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Year: 1877

BY ANNA G. BRACkETT
Hardly Il steamer that crosses the sea
But carries one traveller more.
For little time, out on the shorclcSs sea
Than she counted when leaving the shore.
Blown far away from his mate where She sings
BY the pitiless sea bound gale,
Lost and plying his patient wings
Till heart and courage fail;
Lost on the shoreless, unknown main,
Blinded with salt white spray,
Dazed with the endless, waving plain.
Scared by the lengthening way;
Lost on the sea and no land in sight
Through the heavy and misty ar
Struggling on through the dark and the light
To terror and mute despair:
Til on the horizon a cloudy speck
Clears To the mast like tree,
Clears to the solid and ground like deck
And he follows il Wearilv.
And cliugs and crouehes Il welcome guest.
An eager and trrmuous bird
With the green and blue on his neck and breast
BY his hearts hard painting stirred.
Then come pity and food and drink to the brim
And shelter from wave and cold
But the quick head droopS and the bright eyes


dim


And the story all is told
Pititul comfort vet comfort still
Not to drop in the hungry sea,
Keeling down out of the empty height
To that terrible agony.
Bitter and hard to be driven To roam
Between the sea and the sky
To find foot hold and warmth and home.
And thcn-only to die.
Yet ii was harder God HI knows,
Who counts the sparrows that fall,
a


rose.


When the sea and the Sky were all
When the sky bent down to Unfold the sea
And the sea reached up to the sky,
And between them only the wind blew rrc
And never Il ship went by
Year: 1877

AS the season of grating is ut hand.
every one who is in possession Of healthy
fruit trees should see that they are of the
variety which he desires to have Cut
tlngs or sclOns of stone fruits should be
secured early, while the buds are vet dor
mant but apple and pear can be cut and
placed III other trees any time before the
leaf opens. The scions should be kept in
damp sand on sawdust to prevent drying
up: they will thus if cut early keep good
several months. In grating, limbs should
be cut from three-tourths to one and one
half inches in thickness. Cut off where a
clear split can be made. The scions (of
last years groWth) should be cut in lengths
of two or three buds, one bud being at or
near the top Of the shaped cut on the
scion inserted. Split the sawed stump TO
the best advantage. wedge open to the
extent which will receive the cutting with
a slight pressure: now select two cuttings
of equal size. and With sharp knife cut
a wedge on the lower end of each with Il
slope corresponding with the slope of the
crack in the stump opened for its reccp-
ton. Insert the cuttings by showing them
down in line with the grain of the wood.
81 that the line between the wood and
the bark OF the cutting shall be as nearly
as possible united with the same line on
the stump: here, let it be recollected. is
the essential point, in order that this
union be made certain, and growth Sc
cured to The scion.
Year: 1877

Experience teaches us that cattle-SayS
the American CultivatoT- thrive best on
a mixed diet. All hay OF all grain will
produce less beef than hay and grain.
The animal structure of the OK also de
mands bulk in food as well as richness
the feeding of the concentrated food being
only profitable so far as the animal assim-
ilates ii; beyond that simply increasing
the manure heap at a cost far beyond its
value. The OK has approximately eleven
and onc-halI pounds of stomach with only
TWO and onc-half pounds of inteStines to
each one hundred pounds Of live weight


The sheep has less stomach and more in
tcstncS, giving Il smaller percentage of di-
gtStlNe apparatus; While the pig for every
hundred pounds of his live weight has
only one and one-thirI pounds of stomach
to SIN pounds Of inteStneS. 4 steer would
thrive on bulk Of straw with a little oil
meal, that would shrink sheep and
starye PIG. Pork can he produced from
clear corn-meal, while mutton requires
great variety OF food and beef-cattle
hecome cloyed and diseased with its eX-
elusive use. \ thoughtful attention to
these broad facts Will change much inju-
dIclous feeding into cheaper meat produc-
non One element in the economy OF
cattle-ttedng. the use of straw as fodder.
has not received the attention its imp0r-
tdnct demands ON no one point is the
average farmer SO imcredulous as regard
jNg the value Of Straw to feed, and on
many farms the Wastetul practice still tX-
lists Of turning all the straw into the ma
Hule heap. If properly made and reason
81,
straw. especially OF the oat crop. should
DE used as cattle food Early-crt straw
is ~orth Ion feed tWo-thirds as much as
hay, and is three times as valuable in
feeding cattle as in the manure heap
Pea haulm and bean straw, especially if
i'm the latter the pods are attached are of


