Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1878 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. t T * REN<4BELAER, ( INDIANA.

' BY-AND-BY. , Be quirt, reatlea* heart! The long light lie* • In gleam* of lingering Bunehtaeon the bill; The home-bonnd swallow. twittering m he Mtea, Makes silence seem more still. The shndowa deeper grow, and in the woods The air a latent sweetness holds in fee; An odor faint of yet unblossomed buds 8 > like, dear ne*rt, to thee! Far distant in the soft, cerulean deep, Where the borison bounds the nether world, Great ships becalmed, like brooding birds asleep, Lie with white sails loose furled. In peace the day is ended, and the night HUleth as doth a red upon the sea; Along its bosom come with swift-winged flight The gray mists, silently. O anxious heart, how Nature speaks I Her power How leisurely she uses! How intense The infinite peace of her moat fruitful hour! How soft her influence! Time bath she for her storms to sweep the main; To rock the tree-tops with her winds of wrath; To bring forth fragrance in the summer rain; And time for snow she hath! Ho. dear, for all thy eager soul desires. She keens sweet times and seasons. In her mixsl Is hid for thee all passion's subtle fires To ronnd thy womanhood. Goase. then! and in this dewy twilight, move • —A" wh o asks not whither, cares not why: This gift for all bolds still the Eternal LoveGod's endless by-and-by. —Sunday Afternoon for June.

THAT VOICE!

A day in June, 1908, and one of the loveliest early summer days the world ever beheld —a. cloudless sky, goldenbright sunshine, soft fragrant air, joyously sweet songs of birds, faint musical murmurs of brooks and plashings of fountains, delicately green grass, lingering violets and budding roses. On the lawn in front of the elegant mansion of Leon Fishback, Esq., a party of young people are playing “ Follow-follow-follow-me ” a game somewhat resembling (so their mothers and grandmothers tell them) an old game called “puss in the corner,” played a quarter of a century or more ago, only in "Follow-follow” the players, instead of beckoning to each other, beckon to a group of. metallic balls, around which they stand in a circle, and he or she who proves to have most magnetic force the balls follow with a rush, while the remainder of the players rush as wildly in their efforts to secure the place left vacant by the flying one. At this moment the balls are rolling pell - mell, helter-skelter, k nocki ng against each other with a pleasant ringing sound, after a pretty, fairhaired maiden, whose little feet, clad in slippers all gleaming with silver and gold,- flash in the sunshine beneath her blue satin Turkish trowserlets as she springs lightly over the green sward amid the exquisitely modulated laughter —no one shouts loudly in this refined twentieth century—of her merry companions. In the back garden, on a green clover-sweet grass-plat, stands a broad, deep basket of newly-washed, snowy white linen, anda hanging-out machine, planted firmly in the middle of the plat, is industriously raising and lowering its wooden arms, grasping various pieces in its wonderfully constructed hands, and hanging them upon the stout no-clothes-pins line which is slowly revolving around it, and to which they adhere without farther trouble. In the dairy the rosy-cheeked dairymaid is reading a love poem while the automatic milker is milking the beautiful white cow that stands just outside the door; in the kitchen the cook is indolently rocking to and fro in a low rocking-chair, watching the " magic rolling-pin” roll out the paste for her pies, ready to stop its pendulum-like movement the moment the crust is

