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me 2" So réason'ing, he went out and s-ho't the dog and then presentgd the bill to the commissioners. A compromise was efi‘ected. Not long ago a. farmer had his dog as- sessed and afterward paid a. tax on him. The dog got among his owner’s sheep one night and killed some of them. The man reasoned to himself thus :â€"“ I paid tax on that dog and I had a right to keep him. If he had killed some other man’s sheep the county would have paid for them. He killed mine ; why shonldn’t the county pay Whether farmers get their rightful share of the farm profits depends not only upon their ability to work and plan, but also up on their ability to market what they have to sell, as well as upon the carefulness of the wife also. For instance, the farmer may be very careful about feeding his cows, keeping them clean, etc., but unless the housewife supplements his close attention with the same care of the milk, cream and dairy utensilsl his extra work amounts to but little. We have now in our mind's eye a farmer who receives five cents above the market price for his butter, from the fact that his city customers found that the qual- ity was the same throughout the year, and as good as any to be found in market. Now this extra five cents is all profit, and he is entitled to it. Nor is that all the profit, for when once a customer is obtained it is usually tor a whole season, and a market is thus opened for other produce. In this way much time is saved in marketing, and mid- dlemen entirely dispensed with. It brings him in the cash and thus enables him to buy where he can get the most for his money, which is another profit he reaps, It is al- ways best for a farmer to establish a repu- tation for selling good articles in order to get his full share of the profit on anything he has to sell. Another thing, a farmer, in order to make ready sale of any kind of produce direct to the customer, should es- tablish a reputation for honest dealin s, ire, never represent an article to be a litt e bet- ter than it really is, for confidence once lost is never regained. Wife of Young Literary Manâ€"" Why, George l A hundred dollars for that maga- zine story? How long did it take you to write it?” Young Husband (nouchulsntly) â€"“Oh, I don’t: know. A couple of days, I suppose.” Wife (exultantlyâ€"“ Fifty dolâ€" lars a day ! That’s three hundred dollars a week, and twelve hundred a month. Twelve times twelve is one hundred and for- ty-fourâ€"fourteen thousand four hundred dollars a yesr ! Why, George, we can keep marriage and horses just as well as not l” FEEDING FLOOR. A feeding floor made of scantling covered with old plank, that can be gathered up on almost any farm, laid on the ground, so that the floor will be more than four or five inches above the ground, will be a. great improve ment over the ground feeding floor. It should be large enough to give each animal good feeding room. Hogs weighing 150 pounds each will feed without crowding on seven square feet of flooring per head. If the farmer has the desire to improve the keeping of his swine sutficiently to build a. plank feeding floor, he will keep the floor in good condition. It will take but a. few min- utes every two or three days to shovel the cobs oil“ the floor, and if dusty sweep it. The man using a feeding floor for the first time will be surprised at the small amount of droppings the hogs leave on it while eating, proving that they'are cleanly by nature when they have the opportunity. CARE or MILK. It is only the poorest of poor managers wholproduce milk that is not of good enough standard to make fine butter. As a. very general rule the mischief is done after the milk reaches the house. Here there is no proper place to put it, and milk is very care- ful of its associates. Like a pure, young irl, it takes a taint from bad company. lean vessels are absolutely necessary. A cool clean place to set it for the cream to rise. The air about the milk must be pure, with no smell of kitchen or other room about it, while a funky smelling cellar is death to it. The cream must be kept cool all the time, and away from the fire until the fire is ready for it. The churn n ust be well washed with boiling hot water, and this must be done within one hour after churning, or good but- ter cannot me made. This thing ot allowing the churn until the next day before Washing it is criminal carelessness, and ought to be made a felony by statute. This same churn should be well aired so as to always smell sweet. Now market your butter the day you make it, and having followed the above instructions, you cannot go wrong. Trim the hams