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{a a: g PLANTING STRAWBERRIES. {Any fairly good, wellâ€"drained soil Will answer for strawberries. One holding moisture is preferable to one that is too dry, but hill land is prefer- able to bottom because of greater freeâ€" dom from spring frosts. For distant shipping clay soil is better than sandy. as on such the berries are firmer and carry better. The proper mechanical condition is best obtained by plough- ing under a. crop of cow peas and sup- plementing this with acid phosphate or potash under the row. Much nitroâ€" gen is not desirable, as tending to give foliage instead of fruit. The plough should be quickly followâ€" ed by the barrow, not once, but three or four times, so as to pulverize all lumps before they harden into 0101's. This will give I. cover that will keep the moisture from evaporating. Just before planting drag the beds down with the hack of the barrow, or with a heavy plank drag so that the top of the bed will not be more than the water furrow. This will drag all trash or clods to the middles, and will leave a bed of moist, mellow, but flightly compacted soil to receive the plants. When the plants are taken up, the old leaves, and runners should be pull- ed off. and the plants should be bunch- ed with the roots all lying one way. Pack them closely side by side. if in a box, with the roots down, or if in a barrel, with the roots to the centre. Always keep plants covered with damp- ened seeks to prevent drying. When seedy to begin planting, put an inch or two of water in an ordinary wooden bucket and pack in a. layer of plants with their roots in the water. This keeps them fresh and also causes the soil to adhere more closely to the roots when planted. The planting crew consists of a man wiih s. bright, sharp spade, and ssmail boy with the bucket of lants. The men sets the spade in rent of him. with the corner of the blade at the ct where the plant is to stand, 5 his weight on it, driving the sharp blade full length in the mellow soil. and tins pushes it from him so Is} to open e wedgeâ€"shaped hole be- hind the spade. The boy has a plant ready, holding it by the top. and with a slight swin ing motion brings the lent to its p in the corner of the Kola. with ts roots extending full length. and the crown held just at the surface of the ground. The man with drawn the spade. setting it forward ready I the npxt plant, and as the dirt f a back about the plant he puts his foot on it, pressing it closely about the roots. With a little practice lasts can be set in this way very rap- Bi? and satisfactorily. here are 'ust two points to keep mind. set. the plant must be it at the right depthâ€"not so deep as to cover the bold, nor so shallow as to expose the roots-and, second, the dirt must be asked closely about the poets. _ This can be easily tested by {skin hold of the plant by one leaf and try g to pull it up; if properly set, the leaf will break without loos- suing the roots. Directions are of- ten seen in print for "spreading the beats out like a fan," or for making a hole with "a mound in the middle. sound which the roots can be placed in a natural position," but time spent in such pastimes is simply wasted. New roots as they grow will quickly spread out in all directions. The office of lhe bundle of old roots is simply to hold the plant firmly in place and to supply it with moisture till the new roots are formed. “3"? pâ€"-â€"- ’ RANGE FOR THE TURKEYS. One of the natural instincts of the turkey which has never been totally overcome by domestication, is its in- stinct to Wander. says a writer. \Vhen this trait of character is entirely subâ€" dued, and it is possible to produce; equally good stock in a common door- ynrd as where the turkeys have un- limited renge to go as they please, there will have to come a radical change in the mksâ€"up and require- ments of the turkey. Neither feed, water, nor care will produce as fish a flock of turkeys in confinement as those will be that are taken by the mother hen to the fields. to rough it and find their own living. this is one point where the turkey dif- ‘Wc father did, and derive a greater inâ€". Obviously' come from it then he ever received. but he laid up money. and I do not. There are a lot of things for which I spend money that he never thought were necessary. He was satisfied to wear his old working clothes when he went as they would hold together, regard- less of appearance. I want to appear as well dressed as anybody I meet, and it costs money. When my father drove to townâ€"which didn't happen very . oftenâ€"the farm wagon and farm team - were good enough for him, and they answered all right on Sunday, when the family attended church. I like to drive anioe rig, andIgenerally do it. Sometimes when I am in town I get a shave, or have my hair out. The old- time farmers used to let their whiskers grow. and were satisfied with amateur hair cutting at home. The modern farmer's wife and daughters like to wear