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••'. ?&• ||ft^2»».-^(l^_'. £»?.. .' '-"IS FE IF ff t-' $ 2. g, •fe-'. i: it -"./ ^..'vs v|^ 0 It ,-. LL. SI1* Skznlon Advocate. CANTON, DAKOTA. CAltTER BROS., PUBLISIIXRS. IN ARCADIA. Because I cboosc to keep my seat, »or join the (fiddy dancers' wh'rl, •»T Pra y°n do not laujh, my girl, £«or ask me why I find It sweet In my old ace to watch your glee— J, too, have been in Arcady. And though full well I know I^seem Quite out if place in scenes like th'Jt You can't imagine how much bliss It gives ma jnsl to sit and dream. As your fair form eoes flitting by. How I, too, dwelt in Arcady. For, sweetheart, in your merry eyes A vanish summer buds and blows, And wiih the same bright cheeks of rose I see vour mother's image rise, And o'er alone and weary track Mj burled boyhood wanders back. And as with tear-dimmed eyes I cast On your sweet form my swimmin? glance I think your mother used to dance Just as ou do, in that dead past, Long years aco, —yes, fifty-three,— hen I toot dwelt In Arcady. And in the music's laughing notes 1 se.-m to ear old voices rin? .. That have been hushed, ah! many a spring. And round about me faintly floats The echo ot a melody 1 nsed to hear In Arcady. And yonder youth—nay, do not blush, Ths boy's his father o'er again: And haik ye, MIFH, I was not plain When at his ape—what! must 1 hush? He's coming this way? Yes, I see— You two yet dwell in Arcady. —H. T. IK Duke, Jr., in the Century. GOD BLESS US, EVERY ONE. BR J. W. B1LET. 'God bless us, every one!" prayed Tiny Tim- Crippled and dwarfed of body, yet so tall Of sonl we tiptoe earth to look on him, High tov/ering over all. He loved the loveless world, nor dreamed, in deed. That it, at best, could give to him the while But pitying gianc.s, when his only need Was but a cheery smile. And thus he prayed, "God bless us, every one!" Enftlding ail ths creeds within the span Of his child-heart, and so, despising none. Was arjr saint than man. I like to fancy God, in Paradise. Lifting a finzer o'er the rhythmic swing Of chiming harp and song, with eager eyes Turn eaithward, listening. The anthem stilled—the angels leaning there Above the golden walls—the morning sun Of Christmas bursting flower like with the prayer, "God bless us, every one!" A PROMISCUOUS EHCOUHTEB. BY STANLEY HUNTLEY. "My dear," said Mrs. Spoopendyke, glancing nervously out of the window and then timidly at her husband, "my dear, I wonder how that goat got into our yard?" "What goat?" asked Mr. Spoopen dyke, looking up from his breakfast. "Why, the goat that's out there." "Oh!" groaned Mr. Spoopendyke, ap proaching the window. "You mean that one, do you? The principles that generally regulate your conversation betrayed me into thinking that your mind might be fixed on some other goat. A•i for him, I suppose he broke through the fence from the back lot— or," continued Mr. Spoopendyke, hast ily, correcting himself, "perhaps he came to call on you. Better ask him in." "Im afraid of him," peeped Mrs. Spoopendyke, drawing closer to her husband. "What do you think we had better do? If he stays out there he'll eat up everything." "I believe I'll go and drive him out," said Mr. Spoopendyke, eyeing the brute w.th no- particular amount of favor. "You come along to head him off, and you'll soon see a goat begin to wish he had been born a girl that some one might learn to love him." And with this prognostication Mr. Spoopendyke sallied forth followed by his wife. "Be careful," she whispered. "When goats get angry they butt, and that hurts." "Shoo!" commenced Mr. Spoopen dyke, waving his hands and following the goat to a hole in the fence, where a couple of boards had be£n knocked out. "Shoo there now! Ski! Hold ont Head him, can't ye? Turn him! Whoop!" he roared, as the goat whirled suddenly and dashed to the other end of the yard. "What'd ye come out here for?" he demanded of his wife, who had made a little better time than the goat, and had reached the top of a step ladder. "Don't let him come up here!" she squealed, stamping her feet on the top step, and trying to climb up the side of the house. "Hold on to him and call a policeman!" "Great scheme!" growled Mr. Spoop endyke, looking around for a stick. "But I haven't made up my mind whether to call the policeman, or do tlie holding on first. What're ye making stucco-work of yourself up there for Gome down, and get behind that goat, will ye, while I teach him the ways and admonition of Spoopendyke. If you ain't mighty careful he'll rub up against that step-ladder and you're liable to come down in sections!" This prophesy brought Mrs. Spoop endyke to the ground without much de lay. "Say, dear," she suggested, "suppose you should go to the other side of the liole, and call him. Don't you think he'd come?" "Come in a minute, if I happened to bit his right name," retorted Mr. Spoop endyke. who had found a stick and was preparing for war. "Now, you edge around behind him, so as to give him a starter, and I'll put myself in commu nication with him as soon as he gets un der way." "Go along, dear. Eun through that pretty little hole in the fence, like a good goat!" faltered Mrs. Spoopen dyke, apostrophizing the animal in a purely feminine fashion. "Shoo, dear, now, and be real nice." The goat looked at her, thereby freez ing her blood, and started slowly for the bottom of the yard. "Yes, love!'' ripped Mr. Spoopendyke, bringing his stick down on the back of the beast with a vindictive grin* "There's a nice little opening for goats that's awaiting for thee!" and down came the stick once more. "Whe-e-e-e!" squealed Mrs. Spoop endyke, as the goat whirled around like a turn-table, and faced all the points of the compass at once. "He must be looking for the place to get out, isn't be? What do you suppose makes him act that way Whe-e-e-e!" The last veil was extracted by a sud den straightening up of the goat, who tore around the yard like a cat in a fit. "With that headway on, he'll be apt to go through the hole in the fenca if he ever hits it," observed Mr. Spoop endyke, who had joined his wife in the middle of the circuit rather precipi toasly. "I think I must have struck him a little harder than ho meant to have me. Now, you get behind him again, and we'll fix him so that the next time he sees a hole in our fence he'll get a hammer and board up the temp tation." Mrs. Spoopendyke eeled along the fence, and took her station with consid erable perturbation. The goat came down on a trot, and finally stopped and looked a trifle bewildered. Mr. Spoop endyke grasped his stick with a firmer grip, and, figuratively speaking, waited ior his wife to deliver the ball. "Now start him." said he. Mrs. Spoopendyke waved her apron, and the goat aiming straight at the hole in