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Show SJFE OF story Is she living asked. still? No; she died six months before I Tes-answered. t C'harci. to. Madame and I had been away for a when we came few davs. an lhck te!d Ua she v.aj to til 3 convent ill There was great trouble ill, were ail the chapt the pray ing, and Madame cried, too; but Tt A FREIGHT BRAKEMAN. is a sad Au-t'- fcafire weather boaten. tiS tue arai of toI; Hands Lhat irr'jTNHl -- a in vv ta ntdai:., l ym ! vv him iilttnt tiik rr of the Ij3 t in the -a tl 1 1 I u as g ad. (i. ad why? Oil, because I had been so sorry to uehe so f,,r held My uheu 1 saw that hopeless look on her tvaddewiy juaro4 his ilivauiit,i:' Ckjim the him, sLnii ciy f"r Stakes. Ifcit uhi o irmVr s lev In rrs la-ar- t Cnver earth u'lis!iau JLud the w..,!v keaam mui, loud, U lube mi w ith .shrit'.-iiThea lho d tin x Want hr in nail Haste 1 heed the engine eal, the a ear tuj.s 01 jroU t ii.LU if ho fail. hn-hJ- u-- and word. decisively-h- i quietly i Antony left home 1 senh're He most mum ue stuiiu iialn, oul'U'it: at .t tI iluij ; Hexlu oot tLe ureiieh.u ruin. tlut in Ue hiaitt sunm-o- weaher, Stood;: o' on the t ar ti huh, uiv tlie h .. n tr hit laieUea lieA eauhe vrushes bv su ; A fie Vmwh the ehanind j'HUin'S That liie iu e.y .ai.N ae nuif HOSPITALITY COMES HIGH. How a Boarding-Bi- ll Has Been Visited Upon Succeeding Gen- liftnself; hut, if he persisted 5n a f of suicidal folly, he should never enter his house aga,n. s erations. It is seldom that a man tells a good tddenly; story on hims-u- f without knowing it, three day s af erw ard, ill spite of but when he does he is entitled to mother's tears and prayers, he mar-ri- credit just the same. A young man this girl who did not hear who sometimes writes stories himself of ihuructer openly at tho 1 ho news was is the hero of the adventure, which the puri-- h churchv., were sit- huppeuc la-- t summer. as brought one evening I was traveling about in tho southting' down to dinner. It luul been krniiin of course long' eforo by every west for my health, he said, and one one hut ourselves; hut I had been laid day drifted into I.as Vegas, Tex. Tho up with a strained ankle jJst then and proprietor of the hotel at which I stophad not been to husin"", and no one ped was an old friend of mine having had dared to tell my father. 1 shall lived neighbors in the old country, and never forget his faee as he looked at we were brought up togethtor in an my mother and told her fiercely that Ohio town, lhs hotel, I thought, was an ordinary $t.bo per day house, but I this was li doing that her had ruined the hoy. She has took the jirec.iutioa to ask him his never been Idee herself sinee, Austen rates." Oh, that's all right,' he said, patwent on with a break in his strong mo on the shoulder, wo won't ting scared never the lost voice frightabout rates, old buy. not while quarrel look into ened that came her fare at are stopping in this house. the tii ree words. Then ho called for you so I in his house. I could the iiioie where all our names were have gotstaid better boird in a restaurant out blotted and written, Antony's close by for $1 per week, but I didn't name with an unfaltering hand. suppose he would charge mo much He is dead to me to us all, ho more than that price, and besides 1 would not lift a finger to wanted to patronizo an old friend. said: bring him hack now. Lot him go, When my first week was up I asked with his father's curse upon his head, for my bill. 'Even fdl, said my friend, but and reap the fruits of his disobedience seeing its you Ill knock od the odd and vvicki dness! dollar. And ho did. Th it happened seven years ago, I was too mad to kick, nnd as I had Austen continued gravely; and wo plenty of money I paid the bill and got have neither seen nor heard anything out of his rae.isley shanty in short of him since then. I do not know order. Why he cinched mo so hard whether lie is living or dead. but his didnt dawn on me at the Tessa drew a deed sigh. There re isnn for it, I think, was time, this: were tears of pity standing in her Some time ago his uncle made a to the old country and stopped a eyes. trip Oh, poor auntie, she said softly month or so with my grandfather. The no wonder she looks sad! AVliat a old gentleman doesnt keep a hotel, but hard, hard man your father must have he is a little near in his habits and must have