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HALF-WAY DOIX'3. Bclubld fellow-trabelers: In holdin' forth to day, I doesu't quote no 'f pecial verse for what I has to say. Ttt sermon will be berry short, nd dii here am do tcx': put half-war doin's ain't do count fur dia worl' or da oex'. piiworl'dat we'i a-lilbin In ia like a cotton row. Whar ebery cullud gentleman baa got hia line to hoe; And ebery time a buy niRer atopa to take a nap Do gnus keix on a growin' for to smuddor up hia crap. When Motes led de Jews acrosl do waters ob do sea, Pe bad to keep a-goin' jes at fa' as fas' could be; Do you 'snose dut dey could eber hub succeeded in deir wish, And reached de I'romiso Land at last if dey bad stopped to fish f .My frien's, dar was a garden once, whar Adam libbed wid Eve, Wid no one 'round to bodder dem, no neighbors for to thieve, And obery day was Christmas, and dey got deir rations freo, And cberyting belonged to dem except an apple tree. You all know 'bout de story how de snake come snoopin' roun' A stump-tail, rusty moccasin, a crawlin' on do groun' How Eve and Adam ate de fruit, and went and hid deir luce, Till de angel oberacor ho como and drove 'em o(T de place, Kow 'snoso dnt man and 'ooman hadn't 'tempted for to shirk, But had gone about deir gardenin' and 'tended to deir work, ry wouldu't hab boon loa'm' whar dey had no business- to, And de debbil nebbcr'd had a chance to tell 'em what to do. So half-way doin'i, bredren I It'll nebbcr do, I aay 1 Go at your task and finish it, and den's de timo to play Forcben ifdocrapisgood.de rain 'ill spilo do bolls, Unless you keeps a-pickin' in do garden ob your souls. Keep aplowin' and a-hoein' and a-scrapin ob do rows, Aud when de ginning'a ober you can pay up what you owes; But if you quits a workin ebery time doaunla hot, De sberifTa gwine lebby upon eberyling you'a got. Wbatebcr 'tis you'a dribin at, bo shore and dribo it through, And don't lot nuihV stop you, but do what you'a gwine to uo; For when you sees a nigjar foolin', den, as shore's you're born, You's gwine to see him cumin' out de email oend od ue noru. I thanks you for do- 'tention you has gib dis afternoon- Sister Williams will, oblige us by a-raisin' ob a turn I see dnt ftruddor Jounson's 'bout to pass aroun' de bat, And don't let's hab no half-way donin's when it comes to dot 1 A FURY UODMOTIIER. Madame Dupont, wrapped in a loose robe of some soft Cray material, a faded cashmere shawl partly covering her, lay on the lounge before the bay window that formed almost the entire front of her tiny cottage. Her largo black eyes, their brightness somowhat dimmed by ber long sickness, dwelt with dreamy pleasure on the landscape spread before ber. It was a very common landscape, such as can be seen in any country place on anv summer day only a broad Held, white with daisies, among which two or three brown cows patiently sought for tender blndes of grass, with one tail, fctout tree standing midway, solitary and alone, and a backcroumVof denso tan gled brushwood. To careless eyes, scarce worth a careless glance; but to ners, so long shut out from sight of earth and sky, a scene most beautiful. The elon . der white wrinkled hands folded upon her breast were yet too weak to hold even one of her beloved books, and the small feet still lacked sufficient strength to sustain the frail body. ' But, thank heaven! the cruel pain had gone, and in its stead had come a blissful rest. All through the fickle months of spring, taking no heed whether they smiled or wept, she had never raised her weary head from the pillow. And the snowdrops and croonses and Rfillmo and hvaoinths and tulips had grown and budded and bloomed in her little garden, and she, who had hoped to watch them prow from the first green leaf to the perfect blossom, had only seen the few viola nod piucnea ana brought to her bedside, where, seen through a clcud of suffering, a shadow had fallen noon their beauty. And now it was the heart of June and the roses, cav in overy shade of pink, climbing about the window, looked in; and entreated her to como out. But no; she could not hone to walk among the flowers until the roses had faded and the lilies had begun to reign. And perhaps even this hope would not have been hers had it not been for the love and care and cheerino- words of Viola, the eldest daughter of the big farmhouse. Kate, the strong, rongh Irish servant maid.was kind and