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Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
REvIY1Na DRIED TREES.

When woody plants, such as trees and
shrubs, have become very dry in transit
from the nursery they may often be re.
vived by burying them entire in moist
coil. This is far better than planting
and then giving water for it is almost
impossible to keep the stems moist when
exposed to the air and drying wind, but
if the bundles are opened and the plants
laid in trenches, or in any way So that
all parts can be covered up with moist
soil, they are almost certain to revive if
there is spark of life left in them when
SO buried. They should be examined
from time to time but not lifted out un-
til the buds begin to swell, then gently
raise the tops exposing only few
branches the first day, then a day or two
Later little more or all of the plant ex-
cept the roo. Select cloudy or rainy
day for taking out and planting, always
pruning away as much of the top as can
b. spared. Many a shrub and tree
which would be pronounced dead by a
casual observer may be revived as We
have ibed.-American Agriculturist.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
THEATRE-GoING.

A very serious matter concerns the amuse-
ments OF protesting Christians. see it pub
licly stated by men who call themselves
Christians that it would be advisable for
Christians to frequent the theatre, that the
character of the drama might be raised. The
suggestion is about as sensible as if we were
bdden to pour a bottle of layendar water
into the great sewer to improve its aroma.
If the church is to initiate the world in order
to raise its tone, things have strangely altered
since the day when our Lord said, Come
We out from among them, and touch not the
uaclean thing.r Is Heaven to descend td
the internal lake to raise its tone? Such has
been the moral condition of the theatre for
many a year that it has become too bad
for mendng, and even if it were mended
il would corrupt again. Pass by it with
ayerted gaze; the house of the strange wo-
man is there. 1t has not been my lot ever TO
enter theatre. during the performance of a
play, but have seen enough when have
come home from distant journeys at night,
while riding past the playhouses, TO make
me pray that our sons and daughters may
never go within the doors. 1t must be a
strange school for virtue which attracts the
barlot and the debauehes. 1t is no place for
q Chris ian, for it is best appreciated by the
irreligious and worldly. II our church
members fall into the habit of frequenting
the theatre, we shall soon have them going
much further in the direction of vice, and
they will lose all rel sh for the ways of Cod.
Theatre-going. If it becomes general amnne
protesting Christians. will son prove the
death Of the piety.-l >plrSeon.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
RELIGIOUS READING.
"rvERY EYE SHALL eEE HIM.''


Revelation l., Z.
When first to this polluted earth
The holy Saviour came,
So humble was His place of birth,
Few cared to know His name.
His lowly form no comeliness
To mortal eve possessed:
No beauty in His grief-ma-re,. eaes
Revealed the heavenly Guest
But 10. with clouds He Gomez again,
The crown upon His brow;
And every eye shall see Him then,
And every knee shall bow.
Thine eye, o Thou with soldiers spear,
Or with more crue! dart
OF unbelief, reproach, or smear,
Who pierced the Saviour's heart.
Thine eye, O Thou in pyide who doss
His great salvation scorn,
Or by neglect Thy soul hast lost,
Shall look on Him and mourn.
Thine eye. o weak and trembling saint,
Whom sin makes often sad,
Who. though pursuing, oft art faint,
Shall see Him and be glad.
Thine eye, 0 Thou whose faith is bright
With joy in One unseen,
Shall see Thine everlasting light,
Without cloud between.
Oh blessed hope, oh joyful thought,
For those who know His grace,
That when the fight of faith is fought
They shall behold His face!
To work and wait, to watch and pray,
With lamps kept burning clear,
Be this our service day by day,
Until the Lord appear.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
woR1p11NEss IN THE CHURCH.

