A e ? EDWARD JOHN ! IIm 167 POYNTER. IS rlnlit NwImI A IlfliPfn luy Taru Vr Unnrlng I'poa a Man's Mura III and lluslusss Marcuss. "It la very easy to find a direct con- to a friend at Cu.n y, he solemnly declares letter jf hia, mldr-e-ic- S. :!.uil, that, L ? tiiii o nan a gim.it at Wes'inin-i:.i- f s&is the New York Press. y Il.ii kl.iiul'a f;:;l.ir was dean uf the aad hiri sou lived with him In the MouiP I'niiiuHliiu. ab-b.-- jo TIN t the newly houi a'.laiht-- to the churcb, of lJent , occupied by I he deans for hundreds of I Academy,. i yenra. ()n night, so Ituckland de Wi. Qfx)' Will bui win clnri I, he had returned home rather I.:-Sir John bin.- - after an i evening at the theater. mt- M rinH in i lint A Hu window and out at It, the v has ii"i.t a lust cigar before retiring. '.looking 1 .r l - D tt l n 1 u K Ilii room overlooked the cloisters. A ft TIT 11 O'1 Vlv cartons h pin id was attached to a door In that year almost directly opposite the window. herxhiltlieil "Israel It was to the effent that the door waa In Egypt," which ma le his reputation. covered with human skins and certaln- -' Just live yean before hin flrt pirtiire ly the fragments of the dark leather was hang In the my. At that time si ill hanging to It help, by their ap- Mr. Iuynter he was 26. At the pres-cn- t p iirancc. to support this assertion. wna horn In Iaria liucklaiid was la C'J. Mr. Pnynt--sitting smoking and of English parents. His lioylxood was , n:ching Hie quiet cloisters, flooded spent at the crack English public i v ith bright moonlight. Suddenly he of Westminster .iinl nt the saw the dark figure of a man come out Ipswich grammar school. Three yeare of the door and walk down the cloiswere spent In Paris under Gloyre. Then ters. Buckland knew that no one he went to London and took a studio. should he the abbey at that around asIn lft9 Mr. Poymer was made an hour and supposing it waa some Insociate of (ho Royal Academy, and two terloper ran downstairs and searched year later the Water Color Society of (he cloisters for the Intruder. To hie Belgium elected him u member. Il he could And no one and on w'sa about this time be was ap- surprise the door found it securely bolttrying pointed Slade professor of art at not been opened evidently ed, having the University College of London. for years. Much mystified he returned rewas 1873 this appointment In to his room and continued to watch. newed for four years. In 187C the In .g little while he saw the same figure, to arms Ita Royal Academy opened him and he became a member. He was which appeared to he dressed like a made a director of the National Gallery monk, return along the cloisters and enter the abbey by the same door. iwii ngu. Soma of Mr. Ioynters Thoroughly alarmed, Ituckland ran plclurea have caused Internal discusexThis especially true of his down again and found the door in sion. boltsame the still and condition actly "Diaduinene, which provoked so much ed on the outside. In the morning he question as to the morality of the nude Inquired of some of the old attendants n One of hla In art. painti and Andromeda." around the ubbey and found that more ings la Scarcely lew familiar Is his "Atalanta'a than one of them had seen or heard Race." Ills "When !b World Waa others epeuk of the apparition. Some Young" and The Meeting of Solomon time afterward he found among some of Shelm" are well undent archives of the abbey an acand the Quei-count of the beheading of one of the monks for a terrible crime and It was added that he was flayed and his skin used to rover one of the doors leading to the cloisters. Dockland after wart, said he flrmly believed that It was the ghost of this monk which he had seen. EDWARD uiK-h-ii- tl-i- - i opt-iic- iio.-iiio- 'f r best-know- Ti-mci- n FOOTBALL IN AUSTRALIA. the Field Mnha It Hut for rinyrra, A football match between Colllng-woo- d and North Melbourne was played at North Melbourne last month and the Incidents which occurred show that the lot of a football referoe In Australia la uo better than that of hla English coufreresays the Illaekburne Standard. The moment the final bell rang there was a rush of people In the reserve to the pay gate. The moment the umpire stepped through the gate scorns of men rushed at him like wolves and a scene of Indescribable tumult fallowed. Flats and sticks were going and one man In the thick of the crowd, with some implement wrapped In paper, was making ileaper-nt- e efforts to fracture some ony's ikull. In the first rush Roberts was seized