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5. M.w~ \rwiw Feeding Lambs. ‘7 One of the hardest things to do just now is to get the lambs on a grain diet. It is quite essential that they should be fed grain by the time cold weather comes, and it takes con- siderable good management to put them on the grain diet sum-essfully.” Bays E. P. Smith. " New grain is gen- erally injurious to them because they are not used to it. New corn undi- gcsted may kill a lamb, or make half a flock sick and bring on inflammation of the bowels. A young lamb knows no more how to eat grain than a baby un- derstands how to chew meat. In eithâ€" er case the habit of using food pro- perly must be taught. it the child should swallow the meat without mas- l l c and this should be supplied at as low cost as possible in order_to be able to realize the largest profit. Maxims or an Old Teamster. Bad-tempered driverâ€"bad tempered team. ' There are more balky drivers than balky horses. - Big loads. little profits. Whips are like emetics, to be used very seldom. Noisy drivers are like noisy wagons ' â€"â€"l~ot h empty. t Axle grease modifies the grain bill. A horse's power is proportionate to his food. Regular and plentiful good economy. Five cents‘ feeding is worth of sugar is het- :tcr than a dollar in whips. l l 1 Blinders are worth more on the driâ€" ver than on the horse. He who cannot govern himself can- not govern horses. The blacksmith is father to much ticating it he would suffer as a conse- ‘ lameness. quence, and so with the lambs. A great many think that moist bran is the best grain diet to give to the lambs at first. but soft. mushy food is apt to cause trouble in the stomach as hard, lump grain. Oats and bran mixed «together cause the least trouble. Corn is not a good grain to begin with, unless it is ground into meal. A few oats with motst bran sprinkled in them will tempt the lambs as much as any grain, and the ' will suffer the least from such a let. A little bran should be scattered around the feeding trough to tempt them to try the grain. After licking up this they will begin to eat. the oats and bran mixed together. Lambs should be fed a grain diet. very carefully. Give them at first just enough to tempt them to come again. Do not overfeed them with grain. One false step in this direction ma cost you the lives of several of the choicest animals. When 'they come readily to the feeding trough when called the diet. chould be increased a trifle each day. but they should not be placed upon a full diet of all that they will eat up clean inside of amonth. If they are fed all they can eat in two weeks after first tempted with rain they are apt to have some bowel rouble that. will make them weak all through the winter. The time of feeding should be at regular‘stated in- tervals. Irregularity in the time and quantity of the food are sources of a great deal of trouble with the winter lambs. Oats and bran should be fed the first week or two, and then wheat or re can be mixed in and after a mont corn can be fed. The latter grain is the hardest for the lambs to digest. and<it should not be'made a part; of their grain diet until their stomachs lacy: become accustomed to coarse oo ." Money in Mutton. The best time to buy sheep is in late summer or fall. It. will soon be in order to couple sheep, and as early lambs add largely to the profit the management of sheep in the fall is as important as during any other season. The ram should be pure bred and pro- cured from a flock where the sheep are thrifty. All ewes that are not ro- bust. or which Show the least evidence of unsoundness, should be discarded. By careful selection and bringing the ewes into the winter in good condition they will have no difficulty in withâ€" standing the cold, and their lambs will be strong and thrifty in the early por- tion of the year. Dogs can be kept from sheep by judicious use of barbed wire, the lower strand being on the ground or buried two inches beneath the surface. and the next strand four inches-above the lower one. Sheep do not often receive injury from barbed wire, the wool being a protection. If dogs can be kept from sheep they can be raised with but little labor, and will partially support themselves while plants are growing, both weeds and grass being consumed by them, and they will enrich the soil with their droppings, which are evenly distribut- cd and trodden in. When farmers recognize that wool is not the only product of sheep they will improve their flocks and make larger profits. \Vhile