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PBHBarS^rothe New Society, says : "To PP^Pthasecrefc of success in small fruit :ulture in a brief formula, I should say F that it is contained in two words? stimulation, restriction. [ By stimulation I mean a deep, thor Sizu3 or.yio'Kon cnil ? This is especially essential to the strawberry, the foreign ra- pLeny, and all the currants. A rampant growing raspberry, like the Cuthbert or Turner, and our vigorous blackberries, do not pC require stimulation, but they do restriction. You cannot make the ground too deep, too rich, for the strawberry if there is adequate restriction. By restriction I mean the development of fruit rather than wood or vines. Set out a strawberry plant in very deep, rich, moist soil, and its first tendency is to follow the great law of nature and propagate itself, but to the degree that it makes plants it cannot maie fruit. Cut off every runner and enormous frui ? ? y ? t rri j duos are aeveiopeu. xiie tsap is usuuiucu np as a miller restricts a stream, and * the resnlfc is strawberries that are d onble in size and quantity. This is equally true of raspberries. To the degree that there are suckers there is less fruit. If a currant bush is crowded with wood? too old or too young?there are few currants. Moreover, by cutting back a raspberry cane in spring one-third, you add one-third to the size and abundance r of the fruit. 1> Why Cows Often Kick. " Horses," says a writer, " should be watered in the morninj before they are ' *_n a#, i. -e j. - ? (lea. jsl. iau otiilk ui water uiiuikuihicxj after beiBg fed is a sure way of producing indigestion, if not inflammation. When water is drnnk by horses the bnlk of it goes directly to the large intestines and little of it is retained in the stomach. Some old and worthless horses, by way of experiment, were fed with split peas and snpplied with water immediately before being killed. It was foond that the water had carried the peas into the intestines, where no digestion took place at all. Every farmer and dairyman knows that there is a great difference in the disposition of cows. Some are ready to Trirte- rrit'h oT\r*cnvmf]-p Tin rvmvrwvi.Hn'n. r while others will bear a good deal of ill-treatment without showing scarcely any resentment. A ticking cow is certainly a disagreeable animal to have aronnd, although it is said of Balph tv - Waldo Em erson that some of his brightBp* est thoughts have come to him while H being ticked half way across the stable. R-- I do not conbt that sparkling thoughts wonld ccme to any one at snch a time, B for I know that one's mind (and tongne, Kv too, sometimes,) is qnite active when a K cow puts her foot in the pail, or sends it spinning across the stable, and it g tases a person 01 gooa disposition 10 K. | endure it patiently. One must certainly Hk- Eave a good disposition to deal with such a cow, or she is made worse or p even spoiled. It is usually the case that bad treatment makes a cow vieous. Shelter Saxes Food?Is Profitable. Every keeper of animals would actuR ally profit by a little study of chemistry *-^v^d physiology. Eere is a short lesson. H-; ijTkizids of food, as hay, grain, bread, I _ meat, etc., are, like wood, mainly composed of charcoal (carboD) and water, - with considerable nitrogen in some of Hr - them- To prove this, strongly heat any I of the above food materials in a coal pit, or better, under glass. Water, with some nitrogen gas, will be driven off and can be found in the glass receiver, while only charcoal will remain. Let .--in more air and the charcoal itself will | unite with the oxygen of the atmosphere, and also go off as a transparent, invisible carbonic acid v as. This chemical action sets at liberty Lett that was before concealed or insensible, the same ; as when wood or coal is burned rapidly t in a stove, producing an active fire; or as when wood decays, but gives off heat I so slow as not to be observed. Exactly the same thing occurs when Hiy looa is aissoivea ^aigestea; in tne amach of animals or men, and is taken to the-blocd and carried to all parts the body. The blood gets oxygen so from the air in the lungs, and caris it all through the body. The atoms oxygen meet the atoms of digested od, here, there and everywhere in e blood vessels. The two unite just they do in a stove; heat is produced, ily in minute quantity at any one point, it a great deal of it, taking the whole ood circulation together, and so the lole body is kept warm, though heat constantly escaping from the whole I out side surface. Nature provides that the body shall always be kept 'warm, otherwise it would quickly perish; and so if the oxygen in the blood don't find food enough to keep up the internal }ieat, it will attack' and consume any fat br flesh stored in the body, and thus pake the animal poor. ? We must have an ever-burning-fire in Iboth the animal and human system. If pie surrounding atmosphere is cold, I id carries off heat rapidly from the iHace of the body, we must increase e internal production of heat by itiing in more food, or by surroundg the body with a cohering that will event the escape of mueh heat. Is it not plain, then, that, by keeping limals warm by means of close buildg?, or shelter against heat-stealing nds, les3 food will be nec-ded, and ere will be less waste of flash in iking heat? Any arrangement