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Th* journal, which baa been claiming for some time that it oras an organ, now changes front and aaecrta that it is a newspaper If does not know whether it is fish* ftoaft or fowl, and, changing the metaphor, its sails are spread to catch all breezes. It may be an organ, but a fool coakl teU at a glance that it is not a

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Gkxkbal GaoHog H. Chapman, who was rfbmi dated for State .Senator by the Liberal Republican and Democratic Convention, a few days since, has been compelled, for reasons personal to himself and family, to decline the nomination. His letter of declination will be found in another column, aud it will be seen that whtte beds unable to take the race, he gives no uncertain support to the principleaof the Liberal movement. The Gen-

#ral will vote as* he shot.

Ahmt Ourselves,

The Journal is terribly worried over the prosperity of 'The Evening Kews and never loses an opportunity to exhibit its ill wilL Its evening edition which was to break down The News in three months has proven such an expensive aud disastrous failure, that we are not surprised its proprietors feel sore. They have been industriously laboring ever since the Cincinnati Convention to show that The News is losing readers because it advocates Mr, Greeley’s election, and greedily afdzes upon anything pointing that way. This morning the Journal publishes a card from ten citizens of Brooklyn who profess to have been subscribers of The News and who now repudiate it. This card was evidently worked up with much labor by a Journal canvasser, and as is customary with persons in such a business he over did the matter. Ten men say they have etopped The News. Well the joke of it is we never had but six •ubscribers at Brooklyn and we retain two of them, the others assigning a very different reason for stopping. So far as circulation is concerned, for every paper stopped since the Cincinnati Convention we have gained five new subscribers, which is very comfortable. Ten subscribers to the Journal are doubtless, such a eodsend that it can be j>ardoned for cackling about it, like a hen over one egg.

us have peace.

An H storied Correct onC

General Leslie Coombs corrects a statement of the American Historical Register, concerning the connection of Tecumseh with the massacre of the River Raisin. “I happen to know,” he says, ‘ that “Tecuraseh was not at or near the battle ” and massacre of River Raisin; b*ut was “ present on the 5th of May afterward, “ commanded the Indians at Dudley’s de- “ feat, opposite Fort Meigs. On that oc- “ casion he saved my life aud several “ hundred others in the slaughter pen af“ter we had run the Indian gauntlet, and “ General Proctor and Colonel Elliott fail - “ ed or refused to interfere to save us.” It is not particularly creditable to the English that their blood-thirstiness had to be restrained by a savage, but it is a fact. But for the Shawnee chief many a head would have gone to a bloody grave that day that lived in honor for many a year after. There is no doubt that not a little of the cruelty of our Indian wars was of English instigation. No people or government ever dealt with another so perfidiously aud meauly as England did with us, till the second war taught her better sense. Proctor was a wretch who richly deserved hanging There can not be found in his whole career an honorable or manly act. He was treacherous, cow r - ardly and cruel, and the early settlers of the Northwest owe him contempt enough to justify them in making some sort of a public monument to commemorate it. He and the commandant at Detroit, at an earlier day, who paid a bounty for scalps, and published a notice of it, ought to have some imperishable record of their conduct, made for the world to remember

and despise for all time. Who Wa ts An -ther War?

Some of our Republican friends do not particularly like General Grant, but feel inclined to vote for him because the Democrats are supporting Mr. Greeley. They can not get over the old prejudice. They can not cease to regard a Democrat as an enemy, an alien, who must be opposed forever. One great objection these men say they have to Mr. Greeley’s election is that a new rebellion will be inaugurated if the Pemocrats get into power. We doubt if any of them really believe this, but still they urge it all the same. Let us look at the matter from a common sense point of view. Men generally act from two causes, principle and interest. The latter is the most powerful and most frequently is brought to bear upon the alfairs of life. Men do not often do things they know will injure themselves; Democrats are no more apt to thaa Republicans. Now we never should have had a rebellion in this country, we never should have had a war, if the question of money bad not entered into the situation. Slaves were worth money. In protecting slavery, therefore, every man thought he was proecting his own pocket. He wanted to <ave bis property just as every man n this city wants to save his. If t ere had not been this disposition, how many people in the South wonld have gone into the war? They had all the liberty they wanted, except to extend slavery, and nothing but their money interest tndueed them to rebel. How is it now? Slaverv is gone. It can never be restored. The most unscrupulous demagogue who tells the negroes that Horace Greeley, if elected, will enslave them, knows he lies. Such revolutions never go backward. What inducements, therefore, have the Southerners to rebel, even if they had the ability? With Mr. Greeley elected they would be released from the carpetbag governments that * are plundering them; their interests wonld be protected. And who is it that is interested in breaking up this country? Who is it that wants to spend and be spent in each a work? So far as we can observe all oar people are trying to get ahead. We do not see that Democrats are less anxious to make money than Republicans, or that Southerners are any more ready to lose what they have got than Northerners. We are all alike trying to make money and it «to no man’s interest to get up a war, to nj to break the country up, or to disturb the finances of the country. It is no honest

