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 'I I *{.. ii ;^ «i^t^ wheat k to be town after early eaily potatoes, or oorn- i^» jbaneot the crop u off the tBH^ui, ttiAJgf:dt» Tf^aw, or gantr, or culti- vator. POjiof imik lor rain. The w«d4 aad â- tdbMpia.f«i#|^ more water Mto tteeoafhMMf cciiiy lainMl at this â-  ww w win ba-mtalf to faraiah. If joa plow, orm«qrwiaa wnk tba land, it will not only da atr oy tko iMeda and oheck the ufid mwvponMim of water, bat ahonld we havo a ahower, the rain will penetrate deeper into the wwkad aoil, and render it aoft and ^aeUow; Wo have eviqrthing to fain avd nothiM to loaa by piomptneea in plowing inmedtetd^ after the previona orcp haa beat harraated. InfonrTeara oat of fira^ the jwincipal dUEcaUy in sowing winter wheat in proper aaaaonisto get tfce sol moist enoogh to caaae the wheat to germinate vignooBty and evenly. We mnst recollect that the soil, even dotiBg a severe dtoath, contains in the first two or three a great many thonsand gallons of water per aci e, and still more at a greater depth. This water is ccn- stantly rising towaida the rarbce. Any growing plant pompf it «p oat of the soif, and evaporatca it into tiie atmosphere. The amonnt of water thns ev^wrated is enormoas. Tb* bare toil evaporates water from the snrfaoe aa long as there is any to evaporate, bat. the loss of water from a bare soil is nothing in compaiiscn with the lots on land npcn which plants are growing. In the winter wheat section of Western New York we bow onr wheat from the Ist to the 20th of. September. It is rtady to cat from the first irtek in Jnlyto the first of A«gnB»,;vaiyng];gre8tly in this re^ieet according to the season. As we go Sonth wheat IS sown lattor in the aatnmn, and is ready to harvest earlier in the snmmer. Where the Hessian fly is troablescmtl, we have t o avoid early sowing in theantomn. The fly lays its eggs in the ycneg wheat plants in antnmn, and late sowing is one of the reoaediee. On the other hand, when wheat is b'able to isjoiy from the Midge, we have to avoid late sowing. The Midge flus lay tiieir eggs in tha eaira of wheat when it is in blossom, and an early crop of wheat is Ut mum liable to injaiwAan a late crop. Fortunately neither the Hessian fly nor the Midge has done maoh damage of bte years, and the tendency amoong oar best wheat-j(ro#era Js towards earlier sowing. After the flrat^df Septembw it is tho^ht desirabla to sow as soon as the soil can be pot Bufficiratly mnist atd. mellow. It is just here wh^.re promptness, Kocd Jadgment and science are all requisite. Rain will help us, bnt it will help ua s'ill more if ^wa go to work as thoogfa no rain were ' zpeat^. Aa we said before, there is water enongb in the soil, bnt it is not near enough to the surface to cause the seed to geimiuate. What we have to do is to bury all the weeds, stabble, and growing plants, and keep the aurface soil fine by the frequent use of the cultivator, harrow, and the roller. We know this is easier said than done^but en our strong wheat land it is the gneral expeiience that much of our success will depend on our ability to get the wheat well started in the early aatumn. .1 Mettaods of Freserrljig Eggb At a recent poultry show in Birmiogbam England, prizes were awarded for the bt^st dozen of preserved eggs. They were sent Ib two rocathu before the 'Ate of tho show, a short time to test any preserving piOviess thoronghly. The eggs were tested by being boiled both soft and hard (that is, for a minute and a half, and for ten minutes,) and then'tasted by the judges. Those that gained the first prize had been simply packed in common salt. They had not lest sensibly Ly evaporation, bad good consistent albumen, and were of the best flavor when boiled. Those that received the second prize were but sb'ghtly inferior to the best and the process of preserving is thus de- scribed Melt one part of white wax to two parts cf spermaceti,. boil and mix thoroughly; or two (arts clarified suet to one of wax, and two of spermaceti. Take new