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start from the crack. Can you tell me
the cause and the remedy?

the cause and tue remedy
REpnY.-Thc mischief is caused by
too late pruning, and by not covering
the wounds with somc impcrvious coat
ing. Sometimes no harm is done, but
when there is an excessive flow of sap 1t
exudes from the wounded surface, and,
containing considerable sugar, it be-
comes sour and damages the bark over
which it flows. To prevent it the prun-
ing should be done very early IN the
spring, and when any branches OF con-
siderable size are cut off they should be
cut very smoothly and even with the
bark, and the stump be covered with
common oil and lead paint or q coating
of shellac varnish.
How to Apply Paris Green, md also Ashes
to Potatoes.
L. 81. NJ. asks if common plaster Is as
good mixed with paris green as flour OF
gypsum; also, which is the best way for
using ashes for potatoes, in or on the
hill
REp1Y.-Common plaster is the flour
of, or finely ground, gypsum that has
been treated to drive off the water OF
crystallization, of which about twenty
one per cent. is contained in it. When
this is freed from water it is used as
plaster, and when mixed with water
again it chemically combines with it and
forms a solid mass 1t will not answer
to use this with paris green, but instead
of it the raw, finely ground gypsum, OF
agricultural "plaster, should be used.
A very good way to use ashes on pota-
toes is to scatter them about the hills,
now, and hoe them in when the crop is
hoed, which, by-the-bye, may be done
now very usefully.
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The Loom OF Life.

All day, all night can hear the jar
OF the loom of life, and near and far
1t thrills with its deep and muffled sound,
As the trclcss wheels so always round.
Busily, ceaselessly goes the loom,
In the light of day aid the midnight's gloom,
The wheels are turning early and late,
And the woof is wound in the warp Of fate.
Click, cack there's thread of lcvc wovc i'll :;
Click, clack another of wrong and sin;
What checkered thing will this life be
When we see it unrolled in eternity.
Time, with face like mystery,
And hands as busy as hands can be,
Sits at the loom with its arm outspr .ad,
To catch in its meshes each glancing thread.
When shall this wonderful web be done?
In a thousand years, perhaps or one;
Or tomorrow. Who knoweth? Not you or l.
But the wheels turn on and the shuttlcs fly.
All, sad-cyed weaver, the years are slow,
But each one is nearer the end know;
And some day the last thread shall be woven in
God grant it be love instead Of sin.
Arc we spinners Of wool for this life wcb-say
Do we furnish the weaver a thread each day?
It were better then, oh my friend, to spin
A beautiful thread than = thread Of sin.
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Variety of Life in New York.

Howe, the great Tombs lawyer, was
supposed to be doing one 6 the most
profitable law busine ses in l. W York,
says q correspondent. He defended
nearly all tho rogues in New York, and
his fees wfre suppos d to be large; yet
he has been adiudgcd q bankrupt. All
the men OF this class go under. The
divorce lawyers. who are reported to
have immense fees, seldom last long.
Nine out of ten of the liquor men fail,
though the common idea is that tho pro-
fits are simply immense. / was in a
leading restaurant recently, and was told
that the checks showed that four hun
lred and fifty dollars were taken at the
bar the day before. Yet every man who
has kept that hotel has failed except the
present proprietor, who has not b :en
there long enough to give the thing n
fair trial. 1t is the same thing with the
politicians who hang around the city
hall. It is feast or famine with those
fellows One of them was distinguished
for his heavy drinks of brandy and for
buying two dollars worth of cigars daily
to give to his followers. He could not
buy all oyster stew to-day. A city Off
cial told nc that his Office cost him $780,
900 in clear cash, and he holds 1t only
for two years. I met a man the other
day whom I have known as buyer for
a leading stock house on the street. He
was dressed through clothing and looked
like a builder who goes ont to days
,,,,rl- &C How 10 tbic Q" T coi1 &c nm
in another business, was the reply. II
get $500 year. have quiet home.
1 sleep we'll nights, and have enough to
eat day by day. On the street I made
money one day and lost it the next. I
had to watch my customers nights Mt the
hotels. I had to eat as others ate,
and drank MS they drank, or I could not
get any business. 1t cost me all could
make to keep my place. I'd rather be q
scullion to scour the pantry than to do
the drulgery of the street"
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A Boys Trip Under a Water-Wbec!.

