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DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON.
VOL. 111.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1878.
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Home Song.
Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest;
Hotae-keeping hearts are happiest,
For those that wan.ier they know not where
Are full of trouble and full of care;
To stay at home is best.
Weary and home-sick aud distressed,
They wander east, they wander west.
Aud are baffled aud beateu and blown about
By the winds of the wilderness of doubt;
To stay at home is best.
Then 6tay at home, my heart, and rest;
The bird is safest iu its nest.
Over all that flutter their wings aud fly
A hawk is havering- in the sky;
To stay at home is best.
. 11'. Longfellow in Atlantic.
Sunshine After Showers.
BY MRS. F. U. N.
"Papa, please. Oh, I beg your pardon
I thought the geutlemaa had gone," and
the graceful creature glided out of sight
as noiselessly as bhe had come.
Carl Sy morula, turniug his eyes lazily
toward the place whence came the sound
of a voice so musical, caught a glimpse
of the fairy-like figure retreating from
the tcene, and forgetting himself, gazed
intently toward the door, and iu a mo
ment was lost in thought. Ilisrcvery was
of short duratiou, however, for he was
suddenly Urought to his senses by Mr.
Monroe's "Well," and rememberinff
where he was, thought Le had better be
on his dignity, so he queried,
"You are decided?''
"Yes. I'll sign the paper;" and 3Ir.
Monroe wrote, saving, as he did so,
"You've taken a great deal into your
hands. I should hardly think a person
so yourg would care to assume such a
responsibility. Though the salary is im
mense; that, certaiuly, is an inducement."
"It costs me a great deal of care and
anxiety. But I was tully aware of the
step I was taking when I took the con
tract, and I hope to curry it through suc
cessfully." "There's the bill. You will dine with
us to-day?"
"Thanks, I shall be most happy."
In the hall they met the young lady
who had appeared and vanished so mys
teriously, and Mr. Monroe introduced his
guet to his daughter, aud they sauntered
out to dinner.
Nellie Monroe was truly a charming
girl. Her beauty was not of that type
which people rave over for a season, and
then forget, but was of a lasting style,
embodied in dark hair, beautiful dark
gray eyes, perfect symmetry of form and
feature, accompanied with such giace iu
every movement as ono does uot often see.
Mr. Monroe was a man of wealth; had
retired fioru business, and he and Nellie
lived very happily together, spending
their summers upon the great farm owned
by Mr. Monroe's grandfather aud great
grandfather bet' -re him.
Mr. Symonds, having conversed an
hour and a half upon the sulject of the
railroad with Mr. Monroe, took his leave.
But seeing Nellie in the garden as he
passed out, he could not risk the tempta
tion to chat with her, and approached
her saying,
"This is a beautiful place, Miss Mon
roe." "We like it very much. I am never
so happy as when I'm here."
"I pasied through this place last
month; it didn't etrike me as anything
remarkable then, but oue gets a very
vague idea of a country passing through
in the cars. I have some idea of turning
farmer."
"Ah I I've partly turned already," re
turned Nell, with a laugh. "My atten
tion has been turned toward raising
fowls; but father won't have them in the
eity winters, and I'm afraid Aunt Betsey
doesn't take care of them as she ought.
She takes care of them winters, and takes
her pay in poultry. . She says my
chickens cost me a great deal, but I don't
think hers cost her much."
Mr. Symonds laughed heartily, half in
admiration of the gay manner of the girl
netr him, and half at the strange freak
with an account of which she had enter
tained him.
"Well," said he, "to chaDge the sub
ject, you have some plays. Are you
fond of Shakespeare?"'
"No; I do not like drama. I merely
read this out of curiosity."
So the conversation glided on from
books to pictures the landscape, the
beautiful views in tlut part of the coun
try, etc., till an hour had elapsed, and
Mr. Symonds departed.
"What a fine-looking man," thought
Nellie, as he walked away. "And what
manners! "Lie's English, I believe."
