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Year: 1874

This subject was under discussion at a
recent meeting of the Experimental Farm
Club of Chester county, Pennsylvania,
from which we condense the following
from the Practical Farmer, believing
that it will prove of some interest to our
readers


"Milton i. Conrad said the best time to
trim was when the wounds would heal
quickest and when the trees were grow
ing most rapidly, about the sixth or seventh
month.


Prof. Peck said that when to trim was
not an important question in orchard cul-
ture. He had seen trees trimmed at all
seasons of the year. a prominent orchard
list said not to do it when sap is flowing and
buds swelling. 1t does not make much
difference as to the time of the year only
provided the tree is making wood rapidly
and you don't cut large limbs. In olden
times old limbs were cut off. A wound
will heal more rapidly from the middle of
May to the middle of July. Mineral mat
tor is what the tree depends upon for vigor.
Fruit trees require more mineral matter
than forest trees because we exact more
from them. If wood ashes or potash are
put on the roots Of trees they will do well.
la the forests the leaves fall to the ground
and supply the trees with mineral matter,
but in orchards they blow away. Go to
the forest and collect leaves and rotten
wood and put about the trees in your or
chards. When wood ashes are not TO be
obtained, get some potash or lime, especially
potash.


Mr. Conrad asked how to supply ashes,
DC, to roots? Prof. Peck said, by digging
down to the roots or digging down far
enough to prevent the grass obtaining any
benefit from the ashes or potash.


George Baldertson said there were two
general princip pies involved, over-bearing
and barrenness. If the tree is weakly, cut
off some branches, and after the fruit is set
cnt off more branches. If some trees which
arc growing headlong be trimmed and
checked in their wild career, the effect will
be good. If you trim a tree before the sap
is run you make sucker, but if you wait
until the sap has run out its course you have
no suckers. Abner Garrett said he had cut
apple trees when in full bloom only on one
side and had reaped good crop of fruit.
Other trees which had been trimmed all
oSer didn't do SO we'll, Prof Peek said
when You trim tree the remaining
branches get more of the mineral matter
absorbed by the roots, which is always a
constant quantity. Didn't believe in too
much trimming, but did in feeding the trees
with mineral fertilizers-potash and lime.
John Carter said the Muriate of Potash
could be obtained for two and half cents
per pound. Marccilus S. Cook said lux
uriantly growing tree produces little fruit
stop that, and fruit will come and continue
coming until the tree is exhausted. Put
ting an elastic band around the tree or belt
ing the bark in the month Of June will
make the fruit come. lie had done it in
bis orchard i'll two instances; change the
circulation and you will sc. fruit, checking
the returning sap devclopes the embry 0
bud If the tree is pruned in June the
wounds are healed more readily. Orchards
sl.ould he pruned when young and not
when old
Year: 1874

The action Of the mob in Cleveland against the
ladies' engaged in the temperance movement re-
ported IL our last issue, was simply dabolical;
and it the authorities OF that city do not take
prompt measures to discover and punish the
rnflanB, it will leave stain upon the reputation
Of tnat city which eau never be removed. III
Chicago, tho mob contented itself with Aooting
and yelling mud ought to have boon promptly
and vigorously dispersed by the police, but in
Cleveland the rutians added to this style Of in
suit physical assault upon the ladies and upon
those gentlemen who sought to protect them
from violence. Mayor Otis has issuod proca-
nation warning tho roughs Of the city not to
Interfere with citizens engaged in tho exercise Of
their lawful rights, and threatening them with
tho promptest punisllnent by tho police it they
do 90.
Year: 1874

The most PERFECT FITTING
CORSET ever offered to the public.


The peculiar style Of cutting
gives sufficient fuIlness at the
bosom. without folding ut the top,
gradually and closely fitting to,
and over the hips, is longer front
and back than ordi-.ary Corsets,
and in fact, is the only Corset, cut
in this form.


