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1T a new and many colored subject
These things require the sun to ripen
hem, and we see his face here as a rule
TOR some two and half hours weekly.
rs duly registered at Glynde place,
Lewes. Then, again, there are the
winter cherries, the sweet potatoes, and
2est OF all earthly vegetables, green In,
nan corn, eaten off the cob with fresh
,utter, and hkest to nectar of all mortal
tehcacies AS for pulse generally, our
Deans are all stringy we have neither
me variety nor the tenderness of the
American bean. Our peas have some
good polnts-for English peas; but they
are not half so large, or luscious, or melt
ng, as American peas. They take too
ong growing, and have got old and hard
before they are big enough to pick. The
delicious crinkly eatable-pod pea would
be impossible here; it would have got
ough and sinewy month before it was
ready for cooking. egrow buckwheat
TO feed our pheasants, but it never ripens
as 1t ought, and buckwheat pancakes at
breakfast will doubtless be an unknown
luxury with US forever
In the matter of leafy vegetables we
can do little better, but not enough to
boast about. We are strong in salads;
oar climate provides us with plenty of
fresh green lettuce, and plenty of slugs,
too, to hide in its recesses. But endiye
does not flourish; it is scrubby-looking
plant In England; though we make up
TOR 1T IN crosses and the lesser salad
stutts. Our roots, too, are good; who
will deny the British farmer the glory
OF his turnips, his beets, and his man
gold-wurzel? When it comes to edible
MOVERS however we are hopelessly left
IN the lurch. Our top artichokes are
the hardest and poorest in the world
they contain maximum of fibrous. un-
eatable bract, and minimum of soft,
starchy pulp. In the south of France,
Italy, and America you can often eat the
whole flower head, choke and all; in
England you can only extract pitiful
plttance OF soft mouthful off the base
OF each great leathery scale. 1t would
be impossible to dress English artichokes
IN fried butter as they do so deliciously
at Florence; one might as well eat fried
boots. Our caulihowers and broccoli are
not nearly as good as the American
they are neither so white nor so delicate
in flavor. We can grow cucumbers
(under glass;, because cucumbers are
eaten green; but what miserable farce
are our vegetable marrows What is
true OF vegetables is even more true of
fruits. To be sure our English hot-house
grapes are the best in the world; but for
Strawberries, raspberries currants, goose
berries, plums, and cherries, we must 90
to America. Our peaches are a success
our apples are national failure; and
our pears are standing insult to the
human intelligence. But we NAV at
least congratulate ourselves that with
the aid of glass and stoves we can obtain
heat and light enough to grow the best
pineapples in the world at the moderate
price of one guinea apiece. In Jamaica
they usually sell at two for three half
pence
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mo grass, no cattle;
No cattle, no manure
No manure, no grass.
THOMAS POLLARD
English and American Vegeta-
bleS

Every American who has soiourned in
England has greatly missed the album
dance and variety of vegetables which he
has in his own country. We have never
seen the lack SO fully acknowledged by
any English authority as in the follow
ing from the Pail Mall Gazette:
Why have we in England no vegeta
bles? To doubt the fact is impossible
at least to anybody who knows what
real vegetables are like. "Sir," said an
American stranger at restaurant in the
Strand one day, "Sir, this is the one
thing you can raise in your country.
and we can't raise in ours-a mutton
chop; but then you never tasted green
peas in all your life" That antithesis
puts the great vegetable question in a
nutshell. 1t is impossible in the same
country to have good meat and good
vegetables. For the best beef and NUT
ton are product of the soft, tender Eng
llsh greensward, which only exists in a
few countries along the Atlantic seaboard
OF Europe, and owes its origin to the con-
slant rainfall.
The same causes which give us good
meat, however, deny us in England the
possibility of good fruit and vegetables
For while the heritage requires copious
ram, the fruits, seeds, pods, flowers,
buds, and other miscellaneous objects
which we class from the culinary point
of view as vegetables, all require copious
sunlight. That is why we have none of
them. Our only good vegetables are
such as very young rhubard, seakale.
asparagus, and celery, which are the
bianched sprouting shoots of perennial
plants. These mos y come in spring
time, and as they are none the worse, or
even all the better, for a little whole
some soaking, they manage to survive
our climate well enough in the long run
But most other vegetables are more or
less fruity in their nature; and really 70
taste these one must go to America or
ltaly-for choice the first. OF thor
ough-going fruity vegetables-such as
the tomato-we in England know moth
ing. We never have sun enough TO
riilpen them properly; and even with all
enc appliances of modern gardeners, they
never get thoroughly red and soft
throughout in our gardens as they do in
Ine open air under Canadian or Italian
SKY. They always have a halfgreep
taste, and are wholly lacking in the true
Iich tomato flavor Indeed, the timed
American specimens though tasting Of
C1e solder Of course, are better savored
after all than our poor starved sunle
English things. As to purple egg-fruit
and green chow elbows, we know them
not at all; while the profusion Of rich
ried-heshed watermelons and primrose
skinned squashes and golden pumpkins
IN Massachusetts, market would as
tonish Covent Garden, and set some
nsscent Turner to work with all the
pigments on his palette to try his hand
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farm aud Garden.
From the Richmond Dispatch.
tton-Growing in Virginia.

