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AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
Devoted to the
Interests of
Stockmen.
Farmer and
4i ran I us 'lc.
Many of those who havo planted
fig trees liiivc been disappointed when
fhe fruit appeared by having them
turn out to bo something different
from what was expected. In order to
remedy tho mistake as cheaply as pos
sible it is evident that resort must be
had to grafting, and a correspondent
of tho Jlural Press furnishes tho fol
, lowing as his method of accomplish
ing the desired result: Saw off the
limb; split it tluough the center. If
the limb is two to four inches in
diameter put in two grafts one next
to each side of bark. Cut the wedge
like, taper about four inches long and
havo one or two buds only. Tho cion
should be one-half inch or lets in
diameter. When the grafts sire both
forced into the spKt there will be con
siderable spaco unoccupied. Fill tho
space with hot grafting wax that is,
heat the wax so hot as to How very
readily. Then, with a paddle, cover
the ond of tho limb around the grafts,
also fho ends of grafts, also tho edges
of. graft and limb, after which take a
strip of muslin ono inch wide and
three or four feet long (must be strong),
and wrap tho limb and graft, com
mencing an inch or two below the
lowest extremity of the split, wrapping
and drawing tho muslin very light, at
the Hiinio time waxing each turn of the
cloth with tho hot wax, using tho pad
dle. "When wrapped to tho top of tho
stub wr.ip tho muslin between and
around each cion, waxing carefully
and thoroughly. The whole secret is
to keep the air excluded from the cut.
Fig bark shrinks very quickly so
quick and so much that tho graft, has
not timo to take beforo tho bark is
drawn away from it and tho sap chan
nels are dry. Tho hot wax is the only
perfect way to protect it from the air,
and closo and tight wrapping is to pre
vent shrinking of the bark. In other
respects the rules of any other graft
ing hold good.
Crop reports in tho western states
are very favorable.
Ono cattleman in Wasco county,
Oregon, -lost l,.r)00 head of cattle.
Tlie loss of stock in Crook county,
Oregon, is estimated at 10 per cent.
It is estimated that 30,000 sheep
have died in Morrow county, Oregon,
this winter.
In Kentucky last year nearly 5,000,
000 bushels more of corn was raised
than in 1SS5.
Minnesota is shipping wheat to
Europe via the Mississippi river and
Now Orleans.
At a recent exhibition in England,
whore prizes wore given for walking
horses, the speed attained was over
live miles an hour.
If swine are to be kept on tho farm
i, i,nut ...nr.t n,in i. f 1 J
finest breeds that run into matured
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meat the first year.
It is said that since tho general in
troduction of alfalfa in Colorado the
keeping of bees has become a very
profitable business, that plant furnish
ing an abundance of forage for the
little insects.
A Boston commission house
handled two tons of cabbages so skill
fully that tho shipper had 9 cents
left after all charges were paid. If he
sends another lok his own head will go
along with it.
The Montana Wool Grower estimates
that there will bo nearly a million
sheep sheared in that Territory this
year, producing at least 8,000,000
poundi of wool a million pounds
more tliau tho product in 188G.
Don't put off trimming tho vines
too late in the season, or it cannot bo
dono at all. If tho sap begins to How,
tho cutting of tho vines will cause
them to "bleed," and tho consequence
will bo no fruit. Trim when tho
weather is cold.
A Fronch correspondent of a Lon
don paper states that Hampshiro
down lambs of his raising ot nine
months old dressed thirty-seven pounds
to tho quarter. A yearling wether
eighteenmonths old weighed, when
dressed, 25G pounds.
A hoo for uso in a garden requires
as much care as a scythe that is used
for cutting grass. It should bo sharp
enough to cut off tho roots of all
kinds of weeds and should havo so
good a polish that it can bo moved
through tho soil without much exhibi
tion of strength.
A leading commission houso in
Milwaukeo has received overtures
from a representative of tho German
Government for 200,000 bushels of oats
for immediate shipment, and it was
learned that inquiries havo been
made in other markets for largo quan
tities of oats, corn and wheat for Ger
man consumption. Straws show
which way tho wind blows.
A resident of San Francisoo is tho
owner of a hen which has developed a
curious freak. She lays nothing hut
eggs of largo size, measuring 1 inches
by GJ, and thereabouts, and each egg
contains two yelks fully as largo as
found in ordinary sized eggs. These
double-ynlked egga are laid daily, the
enterprising hen not skipping each
alternate day, as might bo supposed.
