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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
TALE-BEARERS.

Some people are tale-bearers through
the love of being listened to and producing
a sensation. They delight to see the
amazemcnt which follows the revelation
of their last discovery. They know that
nothing which their own brains have pro-
duced will interest any mortal under the
sun, but they have craving to be the
center of attentive listeners; and so instead
of wit they talk scandal; they can't say
anything very wise, but they can speak
about the unexpected misfortunes or lu-
dicrous folIies of their neighbors. Tale
bearers of this kind are always delighted
to hear anything very piquant; they are
restless till they tell it. They know ex-
actly how to throw light and shadow into
their story, and how to dress every feature
of it to the best advantage. They are not
satisfied, like some inferior followers OF
the trade, with gossip of any kind they
have an artistic instinct for what will be
effective. They are not quite without
sympathy if they happen to see neighbOI
overtaken by an accident, but it is a real
consolation to them that they can tell how
it occurred. If they only reflect for mo-
ment they would discover with shame that
very often the gravest and saddest circum-
stances of human life have been to them
only fresh material for satisfying the mis-
erable desire to touch the hearts and
awaken the curiosity of their friends.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
HoRFIcULFURAL
HINTS ON PRUNING.

l. Never use an ak or hatchet IN
pruning. The blows struck jar the fbres
and the whole work with such tools is too
violent and harsh.
2. Take off the limbs as nearly as pos
sible on a level with the branches which
you cut from 1t will heal much quicker
and smother
B. Never leave a stub-that is, do not
leave part of the branch between the
place where spurs come out, but close to
the spur itself, and then the wound will
heal over. The reason for this is that no
action exists in a portion Of the branch
left, unless there is a joint, place where
a spur comes out, and where leaves will
grow beyond it. In pruning a grape,
it is customary to leave half an inch TO an
inch, under the suppOsItiOn that it will
prevent bleeding.
f. Never prune a tree when the sap
will keep the saw wet, as 1t will IN March,
April and May, and even in February, if
there is a succession Of four or five days
of moderate weather and bright sun.
3. From the 18th to the Both of June
and after the leaves have fallen, and un-
till the tree freezes, are the proper times
to prune. Never prune during the spring
months, notwithstanding the practice is
so common
6. Cover ali large wounds with gum
shellac dissolved in alcohol, or with some
paint about the color Of the bark. If
paint is used carefully, on the wound on
ly, it will do 20 harm.
z. Trees are usually grated in April
or May, but they should not be pruned
at that time. There are two or three
reasons for this.
1. The sap is thin, and will run out
which Injuries the tree.
2 After cutting off several gOOd-sized
limbs to set scions into, the tree needs all
the remaining branches to keep up its
usual action and vitality
3. In November succeeding the graft
ing, any limbs that are in the way Of the
scions, and others belonging to the orig
al tree, may be taken away. If there are
many, however, it would be better to
leave portion of them until the follow
ing June. We have seen trees that stood
IN a favored spot and were beautiful when
ten years old. Having a plentiful sup
ply of Baldwius. these trees were grated
with Williams Early and the River At
the time of grating, the operator took
the liberty to prune them, aud they now
stand as monuments of his folly, the seven
.meanest trees out of several hundred
that stand around Northeastern
Farmer
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
Put Him Through.

