Nub Rosa.
•Oiorc's a rose at tho top of your letter, sweet
heart,
Jly which little bod, I suppose,
Yon intended to nay, in a delicate way,
That your letter was written uio under tho
rose.
Tis truo of half one's life, sweetheart,
Of full half our cares and our woes;
HVc laugh and wo sniilo, hut all of the while
Tho sad tears aro falling, love, under tho
rose.
And so it is truo of life's pleasures, sweetheart,
* Htolou pleasures which nobody knows,
IVheii some dear form we prists in n loving
caress.
And rii>c lips meet ours, darling, under the
roeo.
("live mo, then, this bud which is secrecy's
sign;
To the world inay it nover uncloeo.
My friends may Is few, lie they charming as
you,
And I'll lore them, sweet, under tin- rose.
FALSE ECONOMY
" Albert, I wish you would lot nie
have seventy-live cents
Kate Landman spoke carefully, for
she knew her husband bad not much
money to spare; yet she spoke earnest
ly, and there was a world of entreaty in
her look.
" What do you want seventy-five
cents for?" asked Albert.
" I want to get some braid for my
now dress."
" I thought yon had all the material
on hand for that."
"So I thought I had; but Mrs.
Smith and Mrs. Thompson both have a
trimming of braid upon theirs, and it
looks very pretty. It is very fashion
able, and adds very much to the beauty
of adress."
" Plague tako these women's fash
ions ! Your endless trimmings and
tbing-a-majigs cost more than tho dress
is worth. It's nothing but shell out
money when once a woman thinks of a
new dress."
" I don't have many new dresses. I
do certainly try to bo as economical as I
can."
"It is a funny kind of economy, at
all events. But if you must have it I
suppose you must."
And Albert Landman took out his
wallet and counted out the seventy-five
cents; but he gave it grndginglv, and
when ho put his wallet back into liis
pocket he did it with an emphasis
which seemed to say that he would not
take it out again for a week.
When Alliert reached the outer door
on his way to work he found the weather
so threatening that he concluded to go
back and get his umbrella; and upon re
entering the sitting-room lie found his
wife in tears. She tried to hide tho
fact that she had been weeping, but lie
ha<l caught her in the act, and asked
what it meant.
"Good gracious 1" cried the husband,
•• I should like to know if you are crying
at what I said about the dress?"
" I was not crying at what you said,
Albert," replied Kate, tremulously;
" but you were so reluctant to grant me
the favor. I was thinking how hard I
had to work; I am tied to the house;
how many little things I have to perplex
me, then to think—"
" Pshaw I what do yon want to be so
foolish for?"
And away started Albert Landman a
second time; hut he was not to escape .
so easily. In the hall ho was met by
his daughter Lizzie, a bright-eyed, rosy- |
cheeked girl of ten years.
" Oh, papa, give me fifteen cents! "
"What?"
" Oh, I want fifteen cents. Do please J
give it to me."
" What in the world do yon want with
it? Are they changing school-books j
again ? "
" No, I want to buy a lioop. Ellen
Bmith has got one, and so has Mary
Buck and Sarah Allen. Mr. Grant lias
got some real pretty ones to sell. Can't ;
I have one ? "
" Nonsense f If you want a hoop, go
anil get one off some ash barrel. I can't
afford to l>e buying hoops for you to
trundle about tho street."
" Please, papa."
" No. I told yon."
The bine eyos filled with tears, and
the child's aobbing broke npon his ear.
Albert Limlraan hurried from the
house with some very impatient words
np'n his lips.
This was in the morning. At noon
when he came home to dinner there
Was a cloud over the household. His
wife waa sober, and even little Lizzie,
nanally gay and blithesome, was sad
and silent.
But these things could not last long
in that honsehold, for the husband and
wife really loved each other devotedly, ;
and were at heart kind and forbearing.
