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Alice's Rose Tree.
BY EMMA GARRISOX.
. The genial sanshiue of a sweet
May ftfteinoon fell in flickering
waves of gold over tho mossy roof
and ivy-hnng chimneys of an old
farm-house standing in a green hol
low in the midst of tho pleasant bill
country which stretches southward
from the red battle-ground of Man
assas. In the neighboring wood the
turtle-dove cooed her pliantive love
lay, the partridge whistled, and -the
robin twittered to : her young; and
from the surrounding meadows came
the. dreary gurgle of the brook i and
the musical tinkle of the 'bells from
the cattle cropping the rjarly clover
that sprang up green and tender in
the warm shadow of the hills.
The orchard round about the old
house was one mass, of fragrant,
milky blooms; and the lilac bushes
tossed their purple plumes through
tho low windows, the soft winds
scattering the leaves over the sanded
floor until the great.hospitable room,
with its ever open doors and yawn
ing lire place, gave forth orders
sweeter than ever filled the vales of
Araby the Blest.
On the window-sill, overlooking
the garden, a young girl sat, on this
same May afternoon, her little slip
pered feet hanging almost low enough
to touch the grass-plot beneath; her
pretty, golden hair thrown back in
wavy disorder, tier cheeks Hushed,
and her tender, blue eyes brimful of
tears, as they looked, witii a serious,
questioning (azc, toward the even
ing sun, just slipping out of sight,
behind ilie stimmit of tiie distant
ue '.in i . ii.
'Why, Aiioi -, ' cried a manly
vo'ce, how's ti.is? Come, come, I
t. ought ou meant to be s brave?"
"Wo I did," her voice faltering
painfully'. "But it is so hard so
hard. Archer, to to "
And .-die dropped her pretty head
o:i ids aim uli. I g.ie way to a good
cry .
lie stiuUi-d !-at"U 'e sjft. mass of
ieaaiiii!.
k i ; u it
ii.ii r U
ndcfiy, and .-aid, "1
i. A;;ce h.ueer for
c.Uiii tliounh you
so; but it can't be
ro- And the sooner
i
!p than
may not
helj.ed, i
tiie heater
Veil.
think
Illilt L
lo-tii-ht."
"To-night.''
"Yes to-ni
rht. Yon don't bl.tine
me for what I'm doinn?'
"Biaiut! von.
Archer? Oil,
you
Hash
know better!" and a kindling
lit the tearful bine eyes.
" I have something for you, Alice."
he said, alter a lan.'-e.' "See here"
and he iirew from his pocket a
tender little rose tree with the roots
carefully wrapt iii paper. " I got it
at Mr. Ashtoii.s to-day; they say it
is a rare species and blooms every
month. Come, we'll plant it and it
shall bo my parting gift."
lie caught up tne littlegarden hos
that lay close by, and went around
to the old sitting-room window.
Alice followed him in silence.
"Just here," he said, digging up
the soft black soil, "where you can
see it, whenever you look out at the
window; and mind it shall be a
tokin between us, Alice as long as
it thrives and blooms, you may be
sure I'm alive and prosperous; but
if it withers and dies "
" It will live, Alice; and I shall
and come back to you again Heav
en has told me so." -
She looked up, with something like
awe in her face, as she heard his
conlulent words. Ho smiled, and,
leveling the soil about the roots of
the little tree repeated, half to her
and half to himself. "It will live;
and I shall live?"
Then he kissed her softy, and she
tripped away to the kitchen, leaving
iiim standing there alone.
By 10 o'clock' every arrangement
was completed ; and Archer's satchel
packed with clothing on one side
and eatables on the other, stood
locked and strapped, on the kitchen
door-sill- He picked up and swung
it on his shoulder.
"Well, mother." he said,- putting
his arm round her aud kissing her
tenderly, "I must be off! Take
care of yourself, and may heaven bless
you.'
"And you, too, my boy.
He turned away, pained by the
sigbb of her tears, and trode out
towards the old .gate. Alice fol
lowed. He kissed her on her cheeks, brow
and eyes, and then without another
word walkeu rapidly away. She
watched him until a sudden turn in
in the road took him from her sight;
so did the poor mother, sitting on
the door-sill, thiuking, both of
them, no doubt, of tho weary days
of woe and war that would intervene
before they looked upon his face
The
spring wore awav. summer
came, aud the thunders of battle
rocked the old farm-house to its very
centre, but the rose treo (lid" not
wither. "Though the air was hot and
sulphurous, it shot no yonug ten
drils and burst into fragrant bloom,
and Alice said to herself continually."
