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i. i, .-.~ a (sugar-:7 k. a! calcining v‘JM PLOWING AND BARBOW'ING. The plow in principle may not have changed much in 2000 years. as has been stated. but individual plows have been greatly improved. so that. the draft is for greatly reduced. Scientific princi- ples have been studied, and the plow has been so constructed that the resist- nnCe is reduch to a minimum. while doing the work most effectively. The most recent improvement is the self- sharpening plow point, consisting of layers of edges. so that as one wears off a. new and sharp edge is presented I instead of a dull surface. This makes the draft much easier and saves the bother and expense of re-sharpening. A great variety of implements have been tried as substitutes for the plow. but they have not proven satisfactory unâ€" der all conditions. The depth of plowing has been the cause of almost endless controversy. In the corn belt. as a rule moderately deep plowing has given inOst satisfacâ€" tory results, all things considered. ‘It is obviously unwise to make any great variation in the depth of which any one field is plowed during one season, for by suddenly lowering the plow two or three inches, a cold raw earth is thrown out, on top. This is unsuited; i much less and the labor for the opera- ‘norked. to the best development of the plant, and until the air and sun have affected it for a couple of years, it will not be in the, best. condition. The object of plowing is to get the upper layers thor- oughly loosened and pulverized, so that the plant roots can readily penetrate them. The loosened surface acts as a. sponge for absorbing and retaining the moisture until needed by the grow- ing crops. It does not matter whether the upper surface be turned or not, nor does it make much difference by what means this breaking or loosening up is accomplished. If shallow plowing and subsoiling will answer the purpose. fol- low lhat practice. If, however, this condition cannot be secured except by deep plowing. it usually will pay to plow deep. On very wet low grounds deep plowing is obviously unnecessary, as the retention or moisture does not have to be looked after so carefully. In sandy or very loose scil deep plow- ‘gmm or by itself it is better to use one of the inexpensive broadcast. seed- ers. that are carried from the. shoulders and are worked by hand. either With a crank or bow. These are usually kept. in stock by dealers in agricultural im- pleinents and frequently by hardware merchants. Sow clover early in the Spring. as early as the ground can be _ Sometimes a catch is ob- tained, on ground mixed to rye or Wheatdn the fall. by sowing the clover on a light fall of snow. or in the early morning of those spring days. When f-he ground is alternately freezing _and thawing. but it is surer to wait alittle. until the surface will bear dragging. and then sow the seed and go over the ground once or twice (according to Cir- cumstances) with a slanting toothed barrow. \thn sown with spring the burrow for covering than to depend upon a. rain storm. \Vhen sown with- out a. nurse crop. (robber«crop would be a more. appropriate name) there is a probability that. the _ quicker growing wwds \vill spring _ up and check the clov- er. If this should be the case. go over the. ground with a mower. having the cutting bar raised high enough to miss most of the clover and clip the greater part of the weeds. 1f the weed crop is so prolific that when left on the ground, it will smother the young clover, it; must. be raked off. .â€" llIETI-IODS OF )IILK ING. To get good resiilts from a. cow it is necossary to keep her in a. quiet, con- tented condition at; the time of. milking. This cud is accomplished best by always feeding the cow at that time. Many do not want cows to eat then. claiming they will give attention to giving down milk better if not fed, but. if they give attention I think they are more lik ly to hit“) i, in th ~ wr. ng‘ direcâ€" tion. towards holding up the flow. But, whatever plan is followed. a constant and regualr method Will prove more satisfactory than irregularity. _ Rapid milking may be as injurious as slow milking. A moderate, careful per- son Will get all the milk there is. In cases of, disease of. or