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The Worthington advance., 1878-01-31
Treeless Judea.

The only trees one meets are the olives
which however, are by no means plenti-
full in Judea, and mostly old and STUN
ted looking. In Samaria we saw several
cons derable plantations of them, but yet
that icountry is also sadly deficient of trees
Where now is the oak tree on which Alb
SALON. hnng by his bushy locks? There is,
l believe, only one remaining sufficiently
large for this; and yet we read that the
Wood of Ephraim, - where he was defeat
ed, destroyed more men than did the
sword. And where is the sycamore tree
upon which Zaccheus climbed? I doubt
if there be one such within many miles;
and yet we know that Jericho was once
richly clothed with trees and verdure,
and called the "City of palms." Indeed
that Palestine generally was once extreme
ly fertile, and rich in woods and verdurc
is evident from the meaning of many OF
the Scriptural proper names There
is along almost every little water-course
number of what are called trees, but
they are generally willows or mere copscs
of brush wood. A tree of any descrip=
tion, of size sufficient to make an ordln-
ary beam for building purposes, is quite
rarity-such are only to be found miles
apart. The vine, so much allnded to in
the Bible, is somewhat rarely seen; but
that it was extensively grown is evident
by the traces of terraces npor the steep
est hills still abundantly visible. Then,
as to the flowers-"The Rose of Sharon
and the "Lily of the Valley cannot be
found. There are many wild flowers Ger
tainly' t. but generally they grow out of a
"dry ground" and have, with very good
blossoms, almost no green foliage.
''Thorns and briers' are abundant, but
very little foliage also, and seem useful
only for burning. The fig trees even arc
few and far between, and the orange, ap-
ricot, and almond still more so. The
fields are not enclosed, except in some
rare csaes, where wise husbandman has
gathered the loose stones into piles around
his border. Hedges arc rare, but when
seen they are generally formed of large
cacti covered with dust, and having in
the twilight somewhat weird look.
Cultivated lands in Judca are very rare,
and even in Samaria are much covered
with stones, making ploughing with the
miserable piece of crooked wood, very
superficial operation. We felt surprised
and ashamed oftener than once to see our
dragoman (who frequently rode consider
ably in advance) lead his followers right
through field of growing corn, without
the slightest compunction, or any consid-
Grafton for the husbandman, merely to
save few minutes time in going to see
some object. or reach some desired path
Tho inha bifonto cnpnn ca onn,cfOnoo1 fo
submission under any and every Turkish
oppression that no complaint or opposition
was ofered.-1he East, By W. Y. Martin.
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Feminine.

Ex-Qucen Isabella is writing for the pa
pers.
Nillson grows stingy as she grows rich.
MIR. Lcrd's family regards his marriage i'll
the light of a shrew-ed speculation,
Mr.. Lord has gone off. Evidently his fam
lily didn't know he was loaded.
Bertha Won Hillern can't get up an appc-
tite unless she walks a hundred miles or SO.
American women will have their depart
ment at the Paris exposition,
Prof. Blake thinks woman can learn to
talk Greek in four months by keeping her
mouth shut.
Miss Weatherhog, of Quebec, has got rid
of her name, resulting in change of wealth
er and fall of pork.
Mrs. Knight. one of tho Worrell sisters,
had her ribs tickled at Syracuse, and knock
down, by George, was the consequence.
No girl, no matter how much she loves
young man, can entirely forgive the size of
his feet after they have trodden upon her
train.
A Kansas woman has reached the age of
130 years, and it is pitiable sight to see her
-year-old son sit in the corner and wrig-
gle, while he sobs, "Ma, kin I go out?''
An over-modest young lady up town de-
clined an invitation to a soiree at friend s
the other evening, on the ground that she
was engaged to 60 with her ma to one of the
D-mrosch concerts.
Small Girl-"Mamma, give me some more
pie" Mamma (who wants the small girl to
say "please'')-'I don't hear you, my child
Small Girl-s'Give me some more pie ~
Mamma-'I don't hear you, my child.''
Small Girl-"Oh, mamma, you must he near
sighted in the ears."-N. Y. World.
red-haired lady, who was ambitious OF
literary distinction, found but poor sale for
her book. A gentleman in speaking of her
disappointment, said: ''Her hair is red if her
book is not."~ An auditor in attempting to
narrate the joke elsewhere, said ''She has
red hair if her book HASN'T
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are species of bidens, plant very we'll
known in the United States, as Spanish
needles, and kind of crab grass. One
object Of placing the plants so close to-
gcther is to give the pineapple possession
Of the soil, and the weeds little chance of
usurpiDg the ground. The first sight of
q pine field is astonishing, for it presents
broad intricate tumble. OF a vast mass
of interlacing leafy sword blades, and the
first impression is that such q jam of vege-
tation womld be utterly incapable of pro-
ducing any fruit whatever, whereas the
fact is, the acre properly attended to yields
tho enormous number of ten to twelve
thousand pineapples.
There is another enemy, no less for
midable than the weeds that requires
looking after very sharply, and that is
the rat, which attacks the fruit Just as it
is about to ri pen. If no measures were
taken to prevent the depredations of
these troublesome creatures, very few
pincapples indeed would escape their
destructive jaws. The planter has q
remedy. Sweet potatoes are cooked, and
while they are yet hot, the sulphur ends
Of common matches are broken off and
introduced into them. The phosphorus
is diffused throughout the substance OF
the potatoes, and these being placed
among the principle plants are eaten by
the rats, which almost Immediately fall
dead from the effects of the poison
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Where Pineapples Grow.

