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MAY  13 
“PROGRESS  and  improvement.” 
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INTEGRITY  IN  CITIZENSHIP. 
Tub  nf  the  citizen  is  the  main 
pillar  of  a  Rejnahlic. 
It  is  not  those  wlio  mahe  or  execute  the 
laws  that  :irc  alone  responsible  for  the  wel¬ 
fare  of  ihe  masses.  Granting  this  to  be 
true,  e.ieh  and  every  citizen  must  be  held 
in  piu't  responsible  for  the  acts  of  the 
ivholo,  and  the  individual  becomes  the 
leaven  which  in  the  end  works  good  oi’  evU, 
according  to  circnmsl,auces.  Of  late  years 
(and  we  admit  it  tvith  shame)  olUoial  intog- 
I'ity  has  become  almost  a  thing  of  the  past, 
and  the  ”  noblest  work  of  God”  is  found 
far  h'SH  frequently  in  the  political  arena 
than  formerly. 
Wo  may  well  ask  ourselves,  Why  is 
this  ?  Has  honesty  ceased  to  he  a  virtue  ? 
Or  has  its  value  depreciated  in  the  estima¬ 
tion  of  the  citizen  ?  The  latter  w'O  believe 
to  lie  tlic  true  solution  of  whatever  mys¬ 
tery  there  may  be  siuTounding  (ifTic.ial  dis- 
houesly,  and  the  subservience  of  principle 
to  ])art.isanship  which  has  been  so  appar¬ 
ent  during  the  past  tlecatle. 
This  depreciation  of  what  has  ever  been 
held  as  a  virtue  in  man,  is  perhaps  but 
the  outgi'owth  of  national  prosperity,  to¬ 
gether  with  the  perfect  freedom  vouch¬ 
safed  hi  eveiy  individual  to  work  for  his 
owm  exaltation  and  Avclfare.  The  general 
strife  to  accumulate  wealth,  tends  not  only 
to  make  idl  jilaco  a  high  valuation  upon 
the  talent  reipxLrod  for  its  attainraout,  but 
also  upon  the  thing  itself ;  hence  wc  come 
to  place  value  upon  a  man’s  money  instoaii 
of  his  integrity  of  character.  There  are 
few  persons  -who  will  confess  to  snch  base 
worship  ;  still  it  is  to  be  feared  that  the 
taint  has  reached  eveiy  gi-ado  of  society, 
and  the  (piestion,  “How  much  is  he 
worth?”  is  now  more  frequently  asked 
than  “  What  does  he  Icnow  ?  or  what  is 
his  character  ?” 
If  we  must  continue  in  our  “  hero  wor¬ 
ship,”  well  and  good  ;  hut  let  the  hero  bo 
a  man  who  has  not  been  made  one  by 
blind  fat(^  or  inlicrited  wealth,  but  gained 
the  exalted  distinction  Ihrougli  his  own 
individual  exertions  and  integrity.  Wo 
are  notiileadiug  for  honesty  alone,  because 
a  man  may  be  as  true  as  steel  and  yet 
lack  other  qualifications  requisite  to  fill 
whatever  station  lie  may  assume  or  be 
jtlnced  in  by  his  fellow  men,  but  sterling 
integrity  must  rank  first  and  foremost. 
Such  men  will  not  seek  ofllce  nor  will 
the  office  seek  them,  until  the  private  citi¬ 
zen  eveiywhcre  recognizes  the  priceless 
value  f)f  the  attributes  we  liave  named. 
There  is  no  lack  of  honest  and  intelligent 
meu  to  fill  cveiy  office  in  the  gift  of  the 
people  ;  but  “  money  blindness”  ]ireventH 
the  mass  of  voters  from  discriminating 
between  the  false  and  true,  hunec  both 
enter  where  only  one  should  ever  he  found. 
The  germ  from  which  a  reformation  is 
to  come,  if  at  all  in  our  political  affairs,  is 
at  iirosent  in  the  jiossossion  of  individuals, 
and  we  must  all  endeavor  to  encourage  ite 
gi’owtli  by  Avord  and  detnl,  aud  show  by 
our  own  acts  and  dealings  with  our  fellow 
men,  what  we  would  have  rellected  batdt 
to  us  from  those  called  to  positions  of 
]mhlic  trust.  Parents  must  teach  their 
children  that  deskable  ns  rielics  may  he 
in  this  w'orld,  there  are  things  tviUiin  easy 
grasp  Avhich  are  far  more  valuable.  Moth¬ 
ers  must  cease  to  inculcate  the  idea  that  a 
good  match  for  tlmir  daughters  means  a 
hushanil  with  money,  wdiilc  fathers  point 
to  onr  millionaires  as  the  most  noble  ex¬ 
amples  of  our  race  for  their  sons  to  emu¬ 
late. 
