4eabing.
Conquered by Kindness.
Boys often go astray from the very ener
gy and restlessness of their natures, without
any vicious purpose. If in such eases they
are treated with severity and coerced by a
,stern authority, there is great peril that
they_may go from bad to worse, and end in
shipwreck of oharacter. But such boys
have generally a noble nature, which may
be- reached by a genuine sympathy and
„kindness, and moulded to a generous man-
Aood. The following anecdote was told at
a meeting of the London Sunday School
Union, of James Kershaw, Et:q , the re
eetly deceased member of Parliament from
Stockport :
When he was a lad of ten years of age
be was in a class in a Sunday, School in
Manchester. The name of the president,
or superintendent of that school, was Steele,
a very fragrant in 'that. great town.
James was a very troublesome boy. The
teacher came up with his name to the su
perintendent, and again and again said,
" I cannot do any thing with him." -
"But," said Mr Steele," I am sure there
is something in James, if, one knew how to
develop it! .
Again and again came the complaint,
and again and again did this kind-hearted
superintendent set it aside. At last this
little boy broke through a rule which in
volved exclusion; and when the next Sun--
day came the inquiry was, I believe, some
what in this form :
" Who of you have been to the races du
ring the past week ?"
None in this Blass, none in the other,
none anywhere, bat James.
" Well," said the t4=aeher, "you see the
boy must go, Mr. Steele; a diseased sheep
will infect the_ilock."
" But," said the superintendent, " I can
not part with that boy; let us have him up
in the presence of the whole school."
Up he came, a fine, daring, defiant, hand
some little fellow. All the school looked
on, and the superintendent said,
" Now, James, I am sure, when you come
to think of it, you are sorry that you went to
the races."
The little fellow shrugged his shouldera;
he was not at all sorry. Then, just as one
of yon ladies would touch the keys of a pi
ano, did the superintendent in his address
try to touch the keys of that boy's heart,
till at, length he had produced some effect.
Turning to the hundreds of boys in his
presence, he said,
" My lads; if we turn James out of the
school he will, go to the ,had =and become
worse. Shall he go P'
No, no, no," shouted three hundred
voices, and James burst into tears, fairly
conquered by affection, fairly won by love.
What he became afterwards, there are
Manchester gentlemen on this platform
who can tell you better than I. He be
came a member of Parliament; he became
a member of a Christian Church. His
4100 a year was always carefully paid into
the London Missionary Society, and sixty
guineas, as I know, to the 'Manchester City
Missron; and I may ,also say, as I happen
ed to have some pleasant acquaintance with
him, that there were many things which
his right hand did, which his left hand
was not allowed to know. Now, he has
gone; one of the brightest trophies of Sun
day School instruction.
It will Fly Back and Bit lon.
A little boy was at play one afternoon
with a very hard ball, and throwing it
against the side of the house to see how far
he could make it rebound.
The more force he used in throwing the
ball, the more suddenly and swiftly it would
return; and the experiment pleased him
greatly. His mother saw the sport, and
noticed that the ball sometimes flew back
very near his head. ,She therefore caution
ed him, saying
"Look out there, Johnny! it will fly back
and hit you."
It was a yise caution to the little fellow,
and, perhaps, it saved him some pain and
tears.
In a little while Johnny was tired of his
play, and came into the house to seek some
amusement there. Be tried first one thing,
and then another, which his mother re
quired him to put aside, because he made
too much noise, or too much litter, until
the boy lost his patience, and, in his anger,
threw down his toys; and declared he would
not play at all.
The mother, in her turn, lost her pa-
Hence, and began to scold Johnny in right
good earnest. She called him wilful, ugly,
stubborn, and many other hard names, and
he replied by such terms as— -
" I do n't care; you're ugly, too. I
won't play, anyhow. I do n't like you a
single bit."
The harder the mother scolded the worse
Johnny became, and as I looked in upon the
scene, said to myself :
" Look out, there, my good lady I it will
fly back and hit you. Your words are
bard, and they fall upon ai hard wall of
angry passion, and they will certainly re
bound.'
End so it was. The mother continued
to use words of greater and still greater
severity, and Johnny grew more and more
angry and impudent, until the mother pun
ished him severely by.some hard blows.
" Look out I" said Ito myself again, as
each blow fell. "It will fly back and hit
7010
I did not suppose that the boy would be
so bad as actually to strike his mother, but
I. did think that, in the bad spirit he was
led to indulge, his future words and acts
would be the rebounding of her spirit,
words, and acts.
