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' ■) DESERTED. j
Bright sea, far flooding all the pebbled sand,
Flinging thy foamy pearls from stone to
stpne,
Tby lullaby, low-murmured to the strand,
Sounds like a lover's tone;
And yet I know, elsewhere,
Some other shore, as lair,
Thy waves have kissed, and left it dry an I
lone.
Bright sunshine, gleaming on my cottage
wall,
Tracing the shadow of an lvj-spray,
How tenderly thy golden touches fall
On common things to-day!
Yet, beneath other skies
Some land benlguted lies,
Deserted by thy glory, cold and gray.
Blithe bird, loud-warbling underneath the
eaveB
An eager love song passionate and shrill,
My heart is trembling amid summer leaves
With sweet responsive thrill;
Y j t for away, dear guest,
There Is an empty nest
Which thou hast left forsaken, void and still.
Fair sea, bright sunshine, bird of song divine,
I, too, may lose the tide, the light, the lay ;
Others may win the kisses that were mine,
My night may be their day;
Yet, though the soul may sigh
For precious things gone by,
I shall have had my rapture come what may!
SARAH DOUDNEY.
Agricultural.
Try planting a row of celery be
tween two rows of early sweet corn or
potatoes this year it you have not un
occupied ground. The latter may be
cleared away before tne celery will
need the room.
Arkansas farmers are suffering a
series of disasters. Live stock ie pei-
ishing from gnat-poisoning; a new
kind of worm is destroying grain, and
the foliage of the trees is being eaten
-by caterpillars.
California wheat-growers are trou
bled by wild geese, which at night
settle down on the fields. Mounted
men are employed to Bhoot them, and
last year on one farm $10,000 was ex
pended in horses, men and ammuni
tion.
A successful chicken-raiser says that
he always feeds his hens among his
currants, and the leaves are conse
quently always free from' worms, and
•other bushes not thus treated near by
were entirely stripped of their foliage.
American lard cheese is attracting
the notice of the House of Commons,
and efforts are being made to chick
its importation. The increasing ex
portation of this spurious stuff is
likely to injure the trade of the genu
ine American article.
After hoeing, scatter a peck of corn
broadcast among your potatoes and
call your fleck of fowls into the field.
Aftei picking up all the corn they can
find they will pick up or drive away
nil the Colorado beetles. So says
one who has tried it.
Milk containing an abundance of
large globules is best for butter-mak
ing, as the cream Ihen rises quickly
and perfectly. Milk with small glo
bules is probably best for cheese mak
ing, as a more even distribution of fat
throughout the curd is then obtained.
A Nashville (Tenn ) farmer’s rem
edy for the army worm is to draw taut
a rope thirty or forty feet long, and
drag it over the wheat. The worms
are dislodged, and the matured ones
are unable to climb back, while, the
younger ones that return are shaken
•off the next morning.
it is observed that the most success
ful grape-growing countries have the
' least amount of rainfall, especially
during the summer. One authority
gives his opinion that iff climates
where the summer rainfall exceeds
fourteen inches, grape culture is liable
to be attended by rot and mildew.
A fruit-grower at Griffin, Ga., has
■80,000 peach trees in bearing condition
besides thousands of other kinds of
fruit trees. The peaches are ripening
faster than they can be sent to market,
although 300 pickers and packers are
employed, and hundreds of bushels
are oast aside as too ripe f or shipment.
A Wisconsin lady says that one-half
a pint of salt and one ounce of cop
peras dissolved in a gallon of water is
all that is needed for a cut-worm pre
paration. She dips the plants in this
solution before setting them. Says
she has used it for years, and never
knew of a plant being cut off' after
taking this piecaution.
Pleuro-pueumonia is still making
itself felt beyond the Atlantio. As a
consequence of an outbreak near
Brighton, England, no less than forty
dairy cows have been slaughtered.
There were 729 cases of pleuro-pneu-
* monia reported over there last year,
in about one-half of which, however,
no more than one outbreak occurred
in a herd.
A celery garden of forty six acres
believed to be the largest in the world,
is cultivated in the suburbs of Lon
don, and the annual product is about
half a million of roots or plants.