We are also SOLE AGENTS for
the
Year: 1874

1t is pleasant to think just under the snow
That stretches 80 bleak and blank and cold,
Are beauty and warmth that we cannot know
Green fields and leaves and blossoms of gold
They are hidden now not glimmer breaks
Through the hard blue ice and the sparkling


drift;


The world shrinks back from the downy flakes
Which out of the folds.of the night-cloud sft
Full often now when the skies are Wild


And hoarse and sullen the night-winds blow
And the lanes and hollows with drifts are piled
| think Of the violets under the snow.
l look in the wind flowers tremulous eye
hear the chirp of the ground-bird brown,
A breath from the budding grove steals by,
And swallows are dipping above the town.
The lily shines on its bending stem,


The crocus opens its April gold,
And the rose uptosses its diadem


Against the floor of the winters cold
And that other world to my soul, I say,


That veiled tho mystic world of the dead,
Is no further away on any day,


Than the lilies just under the snow we tread.
Year: 1874

ed person was recommended to mercy,
replied: because it is an aggravated
case, my lord!" We suppose that it
was because it was an aggravated case
that a Swiss jury found extenuating
circumstances in couple of ruffians
numbering, poor shoemaker who OBJ
jected to their stealing the boots off
his feet A Welsh jury were.not con-
tent with performing their own func-
tons, but usurped the judges prero-
gative. Having to decide as to the
guilt or innocence of man charged
with offering a forged note, the
sapient men of Cardigan said: "We
find the prisoner guilty of telling
stories about the note, and think he
ought to pay back the money and
have three months for it. death by
small pox, accelerated by neglect of
vaccination" was not bad for a coroner's
jury but much better was the rider
to verdict in a case of accidental
poisoning with carbolic acid. 'The
jury is Of opinion that the public
should be warned of the dangerous
nature of this diabolical acid


When the jury in famous Irish
murder case were locked up for the
night, it was discovered that there
were thirteen of them, the odd man
being a sociable fellow who had vol.
unteered his assistance just to have
the pleasure of dining with the real
| jurymen. At another trial, just as
the case was drawing to its end, some
body called attention to the fact that
one of the jurors had vanished; he
was found sitting unconcernedly in
the body of the court, having walked
out of the jury-box without any idea
he was doing wrong, quite unaware
Of the responsibility attached to the
part for which he was cast Cham
ber's Journal.
Year: 1874

OLD-TlME w AVS AND THE NEW
r1ME.-Look at the simplicity Of the
old.time way of thinking. When a
man gets drunk now, every thing is
SO connected with every thing else,
that he jars on a dozen interests all
around Whom a man got drunk in
the old days, he was simply drunk
and jolly good fellow. He was not
doing any thing to the state and flu
ture generations and society. Just so
with children. What is a child now T?


can awful problem! A terrible
sort of bonbon paper, from which,
when duly unwrapped, You may bring
out a hero or donkey, an angel or a
brute! A perpetual conundrum of,
What was my grandmother like, and
how far does she influence this child !
Simply constructed minds, without a
patent double extension power capable
of taking in the universe and its forces
in all their bearings, shrink appalled,
before the modern child, and the in
Vulnerable systems of hygiene and
education proposed for him.


"What was a child?


"Just child, as a little pig is lit
tie pig, only that little pigs are not
whipped and kissed and taught their
catechism. A few simple rules, all
strictly in the parents interest, cover.
cd his case--as, Little children should
be seen and not heard Spare the rod
and spoil the child and so on. Less
thought, my dear madam, went into a
family of ten than goes now to the
training of one.


"Just so with what we call life.
What was life? Farming for a farm
er; his trade for the mechanic; stitch
ing, housewitery, gossip, and her
prayers for the woman, whoever she
was and for reading, six volumes
was a library-a handsome one.
What is life now? Every body's
business. You have China and Tim
buctoo on your list, as we'll as the
laboring classes, and why things don't
work smoothly with them, and socie-
ty, and what is to be done with it, and
all the new isms and ologies, and the
several hundred thousand publications
that the press turns out yearly. There
is question or science every thing
The world is progressive. A lady
turns to apologize to an elegant lady
she has just jostled, and recognizes her
dining-room maid. There is jostle
and crush and press everywhere.
What are you to do, then? Systema-
tie, organize, simplify, ezouomize-
your religious element as well as every
thing else; get rid ofthe cumbersome
old machinery that answered very we'll
when every body had time enough,
and could dawdle along to the Heav-
enly City on leisurely pilgrimage -
From "rhe Night Train for Paradise,
by LOUISE E. FuRNIss, in Hu1,er's
Nu9rStSe for March.
Year: 1874