and rub them over with salt to extract the blood. In two days up- ply the following pickle : One and one-half pounds of sa.1t and a pound of brown sugar to each gallon of water and an ounce of saltpeter to 100 pounds of meat; bring to the boil, skim and pour over when cold. Ham should remain in the pickle from four to six weeks. In packing don’t let the hams press against each other ; they are likely to taint at the bone before being salted. Those skilled in the curing of hams remove them from one barrel to another twice a. week until the curing is partially completed to prevent fainting at the bone. The meat is not fit for salting until free from animal heat, and yet it should not be frozen in the least, as this condition pre- vents the salt penetrating it. Trim the lean meat from the middlings ; it is better relished in sausage than after being salted. This lower stratum of lean pork is supposed tohave special virtue in seasoning baked beans, but I have never been convinced of its superiority in this respect; apiece of fat pork and a little salt accomplish this, and no tough tendons to be masticated. If sweet pork is wanted the barrel must have no suspicions of taint. Washing, drying and airing is not labor lost upon a barrel that has been used for pork if in a fair con- dition. About a. bushel of rock salt toa barrel of pork is enough. Cover the bottom of the barrel with salt to the depth of three inches, then pack the strips of pork in cir- cles, the rind facing the barrel, but with a deposition of salt intervening and a. stratum of salt upon each layer of pork. When the middlings are salted prepare a. brine suf- ficient to well cover the pork, using all the salt the water will dissolve. Bring to the boil, skim, and when cold pour over the salted pork. A well adjusted cover is a necessarypart of the pork barrel. PROFITS or THE FARM. 0171mm PORK. FARM. From cultivated crops Ontario receives a gross value of $15 70 per acre. This must be characterized as an unsatisfactory result, when climate and soil are considered. Without reference to cost of production, the highest to lowest value ,per acre has been roots. corn, wheat, barley, hay, peas, oats and pasture. I have no intention meantime to enter upon all the details, but purpose showing your financial position by a balance sheet applicable to the case, which can be fairly put by charging all actual cash pay- ments and the maintenance of what may be termed nonproductive essentials, such as some horses. Let us have the statement first and then the criticism. 1 farm labourer, whole year . . . . . . . . . 3 160 1 farm labourer, half year . . . . . . . . , . . . 90 Blacksmith and saddler . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Insurance and incidentals . . . . . . t . . . . . 30 Keep of four horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 - -7,-â€"- cent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cash payments as voted . . . . . Household allowance . . . . . . . . Permanent improvements, or Dairy products in Winter, fat stock, wool lambs, calves, pigs and poultry are neither credited nor debited ; neither have we done anything for seed, the farmer‘s own labour or that of his family, and no statement of household maintenance. It is safe to set aside the latter item with the sum of 3500â€" probably an overestimate,but then a sate one for our present purpose. Now in whatever form the balance may be struck, the farmer handles five rents per anuum, the mean rent of the province being $2 07 an acre, and in order to facilitate discussion I beg togive in round figures for easy remembrance, a brief abstract view of this average farm, that I think conveys a principle not known to everybody :â€" Interest on capital of $8,740 at 6 per "n.4- _ _-- That is the subject ; what has it done in‘ the way of annual produce ‘2 For five years the system of cropping has been roughlyâ€"f one half grain, onefifth hay and one~fifth pasture. But this aspect is so practical and interesting that some details are neces sary. Eight acres of win? er Wheat averaged 22 bushels an acre, and fetched 90 cents ; 5 acres of spring Wheat gave 17 at 90 cents ; 7 of barley gave 28 at 56 cents ; fifteen of oats gave 73 and 35 cents per bushel; 61‘; acres of peas average 22 bushels at 64 cents; 1% corn gave 67 and 28 cents ; 21 acres of hay 1 4 10 tons per acre gave $10, together with about two acres of turnips, mangolds, carrots and potatoes ; 22 acres of cultivated pasture, 1% acres of orchard and garden crops and 41: acres of several odds and ends â€"in all the 95 acres of cultivated land. The values of these crops are given upon the mean of the five years in question, and can he thus accurately anal) zed :â€" 44 acres of grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 671 21 “ hay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 310 l “ roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 22 “ pasture, dairy value . . . . . . 