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Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-11-13
The song OF steam.
ny a. W. currEn.

llsrness me doNn With yauf ,Fan baals,
De sure " your curb aud rein,
For ! seera the might Of your Iany bands
As the tempest seorns ehainl
Hos iaughelasl lay concealed from sight,
For many 4 eoanlless honT,
Az The childish boast of human might
Aud the pride of human power
When saw an army upon The lard,
A navy upon the seas,
Creeping along. a snail-like band,
Or waiting a Waywari bFeetei
When I saw peasant reel
With the toll he family bore,
Is he inrhei al The tardy wheel
Or lolled at the weary oar
When measured the painting eOurssrs
speed,
The flight Of the carrier dove,
As they bore Law a king deereei,
Or the lines Of impatient love
could but ihlak how the world would feel
Is these we're ouistripped afar,
When sheuld be bound 10 the rushing keel
Or chained to the flying carl
Hal hal hal they found mo at las,,
Aud they invited me forth at length,
Aud ! rushed TO my ihrone with thunder
blast,
Aud laughed In my iron strength
oh then ye saw wondrous change
On the earth aud ocean wide.
Where now my fiery armies range,
Nor wait for wind or tide.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-11-13
rrxas Almanac for 1860,

And EmisFanis Guide TO Texas, for sale
Al the llERALD once.
ALSO
The Texas Almahae for 1861 aud Tor
lsGs, both ef which e0nlAiu great deal "
valuable information in regard 10 Tekas,
win be sold Al reduced prices,
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-11-13
Brick, Concrete and Frame Buildings.

ps- JOB WORK neatly done, aud satsiac-
tion guaran ted In every Instance.
Shop one door North 0f the Crutchfsd House, III
ithe building formerly occupied by the HknALp
I OFFICE. 1.If II lf~ tf'4ti
dallas, Texas June 12, Iseo--3g:tf lti
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-11-13

Nearly 1000 persons starved C
death in tlIe -r-at @i~ of E0ndoh
i..ss ycar.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-11-13
masonic Cemetery
NoTICH.

,,,ur poItOWIN0 resolution was psssrd OF The
Stated conyocaton OF Tannehili Lodge, No. o2,
D. aud A. NJ. February 20, A. u. 1sos;
Resolred, That committee OF one 10 nnpoihteu 70
take charge of the Masonic Cemetery. and pornhi no
inierinent therein except Of Masons or their hnrd'
ate families. .,,,..
Mo. A. NJ Moore Is appointed 10 take charge oithe
Cemetery and SEQ this resolution carried out
By order Of the Lodge: ,-s ~ ar
Attest: Ep. @. Dowth. Secretary. lmar'' O9'd'n'l
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-11-13
MASONIC.
DALLAS CHAPTER, No. ~,
ROYAL ARCH MASoNS.

L. Yoa are hereby summoned TO attend States
'onyoeaildh Of Dallas Chapter. No. ~. on Monda,
evening, November I. at early eandieiighiins'
by eosiiusns cf,hf ~: y; u, Pa. go.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-11-13
lr,yyEUILL LODGE. No. 50, =. 4 4. NJ,

rANNEHiLL LOD6E, No. o-, r' ne 49,
Meets on the last Saturday Of each month, ~ The
Nasoulc Hall. u. L. Coohphs' W. az
En-. q. BowHn, see'y.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

