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THE CONSTITUTION THK UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT 07 THE LAWS.
VOL. XXVIII.
MIFFLINTWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., SEPTEMBER 2, 1S74.
NO. 35.
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Poetry.
THREE AXCEL9.
They bit tlii life ia barren, drear, and cold,
trer mi aame sad song m aong of old.
Ever the aame long weary tale ia told,
And to our lips ia held the cup of strife;
And yet a little lore can sweeten life.
They say our hands may grasp but joys de
stroyed.
loutli Has but dreams, and age an aching
voia
Which Dead Saa fruit
cloyed.
long, long ago has
Whose night, with wild, tempestuous storms is
rife;
kui yet a little hope can brighten Ufa.
They say we fling ourselves in wild despair
Amidst the broken treasures scattered there
Where all ia wrecked, where all once promised
lair.
And sub ourselves with sorrow's two-edged
knife.
And yet a little patience strengthens life.
Is it then true, this tale of bitter grief.
Of mortal anguish finding no relief !
Lo ! midst the winter ahines the laurel's leaf
Three angels share the lot of human atrif
Three Angola glorify the path of life
ljoyo, none, ann l alienee cheer us on our
way;
Lore, Hops, and Patience form our spirits'
stay;
Lots, Hope, and Patience watch us day by
dT.
And bid the desert bloom with beauty vernal
Until the earthly fades in the eternal.
Fras&'s llajazine.
3Iis-efilaiij',
House and Home.
A lady once went to an auction, and
bought a house in a very favorite and
fashionable locality. It was onlv lease
hold; but the price it was going for was
so very low, sue was tempted. A 100, I
think, was the sum it was knocked
down to her for. and she boasted of her
bargain until she found she had to pay
s. jw a year ground rent, ami tuat the
house would not let for more than jC2W.
I have been informed, hut do not quite
iM-ueve lt.tliat lier liusbauit was vexed
That was exceptionally a bad bargain
but few tieople, who are not criminals
or paupers, are bulged for nothing
Clergvinen.secretaries.aud farm bahor
ers, indeed, are sometimes housed; but
then the fact is taken into considera
tion, and thev nnv indirectly. If von
buy a house aud live in it, you lose the
interest of the money invested; so, as
far as mere pecuniary considerations
go.it comes pretty near the same thing.
l)o not accuse me, O impatient reader,
of boring you with trite truisms. These
are merely the prclace to a grand tin.
1 am about to inform you how you may
live rent free. I was traveling last
year on the same steamlioad with an
American, who amused me very much
with a variety of anecdotes, most of
which were made tricks. Indeed, they
might have lieen collected and pub
lished under the title of "Caveat
Emptor." How much there is in tell
ing a story. As a geuerai rule. 1 sadly
uuss the point of a humorous f raua.for
mv sympathies are ant to lie with the
cheatee rather than with the clever
fellow who has outwitted him. But my
present companion possessed the power
of perverting my moral instincts for
the time Iteiug; and I chuckled over
deeds which, if committed against my
self, I should consider the very reverse
of iuiinv. I dare say yon have ob-
' served, when reading the Great Biog
raphy, that however fluent Dr. John
son uiiirht lie. it was necessary for Bos-
well to make an occasional remark. A
similar obligation falling upon me.
observed that an American coming
over to England would hardly care to
exercise his talent for linesse; there
would lie no snort in it. the poor na
tives lving so completely at hi mercy.
"Don't you believe me," Raid my com
panion, closing an eye I reckon you
can take remarkably good ;are of your
selves over here. Whv, one of the
smartest tricks I ever knew was tanght
me the other dav by a Londoner." Is
it a secret T" I inquired. "It is," he re
plied; "but I don't mind telling you
Vnnr years niro I came over troiu .fw
York to superintend the English busi
ness of the tirni I belong to. As my
residence was likely to be a long one.
looked out for a house within a conve
nient distance of Loudon; for I am a
family- man. and like my children to
liar the run of the fields when I can
ni.in.ie it. I hate to see them dressed
up tiue;and what's one of those squares
to play in 1 Well, I got just the thing
to suit me nice garden, farms all
round, half an hour's railway ride from
my ollice. The rent was stiff for the
accommodation, which was so-so two
hundred for a yearly tenancy, one nun
dred and lifty if I took a seven-year
lease. I reckoned that I should want
ir a e-ood ten years. 60 I decided for
the lease, especially as the agent told
me I should lie sure to underlet it 11 i
wantetl to. When I got to know my
neighbors, and compared notes.I found
t)it 1 v8 narine at a much higher
rate than any of them were. However,
that did not vex me, so long as I could
live there. But after two years certuin
changes took place which made it ne
cessary that I should go and live at
Liverpool. So I had to move again,
and tried to underlet my bouse. I
could not do it for some time, because
I stood out for the rent I paid mysell;
but at last I grew tired of the dead
loss, and told the agent to make the
best terms he could. So he let the
place for niuety, and that has been
going on for four years, so that the
lease is Dearlv up. But I never knew
till last week who my tenant was.
"Who do you think T "I cannot guess."
"Why, my landlord. I hav cbeen pay
ing the cuss sixty pounds a year lor
living in his own bouse all this time.
It's a fact."
Mow Drinking Cause
plexy.
Appo-
It is the essential nature of all wines
fend spirits to send an increased amount
of blood to the brain. The first effect
of taking, glass of wine or stronger
form of alcohol if to send the blood
there faster than common, hence the
circulation that gives the red face. It
increases the activity of the brain, and
it works faster, aud so does the tongue.
