ways be particular about giving address in 
full. 
A cousin wishes to know how to make rus¬ 
tic hanging baskets, vases, brackets, etc. Who 
will inform her ? 
“The Horticultural club is beginning to look 
like a club now, sure enough. The Discussions 
are splendid.” So two Virginia girls write. 
Pi$'ccUattfousi 
The New York Clipper lately cited the 
case of Captain Jacob Schmidt, of Tompkins- 
ville, Staten Island, N. Y., who had been a 
great sufferer with rheumatism for many 
yeai He used St. Jacobs Oil with splendid 
sue ess. 
HOME NEWS. 
Thrice blest oasis In life’s desert., where 
Of ttimes amid our journeys we turn 
With empty, longing hearts,and eyes that burn, 
With feverish light, as we In fancy hear 
The gurgle of Its streams, and bathe thereto 
Our aching limbs and cool our heat ’d hrain. 
Repose amid Its grateful shades again, 
Far from the busy world. Its strife and din ; 
Hark ! hark ! that sou nd, that dear familiar bell— 
Charmed by the sacred sweetness of its chime, 
We listen now, as In the olden time. 
As with the olden joys our pulses swell. 
When lo! the mirage lifts itself iti air, 
And leaves us standing In the noonday glare. 
Mattie N. Brown. 
Monday, Nov. 21, 1881. 
The Trial of Guitkau. —The late Presi¬ 
dent’s assassin was brought to the bar of jus¬ 
tice on the 14th inst. The counsel for the 
prosecution are District Attorney Corkhill 
Judge Porter, of New York, and Mr. Davidge, 
of Washington, and those for the defense are 
Mr. Robinson, of Washington, and Mr. 8co- 
ville, of Chicago. Ouiteau's brother and sis¬ 
ter were present when the trial began. The 
room was crowded with spectators. Owing to 
a misunderstanding about Robinson's employ¬ 
ing additional counsel without Scoville’s 
knowledge, Scoville objected to a continu¬ 
ance of the case. The result was that Robin¬ 
son, Scoville and Guiteau were all trying to 
address the judge at once, the latter demand¬ 
ing that Robinson get out of the case. Five 
jurors were then selected and the prisoner was 
remanded to his cell. On Wednesday the re¬ 
maining seven jurors were selected, one of 
whom is a colored man, and the case was duly 
opened on the 17th inst. by District Attorney 
Corkhill for the prosecution. He addressed 
the jury in a dignified manner, hastily run¬ 
ning over the story of the assassination. Mr, 
Blaine, Secretary of State, was the first wit¬ 
ness called. He was examined by the District 
Attorney and cross-examined by La . yer 
Scoville for the de ense. Carncho, Venezuelan 
Minister, was also called to the stand. 
The Mormon tabernacle at Salt Lake city, 
which has been 38 years in process of con¬ 
struction and is not yet completed, has granite 
walls nine feet four inches thick, is 250 feet in 
diameter and seats 12,000 persons. It is a 
very perfect whispering gallery' and the 
dropping of a pin or the rustle of a dress can 
be heard from one side to the other. 
The New Lincoln National Bank of this city, 
has been inaugurated, to begin business Jan¬ 
uary 1st. Thomas L. James, the present Post¬ 
master-General, has been elected president 
by the stockholders. 
Stein way Hall was thronged on the evening 
of the 10th by an audience of leading citizens 
of New York, the occasion being the concert 
by Adelina Patti and company in aid of the 
Michigan sufferers. The mayor presided. All 
the artists were accorded a kindly reception, 
and Patti was greeted with a storm of np- 
plause. The concert was a success, artistically 
and financially, and netted a good sum for 
the sufferers. 