against illegal voting. The voting would man’s interest to do this. A few Wall be more expeditious, and public conven-j street speculators or adventurers, to whom

The province of a newspaper in to give the news. That is what the journal aims to do, whether it helps or harms us. The people want the newt* and it is our businets to givt it, rtigardle-s n| coOTcquences.—fJournal Indeed! How long since you came to thfs cofit ludlon snd were sefred with such a lofty aim ? It must have been since you refuswi to publish Mr. Sumner’s speech and gave only a portidh of his letter, cut ting it off With a fliffyant remark. And, by tlto way, we don’t see Grata Brown’s letter of acceptance in your paper this morning. t» mat not news? The Associated Press agent seems to think it is. Tint Chicago Tribune in noticing the Astonishing fact that .France, wishing to borrow $$00,000 000, had $8,400,000,000 offered hersaysr Yet Secretary Boutwed has been com pel ltd to Withdraw a small loan from the European market, because he could find r»«* takers He himself gave, as the resnou for this failure, our complications with Spain and England, arising from the Houard case and the Treaty o? Washington imbroglio. For these complications i present Administration ft directly re ihsiWe. Its bungling diplomacy has ao weakened European confide nee in our national honesty that we, with all $ur riches, catr not borrow a dollar, while France, impoverished as no people have ever lmen before, receives offers of enough money to pay our nation al debt four times over, and then leave a

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The following item was copied by The News, the other day, from some of our exchanges. We reproduce it to notice and correct a very common error: ' The Duke de Montpensler and the ex tjfiecn of Spate are both living luxuriantly

id Paris.”

The words “luxuriantly” and “luxuriously” wre frequently used interchangeably, as if they were synonymous. We have seen very respectable papers, and even publications of a more pretentious literary character, use them so. But it is a gross and wtexOnsable blunder. The words are no more al^ke in orthography qr sense than “luxate?’ and “luxuriate,” the first ot which meabs to “put out of foimt*” and the other r‘to enjoy luxury.” “Luxunous” implies the gratification oi the senses, “luxuriant'’ involves nothin*. Of sense or iwuwion. The one can be properly applied only to sentient beings, the other, though not exclusively, is more properly applied to inanimate objects. A man lives “luxuriously,” but a tree or weed grows “luxuriantly.” There mai be cases in which the difference of application is less mar ked than this, but usually the distinction we have suggested of “lux urious” applied to creatures .with senses, and “luxuriant” to inanimate creation,

holds good.

Tne Votiai ERoe*. If the Grant party have made up the shtte so as to have all the voting in this township at the Court House the .Commissioners will not be peimitted to make ihy change, no matter w hat considerations of fair dealing, honesty and 1 convenience may favor such change. If the Commissioners are actuated by a desire to secure a fair election and wish to consult the eoBvaaioBca of voters, a voting placo will bo established in each election precinct. rules, every voter te a "fipulatiem bf sixty thousand will be compelled Jie Court House to deposit his ballot. An immense crowd will be gathered there, under cover of which any amount of illegal voting may be safely done, especially by that class of voters who have been but recently enfranchised, many of whom have but little knowledge of the moral and legal crime involved, and will be easily persuaded to double voting by unprincipled party scavengers With a voting place in each precinct no very jprge crowd wonld be gathered at any point, and the persons composing it would be generally known to each other, which would of itself be a safeguard

of the people want peace and order-. It is money in ‘heir pockets to have them, and have them they will, no matter who

Jiaihe next President.