smooth and thin enough; and a small servant-boy, with his hands in his pockets, lounges against the wall in one corner near a tall stool, whistling softly to himself as he waits until the pair of shoes the electric blackingbrush is polishing thereon attain the proper degree of brilliancy and mirrorlikeness. This is a prosperous place, this domain of Leon Fishback, Esq., and Leon Fishback himself is a tall, handsome, energetic, positive mah of one-and-thirty—a bachelor, who gives a home to his widowed sister and her four halforphaned children, and in return is taken care of by her, with the assist* ance of the ola housekeeper—to tell the truth, with a great deal of assistance from the old housekeeper—as well as any brother was ever taken care of by any sister. Still, people, as people will—especially people with grown-up single daughters—wondered that he had never married. It was not for want of opportunity he had not done so—oh, no indeed!—for a dozen lovely girls, half a dozen more or less charming widows, and several ladies of neither class, had, since his coming into the property of his uncle and godfather, Leon Fishbabk, Sen., (whose ashes in a solid gold casket stood in a sort of shrine, made of a hundred rare woods, in the south drawing-room), intimated to him, in every way that the shrinking sensitiveness of womanhood would allow, their perfect willingness—nay, anxiety—to assume the role of mistress of the Fishback mansion. But Leon had walked calmly among them, dispensing hospitality, kina words and gracious smiles with the strictest impartiality, distinguishing none by the slightest reference, until a few weeks before this beautiful June day when his young guests merrily called, •• Follow-follow-follow me,” to their highly-polished admirers on the closely-shaven lawn. Then came to visit his sister an old

school friend, Beardsley by name, who had been residing in a fardistant State, but with whom the sister had kept up a warm correspondence ever since they parted at the college door the day on which each was puolicly hailed with loud acclamations as “Mistress of Arts.” Miss Beardsley is a lovely woman of eight-and-twenty summers, looking at least five summers less, with an excep-tionally-sweet voice, an exceptionallybright smile, an exceptionally-grace-ful figure and exceptionally-win-ning ways. And to this bewitching woman has Leon Fishback, the hitherto apparently unimpressible bachelor, devoted himself since the moment he took her slender little hand in his and bade her welcome to his home. And it is by her side he loiters, untempted by the merriment without, in the deep, pleasant, vine-enwreathed bay-window of the library as the fair-haired girl comes flying across the garden, pursued by the tinkling balls. Laura starts, from her seat with a blush, and, leaning from the window, “Coax thfffl a wa y> Bella.

dear. They are dancing on the flower bed.” And as the girl obediently turns and speeds in the opposite direction, she draws back her pretty head, and, looking at her companion, says, •• How much Bella is like her sister Teresa—that is, when Teresa was only sixteen!” Is she?" asks Mr. Fishback. “ Why, don’t yon remember?” says the lady. “I do not,’’ replies Mr. Fishback, with emphasis. Miss Laura makes two Interrogation points of her silken eyebrows, opens her mouth to speak, thinks better of it, closes her red lips firmly, and turns to the window again as the Follow-follow-follow-me-ers stop playing and gather in a group, with their eyes fixed upon a small aerial car, gayly decorated with flags, prhich is gently swaying between Heaven and earth, as it slowly descends toward the lawn. In a few moments it touches the ground, and a handsome young fellow leaps out, and is greeted with many exclamations of pleasure and surprise. “ Your brother Reginald,” says Miss Beardsley. "So soon returned from London? Why, he only started a few days ago.” “Yes; flying ship American Eagle—fastest of the Air Line. I heard of her arrival just after breakfast this morning, when it was shouted by the telephone at the station below.” “Thirty miles away!” “Oh, that’s nothing! We expect to be able to hear news from a hundred miles away before many years are past.” “ May I not be in the immediate vicinity when that news is shouted!” says the lady, with an involuntary movement of her pretty white hands toward her pretty rose-tipped ears, “for I should expect to be deaf for evermore.” “Never fear, my dear—l mean Miss Beardsley. Such a misfortune as that shall never occur, even though you should chance to be at the very side of the shouter. Edison is at this moment perfecting an instrument that begins to deliver its messages in a moderately loud voice, which increases in volume as it is carried forward, until it reaches the most distant point it is intended to reach, thus maintaining an even tone all along the route. How glorious all these Edisonian inventions are!” he continues, with a glow of enthusiaslh, “ and what humdrum times our ancestors must have had without them! Why, they are the very life of the age. There’s the phonograph, for instance—but I beg pardon; you are looking bored. I cannot expect you to take as much interest in these scientific subjects as I do. Is not Reginald coming this way?”

