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THE VENGEANCE OF R TREE, BY BUUNOR FARRAND LEWIS. Through the w. ndo wa of Jim Daly 'a sa- loon, in t he litt'o town of C , the set tinq sun streamed in yellow patch* j, lighting up the glaaaea scattered on the tables, and the fres of several men who were gathered near the bar. Farmera mostly they were, with a apr.'nkling of shopkeepers, while prominent among them was the village editor, and a!l were discuaaing a startling piece of .;ews that spread through the t iwn and ita surrounding*. The tidings that Walter Stedmao, a laborer on Albert Kel- aey'a ranch, had murdered his employer's daughter had reached them and had spread universal horror airong the people. A farmer declared that be had aeen the lead committed aa he walked through a neighboring lane, and having alwaya been noted for hia cowardice, instead of running to the girl'a aid, had hailed a party of miners who were returning from their mid- day meal through a field near by. When they reached the spot near, however, where Stedman (aa they supposed) had done bia black deed, only the girl lay there, in the alillneaa of death. Her murderer had taken the opportunity to fly. The party had searched the wood* of the Kelaey eatate and juat as they were nearing the houae itself the appearance of Walter Sted man, Wiiikinp in a atrangely unsteady manner towards it made them quicken their pace. He was aoon in custody, althouc h he ha 1 protested nia innocence of the crime. He aaid that he had juat aeen the body himself on hia way to the station, and that when they had found him he waa going to the house for help. But they had laughed at hia story and had flung him into the tiny, stifling calaboose of the town. \Vhat -rare their proofs? V/alter Sted- man, a }oung fellow of about twenty-six, had come from the city to their quiet town, juat when timea were at their hardest, in search of work. The moat of the men living in the town were honeat fellows, doing their work faithfully, when they could get it, and when they had socially asked Stedman to have a drink with them, He had refused in rather a scornful manner. "TUt infernal city chap," he waa called', I '^"."'g and their hat- and envy increased in atrength when Albert Keliey had employed him im preference to any of them. Aa time, went on, the story of Stedman 'a adi iiralion for Margaret Kelaey had gone afloat, with the added information that hia employer's daughter had repulsed him, saying that she would not marry a common laboror. So Stedman, when thia newa reached hia employer's ears, waa discharged ; and hia than waa hia revenge! For them, these proofs were sufficient to pronounce him guilty. Yet, that afternoon, aa Stedman, crouched on the floor of th* calaboose, grew hopeleaa in the kojwlsd ge that no one would believe his story, and that his undeserved punish- ment fould be awifl and tare, tramp, boarding a freight car several mil^s from the town, aped away from the spot where hia crime waa committed, and knew that for ever ita abadow would follow him. From the tiny window of hia priaon. fellow 'a life to climb iw It's got the devil in it sure." So old farmer Brown shouldered hi. axe ar.d made oQ' for another tree, his son fol- lowing. They had sawed and chopped and chopped and aawed, and yet the taU white oak, with ita branchea jutting oat almost aa regularly aa if done by the work of a ma- chine, stood straight and firm. Farmer Brown, well-known for his weak, cowardly apirit, who in witnessing the murder of Albert Kelsey's daughter had in his flight, mistaken the criminal, now in his superstition let the oak aland, because its well balanced position saved it from falling, when other trees would have been dov n. And *o thi* tree, the Mime one to which an innocent man had been hanged, was left for other work. It was a bleak, rainy nigKt inch anight as can be found only in central California. The wind howled like a thousand demons, aud laahed the treea together iu wild embraces. Now and then the weird " hoot, hoot ! " of an owl came aoftly from the dis- tance in the lulls of the storm, while tha birking of the coyote* woke the echoes of Ihe hills into sounds like fiendish laughter. In the wind and rain a man fought his path through the bush and into Farmer Brown's "cross-cut," as the shortest way home. Suddenly he stopped, trembling, u if held by aome unseen impulse. Before him rose the white oak. wavering and away- ing in the alorm. "Good lioi ! it'a the tree I swung Sted man from !" he cried, and a atrange fear thrilled him. Hia eye. were fixed on it, held