The Christian at Work speaks thus OF
"worldliness in the church, and calls US as
Methodsts to account: .'The greatest dam
ger to the church of God today springs from
the spirit of worldliness which is invading it.
The lust of the eye. and the pride OF life at.
ford the most subtle and perilous forms Of
temptations. Thousands are unconsciousy
subjected TO these temptations. and become
their victims without being fully aware of it
themselves. So little do they know their
own hearts and secret impulses that
probably they would resent with
scorn the accusation of being
worldly and of entering the sanctuary to
show off their fneries or to see the hats and
cloaks of other ladies'. Yet this is too often
and too sadly the exact truth. The proof Of
it is, that such people stay away from Di-
vine services when they have nothing to
wear which m cans when their garments
are just little out of style; or when they
cannot hope to see fine array of new hats
and flowers. Our Methodist brethren used
Dothey do it yet?'-[St. Louis Christian
Advocate.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Ignorance never settles question.
He who knows most Crieves most fol
wasted time.
Time is the old justice, that examines
all offenders.
If you do not hear reason, she will rap
you over the knuckles.
Life, like every other blessing, derives
its value from its use alone.
No man is so worthy of envy as he
that can be cheerful in want.
Whose keepeth his mouth and tongue,
keepeth his soul from troubles.
Good temper is like sunny day; it
sheds its brightness on everything.
Nature is full of tendencies and OBJ
structions. Extremes beget limitations.
Cultivate not only the corn1elds CO
your mind, but the pleasure grounds
also.
He who can take no interest in what
is small will take false interest In what
is great.
Slcth, like rust, consumes faster than
labor wears, while the key often used is
always bright.
Self-will is 60 ardent and active that it
will break world to pieces to n rake
stool to sit on.
A weak mind is like a microscope,
which magniies tri6ing things, but can
not receive great ones.
It many times fails out that we deem
ourselves much deceived in Others, because
we first deceived ourselves.
Those who, without knowing US, think
or speak evil, do US no harm; it is not US
they attack, but the phantom of their
own imagination.
1t does men good to admire what is
good and beautiful; but it does them in
fnitely more good to love it. We grow
like what we admire; but we become one
with what we love.
Although men are accused for not
! knowing their own weakness, yet per-
haps as few know their own strength.
1t is in men as in soils, where sometimes
! there is vein of gold, which the owner
j knows not Of. -s
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
PLANT COLOR AS A SOIL TEST.

Georges Vile, the French agricultural
investigator, contends that there is
constant relationship between the color
of the growing plant and the compost
ton of the soil. That is to say, plant
in soil containing phosphoric acid, pot
ash and nitrogen in sufficient quantities
and in valuable form will show certain
green color. The same plant, if either
one of these three elements is in insult
fcient quantity, or in form not avail
able to the plant in the soil, will show
quite different green. The kind of
green indicates whether it is potash or
phosphoric acid, or nitrogen that is
mainly wanting to the soil. He main
tains. on the strength of experiments ex-
tending over period of five years, that
the absence of nitrogen manifests itself
by yellowish green, the absence of pot
ash by pale green, and the absence CT
phosphoric acid by green much lighter
in shade than the color of healthy and
well-nourished plant. If this holds true,
then the farmer is in position to know
what composition of three elements of
plant food will be required for any par
ticular crop and soil, and the agricultur-
al scientist will be placed in position
to give with much more certainty sound
reliable advice as regards fertilizers.
1t is admittedly very difficult even
with the aid of soil analyses to tell ex-
actly what soil requires for particular
crop. Now, if the plants by their color
furnish, so to speak, natural fertilizer
barometer, decided step forward would
be made. Mr.. Ville's conclusions will
be viewed askance, as were his nitrogen
experiments, but set of very simple ex-
periments would settle this important
question. A few vegetation vessels filed
with soil of known composition and
given respectively additional quantities
of phosphoric acid, potas h, and nitrogen
would establish the variety of color re-
curing on one and the same plant by
the absence of the one or the other ele-
ment. An experienced eye would soon
be able to tell from the color of field
of wheat, corn, barley and oats, presents
to the eye what the soil needs principally.
Every farmer knows that the same wheat
on two different fields may look alto
gether different, and of course there is
some good reason for it, which Mr..
Ville's study of the relationship between
plant color and soil composition may help
to solve.-American Agricultarist.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
A Wonderful Bronze PagOda.

