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BEUGIOUS BEADING. A NEW YEAR. 2 know cot what tho year may bring-, Nor know I what the year may lalto, But take or bring whate'er it may, I know tbat there can come no day In which I may not trust aud smg: " The Lord, my soul, will not forsake." Eis promise stands forever sure; 'Mid changing scenes unchanging-, Ho; "Whatever el&c may pass away, TJpou His woid my liiit'u I'll stay, Bis mercy must for aj o endure. And that is joy enough for me. Should care be mine or loss of health. Or poverty, or loss of friends, SInee the dear Lord of all is mine. My soul shall ne er more icpme: For hnppiuctt comes not of wuiilth. Nor joy ou earthly eoui.ee depends. Witli God's foitfivcneos for the past. And with His KraK:ror diivs in Store. Tliouj-li blunt or long tliosu dais imy Ls, s The luturc hath no tlied lor me; He will le wiln me to the lust. His, love he mine for eeimoie. Ccmc bane orbIe"ng. pood or ill. All ilium me un !cr His control; The boundlest iinivor-o llii fine, 1 none tin ks iii- iiieior slime. And all tlnug- m-iw to woik inn will 1'or the Le-)t ucifuc of my toiif. fcoil) I stan lliejoar iih cmg, And llo-'- Utid i muni f.om iiy to day; Smg uhfii tin' in nc'cu ..ini br.giit, S njr mid tut drIiii"9rot tin 11 jr.il; Thioiih all 1 w 11 ll't. pia - loion?. And jili S'n.' p.tis Isoiii i mill uu,iy. i: M OJ'tld, in A. x ohatfcer. International Sun'!ay-Schoo! Lessons. MIUIlTI! Ql' MITCH D-x "1 llevicw feci v (e of ong. M'ioiinrv, Ten ii.iuce in oilier Lesson seltcled b Hie fcclido! nusr quuti:k 1'Si. Jan .los-ali and the iJoo!: oi tne law 2King-5'S:M3 Jau 10 .Viemi.ih riedctng Hie- m.tiv'.tv iei.8:20K2: ': MB Jan 17 'Ji.tlii ttiiui ircehiibiipi.Ier. :": 12-1U Jan 3t Cii;"t iti of.ludali !Xiiij.!iIJ:H! iitti .il li.iincl in 1S.iI.- Ion I Jan. 1:H2I Pob. 7 'i I e J ior i-imnice. .. Dan. JJ: 10 b leb 14 Jlu liaiHlwrtiiigon the Wall Dan. 5: 1-12: 2W eTcb 21 Tno .-ccond Temple .ISinl: 1-1;-!: 81-3 Full 2 Nfiu'iii ali s Traior Neh. 1:1-11 Mar. 7 Heading tho I aw Neh. 8:1-12 Mar It I.mI crsrolitioii.KstiiC'r4:lii 17; f: 1 a Mar 21 Messiah'.- Mes-'oiijrer.Mat ": l-f; 4: 1-fi JI.t f tt'-Mew. fcei vitu of Pong. I-Ii-s.on- aiy. 'JeiiipeiHiice or otner Lcssou seleeled " tlie bchool. THE UNKNOWABLE." The SrientiHth' Strange and Inernlible Conclusion God'ii Manirestiitloii of Him self. It is a peculiarly suggestive fact that scientists, who are so largely disciples of the positive philosophy, keep run ning against evidences of the super natural, as a blind man will run against obstacles in his course. "Some thing that makes for righteousness," they say; the "ultimate"; the "un knowable". They can not see it, nor define it nor comprehend it, but there is a great Something back of this infin ite maze of phenomena. And now the evolutionists are feeling after a sub ordinate truth. One of them inquires: "What is ahead? If there is nothing higher, is degeneration to follow? ls Ulaudsley right? Is Hartmann with the pessimists correct? Are we to expect constant physical wonders and no psychical? Are we to pass steadily into the instinctive, auto matic state "of the life forms that pre cede us? If not, what limits are there to our spirit powers? As moral beings, are we to become as unconscious as we are in nutrition and rcllex action? I believe the optimists are right?" Verj' well. Now suppose that the positive philosophers and scientists should suc ceed after another century, or ten of them, in getting some kind of a defini tion of that influence which is every where making for righteousness; in as certaining something positive in re gard to its modes of manifestation; in discovering in it some clear evidence of consciousness and purpose, thus demonstrating its personality, would it not seem strange to them that such a personality should leave us to grope afttu' Ilini in darkness, crying like lost children for their Father, and not once stretch out a hand of help and assur ance? It would be passing strange, nay, incredible. "Are we to expect constant physical wonders and no psy chical?" Such would certainly be an unreasonable expectation. Christians ought to be more devoutlj thankful for this than for anything else, that we are not left alone aud without God in the world; that Christ has come in the darkness bearing aloft the light of im morality. "My Father! My Brother!" a child would cry with rapture when a torch was thus brought to it when lost and in the darkness, and struggle with sore feet and benumbed limbs to rush forward. Thus indeed do all upon