*arm and Aouotitold, \ tep Cooking and Courting. Diiir'Ned--nO doubt you'll he'shiprised, WhenVWhen yourecie,i - ye . and Eye taikid ibainst the married :state, But then you see,,l knew nojietter, I'Ve . met a lovely girl ont.herei' ' Her manner is—r.'well--Very . winning ; ,We'ye;soon:th he. welli,Ned - , ' tell,y4all from ••the be ginning, • 1 went, to ask her out , to , s •., Latit'Wedidak--4t perfectw4atlier ; She said she couldn't • • The servants had gone off together.,, (Hiberniami always. gush away, • • - - At`cousins' funetalsAobe louking,) . PieS must he made, and , she must stay, • She said, to doAhatbratich of cooking. • . "Oh let me help you,',' then 1, cried "I'll-he a cooker To :'how jolly I" ,\: ShOlauglied, - and ansWered,' With , a • "Ali right:i. but youll,repent your folly, Fur 1 shall he a: tyrant. , sir, And good .hard 'lave to-grap ple ; •• • . :So sit down .here, and don't you stir,- • But take that knife and pare that. apple." Site: rolled lesieefe aboVe her arm,-H That loorely arm so'plump and rounded ;\ Outside, the morning sun Shone bright ; Inside. the doughshe deftly pounded, . Her little fingers - sprinkled flour ; • , • '1; And. rolled the pie crust up in masses ; ' • "1 passed the,most delightful bony; butter, Oituraud,Molassea., With deep reflection, her sweet eyes , Gazed on each pot-and pan and kettle ; She sliced her apples, tilled her pies, • 4nd then the upper crust did settle. d , ' linm - ayes of golden hair .er rippling wk In one i great coil were tightly', twisted ; But locks would brake Out, here and there, . And curl about where'or theY Arid. theit her sleeve . eatrie doWn, and I. • Fastened it upHier, hands Were doughy Oh, it did take the lougstjime, • Her - firth, Ned, was so fair and snowy . She blushed, and trembled, and looked shy ; Somehow; that made me all the bolder ; Her arched4ips looked so red that I--• Well—lbmid her head upon my . .shoulder: we're to be married, Red, nett month'; Come and tend, the•qedding revels. • really..think that balors • • • Are' theimost . miserabledevils ! You'd better go for some girl's hand ; And 'Wpm, are uncertain whether Ytiu dare to make it due•demand, • ,:\ -Why; just try , cooking pies together.. - Borrowing Tools. There-Is, habit Prevailing among ' farinerS which tight to be.treated and cured as a disease. Just - what remedy, might be.. per Scribed, would perhapabe liilieult to tell.. In • SOme- farming. , rictaa dozen or so of the. inhabitants are always down sick wiih this terrible 11, they could be. c tired - it would be . n, blessing to. their:respective' neighbors. Land' ,tvo4ult.l,• -rise, in value, and property would be '-more desireable from . the Moment it could i 1 be said. that that-class of individuals had been 'cored .or "moved away." To. he , cum i;elled to• borrow ..- a farm . tool :is. . enaharrassing . enongiiicitittO 'never retnru it, or, after mouths have elapsed return i.t in 2a dam-' aged Condition' iS aggravating.' There 'is no Chili people - . in Idle' ,worlit 'l2norei gileronitind'iccOnitnadliting than tillers of the • Soli': • They. ••like . ,. to -:(lo .as • -time would.be" done by, that is, \the • better portion. of them,. • But even the gulden rnl6 and prompting spirit! wear:.: out when. pract iced,hy .Certaiii class of- men' Ott their continual expense.- I heard an • old farnior:sa3i once : havelearned. to do as I am done*by,and.not as I would be done by. : • Self-proteCtion,first and' the golden rule afterward." The old farmer was right as the world. goes,. - if wrong in any higher oStop. Now' ianniit thiS great evil be cured.. and society 'this respect be - relortried ? , What we ask; is, th at . all .borrowed tools be -taken home at- once and be returned aegood order as'when • they left, their .owners' hands. ',lf they are cracked unbroken, take them thel shop and:have. thi:m .t4aired., or buy new • ones to return in their steal .If. our ad vice is heeded' and a' new eratishered in a grander 'etep - will . be-taken towards. the wkirld's regeneration !than an thing. the Stiffrtigisis can. do • byl:- their votes or their conventions. Whenlarmers,in their bp; - ward progreSs get ,So i hey- Can/ re=. turn' borrowed tools imn . ei,tatelif after they hav,e_tised'tliem,.,.,thesigns of . a bet :ter time will' have' come:` — . - • -...111.• - • A . . • . . - . ,Plea fur the4;oo4.eit • • • John C. Dinyille, ~ f Seabury township who has 1 - ,,fre4 . 