charge the Texas mans been! Ho only did what was uncle for board and the nephew was Hard! back on me. right; I would have done the same getting Let me see, doesnt tho biblo say Austen ia liis said, place, myself about the sins of the father looking dawn ut the girl with a little something making it pleasant for the children of surprise. few generations? liis faro grew so stern and hard as the next ho said these words that Tessa involHow an Orator Oosrenilcd. untarily shrank a little away, and her Down in southwest Missouri four or heart heal with a feeling of timidi'y live years ago a town had all arrangequite foreign to her fearless nature. I should not like to oTend him ments ma de to whoop er up on the The citizens had condeeply, the girl thought; he would glorious Fourth. tributed in a liberal spirit, the day was not forgive very readily I think. Austen noticed tho i hanging faeo tine, and tho crowd large and enthusiand shrinking gesture. Ho put out astic. The orator of the day was a hand and touched the pretty soft hair slim, cadaverous-lookinman from St. el 1 e- -t - 1 1 fare: and I kie v it must have gone then. S s'er Mary took me into her eel!, and I was right it had quite indul-ccnc- ii Her faee h oked very white gome. hut the looK eral worn and orn toeret huu kitdv. Dnot had ic't it. There was even a faint He will jjivo ,wnj sti.ile f"r smu; on h r lips. They had cro-sesim.c Though he imUmi but a bnvkGUiaa Lands vile. lmr him or upon In r breast and placed ik not titvui ljumu to him m word of Hindoo, a cross of dowers over her heart: hut I 4ai( Though h. eiotfo s are earse and l'laln, took it away and placed it low down tus heart can beat repoa jimj on the mattress beneath her feet. To the tout h of j.utnlor pain. Why should they put a cross when it f. death danger, Jfcsliy noth' had fallen from her for evermore? ho One nnssieji or slip of band I look it away, and I placed a crown iiemis the joor, uulueky brakoman 1 "lo the dreadful, unknown land. of great, w hit", starry lowers just As we read our evening paper, lain l.ud oil it where over the place1 Noting what it column say. Mster Mary was kneeling hi r heart. One brief ime attracts our notice, hut I more hi uKeman killed to day, bed the by eiying I too far was a glad. could not have widowed mother, tie may cry tb may he her only joy ; there, a little And, while wo m her ome she s praj iuj Alay to come trained had she which robin, tor the safety of heroldbo, ; tlevv for its food, and dear tove he evening mother. that morning ir Toiling onward day by day, into tho room nnd perched itself upon Always ormolu;; her some pieeut the he I ami sang Oh, I never heard Every time he draws luspaj. anything like its song before it was la the littlein lonclv cottage. so beautiful, so full of happiness and the litflit, waning Sitting And I could not help tiie luokles hrakeumh s mother, hope! Who expects her loy to mut. thinking, Te-s- a went on, with a wistone brum the fatal ful look in her eyes, that tho robin bear ber pray, have mercy knew and was glal as well. A she reads the fearful stoty: 1 A short silence, which neither of 'Killed while coupling car to day. them eared to break, followed tho last words. 'Tessa stood, with lmr hands clasped loosely together and a thoughtlook on her mobile faeo, ful While watching tho sunset clouds. CHAPTER IV. she had been speaking a change had Tho vivid bluo sky. Tessa whs standing by tho window passed over tho had faded into a softer gray-gree- n ia her favorite prim rose jjown, with a tint; the streaks of Vermillion nnd ribbon of tho sumo hue in her dark were almost lost in a dark orange liair, cutting tho dead (lowers off her loud; and clear and dark purple with ueh Slio Austen greeted yhuits. the primrose sky tho against such sweet welcome, eager thanks, lilted their tail a heads. Tessas dusky that he felt limply repaid for his head lmd caught a gleam of gold; her trouble. What have you been doing with face was Unshed, her eyes soft and g Tessa?" ho asked, us luminous. yourself ent ly. deJoe. To stand off and look him over, with heat his Austen heart felt ise watched tho white lingoes placing There, little woman now you youd have hot your last dollar that iai Hid you light and wonder as ho looked at her. ho lion era in tho vases. I have opened old gander could have run him all know all our secrets. Even to his practical unsentimental