of elter, cover, stable, shed, blankets? ytbing that will prevent the natural Imtd irom passing away irom me ace of any animal?will be a great ag of food required to keep up absolutely necessary internal life mth ; will prevent loss of flesh; will pr the food to go more to adding to ;ht of flesh, or the yield of milk, or rool. Shelter and external warmth old weather are most economical therefore profitable in the keeping arm stock. L Bow to Prnn?. idiciois pruning is a very important fcer, says a farmer, and one we Lkl 1 M AAI P An r\TJ c hot rong irogicvc?wiiiiiuuu?MUXUUB Meepieaces to the heatthfulness of Btees and the quality of the fruit. It feet pretty well known to pomolmk that the life of a tree is proKd and its fruitfulness longer Rained by proper pruning. For inHk the peach, when uncared for, Hies very unsightly arid useless, Big up long, hare limbs, with a I^^SfrantagesTbtit j B^^Soo^ban many are willing i PWoestow, it will not probably be prac- j j tised generally, although it does possess I three important advantages: First, it adds materially to the health and I longevity of the trees?when located in 1 **--- xi. llUlS Wttjr WiCJ 11Y C 4ITTCUVJ WW vuxivj years; second, it reduces the bearing wood one-half, which is a great advantage to heavy bearing trees ; third, > the trees always have a fine appearance, as a growth is induced in the center, giving additional bearing wood, and producing fruit where the tree can most easily sustain it. Tne plan is this: When the tree is first planted let it be cut back to within two and one-half feet of the ground ; a nice, round head is produced the first year. The second year it is cut back one-half of the lust year's growth; the third year the same, and so on each succeeding year, of course using judgment in cutting back those limbs that make the most rapid growth shorter than others, so that a j proper poiso may be maintained. I j would urge upon all to trim in this way ! ! at least three years, if no longer. It | has many advantages. The tree is ! healthier, the top being low, the ground is kept cool and the bodies are saved from sun scald and borers; the expense of gathering the iruit is much reduced, the expense of pruning is less and the trees are not barked by careless ploughmen. The man who carries a fifteenfoot ladder all day, either gathering fruit or trimming trees is worthy of sympathy. Household Hints. Yeast is best kept in glass jars, cov| ered. I White -necDor should be used for * * i. " XT V delicate dishes. In beating butter always take the back of your spoon. Always rise knives for catting, not for stirring or chopping. Dip bowl in boiling water before creaming your butter. Tablespoon fnl of flour is to be piled high, but butter must be level with the edges of the spoon. When breaking eggs be careful not to let the yolk of the egg touch the sharp edge of the egg shell. Two double kettles prevent danger of | burning, and liquid boils quicker on j account of heat on all sides. Freezing will take out all old fruit | stains; and scalding with boiling water will remove those that have never been through the wash. Recipes. Fish Sauce.?One quarter of a pound of fresh butter, one tablespoonful of finely chopped parsley, a little salt and pepper and the juice of two lemons. Cream the butter; mix all well together, adding at least a teaspoonful of mayonnaise. Less lemon juice may be used if preferred. Cabbage Salad.?One egg, one teaspoonfui salt, one teaspoonful sugar, j a nan-teaspoon;ai mustaru, a quarter-teaspoon ful pepper, two-thirds cap of vinegar; beat all together, and boil in a bowl over the st-am of a kettle till quite thick ; then turn the mixture over a small half-head of cabbage chopped fine ; if too thick, add cold vinegar. To be eaten when cold. Scalloped Squash.?Boil and mash the squash in the customary way and j let it cool; beat the yolks of two eggs, i and when tbe squash is nearly cold j whip these into it, with three table- ! spoonfuls of milk, one of butter rolled I ki flour and melted into the milk; pep- i or?/3 eolf +oofo rsftTir infrt Q hnf.. I ^4. ^ j ~ -? tered bake-dish, cover with fine crumbs, and bake to a light-brown in a quick oven. To be eaten hot. Oeaxge Pcddixg.?Slice half a dozen oranges into a pudding dish, sprinkle two-thirds cupful sugar, over and let them stand two or three hours. Beat the volks of three eggs, three tablespoonfuls sugar, and one tablespoonful cornstarch together, and stir into a pint of boiling milk. Let it boil a few minutes, then pour over the oranges. Beat the whites of the eggs with a little sugar; spread over the top. Set your ! dish in a pan of cold water in the oven | to brown. To be eaten cold?and a very i | nice dessert. A WoiPs Love. A story of a wolfs affection for a man is told by F. Cuvier. The animal had been brought up like a puppy, and continued with its owner until full grown, whep it was presented to the menagerie at Paris. For several weeks it was so disconsolate at the separation from its master, who had been obliged to travel, and so persistently declined food, that it was feared it would die. Eventually, however, its grief moderated, it took food, and was supposed to have forgotten its former owner. But at the expiration of eighteen months the master returned ; the wolf recognized his voice amid the crowd in the gardens, and upon being released from confinement bounded toward him, eshibiitng violent joy. Again separated from its master, the faithful creature was once ' mnra qq An t.Vift fnrmpr | until after an absence of three years the i object of its affection revisited the i gardens. It -was evening, and the wolfs ' den had been shut np for the night j but the instant the man's voic9 was i audible the poor animal bearan to utter | such anxious cries that the door of its 'cage was opened, when it darted toi wards its friend, leaped upon him and caressed him, and threatened the keepers when they attempted to separate them. "When its old master finally left it, the animal became ill, refused all food, and although it recovered after ! _ , - ij. n - j i.