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ioldbutiono.
How Tecumseh was Killed.
The Western Christian Advocate
of this week contains an obituary notice
of Isaac Hamblin, Sr., who died at his
residence near Bloomfield, Ind, a few
months since, aged about eighty-six
years. Mr. Hamblin was a man of
deep piety and unquestionable veracity.
He was in the battle of the Thames, and
the writer gives the following as his
statement in regard to the manner in
which Tecumseh was killed :
He says he was standing but a few
feet from Colonel Johnson when he fell,
and in full view, and saw the whole of
the battle. He was well acquainted
with Tecumseh, having seen him before
the war, and having been a prisoner sev
enteen days, and received many a curs
ing from him. He thinks that Tecum
seh thought Johnson was Harrison, as
he often heard the chief swear he would
have Harrison's scalp, and seemed to
have a special hatred toward him.—
Johnson's horse fell under him, himself
being also deeply wounded ; in, the fall
ho lost his sword, his large pistols Were
empty, and he was entangled with his
horse on the ground. Tecumseh had
fired his rifle at him, and when he saw
him fall he threw down his gun and
bounded forward like a tiger, sure for
prey. Johnson had only a side pistol
ready for use. He aimed at the chief
over the head of the horse, and shot
near the centre of his forehead. When
the ball struck, it seemed to him that
the Indian jumped with his head full
fifteen feet in the air. As soon as he
struck the ground a little Frenchman
ran his bayonet into him, and pinned
him fast to the ground.
J. G. RITCHIE
Gen. Schuyler was one of the Ameri
can officers, in the army, which fought
for our freedom. Lie figured largely in
those stirring scenes which took place
on the Hudson and Mohawk rivers,
when the English generals hired the
Indians to come and fight on their side.
Gen. Schuyler had great influence with
red men ; they loved and fcared him ;
so the — ,nglish wished he were out of
the way ; and as he did not gPt shot on
the field of battle, a plot was hatched to
waylay and murder him.
Two men were picked out to do
this bloody deed, an Englishman and
an Indian. The day and time were
set, they shouldered their rifles, and
took their stand, behind a clump of
trees which he had to pass on his way
home. After waiting and watching
some time, the General rode in sight.—
Ile was on horseback and alone. Now,
or never ! They took aim! In a min
ute more, the General would have been
a dead man. At that instant the In
dian knocked down the Englishman's
gun, crying :—I cannot -kill him ; I
have eaten his bread too often." The
General rides on unharmed ; he has
buckled on an invisible armour stronger
than brass, and lie is safe. What was
it ? The armour of friendly action.—
The Gen al had often relieved the dis
tress of fre poor red men ; lie had fed
them when hungry, and clothed them
when naked, and now British gold can
not buy up the grateful memory of his
kindness, as it melts the murderer's
heart.
I=l
"I can't kill him ; I have eaten his
bread too often !"
O ! what power there is in friendly
actions. They not only make you
friends, but disarm your enemies.
We are informed, says the Rock
Island Union, on reliable authority, that
Mrs. Raymond, of Moline, wife of Sum
mer Raymond, a woman aged-. about
65 years, gave birth to a child on Wed
nesday morning the 3d ult. She had
been married to Mr. Raymond some
twenty years, and this is her first off
spring. She had been complaining of
a heaviness in the stomach for nearly or
quite a year past, and had consulted
several physicians, Dr. Truesdale, of
this city among the number, who gave
it as their opinion that she had the
dropsy. At last she consulted a spirit
ualist doctor iu Deavenport, and he at
once declared her true condition to her.
The child was alive at last accounts and
•doing well. It is certainly a very re
markable case.
A bill is now before Congress to
abolish the duty on printing paper, and
also to discontinue the home tax on it.
Great Britain, that taxes everything
possible, puts no tax - on !hinting paper,
and the London Times is printed on pa
per imported from Belgium. Its Gov
ernment views it as a tax on the knowl
edge of the people. Bleaching pow
ders, which enter so largely into the
manufacture of paper, it is proposed to
admit free of duty, for the benefit of
home manufacturers. They now get
foreign rags free of duty. Local pa
pers all.overthe country are fading out, as
tkey cannot stand the price of paper
etc. It is not regarded as good policy
to have the result continued.
In three years it will be possible to send a
telegraphic message from Pekin to Paris and
back again in a day. This will be by means
of the telegraph now erecting in Eastern Si
beria.
Invisible Armour.
A Singular Occurrence.
Printing Paper.
Telegraph to China.
