultry Keeping.
` For 40 years," says Dr, C. C. Green, with
occasional interruptions, " it as been my
fortune as boy and inan to care for poultry,
and some experiences' have gathered during
these, years 1 propose noW tO Mako peblic
for all who aro interested tile matter, and
for convenience sake I will arrange the facts
under different heads
I. Hens, if properly kep1, are a source of
profit and comfort to the owner.
'2, The ens mut be increased in size and
richness by proper feeding. of the fowls.
3. They require a variety of food, and
get excessively tired of one kincl.
4. The egg contains almost all the constit-
uents of the human body, and hence the
hen must have tt variety of food to construct
it.
5. No other Foible. ef aninial or vego•
table life oentains substauees exaetly like
the albumen and yolk ef au egg.
0. The hen ceases laying when improperly
fed or when. in a diseased oondition.
7. They require a warm, clean, properly
veotilated house for winter months.
8, If, by neglect, vermin infest the bird
roosts end house, they should at once be
removed, as they are deleterious to the
health of these friends of mats
0, The droppings of hens should be oe
easionally remoyed. They should not be
allowed to accumulate. Tho !tears should
be covered with loom or send.
10. As hens require % great deal of water,
drinking only n, small onasitity at a time, it
should he supplied alimulantly and kept
clean a nd f malt.
1 1. As they require and must have care
banal° and phosphate of lime for their shell,
it nutst begiven them nustiuted guns !tics
and in the most convenient 1110111101' for them
to pick and swallow into their crops.
1 2, These requirements will be found in
old plastering, broken oyster shells, and, host
of all, in fresh bones, with some of the
It should bo cut
gristle and meat attached,
on a log with a hatchet every day; tho strife
made by fowls te got a; it 1011011 oilseed them
will plainly prove to you that they like and
need it. 'the instincts ef tho 1101111°,11.2,1011111L011111n11021.
with a proper range, will teach
whom to collect the N•arIet y of food required.
In winter, when ;housed, mon 1111131 tupply
it to them.
13. 'rhe application of stilphor sprinkled
upon tho fouds while roosting Or OtherWille
NVith. popper.box will destroy vermilt.
Coal oil applied to 00 roosts in small gnaw
tidos will alto 12111 parasites. Two or three
drops of whale oil dropped oecasienallyr on
the back of a hen or ituyothe.r bird will kill
tho lice,
1 4. The nest must occasionally be re-
nowed and kept clean, Straw is bettor
then hay, Tobacco stems ;moored with
straw is an excellent preventive of ineeet.
breedlim, especially when they aro sitting.
1 5 When oluoltiug and not nestled for
mot:helm the quickest way to stop their thick
on -raising desire is to put them in boxes or
cages wit h(ed ally thing to lay upon ogoept
the board.
1 0, A few fowls ill separal o pens:bre much
111101,0 profi table and more eatily kept hoalthy
than in larg. number,s,
17, l'ht y reiluire and must 110/0 in winter
green fond, such as grass, turnips, boots, or
cabbage leaves.
IS Tho temperature of 11, 000p should not
bo allowed to be lower than 43 degrees in
wmter, and should be moet of the time up
to 60 degreee.
10. Corn and wheat midlings, eorn un.
ground, DMA bread and other slopit from the
as t Mee tt week.
2,0 Lilts, eows and other 0,6i, ha tsi, t rea
meat injures them, Thoy lite a kind oar,.
try and hts V11111., 11, iii1111kly 11,1 1111111.11.
2-1 11;.:18 01011H 1611'111 %Vim, y,,ars
01,1, as they lay loss eggs r•Vory y.,tr
the third, awl they naturalie 1,..tune• .1 I-
eeated 11111 1P11.111 eating 1%1..111 th; y be•
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'4 cr I 1 e g 3, 1 em triecc-,
settin4 hen' for 1 lie pie rmsito."
1I,0 chi lions the het try late ocia 3.,
, idly far, badly,
'23 Pullets rarely (only good mother • ;
three and f01.11,yolti,o1 I lion 8.1r0 heAt.
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Value of a Garden,
A correspondent urges his revises to
pay more attention to the garden.