Business called Mr. Symonds again
and again to the house of Mr. Monroe,
and his calls were always pleasantest
when Mis3 Nellie was present. The
calls continued when business no longer
called him there, and the evenings were
enlivened by Nellie's lively conversation
and music, with now and then a walk in
the garden with her at his side.
Thus passed the happiest time of his
life. lie loved Nellie Monroe es few
men ever love, and this evening as he
walked up the avenue to the house he
determined to ask Mr. Monroe for his
daughter. Having been ushered into Mr.
Monroe's study, he made known his
miud In a few earnestly spoken words,
and the answer came.
"Mr. Symonds Carl I shall be proud
to give my daughter into your care. May
3od ble9s you both I You will find her
in the summer-house."
Mr. Symonds soon after retired to the
suuiiuer-uouse. nat passed tnere we
wrll leave to the imagination of the
reader.
When Carl Symonds went to his rooms
that night he was a happy man. And
JNellie thought she was the happiest of
women as she sat gazing at the brilliant
gem upon her small white hand.
Then followed a year of bliss to the
lovers, lhen the preparations for the
wedding were being made, and Nellie
was the gayest of the gay, till one day a
letter came addressed to her in a strange,
somewhat uoia, out iemiaine nana.
"Who cm it be from?" mused Nellie,
as he stood looking at the missive in her
hand. Opening it, she read,
"Miss Monroe I write to warn vou. Carl
Symonds has no ri;ht to marry you. I am
his wife neglected, wretched.
Lydia Stmosds."
Nellie turned very pale; then the blood
rushed to the very roots of her hair. She
crushed the paper in her hand, dropped
it, as though it had stung her, and passed
out or tne room.
In a few moments Mr. Symonds walked
into the sitting-room. "Nellie not here !"
mused he. "She knew I was to be here
at this hour ; something has detaiued her
And be walked up and down the room.
Stooping to pick up a piece of paper
irom the lloor, he saw written "Carl
Symouds." Cariosity caused hiui to
read the contents of the unfortunate
paper.
"Good God!" he exclaimed, "whose
viie nana nas done tins; l must see
her!"
But in a moment a servant came in
saying,
"Miss Nellie says she will not see you
again. '
In vain he wrote to her. In vain he
pleaded for an interview. She would
"never see him again."
At last he sailed for England. He
would travel a year and forget. Alas!
he knew not the meaning of that word.
And Nellie grew pale iu the year that
followed. Not less lovely. On the
contrary, she grew more charming. The
grave air suited the clear, pale complex
ion. But time dragged heavily on her
hands, and she was weary of the life she
was living.
One year from the day set for her
wedding she was thinking about the
past, yet not more sadly than u-uial. She
had heard of his arrival home, and a lit
tle of her old indignation was aroused.
While she was still sitting, thinking, a
servant came in hastily, saying,
"Please, Miss Nellie, Mr. Leroy is dy
ing, and he says be can't die till he sees
you. The carriage is at the door."
"I'll go to him," was Nellie's answer,
while she hastened to dress for the drive.
"Why can he want to see me? To be
sure, poor Arthur Leroy did profess to
be an admirer of mine, but he soon got
over that."
In a few minutes Nellie was at the dy
ing man's bedside.
"Has she come?" asked he, eagerly.
Nellie stepped to the bedside.
"Oh, it was all false 1 I wrote that let
ter because I hated him for stealing my
love. Carl hymonds was never married I
He is at your home. Forgive me, I
pray I" And with these words the poor
wretch sank back dead.
Fifteen minutes later Nellie was in
her lover's arms!
Worth On Dressing.
a bu
clever head, and very prominent fore
head. His brown eyes are singularly
shrewd in expression, and their seizure of
detail is surprising that is, for a man.
As a rule, men have no more eve for
detail than owls have for the sun. Worth
takes you in at a glance, and knows what I
your ttiyie uugui to ue, wuiu is bucu a
comfort. When I go to a dressmaker, 1
don't care to "work
my passages," as
Bob would say. I want to order a har
monyin.one or two colors, and to en
counter brains equal to the occasion.
