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' l i In Spain by way '- _ e Pueblo Indians resid- ~:' . east bank of the Rio Grands. -n the earl colonists to the republic . (- exas took w th them herds of horned - ttle. and in this way Texas became the mother of the range cattle industry in the United States. Here it was almost wholly confined until after the rebellion. Prior to the late war nearly the whole of Texas was given up to cattle growing. After the war e dishandlng of the great armies lessened the demand and Texas swarmed with great herds in excess of the market demand and local consumption. Cattle were of little value and yet these herds were rapidly in- creasing. What was to be done! The more enterprising ranchmen of Texas b an to look for new ranges and markets t at would consume the anemone surplus. Cali- . fornla then had but few cattle. The etates ‘ of Kansas and Nebraska and the territories west of the Missouri river were spareely‘ populated. The vast region of magnificent grazing area to be found there. and upon which the buffalo roamed, readily ofl'ered the temptation for a field of experiment. If the wild bison could subsist on these lants and in the velleys and parks of the ocky Menuhin country, why could not cattle! Winter and summer the buffalo found sufficient grass, and hence the more enterprising Texas cattlemen came to the conclusion that domestic cattle, bred and raised upon the prairie grass of Texas and left to their own exertions for e. subsistence, would be adapted to the fiae grasses of the plains of the west and northwest states and territories, and where at that time only the buffalo grazed. Thus the study of the life and habits of the buffalo led to the idea which has made this the greatest range and cattle growing country in the world. Not a few Texas men came, and some from Cali- fornia, and all drove their herds into this newer country. Their success caused others to follow, and eastern speculators were at- tracted by the fine opportunities for invest- ment. Thus sprung up this wonderful in- dustr , for noon the unoccupied territory of thepaius country of the west was filled with great herds of grass raised cattle-â€" that know not home or master, and to which gin would have been almost a scarecrow. d with all this there come a cowboy, aui goneris, About whom there clustars so much of romance. In the odence of dairy farming. if it can be called 3 science, a very essential thing for the dsiryman to know in how to feed for milk end butter. The progress of knowledge in thin particular has taken us to A point where we learn that a certain proportion of albumlnold food is neceuery each day. A few men have taken it upon themlelves to be eepeciel students concerning this nlbnm- inoid food, and have wetched long and potiently to discover the laws which govern its digestion. First, they a e that album- inoidn are slow and hard of igeetion. This coincideo with the common experieno e of people yho long since hnve declued thnt , _ j l-__ *nAAA r'â€"r‘r‘ '7 oggl, choc-o. peas, beans, and You: meat were slow of digestion. All than food- are putioulu'ly richfin protein which is but another mm (or albumen. Second! it bu been learned that elbumhoid ioode di at much eeder end to better efl'eot when t on in e no! concentrated form but rather die- peged or miged wit? cerbene‘oeoue food. ' Here are the conclusion: 1h“ experience has arrived et. In leedln com to the largest profiu, we muet give ily at least e progortion of one pound of elbnmlnoid food to we of oubeneceeul food. Second, in orderthekthe albuminoide may digeu most easily and properly, they should be mixed with or' scattered ever the icuboneoeege £0115. "Inf aha} words (fig-y- boot for to do this. Hence the wine ymen on!!! up his cubonueonn cornutnlke, straw, eneilage or temothy hay, and uprinklee thereon the nvbnmineid bran, oil meal, cotton seed meal. pee meal or been meal, in rportion, and thus aecnrel better result- rom the cow. It ye richly for the dairymen to etudy the awe of digestion in his onlmala. In fact he is an engineer to a digestive mill, and cor- tninly no engineer should be ignorant or stupid cor cerninv his engine. Peter Henderson, in Popular Gardening,eaye The present lesson, the valuable'garden pea cm in Canada and Northern New York, em racing many thousand acres, is almost a complete failure, owing to an unprecedent ed drouth during May and June. Had the pea when eewn been firmed in the IO“, b the foot or otherwise. germination