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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1882)
AKRlClLTiniL. Sloe.-Swino, despite their reputa ;nn are clean animals, and flourish best in cl'oiiPB- Oivfl them pens largo ,l 7h. and they wil of their own . 1Z leave droppings by themselves, and Tin U I)ftrU of the pen-. breed" SbU'ne.U-of chjff or very Iv cni straw. A board of timber pro wling " W 'n01""1 from. the ,8lJ2 of he pen, r 8 inches up from the floor 0, (rround. will prevent the pigs from Ziue crushed to death against the en .7' nre when the sow lios down. Genor Xni feed to them, adds to the nourishing B,ilk for the litter, and gives them a good ' The Mill Cows. Those to "come In" .oon should be watched, and the udder lathed with cold water on the first ap Lrance of heat or hardness. If anj trouble with the ndder occurs at calving it is best to let the calf nurse otherwise remove the offspring at once, and feed it hand. The importance of raising talvcs from superior cows only can not be too strongly enforced. By a constant election of the best the dairy may be i. im.irnvrt.l. It is not well to turn L cattlo out to grans at the first appear ance of green in the pastures. The change from dry hay to gross food should be a gradual one. Spring Wheat. The first field crop to be sown in spring should go into the around as early as thorough and proper working of the ground will permit. The "thorough and proper working" of the soil means a good doal. The plowing should not bo done when the furrow ilices of stioky soil shine as they are turned, lest it afterwards dry Into hard clods. Plowing the soil before it will crumble as turned, is a serious mistake. Besides having a mellow soil, it should be naturally rich enough to grow at least twenty bushels per acre, or else enough manure used to secure this. Jlach time and strength are wasted in plowing and harvesting whoat wbioh an implication of manure would make profitable. This remark holds good in other parts of the farm than the wheat field. Take Good Care of the Horses. If at work, they need a regular allowance of grain. If worked hard, ten quarts of ground corn and- oats mixed will not be too much. The bay may be out and moistened, and the feed mixed with it. Sucb a ration is not over bulky .and con tains sufficient nourishment to keep a working horse in good trim. At this season the coat begins to loosen, and the kin is irritable. When much so, it may be corrected by giving daily, for a week, an ounce of equal parts of Sulphur and Cream of Tartar. Good grooming with toft brush and blunt curry-oomb is de cidedly useful. Everything about the stable should be kept neat and clean, as the warm weather approaches. Turn brood mares loose into a box stall as foalisg time approaches. They should receive gentle treatment, as this Is likely to influence the disposition of the colt. Sate aud Cabb fob ths Pigs. For many years post no spring season has found so few swine in the country in proportion to the coming wants. Owing to the scarcity and high prico of corn, and the demand for hog products at figures far above average years, the last hog, grown and half grown, that could be got into anything near a fit condition to be slaughtered, bos been sent to mar ket. It is reported that a good many , breeding sows nave gone into the barrel and lard pans. This being the case, with the probability that the markets of this country and elsewhere will be aleared up and nearly bare of pork, bacon.hams and lard before next winter, makes it important to look well after the pigs; to see that not one is lost for want of care and protection nntilwarm settled weather arrives; also to give the young porkers a good start and continuous vigorous growth by liberal feeding; also to do all that oan be done to multiply the number. The foreign demand for nog products is always large, and 10 lbs. of corn when converted into 1 lb. of pork or lard, is transported at one-tenth the cost. Seeding to Clover. Onr best success has been in scattering the seed over growing wheat, on a cool morning early in April, when an Inch depth of frost opens the ground in cracks in which the seeds fall and is lightly covered by the thawing earth. Both this and the wheat, but especially the elover, are usually benefitted by a broadoast sowing of ground plaster in May. So marked is this sometimes, that one can write his name in large letters ' with plaster sow ing.and the letters will be distinctly seen in the more luxurious green, when the clover plants, at first protected from the sun by the wheat plants, have a chanco for full growth, after the wheat is cut. The