"Wfc KINO or TUB FLOW. ** 9XBIW. ITATKX. HM •word is reshenthed in it* ictMwi, The rifle hangx <*»!> ou the wall; Ho longer we quail at tho hungry, } Hot rttvh of the ravenous bill-- k 1 The trnr-cilnud has hurled its iaM lighttfMg, Its Iwt awfnl thunder* aro still, H hlle the I>. mon of Conflict in Hade* tie* fotteroA in force at) in wilL Above the !>road flnlds that he ravaged, What monarch rule'! WiHsfuIIy now? • Oh I cr'M- ii him with bays that are bloo4WW~• The King, the brave King of the Plow! X Kin* I ay! what Ruler more potent Has ever swayed earth by bis nodT JA monarch ! ay, move than a niouarcli--• A honielv, but bountiful God ! Mo efauids where in Earth's sure proteottm l h« Heed-Krains are scattered and SOWB, To uprise in oerene resurrection When Sp.ing her soft trumpet hath bjown! A monart.h! yea more than a monarch, Though toil-drops are thick on his brow; Oh I crown (11m with corn-leaf and wheat leaf-- The Kiiig, the strong King of the Plow! "Through the shadow and shine of past ages (white tyrants were blinded with blood). He reared the pure ensign of Ceres By nioaiiow and mountain and flood -- .And the long, leafy gold of his harvest* The earth-nprites and air-sprites hadqpOB, Grew rhythmic when swept by the breeew^ Grew royal when kissed by the sun; Before the stern charm of his patience What rock-rooted forces must bow I done! crown him with oora-leaf and wheat-leaf-- The King, the bold King of the Plow 1 Throngh va'Jeys of balm-dropping mrrtlSS, By banks of Arcadian streams, Where the wild songs are set to the myitts Mild murmur of passionless dreams; On the storm-hauutod uplandB of Thula, By ice-girded fiords and floes. Alike speeds the epeli of hiB godhood, The blcK-m of his heritage g.ows; A monarch' yea, more than a monarch-- All climes to his prowees must bow; • Come 1 crown him with bays that are italalm-- The KlLg, the brave King of the Plow. Far, far in earth's uttermost future, As boundless of splendor as scope, 1 see the fair angel--Fruition, Outspeed the high heralds of hope; The roses of joy reign around him, The lilies of sweetness and calm, For the sword has been changed to the plow-Chare, The lion lies down with the lamb! O, angel majestic ! We know thee, Though raised and transfigured art UtOQ-- This lord of life's grand consummation Was once the swart King of the Plow I' futile attempt to regain the Royal Sov ereign. Finding that we could not gain au inch, I seized upon the first lull in the gale to put the tiller hard up, when the launch swung off, and, catching tli® next sea broad on her bow, careened so heavily that she half filled, when the second caught fairly astern, and fortun ately righted her, bearing off some eight or ten fathoms on its boiling, bub bling crest, Mid leaving us in a proper position to scud with safety. The briny bath exercised a reanimat ing effect upon several of our insensible _ f ^ o > cargo, one of whom--a female--betrayed 11 leaped from the rail into" the launch! the fact of her restoration by loudly de- j followed by the intrepid soldier. ing the child to its parents ; and, grasp* ing his arm, I fairly dragged him to the rail, on which I leaped, shouting: " Volunteers for the wreck ! Sovereign®, a child is 16ft in yonder burning »hif> I Who will follow me to the rescue f " The demand was instantly responded to by the unanimous shouts of the launch's crew, " Sovereigns to the res cue ! " when I turned inboard, shouting, "A lighter boat! In heaven's name, let us nave a lighter boat!" " Lower away the gig !" shouted some one on deck, when, pausing no longer. THE BURNING TRANSPORT. AM English NAVAL Officer'* Story. The fleet lay off " Iforth Fleet Hope," awaitiug the flag of Bear Admiral Cof fin, who had been appointed to succeed the gallant Collingwood, and, a heavy gale prevailing at the time, the ships were rising to the wind, regardless of tide, when night closed around ua. Some thirty sail of merchantmen, un der convey of one of our fastest frigates, were anchored in the entrance of the Downs, and between us and them lay two oonvict ships, while a fleet of trans ports, with troops for the East Indies, were anchored just astern of us, the largest--the Wellesley--being anchored oa our starboard quarter, and scarcely three cables' length distant. -Being senior pa3sed Midshipman of the old Sovereign at the time, I was honored with supreme command of a whole anchor watch, and, having the first watch that night, enjoyed the hap piness (?) of strutting the quarter-deck exposed to the wind aud rain, while my more humble, and consequently more fortunate, watch mates sought shelter in She lee of the bulwarks, or, stowed snug ly away beneath the guns, whiled away the dreary watch with yarns of dangers and battles passed. It had just struck three bells, and,' •ave the measured tread of the sentinels on duty, the pattering of the driving rain and the deep breathings of full600 •leepers, scarce a sound broke the si lence reigning throughout the vast hull of the old Sovereign. Even I had hait- Od, half deeming our dreary watch at an «nd, and half supported by the cabin «kylight was indulging in visions of calm repose. While standing thus, with face avert ed from the driving storm, a deep red gleam illumiuated the darkness ou our p-tarboard quarter, increasing so rapidly that ere a minute elapsed the upper works,-lower masts and yards of the Wel lesley were plainly defined in the red glare. In an instant the truth flashed jipbu me, she was on fire ; and, bound ing to the skylight, I shouted : " Forward gun of the starboard for- trard division on the spar-deck! Fire ! " _ It was our signal gun, and kept con- 4inually loaded, so that -my order was -obeyed in an instant, while I followed •Tip the report with the order, " Bo'sen's •mate, pipe all hands to quarters." Tite First Lieutenant was at my side -ere the sound of the mate's shrill whistle Iliad ceased reverberating on our main, gtin and berth decks, when he instantly divined the cause of the alarm, and, as suming command, shouted: "Fire! fire ! Pipe down all boats! Waist and -afterguard, pass the engines up from be- Jow! Toprnen, hook yard and stay tackles. Forecastle men and sail-trim- filers, pass the messenger and take to." In an instant all was bustle and prep aration, and ere a lapse of two minutes the report of " messenger passed " was followed by that of "boats all ready;" when Capt. Wilmer, who had gained the deck, shouted: "Officers in charge of boats, to your stations! Bo'een, pipe all boats away!" I sprang from the rail, grasping the yard tackle, and in an in stant later landed in the launch, of which I had command. We then fell off, and in a few moments were scudding swiftly toward the burning ship. It is almost needless to add that our example was followed by the various commanders in the fleet, and on dropping alorgnide the Wellesley we mustered a fleet of some sixty boats, capable of accommodating at least 900 hands, a larger number, fort unately, than were placed in peril. The moment the first boat reached the transport the work of debarkation com menced, but, owing to the tremendous gale and heavy sea, progressed but slow ly, while the rapid advance of the fire drove numbers from the deck to seek safety in the sea, from which they were rescued as promptly as possible. It was truly a thrilling scene. The hull of the transport was evidently con verted into a perfect volcano, while from each of her hatches leaped a tongue of flame, which, seizing on her fresh-tarred rigging, transformed the whole mass in to a delicate tracery of fire, and, speedily consuming it, left her taut spars to tum ble one after another over the stern, killing and wounding a number in their descent. The catastrophe, although resulting in death to many, proved a means of aefety to many others, who might other wise have perished, as it established a direct means of communication with many of the boats which could not gain a position alongside. And thus the •work went on, boat after boat departing •with its load of scorched, half-naked and Shivering troops, with a slight sprinkling of women and children, until nearly all were saved, when the task commenced*^ lowering the insensible forms of /those who had been hurt by the fallfng jpars in the rush which had taken place on the discovery of the fire, or had fainted from excessive fright. Our boat being scarcely one-third fnll. we hauled alongside to receive our •quota of the unfortunate creatures, whom We handled as tenderly as possible, lay ing them in a tier in the stern-sheets to the number of ten, when,having as many as we could accommodate, we dropped astern, and, shipping our oars we made a manding her child. "My child 1 my child I Where is my little Edward ?" she demanded, in tones of thrilling anguish. " Tell me, for the love of heaven, if any of you have seen my child?" "Merciful heaven ! what do I hear?-- the voice of my benefactress?" exclaimed a young man who sat on the front part, supporting the form of a young woman, who had evidently received fearful in juries prior to her rescue from the burn ing deck. "lathis Mrs. Clifford?" he asked, gently relinquishing his insensi ble burden. "It is," responded the lady, instantly adding, "Whoever you are, you evi dently know me, and must know of my darling. Oh, have you saved him ? Is he safe? Tell me, I conjure you." " Would to heaven I could!" ex claimed the man, passionately. " Bill Hunter would be only too happy to prove. his gratitude to the benefactress of his wife." \ " Oh, Hunter, my child, my Edward, and my husband--" "Nay, madame, Capt. Clifford must be safe," rejoined the man, hastily. "I saw him myself actively employed in removing the insensible from below, and he may have saved the child." " May have," she repeated; "but you are not certain, Hunter ? Oh, you are not certain, and this suspense is worse than death!" And the poor bereaved mother groaned in her anguish, and, clasping her hands over her eyes, sat rocking her body to and fro, and utter ing that deep, convulsive sob, which be trays so fully a breaking heart. " And she interceded so eloquently in our behalf that my Susan might accom pany me !" murmured the soldier, in an