laid et!g8, rub with antiseptic salt or fine rice starch. Wrap each egg in fine tissue paper, putting the broad end downward screw the paper tightly at the top, leaving an inch to hold it by. Dip each egg rapidly into the fat heated to 100 degrees. Withdraw, and have to cooL Pack, broad end down ward, in dry, white sand or sawdust. The London Agricultural Gazct'e adds: The eggs so preserved were admirable, and probably, had the contest been for a lonper time, would bave stood first Bat it is ex- ceedingly ureful to know thate^gi may be preserved admirably for two months with no more trouble than putt'ng them in com- mon salt. The other plan was superior in one respect on stripping off the waxed paper, tbe shell was ' s pure and clean as when first laid in fact the eggs might have sold as being fresh, if not as new- laid. Fans fM eaKqi Wms Conanlt,"' -â-  " ' ' Mi^erepain. ' Garry a note book. Watoh the market*. Favor the sesd-oon hills. Mannre ttie back fields 1 Keep op tbe flow of milk. Make repairs in spore boora. Soperior work pi^v as the beat. Above all things avoid foal seed. Gas line ahoold not be aaed freah. Idle land is th* weeds' cpportonity. Fowls proflt fay a ran in the stabblo, Wheat after oate is a faulty praetiep. Whitewash will oleaaae and sweeten. Angost pigs make hoUday small po^. Do not let yoar inaaranoe poliey cx||re. The damages by rato.exceed those by fire. Sow white tamip seed for fine white fodder. Wash the horses feet andj legs ' every night. Success is largely a matter of smdl de- tails. Bell, the gconnd before and. not ai tor seeding. GoodModaad good soil-aM-a-geed be- ginning, t^ Ptum animals well summered are half wintered. Help out the dried up pastures with green fodder. Thinning the rcot crops means more tons totboacre. • ' ;^k ' Clean, oil, and ctora all ^e implemento no longer in nse. (Set out the year's simply o^muok while the bids are dry, fitdld temporary pistore tbelter in airy parfr of the fields. " Weeds when they go to seed ourse the land that grew them. The general purpose animal is superior only in its versatility. Let the bumble bee live and thus increase the yi^ld of cloyer jeed. A drain to be a profitable investment must be a permanent improvement. Fall fallowing deans the land and brings it into fine con£tion for spring crops. Neglected fence -rows are like a leaden weight upon the neck of clean field culture, A farmer's bank account may trow at tbe expense of his manure heap and grain crops, • A clean, cool, ventilated stable free from flies, ia a suitable lodging for the tired work horse. 1 he possibLities of a farm are measured by the quantity and quality of brains which run it. Amid all the toil of midsummer, do not forget to do a little oareful work for the coming county fair. Superidr pofk made from freshly fallen wormy apples is very dear sing to an insect infested orchard. A root crop ia very hnmble, but as a foundation for a judicious rotation it will sup) ort the symmetrical superstructure of profitable mixed farming.^^mertcan^grrt- culturist. ':u:i £ About Good Eating. When I say " good eating," I don't mean all these fancy dishes, with flub-Kiubs and French names, and grease and oil and richness and heaviness, bnt nice, wholesome, toothsome food, which goes straight to the right pUoe snd makes glad the pathway leading thereto. There are a great many knife, people who never know what good eating is. They may have plenty of money with which to buy the raw material, bat ^e women o! A.t.%. 