A breed of hens which would possess
tins peculiarity always would bo a val
uable acquisition.
The beokeopors of Colorado recently
umic vuiiiuuuuii in, uonvor, in
.....w wiumuiu points wero
brought out concerning this inihmtrv
Among other things it seems that tho
most successful apiarians of Colorado
are women, and tho convention was
largely composed of thorn. There
was a good exhibit of honey and bee-
Koeping appliances, and much nttcn
"on was attracted by a display of
comb honey made entirelv from
awuna. it was snow white anil ot re
markably fine flavor.
A large per cent, of estern tree-
planters need not be told that we have
no other tree euually rapid in growth
which has proven as durable for posts,
vine stakes and hop poles as the lo
cust. Yet very few seem aware of the
fact that grown intermingled with
trees with heavier fohago it is not at
tacked by tho borer to anv serious ex
tent. Professor. Build has recently
lost no opportunitv for advising the
general planting of this trco for econ
omic use over our great western
prairies. But plant it in alternate
rows with green ash, box-elder, soit
maple, catalpa, or some other dense
foliaged tree that will shade ttfe stems
of the locust.
Sir John B. Lawes says the German
experiments upon cooked and un
cooked food for stock do not show any
clear evidence in favor of the former,
and the process of steaming and other
modes of converting dry food into
succulent food havo never become
popular among practical farmers in
England, and he is inclined to think
that too much value is placed upon
succulent food as compared with dry
food for stock for meat production ;
for milk production, especially where
quantity rather than quality is the
object, he thinks succulent food would
certainly havo an advantage; but he
is doubtful whether ono would pro
duco more butter-fat than tho other.
Harvesting by night as well as by
day, went on in New South Wales in
December, lamps being used, as there
was no harvest, moon. Tho self-binding
machines diil their work so per
fectly Unit nothing but a light to keep
them in tho right track was needed.
Experiments in growing wheat in this
colony where it has not been com
monly cultivated havo not proved en
couraging, splendid crops, promising
forty bushels an acre, having been so
badly injured by rust that they had
to bo cut for hay. Another disadvan
tage under which the colony has suf
fered this year was a plague of cater
pillars in gardens and vineyards. Tho
unusual spectacle of immense swarms
of butterflies is reported from ono dis
trict, myriads Hying past continuously
from '3 p. m. till sundown.
Canon Bagot reports that tho aver
age cost of making butter at three
Irish creameries and placing it in tho
English markets is proved by exact
accounts to be 1A pence a pound, in
cluding all the working expenses of
tho factories, tho casing of tho butter,
carriage and commission, but, of
course, exclusivo of tho cost of tho
cream. The net prices paid to the
farmers who supplied tho cream varied
from 7 pence per pound of butter, the
lowest prico in July, to 1 shilling, the
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exceptionally low in July. Lhocanon
in nt AimuMi that lit I ha
is of opinion that by the adoption of
tho cream separator and tho use of
the separated milk on tho farm, the
cream bein jt sent to tho factory, Irish
dairy farmers may take the first rank
and beat their foreign competitors in
quality and prico.
The outlook for the hop growers of
tho Pacific coast this season seems to
be fully as encouraging as last year.
Every one is familiar with tho almost
total loss of tho hop crop in Central
New York in 18SG owing to tho rav
ages of lice, but it was supposed that
tho coming season would seo a recov
ery from tho depression, as it was
thought hardly probable that tho
scourge would again cause damage.
But it seems that not only did the
insects kill tho foliago of tho hop
"ines, but in many cases tho roots of
t e plants themselves wero ruined and
v will be necessary in the majority of
cases to replant the j arils. Should
his bo generally done oven then tho
crop would bo a light ono this season.
But it is reported that tho hop grow
ers aro so discouraged that while thoy
will plow up their ruined yards, thoy
will not again venture in the samo
direction, but will turn their attention
to grain, potatoes and other ordinary
farm crops. In any event tho hop
product of Contral Now York will cut
a very small figure in tho market this
season, and for that reason hop grow
ers in the Northwest should bo charv
in making contracts at prices vory
much less than were obtained last
year.
Many orchards aro set out in
autumn ; still more in spring ; but,
whether set in autumn or spring, the
ground should he well prepareit in
autumn. If the soil holds water in
wet seasons, it must bo woll under-
drained. Subsoihng in most localities
is of much valuo. This work, it is
true, may bo imperfectly performed
after tho trees are set and aro grow
ing ; hut tho work is more easily dono
and in a better manner beforehand.
