FIRS* QAJLDKA AUD HOUSEHOLD,
Farm and Harden Note).
Keep potatoes in a cool, dry, dark
cellar, with good ventilation.
lit rses and cattle normally require, in
, round numbers, four pounds of water
for each pound of dry substance in their
F food, while sheep require but about two
I pounds, half as much.
A Mississippi farmer dashes cold
water into the ears of choking cattle.
This causes the animal to shake its
head violently, and the muscular action
| dislodges the obstruction.
Save lameness and coughs by an im
mediate covering of the horses alter a
!■- drive, if only stopping for a fuw minutes.
| Do not cover the horse with blankets
when ho is in exercise; not even in a
storm; but rub thoroughly, and cover
| after the horse has found shelter.
il'igs that have been raised on milk,
grass, clover, tubers and roots till they
weigh 150 or 200 pounds are generally
r healthy. They are then in good con
> dition to fatten.
In selecting tomatoes for seed, do not
t be over anxious to obtain those which
| ripen first, but select good, large,
smooth ones, in fact the best specimens
J you can find upon the vines.
A pasture constantly grazed with
| sheep or cattle fed once or twice a day
with cottonseed meal, will rapidly im
prove and will develop the best pasture
r grasses and white clover.
Clean steel with kerosene jii.
Hood sheds should be provided for
stock.
Heavy fowls sometimes receive severe
injuries in trying to fly down from high
perches.
It is calculated that one gallon of
white paint will cover about forty-four
yards of surface.
Sour milk will bring better returns in
eggs than in sny.other way.
Have you removed manure from yards
and stables for composting?
If you "slick up" about the house
your home will be more attractive and
voluable.
Vermin arc the greatest |est to
J fowls. They are worse in the winter
than at other times, ticeause the fowls
are confined more closely, and have not
opportunities to free themselves. Eicc
may lie destroyed by whitewashing the
house and roofs with lime-wash mixed
witli carbolic acid. Fleas may be de
| atroyed by thoroughly greasing the
roots. Clean straw should be supplied
* to the nests, and glass nest-eggs pro
vided for early layers A glass-covered
I coop will be useful for an early sitting
f hen and a young brood of chickens.
11 The method of selecting and saving
! seed corn, practiced by a New York
.farmer is, when husking, to select, from
the stalki having two or more ears, the
i finest and best ears—those having a
small cob, well tipped out, rows regumr
and straight, bright and clear seed, nnd
with no strange'kernels. On such he
| leaves three or four husks, and when a
I quantity has accumulated he takes one
I or two dozrn and braids the husks,
I adding the ears on one side. These
l" trusses " nrc then bung in some airy
| loft, where they will not he liable to lie
i affected by moisture rising from any
l thing stored beneath, or be attacked by
I insects or vermin. The deeper the
f kernel, with a given size of ear, the
| smaller thecoband the larger the yield,
j The eye will easily detect this with a
I little practice.
tarern mm IH-jr Wood,
Nothing can be more provoking to a
v. man than to have to burn green or
wet wood, and nothing in our opinion
l goes so far to convict the farmer of
■biftlessness ns to neglect furnishing an
s abundanre of good, dry wood. Some
J farmers contend that there is a saving
\ in mixing green wood with dry. because
j they say that it lasts longer; but the
1 reason for this is that the sap from tho
; green wood has to be evaporated before
| it will burn, and this [evaporation of
■ap absorbs the heat from the dry wood,
•o that a certa'n amount of dry wxid
_ has to be burned in order to consume
the green. This may lie classed one of
the wastes upon the farm. It is very
unpleasant for the farmer's wife to have
' to go to the wood pile and bring in wet
| wood, or have to dig it out of a snow
I bank, which is not unfrequently the
: case. A shed might be constructed at
a slight expense, in which the farmer
oould not only store his wood niter it
Was cut hut also before cutting, and
large enough so that lie or his bi.ed
Dsn might work in it on stormy days.
>ln such a shed the whole of the wood
might be cut without interfering with
any regular work. All that would be
necessary would be to have a year's stock
I in advance; dry wood could then al
ways be had and easy of access, rutting
off another great waste on the farm. It
is a wise old adage which says: "Take
I care of the cents and the dollars will
take care o( themselves." It is taking
care of the cents every day upon the
farm which lays up the dollars at the
end of the year . American CtUtinalor
Haw to 801 l and St*w.
