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3PCIO3E7TXCJILIA.
HAVE FAITH AND STRUGGLE ON.
A sw llgtv is the Spring
Came to our granary, and 'neath the eaves
Essayed mnke h rest, ind there did bring
Wet earth and .straw and leaves,
Day after day she toiled
With patient art, but ere her work was crowned,
Some sad mishap the tiny fabric spoiled,
And dashed it to the ground.
She found the ruin wrought,
But, not cast down, forth ftom her place she flew
And with her mate fresh earth anti grasses brongh ,
And built her nest anew.
But scarcely had she placed
The last soft feather on its ample floor,
When wicked hand or chance again laid waste,
And wrought the ruin o'er.
But still her heart she kept,
And toiled again; "and last night, hearing calls,
I looked, and lo! three little sWallowe slept
I%ithirr the earth-made walls.
What truth is here, oh, man!
Hath Hope been smitten in its early dawn?
Hath cloud o'creastlEty purpose, trust, or plan?
Have FAITIT, and strugg!e. or 1
HEART-DEATHS.
BY EDNA DEAN PROCTOR
'if eerie oft-die bitter deaths before
T 4.0 breath is breathed nway,
And number wear z twilights o'er,
Ere the last e i ying gray.
I've sometimes looked on closed eyes,
And rola od hands of snow,
And said, "It was no sacrifice;
The heart went long ago."
blessed Death, that makes our bed
Beneath the daisies deep!
nuicking Lice, when hearts have fled,
And eyes must watch and weep!
Ita X el4O-e3C.111-MALI_NT-Nr.
From the St. Louis Prem.
OUTWITTING . HERSELF
TIIE "COURSE OF LOVE:" IN MISSOURI
• Out in the old Lehomme road, not a hun
dred miles from this city, lives Mrs. Over
plus Ilempbale, a very worthy and very
wealthy lady. made a widow by the careless
shooting of some Federal soldier, who drop
ped the worthy Overplus Noronhale while
he was manfully striving, for his rights in
company with old Pap Price.
Mrs Hempbale has a daughter Laura, a
fair young girl of some 19 summers, and pas
sessed of a wartu,susceptible, but true heart,
and who. much to her aristocratic mother's
disgust, lately conceived a violent passion
f..r a young house carpenter in this city, la•
militirly known as Jack Plaine Now Jack
is a gay, dashing young fellow, working like
a steam engine when he does work, and
sprecing equally as hearty when he is "on
it," very likely to catch the fancy of a warm
hearted, and blooming young girl like Lau
ra, but not calculated to suit an old lady's
idea for a hu'band. So Jack, after the first
visit was peremptorily forbid the house
The aspect of "our domestic relation" did
not meet with approval from 'either of the
two young folks, and a rebellion, to be pros
ecuted covertly, was agreed upon instanter
Sundry clandestine meetings had been ar
mnged at a "friend's" house in this c ity,
Which seemed to work pretty well, but at
last the old lady got wind'of the matter, and
utterly forbid Miss Latin from leaving the
house.
A month or - two slipped by, ~ --tend
mother supposing the foolish attachment
had . worn off, relaxed her vigilence, or seei.-
ed to, yet all the while keeping a prcty
t i..
sharp eye on Laura. After a while she d
tested certain movements and praccedin
that led her to suspect that Laura was in,
communication with Jack, and she resolved
to resort. to a ruse of some kind to ascertain
what shape things were taking,.; but before
she had quite determined what manner of/
proceedings to adopt, she was informed by a
neighbor 'that Jack and Laura had arran,g,
ed a plan of elopement. Her mind was
quickly Marie up. She annnuneed to Laura_
the next morning that. she Was going to Bell
vile on a visit, to be gone three days, and
that she most be a good girl and not tear the
house down while Are was gone.
