Year: 1871

ouh, "uicH was tneu stiii nut, W scoTcu
ir, as it will do fruit that is disconnected
from the bough, lying on the ground,
for the connection with the tree when
fruit is fully ripe, can necessarily have
no influence, the fruit being dead to the
tree, ready to be cast of T? Had the fruit
been gathered three or four weeks sooner
than it had been, there would have been
out little complaint about the rot. The
case is exemplifed.


1t seems people will never learn to gath
er fruit when ripe, irrespective OF the
time.


Seasons will vary; we must be govern
ed by that. The past season was one of
unprecedented heat and mild weather !;
there was constant advance, day and
night, aud early in the seas n, OF fruit.
Aud yet we gathered at the usual time.
We suffer the consequence. Winter fruit
when gathered was tit to use ut once -
this is unprecedented. 1t should have
been gathered some three or four weeks
sooner, then putaway 10 the shade-thst
is, in barrels in out houses or in cellars
the first b ing generally preferred
and no sun would have affected it, and it
would have been less subject to the
changes of the weather. In this way we
have fruit as usual that does not rot,
through all around us are complaining.


A BRUTE OF HusBAND.-Mrs. j.
d. Lancaster, of Pnultney, in II cun,mu
nication to the Rulland independent, de
scribes a shocking case OF brutality, oc-
curing, we suppose, in that town. She
says:


Can it be possible in this age of our
progress as free people, that there is no
protection for mother against brutal
husband before the Law 7 Last summer
this man beat his wife, frail mite Of q
woman, with stick as large as my wrist
l went III AT the time and saw her poor
frame coverei with bruises. Upon ask
ing him what he meant by such brutality
he said in u rage that she was lazy !"
Some weeks since he repeated the beat
ing with exaggeration-I could hear the
blows from across the road through the
closed windows. This time the men went
in and toreibly seizing him shut him up
till his temper cooled. The neighbors
took charge of the poor wife and posi-
lively forbid him coming near her again,
but now | have to record the worst part
of the outrage, worse to a mothers heart
than any blow ner flesh can suffer. Her
poor little babe less than two years old
(Which she oufidently believed she could
keep few days after, at the instiga-
tion Of her cowardly wretch Of hns-
band, was cruelty wrenched from her
arms, pileously crying mamma! mann
ma !" till out of her sight. An ex-Jus-
tice of the Peace did it, am told, SO it
must be according to law. And she has
not been permitted to see it since. None
DuI u iDOtuCi Cdu ICdiiLC thio poOi iuutu-
er's feelings. Last week we went to see
her and when tell you We found her
with poor little atom Of humanity FIVE
days old by her side, you will pardon us
for the spirit that found an outlet in the
lines which head this article, toward the
base burlesque ON manhood who aroused
it. We can ouly trust that our common
bond Of humanity, which links Us but
the closer in our sufsriugs, will eventu-
ally see to it that the laws which render
possible the robbing a mother of her
child merely to crafty the malice Of such
husband are changed to what they
ought to be.


HOME CouKTEsILs.-A retired gov.
erness says -" am one Of those whose
lot i'll lie has been to 90 out into an un.
friendly world at an early age; AID Of
nearly twenty families in which made
my home in the course Of about thirty