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THE RUGBEIAN SATURDAY, AUGUST 5. 1882.
THE GRACIOUS . ANSWER.
THE FERNS.
RUGBY AS iT IS.
NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.
THE MARKETS.
il (o " Futlur, take my hand."
The way is dark, my child! but leads to light;
1 would not always have thee walk by sight.
My dealings now thou canst not understand,
I mean it so ; but I will take thy hand,
And through the gloom
Lead safely homo
My child !
The day goes fast, my child ! but is the night
Darker to me than day P In me is light I
Keep close to nic, and every spectral band
Of fears shall vanish. I will take thy hand,
And through the night
Lead up to light
My child 1
The way is long, my child ! but it shall be
Not one step longer than is best for thee,
And thou slialt know at last, when thou shall
stand
Safe at the goal, how I did take thy hand,
And quick and straight
Lead to heaven's gate
My child!
The Path is roujzh. mv child ! But oh ! how
sweet
Will be the rest, for weary pilgrims meet,
When thou shalt reacli the borders. of that
land
To which I lead thee, as I take thy hand j
And safe and blest
With mo shall rest
My child 1
The throng is great, my child ! but at thy side
Ihy father walks s then be not ternhed,
For I am with tlieo: will thy foes command
To let thee freely pass j will take thy hand, '
And through the throng
Lead sale along
My child !
The cross is heavy, child ! Yet there is One
Who bore a heavier for thee : my Son,
My Well -beloved. For lliin bear thine ; and
stand
With Him at last; and. from thy Father's hand,
Thy cross laid down,
Receive a crown,
My child !
COMMENTS.
1 A chieFi amang ye Ming notes,
An' faith lie' 11 prcnt it." Burns.
In Dr. Jones, who inserts his card in our
columns this week, the town is fortunato in
having a medical man of full qualifications
and largo and varied experience. We feel
sure that his knowledge and address will
secure hiin the confidence of his patients, and
the public generally.
Three disappointed Englishmen from Rugby
bought a skiff at Kingston, determined to
float to New Orleans. liy the time they
reached here the weather had completely dis
heartened them,' and they gave up their
project. They will strike for any place their
funds will carry them to." Chattanooga
Weekly Commercial. i
The third quarter of the " Rugby," Lodge
of Good Templars commenced last Tuesday.
There was quitd a full attendance of members,
which, too, the Lodge, is steadily increasing.
Mr. J. W. Giles, who was sufficiently recovered
from his illness to attend, installed the officers
for the ensuing quarter. The Lodge now
numbers twenty-four members.
Turr's Pills a Sugar Plum. Tutt's Pills
are now covered with a vanilla sugar coating,
making them as pleasant to swallow as a little
sugar plum, and rendering them agreeable to
to the most delicate stomach.
They cure sick headache and billions colic.
They give appetite and flesh to the body.
They cure dyspepsia and nourish the system.
They cure fever and ague, costivencss, etc.
Sold everywhere. 25 cents a box.
Among recent Cincinnatians at the Hotel
" Tabard," Rugby, are Dr. and Mrs. Wm, 13,
Davis, Mrs. George W. Law, Miss Edith Law,
Miss Stella Branch, Mrs. C. F. Devereauxand
' her daughter, Miss Louise, Mrs. H. B. New
man, Robert Houton and H. H. Taylor.
Visitors are entertained by the young English
trentlemcn at the lawn tennis ground, and
better playing could not be witnessed at any
other grounds in America. This is a broad
assertion, but, if any club desires a test, let
them send in a challenge. Cincinnati Can
mcrcial.
The following are rates of toll at the Board
of Aid's gate at the White Oak bridge on the
Sedgemoor road : Every wagon or eart drawn
by one animal, returning same day, 15 cents :
if drawn by two animals, 25 cents ; and each
additional animal 5 cents. Every horse, or
mule, led, ridden, or driven, 5 cents. Every
buggy drawn by one horse or mule. 15 cents;
it' drawn by two animals, 20 cents. Every
carriage or hack drawn by two horses or
mules, 35 cents. Cattle in drove 2 cents
each. Sheep or hogs in drove, one cent each
Special rates are given for continuous travel
These charges are drawn up and ordered by
Mr. Walton, as the representativo of the
Board of Aid to Land Ownership.
"I can not believe, sir," said a bishop
to an English teetotaler, "that under
all circumstances it can bo wrong for a
Christian man to take wine, when the
apostle distinctly prescribes it to Tim
othy 'for his stomachs sake." But
the man of water was up sides with the
prelate, "llexternal application, mv
lad! says he. "llexternal applica
tion 1" After hearing this the bishop
was speechless, grew pale, went home,
drank aerated waters, rubbed himself
morning and evening with champagne
and died.
No. 1 THEIR LIFE IIISTORY.
