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NUMBER 9.
The Lightning-Rod Man.

Up In Blossburg, the other day, a
lightning rod man drove up IN front of
a handsome edifiee standing in tn midst
of trees and shrubs and spoke to Mr..
Summer, who was sitting the steps in
front. He accosted Summers as the own
er of the residence and said:
8 I see you have no lightning-rods on
this house"
enc" said Summers.
=" Are you going to put any on ;"
j" Well, / hadn't thought of it, re-
piled Summers.
&" You ought TO. A tall building ike
this is very much exposed. I'D like TO
run you mp one OF my rods twisted
steel glass tenders, nickie plated tips
everything complete. May put one up
TO show you? I'll do the job cheap.
Certainly, If you want TO. I haven I
the slightest objection, said Summers.
During the next half hour the man
had his ladders mp and his assistant at
work, and at the end of that time the
job was completed. He called Summers
out into the yard to admire it. BE said
to Summers
'Now this is all we'll enough. but II
It was n7y house, I'D have another rod
put on the other side. There's nothing
like being thoroughly protected.
That's true" said Summers, cit
would be better. %
III put up another, shall p asked
the man.
Why, of course. if you think it's
best, said Summers.
Accordingly the man went to work
again and soon had the rod In its place.
That's first rate job" he said 70
Summers, as they both stood eyeing it.
l like such a man as you are. Big
hearted, liberal, not afraid TO put a dol.
lar down for q good thing. There's
some pleasure in dealing with you. I
like you so much that I'd put a couple
more rods on that house, one on the
north end and one on the south, for al
most nothing"
1T would make things safer, I sup
pose, said Summers.
Certainly it would. I'd better do It,
hadn't I-heyf"
'Just as yoE think proper" said
Summers.
So the man ran up two rods, and
then came down to Summers, "Thers,
that's done. Now let's settle mp"
"Do what ?"
"Why, the jobs finished, and now I'll
take my money"
"You don't expect me to pay you, I
hope?"
"Of course do. Didn't you tell me
to put those rods on your house?"
I" My house 7" shouted Summers.
Thunder and lightning never or.
deredyou tSput those rods up. It would
have been ridiculous. Why, man, this
is the court house, and Tn here waiting
for the court TO assemble. I'm on the
Jury. You seemed to be anxious to rush
up your rods, and as it was none of my
business, let you go on. Pay for il
Come, now, that's pretty good"
The Blossburg people say that the
manner in which the lightning-rod man
tore around town and swore was fearful,
But when he got his rods of the court
house he left permanently. He don't
fancy tha s,Iooa - 1goy f,lsgey-
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4 Bark Attacked BY a Whale.

The bark Kate Williams, Capt. Hale,
of the regular packet line between BOs-
ton and Fayal, which arrived at Boston
on Friday last, had remarkable escape
on her passage. The Boston Journal
Thus describes the incident about
z o'clock one morning a seamsn alOft
cried ont that there was a whale on the
port bow. Capt. Hale stepped TO the
port quarter, and almost Immediately
could have laid his hand upon the
upper Jaw of a sperm whale, which had
paid an nnweleome visit 10 the vessel.
IL was a COW whale, about sixty feet in
length, which had set upon them, and
had she struck the vessel little further
under, the Kate Williams would proba-
bly never have been heard from after
leaving Fayal. As it vas, the vessel re-
ceived a pretty good shock, and lost a
portion of her mizzen chains. This
monster had seen the bark about the
time the sailor discovered her, for she
immediately sunk and came mp with
great force right at the vessels stern
Capt. Hale thinks her mouth measured
at least fifteen feet, and her under Jaw
was felt to scrape the bottom of the
vessel IS she glided swiftly away from
her unexpected enemy. The whale
Jared as badly as the bark, no doubt,
for the quarterback was covered With
I pieces OF the leviathan's outer skin and
I the " mud that is found between It and
the tougher hide. The Kate Williams
was sailing rapidly at the time, and II
about fifteen minutes the hsh was oai
! OF sight. While the latter could bS
seen, she appeared swimnling about
/ looking for the vessel, and evidently II
] a rage.
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BARBARA BRAY.

