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Oi course this mental attitude is most noticeable in those women who have not been trained to work, and whose work is therefore least valuable. Of course, also, it must and does make them thoroughly uncomfortable, because it keeps them con- tinhally selfvconscicus. If theie be on infallible recipe for human misery of a mean and pitiuble sort, it is probably to he bum] in the habitual contrasting of our worldly fortunes with our merits, and with the better luck of other people not more deserving. Every year more and [11018 young women from intelligent and refinid circles must earn their liVlbg, That is the condition of the time, which cannot be gainsaid. Two concessions on their part are equally necessary to their mats-rial suo. cess and peace of mind. One is that they shall be willing to step outside the overcrowded ranks cl tercliers, of whatever sort, of incompetent authors and decorative artists. of copyists, saleswomsn, or clerks, and courageouz 1;; ac- cept some vocation where there is still room, or find a new place for themselves. The other is that they shall abandon the foolish notion that they cm be happy only in one way or under one set of conditions, when there are fifty other ways in which they may be happy, or at least steadfast and cheerful. Undoubtedly, women who set out to earn their own living do undergo more annoyances and mortifiostions than men. This is partly because the world is not yet adjusted to the new necessities which compel them to be wage-earners; partly becauss bad manners are more dis- agreeable to them than to men ; chiefly, we think, because their abnormal sensi- tivsness makes them see aflronts where none are intended. Feeling above their work, they are not Willing to be identified with it, as men expect to be identified with theirs. tis not in human nature, of course, to love it vocation which in its nature is tiresome or disagreeable. But it is perfectly possible to ignore the disagreeable, to do the work with one’s whole heart, because one's personal dignity requires that faithfulnesa, nod to dignity the labor itself by the manner 0! its dis- charge. It is always the "how" that is important, seldom the “what.” Agreat man thought that “ work is the great cure at all the miseries and maladies which beset mankind: honest work which you intend. getting done.” If, then, women would congratulate instead of pity them- selves that they have to work, half “their, lancied disabilities would vanish in thin air. -The question of wages makes no appeal to sentiment. It is iimply one of demand and supply. The slop-shop, worker gets 25 cents a day, because thousandsot woman can do, her work as well ‘as she. The accomplished needle-woman, going out by. the day to fit and sew, gets S3 and her meals, because the demand for her kind of work is greater than the amount obtain- able. Intelligent household service is even rarer, and commands proportionately bet- ter wages. Neither tesrs nor rhetoric nor pangs of suffering can change this state of things. Only the resolve of women to do the work that pays best, however hard and hateful, and to do it as men do theirs, without complaint and with. out condesceniion, will avail. For the rest, even the world of idleness and fashion displays instances of very bad manners, to which its deniZEns have to close eyes and ears. Its snubs and insults are not more graiiius than those of sordid trade, and the neophyte who would find a high place must eufier with a smile, and keep her end steadily in view. Most men are not gentlemen and most women are not ladies in this busy country where civiliza- tion is yet young. The wise rccngnize this fact, andimaintain their own superiority, not by complaints of what they suffer, not by condescension toward the task they must perform, but by an undisturbabls propriety of manner and conduct, and arespeot for their work so genuine as to prove contagious. â€"â€"Harper‘s Bazar. The Prussian people believe that Bis- marck is superstitious. They say that he is awed by apparitions in uninhabited ces- tles, shrinks from dining where thirteen sit down at table, believes in unlucky days, and adheres to the ancient belief of the influence of the moon on every living thing. But, according to Dr. Busch, this is all nonsense, with the exception of a single story which happened at Sohonheusen (where the Chancellor heard mysterious footsteps in the ante-chamber of his bed- room). “The jests about my supersti- tions,”he said a; few months ago, “are nothing but jests, or consideration of the feelings of others. I will eat at table wizh twelve others as often as you like, and will undertake the most important and serious business on a Friday.” ‘ Horace Shaw forced open the door of his sitting-room at Athleboro, Mnem, Monday evening and found his wife lying dead on the floor in apool of blood. Her headiwas pierced by a. bullet, and a. revolver lay by her side on the floor. Pfinned to the bosom of her dress was a note containing this doggerel : I had to do it; no friends have I. Send for Sperry. Good-by; good-by. Sperry is the name of the 1008.1 under- taker. Mrs. Shaw wee an attraomive woman of 27. and had one chxld. Her husband is a. successful jeweller, in busi- ness for himself. She had been despondent for some time, and leter had been living with her father. She got the key of the house from her husband at the shop Mon- day night. The School Journal suggests as a. topic for consideration at coming teachers‘ conven- tions, “ What means should be taken to suppress the publication of pernicious literature among our youth ?" The Journal cites numerous proofs of the terrible effects of such stories as “Buffalo Bill,” “Jesse James,” and the like, upon the minds of children, and mentions that: in Montreal 8. boy committed a. forgery, in Toronto 8. led shot his companion on the street, and in such cases the cause was too much dime novel-reading. Mrs.Upshur,wife of Col. Upshur, re- cent!y,in1ndia, was shandin on a rock While a tiger was raging aroun . 