That mother never corrected her son but
she seemed to be in a passion, and she never
failed to arouse passion in him. He grew
up to be fretful and rash, unlovely and :un
loved.
It was a natural result, and she bad her
self. to blame for it. If she had not wished
the ball of reproof to rebound, she should
have carried it home to the heart with the
hand of gentleness and love, and held it.
there with all the force of persuasion. The
wall of angry passion would, have melted
before such an influence, and Johnny once
subdued, would have become a gentle and
obedient young man.
Parents; here is a word of advice given
by a mother to her child, and it proves to
be the best of advice to all mothers, "Look
out, or it will'ily back and hit you."
Oh mothers ! did you ever pause to think
of the effect which your reproof and correc
tion are having on your children ? Do you
not know that every word you speak to
them in anger will rebound? that your
looks as well as your words will be reflect
ed by them, and come back, too ? If
known, this truth does not receive the at
tention it demands, and fretful, passionate,
bard words come back to us, the echo of
our own folly. •
•
" Oar': Willie,"
We.tried not , to make anidol of bim, for
we remembered tbe Divine command; but,
like thelaraelites, we were , not wise-heart
ed; and - one by one we gathered our 'jewels
and our gems i of silver and of gold, aud we
wrapped, ..the child
. in them, and made of
him.
,an idol. before. we , awoke from the
dream and lb . tiled-that he was not all our
own. ,
tie four f bright years since Willie came
into our home, and we all promised in our
hearts to love him and guard him, not as
our child, but as a gift from heaven.
The months went by, and the earnest
eyes of the baby gazed at us, asking in their
mute depths questions that made our hearts
tumble, and that our lips never thought of
answering.
" I do let think that child will live," said
some one, one day.
"Why not ? do you think he is ill ?"
asked Willie's mother, a sudden fear storm
ing her heart and taking its every pulsa
tion prisoner.
"No but he looks as if he could see past
us, straight on into heaven."
Willie's mother seized the baby in her
arms, and said, beseechingly
" Willie 1 Willie dear, don't you see
mamma?" •
"Mamma," lisped the baby, and .he hid
his loving little face away from the stran
ger, in his mother's safe embrace, and the
mother was comforted.
Three years, nearly four, went into God's
granary, and every one made Willie dearer
and dearer; the little fibres by which hu
manity takes root in human soil grew rap
idly; they clung, 0 so closely, and no
thought came intd our hearts that Willie
must leave us, not even when he came and
laid his darling head close to the heart that
loved him best, and said, "Mamma, does
God have medicine up in heaven ? Is he
a Doctor ? 'Cause, be he, I want to go up
there, and ask him to take my bad head
away—it hurts me so." Willie said the
words in the sweet, lisping language that
Makes every child speak a new tongue to
the ears that listen.
Earthly skill could not avail for Willie.
He rightly divined that the Divine PhySi.
cian alone could heal his hurt, and he died
in the early morning with the sun just
risen on the earth, and Willie's sister said
" Aren't you glad, mamma, that it's
morning, for Willie will have time to get
to heaven before it gets dark ?"
Yes, Willie had all the light, and in our
deep darkness we saw the " Great Mount "
burning with fire, and heard the'thunder ot
the Lord saying, " Thou shalt have no oth
er gods before me,", and we cried in new
ness of spirit.: " Our Willie is thine," and
God accepted our offering; and day by duy
we say, " Willie is safe in heaven."—Evan
gelid&
Without the Children.
0, the weary, solemn silence
Of a house without the ehitclren,
0, the strange, oppressive silence,
..Where•the children come no mare!
All the longing of the •sleepless
For the soft, arms or the children,
Lb! the longing for the laces
Peeping through the opening door—
Faces gone forever more!
Strange it is to wake at midnight
And not hear the children breathing,
Nothing but the old clock ticking,
Ticking, licking by the door.
Strange to bee the little dresses
Hanging up there all the morning;
Aud the gaiters—an ! their patter,
We wilt hear it never more
On our mirth-torsaken floor.
What is home without the children?
'T is the earth without ild verdure,
And the thy without ite
Lire is withered to the core!
So we'll leave this dreary desert, •
And we'll fo.low the good Shepherd
To the greener pastures vernal;
Where the lambs have "gone before"
With the Shepherd evermore!
0 the weary, solemn silence
Or a house without ihe children . ;
0, the strange, oppressive stillness
Where the children come no more!
Ah! the longing of the sleepless
For the Sou arms of the children;
Ah! the longing for the faces
Peeping thraugh the opening door--;
Faces gone forever more !