the fence bore down upon it with threa hundred goat power. Mr. Spoop- stPI Mrs. Spoopendyke. as lie- scuttled down the ladder, "but 111 got a flat-iron," and having provided herself with a weapon the use of which sha under stood, she sallied forth to effect an ex change of situation between the goat and her husband. "Now go long!" she exclaimed, stern ly, holding out her war material at arm's length. "Ain't you ashamed of yourself, you nasty goat! Ow-w-w—! Look out, dear!" But Mr. Spoopendyke, constant to his want of faith in his wife's sugges tions, incautiously looked in, and he and the goat rolled over each other in the vacant lot. "Did the whole business work in ac cordanee with the schedule he yelled as he picked himself up and shied the remnant of his stick at the flying foe. "Did the whole measly goat get through or is there more to follow Don't omit a stanza in this refreshing season of worship! Let's have the whole hymn!" and Mr. Spoopendyke presented him self at the opening in the fence, with mud-streaked face and tattered habili ments. "Come in, dear," said Mrs. Spoopen dyke soothingly. "Come, in, now. He's gone." "I know he's gone!" howled Mr. Spoopendyke, crawling through the hole. "I saw him when he went! Oh, you started him! When he saw that vigorous mind of yours backed up by a dod-gasted flat-iron, all he could do was to go! Another time, you see me scaring a goat out of the yard you let things alone, will ye and Mr. Spoop endyke hobbled into the house to change his clothes. "I don't cire,'" murmured Mrs. Spoop endyke, dragging a barrel against the hold as protection against further in cursions. "I don't care. The way he was chopping at that goat with his stick, he wouldn't have had him out in a month. You want to treat a goat like a crease, and iron it out, or, she continued, referring to some previous experience, if you want to make sure of having it go out, you might hire it as a servant girl." And wiili these luminous reflections. Mrs. Spoopendyke tore her skirt on a nail in the barrel and joined her hus band with a hundred consolatory car resses.—Brake's Traveler's Magazine. Xew York's Chinnmcn Xot Filthy. I went the other night with a west ern friend, an artist, and a polics detec tive in searc-li of the sensational, and did not find it. I had seen so much in the newspapers about tbc filthy Chineso quarters, and its filthier Chinese in habitants. that when it was suggested bv my western friend that he would like to see that particular form of wretchedness I determined to investi gate for myself. It is simply all a lie that has been told about the amazing squ .lor of tho Chinese. 'J he amazing fact is that they are t'.e only clean beings to be found in their wretched quarters. They live cheaply, but con paratively speaking they live cleanly. Forgotten. An American traveler in England lately asked a farmer near Stratford on-Avon to drive him into town. Ho did so with alacrity, pointing out Shakespeare's house, etc., with much pride. Tho American presently spoke of his plays. "A play-actor?" exclaime.l the Eng lisliman. "Was that all he was? Somebody, before Carlyle's death, inquired of a butcher in which house on Cheyne Walk, he lived. "Car-lvle? Oh, he's the old man where they buy three loin chops on Monday. That's the place. They eat no meat at all." Young men invariably look forward to fame as the chief prize of life, but almost as invariably old men who have gained it are annoyed by tho personal notice which it draws upon them. This personal notoriety lasts but a short time, even with the most brilliant rep utations. Even while a famous man is living, he is but a name to all the world to but a small circle of his own acquaint ances, and when he is dead, it is only his work that survive'. Biography is. after all, but one man's account and opinion of another man, which is very often totally incorrect. Shakespeare, Goethe, I'ranklin, still are great living powers in the world, bu't the men them selves are bnt faded shadows. Even of the person of the Savior of mankind, we have no accurate knowl edge no tradition gives us the voice, or look, or peculiar bearing with which He walked the streets of Jerusalem. We can almost believe that the blot ting out of His personal life was in tended to teach us the worthlessness of personal glory and that on!y the work done by a man for mankind should endure. The word spoken from the soul lives when tho lips that ut tered it aro dust.—Youth'sCompanion. Oriental Wood Carvers. The East Indians are naturally free handed carvers. Long before the Christian era the Hindoos beautified the interiors of their temples aed homes with the most intricate work of the kind. The facility of carving has not left them, and a block of teak wood un der their chisels soon becomes the bed of tho most beautiful traceries aud re produces the flora of the East in all its variety of forms. The Oriental wood carvers in one respect are unequaled— endj ke aimed a lick at him, missed him, they have originality of conception and went tumultuously through the hole as the goat struck the fence and bounded back. "Great Gracious!" ejaculated Mrs. Spoopendyke, swarming u» the step ladder and squatting at the top. "Are you hurt, dear "Hurt!", howled Mr. Spoopendyke, peeping through the hole and contem plating his wife with a savage glare. "TliinkJI'm a nail, to come through a board fence and be clinched without feeling it? Can't yon scaro that goat away from this hole no I can come back and commune with him once more? Come down off that dod-ga3ted step ladder can't ye? Got a notion that measly goat is coming up hero to be scared? Come down and throw a brick At him, will ye "I haven't got s» brick," murmured united with a power of execution which is wonderful. They receive simply the suggestions of the artists on draught ing paper with none of the hundred minutiae of background supports and the like, which are necessary to the workmnn here. There they in truth use their chisels ns brushes, for their hands aro firm. They are acquainted simply with the idea which is conveyed, and with One or two scoops of the chisel a lily or a passion flower or /i pomegranate lies imbedded in the wood as though it had been -waiting sim ply to be picked and enjoyed. But whilo they are unsurpassed in what is known as emotional cliving, they are at a les? at the broad sweeps which ate required in the decoration of large apartments or halls.