Some persons mistakenly recommond
setting trees whero nothing else can
bo raised, as on hillsides or among
rocks and stono3 ; but as a good and
well-managed orchard is commonly
moro profitable for tho acre it occupies
than almost any other crop, tho best
ground should bo chosen for it, so that
good cultivation may ho given. it
was formerly recommended to dig
wide holes. This practice answered
well for a limited number of trees,
whore tho subsoil was .hard and had
mot boon loosened. Thero aro few
soils too rich to impart a good healthy
growth to young trees in connection
with mellow culture for tho first five
or tix years. Tho test of this is "the
measured length of tho annual shoots.
If these shoots aro not at loast two
feet long whilo tho troes aro young,
manuro must bo added ; and after at
taining good Btze and beaiing largely,
thoy should bo at loast a foot long
every fcummer.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Tho people of Paris cat 2,000,000
larks every year.
The cook in an I n ;lish clergy
man's family has just received a legacy
of $1,500,000.
it is roportcu mat last year moro
than 100,000 emigrants wont to tho Ar
gentine Republic, most of them from
Italy.
King Kalakaua of tho Hawaiian
Islands has gambled away $74,000 de
posited by poor people in the Postal
Savings Bank.
Sir Thomas Gladstone, brother of
the cx-Premior, is a strong Conserva
tive, and an unequivocal opponent of
home rule in Ireland.
A French crank's csthnato of hu
inanity in 1S8G foots up "a lot of fools
who spend most of their time and
nionev in making iron balls to go
through steel plates and in making
steel plates to keep out iron balls."
The Duke of Devonshire, tho Duko
of Westminster and the Duko of Bed
ford havo incomes ranging from $1,
600,000 to $2,500,000 a year. No ono
thinks of trying to estimate their pos
sessions in any other way.
The other day at Oxford a man
who had insisted on keeping bees was
plainly told by a local dignitary that
his bees must ho sent away becauso a
gentleman commoner had just been
stung. Ho replied instantly: "Mr.
Dean, I assure you that you aro doing
us a great injustice. 1 know that bco
well. He is not mino at all, but be
longs to Mr. Bigg, of Merton."
To show how enormously tho cost
of a first-elas iron elad has increased
of late years in England, Lord Brassey
states that the propelling machinery of
tho Howe has cost $515,000, as against
the $310,000 of tho Devastation; and
tho latter ship has no hydraulic ni;w
chinery, which in the Howe adds to tho
expense to tho tune of $375,000.
At the Lord Mayor's banquet about
400 quarts of turtlo soup aro provided,
110 dishes of game, 400 chickens and
capons, 85 turkeys, 3G hams, 150 lobster
salads, CO meat pies, 120 quarts jellies
and 200 dishes of pastry. Two great
barons of beef, each 150 pounds in
weight, arc leaturcs ot tho least. About
four hundred people prepare and wait
on tho feast.
According to Ij'Elcctricicn, M. II.
Dunvillo pledged his scientific reputa
tion to the accuracy of tho following
observation: "If two glasses of water
bo placed, ono upon tho north polo of a
powerful magnet, and tho other upon
tho south pole, in four or fivo minutes
tho former acquires a slight alkalino
reaction, while that on the south polo
becomes slightly acid."
Bene Goblet, tho now French Pre
mier, is described by tho London 'Truth
as "a beautifully-built Tom Thumb,
with a big head, staring and prominent
bluo eves, a long and snubby-ended
nose, and an air of splendid self-confidence.
He is as aggressive as a game
cock, fond of badgering a Clerical as a
dog is of worrying a cat; no Bed Radi
cal, but a reduced copy in Republican
surroundings of tho skeptical, liberal
nil frondeur bourgeois of Louis
Pliilippo's time. Mine. Goblet is a tall
woman, 'lie seems, on entering a
drawing-room behind her, liko a torpedo-boat
in tho wako of a largo
steamer."
SHETLAND ISLANDERS.
SliiRlo-IlPiirtiNl Men nnil Women Xotml for
Their Industry ami Honesty.
