LILIES. We are lilies fair, The flower of virgin light; Ever since then, angels Hold us in their hands; You may see them where they take, Like the garden's angels Also do we seem; And not the less for being crown'd With a golden dream. Could you see around us The enamour'd air, You would see it pale with bliss POPPIES. We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake, and some asleep, What perchance our dreams may know, Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Visions, aye, are on us, Unto eyes of power; Pluto's alway-setting sun, And Proserpine's bower: There, like bees, the pale souls come Taste, ye mortals, also; Milky-hearted, we; Taste, but with a reverent care; Too much gladness brings to gloom CHORUS. We are the sweet flowers, (Think, whene'er you see us, what our beauty saith ;) Utterance mute and bright, Of some unknown delight, We fill the air with pleasure, by our simple breath: We befit all places: Unto sorrow we give smiles,-and unto graces, graces. Mark our ways, how noiseless All, and sweetly voiceless, The dear lumpish baby, Humming with the May-bee, Hails us with his bright stare, stumbling through the grass! On a night in June, Kisses our pale pathway leaves, that felt the bridegroom pass. Age, the wither'd clinger, On us mutely gazes, And wraps the thought of his last bed in his childhood's daisies. See (and scorn all duller Taste) how heaven loves colour; How great Nature, clearly, joys in red and green;— Of violets and pinks, And a thousand flushing hues, made solely to be seen: Chill the silver showers, And what a red mouth is her rose, the woman of the flowers. Trees themselves are ours; Peach and roughest nut, were blossoms in the spring : The news, and comes pell-mell, And dances in the bloomy thicks with darksome antheming. Beneath the very burthen Of planet-pressing ocean, We wash our smiling cheeks in peace,-a thought for meek devotion. Who shall say that flowers Dress not heaven's own bowers? Who its love, without us, can fancy,-or sweet floor? Who shall even dare To say, we sprang not there, And came not down that Love might bring one piece of heav'n the more? Oh! pray believe that angels From those blue dominions, Brought us in their white laps down, 'twixt their golden pinions. -Leigh Hunt. How to Preserve a Boquet. A florist of many years experience sends the following receipt for preserving bouquets to the American Artisan: "When you receive a bouquet, sprinkle it lightly with fresh water; then put it in a vessel containing some soapsuds, which nourish the roots and keep the flowers as good as new. Take the bouquet out of the suds every morning and lay it sideways in fresh water, the stock entering first into the water; keep it there a minute or two, then take it out, and sprinkle the flowers lightly by the hand with pure water. Replace the bouquet in the soapsuds, and the flowers will bloom up as fresh as when gathered. The soapsuds And leaf by leaf in silence show, till we langh a-top sweet need to be changed every third day. By observ Though the March-winds pipe, to make our passage clear; Where our small seed dwells, Nor is known the moment green when our tips appear. In silence build our bowers, flowers. ing these rules a bouquet may be kept bright and beautiful for at least one month and will keep not give up the drudgery of the leech and great still longer in a very passable state; but the at- kettle, let the garden and field have the ashes, tention to the fair and frail creatures, as directed and the kitchen good, well-cured, old soap that above, must be strictly observed, 'or the last rose won't eat the hands that rub the clothes that field of summer' will not be left blooming alone,' but and garden make so hard to wash? will speedily perish." Maxims on Dress. HOW TO MAKE HARD SOAP. No. 1. Pour 4 gallons of boiling water over 6 pounds of washing soda (sal soda) and 3 pounds In thy apparel avoid profuseness, singularity, of unslacked lime. Stir the mixture well, and and gaudiness; let it be decent, and suitable to let it settle until it is perfectly clear. It is better the quality of thy place and purse. Too much to let it stand all night, as it takes some time for punctuality, and too much morosity, are the ex- the sediment to settle. When clear, strain the tremes of pride. Be neither too early in the fash- water, put 6 pounds of fat with it, and boil for ion nor too long out of it, nor too long precisely 2 hours, stiring it most of the time. If it does in it. What custom has civilized hath become de- not seem thin enough, put another gallon of wacent; until then it was ridiculous. Where the ter on the grounds, stir and drain off, and add as eye is the jury, thy apparel is the evidence; the is wanted to the boiling mixture. Its thickness body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk can be tried by occasionally putting a little on a of that shell: and the husk will often tell what the kernel is.-Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwalk. IWIT AND WISDOM. plate to cool. Stir in a handful of salt just before taking off the fire. Have a tub ready soaked, to prevent the soap from sticking, pour it in and let it settle until solid, when you will have from the above quantity of ingredients, about forty pounds of nice white soap. Logic is logic, Thus: Epimenides said, "All Cretans are liars." Now Epimenides was himself No. 2. Dissolve 1 pound concentrated potash, in a Cretan; therefore, Epimenides was a liar. But, 2 quarts of boiling water, in a small kettle by itif he was a liar, the Cretans were not liars. Now, self. In another kettle, boil about five pounds of if the Cretans were not liars, Epimenides was not clean fat, or tallow, or its equivalent of soap a liar. But, if he was not a liar, the Cretans grease, with two gallons of soft water. As soon were liars. as the grease is melted, gradually add the dissolv An English writer says, in his advice to a young ed lye from the small kettle, about a gill at a married woman, that their mother Eve married a time, until all the lye is used, constantly boiling gardener. Some one wittily remarked that it and stiring over a slow fire, until the whole bemight be added that the gardener, in consequence of the match, lost his situation. It is the greatest possible misery to a man and to his children to be homeless; and many a man has a house, but no home. comes thick and as transparent as honey. During this process sufficient water should be added occasionally, to replace what has boiled out. If using fresh grease, add 4 ounces of salt. Let it stand till it gets cold, then cut it into bars, and put away to dry. The concentrated potash, or lye, can be obtained at any drug store, and usually, in country stores where medicines are kept No. 3. Another correspondent writes; "Hard Good manners are a part of good morals, and soap is made of the same as good soft soap, by the it is as much your duty as your interest to prac-union of grease and strong lye; the clearer the Wadsworth says that "The tall mountains sleep night and day alike." Certainly the very tall ones always have their white night-caps on. tice both. Gratitude is the music of the heart when its chords are swept by kindness. grease, the better the soap. They are boiled up together; when they boil up thick then add salt in the proportion of 2 quarts to 8 gallons of soap. "No corn bread,"said the Irish waiter; "isn't it Let it boil up thoroughly, set it away to cool corn bafe ye mane?" DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Soap Making. when it can be cut up and dried ready for use." No. 4. Take about 12 quarts good soft soap, add 1 teacupful of fine salt, bring it to a boil while stirring, and set away until cold; then take off the top, bring it up to a simmer, strain, put it Here are four receipes, and summer is the time on a board to dry. Cut it up, and turn while to make and harden a supply for the year. Why drying.—American Agriculturist. A good many Exercise for August. SPICED CURRANTS-VERY NICE FOR COLD MEATS. is excellent and is continued. Five lbs. of currants, after stemming; three lbs. should answer it the coming month. Send in early. of sugar; one tablespoonfull, each, of cloves, allspice, cinnamon, black pepper, and one half of Correct the following sentence: "I have sent salt ;one-half pint of good vinegar. Boil fast for 2 enigmas to the Farmer for publication, but half an hour and put up in large or small quantity neither of them have appeared in print." as you would jelly. PLUM SAUCE. Seven lbs. of plums; 4 lbs of sugar; one tablespoon, each, of spices; one quart of vinegar. Boil all together as thick as jelly. Gooseberries put up in this way, without vinegar, are very nice. MRS. MARY BALLARD, Madison. There is no one thing, in the way of contributions to the Home department of the Farmer, for which I am more grateful than for good receipes that have been tested by those who furnish. The above were accompanied by delicious samples so that the reccomendation of them is as from actual experiment. Plums, even the wild ones so abundant in our State, are excellent saved in this way. MRS. HOYT. C. H. K.-Your enigma is not as good as you can make of those nineteen letters. Out of them all, you have but five specifications. Try again. M. S., Janesville.-Your letter quite correct, and very welcome. Enigma. I am one word. I am an instrument. Of my eleven letters, one occurs three times; two occur twice; and four, each, once. News Summary. INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS. Special attention is called to the several articles and communication in this number relative to the HOW TO CLEAN OLD BARRELS, ETC.- -No approaching State Fair to be held at Janesville doubt many old barrels are thrown away on account of their supposed unfitness for future use. I will give a mode by which kegs, barrels, etc., may be restored fit for use: during the last week in Sep. Superior trials of machinery, and two or three judiciously managed races of the finest thorough-bred horses in the Northwest are to constitnte new and attractive features. Fill the vessel full of boiling water and let it stand for twenty-four hours, to soften the wood; No County Societies have yet entered for the then empty the water out and fill with dry hay, Prize Banner. Are they each afraid of their pour boiling water on and let it stand a day or neighbors? the time within which entries may be two. Should it be a fish keg, fill with hay a sec-named has been extended to Sep. 1st., within ond time, and I will warrant it to be ready for which date it is hoped that a half a dozen counany use it may be applied to. ties will enter the list. I have in this way purified even mackerel kegs, and used them for vinegar. Meat barrels, etc., may thus be restored to as sweet a taste or smell as when new. A. SHAMBAUGH. YOUTHS' CORNER. The June Exercise. fine State and county exhibitions all through the The prospect is better than for many years for north. Some complaint has been made, within a few days, of the chinch bugs in certain quarters, where they are said to have done much damage to spring wheat. It is believed, however, that