—New York Com mercial Advertiser. Profitable Diversions. It ia well that a man, the major por tion of whose life must, from the actu al necessities of living, be devoted to money-getting, should cultivate some specialty by way of diversion. It may be a scientific pursuit, a study of some branch of art, an investigation of some agricultural subject, a following of some historical will o'-the-wisp, or what not —only let it be a labor of love. The 1 Tho banker who devotes his odd hours to bee-keeping, the mechanic who takes up a line of philosophy, the merchant who indulges a stock-breeding whim, the lawyer who delights in microscopy, the book-keeper with a fancy for aero nautics, or the broker with a passion for music—the.se are the men who do not become drudges, and who continu ally glow in moral stature. Such diversions are condnsive to longevity, and give to life zest that the possible rewards of commercial or me chanical industry do not afford. And these diversions need not be followed as a j.urely recreative matter, but earn estly and ardonsly, with the purpose of securing important results, personal and ot'.erw se, though they will prove re -rentive nevertheless. It is, indeed, sometimes most advisable that a young man should, for the sake of support during the prosecution of a particular scientific, literary, or artistic purpore, devote himself to some wage-work, thereby enabling him to hold himself independent of financial obligations or the discouraging effects of disappoint ment. Great achievements in science and literatute and art have been made by many who have adopted this course. And this brings one round to a con sideration of the value of one's office hours. If a clerk in a courting-room, whose days work is done at six o'clock in the afternoon, were to devote him self to reading for the half hour inter vening between tea and the time the theatre or his lady-love may expect him. and adhere to it for a year, he would be ama ®1 at the large number of volumes through whose pages he had gone. If, also, he had undertaken the course of reading with the distinct pur pose of obtaining knowledge about some one thing, he would find a higher desk at the office awaiting him at the end of the year. But better an aimless wandering in literature than no inspec tion at all. It does not require much labor to learn a great deal of what other men have learned, and such learn ing makes a far better voter and citizen of the student. I he qua ter is itself lilthy beyond description, but the city and not the Chinese is responsible for this the corporation is taxed to pay for cleaning that is never done, unless Chinese cholera threatens and compels the health board to in-ist on some sweep ing aud a good deal of dis'n'ecting. The Chinese in Mott and Bayard streets are a great deal more cleanly in habits, dress, and language, as fur as I could discover, than either the Italian or I be full of suggestion to every young Irisli^denizens of the same quarter, or man with an ambition higher than his the French in their paiticular quarter a mile distant. The most lilthy look ing creature I saw in the rooms of tho Chinamen were their Irish wives. The Chinese live extravagantly compared to the Italians in the same quarter, paying doubly for food, lodgings, and clothing. Your sunny Italian is a fraud of romance. I firmly believe. He lives on nothing a day and takes in boarders for sustenance. The Chinamen are clean in linen, quiet in demeanor, and when he delib erately makes up his mind to get drunk, he goes to his favorite resort, gets his head shaved, takes his pipe, and gets royally drunk in quiet and seclusion. His Irish neighbor, and as a rule his Irish wife, gets drunk and gives the entire street the benefit of it. The Italian gets surly, but is usually quiet when he is not quiet and sullenly dis posed, then he wants somebody of his own race, and usually of the opposite sex. A Chineso gen tleman does not court publicity when intoxicated his favorite drug on which he gets drunk does not impel him to paint tho precinct a fiery red hue, and I firmly believe that it isn't half 1 Benjamin Franklin was an admirable type of a man who found profit in di versions, and his character deserves at tention from those who finu their odd hours going to waste, As a statesman he p!ayed an important part in the foundation of the government, yet as a philosopher, who sought the secrets of nature and who closely investigated the principles of moral life, he left a no less definite impression on the world. We have a stronger admira tion for D'Israeli, when we find his name on "Vivian Gray," and Macaulay and Milton grow in our esteem when we turn from their essays and poems to the record of their political perform ances. Our respect for Holmes, the poet, is increased when we perceive that he is a distinguished physician for Lubbock, the banker, when we hear of his bees, and for Wallace, the soldier, when we read Ben Hur. All these men found golden opportunity in the hours for diversion, and their careers should pockets.—G. C. Matthews, in the Cur rent. A Word About Disinfectants. There are many kinds of disinfact an's known, and sold to the public at varying prices, some valuable, others entirely worthless, as disinfectants. Every one is familiar with bleaching powder, which was formerly (and is still to a considerable extent) so much used. It is very effectual, owing to the chlor ine gas which it freely gives off when exposed to the atmosphere, or moist ened with dilute acids, such as yinegar. Charcoal, too, is well known as a disin fectant, and as a powerful deodorant. We may here remark that a deodorant simply disguises the bad smell without destroying the poison which it may con tain, and in this respect differs from a vlio true disinfectant. Of all known disin- to "murder fectants carbolic acid is now generally admitted to be the most efficacious, and it is the basis of most of the disinfect ing agents now solS. The acid is too powerful to be used alone, and is there fore generally mixed with 80 or 90 per cent, of some other substance not pos sessed of disinfecting properties. Some- poisonojs as the brandy of the French- times the bisulphites of lime and mag man or the whisky of the American. IF. F. G. Shank's Letter. nesia are added, and these substances are themselves possessed of disinfect ing properties but more generally chalk or sand is used or the acid is diluted with water. A small portion of the mixture sprinkled in water-closets and other places where decomposing matter is allowed to re main will diminish, if not entirely re- mov®i the chances of^ contagion, and sweeten and purify the atmosphere. Although carbolic acid is so efficacious, there are some who object to its use. It smells rather strongly, and many per sons are thereby prevented from using it. It is a pity on this account to be robbed of its advantages and such per sons would do well to try and educate themselves to the smell. Moreover, it is better to breathe an unpleasant and pure atmosphere than a pleasant but unhealthy and dangerous. The smell of pure carbolic is much more easily borne than that of crude carbolic and we would recommend the use of the purest cabolic procurable, diluted with 80 or 90 per cent, of water, or mixed with the same percentage of precipi tated chalk. It is difficult for the chemist, trained and accustomed to the offensive and unwholesome smells in the laboratory, to understand how any person can retain a strong dislike to the comparatively sweet smell of car bolic acid.