A letter from the island Of Eleuthera,
in the Bahama group, writtcn to the New
York Sun thus describes the cultivation
of the pineapple: That the soil of Eleu-
thera should yield such an abundance of
delicious plneapples, is a matter of won
der to a person who has been used to the
fertile lands of the United States. One
who has never been on coral island can
form but the faintest notion of the exceed.
ing roughness of the surface, and migrate.
full aspect of the ground. The island'
Elcuthera, which furnishes such vast num-
bcrs Of pineapplcs, is, indeed covered by
a wild vegetation, in the main, while the
earth from which it springs is, in great
part Of the toughest conceivable charac-
ter of rock. Holes of every size, form
and description, some of them partly or
wholly filled with dirt, the debris of de-
cayed vegetation, loose fragments, large
and small, round and angular, sharp and
hard, everywhere abound. The rock
sticks up its singing points and cutting
edges in the most irregular and provok-
ing fashion. No plough, no spade no
hoe can here be used. The only thing
l1iG Gull uClS Ut uOuC ~ W SUCK SpEOuL
into one of the holes and let it take care
of itself, which it almost invariably does
right we'll; for it likes that kind of soil,
and sips its sweet nourishment from the
little dirt it may happen to find in the
hollow of the rock.
The holes are very close together, the
sprouts are placed scarcely foot from
each other, and as the plant grows up it
spreads its long, sharp, hard leaf blades,
with edges armed with little rasping,
saw-like teeth, up from the ground and
abroad in every direction. The plant has
a thick supply of these outbending
leaves, Tapped closely one over the other
near the ground, and out of the centre of
which comes up the fruit, one pineapple
only to each plant, which then perishes,
and leaves behind ! progeny Of young
sprouts, and these being stuck in the hol-
lows insure new crop for the succeeding
year. This replenishing can be kept up
for about six years, and. then the whole
field about exhausted, is left to itself, the
plants die out, in the course Of time the
soil is renewed, and freshcr fields now
demand the care of the pine grower.
The only attention given 70 the plant
is to keep the field clear of weeds, and
that is almost daily work the year round.
One negro man can attend to about two
acres. The worst weeds to contend with
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squalor, and everybody is half benumbed
and wretched looking except the child,
rem. Here they come in troop Billy
Of yesterday and his young friends
among the number, and though the shoes
aud boots of the whole party, on account
o their ramshackle, would not: if all
sold to an old Jew realize enough money
to buy new pair, the Dervish dance
they performed yesterday was quite q
lame performance to what they are equal
to this morning. Their jackets and frocks
are miserably thin (for there are little
girls as we'll as boys,) and flutter in: the
wind, and in many cases the tiny latter;
demlions have neither hat nor cap, and
their hair is prematurely gray with snow
that lodges in it. But tEey don't seem
to mind it bit. Mind it!They rejoice
and revel in it, and laugh out loud,
though their noses are blue, and the
breath puffs out as white steam when
they open their mouths.-London Soc;etv;
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MatrimOntaliSms.

