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Year: 1874

With few exceptions our best varie-
ties of apple trees are not annual
bearers. There is no reason why in
telligent fruit men should not have
this desirable result under perfect
control.


Various experiments have been re-
sorted to, to improve on nature S
mode, one of which is to cut back in
June to three or four buds, that would
come out next year, and force them 10
grow, thereby gaining a year. But
as this practice is calculated to arrest
root formation, upon which the life
of the tree depends, it finds few fol-
lowers.


Another and less Objectionable mode
is to remove one-half the blossoms
the bearing year and it will bear the
following year. To this plan it may
be objected that you are asking more
than nature will stand. FIowering
is more exhausting than fruiting; and
your tree is in too weak n condition to
go through the same process the fol-
lowing year.


Again-and this practice finds the
most advocates-thin out the fruit
from the trees after it sets eve
ry year, and thus have fruit annually
from each tree. By this mode it is
claimed that you viii have apples Of
superior size.


In planting, all that is necessary to
have annual crops is to divide your
trees, or orchard, and have them
bear alternately, Just as have done.
have two orchards; the small and
the other not very large, but call it
the money orchard. Ny small one
gives me a family supply, in what is
called the apple year. My larger or
chard never has failed to bear large
crops in the odd year, when 1 could
command my own price for them, for
it was not the apple year.
Year: 1874

Every farmer who has to fence his
land knows too well how quickly
posts planted in the earth become
rotten; especially in damp spot. AL
of them will welcome the following
process to prevent rUttenness, pro.
cess as wonderful in its effects as it is
simple and Ialmost cOstless. 1t is
taken from lie Bien Public, of Dion,
France.


Take linsced oil, boil it, and mix 1t
with charcoal dust until the mixture
has the consistency of an ordinary
paint. Give to the post single coat
Of the mixture or paint before plant
ing them, and no farmer, even living
the age of patriarchs Of old, viii live
long enough 10 see the same post rot
ten.


"Some years ago 1 discovered the
way of rendering wood more durable
in earth than iron itself, says the au-
thor of the communication, "but it
seemed to me so simple, and so mex
pensive, that did not think il worth
while to make much ado and fuss
about IT. Posts of soft wood thus
prepared were removed after remain
ing seven years in earth, and were
found as sound as when they were
planted. The only precaution TO take
is to use only well dried posts before
covering them with the charcoal
paint"


The above recipe is certainly cheap,
and seems to be well worth the trial.
If what is said of the efficiency of
that simple and cheap (about two
cents per post) process be only half
true, certainly it would save yearly
millions of dollars to the farmers and
telegraph companies. For it is said
that the farmer, even in his teens,
who will plant posts having rC seiyed
coat of this "Perpetp;ty Post Paint, 3"
viii never live Iong enough to see the
same post rotten.-F'hilliPs' Southern
Farmer.
Year: 1874

Now go to the bedroom, and from


the door absorb it with your eyes,


for never have you seen n picture


more complete. The walls, the hang
ings and the seats are all in pale blue


satin (she is fair), edged sparingly
with velvet of the same shade, and
embroidered daintily with moss rose
buds, swathed in still paler yellow
leaves. But this description, though
exact, gives no idea of the effect pro-
duced by that wondrous tissue of
the incredible effect of delicacy and


thorough feminine elegance which it
sheds prOund. The room is filed
with vague, floating grace; its very
detail is combined to aid and sustain


the almost fairy aspect 1t presents.
The bed is shroUded in thickly wad-
ded satin curtains, inside of which
hang others made of muslin so Yapor-


ously filmy that its folds seem almost
mist, the coverlet, which hides the
Iace-t trimmed sheets and pillows, as
in blue satin, lined with elder down,
and covered with the same veil of


floating white, hanging down in deep
flounce over the woodwork of the
bed. The toilet-table is the same


a nesting maze of transparency and
lace, with blue beneath, and knots


and streamers of mingled satin and
velvet round. On the chimney-piece


stand a clock and candlestick of


Sevres china The piano is in pale


6Ois do rose, mot rosewood, which Is a
very different substancs), inlaid with
plates of painted Sevres to match.
At night light comes from above,


where hangs a lamp of Sevres again.


