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Watering Window Plants.

The F,zit Gy01ver contains the
following valuable suggestion
on the watering of window
plants:
There is nothing that the cul-
tivator of window plants asks
more about than how and when
to water plants. There is moth
ing he or she asks that is more
unsatisfactory answered. The
| florist tells him to water when
the plant needs it. But how is
! he to know when the plant
needs water? This is just the
point of ignorance. Yet it is
very difficult to give the know
ledge to any one. 1t must come
of experience; and yet there
are few hints that one may
profit by in trying to find out
when plant needs water.
With experience one can soon
tell by the weight of the pot.
One knows about how an empty
pot ought to feel, and how the
same pot ought to feel when
filled with dry earth. When
very wet the weight is nearly
double. A plant never wants
water when the pot with the
earth is heavier than a pot of
dry soil.
Then the color of the earth
will tell, with very little expert
ence, when it needs water, and
one soon learns to distinguish
by this. 1t is almost always
much lighter in color when dry
than when wet; and if the earth
is as dark as it is when fresh
watered, it wants no more till it
gets lighter.
And than experience will soon
teach one to knowwllen a plant
needs water by the feeling of
the earth. When dry the earth
will crumble a little when it is
touched; on the other hand it
seems to press together and to
be smeary when wet. With very
little experience it IS SO easy to
tell when a plant needs water by
the feeling alone that a blind
man might make a florist in this
respect.
Those who want to know how
many times week to water
their window plants can never
get an answer. Plants will need
more water in warm room than
in a cool one, in dry atmo-
sphere than in one that is moist,
when a plant is growing vigo-
rously than when it is, at rest,
when it is in good health than
when it is somewhat sick, and
in light, shady earth rather than
in stiff or heavy ground. Nothing
at all but a little experience will
help one, but if there is a true
love for the helpless little thing
it is astonishing how soon the
knowledge comes to one. There
is no such one but soon becomes
a good "plant man."
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Wool on the Sleeps Back.

The ordinary breeds of sheep
met with in most countries do
not change their coat, as has
been clearly demonstrated by
exhaustive experiments. They
have been left unshorn for four,
seven and eleven years, without
any fresh growth being obser-
we'd, although the original coat
continued to increase by simple
prolongation of the individual
hair, The rate of growth is faster
during the first three years of a
sleeps life, after which it de-
creases gradually and consider
ably. In domesticated sheep
the growth each year is most
luxuriant Immediately after the
shearing in June and July, while
in the wild breeds, as might be
expected, it is most marked in
winter time, when tbs severity of
the weather demands additional
protection.
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= John Taylor. white, shot
and killed negro at Calvert
on Monday.
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What Agriculture Does.

I
An exchange says: Without
agriculture there is no wealth.
Gold and silver are not wealth
they are its convenient represen-
tives commerce produces no
WEALTH. simply exchanges it (;
manufacture and the arts COM
bine it, Agriculture is the pro-
life mother of wealth. The rest
simply handle it when produced
and delivered into their hands.
The earth breeds savages.
Agriculture breeds enlightened
nations; it breeds houses and
ships, temples and seminaries;
it breeds the mandatory; soul
pture, painting and music areits
offspring. The wheels of the
work shop, the sails of COM
merce, the implements ofscience,
the pen of genius, the pencil and
chisel of the artist, the eloquent
tongue of the orator, the schem-
ing brain of the statesman, the
eqiuppages of wealth, the BAN
quoting of pleasure, all that rem
ders earth in its tides oflife any
thing but great sepulchre,
move and have power Of being,
because the fields yield their
fruits to the patient toll of the
husbandman.
We might manage to live
without merchants, without ma
riners, without orators, without
poets, perhaps we might posi-
bly, survive the loss of demago-
CUES but sure / am we could
not without plowmen.
The state of husbandry IN any
country is the best test of its
enlightenment. The thermo-
meter of civilization rises or falls
as drives the pillow. "You must
send the pillow" exclaimed a man
who had travelled all over Chris
tan missionary ground, Gin
heather lands, a barbarian ma
ton needs but to be plowed up
deep, SUBSIDIZED, planted, and the
inevitable harvest will be an en-
lightened nation"
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Orchards to be Kept Up.