whom God lifts up the light of His countenance. Interior. THE BASIS OF TRUE FAITH. Conformity to tho Truth tho Indispensable Condition of ltcligious ISelief. The vital truths of Christianity are neither dillicult to ascertain nor to be lieve. They are not hidden, as by a malign power, in order to make access to them arduous and doubtful. They are already revealed lie, as it were, on tin surface of the inspired Book, and are easily apprehended and believed by minds unprejudiced against them and unbiased by the love of sin; but the un biased search for truth is the exception rather than the rule. Most men, hav ing the alternative whether to admit something to be true which is opposed to their own inclination, or instead to recognize that which is false to be true "because it suits them better, will slight- the guidance of conscience and right reason and obey the impulses 'of the lower nature. To put it plainly, in the presence of religious truth and obliga tions which involve purity, self-denial, self-sacrificing, heroic endeavor, they skulk and give in to the appetites and dodge and sneak awaj' from the eter nal harmony of truth and duty. They do not obey the truth, but obey un righteousness." This is why they find it" difficult to understand and accept the simple, practical truths of the Gospel. A deal of sympathy is wasted ou men who pose as martyrs to their doubts, and think it bespeaks a su perior intellect to be skeptical and question commonly received beliefs. Religious truth is vitally related to the will, conscience, affections and life. Our moral nature must be en listed in any complete persuasion of that truth, arid our moral character must be shaped thereby. Belief of the doctrines of Curiae makes a ni n better or worse. It obedience attends convic tion, he is a better man; if not, he is the worse for his conviction. The servant who knew his lord's will and did it not was considered -worthy of many stripes. Every truth of the Gospel bears on human character and destiny, and no man who is conscious ly Ji pilgrim to eternity can be indif ferent to that truth. A colorless mini in relation to it is impossible. All pro fessed or apparent indifference, unlew in utterly hardened souls, is feigned. The Gospel appeals to, and finds an unfailing sanction in, the primary in stincts, feeling-, and moral sense which arc the universal heritage of men. In their heart of hearts they feel that it is true, and that they ought to obey it. They can not refuse to obey it without doing violence to their moral nature; and obedience i- always involved in evangelical faith. The moral basis of faithls the purpose, of righteousness, which leads to obedience to the truth as fast as it becomes known. In the light of those facts we are able to .see the error of those who make log ical demonMialiun and intellectual comprehension necessary precedents to faith. The source of certitude in re spect to religious truth does not lie in the understanding, but in the relations of that truth to the needs of the soul. Verj few men have ever been argued into religion, and for the reason that tin; argument was addressed to the in tilcct alone, and left the heart, which "bclioveth unto righteousness" un touched. The undet standing, if left to iLself, is a blind and false guide. It is to the conscience and the heart that the Gospel comes home with power. Besides the intuitive perception which men have of the excellence of the Gos pel in its adaptation to their wants they also have the influences of the Spirit to com i nee them of its truth. The Spirit does not use syllogisms to convict men of sin, of righteousness and of judg ment to come. lie speaks directly to the conscience. The Bible teaches that the indispen sable condition of faith is conformity to the truth; and paradoxical as it may seem the Divine order is, first, the be lief, and then the understanding of the truth. "I believe that 1 may under stand," said Anselm; and Christ said: "If any man will do God's will," has the spirit of obedience which is essen tial to faith, "he shall know of the doc trine." N. W. Christian Advocate. WHICH WILL YOU TAKE? A Few Thoughts for the New YearTh Upward and the Downward Path. Again yon stand at the parting of the ways, and. again you must choose which road you will take. You can not stay where you are; nothing stands still in the whole range of God's uni verse. Sun, moon and stars move on ward; earth, with its winds and tides, moves; the days, years, centuries move on; the generations are carried irre sistibly forward, and