In our day, with our active ideas and


actual wants, such rooms as these are
typical; they represent the highest
form of realization of modern taste


without Its faults, or rather with as
I little of them as is consistent with


the expenditure Of so much money
and so much thought In these rare


vases, vanity seeks for another satis-


faction than that of glare, but vanity
/ is at the bottom all the same; the


only difference is that itais accompa-
MED by a true sense of art
Year: 1874

Early chickenhood Is the time when
poultry-breeders should assist nature
in developing the size and growth of
fowls In it the frame of the future
bird is nodded, its size increased or
its growth retarded, just in proper
tion to the degree of care aud atten-
ton then bestowed. Whatever be the
object sought in raising chickens,
size, with very few exceptions, is one
of the principal points looked for; and
this can only be obtained to a degree
of perfection by the proper treatment
of chickens from the time they are
Matched until they arrive at maturity.
Feed well, feed often, and keep the
chicken-pcn clean, are golden rules
which should be emblazondd on every
chicken coop in the poultry yard.
Year: 1874

It is a well known fact that harness
and other leather exposed to the ac-
ton of ammonia IN stables, soon be-
come weak and rotten, even though
often cleaned and creased. Prof. Ar
tus recommends the addition of q
small quantity of glycerine to the oil
used in greasing such leather, assert
ing that ii keeps it always pliable and
soft.
Year: 1874

A New York clergyman defends st.
Paul from the opprobium cast upon
him by female lecturers, by saying
that the Apostles injunction upon
feminine speaking in church was
only intended for the Corinthian wo-
men, who were very impulsive and
spoke early and often.
Year: 1874

Shall fears and jealous hatreds flame again.
Or at thy coming, Princess, everywhere,
The blue heaven break, and some diviner


air
Breathe thro' the world and change tho


hearts Of men,
Year: 1874

A correspondent Of neighboring
journal tells Of clerk, in a rural
town: who had. a pet cali, which he
was training up in the ways Of the OK;
the calf walked around very peaceably
under one end Of the yoke while Mr..
Clerk held up the other end, but in
an unfortunate moment the man con-
ceiyed the idea Of putting his own
neck in the yoke. to let the calf see
how it would seem to work with a
partner. This frightened mister calf,
and, elevating his tail and his voice,
be struck dead run" for the village.
and Mr.. Clerk went along, with his
head down and plug hat in his hand,
straining every nerve to keep up, and
crying out at the top Of his voice.
''Here We come; darn our fool souls;
head US somebodyW
Year: 1874

He is rich man who hath God
for his friend. g..


He is the best scholar who hath
learned to live we'll. .y


Change of weather finds dis
courses for fools. ..:


A pound of care will not pay on
ounce Of debt.


The sorrow men have for each
other hangs upon one hair.


A wise man changes his mind,
fool never will.


That day on which. you marry
you either mar or make yourself.
That's wise delay which makes
the road safe.


When all men say you are an ass
it is time to bray. -s5


Let us thank God for what we
have. .-.


The foot of the owner is the
best measure for his land.


Enjoy that little you have
while the fool is hunting for more.


A life ill-spent makes a sad old
age.


'Tis money that makes men
lords.


We talk, but God does what he
pleases.


Go not to your doctor for every
all, nor to your pitcher for every
thirst.


A wall between both preserves
friendship.


The sum of all IS, to serve God
we'll and do no i'll thing.


Setting down in writing is a
lasting memory.


As you use your father your
children will use you.
There is no evil but some good
may be made oft.


No praise is great enough for a
counsel. -.


Examine not the pedigree nor
patrimony of a good man.


Keep out Of hasLy mans way
for while out of ! sullcn mans
way for your life. ..-..


Ifyou love me your deeds will
tell me so.


I defy all fettcrs, though they
were made of gold.


Few die Of hunger, a hundred
thousand Of surfeits.


Govern yourself by reason
though some like it, others do
not.


No companion like money.


Nothing is valuable in this
world except as it tends to the
next.


Smoke, raining into a house,
and a talking wife, make man
run out Of doors.
God keep me from still water
from that which is rough | will
keep myself.


Tell me not what you know,
judge not what you see, and you
will live in quiet.
Hear reason, or she will make
herself heard.
! 4 great fortune with wife is
a bed full of bambles.
There never was but one man
who never did q fault.