experience of many who raise much clover is, that a good catch is most cer tain, if the seed is not sown until the soil is warm and mellow. The olover starts into growth at once and strong plants are quickly obtained. The chief dan ger of delay is that the still feebly rooted plants may be caught by dry, hot weather, and killed. While plaster is a good top-dressing for clover on most soils, if one's own experience or that of hit neighbor's does not indicate this, other light top dressings may be useful some soluable fertilizer, as superphos phate or muriate of potash. Clover re sponds to any attentions of this kind, and makes a good return in the moss of foli age and rich material it gathers from the soil and air material that, when plowed in, richly prepares the scil for other crops. The First Thing to do Now.-rAnd the very first, if not already attended to, is to secure all the seed, wanted or likely to lie wanted, before midsummer, for the field, or the garden, or the flower bed. The plowing and the harrowing, and the cultivating will be labor lost if there is Hot enough good seed. If on the aver age only three vigorons stalks of any crop grow well where lour might grow, that is a loss of 25 per cent., as other work and expenses are the sauio for a full crop as for a 73 per cent. one;. and this lost 23 per cent, is whera the real profit comes in, because 50 to 75 per cent, of almost all crops is eaten up by the expenses. If one seed out of four is not healthful enough to send up the niost vigorous plant, it helps the 23 per cent loss. If one has all needed seed let it be immediately tested, as noted. If any feed is to be bought, order it now, not only to test it in time, as there is much poor seed this year, but es pecially because seed dealers will soon all be overcrowded with orders, and many will run out of the best quality of perhaps just the seod one may waut. No one is now living so remote that ho can not get pretty good sized lots of seed by mail at small expense. One cent an ounce nays the carriage 4000 miles or more, If there be any ioint that .far dis tant from any other point. What is to be done in the Orchard? Tho hint giveu on page 03 last month are for the most purt equally applicable now. On many farms there are old trees, the fruit of which is only fit for the pig, that by graftiug would in a few year bo productive of excellent fruit. There is nothing about grafting '.bat a man or a boy who can use a jack-knife, without cutting his fingers, cannot perform. There is no secret about it, though those traveling grafters who go about the country, would make one think so. The various works on fruit culture describe the operation; those who have the back volhnies will find it described in April, 18G7, and that number oan be purchased separately at this office. Giafts can be Lad by mail from any of the loading nurseries. Having the stock (the old tree) , and the grafts, the work may be done without other tools than thoe at hand. The wound must be covered with grafting wax, directions for which are given in the books and in the paper referred to. If any branchos of fruit trees have been broken by storms or the weight of snow, saw 0? the stub that may be'loft close to the trunk or to the branch from which it starts and oovor the wound with paint, unless grafting wax is at hand. There are many places about the farm, esoooially noar the barn and out-buildings where a fruit tree may be planted; such a tree may often be of use in affording shade to a poultry house, ice house, or dairy building, and at the same time afford acceptable fruit. Peach trees mny occupy such places. Amer ican Agriculturalist. The Sheep. As a good rule.it is safost to have lambs dropped after the weather is warm and settlod in May. But the constantly growing demand for "Spring lamb" in all cities and large villages, and the high price paid for it has led many farmers to provide extra conveniences, warm yards, etc., and have lambs drop ped as early as March, and even in Feb ruary. The extra care required is usu ally fully repaid by the higher prioes obtained. If the ewes dropping the early lambs are to be sold for mutton, it is best to push them forward by good feeding to be ready fer the butcher in June; and the same of wethers designed for market. The oarryingand growth of a heavy fleece make extra feeding neces sary to their being in good flesh immedi ately after shearing. If the warmer weather produces many ticks, the sheep may need a dip in tobaooo water, or iu one of the "dips" sold by trustworthy dealers. Poultry. Poultry repay any corn giv en them. Layers must have material to make