“He is not," answers Miss Laura, demurely; "he is still holding Bella’s hand, and totally ignoring all the other welcoming hands extended to him.” “ ‘Ah! the old, old story that is ever new!’ ” quotes Mr. Fishback, as he peeps over the shoulder of his fair guest at the new arrival; and then, suddenly rising and confronting her, he exclaims: “ You must have heard that story very, very often, Laura—forgive my calling you so, but you used to permit it in the days we went blackberrying together some ten years ago; and forgive me again, but upon my word, I cannot help asking you, impelled as I am by some mysterious power, why have you never married?” A blush rises to her cheek, but she looks up in his face calmly, and replies: “ I don’t remember the blackberry episodes, and I have remained unmarried because I vowed when a young ' girl never to marry unless convinced that I was the first and only love of the man whose wife I became.” “ Laura, I have never loved another.” “ Mr. Fishback, you forgot my old friend Teresa, the sister of the girl to whom your brother Reginald is now making love on the lawn. ■ “Good heavens! Laura, how mistaken you are!” “ ’Twas with her you looked for blackberries. I never knew you to find any —not with me, sir.”

“Laura, how blind you were! I sought her society only to be near you. I declare, upon my word and honor, 1 lingered by her side for hours and hours in the hope that you would join us for a moment or two during the time, and when you did, in that moment or two was concentrated the joy of the whole day. You were so proud, so cold, so reserved, I did not dare to approach you save through your friend; and—” “ And you did not bury yourself in seclusion for two years after she jilted you and married Frank Huntington?” she asks, as he pauses. “ Great heavens! how preposterous! Laura, I swear—" But. as he is about to swear, enter a procession of small nephews and nieces and attendant friends, the leader of which carries an odd-looking box. “See, uncle!" the bright-eyed little fellow calls out as he approaches. “I found this old phonograph on the top shelf of your closet, where I was looking for your fish line to play horse with, and it talks like everything.” With this ho begins to turn the metal crank, and a voice—a somewhat shrill young voice, the voice of Teresa, sister of Bella—whilom friend of Laura Beardsley—begins to speak:; “Yes, Leon, my own, I will grant your impassioned praver, and breathe the words you long to hear into this magical casket, ana then, when yon are lonely or inclined to doubt me, jealous tone, you can call them forth to bring back the smiles to your dear face, ana loy to your dear heart. Ido return the ove you so ardently avow, and I will marry you when mamma gives hereon-, sent. Until then no lips shall touch the lips made sacred by your kiss, no hand shall clasp the hand that wears your lovely diamond ring. But, oh, Leon dear, try to like Laura a little for my sake. I know she is all that you say she is—affected, cold-hearted, haughty and disagreeable (I am just naughty enough to be pleased when you tell me her beauty, so much admired by others, particularly Frank Huntington, fades into utter insignificance beside that of your own little Teresa)-“but, my Leon, try, oh! try, to tolerate her, for, strange as it may appear to you, disliking her as you do, 1 I am quite fond of her. Good-night, beloved. Dream of your Tessa.” “ That miserable phonograph!” said Mr. Fishback; “ I thought I destroyed it long ago,” as he angrily snatched it from the hands'of the small discoverer.

“ What did our hundrum ancestors do without these glorious inventions?” murmured Miss Laura, as she quietly fainted away for the first and only time in her life. “ If ever you go prowling around my room again," continued Mr. Fishback —addressing his unfortunate nephew, and supporting Miss Beardsley with one hand, while he flung the tell-tale .out of the window 1 , where it broke into a dozen pieces as it touched the ground with a shrill ear-splitting shriek—“l’ll apply th? double back-action

spanking machine until you roar for mercy.” ( The procession, considerably demoralized, started on the double-quick for the door, and Mr. Fishhack, looking upon the inanimate form he held in his arms, cried out, as he struck his forehead With his clinched hand, “ She will never, never look at me again!” But she did, and, what’s more, she married him a month after. And—oh, the marvellous progress toward perfect womanhood in this wonderful twentieth century! —although they have been man and wife for some twenty years, she has never once said to him, " That voice!” —Harper's Weekly.