He who promises, runs in debt
|. He who holds bis peace gathers
stones.
Leave your son q good reputa
tion ard all employment.


Receive your money before yo1
give receipt for it, and take
receipt before you pay it.
God doeth the cure, and the
physician takes the money for it


Fools make great feasts and
wise men eat them.
Year: 1874

EESNSs


NEW YORK, June 24.-SenatOr Carpen-
ter publishes here this morning, letter
about what has been styled Carpenters gag
law, and says an accurate statement in re-
gard to this matter will satisfy every jour
naliSt who respects the truth, and will di
miniSh the force of the vituperation uttered
by those of the profession who 10 not.
In the course of a review of the law
and its several sections, the Senator
writes ''why general laws should
not apply to the District Of Columbia
as well as to Territories is not perceived, or
why any capitalist of New York or Boston,
CARRYING on business by an agent in this
District, should have greater objection TO
coming here for trial than tOgOing to Idaho
or Wyoming is not very apparent. Butthe
great objection is that it applies to publish
ers as well as to the merchants, mechanics,
manufacturers. and all other business men.
Now to this IIreply, that the bill has no spe-
cial reference to the publishers. IL deals
with all men alike, and they who make
this objection ought to show upon what
grounds publishers can claim exemption
from laws which bind everybody else. They
seem to think that they may be sued in
Washington for libel. Well why should
they not be, if they commit that injury by
an agent in this District? The law OF
libel is no more unfavoJable TO the press
tnan the statute against larceny is Un-
friendly TO the people. The one perplexes
thieves, the other liars, but neither is
terror to honest men, and this bill is no
more injurious to a publisher than every
law must be which looks TO the impartial
administration of justice. While the bill
was under consideration in the Senate,
a Democratic Senator moved 10 amend the
llth section, so that it should not apply to
any suit for slander. Here the proposition
was directly presented to exempt one class
of citizens from the operation OF general
law, and declare immunity in favor of libel
and slander, and every Democrat who voted
upon the proposition sustained if. The
reason for this is quite obvious. The chief
occupation of the Democratic press to-day
is to compose and publish libels upon the
party in power.
Year: 1874

WHEN the late King of the Sand
wich Islands was gatheredto his fathers
he was buried in feather cloak which
had passed down to him through gem
eratiOns of royal chieftains. As the
remains were about being placed in the
coffin and removed from the feather
robe on which they had lain in state,
the aged father commanded that the
BODY be buried in the robe, as the
dead King, his son, was the last of the
family, and to him therefore it belonge .
It vii cost more than 100000 to re-
place this robe, if it ever is replaced,
for one million of birds, possessed of
rare red and yellow plumage, were
caught to furnish the material of which
II was made.
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON, June 24.-PoStmaster
General Creswell this morning rendered
his resignation in the following letter:


Washington, June 24.-Sir: After more
than five years continuous service, l am
constrained by proper regard for my pri-
vate interests TO resign the office of Post
master General, and to request that L may
be relieved from duty as soon as it may be
convenient for you to designate my sue
eesSOr. For the generous confidence and
support which you have uniformly ex-
tended to me in my efforts to discharge
my duty, 1 shall not attempt to
express the full measure of my gratitude.
II is sufficient TO say thai my relations
official and personal with yourself and
every one of my colleagues of the Cabinet,
have always been of the most agreeble and
satisfactory character to me. Rest assured
that | shall continue to give to your ad-
ministTatiOn nv mos. cordial support, and
that shall deem it an honor to be permit
ted 10 subscribe myself sincerely and fra
ternally, Your Friend,
Year: 1874

POSTMASTER GENERAL CREswELL,
the last of Grants original Cabinet,
resigned yesterday with neatness and
dispatch. His billet doux fails to ex-
plain why he did not resign one day
sooner, while the Senate was still in
session and might have participated in
the selection of his successor. From
the nomination of Attorney Gen
eral Williams for Chief JUS
tice, down to that of Boss
Shepherd for District Commissioner
the need for Senatorial revision of
Presidential appointments has been
frequently exemplifed. The springing
of this resignation without any warn
ing, only few hours after Congress ad-
journed, is an evident job, giving Grant
his own sweet will till next December in
the choice os a Postmaster General
Until the appointment is announced,
We are not going to believe that this
vacancy was thus held open for the
special benefit of Boss Shepherd.
Year: 1874