But as the blood goes to the brain
faster than common, it returns faster,
fend no special harm results. Bat sup
pose a man keeps on drinking, the
blood is sent to the brain so fast, in
such large quantities, that, in order to
make room for it, the arteries have to
enlarge themselves; they increase in
size, and in doing so they press against
the more yielding flaccid veins, which
carry the blood out of the brain and
thus diminish the sire of their pores,
the result beiBg that the blood is not
only carried to the arteries of the brain
faster than ia natural or healthful, but
it is prevented from leaving it as fast
as usual; hence a double set of causes
of death are in operation. Hence, a
man may drink enough of brandy or of
other spirits in a few hours, or even
nt.ntu tn hn'nff on a fatal attack of
LEGCXD OF NORWAY.
lngages ago, when the whole of
northern Europe was sunk in barbarism
and dark idolatry, young and beauti
ful maiden was fonnd at sunrise upon
the rugged coast of Norway. There she
stood and looked wistfully over the re
tiring waves whioh had left their fringes
ul uery buxi at ner small naked feet.
ihe night had been stormy, and a
vessel iay wrecKed among the rocks.
All the crew had perished but that
gentle lady. The savage people gathered
about her. wonderinir much at tho
fashion and the richness of her flowing
gtuuieuis, ana at ner iresn and delicate
beauty, but most of all at the sweetness
and dignity of her demeanor.
It was the maiden who became the
wife of Regnar, the yonng Prince of
Norway ; she was of equal birth with
him, being a king's daughter, but
obliged to flee from the usurper of her
father's throne. The Princess Gurith,
for so she was called, was not an idolater,
yet for nearly a year after her marriage
few persons but her husband knew the
name of her religion. They soon learned,
however, that in her it was pure and
peaceable, gentle and easy to be en
treated, full of mercy and good fruits,
without partiality and without hypo
crisy ; and so she was loved by all and
might have been happy, had not Queen
Temora, the widow of the king's eldest
son, visited the court of Norway. Now
this Temora was very beautiful, proud
and revengeful, and so skilled in magic
that by many she was named the
"Sorceress." Temora was queen, in her
own ngnt, of the far Urkney isles ; and
notwithstanding her husband's sudden
death she had cherished the hope to
reign in Norway also ; for Regnar, then
the younger brother, though now the
heir, had wooed her when, from ambi
tion, she preferred the elder prince.
When Temora came to court, hiding
ner nery passions witn a smiling face.
and saw the beauty of the innocent
Uurith, and the influence she had won
in the hearts of those around her, she
devoted her to rnin. It is said that she
went at midnight, far up among the
bills, into the depths of a black pine
forest, where stood a rude but famous
temple of the idol Woden (the ruins are
now scattered about the place.) and
there sprinkling her own blood upon the
alter, vowed to accomplish a deep and
horrible revenge. From that hour she
she left no way untried to reach the ends.
At first she sought, under the mask of
friendship, to introduce into the heart
of Gnrith some dark suspicion of her
husband s faith and so at length to
break that gentle heart ; but the young
princess was above supicion ; love and
her perfect confidence in him she loved
were as a breast plate of adamant to
her, from which every weapon that was
aimed against it fell off, not only
blunted, but leaving no trace to show
where it had struck. Thus, Temora
was confounded and perplexed, for she
had judged the princess by her own
principles and feelings.
Still, notwithstanding all these deep
devices, the guiltless. Lady Ourith
grew in favor and tender love with all
who knew her, and the sorceress in
wardly cursed herself when she beheld
the effect of Gurith's presence upon the
barbarous .Norwegians ; an effect far
more grateful to a woman's heart than
the most awful influence of her own
magic spells. When Gurith came forth
into the banquet hall they met her with
reverence only next to adoration.
Their brutal manner caught for the time
somewhat of her gentleness ; their fierce
disputings stopped ; their coarse jests
and roars of laugter sounded more
faintly ; the very minstrels touched
their harps more lightly and turned
their war songs to a more plaintive lay,
such as a gentle woman loves to hear.
But the secret of the influence was a
mystery to the consummate artfulness
of Queen Temora ; she could not com
prehend that simple humility and un
affected kindness that can win their way
to the most savage bosom.
For instance, after a battle, when the
wonnded were brought home, a band of
warriors came forward to the terrace on
which Gurith and Queen Temora sat
surrounded by their ladies. They had
brought the richest spoil and laid it at
the feet of the two princesses. Temora
snatched at once a coronet of gems, and
with a haughty smile placed it upon her
head. They who stood by shuddered
as they saw her bright eyes flashing and
the rich blush of pleasure on her cheek;
for a few dare drops clung to the threads
of yellow hair upon her brow, and
trickled down her face. There was
human blood upon that coronet. Gurith
had scarcely looked upon the glittering
baubles set before her ; she had seen a
wounded soldier fall exhausted at the
gate, and she flew to raise him. They
who stood by smiled with tender and
admiring love, as they beheld her hands
and garments stained with blood, for
she had torn her long white veil to
stannch the blood, dressing the wounds
of the dying man with her own soft
bands, and then as other wounded
soldiers were brongbt from the field.
she bad forgotten her rank and the
feebleness of her sex, to administer also
to their relief. It was in such instances
as these that the character of Gurith
was discovered : was it strange that she
seemed almost a beingof a higher order
to the untutored savages T But soon
Temora began to fear that Gurith was
herself an enchantress, for every wither
ing spell of witchcraft has been tried in
vain against hei. ne naa met at miu
night with the weird women in their
murky caverns ; there they sung their
charmed rhymes together and held
homed incantations. Gurith was still
unharmed, still lovely, still happy in
the love of her husband and of all the
people.
By s mere chance the sorceress at
length discovered what she felt con-
. . a. an I ..-
vinced to De tne secret oi umuu
hidden strength. There was a chamber
n a small lonely tower mat joinea me
palace to which the young princess re-
tired, not omy a-
ay. but often. at otner wmro. xuco
she would sometimes remain shut np
for hours, and no one dared to orea
upon her privacy, even her husband
hnmnml her wishes, and had never
since his marriage, visited that chamber.
If sometimes she visited it mournful,
dispirited and with downcast looks she
never failed to come forth from her re
tirement with a new spirit, calm and
smiling, and all the fair beauty of her
fa restored. This, then, was the
chamber where those spells were woven
which had baffled the earn oi mo
sorceress.