- - - 
THE  BETTER  WAY. 
IIoAV  many  people  there  are  in  t  he  world 
wlio,  undtT*  adverse  circumstances,  do 
just  the  wrong  thing  or,  what  is  equally 
l)ad,  do  nothing  at  all !  Occasionally  we 
meet  those  in  our  social  circle  who  reverse 
this  rule  and  not  only  do  something,  but 
do  exatdly  the  right  thing.  Should  we 
analyze  such  eases  when  l.luy  come  under 
our  obsennition,  w<j  should  find  almost 
always  that  it  is  the  result  of  careful  rc- 
tlection. 
We  have  in  onr  mind’s  eye  a  sweet  little 
woman  of  refinement  and  education,  who 
manied  a  poor  man  for  love  of  him,  be¬ 
lieving  him  t/o  bti  gieat  aud  noble  and  all 
that  wais  good.  Ahis !  the  disanjioint 
ment !  In  a  short,  time  she  learned  to  her 
sorrow  that  lie  never  would  la?  great,  that 
nobility  was  a  small  part  of  his  oomjto- 
sition  »*tnd  t.liat  if  ever  he  could  be  good 
such  fjualifiention  was  yet  to  come.  Her 
idol  did  not  fall  to  dust  in  a  second ;  but 
liy  degrees  the  truth  entered  her  soul, 
liid  she  sit  down  and  liemoan  her  fate  in 
having  miwle  such  a  fatnl  mistake  ?  Hid 
she  wish  she  never  hud  been  liorn  ?  Hid 
she  stand  helpless  ami  do  nothing?  No. 
Like  a  sensible  little  reflecting  body  as 
she  was,  she  saw  that  a  mistake  had  hoeu 
made  and  then  set  about  conveting  it  as 
best  she  could.  She  did  not  attempt  at 
once  to  change  the  course  of  Iter  w'hole 
domestic  life  nor  did  she  take  her  friends 
and  neighbors  into  her  oonfhlence  for  the 
Sose  of  getting  that  sympathy  and 
olencA?  wiiicH  is  so  sweet  to  many 
w'oak  ])eople  in  Eke  cin’umsLiuici's.  Hhe 
relh-cted  upon  the  matter  aud  marked  out 
for  herself  the  course  most  likely  in  her 
opinion  to  bring  the  miit.tor  right.  She 
started  bj’  degrees  to  lead  that  same  hus¬ 
band  who  was  not  gi’cat,  not  noble  and 
never  had  been  very  good,  to  see  many 
groat,  noble  and  good  things  in  life 
which  he  liaxt  never  seen  laifore.  Hy 
coustixnt  and  kindly  endeavor  she  showed 
him  that  there  was  one  good  person  in  the 
world  at  least  and  that  one  his  best  friend 
on  earth.  He,  with  the  genus  of  goodness 
in  him  tvhich  ali.,  men  possess  in  some 
degi'ee,  finally  perceivetl  and  appreciated 
l,he  fact.  Hh  is  not  great  nor  perhaps 
noble  in  his  character  to-day  ;  but  ho  and 
his  wife  are  vei}',  very  happy  in  their 
mutual  exercise  of  kimliiness  aud  virtue. 
How  easy  it  would  have  been  for  this 
young  wife  to  have  folded  her  hands  and 
persuaded  hersell'  that  sJie  could  do  noth¬ 
ing  under  the  lul verse  cu'oumstanoos  which 
cruel  fate  had  brought  to  her ;  or,  what 
would  bo  infinitely  worsoj  could  have 
fought  her  tennble  surroundmgs  with  thoii' 
own  weapons  and  thus  inevitably  wrecked 
two  lives  insteml  of  saving  one,  TTie  re¬ 
flection  showed  her  Thk  IIkttjsii  Way, 
and  the  subsequent  steps  in  tliat  way  made 
both  of  them  better  and  happier.  Ciui 
wo  not  almost  daily  read  such  lessons  in 
onr  intercourse  with  onr  neighhoi's,  and 
can  we  not  leani  a  lesson  of  reflection 
from  them  which  shall  jxruduce  equally 
good  results  ?  Let  us  trj’. 