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" DNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1864,
A Doubtful Compliment.
A writer in The Methodist recently
furnished articles on the Life and Char
acter of Rufus Choate, the eminent
Boston lawyer. Among the incidents
related by the writer we find the fol
lowing
On one occasion he was apprised by
a witness of his fame as an advocate in
a way that fbr a moment embarrassed
him. The instance occurred in a trial
of a question of salvage. It was the
case of the Missouri, an American ves
sel stranded on the coast of Sumatra,
with specie on board. The master of
the stranded vessel, one Dixie, and Pit
man, the master of the vessel that came
to her aid, agreed together to embezzle
the greater part of her specie, and pre
tended that they had been robbed of it
by the Malays. Mr. Choate was cross
examining Dixey very closely to get
out of him the exact time and nature of
the agreement. The witness said that
Pitman proposed the scheme, and that
he objected to it, among other reasons,
as dangerous. To which, he said, Pit
man made a suggestion intended to sat
isfy him. Mr. Choate insisted on know
ing what that suggestion was. The
witness relucted at giving it. Mr.
Choate was peremptory, and the scene
became interesting. "Well," said Dix
ey, at last, "if you must know, he said
that if any trouble came of it, we could
have Rufus Choate to defend us, and
he would get us off if we were caught
with the money in our boots." It was
some minutes before the Court could
go on with the business. He did not
relish the nature cf the compliment, and
yet it was a striking tribute to his fame
that two men, at the- antipod6, should
concoct a great fraud, relying upon his
genius to save them.
Washington's Great Victory.
When George Washington was a
boy he wanted to. enter the Navy.—
Like many other boys he was anxious
to go to sea. His mother gave her
consent; and yet it was plain she was
not willing to have him go. A mid
shipman's commission had been got for
him, and the vessel was about to sail.
The servant was at the door with his
trunk. He went in to say good-bye to
his mother. He found her in tears.—
He saw the look of distress that was in
her thee; but she said not a word. That
was enough for him. He went out
and said to his servant, "Carry back
my trunk to my room. I will not break
my mothers heart to please myself."—
lie gave up his commission and stayed
at home.
When his mother heard what he had
done, "George," she said, "God has
promised to bless those who honor their
parents, and He will bless you." How
true her words were!
God did bless George Washington,
and made him a blessing to his country
and the world. Washington gained
many victories afterwards, but this was
perhaps the most important victory he
ever gained. He conquered the British
at Trenton, at Monmouth, and at York
town ; but when he gave up his own
will to please his mother, he conquered
himself. The Bible tells us, "He who
ruleth his spirit is greater than he that
taketh a city."
How Grant Loaded Logs
Some one who claims to have known
Lieut. Gen. Grant from boyhood, com
municated to the National Intelligencer
a biographical sketch of the General.—
As showing his business turn in early
life, the biography says :
At the age of twelve he aspired to
the management of his father's draught
team, and was entrusted with it for the
purpose of hauling some heavy hewed
logs, which were to be loaded With the
aid of levers and the usual appliances
by several stout men. lle came with
his team and found the logs, but not
the men. " A boy of more imaginative
genius, and of equal but differently di
rected contrivance,might have laid down
to listen or dream, or build houses of
chips.
Not so with this boy, who, unlike
others, acted upon the idea that where
there was a will there was a way, and
hesitated not at the undertaking. Ob-4
serving a fallen.tree, having a gradual
upward slope, ne unhitched his horses,
attached them to a log, drew it horizon
tally to the tree, and then drew one end
of it up the inclined trunk, higher than
the wagon truck, and so as to project a
few feet over, and thus continued to op
erate until he had brought several to
this position. Next he backed the
wagon under the projecting ends, and
finally, one by one ; hitched to and drew
the logs lengthwise across the Ulm
trunk, on to his wagon, hitched up
again, and returned with his load to his
astonished father.
This anecdote is well remembered by
old citizens of Georgetown, Brown
county, Ohio, where Grant spent his
early boyhood.
The French Way of Making Coffee.
Put into a coffee-pot as many cups
et water as you wish to make coffee ;
let the water boil ; then pnt in as many
tablespoonfuls of coffee as there are cups
of water ; stir it in, and let it simmer
till the head lidls ; then take it from the
fire, pour iu a cup of cold water, and
let it stand on the hearth ten minutes,
when it will be quite clear. A cup of
this coffee, added to a cup of boiled
milk, and sweetened according to taste,
will be found luxury.
THE POOR WASHER WOMAN.
