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Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
Moral Influences of the Orchard.
While there is so much Of the pra,

While there is so much Of the practi-
al to demand space in a journal wholly
or partly devoted to horticulturists, it
is by no means useless to give some at
tention to what are regarded as the
lighter, and, perhaps, as the more fan
ciful features of the subject. To those
who have watched the influences Of
horticultural pursuits, however, their
moral aspects are by no means fanciful
Horticulture has a substantial moral in
tiuence upon both the horticulturist and
the community. If there is a person
living who ever saw a well-kept bed of
strawberries or grand orchard about
the home of a thoroughly bad man. he
has the advantage of US. Fine fruit
growing and worthlessness of character
do not, and can not, harmonize; and
we have seen characters that have been
polished, and manners that have been
improved, and morals that have been
strengthened by the preaching and in
tluence of lovely fruit. There is no mis-
take about this matter. A community
is greatly improved by fruit. Go into
sections where there is no fruit, and no
attempt to grow any, and, unless it is a
HcW COlIluuUltN, YOU Will uuu 1t any
thing but pleasant in almost all of its
characteristics. But neighborhood
that has fine orchards and fruit gardens
will be asuperior neighborhood in every
respect-intelligent, moral, and public
spirited.
There are well defined reasons, too,
for some of these results. A fruit eat
ing people are a healthier people than
those who are not; and people will not
eat fruit unless it is fit to eat. When it
is really fine they can not resist the
temptation to partake. Hence in
neighborhood of fine fruit growing, the
people will be large consumers, good
health being thus almost assured, in
creased intelligence and morality re-
suit, for mind unclogged by a sluggish
or feeble physical system is necessary
to the former, and stomach unclogged
can almost be said to be necessary to
the latter. A healthy person has bet
ter chance to be what human being
ought to be, in all respects, than one
who is not healthy. No mistake about
the matter. Dyspepsia makes some
people not only very disagreeable, but
it positively makes them wicked. There
fore, in moral point of view, we be-
lieve fruit growing of vast utility to the
country. - Western Rural.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
Ready-made Houses.

The Northeastern Lunaberman (Chi-
cago) predicts, from the large number
of inquiries regarding the ready-made
house business, that it will eventually
become a large industry and consume
large amount of lumber.
A gentleman visited the Lu715crnean
office recently who wanted from twen-
ty-five to fifty houses for colony that
is about starting to Dakota. Such
houses for the people settling in that
Territory, and often in other sections,
are just what is needed. In many parts
Of Dakota it is impossible to buy lum-
Der. and often when lumber can be OBJ
tanned the services of carpenter are
hard to secure. A ready-made house
can be shipped to its destination and
erected by any man Of ordinary inge-
unity 1t saves All bother Of running
around the country after building ma
terial and men to put it together. A
gentleman called at the office of
the same paper few days ago
who wanted house to set upon lot
in the city limits. He could rent the
lot during the summer for small sum,
and thus avoid paving big rent, and at
the same time have house of his own
to live in that could be handily moved
whenever it was desired to do so. "a
late inquiry from Philadelphia was
made regarding ready-made houses for
export, and the same day came letters of
inquiry relating to the same subject from
West Virginia and New York. These
letters. and hundreds of others, show
that the ready-made house business is
not carried on extensively enough to
meet the demand There is no good
reason why a manufacturer of knock
down houses should not use 100, 900, 900
feet of lumber yearly in this city
III 1e.''
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
The Honest Maiden.

Not long ago a rich man died IN Brus-
sells, leaving nearly all of his fortune to
a Young woman who was entirely unac-
quainted with him. This is how 1t came
to pass: He was very eccentric man,
and set out like Diogenes in search OF
an honest man. His tub was an omnl-
bus. and his lantern a small coin. In
the omnibus he used to take his seat
every day near the conductor, and al
ways showed himself very obliging in
passing up the money Of passengers and
returning the change, but to the latter
he always managed to add a franc or
half franc. Then he would watch those
to whom it came. They would count it
carefully, notice the extra coin, and in
variably slip it into their pockets. No
one had any thought Of the poor con-
ductor, whose meager salary of three
francs a day could i'll support such
loss But at last a young woman passed
hers back with, Conductor, you have
given me half franc too much. " Dio-
genes, delighted, followed her home,
made inquiries, and as the answers were
satisfactory, made his will in her favor,
though he never gave her warning that
her half franc was going to bring her
half million. Belgium Paper.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
Does the Day Increase in Length !

