Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1869 — Page 4

NASBY.

flfreMfr.Tqtodo ■*>«-] MB. NAMY MCrfm A LETTER now niK OU> AKD STEADFAST FRIEND, DEACON FOeRAM, IN WHICH THE DEACON SETS FORTH THE CONDITION OF AFFAIR" AT THE CORNERS. rtm'i •Tatbbm. Bourn Co., i AnenrtM. IM(W. f The following epistle reached me yesterday. I rcccved it with mingled cmostama. Ka I gaaed at the familyer stamp onto the cnvelo|»e, wioh I bad yoozed so many time*, I kissed it in extacy—ez 1 thot that it wuz inflicted onto the paper by the hand uv a nigger, indignashen scczcd me. But paasin this I opened the envelope and read ex follows: Coironun X Ro ins, ) (With If the State nv Kentncky.) Augnst the ll»lh. 1H». I Mr Dear; Deah Friend Absence it is said conkers love, but that wont work in yoor case. I hed tried to forget yoo and hed well nigh succeeded, but in overhaulin some papers yesterday, I happened to come across some of yoor notes of hand for small amounts borrowed uv me at different times, and I realized to-wuhst the force nv the old line •• The lost to file, to men<y dear." And I bust out into a flood uv tears. But enuff nv thia I sot out to give yoo the news uv the Corners. Crops is a totle feilyoor here. The season hez bin favorable, but we liev bin so entirely ’without labor that we put in but very little seed. At the time we ought to hev hed our corn plantid, Issaker Gavitt, Kernel McPelter, Elder Pennibacker and our sons wuz scourin the country to get enuff niggers to plant for us, but ez they each Bed land uv their own, they woodent do it. So uv course there wuz none uv any account put in. The little that wuz put in wont amdUßt to nothin ex we coodent get no niggers to tend it, durin the growin season, ana the weeds took possession uv it entirely. Joe Bigler sejested that cf we’d spend half the time plantin uv it that we did holdin mectins to devise ways to get nigger labor, we'd hev a bustin crop. But yoo know Josef; he’s lost cariktcr; he works with his own hands. One uv the most tetcliin sites I ever beheld wuz at Bascom’s early in May. jist after our committee had returned' from a frootlis search after hands to do our plantin. The entire Corners wuz present; but there wuz a settled gloom onto ther faces wich even the refreshments they wuz consooming coodent entirely dissipate. They wuz grouped about the bar-room ez yoosual. Elder Pennibacker wuz a leanin in a chair with his back to a barrel; Issaker Gavitt wuz on his back.on a tabic in the corner, and the others wuz asittinon kegs in various parts uv the room.

“Wo is us!” sighed the Elder, puttin his feet onto a keg, that he mite rest easier, and pensivelv squirtin tobacco joose at a fly on the wall opposite, “ where is the liter to plant the porn! We she! starve.” “Alas!” sighed the Deekin, shifting his seat to get so that, he rood cock liis feet agin the wall. “ Alas! the minits is creeping on, day succeeds day, and no aim in yet” “Yes,” replied Issaker Gavitt, rollin over onto his belly, and histin hisself up onto his elbows, “’this is the froots uv Ablishnism. Ten years ago when we lied our niggers we bed our corn all in by this time, and wuz ready to put etn to plowin on it out. Now that we are dependent onto our labor—” And Issaker groaned and rolled over onto his back. And so -we sot and sot and mourned. The result uv wich is that there aint an acre uv good corn in the entire section. Wood that the Ablishnists, wich brot all this onto hs cood see the rooin they have wrought

