Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1863-01-08

              real III roi, ix. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO THURSDAY, JAXCAIIY 8 18G3. NO 10 THE MOUNT VERNON KEPtliLICAN. T 15 11 M S : Tor oiifi year (invariably iu advauce)?2.00 Tor six ti.mtlm, ltiu TKUMS OV ADVEKTIHINO. One square, 3 weeks, One square. 3 months, One square, C months, One square, 1 year, ')ne square (changeable monthly) Changeable weekly, Two squares, 3 weeks), Two squares, 0 weeks, Two squares. 3 moiitlia, Two squares, 0 months, Two square, 1 year, Three squares, 3 weeks, Three squares, (i weeks, Tliree squares, 3 months, Three squares. 0 months, fl...,.. .TIIVHiAU 1 Ve'll 1.00 3.U0 4.50 li.iiO 1uUU 15.00 1.75 3.25 6.25 0.75 8.00 2,50 4.50 (5,00 8,00 1U,00 One-fourth column, ehan. quarterly, io,W One-third Onc-half " ", ?,UO One column, changeable quarterly, oU.UU All local 'notices of advertisements, or railing attention lo any enterjjri.se intended to benefit individuals or corporations, will be charged at the rata often cents per line. Select 3oetrjj. THINGS THAT NEVER DIE. Tho pure, the bright, the beautiful That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a worldless prayer, The dreanis of love and truth. The longings after something lost, The spirits yearning ory : The striving after bettor topes, These things can never die. The timid band stretched forth to aid A brother in his need, The kindly word iu grief's dark hour That proves the friend indeed, The plea for mercy softly brcatli'd When justice threatens high, The sorrow of a contrite heart, These things shall never die. The memory of a clasping hand; The pressure of a kiss, And all the trifles cweet and frail That make up loves first bliss, If with a firm unchanging faith, And holy trust and high, Those hands have clasped, those lips have met, These things shall never die. The cruel and the bitter word That wounded as it fell, The chilling want of sympathy "We feel, but never tell The hard repulse that chills the heart, Whose hopes were bounding high, In an unfading record kept, These things shall never die. Let nothing pass, for every hand, Must find some work to do; Lose not a chance to waken love, Be firm and just and true. So shall a light that cannot fade Beam ou thee from on high. And angel voices say to thee, These things shall never dio. HOME, FAREWELL. Sweet homo, farewell ! I leave thee now, I leave my childhood's hearth, Where sisters wept when sorrow came, And laughed iu guileless mirth. Home, farewell, here are ties that bind . And break the heart to sever, And memories gushing from the heart, That linger there forever. Home farewell. I am weeping now, ?ly mother calls my name, And none like her can say that word, Can call me so again What voice can speak more tenderly, Or come more near my heart? f We two have been so long like one, And now we two must part. Faro well, farewell, each path we've loved, In sunshine and in shade, The climbing vine, where clusters bend, And the deep woods' silent glade Farewell flowers whose birth I've watch'd, Thou'lt brightly bloom each day, While I am weeping lone and sad, From home and ye away. Father, brothor, fare yc well, I leave my childhood's hearth, Aud may those dear walks echo still With merry Bounds of mirth, But sister's when your laughter rings Upon the balmy air, Remember in your happiness, That one is missing there. Ono who has love for all of ye, And leaves her home to-day, Oh, farewell, mother, sisters, all, I tear niyslf away. Thoughts of things past, forever gone .Shadows dark and deep,-Those that have so loved me I leave Then dear ones let me weep. A ('oaiilrj Life. There tiro persons lo whom a life in the country is n perpetual ponanco; even iu ; the glory of midsummer they hanker after j brick walls and dusty streets, aud the j never-ending roar and excitement of the great city. They see no splendor in the grass, nor beauty in the waving flower; their thoughts uro not lifted to heaven by a cloudless sky; they cannot lie for hours on a mossy bank, aud watch tho waving panorama of the clouds with a feeling akin to ecstaey. They cannot understand the enthusiasm of honest Bewick, the artist and' wood-engraver, who said, "I had rather be herding sheep on Mieklio bank brae, than bo premier of England." The amount of all this is that there is no accounting for tastes, and since cities must be in the great scheme of civilization, it is well that there are plenty of good men and