Don't ask me to eat | am too tired -
said L, a few days since, to u friend, az !
dropped into a chair beside her hospitabIe
board, after a long walk
With a pleasant smile she placed before
me a saucer of delicious purple cane rasp-
berries, looking as If gathered that day from
the vines. 1t is needless to say that my ia
tigue vanished, appetite returned, and | did
full justice to her good dinner.
Yet raspberries. and indeed all the smaller
fruits, are a. easily cultivated and as much
within the reach of every family as corn or
potatoes.
Many housekeepers are deferred from put
ting up large quantities by the labor of can
ming. This is rendered an easy TASK by boil
ing a quantity of fruit in a large porcelain
kettle and then dipping it with a small tin
cup into the Jars to be filled, sealing each
one as it is filled. | never heat my Jars
except to slightly warm each one if glass,
over the steam to prevent breaking. Neither
am | particularly careful to nave it at the
boiling point when the jars are filed
II it has boiled sufficiently to expel the air
from the fruit, and as much sugar boiled in
as would prepare the fruit for that days
use and no more, it is ready to seal, and the
quicker it is in the jars and sealed the better.
Fruit that does not require sugar to make
it palatable tO-day, requires none for next
winter. Those kinds that do are more likely
to retain their flavor il added now.
Summer and fall apples are often of fine
flavor, but very perishabIe. These may be
canned much more easily than dried, and
IN spring or early summer, when winter ap-
pies are gone or worthless, these will be
nightly valued. They can be prepared and
stewed as fer the table, and then thrown
boiling hot into stone jars of two or three
gallons the mouths must be Immediately
closed with thick cloths dipped in mutton
tallOw and beeswax. A bit of rosin thrown
into the cement is useful to keep off insects,
and Of course they must stand in a dry, cool
place, where rats or mice cannot guaw through
the cloths.
Having no good cellar, once a year | filled
large jugs having wide mouths, with fruit,
and got one Of my boys to white out stop
pers of seasoned wood. These | dipped
into my cement and immediately closed the
jugs of boiling fruit. As soon as cold, L
placed these jugs in a hole in the ground
several feet deep and filled it. They remain
ed six months and then emerged " as good as
new, and we thought a little better. One
of those jugs held three gallons. With an
apple parer, a large porcelain kettle, and a
family of boys, it is easy to fill such jars !;
and with the boys alone it is easy to empty
them.-Agricuttural Repository.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

Why ORCHARDS DFCAy.-A correspondent
of the Valley Farmer says orchards have
died or become poor from these causes
|. The exhaustion of the soil from con-
slant crops of apples; from the blowing
away by the wind Of the leaves OF the tree
which nature assigned to feed the soil on
which the tree stands by the crops OF grass
grain or roots constantly taken from the
same ground, and little return Of substance
to it.
2. Another means of their destruction
had been in whipping the trees with poles
to remove their apples. And still another
cause was the pasturage of cattle among
them.
8. TO restore them, if any were left worth
restoring, men must cease to crop the ground
under them, and must manure them Win
vegetable mould, decayed leaves, wood lime
ashes AM salt. A compost formed OF thes-
substances would be excellent; or one form
ed in part by soapsuds and refuse slops, chip
dirt, turf, &c.,-well rotted.
Then trim them in the month OF June OF
all dead limbs and those that cross and gall
each other, and of all suckers that led upon
trunk or limbs, not necessary Tor aoep.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25
A Good Word About Teaching

There are some statements made in Gods
word, and very distinctly made, that at
first reading strike a man as running coun-
ter to his everyday life, as ~contradicting
his worldly prudence. For instance, when
a man reads for the first time, with no re-
ligious feeling particularly, this sentence +;
" 1t is more blessed to give than to re-
ceive," the first thought is that it is Il mis-
take, that it will not work the world is
conducted on the opposite idea, that it is
more blessed to get than TO give. And yet
the sober second thought that has n con-
science in it, the thought that waits long
enough to take God with it flor God is
never in a hurry and seldom goes with
those who are,) is that one of the warmest
qualifications we ever feel is that which
possesses US when we gre, and give without
hope of return, and particularly when we
give to those we love. There is a Joy in it,
a trimming joy, proud and splendid salts
faction,o of which the receiver knows nothing,
ard of which he can never know anything
till he also has become the giver.
Now are any of you Christian people
restless and disturbed? Do you feel as if
God had not given you rest ? Try to teach
others, and see how wise a thing it is to
win souls. Are some of you teaching al
ready, and DO you feel, as | sometimes do,
as if your teaching was futile, as if it were
a broken, bruised reed, to be thrown aside e?
Do you feel so? My dear brother, ask
God 10 do this for you to help you put
your whole heart into the work of teaching
others. Try and make Bible picture-gal-
leries of your class-of this little boy a
picture of generosity, of that a picture of
geptleness, Of another, of faith, love, ODE
dience. You will never see it all done.
Do you know what artists do when they
paint pictures? The public eye does not
see they do not know till the last touch
is given, and they are framed and hung in
the light. So you and | will never know
what God, by US, has done fer our children,
till he has framed them, and lifted them
up into the great light of heaven itself.
Lastly, is there a mother or a father
here who has lost a child whose memory Is
yet green in their hearts? l would ask
you have you no heart to teach other
children? Honor the dead by honoring
the living. Show your love for them by
helping the little ones yet left in the dark,
ness below.
l sometimes meet little children along
the street. L stop to pat them on the
head, and bow my face to kiss the it'll,
face, so pink and sweet, so fresh and fair
like the polished chambers of a smooth
sea-shell-and people look at me surprised
and expect to see me start back ashamed
Of the thing, But they would not be sur
prised if they knew what | know they
would not turn away if they saw what
saw. And when the little child looks Vi
in silent surprise and kisses me back, 81,
does not know hat the kiss | am giving i
not given to her, but to a fair-haired lit
tie one who lies quietly sleeping on tn.
hillside far away, and whose face l shall
see no more on earth IS. s. Times.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