audible tone, as he resumed his seat and his former burden, on the pallid brow of which he pressed a fond kiss, adding, " My poor wife ! Would to heaven you had remained with my parents; you would have escnped<*this suffering, and, perhaps, death !" And the gallant fel low bowed his head, concealing his face in his hands, probably to hide the tears which were an honor to his manhood, since called forth by the suffering and probable fate of one who had forsaken friends and home to follow liis uncertain fortunes. A mihute later we rounded to under the counter of, and received a line from, the Delmar transport, alongside of and into which one boat was already dis charging her freight of rescued. "Ship ahoy! Can you accommodate twenty more f" I demanded, as my bow man made fast the line. "Ay, my lad, a hundred!" was the trumpet-toned reply. "Haul up, haul up at onoe, and clear the track for others!" We obeyed, gaining, with difficulty, a position beneath the gangway, when the debarkation of our freight commenced, the insensible wife of the young soldier being the first attached to the whip by which the helpless were taken on board. Mrs. Clifford was the second, the soldier having devoted himself to her as soon as he beheld his wife in safety ; while I, seizing upon the first opportunity, bounded into the Delmar's main cbains, and gained her deck at the moment that the bereaved mother was relieved from the whip, when, recognizing me, she rushed to my side, and, grasping my arm, exclaimed : " What shall 1 do ? How shall I discover the fate of my hus band and child ?" "You must be quiet, madam," re sponded I, gently. "It is impossible to iearn anything regarding them just now, or indeed before the gale subsides, when I have no doubt you will find them safe and sound. They may have reached some other vessel ere this. Indeed, 'tis more than probable that they have done so, since, to my certain knowledge, but few of the Wellesley'a company are lost" " Bless you!" said she, " May Heaven bless you for your consoling words J Yet I apprehend the worst. Do you think that they have reached this ves sel ?" "Probably, madam, but I will ascer tain," I replied; and, advancing a few paces with the trembling woman still clinging to my arm, 1 was about to ask if any of the rescued answered to the name of Capt. Clifford, wben the young soldier elbowed his way through the crowd, exclaiming, "Mrs. Clifford ! Mrs. Clifford! I have found him !" " Found whom ?" she demanded, wild ly. "Whom have you found ?" "Cant. Clifford, your husband, mad ame--" "And my child--my Edward? Speak I What of him ? But lead me to my hus band, he will tell me all." The young soldier guided her through the crowd in silence ; while, deeply in terested in the meeting about to take place, I followed to where a gentleman in the undress of an infantry officer lay partially supported by a half-naked sol dier, hiB countenance expressing at once the keenest physical anguish and a su preme degree of mental happiness. „ „„1D «iiYO i " Thank Heaven you are safe, my be- 1 he exclaimed, as the faint wail of an in- loved Lucy ; but where is--" I fant saluted our ears. " Edward! Oh, Father of Mercies! i 11 was but the work of a minute to I came to you, my husband, for tidings j c*ea? away the mass which concealed of our boy. Can it be that you are as i 'n'ant, whom we found lying beside ignorant as myself ? " the wreck of the spar, while the charred "I never saw him but once after the leather rigging had fallen in such a alarm, Lucy, and then he was in the 1 manner as afforded it protection against Scarce a minute elapsed ere the Del- mar's gig was down, and five of my men, the soldier aad myself safely seated on her thwarts, when an unrestrained use at our knees served the davit-tackles, (and we were free. _ " Bear her off with your oars and ship all, my lads !" I exclaimed, vainly en deavoring to find the rudder, when, abandoning the search, I grasped the loom of the after oar, which the soldier had secured, and lent my strength toward the impulsion of the buoyant craft through or over the maddened bil lows, while l'rom the Delmar's deck came the cheering shout: "Give way, my lads, my noble hearts, and may Heaven speed you !" We did give way, each stroke of the oars making the little boat fairly leap from the brine, while the life-boat model on which she was constructed rendered us secure from all danger of being swamped. And it was fortunate for us that her thwarts, stern-sheets and dais were air-tight locked. Had they been otherwise, nothing could have prevented us from going down, inasmuch as we were half-full of water ere we had ac complished half the distance to the wreck. We had made the passage to the Del- mar in the short space of four minutes, but our passage from her to the wreck consumed four times that period and tenfold the exertion, while in a few words the young soldier informed me of the cause of his daring. He had married without the consent of his Colonel, and, the regiment being soon after ordered on foreign service, he in vain besought permission for his wife lo accompany