-j I j a long lime, it grew uerce auureseiueu | | the familiarities of all strangers. After i having once given its affection, it j ! seemed to scorn any further objects of j i friendship. ?? A squirrel that had been put into a | i glass case containing a rattlesnake at ' j the Cincinnati Zoological Garden a few ; days since engaged in a battle with the i slimy reptile. The snake approached S the squirrel intended for its repast, but j bunnie made a quick spring, and lighi! ing on the back of its foe, bit off ore of j his rattles. The snake retaliated with j a blow that broke the squirrel's hind j I loor A-nntV10* cnrrncr on/1 f}>A s/rnirrol I j caught the snake behind the head, and j with one firm thrust of his sharp white j teeth he decapitated his deadly foe. I Emmie fell exhausted, but the battle j i was won and the snake was dead. 11 / men leaving them, and at night they are locked tip together in the "gal-|t pones," as their prisons are termed, and j * which, on large estates, employing as !8 many as a thousand or more laborers, I might be mistaken for a modern adap- i 1 tation of the buildings of the Paeblo j i Indians of the northern continent. The | ( - - - - - ? j ? ? ! lasli is unsparingly useu as tuc ment for the smallest peeadillo, and it i is most cruelly applied. ! 3 Evasion is the mosu heinous crime in i1 the code of plantation, ranking far j i higher than murder. It is always ; ( severely punished, and the offender, if | carried back alive, which sometimes he j ( is not, is kept constantly "on the chain." j ( This term is employ* d to describe a man j who has a ring of iron welded around 1j one of his ankles, to which is attached j j a long chain with a weight at the end. j Frequently, instead of this weight, the ! chain terminates in a similar welded j Tine ronnd the leg of another unfortu- j nate. For some reason or other the 11 men to be thas punished are generally j chained in pairs. Dozens of such j couples may be seen on some planta- j tions. Another plan is also becoming J general, and a straight bar, terminating in two rings, is welded on to the victim's j legs, compelling him to move some- , what like a pair of living compasses, j Sometimes an iron band is welded | round the body, with a chain rnnning j from it to a ring round the ankle. In | all cases constant and extreme suffering i is entailed. The iron rings produce i sores on the legs,and the poor wretches j then stuff lags or. other soft substances ? 1 Li ?C I in to alleviate tne pain tuey suuer num. the wounds and the stinging of the . insects which swarm in the cane-fields, i The tales of their sufferings, if fully i told, would attract sympathy the world ! over. When Pissing through a plantation I j have had the bars of a movable gate ! taken down by a man who could not ' rise from the ground, and who, on my j questioning him, answered that he had been severely injured shortly before, ; that he had lost the usa of the lower j part of the body, and that, as the doctor ; had said he had only a short time to [ live, he had been carried to this gate-! way to see that the bars were kept constantly in position to prevent cattle straying through them. Death was in the man's face while I spoke to him, TpVnVn T>o finnlrA , iiUiU inauixui. *** v?rv-**w . one could see he took this inhuman ! treatment as a matter of course, and j that long subjection had taught him to j believe that snch a sentiment as human sympathy has no existence. Another j man I once saw have a pen-knife! driven repeatedly into his back between j j the blade bones, while his elbows were i ; so tightly drawn together behind that 1 his chest bones appeared to be bursting through his skin. Only the other day (ten men who had beer: kidnapped in "Lima and carried to a plantation in the north attempted to effect their escape. They were recaptured, carried back, : treated most inhumanly on the journey, j and then laid down on the ground and flogged until their bodies bore little semblance of humanity ; then, last and most degrading and disgusting cruelty oil t)ia n-rraraaa-ra drnvfl t.h P i T" ItMTT- ! VJL cm.) vu9 vtvauvv&V ? ? ? ^ . roweled spurs into the bleeding bodies j until to the gashes of the lash were j added the spnr galls, which in civilized I countries the law considers cruelty and j punishes as such when inflicted on j animals. I could fill pages in describing horrors of a similar nature. There I are thousands of these contracted! laborers, *ho are slaves in reality, j scattered throughout Peru. They are I in the hands of hard and merciless task- i masters, and I cannot see why the ; officers of the foreign fleets on