by the hulr and drugged down, but splendid help waa given him just them, notably by I'romlfoot, a player of Colllng-woowho, holding one arm over his head to shield himself against a ralu of blows aud with the other nround the umpire, literally carried him through the paek with one of his football brushes. A "lady" had the enviable honor of starting this disturbance. As the players were coming In at halftime she waited near the gate and struck Roberts in the face. Afterward her shrill voice, as she leaned over the fence, added a high treble to the torrent of abuse rained on the unfortunate umpire whenever he approached the pavilion, which, strangely enough, seemed to be the mustering point of the roughs. The woman "barraeker, In-ihas become one of the most objectionable of football surroundings. On some grounds they aetuiilly spit In the face of players as they come to the dreeing rooms or wreak their spite much more maliciously with long hat pins. In the height of this melee some of the women screamed with fear; others screamed "kill him. One of these gentle maidens at the close of the struggle remarked regretfully that It was a plt.v they "let off" the umpire In the Geelong match, as they should have killed him. Yet these woman (onalder themselves respectable and they "support" foot hall, which la in a serious decline. XVouirn on r in litre anil 13. known. JOHN TOYNTER. Mr. Poynler also painted car- toons for the mosaic of St. George In Westminster palace, and a fresco for St. Stephens church at Dulwich. He has published "Ten Lectures on Art." HIS PIGTAIL SAVED HIM. a llurrllilr Heath JoSa Chinaman llerauM- - ) or Jim tyucur. From the St. Janus (laz-aie- : John Chinaman hail penetrated even to the luart of Matahulela.'id. At Ic.iat there one adventurous la Chinee who reached there and who now owes hU life to his pigtail and tho quaint personal peculiarities of his race. He was ou his way (o a curtain mining district to act ns cook, etc., to somo prospectors when the present disturbances began. Poor "Pigtail found that to continue his Journey or to return would be rather risky, but decided on the hitter plun. He had passed the remains of many murdered whites lying along the load, when he wns overtaken by some tsn or twelve Mntabele bloods on murder bent and armed in various ways. On reaching him and finding that he was not a "Droongar, or white man, they consulted among themselves and Anally, after circling round the celestial one hi a hesitating manner, they drew nearer and with respectful awe touched him, to make sure that he was In reality flesh and blood. He was certainly not a Cape half breed, Hottentot, nor anything cist- - they had ever seen, so, after an exchange of compliments. caried on In best Mntabele and Chinese respectively, they withdrew, probably thinking that lie was a powerful "witch doctor," who might have annihilated them by some mystic process. Poor, frightened "PigtuiS" won overtaken by a small armed party of fugitives who, with the , assist a nee of an Indian cooly, hailing from Natal, where our hero had also sojourned, extracted from his quaking lips the particulars of his race. They hail thim-erlvhern attacked by the same band of Matabeb'S. However, a triumphal entry Into Duluwsyo waa finally accomplished. cs rpulntlng KINerla. d, First rue of Quinine. Dr. Maillot, whose statue Gen. nil-lit- , the French minister of war, will n soon unveil at Driey, wna the first to employ quinine In the French aur-Sro- army. He made hla experiment! with the drug In Algiers. Ills greatest difficulty waa to overroipe tho repugnance that fever patleuts felt for IL A surgeon who was attached to the staff of Dr. Maillot In Done, relates thnt once a soldier who appeared to be In the last stages of marsh fever, begged the nurse with tears in his eyes to take which he way the "bllter powder, was sure was poison. Dr. Maillot dissolved the quinine lu a glass of water. "You fool. he said, will you take Irlnk with me? and he swallowed halt a tumblcrfnll. The soldier, convinced that everything waa all right, then drained the glusa. Siberia will noon lose its terrors In I popular mind. The opening of the !erlan railroad has caused a rush Russian peasants for the plentiful d cheaper lands In Siberia and whole llagea In Russia are bving left wlih-- t Inhabitants. So far this year 145.