Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 July 1871 — Page 2

Rural.

THE APPLE.

mAn eany read before theTerre-Haute Horticultural (Society by 8. H. Potter. An essay, according to Webster, signifies seek, to try, to attempt, to endeavor, to exert one's power or faculties, or to make an effort to perform any thing. My experience fully confirms this definition.

Apple. This word primarily signifies fruit in general, especially of a round form. In Persia the same word pronounced, ubhtU, signifies the fruit or berries of the Savin or Juniper. In Welsh, it signifies not only the apple, but the plum and other fruits. But the apple from which cider is made, "Pyrus Malus," the apple which makes apple pies, apple dumplings, apple jellies, tarts, preserves, apple sauce or apple butter, is the apple I am after. The European crab apple, it is supposed by some, to be the original kind, from which all other apples have sprung. But I am disposed to honor the parentage of all our choice apples, to the author of all good, to God who planted the first garden eastward in Eden, and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food.

Solomon says, "as the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the son's." I sat dowr under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste I)o you think Solomon would have spoken thus of the ill shaped, and sour rough fruit of the crab tree. No doubt he refers in that song of songs, to some line specimens of our original apple trees, whose large wide spread branches shield him from the scorching sun, the delicious fruit of which was sweet to his taste, and refreshing to his mind and body. Some say it was the citron tree referred to, but from a description of that tree, which I havo read, I can not think so. The citron tree was orig. inally a low evergreen, prickly with long reclining branches. The fruit boars no comparison to tho fine and exhilarating influence of tho apple. It is an acid fruit and was rarely eaten raw, but valued for its fragrant rind.

App!es we know degenerate as mankind degonerateH, and when both were banished or transported from the gardon of tho Ixml, tho fruit became sour and corrupt. Happily much has been restored and wo aro permitted to enjoy sorno of tho choicest and richest of our fathor's original blessings. Among all tho trees of tho orchard whether of pear, poach, plum or cherry none can be considered of so great value and importance, as contributing to tho happiubbu jnd.wunl« nf. timnlr 'ill, trees of tho apple orchard. The value of tho apple as a Hygiene, has hardly any equal in our own country. hoy are a cure Tor dyspepsia, a substitute for inoro than half tho year, for vegetables of various kinds, and especially adopted, and ordained to bo the food for boys, a choico dessert for the table of tho poor, the rich, and oven for kings,queens or presidents.

In my father's apple orchard, situated on a steep, stony hill-side in old Otsego, nearly 50 years ago, when a boy, 1 was permitted to gather and eat the apple of the lthodo Island greening, the llolten sweet, which was never beat, tho Spitzonberg, the Gilly Flower, tho Golden Russet, and other choico apples of tho seodling kind and my father's bin was novor empty until .June or July. It is sacrod and most valuable heritage that ohildreu can inherit somo of the good old apple trees of their father's urothor occupies the o' ,ho old Rhone Island .iw..en sweet, planted by hand 7S years ago are still bearing fruit abundantly, though sadly neglected as thev haveVoen with annual cleansing and* fertilizing. The apple treo is very tenacious of life, fine specimens in this county are now bearing fruit at 10 to years old. The finest sort last from "0 to 80 years. It is a hardy, slow growing tree, with an irregular head, rigid branches, roughish bark, strong, broad green loaves, and of tlrni texture, wood close and fine grained, delighting in lime stone soil, and deep loams resting on ridges, with north or northeast exiKisure, or upon elevated table lands, it docs well on all soils, free from ex ccssivc moisture, other than those of a hearty, or pnrelv sandy character.

The rich soils of the western states yield apples unequaled in size, but Interior in quality to those produced in eastern lime stone soils, or where vegetable matter forms less considerable element, and red oxide of iron occurs more frequently.

Damascus Is claimed as one of the localities of the original paradise. Fruits of all kinds flourish there, ami none more so than the apple, though tho latitude I believe Is but a little over W°. llut Damascus has an altitude hIku-o the sea of 2,344 feet, and situated In a dry fertile and extensive plain. For manv miles, the city is surrounded by fertile fields and gardens apples are imported into Egypt from Damascus.