to out?" mother go persuade my field. Thero were secret cupboard and shown you around a ten-acr- e the was mind there pathetsomething very No, I could not; and Tessa looked some lofty spirits in town that day, aud a in he our said, of skeleton, sho family had drawn in ic the a litllo troubled. What is tho ma- tins dead nunpicture g Let one of them was Jim, Rucks, a mixture tone. lying in her cell, with tter wilh her, Mr. iievan? Ia she of patriotism whisk-high jump, and hide the and us lock the door on the grisly tho wreath of white Mowers always so quiet and sad? I fancied rough and tumble. Jim sized the orafrom and vvhieh again. had sight thing heart fought tor up, determined to have some fun that she looked a litllo brighter and poor TO HE COMINl ED. and found piece at with him, and took a seat directly in Siappior a week or two ago; but lately struggled, touching, very front of him as he stood on tho plat.iV) has eeasod to take any interest in something to Business. Applied Christianity in tho robin's The orator hadnt requiem, Mr. John lYunamukci', the prince of form to speak. anything, and I can't rouse her at all. this whom tho girl American Arts people always liko that, Mr. dealers, has even spoken a hundred words before Jim a more enviable reputation us a Chris- interrupted him. He did this twice and Tessa dropped her (lowers sister had called vain and frivolous was warned to go slow, lie and looked up wi li questioning solemn who eared for nothing hut ofdress and tian philanthropist than as a success- more aud much on dreams or warnings, nothing ful man of business. An account of didnt go old people, I mean? When amusements who thought ..yes for another opnear tho end of life, does beyond tho pleasure of tho passing tho work ho l.as done among his em- however, and watched one gets soon the orator said: moment? Min might he all those, and portunity. lretty worth-.less- ? some seem and reads of dream trivial like the ployes everything And so this little4band of pilgrim yet sho had seen what ho had failed to socialistic visionary. Years ago, be- fathers set out with stout hearts and to he failed had what understood see Not always; nnd Tessas trouhied fore it became a fashion, the custom unwavering faith in search of llo had lived with his was instituted of understand. liis for dtsik was re.loeted in Austen's eyes. store In search of skunks! interrupted shutting Then why should it ho so with mother till his life, and day by day half of each Saturday, and a library Jim. ho lmd seven the last years during She told mo was founded for tho use of all employTho orator made a long jump, light-- d her? Tessa persisted. seen that look deepen on her faee; hut ed in down on Jim Rucks, and inside of Year the establishment. by only yesterday that she was very ho had never understood what the work has grown, until there two minutes he had him licked so tired nnd tho girl's voice dropped, it meant. And ho knewtill now Tessa year that have been established tho .Savings thoroughly that Mrs. Rucks would and there was a mist of tears in her was right that his mothers heart was she that Fund, the building Association, class- have passed him by for a splatter of only waiting was eyes breaking for her youngest, best- es for instruction, and the Beneficial pumpkin jolly, which had dropped now. from a dinner basket. When sitisfied loved son, who had gone from her inWaiting? For what,? by means of which a cer- that his work was outer darkness gone with liis Association, thoroughly done, of of tho the tain For death, Tessa answered softly; to portion proceeds tho orator returned to the piatform, curse upon his head. fathers emis business distributed among and then thoro was a long pause. His faee grew hard and cold as ho ployes incapacitated for work by means and continued in tho sumo calm and You do not think she looks wot-sunruffled tones: than usual, Tessa? Austen said at thought of it. Tessa looked at him in of age, sickness or accidont. Within liberty of speech and freedom surprise. two years the Woman's House was of conscience, and they found them at last. I suppose auntie must have had opened. This furnishes a homo for Plymouth Rock. Tessa hesitated a moment. some rouble too? sho said He went on and delivered a really tho firm, and I think, she said, very gently, and gently. greatWhat was it? Her hus- women employed bymake a