Tho Shetland and Orkney islands bo
longed to Norway until 11G8, when, as
history informs us, "thoy wero un
pledged to James tho Third of Scotland
as a part of tho dowry given with his
Queen," for about that timo ho was
married to Princess Margaret of Don
mark. It is added that "theso islands
wero never redeemed."'
Shetlanders aro a small, activo and
harih' people, vory genial, too, and dis
tinguished, whether rich or poor, for
very industrious habits. No less aro
they noted for intense lovo of country.
Much of tho farm-work is carried on
by tho women of tho household. Fields
and gardens aro their great delight
Thoy aro adepts in culinary lore, and
spin, woavo and mako up stores of
household linen and flannels. No less
successfully do thoy cut and mako
all family clothing, and as well
pride themselves upon tho num
ber of bags of stockings, thick
and warm, which they exhibit to
neighbors and friends with intenso
satisfaction. Thrift and thoughtfulncss
develop many bright touches of orna
mentation, but tho maiden's own wit
must doviso tho outlining, her own
dainty touch accomplish tho dclicato
needle-work. Sliop3 full of beautiful
patterns and givy-huod materials aro
unknown joys in Shotlaudom. Tho
flowers of the field and tho trees of tho
wood must furnish not only patterns,
but the coloring needed for their wools
and threads. Every maiden must bo
her own purveyor for every pigment
needed.
Tho great luxury of tho peasant
women is tea-drinking. This article,
brought from distant ports, would bo
beyond their mcati3 unless secured by
exchange, and is said to ho a universal
means of payment for littlo sorvlces
rendered. An errand involving hours
of travel will bo cheerfully accom
plished for "one drawing" of tho
ycarned-for refreshment, and this may
be said of many household services.
Skillful spinners will gladly "givo
many turns to tho wheel" for a com
plement of tho delicious bovcrago.
Sheep aro largely a source of trade to
fanners of those islands; tho mutton Is
dark in color anil of lino flavor, the
fleece is soft and of such delicate text
ure that from it may bo spun a thread
as flimsy as daintiost cambric; ono thou-
1 yards are often spun from ono
mnco oi wool, each thread being three
fold, thus making three thousand yards
in all. Stockings knit from this can bo
Irawn through a finger-ring, and for
such delicate hosiery two guineas per
pair, or even more, aro often paid.
Within a few years moro and moro of
this oxquisito thread is used in making
shawls, pure white or dark gray, which
command Tery high prices; they aro
liko cobwebs for delicacy and light
ness. ' What the camel is to an Arab, tho
sure-footed, tough-fibred pony is to tho
Shctlander. Ono familiar with their
customs has said that though bred wild
on tho heaths, tho "shelties," as the
ponies are sometimes called, can bo
tamed in ono night. The hunter,
throwing his lasso with skill, secures a
frisky colt, and for twenty-four hours
keeps him a prisoner. Tho small erent
n ro hears no other voice than his mas
ter's; tho hunter feeds and caresses him,
and gradually tho terrible restlessness
subsidos. Hereafter ho becomes a do
cile, atl'eetionato burden-bearer and
companion. Ho needs no stable, and
has a happy faculty of enjoying what
ever ho finds to eat. A dun-colored
"sheltio" of exquisite symmetry, seen
by a tourist, could stand under a din-ing-table,
and a Utile lady could seat
herself upon its back without, lifting
her feet from tho ground. They aro
favorites for tho saddle, and many are
sent to other countries for tho pleasure
of ladies and children.
Nearly all Shetlanders can read and
write, and are .scrupulously attentive to
tho simple religious services of their
church.
As everywhere olso in tho world, su
perstitions havo crept in among theso
simple-hearted islanders", and aro
handed down from ono generation to
another. Notablv is that called "cured
by tho coin." For tho scrofula noth
ing is regarded as so efficacious as "tho
touch of a royal hand." As a substi
tute, a few crowns or half-crowns of
the coinage of Charlos I., carefully
handed down from father to son, aro
accoptcd as effectual. Harper's Bazar.
AN AMERICAN TRAIT.
Tlmrkrray'i Kxperlonro AVlth Ono of tho
Onro I'iiukhm "llowory lloyt."
