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Ducks that are not allowed to frequent ponds, streams or ditches, but are fed in yards on well prepared rain food, etc.. are delicate and tender in esh. Hens confined in small yards will do im. mense execution in destroying noxious in- sects. In one yard where a few peach trees are growing, and the soil around the trees is kept loose, the grain ration is scattered under the trees and scratched in with a rake. The result is that the hens are at work around the trees all the time, and woe to any insect that puts in an appearance among them. The efi'ect upon the trees is very marked. They are vigorous and healthy, are large and more attractive than those that are two or three years older. If ducks are not allowed to go to the water, water should by all means allowed to them. Fresh drinking water, and plenty of it, is essential to the health and comfort of the birds. They will drink more in a day than many times their number of chickens, and the sup ly should be ctnstant and lib- eral. But i should be fresh. _ It is said that more poultry houses have been built on farms this year than ever be- fore. This is a step in the right direction. As we have often pointed out, the stable, barns and carriage house are not the pro~ per places for fowls to roost in ; yet many farmers provide no other. When the real importance of poultry on the farm is more clearly realized. as we be- lieve it is coming to be every year, the necessity for housing the birds in a well constructed building by themselves will be more fully recognized. Neglected poultry amounts .to little ; well cared for, it is a valuable adjunct to the farm. Provide an ample supply of green food for the hens during the fall, such as cabbage, clover hay, etc. They areexccediugly fond of such food, and it promotes health and stimulates laying. A cabbage hung up where the hens can get at it will soon show evidences of their fond- ness for such provender. Don t forget before the long fall rains set in to gather up a sufficient supply of fine road dust for the poultry house. t is needed to sprinkle over the floor to facilitate clean- ing up and for the hens to dust themselves With-an important contribution to their comfort, and, as will be found on trial, a means of promoting egg production. If there is any one thing that stirsin and keeps at boiling point strife between neigh- bors it is allowing your poultry to forage on your neighbors’ preserveâ€"especially if that preserve happens to be a nicely planted garden or flower border. The patience of Job and the meekness of Moses would hardly be equal to the strain of scein a flock of industrious chicks from “ next car " scratching away for dear life in the centerof your neat rows of vegetables. Therefore don’t let your hens trespass on your neighbor’s lot. if his trespass on your grounds~well, get rid of them as gently as you can, but don’t think it obligatory to endure the affliction. The Dwaf Pear. In favor of the dwarf pcar, a writer says that it is admitted on all hands that finer fruit can be obtained from the dwarf than the standard trees, and as much from the space occupied. The complaint, which formerly was very general, that dwarf trees were short lived is not correct in a general sense. There are dwarf trees now standing, planted out 35 years ago, which look as thrifty and produce as abundantly as at any period of their growth, and will prob- ably continue to bear for ten or fifteen years longer if left undisturbed and pro- perly attended to. For Farmers' Sons. After all that has been saidâ€"and many times repeatedâ€"in regard to the general need of industry, economy and thorough- ’ nose on the part of farmers’ young sons in all they do, it is discouraging to see how far short a majority come of accomplishing what they mi ht achieve. Having watched the career 0 afarmer’s son from his infancy to the present time, when he is twenty-eight years old, I am so impreszed with his suc- cess that I cannot refrain from telling other farmers’ sons, ho ing some will be persuad- ed to emulate t io example. At an early age he decided that his life business should be teaching, and he has since bent every energy to that point. He was never known to spend money uselessly, nor to waste time or anything else. His father's farm was near a railroad station, but several miles from town. Fre uently he needed articles from the village, ut could not spare ahorse to no, so he gave this boy money for his fare and sent him, but he walked instead and saved the money, eventually to purchase some book he had in mind. Later he work- ed for a wealthy man and was so faithful in all he did that us soon acquired the esteem of his employer, who says today that he never knew the young man to slight a task, to be wasteful in any respect, or to equivoc- atea particle. A convenient school fitted him for college. where his father sent him four were, with the understanding that when e became able he should return the full expense. The boy did not engage in “ hazing " while at college, nor practice "athletics," as a majority of students do. His athletic ex- ercise consisted of farm work through every vacation. to reduce