He will live he will come back "to
us.
A cold and cruel winter another
spring the harvests trampled down
before they ripened the beautiful
hill-country made desolate bv he
ravages of war; still the rose-tree
bloomed and grew, and Alice's heart
was full of hope. But when the
summer, passed, au4 tho autumn
came, and the scanty havests were
gathered in, a change seemed to fall
upon the laud; the suu wbrpa murky
glow; the sky seemed brass''
But in thqse days of desolation
the rose tree drooped, and as the
winter came on all life seemed to go
out from brauch and root,' and
Alice's Lope failed. No letters
reached them from Archer, and they
heard rumors of terrible disasters
daily befalliog the Federal forces.
OREGON CITY,
He is gone, Alice we shall never
see him again "said the poor mother,
and Alice found no words to disap
prove what she said.
The winter was dreadful. Scanty
of food and fuel, the two mourners
sat by their lonely hearth, with an
unspoken sorrow :iu their white
faces that awed even the fierce!
gnerillas, who prowled about the I
old farm-house, into somethino-1
like pity and respect. But there is
nothing in this world of ours that
does not, sooner or later, come to
cuu. ueeis oi time may
seem slow, but they are sure. The
lonely winter dragged itself away,
ana spring, .came "a - snow-drop
in her hand, - a solitary lark
above her head. " The blue
sky smiled down, and the sun
light fell in genial beams, and the
gentle rains deceuded on fields black
ened by the ravages of war, bringing
up the tender grass and meek-eyed
violets over the nameless graves of
the fallen brave. In the garden, at
the old farm-house, the pinks came
up and opened their odorons petals,
and the hollyhock buds swelled al
most to bursting; the old fashioned
rosed budded, and the lilacs tossed
their purple plumes through the low
windows as in days gone by.
- Alice felt a strange balm dropping
into her sore heart; and day by day
she watched the little rose tree, "as
one might watch a dear face on the
verge of eternity. And at last at
last her hopeful faith was rewarded ;
for on the topmost branch a tiny
green shoot appeared.
"Oh, mother," she cried, running
in; "lie isn't dead. He'll come back
to us again the rose tree is alive."
But tho poor mother turned de--pairingly
from the happy faeo and
Kiiook her head. Age is less hopeful
than youth.
"No, no. he'll never come back
again," she said.
But the spring advanced, and the
little shoots grew, and one after
another new shoots came out, and by
full summer the rose tree was in
I ssun. weighed down with fragrant
imsoii liuwers. Still no tidings
(.me from Archer; but Alice hoped
nut waited. In the meantime Lee's
!Te-s retreated before Grant, and
: ;ie old li.iLr waved again over that
portion of desolate Virginia.
An evening came, in the cloudless
.lory of legal June. Mrs. Bradford
sat upou the door-sill, swaying back
and forth and murmuring to herself
in a dazed, mel .incholy way. Alice
sat on the soft grass close by the
blossoming rose tree. But where
was he? Heaped up amid the name
less dead on some distant battle
ground languishing in some far-off
hospital, yearning for home and
friends? Her blue eyes grew dim
with a inist of tears and her brave
heart sick wit h deferred hope. Bnta
gentle wind stirred the branches of
the rose tree, surrounding her with a
eloud of delicious perfume, ami at
the same instant the old gate swung
sharply on its hinges. Some one
was coming down the littie foot
path; it was a soldier!
Such visitors, rinding their way
back to Washington, and so home,
after the terrible battle in the wil
derness, often drop in at tho old
farm house no. v. Alice rose up and
placed a chair beneath the little
woodbine arbor.
"Won't you sit down and
some refreshment, sir?" She
have
said,
sweetly, as he came up.
He sat down while Alice darted off
to the kitchen.
"Bring some cider, Alice," called
the old women, wiping her eyes. "I
like to give them the best; my own
poor boy was a soldier."
Alice brought the cider, clear and
rn', a lump of ico tinkling in the
boft oin of the goblet. The soldier
took it, raised it to his lips, heard
the ice tinkling with a cool, refresh
ing sound, as he had heard in hun
dreds of times in his boyhood. His
hand trembled travo way it, fell,
and hespraug to his feet with a jis
sionate cry.
