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denly let loose the tempest of his Maker s
| ire.
I And when consciousness of his imperfec-
tions possessed him and when he reflected
that he had full often failed to come up to the
ideal type of godliness, though comparative
ly "perfect in his generations" he must have
been profoundly impressed with the fact OF
his Indebtedness to the Almighty for protec-
ton and security. A third emotion which
swayed his bosom must have been conscious
delight in his Heavenly Parent. We cannot
suppose that for an instant his heart pulsa-
ted with alarm in view of his position No
| God had shut him in. God had pledged to
him his guiding providence, and amid wreck
and ruin he could feel the same sense of per-
sonal safety as if his feet were placed on the
green carpet of blooming world. In his
wooden prison he felt as if he were securely
housed in the very heart of Deity. This in
teresting portion of biblical narration is re-
plete with practical reflections. The Ark of
Noah undoubtedly typifes the Ark of Christ's
blessed Church. Into that retreat how often
have we been urged to go to escape the ap-
preaching storm of accumulating justice.
Though we may not realize that danger is
at hand, yet the Gospel comes to us with
clear intonations to warn us ofan approaching
hour when fiery deluge shall sweep away
the cherished hiding place of the ungodly,
and if faith for moment do but gain the
ascendant in our bosoms, we shall flee for
refuge to the blessed sanctuary. Like Noah,
moved by fear, the good man separates him
self from an unbeleving world, and sequest-
rates himself in the Ark of genuine piety.-
Like Noah, he induces his family to adopt
the same course, and embrace the same
shelter. Feeling that the welfare of that family
is identified with his own, he pursuades them
also to accompany him to the gates of Para
disc, and leave behind them the Sodom of the
world. And as Noah, with his wife and sons,
and sons wives, stepped out at last on the
peak of Ararat, so the Christian, with those
God has given him, shall stand at last upon
Mount Zion, in this city of his God, and feel
and know that every tempest has past away
forever Happy they who escape the deluge
of Gods wrath and view the rainbow of
peace as it spans the azure armament, telling
of Gods complacent smile, and foreshadowing
an eternity of peace and joy, known only to
the pure in heart.
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TO THE ONE / LOVE.
BY BAv

BY BAY.
I am thinking of thee in this twilight hour,
And I'm lonely and weary and sad
For the day is done and the night has come,
And there's nothing to make me glad.
l am thinking Of thee and almost start,
And fancy that thou art near
But sigh will rise to my angushOd heart,
Like an echo of wild despair
am thinking of thee as L sit here alone,
And ponder on days that's past
But they've flown away like a summer day,
Too short and too happy to last.
Lam thinking Of thee and long to sit
By thy couch of sickness and pain
I'd smooth thy pillow and press thy hand,
And make thee well again.
am thinking of thee, oh would could share,
Thy every ill on earth
I'd love thee so fondly that sorrow and care .
Should fly at their earliest birth.
am thinking of thee, cans thou doubt me love
Or wonder that L am sad
For thou art my all and the tear will fall,
For there's nothing to make me glad
1 am thinking of thee as sit here alone,
And the moon and stars have sit
And the day has dawned Ger the cold gray morn,
Still I'm thinking of thee yet.
Near Concord, Feb. 1864.
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Renewing Strawberry Beds.


1t is sometimes made an objection to Ger
tain kinds of strawberries, that after produc
ing few crops they die out, and leave tn,
cultivator without crop for the ensuing
year.
1t is worth remembering, however, that al
strawberries bear better, and produce fruit o
better quality the second year of planting ou
than at any other period of their lives, and il
is probably on the whole better to base ones
calculations on renewing beds every SECOND
year.
This is more particularly desirable where
Strawberries are grown in hills-aplan which
is now followed by most who seek the best re-
suits, and which plan is very liable to be at
tended by the well-known enervating effects
of over-bearing
Many market growers of the strawberry,
whose pecuniary interests generally lead them
to the most profitable way of raising fruit, re-
new their beds every third year. They make
plantation every season, which, after bear
ing two crops, is destroyed. A new one
planted and an old one abandoned, thus keeps
up the annual succession These are not
planted exactly in hills, but in pIow-rows-
the plants, perhaps, twelve inches apart and
the rows two or two and half feet. These
rows are usually hoe-harrowed continuously
through the early part of the season, till the
fruit is ripening, when the whole bed is left
to the undisturbed possession of the runners
and the fruit. In September, after the new
ground has been thoroughly prepared the
runners are taken off and set in pans of water,
from which they are transferred to their as
signed positions in the new rows. All the
runners not wanted are then cut off with a
hoe or harrow, the plants left to bear one
moro good crop next season, which is usually
the best, after which they are destroyed, and
the ground planted again with young plants,
or left for the purpose of using for some other
crop, according as it may suit the views or
convenience of the planter in regard to rota-
tive cropping.
This is.a general outline of the practice Of
some of the best growers we know. They
each vary in some particular, but the main
point is in the early renewal of the plant, as
we have stated.
The questionable point would be this =
Granting that a third years crop FROM the
same plants would not he as good as the sec,
ond years had been, would the difference be
so great as to warrant the increased labor of
making new beds? We believe it would
Moreover, the labor is very likely to be over
rated for it costs but little more to make
new plantation than it does to clean out and
fix up an old one.
There arc some instances, no doubt, where
it can be proved best to let a bed remain more
than two fruiting seasons, and as long as it
will bear well. In the eyer-varying circum-
stances under which horticultural rules are
to be practiced, these anomalies are contin-
ually occurring, but we have no doubt, as
general thing it will be found most profitable
and satisfactory to make a new plantation
every second or third year.
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Select Gale.
THE FIRST ICE-oREAM.