there are indi- vidual sheep with good records as producers of heavy fleeces, yet the average clipping of wool is not; over four pounds per sheep. due to breed- ing sxcep that. can thrive on scanty past urcs and ignoring size. The pres- enl flocks can be almost entirely chang- ed in two seasons. and at less ex music than with any other class of stoc . In England the farmers have ceased to attach importance to wool. breeding for mutton and lamb. with wool as a secondary product. and the long ex- icrience of the English farmersshould )e a guide to farmers in this country. In England the farmer pays a high rent and uses roots 1188. special food for sheep, the object. being to produce. a mutton of chOice quality. n our large markets choice mutton sells read- tiy, but it must be admitted that the large number of inferior sheepi that reach the markets assist in coping down rices to a certain extent, yet those armors who have sent good ones to market. have not been disappoint- ed in profits. Only Good Treatment Necessary. Good food and good care are essen- tial to successful poultry raising. but this does not by any means imply that it is necessary to be constantly fussing with them. it is inasible to go to an extreme either wayâ€"to put in too much time nddling and working with them. or neglecting them almost en- tirely. simply allowing them to take care of themselves. Good feed and good water with shade are almost all that are needed from spring until fall. if the fowls can be given a good range. with healthy stock to begin with and then good treatment is given them. thev will need no artificial preparations to keep them healthy. anddhe feeding of cod iver oil feeds is an injury rath- er than a benefit. No lotion is suffi- cicnt to make up the daily wastes of the system. Material to make a steady growth is what is required. and the. more, com letely this is supplied. the better Wll be the results in every way. i l feet high and 11 feet and more in cir- cumference. and. the aspect of the Few farm horses need shoes. ever their driver does. l YOUNG FOLKS. Trick With Fire. A clever boy can do some mystifying conjuring and have no end of fun if he will only keep his wits about him and make each move at the proper time. The main thing is to keep the attention of the audience away from the pivotal point of the‘trick till the climax. \Ve heard about an easy one the other day, the preparation for which may all be done beforehand. Did you ever see a oonjurer hold up a bit of white paper, touch a match to it, and have a tiny flame start in the center of the paper and wind around until it had drawn the outlines of an animal or spelled somebody's name, and then die out. leaving the lines burned in the. paper as though they had been ‘ cut out i It probably seemed very won- 'I‘he golden rule applies to horses. the same as to men. - . The more whip the less horsemanship. _â€"oâ€"- -.~< REMARKABLE GROUP OF PINES. A Thousand to be Seen in a Cemetery in New Brunswick. It is seldom that the mutilation of trees adds to their impressiveness, but a cemetery in St. Stephen. N. B., con- tains some hundreds of white pines, of unusual size and singular beauty, which shows the curious spectacle of branching, ground, into numerous great limbs, sometimes as much as seven feet in circumference. A hundred or so of these trees have attained large size, the most: massive of them being 75 huge horizontal or perpendicular branches, laden with heavy foliage, and the rugged, knotty boles from which they Spring, is striking in char- acter. while they have a. certain dig- nity and solemnity especially befitting a cemetery. As the ground on which they stand is supposed to have been burned over in 1801. when {the adjacent country was laid waste by fire, all of the trees are SECOND GROIVTH. Such of them as have been cut show 80 to 91 concentric rings, so that their age is less than 100 years, and they are still full of health and vigour, and promise to endure for years to come. Around them have sprung up hundreds of other stately trees, often six or seven feet in girth three feet from the ground; and the forest cemetery has the unusual charm from the solemnizing effect of these noble pines, through which the wind ever murmurs -a. gentle requiem for the departed. Impressrve as is the spectacle of the " lofty unbranched trunks, which now and then indicate the site of a prim- eval forest in Maine or New Bruns- wick, there is something in the char- acter of these distorted giants more imposing still, so