WIEN TO SKIM MILK.-When milk is al
lowed to sour before it is SKINNED. the LAYER
of cream appears more bulky and of greater
consistency, but it does not produce so much
nor so good a quality of butter as cream prop
erly raised and skinned from milk before it
sours. On this point we possess some inter-
esting experiments by Sannet, who put aside
two equal quantities of milk of which the
first, when skinned after thirty hours.
yielded thirty pounds of butter and the Sec
ond, SKINNED after a lapse of sixty hours,
only twenty-seven pounds of butter.
In another experiment, two equal quaint
ties of milk yielded-the one, when skinned
after thirty hours, thirty-one pounds Of but
ter and the other, after sixty hours, twenty
nine pounds of butter. In both experiments.
In which the milk was skinned after thirty
honrs standing, the skinned milk was still
sweet, and the cream not SO thick and less in
bulk than that which was thrown up after
sixty hours standing
The cream which rises first is always richer
IN butter than that which is thrown up later,
and 1t also possesses more of that peculiar
aroma which gives to butter that rich nutty
flavor and smell which imparts so high a de-
gree of pleasure in eating it. When proper
regard has been had to keeping the milk at
the right temperature while the cream is ris-
ing, and the proper appliances are had in the
dairy, all toe cream that will rise at all will
rise to the surface in about twenty-four hours.
Some claim that they can get it all up in less
time. of one thing we may be assured-the
quicker cream can be made to rise the better
its quality; for cream, like all perishable
subetaces, does not preserve its original prop
critics for any great length of time.
The best as well as tie highest priced but
ter that now goes into the London market,
comes from the continent CT Europe, where
the greatest attention is paid to butter max
ing. In Holstein, one of the points considered
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