Worth's taste, when allowed full plav, is
irreproachable.
"I prefer simplicity to anything else,"
he says, "but there are women who don't
believe in the value of a dress unless it is
loaded with trimming. They drive me
mad, for they won't take advice. Now,
what is becoming to one person is hid
eous when worn by another. I study to
make the best out ot the subject given
me, as, unfortunately, we can't have peo
ple made to order, can we? If I had my
way, all women should be slight, grace
ful and pretty. Then dressing them
would be an artistic pleasure. A dress
should never overpower the wearer. It
should merely be an appropriate frame
tor a charming picture, but never dis
tracting attention from it. So few women
understand this. Why, w hen I find I can
make a costume for less money than has
been agreed upon, I actually annoy
clients by telling them so. They think
that it cannot be as handsome as it ought
to be, and they would rather have more
material added, however much the design
may be marred, than pay less. I assure
you this is a fact. Consequently, when
I meet ladies who know that dressing is
an art, I take very great satisfaction in
having them as patrons. It isn't every
woman who knows how to wear a dress.
When I have done my best, I try to make
ray client do for best, by seeing her walk
and sitdown. . To walk with style is rare
enough, but when it comes to being able
to sit down in a drss properly well,
there are not many equal to that, I can
tell you. Then, women think they ought
to have a number of dresses, however
hideous, than wear one dress, however
becoming. If your frame is appropriate,
stick to it. Don't be getting out of it
and trying experiments. I have just
made a dress for Mme. Nilsson, in which
she looks better than I ever saw her be
fore, and I have begged her to wear that
dress constantly in Uussia, if she wants
to produce a most charming effect. As
she is sensible, I think she will take my
advice, which, you perceive, is against
my interest, Dut, gooa gracious me,-
money is not my only ooject. Art is in
tended to beautify nature, not to deform
it." English Paper.
It is both a misery and a shame for a
man to be bankrupt in love, which he
may easily pay and be never the more
impoverished. I will be in no man's
debt for good-will, but will at least re
turn every man his own measure, if not
with usury. Bishop Hall,
Never seek to be entrusted with your
friend's secret; for no matter how faith
fully you may keep it, you may be liable
in a thousand contingencies to the sus
picion of having betrayed it.
Man believes himself always greater
than be is, and is esteemed less than his
Trorth. j
A Royal Lawsuit.
The following incident in the life of
the late King of Italy may be of interest
to English readers: The day before his
death Victor Emmanuel gained a law
suit in which he wa3 much interested.
His adversary was an Englishman, for
merly a clergyman of the. Establishment,
but resident for thirty years in Rome, and
long one of the Papal chamberlains. He
received a title from the Pope, and is now
styled Count Campbell Smith d'lLtiitz.
This gentleman purchased from the late
Cardinal Itiario Sforza a property called
the Villa Sciarra, and the neighboring
villa, called Villa Potenziana, was bought
by Victor Emmanuel, shortly al'Ur 1870.
His Majesty also purchased up the lauds
of the Irish College, and all the neigh
boring properties whenever the chance
offered, and of the entire made a beauti
ful country estate, adorned with artificial
lakes, splendid roads, and plantations.