"Mother Alice don't you know
me?
Did they know him ? Let their
happy tears, their tender embraces
answer. Clasped in their arms, lie
the strong man. the soldier, bronzed
by the smoke of half a score of bat
tles, sobbed like a little child. But
after a while they grew quiet, and
Archer sat down beside his mother
on the door-sill, with a fresh goblet
of cider in his hand; while Alice,
with a shine in her eyes beside which
the. Tune stars looked dim, went back
to her seat on the grass.
"I knew you'd come." she snid
softly, her sweet face dimpliner with
happy smiles; "and I told mother
so. because your rose tree came to
life."
Archer looked over at the jrreat
crimson blossoms, and said, almost
solemnly, "Yes. Alice. I live; and
the rose tree lives; und better still,
our love lives also."
" And the niht was filled with irlndness
And 4 he eare that infested tSe. day,
Foldel no their tents, like tho Arabs,
And as silently stole away."
President Girardin, on6 : of the
ablest of the Frerch jndges, says of
divorce: "Loner experience on the
bench has convinced me that the vast
majority of persons who sue for jndi-r
cial separation were not fitted for
wedded life. They never fail to urge
that they were mistaken in their
choice, ana tnac ir ine- oo n-u
! joined to anvbodv ele but the person
from whom they seek to be separated
i they might have been happy. This
j mav be trne in some few cases, bnt
v generally speaking there is at least
one of the parties to every suit whose
temper is wholly intractable, and I
do not see what would be gained by
allowing this party to go and marry
again and make a second home as
wretched as he or she has made the
1 first."
OREGONvMlDAY; MARCH 31, 1876,
, Gen. 15el knap's History.;
He conies of good stock, his father,
Gen. . William ; G. Belknap, having
been an ollicer in the regular - army
from 1813 to lSrI ,' served with
marked gallantry through the Flori
da and-Mexican wars,: and enjoyed
the intimate friendship . of - Gen.
Scott, William Wortlr Belknap was
born at "Newbnrg, N. Y,, on the 22d
of September, 1829, and' graduated
from Princeton collego in the class
of 184:8, among his college acquaint
ances, singularenough, being Messis.
Clymer and Blackburn of ' the com
mittee that has just Jexpbscd " his
guilt; as well as Secretary Kobeson!
He studied law at Georgetown, D.
C, and in 1S51 began the practice of
his profession at Keokuk, la. He
served one terra, in 1857-S, in the
Iowa Legislature as a democrat, bnt,
being unwilling to giving counten
ance to the Leeompton swindle, he
separated from the radical wing of
his party, and was known ' as a
Douglas democrat up to tho out
break of the rebellion. He entered
the army as major of the 15th infan
try, and served with his regiment in
the army of the Tennessee, rising
through the various grades and par
ticipating in the battle of Shiloh,
siege of Corinth, campaign and siege
of Yicksburg, campaign and siego of
Atlanta. After the capture of that
place, he marched with Sherman to
the sea, and finally to Washington,
taking a prominent part in all. -.tho
actions of these brilliant campaigns.
He was promoted to the rank of
bricadier-general for special gallan
try in the memorable battle near At
lanta, in which his regiment fought
from either side of the line of breast
works, was afterward breveted major
general, and, at the date of his muster-out,
on the 24th of August, 1-SC5,
was regarded by Gen. Sherman- and
his companions as one of the most
accomplished and promising officers
of the army. Shortly afterward, he
was appointed collector of internal
revenue for the Mrst district of Iowa,
and, upon Gen. liawlin's death, soon
after Gen. Grant entered upon the
presidency in 18d'J, lie became secre
tary of war. His second wife was
then living, but she died of eon
sumption in the latter part of 1670,
aud about three years ago he was
married to his present wife, her sis
ter, Mis. Bowers, at Harrisbnrg,
K.v., her birth-place, at t he residence
of her brother, Dr. William Tomlin
son, her kinsman, John H. Pendle
ton of Ohio, giving away the bride.
She was understood to have proper
ty, and he soon rented a large houe,
and they launched, out into a very
extravagant style of living. Mrs.
Belknap has been ono oT the hand
somest and most elegantly' dressed
ladies in Washington, and received
many oi her dresses from Worth, the
Paris milliner.