—Cassell's Family Mag a' zine. I thought, at least, he had been Mayor!" On the other hand an Englishman, visiting our foremost literary man last summer, asked a conductor on the Bev erly train,— "Doctor Oliver Wende'.l Holmes lives in this village?" "Don't know, really. Young dentist moved there this spring. Probably he's the party. Eising young man." Allen's Attack on Webster. When Charles Allen, of Massachu setts, assailed Mr. Webster in the House of Representatives, Mr. Ashmun said, alluding to him "But the gentleman says he is frank, open, and manly. Does he not publish private confiden tial letters of Charles Hudson?" To which Mr. Allen in his seat replied: "No, sir no, sir you are a scoundrel if you say I do." Whether you do or not," returned Mr. Ashum, "Charles Hudson can say. He is pretty well known in th House, and his veracity can probably be trusted." Immedi ately after this debate Mr. Ashum wrote to Mr. Hudson to inquire wheth er the statement was true or false, and received the following telegraphic dis patch IIOSTOS, Starch 3, 1851.—Hon. George Ashum: I wrote a confidential loiter to Hon. Cuar.e.' Allen just hefoie ths Philadelphia convention, in 1848. He read the letter in a public meeting at AVorchester, and published it in the Worcester Spy. CHARLES HUDSON. Soon after the appointment of Mr. Chase as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and of Mr. Speed as. Attorney General, tho following stanza appeared: The Supreme Court longer will move at snail's pac, Jn {his all tli lawyers, of coarse, are agreed For whilo at their meetings there must be a Cli so. The ovenim'nt causes can go off with Speed. —Ben: Perley Poore. A Japanese Pos mail. As in America, so iy Japan, the post man wears his uniform. It consists of blue cloth, a wide butter-bowl hat and straw shrei. The mail-bag swings un der his arm, or is pushed along in a lit tlo»two-wheeled cart. He is always running or tr jtting along. You know that in Japan men do nearly all the work that, we make horses do here, so you see ^the Japanese postman carry, hasten along from station to station, traveling on a quick run mile after mile, up-hill, down dale, never stopping unt 11 roaches the place where anoth er postman is waiting to receive the mail and run cn with it in his tnrn. So the mail i? carried in the greater part oft he Empire. To a few places reached by steamers it travels as in the United States. FFFIE ELLSLEH wears a ring on her thumb. The big toe will midonbtedly soon be heard from. 3„v-, HUSBANDRY AND HOUSEWIFERY. J. Matters of Interest Relating to Farm and Household Management Information for the Plowman. Stock man, Poulterer, Nurseryman, and Housewife. .FIELD AND_FURROW. Farming a Safe Business. Many farmers aro complaining that there is little money for their lator at present low prices. But they do not estimate, as they should, the certainty that their labor will give them a comfortable living. Time was when farmers grew and made nearly all the substantial of life they required. If neces Fary, they can come to this again, and they are the producers who can easiest get on on this basis. Cheap Farm Roller. A good and cheap farm roller can be made by using 61d mowing-machine wheels, which l"*ye no value except as old iron. Drill boles ii: he rim for bolts, and bolt on 2x4 hard wood scantling, beveling the edges so as to make close joints on the outside. Get an iron shaft long enough to hold a wooden frame outside the roller, put in a tonguo, and the roller is ready for work at a small expense. If kept housed, it will last a gen eration. Sudden Appearance of Weeds. The Industrialist explains the unexpected appearance of noxious plants thus: It is no uncommon thing for weeds to grow year after year in such a diminutive form that none but botanists recognize them. Ragweed, or others as large or larger, may mature, though no more than an inch and a half high. Thus from year to year the ground will bo polluted with the seed. When the soil receives some different treatment favor able to the development of the plant, it at tains its full size, surprising every one by its groat abundance where none had been ob aerved before. Utilizing a Swamp. T. B. Terry, who has created quite an in terest in the minds of many farmers by his articles upon the plan of making a specialty of a single kind of crop, describes a very simple and easy way adopted by him to make use of a swamp. The piece of swamp was so situated that it could not fce tilled, so 1 an open ditch was put through it, stumps, logs, and bushes cleared off, and the piece I left for the grass to come up. His stock had access to the higher land surrounding the swamp, and contented themselves as best they might with what grass they could get there, refusing to touch that in the swamp. Mr. Terry then fenced the three acres of I swamp by itself, and early in the spring turned his cow into the inclosure, and there she stayed, giving a yield of thirty pounds of milk per day up to October. What Is a Bushel of Corn All grains in their natural state contain more or less water, the amount depending upon the conditions by which they have been surrounded. In Indian corn the moisture I may reach as high as 50 per cent, and prob ably never fall much below 20 per cent, at tho time of harvest. Unfortunately but lit tie is known of the exact composition of grains as they come from the harvest field, All published analyses give the moisture content as the sample came to the chemist, but usually omit to state its age or manner of curing. Prof. Brewer's special Census Beport" on the coreals gives ninety-eight analyses of all varieties of Indian corn, hav ing an average of 11 psr cent, of water, with a range of from 4.10 to 20.08 per cent., but most of the samples were undoubtedly taken from well-cured corn. The curing process of Indian corn has been made the subject of careful experiment at Houghton farm. Samples are selected at the harvest from each of the thirty one ex perimental corn plats, and, being grown with as many different manures, represent a wide range of composition. These samples, are then stored upon suspended racks and under conditions which allow of rapid dry ing, and weighed at regular intervals during the succeeding year. There is a loss of from 10 to 16 per cent, of moisture during the year, and a weighed bushel at