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SEED-TIME AND HARVEST. 
they would be drawn to each other and 
find other interests in common. 
What would they say if they saw the 
castle I have been building for them ? Phil 
would not object, I am very sure. Probably, 
however, it would be safer to take Lou as 
an example. 
Lou could not love Ed Cameron very sin¬ 
cerely without loving his father and mother 
for his sake, and she is on the most sisterly 
terms already with all the brothers and sis¬ 
ters, and the brothers-in-law and sisters-in- 
law of that large family. Mrs. Cameron 
calls her “daughter,” and displays with 
great pride the tasteful cap Lou made for 
her. 
I have heard Mrs. Cameron tell about her 
first daughter-in-law. She and Linda, her 
eldest daughter, “cried their eyes out,” she 
says, when Albert told them he was en¬ 
gaged. As it turned out, the engagement 
being long, Linda was married first, and 
the mother suggested that Albert should 
bring his wife home. In this trying way 
Mrs. Albert was received into the family, 
and slipped into her place without a jar. 
She wp.s bright, affectionate, energetic. 
She took possession, from the first, of 
mending-basket and feather-duster, but 
was careful not to interfere with the gov¬ 
ernment of the household. She was always 
ready to sing for the boys, or trim hats for 
the little girls. She made plans for the 
evenings, which either kept the boys will¬ 
ingly at home, or took them out to concert, 
or lecture, or social call. All pet schemes 
were submitted to her for approval or as¬ 
sistance. To-day, it is to her, not to Linda, 
that the younger children refer as “Sister.” 
The second daughter-in-law was very 
different. She was determined not to mar¬ 
ry the family, so she was polite and re¬ 
served—“kept herself to herself,” Mrs. 
Cameron expresses it. Charlie was fond of 
his family, and fond of her, but he found it 
impossible to keep both, so he let go re¬ 
luctantly all dear and old relations, and it 
was a relief to every one when they moved 
to Kansas. It does not seem fair, does it? 
Charlie’s mother loved him for twenty-five 
years before Hattie knew him, and did more 
for him than Hattie can ever do, yet she 
was entirely in Hattie’s power, when once 
the magical words were said, and when she 
was robbed of her boy there was no redress. 
It was hardly fair to Charlie, either, to 
force him into exile from home and family, 
rather than make an effort to reconcile 
claims not properly antagonistic. 
“There’s no two ways about it,” Grand¬ 
mother Baxter used to say, quite unsuspi¬ 
cious of any contradiction in terms; 1 ‘there’s 
no two ways about it; you’ve got to do the 
one thing or the other.” And you must. 
Either a girl must marry her husband’s 
family, if he have one, or she will make 
her husbahd. in effect, an orphan. It is not 
often easy to “marry the family,” but it is 
almost always best. As Lou says, “There’s 
no privilege without its duties;” and it 
might be well if more girls were of Lou’s 
opinion. 
And as Mary suggested, it is a rule that 
ought to work both ways.— A. L. G., in 
DemoresVs Monthly for July. 
Diseases of Fruit-Trees. 
For the last hundred years or more, un¬ 
der the influence of the peculiar methods 
of cultivation which have been employed 
by our fruit-growers, various diseases have 
appeared from time to time in several of 
our important fruits, and to such an ex¬ 
tent have some of them developed within 
the last ten or fifteen years that they have 
completely destroyed the fruit industry in 
some sections, and now threaten a more 
general annihilation of one of the • most en¬ 
ticing and profitable occupations for the 
farmer. For the last hundred years we 
have heard of the “blight” in pear-trees, 
and the best records show unmistakably 
that the disease has been on the increase 
during that period. So badly is it devel¬ 
oped in some fruit sections, as through 
Southern New York, that it is a matter of 
extreme difficulty to find a really healthy 
tree. For the last eighty years we have 
also heard of the “yellows” in peaches, and 
here again we find that history records a 
constant development of the affliction. So 
serious have its ravages proved that whole 
sections have been deprived of the very im¬ 
portant industry of peach-culture. Not 
only this, but the disease is now so thor- 