doubt whether the advice to the farm
ers Of our State to extend the cultivation
of cotton Is wise. 1t seems almost impos-
sible to improve lands where cotton and
tobacco are raised. If tobacco is raised
few lots get all the manure, and the
rest of the farm goes down. If cotton is
the crop, grasses and stock are neglected.
In fact, grasses are considered an enemy to
cotton, and clean lands the great desid-
eratwm. The history of southern farms
has been that the wearing-out process has
been the rule and the seeking of new
lands in Arkansas, Texas, &C., the result.
1t is true that commercial fertilizers are
quite extensively used on cotton, but no
grasses follow, and no permanentimprove
ment is effected. In trip last fall from
Richmond to Atlanta we scarcely saw
any grass lands; only here and there
around some dwelling a small plot might
be seen. Even on the rich bottoms OF
the Roanoke no grasses or stock were
visible, whereas thousands ought to be
found here grazing on rich grasses, as on
the fertile lands and meadows of Holland
The consequence of all this is that nothing
but few scrubby stock are seen all
through the section alluded to. No per-
manent improvement can be effected in
the lands of country without grasses
and stock, and its permanent prosperity
may generally he estimated by the num-
Der of stock and quantity of grass raised.
The railroads receive good remuneration
for transporting cotton, but the lands do
not improve, and few merchants in the
villages along the railroads get support
by handling cotton. That the South may
successfully raise the grasses, at least as
far south as Georgia, has been demon
strated by Mr.. c. W. Howard, of Georgia,
In his Manual on Grasses" We believe
in the truth of old Belgian proverb:
No grass, no cattle;
No CATTLE no manure;
No manure no grass"
THOMAS POLLARD.
P.S.-Let the farmers of Virginia, be-
sides grasses and stock, think of raising
more grapes and apples, and particularly
syrup from sorghum. Let them get a
few Nos. of "Colman's Rural World" st.
Louis, and see what the farmers in Mis-.
souri, and other western States are doing
in the production of syrup. Nearly one
whole page of this large paper is devoted
to sorghum and its products. TIP.
HenricO, April 19, 1882.
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Hidden snd Safe.

One morning teacher went as usual
to the school-room and found many va
can't seats. Two little scholars lay at
their homes cold in death, and others
were very sick. A fatal disease had en-
tered the village, and the few children
present that morning at school gathered
around the teacher and said, "O,>what
shall we do +? Do you think we shall be
sick and die too p
She gently touched the bell as signal
for silence, and observed Children, you
are all afraid of this terrible disease. You
mourn the death of your dear little
friends, and you fear you may be taken
also. [ know of only one way of escape,
and that is to hide"
The children were bewildered, and the
teacher went on az will read to you
about the hiding place )" and read Psalm
xci Ito: He that dwelleth in the
secret place of the Most High shall abide
under the shadow of the Almighty.
There shall no evil befall thee, neither
shall any plague come nigh thy dwell
ing
All were hushed and composed by the
sweet words of the Psalmist, and morning
lessons went on as usual.
AT noon a dear little girl sidled up to
the desk and said, Teacher, are you not
afraid of diphtheria p
" No. my child" she answered.
Well, wouldn't you be if you thought
you would be sick and die p
No, my dear, trust not.
Looking at the teacher for a moment
with wondering eyes, her face lighted up
as she said, go, 1 know you are hidden
under Gods wings. What nice place to
hide?"
Yes, this is the only true hiding place
for old, for young, for rich, for poor all.
Do any of you know of safer or bet
ter ?'-OId and Young.
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A Fine ForgetarY.

