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Year: 1875

Some Pomologist has said that the price of an orchard, like the price of liberty, is external vigi- lance," and it is just about the truth. The peach -borer attacks nearly every young tree before its second year, and unless distroy- cd will always injure and retard the growth, and frequently kill the tree outright. By close ex- animation they can be found and distroyed, as they always infest the tree near the ground or just below the surface, around the part usually called the collar. When the jelly like gum is seen exuding you may be sure the worm is there, (unless the tree has been wounded which produc- es the same result). As the worm lives between the bark and the wood it is commonly easily found.

 But the apple tree borer is a pest very hard to discover and difficult to cXterminate. Like most other little vandals of his sort his progenitor is a winged insect which deposits the egg or the bark where it is matched, and after going through to the woot he continues feeding in his cir eumscribed pasture until he get. strength to make his way to tn, pith of the tree, which he does a. Paddy would say, "nately," an, always kills the tree, unless some body or something kills him. an, the surest way to do that is f, cut down the tree, and burn if in to ashes and use the ashes fo soap making, Still there ar other ways tho not so sure.

 The injection of coal oil, or tn running of q small wire into tn

 hole will some times reach tn villain "An ounce of preventiv would be worth q pound of cure

 m this case, as in thousands C oi others, fl VIC only knew th
Year: 1875

It is very important that horses and cattle should have a supply of green food. and there are two methods of furnishing that sup ply.

 First, by a good pasture; sec ond by sowing wheat, rye, oats or barley to be cut as it is needed.

 A moments reflection will con vince any one of the great saving, or economy, in good pasture over the practice of turning your stock out on the range" which means all the world and the rest of the universe.

 Said "range' being covered with such esculents as dog fennel, rag weeds, persimmon and sassa- fras bushes, etc, etc. The tired farmer turns out his tired beast on Saturday to hunt" for grass, well, of course being hun gry he "hunts and hunts until Monday, when the farmer takes HIS turn at hunting; not grass, however, for there is enough of that in his cotton patch, but for his horse or oxen; and as the horse is said to have everlasting recollection, he has perhaps gone to some old field ten miles away, where in colthood days he dispor- ted by his dam, whilst the old man with his bridle in his hand, often pronounces or thinks of that other dam with an "n" added. Now, if he only had even a small pasture well set in grass, or, just a garden spot, sowed in barley, he would be spared this labor and vexation of spirit. It is devoutly to be hoped that our grangcrs may cease to be rangers and make for themselves good pastures, and al so SOW small patches Tn small grain and millet or grass for "soiling" as it is called, where the feed is cut with the scythe instead of allowing the animal to run over the ground and crop for him. self. To make a durable pasture, moist land is best, but almost any kind is better than none.

 Distroy all the bushes and weeds and you will have pas ture without other labor, but a much better one if you set your wet land in herds grass and your dry land in bermuda. It is real ly surprising to see what an amount of grain can be grown to . the acre. If any granger wishes to see for himself what soiling is let him call on bro. A w Mathews of Rural Grange, for he's "far- mer as is farmer" and he keeps bees, has honey, and plenty ol COWS and butter, and better than all lady who knows how to use them. Let us ALL have pastures and good animals to graze therein Let us "live and let live" SC mote it be. T.
Year: 1875

In noticing the fact that the Congregation
alist has been lecturing the Boston daily pa
pers for their .loag reports of the recent cere-
monial in connection with the bestowal of
the berretta upon Cardinal MeCloskey, the
Chicago Tribune reminds it and its associates
who frequently deliver such lectures that it is
the business Of the daily papers to give the
news-that as newspapers, they are not the
organs Of any denomination or sect, and not
being such they are bound to give a faithful
account of what is transpiring in the world.
To them news is news, whether it be relig-
ious or elsewise; whether it be the details of
the Beecher case, the berretta ceremony, a
Pan-Anglican conference, or a hearsay trial;
and, if they feel called upon to criticise, they
do so from the standpoint Of general morality
and the relations of the news TO the world in
general. This is matter Of necessity. The
religious newspaper depends upon its own
denomination for support. Its advertising is
mainly UNCONVENTIONAL, except when it bol-
sters up high-fying stocks and railroad bonds.
Vide-Northern Pacific bonds and the New
York Independent.
Year: 1875