When Albert camo home to his supper
Kate greeted him with a kiss, and in a
moment snnsbine came beck ; and bail
the lesson ended there the husband j
might have fancied that he had done
nothing wrong, and the cloud hail been
nothing but the exhalation of a domes
tic ferment, for which no one in par
ticularly responsible, and might have
cherished the conviction that women's
fashions were a nuisance nnd 11 humbug,
as well as n frightful draft upon a hus
hnnd's pocket.
After tea Albort did a few chores
around the bona®, and then ho iightod
a cigar and walked out. 110 had gono
but a abort distance when ho mot Liz
zie. In hor right hand aho draggod an
old hoop which aho had taken from a
dilapidated Hour barrel, while with hor
left aho waa rubbing hor red, awollon
eyea. Who waa in deep grief, and waa
aobbing painfully. Ho atoppod the
child and aaked what waa tho matter?
Bho answered, aa well aa her sobs
would let her, that tho other girla
had laughed at her, and mado fun
of hor hoop. They had nice, protty
hoops, while hers waa ugly and homely.
" Nover mind," said Albert, patting
the little one on tho head (for the
child's grief touched him); "perhaps
we'll have a hoop some time."
"Mayn't I have ono now? Mr.
Grant's got one left—oh, such a pretty
ono!"
The sobbing had ceased, as the child
caught her father's hand, eagerly.
"No, not now, Lizzie—not now. I'll
think of it."
Sobbing again the child moved on
toward home, dragging the old hoop
after her.
At one of tho stores Albert Land
man met some of his friends.
"Hello, Albert? What's up?"
" Nothing in particular."
" What do you say to a game of bil
liards, Albert?"
"Good ! I'm in for that."
And away went Albert to the billiard
hall, where he had a glorious time with
his friends. He liked billiards. It
was a healthy, pretty game, and the
keeper of the hall allowed no rough
scuffs on his premises.
They had played four games. Al!>ert
had won two and his opponent had won
two.
"That's two and two," cried Tom
Piker. " What do you say to playing
them off, All>ort?"
"All right, go in," said Albert, full
of animation.
And so they played the fifth game,
and he who lost was to pay for the five
games. It was an exciting contest.
Both made capital runs, hut in the end
Albort was beaten by three points ; and
with a little laugh he went up to settle
the bill. Five games, twenty cents a
game—just one dollar. Not much for
such sport ; nnd he jiaid out the monev
with a grace, and never once seeming to
feel that he could not afford it.
" Have a cigar?" sai l Tom.
" Yes."
They lighted their cigars and then
sauntervd down the hall to watch the
others play.
Alli-rt soon fonnd himself seated
over against a table at whieli some of
bis fri. nds were playing, and close by
stood two gentlemen, strangers to him,
one of whom was explaining to the
other the mysteries of the game.
'• It is a healthy jiastime," said he
who hail been making the explanation;
" and certainly it is one which has no
evil ten-leticv."
Alliert heard tho remarks very plainlT,
and he had a enriositv to hear what the
other, who seemed unacquainted with
billiards, would say.
" I cannot, of conrse, aascrt that anv
game which calls for skill and judg
ment, and which is free from the at
tendant enrse of gaming ia of itself an
evil," remarked the second gentleman.
" Such things arc only evil so far as
they excite and stimulate men beyond
the liotinds of healthy recreation."
'• That result can scarcely follow such
a game," said the first speaker.
But the other shook his head.
