Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1879 — Page 3

He Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER, • • INDIANA.

IMS PROCEBBION OF TEE FLOWEBB. That fragi ant harbinger of spring, TAapmk Arbutus trailing. Its errand quick accomplishing, . liml died, sweet sighs exhaling; The Cowslips, and the Violets, too,. Were in tlu-ir beds thought sleeping, Though yellow cans and hoods of blue Were here andthete oalght peeping; When, bowing, came young Daffodil, Arrayed in green .and yellow; . Next came his cousin, smart Jonquil, A brighter, taller fellow; Then Lilacs, arm in arm. yon 11 guess How fresh and fascinating, The younger, in her pure white drees. Narcissus captivating; Then Honeysuckles, sweet always. And Woodbine, decked in oorals. While Periwinkle, gliding, sways Her court train, green as laurels; And Peony, with faoe all red; Upireas fair, in guipure laoes; When pert French Pansy turned his bead And -would you think it? -made such faces! Then Gossip Bess—you may suppose. Her haste small graoe allowing— Bhe pressed the toes of Guelderllone, Curled in a bail, in bowing. Ths Hyacinths, those sweet Dutch belles. With Tulips led the German, When to the Wall-How’rs (poor mamzellos!) Prim Phlox didpreaoh a sermon. Bweet Lily Vale wore her green cloak. Her sprays of pearls just showing. While Ragged Robin's doubtful joke Bet Pyrua' cheeks tv-glowing. The Croyvn Imperial, Rose Japan, Prinoo Foathcr, looked all ordora. While Daisies and Ambrosia ran With Ivy o’er the borders. Sweet William was so tmprutt Trim Pink turned pure Carnation, When Candy Tnft did sweetly say To Mignonette, ‘'Flirtation!” Couvolvulus in her grip false Held Sunflower tight as nippers; And poor young Balaam conld not waltz— He d come in Lady Slippers. Here came, with Fleurs-de-lis, from Franco, The white andsainty Lilies; Also Tuberose, that looks askance On sweet old-time Stock Gillies. Ah ! Roses now in every dress. Red, yellow, white and blushing. Though diff ring each in loveliness. All fresh and sweet and gushing. Rich Harrison ia, robed iu gold; In buff the Lady Ranksia; And theta dear Daily’s Pink of old, And fragrant Moss that ranks her: Small Grevijle, with the pompon red; Lamarck, with grace so savage; And Rose Lorraine, withsneha head— For all the world a Cabbage 1 The finer Teas, in sera sheaves. Near Bourbons find their places: ’Twould take the rose of hundred leaves • To chronicle their graces. The Jessamine, with starry veil. And Fuchsias came together; Gardenia too. so calmly pale. Breathed sweetly o’er Bcotoh Heather. Near Star of Bethlehem appears The Passion Flower's glory, As on her glowing breast she bears Of Jesus r cross the story. y~—' Bignouia climbed upon the wall, And gave groat blow of trumpets;' Wistaria blu<- touched at (hebaU Clematis sweet as crumpets. Disheveled strayed Chrysanthemum, In radiant crowns bright Aster, While Canterbury Bell swung dumb Ah Portulncca passed her. Oh.nj>ea « a’ binn. Larkspur, beside Gay Gplumbine, notes taking. Declared tmit love to Mourning Bride Old Marigold was making. How Bweet Brier caught young French Pea’s curls (And didn’t Bcotoh Broom scold her?) And how his gauntlet Foxglove twirls ’Gainst Coxcomb’s Button holder! Geraniums near the Roses (look; Verbenas too, depend upon it; And, ah! old fogy Hollyhock Had two bees in his bonnets. Tall Spanish Aloe broke a lanoe 1 - With Prickly Pear, for wearing Hi" spurs, unknightly, in the dance. Acacia’s long hair tearing. Bnapdragon bit his lip, irate, And there seemed mischief growing. When Tiger Lily came in late. His pocket pistils showing. A drop was in Petunia's eye; Had ne'er a soent, Byringa; Nasturtium wore his wig awry; The cue just tipped a Unger. Bweet Orange Flowers proved too much For Citronellas fragrant. While shy Mimosa shrank from touch Of Quamoolit the vagrant. Hibiscus raised his ruby oup. More rioh than any Borgia’s, While Zinnias sneered at the make np Of Dahlias, old though gorgeous. And to the true Forget-mo-not Devoted Heliotropium, While some Baid brilliant Poppy’d got Buspicious smell of opium. And brightly, all too swiftly, tied The summer's bright glad hours. When to their duties Flora sped These fairy, lightsome flowers— To crown the bnde, to deok the nave, The prison-house to lighten. To bless the poor, to strew the grave, The sick to cheer and brighten. Thus, bent on mission fuU of love. Goes forth each tender blossom, A seed of joy all heavon-wove _ To sow in ev’ry bosom. —Harper's Bazar.