To which the President replied as fol-
lows:


My Dear Sir: As | expressed TO you
verbally this morning, when you rendered
your resi- ignation of the office of Postmaster
General, it is with the deepest regret to me
that you should have felt such aeonrse neceS-
sary. You are the last OF the original men-
bers of the Cabinet named by me as was
entering my present duties, and it makes me
feel as if old associations were being broken
up that l had hoped might continue
through my official life. In separating Off
cially, l have but two hopes to express:
First, that / may get a successor who will be
as faithful and efficient in the performance
Of ftheIduties ofthe Office you resign. Second,
a personal friend that / can have the same
attachment for. Your record has been sat
isfactory TO me, and know will so prove
to the country at large. Yours, very truly,


I
Year: 1874

THREE KISSES OF FAREWELL.
Three. only three, my darling,
Separate. solemn, slow;
Not like the swift aad Joyous ones


We used TO know,
When we kissed because we loved each 9th


er,


Simply to taste loves sweet,
And Iavished our kisses as the summer


Layishes heat
But as they kiss whose hearts are wrung


When hope and fear are spent.
And nothing is left 10 give except


A sacrament
First Of the three. my darling.
Is sacred unto pain;
We have hurt each other often,


We shall again,
When We pine because we miss each other


And do not understand.
How the written words are 50 much colder


Than eye and hand.
! kiss thee, dear, for all such pain


Which we give or take
Bnried, forgiven before it comes,


For our loves sake.
The second kiss, my darling,


Is full ofJoy's sweet thrill;
We have blest each other always.


We always Will.
We shall reach till we feel each other


Beyond all time and space
We shall listen till we hear each other


In every place;
The earth Is full ofmessengeTs,


Which love sends to and fro;
kiss thee, darling, for all joy


Which we shall know!
The last kiss, oh my darling


My love-I cannot see,
Through my tears, as remember


What it may be.
We may die and never see each other.


Die with no time to give
Amy sign that our hearts are faithful


To die, as live.
Token Of what they will not see,


Who see our parting breath.
This one last kiss, my darling, seals


The seal OF death!
Year: 1874

A great sensation has been caused in
Brussels by the fatal termination of a
duel. Recently the Echevin of Public
Instruction, whe was married man,
eloped with young lady who was a
teacher in one of the public schools.
He resigned his place, and was challen-
ged by the brother of the young lady
The challenge was accepted and the duel
was fought, the result being that the
brother of the young lady received a
severe wound, from the effects of which
be died. The Belgians are lamenting
that the laws Of honor were so out Of
harmony with the laws of natural
iustica
Year: 1874

MIR. L. 3. Arnold, Secretary of the
American Dairymen's Association, dis.
coursed thus concerning churning, at
late meeting of Vermont dairymen. He
analyzed the operation by going back to
the structure Of cream and showing what
was necess ary to be done. The fatty
matter in milk is not uniforms part Of
it consists of the essential oils of the
grasses, which correspond to the oil of
peppermint, Wintergreen, ETC., of the
druggists, and which g i've the nutty
flavor to butter and cheese. These exist
in small quantity and in naked and
uncombined condition, and may be sepa-
rated from the cream by treatment with
ether. The bulk of the cream consists of
minute globules Of fat in the form of an
emulsion with albuminous matter and
water, and covered with thin albumi-
nous envelope. The existence of this
envelope is denied by some investiqa-
tors, but it is a reality. AS an evidence
of the tendency in the secretion of milk
to coat over the globules Mr.. Arnold
exhibited microscopic illustration of
one large globule and several smaller
ones inside, with portion of the envelope
broken off and Topped over on the side of
the globule. The globules of cream con-
tain yellow and white fat-olein and
margarin-in the same envelope. To
get off the envelope and leave these little
specks of mixed fat unbroken and unal.
tered is what we desire in churning
These skins, so to call them, can be got
on IN two ways; one is by wear
ing them off as with the paddles of a
rotary churn when the cream is sweet,
the other is to loosen and peel them off.
which is done by souring. The watery
part OF the envelopes separates from the
solid by souring, just as it does from the
curd Or solid part Of milk, and the en-
velope shrinks and cracks and peels off
with little effort, very much as the bark
is loosened and peels from the body of
tree by partial decay. By using dash
churn with dasher that will fill three.
tourths of the section of the churn the
cream will be subjected to a yielding
pressure at each stroke, and tie sacks
are peeled off with the least injury to the
globules. By wearing the sacks off as
Is done when dash is used that is so
small as not to insure something of pres
sure on the cream, and as is done in most
OF the 5000 patent devices, the skins
OF the larger globules wear off
nrst because they meet with the
| LAoos AlS'lOA, anu the work Is
done unevenly. If the churning is
continued till the small globules "come,"
ire larger ones will be overchurncd, and
there the emulsion a. xt become greasy. Relatively
size of the globules as there is between
cannon balls, musket balls, and shot; and
hence, when the work is done by wearing
Oft, it is done very unequallv. just
souring enough to effect coagula.
sion is best. Too much souring pro-
duces new products and Injuries the but
ter, and makes the churning more diff
cult.
Year: 1874