P'et Him Through.
a few weeks since brace of lovers en-
tered a Photographic saloon and wanted
their pictures taken. The lady gave prec-
edence to her swain, who, she said, chad
got to be tuck fust, and rale natural'
He brushed up his tow head of hair, gave
a twist or two to his handkerchief, asked
his girl if his shirt collar was about X, and
placed himself in the operators chair,
where he assumed the physiognomal char
acteristics Of a poor mortal in a dentists
hands and about to part with one of his
teeth.
"Now, do look purity, " begged the lady,
casting at him one of hermost languishing
glauees.
The picture was taken, and when pro-
duced it reminded the girl, as she express
cd it:
"Jist how Josh looked when he got over
the measles ~ and as this is not an era in
her suitor's history particularly worthy Of
commemoration, she insisted that he should
stand it again.
He obeyed, and she attended him to the
chair.
"Josh, " said she, ''jist look like smiling,
and then kinder don't"
The poor fellow tried to follow the in
definite injunction.
"Lal' said she, ''why you look all puck
cred up"
One direction followed another, but with
as little success At last growing impatient
and becoming desperate, she resolved to
try an experiment which she considered
infallible, and exclaimed.
81 don't keer if there is folks around"
She enioined the operator to stand ready
at his camera. She then sat in her fellows
lap, and placing her arms around his
neck, managed to cast shower of haxen
ringlets as a screen between the operator
and the proceedings, which, however, We're
betrayed by a succession of amorous
sounds which revealed her experiment.
When this billing and cooing had lasted a
few minutes, the cunning girl leaped from
Josh's lap, clapped her hands, and cried
to the astonished artist:
Now you've got him! Put him
through"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16

"Stop Herr
The GAINESVILLE Signal gives the follow
ing humorous description of ''free ride"
on the cars. A GAINESVILLE man, being f4fiat
broke and wanting to go to Columbus,
concluded to sbrass il, 4" and accordingly
took seat in a car on the Central Ohio
Railroad. The Signal thus describes the
trip: .-
The train had nearly reached Claypools
before the Conductor, whom we will call
Jones, had reached our dead-head friend
in his round of collecting tickets and fares
''Your ticket, If you please" /" said the Con-
ductor. "Haven't any," said the dead
head. "Where are you goingg'' inquired
the Conductor. Columbus" replied the
dead-head. s'S2.IO,' said Jones. Haven't
nary a stamp" remarked our dead-head
acquaintance. "You must pay your fare
or get Off the train" said the Conductor.
'Stop her." quietly remarked the dead
head.
The train was stopped, and he was left
on the side of the road, to await, as he
said, the next train, ON which he succeeded
in getting. The same scene transpired,
ending by dead-head telling the Conductor
to "stop her. and he being again left on
the side of the road. Train after train
was boarded, and each put him of u little
nearer Columbus. The last train on which
he got was that of our friend Jones, who
was ON his return trip from Bellaire to
Columbus. Dead-head got on his train at
Patasl1i, and was under fun headway be
fore being discovered by the Conductor.
''Going to Columbus again, L suppose, ="
remarked Jones. "Eavenit been there
yet" said dead-head; 81 can't get 20 ride
more than six miles before they put me
off. don't think III get ON more than
one or two more trains after your'n before
Columbus will be the putting-oG place. -
'Well, do you think we can carry you,
unless you puy your fare?s inquired Jones.
"Stop her." quietly remarked dead-head.
''Wel, do think, said Jones, "of all the
brassy individuals over met You are rath-
err ahead of them all. TH take you there
for your internal impudenee, nothing else, -
and dead-head was carried into Columbus
on the same train he started on three days
before.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
GOOD NIGHT

How commonplace is this expression,
and yet what volumes it may speak for
all future time! we never listen to its pas
sage that this thought does not force itseH
upon us, be the tone in which it is uttered
never so gay. The lapse of few fatal
hours or minutes may surround and hedge
it with horrors, that all the million words
which a lifetime has recorded these two
little words alone shall seem to be remem-
bered. Good night! the little child has
lisped as it passed to a brighter morn than
ours the lover with his gay dream of the
nuptial morrow; the wife and mother all
fragile threads Of household cares still in
her fingers; the father with appealing eyes
of childhood all unanswered. Good
mighty that seal upon days past and days
to come-what hand so rash as to rend
aside the vail that hides its tomorrow.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
E1RKEsT MEN.

