For an office ! O it’s funny, Wher a candidate is cunning, Just to see what execution He can do—in what short order He can bag his votes by dozens-—- And with nothing but *‘soft-sawder !’ Mark how eloquent he waxes ; ver the beauties of pho pumpkins, How he kisses all the babies And hobnobs with all ee: ‘bumpkins ; ; How he praises up-the bed-quilts And the cabbages and onions, While he aske with accents tender All about the farmer’s bunions ! With what rapture he enlarges On the tans eacencat Be iain How ie pases in joy ecs O’er the hog-pens, Suile the zephyrs Blow unchidc den thro’ his whiskers, Laden, ev'ry breezy vagront, With an offing for his nostr'ls That is anythring but fragrant! How he raves o’cr rutulagas, How he takes on o’er tomatces, With what reverence he gazes n big squashes and potatoes! oO Hi : oe with his taffy | otis st hit that’s made is— And. bee ds it.on the thickest— users + reanalinouta the lutdies ! ~ o the ‘‘agricult’ral int'rest’ “Wis devotion itis utter. Hear him blow about his battles n Folks develop for the farmer Just before the fall election. Fattening Poulsy. for the Market. The great secret of rearing poultry for profit 13 to yet the hinds ready for the table as soon at possible, and to kill them the very | day they are ready for it. Fortunate is the! poultryman who has fed his chickens-well fromthe very shell; for the lean, or fles must be made before the usual fattening pro- , a8 it is only fat that is added by pern- ing the birds. usual plan i is to place poultry designed ! for can ipe in pens for about. two — the fattening coops dark as Vright, whois excellent authority in such matters, advises that the coops kept dark for half the time after eich ne until the next by hanging a cloth over the front. This cloth, if tacked along the top, can be conveniently hung over or -folded K, as required. The two hours’ darkness after feeding insures quiet and charonps | digestion. hen the remaining time with | light gives better appetites for the fae out drawn out. The pail may also be drawn ition one at a time, so as not to alter Ss of the tip of the shoe, and a to exactly fit the countersink ia ae ae land to pass. through-the-same hoof, may be driven 1n its cae {Souther Cultivator. Evergreens for Hedge Purposes. The choice of evergreens should always be y|made with an eye to the particular olsject in adel If for protection alone, as for in- on the outside see buildin ngs or er. clans, says Josiah Hi in the Tribune, dense, stroug-grower oat he selected. aoa aivueel all things considered, fills every requirement, and necds little training. Scotch and Austrian pines have been recoin- mended, but, owing to the disastrous fungal disease pe culint to the genus, these soon prove useless, the lower branches becoming tlefoliated. White pines trom an excellent screen, especis tA if pened when young. merican arba VUE alinuét's any situation Not too Vv For an ornamental hedge i ee is, one to be annually trimmed and kept in per- fect condition, hemlock pe nee ix perhaps | most attractive; but Norway spruce will ; ur neglect bett er, is hardisi in the hedye, is adapted to a greater siversity-of-seils and} ‘exposures, and i skilfully trinuned presents an exceedingly oeautiful, alchangh formal, c. arbor-vitre (a mere form of our native spec ies, with an improper name) | makes a charming hedge plant. For cheap: ness combined with utility, the common | arbor-vitie may be ree; nnmended as mong the most availulte evergreens, Tu sha ie Situations, or infact wherever a very boundary is needed, hothing can take the | cyown as Chinese box. Those desitinga ueat and serviceable en- closure for cemetery lots, will tind the Jatter unsurpassed, altboug » is questi sh ser ; faste to have any hedee artundthem, Lat istmipermmay be res Sh for p! anting evergreen hedges daving & drougint the op: | eration will almost certainly fail, Lut if the season he unoist dailies rarely results. When out of the ground rergrecn TeGts must be | wet during fremoval, success ig certain, this time roots will form at once, and Mj the plants will secure a firm hold of the soi! before winter. Baal lar Gardentueg, and | At Kil'ing We Weeds, A fron work can be done this month | | icitting oul weeds. ‘ ber of Varighios: of w rect, th ts j be kept 3 ut, and iby eC riting % t! igen’ than if darkness prevails all thew hile, i tis im tines berg fattening périod. fattening as wellas the production of well- poribesi flesh is buckwheat meal, mixed —_ sweet skim milk into a thick mush. Iti te the use of this grain that the Freach owe in a large measure the splendid fowls they | send to market. An cxcelle nt substitute where buckwheat meal is not avnilable is” an equal mixture of Indian and barley meal, mixed, when’ convenient, with skim milk. It isa wise plan to give minced green food | daily in addition to the ration already sug: gested, Poultry is most’readily fattened hefure se- vere weather comes on. As prices usually go up a little before and after Thanksgiving the poultry is often held back for that sea- son, Chickens that were hatehed in the early spring, if they have heen properly fed, bring extra prices at Thanksgiving and | Christmas times. Another good market season is the latter one of Lent. A very general plan is to fatten for market during the —— aniny hens and cocks that have atta to the second year. These} fowls of acres do not command as high rices as puaheer ones, but there isa large | class of purchasers for them. Prov ident housewives, keen to peri will often selee these older birds for “‘fricassee” rather than pay a few cents more er pound for those | tender enough to r erative that food be given three | water once cach day during the Selection o of 1 Bes Hives, Begin with thoroughly and ace urately | made hives, all the standard hives on the market before you decide on the kind you will have, This | is itnportant for tworeasons. First, oc ath in the same apiary ought be precisely alike, sothat all-parts~are- interchangeable Second, a change in hives, after one is once engaged in apiculture, involves much time, labor aud expense The old box hives have long since been abandoned by inteHigent apiarists for the | movable comb hives, of which there are two | types. One consists of a box, in which hang | the frames which hold the combs. Phe adjacent frames are so tar separated that | the combs, which just fill them, shall be te! proper ape pia apart. In the other kind the ends of the frames are wider than the! cane and when in position are close together, themselves form two sides of a box. Sicai, if not all, the Standard hives in pre- sent use represent one or the other of these ty ihe main feature of the eae which excludes traps of various kinds. It ought also tu be made of good pine or white-wood lumber, thoroughly seasoned. The movable comb hive was invented by Langstroth about 1850. The ‘‘Langstroth,” with its various improve- ments, is well known to-day throughout the entire country. The “Simplicity ra tl hive and the “Heddon Langstrot very favorably known. Thee favorite with Professor A. Cook, w does not hesitate to recommend i it to othe Mr. A. I. Root is a champion for the “Sim. plisity Langstroth. ” The Heddon hive com- bines in eens le the Langstroth and the old “H The “Quimby” still finds ad: mies, per is preferred by the Heathering- ton Brothers. hive should be = : Bow to Take Off a Horse's Shoe. When a shoe is to be taken off it must not be violently wrenched at the risk of splitting iece of ‘hoof with it. Let the clinched end of cach nail be first turned back. The best food for rapid | Examine, so far as practicable, | ronilen and dovk, killed ou in “* season ean, at tony le Kept froin increasins leprending, if care is taken to keep ent down gt tas mottit: _ good time for pruning, aud rially to kill ej them ontif theysare cut Com, close this month, ‘and every farmer's time can be putin to a in doing this kind of work. fence corners, and vacant _ gr AES to grow, instead of yacklto the appearance | vise a Hints to Breeders, Many young breeders in fe rming and select | ing their stud lay too much siress upon ecrtain families or blood lines, and neyleet ; toobserve imperfections and malformations | which preduce hereditary defects, such t Valin: sepa spavin, curbs and. bad formed legs, | say vestern writer, ! Blindues Stay proceedfrom an accident, but it is necessary to i which produced it. We : stallion or mare where the defect originatec from an aveident, but it would be hest to ‘learn whether the ancestry have labored ) under a similar defect. ne ined horses or mares should be aveided Curl ware bad enorgh, Lat spaving are the vorse of the two, and almosi certain to he transmitted. Bad fore legs, with ligit bone under the knee and straight upright [paste “rns are ver ¥ objectionabl c, alt} yous uh we | see at timés good performers with these de 1 ri is, We lave never believed roaring was hereditary, as claimed by most English au- thorities, ‘ds, influenza, pnemnonia and | throat diseases are mot eprevalent in Kug i | than any other conntry, rarises froni colds, influenza, distemper and tang diseases ; stil! some horses, like indivi- duals, aremoresuseeptible tocokls and throat diseases than others. In selecting horses and mares tobreed from, j tryand procure those thatare sound and free i from defects and promise to possess the same ! good qualities as their ancestors, and who are likely to transmit them to their offspring. {; Defects it fr mind are more easily | transinitted than pe-fections.. It is unrea- sonable to expect animals of faulty and de- sa ‘olds, ! fective formations to breed sound colts a an nd } i transmit to their which they do Animals with such hereditary infirmities and | j defects as