that every viSitor to this woodland burial place wanders through its shades. over the soft brown needles which carpet its undu- lating surface with a sentiment akin to awe. The checking of the upward growth in their youth has caused Some of the trees to send up as many as fourteen branchesâ€"each one of the size and proportions of a. leader,.and some of them five or six feet in girth. One of the trees shows a sort of Si- amese twin connecting link between two mighty trunks which rise almost Eerpfiitidicularly to a. considerable eig . The keeper estimates that there are ONE THOUSAND good-sized pines in the enslosure, sever- al hundred of which are between five and ten feet in circumference. Of the curious branching trees of great size there are over one hundred. the largest of which is 11 feet eight inches in girth, with fourteen limbs forty to sixty feet long. some of them seven feet in cir- cumference. Its height is seventy feet. Another. which is seventy-five feet high, has a girth of ten feet. Adjacent pines. less remarkable in growth, meaâ€" sure from seven and a half to nine and a half feet. round. Fine, wellâ€"kept gravel roads wind among these iants, and from certain open spaces 0 rising ground there are noble views of the St. Croix river, with chains of wooded hills marking its course. From the river the ground on the British side rises in a series of ridges. on one of which the ceme- tery is situated, at some distance from the busy little town of St. Stephen. which connects by a bridge. with Caâ€" lais. Maine. The whole river is re- markable for its fine landscape effects, enhanced by the rich coloring of its red granite shores and breaches. Its great; tides, coming from the Bay of Fundy, rise at St. Stephen to the height of twenty-five feet, and recede. leaving but a thread of a stream to indicate its course, though .it is a quarter of a mile in Width at. its head- waters. broadening at its mouth into Passainaqumldy Bay, with 600 islands breaking its imposing surface. .__._.+â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Youngest Medalist. France. as well as England. has her decorations for those who save human lives. The other day at Trooadero. the Sauvetcurs awarded their medal to Eugene Poinet. a baby 3 years old. A few months ago when the boy was play- ing with his younger brother in the ard of his home at Marly-laâ€"Ville, the latter. aged 2. fell head foremost into a tub of water. Eugene. “a big fel- low of 3.” rushed to the rescue. but succeeded only in holding his brother by his clothes. His loud cries for "mamma" were not heard. and the little fists could hardlv hold their heavy burden any ion 91'. Thep he fell upon the idea of cal Julie,” .the name by which his father called his mother. This brought the mother u n the scene: in another moment she ad her two children in her arms. and a few hours afterward the little ones had for- gotten their adventure. I I . I l l some three feet from the l l l Horses need food and water when- ' derful to you' but It is easuy done' Take some saltpeter and dissolve in water until the_water will take up no more. Then With a wooden point, such. as the sharpened end of a match, use .this solution as ink and write your name or .draw a pattern on paper. Any paper Will do, but unsized paper will not show the mark when the liquid times, which it will very soon do. How are you to know where to start from? Make a pencil mark at the spot. \Vhen you are ready apply to the mark a tiny coal or glowing stick that: is not actually aflame. You will see the burning spread until it has run all along the line you made, and it will mystify as well as amuse everybody who watches it. After you have learned to do it suc- cessfully you can prepare a lot of pa- pers With queer patterns and funny ani- mals and have them tacked up on little frames, and perhaps give a. little “show” all your own. - The Chinese Way. Somebody has been observing Chin- ese methods and says that they do everything backward. Their compass points to the south instead of the north. The men wear skirts and the women trousers; while the men wear their hair long, the women coil their’s in a knot. The dressmakers are men; the women carry burdens. The spoken language is not written. and the written langu- age is not spoken. Books are read backwards, and any notes are inserted at the top. \Vhite is used for mourn- ing. and the bridesmaids wear blackâ€"_- instead of being maidens. their func- tionaries are old women. The Chin- ese surname comes first, and