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To make a Smokehouse fire-proof as far as the stove ashes are concerned is not necessarily an expensive job; all that is re- quired is to lay up a row of brick across one end, also two or Lhree feel: luck upon each aide connecting the sides thh a. row across the building, making it at leans: qu SWedlsh System of Cream Raising. IE; dairying as in all other kinds of busi- ness losses at each and every point- must be g arded against. Cream missing is one of the pégints where serious loss occurs many times. (5 feet high. As those who have a smoke- house use it nearly every year, that, part can also be made safe from fire by Lhelitcle arch built at the poinc shown in Lhe illus- tration. The whole is laid up in mortar, and to add strength to the structure an iron rod or bar may be placed across the centre of the bin and firmly imbedded in the mortar. two or three rows of brick from the cop. Of course the rear of the arch in also bricked up. In most, eases less than two hundred and fifty brick will be a.“ \that is required. NOW; What is the Swedish system of cream raising? It is simply sewing the milk at or near the temperature at which it is drawn and. quickly reducing it. to forty-five degrees. Milk when drawn is at the temperature of about; ninety-eight degrees, and the nearer in is to that tem- perature when see, the better the results will be. But if it in not allowed to fall below ninety degrees, before setting, the resule will be satisfactory, if pump» and proper reduction of temperature of the milk is produced. In musc not be understood that all, or practically all the erenm, cannot be raised ifthe milk is allowed to drop no slower degree than ninety before setting. for it cm be done. But in such pracbise it; may be necessary to cool it to a lower temper- ature and perhaps a. libtle longer time allowed for the cream to come up. By “ practically all the cream" is meant all but a trace of buner {at and in facb all that is of any practical value for butter. Some of the very smallest. of the butter globules are of no pmctical value. and they argthe last to come up. Fsilures to secure all the cream by theI practice of the Swedish system, or attempt to practice it, have resulted only when it‘ has been improperly practised. And the ‘ most common cause for such failures has been the lack of proper reduction oi tem- perature. Many seem to think that if the Water is at forty-five degrees, that is all that is required. Now the water in which the cans of milk are set may be at the start forty‘five degrees, but as soon es it has equalized temperature with the milk its power for cream raising has been expended, and it cannot accomplish more in that direc- tion. The only thing then to be done, is to either change the Water or put in ice. It would be better to do either a. short time before the two fluids equalize temperature. If ice is used, it is of course better to put. enough of it in at the startito reduce :the milk to forty-five degrees. The Swedish system of cream raising can be practised in ahy kind of a sheet. metal can, the diameter. or width of which, is not too greatâ€"about eight and one-half inches should be the limiv of diameter for a round can. or width of one oblong in form. But. for cans of the latter form, a. width of seven inches is practical, While round cans of the usual height, twenoy inches, would not be convenient to clean, of a less diamet- er Ehan eight and one-half inches. The item of ice is anything but a serious one so far as cost is concerned, and there is no excuse for a. farmer not to store it. There is no denying that, as a rule, the Swedish custom can be more properly pres. fined if ice is used than it can be without it. With its use there will never be any trouble in getting all the cream between milkings and in fact in a much shorter time than that limit-say three to tive hours. And when a vessel of very small diameter or width is used, it can even be accomplish- ed in two hours. To test the truth of this statement fill a glass jar with milk just drawn, and set it in a. vessel containing water and plenty of ice broken fine. If the milk is from a coW fresh in milk