good clothes as well as he does. and they generally do it. When they come to town the don't wear calico dresses and sunâ€" onnets. as their mothers and grandmothers did. but they dress every bit as well as the women who live in town. These things all cost mone , and they represent the progress the mer hasmade in learn- ing the art of living. It is entirely right and proper that he and his family should want to live as well and dress as well as everybody else, but the income isn’t always sufficient, and that is what makes trouble. PASTU'RE CROPS. ; J Sailing crops need not mature if they are to be used from the start. and a. judicious system of rotation will pro- vide an abundance of green food for a. large portion of the year. Rye sown in the fall gives the earliest green food in the spring. It will last for about two weeks. as it grows rapidly and becomes woody. Wheat will folâ€" low rye and will last two Weeks more. The rye and wheat land may then be putm corn. Both crops are for pastâ€" urrng only. Oats, rn, p688. and Hunâ€" arian grass may fo w in the spring. ye. crimson clever, and wheat should be. sewn this fall, the crimson clover this month. and the land will be cc- cupied in winter, produein green food early and at a small eosg. . , z HINTS FOR THE HENNEBY. Active hens are the best layers. Clean houses and runs are the best medicine. . . ‘A nest egg will usually stop hens scratching the nest; if not, use shav- ings. l A spoonful of oil of turpentine is a good remedy for tapeworm in poul- ry. . If fowls leave part of their break- fast In the dish, remove it. If their appetites fail, a change of food 18 needed. A hen can be fed almost anything that a cow will eat, and many things besides. Anything that will make milk will make eggs, but don’t feed much cottonâ€" seed meal or rye. ‘ VICTORIA TO All INDIAN CHIEF. The Queen llas a. Letter lent to Chief Shakes Who Dans ller .100. A recent arrival in Ottawa from the Kitith district, B. 0., tells a story concerning Queen Victoria and a_ chief of the Kitimaats. Chief Shakes, who has a very good house at Lowe Inlet. also owns the fishing privilege below the falls on a stream close by. The chief sold 60,000 fish, for which the manager of a cannery paid him $5,000. In the exuberance of his spirits and loyalty the chief conceived the idea of sending $100 as a present to Queen Vio- toria, and handed the sum to Indian Agent Todd to be forwarded, which was accordingly done. In due time the Queen caused to be sent to Chief Shakes a letter showing her appreciation of his loyalty, and she asked him to accept a steet engraving of herself, set in a handsome frame, together with two plaids of sheep's wool. just the kind to delight any native chief. Shakes called his people together on the day of presentation. and the Indian agent read and interpreted the Queen's letter. The venerable chief, in re- s nding said that it made his heart g ad to know that an humble being residing so far away from his good mother had not been forgotten by her, adding that, although he could never expect to see her on earth. he would try to lead such a life that would an- able him to meet her in heaven. And then, overcome with emotion. the chief ..-_ ...-....â€"._ .. . fora very radically from the domestic burst into tans. fowl. During the first three or four years of my experience with turkeys I model several attempts to roar them by 0111-; ploying common hens. both as hatchers and mothers. but my efforts were never. rewarded with striking success. \VH’Y D0 \VE YA\VN7 There can be little doubt that one of the objects of yawning is the ex- ercise of muscles which have been for a long time quiescent. and the acceleraâ€"l . ALL THE WORLQQVER. to town. and they were worn as long c it NEW lN NISHHL THE VERY LATEST FROM d. interesting items About Our Own Country, Great Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. ; CANADA. i ‘ The wheat crop of Manitoba is now estimated to be 82,000,000 bushels. Dr. Ryan is a candidate for the May- oralty of Kingston for 1899. The estate of Sir J. Adolphe Chap- leau has been probated at 8225.000. The Department of Fisheries will stock with black bass .1: number of lakes along the Parry sauna Railway. The town of West Selkirk, Man, pro- poses to consolidate its indebtedness by a new issue of debentures. An English syndicate have leased James Mispicel’s mine at Actinolite, 0nt., and will operate it for arsenic. Mr. C. Knox of Calgary has been. ap- pointed stock inspector of the Northâ€" west Government, with headquarters at ’Winnipeg. 