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Tin Cartrafujm CORNELIUS VUAEJNHjOm fetitc^ For the cause that needs assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, >re in the distance. And the good that we can do. CANTORS VLLE, : : GEORIGA. TIKE HERITAGE. BY JAM ES RUSSELL LOW ELI* The rich man’s son Inherits lands, And piles.of brick, and stone, and gold, And he inherits soft, white hands And teridrr flesh that fears the cold, Nor dares to wear a garment old: A heritage, it seems to me, ' tf One scarce would wish to hold in fee. <> ’ k > >;t tfs => What doth the poor man’s son Inherit? Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, A hardy frame, a hardier spirit : ; King of two hands, he does his part In erery n*eful toil and art; A heritage, it seems to me, ,/ A king might wish to hold in fee. << Whajt doth the poor man’s son inherit? A patience learned of being poc*r, Cntirage, if sorrow come, to bear it, A fellow-feeling that is sure *Td make the outcast bless his door; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. Oh, lich man’s son there is a toil That witti all others lerel stands; Targe charity doth never soil, But only whiteu sqfr., white hands— This is the best crop from thy lands; A heritage, it seems to me. Worth being rich to hold in fee. I ' yt '' ’ t £ ’* 1 h* ’ • O * ■ ’ Both heirs to some six feet of sod, Ap equal in the earth at last; Both children of the same dear God, Prove title to your heirship vast By record of a well-filled past; A heritage, it seems to me, Well worth a life to hold in fee. THE HEP OH TEH. Home of Hit PcoulUtriUee. This is a reporter. You will notice how finely he is dressed. He wears his best clothes every day, because he doesn’t know what Sunday is. Report ers have an easy life. They seldom go to work before 10 o’clock in the morn ing, and are often through with their lalwrs at 42 at night. There are many kinds of reporters. The society reporter goes to parties and weddings. He tabes down the names of the people who have been invited, whether they are there or not, and prints them in the paper the next day. Once a man started for a party, but got too full for utterance be fore reaching there, and was locked u,p. The society reporter said he was at the party, all the same, but the police re porter said he was fined $3 for being drunk, So this man got his name in the paper twice, but ha cut out one of the items for fear his wife might fee them both and think the press was mak ing too muck of him. Men are not oft en so modest. The sporting reporter goes to horse-races, and base-ball games, and cock-fights. It is wicked to go to horse-races if you bet on the wrong horse. Once there was a croquet tour nament in a large city, and the editor of a paper knew that somebody must write it Up. So he spoke to the sporting re porter. “What have I got to do with those dizzy croquet players ?” said the sporting reporter. “That’s a society event.” “ I guess you are right,” re plied the editor; “so you can go up in the country about two miles north of where the street-cars run and see if it looks as if we would have an early spring, and then this evening there are fom Land-LeagUe meetings for you to look after.” So the sporting reporter had a little something to do, after all, and clubbed himself quite heartily. A man need not have a classical education in order to be a good reporter, but he must be able to hustle around some and hump himself when there is a big fire or a murder. Reporters can get nearer to a fire than anybody except the firemen, and tho new ones do it. But the old head* at the business know bet ter. They stand on the corner until the fire is out, and then they get a hack and go to the house of the man who owns the building, and ask him how much the old shell was worth, and if he thinks the in surance companies will have him wrest ed for setting it on fire. This is when the man acts mean and does not open the door for them, because he has just got out of bed and deolinea to answer questions. But if he acta square, you bet the boys treat him right, and in the morning people read of him as “our estimable citizen, Mr. Report ers seldom die early. They are too tough. Perhaps some other day I may tell you more about the reporters. Many of them are married men and live happily with their wives, because they never see them except when they come home to-go to bed. ▲ drowsy man can not quarrel much. * You h#ve learned already what easy times reporter? have but often those who have the best chances in this world do nqt seem to appreciate this fact, and sometimes a reporter gets this way and Jhinks his salary ought 'to be raised. So he speaks to the editor about it. Ed itors are very liberal mefl. Many of them do noi think any more of a dollar than some men do of their lives, but they know that if the Yeporters were paid too much they would gave their money and buy the paper, and then the editors would be bke the Chinese— they would have to go. So in self-pro tection they