every individual life is borne on by the mighty inpul sion which guides all to some supreme consummation. In this universal sweep your life is bound up, and, struggle as you may, you can not escape from it; indeed, to separate from it would be to separate your&elf from God and to be come solitary in a darkness which no sun wotdd ever lighten again. It is only for you to choose which path you will take; you may be born on to larger, nobler, diviner life, . or you may be swept onward to ever-increasing weak ness, failure and decline. In every experience there is a two-fold possi bility; it must leave you stronger or weaker: it can not leave j'ou as it found you. God forces no man to become good or evil, wise or foolish, strong or weak. He presents to every man, in every hour, the choice between the two. A moral purpose is cut into the very heart of the universe, and written ineffacebly on every minute of time; every day is charged with power to make or to destroy character, and you can no more escape the hourly test than you can resist the ravages of time, or hide yourself from the search of death. If you refuse opportunity, neglect duty, waste the gifts of life, you must grow weaker, smaller, more and more unhappy, by the operation of a law as inexorable as that which holds the planets in their spheres; if, on the other hand, you take hold of life resolutely, spring to its tasks with strenuous and joyous energy, pour yourself into its opportunities, meet its duties valiantly, match your strength and imrpose against its trials, tempta tions and "losses, then the same irre sistible power that laid the foundations of the universe will build you up into strength, beauty and usefulness. You will be borne onward to an unfolding life of peace, rest and joy. The door stands open again; which way will you take? Christian Union. GEMS OF THOUGHT. The word of the Lord is suited to each individual as if he were the soli tary occupant of the universe. N. Y. Observer. God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears, in order that they ma' read aright His providence and His commandments. Dr. Cuyler. Last year a Buddhist priest of very high rank ate with Mrs. Ingalls, a Baptist missionary. A few years ago a priest would not even speak to a wo man. This is a striking illustration of the indirect and mighty leveling in fluence of the Christian religion. Cen tral Jiaptist. A certain strain of nobility of char acter is needed to enable one to see without envy the better fortune of his neighbor, even though that neighbor is also his friend. It sounds absurd to declare that success is not sinful in it self; but it is a truth that many never learn, or if thev believe, never practice. Baptist Weekly. There are some Sunday-school classes in Boston, .composed chiefly of young people from wealthy and cul tured families, whose teachers make it a condition of membership that each scholar shall choose some person in sick ness or need, for whom he or she agrees to spend some part of the time each week. One young lady reads aloud to a poor boy connned by an ac cident in the hospital. Another is teaching a servant to read. Another makes garments for some poor children. GERMAN FARMERS. What an Americas :ArrleaUurlst SAW Anions the r?isat of Germany How They live and Work. Interesting as these old cities are, with their quaint buildings and galleries filled with pictures one of which often gives interest to an hour's study, and much as one finds to amuse him iu watching characters and modes of do ing things in the street, yet I found my seff homesick for the country and a sio-ht of a farm-house with the famili.tr surroundings: it had been so Ionj since ! I had seen a nice sward in front of a cozy-home, a well stocked garden, a neat barnyard with proud Leghorns or Black Spanish strutting about disput ing rights with the golden bronze turk ey?, and a barn, at this season burstinT with liches, that I said to imsulf: "I will take a trip around in this garden spot of Germany and feast my eyes on the riches an old chilialion cangive.' I know what a farm is at home, but wc are a young people; we sacrifice every thing to the "almighty dollar"; here, with a thousand years of civilization, I shall find in perfection what we have in embryo. So, with anticipation whetted by long deprivation, I planned a pedestrian tour, avoiding the railway routes, that I might have the real couu ' ti v flavor. As we got away from the city I could not cease praising the soil, and as there are no fences here, it was singularly