A little son of James Chapman, aged
five years, had very narrow escape
from death lately, says the New London
Telegram. He was playing on the en-
bankment at the lower end OF Briggs
pond, when he slipped and fell into the
flnme of the old oallum mill, and was
carried rapidly down the stream, being
tossed about by the rushing waters like
a chip. It was thought that when he
reached the old wheel his brains would
be dashed out against it, as the space
beneath was not large enough to admit
of his passing safely through. But he
shot under it like fish, and went under
the bridge at Cedar streeta and into the
trough through which the water is con-
Quoted to Smiths organ factory. Here
he succeeded in clutching q joist fasten-
ed across the trough, where he clung mn
til lie was rescued. His first words,
after he had been put in q place If
safety, were "Where's my top I"
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Fashion Notes.

Straw bonnets of the natural color OF
the material are most in demand.
Yellow and cardinal bonnet strings are
the latest combination shown.
Brocaded silk handkerchiefs have
either o yellow, blue, or cardinal bor-
der.
Chatelaines are more elaborate than
ever, many having small watches at
tached.
Mousquetaire cuffs of lace, to be worn
outside the sleeves, are fashionable.
Long scarfs for neck wear remain IN
favor.
Fiye-button silk gloves, "kid fits"
are now the most fashionable for ord1-
nary wear.
A novelty in fans is to have the paint
ed picture of child or friend in the left
hand corner, with border of flowers.
Italian valenciennes laces, with the
figures carried out in colors, either butf,
navy blue or rose, are novelty for tr1m-
ming summer dresses.
Colored crepe lisse is imported for
plaitincs to be worn inside the neck and
sleeves of dresses. It is in the fashion,
able yellow shades, mandarin, cream,
buttercup, and the creamy green tllleul.
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General Custer and His Officers

It has been definitely determined to
remove the remains of the officers slain
with Custer in the fight on the Rosebud,
and with the exception of the bodies of
General G. A. Custer and Lieutenant
Crittenden, all will be removed to Fort
Leavenworth, and deposited in the
National cemetery. General T. a. Crit
tcnden, of Kentucky, has requested that
his sons remains be left on the field
where he fell, and General Custer will be
buried in the National cemetery, at
West Point. It was General Clusters
wish, repeatedly expressed during his
campaigns against the Indians, that he
be buried at West Point if be should lie
killed in the service.
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Thoughts for Saturday Night.

Friendship is infinitely better than
kindness.
There have been fewer friends on earth
than kings.
Love is flame which burns in heaven,
and whose soft reflections radiate on lis.
They are generally better satisfied
whom fortune never favored than those
whom she has forsaken.
As long as love prevails in the house
space of the breadth of n sword is satls-
factory. AS soon as it disappears sixty
hand-breadths are not sufficient.
Love teaches cunning even in inno-
cence, and when he gets possession his
first work is to dig deep within o heart
and there lie hid, and like q miser in the
dark, to feast alone.
! Life, whether in this world or any
other, is the sum of cur entertainment,
our existence, our character. The con-
ditions are secondary. In what other
world shall we be more surely than we
are here?
There is not, perhaps, n more whimsi-
!
modesty who assumes al air of impu-
dence who, while his heart beats with
anxiety studies ease and affects good
humor.
What is this life but the circulation of
little actions? We lie down and rise
again, dress and redress, feed and grow
hungry, work and play, and are weary ;
and then we lie down again and the
circle returns.
With virtue, capacity and good con-
duct one can still be unsupportable.
The manners, which arc neglected rs
small things, are often those which de-
eide men for or against you. A slight at
tention to them would have prevented
their i'll Judgment.
Manners are the shadows of virtues ;
the momcntary display of those quail
ties which our fellow creatures love and
respect. If we strive to become, then,
what we strive to appear, manners
would often be rendered useful guides
to the performance of our duties.
That politencss which we put on, in
order to keep the presumptuous Mt O
proper distance, will generally succeed.
But it is sometimes that these obtrusive
characters ar, on such excellent terms
with themselves that they put down their
very goodness to the score of their own
great merits aud high prctensions, meet
ing the cellness Of our reserve with q
ridiculous condescension of familiarity,
in order to set lis at ease with ourselves.
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EDitaDllS.