To do either properly the food must be
r Immersed at the beginning in actually
boiling water, and the water must he
allowed to reach the boiling point again
immediately, and to boil for five min
utes. The action of the boiling water
upon the surface of either meat or vege
tables Is to harden it slightly, but
enough to prevent the escape of either
juioe or mineral aalta. After the pot
containing the food has begun to boll
Hie second time, it should be removed to
the side of the tiro and allowed to sim
mer until it is done. This simmering
or stewing extracts ail the nutritious
qualities of either moat or vegetables.
The pot should be kept closely covered
unless for a moment when it is necessary
to remove the scum. Ttie steam will
con dense upon the inside of the cover,
and fall back into the pot in drops of
moisture, if the boiling is slow. Do not
think that rapiil boiling cooks faster
than the gentle process recommended.
After the pot once boils you cannot
make its contents cook any faster if you
have tire enough under it to run a steam
engine. Remember if you boil meat
hard and fast it will be tough and taste
less, and most of its goodness will go up
the chimney or out of the window with
the steam.
Hcelpea.
AFPLK Jn.LT.— Slice theapples, skins,
cores and all; put them in a stone jar
with a small quantity of water to keep
them from sticking; th?n place the jar
in water and let them remain boiling
until perfectly soft; then strain, and to
one pint of the liquor add three-quarters
of a pound of loaf sugar; toil and clear
with the whites of two or three eggs
beaten to a froth. When it jellies pour
into the glasses to coo', and seal them.
FKATHKK CAKE.— Beat to a cream
one-half a cup ot butter, add to it two
of sugar and beat well toeether; one
cup of milk with one tejispoonlul of
soda dissolved in it; beat well together;
then add one cup of sifted flour with two
teaspoonfuls of cream tartar previously
rubbed into it; add next the well-beaten
y ilk of three eggs, beat the wuites separ
ately until stiff, add them and then two
more cups of flour; beat well between
each successive addition; butter two
middle-sized tins, put in the cake and
bake for twenty minutes or half an hour
in a moderate oven.
A PPLK J AM. —Peel and core the apples
cut in thin slices and put them in a pre
serving kettle with three-quarters of a
pound of white sugar to every pound of
fruit; add (tied up in apiece of muslin)
a few cloves, a small piece of ginger and
a thin rind of lemon; stir with n wooden
spoon on a quick tire for half an hour.
KnMehlnit Poor I,an<l.
There arc three principal methods ot
rapidly increasing the supply of plant
food in any soil: By feeding concen
trated foods upon the land, as oilcake,
cottonseed cake, etc.; by the application
of barnyard manure, and the use ot
artificial fertilizers. Which of these
three methods is to be ndoptcd in any
given case must be determined by the
many conditions and circumstances that
surround it. It may be that the feeding
of sheep with decorticated cottonseed
cake upon a poor pasture may be the
quickest and best method of enriching
the land. In otlmr cases the purchase
and application of barnyard manure may
be the most profitable. When it
comes to the artificial fertilizers, it
should be borne in mind that their true
office is to supply quickly one or two
ngredicnts that may be deficient in the
soil—when these are known their use is
to be recommended.
Foot! Vnlur of llont < top
Chemical analysis gives the following
results with regard to the food values o
diffi rent'root crops:
" Total amount ol nitrogenous or flwh-form
ing tnntorinl. i'oumU.
In 1,000 pound* ot potatoes 20 0.1
In 1 000 pound* ol innngo'iU 11 25
In 1,000 gonads ol sugar twets 10*00
In l,ouo pounds ol turnip) 21 25
In 1,000 pound* of mrrou 1312
Total amount ot rarbonaceous or tut-lorm
ing material. Pounds.
In 1,000 pounds ol potatoes 237 4
In 1,000 ponnd* ol mangolds lU7 2
In 1,000 pounds ol sugar Iswts 174 4
In 1.000 pounda ol turnips Hl'7
In 1,000 pounds ot carrots 139-1
To Heap Apples In Winter.
