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 rTSii.rj30itiatf^nefPfm£i^»»^gimaaim mm of tribes m AfriJ their herds of cattd drop of cow's milk i ik the milk ofthel lot for human being* at the idea that Mil It a proper article J lear the great laki worth seeing to lool king cows and driakl lany tribes, however •tide of food. Hei h by the nmnberc ik he is squanderi 'neof them for foou^ buy wives and othd ;hem only when the* â- joozy True. nf ret name that she had â€" •'â- ""but she liked it better than "" N'o one ever scolded her and "^Topzy " it was always "Susie" ' Jone wrong. And True? that "h her mother, who loved to feel ^.4 nrl was one to be trusted ""â- 'always true. "^-nnv afternoon in June^ Toozy nn t^*^ balcony, reading her r .Jeiuiy w as amusing herself in ' iui(i Ixjth were about as happy If -.4^ U â-  ' "' â-  K â-  -â-  'â-  *i Ku'^^Toozy " called a voice. I"our b'eail so I can see your face "â- â- ^ hides you so I didn't know for ^^^ it was you or somebody else. 'fInvbotly else," said Toozy, mak- LiJe her for her visitor. "I -riihing that you would come over, I didn't come to stay long, for '" rirls are waiting for me down at fneitthe woods we are going to, â- ' jije wild ones have come out ^ii after the rain last night, and l^rfectly lovely." '^vou had come this morning," â-  her face clouding. " I â€" Iâ€" â- - 1 ought to go this afternoon. " 1 is away, gone to the sewing so- i always" look after Jenny when 11 tell vou to look after her this I Uattic. ,l„n't think she said anything 'â- r.liiy, l'"t then, I always do it, .j,sf "shetxpcjts nie to do it " an- li,uU tiiink you might go just â-  iiloa'i"il Mattie the servant let Jenny get into much mis- â- '].,i!!VWiiv, your motner did not JV.civ'aii'l take care of her." iiii'l ni't say anything about it," ..vtrviiig ti) (jiiiet her conscience 'U'U. "•â-  1 d'"«^^ I "'ill go- I _.,i ;\H-fllily. " v it is sometimes to make our- :,:vi- that it is right to do a ,. thing J. wiiiit til do it I Let us take. care. t was not altogether a happy ktil (jut from under the " big \-a t'.M skills went down the street ,e"t!ltl-s. ,Ji right, you see," said Mattie, r.i.k ut .Jenny, ;is she swung, in her ;:al Toozy tried to comfort her- t;he MOiils. The roses were beau- i the fresh ' air delightful, btit in |.;all. Toozy did not feel as happy blM seem. She did not w'ant to ,;;estinn?, so she must smile and ::ithe afternoon wore on she be- !t«, and at last thoroughly i: something should happan to itti'.ileil a, voice within her, "what 1 fall out of the hammock and \Vli:it if slie should start out and I'll" the woods herself " Oh, dear aiiiigs might happen which she :: tliou^'ht of before .•â-  "I the terrible things did hap- "!ii-. When Toozy at last reached tsiipportiine, for they had gone on I thinking of the time, until they r .iw.iy that it took fast walking ::iie ivfu then. Mother, father v Mere seated around the table, iittle was said about her absence. Jinny, and not a word of reproof But Toozy knew that she had â-  uL' aiiilii rojiroving conscience is â- t reprovt'i- of all. I-s Were fif.di in tlie vases, but â-  't their lieanty to her eyes. "I wis doing wrong, .mamma," â- ^tlkv talked over it before bed- "'1 not enjoy it at all." â- , answered lier mother " I 1 V. iir iiux\ ]-]very wrong action lite ami takes away the sweet- i:v true at all, we must be true I'Mthnm^di. That is the kind of ser- j^'i^L'ts us to give him let us ask |:-? us to he always true." The Sailor Pish. •inn waters of the Indian ocean a •niiir is found that has given rise 'Mas tales among the natives of ',;:weal«nit. They tell of a won- "tsn seen in the calm seasons [^'â- â- t terrible hurricanes that course *-'ters. Not :i breath then dis- r "«â- . the sea rises and falls like â-  "' gl:ws suldenly the sail ap- .â- ""' '.vith rich pui-ple and gold- ' ^ectuingly (Iriven along by a " Uuit lonies, quivering and â- ij :i hi'deckcd with gems, but v'Pl'ear ;is if by magic. Many â- â€¢â- ; heard with unbelief this •1,""'V'"' day the phantom craft â- ::;-u;fil to the crew of an Indian 'â- â€¢,' "i^ It iias^L'd by under the stern the ijiieer " sail " was seen to 'j;\cantic sv,-()rd-iish, now known â- â€¢â- ^*»- The sail 5iidi. 8cis80i»d and Penned: Let the pigs into the orchard if you have no other way of getting the windfalls picked up. A poor haK-eared for and orerworked ram will cause weak and spindling lambs. Don't forget it. re, To rush cattle into market when prices are tending downward has a tendency to lower them still more. The use of many of the tools is over for the season and they should be housed care- fully for auother year. The profits of the farm invested in per- manent improvements are as surely and safely invested as if in the best savings i bank. i I must say that a man with a