Near San Diego, California, tomb
stone inscrip iption thus reads:
"This we're is sakrid to the memory
of William Henry Skarakcn, who cain
to. his deth by bein shot by Colts re-
volver-onc of the old kind, bras mount
cd, and Of sutch is the kingdom OF
heaven"
A stone cutter once received, from a
German, the following epitaph, to be ell
graved on the tombstone Of his deceased
wife:
"My wife Susan is dead if she'd had
lif till next Friday, she'd been dead shust
two weeks. As a tree falls so she must
stand. All things is impossible nit
God"
From tombstone in Cornwall, Eng
land:
Father al. mother and
Lie buried here asundcr
Father and mother lie buried here,
And lie buried off yonder.
4 tombstone Mt Saratoga bears the fol-
lowing:
Emma, dau'r of Abraham and Matil-
la G., and wife of Theodore s.,
died Aug lU, 1865, II 70 yrs, leaves hVe
childreu--married too young against her
fathers will. Single women take warn
ing"
In the churchyard at Childwald, Eng.
land, is this stanza:
Here lies the body of John Smith,
Buried in the costers;
Ii he don't jump at the last trump,
Call "Oystcrs. :"
Another in the same cemetery reads
"Here lies the remains of Thomas Woodhea
The most amial lc Of husbands, and excellent
of men.
N. :B. His real name was Woodcock, but
would not come in rhyme. His widow
On a tombstone in Sruth Carolina
'sHerc lies the body of Robert Gordin,
Mouth almighty and teeth accordin';,
Stranger tread lightly over this wonder
If be opens his mouth you're gone by thunder,
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Time.

In all the actions which man per-
forms, some part of his life passes. We
die while doing that for which alone our
sliding life was granted. Nay, though
we do nothing, time keeps his constant
pace, and flies as fast in idleness as IN
employment. Whether we play, or
labor, or sleep, or dance, or study, the
sun posts on, and the sand runs. An
hour of vice is as long as an hour OF
virtue. But the difference between good
and bad actions. is infinite. Good actions,
though they diminish our time here as
we'll as bad actions, yet they lay up Tor
lis happiness in eternity, and will re. re-.
compense what they have taken away by
plentiful return at last. When we
trade with virtue, we do but buy plea,
sure at the expense Of time. So it is not
so much consuming Of time as an e8-
change. As man sows his corn, he IS
content to wait a while, that he may, at
the harvest, receive with advantage
Owc,e Felthanl, 1886.
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THREE DRUNKEN BURGLARS CAPTURED.
Three burglars got drunk in Utica,
N. Y, before startingsout to break into
n house, and in consequence their ell
trance was made in noisy and bungline
manner. A brave woman captured the
drunkest of them, and held him Oh q
sofa in spite of his struggles. A man
had desperate fight with another, and
finally secured him. Tie third went into
the street, armed hir. .self with paving
stores, returned to fight for the release
of his" Comrades, end stood firmly under
fire from arevolver. Hc, too, was made
q prisoner.
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THE RUSSIAN Rulers COURTESY.

The RUSSIAN Rulers COURTESY
The car ought to be popular sovereign
for he knows how to ride and be courte-
Gus to his subjects. His horsemanship
IS perfect although his face is scanned
and careworn, in the saddle he shows no
sign of age. At Odessa he noticed q
poor woman by the roadside, WHO salutcd
him rs he rode by. Turning in the
saddle and looking back, lie bowed and
touched his cap to her MS politely as
though she were princess.
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erably by feeding it with the pemmican,
which was more than half buffalo fat,
and burned readily. He had then drag
ged me, totally unconscious, to the fire,
and proceeded to beat and cuff me back
to Life.
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"A number of dogs were shot in the East
End last night. ."-!Sdturtays Leadcr. Served
them right Let them keep their east endeout
Of danger.-OH city Derrick,
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Why cannot two slender persons ever become
great friends? Because they will always be
slight acguaintanees,
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A(efar10rla 0azettc.
TUESDAY EVENING, sEPTEMBER II