woul have taken place within five days; without itâ€"and probably it was not done in a single daleâ€"germination could not occur in the loose, dry soil under ten or twelve days, and in the dry, hot atmosphere, it wae just delay enough to deegroyfhe prop, Hon. G. W. Minier. President of the Illi~ nois Fortestry Association has been experi- menting a little with trees that are not usually reckoned as belonginv to forests. His experiments have proved to his mind than peaches can be raised in latitudes that of late years have been considered too cold for that purpose. This is the way he pro- ceeds : before the tree is old enough to hear he lays it down: and covers with earth dur. ing the winter. This he does year after year and finds that you can defend upon them doing well. This is the way t is done; Beiore the ‘ nnd is frozen he digs a trench the width 0 the spade and two ieet long on Mun] cues in point ehowinp nits reotioei velue, occur every neuron. Lest ey we luntedun care in rows of snow kind of me been. One row wee missed beiuv firmed with the brogen. While the other rows were above ground in ten do s, this unfirmed rew took twenty. and won “may be, heve foiled eitog ether, hes we not hed rein. The consequence of this ten day s’ deieywill probably be enough tocom pletely destroy the crop, from being too letete metnre. If “Firm the Seedinthe Soil" wee conspicuouely printed at every cross- roed end reilrmd station through the ion th and breadth of the lend, and the M500 acted upon. the mourners for loss or failure of crops by germination wouldbe very few. Lnlxn Dow: Pncu TREES. FEEDISG ALBuumoms. Fnuum 'rm; Son. ,3 Run. two oppodu Iliad it. mu, outta; the null [oohâ€"tho up not Md luau! mu 0! the “he: “dam mm“. The 'mk then beat to the grand and coveted IN: H. h t seventy-6h you- old. but alone on lay on ten trees I dIy. He has on. inc ‘hut ha been it‘d down three winters, Ind two tint hsvo been laid down two. The :hrro no lauded this unu- with splendid I'll t. One of the moat vslnblo of my poultryj opplionoen in on eiahtl of :- tore of rye, which I now neor tho poultry-hon. ovory untumn. The horn begin to food on lt .- noon as it o 'poaru show tho gnawâ€"tho, (out on it I through the win", and it i. delicious “ green- ” ior tho. it tho tprin. long before a spur of gru- poopo shove the ground. Sometime. the pouch in oomol with snow, but u it to Iholtorod on the north old. by a double row of trees, it is soon bore ogoin. When gru- oomu tho ryo is bogus- nlng to get tough, ond tho hens leave it A: man itin fairly ri it in out “d piled up close by tho poo try ynrd, and o forkiui is thrown our to the {owls ova-y DVDâ€"Q‘s. â€" m-.. dAy. For two month. or more it furnishe- thom tha greater portion of their food, and they seem to thrive on it. The exercise 3!- forded in Icrptching an}! thrashing; 0-!“ the nvn\-w -â€" â€"-. _--_-7 groin keeps them heeluhy and out of mie~ chief. and they lay right along. I never could fatten a hen en nuthreshed rye| but a liberal supply of five parts corn meal and one port wheat bran. wetmd and mixed, in addltion to the rye, will render poultry fat and useless in a very short time. Christian 00., Ill. Fnzu GRUNDY. " Any men who has a pond on his farm,’ nye as writer in the St. Louie “ Globe-Deme- crnt," cen try the experiment of ruining his own froze. First, let him buy say six pairs of fine New Jersey breeders end dump them into the water. With these for a starter you Inn! eeleot e quentit‘y of domestic batmhie, en then you will hue the nucleus of e for tune. Don‘t interfere with your water in- vestment tor e your, an more than to keep your growing stock we) supplied with food. They require an abundance, but as they are not very dainty in their tastes, the expense account will be light. “ For a young farm “to barrels a. day of hotel-table scraps will keep: the frog: in splendid shspe, so that so the end of twelve months you can begin marketing all that you oen fish out. at the same price as Spring chickens. Give me the time and facilities, end I will wager thus st the end of two years I will be living on an income of $5,000, and my frogs will pay all expenses.” KEEPING CABBAGE FOR F0\VLS. Mn. C. M., Davey. Nubia, asks how to keep cubbege through winter for fowla. In answer we may “i it ie quite simple. Hang up a lot of heads y the roots in any dark, cool place where they will not freeze, for early nee in winter. For la'er nee, and until vegetation appean, make a trench 1 foot deep and 3 feet wide ; place the cabbage in this as eloeely aepeesihle, roots up ; cover with the earth thrown out of the trench, and when the ground in frozen, cover with litter to keep out the frost. From this trench the cabbage may be taken an wanted. If frozen when taken out, thaw out in a dark, cool place before feeding. 