still greater value The best hcat-p pro-
ducln9 foods are wheat. corn. oats. hay
and bran o0t straw will develop as large
a percentage OF heat as oil-callc: bean
STRAW even more; and in This respect. one
hundred parts Ut cal straw are equal to
eighty parls Of hay. Straw is deficient in
esh-iorniug material, requiring one hun
drrd parts uat straw To equal sixteen
parts good hay in this particular: yet


tre4u4 with cotton-secd or linseed-cake,
il supplies what they lack in heat giving
and respiratory clements For the pur-
pose of feeding ont oat straw, our oat crop
rs allowed to oycr-lipcn, Il large amount
oI its nutrimcnt being lost without any
corresponding benefit to the grain, which
never improves after the upper portion of
The stem hts commenced turning yellow
oats cut when Just turning from the green
state Weld more grain as we'll as greater
lppCiOp N1lnr i'm STRAW The n:l.rnW mar
rim Of profit in attlt-lceding in this SEC
tion Of the country demand the closest
economies in the food supply and the
most thorough Investigations and expert
ments with an article Of So little present
market value, and one of such abundance
with most farmers as Oat straw.
Year: 1877

CLEARING WEEDS AND GRASS If YOU
have garden paths, bricked over or other
wise, they may be kept free by the use of
meat brine or strong salt and water, poured
into the seams of the tagging, or if sprin-
kled on the gravel walk a few times it will
completely kill the roots Of the grass and
weeds
Year: 1877

To remove smoke and dust from wall
paper, tie large piece OF clean white cloth
over broom and brush the wall down
we'll. Then take a stale loaf of bread, cut
it open and rub the soft side all over the
paper 1t will clean it ''as nice as new"
1t will also remove spots of lime or white
wash
Year: 1877

FIRE-PLACES. Nothing furnishes room
SO much and SO cheertully as a well al
ranged fire place. 1t will add vastly to the
cheertulness of domestic life if introduced
The reason that bright fire is SO pleasant,
is, that it is live thing in dead room
Year: 1877

A BRAVE REGIMENT. Durin Y the Pc
ninsular campaign Wellington was often
forced to send picked men into danger
ollS places. On Il certain occasion it be
came necessary to capture 4 battery ut
st. Sebastian-a battery which was hurl-
inc death and destruction into the British
ranks and the lay Of the land was such,
and attendant circumstances, that not
more than Il full regiment could be used
in the work The duke selected the body
of men and told them what he wanted
done He knew the danger Of the enter
prise, but the safety Of the whole army
depended upon the success Of that one
movement Said he to the commanding
officer


''Colonel have faith i'll you and III your
men. Nour regiment is the first i'll the
world


AYE, my lord replied the colonel,
quickly, ''and by the time Your order is
fully executed ii will be the first in the
next" And then he plunged to the head
of his regiment, and gave the order for
the forward movement.


His reply to the duke had been heard
by those who had stood near, and they
told it to others. and SO it flew through
the regiment, and became the battle cry,
The old soldiers caught inspiration from
it. 1t made them invncible. They some
how felt that it would be all right with
them any way. They would be the first
regiment, let it be in this world or in the
next. With a loud shout they dashed on
dashed on with an impetus against
which the French cannOneers went down
like grassland not more than one man
IN twenty of the attacking party was IA
tally stricken. Wellington afterwards de
clared and others declared with him, that
it was the most magnificent charge ever
made.
Year: 1877

The New England Farmer closes a
lengthy article on the value of keeping
farm accounts, as follows: y We urge
every famer to try to keep such accounts
as will enable him to know which way he
is sailing. Then having determined his
course, he may work upon the details at
his leisure. In the meantime, We may us
we'll have patience with all those efforts
to determine the exact profit or loss on
keeping stock or raising crops If farm
er can figure out a profit from his opera
tlons that is satisfying to himself, let him
enjoy the satisfaction. The world needs
all the happy, cheerful people there are
in it, AS the first of April is the begin
ming OF the farmers financial year, now is
the time to commence system of farm ac-
counts. if one has already adopted some
method of book keeping by which he may
be able to know how his business pays, now
is a good time TO look over and strike a bal
ance Don't "go it blind" any longer
Year: 1877

