lure Ntourimg.
LABOR.
Labor, labor, honest labor,—
Labor keeps me well and strong;
Labor gives me food and raiment;
Labor, too, inspires my song.
Labor keeps me ever merry;
(Cheerful labor is but play; )
Labor wrestles with my sorrow
Labor driveth tears away.
Labor makes me greet the morning
In the glorious hour of dawn ;
And I see the hills and valleys
Put their golden garments ou.
Labor brings an eve of solace,
When my hands their toils forego,
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And across my heart in silence
Cherished streams of memory flow
Labor's tools make sweetest music,
As their busy echoes ring;
Loom and wheel and anvil ever
Have.a merry song to sing.
MEDICINAL PLANTS.
I suspect, says Elihu Marvin, writing
from Erie, Pa., that it will be found,on
inquiry, that just in proportion as farms
are neatly kept, free from all that sponta
neous growth of medicinal plan „ which are
sown by the hand of God for healing the
ills of cattle and of man, just in that pro
portion will disease be found to prevail.
For example, in those districts of England
where the cattle disease has prevailed, it
will probable be found that the farnters are
most careful to eradicate everything but
what they plant and sow. A friend of mine
tells me that he once rode with a " noble
lord" over his plantation in England for
half a day, and they saw but one weed,
which the " noble lord" alighted from his
horse and pulled up.
Will you have the goodness to ask for
facts like the following, and for any others
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which may bear on this subject?
I knew all ex which had been sick for
some months, and in spite of all efforts to
help him he became nothing 'but skin and
bone. At length he was taken out into a
field containing John's Wort (ITypericum
perforatum), to be killed, when he seized
upon the weed and ate it voraciously,
which so arrested the attention of . the
owner that he did not kill him. He im
mediately began to improve, and in the
fall was very fat.
The toad, when, in his contests with the
spider, he is bitten, resorts to the plantain
as an•antidete, and when the plantain is
removed, so that he cannot get at it, he
dies. A Southern legislature once gave a
colored man his liberty for making this
discovery.
It is known that cattle and horses will at
times eat mint and other herbs—not for
food, but evidently for medicine.
Sheep will at' times devour tobacco, both
green and dry, with avidity, when they will
eat nothing else. I think it is an antidote
against the foot rot.
The character of beef; pork, and mut
ton is affected by the articles upon which
they are fattened. Valuable medicine is
imparted to the
beer, pork, and milk from our farms.
A family had the small-pox, and on re
covering, their persons were rubbed off'
with Indian meal. This meal was fed to
the cows of a neighboring family, and the
children, who drank the milk, after a little
had all the characteristic symptoms of
small-pox, with a few pustules well devel•
oped , All the family of children bad it at
the same time. They were not sick to any
extent. The physician pronounced it small
pox in a remarkably mild form.
It is well known that dogs, when sick,
resort to certain grasses for help; that cats
devour catnip with avidity at times, and
where it does not grow they die. Man
also will go great distances to obtain plants
for medical purposes. Instinct teaches
animals, and a natural craving directs man,
to their healing agencies, which are so
abundant, so varied—from the mildest to
the most active, energetic and powerfill—
all prepared with most exquisite skill, and
put up in the most admirable style, by the
Great Apothecary, who does not allow even
a sparrow to fall to the ground without his
notice.
JERSEY OR ALDERNEY COW,
A correspondent of The Country Gen
tleman writes:—" I have a Jersey, which
I imported when a calf of four months old,
seven years since, and although I am un
able to give the weight of milk for any'
single month, yet I can give the exact re
sult of milk and butter for one year, from
March 1, 1864, to March 1, 1865. The
cow came in on the 3d of March, and raised
the calf until five weeks old. Churned
during the year 351 pounds of butter, and
used for family purposes 525 quarts of
milk. There was no effort made for an
extra result. During the pasture season
she had grass only, an when in stall plenty
of hip, wheat bran, and good care."
The Massachusetts Plowman says :
"George Frost, Esq., of West Newton,
showed us the" milk of . a Jersey cow the
other day, On 'which stood the almost in
credible amount of 55 per cent. of thick;
rich cream. She was originally from the
Renshaw stock. Mr. Frost brought her
up in Vermont, near the Canada line, and
this milk yvas taken from her just as she
arrived from the cars, on which, it i s likely,
she had not been watered, but- the yield of
cream was most remarkable under any cir
cumstances."
HOW TO COOK A BEEF STEAK.
If there is anything in the way of cook
ing that wo abominate, it is a fried beef
steak; and yet some follks know nothing
but fry, and they fry, fry, all the time.
