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ChiIdren,s Ioys nnd sorroMa.

| can endure melancholy man, but not
melancholy child; the former, in whatever
slough he may sink, can raise his eyes either
to the kingdom of reasons or or hope; but the
little child is entirely absorbed and weighed
down by one black poison-drop of the pres
ent. Think Of a child led to the scaffold,
think of Cupid in oofin; or watch butter
fly, after its four wings have been torn off,
creeping like worm, and you will feel what
l mean. But wherefore? The first has been
already given the beast, only knows purcst,
though shortest sorrow; !; one which has no
past and no future; one such as the sick man
receives from without the dreamer from him
self into his asthenie brain; finally, one with
the consciousness not of guilt, but Of inno-
cence. Certainly, all the sorrows of children
are but shortest nights, as their joys are but
longest days; and, indeed both so much So
that is the latter, often cloudless and starless
time Of life, matured man only longingly re-
members his old childhood's pleasures while
he seems altogether to have forgotten his
childhood's grief. This weak remembrance
is strangely contrasted with the opposing one
in dreams and fevers in this respect, that in
the two last it is always the cruel sorrows of
childhood wkich return; the dream this
moek-sun of childhood-and the fevers, its
distorting glass-both drawn forth from dark
corners the fears Of defenceess childhood,
which press and cut with iron fangs into
the PROSTATE soul. The fair scenes of dreams
mostly play on an after-stage, whereas the
frightful ones choose for theirs the cradle and
the nursery. Moreover, in fever, the ice
hands Of the fear of ghosts, the striking one
of the teachers and parents, and every claw
with which fate has passed the young heart,
themselves out to catch the wandering man.
Parents, consider then that every childhoo's
Rupert--the name given in Germany to the
fictitious being employed to frighten children
into obedience-ev though it has lain chained
for tens of years, yet breaks loose and gains
mastery over the man so soon as it finds him
on sick-bed. The first fright is more dan
gerous the sooner it happens; as the man
grows older, he is less easily frightened; the
little cradle Of the child is more easily quite
darkened than the starry heaven of the man.
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aleligiun, aslurals, 8elte getttes.

movable.

The shining gold lay scattered in the noun
tain streams and hid among the rocks of
Pixies Peak long years ago. No man then
dreamed that gold was there. few years
ago some one found it out, and then thousands
left home ana friends, and Travelled many
weary miles, and toiled early and late in heat
and cold, to gather up the long-neglectod
treasure. In the picture you see them dig
ging the precious gold. They hope soon to
get enough to make them happy for life.
But there is another treasure, worth more
than all the gold of Pixies Peak. 1t will
make the one who gets it and loves it, lar
happier for this world and for the world to
come. A short story will show you what
this treasure is
A traveller one day called at cottage to
ask for drink of water. Entering; he found
the parents cursing and quarreling, the chill
dren trembling, crouched in u corner; and
wherever he looked, he saw only marks of
degradation and poverty. Greeting tho in
mates, he asked them, "Dear friends, why do
YOU make your house like hell?"
"Ah, sir" said the man, "you don't know
the life and trials of poor man, when, do
what you can, everything goes wrong"
The stranger drank the water, and then
said softly las he noticed in dark and dusty
corner Bible), "Dear friends, know what
would help you, if you could find it. There
is treasure concealed in your house. Search
for it." And so he left them.
At first the cottagers thought it jest, but
after while they began to reflect When
the woman went out, therefore, to gather
sticks, the man began to search, and even to
dig that he might find the treasure. When
the man was away, the woman did the same.
Still they found nothing; increasing poverty
brought only more quarrels' discomfort and
strife.
One day as the woman was left alone, she
was thinking upon the strangers word, when
her eye fell upon the old Bible. 1t had been
gift from her mother, but since her death
had been long unheeded and unused.
A strange foreboding seized her mind
Could it be this the stranger meant? She
took it from the shelf, opened it, and found
the verse written on the title page, in her
mothers handwriting, "The law of thy
mouth is better unto me than thousands Of
gold and silvsr." 1t cut her to the heart
"Ah," thought she, "this is the treasure,
then, we have been seeking" How her tears
feel fast upon the leavesf ie
From that time she read the Bible every
day, and prayed, and taught the children to
pray but without her husband 8 knowledge
One day he came home as usual, quarrel
ing in rage. Instead of meeting his an
CRY words with angry replies, she spoke to
him kindly and with gentleness. Illus.
band" said she, @we have sinned grievous
ly We have ourselves to blame for all our
misery, and we must now lead different
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life." He looked amazed. 'fWhat dost thou
sayf" was his exclamation. She brought
the old Bible, and sobbing, cried, there is the
treasure. See, have found itP'
The husbands heart was moved. She read
10 him Of the Lord Jesus, and Of his love-
Next day she read, and again and again; she
sat with her children around her, thoughtful
and attentive. So time went on.
1t was after year that the stranger re-
turned that way. Seeing the cottage hc re-
membered the circumstances of his visit, and
thought he would call and see his old friends
again. He did SO but one would scarcely
have known tie place, it wasgo clean, go neat
SO well ordered. He opened the door, and at
first thought he was mistaken, for the inmates
came to meet him SO kindly, with the peace
OF God beaming upon their faces. "How are
you, my good people?" said he. Then they
knew the stranger, and fer some time they
could not speak. "Fhanks, thanks, dear sir;
we have found our treasure Now dwels the
blessing ef God in our house, his pace in
our hearts" So said they and their entire
condition, and the faces of their children de-
clared the same more plainly.
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asit, as'isauin, and aJalanr.