JUDICIOUs AND INJUDIC1OUS CHARITY. -
II is egideot that the relief organization will
need to dispsns, its charities with great caulion,
in order not to encourage the idle and the vic
ious that are in Washington /, Stay here, and
these outside to come her, for free board as
has happened 10 the past. There are now in
Washington many Thousands of lille people
capable OF doing hard work, tu. who hav, ~
prospect OF getting emp Oyment, and who pre-
fer to loaf about a city iudsinitcIy in state c!
pauperlsn, to going into the adjacent country
where there is an abundance OF remuneraiyt
employment for them. Commissioner Bryan
has very senslbly suggested emigration Of the
unemployed here Opolnts IN the country where
their labor is needed, as means relieving lhe
destitution prevailing in Washington, and it is
has been announced that employment at fair
prices can be secured for any number in Wes5
Tennessee, but it will be seen by the foowlog
letter from gentleman of high standing re.
siding 10 Fairfax county, Virignia, not a dczen
miles from Washington, that there is great
lack of labor there, as we'll as 10 the adjoining
county of Loudoun, and that it will not be
necessary to find transportation for the uucm.
ployed to any distant locality when thers is no
lack of work close at hand. The Labor Tx.
change will afford good means Of commuacl-
tion between the destitute in the city who need
employment and the farmers in the country
who need their services:
Mr.. Editor: There seem9, from The Star, TO
be appalling destituton n the city, and 20
work for the destitute. My farm is not dcz,u
miles distant from the city and there is always
lack of labor, and no lack of work, all around
me. We have been paying 81 so and 81, and
found all summer for harvesting and in the
adoinng county of Loudoun the laborcrs
struck" for more-they demanded s. and
s. so, and found it is said, and refused to work
at less and this n the very pinch of the harvest.
But the farmers struck" back. They, also.
"clubbed together" They Joined hands ard
did their own harvesting, and refused to scccp;;
the lsborers at any price-'tbough entreatod
sorrowfully and with tears" Yesterday l psd
So cash for thrc,hing out 25 bushels Cf rye. the
usual price, though more WAS demanded. Com.
ment on these facts would be gratuItou3. 1t II
true, if able bodied tramps were to como up tho
road and offer to labor for less, wo might bo q
little afraid to take them but were your pro.
posed labor exchange in running ORDER there
is probably not farmer out here who would
not ave extra improvements this fall and win
ter and at the very least, give living to single
men vouched for by tho exchange, until "times'
improved. Times arc hard with us, as with You;
but food, lodging and clothing are botter than
starvation and crime. FAIRFAX.
September &, 1877.
-UaShiu0iOn Star.
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GEO. II. ROBINSON
JNO. 8. SMOOT, Trustees.
THOMAS PERRY,

TOMMISSIONERS SALE OF A VALU
- ABLE FARM l N Fairfax COUNTY.
Pursuant TO tho decree Of the Circuit Court OF
Fairfax county, pronounced st June term, 1876
and juno term, 1877, in tho suit OF Harrison M.
Simpson vs.. Charlns w. RatcliTa, the under
signid, commissioners named in said decroo.
will on MONDAY, the 18th day of Septem ber,
1S77, Court day. Mt II o'clock m. Of said day,
sell TO tho highest bidder by public salo, in front
Of the Court House door OF said county, that
valuable and improved farm on which the said
Charles w. Rstcliho at present ro;ides, contain
ing about FOUR HUNDRED ACRES. This
land lies about II miles northwest Of the village
of Ccntrevillo, on the Braidock road, and near
tho Wsrrenton pike. Tho soil is of tho chsrac-
tor known as red, is Of the best quality, produces
heavy crops Of whoat, corn end grass, and is not
oxcclled by any farm in the county. 1t will DO
sold in parcels at private sAlo should 1t not be
sod on tho day named.
Terms Of Sao: So much cash in hand rs will
be requisite to pay ths costs of suit and Expenses
of sale, snd tho residue in three equal annual
payrnsnts, to boar interest from tho day OF sale,
and TO bo secured by tho notes Of the purchaser.
with good personal security, and retontlon OF
title until tho last payment is madD.
II. w. THOMAS, Comm rs
THOMAS MOORE,) OF Sale.
p S--The sbovo property will bo sold on &C
commodatng terms 1t any time before tho day
of salo, and ii sod tho above notice will DO dis
continued II. w. IAOM AZ;
Fairfax CO., ,jy 1G-wiw THOMAS MOORE
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Alexandria county, sop Scots
By F. A. KerbY, Auctioneert
(No, 5G King street, Alexandria, Va
SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