the end of this time contains this •mount of moisture, less an equal quantity of solid matter, than the weighed bushel at harvest, yet the legal weight, flfty-six pounds, in most of tlie State?, remains the same for both conditipns. The only departure from this occurs in Ohio, where a legal bushel of corn weighs seventy pounds from harvest to Jan. 1, and sixty-eight pounds from that time on. At Houghton farm, the thirty-one lots of Indian corn, selected from the crop of 1882, gave in December following the har vest an average weight per bushel of 54.1 pounds. The following April bushels from the same lot averaged 52 pounds in July, 53.4 pounds and in October, one year from harvest, 55.4 pounds. The crop ot 1881 was followed through a similar series of changes, and averaged 55.5 pounds per bushel one year from harvest: hence Indian com does not rcach a standard weight per bushel until after a year's drying. In business this is important. The increase of two pounds from July to October was a gain of 3.7 per cent, in value, if sold by weight, but not I 'Wl' taken Into account if sold by. measure.— American Agriculturist. ORCHARD AND NURSERY. Fogs and Fruits. A Tribune and Farmer correspondent at tributes failure of modern fruit-culture to lack of fogs, because of drying up of water •ourses and pools. Fogs, he thinks, prevent frost and servo as a sort of stimulant and protection. Ho suggests making a few little lake!ets in and around our farms, so, when the fruit-killing frosts come, the fog would be a little ahead. The best way of obtaining humidity is by thorough drainage which brings the land into a state to retain mois ture. Effect of Sun on Trees. Dr. Samuel Hope, of Atlanta, Ga., in a paper to the American Pomological Society, relates some of his observations and experi ences on this subject. He appears to be fully convinced that apple, pear, and peach trees, trained with high heads and not pro tected artificially from the afternoon sun, display irregular or flattened trunks when the bark on this portion Is not entirely dead. This appearanee, in his opinion, indicates a great disturbance in the circulation of the sap, which has become unduly heated, and the deposition of healthy woody structure. In this climate small trees, if trained high, after transplanting make no growth unless protected from the evening sun. The effect of the evening sun, as shown on his own grounds, has been very- marked in pear blight. Suggestions warranted by the writer's experience with fruit trees exposed to the rays of the afternoon sun are briefly as fol lows: Nail two boards together and place about the tree so as to shade the exposed side. Where hillsides are cultivated in orch ards, and terraced, the needed protection can measurably be obtained by planting on the slopes exposed to tho morning sun but shaded from the hot afternoon sun. I.ow training and careful pruning, with a view to induce the growth of low limbs, will answer all purposes in more northern climates, tut at the south nothing short of complete shade, such as that afforded by the boxing recom mended, will fully serve with some trees. A plan meeting all requirements with goose berry, currant, and raspberry bushes Is to plant them on the south or southeastern side of a garden lenco or wall. Fruit Notes, A KNOWLEDOE of the habits of the insect enemies of fruit is very important for suc cess in fruit-culture. A doctor might as well be Ignorant of the nature of medicine and diseases, as a fruit-grower to suppose that he need not know anything about insect ene mies. THE curculio is a winged insect, flying from tree to tree at pleasure, on warm days, and about as difficult to catch by common meth ods as the house-fly. When a man professing knowledge of fruit-culture tells you that fowls will clear a plum or peach orchard of this pest, it is safe to conclude that he doesn't know anything about it. GRAPES are grown in all parts of our country and in some parts of Canada, and the idea that they can be grown at a profit for many years more will probably be found to be delusive, unless American grapes be come popular for wine. Thero is a more promising futuro for other fruits than for grapes for general culture to be eaten fresh. THE STOCK FARM. Ifotes About Morses and Cattle. HJLLHOUSE RAYMOND, of Montana, has on his ranch 350 blooded horses. Cows WHICH receive everyday at morning, noon, and night an ordinary waterpailful of water slightly warmed and slightly salted, in which bran has been stirred at the rate of one quart to two gallons of water, will give 25 per cent, more milk Immediately, under the effects of this drink, and they will become so attached to it as to refuse to drink clear water unless very thirsty. But this mess they will take at any time and wish for more. OVERSTOCKING the ranges is likely to cause 6erlous trouble in tho West. Live-stock pools have deemed it necessary in some cases to notify the world at large that any ono who ventures upon their range with cattle will be denied all courtesy, and may expect that all possible means will be used to make his stay unpleasant. What complicates the matter is the fact that comparatively few of the cat tlemen have any legal right to all the range they claim. A HORSESHOE made entirely of the horn of sheep has been tried in Lyons, France, and is found particularly adapted to horses em ployed in towns and known not to have a steady foot on the pavement. The rosuits of the experiments have proved very satisfac tory, as horses thus shod have been driven at a rapid pace on the pavement without slip ping. The new shoe is very durable, and though a little more expensive than the or dinary one seems destined sconer or later to replace the iron shoe, particularly fcr horses employed in large cities, where, besides the pavement, the streets are Intersected by tramway rails, which, from their slipperlness, constitute a source of permanent danger. OF late the subject of shoeing horses has been discussed with an unusual interest and thoroughness. Elaborate and seemingly sound arguments are made against shoeing with iron, not a few wrlterJ contending stoutly that the bare hoof will withstand all the wear Incident to any reasonable amount Of work. In his lecture on the horse Prpf, fP G. Wood says that tho bottom of the hoof was meant to be worn away, and as fast as It goes its place was supplied from above. Man's "happy thoughts" in ths shape of ex pedients to Improve on tne original hoof have been extremely pcor. An enormous amount of blood is circulated through the hoof for the purpose of supplying the waste but by our system of shoeing it is diverted from its purpose, and gives rise to disease. The horse nee.ls no shoe. Shoes impair its usefulness and shorten its days. It was only ignorance