Madame, De More.st's Monthly Magazine
has a good article entitled, " Chats across
the fence," and gives a hint to the fryers
which they ought to take, as it does not
require them to dispense with their favor
ite kitchen utensil, the frying pan :
Mrs. Hutton says—" My frying-pan being
wiped very dry, I place it upon the stove,
and let it become hot—very hot. In the
meantime, I mangle the steak—if it chance
to be sirloin, so much the better—pepper
and salt it, then lay it in the hot, dry pan,
whioh I instantly coveras tightly as possi
ble. „When the rasi,flent tbuoVes the heat
cd pan, of course it seethes and adheres to
it, but in a few seconds it becomes loosened
and juicy. Every half minute I turn the
steak; but am careful to keep it as much
as possible under cover. When nearly
done, I lay a small piece of butter upon it;
and if I want much gravy, add a table
spoonful of strong, good coffee. In three
minutes from the time the steak first goes
into the pan it is ready for the table."
Mrs. H. adds : " This method of cooking
makes the most delicious, delicately broiled
steak, full of juice, yet retaining the healthy
beefy flavor that any John Bull could re
quire."
The same method may be applied.to mut
ton chops, only they require a little longer
cooking to prevent them from being rare.
An excellent gravy may be made for theril
by adding a little cream, thickened with a
pinch of flour, into which, when off the fire
and partly cool, stir in the. yolk of an egg,
well beaten.
SELECTING A COW.
It is sometimes the case that the best
judges will be deceived. A cow of very
unpromising appearance, coarse in the neck,
large boned, and second or third rate.milk
marks generally, will now and then turn
out to he first rate, while another with these
marks largely developed, fine in the head
and neck, and promising every way, will
prove unsatisfactory. But a failure in this
ease is rare. Let the head be light, the
forehead broad, the horn rather thin and
clear, the. eye clear and prominent, the
neck thin, and the forequarters rather light,
the back straight, the hind quarters well
developed, wide over the loins, the carcase
deep, the udder coining forward and well
shaped, the skin soft to the touch, the teats
welt set, not tpo large nor too small, the
tail long and thin , like a whip-lash. Such
a cow ought to be a good one.
WHEN TO SOW G-T . Psubt.—A given
amount of gypsum will produce a• m4ch
better yield of clover when applied after
the leaves are fully developed. The reason
is obvious : the plaster sticks to the leaves
of the plant, which, as before stated; are
giving off carbonic acid. This acid has a
stronger affinity for lime than the sulphuric
acid has, and accordingly takes the place of
the latter, which is set free and absorbed
by the plant. The carbonic acid and the
lime form carbonate of lime, fall to the
ground and benefit vegetation. This also
explains the fact that , plaster produces a
better effect if applied while the clover or
other crop is wet or damp.
DEPTH AND DISTANCE OF DRAINS.-
Experience has determined that twenty-five
to thirty feet apart, for compact or clayey
soils, and ,thirty-five to forty for light and
porous soils, are proper distances for accom
plishing speedy and effectual drainage.
Three feet is the most economical, depth.
When draining was first introduced into
some parts of Britain, the drains were made
one and a half or two feet deep, and eigh
teen feet apart. After many thousand
miles were laid...thev_hp...---a _p_____-
, riley -were - then Ihtiot about three leet deep,
and twice as far apart. This cost less, and
was more efficient. A kreater depth and
distance • wal again found unfavorable—
Annual Register.
ONIONS AND POULTRY.—Scarcely too
much dan be said in praise of onions for
fowls. They seem to be a preventative and
remedy for various diseases to which do
mestic fowls are liable. Having frequently
tested their excellencies, we can Bleak um
derstandingly. For gapes, and inflamma
tion of the throat, eyes and head, unions
are almost a specific. lie would, therefore,
recommend giving fowls, and especially
young chicks, as many as they will eat, as
often as twice or three times a week. They
should be finely chopped. A small addi
tion of corn meal is an improvement.—
Genesee. Farmer.
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ICEBERGS AND THE ARCTIC REGIONS,
A very interesting lecture was delivered
by Dr. Hayes; the eminent Arctic explorer,
at the Cooper Institute. -
Dr. Hayes commenced by referring to
the difference•between the ancient and mo
dern ideas-of the Hyperborean regions, and
then said that in July, 1860, an expedition
was sent out from the United' States to
complete the explorations begun by Dr.
Kane; this expedition comprised one little
schooner of 130 tons burthen, and fourteen
persons, who acknowledged me as their
commander. The expedition reached the
Greenland coast early in August, and halt
ing to obtain dogs for sledge traveling, and,
a stock of furs, entered the ice and reached
Smith's Sound in September, where it win
tered in latitude 78° 18' at a harbor which
I named Port Foulke.
