Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1888 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINELu AViiDNEfcJD A Sf JANUARY 25 1888.

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FARM AND HOME

Jnterssting and Valuable Information for tha Ftnntr iniEii Family. Planting in tha Moon Patting Up Wool Tti6 Ago of a Hone. Xock After the Sheep Corn isi Cob Keil r Sniaz Minara. Management of Turkeys White Grnbbs in "Wheat House Hints Stock and Farm Notes. The Blackberry Farm. Nature giTea with freest hands Riebest (tilts to poorest lands. When the Lord has sown his last, And his fields to desert passed, She begins to claim her own. And instead of harvests ttowa, Sunburnt sheaves ana golden, ears, Hends her hardy pioneers; Barbarous, brambles, outlawed seeds, loe first families of weeds, 1 earing neither sun nor wind. Ith tue flowers of their kinl, (Outcasts of the (tar Jen bound) Colonize the expended ground. Using (none her rights gainsay) Conizations ol decay; Thus she clothes the barren place, Old disgrace with newer grace. Title deeds which cover lands Ruled and reaped by buried hands, She disowning owners ol, Scorning their "to have and hold" Takes herself; the mouldering fence Hides with her munificence; 0 er the tumbling gatepost twines Iler proprietary vines: On the doorstep ol the house Writes in moss "Anonymous," And that beast and bird may see -This is Public Property:" To the bramble makes the sini Bearer ol prolusion ; Blossom oaon breathe In June Promise of her later boon, And In August's bnu9n heat Orows the prophecy complete; Lo, her largess glistens bright. Blackness diamonded with liht! Then, behold, she welcomes all To her annual festival. "Mine the fruit, but yours as well," Speaks the Mother Miracle: "Kich and poor are welcome; come, Hake to-day raillienniura ' In my garden of tue sun ; Bxack and white to me are one, This my freehold use content; Here no landlord rides for rent; 1 proclaim my jubilee In my Black Republic free." Come." Bhe beckons, "enter through Gates of gossamer, doors of dew (Lit with summer's tropic tire) My Liberia of the Briar " John James Fiatt. Planting "In the Moon." Dakota Correspondence Modern Mirer. In the East thousands ol people plant Bad sow "in the moon," to insure rapid growth, bat in Dakota it is dangerous to plant in the prolific phase of the moon, so they are careful to plant at such a time that the moon will exert its intlaeace in holding the crop back. I hare known several disasters to result from neglect of this precaution. One day last January I got iost out in the country, and while 1 was toiling through the tall new grass I saw a man with nothing on but his suspenders tearing along like mad. He stopped just long enough to tell me what was up, and off he went again fcr the Iowa side of the Sioux river, which he cleared at a bound, and fell on all fours into a snowdrift four ieet deep, lie said he and his wife had looked up the moon business, and planted their garden the evening beiore, but happened to get hold of last yew's almanac, and missed it about four days. The result was when he woke up that morning the beets that he planted forty ieet from the house had crushed in the cellar walls, and a squash-vine bad taken the doors off its hinges, and was just mopSmg the floor with all there was left of the ired man, whom it had snatched out of bed in the attic. He didn't know where his wife was, but he saw some shreds of a sight gown and several agate .buttons in the front yard as he tied. He said there were pea-vines after him, with pods on 'em large enough for phantom boats, and one could see by the way he was dressed that if he wai a liar at all he was not a regular Dakota thoroughbred sample. If I really thought I would ever become an average Dacota liar I would want to die. This territory must be divided sometime beiore the day of judgment, for how could the Almighty ever audit its seconds with only one sat of clerical angels at work at a time? About two weeks ago I saw a farmer out hehind a straw-stack gathering into a heap a lot of old bonea end pieces of hides and eprinkling salt on them. Yesterday I saw ibis same man sel'itg a fine pair of steers to a butcher up town. They were so fat end bad rilled up so fast that ha had pieced out their hides with an old buffalo robe. Ibis granger was a Sunday school superintendent before he came to Dakoti. but he swore that these were the same cattle I had teen him kicking together behind the straw-stack. He said all that they had eaten was some wild grass that had sprang dd in his door yard, where the women had lhrown out a few tubs of warm soapsuds on wash days. He said that he had learned lhat the best way to winter stock in Dakola was to knock them all to pieces ia the Tall and set them no aeain. as wanted : oth erwise, unless we get a blizzard every week. ihev