'vVhon 5 lion shnkos ite mono and roars, those notions have s. preotiool ns well as n dram-tic significance. Like 3 skiliul or~ ntor, the lion not only uses the gestures npproprinto to the occasion, but he uses them with n purposo, A traveller in Afrioo gives, in “Doys nnd Night: by the Desert.” the following description of the method od- :1de by hon in “tucking cattle and ones. Liens, an a rule, hunt in family parties. A very old lion not infrequently incapacitated from taking an active part in panning me, is generally to be found at the head 0 Inch a calorie, and on him devolves no unimpor- tant part of the programme. Down to leeward, a hundred or more I below when the Gran ht builocka are made fast when a train ha ta for rest, the young and active males and bonuses place themeolvea behind what available cover is to be found. This being done, the old lion goon to windward oi the encampment, and shake: out his abundant mane in the breeze, eo mm the odor from it may be carried down no the excited draught mimale. One Inifl' of the tainted breeze brings everv ox to his feet, in a moment; then, sanding, often trembling with fear, they 25 With dilated eyes into .110 impenetrable ukneee. Closer end oioeer nppromhee the aged lien to his victims, eheking and re- ehnhing the dense, tewny covering of his foam-"2°".- Then if the traveller's harness be not stron . he may look out for a stampede. Shonfii it hold temporarily, the aggressor, as a climax to his former maswavre, gives utterance to his deepest and loudest roar. when the frightened beasts. if not secured by the shntest fastening that can be ob- tained, will break free, and rush with in- conceivable rapidity into the very jaws of their foes, secreted to leeward. Although the retreat of the fall is slow, 1 it will in a very brief time, in the geological 3 sense of that word, lead to certain momen- tous consequences. When the hard layer of Niagara limestone panes below the bed of the river, the stream will then out upon rocks of another constitution, making for a time certain small ialls at a higher geo- logical level; but in the course of ages, much less lon than those which have elapsed since the birt oi this waterfall, the gorge of the river will extend up into the basin of Lake Erie, draining away a considerable portion of that freshâ€"water sea. We shall then, if the continent retains its present height above the level of the sea, have another system of cataracts, in the passage between Lake Erie and Lake liuron, which will also In time be wcrn away. Other cataracts will then form at the exit of Lake Michigan ; and thus the lower lakes of our meat American stem would be diminished in area, or per ape even disappear. At a yet later stage, we may look [or diminution in the size of Lake Superior, though that basin, owing to the strong wall which separates it from the lower lakes, is dcstlned to endure long after the last-named basins have been diminished or entirely drained away. Retreat at Niagara Falls. A Fox-tux: xx Fnocs. Caught by Guile. nu ma. POOL-nu. Pecullullm 0! Our Planet Neuthorâ€"A Ila than“; “no: Duo Io Clo-dc? More is shining rmplendsntly in our skies, end n huudred telescopes oi splendid powers sre svsilsble for the work of studying his ruddy iooe, " to discern rivers or mountolos on his spotted lobe." I could wish to sug- gest opecisl o enmtlons oi More here in America, where the skies sreso oleer, where the plnnet rides so much higher then in Eng land end where the finest telescopes in the world no resdy for the work end in the hnnds of observers like Burnhom. Young, Hell end others who on second to none in w the skill neoeesery {or the kind of work re- Lquirod. \ More ought to be an object oi speoinl in- tenet just new. it those students of estro- norny moon sll they soy who ossert their belief thst we must scoept sll thst hos been ‘ sotuslly oheervod precisely so the observer hse recorded it. Even those who accept only the good old motto of our English Roynldstronomicel Societyâ€"qtu'cqm'd nice! «standout (whstsoevsr shines is to boobeerv ed) -ought to be specially interested just now in studies of the plsnet long celled n “ miniature of our esrth.” For very strenge, and