"You are wrong here. The result
can follow in two ways : First, it can
lead men away from their business; it
can lead men to spend money who have
not money to spend. Whenever I visit
a place of this kind I am led to reflect
npon a most strange and prominent
weakness of humanity as developed in
onr sex. For instanre,ol>serve that young
man who is jnst settling his bill at the
deak. He looks like a mechanic, and I
should say from his manner, and from
the fact that he feels it his duty to go
home at this honr. that he lias a wife
and children. I see by his face that he
is kind-hearted and generous, and I
should jndge that he means to do as
near right as ho can. He has been
beaten, and he pays one dollar and
forty cents for the recreation of some
two hours' duration. If yon observe
you will see that he pays it freely, and
pockets tho loss with a smile. Happy
faculty I Hut how do you suppose it is
in that yonng man's homo? Hnppoee
his wife had come to him this morning,
and asked him for a dollar to spend for
some trifling thing—noma household
ornament, or some bit of jewelry to
adorn her person—and suppose his
little child put in a plea for forty cents
to buy a jper and picture liooks with,
what do you think he would have an
swered? Of fifty men jnst liko him,
would not forty and five men liave de
clared that they had not money to spare
for any such purpoee ? And, moreover,
they would have said so, feeling that
they were telling the truth. Am I net
right 7"
" Upon my word," said tae man who
understood billiards. " You speak to
tho point. I know that young mail who
hiiH paid liia bill, and you have not mis
judgod liiiu in a single particular. Ami
what is more, I happen to have a fart
ut hand to illustrate your charge. Wo
have a club for an excellent literary
paper in our village, and last year that
man was one of our subscribers. Thifl
year ho felt obliged to diacontinue it.
Ilia wife waa very anxioua to take it,
for it had become a genial companion in
leiaure momenta, but ho could not af
ford it. The club rate waa ono dollar
and fifty a year."
" Aye, and ao it goea," auid tho other
gentleman. " Well, that nian'a wife
may bo wiahing at this very moment
that ahe hail her paper to read, while ho
ia paying almost ita full price for a year
—for wiiat ? And yet how amilingly ho
does it Ah ! those poor, sympathizing
wives ! How many clouds often darken
upon them from tho brows of their hus
bands when they nak for a trilling sum
of money, and how grudgingly the mite
is handed over when it is given ! What
perfect floods of joy that dollar and
forty cents might have jioured upon tho
children of that unsuccessful billiard
player. Ah ! it is well for such wives
and childreu that they do not know
where the money all goea."
They had tlnishcd at the nearest
table. The two gentlemen moved on
and Albert Landman arose from his
seat and left tho house. Never before
had lie such thoughts as now possessed
him; he had never dwelt upon the
some grouping of ideas. That very
morning his own true, faithful, loving
wife hiel been sad and heart sick be
cause he had harshly and unkindly met
her request for a small sum of money.
And his sweet Li/.zio had crept awav to
her home almost broken-hearted for
the want of a simple toy, such as her
mates possosaed, and yet the sum of
both their wants amounted to not as
much as ho had paid away that evening
for billiard-playing.
Hbert Landman wanted to lie an
honest liu si land ami father, and the les
son was not lost upon him. On the
way home he stopped at Mr. Grant's
and purchased the best and greatest
hoop to lie found, with driving-stick
jmintcd red, white and blue, and in tho
morning, when he beheld his child's
delight, and hail received her grateful,
happy kiss, the question came to his
miml which was the best and happiest
result—this or tho five games of bil
liards? The hoop cost thirty cents.
He could play two games of billiards
less ond Iki the alisolnte gainer of ten
cents by the pleasant operation.
A few mortiing* after this, as Albert
arose from the breakfast-table, he de
tected an uneasy, wistful look upon his
wife's face.
" Kate, what is it?"
" Albert, could yon spare me half a
dollar this morning ?"
And out came the wallet and the
money was handed over with a warm,
genial smile.
What! Tears at that ? Was it pos
sible she bad leen so little used to such
see nee on his part, that so simple an act
of loving kindness thus affected her?
11 How many games of billiards would
l*> reqnired to seen re such satisfaction
as Alliert carri<-d with him that morn
ing to the shop ?
A very simple lesson, is it not; but
how many may gain lasting profit by
giving heed to the lesson ?
Tree fi*tern.