faithful in her way, but hers was money service, and left to it alone, she might have died; but Viola served for love (she had loved the pretty old madame since first they met), and love brings faith and hope and patienco and manr other beautiful things. For weeks the young girl came morn, noon and eve. to star an hour each time, and her visits were tho only gleam of brightness that lightened the darkened room. And manv the wee loaf of whitest bread, and golden pat of butter, and drink of rich sweet milk, and a fresh laid, pink tinted egg. she brought to tempt the languid appetite; and many the song she sang, soft and low, to woo lor the sick woman the angel oi sleep. And vet not only were they neither kith nor kin. but she knew naught of Madame Dnnont save that she had built the four-room cottage the preced ing spring, and had lived there since the last July in the hn r blest way. There was a large family at the farm house, and much work to be done hard. unlovely work, the verv thought of which often made the young girl, wak iog in the gray morning from pleasant dreams, clasp her hands and cry out: "Is this to be my life forever?" And had it not been for the glimpse of beanty she caught about her home -the far-off river gleaming in the sunlight or moonlight, the orchard trees white with blossoms in fiiig, ail hdea with fruit ia summer, and autumn, tho shady woods where countless shy wild flowers Lid from the glare of the world, the songs of the happy birds, and the grand sunsota bo hind the distant hills she would have been heart-weary indeed. For she loved evtrything beautiful. And especially did sbajove musio with all the tondor ness of a creator, as madamo discovered one day the day thev first saw each other; in fact, when Viola, coming on somo errand to the cottage, stopped, en tranced on the threshold of the door to listen to the plaintive inolody in a minor key, foebly but beautifully played on tho old-fashioned upright piano. "You love music?" said madame, turn ing slowly and confronting her. "With nlj my heart," answered the girl, the vivid flush that was ever ready to nppear iiusinng me lair young lace. "loupiayy "A little a very little; but I have hnd no piano for three years sinoe mv own mother, died." Liot me hear you. "Oh, madame, I daro not try after yon." But tho old lady rose and gently led her to tho instrument. There were two or three keys entirely dumb, and tho rest wore not in perfect tunc, but the spirit of music so guided the long slender fin gers that they reproduced the minor mel ody madame had played so daintily en wrapped in bird-like trills and rtppling runs, that she, in turn, stood entranced. "After me, indeed" shoBaul, as the girl struck the last chord. "I had to learn, but you it is part of you. And you have no piano? Ah, that is sad. Could I give you mine, it should be yours. But it belonged to my dear hus band, who died twenty years ago, and I could not bear to part with it. He was a Frenchman, and a professor of musio. I was an American girl, and one of his pupils. When I married him I holpod him to teach others, and so came to bo called 'madame.' We loved each other very much. But I shall be glad, my dear very glad to have you como here and play as often as you will.' "Could I come as often as 1 would, said the girl, with a bright smile, "I am afraid I should soon tire you. But I will come as often as I can. And, oh, madame" suddenly kissing the soft, wrinkled cheek "I cannot toll you how much I think of you!" But the often proved very seldom, for some of the summer boarders staid until the end of October, and the butter had to be churned and the fruit canned, and the young sisters to be prepared each day for school, and the twin boys nothing to speak of in pointof years, but porfect Methusolahs in mischief to bo looked after from morning until night, aud win ter wardrobes to be made, and a thousand and one other things to be dono. And then madame fell sick,nnd all the time Viola could spare she spent at her bedside. "Time that had much better, bo spent at homo," scolded her step mother, "for there's a servant there; and one servant is enough to take care of two such houses as that and their mis tresses, too: sick or well. I have no servant!'' "You have mo." Viola could havo re plied, "and no servant ever worked harder or for less wages," but she set hor lips firmly together and said nothing. But she rose