286 1% orchard and garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 45; other crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 44 acres of straw, onesthird value of hay . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Value of 95 acres of bush, sales of fuel, fencing, railway timber and pine, etc., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 The Province of Ontario, according to or- ganized townships, has 22,000,000 acres of occupied land, of which almOs-t exactly one half is cultivated, the other half being un» der forest. Here at once is something much unknown to most of us, That one half our occupied area is still covered by natural forest is perfectly true, so that nationally you are not overcleared, though sectionally and individually you are very considerably so, for the proportions run all the way from 10 to 75 acres of forest to every one hun- died of the land occupied. It is, therefore, evidently not yet too late to conserve the bush in certain parts, and of course the pro- per re-clothing should not be delayed in others, for all over it is assumed that one- forth is enough to make the balancing for the best conditions. The representative owner holds about 19) acres cleared and un- cleared, the whole valued at $38.50 an acre, $8.50 being the proportion for buildings, so that dwelling’house and barns are worth $1,615; thus the average farm stands at $7,315. Your farm implements on an aver- age cost $2.50 per cultivated acre, or $475, and live stock of all kinds is worth $950, or $5 an acre ; so then the total capital required for such an estate is $8,740â€"say £1,830 sterling. The taxes are somewhat under one cent on the dollar, and as assessed value is $19 per acreâ€"about two-thirdsâ€"our aver- age farm pays annually $36 for municipal and school purposes; in other words ten pence an acre. I give these sterling moneys to enable comparimus where it is sure to be used. To compare with gross crop receipta.$2,000 From this interesting volume I propose to cull these points that to me appear of more than usual significanceâ€"that are large- ly unknown, and that demand your serious consideration, both as individuals and pro- fessionally. I think the best way to do thisâ€"in place of quoting quantities of fig- uresâ€"is to abstrecx the cream and make It take the shape of the average farm of the country; hence anyone can place himself above, below or on a. level. 1 note here that for a. certainty the facts to be brought out will be keenly handled in all other countries, especially in Britain, be- cause, as you shall soon see, of the compare- tive, or rather the incomparable, positions of agriculturists there and here. The Government of Ontario has just issu- ed 400 pages of what, in my opinion, ex- cseds in practical value to you any previous report of “The Bureau of Industries for 1886.” It would be well to know how many farmers study this work. Assuming tbs. 5,0. 0 copies are issued, and that three- founhs are sent to farmers, the 3,750 thus distributed do not reach one in every thirty of yourselves. How then can you know what we are doing as a section of a. great nation, and where we are in the world‘s race of progress? Then- Average Condition. GENTLEMEN,â€"It may seem an outrageous statement to make, as I now do, that you do not know whut you have, or what you are doing, individually or collectively, on an average. The same thing may be said of the farmers of any country, for they are not yet business men, nor readers even of their own literature. I mean the average man. This is a. terrible admission and an exposure. THE FARMS 0F ONTARH). Actual cash payments Gross crop receipts. . . . . banking. ..$ 500 .3 160 45 36 30 $1,924 $526 500 500 Young “'ifeâ€"“ How awful ! The paper says a. young man who had been married three months went to his room and com- mifed suicide.” Young Husband (with aflecbed interest)â€"“ Eh? How ?" “ He hanged himself with his suspenders,” “ Well, Isupposehis buttons were all ofl'and he hadn’t my other use for suspenders." A recent Chinese Emperor, in announcing the demise of his stepmother, sent the fol- lowing communication to his Ministers :â€" ” We have attended her Majesty since we received the t rone, and have cherished her for twent ine years. We have seen that in her declining years she had every comfort, and that she had passed the age of eighty, for which our heart was happy and calm, and we encouraged ourself that she would happily add one year to another until she enjoyed the felicity of seeing a century. Lately, on the nineteenth day of the moon, she took an airing in her garden and re- turned to the palace. We daily Went to inquire concerning her health. But con trary to all anticipations, her ailments daily increased in violence, and on the 24th, in the middle of she afternoon, ‘she drove the fairy chariot and went the long jour- ney.’ Our grief broke out in long lamenta- tions, for we are greatly afflicted. “7e hum- bly brought to mind that since the Holy Empress, ‘Filial Pure Bright’ (his only mother), left this world to take the up- ward journey, we have been greatly in- debted to her Imperial Majesty Tahing for her abounding kindness and overshadowing favor. We have been made happy while attending to her behets, as men are re- joiced by the sun which prolongs their lives; but now we can never again look upon her affectionate countenance. Our grief cannot easily be assuaged.” anan MARRIAGEB. Among the Lolos of Western China it is customary for the bride on the wedding morning to perch herself on the highest branch of a large 'tree, while the elder female members of her family cluster on the lower limbs, armed with sticks. When all are duly stationed the bridegroom clambers up the tree, assailed on all sides by blows, pushes and pinches from the dowagers, and it is not until he has broken through their fence and captured the bride that he is al- lowed to carry her off. Similar difficulties assail the bridegroom among the Mongolian Koraks, who are in the habit of celebrating their marriages in large tents, divided into numerous separate but communicating com- partments. As a given signal, so soon as the guests are assembled, the bride starts OE through the compartments, f0110wed by her wooer, while the women of the encamp- ment throw every possible impediment in his way, tripping up his unwary feet, hold- ing down the curtains to prevent his pas- sage and applying willow and alder switches unmercifully as he stoops to raise them. As with the maiden on the horse, and the virgin on the tree-top, the Korak bride is invariably captured, however much the pos- sibilities of escape may be in her favour. Farmers of Ontario, am I twenty-five per cent. wrong? If you can show this, even then you are doing well. Take these state- ments with my best Wishes and the hope that you think more of your splendid posses- axon. I have no hesitation, therefore, in again repeating that you are not only doing well and making money, whether placed in the bank, in improvements, or in mortgage; but you are actually wealthy. When any farmer can pay six per cent. on what he gave for land and working appliances, give his family $500 to help keep house, and then have one forth of the whole left to lay past or speculate with in future crops, he is se- cond to no profession I have ever known. I ask you‘ then to take these $2,000 of crops and dispose of them as indicated in the above abstract of $500 for four things ; and yet, again, if you demand a. full account of all the agencies at work on every farm, and may hint at a loss in maintenance of live stock, and an amount of labor in cropping, overbalancing present prices, I must request any one who attempts it, to go the whole course of a rotation, through the light of the practice and science that nowadays does lead us, whether we acknowledge it or not. My plan is simple and practically correct. As you can see I am assuming that the Whole capital of $8,740 is a mortgage at 6 per cent. If it is not, so much the better. Then the actual cash payments are full, and even in- clude the working horses. In England the tenant speaks of three rents; one for the proprietor, one for himself, and one for the farm, and considers he is then doing well. You are receiving fully five rents ; but rent with us is a very indefinite and, possibly, an undervalued thing in our rural economy. How common the remark that renters in Canada are best off, and our figures seem to support the position. A STEPMOTHER WHO WAS APPRECIATED‘ Here then is material enough for interna- tional and provincial thought and criticism, and I shall open thus :â€"The average farmer of the Province of Ontario is doing well, is actually making money. He has, by his own admission to our statistical department during the last five yea-3 been receiving a total crop value of $1,024, say $5,000, from all sources ; this is the first proof and ad- mission, doubced by no one. Were com- ment necessary on this item it would be the lowness of the