house the isdoneto speech, lasting nearly an eloquent everything looks as if her bands death? that she hour, and he was just concluding when home. real heart was broken. No Austen shook his head and of last year Mr. Jim Ruck crawled out from under a On Hood Austen looked at her in surprise, his brows contracted it was worse Wanamaker Friday before liis people a wagon half a mile away, where he had laid . and gave a short uneasy laugh. been laid, and queried of those around Shame for new ichenio whereby a certain trouble by far than that. per Nonsense! ho said impatiently. tho living is ten times worse to bear of tho profits of the business was him: cent What can a child liko you know of than any sorrow for tho dead can be! to Say! is that feller still speakin or be shared among the employes. Durn me, but I didnt sposo broken hearts, or of how thoso look See, dear, and ho took Tes-a'- s littlo The fightin? pliinissomewhatelaborate, but the oratory included jumpin Jim Bucks who bear them' will in I own his tell fingers gently principal features are that all who have liver out of his body! and Tessa you now, so that you may understand, Ah, but I do know! been in tho employ of tho firm seven I nod. remema little gave quaint and then we will not speak of it are to have a share in the annuHe Trusted la Providence. years Sho was one of again. ber Sister I'rsula. al profits according to the valuo of One day, a dozen years ago, said tho nuns in the convent near Charente. I have a brother, much indeed their In addi- the services to tho firm. Madame Frejus, my old governess, ten years younger than myself. tramp as he rubHe Iiad a sister thoro, and I used often, was a very handsome clover lad, and, tion to this, all the bed his hand over the deep pits in his of their term of service, are to go up being so much younger than either on holidays and saint-dayI came along to a house in the face, a share of the monthly granted to tho convent and talk to tho sisters Prudence or I, was of Pekin, 111. I wasnt much outskirts much petted and of in on the form ad play with the pupils, and I knew indulged by our mother. the house, but what did Even as a sales. On the 7th of percentage with ttruck May of last year sister Irsula very well; she was so bey ho was always in scrapes nnd bit me was a lot of coats, vests and emMr. all his Wannanniker met good tho best woman that ever lived, trouble; and it required all my mothhanging on a clothes line. I to report tho result of the pants 1 think. was on my last pins for clothes, and as Every one loved her. The er's ingenuity to screen him and pre- ployes work. The total amount of saw them hanging there I says to girls always went to her if they were vent tho stories of his escapades from years distributed and set apart for myself : money in disgrace or trouble, and the people reaching my father's ears. benefit of thoso emploped by the the Moses, Old boy. Ive alius told you lathe village used to beg . for her When he was eighteen ho was (in addition to salaries) was to trust in Providence, and you now prayers. Rut for all that for nil sho pla"ed in tho bank in tho same posi- firm KiO.GN, of which $00,158.00 was we tho result. Them duds was hung wrs so sweet and saintly, nnd so near tion that I lmd occupied when his age, $100, $10,281.02 aut there for you. Go aud git em. Iwaveu and Tessas voice sank and Eventually he would liavo been a part- in monthly dividends, I crawled along a fence, got over to seven-yeher eyes grew misty her heart was ner equally with mystlf, and it was of in annual dividends some bushes, and after a littlo among in ar.d I $10,000.00 knew employes, lroken that well enough. course neeos-ar- y that he should under a I got a whole suit and got trouble To fund. Austen looked at tho girls grave stand the routine of the work. eneourago em. Nine days after I Then the pension with iwav habit of saving, the Wanamaker faeo curiously. with one of tho prettitho troubles at home began. out blossomed My Why? llad she soino great trou-JM- mother hud contrive 1 to screen his Sat ings Rank has been established. est cases of smallpox you ever saw, of In this bank sums and $2 upward he questioned. some farmers drove mo into an faults when a hoy; hut that was are received, and draw five per cent and She had been engaged to a young old barn and let mo fight it out. When I when ho became a man. interest. Tho