The I.adv who Rejected Washington's
Mauri.
Bishop Meade,
in his "Old
fMi ti niwl I'!i
sof Virginia,"
tells the following: The elder sister
of Miss Mary Cary had married
George William Fairfax, at whose
house she was on a visit, when she
captivated a young man who 'paid
her his addresses. His affection,
however,' was not returned,' and the
offer of his hand was rejected by
Miss Cary. This young man was
afterward knowu to the world as
Gen. George Washington, the first
President of the United States of
America. Young Washing ton asked
permission of old Mr. Cary to ad
dress his daughter, before, he ven
tured to fpeak to herself. The' reply
of the old gentlemen was, "If that is
your business here, sir, I wish you
to leave the house, for my daughter
has been accustomed to ride in her
own coach." It has subsequently
been said that this answer of Mr.
Cary to the stripling Washington
produced the independence . of the
United States, and laid tho '.founda
tion of the future fame of the first of
heroes and the best of men, bur
immortal Washington, as it was
more than probable tiiat. had he ob
tained possession of the large Tor
ture which it was known Miss Cary
would carry to the altar with her, he
would have passed the remainder of
his life in ' inglorious ease. It was
an anecdote of the day that this lady,
many years after she had becorue
the wife of Edward Ambler, .happen
ed to be in Williamsburg,, when
Gen. "Washington passed through
that city at the head of the American
army, crowned with' never-fading
laurels and adored by his country
men. Having distinguished her
among the crowd, his sword waved
toward her a military salute, where
upon she is said to have fainted.
But this wants confirmation; for her
whole life tended to show that she
never for a moment regretted the
choice she had made. It may1 be
added, as a curious fact, that the
lady Gen. Washington afterward
married resembled Miss Cary, as
much' as one twin-sister over did an
other.. . ' .
Prof. Proctor says the moon is
deadj and has been dead for years.
Perhaps, says the Danbury Xeir's, it
was the smell of its decomposition
which led the people to infer that it
was made of old cheese, i
What Georgo Eliot calls "warm
paleness" is identical with the hue of
a man's fac- who struggles wildly on
the perilous edge of an orange peel,
and is too pious to swear.
A Syracuse man claims to have
discovered , a substitute for : eggs.
Don't set your hens at other business
just yet, however. - r " ).".
. Never look - cross at a lawyer who
is against you for the time being, for
by this very post he ocenpies he must
stick closer than a brother to his
client. Bee. .: . -
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
, CONGRESSIONAL.
; ' - -' SKXATE. '-: '
Washtxotox, 'March 23. Jones,
of Nevada, introduced a bill to pro
hibit the transportation of- liquid
nitrp glycerine , and to regulate the
transportation of dynamite. The bill
absolutely prohibits the-transportation
from one, State or Territory, to
another or to or from foreign coun
tries, of nitro glycerine in any other
form than that of dynamite; it pro
hibits the transportation of the latter
substance except . by " merely freight
conveyance and on condition that it
is 'packed in .metallic, 'cases and unac
companied with any means cf ex
ploding it. In the event of death
being caused by explosion when dy
namite is transported in any other
manner, every person who knowingly
permitted or aided in the transporta
tion is to be deemed guilty of man
slaughter. Maich 21. The Chair laid before
the Senate the House bill in relation
to political contributions.
Howe thought it affected political
matters more than anything, and that
there was no law question connected
with it; that aay committee was com
petent to wrestle with it, and sug
gested that it be sent to the com
mittee on privileges and elections;
agreed to.
The Senate voted to adjourn over
till Monday when it adjourned to
day. The Senate then resumed consider
ation of the Senate bill to count the
votes of President and Vice Presi
dent. After debate the question was taken
on tho passage of the bill, aud it was
passed yeas 02, nays 2G.
HOUSE.
Washington-, March 22. The
House took up the bill reported yes
terday from the judiciary committee,
prohibiting contributions to election
funds by officers of the United States
government, the question being on
the amendment offered by Blaine to
extend the application of the bill to
Senators, representatives and Dele
gates in Congress.
Alter a long discussion, participat
ed in by Blaine, Holman, Goode.Cox
anil others, the House proceeded to
vote on the bill and the various
amendments.