which believed that the horse in its native state ran on soft turf where shoes were not necessary. Tho horrte came irorn Central Asia, from a rocky and sandy soil, and if it needed shoeing at all, would need it in its wild state. Were it not for the shoes, tho footfall of a horse would be as soft as that of an elerhant. Evidence of the cor rectness of the above views may be found everywhere on the plains of the West, where the ponies spend their lives in work, on dry prairies or on mountain trails, unshod and perfectly free from diseases of the foot. Another point in Prof. Wood's lecture is par ticularly worthy of consideration, since it relates to a common, almost a universal, error that causes much loss of valuable property and a vast amount of needless suf fering. He said that it was a remarkable fact that while people would not think of in trusting a valuable machine to tho care of any but an educated mechanio, they were accustomed to permit that much more intri cate machine, the horse, to be taken charge of by men who were totally Ignorant of the animal's real structure or constitution. No body ought to be allowed to have the charge of a horse unless, like the driver of a steam engine, he has passed a previous examination showing his fitness for the work. THE POULTRY YARD. Itemedy in Chicken Cholera. The Department of Agriculture publishes the following remedy, recommended by Dr. Salmon, for preventing this destructive dis ease that annually carries off so many fowls: For this disease a very cheap and most effective disinfectant is a solution made by adding three pounds of sulphuric acid to forty gallons of water (or one-fourth pound of sulphuric acid to throe and a half gallons of water), mixing evenly by agitating or stirring. This may be applied to small sur faces with a small sprinkling-pot, or to larger grounds with a barrel mounted on wheels and arranged like a street sprinkler. In disinfecting poultry-houses, the manuro must be first thoroughly scraped and removed beyond the reach of the fowls a slight sprinkling is not sufficient, but tho floors, roosts, and grounds must be thor oughly saturated with the solution, so that no particle of dust, however small, escapes being wet. It is Impossible to thoroughly disinfect if the manure is not remove! trom the roosting-places. Sulphuric acid is very cheap, costing at retail not more than 25 cents a pound, and at wholesale but 5 or 6 cents. The barrel of disinfecting solution can therefore be made for less than $1, and should be thoroughly applied. It must be remembered, too, that sulphuric acid is a dangerous drug to handle, as when undi luted it destroys clothing and cauterizes the flesh wherever it touches." Xotes on Poultry. FOWLS in confinement must have grass provided for them, or they will not thrive. Careless observers will be surprised to know how much grass a hen eats in a year. A small flock will keep down all vegetation in a yard of considerable size. IT is only a greenhorn who is caught with the idea that a new and much-puffed variety of fowls, just discovered or imported, is bet ter than anything yet known. Only give the old sorts good care and they will do well enough, and often a great deal bettor than new sorts at fancy prices. POULTRY on a large scale will doubtless suceed when the same proportionate care is given to several thousand fowls that the suc cessful manager of fifty gives his flocks. That is, the man who succeeds with fifty can succeed with a thousand equally well by giv ing the thousand twenty times tho care of fifty. If not ready to do something like that, he had better not undertake poultry on a large scale. A FRESH egg has a clear yellow color when held to the eye so that the sun or a bright light can fall upon it. The fingers should in close it so that light is excluded from passing between the lingers and the shell. Eggs which admit no light are bad. Dealers who handle eggs in large quantities "candle" them—that is, examine them in a dark room by holding them near a candle or lamp to see if light will pass through. THE KITCHEN. Dried Fears. A most excellent way to use dried penrs in winter is to soak them in lukewarm water until they are soft, then simmer gently, while yet warm put them through a colander, or a sifter which has a handle the pulp thus made makes delicious pie?. A lower crust with little strips across the top is preferable. Dessert. A delioate dish for dessert is made by par ing six ripe, tart apples, cut them in halves, put half a pound of sugar into a sauce pan. with half a pint of water, add the juice of one lemon and let this boil until it is thick, then lay in the appes. When they have simmered until they are tender, take them out, drain them on a sievo and let the syrup a *ew niinutes longer. When the apple and syrup are both cool, put tho apples care fullvinto a glass dish and pour the syrupover them. A Useftil Hint. Take two large mixing spoonfulsof mashed potatoes and three of flour to each loaf add a teaspoon each of sugar, snlt, and ginger, and enough boiling water to make tho de sired quantity of bread. When sufficiently cool, add a little more than the usual quan tity of yeast, and keep warm. If prepared at noon the sponge will 1 foamy by even ing then stir in as much flour as possible, and set in a cool plac3 over night. In the mcrning, mold thoroughly divide into loaves, molding well, and place in tins to raise. Tlie tins should be scant half-full. The bread is ready for a hot oven when '.:nes appear. For biscuit, sproaa a portion of the dough with lard, sprinkle on a little sugar and salt roll and mold lightly cut out roll each small portion in the hand like a ball place on tins to raise, and bake the same as loaves of bread. Washing Dishes. Now some females there bo who never learned how to clear off a table, and that means the Miss McFaddens. The right way is to rinse every cup of the sediment, and with a bit of bread or soft crust wipe off every plate as clean as though you were a poor student who didn't like to wash dishes, and meant to eat off that very plate lots and lots of times and see that gravied spoons are cleaned, and dishes that have had sauce in them, and knives with butter on them. By the time I was through washing dis' es the water was about like slim porridge, but I did not take any liberties. I let them go. All the evening at the free lecture I felt kind of sticky and gummy, and the wrinkles kept coming about my nose and mouth. The McFaddens think housework is drudg ery. I tell my Samuel tfiere is no work that is drudgery if we po about it. heartily and cheerfullv, and work for love's sake. He says so, too. That is one reason why we are so happy, me and my partner. I have skun my hands before now, at workin' in the truck patch, but 1 never muttered over my blis ters. My gloary, ruther.