are obliged to keep thd'sala ries of the reporters at $5,000 or $6,000 a year. They hate to do this, but self preservation is the first law of editors as well as of nature, Many eciitori pre serve theipselves so well thatuhebrepo® bWthem out So yfett fefe tliafijthefaine* are kiid tolthole who do good Some good atari#® are told about* reporters." vjrrce mg man, who had graduated at Harvard College, and was a splendid scholar in base-ball and rowing, came to a large Western city and hired out to be ftxeperter. The next day the editor sfent him* to'an in quest. He came bttek to the office at night with enough manuscript tof make a book. The editor gave this to an ex perienced reported and said: “ Cut this down to a stickful.” After a while he went -ovef to where the .experienced re porter was sitting and said: “How did that new duek manage with the in quest?” “Oh,” said the experienced reporter, “he got everything—except the verdict.” 4nd then the other re porters that were sitting around laughed heartily, but the editor only let drop a few words of tropica! warmth and dis charged the new who was very much surprised to see that the paper continued to come but regularly after he had left it to its fate. New reporters always tell everybody that they are “ journalists/’ but the old ones call them deck-hands. New reporters always think they know everything, and in some offices it is customary to put a dish of salt on anew reporter’s desk. This is a delicate way of telling him he' is too fresh. Reporters never like to hurt anybody’s feelings. Once an ed itor in Cincinnati hired a reporter in Chicago to do some work for his paper. After a while the reporter forgot to send anything about an important matter, which made the editor very angry. So he sent a dispatch to the reporter say ing : “You are discharged. Why did you get left on that murder? Answer.” When the reporter read this he laughed to himself and said : “I wonder if that old plum thinks he can get the best pf me? ” So he wrote the longest kind of an answer, explaining all about the blat ter, and closed by saying he w;is glkd he had been discharged, because he dis liked to be connected with a paper that allowed itself to get scooped. It took 1,700 words to say this, and, as it was sent by telegraph, the Cincinnati editor had a pretty big bill to pay. But it taught him never to ask for explana tions by telegraph again, and that Chi cago reporters were pretty liable to keep up with the procession. Villi COMPOSTTroS OW SiCIZTF>NT)P nvj iwsrHSyQNn n*t*d i What a wonderful thing the venom of a serpent is! Chemical analysis fails to deteat anything in it to Recount far its action. Water, a little albumen, some mineral salts, and traces of mucus, epi thelia, cells, etc.* Jumped together as “extractive.” Nothing more—nothing specific about it at all. Tasteless, col orless and inodorous, it may be rubbed on the sound skin, or applied to the eye, or taken into the mouth without any re sult whatever. The bites of different kinds of snakes produce different effects. Some act as a depressant to the vascular system, some as a powerful narcotic, some cause inflammation of the spine, while others seem to give rise to disor ganization of the structural constituents of the blood. All are attended more or less with rigors, delirium, syncope, con vulsions, paralysis and coma. Whether the poisons of any two or more species are identical I do not know—it seems probable; but in the five species with which I have experimented on myself, so far I have found five distinct and separate venoms. I imagine, for in stance, that the rattlesnake and copper head will prove to possess the same, and perhaps several of the viperine snakes. I hope so. Some of these fluids are very unstable, and decompose if kept only a short time or if their specific gravity is disturbed, while others retain their deadly properties even when dried. That of the common French viper {Vipera aspis) may be diluted down till it forms a mere local irritant. No true antidote has ever been discovered for the bite of any snake, and the search for something which shall be an antidote to the bite of all appears to me to be irrational in the extreme, see ing that there are so many different poisons, producing in many cases oppo site effects. One might as well expect to find a general antidote for opium, belladonna, strychnine, arsenic and mercury poisoning. The action of am monia, upon which so much stress has been laid, is probably nothing more than that of a strong stimulant; cer tainly its action in maintaining the fluid ity of the blood is quite Hypothetical, seeing that premature coagulation of the fi brine has never been actually dem onstrated. > Indeed, it is said that at the autoppy of the keeper Girling, bitten many years ago by a cobra de capello at the Gardens, the blood formed no clot at all, but was found permanently fluid in all the great vessels.