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THE PEACH TREE scoURGE.

The mystery that has all these years
attached itself to the peach tree scourge
seems likely soon to bc solved. No one
has yet fathomed it. The Departments
of Agriculture have sought earnestly for
a solution, and now the Chief Depart
ment at Washington expect to tell the
world that insects and worms are the
actual cause of the yellows, and that in
this assurance there is q remedy for
further destruction by this agency.
The insect discovery is claimed By
Captain Joseph Bonsail, Thomas P. Han
son, and Cornelius Saxton, and they
claim TO have cure that is effcacious in
every instance. The insect is described
as little black bug, smaller than pin
head, which buries itself under the bark
and absoibs the sap. Meanwhile white
worm an inch long is extracting the sap
from the roots. Their united efforts cause
the leaves 70 turn yellow, the fruit to a.
pear to ripen q month in advance of the
season, and in two years time the tree is
dead. The source of these pests is not
yet asccrtained. The remedy applied is
both powder and liquid. This spring
Mr.. Hanson has mad as many as fifteen
hundred trees affected, but he applied
the remedy, and now there is no trace OF
the disease. The other gentlemen named
have had similar success.
Unfortunately, the remedy comes too
late to be OF general help this year, and
the enormous crop expected must be
much reduced, while much inferior fruit
will be put upon the market by uascrup-
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RELIGIOUS READING.
SOMETIME.

SOMETIME.
l am waiting for the shadows round me
'f 70 drift away;
I am waiting for the sunlight always dying,
To come and stay;
I know there's light beyond the cloudy
curtain,
A light sublime!
That it will shine on me l now am certain,
Sometime! sometime.
I am waiting for the Summers golden
lustre-
Now far away
When golden fruits around my life shall
cluster
Each sunny day!
We read of fadeless flowers in tabled story,
In far-off cline,
And I shall pluck them in their pristine
sometime! sometime!
Then 1 shall hear the voice Of loved ones
call ME
To their dear side;
And shall then. whatever may befall me,
Rest satisfied!
For on my eur sweet notes of love shall
tremhle
In mstchless rhyme,
From heart and lips that never can dis
semble,
Sometime! sometime!
I am waiting; but at times grow SO weary
Far seems the day
When all the pain which makes our life so
drenry
Shall pass away.
I know the heart oft filled with tones OF
sadness,
Like funeral chime,
Shall echo loud with songs Of love and
gladness,
Sometime! sometime!
Il Hosea Q. Blaisdell.
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BEES H1v1NG THEMSELVES.

! Whoever has kept bees has counted as
chief among the difficulties in the bust
ness that of making them take to their
new homes naturally. After most per-
sistent efforts and often pain from bee
stings the swarm will often fly away to
some hollow tree and be lost. A New
York man is said to have invented e
.self-hiver. When the swarm leaves the
, hive it is arranged so that it must pass
through perforated zinc cages with holes
large enough to pass the workers but
not the queen or drones. The cage is
connected with passage to an empty
hive near the one from which the swarm
issues, and into which the queen bee
soon makes her way, accompanied by a
few workers who never leave her. When
the swarm finds it has no queen it re-
turns and makes its way readily into the
new hive, and the job is done, while the
first knowledge the bee keeper has of
the swarm is seeing it at work in its new
home. The self-hiver can be easily at
tached to different hives in succession,
as they are found to be on the eve of
swarming .-BoSton Culticator.
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PACKING BUTTER FOR WINTER.

In packing butter in summer for winter
use considerable care is required in Sc.
curing good, clean, and sweet tubs il
wood ones are to be used. Ordinary
wood contains considerable dried sap and
gummy matter, which gradually works
out and into the brine, and is liable to
taint the butter. To prevent this the
tubs should be soaked in hot brine made
with pure salt for three or four days be-
fore they are used, Professor Arnold, who
is probably one of our best authorities on
all dairy matters, says. The practice Of
the best dairymen in using firkins is to
take out one of the heads and cover the
other with salt half an inch to an inch
deep. Then the irkin is packed nearly
full and perfectly solid so as to have no
air spaces at the sides of the package,
leaving room on top Of the butter to put
on layer of salt equal to that on the
bottom head. A circular piece of fine
bleached muslin, having diameter half
an inch greater than the top of the but
ter, is wet with brine and laid over the
butter, which should be even and smooth.
Then with wooden tool shaped like
gouge, with thin edge, and with cur
vature corresponding to the side OF the
package, the edge of the muslin is neatly
pressed down between the outside OF the
butter and the cask. The package is
then filled with salt and set away in q
cool cellar, and the end having the mus
I'm on is turned down. In the head now
up small hole is bored and saturated
brine of pure salt turned in to fill any
space that may have been left in the
firkin, after which the hole is plugged.
Where only small quantity of butter is
is made from week to week it may be
packed in frkin or smaller tub and
each layer as added covered with cloth
and brine, the object being to exclude
the air. Only well-made butter will
keep in good condition from summer un-
til the following winter, and it must also
be stored in cool place.-Neu York
Sun. -,
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Music as Medicine.