were liable to get too fat and round nn the native erass. Last fall I stopped at a hons9 to borrow at match to light my pipe. The mw told me to go right out in the garden and pick all I wanted. I did not know what he meant at first, but be went out with me, and I'm almost afraid you will think I'm a liar for telling it there was about half an acre growing the finest parlor matches I ever taw. They were as thick as hairs on a blind mole, lie said be nad a poor crop the year beiore, because the seed was too good for such soil. This year he had mixed his aed matches with about one-fourth toothpicks, and got a splendid yield. I went about after breakfast and saw the man blowing tin Hubbard squashes with gun piwdr. Toey were too large to be moved, and the farmer wanted the ground. I noticed that one of bis wife's legs was about fight inches longer than the other, and tbe nia explained it thus: He said when they first came to Dakota they lived in a"dngott," with nothing but -the ground for a ll or, from which they had to mow the gras once a day to find the baby. Be fid Lis ife had a habit of sitting with one) ? over the other knee, and tbe leg that reiaV.aed in contact with the soil got auch a start that .the other could never catch up. One day I was very thirsty. I asked a man if the water in that negiborhood was pood. He said: "You see that mule etardlne over there?" I replying in the affirmative, he said: "Why, three months a?o that mule was a jack-rabbit, I should &ay the water was good." He mvst also have taken a copious sup ply of a alkali grass, which grows in this countrj ia ebundar.ee. Putting ,1'p Wool. Western Rural, Jf every wool-grower would be careful in DUtting up his wool everybody would be tbe gainer, and especially himself. A manufacturer gives the description of a package of wool: Put it on tbe table and it is a beautiful fleece' to behold light. puffy and free. The string cornea off freely. To open it from the center to either end is but to touch it with a slight pressure but lo, what is here? A handful of short, hard

tags cut last fall; another handful of clippings cut this spring; another handful of sweat locks swept from the floor. Ia that all? No there is another bunch of wool of another color, a different staple ; it smells different: it must be yes.it is part of a ram'a ileece. These words were used in an address to wool-growers, and the speaker told thsm the truth, that when they pat up wool in that way, they did it at a loss. He was speaking in Western New York when he said: Western New York wool is neglect

ed in the seaboard markets because the bnyer know3 he will pay for what is not wooL The teas you cut in the lau are hardly worth saving. All the wool there is in the fribbs and stuff that is swept from the floor In a day's Bhearine will hardly weigh two pounds, and the trifle of wool that attaches the excrescences at the spring trimmine had far better be left out of the fleeces. There is money in this sort of talk to the wool-grower, if he will only govern himself accordingly. To Tell the Age f a Dorse, To tell the age of any horse. Inspect the lower jaw, of course; The six front teeth the tale will tell, And every doubt and fear dispel. Two middle "nipplers" von behold Before the colt is two weeks old. Before eight weeks two more will come: tight months, theJ"corners" cut the gum. The outside grooves will disappear From middle two in just one year. In two rears from the second pair, la three years the corners, too, are bare. At two the middle "nippers" drop. At three the second pair can't stop. When four years old the third pair goei, 'At five a lull new set he shows. The deep black spots will pass from view At six years from the middle two; The second pair atteven years. At eight the spot each "corner" cleirs. From middle nippers" tipper jaw At nine the black spots will watilr: The second part at ten are white; Eleven finds the "corners' ' light. As time goes on, the horsemen know, The oval teeth three-sided grow; Tney longer get, project before. Till twenty, when we know no more. Look After the Sheep. Maine Farmer. Sheep must be carefully looked after at this season of the year. It is ail nonsense to claim that sheep need but little atten tion. Lack of attention is not the way farmers make money on sheep at the present time. Sheep will lose flesh if left to feed on frost-bitten grass with nothing better to go with it. They will look plump when full of such grass, but later on the fact is revealed that they have lost weight. Shelter them from cold storms, put them up in the feeding pens at night, and give tl em a feed of grain or a ration of turnips or cabbage. Keep them thriving from the time grass fails if you would have thsm go through the winter all right. If this can rot be done in one way then do it in an o'ber. Keep them thriving, and they will be ready