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The Huron News-Record, 1893-09-06, Page 31Q EI 142 4.4 71 pperhapa, one of Pr, Fierce's Pleasant Pellets -.--but you can't feel it after it's taken. And yet it (lees you more good than any of 'the huge, pills, with their griping and vio- lence, These tiny k==` Pellets, the smallest and easiest to take, bring you help that lasts. Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks', Sick or Tlilious Headaches, and 4411 Headache• s, anof liver, stomach,, and bowels, am permanently cured. ' • • v A SQUARE offer of $500 cash ie made by the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, for any calla of Catarrh, no matter how bad or of how long standing, which they can- not cure. The Huron News -Record 1.50 a Year—$1.25 in Advance. Wednesday, September Gth I893. —In an interview at Niagara Fulld the other day Rev. Dr. Talmage ex- pressed the opinion that the hard times would goon para sway. He thought it would be a good thing if the preee and public speakers would en- deavor to, :persuade the people that limes were not so bad. OFT IN PERIL. LIVES of children are often ondanttered i;y sudden and violent attacke of oholera, cholera morbus, dierrhoe e, dysentery and bowel complaiute. A reasonable and certain precaution is to keep Dr. Fow'er'e Extract of Wild Strawberry always at hand. —The Roman Catholic priests of Thurgan, Switzerland, have torn out lour pages from the history books in use in the common schools. These four pages dealt with the history of the Protestant Reformation in Thurgau The civil authorities of the Canton have taken the matterup, and will in eist on the book condemned by the priests being used in the echool. A LETTER FROM EMERSON. "I hare used Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry and I think it is the beat remedy for summer complaint. It has done a great deal of good to thyself and children." Yours trnly, MRs. WM. WHITELY, Enterenn, Msn. —Government Detective Joseph E Rogers, has returned to Toronto from Larnbton, where he hat been complet• ing arrangements for the trial of Albert Wilson, charged with the murder of Mary Marshall in Warwick two years ago. Willson, it will be remembered, was extradited from S4givaw by De• t.ctive,Rogerea few weeks ago. It was ireorted that application would be made for the change of venue in the case, but this intention apponre to have been abandoned and the case will be heard by Mr. Justice Falcoubridge at Sarnia ou Sept. 11. UNBEARABLE AGONY. For three days I euffsred neverely from summer complaint, nothing gevo the relief and I kept getting woree uuttl the pain was almost unbearable, het sifter I had token the first dose of Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry I found groat relief and it did not fail to cure me. Wm. '1'. GLYNN Wilfrid, Oot. —Mies Merrill, daughter of Geo, Merrill, of Belleville, rode ou her bicycle the other day from Toronto to 'Belleville, 130 miles, in twelve hours, taking breakfast at Whitby, dinner et Port Hope and tea at Trenton. THE FOUR CARDINAL POINTS. The four cardinal points of health are the stomach, liver, bowels and blood. Wrong action in any of these produces disceee. Burdock Blood Bitters acts upon the four cardinal pointe of health at one and the same time, to regulate, strengthen and purify, thus preserving health and rem ,ving dis- ease. —It is always athing to find anew way of getting out of the world, but the Chicago man who filled his mouth full of gunpowder and then touched himself with a match seems to• have discovered a method that is prompt, satisfactory and sufficiently horrible to mike everybodylehuddgr. WassfoisammaanISISMS,— THREE DOLLARS A WEEK FOR LIFE. Here to a chance for Brainy People—The Latest Thing OW. In order to introduce The Canadian Agriculturist into New homes, the 1upliabers have decided to pre- sent an unusually attractive reward list for their Groat Eighth Half Yearly Literary Attraction for. the summer of 1893. They havo entered into a written agreement to pay through the Judges all the rewards offered below. $OW TO SECURE A REWARD—T11011e who become anbsorfbcre can compete free of charge. All that is necessary is to taken few eheete of paper and mike all the words you can out of the letters in the three words, "World's Colombian Exposition," and send them to ns',. inolosing 31 for six months subscription to either The Canadian Agriculturist or 1110 Ladies' Dome Magazine, two of the choicest ilhhetrated periodicals of theday. The Fender of the largest list will receive $3 per week for life ; and $1,000 in gold ; erd, 5500 ; 4th, - $250; 6th, 0100; fitb, Ticket to World's Fair and ton days expenses; pianos, organs, lndioe' and gents' gold and silver watches, silver tea services, diamond ringa, . and over 10,000 other rewards, making altogether the moat valuable prize list over offered by any publisher. Send for printed 1101 of former prize -winners. RULEa.