by some- undefinable fascination. Yes, there on one of the longest, branchea a small piece of rope still dangled. And then, to the murderer's excite 1 vision, this ropeaeemed to lengthen, to form at the en 1 into a alip-knot, a knot that encircled a purple neck, while below it writhed and awayed the body of a man ' "Hang him," he muttered, atarting to- warda the hanging form, aa if about to help the rope in ita work of strangulation; "will he for ever follow me ? And yet he deserv- ed it, the black-hearted villain ! H* took h*r life " He never finished the aentence. The whit* oak, towering above him in ita Itrength, seemed to grow liki a frenzied, living creature. There was a ladden _ then came a crash, and i under the fallen tre lay Stedman 'a murder- ' er, crushed and mangeled. From between the broken trunk and Waller Stedman could aes the red glow of the atump that was left, a grey, dim ahape sprang out, and sped paat the man's still form, away into the wild blackness of the night. PAUPERISH IN ENGLAND. < rnmem ni.il.llr> Reveal *)nlr a Fan r tke Ulre aaid Crvnlaia; Pev- erlr. The remarkable fart that throughout the whole of Kngland and Wales there were at the end of last yeas twenty-four paupers exiating on (!overnment charity in every thouaand of population, is contained in a great moss of statistic-son pauperism recent- ly issued by the Poor Relief Department of the British Government. Tne exact per- cent 'ge was '.'!.."> paupers per 1,0*10 of popu- ation. There was a great increase of the heavens that betokened the setting of the sun. So the red sun of his life was soon to set, a life that had been innocent of all crime, aud that now waa to be ended for a deed that he cever committed. Moat pro- minent of all the visions that swept through his mind waa that of Margaret Kelaey, lying aa h. had first found her, fresh from the hands of her murderer. Hut there waa an- other of a more render nature. How long b* and Margaret had tried to keep their secret, until Walter could be promoted to a higher position, ao that he could aak for her hand with no fear of the fatber'a antagonism. Then came the remembrance of an afternoon meeting between the two in the wooda of the Kelaey estate how, juat a* they were parting, Walter bad heard footstep* near them, and glancing tharpiy around, aawan evil, acowling, murderous face peering through the brush. He had started to- wards it, but the owner of the countenance had taken himself hurriedly off. The gossiping tuwnapeople bad miacon- trud this romance, and when Albert' Ke'aey had heard of this clandestine meet- ing from the man who w . later on to ap- pear aa a leader of the mob, and that he had discharged Stedman, they had believed that th* young man had formally proposed and had been rejected. But justice had gone wrong, at it had done innumerable times before, and will again. An innocent n*mn waa to be hanged, even without the comfort of a trial, while the uiau who waa guilty waa free to wander where he would. That antnmn eight the darkneas came quickly, and only the stars did their beat to light the scene. A body of men, all mask- ed, and having as a leader on* who had ever since Stedman * arrival in town cherished a secret hatred of ihe young man, dragged Sled man from Ihe cala')>oe and tramped through tha town, defying all, defying even (tad Himself. Along th* highway, and into Farmer Brown'a "cross-cut," they went, vigilantly guarding their prisoner, who with the lanterns lighting up his haggard face, walked among them with the lagging step of utter hopelessness. " That'a a good tree," their leader said, presently, 'topping and poinrrg out a spreading oak ; when th* slipknot waa ad- justed and -teilmsn had stepped on the box, he Added : " If yo've got anything to aay, you'd baiter aay it now." "I am innocent, I awear before lio.i," tlie doome'l man anawered, " I never took the life of Margaret Kelaey. " Give us your proof," jeered the leader, and when Madman kept a dc;iairing sil- ence, he laughed short !y. " Ready, men !" he gave the order. The box waa kicked aside, and then only a writhing body swung to and fro iu the gloom. In front of the men stood their leader, watching the contortions of the body with silent glee. " I'll tell you a secret, boys," he said, auddenly. " I waa after that poor Murdered girl myself. A very little chance 1 had; bat, by Jove ! he had juat aa little '" A pause then, " He's ahunted thia earth. Cut him down you fellows !" " It'a no us*, son. I'll give up the thing ba I job. There's something pauperism during the year, many thoui ands of people, owing to the gneial busi ness depression, being driven to ask relief for the tirat time in their livea, and the officially recorded proportion of pauperiam reached the highest point in many years. The proportion wa. sir alien in 1891, when it was 23. 