MAKING  AND  SAVING  MONEY. 
There  are  two  ways  of  getting  rich — 
one  is  to  make  money  by  speculntlug,  and 
the  other  by  saving  a'littlc  constantly  from 
wbab'vcr  amount  a  person  earns.  The 
first  is  the  quicker  method,  proxidetl  one 
is  successful  ;  the  chances,  howtwor,  with 
even  till?  most  shrewd  spttcuhifors,  arconly 
about  one  in  a  hundred,  and  then  not  more 
than  one  in  a  Ihousand  hold  txn  to  their 
gains,  or  any  considerable  portion  of  them, 
through  life. 
In  all  of  onr  larger  cities  there  are  many 
rich  speculators  ;  but  if  tve  could  only 
know  the  uumes  of  the  thonsiuuls  who  have 
utterly  failed  to  make  a  dollar  in  Gie  same 
fields,' the  number  of  successful  ones  would 
apjiear  ridiculously  small.  But  the  sav¬ 
ing  class  far  ontniunhcr  the  speculating 
among  those  who  are  called  rich  or  in 
comfortable  circumstances  both  in  city 
and  eon  Ilf  ry ;  besides,  wo  can  always 
count  iijion  them  a8  the  solid  aud  reliable 
portion  of  any  community. 
Tliis  being  an  indisputable  fact,  onr 
young  men  aud  women  who  aspire,  to  nual- 
erate.  wealth  and  reKjieetability,  should 
aim  to  save  something  from  everj-  week, 
month  or  year’s  earnings,  no  matter  how 
small  from  necessity  the  sum  may  be, 
TJie  smallest  sum  jtnt  out  at  interest  or 
safely  invested  in  biiHiness,  iinmediately 
commences  to  earn  something  for  the  jios- 
s«!HSor,  ndiling  just  so  much  to  his  or  her 
income, 
Tliere  is  another  advantage  of  having 
something  ahead  ;  it  is  a  credit  among 
your  feUow  l.ahorers  or  asHociates  to  nearly 
or  quite  the  full  amount  of  the  accumu¬ 
lated  cajiital,  in  case  such  aceomraiMlatious 
are  desired, 
•  We  will  not  nretend  to  say  at  what  point 
savings  should  commene<> ;  but  they  who 
cannot  save  something  out  of  a  dollar  or 
two  dollars  per  day,  will  seldom  do  so 
from  ten  or  twenty. 
The  liabit  ot  saving  must  lie  formed 
with  that  of  earning  ;  else  it  will  seldom 
be  jirncticed  later  in  life.  Nine-tenths  of 
the  men  who  have  uccinnulated  a  ooinpe- 
teney  for  themselves  and  their  families, 
owe  tlieir  biiwm’sh  hi  saving  money,  and 
not  to  what  is  generally  termed  making 
money  by  speculation. 
RURAL  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 
Aiiu’rican  Poiiiiiloglc.'il  Soeioty. 
In  a  private  note  from  the  lion.  Marshall 
Wilder,  Bresideut  of  the  ;\jueric.an 
Bomologuval  Society,  wo  leani  that  tlie 
noticxi  wliich  recently  aiipeared  in  our  col- 
nmns  in  regard  b)  tlu‘  meeting  of  the 
aboA'e-nameu  Society  at  I’liiladelphia,  this 
year,  was  ealeulated  k)  mislead.  At  the 
"meeting  of  the  Society  in  Chicago,  last 
fall,  it  was  docideil  not  to  hold  an  exhibi¬ 
tion — as  a  Society — in  connection  with  the 
Cenk-’unial,  but  go  to  Baltimore  in  1877. 
The  members  will  join  in  the  exhibition 
of  their  several  States,  and  tlio  expectation 
is  that  a  great  disjilny  wUl  lie  made  from 
the  11th  k)  IGlh  of  September,  in  which 
all  the  States  will  unite.  In  conformity 
with  this  aiTangcmont,  Uio  Pennsylvania 
Society  extend  an  invitation  to  the  Ameri¬ 
can  Pomologicnl  Society  k)  l>e<;ome  the 
guests  of  tlieir  Socitity  at  a  grand  social 
reunion  to  bo  held  Sept.  l.Otli,  to  which 
the  members  of  the  A.  P.  S.  are  invik’d, 
as  well  as  to  coutributo  fruits  to  the  exhi- 
liition  of  the  I’enna.  Soc.  and  participate 
in  the  hospitalitieH  which  an?  k)  he  ex- 
tcmled  to  tne  niombors  of  Gio  oldest  and 
most  prominent  Horticultural  Society  in 
the  land. 