accitient'to, the udder. great care must be exerc sed not to worry the cow, and with this care. and not allowing double timeifor milk- ing. the womt case of ordinary udder troubles can be handled. Always speak to a. cow before sitting down to her. as. if she is startled, h.:r only refuge is to jump or kick. GOOD ADVICE. Our advice first. last and all the time is to go into no wildâ€"cat creamery ing is not essential, as the roots can eas- schemes without fiist having given the IS THE NORTH POLE REGION IN- HABITED AND BY WHOM? Animals That are Supposed to Exist There â€"Birds Peculiar to the. Arctic Regionâ€"â€" A Strange Tale From Point Barrowâ€"A Fresh Water Flocbcrg That Gen. Grec- I)‘ Saw. 4 \Vhat is the North Pole like? It is situated on land; that seems to be almost a certainty. There is land bare of ice in that part of the world. and clear water too. Good and scien- tific reasons lie. back of these assump- tions. That the. region in question is inhabited by various animals is an unâ€" disputed fact. It can not be asserted with human confidence that human bcings do not live there. \mrm: somethings item; It is known that several Silel'les 0fgthat it came from the land um birds live and breed in regions so far to the north of any point as yet reached by explorers. They are seen migrating toward the pole, their flooks vanishing into the. unknown beyond. Obviously. they cannot lay their eggs or rear their young on ice floes or bergs, and so it must be taken for granted that they find bare land suitable for the pur- pose. The rosy gull. most. beautiful..of all its fleet-winged tribe, spends stim- mer and winter within the mysterious and unexplored area. Its species is actually restricted to that area, only occasional specimens being seen out- side of it. driven to the southward by storms. Only once has a flock of rosy gulls been seen; it passed-Point Bar- row, the most northerly point of Alaska. There must be no small extent of land in a region that exclusively main- tains a. whole species of animals. Open water there must be all the year around, else the rosy gulls would starve. Doubtless the birds skirt the ice fields in winter, looking for fish. Two species of sandpipers breed in the un- explored area. The same may be said of at least one species of goose. Every spring brant are seen from Point Bar- row, flying northward, whither no huâ€" man being has yet; been able to fol- low. If there be a polar continent, there is no reason for picturing it as devoid of animal or vegetable life. In its sur- rounding waters are ' PLENTY OF FISHES.’ lor a sea of ancient and never-melting l agras‘vigrtax‘mta “ UllllLE TOM” 18 Ill WANT be. of .great extent. On one occasion he saw in Smith Sound such a floeberg that was 800 feet thick and that must have required something like 2.400 years for its formation. Such a floeber is quite different from an iceberg o glacial origin. The latter is a piece broken off from the end of a stream of ice that flows frotn the land‘into the sea. The floeberg. on .the other hand. was stratified de- posit originally formed on land by the snows of_successive winters. Eventual-' ly its weight became so great that it. SLID INTO THE SEA. Seen in sections. the strata composingl it could. be counted. Each of them rc- l prescnfmg a year; the winter's snow-i fall was followed by the summer's par-l tial the ting and a layer of dust from, the air. Thus the layers of snow were ' marked by corresponding layers of dirt.l the strata. averaging about. 1') inches ini thickness. so that. it. was easy to reckon! the age of the berg approximately. The1 fact that it. was fresh water ice rovedi not from the sea. the. old notion of a Palaecrystic sea. ice around the pole. was long ago exâ€" ploded. It was ori inated by the ex~ plorer Nares, who be. ieved that the wa- ter in that. part. of the world was frozs en down to the very bottom of the shal- low ocean. On the other hand. the idea of an open polar sea. as conceived by Ixane. is no longer entertainedâ€"that is to say, of an over-open sheet of water surroundingthe pole. The fact seems to be that there is always more or less water in that'region. though where there is ice in one winter there. may be no ice in another. In other} _words, the conditions vary. One of thei most; promising