The prevailin topic uv discussion sence }roo left us hez bin the trouble with Polock and a AblUlin friend uv hizzen who lives in Springfield, Illinoy, the rest in place uv that human goriller, A. Linkin, MpfWffibut uv the bond question. Yoo ""remember three years ago the Corporashenisbood its bonds bearin 6 percent., for $2,000 to bild a lock-up; and a yeer later when it wuz found nessary to gravel the road betwixt the Corners and the stashen at Secessionville, so ez to redoose the freight on the whisky consumed by us, we iahood bonds bearin eight per cent to the amount of $4,000, both ishoos runnin twenty-five veers. These bonds were taken by Pollock and this friend uv hizzen. Last veer we paid the interest on these bonds, but this yeer the people felt that the burden wuz too heavy. They could not reconcile theirselves to the idea uv sweafin to support in idle luxury the bloated bondholders, and the ponulis mur mured agin it. Wat to do we didn’t know, till finally Elder Pennebacker, who borrows my paper regulerly, remarked: “ Eureker—l’ve got it.” He hed bin readin the Dimocratic proposition to tax bonds, and a lite dawned onto him. “We’ll tax these bonds of Pollock’s!” sed the Elder, “and thus releeve ourselves uv this thraldom to the money-power. Thank Heaven the people hevn't yet parted with all their power.” The segestion wuz acted onto io-wunst. The Council wuz assembled, and by a yoonanymus vote an ordinance wuz’ passed levyin a tax uv eight cents onto the dollar on all bonds ishood by the corporashun for moneys borrowed uv'all sorts.. Pollock wuz away when the ordinance wuz passed, and it so happened that he returned the very day that his interest wuz due. liftmejitly he proceeded to the Trezrer’s office, wich is Captin McPelter’s, with his coopons. Captin McPelter receeved him blandly, and, puttin the coopons away, tendered him in 100 thereof a receept for $320 taxes on them sed bonds. “ Wat is this*” ejakilated the astonished Pollock.

"Taxes!” returned McPelter, smilinly. "We hev assessed a tax onto our bonds uv eight ceiits onto the dollar, wich, it happens, is just what yoor interest is. We skorn repudiation—we shel pay principal and interest—but hev the rite to tax bonds, and tax em we will.” f “Is the tax eight cents on the dollar on all bonds uv the corporashen ?” asked Pollock.

“ Trooly it is,” sed McPelter. “ I hold also the bonds ishooed a year before these for buildin a lock-up, but wich only bear six per cent. The tax pays the interest and two per cent over—what will you do with that two per cent ?” “Do with it?” exclaimed McPelter. “Why, we shel apply it to the payment uv the principal, uv course. The entire revenoo uv the corporation is pledged to the extinguishment uv its debt, and we shel not be recreant to our trust.” Pollock went away, but McPelter hed a new idea. He immejitly called the Council together, and sejested that the taxon the bonds ought to be twelve instead uv eight per cent., ez that tax would not only pay the intrest on the 8 per cent, bonds but wood extinguish the bonds theirselves. The six per cent, bonds would not only be eaten up, but would leave Pollock in debt to ®2 r P ora8 hen long before they wuz doo. The way uv eacnpe from our froubles wuz so very plain t hat the Council to-wunst acceded to it: nd notis wuz given Pollock uv the nev ckshen Immejitlythe craven v retch wantid to Mell the bonds to the city .it half ther face. y>nt the proposition wuz rejectid with a reeolgosbn rebooktn him for the Corners wood not live upto its obligations. “Ez much ec we loathe yoo,” remarked Elder Pennibacker, the Municipal Fresh dent, M we shall pay your bends, dollar for