JPOLXTl' AL NOTES. Stocking is said to be gartered in his place by Morton. Shoo - G. W. Carter, the ieiuier of the atiti-W&r moth faction in the late Louisiana Legisla tore, abandons Grant and will s pport Gree. ley. It is said that that the reason why General Grant don’t deny Pleasanton’s statements ft that he don’t car# to provoke further disclosures. Stanley Matthews's speech [of August 2] is doing splendid service in the West foi Grant Stanley Matthews's speech [of liaj 1] is doing splendid work in the West for Greeley. The Chicago Inter-Ocean has discovered that Banka did not desert the Republicai party until the Republican party had deser'ed him. Also, that he is grossly intemperate and immtnoral. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe calls Greeley ? renegade. She says that he has stultified » splendid manhood, which it had taken ha) a century to make, and for ambition of plache had permitted his life-long enemies t* swallow him, and blot out his work of a lift time. She considers Greeley now a l>aee, d s honest, truckling, trading politician. Slu told Governor Hoffman that Greeley hac gone down to Jericho and fallen amorf: thieves, and that they were just strip pin, him naked. Mrs. Stowe's trea'ment of th* memory of Byron shows that when there i any stripping naked to be done she wants : hand in it.

THE SENATORIAL CONTEST. JndR* C'bapnian Deriln## «b# Rac* f- * P**r« nal Reasons - Him Opinion on ili« Situation. Indianapolis, August 8, 1872 Austin H. Brown, Esq. Chairman Libe-sl Repu! lican and Democratic Executive Committee: Dear Sir—For reasons altogether of a p» soual nature I am compelled to decline! candidature for which I was nominated b the Liberal Republican and Democratic Co» vent ions of this county. The honor c ferred upon me by this unsoliefted nomiri tion I fully appreciate, and I shall regret at disappointment which may be occasioned b my declination. I can not, in justice to nr self, pursue any other course at this time *' In my judgment, the most important p litical problem which the citizens of th. country are called upon to -olve is tba • reconciliation. The well being of our peoj imperatively demands a realization of t aspiration expressed by General Grant in 1 letter acceptiwg the Republican nowinatio in 1868, “let us have peace ” Doubtless was then and is now the de^re of the gr» - majority of the Republican party that a coi dition of political peace between the pen of the North and of the South should 1 brought about. But the entire managemeu and control of that party organization, a. of the administration of President Graseems to have passed into the hands of tin notorious cabal of Senators, who are inte only upon personal success. During t) administration they have so shaped legis tion affecting the Southern States as not on to keep alive old, but to engender new host’ ities. Their only intelligible motive b been to maintain their own ascendancy 1 keeping in power the adventurers who ha' seized the State governments and are robbin the southern people under the mantle of tl Republican party. Should the Republics party be successful at the approaching ele. tion I doubt not this same cabal will coi tinue the same policy should it promft them a further lease of power. Such a vo> will be by them construed into an indorst ment of their past course. Nearly eight years have passed since th close of the war. Slavery has been abolish#* and the rights of the colored people ha been securely provided for in the Const it > tion. There is no political organization.tlu would desire to disturb these accomplish# facts. And now, if the people of the Nort i and the people of the South are to live ft gether under a Republican government w. must endeavor to drive away discord ai hate, and establish concord and good will their stead. In no other way can we ho.i to have that political peace which at oi time seemed to be the earnest desire of G# > eral Grant In my judgment the election of Hora-. Greeley promises to inaugurate such a sr son of reconciliation and prosperity, would be so unmistakable a verdict of th people that no administration could disr sard it. It would be the political d#at knell of a set of selfish partisans, who hav ceaselessly fed the fires ot hate since the cl > of the war, and with whose services the cout try could well dispense Yours truly, Geo. H Chapman. A BOY KtDSAPPED. He$emrn«to Louisville After an Abs#ne« of Sevea Years, and Seeks H»Pareats. [From the Louisville Cour.-Jour.] A boy about fourteen years of age calle at this office aud toid such a story of wroc, and hardships that it hardly seems possib to be true, and yet we have no reason u doubt it. His story in brief is as follows Seven years ago Henry Gallagher, then child seven years of age, son of a man nam ed Patrick William Gal Lap her. who liveu near the old Soldiers’ Home at the Na&hvili railroad depot, was playing in the street when a stranger approached him and, alie giving him candy, induced ’ him to go wilt, him. The boy partly consented, and wataken across the river into Indiana, nea Donville, on the Indianapolis aud St. Looi Railroad The man proved to be W m. <. n. drew, a farmer. He kept the child and ma t him work Year after year, treating him ofie unkindly. Hie boy made an ed rt to ru away several rimes, but each time was brougb oack by his master. During the seven years the boy remaiutc with Childress, he received two years’ senoo. mg. A few days ago he told Childress tba he would leave’him, and asked him for soon money to carry him to Louisville, whien w<«refused. He ran away that night and reacn ed Jeffersonville Thursday without a cent Here he told his circumstances to a man who gaVe him a nickel, with which be cro *- ed the river. At the bridge he met with Mr M 8. Lord, who lives at 270 High street, an told him the story of his wrougs. He no-* ■*eeks his parents, and if Patrick Wm Gallagher is sttil in the city, pr where this pap* •ill reach him. he can recover his kidnappe son by calling on Mr. Lord The story is**, strange one, and any one interested in It ca obtain all the particulars by .applying to Mr. Lord.