you will be very apt to see a distinct cream line in forty minutes and have all the cream to the surface in less than double that number of minutes. This is an ex- periment that any one can easily make and it will prove an educating one. v The cage may be set; in a common box or tank made water tight, or even in a. half section of a barrel. Eggs in Winter. In is useless to llook for large quantities of eggs from the heavier breeds of iowls. Where one wants bothleggs and market iowlsfn iswsll to keep more than one breed. An entire flock of uniform colors is more pleasing to the eye. but; a. mixture is more satisfactory as an all-round flock. Last winter I had a flock of thirty-five hens, ranging from pallets to hens four years old. They were a mixad lot ; some Plymouth Rocks, some grade Langshans, a few light: Brahmas, and a goodly proportion of Brown A Well-Arranged Smokehouse AGRECULTURAL FIBEPROOF SMOKEHOUSF- On the floor we had a quantity of cut straw and chaff, and into this were thrown {our quarts of mixed corn, oats and wheat at about four o'clock in the afLernoon, so that the hens could scratch it. out before dark. Fresh water, with the chill off. was before them every day. All the meat scraps from the table and the offal of butchering days, bones with some meat On, all went to furnish animal food in absence of insects. Now for results. On no day chrough the entire winner did they lay less than half-a-dozen eggs, and through Janu- ary and February the average ran from ten to twelve eggs every day, with occasionally as many as twenty-four. When the snow lay deep on :he ground {or weakest a time. and the thermometer hovering around zero. they Were kepbin their house all the time. The house is sixteen by twenty-four feet, and besides the hens there were two cocks and ten hen turkeys kepc in it. With eggs from eighteen to twenbyvcents a dozen, it, is worth while co“fuss” with hens. Lezhorns and their grades. They had been laying well all summer with scarcely any decrease in egg-production at moulting time as the pullers were then beginning to lay. Ac the hegmning of cold weather Lheir houses Wele lined with building paper, and six or eight, inches of sand thrown on the earth floor. As long as the ground was here they were allowed to run in the yard, but were kept shut in on cold and stormy days. The feed was a warrr mash in the morning, wnh a. teaspoonful nf cayenne pepper in in. This mash Is very eqslly made. An break- fast. time every morning the teskemle is filled with water and put. over to heat; By the time breakfast was over the Water was hot. It was put into a. large pail and stir- red with a. mixture of bran and middlings, as thick as could be. Barley Meal for Cows. Barley meal constitubes a perfectly wholesome food {or milk cows, but. is oer tsinly not remarkable for its milk or but- ter-producing qualities, being better cal- culated to form flesh than milk. If the grain is on hand it may as well be used as an auxiliary food, but; if it; has to be pnrv chased it might: be advisable tn spend the money in bran, peas, oil-cake, wheat and cats, the twa latter being the most super- ior milk~producing grains. As to the best, food for butter-producing, we put little faith in mice for feeding, and believe that the health and appetite should he watched carefully, and the food varied in both quantity and quality, according to the evident needs of the individual. The fol- lowing nations for human-production may serve as a guide, but. the observant and intelligent feeder will try what can be done with the foods produced on the place and according to the requirements of individual animals: No. l.â€"-Clovec hay. 10 pounds ; oats or wheat straw, 10 pounds; lxnaeed cake, 2 pounds; bran, 3 p0unds ; pen or wheat meal, 2 pounds ; ground oaks, 4 pounds. 5‘0. 2.-â€"Meadow hay, 16 pounds; bran, 8 paunds; linseed meal, 3 pounds ; when orrgea meal, 4 pounds. No. 3.