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I iMM3 sx acs w VJ&1 TJtl -'J' far TWENTY GOOD RULES. ' . Paste Them 17p la the Poaltry Houa far ICeady Reference. 1. When chicks droop, and appear sick without cause, especially in Bum mer, look for lice, not the little red .mites, but the large gray body lice on the heads and necks. 2. If you find them, use a few drops of grease of any kind. A tcaspoonful of pennyroyal to a cup of lard is excel lent. 3. Look under the wings for tho red lice, but use only a few drops of tho lard. 4. Never grease the bodies of chicks unless lightly, as grease will often kill them. 5. Never use kerosene on chicks, un less it be a tcaspoonful of kerosene to a teacup of lard, as it Ls irritating. G. Crude petroleum is always excol lent, and serves as a liniment, but mix! it with twice its quantity of lard. 7. Keep the dust bath always ready. Use dry dirt or sifted coal ashes. Add carbolate of lime, Persian insect pow der, or oil of pennyroyal to tho dirt. 8. To rid the bouse of lice, sprinkle coal oil everywhere floor, walls, roosts, yards, roof, inside, outside and repeat often. y. Dust insect owdcr in tho feath ers, and be sure it is fresh and good. 10. Put insect powder and tobacco 'dust into the nests. Never pour grease in the nests. Clean them out every week. 11. Even when no lice may be pres ent use the sprinkler of kerosene at least once a week; and keep the roots always saturated. 12. No matter how clean things may appear, look for the large lice on the heads, throats and vents. 13. Lice abound both in winter and summer, but mora especially in sum mer. 14. One-half the chicks and young turkeys die from lice. Chicks or Mr keys with hen or turkey hens always hsive lice (either the mites or large lice). Remember that. Id. Carbolate of lime is the cheapest powder to use for dusting over tho floors and walls. 1G. Always aim to get the solutions or powdersinto thecracksand crevices. 17. The easiest and best way to whitewash is with a force pump. They are now made to force water from a bucket. 18. When your chicks have bowel disease, look for the big lice. 19. No mites need be present where plenty of coal oil and carbolic acid are used. 20. Lice means work. Repeat these precautions and remedies frequently. Poultry Keeper. BUSINESS. MAXIMS. .Souad Adricfo rroiiacWea Abeat to Ea- - Action isVjreally tho lifo of business. "Jse every means to hold on to your home trade. Great bargains can only be secured in any market by being on the spot. Always keep; your designs and busi ness from the knowledge of others. It is easy to. sell goods if they are well suited to your trade and bought right. f- '. Be courageous: drop your best friend if he shows lack of honesty and in tegrity. Avoid litigation as much as possible, for laTVcrs and costs cat up the prin cipal. Have the courage to discharge a debt while you have the money in your pocket. The man 'who borrows money and then borrows trouble is in sheol sure enough. Difficulties, like thieves, often disap pear at a glance; therefore, always face a difficulty. . Punctuality in money matters leads to prosperity and confidence and the basis of credit. The man who minds his own business -and constantly attends to it has all his time employed. In buying, study carefully the wants of your trade, and buy with that ond always in view. Adhere strictly to your business. LThere may be difficulties to overcome. it you will surmount them. jusands of merchants fail, not from tirikage of values, but from kunwisely and too much. prompt, decisive, civil and all your customers and see 'clerks do likewise. le courage to accept small be content; large ones in risk and loss certainty of rare two sorts of people that le oy traae, sucn as Duy wnai Lnot want, and such as sell only ty. secures the approbation of Id. for as the wise man says: I praise thee when thou doest 'thyself." ly the history of current events. sful comparisons or the fluc- tn demand and in to guide your own ins these tacts A BEAUTIFUL MOUTH. Some Suggestions to readies Abeat tha Care of Teeth and Lips. A woman with every other natural charm is not beautiful without a mouth that adds a new suggestiveness to hot loveliness. She ceases to be even pretty if, when she speaks, her breath is hot and feverish, or, worse still, is absolutely tainted. Naturally, she does not know this, and it is only proper that somebody bo ionging to her should tell hen. If it comes from her teeth it is something quickly remedied. If is comes from her digestion then it is her doctor's busi ness to get her in good order; but often in this country of invalid women it comes from the use of strong medicines. Physicians advise for this the use of lemons, claiming that they are the most purifying of all fruits, and the aromatic odor produced by lemons rubbed on the teeth, gums and lips lasts longer than any other. For a feverish breath that results from the stomach a few drops of lime water used as a gar gle, or, better still, a half teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in a little water, will have the desired effect Half tho badly-shaped mouths that are the sorrows of the young women of to-day result from their being permit ted when they