— Mrs. Sam Star key, in South and IVcst. Fish Cakes. Whero there has been fresh boiled fish for dinner and pieces are left over, people are at a loss to know what to do with thtm. They do not like the idea of their being wasted, and yet they are not very presentable. Tho ordinary method of serving up cold l.sh is to pour a little vinegar over It, with pepper and salt, and eat it as pickled fish but a much nicer way is to make it into flsh cakes. To do this, some cold potatoes will be required. If there aro none in the bouse ready, it is quite worth while boiling a few for the pur pose. Put the edds and ends of flsh into a large basin, and carefully pick out all the bones and skin. Supposing there is half a pound of flsh, add the same weight of pota toes, and about two ounces of butter with a little pepper and fa'.t. Beat all well together with a fork, until everything is thoroughly mixed and perfectly smooth. Take a small quantity at a time and, with the hand's, form it into a neat, Cat, round cake, about tlmo quwters of an inch thick. Let tbc hands be slightly floured, as this prevents the cakes from adhering to them. Have ready on ono plate some finely sifted bread crumbs, and, on another, a well-beaten egg. Dip tho cakes, one at a time, first into the egg, then into tho bread crumbs. Be careful to have overy part of the cake covered. Fry them in plenty of boiling fat—good beef dripping or pure lard is tho'lest. When they aro of nice light brown color on one side, turn them over to brown on tho other side. Remove them from the frying-pan with a flsh slice, and carefully drain off all tho fat they ought to be quite dry. Servo them on a hot dish with a napkin spread over it. Five or six minutes will bo required to cook them sufficiently. Should the breakfast hour be very early, these cakes can be made the night before— all except the dipping in egg and bread crumbs.—Aunt Chloe. ABOUT THE HOUSE. House-Cleaning Hints. COVER work tables with oilcloth. It will save you much fcraping and scour.ni. Cover pantry shelves also, or at least such of them as Are most used. Stretch a piece of it back of your kitchen sink, as spatters are much more easily wiped from it than from paper or wall. To CLEAN papered walls, tie a soft, dry cloth about a broom, and go over the paper, brushing and rubbing lightly on every part. To paper walls that have been whitewashed, wet the wall thoroughly with strong vinegar or alum water, and when dry brush it all over hard with a stiff broom. Use a paste made of starch, mode.-ately thick, and apply to the paper cold. SAVE up your^t^a-grounds for a few days before house-cleaning time, then steep half an hour In a tin basin, strain, and use this tea for cleaning varnished wood-work and pictures and looking-glass frame For clean ing white paint, take a small quantity of whiting on a damp flannel cloth, and rub lightly over the surface, rinsing with clear water, and wiping dry. Mix some plaster-of-paris in an old enp with cold water till a not too stiff paste Is formed. Fill with it all the cracks and mend all U»o broken places in walls that ore to be whitewashed. This will serve to pres?rv8 the walls in good condition, beside3 adding much to tho beauty of their appearance. Mix but little of the plaster at a time, es it Bets or hardens very quickly, and goon be come? unmanageable. Use a thin, broad bladcd knife to apply with, except whero cracks aro in the corner of the room, in which case you will be obliged to uso your fingers. To CLEAN silver or p'ated ware, wet a soft NEVER sot iron ware In the sink or on the work table wh le cleaning it, nor jet on the stove, thus scorching your hands and fato while scraping out. Even if you wash these things in an outside kitchen, do not set ti.em on benches or tables there. It is untidy, and maises a great deal of disagreeable and need less cleaning. Keep largo squares of thick pas:eboard hung convenient to slip un 'er i:ots, kettle3, stew dishes, and spiders, wiien ever you have occasion to set them down. You have no idea how much "clocking" of tenches and tables it will save. Cut a small hole near one corner of the square to hanar it up by nnd when too much blackencd, burn up and replace with .w. Or tho paste boards may be covered with oilcloth, in which case they can be washed at pleasure, and u£ed to an indefinite length of time. USE old tooth or nail brushes for cleaning the corners of window-sash. If the brlstlos are worn out at the end, cut off the brush half way, or down to where tho bristles ure long and stiff. Old brushes are also excellent for cleaning smoky and greasy lamp-burners. Remove tho wick, put the burner into a basin of hot suds, and scrub Inside and out with the brush. Afterward scour with fine coal ashes, rinse, wipe dry, and polish with a flannel rag. They will look equal to new. Tea-kettles, or other tinware which has be come blackened and dull from long uso, should also be scoured with coal ashes, from I which every bit of coal and coarse ashes have been sifted. Wash after in a good hot soap suds, and wipe dry. Do not repeat tne scouring often, but wash frequently in clean hot suds, with a clean, soft cloth, and they will keep bright for a good length of time. THE PARLOR. How to Make It Attractive. LEATHER chair-seats may be brightened and revived by rubbing them with the white of an egg: leather book-bindings will also be improved by tlie same treatment. CUSHIONS for deep cane chairs are made of tufted plush or satin, and. as an aecompani ment, a 6trip of the 6ame material and color is embroidered as a scarf for the back, and finished off with deep fringe, which is often of rich quality. AN easy but very tasteful way to arrange a mantel lambrequin is to buy a strip ot' plush or velvet of the length and depth de sired, put it on straight with gilt ta-'ks or with invisible tacks, and at the corners loop it gracefully with bows of ribbon to corre spond in color with the lambrequin. FOR varnished paints save some tea leaves for a few days then step them in a tin pail for half an hour strain ttiroi gh a sieve and uso the tea for cleaning the paint. The tea acts as a strong detergent, and makes the paint nearly equal to new in appearance it will not do to wash unvarnished paints with it. A NEAT cover for a sitting-room tab!e can be made at small expens?. Get a square of sage-green fianhel, and about this put a banl of velveteen of the 6an.e color, but to give more eltefft, have It a sha le or two darker. Outside of this put another band of t.annel three or four inches wide, which may be pinked. The whole thing is livened up by fancy embroidery. THE striped borderin? of worn-out stair 1 carpet may be used with good effect. Alter it is caretully