IN little low cottage, Just over the way,
dnli-hidden By Woudbne, lives Barhara Bray,
Full thres-score summers have brought their bloom
And three-scOre winters have brought their gloom
sinceHrst to the light Of that little room
Came Barbara Bray.
Day unto day. and night unto night
walking by faith as vel as by sight as.
khe reeEefh tlie light for the sake Of the right.
Piucking some thorn fcom the pillow OF care;
/ Icing some bsrthen not easy to bear;
To thecOt or the palace no matter where,
Goeth Barbara Bray.
child Of God; yet her portion Is small
IN the broad estate and paternal hall,
For the " eldest brother" had gotten it all
Aud day by day, a. be rideth by
IN has guided carriage. she wonders why
That n-yer he turneth a kindly eye.
On old Barbara Bray. s---
Patiently, cheerfuIiy, all fhe same
Iurneth the wheel Of the ancient dame,
stopping never for 'plaint or blame.
What cares she for the sOrdid dance
OF men at the shrine Of circumstanct sFE
Gold can never the wealth enhance -f
OF old BaFbarA Bray. 70
Wealth. that never can turn to dust,
Wealth Of faith, and holy trust
In him that gfveth the daily crust.
Toiling away in the peaceful light
That shimmereth down from gates 20 white,
For old Barbara Bray.
Little she knoweth Of doctrine; indeed,
Short enough, truly. yet large Is her need. 20
Dry SHAKE may Do gathered, ana tareF, 10 may be,
But God is the Lord of the harvest. and He 4
VIII pay al His Workinen, II faithful they be,
saith old Barbara Bray.
Strange that she should be toiling alonel
Strange, indeed, that there should be none
To share In the light Of that old hearthstone!
Yet one there was, but ne went before
Through the church-ynrd gate and the marble door
And be Waiteth above, on the golden shore
For Old Barbara Bray.
Others there were, but they faded away,
some at the dawn, in the twilight gray,
And some in the pride of their summer day.
Yet Oft. when the sunset hath lost iis bloom.
And the shadows take shape in the deepening gloom
Sweet voices come back to that little room,
And TO Bafbara Bray.
And then, no longer alone. alone.
Old Barbara sits by her quaint hearthstOne
For the past with its treasures is still her own.
She dreams OF love, and she talks with her mates :
She clasps her dariings and patiently waits
For the angel that cometh to open the gates
For old Barbara Bray.
Nor waiteth she longs for already afar
Through the gloom OF the night, like the glow Of a
atar,
Is shining the lI,ht Of her homeward car.
Whirling along DER the track Of the years,
Down through the valley OF sorrow aud tears,
Out from the held Of the harvest Il bears
Old Barbara Bray.
A moment, a breath I and the journey is DER
Her wheel at the window is seen no more;
But the tear-drOp shall fall while the lowly and poor
Lay their garlauds Of love at the friendly door
OF old barbara Bray. .--
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A Russian MoEIroR.-The first vessel
of the future Russian Black sea fleet
the monitor NOvgorod-resembies
huge, circular kettle Of more than 100
feet diameter, and only rises foot and
a half out of water. In the midst Of II
is a turret a fath0m high and seven
fathoms 10 diameter, with two eleven
inch steel guns fitted 70 a movable plat
form. The Novgorod is set in motion
by sig screws, and in the trial trip It
moved at the rate Of six snd bali
knots an hour. The total cost OF the
construction Of this new sea-monstef
and Of its conveyance from st. Peters
burg. where e was built, 70 Nikoiajeh
is :. JOO. 600 roubles. Since the naval
review held by tl1e emperor last August,
st which eighteen iron-clads, incsEding
six frieates, three turret ships and seven
uaonitors snd thirty other chips were
present. an iFon-clad corvette, the Gen
eral Admiral, has been launched at ST.
Petersburg
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LooK

The pencil marks yon see around tins
paragraph (thusl mean gha4 your sub
seriptior Is ont or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay mp at once.
We would take great pleasure IN extend
ing credit 20 our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you wiz comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such
course and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
81 We enter no new names on our
books without the money IN adrapee.
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National Grange Circular.