He also built a magnificent palace, and
furnished it with great luxury. But his
neighbor, Count d'Heritz, would not be
bought out, and, moreover, claimed a
right of way for himself and servants
through the royal grounds. In fact, the
ancient Via Salara lay through the villa
of the Count and that of the King, and
along this ancient Koraan road the occu
piers of the adjoining farm had a right
to pass as far as the bridge over the Anio,
called the Ponte Stlario. The King made
short work of the Count's right of pas
sage, for he ordered the road, or what
traces remained of it, to be dug up and
planted. When the Count's servants en
tered ou the disputed territory, his Maj
esty summoned the Count before the
Criminal Court, and had him fined for
trespass. There was then a trial before
a legal tribunal, and here also the King
triumphed, and the Count was cast, his
witnesses not being even suffered to give
evidence. The last heariug of thi9 case
was just the day before the death of Vic
tor Emmanuel. Within ten days before
his death he shot forty thrushes and one
woodcock in the plantations in this villa,
and shot also an otter, which did not sur
render life until it had received four balls
from the royal gun. Victor Emmanuel
was very fond of this villa, although he
never slept at it, and used to watch the
progress of the buildings and improve
ments with much interest. His daughter-in-law,
then Princess Marguerita, used to
go there frequently to spend a few hours
in the grounds along with her son, the
now Prince Hereditary. The Count
d'Heritz has lodged an appeal against the
late decision, and will carry the question
of the right of way to the highest courts;
and if he eventually succeeds, the privacy
of the royal villa will be greatly inter
fered with, and the result may be that
the public will be admitted and the
grounds thrown open on certain days, as
is the case with the Villa Borghese and
the Villa Pamphili Doria. This villa on
the Via S-tlaria must not be confounded
with the other royal villa on the Via
Nomentana, where the Countess Mirafiori
lived, and which belonged, it is supposed,
to her. Rome Letter to the London Tele
graph.
French Wit. The neat-handed Phylis
lets fall a beautiful and costly Japanese
platter that (praised be the gods!) is not
smashed.
"You were lucky," says the mistress.
"No, ma'am! it was the dish that was
lucky," says the maid.
"Yes, mamma, I took three lumps of
sugar out of the cupboard," says the little
girl, contritely.
"That was very naughty, indeed; but
as you have confessed it I shall forgive
yoa. Go, and sin no more."
"Then give me the other lump I only
took two."
Dialogue between two Bohemians:
"Would, O would that I had fifty thou
sand a year. I know what I'd do."
"What?"
"Nothing."
As they were taking their oysters the
lady gave a little scream of rapture and
detached from one of the bivalves that
had fallen to the share a pearl. "I won
der," she said, as she examined it closely,
"if it is worth anything. .Taere does
seem to be a flaw in it."
Her lord and master inspects it criti
cally and returns it with a sapient shake
of the head.
"Bogus, sure," he says; "they couldn't
afford to give real pearls with oysters at
twenty-five cents a dozen." New York
World Translations.
A Maine Schoolmistress. One Maine
schoolmistress is thus described: "She is
an imposing human structure, not far
from seveu feet in height, and weighing
not less than three hundred pounds. Her
voice is fitted to her size, and her strength
equ:il to either. She is pleasing to be
hold very han is me, the Anakim would
probably call her." She was sent for
once to reduce adisorderly school to sub
mission. The boys, almost men in stat
ure, had ejected the teacher by force, and
smashed the desks. The account con
tinues: "She walked the floor, making
htr exordium. Her ruler was like a
weaver's beam. She told the school why
she was there, and serenely invited those
who deaigned to make trouble to begin
at once. Not a creature stirred. After
some weeks one young fellow of twenty
one years, who considered himself a
behU, began to air his pretensions rather
obnoxiously. One stride, and she was
alongside the dandy; one grab, and the
dandy was across her knee kicks, howls,
and scratches were thrown away; and
amid the struggles of the boys not to
rend the air with laughter, and the hys
terical shrieks of the girls, Adolphus was
disciplined in a style and to a degree that
he will remember to bis departing day."
In Self-Defknck. "Yes. I whistle
when I am at work," admits an indus
trious young lady, "and let no one deny
me that privilege when working alone at
my sewing machine. If I am compelled
to walk the street alone at night i never
fear danger at an approaching footstep,
if it be accompanied with the music of
whistling. I do not believe a person can
whistle who is intent oa evil."
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
Pastry.
Pastry must not be worked or mixed with
the hands, if the housewife wishes her pies
flaky a thing desired by most cooks.