IN DEADLY PERIL.

An EngUili Detective’s Adventure. One of my journeys called me away to a town in Suffolk, where I was ordered to take charge of a prisoner to be discharged next day from one of the local jaus, in which he was undergoing a year’s imprisonment for a criminal assault. The man had been let out on a tickot-of-leave from the Defense hulk at Woolwich, and had speedily, as it appeared, got Ihto trouble down in the country. As hawas/merely “wanted” to complete his original sentence—having broken his ticket-of-leave, there could be no bother about apprehending him inside the prison, and using suon precautions for his safekeeping as seemed best to my judgment. Just as I was about to leave the office in Bow street, one of my comrades, with whom 1 Was rather intimate, came in, having finished a journey such as I was myself about to set off on. “Going out, Tom?” he asked; and on my toiling him where 1 was bound for, he continued: “Better have this barker, Tom. You may find it useful.” At the sametimo he produced a small pocket pistol, which he held out for my acceptance. “I have not got any powder,” he added, “ but here are some caps and bullets.” ft seems needless to remark that this was before the days of revolvers and patent cartridges. We had then to load in the old fashion, and had merely got as far as the introduction of the percussion cap. I had. never before catried anything more deadly, by way of protection, than a life-preserver, but, aq my friend seemed to mean a kindness, I made no ado about accepting his offer, and, having “capped” ' the pistol there and then, I consigned it to the side-pocket of my pilot coat. Which I wore buttoned over my uniform. My journey down to Suffolk calls for no particular notice. In due time the railroad deposited me at my destination, and left me with ample leisure to call upon the Governor of the prison over night with a view to arranging for my carrying off my charge the next morning. I asked what Bort of a customer i would have to deal with, and must confess I did not feel encouraged by the reply. “He is what I would call a nasty customer,” was the answer. “He has given us a deal of trouble while we have had charge of bim; oontinualy breaking prison rules, and more than once he has tried to commit suicide in the mostdeterminod manner by tearing open the veins in his arms with his finger nails.” * I' . > This account of matters was not, as may well be supposed, at all enlivening; *nd' Wh(6n tfre' 'GOTWfforTtdan<r that (he man was a perfect giant, and had been a “ navvy” before he fell into evil courses, I began to fear that my work was oht out for me, Howev-