"I declare, I have half a mind to put this
bed-quilt into the wash to-day. It does not
really need to go, either; but I think I'll send
it down."
"Why will you put it in, Mary, if it does
not need to go ?' asked her good old aunt in
her quiet and expressive way.
"Why, you see, aunt, we have but a small
wash to-day :so small that Susan will get
through by one o'clock at the latest, and I
shall have to pay her the same as though she
worked till night ; so—"
"Stop a moment, dear," said the old lady
gently, "stop a moment, and think. Sup
pose you were in the same situation poor Su
san is, obliged, as you tell me, to toil over
the wash-tub six days out of the seven, for
the bare necessaries of life, would you nut
be glad, once in a while, to get through be
fore night, to have a few hour.of daylight
to labor for yourself and family, or better
still, a few hours to rest ? Mary, dear, it is
a hard, hard way for a woman to earn a liv
ing; begrudge not the poor creature an easy
day. This is the fourth day in succession she
has risen by candle light, and plodded thro*
the cold here and there to her customer's
houses, and toiled away existence. Let her
go at noon, if she gets through ; who knows
but that she may have come from the sick
bed or some loved 'one, and counts the hours,
yes, the minutes, till she can return, fearing
that she may be one. too late ? Put it back
on the bed, and sit down here, while I tell
you what one poor washer-woman endured
because her employer did as you would - to
make out the wash." Ind the old woman
took off her glasses and wiped away the tears
that from some cause had gathered in her
aged eyes, and then with a tremulous voice
related the promised story.
"There was never a more blithsome bridal
than that of Ada R. None ever &ad higher
hoyes : more blissful anticipations. She mar
ried the man of her choice, one of whom
any women might bo proud. Few, few, in
deed, had a sunnier life, in prospect than she
had.
"And fin• ten years there fell uo shadow on
her path. Iler home was one of beauty and
real comfort ; her husband the same kind,
loving man as in the days of courtship; win
ning laurels every year in his prokssion: ad
ding new comfort to his home, and new joys
to his fireside. And beside these blessings
God had given another; a little crib stood by
the bedside, its tenant a golden-haired baby
boy, the image of its noble father, and dearer
than aught else could offer.
‘q3nt I must not dwell on those happy
days; my story has to do with other days. It
was with them as it has often been with oth
ers : just when the cup was the sweetest it
wag dashed away. A series of misfortunes
and reverses occurred with startling rapidity,
and swept away from them everything but
love and their babe. Spared to each other
and to that, they bore a bravo heart, and in
a distant city began a new fortune. Well
and strongly did they struggle, and at length
began once more to see the sunlight of pros
peiity shine ul,oa their home. But a little
while it stayed and then the shadows fell.—
The husband sickened and laid for many
months upon a weary couch, languishing not
only with mtutal and bodily pain, but often
times for food and medicine. All that she
could do, the wife performed with a faithful
Land. She went front one thing to another,
till, at length, she, who had worn a satin gar
ment on her bridal day, toiled at the wash
tub for the scantiest living. In a dreary
winter, long before light, she would rise
morning after morning, and labor for the
dear ones of her lowly home. Often she had
to set off through the cold, deep snow, and
grope her way to kitchens which were some
times smoky and gloomy, and toil there at
rubbing, rinsing, and starching, not unfre
quently wading knee deep into the drifts to
hang out the clothes that froze even ere she
had fastened them to 'the line. And, when
night came, with her scanty earning she
would grope through the cold and snow to
her ofttirnes lightless and fireless home ; for
her husband was too sick to tend even the
fire, or strike a light. And oh, with what a
shivering heart would she draw near, fearing
ever she would be too late! It is a fact
that for six weeks at one time she never saw
the face of her husband or her child, save
by the lamp-light, except on Sabbatt. low
glad she would have been to have had, once
in a while, a small washing gathered for
her!
"One dark, winter morning, as she was
preparing a frugal breakfast, and getting ev
erything ready before she left, her husband
called her to his bedside.
" 'Ada,' said he, almost in a whisper, 'I
want you to try and come home early to
night ; be home before the light goes ; Ada!'
"'l'll try,' answered she, with a choked
utterance.
"'Do try, Ada. I have a strange desire
to see your face by daylight, To l klay is Fri,
(lay; I have not seen it since Sunday. I
must look upon it once again.'
" 'Do you feel worse ?' asked she anOms.
ly, feeling his Pulse as she spoke.
"No, no, I think not, but I want to see
your fare once more by sunlight; I cannot
wait till Sunday.'