they shake their own hands instead of one whom they wouldgreet. Vessels are launchâ€" ‘ed sidevvays. and horses are mounted from the off side. \They commence their dinner with dessert, and end ’up With soup and fish. In shaving, the barber-operates on the head, cutting the hair upward, then downward, and then polishes it off with a. small knife, which is passed over the eyebrows and into the nose to 'remove any superflu- ous hairs; and the performance is com- pleted by removing the wax from the ears With a piece of cotton wool on a Wire. What Puzzled Margery. This is Margery’s first year in school, and she is greatly interested in every- thing that occurs. One morning re- cently she came home greatly excited.‘ “Oh, mamma," she said,“ "What do you think? Our teacher stopped right in the middle of a music lesson, and asked us how many turnips there. are in a bushel. We just couldn’t under- stand What that. had to do with our music." ~ Mamma couldn't understand it, either, and the more positive Margery grew about this matter, the more her mamma felt she must be mistaken. Fin- ally, to satisfy her own mind, one morn- ing when she met the teacher Margery's momma asked her what she meant by asking the children how many turnips there were in a. bushel during a. music lesson. The. teacher, too. was just; as puzzled as Margery had been. "\Vhy. surely, I didn't ask such a question as that," she said. Then, after thinking a moment. she said. laughingly: \Vhy, I asked the children how many beats there were in a mea- sure 1 " - ' ! lzlargery's bright mind had done the res . A Trick With a. Needle. «= Although steel is harder than copper or silver. it would be a difficult feat to penetrate a coin with a needle in the ordinary way; but if it is thrust into a cork of just the same length as a needle. and given a quick. heavy blow with the hammer, the needle will be driven completely through it. To insure the success of the experi- ment, the needle should be exactly cov- ered by the cork. and inust be placed so that it stands directly vertical to the face of the coin; but several trials may be necessary before this is accom- plished. The coin may rest upon a piece of soft .wood. . This trick is due to the principle of inertia, the quick blow driving the steel needle supported by the cork through the soft metal before it has had tune to bend or break. Magnetismin Man. Every watchmaker knows that the human frame is an excellent magnet. A man will carry a watch for years. and be proud of its accuracy; then he will sicken. the watch will lie on the mantel iece or on the chest of drawers. and wil develop great inaccuracy and unreliability. The only explanation given is that the absence of magnetism upsets the time-announcer. and the best proof of this is that when the man re- covers and takes his watch it scan gets right again. No two men appear to have the sameuna ism in their frames. and it is so dom two can use the same watch satisfactorily. SEEN IN NEW GUINEA. Strange. Life. Human and Other. In the In- terlor of Ike Island. The only white man known to have crossed the island of New Guinea from shore to shore, to have actually tra- versed the vast unknown interior and seen the aboriginal Papuans face to face in their native forests, is \‘an Gestel. . “I started in 187-) from the mouth of the Fly river, in the Gulf of Papua. on the South coast of New Guinea, to run the frontier line. There was talk at that time of the annexation of New Guinea by the Government of Queens- land, Australia. and so the Dutch Gov- ernment resolved to define its posses- sions. I entered Papua with a detach- ment of a. hundred Dutch soldiers, in their tidy uniforms of light. blue linen, and a band of as many ooolies to Carry supplies. " The interior of New Guinea is one. vast mass of upheaved granite, without traces of minerals or metal ores, the strata tilted and piled topsy-turvey. Everywhere the work of volcanic erup- tions is to be seen. Such a thinly po- pulated region, considering the fact that it was an absolutely new country and that fruits and small game were. so plentiful, I did not suppose could exâ€" ist. The natives we saw from time. to time, at a distance mostly; they never molested us. Their heads were flat. on top. with long, curly, black hair; they went entirely naked. Their but,- tocks extended out eight and even ten inches, this repulsive deformity consti- tuting a fleshy support amply capable of sustaining a child in A SITTING POSITION. Nor was this their most marked pecu~ harity. Some of the nursing mothers threw their breasts back over their shoulders or under their arms, at will. to feed the infant carried in a sling between their shoulders. ." Tho Papuans are a very unattrac- tive race to look upon. In arms they were primitive to a degree that was astounding. They had neither bows nor spears that; I saw, their only wea- pons being stone hatchet.s.