true who are content to build them and live in them. Perhaps the truest life, that which brings forward tho wholo man, gives the amplest scope for all his faculties, is a life divided between town and country, by which the excitement of one is balanced by the quiet of the other, aud the peculiarities of each are enhanced by contrast. Of a country life, the author of Recreations of a Country Parson speaks thus clo-quenty: "There is no reason with tastes, as every one knows; but to some men there is, at every season, an indescribable charm about a country life. I like to know all about the people around me; aud I do sot care, though in return they know all, and more than all, about me. I like the audible stillness in which one lives in autumn days; the murmur of the wind through trees, even when leaders, and the brawl of the rivulet even when swollen aud frowned. There is a constant source of innocent pleasure and interest in little country cares, in planting and tending trees and flowers, in sympathizing with one's horses aud dogs even with pork aud poultry. And although one may have lived beyond middle -aw without the least idea that ha had any 'taste' fur any such matters, it is amazing how soon ho will find, when he comes to cull a country home his own, that the taste has only been latent, kept down by circumstances,' and ready to spring into existence whenever the depressing circumstances aro removed. Men in whom this is not so aro the exception to tho universal rule. Take tho senior wrangler from his college, and put him down in a pretty country parsonage, and in a few weeks he will take kindly to training honey sueklo and climbing roses, he will find scope for his mathematics in laying out a flower garden, and he will be all excitement iu planning and carrying out au evergreen shrubbery, a primrose bank, a winding walk, a little stream with a tiny waterfall spanned by a rustic bridge. Proud he will be of that piece of engineering, as ever was Robert Stcpenson when he had spanned tho stormy Menai. Thcro is something in all this simple work that niches a man kind hearted; out of door occupation of this sort gives one much more cheerful views of men and things, and disposes one to sympathize heartily with the cottager, proud of his little rose-plots, and of his enormous gooseberry that attained to renown in the pages of the country newspaper. I do not say anything of the incalculable advantage to health which arises from this pleasant intermingling of mental and physical occupation in the case of the recluse scholar; nor of the animated rebound with which one lays down the pen or closes the volume, and hastens out to the total change of interest which is found in the open air; nor of the evening at mental work again, but with the lungs that play so freely, the head that feels so cool and clear, the hand so firm and reaily, testifying that we have not forgotten the grand truth that to care for bodily health and condition is a Christian duty, bringing with its duo discharge au immediate and sensible blessing."- There is truth and eloquence in these words, and they will find an cho iu the heart of every one who has a real love for a country life. The happiest man in the world, is the man of moderate desires. Wealth is an euviable thing, so is power, to is learmng so are all combined. But he who enjoys each or all of these, and still desires more is not happy. He is not contented, and discontent is infiuelity. On tho contrary, ho who has little, yet wants less, is rich, for lie has moro than ho ' needs, whether jt be houses or honors public eelat or private enjoyments, the result is the same. Then what follows? This principle, viz: diminish your wants and you proportionately increase your means of gratifying them. This is easier than acquiring property, yet in effect it places you in the j fibitiou of one with millions. How They Go (o Red. The difference between a man and a woman in disposition, limls no plainer illic tratiun than that afforded at the moment1 to rain or sun. When to neglected, great when either of them retire to bed. I harm is done them. Tho wood work The young girl trips gaily up to her .shrinks and crack and rots, aud the iron chamber, and with the cautious timidity j work ruts and is liable to break. Such im-peculiar to her sex; first lucks the doors plements are disagreeable to work with, and arranges the window curtains, so that and they are continually going to decay. by no possible chance a passer