FREELAND TRIBUNE. FUBIJBIIKD BVKUT MONDAY AND THURSDAY. rilOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Year ....$1 50 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months S3 Subscribers are requested to observe the data following the name on tho labels of their papers. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books In this office. For Instance: Grover Cleveland 28Junc9S means that Grover Is paid up to June 28,1H56. Keep the figures In advance of tho present date. Report promptly to this office when your paper ts not received. All arrearages must be paid when paper is discontinued, or collection will he made in the manner provided by law. Night refuges in Paris shelter tho arts. The nine establishments in 1893 were used by 137 actors, forty-three singers, seventy-one musicians, twelve pianists, twenty architects, 398 artists (painters), fourteen authors and eight een journalists. Twenty years ago Dr. E. H. Dewey, of Meadvillo, Penn.,. wroto a book proving that the way to ho healthy was to go without breakfast. The cult has livod since thoD, and, accord ing to tho New London (Conn.) Day, there aro more than ono hundred per sons in that town who eat no break fast. Tho proportion of women suicides to that of men is small; whether be cause their moral couruge is less, their moral courage more or their woes lighter, it would be interesting to know. It may, however, bo safely as sumed that the last named is not the reason, observes the New Orleans Pic ayune. The importance of forestry is urged by Professor W. T. Thistleton Dyer on account of tho probability that tho supply of timber may bo exhausted before that of coal. It further ap pears in viow of our comploto depen dence upon the products of the vege table kingdom for tho necessaries of our existence. Tho proposition of some romantic writers to put their romances to tho test by actually living through tho ex periences described should be dis couraged, maintains tho Chicago Boe ord. Anyone trying to live tho ex periences of a romance of the modern sensational school would corno into contact with tho polico before he had livedpast the first chapter. Ono of tho tendencies of tho ago in tho way of railroad improvement, noted by tho Now York Telegram, is tho increased length of rails. The Penn sylvania has laid a few miles of sixty foot rails, and tho Lehigh Valley has been trying forty-five-foot rails. Now tho Columbus, Hocking Valley nd Toledo will lay a few miles of the sixty-foot rails as an experiment. The utility of the long roil is that it re quires fower joints, and, in conse quence, affords smooth riding. Tho growth of scholarships in tho loading universities of this country is one of the best signs of educational progress, declares .the San Francisco Chronicle. A scholarship can only be obtained by a good student who has mastered his specialty, hut at Cornell L'niversity the system is now tried of offering eighteen scholarships, each worth S2OO for two years, to freshmen who pass certain special examinations in addition to the usual test for ma triculation. If many of our colleges spent less money on buildings and more on scholarships tho work done would ho greatly improved in quantity and quality. "Dime Novel" Beadle, tho man who became famous as tho publisher of •'dime novels" long before cheap liter ature was so plentiful as it is now, died at residence in Cooperstown, N. Y., recently, announces tho New Or leans Picayune. Seeing tho immense profit to be made on cheap and sensa tional literature, in 1853 Mr. Beadle established a printing office for that purpose in Now York, and thus became the forerunner of the many concerns which now flood the country with flashy stories—stories that fill tho email boy's heart with delight and his soul with crime. Parents and police who have been called 011 to discipline little boys whose heads have been turned by tho wild adventures of "Blue Mick, tho Bowery Tough," and stories of that ilk, hardly regard Mr. Beadle as a public benefactor, but, on tho othor hand, one must remember with abiding gratitude that he inaug urated tho movement that put tho best thoughts—the greatest books—within the reach of the poorest. "FROM SHADOW-SUN,", I learn ns the years roll onward And leave the past behind, That much I have