er, there wn no help for it. Wo Bowstrout runners had as fickle customers to deal with as any of your modern detectives. All I oould do was to ask that the prisoner should bq detained until 1 got over in the morning. I told the Governor where I had put np; bnt he did not seem disposed to offer me his company for an hour or two in the evening, and to me he hardly appeared the sort of man I conld ask in an off-hand way to take a friendly §lass; so, my arrangements being ms far completed, I there and thon left him. The inn where 1 had taken np my quarters stood right opposite the jail entrance, and as the street was somewhat of the narrowest, the most complete view of all comers and goers could be commanded from the front of my temporary residence. As my landlady knew the errand 1 had come on, and had a most becoming respect, for the representative of the law, she kindly accommodated me with her own private parlor as a sittingroom, and a very pleasant evening 1 spent in the.company of the intelligent daughter of the house, business leaving her mother but little time to bestow upon me. Next morning found me seated at a very comfortable breakfast, and the weather being fine, the window of the private parlor was open, affording a perfect view of all that might take place at the prison door opposite. While I was absorbed in the good oheer before me, I was startled by an exclamation from both the landlady and her daughter, which caused me to look up and instinctively to glanoe across the street. “Did you ever see such a big, coarse, and clumsy-looking woman r’ exclaimed the younger of my entertainers. “Or is it a woman at ailP” added her mother. My attention was at once riveted upon the newcomer, whom I somehow could not avoid connecting withthe criminal it would so soon become my duty to apprehend. Without saying a word to the two ladies, I carefully and closely watched every movement of the party opposite during the remainder of my morning meal. More than once I caught myself mentally repeating my landlady’s query: “ Is it a woman, after allP” The it must be excused, as the point was so entirely doubtful. For a woman, the individual was very considerably above the average height, and her whole physique indicated far more than the average strength of womankinds There was a swagger in her walk, too, most unlike the carriage of a female, and once during her pacing in front of the jail door she stopped to adjust a bootlace or pome such matter in a fashion that showed an entire absencc of delicacy, and at the same time showed a portion of a limb which might have done credit to an athlete in the highest state of training. 1 was fairly puzzled, and none the less so thfft 1 had twice noticed her ringing the prison bell, and that I knew there was but one individual to be discharged that morning, and that it was close upon my time to go and look after him. I had barely finished my last cup of coflee when one of the prison warders came across to say that the wife of my prisonerwas waiting outside, and had twice made a demand to see him; but that the Governor did not care to accede to the request without seeing me. After casting the matter over in my mind for a minute, 1 told the warder that 1 did not mind the woman being admitted, bnt that the two ought to be very closely watched during the interview. The man re-entered the prison, and within a few minutes I observed that the woman was called in.

Punctual to my time, I crossed over to the prison, and found my charge waiting for me, his wife being stul with him, and no one in the room but the Governor. Contrary to my expectations, the prisoner held up his wrists and submitted to be handcuffed with most lamb-like docility. When we got out into the street I suggested, as there was time to spare, that the statwart pair should have a bit of breakfast at my expense before starting on the’journey for town. 1 thought the woman seemed a little taken back at my invitation; however, it was acceded to, and we entered the inn parlor, where I requested tho landlady to' produce a plentiful supply of ham and eggs; and, as tho pair preferred ale to tea or coffee, I ordered them a pint apiece. I had, of course, to unlock one hand in order to allow my prisoner the Tree use of his knife and fork; and after what. I had heard the night before, I thought it was rather a risky thing for me to do, as, though he might not attompt'to do me any mischief, it was just possible he might try to indict some serious mischief on himself. All, however, passed off safely, and when the breakfast was finished 1 told him he must bid his wife good-bye, as I did not want to attract any attention at the railroad station. * A kiss was accordingly exchanged, the.bracelets were again adjusted to his wrists, and we set off at a brisk pace. ' Whon we got to the station, I found that the next “ up” train was an express, and that I would have to look sharp, as it might be expected immediately, and made but a brief stoppage. The train, in fact, came in almost to a minute after the communication was delivered to me, and I hurried across tho platform, got my man into a secondclass carriage—the compartment I had only just time to notice was empty. The whistle sounded and the train was beginning to move, when the door was flung violently open, and In jumped the prisoner’s wife, taking her seat right opposite me. There was but time for the porter to slam the dooto when we were off. It need not be said that I was very far from being satisfied with the look of things? and that I had made up piy mind to be carefully on my guard. 1 said nothing, being fully determined not to betray any uneasiness, but it mast be owned I felt much. Before we had gone any great way, my prisoner. turned sideways to me and said: “Master, my missus and me have seme small matters of our own we ■Would like to talk over, and, as they don’t concern you in the least, p’raps you wouldn’t mind looking oat o’ winder for a minute or two while we have our talk.” “Thatl could not possibly do,” was my immediate reply. “My duty is to keep you always under my eye and control; and, besides, as you haver just said your domestic arrangements,, can be a matter! of no concern to me, so you can discuss them as freely as you please without minding my presence.” This answer seemed to disconcert both of them ; but, as if by way of toward the window of the carnage for a moment and glanced outside. My hearing is sharp! enough now, but at tie time I speak of was Sven more j acute. Just as I turned my head I