A missionary who has settled in the
province of sz-Chuan, Central China,
and who has visited the great Buddhist
peak, Mount Omel, describes the temples
around the base as still showing many
wonderful works of art. Near the foot
of the mountain there still stands a
pagoda of bronze fifteen stories high, be-
lieved to be upward of thousand years
old. From the ground to the polished
ivory tip this immense structure is liter
ally covered with delicate figures OF
men, beasts, birds and reptiles. OF fig
ures of Buddha there are no less than
400 within the province, most of them
in the immediate vicinity of the sacred
peak.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
RETRIBUTION.

1t is easv to do what can never be undone.
1t is easy by example or word or deed to lead
men and women astray, but not easy. when
we see our mistake and repent, to lead them
back TO the right way. Impressing this truth
upon parents, Mr.. Moody said in recent
sermon in Boston: Il remember being eG-
gagged in conversation, some years ago, till
past midnight with an old man. He had
been for years wandering on the barren
mountains of sin. That night he wanted to
get back. We prayed, and prayed, and pray ed
till light broke in upon him; and he went
away rejoicing. The next night he sat in
front of me when 1 was preaching, and I
think that I never saw anyone look so sad
and wretched in all my life. He followed me
into the inquiry-room. What is the
trouble? / asked Is your eye off the Saw
iour? Have your doubts come back?' No;
it is not that he said. Il did not go to busi-
ness, but spent all this day in visiting my
children. They are all married and in this
city. / went from house to house, but there
was not one but Knocked me. 1t is the dark
est day of my life. 1 have walked up to
what have done. / have taken nv chill
dren into the world; and p,w l cannot get
them OUT"
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
A Magnificent Walnut Tree.

A veneer mill in Grand Rapids, Mich,
recently purchased magnificent specl-
men of blister walnut, which cut up in
to five logs twelve feet long and one
seyen-foot log, all of them as round and
regular as if turned in a lathe. The logs
range from forty eight inches in diane.
ter at the butt of the tree to thirty in
ches, and will cut about 5000 feet of
rare and very valuable stuff. 1t is to be
cut into fancy veneers.-PhiLadelphid
Record.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.

EASY WAY TO RID GROUND OF WEEDS.
Do you want garden patch that is
rich and also free from the myriad weeds
that infest your old gardena Change
the hen yard to new site and use the
ground where it stood. Repeated plow-
ing and spading, as well as poultry
scratching, has given the seed all soils
contain good chance to sprout, and
each turn has been killed by the in
dustrious birds. Also a weed-cursed
garden should be penned in for biddy.
-American Agriculturist.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
cuLr1vA1rNe THE BLACKBERRY.