Hew to Leans tbe Plano Keys. All tbe G and A keys Are between the black three?. And ’tween the twos are all the D’s. Then on the right eide of the threes Will be found the Bsand CTs;, Bat on t he left side of the threes Are all the F’s and ail the E s. Invalided. Ah ’ to be able to rise. And leave ~Jbe wearisome room. An • be ont once more ander stnmw skies. A wav from this dull, close gloom’

I dream of lying at easc_ A’^nt And looi Wa&cfc"

Fn? branched trees.

I pull the blossoms that grow In the soft moss under my hand. And welcome the health-giving winds th.u blow. Cooling the summer land. A'mI ah! it Is all so bright, And the happiness is »o treat! Bu; th- dre»m in a tn ment has taken Sight, And 1 turn with a sigh to wait. if atilda as tbe Gate. Matilda, Just you mind them hens. And shoo 'em ont away fr«<m h- re; Ti ev’re scratching all the garden up— W hy, Tildy's gone—wa al. wa al that's queer, 'he ain't contrary as a m e, .ad gen'lly obeys my will: But though she heard me. off she put— Why, there's Lorenzo retting: 11 ’ Ha met her, and she's stopped to talk - Them hens w 11 e-t up everything— Tc's wanti g her to take a walk— Wa’" 1. it is nic * to walk in spring. He‘s took her han -.—come, that won't do— -he seems to sum une*>mxnou still: ’d better .vt them know I’m roaud— Good evening, Mr. Pettinglll! 3e don’t mind me—it ain't no use— Ah wa'al, my time has been and gone; ^u’ then. I'd redly no idee How 1 ildy was a gettin s on hese gal- grow up. and pretty soon They ay us old ones on the shelf. ,orcDW> is a sir.ait young man— I guess I’ll tend them cens myself.

“SCRAPS,”

Delaware promises 1,000,000 baskets of

caches this year.

Niue cab horses out of every twelve in Ixra-

lou are “sprung.”

Woodcock aud pigeons are uncommonly

v-arce in Minnesota.

A colored normal school will be established

it Quindaro, Kansas.

More tobacco is raited in Connecticut this ear than ever before. ’Sweet letters oi the angel tongue.” This ; s the way a rhymster in the Bo-ton Globe

ilka about flowers.

Superior, WjscoDsin, has had a remarkable elestial phenomenon—a white arch in the

from east to west.

Long Branch complains that “the colored . aiters and their sweethearts monopolize the -ach in the evening.” It is proposed by some of the officers of the Htish army in India to establish a European •!ony on the Himalayas. A. high toned paper says that jokes about fra Dr. Mary Walker and her doings have oco t mc “insufferably ataie.” The Cunard Company are building three amers of very large dimensions, to be add to their transatlantic fleet, A boy at Underhill, Virginia, has just

mghed up 'a beech nut which he got into is lungs two years and a half ago. Louis Blanc considers the new treaty beveen France and Germany a monument to ie prudent firmness of M. Thiers. West Point cadets are now in camp, and aeinuiiitary evolutions are witnessed by trge numbers of people every day. Smoking tobacco if it stings the tongue is <o dry, if it produces nausea is too strong, id if it produces headache is impure. The United States have 5,000 telegraph ations, 75,000 miles of line, over 7,000 opeitors, aud transmit over 11,500,000 messages

unually.