That night Jack knew 'of it,and as he read
the nioe,little note that had bade him •icome
over early and stay until mother coineS hack,
and what a splendid time we will have," he
smiled, kneeked the ashes off from his cigar,
and resolved "of course be would "
Jack went over, but there, is no earthly
use in our attempting to describe the delec
table things he eujoyed; it was sugar season
on that plantatina aura. Just before dark,
while Jack was running - over full of the glo
ry of the occasion, in rushes Miss Laura's
black waiting woman with—
... Loy bress my brak soul, chirp of thar
aint ole missus at the gate, sure !"
"My lord ! Dinah, what shall we do with
Jack ?"
'fop ,'em in dat ar closet der, Miss Lau
re !' And Jack was popped into the closet
is a .twinlaing." ~ ..,
~ _
In stalked the oldiady,-an&afte r sharply
s'a l tiOulaisi,Pie diticoiserted . and bluebilg
counteaasoe.of. Lauri, felt Sur's, that Jack
bed,been there._ . •
.. . , . .
""Mime here, Laura. Now you
can't de-
ceive ape. net abominOle Plaine"has beel
here :nd , bu and he have flied up a .runi:‘
way Mato to come • e•p"g'it .'Oh—go ,
bad thing you,
_alter your bringing up, to:1
treat me so. But soil 'will find that your
mother is no foTtI — IWII-frodr-she's-too-shttrip
for you, my lady,, Sooner than you 'should
marry that Jack Plume I'd 'see you "did in
your grave. He's not going to sgnander my,
money, I can assure you." •t
The old lady rose, and, going to a_clothed
press returned with several co'mforte'rs and a
pillow, and walking.up to the , closet where
Jack was concealed, threw them in, with a
flirt, and turning to the trembling Lauri,
said :
"Now march in here, miss; step along, I'll
see that you don't , get nnwherds near. 'that
low flung mechanic this night 1"
Laura whimpered and protested, that she
did not want to go, declaring that h©r moth._
er-would - bd - sorry - fer - thzft - Some time.
But without paying any attention to het i
protestations, her mother gave her a push'
shut the door, locked ,it, and triumphantly
put the key inVer pon'e,f; and in duo tie
went to bed. Pretty curly in the mornic. i g
the old lady rose, and without waiting /to
dress, fished the key out of her, pocket, and
opening the closet door to bid Laura to come
forth, gazed wildly for an instant, and then
uttered a piercing scream Recovering her
self speedily„ she staggered away from the
door, and called faintly, "Laura, Laura dear!
Go into the kitchen and see about the b
fist !" Then preasautly; "Jack, 1s ay
Jack !"
Jack came forth with a very "son ic-law
lookish" air, and answered, "Well, madam,
what is it ?"
"Jack, do you know anything abeut . a
farm ?"
"Not to speak of, marm."
"You can read and write and cypher, I
suppose ?" • , \
"Nothing to brag of., marm."
"Well, at any rate, Jack, I think that af•
ter breakfast you and Laura may as well go
down co the city and get married, for \ I'm
tited of watching you, that's a fact."
The Railroad Engineer
One of our raiiro4d enkinoers, sonic years
since, was running ao express train of ten
well filled ears. It was in the night and a
very dark night too. His train was behind
time, and he wasipltLil,gttLee_tagin.c---1 , •
u most, Epee o which it was capable, in or
der to reach a certain point at the proper
hour. He was running on a straight and
level track, and at this unusual velocity,
when a conviction struck him that he must
stop. 'A something seemed to tell me, said
he, 'that to go ahead was dangerous, and that
I must stop if Iwould save life. •
1 looked beck at my train and it was all
right. I strained my eyes and peered into
the darkness, and could see no signal of dan•
ger, nor anything betoken danger, and there
in the d.iytimc I could have seen five miles.
I listened in the working of my engine, tried
the water, looked at the scales, 'and. all was
right I tried to laugh myself 'out of what
I then 'considered, a foolish fear; but like
Banquo's ghost, it would not go down at any
bidding, but grew stronger in its hold upon
me, I thought of the ridicule I would have
heaped upon me if I did stop; but it was all
of no avail.