eggs out of some meat or meat scraps are needed until they can find plenty of insects; sitting hens need clean nests. A spring white-washing of the whole interior ot the poultry-house, and the roosts and nest boxes, is of great ad vantage. Supply the softest hay or straw In nests, and if infested by vermin, cleanse with kerosene or crude petro leum. ' Machinery. Machinery of all kinds used upon the farm should be inspected and all repairs made before the time for spring work begins. An hour spent in mending in March saves a more valuable hour in the busy months that follow. The Magnlficeuce or a Hero. It was to Nero that Taoitus applied the ft UrVDCllUU, IIIUIBUIUIIIUUI VUV1WI. What he not only desired but achieved . .1 I ....!. .l :. ,1 Via 111 LUU WUY VI UlUClfcy BUU IIUS nvu.u vu deolared incredible if Roman history had not already shown what revolting atroo itioa mav h nnnnoived bv a diseased im agination and executed by irresponsible . 1 1 . 1 t .1. 1. - power. Alter tue uuruiug ui ujochj uo gratified his tuste in entire disregard of the proprietors, in rebuilding it. He at once appropriated a number of the sites and a large portion of the publio grounds for his new palace. The porticos with their ranks of oolumns, were a mile long. The vestibule was large enough to con tain that collossal statue of him, in sil ver or gold, 120 feet high, from which the Collosseum got its name. The inte rior was gilded throughout, and adorned with ivory and mother-of-pearl. The ceilings of the dining-rooms were formed of movable tablots of ivory, which shed flowers and perfumes on the company; the principal salon had a dome which, turning day and night, imitated the movements or the terrestrial bodies. When this palaoe was finished, he exclaimed: "At lost I am lodged like a man." His diadem was valued at half a million. His dresses, which he never wore twice, were stiff with em broidery and gold. He fished with purple lipes and hooks of gold. Ho never traveled with less than a thousand carriages. The mules were shod with sil ver, the muleteers clothed with the finest wool, and the attendants wow brace lets and necklaces of gold. Five hun dred she asses followed his wife Foppnoa in her progresses, to supply milk for her bath. He was fond of figuring in the circus as a charioteer, and in the theater as a singer and actor. He prided him self on being an artist.and when his pos sible deposition was hinted to him, he said that artists could never be in want. There was not a vice to which he was not given, nor a crime which he did not commit. Yet the world, eiclaims Suet onius, endured this monster for H years, and he was popular with the multitude, who were dazzled by his magnificence and mistook his senseless profusion for liberality. On the anniversary of his death, duriug many years, they crowded to cover the tomb with flowers. The London Quarterly. The case of the four-year-old boy who became an invalid through inveterate smoking, his parents having given him all the tobacco he wanted, is interesting the faculty of the Surgical Institute in Indianapo'lis. They have deprived him wholly of the weed, and hopo to sure him of spinil trouble, which his habit has caused. He had smoked an average of ten cigars a day. First General "Was it a surprise at Shiloh?" Second General-"! wouldn t be surprised." At ipettleof the l'tt-r. It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the only English writer whose stylo and whore vocabulary could have done full justice to the modern wjidsummer mad ness, had passed into tho penumbra of coming death before the a-sthetio school was anything more than a clique in a society which he despised. There are now jibjg and jeers in plonty. .Esthet icism is twrvading everything, from cal ioo prints to architecture; from "the consumato tail, of the peacock," men tioned in a dignified magazine, to the "silence that was too utter to hut," of the latest novel, and oven to the "too too" slang of the street. What is it, thon, and who aro its disciples and apostles f Have we thorn among us, and shall we do them honor or dishonor? As it is understood by the popular mind to day, ii'sthoticisiu is the carricature of one-half a real idea; it is a new fashion- something liko French heels or cutaway coats; it is the combination of a jargon and an attitude. It leers at us from operettas, and peers at na from illustrated newspapers; and so thoroughly inane is it, that before we have fairly become accustomed to it, it grows more nautoatingly wearisome than the most hackneyed lines of Pinafore. Perhaps this is because no true wsthote has never yet set foot upon the shores