The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-08
NIGHT and Moonlight.

Many men walk by day 4; few walk by
night. It is a very different season.
Take July night for instance. About
10 o'clock-when man is asleep and day
fairly forgotten-the beauty of moon
light is seen over lonely pastures where
cattle are silently feeding. On all sides
novelties present themselves. Instead
of the SUE there are the moon and stars,
instead of the wood-thrush there is the
whip -poor-will, instead of the butter
flies in the meadows, fre-hies, winged
parks of fire who would have be-
lieved it? What kind of cool, deliber-
ate life dwells in those dewy abodes as
sociated with spark of fire? So man
has fire in his eyes, or blood, or brain.
Instead of singing-birds, the half
throttled notes of cuckoo flying over,
the croaking of frogs, and the intenser
dream of crickets. But above all, the
wonderful trump of the bull-frog, ring.
ing from Maine to Georgia. The po-
tato vines stand upright, the corn grows
apace, the bushes loom, the grain fields
are boundless. On our open river ter
races, once cultivated by the Indian,
they appear to occupy the ground like
an army,-their heads nodding in the
breeze. Small trees and shrubs are
seen in the midst, overwhelmed as if by
an inundation. The shadows of rocks
ohr he
more conspicuous than the objects them
selves. The slightest irregularities in
the ground are revealed by the shadows,
and what the feet find comparatively
smooth appers rough and diversified in
consequence. For the same reason the
whole landscape is more variegated and
picturesque than by day. The smallest
recesses in the rocks are dim and cav
ernous /; the ferns in the woods appear of
tropical size. The sweet fern and in
digo in evergreen wood-paths wet you
with dew up to your middle. The
leaves Of the shrub-oak are shining as
if liquid were flowing over them.
The pools seen through the trees are as
full of light as the sky. "The light of
the day takes refuge in their boaoms, y
as the Purana says of the ocean. All
white objects are remarkable than by
day. A distant cliff looks like q phos-
phorescent space on a hillside. The
woods are heavy and dark. Nature
slumbers. You see the moonlight re-
fected from particular stumps in the
recasses of the forest, as if she selected
what to shine on. These small frac-
tions of her light remind one of the
plant called moon-seed,- AS if the moon
were sowing it in such places.-ThOreGu.
Sulphate of Iron for Plants.
A French scientist, NJ. Eusebe Girls,
has been making detailed experiment.,
and finds the following definite conclu-
sions That salt is a stimulating ma
nure that it presents no danger when
intelligently applied that its action is
seen on the coloring principle of leaves;
worth is sufficient to treat hundreds of
plants; that it might be applied to cul-
tivation on large scale, and especially
to the cultivation of fruit. His man.
ner of applying the sulphate is as fol-
lows A solution of two drams to one
quart of water is made, and with this
the plants, previously placed in the
shade, are watered. It is presumed
that the earth surrounding the plat is
moist if this Is not the case, more
dilute solution must be used. The. So