The National Grange circular for Jan
nary shows an increase, since the 18th
of December, when the last circular was
issued, of 1855 oranges. The total at
that date was 8, ,296 the total at that of
the last circular was 10, 1862. The mem
bership is only approximately stated at
about 10000 The increase is largely
in the south and the valley states, as
will be seen by the following table
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wEsTERN sTATEs.
NORTH ATLANTIC STATES

The only states intp which the order
has not yet penetrated aro Delaware,
Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Since
the circular, of which the foregoing is
an analysis, there has been an increase
Of 800 or 400 oranges.
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MesoPotamIa

1t may be exaggeratiOn to represent
an old woman saying that she found
great support in the comfortable word
q Mesopotamia, but the spirit which
animated her is really very widely diff
fused in other old WCmeD, and young
women and meg too. Indeed, 80 much
in quotation depends upon pleasant
sound, that we firmly believe that these
nonsense verses might be recited at the
fireside without being at once detected
lust for the reason that we do not al
WAYS pause to think whether we attach
any Importance 20 what We hear. At
any rate here they are
lis sweet 70 roam when mornings light
Rssounda across the deep;
When ths crystal song OF the woodbine bright
Hushea the rocks 70 sleep;
When the midnight sky has 3 sombro dye
OF pale aad inky hue,
And the wolf rings out bis Giitter1nE shouti
'-Tu whit Whit-Ia Who0f
When the psafly wings Of the wintsy tsees
DaHhea across the glen;
When the laughing hghte Of the moss-groWn
ciins
Haunt The ethereal fen;
When At noon the blood-ahot moon
Il bathed in cruEnbling dew,
And the wolf rings cut bis slittering shout,
sTu whit-Tu whit -ru wbool
Not & few persons viii cry, "How pret-
ty 4" when the words are read fast.
They have the true 50 Mesopotamia "
ring about them. II cannot be denied
that people who make point of inter
lar,ling their conversation with quota
tons are an intolerabie nuisance.
THAT BURrED TREAsunE. San Fran
cisco paper SAYS 1.-THE usually quiet
town Of Truckee has been considerably
excited Of late over the organization Of
a companv 70 search for diamonds and
cold long since buried on the coast oi
Florida. IT Is said that the company
have a cash capital Of a little more than
go. 600, and nearly all Of the solid men
Of the town are said 70 ha Q taken stock.
Il seems that 8 solored man BY the
name Of JEFF Hogan, who has besn ad-
ministering chickens, eggs, trout, hns-
sian snipe, etc, 70 hungry travellers
/ over Che Central Pacific railroad, and
/ one Joe Mason, have discovered of iate
| that they wers both on board q certain
I nitrate vessel about shirty years ago. end
j sera eyewitness 70 the bury ing Of {
/ vast amount of gold and diamond jewel
~ JEFF SAYS that his life was spared
! on account Of his being cook, and ALa
| sons on account Of his youih-beinl
then but ten years old. When FRS
| told, the story vas not believed bu
after awhile persons we're found Of eufl
eleut guliibility 70 eocep+ the Who'll
story and enlies in the enterprise.
Ak Ohio woman. riding on the car
With her boy, said he vas SIX, and vhe'
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The Brass Horse Business.