Hut our own county can loast too, mid if some where near my own native home, was not located the garden of Eden, yet I know, that from that charming fruitful land, apples are expected to convert garden market, 1/nidon, and such apples as the Newtown pippin. Baldwin. Spttwnborg sweet, and other equally choice varieties, command almost fabulous prices.

Twenty-two

varieties of apples were*

known to the Homan*. «\»»r "200 are known to us, from which selections are made embracing varieties soiled to special districts, since those proving excellent in one locality may prove worthless elsewhere. The orchard pro!Hl in

Theorvhart

duct of the I'nited States are state*! the census returns of lsW be worth Mlmut six million of dollars. Five hundicd thousand acres were then under cultivation, and there is no doubt that 200,000 have been added since that

The dry valuable quality of the wood as timber for furniture, shoe lasts, carpenter's plane* and other tools, add vastly to the value of the apple tree, and the Importance of a more extensive cultivation. It is now used as a substitute for the Ebony wood, and is itt tome respects superior to iron for cog heels.

In England and France the apple tree la trained as dwarfk, and as esna-, Nor*, or hedge*. No training is needed in our climate, as all varieties o» apples, fn.lt perftxjtly without.

The analysis of the apple made by Prof. Emmons, shows in one hundred parts of the ash of sap wood, 16 P®™ pot ash, 18 parts lime, 17 parts phosphate of lime in 100 parts of the ash of apple bark, 4 parts pot ash, ol parts lime hence the plain necessity of furnishing a supply of all these important mineral substances.

Bear with me a minute longer while I speak of the

juice

It was not common in that early dayf to make wine, cider or brandy from the juice of the apple. I have reason to remember, however, that the juice made some very strong cider, and that when taken to excess, was very deleterious in its effects. The apple is thus susceptible of great perversion, and abuse, one of the best gifts of God to man.

But when roasted, boiled, made into jellies, tarts, pies, preserves, sauces, or the famous raisine of the French, the apple proves acceptable to all.

AN OLD STORY MADE NEW. The plea of Mr. Whitmore, urged so disastrously to his client by General Butler that the cadet money all went to the poor, has revived the old story of the miller who sometimes had crazy fits, in which he always imagined himself to be the Lord judging the world.

On these occasions he would put on a paper crown, ascend a pile of meal bags with great dignity, and call his neighbors in succession. The same ones were always judged and these were the millers in his vicinity.

The first summoned was Ilans Schmidt: -ft Hans Schmidt, stand opp."

Hans, vat ish peen your pishness in dat oder world?" :/-j "I vas a miller, O Lort." .]

Vas you a joost man '•Vel,*ven de vater vas low and de pishness ish pad, oh Lort, sometimes I dakes a little extra doles."

Vel, Hans, you shall go over mit te goats already yet." And so in succession all were tried and immediately sentenced to go over to the goats.

Last of all the miller inevitably tried himself in the following style: Yacob Miller, stand opp."

Yacob, vat ish peen your pishness in de other world I vas a miller, Oh Lort."

Vas you always a joost man, Yacob Veil, oh Lort, ven de vater vas a loetle low, and pishness vas pad,I somedimos dake a little extra doles but, oh Lort, I all de vile give dose extra doles to de poor."

After a long pause, "Veil, Yacob Miller, you can go ofer mit ter sheeps —but it vas a dam tight squeeze."

Thkrk is a story told of Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson, that once upon a time ho determined to live after the fashion of tho world and stopping, while he was of this mind, at a country tavern in a villago where he was to lecture, instoad of rotiring to meditate and freeze in his own cold and cheorless room, he manfully sat in tho bar-room, like the rest of mankind. Ho endured tho tobacco smoke as well as he could, as lively as Mr. I)u Chain ii*s visit to "a cannibal feast among tho Fans tho actions of tho men who "sat around." Ho saw one after another walk up to tho bar and demand, and swallow, a glass of whisky and true to his determination to be once like other men, the groat philosopher—so tho tale goes on—at lust arose, and, no doubt with a certain degree of difiidence, but no doubt also with a sufficiency of courage in his port and countenance, advanced to tho bar, and in a voico modulated as nearly as ho could after those ho had just heard, demanded a "whisky skin." Tho barkeeper, a man of higirnrincinle as well as sound discretion, looked into tho philosopher's face for a moment, and then said, "You do not want whisky you want gingerpop:" and accordingly administered that mild and harmless stimulant, mi