1t is well known that Professor G.
Darwin has associated what may be re-
garded as new theory of cosmical evo-
luton with the gradual retardation of
the earth's rotation spin, and conse-
quent lengthening of the day. Mr.. f.
Stone, formerly chief assistant at Green
wich, and now the head of the Radcliffe
Observatory, Oxford, has just published
some calculations, which, though they
do not actually disprove the change in
the earth's rotation rate, throw grave
doubt on the only direct evidence ever
recognized in its favor. When it was
found that Hansen's lunar tables do not
accord with the evidence respecting the
moons movements derived either from
actual observation or from the study of
ancient eclipses, it was suggested in eX-
PLANTATION of the discrepancy (corre-
spending to an apparent gain of the
moon on her calculated place. that it
may be apparent only, and due to
change of the rate of going of our great
terrestrial timepiece the earth, by which,
of course, we time the moons move
ments. Delaunay showed that, owing
to the movement of the tidal wave in a
direction opposite to that of the earth's
rotation, the rotation rate must dimin-
ish, though very slowly. Sir George
Airy, going through the same process
of inquiry, obtained at first a negative
result, but later recognized the exist
ence of certain terms indicating re-
tardation. Since then it has been re-
garded as an accepted doctrine that the
length Of the day must gradually in
crease until the day is as long as the
lunar month. Nay, Professor Ball, AS
tronomer Royal for Ireland, goes fur
ther than this, and considers that the
solar tide must eventually lengthen the
day until it is equal to the year, over
looking apparently the fact that
the lunar action will prevent any
increase beyond the length of a lu-
mar month. But Mr.. Stone has found
reason for believing that the discord-
ance between theory and observation,
which has been thrown on the earth's
rotation, does not exist, so that $50 far
as we know at present, the time of the
earth's rotation is constant" If his
calculation should be confirmed it would
not prove that there is no retardation in
the earth's rotation, but that the length
of the day is changing much more
slowly than had been supposed-too
slowly, in fact, to be recognized. Con.
temporary Rea'ieU.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
HOME AND FARM.

-Cucumbers, according to M. Deliee,
caterer of the New York Club, should
be peeled and put to soak in ice-sait
water at least an hour before served.
The salt extracts the poison and the ice
renders them brittle and easier to be
digested.
For breakfast try this: Take the
skin off a nice piece of salt Goldfish;
wash it in several waters, and lay it on
gridiron to broil. 1t should be broiled
for about twenty minutes, and must be
turned often to prevent burning. This
is nice for tea Also Chicago Journal.
"A correspondent of the Husbandnan
uses his buckwheat chaff as an absorb
ent in cow-stables. One and a half
bushels will be sufficient for ten cows
over night, keeping them clean and dry.
In addition to his own he buys from his
neighbors, paying one dollar fora load
of fifty bushels.
1t is advisable to give the chicks
which are with their mother feed early
in the morning, another feed in the
middle of the forenoon, then at noon,
followed by feed in the middle Of the
afternoon, and again late in the even
ING. Cincinnati Times
To expedite the making of a lemon
pie use hot water in place of cold, stir
the cut-up lemon, the sugar and corn
starch or flour and eggs together, as if
you were making pudding sauce; then
pour in hot water; if the pail or basin
containing this is then placed in a vessel
of boiling water it will cook in five min
utes.-M Y. Post.
lift is possible so to arrange the order
of. dinner getting, do not shell the peas
until few minutes before they are to
be cooked. They lose much of their
fine, distinctive flavor if shelled some
time before cooking; and do not wash
them. What water is so clean as the
lining of the pod?-Erchange.
EARLY Hoeing: By this we do not
mean hoeing early in the season, but
early in the morning. In the early
morning the dew is on, and this is
charged with an available amount of
ammonia, which, of course, feeds the
roots below. If the surface is neglected
a crust forms and the air does not circu-
late in the soil. Get the farm hands to
begin work couple of hours earlier in
the morning, and give them the same
time at noon to rest.-N. Y. Herald.
Farmers, observes recent writer,
are very negligent in regard to keeping
well-informed as to prices. Two cents,
or even one cent, on the yearly butter
product of twenty or thirty COWS, is no
small loss for any ordinary farmer. No
loss can be averted and gain insured
without radical improvement in the
manufacture of the butter. The best
brings the top price; the poorest is hard
to sell.-Prairie Farmer.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
The Season Of Lilies.