Eight to Sixteen
Lord Shaftesbury recently stated, in - a
public meeting in London, that, from per
sonal observation, be had ascertained that
of adult mile criminals of that city, nearly
all bad fallen into a course of crime be
tween the ages of eight and sixteen years;
and that, it a young man lived an honest
lite up to twenty years of age, there were
forty.nine chances in favor, and only one
against him, as to an honorable life thereaf
ter.
This is a'fact of singular importance to
fathers and mothers, and shows a fearful
responsibility. Certainly, a parent should
secure and exercise absolute control over
the child under' sixteen. It cannot be a
difficult matter to do thit, except in Very
rare *cases; and if that control is not very
wisely and efficiently exercised, it must be
the parents' fault; it is owing ; to the paren
tal neglect or remissness. Hence the real
source of ninety-eight per cent. of the real
crime in a country such as England or the
United States lies at the door of the
parents. It is a fearful reflection I We
throw it before the minds of the fathers
and mothers of our land, and there leave it
to be thought of in wisdom. Let every
father and mother solemnly vow," By God's
help, fix my darling's destiny for good,
by making home more attractive than the
streets!"
Marrying for Show.
In the following we find displayed a
volume of honest and wholesome, good
sense, unusual to such commodities. "Put
a pin here," good swains and lovers :—" To
the question often asked of young men as
to why they do not marry, we sometimes
hear the reply, 4 I am not able to sepport
wife.' In one case in three, perhaps, this
may be so; but, as a general thing, the true
reply would be 'I am not able to support
the style in which I think my vire ought
to live.' In this again we see a false• view
of marriage—a lookihg to an appearance
in the world, instead of a union with a
loving woman for her own sake. There are
very few men, of industrious habits, who
cannot maintain a wife, if they are willing
-
to live economically, and without, reference
to the opinion of the inorld. The great
evil is, they are, not content to begin. life
to retire together into an obscure
position, and together work their way io
the world-L-1e by industry in his calling
and she by dispensing with prudence the
money that be earns. But they most stand
out and attract the attention of others by
fine houses and fine clothes!'
4, iscrilantotts.
Superiority of. the American 'Patent System.
The characteristic feature of our patent
policy is, the system of examination as to
the novelty of inventions conducted by the
Commissioner of Patents through an ex
amining corps, selected for their special
accomplishment in the arts which it is their
duty to exarnitte. No system of examine
ti, n like our own exists in Europe, except
to a very limited extent.
Tha system, of granting patents in Great
Britt without previous examination as to
nov.ltty has led' to the granting of a great
number of patents for the same thing.
Many inventors have been ruined in conse
quence of taking out patents under the
English . system whatever amount the pa
tent may have cost the inventor, it may be
assailed the very next hour. The costs of
such litigation are sometimes frightful.
Two startling instances are related by Sir
HighOairnes in a speech in the House of
°Commons. •
'A patent'had teen taken out 14 an emin
ent manufacturer in Sheffield for an inven
tion whicli'effeCted a revolution in the
nfaiittfactitre of qeel by, the introductiun
of a chemical substance and enabling steel
PRE VTLRIAIN BANNE .--- ,EDN LSD Ay, AUGUST 24, Bh4
to be produced at a reduction of thirty or
forty per cent. on the previous cost. fil,r
I" e ttb, the alleged inventor, from the time
he obtained the patent, in 1842, till I e
ditd, in 1853, spent his life in litigation.
The suit was foimally carried to the House
of Lords, and be obtained a statement
which showet that the costs of the defen
dant were estimated at £7.000, and those
of Mr. Heath at £B,OOO, showing that the
two bides had expended in litigation coo•
fleeted with a single patent the sum of
£15,000 or $75,000. It appears by the
statement of a writer in the London Quirt
ter/y h'eview`that this patent was extended
in 1853 for the benefit of Mrs. Heath.