The London Lancet gives a very eau
tious reply to suggestion as to the use
of music as medical treatment. "Five
years ago." says the Lancst's correspon-
dent, 81 had an opportunity of trying
the effect of dreamy music upon Lady
of great intellectual power, who retained,
too, her faculties at the ripe age of
eighty-six. About seven minutes were
occupied by the music, and before its
last notes were heard my reverend friend,
the Viscountess Combermere, had closed
her eyes and was mapping" This story
reminds us (says the RospitaD of another
told by the late Dean Ramsey in his
"Reminiscences of Scottish Life and
Character" A certain country laird was
taken ill with some affection which pro-
duced marked sleeplessness. All sorts
of remedies fer the insomnia were tried,
but in vain. The laird had a son who
was what is called in Scotland 'sdraft,"
that is, he was somewhat weak in the
upper story. When the other members
of the laird's family were in state bor-
dering on distraction, the lad, whom no.
body thought of taking into cousulta-
ton, suddenly burst out with. "Feyther
aye sleeps i the kirk" The suggestion
of getting minister to preach to the
sleepless man was acted upon immedi.
ately, and with the best results. Hardly
had the reverend divine got well into the
second head of his discourse, before the
patient was sound asleep and snoring
like the drone of a bagpipe. The Pc
culiar monotony Of the preachers voice
had acted as an irresistible sopori6c. 1t
is common experience that the monot-
onous reading of book, or the meas
ured cadence of quiet singing, is often
of great value in the soothing, of the
nervous system. 1t might be we'll if
nurses were taught to chant little, and
were to learn suitable music Tor the bed
side. Young ladies, too, and even
matrons, would be all the better if, IN
the course of their ordinary education,
they had little instruction in music, OF
sleep-inducing kind. There is mani
fastly a field for the musical composer
also, as we'll as for the nurse and the
young lady. ......-.--
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DIVINE CoAlAIUSrOS.

There is no pos ihle way of finding COM
fort amid the providences that come to us in
life but in all intimate and habitual COM
munion with God. Much as we may desire
to avoid providences, so often of an affective
and disciplinary character, our Heavenly
Father sees it wise to administer His gov
ernmcnt over US in manner that often
hides His love TO our human thought.
Doubtless in this way He would keep US
from pride and vanity, impress upon US our
absolute. dependence upon His guidance,
instil deeper religious conviction in our
minds, perfect more fully our ideals Of q
true l:fe, and clIify our vision Of spiritual
things. But, theorzing thus, as we often
do, how few accept His way with unruffled
composure, rejoicing that we are in His
hands! Such blessed rest in God comes to
us only through one well-trodden path-the
path of holy prayer. We do not mean an
approach to the mercy-seat merely at stated
times and in formal utterances, but con-
depths of devotion, in the souls unuttered
supplications, in the hourly spiritual contact
Of the human with the divine heart.
But this power to pause amid conflicting
uncertainties, and let God give light upon
the path in His own good time. is not the
product of human philosophy. This ability
to wait until He shall solve the problem be-
longs only to souls that are constantly clos
eted in His presence. Helping Him to de-
eide difficult questions is one of His ways of
''rewarding them openly"
And who will say that this Is not rich
reward for obeying our Lords command,
"Enter into thy closet? Can anything sur
pass such comfort as is found here? Toll
Ing. weary pilgrims, at the shore Of the
sounding SEQ, amid mountain sleeps, beneath
the broad canopy of the heavens at midnight
wherever thou art found, enter the enclosure
of prayer and abide very near to Him who
"seeth In secret" Oh, what safety is here!
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CHRISTIANITY AND CHRIST.