suggestions for arctic explorations thus far made is that sev-l eral nations should combine for the purâ€" pose. of reaching the pole, Suppose that the United Statc‘, Great Britain, ls‘rance, Germany, Russia and Japan sh 'ld each furnish a ship. Then let these ships start at the same time to enter the arctic clinic at as many oints around the world. Each vessel s ould have orders to go northward as far as practicable, and then to pause for the Winter. build a house and wait for summer to come again. At least one of the ships would be pretty sure to find an open waterway, though the oth- ers might. be stopped by ice, and so the goal might be. obtained. If not. the ships would proceed the next summer! on the same plan. ' The certainty that. there is a good deal of open water toward the pole af- fords the best promises for the success! of future attempts to reach it. In 18841 \Vrangle started on a sledge journey' northward from the north coast of Sib- eria, but was compelled to turn back by finding OPEN \VATER AHEAD. “3' find 3 921551180 and the land is i,“ matter a good and intelligent sifting. a. condition to retain large quanti- .1 ‘ . r . . . tips of watch The “have applies more “e an. continually hearing of jobs of particularly to the preparation of land I. this klnd bemg Put upon fanning 00111; for wheat and corn. Shallower plowing munitios [w irresponsww values who will answer very well for oats and grass i care nothing for the success of the un- seeds. ’l‘hrei- lilt‘llt's is usually suffici- l dormking beyond getting a good fat Nordenskiold 'spent a winter at Pitle- km, on the north coast of the Chukchee doubtless. as well as numerous species _ Peninsula, and all- through that season 0f crusmceans: in its bays seals dis- he saw w'tter reflected in the sk to port themselves perhaps' and possibly ‘ the north: llf Nansen does not riach walrus are not absent. As for the flora, the pole, someimdy eise will do so be- there is apt to be as much of it as is I fore long. Thc greatest: successes in ('ill for these later crops, while for corn and wheat six and seven give. best ; result. n 1 At one time the various riding and1 wheeled plows were not universally likâ€" ed. as they were considered horse-killâ€" ers. 'l‘his heavy draft feature has been eliminated smncwlizit. and as the work is done better and as horses are so cheap, it is certainly advisable to buy them. lluinan st n-ngth is so much more. valuable than that of the horse‘ 1 that it Wullltl pay to have an extra ani- mal or two rather than exhaust the farmer or his hired man. The prieixiration of the land just be- fore planting demands more and more attention. as the soil becomes less ‘pro- ductivo and drouths more. frequent and severe. Ordinarily the cornfield is har- rowetl until the surface is level. little attention being given to the COIl(ll-‘ tion of the soil more than two inches; iK‘l0\\' the surface. \Vitli several seas-E ons of severe drouth. however,’ it has' become necessary to so pulverizc and! t‘otiipaCt the. plowed portion that large air spaces do not remain. allowing thel excessive penetration of air and consc-‘ qllt'ill detrimental evaporation. This thorough preparation is best accomâ€" plished by means of disk or acute har- rows. ordinary toothed barrows and' drags. The first named penetrate much deeper than the ordinary barrow, break up clozls and eliminate air space. if the field is disked once or twice. then harrowcd with a. heavy smoothing or straight toothed barrow. it. will usually ' be in first-class condition. A drag will do much to piilverizc clutls on the sur- face and compact the soil, but it does not pulverize the lower layers of the plowed iortion. Rolling has much the same if wt and is a valuable aid when the weather is quite dry, but during the wet season it: may do injury by comâ€" pacting the surface and causing the top layer to bake. Evaporation then takes pl;tce very rapidly and the crop is seriously injured at the outset. As soon as the grain. if it be corn. appears above the surface. cultivation must begin and the upper :iyt-rs be kept in a finely piilvvi‘ig-zcd condition. so that they may act as: a mulch. It has been demonstrated during the past few yin-us that the more Complete the piviutration the letter the crop. The