1 Joseph McShane, a youth, may lose his eyesight as a result of placing afog signal on the track at Hamilton to let a train run over it. Convict Murphy, an inmate of the insane department of the Kingston penitentiary, attacked and seriously injured Guard Hennessy. There is said to be a movement on foot to invite the Marquis of Dufferin tic come to Canada to unveil the Mac- kenzie monument at Ottawa on the completion thereof. lA' rich find of molibdonite has been made on the Grand Calumet mining pro erty. near Fort Coulogne, Que. Mo ibdonitel is used in hardening steel and 11.130 in shitting silk. The Toronto City Council has decid- ed Ito petition the Ontario Government to appoint a royal commission to in- vestigate the charges of Mr. E. A. Mmdonafld as to the manner in which the Toronto Street Railway Company obtained its charter. Mr. .A. A. Clarke. of London. Eng" who secured a charter from the Fedâ€" eral Parliament for a tramway along Miles Canyon, has floated a scheme, and is now in Ottawa on the way to the Pacific coast. The line is now in operation and is doing a good business. GREAT BRITAIN. Sir George Grey, former Lieutenantâ€" Governor of South Australia, is dead at London. hillsDougall’s flour mill and other warehouses on Millwall dock. London. hay. been destroyed by fire. (toss, £75,000. , ' The British steamer Milrvaukee, from the Tyne for New Orleans, stranded at Pnrtes Boll, Scotland, is likely to be a total wreck. . A telegram has been received by the British Foreign Office stating that Capt. Cooke has been shot dead in East Africa. He was a graduate of the Royal Military College, Kingston. UNITED STATES. Sir Julian Pauncemrte, British Am- bassador at Washington, has had his term extended to April next. Governor Pingree, of Michigan, has been rte-nominated by acclamation by the Republican State convention. Forty thousand United States sol- diers are to be sent to Cuba to do garrison duty, in addition to those now at Santiago under General Lawton. Andrew Cassoque was strangled to death by three burglars in New York on Tuesday morning after he had been robbed of 3500, all his savings. A number of workmen were injured, some perhaps fatally, by an attempt of nonâ€"union men to enter the Am- erican Wire Company’s works at Cle- veland, 0., on :Mlonday morning. Nearly one-tenth of the entire po- pulation of Plainwell, a little village in Allegan County, Mich, is ill from eating canned pressed beef at achurcb social. Ih‘ifty-five persons were pois- oned, twenty are dangerously ill and four are expected to die. A cable message from Dr. Krona, of the European Union of Astronomers, to Messrs. Chandler and Ritchie, of Boston, announces the discovery of a star-like condensation in the centre of nebulae of Andromeda by Seraphin of Pulkowa. If this indicates change in the condition of the well known ob- ject, the discovery will be of oimport- ance. GENERAL. The Queen illegth of Spain promised to send a delegate to Czar’s peace convention. About 2.000 of the United States solâ€" diers in Porto Rico are officially re- ported to be sick. The Governor of Buda Pest has re- solved to expel all Anarchists. who are not citizens of Hungary. Twelve hundred women and child- ren and one thousand sick soldiers sailed from Havana for Spain on \i'ed- nesday. The commissiariat has the and supply do- ‘While there was little or no trouble§ tion of the blood and lymph flow which} Pariments 0f With “19 “my and WW}? in using successfully the domestic hens has in - - , in the former capacity. it became exâ€"i conseqlmnce 0f fins qmesccuce (namely difficult and practically im-i I do not' possible to do the latter. wish to say that poults cannot be rear- ed with common hens. but with nothing; like the success that can be attained where the poults are given their na- tural mothers. and allowed to seek the conditions which their nature craves. _.._..- wnY ransom nosey-r par. ‘15 ma, :1 better form; W‘WD- , deep breath which accompanies the act' Tap A farmer who has than his father had. yet cannot lay up money as his father did. tells why. He says: I own a better form than my become sluggish. Hence its frequency after one has remained for some time in the same posxtion-for example. when waking in the morning. Co- and .the shallow breathin entails. This factor. as wel as muscle qmescence. is a t to attend the sense of boredom wh ch one experiences in listening to a dull sermon. Hence it the bored individual is apt to I ~ 1 of the Argentine Republic are being actively roâ€"organized. The Government of Cores has been compelled to dismiss the Europeans engaged as an Imperial guard in con- . . . , . se noses of a rotest from Russia. operating with this cause is sleepiness! i. p which it i destruotive hurricane swept over southern Spain, doing great dam- age in the Provinces of Seville and Granada. Many persons were killed. The Berlin National Zeiting says on that the person- i u 1 the highest authority As in the case or signing, the; al estate of Prince Bismarck does not resent as much as 2.500.000 marks, of yawning compensates for the 81181.! about syn-00°- iow breathing which is so apt to ex- icite it. It is stated that the Rothschilds [will loan Spain or £5,000,000 on the security of Almsda quick sil- ver mines. when the treaty of peace shall have been signed: The Japanese Government has re~ plied to the circular of Count Mura- vieff. the Russian Foreign Minister, suggesting international