While acknowledging the unwholesomc
ness of rich pastry, we must assert that
for us a pie without a rich, flaky crust,
is not worth the eating, and that we much
prefer a plain pudding to a plain pie. If
properly made, three-quarters of a pound
of lard or half lard and half butter
to a quart of sifted flour, makes a very
rich paste, and even one half pound of
lard no butter to a quart of 6ifted
flour, will make a flaky crust, although
not rich.
- Place the flour on the moulding-board,
add salt, make a well in the center; with
one hand stir with a knife, and with the
other drop in ice-cold water, until the
flour is sufficiently wetted to form a
paste that will roll. Flour the rolling-
pin and roll the paste into a smooth
square about one-quarter of an inch
thick. Then with a knife divide the
lard whether allowing three-quarters,
or half a pound to a quart of flour into
five parts, and 6pread one-fifth over every
part of the paste; fold over the paste,
and roll out again, spreading 0.1 another
portion of the lard; continue spreading,
foldiDg and rolling until all tiie lard is
used; it is now ready for the tins, and if
you please, when the upper crust is
rolled out, a very little lard can be rubbed
lightly over the top of the crusts, with a
bit of paper.
To prevent pies bursting, wet the rim of
the lower crust with a thick paste of flour
and water and press the crusts firmly to
gether. It is better to remove pies from
the tins on which they are baked at once,
for if allowed to cool on the tins the un
der crust is liable to become soggy. An
other way to prevent the inside of the
pie from soaking into the under crust is
to bake the under crust slightly before
filling the pie, also never let them stand
after filling, but bake at once in a quick
oven. Should pastry be perfect before
baking, a cold, slow oven will prevent it
from being crisp and flaky.
The following German paste is nice for
all sorts of fancy puffs and tarts, and if
properly baked and kept in a stone
crock in a dry place, the shells will keep
nicely for six weeks that is in winter.
Make a hole in the center of three-quarters
of a pound of fine flour; put into it
a half pound of butter, the same quan
tity of powdered sugar, the peel of a
lemon grated, and rub altogether with a
knife; beat light the yelks of two eggs
and stir into the other ingredients. If
the eggs do not sufficiently moisten the
paste, add a very small quantity of wa
ter. Mix thoroughly with a knife, but
do not handle. Roll thin, and before
putting into the oven wash over the
pastry with the beaten whites of the two
eggs, and sift over a little powered
Old Bed Quilts. These must be
washed when much soiled, and a washing-machine
and wringer seem almost
indispensable. Plenty of suds should be
used, and a thorough rinsing be given.
If they happen to hang through a good
pouring rain, it will do no harm. They
can be patched up when very badly
worn out more easily than some im
agine. If placed in large blocks, they
can be patched with dark or light, ac
cording to the shade of the worn portions,
so as to look almost as good as ew. Of
course they need not be ironed.
Cocoanut Cake. Break two eggs in
a coffee-cup; fill it with good sour cream,
one cupful sugar, two cupfuls flour, one
teaspoouful soda, two of cream-tartar;
stir well; this will make four cakes
baked on jelly tins or any tin; then
fix the icing; onehalf cupful prepared
cocoanut, one-half cupful sour cream,
one-half cupful white sugar; spread each
cake with this.
Poached Eggs. When the water has
boiled in the frying-pan break the- eggs
separately in a saucer; remove the pan
from the stove, and slip the eggs (one at
a time), on the surface of the water;
when all are in, place the pan again on
the fire, and boil about three minutes;
take them out with a skimmer, drain
well, lay them upon pieces of buttered
toast, place on a hot dish, salt to taste;
garnish with parsley.
Vanilla Caramels. Boil clarified
sugar flavored with the essence of vanilla
until it is very brittle, and then pour it
out on a very carefully oiled sheet of tin.
Wnen sufficiently cool to receive an im
pression of the finger, mark it out in
squares an incu in size; alter wmcu,
glaze them with another coat of sugar;
and place them out in a dry place to
harden, and put in an air-tight can for
preservation.
