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-" In keeping with this was the intellectual culture-oi the family. English was spoken by parents and children all day long, and French, German and Russian when required. In the morning we read,wrote and took horse exercise, and in the ever-lug, were enlivened with classical music, after which it was but a step out of the drawing- room doors on to the spacious terrace to look in the gleaming over one of there vast Russian plains, which can hardly be called beautiful, but which are striking to an Englishman by reason of their vastness and unlikeness to anything he sees at home. The mansion was built on a hill at the foot of which a river meandered, containing trout and perch; and intervening were terraced lawns and grounds, covered in their seasons with homely butteroups and daisies, as ,well as forget-me-nots, wild roses and lilies of the valley. The grounds were planted,not, indeed, With conifersâ€" for there are none on the estateâ€"but with tall poplars and sturdy oaks up to two feet in diameter, clusters of pliant willows and graceful birch, together with lime, beech and elm. These trees are a refuge for the cuckoo, thrush and nightingale, while a little further off in the forests are to be found, among birds, rocks and crows, ravens, hawks and eagles, and among animals, heron, foxes and wolves. But it was not the mam-ion that interested me so much as its surroundings. The estate consisted of about 25,000 sons, of which one-fifth is forest and one-twentieth pen - ture, the soil varying between good black earth, loam, sand, loam and sand with clay beneath, and in some parts of all clay. It furnishes no building stone, but plenty of alabaster, which remains, however, unworked. Growing wild were to be found horseradish, raspberries, strawberries, black currents and fruit called rebina ; while on the cultivated'lands wheat was said to thrive, but not barley, and buckwheat, rye, oats, peas, flax and hemp. Beans, too, are grown in gardens, and tobacco. I inquired, of course, the cost of this produce, and found that on the spot, for the pond of 36 English pounds, when: and buckwheat sold lor 29.; rye, 1s. 81.; cats. 15.4d.; potatoes, 7d. a bushel, and hay from 2&9. to 41. the pond, this last being of tolerable quality, but not compar- able to English fodder. Ordinary laid yields from 25 to 35 poods of hay an acre, and the better sort from 50 to75 piods, with, sometimes, a second crop. The estate was inhabited by about 1,000 fami- lies, living in wooden, thhtehcd houses, usually of two rooms only, built often of willow. of which a log 30 feet long and 10 inches in diameter cost a couple of shil- lings, the outer bark of the tree being used for roofing and the inner bark for matting and royes. The houses -were furnished only scantily. Twenty in the home village might each perhaps possess a bed, but not one of them a bed and bedstead, too. It was common, however, for a family to pessess a cow, one or more horses, and three or four sheep; at good specimen of the last weinging forty pounds to fifty pounds, and its wool selling from 4:”. to 51. per pound. The food of the peasants was extremely simple, consisting of rye bread and stohee, or soup of cabbage and fat; soaked and boiled buckwheat eaten with hempseed oil ; mushrooms, curds and onions. Tor'dr'ink they consumed kvas, small beer made from rye bread, and here and there tea, though this latter has not become general among them. Beef was a. delicacy and cost 21. per pound, mutton 1&6. and pork 2gd. Chickens sold from 2gd. to 4d. each, ducks from 5d., geese for 20d., while extravagant persons feasted on turkeys at 2s. each. The clothing of the peasantry was in keeping with their food. A man’s summer suit consists of a cotton shirt, a pair of linen trousers and shoes of lime-tree bark, the last costing 5d. per pair. Ifa peasant aspires to high boots they cost him from 125. to 14s., and he pays about the same price for his homespun kaltan, while in” winter his sheepskin shouba or coat may cost him from 165. to 30-1.â€"dearer, I may remark. than I paid at Khiva, where common shoubs could be had at 103. each. A Correspondent shows “’hnt'liolmlry Lite in Russia Really ls. The remark that "he who knows only St. Petersburg and Moscow has not seen Russia ” was accentuated in my txperience, when,on my way to Central Asia, I accap- ed an invitation to a nobleman‘s east in the Russian interior, says a correspondent of the London Times. Previous journeys to the extremities of the empire had brought me in contact with diverse raoes along the high roads, but I was anxious to see what the peasant was like, not when shouting “ Long life to the Czar ” under the Walls of the Kremlin, but when hurled at home, out of reach of steamer and railway whistle, Pand miles away from a post road, a tele- graph station or a post-office. With interest, therefore, after driving over dusty roads the whole of a summer night, I found myself in the early morning approaching my destination. “ You must not expect to find anything peculiarly Rus- sian about the house,” myfriena‘zs has} said, “ for it is a new Htlucture, of Elithethan architecture." And so from the ou'side it was.‘ One might have Iaueied it a Kentish mansion, purchased for £50,000, and mt down in the middle of aRussian estate. The interior of the house was somewhat more adapted to Mason-vibe ideas in that the rooms opened one into the other, and the sleeping apartments of the family could be cut off from the rest. The mate- rials for the house had been obtained for the most part on the lplh. The bricks were burnt on the estate. and the hand- some oarving and wainscotig of the hall were of indigenous timber. Some of tho ornamentation, however, was from abroad. The panels on the drawmgâ€"room Walls were filled with immense Italian paintings, and the room of my hostess was hung with large photographs of the masterpieces of Raphael. A A New York scientist claims to have discovered along the Lehigh Valley 8. hith- erto unknown metal which will some day supplant nickel in general use. He was making an experiment with an explosive substance mixed with pulverizd furnace slsg. which on being heated caused an explosion to take place. Upon examining the crucible in which the mixture had been he found that a. chemical process had taken place by which an apparently valuable but hitherto unknown metal had been elimi- nated from the slag.