Long Island has fifty-nine improved trout onds, which, with their lodges and accesoes are estimated at upward of a million ollars in value. It is decreed that in all Roman Catholic emeteries in Chili a portion of the ground * to be sot apart hereafter for the interment -f the Protestant dead. On Friday afternoon, a shower of rain in Charleston, S. C , flooded the central part of ne city, while the dust was not laid iu the pper portion of the town. The leading trunk lines from New York we adopted a new tariff of all-rail freights »the West, which indicates a reduction ot 0 to 50 per cent- upon the old rates. The managers of the Savannah, Ga., street ul way say they intend , to run more cars >r the blacks, but declare the increased ex--nse will be a pecuniary loss to them. Ex-Commodore George N. Hollins, of Bal- . more, is the last survivor of those on board ie United States frigate President, Commo- ■ >re Decatur, when she was captured in

815.

A field glass lost in Prickly Pear Valley, ’ol., last winter, was found a few days'ago, ad the trees, vegetation and small stream, 1 -ar which the glass laid, are indelibly phoj^raphed on the glasses. At a fire in Fond du Lac, the other day, ue man, with great difficulty, carried a bar“i of flour from the burning house, and, fter emptying its contents in the yard, reuoved the barrel to a place of safety. . A Buffalo clergyman sent around tbe con' ribution boxes for tbe dear heathen and -fleeted sixty cents, ten cents of which was a soda water checks. Sixty thousand dolars were offered in purses for the races. The City of Oxford, England, with its 35, >00 inhabitants, can now boast of not having i single criminal in prison, an um*ual :ircumstance, which was recently marked iy the hoisting of a white flag on the tower ‘f the jail. , The Alta California explains that a “hoodlum” is a rough who goes uninvited upon >icnic excursions and insults the women and •hildren, helps himself to free lunches, and eta the rascal generally. The dictionaryuakere ought to he told of this. The Rev. Fixncis A. Harding, whose case before tbe General Conference ol the Metboiist Episcopal Church, in 1844, proved the ntering wedge to the division of the Church, iied in the city of Baltimore, July 29, in rest destitution, in the 59th year of his age. Juarez was of a long-lived race, but his iabits of incessant labor had undermined lis health, and doubtieto brought on the tisease which put an end to his long and active life. He had previously had two attacks of apoplexy, each of which was nearly fataL The first occurred some years since at

Durango, and the second about a year since

at the Capital.

A horse and light wagon were missed from Park's Mill, near Council Bluffs, two weeks ago, and were supposed to have been stolen. Tuesday, the 5th instant, the horse and wagon were found in a thicket near where they were lost. Everything was all right, save the horse, which was nearly starved to death, having stood in the same spot without

food for two weeks.

Dr. Houard proposes to tell the tale of his sufferings to the American people. Over twenty “lecture committee*" have already solicited the privilege of introducing him. We shouldn't be st all surprised if the fact that the tyrant s heel has been upon his native American neck were the means of putting some ten, fifteen or twenty thousand

dollars in the doctor's pocket.