him. Col. Ross was inex orable, until his daughter--the young wife ot Capt. Clifford--espoused tho can-e of the anguish stricken Susan,and ventured to intercede in her behalf. He could deny his daughter nothing, so ho consented, promising that she should take Susan into her service, by which means he would be spared the charge of suspending an established rule in her case. In this manner had the youthful «oldier and his youug wife been spared the parin of separation, and in return for •hat kind intercession he is now proving his gratitude. At length we reached the burning wreck, when a new difficulty presented itself. How were we to board it ? To attempt such a feat to leeward was worse than folly, for the wreck, relieved Of its top-hamper, rode partly to the ebb,heav ing the dismantled hull into the trough of the sea, which made frequent breaches over her, retarding the pro# ress of the flames and preserving almost entire her starboard side. An attempt to board to windward would have been equal madness, and we were debating upon the feasibility Of an attempt to board by the wreck of the mizzen topmast, which hung drooping to the surface from the stern, when Hunter demanded : " How near can you go with safety, sir?" " Within two boats' length," I re plied. "Then sheer in," saidttie, "and I will swim the rest." " Nonsense ! You couldn't!" respond ed I, startled by the proposition. " I have accomplished feats as danger ous for a less momentous object," said he. "I'll try it. I can but fail." J • ' Give way gently, men!" said I, avoiding a reply for a moment in order to consider the proposal in all its bear ings, when the boat, losing headway and being to the windward, began to dose with the wreck. We were about three boats' lengths when he dropped his oars and was about to spring, but I restrained him, saying : " Hold on! you will have a better chance by that spar over the stern, but how can you reach the boat if you are fortunate enough to find the child ?" " Let me but find it," he exclaimed, "and I can afford to trust for safety in Him who rules the wind and waves. We were stern to, and within a boat's length of the wreck at the moment, when signing to the crew to give way, I exclaimed: " Go then, in His name, and here's to go with you." And the next instant we were both struggling in the hissing brine. A minute later and we were clamber ing up the top-mast, from which we passed on deck, where we were obliged to pause, our passage being cut off by I the destruction oi the main deck from j the main hatch aft, a portion of the i weather-side forward remaining un- 1 scathed. } "If the ohild lives, unrescued, it is i there, sir," said Hunter, indicating a 1 portion of the foremast, with a heap of ^smoking canvas which lav along the I weather-side, just forward the chesstree. "Follow me, then," said I briefly, : and, clambering over the quarter-rail, I ; crawled along outside the bulwark, , clinging to the chained hammock rail until I reached the forward channel, | when I bounded in board, followed by* : my gallant companion. i "It was there I found my wife, and, 1 thank Heaven, the child is here alive !r nurse's arms. She was seeking you; and. I deeming him safe with her--Oh 1 sy ohild, my child ! and I disabled, and cannot search for him 1 " " In the nurse's arms ? " repeated the young Boldier. " Why, that was Susan. Did you mean," said he, "you saw Master Edward with my wife. Captain?" "Ay, Hunter," was the reply. "Where is your wife ? The child must be with her." " Alas, no, sir. My wife is here. See --she is insensible," said the young soldier; and as he sooke he bent over the form I had failed to observe, adding, " I found her beneath a prostrate spar, by which she had been struck down, and, wrenching it aside, grasped the precious burden, and escaped with it, as you see." "Then, Lucy, darling, our child is ldst!" murmured the stricken officer injury from the feet of those who must have passed and repassed the spot in the hurry and excitement of abandonment j Hunter clasped the child iu his arms, land, spurning all my proffers of aid, preceded me to the taffrail by the same ; dangerous path we had previously trod- ; den, when, the boat being near at hand, he fearlessly committed himself and , charge to the mercy of the waves. My I gallant crew, being prepared for the event. w*re ready, and. fortunately able to render prompt and efficient aid scarce a minute elapsing ere they had them safe on board. My rescue fol lowed, of course, and was effected with greater difficulty, a mountain billow breaking while I was immersed, and heaving the boat and me asunder, when I nearly two minutes passed ere she came within my reach. At length I was in her stern sheets again, and a few ---*:--- •» «<*"> ouccio ttgum, ana a lew inin- gently drawing the crouching form of "tes later we dropped alongside of the Che congratulations of his friends, and, extending his hand,whioh the young man humbly olasped, said: ' Hunter, brave men carry their own reward with them; but, both as your commanding officer and your friend, Cr action of this