to bring forth a good Iamb early in the winter if you want, and will furnish an abundant now of milk. Such lambs as were noted in our valua bie market report of two weeks ago from P itten, 800 of which averaged 100 pounds each, are not grown on neglect and matten tion. It is possible to neglect Bheep, but it can not be done without it costin dtariy. Com and Cob Meal. Among the recently reported eiperl meets tried at the Iowa Agricultural Callers was one to test the relative value of corn meal and the meal of corn and cobs e round together in fattening swine. The li rat experiment was made with animals in the last stages of fattening. Pigs of the fame breed and the same ae, and as nearly as possible the same weight, were selected and fed one week to accustom them to the food selected. Tbey were then given all they could eat up clean, half of them corn meal and half of corn and cob meal, the grain being carefully weighed, and also the hogs at the end of each week for two weeks, when they were sold. The corn and cob meal, seventy pounds a the bushel, made 12.05 pounds of pork per bushel, and fifty pounds of the clear corn meal made 11.07 pounds to each bushel fed. The hogs were sold at 13.80 per cwt, and gave 15.79 cents per bushel for the corn ground with the cob, and 41 J1 cents for the clear corn. The experiment s repeated with a lot of hogs in the early stages of fatteaiu, and returned 4)3 cents icr the corn ana coo meal, and it y-' cents for the corn meal, reckoning pork at .0. This result may aeem Btrang? to maty of our readers and many will douot its accuracy, es there is little or no nutriment in the cob of corn. But its chemical value lies in tbe fact that it s?ems to aid the gastric juice to act on the com meal, and thus secures a more complete diges tion. Tbe use of coarse food, aa hay and C5rn fodder, Is thus found to be of value to stock, aside from the actual nutriment that it supplies. Saving the Maunre. An exchange remarks that farmers will sever be entirely agreed as whether manme should be hauled out m the winter. tiie fall, or the spring, but one point may te regarded as settled, which is that every bit of manure in the barnyard should be ued on the farm. The writer goes on to There is not an acre of land that is beinit cropped that does not need continued fertilization. If any one doubts it, the exreriment is easily made of putting man nie on a part oi tne neia aua leaving me remainder unmanured and watching the remit. But whether to haul out the barn refuse in the winter or wait till spring . via i I ; iL . ,will be a question. On the one side is tne I act mat it improves lue manure w sttti d in heaps and rot, or rather it improves its condition for handling, and it nice rapidly mixes with and becomes a parr of tbe soil, eo that it& immediate effect are much greater. On the other harrf, if the manure is hauled on the field in H e winter and spread on the ground, whi It does not rot, tho melting snows and lhe spring rains wash from it into the soil nil the liquids in it that would, if the mat ure was left in heaps in the yard, be w"t cd away. Tf'u mam reason for hauling the manure in tl winter, however, is that there is thee more time to di it, and that it is muct more easily drarvn over the frozen ground in the winter than over the soft ground in tbe spring. This advantage is so great that we do not see why every farmer should'not use the winter months to scatter all the marure possible on his fields WLere a wagon is available that can be spared for that purpose, it is an excellent plan o keep it where the refuse from me barn and stable can be thrown on it and takeii to the field as often as the wagon is loa Ii d. This saves much rehandling and much tirr e. The old theory is that the am monia that is in the manure would be wasttd by evaporation. While it is true that ome is lost, the quantity is so small that it is cot worthy of thought, if any advanusre is to be gained in any other way. It is a!?o true that on sorse kinds of ground the liquids from the manure might be ear ned f way to eome extent, oat mis is very small. As a rule, the teams on the farm do rot set ant more exerdse than they need In winter, and the hauling out of the mar. are will give them needed exercise. The Management of Turkeys. Inquiries for the best turkeys for breeding purposes are received now from my customers far and near, who are gett'ng their flocks ready for the breeding season, and a great many ask: How do you manege to raise such a large flock successfully? Wh't do you feed the young turkeys, and so rn. As it would take a great deal of tkLd to answerback privately, I will an-