He says a, farmer garden usually
loafers laek 01 attentirm at some of
' the busy 001180118, and where it does not
ettltivation is 00 generally lef t mainly to
hand work that it costs a great deal nee,
than it should. Yet despite these
a farmer who has 14 reasonably good garden
will be surprised if he reckoned up through
the 011a0011 how much of the 'Sunny living
was thus procured, The garden cultivated
chiefly 1:y hand labor pays better than anv
other part of the farm, It would pay still
better if htid out so that onitivation as in
the fields could be done mainly with horse
power. In estimnaing value of garden pro-
duce it should at least, be tts high as retail
prices in the city or village. It is only
necessary for farmers near a niarket to keep
strict account of what their gardens produce
as compared with what they cost to induce
them to extend their operations and grow a
surplus for market after using all they
need at home. Te extend the garden
grow some small fruits, a few at first, and
then increase the amouut the market re-
quires, is tho easy eaul neural tvay to dis-
continue grain farming, which belongs
chiefly to the eheaper lauds of the North and
Northwest. AS soon as a hunter does his the
finds he has snore land . than he can either
manure or cultivate as it should be. What-
ever he :sells, let it be to Nome one Arlie will
cultivate and Men lire thoroughly. The high
price of garden land quickly rabies the price
of all farming lands in the oeighborhoad
tha,t need only better unumring and culltvas
don to be inside equally produetive.
Cure for Hard Times.
A Neu...Hampshire farmer says, that
while a farm free from debt well managed
affords all the necessaries of life and many
of its lxuries, it is not to be chassed among
the institutions for making money. Parim
ers do not need much money, and it is best
that they are unable to make much. "
fares the. land, to hastening ills a prey :
Where wealth noeumulatos and men decay."
Can any one imagine what a. calamity it
would be if the host of discontented. farmers
were to be taken from their farms and placed
in other occupations in the great cities,
there to make a ; or even if they were
put there in their younger days before they
had families to support and grow up with
the eity How mauy would be as well off
as they are on their farms to.day Not one
ni a thousand would have ever risen above
day wages, and that means just about a
scanty living foe a small family. There is
no business in the world in which a man is
us sure of a oompeteuey, 11 he has any brains
at all and any energy, as in agricultural
parthits.
It is true that the lives of some farmers'
wives and daughters are a dull routine and
their pleasures few and far between ; but
this is all wrong and needless, and all their
own fault. Some formers' wives and dough.
tors haye the poetry taken 001 of their
tives by doing work uot suited to their nat-
ure, and no man worthy of tho name worth?
allow such things. I would as soon see my
wife shoulder the ttx and start for the woods
as to allow her to milk, churn, make butter
feed pigs, and many other thing which
many farmers' wives do, end it is often con-
tended "doesn't hurt them a bit." Let dis-
contented farmers put more energy in their
work, more pride in their surrouuding sand
manner of living, u, greater regard for the
ease and comfort of the female portion of
their families, and my word for it you will
hear very little more about hard times
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Transplanting Rare Shrubs-
Vick'a ilfooti:ier tells how to transphuit
choice shrubs and trees safely as follows :
Al. y complain of losiug shrubs and large
plants ,..erietved hy express, as all tho soil iv
taken mem the roots before they eve so n
Don't ait until the shrubs are received be-
fore y, u prepare the. bed for them, but as
then as the order is sent make preparations
for them. Do not only remove the top soil
where the shrubs are to stand, but spade the
whole bed deep and add a, liberal quantity of
well -rotted manure and leaf mold 0.1 it can
be obtained) and mix thoroughly ; and when
the shrubs arrixe plant the same its you
wonlci young fruit trees. Notice the mark
showing how deep they were planted before,
and prepare to set thetn a little deeper this
time. Wet the roots in a, bucket of water.
Dig the holes duel= thou the roots require,
and pour in water so that the ground holm
will bo moist many inches, After the water
settles place some manure in the hole and
over thie an inch or 1W0 Of soil ; lift 1110
shrub from tho bucket of water and gently
lay the wet roots in position, being careful
not to break the fine, tender roots, as they
are just es important its the large ones.
tAmistseitb. letligthaeremanlito 12,trotslittitiogicid aassiihieciytrlywear:
befois sprinkle lieu soil over them, anti
then up the hole with the pressing
it Canon very firmly alantt 1.110 1'001 0.
ent book the tops in the same proportion as
the roots have bowl disturbed or broken,
and water freely. 1 have found title method
perfootly satisfactory, and oat of 42 hardy
flowering shrubs, planted in ono year, ouly
two died, and they were very frail, idekly-
looking little affairs when they NV0re re,
oeived by express with several largo ones.
Englantre Reduoed Duty on Tett.
A little over a million pounds sterling is
tho sum 001' Treasury lost last year through
the relluotiou of the day on ton, from fid, to
4d. a poond. As the consumption of tea
previous to tho reduction WaS round
figure8 170,001,000 pounde avoirdupois, the
loss, of course, would have boon greater but
for the increased demand whieh invariably
follows a dety0.1,00d imposition, The actual
increase from thitt muse Was rather more
than 23,000,000 pounds weight, or 11. little
more then 12.j per emu, 11 lit miens to
noto that in 1833, tvhon the Eloty ranged
from isd, to 3s., according to the qualit
of the article, the amount nutted by Om
rere»110 from this 0011rce S100(1 abileSt ex-
actly at the :sine figuro at, tho present'
moment, when all kinds of tea pay only 411.