'The lady killed the uiger at first shot. " ‘ The question of women’s work and wages is not to be settled in our generation. Every day’s newapeper contains some oom- plaint of inadequate pay or unfair treat- ment on the part of employers, with an Implied appeal to the humane public to right the wrong. No doubt there is a cer- tain foundation for the protest. Women are the weaker side in the controversy, and the weakest must go to the wall. But no close observer of the feminine habit of mind can fail to have been struck with a. certain air of oondereanelon which most women maintain tow‘urd their work, and which explains, in It degree at least, their discontent. Men take up their business, be it hard or easy, pleasant or hateful, with a matter-of-oouree determination .to accom- plish it which ignorea its quality altogether. Women sigh over theirs, lament the hard necessity which brings them to it, patronize it as not quite worthy their attention, and are always looking over the edge of it toward a free beyond. 4 HOW TO SET ABDUT' EARNING A LIVING. The Position of the Fair Sex as it is, it might be. WOMEN‘S WORKE‘EAND WNW. Wrote Poetry anal Then vied. '- Bismarck Supersliliolu? Bad Books for Boys. am] .Iuelicc Drops the scales and As umos Ihe Pistol. ArSan Francisco despatoh says: In the Sharon divorce ease yesterday, Mrs. Shawav, a wrmese for the defence, was accused by plaiutlff'e lawyer with being a disreputable person. She put her hand in her pocket as though to draw a revolver, but was checked by defendant‘s lawyer. The witness’ eon also attempted to ap- proach plaintiff‘s lawyer, but was stopped by the latter’e son, who threatened to shoot him if he attempted to draw a pistol. The court ordered the witness and her eon to be removed from the room, and declared a recess. In the afternoon the court refused to hear further testimony in the case un- less assured'no one inlthe court-room were armed, and it would require the certificate The Governor of 11388513. is asking daily for assistance. He reports that many Bishi-Bazouks have joined the rebels, and the garrison is in a. panicky state. In an engagement; at Khartoum on March 24th the rebel camp was shelled and 116 rebels killed or Wounded. A crowd of Arabs picked up a. shell and mied to dir- cover its mechanism, when is exploded, killing sixteen and maimng many others. A last (Wednesday) night’s London cable- gram says: A deepateb received at CHJI‘O from Gordon, dated Memh 3031], says that on March 25m Gordon dieurmed 250 Bashi- Bezouks who had mutinied. The following day he shelled a. rebel camp on the Blue Nile, killing forty of the enemy. March 27:21: the rebels fired upon Khartoum from a. village opporite. They were soon forced to evacuate the village, losing fifty-nine men. Baebi Dazouka occupied it and held in until the 30511. On that; day the rebels returned in force and drove them out, but then'retired. The White Nile‘ Gimmick is quiet. Gordon estimates the rebels'fiboui Khartoum no number two thousand. The latest advices from General Gordon, dated April 4th, say in an engagement on March 3051] the rebels; lost forty men killed and eight wounded, together with sixteen horses. ‘ . * ' ~ ' The‘British Government; has sent posi- tive orders to Gordon to withdraw from Khartoum with the garrison as soon as possible. Captain Schoouhnvon Attributes the \Vrcck to the Westward Current. A Halifax deapatch says: The inquiry into the loss of the steamer Daniel Stein- mann was resumed there yesterday by Captain Scott, of the Marine and Fisheries Department. Captain Schoonhaven, of the lost vessel, appeared voiuntarily with Mr. Ronne, Belgian Consul. He gave a full account ’of the disaster as far as‘_he was able, and attributed the loss of the amp to the strong current to the westward" which prevails in the neighborhood of Sambro Island, which had put him a few miles out in his reckoning. of thé policeman at Ihe door to that effect. . Tennyson in the “ Dream of Fair Women,” edition of 1883, made Iphigenia. any: '1‘th tall masts quiygr’d as they lay aifloa‘t', fifThe’ tempies (ind the peoplefanEl the shore; One drew a sharp knife thro’ my tender throat Slowly andâ€"nothing more. _ ' Whereat the critic of the “Quarterly Review” for April, 1883, exclaime: " What touching simplicity! What pathetic re- signation! He out my throatâ€"nothing morei One might, indeed ask: ‘What more ’ ehe wouldvhave ? ” For many years the poet left the lines 8.8 they were first printed; now, as every one knows,they stand thus : " The high masts fiicker’d as they lay afloat : The crowds, the temples waver'd, and. the shore; The bright death quivered at the victim’s throat Touched: find I knew no more. - file. Sickening Sights III the Mineâ€"Recovery ol the Bridles. .A last (Friday) night's Pocahontas (Va) despatoh says: The work of recovering the bodies of the dead miners has been progressing all day. The entrance to the mines has been so crowded with sorrowful . men, women and children all day that the workmen were at times much inconvenl- enced. Finally ropes were stretched around the mines, and the grief-stricken mourners compelled to keep outside the boundary. At 9 o'clock this morning nine bodies had been brought out of the mine and all laid in a row on the ground, while the crowd wee allowed to walk by in single The work was anxiously watched, and on more than one occasion two or three Women would be kneeling beside a. shat- , tered corpse, searching eagerly for some mark to identify a husband, son or brother. Each body has been so mutilated and burned that it is scarcely possible to distin- gu1~h 0010er men from white. The spec- tacleof the laborers reveremly endeavor- ing to find the body