~En§ilage, 35 pounds; bran 4 pounds: mom or per: meal, 4 pounds; om; chop, 3 pounds; straw, as much as will be eawn. Mangela, turnips and carrots are all good for milking cows. Three peeks per day may be fed along with any of the above rations, except No 3, in which ensilage is present, forming the succulent portion of the ration. The turnips should be fed after milking, or else there is danger of taintina the milk. The Deposed Queen of the Sandwich Islands. “It is surprising,” says a commerciai‘ traveler, “how general the use of potatoes es penhoiders is becoming in hotels. I have seen them in use in greet hostelries of the east, whose owners Wouldn't hesitate for a moment to spend $10 {or a. desk orna- ment to hold pens used by the guests in registering. The mixture of starch, giucose and water in the potato seems well adapted to take up the impurities of ink and to keep the pen point clear and bright while the alkaloid of the potato, known as sole.- nine, doubtless has something to do with it in the same line. These elements readily take up the tannete of iron, which is the body substance of ink. Chemically speak- ing starch is the first base of a potato, and sugar or glucose is its second bins. Thus is the humble potato finding another way in which to serve the uses of mankind. There is a. rather pleasing sugestiveness in a big ten-inch potstoe when a. fella: comes in tired and hungry from a. long run.” Oldbschâ€"Man is never too old to love. sts Bu3~ Probably not, but. he gets too old to be loved. My fiancee is quite a girl : Three hundred pounds said he, And never shall I quite forget The night she sat. on me. Potatoes as Penholders. Both Sides of It. Crushed. The baby is dead. How still it slee 5; [eat baby is dea . 1L5 mother weeps : ‘ And the teardrops tail on her thm, w hands. Like a summer shower on the thirsty §and The hope of a motherlies cold and sun, In that little white cotfin near the sill! And tamer stands by \Vith bowed head-â€" N0 grief like a sigh: Baby is dead. Narrow its bed: The clock ticks so loud, I Babyis dead. So am} the house you can hear your heart beat The wheels of the hearse sound harsh on the street; The children can Aunt, in a mom near by :d They-Ej‘?an't make out why a baby Should xe ' A little green mound, A tiny alone. In churchyard ground Stands all alone! But up in Heaven a new face is seen. Whore never a. sigh nox- u tear hath been A‘ndfihe an els sing to that baby fair. Till Its mot er arrives to claim in there. sweetest songs of love : N0 death â€"-no sin. In that; Home above Can enter in! The llmrlreudlnz smry or a Poor Trampâ€" Len :1 [7anqu by “h Brmlwr, and Told to Enjoy Illmnelr While lle Could. The ambuiauce had brought a man from the railroad yards, where a Height. train had cut him up. His blcared face covered with a stubby growth of heard, the fumes nf llquor on his breath, the odors from his rags reeking with J} toba":coâ€"-all were WHICH HAD THE BEST OF IT ‘5' THE MILLIONAIRE 0R TRAMP. ‘9‘. ‘ in harmony. 111- \ \ \ . h ‘\\\\ tel-est m y e case \ I fell ofatouce when ‘ it. was seen Lhut he um WAS OSLY A TRAMP. was only a tramp and so the surgeon was left alone with him when he turned his head and said 121 a hoarse whisper : “ Done for this time, ain’t I? Yes, Isee ; stick to the trumh, old man. Been pretty close before, huh I pulled through. Now I’m going. Nice way to die, ain’t it. Doc? Good enough fun. cramp. though. Good enough furme. Purty price to pay, but. I’ve had} big time, Docâ€"aâ€"â€"of a time.” A sardonic smile crept over his bloated face and faded away in a fixed stare at. the cold,whibeceiling, The surgeon was hitting close be- side him, holding his hand. “ Goa [time to hear it, Doc ‘2 I’ll be short â€"a.iu’n got. time “ cur TUIE TO HEAR 1T , l Losaymuch,hev 1'2 Doc?" Goin’ fast now. I’ll be quick. Two lives‘ Doe, I wanted to tell you about. Whiskyâ€"a drink, Doc, please." A [male more stimulant. streng- thened his tongue and cleared the cobwebs away from his p00: mired eyes. Then in ‘Lhe shock of the soul‘s flight; from the body the years diseppeared and his voice was not the voice of the tramp but, the voice of the man that used to be. “I started right enough. I had ambi- tions. 1 was going no he 9. gram’ man and a power in the world and all that sort of thing, you know. Iwent no college and studied and Worked, and I graduated pretty well up the line among my ,, clansmates. My 5f bro ch 8 r diedâ€"he - was ten years older than I was. On his death bed he called me to him and said he had something to say to me. He wanted to give me . some adviz‘e, I got 4 down by his bedsxde A THRILLING PICTURE. 