'J to tha 1,000 of population. This ia a remarkable fact in itaelf, aa indicating the normal amount of extreme pauperism in England, for the record is only of paupers applying for Government relief. It ia a corioua fact that the proportion of paupers to population ia smaller in London than throughout the real of England and Wale*. Bat there ha* been a great in- crease and continued growth of pauperism in the metropolis in recent year* which i* cauaing a great deal of anxiety. In the tacond week of la>at December there were 1(W,.'I7I> paupers m London, which waa equi- valent to -'.:( per 1,000 of th* whole popu- lation. This waa "v'.l'Jli more paupera than were receiving relief in the city iu the cor- responding week of the previoua year, and a greater number than in any year since The proportion of pauperism in London was highest in the years 1367 aud 186?, when it reached 47. 8 and 4s '. respectively to the 1,000 of population. But these wore year* of exceptional depression, and the astounding figures have never been reached in any other year since the inauguration of the present system of statistics. The low- est point was reached in IS!) I, whan the proportion of paupers was 2.4 per 1,000 of population. Since lhat year there haa been a ateady growth of pauperism in the metropolia, and at auch a rate and with auch coincident cir -umstancee a. to be the cause of much anxiety to the authorities an.l a matter of great public concern. Hut these figures ara of the pauperism only that come* to the official notice, and the record take* no account of the vast amount of poverty that is relieved by priv- ate charily and through other th.in 'iovern- ment aonrcc >. To "go on the parish" i* tlie laat and much dreaded reort of the houeal poor, only to he availed of in direat extremity, and the Coroners' recorda show that many unfortunates have died of actual tarvation rather than thus apply for pub- lic charily. More than a do/en of such nod caaes are noted on the official returns of inquest* held in London alone during last year. So that the atarthng showing of twenty-lour pauper* m aveiy thousand in- halitanta it, only pait of the picture of poverty in Kngland. aa a ba I job. 1 here a something queer rivic about that there tree. l>o you see how its | In branches balance it? We have cut tha ' ala '.unk nearly in two, but it wo 1't, como <<own. There's plenty of other* Around : we'll take one of them. If I'd a lung rope with me I'd get that tree down, and yet the apparently to work without any distinction May the iniug sltads it would b* risking a of ex. The Cause of the Attitude. Watt* "Just look at that fellow on the bicycle, will you ? What in iheworM iathe use of him humping over so '" Potts "He must ba trying to put hia ahoulder to the wheel." A French Higgler of vital atatiatics ays that the number of deaths in tlie world d uring a aingla century closely approximate* 5,000,000,000. A watch chain that had been missing for several year* waa found in the stomach of a oow alaughtered by Jack Bird, of Mer- riwelher, (Georgia, recently. a new colony to bo established in 'alabria by an Italian deputy there will be equiiity between the lexeo. and the dress question Kan been decided beforehand. Men and women are to wear similar attire, and AGRICULTURAL. Give Them Good Care. With a dairy herd thai has not been well sheltered and fed during the winter, the spring ia a very trying aeaaon. The cowa are thin in fleah and weak accordingly. Often they are forced to live on straw and other fodder which ahoul 1 be thrown to them between meala, to be picked over at i-nure only through the cold daya of mid winter, and as soon aa the snow begina to diaappear and the ground becomea frozen they are permitted to roam over ihe lota at will, picking the dry, dead grasa from the cornera of the fences and enjoying them- selves aa beat they can, with occasional daya of aunshine in the raw blast* that aweep across tha field, chilling them to the very marrow. This allowing cattle to roam at large in the fields during the early apring, is a mistaken and very bad practice too commonly indulged in by many. It is much better :o keep them sheltered, turn- ing them out to breathe the fresh air only in warm, sunny daya. If they are thin in fleah they are iu no condition to reaiat the chilly winda, and