Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-17

Ffcucllck HoWCUOuy. Anu WOulu you
believe it, the little witch did rot know
me. l think l should not forget her
so easily. Nor was that all. Murray
said something about the fellow who
called there the previous evening"
country cousin, he said clear enough,
but an incorrigible slovcn. And Julia
said, he dressed like "a barbarian-just
think Of that, Frank-a barbarian
She shall pay for that yet. Such eyes
and she steps like a queen! Well,
Frank, a clean collar does make vast
difference in mans appearance.
Lovely as Hebe herself! Terrible DIFF
ference, clean linen makes.
The last time I saw Tom he was
scolding his eldest son for coming into
the drawing room with muddy boots.
PLANT TREEs.-Young men and
maidens, old men and matrons-plant
trees Don't sit down and calculate
how long it will take for tree to grow
to its full size, for you will probably
come to the conclusion that it will take
a good while, and then you will drop
the subject instead Of the seed. If you
have no land Of your own, there is the
roadside. What if all our country
roads were shaded from the summers
sun, and shielded from the storms of
winter, by trees? Go into the woods,
young man, take up tree, and plant
thy the wayside. Young woman, pick
up handful of acorns, or Of the seeds
Of the pine, maple, birch, fir, hemlock
or any other tree, plant them T.; it is as
easy as to plant pansies.
Elderly people are apt to say, cit is
veil enough for young people to do
such things; but what good would it
ever do me to do it p The question
does not deserve an answer; but twen-
ty-one years ago woman celebrated
the birth Of a grandson by planting a
sprouted elm-seed which she had pick.
ed up in a Spring walk. That germ is
now tree forty feet or more in hight,
and the grandmother lives to enjoy its
shade.
A variety Of kinds Of trees combined
in clusters or rows is more beautiful
than stiff lines Of a single species.
How many dreary roads, bare pastures,
naked prairies, and desolate- looking
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES there are that
lack only the beauty and utility of
trees-cool, shady groves!
"Now's the day, and now's the hour"
Life Illustrated.
How TO ExT1NGUIsH Fire. The
following is from a paper by Mr..
Braidwood, Superintendent Of the
London Fire Brigade:
con the first discovery of fire, it
is Of the utmost consequence to shut,
and keep shut all the doors, windows,
or other openings. 1t may often be
observed, after a house has been on
fire, that one floor is comparatively
untouched, while those above or below
are nearly burnt out. This arises
from the doors on that particular floor
having been shut and the draught d.
rected elsewhere. If the fire appears
to be at all serious and there are fire
engines at a reasonable distance, it is
best to await their arrival, as many
buildings have boon lost by opening the
doors AMI attempting to extinguish the
fire with inadequate means. If no en-
gincs are within reach, it is we'll to
keep hand-pump. If that is not to
be had the next best thing is to collect
as many buckets outside Of the room
that is on fire, as can be obtained,
keeping the door shut; then creep in :
to the room on hands and knees, (if
the heat and smoke are considerable, }
and throw the water as near in the d.
rection of the fire as possible, keeping
the door shut while more water is be-
ing collected. The police Of the me-
tropolis understand shutting up fire so
we'll, that they have, in many instances,
kept fires that were two or three miles
distant from the engine stations, shut
up till the fremen arrived in time to
extinguish the FREE ~
PHILOSOPHY OF TRoUBLE.-Trouble
is marvellous sanctifer of pride and
self-will. The temper is mellowed and
the feelings refined. 1t needs repeated
strokes Of the hammer to break the rock
in pieces /; and, so it sometimes re-
quires repeated strokes of anguish to
break our hearts in pieces and make us
humber and wiser men and women !;
and as the longer you keep canary
bird in a darkened cage the sweeter it
will sing, SO the more severe the discip-
line of the good mans experience, the
sweeter the song of his spiritual life.
Tho gold that IS refined in the hottest
furnace comes out the brightest, and
the character moulded by intense heat
exhibits the most wondrous excellences.
MARK OF CIv1L1zATIoN.-Where no
arts flourish, where all learning is ex-
terminated, there there is no trace of a
good man but cruelty and horrid
barbaf{sm stalk abroad. I call as wit
ness to this fact not one state, or prov
lnce, or race, but Europe, the fourth
part Of the globe, over the whole Of
which some centuries past all good arts
had persisted. Then piety languished,
and religion was extinguished and went
to wreck, so that even but lately, and
scarce even at this day has there been
a recovery from the heavy wound.
Bag The proud man expects the
world to find out and appreciate his tai
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