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ns '.sparer. 1 :rst, I would ear. don't put off too late to luate your turkeys for the breeding sea son, which is generally tne montn oi r eoraery. I have customers to send to me for turkeys In April, which ia entutiy too late, .for by the time they receive them and they get accustomed to their new home (for they will do no good laying eggs until used to their tew quarters) it is very late in the season, they lose a great many eggs ana taiehatcbed turkeys are never so large as those early hatched. I think the bronze turkeys are the easiest raised ana me naraiest oi all turkeys and beat all in number ot pounds. A single cross of the large bronze tuikey nearly doubles the weight of the young ones, and although the price of a gODDier may appear iiiga, yei iui vaiua iu be derived from tne use oi me variety is not easily estimated, If you cannot have the pore breed, get a pure Drea gooDier and place it with your hens and note the improvement in the uock tne next year. 1 a a A 1 When the eggs natcn ana me nen is ready to take from the nest, place her ia a pen or small yara witn me young turxeys. Have Ue pen so the little ones can run in and out, bat keep the old hen confined for a few weeks until the young ones are strong enough to follow on her long rambles she takes after different kinds of food. They must be protected from the wet morning dews; not let out until me sun has dried the grass. When strong enonga the hen can be given free range, but should bs driven up every night, and they soon learn lo come home every night and go to the right placet or them. 7 heir food the first week should be hard boiled eggs aud bread crumbled fine and mixed together. One or two eggs a;day mixe ;wun bread crumos is sumcieni tor a noes ci twelve or fifteen young turkeys. Sze tl at the old hen does not get their feed: f a d her with corn, oats or any other coarse fouO; clabber cheese is fine for them; meat cat ne or most any cooked food, with a gocd deal of black pepper in it, is relished cyttem. Atter they are a few wee is old they will eat small grain, which makes them grow fast. They should Beyer be fed raw wet dough. Turkeys, like chick ens, should have a mixed diet. Milk in every form is greatly relished and is very healthy for them. My yards have turned out some very fine specimens from the best Lastern strains; large, tine, glossy gobblers. Mrs. Kate Griilith, of Calumet, Tike County, Mlsauri, in Journal of Agri culture. White Urubs ia Wheat. In reply to a correspondent who sent specimens of a white grub said to be injuring wheat, Dr. J. A. Lintner writes as follows. (We suspect from the method of locomotion mentioned, that the insect may belong to the genus ligyrus): 'I know of no way, without sacrificing the crop, to arrest the present attack. The grubs had been in the grass of the meadow for the two previous years of their existence, and in the breaking np of the infested sod tbey should have been killed by the application of gas lime; brought to the surface by repeated plougihngs, and exposed to their natural enemies, or starved to death by fallowing, or removed by thorough dragging off all that might serve tbem as food. A crop of corn, following immediately a grub-infested meadow, is apt to prove an entire loss. If, after heavy rains, the grubs appear above ground, poultry turned in upon them would largely reduce their numbers, The method of locomotion of these grubs referred to is an interesting sight. In some experiments made with the specimens sent, as soon as they uncurled from tLeir natural positions at rest, they rolled over upon their backB and in that position traveled over the blotting-pad upon my table with the utmost ease, at the rate of, as by measurements made, fifteen inches per minute. Their three pairs of long and well jointed legs were extended above them and beatine the air. for if brought iu ute for locomotion, they would only have been an impediment to them. They, how ever, serve the purpose for which they are peculiarly designed in their subterranean travels among the roots of the plants upon which they subsist. To Bid Cattle of Lice. American Cultivator, jr. C. K., St. Lawrence County, New York: The question which this corre spondent asked is one that before next ejTiDgwill interest hundreds of young farmers who own cattle and colts. It would astonish the orthern stock-growers to see the actual annual loss caused by vermin presented In figures, to say nothing of tbe torture which tbe poor animals thus 6lUicted are compelled to endura. It has ceen claimed by some that lica will never trouble fat animals. This is a mLraken ica, and probably arises from the fact that the thrifty farmer, noted for having fat stock, always keeps his herd free from these annoying pests. There are several reaediep. which, if applied faithfully and followed up, will free every animal treated from these annoying and expensive parasites. Washing the animals thoroughly from cose to tail in a strong decoction of quassia chips has proved effective in the worst