-- ) peasants have emlgnitej un' In Ihe iddle of Mil) there wire 13.HOO perns encan.ped at Tchelyabursk. siting transportation. It Is report-thIhe government will stop banTfuf ting criminals to Sllarla and will Ncmurjr. e only the Islands of Snghatlen, the Von Illumer "I haven't seen you tfls-crtherr. provinces and the prison around to the club so much lately." as receptacles for convicts. riankligton--".o- . My wife la out of iw York Recorder. town." New York World. at U I MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. nection between the cleanliness of a people and their moral etandard," writes Edward W, Dok, editorially, of Some Hint. A built Cultlvn-tlo- a The Morals of the Bathtub," in the of the Suit and Yield. Thereof Ladlea' Home Journal. "Of all the exHorticulture VHIcullarc aiul Fluri-altnrternal aide to a moral life none In no potent as tidiness. An untidy man or woman soon becomes a moral sloven. D. LYMAN, writing Let a msn be careless of his surroundIn Garden and Forof his of his ings, companionships, est, says: Mr. fi. drese, his general appearance and of E. Fernow, chiaf at his bodily habits, and It Is not long Bureau of F orthe before the same carelessneae extends atory, referring to Into the realm of his morals. We era a grove of pines all creatures of our surroundings, and with which I have we work and act as we feel. If a msn been esperimenJlng lives In a home where carelessness or for more than 20 untidiness in his dress Is overlooked years, says In Garhe very soon goes from one inexactiden and Forest: tude to another. He very quickly loses of Mr. Lyman has a growth himself. The moral fibre of a man, white of an pine trace fine of itself, can soon become coarse ere in extent, 50 to 55 years If the Influence of his external surof age, which he has thinned, so roundings Is coarse. I believe thorthat In 1594 only 116 trees retrained, or oughly In the effect of a man's dress 223 to the acre. Must of his trees are and habits of person upon his moral over 10 inches In diameter, at least 16 character. I do not say that neatness of them are over 14 Inches, and the beat of appearance and cleanllneas of per-ao- n measured 22.2 Inches, the height beconstitute the gentleman or the ing 70 to 80 feeL The calculated volman of honor. Iiut I do say that they ume corresponds to a production of are potent helps. And I would like 7,185 cubic feet of wood an acre, to emphasise the importance of this which, under very careful practice, belief upon the women of our homes. might cut 30,000 board measure. For it la given them to be an imporIn view of the vast value and imtant factor In these helps to the better- portance of the white pine and the ment of the worlds morality. The man rapidity with which a timber crop of It who makes a point of keeping himself can be grown, even on land deemed alclean, and whose clothes look neat, no most worthless, I have been experianstter how moderate of cost they may menting on a small scale to ascertain be, works better, feels better, and Is In Its rate of growth and the best treatevery sense a better business man than ment of the trees while growing. In who Is disrsgartfful this study I have been disappointed at his fellow-worke- r, of both his body and dress, or either, finding so little aid from books. I want lie works at a distinct advantage. The to find out how to grow a crop of timexternal man unquestionably Influ- ber on poor, cheap land as well as the ences the internal man. I would give best farmers In the corn belt can grow far more for the work done by a man a crop of corn. I havo some 400 acres who has the Invigorating moral tone of of mixed growth from 23 to 35 years of morning bath and the feeling of age, and most of this has keen left to clean linen than I would for the work nature. I have thinned some 12 acres done by a man who scarcely washes of email white pines and pruned some and rushes into his clothes. The time of them. The little grove referred to by Mr. spent upon our bodies is never wasted; Fernow Is upon a deserted farm which on the contrary, It le time well Invested. A machine of metal and steel I bought In January, 1870, and, Ba 1 remust be clean liefore it can do good member, the first time I noticed It was work. So, too, the human machine. A a few years later. The trees are close disregard of the body and disorder In by the highway, less than six miles from the large village of Farmington, dress soon grow Into moral slovenliless than a mile and a half from a rail-roa- d ness. station, and fourteen, twenty and "THE VOCAL STUDENT" miles respectively from the twenty-fiv- e cltlea of Somersworth and Rochester, Madame Mattie