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"THE CYCLJOPEEDY."

By EUGENE FIELD.

Havin' lived next door to the Hobartplace f'r goin' on 30 years, I calc'latethat I know jest about ez much aboutthe case ez anybody else now on airth,exceptin' perhaps it's ol' Jedge Baker,and he's so plaguey old 'nd so powerfulfeeble that he don't know nothin'.

It seems that in the spring uv '47-the year that Cy Watson's oldest boywuz drowned in West river-there comealong a book agent sellin' volyumes'nd tracks f'r the diffusion uv knowl-edge, 'nd havin' got the recommendof the minister 'nd uv the select men,he done an all-fired big business in ourpart uv the county. His name wuzLemuel Higgins, 'nd he wuz ez likelya talker ez I ever heerd, barrin' LawyerConkey, 'nd everybody allowed thatwhen Conkey wuz round he talked 'ofast that the town pump 'ud have to begreased every 20 minutes.

One uv the first uv our folks that thisLemuel' Higgins struck wuz LeanderHobart. Leander had jest marr'ed oneuv the Peasley girls, 'nd had movedinto the old homestead on the Plain-ville road-old Deacon Hobart havin,give up the place to him, the other boyshavin' moved out west (like a lot o'darned fools that they wuz!). Leanderwuz feelin' his oats jest about thistime, 'nd nuthin' wus too good f'r him.

"Hattie," sez he, "I" guess I'll haveto lay in a few books f'r readin' in thewinter time, 'nd I've a half notion tosubscribe f'r a cyclopeedy. Mr. Higginshere says they're invalerable in a fam-ily, and that we orter have 'em, bein'as :how we're likely to have the fam'lybime by!"

"Lor's sakes,:•teander, how you talk!"sez Hattie, blyshin' all over, ez bridesallers does to heern tell uv sich things.

Waal, to make a,jPong story short,Leander bargained with Mr. Higginsfor a set uv them cyclopeedies, 'nd hesigned his name to a long printed paperthat showed how he agreed to take acyclopeedy oncet in so often, whichwuz to be as often ez a new one uv thevolyumes wuz printed. A cyclopeedysn't printed all at oncet, because that'.uld make it cost too much; conse-

k •-y the man that gets it up has itstru .along fur apart, so as to hitfolks 't every year or two, andgin'rally ,ohut harvest time. So Le--4er kind uv liked the idee, and he

fed the printed paper 'nd made his'%vit to it before Judge Warner.

1Ihe fust volyume of the cyclopeedystood on a shelf in the old seckretaryin the settin' room about four monthsbefore they had any use f'r it. Onenight 'Squire Turner's son come overto visit Leander 'nd Hattie, and they gotto talkin' about apples, 'nd the sort uvapples that wvuz the best. Leander al-lowed that the Rhode Island greenin'wuz the best, but Hattie and the Tur-ner boy stuck up f'r the Roxbury rus-set, until at last a happy idee struckLeander, and sez he; "We'll leave itto the cyclopeedy, b'gosh! Which-ever one the cyclopeedy sez is the bestwill settle it!"

"But you can't find out nothin' 'boutRoxbury russets nor Rhode Islandgreenin's in our cyclopeedy," sez Hat-tie.

"Why not, rd likdeto know?" sez Le-ander, kind of indignant like.

"'Cause ours haint got down to theB yet," sez Hattie. "All ours tellsabout is things beginnin' with A."

"Well, hain't.we talkin' about Ap-ples?" sez Leander. "You aggervate meterrible, Hattie, by insistin' on knowin'what you don't know nothin' 'bout."

Leander went to the seckertary andtook down the cyclopeedy 'nd huntedall through it f'r Apples, but all hecould find wuz "Apple - See Pomolo-ogy."

"How in thunder kin I see Pomolo-gy," sez Leander, "when there aint noI'omology to see? Gol durn a cyclo-pedy, anyhow!"

And he put the volume back ontothethe shelf 'nd never sot eyes onto it agin.

That's the way .the thing run I'ryears 'nd years. Leander would've ginup the plaguey bargain but he could-n't; he had signed a printed paper 'ndhad swore to it afore a justice of thepeace. Higgins would have had thelaw on him if he had throwed up theytrade.

The most aggervatin' feature uv itall wuz that a new one uv ther cussidcyclopeedies wuz allus sure to show upat the wrong time-when Leander wuzhayd up or had jest been afflicted insome way or other. His barn burntdowli two nights afore the volyume con-tainin' the letter B arrived,'nd Leanderneeded all his chink to pay f'r lumber,but Higgins sot back on that affidavitand defied the life out uv him.