cultivation then can be greatly re- duced. and: the msults more satisfac- tory. Many a farmer will say that he. cannot spt-nd :0 much times in pivpar- ing his soil. and that. such attention to the more scientific methods cannot be. given. This is a fallacy which must. be. abandoned as the yeais go by. for the changing conditions demand more thorough work and greater attention‘ to details. During lllt‘ great drouth of ‘94. the farmer who thoroughly preparâ€" ed his and had a fair crop and in many cases a good one. while the man who llt‘glt‘clt‘tl tlioioiigli preparation reap- ed a small harvest. Sbll-JDI NO TO CLOVER. Ilonls IXiiryiuan gave a correspond- ent some advice on sci-ding to clover. first, without a nurse crop; second. with) cats; third. on full rye. ' The amount of seed required will be the same in either case, and this willl vary according to quality of seed. from. twelve to twanty pounds per acre. it is a most. cxrellent plan to test the need before sowing. by putting it (count- ed) hundnzd separate seeds in fine earth or between flannel cloths, keep moist. and warm and note how many sic-eds grow. If 9’.) per cent. of the semi sprout. eight pounds to the acre will prof-ably them is any doubt as to the proper clause to pursue in matters of this kind there should be no hesitation about. getting the counsels of reliable about getting the consuls of reliable men who are in position to give advice that is worth something. It. is said that talk is cheap, and so it is. It tlnesn’t. cost the fellow much who does the talking. but it is often a. very dear cotnmodit y to the people who listen too long and well. PROFITS 0F DIAMOND MINING. The Net Income From the lie licch Mines in Smith .U'rlca $ll.‘3‘2‘3.8~io Last.‘l'ear. The South African diamond mines of the De Beers Consolidated Mines Com- pany yielded last year a, clear profit ofl $11,223,840. The diamonds taken from! the mines sold for $15,530,790. The ex- ‘ penises of operating the mines for the l twelve months, including a liberal al- lowance for deterioration of plant and for interest on debentures, were about $8,525,000. Money received for rents, profits on various investments, and mis- cellaneous sources of income brought. up the. year's profits to the sum mention- cd. Dividends at the rate of 25 per cent. per annum were paid. which disposed of about. $5,000,000 ofthe profits,and an equal sum was set aside as a reserve and invested in consols and other sure things, thus assurin another year’s dividend in advance. £30“! all of which it will be. seen that. diamond mining; comes about as near to what it is crackâ€" 1 ed up to be. as anything docs in tliis' World of discncliantincnt. The average yield of diamonds was: 0.85 carat in each load of clay. The avcr- 1 age value of the diamonds mined wasl ‘15s. til. 3. carat, say $0.12. At. the close! of the fiscal year the company had 3,- 360,250 loads of clay on its floors ready for the shifting prtxrcss. This was tak- cn into account as being worth. in dia-n niond possibilities .15. 0d. a load», til-l though the clay has usually averagedl 25. (id. a land. This would real profits. realized or in sightt even! mom: than stated in the figures givch above. And last year's results showed? an increase in revenuc from diamonds2 pmduced and sold of 81,428,955 over the previous twelve months. An increased price was received for diamonds last. year over the previous year. and the directors believe that the pi‘vscnl hi'h rates will be fully main- tained if t ic output is carefully reguâ€" lated. There is a good deal of skill ne- t‘cssat‘y in the manipulation of an out-x put of $15,0tl0i000 worth of diamonds a; year. The company's future is com“ fortably assured for some time at least. its a diamond syndicate has purchased the output. of the mines up to Dec. 31 next at a price equivalent. to 818.000,- 000 for the t'welve months of this year. This is an increase to the. company's pro- fits of about. 82.5mm) over last year. The syndicate bought the product of the mines from July 1, 1895. to Dec. 31. 1896. l l l CAUSE AND EFFECT. .‘Ir. Ilzinpm‘k (meaningiyâ€"Eilzi Wheelâ€"g .\ll'. llenpcck “’hwler \\'ilrox says all girls should be sunny. 1 .‘Irs lit‘iilk't‘kâ€"‘ii‘dhi .