The fall is regarded by many
as the best season for planting
most varieties of fruit trees. We
presume that most of our far
mers viii see the necessity of
keeping their orchards in a good
condition, if they are SO fortu-
nate as to have them; or if they
have not established one, they
viii now clearly see how impor-
tant it is, alike for health, plea
sure and aconomy, to have an
abundance af fruit for home con-
sumption.
Every farmer having ever SO
great a variety and number of
fruit trees should consider it
duty to plant a few trees each
year. 1t is only by SO doing that
he can keep his oachard in a
f1ourishing condition. Trees
from various causes will die off;
some viii yield no fruit, or fruit
of so-poor a quality that they
might as well be out of the way
and make place for better vari-
cites.
Many persons think that if
they have trees in bearing that
is enough, and that if is entirely
unnecessary to plant more. This
is mistake. We know ofmany
farms where fine varieties of
fruit trees were planted twenty
years ago and came into early
bearing, but are now so thinned
out by heborer, blight, or some
other disease, that there are few
remaining, and there is lite fruit
now to be gathered. No young
trees have been set out to take
the place of those already dead,
and the consequence is a greatly
diminished amount offruit. Too
great care cannot be exercised
in the matter of fruit. After the
haying and harvesting is done,
the thrifty farmer will look well
to-liis orchard and see that the
full standard oftrees, as to num-
Der and quality of fruit, be sus- |
tained.-SpfyIf Of Kansas.
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To Young Man on Farms,

There are thousands Of young
men on farms who are DESTROYS
of leaving them for town life.
Perhaps one cause of the won
derful growth of cities during
the past fifteen years, aside from
the desire to evade taxation, is
this restlessness Of the country
youth. Ofcourse the step from
country to city is not irrevoca-
bic. Tools dropped can be lif-
ted again. Otherwise this desire
that haunts the breasts of SO
many would be a dreadful mis-
fortune to nine-tenths of them.
This is world for manual labor
which few can evade, and he
who grows up without having
been thoroughly accustomed to
it from childhood may well re-
gard himself as an invalid or
cripple, fated to subsist upon
the aims OF follics of others.
Certainly the youth brought up
on a farm, well learned in all
the business of farming, with
sinews and thews well knitted
by the exercise, has incompa-
rably the advantage over any
other in the race of life. The
merely educated youth has no
such opportunity, although five
compare the two at twenty-one
years, it viii not seem SO. There
is no such drug in the market as
the educated man. Fifty years
ago old DR.. Drake declaren 1--WE
must educate We must edu-
cate! Orwe must perish by our
own prosperity" The words
were caught up, were published
in every reader and orator and
repeated as oratorical excerci-
ses at every school, in every tone
from the shrill squeak of the
six-years old up TO the hoarse
bray Of the terrible hobbede-hoy
of seventeen : call voice and
nothing else.
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Insects on Grape Vines

Our attention was recently
called to a worm which was quite
plenty on the Catawba grape
vine, eating whole leaves in a
night. They are gregarious, and
may do a great deal of damage.
We referred the matter to Prof.
Burrill, of the Industrial Univer-
sity, who supplies the EolIoyleg
account of them
The Yellow
3 s ] j
caterpillars il
the grape
stripe whole vines, or eve kiner
yards, of their leaves. They are
not hard to destroy, owing to
the fact that, while young, they
feed in CLOSE order" willing the
leaf as they go. The peculiar
appearance of the injured leaf
denotes their presence, and, by
Manipulating and burning, they
can readily be kept down. The
cocoons are very fiat, and are
usually found fastened on the
stems of the vine, stakes, etc.
The earliest are now (Aug. S.
transformed for another brood.
-Erckange.
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l)IEssR'sJ. Ii. ZiiLIN & &c. -
Gentlemen, We, the undersigned, engin-
GERS, ON the Georgia Central Railroad, in
grateful obligation Tor the benefits we receiv-
ed from the use of simmons Liver Regulator
during fhe-Yellow Fever Epidemic in Savan-
nah, Ga, during !hh summer and fall of
1876, desire to make the following statement !:
That during the aforesaid epidemic, we used
the medicine known as Simmons Liver Regll-
lator, prepared by j. II. Zeilin & Co., and
though exposed TO the worst miasmatic infiu-
ences by going in and coming out ofSavan-
nah nj different hours of the night,> and also
in spending entire nights in the city during
the prevalence of the most fatal epidemic,
who was taken sick, but speedily recovered,
VIC continued in our usual good health, cir
cumstance we can account for in no other
way but by the effect, under Providence, of
the habiiual nse OF simmons Liver Keglila-
tor while VIC were exposed TO this yellow fe-
yer malaria.
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VEGETINE.
REV. Up. LUDLOW WRITES