In the Brooklyn court room the other day
Mr.. Evarts observed that great many peo-
pie tell lies. Judge Nelson was inclined to
dissent, properly enough an observer will
think, for certainly for the last five months
his attention has been directed rather to the
number of lies one person can tell than to the
number of persons who can tell one lie. If
Mr.. Evarts had stated that one person or
dozen persons-and he might have selected
list from the witnesses at the trial in which
he is engaged-could tell multitude of lies
the proposition would doubtless have received
the Judges hearty assent. Perhaps while
counsel have been counting the "I don't
knows" and the 81 don't remembers" of wit
nesses the Judge has been computing the
number of unmistakable falsehoods which
have fallen from their lips and finds the
list so appalling that he would fain be-
leve that for the time being the great liars
have gotten up successful corner in the
Brooklyn city court room and have swamped
the smaller operators outside.
Year: 1875

The recommendation Of the Governor
that the State be saddled with the bur
then of such an organization as the
above, is simply Infamous 1t is found
ed on the SANDER of the people, that they
are lawles5 and need the compulsion Of
such a constabulary to hold them in sub
iugatiOn. There is not more peaceable,
law-abiding State in the Union than Mis-
sissippi Notwithstanding all the provoca-
tions to disquiet and turbulence in the
form of bad laws and corrupt officials.


The motive at the bottom of the pro-
position is to goad the victimized classes,
and by producing collisions between po-
lice and citizens, furnish pretext for the
interposition of United States troops
1t is part of the deliberately concocted
scheme of the political adventures, cor
ruptionist8 and marauders in the South,
to revive sectional agitation and put new
life into the dying body of Northern
Radicalism.


No worse agents of oppression and dis
cord could be devised than this State
Police scheme It's baleful influences in
the State of Texas during the carpet-bag
era, is well remembered. Il is Il repro
duction of that contrivance, and of the
infamous Metropolitan Police diabolism
invented by the usurpers in Louisiana to
oppress and bedevil the citizens of that
State.


The expense Of such u system, to say
nothing of the other evils that would at
tend it, would be enormous. And yet,
without any motive whatever, except to
create strife and advance the basest Of
political ends, it is proposed to create
this organization. If military aid is
absolutely needed by the civil admins
traitors Of the State, why don't they put
into execution the present laws for the
organization of a volunteer militia? If
the preservation of the peace (which has
! llOI DScu ulSlutDcu LOT mOnluS 0&Cept III
a single county, and there the lawless
office holders were responsible for the
consequences,) why don't the Governor
issue his call for all classes, white and
colored, to enroll themselves and report


for duty? And when they are 80 re


ported, let him commission and arm i'm


partially, without reference to race OF


political considerations.


His scheme of special partizan Po
, lice, is not designed to preserve the peace
but to drive the whites to desperation anC
to produce violence aud bloodshed b,
: hunting them down with an armed ban
: ditti, licensed to murder and pillage. Il
that case, it would be nothing but justic


for his bloody Instructions to plague th


inventor.
Year: 1875

A Southern correspondent of the


Watchman and Register draws
very melancholy picture of jeff.
Davis present life and the i'll fortune
that has logged him ever since his
downfall began. He came out of the
great struggle, says the writer, with
money enough to enable him 20 live
comfortably tor his remaining days,
but an evil genius seems to have
pursued him; every investment was
a failure. He sought employment,
and was made president of life in
surance company; it endured his sd-
ministration for a year or two, and
then gave up the ghost. He bought
stocks, but always to sell again At
less than cost. And now he is, or
very soon will be, dependent upon
the charity Of the people, many of
whom have an aversion for him. He
would rather work than lay himself
under obligations even to his best
friends, but he is over seventy years
old, and nobody cares to give en-
ployment to man whom bad luck
persistently follows. Indeed, he has
but few friends-none among the
loyal people-and the people Of the
"lost cause charge all their failures
to his mismanagement; SO he lives
with his wife and quite numerous
family in quiet way, avoiding pub
licity. He declined to deliver the
Decoration Day address at Mem
phis, saving that he was directly in
terested and that he might say some
thing that he should afterward be
sorry for. His punishment is in
deed severer than if he had been .
martyr to the "lost cause" on the
scaffold.
Year: 1875

| The poet Whittier is very fond Of


pets, and among his collection was !