"Gladly would she have tarried by his bed
side till the sunlight had stolen through. the
little window : but it might not be. Money
was wanted, and she mupt go forth to labor.
She lett her husband. She reached the
kitchen of her employer, and with a troubled
face, waited for the basket to be brought. A
smile played on her wan face as she assorted
its contents. She could get through easily
by two o'clock ; yes, and, if she hurried,
perhaps by one. Love and anxiety let new
strength to her weary arms, and five minutes
after the clock struck one, she was just about
emptying the tubs, when the mistress came
in with a couple of bed quilts, saying
"'As you have so small a wash to-day Ada
I think you may do these yet.' After the
mistress had turned her back a cry of
agony, wrung from the deepest fountain of
the washerwoman's heart. gushed to her lips.
Smothering it as best she could, she set to
work agaiq, and rubbed, rinsed, and hung
out. It was half past three when she start
ed for home, an hour too late! and the aged
narrator sobbed. •
"An hour to late," continued she after e
long pause. "Her husband was dying; yes,
almost gone ! Ile had strength given him to
whisper a few words to his half frantic wife,
to tell her how he longed to look upon her
face ; that lie could not see her then, he lay
in the shadow of death. One hour she pil
loried his head upon her suffering heart, and
then he was at rest."
"Mary, Mary, dear," and there was a soul
touching emphasis in the aged woman's
words, 'be kind to your washer-woman. In
stead of striving to make her day's work as
long as may he, shorten it, lighten it. Few
women will go out washing daily unless their
needs are pressing. No woman on her bri
dal day expects lobor in that way ; and be
sure Mary, when she is constrained to do so,
it is the last resort. That poor woman, la
boring now so hard for you, has not always
been a washer-woman. She has seen bet
ter days. She has passed through terrible
trials, too. I can read her story in her pale,
sad face. Be 3 kind to her ; pay her what
she asks, and let her go home as early as
she can.."
* *
"Von 'nave finished an good time to-day,
Susan," said Mrs. M.., a the washer-woman,
with her old cloak arid hood on, entered the
pleasant room to get the money she .dad
earned.
"Yes, ma'am, I have ; and my heart
ma'am, is releived of a heavy load. was
so afraid I should be kept till night, and I
am needed so at home."
"Is there sickness there?" said the aunt
kindly
"Tears gushed to the woman's eyes as she
answered. ''Ah, ma'am I left my baby
almost dead this morning ; he will be quite
so to-morrow. I know it, I have seen it too
many times ; and none but s child of nine
years to attend to him, Oh, I must go, and
quickly !"
And, grasping the money she had toiled
for, while her baby was dying, she hurried
to her dreary home. Shortly atter they fol
lowed her; the young wife who had never
known sorrow and the aged matron whose
hair was white with trouble, followed her to
her home !—the home of the drunkard's
wife, the drunkard's babes. She was not
too late. The little dying boy knew its
mother. But at midnight he died, and then
kind hands took from the mother the breath
less form, closed the bright eyes, straighten
ed the tiny limbs, bathed the cold clay, and
tolled about it the pure white shroud ; yes,
and add more ; they gave, what the poor
so seldom have, time to weep.
"Oh, Aunt," said Mrs. M. with tears M
iter eyes, "if my heart blesses you how notch
more must poor Susan's. Had it not been
for you she would have been too late. It
has been a sad, but holy lesson. I shall
now always be kind to the poor washer-wo
man. But, aunt, was the story you told me
a true one, all true I mean ?"
"The reality of that story whitened this
head when it had seen but 30 summers, and
the memory of it has been one of my keen-
est sorrows. It is not strange, therefore,
that I should pity the poor washerwoman."
Boys out at Night.
The practice of allowing boys to
spend their evenings on the streets is
one of the most ruinous, dangerous and
mischieveous things possible. Nothing
so speedily and surely makes their road'
downward. They acquire under the
cover of night the most prenicious hab
its, and become educated iu mischief,
and in the use of profane and vulger
language, and associate with the vicious
and depraved. Hundreds of boys be
longing to worthy families in every
town,, who are permitted night after
night to select their own company and
place of resort, are on the direct road
to ruin. Confiding parents who believe
their sons are safe—that they will not
associate with the vicious—will one of
these days have their Hearts erwikea, as
thousands have before, by learning that
their sons whom they regarded as proof
against eYii, have been from early
youth, on the road to ruin. Again we
say keep your boys at borne at night,
unless you accompany them yourself.—
Make your homes such that your
dren will delight to spend their even
ings there, and you will find tour task
a light one.—Etchange.
