Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1876 — The Pleasures of Wealth. [ARTICLE]

The Pleasures of Wealth.

There are some very delicious joys.attached to great wealth if in the acquiring of it the heart has not been hardened. A few days since a poor woman came here with three little children. She had neither friends nor money’ and one baby was iIL She was anxious to get to a brother in Idaho, but the task seemed a hopeless one. She concluded to "give a lecture, which should consist simply of the pathetic story of her struggle to take care of her little ones. She called upon one gentleman in this city and asked him to buy a ticket. He said: “My poor woman, go on with your lecture and after it is over come and see me again.’’ Yesterday she called again and he asked her how much she lacked to enable her to reach her friends. She told him. It was a pretty large sum, but the man immediately drew a check for enough more than the amount named to guartl against accidents, and told the woman gently that if she was detained or got in trouble on the road to write to him. The woman told us all this with tears in her eyes and said he was an angel. He would not do for a ready-made angel without, some repairs, but it was a good deed, and we fancy he slept better for Tt last night. There are some very sweet. things connected with the possession of great wealth. — Virginia , (A'ec.) Enterprue. Of all the blunders that the cohimon farmer and some others make with trees, none is so common or so hurtful, and which he <is long finding out, and of which he might know so certainly, as the - practice of cutting off lower limbs: All over the country nothing is more common than to see mutilated trees on almost every farm. Big limbs cut off near the body of the tree, and of course rotting to the heart. This is a heart sin against nature. The very limbs necessary to protect the tree from wind and sun, and jqftt_ "where limbs are needed most, areciit away. But the greatest injury is the rotting that always takes place when a big limb is sawed off—too big to heal over, it -must rot, and being kept moist by the growing tree, is in the right condition to rot, and .being bn the body, the rotting goes to the heart and hurts the whole trce. It is corhmon all over the country to see large orchards mutilated in this way. We often see holes in the trees where big limbs have been cut away, where squirrels and even raccoons could crawl in. Perhaps the only reason these trim.ipers would give is that the lower limbs were easiest got at, and some would say they wanted to raise a crop under the tree.— Monthly.