In tho United States tho absonco of
that segregation of tho various grados
of society which exist in Europo is
ovinced by tho habits and manners of
tho masses in that country. If tho na
tional independence of character bo oc
casionally pushed too far and degener
ates into offensive self-assertion, at
least it prevents anj' approach to ser
vility. No inequality of position or
circumstances will induce a nativo of
inyof tlio Northern States to submit
to being dealt with in tho manner or
spoken to in tho tone which in England
tho man in broadcloth too often adopts,
is a matter of course, toware tho man
in fustian. Tho lato Sidney Godolphin
Osborne used to relate how, once, a ro
spcctablo arti.an said to him: "I liko
you, my Lord;thcro is nothing of tho gen
tleman about you." 'Iho moaning of
tho speaker was undoubtedly that Lord
Osborne did not treat him in tho
patronising maimer that members -of
tho higher class usually address those
whom thoy regard as their social in
feriors. Now, no ono perhaps has a
keener appreciation of tho advantages
of wealth and education than tho
American; but that tho possessor of
them should feel himself justified in
using toward Iho man who lacks theso
idvantageous gifts tho language of a
superior to an inferior is what ho can
not understand and which ho will not
for one moment put up with.
An anocdoto Thackeray used to ro-
lato of an experience of his when in tho
United States well illustratt.o tho trait
of tho people. While in New York ho
expressed to a friend a dosiro to soo
soino of the "Bowory b'hoys," who, ho
had hoard, wero a class of tho com
munity peculiar to that city. So ono
evening ho was taken to the Bowery
and ho was shown a "b'hoy." ' Tho
young man, tho business of tho day
being over, had changed his attiro. Ho
wore a dross coat, black trousers and a
satin wajstcoat, whilo a tall hat rosted
on tho back of his head, which was
adorned with a long, woll-groasod hair
known as "soap-locks" a stylo which
tho rowdies of that -day affected. Tho
youth was leaning against a lamp-post,
smoking an enormous cigar, and his
wholo aspect was ono of inoH'ablo self
satisfaction. Tho eminent novelist,
after contemplating him for a few
moments with silont admiration, said
to tho gentleman by whom ho was ac
companied: "This is a great and
gorgeous creature!" adding: "Can I
speak to him without his taking of
fense?" Recoiving an answer in tho affirm
ative, Thackeray wont up to tho fellow,
on tho pretext of asking his way, and
said: "My good man, I want to go to
Broonio street."
But tho unlucky phraso, "My good
man," roused tho gall of tho individ
ual spoken to. Instead, therefore, of
affording tho information sought", tho
"b'hoy" a diniinutivo specimen of
humanity, scarcely over livo feet in
height eyeing the tall form of his in
terlocutor askance, answered thoquory
in the senso that his permission had
been asked for tho spoakor to visit tho
locality in question, and ho said, patron
izingly: "Well, sonny, yer kin go thar."
When Thackeray subsequently re
lated tho incident ho laughingly de
clared that ho was so disconcerted by
tho unexpected rosponso that ho had
not the courage to continue tho dia
logue. Chambers' Journal.
Intellectual Boston chews moro
sprueo gum than any othor city in tho
country, but intellectual Chicago comes
next on tho list Chicago Times.
CHINESE FARMING.
Tho Comfortable. Cnuillttnn of tho Oelei-
Mill Kmplru'A Agricultural lVipulntinn
In passing through tho silk-growing
district which begins verv near to
Shanghai and extends all round to the
city of Hangeliow, I could but be
struck indeed with tho comfort whicl
prevailed every where. Tho farm
houses of China, or at any rato in that
part of China, wero models of what
farm houses should bo. I had expected
to seo squalor and wretchedness, and
was all prepared for what I really be
hold. Exceedingly good gardening I
was of course prepared for, for Chi
nese gardening is synonymous with
everything that is neat and productive,
But tho orchards nnd mulberry .trees
nil beautifully trimmed, with tho brick-
built ami excellent houses half-hidden
away in them, certainly astonished mo.
I chanced to land from my house-boat
frequently in order to shoot wood
cock, lor it was in win
ter time when I passed throng
the district. To got those birds it was
necessary to Fcrainblo over tho fields
and through tho mulberry orchards of
tho districts, and I was simply amazed
to see how beautifully tho trees wero
kept. Underneath great quantities of
vegetables wero grown, not a foot of
earth appeared to bo wasted, and every
inch was in tho most superb order.