DR.. John A. Broadus' book just published,
entitled "Jesus Of Nazareth closes with
these sentences:
81 can imagine some one saying, it is so
hard to bring that first Christianity near to
ourselves. 1t shines like star, but it seems
so distant. Christianity has indeed been by
many sadly corrupted, grievously abused.
But consider, every gift of genius is abused
by many, every form Of government has
been corrupted, every dearest relation of life
that ought to make US blessed may be so
misused as to render us miserable. And
think how much good Christianity has done,
and how much more good it aSsuredly would
do, if we who all ourselves Christians
would live more faithfully according 10 its
requirements and in the inspiration of its
motives and hopes, and would more zeal
ously carry out the departing Saviour's COM
sion Of sins unto all nations.
"LN US remember, too, that believing in
Jesus Christ and His religion is not like be-
lieving in some mathematical formula, or
some metaphysical conclusion, or some as
c:rtainment Of general history. If Christi
anity be true. it is gloriousy true-yea, and
tremulously true. Remember, Furthermore,
Christianity is not only system Of ethics,
or system of doctrines; it IS embodied in
person. EgotlSM IS often rlulculOuSi but
take one step upward. and behold it is sub
lime egotism when Jesus Christ says: L am
the way. the truth and the life. No man
cometh unto the Father but through Me-
Through Him, then, let US draw near, on
Him let us personally rely. 1t may be that
differences OF doctrinal conception are at
present unavoidable, but why shall We not
all trust aud lovingly obey the personal
S,viour? Nor must we forget that to hold
aloUf from Christianity is not simply reject
ing some creed or system of opinion it is
rejecting Jesus Chris; Himself, the Son of
God. the Saviour Of men. Cannot each one
of US say at least so much a. this, Lord, l
believe. help Thou mine unbelief'? Behold,
heard and bi,ssed."
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ALCOHOL AND THE CARE OF cHlLpnEs.s

Very many people, and among them MOI
the least well educated, think that alcohol
is cure for different hcknesses and indist
positions, and in such cases even children arc
frequently compelled to make use Of It. IL
it is still aquestion as to whether the uss of
alcohol produces the wished for and expected
results in the case OF men who feel indfI-;
posed, there Is not the slightest doubt that
for children alcohol Is poison in every casa
whose after effects may be inexpressibiy far
reaching. Professor Demme cites note
worthy case Of the injurious effects Of alco-;
hol on boy, which should serve as warm
ing. For the purpose Of Strengthening hig
ten year old son, who was very intelligenk
but physically weak, an ANXIOUS father ad-
miuistered daily, at first glass, then several
glasses Of strong malaga wine. After some'
weeks the parents noticed that the memory
of the boy was steadily declining. Finally &
by order Of the physician the supply was
entirely discontinued, and, in the course 0f
six or eight weeks the boy recovered. Els
mental powers had become so weak that a.
times he did not know his own name, failed
to recognize his relatives, and could scarcely:
point out the simplest objects in daily use.s
But as is often the case with fathers who
believe in using alcohol, this one could not
allow himself to be convinced Of Its tnjur-
ious effects. He could not bear to withhold
this supposed strengthening article and be
again staked his sons life and health on this Z
belief. This time he experimeuted with
beer and gave the boy wine glass full every
noon and evening. In few weeks he OBJ
served the same significant decline Of mean
ory and the same dwindling OF his sons
mental powers which were again recovered 5
when the use Of alcohol was at last forever
ended. Reasonable thinkers can scarcely
understand how we'll informed Peo-S.
pie are able to deny this and
similar effects OF alcohol. This destuctve
influence upon thought and the mental pow
ers Is self-eYident, and every one, who does
brain work, will be proof Of this, II he al
lows himself to be led to use alcohol That
this effect will become greater by continued
use need not be mentioned. And now tha
same result has been found in the delicate
unused faculties Of child. It Is inexcusa-,
bic for any parent to allow his children to !
have even taste of alcohol. How many
sicknesses, for which one has vainly sought
an explanation would be understood II the
carelessness of parents, in this respect were
known. A child should be taught to fear
alcohol as it breads the fire. It Is sad that
this Is so seldom the case. There are even
frivolous fathers who give their children
strong drink for ''joke" instead OF becom-
ing acquainted with the spectacle afforded
by the play of the childs natural inclina-
York BeLLetristtsches Journal
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Soaring Birds From>Wl,eat With Bells.