— Land, and Water. SAD WASTE OW MONEY. A gentleman was recounting, in a seri *>us manner, his many misfortunes and losses within the year, naming the death of his excellent wife among the number. “Anci just think," he said, wipingaway a falling tear, “ only six weeks before she died she had her teeth fixed in apple pie order at a cost oI $32, and now that is gone with the xmLlis m mdt onrsßß nr ops qjp becastle . The watcH is pparij^oveß; seven fiells—h al£-pas|jll -~havA bq(|n struck, and at Co#© Jack dines when fie ’is at homer is4beof and imy ; yesterday there were pea-soup and pork. The “duff” was made an hour or twe ago, and, hot being a Christmas plum ppdchng, the skill to prepare it was hot considerable ; for when the oooh had skimmed off the grease from the water in the coppers and mixed it with flour, and, wprked the whole into a paste, and poured the paste into a conical canvas bag, closely resembling a man’s nightcap of fifty years ago, fiothing Re mained to complete jack’s pudding but to boil it. It is 4 now boiled and ready for Jack to eat, and so is the beef. The beef is forked oht first from the copper and thrown into a mess-kid; then the pudding is fished out and dropped into cold water, after which the bag is opened, and the pudding slides out of it and faUs rather heavily into another kid. A* boy or ordinary seaman from each watch lav* hold of the kids belonging to his mess, and conveys them into 4 the forecastle, by which time, eight bells having been made by the skipper’s sextant, all hands assemble in the forecastle, and dinner begins. There is never very much ceremony in Jack’s borne, though what etiquette there is is very stringent. In this forecastle there are no tables. The men help themselves, cutting off a junk of beef and a lump of duff with their sheath knives, each man judging—and judging very accurately— how much he should take, so that he may not dome off better nor worse than his mates; and walking away with his tin plate either to Ms bunk or to a sea-chest, or whenever else he may,feel disposed to litfeH4ff *t *r!w iitni* LJ ’ * nU ■ * v *ll $ | 4 * f i . Qne may easily conceive that Jack’s appetite is usually very .good; and though the fumes from the mess-kids are decidedly more greasy than most land-going palates , would , relish, and thpngk the beef might, seem to have a queqr color, and though the duff strong ly, resembles a mass of putty after it has been turqed about by the hands of a glazier, yet one can only earnestly hope, for the sake of the poor fellows who sit iq all sorts of places and attitudes, munching the queer repast with more or less avidity, that tlie meat and the pud dings are to Jack’s taste, and that bring ;y both are—-that quality not hav ing been diminished by the salt water in which'they were boiled— nothing more unpleasant than the excessive saltness predominates ovef the general flavor. For when I add a small amount of mo- every ship does not furnish her forecastle as much—and a gill of rum, I have, so far as my own experi ence goes, exhausted Jack’s bill of fare. It is beef and duff, pork and pea soup, tea and Vinegar, rum, biscuit and lime juioe. And those who know the life will admit this, that—so far as respects the quality of these articles as we find them at sea—the diet sounds very much nicer than it looks, and looks very much nicer than it eats. A NEWSPAPER BILE 02F FARE. The Baltimore newspaper boys had a grand banquet recently, and they turned their funny man loose to prepare the menu. This he succeeded in doing without any perceptible harm to the victuals, which was the main point. The card was a two-columned holiday edition of the Baltimore Brens, Vol. 1, Nd. 2, issued at the Eutaw House. It was surmounted by a neatly grouped fetc-simile of the Balti-more dailies. “Inside matter” (the other half crowded out for want of space) was the pain table bivalVe on omy one of its two native shells. “Boiled down" were the soups. “The old defenders" (pieces of resistance) were sirloins and saddles, while “ our ’steemed contempo raries ” were, obviously enough, boiled turkey and the like. “A slight cool ness” (between English and French) was supplied by the following Aspect de Volatile garni aux Truflos. Guillo tine de Turkey, au harem decoree. Beef ala mode, sur preme. Patti dt> foie gras, garni au hunkey doiree en aspic. Ham ala sedentaire. Tongue ala tai-, sezvous ornate. Patti froid des capon, retiree de business. Aspic of oysters, ala heavenly smile." “The business department ” was not inaptly )iamed, for with canvas backs, pheasants, venison, wild turkey, Illinois grouse the serious work of the session may be said to have begun. Salads were mere “Amuse ments, "peas, asparagus, beets and the like, “Our country exchanges,” olives and sauces “Pungent, personalities.” Cakes and things were sorted under the caption; ... ►uitj Pi [Left at the OfRcE.) THE WANT COIiTTMN. The creams and ices came under “ An other cold spell." ’“Fruitful topics", were grapes and figs from the drowsy east, and the combined doxology and benediction was conveyed in the orna mental line r “ Lock up and go to press." This arrangement of the menu did not in the least impair appetite, and the whole press must have gotten a great scoop on old Boniface. Th* Turkish Minister at Washington because* he couldn’t get enough salary to ay board. I think it beat notjte dispute where thaw in go oi convincing. AN HEROIC MOTHER BTMIK fss paper relates interesting ■ (fNi"" M g anem the list qnj the lightning struck a bam in the village of Lowenberg, and a Btork’s nest —in which there were some young storklings—was threatened by the flames, H)o ty h parent birds contemplated die frftrfffolp situation from a distance with evident distress, At last the mother bird darted down Upon the nest, apd, seizing one of her young family with her beak, bore it, off to a safe spot upon a meadow. The father followed her, and settled down to keep watch over liis offspring. When the mother re turned to the scene of danger the fire had reached the nest, in which one bird still remained; but while she was flying around it, preparing for a descent, the young one fell through the charred nest iiit,o tiie burning bam. It was no mo ment for thought. Down darted the mother into the smoke and fire, and, coming up with her Sproseling in her beak, flew off, apparently unhurt. On the next day a wounded stork fell to the ground in the market-place in the neighboring town of Trebbin. She was unable to stand, and the policeman of the little town carried her into the guard house, where it was discovered that both legs were sorely burned, and she was recognized as the heroic mother who had done the brave feat of rescue at the fire in Lowenberg. A physician was sent for, and the burgomaster found her a temporary hos pital in the Rathaus. Meanwhile, the spouse of the sick she stork had discov ered her whereabouts. He attended ’diligently to the two young ones, and paid daily visits to the mother, as if to inform himself how the patient was get ting on, and to assure her that their chil dren were dbiiig well. The school-children of Trebbin readi ly charged themselves with the task of finding food for the patient, bringing her every day far more than the neces sary number of living frogs. The bur gomaster paid an official visit every day to the sick guest of the municipality, to see that the doctor’s orders were duly barried out, and in lees than a fortnight the bird was sufficiently hale to fly a way to her husband and children. HER TEETH. Unfortunate letters get entombed at flie capital sometimes without going so very far'* and the cause or consequenoe may be serious or droll—or both. Avery amusing incident occurred at the Dead-Letter Office. A lady ordered a set of false teeth from a dentist in Har risburg, Pa., and directed them to be sent by mail. She waited several weeks for their arrival, and, as they did not come, she wrote to the dentist to know the cause of the delay. He informed her that he had mailed them soon after they were ordered, as instructed. The lady went to the Dead-Letter Office to inquire if anything had been heard of a package addressed to her. As i<he was very modest, she did not like to give the name of the article contained in the package. But upon being in formed that in order to recover the lost package she must describe its contents, she did as requested ; and imagine her surprise when Superintendent Dallas ]landed her a mutilated box containing the fragments of what were once a set of teetli. The pouch in which the package was mailed had been run over by a train of cars, which separated every tooth from the plate.— Washington Herald. WHAT ANGELS AIN'T IN THE HA Bit OF DOING. “Mrs. Topnoody,” sadly remarked Mr. TANARUS., after an agitated scene, “you are not what I thought yon were in the happy days of youth. ” “ Oh, I ain’t, ain’t I?” “No, you are not. I thought you were an angel, and now—and now—” “And now,” broke in Mrs. TANARUS., “and now you find that you’re a fool, and that angels ain’t in the habit of slinging pots and dish-rags around, and spanking babies, and sewing on buttons, and wrestling kitchen stoves, and making niurlin plasters for husbands with the .colic, and bossing hired girls, and doing the cooking for a big family, beside go ing to church and being married to a Topnoody, all the time. No, Topnoody, angeU ain’t in the habit of doing such things . and it is a mighty good thing they ain’t or the angel business wouldn’t last till the middle of next week.” Topnoody did not pursue the conver sation further, but put on his hat and went down street to wonder how many women we re angels. Thebe is a Baltimore boy named “ Ollie,” who is just out of his dresses. A friend of the family asked Ollie ‘ ‘ whose boy he was ? ” “ I'm mammy’s boy.” “Why, Ollie!” said his father, reproachfully. * ‘ Yes, ” continued Ollie, * * and i’m papa’s boy. * 11 How can that be,” asked the friend. 