VntVsir after the queen had made
the discovery of the chamber, the aged
king, her father-in-law, while visiting
th Princess Gurith, was struck with
blindness. Temora began to rejoice,
for an opportunity well suited to her
own dark purposes had it last occurred
There was a solemn festival held in
honor of the goddess Freya. In the
midst of the rejoicing, the sorceress
ii .i.miniFiiiwa her shoulders,
and rich robes all rent) rushed into the
halL With frantio cries she bade the
feasting cease, and, seizing from an
aged scald the harp that he was arising.
she tore away the strings, and then, in
sullen silence, she sat down before the
idol a image. Again she rose, aud with
a dagger's point, scratched a few rough
characters upon tne altar. The priests
had gathered around her, and when
they saw those letters they also shrieked
aloud with horror ; they fell before the
idol and bowed their faces to the
ground, howling and heaping dost upon
ineir neaaa. u pon tais, wiw a nxed
and dreamy stare, Temora arose and
beating upon a sort of shapeless drum,
commenced alow and melancholy chant.
She told them that tne nation had
cause to mourn, that heavy calamities
naa iaiien upon them, that the gods had
sent a curse among them. A monster
had been cast np by the treacherous
waves, and none had known their
danger. Their king, their prince, nav.
she herself, had been deceived ; for that
fearful monster had come among them
in a human form, even as a beautiful
maiden. They had cherished her, and
now the judgement had fallen upon
them ; it had begun with the king he
was struck with blindness where wonld
it fall next ? with prophetio glance she
could forsee. But here the drum
dropped from her hands ; at once her
frantio violence was stilled ; she sank
upon the ground and her long hair fell
like a veil over her stern features she
had said enough. As she began, a
smothered sonnd of cursing rose on all
sides ; now the whirlwind of furious
passion burst forth and knew no bounds.
The tumult spread far and wide among
the people. Led by the wizard priests,
they rushed to the palace, and demanded
that their king should come forth to
them. Now, the poor old king, being
in his dotage and almost governed by
the priests, had been persuaded and
tutored to think and to answer just as
they suggested. Lei by the sorceress
he came forth sightless and trembling,
and his few faltering words confirmed
all that the artful Temora had declared.
All this time Prince Regnar had been
absent. He came in from hunting just
when Temora had brought his father
forth. Horrorstruck, he soon perceived
the purpose of the fiendlike, woman; but
in vain he sought to quell the furious
tumult, his father was totally under the
dominion of the priests, and when a cry
was raised, demanding as their victim.
the yonng and innocent Gruith, the
king s assent was given. As for the
princess, she was not to be fonnd. Two
persons, however, who at once had
guessed the place oi her retreat, met at
the door of ner mysterious chamber.
For once that door was scarcely closed.
It opened at the gentle touch of Regnar,
but there was something arrested him.
"Stop, stop," he whispered, holding
the door firmly with one hand while he
thrust forth the other to prevent Temora
from advancing,. "Stop but a little
time. Let us not disturb her yet."
Temora obeyed. Curiosity for awhile
mastered her vengeance. She wished
to hear distinctly the words which were
pronounced in that chamber ; but what
were the words that fell upon her ear ?
The low, sweet voice of Gurith breath
ing forth prayers to the God she wor
shiped ; pleading for her worst enemy;
praying that He whose favor is life,
would give a new spirit and sweet peace
of mind, and every blessing to her sister
Temora ! The voice of Gurith ceased,
and Regnar entered softly. Temora had
sunk upon the step where she had stood ;
she did not enter, though at last that
chamber stood open before her ; bnt
ith still greater astonishment than that
with which she had listened, she gazed
upon its inmate. She was kneeling
with both her hands covering her face.
The tears that trickled through her
fingers too well betrayed the anguish
that had stopped her voice in prayer.
And this, then, was the secret of the
mysteriouschamber. Gurith has trusted
to no spell but that of innocence ; her
strength had been in the confession of
utter weakness to Him with whom she
held her high and spiritual communion
to him whose strength is made perfect
in the weakness of his children. To Him
who hath borne our griefs and carried
sorrows, whose gracious invitation is to
the weary and the heavy laden, she had
gone in every time of trial, and from
the foot of his cross, where, she ever
laid the burdens of her griefs, she had
brought forth into the world that sweet
and holy cheerfulness which passed the
understanding of tne wretched lemora.
Struck to the heart, he sorceress slunk
silently away. Some feelings of re
morse had seized upon her, and now
she wonld have gladly stopped the
tumult. Alas ! she had no power to
calm the storm which she had raised.
The frantio multitude had burst the
palace gates. Regnar was overpowered.
and they were dragging their meek and
innocent victim to the altar of the
horrid idol, when suddenly, and it
seemed miraculously, a higher power
interposed and stopped their bund
furry. The aged monarch fell dead in
the arms of his attendants the excite
ment of the last few hours had proved
too much for his feeble frame. In
stantly, and almost at a venture, a
single voice cried out, "Long hve King
Regnar 1" There was a breathless pause
and then the cry was echoed by the
shouts of all the people. Gurith, the
christian Gurith, was saved.
A Western Casablanca.
A friend sends us the following. It
reminds one of Casabianca, but two
points of difference may be noticed:
Casabianca would not take water, but
the Washington youngster did; Casa
bianca got "Mowed up," this one did
not.
There is nowadays a good deal of
complaint about the want of obedience
to parental authority on the part of the
rising generation, especially on the part
of the boys. We heard of a case the
other day which proves that there are
noble exceptions to the average "boy of
the period." A young son of one of
the principal examiners in the Patent
Office at Washington went to pass bis
school vacation at an uncle's in Ken
tucky, near the Ohio River. There
was but one restriction on the scope of
the boy's amusements. Horses, dogs,
rifles, shot-guns, Ac, were freely al
lowed as companions of bis amuse
ments; but as his cousins were as fond
of the water as so many ducks, he was
requested to shun the boat which the
cousins were wont to use in their
aquatic excursions. lie promised faith
fully, like the dutiful lad he is, and de
parted rejoicing. A recent letter to
his father graphically describes various
excursions and the "good times" he
had enjoyed, among the very last one
in which the cousins had desired to
visit the Ohio shore. " They went over
in the boat," writes the boy, "but I re
membered your wishes in that respect,
and so twam the river 1" It is under
stood that the next mail announced to
the youngster that the embargo upon
the boat had been removed. Harjr'$
Magcunr.