by or belated nocturnal wanderer, from the pavement, can catch a glimpse of her budding beauty when en dUhulille. The task completed, she turns on the gas to its full, and institutes a general search throughout the department, that she may be sure it does not contain "a horrible burglar," or a "desperate niflian," in big whiskers, and crisp black hair. Carefully, with her delicate little fingers, she lifts tho bed valance, peers into places where even Tom Thumb couldn't squeeze his diminutive corporation, and takes a cursory peep into the hall-emptied trunk, not forgetting to glance nervously under the sofa, the space between which and the floor is not sufficient to contain the ghost of Calvin Edson, much less an ordinary robber. Having ascertained that she is really alone, she leisurely proceeds to divest her fair form of "the silk and linen conventionalities of society." First, she relieves her glossy hair from its thraldom of pins and combs, and "does it up'' more compactly. Then off eoincs the little collar, and the light vapory cloud of lace she calls undor-sleeves, which all the day have been clasped around her white, plump arms by a couple of India rubber straps. Next the "love of a spring silk" dress is unfastened in front. Then sundry waist-strings and buttoned straps are loosed, and lo! what a collapse like that of Lowe's big balloon. The stands, like Saturn, in the center of rings. There they lie upon tho sofa carpet, partly covered by the linen underfix-ings aud ovcrfixings, with no more expression in them than there is in the bare floor beneath the carpet. Sits she upon the edge of the snowy bed, and begins the unlacings of gaiters. and the disrobing of those fair swelling limbs of stockings. The pretty little foot is carefully perched upon the knee down drops the gaiter, off comes the clastic, and her thumb inserted at the j away. The coating can be very thin.-topof the stocking, pushes it down down AnurlaOi Atjrir.ulturaUst. over the hool, and tho cotton rests besid. the prunella. So with the other foot only involving a slight change of position. There is a smile that peeps out from behind tho blushes of her sweet face now, as standing before the glass she places upon her head the night-cap, and with a quick twist of her lingers ties the bewitching bow. Then the night-gown is thrown over the frilled chemise, concealing the heaving bosom, and the shoulders in the linen folds. Then the counterpane and sheets thrown back, the gas is turned down very, very low and the little form presses the yielding couch, aud the angel goes off in the world of dreams. Now, in the room directly above her is the great brute of a brother. He comes into it, shuts the doors with a slam, turns the key with a snap, growls at a chair which happens tbe in his wawjulls off his boots aud throws thcni intaa corner, jerks his socks from his feet, drops his pantaloons on the floor and lets them lie there; gets oft' his coat and vest by a quick, vindictive sort of twist of his arms and body, unv ins and unbottoushis collar, throws it carelessly with tho tie at, rather than on, the taMejtravels to tho window in his shirt- extremity to let down the curtain, as if he didn't care a cuss whether the entire population of the street beheld his anatomy or not; then puts out the light and bounces into bed like a great calf jumping into a pile of hay curls himself up, his knees nearly touching his nose, lies so a moment or two, turns on his back, stretches his limbs out, swears at the tucking in uf the bed clothes, grunts, gets over on the other side, and is asleep. Then comes in "the snoring and snorting. Isn't there a difference in style? X. Y. Monitor. Society. The pleasure of society depends more upon females than any other. Children are out ot tho question and therefore it rests upon woman what society shall be. The pleasure of an evening's entertainment is graduated by the capacity of the hostess to iuterist her visitors in each other and make them forget that their own identity is to he lost in efforts to make every one at ease. That is the great secret of true en joyment. Some ladies will enter the draw ing or social circle, where every person's neighbor appears like an iceberg, and the whole atmosphere is chilly and constrained, and by their genial well timed phiyfullncss, throw sunshine and warmth all over the room, till all mingle in that easy yet dignified cordiality. As a lady aptly expressed it the hostess is tho key noto, and upon her depends the concord of sweet sounds and the sweetness of th meMr. it Tavs 10 Take Care oNniDlCinClltS. , . i uerc id uangor lesi, in mo nurry 01 work, tools, large or small, will be exposed We believe it would be a saving of money in the long run, to take time, even iu the busiest seasons, to clean and house all implements of the farm and garden The proper care of tools involves the painting of those which are exposed to the weather, such as carts, sleds, wagons, horse rakes, e. This mav seem a trifling mat- . . , , .... . . . ,, great importance li- . 