of the now world. For there was an idea behind all this nothiugness.before it was loaded down until it become impercepti ble by this complete system of burlesque. You find the core and key-note of rnsthet icism is the glowing periods aud visions of Buskin, with all their mournful beauty; in his turning from the dull and hardened utility of the pres ent to the earlier glamour of a past when men were brave and loyal, when women were tender and humble, when the heavens were rimmed with diver and the earth was undented. Soniotimes vague and always unpractical as is Buskin's schemes of life, seen in the Fors Clavigera for instance, the interest of it is plain; that there is in the past something higher and purer than the present has to offer. Tbis the original Ksthetioism, fleeting and bodiless, but not without a meaning and names. Change it from internaU to externals, from deep thought to noatly turned phrases, from a matter of morals to a matter of posture and dress, and you have the mstheticism of to-day. This goes back to the past just because it is the past; it worships the Benaissance as the devout worship relics; and the more widely spread it grows the less does it have any reason for what it does at all. It becomes a hodge-podge of oddities in gestures and expression, and loses all squeamishness as to the scrap bag from which they are drawn. So as the high ideals of early exponents beoame loss persuasive while spreading outward from their center mstheticism descended to tho level of the nwuia for collecting postage stamps or one of those freaks of fashion in drrs,in which the' femiuine world follows some loader whose personality is un known. That is all that it is or oan be in this country; a vulgar our'osity fol lowed shortly by oblivion. Meantime it , is the most widely and successfully ad vertised folly of the age. In England it was first an idea, then a grotesque cari cature. In America it is nothing but a gigantic speculation, which is being worked for all it is worth, and then, like a circus, or a patent medicine, or a two-headed baby, it will give plaoe to something else. There is one good thing about tho Philistines he. has ducats; and so long as these can be gathered in it matters little whether it be by an opera of "Patienoe," or an aposto lic lecturer, or what not. Observe there is no fraud about this matter. The pub lic knows just what it is going to get.and pays willingly for the satisfaction of its curiosity. Mr. Wilde's poetry, for instance, has no more gleams of the genuine icsthetioism than has that of Bunthorne whom he, or his manager rather, chooses to send before him as an advertising agent. It is all a farce; and since, nobody can be deceived.everybody is happy while the receipts come in handsomely. The curiosity is to see and not to hear, and therefore deserves no more censure than those many other lit tle inoidonts in life which prove that "men are only boys grown tall." There are few things in Artemus Ward more ludicrous than the idea of an American audience listening to a lecture designed to explicate the fundamentals of wsthetio belief, and that, too, delivered by one who, if he oomprehends what he teaches, has been careful to give no sign. After all it would perhaps be well worth going to see if all parties can keep their faces straight. It is thrice-proved fact that this is a country in which unlimited ad vertising pays. Pioneer-Press. Coast Guardians. With suoh a record it is no longer a marvel that the American life-saving in stitution baa taken so firm a hold of the publio heart. The territory which it gnards ten thousand or more miles is divided into twelve districts. The Atlan tic coast presents one long succession of varied dangers, beginning with Maine, where the capricious currents are for ever playing sly games about the nar row capes, reefs, sunken rocks, and peaks of islands half submerged, paving the coast like the teeth in a shark s jaw, taking in Cape Cod, that great arm of sand forty miles outward and upward, with its half-sunken, ever shifting f and bars, the islands and the rough, rocky points on the Rhode Island coast dread ful to mariners and the long, unpeo pled six hundred miles of beach from Montauk Point, Long Island, to Cape Fear, North Carolina, terminating with the arid coral formation of the coast of Florida, five hundred miles in extent. The crest lakes, a group of enormous inland seas, with twenty-five hundred miles of American coast line, are subject to sudden and violent gales, which pile up seas so tremendous that anchored vessels aro swept fore and aft, often causing their complete destruction ; while