California's Fraits.
We make the following extracts from
an interesting article in tne San x ran
Cisco Chronicle on the fruit crops of
that State:
SMALL FECITS.
Up to the 16th of June 1,130,000
pounds of strawberries were shipped to
this city very large consignment.
At present they are very scarce. It has
been remarked that the raspberries of
this year have a richer flavor than
usual, but no increase in the yield has
been noticed. This circumstance may
arise zrom tne I act mat in 1881 this
fruit was much injured by the ravages
oi a small Dug about the size of two
lines, which can only be detected by
careful scrutiny. The number of
strawberry vines and blackberry, rasp
berry, currant and gooseberry bushes
has been estimated at 40,000,000, and
the value of the yearly crop at nearly
$2,000,000. The gooseberries are con
sidered inferior to those of other coun
tries, but they are rapidly improving.
LARGER FRUITS.
The apricot looks well this year, and
is slightly improved in flavor. There
are about 100.000 trees in the State in
good condition. But few peaches are
in market. Hale's early variety, from
ttriggs orchard, Marysvule, may be
seen for sale. They are about three
times the ordinary size, and weigh
about fourteen ounces each. Of nec
tarins there are about 60,000 trees in
the State, and thev appear to be thriv
ing. I here are about the same num
ber of quince trees. The quince is
hardy and prolific not so much es
teemed here as the E asters States, be
cause tne supply of Iresn fruit is more
varied and abundant here throughout
the greater part of the year, and also
for the reason that quince jelly is not
so much in demand as it is in colder
climates, where the snows lie upon the
ground for three or four months every
winter.
pl cms ajtd cherries.
The different varieties of the plum
are represented by about 530.000 trees.
of which number Santa Clara county
claims 120,000. The frnit, as far as
can be ascertained, has never been
troubled by the curculio, or plum
weevil, so destructive to it in the East
ern States and in Europe, Lately vast
quantities of this excellent fruit have
been pitted and dried by the Alden pro
cess, in which shape they are sold in
bulk at twenty-five cents per pound,
and in caddies at forty cents. The
California cherries are the finest in the
world, unquestionably, as regards size
and flavor. A great deal of damage is
done to them by the birds, but the loss
is much less than would be sustained
by the depredations of the curculio and
other pests to vegetation which are de
stroyed by the winged messengers of
the air. The crop this season is large
and excellent. In Nevado county two
tons of cherries will be sent this year
to Colfax station, at ten cents per
pound. The cherry culture is a very
profitable one. Oue hundred trees will
stand on an acre of ground at twenty
one feet apart, and an acre of the red
land of the foothills will yield a crop
worth one thousand dollars. The Ger
man prune is represented by seven
thousand trees. Several companies
have gone into the business of drying
this popular article of dessert with
great success, the dried fruit being
equal to the best imported, and, in
fact, some of it is palmed oil and sold
as the German prune
fios ant) jrrrs.
The broad-leaved, green and shady
fig tree, with its clusters of pear-
shaped juicy purple and green frnit, is
represented in California by nearly
ninety thousand trees. Frost is its
great climate enemy, and the genial
warmtn of the Sacremento basin, and
the southern counties are its greatest
helps to prolific development. In the
coast valleys, where not troubled with
fog, it produces one good crop annally,
but in the southern part of the State,
and in other favorable localities, it
yields two, three, and even four crops
per pear. As an instanca oi tne re
markable prolific power of this tree, it
is related that Mr.Kuight.by continued
high temperature, produced, in Eng
land, as many as eight crops in twelve
months. A fig tree on the estate of
Mr. darken, in Folsom, Sacramento
county, a few years ago, produced four
crops of excellent fruit in one year, al
though no care whatever was taken of
it. In the colder countries of Europe,
it is kept dwarfed, in order that it may
receive the benefit of the heat of the
sun reflected from the earth. The
most common varieties in California
are the old Mission Brown and the
White Smyrna. The former is most
prolific.but the latter yields larger figs,
with a better flavor. The dried fig is
equal in flavor, but does not present so
fine an appearance as the imported ar
ticle. The two varieties of the almond, the
hard shell and the paper sjell, are rep
resented by about forty thousand trees.
This tree resembles the peach very
closely, and is subject to the curl. It
is not so hardy as the peach, being
more easily injured by frost, but is a
favorite in the market.
The English walnut, represented by
twenty-five thousand trees, is a very
profitable nut. It falls from the trees
when ripe.and can be left on the ground
several months without danger of loss.
It is extensively cultivated in Los
Angelos, Sonoma, Santa Barbara, Sao
ramento and Solano counties.
THK OLTVC
The consumption of olive oil on this
coast is very great, so much so that
the olives raised in Los Angelos will
not be sufficient to supply the demand
for many years to come. Olives have
never been extensively cultivated here,
for the reason that there is no home
market for the crude oil, but there is
now a sufficient quantity grown to man
ufacture the oil for the local market,
Speaking npon this subject, the Los
Angelos Herald says :
"The same process by which Mr.
Carre ras.of the Los Angelos Petroleum
Refining Company, reduces the heav
iest crude oil to a first class illuminat
ing fluid at a cost of two cents per gal
lon, and within twenty minutes' time,
will also regne olive oil, and make it
equal to the best article manufactured
in Europe. This is an important dis
covery to the people of this valley.
