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Year: 1873

More than hundred years have passed
since it was struck by lightning and split
from top to bottom, and the pillow has
well furrowed the place where it grew.
Before that time the mighty old beech
tree stood, some hundred yards from the
first houses of the village, on a grassy
mound, tree such as one never sees in
these days, because animals, plants,
trees, and men are becoming small and
mean.
The peasants said the tree dated from
the early Christian era, and that a holy
apostle had been massacred beneath. it
by the false heather that the roots of
the tree had drunk up the apostles
blood, which, rising through the trunk
and branches, had made them SO large
and strong. Who knows if the legend
he true Anyhow, there was certainly
one curious fact concerning the tree,
and everybody In the village knew about
it, small and great. Whoever fell asleep
under the tree and dreamt dream, that
dream would surely come true. So,
from time. .in1memoriaI, it was called the
Dreaming Beech, and no one knew it
by any ether name. There was, how
ever, peculiar condition attached to
the dreaming, and If anybody lay down
under the beech with the idea of dream
ing of some one particular thing, then
the dream was sure to be nothing but
confusion and rubbish and nonsense of
all sorts, of which no one could make
either head or tail. Now this was as
suredly rather a difficult stipulation, be-
cause most people are SO very likely to
think of what lies nearest the heart |;
consequently, at the time this story
commences not man or woman had
ever tried the plan with success. Still,
for all that, it was not to be denied but
that the tradition of the Dreaming Beech
was true. @--.S ~


One hot. summer day; when not q
breath of air stirred, a poor journeyman
came wandering along 9l1e road. Things
had gone very badly with him for many
years in foreign parts. When, he
reached the evIlage he turned his pockets
inside cut for the last time, but, alas
they We're empty. =


''What am to do ?'' he thought to
himself. 81 am tired to death, but no
is hard to beg" just then his eyes fell
upon the noble beech tree. ON the green
grassy slope and as it stood only few
yards from the road, he laid himself
down under it to rest. A gentle breeze
sprung up and : rustled among the
branches, whilst here and there a CLEAN
of glittering sunshine fell as the leaves
were moved, disclosing glimpses of the
deep blue sky beyond. Then the tired
wanderer closed his eyes and slept.
Whilst he was thus soundly sleeping, q
branch dropped from the beech tree,
with three leaves on it, which fell Just
on his breast He dreamt that he sat al
a table, in most cozy room and the
table was his own, and the room, and
indeed the whole house. At the table
leaning on it.with both hands, stood q
young woman, looking lovingly at him


and that was his wife. On his knees sal
child, whom he was feeding with soup
and because the soup was too hot, he
blew upon the spoon to cool it. Then
his wife cried out, laughingly, "What 6
Year: 1873

A CORRESPONDENT of the Practical
FARMER says: 81 have known many
men, and women, too, who from various
causes have become so, much affected
with nervousness that =. when they
stretched out their hands they shook
like aspen leaves on windy days !; and by
a daily, moderate use of the blanched
footstalks of celery leaves as salad,
they become strong and steady in limbs
as other people. I have known others
so very nervous that the least annoyance
put them in state of agitation-and
they were in almost constant perplexity
and fear-who were effectively cured by
daily moderate use Of blanched celery
as a salad at meal times. i have known
others cured by using celery for palpita-
tion of the heart"
Year: 1873

trate the strictness with which the
Cunard Steamship Line is managed:
The captain of one of their New York
ships having lately married, asked leave
to take his wife with him on one voyage.
This was granted, but, on going to take
command when the ship was ready for
sea, he found one of his brother captains
on board, from whom he learned that,
though the company had no objections
to his taking his wife to America, they
were not willing to trust him with the
ship, too.
Year: 1873

NEW APPLICATION oY YSrEAM.--On the llth of January last, Mir. McCarty secured a cav eat for what he calls "McCarty's Patent Smoke Consumer" and yesterday we wit messed its operation in the furnace of the Walker House boilers. IL is extremely sim pie, consisting merely of pipe, which conducts steam from the boiler to the furnace, where it is distributed by two Jets over the fire