The solution of tho Labor problem is not found in fruitless strikes and noisy conventions, but in wise co-operation. At least thoro is where somo of the Massachusetts shoemakers havo discovered it. At North Adams a eo-op-erative company was started oil a capital of ffi,000 on'which they cloared in four months 81,014 10, and thev havo now increased their stock capital to?8,000. Tho workmen feel encouraged, take a deeper interest and greater pleasure in their work, and show the promise of success, without coining in collision with anybody's interest or running a tilt against tho order of society. If labor wants to beat capital, it must turn itself into capital and compete with its rival on tho same ground.— (t'uhh'n Age.

Anybody can soil the reputation of nnv individual, however pure and chaste, by uttering a suspicion that his enemies will believe, and his friends never hear of. A puff of the idle wind can take a million of the seeds of a thistle, and do a work of mischief which the husbandman must labor long to undo, the particles being too fine to bo seen, and too light to be stopped. Such are the soeds of slander, so easily sown, so difficult to be gathered up. and yet so pernicious In their fruits. The slanderer knows that many a wind will catch up the plague, and become poisoned by liisinsinuations. without ever seekinsr* the antido:c. No reputation can refute a sneer nor any human skill prevent mischief. f"

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all the new-fangled artifices and expo-

Young Folks.

ANAGRAMS. 6. New caked gold. 7. In crying out. 8. Timed Paul, 9. O! decent scar. 10. Cap them in me.

1. O! grain diet. 2. A dust tear. 3. Tug ruin again. 4. He candor. 5. Creeps in sty.

of 3He apple, for I

do not forget my boyish days, when I did love the sweet cider, pressed out under the power of two huge wooden screws, with a one or two horse power pulling at the leavers.

WHAT CERTAIN CITIES MAKlj WHEN TRANSPOSED. I 1. A girl's name. 2. Parts of a door. 3. Braces. ,»• 4. A peddler. 5. A god. 6. The principal character in one of Shakspeares's plays. 7. Proceeded.

CHANGES.

(Fill the following blanks with words pronounced alikebut of different meanings.)

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for his friends and rela-

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see the with-

LOGOGRIPH.

I am a word of only four letters something too often seen in me may be found seven different nouns, three verbs, a preposition and an article.

QUESTION.

How would the letter R, make a demon desirable company

TRANSPOSITIONS.

(Fill the blanks with the italized words transposed into Authors' names.) 1. I lent Hugh my volume of poems by 2. Ay, Jorl, viy tree was planted by 3. Oh! with jet ring and studs to reward such a writer as -. 4. He lent his raw colt Sett to a visi^r at the house of A. S.

NAMES OF INSECTS CONCEALED. 1. They waited till they heard Mab utter "Fly fast as you canl" 2. Miss Katy didn't succeed very well. 3. Yes, Milo, custom reconciles us to strange fashions. 4. That is a specimen of printer's pi, Dermot. 5. It seems to me that you can never be easy. 6. Do not touch that beet, let it alone.

1«K ktiffrf i-fei

Hattie A. D.

PUZZLE.

First, I hold out. Change my head several times and make (1) an animal, (2) a period of time, (3) beloved, (4) a rent, (5) anxiety, (6) traces, (7) a fruit, (8) close, (9) at the extreme, (10) dry, and (11) to pay attention.

Adolph M. Nagle.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, CHARADES fcC. IN LAST WEEK'S PAPER.

Anagrams.—1. Concurred. 2. Fore•#hV '""B. Indicates. 6im. 4.JManife.stCongratulates. 8. DiplomasT^W- 7, heavul. 10. Chamberlains.

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Cross-word Enigma.—Missouri. Numerical Enigma.—Mildness governs better than anger.

