California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



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Honr)e> 



wORE Ihftn buildinp yhowy iDRUSions, 

 Muru thau dress anil fine array. 

 More than domes and lofty steeples. 



More than stttion, power, and sway: 

 M:ikc your home both neat and taeteful, 

 • BrJRht and pleatsant, always fair. 

 Where each heart shall rest contented, 

 Oroteful for each bounty there. 



Seek to make your home most loving; 



Let it bo a smiling spot. 

 Where in sweet coutentnient renting. 



Care and sorrow are forj^ot; 

 Where the flowers and trees are waving. 



Birds will sing their sweet-efit song; 

 Where the purest thoughts will linger, 



Ooulidence and love belong. 



There each heart will rest contented. 



Seldom wishing far to roam; 

 Or, if roaming, still will ever 



Cherish happy thoughts of homo, 

 SueU a home makes man the better, 



Sure and lasting the control; 

 Home with pure and bright surroundings 



Leaves its impress on the soul. 



Chats With Farmers' Wives and 

 Daughters — No. 2. 



BY "JEWELL." 



The question often arises in my womtiu's 

 mind: Wliich is actually most necessary for 

 the welfare of our children — their present and 

 future — that our entire time be spent in the 

 daily round of duties which " home life" 

 brings to every mother, or that a few moments 

 or hours, daily, be taken to cultivate her mind 

 and fiiU her soul with inspiration to fresh ex- 

 ertions? I believe that the busy farmer's wife 

 even should take this time, which is right- 

 fully hers, and that she shoiild be provided 

 with books and papers that she may catch 

 glimpses of the outside world, which often 

 seems to have forsaken her in her isolation 

 and heavy burdens. While I do not wish to 

 be harsh, still I feel that a farm life is gener- 

 ally more burdensome upon women thau men, 

 and few farmers fully understand and appre- 

 ciate this fact. 



To stay indoors and cook, wash, iron, sew, 

 sweep, etc., every day, mouth and year, bo- 

 sides the di'aiu upon life and soul of child- 

 bearing, nursing the sick, and the resiJousi- 

 bility of bringing up the little ones, is actually 

 more than most women are able to do — unless 

 strong in body, which few of our women of 

 to-day are. 



I feel hopeful that the future benefit of the 

 Grange movement is to come through its 

 women. Their attendance weekly at the 

 Grange meetings is not only a relief to them, 

 but widens their circle of acquasntauces and 

 sphere of social life; and is at once npUftiug 

 to both brothers and sisters. The mingling 

 of the feminine element in the busi- 

 ness as well as pleasure of the 

 meetings will tend to purify the one and cul- 

 tivate the other, which must give health and 

 joy to many a home. 



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Eably llisiNG. — Early rising, in civilized 

 society, always tends to shorten life. Early 

 rising of itself never did any good. Many a 

 farmer's boy has been made an invalid for 

 life by being made to get up at daylight, be- 

 fore his sleep was out. Many a young girl 

 has been stunted in body and mind and con- 

 stitution by being made to get up before the 

 system has had its fuU rest. All who are 

 growing, all who work hard, and aU weakly 



persons, should not get up until they feel as 

 if they would be more comfortable to get up 

 than to remain in bed; that is the only true 

 measure of sufficiency of rest and sleep. Any 

 one who gets up in the morning feeling as if 

 he "would give auytliing in ihe world" to re- 

 main in bed a while longer does violence to 

 his own nature, and will always suffer from it 

 — not immediately, it maybe, but certainly in 

 later years, by the cumulative ill-eS'ects of the 

 most unwise practice. In any given case, the 

 person who gets up in the morning before he 

 is fuUy rested will lack just that much of the 

 energy requisite for the day's pursuit. 



As a people, we do not get enough sleep, we 

 do not get enough rest, we will not take time 

 for these things; hence our neruousness, our 

 instability, our hasty temper, and the prema- 

 ture gi\'ing out of the stamina of life. Half 

 of us are old at three score, the very time a 

 man out to be in his mental, moral and physi- 

 aal prime. Half of our wives, especially in 

 the farming districts, die long before their 

 time, because they do not get rest and sleep 

 proportioned to their labor. Nino times out 

 of ten, it would be better for all parties if the 

 farmer should get up and light the fires and 

 prepare breakfast for his wife, she coming di- 

 rectly from her toilet to the breakfast table, 

 because it almost always happens that she 

 has to remain up to sit things right long after 

 the husband has gone to bed, when he really 

 has nothing to do after supper but to go to 

 bed. This is a monstrously cruel imposition 

 on wives and mothers. — Hall's Journal of 

 Health. 



FoK Self on for Others? — The secret of 

 dullness and discontent with many a life is, 

 that it has no other life to bless. It is shut 

 up in itself. It never breaks bounds and gets 

 abroad. Get out of self, begin to think of 

 another, to care for another, and all the tides 

 of the soul are in motion. The dull self- 

 brooding is at an end. 



When self is forgotten, its weariness and 

 fretfulness are forgotten. It is delivered from 

 its own burdened consciousness, by eutei-iug 

 with hearty good will into the e:^«ience of 

 the friendless and helpless. 