LIS BALTIC ST., BRookLYN, n. Y,
November lith, 1874.
H. r. STEVENS, ESQ.,:
DEAR SIR;-From personal benefit received
by irs use, as well rs from personal knowledge
OF those whose cures thereby have seemed al
most miraculous, can most heartily and sim
cerely recommend the yEGETISE for the COM
plants which II is claimed to cure.
JAMES p. LUDLOW,
Late Pastor Calvary Baptist Church.
Sacramento, Cal.
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NTRS. RHODA TESTARD-
FASHIONABLE DREsSMAKER,
Brennan. Texas.

Respectfully informs her old friends and
customers that she is now prepared to cut,
fit and make all kinds Of Ladies' Wear in
the latest style. Silks ordered for parties
desiring them. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Terms moderate. Can be found upstairs,
in the Onins building, East side of Public
Square. sepIam5
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MELTON F. COOPER,
JAS. L. MALLETT,
JOHN r. COLLINS
G. b. PATTERSON.
CAUTION.
The genuine simmons Liver Regulator is
wrapped in clean, neat WHITE WRAPPER
with the red symbolic letter stamped upon il
in the form of a ribbon gracefully curved
in 10 the letter embracing the emblem Of
the words a, Q. SIMMONS LIVER REGlI-
LAT0R or MEDICINE thereon, also OBJ
serve the 81 snafure nf j. II. ZELLlN 4 co.
in red ink on the si,le-
Run no Risks by being Induced
10 Take Substitutes
TAKE NO OTHER BUT THE ORIGINAL
AND GENUINE,
MASrFAcrrTEp ONLY ny
j. IL. ZEILIN & co,
PIIILADFLPIIA.
soldb all respectable druggist
I. b. Mcfarland Bates Mcfarland.
TcFAki-AND q McFARLANC.
Attorneys ts1aNS,
BRENNAN, Texas.
ofice-Upstsirs in Graber's building, Yves
side Public square. ian. ISIS.
Ben, $ ROGERS
Attorney-at-La>v,
Chappel Hill. Texas.
BREEDLovE u EWING
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Brennan. Texas
e. c LOCKET,Tr
AttOrnoy-ar.haw,
Brenham, Texas.
y6T C. BAIRD, NJ. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
mch SIT. Wesley, Texas.
d H. & J. T. swEARINGEN,
Attorneys at Law,
Brennan, Texas.
Office in the Abbott building, East side
of the public square. Feb. 8, IS7S-Iy.
J. T. Norris MD. In. Crea
Brsnham- Rocky, Austin Co
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-13

NO BACK FIRE.

The Democracy of Ramsey county have,
for two or three years, been trihe discord-
ant. We might say more than a trife-se-
riously discordant. So much so that they
have lost control of many important por-
tons of the county government. These in
ternal quarrels, if continued, can have but
one result and that is to utterly dethrone the
Democracy in Ramsey and place their enc
mies in power. Every man who flies the
track when his party dominates, does
SO owing to some rell or fancied grievance.
Before pursuing any such suicidal policy,
he should stop to consider how much he inn
proves the situation by abandoning his own
organization and seeking that of the COM
mon enemy. How much does he improve
his own chances for favors by tearing down
what has been built up?
But we do not propose to indulge in NOR
alization. The present Democratic county
ticket was put in the field fair and square.
No one assumes that any dishonorable means
were employed by any of the candidates.
The convention was harmonious and pro-
vided an excellent ticket A ticket was
presented which deserves the united support
of every member of the party, and SO far as
the GLOBE can secure it, it shall have it.
The party organization is worth something
or nothing. If it amounts to anything it
should be maintained, and any who choose
to join the ranks of the enemy should be al
lowed to remain there permanently. 1t
should be understood that members of the
party cannot labor to-day to defeat a fairly
nominated candidate and to morrow receive
the party support themselves. They must
take position on one side of the house or
the other, and as they decide to make their
bed, they must lie therein.
We do not know of any discordant ele-
ment or any attempt to injure the ticket,
such as has prevailed heretofore in this
county, and for this very reason we desire to
put the GLOBE on record, in advance, as pro-
posing to refuse to support in the future any
who may see fit to cast themselves outside of
the organization now. There is no amuse-
ment in one-sided game, and the GLOBE
will endeavor to make it two-handed, if any
insist upon entering the lists.
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Not Disturbing Element.
ST. PAUL. Oct. 70. 1878.