-1. For lgn nr obsolete word, not counted. 2. Letters cannot be used oftener then they appear n the words "World's Columbian Exposition"—that is, the word "riddle," for fnetanco, could not bo RHe>l, beeans° there Ie but one "d" in tho throe words, etc. 8. Names of persona and pieties barred. 4. No charge ' for peeking or shipping, but ail prize winners will be eYppOted to containing over 100WI to cornetwords will receive end onr °initiation. 5. n te second reward. \fvoows.—The following well known gentlemen bare eonsented to act es ledges and will Hoo that the priz. e aro fairly awarded—Commodore Caloutt, (Proprietor Oaloutt's Line of Steamers), Peterborough, and Mr. 'W. Robertson, President 'Times Printing Company, I'etorborongh. A0tt4Te WANTED—We pay 81. to $0 par day salary Write orr particulars. Registerenellbmoney elo trrs. addteerougs. Qll al tflAITRIST PUD. 00,, L'td, Pete', >tttcl11e'li Thau!tuet, l 'tad tax dollars for I.uoilta'A bowled, I To deck her for the pall of yeaternight-- 1, her adorer. Yet was tide the way Shu treated it, with manner whtsome, ilght 1 She tossed It to her chaperon, the while She waltzed with Dick Pan Dump, and roused my bird. She swung it briskly, heedlessly about, And talked cath Banks, and dropped three rosea out. She sohottisch .d with De Poynter, and he stele A good shat) of it for his button -hole. She left the meager remnant on a chair, And Mrs. Perkins-Churohall sat down there. And then she said to me, with smile and yawn, Pausing to right her gown's soft disarray, "Why—y 1 Doer me I where are those flowers gone i" I paid six dollars for Lucille's bouquet. —Punk. OVER THE WIRE. "Good -by, Hal 1" the conductor called from his perch in the turret of the yel- low caboose of freight train No. 43. "Good -by!" Keanley answered as he trudged along beside the long train to- ward the small depot beyond the brown water tank. The engine soon slacked its thirst at the tank end got under way again. A moment later the caboose pass- ed Keanley and with ever increasing speed swayed onward toward the curve at the Lone Mound. As Keanley neared the little depot the strains of a violin floated toward him. Soft and sweet came the tune, like the tinkle of musical glasses, and there was in it a pathetic, wailing undertone, as if the player was striving to tell in music of a heartache and trials bravely borne. Keanley could hardly repress an ejacu- lation of surprise Its he entered the little office and beheld the wielder of the magic bow, a pale -faced boy, almost a child. As the lad carefully deposited the violin in the open box at his side and slowly rose, Keanley saw that the little fellow was a cripple. One leg, distorted and shrivelled, swunr auseles.s memnber. Resting on his crutches, the boy raised his hat. "You're the new agent, I s'pose," he said. "Yes," Keanley answered, "I am the new agent. And who are you ?" be con- tinued, kindly. "The ex -agent?" "No. only his son," the toy replied. "And where is your father?" "Over there on the slope." The boy's chin quivered as he spoke. Keanley looked from the window. On the elope of the Lone Mound was a ttny graveyard. Ono oblong black blotch in its midst marked a new -made grave. The agent was there. "Pardon me," Keanley said ; "I did not know. My instructions simply told me to take chairge of the station. I sup- posed the agent had been promoted or discharged." "He was promoted," the boy said gravely. •'And what will you do now ?" Kean - leyasked presently. "I don't know`'," the boy answered. "I've been thinking and thinking. but it's no use. I don't know what to do. Perhaps the superintendent will give me a place in an office. I can write a fair hand and wire pretty well, but I ain't much on heavy work." This last with a rueful look at his crutches. Then Keanley lied, and deliberately, too. - He had no teed of an assistant, but a lightning resolve flashed through his brain ;and Ito said to the cripple : "You are just the chap 1 ant looking for. I need a boy to help me." "What for?" asked the lata. "To—to—why, to write and look out for things generally," Keanley answered half desperately. "I'll feel safer to gaol about when I have an assistant whom I know I can trust. Then too, I might be sick, you know.