August, 1853, Mrs. Heath brought an ac
tion against an infringer, and then, for the
first time, credible evidence was given that
the invention was not new at the date of
the original patent. A patent was taken
out in 1850 or 1852, by a Scotch gentle
man named Menzies, fur capsules and tops
of bottles. The invention being a very
valuable one, litigation in connection with
it was carried on both in chancery and in
the courts of common law, After a ver.
diet in favor of.the patentee, the ease was
taken to the Qneen s
• Bench, where the
patent was defeated on the ground that an
old patent had been discovered in the office
byiwhich the invention had been anticipat
ed. Finally, the ease was carried by ap
peal to the House of
,Lordn, whdke, in 1862,
it was still pending. Sir, Hugh .oairnes
stated that the solicitor to the plaintiff in
formed him that the costS of his client
amounted to £l4 487, and he estimated
those of the __defendant at £10,370. So
that the total costs of legal proceedings; in
connection with the invention, amounted
to nut less than £24,857. 'The legal ex
penses connected with these two patents,
which might have been saved to the mil
happy litigants by 'a system of preliminary
examination, was £39,857, or about $199,-
285, about $lO,OOO more than the' total ex
to-nses of this otlitie for the last yeir;viz :
$189,414.14, which, during this pealed,
has made examination of 6,014 applica
tions. Of these applications, 1,844 were
refused, principally upon the ground of a
want of novelty, while 4,170 patents have
been granted.
The United States Patent office possesses
a technological library, unequalled by any
in this country. It has opened relations
with nearly all the governments in the
World for obtaining information, up to each
current month, of the progress of inven
tions abroad. Its portfolios of drawing-,
so numerous as to crowd two halls, each
nearly one hundred feet in length, and yet
so systematically- arranged that the hand
can at once be laid upon any drawing
sought for, and its museum of models, un
rivalled by any collection in the
world, exhibit as in an open book all that has
been done in American inventions. It is
the fault of the administration, and not of
the system, if the plan and Neilities fCr
examination are not as perfect as human
ingenuity has devised.
- Another favorable point ,of comparison
of our own with the English policy is the
cheapness with which' patents are obtained
in this country, the cost being limited to
the amount necessary to create a fund for
reirnbursing the e4ponses of the Patent
Office, while•in Great Britain the cost O'
obtaining a patent is £175 or sB7s—over
twenty-two times - the cost in this
.country.
From the „fund accumulated by these fees
in five years there, was deducted• for ptamp
duties the enormous tax. of £67;060 or
6335.306.
Heroism .in Common Life
Common life is a true and perfect sphere
for heroism. There are, in the life of
every family, things that a.t.e magnificent
and worthy of poetry and history, and that
will be chanted, in the other life. There
are things in the experience of every house
hold.that are essentially heroic, connected
with the conduct or parents toward their
children, and of the children toward their
parenti, and of the children , toward each
other. They are not famous, they are not
wide.sphered; but if you measure heroism
by the moral quality, by the motive, you
will find cradle-side heroism and bedside'
heroism, heroisms of distress and poverty,
which are as eminent as any heroism that
ever was on the battle field or in the conn
oil-chamber. Yes, and ten ,thousand times
more so, because they are accompanied with.
less excitements and less prospects of. sym
pathy and' remuneration. For inthe,dull
night, alone—oh, alone! at the longest
striking of the clock, alone; at its shortest
stroke, alone; at its double stroke, slime; at
three and four in the morning, alone; with
a sick babe and no one to succor, sits the
child of &tune, cultured, exquisite in
taste and sensitive in every moral feelings
as an angel. At last, the longed for sound,
now hated, of the footsteps. of him for
whom she waits, comes to her ear; and
some miserable dissipated creature wakes
the night; and he enmes, rude and red and
round, stumbling into the room; and she,
with every, feeling harrowed, with every
taste offended, with her whole, nature out
raged, revolts. .IYet, it was the first love,
it was the only love it was the husband of
her youth, it was hers; and she turns to
forget her .revolting and her shrinking,' to
meet him, ,tn-qtdet him, to lead him to his
disgraceful bed,,to put him to sleep, to
kneel while he snores in his drunken slum
ber, 'and amid tears, and prayera, and heart
breaking, and anguish, like another angel
of God to him, to implore mercy for.him.
And - not her own mother knows it; not her
own father knows it; no companion knows
it. With her own life she is hiding his
deformity. Now do you tell me that there
is heroism like this on battle-field or in
council chambers?
And society is full of heroes of love and
domestic - fidelity. Thousands of theni are
unknown on earth. They march in ranks
and battalions, so that we speak of thein in
nouns of multitude as drunkards' Wives.
All those that, under such circumstances,
lilt themselves up above the ordinary line
of human conduct, are bernie. And God
waits for them and heaven is homesick for
them. Oh, how they will shine there
Perchance, as you see them going through
the street, meek and patient, their dress
growing more and more ru ty, you smile
pityingly, and say, " They are poir drunk
ards' wives; they were promising once, but
they have gone down, down, t own and now
they are nowhere." r beg poor pardon,
they have not gone down, LC, y ha e been
going up. And when you 1 se;'wlth all
your wealth, and loarning, and utnius, and
stand in heaven, hay* ng ()soaped damnation
so as by, fire, sop may stand lowest, and .see
them astear ibove? ) ou as the stars to-night
are, above 3 our, h e ads. For .the last' shalt
be' firA, and tha lowest shall be highest.—
Beecher.