Tne cultivation oi tne oiive is very
prfltable where there is a demand for
the crude oil, and the fact that we can,
through Mr. Carrera's method, produce
an article superior to that imported
from Europe for less money, will give
an impetus to olive culture not antici
pated a lew montns ago. J. no iruu
may be successfully grown in almost
any part of the valley. This discovery
developes another important industry
. . . r ... . , . . i
wnicn will ename us to retain as uumc
many thousands of dollars now sent
abroad; to export an article of com
merce instead of import it, and will also
enhance the value of real estate,''
PKASS AJTD AFFLXS. "
The different varieties of peart most
popular here are the Dearborn seed
ling. Bonny Gifford, Bartlett, White
Doyenne SeckeL Winter Nellis and
Easterbury. These mature in the or
der they are named, one coming in as
the other goes out The Bartlett pear
for size and richness of flavor is un
equalled, and is held in high estima
tion in the East. The pear trees in
Santa Clara this season have been very
much injured by pests in the shape of
small worms and spiders. In some in
stances these little worms, which are so
small that tney can hardly be seen by
the naked eye, strip the trees nearly
oearoi louage. Mr. J. U. A. Uallou,
an experienced horticulturist, has
certained that they appear in greater
numbers ana do greater damage when
the trees are close together, and where
tne land is wet and nndrained,
There are several hundred varieties
of the apple as well as the pear grown
in the State. At our agricultural exhi
bitions the display of this fruit cannot
be matched by any other display in the
New or Old World. A large export
trade of apples and pears is carried on
with the East. The California apple is
not equal to that from Oregon, although
it possesses many points of excellence
maturing earlier and holding out
later, but surpasses the European and
Eastern apple in size. Indeed, there
are some varieties which more resemble
turnips in size than apples.
THE GRAPE.
Nowhere else in the world does the
vine yield a more bounteous or certain
crop, and nowhere is the quality of the
fruit surpassed. Though the produc
tion of wine, owing to carelessness in
selecting the varieties, ignorance of
proper modes of manufacture, and un
friendly legislation, has not on the
whole been profitable, the business is
emerging from the clouds which encom
passed it, and will soon take rank as
one of the. most reliable and profitable
industries of the Pacifio coast. When
this is the case millions of acres in the
foothills will be covered with vines,and
the products of our vineyards will be
famous throughout the world. For
nr
years the production of table grapes
and the manufacture of raisins will be
more profitable than the making of
wine. The fines varieties of foreign
grapes grow on our hillsides without
irrigation, and produce bountifully
snch grapes as cannot be grown else
where on the continent, The demand
for them, both at home and abroad, is
every year growing larger, and as soon
as we are able to do so, the teeming
valley of the Mississippi and even the
Atlantic States will be supplied from
our gardens.
The grape crop in Los Angelos this
fall will be larger than that of any pre
vious year. One of the largest vine
yards in Sacramento county is that of
John Miller, located on the celebrated
Florin wine belt, which extends from
the American River to within a short
distance of the Cosumnes, and spreads
ont east and west fully ten miles. Mr.
Bernhardt, of Auburn, Placer county,
has thirty acres of land, on which are
nineteen thousand grapevines ranging
from two to twelve years of age. Tie
vineyards this season have been at
tacked by two pests one a green worm,
the "tobacco worm," and the other
dark on the back, with yellow lines,
called the "Columbia worm." Each
has a horn about one-fourth or one
half of an inch long on the posterior
part of the back. In tobacco planta
tions they were destroyed by taking
them by the horn and dashing them on
the ground, their size making it easy to
find them.
The making of raisins is destined to
become one of the most important ob
jects of horticulture. Millions of
pounds are annually imported by the
people of the United States, and it will
not be long before all the money we are
sending abroad for this article will be
kept at home, and poured into the
pockets of Califoonia fruit-growers.
The Malaga and Muscat have both been
thoroughly tested, and produce a grape
that can profitably be made into raisins
excelled in quality by none in the
world.
Many of the vines are very profitable,
paying as mcch as $600 net per acre,
and some eveu as much as $2,000. The
Flame Tokay vines bear rccasionally
15,000 pounds to the acre, tnaking the
gross yield equal to $2,40J, at an ex
pense of not less than $200. The white
Tokay, the Muscat of Alexandria, the
black Melvoisie, the golden Chasselas,
the rose of Pern, the black Hamburg
and the white Hamburg, in places near
San Francisco, have yielded more than
$200 per acre. The average crop in
California is 8,000 pounds to the acre,
in France 3,000, and in Ohio 5,000.
Thirteen pounds of grapes make a gal
lon of wine. This gives nearly 600 gal
Iocs per acre. There are many vine
yards of more than 100,000 vines each
in the State. The great wine as well
as grape region of California are the
valleys of Sonoma and Napa. Some of
the vineyards cover hundreds of acres,
and much of the soil on which they
thrive best is useless for other produc
tions. LEMON'S A!TD OBAXOES.
The California lemon is not equal to
the Malaga lemon. It is too thick
skinned and deficient in juice. From
December last until June there were
received at San Francisco from Los
Angelos 4,544,140 oranges, 400,230 lent
ons, and ks.uuu limes.
"IMIate's) Wife."
Gustave Dore's new painting with the
above title is described by the Liondon
Academy as a wonderful drama on can
vas. The picture represents rilates
wife standing on a staircase with an
aneel on her left hand : the right wing
of the angel is ruddy with the reflected
glow of the torches in the deserted bed
room ; the left is purple with visionary
light. He is opening her spiritual sight
to the scene of the morrow in the
prajtorium where Pilate appears, and
to much beside. Pilate's wife and the
angel stand at the top of the picture, at
the spectator's left hand ; the scene in
the prietorium faces them, above, and
near to them on the left, is a balcony,
where the oppressed of all ages seem to
be stretching their cnained nanas to
the great victim of oppression ; below,
at the bottom of the right side of op
pressors ; between them is the proces
sion to Calvary, which transforms itself
into another procession, which seems
meant for the eternal crusade of hu
manity, with warriors in mail, and pre
lates with gleaming crosiers, marching
up to a cross that gleams amid the
hierarchies of heaven.
One of a party of Eastern men offered
a miner a half-dollar for showing them
through the Nevada silver mines. He
looked at the money a moment, and
then, turning to the Easterner, said:
May I ask yon now mucn you are es
timated at home to be worth T" "About
.OOO, was the reply. "Well," said
the miner, "I guess I won't take yonr
half-dollar. I made a quarter of a mil'
lion tha last month."
Clairvoyants.