Some of the farmers of the Eifel, the
district that lies between the frontier of
Belgium and the Rhine, adopt novel
plan for soaring the birds from the
wheat. A number of poles are set up in
the cornfelds, and wire is conducted
from one to another, just like the tele-
graph posts that you see alongside the
railway. From the top of each pole
there hangs bell, which is connected
with the wire. Now, in the valley a
brooks runs along, with a current strong
enough to turn small water wheel, to
which the wire is fastened. As the
wheel goes round it jerks the wire, and
so the bells in the different fields are set
a tinlling. The bells thus ruEg mys:e-
riously Irighten the birds from the grain,
and even excite the wonder Of raen and
women until they discover the secret.
This simple contrivance is found to serve
its purpose very well.
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HEBREW resentment over the defini'
ton of aSheeny, sharp fellow, hence
q Jew" is wholly Just. That editors
of the Century Dictionary" should
permit so gross an error to deface
page of that work is as surprising as
it is censurable. The slang epithet is
by no means limited to ono race. but
has been vulgarly applied to persons Of
various races. In revision Of the work
into which it has slipped by uninten'
tional oversight it's offensive restrio-
ton will be, of course. e1punged.
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MANIA FOR BoB-TAIL HORSES.

The mania for bob-tail horses IS a
silly one, and illustrates most forclbly
the power of example on weak minds
when it comes from the rich and titled.
The clipped tail is cruel deformity, and
yet is adopted by its devotees IN the
game spirit that Swiss Alpine peasants
regard the horrid goitre that adorns so
many necks. And yet these American
families tharfollow this horrid fashion
consider themselves as possessing superb
tastes. Plouman.
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THE Rum BUSINESS.

1t is a business which every merchant and
ness which is the standing dread Of every
mother. It is business which Is the cou-,
slant fear Of every father. It Is busiueag
which is the horror of every wife. It Is q.
business which make ninety per cent. Or.
pauperism for which the taxpayer has tU
pay. It Is business which keeps employed
an army Of policemen in the cities. 1t ID 81
business which puts out the fire on the
hearth, and condemns wives and children toI
hunger, cold and rags It Is a business
which fosters vice for profit, and educates
in wickedness for gain. Drunkenness meana
speculation, theft, robbery, arson, forgery
Irish 1en,plar.
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|. AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICs OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
GRASS FOR A MOIST MEADOW.

A moist meadow may be made very
productive without draining, if the right
kinds of grasses are sown on it. 1t de-
pends on the condition of moistness,
however. If this is wetness, and water
stands on the surface for any length OF
time, the case is different and no good
variety of grass will do we'll until the
stagnant water is removed. Sow ten
pounds of timothy, twenty pounds OF
red tops, and twelve pounds of Alsike
clover per acre.-Neu York Times.
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NO ALCOHOL IN THIS HOSPITAL.

NO ALCOHOL IN THIS HOSPTfAL. 91i5:,l a.
In Chicago there is hospital which trea1
patients without the use Of alcohol Cases
Of all kinds are taken and the patients ara;
nurssd through all stages Of disease without
ever taking a drop Of any medicine which
contains alcohol. The treatment has been
very successful, and now it is proposed To-.
erect new hospital that will cost 800, 0oN
The name Of the old one Is 1.-The WomaE,E
Christian Temperance Hospital Ts:$
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TEMPERANCE.
WHAT SHALL I DRINK

WHAT SHALL DRINK!
Give me the pure water
From heavens own fountain,
Dancing AMI leaping
From hillside and mountain
So sparkling and bright ~:
In its silvery flow,
1t seems to shed light us
On the valleys below.
Rich blessings it brings
10 the homes Of the poor,
For water and bread -.
They find ever sure.
There's nothing so good hi
In way Of drink IA
As water, pure water, q
yelling up from the brink.
It Is better than wine,
And much clearer than beer:
1t will keep the head cool,
And it cost is not dear. n
"A. NJ Chance, in Temperance Banner.
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ulous growers. There will be large
yield of peaches, notwithstanding the
scourge, but it is materially reduced by
the most unfortunate appearance of the
dreadful yellows.--Aassachusetts PIo0-
man.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1891-03-19
Les fruits de Ia protection au
Canada.
Des taits-Des preuves