Blaine's amendment including Sen
ators, ltepr'eseutatives and Delegates
in Congress in the. provisions of the
bill, was agreed to yeas 128, nays 88.
The amendment offered byr Goode
to Brown's substitute, making it a
misdemeanor for any person to use
force, menace, violence or bribery to
iniluonce the election of President,
Vice President, Senator, llepresenta
tives or Delegates in Congress, was
then adopted yeas 212, nays t3.
The next voto was on Brown's sub
stitute. Tho first section is that no
ollicer or employe of the government
shall require or request, give to or
receive from any other ollicer or em
ploye of the same, or other person,
directly or indirectly, any money,
or property, or any other thing of
value, for political purposes, and
any such officer or employe who
shall offend against the provisions of
this act shall at once be dismissed
from the service of the United States
and also be deemed guilty of a high
crime and misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction thereof, be lined not less
than S500 nor more than 3,000, and
be imprisoned not more than one
year, at tho discretion of the Judge
trying the ease. The second section
is the amendment offered by Goode
and adopted. The third section gives
the U. S. district courts jurisdiction
of the offenses created by the act.
Tho substitute was agreed to without
yeas and nays, and the bill, as thus
amended, was passed yeas 173, nays
8. Adjourned.
March 23. Cook, of Georgia, re
ported the bill to pay expenses in
curred by the State of Oregon and
citizens of California in suppressing
Indian hostilities in 1872 and 1S73;
referred to committee of the whole.
Thornburgh, of Tennessee, report
ed back the Senate bill donating the
military road from Astoria to Salem,
Oregon, to those counties through.
which it passes; passed.
Cook, from the committee on mili
tary affairs, reported a bill to reduce
the area of the military reservation
of Fort Laramie, Wyoming Territory,
to 54 square miles; passed.
March 24. Holman presented the
memorial of the Women's Temper
ance League of Iudiaua, asking for
legislation to promote temperance in
the United States; referred.
Wilshire, from the committee on
Indian affairs, reported a bill to pro
vide a Territorial government for the
Indian Territory and moved to have
it recommitted.
After a discussion the bill was re
ferred to the committee on Indian
affairs.
. The House went into committee of
the whole, Cox in the chair, on the
legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation ; bill, with the under
standing that the general debate
would be limited to one hour.
After a considerable discussion,
the committee 'proceeded to consider
the bill iu detail. . r '
The item for compensation of Sen
ators, which is the first item in the
bill, having been read, fixes their
salaries at $4,000.
Baker, of Indiana, moved to reduce
it U c.3,000;. rejected.
Foster moved to reduce it to $2,70Q
and intimated that the Democratic
majority, if. it wanted to be consist
ent, should voie for tho reduction to
2,700.
Hill moved to make the reduction
of salaries commence on the 4th of
March, 1877, and agreed with Iloar
that it was indecent for members of
Congress to be squabbling over their
own pay his amendment would ob
viate that difficulty. ' . -J '
After further debate tho question
was taken on Foster's amendment to
fix the pay at abc.nt2,700and itwns
rejected, there being but 24 votes in
the amrmative.
The amendment
was also rejected.'
Adjourned '. r ' '
offered bv Hill
.-Alexandrian Antiquities. t
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The opening of. the new railway
from Alexandria to Aboukir has been
the means of unearthing a multitude
of interesting antiquities that have
long lain hid in the vicinity of the
former city. A.corresjjondent, writ
ing fromEgypt to the Academy, re
lates that' recent excavations'' have
brought to view at liamleh the head
of the statue of a late Boman Em
peror, together with a large number
of terra-cotta lamps of the Roman
and Christian periods. Among the
last, the most curious specimens are
the 'tToad Lamps," which bear on
their upper surface the impression
of a large toad, in the midst of whose
body appears the hole for the oil.
In the earliest examples of these
lamps, the figure of the toad is un
mitigatedly ugly; bnt, as tho series
progresses, the body, of the animal
is gradually contracted, its legs are
lengthened and straightened, and
the -distinctive character of the head
is altered. Finally the figure be
comes thoroughly conventionalized,
the legs being reduced to straight
bands, and the body transformed in
to a simple boss or knob. The
stamp of the late Greek Alpha im
pressed on the under side of the
lamps shows that they were manu
factured in Alexandria.
Small bottles, bearing the effigy,
and occasionally the name, of S.