ST. PAUL, Oct IL, 1873.
To the Editor of the Globe.
Having observed an item in Friday evenings
Dispatch, in its report of the proceedings at
the Donnelly club on Thursday night last,
wherein my name is mentioned as putting
some questions to Col. Crooks, as regards the
government giving land grants to railrord cor
porations, permit me to state that 1 did not
put the questions for the purpose of discus
sion criticism. asked them to get his ideas
upon the subject, knowing full well that he
has a general knowledge of railroad business;
and, being somewhat interested myself in that
very question, for the simple reason that have
land in that part of Dakota Territory where the
government has refused to give land to rail-
roads, and not altogether for the purpose of ad-
vancing my Eastern ideas of the land question,
as the Dispatch would have it. As that sheet
tries to make me believe that arrived on the
first train coming from the East, last Thursday
morning, would further inform the editor of
the Dispatch that l have been a resident of St.
Paul for nearly three years, and have exercised
the right of citizenship at the ballOt-box ever
since came. would further inform the gen.
tleman that the question put to Col. Crooks by
me had no tendency whatever in bringing
about any dlscord or disagreement amongst the
members of the Donnelly club, who are always
anxious to hear questions asked; and are always
ready to answer questions on the political ques-
tions of the day; and which, when answered &C
cording to the ideas which Mr.. Donnelly holds
on those vital questions, will be sure to further
the interests of the club, and insure the cleo
ton of Mr.. Donnelly to Congress.
Therefore, Mr.. Editor, hoping that no one
will entertain the remotest idea of my going to
that hall for the purpose of disturbing the har-
mony of the meetings by asking these ques-
lions, and that you will pardon me for occupy
ing SO much of your valuable space. remain,
Yours Respectfully.
JOHN KEENAN,.
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the uneasiness; while the suspicious move
ments of Russia and the suggestions of bad
faith on her part have contributed to
the general unrest. It is openly, charged that
her agents were at the bottom of the Rho
dope instruction, designed to defeat the
purpose of the treaty of Berlin as far as Rou-
melia was concerned. It is also alleged that
Russia is trying to negotiate convention
with Roumania granting the right of pas
sage for Russian troops through her terri
tory in direct contravention of the proyis-
ions of the treaty. A cable dispatch of
Thursday says that another exhibition of the
bad faith of the Russians has been given by
their maintaining an army of $4,000 men
in Bulgaria and Roumania, a much larger
force than is allowed by treaty. It is also
said that Russian videttes are within fifteen
miles of Constantinople fragrant breach
of the treaty. The facts are suspicious
and suggestive of impending trouble. They
have provoked much uneasiness in British
diplomatic circles, and the government has
already determined to demand an explana-
ton from St. Petersburg. What the out
come will be even the wisest cannot foretell.
The situation, however, is ominous, and
further developments will be looked for
with the deepest anxiety. If it should come
to pass that Europe should be marshalled in
battle array, the conflict will be a terrible
one, more pregnant with destiny than any
other since the wars that resulted in the
overthrow of the first Napoleon. 1t will be,
probably, the last struggle for the mastery
of Europe if not of the world. It will have
powerful if not "a revolutionary effect upon
modern civilization in every country on the
globe, and will result in the overthrow of
dynasties and religions that are now thought
to be founded upon everlasting bases. At
any rate the clouds are portentious, and if
they do not burst with terrific effect all signs
will fail
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FIRE LADIES ExpER1nErr1sG.
Rapid Handling of the Ladders-Throwin.
Water Through the Standing.Pipes on TIL.
Merchants Hotel.