The long, dark winter commencing in
October, terminated in March, when our
explorations commenced, and before the
close of the. season they were pushed with
dog sledges, traveling over the frozen sea,
to latitud: 82° 45', within inur hun
dred and fifty miles of the North Pole.
The point of our exploration reached, the
most northern known land on the globe, was
opportunely named Cape Union, and we
brought home some-more evidences of the
much-talked-of Polar Sea. Being liberated
by the breaking up of the ice in the month
of July, after ten months' imprisonment,
we made still further attempts to penetrate
through the ice-fields to the northward, but
after nearly losing our vessel, we were com
pelled to give up the project and return to
this country. The English are preparing
to rear the rewards of our explorations, an
expedition to Smith's Sound being in con
templation.
After this statement of the object of the
expedition, and the course taken, Dr.
Hayes said he would divide his lecture
into two heads : first, giving a general de
scription of the size, form, and appearance
of the icebergs ;
and, secondly, his theory
of their growth and origin.
It was not, he said, until we had reached
the Arctic circle, and found ourselves in
the endless day where the sun shone upon
us at midnight, as well as at noon, that we
'asp' mip — On our - first Toebnrg. It._r!as_a mass
of dead whiteness, and it broke -suddenly-
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1866.
upon us out of a dense mist, and was mis
taken by the "lookout" for land when he
first caught the sound of breakers beating
upon it. Its form was that of an irregular
pyramid, about 300 feet at the base, and
perhaps half as high. At first we could
see only the white shimmer of its foot, un
derneath the canopy of vapor which over
spread the sea, and the line of the surf;
but at length the mist broke away, disclos
ing the lofty peak of a glittering spire,
around which the white clouds were curling
and dancing in the sunlight. There was
something very impressive in the stern in
difference with which it received the lash
ing of the sea.
Our immediate destination was the Dan
ish Esquimaux settlement of Upernavik, in
latitude 72° 4E, the most northerly outpost
of Christian settlement on the globe. On
the 2d of August we had approached with
in one hundred miles of it, when the wind
ed out and there was a dead calm. Our
sailors began to / think that the often-talked
of Greenland was a mythical locality, but
after a time, we came in sight of its shores.
As the fog lifted and rolled' itself up like a
scroll over the sea to the westward, iceberg
after iceberg burst into view like castles in
a fairy tale. It seemed; indeed, as if 'we
had been drawn into a land of enchantment
by some unseen hand. • Here was the Val
halla of the sturdy Vikings; here the city
of the sun-god Freyer; Alfhim with its
elfin caves; and Glitner with its walls of•
gold and roofs of silver, and Gimle more
brilliant than the- sun—the home of the
happy; and there, piercing the clouds, was
Himinborg—the celestial mount, where
the bridge of the gods xeaches heaven.
Church, in his picture of the icabe,rg, has
grandly exhibited a scene not unlike that
which I would in vain descilbe.
Dr. Hayes then proceeded to state his
theory of the origin and formation of ice
bergs. He said the icebergs have their
'origin in the glacier. The glacier is a
branch of the great Mer de Glace, or sea
of ice, which apparently covers the, whole
interior of Greenland; and the Mer de
Glace itself is a mass of hardened, or, if
the term is admissible, frozen snow, in many
places several thousands of feet in depth.
It will thus be perceived that the iceberg
is of fresh water; and even in its smaller
fragments may, in consequence, be distin
guished from the ice which forms upon the
surface of the, sea, which is always salt. It
has been sometimes supposed that sea water
in the act of freezing deposits its salt, but
this impression has been derived from in
correct oliservation.
theories of the formation of glaciers, and
described the manner in which they move
forward to the shore, where fragments of
them breaking off fad. into the water and
are submerged to the extent of seven-eighths
of their bulk, the upward pressure of the
water frequently splits them into fragments,
each of which becomes an iceberg. The
Doctor concluded his interesting lecture by
a very eloquent general desciiption of the
Arc tic. regions, and of the impression made
on those who first visit them by the extreme
If Gen. Banks had waited a day or two,
he might hive found an illustration for his
glorification speech more suggestive than
any, perhaps, in the marvelous array of facts
about national progress, with which he
startled CO'ngress. He would have found
the money column in his morning newspa
per leading off with the. annotiooeinrtit—:
" SEVEN-THIRTY AT PAR." So naturally
came this statement, that people accepted
it as a matter of course ; an ordinary 'con
sequence of national existence; a mere
financial growth. Yet, when we look at it
closely, we. find that this one sentence,
quoted from a commercial report, "Seven-
Thirties at Par," is a 'remarkable illustra
tion of nationality'. Where are the wise
men who told us, with so many warnings,
that the national Than was merely the slid
ing glacier upon which we were whirling
to destruction, and mad Jay Cooke, crazy
Jay Cooke, wicked Jay Cooke, who ven
tured the belief that the glacier was not a
glacier after all, but sure, firm, solid ground,
where grass would grow some day, was held
up to reprobationf Jay may have' been
too enthusiastic for ats. We thought so at
the time. We do not think so now. He
had his ear close down,-near to the heart
of the people, and he felt every pulsation
strong, regular, and deep; no sign of ossi
fication or syncope; and he knew that the'
people were true, and that whether it were
one million, or ten thousand millions, evdry
dollar would be given to the nation, even
to the last cow in the barn, or the last sheaf
of wheat falling under the reaper.