earlier than ever thereafter, that she might not leave undone the slightest of her tasks, and thus merit no reproach for tho few hours each day she gave her dear old mend. Aud now madamo was getting well and with the strength of her strong servant- maid, could go from room to room; but she was best satisfied as yet to be in the wee parlor on the loungo before the big window. And hero Viola made her appearance the day the roses were beckoning, with a merry greeting, and a dish of luscious strawberries Bniothered in cream; but in spite of the merry greeting there was a hint of a shadow on her bonny face that did not escape madame's keen black eyes. "Toll me about it, dear," she said, in her sweet, trembling voice. Viola knelt beside her. "You must bo a fairy, madame," she said, "for none but a fairy could have guessed that I was a little sorry to-day. And for such a trilling causo I'm ashamed to speak of it." But tho old lady insist ing with gentle persistance, she began: It is a ball I would like to go to, but cannot. I have never been to a ball, and this one you remember tho young lady who boarded at our house last summer with her father and sister" "And brother," suggested madame. "And her brother," repeated Viola, never lowering her frank blue eyes, but blushing from the tip of her round chin to the curls shading her fair brow. "Well, she and I were good frionds then, but I never dreamed she would remem ber me after she went away, for ho she I mean is rich, and I am poor, and our ways in life lie very, very far apart. But she has not forgotten me. See, madamo, here is an invitation to a ball to be given on her nineteenth birthday at hor aunt's house, only a few miles away. And and her brother signs it too. He writes a handsome hand, does ho not, madame?" "A strong, handsome hand, my dear, and he is a strong, manly fellow. I do not forget the messages he used to bring me from you, and deliver with such courtly grace. You must go to the bU" ... y "Oh, madame, it is impossible. I could not go if it were to be the simplest of parties, and it is to be a fancy dress. I have nothing to wear. You know tho crops failed last year on account of the drought. Bat what folly for me to let so slight a thing distress mo for a moment, when all at home have health and strength, and you are fast getting well?" "For which we should be and no doubt we are devoutly thankful," said the old lady, "and all the more reasons why you should go to the ball. You said just now I must be a fairy. I will prove my right to the title by being a fairy godmother. You did not know that my name was Violet. Take the key you will find under the clock on the mantle, and open the ottoman that stands yonder." "Open the ottoman, madame?" "Yes; it is a simply a cbestin disguise and in it lies your ball dress." The lid of the disguised chest was raised, a long box was lifted out and opened. An exclamation of delight burst from Viola's lips. There is a satin dress of dreamy whiteness. It unfolded into a miracle of old-fashioned loveli ness. Purple violets were scattered here and there upon tho acant skirt, as though dropped from some careless hand, and the puffed tdeeves and short waist wero made of a wreath of amber-lined luce. And then rnmn a lartra nnnint fan of sandal wood and peacock feathers, a ; nocklaco of pearls, a high tortoise-shell comu, and a pair or satin shoes with low nut heels and quefr pointei toes. "But you never mean that I should wear these, madamo," said Viola. "That do I, most surely," said madame, gayly. "I wore them, child, many years ago. And now another Violet needs them. There is fato in it. And I will put a spell upon them, and who kuows? thoy may help you to win a true lover as thoy did me." "But the shoos, madame they aro too small, I'm sure." "Try them, my doar." Viola slipped one on. "It binds across the instep, " raid she. "Tako tho scissors and cut it, then." "Oh, ninderne, it would spoil it then." "Do as I bid you. Fairy godmother must be obeyed. Now tuko the rosettes still remaining in the box, and fasten one over each shoo to hide to dnmago dono." And nith tho beautiful rosettosof satin and lace, with a "V" encircled in seed pearl in the center of each, hiding tho gaps tho scissors had rnado, the ioilet was complete. And so Viola went to the bill not ia a fino carriago drawn by prancing steeds, but in hor father's covered wagou.bohind the old farm horse. But