The Shasta courier., 1860-04-14
A Beautiful Extract.

II was night. Jerusalem slept as quietly amid
der hllsas-a child upon the breast of its mother.
The noiseess sentinel stood like statue at his
post, and the philosophers lamp burned dmly
in the recesses of his cherries chamber
But mortal darkness involved the nations in
its uHlighted shadows Reason shed faint
glimmering over the minds of men, like the cold
and insuticiens' shining of distant star. The
immortality of mans spiritual nature was un-
known his relations unto heaven undiscovered,
and his future destiny obscured in a cloud of
mystery.
1t was at this period that two forms of ethe-
real mould hovered about the land of Gods
chosen people. They seemed like sister angels
sent to earth on some embassy of love- The
one of majestic stature and well formed limb
which her snowy drapery hardly concealed, in
her erect bearing and steady eye, exhibited the
highest degree of strength and confidence. Her
7ght arm was extended in an impressive gesture
upward where night appeared to have placed
her darkest pavilion, while on the left reclined
her delicate companion, in form and counte-
nance the contrast of the other for she was
dropping Ike a flower when moistened with re-
freshing dews, and her bright but troubled eyes
scanned the air with ardent but varying glances.
Suddenly light like the sun flashed out from
the heavens, and Faith and Hope hailed with
hem.
Years rolled away, and the stranger was seen
in Jerusalem. He was meek, unassuming man,
whose happiness seemed to consist in acts of
benevolence to the human race. There were
deep traces of sorrow on his countenance though
no one knew why he grieved for he lived in the
practice OF every virtue, and was loved by all the
good and wise. By and by it was rumored that
the stranger worked miracles; that the blind
saw, that the dumb spake, the dead leaped, the
ocean moderated its chafing tide and the very
thunders articulated, He is the Son of God. En-
Wy assailed him to death. Slowly and thickly
girded, he ascended the hill of Calvary A hea-
Wy cross bent him to the earth. But Faith leaned
on his arm, and Hope, dipping her pinions in
bis blood, mounted to the skies
How To OBTAIN FRUIT FROM BARREN TREEs.-
james 4. Russell, in the American Agricultu-
rst, says: q | wish to describe to you a method
OF making fruit trees bear, that blundered on
to: Some fifteen years ago had small apple
tree that leaned considerable. | drove a stake
by it tied string to the limb and fastened it to
the stake. The next year that limb blossomed
full, and not another blossom appeared on the
tree, and as Tim Bunker said, " it sot me to
thinking" ana came to the conclusion that the
string was so tight that 10 prevented the sap
from returning TO the roots; consequently it
formed fruit buds. Having couple of pear
trees that were large enough to bear, but that
had never blossomed, | took coarse twine,
wound it several times around the tree, above
the lower limbs, and tied it as tight as could.
The next spring all the top above the cord bios
somed as white as a sheet, and there was not
one blossom below where the cord was tied A
neighbor seeing my trees loaded with pears,
used this method with the same result