heard, or fauoied I heard, the man whisper the words “Both together.” Instantly the suspicion flashed across my mind that these words related to myself, and I turned round and faced the oouple in a moment What I saw in the expression of e&oh of them seemed, to warrant my acting with immediate decision. I seized the man between his manacled wrists, so that he could not raise his hands. . With an instinctive thought I plunged my right hand'into the pooket of my pilot coat Eulled out the pistol my mate had anded to me, cocked it with my thumb, and holding it within a few inches of the faoe of the woman opposite,' l look-, ed steadily into her eyes and said, with emphasis, “If you attempt to stir before we reach the next station, you will certainly be a dead woman.” It was something . fearful to notioe the immediate change on that woman’s countenance. She became of pallid whiteness, and her lips had the purplebluish tinge that indicates so unmistakably an excess of deadly fear. In the highly dramatic positions I have just described, we sped on until the next stopping station was reached, aDd that occupied fully more than twenty minutes. Tho moment the train came to a stop I thus addressed the woman, keeping her “covered” with the muzzle of my pistol: “ Leave the carriage; and, if you value your liberty, make what speed you can to get into hiding.” She disappeared instanter; and I felt a heavy load of anxiety lifted off my mind as she left us, for, of all the encounters I most hate, an encounter with a woman is to be classed foremost. From the moment I saw the change in her face indicative of such intense fear I knew I was master of the situation; but still I was glad to be rid of all further risk of a struggle. Not a word passed between my prisoner and me during the remainder of the journey to London, which we were no great while in reaching, and where I duly delivered him into safekeeping at Bowstreet police office. Next morning I had to conduct my Erisoner to Woolwich, there to deliver im to the authorities of the hulks from whom he had obtained his ticket-of-leave. He seemed to have recovered from his scare of the day before, and on our journey spoke freely enough, and with an earnestness that left no doubt of the truth of his communication. “ Master,” said he, “ I am main glad you kept your head yesterday, and did not lean out of the winder. Had you done so, missus and I meant to have pitched you out, and taken our chances after of getting off.” “ L was not so very likely to be so easily put off my guard,” was the laconic answer. “ ji.ye; but, master, your danger was not over then; for missus and I had made up that she was to pin your arms —and she could a done it easy—while I was to smash your head with ‘ darbies.’ We should then a took the key, got off the bracelets and heaved you out a winder afore you could come to yourself. That pistol fairly put us out, for it cowed missus, and she isn’t easily cowed, I tell ye.” “ But the pistol was not loaded,” said I; “ nothing but a cap and an empty barrel.” “All the same, master. I’m main glad we failed. Now I’ve thought it over, I know I could not have escaped. It was,.. known I left in your charge, and that missus joined us. When your body was found, we’d a been spotted at once, and most likely both on us would a swung for it. I’m main glad, I tell you, that you got out o’ the mess, and I don’t bear you no ill-will for having done your duty as a man and a hofficer.” Never before, to my knowledge, had I been in such deadly peril, and truly thankful did 1 inwardly feel for the providential escape I learned I had just made. I was glad to hand my murderous-minded cnarge over to the care of the officers of the Defense; and I am thankful to add that I never heard more of him, or wished to do-so.-

