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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01
Scraping Trees.

De We approve of scraping trees asks
friend Of ours. Certainly We do, pro-
yided they need it, and one can rarely
find an old tree that does not Aside
from the fact that the removal Of the old
bark scales breaks up refuge for vari-
Gus insects, including the Woolly- -aphs,
the increased beauty of the tree repays
the trouble, There are scrapers made
for the purpose; one of these has trian-
gular blade, another a long blade, with
one fiat and another slightly concave
edge. An Old noe is quite as good tool
as any cut off the handle to about Il
inches. and do not grind the blade too
sharp, as d cutting implement is not
needed-only scraper On a very old
trunk some force may be needed to de
tach the scales that are partly loose, but
Oh young trees be careful not to wound
the healthy bark. The scrdpng may be
done now, next month, or later. When
there comes moist, drizzly spell, 90 over
the scraped bark with good soft soap,
made thin enough with water to apply
with a brush. Paint over a thick coat Of
this soap and leave the rest TO the rains
Later in the season the trees will appear
as if furnished with mahogany trunks
American AgTiculturIst.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01

durn easy to be mistook We see that
if man kin lie good he kin make more
Pike county histry in a quarter of an
hour than could happened sence the
flood, an you kin give 'em all pnts a
maxim 1t, b'gosh t'lmighty ~
And the old settler went out and slam
med the door until the windows iingled.
The boys laughed, then they smiled, then
they all went home. n. y. Sun.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01

He spreads his wings like banners to the breeze
He cicaEe> the air, atloat on pinions wide;
Leagues upon leagues. across the lonely seas,
He sweeps above the vast. uneasy tide.
For days together through the trackless skies.
Steadfa>t, without quiver of his plumes,
Without a moments pause for rest, he flies
Through dazzling sunshine and through
cloudy glooms.
Down the green CULTS he glides, or skins the
foam,
Searching for booty with an eager eye.
lowering aloft where the long breakers comb
Der wrecks forlorn, that topple helpesSIy.
He loves the tempest: he is glad TO see
The roaring gale to heaven the billows toss,
For strong to battle with the storm is he.
The mystic bird, the wandering albatross.
[Celia ThaNtcr, in St. Nicholas for February.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01
FARM GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

For this department brief suggestions, facts
and experiences are solicited from hOusekeep-
cr>, farmers and gardeners. Address Agri-
cultural editor, journal Office, Belfast Maine
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01
Be Ready Early.

y season OF activity is near at hand
Spring is coming, with its pressing work
Are farmers ready for sowing and plant
lng Every implement should be pro
Vided beforehand, that no time may be
wasted in making purchases or repairs
after the work should begin. We have
known halliday Of blowing to be lost
because the Whittietrees were not at
hand. Some farmers start out with their
spring plowing without single plow
point in stock, and when one is needed.
the team is taken from the field and driv-
en- to the store. Such a loss of time is a
serious matter, and should be thought
fully guarded against by ample provision
OF all such articles of the farm. 1t is a
poor time to mend a harrow when it
should be at work in the field
We do not favor that ecOnOmy-if it
may be SO called that relies upon the
nelghbors for many of the tools of the
iarm. There are certain farm implements
that may be owned in partnership, as a
roller or reaper, but the constant borrow
ing OF rakeS, forks, etc, is not wise and
economical practice. BE provided with
all these essential farm TOOLS and have
them in good ORDER and at hand when
the time arrives for using them
Now is the time to look to these mat
ters, and make all needed preparations
for the busy days that will soon be here.
In the peace of winter prepare for the
war of spring. American Agriculturist
An enthusiastic breeder of poultry
says: Farmers will feed a bushel of corn
to produce six pounds of pork, while the
same amount of corn will keep a good
laying hen one year, and she will produce
at least twelve dozen eggs, averaging Sc.
per dozen, which would equal $2.l6; in
addition she would rear brood of chick
els worth as much more, making a total
of nearly s., against six pounds of pork
at Zoe, equaling GOc. or, in other words,
the hen will yield seven times as much as
the pig on the same quantity of food"
Aside from the profit, which is an impor-
tant consideration in the keeping of poul-
try 1t affords healthful recreation and
enjoyment to all classes. Those who
daily toll in the counting house, factory
or mill, each and all need some light, at
tractlve, producing employment.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01

by day the frost-tish, that sought the
waters surface for air or food thus help
ing to exc out subsistence to the famished
wife and babies, till spring came to their
relief
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01