1 t..1.3 3 ,*. L_ Big Doses. The Sauthem negro does not take kindly to the pellets of the homecpathiet. He believes in the largest doses of tee old- school practice, aod will toss cff a tumblerful nf t-astor oil with a (mask of the lips. Even a glass of salts and senna will be swallowed with gusto, while a bolus if) taken without a moment's bejitation. An Eaglishman, who bunted in tbe Soudan says that nothing gives an African savage greater pleasare than a cood dose of medicine. He found his medicine-chest more useful in making the negroes friendly than his revolver and brpech-loading rifle. Bat the medicine must be strong and rap.d in ito effects. For the savage is too impatient to wait several hours for the medfc'ne 1o operate, and too much infla- enced by his sight and taste to be satisfied with a small dose. He is never so happy as when he has taken a good dose of croton- oil and colocynth, or four or five grains of tartar emetic, HoUoway's pills were as popalar in the Soudan as in London and che sportsman found that the more liberal he was with these powerful cathartics, the more willing were the negroes to serve him. Whenever he opened his medicine chest, the natives respected him as a great " medicine man." the more he physicked them, the better they Hked it. But willingly as they wer^ to be doctored internally, not one of them wcull snbmit to an operation with the Klflsbig Ctood-Bye at â-  BaUivay 8tatIoii ^SlMWaw^ikilil ^MiM^^Ai^itiUi* wae S^SirilS^1S?S^yo?the oem- rnny. Kair^rfifawas fnll cf adventare and Les^««e*t. ••* itis.p»b«l*«hat^tbie strain noon bim hastened the awaue wbiefa ^^Ui'mma^tlth. ^flis dntMs oalted him rapidly from one pdmt io anotfier, a'l the -sray fr^m Gtlifocsia tp Nebr«;k^ "A 'â- SS%m mmmtgii" i«4l tra^d^' smpfoye ottbeeq^sa aatipa||, who is sent to ao oompanya stage beNruig,big treat ure boxes, or heavy reinittances of cwrdncy. In the Territories it is all bat impossiole for tibe stage cffiomis to prevent pnblio in fotmation as to the approximate value of troaaon a^ (Bail shkuno^s. A faurxe sam of iiiooey, or a wdTSUed treasniti box, ia reasoaably ceiteia to tempt • somebody-, The average driver is tenapted wh n held np to aoake peace at any prioe. Blair never soirsodered. snd the result was that rob- bers who happened to ran aoroBB him soon loft the earth for good, cr w«nt limping away to. a hospital or prison. He was a haiiwtrigger sort' of a fellisw. The worJ ' Halt 1' or a volley from an ambush had no terrors for him. His gun was discharged instantly. He invsriabqr rode oat||ide with the driver, uid carried a short double barrelled shotgun, loaded heavily with buckshot. Besides this weapon, which ex- perieBoe proved was very ,rmidable, he wore in his belt two larce revolvers. He depended upon his shotgun, however, in almost every emergency.' If the robbers were numerous and he could locate them he would giro tbim both barrels at once, which was usaally about all they wanted. Afewyrars iqjo WeHs, Fmrgo kCo. re- ceived notification that a luge sum of money at Eureka. N6v., apaited transpor- totion to Tybo, where it wis wanted to pay ofl miners with. The stage road was lonely, and it lad long been infested with robbers. Appreciating the risk, of the nndertaking, the company oiidered Blair to Eureka, and sent another mesisenger, named James Brown, to AcOoilipany him. At the time the trip warto have been made there wfagre in Earcka half a dozen exdoovicto wjio had just served out long sentences in 'Hie p nh«itiary for ttsge robbery, and they were particularly bitter against Blair for the part he had taken in seonring their con- viction. They learned of the intended shipment, and all but doe of them proceeded down the road to the Willows station, in- tending to await the arrival of the stage at that point. The one who was left behind wai to learn how many messengers acoom- Kied the stage and let his companions w. The,, venide started front-.jEureka late in the ^ernoou, and arrived at the r Willows station at ' about pi, in. The robber who bad remained behind foimd that Blair had a companion, and, in accordance with this agreement, he loJe rapidly to a mountain about ttn miles out and built two good-siaed fires to warn hit assc elates of the commg of the two shotgons. Wnen the robberd down the road saw the fires they immediately seized the station, binding and gagging the two men employed there, ana then drew themselves up in a liae and awaited the arrival of the C3ach. In about an hour it baited in firabt.'of the bam door, whea a yoioe itoift tbo aido'of the road sang *•!