To perfect their glorious color the
full heat of summer IS required. They
come with the golden daisies, the st.
Johnswort, the yellow-topped aster, the
evening primroses, and other glowing
tints Of July. The first OF these lines TO
appear is the smaller orange species,
with flower erect, like some precious
cup or holy grail. 1t is the Philadel-
phian lily of botanists. and grows IN
dry or sandy soil; for that matter, it is
quite various in habit. The perianth is
spotted within with purplish dots, and
the whole height of the plant is from
two to three feet. Ere this passes out
of flower, we will find in wet meadows
the yellow, or Canadian, lily. There
are from one to several flowers to plant,
all of these gracefully nodding, and
spotted with brown. Again, still later,
comes the Turk soap lily, Litiuns sup
erlum, L., perhaps the finest OF our
wild species. The flowers are often
numerous, and the plant may be six or
eight feet in height. These plants are
magnificent sight in their native loca-
ton, and may easily be made to grow
in gardens. They have the sepals or
divisions of the flower strongly curled
backward or revolute. The flower is
yellower orange than the tiger lily of
the florists, and is spotted with purple
within.
1t is, perhaps, unnecessary to say
that the pond lilies, which gladden. our
city streets in summer, are not true lilies.
The family Nymphgaceg, indeed,
are quite remote in relationship, finding
their nearest allies in magnolias, butter
cups, and the like. They attain their
highest expression in the famous Vtc-
toria Regia of the Amazons, the leaves
of which, floating on the water, will
support child 1t was from the extra
ordinary veining of these great leaves
that Paxton is said to have derived his
plan for constructing the roof of the
Crystal Palace in Sydenham. All the
rafters, SO to speak, are curiously but
tressed and supported, giving the
greatest strength with the least mate
rial. The flowers of the Victoria are
among the most superb of natural OBJ
jects; they are magnifed and trans
cendent pond-lilies. With all their
beauty, however, we doubt if they can
excel our own lovely and sweet-scented
flower
The wild lilies, like many natural OBJ
jects (notably sea-shells and marine
life of all sorts), lose much of their
beauty in the prosaic environment of
our homes. They are ''lilies of the
field" and there we must 90 to see
them.-PrOCidence Journal.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
A Fatal MisapprehensiOn.

Marie Gunuil, formerly an artificial
flower maker, who for some years had
been separated from her husband and
had vainly solicited his permission to
see their two children, waylaid him
yesterday in the Passage Violet and
fired revolver at him. The ball did
not touch him, and he took to flight A
young man who happened to be walk
ing behind tried to wrcst the revolver
from her, and succeeded in forcing her
to the ground. but the passers-by,
fancying she was being maltreated,
rescued her from his grasp, whereupon
she fired two barrels at him. His life
is despaired Of. The woman was then
seized and taken to the police station.
She states that the young man was a
perfect stranger to her, but in the ex-
citement of the moment she took him
for her husband, against whom she had
been heard to VOW vengence.-Paris
Cor. London Times.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
Things to be Remembered.

"Will Moses Webster Finback please
step dis way?n asked the President OF
the Lime Kiln Club, as the meeting
opened.
Brother Finback, who had been very
quiet but deeply interested member OF
the club for the past two years, advanced
to the desk, and Brother Gardner con-
tinued:
Moses, Farm dat you am on de pint
of removin' to Ohio?''
Eyes, sah."
s.You will take your certificate long
wild you, an you will keep your mem
bership wild us jist de same; an any
time you kin raise money 'nuff to take
a freight train an cum up an see us
YOU will find hostile welcome"
.Yes, sah-Ize much obleeged, sab, "
replied Moses, as he wiped a tear from
his eve.
'.An' now l want to say few furder
words to you" resumed the President,
after solemn pause. You am wine
to cut loose an sail in de company OF
strangers, an dar am a few things
you would do well to remember.
Remember dat a lawyer will work
harder to cl ar murderer dan he will
to convict a thief.
"Remember dat naybur who offers
you de loan of his hoe am fishin around
to secure de loan of your wheelbar-
rer.
Remember dat you can't judge OF
de home happiness Of a man an wife by
seein' 'em at Sunday-skule picnic.
Remember dat while de average
man will return you the kirect change
in business transackshun, he'll water
his milk an mix beans wild his coffee.
Remember dat all de negatives Of de
best photographs am retouched, an de
wrinkles an freckles worked out
Remember dat society am madeup of
good clothes. hungry stomachs, decep-
ton, heartaches an mixed grammar.
Remember dat people will nebber
stop to queshun de truf of any rrmor or
scandal affectin' your character; but it
takes vars to satisfy 'em dat your
great grandfather wasn't pirate an
your great grandmother de leadin' gal
in fifteen-cent ballet You kin now
sot down an close yer eyes an reflect
an digest, an de rest of us will purceed
to carry out de usual programme of de
meetin'. y Detroit Free Press.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
What is Farming!