were children to suck their fingers; one of the prettiest women in town has coarse, thick lips that came from having been allowed, when she was going to sleep, to put her thumb in her mouth; while another, whose lips protrude in the center, and whose mouth is large, blames her mother for allowing her to find consolation in her two forefingers. If persuasion will not break a child of habit, then stronger means should be resorted to, and, if necessary, its hands should be tied to gether. Another unfortunate habit among school-girls, and one which re sults in thickening the lips and making them super-sensitive, is the continual biting of tho lower lip. Tho entire shape of the face is spoiled in this way, for when nature molded it there was not the intention that the lower lip should be larger and a coarse look given to the face. Red lips are the announcement of good health, and good health is the fashion; women who have very deter mined wills frequently get into the bad habit of drawing their lips together in a way they think expresses determina tion; the lips are pliable and naturally assume the position which is oftenest given to them, so she who feels on pleasant terms with the world at large, who makes it a point only to say pleas ant things, will have about her mouth that something that the French call riante the look that tells of a laugh without the sound and a smile that is not a smirk. With all his gallantry it took a Frenchman to say this: "To' be beautiful a woman must not talk' much or she will contract her mouth in an unbecoming manner.'' X. Y. Graphic. ATTACKED BY RABIES. How a Herd of Kagllsh Deer Weat Wild With the Malady. The annual report of the Agricultural Department furnishes a history of the curious outbreak of rabies among the deer in Richmond Park. The first token of the evil was the discovery by the keepers one day toward the end of September, 1866, of a doe staggering about in tho herd near the entrance gate at East Sheen. The animal was killed, but some days later other deer of the same herd were observed to behave in "a very erratic manner," as rubbing their heads violently against the stems of troos, biting the skin about their bodies and at times charging at the other deer. They usually died within two or three days of being attacked, some becoming very violent before death. A scientific examination of the contents of the stomach led to the dis covery of pieces of stick and other things which at ordinary times they would have refused to cat, but no trace was found of any poisonous food. The outbreak still extending, a diseased buck and fawn were forwarded to the Royal veterinary college. The fawn died four hours after admission, and with a portion of the spinal marrow of this animal rabbits were inoculated by Prof. Horsley at the Brown Institute, with results which left no further doubt of the nature of the complaint, for the rabbits were attacked with rabies and died. The buck also died, after becom ing so wild and violent that the per sons in charge were unable to enter the loose box in which he was kept, and with tho marrow of this animal, as well as with that of others, the experiment was repeated with the same conse quences. A dog who was thereupon inoculated also exhibited the usual signs of rabies, and died. The next feature in connection with the outbreak was the appearance of the disease in the month of June in the herd which had been grazing in the park next to the infected herd. As soon as the mis chief was detected the whole of the animals were driven into small lots. The deer in 'this herd suffered in a larger proportion -than the previous herd, and the disease continued with more or less virulence until Septem ber, by which time 257 animals had suc cumbed to the disease. Since that date no further cases have been reported. Ihe earliest symptoms observed in nost coses is that of throwing the heads back on the shoulders and keep ing the noses pointed to tho sky; the animals are then seen to moke sudden starts and gallop away from the rest of the herd. The first deer attacked was, as we have already noted, a doe. She happened to be suckling a fawn, and, as it is well knows that a doe under the circumstances will attack a dog, it is conjectured that she was bitten by some stray rabid dog that had found its way into the paris. mmw mmuj . MISCELLANEOUS. '. v Florida promises to become a large producer of opium. Sixteen plants will produce an ounce; and an acre of poppies will yield $1,000 worth of opium. A New York art dealer has in vented a novel picture frame. It is of broad oak, with real bars half an inch thick, colored to look like iron, set across it from side to side. Imitation hinges on one side and a very real- looking padlock on the other increases the resemblance to the barred door of a cage. With the picture of the head of a lion or other beast behind it the effect is very startling, if not strictly artistic. It would be a mistake to suppose that meteorological eccentricity is pe culiar to this day and generation. Tho weather wsis just as erratic long before the Signal Service was dreamed of. In the Buffalo Weekly Itepub'ican of June 24. 