poor farm and no money with which to buy manures, cannot do better than to collect all the night ' soil he can find. The U. S, Dairyman says that the cry is that honest dairymen cannot compete with j men who use cheap fat in making bogus but- ter. In the same way how can honest milk- I men who feed pure, sweet grain, hope to I comi3ete with those who use rotten refuse or swill The dairyman who is most careful to fur- nish shelter for his cows when the cold rains and frosty nights come on, and who feeds most judiciously, never letting his cows shrink in their flow of milk unnatural- ly for want of food of the proper kind and proportion, is the one who will get the most product. My idea is that fruit growers Avho want better prices should pay more attention to the temperance reform. Plug up the sal- oons, and we shall open a new maiket for our fruits. It is a matter of business, fruit- men. The less liquor sold, the more fruit bought. If you have turkeys that you intend for the Thanksgiving market, be sure that you keep them growing right along if they do not come home every night v/ith full crops .fill said crops up with grain of some kind. You can't half starve a turkfey from the time it is weaned until a few weeks before market time, and then by extra feed make an extra bird of it; â-  i If oleomargarine were pink, blue or gi-een, â-  or readily distinguishable iu any respect from butter, dairymen could not reasonably i ask protection even though its sale destroy- ed their business for it could only do so be- cause consumers preferred hog butter. The people should be protected from fraud whether they are producers or consumers. i A correspondent of the Rural Xew Yorker says This year we have had all the fruit we could eat. We began with strawberries ' and are now eating apple sauce. We have fruit on the table at every meal not a little taste for each one, but a regular dish. We have had no sickness. I figure that we have saved at least $20 in the meat bill since May. We are all healthy and fat. Fruit eating not only brings good temper and comfort, but it saves dollars. In conversation with two or three farmers within the past week, one claimed that it cost over two dollars a ton to harvest his' hay crop the second presented figures to show that the total expense was but a trifle over one dollar while with the third the expense was stated to be between three and four dollars. These figures simply illustrate the cost of doing business under different systems, or want of systems. After all that has been said,, there is not the attention given to the cost of growing and harvesting that there should be. We have not yet learned the economy of farmiug, or that in order to compete successfully the business must be systematized. was really i'ed (hjrsal fin that was .and was ri"hly colored â- ' in.lescent tints and as the ;%'mior near the surface of r ;;-^' great tin naturally waved to y-Mt. troma distance, it could r:-'"'Ken f,n- a curious sail. p,^f «e tishes attain a length of ""•, '""i^^e large, crescent- ,Lv ' long, sword-like, snouts, ^H great damage. '" a""^nean sea, a sword-fish is .^^ohasa large fin, but it does ^eat sword-lish of the Indian •^^ Wed Decided to Wed. ^!ista\ *^^ only girl I ever ^- be married the 10th of I*; Yon'i!' ^^^'" '^i^^ a member of ea ?^1 story about as ' don't you " The Pig-Peeding That Pays. Every farmer, says Thomas D. Baird, who makes the feeding of animals an impor- tant par^ of his business ought to know that their unremitting giowth is the only right way of treating them. This is the course which the most successful pork-raisers pur- sue in feeding their hogs regularly and fully- through winter and summer till they are sufficiently fat in autumn. To fatten bogs to the best advantage the pig should be fed and managed with regard to a rapid and continued growth. I know of no better way than to sow rye in the fall for early spring pasture. More than a month can be gained in this way, for the rye comes on early, while clover is slow to start, and should not be turned on until in blossom. After this it would be well to turn them in a clover field where there is plenty of pure fresh water, and give an additional feed of sweet milk, wheat bran, and commeal. Pigs managed in this way have their bone and muscidar frame well built up, their ap- petites strong, their health vigorous, their digestive powers active, and their ability to assimilate all they can digest as strong as it can be. Now the pig is in good condition for forcing in the fattening process. Many intelligent persons suppose that poor animals may in a short time be chang- ed into fat ones by stuffing them with rich food. I have seen farmers who supposed the more food they could get their hogs to eat in a day or a week the faster they