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She xHauId he a Mason.

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The funniest story ever heard,
The funniest thing that ever occurred
l. the story OF Mrs. Mehitable Byrde,
Who wanted TO be Mason.
Her husband Tom Byrde. is a Mason true.
As GOOD a Mason as any Of you;
lie + TYLER OF Lodge Cerulean Blue,
And tie, and delivers the summons due,
And she wanted 10 be Masou too;
This ridiculous Mrs. Byrde.
She ALLOWED him round this inquistive wife,
And nabbcd him and teased him half out Of his life
So TO terminate this unhallowed strife,
He consented at last to admit her.
At first % disguise her from bonnet and shoon,
This ridiculous lady resolved TO put on,
His Dreech-ah forgive mel meant pantaloons
And mlraeulously did they fit her.
The lodge was at work in the Master Degree,
The Hight was ahlaze on the letter q
High scared the pillars J. and b.
The offers sat like solomon, wise,
The brimstoen burned amid horrid cries;
The goat roamed wildly throughout the ROOM
The candidate begged EN- 10 let him 20 nome
And the devil himself stood up in the east
As proud as an alderman at a least
When in came Mrs Byrde-
Oh. horrible sound Oh. horrible sight
Can it be that Masons take delight
In spending thus the hours Of night
All could their wives and daughters kho"
The unutterahle things they say and do,
Their feminine hearts would burst with wee
But this is not all my sad story.
For those masons ioine0 in a hdeous ring
The candidate bowling Ike everything.
And thus in tones Of death they sing
The candidates name was Morey-
Blood e. drink and bones TO crack,
skulls 10 smash and lives to take;
Hearts o. crush and souls to burn
tive old Morey another turn,
And make hun all grim and cory
Trembling with horror stood Mrs. Byrie,
Unable o. speak a single word;
She staggered. and fell IN the nearest chair,
ON the leit Of the Junior Warden there,
And scarcely noticed, So loud the sruans
That the chair was made OF human huues.
Ofhuman bones! On -rinnins skulls
That chastity throne % horror rolls;
Those skulls the skulls that Morgan bore
Those bones those bones that Morgan wore.
Ills scalp acruss the top was lung
His teeth around the arms were strung
Never in an romance were known
such uses made oi human gore.
The birthstone glIred IN lurid aame.
Just ike place we viii not name;
Good angels, that nquirins eame
From hlissful courts, looked up with Shame
And fearful melancholy.
A-aiu they dance but twice as bad
Thct Jump and sing ike demons mad
The tuuc j. lluukcy-Dorcy-
Blood 10 drink 6c., &c.
Then came pausc--i pair Of paws
Reached through the floor. up sliding doors.
And -rau the unhappy candidate
How can I. "a thnut Tears, relate
The lost and ruined Morcy fate
She saw ban INK lu fiery hole
She heard him scream, My soul my soul l-'
While roar- u. houdish laughter rul.
And drown the wells of mercy.
d" Blood G. drink, Ac-, &c.
The r.dfeul.u- woman could stand no more.
She eiiulsl aud icll uu the cheekercd floor,
Midst all the diaholical roar.
What then. you ask me, did beall
Mel table Byfdc3 Why. nothing at all
She dreamed she had been in the Masons hall.
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A keokuk pastor told his congregation
that the late tornado in Iowa was the yisita-
.ion Of a special providence to punish people
for their sins % We know" says the Louis
vile Courier-Journai, 90 of few sins much
worse than the presumptuous familiarity
which prompts weak and erring mortal to
talk about the purposes and intentions Of
the Deity with as much freedom as if he was
discussing the points of a yoke of oxen"
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MicNoNETTE IS 4 TEEE.-Buy pot Of or
dinary mignonette, or plant seed. This pot
will probably contain tuft composed Of
many plants. Put up all but one and aS the
mignOnette Is one Of the most rustic of
plants, which may be treated without any
delicacy, the single plant that Is left in the
middle of the pot may be vigorously trim
med leaving only one shoot This shoot
must be attached to slender stick The
extremity Of this shoot viii be put forth a
bunch Of flower buds that must be cut off
entirely, leaving not a single bud. The
stock. in consequence of this trea .7nent,
will put out multitude Of young shoots,
that must be allowed to develope freely until
they are about three inches and half long.
Then select out of these. four. six or eight.
according to the plant, with equal spaces be-
tween them. Now. with piece Of whale
bone, make hoop and attach your shoots TO
it, supported at the proper height. When
they have grown two or three inches longer,
and are going TO bloom, support them by
second hoop like the first. Let them bloom.
but take of the seed pods before they have
time to form, or the plant may perish. 1t
will not be long before new shoots will ap-
pear just below the places where the flowers
were. From among these new shoots choose
the one on each branch which Is in the best
situation to replace what You have nipped
off. Little by little. the principal stalks,
and also the branches, will become woody,
and your mignonette will no longer by an
herbaceous plant, except at the upper ex-
tremities, which will bloom all the year
without interruption. 1t viii be truly a
mignonette, living for an indefinite period {;
for, with proper treatment, a tree mignon-
ette will live from II to Is years.
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THIN OUT TIE TRrFT.