You can't imagine how little horse
can be made TO look like horse, until
y.yu see Clark Mills equestrian statue
Of George Washington over in George
town. George Alfred Townsend calls
It s'The Georgetown Goose which it.
neck is she very image Of goose. The
tail looks like quill pen. Poor old
George sits in his saddle like a recrnit
Of Benbam's Jnclass battery, going over
Gauley mountain; and be looks sorry,
as II he we're Rsking 70 himself, Z" Why
was / ever born 2
They are putting up a new equestrian
staEue Of Gen. Scott, on Scott square,
IN Washington, which Is q grand one IN
some respects-though the human hS-
ure looks as though il had bowels
enough 70 ill the HOossc tunnel. II
is a great relief, after seeing 50 many
horses standing in the attitude OF a pas,
tor delivering his benediction, 70 nnal
Scots horse standing comfortably and
naturally on his legs. It Is dreadially
tiresorae to sit and wait Tor those StheI
horses 70 come down Of oi one leg ana
rest themselves. II is q militia way fol
a horse 10 stand on his LETT hind leg
Thev never do it IN the regular seTyioe
TVaeAfngfOEl Cor. Ohio ofGte journal
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Ak Ohio woman. riding On the cars
with her boy, said he vas SIX, and When
" Bills" spoke up and declared he vas
Ten. the good woman drew him over hes
knee ard had satisfaction ioF .he hait
fare she Was obliged - pay.
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ExPERIsfESTAL philosophy ing 3
a young lady to uaarry you Natural
ilossphv-ioohiag Indifferent, and
saving yoa wero only in fun when she
refuses you.
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A gusrBER Of rising but elegant young
gentlemen Of leisure are preparing %
bold public discussion on tae qns.-
tion. " Resolved, That our mothers
eauTof saw as much wood Ia q given
siue a. their mothers could, and that
wouantdnd Is deiersoTeting physical y
IA fact which We view with nndfsg1issd
alarm and apprehension,
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TzEzE Is nothing on earth divine he
sides Observation-Disclosures.
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MARSHAL MAoMAHoN would be pro-
nolnced OF Celtic origin at the hrst
glance. He is thoroughly Mileoian 10
his features, and his expression, while
suggestive of obstinacy, is equally in
dicative of honesty.
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A CLERGYMAN being invited 10 open a
legislature with prayer, offered the fol-
lowing ambiguous petition May cor
rnntion and sin of every form be as far
nom every member Of this legislature
as Thou art. 4"
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IN . little low cottage, just over the way,
dalf-hidden by Woudbine, lives Barbara Bray,
With brow that s. furfOwed, and head thatts gray
lllhres-score summers have brought their bloom
And three-scOrs winters have brought their gloom
Since irst to the light Of that little room raE
[. .al..n.I II. Pea.
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They never fan WHO die
In great cause the block may soak their
Their heads may sOdden in the suns their
limbs
Be strung ts city gates and castle Essus
Flapse, and others share as dark doom,
They but augment the deep and sweeping
thoughts
Which overpowor all others, and conduct
The world az last to freedom
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MOVING MACHINEs.-The Oldest
moving machines, though very rude,
were used by the Gauls. A cart, hav-
ing blades arranged in front, was push
ed forward in the grain by oxen hitched
behind, and thus cut off the heads.
A system of six rotating scythes
was made by Joseph Boyce in 1899,
and an attempt to use the same princi-
pie was made by Gompertz and Mason,
in 1852. In lSll-lSl5, Smith, of
Deanstone, brought out machine in
which short vertical revolving cylin-
der carried knife on its lower end, but
all the rotating machines have proved
impracticable Rob't Meares, in Frome
in Somersetshire, established in 1890
the shear principle as the only practical
one Salmon, in Woburn in 1907, built
machine with a row of blades and
fingers moving over them, and also
applied the reel. The Scotch parson
Patrick Bell, of Torfarshire, in 1926,
and William Manning, of Plainfeld,
New Jersey, in 1882, were the founders
of the present style of machines. Man.
ming was the first to attach the draught
at the side of the machine, all others
previously having been pushed from
behind. Obed Hussey, of Cincinnati,
attached the side platform and slit fin
ger. Mccormick, then of Rockbridge,
Va, now of Chicago, in 1884 improved
the Manning and Hussey machine, and
the appearance of these at the London
Exposition, in 1851, was the signal for
their introduction into general use.
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SPANISH MERINO SHEEP.

John S. Goe writes to the AMERICAN
FARMER:
The introduction of pure-bred rams
will annually increase the fleece of
Maryland flock one-half pound per
fleece! Could your farmers be induced
to reflect on the Importance of this in
crease, then have not written this in
vain. care not where they purchase
their rams, so that they get them from
good flock. One to three rams an
nually do not cost much money, and
yet an increase annually of one-half
pound each becomes an important item.
Assume flock now averages some l-2
lbs, then increase these weights ~ ID.
annually, and in seven years you have
an average of 6 lbs. per fleece We
now allude to washed wool only If
you include few Spanish Merino ewes
from the same flock, the entire average
in that time could be made still more,
and to this add the increased value of
the flock, and you have an item worth
your attention The time is coming
when Maryland will contain more and
better focks; when less grain and to-
bacco will be planted; when beautiful
green sward will adorn many now
WORKOUT field. This change will take
place. You are enterprising and have
taste for the beautiful; you are as anxi-
Gus for gain as people elsewhere; pillow
fewer acres and grow more sheep and
wool, and thus grow more grain. Gen.
tlemen, would you had seen the shocks
of wheat standing on about 8 acres of
my farm-642 dozen of large sheaves
and owing to the badly tangled and
down condition of the straw, the ma
chine was compelled to run over and
waste very much, and yet all this grew
on land once thought not worth farming.
| admit, less fertility would have given
better produce, yet heavier farming
and fewer sheep would remedy that.
However we make the Merinos our
object. This fertility follows with other
gains, and l think we shall continue.
This process is not covered by letters
patent; the same way is open to others
neither shall / contend for selfish
monopoly; this earth is large, with
room for all of US. We have a short
time to stay here, and if we do some
good, our time will not have been spent
in vain. We live in progressive age
and feel bound to keep on the track.
A few Spanish Merino sheep we'll cared
for will soon cause your family to take
a lively interest therein.
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A iVERTlSERS send 25 cts to GEO. p RowrLL
~ Co., Al Park Row, N. Y. for their Eghtypage
Pamphlet, showing cost Of advertising.
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PLANT TREEs-Transplant finest or
standard fruit trees, some in the Fall
and some in the Spring, until you have
from ten to fifty trees growing. No
tree should stand nearer building than
twenty feet, and the trees should be
about twenty feet apart throughout the
entire grove or orchard. Establish for
est trees along the road and the front
yard, and fruit or forest trees on the
other sides of the house. Sugar maple,
commonly named hard maple, is prefer
able of forest trees, and thrifty, hardy
apples or pears, or both, of the stand
ard (not dwarf kinds
Ornamental trees should be trimmed
during the first few years, leaving the
main shoot to form the trunk of the
tree, in order to have the branching
lower limbs of the final tree from six to
seven feet from the ground. The land
in such an orchard grove can be cult
waited for all ordinary crops, including
. garden, by blowing shallow and care
fully near the trees.
1t is suggested that the first ten trees
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FARMING IN THE WEST.-Th