"What is farming?" says the Golden
Rule. at is something more than stay
ing on farm. 1t is something more
than selling hay and potatoes and
bulky crops unanimalized. Farming is
a business, a profession, practical and
scientific operation whereby the soil is
used for profit and improved under the
operation. The processes of nature
must be understood and worked in har-
mony with the chemistry of earth and
air. The processes of the elements
must be understood. if not in their
TECHNICAL terms and language, in that
sensible understanding, that commons
sense way, that their own advantage
and capabilities may be turned to the
best account. The lawyer works by
law and precedent, the physician works
by symptoms and indications, the mer-
chant by rules and observations, the me-
chanic by measures and capacities. The
farmer must work by abby rules, laws,
observation and experience. He must
be practical lawyer, doctor, merchant
and mechanic of the vegetable, the ami
NAL and the trade world about him.
He must be a skilled workman IN the
productive, operative and commercial
circles in which his business lies and
his sphere Of circulation extends"
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
TELEGRAPHIC MATTER

Our latest correspondence, May 16, tss3 br,n.
the narrative Of HENRY b. INGRAM the C,ena-ss . 70
erintendent of the District Messenger Co i. sup-
Haven, Conn. MIR Ingram says. For nan, New
Ihad been sorely troubled with weak and tras ,'ni
ing oss the loins, almost invariably leel'
with headache. l had noticed also that a. paled
periods following these pains my urine youId 1ld
ly colored, and leave heavy brick-colored soS IN
when allowed to stand In the vessel. could
and was discouraged to an alarming degree %ofl
ing helped me. ] was prescribed forby soro -,oh'
best physicians in New York City, where v,a VI 'ae
at that time, but derived no benefit or reIiof va yea
almost ready TO give up in despair an aceuan,orh "hel
to me, want you TO try Hunts Remedy M
and hardly twcntyfour hours had ELAPSED bofaq N
tained relief, and in three weeks time ali a MI
ailments had disappeared and improved steoi, sa
was infused with new life so that could ros anI
business again, which is that subjects mo NY
of all kinds, which likely TO affect tho ''s
namely: Erecting telegraph and telephonn -i,lS
Hunts Remedy now occupies the most bnnorra i.les ,
in my cabinet Of medicines I would nat nj P'1ce
it. and checrfully and heartily recommend \,
who are troubled with diseases Of the liver klnev ~
urinary organs. It never fails to cure" >--'' Vt
33CENTRE STREET
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11

The country people near Danville,
Va, were recently swindled in a very
simple yet curious manner. -Four men
rode about the country in covered
wagons soliciting old feather beds from
families, promising to replace them
with new ones in the course Of ten
days. The reason for doing this was
that they wanted to make mattresses tC
send across the sea, and that new feath-
ers would not answer for this purpose.
They were quite successful, getting six
large beds from two families. They
gave no receipts, but got their beds on
their bare promise.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
Cracker Nomenclature.

The female CRACKERS are in them
selves study. They have many of the
males characteristics They are buxom.
dirty and ugly, and, it goes without
saying, ignorant. Outside of the towns
# South Carolina newspapers are rarely
read; illiterate people are found on all
the farms. To illustrate this: A ''crack-
err about thirty years of age came to
minister in Greenville not long ago. ac-
companied by a young girl of about
twenty, who was dressed in faded cal
leo dress. After some hemming and
having the man stated that they de-
sired to be married. The matrimonial
knot was tied instanter, but when the
divine came to make out the certificate
q difficulty arose. When the cracker
was asked his name he replied John"
'But what is your other name?' asked
the clergyman. Il amt got no other
name" was the somewhat startling re-
ply. 'But what is your fathers name?"
''Peter." ''What do you call him when
you don't call him Peter?n persisted
the minister, thinking he had struck
the right track at last. eve calls him
pop!' was the answer, which was given
in Observation-Disclosures tone In
vain the clergyman questioned, but with
no satisfactory result, and what was his
amazement when he found that the
bride did not know her family name
either. In order to make out the GER
tificate the minister was obliged to use
the legal names Doe and Roe, and the
couple went away, after paying the fifty
cents fee. There is field for mission
airy work in South Carolina among these
people.-Cor. Philadelphia Press.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
A Fishy Fog.