of cases. It may be necessary to repeat the washing once or twice, in order to kill a new crop which is likely to be hatched from the nits. In UPing this remedy it is important that the animals treated should have warm quarters, otherwise they are liable to become so thoroughly chilled before they are dry as to be made dangerously sick. We bave known cases of pneumonia brought , on by washing cows in the country where here were no conveniences ior sneitenng them in a warm room'untll dry. Tobacco smoke is the safest and surest remedy that can be employed in cold weather, and an instrument for administering it Bhould be in the hands of every Nortnern stock erower, or at least in every neighborhood. The smoke can be applied in the coldest winter weather, without the slightest danger ot injury to the animals. Common insect powder la recommenaea mgniy Dy eome. It is a safe remedy and easily ap plied, but not so effective as tobacco smoke. FARM NOTES. Frozen plants can best be restored by dipping in cold water. Canada now furnishes more sheep for tbe Doston market than any State in the Union. Sulphur sprinkled in the dust furnished hens at this season for bathing will help prevent lice, Ked winter apples which are specially In demand, are said by merchants to .be extremely rare this season. Most breeders score a failure in trying to winter too many hens in small quarters. Hens that are crowded will not lay. It is the advice of a prominent dairyman to farmers not to keep cows that give leBStban CC0 gallons of milk a year. Small turkeys are more salable and usually in greater demand than those of a large size, though this tact is not generally known. Five toes on each foot of a dressed chicken is an excellent indication of quality, as euch are the markings of the Dorkings and Houdans. Tbe Indiana farmer remarks: A few cnc'.? given to tones during the winter rccn'i s ere reli!hd by them as much as app) sre by children. A f-ur-yesr cid tee cf the Tamworth bref r t iandiDg four ffet high and weighing i '" pounds, wes exhibited at the Chica.o 'i stock show. Tl rals oothing more stimulating to nrU crttion than warm mashes of wheat brr, tut me miik will not be rich in crtttu except at ti e xpecte of thecow. Ct t the Lot-beCa ready now. It will he

too late if postponed longer, unless the fresh manure has already been saved, which roust be free from litter, so as to quickly create heat. Manure that ia "fire-fanging" (as it will sometimes do when the heap is very large) thould be turned over, as the heating process, if allowed to continue, may cause a loss of ammonia, The tendency of lime ia downward, and when applying it the best mode would be to broadcast it over the surface of the ground and allow it to so remain until ready for spring plowing. If one Bhould have no turnips or parsnips for the poultry, give them fodder or clover bay. It will be surprising to see how much they will eat if it be kept before them all the time in a clean, nice condition. The refuse bone from the family table should all be saved and broken into small pieces for the fowls. They eat them greed

ily, and, when cot supplied with bones, it is good policy to buy them ground and ready for use. Do not use too mach water on house plants. Simply moistening (not wetting) the earth is all that is required. Perfect drainage mast be allowed at the bottom of the pots, and on cold nights the earth should be rather dry than otherwise. The early pullets for next year's laying should be hatched not later than March, especially those of the Asiatic or large breeds. Much loss is occasioned every sea son by retaining late pullets, which do not mature in time to begin laying before cr during winter. The quince Is a great feeder, and needs good cultivation. No other fruit requires eo much manure and such thorough cultivation. If the trees be neglected, it is likely that there will be no fruit, bat if there 8b til be come it will be of small growth Kzd untlthtly appearance. If ibe brush, weeds and stnbble have not hem cleaned out of the fence corners, it should be done before spring. The fence corners, especially if the worm rail fonco is used, will harbor all classes of weed, and become fruitful sources whence weeds are scattered over the farm. To get rid of ants in the lawn, a correspondent of the Ploughman says: "As soon as you discover where they are, dig to the bottom of their nests, throwing the loam to one side. When you get to the bottom, cover with coarse salt, two inches or more, fill in the loam, and you will be troubled no more." There are many new vareties of vegetables offered in the catalogues for 18S3, and some of them are probably valuable acquisitions, but it is best to experiment with new varieties the first year of their existence, as it is not always advisable to discard an old and tried variety for a newer kind. Small