The conviction—for by this time it had ri
pened into a conviction—that I must stop
grew stronger, and 1 resolved to stop. I shut
off, hiew the whistle for brakes accordingly,
I come to a dead halt, got off and went a
head a little without saying anything to any
body v hat was the matter. I had a lamp in
my hand, and had gone about sixty feet, when
I saw what convinced me that premonitions
are sometimes possible I dropped the lan
tern from my terveless grasp, and satdown
on the track utterly'unatile to stand.'
Ile goes on to tell us thrt there he fund
th:.t. Some one had drawn a spike which had
'mg /fastened a switch liil r and opened a
,
•witch which had always been kept locked,
),
which led on to a track—only abou'l one hun
dred and fifty feet long—Lwhich terminated
itt a rt•ne quarry ! Alere it was wide
open, and had-I-not obeyed-my premonitory
warning—call it what, you will—l should
.r ,
have, run into it, and ail the end of the track,
only•about ten rods lonlg, my heavy engine
and train, moving at ilre rate of fr' , rty-five
i,
ti,es-ttn_hour, would have come in o colli
sioi/with a so lid-wall of -tetek - eightetn feet
h'oo
The eonserinences, had I done so, can nci
titer be imagined or dscribea, but they could
by no possibility have Leen otherwise than
:lolly horrible'. No one can here doubt of
a special interposition of God by which from
calamity most terrific, hundreds o f lives
were wonderfully spat - ed.—flume Month's.
...._.
We understand that a well known busi
ness man of 'his city who has
,a wife and
family, has given rise to a good "deal of talk
hy his attentions to a fair and frail damsel.
Ti<entletuan is in New York, and wrote
aU I , ffetioniite letter to the object of his guil
ty passi)k urging her_to—join—him and en
elosed fiftPthilliirs to pay her traveling ex
penses. At the same time he wrote a lov
ing letter to his wife, deploring the urgency
of the business which kept him away from
the bosom of his family, and bewailing the
tediew and tastelessness of the hours linen
livened by her dear presence. By some odd
fatality the letters were mixed, and the wife
got the one iutended s , for the mistress. She
had scented a ro lent" fdr some time but now
there was no room for doubt. Pocketing the
fifty dollars as so much good out of evil, she
placed the fatal letter in the hands of a law
yer, who will proceed to bring suit for a •di
vorce.--latlionczpolis 11, raid.
Tom Thumb, wife and baby have return
ed from a profitable tour in .Europe. It is
stated, as a curiosity, that the baby earned,
as a show, enough money in a year to sup
port it comfortably during a long lire.
HAPPY AT HOME
ing slowly and silently down the stream •o
life, shows4ery plainly, which 'way the tide
:cis. - And when Mrs:Purple says, with a
grosei . 'MS? husband never spends his even
ings at hove,' it is natural 'to inquire within
one's Self' why. it is that Mr. Purple finds oth
er resorts eeimuoh more attractive than the
household altar !
-1 1 - d&ft - ste - wlry-he-nara-be_a
doriiestio,' says ,11rs.'Purple.
Well,' why is it • There is a reason for
everything in the :wnrld,- says philosophers,
and , ' there , must be a reason for this.
':ln•tbe first place, Mrs. Purple is one of
those unfortunate housekeepers whose work
is never - done: . There is always something
dragging—a room to be swept , lamps to be
trimmed--fretful-babies-to be put—to ,sleepi
while one eye is on the broilingliaeat and the
other on .the muddy footprint unwittingly
left by -Mr. Purple on the doorstep. 'There
Purple, I knew just bow it ;would be. I.
wonder if you know the use of a scraper or
a' door mat. I should -think-. l after. all the
time I've spent in cleaning up—' .
And 'Mrs. Purple goes off into a monoton•
ons recapitulation ofber• troubles and trials
that has the effect of a lullabY upon the ba
'by, however trying it may be to the feelings
of the baby's father.