*!â-  .i i .^- ., ••Bagene Blair, suniBnderl** It was pitoh dark, and, as no one was in sight, Bliur jumped from the stage with his Sun in his hand. Just then two shota were red, akid he answered one of them with one barrel tf bis gtm, shooting where he had seen tiie flash. A moment later three men were upon him. He found it was im- Koaeibleto use his gun, and, dropping it, e whirled one ot the robbers arotmd in front of the stage, where one of the side lighte shone upon his back. "The mark was a good one, and at that.instant Jimmy Brown, from his seat on the stage, discharg- ed one barrel, hitting the rober between the hips. This man being out of the way. Brown and Blair assisted by the driver, soon had the otlers in custody, though not untU most of them had been hit by one or more buckshot. Another time, when B'air was guarding a treasure box in the western part of the Stata, he had some fun with the agenta. It was evident that they were not expecting him, or else they were green bands at the business. They had mKle the mos!: elabor- ate preparations, however, aad apparently had no idea of failing ia t eir enterprise, " Th y h^ selected a ought/ nuan place," said Bbur, and if they had had the nerve they might have made us trouble. They had formed a sort of barricade on the edge of the road, which at that pdnt ran along the side of the mountain, B^k of them there was a slope of half a mile, rough with rocksand fallen timber. We were jogging alongat a comfortable gait when I spied a movement back of tbe shrubbery on the "£•, « J^e road, and leind my gun. 'Halt I Throw np your haads, there I' yell- ed two or three m ohoros. I answered instantly with a volley from both barrels. We heard nothiiq; more. The crash of the gun was terrifio. When the smoke cleared away a little we saw those fellows going end down the moontam side. 1 saver knew what became of them or bow badly they were bort We fean-Ltkeir gans, and took tnom aaray w»sjji a*. "Sa^ waa a»oiit the qaicke.t work I «var 4M.*^ir4m TnrHi,^ •,.t ptatk if ' It ft^ah,. On) ^[•fitbai* hoge i caadwitBOBs the [jbrawe ez- fpriuidable ... __fof_ qoMe ybi/bart UtI mranung. They weighed podndhoaoh; â- -. Qalasarfli of,«,.wha^Kffo n^mJkA^'%eA £^ ti irft^ a Ispice o dsngai' fa tb« gam* #UiAi^ ipves aa added «est apd tbtewa into at rt m g wr rsliof the skill the fiab«raan who battlM with snoh nui form snooesa agsiasfe aa adveraaiy who is oonqaered by staratt^gsm ratbor t^n by atreugti^ The mofthod ot..osp^(a is, in brief, asfoUowa On the ooaof the bow- fpirt of the vcasel stands a stroitg, heavy iionrod. suppor^g anoilher st^rong piece of iron in the form of a seat bit c'.e, with the end of the bow or onrfo drawn toward tne bean From these oads, by a strong r^pe is sospended a esmmoa awiiig-boar^, on wlttoh sita tbfsman with the banoon, his feet rdsting 6n a srasll platform or " pnlfdt" na^ed to th^ bowsprit. If^ho dtodses to st«nd on this platfona, be leans forward, and is rendered' secure from falling by. restinar against the semi-ciroular iron, whiob cnrvei backward jnst under his unai. A lookout stands at tae nuuthead above, aad when a £«h ia aeen, the. boai is sailed directly toward bim until within veaob of the bar- pooner, who ^row his iron with all his strength. The throw, as a rble, i« sue, oessfnl if niad* by a trained flriierma s The barb, when driven into the fish, iii automatically detached from the handle of the harpoon, but is still beldby ialtmg rape. The wounded £ah darta forward, and the line is " paid out " as fast as ha requires it by one man, whUe the captain hastens to s.et his vesBel away in anotheir ' direlBtion aa. rapidly as possible, for this is a ease in wnioh distance lends- enshantmsnt to the view, espeoially tboee who know the strength of the swori with which the maddened fish is armed. When he has been given rope enough, the Ond of the line is attadied to a small empty cask, which is thromi overboard to amnse the fish which is now beooming frantio widi the