fruit trees can be protected from mice in winter by this means: Melt up your old tin cans so that the solder will be all melted oft; then wrap the tin loosely around the tree snug to the ground. This protection can be applied to email fruit plants when Eet out as a guard against cut worms. Ten drops of the oil of turpentine shaken up with a tablespoonful of tweet milk will cure half a dozen chickens of the gapes, each getting an equal share of it, or the same quantity mixed with flour or meal and a email bolus forced down the throat of the chick will do the work promptly. The dose should be repeated several times Eay morn, noon and night. The fertility of farms in some sections of Pennsylvania is maintained by applying 109 bushels of slacked lime to the acre once in five years. It is eaid fields which have been subjected to this treatment for the past 1C0 years are as productive now as when the experiment was first tried. Tin application depends for Its value much upon the original character of the soil. It will Eoon be time to begin gardsn work for early vegetables. Werk in the garden is always well bestowed. If the value of the vegetables grown be not equal to tke labor applied, tke advantage of having fresh vegetables and of a superior quality will more than compensate for the ccst. Very often the labor given pays for itself in promoting health and imparting erjjojment. California stage proprietors are said to soak all the wood-work of wagons and vehicles in oil before putting the parts together. Tho oil uted is crude petroleum. If the wood-work cannot be soaked, an implication on the outside, using a brush oecg iu eight weeks, is excellent. The method is said to prevent tha wood from swelling or shrinking, and saves much valuable time, as there is less re pairing. It requires about a peck of seel to stock en acre in rorshum if it be grown in dril's four feet apart. At fir3t it is of slower growth than corn, but grows rapidly after a'artirg. The seed makes excellent food, and it is a special fodder plant. As nearly all classes of stock are partial to it, the crop should be more extensively grown. If preferred, the cane can be expressed for tha juice, to be boiled down to syrup, and the refuse fed to hogs. Peking ducklings at three or four months old make a very desirable dish, If they are well fed from the Bhell and fattened on cooked ground oats and corn.with potatoes added. They are also very hardy if not Inbred, and stand our cold winter remarkably well. Tbey are early layers, and continue with only short intermissions until late m the summer. They thrive rapidly, and when matured will ordinarily weigh from twelve to fourteen pounds per pair. The Ohio Poultry Journal defends the game fowls from the attacks of persons who eppoee cock fighting on, the ground that games are not necessarily bred for the "pit." They are good sitters, layers and table birds. As well object to an Dreeas that are ever allowed to fight, whether in public or in private. The breeding of games is one thing, the fighting of any kind of fowls is quite another matter, and is so regarded, generally, by State or municipal laws. To keep poultry and make it payJone must not be afraid to work. See that the fowls bave every thing that they need to pron ote health ; nothing that would hurt or destroy. The dust-bath is the thing that cannot be dispensed with In the hennery. Have a shallow box filled with road dust or ashes, put it in a dry place (in the sun, if possible), and see how the fowls will enjoy it. If it shall get fouled in any way. remove it and supply fresh dirt, as they will Bhun it If polluted. It is claimed by those who have mtde the experiments that grafts set on the first cut on the root or collar aro more apt to live than those on lower cuts. The first or lower cut of the Bcion is more apt to live than tbose taken higher up. The terminal bud is not so likely to live as other gTaaes, but these that do.ceneraUy make a longer growth. When cuts of the roots four or five inches long are used, they are more likely to live than two-and one-halMnch cuts, and more than twice as many will grow as when the cut3 of the roots are one and one-half inches long. Too many husbands seem to forget that their wives need labor saving implements and machinery, that the farm house as well as the barn, the back yard as well as the barn yard ehould have conveniences for saving useless steps and burdensome drudgery. Here is a cue plain enough for any husband to uuderstacd: A farmer near Gardner, Me., had allowid his wife to carry water fram a distant spring for ten long year, bat as soon he had occasion to use tbe water for his cattle a pipe was laid and a force Ttumr tint into nse. We fear there are not int anch tbooehtl6sa husbands who will read this item and not see tho pjiut In it. Southern Cultiyator.

SIfiS OF YOUNG WIVES.