Riddle.—XSIV (excessive). Poetical Mosaic.—-1. Joan Tngelow. 2. Moore. 3. Goldsmith. 4. Emerson.

Charades.—1. Oxus. 2. Landgrave. Doublo Acrostic.—Nathan. Eugene. David.

Hidden Rivers.—1. Green. 2. Ohio. 3. Loire.

The Roy that Paid His Deiit.—A New York paper says that the other day a little son of a well known bank officer in Wall street lost his purse while coming from Central Park, and a stranger seeing his discomfort, paid his railroad fare, three cents. The boy, thanking bim, said, "If you will tell mo your name, I will bring it to jroii to-morrow." "Oh, no," said tho gentleman, "never mind about it." The bov persisted, saying his father never allowed him to run in debt. "I will not give you my name," replied tho gentleman, "but" I live at No. —, on street." Tho next morning the door bell rang at that house, and our little hero told the amused servant maid his errand. •'Which of the gentlemen is it?" said she "there aro several in the family." The boy twisted on his heel, and after a moment's thought said, "Have vou a nhotograph book in tho house?'' She nrouglit it, and turning over its pages, he said, pointing to one, "That's the one. Please give him these three cents, and tell him that the boy who borrowed it in the cars yesterday left it to pay his debt."

Ik rumors are to be believed, Nevada is almost as plentifully provided with precious stones as the foundation walls of temptation you may think yon can of the heavenly Jerusalem. Jasper of! take care of yourselves, and keep clear every shade of color is abundant cor- of the wheels but, oh! vou may find nelian abounds around I*ake T»hoe I yourselves dreadfully mistaken. Beagates gleam in Nve County amethysts fore vou aro aware of it, you may be ameliorate the Comstock mines gar-. caught and destroyed. Keep away nets glitter near steamboat springs, from the wheels.— Yonng It caper. and chalcedony ubiquitously charms the ga*e. Thkrk is trouble ahead for a good in arson alley, and manv people. Dr. Beecheronee thought pregnate,!geodc h« loose «e h?

fly mangled.

N

idaries, the Dtamondia of America. look

somencsw. And there is no go to heaven nnless he could be s»re bat cartridges and cannon. lediation

h^ hitberto lK^n hsnllv^eraml a^

of

Beust to become its next President. •••. We leave him to the tender mercies of Mrs, Howe, and bid him a longsdien. A Norwichraan is very angry with —Gotdm Agt, his wife.

air bed.

Gen. Howard, fighting his first battle healthy to sleep at Manassas In Iwl, and delivering a not ventilated,

Kkkp away krom the Wheels.— Little Charles Williams lived near a manufactory, and he was very fond of going among tho workmen and the young people who wore at work there. 'Hie foreman would say to him, "Keep away from the wheels, Charlie." Charlie did no*, mind, and would often say, "I can take care of myself." Often he would go near, and the wind of the wheels would almost suck him in, and two or three times he grew so dizzy that he scarcely knew which way to go. At length one ciay he staggered while amid the wheels and fell the wrong way—the band caught his little coat v, md drew him in, and he was dreadful-!

So It is, boys, when yon go in the way

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side. In fact rh* p» ptftnl!i versalista and Unitarians were there, fancy-Nevada is he 1 opia of lap-

has just written a

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.. A«voRnix» to the diagnosis of mitted into heaven which reminds us Vin. tiSl' If." .,n 1?. of the sick squatter Tom Hughes tells chief ailment of mankind is

lu*rppJ*|nf,

EXCITiyG RACE VP A FLAO1 STAFF.

Tall Sport in San Francisco. A sanguine and confident inventor presented himself a tew days ago at the office or the Western Union Telegraph Company, in San Francisco, and exhibited a pair of instruments, which he claimed to be perfection itself when applied to telegraph poles. These clamps were to entirely supersede the old fashioned hook shaped affairs which line repairers were wont to use in ascending the poles they were so intelligent that they would almost climb of themselves, and a man ornamented with a pair might climbstraight to the moon if a pole long enough could be procured. There happened to be incredulous individuals connected with the office, and these offered to back Dr. Valentine against the stranger. The challenge was accepted, ana the plaza fixed as the place where the contest should come off.