Ttie Geneva Arbitrators at Work. On Tuesday, the 16th, the formal work of the court may be said to have begun. At an early honi Mr. Cushing arrived and smoked a cigar under the balconies of the'dull old town house. He was sprightly as a child, and some French friends of whom I demanded his age, swore that he could not be over 50. Next came the Brazilian arbitrator, Baron Itajnba, a thin, common place looking gentleman, with & black cotton umbrella. Count Sclopis entered with a bold, hearty step, and was followed by the wiry figure of Mr. Evarts, and by Mr. Bancroft Davis with his sardonic face. The English delegates arrived last, and they looked as if they were prepared for a hard but hopeless light. Sir Alexander Cockburn—pronounce that name Coburn—led with his gouty legs, and was followed by Lord Tenterden. This gentleman has just won some renown by answering “Nothing,” when the court asked him what he had to say. I don’t suppose that reticence is to be ihe rule in subsequent proceedings, and in no case is there to be .drawn from it any comfort for tbe sphinx gentleman. Lord Tenderden knows that reticence is a positive not a negative quality, and does not forbid the expression of good ideas at the proper moments. With Sir Roundell Palmer came a vast collection of bo5ks, which a couple of lackeys spent some time in carrying to the hall of the sessions. The chief lackey is a part of the Alabama case. He was with the commission at Washington and studied American institutions with some c*re. “And about Butler,” said he; “do you know I’ve seen the man put’is ead between ’is helbows and leer at the 'Ouse? Do you think we’d bear such a thing hat ’ome?” Then he turned to his assistant and said: “Come, Johnny, let’s go hand ’ave some hale.” They went just as the yellow-coated beadle finally turned the door on the tardiest member of the famous tribunal and sat down to await the adjoummetit This ceremony has repeated itself every day this week, giul bids fair to continue without essential change. By a unanimous vote, taken on Monday, the arbitrators decided to give no degree of publicity to the proceedings for the present, though they hold out hopes informally that, at a later stage, the doors may be opened to the representatives of the press. The good people of Geneva seem to take very little interest iu the august assembly. Sometimes a young Swiss lawyer comes up to see the representative men of five nations. Occasionally a party of English tourists strolls into the court to see Lord Tenterden and the Ix»rd Chief J ustico enter. The ante room always contains more or fewer anxious correspondents; but in general the most profound quiet reigns about the neighborhood. The morning papers scarcely deign to notice the affair; indeed, their enforced, silence does rather more credit to their honesty than to their ingenuity. The official gentlemen themselves are calm and studious. Enter the room of any one of the arbitrators, and you will find him elbow deep tn voluminous documents. There is very little of the prandial diplomacy which attended the making of the treaty, but everybody connected with the affair seems ready to work. Perhaps this spirit will make the result on the whole no less creditable to those concerned.—[Geneva

Letter to Tribune.

THE FARM.

A gentleman who keeps a stands o£ fruit sows snd Is usrieaE. A corrwondsDt of th« County OsnUessispsi onderputthe land in good order for other

crops.

We observe that it is stated in ^ journals that the past severe winter haa te^ttrees to stand in neglected grass fields. cultivated trees ripened their wood earber in the season, and were not injured, while the neglected trees, making a feeble and unopened growth, could not endure the intense cold, and were Often destroyed.—[Qhatauqua

Farmer.

If you have a hedge tha* ia becoming too high and strong, now is the time to prune it, we care not what it be—whether Norway arbor vita > , privet, Osage orange, buckthorn, or any fancy sort of shrub likeweigela, uprighthoueysuckle. And again, if you have , pewr or apple tree that in its growth is so luxuriant a!< to cause its yearly blossoms to be harren, then now is your time to prune it, by cutting off each twig of this year’s growth back to one bud or two inches. If your grape vine is disposed to make too much wood now is your time to stop it, by pinefrina away the end of every shoOt.at just tbe pjnt of foundation of half developed leaves. Take a look of wool from the sheep’s hack and place it upon an Uifh rule Hj^n count front thirty to thirty-three of the spirals or folds in the space of an inch, it equals m quality the finest electorial of Saxony wool grown. Of course, when the number of spirals to the inch diminishes, the quality 0< the wool is relatively inferior. Manytesta have been tried, but this is considered the simplest and best. Cotswold wool, and some other Inferior wools, do not measure mne spirals to the inch. With tins test, every farmer has in his i>oa*ession a knowledge which will enable him to form a torract indgment of all this kind of wool. Tb*** are some coarse wools which experienced wool-growers do not rank as wool, but as liair, on account of the hardiness and straight-

ness of the fiber.

A correspondent of the Germantown Telegraph gives, among other reasons why ox«n should be used 6n the farm m placed horses, the following: “Many small farmer* try to plow their land with one horse; a lew inches in depth is all the soil is moved;-* handfull of manure is all that ia appropriated where there might and should baa bushel; the selection of crops made with but little care; the cultivation of the earn* done at a great expense for want of exp*wmental knowledge and being prejudiced against taking advice of successful farmers. On the majority of farms in my immediate vicinity more than a third of the expense is worse than wasted. A pair of oxen will ^■s'e.WwiK teen can handle the oxen and plow With more ease and pleasure than a man can with

a span of horses.”