whon she ap peared in Jho brilliantly lighted room it was rather late.for the old horse traveled slowly the creamy white satin dress clinging to her slight graceful figure, and pearls clustering around her smooth throat, her golden hair wound about the tortoise shell comb, her dimpled arms and shoulders just showing tbrongn the ancient lace, hor innooent blue eyes looking shyly over the quaint fan, and her feet clad in the queer pointed shoes, half hidden by tho great rosotoes the gay crowd felt, somo of them (the fair maidens these) with bitter onvy, that an unknown Frincoss of Beauty was among thorn. And the Prince of the reigning houso quickly followed his sister to welcomo her, loaviug a Knight with diamonds stars to epr.vLle for some faithful wor shipper. And again and again he aud the unknown Priucess danced togother until nearly daybreak, when, a servant summoning her hastily for tho farmer futher was tired of waiting sho flew to the dressing-room and one of the rosettes bursting from its fastenings on the way, away went the shoe it had helped to hold in place, down, down through tho woll of the winding staircase, to regions far below. And Viola, having the enchantment of the night still upon her, nover missed it, but hastily drawing on hor stout boots, ran to the old wagon, jumped in, and drove away in tho dim first light of the morning from tho 1'riuce and i nirylaud. But when she awoko from the deep sleep into which she sank as soon as sho reached hor noma tho sun was on its westward way she disoovered the loss, and while she was bewailing it the Prince rang at tho door. "I have a slipper, or shoe, or somo thing of tho kind," he said, taking it from the breast pocket of his fur-trimmed coat, "and as it will not fit either of my sis tors, or my cousins, or any of tho lady friends who with them bido, I thought it might fit vou." "It does not, really," said truthful Viola, with her lovely blush, "I could not havo worn it had it not been cut open in the instep I havo not an aristo cratic foot and that is how tho stitches that hold the friendly rosetto giving woy I camo it lose it. "That I, thank fortune! might find it, And now, Viola, dearest" But what need of saving more? You can all end the story for yoursolves, I am sure, even to guessing that madame lved to be a hundred years old, and never was fairy godmothor so loved and petted as sho. Famous Trees on Long Island. A white mulberry tree on the farm of Thomas Hallock ni Mattituck is 12 feet in circumference at the butt. Two pear trees near Southold are moro than 150 years old, aud eaoh is as largo near the ground as a barrol. In Aanebogue stands a black walnut tree 12 feet in ciroumforence and 100 feet aoross the top. It still boars fruit, and belongs to Daniel Corwin. A weeping willow on tho premises of Mary . Havell, in Riverhead, is now more than a century old, and is thirteen feet in ciroumfcrence noar the ground. A black walnut on tho farm of the late William Cullen Bryant is 25 feet in cir cumference IV, feet from the ground, and 120 feet across the top. It bears abund antly. Islip boasts of a pear troo whose fruit the oldest resident of tho town, who is now 80 years of age, ate when he was a bov. He says it was then a large fruit bearing tree. Last season it yielded its full oomplemont of fruit. There is a weeping beech in the old Parsons Nursery in Flushing which is 40 feet high aud about the samo distance across the top. The limbs droop to the earth all around, but leave several open ings resembling Oothio doors, through which one may pass to tho interior. Intelligent farmers overywhoro realize that a proper mixture of grain foods is more economical tnan to ieea exclusively of one or two kinds. A Connecticut farmer who makes farming pay feeds his cows two quarts daily from a mixture of 1200 pounds oi coarse wneat bran, iiw pounds of corn meal and 500 pounds of cottonseed. This is mixed by being thoroughly shoveled over on a tight barn floor. Tho same farmer thinks It pays to feed coarse bran to hogs occa sionally, when meal is fed regularly, as it keeps them in good condition. It is said that th "average yield of wheat in all parts of the Union ia put at thirteen bushels per acre, which is two bushels over the census average or ten years ago. Still, as the cost of growing wheat has increased in equal proportion by the necessity of using phosphate, it . -. ... . , -., i . is