The following rough but good way to
keep apples in winter, where there is
plenty of material, is given in the
Praeliza'. farmer: Buckwheat chaff is
first sp.cad on the barn-floor, and on
this chall' the apples are placed, wilt n
they are covered with chaff and straw
two or three feet in thickness. Here
they remain till spring. It is not stated
that the interstices are filled with buck
wheat chaff, but this care should tie
important. The covering and bedding
in chaff has several important advan
tages—it excludes cold, prevents air
currents, maintains a un.form tempera
ture, absorbs the moisture of decay and
prevents the decay ""produced by moist
crc.
, Herman Proverbs.
One has only to die to be praised.
Handsome apples are sometimes sour-
Little and often make a heap in time.
It is easier to blame than to be better.
It is not enough to arm; you must
hit.
Would you be strong, conquer your
self.
There is no good in preaching to the
hungry.
Better go suppcriess to bed than run
in debt.
Bpenk little, speak truth; spend little,
pay cash.
To change and be better are two dif
ferent things.
Better free in a foreign land than n
slave at home.
Charity gives itself rich, hut covct
ousness hoards itself poor.
Everybody knows a good counsel ex
cept him that hath need of it.
Among the amusements in preparation
for those wintering in Algiers, Africa,
this season is a grand lion hunt, under
the direction of the celebrated Bombon
nel, and the only fear o the affair prov
ing a fiasco is the dearth of lions. So
scarce have lions become throughou
Algeria that a company was lately
formed at Bone for the purpose of lion
rearing.
A liOltltlHLK TRADED Y.
A Man la (i Hilling his Wife and itabr and
• Visitor and liar Two Children—
The Murderer then Committing Mnl
elrie.
A letter from Barnesville, Ohio, tells
the story of a terrible tragedy which oc
curred in Monroe coun'.y, three miles
west of the village of I-ewisville, in
which five persons were killed o itright
and one fatally injured. The pr neipal
actor in the scene of blond is Frank
Bcdcnhnugh, thirty years of g. The
victims are his wife. Mrs. Annie Beden
baugb (a daughter of John Jefl'res. Esq.,
who lives near Tomperanceville); her
babe, aged less than two years; Mrs.
Elizabeth Stephens, aged forty-five, and
her two children, a girl eleven years of
age and a boy five or six years of age.
All were killed nuttright except the
daughter of Mrs. Stephens, who is so
badly injurid that site may not recover.
The tragedy occurred on a Saturday
evening, at about dark. The first indi
cations of the murders were discovered
by a younger brother of B. denbau g
who bad been absent at a husking and
who returned at about eleven o'clock at
night. Entering the family room on
his return, there being just enough light
Irom the smoldering fire to east an
awful shadow upon the scene of death,
lie was horrified to find upon the floor
the body of Mrs. Betsey Stephens—a
large, tall woman, with fair face and
hair, now darkened and matted by
blood, which had oozed from her brain
and run down her dress. A frightful
wound i.ad l>cen made with the pole of
an ax on the hack of the head, aliove
and behind the ear. On the floor, [not
far away, were three children—his own
babe and two belonging to Mrs. Ste
phens—ail dead except one, which was
unconscious and could not recover.
Two of them had their heads crushed,
probably by the same weapon. The
living one had wounds about the face,
1 ut the skull did not seem to be in
jured.
The young man immediately gave the
nlarm, and a party ol horrified neigh
bors soon gathered at the scene of the
tragedy. A search of the premises was
soon begun, but nothing beyond what
has been described was discovered in
the bouse. The outbuildings were then
searched. In a tobacco (house a quarter
of a mile east of the premises they found
Frank Bedenbaugh, badly wounded.
He had crawled into th' house through
a crack in the wall. His throat had been
cut from ear to ear. and blood wounds,
e-idcntly made with a hatchet, were on
his forehead and face. It is supposed
that the man had tried to kill himself
witli the hatchet, and, failing in that,
had used the certnin and fatal razor.
Both weapons were found near him,
covered witli blood. He was yet able
to speak, and, in reply to a question as
to where his wife was, lie designated
the place where she could bo found, and
added that he killed her. He wa3 taken
to the house, and lived till eleven
o'clock the morning.