A LEGAL ANEcDoTE FOUNDED Or FAcrs.-
In certain town in the State Of New York,
a case came before the Court upon the inte-
resting subject ofbreach ofmarriage promise.
The uniaithful swain was a rich old widower,
with grown-up children, and the injured dam,
sci was young moman, comely in her looks,
but of rather questionable character. The
entire case hung upon her establishing dis
tinct contract and promise Of marriage by a
third party as witness.
The witness was called to the stand--an
oily-tongued, plausible looking individual,
who is notoriously infamous in Albion, New
York. lie went along wellat first, establish
ed the fact of the promise beyond question:
The counsel for the defendant, however, no.
ticed that in the countenance Of the witness,
which was rather suspicious, there was
recklessness which indicated falsehood, and
he was informed that his client had never
seen this lady. This he really believed, as
he knew that his own counsel, and it was
also impossible to conceive that third party
would be present ON such an occasion as that.
He, therefore, put the question:
"Where were you at this interview and
promise Of marriage?"
Under tho sofa," replied the witness with
an air Of great smartness.
Roguery had overreached itself.
The counsel for the defendant remarked -
81 hereby close my defence, and leave it to
the jury to say whether such man as this
is to be believed on his oath"
The jury returned a verdict for the defend
ant, without leaving the box. Thus knavory
often defeats itself.
VULGARIrY IN CucUMBEEs.-We never
dreamed, until recently, of the existence of
an aristocracy of appetite. We overheard in
market the following brief dialogue between
an old woman and a little girl, while they
were standing in front Of a vegetable stand:
grandmother" said the little girl, "huy
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GEORGETOWN, DEL, FRIDAY, MARCH IS, 1864.

bors with what had occurred, and the
story soon spread. Hundreds went to the
spot where Terry had been buried, but to
their horror they discovered that the
body was gone; nothing left save the bro
ken coffin! The story related by the un-
dertaker was believed by the more igno-
rant; but some Of the wise ones strongly
suspected that the body had been stolen
for dissecting purposes, and that Phelim
Mccormick had been made the victim of
a hoax by enc Of the body-snatchers, who
had evidently personated the ghost of the
deceased. .4
However, the guilty parties were not
discovered, and Phelim could never be
persuaded that he had not been yisited by
Terry O'Rann's ghost.
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Seteft CATE,
TERRY O'RAN N ;
oA. TAE GHOSTS BARGAIN.