counted sorrow But proves that our God is kind Tiint irnuya fiower I longod for Had hidden thorn of paiu : And many a rugged by-path Led to Jlelds of ripened grain. Tne clouds but cover tho sunshine, They cannot banish tho sun ; And the earth shines out the brighter When the weary rain 19 done. We must stand iu the deepest shadow To sec the clearest light: And often from wrong's own darkness Comes tho very strength ol right. The sweetest rest is at even, After a wearisome day, When tho heavy burden of labor Has been boruo from our hearts away. An I those who have never known sorrow Cannot know tho infinite peace That falls on the troubled spirit, When it sees, at last, release. Wo must live through the dreary winter IT wo would value tho spring ; And the woods must bo cold and silent B :foro the robins sing. The flowers must lie burled fn darkness Before they can bu I and bloom : And tuo sweetest and warmest sunshino Comes after tho storm and gloom. So tho heart Irom the hardest trial Gains tho purest joy of ull, And from lips that have tasted sadncs3 Tho sweetest songs will fall. For as peace comes after suffering, An l love is reward for pain, 30, alter earth Is heaven— And out of our loss tho gain. —Agnes L. Pratt. A POSTAL COURTSHIP. BY LITCnPIEBD MOSELBY. tt HE prettiest little creature I ever saw," said Mr. Willoughby Vane, us ho turned from TpJ the window for the j fiftieth time that morning. ".Tune," ' ,S ho added, nddress- I' iug the housemaid, ; who was clearing j away the breakfast i things, ''havo you f, any idea who the & peoplo are who have taken old Mr. Adderly's house, opposite?" "Well, yes sir, if yon pleaso," re turned the handmaiden. "I met their cook at tho grocer's tho other day, and she said that her master's namo was i3lack—Captain Choker Black and that he was staying here on leavo of absence with his wife and daughter, sir." "Oh, indeed; did she happen to mention the young lady's name." "Yes, Bir ; she called her Miss Eva." "Eva! What a charming name!" murmured Mr. Willoughby to him self ; and then he added aloud: "That will do, Jane, thank yon." Mr. Willoughby Vanco was a bach elor, twenty-eight years old, rich, in dolent and tolerably good looking. Ho lived with a widowed mother iu a pleasant houso in Albany, and, hav ing nothing else to do, had fallen des perately in love with his pretty vis-a vis, and anxiously sought au oppor tunity for an introduction. However, having discovered tho name of his enchantress, he determined to address her anonymously by letter. Having decided upon taking 'tins step, the next thing to bo done was to put it into execution, and, having bhut himself in his little study, after many futile attempts, ho succeeded in forming an cpistlo to tho lady to his satisfaction, begging her, if sho valued his peace of mind, to return an answer to "W. N., I'ostoffice, Albnny." That done, ho went out for a walk, and dropped the letter in tho nearest box. Begularly, three times a day, for a Week afterward, ho called at tho post office to see whether an answer had arrived for him. As the week ad vanced Willoughby began to lose his appetite, and grew so restless and irritable that Mrs. Vane, liko a fond mother, fancied that her dear boy was ill, and begged him to consult thuir medical adviser. But her son laughed at her, knowing well that his com plaint was beyond tho doctor's skill to cure. He was beginning to despair of ever receiving a reply, when, to his great delight, on the seventh morning, a letter was huuded to him by tho post master, written in a dainty femalo hand, and uddressed to "W. V." Al most unable to conceal his emotion ho quitted the postoffice, brolto open the seal and drank in the contents. They evidently were of a pleasant nature, for ho read tho letter ovor again, kissed tho envelope, put it in his breast pocket, and hurried home to seo his inamorata looking out of the window of tho opposite house, us usual. For a moment bis first impulse was to salute her respectfully, but im mediately afterward he bethought himself that as he was still incognito the young lady would perhaps feel in sulted by the uction. Besides, how could she know that he was "\V. V. ?" Ho 110 went indoors, and amused him self for three hours in inditing a reply to her letter, which lie posted the samo