Orange Tartletts. Remove the
pulp from two or three oranges; boil the
peels until very tender; beat them to a
paste with twice their weight of sugar;
add the thin pulp and juice of the
oranges with a tablespoonful of butter
and beat these ingredients together. Line
some little pans with puff-paste; fill with
the orange mixture and bake.
Cooking Cauliflowers. Three an
swers were given the lady wishing to
know how to make cauliflower white for
the table, none of which show knowledge
of the great secret, which is to boil it in
two-thirds milk and one-third water, or
even more milk if it can be spared.
Marble uaik ljght. liall a cup
of butter, one cup of milk, one of white
sugar, one teaspoon of soda, two of
cream of tartar, whites of two eggs
Beat the whites to a froth and stir id just
before baking. -
Corn Bread. One cup of sour milk.
two cups sweet milk, one teaspoon soda.
one teaspoon salt, one-half cup molasses,
two cups meal, two cups coarse flour;
steam two hours; bake half an hour.
Nitrate of Silver Stains. These
are removed at once bv cvanide of not
ash. Wet the spot with clean water, and
place a few grains of the drug (which is
a deadly poison taken internally) upon
the spot. It will dissolve like sugar and
the spot will disappear. It dots not in
jure tb tloth.
Stanley as a Missionary.
During the brief visit I mide to the
Emperor of Uganda at the time (April,
1875.) I undermined his belief and re
spect in the Mohammedan religion. The
month of August saw me ajrain at the
Court of Mtesa. I spent 110 days with
him on this second visit, during which
time I translated, with the aid of a Mr.
D irlington, a pupil of the London Mis
sion at Zanzibar, the entire Gospel of St.
Luke, the Lord's Prayer, the Apostles'
Creed, several chapters of St. Paul s Epis
tles, and a portion ot the Book ot lleve
lations, besides the Ten C immandment?
During nearly all of this time I spent
from two to six hours each 3ay talking
with him about the great love for man
Kino wnicn tne oaviour manirestea wnne
on earth. When we returned to his cap
ital, in tha latter part of October, I di
rected how the new church was to be
built, aud assisted the chief, Mkweudi,
to plant the pillars and posts of the
building.
Considering the terrible things record
ed in Col. Long's book " Victoria Ny
anzs." the massacres of innocent men
and women 6imply do him honor, fair
minded Englishmen must recognize the
fact that a great change must have taken
place in the Emperor. Col. Long was
in Ugandi in July, 1873. I arrived in
the beginuing of April, 1875, and had
communication with him until March,
1870. When Mtesa was on the point of
executing captives I made him under
stand that if he executed one person not
convicted of murder I would publish the
fact to the whole world, and describe
him as no better than the lowest savage.
This was done in the presence of all his
chiefs, numbering about two hundred.
When he was about to sentence a great
chief of the Wayuma to the stake for
treason and a long course of enmity, I
expostulated with the Emperor, and the
chief was saved. Considering that Col
onel Long bat corroborates Captain Speke
in his description of Mtesa's character,
and considering that Dr. Schuitzer or
Emin Bey, who succeeded me in Uganda,
reports the conversion of Mteea to Chris
tianity is real, am I not justified in claim
ing his conversion as my own work?
Since Captain Speke and Colonel Long
describe Mtesa as cruel, as sentencing men
and women to death by hundreds, and
that I saw before appearing in his pres
ence the ashes ot many victims in the
place of execution, and since Colonel Lin
ant de Bellefonds, since massacred near
Gondokoro, reports in his journals that
he heard me begin the conversion of the
cruel despot, and Dr. Schuitzer or Emin
Bey reports that what Mr. Stanley stated
about Mtesa's conversion is correct, and
the Church Mission lately reported that
the boy Darlington, left by me to con
tinue the work in 1875, was still at his
post, would it be too much to claim Mtsea
as my convert ? Stanley's Zanzibar Letter,
in JV., Herald.
Draw-Poker on a Weddinc Journey.