-' The boy looked doubtfully at him. "If you are in earnest. 1'll jump at the ' chance to stay," lie said. "In earnest?" Keanley cried in pre - ter did pique at the Lad's doubt. "Of coarse I ani. Do you think I don't know my own mind, young man?" - The boy said nothing. And so it was settled, and crippled Ben became Kean• ley's assistant, although there was not work enough to occupy half one person's tinge. As the days when the breeze brought the slope the perfume of the wild ver• benas were succeeded by those when the snow camp with a rush and a hiss against the little depot Keanley grew more than fond of the little cripple. To be sure, to board and clothe the lad and to pay him an occasional dollar made quite a gap in each month's salary, but Keanley never grudged a penny of it. It was pay enough to witness the boy's gratitude and see the lad's great eyes following him with their glances of posi- tive beatitude. Often and often the violin sang its sweet songs,.but now they seldom had the pitiful, wailing undertone. The lad's father had planned to do justice tq his talentby having him taught 1 by a master of the violin. Now Kean - ley and little Ben planned in a happy, visionary way. They were to save what money they.could, and thus little Ben was to have the coveted musical instruc- tion. But at best, the accumulation of funds went on slowly. The plans of the two went further than this. Keanley had "once. upon a tame" been foolish enough to fall in love with old Senator Hicks' daughter and she had returned iris love. The old Sena- tor, when he found how platters stood, proceeded tosquelcb the whole affair. He even forgot the time when he had been as much a pauper as the young fellow he sent packing from his pres- once. The girl, with her tear -wet face up- turned to his, promised Keanley to wait for him till he succeeded in accumulat- ing the $10,000 that the old Senator named as the amount of wealth Keanley must possess before he could aspire to winning her. Then when orders had sent Keanley to the West he had gone with the determination strong within him to very soon gain the money and the girl. But he speedily grew despondent.. The fates seemed against flim. He struck no bonanza or highway to speedy wealth and finally half gave up the struggle. The money that would flow to little Ben ars the substantial reward of his genius was to be invested by Keatiley, who in this manner would soon obtain the coveted $10,000. Then when prosper- ity smiled upon the Senator's new-found son in-law little Ben's wealth was to be returned to him. The two plotters placed great faith in this plan, chimerical as it was. Then camp the great siorms and with them one that the "oldest inhabitant," popularly supposed to know everything, declared was the largest and heaviest rainfall since 1881. The creeks seemed to have wholly forgotten their boun- daries, and later the work begun by the rain was completed by the cloudburst over in the neat county, neer the Itend of Haclwbert'y creek, It was nearly 10 o'clock when a message went clicking by, and Keanley, who had been nursing an oohing tooth all day, remarked to Ben, who was playing the violin loudly to shut out the sound of the rushing rain: "Dispatcher is telling them to look out for an east -bound special that leaves Hamilton at 10.40. That means 11.20 when it passes here " Ben aodded and went on with his tune. Presently the train dispatcher was heard calling "U." That was Gid- dings, the station just beyond, whero the railroad bridge spanned Haokberry creek, "What is the condition of bridge 881 ?" the message ran. The operator at Giddings presently clicked nook the answer. "Bridge 881 is O.K. Water high, but not dangerous." The cloudburst had not yet occurred. Meanwhile Keauley's tooth grew more painful, till its victim did little but walk the floor and anathematize the offending molar, "If it doesn't ease up soon," he said presently, "I'11 tramp over to the settle- ment and have it out, storm or no storm." Soon, the pain not abating, he donned his rubber coat and boots and started away in the darkness and storm. With his violin for company little Bon scarcely felt lonely. He wondered pres- ently if it were not time for Keanley's return. Suddenly the sender began to click furiously,"H-H-H"--the Hamil- ton call. Then came the message: "Bridge 38I is