Watt, the Inventor of the Steam Engine.
A young man wanting to sell spectacles
in London, petitions the corporation to al
low him to open a little shop without pay
ing the Les of freedom, and he is refused
lie goes to' Glasgow, and the corporation
refuse him there. He makes the acquain
tanee,of: some members -of the University,
who find him very intelligent, and who
pelmit him to open his.shop within their
wars. He does not sell spectacles and
us gio lanterns enough . to ;ocenpy all his
tome; he roccupies" hitheelf at 'intervals in
t. king asunder and. re making all the mat
thine he can come at. He finds there are
hooks on mechanics written in foreign
languages; he borrows a dictionary, and
learns ‘those languages to read those books.
The University peoplemonder at him, and
they are fond of dropping into hia little
room in the evenings,to tell him wbat t my
are doing., and to look at the qua er iastru
meets be constructs. A macbite in the
University collection wants repairing, and
he is employed. He makes it a new ma
chine. The steattrengine is coas.ructet
and the giant mind of J Ines Watt, stands'
out before the world—the herald of a new
throe of eivilizaiion. Was Watt edueated
Where was he educated 7 At his own
workshop, and in the beat manner. .Watt
learned Latin when he wanted it for his
business. He learned French and German ;
hut these things were tools, not ends. He
used them to promote his 'engineering
•p'ans:.a's be used laths and levers.—Fineh•
er's Pretties' .I?eviele. - •
The London Times.
It is stated that there are 370 persons em
ployed in the office of th 9 kmdon Times.
the usual circulation is 65,000, which re
quires eleven torts of paper daily. This
paper is made wholly of linen. The Times
is printed on Hoe's lightning press, the
large pylinder of which, turns;out eight pa
pers eve,ry second, and •a half, or allowing
for stoppages, about 12,000 an hour, equal
to 1,000 every five minutes. When the
whole paper is set up, papier-mache stereo
types are made from it, so as to attain
greater rapidity of production by printing
simultaneously on several presses. The
whole business of the Times is on the cash
principle. The papers are issued directly
trom the office.
,If intendingsubscribers
send their addresses and cash, both are
handed to a reliable newsman, who, supplies
the paper. The great newspaper venders
settle, in cash, once a week. The smaller
ones have credit from day to day, and some
times no credit at - all. The' Tinte,s, like the
Illustrated London News, owns an exten
sive paper mill of its own_
A. Barbarian Newspaper Subscriber,--The
Courtt. Journal, by, way of showing that it
is not safe to publish a letter in the Eng
lish newspapers, throwing dirt at even a
savage who understands no Eaglish, says
that Commissioner Yeh had interpreters
who regularly retailed to him the Parlia
mentary debates upon the Celestial Empire
and the articles upon China in the London
journals. It adds that no 'one would have
supposed that the King of Dahomey was a
reader of The Times. But so it is, as M.
Jules Gerard has found to his cost. That
m ghty hunter last year wrote a letter to
The Times descriptive of the atrocities per
p. trated in the Empire of Dahomey. What
is more, he dated it footo the capital; where
he was at the time enjoying the hospitality
of his Majesty. The letter has come to the
knowledge and, the eyes of the King, and
the result has been that Jules is no longer
a lion with the King, who has shown him
the door of his kingdom.
farm, arta, &c.
For the Pirsbyterian Banner
Yet Another.'
MESSRS. EDITORS :—la your paper of
Auly 28th, 1 noticed the " Afflicted El,tuse
keeper's" little trial," and will cheer
fully"lend my knowledge to, her, hoping it
will prove a blessing to her also.
I, too was annoyed very much with ants
and every thing failed to exterminate them
until I tried sage, by spiialding it fresh
from the garden, on the shelves, around
the milk jars, &c. Wherever.. I placed
sage, they would . immediately leave; I
have not been troubled since. - ; RH.
Apiary ia August.