49► The wife of Gen. P. T. Beaure
gard died in New Orleans on the even
ing of the 2d inst., and was bnried•on
the 4th. Her tuu,eral was very largely
attended.
Be Clean and Tidy.
"When I was six years old," says a
well-known merchant, " my father died,
leaving nothing to my mother but the
charge of myself and two young sis
ters. After selling the greater part
of the household furniture she owned,
she took two small rooms in W—
street, and there, by her needle, con
trived in some way—how I cannot tell,
when I recollect the little money for
which she worked—to support us in
comfort. Frequently, however, I re
member that our supper was simply a
slice of bread, seasoned by hunger, and
made inviting by the neat manner in
which our meal was served, our table
always being spread with a cloth which,
like my good mothers blart, seemed
ever to preserve a snow-wr he purity."
Wiping his eyes the merchant con
tinued :
"Speaking of those days reminds me
of the time we sat down to the table one
evening, and my mother having asked
the blessing of our heavenly Father on
her little defenceless ones, in tones of
tenderness that I remember yet, she di
vided the remnant of her only loaf into
three pieces, placing one in each of our
plates, but reserving none for herself
I stole aroilnd to her, and was about to
tell her that I was not hungry, when a
flood of tears burst from her eyes, and
she clasped me to her bosom. Our
meal was left untouched; we sat up
late that night, and what we said I can
not tell. I know that my mother talk
ed to me more as a companion than a
child. When we knelt down to pray, I
gave up myself to be the Lord's and to
serve my mother.
"But,'' said he, "this is not telling you
how neatness made my fortune. It was
some time after this my mother found
an advertisement in the newspaper• for
an errand-boy in a commission house in
B— street Without being needful
to wait to have my cloths mended, for
my mother always kept them in good
order, and although on close inspection
they bore traces of more than one patch,
yet on the whole they looked very neat;
without waiting to arrange my hair or
clean my shoes, tOr I was obliged to ob
serve from my earliest youth the most
perfect nnatness in every respect ; my
mother sent me to see if I could obtain
the situation. With a light step I
started, for I had long wished my moth
er to allow me to do something to as
sist her.
"My
. heart beat ,ftst, I assure you, as
I turned out of \V— into B—
street, and made my way along to the
number my mother had given me. I
summoned all the courage I could mus
ter, and stepped briskly into the ware
house, and made my way into the
counting-house, and made known the
object of my calling The merchant
smiled, and told me there was another
boy who had come a little before me,
whom he thought he should engage.—
However, he asked me some questions,
and went out and talked with the other
boy, who stood in the back part of the
office. The result was that the lad was
dismissed, and I entered the merchant's
employment, first as an errand-boy, then
as a clerk, afterwards as a partner, un
til his death, when he left me the whole
of his stock and trade. After I had
been in his service some years, he told
me the reason he chose me in preference
to the other boy was because of the
general neatness of my person, while in
reference to the other lad he noticed
that he neglected to be tidy. To this
simple circumstance has probably been
owing the greater part of my success in
business."
Shock ing Casualty---Three Men
Killed.
On last Saturday, March 26th, be
tween.seven and eight o'clock, a dis
tressing accident occured at the coal
works of Messrs. A. D. Smith & Bro.,
opposite McKeesport, which resulted in
the instant death of three men, and
the injury of two others. The particu
lars, as we obtain them from a member
of the firm, are as follows :
'.The checkman, Mr. John Dunn,
was iu the act of starting a loaded car
from the top of the hill, when the
" hitching-plate" broke, and the car
was precipitated down the incline with
great velocity. On reaching the bot
tom, it struck the tippleman, Mr. Jos.
Will, killing him instantly, and throw
ing him over the tipple into the barge
which they were loading. A laborer,
named John Kain, was struck almost at
the same moment, and killed instantly.
The car was broken to pieces, and
some of the fragments struck Mr. Win.
Nicol, managing partner at the works,.
who was knocked into the river. If
the injuries which lie received from the
living fragments were not fatal, death
from drowning followed. The body
was subsequently recovered.
James Forgie, employed as boat
loader, was seriously injured by the
fragments. One leg was fractured, and
also discolated at the hip. His injuries,
however, are not regarded as fatal.
\Yin. Copeland was severely stunned,
but he was so slightly injured as to be
able to go about soon af.'ter• the accident.
Mr. Will was a-widower, and leaves
four orphan children. Messrs. Kain
and Nicol were both married, and leave
tiimilies. They all reside in Mifflin tp.,
in the vicinity of the works, and their
bodieS Were taken charge of by their
friends.'