There will be - professional base ball teams
in the country this season, which means 80
professional players, aggregating about $3.50 900
in salaries.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01

Any live man can start an earthquake shock
in Il ncighhorhood All he has to do is to ask
people if they felt the shock and imagination
does the rest.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01

An apple tree near Minneapolis, bios
somed three times during the past season,
and yielded two big crops of fruit.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01

A Shorthorn sold for 5 400. ''Gracious but
can buy-a short horn for ten cents" thought
fully remarked Flub, and he turned down the
corner to set himself about the matter.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01
The Rapidity of American Life.

Here are two incidents which illustrate the
rate at which we live in this age One evening
last week. young lady of st. Louis, who had
invited her friends to an elaborate soiree dam
sante, decided just before her guests began to
assemble, that she would be married that
evening. Accordingly clergyman was sent
for in haste, the wedding took place at seven
O'Clock, and when the guests arrived, they were
presented i to the lady and her husband. Now
for the second incident. On Thursday last an
actress, who happened at the time to be playing
an engagement in Chicago, filed bill for di-
vOrce against her husband. In order that she
might leave the city with the company, the
judge before whom the ease was brought was
willing to advance it on the docket. According
ly, it came on for trial on Friday, and the di-
vorce was granted within twenty-four hours of
the time when the bill was filed. Boston Adj
vertiser.
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BUYING THE FARM.

In January chopped ten cords of
wood for Mr.. Cummings, and in pay
ment had his ox-team to draw my hay
down to the village, where I marketed
1t. After receiving the money, wrote
again to Mr.. Smith, telling him that
was now ready to make payment of
seventy-tive dollars on the farm. The
business of ''doing the writings" as they
call it in the country, was entrusted, on
his part, to lawyer in the village, named
Robertson. To him i paid the money
and received deed of the farm, but
gave my note, secured by mortgage,
for the second payment of seventy five
dollars, in one year.
| have a motive in writing this plain
little narrative. In New England, in
New York State and in the West, there
are scores, yes, hundreds and thousands,
of abandoned farms like the one came
to my first night insA-. To the hun
dreds of homeless persons, young and
old, in the cities, these deserted farms
offer homes, and they may be improved.
During the second year | paid my note
for seventy-fve dollars, with the inter-
est, and took up the mortgage. &C. E.
WIfader, IN YOUTHS Companion.
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The Amsterdam Jews.

The Jews in Amsterdam are among
the most prominent citizens. The Jew
merchant, the Jew broker, the Jew
banker, the Jew physician, the jew
artist and the Jew lawyer, is Just as.
great here as he is in all the cities of the
continent, only here he is not so intense
ly hated as he is in Germany. The race
has its palatial residences, its wonderful
bazars, and, as it is everywhere, it has
its fingers upon the financial pulse of
every country in the world. They know
every market, every money and mer-
chandise, and silently but certainly they
control it. They don't go about the
streets boasting of what they do and
what they know-they are not after
glory, but solid results. Solong as they
corral the ducats they don't care straw
as to who has the credit of it.
So one class of Jews ins Amsterdam
live in palatial residences with as luxur-
ious surroundings as any noble in the
land, solacing themselves for any per-
centage the noble gets in the. way of
rank, with the calm sweet reflection
that he can buy Or sell any one of them
any minute. In fact they have good
and lawful mortgage upon almost every
thing that is mortgageable. E4
But the Jews in Amsterdam are not all
of this class. There are $4,000 of them.
and of the number ma ority are aspoor
as people can be and live in any sort of
comfort. - u &,
The Jew quarter in Amsterdamis the
most peculiar place in Europe, except
Petticoat Lane in London. It's peculiar
in great many ways. 1t is dirt and
squalor intensified. The streets in which
they live are barely twenty feet wide, the
sidewalks are only sidewalks in name,
the houses are narrow with stairs that
are so steep as to make an ascent the
work of gymnast, and the smell-well
if there is anything that smells worse,
that is more offensive, we have not yet
discovered it.
In these noisome streets, crowded with
men, women and children, the latter
predominating, all the occupations of
the citizens are apparently out of doors
There are small shops by the thousand
DEVOTED to the sale of something. This
one deals in knit goods, next to it, in a
shed built out upon the street, is cob
bier, the next is rag and bottle shop,
close by is a rag concern, pure and
simple, next is woman frying fish in
some sort of greasy compound which
the passers-by purchase and eat, next to
that is a man saving old barrels in two,
making out of each barrel two wash
tubs with handles and all complete. Aud
so on.
The poor Jew is the apostle of the sec.
ond hand. doubt if he could deal in
new material it he tried. His mission is
to gather everything that nobody else
can do anything with and make it good
for something.
The street is lined with cabbage leaves
end refuse vegetation, and there is an
odor comes from it, ageneral sloppiness
and dirtiness, strangely in contrast with
the scrupulous cleanliness of the ,ther
parts of the cleanest city on the globe
D. r. Locke'S Cor. IN Toledo Blade.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. ~.