PERSONAL AND LITERART.

—Senator Don Cameron’s eldest daughter will have charge of her five brothers and sisters at Harrisburgh, and bis bride will have sole possession of the Senator’s house in Washington. —Edwin Booth has refused to play at Washington since Lincoln’s murder by his brother John Wilkes; hence Capitolian folk desirous of seeing the great actor have to go to Baltimore whenever he has an engagement there. —Probably the smallest paper in the country, if not in the work!, is published at Orlando, Fla. Its size is two and a half by three inches, and it claims a circulation of 1,200. It is printed monthly, and its name is the Florida Mite. —Caleb Cushing took lessons in French from an experienced teacher when he was on the Continent at the time of the Geneva Arbitration, though he hail spoken French fluently for forty years; there were “certain ielicities” of speech, he said, that ho had never acquired. —Gen. Grant speaks no foreign language, so his intercourse with distinguisned foreigners is generally confined to a shake of the hand and a smile. He is ready in this fashion to make the acquaintance of all persons, Princes or peasants, and he treats all who are introduced to him with impartial urbanity.—Chicago Tribune. —President Hayes recently received the following letter from a man in Vermont: "Desiring to see Washington to the best advantage, I write to ask you if I can make my headquarters with you at the Executive Mansion, as I have a prejudice against stopping at hotels, and the private boarding-houses are not quite up to my standard of living.” —Charlotte Cushman’s grave was recently pointed out to a reverent pilgrim by a workman in the cemetery, who said: “ She was considerable of a woman for a play-actress.” It ison the eastern summit of the principal hill in Mount Auburn, within sight of the Boston and the Cambridge she so dearly loved. Only a small white stone, bearing her name, marks the grave. —You can’t most always tell sometimes often how things are going to San out. Ex-Solicitor-Gen. Baker, of Quebec, at the recent provincial election, prepared for a grand jubilation over liis certain return; the teams for the triumphal procession were hitched up, the bonfire was built, and the torches were ready. At five o’clock he was 168 ahead, and everything... was. lovely; at 6:3(ysome back districts were heard from and his majority came down to fifty; at 7:30 came the dispatch: "Seventeen behind; don’t illuminate.” They didn’t.

—Edison got the hint of his phonograph—so, at least, they say—from Ben Butler, who, examining a telephone, said to him, “ Now you must make something to record these sounds.” Some one said to the great inventor, who has taken out 150 patents, with many back districts of his brain yet to hear from, “ I wonder if you couldn’t talk a hole through a board.” “Of course I could,” was the reply, and he showed how the point of a phonograph could be made to act upon a small ratchet-wheel, which by a system of cogs would turn the gimlet and drive it through the board! —When Ben: Perley Poore, the compiler of the Congressional Directory, callqd on John Morrissey for a short sketch of his life, and asked what his profession was, the newly-elected Congressman said, with some bitterness, “Well, I suppose you had better put me down as a faro-dealer.” “Oh, you don’t mean it," said Maj. Poore. “ Can’t you give me some other occupation?” “Yes, of course I can,” replied Morrissey. “ Give me credit for my old trade if you will; call me an iron-molder, for that’s what I am if I’m anything.” And he appears in the Directory as an iron-molaer.

Undue Familiarity.