doubiiui wneiuer any locreuoeu ruui is made on the irreater average yield. Now, however, all the profit is gained by the few who manure thoroughly and grow an average crop of twenty to thirty bushels per acre. A guarantee of good faith Giving a church $10,000. Hurled Alii In tho year 1 100 Qinovra do Aniieri, a Florentine beauty, murried under pater nal prcsnire a inun who had failed to win hor heart, which she had given to An touio Kuuilimlli. Soon afterward the plague broke out in Florence: Oiuovra fell ill, apparently succumbed to tho malady, aud, being prououuood dead, was tho same day consigned to the fam ily tomb. Some one, however, had blundered in thematter.forin tho middle of the night tho entombed bride woke out of her trance, and. badly as her living rolatives had behaved, found hor dead onos still less to hor liking, and lost no timo in quilting tho silent company upon whoso quietude she had unwillingly iutruded. Speeding through tho sloop- wrapped streets as swiftly as her clinging cerements allowed, (ilnevra sought tho uome from which she bad so lately been bornoa snpposod corpse. Roused from his slumbers by a knocking at tho door, tho disconsolate widower of a day cautiously opened an upper window ,nnd, scoing a shrouded figure waiting below in whoso upturned fuco he rocognized Hie liueamouts of tho departed, ho cried in alarm. "Oo iu peace, blessed spirit." aud shut the window precipitately. With sickened heart and slackened stop the repulsed wife made hor way to hor fathor's door, to rocoivo a like beni son from her dismayed paront. Then sho crawled to an unelo's houso, w hero tho door was indeed openod, only to bo slammed in her face by the frightened man, n ho in his hurry forgot even to bless his ghostly caller. Tho cool night air penetrating the un dress of the hapless wanderer mado her tremble and shiver, as she thought she had wukod to Jife only to dio again in tho cruel streets. "Ah I' she sighed, "Antonio would not havo proved so unkind." This thought naturally suggested that it was her duty to test his courage and love; it would be time enough to dio if he proved like tho rest. Tho way was long, but hope renervod hor limbs, and soon Ginevra was knocking timidly at Rondinolli'a door. He opened it himself, and, although startled by tho ghastly vision, calmly inquired what tho spirit wanted with him. Throwing her shroud away from her faco, Ginevra ox olairccd: "I am no spirit. Antonio; I am that Ginevra you ouoo loved, who was buried yesterday buried alivel" and foil sense ess into the welcoming arras of hor as tonished and delighted lovor.wboso cries for help soon brought down his sympa thizing family to hear the wondrous story, and to bear its heroine to bed, to bo tenderly nursod until sho had recov ered from tho shock, and was as beauti ful as ever again. Then came the dillicnlty. as Ui nevra to return to the man who had buriod her and shut his door against her.or give herself to the man who had saved her from the second death? With mich pow f ul spcoiul pleaders as love and gratitude on his side, of courso Rondinolli won tho day. and a privato marriage mado tuo lovers amends for previous disappoint ment. They, however, had no intontion of keopicg in hiding, but tho very first Sunday aftor they became man and wife appeared in public together at tho cathedral, to the confusion and wonder of Ginevra's friends. An explanation ensued, which satisfied overy body ex ccpt the lady's first husband, who insistod that nothing but her dying in genuiuo earnest could dissolvo the original mat rinioui.il bond. Tho case was reforrod to tho bishop, who, having no precedent to curb his decision, rose superior to technicalities, and declared that tho first husband had forfeited air right to Ginevra, and must pay over to Rondi nolli tho dowry he had received with hor; a decroe at which, we may rest assured, all truo lovers in Uorenee heartily re joiced. Fixing tho Door. There was a crack under the kitchen door a crevice large enough for one to put a hand under and early in IN o vein ber Mrs. Cripso began saying: "Now, Cripso, don't lot this day pass without nailing down a cloat to stop that crevico. It will let in more cold this winter than two tons of coal can drive out." And Cripso began replying: "Certainly, my doar certainly. That crevico shall bo stopped this very day. On fifteen different occasions in No vember sho rominded him of the