afternoon, and in due course a second answer arrived. And so matters went on, a constant interchange of letters being kept up for a fortnight, during which time Mr. Willoughby Vano spent his days runniug to and from the postoffice, writing letters and watching his fair neighbor from tho window of tho dining-room. "Confound it!" he would some times say to himself. "How very provoking tho dear girl is! Sho never will look this way. Ido wish I could catch her ove. if only for a moment. What a horribly sour looking old crab the mother is! Depend upon it, Willoughby, that poor child is anything but happy at homo with those two old fogies. Indeed, her letters hint as much." And having given vent to his feelings, ho would put on his hat and walk to the post office, or shut himself in his room and compose another note to his *'Dearest Eva." At length, three weeks having flown rapidly away in this manner, ho re ceived a letter one morning from the young lad}*, which ran as follows: "To 4 \V. V.'— "Sir—As It is iisolcs9 to continue a corre spondence in this manner. I tniuk it is now tirno for you to throw off your incognito, nnd reveal your truo naino and position to ono to whom you arc not totally indifferent. Believe me thut nothing Inspires love llko mutual confidence. Prove to mo that I have not been imprudont in answering your let ters by at once Informing mo who you are. It is with no feeling of idle curiosity that I ask this, but simply for our mutual satisfac tion. Yours, ftc., EVA." To which Willoughby replied byre turn of post: "Dearest Eva (if you will perm't mo to call you such?)— Have you not for wee<s past observed a young man, with his hair brushed back, anxious y watching you from the window of the opposite house? And al though you have apparently never taken the slightest notice of him, I trust that his fouturos are not a'togetner repulsive to you. I am that individual. Churmed by the graceful mag'c of thineoye, Day after day I watch and dream and *lgh ; Watch the.-, dreau of thee, sigh for thee alone, Fair star of Albany—may I add mine own? to quote—with some alterations—tho noble stauza of the poet Brown. And now I have a favor to ask you. Whenever you see me at tho window take no notice of mo at pr -s --ent, lest my mothor should obsorvo It. In a few days she w 11 bo going out of town, and then we can throw ofT all restraint. Till then, adieu ! Adieu, my adorable one, adieu ! My eyes are ever on you. Your own, "WILLOUGHBY VANE." To which cpistlo camo tho following answer: "Dear Kir—You explanation is perfectly satisfactory. I may also add, your features are not at all to EVA." "Bless her! What a delightful lit tle soul sho is!" ejaculated Willough- And ho went out, ordered a new suit of clothes Viud had his hair cut. "Willy," said Mrs. Vano to hor son tho next morning, "I wish you would do something to improve your mind, ! and not waste your tirao looking out i of tho window all day as you have ; lately done. Come and read the As sembly debates to me, if you huve nothing else to do." Tho worthy lady was a red hot poli tician, and for throo mortal hours sho kept him at this delightful task; at tho expirution of which tiino he suc ceeded iu escaping to his own room, where he wroto tho following noto to Eva: "Dearest Eva—l am overjoyed at tho conteuts of your brief communication. If, as you say, my loatures are not altogether repulsive to you, may I hope that you will consent to bo mine—mine only? "WILLOUGHBY." Back camo tho reply the next morn ing : "Dear Willoughby—Your reply has made ino very happy. It is very flu 11 hero—no so ciety except mthernnd mothor. I long for more congenial oompanioushlp. Thine, "EVA." : In this delightful manner tho days flew on--halcyon days, too, for Wil loughby, and sweetened by tho inter change of this and similar lover-like correspondence. On tho following Monday morning Mrs. Vano left town on a visit to somo friends in Saratoga, leaving her son to koop house at home. That same afternoon one of Captain Black's servants brought tho following note for Willoughby: "Willie—Have you any objection to my tolling my dear papa all? Matters have now gone so rar that it will bo Impossible for j either of us to retract what wo have written. Lot us take papa Into our confidence. I know his kind and generous