1841. appears this paragraph: "Tho night beforo last we stood by a good fire and it was comfortable. Yesterday we stood by a good thermometer and it was decidedly uncomfortable, being at V9.uugaio vourter. A Berlin merchant who advertised for a wife lately reoeived 277 answers. Of these, 87 were widows varying in age from twenty-five to fifty-two; 42 of them had no children, and 21 possessed fortunes entirely under their own con trol of from $.'00 to $20,000. Four Indies who had been separated from their husbands also wrote to express a desire to try their luck at marriage for a second time one of them for a third time. Of the remaining 186 only 2 gave their age as over thirty; 18 of them professed to be just turned six teen. Seventy-one photographs were inclosed, and 31 of them are said to represent remarkably pretty girls. Ugliness or repelling habits are generally no bar to a lady's feeling when her pet animal is concerned. Some have been known to share their bed with an iguana, which is the most repulsive-looking reptile in Brazil. It is well known that Byron, among the pets who accompanied him in his travels, possessed a bear; and Edmund Keene kept a South American lion as his constant companion. More extra ordinary pets might be quoted, such as young wolves, leopards, jackals and snakes. Even frogs, lizards and hedge hogs have been petted by men of re pute. Wolsey bestowed his affection on a familiar old carp. Cowper on hares, and Sir John Lubbock wooed the savor of a Syrian wasp. LIFE IN JAMAICA. Something Aboat the Manner aad Cos tuns of Its People. The climate of Jamaica surprised me, for though very hot in the sun, it is so tempered by the land and sea breezethatL.onsi,jeK1tion. to the in the nouses' the thermometer rarely rises above ninct3'-five. degrees; some times in the winter season sinking as low as sixty-five. It much resembles the .'summer climate of Virginia, though much damper, to which fact is due a great deal of the malaria and the terri ble rheumatic fever which prevails. In the rainy season the dampness pours in through the "jealousies," of which the sides of the rooms are principally built, and which rarely close tightly. The books on the tables mould, one's shoes become covered with mildew. and kid gloves are soon too spotted to wear, unless kept in a closely stoppered bottle. The houses are without means of be ing warmed in any way, as they are built without chimneys or fire-places. This is a general rule, though I believe in the parish of St. Anne's on tho north side of the Island, where there is a good deal of rainfall, some few houses are built with a chimney, and one room has a fire-place. The kitchen, which is always an outside cabin, is also minus a chimney; an elevated sort of range or hob is built out into the floor, on which the cooking is done, some times by means of charcoal, but ofteuer with brushwood and smaller sticks, the smoke escaping through a hole in the roof. There is generally an old-fashioned brick oven outside for baking bread, but it is seldom used, as few families now bake their own broad. They buy it if near or in a village from a baker's cart which makes its rounds in the country from the nearest store where it can bo procured fresh twico a week. Many households do without the article altogether, or only get enough, to serve with "early morning coffee," a small bit of toast being put with each cup. They use in its place some of the sub stitutes which are classed under the one generic term, "bread kind." These consist of boiled or baked yam, roasted breadfruit, potatoes, rice, cooked un ripe plantains, "bammee" and "cas sava cakes," both of which are breads made from the grated manioc root' from which tapioca is also prepared. . Wheat is not raised in Jamaica, and the price of the imported flour of a very ordinary grade is fourteen dollars per barrel. Owing to tho ravages of insects and mould it keeps badly. The' meals are arranged as in France, early coffee in your bedroom at six; at eleven a. m., "second breakfast," a meal like their "dejeuner a la fourchctte," much resembling lunch, and at which there is no tea or coffee, consisting prin cipally of "curries" and "devils." with fruit, vegetables and bread kind. Dinner is the next meal, at six o'clock. This is a meal of several courses, usually beginning with the inevitable Jamaica "pepper-pot," or turtle soup, and winding up with delicious pine apples, oranges or mangoes. Aftei dinner, coffee is served in the drawing room, and some few English families keep up the custom of afternoon tea. N. T. Observer. A &jMrlAR gE-QPLE-. kz1kzv- -OARE-OFIIHIIII01W.ac ft.VA.vil ' . tfMXli. IahaMtantt of Salonika Who Are Jews at Heart. Hut Turks to the World. In these days it is somewhat difficult to find anywhere peculiar people who are not public property; about the Mor mons of America and the savages of Central Africa we know as much, if not more, than we know about our selves; so that it was with considerable satisfaction that I camo across a pe culiar people who, in many respects, out-Mormon Mormons, and have cus toms as quaint as any to be found in Central Africa. Moreover, they live in Europe, in the ancient city of Salon ika, and come of the most ancient stock in tho world, namely, tho Hebrew; they are