night claims at my ds a grateful and publio acknowl edgment. I will see to your future and to that of your wife." Although I didn't sleep soundly for the remainder of that night in the ham mock swung for me in the wardroom of the Delmar, yet I never retired to rest so perfeotlv contented with myself and all mankind as on that night, rendered memorable by the burning of the Wel lesley transport yeipf 1 know the spot ®ue ,S.U8aQ laJ. The fire has not ! Need I tell you how the sight of that reached it yet, and Master Edward must ( reunion of parents and child rewarded be there, if not among the rescued, me tenfold for my share in the rescue of Who11 go with me to the burning t,"> But I must, add that I was ^.T u _ _ _ . , delighted when CoL Boss approached 1 will my man! I shouted, seized 1 the young soldier as he stood support- witb a wild ambition to aid him in restor- ">g his now-conscious wife and receiving A Remarkable Tree. So many curiosities of plant life have of late years been brought into public notice that the reporc of the existence of a tree which picks up stones, bones, bits of wood and other unconsid ered trifles from the surfaoe of the ground, retaining them and suspending them in mid air, hardly excites the credulity nowadays with which such a statement would have been received a generation ago. Thirty years ago stories of plants whose flowers were furnished with the means of inclosing flies, or even pieces of meat, as a spider seizes on its prey, and quickly surrounds it with a network of gauze, and which |lien actually proceeded to eat the prey thus secured almost as a spider would e&t a fly--such stories, thirty years ago, would have been relegated to the cate gory of "travelers' tales." But we have the authority of Mr. Darwin, and any one may easily have the evidence of mp own eyes to prove that the posses sion of such properties by certain flow ers is no fiction, but an undoubted fact. The same authority who first brought prominently into notioe the remarkable properties of the Drosera has also shown that other plants have actually the power of progression, within certain limits, from one point to another. With such instances it requires little effort to believe the correctness of the report above alluded to that some plants are endowed with the faculty of picking up loose articles from the ground. Lieut. Houghton, who recent ly visited New Guinea and several other islands and groups of islands in the Pa cific, was the first, we believe, to report the existence of such a tree, though he did not explain the means by which it accomplished this unusual feat It ap pears to be a species of Fieus, allied to the woll-known banyan tree, which throws out from its branches air roots that eventually reach the ground, take root there, and in their turn become new stems which perform the same function, so that a singlo tree eventually extends so far in all directions as to form a com plete forest, in which all the stems are united by the branches to each other. The prehensile tree in question similarly throws out from its branches long flexi ble tendrils, which, touching the ground, do not take root there, but twine them selves around any article that may lie within reach. Eventually these quasi branches contract so that they fail to reach the ground, but the finger-like processes continue to closely grip the substance round which they have twined themselves, and which are consequently suspended in mid-air.' In this way ar ticles of considerable weight may be lit erally picked up from the gvound by the tree and so held in suspension.--Colo nies and, India. Lore and lee Cream. "Myrtle, dear?" "Yes, George, what is it?" replied the girl, glancing shyly upward. ^The radiant glory of a summer moon shone down upon the earth this June night, bathing in all its mellow splendor the leafy branches of the sturdy old oaks that had for centuries shaded the en trance to Castle McMurtry and laughed defiance to the fierce gales that every winter came howling down in all their cruel force and fury from the moorlands lying to the westward of the castle. On- the edge of the broad demesne that stretched away to the south stood a large brindle cow; and, as the moonlight flecked with silvery luster her starboard ribs, she seemed to Myrtle a perfect picture of sweet content and almost holy calm. "Is it not a beautiful night, dearest?" murmured the girl. " See how the moonbeams flutter down through the trees, making strange lights and shad ows that flit among the shrubs and flow ers in such a weird, ghost-like fashion. The dell is indeed clothed in loveliness to-night, sweetheart" "Yes," said George W. Simpson, " this is the boss dell"--and then, look ing down into the pure, innocent face : that was lifted to his, he took in his- own broad, third-base palm the little hand that erstwhile held up Myrtle's polo naise. As they stood there silently in the bosky glade George passed his arm silently but firmly around Myrtle's waist The noble girl did not shy. " Do you love me, sweetheart ? " she asked in accents that were tremulous with