to which some stray srm, leg or head belonged was one of the many and incidents of the day. Most of the bodies were stripped nearly nude by the explosion. No one out what was terribly mangled. Several of them were disemhowelled, and others were found locked in each other’s arms, or grasp- ing dinner-kettles or tools. From these fact-s it is deemed certain that they were instantly killed by the explosion, and were not compelled to endure agony of suffer- ings. Of the first nine taken out seven were men and two boys; not one could be poritively identified, although each was surrounded for several hours by weeping and wailing women, who feared that the sickening horror before them was all that remoimd of a. near relative. About noon the bodies of two colored men "and a. boy were brought up, and the excitement, which had commenced to subside, again renewed. The colored men were identified as George and J. Maxwell; the boy was Boone Marcy. The work of recovering the bodies is necessarily slow, owing to the terrible stench in the mine, which prevents the rescuing party from remaining long in the mine. Succesuul fiorlirs by Gordonâ€"111a is (Erdered to Lenveâ€"Arahs’ Curiosity 'Grutified. The Government surveying parties are preparing for work in the Northwest. Half a dozon surveyors from Toronto and one from Oakvnlle will start for Battleford to- day. The appropriation for thig work is $300,000, only half of the sum appropriated last year. During last season 27.000000 acres were surveyed and sub-divided into USO-note lots. * THE STEINMANN DISASTER. Tll E PoflAfloflTAS HORROR. VOL. XXVI. Survdying the Northwest. The Drea 1:: Amended. A COURT SEEN E. TH E 80 EDA N. The following observations of an eminent gardener and able writer are well worthy a place in our columns: “Are plants in rooms promotive of health and cheerful- ness? In the case of all living rooms I answer in the'ufiirmsiive. Delicate people complain of headaches and sickness from heir presence, and will, therefore, have them excluded, and rightly too. Plants with powerful odors willscmetimes produce that effect. I have known ladies that could . not go near a jessamine ; others that hated musk ; some that would faint at the pro- pinquity of a heliotrope ; and others that only approved of miguonnette when not nearer than a furlong. All of us have something peculiar in our “le and dis- likes. It is rather ill~natured to cmsider such peculiarities as more fid-fad imagi: naries. Common prudence wouli say, ‘Keep at a distance from whatever harms you.’ In bed-rooms that are shut cl xse at night I would advise dispensing With flowers having powerful odors, even though agreeable to the olfactory nerves of the owner. If he prefers retaining them it would be advisable to place them nearer the floor than the coach on which he reposes. But why not have air iurthe sleeping room at night, instead of shutting it up close, when the Weather is at all favorable, and thus serve the interests or the occupants and those of the plants at one and the same time 1 The idea of the unhealthiness of plants in living and sleep- ing rooms has besn'suggested by our chemi- cal friends demonstrating the” influence 0!" Vegetaticn‘on the atmoaphere and the re. ciprocal action ever going on between the animal and the vegetable world. They tell us truly that animals are constantly taking oxygen gas from the atmosphere, and throwmg, by exhaling, carbonic g-is into it, and that, from this and other causes, but for living vegetation the air ‘ would become impure and unfit for breath- , ing. The solid parts of plants being l chiefly carbonâ€"of which charcoal‘may ; stand as a familiar typeâ€"and every 1 green part of a plant having the power to absorb this carbonic acid in the atmoshere during life, its quality is thus lessened, while ihe action of the sun- beam enables the plant to decompose the carbonic acid thus received, to retain, add, or assimilate solid matter (the carbon) to itself, and to set the other constituent (oxygen) free for the benefit of the animal world. Thus it would seem that the nearer we get to healthy vegetation the more likely we shall be to get the benefit of this fresh forming oxygen; but, as if to camp our enthusiasm, we are presented with a lesser and a greater drawback to our‘ satis- faction. The lesser is that all unhealthy parts of a plantâ€"yellow leaves, etc.,â€"and. what is more painful still, all flowers in proportion as their color recedes from the green, vitiate the atmosphere rather than improve it, even during the day. The second drawback is that at night, or in darkness or much shade, even healthy plants exhale carbonic acid gas and inhale oxygen, and Just in proportion to their size and powers deteriorate the atmosphere like ourselves, and therefore become, especially after tWilight, very undesirable neighbors in our dwelling, and sleeping rooms. To this heavy accusation I reply that in gen- eral the size of flowers in proportion to green leaves grown in rooms is so small that during the day the advantage greatly out- weighs the disadvantage; and though un- doubtedly plants do give 011' carbonic acid gas at night, yet at that time the rooms are generally at their coolest, and as this gas is l something like three to two heavier than common air, it will, in such circumstances. fall to the floor, and only be mingled with the general atmosphere by the heat and the sunshine of the following day. Unless the plants were extra numerous the absorption of oxygen would not much influence the air of the apartment. All, or almost all, injury might be avaided by seeing that the plants were lower than the seat or couch of the owner. I believe this the more because dew, the condensed moisture in the air near the ground, holds much more of this gas in solution in general than common water does. 0n the whole, then, unless in the case of delicate invalids, or of plants with very large flowers having a powerful odor, I believe that healthy plants in rooms are decidedly beneficial, and proactive alike of checrfulness and health, and that this is especially ' e case in large cities and towns."