dollar, principal and interest—requiring | yoo, however, Co tear rich .taxation ez may be levied onto yoo." “ But ez the tax eats up both interest and principal, wliat do I get for my money ?’’ askt the stiff-neekt man. “The protection uv our laws!" thun dered Pennebacker. The people was so indignant at this Alilishmst meddler for his objcctin to so ekitable a'proccedin that they mobbed his "lore and wood hev hung him, but for the interference uv Joe Bigler, who is alluz where he ain't wantid. Ez it wuz he wuz arrestidfor breedin dlsturimnees and fined S2O. He tendered, in payment uv his fine, a corporashun tend, but the Justis refoozed, very properly, to take it, and held him till he shelled out a greenback from his ill-gotten hoards. Pollock feels sore, but we don’t. Relieved from these bonds, the Corners will hev no taxes to pay, and we confidently expect a return uv the prosperity to wiaiP we hev bin so long a stranger. F Yours with affeckshun J Elioeß Poons*. P S.—Es you do get into a good thnfe and kin-sparc it, do remit, a porshen at leasd uv wat you owe me. Times is lite here. ’ E. P. Ez I finisht his movin epistle, I cood not help thankin the Lord that in one spot at least, the Democracy practis wlmt they preach. Thank Heaven for Kentucky. Petroleum V. Nasby, (Wich wuz Post Master.)

A True Story of President Lincoln

Dr ring the summer of the most disastrous and doubtful year of the late American -war, the Colonel of a New Hampshire Regiment lay for some weeks extremely ill of camp fever, near Hampton Roads, in Virginia. Hearing of his critical condition, his wife left her Northern home, and, after much difficulty, made her way to his liedside. Her cheerful presence and careftil nursing so far restored ]iim, that’ he was in a short time able to be transferred to Washington. In the Potomac River, the steamer in which the invalid officer, Colonel Scott, and his wife had taken passage, was sunk, in a collision with a larger vessel, in the night time. The crew and nearly all the soldiers on board were rescued, or saved themselves ; but amid the horrible confusion of the scene, Colonel Scott became separated from his wife, and she was lost. The Colonel was picked up in the water by the crew of the larger steamer, and under his direction every effort was made to discover his wife, or rather her body, for all hope of finding her alive was soon abandoned. The sad search was fruitless; it was resumed in tlie morning, the people along the shore, humane Confederates, lending their aid. Hut the grey, sullen river refused to give up its dead, and the young officer, half frantic with grief, was compelled to go on to Washington. Within a week, however, he received word from below that the body of the lady had b'Sen washed on "shore—that those’good country people, generous foes, had secured it, cared for it, and were keeping it for him. It happened that just at that time itnEerative orders were issued from the War 'epartment, prohibiting all intercourse with the Peninsula—a necessary precaution against the premature disclosure of important military plans. So it was with some misgivings that Colonel Scott applied to Mr. Secretary Stanton for leave to return to Virginia, on his melancholy duty. “Impossible, Colonel," replied Mr. Stanton, firmly ; “ no one can have leave to go down the river, at this time, on any private mission whatever. Our present exigencies demand the most stringent regulations, and I hope I need not say to you that no merely personal considerations should be allowed to interfere with great national interests. Your case is a sad one; but this is a critical, perilous, cruel time. ‘ The dead must bury the dead.’ ” The Colonel would have entreated, but the busy Secretary; cut him short witli another ’ “ impo'ssible,” from which there was absolutely no appeal. He went forth from the presence, and returned to his hotel, quite overwhelmed.. Fortunately, he was that afternoon visited by a friend, to whom he told the story of his unsuccessful application and sad perplexity, and who immediately exclaimed, “ Why not apply to the President ?” The Colonel had but little hope, but acknowledging that the plan was worth trying, drove with his friend to the White House. They were too late. It was Saturday evening, and Mr. Lincoln had gone to spend Sunday at Soldier’s Rest, Ids summer retre it. This was but a few miles from tosm, and the Colonel’s indomitable irtand imposed that they should follow ki® mF, a id they went. TiKejk as then a popular belief that all viiDiq ;ed, the troubled, and suffering iCEldfxidl t refuge in “ Father asp.’xiucq bosom; a belief that was not far iut£of the way. Yet there were times wher,“,ov trburdened, wearied, tortured, the patrial ch longed to clear that asylum of Its fork rn inmates, to bolt and bar and double-loci it against the world; times when life became too hard and perplexing for his gc nial, honest nature, too serious and tragic and rascally a thing by half. It£happcned, unluckily, that the poor Colonel and his friend found the President In one of his most despondent and disgusted moods. He w r as in his little private parlor, alone in the gloaming. He was lounging loosely in a large rocking-chair, jutting over it in all directions. His slippered feet were exalted, his rough head was thrown back, his long throat bare—he was in his shirt-sleeves! Yes, dear fastidious English reader, it genuine Yankee abandon,-—make the most of itT He turned upon his visitors a look of almost savage inquiry. There was, indeed, in his usually pleasant eyes, a w’ild, angry gleam; a something like the glare of a worried animal at bay. , Colonel Scott proceeded very modestly to tell his story; but the President interrupted him, to say brusquely, “Go to Stanton; this is his business." “ I have been to him, Mr. President, and he will do nothing for me." “You have been to him, and got your answer, and still presume to come to me! Am I to have no rest? no privacy? Must Ibe dogged to my last fastnesses and worried to death by inches? Mr. Stanton has done just right. He knows what he is about Your demands are unreasonable, sir.” . - “ Rut, Mr. Lincoln, I thought you would feel for me.” “ Fed for you! Good God! I have to feel for five hundred thousand, more unfortunate than you. We are at war, sir: don’t you know we are at war ? Sorrow is the lot of all; bear your share like a man and a soldier.” “ I try to, Mr. President, but it seems hard. My devoted wife lost her life for coming to nurse me, in my sickness, and I cannot even take her body home to my children.” , “Well, she ought not to have come down to the army. She should have stayed I at home. That is the place for women. ! But if they teiS go tearing about the country, in such times as these, and running into all sorts of danger, they must take the consequences! Not but that lam sorry for you, Colonel As for your wife, she’s at rest, and I wish I were." Saying this, the President leaned back wearily in his chair, and closed his eyes, I not noticing, except by a slight wave of his hand, the departure of his visitors. I am not ashamed to confess that my 1 hero toaaad rsatleMly that sight, upon a