Enthusiasm is magnetic. Like the mag
netic fiddle Of little Fritz in the German
legend, it fascinates and draws after it
the crowd. No eloquent enthusiast ever
lacked followers, whether his creed were
right or wrong. The earnest man of ac-
ton, even though a very bungIer in his
rhetoric, is sure to have plenty of friends.
His deeds speak for him. CromweII's
speeches were generally Ineligible, but
he was terribly in earnest both as fanatic
and a soldier. Twas impossible to doubt
the sincerity of his prayers, or to misun-
derstand the logic of his victories Ma
homet was man of vast capacity, a great
orator, a furious sectarian, and an honest
hearted hero. Such a composition was
irresistible, and he founded at once a new
empire and new creed. Had the intellect
of Luther been more passive type, his
conquests over error would never have
been achieved. It was the war-IiIze ardor
with which he challenged and defied his
antagonists, his enthusiasm as a contro-
yersialist, that enlisted sympathetic spirits
under his banner, and made the reforlna-
ton a success. To come down to later
times-cOnfdence in his own destiny was
the inspiration of Napoleon, and it was
because he believed in himself that his
army believed in him. He thought him
self irresistible, and so thought every man
inhis hosts from the marshals Of the empire
down to the meanest follower of the can1uis
To this deIusion, as much as to his genius,
may be ascribed the gIOries Of his career.
Stonewal Jackson, a man of not verysex-
traordinary talent, was an enthusiast whose
zeal and fervor We're worthy of a better
fate. No red-crOss knight ever shouted
the crusaders shibboIeth Good wills it -
with more passionate devotion than the
war cry of treason. The fiery zeal that
possessed him communicated to those he
lead, and they performed prodigies fvalon.
Tt has been ever thus, and over viii be
without energy and earnestness nothing
that the world will think worth remem-
bering can be accomplished. They often
save a bad cause from defeat, and almost
invariably secure the ultimate triumph of
a good one. In the field, the forum and
pulpit, in art, science. literature, and love,
they are alike Indispensable to success
An intellect, however caprieiOus, has no
potency without them. 1t is like a shell
without fuse-a ball without charge of
powder, between the right and wrong all
the vehemence is sometimes on the evil
side, and hence right now and then gets
the worst of it. whatever thy hand
findeth to do, do it with thy might" is a
glorious precept.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
IEODESTK

When sincere and unaffected, modesty
conveys a graceful tribute of Difference
and respect to the merits of others, which
charms the eye and wins the heart even OF
the bold and proud. True modesty is true
humility put into practice. We find that
modesty is not the virtue of persons who
are unrehecting and who are easily driv-
Ell hither and thither by the untutored
instincts and hasty impulses of their ma
ture. On the contrary, the man Of solid
merit and ripe thought is much more like
Iy to be modest and retiring, than the man
of triding pursuits, of imperfect education,
and unmistakable mediocrity. This does
not happen because the great man is igno-
rant Of his great powers; or the good man
of his good qualities.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16

HaIeI awl haIeI ? thee, braiv old winter,
You've ketched US all of a suddint 65 with
Owt emmy preparashun . cum down on
Us so ezy we diddent no U wos neer
Until yu had fairly kivered US up with sno.
But ide like to no wOt in the bIases Uwdnt 2
Bring such kold Wether fur when kOrd wood
Gums so hi? Why diddent q put oyhure
Visit till mex summer, wen we shuddent
Mead no phire? Ure unpleasant, winter, de-
Cidedly so, speshilV in kOld wether.
But u bring US lzonsolashun ennyhow,
We kin go slaridin Gy a kOartin, only
In Minnysoty they aint ennybOdy2 2
Koart only boys; and that dOant pa.
Then U put US to CRATE 65 onnessary expense
A byin mittins 6y uther phiXins 2
Keep us from freeZin, q [ dOant see
No use havin so much sno. I'm dis
Gusted. Winter. adu!
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
For the Delaware Gazette
LINES TO ALRS. Z. p.
BY MRS. RUTH HARDING.