â€"-Land an Water Many interestinginciéents of Tuesday's tornado in Georgia continue to come in. In SteWart County the three-storey frame mansion of Mrs. Grace Miller was lifted 1n the air. the Bills upon which it rested were blown away, and the house was dropped almost exactly into its old posiuon, where it now stands with its foundation sills gone. At Judge Wimberly‘s the tornado struck a pine forest and for five miles in a. straight has left a clearing 30 feet wide. A an‘dy Secret Revealed by Denthâ€" The Love That Exlslerl [Between Brothers A Huntingdon, Pan, telegremeays: A confinement of sixty years, which was the result of insanityâ€"u. secret long kept from the publicâ€"terminated here yesterday in the death of Daniel Haws, in Juniuta town- ship, six miles from this city. He had been confined since 1823 bv his brothers, and was 84 years old, The maniac was one of five brothers who, when young men, worked together on thin: father's farm. HIS malady is said to have been caused by drinking from a. cool stream while over- heated in harvest time. He was imme- diately confined by his brothers, and was ever afterward totally excluded from the world. Bub once in the subsequent sixty years did he regain his freedom, and that Wes about fifty years ago, when he even needed in escaping from the house. He was soon captured and returned to his im- prisonment. The room in which he we.» 11th was of small dimensions, With but one W1ud0W,fl.lld to prevent him from reaching the letter he was chazned in an oppmite corner. A stove was placed in a. smell Opening in the partition; with the front facing into a. hail. so that fires could be made without entering the 'room. His brothers remained unmarried and lived to- gether, accumulating money and property, which they held in common. Two of them survive, and are the owners of 900 acres in the township. An important decision was given by Chief Justice Hegerty at the Civil Asaizes, Toronto, this week, in a case involving the points whether an agreement made by tele- phone awae good in law. The Chief Justice held that so long as the witness could re- cognize the voice of the party speaking to him. the distance between them was im- material. Plants in Living and Bed Rooms SIXTY YEARS IN CHAINS. Freaks of the Tornado. Contracts by Tthphone. RICHMOND HILL/THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1884. Last spring, after considerable trouble, this recipe was obtained for grafting wax, and as it has proved satisfactory, it is given for the benefit of others: Take 1 lb. of rosin, g- lb. of beeswax, and a little less than filb. of tallow. Melt together in a small iron kettle, and stir thoroughly that the ingredients may be well mixed. Pour into a dish of cold water, and. when cool, break into three or.four pieces, and pull like molasses candy nntilwhite and fine- grained. worked, divide into eight pieces, form into rolls six inches long, and wrap in oiled paper. To clean the kettle, rub it while yet hot witha teaspocniul of lard or tallow. and wash out with soap and warm Water ; When the whole is properly repeat this, and rinse, and it will be as clean as evenâ€"0. A. O. Economical Paint. A paint for floors. which economizes the use of oil colors and varnish, is described at , much length in the Builder, as a recent ‘ German invention. For flooring, two and one-eighth ounces of good, clear, joiners’ glue is soaked over night in cold water, and, , when dissolved, is added, while being stirred, to thickieh milk of lime, heated to the boiling point, and prepared from one pound of quick lime.‘ Into boiling lime is‘ pouredâ€"the stirring being continuedâ€"as much linseed oil as becomes united, by means of saponification, with the lime, and when the oil no longer mixes there is no more poured in. If there happens to he too much oil added, it must be combined by the additionoi some fresh lime pasteâ€" abcut half a pound of oil for the quantity of lime just named. After this white. thichish foundation paint has cooled, a color is added which is not affected by lime, and, in case of need, the paintis diluted with water, or by the addition of a mixture of lime water with some linseed oil. The substance penetrates into the wood and renders it water-resisting. The Nature 01 Cream. The behavior of cream by the addition of water is a subject that should be well understood by the owners of creameries. It is known that the addition of cold water to the milk causes the cream to rise with greater rapidity than it would otherwise do. But the effect of adding water to the cream itself is not so well understood. Cream is lighter than milk, and water is also lighter than milk. There is very little difference between the specific gravuies of cream and water. Indeedvery poor cream may be of precisely the same specific grawty as water, while very rich cream will be lighter. Cream varies very much in its character. 