the stubble graaa and dead turfs in the corners of the fences, which they pick up, doea them more harm than good, only dutendiiig their craving stomachs without affording them any nourishment. It i. a harden to get rid of, and makes them feverish and costive. They ought to be generously fed and prepared for their coming work, if they arc cowa. The burden of calf-bearing and the milk-pro- ducing that is to follow call for plenty of good hay and a liberal aupply of grain, to give them strenglh and furnish a supply of nourishment for the calf a* well aa an abundance of material out of which to Uborale milk. Nor should thi. full feeding of hay and grain bs disconlinued aa aoon aa the grass begin, to start. i orbing with that relaxes the system, looaena the bowela, and makea the cows feel weak, lazy and faint. Thi. au iden change from dry to green feed give, too great a ahock to the system to maintain perfect health. Kvery one know* how green graaa operate* upon horse*. It make* them woavk and flabby, loose and la/y, and ao they are supplied with hay and grain until tlie working snaaon ia orer and they are turned for a run on gross. A cow is no leu severely worked by giving birth to her calf and elaborating a gener- ous flow of milk. Besides, her labor haa no aeaaon of real, when she can roam at leiaure, doing nothing. She must con- tinue her work through tn summer and fall seaaon, whatever may be the weather or condition of the feed, and then enter upon another aix mon-l ' siege of dry feed and cold winter. Her life experience ia not one of the greatest poenible enjoyment At all times it should be the aim to give her strength and build up her system ao that it can perform and endure the burdena that aha ia e > peeled to bear. The belter ahe ia oared and provided for, the better ahe will do, and the better ahe doea Ihe more ahe is entitled to kind and ^eneroua treatment. The grvateat profit lie. in breeding your beat cows to the best blood you can get it cost, but little more than poor blood and then giving i heir offspring the best keeping and most kindly treatment you art! capable of. This haa been aaid ao often that it seems needless to repeat it. But progress i< so slow and ao many are penurioue and l>a>rd to learn that the evi- dence of progress i. discouraging. There i. no more mistaken policy than that of trying to economize by raiaiug inferior atock and trying toaave by pinching in ita kcf.p especially in the line of the dairy. took lying in the barn all day, even though they were confined lu rigid atauichiona. (You know I said this was a poor man 'a barn.) The cows were allowed liberty at night in tlio pasture, ihua giving them a chance to rest. If any one doabts whether or not it will pay to protect cowa from heat and Hiea, giving them what green corn they need to eat, I only aak him to try the ex- periment, and ha will be convinced, aa I am. A Lion -Tamer's Peril. One night Black Prince sprang 10 foet through the air straight at Philadelphia who aaved hia life by dodging, but did not eacpe the aweep of the lion 'a forearm. No one knew that, however, for the tamer ahowed no aign of injury, but brought hi* heavy whip down with a stinging out over the lion 'a bead, and went through the "act," holding a handkerchief to his face now and then, but smiling aa before. When he left the ring it waa found that x>ne of the lion's .-laws had laid hia cheek open almost from eye to lip, yet the man waa smiling. "He meant to kill me, " said Philadelplia, aa hia face waa being bound up. "We will never anow that lion again," aaid the manager, much excited. "Oh, yea we will," anawered the wounded tamer. I will make him work to- morrow, aa usual/' And he did, teasing and prodding him that day aa never be- fore, aa if daring him to do hia worst. Aa the weeka paaeed, it grew clear that Philadelphia, either through some change in iiia way of handling Black Prince, or through some change of temper in the lion, waa loaing hia control; bat si ill he con- tinued to take the nak, in spite of protesta from the management. First he tried only one performance a day, instead of two, hoping thuato placate Prince'a smouldering wrath; but Prince only snarled and growled the more fiercely, and steadily grew worae. " Philadelphia may be caught any day," one of the other trainers said to me; but still Philadelphia persisted. The climax came one night in January, when Black Prince came within an ace of ONTARIO CROPS AND LIVE STOCK. Following ia a bulletin aent out by toe Ontario Department V 'Agriculture, from information aent in by