indeed, on the (see oi them. almost in- expllcsble things hove been going on upon thst ruddy plsnst. One might imsgine thtt the fancy which n dreamer on our earth once started had token possession (by some strange telepsthic influence) of the inhnbit- outs of More, snd thst they were striving to communicate with us Terrence by slgnsls of s most stupendous sort end involving en- gineering problems which assuredly would be beyond the WIA'I' IS GOING 0! IN IA”. MASTEIY 0F TIBRES'IBIAL NLK, no that, even wen we disposed to enter into oormpandonoo with the Mnninihto, we should find their method of communicating their ideas to. difficult for imitation and 'fhe idea that Mars is a miniature world had been steadily growing in probability and general favor, when suddenly Schlapar- elli, the eminent director 0! the Milan 0b- emtory (would that all efiiclal astronomers had his zeal I). announced that he had re- cegnized multitudlnous canals on the planet, averaging twenty miles or no in width and a thousand miles or so in length. As if that were not enough, he followod up the discovery by another, which suggested that he Martian engineers are not only enter- prising, but resolute and rapid in carrying out their enterprises. He announced that alenguide nearly all the canals he had dis- covered in 1879. another set had been con- structed by the spring of 1880. (He had de- tected the first of the duplicate set at the end of 1879). When I ea that the second set of cenalewere alongsi__e_the other not, I mean that they ran parallel to them, at a men: distance ef about three hundred miles. Imagine what all this, if real, would mean. We sheuld consider the engineers of America ‘ tolerably energetic if, in the course of a; generation (or even of several), the had‘ constructed a canal twenty (or say only ten) miles wide, connecting New York and San Francisco, San Francisco and New Orleans, New Orleans and New York, Detroit and Mobile. Galveston and Pertland, Me; Pert- land, Ore. and Jacksonville, Fla.; San Diego, CaL, and Cincinnati, St. Louis and Quebec, Montreal and Toronto. But what should we think if, rallel to each of these immense canals, at a distance of about three hundred miles, American engineers constructed a similar set of canals, as long and as wide as the first; settin about two you: and two months! Something nkin to this was done in Mm during our years 1880 and 1881, if we redly are to ac. oept what Schinporelli saw a: something which we ere to believeâ€"precisely as he picture- snd describes it. Only we must suppoae um ooneidernbly larger than the Northern American continent, engineered in thin marvellous fashion. But thie in not all ! These " double cen- ele," en the ever cautious meintelnere of the doctrine thet “ eeelng le believing " already celled them, would eeem to have proved unneiiectory to file Mertien engineers; for theugh the were seen in 1884 for three months, they happened one after another, bill none were leftâ€"that in, the mound canal or “ deuble " diaeppenred, leaving only the original eet. It was as theugh rivel oenel oempeniee on Mere hed eternal compeh'ng eehe ef cenele, etriving perhepe to get up eerne trust eyetem which might deetrey the holders of the old cenel system, but hed feiled in the content end had had their whole eerie- of do lictte crash oenfir cued and uhemrdl 6 led up. But, if no, they either recovered their finncml poeltion or were repleced by others, for the duplicate cand- reeppeered in 1886, only to disappear after 3 few months, 3nd strangely enough, in 1886 u in 1884 the mend net of canals their wholo nuk- of duplicate cumh oonfis~ «Happened jut oh the time when one would hove thought that on n cold planet like Mm mulling by ceuel would be moat enjoyable, nemely about the time of Me:- tian Midsummer for the regions where the canal: ere noon 1 Another theory might be suggested ss on the whole more probeble then the canal theoryâ€"though perhaps thst is not seyhg} much. How if we suptoee that the Bier-1 tisiists ere trying to sttrsct our sttentien‘ with their net-work of broei stresks. their: rednpliceted strokes end so forth? tht? if, finding us irresponsive to their first series of signals they heve than he it dosin- eble to wipe them 03' their r ~b1srd and presently make s new series? "Surely," we. can imsgine them saying, "if there ere inhabieents on that lovely star of morning end eveninv in which our philosophers take so much interest. they must hsve sense enough tohnow thst we are not making