Dr. Valentine has long been connected with the company, is sprver than a cat, can determine tiie specific gravity of nitric acid by tasting it, ana occasionally, for amusement, turns himself into a Grove battery—simply swallowing a pint of acid while in a"trip bath, and inserting platinum wire down his throat. The doctor has traveled to tbe top of every telegraph pole in the State, and occasionally recruits his health by a trip on foot to Healdsburg or Gilrov, his only baggage consisting of his iron climbers, buckled to his legs, and asinall piece of black pomade in his vest pocket.

Tbe contestants met at the Plaza and took their positions at the foot of the flag staff the foreigner was confident and the doctor supercilious. The word was given, and up the climbers dashed, jamming their armed heels into the wood and rushing hand-over-hand up the mast. The stranger did pretty well but emulation lent additional speed to the doctor's heels he fairly flew upward. Away up tho cross-trees his humiliated eyes discovered the soles of two boots, a Haunting coat-tail, and two brown patches on a pair of black pantaloons.

It was the doctor, and there, away up on a level with tho chimney-pot, he delivered one of his celebrated comic lectures.

The stranger came down, and so, at length, did Valentine. The stranger explained that his failure was attributable to the fact that his climbers had been affected by the climate. "That's me," said the doctor "I'm the Climb-it."

But, yet. my instruments are superior," replied the stranger "with them I can come down a pole eighteen feet high in four motions."

See here, my venerable duffer," said Valentine, "I've climbed more poles than you'vo told lies, and that's saying a heap. I began before this heavy moustache of mine commenced vegetating and I tell 3'ou that those climbers won't wash. If you don't take care, some day you will come down a pole in one motion instead of lour, and the patent will die with you. Come, let's go and get a little sulphuric acid and sugar I'm dry."

The stranger thinks lie can adapt his invention to climbing down wells, but he has about given up the telegraphpole branch of his profession. jivfFfifilt HAPPINESSr \rt.'°weanhy epicure applied to a|n Arabian doctor for a^ prescription tliAt would restore his body to health and give happiness to his mind. The physician advised him to exchange shirts with a ma.: who was perfectly contented with his lot, whereupon the' patient set out on a journey in pursuit of such a person. After many months spent without accomplishing his object, he was told of a certain cobbler of whom every one had spoken as a model of contentment and happiness. Pursuing the direction given, the traveler was at length rewarded with the sight of the cobbler enjoying a comfortable nap on .a board. Without ceremony lie was aroused from his slumbers, and the important interrogatory, whether he wascontentcd with his lot, was answered in the affirmative. "Then," said tho seeker after happiness, "I have one small boon to ask at your hands, It is that you exchange shirts with me, that by this means, I also may become contented and liappy." "Most gladly would I accede to your request." replied tho cobbler, "but—" "Nay, refuse me not," interrupted the man of wealth "any sum that thou mayst name shall bethine." "I seek not thy wealth," said the cobhlor, "but—but—" "But what?" "The truth is—I hare nou: no .shirt"

A Stautltnm Exct-amation.—The New Orleans Hulletin publishes the following anecdote of the ^celebrated Dominican friar, Rocco, of Naples: "One day he was preaching to acrowd In the market place. 'This (lav,' said he, 'I will see il'you truly repent your sins. Thereupon ho commenced a penitential discourse that made the hair of the hardhearted multitude stand upright and when they were all on their knees, gnashing their teeth, beating their breasts and putting on all imaginable siirns of contrition, he suddenly cried, 'Now you who truly repent of your sins hold up your hands.' There was not one present who did not immediately stretch out both arms. 'Holy Archangcl Michael,' then exclaimed Rocco, 'Thou who with thy adamantine sword standest by the judgment seat of God, hew off every hand that has been coat raised hypocritically.' Instantly every hand dropped, and Rocco poured forth a fresh invective against the sinfulness

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Fourth of July oration on the same spot alwence, punched about fifty holes in it. immoral person is permitted to run In ls71, shows some of the changes ten I That husband has lost his faith in wo- with the tnasheen, or toss a ball upon years has wrought. man's ingenuity. the village green.