"lf we knew to whom, or to what, to give
credit for the following hit we would GER
tainly do it. 1t comes to us without any
intimation of its origin, and we give it
place as ludicrously characteristic. It
purports to be an account of Ethan Spikes
first and last visit to Portland"
"Portland is the all-fredest place I ever
seed 1 was down there in '33, to see a
little about my goin' to the Legislator,
and such time as l had you never heer' d
tell on. Did ever tell you about the Ice
Cream scrape | had ?"
We answered in the negative, and he
resumed:
"Wall, I'd bin down thar two or three
days, pokin' in every hole, an tho't I'd
seed every thing thar was to be seen. But
one day towar's sundown was goin' by a
shop in Middle street that looked wonder
fully slick-there was all manner of candy
an peppermints an what nots in the win
dows. An then thar war signs with goold
letters on to them, hangin' round the door,
tellin' how they sold Soda, Mead, an Ice
Cream thar. | says to myself, L have
heern good deal about this ere ice-cream,
an now if don't see what they's made of.
So | puts my hands into my pockets, and
walked in kinder careless, and says to a
chap standin' behind the counter, do you
keep any ice-creams here ?" ~
"Yes, sif,' says he, how much ii have ?"
l considered a mint; says /, "a pint,
sir" d
The young feller's face swelled out, and
he liked to have laughed right out, but
arter while he asked:
"Did you say pint, sir 7" s.
"Sartin," says |, ''p'raps you don't re-
tail, SO don't mind takin' quart"
oval, don't you think the feller snorted
right out. Tell yer what, it made me feel
sort pisin, an gave him look sober in
about a mint; an when I chnched my
fist and looked so at him, (here Mr.. Spike
favored us with diabolical expression, )
he hauled in his horns about the quickest
and handed me pinto the stuff as per-
liteas could be. Wall, tasted mouth
full of it, an, found it cool as the north side
of Bethel hill, in January I'd half a
mind to spit it out, but jest then I seed the
confectioner chap gririnin' behind the door
: which riz my spunk. Coll smash it all
thinks l, Pll not iet that white silver d
monkey think Pm afeard-Pll eat the pla-
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How to Make yellow Butter I'm
Winter