The season 'for early honey in many
places has been, propitious: Many colonies,
particularly the Italians, have already filled
combs with honey, that ought to be occu
pied with -brood. With the told box hive
there is Only the partial remedy of : adding
surplus boxes: But, with ,the movable
comb hive, the matter can . be controlled
admirably, by substituting, empty combs for
full ones. When the honey can not be re-,
moved, the bees Will. be obliged to store the
buckwheat 'honey gathered this month,
mostly in the boxes. Give ample room by
adding all boxes needed. When the colony
is strong, and all boxes nearly full, only
wanting some of the corners filled out,
(which will often take long enough to half
fill empty ones;) there is a great i saving of
pre•sious tithe by making,holes through the.
top of empty boxes, and 'setting them on
the hive, putting those part full above
them.• By the time the upper ones are
finished, the lower ones will be ready to
raise in the same way. This gives room
for double the number of bees to labor at
the same time. Any boxes of clover honey
nearly full, should be removed on the first
of the month, to prevent the, mixing of
buckwheat honey,with it, which will make
it darker. Boxes that are fall may be kept
safe from the moth worm, with the least
trouble, by leaving them on the hive until
Autumn. The honey will not be nearly so
White, as if removed as soon as filled. The
boxes wilLalso be in the way of ,empty
boxes that ought now to supply their places.
The greater quantity and•purer quality of
the honey will induce most bee.ke,epe,rs to
remove it, and destroy the worms if, they
hatch, with a little burning brimstone.
Where there' is no buckwheat raised, all
boxes may be removed now. When the
bees begin to take the honey from the un
sealed cells, it is time to -remove them.
Look carefully for diseased stocks. Drive
out any found, to begin anew. Any queen-.
less colonies discovered now, should be sup
plied by dividing a buckwheat swarm that
may issue this month, giving them the half
containing the queen,• and returning the re
mainder to the; parent stock. TO ascertain
where the queen id, divide the swarm
equally, put in two hives, a few feet apart
le a few minutes those without a queen
will be attracted to the hive containing her,
which should be' covered to ktep them out,
rhea shake them out by the old hive
When hooey fails in flowers, they should
tie - fed a little each day, or the drones May
be destroyed. —American Agriculturist.
A Woman's Experience with a Kicking Beller.
I'm a very green farmeress, on a litzle
place of twenty acres, and "no man to it"
but my father, most eighty years old—a
doctor all his life. at that. With a little
help about the frame' have made a hot bed,
.
and am right proud of the cabbages, ca.uh
&wets, cucumbers, &e., started it, and
my Hubbard squashes are charming.
I venture to send you a ,brief notice of
my experience in milking a heifer that bad
a unfortunate way of lifting her foot, dis
dtrous in its consequences, and my remedy,
"Daisy" is a heifer four years old, worth
about one hundred dollars, but not .tor sale
at that or any 'price. She wasn't need
women, and I—wasn't used to cows. I
teamed to milk in one lesson, on a sentl,.
old cow in the neighborhood, but I was
mortally afbaid of Daisy, and she would
empty the contents ofthe pail over me )
and send . me flying like a foot ball or aly
other projectile. Now I'm nothing if, not
dignified; I was once introduced to a can
didate for the Presidency, and to be maritt
lectured into a sort of shostibg star, in a
?nay way, was depressing in the extreme..
I perused the Agriculturist, and got a man
to tie her fore foot up r wheTeupon she laid
down---other remedies proved ineffectual,
pr were not suited to the case, Opp almost
in despair I learned that li - embody, tied the'
two bind legs together. I double a bit of
rope, a little more than a yard anti a half
long, tie a knot in the middle-noose around
one leg just above the foot, and tie the
other with the ends of the rope. She can't
kick, how can she ? It, doesn't seem to
hurt her feelings in the least, putting on,
or taking uff, or wearing it, and I milk in
peace, and wish the remedy may do any one
else as much good as it has me. I must
add, that Daisy and I are on the beat of
terms now. —ibid.
"Dirt Floors" for Stables.
In Summer thn feet of horses which are
little used, or those used wily open hard
pavements or dry roads, often .become very
dry, hard and hot, espioially if they stand
upon wood or stone floors. The wood fl ,ors
are not only dry but they absorb urine,
which, deootuppses, evolves ammonia, and
promotes this effect. An approved remedy
for this is to - take up the wood end lay
stone floor of small cobble.slones in cement,
slanting slightly to the rear; thou to fill in
the Scull six inches deep at the rear, with
sand or sandy loam, leaving it slanung to
the front. .Enough of this shoo fl be re
moved and renewed daily to give the horse
a bed of clean, dry, but not drying, Nand
Little bedding-Will be needed, and the loot
will soon gain a natural moistness.—Aid.