on the KurthiM aad with ita 1US this Dover, grove yet M a of astral t'arrrr. Rewards rods of land could not probably square Madame Melba addresses students of have been sold at that time for much, il music in an instructive, practical paper over one dollar, and, perhaps, for any, In the Ladles' Home Journal. She tells not over fifty cents. A man thinned in her article on The Vocal Student the trees, receiving the thinnings as of the necessity of securing a thorough- pay, and they made stakes, kindling ly competent teacher, of practice, and wood, and, perhaps, a few light top the care of the health; emphasizes the polea for fence. They ought to have Importance of being trained musicians been thinned earlier. They were then as vocalists; talks of the mone- left either five or seven years, which tary value of n musical training and waa too long, before they were thinned f European study. With regard to the again. They have been irregularly monetary rewards of a capable singer thinned from time to time since, and Madame Melba says: To a girl propthe pruning has been equally irregular. erly trained and qualified the profes- Standing more than 40 miles from my sion off a vocal teacher Is one of the home, they have not been as well cared Good teachers for as they ought to have been. They moat remunerative. are scarce and In great demand, and hare no limbs within 20 feet of the an the fees are large an excellent Inground, and the first 20 feet from the come may be obtained. Next cornea ths ground will make very good boards, career of the church singer. Every worth. If cut now, at least twice the box hoards. The church has Its choir, and In the ma- price of Inch-thic- k jority of cases the soloists composing larger these trees become the more It are paid, and often well paid. En- clear lumber there will be iu them, and gagements ns a drawing-roosinger its value per foot will lnrrense with ran be secured In large cities when one their size. I have other young pines on hne talent and faculty, and when the the same farm which I have pruned so voice Is not sufficiently large for Its that the logs from the first 20 feet of become a to concert possessor singer. their bodies will be perfectly free of concert knots to within two inches of their The fees of the sucressful hearts, anil these knots will be so Bmall, singer are large; she is constantly In free from blackness and sound, that Is of songs, not demand; her repertoire they will scarcely he noticed in the of entire roles, und Is more easily acboards. quired; her expenses are limited to The cost of the several prunlngs of the cost of a few evening gowns. In the each tree will, 1 judge from my experof scores costumes. of For the place amount to about one and a half opera singer there Is plenty of hard ience, cents. It would be a fast average work, but for that there Is the comwith properly thinned pinee I pensation of being associated In many growthwere two feet In diameter at 75 they cases with the famous artists of the of age. The most profitable numyears to know Is whom a liberal world, ber to the acre at this period of their growth I have not satisfactorily determined. Perhaps 13u, or possibly 150, AMMONIA. and the amount of lumber from 60,000 Door plates should be cleaned by to 80,000 feet, board measure, with all rubbing with a cloth, dipped in am- of that from the butt logs of very sumonia and water. perior quality and the remainder sound, To brighten carpets wipe them after with the ordinary amount of knots. sweeping with warm water, into which The amount of wood fencing, shingle has been poured a few drops of amlogs and timber cut tuff, monia. out in thinning such a forest or plantaTo wash you brushes and combs pu tion In Immense. The saving in cost of one tablespoonful of ammonia in oni getting lumber from such a clean forquart of water, rinse, shake and dry lb est, where every tree is a pine fit to cut, instead of having to cut paths through the sun. A tablespoonful of ammonia In a gal- trees and brush, and break them lon of warm water will often restori through deep snows to get scattering colors In carpets and will also removt trers from among mixed growths Is a whitewash from carpets. very important Item. For this and Yellow oil stains left by the sewing other reasons I prefer to have unmixed machine may be removed by rubbing limber lota and no undergrowth. the spot with a cloth wet with amI'ndfrilntniK monia before washing with soap. In the Year Book of the Department By rubbing nickel