\ correspondent of the Country Gentle
man says; 1t is good time now to remind
fruit growers about thinning out fruit. With
young trees this matter is especially i'm
portant, and perhaps with no tree more so
than the pear. The policy of allowing
young trees to bear all they will is simply
ruinous. In some cases a grower NAV get
more money from his orchard during the
current year by adopting this course, and
yet that does not always follow. But if he
does, he will most assuredly have to pa7 for
it in future. What sagacious man wants
to secure, when his orchard is Young. is
gro'cfh-not an extraordinary, but a healthy
growth. Then when the trees commence
bearing they will be able to bear good crops
at once, large enough to make up in a few
years for not bearing when quite Young. As
matter of fact the crops borne by quite
young trees are always small, but at the
same time are such great drawbacks on the
strength and vitality of the trees as to i'm
pede their development most seriously, caus-
ing them to fall 50 far behind other trees
that stranger would think them several
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WINTER WHEAT GOOD CROP FOR NEW Eng
LAND.
have followed the directions below for
six years in raising winter wheat in Massa-
chusetts, with great success. The sixth
year had partial failure by rust, but OBJ
tained about twelve bushels of shrunk
wheat to the acre which was a greater
yield than the whole country reported in
1872, the average being only III bushels
per acre.
If you have no manure to spare, plough
under the second crop of the moving field,
the heavier the green crop the better for
the crop Of wheat. Try a piece of bound
out moving. plougling in the grass that is
hardly worth harvesting. and you will get a
fair crop Of wheat. Plough rather deep,
say by the Goth of August, and then the
furrows, if moist, will pulverize under the
harrow, which will enable you to plant
deeper which should always be two or
three inches, with cultiyator or light
horse plough. This gives a good depth Of
winter kill.
Prepare the seed in salt pickle, say one
half peck Of salt to six buckets of water
soak eight or ten hours skim off all wild
seed. Then rake in wood ashes or slaked
lime both Of which are good fertilizers
Sometimes a corkle seed resembling large
grain Of gunpowder (blaek) is in the wheat
also chess grass seed, in form like a kernel
of wheat, long and slim. Ii increases rap
idly, natures with the wheat with hand
some tuit Of seed that branches at the top
resembling oats. Ii gives a bitter taste to
the flour and can be weeded out BY passing
through the wheat field
The weayil, or its egg. or fly, or midge,
as 1t Is called. | think Is deposited in the
berry and Is transmitted from place to
place in this way. Salt pickle | think
preventative. Look at the pea with
hole in it. There is the weayil or fly.
sow two bushels to the acre before Sept.
lst, that 1t may make good progress in the
fall, which is q great gain for early maturi-
ty-say about the middle of July. Roll
after soiriRg; ifdry. it will germinate quick
er under compressed surface. Siding
lands are better than flat. grain less lia-
bic to rust; hence the fat lands oftbe West
are being abandoned for rolling for wheat.
Harvest before dead ripe, when the berry
is fully filed, but will yield to pressure Of
the thumb and finger. 1t makes better
-four.
How SIMPLE, hour chap, holg sure IS this
crop 10 erery farmer IN Fermonf. and Ne,r
England. ffhey ieiR only 5egiR 10 raise their
tread. No crop can be made as profitable,
with a little outlay Of money and labor.
Your Canadian neighbors. and all through
her Maiesty's Provinces, raise wheat in
abundance, and are Great Britain's best
granary. Why may not Vermont and New
England do likewise?
Spring wheat was largely, and very sue
eessfully cultivated in Maine last year.
They lhave a large breadth in the ground
this spring and viii take up the winter
variety the coming season. \ new,day will
dawn upon New England when they raise
their breadstuffs. | could mention many
instances. with high culture, where forty,
and even fifty bushels have been raised per
acre, in Maine ard Massachusetts,.
Very Respectfully,
HENRY Poor
No. p, 2d Place, Brooklyn, L. |.
June, 1873
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An ARITHMErIcAL MARvEL.-The Hebrew
Educational Society School, in this city,
has been the scene of very rare, if not
wholly unexampled, performance in arith
metic. The problem was to multiply nine
by nine, and eighty-one by eight-one. and
so on. using each succeeding product as its
ewn multiplier, until the operation should
be performed nine times. How stupendous
and discouraging the work becomes after
a few steps are taken in the process, any one
will find who makes the trial. For
several years handsome premium
has beeu offered by the patron of
the school just named for the pupil who
should first succeed in accomplishing this
feat of multiplication. At last the task was
completed, and the prize. a splendid silk
dress, won by Miss Sallie E. Salomon, after
a patient labor of three months. The work
comprises 262 numeral compounds and 90,-
900 figures, and the whole covers four or
FIVE square yards ofpaper. 1t is deserving
of remark in this connection, that the boys
have made less progress and shown less
perseverance in working at this problem
than the girls.-Ncc Orleans Times.
Thereare now twenty-three Oranges of
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DEAR FATHER. Cow IIoME Postmaster
Billings, of Santa Clara, has received the fol-