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—A St. Louis clerk is named Gasbill. Unhappy man, everybody disputes him. —Enough money has been invested in Government bonds for the benefit of the widow of Lieut. Hiram H. Benner, the yellow*fever hero, to give her an income of S6OO. —An old man a few days ago paid his forty-fifth yearly subscription to the Lancaster (Pa.) Examiner , and said: “I never learned ta read, but I have a good wife, and she always reads the paper to me.” » —Col. Lucky, who was one of President Grant’B private secretaries, and who has been more recently the Secretary of the Territory of Utah, has resigned and will be a clerk in the Lighthouse Office at Baltimore, under Gen. Babcock. —Judge Hilton and Mrs. Stewart declined to pay the taxes levied on their Saratoga Springs property, and the collector levied on ana began to sell the furniture of the Grand Union Hotel. The taxes were then paid under protest. The ground of the resistance was that the Saratogians want out-of-town property-holders to bear an undue proportion of the local burdens. —Harrison was 67 when he was sworn as President, and died exactly one month after, April 4,1841. Taylor was 65 when he was sworn as President, March 4,1849, and died in fifteen months, July 9, 1850. Wm. R. King was 67 when he was sworn in as Democratic Vice President, March 4, 1858, and died on his own plantation in Alabama, in a little more than a month afterward, April 7, 1853. —Although John G. Whittier is a bachelor, his name seems to exert & nuptial influence. In his honor a Whittier Club was organized in Cincinnati eighteen months ago, and the membership of the club was limited to eighteen—nine men and nine women, all unmarried. Since then one of the gentlemen and one lady have been joined in matrimony * five couples are under engagement, and there is hope for the Remaining three. It is understood that vacancies ib the ranks of this society are in great* demand.— N. ¥. Evening Post. - - —The principal topic of gossip in Washington lately has been the announcement that Rustem Effendi, the Secretary of the Turkish Legation, was engaged' to Miss Ellie Stanton, a daughter of the late War Secretary, followed by another announcement two days’later that the engagement was broken. ,The young lady has since left for Bristol, R. 1., where she has relatives. It is said that the trouble was caused by the refusal of her guardians to give unconditionally to her hm£ band after the projected marriage the Sfimttft of her - - Never ask alms of a one-armed man. He hasn’t any to spare.— Danbury ■HUM' ■ ’

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

To take castor oil and not taste it, hold the nose tight so as not to smell, and, better stillT in addition, drink it from a bottle. The oil cannot be tasted. — Exchange. —Pure. air and water are of even more importance than exercise in the care of young animals. They are often huddled together in houses altogether insufficient in size, and in whion the atmosphere is almost constantly impure from the product of respiration. —A poultry breeder says: “Every spring I procure a quantity of cedar bdughs and scatter them plentifully in and around the hon-house. This is all that is necessary, as the odor of cedar keeps away lice. This remedy is cheap, ample and effective, and is well worth trying.!’ —Egg plants should be cultivated more than they are. When peeled and cut in slices, soaked in salt water, dipped in dry meal, and fried or broiled, and served with butter and pepper, they are very nice. Their, eulture is simple—sow the seed, transplant say about three or three and a naif feet each way in rich ground, then hoe as 'often as needed to keep down the weeds. — lowa State Register. —Confinement and want of occupation are among the chief causes why fowls eat feathers. The former is often inevitable in winter, but the latter can be avoided by burying some of their grain food in sand and allowing them to hunt for it, whioh will afford them pastime and healthy occupation. Give them some green food, fresh meat two or three times a week, burnt bones, oyster shells, charcoal, clear water and a clean hennery, and if all this doesn’t cure them of the habit, wring their necks, for they are incurable.—Exchange. —Sometimes the ground-glass stoppers of battles-Jbesome fixed in the neck, and cannot be removed by pulling or twisting. An effectual method is to wrap a rag wet with hot water around the neok and let it remain a few seconds. The heat will expand the neck of the bottle, when the stopper can be removed before the heat penetrates the stopper itself; or, wind a string once or twice around the neck, and, confining the bottle, pull alternately on one and then the other end of the string, thus creating friction, and, consequently, heat. Or a little camphene dropped between the neck and stopper of the bottle will often relieve the stopper. —The following recipe was sent to an English Agricultural Society a number of years ago, and was found to be a sure means of getting rid of those destructive little anhnals—rats: “Melt lard in a bottle plunged in warm water and heated nearty to a boiling point. Turn into it half an ounce of phosphorus for every pound of lard, then add a pint of alcohol or the strongest of whisky. Cork the bottle tightly, and shake it until it is well mixed ana looks milky. Let it cool, and then the lard and phosphorus will have become mixed together, and the spirits will be separated from it, and can be used again for the same purpose, as it only serves to diffuse the phosphate through the lard, which can then be warmea a little and mixed with wheat or corn flour into pellets, and laid into ratholes. It will become luminous in the dark, and attract rats, and being readily eaten by them, it will prove fatal. Some persons mix a little molasses with the dough to make the rats devour it more quickly.” — Western Rural. '' ... •

The Care of Horses.