Coroner Ar Clung has been notified, of
the accident, but as he is confined to his
NEW SERIES.--VTOL.-5, NO. 44.
home by illness ; the inquest will proba
bly be held by Alderman ; Donaldson,
who is officiating in his stead.
The accident is one of the most ser
ious and painful which has occurred in
this vicinity for some time, and has cast
a gloom over the neighborhood in which
the deceased parties resided.
Cheerfulness and occupation are
closely allied. Idle men are very rarely
happy. Hew should they be ? The
brain and muscles were made for action,
and neither can be healthy without vig
orous exercise. Into the lazy brays
crawl spider-like fancies, filling it with
cobwebs that shut out the light and
make it a fit abode for "loathed melan
choly." Invite the stout hand-maiden,
brisk and busy Thought, into the intel
lectual chambers, and she will soon
brush away such unwholesome tene
ments. Blessed be work, whether it 40
of the head or the hand, or both'
The foot rot was discovered among
my sheep last winter. I had, blue vit
riol finely pulverized, aud a part put iu
water—more than the water would dis
solve
Each sheep was placed on its back
and all the feet carefully examined. If
not affected, the strong solution was
applied between the hoofs with a small
swab. If a foot was diseased, all of the
hoof loosened fron the quick was thor
oughly pared off, the tender part wet
with the vitriol water, to make the
powder adhere better, and fine vitriol
applied to the part affected. Swabbed
between the hoofs, and removed all
affected sheep front the well sheep.
The thirty or forty in the hospital
tlock were properly attended. If not
cured by the first application, the foot
was examined, and more vitriol appli
ed.
The well flocks were closely watched.
If a diseased sheep was discovered, it
was removed, and the whole flock re
ceived an application or vitriol water
between the hoofs with a swab. They
were an (300) treated with the swab,
four times.
The manure under the sheds did not
freeze. They were cleaned and* well
littered. In six or eight -weeks the
disease dissappeared, and has not sincs
appeared in the Bock.—E. a, Half Day
I'l., Prairtl! Now . r.
Keep Stock off the Meadows.
Many meadows are seriously injur
by stock in the spring months. They are
permitted to run upon them when the
frost is leaving the ground, which is
soft and easily cut by the hoofs of horses
and cattle. The scanty picking they
get will not begin to compensate for
the damage they cause the
„meadow,-
\Vim the ground is soft, as it always
is in the spring, stock should be care
fully excluded. It• is always very bad
policy to pasture meadows in the fall.
Every sprig is generally eaten off, and
the ground and roots are left odd and
naked. If the growth after cutting
grass had been left, it would have
acted as a mulching, keeping the roots
warm and uninjured by the severity of
winter. A good coating of afterwath
(rowen) lying upon the ground all win
ter is equivalent to a covering of snow,
which all know to be beneficial to land.
—Valley Farmer.
A gentlenfin who. : has had considera
ble experience gives an amount of hie►
manner of manuring his pear orchard.
In autumn he applies several barrow
loads of coarse stable manure to each
tree, spreading it several inches thick
sll around the tree as far as the roots
extend. Miring the winter the soluble
matter is gradually leached from the
manure and carried into the soil. in
the spring what remains of the manure
is covered with a coating of salt hay
(or any other cheap hay), and it is al
lowed to remain on until fall, when it is
removed, and manure applied as before.
By having the ground mulched in this
way, it is kept moist and free from
weeds. This mode of applying manure
is approved by some of ..dir most suc
cessful cultivators, and is preferred to
ploughing in the manure, at the risk of
disturbing the surface roots.
There are three things easily raised
and harvested, for which the farmers
may depend upon it, there will be an
enormous demand, and high prices
paid during the war. We refer to po
tatoes, bonus, and onions. The far
mers could not do a better thing for
themselves and their country than to
plant these vegetables very extensively.
if it appears, as the spring advances, that
fruit will be scarce, onions, potatoes and
beans must be had to fill the vacuum.
"Sambo, is your inW. o er q, good far
mer'?" "0 yes, massa a fuss rate titr
mer—he makes two crops in one year."
"how is that, Sambo ?" "Why he sell
all his hay in de tidl and make mom , "
once ; den. in de spring he sell the hid,:
ob de cattle dat die for want ob de hay,
and dat makes money twicy."
The " Blues."
Zhe tamtr.
Foot Rot in Sheep.
Manuring Pear Trees.
A Hint to Farmers.
Good Firmer.