Had tho wholo country been a vast
gardon, it could not havo been better
tended and cared for. There wero not
hereabouts any hedges or walls, tho
fields were divided from each other by
deep dykes, which served tho double
purpose of marking out tho land and
lmgr.ting or ilraining, as the caso
might be, tho adjacent soil. Tho trees,
of which there wero myriads, wero all
planted with mathematical exactness
and in tho greatest order, unliko tho
trees in many English orchards, which
seem to havo been stuck into the ground
with a view of wasting as much spaco
as possible. And as for tho tops of tho
trees, they had all boon carefully trim
med to the samo pattern, every littlo
bough having been inspected and cut
as circumstances chanced to require.
I never saw anything half so orderly in
any country in tho world; for theso
wero no ornamental gardens which I
was going through, but mulberry orch
ards, extending over hundreds of
squaro miles of country, and owned by
thousands of dilYerent husbandmen.
Inside tho house, again I was surprised
at tho comfort which prevailed. In
each ono there wero at least two rooms
sot apart especially for tho silk-worms,
and theso wero kopt scrupulously clean.
Tho other rooms of tho house were well
lurnislieil, coinfortahlo anil warm in
every caso very clean also; and I did
not seo in any country houso any of tho
squalor or misery ono sees in many
English, Scotch, and especially Irish
districts.
At tho timo whon I was in this
country, too, thero was a very general
fooling of increased contentment
springing up, owing to the opening of
some largo silk-winding factories at
Shanghai by American and English
linns. Hitherto tho winding of tho
silk from the cocoons had been dono in
most cases by the silk growers them
selves, and tho demand for tho silk thus
indifferently wound and tho prices paid
for it wero alike small. But with tho
establishment of silk-winding factories,
fulled with steam and machinery, at
Shanghai, it was hoped and expected
by tho silk growers that tho prico of
cocoons would go up, and that conse
quently silk growing would hnprovo as
an industry. In any caso tho entiro
population seemed to bo prosperous
and well contented. It docs not always
do to take tho dross of any China
man as an index to the wealth ho may
possess. Ho may have ninny reasons
among them being tho dread of at
tracting tho attention of some ra
pacious mandarin for not showing
moro richness of attiro than is abso
lutely necessary, and ho may prof or to
go about in warm rags than run tho
risk of being "squeezed" by tho local
officials, so that many a traveler may
mistake this intentional poverty of at
tiro for want of monoy. I had pointed
out to mo in Canton ono day, for exam
ple, a particularly woc-bcgono-looking
Chinaman going up tho streot. The
gentleman who was with mo, and who
was a resident on tho ndjacont island
of Shamien, said: "Poor? I wish I was
as rich as that Chinaman. Why, half
tho European houses hero nro in his
debt; hut if ho showed this by his dress
tho Mandarin horo would soon bor
row a trifle of him." London Morning
Post.
USEFULNESS OF GIRLS.
Why Kviry Yoiiiir AVoiniin Nlioulil Ao
quire, it Knowledge, of llonxfi-Wnrk.
There is a largo class of Americans
people of opulence, men of acquired
or inherited wealth who do not hosi
tato to inculcate tho belief among their
children, and especially their daught
ters, that it is useless and unnecessary
for them to learn to do any thing use
ful in connection with domestic manual
labor. It is no uncommon expression
in tho higher circles of society for la
dies to declaro: "My husband" or
"my father is rich, why, then, should I
demean myself by manual labor?"
In such "society" it is
deemed vulgar for a lady to know how
to do a useful thing in connection with
housekeeping. Parents in tlioso oases
rear their daughters not to learn to do
tho useful, and many mothers, whoso
husbands aro under a hard strain overy
day in tho year to find tho wherewithal
to keep up appearances Impress their
daughters with tho idea that labor Is
degrading, and that a hand which
shows any sign of manual work will
not bo sought in marriago by a gontlo
man, Wo confess wo do not know how
true this is. If it is correct, then it Is
the evidence of a lack of manhood, and.
if it is not true, it is a wicked libel on
tho character of an American gentle
man. Girls who won't learn to do useful
things at homo becauso their fathers
aro rich loso opportunities to fit them
selves to meet tho exigencies and the
accidents of life. It has alwaj-s been
ihe custom for the Princes of Germany
to learn trades. Tho Bourbon Princes
of Franco all acquired trades. Soma
of them wero printers, bookbinders,
shipwrights, houso carpenters, joiners
and painters. They did not follow
these vocations, but they understood
thorn. Royal and princely la
dies in Germany and Franco
understand every function of
housekeeping, and know how to per
form it. They can go to tho dairy anil
stable and milk a cow and handlo a
horse with dexterity and satisfaction.