BY MRS. RUTH HARDING.
The first soft winds of Autumn
Were signing sweet and low.
Over the wide prairie,
Where the beautiful flowers grow;
More beautiful and bright
Than all the flowers there,
Was the bud you watched so fpndly,
Unfolding It's petals fair.
Awhile its perfumed sweetness
Was shed upon the air,
Revealing all its beauty
Beneath your tender care;
And promising TO blossom
SOOh to a lovely flower,
And with eagerness you waited
For the coming of that hour.
Over the wide prairie
There swept a poisonous breath.
Whene'er it touched a blossom
1t chilled it into death.
And alas your bud of promise,
So delicate and fraiI,
Was dropping meath that icy touch,
To save, naught could avail.
But why weep you longer now.
Your tears are all in vain,
You shall regain that treasure, mother.
When you leave this world of pain.
Your bud was but transplanted
To the gardens bright above;
Twill live in endless beauty
In those fair realms of love.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
NO. ~

dents which it afterwards censures him
for following
La other respects Sherman's memoran
dun was very little different or more
magnanimOus than those conceded
to Lee; indeed, 1t may be doubted whether
Grants stipulations would not have been
received with like disfavor had they. like
Sherman's been agreed upon Immediately
after the hOrrid assassination. Grants
magnanmity, which now binds us hand
and foot against the prosecution and pun
lshment of traitors would, have been re-
pudlated as quite as gross a mistake as
Sherman s recognition of State govern
ments, And as this question of State
identity is now being warmly disputed
both In Congress and among the people
and Is likely to become party issue,
who Is not ready to admit that the mis-
take If such 1t was, was greatly eXagger-
ated At all events 1t was perfectly
harmless in its consequences, which can
hardly be said of Grants treaty with Lee
But the task of defending General
Sherman is needless. His deeds are his
best panegyric and the glory of them can
never fade. As long as Tepublicanism
lasts as long as humanity endures, it will
make every Americans heart thrill and
his pulse beat quickly to hear or speak OF
the Campaign of Atlanta and the
March to the Sea As long as our
starry flag floats, the name of Sherman |
will be hOnOred. Other names are great !
and illustriOus, but when all passions /
and prejudiees have died, when the facts
stand forth stripped Of disguise and un-
warped by personal or party feeling, and |
when History writes them down and |
awards impartial dues, she will say to the /
world that the greatest, ablest, most sue |
cessful soldier developed by the war for
the American Union was William Te- |
eumseh Sherman.
A I. scotland.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
AGRICULTURAL
POINTS or AN EXCRlLEHT MTICH az


A COW of beautiful symmetry is emf
nently desirable, as physical beauty of
any animal always enhances their cash
/ value. Yet beauty and superior milking
qualities are seldom found in one COW.
4 There are certain signs which can usual
I ~ be relied on as indicative of a superior
animal for milk in large quantities, yet of
an inferior quality, either for butter or
+ cheese, providing the COW has been prop
(zerly reared. and her milking qualities not
impaired IN any way by improper manage
ment which often misleads or deceives
q purchaser, when he is confident he is
selecting a good mixer.
The trst and always infallible Indication
OF superior mixer Is an udder and teats
OF medium size and of fair proportions
Let us sec no part Of a cow but these, and
we will select the best mixers and reject
the gRferiCr ones with almost uuerring
certainty. A poor mixer may be detect
ed at a glance, not by a hOmely form, but
by a small udder, and teats too short and
diminufive to be grasped by a hand Of or
dinary size. If a COW be deficient In these
points, set it down at once against her
that she never Will be superior animal
for either butter or milk, except in
small quantity. "A COW having a long dis
proportional udder, with teats as large
as man wrist, and longer than the width
of his hand, mag possess the qualities Of
a n1ediUlH mixer, but will never be found
10 yield as much rich milk as a COW hav-
ing a square udder about as large
as a ten-quart milk-pail, and four teats
only, good distance apart, and nearly as
long as the width Of a mans hand.
In addition to these signs ofa mixer,
the color o the skin is one Of the most
Important Indications of superior COW
for rich milk. A COW having btach or
a lghite skin, may give large quantity Of
milk, but it viii be thin and white, often
requiring one-third to one half more to
make a pound Of butter, than the milk of
a COW having a yelL0l1 skin. If COW
have a yellow skin, whether she be of
red, white, brindle, roam, brown, or any
other color, and her hair feels like velvet
and she has an udder and teats of the
size aud form just alluded to as in
dicative Of a superior mixer, if she be
as homely as the old COW with ''crumpled
horn that we read of In the STORY of
the house that Jack built" we may feel
assured that she Will give rich milk
Another sign In connection with the
other good one is a striped hoof al
though striped hoOfs may be seen on poor
COWS. But if "a COW have a yellow and
soft skin. and yellow or striped hoOf, it
shows that she will always give milk of an
excellent quality, though she may yield
but little OF it. A COW having black hOofs
will seldom give rich milk.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
FORKING THE SOIL AROUND FRUIT TREES
BETTER THAN sPADING.

