Ilow a Fruit Merchant Got Rich Pell, the famous fruiterer, is also in the receut mortuary list. He was a very re markable man. As a gentleman farmer he became immensely rich, which is cer tainly a rare ocourance. He had a line house in Fifth a\ enue, where he spent his winters, and his place on the Hudson was also conducted in a splendid manner, but he made it profitable. He told me that the secret of the family success was to be found in two apple trees which his grand father brought from Newtown (Long Is land) to the Hudson liiver farm. These trees became noted for their fruit which was called 'Newtown pippins,' and gradu ally a largo orchard was formed. The demand still increased and the orchard grew also. In time the fruit became popu lar in Europe, and additional trees were planted to meet the still grow ing demand until they numbered two thousand, each of which yielded a cash a crop. Pell had studied the art of fuiit culture and gave some interesting information on this sub ject. He told me that his pippins were carefully selected, the inferior quality being sent to the cider mill, while the choice fruit was (after sweating) packed in boxes, each containing one hundred, and then shipped abroad, where it met a ready sale. As I never before heard of "sweating apples," I will mention a few details whit h Pell gave me. I observed on his place a stone building with long windows, which looked like a church. This, lie said "was one of his apple houses." The fruit when picked was placed on the floor to a depth of three feet, and was left in this condition at least ten days. During this time the excess of moisture drew to the surface and was evaporated by a cur rent of air passing through the window. This process did much to prevent decay and gave his fruit a distiuctive feature. Another point in his culture was the method of pruning. It is well known that orchards have a "bearing year," but Pell learned that by proper use of the knife and saw lie could control his trees, and he thus had a certain number "bear ing" in alternate years. This method gave him a steady crop. Pell studied the apple because it brought wealth, but he was in other respects an admirable far mer and has left his heirs one of the most productive estates on the banks of the Hudson. It will require, however, a taste and a degree of skill like ids own to maintain its high order of success.— A 'etc York Utter to the Utica Herald. Daily Devotion* I come to my devotions this morning, on an errand of real life. This is no ro mance and no farce. I have no hopeless desires to express. 1 have an object to gain. 1 have an end to accomplish. This is a business in which I am about to en gage. An astronomer does not turn his telescope to the skies with a more reason able hope of penetrating those distant heavens, than I have of reaching the mind of God, by lifting up my heart at the throne of grace. This is the privilege of my calling of God in Christ Tesus, Even my faltering voice is now to be heard in heaven, and it is to put forth a power there, and results of which only God can know, and only eternity can develop. Therefore, 0 Lord! thy servant fii.deth it in his heart to prey this pr.<yer unto Thee? " The young Christian thinks it would be best that he should be always lively, zealous, aud engaged in religion; that he should feel faith, love and humility in constant exercise, and be like a flame of tire in his Master's service. But our blessed Teacher thinks otherwise. He knows that the most effectual, and indeed the only way, to mortify sin in our hearts is to make us hate it; and the way to make us hate it is to suffer us to feel it. 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