1 . ., ,i e wish to cite the testimony of a practical man, in the Rural New Yorker, which is right to the point, lie says: "I had a sled made iu the fall of 1834, at a cost of 819. I have the same sled now, (1801) and will warrant it to carry as largo a load as when it eaine out of the shop. With the exception of the ! "'"" ,00keu "vat-l-v 111 a"" mm-shoes, which are getting thin, it seem as ! ",om;cJ ,,rawn,B ,ash oflli wUP good as when new. I have not paid out fifty cents in repairs, except painting. It has been painted twice during this time, and have not staid out of dours ten nights during the whole time. Iu the fall of '58 I exhibited this sled, one double wat?on that had been used eight years, cue 'hoe I tint had her-n in iw, uW,t v,., u,il,m,t u in use twenty years, without landle, and a pitchfork til:lt ! use fifteen yewsalso without 1 even a new h had been in a new handle, at the Adams' Agricultural Fair. I did not expect a premium, but was awarded a discretionary premium. The committee ou Tools pronounced them as good as new, with' the exceptions of natural wear." A premium wisely bestowed. And here let us repeat an important item, more than once stated in the columns of the Ajrkul.mw bcCttUS0 an '"'S"n opponent may turalUt. A mixture of three parts lard 1 1'1' you wlth "g"!' which at the time and one part rosin, melted together, is one j 'ou cannot a,,SWC1' Behcfs aie '80rt of of th best coatings of all stool or iron i.n- j -lwth a 6luil fltcrctiou the inind plements. The lard make tho rush, soft. ! t,irouSh a lonS wics of years. It is very while the latter isa sure preventive against! dlffit'ult for man' on ,Le slur uf the rusting. The mixture is good for ploughs, meni t0 Slve a11 tho roa'-onSi wllich uia? hoes, axes, indeed, for all tools find implc- ments, as well for knives and forks packed Public Prayer. The most common fault in public prayer is cire!c??ness. Awellmeaningbrother commences to pray without that careful weigh'ng of thoughts and words which he would feel to be proper if he were about to commence a speech. He u(ter3 woris which may bo expressive of his feelings, but which seem to fail to arouse that sympathy and unity of feeling which should be manifest in a praying congregation. The congregation may-realize that he is leading iu prayer, but they cannot realize it to such an extent as to follow him. His carelessness leads him into the utterance of a succession of stereotyped commonplac savins, which " fS ' a lew moments ot caretul thought bcloro prayerinight cause him to avoid; not that these stereotyped sayings may not to themselves do good and desirable petitions, but that they have fallen so often on the cars of those who are being led in prayer as to loose all that life and earnestness which should bo the characteristics of cverv prayer offered to God. In public prayer we cannot hi too earnest; wc cannot be too direct and pointed in our petitions; and wc need not he afraid of making our prayers too short. A very common error is to spin them out to such a length that we may almost seem tuthink we shall bo heard "for our much speaking." Notice' the earnestness and directness of the petitions in the Lord's prayer, the publican's prayer iu the temple. Peter's prayer w hen he was sinking, the prayer of I the dying thief on the cross; then compare them with some of the long strung prayers that we sometimes hear. Which is the best? Ladies Should Head Newspapers. It is a great mistake in female education to keep a young lady's time and attention devoted to only the fashionable literature of tho day. If you would qualify her for conversation, you must give her something to talk about give her education with the actual world and its transpiring events. Urge her to read the newspapers, and he-come familiar with tho present character and improvements of our race. History is of some importance; but tho past world is dead and we have nothing to do with it. Our thoughts and our concerns thould be for thn present world, to know what and improve tho condition of it- Let her i :.... .n: i. .i:..., ,.. nine ,111 um.