Draw-poker is not a nice game for a
wedding j urney. A young German from
Cincinnati, freshly married and exceed
ingly happy, set out with his pretty bride
for a honeymoon in Rochester. A few
hours before the train reached Cleveland
a well-dressed man asked him if he
would not take a cigar and play a few
hands of euchre in the smoking-car. The
bridegroom assented, promising to return
to his little dear very soon. After a few
hands, in which he invariably held good
cards, one of the travelers suggested that
they should put up a penny or two to
make the game lively. Wonderful luck
the bridegroom had at the outset, and
then it turned, and he began to lose first,
$250 in his wallet, next his watch and
chain, and finally his wife's watch. His
partner asked him to call at a hotel in
Cleveland, and inquire for Joseph Gei
senheimer, aud the players separated as
the cars trundled into the depot. Ihe
bridegroom called repeatedly at the hotel
during the evening and asked for Geisen-
heimer, the aforesaid, but could not find
the gentleman. The bridal pair were pen
niless before the honeymoon was a day
old, but luckily they had bought tickets
to Rochester, and could go on to their
journey's end and borrow money of their
relatives.
A druggist has singular calls. One
Danbury dealer had a written request
from a customer for " 1 aulcoxeses poros
Plaster." Another had a call for a bottle
of "Stuff a Notice." After seriously im
pairing the use of one eye, and erraan-
gering the equilibrium of his brain in an
effort to divine the article, he was ob
liged to give up the sale, and fail back
as gracefully a9 possible on the well-es
tablished axiom. " You won't find any
in town." About an hour later the cus
tomer came back, and showing the drug
gist a bottle of perfume, significantly
observed :
" There?"
"Stephanotis! " exclaimed the drug
gist. " Why, I have that."
-ny in tnunder didn't you say 60
then, and not have me gallopin' all over
town atter it i " mdisnantlv demanded
the customer.
The druggist was too full to reply.
Danbury Mews.
Amwsinq Experiments. Here are two
simple experiments which may enliven a
dull evening at home: Place in a small
glass bottle hot water near the boiling
point, colored a deep carmine with coch
ineal; place the same at the bottom of a
glass jar of cold water. Immediately the
light, hot. colored water in the vial will
be displaced by the heavier, cold water in
the lar. and will ascend in ueauuiui
crimson clouds to the top of the jar. If
a little thread be well soaked in a strong
solution of salt and water, and then dried
and tied to a ring not much larger than a
wedding ring, you may apply the flame
of a candle to the thread, which will burn
it to ashes, and vet it will sustain the
ring. The cohesion of the fibrous par
ticles of thread having been destroyed
bv the action of the flame, the ring is now
suspended by tne coueaion oi uie paru
cles of salt.
More than one-third of the income
of the Russian Empir is from a tax on
spirits.
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Washes for Fruit Trees.
Insects and mildews injurious to the
leaves of fruit tree seedlings and root
grafts can be kept in subjection or de
stroyed by a free use of the following
combination of lime and sulphur: Take
of quick or unslaked lime four parts, and
of common flour of sulphur one part;
break up the lime in sniill pieces, then
mix the sulphur with it in an iron vessel,
pour on them enough boiling water to
slake the lime to a powder; cover the
vessel close as soon as the water is poured
on. This make) a most excellent white
wash for orchard trees, and is very use
ful as a preventative of blight on pear
trees, to cover the wounds in the form of
a paste when cutting away diseased pria,
also for coating the trees in early tpring.
It may be cousideied as a specific for
many noxious im-ects and mildew iu the
orchard and nursery ; its materials should
always be ready at hand; it should be
used quite fresh since it soon loses its po
tency. This preparation should be sprin
kled over the young plant as soon or be
fore any trouble from aphides, thrips or
mildew occurs, early in the morning,
while the dew is on the trees. This lime
and sulphur combination is destructive to
thcs nests in this way by giving oil' gase
ous sulphurous comp mads, which are
deadly poison to miuutelife, both animal
and fungoid; while the lime destroys by
contact the same thing, and its presence
is noxious to them. In moderate quan
tities it is not injurious to vegetable life.