0f six samples the proportion of water con- tained have been found to vary from 50 to 72.25 per cent., while the proportions of actual fat have varied from 19 to 43 9 per cent. It is a fact that cream is only exceed- ingly rich milk, and the milk of the cream haspreciselv the specificgravity of skimmed milk that is free from fat, which is 1.035. The fat of milk has a specific gravity of .9, so that it is quite easy to calculate how much fat there is required to make the cream weigh precisely the same as water. Then water and cream thoroughly mixed would not separate, and a .certain propor- tion of water may be mixed with cream, and if the water is properly thickened and colored, as it is sometimes, with starch and yellow matter, nothing but a chemical analysis would detect the adulteration. As a practical illu tra: tion of the possibility of dishonest treat- ment of cream we might refer to an experiment made by Prof. Muncy at the ‘Iowa College, in which eight parts 0! Horses that are to do heavy work at tile plough in» spring should nufi be permitted to stand idle in thy syuble for wfagks, 05 per- hafaggfiogthgfiefogeihe .Eoilia ready for eujivation, bjuh ehould have a. shorter or longer period'ef exercise every day. There is considerable danger, especially at; the breaking up of the eleiguing, of leaving the horses idle 1n the enable without the ueual care and attention which they ordinarily receive when at work. This ought; not no be done, as the horse is thus rendered less able to endure heavy work when the Warm days come. (Compiled by a Practical Agriculturist.) Tomato Culture and Sunflowers. I dug out in the early springtime as many flat turnips as were needed, and hav- ing filled the cavity “1th earth, planted two or three turns-to seeds in it, selecting the best plants, when they were two or three inches high, to remain. and pulling up the others ; and when it was time to set in the garden, placed the turnip, with its contents undisturbed. in =8. hole deep enough to cover it two or three inches. Setting out in this way, there is no ‘ cutting away of roots, and need of little water, as 1115 plant has not been in the least disturbed, espe oiolly if. accustomed to the air outbi- doors for a Week or two before being set in the garden. I have started tomatoes so early that the plants were in blossom several days before being set out, not being at all retztrded or checked in growth thereby. Cucumbers, melons, eto., started in the some way, I have had in bloom when set out, with the same result. After being put in the ground the turnip soon decays, lurnishing a little food for the plant. If the turnips are to be kept long before setting out, it will be Well to put them in boxes, filling the interstices with moss, sand or earth, kept moist. As too long exposure to the hot‘ air of a warm room will cause themto wrlt, the earth must be kept moist, whether the turnip is in or out of a box. Instead of going to the trouble of procuring, sharpening and set ting stakes, and pulling and taking care of them at the end of the season, I started sun- flower seeds in the same way as described. To prevent too much shade I out off the leaves of the sunflowers as far above the tomato plant as is necessary to give it all the air and sunlight desirable. The Rus- sian sunflower, because of its very tall growth, is the best for this purpose. The sunflower makes the best and most profit- able of stakes, bcoause it is so easily ob- tainedâ€"no loosening in the ground or breaking of strikes when loa‘ded with fruit ; end the seeds of the flower, wnmh are better than corn for poultry, abundantly pay for all the time and labor in caring for them. The leavrsof the sunflowers will be greedin eaten by cows or pigs, and are said to be much better than green corn fodder. The Russian sunflowers also make an exoelllent bean pole, though it is not necessary to start them so early as for tomatoes, as a growth of a. foot and-ashali by the first of June (bean planting time) is . . all that is needed. i The Care ‘of Trees, Bedding out Plants and Chickens. FARM AND GARDEN. AN ECONOMICAL PAINT. Exercise no: sea Daily. Grnfdnu \Vax. Cures for Bright’s Disease. Dr. Alex. De Berra, of Crystal Springs, NY, writes that, after years of practical test of the milk diet for Bright's disease, he has a long list of cases in which he has made perfect cures. ' Great care is taken to gut absolutely. pure skimmed milk from healthy and well fed cows, and no other food of any kind is given after the patient can bear five pints of milk a day. Up to thi-i point, and until the stomach is able to take care of so much, is found to be the most trying period in this treatment, but no other medicineis given, and hand and hair-glove rubbing is daily administered. Another correspondent takes exception to the claim made, that no drug of any thera- peutic value in that disease has yet been discoveijed. In support of his assertion he sends no a recipe which he claims has effected a cure in Blight’s disease, as well as in dropsy, in every case in which it has been tried during the last fifteen years. He recommends the drinking of an infusion of dry pods of the common white soup bean or corn bean. When the latter cannot be readily obtained the pods of the ” snap short ” bean will answer, and even the Lima bean, though the latter is of inferior strength. The recipe is as follows: " Take a double handful of the pods to three quarts of water ; boil slowly for three hours until it is reduced to three pints. Use no drink of any kind but this, the patient drinking as much as be conveniently can ; it may be taken either hot or cold." “ Never Smiled on Bachelor's.” The Prince of Wales, as Duke of Corn- wall, has just been granted letters of administration of the personal estate of a gentleman who lately died in the county of Cornwall, and is pilhlly described in the record as a “bachelor, bastard and intes- tate,” says the St. James Gazette. Legal phraseology is not always so curt and unadorned; but then English law has never smiled on bachelors. The Legislature has even sought to make celibacy quasi- penal, a tax having actually been laid upon the members of this hapless class in the reigns of William III. and Anne. Bachelor dukes (being 25 years of age) had to pay £12 10s. per annum, “common persons ” 1 shilling in proportion. Again, in 1785, bachelors were compelled to pay a heavier tax on their servants than married folk. These things, it is true, were done before Malthus wrote. English charity, of course, has been catholic enough to include bachelors in the sphere of its benevolence. At