strokes on our own world sthonssnd miles long and twenty miles broad for nothing; they ought to see that we went to communl. cute with them, and unless we suppm (which is, of course. utterly incredible) that they are more interested in eating ed drink- ing. marrying and giving in marriage, or even in fighting amongst esch other. then in the soul stirrine study of philosophy, we mey fairly expect that they will attend to our signals. learn to understand them, and then strive to respond to them ss cleerlv ts from their unfortunately inferior position (which causes them to be invisible to us just when they are nearest) it may be possible for them to do." And so the Mnrtislists would continue to mark their planet with brosd stripes for our edifioetion. wipin them out and merhing them in sgnin, unti \VEAT ARI I'll! DOUBLE CASALS. BY I'ROI'. 1" wo Ind (and an. and county mngh to respond to than. I em hell efreid to euggeee am here theoriee, though both euggeeeed by the! ex treme caution which duree not imegine the! eeeing ie not believing, mev poeeibly be in correct The Merlielieie nuy neither be making end forthwith unmehing eeu oi monetrem cenele, nor marking their world with brood etrlpee to be presently wiped em egein, like the chelll merke which e “ pre feeeor" ei eriIhmen‘c traces on the bleekw board. Y. t l heeiente io mention the theory which enggeeied iieel! to me when Sohieper- elli announced hie intereetiug ubservntiene, end bee eeemed eo meum firmed. enoh ie the obetinecy oi theerieele, by everything which bed been ebeerved before or he: been eb eerved since. It Inuee eeem e wild fency thet einee there ere eeee end continente, cloude end mile on Mere. there rney conceivebly be rivere en :hee minieture world. Such, however, is the then be which suggested itself to meâ€" avg-t1! ."1'3: 1 e ,-,,,,e,, ,,-- ._ LL- °"_"I â€""'â€"9' But unleeo the dark streaks noon on the continents are the Martian rivers, no traoea oi Martian rivers can be seen on the planet. (Two marks. shaped thus, VVâ€"the inside 0! the two Vs being dark- called the Fork- od Bay, and compared to river months; but river months are not rivers, and it ma he more cautious, perhapa. to suppose that s noe they look like two Va, they are two Vs. meant for us Terrence to road). Now when as vet Schluparelli new only a set of dark‘ streaks on different parts of Marsâ€"always on the ruddy continental trucks. be it re- markedâ€"it seemed not unreasonalle to sup pose that these marks were rather rivers than canals. True, they seemed to he fifteen or twenty miles wide, and no river. on Liars could ever be so wide as that. But then neither would any reasonable bein con- struct canals on such a giventio sea 0, and when it appeared that optical laws fully ex- plained the at breadth of theae dark gstreaks as in ergo part only apparent, this difficulty disappeared. Rivera ranging from ‘ a few yarda to half a mile, or even a mile, in width on the planet Mars would show no trace of their real breadth, even in the most powerful telescopes, but be optically trans- }iormed into meals lookin forty or fifty : times wider than the rivers t omaelves. ‘ 1m! WHY an: THERB TWO or Tum! I So far no good. Rivers might bemepted ' in explanation of the dark streaks, and r since rivers cannot after all be regarded as stupendously unlikely phenomena on a planet like Mars, which certainly has seas. and as certainly has continents, this explanation seemed reasonable enough: “WI-I‘â€" - ‘â€"â€"-__‘-_ But how about the duplication of the dark streak. 2 Rivers cannot have ghostly doubles running parallel to their course at distances of from 250 to 3C0 miles, and prepared to appear and disappear in the most startling and unexpected manner. Yet these double streaks were certainly eeen. Sehiaparelli is no mere beginner with the telescope. Moreover, his assistants saw the double streaks. Perroth and 'lhollon, of Nice, have seer.