There is no vegetable grown in this
country which meets with a more
ready sale at profitable figures than
celery, and the demand is rapidly in
creasing.
German observations shew that the
annual yield of milk rises gradually
from the birth of the first calf till the
fifth, reaches its maximum after the
sixth, sinks gradually until the tenth
calf, when it is about the same as at the
first calving, and, after the thirteenth
or fourteenth calf, is only one-fourth
or one-fifth of the maximum yield.
All who have Italian bees bear testi
mony that they show more energy
and more power to eradicate the
worms than the black bees manifest.
Give them well-made hives and feoep
the colonies strong, and you need
have no fear of worms. In fact,
where Italians have long been intro
duced the worms have almost disap-
pe ired.
The genius of the Yankee has come
to the rescue of the horse suffering
with a galled shoulder from the heat
and ill shape of bard collars, by in
venting a collar from catkins, or flags,
which grow in swamps. The cost is
but trifling, and it is said not only to
prevent galling but will cure it, by
adapting itself to any nect and shoul
ders, and is light, cool and cheap.
A train of ten cars, each fitted up
with separate stalls for sixteen cattle,
recently carried 160 head from Chi
cago to Boston in three and a half
days, the shrinkage per head being
only 21 f pounds average, or about one-
fourth of the usual loss. The stalls
were provided with springs to prevent
serious jarring, and with water and
feed troughs. The saving in shrink
age under this humane system com
pensates, it is said, for the higher cost
of carriage.
Benefit of Hay Crops.
When it is considered that every
farmer has his own way of harvesting
his hay crop, and thinks, as he usually
does, that his is the best way, it is not
easy to persuade him that there is a
better way. Yet with the losses that
most farmers suffer—and these losses
are immense in a wet season—they
ought to know that their system is de
fective, or that at least it ought to be
bettered, and that there may be a bet
ter way. There are farmers, and the
number is constantly increasing, who
annually save thsir hay crop in good
condition, even in unfavorable sea
sons. They do it by the proper use of
the hay cap. I say proper use. It is
to be applied in all or nearly all cases,
for, except in a drought, there is dan
ger in risking the hay over night, as
sudden and unexpected rains are
characteristic of that season. Should
there be no rains the cap will protect
from the dew, which aWe will pay
for the labor, for during the two or
three days the hay is in cock it will
be bleached on the outside without
the cloth. The true way is to put up
the hay as soon as it is well wilted,
and let it cure in the cock, protected
by hay caps, which should be applied
the same day or immediately after the
hay is put up. It takes only a few
hours to wilt the grass, spread evenly,
as the mower does it, or a little longer
if heavy, and the tedder is used. To
favor this, cut the grass the evening
before. This has proved, on the
whole, to be the best practice. Should
a rain occur it will not hurt the cut
grass, green as it is, not even should
it remain in that condition during the
day or for several days, whereas if it
had been cut in the morning and be.
come partly dry, with a rain to follow,
it would have been seriously hurt.
Cat the grass green before it is in
blossom, as the blossom is exhaustive
and makes the hay dusty. Cut thus
early, two cuttings can be secured in a
season, with sufficient aftergrowth for
winter protection, and plant-food to
aid considerably the next season’s
growth. Thus a large increase of the
best of winter feed, nutritious and
relished by stock, is secured, with
thickening of the sod.
Draught Horses.
There has been such a demand
made upon Western Pennsylvania for
draught, horses the past few years that
farmers who have been fortunate
enough to breed heavy hordes have
found it decidedly to their advantage
when their stock was brought to mar
ket. The supply is not yet up to the
demand for heavy draught horses,
and we see as a result that there is a
tendency on the part of breeders to
meet this demand. The question
with the average farmer and breeder
is not so much as to what he may pre
fer, but what is the most advantageous,
the most profitable horse to breed,
For ordinary farming purposes in a
comparatively level country a horse
weighing 1200 pounds is perhaps in
most respects the most desirable ani
mal. But as farmers raise four or five
times as many horses as they them
selves use, the question of breeding
simply is, what is the most market
able horse? In selling cattle to the
butcher, he pays according to the
weight—the heaviei the steer the
higher the price. Two pounds of beef
are worth twice as much as one pound.