Another receipt for a wash for orchard
trees is to put one-half bushel of lime
and four pounds of powdered sulphur into
a tight barrel, slaking the lime with hot
water, the mouth of the barrel being cov
ered with a cloth; this is reduced to the
consistency of ordinary whitewash, and
one half ounce of carbolic acid is added
to each gallon of liquid at the time of ap
plication. Apply to the trunk; it will not
hurt the branches or foliage if applied
to them also.
An experienced fruit-grower recom
mends the use of the following simple
method: He takes lye from wood ashes
or common potash, mixes a little grease
with it, heats quite warm, and with a lit
tle syringe throws it into all parts of the
trees, branches and trunk. It will effectu
ally kill all kinds of caterpillars and
worms that are infesting the tree or run
ning over the bark. Trees treated in this
manner are exceedingly healthy and vig
orous in appearance, possessing a smooth,
glossy bark. Ex.
Agricultural Reform.
We commend the following to the re
flection of our farmers, aud hope they
may proht by the hints given :
"Mr. Mecai, the eminent English ag
riculturist, says in a recent number of the
jigrieultural Gazette: British agriculture "
must be reformed by land owners and
tenants in the following practices, if the
questions of profit and economy are wise
ly considered :
First. The undrained land must be
drained, if not naturally, sub-drained.
Second. Fields must be of ample size
and proper form, with a minimum of
fences and trees.
Third. The depth of cultivation must
be greatly increased by subsoil plowing
keeping the surface soil on the surface.
iouith. The opeu farm-yard and
dung-heap must be abolished by the use
of covered, enclose.!, and paved cattle
yards properly ventilated.
.ritth. Cattle must not be in the fields,
except cows, for a certain period.
bixth. Breeding and other sheep must
be folded within iron hurdles on wheels,
the fold being moved morning and even
ing.
Seventh. Farm horses not to be In the
fields but in properly ventilated boxes or
stables.
Eighth. All animals must have free
access to water, especially sheep.
Ninth. All green food 6hould be
passed through the chaff-cutter, roots
pulped, hay and straw cut fine, corn
ground, for cattle, horses and sheep.
lentil, lne roaming at large is a great
loss and bar to profit.
Although Mr. Mechi is called a wild
theorist, every one of these questions
greatly affict farm profit, as he has
proved by thirty years' practice; and it
amuses and pleases me to find at last that
farmers are lecturing about and recom
mending covered and enclosed yards. To
our Irish and Scotch friends I would say.
'Give up broadcasting and thick sowing
and take to the drill and horse-hoe, if
you mean to keep down weeds and
greatly increase profit.' "
Sowing too thickly,the London Farmtr
informs us, is a fault among farmers
quite as common in Europe as in this
country. Some seem to think that the
thicker they sow, the heavier will be their
crop, a view of which experience has
shown the fallacy. Besides the waste of
seed, often very considerable, nothing is
more conducive to the "laying" of the
crop than overthick sowing, and if much
wet weather is experienced, the crop will
be little else than straw. And though it
may thrive better in dry weather, the ear
will be deficient both in quantity and
quality, especially oa sandy soil or poor
land generally. The quantity of seed to
be sown in a given area depends on the'
cultivation aad manuring bestowed ou
the soil, and the more carefully these
have been attended to, the greater is the
chance that every grain will grow vigor
ously, and the less wisdom in sowing too
thickly.
Fighting the Picach-Tree Borer.
Mr. Chapman relies on the plentiful use
of swamp muck over the roots as preventa
tive of the borer in peach-trees, and he
accidentally proved the curious refriger
ating quality of muck in holding frost and
retarding the bloom in the spring when
dumped by the horse load in the fall
about the base of his trees. I hear that
one of your strawberry growers has great
faith in growing tansy around peach
trees to keep horses away. That would
naturally prevent attacks on the root with
plough and spide, and implies a restful
and conservative rather than an experi
mental cultivation. Cor. Hartford Ctar-ant.
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