 The philosophy of the working is, we believe, that the oxygen and hydrogen gases in the steam ignite on coming in contact with the fire. and the heat evolved Is SO intense tbat the smoke is consumed. That this is true is proved, by the fact that when the steam is on, no smoke is seen issuing from the stack, and the effect can be seen by the guage. It is clained-and from what VIC saw we be. lieve it to be so-that fully 25 per cent. of the fuel is saved by the application of the "smoke consumer" Different parties who have examined it say it can be applied to smelling furnaces with as much advantage as to boilers, and furnace men and those who use steam, should not neglect giving it an in- yestigation as it will undoubtedly be to their advantage. Salt Lake New Endowment.
Year: 1873

How TO MAKE FENCE Posrs IMsr FoR- EvER.-A correspondent of the Western Ru- ral says:

 1 discovered many years ago that wood could be made to last longer than iron, in the ground, but thought the process so simple and inexpensive that t was not worth mak- ing any stir about it. would as soon have poplar, bssswood or quaking asp as any other knd of timber for fence posts. I have taken out basswood posts after having been set sev- en years, that were as sound when taken up as when first put in the ground. Time and weather seemed to have no effect upon them. The posts can be prepared for less than two cents apiece. For the benefit of others will give the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and stir it in pulverized charcoal to the consis. tency of paint. Put coat of this over the timber, and there is no man that will live to see 1t rot.
Year: 1873

An editor of many years experience said, not long since, that the man was yet unborn who could write local item and be perfectly sure that nobody would be offended. People are 50 sensitive, you know
Year: 1873

The wild cherry being native of Northern Arizona, we give the following from the Pa cfc Rural Press:

 The best stocks for the propagation of cherry trees are raised from seed. Many who would Ike to grow seedlings are not aware that the best way 10 secure certain gerinination of ,ne seed is to plant the pits within a month afler they are taken from the ripe cherry Carefully crack tho seeds so that the moisture of the soil gain to the kernel and then keep the soil suiiicicnl, moist for ordinary germinatiOn of seeds, and q growth oftwelye to eighteen inches can bc relied upon generally the same summer.

 As the time for ripe cherries is approach ing, we hope that farmers, gardeners and 10 experiment according to the foregoing d- rcctiuns.
Year: 1873

fohoLmAhEnD . DON1s
The shoemaker sat at his feathers bench,
And sang as he pegged the shoe;
Worked and sang and worked,
While he drew the wax ends through.
Perchance his song was not 81 sweet
As the niQhtingale's sweetest trill;
But he worked as lie sang and sang as he


worked,


An sang and worked with a will.
Twas moi of love and Cupid's power
That the shoemaker gaily sang;
But he worked as he ang and sang rs he


worked,


While the shop with the echoes rang.
lie did not sing to Italian strains
Those words that none eau tell
Bat he beat the time to his own hearts


rhyme


With the hammer that rose and fell.
The words that he sang are known 10 all
And are known the old world through,
But little he dreamed Of his coming fame
As he sang and pegged his shoe.
lie had left the door of his shop aiar,
For breath of fcooling breeze,
That murmnring sighed in the forest wide,
OF the gently whispering trees.
From the clover red in its crimson bed,
The breeze Its fragrance bore,
Aud swept 1t along with the stream OF


song


That flowed from that open door.
And this was the song that the shoemaker


sang,


As he sang and pegged his shoe,
While fly lii on the end of his nose
As he drew the wax ends through.
His hands were full and he could not stop,
So what 10 do was he?
Then he sang In the words that echo yet
"ShOo, fly! don't bother me-"
And he beat the time IN kind Of chime,
And the hammer that rose and fell;
Aud the words of his song were borne along
Wherever the brce zes swell.
When now so soon the sun of June,
And summers sultry SKI,
Shall work on man the curse and ban
BY bringing back the fly.
Then whereso 'er the breezes swell,
On land or DER the sea,
His song shall rise In countless cries
"Shoo, fly !dont bother me-"
Year: 1873

Long months, nay, years, have passed away


Since last in youthful love we met:
But still, 1 feel loves lingering ray


Though thou art gone, love thee yet.
I cannot see thy loving smile


That star, alas, for me has set,
And Ger my heart there comes the whils


A dream of thee, love thee yet
There's none who know the wealth of love


That lies beneath my cold dim smile;
They do not see me sadly rove,


While love the weary hours beguile.
They never saw my bosom heave


While tears nay pallidscheeks have wet;
They know, not how L sadly grieve-


That thou art gone-I love thee yet.
Proud forms have bowed and sought my love
But, oh! I never could forget
My heart will never from thee rove