Governor Davis, IN his recent re :
ply to the joint committee, cuts him,
self eff from the respect and regard OF
every fair man in his own party, to
say nothing of any other The ex-
ceedingly vague document shows one
thing very clearly, and that is his
Excellency would have prec,pitated
this State into civil war, or have
put her under the military power Of
the general government, to have per-
petuated Tor few brief months his
own power.
Year: 1874

The lowering of the rate of discount
by the Bank Of England, is hope
full sign that the extreme stringency
prevailing so long in the money mar
kets of not only the United States,
but the world, is about to be amelio-
rated iif not entirely relieved. So
mote it be, afanla. Yi.t tat.
Year: 1874

A Congressman of an inquiring
turn Of mind is poking into the
White House kitchen, where cap.
tain in the U. s. army is said to be
chefde cuisine. The said Congress-
man ought to be ashamed Of himself
for .prying into other peoples pri'
vate affairs, only this is an affair
where officers are concerned.
Year: 1874

The United States Senate Commit.
tee on Education, of which Senator
Flanagan is Chairman, have determ-
med to send their chairman to free
school for at least zone auarter." 1t
is to be hoped that the honorable
Senator will not overlook the blue
backed spelling book, this term.
Year: 1874

The Secretary of War opposes the
contemplated reduction in the rank
and file of the army. So do we, un>
til the Comanches and Kiowas are
exterminated, Indeed, we think it
ought to be augmented until this
great boon is secured for our suffer-
ing frontier.
Year: 1874

There is to be grand naval drill
at Key West, soon /; one of the evolu-
tions will be sinking ship where the
complications growing out OF her de-
tention might involve some naval
commander in serious difficulty. The
jolly tars viii enjoy the dress-parads
on the billow. .
Year: 1874

Theoretical philanthropy has no
positive virtues, and is altogether in
adequate. to the task Of graphing
with the state of things that exist
here now. Destitution, want and
despair, because of lack of employ
meAt among the working people
North, will not yield to well turned
sentences and grace of dlction. Moth
ing but the real, palpable loaf OF
bread will do any good. The money
spent in printing the vapid rawlings oI
theoretical philanthropists, if spent IL
actual dee is Of charity would accom-
plish a thousand per cent. more good
Let us have the "hard knocks"
Year: 1874

The following is the full text OF
Governor DAVIS reply Ito the com"
mittees of both Houses, who waited
upon him to inform him that they
were ready for business. 1t seems
that Davis has placed himself with
out the pale of decent forbearance,
and this document shows hlm pub
lie enemy OF the State.


We dislike to judge any one
harshly, not even political toe, and
hope that he has some explanation to
offer that will soften the meaning of
this wicked ard cruel document. and
with it the terrible condemnation OF
his fellow countrymen, whose just in
dlgnation he has so richly earned:


EXECUTIVE OFFICE, STATE OF TEXAS,


AUSTIN, Jan. II, 1874.


GENrLEMEN-In reply to your ver
bal communication, made to me to-
day, / have to state that l do not
think it advisable for the public good
that l should disregard the decision
of the Supreme Court, made recently,
touching the late election, by recog-
nizing the gentlemen you represent as
being the constitutionally elected
Fourteenth Legislature.


1t seems to me that there is some
better solution of the present ditfi>
Guilty than that the Governor and
those claiming to be elected to the
Legislature should jointly combine to
override the judiciary and disregard
their construction of the Constitution.
| must believe that such course will
leave the door open for dangerous un-
certainty in the future, both in the
matter of authority TO enact the legis-
lation that may be proposed by the
gentlemen you represent, and the
matter of constitution and existence o
the highest tribunal of our State.
There may be foand two Supreme
Courts and even two Legislatures
claiming authority. 1t Is even now
claimed by some, that the Thirteenth
Legislature is at present the only lie,
gally existing Legislature,and that 1t
can only constItutionally convene
and provide for this emergency. 1t
will then, after all, be settlement
brought about by species of revolu.
ton or violence, as against the court
making the decision. 1t is true 1t is
easy enough, and it seems the SIM
plest solution of the present diflicul-
ty, that we should jointly adopt this
case, AZ the Supreme Court has no
way of enforcing its decisions against
the Executive and Legislature COM
bined. But | consider that in tins
case the easiest course is not one l
would ike to be party to. l will
be happy to join you, and the gentle-
men you represent, in applying the
promptest and most feasible remedy
in this difficulty. II has been re-
peatedly held that the recognition of
Congress and the Executive of tbe
United States will settle the question


as to what body Of men constitute
the Legislature, and which is the
proper State Government. This way
affords a solution to be accepted by
all. am tree to act with indepens
dence in securing with you, or those
gentlemen, that sort OF solution, be-
cause ! feel myself entirely disin-
Year: 1874