On tho supposition that the good thing8
this life 1120 Nattily uhaved Ont.-WM/di,
alas, 18 only eepposition-et my man, wo.
man, and child among u8 now con:-.1.hoe4 fiVo
and a half pintas' weight, of tea a ear.
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(.1201Ving 11.N. v ior over1.* day.
Only a wook awl rho little Clare.
hor tiny white trundle hod,
1,11y with Iter tene eyes elo-ed and the sunny
hair
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strid Ott: clear little slaughter 111in went RIMY
1,1,101 (110 110100 that for one,: was
Sliowed the mother's lleart, from filet Elreary
slay,
\Visa opiate -.he had alWai, tilled,
Rules of lieulth.
There mutt be rules for the inaletenatice
of mental health as well 11.3 physical. Slae•
beth inquires ef the physician, " Can'st thou
not mioister 00 inind diSeaSed 3'' and the
physician very rightly replies that ,`Thareill
the patient ninst minister to himself."
Herbs, roots, medic:a:110111A 11111y not raze
from the brain it rooto.1 sorrow, Lilt unques-
tionably there ttre rules by which the mind
may lie regulated and relieved. The hat,
assmeut aud worry t.: the mind are fenitiel
.musies of pllysioal ailments, and of those
worre than physic 11 aihnalit,, llyrlel•la, Ele•
Monti, 11 .11.'incs,'. A ;shit ;up] equable
elopetatnent pcolobly above all others
the most precious ,pudity of the Mind. 1 lie
airs( wonli ailments 01 life 0110 avoided if
101 t Lite mind is so ..o.11,3titlltad 00 10 0111,000
111•leet.i011 01111 dept•ei,ion. 801110 tempera.
menu aye so nervous that no roles can
mai, but for the student and the brain
workee of the emitter- mould there are
iystentatie rules which will insure a tem-
perate working of that delicate yet basic
orgardsin Which in turn will go far to con -
1 1.1bote tri a sound body. The actual work-
ings of the mitel are different in different
constitutions. It Was 'Matthew A tholdove
beli2ve, who said 11152 his mind began to
work congenially the moment, he had a pen
in his hand and u drop of ink nu its point.
A most desirable eninlition of the brain or.
ganisin truly, and indicative of a most well
regulated organization. Yet with so sound
a body anti so temperate a mind as those of
the late James Russell Lowell, it is related
that that genial poet wrote his long stud
exquisite " Vision of Sir Lannfal " in a con-
tint:0m sittieg of forty-eight hours, during
which he W110 an ecstasy of composition
from which he was to be roused neither for
food nor sleep. With such dirersities nf
orgaiiism, a system of rules can hardly
he applicable to cavil, brit Dr. Edward
Smith, in his excellent treatise on "Health,"
lays tbown some cardinal rules of health for
students and brain Worker8 which are well
worthy of consideration, even by those in the
humbler conditions of mental workmanship
than embrace poetry or philosophy. They
are indeed worthy of consideration by all
workers, for to all, eren the lowliest work,
there an interval where the mind nmst
have its swing. The rules are as follows;
(1 ) Work in the early, rather than iu the
later, part of the day., and clo not rob your-
self of sletp hefore midnight. (2) Alternate
yore. mental work with bodily recreation,
and make as much use of the latter as dine
will allow. Gymnastics which will expand
the chest, singing, shooting, running, jump-
ing and walking are proper kinds of relaxa.
tion. (3) Lima your mental toil to that
number of hours which will enable you
properly to work tvell with the mind and to
obtain proper recreation for it and the mind.
These two first rules will apply even in
the work of the hoesehold, where the good
housekeeper has more mental stress upon
her than she often consents to believe. The
student, whether 11111.11 or W01110.11, will do
well to test this regime of Dr. Smith, and
see if it does not help him out in the problem
of doing his work with the least exhaustion,
Parents above all shouldguard their children
against foolish habits, such es oyerstudy
one 211110 and entire neglect at others -a
neglect often the result of exhaustion at
other time% There is no progress worthy
of the pante whieh is not continuous and
steady. It is the spasmodic method
kinds of woelc that breaks down the worker
anti fails of results.
Where Bagpipes are Used.