ne Irish people are, of all on ear.h
perhaps, the most credulous III regard to
ghosts, fairies. banshees, and other non
-ssnse.. 1t seems to be part of their educa-
tion to place full reliance in all foolish
stories OF supernatural appearances, hence
there is no earthly use to Try to persuade
any Of them that they are in error in that
particular respect.
/ once made the acquaintance of an old
Irish woman, who was deeply mbued with
the proverbial superstition Of her country,
and to her am indebted for the main in
eidents confined in the following sketch.
l mentioned the song of Terry ORann to
her, and remarked that presumed it was
an American production.
. "Bless yer innocent heart" replied she
"what makes you. think so? DO you
think there's no poetical tlleni in ould Ire
land Z"
sit is not that" said |, for l am well
aware that the real Irish songs are famous
.for their wit, humor, and sentiment, but
'-the song of Terry Dram treats of ghost
. who appears to the undertaken and makes
serious complaints regarling the size and
quality Of the coffin in which its body had
been incased. | thought that probably
some Of my faeetious countrymen wrote
the song in order to ridicule yours for their
credulity in ghost stories and fairies
"My dear child" replied the old wo-
man, quite Indignantly, that song was
written by thrue Irishman, and every
word of it is thrue besides Pve often.
heard the story told long before l iver
saw the song. But whether you'll behave
me or no, matters little to me, for your
unbelief will make it none the less thrue."
"Wlll you favor me by relating all you
remember of it?"
"All l remimber?" echoed she, taking
her short-stemmed, black pipe from her
mouth, and regarding me with disdain,
"sure, sorra bit have forgotten it at all
at ALL"
Then you'll tell ?" asked /.
ell do that, sir" replied she, s'but d We
mind, man, dear, it is mighty dhry work
for an ould crayture like meself to be sit
ting and telling such long story without
drop to wet me lips the while, do you un-
dherstand ?"---'r e.----
l took the hint, and sent out for pint
of her favorite beverage. The old lady
JOoA plctty SOOu slIeu hurn ol IL, anu
began her narrative. But as she made
many remarks relative to her own life,
and which had no bearing on the history
of Torrance 0'Rann, shall merely relate
the incidents connected with the life,
death and resurrection of the hero of this
sketch.
Terrence O'Rann was an orphan, and
resided in the town of Derry, Ireland
Being rather wild youth he never learnt
trade, but earned a precarious living by
doing such work as came in his way
When about twenty years of age he unex-
pectedly came into possession Of three hun
dred pounds, being the legacy Of a distant
relative, just deceased. It seemed like a
million of pounds to Terry, whe appeared
to have hal an idea that there was nc
such sum in the world However. he
was sole possessor of this, to him, vast
amount, and he resolved to enjoy it.
When fellow suddenly becomes rich
his hitherto negligent acquaintances
speedily make the discovery that he is q
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The STANDARD APPLE.-Mr. Dunlap has
furnished us the following remarks relating
to this apple:
This Apple was received from the Buffalo
IN. ~ Nursery, Col. B. Hodge proprietor,
in the spring of 1876. The tree came under
the name of the Peach Apple, subsequently
it came under its true name-the modesty Of
the Colonel seldom allowing him to send out
a fruit under its true name.
The trees fruited in I849, and have given
large annual crops of fine and heavy fruit
until the present time. Not twig has been
injured by winter, MOI. the crop in any wise
injured by frost. 1t bears thesame relation
to winter apples that the Keswick Goblin
does to those of summer, being an early and
abundant bearer.
Description-Col. Hodge, in his catalogue
f + l845, described it as "large, oblate, green,
red and yellow; December to March; very
productive, juicy, pleasant, fine" To be a
little more precise, the fruit is of large size,
slightly angular, rather iattish, and some
specimens tapering to the eye; skin at first
dull green, changing to yellow at maturity;
deeply splashed and striped with red, dotted
with numerous large russet specks, with
slight margin of pale russet about the stem.
Stalk rather deeply inserted half an inch
long, and holding the fruit firmly to the front
spur. Calyx closed, set in moderate basin,
slightly corrugated Flesh yellowish white,
rather coarse, very juicy, with rather rich
sub-acid favor. Ripens in December and
keeps through March. Is superior cooking
and very good table apple. For cookingit
is in use from the first of September, and
from that time until the irst.of April has no
superior for this purpose. Add to this that
the tree is hardy in all parts of the State, is
rapid grower, a young, abundant and annual
bearer, it is fruit that should not be slight
ly passed over. The tree is q crooked,
The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1864-03-25

TIE LOMBARD PLUM.-This is on the whole
the most certain and reliable plum for the
Northern States. During the severe winters,
it has been scarcely affected, while other va
rieties have been badly injured--it is fine
strong grower, and an abundant bearer. In
recently examining an experimental orchard
of about 60 varities, which had been nearly
all stripped of its fruit the curculio lowing
to absence of the prsprietor,l the Lombard
had fair crop. The fruit although not Of
the very highest quality, is pleasant and
agreeable, and better than some famous sorts
such as the Washton, Smiths Orleans,
e
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ACADEMY AT LANSING, MrcH.--The Botani-
cal Department is connected with the Horti-
cultural, under the charge of Mr.. A. N.
Prentiss. Very great progress has been made
in getting the grounds supplied with speci-
cimens of such trees, shrubs, and plants, as
are suitable for open air culture in the lati-
tude of Lansing; and the tuition, so far has
been as perfect as the nature Of the study
would permit; but until greenhouses and
propagating-houses are erected, this study
cannot be as fully and thoroughly taught by
direct practice, as is desirable.
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spreading, irregular grower, with large deep
ly serrated leaves, the young shoots of deep
wine color, crowned with white bloom, with
prominent white buds.
The trees have been fruitod by several par.
ties in Cook county-among them the Old
Doctor at 'the Grove and his brother Ken
nicott, at Dunton Station. In my orchards
at Leydsn are the trees that have bourne tifA
teen croue
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WORK Is HOLY