"Never mind, Leander," sez his wife,soothin' like, "it's a good book to havein the house, anyhow, now that we'vegot a baby."

"That's so," sez Leander, "babiesdoes begin with B don't it?"

You see their fust baby had beenborn; they named him Peaseley-Pesseley HIobart-after Hattie's folks.So, seein' as how it wuz payin' f'r abook that told about babies Leanderdidn't begrudge that five dollars somuch after all.

"Leander," sez Hattie one forenoon,"that B cyclopeedy ain't no account.There aint nothin' in it about babiesexcept 'See Maternity.'"

"Waal, I'll be gosh durned!" sezLeander. That wuz all he said, and hecouldn't do nothin' at all, f'r that bookagent, Lemuel Higgins, had the deadwood on him--the mean, sneakin' crit-terl

So the years passed on, one of thetncyclopeedies showin' up now 'nd then-sometimes every two years 'nd some-times every four, but allus at a timewhen Leander found it pesky hard togive up a fiver. It warn't no use cussin'Higgins; Higgins just laffed whenLeander allowed that the cyclopeedywka no good 'nd that he wuz bein'robbed. Meantime Leander's familywas lucreasin' and growin', Little

Sarey had the hoopin' cough dreadfulone winter, but the cyclopeedy didn'thelp out at all,.-'cause all it said muz:"Hoopin' Cough - See Whoopin'Cough"-and, uv course, there warn'tno Whoopin' Cough to see, bein' as howthe W hadn't come yet!

Oncet when Hiram wanted to dreenthe home pasture, he went to the cyclo-peedy to find ott about it, but all hediskivered wuz: "Drain--See Tile."This wuz in 1859, and the cyclopeedyhad only got down to G.

The cow wuz sick with lung feverone spell, and Leander laid her dyin'to that cussid cyclopeedy, 'cause whenhe went to readin' 'bout cows it toldhim to "See Zoology."

But what's the use uv harrowin' upone's feelin's talkin' 'nd thinkin' aboutthese things? Leander got so afterawhile that the cyclopeedy didn't wor-ry him at all; he grew to look at it ezone uv the crosses that hiuman crittershas to bear without complainin'through this vale uv tears. The onlything that bothered him wuz the fearthat mebbe he wouldn't live to see thelast volume-to tell the truth, thiskind uv got to be his hobby, and I'veheern him talk 'bout it many a timesettin' round the stove at the tavern'ud squirtin' tobacco juice at the saw-dust box. ilis wife, Hattie, passedaway with the yaller janders the win-ter W came, and all that seemed to rec-oncile Leander to survivin' her wuzthe prospect uv seein' the last volyumeuv that cyclopeedy. Lemuel Higgins,the book agent, had gone to his ever-lastin' punishment; but his son, Hiram,had succeeded to his father's business'nd continued to visit the folks his oldman had roped in. By this time Le-ander's children had growed up; all on'em wuz marr'd, and there wuz numerisgrandchildren to amuse the ol' gen-tleman. But Leander wuzn't to besatisfied with the common things uvairth; he didn't seem to take no pleas-ure in his grandchildren like most mendo; his mind wuz allers sot on some-thin' else--for hours 'nd hours, yes,all day long, he'd set out on the frontstoop lookin' wistfully up the road forthat book agent to come along with acyclopeedy. He didn't want t6 die tillhe'd got all the cyclopeedies his con-tract called for; he wanted to haveeverything straightened out before hepassed away.

When-oh, how well I recollect it--When Y come along he wuz so overcomethat he fell over in a fit uv paralysis, 'ndthe old gentleman never got over it.For the next three years he drooped'ndpined, and seemed like he couldn't holdout much longer. Finally he had totake to his bed-he was so old 'nd feeble-but he made 'em move the bed upagainst the winder so he could watchfor that last volyume of the cyclopeedy.

The end come one balmy day in thespring uv '87. His life wuz a' ebbin'powerful fast; the minister wuz there,'nd me, 'nd Dbek Wilson, 'nd JedgeBaker, 'nd most uv the fam'ly. Lovin'hands smoothed the wrinkled forehead'nd breshed back the long, scant, whitehair, but the eyes of the dyin' man wuzsot upon that piece uv road down whichthe cyclopeedy man allus come.