Default having beon made for six successive
months in the payment of the semi monthly in
stalments secured 10 THE Alexandria Cooper.
alive Building Association of Alexandria, Va"
by the deed of trust hereinafter mentioned, and
the Board Of Directors Of the said Association
having requested in writing q ealo Of the proper
u thereby conveyed, the undersigned, in pur-
suance of said request and by virtue Of the deed
of trust from Erastus Gr9on and wife ct al. 20
them, dstod on tho "a day of October, 1872, and
of record in the Clerks Office Of tho Corporation
Court for tho city Of Alexandria, Virginia, IL
ber No. 3, page %, will expose for sale by public
auction, on SATU RDAY, the 18Th day of Sep.
tember 1877, at II m., in front of tho Market
Building on Royal street, in tho city of Alexan-
dria, Virginia, the property conveyed by the
said decd Of trust, to wit:
A LOT OF GROUND with the improve
ments thereon, in the said city Of Alexandria,
situated On tho south aide Of Gibbon street, be-
tween Washington and Columbus streets, in
front on Gibbon street seventeen u7) feet, and
extending southwardly in depth ffty'one feet
soven inches (5l.7)
Terms Of Sale One third of the purchase
money in cash on the day Of sslo, and tho resi-
due in two equal payments at six and twelve
months from tho day Of sale; the deferred pay
monts TO bear interest from the day of sale, and
to bo secured by tho notes Of the purchaser, with
approved personal security, and the retention OF
tho title 10 the property until they aro paid.
Costs cr conveyancing t. b paid by tho pu7-
chaser.
GEO. II. ROBINSON.)
JNO. 8. SMOOT, Trustees.
A n u
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GEO K, PRICE. J. F. COOK.
NELICACIES OF THE SEASON.
We have this day opened at No. 1G north
Fairfax st adjoining tho Market square. store,
whore all the deicacies Of the season, from land
and water, can be obtained. We have made ar
rangoments by which we shall havo the earliest
FRUITS and VEGETAB LES. fresh from the
trees and vines, and FRESH FISH. CRABS,
CLANS, OYSTERS. &C., will be brought US
daily in ice packages by tho Potomac river
boAts.
Orders from tho country promptly = attended to.
iy l3-tf PRICE s. COOK.
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CTARTLING AND STRANGE DEVEL
y OPEMENTS.
The whole business community WAS thrown
into state OF violent excitement and agitation
this morning by the discovery that
D. BENDHEIM,
ATHIS PALACE DRY GOODS STORE,
No. 112 King street,
was and has been selling his goods alta
WONDERFUL SACRIFICE,
for no other reason than to keep his STOCK mov
only augmented by the fact that he intends 10
in Alexandris as regards prices, &c.
DOWN WITH YOUR PRICES
Best Calico 6lc; Orgsnd1 Lawn lle; ysrdd
or striped, lOc; Grenadines at your own prices !;
Psrasols from eoc to S.; Csssmeros, all 1 WOOL d.
o 100 s99G SIX Ss goodb bsas psPShT Pghr Of
l9 ans yietors % L. Lsxn s9so i2sG 2srs
Stock of Gents Underwear, which we will sell
at bottom figures good Linen Crash 7c per I'D !;
also large line of Ladies' Linen Suits, which
will be sold at the lowest prices before carrying
over. A call is all he asks. jy5
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BURNING OF A FAITHLEss WIFE At TIE
STAKE about three wecks ago an lcd!.f:
known as Sam lost his squaw Mary, ;hIone!!
the Establishments Of an lndiao naGcd J!:",
with whom she copcJ, taking s,r3 o a.,
household goods The loss OF ;hes. sop,.3 -;
ded much to the wrath OF Sam, aul ~ ,..,yi
such commotion among the P.ute t':."e.'..:.
they determined to teach the ftaii M1cy. ~.
by her example, the rest OF tn, wom ~ 1i -;
tribe, lasting lesson. Jim tried to sctcei h2r
from the gathering storm BY h:!iog De-, -,
they soon found her. and abou. fifty vi :n.
tribe, including jim and several squaw;, e5
cortcd her to the bills. iust back of Washoc
lake, nn Saturday evening last, aud there, sale
from Caucasian intrusion, they made Il great
pie OF sage brush, and, after tyiag her Er'aly
in the middle OF it, set it on fire. Then they
began war dance around the scene Of cfcm1-
tion, in which all joined, S,m being Very
fierce in his Laps and yelI. Tn, screams OF
Mary added to the Z,st of th" dinee. )lm
meantime, act quietly by and saemed an indli
fcrnnt spectator. After the body Of the untor
lun,te Mary hs'l been reduced to ashes sam
expressed his satisfaction. and the crowi dIS-
pcrs2d d--Rcuo JoWnnl
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SUMMER RESORTS.

pOARDING-Perso desiring healthy
ID and pleasant mountain homo for tho sum-
MGR can be accommodated within walking dis
tanco Of tho White Post, whore thore are
churches and postoDice. Address N. 8. NJ.
White Post, Clarke county, Va. joO