this! coast, assisted by competent Chinese j a -L? iji l "u~ I inierpreners, snouiu uu? do wiumu- I sioned to hold an examination and liberate the men who are held by force. Of course their owners wonld carry j many of them off into the interior, and i merchants who hold mortgages on the properties wonld put every obstruction in the way of the truth being discovered; but good wonld result, while the vast number of the halt and maimed of them who would be met with and reported upon, would prove the disastrous effects of starvation, overwork and torture on the human frame. I believe the Chilians ! would gladly co-operate in such in- j quiry, either within or beyond their ' lines, while the scat:cred Peruvian j momor.ero bands would not dream of; offering resistance. All nations have combined and determined to treat slave dealers as pirate3, and the principle is carried into practice on the African ! coast, mere is no reason v,uy ? salutary lesson should not be taught here. God knows it is required. The Flitch of Bacon. The custom of the flitch of bs.con at i Dunmow is not the least curious among I those which rural parishes present. Far ! back in the old days when there was a ; priory at Dunmow, in Esses, the monks j made a promise of a fiitch of bacon to j; any married couple who could take oath i that they had never quarreled nor re- !' gretted their union. Whether the "bache- j' lor monks only intended to encourage i conjugal harmony, or whether they |! strictly believed that married folks, never j I do live together twelve months without j; discord, we can guess as best we may. j' At any rate, the successful applicants for j the flitch were few and far between The priory was suppressed at the Ref- j' ormation, but the old custom survived, ; I the flitch being given by the lord of the ! i manor. In the last century the cere- | mony was conducted with much parade j * The couple appeared at a court baron, a j jury of unmarried persons heard the : avertments, ana if the results were satis-1 factory, a verdict ws^ given, to the effect j1 that the conple had been married at j: least one je&r, that they had lived ' quietly and lovingly together, and thai * they were deserving 01 tne promiseu prize- i, The verdict beiog delivered, the happy I \ couple, standing ne:ir the ch irch door, 1, made a declaration, received the flitch, i and were chaired in procession through , the town. The lords of the manor by ; degrees declined to offer the tempting ' bonns, and the clergy viewed nnfavor- i' ably some of the incidents accompany- 1' ing the proceedings. Twenty or thirty years ago a few literary men revived , the ceremony at their cwn expense, J . more as a whimsical joke for that one J f^casion than a permanent cnstom. j" Fr jm time to time the local journals i? record an observance of the ceremony. ^ There is reason to believe, however, j that speculative trade is mainly con- J cerned here, the fiitch being provided 1 by some tavern interested in bringing ] together a large as-emblage of thirsty , i souls.?Chambers' Journal. | ? In the time of Edward I. of England, \ ^ he pay of a knight or esquire was six- i ^ een shillings a day, and that of an j archer three shillings. Pleasure carriages, save in Boston, j *ere rarely seen in this country till the j ] niddle of the eighteenth century, j s; Chaises were introduced about that ! ' ime. j fj France had the first stand id g army of j rtodern times, in the reign of Charles ; y, 7IL, in 1445. A standing army was i o irst established in England in 1638 by j T i A, jnanes a. u In Java, criminals condemned to c 3eath are offered free pardon if they jonsent to obtain a box of the Upas C poison from the tree. Of seven hnndred v who attempted to do this only twenty;wo lived to return. <3 c Guitean Analyzed. Born vrith a boundless vanity and in- 0 tolerable egotism, he early fancied himself entitled to all he hoped to gain or ! c be, and longed to be courted, honored j v and to live at ease. He had a natural j1 aversion for work, and early deserted |8 and despised it. Intensely vicions bv | s nature, he was easily provoked to strike | , his father at the sapper table, or assault j his sister with an as while living on jker bounty. He longed, or thought he j ( longed, for sn education as a means to : attain his desires, but seen abandoned : c. his purpose to obtain it when he j learned the trouble of acquiring it. His I , physical was not greater than his j mental indolence, and by the in- j duigence of both hf.s moral in- i dolence soon became equal to j TTa'tinor a wnrl/1 xcVii/Vh rift- I ^ nied Mm what he sought at the terms offered, he took refuge in the Oneida 3 Community, hoping within that liti;le world to win, simply by self-assertion, , what the world outside refused. But, i finding that his old enemy, work, was ; , known there, and that the place offered i J fewer opportunities than he thought , for gratifying his baser passions or attaining his grander hopes, he longed , to get away. At last a sufficiently safe opportunity presented itself, and , he left for New York, where for a time ] he fed his fancy with visions of j 1 a great theocratic newspaper. Then | the law; then theology again; then au-! thorship and the lecture field, and ! finally politics; but nothiDg won for j , him the place in public estimation j that he sought. Finally he fixed his I 1 hope on public office. It was denied : him, and with reason. He was not ' only refnsed, but turned away in dis- : grace. His vanity touched, his ambitious longing crushed, his vicious pas- ; sion blazed within him, and giving free rein to his fury! he resolved to wreak 1 revenge. Even in this his monumental : vanity found food. He could not be ; famous, but he would be infamous, ani thus, at last, find himself known to all 1 the nations of the earth. Consequences, 1 to such a man, were hardly things to be 1 considered. The worst would be but j1 little worse than what he was. What-!1 ottov i?ome> tVic.rft Trftnlr? hfi an atuI nf ! 