Bowes, in Yorkshire, for instance, there is (or was quite recently) a fund for the payment of a small yearly sum of money “ to two or one of the oldest bachelors in the township.” The fund, originally the bequest of some person whose mime has long since been forgotten, was gradually reduced by mismanagement from £60 to £15; which, at 3 per cent., would give 9 shillings a year. So that even at Bowes a man has no excessive tempta- tion to shirk what Bacon calls the “ dis- cipline of humanity." quic 78.8 pgasjhlefihinliing than the sooner its " offr‘are’ 'ooveréd the better. Dig a. good-sized hole, and before putting in the tree spade’up the Bottom of the hole as deeply as possible. On this well-pulverized bottom the tree takes root quickly. Sxfn in tine earth about the roona’, and when the hole is filled pack the earth tighnly about the tree. If in a. dry place put a. mulch of sbraw otold horse manure. well supplied leh litter, about the tree. In dry Weather the mulch may be raised, a pail of water upplled, the mulch replaced, and its effect W111 lust nearly a. month. Prof. Shelton, of the Kansan Agricultural College, says a fortune awaits the man who invents a. good, cheap farm-mill. But he adds that it: must do more than “ merely crack the grain, and break cobs into inch rquare chunks.” He has nhkeu pains to get the opinions of 8. large number of stock raisers who use much ground and crushed feed, 3115"“ all agree that; the machines now in vogue are awkwai’d,‘ untelmble and easily broken.” omyxuyug, .L quiclgb’pa p‘ox its roots‘ are Cal-e in the setting of trees ‘is profitably emphyem. Ddfigoh gaggle in the tree as The Deadly Fly. According to an Italian scientist the fly, whloh we have been taught to regard as a. scavenger of the air, instead of performing aha tuseful operation is not; only an unmiti- gated annoyance, which he has always been, but is one of the most actiVe of winged agents in the diffusion of infectious mala- dies, epidemioa, and even parasitic diseases. Dr. Grass: has shown by microscopical ex- amination of “ fly-spots ” the presence of eggs of a human parasite, which the flies had transferred from a place some dis- tance away, where the experimentalislihad placed them Bedding-plants may be started in boxes kept in the kitchen to better advantage thanina. hot-bed. Boxes that; have con- nsined raisins are well adapted to the purpose. They should be nearly filled with old manure and soul that is free from foul seeds, and fastened toe. window-slll where the light will reach them. After the plants have made a. good growth the boxes may be taken out of doors during warm days. By that means the plants become greduglly fitted for exposure. Au agricultural writer has found salt sprinkled on amauure heap an excellent: upplication both for summer and winter. He says: In warm weauher it attracts moisture and keeps the manure from fire- famging or burning from exoeeaive ferment ation. "In winter it keeps the heap from freezing solid, and at any season it makes the manure more soluble. Chickens when first hatched should not be hurried out of hhe setting Bean. For twenty-four hours, at least, from the tune the earnest cnmmence to thW themselves in is bstnet to leave them under or with the hen mother. They need no food for from a day to a day and a. half usually. When they get strong enough to Venture from beneath their mother's wings in is time to move the brood. "Illu- Farm Nolefl. Bribtany cattle are small, silky-skinned, docile and gentle animals, giving as rich milk as one can well desire. Bribhauy ouster. delicate and ruperior. of which thuusanda of tons are annually injpnrted into England. is produced from the milk 0! these cows. They are also naturally hardy, thriving on coarse food, and another impor- tant. characteristic is their freedom from disease incident to'canie generally. water were added to two parts of cream, and two and a quarter hours after the cream which separated was doubled in quantity; while in 12 hours the cream atill showed at; increased bulk of one part in 20, or 5 per cent. These facts show that the cream gauge and the milk oain are neither to be depended upon 8.38. test of cream, while the natural variation in quminy, which is E0 large, musty neoessarlly operate to t-he dmadvuutage of those whose cream is richesv in fast, In favor of those whose cream is poor. WHOLE NO 1,846 NO. 416. Teefy Rev. Dr. Blaikie, of Edinburgh, says that the coming Council at Belfast W111 be as numerouely attended and as influential as e.ther of its predecessors. Baron Dowse took suddenly ill on March 20m in the Record Court, county Antrim, owmg to severe bleeding from the nose. He is recovering. _ Ah funerals the undertaker cried with the mourners, the flow of tears being pro- portionate to the expense of the funeral. Young couples considered it a. privilege to sit up all night with the corpse before burial. Maurice Conroy died on March 19th at his residence in Market; street, Sligo. The Kllkenny Journal on March 1913!: en- tered upon its one hundred and eighteenth year. Dr. Lyons. M. P., Mr. M. Brooks, M. P., and Captain B. Lee Guinness have been appointed deputy lieutenants oi the county of Dublin. A number of famxlies have been flooded out; of their homes between Athlone and Seven Churches, about 31x miles, and the greatest destituvion prevails. An English judge, having received an intimation that a man he had sentenced to death wished particularly to see him, went to his cell, when the man said : “ I stole your watch years ago. You were looking into a print shop in the street.” “Yes,” said the judge, “ but I always wondered how the thing was done, because I particu- larly valued the seals which were hanging from the fob, and kept my hand on them.” “ You did, save for an instant, when I tickled you with a straw behind the ear.” He went on to explain that the watch was such a peculiar one, the name being embossed on it, that they had been afraid to sell it, and said, “ If you get me ink and paper I den give you a letter which will enable you to recover it.” And the judge did recover it. People did not live as long as they now do, not was the average health as good as m present. They ate more meet, more grease, more hot bread, and more heavy dishes, and drank more at meals. l on the top and- bring to table. 