The late Dr. Sprague, of Albany, was a gentleman of the old school type, of remarkable courteousness of manner and of corresponding reverence of feeling. He never trifled with the names of prominent men, and it is hardly probable that he cduld suppose anyone would use his name with undue familiarity. The following anecdote illustrative of this characteristic of the grand old man, was related to us by one of his sons, and subsequently acknowledged, with a hearty laugh, by the older son of whom it was told: One day, at the tea-table, this son, then in business in Albany, but living at his father’s house, spoke of “Charley Bridgman.” The name arrested his fathers attention, and he said: •* My son, of whom arc you speaking?”. . “ Of Mr. Bridgman, father,” was the reply. - “Not of Rev. Dr. Bridgman, surely, William?" ~ “Why yes, father; why not?” “Why not? my son, because such familiarity in connection with a prominent preacher is unbecoming. I am ?[uite surprised and shocked at your reedom; and I hope he has no knowledge of it.” “Why yes, he has, father. I have called him • Charley’ to his face! “ ‘Charley’ to his face; and does he call you William?” "Well no! father no; I can’t say that he does.” “ Well, what docs he call you then?” “Generally he calls me ‘Bill.’” This was too much for the good Doctor, and with ill-suppressed sympathy with the mirth that rang round the tea-table, he made good his retreat. — Chicago Standard. - '’'Just back from a trip to Havre: “You will never catch me traveling by an excursion train again. Why. sir, at the station at Havre I lost my cane and my wife.” 1 Then, with his utterance choked by tears—“ A new cane, too.” —Paris Paper. SvrntaiNG will exhibit its presence by Uie cries of the baby, and should be removed by the prompt une of that highly-recommended , remedy, Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. It Is free from CpUn,. Price, 25 Cents.

A Manla for Suicide.

Suicide has become an incident of such frequent occurrence in this city that it has almost ceased to excite surprise, and, consequently, we have, in a great measure, come to regard the event as part of the ordinary course of things. In this regard, however, we are far behind San Francisco. In that city a suicidal mania prevails to an extent that is positively startling. The followingextract from the Chronicle, compiled from the official records, reveals a horrible tendency to self-destruction: FUcal Year. Suicidee.Wittal Year. Sulciilee. 186(1 311870 <7 1861 601871 Bl 1862 181872 87 1868. 18 1878 88 1864 20 1874... , 61 1866 17 1875 64 1866 24 1876 60 1867 20 1877 76 1868.. ................. 281878 107 1869.. 89 The number of suicides in San Francisco is equal to that in Philadelphia,, which has a population two or three times as numerous, in New York, which, except San Francisco, shows the heaviest mortality from suicide of any American city, the number of deaths from this cause in 1876 was 150 against 29,102 deaths from all other causes, or 1 to 194; in 1877 the suicides were 148 against 26,055 deaths, or 1 to 176. In San Francisco, the proportion of suicides to all deaths in 1875-’76 was as 1 to 80, and in 1876-’77 as 1 to 81. In 1877- 78 it will be much greater. The ratio of suicides to all deaths is already more than twice as great in San Francisco as New York, and will this year be nearly thrice as great, while the ratio to population is still more unfavorable. Three conclusions are fully warranted by these facts: First, suicidal death is more frequent in San Francisco than anywhere else in the civilized world, and more frequent now than at any previous date. Second, it is accompanied by a similar pre-eminence and development of insanity, which appears to prove that both have a common origin. Third, this remarkable prevalence of insanity and suicide, and the increase of both in late years, corresponds with that development of stock-gambling and jobbing which, if allowed to proceed much further, will force every dollar of capital out of the State, reduce the masses of the people to despair and utterly bankrupt the community.— N. Y. Graphic.

He Was Moving.

At one o’clock in the -morning the police heard a great uproar on Congress street east, and they hurried to the scene to find a man lying in the road with a feather bed, a chair, a looking glass, a skirt-board and about a dozen other articles of household furniture holding him down. Under the supposition that he had stolen the things, and likewise finding him too drunk to go on, the officers took the man down. “ William Bolton,” began His Honor as the prisoner came before him, “ this is a suspicious case. You were found “Yes, I know,” interrupted the man, “ I know all about it. Those things belong to me. I was moving all dav yesterday, and that was the last load. That’s the fourth time we’ve moved in one year. No sooner do we get the carpets down and the stovepipe jammed together than my wife is anxious to move again. I’ve broken my back in putting downcarpets; cracked* my ribs lifting stoves, ana lost flesh lugging old bedsteads up stairs and down. Now, Judge, send me up! Give me the longest term you can! I want rest. I want to put in a month somewhere where I can’t hear anything about moving.” “Man of sadness,” softly replied His Honor, “I’ve been there. I know how the old thing works. I sympathize with you, and while I cannot send you up, I hope that your wife will let you have rest or that you be run over by a street car.” "Judge, drop a tear for me when you see my death in the papers!” “I will!” “ And have the papers say that moving killed me.” “I will do so, and now—move on.” —Detroit Free Press. There are two chances for 4t man in a buggy trying to drive a runaway horse. One is to jump out and be killed, and the other is to be thrown out and meet a violent death.— N. O. .Picayune.