in htereitir: Tilk to Biidescf Wiytj Marion Harlan. Tha Hsdern Girl nd MwriJgs Tta Pastoral that Bsesines PUinPross. Things that Oftsn Follow the Marltil Ceremony How Msa R?ird Hitricnny. The Young Wife's Jealousy-Childheod the Band that Holds Together Wedded Hearts Childlessness an Evil. W ritten for the Bentinei. (Copyrighted. 1SS7. "I never go to a bridal that it does not almost break my heart," Baid a man whose tact and tenderness were womanly. We would not have our girls live single until lonely old age finds them destitute of what makes life woith having home and home-loves. We believe firmly that enduring earthly happiness is of tenest found in the holy estate of wedlock; that a good wenv n is made better, a noble man nonler by loving and living with one another a3 wife and husband; that their affection deepens, and rirens, and grows purer with each passing year until neither is a complete being without the other. And yet, eyes grown graver with experience looksadly upon the happy young thing who sten'ds on tbe threshold of the new world as at tte wide gate of an ISden, which clouds and chill and blast:: 2 iires cannot entr. To her bridehood is : to be probation, for average girl is notFor no other vocat;-. education received li'wn. we know it ich the life of the preparatory school, i " is 60 little specific van from sensible and far sighted parents. This omission, ofien a fatal one, we nay set down as a sinf ol error antedating marriage. "Man is usually a misfit from the start," wrote Emerson, more cynically than was the wont of the calm-browed metaphysician Cef ore deciding that the joining of man's hand to woman's in the most important relation of human existence is a mistake, and joined hearts a misiit, let m look at some of the causes of discord in the symphony of the dual life. The keynote that sets all 8 jar is usually struck in the earlier months of marriage, Byacuiious reversal of conditions, the ardent wooer of the ante-nuptial idyl become s the philosophically contented husband with the utterance of the irrevocadie words. Often the pastoral becomes plain prose, with never a trope or rhyme, by the time the honeymoon is over. It was the suitor's business to make the world beautiful to his betrothed during the wooing. In wedlock the wife must bear with her lord's canricea. minister to his comfort, amuse his dull hours or run the risk of losing him. What husband bethinks himself to ectertain" his spouse if she be in tolerable health and 6pirita? What good wife does not rake together all her sticks and straws of talk and apply the torch of cheerfulness at the home-coming of her lord? It is he, cot she, you may be sure, who drinks his coflee around tbe edge of the morning and evening paper, flings wads of wet wool in the form of absent-minded monosyllables upon tbe bonfire aforesaid, and, when it hes sputtered itself quite out t.nd the paper is read through, jawningly be-hicks himself that he must "see a man" at the ciub or elsewhere, or, if verydomesic in taste, falls asleep on tbe library sofa. A woman is born a wife. A man takes mctrimony into consideration along with a great mapy other Investments. He hopes etrtestly that it will be both pleasant and profitable, bnouiu it prove to oe nenaer, he has borne the shock of falling 6tocks, the disaster of loss in other cases, without bcirg utterly ruined. Common-sense clear-sightedne:? in our survey of the situation ia not pessimism. A failure to appreciate the cardinal truth that man is not woman, nor woman man, is a jagged reef connecting the Scylla of single wretchedness and the Charybdis of wedued mlir y, and lies jus', under water. It may b i tri id that the crafts which draw most w iter bee anse heavily freighted are apt to tie worst here. The citizen who has even au infinitesimal on of tbe world's history to make cannot give up hia whole life to couitship. Uis lfe, legatClLg love-ujasiL'g ana marriage as interchangeable terns, and finding in them her life-lorg pretension, ia at first amszed, then hurt, then angrily jealous ot whatever divides bis attention with her. Tfcis may be classed as generic jealousy. It may annoy, or, if he be easy-tempered, amuse her lord. It enevitably lowershis op inion of her good sense. If to a tender heart be unites quick perceptions, he will keep "businesa"out of her sight to the best of his ability, generally succeeding so far as to confuee the outline of what he carries under his cloak, but allowing her to see that there is somethiLg there of potentous because unknown balk. Specific jealousy is a gravermistake, especially when the object is another woman. Such feeling, unexpressed by so much as a look, bears the same relation to open exhibition cf it as does the innocent white egg to the fledged fightit g cock. The thoughtkbs wife may play with her husband's jcalcusy of her harmless flirtations with ether nen, knowing hii honor to be safe in her tan da. The abeurdity of the idea that 6he should ever love anybody else as she dw s him appeals to her 6ensa of humor. A man's first impulse on discovering that his lawful I artner objeets to hia admiration of ' i i . : anotr.er woman w one oi nerce lmpaucuw a champing of the bit. At the second check, he takeB it between his teeth. Ia proportion to his resentment of interference with his liberty of action he loses respect, if net affectum, for