cleaned, cm the border off, leaving a margin of tho worn cent?r part for a seam, then use this for the border of mats made of pieces of carpet. A large mat which will do good scrvice and w.ll look well, too, can bo mado by sewing two breadths together and tben putting t! bor der on. Dampen the seam and press it on the wrong side with a hot iron. FOLLOWING the crazy c.ullt comes the more sensible opera-bag. It is made square in shape, usually of satin or brocade, and HYGIENIC HINTS. Dwellings. Not ouly does this subject deserve the at tention of the feeble but also iliO:C wl.o aro healthy and wish to remain to. ur houses should be so conetruiteJ as to admit of irce ventilation underneath, so as to prevent the formation o. zymotic poinons, being- gen erated by the detoni] o- ton ot ma erials that collect underneath tueni. For many years I have noticed that where typhus and typhoid fevers prevailed, all t"io3( families living ii houses whose foundations rested upon the ground were moro liable to theso fevers. Houses should be upon a situation so elevated that the water would naturally drain off from them. No vegetable or ani mal matter should be suffered to decay and deiompoee r.ear houses, as disease would be produce 1 thereby. (iood pure water is also essential to healih. Wat'r impregnated with lead, iron, alum, or oth minerals, are untit lor common L«e. l'erfett purity of air and water are essential to a suitable "location of a dwelling-house. The mediii val plagues were the result of neglect of preserving the purity of the air and water. A house should not be too dcuso ly shaded, but allowed enough sunshine to provont excess of humUity of the surround ing atmosphere.—Health and Hum'. Simple Itulrx for Comfort, Safety, and Health. There arc but few persons, comparatively speaking-, who do not appreciate the title of lady and gentleman. The one who does not lias fallen very low in the estimation of ail people with whom contact is made, and es pecially in his own. And yet there are very many who persist ently lay claim to the title who just as per sistently violate their right to it. For in stance, in the stations of the elevated rail ways in this city there is posted conspicu ously: "Smoking, or carrying lighted cigars or cigarettes into tho cars or on tho station platforms of this company is strictly ro hibited. Station men will cnforce this rulo." 'Jhere is first this very cojent reason for the rule: The danger of corilagration, which would email great loss of property, and aln ost inevitably loss of life another e.' ceilent reason is that the cars anJ sta tion can be kept more cleanly If smoking Is excluded last, but not least, ladles nnd children, and non smoking gentlemen can have a few moments' freedom from the nuisance of tobacco smoke. But 1 doubt if there is a train on any day of tho week which does not carry rom one tD ten persons, who would indignantly resent the accusation that they wore not "perfect gentlemen," who manage to evade the vigi lance of the train-men, and smoUe away, re gardless of the comfcrt of or dangor to others. That it is not the result of ab-ent mlndednees is proven by the surrcptitloua glance? cast toward tho conductor between the stolen whiffs. And if the train-men at tempt to enforce the rule they are roundly abused in most cases. Tho same course of conduct Is observable on tho ferry 1 oat=, street cars, and other conveyances. Well dressed women will smuggle apetdegj ast the ticket inspector nnd into the car, or in to an hoiol, when well aware that the rules prohibit it, an-i tho inspector Is llalilo to dis charge for undue loniencc or carelessness. A selfish dirio?ard ot' tho wishes and rulings of public institutions, public conveyances, and public house-frociucnt'y results in irreat inconvenience, loss, and disaster to innocent parties. KUI.E.—Always strictly and promptly ob serve the ruling of thoso who afford you transport or shelter, remembering that those who do not do so havo forfeited their riplA to the title of gentlewoman and gent'eraan. —.4 Lady Physician. THE Scientific American TURIN now makes tho finest church organs in Europe, and Brescia claims to have an organist who can equal Beethoven. High Prices 1 cloth in kerosene, dip it in «h ting and rub the artic all over with this then wash in Buds made of honu-made soft soap wipe dry and polish with chamois 6kin, FOR a good common whitewash, take a I piece of stone lime as ljr£e as a child's bead. having it new end entirely unslaked, and put it into an iron kettle that will l:old a pailful. Pour over it a few quarts of boiling water at night cover and let stand till morning then Ell up with water and set on the stove. Add a handful of sa!t, and stir occasionally till hot. Four off into a pall, and it' too thick, add more water. Allow it to become cool lefore using-, as the smoke will strike through worse if used hot. For I a nicer whitewash use Spanish white, about I ten pounds for an ordinary room. Pour I warm wa:er over it, and let it stand for a few hours. Melt four ounces of white glue in a little water and add. not. 1 trimmed, lined wadded, and what not at will. It is closed with drawing str.ngs and bung on the arm or laid on the lap or box rail dur ing the evening. At the close of tho per formance the Lag is opened and in are turn bled projramine. libretto, classes, fan, vinaigrette, handkerchief, and all. HANI-WORK is lcrgely used in drapery I decoration, and elaborate bands of "darnod work" are be in:? placed on white serim and grenadine curtains. A set in cheese cloth, intended for the bedroom of a Newport cot tage, is lined with shell pink siiesla, the darned work being set between insertion an inch wide, of oiive ina reme. Double disks, or two rings, linked one within the other, forma favorite device for hand-dccorated and other draperies. Calls for illustrates how carp are destroyed by a little plant known as bladclerwort. It is a rootless plant found in still water witli branch ing stems and leaves, while to the leaves are attached curious insect-like bladders, filled with water and varying in nize in diffent species, some of them as large as one-fifth of an inch across. It is said that this plant has been rec ommended to breeders of carp as a good thing to have in the ponds for the fish to feed upon. But it has appeared from closer investigation that the little bladders are traps, having a wonderful facility for capturing little living things, and among the things which they are fond of entrapping are the eggs of carp. The plant is, in fact, an in sectivorous one, being provided with this wonderful means for gathering substance to itself by entrapping animal food.—Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. 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