deposits of per- I knew what had got hold of mo I says 'i3ioer,Tessa answered quietly, and dont much care to recall thoso days, yearly sons on tho Seven Year Honor Roll to fixe-about time the for myself : their were us miserable for Tessa; just very they are considered special deposits, and Eranco-lrussiaMoses, old boy. I've alius told tho war for all, especially tnarriage, my mother, whose have added, beside the a trust iu Providence, and you to interest, He of you out. course went with favorite chitd Antony lmd always broke premium of iivo per cent., if iiow seo the result. Serves you just bis regiment to the front, and, on the boon. My father was a very hard special the whole amount remains on deposit right for being a sucker enough to very lay which was to have been her stern man- - one of the strictest mem- an entire year. supposo old lrov. cared a copper for heard she ho had of been bers our society: he had no sympawedding day, Guess you ll die, but our purfesh. seems It if as there could he no killed at Worth. She was ill for sumo thy with youth's follies could lmd no doubt about tho if you do manage to pull through just vv hieh Mr. work good lime, and then bho took the veil, nnd excuse for Antony's extravagance and Wanamaker is off" n pest house prop-ort- y doing n thus carrying keep your pawsor vvoll Oils is tho saddest part of the story, reckless vv uv s. dissolve partin future For more than throe years this into business the rules given by the nership. think just after she had completed Founder of Christianity. If thero her novitiate and taken tho final vows, miserable state of things lasted; then were more such business men they They Cot It Too Early. tho final rupture came. she found she had been deceived do much toward settling the could of an Indiana man who friends Tho had not lover lajen killed, that her Antony contracted a friendship vexed problems of Capital and Labor. died three months ago chipped in for only severely wounded at Worth, and with some actors, then pluving at the The (joldeu Rule. a monument, and just got it the other that her parents had kept back tho theatre in Pennington, llo fell in love on his news until it was too late. They said with one of the women, and announced Twenty ears atro Charles Harton day and rubbed up the eulogies his intention of making her his wife. The isly disappeared from Fredonia, N. Y. virtues and integrity when he was disoven then she was very good and papers advertised him far and wide, covered to be an $1S,0.)0 defaulter and and never uttered u word of re- You can imagine my father's wrath. and after several months of weary search It is well He but nnd was she held actors ho iriven up tor dead. and and The other day to have been a bigamist. prayed always; everyplays proach, two on these or a wait to his brother year a enough voice Tessas I and citizen Frederick, respectable votnehow know thing connected with the theatrical Erie, Pa , received a letter from him things. M- Quad. that sho profession in the deepest abhorrence. ot rew very low and awed postmarked Sydney, Australia, which Mathail been as near despair in those days I lmd never seen him so deeply moved ed that after a three years whaling vov .,se Sluffs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, tho And on. live before. brother had located in Aus- and can be missing one as any like too world's slander over a good name. where he had a tra'ia, amassel it was then that that look came into Antony might do ns he EkaJ, ho which he now-- invites his brother tofortune, You may kill them, it is true, but there il noma Ther face. sa.d; he was of age, and could please j tte sUmo.Dougl a Jorrold. ujoy. I t wa-te- d; d - TESSA. far-ol- fir-tre- t half-serio- lie-va- a" half-jestin- dry-goo- 1 stoop-shoulder- ed sales-peopl- e. re-eei- ar e? n t mvs-teri- o pa-tk-- - 'T HE HOUSEHOLD. I ! l'OR THE FARMER. treat now to the nm.PHEV belief firm that obedience is cur ft n children can be taught without blows.! that whipping a chill lowers morally both parent and child, and that the physical stiflering inflicted1 tends towards making a child a cow- nrd. Att to the slapping habit indulged in by many mothers, wo earaiot condemn it too severely. It is a vicious thing to do. and of the is simply the out-cromother's own uncontrollable temper. Such punishment makes a child only angry, stubborn, and rebellious, and