OH NO ! WE NEVER MENTION IT. {S. James, Budget.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1526, 15 April 1882, Page 4

OH NO ! WE NEVER MENTION IT. {S. James, Budget.)

Oh no ! we nover mention it ;' It's name is qever fyeard ; Our lips arc now forbid to speak That once familiar woid. " Atrocity I l', What music lurked Those syllables amdng! With what delicious fluency} They slid from off the tongue I How many a glowing period That word once served to round ! How many a crowded lecture-hall Thrilled to its well-known sound ! But that was when Atrocity Described the bloody work Of him who slew the Chustian Slavs— The accursed Moslem Turk. When lust meant always Turkish lust, And murder Turkish crime ;_ And wrath which meant sectarian hate Seemed righteous —for the time. Yes, that was in those happier days, Which we no longer see, " Of greater freedom and of less Responsibility." But now, when Russia waves the torch And wields the dripping sword, And in the ravibhcrs we find The servants of the Lord — Now, when, in short, Atrocities Are Christian crimes, and Jews Their Victims—well, you know, it is Another pair of shoes. Dissociated from the Turks The thing new aspect wears : So much .so that its name becomes Unspeakable as theirs. And hence we never mention it; 'Tis never, never heard ; Our lips, indeed, refuse to speak That once familiar word.

DrJ". W. Downey, Pimlico, Md., has an English shepherd dog named "Tweed11.," which is, pei'haps, moi'e useful to society than was the original Tweed. Guided entirely by motion of the hand he can "separate a flock of sheep into three paits and keep them so;"and he has Avon for his owner five cups and over £200 in haid cash. Dk. J. B. Lowes, of England, believes that live stock demands drierfood in winter feeding than in summer. He also believes that the American farmer claims too much for ensilage when applied to grass or clover, since they are best fed dry, the failo adding nothing to their value and the process of drying in the production of nay subtracting nothing but water. A CORRESPONDENT of The London Agn~ atUii) nl Ovzette remarks that lucerne is justly held in high estimation by breeders of horaes ; six head have been maintained from May to October on one acre stocked with this crop, whose greatest vigour i& attained the fifth year after seeding. Mr Labouchere, the editor of London Truth, proposes to abolish the present system of British Parliament. He suggests the establishment of provincial legislatures with an Imperial Parliament consisting of one chamber. He slipped quietly in at the door, but, catching sight of an enquiring face over the stair-rail, said, ' Sorry so late, my dear ; couldn't get a car before. ' 'So the cais were full, too,' said the lady, and further remarks were unnecessary. Gentleman meets a friend and takes him home to dinner. Arrived at the house he leaves him in the sitting-room to announce the fact to his wife. The friend, hearingdirectly a clamor of tongues in the adjoining room, decorates the keyhole with his ear. Shrill Voice — Always the way; bringing people home without a minute's warning ! Him, too ! Why couldn't you leave him to batten on his usnal free-lunch route. Hoarse Voice — Sah ! Shrill Voice — I won,t sah! Hoarse Voice — 1 tell you you will Oh, if he wasn't in the room outside, wouldn,t I just give you The friend, shouting tlnough the key hole — I ain't any longer ; give it to her. 'The muses kiss with lips of fiame,' says a recent post of the new order. Then we are thankful that we are not courtiug any of the muses just now. We don't wish to have our best winter moustache burned off until later in the season. He thought clover could be kept by packing in soil, but looked upon the plan as upon the steaming feed process ; it is two expensive. Corn, nicely cured, is sweet, and the cattle like it, and he did not see that ensilage could improve that; besides, curing involves little trouble and expence. He should greatly prefer to raise roots than to engage in ensilage. — Duchess Farmer. The Duke of Wellington supplies goats to cottagers on his estates for 30s each when in full milk, and leceives them back at 20s when dry. If the experiment proves satisfactory the British Goat Society will endeavour to induce other influential landowners among its members to follow their president's lead. It is considered of benefit to plough a clay soil in the autumn on account of the action of the frost, but it should be ploughed again in the spring. The rougher the fall ploughing the better, as there is a greater surface presented for the action of the atmosphere. In a gravelly or sandy lawn not much is gained by fall ploughing. Nothing is to be gained by ploughing sod in the fall except time. As a rule all fall ploughed land must be ploughed again in spring, or at least made mellow by the use of a pulverizer. A few years ago Claus Spreckles, of Honolulu, was laughed at for buying ten thousand acres of land, at ten cents an acre, at the foot of an extinct volcano, covered with a crust. Be broke it up, mixed the dust with vegetable mould, irrigated it, and planted sugar-cane, and is now the richest man in the Sandwich Islands.