the total of damage to the crops of the State on this score will not be very great. No one has answered this, but several ask how it is to be done. The sentence was, "My RobinThe Jefferson County Agricultural Society holds its son Crusoe," and the exercise, to see how many Twelfth Annual Fair in the city of Watertown on the 13th sentences-by different arrangement of words 14th and 15th of September next. H. Barber Esq. an eloand syllables, and by punctuation-you could quent speaker of Watertown, delivers the address. Some new features will be added to the exhibition, and it is exmake out of it. For example, you can use Robin-| pected that the Fair this Fall will be the grandest of the son as the name of a boy, and Crusoe as that of series that have ever been held in this county. The crops a place; or, vice versa. You can use part of a are promising and the prospects cheering. We shall have word, as Robin, or Rob, or make a new word, as a fine display of stock, especially sheep; also farming imMyson; but you should use each one of the syl-plements manufactured in the county. The Society offers lables, in some way, in each sentence. As an ex- desirable awards to the best Lady Equestrians. ercise in the use of words and in punctuation, it' ROBT. TOMPKINS, Secretary. handsome premiums for four different races, and will make Walworth Co. Society is preparing to hold one ed to be worth over five million of dollars. He of its great fairs. So mote it be. J. W. Nelson of Rubicon, Dodge Co., sheared 20 lbs. of wool from a 3 year old Spanish buckone year and seven days growth. J. G. Smith, Walworth Co., sheared 24 lbs from his Spanish buck. A. Richmond, Whitewater, sheared 1834 lbs from a Spanish buck. expects soon to be rich! Collector Draper paid into the Treasury at New York on the 12th inst., $4,200,000 in gold, being the proceeds of recent sales of cotton and other seized or abandoned property. A special meeting of the Canadian Parliament will be held early in August to consider the plan of confederation under the recent action of the Imperial Government in England. The Detroit Free Press says that eight hundred and ten vessels have passed that port loaded with grain since the opening of navigation, carrying some sixteen million bushels. The estimated receipts from the sales of government property, rendered of no further use by the H. H, Sterling, Walworth Co., sheared 10 lbs. termination of the war, horses mules, wagons &c., and 13 ozs. of washed wool from a Spanish ewe for the next two or three months, will amount to fourteen months old. He also sheared 20 lbs. of $100,000,000. This kind of property is readily wool from a buck 3 years old. S. and H. C. Buel of Linn, Walworth Co. sheared over 400 lbs. of wool from their flock, consisting of 20 yearling bucks and 20 yearling and two year old ewes, averaging 101⁄4 lbs. per head. News Items of All Sorts. Hon. D. P. Holloway has tendered his resigna tion as Commissioner of Patents. The GREAT EASTERN was expected to sail with the new Atlantic Telegraph Cable on the 8th or 10th of July. disposed of at fair prices, farmers being the most extensive purchasers. CHINCH BUGS-Geo. R. Laughton, Platteville, writes to the Com. of Agriculture, that he sowed one bushel of salt on an acre of wheat in which the bugs were committing havoc. They traveled, and he got 17 bushels of wheat from that acre, is an experiment which it may pay to repeat on while the rest of his wheat was destroyed. Here a more extended scale. NATIONAL AFFAIRS. The Spectator says that W. C. Sherwood, of Nothing of extraordinary interest has transpiDartford, will have 1,000 bushels of apples this red in the political and military world since our season in his orchard. The horses in Fond du Lac are dying of a sort of epidemic quinsy, which runs twenty one days. The Press says it is not the "horse distemper." The Hog Cholera has been prevailing to a great extent in Grant county, Kentucky, and nearly one half of the hogs have been swept off by it. last issue. The armies have been disbanded with the exception of a few corps needed to restore law and order in the rebellious States. The President has set provisional governments in operation in nearly all the States and matters are slowly crystallizing into form. Four of the assassination conspirators, Mrs. Suarratt, Payne, Harold, Atzerott were duly More than 10,000 mules and horses, 2,000 ambulances and army wagons, with a vast amount hung on the 5th. ult. Jeff. Davis still hangs of harness equipage &c., were sold recently at tremblingly in the balance. He is said to have beWashington. An extensive sale of Government mules is to take place, under the direction of General Ekin at Cleveland, O. commencing on the 8th of August The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has transported, since the first of June, from Washington to the west and north, over a quarter of a million of soldiers. come more than usually serious and depressed since the execution of his friends. The Committee of Richmond men who visited President Johnson to induce him to rescind the 20,000 exemption in his Amnesty Proclamation, have returned without meeting with any success. FOREIGN. H.D. Sherman, of the famous Sherman oil well, The British Parliment was prorogued the 6th. who five years ago was a poor man, is now report- The Queen's speech was delivered by commission. J. O. EATON. It rejoices at the termination of the war in Amer- we ought to have the best Fair this fall that has ever been ica, and trusts that the evil caused by the long held in the