others, running for shelter iu harbors, miss the narrow entrances! and are often blown upon tho jo'.tiDg piers, or the still more dungorous beach. The stations consist of three classes, sever ally denominated life saving stations, life boat statious, and houses of refuge. Each of the twelve districts is provided with a local superintendent, who must be a resident of the district and familiarly acquainted with its inhabi tants. His compensation is one thous and dollars jer annum, with , tho ex ertion of those on the roast of Long Island and New Jersey, who, having too many stations to look after to attend to other business, are paid fifteen hund red dollars apiece. These oftloers aro required to give from twenty to thirty thousand dollars bonds as disbursing agents, being intrusted with the pay ment of the men under them iu addi tion to their genoral duties. They are resouMiblti for the selection of the keep ers of the stations- duty requiring much knowledge and excellent judgment who are not, however, confirmed with out the acquiescence of the inspector,' who is supposed to have no local interests or predjudieo. The crews aro chosen by the keepers. The keepers and crews are examiued by a board of inspectors, oontisting of an ofllocr of the revenue morino, a snrgeon of the Marine Hospi tal service, aud an experienced surf man whose qualifications are well known, to determine by a judgment wbolly impar tial their character, good health and gen eral fitness. This board is empowered to dismiss all incompetent men on tho spot, and require the keeper to employ others without delay. The wholo work is under constant inspection. An officer of the revenue marine, Captain James H. Merryman, is the chief inspector, and assigns from bin office in New York an an assistant inspector to every district. The stations are visited ofteu and the men examined in the use of tho apparatus drill, and obliged to give verbal reasons for every step in their oporatious. They are trained with their life-boats in the surf, in the nse of the life dress, in sav ing drowning persons by swimming to their reliuf, in the methods of restoring Uie partially drowned, and in signaling. Everything in and about the stations moves with military precision. When a wreck is attended with loos of life, a rigid examination follows to see if any of the men have beon guilty of' miscon duct or noglect of duty. The keepers are empowered to protect the interests of the government from smnggling, snd they guard all property that comes ashore from a wreck until its right ful owner appears. They are charged with the care and ordor of the sta tions and the boats and apparatus and they must keep accurate accounts of all receipts and expenditures, journalize all transactions, and maintain all neces sary correspondence with superior offi cers. Thus it appears they must possess a certain amount of education and high integrity, as well as surfmanship, in trepedity and commanding qualities. They are paid four hundred dollars each per annum. The crews receive forty dollars per month during the active sea son, which npon the sea coast is from September 1 to May 1, and npon the lakes from the opening to the close of navigation, or from about May 1 to De cember 15. Cattle Plague. The re;Krt of the Commission on the cattle plague is a very voluminous docu ment, and is an exhaustive history of the plague, and very elaborate in consider ing its cause and treatment. In order to correct the spread of this disease, the Commission consider it necessary that the authorities entrusted with the work should be qlothod with the following power by law: "To abolish or regulate markets or store cattle in tha infected districts; to enjoin the slaughter at the fat markets in infected districts of all cattle entering those markets. Fat oattle for slaughter elsewhere can be obtained at the bonded market; to prohibit all movement of cat tle in infeoted districts except under special license; to inspect all cattle in suspected distriots; to slaughter all in feoted cattle, and in exceptional cases those that have been exposed to infec tion; to have the condemned cattle ap praised and the owners liberally indem nified; to prohibit all exposure of cattle on the highways or in unfenoed or In securely fenced places in infected dis tricts, or of suspected cattle on a lot ad joining one occupied by healthy cattlo, or bordering on the highway; to prohibit the pasturage of more than one herd in one pasture, nnless under special li cense; to disinfect all premises, fodder and all other articles that have been pre sumably exposed to infection; to insti tute and enforce