Many people contend that it is impracti
cable to make nice yellow butter in the wint
er, or even during the foddering season, and
therefore, various remidies have been resort
ed to, for the purpose of producing nice yel
low butter, when COWS do not feed on greer
grass.
! Why will a COW that irin a leshy condi
tion, give milk that will make yellower butter
than, cow that is like the lean kind Of
Pharoah of ancient Egypt
why" says one, 81 did not know that
! there would be any difference in the milk
Bqh there truly is a difference, and we will
enndeayor to explain the why's and the where
fores about the matter, so that there will be
but-lttle difficulty in producing yellow butter
in the winter.
Why may we not have as good yellow but
ter, when cow is fed on straw or white
turnips, as we do when the same cow is fed
on green grass?
Because there is greater abundance of
butter-forming material in good grass than
there is to be found in straw or white turnips.
And more than this, there is delicious aro-
ma in the butter-materials stbat is extracted
from the grass, that is tsot 70. be found in
straw, turnips or in many other kinds of
feed, which will produce good flow of milk
Take for example buck wheat bran and
buck wheat straw, and white turnips, and
they will produce about as large quantities of
milk as any other kinds of fodder, providing
they have not been damaged by being exposed
to the influence of the weather. But, will
such milk make nice yellow butter? By no
means.
We all admit that there is nothing equal to
good grass for the purpose of producing
rich yellow cream. But grass cannot be OBJ
tanned in winter. Therefore, we must feed
such materials as will be as nearly like grass
as is practicable.
When grass is properly dried and convert
ed into good hay-if it be CIT before the bios
som has fallen-it will yield cream which will
make about as yellow butter az green grass
would make, Therefore in summing up this
SUBJECT we are Justlhed IN saying that make
ing yellow butter in winter, will depend on
certain conditions and contingencies, which
are as follows:
LIST. A cow must have good supply of
good hay, that has been made of good grass,
cut before the blossom has fallen, and cured
properly, without having been wet while it
was being cured. I'd. A few orange carrots
daily-not reduced to a fine pulp and ming
led with butter-but fed to the cow in con-
nection with few pounds of Indian meal,
made of yellow corn. Sd. A good supply of
good cornstalks-not those that have been
frost bitten and weather beaten. 4th. A
good cow, with yellow skin about the udder is
very essential. 5th. A COW in good condi-
tion-not ono as poor as 'pocertyation." 9th.
A good stable we'll Uttered, and an abundance
of clean water for the COW to'drink. 7th.
Never allow the milk to freeze.
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How to Guide Children.

DR.. John Browns little book on Health
has more good advice in it, than is often
crowded into such small compass, and no
parent can read it without receiving sugges-
tions he will remember, and put to worthy
practice in the home circle. There are some
wise hints in the following paragraphs
Whatever you wish your child to be-be it
yourself If you wish it to be happy,
healthy, sober, truthful, afectionate, honest,
and godly, be yourself all these. If you wish
it to be lazy, and sulky, and liar, and a
thief, and drunkard, and swearer, be
yourself all these. As the old cock crows,
the young one learns. You will remember
who said, "Train up child in the way he
should go, and when he is old, he will not de-
part from it." And you may, as a general
rule, as soon expect to gather grapes from
thorns, and figs from thistles, as good, healthy
happy children from diseased, and lazy, and
wicked parents.
Be always frank and open with your child
rem. Make them trust you, and tell you all
their secrets Make them feel at ease with
you, and make free with them There are
no such play things for grown-up children
like you and me, as oceans, wee ones. It is
wonderful what you can get them to do, with
a little coaxing and fun. You all know this
as well as do, and you will practice ii every
day in your own families. Hero now is
pleasant little story out Of an old book; L" A
gentleman having led a company of children
beyond their usual journey, they began to
feel weary, and all cried to him to carry them
on his back, but because of their multitude,
he could not do this. But, says he, IN
get horses for us all;" then cutting little
wands out of the hedge as ponies for them,
and great stake as charger for himself,
this put mettle in their little legs, and they
rod; cheerily home" So much for bit of
ingenious fun.
One thing, however, poor as you are, you
can always give yonr children, and that is
your prayers; and they are, if real and
humble worth more than silver and gold,
more than food and clothing, and havo often
brought from the Father who is in Heaven
and hears our prayers, both money and meat
and clothes, and all worthy good things
And there is one thing you can always teach
your child: you may not yourself know how
to read or write, and therefore you may not
be able to teach your children how to do
these things; you may not know the names
of the stars, or their geography, and may,
therefore, not be able to tell them how for
you are from the sun, or how big the moon
is; nor be able to tell them the way to Jeru-
salem or Australia; but you may always be
able to tell them who made the sun, and
moon and stars, and you may tell them the
road to Heaven. You may alwsys teach
them to pray.
Some weeks ago, 1 was taken cut to see the
mother of a little child. She was very dan
gerously ill, and the nurse had left the child
to come and help me. l went up to the nur-
sery to get some hot water, and saw some
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thing raised up. This was the little fellow
undet the bed clothes, kneeliAg. 1 said,
"Whnt are you doing?"
81 am praying God to make mamma bet
ter" said he. 6
God likes these prayers aud these little
people-for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
These are His little ones, His lambs, and He
hears their cry and it is enough if they only
lisp their prayers "Abba Father" is all he
needs; and our prayers as when they are
most like childrens' in simplicity, in direct
ness in perfect fullness of reliance.
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GEORGETOWN, DEL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 1864

always undesirable, and an obstacle to the
successful cultivation of the same, treat them
in the autumn to crude pupice from the cider
MILL m 4a
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For the Union.
So A VALENTINE:

For the Union.
a.a a. ai A VALENTINE:. 4i.
TO Miss A. G. of LGursli
t BY FRANK. ~
'Tis Valentines day this morning,
All natures bright and fair ,a
Then maiden be up adorning,
- For shall soon be there; l5A2 sa b
oh! do not long keep nae waiting,
For would not tarry-
See, the birds now are all mating,
And we two should marry
As you are the choice I have made,
e Oh do not me deny c.a af v...l :
But.in thy best be all arrayd,
Ready with me to fly.
To Hymen's cons sling altar, sa .
Where love is made divine =
Do not now oh maiden falter,
To be my Valentine
Laurel, Feb. IA, 1864.
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As Coon AS EvER.-A lady making inqui-
ries of gentleman about his friend. an in
temperate man. who had been sick for some
time, asked whether he had regained his ap-
petite. "No, ma'am, says the blood, not
exastly-his appetite is very poor but bis
drink-o Ii7bt is as good as ever IL !. =
, 1864-06-19
General Grant In Camp.
From the Boaton Jou1nal.)

NEw TokK. June II, 1891.
Gen. Grnut in camp! Who would notlike
to ace him. 4 pastor OF this city vent, out
for the Christian Commission He had, Of
xitw with the Lieut.. General. But. he was
told he coHld not gain access to him At all
could not sec him even. He resolved to try.
With three frtcnds Of tho Commission, Ia sat
out, found the tenr OF the Genera. An.i made
for 1t, ::aIlring towards the front ho at
0h:o saw that the teut Waa occupied. A
person sat near the entrance. .Hc vas cost
1css, sitting In his shirt sleeves; his vest
was unouttoned; his feet were in slippers
and raised unon stooli be was alone rad
ing 2 newspaper and had cigar in his
lis THU General Grlnt4 TENT Hs
somewhat modeat1y replied. "That'e nv
rame' "Nill you allow three New FORK
c!efgJ meE: soon to 20 home, to tske you by
the hsndi". ''Wita the grcatest pleasure"
wae en..' tae response; ~ am glad to sea you,
duro the campaIgnf" waa asked. Win
great tenderness he replicd:, s.FInely. I
onlJ wish ny men endured 1t % wela." Oue
Of them said: was In hopes to hare at
tended you to Richmond, General, before 1
went home" To which Goneral Graut re-
eponded In emphatic tones, looking the cler-
there" While tho conversation was going
On, the inccssant rattle Of musketry rso2
along the air like millions of crackers undsr
milliona OF barrels on Fourth Of JnlT.
Bang. bang, In the aiatancc sounded Tie
booming guns. Shot and shell whizz d in
The mir; but calm and unmoved and confident
sat the Lieutenant General, as II In the sun
mer-house of'hs own home at Gs1cna With
this Immense responsibility On him. let eyerT
true American say, "God bless the braye. ~
, 1864-06-19

gel oi stAr lur Ut eiSuLs, t't~4une t.le iAlr-
tie. IN the arrarFeurnt fave represented:
md the Government have no rcasoa to doabt
The bo7x .dde. OF the rsprescnt4.,s', that If
the ships were entirely undor thes: own con-
troll they would be able to hrns them to
more profitable market, md to obtain for
them larger py1ca than tho Government
consented t. give.
1!r. Hunt said that he wished 70 know how
pr, mcDt ,of ,he purchase Of shs vessels In
an, ktloa waa to be provided, and whether
m .atin &C fi,r the purpose Wosld bo l.id on
Tho table.
asls the QUESTION Tomorrow, will aasxS7
1t. "a laugh
III. Hopwood-Whas ID the price of the
ships?
stand, was fixed By the valuer Tor The Adult
ITS at 41ts, Geo, and for The co:apehoa IL
I'll reeEec. iCr,tcr su=. Of 4S5, 600 Will ).
required.
Al Memorable Mcmbez-Wh.t WA til.
price fret demanded! o.o, ~.
Tic Attorney GeneEa1-e3<oo,o0o.
, 1864-06-19
Tho Site OF the West Point Battre
mQuuIncufs -.