fact that he had forgotton that crevico. In December the number of occasions was twonty. During tho month of January she spoke of it twonty-two times. In February she began referring to the matter at each meal, and the other day bIio nailed him down with the remark: "Cripso, I am going down town, and I'll stop on my way and ask a carpenter to come up and hi that door. Til fix it." "No you won't! You just lot it alone. I ll have a carpenter hero borore night, and that door will be fixed." "I say I'll fix it mysolf right away now," and in five minutes he had saw and hammer and cleat, ami was at tho job.f Mrs. Cripso went off chuckling over her victory, and upon her return her husband said: "Well, the old crevice is shut up." "You fixod it. eh?" "Fixed it better than any carpenter you conld have sent up, and in ten min utes, too. (Jome and soe. She took one look at hia work, and then sat down and whispered: "Cripso, you have just missed it by a hair s breadth. "What?" "Being born a fool! You have nailed the cleat to the floor inside the door!" So!he had. Ue had shut the crevice and door. too. and when he camo to reul izel it he walked bIowIt out into the back yard and tried to saw his bead off on the clothes line. Cent Per Cent. The yearning after wealth is confined to no clans or condition of mankind. In some cases, however, the longing is of abnormal development, instances are noted where it has become a disease, and yesterday a reporter came In contact with three in which the symptoms were so pronounced as to call for comment. Tha renortar aa in trouble and needed money to meet pressing obligations. Ha bad seen an advertisement oi a concern on Dearborn street which offered to loan him "any amount " on furnituro, pianos and other securities "at low rates. Ho accordingly made application. "les, nr. we loan money. How much do you want?" "Ono hundred dollars1 "For what time?" "Three months." "What security?" "Furniture." "What is the furniture worth?" "About 8 1000." "It wilt cost you five per cent a month." "That would b3 fifteen dollars for three months?". "Yos, and yon would havo to pay for tho acknowledging and recording." " hat is the extra cost for acknowl edgment and record?" "We charco 00 cents for acknowledg ing aud SI for recording. Ono hundred dollars for thrco months will cost you S1U.&0." At another effico on the same street tho scribo wanted 8200 for thrco months. and was informed that the total charge for the accommodation would be lhe philanthropist added: "We chargo fc5 for examining tho fur nituro, making on', tho papers and re cording the chattel mortgage." Un Madison street tho rcportor con sulted a man who advertised to make "confidential loanB." Ho was told that tho use of $150 for threo months would cost him 829.50. "Isn't that pretty steep?" "Oh, no; somo brokers will oharge you six and seven per cent a month and take out tho first month's interest wliou thoy advance tho money." "What rato do you cliargo?" "Fivo per cent per month." "How do yon make out 829.50?" "I chargo 87 for making ont tho papers. iho roportor concluded that seventy- eight per ccut a year was a peg beyond I - . l h-. it ..i i . ma auiuiy ami ne wunurew, congratulat ing tho confidential loanor upon the evo lutions of a system by which he was yearly receiving 8118 for tho use of 8150. Chicago Tribune. SELECTED MISCELLANY. Tho nature of bad news affects tho teller. Shakspore. From tho lowest depth thore is a path to tho loftiest height. If thero is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is tho porson of whom you should never speak.. Tho affeotions are like lightning; you cannot tell where they will striko till thoy havo fallen. It is hard to personate and aot a part long, for w hero truth is not at the bot tom, naturo will peep out and betray herself one time or other. Advorsity has ovor boon considered as tho Btato in which a man most easily bo comes acquainted with himself parti cularly, being freo from flatterers. Consider how much moro you ofton suffer from your anger and grief, than for thoso very things for which you are angry and grieved. What man is thero whom oontact with a groat soul will not exalt? A drop of water upon tho potal of a lotus glistons with the splondouro of tho poarl. Nothing so inoroases roveronoo for others hs a great sorrow to ono s sou. It teaches one the depths of human nature In happiness we are shallow and doom others