‘ It was silvery white in color, of fine, smooth texture, and sus- ceptible of a brilliant polish that no exposure will tarnish. It was found to be malleable-ductile and of great tenacity, showing a tensile resistance of 140,000 to the square inch. Further experiments only confirmed the results of the first trial, and a. company has now been organized for the purpose of “working” the large slag banks along the Lehigh Valley for the metal. Credited by the Boston Globe to “ Bucolic Exchange ”: A great newspaper-reader was out hunting recently, and a. storm coming up he crept into a hollow log for shelter. After the storm abated he endeavored to crawl out, but found that the log had swelled so that it was impos- sible to make his exit. He endeavored to compress himself as much as possible, but with indifferent success. He thought 01 all the mean things he had ever done. until finally his mind reverted to the fact that irmteud of subscribing for his local paper he was in the habit of borrowing it from his neighbor. and thus defrauding the printer. On this he felt so small that he slipped out of the log without an effort. Bass drums are always bald headed. THE CZAR’H DKDNIINIGINH. “'hnt Helped llim 0m. A New Elena]. A Hummu- and Fifty-Mover! Lives Lost During rho. fliorm nu lhc (Josh: of Lower (Lulflornlnâ€" Many Schooner-s with 'l‘lwir Crews also Lash A San Francisco despatch says: The following further particulars of the dis- astrous‘storms on the coast of Lower Cali- fornia were learned this morning. The news was brought here by the captain of the steamer Newbern, from Guaymas. He says the steamer Estado de Sonora left Mazatlan on September 29:11. The first storm broke out on the following day. It raged with such terrific iury‘ that the Escudo was unable to put back. “It is sup- posed she rolled over and went down With fifty-seven souls aboard. Nothing was everafrtrward heard of the passengers or crew. October 14Lh the Newborn passed a large quantity of wrecked stufl near the entrance of the Gulf of Cal-i- fornia. 'Among it was a. pilot-house with a. band attached. A lot of brass work had been picked up by the natives of San Jose Island. They lied stripped off all the wood port and burned it, leaving only the brass work. There were no marks on any of these, but it is believed these were all from the wrecked steamer. Some brass work was sent to Guaymes for the pur- pose of identifying it. The Estado was commanded by Capt. Rode, nephew of Capt. Charles Wilson, formerly Danish Consul in this city. The second storm began October 7th and lasted three days. It was more violent even than the first. The only particulars are from Cape St. Lucas. As reported last nightgthere was such a. tremendous sea. running the New- hern was unable to touch an the Cape. She passed through fields of loose candles, believed to be part oi the cargo of the schooner Dora. Out of all the small coasters only one has been heard of. a small sloop (name unknown) with five souls aboard. Two of them were saved-92 young boy. son of M. Greene, manager of Cape St. Lucas, and asailor. The latter held the boy sixteen hours in his arms in the water. 0f nine schooners lost, four were the San Pablo, San Pedro, (liens and Antonio. The names of the’five others are unknown. The whole company knelt dowa and thanked God for what had occurreq. That afternoon she walked bait a. mile to church for the purpose of praying, at the and (if which she was not; in the least fatigued. The incident excised the whole county and hundreds have been calling on her, all of whom she assures that her cute has come from God. Alter- Years of mull-ring n Woman in sudden" Restored lo Ileullh and _Hl|‘erlgth. A Sandereville, Gal, despateh says: Fifteen years ago A. J. Jernigan, of this county, married Miss Fannie Thompson, one of the most beautiful belles that ever reigned in Georgian society. For a couple of years Mr. and Mrs. Jernigan were leaders in sucial circles, but after the birth of a daughter the mother found herself completely paralyzed, and for years her OOHdlllUD has been such that not only was she unable to move a limb, but her tongue was ptralyzed so that she could not speak, and she had to be led on liquid food. A few Weeks ago Mrs. Jernigan was given up for dead. The watchers stood around her bed momentarlly expecting the expiring breath, while the sufferer lay almost with- out respiration. She seemed at length to fall asleep, and the watchers lelt the room. During the whole morning the sufferer, without the knowledge of her attendants. lay. not as they supposed in a stupor, but in silentpra.yer. Sue threw her whole soul into her appeal to God to save her for her daughter‘s rake. It was the fourth hour of her prayer when her attendants had retired. Suddenly she imagined she heard words repeated : ‘ “ Ariae, thy faith hath made thee whole.” Uflering up one more fcrvimt prayer, she found that the power of modem had returned to her, and the conviciion came to her that God had indeed answered her prayer. Getting up, she felt as strong as on the day she was married. Hastin dressing, ahe opened the door into the adjoining room, where she appearedptefore her husband and friends as though risen from the grave. “Fearvnot,” she said. “God has re- stored me to life.” , The Ch" in Pasueksion at n l"thâ€" Demaml for [he Dismissal ol Altornev- Genemimmey, Who is flanged mm Burqu in Elligy‘. A last (Friday) night’s Winnipeg des- patoh says; There was a. great demon- stration to-night against Attorney-General Miller, on account of the flogging of