MOVABLE HEN CooPs.-Under the stimu-
lus of Lenten high pricesr we kept up a pref
ty universal cackle about eggs; bat now
that Biddy has gone through with her Spring
work, coming out somewhat exhausted, we
arc apt to forget her. Ingrates that we are.
we hunt her from grass-plots, club her from
the garden, and finally shut her up as a
nuisance, vowing she shall never come out
alive. But some kinder heart lets her out
ab ut shutdown, and she rushes frantically
about in a purblind way, in the twilight,
not able to distinguish n curled up grub
from a pebble. Who cares for eggs now ber-
ries are coming?
However, after a season of berries and
becf-strCak. lamb and green peas, sweet corn
aud tomatoes, We shall come to crack our egg
she'll at breakfast time, on a close morning
in dOg-days, with thankfulness, and a sigh
that somehow eggs are very scarce.
The truth is, that during the heats of
summer, while every ono else gets a vacation
the hens are pining in confnement-often
dying IN the ill-ventilated and u~nclean quar-
tiers provided for them. My remedy for this
state of things is as new as the last new bon
net. In two understandable hen-hOuses a;
amplifed hen-cOops on wheels, of wicker
work. For cottages keeping half a dozen
lOvls,a crockery crate or two, with a roof
of old sacking, and three wheels of a foot In
diameter, sawed from the but of an oak or
elm log. Two or four crates might be fas-
tened side by side with twists of wire, saw
ing out the contiguous sideg, and fastening
one or more crates upon the top, covered by
canvas for r~oosting. This would be a stump
tuous affair for half a dozen fowls, with nests
Of twisted straw, and troughs attached for
sour milk and water. Mounted on an old
pulley with round iron for axletrees, a child
could move it its breadth upon a grass-plot
or bit of garden in reserve for late sweet
corn or strawberry bed. What a continuance
this is would be for fruit trees, combining
cultivation, manure and ~bug-catching
If we had the men that made the crates
who knows but we have, lots of them, %contin-
ually landing at Castle Garden I've could
get them to make open work structures of
willow, or white birch, or both in pleasing
forms, that would be found entirely practi-
cal and useful. Filled with happy fowls of
bright ~plumage and red combs, such a NOV
able cage would be no eyesore on any bodY's
lawn.
You see the weak point in the plan The
fowls will scratch out at the bottom There's
the rub, to be sure. To ease the rub attach
to the bottom a valance or pantalet, or base
Of old sacking, a strip a foot IN width For
4 small concern, let it be weighted with bill
lets of wood at the bottom, or bits of old
iron. Best of all would be a medium-sized
chain sewed on for trimming.
shall have something of the sort in Oper-
alton shortly. Meanwhile. mention it in
strict privacy, for Intend to get the idea sc
cured by letters patent, buy a hoop-skirt
factory. and food the country with architec-
tural hen pagodas of all sizes .-HeGrh and
Home.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

Hoes WANT SULPHUR-Whether hogs re-
quire sulphur as essential to their health, or
whether 1t is sought by them as a continent.
may not be known for certainty. But one
thing is sure, they devour it with greed
whenever 1t is to be found. 1t is for this
purpose, probably, that they eat large guam
ii lies of soft coal, which contains a large
amount of sulphur. Perhaps this is the
most economical method of supplying hogs
with sulphur during the winter, when they
require a good deal of carbon. But in the
summer it is better TO feed it to them in sub
stances which contain less carbon, on account
of their producing less heat. Mustard is one
Of the best things for this purpose, and on that
account some Of it should be sown in every
pasture into which hogs are turned. If hogs
are kept up, or arc in small yards it is we'll
to supply them with the wild mustard that
grows in the fields or highways, or to cult
vate some of the better varieties for them.
They will eat it's leaves, flowers, seeds and
stalks.-Prdirie Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25
9petrN.
Mother and Child.
By ALICE CARY

Within her rustic woodland bower,
Like some warm-hearted, tender flower,
With young buds aIl-around her,
She keptin her gracious and glad content,
And never a dream nor fancy went
From the tendrilcd twigs that bound her.
The house was full of the pleasant noise
OF gay young girls and sturdy boys,
Each with a heart like a blossom;
They were seven in all-fve ranged between
The head that was touching sweet sixteen
And the babe on the mothers bosom.
In hopeful toll the day went by,
And when the tired sun built in the SKY
His great, red, cloudy bower,
She gathered her buds about her knee
The sturdy three, and the gentle three
This motherly woodland flower.
And when the glory died in the West,
And the birds were all in the sleepy nest.
She would sit in the twilight shadow,
And think how her baby should grow so fine,
And make her place in the world to shine
As the lily maketh the meadow.
Years came and went, and the pleasant noise
Was hushedi in the house, and the girls and boy
Came now no more about her;
As the bird went home to the downy nest,
And the sun to his cloudy bower in the West,
They had learned TO do without heri
The little children that used 20 be-
The comedy three and the sturdy three
Young men and beautiful maidens;
And each had chosen out of the heart,
And gone to be in a bower apart.
And to dress them separate Edens.
And the mothers thoughts went YEARLY
Across the prairie, and over the sea,
And through the Wintry weather,
About the streets, DER the desert sand,
To take them once again by the hand,
And to gather them all together.
Rut AWAY. as the sun went down,
And the gold and scarlet fell to brown,
And the brown to deeper shadow,
Her babe made all the house as bright
As the lily, with her leaves of light,
Maketh her place in the meadow.
She could not grow from theloving arms,
Nor go to meet the wide worlds storms
Away from the Iowly portal;
For Death, in the broidered slip and cap,
Had left her to life in the mothers lap,
In her babyhood immortal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