so. Tho nowspapor Is a mirror, into which pooplo look to see something of them selves rofiocted. If in that mirror thoir follies and errors are made to soem wis dom and virtue, thon hurin is dono. If, on tho other hand, they aro shown their montal and moral images without favor or prejudico, the effect is liolpful Fidelity if still the tost of the glass. Prof. S. Semstrom, of the Finnish Ob scrvatory at Sodankyla, rocontly placed a galvanio battory ou a hill with oonduo tors covering an area of 000 square me ters. Aftor a short time a curious phe nomenon was disoovorod. The oone was found to bo surrounded with a halor; this eOulgonco was of a yollow-white color, and it gave faintly, but porfeotly, tho spectrum of tho aurora boroalis. t ur ther experiments confirm the aecuraoy of the first observation. The result wss not due to local or incidental oiroumstances. America Always Ahead. W. Sandy, M. A., D. D., Profossor of tho Exegesis of tho Holy Scripturos at Oxford, is graciously pleased to speak well of certain American accomplish ments. "Clearness and exactitude," he says, "aro qualities that seem to bo fast becoming national characteristics (in America), as our burly Knghsh stock is toned down and refined by other climatio and social influences. The flue precis ion of American mechanism has long been acknowledged Soiontifio transac tions and observations (those in astron omy for instanco) are published not only at lavish expense that may be taken as a matter of courso but with a delicate accuracy which surpasses the best European workmanship. Again, in clas sical philology it appears that we are go ing to America for our best grammars and dictionaries. And I can appeal to even a wider circle to corroborate me whon I refer to the finish and delicacy of Amoricnn ongraving. Amorioan tliool oev is a rising school; and it is being condncted, as I cannot but think, on lines that promise woll for the future." Simple Cure fur Cold Feet. The following remedy for col 1 foot is recommended by the Fireman's Journal for sedentary sufferers, as well as police men, car drivers, and othera who are ex posed to tho cold: All that is necessary is to stand erect and very gradually to lift one's self up upon the tips of the toes, so as to put all the tendons of the foot at full strain. This is not to hop or jump up and down, but simply to rise the slower the better upon tiptoe, and to remain standing on the point of the toes as long, as posiible, then gradually coming to the natural position. Repeat this several times, and, by the amount of work the tips of the toca are made to do in sustaining the body a weight, a sum cient and lively circulation is set up. A heavy pair of woolon stockings drawn over thin cotton ones is also a recommen dation for keepiog the feet warm, and at the same time preventing their brooming tender and sore. AGRICULTURE. Keen vonr fowls under as even a tem perature as possible The trees in moat oroharda in nlnntmt (oo olosoly.and the treo roots interlaco so ai to rob each other of what fertility each should have. Market gardenit. is a rennmoralive business when a mun understands it, but is far from beiug an easy road to weulth for thoso who havo all tho dotails to loaru. It is said that tho American is superior to tho European teasel, and thut tho ultivation of this plant can bo engaged in profitably by the farmers of this country. Brooders of Houdun fowls would do well to put themsolves in communication with Mrs. L. P. Smith, Mountain Creek, Chilton county, Ala. Sho "would prefer somo ono who makes a spooialty of rais ing uoudans. Tho Courier-Journal has a corro- spondont at Snowdown, Alabama, who is in search of Osngo orange soed. Ho also wants some one to toll him all about how Osngo hedges are made, especially, "bow long it takes to make a good hodgo." Langstroth. on "Tho Honey Bee." ia the best authority for a begionor to go 1 1- .1 . 1 a nt uy in mis nuo mat we Knew oi. rue price of Langstroth's book is 82. Orders for it addrossod to the Courier Journal and accompanied by this sum will be filled. If cabbages are set out ono yard oaoli way, nearly 5000 can be grown on one aero. Such being the case, it is a profit able orop whon succosssully grown, but on account of us keeping qualities, affords green food in winter for animals and poultry, to say nothing of the family. Tho Irish harvest for 1882 is 830.000.