-"Why are those things on syoUf 81
dress called sbugle trimmingsPn George asa
wanted to know 'O,nn Emily replied.
lightly because pa blows So over theGss aa
bill! 400 sssEliR si1 enc aao2tsssafs asE
~ Handsome tides are placed on .s
satin-coyereds sofas, not so much az
gdarautysof goods faithsass to- coveraupaR NJ
the spot, that is worn outs-Pstc .,y..
"A. Philadelphia man says it was
easy enough Tor aofn a'hah1b and ais so
wife to escape from that burning hotel ggsg.
She8slid down gas pipe and he went to
meter. u Ptitdde lpffd NetOs:
4+..What IDIOT has carried off INV VI =
penP'p exclaimed an Austin lawyer. 81 81
angrly during The trial Of q ease insthe aaf
District Court. "ColoneI, you have got
it behind yo,treat,e sren1kfked one Of The ssfs
lawyers; Just where thoughts itwafsl' - +
Ieras Sifltlqs.
Pie papers are All laughing Bscstissl asll
q Sunday school scholaE' when sskedh 81
answered sfpiep The child was not ~ at
far wrong after. all. fOr4what can be bet-ta.sY
ter than pie-eaty?n ~ Y. Herald
u A gentiemln entered Portsmouth ks1#
On Ell. j drug store aud asked for the se4
s.dark possibility of bright ideas.n The
clerk looked non-plussed and said he isfsss
hadn't it in stock The customer fEren sslss
explained that he wanted--a bottle. of, sn
ink. sAas.' k Fasi ssss&
=-A6 old time boarding house Ire g
quenter wants toknow why bakers don't 9.sss,
make g homemade bread - The reasson
probably is that the home process does
not afford any facilities for splitting The
atoms of flour and sandwiecliing Them ~
with athlek layer Of sseur air. z Tolsdo sl8 s
An1erjcGn.
--aHave yot evapofated applese''fBbef ssaRs
asked.of the grocer, z otang ON handes IS
Just now, ma am,' he replied. Don't
YOU keep tfiemp 'ssWelf, set out 70. XsSA
but got discouraged. Irollea n barrel Fssasi
of BaIdwins out in front one morning,
and before noon half the lot mad e7sp- a't4e
Grated and lisappeareds prefer 10 dealt -
in solid fruit. - BrookkyB Eagle.
Arthur n--a4A&iss~Rosebud,
have, brought you aslittle pictare Which#T
l painted especially for you. 1t. has
proved very pleasant task during the aB
month that have werkgdfon - Riilkyaaa
Rosebud-"0, thanksga& a&Fs~exayon; you
are very kind, butsp m afraid that IsA
must return the frame, as mother never
allows me to accept presents Of any
value from geutlema ,-~ Chicago Tines"
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Great Pan is Dead.