A sarcastic writer In All the Year
Round says, in describing the German
cosillion " Most delightful of all is
the anxiety, the wise folly, OF foolish
wisdom on the face of the leader of the
game. When things are going right he
is forecasting what is to come, consult
ing hurriedly with the hostess, who has
been told that she must leave all to
him, or let the thing go to wreck. There
is kin I of serious concentration IN his
manner, which suggests some great caf :
tain, who is called in at crisis, and
who engages to save the countrS, pro-
vided he gets carte blanche, and Lusu
be strictly obeyed. Some Cf these COM
manders lie in the bed the next day, /
am told, exhausted, not by the bodily
labor, lbut by the mental strain. I have
heard the leader telling his fair COM
panion gravely, what anxiety he had
felt for the week past, as Algy Blue
boy, who had given his word to support
him, had gone of to the country, to
stand BY Mrs. MantoBer at a similar
crisis. BE was going to throw it all mp,
only that Mrs. Blank, the hostess, had
come to him in flood of tears, saying,
poor woman that she would be ruined
and undone if he didn't stand by her.
This put him on his mettle. BE had
lain on a sofa all day, giving strict or
ders that no one was to be let IN, had
put his head to the work, and every one
might see it was going off splendidly.
But the wear and tear of these things
was awful"
Year: 1874

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure N extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
We are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of gach 3
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


- We enter no new names. on our
books without the money N advance.
Year: 1874

MARRIED MlzN viii real this clipping
with interest First gentleman: Why
don't you kill her with kindness p
Second gentleman "You might as
well try to Kill an elephant with Goldfish
balls, or blister q rhinoceTos with q
mustard plaster" He was referring to
lis vife's mother,
Year: 1874

Great bargains in dry goods at Wads-
worth x Parsons for the next sixty days
to make room for their fall stock. Dress
goods at cost, shawls and cloaks at cost,
good grenadines at l24 cts per yard. They
claim to have the only good stock of car
pets to be found in Rock Island and that
their prices are as low as any where in the
Mast
Year: 1874

THE SPEECH OF THE EMpEBoR WILLIAM
The Emperor William opened the Reichstag
yesterday in person. His speech advised
the establishment of uniform methods of
judicial procedure and of equal civil rights
in the Empire. A budget was requested
for Alsace and Lorraine, s'that most
ancient German territory" and it was
announced that bills would be presented
for the regulation of the issue of paper money.
The most important part OF the speech was
in respect to the relations of the German
Empire with the rest of Europe. The En-
peror declared that its united powers would
not be employed otherwise than for defence.
He considered the friendship of other rulers
as guarantee for the continuance of peace,
in which entire confidence might be reposed.
Yet he stated that the present appropriations
for the support of the army we're inadequate,
and that more money would be needed to
maintain its efficiency The necessity OF
being constantly prepared for war does not
harmonize with the pledges that peace will
not be disturbed.
Year: 1874

Tho western St0rm.EorIy 0noWs


The telegraphic reports show that there has
been a severe tempest on the lakes, OF which
We are now feeling the effects. This storm
was indicated few days ago as then in West
ern Kansas, and its path across the lake re-
gion has been slowly pursued with apparently
serious cyclonic winds. Snow and sleet were
its reported concomitants in the Northwest,
and doubtless cold, boisterous weather ana
killing frosts will be its legacy to u.s.


