Year: 1873

Nothing was left untried to cure him of
this dangerous habit. All the throttle
bits and other devices had been tried
without success: =.
He consulted with horse breakers and
followed their advice. But it was all
to no epurpose-run away he would.
Many advised him to sell the horse to
some stage or horse-car company to kill
off as usual. But they would give him
no more than they paid for old hacks
for their use. He was not hopeless of
success, and setting his genius at work
he made study of the animals proclivi-
ties.


He observed that the animal never
ran away at night, particularly if it was
quite dark, and concluded that he would
not run if he could not see where he
was going. Acting upon this hint, he
made hood of leather, and so attached
it to the head-stall that by pulling a
a cord the hood came down and covered
his eyes, completely obstructing his
sight.


Putting it on him he drove to ia
vorable place and let him have his will.
In few moments he was under full
sail, when the cord was pulled, and the
hood fell. Mr.. Horse could see moth
ing, began to slacken of his own accord,
and finally stopped stock-still. The
hood was lifted, he began his
pranks again, and again the binder
covered his eyes. He was guided
against a cart standing in the road,
which hurt him some. In little while
he could not be whipped into run, he
was so afraid of the hood, and was COM
pletely cured of his bad habit.


WHEAT AND PHYSICAL VIGOR.


Nothing is more sure in the chemis-
try Of life than that the great bread
eaters are the great thinkers, or that
the phosphorus which wheat contains,
in the outer kernel, Immediately be-
meath the husk, is the feeder of brains
and the material substance which pro.
vokes to thought, study, reason, and all
the forms of nervous energy. There
are Psychologists who attribute the re-
markable success of States like Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois to the bounty and
perfection Of the wheat crop, and the
intellectual stimulus, or rather food
which it affords the brain. Certainly
no commonwealth in the world has
evinced higher sense of law and Or.
der, or more rapidly developed a social
system which has no equal in the world
The Constitution of Indiana, for in.
stance, the very center Of the wheat
!: zone, is beyond comparison the best in
the Union, and produces the highest
results in our civilization.


!, There is Southern wheat belt
which includes Australia and South
America, where civilization equal to
that of the central North of the United
States is growing up.


i But the full value of wheat as civi.
lizer will never be fully realized until
wheat-meal takes the place Of bolted
flour, and the people learn to make
bread without yeast or risings. Good
bread is emphatically the "staff oflife, u
but the commercial article is the way to
dyspepsia and premature death.-Sci-
ence of Health.


AN Ice HOUSE FoR FIVE DOL
LARs.-A neighbor of mine has an in.
closure about six feet square in the
clear, and six feet high. The walls
are formed of old rrefuse rtimbera
thrown carelessly together, with no re-
gard to form or comeliness. The roof
is made of hemlock boards. The en-
tire cost Of this building did not exceed
five dollars, and practically considered,
it is success; mot ambitious of con-
tanning thirty five loads of ice, but
simply five loads: Ten years this little,
unpretentious house has been used for