Menas, a saint of the fourth century,
are also recovered at Alexandria,
where they were manufactured. They
are of terra-cotta, of a whitish color,
and usually of small size, although
one recently found was above a foot
high. They have two handles, and
in shape resemble the "pilgrims'
bottles" of the Middle Ages. On
one or both sides is; the image of the
saint, with a nimbus surrounding
the head, and a cross on either side.
Other symbolic figures are added,
with sometimes an inscription in
Greek. It is supposed that S. Me
nas belonged, to the early Orthodox
Church of Egypt, as his name does
not appear in "the Coptic calendar.
Kindness Rewarded.
Kindness always pays. It may
not make regular semi-annual cash
dividends, but kind words and kind
actions are sure to turn up something
some day for the giver. This fact
was illustrated in Detroit not long
ago when a gentleman - had a dog
stolen. The animal was returned to
him by a colored man whom he had
once assisted, and half a dollar
changed hands. In the course of
three or four days the animal was
stolen again, aud again he was re
turned by the same man. Another
fifty cent shinplaster was charged to
"profit and dog," and it was not un
til the canine was returned the third
time by the same man that suspicion
was aroused.
"See here, George, isn't this rather
singular?" asked the owner,
"I dnnno," answered the colored
man. -
"Well, I think so very singular."
"I tell you what boss," said the
victim of suspiciou,"you wasmighty
kind to me once, and I hain't forgot
it. Dis isn't singular quite yet, but
if you pay me anodder fifty cents
and dat dog is missing again dis year
it'll be powerful singular and I'll
find him and not charge a cent!"
They compromised on that basis.
Detroit Free Press.
Just So. There is no business, in
all the wide world, so subject to
sponging as the art or trade of print
ing a newspaper. It really seems to
us that public corporations, societies
and associations in general, have a
funny notion about printers. They
think we ought to print, puff and
publish all for nothing, that is "free
gratis," in other words they seem as
tonished if we ask half price only for
an obituary . notice, card of thanks',
tribute of respect, a personal com
munication, or anything else that
only interests a few persons, and not
the general reader. They think it
costs no money to advertise, puff,
etc. They forget that this business
makes them knqwn. They forget
that printers ink makes nine-tenths
of their immense fortunes; they for
get that it takes money to pay com
positors to'buy ink, typo and pa
per; aud lastly, they forget even to
thank you; for gratuitously puffing
their business or serving the public.
Not only do country editors suffer
from -this infliction, but they are
compelled to listen patiently to - tho
dull nonsense of some fellow who
wants to introduce himself to the
public for office or injpose some new
fanglcd humbuggery. They sab-
scribe for the paper one year and
promise to pay for it in a few days,
ana are very sensitive if they are
asiieu ior ii next year. io one is
paid less, and abused more than tho
printer. Post ,
An Auspicrors Dat. It is an
nounced that an enormous number
of betrothed couples are to be married
on the coming Fourth of July, and
that, to make sure oi the fact, cler
gymen are already being engaged for
the day. Oh, jnst think of itl One
hundred years of American indepen
denc! Let's all get married on that
day. Rochester Democrat.
The Boston Bulletin has prepared
the following epitaph for a liar;
In life he lied while lie had breath',-"
And, strange to say.lies still in death
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Albany base ballists are preparing
for the summer campaign; T
no.: '23;'
Alsike Clover for'Mees.31 o
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; The following contribution to tho
Fanner, by a resident of this county,
may be intfrosting t p ;bee-kecperR: t
It would bo to, tho interest of bee
keepers to sow Alsike cloYer.for.thei
bees It is the best of ell'the.nowefs.
in : tho vegetable; kinoEa'i for Hlie
production of ;honey.-It i an much
better- than white clover, as,wlite.
clover is better than red clover Al
sike has a pink' bloom ' which is as
full of honey' as an egg is of 'meat.
When in f nil bloom, every flower has'
a bee or a humming birdjon it. - The,
straw is better, far. .than ;tUe.red clo-.
ver. Seed' very fine; "four, pounds
will be sufficient to sow an acre. It,
will begin to bloom - as ; uooii'as it"
starts in the spring, and;will Idoom
right along through May'," June, July
and a part of August. In Jnne and
July, it will be about two feet high,
with a perfect sea of pink rlowers,
which are full of honey. . Even the',
air bears witness of r tho fact of, its
presence. I have " medinni sized
swarms of bees that have filled their
stand of 2,000 cubic inches with hon
ey in four weeks. . If you have sink
flowers rich with honey on ho farjn,
your bees will make severarpoum"rs
more honey than if they hud to de-
pend upon wild llowers, or had to go.
three or four miles to pasture !