his college bill. As he was to become a teacher of modern languages \ his rich friend uaded him toaccept ssoo “and go ab a year among those who speak these languages in order to get the native renunciation. Returnin he had saved of thefiflflasd return it. Then for two years he was college instructor at $100 a year. "At the same time be earned more than that “coaching " students who were behind in class work. He next accept- ed the professorship of modern languages in a western college eta salary of $3.000, where heis now. He has repaid his fatherand tron, rincipal and interest, has a nice mily 0 his own, a good home and money ahead, and yet so young. He never was considered a brilliant youth, but he had what was betterâ€"a mind to decide to do something and a “ hang-dog” persistency in following the course he has marked out for himself. Perhaps after all this is of itself evidence of the possession of superior talent. A majority of farmers’ young sons can be- come as successful in some line as the sub ject of this sketch is in his if they will ado t his course. Honor awaits those who will 0 it, whether their preferences lead toagricnl- ture, law, medicine, manufactures or mer- chandise. I learn when it is too late, to my grief, that I made a sad failure in this point. .â€"â€"â€"_ Taming Without Fences- It is within the memory of many farmers when the fences on a. farm were considered the most important part of its improve- ments. It was in the days when stock was altogether kept by pasturingin summer and mainly by feeding hay in winter. In those times the lack of fencing that prevented pasturing the young clover on a grain stub- ble or the aftermath of a meadow was re~ garded as a misfortune. Now it is generally known that young clover should never be pastured, and in most case§'aftergrowth on meadows may better be left to lie and rot on the ground than to build even a tempor- ary fence for the protection of adjoining crops when it is pastured. Many farmers where fencing material is scarce have learned to dispense entirely with inside fences, and the tendency is growing. Where it is desirable to pasture cattle or horses a few days they are tied to stakes removed daily, so as to give change of feed. But most , of the feed is cut green and taken to the stable, where the animals remain sheltered from the burn- ing sun and in greater comfort than they could be running at large. The greater amount of feed that land produces in soiling crops makes this cheaper than pasturing. It enables more stock to be kept, more manure to be made, and this is naturally followed by more thorough cultivation of the soil. We believe this plan can be followed more gen- erally than is often supposed. It is not merely adapted to (fear land near cities, but is of equal advantage on cheaper land, with this condition, that there be on the latter the means for supplying plenty of manure and plenty of labor. It is the lack of these conditions that make it harder to bring up poor land at a distance from cities or large villages. The way to dispense with fences is to be- gin soiling or part soiling on asmall scale at first. It needs rich land to grow soiling crops profitably and the first year or two only a small piece can be got in proper con- dition. 1f manure or grain for feeding stock can be bought land may be brought up to the soiling standard more rapidly. But in either case it will be idle to expect profitable returns except with good stock. ‘ This will require a. good-deal of attention and the needed care will be better given to stock fed by hand than to that allowed to run in in- closed pasture and feed itself.â€"American Cultivator. Transportation of British Troops. General-Passenger Agent Nicoll furnish- es interesting information regarding the transportation of British troops across the continent. This negotiation with the Im- perial Government has been going on some time and is now about complete. Early in December next the marines of the two war: ships Pheasant and Champion, belonging to the North Pacific naval station, will be paid off and sent home to England, as their term of service at that station will then expire. Their places will be filled by new crews to from the Baming, Ca1., Herald : Last be brought out from England. Hitherto the Sunday C. Sweaters and, the writer were practice has been totransfer themenorsend driving up the \Vater Canon and as we them home by an inward bound ship, but turned a, bend we saw a. doe and a youn this year an experiment is to be made: and fawn drinking from the stone ditch. At the advantages of the Canadian Pacific line as a new route to the East put to the test. The homeward-bound marines will be land- ed at VancouVer and taken across to Halifax by a specml C.P.R. train, while the outgoing force will he landed at Halifax and taken to the Pacific coast over the same line. The whole force to be so transferred will be 709 men and officers. The C. P. R. will provide everything required fer both transcontin- ental journeys, cars, berths, meals at res- taurants and dining cars ; they will take the force up at one ocean and put them down by the other, one ready to take up their duties in the North Pacific