tiain, bat slightly felt at first; while the nshermen inoroase their distance frOm him as rapidly as possible. No«r the fidh begius to strag- gle in earnest, in the hope of getting free horn the barb and rope. He skims along thesnrfaee and a line of foam marks the course of the cask, which does not stop him but does som greatly inaraase his pain, for he is harnessed to it by a sharp point of steel whioh is all the while tearing his flesh. He chaogts his direction again and again, hot all in vain. Next he seeks the depths of the ocean, and all goes well until the end of the rope is reached and the remorse- less cask is drawn under water. The buoyancy of the air now .gives great reiist- anc9 to tbe cask^ and if, for a moment, the fish yields, he is drawn to the suriace. The struggle continues, and he swaiiowi water, and inhales, too and i^ time, paradoxical as it may seem, he is drowned, really drowned, by the element to which he has been accustomed since his birth bnt in which he can live only by breathing air alone. When his strnggles are over the cask becomes motionleES, when he is hoisted on board. Woe to the boat that crosses his path daring the death agony; He will bometimes dart against it with terrible force, driving his swwd through heavy planks. '•â- â€¢'M'du.nn, On the 10 of January 1457 Minited gf minder, com-nittJi* lortbaOMitle ^on^ag-lomt nkmedZh^'S'k., S»vfS^Md ^anten^^ t,\^ • **" Lve.^oofthat " lofclings were also DEATH SOLVES A KTSTEBT.. A Bomantta JStory- In 1870 there came- to Taunton, Mass., a man who described himself as Frank Charteris Brown, and who has since lived here. He had great intellectual ability, but ill-fortune seemed to follow him, and when he died recently the people were not surprised. The mystery which always seemed to sniround him has been penetrat- ed, through th^ papers whieh w«re left in- trasted to Deputy Sheriff Thomas 0. Fal vey, from which the followiog particulars were gathered Biown was the youngest child of the late Greorga Robertson, Etq. of Edinburgh, keeper of the records of Scotland, and neiew of the late Gen. Sir George Brown, G. C. B., K, H. He was educated at Rug- by. Though intended for the ministry, he entered the army as a commissioned officer in the Thirteenth Light Dragoons in 1848 After serving two andone-baJf years he was transferred to the Life Guards, where he remained until 1855. In 1854 he was married privately to an English actress, for which bia allowance was taken from him, but it was afterwards rdtumed to him on condition of his selling out and coming to America. Since that time, September, 1855 he never saw any of his fainily.. In 1864 hiB wife and daughter died in Paris, after having travelled nearly all over the world. Then be drifted back to England Ha was sent by the Liberal party to Taunton, Eug to nm a small newspaper daring the general election, land he says 'I was the direct means of Henry James. Q. G. (now the famous Sir Henry JaoMS, Glads'oae's Attorney General), getting into Parliament, a service which he has more tbaa onoe sob-, ataotially aoknowledged." He oadie again to this oonntri in Augast, 1869, worked a while for J. G. Ayer, of Lo«tlt, afterward aoooiapanied Jay Oooke's pa/ty at the open- ing of theL»ke Saperior sni Mississippi Railroad ais the rep-eceatetive of tb» S^w YorkT^BOkJidJuUi^Bltl^MdM SIX dio Miy fOdUve.^oot that they had nuntjliDgtbe deoeaeed, they wer« to their owner, en conditio 1 tha* l" give baft/fot their app,ar«oe ' ther evidence be forthco-nin* to » complicity in their mother's orims^*' a. month later, "on theFfiHw aftlu.