LIFE'S COMPLAINT. Some murmur when their sky is clear And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of ieees, a n Russian style and taste. The bell rings; the course is cloared by mounted gendarmes, and now the competitors indue order take their places in front of the stand, but not side by si.le,as they always start from opposite 'sides of the course, with heads also turned iu opposite direc tions. The usual race course hum and noise of the betting men are heard, and increase in volume as the bell rings the second time. They are off, and the fascination of rapid motion, open air and strenuous exertion throws its spell over, the assembly, high and low, for trotting is certainly the most fashionable and beloved sport in Rus sia. You cannot recognize people just yet; the green fur collars are raised and reach over the fur caps, leaving only red tipped noses, beneath which appear never missing cigarettes. The ladies' heads are almost entirely cov ered with woolen here again you can only guess who is who. To a stranger, not investing his money in backing his opinion as to winners, the game might seem monotonous enough, as the horses do not finish side by side, but in the way they started. Yet the Russians think differently —and, besides, is there not plenty of vodha aud caviar to be had between the races? Single horses arepitted against each other, drawing little light sleighs, in which the driver is seated very lo.w down aud far away from the liorse, owing to the long shafts, intended to give the horse perfect freedom of ac tion. A whip is not used, hut on the reins are metal buckles over the quar ters, which are employed instead, and almost all horses run without blink ers. Sometimes a horse is attached to the sleigh 011 one side of the trotter, who is between the shafts. He is the pacemaker aud gallops the whole course, whereas, it need not be said, the trotter must not break. Then follow pair horses, harnessed, and, last, troikas, with three horses, some times four abreast. Troikas are very barbarously gaudy and clumsy things to look at, but exceedingly comfort able all the same. A Convict'* Moral Code. The leading article in a recent issue of the Monthly Record, published at the state prison, is entitled "The Bor derland" and is written by No. 18 H aud has a decidedly religious tone. Five rules for conduct are laid down, aud the author savs they are princi ples by which his life is governed: (1.) If possible, be well and have a good appetite. If these conditions are yours, the battle of life is already half won. Many heart and soul trou bles arise really in the stomach, though it may seem strange to you. (2.) Be busy. Fill the hours so full of useful and interesting work that there shall be no time for dwelling on your troubles, that the day shall dawn full of expectation, the night fall full of repose. (3.) Forget yourself. You never will be happy if your thoughts con stantly dwell upon yourself, your own perfections, your own shortcomings, what people think of you, aud so 011. (4.) Expect little. Expect little of life, not too much of your friends. (5.) Trust in God. Believe that God is, that He really knows what is best for you; believe this trillv,and the bitterness is gone from life. —Hart ford (Conn.) Courant. Karl and Laborer Side by Side. A curious spectacle is to be wit nessed on Sundays in the pretty little church of Hampden—always associated with the memory of John Hampden. For there are to be seen a peer of the realm, his wife and the stone-breaker to the parish council, all assisting in divine worship. The Earl of Bucking ham reads the lessonß, the countess plays the organ, while the stone breaker plays the useful part of verger. —British Sunday Companion. THE. TARM Care of the Garden. If the garden is thoroughly under arained, as it always ought to be, it should be fall plowed in ridges and the surface left rough, so as to expose the soil as much as possible to freezing. This is the more necessary because the garden is always a shel tered spot, where snow lies much of the winter,so that there are few times when the soil freezes very deeply. The garden is always the richest spot on the farm. It often is what the Scotch farmers call "much midden" or heavy with manure. It needs the winter's freezing to lighten the soil and make its fertility available. I.ate Grown Turnips. There is no crop grown so easily and with so little cost as late-grown turnips in a field of well-cultivated corn. The shade of the corn will keep the turnips from growing much until the corn is cut. Possibly also their growth will be checked by the demand of the corn roots for plant food. But in the Indian summer that follows the first frost the turnips will make rapid growth, as they will then have all the land for their own use. The turnip will endure a pretty heavy frost, and grow again if warm weather follows it. But in our climate turnips cannot be left in the grotiud a [j wiu ter as they are in England.—-American Cultivator. Cherry Trees Standing in Grass. Our experience with clierry trees is that they do not require cultivation. Those we had in the garden were al ways more liable to rot and to be af fected by insects than the trees that stood iu dry places and surrounded by grass. It may be that it is the extra moisture in the cultivated soil that predisposes cherries to rot, or it may be the manure annually applied to the garden and to which the cherry tree roots helped themselves freely. The cherry tree does not do well with wet feet. On high, dry laud its roots will run deeply enough to fiud all the moisture it needs, and on such laud iu grass is the best to plau cherries for prontabie Irumng. Value of Hog Manure. Hog manure is popularly supposed so be very rich, partly because hogs are always fed 011 grain or other very concentrated food, and also because they are so neat that they always de posit their excrement by itself un mixed with bedding, as will animals that are generally supposed to be much more cleanly than the hog. Yet hog manure is generally slow to heat, though after fermentation has ouce begun it progresses very rapidly. One reason why manure from the hog is richer than from other animals is because the hog uses more of the car bon in his food to turn into fat, and less of the phosphate and nitrogen to change into bone and leaii meat. No domestic animal when fattened lias so large a proportion of bone as compared with its total weight as has the hog. Apple Potnace as Feed. There is considerable nutriment iu pomace as it comes from the mill. Stock will eat it quite readily if fed before it begins to ferment. This, however, it does very soon if exposed to the air. Consequently it is best to place the pomace in air-tight barrels or hogsheads, so as to keep air from it, aud cover the pomace with some thing that will hold down the carbonic acid gas and prevent its escape as it forms. This is really ensilaging it. The pomace itself has not nutritive value to make this worth while. Its chief value is its succulency, and it should be fed with grain, hay or meal, so as to give the proper proportion of nutrition. When put up in air-tight barrels and kept slightly below freez ing temperature there will be no more fermentation in the pomace than there is in the silo, and it can be used tiil late in the winter. Rye After Turnips. Turnips are the latest crop to be harvested, aud as they continue to grow after light frosts, there is not much chance to put iu a later crop after them. Of course nothing can be grown and mature the same season after turnips are off'. But winter rye will bear to be sown very late if the land is only rich enough. We have known rye to be sown late in Novem ber aud barely peep above the surface the same year. But it grew a little more during the January thaw, and the next year made as good a crop, and as early also, as rye sown two months earlier, which made a growth that covered the ground in the fall. In each case all the spring growth had to be made from the root. Where that is established the richness of the soil has more to do in making fall-sown grain ripen ewrly than does its growth the preceding fall. LlnM«d vs. Cotton-See..*»• - o--<- *V.J« Xilty V.4tUUuuibU OUJ O brand of coloring matter was con demned by the Pennsylvania experi ment station, but does not name it. I suppose the best one can do under the circumstances, says a writer iu Home and Farm, is to require a writ ten statement from the maker that there is 110 aniline in the article of fered for sale. There are some brands free from this objectionable article, and the makers should make haste to let the buttennakers know who they are. Would it really make much dif ference to the makers of tine butter if coloring matter was forbidden by law? I think it would be a good thing. It is a horrid stuff at best. l>«»liorne '