lowing letter. 1t tells its own sad story
$40 the Postmaster Of Santa Clara
VIII you be 50 kind Us to inquire if there
Is such man a George Ray in your city
or where he Is if he has left Santa Clara
lie Is about thirty-seven years old, dark eyes
and hair, not very tall, and Is a carpenter by
trade. lie is my dear father, and we have
not heard a word from him formore than two
years. Ma Is left with five children. and
am the Oldest, and am fourteen years old.
Sometimes ma thinks he is dead but dream
ed the other night that he came home to Us,
and it has made me think so much about him
that | cannot help writing to yoa. for can
not give up all hopes. Oh dear Mr.. Post
master Will you DO this favor for poor,
homeless girl ? and you shall have many warm
thanks. If YOU can see him. or hear where
he Is, will You be 50 good as TO send him thiS
letter? Willyou please answer Yours, truly"
"MY DEAR, DEAR Pa How can tell
you how sad my heart Is while write to YOU.
not knowing whether you are dead or alive.
Do you love Us any more? Why Is it that
We do not hear from you any more? If you
are sick and discouraged, we will try andhelp
you to come home, and then we will work
and take care Of you. Oh. how hard to live
as we do, now that the children are all separ-
ated Willie i at the State Reform School
in Lancaster. in this State. and ma does not
have to pay his board man in Berlin has
adopted frankie as his daughter, and a rich
farmer in the country has Iibbie as his child,
and Henry is at Fredericksburg | am work
ing for wages in a small family in Massillon.
Ma has learned the dressmaker's trade and
sews by the day in this city, and helps me all
she can. She has been working in Fulton
for the last two weeks, and viii be there
some time. 1t is hard to have no home, no
"a to love us-and oh, pa, do take pity on
Us, and come back We will all receive You
with open arms. And how happy we will
be to have you with Us. as you have been
once. oh, pa, do write and tell Us if yon
love Us still. Your Sorrowful daughter,
EMMA 4. RAY,
- MaSSillon Stark County q -
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\ magnificent stained glass window has
just been placed in Christ Church, Hart
ford, in memory Of the late Isaac Toucey
and his wife--The Conyocation of Bel
lows Falls met at Woodstock, on the l>t
inst, the following clergy being present
Rev. A. B. Flanders, Dean dd interim, Of
St. Luke's, Chester; Rev c. T. Ogden, Of
Emmanuel Church, Bellows Falls; Rev. j.
B. Trevett Of St. Paul's, Windsor; Rev.
W. b. L. Smith of New Hampshire; Rev
Mr.. Eastman, of St. Mary's, Mortified ;
and Rev. j. A. d. Hughes, of ST. James
Woodstock. 4 sermon was preached Tues
day evening by Rev. Mr.. Ogden, and We'd
nesday morning Rev. Mr.. Trevett. Wednes-
day evening was devoted to a missionary
meeting, when remarks were made by all
the clergy. The exercises were well attend
ed and quite interesting.
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Some kind Unitarian gentleman has built
a cottage at Narragansett Pier, and pro-
poses to ask Rev. +. f. Hale of Boston to
occupy it.-Rev. q. Fowler, pastor of the
Unitarian Church in Laconia, n. H., being
taken suddenly sick one recent Sabbath
morning, his wife, Mrs. Emma ). Fowler,
occupied the platform and conducted the
services in place of her husband. No one
was aware of the change until she took her
place and announced it. She conducted
herself with the modesty of a blushing
school girl, combined with the ease and
dignity of pulpit veteran.-Rey. Mr..
Davenport Of Wilmington, has returned
after an absence of a, few months and re-
sumes his former charge of the Uniyersalist
Society ty-Rev. Celia Burleigh is to travel
this summer, and during her absence her
pulpit at Brooklyn, Conn, will be occupied
by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Mrs. Hannaford,
Mrs. Chadwick, and other ladles.-rhe
Universalist Society at Mortified, are
building an addition to their church on
the north, and have raised the church max
ing Concert Hall four feet higher and one
fourth larger than before; also adding a
dining-hall and kitchen. The hall will be
suitable for large gatherings, and it is
what the town has long needed.-Rey.
Mr.. Cargill, who resigned the pastorate Of
the Unitarian Church at Omaha with the
ayowed intention of returning to Troy, TO
disprove the charges against his character,
has, it is reported, gone further West
The Champlain Association of Universalists
convened at Fletcher. on Wednesday, June
25, and had series of interesting and pro-
fitable meetings. The church in which the
association met is a new structure recently
built by the united efforts Of the Universal
lists and Methodists of the town-chieiy the
former it is intended for the use of
both. Rev. w. I. Ross of Shoreham was
chosen moderator. In the afternoon a fine
discourse was preached by Rev. j. Marsden
of Williston. In the evening, Rev. w.
T. Ross gave an eloquent sermon on ''Spir-
itnal Fellowship" Seven parishes were
reported, represented BY twenty delegates:
On Thursday. large congregation enjoyed
an able discourse Jn the doctrine Of the
" Final Restoration" I" by the Rev. Mr..
Shinn, agent Of the Universalist Publishing
House. The meetings closed with a SER
mon by Rev. John Gregory Of Northtield.
Resolutions were adopted in favor of
world peace congress. and regretting the
term Liberal as applied to Christians
or Christianity. Julius Shaw Of Essex was
elected standing clerk Of the Association.
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AGRICULTURAL.
How TO Raise Winter Wheat In New England,