Unless all the people in this vast coun-
try are to be bowed down with weight
OF woe, something must be done to re-
strain the gloomy granger. Each year
regularly he kills off the corn or the
wheat, the apple or peach crop, but this
year nothing less than wholesale destruc-
ton will satisfy him.. Not content with
prospective lack of corn-bread or abb
sence of the toothsome dumpling. the in
satiate monster foreshadows:a famine,
where neither pone nor pie has any part.
1he corn was pretty effectively disposed
OF early in the season, farmers being i'm
formed that little of it had ripened thor
oughly enough to germinate. Theywere
advised TO carefully select the best thew
had for seed, and hope was expressed
that out of the best some might grow
when planted This hope, however, is
now blasted The extreme cold weather,
we are told, has frozen the germ in such
grains as were fortunate enough TO Dos
sess any, thus making the planting of
corn fields next spring useless and
hopeless task. The wheat, of course, was
winter-killed some time ago, 1t is. in
the sleet-storm, however. that the sad
prophet particularly delights. In a
fall of rain which turns to ice upon
the trees, he revels with a melancholy
pleasure. He rises and goes forth in
the nightto gather branches O. the peach,
the cherry and apple trees. He examines
the buds of these and finds they are
killed. Dead! OF course they are, else
what is the use Of a sleet storms? The
last storm killed all the buds. 6 Nothing
is left alive anywhere, according to this
prognosticator. Everything is dead
which had not already been DESTROYED.
Next year we will have no corn, no
wheat, no fruit, no nothing to eat, no
wherewithal to make corners Of. The
public has become quite. accustomed to
having some one of the cereals or of the
standard fruits aud vegetables destroyed,
each winter, only to have it appear in
profusion after harvest. It is, indeed,
quite a matter of course that the owners,
of immense orchards which are ruined
in January shall come up smiling in Sep
tember with millions of baskets of fruit,
But when everything is disposed of in
advance it becomes a different matter.
Persons who might treat the absence of
one article of food with indifference, or
carelessly believe that the supply will
equal the, demand in the, end, cannot
view this complete destruction of bread
sstuffs and fruits without alarm Some.
thing must really be wrong, and they
grow uneasy. The rural Jeremiah should
\ be reasoned with and persuaded to R6sp
silence If famine is to eenle,, let us eat -
drink and De merry while we may. We
will put ashes on our sidewalkss bat
prefer not te wear it on our heads until
August or thereabouts Sufficient unto
the day is the weather thereof and its
prophets, without the fruit and corn
destroyer Indianapolis Journal.
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DIR. HOLMES no HIS JUDICIAL


nlIver Wendell Holmes whose son has been
.pDointed to the Supreme Beachof Massachu-
Iafts. read poem, with reference to TINT
pyent at the recent banquet of the Boston
Bar Association, from which we take the fol-
loving stanZas:
aHis Honors'' father yet remains
HIS proud paternal posture tirm in:
But while his rights he still maintains
TO WELD tn household rod a1tl reins,
He bows before the flial ermine.
What curious tales has life in store,
With all its must-bes and its may-besi
The sage of eighty years or m IRE
Once erept nursing on the floor,
Kings. con4uerors. Judges, all were babies.
The fearless soldier, who has faced
The serried bayonets' giaam appalling,
For nothing save pin misplaced
The peaceful nursery has disgraeed
With hours of unheroic bawIing.
The mighty monarch, whose renown
Fills up the stately page historic,
Has howed to W ken tf the town,
And finished off by gulping down
His castor oil or paregorie
The Justice, who, in gown and cap,
Condemns a wretch to stran9IIlation,
Has thrashed his nurse and spilled his pan,
And sprawled across his mothers lap,
For wholesome laws administration.
sNk E
All. life has many q reef to shun
Before in port we drop our anchor,
But when its course is nobIy run
Look aft for there the work was done.
Life owes its headway to the spanker.
The whirIigig of time goes round,
And changes all things but affeetfon;
One blessed comfort may be found
In Heaven S broad statute, which has bound
Each household to its heads protection.
If e'cr aggrieved, attacked, accused,
A sire may claim sons devotion
Toshield his innocence abused,
As old Anchises freely used
His offspring legs for locomotion.
You smile You did not come to weep.
Nor my weakness to be showing.
And these gay stanzas, slight and cheap,
Have served their simple use, to keep
fathers eyes from overhowing.
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Bob TOombS, Wrath.

81 have no answer to make,' was'the
sententious reply of General Robert
Toombs to amessenger who handed him
a note from his or nd-daughter, Mrs.
Galley, in which she asked the privilege
of visiting her grandmother, Mrs.
Toombs, who was likely to die at any
moment. Mrs. Galley, nee Miss Camille
Dubois, was the General s fayoI.ite grand.
child Mr.. Galley wasraised in the same
ncighborhood in Wilkes County. Be-
tween him and Miss Camille love de-
veloped, ending in an engagement
Galley was poor, and this was mortal
sin in Toom5s' eyes, and he forbade
communication between them. He read
his will Ito Miss Camille, in which she was
remembered to the extent of S60,O00.
81 will make it $50, 900. if you win
break off this engagement, said Cen
eral TooHIbs. The lady offered to re-
main single during her gran1father's
lifetime. Growing violent, he declared
that if she intended to throw herself
away on poor man he would give her
forty eight hours to leave the house.
This brought matters to crisis which
Mr.. Galley and Miss Dubois settled by
getting married immediately. General
ToombS at once disinherited her, and
refused all communication The Young
couple are applauded by the community.
General Toom5s is blind in one eye, and
the other is almost out An Atlanta
oculist is TO operate on him next week.
ASEdstG (Gd.l Special.
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A New Use for a MOtaer-in.Law.