tremulousness. Myrtle's head was drooping now, and the rosy blushes of Calumet avenue in nocence were chasing each other across her peachy cheeks. George drew her more closely to him. If a mosquito had tried to pass between them then it would have been bad--for the mosquito. " Can vou doubt me, darling ?" he whispered. " You surely must know that I love you with a wild, passionate, whoa-Emma love that can never die. Do you not love me a little in return ?" For an instant the girl did not speak. George heard the whisking of the brindle cow's tail break in rudely upon the sol emn stillness of the night and ever and anon came the dull thud of the bullfrog as he jumped into a neighboring pond. Presently Myrtle placed her arms about his neck, and, with a wistful, baby's-got- the-cramp look in her sweet face, she said to him: " I love you, George, with a deathless devotion that will eventually keep you broke." And with these fate ful word* she adjusted her rumpled bang and fearlessly led the way to an ice-cream lair.--Chicago Tribune. -- , "<> King Coal. It has been said that coal is the main- spring of modern material civilization. Indeed, Prof. Jarvis has even denied our favorite boast that this is the age of iron, declaring that coal commands this age--' the age of coal. In England coal, in truth, stands, not beside, but entirely above all other commodities. It is the material energy of the country. En gland hasgEown rich and numerous upon this source of wealth. Over 50J,000 of its inhabitants are at the present moment employed under what is called the Coal Mines Regulation act, and the annual product now exceeds 135,000,000 tons, the estimated value of which is 8250 - 00J,000.--Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean, 'a OUB greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.-- Oon/uciua. 7 AGBICTLTTBAL, ' Stacking Clov*r. In stacking clover, if convenient, the bottom of the stack should be covered with old hay or straw about a foot deep, to keep the clover from gathering damp ness from the ground, as it surely will, often spoiling a couple of feet of the bottom of the stack. The top should be of old hay also, as clover does not turn rain, and the stack will be very much damaged if not well protected on the top. The shape of a stack of clover, or, indeed, any other crop, has much to do with keeping it from damage. Many farmers make a stack a regular conn from bottom to top. A stack to be property made should be egg-shaped, whether bottom is of large or small size. The bulge in the stack should be about six feet from the bottom and tapered regularly to the top, and be about six teen feet high. If thus made, the lower part and bulk of the stack is protected by the bulge or wide part After finish ing, rake down well, and a stack, if properly and solidly put up, will keep good for two or three years. But, after all, it is best to have a barn to secure all crops. A cone-shaped stack is ex posed from pitjjfco dome to destruction, and often is Nearly or quite ruined if long left to the elements.--Cor. Farm and Fireside. Exhaustion of Soils. The chemist of the National Depart ment of Agriculture expresses the opin- ; ion that the fertility of the soil of the | Western prairies will be exhausted soon er than that of the rocky land in the ; Eastern States. He acknowledges that I the Western soils are richer in materials ! for stimulating plant growth and are j capable of producing larger crops when j first brought under the plow, but affirms i that they are deficient in means of re- ' gaining fertility after they have produced | several crops. They are rich in carbon I and nitrogen but are generally poorly I supplied with potash, lime and phos- | phorus. The latter substances are rap- | idly taken up by growing plants and are I permanently removed when small grains are raised and marketed, as is usually I the case in the West These materials are supplied to the soil by the disinte gration of rocks in places where they ; abound, and the use of farming imple- j ments and the action of the elements ' operate favorably in restoring to land J what is carried away in crops harvested and sold. Portions of the country that are broken and rocky possess in crude ; form all the materials for supplying the ! soil with plant food for all time. It is | true that the rocks may not crumble ! fast enough to supply the soil with all the materials that are taken away from ! it under the common conrse of cultiva- J tion, but by adopting the resting pro- ! cess, which allows the land to be in | grass a large part of the time, and fol- | lowing a judicious course of rotation, | the fertility of the • soil may be kept up I without the application of commercial | fertilizers. The trouble is in allowing | them to become too much exhausted be fore undertaking to restore them.