Sillow wet with manly tears, that ho was esperate and rcacntftil, utterly unresigned to the decrees of Providence and the War Department, and that he thought Abraham Lincoln as hard as he was ugly, and iia inhumane as he was ungainly. Toward morning he fell asleep, and slept lute. Before he was hilly dressed, there came a quick knock at the door of his chamber, and he opened to President Lincoln! The good man came forward, pale and eager, tears glistening in his eyes, and grasped the Colonel’s hand, saying, “I treated you brutally last night. I ask your pardon. I was utterly tired out, badgered to death. I generally become about as savage as a wild cat by Saturday night, drained dry of tlie ‘ milk of human kind ncss.’ I must have seemed to you the very gorilla the rebels paint me. I was sorry enbugh for it, when you were gone. I could not deep a moment kut night, so I <hmight I’d drive into town, in the cool of thbsmorning, and make it all right. Fortunately, I iiad little difficulty in finding “'nnslsvery good of you, Mr. Presidents said the Colonel, deeply moved. “Bo it isn’t; but that was very bud of mhflast night. I never should have forgiven myself, if I had let that piece of ugly work stand. That was a noble wife of vcmrs, Colonel 1 You are a happy man to have had such a noble woman to love you; anil you must be a good fellow, or such a woman would never have risked so much for yon. And what grand women there are in these times, Colonel; What angels of devotion and mercy, and how brave and plucky!—going everywhere at the call of duty, facing every danger! I tell you, if it were not for the women, we should go to the devil, and should deserve to. They are tlie salvation of the nation. Now, come, Colonel; my carriage is at the door. I’ll drive you to the War Department, and we’ll sec Stanton about the matter?’