all suoh minor rules as shall be demanded by the peculiar con dition of the particular districts. In order to carry out these suggestions the Commissioners recommend a liberal appropriation by Congress to be dis bursed by some designated Federal officer, In case the work is delegated to the different States, the commission ad vise that a liberal appropriation be made from the Federal exchequer sufficient to cover the greater part of the outlay, and that this be paid over to executive of the infected State on approval by a veteri nary organization designated for the purpose." Enthusiasts who make a special study of sun-spots and attendant phenomena be lieve that the corner stone of a new sci eaoe is now being laid in the discovery of an intimate connection between ter restrial storms and activity of the heated gases surrounding the sun. Just what the connection is they are not able to clearly deflne.although electricity is sus pected of being the agent through which the effects jpre manifested npon onr planet. It is known that the gases en velope the sun is affected by eruptions of such prodigious magnitude as to bo ut terly beyond our; power of conception, these disturbances appearing to us in the form of rapidly changing spots on the solar disk. The spots come and go at re markably regular intervals, a complete cycle of the various stages of activity from maximum to minimum and again to maximum being performed in about 11 years the so-called "sun-spot pe riod." The present year bus been one of great solar convulsions and sun spot physicitss have been taking measures to verify their theories that sun-storms pro duce a marked effect upon the earth and its inhabitants. Their views seem to be strongly confirmed. While the present has been a year of violent terrestrial storms and earthquakes, these scientists claim to have to have proven by simulta neous observation a correspondence be tween minor meteorological phenomena and changes upon the Min. The emi nent .meteorologist, Prof. Piazzi Smith, Astronomer Royal fur Scotland, with many others.are of the opinion that the state of the sun will some day be come an important factor in weather fore casts and similar calculations. A Silent "Beat." Onoe npon a time two very bold, bad young tnedioal students wore driving down Market street in awa;jon,at the awful hour of 8 1. u., and at the awful business of rotnrning to their college, having between them what they techni cally called a "stiff," whiuli had the mis fortune to bo an inmate of the Alms house two days before, and 0110 day be fore bad had the aggravated uiiafortuue to die and to be buried, and then dug up by the very bold, bad studonts, who wanted to see what ailed it-perhaps. The morning was cold and damp, anil the students cold and dry, so they stop ped in front of a saloon opened by a thrifty citizen, anxious to catch such early worms as drop from vegetable aud milk wagons. "D' other," s.iid one of the bad stu dents to the other, "let us outer within where yonder light shines forth, and re gale, aud tone up our systems with suit able doses of spiritus frumeni." "Verily, brother, thy prescriptions nre apt aud to the point.for this is gruesome work, and chilly, too, and noeds tho counteracting effect of a warming stimu lant. They entered tho place and found tho proprietor fast asleep behind the bar. Then a wickod thought entered the miud of one of the bod students, and he said to his bad companion: Ajei us give una sieepiug iwmuy surprise; oven let us give mm a scare a rally, so to speak. Lot us bring in the stiff aud order a drink for it." And they did. They brimeht in tho stiff, propped it n p against the bar, rested its elbow on the bar and slouched an old hat over its eyes. Then they woke up tho propri etor, who rubbed his eyes and exclaimed: "Ah, gentleman, what will it bo this morning?" "Three oocktails." The bad students took their cocktail, and one remarket! : "Jost a little tired.but when he smells that "spiritus frumenti," won't he brace no?" "Well. I should smilo:" and bo did smile, for he enttulfod the cocktail "Well, good-bye, landlord; Jim will pay wbon he drinks, won t be. para? "Yes, when he drinks he will be glad to pay." But Jim neither paid nor drank nor looked np. and alter the two young men had gone sometime the landlord became nervous, and washed aoms glasses with a crest racket, rattled the froe-lunoh dishes, filled up tho clove-holder and coughed industriously, but Jim wouldn't wake np, or drink. The landlord began to get mad then. "Say. hadn't you better pay for these 000 It toils? But Jim was silent "Now, took here, can't you drink your oooktau