down. Fur God's sake hold the special I" The cloudburst had done its work. Ben glanced quickly at the clock. The hands indicated a fraction of a minute less than 11:20. Tho special was on time, and even as Ben turned, there cane the flash of the headlight through the storm, that drowned the noise of the engine's approach. p.o titne even to take the red lantern from the cuddy and light it. Little Ben remembered afterward how, even in the intense excitement of the moment, it had flashed through. his mind how useless the effort of the fright- ened operator at Giddings had beeu in telegraphing to Hamilton, when he might have known that the special had passed there ]tall an hour before. The engine gave no call fur brakes, and Ben new that no stop would be made there, and that the train would rush on to destruction at the wrecked bride at Ilackberry Creek. The head- light seemed abreast of him as he flung open the door and with a mighty spring on his crutches threw himself out on the platform of the little depot. There was no use or time to signal, and there seem- ed nothing to do but to let the trate rush on to wreck. Then like a flash the little cripple raised his right crutch, anti io itlt the rapidity almost of lightning hurled it, lance fashion, at the window of the engine cab just as it flashed past hint. Teen he slipped and fell headlong upon the platform. . Passing just above the back of the fire- man,ae he bent tach to open the furnace dour. the crutch struck the engineer's shoulder with a force that made ltitn cry out. His quick percept:on took in the situation, and ho knew that something serious has caused the train to be signal- ed iu that manner. Soon the train came to a standstill., Then it backed up to the little depot, and the engineer, crutch in hand, desceneled hurriedly from the cab. He found the owner of the crutch crawling to his feet w•i.th a face touch paler than usual. The story was soon told, and then it was retold in the parlor car, where the conductor speedily carried little Ben. In the cab the engineer said to the grimy fireman : "Bill, it almost makes rho ashamed of myself to have my- life saved by such a weak, pale little feller, an 'a cripple at that." Though not numerous the pas- sengers in the parlor car were generous, and the sura of money that trey drop- ped into the hat,passed by a white -beard- ed man whom • they called "senator," was a goodly one, Then when little Lien had bashfully expressed his gratitude he asked timidly if any one present could tell him where to go to obtain the covet- ed musical education. The story of his hopes had to be told, and when ho was done the white -bearded man cleared Itis throat in a manlier that sounded suspici- ously as if he was choking back as sob. Then ho took Ben into the little depot, and the two talked earnestly together. When Keanley, muddy and wet, but ininus the aching tooth, re- turned, ho was astonished to see the special standing in front of the depot, and Senator Hicks and little Ben in earnest couversatiu,t in the otiitce. The old Senator did not appear to recog- nize Keanley. "So you are the agent, young man," he said.. "Allow me to congratulcte you upon your good judgment in selecting so efficient an assistant. Now let ale in- troduce my. recently engaged private secretary, who will accompany me when the special leaves." The old man laid his hand caressingly on Ben's shoulder. "And," spoke Ben eagerly, "he says I shall havo the best teacher he can find, and all the time I want to study." Soon the special left to return to Hamilton, and with it went little Ben. "Good-bye! Good-bye!" the cripple called from the receding parlor car, and Keanley answered with a mechanical farewell. Then he sat the little office and stared moodily at the fire for a long time. "How lonesome it is without him !" he said. "I loved that little cripple, I think." Then the sounder began to tick from Iiamilton and tho message came: "flood -bye, old fellow. Little Ben." Then Keanley sat listening to the fall- ing rain for a long time. Three months later he *as surprised at seeing Senator Hicks and little Ben alight from a train at the faded station. "Young man," said the Senator, ab- ruptly, "how much of that $10,000 have you accumulated. eh ?" "A trifle over $100." Keanley answer- ed, dejectedly. "Near enough. near enough ?" jerked the old man. "This boy has been con- tinually talking of you, and—and—I sometimes change my mind, and—well, there is a girl at my house who seems anxious to see