1but; I had big ache- and bonds and everything. But I've worked (or it, Worked, oh, so hard for it, all, Worked all my lifeâ€"slavedâ€"toiledâ€" almost starved sometimes, John| to get it, all. But, Igocit and now I am dyingâ€"â€" dying, John, do you hear? I’m dying and what’s all this money now! I’ve wasted my liie~wssted it hunt-lug for gold. I’ve never stopped to play a moment; since I was a boy. I’ve never stopped to enjoy life an hour. I almost forgot. I had a. family or friends-â€"forgob there was any thing in Lhe world bub money wout: myself loose from all the ties that ought to bino amen to earlh, John. When ‘ I had 510,000 I thought, in was time to rest bub I put it off till I should have doubled it. When I had doubled I almost; decided to test, but. concluded I could nos afford it ‘ till I had $50,000. When I got “will was tired and sick mes on hand, John, ‘oiz schemes which would make me rich. I told my- self that I would take a long rest. when I had worked them out. So I worked on and on, and my moneyburn- ed over and over “901' ANY MORE no» and my plans all COR, Doc?” carried. well, and everything I touched turned to gold. I’m rich now, John, and ready to restâ€"Mid betel amâ€"dyiug, dying, dyingudo you \ms'rzv (T uvsrma have got a million GOLD. dollarsv-hOuae and lands and shocks A wee satin shroud JOHN IMRIE “Little hands and feet. “ All pink and red. " Like a dolly neat. ” 15 baby dead ?" Baby is Dead TOE “‘I am rich, John,’ hesaidh ‘I thin, white hear, John? Dying like a fool without ever having lived. “ (3:95 any more liquor, Doc? I‘m going soon." He had been talking fast. spending lav- ishly the last of his Eueiou his story; it was the ruddy light; of thegfpergiow when thesun has already set behind the hills" He hur- ried to tell the rest while the surgeon bent closer and kept his fingers on thifleeting pulse. \\\\\ "He Loldfl the to} \ J enjay life. He1 “I SPENT WHAT MY warned me against BROTHER LEFT.” a mistake like his. He advised me to live while I could and not to wait till Loo lane. Then he died and ltook up life Where he left of? and I fol- lowed his advice. But he didn't know Whab he was doing-«no, he didn’t know. But, I gave up my plans, my studies. my preparzr cions for a life of work. I put them all away from meâ€"I told myself there was time enough. I would enjoy life while I had youth and then would work and do things as I had Manned to do." He was talking fast and without, any halting now, and the words came burning from his heart. But his voice grew lower and luwer and the doctor had to bend. closer and closer to catch whac heasifi. "Enjoylife? Well. I have enjoyed life. I’ve had a. hâ€" ofa. time, Doc. I spent. 1;; what my brother V ‘ v ’ left me. and squan- dered my father's THE BEST WAS SILENCE. fortune. Away it went. V. Life, life, life V. I saw it all. Ha. ‘. I didn’t waitâ€"410, 1 didn’t wait. Every- thing there is in life I triedâ€"all the fun, I mean, Docâ€"you know, the fun. the wild living, the wild joys. And 1 wean down, down, downâ€"down to the bottomâ€"the very bottom Where the snakes and the fiends are. Oh ! My brother ! I took your advice. You â€"didu'tâ€"-â€"know. I’ve enjoyed lifeâ€"I’ve lived. I'm not leaving any fortuneâ€"110,110 fortuneâ€"uocbing. I’m a. tramp, Doc. 8. trampmunderatand? A tramp andâ€"dying in rage. Butnl've lived, Docâ€"yes, I’ve lived. Whisky, Docâ€"-whis-â€"kyâ€"-Docâ€"gi’ mPâ€"whish“ Its Progress, Thoriin Silent. Has Been General and satisfactory. We congratulate Manitoba on the ex- cellent; report it has received in the annual address of the president of the ‘Vinnipeg Board of Trade. The Prairie Province is evidently more than holding its own. At. the close of a. year which most communities have to put on record as their worst, we are informed that “an every hand there are signs of progress,” and s goodly list of these are enumerated. The province ‘ had a. crop of wheat, amounting to 17,000, 000 bushels, its cattle export trade has increased enormously, and so has its sheep wade. People forget. that Manitoba has fish to sell. The