Take Care of • the Feathes,
Though our western friends mourn the
loss of their crop of fruit by the severe
cold of last Winter, the peach growers
around New York" congratulate themselves
that the present ,promiseof fruit is better
than it has been for - many years past
Peach trees are very apt to overhear, and
the - fruit needs thinning, not, only for• the
safety'of the tree but for its own...increased
market value. It, is the experience of the
best growers that it pays -to remove 'from
one half to two-thirds of the young fruit,
as what remains will be finer and larger,
and bring, more money than if the whole
crop, had been allowed to ripen.—lbid.
- Nothing to Waste.
The manure heap should be the great
savings bank of the farm.. Deposits, may Fe
made hereupon good interest, which would
only be nuisances elsewhere. There are
miles of- weedy hedge rows, sews of swale
hay, and tons of weeds growing all over the
country.which properly treated would yield
thousands of dollars. The weeds, if left
where, they are, will be worse than wasted;
their speds are already ripening for a ten
fold or greater crop next year. Cut them
down before it is ~too late; and compost
them with lime and muckor manure. After
the swale hay is all secured, to be, used as
bedding and thus worked over into manure,
drain the spot where it grew, that g! tame"
grasses may hereafter feel at home ' and
give a better paying return. Much farm
labor hardly pays in a pecuniary way, but
labor upon the manure heap will return
fifty per cent. on its cost.--/bid.
Flailing.
The general impression in regard to de
eiduous trees, or those which shed their
leaves inAutumn '
is in favor of Fall plant
)llg, though in. all cases the ground , shonld
be well drained. However, circumstances
should control the actions of the planter.
On rolling lands, with gravelly soils, Fall
planting is evidently to be
. preferred, as the
rains and snows of Winter settle the earth
firmly about the roots, enabling the young
fibres to: strike rapidly into the moist Soil
in Spring, and thus more' fully withstand
the droughts of Summer. If soils are flat,
undrained, or retentive, Spring planting
should be preferred, though it should not
be attempted until the soil had beeothe dry
and mellow. As there is no certainty when
it will be in this condition, there is, as a
general thing, more risk. in Spring than in
_fall planting.
For this latitude, Spring pfantiog is to be
preferred for evergreens, beginning about
the middle of April.— Ou/turist.
Do Cattle Require Salt?
It has been questioned by many agricul
tural writers whether stock actually require
salt, either alone or in -connection with
their food; whether it is really one of the
necessaries of life or simply a luxury, to be
used or let alone as convenience may re
quire. Prof.. Johnston, a Scotch _writer,
referring to the subject, says: "We know
why the animal craves salt, and why it ul
timately falls into disease if salt i for a
time n ithlteld. Upwards of half the saline
matter of the blood (57 per cent;) consists
of common. salt; and as this is partly dis
charged every day through the skin and
the kidneys, the necessity of continued
- supplies of it to the body becomes suffi
ciently obvibus. The bile also contains
soda as a special and indispensable con
stituent, and so do all the cartilages of the
body. Therefore, if the supply of salt be
stinted, neither will`the bile be able proper
ly-to assist the digestion, norlhe cartilages
be built 'up again 'as they naturally waste.
And when we consider it to be a fact that
without salt man would miserably perish;
as, among horrible punishments, entailing
certain death, that of feeding ealprits on
saltless food is said to have_prevailed in
barbarbus times, we may become partially
convinced at least of the necessity of feed
ing salt to our stock—that it is one of the
necessaries as well as one of the luxuries of
life for mane and beast; and it should be pro
fusely provided at short intervals, in pro
per places, if it can not be kept by them
continually, so that each and every animal
may satisfy the demands of his nature.
Then it shall not be •said of ns that while
our pudding is always well seasoned and
salted, our stock- are allowed to suffer for
want of the,same ingredient, which• is as
truly neceesary for their food as for ours.—
/W. Sanborn Genessee Farmer.
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This article is what its unlike signifies. For preservhtg, re
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markable prniaration in the world. It imagain owned ano
put up by the original proprietor, and is now made with the
same care, skill and attention which gave it a sale of over
one million bottles per annum.
it ►s a most delightful flair Dressing.
It el ad Mates acnrt and dandruff.
It keeps the. head cool and clean.
It makes the heir rich, soft and glossy.
It prevents the hair from falling.off and turning gray
It restores hair upon bald heads.
Any lady or gentleman who values ,a beantifhl head of
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The parties in Bt.-Louis and Cincinnati, who have been
Counterfeiting the Mustang Liniment under pretense of
proprietorship, have been thoroughly estoped by the Courts.