Work while life is given,
Faint not although It's hard;
Work is the will of heaven,
And peace is the reward
For work is holyi
What though thy lot be hidden,
And proud ones pass thee by?
Feel duty as God-biddcn,
Act as beneath his eye
For work is holyl
Cleave to thy humble place,
Ennoble it with thy zeal;
Work with a manful grace,
Make fruitless cumb'rers feel
That work is hofyl
Seorn naught as plain or mean,
All with thy worth impress;
That all were th 1u hast been
May day by day confess
That work is holy!
Work while life is giyoa,
Nor shrink though hardship scars;
True suffering fits for heaven,
Thore sin alone debars-
For work is holy
Angels ears now listen
Thy earth-spurned plaintive tale
Angels eyes shall glisten
When they thy scars unveil-
For work is holy
They'll know these are the proof
That thou hast striven well,
Nor idly stood aloof
While other brave ones fell
For work is holy
Work while life Ia uiven.
Pine not although tits hard
Work is the will of heaven,
And peace is the reward
Fer work isholy !
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ONIoNs.-Mr. Meeker, of Westport, fa-
nous cultivator of the onion crop, thus de-
scrbcs his mode of raising them =
"Our mode of preparing the ground is, as
early practicable in the spring, to cart on
about 20 tons of manure Il, the acre, having
previously had it thrown fro a.heap, that it
may be we'll heated; and slus KIN all noxious
weeds. After spreading, we piow itin, turn
ing it in SO deep that the harrow will not draw
it to the surface. If it will not turn under
readily, man, following the plough, pushes
it into the furrow. We next cover it thor
oughly with wooden-toothed harrow, then
use the brush, leaving the ground in good
order for raking, which is done with com
mon wooden hay-rake. We then sow from
81 to 4 pounds oe seed to the acre. When the
onions are up, we commence hoeing, and the
wedding follows, which is continued at regu-
lar intervals, as long as required. In Sep
tember, the tops become dry and fall, when
onions SHOULD be pulled and spread on the
ground, separating the green ones from the
dry. The latter should be raked into heaps,
after. few days; for if allowed to remain too
long exposed to the sun, they will assume a
dull-red color, and beliable to injury. When
well cured, remove them to building for the
winter, where they should be spread upon
platform, about foot from the floor, giving
them air, when the weather will permit In
topping them, cut absut an inch from their
bulbs. Hog-manure and wood-ashes are the
best fertilizers for this CROP"
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TREE CoTToN IN CALIFosNIA.-I am now
engaged in raising Tree Cotton. The first
year, from seed, it grew four feet. Frost don t
affect it. The second year it bears small
quantity of cotton, and the cotton is mixed
with the seeds and third year the cotton
and seeds are separated. After the third
year the yield is one hundred pounds of cot
ton to each tree. The tree grows as large as
the peach tree.
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Che aenet's Corner.
For the Union.
STILL THINK OF THEE.

By DAv--.
There's not word thy lip hath breathed,
A look thine eye hath given,
That is not shrinod within my heart,
Like to dream of heaven,
There's not a spot where We have met.
favorite flower or tree;
There's not scene by thee beloved,
That is not priced by me.
Wiener I hear the linnet's song.
Or the blithe wood lark's lay,
Or mark upon the golden nest,
The rssy clouds decay :
When'er I catch the breath of howers,
Or music from the tree,
Thought wings her way to distant bowers,
And memory elings to theo.
Near Concord, March 18th, 1858.
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Cite fartner's Department.

MAKING SUPER-PHosPHATF,-- II procure the
bones at from so to 80 cent ,loO pounds,
throw them into hogshead Zone half its
depth in the ground, Tor VIII, gnere conye-
nient, into tight, strong trs.<gHssomewhat
similar to those formerly used for holding
pomace when making cider), pour over them
10 gallons of water, then empty carboy best
Chambers sulphuric acid and in that pro-
portion increase until the bones are all cover
ed. AS they dissolve and sink down, add
more bones, until the whole becomes thick,
pasty mass, which it will in the course of two
or three weeks. Care must be taken to keep
it covered tightly, and avoid letting the aid
touch any part Of the clothing, asjt.will GER
tainly leave its mark. When wanted for use,
have ready along side of the tub bed of fine
mould, dry muck or plaster, into which shovel
or ladle the mass, turn over and mix until
sufficiently dry to handle pleasantly. Poultry
dung and plaster are valuable additions
The result, from applications of phosphate so
manufactured, has alaoays been highly salts
factory one application Of which, to field
Of rye was remarkable in its effects, and will
furnish a subject for future communication
if desired. have sometimes broken or chop
ped the bones up with an old axe or hatchet.
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SOLVENT FOR OLD PuTTY AND PAINT.-Soft
soap mixed with solution of potash or caustic
soda, or pearl ash and slaked lime, mixed
with sufficient water to form paste. Either
of these laid on with an old brush or rag, and
left for some hours will render it easily re-
movable.
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