the prisoner MoCormeck yesterday. Some 3,000 people assembled in front of the Queen’s Hotel, where Miller was burned and hanged in effigy. The crowd then started for his residence, armed with a. cat- o’nine-teile, which they intended to apply to him if found. He was in hiding, how- ever, and the mob went to the Parliament Building, where they called Mr. Norquey out and asked him to dismiss Miller. He promised to answer within two days, and said the answer would be satisfactory to them. It is supposed that he will let Miller go. The city and Provincial police and a. detachment of the 90th Rifles were on hand, but the crowd was orderly and needed no repression. No such indignation has eVer been seen in Winnipeg before lust night. A Cairo despateh says: A great gloom has been thrown over the party of Guns- dien voyageurs by the and death 0: Louis Captains. The whale boat, manned by the Canadians, was worked through the Gum- i mel catwach in fine style, the passage only occupving six minutes. Their success was greeted With hearty cheers from the regulars. Just as the boat got through the rapids, Captains, While standing up in the boat trying, it is supposed, to change seats with a oamysnion, fell overboard [and was swept aWay. He was a lusty swimmey and made strong but; fruitless efforts to teach the shore. Life buoys were thrown to him, but none came Within his reach. He struggled for a few eec‘onds,.bvhen, with s despairing shriek, he suddenly threw up his arms and was carried down the stream and dashed against the rocks. His body was not] recovered. The deceased was a Caughnswaga Indian, 28 years 0! age, and hurl been engaged by Lord Melgund at Oaughnawugae Rev. Dr. King has returned to Manitoba. While in Ontario and Quebec he aollected between five and six thousan'd dollars in aid of Manitoba. College. ANOTIIE R FA I 'l‘lfl CURE. VOL. XXV'II. The Drowned Voyageur. A GREAT SE‘OBH. WILD \VINNIPEG- A Bruvc‘lflnu Saves luau? Lives and hoses Ilia Ownâ€"l’nnic-Slricken Girls. A last (Wednesday) night‘s Chicago despatoh says: The large building at the corner of La Belle and Michigan streets, the lower floors of which were oonupicd by hide dealers and the upper portion by Fish- er’s cigar-box factiry, caught fire at noon and was eonipletely gutted. Our; man was killed by jumping and two smothered on the stairs. The factory girls escaped With the greatest difficulty. Itis believed that all are safe The less will be over $100000. After the fire commenced, the foreman of the cigar-box factory. James Carr, got thirty-seven employees together and led them to the fire-proof stairs and safely to the ground. Being in doubt whether any were left behind, Carr returned to the fifth story. The flames out off his escape. He hurried to the roof, and a. rope was thrown him from an adjoining building. While descending, the rope broke or ,wesburned. He fell through the tarpsulin, which was held below. and broke his mack. Another thrilling scene, meanwhile, took pls'we at the fire esoepe from the chewing gum factory. Eighteen girls, panic-stricken, came down pell-mell, and when Within twenty-live feet 0! the ground the last eight jumped to the pavement, falling in a. con- funed heap. Three were painfully out and bruised. LATEn.â€"- Carr, whose neck was not broken, as at first supposed, revived on his way tothe hospital, but died this after- noon, No other loss of life is reported. The loss by fire will be $125,000. Lecture by Mr. Pmrie, Ilse Egyptian Archwologiuâ€"lnteresling Relics From the Vanished 0113‘. A London cable says : United States Minister Lowell was present yesterday at the lecture before the Royal Institution by Mr. Petde, the Egyptian archaeologist, upon his recent explorations at the site of Zoan. Mr. Petrie gave some highly interesting details of his excavations among the ruins of this vanished city of the Nile delta. the antiquity of which is eonclusively shown by Josephus and many Biblical writers, while its ancient splendor has been proven by Mariette and other modern explorers. . Mr. Petrie has obtained a splendid collection of Egyptian antiquities, which are to be distribut among the British and Boston museum which sub- scribed to the expenses of Mr. Petrie’s expedition. At the close of Mr. Petrie’s lecture, Mr. Lowell was elected Vice-Presi- dent of the Board of Trustees in charge of the fund for future explorations. Mr. Lowell also made a brief address in his pleasantest vein. He said that personally he would be inclined to bury deep underground many of the monuments and so-oalled works at art which are now oumhering the earth. but he was very glad 'that'Boeton was to share in the possession of the beautiful objects which Petrie’s skill and labor had rescued from among the relics of the Pharaohs. Brutal Treatment of His Crew by a Captainâ€"Evidence ot cruelly Given by the White. A. Montreal despatoh says: Mason D. Cogswell, mate of the barque Alpheus Marehall, confirmed in his evnienae yester- day before the Magistrate here the. charges made in court of the gross cruelty and starvation otthe men on board by the captain. The following is the chief part of the evidence given by the mate : At half- past twelve the men went below, and at half-past one I told the boatswain to turn them'to. They told him they were not able to do so, and they also told me person- ally, telling me that they were too weak. I don’t know how the men felt, but had I been one of the men I would have con- sidered the men’s statement a fair one. I went alt and reported to the captain that the men would not turn to. The captain said, “ Well, I guess we are men enough to make them." The men were then ordered aft, and the captain came down to them. They told him they were not able to go down to work, and that they had had no {God since the previous day. The steward was called, and he said that they had been given their soup and meat that day. but that they had eaten all their bread the night before. I was then ordered to put them in irons. Not a