All to oncet a bright 'nd joyful lookcome into them eyes, 'nd ol Leanderriz up in bed 'nd sez: "It's come!"

"What is it, father?" asked his:daughter Sarey, sobbin' like.

"Hush," sez the minister, solemnly;"he sees the shinin' gates uv the NooJerusalum."

"No, no," cried the aged man; "it isthe cyclopeldy-the letter Z-it's com-in'!"

And, sure enough, the door opened,and in walked Higgins. He totteredrather than walked, f'r he had growedold 'nd feeble in his wicked perfession.

"Here's the Z cyclopeedy,Mr. Hobart,"says Higgins.

Leander clutched it; he hugged it tohis pantin' bosom; then stealin' one

pale hand under the piller he drew oflta faded bank note 'nd. gave it to Hig-gins.

"I thank thee for this boon," sez Le-ander, rollin' his eyes up devoutly;then he gave a deep sigh.

"Hold on," cried Higgins, excitedly,"you've made a mistake-it isn't thelast-'

But Leander didn't hear him-hissoul had fled from its mortal tenement'nd hed soared rejoicin' to realms uveverlastin' bliss.

"He is no more," sez Dock Wilson,methaporically.

"Then who are his heirs?" asked thatmean critter Higgins.

"We be," sez the family."Do you conjointly and severely ac-

knowledge and assume the obligationof deceased to me?" he asked 'em.

"What obligation?" asked PeasleyHobart, stern like.

"Deceased died owin' me f'r a cyclo-pedy!" sez Higgins.

"That's a lie " ses Peasley. "We allseen him pay you for the ZI"

"But there's another one to come,"sez Higgins.

"Another?" they all asked."Yes; the index!" sez he.So there wuz, and I'll be eternally

durned if he ain't a'suin' the estate inthe probate court now f'r the price uvit!-St. Louis Republic.

Ho* Air Can Be Weighed.

The weight of air has often been test-ed by compressing it in receptaclesby the air pump. That it really hasweight when so compressed is shown bythe fact that the weight of the vesselsis ipcreased slightly by filling themwith compressed air, and that such ves-sels become specifically "lighter" assoon as the air contained in themn isexhausted. ,Many elaborate expertlments on the weight of air have provedthat one cubic foot weighs 536 grains,or something less than one and one-quarter ounces. The above experimeniton the weight of air is supposed.to bemade at the surface of the earth withthe temperature at 50 degrees Fahren-heit. Heated air, or air at high eleva-tion, is much lighter. .

-- Use none but a silver spoon foryour sweetmeat• .

DOESN'T WANT THE VERDICT.Speaker Beed Is Not So Caarish .as

He Was.

For a man so sure as Speaker Reedprofesses to be that "history will ac-cord us (meaning the republican party)praise for what we did in the 51st con*gress," he is remarkably ready to waitfor the verdict. He seems, indeed, tobe extremely anxious to avoid any ver-dict whatever, either of praise or blame.His policy as expresed in his accept-ance of the nomination for the speaker-ship is masterly inactivity. He wants*to wait and see how the cat is going tojump. This is prudent on his part, butIt is not at all consistent with his state-ment that history is going to praise himand his associates of the 51st congressfor the passage of the McKinley act-which we take to be what he means.Thus far, at least, history has donsnothing of the kind. It has distinctlyblamed Reed and his associates forwhat they did, and the people blamedthem quite as severely as history didby sitting down on them and turningthem out of congress horse, foot anddragoon. Unqualified disapproval wasthe verdict of history at that tilme, andit would naturally be supposed that ifthere is to be a reversal, as. Mr. Reedaffects to believe, he would be extreme-ly anxious to get it as soon as possible.

The speaker's attitude on the point isall the more noticeable because it is al-most unique.. The chief organ of hisparty, the New York Tribune, quiteagrees with him as to what the verdictof history is to be. In point of fact itbelieves that history has already ren-dered its verdict, and reversed the onehastily rendered in 1890 in condemna-tion gf McKinleyism. It regards thevote of 1894 as a demand for the rein-statement of McKinleyism, and has nosympathy with, the masterly inactivitypolicy which Mr. Reed advocates. "Theparty,"it says, "thatenactedthe proteo-tive tariff of 1890 has been called backto remedy the evils that have resultedfrom its repeal and the enactment ofthe Wilson tariff in its stead. Thevoters have declared with unmistak-able distinctness in favor of a returp tothe protective policy under which thecountry prospered. The duty of con-gress is plain., It is waste of time totalk of increasing the revenues by anymakeshift in the form of taxation. Noris it at all to the purpose to say that be-cause any tariff legislation in the lineof republican teaching and doctrine islikely to be met with a presidentialveto, a republican congress should onthat account deviate from the strictline of principle in order to meet theviews of the president."