The honeymoon does not shine for ALL
Mr.. Lord.
The old Russian marriage benediction
was this: "Here wolf take the lamb.'.
It is with love as with apparitions. Every
one talks of it, but few have seen it.
Answer to the proposal of the future
"Ask sonny."-New York World.
A Dubuque woman met slander by hang
ing her marriage certificate on street
corner lamp.
A gentleman said when a pretty girl trod
on his toes, that he had received the stamp
of beauty.
"Don't you think, husband, that you are
apt to believe everything you hear?' ''No,
madame, not when you TALK
When they speak of Washington widow
nowadays, they refer to her as ''an alleged
widow who would probably marry again.
~ can't undertake, wife, to crafty all your
whims; it would be as much as my life is
worth.'' ''Oh, sir, that is nothing
'How can I leave thee?' said Adam to Eve
She made no reply, but calmly pointed to q
fig tree in the distance. He gathered an
armful and felt greatly relieved. This was
the first relief.
A lady that would please herself in marry
ing was warned that her intended, although
good sort of a man, was very singular.
''Well,'' replied the lady, "if he is very much
unlike other men, he is much more likely to
be good husband.''
Only five female treasury clerks have thus
far succeeded in marrying congressman
NcW Hdren Joarnnl. No, better put it
the other way. Only five congressman have
thus far been fortunate enough to marry
treasury clerks.
The coldest storm wave of the season was
experienced by young man. from Syracuse,
who escorted all East Rome girl home Sun
day night, and was detected by her father
just as he was putting his moustache where
it would do her the most good.-Rvme Se,1-
tincl.
II call you darling,'' she said, as she
leaned her head OH his coat collar. 'sShow
your hand,'' he returned mechanically. The
young miss, not understanding his answer,
continued to poker head against his chin,
and he hove ace high of relief at her uncon-
sciousness of his mistake.-R0rhIdnd Cour-
1cr
Tho Rev. John Brown, of Haddington,
was in the habit of proposing, on festive oc-
casions, certain young lady as his toast.
Having abandoned the practice, he was asked
for reason. because, said he, ~ have
toasted her for sixteen years without making
her Brown, and so I've resolved to toast her
no more.''
Recently a minister received minister s
halffare travelling card, as they are called,
and wrotc to the superintendent, asking ''if
he could not embrace his wife also.'' The
superintendent replied that he thought likely
he could, but did not want to say positively
until he had seen the wife, as he was some
what fastidious in his tastes.-Dcnrer Z'ri-
Oune.
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ANTICIPATION.

Slanting across the fields of snow,
The westering sun makes haste to 60;
This day, know, is tried and sweet,
Tomorrow tries my tagging feet.
With many pause of happy rest
I've jonrneyed with To- day, my guest;
His stranger brother cannot be,
Mcthinks, as goodly company
Holding in his mysterious hand
Gifts that will bless or blight my land!
larry yet longer, fair To-day,
That boding step an hour delay.
What songs have told my spirits cheer,
What sunlight warmed the glowing year
What dear companions round me hung,
While life and love and hope were young
These with Tomorrow fade apace,
Like bloom from beloved face;
And trusting half, yet half with dread,
Iquestion, "What shall be instcad?"
The sun drops deeper, night is chill;
The Oracles I seek are still:
Yon herald star which glitters low,
Seems beckoning on the way Igo. ~. 49,
Tomorrow? All, that door doth opc
A new celestial path to Hope.
More than I ask or dream n ust be,
In Gods Tomorrow kept fer me!
Atlantic Monthly
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What Meat Shall We Eat.
BY COL. F. D. CURTIS.