like one of our rolling prairies hardly a stone to be seen, rich loamy soil. Winter grain was all coming up with a "good start"; mile after mile of bcete or chiccory, all,the roots averaging a foot in length I should say, tremendous crops; women by the hundred on their hands and knees, generally having an old piece of sacking to creep on, some with spade-handled spuds digging up the roots.arms and backs like Amazon?; others with cleaver knives creeping after the digger?, and dextrously chop ping the top, off. then piling the roots -"M' one side; turnips, some ready to dig, and in other fields just coming up ev idently no early freezing here. Im mense factories to grind the sugar beets and chiccory every few miles; teams, almost continuous, going to and fro, loaded with roots, over roads like a floor so splendidly macadamized; yet in the fields, following the diggers, were plows at work, showing abundant help and teams. Potatoes now being dug how? Always by women, on their knees, with short-handled rakes, and with their hands; their heads tkd up in red cotton kerchiefs, their dress the universal blue calico that graces all German women. As .they turned to look at us, their faces seemed cast in one mold hard, red, wrinkled, their dress only distinguishing the sex; oth erwise, they were as coarse, rough, un gainly, as the men. But all this time not a farm-house! Why, where do they live? I thought. After awhile I saw a cluster of tiled buildings, that seemed jammed to gether in this prairie; evidently here was the home of this multitude owning the rich soil I had passed with curious eyes. As I came nearer and nearer, tiie picture I had made of the homes in America came up in bold relief. Good Heavens! is this the way farmers in the richest section of Germany live? On one side of some houses were living rooms, on the other the stables; the "best to do" had their houses separated from the stables only by a yard; all reeking with manure; not a spire of gra-w, not a flower growing out of doors; here and there was a vine grow ing up the side of the house; but so sordid was the appearance of every thing, fear the vines were cultivated but for the money value of the grapes they might yield. The children gener ally were running wild being those too young to work black with filth. In front of many house were three-inch pipes, bringing the liquid manure to proper height for the big cask that carried it to the fields. It was a common sight to see the crop of beets banked up uot ten feet from the front doors of the dwell ings. In fact, there were enough dis gusting sights aud smells iu that first village to call an indignation meeting in any Americaii town. I looked in vain for the prettily located chinch, surrounded by the "green", and the commodious sheds for the carriages; or the village school, nestling under the spreading oaks; or the inviting inn, with broad approach, and the comfort able stables; in fact, everything that makes an Ameiican village or f aim house attractive was wanting here. The least repulsive lymsc was the becr-sa-loon, with a riddled target over tho door. We went through half a dozen such villages, differing, the one from the other, in the degree of filth and im pulsiveness. But is it to be wondered at? Can a stream rise higher than its source? Where women are treated as beasts, can homes be better than kennels? Where all the able-bodied men are in the army, what can women do but work in their place? Hanover (G'cr many) Cor. Country Gentleman. Nature's Agriculturists. Prof. Henry Drummond remarks that there can be no succession of crops without the most thorough agriculture, and that where man is not doing this work nature employs other agents. Darwin .has shown how the soil of Engl-tnd is tilled by earth worms to an extent of having ten tons of diy earth per acre annually transferred from below to the surface, by passing through their bodies and being depos ited as their casts. But in the hard baked soil of tropical climates the worms are unable to operate, and other agencies are demanded, an ef fective one being, Prof. Drummond finds, the termite, or "white ant." This creature lives upon dead vegeta ble matter, and its tunnelings, like the action of the earth worms, constantly bring fresh layers of soil to the surface. Unlike the earth worms, however, it is very destructive to man's works, and in spite of its subsoil plowing is rather a dreaded foe than a valued friend.- Arkansas Traveler. m m In sowing timothy with wheat and other grains the best results are ob tained by-having the ground dragged and rolled first. N. E. Farmer. " SBSStSS fePSSSir i Z.