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THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF FARMING.-In the
editorial columns of the N. Y Tribune, we find
the following practical paragraph which we
could wish was read by every farmer. 1t says:
'One with two hundred acres will say, when
pressed to do better, %, can't afford to drain
and subsoil, and buy manure or phosphates,
and to put my land into the best condition. l
havn't the means But my good Sir don't
you understand that you could turn off more
produce from fifty acres, thoroughly cultivated,
than you do from your whole two hundred 2
We'll, perhaps might Then why not sell
enough of your arabic land to pay for putting
the residue in the highest condition Cant
you realize that it is sheer, ruinous waste 10
fence, plOw, plant, till and harvest FIVE acres
for hundred bushels of Indian Corn, when
that quantity might surely be grown on two
acres? Dyes, but-'But what?'-'O, I don't
believe in whitewashing forest trees, and put
ti,;q stone walls in mortar. I am none of your
crNr1nNEN farmers-I have to make my farm
support me, instead Of my business supporting
it, And so the hard pressed cultivator slides
off into fog of his own raising, and perse-
veres in averaging twenty bushels, or less than
ton of grass to the acre, mainly because he
is mentally too sluggish and unenterprising to
move out of the jOg-trOt ways of his grandfa'
ther.
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HINTS ON PROMOTING HARMONY IN A FAMILY.
i. We may be quite sure that our will is
likely to be crossed in the day. so prepare for
it, 2. Every body in the house has an evil ma
ture as well as ourselves, and therefore we are
not to expect much. 5. To learn the different
temper of each individual. 4. To look upon
each member of the family as one for whom
Christ died. 5. When any good happens to
any one, to rejoice at it, 6. If from any cause
we feel irritable, to keep strict watch upon
ourselves. 7. When inclined to give an angry
answer, lift up the heart in prayer g. To OBJ
serve when others are suffering, and drop a
word of kindness and sympathy suited to their
state. 8. To watch for little opportunities of
pleasing and to put little annoyances out of the
way. 10. To take cheerful view of every
thing, and encourage hope. II. To speak
kindly to servants, and praise them for little
things when you can. 12. In all little pleas
ures which may occur, to put self last. 49,
To try for the soft answer which turneth away
wrath a. When we have been panied by an
unkind word or deed, to ask ourselves, Have
| not often done the same thing and been for
given 2 is, In conversation not to exalt our
selves, but to bring others forward 16. To
be gentle to the younger ones, and treat them
with respect, remembering that we were once
young, too. II. Never Judge one another, but
attribute good motive when we can. l8. To
compare our manifold blessings with the tri-
fling annoyances of the day.
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WOmnn,s uomo nnties.

1t may be fancy of ours that Providence
has SO decidedly fitted woman for household
cares that she is never truly or healthfully hap
py without them but. if it be a fancy, it is
one which much observation has confirmed
If there be anything likely to Danish the fend
ennai from the dwellings of women of fortune.
it is the habit of assuming moderate share Of
the daily cares which go to make home happy.
To do everything by proxy is to deprive our
selves of thousand wholesome, cheerful, in
nocent interests; to nourish our pride and in
'dolence at the expense of our affections nay,
we may add. is there not something almost i'm
pious in scorning the position for which God so
evidently designed woman, and living an arti-
fetal life of our own devising, deputing our du-
ties and privileges to hirelings
1t is singular deluson of some women, and
r of American women in particular, for we know
that even in England women of fortune are
much more truly domestic in their tastes and
habits than we. We remember story of a
certain duchess cleaning some picture frames,
when protege who happened to be present
OficiOusiy desired TO take the Office upon her
self
"Child," said her grace, "don't you suppose
4 should have called servant if had moi
chosen to do it myself"
The German ladies. with all their cultivation,
take the most intimate interest in householdery,
and they are remarkable for cheerfulness Of
temper, fer natural and charming manners, and
for the intelligence and vivacity of their con-
versational powers Who knows but the terri
bic dearth of subjects of conversation among
us might be somewhat mitigated. if young la
dies spent part Of every morning among the
varioHs cares and duties. on the proper per-
formance of which so much Of the comfort and
happiness of life depends. and which call into
action far higher powers than those required
for the bold chit-ehat of an evening party, or
the inanities of morning call ?
The universal sentiment of men is in favor
of active domestic habits in women. II is said
that men ''love to see women delicate" and so
they do. doubtless. But does any moderate
amount of attention to home affairs deprive a
lady Of her delicacy? II may prevent the DEL
icacy Of dyspepsia but few gentlemen admire
that Indeed, we have yet to discover the man
of sense who is displeased by bis wife's person
al care Of the comfort and economy Of her
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WHOLE NUMBER 1905.