Even at that early hour they found the Secretary at his post. The President pleaded the case of Colonel Scott, and not only requested that leave of absence should be given him, but that a steamer should be sent down the river, expressly to bring up the body of liis wife. “ Humanity, Mr. Stanton, said tlie President, his homely face transfigured with the glow of earnest, tender feeling, “ humanity should overrule considerations of policy, and even military necessity, in matters like this.” The Secretary was touched, and he said something of his regret at not having felt himself at liberty to grant Colonel Scott’s request in the first-place. “No, no Mr. Stanton,” said the President, “you did right in adhering to your own rules; you are the right man for this place; if wc had such a soft-hearted old fool as I here, there would be no rules or regulations that the army nr the country could depend upon. But this is a peculiar case. Only think of that poor woman 1” Of course the “ impossible ” was accomplished. To the surprise of the Colonel, tlie President insisted on driving him to the navy yard, to see tliat the Secretary’s order was carried out immediately ; seeming to have a nervous fear that some obstacle might be thrown in the way of the pious expedition. He waited at the landing till all was ready, then charged the officers of the steamer to give every attention and assistance to his “ friend, Colonel Scott.” With him he shook hands warmly at parting, saying, “ God bless you, my dear fellow 1 1 hope you will have no more trouble in this sad affair—and, Colonel, try to forget last night.” Away up in a New Hampshire churchyard there is a certain grave carefully watched and tended by faithful love. But every April time the violets on that mound speak not alone of the womanly sweetness and devotion of her who sleeps below—they are tender and tearful with the memory of themurdered President.— All the Year Found,

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Fatal Fall —An unhealthy autumn. Deader than Life—Fashionable funerals. “S. T.-1860.-X.,” it is said, was suggested first by an industrious effort to imitate Treasurer Spinner’s signature. The gas is reported to be so bad in Erie, Pa., that the boy who puts it out has to take a lantern to find the posts. Jehial Slab says that a perambulating squirtgun constantly charged with tobacco juice is, next to a barn-yard, the nastiest thing he knows of. It is said that a dog, taken in its infancy and held three-quarters of an houlTunder water, will never be troubled with hydrophobia. A tipsy Irishman, as a funeral procession was passing by, was asked who was dead. “ I can’t exactly say, sir,” said he, “ but I presume it’s the jintleman in the coffin.” A couple of fellows who were pretty thoroughly soaked with bad whisky got into the gutter. After floundering about for a few minutes, one of them said : “ Jim. let’s go to another house—this hotel leaks.’ Upon the shutter of a little shop in Philadelphia is a placard reading thus: “Gootweel and figstyers fur sail.” The premises have just been vacated by a German cordwainer, who desires to dispose of his “ good will and fixtures. To be a -woman of fashion is one of the easiest things in the world. A late writer thus describes It“ Buy everything you don’t want, and pay for nothing you get; smile on all mankind but your husband ; be happy everywhere but-at home.” Two physicians at the bedside of a patient disputed as to the nature of the disease. At last one of them ended the dis cussion by saying : “Very well, have it your own way now, but the post mortem will show that I am right.” The patient was not much encouraged. “ Have you seen B. lately ?” inquired a gentleman of a medical friend. “ What! on’t you know?” was the reply. “We were dining together a few days ago; the next day he fell ill; I attended him; he died in the evening. Poor fellow I I dissected him this morning.” Garnier-Pages the elder was once approached by a familiar of Louis Phillippe with an offer of a portfolio. “ Were the King,” said the diplomatic to-between, “ to send for you to form a Cabinet, what would you do ?” 11 Have you been officially desired to find out ?” said the politician. “ Well, perhaps so,” replied the diplomat. “ Well, then, I would say: ‘ Your Majesty, by all means, provided that you, sire, would accept a foreign mission.’ ” Remembered.— Have you forgotten it ? I nevei can! One blessed night in June, How bright the sky, how pale your face. In the wan light of the moon. Doyon remember it? for, oh, I do!— The scent of flowers there; Was it the buds upon the trees, Or the great rose in yoor hair? Have you forgotten it ? I never can! Something I risked that night; Something I scarcely dared to speak. Though my heart said I was right. Doyon remember it? for, oh. I do! The first, the sweetest kiss; Lift up your face, look in my eyes, It was such as thia—and thia 1 A GOOD story is related of a child admitted to the private study of the present Pope. In preparation for the (Ecumenical Council, his holiness ordered from his architect certain embellishments, the plan of which was brought for his inspection by that gentleman’s little boy. Charmed by the plan, his holiness opened a drawer full of gold, and said to the child, “ Take a handful es coin as a reward fqy the beauty of your father’s work.” “ Efoly father, replied the child, “ take It out for me, your hand is bigger than mine.” ■