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A Leak From the !Ioi*rnal ok ax African Missionary.—One day a trader chief came to join my church with his two wives—one old and

URly,

the other a handsome young negress. "That will never do," I cried "my religion allows a man but one wife. Choose one for the partner of your joys and sorrows, and make suitable provision for the other."

They all went away, looking very crestfallen. A week or two afterward the old chief came lwck, leading the yonng and pretty one, iwlh looking verv happy. "Me come back," be said: "me all ready now." "That is right." I said "and, pray, how have you disposed of th.* other wife?" "All right," he said "meeat her up!"

Bkeciier leaves his son-in-law, Rev. S*mnel ScoviJle, as his substitute to fill the pulpit of 'Plymouth Church for some we«*ks. Scoville hails from Nor-

He bought an* Indfa-"rubber wich, where he is captain of a base-ball Site did'nt believe that it was club and foreman of the fire company, on a mattress that was» He runs both institutions on strictly and so, during his religious principles, and no profane or

HOUSES IJV HOLLAND, A substantial Amsterdammer's house plain only on the oiitslde, is resplendent with white marble and glorious with carved work within. The walls of the chief rooms have often been painted by first-rate artists, and Italian sculptors must have had a fine time of it in the wealthy city, for their hand is to be seen on corniceand balustrade in many a simple merchant's house.

The basement-floor is always raised a few feet above the surface of tbe ground to steal a little height in air for the kitchen, the floor of which is even then a toot or two below the level of the underlying ooze, but, of course, ooze-tight with cement—Bettinji, the cook, is stout and healthy notwithstanding—and, ascending from the street by a flight of five or six steps, a very solid door admits you to along and narrow passage, lofty and marbled on either side, and lighted by glass above the door. The drawing-room, or, not unusually, the counting-house, with this passage, take^ up the entire width of the house.

The first thought one has on entering any Dutch chamber, a drawing-room not excepted, is, "How very long!" the next, "How very bare!" Every thing is handsome but there is so little of it. No lounsing-chairs, no round table with knick-knackeries a cabinet with closed glass doors, of course, chairs placed in formal rows, a handsome chandelier, a stoveplace, and that is all. You take a sent, and perhaps touch the wall with your elbow—lo! it yields to the touch. Wall-paper is a misnomer in Holland. Paper-hangings is the proper word. These sometimes are of oil-paintings on canvas, and sometimes of paper stretched on canvas fastened on light wooden frames, which can be taken down bodily when their gay coverings have to be renewed. Evidently these are the next descendants from tapestry and arras. The walls may be damp, and very probably are so, but then "they assume a virtue, il they have it not for one's eyes are never offended in Holland by dripping, smeared washed-out wall-paper.

The bedrooms aro also but scantily furnished, and, except in guest-cham-bers, one does not often see a chest of drawers or a wardrobe. A foreign visitor, indeed, is apt to be at a loss what to do with clothes until ho discovers that doors, cunningly concealed open into cupboards all about the room. By-the-way, Mevrouw always hangs her dresses in these she seldom folds tlieni in a drawer.

At the top of the house, both in town and country, is invariably to be found a spacious laundry, extending, in fact, over the whole area of tho house. In this the linen is stored iu presses, and, the clothing of the past season, winter or summer, all duly turned inside out, hangs on pegs all about. Hero, twice a year, Mevrouw holds her grand saturnalia. Without doubt, the most important item in a Dutch girl's dowry is linen. The quantity she thinks necessary for her own person and for household pur-

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oses is enormous. But then it should known that she "washes" (the linen, of course) but twico in the year. Cuffs collars, and muslins, she says, must be washed often but all other things are flung, for a time, into huge buck-bask-ets big enough for half a dozen Falstaffs to hide in indeed, these aro astounding baskets, and, when full, will weigh four or live hundred-weight. Every house has a block and pulloy firmlv fixed to the ornamented coping of the roof, ea ttr 1?*ny «*«.»» forms a noticeable feature in the architecture of all the Dutch houses and, by means of the block, these huge baskets aro readily lifted to and from tho laundry, and furniture or heavy articles of any kind to the other stories through tho windows. A visitor for the first time may see with amused bewilderment that particularly lumbering trunk of his wife's, which has been the despair of railway-porters throughout his journey, whipped up by invisible hands to a height of sixty or seventy feet in no time, and disappear through a bedroom window. The clothes are simply rough-washed in the country, and, when sent back, all the females in the house set to work for a good fortnight to mangle and iron, starch and crimp and you may be sure that every bit of clothing a Dutch young lady of the middle classes is wearing has thus been got up by hor own fair hands. The original outlay in linen is no doubt large, but the cheap mode of washing pays good interest for the money.