estimate for sales or timber ; many men wiah half the bush realiz: as much as $550 annually. This gross crop value of $2,000 is primarily for live stock maintenance, and secondly for production of crops in coming years; and as I have never yet seen, ‘I am not just prepared to show all the coming and go ng of this in- tricate circle of is and death. There is no class of accountkeeping so puzzling as the agricultural, and indeed is may be admitted as almost an impossibility. Who, let me ask, is prepared to placclin tWO separate columns the items of interest on capital, de- preciation or increase of that capital, ex- hausted or inexhausted application of la- bour and materials, such as manures; the valuation of and where to apply unpaid Ia- bour, the .cost gof household maintenance, etc., etc. Not only so, but is it not usually much guessing to take a cow, or any of the animals, and debit and credit year by year, I Ih'nk so. The farmer m: y well say I re- ceive so much and at the year’s end I hive so much on hand, but here the whole thin,D is just what he got and what he has on hand, for he does not know them as they would be required by an accountant. MANNERS AND CUST’IDMS. WM. BROWN. Ontario Ag. College, Guelph. A STEEL COLOR 0x BRASS is developed by using a boiling solution of arsenic chloride, while a. careful application of a concentrat- ed solution of sodium sulphite causes 11 blue coloration. Black being generally used for optical instruments, is obtained from a sol- ution of platinum chloride, to which tin nitrate has been added. In J span the brass is bronzed by using a boiling solution of copper sulphate, alum and verdigris. PAPER MAY BE STUCK 0N Woon by means of the following solution : Gum arabio, half an ounce ; powdered gum tragacanth, half an ounce; water, one and a half ounces; acetic acid, twenty drops. It; will cause labels to adhere very firmly without stain~ ing them, unless the paper is of unusually bad quality; once or twice is all the varnish required in finishing for most purposes. A BLACKIsa-Bnowx BRONYING can be applied to vases, figures, busts, etc, or cast iron zinc, by the application of a solution of sulphate of copper. If the projecting por- tions are then well rubbed with a. woolen mg, they assume a coppery red brilliancy, which increases the resemblance to genuine bronze. A solution of verdigris in vinegar also produces an effective bronzing. To CLEAN SIVEB â€"â€"One half pound of an] soda added to eight quarts of water ; when at a. boiling heat dip the pieces of silver, and immediately wash in soapeuds, and wipe dry with a. piece of cotton flsnnel. This method is recommended by one of the britannie. works in New England. To TELL CAKE IN THE OVEN, never insert a broom splinter, bun draw it gently‘ forward and put the ear close to the loaf; if it.is not done there will be a little sputtering sound. When it is thoroughly baked there will be no sound. 1‘0 PREVENT PIE JUICE from running out in the oven, makealintle opening in the upper crust and insert a little roll of brown paper perpendicularly, The steam will escape from it as from a chimney, and all the juice will be retained in the pie. To CLEAN (mannaâ€"Go over them once a week with a. broom dipped in hot water to which a. little turpentine has been added. Wring a. cloth in the hot water and wipe under pieces of furniture tco henvy to be moved. IF YOUR CHILD HAS THE EAR-ACRE turn a drop of milk as hot as in can be borne into the ear and cover it quickly with a bit; of cotton batting. This simple remedy has re- lieved many obstinate cases 01 ear-ache. BRASS MAY BE COLORED BLACK by rep€at- edly coating the cleansed metal with a mod- erately warm solution of nitrate of copper. Heatingover a. charcoal fire follows. Finally, the tune is heightened by rubbing with olive oil. To KEEP THE STRENGTH of the coffee while it is boiling, plug the nose of the coffee-pot with a wad of brown paper. EGG SHELLS will clean vinegar or nursing bottles as well as shot, and they possess the advantage of being always on lund in every kitchen. MANY PIANO dealers recommend cotton flannel for dusting pianos as superior o anything else. “ ELAs'rxc" 5“ch obviates the necessity of boiled starch, and it imparts to linen a. fine polish. A little ammonia or borax in the water you wash your hands with, and that water just lukewarm, will keep the skin clean and soft. A little oatmeal mixed with the water will whiten the hands. Many people use glycerine on their hands when they go to bed, wearing gloves to keep the bedding clean . but glycerine makes some skin harsh and red. These people should rub their hands with dry oatmeal and wear gloves in