At a meeting of business men of Oshkosh 
and Fond du Lac, "Wis,, on the 10th, a memo¬ 
rial to the Secretory of War was drawn up 
setting forth the damage done to the cities of 
Fond du Lac and Oshkosh and the country 
round, aud asking immediate relief by the 
removal of part of the Government dam at 
Menasha and Appleton. A committee was 
appointed to proceed immediately to Wash¬ 
ington, consisting of Senators Sawyer and 
A. M. Paine, of Oshkosh, and A. K Hamil¬ 
ton, of Fond du Lac. The damage already 
done by inundation is estimated at $600,000, 
The prospect is that the water will freeze 
before it lowers unless the Government inter¬ 
feres. 
Secretory Kirkwood, in his anuual report, 
recently submitted to the President, urges that 
the Indian schools lie maintained and extend¬ 
ed, and asserts that when the Indian has 
learned to speak and write our language, to 
earn his living by his own labor and to obey 
the law and aid in making and administering 
it, the Indian problem will l>e solved. He rec¬ 
ommends that Congress be asked to create a 
commission of three or four eminent citizens 
to visit, during the next year, the reservation 
west of the Mississippi River, for the purpose 
of recommending to Congress, if they deem it 
wise to do so, the concentration of the Indians 
on four or five large reservations; or, if this is 
not deemed wise, then to recommend the con¬ 
centration of existing small agencies where it 
can be done, and the reduction of the area of 
others. 
One of the latest horrors related of the 
graveyard insurance business in Pennsylvania 
is to the effect that a poor, half-demented old 
man, upon whom a heavy policy had lieen 
taken out, was enticed to a hay loft, mada 
drunk,and then by some ingeniously construct 
ed trap precipitated to the stable floor below, 
where he speedily gave up the ghost as if by 
accident. We were at first inclined to doubt 
the credibility of this story, but since the dis¬ 
closure of a still more startling and abhorrent 
performance at Scranton, Pa., which facts 
are not at all in dispute, the public can believe 
almost anything that is told of this abomina 
ble insurance traffic. In this case a son is un¬ 
der arrest for forging an application for insnr 
ance on his dying mother, 75 years old, and 
conspiring to take her life. It is one of the 
most heartless crimes of which we have ever 
heard. 
Continued on page 801 
THE YOUNG QUERIST. 
E. W. B., Factory Point, Vt., asks where 
books on sketching may be obtained. 
Ans.—W rite to Harper Bros., New York. 
Jenny H., no address, asks why her double 
camellias do not seed like the single ones. 
Ans. —Double Bowers arise from the merg¬ 
ing of stamens and pistils (the seed producers) 
into petals; hence when this merging is com¬ 
plete and fully double flowers are formed the 
organs which produce seed are simply leaves 
and can no longer perform their true func¬ 
tion. 
H. (b C . , Cohocton, N. Y,, wish to know, 
1, what ails their Hibiscus Syriacus plants; 
they cannot succeed in raising them, either 
out-of-doors or in the house; 2, where can cut¬ 
tings of the Crab Cactus be obtained. 
Ans. —1. The Hibiscus Syriacus is hardy 
with you, and should survive the Winter. 
Without particulars we can give you no more 
definite reply, 2. Cuttings of the Crab Cactus 
may be obtained of almost any florist. 
M. S. W,, Alden , N. F., asks, 1, how long 
does it take seedling chestnut, and black wal¬ 
nut trees to bear fruit after the seed is plant¬ 
ed ; 2, is there any possibility of a young hor¬ 
ticulturist raising seedling gladioli. 
Ans.— 1. About ten years. 2. Certainly 
there is. The seeds are really little bulblets. 
If planted like other seeds flower bulbs may 
be produced in three years. 
GREAT GERMAN 
REMEDY 
RHEUMATISM, 
NEURALGIA, 
UNCLE SAM’S TIME-PIECE. 
SCIATICA, 
LUMBAGO. 