bound together by ties that none dare break; they are si double-faced race, a race with two distinct religions, a race which leads two distinct lives. professing openly to be followers of Mahomed, while in private they "pro fess a religiou of their own, accepting the old Hebrew traditions, yet believ ing in the first advent of their own Messiah, and living in daily expecta tion of His second coming. The Turks call them "Dunmehs." or "renegades," their Jewish brethren call them "hypocrites," while they call themselves Maimeenim, or "true be lievers." For the sake of simplicity wo will call them Dunmehs, and we may take it for granted that they are disliked by both their would-be co-religionists and in consequence they have been compelled to exercise ;i secrecy in their acts and deeds, a fact which hsis rendered them a mysterious people' in the midst of a busy mercantile world. During si recent stay at Salonika I set myself tho task of investigating this people. Salonika may be termed a New Je rusalem, as there are no less than 70. 000 of the seed of Abraham within its walls; silmost all the business of the place is carried on by them; the quays sire gay with them in their quaint cos tumes, the men with their long robes lined with fur over a tunic of striped cotton or silk, while the 'women aro decked in the gayest color possible, and adorn their heads with caps of green or red, closely bound over their foreheads, and Imaging down behind in a thick trail embroidered with gold thread and terminating in a fringe of gold, while around their necks hangstrings of pearls and other jewels. These Jews of Salon ika sire perhaps the most fervid sidher ents of the quaint rabbinical doctrine to be found anywhere nowadays. During the days before the Psissover you may sec Jewish women at the tombs outside the walls in their long red cloaks and white mantles round their shoulders, wailing over their dead; turbaned rabbis stand at the gate of Karamilia to conduct families, for a graves of their relatives, there to excite them to frenzy by reading portions of Scripture, and finally to drive them home again like sheep when the ceremony is over, with lacerated arms and faces, uttering bitter wails. There cemetery the Jews call "the house of the living;" for the dead they look upon as alive, and pass ing the first eleven months after their departure in Gehenna, where they can J intercede for the living; consequently during this period the death wails are continued, which are in point of fact in many csises more intercessory than the outcome of genuine grief. If a rabbi of distinction dies, you see Jewish women rush forward to thrust letters into his hand for delivery to de parted friends as he is carried on the bier "to the house of the living." On the Sabbath day no Jew of Salon ika may carry any burden in his pocket no money, no tobacco, no scrip so that si Jew with a cold has to wear a handkerchief around his waist. At a spot where the walls have been pulled down, of late years the rabbis have stretched a wire, so that the idea of the city being surrounded by walls may be kept up, and the computation of a Sabbath day's journey not interfered with. Such are among tho doctrines of the orthodox Jews; from these their renegade brethren are happily exempt; and. though despising them as they do, an orthodox Jew will not scruple to make use of the Dunmeh, who may eat such portions of flesh as his own law forbids, who may come in and light his fire for him on the Sabbath and cook his food, for it is unlawful for a right-minded Jew even so much as to light a brazier to warm himself withal if the weather be cold on a Sabbath day. Longman's Magazine. An Ancient Powder-Horn. There has been presented to the Jef ferson County Historical Society a powder-horn which, from the devices engraved upon it, was evidently car ried in the campaigns of the old French and Indian war. It was presented to the lateNorrisM. Shepardson. of Belle ville, by his uncle. Darius Shepardson, who traded powder-horns with a soldier in the war of 1812 and obtained this one. It has been presented to the His torical Society by Eunice, daughter of Norris Shepardson, through his execu tor, F. Williams. The most prominent object engraved on this powder-horn is the coat-of-arms of Great Britain, tho lion and unicorn, and within the circle of the motto of the order of the Garter is inscribed: "William Spornnein 1752 His Horn." The other engraving represents the Hudson river, the forts, and places where battles were fought. Some of the engravings may have been added afterward, as the old powder-horn has evidently been through three of the great wars of early American history the first or French war, the revolution, and the war of 1812. It is an interesting relio. Wateriovn (N. .) Timet. How to Kerp Them In (ioodCoadilloasaa all Seanoas of the Tear. There are few- articles'- of household furniture more ornamental and useful than tho mirror. In rao3t well-regulated homes one holds a conspicuous i place in each room., Most women like to have their furniture as well cared for as possible, and the 'mirrors are no' exception to the'rule: 'There are few things that look worse than an ill-kept mirror, for no matter how