bed. The best preparation for the hands is the white of an egg, with a. grain of alum dissolved in it. “ Roman toilet paste ” is merely the White of an egg, barley flour and honey. They say it was used by the Romans in the olden times ; any way it is a firstrate thing. but it is a mean, sticky stuff to use, and does not do the work any better than oatmeal. The roughest and hardest hands can be made sott and white ina month’s time by doctoring them a little at bedtime ; all the tools you need are a nail brush, a bottle of ammonia, a box of powdered borax and a little fine sand to rub the stain off, or a. cut of lemon, which will do even better, for the acid of the lemon will clean anything, Manicures use acids in the shop, but the lemon is quite as good and isn't poisonous, while the acids are. Unleavened bread, if properly made, is unquestionably very much superior to leavened bread as an article of diet. The objection to leavened bread is that the yeast is not Wholly destroyed in the baking proceSS, and is likely to setup felmentation in the stomach. So long as digestion is vigorous, no great harm results from this cause, as the antiseptic property of the gastric juice is sufficiently active to prevent any serious degree of fen ntation. When the digestive organs are #akened, or the gastricjuice is inferior in quality or defi- cient in quantity, fermentations are set up which greatly deteriorate the food, and in- duce various disturbances of the digestive functions. MEALY POTATOES. Mealy potatoes are more nutritious than waxy, because the former contain the great- est quantity of starch. Thus a. microscope showsa potato to be almost entirely com- posed of cells, which are sometimes filled, and sometimes contain clusters of beautiful little oval grains. Now those litt‘e grains , remain unchanged in cold Weather, but ‘when the Water is bested to about the de gree that melts wax they dissolve in it, the ‘whole becoming a. jelly, and occupying a. larger space then it did in the form of grams. When a. potato is boiled each of the cells becomes full of jelly, and if there is not a great quantity of starch in the cells it will not burst; but i' the number of grains, or thei. size, be very great, the potato is broke en on all sides by the expansion of the jelly in the cells, and mesliness is produced. To insure mealy potatoes, peel (hem and put them on the fire in boiling Water ; when nearly done drain them, put them on a. drv cloth, cover them closely, and set themI near the fire for five minutes. In time of, frost the only precaution is to keep the, potatoes in a. perfectly dark place for some ‘ days after the thaw hes commenced. \VASHING THE HANDS UNLEAVENED BREAD. HOUSEHOLD HINTS fl0USEfl0Ll}. The Boston directory shows that there is a generous supply of beans in that city. Among other queer names the following may be mentioned: One Egge, eight Pyes, a number of Onions, one Crumb, three Bones and Salt and Jelly. Seven Beers are found and Cofl‘ee, Milk and Teas. There are one Chicken, three Goslings and a Hawk. Boston also has a pair of Stockings, one Sock, one Cravat, a pair of Mittens and our Collars. Three Hats and one Wig; fomplete the outfit. Some fifty square miles of forest were re- cently sold near the city of Vitebsk, Russis. The new proprietor had the territory exam- ined, and in the densest part of the forest thirty families of men were found of whose existence nobody had the least knowledge. They have their dwellings and till the ground, and have hitherto lived without de- riving any benefits from or paying any taxes to the Imperial commonwealth estab- lished around them. The position of medicine man to a band of Indians at Bay Centre, on Shoalwater Bay, in Oregon, is about being vacated, and a competitive examination was at last ac- counts being held for a successor. The ex- amination was unique and in accordance with the laws of the tribe, which provide that the candidate who dances for one week, night and day, without giving out, and suc- ceeds in the meantime in finding some ob. ject which has been previously hidden, is chosen. He is forthwith declared the medi- cine man and the “ healing business " is turned over to him. When last heard from the candidates had been tripping for four days and several were almost exhausted. _ For the conversion of the heathen a good Christian example anl a. simple presents. tion are required. The two must go to- gether. Most necessary is it that the methods of the missionaries, as Canon Tay- lor puts it, should be suited to their mater- ials. It is to this point that the Moslems‘ address themselves, and this is the secret. of much of their