lFrcIn tho New York World. June, 1Gth,1
The site selected Is the northern ext.ctaity
Of the parade ground on the left of Roe's
Hotel, and fronting the magnificent prog
pect which overlooks from that house % the
north m expanse OF natural scenery that ia
NOS e1celled, perhaps, on the face Of the
earth. Tho river is seen below and the Hlch-
lends, stretching up gradually Into the skJ
AID covered with tho forest. are on either
side The water is far below and the desleT-
ity Intervening Is cov ared by trees. To the
kouth Is the broad, level parade ground, and.
further on, the buildings OF the institution
On the right looking south, are several tree
enbowercd residences Of officers OF the
acsuemy, and on the left tho road leading
along The steep bank high above the river.
Tie site, In all respects, lie appropriate and
magnificent. The Hudsrn comes straight
toward the site, and turns here suddenly 10
the eastward. It WIS we'll enough to suile
at the Idea Of the etuay-stricken philosopher
who perceived m instance OF the proyideu-
tial arrangement OF na ture, In the fact that
large streams always ran By the sid. of Creat
inland cities; bnr in eome coming Time
when this tablet Will become moss-coyored'
with years, 1t may not be deemca an absurd
nncy when: come poet shall aver that the
river here. while dTst pursuing its Why to
the gulf raw the stone that stood whore It's
course should be; and turned revereutlJ
aside go as not to eface, even By the inevi-
table fow Of the water Of the land to 3nrd
their resting place In the sea :; 90 noble a
record, 20 holJ memory, AZ this monument
shall pleeerT upon tfs face
, 1864-06-19
TIE 1p4ru.&.EGsaaA> .yA4:.
Status Of tAe Conference.

TIN .,nf.,n,,. -s-.,s.,nhled =, 1o,doc on
M "a Inne md IN r,sinr annofnted ths
f;th inne tor tic ' n-1t IT. eitt;n5''
The .Kornino Heroid consatus the mos. cir.
~ cnnf.r.nn.. - nntarstan,;s tiIst ;hc
Er,msn nlrn;rnt = mia re, tiemar,. thr c-s,in,,
~ i 1rnskurn IA nnnne1 Whi., tt,r n..,,tr:i
rnvr,a ,jsa.e "a thr i;ne nf ft,. srhI..i ami
n. Nsnnnwarr. 80 ~ n.n;ah fr,r,,er It
ia st.tca thst tha renrcsentsficc. NJ Drn.
n,.rk dee,re that the Germen powcrs a3d
TN ntnfrais ehon]d rnme tn an 1rreetntnt an
the enh;cct hrfnrr calling nnon I.nmark to
give her answer. 4 proposal was also mnde
and accepted ad reIsrt,z:Hr, for the prolonEa-
t{ou Of the amusa(ies for fftecn days, on The
condition that no further extension SHOULD
take place unless tho basis OF peace were
serefd to.
According to German papers. at tho meet
ing Of the conference on the I'd. tho Danish
plenipotentiar3es declined prolong&tion Of
the afmistice, but promised, ut tbs solicita-
ton Of tho peutrni powers, to procure.in-
stfuctiopa from their Government in time
for The meeting of the 9Th Of june,
rgzI1ko IN psSuAEK.
Thc 1cr1on 1E,1.. a,vs III nrronnt& rr..
resant ~ fe.i!rT r,t ~ ~ nan;sh ~ n;t.l =.
Earl;t- heyond 81, former rYamnIe' The
Dsns. vii Iot 1noEe n.noa cn M h..is ~
ol,inr ~ -rsr~1hf1v ti,af ronId nnssih1v ~
fost X Tar fhey arr m.kinr tha nosf ~
their fact: they are Strengthening their de.
frrees. and are feads to 1ry the chances of
another campaign. They kne" even non
Intervening England sud unsympataetic
France can nsver allow their country to be
blottsd ont Of the list OF nations. In these
circumstance, 1t Is needless to ssy-that the
meeting cf the conference held on tho I'd
was net marked BY any very cheering pro-
grcss In the negotiations. Thc neutral rep
rtscntstivcs are still, however, sndeavorIn.
TO make the n ost Of the tina that intervanes
before the resumption Of hnstilttiaa.
, 1864-06-19

An explosion took place at Dupont's pow
der works, on the Brandy vine, On last Mon
car, about 4 o'clock In the afternoon, from
n htch five men tnye died. and three others
penters, and we're working in an empty
building which had been used rs q mill,
when one OF them struck fire with his hatch:
ct against b nail, fgnldng the dust In the
James Kellie, Patrick Tolan, and C: n. En-
gle 60 BADLY that they have since died. Saw
'eral others we're burned, but not seriously.
+ had the men, when they. vent In tbs built
ding, taken tho Precant!oR to spstnkleit we'll
with water, their liyes would not have been
sacrificed. 1tis strange that =. building
(which has been used fur the making or sto-
ring Of powder untH the fine dust had got
into every crevice> In the floor and roof and
ratters, should be care1essly entered by
workmep. who must have known the danger
the use oftheir iron tooIa would subject
,them'to- D1a,caTe Gasete. 49, :, . =. :, :