There are many singular occupations ;
in London, some of them as precarious '
and peculiar as that of providing peo-.
nlAwith .mnlr.il nlda.n.1 hi,K
to iook at an eclipse; out as a rule
those of the more occult kind, which i
appeal to a belief in mysteries bevond
the power of reason to comprehend,
only make themselves known for busi
nesa purposes thronph special channels
of communication. Recentlv.however,
a "professional elairvovnte" has been
openlv askinir for an opportunity of
hiring a residence in the neighborhood
of Mayfair. From this we may pre-
sume that the trade or art of the clair-
voyanteis looking up. Mayfair sug
gests, also, that the gift or accomplish
ment of reading the present through
stone walls, and of reciting incidents of
the past with a miraculous accuracy, is
appreciated in quarters in which there
would be but a cool reception for the
ordinary wise woman with her dirty
turban and pack of cards. The clair-
voynte, however, is just as much a
scandid to tha enlightenment of th
age as the sixpenny fortune-teller. The
former, indeed, may charge a good
round sum for her services of an even
ing in the private drawing-room of a
West End client, while the Utter seems
in as bad a plight as ever. The evil one
was said to leave the witches who were
bound to his behests. The police wonld
never think oi intruding upon the
seance of a Mayfair claiivovante, while
a constable often runs to earth the de
graded Meg Merrilies who frequents a
less distinguished beat. To be sure,
the latter cozens and cheats ignorant
servants and uneducated folks, while
the former operates upon people with
whom money is no object when Ihey
have a taste to indulge.
That the protessional clairvoyante
should yet flourish amoDg us is just as
disheartening as the fact that Moll
White still obtains credence in the
country.that "love philters" are offered
I for sale in town, aud that fortune-tel
lers ini nnl .ntirl Ttinfc within tht
lers are not entirely extinct within the
postal district. But clairvoyance claims
a respectable relationship or partner
ship with spiritualism, of which we are
bound to speak with a certain amount
of respect when we find that a gentle
man, who has other claims to consider
ation besides proving that the earth is
not as flat as a table, is satisfied that
the laws of gravity can be suspended,
and that the human frame is capable of
being elongated and clasped together
again like a telescope. London St'v.
Nueces in Life.
Perhaps the first and great requisite
to perfect success in life is to be fully
persuaded in yonr mind what is the ob
ject you wish to attain. Many make
their first false step by a wavering, un
certain beginning. :Not quite snre what
meir fcruo aim m, lurj wt precious
time and aennire habits that will nrit I
them for any patient, continuous
...
energetio ltbor.
Success must depend, in a great de
gree, upon the determination to concen
trate one's self npon some one object.
1 he object of one s ambition, then,
fully and unchangeably decided, the
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nonetnalitv ami honesty shonl.l h nr. i
sued. There is no royal road to sue-
cess; for thongh, as David Conperfield j
haa'tnl.l , 1 hsnnv tJJnt anil
a j j i
haa told us. some happy talent and
some fortunate opportunity may form
the two sides of the ladder on which
men mount, the rounds of the ladder
must be made of stuff to stand wear
and tear.
For the first round there is perhaps
no better substitute than perseverance
perseverance that will lead one to
work, to go over and over the same dull
routine of what is often merely me
chanical and uninteresting to labor. It
is doubly needed at the commencement
of business, for here concentrate all the
great obstacles that impede the way, so
that it ofj.en seems that the first third
is the only really difficult portion of
the road to success.
Punctuality, though seemingly rack
ing among the lesser virtues, its ab
sence will occasion as great evils as
many a graver fault, and it cannot be
dispensed with in any of the depart
ments of life. The professional man is
ruined without it, and in a business
man its absence cannot be tolerated.
Honesty is. if from seltfsh motives
only, the best policy.
Honesty that I
mr 1 1 ii'ff man tint nnlv alimrA a lwhnn.
t ..t i,t . m.n -t nr nnwnrtl,T
mniin' hnni tht will tn,l intn :
all his dealings, that will allow no
shuffling or shirking of duty, no ap
pearance of wealth not actually pos
sessed, no extravagance of living for
himself or family that may not strictly
and knowingly be allowed, without
detriment to himself or his business,
or without injury to others.
These qualities combined will form
a strength of character sufficient to
overcome obstacles, and to insure suc
cess in life in any of its diverse pur
suits. They can never be dispensed
with.
The Trumpet a Life Preserver.
A trumpeter of a regiment stationed i
at the Cape of Good Hope drank so 'VI 1 "J ,,V . i L
i. w.-n.i8taDtheison his feet, looking at his
up, and in this situation his companions
carried him out ia the open air and laid
him down to get cool and sober. He
soon fell asleep, and a wild beast hap-!
pening along and thinking him dea5,
lifted him up and carried him off, ex-!
pecting to have a good meal of him. j
The fellow on awaking was horror-;
ferocious beast, who was making off to
the mountains with him as fast as pos
sible. But his fear brought him to his
senses, and seizing bis trumpet which
hung about his neck, he sonnded a
terrible blast, at which the beast, think
ing he had a dead man to deal with,
became as much frightened as the man
was with his situation. The prey was
dropped, and captor and captive,
equally alarmed, scampered in opposite
directions as fast as possible.
A Recent French-Decision.
The Tribunel de la Seine, a French
court, has recently made a decision
which will have a startling effect in
some quartors. It is to the effect that :
marriages solemnized at the residence :
of a foreign Minister, resident in France,
are not marriages at alL An Ambassa- :
dor a house is, lor diplomatic purposes, Christian, ii omy mil oi tne love oiuoa
considered a part of the country he . and man, and shedding around him
represents. That it is so for civil acts benign influences aa a natural result,
is denied by the decision in question, j can not help doing good.
Marriages solemnized at such residences
are not, according to this, to be consid-1 It wotXD be very mortifying to any
ered as having occurred in a foreign boy to be told that a dog excelled him
country, and are. therefore, not veeog-; in politeness. Dogs certainly set a
nised under the laws of France. It will , good example in faithfulness and devo
be wiae, therefore, for Americans who ; tion. mmmm,mm
ham heon married at the American I
Legation in Paris to have their mar- j
riages legalized, in France if they intend
remaining there, or in the country on .
their return,
Youths' Column.