These figures, let it be remembered,
represent in clean cash what is paid out
toy the people OF Maine in single year
for corn and wheat. beyond what is grown
upon oar own soil: and there can be lit
Tie doubt that five million dollars would
he really nearer the actual amount than
four millions, tut if this should he stated
rs fact our people would think the per
SON making The statement insane. Now
II oul farmers were pursuing Il system of
high Farming, if they were feeding high


beef, wool. DAIRY products and manure.
Year: 1877

Gov. Fairbanks is a careful as well
as humane man and in the further
reprieve of John p. Phair he has doubt
less consulted the demands of Justice as
well as of humanity. He has had
sources of more reliable information
than could be made available to the
general public, and he has judiciOus
advisers. We have been content that
the case should be left to him for de-
cision, and we have crowded no ad-
vice upon him. If he says, as he does
| by his action in the case, that he nas
basis for well-grOunded belief that
the verdict which consigned Phair to
the gallows may have been erroneous,
it is enough for us. On him rested the
responsibility, and he has exercised it.
The case has been a very strange one
one that cannot fail to be a noted one
in the annals of criminal jurisprudence :;
and one which, especially if Phair Sc
cures new trial from the Legislature,
cannot fail hereafter to exercise a strong
influence on the course of criminal JUS
tice.


We must expect, hereafter, to see in
the case of every condemned murderer,
who does not confess his guilt, an effort
to revive the issue of his guilt or innO-
cence after it has passed beyond all the
ordinary and regular tribunals. Of
course every such convict cannot ex-
pect to bring to bear in his case an in
cident 50 striking and dramatic as the
Downing episode, which secured the
first reprieve of Phair; but he will be a
dull fellow, if he cannot persuade some
body to believe his prOtestatiOns of in
nOcence, i'll spite of courts and juries !;
and with the aid of a newspaper or two,
and of an active correspondent, who,
unhampered by any oath and unem-
barrassed by cross examinations, shall
devote himself for a month or two to
writing up new or formerly exploded
theories of the murder, and casting fresh
suspicion on any and every one, other
than the convict, who was ever sus-
pected of any connection with the crime,
it will be easy to unsettle the public
confidence in the result legally reached,
and to place the public mind i'll state
of apprehension lest some terrible mis-
take may have been made, which will
have its influence on governors and
legislatures.


John P. Phair has secured at least
two years more of life, unless he dies in
prison from natural causes. He will
next be virtually tried by the Legisla-
ture, which will be likely, under all the
circumstances, to grant him new trial
before the courts. This will take place
some five years after the murder, and
of course with abundant chances for the
death of witnesses and disappearance of
evidence. What its result will be, of
course, cannot be prognosticated. If it
is able to establish clearly either his
guilt or innocence, there will be cause
for general congratulation.-BurIingtOn
Free Press.
Year: 1877

TIE Pittsburgh Commercial-Gazette looks
upon Senator Morton's letter as q rsllyins
point for the entire Republican party. In
concluding an article on the subject it says
}'tSenatar Morton expresses, in his letter. The
general sentiment of the Republican party.
He was never more leader than now. The
President has taken step Of vast importance
to the veal or the woe Of this country His
motives are undoubtedly pure. Think g We
may of the wisdom of the act, it is done, and
there is no good in bad feeling over it. The
Republican party can not afford to break with
its Presidens on single issue. Therefore,
let Us leave the point Of difference undisciissed,
and seek the points Of agreement, that we
may harmonize on, them This is substanti


ally Senator .Mortons advice to the party = n
Year: 1877

who prefer peace and fafr.dealing 10 factious
opposition aud strife. There will then be
tho basis for political division among the
native whites Of tho South, which Is tue
true way for working out the salvation Of
that Hectfnn
Year: 1877