nature woll ; and have no fear that ho will oppose our l union. Pray send inoa lino by bearer. "EVA." Tho answer was fts follows : "My Own Eva—Do whatever you consider best. My fate is In your hands. If your papa should refuse his consent, I—. But I will not think of anything so dreadful. Pear not that 1 shall over retract. Life without you would be a desert, with no oasis to brighten it. Yours uutll do ith. "WILLOUGHBY." Thftt evening, just fts Willoughby had finished dinner, ho heard a loud doublo knock at tho street door ; and ou its being opened, a straugo voice inquired in a loud tone : "Is Mr. Willoughby Vano at home?" His heart boat violently us Jane, en tering tho room, said : "A gontlomau wishes to speak with you in the library, sir." And sho handed him a card, in scribed "Captain Choker Black, 1001 st Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y." "I will bo with him iu a moment," said Willoughby; and ho swallowed a couple of glasses of sherry to ncrvo hiui for tho interview. "Captain Choker Black, I believe?" he said, as he entered tho library. "Your servant, sir." said tho gallant Captain—who, glass in eye, was bus ily engaged in scrutinizing an engrav ing of tho battlo of Gettysburg. "Your servant, sir." Have I tho pleasure of addressing Mr. Willoughby Vauo?" Willoughby bowed. "Then, sir, of course you know tho business that has brought mo hero." Terribly nervous, and soarcoly knowing what auswer to make, our hero bowed again. "Come, come, sir; don't bo afraid to speak out! My daughter has mado me her confidant; so let there bono reserve between us. Eva bus told mo all!" Hero poor Willoughby blushed up to tho roots of his hair. "You see, I know all about it. Yon have fallen desperately in love with the poor girl, and, although you havo never exchanged three words togeth er, you aro already engaged to bo mar ried. Mighty expeditious, upon ray word! Ha! ha ! ha! Pray excuse mo for laughing, but the idea is some what comical. Ha! ha! ha!" As tho Captain appeared to bo in a very Rood humor, Willoughby's cour age began to rise. "Don't mention it, sir. You nro her father, and have a right to do what you please. But I sincorely trust that you havo no objections to offer." "I? None! Believe me, I shall be delighted to soo my Eva comfortably settled. But, harkye, sir. Business is businoss. lam a plain, blunt man; and flftoeu years' sojourn with one's regiment on the plains doesn't help to polish one. First of all, what are your prospects?" And tho Captain drow a notebook out of his pooket and proceoded to ex amine our hero as if he was in a court of justice. "You are an only son, I believe?" "I am." "Good 1" And down went tho noto in the poekotbook. "Your age?" "Twenty-eight next birthday." "Twenty-eight! Good. Is your constitution healthy?" "I believe so. I havo had tho measles, whooping cough and mumps." "Disorders peculiar to infancy. Good." And the Captain seribblod away again. "Are you engaged in any business or profession?" "None." "Then how on earth do you livo?" "On my private income, Cuptain." "Then all I can say is you're an un commonly lucky fellow to bo able to subsist on thut. I only wish I could. What is your income?" "About four thousand a year." "Is it in houso property, shares in limited companies or in 'govern ments?' If in public companies, I should bo sorry to give two years' purchnsc for tho lot." "In the new four per cents." "Good ! I think I may say very good. What, sort of temper are you?" "Well, that's rather a difficult ques tion to answer," said Willoughby, smiling for tho first time. "Hang it, sir, not at all!" roturned tho Captain. "If anyone asked mo for myjtemper, I should say, 'HaHty, sir; confoundedly hasty!' And Chockor Black's proud of it, sir; proudof it." "Say about tho average," answered Willoughby, timidly. "Temper average," said tho Cap tain, jotting it down. "I think theso are about all the questions I have to usk you. You know my duughter by sight?" "I have had thq pleasure of seeing her frequently—from tho window, sir." "And you think you could bo happy with her?" "Think, Captain! lam certain of it." "Very good. Now, harkye, Mr. Willoughby Vunc. Marry her, treat her well, and bo happy. Negloct her, blight her young affections by hard ship or cruelty, and, hang mo, sir, if