and pay your score, eh I Jim remained stolid. "If yon don't unit your funny busi ness and pay np, I'll fire you out. ' Jim never budged. The landlord yelled, now. "Say, yen think you can make a fool of me, I guess; bnt I ain't that kind of man." Jim was silent and motionless. The laidlord was than too mad to sneak, and srottinff madder all the time Finally, he hauled off and landed Jim a blow on tha head. Jim foil over flat and stiff. The two students ran in, exam ined Jim. looked no in horror, and ex claimed: "Why, man, you've killed him!" "Dead?" "Yes, dead as a door nail." IHL. 1 It 1 1 L.J . i Tin. at the students in consternation, and then suddenly blustered np and ex olaimed: "Well, I don't allow no man to bull dose and oall me a liar." "My friend." said one of the bad stu dents, "you did right. If a man calls you a liar, know no north, no south, no east.no west.but shoot him on the spot." "That's tha kind of man I am, too,"the landlord said, regaining oourage. "If von take it away, I don't mind if I treat to the drinks." "Landlord, you have spoken cobly, as a man and a brother, 'em np again.' " Lot me say, 'set Mors (Jreea Teas, ir ton Please. If there is anybody who does not en !oy good green peas in abundanoe, we tave never met him or hor. We have them from May to August, fresh picked daily of uniform prrowth, for a singlo ripening pod injures the flavor of the whole; and irom August to way, we have the canned "LaFavorita" variety, which as we got it, is next door to the fresh garden picked. It is little trouble now to grow one's own peas, early, medium, and late varieties. Given a fair soil, with some well rotted manure, if it is needed, and our programme runs thus: Jnst as soon as the snow Is off and and deep freezing not expected, and the ground dry enough to work at all, in go the peas, even if the first beads starting do got a frost nip peas will stand that. We plant some "Improved Daniel O'Bouark." and some "Alpha;" also some of the "American Womler, ana some "unam nion of England." all on the same day, The first-namod is comparatively poor, but cooked in milk with a trifle of sugar added, it goes very well far better than none. The "Daniel O'Bourke" is early and prolific but needs a little brush as it grows 3 feet stalks. By tho time the O'Bourke and aud Alpha are eaten, in comes the American Wonder, and a won dor it is for its prolifioness, dwarf stems, no brush needed, and its superior eating quality the only very early dwarf wrinkled pea and "wriuklod" applied to peas is almost equal to good quality, By the time these go, along comes tho king pea, "Champion of England." There are others like it, claimed to be better: this is Rood enough for us, and seed is abundant and cheap u lino.it evcrvwlicro now. But after the first sowinif. and for two woeks, new sow inirs of tho Wonder und Champion uhould bo made every four or live iluvs. to keep no a constant succession After two weeks or so, follow with very frennent sowings of tbe Champion, or if without brush, the Wonder.so us to have a daily supply fur into summer. As fast as the peas are off, other crops, as cab bage,. t:rnips, etc, may occupy the ground. Always save enough of the earliest aod'best pods to ripen for next years seed. How Far ! a Ban Go on fool la Sis Dsjsi dazaol's performance of COO miles in six days was cloarly not the limit of bis ability, ltelore the close 01 tuo race be told hia backer to bet on bis going; G25 miles. No one could bo found to tako this bet, so he contented himself with GOO mites, though thero is not the slightest doubt that he could have maJo the greater distance if there had been any special inducement. His backer thinks he could have gone WO miles in the six days. For a six days race, as in all pro- tructcd struggles, of courso the quality, of muscular endurance is the first requisite. But that will bo fouud use less nulers there goes with it a strong digestion. John Ennis was certainly man of extraordinary natural endur ance and pluck, but ho had to abandon Ins euorts to make a loriuno turougu go-as-you-please raoos, simply because his stomach would not go with him. After endnranoo and digestion good conditiou being always understood oomoM gait. Horses win with good and bad gaits; and so also of tho men who have rolled up great scores; some travel with easo, and with no apparent muscular exortion except what is directly employed in locomotion; and some go laboriously, with the expense of a great deal of muscular effort that can be of no servioo in really driving tbe body for ward. If the man that cloarly wastes power can keep np with tho man that goes with no suoh