Though thou art gone, 1 love theo yet.
Return. ere all of hope is fled


For thou didst love when last we met
Aud beauty round thy path I'll shed,


For. oh +! [ love thee-love thee yet
Year: 1873

Prepare the rind cut into any form your
fancy may dictate; boil very hard in alum
water thirty or forty minutes. The alum
water should be pretty strong. On taking
the pieces from the alum water put them into
clear, cold water, and allow them to stand
twelve hours. In the morning change the
water for fresh and put them on to boil. Let
them cook until they have entirely changed
color and are quite soft; then make your
syrup, allowing one and half pounds of loaf
sugar for every pound of citron. Add your
citron to the syrup and cook few minutes
but little cooking is necessary. Flavor with
lemon, or any spice that suits you.


Excellent watermelon preserves may be
made on the same receipe-they arc very lit
tie if any inferior to citron. OF course it is
understood that only the rind with tho outer
skin peeled off. can be used.


The same recipe, with slight variation,
also makes good apple preserves. Peel and
core the apples cutting them in halves or
quarters, as you like. Make syrun of sugar.
using. three>fourths of pound for every
pound of fruit. When the syrup is boiling
hot put the apples in and let stand without
further heating about twelve hours. This is
to toughen and prevent their falling to pieces.
Next. boil over slow fire until the fruit is
cooked through aud through then put away
in jars. With syrup made of loaf sugar this
turns out very pretty preserve.


Peach preserves may be made on precisely
the same receipe-clings need not be soaked
in the syrup, as there is no danger of their
falling to pieces.
Year: 1873

edo you see this lock of hair ?" said an old
man to mo.


"Yes; but what of it It is, I suppose.
the curl from tho head of dear child long
since gone to God"


at is not. 1t is a lock of my own hair,
and it is now noarly seventy years since it was
cut from this head"


But why do d.. you prize lock of your own
hair so much p


1T has a story belonging to it, aud a
strange ono. keep it thus with caro-, be-
cause it speaks to mo more of God. and Of his
special care, than anything else possess" .


II was a little child of four years old with
long curly locks, which, in sun or rain, or
wind, hung down my checks uncovered
One day my fathet went into the woods to
cut log, and went with him. was stand.
ing little way behind him, or rather at HIS
side, watching with interest the strokes of his
heavy axe, as il went up aud came down upon
the wood, sending off splinters, with every
stroke, in all directions. Some of tho splin-
ters fell at my feet and eagerly stopped to
pick them up. In doing so I stumbled
forward, and in moment my head lay upon
tho log. l had fallen just at the moment
when tho axe was coming down with all its
force. It was too late to stop the blow
Down came tho axe. 1 screamed, and my
A11Hcr ieII 10 tue EFounu IN terror. hc could
not stay the stroke, and, in the blindness
which the sudden horror caused, he thought
ho had killed his boy.


ave soon recovercd-I from my fright,
and he from his terror Ho caught mo in
his arms. and looked at mo from head to foot,
to find out the deadly wound which he was
sure he bad inflicted. Not drop of blood or
scar was to be seen. He knelt upon the grass
and gave thanks to God. Having done SO,
he took up his axe, and found few hairs
upon its edgo. He turned to, the log he had
DC: been splitting. and there was single curl .d ef
upon tho wood. How great tho escaped Il
was as if angel had turned the edge at tho
moment when i. was descending on my head.
With renewed thanks upon his lips, hc took
up the curl aud went homo with me in his
arms.


"That lock hc kept all his days, as mel
mortal of Gods care and love. That lock hle
left to me on his den.h>bed."
Year: 1873

OILED FURNITURE.-When oiled walnut
begins to grow dingy, it can be made to look
as fresh as new by re-oiling. Linseed or even
olive oil can be used, but pure, good kerosene
oil is much the best. Rub it we'll in with a
soft WOODEN rag, and polish with clean, dry
flannel.
Year: 1873