1 People ’ who can't fancy eggs or bacon ‘ will be charmed with this dish. ‘ Cut into slices with a knife, and nibbled through it not only makes a men’s internal provinces feel comfortable, but may even give him a. bit better appetite for anything which may follow. A man’s break-feet, too, it should be remembered, is his start for the day ; it enables him to do good work ,and do it well. Dinner may be left to take care of itself, but wives who do their duty should take special pains with breakfast. If none of these receipts are suitable, and if break feet, from press ot work or lack of time, must be swellowedhurriedly, an egg beaten up in cup of coffee makes a. good meal,« and may be taken standing. This is- an especially good thing for‘men to take who have to leave heme Very early in the morn- ing. and before the kitchen fire is lightedr A little spirit-lamp will» make the coffee in it tries, and the egg can be beaten up with a. fork as quickly. The one poured into the other completes the dish, and makes a. cheap and nourishing meal. and one calcu- luted to keep the raw morning air} from a man's chest. ‘ ' t Dinner was simply a. hasty lunch at noon, and litsle importance was attached to the nenessity for good digestion or a. period of rest after eating. New Orieans and muscovada. molmses, very black and ohm,wa.s‘ the common sweet- ening for buckwheau cakes. Refined molasses was almost unknown. Eggs we're a. shilling a. dozen and butter considered high at eighbeen cents per pound. Business letters were more voluminous and formal, and Were written in a. precise, round hand. Bread was home made. Coffee was freshly ground every morning, .and the grinding of the family coffee-mill wasa. familiar Bound hours before the children arose. Negro minstrelsy was just cropping out in the travelling clrous. There were gener- ally but: two performers, who assumed male and female characters. The popular melody was “ Jump. Jlm Grow." The diet was more subcharged with grease, the winter breakfast Usually being made of salted ham and hon cakes. The country retail trade was much better, as people could not so easlly run to the civy by m1]. Ooflins were very plain and burial-caskets were unknown. Tombstones had larger epitaphs and more verbosity engravad upon them. If there be any one matter in England which needs altering, it is‘ the breakfast table. As a rule, the first meal of the Englishman is about the Worst meal in the world. It consists generally of eggs or bacon, andgthough eggs and bacon are really good in their way, too much eggs and bacon is calculated to drive away a man’s appetite. More than this. too, our break fast tables are seldom made to look pretty. Well-to do people, we hear, ornament this primal meal .with flowers and plate and rare china, and because wealth can do this, and does it, people not so welloff think that they are shut out from anything of the sort. This is a very 'silly view of things. Two pennyworth of flowers will make a break- fast table look beautiful for a week, and" ‘send “the master” off to his work with a gleam of color and beauty of which he very often thinks during the day. Breakfast dishes, in spite of the British predilection for the dainties mentioned. however, are neither few not far between. The very best breakfast in the world is that which commences with it plate of pot- ridge. Soak over night a little coarse Scotch oatmeal in water. Next morning boil this into poirridge, and eat with sugar or salt-both are goodâ€"and a trifle of milk. In go and staying power this gives a man, it is equal to half a pound of steak. A boiled smoked haddock, and an egg, too, make another fine breakfast. Take the bones out of the haddock (coat 21 ), and the egg out of the shell (cost 1d.), mix together and eat with a fork and spoon. No amount of flesh food, in moderation, can give quite so much bodily support to a hard workera a meal like till-I. A boiled tomato, too, is a capital relish for breakfast, at a cost, say, of two simple pennies. Another splendid dish for breakfast is made as follows: Take two slices of toast and steam them. This , makes them soft. and ready for battering. Then place on the toast three or four sar- dines (cost 2d), put the other slice of toast some Renlnrlxg 0! an Enguph Gourmand NEAT BREAKFASTS- Tickled and Robbed. Ffil'ly Years Ago. Ireland [ It is more honorable to. the head as well ' as to the heart to be misled by our eager- ness in the pursuit of truth. than to be safe {1 from blundering by contempt of truth. “ Vulgarity, pure and simpleds pretend ing to be what you are not.” ‘ “Theft is non less theft becauieib oountenanced by political usage.” ' “ The great need 0! the day in men who are not for sale.” ,' So long as the rich remain indifferent: to hheouhcuat poor the gulf between them will widen and deepen.” Sorrow is the porohway to joy, the path- way to maturity and peace. No one has ever become good and great who has not met and mastered sorrow. ' In front of an establishment on Grand street is a small glass show case in which meets two pretty little yellow bantam chickens. A large number of dyed eggs are in a basket in one corner, and near them is 9. nest in which the henlaya an egg daily. As the hundreds of people who throng the street pass by they are some- times attracted by hearing the rooster crow. On a. card in the case is the sign : “Easter eggs given away to ‘all children with parents buying shoes here.”