--Chi cago Times. Thin Out the Fruit. Those who desire to produce the best quality of fruit should not allow their trees to overbear. But how can we help it ? says one. We will tell you. Keep a good lookout among your trees, and when you see the fruit is setting too thick begin the work of thinning out This may be done in various ways. If your trees have already been pruned back well and superfluous branches cut out of the inside of the head, you should not use the shears or the knife to cut any more branches, but should only cut I off the small fruit where it has set too i close together. With shears in hand ! and a light, handy step-ladder you can I go over the trees rapidly, clipping off : parts of bunches of fruit, and thus re- I lieving the tree of the draft upon it in I attempting to perfect an over-crop*, and i turn all its force and strength to the ! perfection of what you leave. If the | tree has not been fully pruned, then use | the shears in cutting off and shortening j back the branohes so as to lessen the I amount of fruit on the tree, and at the i same time giving the tree shape and | proportion. It is much better to do this | lopping off of limbs and long branches j now than to allow an over-crop of lruit j to break and lop them off later in the season. A fair quantity of good, well- grown and matured fruit is worth much | more for use or to sell than a large j quantity of poor, half-grown, insipid | fruit. If you would avoid the latter and secure the former, attend to your fruit | trees at once. Go over the orchard now, : and a month from now, if you find the ! trees still too full, go over them again ; , but the sooner the surplus fruit is re- ] moved now the better for the tree and the fruit left on it Nearly all kinds of i fruit trees are inclined to overbear in j California, hence they require eloso watching and a good deal of thinning out--Detro'it Post. ! Bee Culture. j We take the following hints and sug- ; gesliors from Mr. Newman's book, en- ' tit'ed " Bee* and Honey." Which Way Should Hive* Face f j --There seems to be no facing superior I to the one that allows the sun's rays to [ shine directly into the entrance of a hive j at 11:30 a. m. There is not a difference j of any consequence between a south, ! southeast or southwest aspect, and se- i lection may be made to suit the api- I arist's notion. Next to this, we should ! say, face to the east; if this is impossi- ; ble, then west--and when no other is ; available, submit to a north frontage, j How Many Colonics to Begin With. I --Purchase a colony from some reliable j breeder or dealer, and, in order to get { experience, increase from one or two ! colonies--not more. As it is essential to know what to do, j when to do it, and how to do it, we oan- not too strongly advise the beginner to purchase a good manual of the apiary, and study it well. This is absolutely I essential to success. I Buying " Swarms."--A first swarm is I always to be preferred, and if possible from a hive that swarms the previous year, for then the old queen will be in ! her second year, vigorous and at her s.best. A small, second swarm should be j passed by, in purchasing. Arrange the • frame If inches from center to center; ' tilt the hive forward, at an angle of 20 to 25 degrees, and they will be almost certain to build straight on the comb- guides. If an old hive is purchased, let it be a heavy one in the spring, with straight comb coming entirely down to the bottom of the frames. j Bees Kept on Shares.--As some may desire to keep bees "on shares"--though we never think it desirable to do so, as it so often leads to misunderstandings and quarrels--we will give the usual j " terms " of such oontracts : I It is usual for one party to furnish the hives of bees, and the other party the care and labor. The expense of new hives, surplus boxes, oomb founda tion and queens are usually divided equally, but the end of the season the honey and increase of bees are equally i divided--leaving each to take all chancea of marketing, as well aa wintering. Always make a written contract, slat ing the agreement in full, and then there will be less liability of a misun derstanding. Ants in the Apiary.--These are some times troublesome in the apiary. The following remedy is practiced and recommended by Mr. A. B. LcLavy : With a weeding hoe, clear the ground in and around the yard of weeds and tufts of grass ; m a day or two the ants will have established a trail from their beds to the hives. By this means you can readily traoe them home. To a five- gallon can of water, add say ten ounces of cyanide potassium, and let it dis solve ; with a trowel dig gently in the ant bed until you find the nest which will be known by the white eggs. Then pour on the water and make the dirt into a thin mud right in the neBt, pour the water on plentifully, so as to effect ually poison the very earth. By this means you dispose of ants and queen ant, and unfit the larvsB for reproduc tion. You may miss destroying it at the first trial, but will eventually clean them out Keep the cyanide of potash out of reach of children, as it is a vio lent poison. It retails at the drug stores for about $1 per pound. •*»' jRemoving Propolis from the Hands. --We are often asked what will remove bee glue from the hands. Alcohol or spirits of turpentine will do it; or a lit tle slacked lime kept in thefbee house will be found convenient during the summer, to remove propolis from the hands. Moisten the parte desired to be cleansed, then rub with wet lime un til the propolis is removed. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. IF you cut pine-apple in thin slices and scatter sugar over it the day before you serve it, you need not add any water to make the liquor. Keep it in a cold place. A BIOH pudding sauce is made of the yelks of five eggs, one cup of sugar, half a cup of butter; beat all together till light, then add slowly one pint of boiling water. VEAL steaks, in order to be palatable, must be cooked thoroughly, no matter how much haste the cook is in; this should never be sent to the table till it is nicely browned, the edges and alL S ilt and butter and a decided sprinkling of black pepper are also necessary. TOMATO sauce to pour over meat is made thus: Stew half a dozen ripe tomatoes, with n little chopped parsley, salt and pepper to suit taste; steam it, put it on the stove again, and when it begins to boil add a spoonful of flour, rubbed smooth, with a teaspoonful of butter, and let it boil up once. To KEEP PINEAPPLES.--Pare and cut out the eyes a a ripe pineapple ; strip all the pulp from the core with a silver fork ; to a pint of this add a pound of granulated sugar; stir occasionally until the sugar is dissolved, put in glass fruit- cans and turn down the covers as closely as possible. This will keep a long time. A VERT appetizing salad is made by chopping coarsely Bome cold boiled po tatoes ; then season well with salt, pep* per and mustard; line a salad dish with fresh lettuce, then put in a layer of po tatoes ; on the top put a layer of cold boiled beets, also chopped and seasoned ; garnish the dish liberally with lettuce, and just before sending it to the table add vinegar, plain, os with ordinary salad dressing. BAKED codfish is an excellent break fast dish. Cut the fish in small pieces and let it soak all night in cold water. In the morning pick it in shreds and let it simmer on the stove until it is tender, then draw off the water, and to one- third mashed potato put two-thirds fish. Stir it so that the potato will be evenly distributed. Bake until it is a rich brown on top; serve with a sauce of drawn butter, in which out two hard- boiled eggs. AN excellent mixture to remove grease spots, from boys' and men's clothing particularly, is made of four parts of al cohol to one part of ammonia, and about half as much ether as ammonia. Apply the liquid to the grease spot and then rub diligently with a sponge and clear water. The chemistry of the operation seems to be that the alcohol and ether dissolve the grease, and the ammonia forms a soap with it which is washed out with the water. The result is much more satisfactory than when something is used which only seems to spread the spot and make it fainter, but does not actually remove it If oil is spilled on a carpet and you immediately scatter corn meal over it the oil will be absorl>ed by it. Oil may also be removed from carpets upon which you do not dare put ether or ammonia by laying thick blot ting-paper over it and pressing a hot flat-iron on it Repeat the operation several times, using a clean paper each time. , • Great Men at Play. United States Senator Edmunds and Justice Harlan were fellow-guests at a seaside hotel. One day the two distin guished gentlemen were wandering aim lessly along the beach under a bright, genial sun, when their attention was ar rested by the sight of a small boy in tently throwing shells at a small peg driven in the sand and surmounted by a block of wood. The little fellow, un conscious of their presence, continued the practice with skillful results, and the two spectators for the moment for got their official gravity and allowed their latent boyish tendencies to control them. " I'Jl bet you a good cigar," said Mr. Harlan to Mr. Edmunds, " that I can hit that mark before the boy can." The wager was accepted, and the con test began. The Justice was as good as his boast, for the block was knocked down at the third throw. Then the Senator tried to do as well, and the small boy, the great lawyer and the dis tinguished statesman were soon busy at play, hunting for ammunition, making rash bets, laughing over defeat and ap plauding victory. The sight was a novel but a happy one, and the few promenad- ers on the beach smiled good-naturedly as they passed, to think how one touch of youtlifuluess could break dignity's back and make old men young again. That evening the Justice smoked with pride some cigars from the Senator's best box, the stakes of their pleasant little competition. In the Canadian Parliament. They are a little ponderous in their ways up in the Canadian Parliament, but the personal element of legislating is not entirely neglected there, as wit ness this from the proceedings : When the five members rose to insist upon a division, Sir John Maodonald said this was tho last time he would trust to an agreement with the honorable leader of the opposition. 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