1 wandering up and down, and even 1 hunted through the earth, and rest at | last. And with that rest would como the knowledge that he left behind a | name. Perhaps in his mad fancy he may have hoped that some would honor ! it?at least he knew, and gloried in the 1 knowledge?that it would at last be 1 known. 1 This may seem a harsh and cruel j! picture, but it is a true. That it is so j ' is proven by that last reluctant word 1 wrung from Mra by his raerciless ex- j 1 aminer?"Remorse."?Chicago Times. j ( Dead Leaves and Their Uses. We very naturally admire growing i' leaves, and cannot help a feeling of sad-! \ ness when they wither and fall. A casual j ' look at the fallen leaves gives us the ] idea their work is done, and that , therefore He who has wonderfully , created them permitted them to decay. But those who give more than a passing . ln/Vb fin/1 t-.Viftf. f.Vinm/h f.hpir nmnmpntol ^ life is over, their useful life is but be- j ginning. Yon pause, perhaps, and for a j moment wonder how dead leaves are j ntilized; but so many varieties are nsed j that it would be impossible to name them | all, so we will only refer to the most j common. Of these it is only fair to J state that many of them are not allowed j to wither on the tree, the reason being to preserve a larger amonnt of the essence of the leaf. For example, the : leaves of the tea plant are allowed to ! grow to a certain, stage, and are then gathered and dried qnickly in the snn. Of course, every one knows that the death of a leaf is usually caused by the drying np of the sap, on which it depends for nourishment; so thai by forcing the leave;? to die more qnickly f/hfln natnrallv wonlrl. more of the . taste or essence of the leaf is retained. And so dead tea leaves are of use to * provide Dr. Johnson's favorite bc-v.^rage, \ "tea." Of course, there are nsn..y dif-1 ? ferent kinds of tea, but they are not | c. cinder our consideration ; sufficient is ! ? it if you consider t iat that most common of all commodities is simply dead leaves. ; ^ Next, let us take tobacco, as being an i 1 irticle in common use. This plant is a j 3 aative of America, and is supposed to c have been first brought to England by c Sir Walter Raleigh, who taught hi t conn- k i-rymen io smoke it. The leaves only ^ ire used, and great care is taken in its cultivation to bring these to perfection, md the drying and preparing for nse is a | E long and difficult process; bnt no one [ E looking at a cigar or the usual tobacco 8 ian for a moment doubt its being any- 5 thing but dead leaves. j y It would be a long and difficult task j a ;o name all the dead leaves which are ' ^ ased by herbalists and doctors; but j ^ many of the more simple kinds of the ; ? jlass of leaves known as herbs are of j ? jreat use in cookery, such as thyme j mint, sage, etc. * Having mentioned these individual [eaves, ycu will probably say these are ? very few ; not a hundreth part of the ? leaves there are, and granting them to I ~ oe a hundreth part, what becomes cf | ; the ninety-nine kinds left? Many leaves ire allowed to drop off the trees and i 7: iecay to a certain extent, and are then j ased for manure to enrich the ground, > j3 ;hat it may bring forth more leaves, j ivhich all irt their turn will also decay, j rhen, again, it is an acknowledged fact!13 ;hat the decayed vegetation of centuries ! 11 ?in fact, whole forests which have died ; ? md been replaced?gc to form a large R proportion of our coai. j ( The London World fears that the j L 'higher education for women" vrill { ;l result in over-worked girl graduates j v yho will turn for solace to tho cigar ; t ind cigarette. i ] J^Rernooii 1 * idc-s every day for eight rl i^KTand the other four the sky is a a aterspout. <3 One-third the population live on the t nropean plan, furnished rooms, board- ], lg at restaurants. Costs fifty cents a month for cartage f ashes from your door. ^ Fifty cents is called four bits, whil<j 2 1-2 cents iis a bit. and ten cents a ? tiort bit. a Potatoes, onions and all kinds of ^ & AH .3 VvTT TTT/QIffVlf. v tuiu OUJIU kjj nwjjUM. ' ^ | Q Thousands of sea gulls inhabit the | fi ater front, building tb. eir nests on tops | f warehouses. Chinese are required to ps.y a pollis, but not allowed to vote or become ? itizens, j Costs fifteen cents to Brooklyn or ? )akland," and takes twenty-five rain- , it-es. Saloons of ferries are on the upper [eck.. wliile the first contains a lunch , ounter and bar. The notorious "sand-lot" adjoins the ; ity hall. T wennv miles of cable street railroads ' iperated by stationary steam engines. Chinese do all the washing, perform /vaaV vnicq oil rocrof.a}\]Afl .nd manufacture nearly all the cigars | md shoes. j Must