Whitefish of its lakes are m. . «Q 5“? . c. é mubul. { Last year the value of the Whitefish ship-‘ pad to the east was $283,000. In this there has been advance also, as four years ago in was but $180,000. The province has also} taken to hog raising, has made good-sized shipments for export. and now produces a great, part of its own ham and bacon. The dairy industry of Manitoba has also been quietly growing, and now the province has butter and cheese to sell to outsiders. Manitoba. wheat has no superior. For inst year’s crop there was an unusually strong demand from millera, both at home and in Britain. Towards the close of the seamn it commanded in Ontario 3 premium of three cents above the export price. This year the crop was marketed in about. half the time that, was required in previous years. This fact also points to improved conditions. These conditions are a. better market through the presence of more buyers on the apot, better banking arrangements to facilitate trading. and better transparen- ation accommodation on the lakes. Last year Winnipeg‘s bank clearings ranked in iamounv The President notes that though there‘ was Malling-03in the immigration from the East and from over sea, there was a grati- fying increase from the United States. Twenty-five per cent. oi last year’s Cana-i dian Pacific land sales were to persons‘ fromacroas the border. Within the last fort- night the heads of 250 families in the United States made letter inquiries of the Canadian Pacific land office for settlement lands in Manitoba. The Dominion land oflice is reported to have equally large correspondence from intending settlers from the other side of the line. Owing to the early sale, and the great volume sold, of their produce, the Manitoba. people have been able to square ofl‘ a good deal of debt in the east, where confidence in the pro- vince has risen manv per cent. The people have had low prices long enough to adjust their expenditure to them. They have been frugal and industrious, and they are be- ginning to reap their reward. In Manitoba, The rest was silence. :Ve at; please-d to learn, progress, though silent, has been general and substantiat. Mrs. Thinkhardâ€"Of late years the spread of intelligence among all classes has been simply yogdeflul.‘ Void' Bachelorâ€"Yes, I notice there has beans. great. falling off in ‘he number of marriages. E13 “Shortâ€"Silver is good enough for me. Have you a spare. quarter 1 MANXTOBA IS PROSPEBOUS. The Financial Situation. Longâ€"Are you in favor of a gold ba~ THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. FOURTH IN THE DOMINION. His View of It. Completion ofa Rallnay (a Louhhurg once the Great French l-‘urlrowu. ’L‘he completion of the line of railway to Louisburg, seys the St. John Telegraph, which is now practically accomplished. a locomotive and train having reachtd there on Saturday, is one of the most interesting events in connection with railway building in Cnnadn that has occurred for many 3 day. Louisburg. by reason of its histori- cal associations, stands easily in advance of any other town in Northern America, Wlhh the exception of Quebec, and, per- haps, of Annapolis. And now that it is opened to tourist travel by means of a. railway, we may expect to see it become one of the most important visiting places on this continent. and especially resorted to by the people of New England. Louis: burg first rose into importance after the treaty of Utrecht, which transferred Acadia. to Great Britain was held not to bea port oiancient Acadia, and here the French king determined to erect a great, fortress which would command the Gulf of St. Lawrence and at the same cime be a mennce to the New England colonies, whose fishing Vessels sought the banks of Newfoundland, and whose trading vessels frequented the coast of Acadia. The people of New England. viewed with alarm and anger the erection of Louisburg. which was builb on the lines of some of the forti- fied cities of France, under the direction of the most: experienced French military en- gineers. Slowly, year by year, the fortress rose menacing and grim, and the people of New England gave it. the name of file Dunkirk of America..because of its supposed