‘lt‘~~3 girls art-5 sunny. it's after they loam.» \tozuen and legit) living r..i: a ltusiand that all the sunshine hats out of Illz‘li‘ life. Mr. lit-lurch JUIStdes. make the l'astonished [rake-off for their own pockets. \Vhere : found on Spitzbergen__that is to say, plenty of mossed and lichens, with even a few flowering plants, such as the. yel- low arctic poppy. The most interesting question about; the north pole is as to Whether .hu- man bein s are to be found in its Vicin- ity. Suc a notion is not as absurd as might be imagined. From decade to decade bold explorers have ventured further anti further toward the northâ€" ern extremity of the earth’s axis‘ but, however high the point reached. people have. always been discovered dwelling there. _ ed the north coast of Greenland, provmg it to be an island. Yet, at the north 1 l I l A short time ago Nansen outlin- l wasteful of life_ i arctic exploratitin have been made with- in-recent years. During the eighteenth century nothing worth mentioning was accomplished in that direction. It rc-i mained for the nineteenth century to accomplish the northwest and the north- east passage, to outline the north. coast of America and to discover the islands anti archipelagoes poleward from the three continents of the north- ern hemisphere. And yet, however, more than 8,000.- 000 square miles of arctic territory re- main unex lored. There has been a tendency late to cry down arctic ex- ploration as unprofitable and uselessly Yet the fact is that enterprise in this direction has been en- ormously valuable to mankind. end of. the island he came across a 001' l in the last two centuries it. has furnish- ony. of 'JS) Esquiinaux, pursuing a. con- tented and fairly prosperous existence‘ i g by the means of hunting and fishing. The man who is lucky enough ’00 disâ€" well feel cowr the north pole may _ somewhat discouraged if he finds a lot; of people living there. Yet, why not? The climate can not be so dreadfully severe; it is certainly not nearly so cold as north latitude (58 degrees. On that coldest latitude is situated the town of \Verkojansk, in Siberia. And just here may as well be told a remarkable story that rests on the authority pf Capt. Herendeen. formerly engaged in the. arctic whaling service. The event he describes occurred in the ‘wintcr of 1885. which he. spent at Point; Bar- row. There is an Esquimau village at Point Barrow, and also a whaling station. One day tht-re was a great commotion. and Capt. l‘lvrendcen saw half the people of the village running, evidently much excited. They came to him and told him that three strange-looking men had been seen on the. ice off the Point. They were. dressed peculiarlyâ€"not in dccrskins, but in a white fur which was supplisvll to be that. of the polar bear. TIN" “('W‘l “5 if “‘l‘y lirml» and “A”? l but. with a definite purpose of acquir- . . . 1,1315 ing stores of fur and bone of c: innit-râ€" last point was particularly surprismg. cm] yum... noticed that they had no guns. inasmuch as nobody in that part of t world ever goes out. _\\'i'l‘HOUT A GUN. Now. the Esquimaux are proverbial for their hospitality and amiable inclina- tion towards strangers. and they were when the three men took fright on seeing them and ran away over the ice to the northward. This was what had caused the. excitement. The Esquimaux declared positively that the three men were not. 0 people. Their dress and actions made this a certainty. if so, whence did they come? The only tcnaLle theory seemed in be. that they had drifted on an ice flow frotn am unknown land far to the north. the existence of which was as- serted by a tradition among the lis- quimaux. . people were once carried awav by a storm and reached this land. subse- quently returning. One of the na- tives was so confident of the truth of the story that he begged Capt. Heren- (teen to secure for him a passage on a north-bound Whaler, .in order that he might go with the ship as far as [30551- ble. and then leave it incomplete the ad- l venturous journey in his little boat. The Arctic Ocean is very shallow. and it is natural to suppose. that there would be areas of land uplifted above its surâ€" face. So much my be taken for granted as a fact; but nobody can say with certainty whether the land is a (illlfllillilglylâ€"l'lli‘l ‘ continent or an archipelago of