^* of thisParificatioa of the Virjjn »• t?" Mngs^ere sgainbronnht before tl and as their owner. Jehan B lillv to be answerable for their go id' thay werededared forfeited to ^^^ damsel, Katherine de Birnault T ** Sivjgny. Sometimes a fine wasimnnill" on tbe owner o' the rff4ndinz bwrt the oasa with Jebaa Delalaadeand hi" ooi^damned on the 18 :h of April Ua th« Abbot of Jojaphat, near civ^ piy,eighteen francs "on account o'ftT derof a ohild named G.llon, ag4d SyT and a half, or theraabouta, cammittea'CI porker, agsd three months or ther«W I The_porker was • 'hanged and e«cu Jh' Batalthongh pigs appsar to haveW« principal culprits, other quadrapedi frriguently called to ana war lor th^irT Tbe jadiciary of the Cisterioi^ ju^ Bsaupre, inl499. sent a ball to tbertSj for having "killed with furiosity a wSo wis years of age," and in 1389 iheQ usiaas of Dijon cause 1 a horse to be demned to datH,. for homicide. The mil. tratoof Bile in 1479 sentenced a ccc^ctg' bnmed at the stake for the halnoas asj natnr^l crime of laying sn egg Xhe' Goqnatri was aapposed to be the ptodij] a very old oock ud to famish the mxt 1 tive and effective ingradientof witch meat. When hatohed by a serpeatwb the stm, it brought forth a cockatrice, would hide in tue roof of a house, anj \, ita baneful breath and "death-dartint'enl destroy all the inmates. Nataralisti b^ ed in this fable as late as the eighteeDthcs tary; and in 1710 the French savant Lim ronie read a paper before the AcademieL Sdenoesto prove that the eggs attriboteili] cooks owe their peculiar form to adiieMe] the hen. Animals, also, bore their full part of seontion daring the witehctaft delii Pigs suffered most in this respect, audi assamsd to be peculiarly attractive todei and therefore particularly liable to dUbi al possession, as is evident from the k. that went out of the tomb-haunting mut, were permitted, at their own reqaoat,tot ter into the Gadarene herd of swme. Indi the greatest theological authority of middle ages, Thomaa Aquinas, mainti'itti that beaste are but embodiments ofe spirite. ChasBsnee quotes this opinion, ajl adds that m excommunicUing animali 1 anathema "is aimed inferentially at thil devil,- who uses irrational creatures tooDl detrioaent," Still more recently, a F/eel| Jesuit, Pere Bongeant, set forchYhei view in a philojophioal treatise. AMIYEBSABIES OF AGfm. Vtotlms ot Snaks Pt^onlag Tortnradlil Ita BeanrriBK Symptoms. The strange case of the dau^ter of tb Hon. A. G. Ramage of Bellaire, whil having been bitten on Aug;. 19, 1875, bji copper facade 1 snake, and, her lifeliini|| been saved, has bad a return of the Byoijh tons of the poisoning on the nineteenth August of every year since, has attnsttil wide attention in the medical profe88ioii,tbi statement being made tnat the case iiU' preoedental in toxioological phenomeu. The case of Miss Ramage, however, recilli a similar one which occarrcl in this C3iintj, and which finally resultsd as it is feani the T Oik) la iy's will A young girl, .wtel afterward be^me the wife of Col. Geo(|i S nith, the first representative of Livin^gtii coanty ia the Asseoably, was bitten in tlie ankle by a rattlesnake in 1803. Her lift was saved, but on the recurrence, year afta year, of the day on which she was bitten, her ankle and leg would become swollen as the; had when the poison was first in j :c:ed, aiii she would suffer all the tortures tnat fol'of- ed the passing of the virus into her blood. This would last several hoars and then grad- ually pass away, to raturn with anrarm regularity the next year. Tae violence the paroxysm I attending these recarrio^ symptoms of the snake poisoning increaaed annually, bnt Mrs. Smit^ bore up ndet them for thirty-two years. Oi the next re torn, howevera, she was unable tobea through the period of the paroxysms, and died in great agony. Tas c ue of Miss Bun- age is exactly the sam?, and it is feared thit she will not be able to sarvive the dretdw ordeal now approaching. Callliiff a Spade a S^^ide. Ca' ling things by their right names I I don't believe in it. A lie may bea b; nndoubtedly it is a lie, but if we go about t liling everyfao1y so we would not only P* our beads knockad in, bat would be thor oughly disliked. Good people would be* atrongly opposed to snch business ai m people, for their interesta would be affocta^ thoagh it might not toaoh them directly »» in theory they wonld Uke the plan. Tot see, about all morality is b aied on persM oiiB,, indicatii