I don't riddle you with bullets! I'm a man of my word, and I'll do whot I say, as sure as my name's Choker Black!" ''l have no fear on that score, Cap tain. Unite her to me, and if u life of devotion " "I know all about that,"said tho Captain. "Koep your iino phrases for the girl's ears. Give me your hand, sir. I've taken a fancy to you." "Yon flatter me, Captain 1" "Hang it, sir, no! Choker Black never indulges in flattery. Don't bo afraid to grasp my hand, sir; it is yours as long as I find you plain sail ing and straightforward. But if ever I suspect you of any artiflco or decep tion, I'll kuook you down with it. So now, I hopo we perfectly under stand each other." "Ono word more," said Willoughby. "Am I to understand that you consent to our union?" "Certainly. You can bo married to-morrow if you please. Sir, the happiness of my dear child is my first consideration. I nin not a brute—not one of those unnatural parents people read of in novels. Choker Black may bo a fire cater on tho field, but, at any rate, he knows how to treat his own flesh and blood." "Captain, you overwhelm mo with gratitude." "Say no moro about it. Clap on your hat and como across the street with me, and I'll introduce you to my daughter at onco." So ircely knowing what he was about, Willoughby did as ho was told. They crossed tho street together, and tho Captain opened his door with n latch key. "Ono momont, if you please," said Willoughby, who was titivating his hair and arranging his cravat. "Are you ready now?" asked the i Captain. "Quite!" "Mr. Willoughby Vane !" cried the Captain, ushering our hero into tho drawing room. Then, waving his hand ho added, "allow me to intro duce you to my wife and daughtor." Willoughby looked exceedingly foolish ns ho bowed to tho two ladies. On a couch by tho fireside sat his en chantress looking more bewitcliingly radiant than ever, his vis-a-vis being tho tall, thin, angular woman in blnck that ho had frequently noticed from over the way. "What a contrast," thought Wil loughby, "between mother aud duugh ter I" "Annie, my dear, Mr. Willoughby Vane is nervous, no doubt. You know tho adage. Let us loavo tho young people together, und lio'll soon find his tonguo tbon, I'll wager," said tho Captain, nddrcssiug tho younger of tho two ladies, who immediately rose from her sont. "Stay, sir—thero is somo mistake hero," said Willoughby. "This lady is"—and ho pointed to the gaunt female. "My daughter, sir," said the Cap tain. "Mv ilauahterbv ravfirnt wife." "And this"—cjaculatod our hero, turning to tho young lady. "Is my second wife, sir!" Mr. Willoughby Vnno fled T from his homo that night. Abont a mouth later his almost brokou hearted mother received a letter from him explaining the whole affair and tho postmark boro tho words, "Montreal, Canada."—Bos ton Journal. SELECT SIFTINUS. Tho Rothschilds havo an 818,000 clock. Umbrellas are mado of varnished paper. Tho canvas-back duok is tho sub ject of a poem of praise by a Maryland man. No parental caro over falls to tho lot of a single member of tho insect tribe. Kentucky courts have deoidod that gas companies cannot collect rent for their gas meters. Bananas aro so plentiful in Martin ique, Wost Indies, that a big bunch may be bought for a cent- Commercial travelers aro now al lowed to take Bamplos into Russia without paying duty on them. It is stated by the attendants at zoo logical gardens that no ape will sleep flat on his back, as adult man often does. Tho nnmo Munich is derived from tho fact that the monks owned tho property on which tho town now stands. In 1783 tho Dutch lost the vessol Antoinetta, an Indiaman, and with her sank 83,500,000, besides jewels of great value. Tho Church of England boasts among its clergy one Eskimo. The clergy man in question is Rev. Robert Gib bons, and his parish is Farrsboro, Nova Scotia. Peter Cooper's engine, tho Tom Thumb, weighed about a ton; tho wheels were two and a half feet in di amtcr, and the smokestack looked like a big "putty blower." A comrade of E Iwin Libby Post, G. A. R., of Rockmauu, Mo., has made with his knife 100,000 toothpicks within the last thruo years and sold them for tho benefit of tho post. The first use of gas in a placo of public amusomont was in tho Lyceum Theatre in Loudon in 1803. It was begun ns an