The American people are gradually in
crcasing the consumption Of mutton.
Thirty years ago but few fat sheep went
to the markets. Now more than a mill
ion are required annually to supply the
demands OF New York CITY alone. The
great staple meat food of the cities is
beat, while in the country districts it is
the flesh of swine. :F;IGsis +ezs can not keep
whole carcasses of beat on hand, and if
preserved in salt, as they do their pork,
it soon gets hard and unpalatable. A
carcass of mutton being so mnch smaller,
even in hot weather, a considerable por-
tion of it can be used fresh, and the bal
ancc picked in salt. Mutton will keep
longer in a fresh state than any other
meat and when corned it is excellent
food. 1t is equally nutritious with beef
and far more wholesome than pig-meat
in any form. For persons Of sedentary
habits, and at all afflicted with weak d.
gestion, it is far healthier than beef or
pork. Many people who can not digest
either of the latter without distress, can
eat full meal of mutton and experience
no unpleasantness whatever It is the
SAS"AA|o0 AAu PuACSt 1OOU Ill luC
whole animal kingdom, as sheep will
starve before it will eat anything dirty or
tainted. Mutton wastes less in the pot or
oven than beef. The bones are lighter
and finer in proportion to the amonnt of
meat in we'll fed sheep, and this, alone, is
an important item to those who have to
buy. The less shrinkage in cooking is a
considerable percentage in favor of NUT
ton. The great reason why more mutton
is not eaten is because of its poor quality,
which is the result Of no general system
practiced in the production of this i'm
portant staple. During the late war the
price of wool ran up so high and the de-
mand was so urgent that the country was
stimulated to the increasing of the focks
without regard to their kind or character.
Mutton became secondary consideration,
or rather was not taken into the account
at all. With the close of the war and the
inevitable monetary reaction, there came
a crash in the price of wool land the sheep,
bred for heavy feeces, were sacrificed
Breeding sheep for their fleece should be
confined to the great areas west of the
Mississippi, and remote from market.
So long as more than sixty million dol
lars worth of wool and wooden fabrics are
yearly imported to supplement our def
ciencies, growing sheep in those immense
regions will pay.
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Attempted Train Robbery.

A daring attempt was made to rob a
passenger train on the Atchinson, Topeka &
Santafee railroad on the 9th, between three
and four o'clock. Five armed and masked
men entered the Station at Kainsley, Kansas,
and captured Wright, the telegraph operator
who was ordered to open the safe. He refused
to do so, although his life was threatened
The wcst-bound express arrived at this time
and the operator by desperate effort broke
loose. A vollcy of pistol shots was fired into
1t, and us the train was stopped the conductor,
VIM J. Mallroy. was met by two robbers who
presented pistols to his head, and ordered him
into the baggage car. He stepped in and
closed the door instantly, starting the train by
pulling the bell cord. Mallroy and the bag
gage master then armed themselves with car
'bincs carried in the car and then stopped the
train after running about mile from the sta
ton. They went back through the coaches
with arms but found the passengers had not
been disturbed.
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VI all 1IObber Arrest cd.

For two months the U. S. detectives
have been shadowing a man named Carl
Namuth suspected of being engaged in
taking letters from the mail boxes in various
parts of Chicago, and on the 23d they effected
his capture, together with over two thousand
letters which he had in his house which he
had taken from the boxes opened and rifled
Of valuable contents. His stcalings, which
have extended over a period of nine or then
months, must have been very considerable.
He was 4 Gcrman-highly educated, fine look
ng. and has only been in Chicago year and
n half. He is now in charge of the u 8.
Marshal.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE, January, 22nd.-Petitions.