the would be tyrant. Dearer to him than wife, child, or honor ia tbe acknowledged right cf independent action. It ranks with 4,life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Tbe young wife's best friend is the one wbocounsela her to ba slow divinely slow in admitting that her nusband prefers another woman to herself and should the conviction be fcrcd upon her, to conceal her knowledge of it to the death even the death of her own heart and hope. Tears, entreaties, invective but weaken her hold and Btrenghten her rival's. No supplanted wife, from the days or. ueianira until now, ever successfully "doctored" her spousa into a return to allegiance. The best thing she can hope for Is to retain his respectful regard, a 6bow of which may deluiethe world into a belief in hia con6tanc,or, at worst, in her ignorance of hia infidelity. Then, should the truant come bask of hia own free vi ill, or because disappointed iu Iola or Cleopatra, there are no abattia of "scenes," no gullies cf alienation to entangle his feet. Another blander Inf o which inexperience trips is forgetfulness of the simple truth that the love which ia worth winning ia worth keeping. One tithe of the piias put forth to enchain and hold a lover's fancy would, after marriage, idealize the wife into the angel ot the hou39. It ia a charp axe bid at the root of conjugal affection when a man sees himself lowered to the enjoy n entcf tu BvConcVivestof even every-day I once heard a Dd wife congratulate herself gravely the, in thirty years of weiw. . appiness, the bad never appeared at tha bieak.-fst with dishevelled hair or without a collar. The sincere fervor of t t Wat waa iu evidence of the prevalence of the contrary custom. The orderly co' tl ore and natneck-rb; may stand aa types of tha dailj e&de&vor to remain

pleasing in eyee to which welwere once fair. Love of the right sort may not rip or tsar under the bristles of commonp!a:enes3 and dowdyism, but these do wear o3 the nap. Beyond comparison, the hand that holds together wedded hearts until the seam of engrafting is knitted into bark and grain, is the common love of both for children. The wife can make no graver mistake compatible with true love for her husband than repudiation of the duty of child-bearing. The fault passes beyond the line of blunders into the rank of positive sins, The disire of every man to leave a representative of himself upon the earth, when he lies down to sleep with hia fathers is deeply grounded in noble natures. The father labors in the field of the world with the strength of as many men aa there are hostages to fortune iu the home nest. The hope of maintaining children in comfort, bringing them up in rsspectability and honor, and providing egainst poäoible want 8trargle3 avarice, glorifies ambition. The words "Wife and Mother" go as naturally together aa "Home and Heaven." It argues fatuous and intolerable conceit when a young wife deliberately asmmefl that Bhe will be able in youth, middle, and old t ge to be so sufficient to her husband in every phase of hia many-sided nature aa to compensate for the loss of what the Lord of nature has declared is a necessity of his being. The pair are agreed not to undertake the care and responsibility of offspring we are generally told in such cases. Thea the wife Bhould lift to her shoulders the heavier burden of keeping herself eternally fair and sprightly : of filling her spouse's

heart and home with mirth and music; aa time goes on, of supplying the elements of prideful love and hope he might have had in growing boys and girls; of being, in fine, a perpetual fountain of youth to the man worn with cares and years. The principle of rejuvenation, of growth into beauty and strength, the ceaseless novelty, stir, and action that defy dullness and langour, and keep parent's hearts fresh under the shadow of tbe almond-tree, only come and abidain the home with children of one's very ci nifir SUSI past ed, wn. dlessness ia an evil. The dread aigice of the aphorism ia too often not led until the summer of advent is be harvest-time of education is end d tbe barren stocks stand uncomely aru ncareu-ior m a aesoiate winter. "iue ma. g cf a true home is really ourpecu liar and inalienable right, a right which no man can take from us; tor a man can no more make a home than a drone can make a hive," writes Frances Power Cabhe. A hive, crammed with gold-and-silver hooey ; a Bpick and-span hive, with all the modern improvements, with no litter of larrre, no tracks of small feet on the waxen cells, no jocund comings and going3; a hive silent as a tomb save for the shrill hum ot a pair of superannuated bees hibernating with no hope of spring-timp; are we to accept this as .tbe modsl of a Representative American Home? Marios Hauland. THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION A General Belief That it Will be Dell in New York City. New York, January 21. A Washington special Bays: That the Democratic National Convention will be held In New York City is now reasonably certain- The President is in fayor of such a decision. The work that will be performed by the Democratic National Committee, which is to meet in this city on Washington's birthday, will be largely perfunctory so far as the selection of a place ior holding the Nalional Convention is concerned. 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