experiment, nnd for a time was discontinued becuuso tho audience complained of the odor. A preacher named John .Smith died suddenly in tho pulpit iu tho midst of his sermon at Penshar, England. Ex actly forty years beforo to a day an other preacher, also named John Smith, died suddenly in the samo pulpit. A novel alarm letter box has been invented. Tho principle is to let householders know when letters havo been dropped in, their weight releas ing a catch which allows a short spring to uncoil and set a vibrating hammer to ring a bell. Tho pigmies of Central Africa aro supposed to bo the remains of an an cient race which once occupied tho wholo of tropical Africa and Southern Asia. They have lost their original language and history, nnd only rem nants of their numbers remain. Minnie Chew is a woman highwnv robber serving a form iu tho Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus. By wild screaming and wilder talking at night she lias inado tho keepers so angry that they now keep hur chained up in hor coll, with a haltor tied in hor mouth to insuro silonce. The winter days in Sweden aro only six hours long. Iu the northern part of the peninsula tho sun doos not riso onco for two months. This is mado up for, howovor, by tho sunny sum mer. In the north the sun does not set for woeks and weeks, an endless day. The most glorious sight of all the northland is tho midnight sun. A political agent in England re cently scut tho following protest to an elector: "To Mr. X. Y. Z.—Take no tice that I object to your name being retained on the list of tho ownership electors of tho county, and I ground my objection on tho fact that you are dead." Tho document was addressed to tho dead man and openod by his widow. Whitc-lluiiillcd Razors. There are many barbers who will not own a white-handled razor be causo of an old superstition that bad luck goes with it. A razor is to thu barber what tho locomotive is to tho ongincor, and thcro aro more things to learn about it thnn ono would sup pose. For instance, thero are razors that will cut certain qualities of hair hotter at certain seasons than ut others. Climate and weather have a great deal to do with razors. Somu will cut better iu cold weather and some in hot. These are only n few of the causes that effect razors, and they aud many moro all teud to inako tho barber who does much work keep accumulating razors until he hus all sorts to pick from. —Kansas City Journal. Gold Fillings. Pcoplo, says a dentist, wonder why gold is used for stopping, aud nro apt to credit tho dentist with employing it for his own ends, on thu grouud that bo can chargo moro and get cor respondingly larger profits that would bo tho ease if he used any baser and less expensive metal; but, hu says in explanation, a little reflection would convinco the suspicious ones that thero is no ground whatever for such ideas, aud that the real reason for using gold is that it will weld while cold, and will successfully resist tho action of tho acids and fluids of tho mouth, henoe it is unequnlod as a preservative for the teeth.—Scientific American.' KEEPING APPLES IN WINTER. One method suggested for keeping apples during tho winter is to pack them in perfectly dry oats, not per mitting one apple to touch tho other. If wrapped in paper before packing in the oats tho apples will keep all the better. They may bo paoked in boxes or barrels, and il put up in an attrac tive manner will bring good prices. Applos have been higher in price than oranges for tho past four or fivo years, and nro always salable after cold weather sets in.—New York Observer. WARMTH IN THE HEN BOUSE. In tho very coldest weather wo think it pays to introduco artificial heat into tho hen house. A small coal stove does not cost much, and a fire in it mado once n day will keep the tompcraturo right and tho fowls will be as hr.ppy as in spriugtimo. It is cold weather quite as much as tho dif ference in feed that makes eggs scarco in winter. Besides, in tho coldest weather thero is always temptation to feed corn for wnemth. The stove in tho hen house, carefully guarded against fire, is cheaper as well as better for tho fowls than giving thorn a corn diet so ns to keep them warm.