We have no idea that the editor who
wrote the following knew that he was
getting off 'good thing"


swe owe our thanks to-Judge Kelley
for the latest Patent Office Reports. We
already have sixteen hundred of these
interesting volumes in our little library
but they have been read and re-read SO
many times that we know every page
of them by heart. This new volume
came opportunely and graceful on
Christmas morning, and that night we
gathered our little family around the
fire and read it through, to them. The
very affecting tale entitled 'Improve-
ments in Monkey Wrenches, Seemed to
touch every heart, and when we came to
the climax of the little story about "Re-
versible Pie-boards," there was not
dry eye between the front door and the
stable. During the reading of the pite-
Gus narrative entitled Scum Washers
for Carriage Axle" the whole family
gave expression to boisterous emotion,
and the hired girl was so excited, that
she lost her presence of mind, and went
10 her mothers inadvertently with six
pounds sugar, and butter kettle full
of flour, and came home at midnight in
toxicated. We can never sufficiently
thank Judge Kelley for the innocent en-
joyment that furnished us. The menu
ory of that happy evening will linger in
our minds very much longer than that
hired girl fingers when she lights on a
lots of substance which she thinks will
suit the constitution of her aged par
ants
Year: 1873

The past is beyond recall. As well
might you try to restore the dried up
mummy to life and beauty as to live
over the past, and correct the mistakes
committed. 1t is gone, buried beyond
resurrection, and is as worthless as a
dream, except as an example for the
present and future. To go back into the
future with your face towards the past,
is to stumble through life, and repeat
the errors that experience should have
taught you to avoid. Let the past go,
for to waste time idly, wishing its re-
turn, is to blind yourself to the realities
of the present, and fits You for nothing
but helpless wanderer in the future.
Look aheadl If you have seen trouble,
turn your back upon it and press for
ward, determined to deserve success
Some people never recover from mis-
fortune. Once dewn, they remain down
forever. They make no effort to get up.
They prefer to keep down, and appear
to enjoy secret satisfaction in telling
others what they have been, and what
they might have been, had good fortune
continued to smile upon them. Others
shake off trouble as duck would the
water. 1t makes no other impression
on them than to make them a trile wis
er. You can't knock them down. Knock
them off their feet and they are up in q
twinkle, and go ahead as brayely as if
nothing had happened. All they ask is
health and strength. Their courage is
equal to every emergency. Like the
blooded racer, though dIstanced at the
start they never gave up the race until
the home stand is reached. In word,
they do their best under all circumstan-
ces, and in doing this. generally do well
enough. 1t is bad enough for an old man
who has put forth strength and failed
to become discouraged, and drift into the
rushing current of fate with no effort to
steam it, but for young man, or one in
his prime, who has brain and muscle in
perfect order, to give up and drift with
a tide that he could easily overcome is
without any excuse. What if you have
lost money or failed in business. Can
these trifling troubles excuse idleness
when extra exertion is required? Yes
terday has fled from your reach, ,to-day is
yours,to morrow may be full of sunshine
to your darkened hopes. Let the past go
rear tombstone over it if you please,
but cease to dwell over its grave. The
world is before you,ripened fields await
your labor,you may retrieve all and win
even more than you had. The little vex-
ations of life are but the axestrokes that
chip and deface the young oak, but fail
to retard its growth. Nature heals the
wound, and the young tree grows to its
full proportion. So the vital element of
mans life, if hope remains uncrushed,
will heal the wounds of the past, and
ont of the failure ofyesterday weave the
glorious triumph of to-day or to NOR
row.
Year: 1873

The Railroad Gazette estlmates that
the extent of new railways built in this
country in 1873 will be more than forty
per cent. less then for 1872.


At Boston restaurant supply Of
live trout is kept in tank, SO that epi-
cures may pick out which fish they will
have cooked.
Cincinnati claims to be the third city
in the Union in point of manufactures,
putting New York first and Philadelphia
second.
Year: 1873

In walking along the street should
you hear curses loud and deep, and see
hammers, pieces of brick, plaster, and
old stove pipe flying out of different
houses, don't get alarmed and think
that an earthquake has come, for it is
only the head of the family putting up
the parlor stove.


A boy defines salt as sthe stuff that
makes potatoes taste bad when you don't
put on any,"
Year: 1873

Only q step to the other side.


Only step to the shining shore;
Out Of the darkness into the light,


D, how I wish was there tonight!
Safe in that Heaven forever more
Only step to the other side,


Angles are waiting for me, know:
Strains of sweet music seem to hear.