I have had the care of horses for the past twenty-one years, and never had one sick in all that time, though I have had two die of old age, one at twentyeight. There is no great secret in keeping a horse sound and well; and since tne advent of the horse-tamer and lecturer it is plainly to be seen that the number of stifled, spavined, ringboned and diseased horsesjs _growing. less, great improvement. Some farmers make a great mistake in feeding too much Sain, keeping in close, warm stables, anketing, etc* A horse so pampered is apt to get sick, and when brought out is easily heated and catches cold; or else is apt to be above his business with heels higher than head, which is neither pleasant nor profitable, as a man can keep his team feeling well without feeding up all tho coarse grain a common farmer can raise. The requirements of nature are very simple and very easily supplied, ana consist chiefly in proper feed, air and exercise, and regularity and moderation in feeding ana handling, the two chief causes of trouble being bad management in the stable and hard driving and carelessness on the road. A horse should have a stable entirely above ground, well lighted ahTt'Vrsu Ventilated. It is next in importance that he be fed at certain regular hours; also that he be not fed too much' at once, as he should clean out the manger every time, especially if not used, and be ready to grab at the next mess; it will do no harm if the bunk is empty two or three hours. Horses fed in this way will really eat more and do better than if the manger is constantly crammed with that which bas been mussed over; beside, the horse is not kept stuffed all the time and his wind is better. Again, it makes a great difference what a horse is fed. Hay and cats alone will soon ruin some horses, and hay should not be fed steadily to any horse. A safe system of feeding in winter is as follows: Hay in the morning, and good bright cornstalk twioe a day, with a few ears of corn morning and night if not working, otherwise oorn three times a day, the cornstalks being just loosening enough to counteract the-effects pf the hay and keep the animal healthy. Oat straw may be used in place of the cornstalks, or together; and then eats may be fed in place of the corn. If a horse is not Doing used he should not stand in the stable two days in succession, but on mild days should be let out in the yard for exercise a few hours, or be hitched up and driven. — —— When the horse comes to be worked in -the spring, the feed should be changed entirely; but in changing feed always do it gradually, and no harm will ensue. When working, the feed shetild consist of cut hay, wetted and mixed with meal made of corn and oats in equal parts ground together; and it is astonishing how little feed of this kind will keep a horse good at hard labor; it gaunts him, as he should be; he is not stuffed with hay, his wind, orJireathing power, is hotter, and he does not need to drink so much water: As to watering, I have said nothing, as the rules for that are so Bimptoeinii.jp generally underatobd that any. man who will founder a horse ought to be. fined and imprisoned for oraelty to animals. In regard, to the rearing and raising of horses, 1 will say but little.

being not *n expert, though I must have some useful knowledge, and will simply add: In the management of a horse, bring Into play all your skill and ingenuity, taking advantage of your knowledge of the nature and disposition of the particular one with whioh you are dealing, which knowledge you will obtain by observation (no two requiring the same treatment), and thus avoid the necessity of ruling by brute force.— Cor. N. Y. Tribune.

Spring Pruning.