Bagpipes are not telly used in ot her coun
tries than Scotland, but, in Met, arc oni-
paratively Et modern innovation in the land
n f the Scot, not having been known there
until the 13211 or 1 nth eenturies ; the first
authentic mention of them being in mimeo.
tion with the bottle of Balyinites in 1504.
As a, musical instrument tun nag Eastern
nations, the bagpi'pe dales back to a very
remote perhul, being almost universal
throughout the whole of Asia. It is used
amour Chinese musicians, and also in Persia
ind India. It MIS introaueml 11110 Arabia
and Egypt, and is common in Daly, some of
the peasauts of selfish cnuntry come over
with the hand -organ tribe, and may lie 00011
tho summer months rdt ernat el y wi h
the (4 orman bands at many hingli$11 plettslire
resorts, 'rho 1 taliati peasant believes that
the bagpipe was the hest -beloved music of
tho Virgui Mary, and that it was tho ins t re-
ment upon which the shepherds expressed
their joy when they visited tho Saviour.
SYhen the Italian peasant visits Home on
the anniversary of the birth of our Savinor,
Ito always carries his bagpipes with him.
Prior to tho 1 Oth century the bagpipe wits
eohinion in England ; otutviugs of it othur
in churches at Boston, Groat Yarmouth,
and Hull, as also at Melrose. It is men -
flailed by Chaucer and Spenser, and several
times by Shakespeare,
No Use For Fast Steamers,
Who wants to cross the Ocean in jiffy 1
Xhat shall it profit a men to take a vaca-
tion shoply to he shot front one place In
01101111T 11.4 11'0111 a 011101111111? 1,11VOryb0(131
grecs that the most restful thing about a
J.,orney abroad ill the ocean voyage, The
time spent on the water, where ono is out
otl from business, from mails, telegraph,
neWspaporS, society', and all that worries or
8.11110514, it( 1110 110S1. Medicine imaginable for
tired Amermans, 1VIty wish it sheet oned
11,'hen ono eon cross the neoan in twe or three
days, the advantages tuel altraetions of a
51reitm trip will be greatly lutsoned.-/n-
tEtteapoiis tfoureed.
LATE BRITISHNEWS,
During a strono north, ely s,alt: co, the
ionoloeast coast E71 England on Sat 111 day
i II:resting, tEsidost hoist, the Albert, was
wreolgol 1,11. 11 Sunderland. Two of her
; w. Mott 1011.
. 11,, hods of :1 peing metrics( woman,
liaised Emma ttgeil ofueteen, 1 ogoth.
• et• with six :to 1111.8 0111 1.11111(1. fonnd
c 1,(1 01. Hull or Sunday. .11 W100 Orl-
i Ilonl Ova jilliiped into tile Valet' NVith
110, infant in her 111 1118.
1,00( of Buffalo Bilre 11011011H died at
1410,1!i...111 1111 Monday mooting from nu stool.
deet which he sustained 01,60 the 22914
',V. et }VAS' W118 I t own a fortnight ago.
The doesasmi was Sious: Indian named
1,:cele star.
.1 great laboln• detsionstratiOn, ill W111011
2,0011 people took part, WM 110,1 in Brad.
ford 011 Sat Mows. Mann, Tina,
mid other labour advovates addressed the
people, 111'011g 1.110 01mtion of labour repro-
teetatives to Parliament,
Col. Ellison an strehithot ut Liverpeol, bast
devised a photographic/ foeusing etoth with
a inetal eyepiece whieh does away with the
trouble:gone fumbling about to cover the
head. The eyepfeesi looks upon a reflector
fixed to the camera whieh presents the image
right side up.
The body of Johns John Harris, baker,
Nettlewell, Essex, was found on the
railway on Saturday morning shockingly
mangled, and it, is tupposed he Was knocked
dowo, while att emitting to cross tho
the previous Hight, hy an express train,
The 1,',o,uoos (1a-aitt, announces that a
general '1.1u 1 martiel ts-ill be held in /Man-
dalay In 00000(1111111 With all alleged card
scandal, in which lietiteuant in a Madras
infantry regiment is accused of cheating.
This officer, w110 15 110u• 011 leIre in England
has been ordered to return to give evidence.
sei i0111 accident, involving in the death
of 1,00 onto and injuries to another, ocourred
Sliddlosex Street, Altlgato, London, a
1 lictroughlare familiarly known 0,s Petticoat
Lane. Acloan Sansoin, ot Manor Park
Rend, Ifinehley, iina another man named, it
is believed, Jutiall COW1111, but whose
identity has not been established, were
gaming 11. wall at the corner of Gorden
Piece When it hulged out autl collapsed,
killing Cowan and serlously injuring Sen.
son, who received a lacerated head and
nose and disloeated thigh. He was remov-
ed to the London Hospital. A. horse also
had a leg broken and had to be dtstroyed.