FABM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Cheap Faint for Barns.* No paint, wc believe, withstahds "'the tooth of time" better than Venetian red. There arc houses in sflnw country towns painted red go Ibtqf a time ago that- tWfe memory of man runneth not "to the. contrary, and they look fresh to this flay. Tift: wood is admirably preserved, and appears as Uiough it would npt need another c-mt of paint for a quarter of (I century to come. But, then, who would buyy S'u-h a color on house or barn, sojue people would say ? To our eye it docs net l(x>k badly when the trimmings receive a, shade somewhat different from tke body of thp building. In point of eoonommH>ere?» probably nothing better. We would not shpek tnc taste, of any one by j»d,vi»sng the uge paint on a house or IU but tiling we could live comfortably in a nouse sopaiuted, all other things being agreeable. For a cheap white, silver or pearl gray “ paint” a correspondent of the JVeir England Farmer, gave a few years ago, the following recipe for making a composition which lie had used and found to be durable, cheap, and econumical t Skim milk, two quarts; ' fresh slacked lime, eight ounces; linseed oil, six ounces; white Burgundy pitch, two ounces;- Spanish whit,, three pounds. The lime bo be slacked in water, exposed to .the air, oad mixed in about one fourth of the milk. The oil in which tlie pitch is previously dissolved to be added a little at a.time; then the rest of the milk, and afterwards the. Spanish white. This quantity is sufficient fiw twenty-seven squave-yards, two coats. If a particle of blue be added, or if this blue be combined' with a slight portion of black, a silver or pearl gray will be obtaiued;;?'he addition of raw -umber' Will maknatufoWj). It will be necessary to keep it stirred the bucket while using. siSfS' | (Petroleum, benzine, etc., have bedfi’tried, for dark paints, with various success. Soirte complain that it dpes not harder; properly. The editor of tire Citditty fUntlefnaii has used petroleum with.good success. Head vises the application of a coat of light petroleum alone first, and then after a lew months give a coat of the heavier petroleum mixed with the ochres or other paint. He has seen such a epat on a barn of six years’ standing, hard and unchanged. It is recommended for roofs as well ns for the sides of buildings.—Acw England Farmer. *

Thinning Out Grapes.

Very few persons prune their grapevines sufficiently in Winter or early spring to make the thinning of the fruit in summer nnneccssary. In fitci, it is, taking all things into consideration, better to prune the vines rather ’long, 1 nnd then- thin out the bunches. times the professional 'grapiPgrower, who has said to himself at the time of the annual pruning,* * f if Hl leave • li*lieynore wood than usual, and than thin out the fruit,” often finds his greediness gets the better of liis judgment, and too much fruit is allowed to remain. A few bunches, perhaps, were taken out a month or two ago, but there is, and the owner and gardener knows it, far too much left for the good of both vine and fruit. How many times we have seen youiig tWo or three year-old vines with one or two hundred bunches of grapes-upon them, and perhaps the»owner Invites his friends to view the wander; but this is generally before they are ripe, because that particular time selddm comes With such prodigies of productiveness. Not many years slice we were asked toptejjditto a friend’s garden, and see a three-year-olu' Delaware vine, upon which there were two hundred and fifty bunches of very large and handsome grapes—-not ripe, however —and our friend said that he could not account for their lateness in maturing, because it was then the last of - September, and Delawares should ripen, by the first. To one who is not accustomed to such freaks of nature, it does seem strange that a vine is capable of producing and carrying to still size a crop of grapes, and yet not be title to ripen them; but, this is often the case, because the fruit does not call for but very little nutriment until the seeds form and ripening commences. It is the seeds and saccharin? matter in tlm fruit that tax the strength of the vine; therefore thinning out the bunches or 'cutting away a large portion of them When there are too many, may be done with hen efit any time before the seeds are hard and ripening commences. Those who have neglected to thin out their grapes, should do so immediately, and not be afraid of lessening the number of bunches, because a few well ripened are far better than many, green ’ohbS.— Hearth and Home. . r. _

USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

A correspondent of the New England Farmer says his method of destroying dock is to cut the root about an inch or one and a half inches below the surface, using a chisel with a handle, long enough to allow the operator to stand erect. The plants ate carried from the field when cut. Transparent Lemon Jelly.—Pare two dozen lemons as thin as possible; put eight with the rinds into hot, not boiling, water; cover it three or four hours; rub some loaf sugar on the rind before peeling, to extract the flavor; put in a china dish with a pound and a half of fine sugar; then add the water and three quarts of boiling milk; mix and pour through a jelly bag until Clear. To Candy Fruit. —Take one pound of best loaf-sugar, dip each lump into a bowl of water, and put the sugar in a preserving kettle. Boil it down until clear, and in a candying state. When sufficiently boiled, have ready the fruit you wish to preserve. Large, .white grapes, oranges separated into small pieces, or preserved fruits, foke» oirt-ef- tlieir syrup and dried, arc nice. Dip the fruit iitto the prepared sugar while it js heft, thfen put them in a cold plate; iley soon Mcome hard.— .I I _ To Destroy Weeds iS^Walks. —The editor of the London Journal Horticulftinrtays: The most efficient texte that we have tried is a solution of arsenic, to be applied in dry wteath*rbMy»; One ponnd of arsenic is dissolved in threb'gallons of cold water and boiled, MrriDg.il -while boiling, then add sjvfep gallons of cold*w*ten and two pounds of crufflid BQdEM<>pky*Bg i* to or grass. The abovp quantity will be enough for twenty-five square yards. One of basest called our attention to his peaches, wluch being destroyed by honey bees. Jtist aOoon as the peaches begin to mellow, the bees attack them, and it} puch numbers as to almost cover th? fruit. We counted twenty bees upon ope Apecimefi ; and ItT’solpe instances, the bees had burrowed thfeir entire length i>tb tjie so stupefied with sucking toe juice, or intent upon thefr work, that it was with considerable'difficulty that wc made them leave the fruit Whether the bees are the first aggressors or not, we are unable to say, but that they soon suck out the juice after an opening is made is quite certain.— Hearth and Home-. / v--Apple Jam.—The apples, which shoul I be ripe, and of the best eating 'sdr*, being pared and quartered, art ’ put into a pan with just water enough to cover them, and boil until they can be reduced to a mash Then for each pound of the pared apples, a pound of rifted sugar is added, being sprinkled over the bailing mixture. Boil and stir it well, until reduced to a