correspondents Fall Wheat Tina crop had enters* a moet crucial period aa correspondents wrote, and much uncertain! ly existed re ganling ita future pronpect*. Early in March tine bright weather prevailed, and the protecting covering of anow disappear ed, revealing the fields of wheat in a pro- miamg condition m moat nmr'ers. The latter part of March and the early portion of April, however, waa a season of alternate freezing and thawing, and the cold nighu and warm daya not only reaulted in much "heaving,' but alao browned the tender blades and left all but well-drained tielda with an appearance anything but aatiafac- tory. The situation at the time correspond- ents wrote waa aa followa : Fall wheat baa been aeriously aet back by spring froala and abaence of warm rains. Should another week or two of nnpropi tioua weather prevail much of the crop will have to be plowed up or reaown; but aa the roola are vigorous timely thowera and genial weather may carry the fields forward towards an average yield Where the fields entered the winter with a good top they are still vigorous and ver- dant, and i nose who practice under-draining rejoice in an encouraging outlook. The great fall wheat counties along Lake Erie aend rather discouraging reports, and in the eastern portion of the province, where the act cage ia small, the prospects are equally poor for a good crop. In the Lake Huron group the county of Huron (rives a cheerful report, while Lambton and Bruce are rather the reverse. The <ieorgian Bay counties' reporta are equal in ton, and on the whole the chances are hardly a> good aa usual. In the West Midland group favor- able report* prevail over thoae of a leea encouraging character, and the same may be aaid of the Lake Ontario counties. So far there haa been an almoat complete exemption from injury by worma or in- sects. Rye. W hat little of thia crop la grown tamer outright and ', c * me ^"""s? 11 the winter in fair condition, would have done so had hia at- i | tbou >> injured in place, by ioe. The area tention 'not been diverted just at the crit- | ' WIDt * r T" 1 ">conaiderak la, taking the loal moment by the horse he waa riding, i P ro " n ow. but here and there in the He pa U ,eU in tha very act of springing | ntraJ and eastern counties aome atoat as ifto decide whether ha would destroy ! ***t~ ^"i. crop are to b. found. (..over. The report, concerning ihii crop are not favorable. A few correspondent* speak of good field* and encouraging pros- pects on high and well-drained lands, but eaat and west there haa been a good deal of "heaving." more particularly during the pr:ng, and a liberal application of the land roller will not fully remedy matter*, meadow* have suffered moat in thi. newer fields are rather patchy and thin owing to the drouth which covering her erstwhile superiority at sea, j prevailed laat autumn. A few correspondent. the mail or the horse, and in that panne allowed ilia tamer to get on hia guard while the watchful grooms rushed iu through the iron gates an 1 drove Prince from the ring. [McClure a Magazine. The British Navy. The comparative decline of Great Brit- | ( _ am's naval atrength among the power* of | reepec t" and'the " Kurope, and the vital necessity of her re- | p atcnv m d thmcj are subject* of vital importance to the whole British public. It appear* to b* generally recognized that, if, in the course of a great war, England's navy fail to pro- tect her commerce at sea, shs will be ex- poaeu to national atarvation. Under these circumstances the writer urges that prob- ably the most short-sighted and expensive policy which (ireat Britain can pursue ia to keep her navy juat abrewt of, or even allude to the injurious effects atill traceable from ihe visitation of grasshoppers last I aummer. At present the chance, appear to be rather against a good yield of hay and clover thia year, although t.mery raina may make up for past drawbacks. Vegetation. Up to the time report, were sent in there had been but little actual growth in field and forest. In fact, at the loae of the second week of April vegetation little hemd of, the naviea of the two powers ' , ppe r .a u> be but little ahead of what it Feeding 1 Cows During 1 Milking 1 - There can be no doubt on thia aubjeot, a. amply experience of our best dairymen i , n would ^ dlMO | ved the Co | on nd and farmers have proven it to be the case. , f ndi . , . t Md K ,. , ,,., , mh ,, A cow giving twenty hve pound, of milk a . third . rat<! ,-jZKrsJ country. Unfor- day while baing fed at milking, fell to a tumkUly Ior ?ngfand the mane, who ml* quarter