In draught horses this rule does not
hold good, the advantage being on the
side of the heavier horse. When a
1200 pound horse sells at $160, or 12J
cents a pound, a 1700 pound horse
sells at $310, cr nearly 18 cents a
pound, making a market of 41 per
cent, premium over the lighter in fa
vor of the heavier horse. It, is not
difficult to see, therefore, which is the
most advantageous horse to breed for
maiket. It is simply a question of
dollars and cents, and is readily seen
by any one.
Washed and Unwashed Butter
The difference between washed and
unwashed butter is analagous to the
difference between clarified and un
clarified sugar. The former consists
of pure saocharine matter, while the
latter, though less sweet, has a flavor
In addition to that of the pure sugar.
When unwashed there is always a
little buttermilk adhering to the but
ter that gives it a peculiar flavor in
addition to that of pure butter, which
many people like when it is new.
Washing removes all this foreign
matter, and leaves only the taste ol
the butter pure and simple. Those
who prefer the taste of the butter to
that of the former ingredients mixed
with it like the washed butter best.
The fl rvor of butter consists of fatty
matters, which do not combine with
water at all, and therefore cannot be
washed away by it. The effect of
washing upon the keeping qualities of
butter depends upon the purity of the
water used. If the water contains no
foreign matter that will affect the
butter it keeps the better for having
the buttermilk washed out instead of
worked out. Evidently the grain of
the butter will be more perfectly pre
served if the buttermilk be removed
by careful washing. The grain is
such an important factor in the make
up of fine butter that it is necessary
we should be very particular not to
injure it in any way if we would ex
cel in the art of butter-making.
Pious Reflections.
Wondrous tru'hs and manifold, »s wondrous
God hath written In those stars above;
But not less la the bright flowrets under us
Stands the revelation of His love.
—LONGFELLOW.
As eyery lord giveth s certain liv
ery to his servants, charity is the very
livery of Christ. Our Saviour, who is
the Lord above all lords, would have
his servants known by their badge,
which is love.—Bishop Latimer.
Christians are like passengers Bet
ting out together in a ship for some
distant country. Very frequently one
drops overboard, but hi* companions
know that he has only* gone a shorter
way to the same port; and that, when
tiSey arrive there, they shall find him,
so that all they lose is his company dur
ing the rest of the voyage.—Payson.
Not a flower
But shows some touch, In freckle, streak, or
slalu,
Of His unrivalled peucll. He Inspires
Their balmy odors, and Imparts their hues,
And bathes their eyes with nectar, and in
cludes
In grains as countless as the seaside sands,
The forms wltn which He sprinkles all the
earth
Happy who walks with Him ! whom, what
he finds
Of flavor or of Foent In fruit or flower.
Or what he views of beautiful or grand
In nature, from the broad majestic oak
To the green Wade that twinkles In the sun,
Prompts with remembrance of a present, God.
• OOWPER.
Belief in a future life is not the re
sult of inductive and inferential rea
sonings—such as the incomplete jus
tice here, or the dissatisfaction with
all earthly good — but that, rather,
these result from the instinctive belief
in immortality. Savages and children
never doubt it; and the nearer you
approach the instinctive Btate, the
more indubitable it is. It is only when
refinement, civilization and science
come that it grows dim. The attempt
to rest eur intuitions on a scientific
basis, Inevitable as the attempt is,
brings with it doubt—and you get
back faith again when you quit logic
aud science, and suffer the soul to take
coufsel with itself, or, in Scripture
language, “when you beoome again a
little child.”—Robertson.
A Few Reflections.
A Wi»s Provision of Nature.
’Tls fluid that thirty inches span
The average woman’s wal«t;
And Just so.long the arms of man;
So, when 'tig snugly placed
ArouDd the damsel whom one treasures,
There Is a conformity of measures.
How Rdmlrableare thy works,
O Nature! kind and dear;
For, spite of all tUy quips and quirks,
And various doings queer,
Thoa raouldest waists of proper bias,
While arms to fit thou dost supply ua.
