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Year: 1875

Plants live n double life. They have
a two.fold nutrition-mineral and or
ganic. Their mineral food is derived
from the soil and the organic from the
air. While the organic constituents of
plants are generally uniform, by strict
analysis Of their ashes it is discovered
that the different classes are marked by
the prevalence of certain mineral ele-
ments. Some abound in potash, others
in lime, some in phosphates and others
in silica. Different parts of the same
plant have also their preponderatipg
elements. Thus it appears that the
reason why alt crops arc not suited to
the same soil is variation OF the min
eral elements. All crops ore not suited
to the same soil, and mainly because it
is deficient in certain mineral elements,
or they exist in too large quantities.


The fertilization of soils is the ad
dition to the soil of suitable pabulum
for tho growth and Development of
plants. If allowed sufficient time,
plants can extract organic materials
from the surrounding atmosphere to
attain vigorous growth; yet if we ap-
ply to their roots manures yielding am
monia, carbonic acid, nitrogen, ETC., we
supplement the atmospheric supply and
hasten their development. Liquid ma
nures are, therefore, of high value, as
their action is immediate and powerful.
But if this policy is long continued it
will exhaust the eoluble mineral ele-
ments in the soil and render it COM
paratively worthless. Hence, in all
permanent systems of agriculture, min
eral fertilizers can no more be dispensed
with than organic.


Long continued cropping removes
from the soil all the available mineral
constituents of plant food, unless we
restore to the soil in the shape of ma
nnres exactly what is lost in the crop.
ThiH, then. is the golden rule of agri-
culture. BY failing to heed this i'm
POI tant principle millions of acres of
the choicest land have become worth
IL SIS, and millions more are now under
going the same ruinous process.


We should economic every source of
fertility. Manure heaps should all he
sprinkled with some absorbent, such as
gypsum or diluted lphuric acid, to
prevent the escape of ammonia, liquid
excretions preserved in tanks that none
Of it may be wasted, ashes saved and
spread on the fields. Compost heaps
should be formed where all refuse ami
NAL or rvegetable-may be utilized; and
while the accumulation of filth and
noisome odors is prevented, the soil Is
enriched and farming made remunera-
tive. With fertilizers the careful farmer
can accomplish much without them he
can accomplish nothing Cor. Aneeri-
can Farm Journal.
Year: 1875

The subjoined translation from an
editorial in leading Japanese journal
is full of practical good sense, worthy
of a nation Of much higher civiliza.
tion. The growing commerce between
Japan and our Pacific states and thus
with the Union, causes IN increasing
interest in the progress of that peculiar
people. We quote:


Many among us are desirous that our
civilization should take equal rank with
that of Europe and America. But, as
our country if poor and the people are
ignorant, we must first promote agri-
culture, so that the land should yield
moro abundantly. We should promote
commerce. We should promote the ed
ucation Of our children aud compel
the in6olent to be industrious !; and
when all this has been done it will be
tine to talk about rivalry with foreign
countries. But our scholars who desire
all these changes immediately are like
those who wonld set child to hard Ia
bor, or who imagine that the poor
should abound in luxury like the rich.
We do not mean to say that we are in
the same condition that we were several
years ago. But, rs we have said before,
the first and most important thing to
be done is to build schools, and to Sc.
cure the diffusion of useful knowledge
among the people; then to make an nd.
vance in commerce and agriculture, SO
IS not to be decorating the outside only
and doiug SO much expensive work in
vain. Our scholars OF European sci
ence ought to be assisting both tho
government and the people. This is
the manner in which they will best show
their patriotism. And we entreat them,
too, to have little patience, and to
cool their ambition that all these
changes should occur at once Let
them prepare the way for them, 30 that
when they come We may be ready for
them and they may be really to our
profit.
Year: 1875

more glorious and life more full of
pleasure. had they been given their full,
free outlet, are hemmed in to fulfill
mean uses or are atrophied altogether,
starved out of existence for want of
nourishment. It seems to point to the
need Of some more perfect organization
of society than any we have attained !;
but perhaps this, too, is among the
many Utopian dreams with whioh We
bewail the present, and imagine bet
ter future, when power shall have it's
work. faculty it's object, and merit its
place and reward"
Year: 1875

arc gathered form letter written to
the London Times by Lord Henry Len
nox, who came in tho ship, and who ex-
plains that the present trouble arises
partly from some wrong arrangement
Of the levers and partly from the mex
pcrience of the man who works them.
Year: 1875