In its natural state the blackberry is
founu in neglected fields and along
weedy fence rows. No fruit plant is
more persistent in its growth or more
sturdily Tesists determination. While the
fruit of its wild estate has always been
highly priced, under cultivation 1T has
developed greatly improved varieties.
Without particularizing any one as the
best the following may be mentioned as
among the more desirable varieties:
Agawam, Ancient Briton, Early Harvest,
Taylor, Snyder, Erie, Minnewashi, Law
ton, Kittatinny and others. 1t is, how
ever, to be observed that not all of the
varieties are sufficiently hardy to succeed
equally well in all sections, so that in
selecting choice varieties for any locality,
it is we'll to have the advice of an expe-
rienced nurseryman. Along with the
strawberry and raspberry the blackberry
forms trio of delicious fruit, of which
every person who has the land to spare
for the purpose, should at least raise
enough for family use.
The blackberry will grow on poor soils,
adapted tv osher crops. Indeed, it -four
ishes too much unless kept in subsection
by severe pruning. There is no time in
TIE year except during the winter, when
it will not be benefited by care and atten-
ton. at the present time there are
growing up by the eide of the bearing
canes, thrifty, green sprouts from the
roots. These are to be the bearing vines
of the next year, and after they have
fruited those bearing this season should
be cut off and carefully taken out. Care
fully. because the green canes are ex-
ceedingly brittle and easily broken.
Of the new canes from one to three
may be preserved, according to the dis
tancc apart of the stools. For few
vines in a garden it is quite good plan
= to set them about three feet apart. train
ling one thrifty cane to each stake, and
e.i2ping to make bushy head and pre-
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Feed no musty hay to your horse.
Feed all young animals warm food.
Never forget that sheep like turnips.
If you want good butter, churn often.
Provide necessary tools in advance of
need.
Feed for flesh and not fat in your
team. - {
Cannas require rich soil and plenty of
water.
Keep your harness well cleaned and
oiled.
Early potatoes will bring good
price.
Plant as soon as the soil is ready; not
before.
Good roads are the highways of
wealth.
Cheap production encourages con-
sumption.
Whenever you see weed cut it be-
low the surface.
Evergreens may be transplanted this
month.
The annual phloxes are most effective
in masses.
Keep your bees as near forty degrees
as possible.
Peas are generally covered too shallow
when sown.
Berbevis Thunbergii is desirable or
namentai shrub.
scrape your fruit trees and wash them
with soapsuds.
Don't cultivate so as to disturb the
roots of plants.
Small fruits are as easily grown as any
of the farm crops.
Look cut for the currant worm. Hell
lebore is the remedy.
The double varieties of the Deutzias
are valuable lawn plants.
The best fruit grows on the highest,
airiest and sunnlest points.
The bearing season of currants may be
prolonged by heavy mulch.
The earlier the application of fertiliz-
ers to strawberries the better.
Sow beers for succession and thin the
young plants to five inches apart.
Keep the heads of your fruit trees
open SO as to let in the air and sunshine.
If you want to check the growth of
tree trim it when in full leaf or just be-
fore.
Raise your "greens'' instead of hunt
ing them in the lots. 1t saves work and
time.
The variety is important, but the best
variety will maAe poor crop with. poor
cultivation.
A large part of cultivation can be done,
and done most easily and effectively be-
fore corn is planted.
Canada wood ashes are being spread
over parts of Boston Common for the i'm
provement of the grass.
Corn for ensilage should have just as
much care in planting and cultivating as
corn planted for grain crop.
Whether for silage, or for grain and
fodder, the man with clean land can
grow the most corn with the least labor.
Any green crop, such as clover, grass
and field peas, can be used for ensilage,
but in this country the great ensilage
crop is Indian corn.
One ounce of sulphide of potash to
;; four gallons of water will destroy all
mildews on plants if they are thoroughly
sprayed with the liquid.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13

vent too extended growth of the later
ais. Where several canes are allowed to
grow from each stool they must have
more room, but shortening and pruning
are necessary in all cases, and tying to
stakes is advised. .-.NeW York World.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
SYMPATHY.

Those of us who have lost little children
feel prompting within US to speak word
of comfort to every parent who is passing
through similar experience. We cannot
do good to others save at cost to ourselves,
and our own Affections are the price we pay
for our ability to svmpatbze. He who
would be helper must first be sufferer.
He who would be savior must somewhere
and somehow have en upon cross; and
we c'nnot have the highest happiness of
life in succoring others without tasting
the cup which Jesus drank,
and submitting to the baptism wherewith
He was baptized. Every real Barnabas
(Son of Consolation) must pass to his voca-
ton through seasons. of personal sorrows
and so AGAR. we see that it is true that "by
these things men live" The most comport-
ing OF Davids psalms We're pressed out of
him by suffering. and if Paul had not had
his thorn in the flesh we had missed much
of that tenderness which quivers in so
manv of his etters.-[The Rev. w. NJ. Tay-
lor. ID, u.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13

Syrup"

Martinsville, NJ, Methodist Par
sonage. My acquaintance with
your remedy, Boschee's German
Syrup, was made about fourteen
years ago, when I contracted Cold
which resulted in a Hoarseness and
a Cough which disabled me from
filling my pulpit for a number Of
Sabbaths. After trying Physician,
without obtaining relieEI cannot
say now what remedy he prescribed
Il saw the advertisement of your
remedy and obtained a bottle. /
received such quick and permanent
help from it that whenever we have
had Thre It or Bronchial troubles
since in our family, Boschee's Ger
man Syrup has been our favorite
remedy and always with favorable
results. have never hesitated to
report my experience of its use to
others when / have found them
troubled in like manner" REV.
w. H. HAGGARTY,
of the Newark, New A Safe
Jersey, M E. Confer
ence, April IS, 90. Remedy.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13

THE earth's 1900 millions of human
Inhabitants speak 3,034 different lam
guages and possess about 1000 differ
ent religious beliefs.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
CONSISTENCY.