If our whole time was spent in
amusing ourselves, we should find it
more wearisome than the hardest day’s
work.
With a face as red ag a lobster,
And a back like the shell of a clam,
The wife stands over the kitchen stove,
And manipulates raspberry Jam.
While her bnsband with nose like a sonnet,
Andamoutn like the song of a year,
Leans over the counter of free lunch,
ADd elevates schooners of beer.
And the daughter with ears like a shovel,
And an eye like a Florida bean,
Swings on tlje front gate with her fellow,
With darkness to cover the scene.
While her boy, the boss of the household,
Playing ball In the meadow close b v,
Crawls In through the old kitchen window,
And gobbled her Jam on the fly.
And her beautiful strawberry baby, ,
With Its cheeks like a fresh budding rose,
Lies crying for milk in the cradle,
And chewing the dye from the clothes.
One who is never busy can never
enjoy lest, for rest implies relief from
previous labor.
Don’t scold I it spoils faces. Bafore
you know it your forehead will resem
ble a small railway map.
The Ohuroh Spider.
Two spiders—so the story geo —
Upon a living b nt,
Entered a meeting bouse one day,
And hopefully were heard to say,
“Here we shall have at least fair play,
With nothing to prevent.”
Each chose his place and went to work;
The light webs grew apice;
One on the sofa spun his thread;
Bat shortly came the sextos dread
And swept him off, and so, hall dead,
He sought another place.
“I’ll try the pulpit nest,” satd he,
“ There surely Is a prize;
The desk appears so neat aud clea i,
I’m sure no spider there has been,
Besides how often have I seen
The pastor brushing flies !”
He tried the pulpit; hut, alas !
His hopes proved visionary.
With dusting brush the sexton came
And srotlert his geometric game.
Nor gave him time nor space to claim
The rl: ht ot sanctuary.
At length, half starved and weak and lean,
He sought his former neighbor,
Who now had grown so sleek and round,
He weighed the fraction of a pound,
And looked as If the art he’d found
Of living without labor.
“How is it frieud,” he asked, "that I
Enduresucu thumps and knocks,
While you have grown bo very gross?”
’ ris plain,” he answered, “not a loss
:’ve met sine e first 1 spun across
The Contribution-box i”
The Naming of Paris Streets.
The potato bug has made its appear
ance in England.
The other day we pointed out the
general principle on which the streets
of Paris were, till very recently,
named. Oaeof the best examples of
the system is to be found to the north
of the St. Lazare Station—the lines
from which run under the Place de
PEurope. Around and in the vicinity
of that Place we find streets named
after the principal cities of Europe; to
wit— the Rues de Londres, St. Peters-
bourg, Amsterdam, Berlin, Turin,
Boulogne, Constantinople, Milan, etc.
Tne Eastern R«ilway S'aiion faces
t»>e Boulevard de Strasbourg, and the
R ie de Mulhouse runs along one side
of it. The fine facade of the Northern
Railway Station is m the Place Rou-
baix, and the Rue de Dunquerque is
not lar off. In the neighborhood of
other stations we find the Rues Watt
and Stephenson—in commemoration
of the beginnings of the application of
steam to locomotion. The Rues Cuvier
and de Jussein are naturally in the
vicinity of the Jardin des Plantes.
When we read Avenues Bosvuet,
Rapp, Jiabourdonnals, Place Desaix,
etc., we expect of course that the
Champ de Mars is not far off. Round
the Arc de Triomphe we are not sur
prised to find such names as Avenues
de la Grande Arimee, Marceau, Hoehe,
Kleber, Jena, etc. Kuowing that the
Faubourg St. Honore is the headquar
ters of Orleanism, we find it a matter
of course that there, should be such
streets as the Rues de Berry, Anjou,
Penthievre, Royale, etc., in connection
with it. It ia very natural, also, that
in the neighborhood of the Chapele
Explatore, we should look for the
names of Seez, Chauveau Lagarde,
Malesherbes and other friends and de
fenders of Louis XVI. The Oileon
Theatre is surrounded by the Rues
Corneille, Racine and Rotron. The
names of Fenelon, Bosauet, Massillon,
and other preachers, indicate most
I surely the vicinity of a ohuroh.