poll parrot. She had the freedom Of


the house at times, and used 10 sit


on the back Of the poets chair ct his


meals, and the two sometimes held


very profound and confidential con.


versations together.


Folly, who had been badly brought


up, became demure and well-be-


haved immediately after her adop-


ton; so, for time, the poet and the


parrot were in perfect sympathy.
One Sunday, Poll, as the people
we're going to church. climbed upon


the top Of the house, aud sat on the


ridge e-pole. 1t then occurred to her


that, having reached q more exalted
sphere of thought and action, she


would behave we'll no more. She


had been in bad company before she


had fallen in with hsr new friends,
and her memory was very good. So
she began to denounce the people in


very shocking language. She was
doing the poet great scandal, and
exciting marked public attention,
when her astonished master appeared
and proceeded at once to bring her
down from her high position.


One day Polly succeeded in reach
ing the housetop again, and began
to congratulate herself on the re-
covery of her former position and
freedom. She reached the top of the
chimney this time, and was seen tilt
ing up and down and trying her
wings. as though preparing to launch
out into the air on long voyage of
discovery. Suddenly she was gone
Where: No one had noticed which
direction she had taken. The news
flew through the village that the
parrot had left her home and become
a stray bird. The children hunted
for her in the fields and in the woods;
every one tried to keep ears and eyes
open day and night, but nothing Of
Polly was seen or heard. The poets
house was no longer filed with quiet
gladness, for the inmates oil pitied
the bird when night came on, and
imagined that she was far away in
the woods, hungry and out in the
cold. On the third night, they were
startled by sound, as though some
evil disposed intruded had concealed
himself in the fireplace. An ,nves-
tigation was determined upon; the
fireplace was opened, and 10! "Poor
Polly" She was q very damaged
bird. She had fallen down the chin
ney when just about to soar to the
skies, and, landing in a very dark
place, probably thought there had
been an eclipse Of the sun, or that
night had come on in some manner
not accounted for in her limited as.
tronomy. She maintained silence
three days. Polly's high aspirations
were blighted from that hour. She
grew silent, and pined away, and
lied of her bruises and broken
heart
Year: 1875

can not tell all. They give only the
outline of the terrible tragedy that is
going on around us. They can not
picture to US the wretched squalor Of
the drunkard's home. They can not
tell us how many unkind and cruel
words strong drink has caused other.
wise kind and tender hearted hus-
bands and fathers to utter to their
dear ones. They can not tell us how
many heavy blows have fallen from
the drunkard's hand upon those
whom it is his duty to love and cher
ish and protect. They can not tell
us how many fond expectations and
bright hopes which the fair young
bride had Of the future had been
blasted and turned to 5itterest gall.
They can not number the long, weary
hours of night during which she has
anxiously awaited, and yet fearfully
dreaded, the heavy football at the
door. Figures can not tell us how
many scalding tears the wives of
drunkards have shed, nor how many
prayers Of bitter anguish and cries OF
agony God has heard them utter
They can not tell us how many moth
ers have worn out soul and body in
providing the necessities Of life for
children whom drunken father has
left destitute. They can not tell us
how many mothers hearts have been
broken with grief as they saw a dar-
ling son becoming a drunkard. They
can not tell us how many white hairs
have gone down in sorrow to the
grave, mourning over drunken chill
dren. They can not tell us how many
hard fought battles the drunkard, in
his sober moments, has fought with
the terrible appetite how many
times he has walked his room in des-
pair tempted to commit suicide, be.
cause he could not conquer the demon.
And, finally, we can not search the
records Of the other world, and tell
how many souls have been shut out
from that holy place where no drunk
ard enters, and banished to the re-
gions of eternal despair by the demon
of drink.