How TO Raise Winter Wheat In New England,
Editor Free Press and Times.
This communication was written at nv
request, and for the purpose of sending it
to nephew of mine who has, the present
year, to my great joy, purchased hill farm
in Vermont. l have made copy for your
paper, in the hope that other farmers, young
and old, in Vermont and New England,
will be glad to see it also and, with me.
will most heartily thank the venerable and
benevolent author-a worthy old merchant
OF New York city, who has no seed wheat
to sell for writing it especially for the
instruction and encouragement Of farmers.
young and old, and also for the sure and
lasting benefit of the community at large.
An OLD SUBSCRIBER TO THE FREE PREss.
No. go, Henry Street, Brooklyn. L. l.
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METHODIST.

Round Lake Camp Meeting has COM
menced and in few days will be crowded.
The number already present is much larger
than that Of the previous year for the same
time. Every tent in the place is taken.
and there are only few more to be putt
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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGEVCE.
BAPTIST.

BAE4ASl.
Mr.. 5. ii. Greene, a recent graduate Of
Madison University, has been engaged to
preach in the Union Church at Richford
one-hali the time for three months.-Rev.
A. L. Ames has been engaged 10 preach at
Berkshire Centre.-Rev Mr. Matteson Of
the First Church in Brattleboro, has been
elected President of the National Baptist
Education Society.-Mr. Chandler, a re-
cent graduate Of the Newton Theological
School, Is to supply the church at Alburgh.
The pastor Of a Baptist Church in
Berkshire county, Mass, last Sunday,
noticed large number of sleepers in his
congregation, stopped midway in his ser
mon, gave brief reproof for their drowsi
ness, and emitting the benedietion and the
communion which were to follow, closed
his Bible, took his hat and walked out Of
the church, leaving his hearers in their
pews.
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There are now twenty-three Oranges Of
the Patrons Of Husbandry in Vermont
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-07-18