At the Office of Leitch Bros. steam
printing works are the remains of the
mother-in law of Mr.. A. L. Leitch, one of
the members of the firm, in a thoroughly
petrified condition. The woman has been
dead about twenty-five years. The body,
according to the statement of a promi-
nent physician, is in state of adipocere.
Mr.. Leitch has been keeping it in his
office since its arrival in Cincinnati, un-
determined what to do with it, but his
brother informed reporter last night
that they are contemplating placing it on
public exhibition for the benefit of
science. Several physicians, he said,
who have examined the body consider it
a rare specimen of adipocere, and they
have broken off little pieces, toe or a
finger, and put them IN their cabinets of
snails and cray-fsh and other interesting
articles. The lady died of apoplexy.
and was buried in the graveyard Of
Dupont, Ind. She was seventy-two years
of age at the time of her death. The
ground in which she has lain for the last
two dozen years is mainly of limestone
formation, and small streams of water
trickled through the limestone and came
in contact with the body Cincinnati
Commercial.
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ba0 Patent Applied For. a

,a Trying alfire escape down the avg
enuenh he. said sasyhe Slid upstairs yes
eerday and sat down on the edge of a.
chair. 1QW e Il sas1 3i.3 - 5fi .
ssYes." .y.-.a -. a-zs-..s.i.. /.
'fThey cost money and arc in the
- a''Yes. ~ 44 1s3 8g4oa5ss9 8f
'And nobody ever heard of an escape
by q tire-escape. n
81 have some stray theories of my:
own he continued, as he gathered con-
fidence enough to- occupy the chair.
1ssOut of the 10000 hotels in this country, 4
only seventy-eight are destroyed per
year. There are thus 1922 chances
that you won't be stopping at the hotel
which burns.n
& 'Exactly.' IS -2A4s4 2 a z
.'Out of the seventy-eight hotels de!
stfoyed per year there were only four
eases where life was losts There's an
other seventy-four chances for you.'''',,
II see.n
..And, taking the average, only thir.s
teen guests perished to a hotel OF
these, four or FIVE were. lame, and The
others were sound sleepers. Really, sir,
ybutlwe are not so bad off as the papers
try to make out"
Seems not.i'i s. tng IS ssUga
'''But there is no call for any loss, of
life whatever" he went on. "Chinese
labor is very cheap. Suppose that each
hotel keeps 100 Cinnamon hanging
aroundp For thirty cents a gucstcan
hire one of the Mongofians to sit by his
door all night aid listen for the cry of
fire, and helpcarry baggage down stairs
when it comes. Let an electric wire be
connected to each Chh1aman. and the
night clerk down stairs sends shock
around every five minutes to keep them
awake. Only thirty cents to sleep ia
absolute safety ina hotel Why, sir.1
I'd pay thirty five in a minute-yes, forty
of EN-, and if the old woman was along
I'd make itseyenty-ive cents and throw
in a plug Of tobacco. What do you think
of my theory
Every good. ~
'sKiH get it patentedP'' -
Perhaps. @ 4
'sThen I'll do it. I'm not going to
rack and wrench my head for the benefit
of hotels. I'll apply for a patent and
sell county rights for $3.50 each, and if
don't bankrupt these fire-escape chaps
you can call me a cahooteri Egad! but
when folks pint me out for. fool they
don't even know the color of the old
coon $ Detroit Free Press.
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The first Jewish marriage which has

The first Jewish marriage which has
taken place in Madrid since the expul-
sion of the jews from Spain two cent
uries ago. was celebrated two days since.
The bride, who was welded to her first
cousin. was the daughter of a foreign
merchant long established in the Spanish
capital. More than fifty persons, in
Guiding members of the very best society
ip Madrid, were present at the ceremony.