the benefit looked for from such treatment is not forthcoming then or niter. As we sow, so shall we reap, and if we wished to ruin the disposition oreventhe character of a child, nojmore efficient Jmcth od occurs to us than of rearing him in an atmosphere of blows, slaps, p and unkind words. Pointer for My experience is Farmer. that a sheep kept fat through the winter will shear from one to two pounds more wooi than a poor one, says a farmer. There are at the present time in Germany upwards af GUO cooperative creameries. Of this number 3ug are situated in the province of Schleswig Holstein, where they ar chiefly engaged in preparing butter for the English market. Vance of Caribou, Grin I). Aroostook Co.-- , Me., has this year raised from one acre of land 4U." bushels nnd 11 'j pounds of potatoes, bushels ot the lot being 31.'5 Many farms in large potatoes. Aroostook regularly yield 251) to 300 bushels of potatoes to the acre. ' 5 The cheapest fence, according to The Country Gentleman, is a ditch being plowed on each Ur. John T. Nagle, of the bureau oi side and a bank raised, before vital statistics. New York, is in favor wire. The ditch and bank the of a pretty liberal diet. lie attriwill prevent animals from running butes a great deal of the dyspepsia against it, will aid in draining the and nervousness, though, to the land, and require shallow Americans eating too highly seasoned tood. Another physician agrees Most house plants are watered with the view that the American peo- to much in winter. Even in greenple habitually eat too quickly. lie houses, where a uniform nnd higher says: than is possible in temperature be are to foods hard Indigestible is maintained, most specified, because what some people the evil is more to be from to apt digest easily otaers can not. An little water. to much than rather food is boiled cab- Unless the plants are kept warm This fourhours to takes bage. digest, to grow rapidly, water is while only takes one hour. enough an injury. Tripe is hard to digest. Fried meats are always indigestible. Always Tobacco leaves or a few stalks have tho meat broiled. Bread fresh nnd hot should be avoided. Bread of tansy, sweet fern, or anything one day old is best. Highly season- of strong odor put in the liens ed foods are not genera hly good, al- nest will in many cases keep them though some people must have them free from lice. Sulphur in the nests seasoned. What agrees with one will is excellent. But if the dust bath not agree with another. I think is kept in good condition and Americans eat too many sweets, but changed from week to week there will be little need of other remedies. people. they are a The fowls will dust themselves aud so keep clean. ITS IN' THE KITCHEN. WHOLESOME barl--wir- FOOD. put-tingo- e, n post-hole- living-room- s kohl-sla- sweet-eatin- g i If it were mv fortune to be both mother and housekeeper I should strenuously insist on having every modern utensil that would really lighten my work. Strength is too precious, and life too short, to for the sake of adding a few more acres to the farm or of increasing an already comfortable bank account. If doing this necessitated my having a very plain and commonplace parlor I should flatter myself that I was showing a very commendable degree of common sense. e If I had an old, half worn-ou- t my first purchase would be a new one. It would save half its cost in fuel the first year, not to mention the saving of time, patience, and strength. If the average woman were a little in regard to more kitchen conveniences, there would not only be more justice shown, but she would increase her own and add several years to her In tho absence of milk, an excellent food for young pigs, says Henry j Stewart, can be made up ofpotatoes boiled and nmshed w ith the water in- - t to a thin paste and mixed with a suffi- cient quantity of corn meal and bran, ; so that when it is cool it can be lifted . with a This mixture is not I only extremely nutritious, but it is a well balanced and healthful food, for growing, as well as fattening pigs. : If every kitchen was supplied with rocking-chair- , and a or stool, and the busy housewife would strive to see how many kinds of work she could do as well, or far easier, by using them, instead of foolishly making a mart'r of herself and standingtill tired nature enn endure it no longer, she would I o showing more