-oirui. con ei .-.iliwii twin ci u imj; the mental, moral, political and religious impruveuieulsof our time Let the gilded j annals and poems on the kept a pir' "f th'1 tii" covorcd wi'h wek ' 'v journals. Let the whole family men, 1 I women, and children read tho uewspuprrs. A story of the thinnest horso ou record now comes uppermost in the small tumulus of jocularities lying on the table before u.. Jones's hotel ("Woodiawn") on the P.loomingdale road is ornamented with u hostler whose fun is as fearless as his face is uglv. Onedav in January, while twenty or thirty fast eon'tlemen were standing o'u the front baleonv of tbeholel. an individual rode up the path, on the thitnest horse mortal eyes ever looked upon. Leaping from this phantom steed, the equestrian said, turning to the hostler, "here, John, gnu my uorsu borne water. 101. . aiiiu uuuu, wiiu a look VI C151UU- . . ' o;,.? :.i t..!.., . i,..i. ,r isnmeni. 'Give my horse some water!'' thundered the strangor. "Your horse!" ejaculated John still more surprised. "Yes, ryou fool, my horse'.' and the , li.i , , , , through his ban John walked toward him as though lie would demand an explanation, and had taken about six steps, when he suddenly stopped, like one surprised beyond expression." l5k'-!' so,ll!" ,,,!. "r ) l)ar" ' """"' swuuin 0,1 '"e with that ere hitching post, and 1 dit,,1'ee him!" au- Mri .vour naniiiial was a standin' I he owner of the spectral beast tried to frown, but a roar from the balcony made him change his mind. Stick to Your Opinions. It is a great mistake to suppose that you are bound to discard a fix-id belief in your " 10 i UB fl "la Those reasons from time to time have been brought to the cognizance of the mind, have wrought their work upon the convictions, aud then have been forgotten. The resultant beliefs, like successive strata, remain as a sort of fixed, permanent deposit. This is the order of nature, in mind as well as in matter, and it is right that it thould bo so. Otherwise wc should be forever afloat on the sea of opinion. Cultivate then, this habit of tenacity, as well in your opinion as in your course of life. It is no harm to be a little dogged sometimes. l)o not give up your creed localise some speciality men pressss you with arguments thatyoueatitiotanswor. You could answer them, had you made the subject a holby.ashe has done. You could answer them, if you had the leisure to re- view seriatim the steps by which you have come to your present stage of belief. On- j i bc varcfnl aml hn,,ftst ,l,c l,IaC0 ; .1,11 -11 in forming your opinions, and then be will ing to place .some confidence iu vonr own mental results. Do not bo badgered out of your position by every whipster that comes along prattling about old fogyism and the progress of the ago. Julm S Hart. A Wife or a Fee. A young lady, named Addie JameiEon, only sixteen year3 old, at, New York, in getting out of an omnibus, la:t spring, foil and broke ono of her leg?. A young M. D. who lived in that strcst, had the suffering girl taken into his hoarding house, close by, i powerful man; if he be erroneous, then he where beset the liiiib,!iiid.shcwa?thcn car ! i.-, powerful for error; if the thing i-. in the ried home. He continued his attendance, heart, he is sure to make it notorious, even fell in love with MNs. J., and finally offer- j though it he by a downright falsehood. ed her his hand in marriage. She accept-1 Let a man be iver so ignorant: stiil, it his ed; but the girl's father refu.-ed his assent j heart be full of love to a can -:-: he bi comes to the match, because the young doctor j a powerful man for that object, because he was poor, and as yet had little practice, j has heart power, heart force. A mm may Sawbones thereupon made out a bill atjbc deficient in many of the advantap: of 32 per visit for visits, and for: cdm-ation, in many of tboso niceitic!- which setting the broken leg. Ho meant to be ' ;,rc E0 much looked upon in society; but paid for his courting, if it had all got to go once give him a good btreng heart, that for nothing. Tho old man, finding that he ! l,ca.s hard; and there is no Diiitake .