success. The Salvation Army is also awake to this consideration. It would not be a. matter for surprise were that organization, which has entered Indie doing as Indians do, but preaching the Gos- pel, more successful in the mission field than its predecessors. In oppOSitionuto Canon Taylor Canon MacUoll has come to the front. Canon Taylor fortifies himself largely with quota- tions from the reports of missionaries in India. and Africa, and of travellers and mil. itary man who have had opportunities of judging of the results of missionary efiorts among the heathen. One of his missionary quotations is from Mr. Hall, a representa- tive of the Church Missionary Society in India, who declares that, though reports which do not speak of success and growth and which do not contain anecdotes of conâ€" version are not taking to the public mind, he cannot refrain from declaring that the condition of affairs is heartbreaking and from confessing that the natives who are professing Christians are openly bad. if this is the case it is not dif-_ ficult to understand Why other and well- meaning natives decline to become Chris- tians. But Why should the religion which has been productive of so much genuine- good in Europe and in America fail where. it is so much needed ? The answer to this question is given, in part, by Major-Gen- eral Blaksley, who says : “ Throughout the British possessions the natives are con- stant observers of the lives led by Chris- tians ; and, beyond the system of Sunday church-going, they never see any religious practice, or, in fact, the evidence of any re- ligicn at all. They see, on the other hand, the Mussulman daily at sunset showing that he is not ashamed of his God, and turned towards Mecca, performing his devotions." It would thus appear that the Christian ex~ ample is not invariably encouraging to the heathen. How can the missionary impress the pagan with the advantages of Christi- anity when the sample accompanying him is bad? But the difficulty in spreading the Gospel is enhanced by the manner in which the truth is presented. It frequently hap- pens that the missionary mistakes his tude, uncultivated heathen hearers for a cul ured city congregation, and thus in his addresses» and in his methods fins far above their heads. One of the reviews for last month contains a most entertaining article relating the particulars of a supposititious visit to a missionary in the heart of Africa. The in~ tentiuns )f the missionary are shown to be excellent; his desire to do good is beyond question. But when it is stated that he takes particular pains to instruct his colored flock in the genealogies, the leviticai ordi- nances and the lesser prephets, it becomes apparent to those who attach less import- ance to the fact that Abraham begat Isaac and tease Jacob than to the essentials of re- ligion, that he is wasting his time and throwing away an excellent opportunity to. preach the Gospel. Christi an or Maho mmedan. That at this period in the Christian era. a discussion should arise on the relative mer- its of Christianity and Mnhomedenism as civilizing agencies is passing strange. Nev- ertheless such a discussion has sprung up, and is filling the columns of the leading English journals. For the offence of bringâ€" ing the subject forward Canon Isaac Taylor must plead guilty. The evil, if it should turn out to be such, was perpetmred by him at the late church congress in a. speech wherein he undertook to show that in the foreign field the Mahomedans make more eoneris than do the Christian missionaries, despite the energy and devotion with which the latter labor and the great expense inâ€" volved in sending them out. STAINING Woon T0 IMITATE Cummâ€" German technical papers recommend the following mixture for the staining of wood in imitation of cedar. Two hundred parts of catechu, 100 parts of caustic potash, and 10,000 parts of water, by Weight. The longer the wood remains in this solution the better the stain penetmtes its fibers, and thick veneers can in this way be stained right through the whole thickness, which permits a. finishing without injury vothe color. To CLEAN nor WATER comm nouns.â€" Get three cents worth of oxalic acid at your druggist’s, put it in a pint, botble and fill it with cold water. Pour it oxer the boiler While it is hot, rubbing it down quickly with a. cloth, and polishing it over with 9. dry piece of flannel. A large boiler can be beautifully polished in five minutes, and WIN retain its polish & week or more. The bottle should be marked, “Poison” and should be kept out of sight: and out of ordi- nary reach. The amount indxcated will last, for halfa dozen polishings.