squadron and the other ready to sail across the Atlantic to England. The immediate purpose of the Imperial authorities is to transfer their marines and sailors, but beyond' this there is no doubt they have in view the testing of the Canadian Pacific line as a means of-tra‘ns~ ferriug troops to and from the East. In this connection a Montreal Star correspondent cables :â€"“ Arrangements have just been completed between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the British Director of Transports for the trial of the Canadian Pacific as a route for the carriage of Imperial troops. The trial takes place in December when detachments of a out 700 mariners and sailors each, with ofiicers, will be ex- changed between Halifax and Vancouver and vice versa. The imperial authorities have accepted the company’s terms. The neces- sary preparations will be made forthwith. This is the first full formal recognition of the Canadian Pacific for Imperial military purposes, and is sure to attract worldwide attention to the route as a British highway to the East and a rival to the Suez Canal. Curiosities About Gold. Gold is so very tenacious that a piece of it drawn into wire one-twentieth of an inch in diameter will sustain a weight of 500 pounds without breaking. Its malleability is so great thata single grain may be divided into 2,000,000 parts and a cubic inch into 9,523,809,523 parts, each of which may be distinctly seen by the naked eye. A grain and a half of gold may be beaten into leaves of one inch 5 uni-c, which, if intersected by parallel lines rawn at right angles to each other and distant only the one-hundredth part of an inch, will produce 25,000,000 little squares, each of which may be distinctly seen without the aid of a glass ! The surface of any given quantity of gold, according to the best authorities, may be extended by the hammer 3l0,Sl-l times. The thickness of the metal thus extended appears to be no more than the 566.01nh part of an inch. Eight ounces of this wonderful metal would gild a silver wire of sufficient length icextend entirely around the globe! SOME SHRBWD SUGGESTIONS. Mrs‘ â€" A spoonful of powdered borax in the rin :ing water will whiten the clothes wonder- .ill . Ifyyou suspect lead in the drinking water drop a little tincture of cochineal into some of the water. If a blue color shows in the water better drink something else ! Would you be handsome '3 Yes? then keep clean 3 Wash freel . All the skin wants is freedom to act. fiat regularly and sleep enough. Brush your teeth before re- tiring. Sleep in a cool room and know that the fresh air can get in ! And perhaps the greatest secret isâ€"have some earnest inter- est in life. By all means cultivate a hobby and ride it hard. Such exercise tends to wake up your soul and that brings your beauty into bloom. Girls, make your own cologne ! Put into a bottle : One-half ounce of oil of lavender, one drachm oil rosemary, two drachms es- sence lemon, two drarhms essence bergamot, forty drops oil of cinnamon ; over this pour three pints alcohol. Two “chums” could club together on this, and cut expenses, and yet smell to heaven in their sw eetness ! Every housekeeper should take a nap each afternoon. It will tend to delay the advent of a second wife in the house ! r Use a mop in washing your dishes. Don’t be ashamed to take care of your hands. It hurts my feelings to see nice shapely hands all red and swollen by hot and soapy dish- water. Wear gloves when you sweep and dust, as well as when you work in the garden. If,God blessed you with nice hands then for God’s sake take care of them ! Rub them often in corn meal and vinegar. Don't cook tomatoes in an iron vessel, nor stir with an iron spoon. To cook tomatoes for'a delicious stew: put your allowance of butter into the cooking dish first, when it is hissing hot pour in your tomatoes and then season. You will be amazed, perhaps, to find the difference in flavor that depends upon whether you put the butter into the tomatoes, or the tomatoes into the butter! Beware “ Ki-brothâ€"Haâ€"taaâ€"vah!” W hat’s that? Hebrew for “ graves of the greedy.” Gluttony is a. vice, and by the ancient Jews classed with drunkenness. That was the sin, gluttony, not drunkenness lâ€"tliey fell into at the time of themiraculous fall of quail about their camps, when it is said: “'The Lord smote the people with a great plague.” \Vhere they were buried was called by this singular Hebrew name, meaning, “ The graves of the greedy l” H’sh 1 keep mum, and here’s a big secret! Put one ounce of powdered gum benzoin into one pint of whiskey. When bathing face and hands turn enough of this “ doctored drink ” into the water to turn it milky looking, and don’t use a towel,_let this dry on. It’s not diffi- cult to look handsome, if you but know how ! Don’t feel so badly about that broken China l Simply prepare a very thick solu- tion of _ gum arabic in water and stir in considerable plaster of Paris. Brush 'the broken edges with this and press them together. In three days you will forget it ever grieved you. Glaze the bottom pie crust with white of ego: and it will not soak. BOil meat slowly if you wish to make it tender. Curry powder contains