There is always more or less pruning to be done in the spring, even when the bulk of this work has been performed in the fall and winter. It is never safe to prune raspberries and blackberries in the fall or during cold weather pi winter, and there will generally be seme dead canes to cut out or, to shorten taster the cold weather is past. Most of this kind of pruning is therefore done in spring, just before the buds begin to swell or the leaves push out. With all the tall-growing" sorts it is a good plan to shorten the '«eneff considerably, and if there are long side branches, these should also be shortened to at least one-half or onethird, because better and larger fruit will be produced on the pruned stock than if all was left of the full length. Where the stools are orowded, a part of the oanes should be cut out at the ground, in order to allow those remaining more room to grow and develop their leaves and fruit. There is no fain in leaving a large amount of Baring wood on such plants, for while a greater number of berries may be obtained, their size will be proportionately decreased. Currants and gooseberries may also be pruned at this season—the long, slender young shoots shortened and the old and feeble canes cut out. Thinning out old clumps, and letting the light and air into the., center, will add much to the size of the fruit and health of the plants. Where the buds have begun to swell and the sap to flow, the pruning of apple, pear and similar fruit trees had better be deferred until the leaves are fully expanded. Hot that the slight loss of sap which may issue from the wounds made in pruning will do the trees any harm, but as it runs down the bark it turns black and injures the appearance of the tree. This is especially the case with young nursery trees, and the marks made bv the escaping and corroding sap will frequently remain visible for several years. A few frosty nights or cold winds after pruning will usually dry up the exposed wood and prevent any sap escaping, so that pruning may be Continued as long as the weather remains cold enough to keep the buds perfectly dormant. The same mhy be said of grapevines, which “ bleed,” as it is termed, more freely than any other of our woody plants. The sap which runs so freely is little more than pure water, and the vine itself loses but little solid matter ; still, the sap as it flows down the canes turns the bark black and disfigures the plant. Ornamental trees should either be pruned several weeks before the buds swell, or the operation be deferred until growth has commenced and all danger of bleeding is past. When large branches are removed at any time of the year, it is a good plan to cover the exposed wood with grafting wax applied hot, as this will prevent decay until the wound is overgrown with new wood. Hedges, whether evergreen or deciduous, should be pruned before growth commences, although it may be done later in the season, with a loss in the vigor of the plants. In all localities where snow falls to any considerable depth, hedges should always be of a conical form, or quite pointed at the top, or else with every heavy fall of snow they are liable to be crushed or the plants spread apart and broken. Evergufeen hedges especially are liable to be Injured by snow resting on them, and we have often been surprised to see gardeners, who ought to know better, pruning aborvitm and hemlock hedges so as to leave a broad flat top, upon which the snow is heaped up in winter until the plants are crushed by its weight. A good hedge of any kind should be as broad at its base as it is high, at least for the first ten years of its growth, and even after this frequent cutting back of the leading branches and shortening of the upper side shoots will be of great assistance in keeping the bottom full and well furnished. A well-grown and carefully pruned hedge may be ornamental, as well as useful, but a majority of those generally seen are neither, and only serve as hiding places for weeds and vermin. Specimens of evergreens, or groups of them, mas now be put into almost any desired form, by cutting back the leading shoots and shortening the side branches. With the slender twigged kinds, like the hemlock and arborvitae, tfio ordinary hedge shears may. be tfsed; but with the pines and similar kinds , the pruning knife or single-hand pruning shears are the best implements, as the removal of branches needs to be done with more care, because buds upon them from which new shoots will start are far less, numerous than in the first-named kinds. Pruning trees and shrubs is beneficial or injurious in to tho skill or want of it in the one who performs the operation. If a man knows nothing of the habits of the plants he is operating upon, and meiely prunes because he thinks it is needed, he will probably do them more harm than gooa.t— N. Y. Sun. ' ... . : The largest bridge in Europe will be completed next| year. It will cross the Volga in the Government of Samara, Russia, on the Siberian Railroad line. The Volga, at the point of the bridge, is about four miles wide in the spring season, and in autumn is 4,782 feet The bridge will be supported by 12 piers 85 feet high, with ice-cutters 35 feet high at a distance of every 364 feet The ice-cutters are covered with granite. The iron-work is from Belgium. "'A temporary colonjr is estabFished for workingmen employed on the bridge; it occupies about 55 acres, and has 60 different buildings, insured at 100,000 roubles. Two thousand men are employed, and among them are 100 Italian masons. Three steamers and seventy barks are used constantly for forwarding wood, stone, iron and other materials. The bridge will cost 4,630,000 roubles, or about $3,500,000. A OhicAgo undertaker advertises the most “ comfortable front wagon” in the oountry. A touching compliment to the feelings of tjhe corpse. Indigestion, The main cause of nervousness Is indigestion, And that Is caused by weakness of the stomach. NO one can have sound nerves and good health without using Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify the blood and to keep the liver and kidneys active, to carry off all the poisonous and waste matter of the .system, fee other column. _ J_

Mk. WiQGUtewoRTH was somewhat embarrassed when introduced by a French friend as Mr. Vigglesvorm. — Boston Commercial Bulletin.