and silver ornaments with a woolen cloth, saturated of Agriculture space Is devoted to the with spirits of ammonia, they may be subject of drainage. In one part of the kept very bright with but little report It says: A soil containing too much water during the whole or controuble. If those who perspire freely would siderable part of the season should be use a little ammonia In their bath underdrained to draw off the excessive Most of our agridally. It would keep their flesh clean amount of moisture. In a soil condo better cultural crops and sweet, doing away with all disfrom 30 to 60 per cent of the taining oddr. agreeable amount of water which the soil would Spirits of ammonia will often reIf saturated. With less water, move severe headache, but should ba contain crops auffer; with more, they suffer for carefully used, as the constant use of lack of air around their roots. Wheat salts, ammonia and other strong scents may be grown very successfully, and Injures and Inflames the none. may attain a perfectly normal developEqual parts of ammonia and turpen- ment, In water culture, with Its roots tine will take the paint out of cloth-in- entirely Immersed in a nutritive solueven If It has become hard and tion, provided the water is supplied dry. Wet the spot as often as neces- with air at frequent Intervale, hut it sary, and wash out In soap suds. will not grow In a stagnant, saturated One tenspoonful of ammonia In a oil, not because there Is too much tupful of water will rtean gold or sil- water, but because there is too little ver Jewelry. A few drops on the un- air. A soil, therefore, that contains too der eide of a diamond will clean It Im- much water contains too little air, and mediately, making It very brilliant. a. two-thir- ss-we- m box-boa- g, rd of the water should be drawn off tbruii) h it ii tii s or tile drains. Centuries ago the Romans uaed to overcome ti.U trouble by planting the enip on very high ridges or beds, often eight or ten feet high and fully as wide, in this ay alleys were provided nt frequent intervals to carry eff the surface water, and the greatest extent of surface was presented for the drying out uf the soil, while the wo(e were kept at n considerable distant from the saturated subsoil. S?rar states that some of these ridges are till to he found in some localities in Europe. They are used today lb a modified form In the cultivation of the cotton off the coast of South Carolina, but are being gradually given up as tho practice of underdralnlbg is Introduced, which Is cheaper in the end and more effective. Tile drainage le usually more effective In stiff clay soils and In low bottom lands, but it Is occasionally beneficial in medium grades of loam, or even in light eandy soils. It Is practiced to a considerable extent In the light sandy soil of the truck area of the Atlantic seaboard, where the question of a few days in the ripening of the crop is an important factor. GARDEN. y.rt AND tn t HIiip FARM BATHTUB. Its Important En-gll.- sh iHrmiur of tfi Kerituif f HU tit Ha llstl Grant Natural!.! im Ai.urltmn. Ihe wi Fran i i aiiirulisl, was the List man in the ut rid whom one would export to be aiipei-nit Ions, hut In a remarkable ARTIST NOTF-- MORALS OF THE CfltOST CAME TO SC'ENTiST. IIE8CCCEEDS MILLAIS. Bea-Isla- Keeping Full nnd Winter Applets Newspajjer bulletin 37, Purdue University Experiment Station: In many localities iu Indiana there are ofen disnjore apples grown than can be of gathat time of the posed profitably ering, and so serious loss to the growers is the result; much of this Kss could be prevented by a proper handling of the fruit, and by providing a suitable place for storing until the congested state of the market Is relieved. In order to keep well, apples must be picked at the proper time. Care must be exercised In handling to prevent bruises, carefully assorting the ripe from the unripe, the perfect from the Imperfect, and storing In a cool, dry place, with plenty of pure air free from all odors of decaying vegetables or other substances. The average docs not exercise enough caution In handling and assorting his fruit. The degree of maturity will have much to do with the keeping qualities. A late fall or winter apple should be mature, but not ripe, when it is picked, if It la expected to be kept for any considerable time. The process of ripening is only the first stage of decay, and If this is allowed to continue before picking, till the apple Is ripe, or mellow, this breaking down process