It has long Wen known, through the
reports of travelers, that in certain arid
districts of Africa water is often found,
even in the driest seasons, in hollow
trnnks of the great 1-soWb tree (Adan
soniai and it was supposed that this
provision of water was, so to say. natu
ral ; but it appears from the investiga
tions of officers attaches] to severing
|>arties sent ont by the Kgyptiau gov
ernment that these reservoirs are neither
formed nor filled by the accident* of
nature. They are in reality prepare,l
and filled byHhe inlmbitants of the
oonntry who carefully remove the de
cayed and s|iongy flWr from the inte
rior of the trunk and laWriously trans
fer water to the cisterns thus mrde,
bucketful by bucketful, from neighbor
ing pools in which it collects at the
rainy season. The impoitance of these
reservoirs is illustrated by the fact that
trunks containing 15,000 gallons of
water are not uncommon in Kordofan,
and that individual trunks have I>ecn
measured which might store 33,000 gal
lons. The officers of the survey urge
that it would W well for the Egyptian
government to organize a service for
the protection and maintenance of thes e
trees von the |>oat roads and telegraph
lines so that couriers, linesmen, inspect
ors, etc., might always find a store of
water. Th >y cite one particular post
ronte where in times past the ]>eoplo of
the country had carefnlly filled the
Adansonia trees during the season of
rains, and thns insured water dnring
the dry season for much travel. Bnt
when troops were moved in that direc
tion the inhabitants took alarm, altan
doncd the vicinity and neglected to fill
the trees so that the road liecame aa
good aa impassable.
MORAL AMI RKLIUIOUK.
llroUrn PrlenaUlil*.
Friendship is a good deal like china.
It is very durable and beautiful as long
as it is quito whole; but break it and
all tho cement in tho world will not
quite repair tho damages. You may
stick the pieces together, so that at a
distance it looks as well as ever; but it
won't hold hot water. It is always
ready to deceive you, if you trust it;
anil it is on the whole a very worthless
thing, lit only to bo sot empty upon a
shelf and forgotten there. Tho finer
and more dclicuto it is, the more utter
the ruin. A mere acquaintance, which
needs only a little ill-humor to brink it
up, may bo coarsely puttied, like that
old yellow basin in the store closet, but
tenderness and trust anil sweet exchange
of confidence can no more bo yours
when angry words and thoughts have
broken them, than can those delicate
porcelain tea cups, which Were splin
tered to pieces be restored to their
original handsome excellence. The
slightest crack will iqioil the true ring,
and you hail better search for a new
friend than try to meml the old one.
And all this has nothing to do with for
giveness. One may forgive and be for
given; but the deed has been done anil
the word said. The flowers and gilding
are gone. The formal "making-tip,"
especially between two women, is of no
more avail than the wonderful cements
I that have made a cracked ugliness of
| the ehina vase that you exjs-cted to be
j your " joy forever." liundled delicately,
washed to purity in the waters of truth,
confided to no careless, unsympathizing
hands, friendship may last two lives
out, but "it does not pay" to try to
I mend it. Once broken, it is spoiled
1 forever.
Mrligloua Vrw nnd Voir®.
Th< African Methcxlist KpiHcopal
church claims that it has 3*7,50(1 mem
tiers and probationers, against 213,000
reported in 1*73.
Among tho complaints given at tho
Philadelphia meeting of Friends was
one that Friends sometimes go to sleep
during public worship.
York county, I'onn., is the banner
county for the Lutheran ehurcb.
Within its bound* • are abont h,(**i
member* of the General Synod Luth
eran chureb.
Canada Baptists support five mission
aries in India, where they have filO
communicants. One of their mission
aries, John Craig, rcjiorts the n-cent
baptism of 107 converts.
The Methodist churches of Ohio
numlier 2,014. Ohio has also 2,042
Methodist Sunday-schools, with 22,060
officer* and teachers, and scholars num
liering 172,323 a trifle less than the
entire membership of tho church in the
State.