The irreconcilable antagonism be-tween the speaker and the organ on thispoint can be accounted for broadly bythe simple statement of the fact thatMr. Reed is looking for a presidentialnomination, and the organ is not. Butaven iL Mr. Reed's attitude is mainly dic-tated by selfishness-as we are afraidtumist be conceded-it is a wise selfish-ness. Mr. Reed is shrewd enough toknow that the presidential nominationwill be one of the barrenest of honors ifbetween now and the time of his gettingit the party shall be hopelessly handi-capped for the presidential contest. Heis not an aspirant for barren honors.He has all the thrift of the traditionalYankee, and would Wt give a fig for thenomination unless it carried with it areasonable prospect. of election. He isunlike his fellow-statesman, the lateJames G. Blaine. Blaine woul4 havetaken the nomination without any hopeof an election; but the speaker is of awholly different stamp. H'e is out forthe office, not merely for the pleasureDf leading the campaign, ahdkhe knowsthat his getting the office or its awardto any candidate of the republicanparty will be seriously imperiled byany opening up of the tariff dispute inthe present congress, and especially by-any attempt to re-enact McKinleyism.

The advantage that Mr. Reed has inthe conflict of opinion with the organand those. whom the latter represents,is one of, position. He is in a placewhere he can stave off the rendition ofthe verdict of history; and so far ascongress has any influence, he is goingto do it. Whether the ultimate advant-age will be with him can only be settled-onclusively when the case goes to thepeople.--Detroit' Free Press.

FOREIGN FILASHES.

Though a failure in Christiania andCopenhagen, "The Second Mrs. Tan.queray" has been very successful atStockholm.

Dr. W. G. Grace has put the 5,000 ofhis 'shilling testimonial into an endow=ment insurance policy payable in 15years.

An Automobile.club has been formedin Paris whose object is to encourageby all possible means locomotion'with,out animal traction.'

In 1896 the Russian ministry offinance will have, agents in London,Berlin, Genoa, Constantinople, Man-churia,' Corea and the United States.

Steps hmve been taken toward puttinga memorial tablet to Huxley in West-iminster abbey,, but it is unlikely thatthe authorities of the abbey will con-sent.

Next year the Russian miit willstrike 00,600,000 rubles' wdrth 'of goldcoins, 25,000,000 rubles 'of silver, 300-000 rubles of smaller coins strongly al.loyed and 8Q0)p00 rubleaof copper.

New Sbut h Wales has passed the fed-eral enabling' bill. It will now be sub-mitted to the -legislatuies of the otherAustralian: colonies, and when ` twoother colonies have accepted it a con-vention will be called together to drawup a federal constitution.

At Moirtodn, near Clermorit Feiatid, inAuvergne, the people; obljeeting to theadulteration of native wine with sugar,attacked the menwwho were carting thedoctored wine, upset the carts and'broke open the casks, letting the wineflow into the gutters, and mobbed themanufacturer-' • ,

"Speaker Reed's fondness for amateurphotography 'is said to have grownon him to such an extent as to begomehis ruling hobby.

THE FARMING WORLD.A HOISTING DEVIQE.

(t Is of Great service When KillingBeeve, on the Farm.

The accompanying illustration repre-sents a simple device which is of greatservice when butchering. The uprightss and b are 4x4's, or ordinary post tim-ber ten to twelve feet long, These areset into the ground two or three feet,five feet apart. To the tops of thesefasten e f with- bolts or spikes. Placec and d in position, secure the upperends at e and f, and set the lower endsfirmly in the ground. For h use an oldshaft or a piece of hard wood and fasten

it to c and d as indicated in the illustra-tion. Attach one end of the two ropesx and y to h and run them through thepulleys attached to the crosspiece e f.Fasten these ropes to the hind legs ofthe animal to be lifted. If oneirope and.a gambrel is preferred, attach it to themiddle of h and run through a pulley atm. Two ropes are preferable. By thisapparatus one man can lift the heaviestcarcass. A wagon box bottom side upmay be placed between a and b for aplatform.--H. 0. Sorkness, in AmericanAgriculturist.