cinnamon, carda- mon, coriander, and poppy-seed, red and black pepper, cloves, garlic, turmeric and grated cocoanut ; did you know it? To prevent milk scorching, rub the uten- sil with butter before pouring in the milk. Remarkable Sagacity. ‘We take this account of an exhibi- tion of the remarkable sagacity of a deer our approach the animals were startled, and in attempting to turn and run the poor little fawn lost its balance and fell into the ditch. As many of our readers know, the water runs very swiftly and in great volume up there, and of course the fawn was car- ried down stream. The mother deer seemed to lose all fear of us and ran along the edge of the ditch trying to reach her offspring with her head. Suddenly‘she ran ahead of the floating fawn for Some little distance. She plunged into the ditch with her head down stream and her liindquarters toward the fawri. She braced her fore feet firmly in the crevices of the rocks to resist the rush of water. In a second the fawn was wash- 1) ed up on its mother’s back and it instinc- tively clasped her neck with its fore legs. The doc then sprang from the ditch with the fawn on her back. She lay down and the baby deer rolled to the ground in an utterly exhausted condition. Mr. SWeeters and myself were now not more than thirty feet from the actors in this animal tragedy, but the mother, seemingly unconscious of our presence, licked and fondled her off- spring for a few minutes until it rose to its feet. and the doc and fawn then trotted off up the mountain side.” Formation of an Ocean Liner’s Crew. The average Atlantic steamer is manned by about 150 men, as follows ':â€"-32 deck hands, 4officers, 9 petty officers, 32 firemen, &c., 8 engineers, 65 stewards. The master and chief officialsâ€"that is, mates and en- gineersâ€"are chosen by the owners or mana~ gers, while the remainder of the crew are chosen by the captain. First-class ships muster from 12 1-015 men in each watch, and all of these are shipped as seamen. Of course the majority are so only in name, though there is always a definite number of sailors among them. Indeed, to fly the blue flag, at least ten of the crew, in addition to the captain, must be enrolled in the Naval Reserve, and to be an A.B., one musthand, reef, and steer deftly. These are the people who in port stand by the ship; that is. those who take, as required by law, their discharges in Liverpool on the return voy- age and continue to work on board at fixed wa es per day while the ship refits and loa s. All hands, from the skipper to the scullion’s mate, must ship at the beginning of each runo-must sign articles, as it is called, before a Board of Trade shippin master. As the law has always regarde Jack as especially in need of its protection, because he is particularly exposed to the wiles of sharper-s, great stress is laid in these articlesu n his treatment, and therefore they exhi it in detail the character of the voyage, the w , the quantity and quality of the food, an a dozen other particulars which evidence the safeguards thrown around them by the Government. - under favorable circumstances in life, and tasted of almost all the lawful things that are permitted to mankind in a' respectable g ambition, I testify that there is nothing in ._ a... WM...” .. ._\..-. WM..-M -H . -...â€"â€"...~.. .- ..V . n “awn”..........s._.~-..... ....-..m»~a-mMm-Mmm Golden Thoughts For Bveryllay. Mondayâ€"- Teach me. O Lord, Thv holy , And give me an obedient min , That in Thy service I mav rind My soul's delight from day to day. Guide me. O Saviour. with Thy hand. And so control my thoughts and deeds. That I may tread the path which leads Right onward to the biessed land. Help me, 0 Saviour, hero to trace The sacred footsteps Thou hast trod, And meekly walking with my God. To grow in goodness. truth and grace. Guard me, 0 Lord. that I may ne‘er Forsakc the right. ordo the wrong : A inst temptation make me strong. An round me spread Thy sholt'ring care. â€"â€";inonymous Tuesdayâ€" But according to the doctrine of the church human life, the supreme good that we pos- sess, is but a very small portion of another life of which we are deprived for a season. Our life is not the life that God intended to ive us or such as is our due. Our life is egenerate and fallen, a mere fragment, a mockery, compared with the real life to which we think ourselves entitled. The principal object of life is not to try to live this mortal life conformably to the will of the Giver of life ; or to render it eternal in the generations, as the Hebrews believed; or to identify ourselves with the will of God. as Jesus taught ; no, it is to believe that after this unreal life the true life will begin. â€"-A nonymo us. \Vednesdayâ€" More things are wrought b prayer Than this world dreams 0 . Vt heroforc, let _ thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day, For what are men better than sheep or goats, That nourish a blind life within the brain, It, knowmg God they lift not hands of raycr. Both for themselves and those who ca 1 them friend i For so, the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. â€"-Lord Tennyson Thursdayâ€"The style of Bunyan is de- lightful to every reader