&J -rxl Wi la'nW-.f;- iPJTVg'j' &i V - Yi 1 m ,.,-,. iiii THE SENS of sMEttV - How a Hog Forms Opinions and Jadgva Man's Character. A man's sense of enjoyment and his means of comprehension, though in some ways vastly superior to those of the lower animals, are in other direc tions immensely inferior. Take, for instance, the sense of smelling; a man, says a recent writer, may walk for miles without once being actually conscious that hcjossesses such a sense as smell beyond the general sensation of being in a pure and fresh atmosphere. Half a dozen times, perhaps, in his walk he wakes up to it. A bean field in bloom, or a bank'of violets, or burning weeds, or new-mowd hay, or some blossoming woodbine, or tho wallflowers or migno nette in a cottage garden some one or other of these may arrest his attention at rare intervals by their fragrance, and so steal into notice; but the man does not look for them, and he is quite con tent to begin and finish his walk if it so happen without any of them. How different with the dog who has set out with him, and has been enjoying his walk side by side with his master, re ceiving impressions from the same sur roundino"s and under the same circum stances!0 What a completely different aspect things have had for "him! His sense cf enjoyment has been like his master's according to his capacity; but what different influences have appealed to him! If, when thej- reach home, the do"r were able to make known his im pressions, and spread them out side by side with his master's, they would prob ably be as opposite as the poles just as unlike as if they had been received, the.e on this earth, and the others among the mountains of the moon. Watch the dog for an instant, and see what his interest is centered in, what sense it is that engrosses his attention most. He has an exceedingly quick eye and ear, and it would be difficult for ... i:i.i.n-.i. r.-f t- ...-.- VounT Told stump close by and in again without be ing detected. The faintest rustle of a leaf the slightest movement wouldabc suQi- cient to betray its presence. Either through eye or ar, very likely through both at the same instant, the dog will be made conscious of the interesting little circumstance. But, quick as all his senes are, it is to that of smell, above all, that the dog trusts. This is the final arbitaer the test to which all difficult problems are subjected, and by which all doubts are solved. It in in a world of scents that a dor lives and moves and has his being. What a cu rious scent this bramble leaf has! and his spot in the road! and that last net ;le he passed how interesting! How anlike all other nettles he ever met frith! He must return and investigate. And, doing so, he becomes, for a few moments, so engrossed that his master' command can scarcely persuade him to leave it And then, as to judging of haracter, let a reader who possesses a dog say whether he knows of any test that can be for one moment compared with the test supplied by the bundle of nerves that spread themselves out at the tip of a dog's nose. If a pun may be pardoned, I would express my belief that by no other known means can so correct diagnosis of a man's character be obtained. At all events, all will agree that a dog depends upon it with out any reserve whatever, and no amount of flattery will serve to alter the opinion he has by such means ar rived at. And who does not remember how, when Ulysses returned home, af ter his many years' absence, disguised as a beggar, neither length of time nor change of appearance and clothing served for a moment to deceive his faithful hound. While every other member of the household was regard ing him as a stranger, his dog came up and instantly discovered his identity. Chris!ia Union. THE SENSE OF PAIN. How Sir Humphry Wavy Loarned to J"w Here in the Injnry of Pain. Sir Humphry Davy, when a boy, did not believe in the injury of pain, but he was not long in that belief, for one day when he was in the water a crab sav agely took hold of his big toe and so earnestly bit it as to make him cry out from pain. This proof of pain made him guard against it from other causes, for when he was etpcriincnting with carburetted hydrogen and other gases injurious to life, on feeling oppression on his chest and a sense of suffiocation he was thereby warned to desist or risk his life by going any further in the pro cess. Lord Kames advises parents to slightly cut their children's fingers to make them