- 000 less than that of 1881. The failure of tho potato crop is tho chief cause of tho uulloionoy. A yoar ago large quan tities of Irish potatoes wero shipped to this country. Now many thousand peoplo are suffering from lack of nocos sary food. Potatoes intonded for planting should be spread out thinly in tho light, and this for tho reason that "whon a potato is thus exposed in a collar, the eyes nearly all start a good healthy groon sprout; but if in a pilo, or in darkness, only tho strongest eyes grow long.whito, wortuioss sprouts. Prof. Sholton, of the Kansas Stato Agricultural Collego, holds that the cul tivation of such crops as broom corn. iiomp, liax, aud, perhaps, oistor beans, which furnish but little, if any. Btock foed, will ultimately lead to serious con sequences in the loss of fortility sus tained in the lands so cultivated. In transplanting trees all the roots which may havo beoomo brnisod or broken in tho process of lifting should bo cut clean away behind the broken part, as they thon more steadily striko out new roots from the cnt parts. In all such cases the cut should be a clean sloping one, and mado in an upward and outward direction. It is important for farmers and garden ers to romembor that "if seeds are to be kept over a yoar. they should bo placed in a cool pluco and exposed to light and air. Kooping them in the dark woukena vitality, perhaps from tho tendency to grow which darkness incites, but unac companied by moistnro enough to put forth leaf and root." . How shall I get a good herd of cows? is the question among many young farmers. Thoroughbred cows cost too much, but you can get a full blooded bull from good milking stock, broed to good native cows, and raise the calvos. The calves take more from the male than the fonialo. In a few years you will have a good herd of cows for milk, iTave Fitch, of Collego Hill, Arkansas, grew last season 1005 pounds of ginnod ootton on an aoro. Owing to rains and cold weathor, he replanted four times, the last planting being tho first of June. The cotton bofore the seod was taken out weighed 2821 pounds.and the total value of cotton and seod was something more than $100 nor acre. The cotton was of the upland variety. The report is that "the Stato Chemist of Georgia hasfound by analysis that one bushel of tweet potatoes oontains halt as much nutrition as a bushel of corn, two bushels of potatoes equaling one bushel of corn for fat-producing purposes. If this is oorreot it is important, sinco there ia much land In tho south which, unable to yiold ovor forty burhols of corn per acre, will produce from 100 to 150 bush els of sweet potatoes." The observation is that "in sotting an orchard it is woll to gut it on upland, not only on account of bettor drainage, but also because trees sot on alluvial soil make a growth of leaves and wood rathor than of fruit. On low ground the fruit will often bo largo, but . not so well col orod or highly flavored as on uplund, whero tho wood growth is smaller and both loaves nd fruit have a fuller ex posure to the sun's rays." Every flock ownor should improve hia Hook year by year, by the use of good bucks, and keeping the best ewe lambs and disposing of the oldest sheep in the flock. It is very poor economy, indoed, to soil off tho lambs every yoar and keep the old sheep until they are ten or twelve years old, because the flock by thia method will not yiold as much profit aa by a judicious system of weeding out annually. It is said that "however fertile a soil may be, not morepperhaps, than one per cent of its substance is at any moment, in a fit condition for nourishing the crops. The great bulk of this fertility is unavailable to the plant at any one time, and is only slowly liberated by the ac tion of air, of moisture, of heat and of manure. It is npon the rate at which the liberation of plant-food takes place that the natural fertility of tb soil mar be aaid, in a great moasure, to depend. In associated dairying, where the milk or cream of a township ia oolleoted or worked up in one depot and where the returns so greatly depend upon a contin uously equal quality of the product, ex periments in feeding cannot be allowed, and all doubtful food should be tabooed for the general good. The men who be liove they can feed cabbages and turnips without affecting the milk and not be discovered, and who now and then do i to find out, are not the proper compant ions in associated dairying,