41 Why, my gra cious ! ” was the reply, “ can’t a wagon have two horses ? *' It is unlucky — To fall out of a third story window on Monday. To meet a red-headed woman on Tuesday—espe cially if you owe her anything. To break a S4O mirror on Wednesday. To dream Vou see red snakes or green monkeys 5n Thursday. To get hung on Friday. Or to get locked up on Sunday. Paste this in jour hat. kfirir MOSLEM PEASANTS. It teems rather hard upon the Mos- whether tfcey be Arab, or Turk, or slav, that the sympathies of % British public should be entirely withheld from them on the ground that they /**) not bear the name of Christian, even though they may be of the same race. Asa rule, the Moslem peasant is, in fact, far more worthy of their sympathy, for he is more oppressed, more honest, more orderly, and quite as industrious It is true that there are exooptions to the sSj for instance, among the Cir cassians and Kurds; but they form a small proportion of the Mohammedan population of the empire. The religion of the former is of so vague a nature that that they can scarcely be called Mos lem ; and for the latter, who are a sav age race of mountaineers, I claim no sympathy at all. It is for the poor ( down-trodden Moslem peasantry, devout according to their lights, whether Arab or Turk —t han whom a race braver or more enduring in war, and more patient and well-conducted in time of peace, does not exist—that I would plead. In regard to the sentiments which both Moslems and Christians entertain toward their own Government there is very lit tle difference. Ido not see, therefore, why those in England who denounce the Turkish Government should make so great a distinction in their feelings toward those who share with them their dislike of the executive authority. If the result of their Christianity had been to make Christians in any way morally superior to Moslems, I could readily sympathize with the popular British sentiment upon the subject.—“ The Land of Gilead' ” — Oliphant. Two Fbhnoh savants have, for the last twelvemonth, been keeping nine pigs in in a state of habitual drunkenness. This has been done with a view to testing the effects of different kinds of alcohol on these animals, and the Prefect of the Seine last year kindly put some styes and a yard in the municipal slaughter houses at La Yillette at the disposal of the savants, in career that they might conduct their interesting experiment at the smallest possible cost to themselves. The experiment is interesting, because we are told that the pig is the animal whose digestive apparatus most closely resembles that of man; but then drunkenness does not act on a man’s di gestion only, and the behavior of a tipsy pig furnishes but a slight indication oi what a tipsy man's would be who had drunk of the same liquors. However, we learn that the pig who takes absinthe is first gay, then excitable, irritable, combative and, finally, drowsy ; the pig who has brandy mixed with his food is cheer M all through till he falls to sleep; the rum-swilling pig becomes sad and somnolent almost at once, while the pig who takes gin conducts himself in ec centric ways, grunting, squealing, tilt ing his head against the stye door, and rising on his hind legs as if to sniff the wind. Dr. Decaisne, writing on these intoxicated swine in the France , re marks that they are none of them the worse for their year’s tippling, which may be regarded as satisfactory or the reverse, according to one’s point of view. THE TACTILE SENSE. The sense of touch, when highly trained, enables the blind to read with their fingers almost as readily as others with their eyes. With it alone Laura Bridgman rapidly recognizes a friend ; feels the approach of one coming in the hall, and even picks out her own clothes returned with those of others from the laundry. The ancient sculptor determined the final finish of his statue in marble, not by his eye, but by the nerves at the roots of his finger-nails. The expert com positor depends less on his eye than on his finger-tips in handling his types. The wonderful capacity which lies hid in all our senses is brought out only when necessity forces us to their special train ing, but it might be well if their fuller development was made part of the edu cation of the young generally. Without this sense we could hold nothing in our hands, except when look ing at it; nor stand with safety ; nor lie in bed with comfort. Few are aware bow dependent we are on the sensations located in the surface of our bodies. A man in Germany, on recovering from a severe fever, was attacked wiib numbness, which was soon followed b\ loss of all tactile sensation. He would wound or burn himself, and become aware of it only by seeing the blood or the scar. Gangrene (mortification) fol lowing an injury to his finger, the latter nad to be amputated, but it was done without the slightest pain. Though he retained his. full power of motion, he could tell only by his eyes whether fiis arm was extended or bent; nor could he walk, or even stand, in the dark, and when in bed he simply seemed sus pended in the air. The case was regard#! as a vei* Inter esting one by the medical * profession, and, on the person’s death, some twenty years later, a post-mortem examination showed that his brain was wholly unaf fected, but that there had been exten sive softening of the spinal marrow from the top of the neck to the small of the back.