sensible to pain, and to teach them to avoid whittling sticks, for fear of pain, by cutting the finger. The skin is advahce guard and sentinel against any injury and violence be neath it, and is the seat of sensibility. Sir. Charles Bell says that the surgeon who makes use of the knife informs his patient that the worst is over when the skin is passed, and if in the progress of an operation it is found necessary to extend the outer incision, the return to the skin proves more trying than the original cut. The tendons, muscles ami ligaments which hold together the joints and the carti lages feel neither cuts or bruises. Paley describes the contrivances by which evervthing we eat and drink glides over the entrance to the windpipe on its road to the gullet without falling into the windpipe The slit at the top of the wind pipe, which never closes while we breathe, is endued with an acute sen sibility to the slightest particle of mat ter, so that the least thing which touches the margin of the aperture causes its sides to come firmly together, and the intruding body is stopped at the inlet The convulsive coughing we have when choking is the energetic effort of nature to drive off whatever has evaded the epiglottis. ' Oculists have observed that iftnc eye be touched even so lightly as with a feather the museles are thrown into uncontrollable spasms, but that it can bear considerable pressure between the eyelids upon the eye itself with butlit tle sensation and without any suffering: If the eye had not been endowed writb the properties which excite constant winking we would be stone blind. Christian Union. . - Mrs. Frank Gillman, of Hollis, 2J. H., hai made a quilt containing 9,791 pieces. aak " "il -. m ' it j- " 5iayWiffi?Jo - ner. rwrr. Tha Bast tft JfaHfecra f B rarttelM at Traplcal Plant IOfe. Bat the dnetwhMfc constitutes tho "chief part of tlfe fed fog of the Atlantic, the sea dust of the Northern seas, and the sirocco-dust of South Europe, is neither cosmic nor volcanic, though it too, has traveled great distances. Vessels, hundreds of miles from land, have been at times eveloped for days in a fog consisting of brick-red or cinnamon-colored dust, which covered the sails and rigging with a thick coat, and rendered the air so hazy that no vessel which was more than a quarter of a mile off could be distinguished even at midday. Off St. Jago, during certain months of the year, a very fine dust is almost constantly falling, which, Bays Mr. Darwin, roughens and slightly injures astro nomical instruments, hurts the eyes, dirties everything on hoard, and at times falls so thickly that vessels have been known to run ashore owing to the obscurity, and are recommended to avoid the passage between Cape Verd and the Archipelago. Considerable quantities continued to fall upon the Beagle when she was between three and four hundred miles from shore, some of the variously colored transparent par ticles being a thousandth part of an inch square, "few larger, and the greater part consisting of fine powder. On the succeeding days, as the vessel proceed ed on her way, the dust became so tine that it could be collected only on a damp sponge; but it has .been known to fall on vessels one thousand and even bne thousand six hundred miles from any land. From the direction of the wind and the fact that the dust falls during those months when the harmattan raises clouds of it high in the air, and blows from the northwest shores of Africa, it was at first naturally concluded that the dust was all African too. The mineral part of it, no doubt, may be so; but on examination it was found that the great part of the dust was organic, and con sisted mainly of those minute, flint cased forms of plant-life known as di atoms, which exist in almost all water salt, fresh, or brackish. Further exami nation also revealed the singular fact that, though the dust came directly from Africa, of all the many different organic forms, none were peculiar to Af rica, and all but two belonged to fresh-water families; and it has since been proved that all the organie portion of the dust, whether it fell at Cape Verd, MaHa, Genoa, Lyons or in the Tyrol, has come from the south mde of the equator, and has been transported from the banks of the Orinoco and AmaKon. When, however, we find that particle of mineral matter one-thousandth part of an inch square can be carried three or four hundred miles, and that a narrow strip of vegetable sub Ktance something more than half an inch long, and the twelfth part of an pneh wide, cloariy belonging