The sixty-frst anniversary Of the settle
ment of Rev Richard s. StOrrs over the
First church at Braintree, Mass. was OBJ
served on Sunday iast.-Rev. Cyrus Rich
ardSon was installed as pastor of the First
church at Keene, n H., on Thursday
The sermon was preached by Rev. W. j.
Tucker, of Manchester, y. II. The charge
to the pastor was given by Rev. Prof.
Henry /. Parker, of Dartmouth College.
The charge to the people was delivered by
Rev. VIM. ). karr, of Cambridgeport, a
former pastor of the church.-Rev. 5. H.
Amsden, late of West Dover, Vt, declines
a call from the First church at Montville,
Conn, and accepts one from the church at
Peru.-The society at Rutland are erect
ing new and spacious chapel on the east
erly end of the church.--Rev. b. ).
Adams, pastor of the church at Cabot, has
been successful in his undertaking to raise
funds to furnish pipe organ for his
church, and has contracted with Hook x
Hastings, of Boston. for the same.--At
recent meeting of Congregational ministers
Rev. Mr.. Turner, of Hyannis, Mass, told
the following The Universalist church in
Hyannis was struck by lightning. The
nearest bell was on the Baptist church, but
when they applied for the key the OLD Bap-
tist sexton refused. = He was not going"
he said, to interfere with the will of
God" The church was consumed
Rev. Lewis Francis, late Of CastletOn, ac-
cepts bis call to the Reformed church at
GreenpOint, y. Y.-Rev. Elbridge Gerry
has been settled as stated supply over the
church at Bethel-Rev Asa +. Clarke,
of Peru, has accepted his call to the church
at Leyerett, Mass.
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No. p, 2d Place, Brooklyn, L.
June, 1873.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-06-12

The OLD WAY TO Pay OH DEBTS.
When an historic estmorelmdcr was
candidate for Congress he went to-
Northumberland Court House to see
the sovereigns, and was there arrested
for debt of two thousand dollars
10 save him from Imprisonment a
FRIEND. whose guest he was, became
his endorser for that amount. When
the bond matured. as usual, the princi-
pal had not the wherewithal to meet it,
and the result was that his surety had
to borrow the amount. Tile second
bond also ran for nearly twenty years,
and was settled by q fresh loan. Thus
the transaction went ON until; rel
Gently, when, after sixty years, des-!
eendant of the surety had to sell his
farm to liquidate the debt which now
amounted to $1,000 The moral of
this is that it is not always safe to 70
on the paper off politician, however
brave, distinguished and generous he
may be.-Gil,n0n to the Who.
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small-Pox.

small-Pox.
At Ridgeville, report says, that there
have been, how true we cannot say, some
five or six cases of Varioloid, In a mild
form within the last ten days.
i AT New Creek c. H., we are pleased to
learn that there were no new cases of the
disease at that place UP to yesterday morn
ing. 5th inst. Mr.. William D. Trout, ca
the firm Of Messrs Davis &, Trout, the I'M
fortunate subject Of the disease, as noted
In our last number, died, between and {
o'clock on Thursday morning of last week
2sSh uIt. Mr.. Z. was a gentleman of good
business qualities, and was respected arc
beloved by all who knew him. He was il
the 36th year of his age.
At Piedmont, in regard to the disease
we are not advised. Mr.. Edward Pow
ell, son of James II. Powell, ESQ.,, late
high Sheriff of this County, after a shor
illness, died,,of Smallpox, at the boarding
house of MI. N. o. Robson, in tina
place, Oh Saturday last, 3Ist ult. Edward
Powell, we are informed, as we had IL
acquain lance with him, was a very descrv
ing and amfabls' young man, that he left tn,
home of his father, residing at French.
burg, in this county, only two or three
weeks go, to take a situation On the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, and. has thu
quickly been taken off by mahgnantais
ease..l His yfamily have our sympathies il
heir afiliction.-Rontncy I,telligeuccr.
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Memorial Day.


On Saturday last, in pursuance OF pre-
vious notice, the members of the Memo
rial Association assembled at the Presby-
terrain church, In this place, for the pur-
pose Of organizing the floral procession, to
pay the annual tribute of respect to the
memory of our "dead heroes" The ex-
ercises were opened by singing by the
choir selected and organized for the oc-
casion, and prayer by Rev. j. II. Waugh
after which an app ropriatc ad-
dress was delivered by W. II. Williams,
Esqr. The Procession then formed In the
following order, and proceeded to the
different burying grounds where the
annual offering of flowers were distribu-
ted upon the graves OF our Souther n
soldiery: Drum and Fife; Ministers;
Girls representing Southern States, under
Marshalls Miss Mollie March and VIM.
B. Arthur; Girls representing Battles,
under Marshalls Miss Lucy A,Ott and Jas.
H Clover; Boys representing Generals
under Marshall G.. G. OFT; Ladies' land
children under their respective Marshalls,
for the different. grave-yards. After
making the round of the various burial
places, the procession awas dismissed at
the Lutheran church, after benediction by
Rev. p. Miller.