The horrified neighbors went from
the scene in the tobacco bouse to a pas
ture field where the wife, intentjon
family duties, and with no thought of
danger in her mind, had gone to milk
only a few hours before. The night
was dark and rainy. A still more hor
rible scene was here presented. Here
lay the dead body of Mrs. Bedenbaugh,
witli her throat cut and lier head beaten
and paitly imbedded in mud. The
hf.tehet and razor had been used to do
tho deadly work, nnd the fair voung
fac" w*s ninrred and mutiiaien by the
cruel blows. The bodies were placed
side by side in the bouse, and all that
Sabbath day, as the news spread, hun
dreds of persons from the surrounding
country visited the reene of death.
The exact wny in which the killing
was done will never to known.
Whether the deed was the result of a
sudden impulse, of a quarrel, or of a
long settled intention, is not known.
The actions of the murderer when his
brother left him in the morning were
not unusual, although be complained of
not feeling well. There had been no
family bickerings, and there waa no ill
feeling between the murderer and the
Stephens woman.
Frank Bedenbaugh, the murderer, is
about thirty years of age. Jasper
Bedenbaugh, his lather, is of Herman
birth, nnd has ten children. He is a
well-to-do farmer, and lives about tour
miles south of Calais, where he owns a
farm of some 400 acres. The old man
purchased the farm where Frank Uvea
several years ago, and presented to him.
Frank was a man of immense physical
strength, as were the whole family. He
waa not of bad disposition, although
the faml y had the reputation of being
fighters. He had been slightly deranged,
and wna taking medicine for the malady,
but waa not regarded as at all danger
ous. Ho waa married only two or three
years ago, and waa the father of one
child. He was raising the oldest child
of Betaey Stephens, who was about ten
years old, and iiad lived with him for
two or three years. It was to visit this
child that Betaey and her youngest child
went to Bcdenbaugh's. Mrs. Beden
baugh was twenty-two years ol age, a
lady of excellent family and amiable
disposition, and her short married life
had been a pleasant one so far as is
known.
A society of Mormon girls, having for
its object the securing of monogamic
husbands, has been discovered and
broken up at Salt Lake. The members
took a vow to marry no man who would
not pledge himself to be content with
one wife. Five granddaughters of Brig
ham Young had joined it.
What ia smaller than a mite's month f
A man who reads a paper six month*
and then refuses to pay for it.
•lathering a Crowd.
The other morning two gentlemen
were looking out of tho window of a
house on Market street, when they ob
served a cabbage roll off a market wagon
tliat was passing. Instantly over a
dozen well-dressed and apparently sane
persons negan yelling after the wagon as
though the vegetable had been a gold
watch or a thousand-dollar bill. The
driver stopped about half a square off,
looked back at the cabbage, yawned
and drove on.
" What an nbsurd fuss people in the
street make over trivial occurrences,"
said one of tho gentlemen. "Now, I'll
bet a silk hat that I could get a crowd
of 500 persons around that cabbage in
side of thirty minutes, and yet not leave
this room."
"I'll take the bet," said his friend,
pulling out his watch. " Arc you
ready?"
" Yes; give the word."
" It is now 11:30. Go!"
The proposer of the wager led his
friend to the window, threw up the
sash, and, taking a cane, pointed earn
estly at tho mud-covered cabbage with
a terrified expression. Presently a hack
driver noticed the action, and began to
stare at the vegetable from the curb
stone; then a liootblack stopped; then
a billposter, a messenger-boy and a
merchant.
" What's the matter?" inquired a
German, approaching the innocent base
of bis national dish.
"Don't touch it! Look out there!
Stand hack!" shouted the gentleman at
the window. At his horror-stricken
tones the crowd fell back precipitately
and formed a dense circle around the
innocent cabbage. Hundreds came run
ning up, and the excitement increased
rapidly.
" Lock out there!" frantically scream
ed the better, waving his cane. "Take
tliat dog away, quick!"
Several stones were thrown at a cur
that was sniffing around the cabbage.
"Take care!" said a car driver to a
policeman, who was shouldering his
way through the mass. " It's an infer
nal machine, nitro-glycerine—or some
thing."
Meanwhile the sidewalk was blocked,
the street became impassable, women
screamed and rushed into shops, and a
storekeeper underneath began to tie a
bucket on the end of a long pole with
which to pour water on the fiendish
invention. The crowd by this time
numbering over 1,000, the two gentle
men moved away from the window and
sat down. In a few moments there was
a hurried tap at the door, and there
appeared a man who had been sent as a
delegate from thf mass-meeting outside.