The Churchman calls attention to a
popular misapprehension. There is no
canon, it says, which prevents an Epis
copal clergyman from preaching in a
ehnreh of another denomination, as
has lieen frequently charged, but there
is an express prohibition of a clergy
man preaching within the parish of
another clergyman in another diocese.
One hundred and twenty-three Con
gregational churches were organized
last \ ear and fl/ty-two dissolved. There
are now 3,743 churches, with a member
ship of .'1*1,3-12. There are 4 1t,02*
memlier* in tho Sabbath schools, a gain
of 7,123. The amount of benevolent
contributions fur the year was 91,032,-
272.32, a falling off from the year Ik-fore
of 9in;,4!0.
The highest percentage of Preeby
torian communicant* to the population
of thirteen leading cities in this country
is four per cent This is in Rochester.
The following shows the strength of
the Presbyterian rlraroh in the cities re
forred to: San Francisco, 2,001: Cin
cinnati, 3,787; Cleveland, 3,131; In
dianapolis, 2,644; Pittsburg, 3,1813;
Newark, N. J., 4,183; Chicago, 4,ti:fc'.,
St. Louis, 2,i>-t0; Philadelphia, 23,000;
Brooklyn, 10,003; New York, 18,330;
Rochester, 3,671; Louisville, 2,730.
Paper Pulp Toys.
Various toys and other articles are
made from paper pulp, the method be
ing to roll out a flat cake of the pnlp,
then press it, piece by piece, with the
hand, into the proper mold, till all the
outer coutors are covered. The mold
and inclosed mass are quickly dried,
and the molded parts are then put to
gether. The process is slow, and the
articles have not the strength desirable
in children's toys. The following new
process, however, is said to obviate this
difficulty: Fifty per cent, of flncly-|ow
derod clay-slate is mixed with twenty
per cent, rag paper pulp, thirty per
cent, burnt gy|>sum, and sufficient
water; and the well stirred pulp is
|x>nred into the closed and hollow
molds (which have been flrwt penciled
over with finely bruised gy|>snm, or the
like). After standing a few minutes
the sn|ierfluons pulp is |>oured off. and
the product is then taken ont of the
mold, dried, and further treated in the
usual way. The advantage of the
method is, that the mixed pnlp is poured
direct into the closed molds and
qniokly hardens in them.
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
In Cuius a Fki*.—Ah soon oh tho
part* begin to swell get the tincture of
lobelia and wrap tho part affected with
a cloth; saturate it thoroughly with
tho tincture and tho felon will soon die
—poisoned instead of hung oh felons
ought to be. This never fails if tried
in season.
To Br wove Bi'iufTANOKS i'hum tiik
Eve. Make a loop of bristle or horse
hair, insert it under tho lid, and then
withdraw slowly and carefully. ThisiH
said to Im< never-failing.
To Stop tiik Fnow ok Bmmid.—Bind
tho cut with cobwebs and brown sugar,
pressed on like lint; or—if you cannot
procure these—with the fine dust of
tea.
To Bror Buaunxo at the Nose.—
A I*reach surgeon says the simple ele
vation of a jH-rson's arm will ship
bleeding ut the nose. He explains the
fact physiologically, and declare- it a
positive remedy. It iH certainly easy of
trial. Or, a strong solution of alum
water, snuffed up the nostril, will cure
in most cases, without anything further.
Cahi: ok tiik Comi-kkxion.—lt is u
mistake to believe that u good
complexion depends upon tie- use of
sueli ami such,cosmetics. It really de
-1 icnds ujKin digestion, which depends
upon our mode of life. Persons who
rise early and go to lied regularly at
ten, who take plenty of air and exer
cise, eat with moderation at regular
hours, have their meals at intervals long
enough for the digestion of one to le
thoroughly accomplished Ik-fore tbey
begin the next—these jit-rsons are sure
to digest well, and, in consequence,
have clear, healthy complexions, which
will require no other cosmetics but
plenty of soft water and good toilet
soap.
In Ihe Wrong Pulpit.