man refused. and I went to my room and got the irons and the second 'mate and boatsmau to help me. They were ironed. The irons were a pair of handcufls. As soon as the irons were on the captain ordered us to trioe them up. When he said to tries them up I knew what he meant, though 1 had never seen it done before. A piece of ratling stuff. rope about as thick as a pencil, and about five fathomslong. was brought out. I wished to be a little humane. and I went to put it around their item», but the cap- tain said to put it on their thumbs. I said that the rope was too thick, and the captain told me to unlay it. We took three‘ of the strands out of the ratling stufl and “ triced up ” so that their feet just touched the deck. The captain told them that they could stay up until the dâ€"â€"d arms drop- ped off them, and I have do doubt he would have done so. I do not know how long a time a man could live when triced up. Tapper waeagood man. I- naver knew him to complain. He saved all ’ his coni- plainte to make here in court. I have been at sea for eight years. A _ There isumorre evidence to come, but when has been produced alrezxdy agrees almost completely. The Doclrlue of Evolution and the Pros- bywrinn Synod 01 513th Carolina. AGrenville, 8.0., despntch says: The Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina. line been discussing the Darwinian theory of evolution. The iefiue arose from the fact shut Dr. Woodrow. Professor of the Columbia. Theological Seminary, with the avowed purpose of fortiiying young minis- bare in scientific knowledge, sen foxth fihe theory of evolution expressing his own beliei in it in a. modified form. and declar- ing it: not inuonsiebent with soriphural teaching. The'diaouseion was warm anti epit’ited, most; of the leading divinea of the Synod pnrbioipating. A resolution was finally adopted by a. vote of 50 to 45 deelaring that in the judgment of the Synod the teaching of evolution in the theological seminary at Columbia. except in a purely expository manner with no intention of inouloating its truth, is disapproved. People unaccustomed to the Church of England service have some difficulty in finding the places in the prayer book. An effort is being made to overcome this difficulty by having the entire service printed in the order in which it is said. FATAL FIRE IN CIIICAGO. DA uwnws DOCTRINE. EXCAVATING ZOAN- RICHLIOND HILL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1884. CRUELTY AT SEA. B. 0., was not the princely amount of $63,000,000, as previously stated, ‘but only the paltry sum of $3,600,000. ‘The San Francisco Emmimr has the following par. ticulars: The story of the new millionaire’s lite is a singular one, abounding in those sudden changes and wonderful incidents so dear to the heart of the novelist. He was born in the year 1821 in the city of Cin- oimmti, whermhis famikwas very well known, haviiig'i high standing in the com- munity, being considered quite wellto-do and thoroughly honorable. He turned up in the crty of New Orleans as a diamond mer- chant, the business, no doubt,followed by his father, as both his brothers were in the same line. He was then considered by all who knew him to be the possessor of a considerable fortune. Handling the purest of gems his patronage was among the elite of the city. The next heard or him-was on his arrival in this city in 1863 with his brother Solomon. “ Jack " at once started in his business of diamond trading, having brought with him a large stock of the gems. His brother commenced a money-lending business, which was attended with such success that he soon became known as the Rothschild of San. Francisco. In 1854 the subject of this article became acquainted With Mrs. Mozulsky,an estimable lady, also a native of Cincinnati, where she was- known by her maiden nameof POWBrs.Aftni afew monthsol courtship the pair were made one. Shortly after this Mr. Jacobs and his wife left the Pacific Slope, but returning opened a country hotel,'in which line at business he was not'a success, leaving it a bankrupt. He then, in order to obtain a. livelihood for himself and wife, took up the peculiar occu- pation which he has since followed. His love for the partner of his life struggle was intense, and his sudden fall lrom affluence to poverty was a severe blow. He engaged a single appartment in No. 418 Jones street and again took up the struggle for bread. a gray haired man. The fight was a hard one, but he pluckily made a strong effort, despite which he was often compelled to seek his friends to obtain assistance. It appears from the fact that every item was placed on his book that it. was always his intention to make good these loans. Busi- ness men will recollect his entering their stores, and the request, always made” quietly but earnestly, “Mr. Jâ€"â€", I am a trifle short. Could you advance me a trifle?" He was always neatly shaven and tastefully clad. On last Thursday he obtained the first information that he was no longer in poverty, but was the heir to millions, through a letter from a brother in England. Enclosed in the letter was a bank note for £2,000. But the sudden good. fortune had come too late to make him happy, thewife for whom he had strug- gled so hard having died-twoweeks before in his arms._ From t‘_i3 blow he has not fully recovered. The first action taken by Mr. Jacobs'was to enter a well-known jewellery store, the proprietor of whichhad often loaned him small amounts, and after paying the sum he had received, purchased a watch and chain and diamond ring valued at $460, paying cash. He then proceeded about the city, repaying small sums, the entire total reaching over $3600. The rela-"- tive from whom Mr. Jacobs has received the legacy followed the businefs of a dis- mond merchant, and the entire $3,000,000 is said to be cash. He leaves for England in two Weeks. He has already made a; donation of 3500 to one of the orphan asy- lums, and will. no doubt, present a gift to. all of them. John J. Jacobv; Foi‘mcrly or