and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to ob- tain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabul- ary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word, of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he wanted to say. For magnificence, for pathos , for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisi- tion, for every purpose of the p fectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted Eng? lisli language, no book which shows's‘o well how rich that ion u'age is in its own proper wealth, and how ittle it has been improv- ed by all that it has bOi rowedâ€"Lord Macaulay. Fridayâ€" Thls thing on which thy heart was set, this . thing that can not be, This weary. disa pointing day that dawns, my friend, or theeâ€" Bo comforted; God knoweth best, the God whose name is Love, \Vhose tender care is evermoro our passing lives above, He sends the disa pointmentsl Well, take thls from his and! Shall God's appointments seem less good than what thyself had planned 2 flfargarct Sangster. Saturdayâ€"It seems but yesterday when my face was as young and fresh as yours. It seems but as yesterday when I began iny race. I am near the end of it; and I bear witness that with a heart as open, and on as many sides, to pleasure and joy‘ as any man’s can be here, and haying been on the whole all the earth that is not rendered more sweet and bright by having that communion with God that lifts and refines and, strengthens the soul itself.â€"chry Ward Beecher. A Novel (lure. St. Cecilia’s ancient soothing system of healing the sick by music has had a success as marked as unexpected. The success of the late experiments has been indorsed by even The British Medical Journal, which says : “ So far, the virtue has been tested chiefly in cases of insomnia ; and it must, we think, beyadmitted with decidedly sat- isfactory effect. That a whole word full of atients should have been soothed to slum- ber by a lullaby, that even the medical man who watched the proceedings should have felt it hard to keep awake, are striking testimonies to the soporific power of the erformance. The results would doubtless ave been better but for the disturbing in- fluences of one or two accidents, and we con atulate Canon Harford and his devot- ed and of fellow-workmen on the success they have achieved, hoping that they will be encouraged to push their musicotherapeutic- al conquests still futhcr. The medical pro- fession would hall with satisfaction any- thing that promised to deliver the victims of insomnia from the dangers and degrad- ing thraldom of morphia, chloral and the whole catalogue of drowsy syrups.” Abolition of the Grand Jury. Sir John Thompson, the Dominion Minis. ter of Justice, some time ago addressed a. cir- cular letter to all the judges in Canada and the attorney generals of each rovince relative to the expediency of shells ing the functions of the grand jury. Forty'eight replies favored abolition, 41 were against, and 12 had no opinion to give. Judge Hughes of St. Thomas, who has been County Judge of Elgin for 37 years, voices the abolitionists’ cause briefly. He says: “In speaking with men of Ion experience, as well as those belonging to the legal ro- fession and other men in positions alfor ing 0 portunities for observation and reflection, Ihave, with very few exceptions, found anal- most unanimous conclusion that the func- tions of the grand jury are an expensive relic of times which have now no parallel, and that there exists not the semblance of a necessity for the continuance of a system which was once a useful one. ” The abolition of the system would nest-s. sitate a wide change in the present condi- tion of affairs. Should it result in the aboli- tion of the magistrate appointed for his political influence and who is ' by fees, one good result at least won be effected. M Several prominent men in England have ' lately referred to abolishing the House of Lords, and thereare not wanting indications that a certain section of the Radicals earnestly desire the quretion of its abolition to take the plaho of home rule. Mr. Glad- stone himself really hinted at nothing more than reform of that body, and has declared more than once that any such step required delicate deliberation and the most exact judgment. It seems futiletotalk of abolish~ ing the House of Lords, and those who clamor for such a change little know where- of they speak. The House of Lords, in short, cannot be abolished, save with the consent of a majority of its own members, and it will be a strange day when the proud peers of England, forgetful of their traditions and history, will voluntarily vote for their own extinguishment. Any such course im lios a radical change not only in legislation ut in the forces controlling human nature. The House of Lords will never do this except under a reign of terror and in the presence of a commotion similar to that which existed in the reign of Charles I. No future Parliament will probably ever make a more swaeping declaration regarding the peers than Cromwell's Parliament did in 1649, when it passed a resolutioustatin " a house of peers is useless. dangerous. and ought to be abolished.” But this resolution, though