A young Methodist clergyman, not a
hundred miles from Lindsay, Canada, u
few Sunday* ago was delegated to re
lieve a brother clergyman in u neigh
boring village, and never having been
in the place liefore lie had to make in
quiries when he got there a* to the lo
cation of the jmrsonage. It was j
pointed out to him, and after putting
his horse in the stable he walked into
the church next door, naturally thinking
it, from its proximity to the parsonage,
to be the church in which he was to
preach. The congregation had nearly
all assembled, and a* the young divine
walked up the aisle to the pulpit ex
pression* of Hurjirise wore manifested on
all side*( that they were to have a strange
minister without having heard anything
about it. But of course the clergvrnsn
could not read their thoughts, anil sent
up his list of hymns to the choir in the
usual way. Then he leaned back in his
seat for a breathing spell before com
mencing the service. As he was taking
his ease a clergyman entered the
church, ami seeing s strange minister
in the pulpit he quietly took a seat in
tho front pew to await developments.
Presently the stranger took down the
hymn-liook from the desk and turned
up the jiagc on which he expected to
find a hymn he had selected, but was
astonished to observe that the numbers
did not cor rc]>ond. He Iteckoned to
tlio clergyman in the |>ew to come for
ward, anil asked "I* this the hymn
book you use bere' ' "Certainly; that
is the Bible Christian hymn-book." was
the reply. Tin- young minister took in
the situation at once; he had got into
the wrong church. After making an
explanation he gras|>ed his hat and
promptly walked ont I.iniUty
—■
New Core for Crime.
An idea, not exactly new, but now re
ceiving new attention among scientists,
is deserving of notice. The th-oiy lias
been advanced that murders and such
crimes are not the fmit of devilish dis
position, of revenge or of bate. They j
ore simply the natural result* cf some
abnormal condition of the brain. The
undue growth of the brain in the region j
of the medulla oblongata presses upon
the brain and drives the innocent man
to innocently seize an ax and blame
lessly chop his wife's heod open. *lt is
her misfortune, not his fault. The post
mortem examination of the brains of a
numlier of murderer* show* in s majority
of casos some tumor, malformation or j
softening of the lirsin. The brains of
assassins are usually larger than the
average. Btiicidos in almost every ease
show softening of the ltrain in one or
more loin** Tho radical believers in
this theory argno that this being the
ease hanging ia not the remedy tor
crime. Murderers are to be pitied, not
punished, and placed under medioal
treatment instead of hanged. At least,
while the theory ia not generally ac
cepted, they hold that a convicted mur
derer should le given to them toexper
iment on, cut a section out of his skull
bone and try to mold bis brain into
new shape.
However this may be, in places where
hanging is still in vogue, where the
choice i* between confinement under
medical treatment and turning the
criminal loose on the community, the
decision should not he long to consider.
—PiUtbvrg Tdigraph.
A HIM FA KM.
A Wheal farm of 7.V01M1 Acre. In Hit.
Itola. and How li I* Worked.
In an article on Dakota arid its mam
moth farms a New York Herald corre
spondent gives the following irite-rent
ing particular# about one of the 1 argent
farina in that immense Territory:
A great ileal of interest ha* attaeheil
of late years to scientific fanning on a
large acale. I have seen nearly all the
big farms in Dakota, but have not yet
ruailo uj my rniml an to the practice
bility or profit of mammoth farming.
One of the lx**t big farm* in Dakota
in Mr. Dalrymple'a. It consists of
acres and coat from forty cent*
to £o ja;r acre five yearn ago. The
taxes are ten cent* j>er acre j>er annum
for school, road and county purposes.