Don't Throw Stoxes. Boys don't
throw stones I I have looked at it from
every side, and it is a dangerous busi
ness. Nine times out of ten the spirit
that whispers to boys that throw stones.
' "d prompts tuem to do it, is an ldle
i mischivous, careless, wicked spirit. It
- ! 8avs every time it sees a stone in Char
be a path, without giving him time to
tQink wht may come of it, "Now just
ee how far. or how straight, or how
! high you can throw it," Away it goes.
1 "nd "Oh ! just my luck !" a window is
broken,
I was in a beautiful new church, the
sexten came from the gallery shaking
his head and gritting his teeth. He
had a little round stone in his hand.
"I wish I had the boy that threw that.
! "ail1 he. "1'1 ier him out of his boots."
I x cuulu scarcely uiume mm lor ueing so
I ronKh, as he pointed up to one of the
nandsome windows that had a hole in
jt where the stone came through. I
wondered just how the boy who threw
t felt when he heard it crash. I have
! no doubt that he looked first this way
and then that and then ran away like a
coward.
I pity the boy that finds any amuse
ment in throwing stones at birds or
their nests, or among a herd of cows or
a flock of geese. It's every time the
old story over again of the frogs who
said to the boy, "That may be fun to
Jon. unt i'"8 death to us."
But I've known something worse to
come of throwing'stones than all this.
A bright-eyed little boy was playing on
the sidewalk one day ; a larger boy
wanted one of his playthings and was
refused. Qaick as a flash of light came
the thought. "I ll pay you for that !"
and a stone flyiug from the large boy's
hand stmck the little fellow between
the shoulders. If the boy who threw
that stone could have seen one of the
hours of suffering that followed that
cruel, revengeful act I am sure he
would never be very happy again. It
was not only one hour of suffering, bnt
four long years, and then death.
Fivb Cexts. Five cents each morn
inga mere trifle. Thirty-five cents
per week not much ; but it would bny
coffee and sugar for a whole family.
$18.20 a year and this amount invested
j in a savings bank at the end of each
i year, and the interest thereon at six per
1 cent, computed annually, would ia
twelve years amount to more than $870
enough to buy a good ftum in
the
West.
Five cents before breakfast, dinner,
and snpper, you hardly miss it, yet it
is fifteen cents a day SI-Oj per week
Enough to buy a small library of books.
Invest this aa before, and in twenty
years you have $3,000. Qune enough
to buy a good house and lot.
Ten cents each morning hardly
worth a second thought : yet with it
i , . - - ,
Toa b?7 P"!' of P'ns or P?1 ?f
thrpftil- iryintv ennts nr wfr it
would bny several yards of muslin.
S3G.50 in one year deposit this amount
as before, and you would have 81,310
in twenty years, quite a snug little for
tune. Ten cents before each breakfast.
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l ??" ou T i iT T 7 1 7
It WOiiul linv a Iwinlr for ill A rhililrpn
Si.10 a. w?ek. enonSn PT for Jear 8 !
S,AT oUP""" , -.TT iT'k
S103'2,b T1ew-Wlth 1- Z TO J bV
good melodeon, on which your wife
and daughter could produce sweet
music so pleasantly while the evening j
hours away. And ihis amount invested
as before, wonld in forty years produce
the desirable amount of $15,000.
Boys learn a lesson. If yon wonld
be a happy youth, lead a sober life, and
be a wealthy and influential man in
stead of squandering your extra change
invest it in a library or a savings-bank.
If you would be a miserable youth,
lead a drunken life, abuse yonr chil
dren, grieve your wife, be a wretched
and despisable being whito you live,
and finally go down to a dishonored
grave take yonr extra change and in
vest it in a drinking saloon.
A Polto Doo. Trip is a little tor-:
rier, with a black coat and a white
collar. Like "Old Dog Tray," he "is
ever faithful," and his sympathy for
any one who seems to be Buffering is ,
touching. i
Sometimes, when grandpa has a hard j
turn of coughing, he will stand beside
liim anJ crT hke a chilJ j
" u j uutauiuo iuu.im.ss lor ,
kittens. Une day a
family of yonng
the cellar. Trip
kittens was found in
was delighted, and immediately consti
tuted himself their chief guardian.
When he felt like having a frolic, he
would toss and tumble them as a cat
does a mouse, and the kittens seemed
to think it tine sport.
Trip is always delighted to see his
friends, and when asked to shake hands,
will put out his white paw as gracefully
as any city belle.
But his real politeness shows itself in
another and better way. His favorite
place for a nap is in grandpa's easy
chair. There he will curl himself up
on the leather-covered enshion, and
take more comfort than a king on a bed
of down. Bit at the first sonnd of
.. ..V, . . , " ;
i master, as much, as to say. "Will you ;
, , . ...
j ,f 1 it 'at. v, 1 t
U1? .It t!l
thank yon," j
UD """V . V" , ","lor" V" !
fther nap ; but if grandpa seems in-
cllned to 8lt down- the lltUo do at j
once ret,re9- , ,
. n1T nn. a . rQ. I
A .L8 !
over hia hook ha beiran to cod. A male I
goat noucea tne gentleman, ana con-,
sidenng the nodding to be a challenge
. .. , , .
lor m UUb, lb luva isvsihiuu, uruueu .
distance and ran npon Albion a son, '
. . , , - . . , - U. lUb LUC Kill. Vk VUUJ.UOIVIUU AO UU
giving him such a bntt as to throw him i " , B.
, . . t i . - ., i given at alt to more than one man in
on his back with his feet in the air. i ,, , . - ;. ;.
The victorious goat seemingly surprised , i?3v&t
and stood looking in mnte astonish- The satirical powers of Dryden were
ment at its kicking and screaming ' not surpassed even by those of Tope
victim. j himself, yet, it is not claiming too
much, perhaps, for the latter, to say
Tna sun is full of heat and light, and I that, in one or two instances, he snr
it asks no mentions aa to how it ahall ! passed his master. Dryden had quite
do good, but la perpetually pouring out j
its golden flood. The spring that ,
sparkles at the foot of the hill is f ull ; j
and asking leave of no one, is forever j
swelling forth its sweet waters. So the i
When men of sense approve the mil-
lion are sure to follow ; to be pleased,
is to pay a compliment to their own
taste.
arietics.