Viclol'la, Lox-pa From Poverty In Ainueuce. Secondâ€"Unto no image how the knee. Thadâ€"Take not the name of God in vain ; Fourthâ€"Do not the Sabbath dav profane. Fifthâ€"honor thy father and mother, too ; Sixthâ€"And see that than no murder do. Seventhâ€"From evil keep thou chaste and clean; Eighxhâ€"And st-enJ not though my state be mean. Ninthâ€"~Of false report bear not the blot; Tenth-What is thy nelghbor‘s covet: not. It now turns out than the fortune left to John J. Jacobs, who formerly keeps the St. Qeqrge and Sh._N‘ipholaavhot§la at Victor-m, The following rhymed version of the Ten Commandments is said to have been taught in the little school kept by Daniel Simpson at the “ Saw pit,” near Lanark, abouxt sixty-five years ago : Fiystâ€"Huvg thou n_o otheg gods‘bufi Me ; The people of England and Scotland, says tbu London Spectator. are muibipiying no flash that pessimmiu may Well be excused for feeling some anxiety as to the future. The population of the kingdom, which in 1815 was 15,000,000 is now 36,000,000â€"~that is to say, it has grown more in the last seventy years; than is secreted in all the untold ages of the previous past. The International Forestry Exhibition in Edinburgh was closed on Saturday. October 1112!). During the three months in which in was open the exhibition was Visited by about half a. million people. Lord Rosebery left Edinburgh on the 175k] inst. for London. His Lordship, though still bufleliugv from the effects of the accident which he recently sustained, seemed in good health. , » Ah Lhe opening service of the new place of worship of the Wellington Street; U. P. Church, in the Wést end of Glasgow, the collection amounted to £12,500, being the largest collection ever made in any church in Soonlaud. At a marriage on the 14th inst, in Sh Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, the Episco- paiinn service was performed by an Episco- palian clergyman. This is said to be the first; ocoaeiun on which such a. service has been performed in the cambede The old regimental (301qu of the 3rd Batmhon Gordon Highlanders weremu the 105i) inst, at Aberdeen, presented to the Princess of Wal‘és‘, on her way south. U ‘ The following contracts have been let by the Works Department of the Pronncial Government : Additions to the Parliamenfi Buildings, Toronto, in the shape of increasing the accommodation fer the caretaker, contract; givau to A. J. Brown at $3,097;addnions to the laundry at the Mercer Reicrmatory, to George Hillam, Toronto. at $2.990; alterations to the Asylum for the Insane, London, to Then. Green 8500., London. at 31.175; and for the erection of two cottages on the Agricul- tural Farm at Guelph, to Edward Mul- mney, of Guelph, at $2,897. The works will be completed this fall. At Crieff feeing market, on the 7th inst, foremen were engaged at {tom £28 to £31 ; second hands at from £24 to £27 ; orrmgnen, £22 to £24 £14 to £16 The new Ohapelof Trinity College, Tor- onto. cost $20,000. ' G overmncnt Contracts. A hillblflfilllllls. ; halfius, £13 to £16; woinen, Scottish Notes. But after the strife and weary tussle With life is done. and she lies at rest, The nation’s brain and hesrt sud muscle-â€" Her sons and daughters ‘ shall call her blest, And I think the sweetest joy of heaven, The rarest bliss of eternal life, And the fairest crown of all will be given Unto the wayworn farmer’s wife. Preventive for Jumping Slack. Animals which will jump over fences are not only a nuisance on their own account, but they will often in jumping themselves break the fence or gate, so thst the rest of the herd will follow them. If a preventive for this jumping is not known, the animals have to be kept in a stable, or in a smell lot by themselves, with an extra. high fence. A simple method of keeping either a. horse or cow in any kind of enclosure is to put a. common halter on them. Remove the tie- strsp to it, and put on in its pleas a. piece of half-inch rope eleven feet long. Three feet (or thereabcuts, depending some on the size of the animal) from the end attached to the hslter tie in firmly a. ring ; bring the rep5 between the fore-legs,and up‘ around the body just behind the fore-legs. This will bring the ring that was tied into the rope under the chest, and between the fore- lsgs. Tie the loose end into the ring under the body. The animal cannot now rsise its head high enough to jump, and will be found where it is put, regardless of its jumping pro‘olivities. ,After a. little practice in putting this rigging on, the medium will be struck in not making it too tight so as to fret the animal, nor yet so loose that it can get over the fenceâ€"Breeder's Journal. Preserving Vegetables. Harvesting everything is now in order. All the tender vegetables, of course, have been secured. The hardy sorts will keep better if taken in before severe freezing, except, perhaps, the parsnip. This is especially true of the beet and carrot, which are often much injured by cold before being gathered. One of the best methods of pre- serving vegetsbles is to pack them in slightly morstencdleaves. This is much better than Soil, being a better non-conduc- tor, keeping the roots at an even tempera.