resemblance [.0 Dunkirk, which was then the most formidable fortress in France. It is impossible to say how many millions of ‘ francs were expended on Louisburg, but [there is no doubt that it, cast: the French {Government a. prodigious sum of ‘money. Finally, the people of New England deter- mined that Louiaburg must. be captured, and in 1745 they organized the mos; re- markable expedition in the history of America for the capture of chic formidable fortress. There was hardly anyone in New England. who possessed any experience in war. Pepperell, the commander of the expedition,was a prosperous merchant and farmer. who had never seen a shot fired in his life. and most of the men under his command were equally inexperienced. Yet, ow1ng to a happy concurrence of circum- stances which the people of New England may be excused for regarding as provi- dential, this formidable fortress, which it had taken the French Government THIRTY YEARS TO BUILDq and which was defended by vekeran troops, was actually captured by an army of un- trained artisans and husbandmen com- manded bya merchant. To quote Han- nay’s “History of Acadia,” “Had such a. deed of arms been done in Greece 2,000 years ago, the people of England would have made it. the theme of innumerable commentaries, the details of the achieve- ment would have been taught to the children in the schools generation alter generation, great. statesmen Mould have wnbnen pamphlets on the subject, and 21‘th poets would have wedded it to immoral verse. But as the people who won this briumpn were not Greeks nor Romans. but only colonists. the afiair mm but the talk of a. day, and then dropped out of sight.” r1, , _, A4; t7__1__.‘ “bail-men peace between France and England was made by the treaty of Aix-La-Chapene, Louisburg was restored to France, an act which gave great offence to the people of New England, and went far to_ disgust them with the Mother Country. The pEace lasted buts year or mm, and Louisburg again became a. meuauce to the Bribiah, and its capture was resolved upon. This was accomplished by a Bribish army and fleet in 1755, after a siege in which General Wolfe, the hero 0: Quebec, took a leading part. The fortress of Luuiaburg was de< molished, and the Dunkirk of America declined to the rank of a. mere fishing village, too remote from the ordinary line of travel to be reached by pleasure-seekers and tourists. Now, under new and happier auspices, Louisburg may regain some of its old importance, not. as a. fortress, but as a. centre of commerce and the seat of a prosperous population. What Sneezing Indicates. Dr. Scenes Spicer, vending a paper the other day before the Chemists’ Assistents' Association of England, on “ Sneezing,” told his hearers that the act of sneezing has always been regarded as supernatural, and by many races was held in reverence. Hence erase the custom, not even now altogether obsolete, of making some remark directly after sneezing. Sneezing was regard. ed as a. Sign of impending death during the plague of Athens. Many classical writers make special reference to sneezing, and some supposed that during sneezing devils were expelled. Sneezing itself is a. reflex ‘nervous action. and is brought about by mechanical irritation to the end of the nerve ‘ fibres which occur in the tissues of the nose. When this irritation occurs, whether it be due to a. foreign body or change of temper- ature affecting the tissue of the nose, a. nerve impluse is transmitted to the brain, and certain nerve centres in the medulla oblon- gata. ere afiected; this results in certain impulses being transmitted along the nerves to the muscles con trolling respiration. By this means the egress of air during the ex- piration is delayed, and the various exits are closed. Vl hen the pressure, however, reaches a limit the exits are forced open. “ e powefrnl blast of air is expelled, end the patient sneezes. " Big Injun (admiringlylâ€"Me like pictur’. College Man Iproudly)-â€"-I thought you would. . Bi Injunv-Heap pretty squaw ! Ca [age Man (wrath(ully\«â€"You old heathen! that’s a portrait of me when I belonged to she lootba-ll besm. AN ANCIENT STRONGHOLD. THE ISLAND 0F CAFE BRETUN The Chiefs Mistake.