- them since, even I: to this pres- eent year, when Perrotin has en so moved by what he has seen as to vouch his belief in the canal systems of Mars and in the earning euergies_ei Alsatian engineers. , "Ann _R AL- nunâ€"ulna vâ€"v- °_-‘. , It in rather singular that none of the believers in the double canals (the apparent- ly double streaks are real enough) is prepar- ed to say which of the two in the original canal (or dark streak). Doe: the duplicate canal always appear to the right or tlwayt to the loft, orâ€"where the run athwartâ€" alum? above or alwayo be ow the original etr 2 To theee quootionn I am going to give very daring reeponoe. I have noon the ‘ single dark streaks, and, after examining the beet recordl of the double dark Itroakn ‘I feel eat‘ufied that neither the right-hand inor the left hand streak- oi pain running north and oonth, neither the upper nor the lower etrooko of pain runnin out and west. on More in the original art Itreak but that that “weak corn-ponds 'm pooition with the streak of light between the double dark streaks. I am satisfied that there has been no duplication at all, but the dark streak hao amply changed to a light streak, bordered (partly by an 069.01; of contrast. partly through the well-known optical phenomenon called diffraction) by two dark Streaks. I was so wantin in caution as to suggest the possibility of t. is view being the correct one even before the evidence was eutficient fizitivelv to rapport it. Whatever the k streaks may be, I reasoned, they cannot possibly be double censls. What- ever the cause of the changes effecting them, they ounnot be due to Martin en ineering operations. It would be monstrous, argued (in my inoaullous wuy), to imagine such opentions on n planet whose chsnces in the evolution of life would certainly not lend themselves to the development of creatures so fu- su ‘1 men in engineering during and cepeo ty. On the other bend, it does seem ooneeinhleâ€"ney,.it oven seems likely â€"-that rivers which at timea, perhaps ueual~ 1y, would look like dark etreake on Man would at times look like bright streaks, while at other times perhaps these ttreake would dinppear althether. What if a whole Martian continent, rivers and all, became enehreuded in clouds? Would not the rivere then be altogether invisibleâ€"u utterly invisible as our river: would be to an aeronaut high above a dense layer of Impenetrable cloud? What if at other times, though the cleude cleared away from awhole continent, they still remained above the rivero. changln them for the observer on earth into atrea eoi cloudJike light, because the cloude along those river bed: would turn “ their silver llninge" towards the obeerver on earth ? In it l0 utterly wild and fanciful to adopt the idea (rejecting even those ex- ceedln ly probable Mertianucnnele, duplicate and ot etwlee) that what happens on our earth. with her nee, continents and rivers, might happen on e planet which visibly he: sees and continent: and in whose air-clouds visibly gether end clear ewey or discharge their waters in rain, 00 that we may not nneefely Inspect thet the planet has rivers .130 3 If we thus deringly imegine Ireeemtlsnce lotween the condition of More end thet of a planet in some etege of it. life not ntteriy unlike our earth, instead of assuming more centionely the construction (in I you or two) of ceoeie thonemde of milee long and twenty mliee or eo wide. we are led to im- e inc aleo eomething akin to terrutriei con. (1 tione. We picture cionde covering the Martin continente in the daytime; we im- egin e oieerinu may of the cionde every- 'I'IIIY HAY BI BIG MYERS. NOT KSGISEEBIS‘G FEATS. THE EFFECT OF CLOUDS. when not “long the river-creche in the I ring. us funny the cloning sway of the ciimdl even over the river-treat: in the eummer time. I ice! regreifui that ell thin in mum. in awardence with the Gel-gen- tuun canal muting. but my Indore mule forgive me if nah during pre- sent: to my {notations mind ecu. rive". clouds mdsoforth u on the whole more pmbxbie then mule meny hundred. of miles long where cennh would be utterly melt-a. Ind twenty miies wide where (it would seem) equener of 3 mile of width woull hue uni-fled all Martian require- menu. The Martin: winter would be the time of general overclouding. \he Mutinn Iprin being (he iime for tha (baring may 0 clouds cvcryvhuo uve ulmg the river tracks. um! Murthn midsummer the time when the cloud! would clou- nmy sita- uether and tho tin-n sppen with their nutunl duknou of tint. nausea-nu. ~._.