The Art of Prolonging Life.

People generally desire long life and good health. Sickness and premature death are almost always due to violations of the laws that govern our physical being, and of which the masses are ignorant, if men knew better they would do Better; but how can they avoid an evil that they know not of 1 While efforts are.made through the public shools to give each child a so-called common English education, yet the children are ;>ermltted to grow up and enter upon the responsible duties of active Me, profoundly ignorant of the structure of their own boules, and the laws of physical being upon which their health and lives depend. They are sent to school and crammed with arithmetic, grammar, and geography, by teachers who, in many instances, have, never studied physiology and hygiene. They are taught to locate the mountains and trace the rivers of foreign countries, but are never taught to locate the vital organs and glands of their own bodies, or trace the veins, arteries, and nerves, in their various ramifications. They are instructed in the flow of the tides, and the course of the ocean currants, and the philosophy of winds and stouns; but they nave no correct conception of the relative effects upon their health of breathing pure or impure air, nor has their attention ever been called to the importance of keeping their bodies clean and healtliy-by regular bathing. The criminality of such neglect in teaching becomes apparent when we consider that the masses, Ignorantly violating, the, laws of health, bring upon themselves sickness, suffering and death, that might otherwise be avoided. In this condition of things we welcome into being any work that is calculated to impart to the masses a knowledge of the structure of their own bodies, the laws of health, and the importance of observing those laws. We And Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser to be lust such a work. It is physiological and patnological, and the major part ot it should be converted into a. text-book for the use of common schools. Its careful studywill enable the healthy to preserve their health, and the sickly to regain health. Every parent, should read it, and as their children become of proper age instruct them in the all-important truths it contains. Were this done, much suffering and premature death would be prevented, and many a youth saved from a life of shame and licentiousness. The book contains nearly one thousand pages, is profusely illustrated with colored plates and wood-engrav-ings, and can be had by addressing R. V. Pierce. M. D., World’s Dispensary ?nd Invalid’s Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. Price, post-paid, •I.so.— United Brethren Aid Journal.

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AGRICULTURAL BREVITIES.

—The following are taken from the agricultural columns of the lowa Slate agister: Excessive watering is bad for geraniums. Turkey eggs begin to pip the 26th day after setting. Fish is considered almost a specific against scrofulous diseases. When preparing soil for house plants, bake it, to destroy the worms. A good proverb for farmers is, “Do not put all your eggs in one basket.” Bear down hard on food crops, and raise all possible that will save Buying or exchange. , Butter does not improve as cheese does by age, therefore the sooner it is sold the better. Hard water becomes nearly soft by boiling. A piece of chalk will soften hard spring water. A half-starved professional man or merchant is far less to be envied than a well-to-do farmer. Nothing beautifies a house more than healthy house plants. To bo healthy they must have proper care and attention. Smilax is a beautiful vine, invaluable for house or dress decoration, and should have a place among favorite house plants. Fuse hi as prosper better by having charcoal in the bottom of the flower pot, and some rusty nails to supply the oxide of iron. Cows pay in proportion as they are selected with care, fed with judgment, and their product of milk worked up with skill and nicety. This is our sail dilemma: We are back to the time of our fathers in the price of what we have to sell, but in our expenses we are not. . Weeds are the farmers’ most inveterate enemies. This season they will make an early and vigorous start. Resolve to let no weed escape. There is no time on the farm now for visiting, fishing or idleness. Vigilance and energy are required to keep the weeds ana grass in subjection in corn fields. No matter how much self-denial it may take, we must cease expecting to live by our wits and get something for nothing—but we must get down to work. There is no accidental wealth resulting from farming; the successful are the vigilant, and it often requires a lifetime of intelligent industry to compass a competence.— Hon. Jas. Wilson. Examination is said to reveal that many of the blinders worn by horses are so arranged that they strike the eyes of the animals with every step taken, causing blindness in many cases. A farmer who drifts into the year’s work without any plan is like a General who starts out on a campaign without arragements, or a lawyer going into court without preparation for his cases. ' • An exchange very truly says that nothing is gained by putting seed into the ground before it is warm enough to start the sprouts at once; but no farmer will lack for work to do while he is waiting for that time to come. Getting the ground ready is the main work; planting it is a small item.