buy a whole nam or sack of lour.. No smaller quantity eold. Salaries of clerks and salesmen gen- | jrally are lower than in New York. The nnmber of judges, generals, iolonels, majors and captains is astonshing. Grate fires and warm blankets are usuries every night in the year. Coal a:ad wood is sold by the bag. Ice cream saloons are scarce. Number of stout and fleshy women is remarkable. Roses bloom in yards the year round. Oysters are the size of hickory nuts. White pigs are a3 ecarce as black in ;he East. Hills and mountains are all peaked iike volcanoes. "When the moon is supposed to shine :he street lights are shut off. Lending aod borrowing money upon iionor is a legitimate business. Temperature in different paits of the city will vary ten degrees at the same hour. Twilights are very short. A Maine Monster. Mr. Hall and Mr. William Libbey, of St. Stephen, were laying out a logging ;hance or. land of "William DureD, and in hunting for a certain bunch cf spruce unexpectedly came out on Chain lake. It was a beautiful day, with only a slight breeze rippling the water, and they stepped on the shore to take their lunch. Mr. Libbey scon noticed a peculiar noii;e, which seemed at first to issue out of the woods, and next came from the direction of a cove above. Mr. Hall coulc. not for a time hear the noise to which l is attention was called, but when he did finally distinguished the sound, he remarked that a crew of men must ba repairing the dam above. Just then there appeared in sight around the point, a mile away, an object whi h tu^y took for men in a skiff, but soon Ia a on c onolm LiJLOVV/r^i^U IV WO tUi VUV/AAUVtW With its head elevated sir feet above the water, it came swiftly down the lake, facing the sun, until it reached a position just opposite the men, and distant less than half a mile. It then stopped short, throwing the middle part Df its body cut of the water in an arch, also sis feet high. Its h?ad, which it had before kept turning in the direction of one shore and then the other, was pointed for a minute in the direction of Mr. Hull and his companion, who stood motionless. After this inspection it suddenly straightened out igain, and passed by and down ic.to the Dntlet Its speed was about a mile in fire minutes, or twelve miles an hour, md its appearance while in motion is thus minutely described: From its head :o the water was six feet; the next ?* r/? /?(a-hYVN jYiClliy icuii ux uuio vi. no luiiu nao ander water; then some twelve feet of its baci appeared above the surface to i height of about sixteen inches; the remainder of its greater length was hidien from view, and as the propelling power was necessarily attached to the last-named part, iis entire body "could 2ot have been under fifty feet long, and nore likely was over sixty feet.*' The lead at the broadest place could not lave measured less than two and onelalf feet across, and the upper portion )f its body, thongt: of course by no neans the largest, was "as big as a iork barrel." When last seen in the ratlet it had. left the water, and was massing over a distant point of land :overed with granite boulders, among vhich were tough bus-hes. The erect | )art then "looked like a man that I; vould weigh three or four hundred." j Mr. Hall's theory is that the serpent ravels and lives on land as well as on rater, and that its chief food consists of leer. On the day named, "it \?as lumpy, and, having smelled ns, came ont if the woods after a meal." Coming Iown the lake, " it passed by the scent, >orn on the wind, and when it finally fct where the sun would permit it to see ic, we stood so still it took ns for tubbs on the shore, and proceeded m." Mr. Hali saj s that any man on the >fr. Croix who will dispute the existence >f the above described boa eonsiricor," in the face of what his eyes and hoce of Mr. Libbey have just wititssed, is not clear-headtd. This is 1 iot the first time this snaUe has been i een. Old Captain Lewy ?a\v it many i ears ago, and others of the Passamo- 1 luoddy Indians have seen it in Big lake 1 t various times. Every member of the * ribe knows of it and believes in it. j I Ir. John Williams and a crew of men < aw ifc at the mouth of Little river i wenty-nine years ago, and his descrip- 1 ton attracted much atten'.ion ai that ' ime. Mr. Williams mistook a part of i be snake's body for an immense log ping across the boom, and upon adan^ing to seehowtheloggot tbero, the rate moved away, and in goin^ across 2 lie land made a broad, deep furrow in 1 lie grass and soil of the meadow. Mr. \ lall now regrets tliat he ever said any- bing about the snake, as there are so 1 i&ny "fools" among men who disbe- ^ ieve and deride. He thinks some plan 1 o capture the snake, by tving a live | .orse on the shore cf the lake as a bait, j nay prove successful, and. all will ttien 1 ee i bat his dseription was carefully 1 ept within the actual truth.? Calais ^ He.) Times. Of over 700,000 square miles of timber ands in this country the South owns 60,000, or nearly two-thirds. They .ill bs sources of wealth in a few years o an extent little ^dreamed of at j : iiesent. I : ^H!T"WHnuUG J E IPPP^roofs, children j e Pl^Sinffrpiinciples, morals or j lanners. A lazy man spoils your work ; disap- | I oints yotu expectations; exhausts you* j * atience; eats up your substance, \c buses your confidence, and hangs a j * .ead