Moreover, Mrs. priple, with all her celeati- I
ing up,' does not understand ,The elementary
principles of keeping a home neat. Things
are alwaysi 'round in the way;' table-covers
put on awry; dust ashes / under , the grate;
curtains torn away from their fastenings and
pinned up until Mrs: Purple can 'find time'
to readjust them . Somehow it looks forlorn,
and desolate, and.unhomdilike when the mas
ter of the house comes in at night. Mr.
Purple, man-like, can't t 11 where the defee
li.on lies—he don't analyze the chill that
comes over his heart as he crosses the thresh
hold—he oriii , knows that 'things don't look
ship-shape !' And so he takes his hat when
his wife's back is turned and sneaks igno-•
miniously off, glad to get away from the
dead-alive fire, the dusty room, and Mrs
Purple's tongue. Who can blame the man ?
Mr. Purple may be 'lazy, and 'careless,' and,
'selfish,' very likely he is---rnost men have a
tendency that "way—but nevertheless h e
don't like to be told of it aver and over a-
;vim-in - that persistentTi*.W sort of may
that reminds you of an old hen running froM
side to side in her coop, and poking her head
through the bars in the same place every sev
en seconds ! Mr. Purple naturally wonders
why his Wife don't occasionally allude to the
good qualities he happens to possess ; Mr
Purple has every inclination to be happy at
home, if his better half would only give him
a chance.
Of all the sweet-tinted pictures of domes
tic happiness that we find in the pages of
I[oly Writ, there is none that suggests more
comfort than Abraham sitting in his tent
door 'in tha heat of the day' under the shad
ow of the pam trees of .Mature. Depend up
on it, the good old patriarch never spent his
evenings away from home. He didn't be
lieve in 'just going across the plains to Lot's
house,' or 'running over to Sodom to hear
the news.' No,
Abraham liked to sit quiet
ly by his tent door, and very likely Mrs.
Sarah would come and lean over his shoul
der and chat with him after the Oriental
fashion 1 We have the very best of testimo
ny for knowing that she was very aimiable
under the ordeal of 'unexpected company,'
when 'the calf tender and good' was dressed,
and the 'three measures of fine meal' baked
on the hearth !
Um idea of looking beyond the sp'here of
home for enjoyment ist the root of our mod
ern evils. Itome ghoul be the very centre
and sanctuary of happin ss; antl whenit is
not, there is some screw loose in the domes
tic machinery! If you want to surround a
young men with the best possible safeguards,
don't ovorwhe!m them with maxims and clin
ilies as to what he is and is not to do, but
make his home happy in the evenings. Let
him learn that, however hard and cruel the
outside world may be, he is always sure of
sympathy and consideration in one place—
Woe betide the man,' what ever his lot - TA."
position, who has in his heart of hearts no
memory of a home whore the sunshine never
faded out and the voices viera,alwxys sweet.
Were he as Rothschild, he is a poor man.
THE UNCHANGEABLE LAND:—Things do
not change in the East. As Abraham pitch
ed h:s tent in Bethel, so does an Arab sheikh
now set up his camp; as David built his pal
ace on Mount Zion, so would a Turkish pasha
now arrange his house; in. every street may
be seen the hairly children of Esau,siquating
on the ground, devouring a mess of lentils
like that for which the rough hunter sold
his birth-right; along every road plod the
sons of Renhab, whose fathers, one thousand
years ago, bound themselves and theirs to
drink no wine, plant no tree, enter within no
door, and their children have kept the oath;
at every khan young men sit around the pan
of parched corn, dipping their worrel into
the dish; Job's plow. is still used, and the
seed is still trodden into the ground by asses
and kine olives are shaken from the bough
as directed by Isaiah; and the grafting of
trees is unchanged since the days of Saul.—',
The Syrian house is still, as formerly, only a
stone tent, as a temple was but a marble tent
What iveen now iu Bethany may be taken
is the ezNA likeness of the house of Laza
rus. where Mary listened and Martin toiled,/
or as the.house of Simon, the leper, whorl
the precious hoa of ointment was broken, and
whence Judas set out to betray his Muster
bieleente Al! the Year Round.