-.bout, must pay some S'JOQ or SoO or lose his j the power. Let him have a heart that is daughter, finally gave the Doctor the latter j full up to the 1 rid with an obje;t, ncd on receiving a rsceipt in full, and the ju-1 that nan TMi do the ohiect. or elra h? till vcnile .Miss JameiKOO is now 'Irs. L'cotor Grayson. Teaching Children. Do all in your power to taach your chil dren self-government. If a child is pas- sionate, teach him by exampli, and use centle and patient means to curb hi.i tern - 1 De per. If he is greedy, cultivate liberality i m7 k'lo chizenr, f r I was born a farm- her dei'h; and during that time the enor-it is in him. If he is sulky charm him out of ' er tlic ari''1CBt c'f my jenth v,ere mens quantity of 1,157 gallon of water ;t Piieoiira.'in" fhmk good-humor. If i . ,r' .. . . ? lUOOIcnl, HCCU.ll'.ni JllUI lOeXClllon. ' j,ridn makes his obedience reluctant, sub - ' ,Uo him by counsel or discipline. In cvrr.'eminj th-'r 1 r rt'lnvr sin. Speaking Well of the Evil One. A parson was making a cull upon au old lady, who made it an habitual rule never to speak ill of another, and had oUerved ! 't so clo?e!y that she always justified ihvfe whom bhe heard evil spoken of. Before tlie M hnr "M"" the i I"'u'''' erA children were speaking of J'eeuliurity of their mother aud one o' ,1",m Ijl".vful!y added : "Mul!'er Lm ucL a hMl u K', i " of everybody, that I believe if Sata-i himself were tho subject of conversation, mother would find some virtue or good quality even in him." Of course this remark elicited some smiling aud merriment at the originality of the idea, in the midst of which the old lady euteivd the room, and on being told what 'had just been '.aid, she immediately and involuntarily replied: "Well, my dear children, I wish we utl had Satan 'a industry and perse vera nee." Miithftiii'ess. The power of discovering a comic p.. inf. of appreciating n humorous hit, and enjoying the fun of a droll position, is a gilt uot to be despised. . It is not a vain, silly, or unbecoming thing, as some moping owls and grave dullards suppose. It is indeed, like all human faculties liablo to abuse! and capable of being perverted to evil; but it is essentially a good gift, and ought to be turned to the good account tf which it is susceptible, and to manifest itself in the increase of the cheerfulness the happiness, and the affection of social and family life. Wo might go farther. We might say, and adduce much evidence to support tho proposition, that as humor is discerned only by those who can, to some extent, catch the feeling and spirit of humor is one phase or department of sympathy, and tliu3 tho springs of mirthful noss and of kiudness are not far distant; and many a home, amid the alterations of joy and sorrow that darken or brighten the course of life, has found an ever fresh gladness in the comic vein and jocund humor uf sumo mirthful member of the family. Many of the best men wc have ever known tho best iuthe highest sense of the term with tho best hands and the best hearts, have been men who thoroughly appreciated and highly enjoy-1 ed true humor. North British Ucciew Every Day Absurdities. To attempt to borrow money on plea of extreme poverty. the To ask the publisher of a new newspaper how many copies he sells pur week. To ask a wine merchant how old his wine is. To lo-e money on hoi-eiv.o-ing. and then lose your temper. To get tipsy, and complain of a be idache next morning. To attempt to borrow money at a loan .society by giving a responsible pors.ni f se'iiri V- ir To cat a hearty dinner of fish and c.ail it fa-tin degree, they bavcu the heart of eachindi-o to bed when vou aie tirod ai.d , v;,i.,i i.;, i ,. ... i ... ,i . . ,, i i- Not to : sleepy because it is not bed time. To render a man a service voluntarily au,, expec, ,mi. .o oe guei ui ior H. .1. ..el IV. . Taney nig a thing is cheap beoiiuv: a low price is asked for it. .Listening lo an aaverus.n; - - oiiector. - e - tailing 'the advantas to bo dt. rived frcm patronising his proprietor's purer. Heart Fcwee. A man's force in the TvorM, other things being eq-i-il. jnnt in the ratio of the force and strength of his heart. A full' ha.irted man i3 aiwav.-i a tPo rkrr.ttlvik.V-'-! - 1 r'-- li I his defeat. Eiesrt in p-" A CoDfLrorsicnal candidate thus ia-,crnny, died ;; rflsideBi"e cn t!. 4th tcrrup'.edhy an inebr.Ve:OI frn-ls'iid; insf. The dVctre i f which JJrf. A&m tho candidate, 'I ara jTiud to tco arcund : died ra3 a:c;t;r, su.l vas rrrliTS ere rf me to-night tho fcaviy ya:-tncry cf tho land, for I levo tbc 3;.r;cuhurl iutcieMr ' of ,Iie cUE!ry; cy I Ws fhatn. spent in the peaceful avocation-) of a son il... 111 mL ull.,..