wisdom than she sometimes does. If an enterprising paper or magazine lies where it is convenient There is little potash naturally in i a sandy soil, nnd that little is a silicate or so combined with the sand as to be insoluble. Often a dressing of leached wood ashes will secure a clover catch on sandy soil, when it would fail without the supply of potash that even leached ashes contains. If a clover crop is grown and plowed M under, it furnishes vegetable mold, cook-stov- self-respec- t, life. an easy to be high-cha- ir read in the few spare minutes which occasionally come to the hardest worker an outlook will be had that will take her cut of the rut of her own petty cark-in- g cares, and give her an interest in the worlds word that will wonderfully lighten her load. If one is not strong it is worse than folly to have your own or your childrens clothes elaborately trimmed, and then stand over the ironing board till completely exhausted, ironing them beautifully on every side. If gingham or other heavy cotton cloth is made into squares of about of a yard in size they will be found much more convenient for stove cloths than the old stile of holder. If you would be wise study to do the most essential things and to see how many you are in the habit of doing which are of no real benefit to any one. Country Gentleman. three-quarte- rs ; slii-el- We make the broad assertion, says the Pennsylvania Farmer, that no farmer of this section is making six per cent, on his investments, while the average will fall below three per cent., while many are nmkingno profits at all. Again facts force us to say that twenty-fivper cent, of the farms of this section are for sale. These include some of the best in location and improvements. There is no use attempting to disguise the fact that agriculture is suffering. e which decomposing gives of carbonic acid gas, and makes some of the silicate of potash available for plant food. If the butter is thoroughly worked to remove all the white flakes of caseine, it will need much less salt. It is tne impurities of butter, and especially its exposure to air, that cause its quick decay. The pnblie taste of late years requires much less salt in butter than it used to do, and to make little salt effectual necessities all the greater care for the butter-- is, therefore, presumptive evidence that salt linn been added to cover defects nrisinr maker. Over-saltin- g from ignorance, laziness and general want of cleanliness. It is comparatively easy to pro ture of butchers the bony pieces of animals they slaughter themselves, and which are worth more even than entire meat to make fowls lay. Break the i bones up with a hammer, after boilthem so as to make them softer. ing The Hour of Heath. It does-no- t matter if some of the Many people have curious ideas pieces areas large as a chestnut. The will quickly grind them finer regarding the hour of death. Some gizzard hold that the largest proportion of if the fowls are supplied with gravel. deaths from disease occur when the It is the bone material that is necestide ebbs, while others think that sary in making both eggs and shell. the same is true in the early hours Fowls thus fed willmakeaniuch more of morning. There are yet other valuable manure than they will fed more or less impressions on any kind of grain. on this subject, but these mentioned We never took much stock in the appear to be the most popular ones. It has recently been stated that cry tor a row that shall be equally from time to time careful observa means tions have been made in hospitals good for all purposes. That dull without a particular mediocrity, which haTe resulted in showing that the act of death takes place with excellence in anything. The Devon fairly equal frequency (luring the breed perhaps fulfils this condition 24 hour j of the day. Very re- ns well as any other, and the fact cently an investigation lias" been that it bas never become very popumade in Taris, which showed that lar anywhere is proof of our position. there was a certain falling off of The competition in farming is now the number of deaths between 7 so close that only the very best and 11 oclock in the evening, but breeds for particular purposes can l with this exception, the proportion afforded. The farmer is driven to of deaths is about even.Boston, specialties as the condition of euc- Herald. , S wide-sprea- d - : i |