Mr. Vovnky preached in the Unitarian church in Liverpool a few Sundays since, a large number of strangers crowding to hear him. And he said some things whose boldness must have startled not a few, coining from one who still claims to be a clergyman of the Church of England, lie thought the two enemies of religion at the present time are Orthodoxy and Positivism. The former believes "it is unchanged and unchanging, in spite of the teachings of history. No man, not even Jesus, knew all tho truth, about God, who had never made a complete and final revelation to man. Nothing could be worse than the tacit assumption, that while there might be progress and improvement in every other department of human thought and energy, there could be none whatever in the sphere of religion and in our convictions about God and His dealings with men. Ho paid a high compliment to the Unitarians, as having the highest and purest estimate of the divine character, but appealed to them to go forward he thought it was in their power to do more than any other body win the world of science into the atmosphere of pure religion, If they would onlv throw off the shackles which still th

clog their progress and use their present opportunity. It rs that it

cost

t/ie Bishop of York £2,400 to get Mr. Voysev convicted of heresy, and less than half the amount has been made up by subscription. Trying to keep the nineteenth century out of the church is expensive business.—.Uolficn, Age.

Some earnest inquirer recently asked Henry Ward Bcecher who Cain's wife was. Whereupon that geulleinau gives a brief summary of the opinions advanced by two or three of 'be commentaries, and conclude* by asking if there are no more questions alnmt Cain. "Does nobody wish to knew his wife's name? Does* no one wish to know what the mark was which tbe Lord affixed to Cain? Does no one wish to know when Cain died? Questions must be scarce to let such points go untouched. If Cain is to be raised, he ought to be thoroughly dealt with." Which is manifestly ironical and if Biblical inquiry is to Iks snubbed in that way by a clergyman like Mr. Beechcr, the days of old fashioned theology are certainly numbered. We entirely agree with ^Ir. Beecber that "if Cain is to be raised, he ought to be thoroughly dealt with but he has castigated the man who raised Cain, which is a decidedly untheological proceeding.—Golden Age.

Ts young lady of Alfemairoozelum, who was up with tbe lark, is now do« 1 with tbe rheumatism. I

SPEECH OF NEWTOK BOOTH, fThe following fall report of the speech of Newton Booth, Republican! candidate for Governor of (. alifbrnia, before the Convention that nominated him, will be read with interest:

After this generous reoeption »rd the marks of devoted friendship I *aave received, I should be more or less than the man I am if I were o't moved almost beyond the power of self command. If my sense of gratitude wer» boundless as the sea^ I should be bankf rupt in expression 'as I stand before von to-day. Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. I accept, gentlemen, the nomination for Governor upon the platform you have put forth. I accept the platform, not as an idle formality, not as a stepping stone to office, but from conviction. I accept it as the latest expression of the living Ikith of the pr.rty to which I am proud to belong. If political parties are anything other than combinations to seek offloe, they are public opinion organized thev are forces whose general direction is fixed. They can bo judged far better by their traditions, instincts and governing ideas than by any formal declaration of principles. Tried bv this test, which, party to-day best deserves the confidence and regard of the American people, which has championed the greatr measures of freedom and good