In a recent lecture delivered in
Edinburg on "The Stars" Prof.
Grant gave graphic idea of the i'm
mensity of space. He said that
railway train running at the rate of
fifty miles an hour would reach the
moon in six months, and the sun in
two hundred years, and Alpha Cen
tauri, the nearest of the fixed stars, in
forty-two million of years. A ball
from a gun, travelling at the rate of
nine hundred miles an hour, would
reach Alpha Centauri in 2,7O0,000
years; while light, travelling as it
does at the rate of $4,000 miles in a
second, would not teach it in three
years. Light from some of the tele-
scopic stars would take $3.50 years to
reach the earth, and from some of the
clusters the distance is so great that
light would take half million of
years to pass to the earth, So that we
saw objects not as they really were,
but as they were half a million years
ago. These stars might have become
extinct thousands of years ago, and
yet their light might present itself to
us. AS to the magnitude of the stars
he noticed that it was computed that
Alpha Lyra was one hundred billions
of miles distant from the earth, and
its magnitude and splendor were as
twenty t. one when compared with
our sun. Similar Investigations
brought out the fact that the sun was
neither vastly greater nor vastly less
than the great majority of the stars.
Year: 1877

eff you move muscle you are dead
manp


But he didn't heed. Springing through
the door, he cooked his revolver as he
went, and fired on the first man he saw,
which was Clauson. He made for his
horse, with bullets flying all around
him. When he saw it was gone heleaped
over the low fence, to be struck three
times before he touched the ground.
The cayalrymen and Cludham made a
rush on him as he fell. But it was use
less; he was quiet. They took the body
into the cabin, struck light and
searched it, to find nothing at all that
would tell his name or business. Near
the hearth sat the little basket Lizzie
Anderson had brought. 1t contained
late copies of the Philadelphia and
New York papers, and lengthy writ
ten details of the latest movements in
Patterson's column, with carefully cal
culated surmises of probable movements
in the future. In an envelope by itself
was the countersign of that night and a
rude drawing of the picket line. Next
day, in accordance with orders from
headquarters, the stranger was buried
quietly in the woods where he fell.


Every means short of actual torture
was brought to bear on the girl Lizzie
Anderson to induce her to tell from
whom she had obtained her information
and the countersign, but the efforts were
useless. Her only answer was:


81 come of a Southern family that
never betrays its friends, right or wrong.
1 will never tell any thing"


And she didn't. She was held close
prisoner until the command reached
Harper's Ferry, where, in the confusion
of Patterson's leaving and Banks taking
charge, one morning Lizzie Anderson
turned up missing, and Mary Lamb
mourned her departure.


81 think it's a downright shame, so
do. Ihad all the trouble of catching that
particularly sharp young woman, and
then to think they had her run away af
terwards in one of my best dresses"
Year: 1877

THERE is young woman living at
Titusville, Pennsylvania, who has a
queer idea of spite. 1t was understood
that she was to be married to wealthy
oil merchant, but he cast her of, and
then, to use her own expression, she said
she would humble him." She made
the acquaintance of young colored
man, black as certain playing card, and
ran off with him to neighboring town,
where they were married.
Year: 1877

A WOMAN of experience, who prides
herself upon her cleanliness in her do
mestic affairs, says wife should never
hit her husband on the head with a
rolling pin when he comes home inebria-
ted. She recommends an ak handle.
Year: 1877

AMONG other valuable Government
publications now in the course of prep
aration is history of the surveys and
scientific explorations ordered and prose
cuted by the United States during the
century now being closed, including the
various foreign and oceanic expeditions,
the surveys of the coast and the lakes,
and the several typographical, scientific,
and military surveys of the interior.
Year: 1877

Harrisburg will be called, and from
present appearances q fun State ticket
placed in the field, composed Of the
Greenback party Of tho United States
and Protective Labor party, the latter
the most powerful of all. especially in
Philadelphia. The only trouble that
need be apprehended in making the
convention harmonious throughout,
both In platform and nominees, will bs
on account OF the dissensions that have
already arisen between self elected lead
ers. There is no doubt In the minds of
the labor party in this State that with
proper organization they Gun poll $50, 900
votes ut the Novemb Der election, and thus
hold the balance of power.