disarmament. The reply supper-ls the Czar's propos- als. The Berlin police authorities have prohibited the holding of five project- ed SOCialist meetings in Hamburg, called for the purpose of discussing Emperor “'iliiam's recent speech re- garding the imprisoning of the pro- vokers of strikes. . . Typhoons on the Japanese coast. ac- cording to the latest advices, have done great damage. Many ports and towns have been totally devastated, and in the Tamsul district, where the great ruin is evident. over one hun- red lives are said to have been lost. The diplomatic representatives of Russia, France, Belgium. Spain and Holland, at Pekin, have called upon Li Hung Chang to condole with him upon his dimissal from the Chinese Foreign Office. {Much comment has been excited ,by the action of these Ministers. The American soldiers in Honolulu are causing the good people of that once-peaceful community much worry. Acts of vandalism are becoming fre- quent, and General King has issued orders for a court of enquiry to inves- tigate alleged lawless acts committed by soldiers, and to assess the amount of damage caused. . It is stated in St. Pletersburg that Luchoni the assassin of» the Empress of Austria, belongs to an' Anarchist gang which went to North America two years” and a half, ago, leaving a few of their comrades in Europe. The gang issued orders from America, where the present plot was hatched. The mem- bers have now returned to Europe, but the chiefs remain! in New York. -â€"â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- POINTED PABAGRAPHS. Often an excuse is worse than the offense. Life after all is but a big bundle of little things. Men judge women by the things they fail to say. Any man who is bilious is more or less a pessimist. A charitable girl never gives her riv~ al's age away. Ali's fair in lovo except flirtation; that's only half fair. Responsibillt that carries no weight is not respon bio. Genius produces the inventions,while talent applies them. Uneasy lies the feminine head that wears a last year's bonnet. ’ Bomb enUagerncnts end happily, while others and in marriage. The experience a maze buys is seldom up to the sample submitted. C‘old cash melts lots of hearts that are not affected by warm love. No artist, however talented, has suc- ceeded in painting a fragrant flower. Some men are born liars, while oth- ers are compelled to acquire the art. There is always something elevatâ€" ing about roof~garden entertainments. Money cannot buy an ounce of love but it will purchase tons of sympathy. Some men are born to rule and some acquire the art at abusiness college. .When a man gets in a hole he is al- ways willing to be done by as he should do. The realities of matrimony are usual- ly less pleasing than the illusions of lovn. Some bachelors voluntarily join the ranks of the benediote and some are drafted. The man who lies until he gets him- self and his friends to believe it is an optimist. Deliberation is a mighty good thing in its way, but it has broken mighty few records. When a woman reaches a certain age there is no longer any uncertain- ty about it. A man never looks so well as when he's looking for another man who owes him'money. \Vomen would never make successful prize fighters; it would take them too long to put. on the gloves. There is a peculiar fascination about many things whose origin is attributed to his satanicai majesty. \Vhen a girl tells a young man that he may have a kiss if he can catch her, she always manages to get caught. It never makes much difference to a woman where a man hails from just so she is permitted to reign over him. The. only difference between modâ€" dling and investigating is that you alâ€" ways investigate and the other fellow meddles. ._....._.....n_._â€"â€"-â€" ENGLAND‘S IIEAVIFLS'I‘ LOCOMO- TIVLE. The Grmt Northern Railway Com- pany are thoroughly testing a new on- gine of greater power than has yet run on their line. It is the heaviest en- gillO in the kingdom. weighing 58 tone, or 09 tons with tender. It has ten lwheele, four coupled wheels being 0 feet 0 inches in diameter, while the cylinders are 19 inches by 24 inches stroke. The boiler is 4 feet 8 inches in diameter. giving 1,442 uare feet of heating surface and 26.7 square feet of grate area. The boiler pressure is 175 pounds, and the cylinder pres- sure is 181 pounds. This locomotive has made some runs on the fine road of the Great Northern between King's Cross and York. and the results ob- tained t that a number of that elem will be built for next year. The performance of the Dunslastair. how- ever. has not yet been equalled. the greatest Speed got being a fraction ‘over seventy-three miles per hour. I sources or SUDAN wasrh .k ~â€"‘ No Wounded Dervish are Iver Hunt‘s» the "old-lupin]. Now. there is no braver. kinder man in the world than the arm doctor. In his extempcrized under a heavy fire. with a thrown-up screen of commisearilt oss- es, packâ€"saddles, water-tanks or what. ever came handy. he performed