BACKACHE, 
GOUT, 
SORENESS 
Perhaps some of the young readers of the 
Rural have wondered how all the time¬ 
pieces in the country are, or may be, regu¬ 
lated to keep uniform time. At Washington, 
D. C., in the great Naval Observatory, stands 
Uncle Sam’s big clock. It resembles some¬ 
what those old-fashioned clocks that stood 
many years ago in our grandmother's kitchen, 
about which my young readers have doubtless 
read. But it has a more solid foundation 
than any time-piece of the early days; it is 
“ founded on a rock,” that is, it is fastened to 
a pier which rests upon a solid rock founda¬ 
tion. The fierce winds may blow never so 
hard, the rain storms may beat never so 
strongly upon it, t he great clock is unaffected 
thereby. It ticks, ticks, ticks, day in and day 
out, and how much do you suppose it varies 
in 24 hours ? About 48 100 of a second! Won¬ 
der if any of our farmer boys have watches 
that vary as little as that! 
Every day, at three minutes before 12, the 
regulator, as the clock is sometimes termed, 
is connected with the telegraph wires, and for 
these three minutes the track must be kept 
clear, and all messages, however important, 
must wait. Now then, in every village and 
city, indeed wherever there is a telegraph in¬ 
stillment in connection, the instrument re¬ 
cords each tick of the clock, which occurs once 
per second, and just at 12 o’clock two ticks are 
made, and in an instant the “correct time” 
may be known throughout the country. 
Every noon people may be seen in the vicinity 
of the Rural office holding their watches in 
hand and looking steadily at a great black 
ball suspended above the dome of the tele¬ 
graph building. When the clock at Washing¬ 
ton marks the hour of 12 this ball falls to the 
dome, and then the people can ascertain 
whether they have “ ball time ” or not. 
It is probably not necessary for me to tell 
the boys and girls of the Rural family that 
only those places situated on the same meri¬ 
dian with. Washington have exactly the same 
time, and to get the same time in places in 
longitude east or west, of Washington, the 
number of minutes it takes Old Sol (for after 
all he is the great time-piece) to pass these 
degrees must be added to, or subtracted from, 
12. Remembering that he travels one degree, 
or about 69 miles, every-four minutes, the ex¬ 
act time may be easily computed for any 
place. Uncle Mark. 
CHEST, 
SORE THROAT, 
QUINSY, 
SWELLINGS 
SPRAINS, 
FROSTED FEET 
General Sodil; Pains, 
TOOTH, EAR 
New Members of the Club for Week 
Ending Nov. 19. 
Henry Cartwright, Minnie Fishell, Elmer 
Blanchard, Chester Blanchard, Lizzie Blanch¬ 
ard, Nellie Blanchard, Norah Bigelow, Carrie 
McCulley, Lucy Stevenson, E. W. Benedict, 
Edwin Guflin, Robert Guftin, Andrew Guffin, 
Geo. Brainard, Bessie Brainard, Jessie Brain- 
ard, Thomas Winfrey, Olive Ward, Junius 
Ward, Marine Putnam, Junia Strong, Anna 
Fleury, Effie Cross, Annie Harder, Fannie 
Langridge, Theo. Wilkinson, Herbert free¬ 
man, Mary T. Gwinette, George Miller. 
HEADACHE 
AND 
AND 
No Preparation on earlli equals St. .Jacobs Oil m a sate, 
Si-rk, SiMii.E and cheap External Remedy. Atrial entails 
but the comparatively trilling outlay of GO Cents, and every 
one suffering with pair, oau hare cheap and positive proof of 
its claims, 
DIRECTIONS IN ELEVEN LANGUAGES. 
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS IN MEDICINE. 
A. VOGELER & CO. 
Baltimore, Md., JJ. 8. A. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS, 
Dear Uncle Mark:— If you will let me I 
would like to tell the cousins how they can 
have a tree in the house this Winter. Select a 
large, well-grown acorn, and by the aid of a 
stout needle run a strong thread through it in 
such a manner that the acorn shall hang with 
the pointed end downwards. Now put the 
acorn in a clear glass bottle. Place the two 
ends of the threads over the opposite sides of 
the neck and secure them by tying them 
around the neck and fix the turns by tying 
the ends together. Now pour in a little water 
until it just reaches the point of the acorn. 