A mon in Cincinnati adopted an ox•igiUal
way of reducing household expenses. One
morning, when he knew•his wife would/ see
him, he kissed the servent girl. The house-
hold expenses were instantly reduced twelve
dollars per mouth.
Biliwnlow on 'Eteoonstrnotion
•
Governor ,Brownlow has been at MS hone
in Knoxville, For some days, recruiting 'his
shattered health. •t; t o lavas ma o — the
German 'Union League of that city, he ; ad.
dressed a large assemblage of his fellow'eiti
. ,
habit. float-
Zeus on `aturday evening. e says:—
I go With' the congress of the United
States, the so-called radicals.. I do not fear
to side with them. The namo of radical has
no terrors for me. .I have been known as a
"damned blue -light Whi g " and "damned
lunatic," rtikli — ehea
now let me off by calling me a "damned rad
ical."
ittle more
There are "two human monsters" now en•
gitging tbefttention of the American pets='
ple. Their names are upon 'every melee'
lips. I refer to Sumner and Stevens.—
President Johnson is engaged in a bitter
warfare against them. To abuse therie men
is the test of the loyalty Mr.—Johnson—pre—
scribes They are both men of ability and
unblemished private character. Stevens has
sacrificed more for the Union than any five
men in East Tennessee, and is a better man
than any_two men who ever • lived in the
South. lam . not. afraid to — endorse -those
men on my own "dung hill." We must all' I
be radicals or reconstructed Rebels. I pre
fer to side with the former class.
On the negro suffrage question, I have on
ly to say that, for the Tresent, I am willing
to be content with the privilege given them
to testify in the courts. I differ from Pres
ident Johnson on this subject. II says he is
in favor of allowing negroes to vote who can
road, who are worth 8250, who: babe been in
the army; and of gradually extending the
right of suffrage to all. It was through his
influence that we succeeded - in passing the
negro testimony bill through our Tennessee
Legislature. He wrote, letters, sent tele
grams, asking members to support the bill.
It was through his help the bill became a
law. Ho went further than I ever did. I
want them to be qualified first;-it willcome
in time. They voted in Tennessee prior to
1832
I have some secrets to tell of the freed
men's bureau bill. I think the bill was ob
jectionable; and it might have been proper for
me to veto it; but President Johnson ought
not to have done it. Gonerals Howard and
Fiske drew up that bill. They carried it to
the ' • • . ,-arid-read it to—h-im , -se -Lion A
section, He favored it,. General Fiske thought
the expense would be to great, but the Pres
ident said "no." Ile urged it; and promised
to sign it if Congress should pass it. It went
through both houses. In the meantitne.he
got into a personal quarrel with Sumner and
others, and when tbit bill came before him
for his signature he vetoed it, after having
promised . to favor it. This is a secret, hut
true,
I;arn iu favor of the test oath, and don't
wantlit repealed. and it won't be, thank God!
There are crippled rebels in 'Washington
who want to govern this country, nod I am
opposed to letting them in They wouldn't
help govern the country. President Jo
son can't carry a single State south of Ma
son's line but Kentucky, and I wish he
would carry that State to "hell."
They had forty papers in Tennessee, and
but seven of them are loyal. The thirty
three are bitter, artful, rebel sheets—many
of them edited by Northern Copperheads
—the meanest class of men that walk• on
earth • They are meaner than Judas Iscari
ot. Arnold and Burr were patriots compar
ed to them-
Our State Legislature is at a lock—twen
ty:one members bolted , They all endorse
President Johnson. They have left 200 lu
notice and 300 convicfs to starve. I have
provided money to teed them; if the next
Legislature refuses to refund the money I
will turn the crazy and the, convicted loose
on Middle Tennessee: It will be the best
physic they ever had.