The sudden transition from the summer
like air of the past week to the approaching
cold is a matter Of great consequence to the
public health unless guarded against. Our
invalids feel these equinoctial changes very
keenly, and to carelessness of dress and ex-
posure during their continuance may be traced
many of the fatal pulmonary attacks. The
present storm seems to have been moving so
nearly eastwardly as to make itself danger
ously felt on our seacoast, and will probably
be heard from in the Atlantic steamship fleets
that at this time look for severe gales. The
outward bound vessels from this port will do
we'll to keep q sharp look out for the falling
glass and the high sea outside of Sandy Hook,
as even the moderate gales of the Continent
become very much more dangerous when they
enter the vapor-laden air of the sea and often
become hurricanes
Year: 1874

Everything promises gala day at Jerome
Park on Saturday. This is the golden season
of our year, when all nature becomes flushed
and ruddy with the ripeness of life, making,
as it were, a supreme effort to show her beauty
before it falls before the frost and snow A
ride to Jerome Park through the lovely valley
of Westchester is a fascinating pleasure, and
especially when we are to have the attractions
set down for Saturday. There are to be two
grand steeplechases, which will be the events
of the racing season. For these nineteen horses
have already been entered, and the contest
promises to be unusually brilliant and excit-
ing. There will also be hack race for gem
tlemen riders, which will attract unusual in
terest Jerome Park has become as much of
an institution of New York as Trinity church
or Tammany Hall. This is due largely to the
genius and efforts Of Leonard w. Jerome,


whose name is linked to this place
as permanently as the name Of Lord
Derby to the Epson Downs. Mr. Jerome
does not own any racing horses, but he keeps
his colors. In this respect he reminds us Of
the Count de Chambord who does not wear
the crown, but has all the robes and accoutre-
ments necessary for royalty when the moment
comes Instead of devoting his time to the
care of horses Mr.. Jerome concerns himself
more about the moral aspect of the turf Hs
elevates it and makes it popular and not
merely Hippodrome performance or circus
show. Then, as we have said, by constantly
keeping his colors ready, he shows that should
he ever feel disposed to tempt the keen en-
counter of the strife he is more than ready.
New York cannot too highly appreciate tho
debt it owes Mr.. Jerome, and it is pity he il
not in the race for Mayor, that we might show
him how highly these efforts are appreciated
Year: 1874

the political conveniences of some demagogue,


pretends to regard it with contempt when in
the press it comes directly from the people.


But we understand this contempt and this
Presidential dignity for thinner subterfuges,


poorer covers for a refusal to declare what
the people insist upon knowing, were never
put forth. Caught in the endeavor to under
mine the foundations of our government ex-
posed in his aspirations for change that
would make the Executive permanent Office
in his favor, he pretends dignity he does
not feel to cover the chagrin and sulenness
Of detected sohemer And what opinions
his supporters write on this theme! Here is
the Mail an ordinarily intelligent republican
journal. 1t says that General Dix killed the
third term topic on Monday night and fur
ther:- Whoever started the delusion, it was
the HERALD which gave it its dimensions and
influence, and we are free to admit that, rs q
journalistic enterprise, and as a means
of 'bedevilling' politics, it has been a
success. But it has been nursed
and kept alive by the enemies of the present
national administration. How was it nursed
and kept alive by the enemies of the admins
tration for upwards Of a year if General Dix
could kill it in Ave minutes? II two or three
sentences from distinguished republican
could lay the topic out cold was it not, per-
haps, his silence that kept it alive so long?
And if 30 how much more the silence Of the
President himself? What enemy was il that
Kept alive topic the President could have
slaughtered with a sentence at any hour of its
existence? But here comes again the Presi-
dental dignity. He could not give his opinions
when they were not called for. It seems
then, that President is kind of political
ghost which cannot speak till it is spoken to-
But who called for the Presidents opinions
on finance when he issued his superAuous
manifesto to Jones shortly after his veto of the
Four Hundred Million bill2 Could not the
same convenient friend have called again?
And as for the Mails professional opinion,
that the third term is dead, we differ. 1t
was never SO vital. It is terribly alive. Gen.
eral Dix's voice has only made it more pre-
eminently necessary that the President him
self must be heard; and not in hesitating
tones either, but with o clear, distinct and
categorical denial, not only that he does not
favor the third term, but that he will not have
it. Only that can defeat the conspiracy of the
ofice-holders who are preparing, uncon-
sciously an explosion that otherwise will blow
the republican party to the moon.