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part of the great laws of nature — clean food, clean water, clean air, 

 cleanliness of person and clotnin<i: — all these are iinperativc if we 

 would keep in health and fitness for work the wonderful l)odily 

 frames, the homes in which we live. The laws of politeness should 

 be observed, not only between intimate friends, but between mem- 

 bers of the same family; and those households are most peaceful and 

 happy where the courtesies of j^ood society are observed. There 

 need not nor ought not to be formality; but little attentions between 

 parents, brothers and sisters, nuirking mutual esteem, prevent that 

 carelessness and hardness which is apt to creep into the family. It 

 is good manners and consideration for each other's feelings that pre- 

 vent familiarity engendering into contempt 



Above all, let a religious influence prevail — not a religion of 

 long faces and long prayers, but one of acts and deeds; little words, 

 not eloquent speeches or sermons; little deeds, not miracles, nor 

 battles, nor one great act of martyrdom, to make up the Christian 

 life. The constant little sunbeam, not the lightning: the waters of 

 Siloam, "that go softly;" not the waters of the river. " great and 

 mighty,"" rushing down in torrent, noise and force, are the true sym- 

 bols of religion. 



What makes your landsca))e so green and beautiful. Not the 

 outstanding peak on the stately elm, but the bright sward that 

 clothes its slo])es, comi)osed of innumerable blades of grass. It is of 

 small things that a great life is made up. 



Man, through all ages of revolving time, 

 Unchanging man, in every varying clime. 

 Deems liis own la d of every land the pi-ide, 

 lielov'd by heaven o'er all the world beside; 

 His home the spot of earth supremely blest, 

 A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. 



INSECTICIDES AND THEIR USE. 

 BY CLARKNCE M. WEED. 



The first published notice of the use of Paris green as an insect- 

 icide, so far as is known to the writer, occurs in the Galena (Illinois) 

 Gazetir of June, 18(51), where Mr. (tco. Liddle, Sr.. states that in the 

 previous year he successfully applied this substance in the proj)ortion 

 of one pound of the poison to two pounds of flour, sifted on the po- 

 tato vines early in the morning, for the destruction of the ("olorado 

 potato beetle, which was at that time ra])idly progressing eastward, 

 and threatening to sto)) potato culture wherever it a))[)eared. This 

 notice was widely copied and the advice contained in it was heartily 

 endorsed l)y the editors of the Aincrican Enfoinoh)(/ist, Walsh ami 

 Riley, at that time the leading entomologists of the West. The ap- 

 plication of the poison as recommended, was so successful that it 

 rapidly came into general use, and became a universal remedy for the 