Poor man—begrimed and dirty—take
out your green seven-thirty, smooth its
creases, and gladden your eyes? No mer
curial mining-stock, thatNepresenting the
cupidity and -avarice of some scapegrace
speculator, who lives in Paris on your good
hundred dollars, and leaves you—well, so
much silk or linen paper, value ten cents a
pound. Widow, your husband's pension and
bounty and modest life insurance (he who
was offered up at Gettys burgh a sacred burnt
offering that the nation might live), are
securely bound in that bright, gaudy,
narrow, conponed green paper. No trust
companies, nor insurance idirectors—nay,
nor savings bank people—have held them
at a beggarly four or five per cent., with
chances of failure; of ships going down at
sea; of land-rats and water-rats, and clan--
aers of fire and flood. Safe and staunch
ley are, and your seven dollars and thirty'
cents interest is as sure on the first of nest
June—as sure, we were about to say, as
death, but the simile is rather a sad one—
and may you HA many years, and see these
bright-eyed, orphaned boys grown up to
honor and fame, as men worthy of inherit
ing their father's sword. Sink your fur
row deep and roll in the harvest, Squire
Ezeki e l,
purchase will gladden your heart. Seven
and buy that ten-acre field whose
Thirty has your money tight and-strong—
the money of crops and harvests--that you
gave so timidly last fall to the eager Jay
Cooke. Go up to bank to-day and take it
back aga i n, if yolk will, dollar for dollar, of
„Principal, and penny for penny of interest.
You would ratt i ti:' not ! Well, we thought
Dr. Hayes then referred to the various
Bisttitaimuz.
SEVEN-THIRTY AT PAR."
so. For knowing a good thing when he
has it, commend us to this same Squire
Ezekiel, who bends over his plow today
and wishes that he had the other thousand
into Seven-Thirties and never listened to
the people who insisted upon his buying
into the Eldorado Mining Gold and Silver
Company, which was to pay him fifty per
cent. May you live to see your Eldorado
at par, Squire—which is hoping you will
become a very old man.
"SEVEN - THIRTY AT PAR!" What a
world of triumph, of strength, of natural
confidence, of virtue, of real lusty manhood,
lies in the depths of that simple commer
cial sentence in the face of a hundred
predictions-41 spite of the national ruin
that was set apart for us—nay, more : not
withstanding the great debt which was to
weigh upon us like the burning mountain
upon writhing Enceladus, this Seven-Thirty
—the emblem of America's faith—is to day
at par. In the meantime, we have dis
missed armies; we have broken up our
navy and sold it piece by piece at auction;
we have sent a million of men home to loom,
plow, and anvil; we have gradually driven
down gold until specie payment is almost
at hand. In its own speedy time, that
must come. We have kept the Seven-
Thirty at par. That is one good thing.
Now let us have dollar 'for dollar—and
make the greenback as good as gold, or
rather, as we hope soon to say, the gold as
good as the oreenback.--7Tribune.
fat fig latdo.
(Zia the t abicti
LOOS. the fashions which old pictures shim
As the, prevailed some fifty years eon:
At leas that phase of fashion which ...over.
Hints o' those instruments of, torture—stars !
And the n compare the old, complex machine,
With th. t which in these modern days is seen
No more steel and whalebone is the chest.
Or side, o liver, terribly compressed;
No more . re cuminiXiba, or'waving spine.
Twisted a •d tortured out of Beauty's line
For skill imd • iionce both tinita to Elbow-
How ninon r r ealth to dream do women owe.
In Alas. BaxititAtt's Consign, ladies find
The laws 'ef Health with Pagition'a taste combined
Supporting e,gually each separate part,
They cramp no action of the lungs or heart:
And no Injurious ligature is. placed
To mar the flexure of the natural waist:
Their fit ie certain—and, what's sure to pleabe,
/n all positions there is perfect ease ;
The figures of the young they help to form.