Time is onward aud forward yet.
Hi havou wheel WAS never set:
Though uations lay across his path
tuyieldipg forever he hath
Wa ked onward, though his path has lain
Thick with the dead, the dying and the


slain
Year: 1875

The collector will be at Russell vile on Monday and Tuesday the 22nd and 23d for the purpose of waiting on all who wish to pay their tax and secure their receipts. We advise all who can possibly make the necessary arrangement, to C, me in and secure their re- ceipts before the penalty is at tached.
Year: 1875

A NOrtherner was fain to believe that
the hate of Southerner mad more sides
TO it than the hate of any other people,
and he was very apt to speak of it with
a certain amount of respect; while the
Southerner was inclined to look upon
the Northern hate as frigid iceberg of
contempt, never to be melted, always to
remain just so high.


1t has only begun to appear there has
been no hate worthy the name for at
least five years. But it is the most COM
mon of all suspicious among Northern
ers that this present goodwill of the
South is an impulse that is in constant
danger of being displaced by another
impulse from the other side of the
house; that were Massachusetts, to
scowl upon Louisiana, or Grant to crit
icise Lees good qualities, the whole
cotton-cOuntry would fire up and begin
to hate once more. This is about the es-
innate that is made of the stability of
Southern convictions. Never was one
more mischievous or with less founda-
tion. The Southern desire for deep and
thorough amity with all other sections
of the country rests upon grounds as
enduring as any social and political
grounds can be, and one comprehends
this when he is enabled to walk in and
out Of Southern homes, a friend permit
ted to hear all and to see all without re-
straint. The editorials that the papers
print and the speeches that men make
upon platforms fall fiat before the
spoken evidence of the men and women
of any settlement, and it is just this that
Northern people rarely, if ever, hear of.
Year: 1875

Col. G.. f. Waring, Jr., writes in the
October Atlantic as fOllOws:-


The best practical statement | have
met about ventilation was contained in
the remark of mining engineer in
Pennsylvania: ''Air is like a rope; you
can pull it better than you can push
it,"


All mechanical appliances for push
ing air into room or a house are dis
appointing. What we need to do is to
pull out the vitiated air already in the
room; the fresh supply will take care
of itself if means for its admission are
provided.


1t has been used to withdraw the air
through the ceiling, that is, to carry
off the warmer and therefore lighter
the bottom of the room, with their
gradual accumulation of cooled car
bonic acid undisturbed. Much the
better plan would be to draw this lower
air out from point near the floor, al
lowing the upper and warmer portions
to descend and take its place.


An open fire with large chimney
throat, is the best ventilator for any
room; the one half or two thirds of the
heat carried up the chimney is the price
paid for immunity from disease; and
large though this seems from its daily
draft on the wood-pile or the coal-bin,
it is trifling when compared with doe
tors bills and with the loss of strength
and efficiency that invariably result
from living in unventilated apartments.
Year: 1875