Management of Chickens.

Chickens require neither food nor drink on the day on which they are hatched. Both are ihjurious, as they interfere wdth the natural digestion of the yelk, which is absorbed into the bowels at the period of hatching, and constitutes the first food. If grits, oatmeal and the like are spread before the hen on the twenty-first dav, she is induced to leave the nest, the fast-hatched chickens arc unable to follow, and being weakly, frequently perish. If undisturbed, the hen seldom leaves the nest on the twenty-first day, while on the twenty-second day the chickens will be found strong enough to follow her. The plan of cramming pepper-corns or grains of barley down the throats of newly-hatched chickens is exceedingly injurious. The best food for them is sweet, coarse oatmeal, mixed into a crumbly paste with milk, and a certain proportion of custard made by beating together an egg with two tablespoonfuls of milk, and “setting” it by a gentle heat. Custard so made is eaters with avidity, and the chickens make rapid progress upon it. Such a preparation is far superior to the hardboiled egg so often employed, and which is not relished by the chicken. The young birds are also very fond of a little cold oatmeal porridge; milk is frequently, used to mix the barley or oatmeal, but it should be remembered that it soon becomes sour in summer, and is decidedly injurious if employed in that state. No more food, therefore, should be mixed with milk than can be eaten in a few hours. Sopped bread is by no means desirable, since it does not appear to afford the necessary resistance to the natural grinding of the gizzard, and consequently the chickens soon become weakly and affected with diarrhea from its use. In order to satisfy the hunger of the hen, which is usually very great when she leaves the nest, it is quite desirable to give her as. much grain as she can consume. Tlwn, having satiated her own appetite, and quenched her thirst, which at this time is considerable, she will brood over her unfledged young and keep them at rest, whilst they are digesting theyelk that has Ireen al>sorbed just before hatching. After the first few days some whole grain, such as small tail wheat, or some barley, may be given to the young brood, and it will be found to be greatly relished, and doubtless affords a wholesome exercise for the extraordinary grinding power of the gizzard. Chickens should either have a constant supply of food, or be fed at very short intervals. The first food should be given at daybreak. With regard to animal food there is none equal to the natural supply of worms and insects obtained by the hen when she is at large; small worms or a shovelful of mold, containing an ants’ nest, may be given, if chickens are in a confined situation, and will be found far superior to boiled egg, chopped meat, or any mere artificial substitute. Cooping, which is frequently employed to prevent the Wandering oMtens’with chickens, is not desirable, and though in many cases it is a necessary evn, yet not the less an evil.— American Cultivalor.

A suggestion of the beef-producing resources of the Argentine Republic and Uruguay, is given in the casual news item of a London newspaper—that 50,000 ox-tongues constituted a part of the cargo brought by the steamer Mondego from the River Plata to Southampton, the other day. The hides, it seems, alsc largely eross the Atlantic from the Rio de la Plata, while the chief part of the flesh is Bold in Brazil,

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