State. conflict may be repaired and prosperity restored LODI, July 17, 1865. [We have, ourself, an incurable prejudice against in the States which have suffered from the con- "horse races as generally managed, and yet, under protest. It regrets that the Confederation scheme per regulations, we can see nothing more <bjectionable in in British America was not carried out, believing a run than in a trot, such as we always have at our Fairs. Both are needed as a means of proving and improving our that it would give the provinces additional strength stock of horses. The abuse, and not the use, of trials of and lead to their improvement. She expresses speed is to be deprecated.] gratification at the assurance of loyalty from the provinces. The Steamer Lafayette arrived at Liverpool on the 5th, having picked up 45 passengers, in three boats, from the American ship William Nelson of New York, with 480 passengers. The fate of the the remainder was not known. The Fourth was celebrated in London by several hundred Americans. Many rebels abroad (in England and other parts of Europe) are applying to our Ministers and Consuls for permission to take the oath of allegiance, which is fully granted. Great Trial of Sorghum Machinery.-If we can rely on assurances from several manufacturers of sorghum machinery and apparatus, we are to have the most thorough and extensive trial of sorghum mills, etc., at the approaching Fair, hitherto made in the Northwest. We hope that none of the proposing exhibitors in this interesting department will fail to "come to time." Wool.-In our last number we advised the farmers to keep cool and wait patiently for better prices than were then offered. We have been watching the tendency of things since, and are none the less certain that producers who have rushed their wool off at 40 cents per round, should have been less hasty. Wool ought to command at least 75 cents. Whether it will do so remains to be seen. The "Quaker Seedling."-Last season we re Mexican affairs still foggy. Maximilian quaking in his boots yet more and more. The Monroe Doctrine has assumed the form of a ghost and ceived from a friend six plants of this variety of that haunts him with cruel pertinacity! most delicious of all garden fruits, the strawberry. We knew nothing of them by their "Quaker " name, but on learning that this was but a synonym for " Austin," were unfavorably impressed, having seen them put down as a "showy but inferior berry." The plants lived and flourshed so well, however, notwithstanding the drouth, while others died in spite of extra care, that we determined to The rebel Gen. Shelby, with 3,000 of his followers, and accompanied by ex-Governors Moore and Allen of Louisiana, and other extinguished luminaries of tne late Confederacy, are in Mexico. They have many arms that ought to have give them a fair chance. This year they have grown been surrendered when Kirby Smith capitulated. The indications of approaching trouble between our forces in Texas and the Imperialists were increasing. Lieut. Maury (late a rebel commodore) is in Mexico, advocating the re-establishment of the slave trade. Editorial Miscellany. The Proposed Contest of Thorough-bred Horses at the Fair.-The Views of two Sensible Gentlemen.-DR. J. W. HOYT:-Dear Sir:-On my return home on Saturday evening, I found yours of the 8th. I think the location of the State Fair a good one. In relation to the horse race, I will say that my impressions have always been against hore-racing, but men and time make great changes. Henry Ward Beecher says that horses were made to run, that with proper care it does not hurt them, (and he ought to know.) and that he likes to see them run. Never having seen a regularly got up race, I should like to see one. I will not advise in the matter, but will endorse the action of the majority, and if my vote is necessary to give a majority in favor of the race, you may record it that way. splendidly and yielded a handsome crop of the most beautiful berries we ever saw, some of them measuring four and a half inches in circumference, every way. Color brilliant scarlet, texture light, delicate, the fruit melting in the mouth; flavor exceedlingly pleasant, though probably not so rich and spicy as that of one or two other varieties. The Quaker is worthy of great praise for its size and incomparable beauty, while, in our estimation, it is in no other respect inferior to a majority of the most popular sorts. We shall propagate and fruit it another season, and then, if we think as well of it as now, our friends shall come in for a liberal distribution of the plants. History of Wisconsin Regiments.-Mr. E. B. Quiner, of Madison, is preparing for publication a large, handsomely illustrated volume entitled "The Military History of Wisconsin." It is to embrace the annals of each regiment, the battles in which they were severally engaged, etc., together with the names of the killed, wounded and missing, so far as they can be obtained. Mr. Quiner has been engaged since the beginning of the war in saving up the materials for such a volume, and is, therefore, better prepared, probably, to compile a work of the class proposed, than any other man in the State. He earnestly solicits copies of any "diaries, memoranda or correspondence possessing historical interest, espcially "authentic details of individual bravery, deeds of noble daring, and diagrams of battle fields where Wisconsin Regiments were engaged." This undertaking is a worthy one, and we trust it will The crops look so well, the fruit crop so excellent, that be duly encouraged, |