Jam. Then put i<s in pots. The above W the nroat ninipUt way of making it; but to have it of Um beat posaible clearneae, makea tltck ayrup with three pound* of sugar to each pint of water, and clarify it with on egg, aa before directed. Then add one pint of thia syrup for every three pounds of apples, and boil the jam to a proper Sheep Skin Math. —The following ia for' two skins, and if the directions are CiitllfYilly followed, will make something nice: Make strong soapsuds, using hot water, and let it stand till cold ; tlwn wash the skins in it, carefully squeezing out all the dirt ffom among the w<x>l; then wash them in cold water till all the soap is out. Next dissolve half a pound each of salt and alum in a little hot water, and put into a tub of cold water sufficient to cover the skins, and let them soak twelve hours; then hang over a pole to drain. When well drained, stretch' Cafcftilly on a boart to dry. Stretch several times while drying. Before they get entirely dry, sprinkle, on the flesh side one ounce each of finely pulverized alum and saltpetre, rubbing'itin well; then lay the flesh sides together and hang in the shade for two or three days, turning them over every day till perfectly dry. Finish by scraping the flesh side with a blunt knife to remove any remaining scraps of flesh, and then rub the flesh side with pumice or rotten stone and the hands. Very beautiful mittens can be made of jlamb skins tanned as above.— Country Gentleman.• Mountain Cak£.~ Tlje yolks of seven eggs, the whites of five, the other two Wlntes retained for the icing; three-quar-ters pound of white sugar, half pound of white powdered sugar for icing, one lemon, one cocoa-nut, half pound flour. Beat the yolks and whites Separately until quite light, then mix them; and tn the meantime add a wine-glass and a half of water to the three-quarters of a pound of sugar and when boiling hpt pour it into the eggs, stirring wejl all the time until cool. Let the sugar dissolve slowly at first on a part of the fire not too hot, before you let it boll. Add the juice Of a lemon, retaining a few drops for the icing, then stir in the half pound of sifted flour and bake in three flat cakes like you bake jelly cake. Make the icing of the two whites and the half pound of sugar and the lemon drops, and when the cakes are nearly cool turn one upside down, spread on one-third of the icing and then a layer of grated cocoanut, then the next cake in the same way with the icing and cocoa-nut, and the third cake with the icing and cocoa-nut, and it just makes a beautiful loaf and is really very delicious. I like a little tartaric acid in the icing.— Germantown Telegraph.

Budding Trees.

August is the month for budding, or, as it was formerly called, “ inoculating” trees. There isone point apt to be neglected by beginrtefs, because little understood by them, to which we deslrfi to refer. They are sometimes surprised to find, after budding a lot of very thrifty young stocks that almost every bud has failed, and are quite ata loss to account for it; but experience shows that the failure is caused by the over-luxuriance of the stock, and the thin watery condition of the sap. If the operation had been deferred until the sap had thickened, the result would have been reversed, and instead of only ofle In a hundred succeeding,there would have been only one per cent, offallures. The cherry is more liable than any other fruit to “ drown out*’ the bud, as it is called; and the best time to bud cherry-stocks is just as soon as they begin to slacken their growth, and show a yellow leaf here and there. If this time is chosen, and the work done skillfully, there need be little fear of failure. Trees which arc not growing vigorously should be budded early. As soon as wood sufficiently ripe to furnish buds can be found, will frequently not be too early. When a large quantity are to be budded, the work should be taken in hand early, so as to get through in season, commencing with the least thrifty.— Journal of Horticulture. Grace Greenwood tells a story illustrating a new method of curing those who are inclined to suicide. The father of a family, after two attempts to make way with himself, at length succeeded in shooting himself through the heart. His widow —an energetic, sensible woman — perceived that her eldest daughter was inclined to follow in the footsteps of her father even unto death. The mother watched her daughter narrowly, and one day soon after she had swung herself off from an old chest in the garret. She cut her down, and tenderly brought her to. Then, taking the knotted halter, she vigorously laid it over her shoulders, saying: “ I’ll put a stop to this suiciding! I’m not going to have it run in our family, I’ll have you understand.” This treatment was successful in checking the mental disease. Whether time goes rapidly quite depends on the object in prospect. A young lady on her way to church to get married regards every moment as an hour; a man on his Journey to be hung thinks an hour concentrated into every moment. The young chap who is waiting for an answer to his proposal looks upon a week as an age, while the man of 35 waiting fpfrbis divorce papers believes every hour Cofitains full five hundred minutes. A hungry man half an hour before dinner thinks it will never come, and a dyspepticwishes time stood a whole day. So it goes or don’t go, according to the individual case in hand. 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