Snake and fish stories are peculiarly
American. Nearly every paper in this
country gives its readers at intervals
o biz dose of either fish or snakes.
Here's a good fish story which was re-
lated to the Washington Cr1tlc by q
gentleman who resides on the historical
banks of the Potomac River, just below
Alexandria:
..You know" he began, 'lf there IS
ANYTHING that the Potomac River Is
famous in history for it is the dense
foes that overhang it like dense pals
at certain seasons of the year. Well,
one foggy morning, not long ago, L
started before daybreak for the river,
as had been my custom, to catch mess
of fish for breakfast. The fog was
thick enough to cut with knife, and l
couldn't see my hand before my eyes,
but lust made for the bank by instinct.
Finally | got near enough to hear the
waves beating against the shore, and
undoing my line, threw it out. l was
rewarded with the usual success.
Cauoht ten fine catfish, and just as l
had commenced to wind up my line
and stars back the sun arose and the
fog began to drift lazily down the
river. Then to my great surprise, l
discovered that / hadn't been within
two hundred yards of the water.
But" interjected the Critic, "1{ou
said that you caught ten fish. How
was that possible. "
80 did. l caught them in the fog;
1t was so thick that the fish had strayed
out of the water and were swimming
around in it, you see. )"
The Critic passed the medal over to
the Lone Fisherman" and meandered.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
TOWN CLERK FORTY-TyyO vp,

The following Is from Mr.. OTHyrEI GA. !,
weI-known and respected Town Clerk Of Norvcl n
Conn. Mr. eager is 50 years old and has bqll ,,' WE
sition of trust for ~ years. and his word su po'
his bond. On May s. 1885, he writes as folro 80 ss
years have suffered with disease Of the iIno 70,
bladder. and have no hcstancy in recon.,s,, ana
Hunts Remedy as specific for these coInniair-
has not only been the means Of relieving rr Il
pain, but has cured a number Of nv an1paiD.e ,,.tue
To-day am performing the duties of tho oe..S
Town Clerk which have held for forty.tro - VI
which could not be able to do were not in ,1.
SKATE OF health owing to the use of Hunts Ranrd
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11

DR.. c. c. Abbott, of Trenton, N. j.,
has destroyed another old belief in
weather lore. For twenty years he has
kept record of the building of their
winter houses by the muskrats, the stor-
ing of nuts by squirrels, and other hab-
its of the mammals which are COM
monty regarded as indicating the char
acter of the coming winter. His
conclusion is that the habits referred to
have no connection with the rigor or
mid1ess Of the approaching season
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
Became Sound and WELL

R.V. PIERCE, M. D.: Dear Sir-My wife,
who had been i'll for over two years, and
had tried many other medicines, became
sound and well by using your "Favorite
Prescription" My niece was also cured
by it's use, after several physicians had
failed to do her any good. Yours truly,
THoMAsJ. METHvIN, Hatcher's Station, Ga.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
Hard Iumps in Breast.

DR.. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. ": Dear
Sri wrote you some time ago tna6 1
Thought 7 had a cancer. There was large
lump in my breastas large as walnut, and
had been there four months. | commenced
taking your " Golden Medical Discovery"
I. Favorite Prescription" and "Pellets" IN
June, and the lump is gone.
Yours gratefully, MRS. r. X. CLARK,
Irvington, Mich.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11

-Naturalists say that feminine BIRDS
are as fond of bright colors as women.
and frequently bedeck themselves with
colored threads and ravelings 50 as to
bring out their complexion. Where does
vanity not exist?- Chicago Inter- Ocean
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11

HAY-FEvER. l was severely atfilcted
with Hay-Fever for % years. tried Ely,s
Cream Balm, and the effect was marvellous
n 4 4 nerfect cure. WIN. 7. CARR, Presby-
terian Pastor, Elizabeth, Nj. Price % cts.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11

HAY-FEvER. One and one-half bottles of
Ely's Cream Balm entirely cured me of
Hay-Fever of ten years standing. Have
had no trace of it for two years. ALBERT
A. PERRY, Smith boro, N. Y. z rice 80 cents