The Rue Jean Jacques-Rousseau ia
so called because that famous writer
once lived on the second floor of the
house No. i in that street. The Rue
de la Jussienne, not far off, is a cor
ruption of the words Sainte Marie*
i’Egyptienne, who had a church in
that street. In the same vicinity we
find the Rue du Jour, a contracted
form of Rue du S^jour, the street hav
ing first been so named because King
Coarles V. had a residence in it. The
Rue du Roi-de-8icile owes its name to
the fact that the kings of Sicily onee
had a mansion in it. The Rue de
l’Universite passes over the site where
formerly was to be found the Pre aux
Ciercs, the rendezvous of the Univer
sity students for their courting,, drink
ing, and fighting bouts: hence its name
The Rue du Bac, the main thorough
fare on the left bank of the Seine, owes
its denomination to the ferry-boat,
Bac, which used to ply opposite to it
before the Pont Royal was built. In
the quarter where the English most
congregate, we flu cl the Rues de
Rivoli, Castiglione, Pyramides,
named after battles won by Napoleon ;
the Rue du 29 jillet, which commem
orates the July Revolution of 1830, at
which time it was in course of con
struction, and the Rue 4 September,
which prepetuates the date of the
birthday of the present Republic and
the downfall of fhe Third Empire.
It had previously borne the Bonapart-
ist appellation of Rue D'x Decembre,
in remembrance of the great plebiscite
which made Napoleon III. feel se
cure on his throne. Thus street names
as well as writings have their
destinies.
Arizona Birds.
The wild turkey abounds on the
streams aud the d'vides along the
Gila river, and to the north of it,
feeding on the nuts and grass seeds
which give it so flieafl ivor
Whether it is the aboriginal bird of
America, or strayed from the Spanish
Missions, matters not much to the
eater, but I am iuclined to think from
the strong flavor aud the color of the
feathers that it is the genuine wild
bird. Its weight far exceeds the do
mestic turkey.
The top-knot quail is a native of
Arizona, and I venture to affirm that
two good sportsmen can fill a wagon
in one day along the Gila river bot
toms.
As the agriculture of the country
increases these birds increase in num
bers, and at this season are very fat
from the native seeds, the mesquite
bean and the fields of grain in the
settlements.
The absence of celery prohibits the
enjoyment of the canvas-back duck,
but the teal duck is not excelled in any
part of the world for juice and flavor.
Mallards abound.
Doves are iu season now, and can
be taken in any numbers.
The Syrian dove, the very same spe
cies 1 believe that were sold “two for
a farthing” at the temple of Jerusalem,
coo in the cottonwoods of Arizona.
They are not more than a third the
size of the dove of the Ark.
Wild pigeons are abundant—one of
our mountains (Chiracalruas) is named
for them.
Blue cranes—nine feet spread—are
killed on the Colorado river, and eaten
as Colorado turkeys.
Reed bird* are plentiful in the
swamps, and as large as bobo-links in
New England.
Curlews are abundant from January
till Juue.
The irrigated lands and swamps are
favorable to snipe, and they abound in
the season.
Blackbirds (ohenates) exceed all
others in numbers and vocal powers.
The trees are literally black with them
in the spring, and their music is the
joy of the morning.
The chapparel cock (paisano) is a
very delicious bird, but hard to kill,
its motions are so rapid. These birds
are the natural foes of the rattlesnake,
and build a corral of chollay (cactus)
around him, and irritate him until he
lxshes himself to death against the
thorns by w hich be is surrounded.
Blue-jays, red-birds, whipporwills,
robbins, sparrows, hawks, crows,
eagles and such, are abuudant.
Last summer I domesticated some
humming birds in the Santa Catalina
mountains, and fed them on the
honey from the flower of the Maguey.
The raw material used for porcelain
manufacture in Japan is obtained from
the neighborhood of Arita, in the
province of H<* zen, aud appears to con
sist of elastic acid eruptive masses of
tertiary ^ge, containing a large propor
tion of potash mica, probably due to
the action of later eruptions.