â€"â€"w- .. .. Asif to encourage my raehness in reject- ing the immense. yet ever changing. Martian canals, and preferring the thought that there may be rivers en a lanet- which has seas and continents. cleu s and snows \ud other characteristics akin to those of our own earth, Mara himself report! precisely such changes as we should expect were mfi overbold speculation sound. Schie parel the original discoverer of the canals and of their duplicates. first also to suggest the theory which M. Perrotin. of Nice. has re- cently advocated, ints out in his report 0 n his Martian audits that the dark streaks ‘ visible singly in the Martian summer and in visible in the Martian winter are doubled in the Martian spring. As spring advances and the summer solstice approaches, the double streaks become one after another single. uno til finally. at midsummer, every one of them has lost its companion streak. It does not" seem to have occurred to him, in making or in recording these observations, that the dis nppearence of a companion canal a thou- sand miles long and twenty miles wide in a few weeks would suggest a destructive ener- gy on the part of Martian engineers even more wonderful than the energy displayed in eating the can-la. With exemplery caution he and Perrotiu and other believers in Martin canals adhere to their faith in what their “ very own eyes" have won. It in only I, wildly and fancifnlly speculetive, who suggest that their canals on but the products of optical illusion, and that Mm has river: as the earth has. Why is it asks a writer in the Manufac- turers Guette. when you fail to drive in I. screw, or withraw an old one, with I short screw driver, you can do it with a long one with cgqlpuajive use, or. e‘lae twin}; t‘he head off it! There is certainly no gain by leverage in ex :hanging, a shot screw driver can be operated as quickly as a short one. \Ve all understand what a lever is, thd nleo understand that what we gain in power by the nee of one we gain in time. The longer the lever the more power gained and the mere time lent. Does that apply to the- ecrew~drirer2 The name writer nuke this: Everyone has noticed than. a.- a paeeengyr train'is approaching a station, people who intend to get off arise from their seats, and approach the forward door and remain standing until the train comes to astop, and when it does stop they all lurch backward the force of the lurch depending on the and? denness of the stop. Even though a man is familiar with the action, he will have to brace himself well in order to prevent pitch- ing bacewards. Now the question is, why do they not lurch forward in the direction the train is moving. instead of badkward, when the train stops! Extracte from 5 letter : Here we ere ofl Sshle lelmd, 800 mile. from New York, end 3 cyclone strikes us, tnveling reventy miles en hour. The morning broke on us, dork, clemmy, and threetenin . end an the dey wore on the wind nether its etren h. The majestic anger of the see awoke, t e woven roudly reared their head: and then broke nto wild, white, angry I my, but the " Bri- tannic'e " 5,000 tons, trem ling and ore-king, rode the stormy waters well. But not so well, we I We had hero our first touch of real eee-niclrnese 1 0h, horrors I Whnt utter-moot lenguor and loething and nbomin- able desolation settle down with their cold, clemmy sweet u on the very marrow of my being! My nee “struck" and wouldn’t hold up my head i The strength of m joints and muscles melted away. I lost 3 l hyeicel uprightneee and coherence end gircction. I was without form, and void. I felt luv-elf numeric end undoneâ€"stupidly and an kwerdly made. In brief, I capita- ieted to the see, unconditionally. I became a thing I And I wag not aloneâ€"I eew‘iedjee End g‘g'mglemgn hgnging ov_¢_ar tho £[1_ip‘s_li¢!9 nu‘élothes hmginfi as a line : Wh'y don’t we lubctitute tea-sickness for fire in our do- acriptiom of purgatory and hell 2 “ Mu: in but 5 reed," lay: Paul, " but I: ll 3 thinking nod." “ J uet a cabin in o clearing." A wild nee clunbt lin o'er, And A womsn with a b: 3‘ Standing In the cabin door. In the field a run is ploughing, And whlullng ss he goes. While the wornun and Ihe baby Are counting :1] the rcws. And the forest stands Around them. The sky is spread shove. And everywhere is written, The mystery cl Love. Tia s home that Love is planting Where strong. young lite shall grow. Would I hud the nrtist‘o power, mt zimplo home to show. I would paint the lights snd shtdow 160! thnt 103:1: he. so loir: ' COP! ll 0 P095! " Baby” hld written there. I’d point the wondrous symbols That huh, fl gel-s trace Ugon the father's cheek and brow, j .,A, The promise and the mystery Enloldinz baby lib. And Inn's dhino fulfillment. In wedded mm and wife. Just 3 cabin in u “ clearing." And A wild rose clamhennz o'er, And I wanna ‘ m: : baby Shading in the cabin door. But Love in renohin downward To lizhkn toil m can And Lon on mm wmgs mounting. Heuonwurj those hen-ts doth be". Sen-Sickness-A Suggestion. 71in florndllumined hoe. A Frontier Sketch. I? I. W. DOIBIY. Questions.