The Governor closed h 3, warning all his
old friends to stand by the Goverment. He
predicted that the South would attempt an
other revolation.through the ballot box.—
If they did,-btl said, the Northern hordes
would grind them to powder.
Ragusa - of the - Deep
Four hundred years ago there . flourished
a city on the shores of the Adriatic, num
bering many thousands, filled with churches
and abounding in wealth, but remarkable for
the wickedness and cruelty of her people.—
They excelled the world in burning heretics,,
and persecuting miginaters of new ideas.—
Sudienly an earthquake sunk nine-tenths of
their city more than a hundred feet below
the level of the sea. The waves of the A
driatic closed over the spires, palaces and
prison houses, and nothing was left of RA
GUSA but a wretched scattering of suburbs
Peasants even to this day have a marvelous
legend, They say it went down so etraight
that scarcely a wall was broken or a steeple
prostrated; that the wicked inhabitants had
charmed lives, and are still under the do
minion of Neptune, following old pursuits
all unconscious of the world about them.—
As the Dal matian fisherman sails his shall
op over the quiet sea at eventide, looking
down into the still blue depths, he is startled
by. the hum of strange voices rising from the
streets of this city of old—strange, voices
Shrieking, imploring, cursing, in a dead lan
guage, but refusing to be hushed, even in
3eath. In this upper world twelve genera
iitions have passed away, kingdom and dy
nasties have risen nod fallen, the musket and
bayonet have supplanted the spear and bat
tle axe, the cannon, the battering-ram,knowl
edge has triumphed over force, and the fires
of bigotry are extinguished. Italy is free.
But dawn in the magic streets of the subma
rine city, all the habits and customs of the
middle ages are yet maintained.
"My dear Nicholas," said Lord Strangford,
"I am very stupid this morning : my brains
are all pins td the dogs." "Poor dogs !"
replied Irir friend.
lithe' Tax Bill. • ,
SourebodY. proposes 'the. following, , powitr.
mendtnentfc to the , ~ , ,
h issing a pretty girl, one ,
Fof kissing a very One,. tiioll3l
- the eT.tra,amotmt,being,added probably,
or'the '
For ladies:kisaing tine aliOthi3rOsvo •dol
lars. The tax is placed at this 'rate in order
to break up the custom altogether, it, being
regarded by the "Maria's" as a piece of in
excusable absurdity. , „,
For every flirtation, ten mite..
one
gift' is taxed five dollars: •,"-- •
For courting in )the! - kitchen, Awenty•fivs
eents. • : •
. Courting in the sifting room, fifty cents.
Courting in the parlor," one
Courting in a romantic place, 'five dollars;
and fifty cents for each;offence thereafter.
See-a latiyiloure froni'church; 'twenty-five
cents each offence. •
Seeing tt , Jady hetne,from th.eibitne society,
five cents, the. proceeds to In devoted to the
relief of disabled army chaplains..„
For a lady who paints, fifty cents. •
For wearing a low-necked dress, 'one dol
lar.
For each , etirl on a 'lady's head, above ten,
five cents. ". •
For any unfair deVice for entrapping young
men into matrimony, five dollars. • .
For wearing hoops larger than. eight feet
in 'circumference, eight cents for 'e:wl hoop.
Old bachelors over thirty, are taxed ten
dollars, over forty, 'fifty dollars, over fifty,
sixty llars, and sentenced to banishment in
Utah.
Each pretty lady to be taxed from twenty
five cents to twenty-,five dollars, alie to fix
the estimate of her own beauty. It is
thought that a very, large:amount will be re
alized' from this provision-
Each boy-baby,. fifty cents.. •
Each girl-baby,'ten eents.l
Mimilies having more than eight ,babies
are not ro he taxed, and for twins, a premium
of forty dollars will be paid out of the fund
accruing from the tax on old bachelors,
Each Sunday .loafer on the street corners
or about the church doors, to be taxed at his
full value, which is about two cents.