Some persons sow, buckwheat for.
their bees, but it is 'not 'worth ahy
thing. It is impossible for' the bees
to get at the honey, if any there bo
in the flowers. I' have sowed it sev
eral "times for mv bees, but. they
would not work on it. lied clover is
not good for bees. It is not 'economy
to sow anything for bees, except
Alsike clover, ii ". ' rr-
Frochel's Kindergarten ThcoriCiJ.. -His
whole method founded itself
upon the child's natuia; A : child
is social, therefore he must . . have.
company ami not to ueieit to .iuo
solitude of his home. He is "active
and fond of making keep him
busy, and help him to produce thingj
He loves the earth give him a' gaiv
den patch. He is an artist giye
him .music,, imitative action, and
other appropriate means of expres
sion. He is curious teaxili him - to
think and discover. He is religious
lead him to trust in God. On this
last he said: . "God-trust, rock-firm
God-trust, has died out of the world.
The Kindergarten shall bring it I Kick'
so that the next generation of chil
dren shall be God's children."
Here is work for a child,, not
against tli3 grain, bnt with it; not in
violation of God's law in the .child
nature, but in loving obedieu.ee- "to
it. .Instead of punishing the lad
who makes pictures upon his slate,
the loving Kindergarten master
puts him to making pictures, aid
gently shows him how to produce
with his lingers the pictures that
float in his brain. Instead of rebuk
ing his curiosity and "constructivess,
the Keilhan schoolmaster yokes them
to his purpose. Instead of checking
the child sweetest impulse in im
pulse to play he consecrates it.
Jean Paul has said: '.'Play ' is the
child's first poetry.1" ' It was a wise
and poetic saying of a poet. - Bat
Froebel was not a poet, but a school
master and philosopher. He . went
deeper, and said the supreme word
above play when he called it -"the
first work of childhood. It w the
child's chief business. . Use play r to
serve the ends of education you, may,
but to do away with it is the unpard
onable sin "cf tho'prfevafent method of.
teaching. E. Eggleston iri Scrib
ner for March. ' ' : t .
From Highland. H
IIic;hianx, March 2d, 187fi. 1
Eoixoit Enteeprise: I notice that
you call for correspondence, and as
you have several subscribers in this
Grange, you should have a corres
pondent here, and I 'will try to keep
yon posted. - -1
Highland Grove Grange is in a
very flourishing condition, the Pat
rons taking an unusual interest in
the work. On the 11th, we had "r
very pleasant meeting. Nearly all
the members were present, and under
the head of Suggestions for Good of
the Order, a lively debate took place,
all of the brothers and sisters parr
ticipating. At the suggestion ofu
brother that payment of dues was1
in order, the members responded in'
their usual liiieral manner. , , ,
A basket picnic is in contempla?
tion for ilia Fourth of Julv; to bo
held at Highland Butte. C. T. IE :
Qli Geography. An English
gentleman has a geography published
in London in 1794, in which Gali-
fornia is described as an island and
a map is given showing . it : to "bq"
entirely surrounded by wafer. The,
book tells of a tree in Florida "tho
leaves of which, if bruised ant
thrown intq a large pond' c 5water.
all thebeasts which drink thereofwill
swell up and burst asunder 1".'" It
says that the air of Pennsylvania is
"generally to be granted clear and
svfeet, the heavens being seldom
overcast with clouds,", and that the
"length of days and nights is much.
the same as in New Jersey." There is
a chapter devoted to "Rarities of New;
York," in which it is said that "ir
divers parts of New York (especially,
those nigh unto and upon tho "banks
of the Biver Connecticut) grows
sort of snake-weed, whose root. is.
much esteemed for the bitting of.
the rattlesnake." ' .' '.' H
;- ' s , T ' '!
Surgeons say that finger nails, bit-'
ten off, often "find lodgnent in the
stomach, ' where the " remain iol
years adhering ' to tho tissues ; and
mining one's feelings.' Don'fc bits
your finger nails, -'vi,: -
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