mirac- les; he was ready to minister to the wants of all wounded men. lie was. anxious to tend the wounded Dervish whenever one might be brought in. But no wounded Dervish ever was. It was as much as any one‘s life was. worth to go near a wounded Dervish. He would lie on the ground glaring about him like a wild beast. Approach him, and out came his curved hum-- stringing knife. make vicious sweeps. any one of which would maim you for life. field-hospital. often hastily \Vith it he would It is not possible in the terrific stress- of Sudan warfare to detail fatigue par. ties to overcome the resistance of wounded men and beat them to the field-hospital. Hundreds died of their wounds as they lay on the battlefield, and those that did not die of their wounds bad to be-put out of their rule-- ery. ( f TERRIBLE STORIES are told of this dire necessity. Those- know host who have been engaged in battle with the Dervish whet happened after the fighting was over, and how the problem of dealing with the ene- my’s wounded was solved. In the cam- paign of 1855, parties of English sol- diers commanded by English officers, used to go out to kill the wounded. Ono private prodded the helpless body between his shoulders with his bay- onet. If there was no movement the party went on; if the Dervish proved alive and squirmed, another private in- stantly blew his brains out. In one case, remarkable for its inevit~ able cold-blooded horror, it is said, the troops inside a aerebe, the night af- ter one of ibe moot desperate of bat- tles. were driven to madness by the voice of a wounded warrior who in? outside amidst heaps of slain. Al night, a groaning cry of "Allah! Al- ]. l" rose into the silent night. Not the fierce sharp ring of the word when it is the war-cry for headlong charge. but an imploring, despairing moan; hour after hour that one word only. "For God‘s sake silence that man"â€" that was the feeling of all. Council was held as to how it could be done. Boon three men were told off to get upon the sand-bags of the little redoubt at the corner of the scrubs, and when the moon came out from behind the clouds, to fire volleys in the direction from which the cry came. The volleys were fired, but the cry went on, li‘in- ally it ceased. Whether the man was thus silenced or not was not ascertain- ed, but in the morning there were only dead men in that part of the fiel . There were others, however, still alive. These could not be tended. Another story was current in ‘ THOSE TERRIBLE DAYS "'â€" of how an officer, going up to agroup of surgeons round a wounded Dervish and inquiring what was the matter, was told that nothing could be done with him no one could approach him. He lay there with his knife out. ready with one of those swee ing ham-string- ing cute for any one w o dared be come near. Whereupon the officer, still un- der the bloodâ€"madness of the fight, and " seeing red,“ whipped out his own knife, avoided the rapid sweep of the wounded man‘s mapon, and drove his own to his heart. Suah are some of the incidents of Sudan warfare. As said above, the Dervish has learned to know us bet- ter, and has become tamer; but the problem of dealing with his wounded must still remain. \Vas there any manâ€" ticn of Dervish wounded after the bat- tle of the Album this year? And are there many of them in the hospitals in the rear? The correspondents have always remained strangely silent up- on this subject. It has been denied in Parliament, we believe, that ever such things as we have described took place. Well. Ministers are not less hypocritiâ€" cal than the rest of us. and possibly some of them know that these things did happen. Whether they knew it or not. there are dozens of men, like the writer of this article, who know that they happenedâ€"because we. wore thvre and saw them. They do not make plea- mml lending. But our military cons- mandem in .i‘lgypt oannm in: blnnmd for illl'll’l; {ho-y are the cost of going to war with such a people. INDIA'S SCOURGB OF SNAKES. Snakes are one of [the scourgcs of India. Thousands of people die yearly from their bite. In the last twenty- two years the number of deaths aurilr uteri to this cause has reached the en- ormous [vial of 438,239. Snakes upper-r to be a much more deadly enemy Io man than wild animals. In the smne period wild animals have only killer! 64,284 persons. On an average in In- dia 93,000 people perish yearly by snakes and wild animals. The number «.r deaths in recur! years has shown a marked increase. in 1875 the numln-r killed was 21,205. in 1890, it. had rlrrll to 24.885. Bengal is the roost damn-r- our province to live in. for the Bengal- eeo snakes are responsible for half the deaths from snake bite. The loss of cattle has also been very great. Hines 1875 about a million and u half uni- mlila have been destroyed. Wild zeni- mals are res onsible for nineâ€"tenths of the cattle kl led. in 1998. for incluuce. 7,148 animals died from sonkeâ€"binJmt 81,897 were killed by wild buxom. h...â€" ,.-â€" ~