Few fruit trees, comparatively, have
any roots to part with. For this reason
the fork should BE- employed, instead Of
the shade. for pulveriZinC the ground
where there are roots, as the spade viii
cut off all the small rOOtlets, to the inju-
rv of the growth of the tree. The tines
of fork will crowd them aside, seldom
breaking even the small ones. Then, as
the hard soil is broken up with the fork
tines, and removed from the roots and
returned to them thoroughly pulverized
all the little fbres are r1Ught in contact
with different portions of soil that has
not been exhausted Of its fertility. Thus
comparatively new earth settles around
the roots So that in short time the
sponpioles begin to absorb plant-food, and
tbus promote the growth of the branches
and the frnit. Now if a spade be used,
such larla proportion Of the roots will
be severed that the sources of plant-tOOd
are all cut of, except small proportion
of the rooHets beneath the large roots, far
down in the soil, beneath the reach of the
shade, where they can absorb onlya lin
tied SUNNY of uourishment. Great care
should be exercised whether tho soil is
nulveriZed with fork or spade to multi
ne the roots as little as possible. When
the soil is only few inches deep and the
subsoil so compact that but few roots eau
enter "a. a carless man with a spade will
cut off more than half of all the roots
which are the main sources of nourish-
oept. and the growth of the tree will be
retarded suite as much as if it had been
transDlanted When a spadeful of soil is
flled with small rootlets and tibers, the
spader had better be spending his time
ib idleness than mutilating the roots Of
either ornamental or fruit trees.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
LEGAL NOTICES.
shariTye Sale.

Lswis ". Ashlsy,l BY VIRTUE OF an Order q sale
N 10 uao directed from the Court
sa OF Common Pleas Of Delaware
Ellen Benton Ct al. county, Ohio, CO
p shall oHsr at Public Fendue az the door Of
Il the Court House, in the Town OF Delaware, in said
county,
On Saturday. March 10Th, A. ID. 1866,
At O'Clock Z. NJ. the relieving described Reat Es-
tate to-wit Situate In the county Of Delaware and
known and described follows towit. In lots Nos.
2O 2I & o. Ia the town Of Ashley Also out lot mp
in said town Of Ashley bounded as follows beginning
At tho south west corner sf in lot No. 20 IN said TOW
and rum ing thence south "A degrees west 10 poles
TO the southeast OF inot No 169 thence south
Sc degrees east poles on the north line Of Coomer
street TO its termus thence south a degrees west
poles northeast corner Of out-lot 81 thence
south 65 degrees IA poles links to the east line
OF lot Il section l. township 8, Range 1s5 y > N.
Lands thence north degree, east IA poles, links
on said line 10 the southeast corner OF ln-lot No -
thence north 66 degrees west Is poles l1z links on
the south line Of lots 20 21 p iu said town 70 the
place Of beginning, cOntainin acre and thirty
six and enc seventh perohes Of land
Appraised follows, lot 20 at $50, lot q at $50
lot % at S20 and lot sap at S90
JNO. W. LADD,
Feb2 st sI05O sheriff Special Master Comm'r,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING

1t is worth while for all farmers, every
where, to remember that thorough cul-
ture is better than three mortgages on
their farm.
That an offensive war against weeds is
five times less expensive than a defensive
one.
That good fences always pay better than
lawsuits with neigh hbors.
That hay is a great deal cheaper made
IN the summer than purchased in the
winter.
That more stock perish from famine
than founder.
That scrimping the feed of fattening
hogs is a waste of grain.
That oVer-fed fowls won't lay eggs.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16
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