Col. Eli Parker, an Indian, and one of the
. ari th - rti Gen. tt rant, has just
returned from a lengthened tour of inspec
tion at the. South, .undertaken to ascertain
what further reduction of the army could
be safely made. He, wearing his uniform;
waS'struck by the redundant professions of
loyal suffinission which everywhere giecte.d
him. These were so frequent - as at last' to
excite his suspicion. Ho clothed himself
in citizen's garb, and thereafter passed as a
member of the Choctaw nation, well educa,
ted and intensely pro-silvery tribe of the
Southwest. This disguise unloosed the latch
strings to their secret thoughts; and there
after he heard not one loyal word, except
when, in pursuance of his duty, ho was with
our own officers. The most malignant dis
loyalty, the most vindictive hatred, the fier
cest., though suppressed, ,determination to
hide their time, yet wreak revenge, was
everywhere made visible to the man whose
color and assumed relation made them con
fident of sympathy'.
While Gen Grant was making his trip to
Montreal, it was currently reported at 'Alan
,
I chaster, N. IL that he would pass through
that city, over the Concord railroad. So the
waggish ticket-master at that station inform
ed a few friends one morning that Gen. Grant
was expected on the afternoon train. Ac
cordingly at that time a large crowd assem
bled, and when the train came in they were
gratified with the sight of a large new en
gine,
bearing the name of our great soldier.
Among the victims of mis placed curiosity
was a jocose lawyer, familiarly known as
"Sam." This apostle of Blackstone saw the
engine and the sell at the same time, and
comprehending bia situation at a glance, bol
ted incontinently for the street and his of
fice, As he reached the former, he was ask
by a knowing one, if he had seen the gener
al. "0, yes" said Sam, indifferently
-If ow - did-he-appear -*I" —"Smoking-as -us
ual."
WHEN TO BEalll.—qhat you may find
success,' said Rev. Charles Brooks, in an .‘d.
dress' to boys, let me tell you how to proceed.
To night begin your great plan of life. -Y ou
have but ono life to live, and it is immeasu
rably important that you do not make a mis
take, To-night begin carefully. Fix your
eye on the fortieth year of your age, and say
to yourself, 'At the•age of forty I will be a
temperate rian,•will be an industrious man,
an economical man, a benevolent man, a well
bred man, a religious man, and a useful Man.
I will be such an one.' 1 resolve and 1 will
stcrrut to it.' My young friends, let this res
elution be firm es adamant; let it staid like
tho oak which cannot be *hid shaken,'
"I was a sugar-planter once, but I didn't
make anything by it," said a yankee ostler
to a company of Maine capitalists whom he
overheard talking on the hotel steps about
going South to buy up plantations, and work
them — on - a-large scale. 'You a sugar•plant
er, Josh!" exclaimed one of the capitalists,
with great surprise; "when was that? Tell
us what you know about it." "'Twas when
E. buried my old sweet-heart."
A man stopping his paper, wrote to the
editor: i think folkes ottont spend their mu•
ny for palm my dady didn't an everybody
cez he wuz the most intellyginest man in the
kuotry-and got the sruarterest fatuttly .uv boil
that ever dogged taters."
General Nye says that "Congress maybe
able to reconstruct the Southern States, but
neither they nor the devil will he able to ie•
ehostruct the Wollloll—they are perfectly
AWFUL:
:haste on: I ruuing
I.:Xever use e*.or hathheiiii pruning.
Th'e l blows strike the fiber,,.and the whOle
'2. Take elf the limbs as nearly as possible
orr-a-level-with-the-branches - w-hick ynu cut
from. • it-will heal' much quicker and also
smoother.--
3. Neer leave a stub—that is, don'-tleave
a part of the branch hetweed'the frlaCe where '
spurs come out, but cut close to the spur and
the viound will - heal r over. ' The rth'on 'for
this is that'actiOn eajiata in a portion of the
,bratiCh left unless there.ia..a: joint, a place
where a spur comes out, and where leaves
will grow beyond ir, in pruning -a ..grape , -
Vircit is customary .to leave half an ingh to
an inch,„Uuder the supposition that it will
prevent bleeding.