Aiding and not repressing every charm
Irregularities of shape they hide,
Bo that by none can slight defects be spied.
While e'en a figure, which is understood
/ka bedag'"bad," may by their help seem good:
And matrons wearing them a boon will rain,
TbW- Hart • •~,..r*.--"_'__o__
comfort, grsoe, gilLlll neidth. and rue,.
These Strarma. Corsets cannot fail to ',kn.,:
one trial in the only test they need.
For then all others they must super,,le .
Faehion'e demands with useful nee: hy
lad no are truly 'MERV WOMAN'S FRINNI , '
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WILLIAM YARNALL,
PM.PORTER AND DEALER IN
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
No. 1232 CRESTS - ET ST., S. E. C 011.13113.
SUPERIOR REFRIGERATORS,
WATER COOLERS
FINE TABLE CUTLERY,
• FAMILY HARDWARE
CRONING TABLES, kn. leo.,
WILLIAM MORRIS":
VENETIA N BLIND AND SHADE DIANE
FACTID'RER,
No. 119 EIGHTH Street, Philadeleihia.
Blinds and Shades always on hand, of the mos
Fashionable Patterns,
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO
Store Shades Made and Lettered to
1011-3 m Order.
S. F. BALDERSTON & SON,
DEALERS IN
WALL PAPER AND WINDOW SHADES,
NO. 902 SPRING GARDEN STREET,
N. B.—Practical part in both branches promptly
attended to. 1012-Sm.
31 Ft 31
, 1117,111
Wm. L. GARRETT,•
No. 31 South 2d St., above Chestnut. East
Side,
Has constantly on hand a large assortment of Men's
Boots and Shoes. City Made.
Ladies', Misses, and Children's Balmorais, &e. Be
sides Trunks, Traveling Bags, etc.. in great variety
and at LOW PRIC .ES Men's Rubber
-1 sole Boots and the best quality of Gum
Shoes of all kinds. 1012-ly t.l J.
HENRY HARPER,
No. 520 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA,
Dealer in and Manufacturer of
WATCHES, FINE JEWELRY
AND SUPERIOR PLATED' GOODS.
S IVI
Dyeikg 'and Souring Eoablishment,
Mrs. E. W. SMITH,
No. 2S N. Filth St., below Arch, Phflada.
Ladies , Dresses, Cloaks, Shawls, Ribbons, &a., dyed
in any c olor. and finished equal to new.
Gantlets°Wig Coats, Pants and Vests cleaned, dyed
and renai"" • 963-ly
J. & F. CADMUS,
N o. ra g garitet St., S. E. corner of Eighth,
PHILADELPHIA
bianufap_tprara Dealers in
BOOTS: SOOES.'TRIJP*S.- CARPET AND
VALISES of every variety an d style. jeu_iy
gamma &wanks.
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Premium notes secured. by Policies
Cash in hands of agents secured by bon
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Accrued interest and rents due, Jan. ]
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Samuel Work. ,
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83KIJEL WORK, Vice-President.
JOHN C. SIMS, Actuary.
JOHN S. WILSON. Secretary and Treasurer.
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Travelers.
OLDEST ACC/DENT INSURANCE COST
PAWN IN AMERICA.
J. G. BATTERSON, President.
• RODNEY DENNIS. Secretary
HENRY A. I DYER, GeneratAgent.
WM. W. ALLEN & CO.,
General Agents for Pennsylvania,
409 WALNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA
GIRARD FIRE AND MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
OFFICE ON WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
CAPITAL PAID IN, IN CASH., $200,000.
This company continues to write on Fire Risks
only. Its capital, with a gad surplus, is safely in
vested.
701
Losses by fire having been promptly „paid. and more
than
8560,000
Disbursed on this account within the .past few years.
For the present, the office of this company will re
main at
415 WALNUT STREET,
But within a few months will remove to its Own
Building N. E. CORNER SEVENTH AND CHEST
NUT. Then, as now, we shall be happy to insure our
patrons at such rates 5$ 3r consistent with safety.
DIRECTORS.
THOMAS CRAVEN ALFRED S. GILLETT.
FURMAN SHEPPAII.D. N. S. LAWRENCE,
THOS. MACKELLA,R , CHARLES I. DUPONT,
JNO: SUPPLEE, HENRY F. KENNEY,
JNO. W. OLAGHORN, JOSEPH KLAPP,III. D.,
EHLAS YERKES
THOMAS CRAVEN, President,
ALFREDS. GLIJLE Secretarydent ancbTreasurer.
JAMES B. ALVOR. 1023-1 y
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