A good deal has been written about
fine memories. 1t is said that the best
way to remember what is of Importance
is to dismiss from the mind what is
valueless, and the best way to forget
what is valueless or injurious is to fix the
mind upon what is essential and good
Some one has said that our memories are
like gard9ns-the richer they are the
more they require wedding. Certain it
is that the more diligently we weed out
from them all that is useless and noxious,
the stronger will be the growth, and the
richer the luxuriance of the thoughts
and memories that are worthy of being
preserved and cultivated. A great
many, however, are like Tommy in this
respect.
Tommy" said his father, to that
young hopeful, one day, chow is it that
you have such poor memory"
Don't know" says Tommy.
"Well is there anything that you do
excel imp"
Yes, father"
"What is it?'
Parson Jones told me yesterday that
| had not much of memory, but one of
the best torget-aries he ever saw"
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The Sense of Honor in Bows

There is a great confusion in boys
notions of honor. You should not 90 to
the teacher with tales of your school
mates, but when questioned by those in
authority over you-parents, guardians,
or teachers-itis your duty to tell who
did mischief or broke rule, no matter
what results to yourself, or how unpopu-
lar you become. Boys have false hon
or which hides mean and skulking &C
tions in each other, which ought to be
ridiculed out of them The most coward
ly injuries and injustice among boys GO
unchecked, and the weaker are abused
and bullied in way every decent boy
should resent, because this false notion of
comradeship leads them to lie, prevari-
cate, or keep silence, to screen the gull
ty. Teachers and friends ought to put
down this ignorant, petty "sense of hon
or for something more intelligent and
upright. When you know of a wrong,
and keep silence about it when asked,
you become partner in the wrong, and
responsible for its original meanness. 1t
is pity that boys and grown people do
not carry the same strictness Of principle
they show in screening DULLES and frauds
into points of genuine honor and courage.
VIDE AaOnke.
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hundreds of missionaries, who helped him
while he lived, and successfully carried
on the good work after his death.
" was greatly interested in the life Of
this good man, VINO voluntarily left
friends, and spent his life among the
Irish, in order to lead them to Christ"
ut isn't any wonder, then, that the
Irish people think great deal of him, is
it, mamma?"
No; they would be very ungrateful
not to remember him kindly. He was
long ago made their patron saint, and his
nameis always held in great honor, as it
deserves to be. He wasn't the kind of
saint, however, that they think him."
Little iSoaOer.
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Ghildren's Column.
For the Central Presbyterian,
A Sunday School Scholar.

In a country Sabbath School among
the new corners was a little boy who had
never been to a Sunday School before.
A Catechism, with which SO many of our
little readers are familiar, was put into
his hands, and he came the next Sabbath
and cheerfully recited lesson, and con-
tinued to do so. But it was found that
he walked several miles to Sabbath
School without his parents and almost
against their will When he went home
he received no smile from his mother.
He had to work hard during the day
and at night when he sat quietly down
to study his Catechism or read his little
Sabbath School book, he had to do so
by freight, as he was not allowed
lamp, and often his father or mother
would roughly tell him to go to bed and
be ready to get up soon in the morning
and go to work.
And instead of helping this poor lit
tie boy to learn his Catechism and en-
couraging him to read "a good book, they
would say that they wished there never
had been book written. And now, my
little friends, does it not seem as if God is
very kind to us who have kind mothers
to help us learn something about Jesus,
and who pray for us too? F.
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Where I Went and What I Saw