There in no government tax. The farm
is laid off into S,'KM) acre tracts with a
superintendent over each division. Ho
i has a foreman and gang foreman under
him. Tin- su|Mjriutc!ident subdivides
. hia S,'XJO acres into 2,500 acre lota, and
these also have foremen. All the buai
j neaa i conducted on regular vouchers,
! and all supplies are drawn on requl
; sitions, the same as in the army. The
| division foreman gives all orders. Money
! is paid on time checks, and each work
! man receives his money whenever he
wanb it. Mr. Dalrymple is cultivating
; 25,000 ai res, and S,(XX) acri *is being
' added each year. The crojis are sow d
in Ajiril, and about three weeks are
taken for the planting season. Wheat of
the Scotch Fife variety is planted, and
one bushel and twenty ipiartN is sown
jer acre. All the planting is done bv
| machinery. It takes 400 head of horse's
j and mules to plant the crop. One seed
J sower plants about 200 a/ res, and each
I harrower alrout 100.
The new land is broken after the crop
j is in, and the breaking i- general]*
; commenced early in May. The land
| produces No. 1 liard Fife wheat, and the
yield is twenty to twenty.four bushels
; js-r sere.
The cutting of the crop commences
August 1, and 115 automatic binders
and harvi-sters are used. Of these 100
are Wood's pathnt and fifteen McCor
tnai-k s. The sheaves are bound with
; wire. The threshing-machines used
are twi-nty-one in number. Tlie crop
' is cut in twelve days, and about one
thousand bushels per day is threshed
on each thresher. The threshers take
a gang of twenty-fire men and twenty
horses for each, to haul wheat to the
machines anil then to the cars. No
stacking is done on the farm. As manv
as fifty cars per day are loaded with
wheat at this farm, the average per car
lx-ing bushels. An expert on horse
liack attends each two harvesters wbeD
they are at work.
The sees! wheat is takrn from the
new land and all the surplus grain is
put into market immediately after liar
vest. The first yield of wheat from the
land is usually the best; the average
weight of wheat rained on this farm is
fifty-nine pounds. The workers on the
farms are mostly Norwegians, Scandi
navian* and Germans. In the spring
months they an- ]>aid £IS j-er month
and board, during the cutting season
£2.2.i per day and board, during the
threshing season £2 per dav and board,
and in the fall £25 per month and
loard. In winter only one man for
each forty head of horses is retained
:in set .ire, aDd he is jwid £.'lo per
i month.
i In breaking the first farrow is al>ont
four inches deep; tin land is then
hacked over the same ground. The
average plowc d by each man per dav is
about two and one half acres, and the
distance traveled eighteen miles. After
the ground is lack set it is harrowed
and left lay until the next spring.
! Every four years timothy and clover is
to he sowed and plowed under to recu
js-rate the land.
The cost of raising wheat on this
farm is £ll per acre the first year and
1 sf thereafter. At an average of twenty
bushels per acre the interest on the
money invested is seventy-five eenta
per acre on the basis that the land is
worth £l2 per acre. At this rate we
perceive wheat can be grown and sold
i at fifty cents per bustiel and the farmer
still make a good living. To put up
good buildings, bins and machinery,
plow and sow new land, cost* £t per
s< re, to which if we aid £.' l, the orig
inal cost of the land, it brings the land
up to 812 per acre, which is not exces
sive for a good farm. Mr, lhdrymple
give# the following as the basis of the
operations of his farm:
'Vwl*.
A'.wt of raising wheat on the farm, per
tmsbel XS
Freight W> New York, p-r bustx 1..... ... . 4s
Helling commission \\s
Marine iiu. iranc. J p,. r cent 2 *
Ocean freight. IS <mnts is
Cnatuignoci.*. 12
Total cost per bushel to tv>rk 9fi> ' .1
Coat delivered at New York. 6fi ~
An Illinois man was arrested and
fined $25 for disturbing a debating
. clnb. We should like to know him.
The man vjho has got the voice and
energy to disturb a debating club, pro
vided the Utter is healthy and active
in iU diabolical mission, is worthy our
acquaintance, and ought to lie given a
j government position as a fog-horn on a
j stem and rock-bound coast.