l HAVE known two kinds Of industrious
farmers. do not include the sluggish
and negligent. But Of the real hard
workers there are two distinct classes.
They both rise at dawn and work after
dark, and are worthy Of success; but one
class fails for want of proper thought and
management. These will put their ener-
gies into one piece Of work, and neglect
other things which need them more.


l knew one man who was so intent on
finishing piece Of board fence that he
worked hard at it at the very time that the
weeds in his root crop grew from one inch
high to ten inches, increasing the labor of
cleaning out at least tenfold, and reducing
his crop about one-half Another buys
costly tools and lets them rust and rot in
the fields because he is so busy with some.
thing else, although the labor of housing
would be mere nothing Another builds
costly barn, and uses up his means for
manuring, cultivating and draining, when
cheaper buildings would have answered.
Another works wet field year after year
at great cost and Inconvenience, and with
small results, because he is too busy to
undcrdrain it. He does everything at a
disadvantage.


Very different is the course of the good
manager. He looks at his work-has it
mapped out before him-estimates accu.
rately the labor to accomplish each job,
and the time when it should be done to
prevent loss, and then goes on systemat.
ically. It does not require great genius
to do this, but common sense, and for the
farmer to keep his wits about him. This
is what makes man practical and sue.
cessful.-Cor. Country Gentleman.
Year: 1874

The Saratoga committee have issued
the following circular to college boating
officers: Inform us how many rowing
men will come from your college; if you
intend to bring up spare men, and also
number of servants. We wish the col
ors of each college, therefore, please
state what they are, and whether you
will bring your own for bost-house and
stand. W. will willingly furnish them,
if iAconvenient for your college to do so.
Also state how many grand stand tick
cts your college will require. We will
provide a hall for the literary contest
Also grounds for the base bali tourna-
ment, and proper course for the foot
race. We understand that the college
usually selects some hotel for their
headquarters. 1t is then evident that
such arrangement should be made in
time to prevent conflict afterward. This
looks like business, but there must be
no pool selling allowed"
Year: 1874

A London paper suggests that as ivy
is the only plant which seems to flourish
in the smoky atmosphere of that city, it
might be advantageously used to cover
up some of the public statues, the nat
ural ugliness of which is intensified by
the deposit of SCOT which covers them.
Year: 1874

A RECENT remarkable suicide is at
tracing much attention at the South.
Last winter beautiful and accom-
plished young lady reigned as the belle
of New Orleans, and captivated by her
charms young clerk and wealthy
merchant. Society believed that the
young man had won the maiden's
heart, but it was soon found that she
accepted the hand on the merchant, and
they were recently married. The re.
jected lover attended the wedding, and
after the ceremony the groom and few
friends gathered to drink a parting
toast. At that moment the young man
entered, approached the groom. and
felled him to the floor. A dtiel was
forthwith arranged, and the young
man was in the act of thrusting his
foil through the mans throat, when
the bri lie rushed in, threw herself be-
tween the combatants, and begged her
husbands life from his rivals hands.
The young man threw his foil upon
the floor, and the next morning he
was found in his room with bullet
through his brain.