has proceeded so far that it Is a difficult matter to arrest it. As Boon, therefore, an the stem will separate freely from l's union with the branch, the apple Is sufficiently matuie for storing. The proper temperature fur keeping apples Is us nearly 35 degrees Fahr. as it is possible to keep it, and in order to maintain this, It will often be necessary in this climate to provide a separate place for storing the fruit, ns the average cellar under the dwelling-hous- e la wholly unfit for this purpose. If the cellar consists of several compartments so that one can be abut off completely from the others, and the temperature In this kept below 40 degrees, it will answer the? purpose very well. If this can not be done, a cheap storage house mar be built in conneca tion with the Ice bouse, by bull-linroom underneath, having It surrounded with Ice on the eidcs and overhead, with facilities for drainage underneath, keeping the air dry by mesns of chloride of calcium placed on the floor In an open water tight vessel, such as a large milk crock or pan. In this way the temperature may be kept very near the freezing point the year round, and apples may be kept almost IndefinJames Troop. itely. HorticuIturisL fruit-igrow- er Harvesting Duets. Deete and Mangold Wurtzul beets should be pulled and stored before frost. These roots are very susceptible to Injury by even a slight frost. In ham sting them he careful not to bruise them. Cut off the tops without cutting Into the root itself. They may be stored either In a root cellar or in heaps In the open field. If put up in heaps, make these in the form of a pyramid on dry, high land, and cover first with a good coating of dry straw. Let the roots be dry and as clean front soil as possible when stored. After .the heaps hare stood for a week or ten days, cover the straw with six laches of soil, except just at the top. which leave open until the heap has Unbilled sweating or severe frost Is threatened, and then cover with soil. Beat the soil solid, so that it will shed the rain. If severe frost threatens over with more soil. If stared in a cellar, allow free ventilation until frost threatens; then close up all openings and cover with straw. sJo. Cultivator. It takes 150 pounds of butter at a good market price to pay for the keeping of a cow one year. At the standard of four per cent of butter fat, that amount of butter will require about 3,500 pounds of milk. Therefore a cow must yield 3,500 pounds of milk, or say 1,700 quarts, to Just stand even with her owner, If butter is made. In order to give a fair profit on the InveBtmeut a cow should yield at least 5,000 pounds of four per cent milk, which would produce say 240 pounds of butter. The If handled with value of cklm-mllskill and intelligence, will be about $15 a year. llutrlirrlng Tine, Butchering lime Is near at band; have plenty ol dry wood up, kettles and scaldiug tub ready, the old gun ready to shoot, and the knives sharpened. Mat killed In moderately cool weather, writes C. D. Lyon in Rural World, will lake salt better and keep sweeterthan that killed in seveiely cold weather. Under latter conditions It Is liable to freeze or chill before the animal heat and smell leaves the carcass. Water heated with hot limestone rock will ulean a hog better than water heated In kettles. If you heat In kettles, put a shovelful of ashes In the scalding tub; 160 degrees is scalding heat, but water at 175 to 180 degrees will do ths work much quicker, but with more danger of setting the hair. The thermometer is the best test of the proper heat, but old butchers readily test tt by the ffcel of the water on the hands. Shoot your hogs down before sticking them. It Is more humane and even If It was not, a shot hog will bleed more freely than one stuck alive. The proper place to shoot is where lines drawn from each eye to the opposite ear would cross. Use a small charge of powder, or if you use a breech-loadin- g gun, use short cartridges. As soon as the hog drope stick him. Roll him on his back, put the point of your knife, which should not be more than six 1 ches long, right In front of the breastbone, direct it toward tbe root of the tail, thruat it In and withdraw It quickly to prevent shoulder sticking from the struggles of the dying animal. Scald the front end first, and when the hog le clean hang it on the gallows pole and crape down. Use hot water at first, and finish It up with a bucket or two of cold water. Take the insides out of soon as you can after the hog