l went down by the sea-coast on the
New Jersey shore, Just mile from AS
bury Park, one summer day, and looked
at the wreck. A great noble vessel it
once was, lying, when I saw it, neglect
ed, useless thing, one end stuck in the
sand. People came and looked at it,
and talked about the night when it landed
there, and the storm, and went away and
forgot it.
There are some people who will not
forget about it SO easily. I'll tell you
the story. One night the wind blew
fiercely the doors and windows ratified
all the time, as though some surly stran-
ger was trying to get in every once in
a while he would really succeed, and
open would come a door with a great
bang, and papers and magazines would
60 flying over the room, sent hither and
thither by the strong east wind.
What dreadful night it must be on
the ocean, one said. And another: I
hope there are no vessels near the coast. "
Then another :" Hark What was that ?"
1t was signal gun, and it meant that
some vessel was in distress. Then there
was hurrying to and fro, and' cries for
lanterns, and boats, and storm coats. 1t
Is long story-sometime l am going to
write out all about it for you Just now
I'm only trying to tell you the main facts
Don't you think there was on that ship
little baby only two months old Don't
you think her uncle took her in his arms,
and when the ropes were tied about his
waist, and the queer little balloon-like
bag was made fast that was to help draw
him ashore, he held the little baby high
up above the waves in his two strong
arms, and brought her safely to land
What rejoicing there was over that baby
And over those six children who were
brought over the angry sea How rich
and glad and grateful that father and
mother felt when they counted their
children and found them all safe How
hard everybody worked They did not
mind the storm, nor the water that
soaked them through, nor the boat that
was ruined, nor the sleep that was lost in
saving these dear bodies.
0 dear me Do you suppose anybody
thought to see whether their souls were
all safe? Do you suppose anybody will
work hard, day and night, and 90 with
out sleep, and food and rest, in order to
help them get ready for the ship that
will come to take them over the river
named Death Somebody did Some
body gave up more than thirty years Of
home, and beauty, ard Joy, and went
out into the cold, and the storm, and was
Knocked at, and hated, and whipped and
billed, just so that these dear souls might
get safely home from sea- Not one Of
them refused to be brought over the an
cry water safe to land. Do you think it
can be possible that any Of them will
refuse to take the help that is offered
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The Story of ST. Patrick.


Mamma, the Irish boys in the court
yonder are making great preparations
for st. Patrick's day and one of them
said to me that st. Patrick was great
deal better man than George Washing
ton, or any other American that had
ever lived 1 told him didn't believe
it. Now, mamma, do you know any
thing about ST. Patrick? or what he did
to make him so famous?'
Yes Frank. 1 was reading an ac-
count of his life not long since, and I
learned he was Christian missionary
and really great and good man.
Why, mamma, thought he was a
Roman Catholic saint?"
So he is, or rather he was claimed by
the Catholics, and canonized as saint
by them. His religion, however, was
the simple faith now taught by those who
call themselves Professionals
"Was he an Irishman, mamma p
"No. He was supposed to have been
born in Scotland, and was the son of
Christian parents, who early taught him
the truths of religion. During his boy
hood he had the misfortune to be taken
by pirates and. carried to Ireland, where
he wassold to one of the chiefs in Ireland
as a slave.
The Irish, at that time, were said to
be more barbarous than the other people
of Europe. Perhaps this was because
they were more out of the way, dwelling
on the most westerly island of Great
Britain, and one which had never been
visited by other nations"
GLOW long ago did he live, mamma ?"
He was born about the year 420, and
lived to eighty three years of age. He
was kept as slave in Ireland great
many years, and then was allowed to 90
home. His duties, while there were to
tend the cattle in the fields and he used
often to pray in the lonely hours of watch
made, that his heart was turned to God
during his captivity.
After his return home he had a great
desire to 90 again to Ireland, and teach
the heather people there about the true
God but his parents were greatly dis
tressed at the idea of his going back
among those rude people, and besought
him with tears not to 90, and even
offered him gifts if he would stay with
them"
Don't you think, mamma, he ought
to have obeyed them p
Not in this instance; for God had |
evidently put it into his heart to 90 on
this mission 1t is one Of those cases
where we ought to obey God rather than
man.
AS Patrick knew the language of the
Irish he had great success in teaching
them. The country was. peopled by
numerous clans or tribes at that time,
and they were each governed by chief.
The good missionary always tried to
convert the chief first for the clan were
almost sure to follow him, and become
Christians too.
He not only taught them to read such
books as were to be found there, but en-
couraged them to send over to England
and France for books that would be use
lul for them to study. He also founded
missionary schools in which to train those
who should hereafter become teachers
and missionaries themselves. He is said
to have founded these schools in every
tribe in Ireland, and in them were trained
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CINCINNATI, INDIANAPOLIS. CHICAGO
ST. LOUIS, KANSAS CITY, Ere.
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them to get safe to the other side Of the
river they have yet to cross? | wonder
if the little baby will be held high up,
safe in Jesus arms, all her life =? I'll tell
you, Pansies, let us every one pray for
the life of that little baby, that it may be
given to God.-PanSY.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-23