"I should like to know, gentlemen,"
he said, " what the facts are?"
" What facts?"
" Why, what there is peculiar about
that cabbage out there?"
"Nothing in the world." was the soft
reply, " except that it seems to be sur
rounded by aliout 1,000 of the biggest
fools in town. Do anything else for
you?"
The man reflected a moment, said he
" guessed not," and retired. Before he
handed in his report, however, Captain
Short's watch had dispersed the mob
and clubbed 211 separate persons for
creating a disturbance.— San Frartrisco
Fott.
The Abase of Trees.
Mr. Hughes, in a letter from his
newly-founded colony at Rugby, Tonn .
to the London Spectator, says: There are
few more interesting experiences than
a ride through these Southern lorests.
The scrub is so low and thin that you
can almost always see away for long dis
tances among pine, white oak and chest
nut trees; and every now and then at
ridges where the timber is thin, or
where a clump of trees has been ruth
lessly girdled and the bare, gaunt skele
tons only remain standing, you may
catch glimpses of mountain ranges of
different shades of blue and green,
stretching far away to the horizon. You
can't live many days up here without
getting to love tho trees even more, I
think, than wc do in well-kept Eng
land; and this outrage of girdling as
they call it—stripping the bark from the
lower port of the trunk, so that the trees
wither and die as they stand—strikes
one as a kind of household cruelty, as
if a man should cut off or disfigure all
his wife's hair. If he wants trcp tor
lumber or firewood, very good. He
should liave it. But he should cut it
down like a man, and take it cles n nway
for some reasonable use, not leave it as
a scarecrow to bear witness of his reek
lessnessand laziness. Happily not much
mischief of this kind has been done yet
in the neighborhood of Rugby, and a
stop will now be put to the wretched
practice. There is another, too, almost
as ghastly, but which, no doubt, has
more to be said for it. At least half of
the largest pines alongside of the sandy
tracks which do duty for roads have a
long, gaping wound in their sides, about
a yard from the ground. This was the
native way of collecting turpentine,
which oozed down and accummulatcd
at the bottom of the gash; but I rejoice
to say it no longer pays, and the custom
is in disuse. It must be suppressed al
together, but carefully and gently. It
seems that if not persisted in too long,
the poor. dear, long-suffering trees will
close up their wound, and not be much
the worse; so I trust that many of the
scored pines, springing forty or fifty
feet in the sir before tb owing out a
branch, which I passed in sorrow and
anger on my first long ride, may yet
outlive those who outraged them. Hav
ing got rid of my spleen, excited by tfiese
two diabolic customs, I can return to
our ride, which had otherwise nothing
but delight in it.
PLKILN JKKAR THE POLE.
Mrnlenant hhwitki'! (Experience--A
K1..1 Journey of iI.JDI Mile.— Alcohol
Worse Than Hhlmi.. The Thermom
eter (Oil Oeitreea Helnw Kreezlnr*
Borne interesting features of the recent
franklin search expedition were pre
sented by Lieutenant Schwatka, at a
meeting of the Academy ofScienoesin
New York.
Beginning with the use of alcohol.
Lieutenant Schwatka emphasizes the
fact tliat not a> i t of ardent mpi rit of
any kind was used.iu his sled journey of
3,251 miles. In shost ictineys and
hunting expeditions where there was
ample room foa baggage it waa consid
ered tliat alcohol might be carried, and,
if used In moderation would raise the
temperature of the body slightly and
tend, as elsewhere . to increased comfort.
But on long journeys ardent spirits could
not be carried in bulk without displac
ing other indispensable articles. Alco
hol was not regarded as necessary and
was not considered a good heating
agent. The injurious cttects of intense
cold, however, had sometimes been
wrongly ascribed to the use of li quor
On shipboard the general use of aleo
lolic stimularts was considered bad,
and only allowable when every possible
chance of scurvy was removed by the
character of the food.
In regard to temperature, Lieut' mint
Schwatka said tliat his party had en
countered the most intense cold ever re
corded by white men—seventy-one de
grees, or 103 below the freezing point.