islands. tit-n. Greely. the famous explorer. be- lieves. that it is a continent. He says that ;iinr.ncnsc masses of land-made ice are seen floating southward through Kane, Sea and Smith Sound under such circumstances as render it certain that they must come from a land area far i lines of the present legislation excludâ€" 1 They say that some of their ' l l ed to t‘he' civilized world products agâ€" regating $1.000,000,000,000 in market value, the most; important of them being yielded by the whale fisheries. Comparison has been suggest ed. boâ€" twccn the climatic and other t‘()n(llll(‘JllS' \\'ith- NOW EIGHTY-FOUR YEARS OLD AND QUITE PEBBLE. â€"â€"â€" Th5 Old Negro original in [list Kentuck} Hutâ€"Once Escaped to Canadaâ€"The h-lrnd of Ills Barr. Lewis George Harris. or Clark. as he is known, the original Uncle Tom of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s " Uncle Tom’s Cabin," who is now on the verge of starvation, was visited at his hum- ble home in Lexington. Ky., by a news- paper reporter last week. He is now eighty-four years of age. and is quite feeble. When askgd to speak he brushed back his grey, kinky hair. his face brightened. and he began telling of his tribulations in a weak. shaky voice: " “I have not been able to get about 'n‘itlt‘h for the. last two years on account of a. very bad spell of grip. which came upon me just after I moved to Lexing- ton. I am all alone in the world. and I came to Kentucky to spend the last. days of my life, because I feel more at home here. ‘ “But it does seem that the world is using me badly. Sometimes i am very despondent. I bought a ecttagc hero in Lexington with what little money Iliad saved and thought I could rent it for enough to exist on. My tenant ran away and never paid me a cent. and about a. year ago the house burned, and the little insurance was not suffi- cient to rebuild it. It was rebuilt. but I had to go in debt considerably. and here I am living toâ€"day, alone. with nothing in View of the long cold win- ter." CAME TO CANADA. The interior of Uncle Tom's cabin is dismal. A rude. bed and three cheap chairs. and a flaw cooking utensils are the furnishings. \\'hen he has anything to eat he prepares his own meals. He was asked how he lived. "Some. days I have nothing to "eat. Others days I live. on what. I can buy for five cents. In my day I handled thousands of dollars, travelled all over the United States in good style. and never knew what it was to want for anything. - It is killing now. at my old age. to find myself without means of existence." , Uncle Tom was asked what: he (lid with the large sums of money he made lecturing anti in other ways.‘ “ I used every dollar of it. to forward the cause I espoused fifty-four years ago. I was a slave down the Ohio riv- er on the Kentucky shore in 1941. When I learned that. I was to be sold Imade my escape from this State at night and went to Canada. " From the day I reached the. Domin- ion until the present time my work has been the freeing and bettering of the condition of the negro race. ,1 have lec- tured in almost every city in the United States. I had tremendous audiences in New York at Cooper Union and other places. My last. work on the lecture .platform was in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky in 1881-22, when I begged my people to remain in this state and not go to Kansas. 1 was quite success- ful in my efforts at that time." PRINTED iN A PAPER. A greasy old copy of Mrs. Stowe's nov- el is the only literature in Uncle Tom's home. It was found high up on a. shelf over a door. " Did Mrs. Stowe gift many facts used in this work from you ’6‘" " She certainly did. “'hen she came down to Kentucky and began teaching School She knew nothing of the slave question. One day she saw an auction sale of ncgroes at the Mason County of Spitzbcrgen and those likely to belcourt house. Then, she began studying found on the polar continent. chipelago by Gen. Greet.v _ as the most intercstingl of Arctic lands. Though so near the I Its flora is extensive, and reindeer were he that yearly they made large additions [ we” clusion of consumptivcs from the colony once so plentiful there. that Russian and i Norwogian hunters killed them by thousands annually. On one occasion four Russian sailors were cast