blindness, spavins, curbs and bad formed legs should be avoided and rejected. The Care of Poultry. Cold weather does not hurt poultry if they are netin a draughty place at night, and | even a draught does not hurt them’ if they | have been used to its Ihave known fowls sleepin a shed with a top to it and neither sides nor ends, The wind blew right through the shed, but Ihave known fow!s roost in such sheds for years end not one of them take cold. It one of these had been used to a comfortable nit one night in such a place would be ough to bring ona fad cold or roup. The on houses on old fashioned farnss often have several boards off, and yet the fowls do not take cold, but ifa stock bird is brought in it usually goes wrong unless it has come from a similar place, and then the owners says that a bought bird — does so well as one that is reared at hom I frequently meet wih people — never think of giving their fowls any shame Regs the ro suffer so much in-this_res half ie fowls that ate cent tome for mortem examinations have not a particle there grit in their gizzards, the siones are. quite emoth-an rs te scme cases Roup in fowls is usually oer on by fi y low} lace of ordinary tree box, or its varicties preserved ani np, and Lit? the day be cloudy | ering tint ire reject ay} Roariuy gone = + cold or a sudden chill of the blood, very hot hts, or sitting in a draught 23 iting dope used to it, or house yor he a venulatane le so that. there‘ is a dranght through the house, or sleeping tie of doors one night and in a nice warin hous next, getting wet ee cold and then sitting in a draught. The Pig Pig I Pen. bi sales and more succulent the food, re.the hogs need salt to promote di- geation and maintain health. hen they rin in pasture, salt must a i to them in some form, A good way is to prepare niixture of salt, wood ashes, salnber and per- haps a little fine ground bone and place it under shelter where the hogs can get at it as they may desire, but cannot soil or waste it. If, instead of ruining in pasture, tbe hoga are confined, the same course may be | patwoed: but we believe it better tu salt, as ara can be done conveniently, the food | which is fed to them, instead of taking it into | the stomach in raw doses. This is the way + fiman does, and finds it much pleasanter, if not better than to ent it clear. We believe | the same holds good with the whole animal | creation as wellas with man. There can be |no material difference so far as the physical (qyetcr 1 is concerned, In such matters, man experiences should serve asa guide| | until we can find a better one. | Corn as : ead food BuECesS, too” heating and wasteful. |} An iedinek: fesilee r gives, in the Swineherd, | his experience in feeding a lot of seventeen | h ig nota ogs from June2 to June 28—a period of | twenty-six days. When the experiment hegan, they w eighed a total of 3,270 pounds, | an average of 193 pounds cach. During the | |twenty-six days they were fed sixty-nine ' bushels of corn, which mate 720 pou nos ive we'ght, worth 3} cents a pound, or § 33, - 10. The 69 sashels: of corn were’ worth 35 cents a bushel, or $25.15. This shows a ss of 75 cents, besides the time, jtrouble ond interest on the investment, | The inore business of this kind a farmer | does the poorer he gets. We have no doubt | that if bran, middlings, oats or some “nitrogenous food had been fed with half the | -eorn there wonld have been a much more |favorable showing. In sucha case it will j always pay to sell half the corn and put the proceeds into some more nitrogenous feed than corn to be fed with it. > t 1 Eunerar w iMians 4 s Rival. ; Emper or AY ‘lltam who has for ath. ic reaty of he ti young h, is chert to undertake a voyage Crarewit rownd t he oor with-the object of improv iny Consid- streceert* ned y sining inform ly_sonie day- te throne many will pray that d voyage may not be frus- ! ithe may have an opportunity rning the possibilities and dar government, and that’ fete amettiten public order and” ryoverninert widleut recourse ous pam tinenta now in use in; s dominion Referring to his! intended trip & conte: mporary i A If the programme of the tour is carried out in its entirety, the Young Prince will return home and ‘eventually snececd to his father’s | throne with intellectual advantages such ag! /none of his predecessors have ever posses- sed. It will no longer be possible to attempt | | to excuse the d lespotisin of Imperial rulo in | Russia on the ground of the luck of enlight- enment, and of narrow-mindedness on the pert of tae sovereign ; and the future Nico- as JT, will tind no ‘apologists i in history if he i s not relieve the great Empire intrusted | to his charge of the weight of oppression : which has rendered the word tyranny syhonymeus with that of Russia. his he. 131. ahh 4 aruivor orous Piar: ts. ! Itis doubtful whether many students of i botany