weight upon all your plans ; and i he very best thing a man can do with a I ?zy man is to get rid of him. In a valiant suffering for others, not j , n slothful making others suffer for us, j i lid nobleness ever lie. The chief of i ' aen is he who stands at the van of nei^ U ornting the peril which frighten back J .11 others; which,if it be not vanquished, j rill devour the other. Every noble : rown is, and on earth will forever be, k crown of *horns. Through the Desert. ! One day at dinner (Jurran sat oppotite Lord Norbury, who was famous for lis severity as a judge. "Curran," isked Norbury, "is that hung beef. Defore you!" "Yen try it, my lord," ! mswered Carran, "and it's sure to be." j A Bedouin riding past us at full speed, carrying a long spear, was in ! sight for more than an hour and a-half. j He took all kinds of fantastic shapes, ! and, as regards the distance, he was off at any moment; the best range-finder : ever invented could not have localized him. At one time lie was spilt tip into three, with a space of something that looked like a surface of shimmering water between each part?the legs of i the camel dancing along over the plain without any body attached to them, and high over them the body of the camel and rider flying through the air, and above them again the tuft !of feathers surmounting his spear, looking like a bird in the air. What added greatly to the dreariness of this horrid waste wa* the total absence of animai life ; not a fish-jump ruffled the surface, of the glassy lakes; not even the pro-} verbial and familiar pelican of the\ wilderness was to be seen by the side of them ; no wheeling vultures over-1 head ; even the swarms of flies properly j belonging to the caravan deserted. 1j almost fancied that our "inside passen-; gers" were reduced to a policy of^ ''masterly inactivity'' for a time. If it had come to this, that when you aske^ a man to do anything be usually tohi you to wait till he had done scratching: himself.) The carcasses of camels whiclx we passed had the flesh dried on to th^ bones as hard as wood. I shall nevet forget one corpse?that or a man?' nationality quite indistinguishable. The ' body had first distended to about three times its original bulk, and then dried in that form. I turned it over as it laid on the sand, and it was so light I could have lifted it with one hand. Itmade a creaking and drumming noise as I moved it, very like the tound of shaking a rolled up hide of sole leather. I arrived at two conclusions witn reference to that region. First, that the refraction of light by the air was so remarkable that artillery would be rendered practically ineffective. Secondly, that I would' never go a Sabbath day's journey into it again until I could do it on a bicyelc, and have relays of caravans sent on loaded with lemon-squashes.?JJy Journey to Medinak, Keane. Sister Pauline's Basket. In an account of the quaint and curious ways of the Ephrata (Pa.) community, in the Century Magazine, appears this paragraph: We now crossed the meadow ground to take a look at the other large building, and on our way passed two dilapidated little dwellings, one of which probably is the one occupied for a long time by Conrad Beissel, the founder of the Ephrata cloister. The second convent we now came to, designated as 'Saron,' or the Sisters' house, is in its external appearance very much like its mate, Bethania?huge, oppressive, and gloomy, sheathed in black shingles, and dotted with little square windows. The rooms and passages, however, are quite mr J 4-^ cimerenirij piucivu, <xuu. ^ccm iu u.a?> ^ been altered to suit the uses of more recent times. In one of the cells we noticed a huge hamper; its size, in fact, compared with the dimensions of the door, was suggestive of the Chinese pnzzle, the imprisoned ivory ball much too large for the apertures of the incasing cell. How was this overgrown basket ever squeezed through so nuirow an opening ? It never was. An industrious nun, bent upon doing some good and useful work for the monastery, plied in her cell, for many days and weeks, her busy hands, to weave for domestic needs that extraordinary piece of ! wicker-work. She did not discover, j until she had finished it, that it was ! much too large to pass through the j door of her ceil. And there it remains j Violin Making. Violin-making, in its perfection, is one of the most difficult of callings. It is Apparently nothing more than the adjustment of certain bits of wood, which are planed, filed, saw-cut, scratched, sand-papered, carved, pegged, glued and varnished; but to give it the soul requires the highest capability of human intelligence. Hands must work in a material which, though easier to cut than metal, cannot be kept up to the j same degree of precision. .Fingers must j be subservient to brain. For a guide J yor. must have the line appreciation of tune quality. If with mechanical dexterity you possess the necessary fineness of ear, your wooden case "will give out the sound of a Gaurnerius, a Steiner, or an Amati. The trick of it all is so subtle thai; he who makes a good violin is no | longer a servile imitator. A common- j plac:e instrnment may be quite witlin I the scope of a good pattern-muker, but j i really fine violin, such as a great soloist will accept, one perfect throughout | LV _ - I cue wnoie register, uu? uiiic recjjuuua *.u the least touch of the finger, that makes i pnre and unalloyed sound, with the ;one quality, whether you just touch it I Dr ra?p it with your bow?;vell, that is nothing less thai a chef-d'auvre. Why, ;here arc only foi:r people to-day in the yorld who can turn you out such an instrument. Hereditary Impulse. Rev. Charles F. Deems tells of a ?oung man who is constantly in warfare Bath his appetite for liquor though he lever permits himself to take a drop. Neither his father nor grandfather were iddicted to its use, but hisgreat-grasd"ather was an habitual drunkard. Thus ire trie &ms 01 me iaxner visiieu upon :he children unto the third generation. Dr Deems says of this case of heredi;ary impulse: I think it is extraordiiar7 only in the perfect resistance which ae has made to his strong inclination. ?Br. Footers Health Monthly. Fifty-eight million dollars is the estimate value of finger rings of this country actually worn, and still there are people mean enough to go hacking and coughing because they do not want to invest 25 cents for a bottle of Dr. - - I Bull's Cougn Syrup. 1 ca: p,ri tli. Tii ?! pc ! cn Hll: a< f* t M' &S AO 1*. bJ rl Viese | pc Half a! ? Knot i J |T he! J Hid be d K ma~ 11 WfiTimes. P V odes to t; K Super-; who was | Kttiam and I Bdard. i j ndians < oris is i anally. < ported ] napolis. ?rheuad wa.' Times. ee rear set one inch in'circu#IQeasures I >rer 50 rears old, and jFference- It lad over 9,000 orange*0216 seasons has i on it. Snakea as Li: iff The loss of li'e in ] p.jf Destroyer*, if venomous snakes due to the ravages Consumption, which f?ai03t incredible. 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Fits, Fits, Firs. successfully treated by World's Dispensary Medical Association. Address, with stamp for pamphlet, Buffalo, N. Y. " - .Mil ?.. . jlRS. GARFIELD'S income Win ds uiatav c^u,G'OO a year. Vecietixe.?TiiC great success of the Vegeiiite as a cleanser mid pariHer of the blood is shown fceyoni*. a doubt by the great numbers r.bo have* taken it, and received immediate relief, with such remarkable cures. RESCUED FRO.tf DEATH. William J. Coughlin, of Somerville, Mass., says: In the fall of 137GI was taken with Weeding of the lungs, followed by a severe cough. I lost my appetite and flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 18771 was admitted to the hospital. The doctors said I had a hole in my lung as big as a half-dollar. At one time a report went around that I was dead. I gave np hope, but a friend told mo of Da. William Hall's Balsam ronras Lungs. I got abottle, when, to my surprise, I commenced to feel better, and to-day I feel better than for throe years past. I write this hoping every one afflicted with diseased lungs will take Db. TYn/liau Hall's Balsam, and be convinced that cosbcmpnok cak be c ubed. I can positively say it has Ndone more good than all the other medicines I have taken since my sickncss. ALLEN'S Brain Food^cnres Nervous Debility k Weakness of Generative Organs, SI?all druggists. Send for Circular. Allen'sPharm:icv,3131"irstav.,X.Y. THE MARKETS. 7 ynw toek. Reef Cattle?Med. Nat live wt. 9%@ 10% Calves?Good to Prime Veals.. 5 @ 9% Sheep 3 5% ^Lambs 6 @ 7 floss?Live 6%fg 6% Dressed, city 7%@ 8 Flour?Ex. State, good to fancy 5 50 @ 8 00 t. Western, good to choice G 05 ? 9 00 Y^heat?No. 2 Red 1 39%? 1 40% r No. 1 White 138 ? 1 39% R\rc?Prime State 95 ? 97 Baffley?Two-rowed State 82 ? 85 Coral?rngradedWesternMixed 66 @ 69 V Southern Yellow 67%@ 70 Oat^?White State 50 ? 53 ? 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I have tried everything in the shape of herbs salves, plasters, etc., but nothing did me any good. I was, lrom my knees to mv ankles, one mass of sores. I was advised by Police Officer W. B. Hill to try Vegetdte. I commenced last July, Ifc76. After taking the second bottle I began to get relief, and the sores to heal up. I was finallv reduced to one large ulcer on my right ler, that ran so much and looked so bad that many said i must lose ;nv leg: but, after I had taken fourteen bottles of Ykgktixe, my leg was all healed up, ind I am now as well as ever I was in mvlife. I con siderVEvsrcnyE the best cleanser ami purifier of the blood, and advise all who inav be suffering as I have suffered to give it a trial. IfEXRY T. SMITH, No. 50 Utica Street, Boston, Mass. Scuofulous hmiors.?The Vegeteje has cured manv cases of Scrofula of five, ten and twenty years' standi us:, where the patient has had many physicians, tried many of the known remedies: and, after trying the Vegf.ti.ve, the common remark is: "It acts dilferentiy, works differently, from any medicine I have ever taken." Vegete?*e will cleause scrofula from the system. Try it. VEGETINE I CAZST RECOMMEND. Somesville, June 10,1S75. E'K. H. R. Steyejcs : It is with great pleasure I can recommend in the hish'-st ! this your Veoet;>*e as a purifier of the blood. liaviug met with a painful injury of thft spine ami sciatic nerve over fourteen years ago. my auklo has r-eeu swollen a great deal ol the time, and very painful. Uy using Vegetjve I find great relief, as it gives a higher ton',- to the blood, improving my health; and I hone that all the human family in a suffering condition will avail themselves at once of i this most valuable remedy. Yours, most respect- ' fully, WiT. STE1NHEKST. 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