SENATE, January, 22nd.-Petitions, re-
ports, communications and minor bills were
presented. The statue Of William King, pre-.
sented by the State of Maine, was accepted,
and speeches made by Blaine, Hamlin, Dawes
tween Senators Blaine and Dawes on the oc-
casiUn of reference by the former to old points
OF dispute between the States.
HOtBn, Jan 22d: Committee reports
were made, among them resolution by Ewing
instructing the committee on banking and
currency to ascertain the amount of gold and
bonds in the country, with view to ascertain.
ing the feasibility Of resumption, which was
adopted. Some private bills were passed, and
President Porter, of Yale, appointed regent Of
the Smithsonian institute. The house then
considered a portion of the bill for regulating
commerce, and voted to accept the statute OF
William King, from the State of Maine.
SENATE, Jan. 23.-Petitions were pre-
sented; the naval committee was discharged
from consideration of the Draper case, and
mittec. Mr.. Blaine introduced bill for a
double legal tender OF gold and silver. Mr..
Ferry introduced bill to fix the basis of com
pensation Of fourth-class postmasters upon
stamps cancelled instead of sold. Resolutions
were offered to print H. 900 copies each of the
S hen S3 epS The sSoa kS1 %
favor of it, and MI. Randolph in opposition.
HOUSE, Jan. 23:-Thc house considered
the steamboat bill, and several minor
amendments were adopted, after which the
day was given up to culogies upon the late
Senator Bogy.
SENATE, Jan. 24th.-Thc senate dis
cussed the Runkle case, passed some minor
resolutions, and then proceeded to the discus
sion of the Matthews silver resolutions. Mr..
Lamar spoke at length, when the question was
taken on the several amendments. Mr.. Con-
kings amendment to make the resolution
joint instead Of concurrent was discussed at
length. Pending debate, the senate adjourned.
HOUSE, Jan. 24th.-The entire session
was DEVOTED to the steamboat bill, which was
not finished when the house adjourned.
SENATE, Jan. 25.--The Senate consid-
cred the bill to remit taxes on insolveut saw
1ngs banks, received petitions and passed the
bill ordering the Memphis custom house to
be constructed of Tennessee marble. The
Matthews silver resolutions coming up, Conk.
ling's amendment to make the resolutions
joint Instead of concurrent was defeated 90
to 80. Edmunds' amendment next came up
and was defeated after discussion, Is to A.
All other amendments were rejected and the
resolutions wee finally adopted 43 to ~.
HuosE, Jan. 25.-The House passed the
steamboat bill and the bill authorizing the
public printer to make purchase in open mar
ket, and went into committee of the whole
to consider the bill to extend the time for
the withdrawal of whisky now in bond, and
a long discussion consumed the rest of the
session.
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WM. DooLEy, an amateur detective in
search of two cattle thieves, found them
at church at White Sulphur, Ky, where
upon, pistol in hand, he informed preach
er and congregation that they were all un-
der arrest. While everybody looked as
tonisllcd, he picked out his men, marched
them out of the building at the muzzle of
his weapon, and, turning on the step,
shouted to the minister that he could 20
on with IT, 3 benediction.
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Tho Wrong Man Hung,

A Rio Janeiro letter says: Much talk
has been caused by the confession of man
that was the real author of the murder and
burning of a family of eight persons in 1852,
for which wealthy planter and three of his
slaves were executed in 1856. The tragedy oc-
Cured near Michai, and the murderer says
that. assisted by some dependents, he forced
the house in the dead Of night, secured all the
inmates, outraged the ill-fated woman, and,
driven to desperation as he forcsaw the conse-
q,1cnccs, deliberately, murdered the whole
family TO destroy evidence, and set the house
on fire in expectation that their death would
be ascribcu to accident.
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the bridge bills. Among the dozen new bills
introduced were these: 70 destroy those
Psr1inacious port :i railroad bonds; appropriating
to appropriate $500 to build a bridge in
Houston county; to oleagalizc Chaska bonds;
changing Pembina ferry charter; to amend
the tax law; to appropriate $75 to John Pat.
terson for catching a horse. thief. The Winona
library bill was passed, and also the senate
bill authorizing Morrison county to issue
bridge bonds. ~
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Suicide.

Capt. A. X. Long, commissary of SUBJ
sistencc, at Washington, committed suicide
Jan. 22d. He went home at the usual hour,
vcrsation with her, and Immediately af:erward
passed into an adjoining room and shot him
self near the heart, cansing death almost inn
mcdiatcly. Long was pardon clerk at the
White House under President johnson, and
assigned to duty with Mr.. johnson when the
latter was military Governor of Tennessee.
He married the daughter of Hon. II. D. Foster,
cx-rcprcsentativc from PENNSYLVANIA.
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Mexican Veterans.

The Senate committee ct military af-
fairs amended the House bill for the payment
OF three months extra pay to soldiers of the
war, by making it include also officers, petty
officers, scamen and marines who served in