To guard against further imposition, I have procured from
pie 9. Treasury, a private steel plate revenue stamp.
which is placed over the top of each bottle. Each stomp
bears the fac simile of my Sfgnature, and without which
the article is a Counterfeit, dangeronii and worthless imita
tion Examino u. ere bottle. This Liniment has been in net
and growing in favor for many years. There hardly exists
a hamlet on the haulranle Globe that does not contain evi
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world. With its present improved ingredients, its effects
upon man and beast are perfectly remarkable.. Sores are
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rheumatism, swellings, bites, cuts, caked breasts, sprained
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We have learned not to be natal:dolled at anything. Years
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err. We ate not surprised at such facts as the.following
-although the Oman's who write them are. We know the
persons and circumstances, hence feel ; at liberty to indorse
their statements
.Nsw-Biroroan, Mun n Nov. 2:4,1868
Sm :—I have been afflicted many - yeare With - severe
prostrating cramps in my limbs, cold feet and bands, 'and a
general disordered system. Physichins and medicines failed
to relieve me. While visiting -some friends in New York
who were wing Plantation Bitters, they prevailed upon me
to try them. 1 commenced withal emaU wine:glassfal after
dinner. Fee Ling better by degreAtin 'a few days I was
astonished to find the coldness and.bramps had entirely left
me, and I conld sleep the eight through, which I have not
'done for years.' I feel like another tieing. My ippetite and
strength have also greatly improved by the ruse of the Plan
tation Bitters. Respectfully, Tonna
RZEMBBIIIIY, Sept. 16,1868.
t! • * • I bate been in the array hospital tor fourteen
montbs—speenhiete and nearly dead. At Alton, M., they
gave me a bottle of Plantation Bitters. * * Three bot
tles restored my speech and cured me. • * * *
T TY
The follqv' ing is from the Manager of the Union Home
School for the Ottildien of Volunteers:
ILLvsanyis MANSION, 6722 HT,
Nrw-Ycraz, A ugtuft 2,1863. '
Da„ Nikki :..-Yorir wonder Plantation Bitters have
been given to some of mil little children suffering frets
weakness and weak lungs with most happy effect. One lib
tie girl in particular,. with pains her head, loss of appe
tits, and doily wasting consumption„, on whom all medical
skill had been exhausted, has been entirely restored..We
commenced with but a teaspoonful of Bitters a day. Ber
appetite and strength rapidly increased, and she ie now well.
" Respeetfully, Mita. 0. M. Dxvon."
" • • * I owe much to you, for I verily believe' the
Plantation Bitterti have saved my life.
Rap. W. H. WAGGONER, Madrid, M. Y."
a • • • Then wilt send me two bottles more of thy
Plaubstion Bitters. My into has been greatly benefited by
their nee. Thy friend, Aim Balmer, Philndelp's, PIO
" * s * I have been a great sufferer from Dyspepsia,
and had to abandon preaching. * * The Plantation Bit
ters have cured me.-
Bay. J. S. CIATUORN, Rochester, N. T."
* * * I have Overt the Plantation Bitters to hun
dreds of our disabled soldiers with the most astonishing
eifsct G. 'W. D. ANDREWS,
"Superintendent Soldiers' flame, Cincinnat
0 I • • The Plantation Bitters have cured meet Liver
Complaint, of virbieh I waa laid up prostrate, and had to
abandon my business.
Yt. B. Ea:Newsy, gteveland, Ohio." .
. .
" * * • The Plantation Bitters have cured moof a de
rangement of the Kidneys and Urinary Organe-that head*
tressed me for yearn. It seta like a charm. •
"C. C. Mewls, No. 2454 Broadway!'
&c., ikon
.The Pl antation Bitters make the Fmk strong,the languid
brilliant, and are extmusited nature's great restorer. They
are composed of the celebrated neaps Bark, Wintergreen,
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S. T.-1880-X.
Persons' of sendentary . habits, trouble& with Vveaknew;
lassitude, palpitation of the heart, lack of appetite, distress
after eating, torpid liver, ceniaiparion, &e n deserve to-suffer .
if they will not try them.
They are by the highest medical autheri
ties, and are warranted to produce an immediate beneficial
;effect. They are exceedingly agreeable, perfectly pure and.
'harmless.
'Notice:—Any person pretending to sell PlantatiOn Bit
tere-iu bulk or by, the' gallon is a awindlerand linposter. It
is put up only in our log cabin bottle. Beware orbottlee
refilled with imitation deleterious stuff for which several
persons are already in 'prison. Bee that every bottle has
our United States stain', over the cork uniantatted and our
'signature on eteel-plate -
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