Surely my steps must be drawing noar,
Near to the land where long to go.
Only q step to where my loved ones are.
Free IRON all sorrow. and pain. and care
o. I've been waiting so lone for this


That the hand of death gladly kiss,
So that meet with my loved ones again.
Ouly Il step to the other side,


Where all my joys will be made complete
Only . step from this world of sin;


Jesus know will then let me in,
Humbly to fall at his loving feet.
Year: 1873

Loss of teeth is a great misfortune, and
many good teeth are pulled because of
ague in the teeth and jaws, which might
be cured aud the teeth saved, by using
Renne's Magic Oil This article is good
to use when brushing and cleaning the
teeth, and keeps the gums healthy.
Year: 1873

PRoCRAsTINATIoN Is THE THIEF OF
TME.-At this season of the year when
life may be cut off in IA few hours by an
attack Of Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Diar-
rhpa, Dysentery, Cholera Infantum or
some kindred disease, none should fail to
have at all times a supply of DR. McCabe's
/ renowned Medicated Blackberry Brandy
on hand. A more certain cure, and at the


same time pleasant remedy can not be


found in the whole range Of materia med
lea The millions who have used it testify
to this. 6-16d&w2w
Year: 1873

Our readers should be careful to notice
that PROCTOR & GAMBLE ; STAMP is upon
the bars Of their NOTIFIED GERMAN SOAP,
as all good articles are initiated, and this
Soap being so popular, other manufactur-
ers have copied their stamp 6-23d3m
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General of the United States, after trial
ot all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article This
is fact worthy the attention Of consum-
Year: 1873

liv'd all alone in the mountains so drear-
Twas five years and a half to day
Sometimes it whispered and thus il did say
why be so foolish as longer to stay
In this lonesome place year after year
"Why thus be spending the whole of your life,
While hardly a living at best,
And ceasng your labor you scarcely can


rest;


The reason is plain, tits easily guessed,
A woman could answer the question: wife.
"Ifyou'd look'd for one as you've hunted for


gold


And had put half your work on a farm,
You would now have home and some


thing to charm,


And something besides to hold in Sour
A bright little foweret, maybe half year
.' old"
The wherefore such thought had troubled the
Was during that time not loy'd. one was


seen


No futteling dress of white, pink or green'
As carried around by six or sixteen,
On anything else as shap'd womankind.
had company but here's fact you must


own:


That men living thus nearly cease to be


human,


As can be seen by the smallest acumen,
And living where you never see woman
said it and mean it, twas living ALONE.
Year: 1873

Nobody is more like an honest man
than thorough rogue.


When you see man with a great deal
OF religion displayed in his shop window,
you may depend upon it he keeps very
small stock within.


Do not choose your friend by his looks.
Handsome shoes often pinch the feet.


Don't be fond of compliments; remem-
Der, "thank you pussy, and thank you
pussy" killed the cat.


Don't believe the man that talks most !;
for mewing cats seldom are very good
mousers.


By no means put yourself in another
persons power; if you put your thumb
between two grinders they are very apt
to bite.


Drink nothing without seeing it, sign
nothing without reading it, and make
sure it means no more than it says.


Don't 60 to law unless you have moth
ing to lose; lawyers houses are built on
fools heads.


In any business, never wade into water
where you cannot see the bottom.


Put no dependence in the label of bag;
and count the money after your own kin.
See the sack open before you buy what
is in it; for he who trades in the dark asks
TO be cheated.


Keep clear of the man who does not
value his character.


Beware of man who swears; he who
would blaspheme the Maker would make
no bones of lying or stealing.


Beware of no man more than of your
self; we carry our worst enemies with us.


w hen a new opinion or doctrine comes
before you, do not bite till you know
whether it is bread or stone; and do not
be sure that the gingerbread is good be-
cause of the gilt on it.


Never shout "halloo" till you are quite
oIt Of the woods; and never cry fried
fish till they are caught in the net.


There is always time to boast-wait a
little longer.


Don't throw away dirty water till you
have got clean keep on scraping the
roads till you can get better work, fer the
pay is better than none, and the humblest
Office is better than being out of employ
meHt.


Always give up the road to bulls and
madmen; and never fight with coal
HEAVIER, nor contend with base character
for they will be sure to blacken you.