you." And so it all turned out happily, just as all stories should. Thero is a new agent at Lone Mound station now, and Hal Keanley is rising in the lucrative position procured for him by the old Senator. At the wedding that made Keanley Senator Hick's son-in-law, a young musical artist, who, though a cripple, is rapidly rising in popular favor, held the guests almost spell -bound by the strains of a violin that seemed singing a song of happiness, -Tom P. Morgan. ... '4.A1 •' .,,1 .00'--"a ...,., GRAIN AND PASTTURE, COWS GIVE MORE MILK AND GAIN IN FLESH If it Ration of Grain is Given Thorn Dar. Ing the Pasture Season—What i(opnrr 11101110 at Cornell University Have 1'1.nv0d in This Respect, There is no necessity for having short pasturage in summer, unless the heavens fail to supply moisture. In the dairy region of Central Now York, we gener- ally enjoy plenty of slimmer rain, and the two principal causes of deficiency of grazing are, overstocking the fields and neglect. It is common for sheep and horses to run with cows. Sheep, by clime feeding, secure the most nutritious pert of the grit's, and colts, if pastured with Cows, annoy and worry thein by their playful or vicious antics. Quiet et e r e eta?. seen t J• n rr INCREASED.. M LK FLOR 1.5 flr:N GRAIN I3 ADDED TO PASTURE. and peaceful posseoslon ,of the grazing lot is essential to the comfort and profit of 'Mich caws. To remain plentiful the grass should have a chance to grow 't little faster thou the cotes est it ori. Some dairymen will take young stock from outside to pasture when they have not acres enough to properly pasture their own cows. This had uu»tum is quite prevalent, and frequently accounts for the prernntur'.drying off of the nlid- runlnler milk- yield on many farms. On the poorer peetures, where the dry weather of midsummer stops the growth of the nutritious grasses, the cow,' will give much lesa milk unless an additional ration of fodder or grain is given, to supplement the falling pasture. The Cornell Ua iver>.ity experiment stn ton has tried the feeding of grain to mach cows at pasture, and the, reenits are shown in the accompanying diagrams les the cut•ced lines, which show the '•rent increase in bout urine and putter. Every night and lmorming 011011 cow was led a Lal' gell in of a grain ration, cuin- -posed of two parts corn ureal, one part bran, and one 1111.1 cotton -seed meal. 'rut, cows also gained rapidly in Beall. A system of genera good farnlir'g however, will keep the erasi in Such 1;uflicieut enmity that it will not time be necessary to feed grain at this season. At all events, it is far better to maintain ,�, a1 permanent and pro- riuctive prAtttars turf from w•111011 a full yield of milk may he pro- duced. thin to depend upon a costly grain diet for the swine result. It is quite as important for profit to reduce the cost of :silk production, as it is 'to raise the price of dairy goods. It is an obvious fact that the average pastures in this state are not ars productive as they have beeu in former veers. There are areas of hill c•'untry,w'Iiere but little good grass remains in the gr.tzing ti illy, these 1111 11'1ti11u8 01IC10s having been run out and replaced by a sort of fuzzy wire grafi:, that smith becomes serge and brown. tae botanists call it Donthonit, but it svuulll he as worthless by any other 1.:11:11'. New, permanent pastures are ‘'het we grunt, provide.) that they are see led 11) 11 nte'itlutle grasses. The great itrrp..rtanco of this subject is not aIppre.- cietcd by dairymen. Ad the pastures run out and become less 1>roef•10 11ye the deiry num turn.o to forage crops raised on other parts of tine farm to make up test deficiency 111 feel. This is all right as a sup - ;dement for prlsturar;e, but it is not good management to let the pastures lie un- productive,' while depending wholly been soiling crops. The pastures are the Drain stay after all, and on their productiveness daircine nmet stand or tall. 11 the pasture lot ]a treeless, plant INCREASED I:rTTER Y toren \VITEN (111AIN IS I'la WITII ite serums shale trees et intervals ; if it clues not yield varieties of grass suitable for nlundartt milk production, bro.tk it np :111(1 reseed at to such as ars. more profit- able. Fertilize a. sterile Vesture, and protect the sources of the soleness that wa.terea it. Our fathers reclaimed these fields from the forest ; 11•0 must re crnim 1110111 from the neglecte,l nIrd un- profitable condition into Which they ole fallen. Sometimes a kook or rivulet flowing