will feel erceedingly grateful to M. Raphael Dubois of the French Academy of: Science for demonstrating that the so- called ! carnivorons plants are my yths, and that, not- ) withstand? Ny the opinion of SO great a scholar as Charles Darwin,* who held, in common with Sir Dalton Hooker and others, that there really were such things as carnivorous pl aunts, they do not possess the powers attri- mted to the m. Mr. Duhois’ Seas consists in abstracting the liquid, said t the digestive agent, froman unopened ower | through a sterilized tube and keeping it from coutact with the air, Under theee condi-.: Uion3 it remains-quiteti shows no trace of peptoncs, He ladon! moreover, that the bodies of insects found in the open urns of flowers ‘are ina state of putretac- tion, and not of digestion, “and the exposed rae contain, countless miero-organisins, ¢ inference to be drawn is evident. | a of these flowers has no digestive pro- perty, and cannot and does not digest the entrapped insects, and the plants are eats: fore not carniverous.” The moral, too, is aces aur my | obvious, do not siake too much upona | ances. j Bee stings are good for rheumatism, so says “Insect Lite.” No douht this info: Santen hailed with rejoicing by per afflicted with that distressing malady. Tei is not clear whether the benetit is owing to some [healing influence or substance attached to business end of his beeship and intro- duced simultaneously with the sting or to he unusual and violent exercise which such /a stimulating apptication would be likely to | produce. Probably this is one of the things | Which most persons w ili be disposed to take | upon the word of another without attempt- | ing to verify The denial on the part of the Berlin offi- | cials that the niger Commander at Baga- | moyo issued the reported decree favoring the traffic in slaves Fi ot received with un- questioning faith by the English people. A correspondent of the New York 7riluue Says: 1e official denials from Berlin of the Times and Reuter’s telegrams respect- ing the slave decrees at_Bagamoyo are not sufficiently definite to satisfy English public opinion oe these telegrams were ground- legs, lidligved here that the German | agents ty " Africa took with too lenient an one on the eluve traflic, in order to draw trade awsy from Zanzibar.- The German newspafiers «re making a most furiaus-at- tack upou the British press, which, how- ever, can only Le justifiei when. it is abso- surety proved that the: Times and Reuter's ph agency. Ease iccn guilty of. use grown ReECT t present this o means est. t be ; only saves A Princely Gift. Mr. Jon D. Rockefeller, who, a few | week a bie reported r the estab! ofa na- ten aed attracted publi of $1;000,060 ta rous gift has raised the question whether the interests of education would not have been better served had Mr. Rockefeller and those who are con- ‘tributing to this new institution of le earning given their money for the strengthening of existing institutions ? ? Says the New York so e giving of money to new uni- yersities. e case of Mr. Rockefeller, <i has ailowbd a Baptist university with a million of dollars, a: commendable so far as it represents the ness of the giver, We believe that ed tucationa purposes would ; be bettcr served by strengthening existing universities than creating new ones, Great Britain has made many experiments in that direction, but the consummate flower of academic. ¢ ulture is to be found in Cam- bridge and Oxford. Soin the United States we find the same in Harvard, Yale and per- i The University of Vir- aud in time w °o o ard, toi and Yate have the prestige of many gen- erations. And, as the poct says, We cuniot buy with wot the old associations. Higher | ber one of these Sewardescthi ae edueation will grow with the deyelopment of these great schools, In endowing educa- tion it is Letter to take what we know to be duly tried aad well seasoned, and not ven- i ture upon uncertain ground.” On the other (side the Tribune argues that the Chicago | peolect is sspepionel ees as the | whole country west of the Wabash is with- Vout any institution of comand influence j and. urge xdvant rtheless it atvises caution as aie the chasaster imposed open rie new institntion, ‘*No mere pecuni- endowment,” it says, ‘ean replace mh iolastic assoviation or tradition, and an Latrompt to. conduct.the new university on Tw cailed * practical’ lines, while it Fetgnt | insure a certain temporary sucecss, pwould fatally del xe its character and | cheapen its reputation,’ Eleciric Motors on Stecp Grades, Wa ceticteate was i. settle ae question as to the advantage of ectric motors in Rc naepr steep ieee ry ie test has est their youd question, w iis at the saine time it ling revealed the fact that the passing of # cur- - rent of clectr icity: from the. ere A of-a-mot= or to the track on which they ran greatly increases the