just It la hung up. Put your knife in at the hole made In atlcking and rip up and ribs; this through the breast-bon- e will allow any blood that has settled in the lungs to run out while you finish the job. Split down between ibe hams and cut around tbe vent; pull and cut until you have the bung gut loose for six Inches. Tie a string around it and push It hack Into the carcass. Finish cutting down In front, and put your left band under tbe Intestines as they roll out; with the right hand tear everything loose from the back bone, using tho knife with care, so as to avoid cutting the entrails. Cut the gullet in front of the stomach, and take the stomach out with the rest of the entrails. Remove the liver, lungs and heart after the rest is done-If the hog la not bloody Inside, use no water to clean it, but wipe it dry with a cloth. Even if the inside of the hog is rather bloody, it may be wiped clean with little trouble; the meat will take salt better if kept dty. . Car nf Klpi Grain. H. M. Fugel, a farmer and miller, sent the following short paper to be read at a farmers Institute In Missouri. In the first place wheat should be well ripened before It Is harvesteJ, for two reasons: First, wheat thoroughly ripe will keep In the stack In wet weather about twice as long as that cut too early; and second, It will make much belter flour. It will look a little shrunken, hut in the manufacture of flour the separation Is much easier, the bran will flake off and not be cut up fine enough to sift, and the flour be much whiter. The berry of wheat cut early may look a little smoother, but the dough from the flour will not rise so well, and when it does rise must be baked in a quick oveu or the bread will fall. I would advise every farmer to let bis whea' get very ripe; It will not get too rlpa. and the little loss from shattering will be more than compensated by the, improved quality of the flour. Aftiv wheat has been stacked it should o'.xy there until It has gone through a sweat, which It must undoubtedly do. It makes no difference whether it be in tbe Btraw, tbe bln, or in the ground flour in the barrel; so my advice would be to let It go through the sweat in tbe straw. After threshing, tbe wheat should be put In a granary built for that purpose, at least two feet above the ground, set on wooden or atone blocks, stone preferred, and then keep the weeds down so the air can pass under and around it freely. Where weeds or grass are allowed to grow round a house where wheat Is kept. It will cause it to grow musty and aometlmea rotten and unfit for market. The farmer who haa that kind of wheat loses from five to ten cents per bushel, which is very beavy Interest Seeds Carried by Water. When trees or smaller plants grow on river banks, their fruits often fall Into the water, and are carried down stream by the current, sometimes finding landing-placon tbe banks, and so growing up Into new plants. Who has not seen sycamore balls and buckeyea traveling along in this easy fashion? These are the fruits ol the trees they grow on. Fruit Is the part of the plant that Incloses the seed, with the seed Itself. So the dry pods that hold the black morning-seeds are as truly fruits as glory are apples or strawberries, though we commonly UBe the word only for those that are good to eat. Ex. es k. Begin Now. If you wish to have a nice display of flowers, plant hynciu.hs, tulips, narcissus, etc., now. Do not wait till next spring when you see your neighour's flower bi ds a mass of beauty, and then Imagine you ran plant In March and April and have the same beautiful hyacinths or tulips as those which were planted in the fall. They peep through the ground when the snow and frost leaves In our northern stales and In December and January iu the southern slates. Ex. A very beautiful Imitation of tortoise shell Is now made of rows horns. Work of Rootlets. By sowing seeds, whereby millions of rootlets would penetrate deep In the earth, and bring forth the potash, tbe lime, the sulphur, the phobphorus and other chemicals, which combined with the carbon and nitrogen of the air, promote the growth and sustain the life of the trees or plant there found, and to place over It a perfect and complete shelter for the double purpose of protecting it from the burning rays of the sun, and for supplying that wonderful laboratory by which the nitrogen of the air Is converted into woody matter. Eggs Intended for hatching should be kept over four weeks. must be turned every day or two.They not