- Of the use of metals they seemed to be en- tirely ignorant. In the dry season they made their homes in caves, which they found or excavated for themselves. Spme of_ these cave, dwellings I visited, discovering fragments of their repasts and ocasionally a -broken stone axe. In the rainy season they live high in the trees, where they build rude houses of sticks laid around and intertwined with the branches. thatched with dried alangralang. and reached by shaky-look- ing stick ladders. "Most startling was the solitude, the destitution of life and motion, in the great central plateaus which we reached in our gradual ascent from the. river level. There were plenty of small creatures of the squirrel tribe, some of the peculiar pig-headed deer we have in Java, and an occasional little tiger'oat, rather handsome than hurtful looking. That was all. I saw in my wholejourney, from the mouth of the Fly river on the southeast coast to Geelvmk Bay on the northwest, not. a single beast of prey, unless those pretty little spotted tree cats could be digni- fied by that name. Not. a kangaroo of either the tree-climbing or grass-jump- ing variety was seen, nor any of the dmgos or wild dogs elsewhere reported. I did see a number of specimens of THE GREAT BAT, called by the natives kalong or 'flying 'dog.’ With its curious coat: of light. brown hair and its wing expanse of six feetâ€"truly a formidable looking crea- ture, but not hurtful as I found it. "But of birds there is, I verilv be- lieve, a vaster profusion of more beau- tiful tints and delicate plumage in New Guinea than anywhere else in the world. They fairly flamed through those som- bre forests, which but for their bright hues and sharp cries would have been funereally suggestive. \Vhat a para- dise the interior of New Guinea would be for a naturalist! From the great. cebu. which devours stones. and the cassowary, through all the species of peafowl and the bird of paradise. down to the oochatoos and the wood pigeons, there were birds of beauty in never ceasing variety and numbers. “ At suitable stations along the route I had the soldiers nail up on trees the Dutch flag and iron charts of the Dutch coat of arms, on most. of which no white man's eyes have since fallen. \Vhen we reached Geelvink Bay, and realized that our task was finished, and that Holland's part of New Guinea was so definitely determined then and thence- forth that. no other nation could lay claim to it. we gave a rousing cheer, ears of the solitary post holder whom the Government had even then for some years maintained on the coast. The poor fellow probably didn't see a friendly face more than half a dozen times a year. He lived in a block house. watching the coaling station for the Dutch war vessels in those waters.” â€"â€"-â€"â€"~__.-â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€" Undoubtedly. The people of Holland are commonly as matter-ofâ€"fact as the Scotch, and a figurative phrase bothers them sorely. Not. long ago a traveller found in a cafe at Amsterdam 8. Dutchman who had travelled much, and who spoke English perfectly well. .The Dutchman was smoking :1 china pipe of remarkable size and beauty. and the traveller, as an admirer and collector of such bric-aâ€"brac, took the liberty to comment upon it. _ You could not stumble upon a pipe hke that every day, said the traveller. The Dutchman took three or four whiffs at the pipe, and then slowly re- moved it from his mouth. Certainly not without breaking it. he. said, gravely. Well Named. \Vhy do you refer to the trees as acrobatsi . .Because their limbs are always in the air. 