â€"â€"N. Y. Journal. At Central City, '1‘. J. Young was tried for hvlpiug himself to coal belonging to the Union Pacific Railroad. He took it from cars passing through the town. Young's defence was that no coal could be b ought there and he was out. The jury’s verdict was: “Not guilty. and case of malicious prosecution without justifiable cause.” Great are Ihe Resource: oi the Advertiser. While the Rev. Mr. Pierce was in his pulpit: at So. Elmo, Iil., on a recent Sunday, Mrs. Mary Smxtb, a. young Widow, left her seat in the body of the church, and, gomg into the pulpm, stood beside . the preacher and announced to the congregation thutehe was determined to become Mrs. Pearce. Among the records of the town of War caster, Man, is an account of a. 6 year-old boy, who, in 1779, had his ear bitten off by a. horse. The manner in which the injury was received was carefully recorded by the Selectmen, so that; the loss of the ear should not be prejudicial to the boy when he grew to man’s estate. Nine years ago J amen Lobdell was sup- posed to have been burned to death in his barn, at Miami. N. Y. Bones resembling those of a. human body wer found and a. funeral ceremony was held. He recently returned to Oxford, sayinghe had wandered all over the Union and had never once com- municated wnh his friends. “ You are not the first one who has noticed that," said the grain desler. “ A Western man has constructed a horizontal revolving cylinder of sheet metal; through which the grain is passed. Perforations in this cylinder supposed to be adapted to those irregularitirs let the cookle out. It is a pretty fair machine, and many are in use, but it does not completely fill the bill.” ‘ | ” What is the best thing in this line ?" " 1t is an inclined screen, say three 'feet long by two wide. A belt revulves around rollers at each end of the screen so that the-under side of the belt sweeps along as far above the screen as agrein of wheat is thick. That keeps the grain of wheat from tipping noon and when it reaches a. hole in the screen. and thus it passes-over a hole the diameter of which is less than the length of a. grain of wheat. The ccckle is not so long. and therefore it drops through." “ Why is not that e practical machine '1‘” “ The belt is so wide that it will not run even on the rollers. It drags near the middle of the screen. Then there is 8. difii- culty in the holes in the screen. They are too large for one grist of wheat and too small for the next But when you consider the: as high as 20 per cent. of some grists is composed of cookie you will see there is 8. need of a. separator.” A Butler county, Ky., somnumbulist left his bed, buckled a. saddle upon an [old log near the house, mounted in and rude for two hours, and then returned to be& with- out waking. Ewmg I'sbell, of Warren county, Keil- tuuky, was born on Washington’s bumb- duy,hiaw1fewasbom on the Fourth of July, and their only child was born on Chrianmas. A Maine girl, who is a. graduate of Vassar College, has builn a porch ’a'fia re- ahlugled her funher’s house jusc for the fun of in. ' “ The most common method of separa- tion‘ie an inclined Vibrating screen. This is a. sheet of thin metal with holes punched through it. The holes are large enough to allow the smaller grains of ooekle to drop through, but too small to permit the wheat or the large oockle to pause. “The large grains of eeckle are as large as ordinary grains of wheat. So the soreen is a. partial success only.” ” What else has been done ‘2" “ The wheat has been dropped through a spout, through which augmduated blast of air rises, but the specific gravxty of oookle is so neurvthat of wheat that this was a. 'total failure. One ingenious fellow noticed that when pressure was applied to a grain of oockle it was crushed to a. powder, while the same preseure applied to a. grain of wheat only flattened it. This was a. prom- ising discovery, for, by running the grain through rollers and then over a. screen, with a. gentle .ourrent of air to help the dust down through. the prospects of a. good separation were excellent. The details of construction and the fact that ooneidersble flour was lost when the wheat was flat- tened laid out this invention.” The reporter had beenihundling the grains of oockle while the dealer spoke, and noticed that they were nearly all of irregglar outllne. “ What has his craft done to take the burden from his mimi and to relieve the »puok_eb of the miller ‘2” The moving fingers were constantly tending toward one corner of the box. -" In a short time the brown grains 0! wheat in that home: Were thickly mixed with a very black grain of about the same eize,-though a. little shorter. ‘ “ That’s oookle. The problem is to get it out of the wheat.” ' f‘ How did it get there ?" said the young man; ‘ ' ‘ “It’s the seed of a. weed, a very pretty one, too, when in bloom, that grew in the wheat field. It was gathered with the wheat.” ‘ “Why do you want to get it out ?" “ Because it has a. bed tuét‘e‘ and darkens the flour.” “Hus the thing been tried?" “ Frequently. The earliest effort of the mlllwnght’u apprentice is to make a oookle separator. When he is old‘ and on his death had his latest fantasy is a. something which does notfieke shape, except that a: large spout streams pure golden grain, and a. small one "pours out only black cookie and dirt.” . "It you newrapafie'r' reporters would sup- ply your inventive faculties to a. problem which I will place before you. I doubt not some one of you would add wealth to his prgflent glory.” -v- I4an fingérgfi‘hmugg the blamw board box on hi he 35.111 to a. reporter : a... The World Is old, 1m: Nobodriét :can Clean Wheat Thoroughly ot Cockle. A New York dealer m grain ran his fingers thmpgh tha_ _wh_ea.'g in a. shallow .;.___L, x A CHANCE FOB INVENTORS: Stories tor Leisure Momeni’n". Emily Faith!“ ll Sayings. onhisy desk yesterdififidé