—Bos ton Cultivator. GOOD WINTER COVERING FOR ROSES. Lay down your hybrid perpetual roses, and cover thorn in somo way, writes E. E. liexford. I find nothing better than leaves, but if you cannot get these use hay, or straw, or cvor greon brunches. I have often win tered plants finely by simply covering them with soil. This unswers very well if thero is good drainago about tho plants, so that water is not re tained in tho soil long onough to in juro tho wood of the branches. But tho better way is to lay tho branches down in n closo mass, nil pointing ono way, nnd sot boards six or oightinches high, on each side. Fill in between tho boards, and ovor the bushes with loaves, upon which place evergreen branchos to provent their blowing away. Hay and litter will not require unything to hold them in place, but it is u good plan to lay boards over the whole in such a manner as to shed rain.—American Agriculturist. JUDGING HCTTER. It seems to mo that ono mothod of judging butter would bo improved if wo would follow the examples of judges of live stock to a certain ex tent, says Professor H. C. Wallace. When a judgo is asked to pass upon nring of twenty-five or thirty horses, ho first goos over them carefully and selects a dozen of tho best ouos, send ing tho rest to tho stable. Then ho goes over these critically and weeds out tho poorer half, continually nar rowing the competition down until ho has but two or threo to dooido be tween. If, instead of doing this, ho started in with a hnndful of score cards nnd uttcmptcd to scloct tho winner in that maunor, ho would very soon regrot the day ho consented to act in tho capacity of a judge. And yet ho would havo a very eaßy task compared to that of a man who at tempts intelligently to score thirty tubs of butter in succession. If our butter judges would go ovor tho ex hibit in this manner, thoy would have little difficulty in solecting tho best half dozen or dozen tubs.—Farm and Dairy. ECONOMY OF SHELTER. Tho timo is at hand when tho wiRO nnd meroiful man will seo to it that his livo stock aro properly sholteind during tho wiDter months. Warmth and comfort aro essential to health nnd thrift. If thoy aro not provided an attempt to supply them will be mado by an increased consumption of food. This is a costly substitute aud an unsatisfactory one, as it cannot provont the check whioh tho growth will roceivo. Like all substitutes, it somotimes fails to accomplish tho end designed, and the animal then grows sick and weakly. If, on tho other hand, tho animal is toughenod and burdened by exposure, what is gained? The extra feed ho has consumed is more valunblo than tho shelter which would havo nvoided its neod, his stunted growth will never be mado up, and the toughening and hardening of his constitution, on which so much stress is often laid, has resultod in a deterioration in quality. Thu native steer is hardier than the Blioitliorn, but which makes tho best beef? Tho scrub cow will bear more exposure than, tho dolioate Jersey, but which yields tho richest milk? It is a law of naturo that improvement, whether in man or beast, is accom panied with a certain amount of deli cacy. If wo desire tho former wo must bo willing to give the necessary care to counterbalance the latter. New York World. DANGER OF FEEDING WHEAT TO HORSES. This winter a great many are ad vocating or considering the advisabil ity of feoding wheat to horses on ac count of tho chcnpnoss of this feed, and a few havo raised thu alarm against such a practice. Whilo this grain may provo of advantage to hogs and other animals, it is certainly unsuited to horses, except in the very smallest quantities, and then more as medicine than ns food. It is much better for an old horse than for a young growing animal, nnd while it may be fed with impunity to a horse twenty or thirty years old, it will, in nine cases out of ten, founder a young one. If Homo of the old horse breeders and fnrmors can look back thirty or forty years, thoy will remember when wheat was fed quite libernlly to horses, and tho term "grain founder," then bccamo very generally known through hard experience. This is tho worst founder known to horses, and after a groat number of horses suffered in this way, it was found that grain was the cause of the trouble, and tho chief grain was wheat. A young horse that has boon liberally fed with wheat when growing, even for only