There are very few, comparatively, OF
the ''sweet girl graduates" of this year
of grace who ought not to be earning a
fixed income rs their brothers are doing.
There is not one of them to whom it is
not a plain duty to know how. The
daughters of rich men certainly have a
right TO all the elegance and leisure
which they can afford to pay for. But
in America the tenure of wealth is so
uncertain that the heiress of to-day may
be the stipendiary of tomorrow. II
she cannot produce, but must remain a
consumer only, then she is guilty of a
breach of that unwritten compact with
society under whose conditions we all
came at birth, and whose violation is
dishonorable. Besides, it's the daught-
ers of rich men who must encourage
the belief that the capacity to earn is as
natural and dignified a function of
women as of men. 1t was not till Ca
milla of Fifth avenue, rich enough tn
spoil velvet robe daily, looped up her
shining draperies above the contamina-
ton of the pavements, that Biddy of the
Bowery. too poor to spare the price of a
shilling print month, dared lift her
draggled hens to an economical and
cleanly height. When the Camillas
put on cashmere and serge cut with
severe simplicity, then the daughters of
the bank teller, the insurance agent,
the struggling lawyer, the small shop
keeper, the genteel, the poverty pinched
widow, cheerfully substituted that wise
fashion for the sleazy silks and abun-
dant cheap trimmings they had cher
ished.


Thus rich girls must make work fash
ionable if it is to be honOred. Were it
understood that the daughters of Dives
had become accomplished milliners, or
dressmakers, or telegraphers, or type
settlers, or teachers, or book keepers, or
florists, and were proud of their compe-
tency, the daughters of Lazarus would
rush to perfect themselves in like at
tainments and would exercise them to
their profit and pleasure. As 1t is, it is
not Incidence, tbs not carelessness of the
OverwOrked father and mother which
keeps our girls of genteel families from
openly and gladly earning their own
bread. 1t is the feeling that working
women loses caste. Out of this false
estimate of things grows not only that
hollow life of shabby gentility which
distorts the character of all who lead it,
but that habit of mind which regards
as prudential arrangement,
a bargain which guarantees board and
clothes on the one side for an indefinite
quid pro quo ON the other.
Year: 1875

one bale of choice European, worth ten
or eleven times as much as the Chinese.


Whence comes this? From Germany
mainly-from Russia and from France
sometimes. Here lies heap of samples
culled from this valuable bale, with the
weights of each color carefully attached.
With what variety and richness of hues
glow these long, fine, silky tresses
ranging from the deepest brown, through
every shade of ruddy auburn and sunny
chestnut, to the purest gold and fairest
flaxen. What a monument of self
abnegation is herei what a picture of
self-sacrifiee for when woman parts
with her hair, she performs ali act far
more trying than when she parts with
her jewels. That maiden must be poor
indeed who parts with her crowning
charm for few shillings. Legends to
the contrary Notwithstanding, how can
she get more than pitiful sum, when
a choice bale, after passing through the
hands of the shearer, the local merchant,
and the importer, and paying cost of
transport, will fetch no more than seven
and twenty shillings per pound? The
blonde madchen, whose superb tresses
Ihold in my hand, did not, apprehend
get much for them. Perhaps few
forins; little enough, according to our
estimate of money, but yet sufficient to
keep the wolf from her mothers door
for little space. But this silken crown,
which brought its original owner so
little, must pass through many hands
before it adorns the still handsome head
of Lady BarepOles, who is not quite the
woman she was when BarepOles became
the captive of her bow and spear in her
first season-but is yet a leader of
fashion.-AH the Year Round.
Year: 1875

We do not hesitate to say that the
average woman, educated in the better
class of schools in this country is a better
scholar, and a more capable and accom-
plished person, than the average col
lege graduate of the other sex. What
we want is cheaper schools of an equal
excellence. The farmers boy goes to
college, finds cheap tuition, wins a
scholarship perhaps, boards in commons
earns money during vacation, and gets
through, while his sister stays at home.
because the only places where she can
get an equal education are expensive
beyond her means. There is no college
that needs TO he so richly endowed as a
woman's college. Women are not men,
quarrel with the fact as we may, and
they cannot get along so cheaply and
with such self-helpfulness as men while
going through the processes of their
education. Ii we are to have wOmen's
colleges, we must have well paid pro-
fessors, philosophical apparatus, cabi-
nets, collections, galleries, labora-
tories, and they must be provided for by
private munificence. Provision should
be made for the poor, so that high eda-
cation shall come within the reach of
all. There is not woman's college, or
an advanced public institution for the
education of women, that is not to day
in need of large endowment for the
purpose of bringing its advantages
within the reach of those whose means
are small.