Animals are receiving great deal Of atten.
tiOn. Mrs Lee has published smother eollec.
ton Of anecdotes, in which she seems to prove
that there is no passion, no virtue. and no vic,
OF human beings, which cannot be detected IN
The character of animals. For example, she
says: CAN animals are jealous and none
more so than parro Is. One belonging to a
young friend Of mine was miserable when she
took charge of a canary bird for friend, who
was to be absent for some time. From the first
moment Poll saw her earess the stranger, she
became sulky; and would not speak, scarcely
ate during the first few days, and not only
turned her back upon her mistress, but tried to
bite her. The canary. one fine sunny morn.
ing, was hung up at the window to enioy the
warmth, and in its delight burst forth in one of
It's sweetest songs. The parrot listened attent-
lively, with her head on one side. till the little
warbler paused when in the most patronising
tone possible, she exclaimed, Pretty well
pretty well ? and then, as If in spite, she voc-
feraIed The most eontemptuoBsy 'Ha! ha! ha!'
This same lady brother bad also parrot, who
was very jealous Of much smaller bird than
himself, on whom his master lavshed many ca.
resses. They were placed in room next to
the gentleman's bedchamber; and one night
he was awakened by the screams of his little
favorite. He Immediately rose and went to its
cage with light but it was too late the par
rot bad, by some means, unfastened the door
of his cage, and, going to that of the smaller
bird, put his claws between the bars, dragged
it to the side, and was tearing it to pieces.
was told of parrot the other day, that had
been accustomed to breakfast on oatmeal Dor.
ridge but on a recent occasion the oatmeal
was exhausted, and through negligence had not
been renewed. Accordingly, some soaked
bread was put into the birds saucer. He look
at it for some time, tasted it once or twice, sat
and apparently considered the matter and
then, dashing his bill in, he threw it all out first
on one side and then on the other, saying, be-
tween each sputtered mouthful, Nasty mess
nasty mess The same bird heard lady say
'Oh dear! l have lost my purse and imme-
diately exclaimed, how very provoking /"
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John G. SAKE says many witty things in
rhyme, and not always without moral. Here
is one of his drives at proud flesh -
Because you flourish in worldly affairs,
Don't be naughty and put on airs,
With insolent pride or station
Don't be proud and turn up your nose
At poorer people and palmer clothes,
But learn for the sake of minds repose
That wealth is a bubble that comes and goes!
And that all proud flesh, wherever it grows,
Is subject to irritation.
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A singular crime has just come to light in
the little prncipality of Lippe Schaumburg. A
country gentleman of large property in that
principally died, leaving one daughter and two
sons. The daughter, who was heiress to the
greatest part of the property, soon disappeared,
no one knew whittier, and consequently the
two brothers became sole heirs Of the estate
Now, after the lapse of some fifteen or twenty
years, accident has brought to light the fact
that the daughter still lives, and has been kept
imprisoned by her two inhuman brothers dur
ing all this time in cellar. The matter has
already come into the Courts, and the mon
sters will get their deserts.
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A striking instance of the possession of ca
pability of spreading intelligence. and that of
a somewhat obtrusive character, is furnished
by experiments that have been made by Huber
and others upon bees. Every one is aware
that the queen bee is an object of the greatest
solicitude and attention to all the workers of
the hive, and yet, among so many thousand, all
busy employed in different and distant parts
of the colony, it would appear impossible for
them TO ascertain, at least before the lapse of
a considerable time, whether she was absent
from them or not. In order to see whether
bees had any power of conveying news of this
kind, the queen bee has been stealthiy and
quietly abstracted from the hive but here, as
elsewhere, i'll news was found to fly apace.
For some half hour or so the loss seemed not
to have been ascertained, but the progressive
ly increasing buzz of agitation gradually an
nounced the growing alarm, until shortly the
whole hive was in an uproar, and all its busy
occupants were seen pouring forth their le-
gons in search of their lost monarch, or eager
to avenge with their stings the insult offered to
their sovereign. On restoring the captured
queen to her subjects, with equal secresy, the
tumult speedily subsided, and the ordinary bus
mess of the community was resumed, as before
the occurrence. That in such cases as those
above narrated information, and that of rath-
er complex character, was trans mitted by one
insect to another, cannot be doubted-but by
what means? All that has been ascertained
upon this point is that the ants and bees cross
their antenn@ in a peculiar manner with the
antenn@ of the others that they encounter and
this action being repeated again and again,
seems to be mode of communicating intelli-
gence common among the insect races,-Ry-
mer Jones Natural History Of Animals.
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{ From the Philadelphia Post. }
co m e HO ME.


! have looked out of the window
A hundred times to-day,
To see if could catch form
That fingers still away.
And I've listened for a football
Since dusty night was near,
But still the loved, familiar tread
Comes not upon my ear
Amid my many household cares,
The busy week goes by,
And have scarcely time to miss
My husbands company,
But when the quiet Sabbath dawns,
And still be does not come,
! cannot learn to fill the void
There is in heart and home.