through the grazin'; field may he uti1 zi'd f• r purposes of irrig1- tiurl, wyheai the weather ba -comes dry. This phut involves little evpr'nee, and where the lay of the lard males it practicable, is en offices:iolts way of pre- vent'ng a midsummer decrease in the p:hsturage and milk yield. Although the whole pasture cannot he bon>ef1ed in this way, a portion of it may be, which would in a drought otherwise he dry and verdtu'elesa. If willows are en- couraged to grow along the batiks of t110...e meadow and pasture streams, their shade will not only prevent a. gullying away- and destruction of the banks ire time of freshets. Let ns try to do more to build up our long neglected pastures. There is hardly any kart of the farm on winch a judicious outlay of money and well -directed labor brings better and Much more profitable returns than can be secured by the systenha1ie,timely and careful improvement of our pastures.— American Agriculturist. (lathering Sparks. "La Dumiero" deeeriues a appiratu9 for collecting atmospheric electricity, which consists of a revolving wheel .Itav1'ng eight sp:>kee but no rim. Each spoke is made of n conductor insulated from the hub and baying a small metal- lic cross -arm at its farther enc. Near the huh are arranged two brushos,one above and one below the center. These brushes aro always in contact with the spokes, pointing vertically npwnrd and vertical- ly downward, respectively, during the revolution, and,therefore, lead off from them the electric charges collected from the atmosphere et the top and at the bot./ tom of the wheel. F. AND Q. AND DEPT 1 INVESTIGATING THE HUMAN EYE. 1)y meows of 1 wo New Inetruntent. All 116 I'uuor1oaa WO 1) senna .#ro ICnuIv 1. The Lr.iei"u UI>lie,a:t, fu deec,ild,1g the 1•rauttr•k.tt>le 1an'greaa taut hue bcea mains of late years in the treatment of esu diaeu.es, rays liner 111111 the uphthla- miele ape duel oprt.hahl.>ru. trv' then' arse w cry tea pl'ul>1uwa telt h regard to the fot.etlutls and dtseuses of the humans eye that cannot be deterutiued by au expert in a eery tett moments of 11nme. It may safely be 116501 reel that there is no department of knowledge of the 1 unctions and diseases of the human body teat is so advanced as that of ophthal- mology, and this has been the work of the utvilizutiwi of the nineteeuth ecu- tury. With the ophthalmoscope the circular opeuiug in the iris, which we cull the pupa, is mains a window looking upon a scarlet picture, in the center of which is a beautiful white moonlike disc, over which radiate vessels pulsating with the blood constantly pumped in by the heart. The starker returning uurreut in the veins is also Seen, while the vary- ing and almost numberless changes made by disease are noted by the prac- ticed eye, and tell a tale of warning and often et woe. The entrance of the uptiu nerve in the retina, a little spot one -sev- enteenth of au iuoh in diameter, is wade to appear as a wblte disc. Besides all this, the lens and the great vitreous Humor — those transpareut structures that make up the greater part of the interior of the eye—are so lighted up that any changes in them, bowevec minute, are magnified by their own power as lenses and clearly seen. With the inetrutuent for meueuriug the radius of the cornea, the uplitllalnionieter, an- other variety of revelation is made, which reduces the ehouoing of glasses to aid vision to a purely scieutitic problem, easily and exactly solved, and with a satisfaction in the solution that removes the whole euhject far from the hum- drum and mechanical ideas that are often associated with such au occupa- tion. Cnnlbtt>ed Ih-n(1 and Curti ,louse. Lest year I built a combined corn and fruit house, which has some advantages of convenience aid beauty. At the sills it is eight feet by twelve. and the sides Hauge to a width of nine feet :cis inches at the plates. Tile sides are eight and one - ha if feet high, and the roof is half pitch. It is divide,l across with a partition, and the south half has a bin for cunt on each side of the door. The north half has a floor six and one-half feet trout the low- er fluor, and the loft is devoted to the storage of bel'l'y. boxes nihil crates. The lower part is used for temporary storing tiotSsIti, fete PERSPECTIVE vIEv> t F FIIUIT AND CUP.:; i IOUK:. of berries, and other fruit. To mane not in the fruit business it may be new•, to leant that rats and mice are wine troublesome to fruitnle11, a11.1 for over- night stcraee it in as important to have rat -proof