tidy the. rest of the room may be, a dim, dusty look ing-glass takes off much of the appear ance of neatness. It need not be of such f a lino qiiality bf glass, as the poorest kind well cared for is much more at tractive than the finest illy kept. Few women willfully neglect the mirrors, but clean them sis often :is the rest of the furniture, but the care usually con sists in dusting them over and then wsishing with a damp cloth, afterward wiping dry with a dry cloth. It isn't very difficult to keep them in good con dition providing they are given tho right kind of care. The position tho mirror occupies is of the utmost importance. It should never, if it can be avoided. lie hung on a damp or outside wall, as the damp ness is sure to injure it. and it will be there but a short while before it will be utterly unfit for use or ornament. If it must bo suspended from a wall such as this, bits of cork should bo fastened to the inside of the fraino where it comes in contact with tho wall. This prevents the dampness in juring the glass. Never have a mirror in such a position that the sun shines directly ou it, or it will soon have a blurred, mottled appearance, and con sequently be ruined. Do not hang it over a stove or have a gas jet or lamp close to it, as the heat from any of these will ruin it in a short while. When moving be sure that the person carrying the mirror does not exposo the glsiss to the sun. as is usually done. It is much better where a mirror is to be trusted to any one when moving that the face of it be covered, and there will be no danger of the sun harming it. A covering of unbleached cotton, made large enough to cover the face of tho glass, the right side of the frame, and fastened securely at each corner at tho back of the frame, should be used. For washing the face of the mirror have a basin of warm water, into which put a few drops of household ammonia. Out of this water wring a sponge of soft cloth quite dry and go over tho face of the glass. With another cloth wipe dry1, then polish with tissue paper or chamois skin. Alcohol is used by many for washing the glass, but wo prefer the ammonia water, sis it givos the glass a nice polish. Many use newspaper for polishing mirrors, but as most newspaper contains straw, it is not to be recommended, sis it is very apt to scratch the glass. These scratches will not be noticed at first, but tho constant use of straw paper will in a short while cover the surface of the glass with tine scratches, that will spoil si mirror as far as appearances are concerned. If the frames are var nished, or of any dark colored wood, rub them over with a small quantity of warm linseed oil on a flannel cloth, afterward polishing with a soft, drv silk cloth. If the frames are gilded and show signs of wear by the gilding being worn off, regild with gold paint. Plush frames can be brushed with a velvet brush, and csire should be taken when washing the glass that the plush is not dampened. When hanging si mirror, be sure that the screw eyes sire fastened in firmly, the cord strong, and .the nail or hook from which it is sus pended embedded firmly in a beam. Boston Budget. MAN'S TRUE CHARACTER. It Is Frequently Called Forth Only by Momentous Emergencies. Great emergencies call forth tho great soul. War in the twinkling of an eye turns village drunkards and pettifogging lawyers into Generals and statesmen. Love transforms Cymon from a brute into a man. Necessity makes Shakespeare a dramatist; acci dent reveals to Scott his true powers. The most commonplace men and women have passed through the fool's para dise of love, when they were divine be ings worshiping divinity, and in that fool's paradise, they for a brief moment found their true selves, saw deep into the soul of their consort. That flitting dream was in truth an awakening, the brief opening of the spiritual eye. When the world of facts has passed away, our dreams may remain. The man of common sense asks for realities, the poet knows that only illusions are true. Look you, the man whom you hate are there not women who worship him. children who look up to him? Who sees the true man you who hate him. or they who love him? Love is a divine delight; it reaches out over and around its object into the illimitable; it is a part of the Over-Soul, of the Infinite, of God. Hatred is painful. It strains and racks the body, it blinds the vision, it makes man conscious of his mortal limitations. Love sees the virtues that ore of tho soul; hatred only tho diseases of the skin." "All men have their faults, and stealing was Bill's," said a weeping widow over the corpse of a desperado, shot in attempted burglary. And grotesque, ludicrous as the expression may seem, she was right. She knew that not in the robber, the law-breaker, the outcast, did the real man shino forth, but in those rarer moods of kind liness and generosity when he was the true friend and husband. Perhaps when two enemies, who have refused to see any good is each other on this earth, meet hereafter in another world free from the muddy vesture of decay which clogs their vision here, the first thought of each win be: "Is this tho beautiful seal that I maligned aad hatodP' Li&incvtCs Magazine, o?actCNCE AtWIWDU3TRV; - Six or eight tons of cast iron can be made into steel in twenty minutes by'one operation. The woman who can control her own 'tongue is greater than he who ' ruleth a city. She is also scarcer. X. l.