Now we commend this matter partic-
ularly to rich women. There are many
scattered up and down the country,
who are wondering what they shall do
with their money when, and even be-
fore they die. To all these we beg the
privilege of commencing this great OBJ
ject. Let the boys alone. They have
been pretty well taken care of already,
and the men will look after them. 1t
is for you, as women wishing well to
your own sex, and anxious for its ele-
vatiOn in all possible ways, to endow
these institutions that are springing up
about the country i'm its interest, so
that the poor shall have an equal chance
with the rich. You can greatly help
to give the young women of all classes
as good a chance as their brothers enjoy,
and you can hardly claim a great deal
of womanly feeling if you do not do it.
MOathlg.
Year: 1875

probably experienced. tits bad enough


if, having opened up subject after sub.


ject and produced nothing better thar


monosyllabic answers, you are forced


TO subside into dreary silence, and tc


concentrate your faculties upon making


the best combination possible out of the


heterogeneous materials for dinner SCI


before you. A yet worse thing than


this, however, may befall you. 1t may
be that the lady whom you are privi-


legged to take into dinner imagines her.
self to be charged with a mission, and
has cut short all endeavors on your part
at conversation, not from shyness or
ignorance, but with deliberate purpose.
Ii this be so, she will follow the course
which has been seen to be adopted by a
distributor of tracts in a railway car
riage, who, observing a nervous looking
boy occupied in readinga a novel, begged
for permission to glance at his book for
a moment, and Immediately filled its
place with selection from his own pro-
vision of literature. In like manner the
woman with a mission will carefully
exhaust all her neighbor's resources,
and, when 1t is completely defenceless,
will attack him with all her eloquence.
Ii is useless for him to hint at the out
set that his opinions upon the subject
which engrosses her have been formed
long ago, and are not likely to be altered.
Herein she will only discern a greater
possible glory to be gained by bringing
him over to her views. In this case the
constant handing round of endless
dishes which breaks in disagreeably
upon pleasant conversation may be-
come blessing, by giving the victim at
least temporary escape. But he may
not be able to avail himself of any such
chance, and then he will be i'm parlous
state. He will be compelled not only to
listen, which is bad. bnt to answer,
which is worse, either until the COM
pany is broken up or until he is driven
by sheer despair and weariness to give
such kind of assent to the propositions
offered as will satisfy their suggestor.
If he is so far overmastered by fatigue
as to take this step, to the sufferings
already inflicted upon him will be added
the self-inflicted one of an uneasy con-
Rerie,o.
Year: 1875

Come to me, o ye childrenl


For hear you at your play.
And the questions that perpie1ed me


Have vanished quite away.
Ye open the eastern windows,


That look towards the sun.
Where thoughts are singing swallows,
And the brooks of morning run.
In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine
In your thoughts the brooklets flow;
But in mine is the wind of Autumn,


And the first fall of the snow.
All what would the world be to us,
II the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before.
What the leaves are to the forest


With light and air for food,
Ere their sweet and tender juices


Have been hardened into wood
That to the world are children;


Through them it feels the glow
OF brighter and SUMMER climate
Than reaches the trunks below.
Come to me. o We children.


And whisper in my ear
What the birds and the winds are singing
In your sunny atmosphere.
For what are all our contrivings,
And the wisdom of our books,
When compared with your caresses,
And the gladness Of your looks.
Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said;
For We are living poems.


And all the rest are dead
Year: 1875

Superfuous variety causes the inor-
dinate duration which is ruinous TO the
well-being of dinners. If one is fortu-
nate enough to have pleasant COM
panion during dinner the edge of even
the brightest conversation is liable to
be dulled by being employed too long.
The torment experienced under the
same circumstances in the case of uncon-
genial companiOnship most people have
Year: 1875

Trouble for Nothing.-Shine out,
mamma don't you see how they twin
kie at us ~ said young Glowworm to
her mother.