to some tropical tree, has been carried more than twelve hundred miles from any jcoast where it could have grown, we wonder less at the long journeys taken by these minute one-celled plants, 41, 000,000,000 of which occupy only one cubic inch of space, and weigh but two hundred and twenty grains. From "The World's Lumber iioom," by Selina Gaye. MOUNTAIN TROUT. How Tho Beautiful Fl.th Climbs Steep mils. Not long since I followed one of these dashing trout-streams from the valley up the mountain. Nature seemed to have done her best to protect the little fishes that lived in the dark deep pools and eddies. The higher I climbed up the mountain, the more fish I found; the stream became a succession of falls, some of which were three feet or more in height the brook in its track form ing steps down the mountain and 1 began to wonder how the fish came to be up there. In the village, I chanced to mention the subject to a friend who owned a mill on the same stream; and he told me that the fishes ascent was a puzzle to him, until one day his boy called him out to the dam, where the riddle was solved. The dam was nearly four feet high, and to relieve the stream, several auger-holes had been bored in it, allow ing a small stream of water to' jet forci bly out and go splashing down into the clear pool helow. As my friend ap proached the spot, and looked through the bushes, several large-sized trout were seen moving about under the mimic fall, evidently in great excite ment, and darting into it as if enjoying the splash and roar of the water. Suddenly, one of the fish made a quick rush that sent it up the falling stream, so that it almost gained the top; but by an unlucky turn it was caught and thrown back into the pool, where it darted away, evidently much startled. Soon another made the attempt, dart ing at it like the first, and then rapidly swimming up the fall, but only to meet the fate of its predecessor. This was tried a number of times, until finally, a trout larger than the others made a dash, mounted the stream, and entered the round hole. The observers were almost ready to clap their hands, but it was not successful yet As the water stopped flowing for a moment, the saw that though the athletic trout bad sur mounted the fall, the hole was too small for it to pass through, and there the poor fish was lodged. The lookers-on hastened to relieve it, and found that its side or pectoral fins were caught in the wood, but by pushing the fish ahead, which you may be sure they did, they liberated it and it darted away into the upper pond. Here, then, was the explanation. The trout climbed the mountain by swimming up the falls, darting up the foaming masses, and adopting every expedient to accomplish their journey." For these fish deposit their eggs high np stream, so that the young fry, when hatched, may not he disturbed by predatory fish and other foes living in the lower waters. C. F. Holder, in St. Nicholas. -California produced a pear, this year, that measured 17 7-8 inches front end to end and 148-4 inches around th thickest park - S?. ---- 1? 1 - 1 SNtCtS k m ancr see.' DomH aira wkhoa aM- must tK- with sand and graTal in orderCT I onhMrork of nrfcidinsr the food I dianapolis 'Journal. When food is to be fried have the pan very hot before the fat is put inl and have the fat hot before beginning to fry. Then the minimum amount of fat will be absorbed. N. T. Commer cial Advertiser. In using cold dips for the scab and other diseases of sheep, unless tfie dip ping is done in a thorough manner the solution will not penetrate close, com pact wool and reach all the parasites on the skin, owing to the dirt and other matter in the wool. Troy Times. A good way to roast a spare rib is to crack the bones in the middle, fold over and stuff with regular turkey dressing; sew it up with a stout thread, put into the dripping pan and put in a coffcecup of water; sprinkle peppcrand salt over the meat, and let it cook un til tender and brown. Then it is so that each side will be equally brown. Chicago Times. Milk Soup: Four large potatoes, two onions, two ounces of butter, one pint of milk, three teaspoonfulls of tapioca, salt and pepper to taste; boil the vegetables slowly with two quarts of water several hours, then strain through the colander and add the milk and tapioca; boil slowly and stir con stantly for about fifteen minutes, then erve. The Household. To use cold turkey pick the meat off the turkey bones, shred it in bits not too small, add dressing and pieces of light biscuit cut up line, mix