/ will not doubt his truth and love,
Nor cherish bitterness,
For have found him good and kind
But still l must confess,
That sometimes o'er my heart there steals
O. The thought that I should seek
My husband and my little ones,
Had I been gone week.
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EE The following very clever stanza b,
somebody, is commended to the attention O
everybody. Never say die," is soul-inspi
ring motto:
HAS fortune frowned, my honest friend
Don't hang your head SO low,
This is no time TO falter now:
Up strike another blow
Don't sit and groan, and grunt, and tell
What you have tried to do;
But place your shoulders to the wheel,
Strain nerve, and pat 'er Mrough !"
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ONE HAPPY HEARr.-Have you made one
happy heart to-day? Envied privilege. How
calmly you can seek your pillow how sweetly
sleep In all this world there is nothing so
sweet as giving comfort to the distressed, as
getting sun ray into gloomy heart. Chill
dren of tomorrow meet US wherever we turn !;
there is no moment that tears are not shed
and sighs uttered. Yet how many of those
tears those sighs, are caused by our own
thoughtlessness? How many daughter wrings
the very soul of fond mother by acts of un-
kindness and ingratitude How many hus-
bands, by one little word, make a whole day
of sad hours and unkind thoughts How ma
ny wives, by angry recriminations, estrange
and embitter loving hearts How many broth
ers and sisters meet but to vex and iniure each
other, making wounds that no human heart
can heal Ah if each one worked upon this
maxim day by day-"strive to make some
heart happy jealousy, revenge, madness,
hate, with their kindred evil associates, would
forever leave the earth. Our minds would be
so occupied in the contemplation of adding to
the pleasures of Others that there would be no
room for the ugly fends of discord. Try it,
ye discontented, forever grumbng devotees of
sorrow, selfcaused; it will make that little
part of the world in which you move as fair as
Eden.-Egchange.
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SUCKER LAVA letter from Will county
Illinois, gives some "reminiscences of the early
courts in Illinois. q was cited, said the wri-
ter, { to appear before Justice of the Peace,
at o'clock Il. NJ Taking witnesses, l ap-
peared at the specified time, but finding nc
one, returned home. At O'Clock P NJ, |
went to the place designated. The case was
called but l made no answer. why don't
you answer?' said the Justice. l replied that
appeared at the designated time, but no one
appeared against me, and showed him my sum-
mons. 'Ah, it's all right said the dispenser
of justice, it's all right n stands for after,
and N for morning During the progress Of
criminal trial, the State Attorney absented
himself. Upon being inquired after by the
Judge, it was reported that he was across the
way, taking game of Euchre.' Mr. Sheriff,
said the Judge, wont you take his his hand
while he attends to this case p These are few
of the many ludicrous "reminiscences of Sucker
law
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A little girl, by name Abby, went recently
to pass the night with Kate. Now Abby was
taught what Kate was not-namely, to say her
prayers on going to bed at night: SO, after they
had retired, Abby repeated the Lords prayer
until she came to Give us day by day our dali
ly Bread when Kate interrupted her with, %
Abby, why don't you ask for toast? like that
a great deal the best
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Eg- We have heard of circulating a contri
button box for the purpose of dispensing a crowd
and quelling riot, but the following, taken
from the Home Journal, is novel way Of clear
ing the streets of beggars
At Florence, some years ago, it was pro-
claimed that every beggar who would appear
in the grand plaza at a certain mentioned time,
would be provided by the duke with new suit
of clothes, free of cost. At the appointed time
the beggars of the city all assembled, and the
grand duke, causing all the avenues to the
square to be closed, compelled the beggars to
strip off their old clothes, and gave each one,
according to promise, new suit. In the old
clothes thus collected, enough money was found
concealed to build beautiful bridge over the
Ano, still called "The Beggars' Bridge" and
the city, for the time being, was relieved of the
beggars by which it had been previously over
run, as none would give to the well-dressed
individuals who implored charity, not believing
their tale of distress.
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Subscribers who % uat give exprsn Hafr.As
the contrary, are considered wishine 10 eoasinsa
their subscriptions. r-ssAaee8
2. II subscribers order the dlsconiiuanee o.
their papers, the publisher may continue 10 send
them until all afreafagea are paid. Ih
3. II subscribers neglect or refuse 10 take their
papers from the Sices 70 which they are cent, they
are held responsible till they haveseltIe thelr
bills, and ordered their paper discontinued.
II subscribers remove 10 other places witho
notifying the publisher, and the paper is not seal
o ioFme' d ection; they are he'd responsible.