'l‘heSeorcher May be Scorched. Have you a bicycle suit, Larkin‘i I have. ’ ‘ Does it fit? . . Mydawyer fears it will when it comes to and and it must have been music in the- PURELY [llNlDllH NEWS INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY. Gathered min furious Point: m- the Atlantic to the Paella. Ottawa wants a curfew bell. Kingston's population is 17.950. The fall wheat plant. is looking well. Safe blowers are at work in Stratford. Belle River recently held its first fair. At \V'ingham bread is four cents a. loaf. There are 10.000 Icelanders in Maui- tuba. New oil territory is being opened at Bothwell. Fifty houses will be built in Piston next season. An athletic association is to be formed at Hespeier. ‘ The \Voodstock hospital is trying to get out of debt. Gravenhunst’s tax rate is 81-2 cents on the dollar. The build' 5 put up in Berlin this your cost $11 .383. A London boy has just harvested a good crop of peanuts. \Vork on the Y. M. C. Ale new build- ing. London, has begun. Recently a 30â€"pound porcupine was shot near Alliston. The North Bay Public Library has been opened to the public. Rev. John Curry, of the Orillia Bap- tist church, has reSigned. Three companies are competing for the Tottenham water works. ' The new St. Jose h's Hospital. Guelph, has been formal y opened. McKutcheon’s mill, Alton. has been burned at a loss of $4,000. Rev. 1“. \Vhelan, pastor.of St: Pa~ trick's Church, Ottawa. Will resngn. Hunter and Crossley are holding re- vival meetings in New Brunswtck. Cattle roam over the streets of Owen Sound at their own sweet Will. Shipment. of Canadian fruit to Eng- land by cold storage is not a success. Goderich will soon have a checker tournament for young men under 19. Interesting relics have been dug up in an old cemetery at Amherstburg. Last year Stratford spent $855,425 in improvements and new buildings. The new curling and skating rink at Goderich has been formally opened. Rev. \V. H. Bradley. Alvinston, is to be called to Knox Church, Mitchell. A Sombra farmer raised a potato weighing three pounds 71-2 ounces. The Longford Lumber Company will take out 9,000,000 feet this Winter. Two skeletons of Indians were dug up from an Oriilia street the other day. Last year Manitoba’s cattle shipments were 22,000; this year they are 30,000. The old Baptist; church building and lot, Strutford, have been sold by auo- tion. In Hamilton church property is ex- empt from taxation to the value of $1,086,470. The G. T. R. will probably make Georgetown the terminus of one of its divisions. About. 265,000,000 feet of lumber have been out. this season by the Ottawa mills. Dr. Jennie Hill. Bond Head, is ap- pointed superintendent .of a hospital in China. - \Vaterloo is talking of raising $50,000 to buy its share of the water works plant. Every night at Kingston young men gamble away hundreds of dollars play- ing poker. A West Zorra farmer grew_ :1. cucum- ber 18 inches long and a. foot in Circum- ference. Next season a tally-ho coach will run between Port Cockburn and the Parry Sound railway. A Port Dover man shows a. table made of 200 different kinds of wood, and containing 10,000 pieces. David Broughton, of Stamford, has fallen heir to a. big fortune in the States by the death of a grand uncle. The Livingstons. of \Vatcrloo count , are arranging to buy 1.000.000 bushe s of flax-seed in the North-west. The Assize Court grand jury at strat- ford was so pleased with the city hos- pital that it contributed $13 to it. London has two men who sit in ad- joining pews in the same church, and yet. never recognize each other on the street. W'm. Curtis, mail carrier. between Muirkirk and Palmyra, asserts that. his hair has not been out since 183:1, almost sixty-one years ago. He is ninety years old. Jos. Forder, son of Bandmaster For- der of the 29th Battalion band, Berlin, died recently in the 16th year of his ago. When fourteen he composed the Aberâ€" deen Waltz, and was a promising musi- oian. A shark recently washed ashore at Midian, British Columbia. had two dis- tinct tails, three perfect eyes, and what appeared to be the rudiment ofn fin or flapper hanging to the under jaw. A discovery ofa new deposit _of placer gold bearing gravel has been tllBCAJV/ef‘cd near Vernon. [3.0. ina rather remark- able manner. The wife of a rancher named Smith, on killing a fowl, found in the bird's crop several nuggets of gold, evidently picked up iii the gravel pile to which the hen daily resorted. The ground in the. vicinity has been staked out and will be worked. _._- W A Difficult Requirement. The curious effect that may bepro- duced by a ver small transposition of Words and ieas is illustrated by this slightly " mixed ” «instruction. re- cently given by an officer at drill to a company of men: ' When i give the command, ' llaltl you will bring the foot which is on the ground to the side of the one which is in the air, and remain uwtioniessl ’The Rivals. , Mr. Richfello-”Miss Dc Sliinrn is evidently a woman of many fine points." 5 Rival Belleâ€"“l should say 30. Did you see her elbows i"