- ture. Commonflat. turnips may be kept perfectly crisp and fresh until May. and beets until July. Leaves of any kind may be used. In one corner of the cellar spread a. lsyer'of leaves one or two inches ’ thick, then a. layer of vegetables (one deep), then a. layer .of leaves, and so on» To secure the/most perfect condition,.a cool, even temperature must be preserved, but vegetables kcepbstter at any temperature by this than by any other method. Living From the Garden. Gardeners, and aboVe all,‘ farmers have no business to live meanly or to think of themselves as obliged to drudge ceaselessly without the indulgences of other classes, says the Chicago Herald. One has no busi- ness to see town folk having early vege- tables and berries a month before his tardy supply comes on, to be out of them in dog days before the' merchants and cheap boarding house keepers in the city have begun to see the end of fresh things; he has no need to live on doughnuts and boiled dinners the year round, when others try the changes of spring lamb, fresh fish, boiled chicken, salads, ducks and green peas, capons and veal until turkey time comes again. He ought not to see town homes fragrant with floweis while his wife hasonly a. bunch of syringes of cinnamon roses, with a. tuft of asparagus, to sweeten theiparlor when she thinks to pick them. What better right have rich men to sit over, desserts and choice pears, plums. grapes and apricots, while he must con, tent himself‘with 8. Baldwin apple in mid- winter? Why should he not have a becoming home with its lawn in front and large borders of the richest flowers; his house one story and small, perhaps, yet hung withwoodbine, wild grapes, and roses against the background _of orchard and shade trees, spreading their flanking boughs with good effect, as if it were a cot- tage ornee, With its acres of shrubbsries ? Why Should he not have in his-garden choice fruits 'of the season, strawberries, currauts and - i goeseberries- ‘ jostling ,each other .. in ‘ earliest-a-gperfection ; red and bisck‘ cherries, golden and purple plums; plemty; of black caps to make up for the lost strawberries and grapes as soon as raspberries-78.16” over, big" blanched salads, peas in succession, as well as his ‘town'neighbor, who‘ sells him" groceries and cottOn ‘2' ‘Why should he not have as fine pears, peaches, winter.» apples and grapes at Christmas as the President of the Horticultural Society, and why should not his girls have big French roses and tube- ,roses as well _sis.the solitary dahlia -and _-(_Jhins, usterjwhich .decorate the‘yard, and the common geranium in doors? Why doesn’t believe an herb bed to make his plain dinner" savory.. and lavender to sweeten his sheets at night? A poor Eng- lish cottuger willzhsve all these by thrift and ccntrivunoe.‘ Why not an American “firmer? ' - ' 0h. glorious colors the clouds are turning, If she would but look Ovei‘hills and trees ; Buthere are the dishes, Bald here is the churn- 111gâ€" Those things always must yield to those. The world is filled with the Wine of beauty, If she could but pause and drink it in ; But pleasure, she says. must wait for dutyâ€" Neglected Work is committed sin. The day grows hot and her hands grow weary, Oh, for an hour to cool her head, Out with the birds and winds so cheery I But she must; get: dinner and make her bread. The busy men in the hay field working, If they saw her sitting “ith idle hand, Would call her lazy and call it; shirking, And she never could make them understand. N_al'es 01 the Farm.- _ AnvOrm-age .co-ug‘ty, New York, farmer keepa pea. mw15,,to destroy: potnto beetles, claiming that theyme'very serviceable in that respect. . > ‘ ' The healthiest pork cannot be obtained from 9. clear field of dry corn. The diges- tive organs of the animal E30 fed are sure to get out of order on so heating a. food, and thus the whole system becomes tainted and impu_re._ _ Up with the birds in the early morningâ€" The dew drop glows like a precious gem ; Beautiful tints in the skies are dawning, But she's never a. moment to look at them. The men are wanting their breakfast early ; She must; not linger, she must not wait ; For wcirds that are sharp and looks that are sur Are what the men give when the meals are late.- Good Advice “and Valuable. Information, for tho-meer._ ' There is this element in the stock busi- ness, says the Farmers' Review, which does not exist in grain growing. It is that the man who produces a. choice or fancy grade of beat is paid according to its merits. The same is true of the raising of horses, wool, ‘he (‘Besl [land on the Farm.” THE FABrMER'S GARDEN . THE FARM. WHOLE NO 1,374 NO. 23. M Teefy The following is said by the American Stock Journal to be an infallible remedy for chicken cholera 2 Make a mixture of two ounces each of red pepper, alum, resin and flour of sulphur, and put it in their food in proportions- of one teblespoonful to three pints of scelded men]. In severe cases give about one-third of a. tablespoonful in a meal pellet once a. day to each fowl, putting a small lump of alum in their drinking water. The writer says: " I have tried the above ingredients with marked success ; have cured towle in the last stages of the disease. I make it a practice now to give my fowls some of it once or twice a week. end there are no symptoms of any disease among them.” One of the largest dealers in Japanese goods and bric-a-brao in New York has fit- ted into the back of his store a real Japanese house in miniature. Only two rooms, how- ever, are represented, corresponding to our reception room and parlor, but these are complete and exact in detail. The house was brought to this country from Japan in sections, and was putvtogether here by a Japanese artisan, alter their custom, with- out nails, glue forming the necessary sub- stitute. The material for the framework is of Japanese cedar and bamboo ; a strong, transparent paper forms the little square panes for the window, glass being only used by the lower classes. The mouldings of the rooms are of lacquer o! a very artis- tio and beautiful pattern, and the ceilings are of bamboo, braided in different designs and colored in different shades of brown. The floors are especially curious, being made very elastic, a. sort of split bamboo or straw forming 8. padding underneath the squares of matting. which are finished separately with a nest binding. The rooms in a. Japanese house are designated by the number of pieces of matting required for each, as the seven, six, or five-matted room. The reception room is furnished with a. sideboard with a. rounded front, placed in one corner, on which are richly ornamented tes-oeddies, a huge teapot and all the accessories of a hospitable cup of tea, which they offer to all callers; and a very elabomte lacquer and bronze table near by holds