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QUAKER VITA letter from Baltimore
correspondent of the Republic, has the follow
ing, which is both new and good:
Quite funny story is told of one of the Ell.
der members of this brotherhood. On Monday,
while one of the omnibuses was going down
town, the driver was stopped by plan-look-
ing old gentleman in drab, who took seat in
side with the intention of going to Fell's Point.
The vehicle had not gone far before it turned
up North Gay street, quite different direction.
The Friend inside. observing that he was being
carried towards the north, when he bargained
for the east, told the driver that he was carry
ing him out of the regular route, and entered
complaints.
"No matter" said the man with the reins,
"well come out right at last"
"But I'll get out" said the Quaker.
Not until you have fOrked over ftp, was
the drivers reply, pulling the strap that held
fast the door.
Putting his hand in his pocket, the old man
in drab said. Friend we will not quarrel; thy
strap will cut" and applying his jack-knife,
severed it, and walked out. "Thee cannot
swerve me from my course, but thee mayest go
thine" The driver looked rather nonplussed
for while, and after studying for moment,
said
"Well, you are some pumpkins guess you
can pass" The Quaker took the next omni-
bus and went on his way rejoicing, while the
outwitted driver pulled ahead, minus his ZIP.
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Ericsson has, as every one knows, obtained
an enviable reputation but it seems he is des-
tined to be outstrpped BY the Seer" Andrsw
Jackson Davis, who, an exchange says, has
discovered that all sorts Of machinery, locomo-
tives, engines, &c, can be driven by the power
of the human will. He prints his paper, the
Universal Hum, by looking into the Office and
nodding at the type. This is ahead of Hoe.
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house. Those whose lives are embittered by
the lack Of il are not far to seek. No houses
are regulated with such neatness, accuracy and
elegance as those in wieh the ladies of The fam.
lily take personal part in household duties.
Goethe says of young woman Of his friends,
and man of genius is entitled to speak for his
sex "Aiter the death of her mother, she dis.
played high degree of activity as the head Of
numerous young family, and alone had sus-
tanned her father in his widowhood. The fu.
ture husband could thus hope an equal blessing
for himself and his descendants, and expect
decided domestic happiness. Every one con
fessed that she was woman to be wished for.
She was one of those who, if they do not in
spire vehement passion, are found to excite
universal pleasure. A lightly formed, SYM
metrlcal figure, purely healthy nature, and
the glad activity that arises from it, an unem-
barrased care for daily necessities with all
these she was endowed The observation of
those qualities was always agreeable to me, and
always sought the society of those who pos
sessed them.-Mrs. Kirkland.
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THE sEAmsTREss' PRAYER.

Within a garret, bleak and bare,
A female form was kneeling.
While down her care.bewrinkled cheek
l4a The scalding tear was stealing:
Her bright blue eye had bloodshot grown
With long fatigue and weeping,
For she was dOOm'd to work and work
While happier hearts were sleeping,
She gazed upon the mattress cold,
- On which her babe was lying,
As fearing to disturb its rest,
She hushed her hearts sad signing:
And ever and anon her eyes
To heaven above were straying;
AT length she raised her suppliant hands,
l listened to her praying.
~ Father of mercy thou canst see
The world is harsh, expressing;
But thou, o Lord, deniest to none
Who flly ask thy blessing.
/ ask it, then, upon my child,
Heir but to want and sorrow;
In mercy take her hence, o God
Nor let her see tomorrow.
Oh mad'ning thoughts fly thrO' my brain,
Assuage this burning anguish,
0, hear me for my infants sake,
Long doom'd in want to languish.
'Twere better far to dwell with thee,
Where gold buys no admittance,
Than toll and toll from day to day,
And starve on labor's pittance.
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FREE NEGROES IN VIRGINIA.-The House of
Delegates in Virginia, has passed bill appro-
priating $4,000 annually, and levying tax
of 81 year on each male free negro in the
State over twenty years old, to establish Col
onization Board, for the removal of the free
negroes from the State.
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SEVEN LIVES LOST Two coal boats from the
vicinity of Pittsburgh were sunk in the Ohio
near Wellsville, during the blow Friday night,
and seven persons we're drowned,
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SALE OF LIQuoRs IN PHtLADELPHTA.- "A bill
has been reported in the Pennsylvania LegisIa-
ture, fixing the price of license at $500 for
the sale of spirituOus liquors in PHILADELPHIA
city and county, and also limiting the number
Of licenses to be granted, with guards and pre-.
ventatves against disturbances Of the peace
and violations Of the Law. ie e.
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Eg- The Powder Mill of Mr.. Waterhouse,
situated about six miles from Portsmouth, blew
up on Monday the 18th inst
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Somebody asks the editor of the Stoek Req.
'ster if he deals in "fancy fowlsv He replies
"No,' and remarks that in his opinion an sdi.
tor should be free of all 'sfoul" transactions.
Just so FH 81 ss&