What man,what woman, what child
would not vote to have that whole
street with its awful traffic in the in
fernal stuff sunk to the lowest depths
of perdition aud covered ten thousand
fathoms deep under the curses of the
universe?-Prof. II. r. Gross.n Ner
York Fitness
Year: 1875

A young man of Morrison one
evening last week discovered litter
of kittens under the doorsteps OF
Jesse Mckee's residence. Charles
was delighted at the discovery, and
wishing to appear brave and create
a sensation before several friends who
were present, he threw out one kit
ten after another, until seven were
assembled on the lawn, all exhibiting
signs of astonishment at their sudden
advent among strange surroundings.
he regretted it very soon after, for
the cats all turned tail and filled the
air with a strange mist, which seemed
to embody all the foul smells Of crea-
tion. Charles and his audience re-
treated in a ferment. The cats were
of the pole kind. Charles don't rel
ish seeing anv of the feline tribe
about now-al,hough he is strong in
the belief that this kind must possess
powerful medical qualities, and is
anxious that the profession should
have the above kittens to experiment
with.
Year: 1875

A TERRESTRIAL Nj aAID.-T The Milwau-
kee (Wisconsin) Neos says: There was
young girl at the police station recently,
upon whom Old Mother Nature has played
one of her queerest freaks. She is not over
sixteen, with a not unprepossessing face
and good figure, but her body and limbs
are covered with scales about the size of and
similar in appearance to the scales of a fish.
Medical gentlemen who have examined her
say that she presents the most extraordinary
case of mallormation on record. 1t Is true
there has been mention made in the books
of children whose necks and wrists were
similarly covered, but no instance has been
reported where the scales covered the whole
body and the limbs. There is another fea-
ture about this exception that puzzles the
medical fraternity most, and that is the fact
that the scales have the chameleon-like iunc-
ton of changing their color. The scales on
her arm, while the writer was present,
changed twice from pale amber color to
blood red and back again. The scales do
not ovcrlie each other as in the case of fish
or reptiles, but appear to be embedded in
the ileSh-in a sort of mosaic work, 50 TO
speak and as the color changes, the trans
formation does not take place at once in all
the imbrieated plates, but varies, some turn
ing red, while others retain the amber color
which seems to be the primary hue. The
girl says that she has been covered with
these scales ever since she can remember.
From their earliest recollection she was en-
ployed as domestic by the family with
whom she resided, and was compelled to
perform all the drudgery of the house. As
She advanced in age and the scales upon her
body increased and multiplied, She became
an object of aversion to the other members
Of the family and was treated 50 cruelty that
she fled. This act was the beginning Of
long series Of trials which were yesterday
described by her at the police station with
much pathos.'
Year: 1875

We are now the wanderers in the dusk and gloom
He the one that's waiting in the happy home
From his upper window, though We may not see
Hes watching, U my babies. tu welcome you and


me- HIrper's Magazine
Year: 1875

One variety of rheumatism in the horse IS especially annoying as sequel to febrile diseases. A horse, which has recovered from an attack of influenza or bronchitis, suddenly becomes excessive ly lame from infammatory swellings above the fetlocks, probably of the fore legs. The disease may yield to treat ment to some extent, but, almost as soon as any improvement occurs in one part, the disease assumes more active form in another; and many weeks may be oc- cupied in trying various forms of treat ment with more or less success. In the majority of cases soundness is ultimately restored, and 1t does not appear that the acute or chronic form of rheumatism leaves behind it any tendency to the malady.

 Treatment of rheumatism is generally based on the assumption that the disease is due, in great degree, to the presence of an excess of acid in the blood and se- cretions. It IS undoubtedly true that there is an excess of fibrinous material in that fluid; and there is also, in most cases, considerable constitutional de- bility. These conditions point to con- sistent plan of treatment; it is necessary to eliminate morbid materials from the system, and to support the vital powers at the same time by generous diet.