Lord Salisbury has made twenty-one now
peers since he has fallen into office, besides
raising the rank of several more.
It is T111110111100(1 111 LO1ld011 that a novefity
in the form of five minutes' recitations be-
tween courses at fashionable dinners is
about to be tried.
Ahem, letlf.past two on Sunday afternoon
a. terrific explosion =turret' in Abereasaid
Pit, belonging to the Hills Plymouth Co.,
Limited, mid situated near ..Merthyr. The
report was of such tremendous volume that
it alarmed the whole neighborhood, and in
a very short thne the pit's mouth was sur-
rounded by thousands of persons. Two
mon lest their lives -John Ilorgon and his
brother Joseph, and their bodies bore indi.
cations that death had been canseci by suf.
fueation,
In Ve3ten, in the Congo State, 1 he first
newspaper has recently made its a epos' once
under the name of 8t griktanya (the Daily
Light). Its object is " to enlighteo the
souls of the black skioned." It is printed
in the popular dialect of the country in the
Latin alphabet. The first issue of the paper
teas 0E10,1 by two educated negro W001011,
W110 111(1 (heir owe typesetting. It contained
a lengthy article on " the natural history
of the elephant," from the pen of a learned
negro.
It is well known that about 25,000 people
are killed every year in Incliaby wild beasts
and reptiles, the larger number felling vic-
tims to poisonous snakes. 11 was recently
discovered that the injection of permangan.
ate of potash was a specific cure for cobra,
poisoning. The Government discussed the
projeot of furnishing the natives with hype-
dermio syringes and a quantity of perman.
ganateSof potash, but the scheme had to be
rejected because it 11701 fonnd that it would.
entail an expense of 4120,000,000.
A magistrate in Ronteastle,Eng.,sentene-
ed Et man under the vagrancy laws to seven
hnprisonment, for havmg slept ill
Stable. It WaS shown that he had slept
there by permission of the owner but the
Justice said there was nothing in 'the Vag.
rancy act about permission' and to jail the
num went.
On Monday eventog a man named Thomas
ocorge Bl'intt jumped fr0111 tile high-level
bridge whieh spans the river Tyne at New.
otstle into the street below,and died instant.
ly. There were many pet sons crossing the
bridge at the time, but the suicide's move-
ment was so 801(1011 that there 91/118 no op.
portunity to seize him. The jump Wile
from height of nearly 100 feet, and the
unfertunate man's body was frightfully
mangled by the impact with the pavement,
The deceased, who tived at Gateshead, was
80 years of ago, and married.
Two men were killed outside Exmouth
Docks on Monday afternoon by the bursting
of a steam pipe, ou board the steamship
Deaver, Two others Wore injured. One of
the dead is named Escott, of Withycombe
tho other is supposed to he a foreigner. The
injured men, who belong to Liverpool, wore
taken to tho hospital, where they died
:Madly afterWarde.
A farmer named Joseph Flint, aged 60,
who lived. at Dore, near Sheffield, recently
became despondent orer his bad harvest
pro:meets. On 'Monday morning ho rose at
tee o'ulook, and tahortlyafterwards diseltarg.
ed a gun loaded with shot at his stomach.
1)r, Aldred was summoned, and tho man
rallied somewhat for a time, but:subsequent-
ly had a relapse and died in greet agony,
A Gruel murder has been discovered Et
Ilawtherton, villago near Stafford. On
intraday boy named Guy Arrowinnith, 11
years of ago, who resided at Green Dragon
Hatherton, WEIS 111/080(1, and search
was made, without effect. On Saturday
quenitity of blood NVall 20111111 ill the cellar of
2110 hin, and further examination revealed
the body of tho boy, with a gunshot in the
hoed, hidden iu an onthouso, A step.
brother has been arrested on suspicion of
murdering the boy. Tho Wolverhampton
police are investigating tho mysterious
affair,
A torions railway aceident at Hewes
Junction ocoured to a Bradford oxeurion
train on Saturday night. While the train
was shunting to the Hawes branch, it was
backed against, tho buffers very treibly,
when the last carriage but two -it saloon -
was lifted on end, elide. number of passengers
were badly shaken, Several very much
hruised about, om free am? head. A lady
RS I. ak(111 int.0 billti0111110.8ibr..S 1101100 W110
had received a very serious shook; and
another, it is feared, hasreetismil sedans in.
tonal injuries. The tsip, train ..poold not
proems?, owing to' the eartsigesliaving been
enviously damaged.. About twenty persons
are said. to bo more or loss injured.