The  Phylloxera  or  Vine  Lou?(e. 
— kl,  Humas  recently  announced  to  the 
French  .\cademy  of  Sciences  that  a  mode 
of  treating  vines  attacked  liy  the  phyllox¬ 
era  had  been  discovered,  which  is  ci'rtaiu 
in  its  results  in  destroying  the  insect  and 
iu  rcHtoriug  the  vine  k»  health  and  fecun¬ 
dity.  The  remedy  is  the  combined  em¬ 
ployment  of  sul|)ho-onrbonate  of  potash, 
which  kills  the  insect  at  any  depth  in  the 
soil,  anti  of  potassic  aonmoniacal  and  sul¬ 
phuretted  manures.  M.  Humas  hiinsolf 
is  the  fortunate  discoverer,  though  his  an¬ 
nouncement  to  the  Academy  was  not  made 
until  after  his  process  had  been  tried  by 
exliaustive  experimenting  by  the  commis¬ 
sion  appointed  to  examine  inU>  the  various 
plans  submitted.  Tliis  being  the  case, 
Humas  Viecamc  the  iiossossor  of  $00,000 
reward,  besides  numberless  other  smaller 
prizes. 
- - »♦» 
IMiiiiting  Centciiiiiiil  Trees. — 
One  can  scarcely  jiass  along  the  streets  or 
ride  in  the  cars  without  overhearing  some 
one  talking  about  planting  a  “  centemiial 
tree.  ”  It  is  certainly  a  good  thing  to  do, 
but  the  time  in  which  to  do  it  is  getting 
short,  for  the  buds  and  leaves  are  coming 
forward  very  rapidly  and  it  will  soon  bo. 
kio  late  for  planting  this  spring.  (H 
course  1876  will  give  the  neghgeut  in  this 
matter  a  chance  k>  do  a  little  tree-plant¬ 
ing  nc.\t  fall,  but  then  one  will  not  be  cer¬ 
tain  that  they  are  gthng  to  live  until  the 
following  tqiring,  if  death  should  ensue  the 
opportunity  cannot  be  made  good  for  a 
hundred  years.  Just  think  of  that,  and 
haskm  to  plant  your  “  centennial  tree.  ” 
A  I*arsi4llsc  for  rariners. — Brazil 
is  the  farmers’  paradise.  A  young  gentle¬ 
man  formerly  from  Georgia,  ivrites  : — “  .V 
])lankr’8  life  in  this  conntiy  is  agreeable 
and  easy.  In  cnltivatiug  Ihe  laud  no 
plows  are  iisetl ;  only  the  ax  and  hoe  are 
needed — one  for  chiariug  the  laud,  and 
the  other  for  planting.  My  crop  of  coffee 
for  tliis  year  is  small  on  account  of  the 
frost ;  lint  I  am  now  planting  20,000 
trties,  and  when  they  bear  they  will  give 
me  101), 000  pounds  of  coffee  annually — an 
income  of  $0,000  or  $10,000. 
-  -  — 
Hors4‘  Hoof. — Hnring  the  past  year 
0,863  horses,  ass<?s,  or  mules  were  butcli- 
ered  for  fotal  in  Paris,  and  averaged  over 
four  hundred  pounds  of  meat  cjich.  It  is 
said  that  ihe  best  Bologna  sausage  is 
made  of  asses’  meat,  but  lattorly  it  is 
seldom  obtained  numixiTl  with  norses’ 
flesh.  It  may  interest  some  of  our  rentiers 
to  know  that  several  thousand  pounds  of 
the  above  edible  yearly  come  to  our  mar¬ 
kets  from  Franco. 
- ♦♦♦ - 
Entomology  at  the  Centennial. 
— The  Entomological  Society  of  Ontario 
forwarded  a  very  fine  collection  of  Cana¬ 
dian  insects  to  Phihulelphin,  consisting  of 
eighty-six  oases — forty-five  of  which  are 
Ijopidojitern  and  twenty-seven  Coleoptera 
— the  remainder  being  occupiotl  by  other 
orders, 
- ♦♦♦ - 
RURAL  BREVITIES. 