— Youth’s Companion, Certainly, a sheriff is an executive officer. , . ,J 7 FLEA S ANTILLES. ! A sliding scale— Climbing a gtt asefe pole. High words—Lofty, elevated, top most, summit, etc. Which of the digits is forever lost r 2, because it is never won. Australia is ever a far-away land, bui it is an island, too. See ? A Lenten custom Letting your friend take your umbrella. The dressmaker is the pattern saint of the women of America. Illinois hogs get trichinosis, Ohio hogs get all the fat offices. Restaubant-keepebs find that the ice cream customer takes the cake. Solomon was the first man who want ed to part the heir in the middle. Motto of the conscientious man—l would rather be right than be left “Hold the forte for I am coming,” said the piano player as he stepped upon the stage. Brigha ; Young acquired the title of (General from having been called “Briggy dear” so often by his numerous wives. Deacon Richabd Smith says a co -is like a snake. Presume it’s be cause she acts coyly, and a snake acts coily, too. ‘ <fc How shall we take the sense of this meeting ?” asked the Chairman, “Pass around your hat if you want our cents, ’ yelled an unruly boy. “What hoi without there!” ex claimed the fierce tragedian, and the new “ supe ” hastened to say, “There isn’t any hoe at all, out here.” “ When will there be only twenty-five letters in the alphabet ?” asked a bache lor teacher. “When U and I R made 1,” answered a young-lady pupil. To Vassab there went from St. Loui* A dazzliugly-beautiful Jewess French, Latin and Greek, She learned not to speak, But she Baade an accomplished gum chewess. Every man has a skeleton in his closet and a private and personal tombstone on which is inscribed the epitaph, “ Sacred to the memory of wasted time and lost opportunity. ” There is a place for everything, fel - low-citizens, but there isn’t a place lor every man. Remember that before you start for Washington. If there is a place for every Ohio man, it’s just about as much as there is.— Hawk-Eye. “It is a sad thing,” said Mrs. Spil kins to her husband, “ for a man to have his will contested after he is dead.” “Contested after he is dead!” cried Spilkins. “ That is not half so bad as to have it contested after he is married 1 ” What did Oliver Twist? What did Charles Reade? What was it Bulwer Lytton ? What did Ivanhoe? What was Wadorworth ? What did Mrs. Mulock ? Where did Victor Hugo? Where did diaries Lever ? What had Mrs. Brad aon? • ‘ Now, Susette, where are my boots? Do hurry with them ; I am sure I have called for them a dozen times.” “ Yes’rn; in a minute, ’m. I heard you, and I thought, to save you time and trouble, I’d button them for you before you put them on.” USE OF THE EYES. The man who avoids excesses of every description has a fair chance of retain ing his eyesight until old age sets in. A time comes to every one when the physical powers begin to decay, and then, unless the brain has been kept, active and recipient by exercise, there is nothing left to live, and the man perishes. We say that he died of gout, or over eating, or of heart disease, or of kidney disease, or of the failure of the particular organ which was the first to exhibit symptoms of the approaching end. In reality he has died of stupidity, artificially produced by neglect of the talents with which lie was endowed. That vvhich is true of the organism as a whole is true, also, of its parts; and the eyes, among others, are best treated by an amount of systematic use which preserves the tone of their muscles and the regularity of their blood supply. Acuteness of sight is aided by the at tention bestowed upon objects within the range of vision. In people who cannot read, the sight is far from acute. I have even had reason to think that the wives of such men are indebted to their household needlework for the main tenance of a higher standard of vision than that of their husbands ; and I have • no doubt that idleness of the eyes, if I may use such an expression, is in every way hurtful to them, and that proper and varied employment is eminently conducive to their preservation in beaut v -and efficiency. Professor Stourbridge before the State Hoard of Agriculture of Connecti cut: “fhe soil is best plowed when it is most thoroughly crushed, twisted and broken, w’ith the so t well covered. On 'jome kinds of land f would have fur rows la. ped an inch, as the Canadian i farmers plow. 'Let the air and water have a chance to circulate underneath the surface. Light lands, however, should have a fla_t furrow if we wish to make such lands more compact.” Let the middle-aged reader count upon his finger all the companions of his youth who have become distinguished, whose names are known upon the two continents, and mark how few they are and far between.