a. decorative jsrdiniere. A light sliding-door of paper. gayly painted With Japanese flowers, separates this room from the inner one or parlor. This is the “ five-mstted room,” and has on the floor a very curiously wrought artistic bronze incense-burner, and on one side of it is the box holding the materials for burning the incense. A lacquer reading-desk stands near, on which is a. book. ssaroll and a. pair of exquisite candlesticks. Handsome raw silk rugs, which serve for chairs, are laid on the flownâ€"Boston Herald. There are severelreesons why the break- ing up of the ground for fall wheat is a. task to be dreaded by the horses. The occasion will give the farmer a. grand opportunity to display hie csreand intelli- gence. First}, as u. very general rule it must be done when the weather is hot, causing a great amount of perspiration. Again, where is frequently a. good deal of dust; flying, of whiuh he Will inhale more or less. To add to all of this. the ground is often dry and hard, and extremely hard on the horses’ shoulders. The dust; and sweet will paste and work into the hair, and sore shoulders will be the result, unless they are carefully washed every night when the harness is taken off. llowr Part 0! a Nullve Dwelling Has Been Imporlcd and I’ll! ’l‘ogelher In Ne‘v York. The greatest difficulty with heavy milk- ers approaching the period of calving is reducing the flow of milk. The Rural Wurld says that with ordinary eows there is no trouble in the matter, because the milk secretiousmbegln to fail as soon as the cow becomes pregnant, but with heavy and persistent milkers, if the feed is of the right kind and of sufficient quantity, there is no necessity for making any special efioxta for drying up the cow. The secre‘ tion will not be large at all events, but the needed phosphates and nitrogen should be supplied for the building up of the treme of the calf. To keep cider perfect take a keg and bore holes in the bottom of it ; spread a. pieceot woollen cloth at the bottom ; then fill wth sand closely packed; draw your cider from a barrel just as fast as it will run through the sand ; after this, put it in clean berrels which have had a. piece of cotton or linen cloth two by seven Inches dipped in melted sulphur and burned inside of them, thereby absorbing the sulphur fumes (this process will also sweeten sour cider) ; then keep it in a. oeller or room where there is no fire, and add one-halt pound white mustard seed to each bsrrel. There is an art in raising early pallets, so as to have them begin to lay soon. The object should be to breed from parents that mature early. In selecting a cock and hens from which to breed early pallets, select a cook that throws out his hackle and tail leathers early. as this indicates his early maturity. Then mate him with old hens, and hatch the pallets as early in the year as possible. Such pullets will begin to lay in October and will then lay all through the winter. â€"'~A olevet'parofly 'on the national an- them appears in the Pall Mall Gazette, whichggjalt-fl the production of a. clergy- man. The sentiment is in accord with we spirit gf- the times, and the words 8.19 very felicicb‘u'a; _ ' ~ A writer to the Indiana Farmer says he cures heaves in horses by withholding hay and substituting green food” instead. He then makes a. ball, as large as a hulled walnut, pi (qual parts of balsam of fir'and balsam of oopaiba, giving the animal one of the balls night and morning. It is suggested also, that: the grain allowed be slightly moistened and seasoned with a little Ball: before feeding. mutton, sheep, and in a less degree of pork, while the same holds good in horticultural prqduotiona. Thus far this year 2,932 miles of railway track have been laid in the United States, against 4,947 during the corresponding period of 1883. Their futile aim ? Make, then, your hearts rejoice, You are the People's choice, You are the People's voice, They but a name. Texas expects to make $10,000,000 year in her cattle business. this A Jrl PANESE IlOUSE. wan with their lofty abate, Dgwn with fibqu guini'couceits. Down with the Lords ! confound their false, pretence, Cbnfound their impudencé, Down with tha Lords Down With theirnarrogant, Rgcquas. Iaxttayagaut, Insolent words 1-": . ,. Shall they reject the [will ‘2 Shall they diaso'tVE fit: will? Shall they gbg'yrugt us still? wanyv'ith the Lords 1,: ' Commons of England, yet Sh_a_ll 13119 py‘oud' Lqrda regret; ‘ At Sims, Asia Minor, 001. Stewart came to reside for a. while before leaving Turkey. While there Gen. Baker and the commis- sion came to remain six weeks. Col. Chermside. whose finished diplomacy is doing so much in Egypt, soon arrived at Sivss with his party. He was Lieut. Chermside then, and a splendid gentlemen. I was taken sick at Sivas and he insisted on a. change, he going with me, attended by his bodyguard, caring for me as a brother. And one of the lest acts 001. Stewart did for me was sending me a military guard to escort us from the interior to the Mediter- ranean Sea. Gen. Valentine Baker, 001. SteWart, Col.Chermside, and other English gentlemen were at my kuonag at breakfast, dinner and at all hours, and I have met them under many other, circumstances, and I never met truer gentlemem The English who criticise our country and people do not represent the true English people. m 001. Stewart sympathized with the oppressed people of the country, and was always doing something for them. He was often called upon to act as arbitrator between them. They had :great faith in him. He was constantly exhorting them to industry and a better life. He rose very rapidly in the army, and would, had he been spared, have been high up, for he was brave and every inch a soldier. When passing through part of a country infested with Circaseian robbers-and if anybody has been in their hands he will ever remem- ber of them as a bloodthirsty, cruel race ; I fell into their hands, and know how cruel they areâ€"the colonel was riding along but two servants, when