GOOD THING TO HAVE.

There Ar# Many Reasons Why a CartShould Be on Every Farm.

There are very few farms in thiscountry where a cart may be found,and yet one of these` vehicles is a veryhandy thing to have about many timesin a. year.: There is some sort of, aprejudice against a cart, that has nogood foundation. A cart with cart-harness and a sober horse will oftentake the place of a team and wagon, andat any time of the year when, a smallload is to be hauled one horse can dothe work, if a cart is at hand, instead ofgoing to the trouble of hitching uptwohorses.- -

For :hauling seed to the field, or mar-nure, where a little is needed, or for anyother light work, a cart is better'th•na double team. For hauling ing in suchcrops as potatoes, for haulng feed toand fro for.. the stock, and for .many;other purposes, a cart may be usedto save using a double team and a two-horse wagon. This makes it a matterof economy, and there is hardly a flarmin the country where a cart would notpay for itself mans times over.

A cart that has the bed so arrangedthat the load can be dumped is thehandiest form to have it made in, asthe load can be dropped, whether it bepotatoes or cordwood or coal, by simplytipping it out. If the cart be made withwide tires, it can be takeni over placeswith a good load on` it where an ordi=nary wagon could hardly be hauled bytwo horses.

The writer knows from experiencehow much labor and wear and tear ofteam and wagon is saved by having acart to hitch to when light loads are tobe: hauled, and knows. that they areeconomical in time, tools and labor.-Panrm nnm WP1ireniis'arm and rresice.

GENERAL PARM NOTES.,

It is wasteful to feed. whole wheat toswine.

Bran is an excellent feed for cows andhorses.

Give the cow a bran mash directlyafter calving.

The English potato crop is large andof exceptional quality.

Corn, wheat or barley are properfoods for fattening sheep.

The feeding value of potatoes is esti-mated at one-fourth that of grain.

Marsh' hay is the very best materialfor the winter mulch for strawberries.

Thetomato pack has been muchligl•-er than last year, but of better quality.

It would seem as. if inoculation werethe only safe reliance against hog cholera..

Boiled turnips mashed: and mixedwith grain form an excellent poultryfood.'The Australian wheat grower is un-

dersehling the South Afiican farm•- inhis own market

Finishing with corn alone gives softpork, which is ;reckoned abroad a,,pfourth-class article.

Sugar beet pulp fed in connectionwith alfalfa and wild hay 'are said toppoduce a high-quality beef.

Danish pork sells for $14.18 n n theIondon market, while American onlybrings $9.72 for 112 pounds.-N. Y.World.

Miohigtall•'s Pepperamnt cro~p, ..Three-fifths of the oil of peppermint

consumed in the world is produeed ineight counties of Michigful.: The oilproduct of that state thid year, willamount to 150,000 pounds a~4 between12,000 and 15,000 acres are deyoted tothe cultivation of peppermliqt. Frostand drought have inj• irdd thlie olderplantations this"'year 'ilthougKh theplants set this spring. haeeseapedin-jury. ,.The peppermint is cut when inblossom like hay, and when dried isplaced Sin' wooden vtas and staixned rn-til the ceel• burst and the oi~f pass up-:ward. with. the steam, which is cold-densed and conducted intosreservoirwhere the oil rises and is skimmed off.It requires 350 pounde'of dried pepper-mint to proditde 1 piilp d of oil.: An.acie of land will yield from 6 to . opounds,. and in .exceptional, cases evenas great a quantity as 50 pounds. T4sByear the price has ranged from $1:6o to$1.10 a pouind.-Gaides ith dorest.

LAND FOR CHILDREN.

Boys ane owens .Seisb aw--m a Nosw o4sS:Entirely •.sei Own.

Every boy that lives on a farm, andevery girl, too, for that matter, shouldhave the use of a piece of ground. Itneed be only a small, out-of-the-waycorner at first, a place for the child todig and make plans, increasing gradu-ally to the acre of corn or potatoes orturnips, or whatever it may be, as thechild grows older.

There are few farms that could noteasily spare it, and few children towhom it would not be a benefit•

Books and magazines and games a'-tgood, but they are for the mind and forthe leisure hours, and while they maykeep the children at home, they canscarcely foster a taste' for farmingwithout something to supplementthem.

