The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-11-01

! AN HONEsT LIFE.-Ine poor pittance Of
seventy years is not worth being villain
for What matter if your neighbour lies in
splendid tomb? sleep you with innocence.
Look behind you through the track Of time.
A vast desert lies open in retrospect; wear
led with years and sorrow, they sink from
the walks OF man. You are 10 leave them
where they fall and 60 a little further. and
you will find eternal rest Whatever YOU
may have to encounter between the cradle
ana the grave, every moment is big with
events, which come not in succession but
bursting forcibly from revealing and un-
known cause, fly over this orb with diyersi-
fed influence
AGRICULTURAL fairs don't need revenue
licenses unless horse trottny is included,
when they have to pay so for license
and pay over two per cent. Of the gross
receipts.
EXPENSIVE MILK.-A story, illustrating
, the cost Of amateur farming, is told Of a
retired merchant who had farm on Long
Island, with all the modern inventions. and
fancy stock Of all kinds. After showing a
friend over the premises, one day, he invit-
ed him into the house. Brown" said he,
| you have seen the best farm in the state
now sit down and rest and take som ething.
have milk and champagne. Take your
| choice-they cost the same
NEAT PIE WITHOUT VENT.-A correspon-
dent Of the London Lancet, in commenting
on the case OF Mr.. Sprague, charged with
having poisoned his wife, and her father and
mother, at Ashburton, says, "Ali learned
toxlcologists and chemists appear 10 have
! forgotten the important fact, that if meat
PIE Is made without hole in the crust to
let out certain carnations from the meat.
cholic, vomiting and other symptoms Of slight
poisoning will occur. I have known two
instances Of large parties being affected in
this manner from eating meat-pies that had
no vent in them
SHIPPING AppLEs-The Wankeean III
Gdzsfte says that within two or three weeks
past over four thousand barrels of apples
have been shipped from that city, ali of
which we're grown in Lake county Hon. ].
d. Nelson Of Fort Wayne, Ind, informed us
some ten days since. that he was shipping
apples TO New York as fast as he could pack
/ them and find conyeniencies for their trans
roriation. He had allea,lY sent / thousand
barrels They readily command eigh, dol
rel harrei IN thai city. while they can be
pat up al about two dollars a barrel in Fort
wayne. thus aHoraing 4 very handsome
proit. The apple crop this year at The East
Is mex, 10 nothing.
LARGE fiELDss-The crop of vegetables
III scott county, Iowa. this year. is worthy
OF notice. The crop OF Onions this year is
without precedent, The number of bushels
raised will reach one million at an average
Of four hundred bushels per acre On a
far n IVA J.I
port. from six acres were gathered three
thousand. four hundred bushels. Some farm
ers say they they will get eight hundred
bushels from il single acre The grape and
potato crops are also very large OF the
latter, farmers Claim 10 have raised four
hundred bushels per acre At the present
prices. farmers will realize $50 per acre
after all exp anses are paid
Ma. ISRAEL PERRY of Lavalle, Sauk TO,
Wis. has rtised this season from one pump
kin seed, | pumpkins, weighing in the ag-
gregate 2O2 pounds,
BUSINESS NECESSARY The experience
OF life demonstrates that that regular and
systematic business is essential 10 the health,
happiness and usefulness Of man. Without
it, he is uneasy, unsettled, miserable, and
wretched His desires have no fixed aim,
his ambition no high and noble ends He
is the sport OF visionary dreams and idle
fancies--a looker-on where all are busy: a
drone in the life of industry moper in the
field OF enterprise and labor If such were
the lot Of the feeble and helpless only. ii
We're less to be dcplored; but il is oftener the
doom and curse Of these who have the pow
cr TO do without The Will TO act, and who
need that quality which makes SO many 9TH
ers, hut the want Of which unmakes them
the quality of yigor and resolution. Bus
mess is the grand regulator of life
TAKING Up TREES. An enormous amount
of money is annually lost to tree purchas-
ers from rude and unskillful taking up.
Trees areto up by the roots. as if the trunk
and branches were the only thing necessary
and the ro,ts superfuous. The proper
way is to open q trench on each side of the
tree, with common spade. keeping the
edge towards the tree SO as not to cross any
of the roots. These trenches should be far
enough from the tree to avoid the main roots
aud deep enough to 60 below all except the
tap root, which may be cut off Thiabeing
done, the tree may be pulled up with the
roots entire.