THE stars, do you mean my dear 2"
asked the mother


"Yes, if you call them stars; they
are staring at US finely said the
daughter.


"Bless your little heart" said her
mother do you think they can see
usf-


"Why mott We can see them,n re-
piled the daughter.


Because, nv dear, their light is
strong enough to travel To us, but ours
is too feeble to be seen many yards
from the earth. We might shine our
hearts out, and the stars would never
know we were in existence"
Year: 1875

II was the house of a well-knOwn
doctor of divinity; and the little tod
ding girl who did not like to see her
aunt trim lighted kerosene lamp, and
came honestly by a somewhat modi-
fed theory of predestination, said
Take care, take care or we'll get
bowed up into the sky; and then God'll
say: Girls. what are you in such a
hurry for y"
Year: 1875

A Chilrs Hea.-A mother was show
ing her little six year old. DOre's Para
disc Lost. The child was greatly in
terested in the magnificent pictures,
and also in the story the mother told
by way of explanation. Unlike the
major portion of children, who would
have heard the strange, eventful, story,
and then turned open mOuthed to
thoughts of bread and blackberry jam,
the child of our little narrative pom
dered on what she had heard. The re-
suit of her brown study was somewhat
as follows:


mamma s'pOse you and papa and
me had been in the Garden of Eden,
and you and papa had eaten of the for
hidden fruit and hadn't then you
would have been turned out, and /
wouldn't. Do you know what I'd have
donef I'd pitched flowers over the
fence to you"


The mother told the child that the
angel would not have permitted any
communication, between parents and
child under any circumstances.


''Then I'd eat the fruit and go with
yOu," said the child.
Year: 1875

Planting Hdr.-A five year-old girl
had her hair cut few days ago, and
was seen digging hole in the garden,
and on being asked what she was do
ing, said I'm planting this hair to
make little child grOw.n
Year: 1875

proposed plan for receiving the money had been abandoned and that he should put the money in O white leather satcbel and on the afternoon of certain day he should take a tram for New York should ride on the rear platform and hold the satchel in his hand. If any person along the route sh"uld display white flag in daylight or white lantern at night, he was to drop the satcn,l and at stated time Charlie was to be sent home. If no signal was displayed between Philadelphia and New York, then he was to go to Albany in the same way and to look for the same signal. On the morning of the 3Oth of July, MT. Ross informed Mosher through the Ledger that he was ready, and on the afternoon of the same day he set out on the trip, going clear through to Albany, but seeing no signal. It happened that the story about little Charlie having been seen in Pottsvllle was started on that very day, and the newspapers sta ted that Mir. Ross had gone there to identi- | fly him. Mosher saw this and supposed | that MT. Ross had not kept hls promise hence he notified his confederate not to give the signal. It may be remarked that MT. Ross kept the police authorities advised of his movements. On the same train that bore him to New York and Albany were two sharpshooters with rifles, ready to bring down the man that displayed the sig nal the instant that they got their eyes on him. MT. Ross did not know that these men were on the train. | Negotiations were opened again. and the correspondence was kept up for some months. He made one or two trips to New York to pay over the money according to directions given in the anonymous letters, and advised Mosher of his presence in the city in personal in the Herald, but some thing always interfered to prevent the scoundrels from carrying out their part of the agreement. The vigilance of the de- tectives made them excessively cautious. In the meantime MT. Ross health gave way under the strain upon his nervous sys- tenn and for some weeks he was unable to reply to the letters sent him by Mosher, and before the correspondence culminated in the restoration of the lost child the abduct- ors were sent to their final reward. Ven geance could not suffer them to live. Since their death MT. Ross has received DO anon ymous letters proposing to return his son, and the mystery remains unsolved. If the wretch now on trial knows anything about the boys fate he has thus far refused to tell Ift.l ~