La protection a double lie NOM
bre des miles de vote ferr6e.
Preuve: en- 1878 il y en- await s..
l43 ct en- 1890, 1888; augmenta-
tion 7,845.
Sous le regime protectionniste
10 tonnage de nos envois de mar
chandises a presque double. Preu-
We: ces envois 6taient de 23,lO2,-
55l tonnes en- 1870 ct en- 1890 il
ont 6t6 de 4l,243,25l. Augmenta-
ton l8,l4O,70O.
Sous Ia protection les postes ont
etc plus actives que ]amais: il y a
eu 100 pour 100 d'augmentation.
Preuve: en- 1870, il est pass6 par
la poste 50,340 600 lettres ct car
tes postales; en- 1890, 100000 600.
Augmentation: 49,l60,0OO.
Les d6p0ts aux banques ct aux
calsses d'6pargnes ont plus que
double sous la protection. Preu-
We: en- 1878, $88, ,995, ,l26 ont 6t6
d6pos6es, ct en- 1890, $l97, ,892,452.
Augmentation: l08, ,9OO,325
Sous la protection les mandats
postes recus ou ennis ont augmen-
t6 de SO pour cent. Preuve: en-
1878 leur valeur etait de $780,.
600 ct en- 1890 de ll,97O,O7l. Aug
mentation: 4,777,862.
Grace q la protection la circula-
tion de pargent qui dome une 81
bonne id6e de la situation CONNER
ciale dun pays augment6 de SO
pour cent. Preuve: cette circula-
tion 6tait de $22, 1868 en- 1878 ct
de $47,4 ,4l7,O7l en- 1890.
Sous le regime de la protection,
la production du charbon a et6
doubl6e: Preuve: en- 1878, 1,l52,-
600 tonnes ct en- 1890, 100000.
Sous ce nome regime la valeur
de nos fromages exportes a aug
ment6 de pres de 200 pour cent.
Preuve: en- 1878, valeur So, ,997, ,52l;
en- 1890, $9, 372, 2,2l3.
Qldce CO regime, nos eXpOrta-
tions de betes d cornes ct de mou-
tons ont augment6 de pres de 600
pour cent. Preuve. montant des
expectations en- 1878, $l,85l, $50;
en- 1890, $8. 1885, 764 augmentation,
$6, 1856 ,093.
Avec la protection nos bois ma
nufactures ont 6t6 export6e en-
double quantit6. Preuve: en- 1870
la valeur en- fut de $13,OO8,629. ct
en- 1890 de S20,659.348. Augmen-
tation $6, 75O,710.
Les produits de nos manufactu-
ters que nous avons exportes ont
dome 6galament une augmentation
de $$,347 1856.
Journal des Campagmes.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1891-03-19

PAR1s.-Un habitant de Vile.
neuve la Garenne Went d'exp6ri
menter une nouvelle maniere de
payer son loyer.
Ce novateur, un journalier NOM
me Flerte, 6tait en- reta1d de quel-
au6s mois. Mardi matiD, son pro-
pri6taire, NJ. d.. :, Wit entrer chez
lui deux gendarmes en- tenue de
service qui lui declarerent que les
meubles de son locataire prove
naient de djff6rents vols ct qu'ils
avaient ordre de les saisir pour les
envoyer sous scelles q la prefecture
de police.
NJ. De-, respectueux de luni-
forme, laissa proc6der au dem6na-
cement; c'est hler settlement quill
a et6 mis- au courant du hardi stra-
tageme don't il await etc victime.
Les gendarmes n'etaient point
authentiques. C'6taient des amls
de Flert6 qui pour rendre service q
leur camarade avaient endosse
deux uniformes emprunt6s aux ac-
cessoires dun theatre ct jou6
consciencieusement leur role de
repr6sentaats de pautorit6.
Ce nouveau coup de gendarme
nest point banal, en- verit6, maia
il pourrait cotter cher q ses au.
teurs.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1891-03-19
I'm nomm6 A. Erickson, ag

I'm nomm6 A. Erickson, age
de 81 ans, fills dun noble su6dois
s'est tue dun coup de revolver au
c@ur, au No. 9237, Avenue Com
mercial q Chicago, samedi dernier.
En- arrivant do Suede, lie 2 aont
dern1er, CO jeune homme trouva
un emplol chez Chs. Williams, le
fabricant de biJoux ct quelque
temps apres fut nomra6 contre-
ma1tre.
Samedi dernier, son patron lul
dit en- plaisantant gull 6tait temps
quill songeat d SO marier, mais ce-
lui.ci lui r6pondit quill etait venu
en- Am6rique pour une femme ct
quill men voulait plus entendre
parler.
LIE lendemain, il SO tuait pen.
dant que la famille de son patron
etait q l'eglise.