It  is  Baid  that  a  mixture  of  lime  and  strong 
brine  is  an  excellent  wash  for  aU  kinds  of  fruit 
trees,  a*  It  ileatrovs  liciions  and  other  oppiphytio 
plants  foiuid  on  tho  luirU. 
The  UuoTHKns  Oueen,  pisieultnrisfs,  are  now 
oxperinienling  witli  hyhndizfid  salmon — that  is, 
they  are  trying  to  impregnate  the  ova  of  brook 
trout  with  the  milt  of  the  salmon.  May  Uiey 
be  successful ! 
Drsav’s  Ihiph  Gukt,  who  is  twenty-eight 
years  old  and  stands  seven  feet  five  inches  high, 
IS  on  his  way  to  the  Centennial  Exhibition. 
Philiidelphianashi  mid  engage  him  to  pick  cher¬ 
ries  for  tlicm  in  June. 
OwtNO  til  tlio  i>resH  of  advertisements  for  our 
last  page  this  week,  several  favors  in  that  lino 
have  to  bo  laid  over  until  oiu  next  issue.  Ad¬ 
vertisers  wanting  choice  of  page  should  take  the 
hint  and  scud  in  their  favors  early, 
TitoPSANUS  of  Inhorers  in  ourlarger  cities  h«vo 
been  made  hu»ipy  by  tho  jingling  of  silver  in 
their  pixikek  during  the  past  row  weeks.  Prob¬ 
ably  many  a  resolvo  to  keen  some  of  the  glitter¬ 
ing*  coin  lias  also,  ere  this,  been  broken. 
A  DBCKEE  has  iHsen  issued  by  tho  Danish  Min¬ 
istry  of  the  InUirior,  dated  Eeh.  25,  layuig  down 
special  regulations  with  regard  to  the  exporta¬ 
tion  of  domestic  animals  from  Deniuai  k  to  Greut 
liritoin,  for  the  purpose  of  preventing  the  spread 
of  contagious  disease. 
To  all  those  readers  who  intend  to  visit  tho 
Conk'iiniiil  we  recommend  a  careful  perusal  of 
Uio  letter  of  YouNo  Rural,  on  another  page  of 
this  issue.  By  watching  theso  letters  every  week 
much  niom'.y  and  valuable  time  can  probably  be 
saved  to  those  who  go  to  Philadelphia  as  stran¬ 
gers  there. 
The  iLLUSTBATEi)  Champion  —  an  eight-nago 
Eir,  handsomely  illustrated,  and  published  by 
srs.  Wardf.r,  Mitchell  A  Co.  of  8pring- 
field,  Ohio,  ill  the  iiikrost  of  the  CllAMi'tON 
Mower  —  has  just  crane  to  us.  We  hke  the 
machine  talk,  Lilt  advise  the  shooting  of  their 
funny  man. 
Bramer,  of  Warrior  Mower  farue,  showed  his 
Fbane  face  in  our  publication  otlice  not  lung 
since.  What  the  Central  New-YorlwT  would  do 
while  he  is  absent  we  should  novnr  discover,  had 
we  not  been  informed  that  he  left  bis  scissors  at 
homo  and  tliat  flour  is  comparatively  cheap  at 
Litlln  Falls.  Not  tljat  we  wish  to  intmiale  that 
anyone  from  the  Warrior  establishment  is  a  clip- 
PEB. 
We  are  in  receipt  of  a  handsome  circular,  is¬ 
sued  by  the  .\ui.tman  A  Taylor  Mfg  Co.,  Mans¬ 
field.  6.  It  is  illustrativo  and  descriptive  of  their 
Trenhers  and  Mounted  Powers,  and  contains  a 
large  amount  tif  information  on  the  subject  of 
Thrcsiiel's  that  evoiy  fanner  should  know.  It  oon- 
tams  a  brief  hut  true  tiistory  of  tliat  wonderful 
“rooster”  which  graces  their  iidvortisoment  in 
this  numher.  I’rogrossive  agi  ioulturists  who  keep 
'  abreast  of  the  times  ahonld  scud  for  tho  pamphlet, 
I  which  will  bo  sent  />rc  on  applioalion. 
BUSINESS  NOTICES. 
every  keg  ‘‘I’liicnlx  Pure  White  Lead” 
warranted  ptr/ectly  pure— Is  white,  tine,  and  has  the 
very  best  body  and  covering  properlleB. 