waste, it is evidently because he can generate more force to waste, which implies a better digestive apparatus; and it must be remembered that tho ungainly Fitzgorald, in scoring &82 milos iu the previous match, showod his undeniable ability to go over 6U0 milea. Also a man should be able to go well both walking and running. O'Leary, in condition, easily walked away from his competitors; but when a runner oame against him he was hopelessly beaten. He could walk, but could not ran. so tho old gronadier Ktirono possessed enor mous enduranoe, but could not reach tbe runners. Sop. now, what sort of a man has just gone Lis GOO miles with ease, Uazael always has been known as a great run- nor lor any distance, irom nve to twenty miles; but hs was he ver celebrated as a walker. Any one seeing him coming down the stretch at speed might well be lieve be saw a ghost. When running, in spite of his bowed, misshapen figure, Uazael travels with such an evenness of gait, and suoh ease and grace of motion that he almost seems to get ' over the ground without any movement at all. Yst, when he slows down to a walk he moves with great labor and only moder ate aneed. Uazael is nearly forty years old, long past the prime of strength, and has probably lea a Hie very diuereni from what would be marked out as the best for a man to preserve his vitality to the fullest extent, Ua is a sufferer from hernia and is a poor walker; and, judg ing from his previous performances, it is not at all likely that his digestion is of remarkable strength, or that he is gifted with auck wonderful power of recupera tion as was the ease with Weston. Yet, suoh a he is, he has shown his ability to 0 not far front two miles in tbe Hi ours. Hia present score may never be beaten. for tbe reason that six day matches may ?;o out of fashion; but it does not seem mprobable that the ideal and phenom enal six days runner, a healthy youth, with a combination of the bestinduranoe, digestion, and gait, wonld oover nearly if not quite 700 miles. N. Y. Sun. A Teacher Cornered, Prof. Joe Logan, ot the Springfield school,, was superintending the usual educational business at the school house the other day, and the .geographical grind was on. In the olass to which Joe was nutting conundrums was an uncouth boy recently from a rural district, who, while tolerably well posted, was not ele gant or eloquent in the matter of an swering questions, and be answered in suoh m slovenly and careless way that Piofeeeor Logan beoame disgusted, and said: "That is not the way to answer a ques tion. Come up here and take my seat. I will take yours. Then you will ask ne a question and I will show yon how to answer it." All right, said the youth, and be olimbed into the Professor s chair, while tbe Utter took a position in tbe class, whereupon all the boys were tickled and waited with groat anxioty, and anybody might have heard a pin drop. Jtlr. Logan, remarked the temporary Professor, as he put his feet on the desk, "please stand up." Ijogan did so. ("Mr. Logan. I want yon to name the principal mountains in Central America." A oonfusion expression oame over Mr. Logan's countenance. . He shu filed around uneasily, scratched his head and admitted that, without reading np a lit tle on tbe subject, he would be unable to answer thit question. "Well. then, said the boy. "oome np here and take my plaoe and I will show yon how to snswer it." Ana again an exchange 01 places was made, and the lyouth answered his own question, sinoe which time Prof. Logan has had a high respeot for him and be is considered by the other boys as a sort of sn adjunct profesor. A Chicaoo Editob's Tbousebs. An editor in Chicago recently ordered a pair of trousers from tho tailor. On trying them on they proved to be several inohes too long. It boing late on Saturday night tbe tailor's bhop was closed, and the editor took the trousers to his wife und asked her to cut them off and hem them over. The good lady, whose din ner bad perhaps disagreed with her, brusquely refused. The same result followed on application to the wife's sis ter and the eldest duugliter. But before bed-time tuo wifo relenting, took the pants, and cutting off six inches from the le;? hemmod them up nicely and restored them to the ubaet. Half an hour later tho daughter, taken with compunction for her unfilial conduct, took tho tronBors and cutting off six inches, hem mod and replaced them. Finally the sister-in-law felt the pangs of conscience and she, too, performed an additional surgical. operation on the garment. When the editor appeared at breakfast on Sunday the family thought a Highland chief bad arrived. N