FARMING IN THE WEsT.-The follow
ing picture drawn by an exchange may
be rather highly colored: "What can
be pleasanter than the life of Mis-
souri, farmer? At daylight he gets up
and examines the holes around his corn
hills for cut-worms then he smashes
coddling-moth larvae with hoe handle
until breakfast The forenoon is de-
voted to watering the potato bugs with
a solution Of Paris green, and after
dinner all hands turn out to pour boil
ing water on the chinch bugs in the
corn and wheat fields In the evening
favorite occupation is smudging peach
trees to discourage the curculio, and
after brief season of family devotion
at the shrine of the night-fying cIeop-
terra, all the folks retire and sleep sound
ly till Aurora reddens the east, and the
grasshoppers tinkle against the panes
and summons them to the labors of
another day.
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be planted on the south side of the
house, if none be there already
If a wind break is wanted on the
west, northwest, or south west, plant
as near together as possible, and have
part of the trees evergreens, to COM
plete the thcket. The forest and fruit
trees, arranged about twenty feet apart,
as above described, will be estimated
by the owner or other persons at the
expiration Of five years from the time
of planting to be worth at least five
dollars each, and at the expiration of
ten years to ten dollars each, with an
increasing value thereafter.
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RECIPE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF

RECIPE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF
SMALL INsEcTs.-On our grape vines,
a small insect known as the leaf hopper
is often destructive. 1t is very nearly
allied to the thrips of greenhouses
Besides this there are many other small
insects, which not only injure fruit trees,
but flowers in the gardens, and trees
shrubbery on the ornamental grounds
The GARDEN of London, has recently
given the following recipe, which may
have an interest for our readers also:
Dissolve 8 lbs of the best soft-soap
in ~ gallons of warm rain water; then,
when the water is cold add a gallon of
strong tobacco juice. Indian Azaleas
are very subject to this pest, and if the
plants can be dipped in this mixture, or,
if too large, syringed with it twice, at
the interval of two or three weeks, it
will quite clear them of it. After dip
ping or Swinging the plants with this
mixture, and before it dries on the foil
age, it is safest to syringe them again
with clean soft water; thus all the dead
insects will be washed off and the foil
age made clean Fumigation with to-
bacco is good check against the thrips,
if repeated at intervals of three or four
days, but nothing is so effectual as dip
ping in the above mixture.
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LIVE STocK.-Sheep ought to have
tar and salt provided as preventive
against the fly. Cows ought to be well
supplied with good food as the pasture
becomes short. Nothing, perhaps, is
better than corn fodder, if you have
been provident enough to sow it.
Horses ought to be kept in dark stables
as far as practicable to protect them
from insect tormentors.
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WoRMs.-The simplest worm medi-
cine, and the most effective, will be to
give the following powder four or five
times weekly, mixed in the food: l DR..
pulverized sulphate of iron and 2 dr..
pulverized gentian root mixed.