3itently, de.llghted theyead ers 6I thel'lnAttirer, with his well written artielesonaktpthe - following plea for the chicken hawkon the January number of the Lancaster•Farmer4 ' In the discussion of the , bird Question at the ladt Meeting- of the Lancaster Conti'y • Agilbultdral! and Hortieultinal Seciety, while it wAs areed that all other birds should be protected by law ,from the gunner, the society scented un aniinous in theityieidict that - the chicken hawk Ahould e the target of every gun, ittAlle - Conntry. At one time I enter tained similar views in iregard to the chicken 'hawk, but • I - have - not shot one for years, being . ifully , contiiiiced that he is .a friend to the farmer... , • • Darwin' shows bow. in many cases, the crop of clover seed la , deliendent , on. the • supply of cats in the ',neighborhood.— Humble bees distribute the pollen on the clover bloom ; field mice destroy the young humble bees cats Catch the littit' the chicken bawk better nuinser than _:the cat. ; Nothing hurts, the eye of the worse than to see great bare spots in hp!, grrssf fieldS, where field mico have worked under the 'snow and des troyed the roots of the clover. '‘ *. I have aice large hawk that every day sits for hours perched ,on it :.horizon tai dead branch of an old chestnut tree in the field. He forms:a fine, olear,cut , ~ tqtejliquPet the. min ekr 'at he ei;te there nfotionless as a statue. ,- Now and then he swoops clovpi ; and tikes. up a mouse, with, perhitps;:§6irie his talons,. I.iwould tiot exchange - him \for the hest, glinie cock or thel/est Brit tnali i i the country. - Trne,hesometimes catohßs' a rabbit;for or partridge,or. hearts off a pullet for his. crop; _but . heis fully entitled' these,.as', - Part pay for-` leis sex- vices asAinonse,r..;-:. 4! . • :it:fa-true Aliat,. viewed from. a senti mental standpoint,' bir(is 'cf''prev.• afford bu(feiV•iraits to challengenur:adiiiiratien .1314'ramence teaelles. their use, - 4Gd when • : science and sentiment • come: n: Conflict,_ we.•i',o'''l)ound to aeceiit the,t - iliroults of the former, •.. . ~.. ~. . • TheCniw is also a r MUcli 'Maligned 'bird, bittAliankS to his sa . 2 . 1 - ,eity; ,. this •``bird of• ill Citien7 generally_ escapes the shots of his persecutors..... .The.croW: . j§ represented 'as living tO *great §ge,. : • •- ' :. The . ,crow NO a decided - taste and doe§ good seaViae in the earn . field early spring. ..I - have 'known ,this bird to hOok cut wOrins out of . a ! 1)i.11 pf corn with iti beak, and . leaVe the.:grain'un; .tosiched.. • .:: , ' ' . : - -. -. :- 'I .once was very . much .`amps d ed at :one . of these• ebony birds that faun a neat or hen's eggs near a neighbor'sharn.',l. saw Mtn iMI the eggS • out of • 'the - meet. an ti then,:fly - off to a grove near 4.,,Vresent ly. two crows returned from the wpochind 1 and a l happy time eating theeggs:. I jud-.;ed . that One-of-these was the crow that found the eggs - and the.' othar. Was _his'N6fe, though I cannot be qualified th a t : s u c h. 'was the fact. -\ Perhaps' -it was another crow's wife.• ' 14 my li i;sr. conjecture in - re gard to theif.consangninity wa:?•right,the bird'certamly showed some solicitude for the comfort of his ' alt. frau than sonic , ' husbands I know. of.' 1 'feel . kindly tor' ward these black scavengers, and throw the biitchering..offal where they cap get it.' ,They get. ..toTibly'-hungry .when the ground is covered with scow. ' . ' '-' • . Preparing for an Orchard. . . Although it is alrequent practice with . many . . farmers to. set . theiitrees first - 6.nd prepare :their 'soil.. aftt-rwitrd, still wrongi never' made a \right? ) It is.im poSsible to obtain an evt , n depth- to the soil by thiS- method 4 going to':work,. and orre ban .neverpromote a. regular lOoSe Sit rface' Close up . t heyou 11 g trees by so dOing. In: fact ° 'tlie.:man ,nlio de .cries where his orchard is to be planted oneyear advande 'of "the work, and nuts his.ground in the best possible'-c:ni i tion before a tree , - iset, ,wiil not n freq tie n tly gqin years by his fore sight. We would suggeA`thatilleihonld plow it deeply in the Spring give a good coat of man ure trops;', and then again plow iii 'the autumn Cross wise to .the directiouctaken in the spring. 'These . two featurp:s are . 4 paramount im portance, a thorough pulverization of the soil ltberdl . :cci&orinanure. As apples - not as subject to blight as:.teats and :cannot be grown well'M2poor Pu tOnn the manta re With no stinting hand,: Whether planted in .the autumn or spring the soil having been previously, well lOosened, the fibers are eucOraged to grow, ,ana'tho trees. will aP.: once make rupid . . headway. do nOttny tieeS - Start to grove ?" said a farmer late)y..•."They