away on the east coast, where they remained seven years. They had only one gun; and a few rounds of ammunition. Their experience in this polar'land outdid the. ‘ romance of Robinson Crusoe. lv‘roml driftwood cast upon the shore t.ltc.y.tr.ade I arrows and spears, which they tipped! with whalcbonc. These were suppleâ€" mented with bows that were strung with the twisted entrails of reindeer. They devised traps for catching blue foxes and nets for snaring water fowl. They labored not: only to sustain life, Sf.) successful were they . . . t to_ lhi‘l't‘ stock of skins of polar lwarml rcindcer, seals and foxes. One of thcinl (hell in the sixth year. but. the othersI were rescued soon afterwards. ! CONSUMPTIVES NO'I‘ \VANTED. . A draft. of the bill prepared~ by the; government of New Zealand for the ox- ; t has been received. It is framed on the ing persons suffering from smallpox and other contagious lilHHI‘d" crs, except. that it, imposes an extremeâ€"9 leprosy, ~. ly hi-avy penalty upon captains of ships bringing consumptives to port, whether . knowingly or unwittingly. This law, if passed, will cotnicl the captains, as: a matter of selfâ€"defense. to require all' intending passengers from American; English or Asiatic ports to provide‘ themselves with medical certificates showing that they are neither consump- . lives ’n-ir exhibit any tendencies of being so affected. ‘ __+_.._â€"â€"â€" ITALIAN PATRIOTISM. The Italians are flying in trainloads across the border into France, for fear of being drafted for the African carn- paign. It. would be hard to find in his- tory another such case of national panic. It is the well-toâ€"do, or tolerably so, who are running away, while the poor, who have not. the money. are forced to stay at home. It is no wonder that the king, who is a sensible man, thinks of abdicâ€"tl ating. i . 'l‘hc ar- I of Spitzbcrgen is described I upon t tune. = for an hour. ' however. that. he is in need. the negro dialect, but never began work her book, until slic_\vent to Cam- bridge, Mass. I was livmg there, and . . _ _ . lshe called at. my house and talked with lpole, its climate. is comparatively mild. mo, and made notes for three whole days. Nearly every fact in her story was given to her by me at that time. “ There is a. wrong idea in the mind: of most people, t‘VOfl to this day; that Mrs. Stowc's work was first. printed in a book. It was not. The. Abolition Society was publishing a weekly paper in Baltimore. which received a serious backsct when the Fugitive Slave law was passed in 1840. The managers of the abolition movcint-nt met. They de- cided that it was necessary to do someâ€" thing at. once to put. new life into their newspaper and make it a power. if pos- sible, fo ‘ abolition. It was at. this met-t.- ing that. instructions were given 'to the secretary to write a letter to Mrs Stowe, offering INT 8100 for a series of articles on abolititin, to continue one year. She. wrote an acceptance, but. in- stead of contribating editorials, she stint in instalments of the . iory ‘Unclc 'l‘oni‘s Cabin,’ which she had about completed. After the story had run through a dozvn (topics of Iht‘ abolition weekly its circulation had increased to such an ex‘ tent that the nizuiagcmcnl. st-nt Mrs. Stowe 3300 additional for the work. A‘VAI'I'L'N'G THE END. " When the story had been run out ain the paper the manat'irs wished to republish it. in book form. but. they learned that Mrs. Stowe had copyright- ed llic work." The book was published, and Mrs. .Stowc receiVed a royalty of 15 cents on each copy, and the sales \vt-rc so large that it netted her a comfortable for- It has Since been translated into and published in more languages, so - book iiit‘n say, than any work ever writ- liblc. talked on interestingly Ills mind is clear and his sight is still good. There. is no doubt, llis parli- ing words were: "Tell my friends in ten, eXt-cpt. the Old Harris 4 the North that l have fulfilled my mi» sion as best. I could and am now await- ing the end here in old Kentucky." AN IMPORTANT r’oix'r. Mr. Askinâ€"Zsly precious one. will you share my lot? : I’m-(nous Oneâ€"Is there a mortgage on it . ’I‘O BIC MORE ACCURATE.- Mr. Manhattan (to Mist-i llawstawn)-â€" Do you ride a who-elf .‘iit‘s Bawstati‘nâ€"l ride a pair of wheels. -1