The Rural Messenger recommends the following treatment for the cabbage fly; Take the water in which salt flisliliave been soaked over night, and with a brush or broom sprinkle plentifully over the pteats. Ifoa is all. One liberal application if if is nahy

A'lianging the Mubject. An attentive “little pitcher” hear her father instruct older brothers and sisters that when, in course of conversation, a subject came up that seemed to be disagreeable to any one present, etiquette demanded that it should be changed as quickly as possible. Borne days after her father said to her, as he left the house: ’ , “Mary, papa wants you to be very careful, it you play in the garden to-day, not to touch tbe hyacinths. Will you remember?" Of cousse she would, but on papa’s return in the evening he found his hyacinths picked, and the marks of little feet in the garden bed. Calling Mary up to him, he looked very grave and said: “My dear, you remember that I told you particularly not to touch the hyacinths, and now I find thtm picked, and no one has been in the garden but you. How is this?” Mary laughed, and said: “Oh, papa, it was splendid in the garden to-day! 1 saw a beautiful Jittfe bird’s nest, and there was a great big butterfly —” “Wait, wait, my child. I am talking to you about something else now. Don’t you understand mb? I am very seriously displeased with yon. I told you not to touch the hyacinths, and now I find them picked, and your foot-prints all about” “Oh, yes, papa, I did have the liveliest time in the garden to-day. Don’t you think it was a beautiful day!” “Mary, how dare you answer me so impertinently? lam talking to you about ycfUr disobedience. Why do you not attend to me? I shall have to make you.” Rather sobered at thja suggestion, “little pitcher’s” countenance fell, and she faltered out: “Why, papa, you said that when a subject became unpleasant to any one, the only way was to change it." Papa saw the point, and the unpleasant subject was dropped for that once.

enough, will clear out the liy entiteiv, so that not a corporal’s guard of them wnl be left, and the salt will be stimulating to the

plants.

Injudicious watering is an injury to moat garden plants; but properly performed (for there is a right and a wrong way of doing it. > it is a great aid to the plants, and few are the gardens, flower or vegetable that are not watered artificially during the penod of summer drought. A slight watering in the middle of the day is an injury rather than a benefit. The heated earth absorbs the water thus applied, it bakea and farms a hard crust about the plant, the dews are not absorbed, and the plants are in reality worse off than if no water had been put qn. It is more important to keep the soil light ana loose about newly set plants, flowers, etc., than it is to drench tiiem with water. Where this is done the

not do so long as Always wafcr at night; and before watering have the ground loosened up with the garde* rake—then water liberally—the appucation of a little water is often no better than none. Indeed we had rather keep tbe hoe going in a flower garden, in hot, dry weather, than the watering pot The plants will stand tbe drought better by the former than the latter mode. Too much water ia as injurious to vegetable life as -to have them scorched—therefore use judgment in watering as we ll as in other matters connected with the care of your gardens.

Harrow Gauge Snap—si— Railway

A narrow gauge suspension rauway, eighteen inches wide and one mile in length, has been laid at the Alderehott Camp, England, as an experiment This railway ia specially calculated to meet military requirements,and consists of a continuous structure formed of wood or iron. A single row of pillars stand at intervals along tbe line, the lower ends

K>n wooden sleepers, and beinr <y diagonal struts. The lengths o

resting upon wooden sleepers, and being steadied by diagonal struts. The lengths of the pillars vary from three to thirty feet, ac

cording to the contour of the ground. The superstructure consists of two longitudinal beams of wood or iron placed side by side, with adisUnceof eighteen inches between them, snd bolted to, strdtted from snd supported by the pillars. Them longitudinal beams form continuous sleepers and carry four rails, two on the upper surfaces and-two on their outer udee. The surface rails are of 'iron, and carry the train. The side rails are of wood or iron, are nailed along the beams, near the lower edges, and act as guides for the horizontal wheels of the wagons. Where sidings occur, the switches are formed by making a twenty feet length of the railwav to pivot on one end, while the othdr end, resting on a pafr of rollers, travels from the main line to the siding. The carriages are suspended below the axles, and art furnished with horizontal wheels running against the guide rails. The locomotive is specially designed for travelling on this peculiar track. Several miles of this rood are to be laid about the camps at Alderahott, aod the soldiers at leisure times are to be exercised in taking the structures down and patting them np again for military transport service. Aldershot, it may be mentioned is s large permanent camp, with barracks, situated about thirty-five miles southwest of

London.

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