4. Never prune a tree - when the-sap—will--
keep the saw' wet, as it will in March; •A
pril and May; and even in Februaryi if there'
is a succession of four or five days of moth t
ale weather and a hright'sun.
6 -From -the-15th-to-the-31th_of_J une,
and after leaves have fallen, and until
the tree •freezes, are the proper times to
prune. Never prune, during th e spring
months, notwithstanding the practice is so
common.
6. Cover all large, wounds with gum shel
lack dipsolv'ed in alcohol, or with,some paint
about the color of the bark: I.f_paint_is_u_
ed carefully, on the wound only, it will do
no harm.
Trees are usually grafted in April or May,
but they should not be pruned at that time.
There are two or three sound reasons for
this.
1. The Sap is thin, and will run outovhieli
injured the tree.
2. Alter cutting off several good sized
titubs to set scions into, the tree needs all
the remaining branches to keep up its usual
action and vitality.
3. In NoVember succeeding the grafting;
any limbs that are in the way of the scions,
and others belonging to the original tree,
may a taken away.. if there are many how
ever, 'lt would be better to leave a por,i ,n of
them until the following June. We have
seen trees that stood in a favored spot and
were beautiful when ten years old. Having
" : . • ' then—trees- -
1 .e grafted with William's Early . and
Riv
er. At the titue of grafting, the operator
took the liberty to prune them, and' they
now stand as monuments of his folly,; the
meanest trees out of several hundred that
stand around tbenr—Wortheastern Farmer.
BEST VARIETIES 01? FOWLS.—The scot
tish Farmer gives the following estimates as
to the value of several varieties of fowls
For chickens for the table—nothing like
the Dorkings.
For size of eggs—nothing equal to the
Spanish—but they do not lay very regular
ly•
For, number of eggs—nothing like the
flamburgs, but the size of' egg is small com
pared to the Spanish. The liamburgs lay
about eleven months in the year, and never
eit. '
.rot eggs during very hard frost and snow
—there are nothing like Brahmas. Hard
weather does not seeni to effect them, and
they always look well and "sonny-like," let
the cold be ever so severe.
IZ:13:2
TAKE TUESE.—Some twenty years ago, a
farmer's barn in the vicinity of Worcester
was struck by lightning and burned to the
ground. Many of the citizens had gone to
the fire, when a fop well strapped. and dick
ied, with his cap on one side of his- h'ead,
met, a celebrated doctor and accosted him
this wise.
'Can you, ah, tell me, doctah, how far they
have succeeded in extinguishing the confla
gration of the, ah, unfortunate yeoman's
barn.'
The doctor eyed the individual attentive
ly, dropped his head as usual for' a moment,
and then slipping his thumb and fingers in
his.veat, pocket, took out a couple of pills
and handed them to 'him saying:
',Take these, sir, and go. to bed; and. if you
-do not-feel - any-better in the morning, - -call'it
my. office.'
Well, farmer, you told us your place was
a good place for hunting; now we have
tramped it for three hours and found. no
game." "Juet so I calculate, as a general
thing, the less game there is;the more hunt
ing you have."
Why is John Morrissey, since his retire
ment from the prize ring, like Daniel Web
ster? Because he is the great ezTounder
Why shonld a woman never marry a black
smith 7—Because they all have hardened
The moon and stars see more evil' in a sin
gle hour than the sun in his whole day's cir
cuit.
A friend complaining' of the revenue sys
tem says he can't pat his boots on with Out
a stump.
For finding and returning $25.000 in
gold in the streets in New• York, a young
man was rewarded with
Fur a dead opportuuity there is no.resurea
lion.
How to keep on good terms with creditors
Pay thew. . •
The first step to greatness is to be hon
est. • -
Save when you are young to spend when
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yoivare
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'Golden Rule, :Bid lot it
guide all )eur acni, un.
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