Rapid Handling of the Ladders-Throwinc
Water Through the Standing.Pipe on the
Merchants Hotel.
Yesterday afternoon Chief Strong, of the
fire department, ordered No. 2 steamer and
pose of a little exercise with the ladders and
to test the two stand pipes run up the out
side walls of the eastern front of the new adj
dition of the Merchants hotel. These stand
pipes run from the first story to the roof,
with connecting nozzles at each end, to
which hose can be attached from the steam
or and carried over the roof of the building
to any desired point from the upper roof
end. In connection with the stand pipe,
iron steps have been set into the
wall leading from the ground to
the roof, for the use of
the firemeD or as escapes in case of fire. The
stand pipes also have coupling connections
at each story, so that hose can be attached
and carried inside the building at any de-
sired point in case of fire.
Before trying the stand pipes yesterday,
the chief practiced the hook and ladder bows
in running up the double jointed ladder,
having an extension of over sixty feet, and
which, when put up, reached to the top of
tne fourtn story. AT the first trial, taking
the unconnected ladders from the truck,
the jointed ladder was got into position IN 3
minutes and 10 seconds. Not satisfied with
this, the street was cleared and another trial
was had, which resulted in the ladder being
put in place in the very short space of time
of minute and 80 seconds
In trying the stand pipes, both were con-
nected with the steamer, and length
of hose attached to each at the up
per end and carried out over the roof, and
in about two minutes from the time of light
ing the fire in the steamer two powerful
streams of water were being thrown upon
the roof of that and the adjoining buildings
most satisfactorily demonstrating the utility
of standing OF fixed pipes, as means OF
carrying water to the top of high buildings
such as the Merchants.
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THE CHURCHES.


The Services which are to be Held To-day.
Plymouth church, corner Wabashaw street
and Summit avenue. Usual service at 10 80 A.
| a. and 7 80 P. NJ. Preaching by the pastor,
Rev. DR.. Dana. Strangers and others cordially
invited.
First Presbyterian church, corner Lafayette
avenue and Woodward street. Preaching by
the rastor, Rev. DR.. Conn, at 1890 A. NJ. and
7:30 P. NJ. Sunday school at IL NJ. Strangers
and all who have no regular place of worship
are cordially invited.
New Jerusalem Cor Swedenborgian) church,
Market street, between Fourth and Fifth
streets. Rev. E. G. Mitchell, pastor. Services
at 1890 A. NJ. Sunday school at 10A. NJ. Sub
ject of sermon: 1.-The Proyidential AID justments
of Spiritual Life"
Church of the Good Shepherd (EpiscopaI.
Morning service at IL o'clock; evening service
at 7:3O. William Cox Pope, B. D., rector.
First NJ. E. church, on upper Third street.
Preaching at 1870 A.. M, by Rev. j. Frank
Locke, of Amesbury, Mass. Sunday school at
IL N. ALI invited. No evening service.
Unity church. Service at 1890 A. NJ. Ser
P. N. At ~ NJ. the True Helpers - Temper
ance society meets to renew its three months
pledge.
Central Presbyterian church, on Cedar street
near the capitol, Rev. VIM. McKibbin, pastor.
Preaching at 1920 A. NJ and 7 80 P. M. Sabbath
st. Pauls church, EpiscopaI, corner of
Ninth and Olive streets, Rev. E. L. Thomas,
rector. Services at II A. NJ. and 1880 P. NJ. Sun
day school at 2:30 P. NJ. st. Pauls chapel at 8
p. m.
House of Hope-Service at 80 A. NJ. to be
conducted by Bishop Charles Edward Cheney
and Rev. E. d. Neill. Sermon by Bishop Che
ney.
Y. NJ. g. A. SERVICES.
2P. M. Jail service; P. M. hospital service; 4
P. NJ. at the young mems Bible Glass; at which
all young men and strangers in the city will be
welcomed. Subject: Advance international
lesson-''The Prodigal Son," Luke XIV, l1-24,
taught by the general secretary.
Dayton Bluff Sunday School-At the chapel
at P. NJ. Superintendent, G. W. Hackett.
Sunday evening the Y. M. G. A. will conduct
the evening service at the House of Hope church.
Addresses by Y. M. G.. A. workers. with especial
reference to the work among the boys of our
cities.
Monday evening, Gospel meeting at the rooms
at 1880 for young men only. Bishop Cheney of
Chicago, will be present and address this meet
ing.
Tuesday evening, Union Bible class, taught
by Rev. Samuel Conn, D. d.
Friday evening, prayer meeting at Dayton
Bluff chapel.