one winter, is pretty sure to be unsound, and many purchasers would refuse to take such a horse at any price. In feeding wheat to horses this winter it should be remembered that this danger is always present. It may bo fed in Bmall quantities along with oats, so that no real harm may follow, but as a rulo it is tho worst possiblo food for horses usod on tho road. It makes them lazy, slothful, fat and overheated. If ono wishos to make fat instead of musolo, in tho form of good bran, wheat can be fod along with hay or oats very successfully. Old stallions do woll on a diet of ono part oats and threo parts of wheat, for it makes them more vigorous in the stud, but fat and lazy. There is a time in a horse's life when wheat can bo fed with groat success, and that is us a medicine to a mare with foul that is apt to have abortion. As soon as tho mares bogin to get loose, tbey Hhould bo fed some wheat. A pint of cloan, sound wheat, mixed with two quarts of cloan, sound oats, should bo fed night and morning for threo days, lly that timo tho trouble will stop. Where u suckling foul has the scours a pint of whoat tlour in a pail of water will generally remedy tho evil. Somotimes a little wheat mixed with tho feed will unswer tho samo purpose. Wheat is constipating and it consequently has its vuluo in \ tho feed economy, but it is hardly tho kind of food wo need for our horses ns a regular diet.—Germantowu Tele graph. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Milk is eighty-seven per cont water. Cheese is tho most concentrated form of milk. Silage of corn and clover is believed to bo tho fodder of tho future. Dairy salt is as sensitivo as milk or cream to odors, and should bo equully guarded from them. Like corn, wheat is better for slow, hard work, than for speed. Oats and hay nro best for fast-goers. Feed alone will never control tho vuluo of milk. Tho individuality of tho cow has much to do with it. Whoat is more a growth than a fat producer, is good for young animals, but should bo coarsely ground before feeding. < Grain alono is too highly concen trated food for horses. Thoy must huvo some "roughness" with it, such as hay, straw or fodder. Tho man who expocts tho biggost succoss in dairying must have dairy cows. Tho all-around cow is not and never will be a shining success. " Cultivation may be stopped lute in the season, and u crop can then be sown upon tho land. This crop may servo as a cover or protection to tho soil, and as a green manuro. Trotting stock, except for extremo speed, is suffering from ovor-produo tion, but thero is and probably always will bo a profitable market for hand some, useful, linlf-brod hackneys. Never believe tho man who says ho can removo a spavino of ring-bono and v leuvo no blemish. Even if ho calls himself a professor, do not question his title—that is what ho is and all he is. Two parts each of bran and ground wheat and ono of choppod oats make tho best ration for brood mares. They should bo given about threo pounds of it, threo times a day, with hay or qtraw. Foed that will mako a pound of beof will mako a pound of butter or two pounds of oheese. If butter and cbeeßO bring more than beef thero is money in dairying, rather than stock raising. Barn manures aro generally more economically used when applied to farm crops than when applied to or chards ; yet they can be used with goodresnlts, particularly when rojuve natiug old orchards. Whole wheat should not bo fod to horses, they swallow it without chew ing, aud it ferments in their stomachs, y producing indigestion and colic, or posses through unchanged. It should be either soaked to burst tho gruins, or coarsely ground, for tho same pur pose. In general, thocommcrcinl completo fertilizers ore less prncticol for or chards than a fertilizer mado for tho oocosiou out of materials evidently needed by tho trees; but the com plete fertilizers give much better re sults than tho ,'prevailing iudifferonco I and neglect. Any cow that will give less thon twelve pounds of solids in every 100 of her milk, three pounds of whioh should be butter fat, is not profitable, aud should be converted into beof. There should bo thirteen pounds of solids in every 100 of milk, with four pounds of actual butter fat.
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