they met twelve armed Circassian horsemen. The colonel immediately placed himself and his men on the defensive, and by his coolness and skilful defence he kept the robbers at a respectful distance until they neared a town, when the brigands smilineg withdrew, fully acknowledg- ing their defeat. The last I saw of this modest, courtly, brave gentleman was at Aleppo. I had been in the city a day or two when he sent his servant. Itying that he had just heard that I was in town, and would call on ,me in an hour or two. He felt very badly that I had not come directly to the consulate, and then urged me to make the consulate my home. He said he was sorry on his own account that I had not come directly to his kuonsg,as he would have been glad to have presented me to an English party who had just come from the desert, and was en route to England. I was sorry, too, not to have met them, for I had heard of this English- man who yearly visited the desert, making his home with its most powerful chief. He is his blood brother. A few years ago this gentleman. with an escort, visited the desert, and there met this chief. The gen- tleman drew blood from his arm, and the chief drew blood from his, which ceremony made them blood brothers. That English- man is as safe there as in the streets of Springfield: The English omeer Lately Assn-slanted by Arabs on the Nile. Your notice of the death of Lieut.’-Ccl. Stewart brings to my mind many pleasant things concerning this brave officer, says a letter to the Springfield Republican. About three years ago while passing through Asia Minor I met COLâ€"then Captâ€"Stewart, Vice-Consul to Cores, Turkey. As we were going the same direction we agreed to travel together. I found him a true English gentleman, or high culture, sympathetic and uniformly kind. He was extensiVel travelled, having seen most of the worl and not yet more than 30 years of age. He had travelled extensively in Europe and Asia, and was in Egypt when death claimed him early in his promising career. No obstacle turned him from his purpose when once settled upon. At the time he travel- led through Persia it was not safe for an officer or tourist, so he travelled as an American missionary. He had already visited China and western Asia, and was anxious to see the intermediate countries. He visited the Statesâ€"as the English call the United Statesâ€"and Canada a few years ago. * Just after I bid him good-bye at Aleppo he started for the desert with three camels and Arab servants and an interpreter. Helelt his own servants in Aleppo, so that he would be compelled to talk Arabic and so get the language. He acquired a language rapidly. In one year he spoke Turkish like a native; of course, this is wonderful. He was a hard worker and constantly active. He, with a number of other English army officers, was sent to Turkey to help the Turks carry out some reforms which the Sultan had promised England to have carried out. Bun very little of his time was required for this purpose. However, I suspect that part 0: their object in residing in Turkey was to study its strategic points, for whenever I travelled with them they were making observations and noting distances, etc., which I afterward saw at the consulate were being converted into maps. The Sultan made a spasmodic attempt to ameliorate the condition of his subjects. Gen. Valentine Baker was appointed, at the request of the English Minister at Con- stantinople, chief of an imperial commis- sion, composed of Lord Pasha, Sulman Pasha, Col. Salvier Bay, and others, to visit all parts of Turkey and make a report to him. Gen. Baker made an elaborate report and the whole thing ended there. Gen. Baker told me that his report would never be read. The whole thing was done to quiet England. I don’t. know when I was more deeply affected than when I heard of the death 0! that sincere, unselfish, noble gentleman. 001. Stewart. Truly, Gordon has lost a true friend and a. wise counsellor. and an able soldier, and England a. finished diplo- mat, as well as one of he: most promising military men. A New Use for Sugar. “ The extraordinary depression in the price of sugar. ’seys the Mark Lane Express, “ has again brought to the Iront the desire.- bility at its use for cattle-feeding. In this country the practice of giving animals sugar or molasses with their food was commenced after the abolition of the sugar duties in 1874, end has since become common enough. 0n the continent, cattle are fed to an immense extent on the beet pulp left after it has been pressed in the sugar tectories. In this country, most of the utility of beet in feeding is due to the 4 or 5 per cent. of sugar it contains. Sugar or molasses will induce cattle to eat all sorts of matter which they would other- wise reject, such a.s indifferent hay, or cut straw mixed with roots. Now that sugar can be bought for this purpose at a little over id per pound in London, and refuse molasses at just over fled per pound, there is no doubt an opening for sgrest extension in its use for feeding stock of all sorts. This year, with a light hay and root crop, affords just the opportunity for its intro~ duction.”â€"New York Commercial Bulletin. Sherbrooke Baptist Church is without a pastor. - Kingston, N. Y., boasts of a wonderful oat. Its owner gives it a high chsir at the table. The cat considers that chair its own, and if anybody else attempts to take possession ,of it at the dinner table he will make 18. fuss, He seats himself in this. chair; est, fashion, and when-‘3 his owner says. grace it is claimed theset willoross its paws and not 'in a very serious manner until grace is finished. When the folks at the table begin to eat, it the est has not been helped, he will immediately make that fact known by putting his pew on the arm of the gentlemen of the house. The cat is not satisfied, as a. rule, unless he has a. little of everything to eat on the table, and will drink coffee out of a. saucer. REMINISGEICES 0F 00L. STEWART. A Wonderlnl Cm.