The workingman's favorite dish
Cavendish. Prairie grass is exported from Illi
nois to Liverpool to be made into
paper.
Aa expert printer will set about 23,
000 letters daily, his hand traveling
more than nine miles, and in the work
ing days of a year about 3,000.
Speaking well of all mankind is tha
worst kind of detraction, for it takes
away the reputation of a few good men
in the world by making all alike.
A Kansas minister lately took butter
in payment for a wedding fee. He said
it was coming it rather strong over him,
but it was butter than nothing.
A Philadelphia youth was recently
married to a girl who had refused him
eighteen times. He wishes now that
he hadn't asked her bnt seventeen.
A bridal pair were easily recognized
on the cars recently by the comfort they
took in making room for a third person
on a seat that was only intended to ac
commodate two.
By an order of the Emperor of China.
a collection of Chinese poems, from the
earliest times to the present, is to be
made. It is expected that the collec
tion will fill two hundred volumes.
It is a good rule for every one who
has a competency of fort une, to lav
aside a certain proportion of his income
tor pious and charitable uses : he will
then always give easily and cheerfully.
Never be ashamed of confessing your
ignorance, for the wisest man npon the
eartn is ignorant of many things, inso
much that what he knows is merely no
ticing in comparison with what hedoes
not know.
Fine black silk is now manufactured
at Grueteli, the Swiss settlement in
Grundy county, Tenn., which is pro
nounced by good ju.lges to be of a very
superior quality. It is an entirely new
industry in that State!
Head master (sweetly): "Have you
caught anything. Brown ?' Brown, the
truant: "No, sir; nothing, sir." Head
master (still more sweetly): "Well,
come to my stud;' at ten to-morrow
morning and yon shall catch some
thing." A Massachusetts man lately died
with a cigar in bis mouth, the physi
cians acceded to his request, he might
' smoke, and expressing the opinion that
it soothed Lis sufferings. It was only
"ashes to ashes." in accordauoe with
the prayer book."
Deprived by the progress of just and
liberal opinions, of that power which
at first she exercised, after the example
of the Spiritual lesiotisra of the Pa
ptcy. the English Church is now, in
almost every sense destitute of author
ity, ami lies at the mercy of her foes
and of her friends. To he qualified to
exert a more general and beneficial in
fluence, the CUurch must breathe with
her own lungs, speak with her own
month, and show the energy of a pnlse
aud a heart her own. Isaac Taylor.
The production of precious metals on
the Pacific Slope reached, during the
last qnarterof a century, Sl.J.eil.'JUJ.
of which
Ciliforuia mines produced
three-fonrths, nearly all of which Utter
was in gold. The amount obtained is
now increasing yearly, partly from the
onenin7 nf npn minM Ittit ihirfv front
the introduction of improved methods
of extracting the precious metals from
the ores. The yield of the Pacific
Slope.last year, wasS"0,287,43, against
STO.'J IC.'JU in 1472. The increase i
mostly in silver, a much more nseful
metal than gold, except for coinage.
A dog belonging to a gentleman who
lived near Chester was in the habit of
not only going to church, but remain
ing quietly in tho pew during service,
whetber the master was there or not.
I One S inday the dam at the head of a
lake in the neighborhood gave way, so
! that the whole road was innndated.
The conreg-.tion, in consequence, con
sisted of a few who cane from some
cottages close by, but nobody attended
from the great house. The clergyman
stated that, while reading the I'sLlms,
he saw his friend, the dog, come slowly
np the aisle, dripping with wet, having
swum to get to church. He went as
nsnal iuto the pew and remained to the
end of the service.
An East Saginaw.Mich., paper speaks
as follows cf the place nf its pnblica-
tion : "A city of 1S.OJ0 inhabitants,
without a wagon factory, a barrel-making
establishment, a boot and shoe
manufactory, a car shop, a single fac
tory to supply a tub, a pail, or article
made of wood for every day nse, and
millions of feet of the liest material in
the world unsold or rotting in the riv
ers and bayous. A city of groat conve
niences, capital aud energy, with one
pluning mill for retail work, one flour
ing mill, one small tannery, one furni
ture factory. Contrast these with 2X)
saloons and whiskey shops and oar
hundreds of idle workinenien, the ex
penditure of S15.000 to S20.0 a year
to support the poor, and it does not
make a good showing for the future."
It seems to be appointed, in order to
remind n, in
all we do, of the great
' laws of Divine government and human
,,', stroD-,T 'ffeet erT orJer of
aruilit tVif onniruwitwin fn tla taa
:.l l. nnA...ns.l . il,nl,i.
leM 2ience the popular delight in
rhythm and metre, an.l in simple musi-
ca, melodiea. But it ia i90 .pointed
that power of composition in the fine
arts should be an exclusive attribute of
?reat intellect. All men can more or
less copy what they see, and, more or
andinvestigation are ... common to
us
all. so that the decision of lnferi-
rf fa fc u , on tion of
rf J & ha9 , betr
drarte. A has a better memory 1
B, and C reflects more profoundly than
I. i . i. . i : r. . I . ; : .
n exalted idea of satire, and was apt
w "go on renning in tuo p
of his satirical cffosionsto a much
greater extent than tne intrepid ana
apparently unstudied styles of his pieces
ould seem to imply. "Dryden values
himself, indeed, on the jinenc of his
satire, in a comparison I have seen
quoted (so says a distinguished critic,)
his words being as follows : 'There is
a vast difference betwixt the slovenly
b jtchering of a man, and the fineness
of a stroke that separates the head from
the body, and leaves it standing in its
place.' A man may be capable,' aa
Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant,
'of a plain piece of work, a bare hang
ing ; but to make a malefactor dia
sweetly was belonging only to her husband"
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appoplexy. This b literally.