structures as it is for train. In winter, mice make nests in pied: - ages and gnaw holes in them. to winter tine fruit room is used f r the storage of :;oft cora, and barrels of small grain and feed, There is adoor in the front _able, as shown ie the en- graving, so that the entire end eau Ise tilled, If necessary; crus„ Innards being placed inside the Blom, with an opeeine nt the bottom for talking out 0>011, Fill- ed to the peak, the crib ends loris Geo bushels. The loft over the fruit room is reached from the corn edit), but. there is 110 difficulty when the crib is fall is the berry boxes are all stored e l0 1g b• - fole the ai nett! tilling. Tire bei ding is = ded on the emit with Inon beer>Is ressed smooth, tut 00 the sides "f the rn crib the beards are ripped len It, - :tys and ph:ceil an Mein ap:n't. ,eliding stands upon Ln'e'1 ro nine-i1.c;1 sewer pipes, two feet, two inches hie h, .vltich'rest upon thin slat sones with 'cost -proof 0 bble.$tone fa 011110011,1>, Tile sockets of the pipe are ,just below tl:e surface, .malting the dist'.nce from 1410 ground to the uifdcr side of the sets twenty-three inches. .Midenni n•r, A vagrant army overruns the field And clambers over mossy hank and wall, Screening the ,'ovens whence the ploversrwll, Bridging the •.vastcs>,,d naked places whore rho tandseape >nav he destitute anti hare, (nothing the wood and intervals of .a'nl, And bringing such abundance e v> the lain) As Nature's generosity can yield. Flowers and shrubs, and rampant, clemberin; vines, And trees and plants that few of us ran name ; And gins; and mn.vv, and all that lover Ills snn- 1'fuy crowd and Ia,.h, and tw•i:n' and im-mouse, And bloom and thrive and have the oe•nmm aim To grow and grow, and clamper up and rah. —Frank 11. Sweet, in Boston Commonwealth. Electricity on the Ynrut. An interesting example of electricity is applied to farm work is now to opera- tion at a Scotch farms. The whole of the usttal farms machinery, such as thrash- ing, sowing, corn thrashing aha the like, are here driven by an electric motor. The electricity is grnera:111 by water power, the turbine wheel whelln drives the dynamo beim;,• about 1000 yards from the farm. The elpetric vitt.- rent is conveyed by underground wires to the house and farm, in each of which a storage battery is placed. These supply the electric current for ii;hting Fuld motive purposes when the ihh;tell ii, 1.1'y is root wnrkUhg. The whole of the n,:111- ;4in is illuminated by electric light, and Ful electric motor is provided for pump- ing the water for donnestis purposes. Aluminum Street Car Tickets. The latest use for aluminum is for street car tickets, and it nnhstl>e crewed - ed that the metal is singularly adapted for the purpose. A 'Michigan street rail- way has just made its first issue of tilos' light and ornamental tokens, which are about the size of tt silver quarter -duller. One is round, for the ordinary fare : the other octagonal for children. Tho adult's ticket is sold by the railroad company to the public at the rate of six for a quar- ter and the chhd's ticket at the tate of ten for a quarter. The company does not allow its employes, either conductors or motormen, to sell the tickets, to the public, but disposes of them in $10 lots to the several storekeepers who handle diem exclusively. VARIOUS FARM NOTES, Increased Fertility of the Loud Aeltdfivl, ed by Good Management, Does fanning pay ? Make an estimate, of the value of the farm and compare it with its value tan or fifteen years ago, and if the farm has been properly pitta • aged it will, perhaps, have doubled io value. Thero may havo been no apllar. ent profit, but the farm itself 'has lin- proved in fertility. Many farmers have become wealthy by the increased value of their farms, though they handled taut • little more cash than was required to rneet the expenses. The fertility of the farm is capital invested in the soil. Colts that are foaled in the fall will be ready for weaning when tlae mare is wanted for spring work. It given ground oats it will thrive well in winter. Warm quarters will save much labor in raising colts during the winter season. Regular customers for choice butter., pure milk and fresh eggs are ready for him who can supply the articles. The farmer who willp make it a point to gain the coufldenoe of his customers by never allowing an inferior article to pass hie inspection, will never have cause to complain of prices. Customers are al- ways willing to pay something extra for choice