Tho Prince of Wales is a bookbinder.
Each of his brothers has a trade, and
his sons nro now learning trades ac
cording to their tastes. All the ladies
of the English royal household aro ac
complished in practical things thoy
know how to do useful things, oven if
they are never called upon to perform
them.
Tho mawkishness or sentimentality
which encourages girls not to learn to
do useful, practical and strengthening
labor is a debasement of the noblest
impulses of nature. When such an in
culcation is encouraged it tends to do
prlvo girls especially from developing
their mental and physical forces, to
enervate them, and hnprovo functions
which, if properly trained, might de
velop the good and grand in their
character. Work properly performed
is a recuperator, not an exhauster, of
mental and physical forces. Knowl
edge is power is an axiom as truth.
To know how to do tho useful is an
accomplishment of which any girl can
bo proud, and especially an Amorican
girl. Hamburg Independent.
WOMEN HUSKING CORN.
Imlitntrloit AVIvon ami Dnuchtcra Who
Havo Alilml In Iiiwii'n Development.
A man who had returned from a trip
across Iowa, was telling as though it
wero a new or raro case, that ho saw,
womon out in tho cornfiold in autumn,
husking corn. Ho talked of it as though
it wero degrading" and unbecoming for
womon to bo engaged in such servi
tude. It shows a man's ignorance of
tho world, especially of tho Iowa part
f it, if ho does not know that it is not
a now, a raro, or a degrading work.
Every good man of course, deoply re
grets tho necessity which demands
such work in inclement weather
by women. But it has boon
practiced in all parts of tho
Stato over sinco it was inhabited. It is
doubtful if thoro is a county or oven a
township, but what noblo and truo
women, tho past fall, could havo been
seen husking corn. It was not ns a
frolic spell, or for mere amusement.
But it was dono in most cases as a work
of necessity. Nor is a girl or a wifo,
lessened in tho estimation of good men
and women, in times whon the profits
of tho farm will not justify hiring men
to gather corn, for tho daughtors and
wives to prcparo themselves comfort
ably, ami go to the field and aid
brothers and husbands in corn husk
ing. Jt is a tedious and lengthy part
of farm work which has not yet boon
aided by any patent machinery. It ha3
to bo dojio in tho old-fashionctl way.
Tho writer has known in the past
thirty years somo of tho best girls and
truest women Iowa over had, who
made regular hands during tho entiro
fall, in tho corn-field. And wo es
pecially recollect seeing an intelligent
and bright girl who prided herself in'
being able to husk forty bushels of
corn per nay, glorying in the nonor
ablo and exhilarating labor of corn
liusklng. That woman is now tho hon
ored wife of ono of Iowa's ablest Sena
tors. Instead of theso being raro cases,
thousands of girls and womon havo
aided elllciontly in tho corn-husking in
Iowa. Nor is It in tho loast dishonor
able or derogatory to tho character of
any good woman. The best of womon
of England, Franco and Germany
(not, of course, of tho Lady Camp
bell class) aid in tho wheat harvests.
And in this country, until recently, it
was the universal practico for all tho
females of tho family, in hoalth, to
work in tho fields in hay harvest. Tho
invention of tho mower, horso rako and
automatic pitcher havo rolioved tho fo
malos of tho farm from this service.
Yet there nro many who go out yot
from choico to aid in this healthy and
invigorating work.
Instead of docrying tho womon who
annually aid In the corn-harvest in
Iowa, wo honor thorn for tho spirit and
economy which prompts them to nld in
this most pressing work of tho farm.
It does not degrade them in character,
but, on tho contrary, aids In develop
ing them physically for tho groat du
ties of life. Dea Moines (la.) Jtegisler.
A Bangor ico man says that thoy
novor take a horso on tho Ico without
tying a rope around his neck, so that if
ho gets into tho water tho ropq may ho
tightened and the animal choked. Tho
strangled horso at once pull's up nnd
rises to tho surface, and is then usually
pulled nut without much trouble, and
when ho is well away from tho holo the
noose is loosened and ho gots his wind
again. A few hours' hard work gen
erally warms tho chilled horso
thoroughly, and ho Is nono tho worso
for his cold bath. Jloston Journal.
Why Is it that a woman with a
costly fan finds the atmosphoro in the
theatre so warm whilo the man noxt to
lier Is thinking pf putting on his ovw
ooaL A'ew Jlavea News.