- ,1 i. ...... '- ."-. , -- ... . - 1 figurative expression, my frier.'!-', I may fay, I was raisod between two rows of corn.' ol t 'A pumpKin; ny mumier; i-xcia.mc.i uiv im1 ri.itc 1 Joe. Transplanting Trees. As soon as the foliage bus dropped transplant oruuiueutal tdiudtf or fruit trees. There will be a giving of one years' growth between those planted now and those in the spring. In taking up trees great care should be taken not to mutilate their roots, for every fiber of the root lost the growth of the tree will be retarded so much and its life endangered. Whenever it is abso-lutelyuecessary to part with any of the roots tuko off the top in proportion. Let the holes be lurg.-r than the roots and never bend :r cramp a root iuto a small hole. Where the roots are mutilated make a clean cut with a sharp knife, aud the new rootlets will show themselves pushing out between the bark and wood. If the soil is poor fill in the holes with rich earth from the woods or swamps. But in no case use stable manure iu planting out trees in this climate. Topdress the ground among your trees with leached ashes, or any decomposing vegetable matter. If rabbits are troublesome in barking your fruit trees apply soft country soap to the truuks two or three times in the year.. Glossing Linen. Inquiry is frequently made respecting the mode of putting a gloss on linen collars aud shirt bosoms, like that on new liu-en. This gloss or enamel, as it is sometimes called, is produced mainly by friction with a warm iron, and may be put on linen by almost any person. The linen to be glazed receives as much starch as it is possible to charge it with, then it is dried. To each pound of starch a piece of sperm, parafino, or white wax, about the size of a walnut, is usually added. When ready to be ironed, the linen is lain upon the table and moistened lightly ou the surface with a clean wet cloth. It is then ironed in the usual way with a flat-iron, and is ready for the glossing operation. For this purpose n peculiar heavy flat-iron rounded ut the bottom and polished as bright as a mirror, is used. It is pressed firmly upon the linen and rubbed with much force, and this fractional action puts on the gloss. "Elbow grease" is the principal secret connected with the art of glossing linen. Scientific Ameri- ci Kind words are to the heart what odor is to the senses a blessing and a balm. They turn away wrath not uloue, but sad ness, and melancholy, aud suffering dis pair at their gentle sound, and tho world is all the brighter. How changed would j all things seem if no angwrcd words were j spoken. How every face would bear thu imprint of Heaven, and every heart leap ; to love and trust. The blessed millennium promiM d by Scripture can easily be realized, if turn all the (fare from the world, aud implant within each breast the seed of I goo I will and kindness. And if in so I great a degree, kind words leaven and i sweeten life, in the lesser, but no less sure ......... uii it-ii(.-i tue sum a living millennium. How then sboul! wi Irv to cu,;vate kindness, and how constants . ' " ' ihuulJ k;ml Wfjns ay upon our lips. i Nflvcr attJmpt lc, ftr'lkf tu Never attempt lo strike th guilty, where by misdirected, nr too hasty blows, the innocent, the gallant and good may suffer. Never attempt to expose a villain, if through your efforts in po doing you are likely to injure those who have been th. unsuspecting dupe.! of his artifice. Ncrer wager a larger sum than you carry iu your pocket. Never shake bauds with a man if you are not really glad to see him. Never forget, when you meet to recognize your friends, and be even more careful to offer your salutations to those who are poor. Never run extravagantly into debt, for it i? the by-path which leads to moral destruction. Never quarrel without sufficient cause, but if it bc necessary that you do take up a quarrel, then pee that quarrel firmly to an end. Never betray confidence of any kind, but more particularly that of a woman. Extr? ordinary im cf Vxpj.hj- Mrs. Mary J.i: as, wife cf Go. Ad:r.?, of Nottinchan township. TVarh r.-'m j the roc?i rtttarkible on recorl. The Tan , tapped rc.srly ercry fmir -kg, frrm 1 January, 1S5S. tm short reriod ' before of.Was taken from her, the amount taken n ' t. i:... r ..... ... ...... ' t r;n 11 t.uit; aij oi 11 -in ... iouriv.ni ' and a half galloin. The lt tint, but one, that she was taprd, fiiWn gallons ( were rrta;ncfl. ana two 'week alter tins, t'jhl rall-ns and three and a halt' pints.