$tar. It hsis been estimated that" sifters .lapse of ten million yesirs tho sun esm not give out sufficient heat to support life on earth. The fabric known sis Chinese grass cloth Is made from the fiber of nettles. The clotli is peculiarly glossy and trans parent, and sis belting for machinery has double the strength of lesither. Two substitutes for the high priced gum sirabic one from flax-seed and tho other from starch are expected to serve all purposes for which the genu ine gum is used. Without tsiking into account the small variations due to refraction, etc., the days smd nights sire always of equsil leugth at sill points on the equator, without regard to tho position of the ecliptic. Steel is iron with from one-half to two per cent of carbon. It wsis former ly prepsired by heatiug wrought iron with carbon till it took up the proper quantity. It is now made on a large scale by the Bessemer process of burning out tho carbon and silicon of cast-iron by forcing a blast of air through tho molten metal. Additional experiments have been made, sind with good success, with the new French method of coating pipes with cork. A Isiyer of cork is first em ployed, asbestos coming next, and finally another layer of cork. The tem perature inside the pipes was some 400 Cent., and after 360 hours the temperature of the outer surface of the coating was found to have onlv risen to 35 . Dr. Julius Pohlman thinks the reason why our teeth decsiy so fsist is because we do not use them enough, and, like other organs that are not ex ercised, they tend to atrophy. Our teeth become weak because unused to hard work. The author warns mothers smd nurses not to give children soft food if they would have them have good teeth; in other words, make them eat their crusts. A French experimenter, utilizing the power generated simply by the heat of the sun. has succeeded in rais ing 2,500 quarts of water in an hour from a depth of twenty feet. Extrava gant hopes have been entertained that in the future the energy from this source may. be so brought under con trol that many of the present methods of obtaining power may bo done away with. .. A recent writer makes a strong plea for simplicity in the torminolfr of science. The Isite eminent chemist. M. Munias, is reported to have said that the complexity and uncouthncss of modern chemical nomemclature were something gigantic, and that he found it impossible to keep pace with all the new theories and verbal alterations that were flooding his favorite science. An interesting development in photography is in the use of clockwork in printing from negatives. By this means a continuous web of sensitized paper is drawn at suitable intervals , under a negative exposed to a source of light. After printing the paper is drawn, still by the mechanism, through "washer," "toner" and "fixer" succes sively; and appears finally as a series of finished pictures ready for mount ing, and all alike in exposure, color and tone. EARLY INSTRUCTION. Why Childrea Should Be Made to Do Work Suitable for Their Age. If possible, parents, teach your chil dren to do work suitable and proper for their age. If a mistake is made. do not reprove them sternly. Kindly point it out. if unnoticed, and sillow them to undo or correct it. if it is in their power. Mothers are often so hurried and worried with work and the csire of children, that they feel or think they have no time to teach them to cut out simple articles, or to do sew ing, knitting, etc. The oldest daughter is usually taught those useful arts as early sis her sixth year. There seems to be time to instruct her. sis the wants of those younger do not yet need atten tion in that way. The oldest son. too. is early called to help sibout work. Younger sisters wait on the little ones, and often spend the rest of their time in play. Recreation is neces sary, but if kept up too long, fatigue is the result. Boys and girls, whoso home is on a farm have peculiar ad vantages for learning to do work suited to their capacity. The well-kept dis trict schools of the country are pleas ant places in which to gain knowledge. The long walks to and from school. with fields of grain and orchards bor dering on the road, have charms for healthy, happy children. After sup per, when the evening work is done, the lamps ore lighted, and lessons studied. Reading and play have a share of their attention also. With all these, time can be taken for need ful instruction in needlework, etc.. for girls. Be determined in this matter ,1 , dear mothers. See to it that everylf piece of work assigned to each is fin- ished by herself, and within a reason able time. Never allow a child to say: O, it's no matter when I finish this," or, "Any time will do." These are dangerous expressions for young or old to use. as they help to form the habit of putting off until to-morrow the work of to-day. Strive to inspire your children with elf-respect by your sensible example and advice, aad they will sespect and honor you ia retuxa. .fturaJ Kern Torbtr, I