most essential in butter making is to ekim
the milk just at the proper moment; and
this must always take place before the milk
can become sour. Choice, keepable butter
can only result when the milk has been kept
sweet, as the souripg develops curds. The
Orange county butter makers observe TINS
principle and the experience of the best but
ter makers, both in this country and IN Eu-
rope, appears TO have settled down upon this
principle as the correct one to practice. But
while the cream should be taken from the
milk before it is sour, the cream, on the con
trary, is allowed to have a p~lea'ant acid taste
before churning.
1t appears to be the general opinion oil
butter makers, beth in this country and in
Europe, that better results are obtained by
allowing the cream to acquire a slightly acid
taste, than to churn it sweet; but this acid
condition of the cream must not be con-
founded, however, with sourness, which is al
together different. and arises from different
causes, such as standing too long, or from a
close atmosphere, or from badly cleaned uten-
sils, or from a general want of care and clean
liness.-X. A. Willard, in Rural Nel0 Yorker
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

ExPERIxENrs.-Every farmer should make
experiments with different kinds OF manure
applied to his crops or TO n portion OF them
in various ways also in a thick and thin
sowing, picking seed, etc. In Belgium
where the value of manure is understood. the
farmers top dress their wheat crop in spring
with deodorizer nightsOil, which is composed
of the contents of privies so thoroughly mixed
with fine muck, or cold ashes, so as to have
no offensive smell. An excellent top dressing
may be made of leached ashes and muck sat
urated with liquid manure. Experiments
should also be made with various manures
as a top dressing for grass land. Some vari-
cites of wheat, barley, oats, and corn are
better suited TO certain soils than others /;
experiments should be made in order to as
certain which are best adapted to the soil of
the locality in which the crops are raised. A
great deal of useful information may be de-
rived from simple, inexpensive experiments.
- Western Rural.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

BRUCE AND BRAvo.-One day a fine New
~foundland dog and a mastiff had a sharp dis
cussion over u bone, or some other %trifine
matter, and warred away as angrily as two
boys. They were fighting on a bridge, and
being blind with rage, as is often the case,
the first thing they knew, over they went
into the water. The banks were so high
that they were forced to swim some distance
before they came to a landing place. 1t was
very easy for the Newioundlander,-h was
as much at home in the water as a seal. But
not so poor Bruce. lie struggled and tried
his best to swim, but made little Roadway.
Old Bravo (the Newfoundlander) had reached
the land, and then turned to look at his old
enemy. lie saw plainly that his strength
was fast failing, and that he was likely to
drown. So what should that noble fellow do
but plunge in, seize him gently by the collar.
and keeping his nose above water, row him
safely into port.
1t was funny to see these dogs look at each
other as soon as they shook their wet coats.
Their glance said as plainly as words, q We
will never quarrel any more ;" And, sure
enough, they kept their resolution. think
some boys might learn a good lesson from
this old Newfoundland dog.-Presbwerian.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

APPLICATION OF MANURE.-It is better to
have manure near the surface, as the rain
can reach it, and dissolve the soluble salts
and by percolation carry them down to the
hungry roots Of plants. Long manure is not
lost when deeply turned under by the pillow,
but the farmer does not secure the whole
value of his dressing under this mode OF
treatment in any case, and in some coils the
LOSS is a most serious one. In the process of
soap making, it becomes necessary to set up
a leech. Tow, the farmer will not attempt to
exhaust the tub of ashes of its potash by
forcing water into the the bottom and dipping
the liquid off the top. The natural perco.
iating or exhausting process is downwards.
In accordance with the laws of gravity. The
soluble alkalies and salts are driven down
wards, and in the case of a leech we must
have a vessel ready to receive them at the
Bottom, and in case of the same substances
ieeched from the manure we must have the
manure SO placed that plant roots ill be at
hand to absorb them before they pass be-
yond their reach.-Boston Journal of Chem
istry.