Then cut a small piece of card with vandyked 
edges, which can be turned down so as to form 
a loose cover. Keep the bottle in a warm sit¬ 
ting-room, and after a few days the acorn will 
open at the point and a white radicle or root 
will grow downwards into the water. This 
root will go on elongating for weeks, coiling 
round and round the inner side of the glass 
until a foot or more is packed away in the 
little bottle, and small rootlets grow forth 
profusely. At last the upper coverings of the 
acorn will split and the plumule, in the form 
of a little green stem, forces its way out, bear¬ 
ing delicate green leaves. These will grow 
with vigor, borne on a straight stem; the card 
covering will then have to be perforated to 
allow the little timber-tree to grow out. If at 
the end of the second Winter you plant it, it 
may flourish for a thousand years, perhaps. 
The seeds of other timber-trees may be used in 
similar manner, with such arrangements as 
are required by their size and form. 
Your niece, Carrie Spooner. 
Pottsboro, To*:as. 
PROFESSOR 
j^OSPHAT/c 
Agricultural arts are amazingly ancient. 
Adam, Abel and Abraham all admired and 
adored agriculture. Alas ! Adam ate an acrid 
apple, and all are accordingly accursed. Ag¬ 
riculture and associate allies, as arboriculture 
and apiculture, attract and astonish amateurs. 
Anger and anguish are alike arrested and as¬ 
suaged at arable arts. American agricultural 
associations are annually advancing apace; 
and are assiduously active and assured¬ 
ly assisting authoritative analyses. Acids 
and alkalies are already annexing arid areas, 
and apples, apricots, asparagus and artichokes 
appear as abundantly as acorns. Ardor and 
assiduity accomplish anything. Above all, 
arrant adulterations are awfully annoying, 
Made from Professor Horsford’s Acid 
Phosphate. 
Recommended by leading physicians. 
Makes lighter biscuit, cakes, etc., and 
is healthier than ordinary li-.il ~ > '*w- 
der. 
in cans. Sold at a reasonable price. 
The Horsford Almanac and Cook Rook 
S'uit free. 
liiimfiirtl Chemical Works, Providence, R. I. 
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878, 
BAKER'S 
Warranted absolutely pure 
Cocoa , from which the excess 
of oil has been removed. It is a 
delicious drink, nourishing and 
strengthening; easily digested; 
admirably adapted for Invalids 
as well as persons in health. 
Sold bjr Grocers everywhere. 
W. BAKER & CO., 
Dorchester. Maas. 
NOTES. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —We have token your 
paper for a great many years, and like it very 
much. I would like to join the Club. We 
have quite a variety of flowers, viz: geraniums, 
dahlias, coleus, dusty millers, verbenas, and 
two orange trees. My dear sister Susie, who 
was an interested member of the Club de¬ 
parted this life on the 30th of July, in the 15th 
year of her age. We live on a farm about 
half a mile east of Williamsville. I am twelve 
years old, and, expect to attend school the com¬ 
ing term. This is my first letter to the Rural. 
Yours truly, Sarah E. Shisler. 
Williamsville, N. Y, 
One of the cousins tells how to prepare Au¬ 
tumn leaves for the Winter. Place them on 
a clean cloth, sprinkle powdered resin on them 
and press them out with a hot flat-iron which 
may lie cleaned again with salt. She sews 
the leaves to paste-board cut in form of crosses, 
anchors, etc. 
Keep the subject for the next Discussion in 
mind, aijd send in your comments soon. Let 
everyone tell what they know about keeping 
flowers in Winter. 
Will Mable Walling, Carrie Heeny and 
Jenny Haresnape send their addresses. Al- 
AKent* wanted. $5 n Day made 
eUi.iir our NliiV HOUSEHOLD 
iIITTULESa.id FAMILY SCALE. 
V eifriisiip to 95 llis. Sella at *1.50, 
Lull KSTjc Sea LK Co., Ciuciumiu O. 
a week, $12 a day at home easily made. Costly 
outfit free. Address True A Co,, Auguste, Me 