In Philadelphia alone there are now
14,OOO voters enrolled. and activity IL
being displayed in increasing the ranks
and persistently propagating the faith.
In conversation with ssveralof the dele.
gates after the adjournment, the opin-.
ion was confidently EXPRESSED that, in
spite OF the discussion last evening, the
matter OF meeting the conflicting ideas
and interests was simply question Of
time. and that, although the remarks
OF few OF the delegates were decidedly
communist in tone, the sober second
thought would lead them to modify
their opinions. and by compromising
with the more moderate workiDgnen
they thought they would gain victory
at the polls.
Year: 1877

for these unTeasoning brutes mfgha
have oecupied the comfortable dwell
lngs OF their old tyrants with no one To
say them nay and the soldier, even OF
the most civilized peoples. Is inclined TO
loot when the Hahting ID over. But
1t was sickening to gaze upon tho shat
tered and upturned tombstones around
the desecTated mosques, for there is
something sacred In the repose OF the
grave, and respect for the dead is writ
sen In every conscience,
Year: 1877

To add to the variegated aspect OF
Ohio politics, the Workingman's party
Of the State is now said to be inharmo-
NOUS with itself, there being a Colum-
bus wing and Cincinnati wing. the
Cincinnati wing being too communisSic
to suit the wing designated Columbus.
An attempt has been made, it is said, to
induce the Cincinnatians to withdraw
the State ticket recently nominated.
that farmer may be put at the head OF
the labor movement. So far the Gin
elnnatl nominees are not inclined to re-
tire. Their hands are not horny hut
they can stick. Their brethren of
Columbus propose to hold convention
on the 18th Of Septembe Der to nominate a
new State ticket and make a pew plat
form.
Year: 1877

The Portland Oregoniam of Aug. Is
contains this unbelievable story: Judge
T.. c. Bronaugh has attached to his
watch chain little amulet or charm,


which, aside from its peculiar history, is
very pretty in itself. 1t is nothing more
or less than petrified rosebud. Dur


ing the rebellion, young nephew of
Judge Bronaugh, while in one of the
Southern States, wrote home to his
mother and inclosed in the letter n rose


bud. The letter arrived safely at its
destination, and, after having been pc
rused, was laid aside with the rosebud
in drawer, where it remained for eight
of nine months. When the drawer was
ovcrhauled and the letter again brought
to light, therosebud it tcontained was dis
covered to be petrified. The Judges
aunt recently sent the stone to him at
this place, and he placed it in the hands
of icweler for the purpose of having it
fitted to carry on his watch chain. The
petrifaction is so very hard that while
trying to drill hole in it two or three
tools were broken before the object was
accomplished. 1t is n perfect rosebud


and 50 well preserved that the finest fb.
ers are to be seen. What peculiarities
of air, earth, or water cor Id have chang.
ed the tender rosebud into hard, al.
most diamondlikc substance in the
short space of nine months is to us q
mystery"
Year: 1877

TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE IN A PIANO FACTORY.


Another terribly fatal fire is recorded,
this time in New York. Halc's piano fac
tory took fire from some burning varnish,
and was burned to the ground, together
with the homes Of over three hundred pcO-
pie. The flames spread like flash and II
few minutes after igniting the entire build
ing with upwards of two hundred workmcn
was wrapped in flames.


At this writing the loss of life is estimat-
ed at one hundred.
Year: 1877

NEITHER the Russians nor the Turks
need fear that they will be interfered
with in the prosecution of the present
war. 1t was understood at the begin
ming that it was not to be free fight,
and the understanding is now absolute
1t must be fought out on the Kilkenny
lines if it takes all next summer.
Year: 1877

The telephone may be well enough as
Il musical disseminator, but what the
country needs is the invention of some
sort of musical conductor which may be
applied to hand-organs and tin-pan pi-
amos in such manner as to conduct the
music" noiselessly off, and dump it in
some out-of-the-way place, where it will
not become offensive.
Year: 1877

A PARIS dispatch asserts that two
thousand Italians have offered their
service to the Greek army. The offer
will probably not be accepted Two
thousand organ-grindcrs would be alto
gethcr too large an allowance for so
small an army as that of the Greeks.
Year: 1877

ONE LIFE, ONE ANA wife said to her
husband, who was scoldiug Ler, However
cross you may be, there is not couple who
live in greater uuanimiiy than You aud ! for
we always desire the same thiog-You want
70 be master and so DO T.