togeth er and put in a dripping-pan. Pour over it any gravy that is left, add water to thoroughly mo;stcn, but not enough to make it sloppy; place in a hot oveu for twenty minutes, and when eaten all will agree that the turkey is better this time than it was at first. The Caterer. Mince Meat for Pies: Three pounds of boiled beef, one pound of suet, three pounds of brown sugar, one-half peck of apples, two pounds of raisins, one and one-half pounds of currants, one pound of citron, one nutmeg grat ed, mace five cents' worth of pow dered allspice, and cinnamon to suit the taste. Chop the meat, suet and ap ples fine. Then put them together with seasoning. Slice the citron fine. Pour on sweet cider fo make a thick batter of it, and warm it thoroughly. It is seasoned through" so much better. Western Rural. A writer advises ridging tho gar den in the fall. Good idea. It is the highest land that dries and warms first in the spring. If you will take the trouble to observe how much sooner a door-yard in town or city, that is raised above the level, becomes green in spring you will see what high land docs for vegetation. A garden that is ridged will be ready for planting much sooner than one that is not, and whether we want vegetables simply for our own use or for market purposes it will pay us to ridge. Don't be afraid of getting the ridges too high. Tho higher the better. The furrows serve as drains. Prairie Farmer. MULCHING FOR PLANTS. A Winter Protection Which Should Not Bn Neglected. There arc many plants and trees that need some protection to carry them j safely through the winter. It is not the ! river cold that, as a rule, does the mis chief, but rather the frequent sudden changes, freezing one day and thaw ing the next; smalL plants especially are injured in this way; and often en tirely killed, unless afforded some pro tection by mulching. The strawberry in exposed positions is very often in jured if left uncovered; but the straw berry is a plant that requires much more care in covering than most of garden plants, because, being a partial evergreen, it is not safe to cover it to any great depth, or to cover it with any material which will settle down so close as to shut out the air; coarse hay is really one of the best coverings that can be given the strawberry; but corn stalks, ,or even evergreen boughs, make a very good covering. Kaspberry plants may be laid down and covered with earth, because there arc no leaves to preserve. Young, and even old, trees are ycry much improved by heavy mulching; but if anything is used to mulch with that will make a good sheltor for mice care must be taken to proteot each tree with a mound of earth to reach above the mulching. The material to be used for mulching the orchard must be governed by the condition of the soil; if the soil be a moist, heavy soil a few inches in depth of sand makes an ex cellent mulch, and will very much im prove the orchard if it be spread over the whole land; but if the soil be some what light and dry the soil from an old swamp is an excellent material, and a covering of two or three inches over the whole surface will make a lastiii": im provement. The practice of spreading on such material for a mulch, and cov ering only a small space around each tree, is a very poor one. Before ap plying sand or leaf mulch to an orchard, the land should receive a good dressing of manure. An orchard that has been in grass a few years will be greatly benefitted if covered late in the autumn with a mulching of leaf-mould deep enough to amother the grass to a de gree sufficient to kill obt a portion of the roots. This benefits an orchard more than it does to plow it, and if the material is near, it costs but little, if any more. Plants, the tops of which die out every 3'car and send up new shoots every spring, and are only half hardy, can easily be protected " by covering with some material that will settle down close and shut out the air. One of the best materials for this purpose is moist leaves; but, to keep them in place after they have been packed down r.Iosely, they must be covered with boards or a slight covering of earth. Currant bushes always do better when well mulched; the best material for this purpose is good stable manure, the more the better, if not deep enough to heat. There are few plants that grow whijh take so kindly to stable manure as the currant, and few that it will pay to feed rot liberally. Massa chusetts Elouglinian. .. . ,f65f j !& z m &x -5SSI -crass i 2ll ? 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