A child early learns the meaning ofpossession, aiid a-few square reds of hisown will be more to him than the broadacres of his father. Many a boy hasgrown to manhood on the farm, andleft it at the earliest possible momentafter he came of age because he hadbeen made a mere machine-a laborerwithout a laborer's wages.

If the child could be oftener treatedas a sentient, responsible being, there-ould be fewer disappoifiments. Let

his manliness bqbrogltp isteadof suppressed. Let the father talk tothe boy, and the boy to the father asman to man; if the boy i to be a farmerlet him begin hid'•dilliihg' eat andgrow up with it. Furnish him with asmall piece of land and let him culti-vate it with no other restraint or advicethan he may seekhirnself.

Trust him to discqver the best meth=ods and the best markit. TIih" ofitsmay be insignificant, but they are his,and they mean as much to him as do theearnings of the largest farm in thecountry to its owner. And, more thanall, he is obtaining a practical interestin farminni; and year 'by year i willstrengthen and broaden, and by thetime he is of age he will not only be,farmer physically, but in heart- andbrain also.-Household.

OUR CORN THE BEST.;'Contais More Protein and Fate Than

That Grown in Europe.

An analysis of maize from the Blacksea and the Danube wasrxecently madein the chemical diviion of the depart.ment of agriculture with a view to de-termining its comparative value as afeeding stuff with that grown in thiscountrtry. Of late years these countriesh•Ive-been shipping-cornair lsrge quan-titles to Germany and Great Britainand other countries of northern Europe.The advantage enjoyed by these coun-tries in competition, for this trade isbelieved in this country to be oifsetby,the superior quality of the Americanproduct, and this impression is strik-ingly confirmed by the recent nalysis.The samples were found to correspondin composition to poor corn grown Inthe United States, being from 13 to iTper cenit. lower in protein and fully 33per cent. lower in fat than the averagesof over 200 samples of American-growncorn, While, an average for corn theworld over shows but 9.45 per cent, ofprotein, and this average is higher thansadinpled from the Bilacka sea and, theDanube;, the American avei~ge ie 10.4:

So with fat, thq general average-being4 29, Thes average for corn grownin southwesterh Europe is 4.1i, whilethe 'average or 'American is 5.4, andmany samples of the latter showed 5.5and 6 per; cent. The American a verage eq given moreqver, inci4es nu-mer ous samples of inferior corn, andcannot be isaid to fairly repreaent theaverage df corn enp ofted.

It is folated: out by the d)eartmeutthat w)ile these faits speak .< puentlyof the higher quality of the Aericadiprodict, they also testify tWit eghti.force to therimportanric ofi ih* ihingthehigh~ standard of the feeding. "ality.of Amierican cqre in foreign ruarkets. as that is undoubtedly the char.acteristic upon which main relianceni•dt ie tt:plced to enmble'the Anmericangrifwers :to compete successfully withthe heheap labor of southern Europe.

" ddOOO DRAINAGE T•TO&L•-

the Can Be iMade at Home by Any In-S tenitgen? rFar er:'

"tuh" more tile drininig coauld .,bdonj it the: farmer was only convincedtl~at it,ugt:a very d#clicul• job. and be--y.ond aibility. We have lad all our

t' fW'f ars and have been vei 'sti6.4isfII. aood tools are, of course; ab-sohktelkynecehsary, but: not expensive.Buy a good $8-inch spade. Ipgrer: 'npwit'h square ners.e remainder

[O EM4DE TILE DITCHING ItLEMZNNTLogfour toolsare homemkdie. A abd eut-teir shown at a is'desisbie. Outrs wasmade ;frt m an old ,pointed shovel, aswas alsothe scoop bl, :f o leaning .thebottom of the ditch. By. the aid of ablacksmaith these were easily cohvertedfint vetd ilbeful implemients. To makethe titter, heat and hammer the shoxel,lag ,then with a cold chisel cut out thedesired shape. Sharpen the edge, l9nsert the handle andit is complete. Fo~b•6ie'1ediner, turn up the edgem and cubof> the corners, maiedg it about fireinches;wide .Sivets two qu~gtea-lngChprfds to he s44es. Weld the oetas endsand drive thenr Into the handle. iW. L.M.oyle, iii Ian and H-idn:.

)r a otffhe itemsof "wr)o thet saouldbe. looked.after before bad weather setsin is'to examine the roofsi 'th filvAeaind fTany are leaky see thit fthefare

Shee ihould e put into good shape'W itjkr befoire ao Eowes ji eta in,