On tiiat day the camp was moved ten
miles, and no unusual inconvenience
was felt. It was not the intensity of
the cold that was unpleasant. All suf
fering was caused by the direction and
violence of the wind. With the ther
mometer at sixty degrees no especial
trouble was met with, hut at a tempera
ture fifteen degrees higher, with the
wind blowing straight in the faces of
the men, frost-bites and great suffering
were common. The white men would
freeze their noses or the exposed por
rionsof their cheeks. The coldest days
were perfectly calm; on warmer days,
with the exception of a few days in mid
summer, the wind blew constantly.
But it was considered that to men clad
in warm clothing temperature was not
material, and the longest journeys could
be undertaken without fear. When the
thermometer sank to seventy-one de
grees the sky was of a leaden hue,
varied with brownish red near the sun.
Clouds of vapor rolled from everything
nninml. When the expedition stopped
it was enveloped in steam. Musk oxen
and deer could be detected at a distance
of five or six miles by the vapor about
them, and the Esquimaux claimed to be
able to distinguish the kind of animal
by peculiarities in this vapor. Water
poured on ice caused a cracking like
miniatun firecrackers, and the surface'
of sheets of ice was gray and opaque
from the unequal expansion. The
sound of the runners was like tliat
caused by a resined bow or tuning-fork,
and, heard at a distance, rose mbied an
itlolian harp. In the most extreme cold
the acclimatisation of the white men
proved as perfect as that of the natives.
At a very low temperature the beard
became a block of ice nnd the lips and
nostrils wprc nearly glued together.
Exercise, though important, was not so
essential as has been stated, there never
being a necessity of exercising to the
point of fatigue. For Arctic explorers
a strong circulation and a tendency not
to perspire profusely are dolrabe. The
common theories regarding the danger
of using snow were at variance with
Lieutenant Schwatka's experience. At
thirty decrees the snow freezes tempo
rarily, the mucuous membrane of the
mouth causing a burning sensation. If
this be often and rapidly repeated it is
highly injurious, but snow and ice
taken in moderation at long intervals
are of great service in quenching thirst.
Drowsiness was not experienced in con
nection with great cold, and it was
considered as resulting usunlly from a
sudden change from shipboard to out
of-door life, or from an insufficient ac
climatization.
Near-sightedness, though attended
with some discomforts, gave certain
important advantages. The glasses be
came readily covered with congealed
moisture from the heal, hut with the
squinting common to near-sighted per
sons were an efficient protection against
the glare of the sun upon the snow. No
one who was near-sighted suffered from
snow blindness, while the Esquimaux
were troubled with this more than the
white men. They also suffered from
chronic optbalmia nnd the deposits
caused by cataracts. In very cold
weather the huts were buried two or
three feet deep in snow. It was advis
able to change these huts as often as
possible, because the constant freezing
and thawing made them a mass of trans
lucent ice, and exhalations from the
breath, bodies and fires became con
gealed on the walls, continually falling
off and causing a little snow-storm in
the interior.
The effect produced by the darkness o
the long Arctic night upon human
beings was considered tojbe much more
real than the discomforts occasioned by
loneliness and homesickness. Accordi
ng to physicians, it has been found that
darkness decreases the respiratory
movements in proportion to its inten
sity. It was, therefore, held that in the
long dark Arctic wiatcr the respiratory
movements would become much re
tarded, and a consequent injurious effect
woul.i bi exerted, the circulation being
slow nnd blood imperfectly oxidised.
To prevent this, crews should be ex
posed as much as possible to the light.
American watches, with dials suited
to the Arabic division of the hours of
the day, are exported to Byria.
A Catamount In a Trap.
A recent letter from Montioello, N. Y.,
to a New York paper, Hays: Cata
mount.* have not been BO numerous and
bold for years, and the dreaded lynx has
made ts presence known In the Black
I>ake region. The appearance of these
animals, all deadly enemies of the deer,
is certain evidence that their prey is
here in unusual numbers this season.
William i'uleson, a bark-peeler while
passing 'hrough the Beaver K ill wood
heard a loud rowling proceeding from
a spot some distance to his right. He
was unarmed, but crawled steadily to.
ward the place until he was able to see
two huge catamounts feasting on a doe
they had killed. He carried the news to
the nearest settlement. Three men
armed with guns proceeded to the spot.