A woman came to Mr.. Carr at the close OF
one of his Bible readings, and said. You
told the truth, today My husband is an
infidel, but he did respect Christianity a
little until one night took character in
drama played in our church. That night
lost my grip on my husband. am afraid
shall never get it again. The church that
resorts to broom-drills and dramas and mum
socials and fairs and festivals to raise
money is without the faith that
takes hold On God. A genuine Holy
Ghost revival is a thing unknown. Fathers
have lost their grip ON wayward sons, moth
ers have lost their grip on unconverted
daughters. the church has lost her grip on
God Down on her knees in sackcloth and
ashes before Him who drove the buyers and
sellers out of the temple let snch church
plead with God for mercy, promise to fore
60 all worldly measures for money-making,
and regain the lost grip.'-[The Illustrator.
Passaic City record., 1891-06-13
A Safe
Remedy.

G. C. cprrv Sale Mar'fr. .woodbury,N,J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-11
LODGED IN JAIL.
The Old Soldier Who, 1t is Alleged, Assaulted
His Daughter.

The Old Soldier Who, 1t is Alleged, Assaulted
His Daughter.
David Edwards, the old soldier who is
charged with felonious assault on his fourteen
year old daughter, alleged to have been COM
mitted at his home near Dickerson's few DAYS
ago. as published in The STAR at the time, was
taken to Rockville yesterday and lodged in
Jail. Edwards, as heretofore stated, is about
sixty years old and lives near Dickerson's with
his several children. On the evening of the al
legged assault it is said he returned home
under the influence of liquor. His grown son
was absent from the house and he drove two
younger children out of the house and then
committed the assault. The helpless little girl
resisted as best she could and screamed for
help. when her father picked up chair and
struck her such blow that she was forced to
the floor. Another scream from the girl fright
ened the father and he left the house and made
off toward the woods. The son appeared
just in time to hear the screams of his young
sister, and when he gave the alarm search
was made for the alleged assailant, but he sue
ceeded in getting out of Maryland and reaching
this city. He being veteran of the late war it
was thought that he would be found among
hiSold comrades. and for that reason Detective
Carter paid visit to Soldiers Home. which
proved unsuccessful. Thursday evening he
paid another visit to the home and found Ed
wards in a corn field at work. He was taken to
the eighth precinct station and kept there until
yesterday afternoon. The arrest was kept
quiet, for the reason that the officers feared
that publicity might work up feeling against
the prisoner and violence might be resorted to-
Deputy Sheriff Connell who has charge of
the Rockville Jail. came here and got the pris-
oner yesterday afternoon. He feared no trou-
Bile. because he did not have to go near DECKER
sons, where the affair is alleged to have hap
pened. Edwards was lodged safely in jail and
it is thought that the law will be permitted to
take its course.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-11
Col. McClure's Reply.

Editor A. X. Mcclure has replied to the re.
cent letter Of Mr.. John G. Nicolay regarding
Lincoln's position on Hamlin's denomination,
which was published in The STAR on Thursday.
lie says that the Pennsylvania delegation in
the Baltimore convention was personally
harmonious. although divided on Vice Presi-
dent. He says that Gen. Cameron knew that
Hamlin's nomination was hopeless, but he
Urged the solid vote Of the delegation for him
n compliment The solid vote of the dele
CATION was. he says. cast for johnson before the
close Of the first ballot. In regard to the letter
to President Lincoln assuring him of his
loyalty to him in May, 1854, quoted by MIR.
NicOlay in his recent letter. he says it was writ
ten because of q suddenly developed effort in
Pennsylvania to divide the lines drawn by the
then bitter Cameron and Curtin factional war,
for and against Lincoln. He insists that the ex-
preston ''Swett is unquestionably all right" in
the Endorsement Of Mr.. Lincoln meant that Mr..
SWEET was active in his opposition to Hamlin' g
denomination, and he claims that Mr.. Hay does
not sustain Mr. Nicolay's Interpretation Of MIR.
Lincoin's note on the vice presidency.