temporarily dispensiu with their functions and passed in a time o tumult and disc rder, did not abolish the Lords. They bowed before the storm for the time being and retired to their country castles, but they neither assembled in Westminster nor abrogated their hereditary legislative func- tions, and it is safe to say that in any such contingency they would pursue some similar course again. It must not be forgotten that the sanction of the House of Lords to any measure orig- inating in the Commons is necessary before it becomes a law. The House of Commons could harass and humiliate the upper house, it could unjustly tax them and confiscate their estates, it could refuse supplies, make the hereditary legislators pay for the venti- lations and lighting and sweepiu of their own chamber, but it could not abo ish them nor send up any measure to the sovereign for that purpose till it had been engrossed on the records of both houses of Parliament and sanctioned by both. It is in the power of a prime minister to so increase the mim- ber of peerages as to give him a majority in the Lords upon minor questions. But upon a question of their own abolition no persons - accepting the dignity of .a. peerage would go of the crown no sovereign coulr be found who would thus carry out the deal us of the minister, since by so doing, the t roue it- self would be removing the last bulwark which protects it from po ular clamor and from political assaults. ‘lie peers would never consent to their own effacemeut, and the sovereign would steadily refuse to in- crease their body for the purpose of effecting their abolition. The abolition of the House of Lords is therefore a cry to tickle and please the masses. and, like that beautiful theory of perpetual motion,something which can not be realized in practice. The con- stitution of England must be violated or repealed before any radical change takes place in the functions ,of the House of Lords, or before anymore than Mr. Gladstone hints can be done respecting the limitation of its authority. c..â€" Some Usaful Hints. The dampness and unwholesomeness of an undersink cupboard, such as one finds in nearly all old-style kitchens, can be reme- died by boring numerous holesin the frontand end with an inch auger and by keeping a can filled with unslaked lime on a shelf in- side. The holes can be made in a geometri- izalkdesign and detract in no way from its 00 B. If a sink reaches to a corner of the room a bracket shelf fastened at a convenient height in the corner is handy for fielding those numeroustime-and-strcngth‘savingma- terials with which the wise worker provides herself ; namely, sapolio, pcarline, borax, and a vegetable brush. If room is wanting, screw hooks can be put in the underside of the shelf to hold the wire disliclotli, soap- shaker, etc. Shades and spring-rollers are too cheap not to be found in every kitchen. And if they are placed four inches below the win- dow-casing good ventilation can be secured and the windows darkened at the same time. Any woman who can use a hammer and screw-driver can easily adjust them. It is scarcely less difficult to put u a shelf with the iron brackets which can 0 purchased for a trifling sum at any hardware store, and one back of the stove will save untold steps. If the range stands near a corner of the room have two slats fastened across the corner, three or four feet apart, for holdin dish towels in rainy weather (for they should always be hung in the sun when it shines), stove-cloths, and the like. If the kitchen table has no casters buy a set and put them on. It is not a difficult matter and will save a deal of strength. Pieces of astcboard, with holes an inch in diameter y which to hang them on a. convenient book, are excellent for placing under hot cooking dishes. 0r, lacking this, old wrapping and newspapers answer every purpose. A twine bag with a pair of shears hanging conveniently near, should be found in every kitchen. So, too, should a pincusliion and small mirror. One can easily find time to give a becoming touch to their toilet before going to the dining-table that would not be given if compelled to go to one’s chamber or the bathroom. Many vegetables are better for not haviu the skin out before being cooked. For this reason, as well as case in cleansing, a vege- table brush is a necessity. Not only have a high stool which permits of your sitting to do many kinds of work, but an easy rocker in which you can do many others, or can rest in an occasional odd moment. A rug under one’s fwtis restful when long standing is necessary, as in iroulng, or in washing dishes. Put a little pearline in the greasy pots and roasting-pans, and it will tly facilitate cleaning them; especially ‘ you stand them The agitation has hello in motion for some on the range to heat the water. years and action is likely to be taken very soon, if at all. ’ ‘ _ I act, the into the House of Lords for the purpose of orator, and the divme, this homely dialect, efi‘acing or abolishing it, and as the creation the dialeCt 0‘ the \vorklngmen. was P8!“ of peerages is always the special prerogative A large earthen bowl should always b0 , used for stirring cake in, mnemonic; K. . n-..‘ - “A-..”