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irect the current of events in the grand channel of right, which has stood as a bar and obstruction until it has been swept forward by the swooping tide Both parties continue to-day the same organization that they did during tho war. Each stands upon the hist or n" it has made. Can the Republican part-V ground arms in the presenoe of its oldi antagonist? We have heard much of the "new departure" of the Democracy. Perhaps it was time for the Democratic party to depart. Sir, when a political party abandons its old ideas, its instincts and its traditions, it departs this life. For the first time history we have the remarkable case of a suicide that insists upon holding an inquest upon its own body. Sir, the Republican party needs no "new departure." It stands upon its history. It has written no chapters that it desires to tear out. Every page is emblazoned, with glory. Let the record stand the party will stand by the record. Aye, they toll us they will accept the poller of reconstruction as a hard necessity. We adopt it as a living truth. They* regard it as an obstruction which niusU be over-climbed in the road to office 3 we as a sacred principle baptised in the best blood in the land, The late Democratic candidate for Governor in Massachusetts was right when he said theAmerican people would never abandoin the attitude of hostile vigilanco, which is tho true interpretation of the policy of this Administration, while 0110 of their war trophies was threatened. And* what aro these war trophios? They are not captured citadels and cities, not. guns and flags •liey are moral trophies —a republic saved from destruction, freedom made tho law of the land. By these trophies tho Republican party proposes to stand whilo the stars snino. We do not propose now, nor at any time, to rekindlo the passions of the war but wo cannot forgot Its memories, and wo would bo false to ourselves, false to the dead, If we did not claim all the moral force bequeathed to uh every at-

^v tjie to accom pilar mr-tnr ri glory thht has comp down to us from tho past', we cannot live upon that «•*?. must meet living questions as living men, looking forward to the grand fu-» ture. The party has saved the Government from an open foe it must also protect it from an insidious oneinyi Tho rebellion struck with bared arm broad day, and with naked sword* There is a danger inoro alarming be-* cause more subtle, that comes as the. stealthy prisoner, creeping in the dark tho corrupting power of money in shaping legislation and controlling po-: litical action. For this question of, subsidy and anti-subsidy has a farbroader significance than any partial application would assign to it. It. means purity of legislation it means: integrity of courts it means the sacrednoss of private rights it means that whatever a man has, whether it be broad acres or a narrow home, whatever he has acquired by his industry and enterprise, is his his though he stand in a minority of one his against the power of tho world no majority, no legislation, however potent, win inako a private wrong a public right. It, means this: Shall this Government be and remain a mighty agency of civilization, the protector of nil, or shall it be run as a close corporation to enrich the few. Our party recognizing publicsentiinent upon tho question, proposes to organize that sentiment into a living force so that tho sacredness of individual right shall bo protected by all the muniments of constitutional law. Tlx* instincts of our party aro unchanged. In tho recent European war we instinctively felt that tne principle of tlnv "solidarity of peoples" would be vindicated that the old artificial system of balance of power, fruitful in wars and kingcraft, would be destroyed that nations would rest not upon a central nivot, but upon broad, natural foundations and if anywhere 011 earth there is a movement of liberal thought, the Republican party is in sympathy with that movement. If there is ai» aspiration for human freedom, the Republican party is in sympathy with that aspiration. Th country, the world, cannot afford that ho generous an impulse in human forces should die and it will not die. Let it be kepk in accord with the great moral laws ordained for tho government of the world. Its defeats will be for a dav„ and its triumphs for all time.

The following Is a rich little story concerning women who visit calabooses to christianize their inmates. We publish it lor tho pure fun of the thing —and to show that in looking t.t men "you can't most always tell." "One of the St. I/»uis Mrs. Jellybys goes down to the poliee station every Sunday morning, and assists In lecturing the joor devils scrooped in by the police over night. She dropped in a* usual last Sunday, picked outasubject. and went for him. She said she was glad to see him sober once, as she could see by his looks that ho was not ofeu so urged him to reform and lead a different fife, and added an assurance that if be neglected the warning ho would catch h—1 Columbia in the next world just as surely as the police judge would give him some next morning. A few minutes later, she saw that man seize a bible and prayer-book, and proceeded to open the regular services of the day, and learned on inquiry that he was a regular preacher, invited for the purpose. It tHgenerally surmised that she doesn't take so much intersest in police stations now as she once did."

Rorrrt Bonner's horses live in bet-1 ter houses than the early English kings, or than the present nice of average American citizens.—Golden Age.