This is the cure which is needed for jaded 

 spirits. It is sovereign and infallible. Find 

 somebody to help, and you help yourself; 

 some heart to cheer, and you cheer your own ; 

 some burden of another to bear, and yours 

 becomes light; enter into the straitened lot of 

 one in need, and you get enlargement from 

 y oivr own bondage ; learn to weep with those 

 that weep, and your tears are a balsam to 

 your O'rni heart; rejoice with those that do re- 

 joice, and your own gi-iefs are assuaged, and 

 your joys are doubled. It may be but little 

 that you can do; do that little, and the world 

 is so much happier and better, and a brighter 

 sky shines upon your face. You ha^e but an 

 ounce or two of strength to si^are; share that 

 with one who is spent, and the perfume of 

 this small benefaction wiU be to you as reviv- 

 ing incense. The remedy is safe and sure. 

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GiBLS, let us tell you a stubborn truth. No 

 young woman ever looked so well to a sensi- 

 ble man, as when dressed in neat, plaiu, mod- 

 est attire, without a single ornament about 

 her person. She looks then as though she 

 possessed worth in herself, and needed no 

 artificial rigging to enchance her value. If a 

 young woman would spend as much time in 

 cultivating her temper, and cherishing kind- 

 ness, meekness, gentleness, merey, and other 

 quiilities, as most of them do in extra dress 

 and ornaments to increase their personal 

 charms, she would, at a glance, be known 

 among a thousand. Her character would be 

 read in her countenance. 



"Dew Drop Billiards" is the sign over a 

 Cincinnati billiaixl saloon. The advice is 

 good. We second it, and say to aU young 

 men, "Do drop billiards." 



Ants vs. Caterpillars. 



The Belgian Official Journal, referring to 

 the ignorant conduct of those who destroy all 

 kinds of birds and insects indiscriminately, 

 insists on the necessity of children in jirimary 

 schools being taught to distinguish between 

 useful and noxious insects, and thus to exer- 

 cise their destructive faculties against the 

 latter only. The writer praeeeds to say that 

 the ant, which is very disagreeable and incon- 

 venient in many respects, does excellent ser- 

 vice in chasing and destroying caterpillars 

 with relentless energy. A farmer who had 

 noticed the fact, and had had his cabbages 

 literally devoured by caterpillars, at last hit 

 upon the expedient of having an ant hill, or 

 rather nest, such as abound in pine forests, 

 brought to his cabbage plot. A sackful of 

 the pine points abounding in ants, was ob- 

 tained and its contents strewn around the 

 infested cabbage plants. The ants lost no 

 time, but immediately set to work; they seized 

 the caterpillars by their heads. The next day 

 heaps of dead caterpillars were found, but 

 not one alive, nor did they return to the cab- 

 bages. The value of ants is well luiown in 

 Germany, and although their eggs are in 

 great request as food for young partridges, 

 pheasants and nightingales, there is a fine 

 against taking them from the forests. The 

 ant is indefatigable iu hunting its prey; it 

 climbs to the very tops of trees, and destroys 

 an immense quantity of noxious insects. 

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At the late election iu Michigan, the ques- 

 tion of woman's sufl'rage was voted on, and 

 3'J,000 votes were cast in favor, which would 

 seem to indicate the number of advanced men 

 in the State. We all know that no State is 

 much ahead of Michigan for schools, farm- 

 ing and fruit-growing. The Grand Kapida 

 I'osl relates the following: 



A dirty, debased, and ignorant-looking man 

 came in to vote. Said one of the ladies, of- 

 fering him a ballot, 



' ' I wish you would oblige ns by voting this 

 ticket." 



" What kind of a ticket is that?" said he. 



"Why," said the lady, "you can see your- 

 self." 



" But I can't read," he answered. 



" Why, can't you read the ballot you have 

 there iu j'our hand, which you are about to 

 vote?" the lady asked. 



" No," said he; "I can't read at all." 



" Well," said the lady, " this ballot means 

 that you are willing to let the women as well 

 as the men vote." 



"Is that it?" he replied. " Then I don't 

 want it; the women don't know enough to 

 vote. ' ' 



Short-Horn Statistics. 



The National Association of Short^hom 

 Breeders, which recently met at Springfield, 

 Illinois, having entnisted Aleck Charles, Ce- 

 dar Bapids, Iowa, with the work of procuring 

 complete statistics of all Short-horns now 

 living in the United States and Canada, for 

 publication iu the report of their proceedings, 

 we would urge upon every one of our readers 

 who are breeding Short-horns, either upon a 

 large or small scale, to send in prompt and 

 careful returns; and those who have not re- 

 ceived blanks for that purpose -n-ill be fur- 

 nished them free of charge promptly, on ap- 

 plication to Mr. Charles. Short-horn men 

 will please give this their very earliest atten- 

 tion, for by so doing the forthcoming rei)ort 

 of the American Association of Breeders will 

 be made the most valuable and interesting 

 publication ever issued in this country. — Na- 

 limial Live Stock Joarn/il. 



A Cow With a Wooden Leg. — An English 

 country paper records the following f:icts: A 

 young cow on the farm of Mr. Wilson, in 

 Borrowdale, Cumberland, recently broke her 

 leg. It was amputated, and a wooden leg 

 suppUed, and she is now walking about and 

 doing weU. 