of that weigh' m three weeks by ' -- - which, it aeema not improbable, may at no W M.two or three weeka earlier. A good distant day be arrayed against her. By , prlng nio WM hop<>d (or Dy correspondent, far the wisest and. m tha long run, the | ,o ln .thing that would atari growth and cheapeat policy for her to pursue is, he con- , brlng the ieaton well f orwaru . tends, to put forth her full power of ship- building at once, to largely increase the personnel of ihe navy, both men and olli- cera, and to ahow all companion, ouce for all, that rivalry ia useless. The writer urge, very forcibly and decidtdly that if Gieat Britain were defeated at era the Km- having the timo of feeding changed, and being milked by other hand*. Roth exert- ed their special influence. But what waa unusual was the regaining the former quan- tity of milk by again receiving the former ration at milking time and Ming again milked by the same milker. Another cow that had yielded a large daily quantity of milk, having greatly fallen oil in her milk, was fed at milking time, and though milked by the same man aa formerly, regained herns- a<tl flow and quantity of milk. The ration at milking time mint have brought the change. A la 1 ge Shorthorn cow owned by a milker and distiller, was, fed a good, rich slop at milking timi- every day, which caused her to till a large pail, so that the f-oth over- llowed the p ill. This cow, at the death of the milker, paaaed into the hands of a ne- glectful party and soon dwindled to a poor milker. The experience of thoie owning extraordinary milkers will bear testimony to the good effect ot liberal feeding at the time of milking. The family cow, generally is thus fail, and the average family ciw is the largest milker. The contentment of a feeding cow causes her to give down her milk in free and full measure. Kind treat- ment, at the same time, ia paid for in milk. Cowa thus managed will, aouhtleaa, pay a larger percentage of annual profit than any othor cowa not ihua fed and treated. Many thecountry. whose well-being is wrapped up in her continued supremacy, neither under- stand nor care to learn the conditions under which they are supplied with work and food. They do not reali/.e that loea of empire mcana national extinction. Subterranean London. It ia now generally recognized through- out Europe that the underground electric road offers the simplest and best solution of the problem of rapid transit for cities, and the rapidity with which underground line* have grown -n favor haa drawn at- tention to future possibilities in the utili- zation of the earth, below the surface, for commercial and other purposes. It hsa been proponed in crowded cities, where land i* of high value and municipal restric- tions have baen passed, limiting the Height of office or other buildings, that buildings should go downward and that aa many tone* miglil with advantage be built un- der ground aa above ground. Operations now going on in London, Kngland, seem to point to an extraordinary development of underground resources in cities in the early future. On emerging from the Kiver Thames the new City and Waterloo line wiil, in it* passage up Queen Victoria street, run for a part of the way underneath tha low-level main sewer, which in ita turn run* along of our best dairy covaare injured by rough i beneath the Pistnct Underground Railway. 80 that r.l tins point in the city there is, first, a buay main thoroughfare, below thit a steam railway, then a huge metropolitan sewer, then an electric railway, reaching ill terminus at a depth of about sixty-three feet below the streets, and here it will com handling. Summer Care. A correspondent write*: How many times we ind the farmer going for hi* cos, the sun moat down: he ia tired and hia help ia tired; the cows arc a little con- trary, the Hiea are bad, the feed poor, and everything aeema to be going wrong. Xo wonder he get. out of patience ; the cows get out of patience, mid we certainly cannot wondar at it. But ia there a remedy for these trials? Yes, I claim there is. Last summer's experience taught me a valuable lesson. My oowa have already been milked at regular intervals, aa order ia the first law here. We all realize how dry laat season was, not only dry but ex essively hot, and it seemed aa though flies were never o bad in the world. I alwaya plant a large amount of aweet or other corn to feed t he c>w< during the dry hot months, and 1 wish to be understood to feed in abundance. L*at aeaaon, whan the flies began (o pat in an appearance, I ordered my man to put, tha cows in the