 Nitrate of potash and also carbonate of potash are valuable remedies in rheu- matism, the former especially from it's influence on the fibrin of the blood, while, at the same time, it excites the se- cretive action of the kidneys. Laxative medicines are required in the febrile stage of the disease; and when the fever has subsided, tonics may be necessary, particularly if the animals appetite is not very good.

 Local treatment is indispensable in cases where the joints, or the synovial capsules connected with joints, are in- volved, and experience is decidedly in favor of blistering the parts at once, in. preference to fermenting with warm water or apply stimulating liniment. The relief which is afforded by blister is commonly very marked immediately after the remedy has taken effect, and in all instances the repetition of the dress ing may be expected to produce satis factory results,
Year: 1875

The New York Su,s scouts the notion that the country wants more paper money, and while looking hopefully for revival of prosperity, thinks any addi- tion of our paper currency would only retard instead of advancing it. There is in the country great deal more money than is required for all the present ope- rations of manufacture, agriculture and trade. It lies idle in every large town, waiting to be used. Give us securities that are known to be good, and we can borrow a hundred millions in Wall street in half an hour at three per cent. interest. What we really need is more business, more demand for goods, and more consumption, more enterprise, more confidence, more life. The addi- tion of a thousand millions of paper money to our present stock would not produce any of these but what will produce them in due time is that spirit ot rigorous economy and prudent living which now pervades the millions of our agricultural population, and is felt among every other class of the people. We are saving what we earn, and paying our debts. The country is getting into sounder condition every day and the manufacture of whole stacks of irredeem- able paper tokens would only delay and not hasten this process of restoration.
Year: 1875

The association called the Dashaways, the oldest and most successful temper ance organization in San Francisco, is formed on very different plan from that of most temperance societies. It is based on the principle of gradual re- form. Its members at first take the pledge for only six months. That period expired, they may have a spree if they think one absolutely necessary, and then join again in good standing. Their argu- ment is that the hereditary appetite for stimulants, or habit acquired during long series of years, cannot always be overcome by single resolution; but that if man havU sufficient strength of will to abstain from drink for six months, even if then he does succumb to temptation, he will still arise from his fall with a certain increase of will ac- cumulated during his term of abstinence, which will strengthen him in temper ance for longer period. Men belong ing to temperance orders requiring them to pledge themselves to total abstinence for life often find that they have taken contract they are unable to fulfill. are repudiated by their brethren who AE0 uOU peI1OOACStlly d1SCGcu Uy h ulOEUlu craving for drink. These latter some times mistake freedom from an over- wheling appetite for superior strength of mind. The Dashaways on organiz- ing acknowledged the possibility of re- lapses, and provided for them, knowing also the possibility of permanent self cure at last, despite occasional attacks of the old malady. No slight success has attended their operations.
Year: 1875

I have very many treasures

 That my heart has hid away; There's little curl that's brighter

 Than the sunshine of the day; And 8 little shoe that's faded,

 Is among my treasures there And listen when see it,

 For 8 footstep on the stair, For batter, batter, batter,

 Of 8 footstep on the stair. Now those little feet are silent,

 And the face is hidden low, Underneath the meadow grasses,

 And the daisies fragrant snow; And miss them in the morning,

 Pattering feet, and face 80 fair But listen most at bedtime,

 For the footstep on the stair. Then shed come and kneel beside me In her little gown of white, ...., As she'd say her short prayer over, And would kiss me sweet good night And listen in the twilight,

 Though know she is not there But cannot still my yearning

 For the footstep on the stair, For the batter, batter, batter,

 Of the footstep on the stair.
Year: 1875

PRESERVING WooD.-The following method is used in Germany for the pre- servation of wood, Mix forty parts chalk, fifty rosin. four linseed oil, melting them together in an iron pot; that add one part native oxide of copper and afterward one part of sulphuric acid. Apply with brush. When dry, this varnish is as hard as stone.