California.

A California Colony la being formed at Buffalo, N. Y., to settle a tract of 7,000 acres In California. Those wishing to know all about It and California Colonies, can learn by Inclosing six cents In stamps, to California Colony, U W. Swan Street, Buffalo, N. T., or to Wendell Saaton, 33 Montgomery Street, Ban Francisco. California.

A New Grain Car.

[From the Chicago Xvenlng Journal.] Oar reporter, bearing that a new car was being constructed which claimed to revolutionize the present mode of transporting grain, vle'tetl the shop, No. 26 Henry atreet,Ohlcago, and saw the car, which Is partially completed. The Inventor claims It to he cheaper, lighter, more durable, occupying lees spare, easier draft, will not laminate the track, may be run at greater speed, lowering the center of gravity, reducing the windage of train, removing the weight of load from axle, requiring less oil, less attention, less parts, will dry wet grain In car and prevent it from heating, souring or molding while lu transportation. Richard P. Morgan, a railway engineer of great experience, seye of It in Western Rural: Recently, a very extraordinary Improvement has been patented by Treat T. Prosaar, Esq., one of the bunt mechanics In Chicago. It Is a railroad car for the transportation of grain, composed of two large cylinders of thick sheet Iron, capable of containing 335 bushels of grain each, or abont twelve ton* lu the aggregate, and, with the connecting frame, weighing only three tons, beside the load. These cylludor* are to be hoopudwith tires, having ftanges l corresponding to the gauge of the railroad upon which they may ran, and, when adjusted so an to mttet all practical requirements for cnlform motion, will roll forward with great facility. The force necessary to propel a common eight-wheel railroad car, loaded with twelve tons, on a level railroad, la 380% pounds, the car Itself usually weighing eleven tons, a total of twenty-three ton*. A forty-ton engine (which is twite the weight which true economy admits of, even on steel rails.) can haul forty-four such carton a level railroad. The resistance to a Prosser car being only thirty-four pounds, the same engine coaid haul 352 carg on a level track, containing more grain than tho largest propeller on the lakes. _ Bat the grades between Chicago and Now York and railroads generally In Illinois, averaging practically twenty-five feet in a mile, the actual load for a forty-ton engine may be estimated at twenty-six care, carrying twelve tons each, while the Proeeor trains could be 100 care, equally loaded.

Ghosts.

Not Col. Ingersoll’s "aristocracy of the air,” bat real human ghosts. Ghosts that were once healthy men ana women, but are no* simply the “ ghosts of what they once were.” As we meet them, and lnqillre the cause of all this change, they repeat the old, old story, “a cold,” "neglected cough,” “catarrh,” “overwork," or “dyspepsls," “liver complaint,” and “ constipatloft,” with unsuccessful physicians and remedies. In offering his Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets for the cure of thq above affections, Dr. Pierce does not recommend them as a “sure cure” in off stages. For If the ltiDgs be half wasted away, or there he a cancerous complication, no physician or medicine can cure. The Discovery Is, however, an unequaled pectoral and blood-purifier. It speedily cures the most aggravated cough, or cold, and in its early or middle stages, consumption. By correcting all Irregularities of the stomach and liver, it readily cures blotches, pimples, scrofulous ulcers, “bunches,” or turners. Hundreds testify that It has restored their health, after eminent physicians had failed. For constipation, use the Pellets. As & local remedy Xor catarrh, use Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Safety, efficiency and reliability are the three cardinal virtues of a remedy, whether In the hands of a physician or in those of the people at large. For the cure of all malarial or miasmatic diseases, such as Chills and Fever, or Intermittent Fever, Dumb Chills and Chronic Enlargement of the Spleen, we have such a remedy in Dr. F. Wllhoft’s Anti-Pe-riodic or Fever and Ague Tonic, the composition ol which has been published by its proprietors, Wheelock, Finlay & Co, of New Orleans, and is approved by the medical profession, and for sale by all Druggists.

Free—31 Portraits—Free.

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