barn at !t o'clock in the morning, alao every other day to sprinkle along tl.e back of each cow a nuificient amount of insect powder to keep flies away entirely. I had screens placed over all windowa, atickey fly paper nailed or put around in different placaa all through the stable; and it waa certainly a aaliafaclion to aee what comfort thoae oi.wi municate with another line, the < entral London, which will lie at a depth of eighty feet, Mr Gladstone to America. Mr. Thomas A Kdisou hat received from London a phonographic cyclinder on which Mr. Cladatone'a voice haa been caught for the edification of hia many admirers on the other side of ,the Atlantic. TIlia ia the message of wise counsel he eenda : It ia self-help that makes the man, and man- making ia the aim which the Almighty haa everywhere impressed upon creation. It in thrift by which self help for the maaaea dependent upon labor in principally made effective. For them thrift ia the symbol and the instrument of independence and of liberty, indispensable conditions of all permanent human goodness. But thrift ia also tin- mother of wealth, ami here cornea the danger into view, for wealth ia the mother of temptations and lead* many of it. poaswaaor. into a new form of slavery more subtle and nol less debasing than the old. From this slavery may all land*, and especially all lands of the English tongue, hold themselves for ever free ! Livestock. Taken altogether the report, concerning the condition of live atock may be considered satisfactory. Horses do not appear to have been aa well cared for aa in former years, owing to low prices, yet though rather on the thin aide aa a claa. they have com* through th* winter with but little aickneaa, barring an occasional attack of distemper. Horned cattle aa a rule are healthy, though lean : reports of diseaae were very scattering. Tuberculosis was referred to by aome correspondent., but the case, alluded to were not regarded aa serious. Sheep are in particularly good i mi, and lambing ia proceeding most mat is- factonfy, save that a few correspondents , otnplain of an unusually large proportion of single* being dropped. Swine are also in generally good condition, Some form of distemper is here and there reported, ana a diseaae " resembling rheumatism" baa shown itself in a few placea, while in the neighborhood of Dereham townaliip hog h'lii-ra brove out recently and carried off '-'<*' hog* : but notwithstanding theee local and occasional occurrences iheawine indus- try haa aeldom presented a more favorable bill ot health. There was plenty of fodder with which to carry stock through the winter, taking the province all over. Farm Sappliea There isr.ot much unani- mity of opinion regarding the quantity of hay, graiu or fal and atore cattle on hand. In the thne western districts of the prov- ince the bulk of correspondents report a surplua of hay and wheat, and in aome countries there are more oata than are need- ed for feeding and seeding. In the Lake Ontario counties there ia but little hav to spare, and in the eastern and northern hay, wheat and oat. are in store in only moder- %tequantitiea. A great deal of hay waa press- ed and exported during the fall and winter, and large quantities of wheat were fed to live atock, more especially to swine. Fat catile are hardly as plentiful as usual, and buyers appear to be any in moat quarters, a* several correspondents state that fewer ewe* than usual have been sold for May shipment, "-tore cattle are plentiful with some farmers andacan e with their neighbors: in fact the cattle induitry appears to b* in a moat unsettled condition, except in the case of freah cows, which are in belter de- mand than ever for the dairy. Dynamite and Nitre-Glycerine. .Sitro glycerine i> a mixture of glycerin*, nitric ami aulphuric acids. The two ,< nl* may be mixed and co-jled .irtitically: the glycerine ia then dropped into the mixture, and tha result ia washed in plenty of water, the nitroglycerine separating aa a heavy, yellowish liquid. Dynamite is porous earth soaked in nitre-glycerine: the German in- fusorial earth, called kieaelguhr, take* up three lime* ila own weight of nitro-glycer- me and makea the beat dynamite. Nitro- glycerine uncombmed ia stronger than th* dynamite; it ia alao more dangeron* to the handler. .Sugar, white nu.gn-*i powder tri- poli and alumina are used in making dyna- mite, aa they take up and hold larger quantities of tha aitro. glycerine. Nitro- glycerine ia from four and'* half to aix and a half tnnea aa powerful >..- gunpowder, and dynamite i rather leaa powerful.