articles. It is useless to save seed from a large and luscious watermelon if you have sev- eral varieties together, as the melons of next year,lrom the selected seed,may be uniform in every respect. Sportanoous combustion may result from storing hay in the barn unless it is properly cured and fres from damp- ness, and when curing corn fodder do not allow it to become too dry before cutting. Let each farmer question himself in regard to his stock, and Dinh to improve his knowledge. How litany farmers can distinguish a Jersey cow from an Ayrshire, or a Shropshire sheep from n Oxford ? This may be considered unimportant, but it would appear strange to them if a lumber merchant did not know oak bollyds from pine. It is a fact, however, that the major- ity of farmers, though enthusiastic in their calling, do nut know the breeds of stock, and cauuot judge of their merits. When and where to market a crop is an important natter. Farmers who suc- ceed in growing and harvesting good crops often sell at a sacrifice., because they do not observe prices and study the markets. The cow that yields largely of milk and produces an extra quantity of bluster is of more value than one that produces the sante amount of butter 'from a less quantity of milk, for the reason that the milk itself possesses a value independ- ently of the butter it contains. A driven well supplies pure water. Wiudlllills are now usually attached to driven wells, and send the water to all parts of the farm. There is a period when the growth of an animal is slow. Greater gain is se- cured by rapid growth than from in- creased weight, by fattening ten animal. The younger it is, the greater the gain proportionately. The fanner who raises stock for market should u>e the. scales. keep a record of the gain in weight, and market the animals as soon as the ratio of gain materially lessens. It will never injure land ^ to hav it bear two crooe in a year, if two applica- tions of manure or fertilizer, in sufficient quantities to ford the crops, are applied. There is no limit to the possibility of the land, provided all the conditions are favorable. 1t will always pay to grow two crops instead of one, but not unless the fanner thoroughly understands how to do it. The "fancy" farmer is always willing to learn the best methods and to rest them, and he uses the best stock. Lack of experience may cause him to fail, but he teaches others niany improvements In the meantime. It must be addmitted that keeping sheep for wool is not the proper way to make sheep pay. Tho English farmer abandoued wool growing long ago, but he raises sheep for mutton on high-,riced land and secures a largo profit. Of course the wool possesses a value also, but the 'object is to produce choice mutton for market. An experienced laborer on a farm will seldom fail to secure good wages. In fact, farmers have much difficulty in securing suitable helpers. They may succeed in finding willing persons to labor, but the presence of the farmer is necessary to have the work properly at- tended to. The farm hand who knows just what to do, and who attends to his duties''without compelling his employer to lose time in instructing him, can easily secure more than the ordinary wages. The Cheapest rate, When a fanner is able to make a gate almost as cheaply as good bars, there is 10) excuse for using the latter, as they are certainly very inconvenient. In passing through bars with a wagon, or other farm implement, the time con- sumed in taking them out and replacing them is a matter of no small moment. Moreover, bars are often left partly put up, and the stock, in rubbing against 011 Il f1fe al 111 seeeresee AN EFFICIENT FARM GATE. them, lower the end of one or more of the bars, or the action of the wind causes one end to fall, letting stock into mis- chief. The engraving, from a sketch by D. S. Barr, shows the construction of the gate so clearly that a description is unnecessary. The gate should be as high, or a little higher, than the fence immediately adjoining. It should be made of light, strong lumber. -Ameri- can Agriculturist. Culture of a Lovely Plower, Lily of the valley may be thinned ottt by taking up all the clusters, dividing them into small clusters of crowns and planting them from 9 to 12 in. apart in fresh soil well manured. Another way of thinning thick beds is to out out stripe 3 or 10 in. wide, leaving strips the same width undisturbed. Tho roots lifted may be planted elsewhere and the soil made up by top -dressing with leaf mold.' •