traction of the iaotor, whether it is stesmror electric. How great the bene- fit thus gained really is may be inferred from the following trials, in both of which adlynams wie wetinced-o si ibid lo.) comotive. rhe first case + comutive was attached ton train of Toadec i coal-cars which haf their brakes set. The engis: e was ae in action, but the drive-wheels slipped, the train could not be moved. Then the aieat was turned on, and without a slip, with brakes siill set, the train was get under full Bagert eg Then a trial was made on a ‘ grade of 135 icet tothe mile. The locomotive without the current hauled a heavy train up this grade, but there was inuch slipping, , even with the track well sanded, The time was filty-five minutes, Wi ith the -current applied the same work was done in twenty- ‘nine ininutes and the consumption of coal ‘was less than half that used without the current, and there was~a savin cause there was noslippivig. | Journal of Finance, which reports these ex- |p perinicuts, says that increased traction isdue | ta aslight welding of the surfaccs of the | Wheels and the mils by the electric current, This weld is broken As the wheels roll for- ward, apparently without injury to the | wheels ecrails. Another nt portant fact is ' that oil or water on the ! | ' ' increases the ! effectiveness of the euttetit, so that a loco- motive will ascend a grade with greater ease when the track is well oiled than when it is clean. It does not follow from these experi- ments of coats that electricity will super- sede steam the railway motive power. But the ~— tha the increased traction not but permits of much of the dead wets of existing locomotives to be i dispensed with makes it almost certain that in the near future thosdynemo will itenine a necessary appendage of locumotives, es spe- cially of thoge intended for heavy draughts, ee The New Commander. Advices have been received at the Milrtia 9 aap mee in Ottawa that Colenel vor John Caradoc Herbert, of the Grenadier Guards military attache to the British lege tion at St. Petersburg, iasuc cepted the ¢ om: | maud of the Canadian Militi: 1. The colonel | will receive the local rank of Major: sd al. Colonel Herbert was born on the Lith. July, | 1831, and commissioned ‘an ensign and Ken- | tenant in the Grenadier Guardson the 5th of | November, 1870 ; a lieutenant anda ae | on the 25th of Novem) cr, S74; raised to the! rank of brevet major on the 18th Nov mnie » 1883 ; on the sth August, 1880, mental major on 26th of stake, 1899. tag? ‘to the thar July, 1 aaa pil was 5 Beigede- Major of the E xpeditionary Force to Egypt from = ros of August, 1882, to the 6th of Novem S82. He was rg Ber ‘of the Home. District from the llth of November, IS8S2, to the Ist of May,1883. He became commandant of the school forauxiliary forces, Wellington Bar- racks, on the Ist of November, 1885, hold- tng the position until the Gth of April, 1886, when he beads el military attache at St. Petersburg, The new coomendent of the Canadian militia is highly with Lord be equa and has ¢ Hstinguished him- self in the service. He is only thirty-nine years of age. hen ty S882. - > Lockwood did an-extraordinary bowli ng ergs Ped ing for South of Englan Xr + XVIIL. of North hamptonshire, re- He: took four wic ceutiy: ets on eusceasive n three wickets on ccessive SRE CF". being promoted toa colone.cy | ane becoming regi- pr balls, and-again balls, oly epeceming the Lat trick | twice in the same innings LADIES’ JOURNAL Fible Competition E NO. ac, The Ola Reliable again to the fore. . pect list of Don't ‘Delay ! Send at-Onee ! Competition Number Twenty Six now atthe solicitation of thousands ofthe old friends and competitors in former contests. The Editor of Tue Laptes’ Joursa has nearly forty thousand testimonials ns to the airness with which these Bible Competi- trons have been Biddle This Somperiece is to be short and de- cisive. 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Address, Editor Lapres’ Jovn- nal, Toronto, Canada, Ww oF The Newfounc lee dog is a particular favorite of is the most tnagnan - 1882, and captain and Lt.-Colonel 2nd ot imoug fellow i in ile world; and small dogs ut him with i mpunity unless a aie: ens to be near, when one two “Yenturesoine and impudent ae sometiines rience oy involuntar th. On one agd fine--one-was o took himself without much Spe re that the other dog, who was ‘ative of ‘ seoliliee thana drowning as fast as he could drown. look was enough. In went he of the onatsy coat, 0 niger by the 5 brow t his late enemy land, The es then ¢ ot each otner with a per- fectly indescribab! onds, shen silendy ne solemnly w ages, and Lith dig- hat this was but instinct sand y may be right, but I prefer to ae my es ted epart, sailor, was wildly beating the water, and One ee seizing the "expression for some sec- will, no = aay friend the benefit of the doubt.