would gain, become discouraged because the gain I -was not in proportion to the food consumed ' and in their disappointment come to the mquired 'I you punch t Piigilistie from the lucky fel- member, ' and coming to time at the H Stt^ â- '"*° •" *steda fourth I Sheu/^" °^«a chancel IS to marry me," conclusion that fattening hogs did not pay, when the true reason was they were overfed and excess of food was wasted. A fanner may withhold the proper quantity of food from his hogs' and even half starve them for months and then glut t^em with excessive food and thus hope rapidly to put them in a fat condition. But careful observations prove th the profits of raising and fatten- ing hogs are ret^ized only when they are re- regularly fed from day to day with neither too scant nor too heavy rations. Some ob- ject to this mode they wish to finiah the fattening in two or tluree months and think it is too expensive to continue it tor one or two years. Heavy feeding is not requisite to keeping up the continued growing condi- tion of an a nimal â-  â€" â-  i.j f â-  â-  "â-  It is said that a " inule can not bray if a brick be tied to his taiL" Yes, but what be- comes of ti»e man who engineers the bnck A correspondent wants to know if the de- tached notes in music ought not to be called coupons. • • Among the many exteamdinary natwal phenomena attaiding the eruption of Mount Tfurawera, one which tqppears 1» me not the least s i ngul a r has been passed over in ctnu- parative silence and without exciting com- ' ment, as far as I am aware, among the scien- tific or unscientific pubfia talhide to the fact of their being unable to make water boil on that terrible night, wiien earth itself appeared to be in a Mate of ebollitian. .1 give here the nuratiye from ifr. Mcfia^6 own lips ' I made. George Baker, the cook, put some water on the fire to make cocoa for the women, who were cold and shivering, poor souls, though holding up grandly. About three-quarters of an hour afterward he met me in the passage and said to me " ' Come here, sir.' I " ' What is it ' said I. I " ' I can't get the water to boil,' he said. " ' Tut,' said I • poke up the fire.' " ' It's a good fire, he replied, and so it was, a glowing fire of blazing rata logs â€" a splendid fire. Put your hand in there and feel it,' said he, taking the lid oflf the boiler. "I did so, very gingerly, I can assure you, and found the water as cold as when we put it on. There were so many extraor- dinary things happening around me that this particular one did not excite my won- der very much. I thought it was owing to the electricity in the air. George Baker can vouch, as well as myself, for the fact of the water having been on the fire for fuU three- quarters of an hour, and at the end of that time being as cold as when it was put on. We spoke of the circumstance to the others at the time as being curious, but soon had matters more serious to distract bur atten- tion." Now, surely here is a natural phenomenon worthy the investigation of all our scientific men, not only in New Zealand, but through- out the civilized world. We of course all know that the greater the atmospheric pres- sure the greater the number of units of heat required to make the water boil, but some other deterrent cause must have been at work in this instance, as after having been placed for three-quarters of an hour on a good fire the water remained absolute- ly cold. What other cause was there is the problem I suggest to our scientific men as one well worthy of their research. On the night of the Tarawera eruption the Haszard family had in their cash box, among other moneys, a half-sovereign lying on the top of four half crowns. During the storm which burst over their devoted resi- dence the building was struck by lightning. On digging out the efiiects the working party handed over the cash box to the friends of the Haszard family. Mr. John P. Morpeth of Ponsonby, at w hose house Mrs. Haszard has been staymg, has now in his possession the half sovereign and four half crowns, which form a perfect curiosity. The light- ning appears to have fused the coins together, and in some mysterious way, though the face of the half sovereign is not defaced, the gold appears to have been driven through the centre of each of the half crowais, as each in the centre is colored the size of a shil- ling as if with gold. As a souvenir of the Tarawera eruption it is one of the -most re- markable that has yet been exhibited. Don't use any more nauseous purgatives such as Pills, Salts,, c., when you can get in Dr. Carson's Stomach Bitters, a medicine that moves the Bowels gently, cleansing all impurities from the system and rendering the Blood pure and- cool. Great Spring Medicine 50 cts. 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