! would call the previous question on tn
Chinese bill tomorrow at O'Clock.
Then, the morning hour having been dis
pensed with, consideration Of that bill was
resumed by the house.
| Mcclure, of Ohio, contended that
congress not only had power to pass the
bill but that its provisions were expressly
warranted by the Chinese treaty. He
favored the passage of the bill on the
ground OF its expediency; and in conclusion
he asserted that the republican party was
committed TO the principle Of this bill.
Freedom of labor should not now turn its
back on the battle flag, its old war cry, and
its platform, as mere claptrap, and be re-
creant to its prompt trust. He, as q pro-
tectional republican, stood by while the
labor of the Pacific states against the dis
honorable competition of Chinese labor and
he could vote for the bill with q clear con-
science. (Applause)
The remainder of the days session was
taken up by speeches on the Chinese bill,
several members speaking on both sides OF
the question. The bill then went over with
out action.
Adjourned
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WAsHiyGTov. March 2l.-The senate iu-
dietary committee to-day unanimously de-
cided 10 report favOrably the nomiEa i1u Cl
Judge Piauchard, 20 be associate Justice
OF tie Uni'ed States supreme cIuri.
Representative Blscks cOnd ton is EE-
changed.
W. I. Dickson, special messenger on
behalf q the cItiz-ns II Chicago has arrived
in this city with a petition Tor the par-
don Of Sergeant Mason. ID bears ID, 900
signatures and j. ?. 400 feet in length. Dickson
will present it n the president tO-m0r-
", together with q petition signed
BIZ GsO0o citizens Of Ogle county.
Illinois. each of whom contributed 10 cents
toward the relief Of Sergeant Mason's fam
fy. Letters and petitions and appii-
cations Of al sorts bearing
uuon the case Of Sergeant
Mason come % the president every mail
from nfl PARTS % The country, larger num-
ber than usual arrived to-day. They ars
being arranged, and VIII e the proper time
b. referred 20 the secretary Of var foF con
sf1aratiun and report.
The president to-day nominated james
Sheruard collector 81 CustOrnsof the disIricf
d 81 Mary's. Georgia, and o. Be Postinas-
.fars- J. z EpTing. narien. GCurcia John
Anderson. Psris, Teunessee: Iulius Wag-
rrr Indianola. Ieras.
WssHrser5s. Maruh 2l.-Er. HenTeson
introduced into ths ssnate today q G. nsti-
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tutlonal amendment providing for b.

tutlonal amendment providing for -
ton Of postmasters, marsbals, district -
torDeys, etc, by the people OF the districts
! In which such officers duties lie. -
The steamship line plying between New
York and Porto Rico. have given notice oi
the suspension of direct communication,
because of the high differential tariff in
Porto Rico in favor of vessels under the
Spanish flag.
The president has approved joint res
olution appropriating $50, 700 for the bene-
tit of the sufferers from Mississippi floods.
According to an agreement made at the
end of last nights session, the house pro-
ceeded to vote upon the compromise prosi-
cution, making the Geneva award bill the
special order for April 11th, subject how
ever, to the tariff and appropriation bills,
and the bill referring to private claims TO
the court of claims. The resolution to this
effect was adopted-yeas, 1852; nays 50.