The animals had disappeared, after
burying the remains of the deer's car
( ase. This meant that the catamounts
had satisfied their appetites for the time
and had secreted what was left of their
feast to be eaten at some future time.
This is one of the habits of the cata
mount. As the safest and surest way to
capture at least one of the animals, a
large steel trap was buried at the aide of
the carcase. On going to it next day the
hunters found one of the catamounts
fast by a hind leg in the trap. The men
desired to secure it alive, but no one
dared approach near enough to throw a
rope over its head. Its rage was such
that it made violent efforts to spring
upon its captors. One of them finally
approached with a long pole, which he
expected to pass over the animal's neck
and hold it light to the ground, while
others tied its legs together. When the
man was ten leet away the catamount
made such strong surgings and springs
forward to meet him that it tore its leg
apart, and thus released from the trap
sprang upon him before he was aware of
the situation. It set its teeth in the pole
not two inches from where one of the
hunter's hands grasped it. Both fore
paws seized tl e pole, and the one hind
claw struck the hunter above the right
knee, tearing the flesh for nearly a foot
and at least half an inch deep. The
liun.er dropped the pole and rushed
back to where his companions stood
gazing with terror on the unexpected
attack ofthe infuriated animal. The cata
mount crouched for a spring in the
; midst of the hunters, hut a rifle-ball
1 from one of them broke its fore shoulder
and another shot gave it a mortal wound.
' No trace of its mate bad been seen, but
while the men were looking at the cata
mount they had killed, as it lay stretched
| on the ground, the unmistakable cry of
the other was heard eff in the woods. It
(tame nearer and nearer until the animal
sprang into an open space near the
hunters, and confronted them with glar
ing eyes. It crouched a moment and
then mounted to the branches of a
j chestgut tree, where, lying flat on a
; iimbi tprepared for a spring on any one
who! mtured near enough. It was shot
thro* .h the head with a rifle-ball. For
•it least half a minute it hung suspended
from the limb by the powerful claws of
its fore legs, and then fell with a fearful
yell to the ground, where it soon died.
Snnshine.
From an acorn weighing a lew grains,
a tree will grow for a hundred years or
more, not only throwing off many
pounds of leaves every year, hut itseli
weighing several tons. If an orange
twig is put in a large box of earth, and
that earth is weighed when the twig
becomes a tree, bearing luscious fruit
there will be very nearly the same
amount of earth. From careful experi
ments made by different scientific men,
ft is an ascertained fact that a very large
part of the growth of a tree is derived
from the sun, from the air. ard from the
water, and a very little from the earth;
and notably, all vegetation becomes
sickly unless it is freely exposed to sun
shine. Wood and coal are but condensed
sunshine, which contain three import
ant elements, equally essential to both
vegetable and animal life—magnesia,
lime and iion. It is the iron in the
blood which gives it its sparkling red
color and its strength. It is the lime in
the bones which give them the durability
necessary to bodily vigor, while the
magnesia is important to any of ths
tissues. Thus it is, that the mora
persons are out of doors, the mors
healthy, the more vigorous they are, and
the longer will they live. Every human
being ought to have an hour or two ot
sunshine at noon in winter, and in the
early forenoon in summer.—HalCs
Medical Adviser.
Hoard Tear I'sn versa! Iss.
If you say anything about a neighbor
or friend, or even a stranger, say noth
ing ill. It is a Christian and brotherly
charity to suppriss our knowledge of
evil of another unless a higher public
duty compels us to bear accusing wit
ness; and if it be true charity to keep
our knowledge of such evils to ourselves,
much more should we refuse to spread
evil report of another. Discreditable as
the fact is, it is by far the commonest
tendency to suppress the good we know
ol our neighbors and friends. We act
in this matter as though we felt that by
pushing our fellows down or hack we
were putting ourselves up or forward.
We ore jealous of commendation unless
wo get the larger share.
They bad been to see the tragedy ol
"Julius Caesar," and on the way home,
thoughts of the death of the great dic
tator seemed to affect her so much that
she turned to Algernon and exclaimed:
"Wasn't it sad to be cut up so horri
bly P" " Aw—yes," sympathetically re
sponded A1 vrnoc, "and he pwotably
bad on his best—aw—best clothes."