Here at the foot of the cliff, where we look
upward, to see the white summer clouds sail
across the sky, along the fringe of pices and
hemlocks bordering the brow of the rocky wall,
we are among the ferns, for the ferns love
Nature in her wilder moods love her sitting
by the waterfalls, twisting the wild brier and
the woodbine in a coronal around her brow.
At the foot of this grey barked, green boughed
hemlock, the climbing fern creeps over the
cushiou of moss and partridge-berries, and
climbs over the dark low bush of Kalmia,
holding out its palmate leaves like little hands
to catch the arrows of sunlight. Anyone can
see the difference bctwpen this climbing plant
and the great hemlock towering above it, or
that oak yonder ; but the ferns differ widely.
That tall fern, Osmonda regalis, with the
wide spreading ferns cut into many leaflets,
down by the water, and that one with the dark
green, long and slender fronds, that mats the
flat surface of yonder rock all over and waves
like feathers over the edge, the rock polypod,
are not at all like this climbing fern in
appearance. And if we go far to the south
land we will find ferns towering aloft like
other trees. And again, if on the wings of
fancy we can retrace the footsteps of the long,
long train of Ages, we will come to a time
when forests of tall ferns waved over thousands
of square miles of this globe. Yet, all these
ferns are Cryptogams or non-flowering plants,
and all the pines, oaks, and the vast host of
plants that clothe the field and thu forest, are
Phaenogams, or flowering plants and the
difference is very wide indeed.
I admired the glory of the rose and the
chaste beauty of the lilly, and exclaimed, see
hoff the Creator has made the earth beautiful
The materialistic scientist sneered and said
' All this is but in accordance with the law
of necessity : that bright corolla is but an
envelope to protect the stamens and pistils
organs essential to the continuation of the
species ; the corolla is bright in order that the
insects which play an important part in the
fertilization of the germ cells may easily find
the flower." I led the materialist to a fern ;
we lifted up a frond and found thousands of
seeds where no flowers had been ; each one as
capable of reproducing the parent plant, as
the acorn in capable of reproducing the oak.
The philosopher was silent in the presence of
the fern ; the law of necessity became a myth.
In our study of the flowering plants, we
found that Nature continues the races of
plants, as of animals, by a sperm cell and a
germ cell j the sperm cell unites with the germ
cell, then the germ cell grows up into a plant.
In the flower, the pollen dust is the sperm
cells; the ovules in the ovarium are the germ
cells. The stigma, like a hand catches the
pollen and let3 it pass through its porous tissue
to the germ cells below it. Then a little plant
is formed in these cells, but instead of growing
on. the little plants stop growing, and a thick,
strong wall is formed around it for its pro
tection. This is what we call a seed. No
such process had taken place in the fern. We
found the seeds in countless numbers on the
leaves of the fern j we put them under the
glass ; no plantlet was found in them ; each
one was a simple vegetable cell, nothing more.
Can these things produce a fern P We said
we found unity of plan running through
Nature; is the chain broken? Has Nature
ignored her plan ? Let us see if we can trace
her to her hiding place. When we know the
life history of a fern, then a fern will be
interesting.
We take the brown dust, or spores, as we
call it, found on the leaves of the ferns and
spread it over the surface of any porous sub
stance, paper will do, then place the paper in
a saucer and keep it damp, also, invert a
tumbler over it, to keep the air moist. If
then we examine the paper under a good glass,
from day to day. we find the following specified
course of development to take place. The
simple cell elongates in two directiors; it
grows downward and upward. Long fibres
like roots extend dowaward, a flat mass, in
form like a leaf, grows upward. But this is not
a fern ; we can distinguish no roots, or stems,
or leaves, in substance it is all alike, just a
mass of cells. It is called prothallus ; thallus,
because it is a flattened mass of cells ; pro,
because it goes before something; it goes
before the fern. Watching . this prothallus,
we see a number of the cells become enlarged,
and filled with other bodies. The cells burst,
the bodies are set free, and endowed with
motion. These moving organisms are the
pollen dust; they are called Anther zoids.
We sec other cells enlarged, and cells formed
in them. These are the germ cells. The
Antherzoids find their way to these cells by
their motion. Now, 'Nature's method has
been executed. The sperm cell and the germ
cell have been brought together. The young
fern springs up out of the germ cell, and the
prothallus dies.
So we see the corollas of the lily and the
rose were not necessary ; nay, not even the
stamens and the pistils, inasmuch as Nature
can brim? about the same result on a leaf
alone. The sperm cells and germ cells can
arise in that simple unadorned prothallus, as
well as in that superb and complicate assem
blage of organs, the rose.
But beauty has many types. None ever
found a flower on a fern, yet the ferns are
beautiful. The glory-hued and incense-perfumed
flowers adorn Nature when in her
sanctuary she spreads revcreutial bands to
God. The ferns are the plumes of her wild
and savage moods, when she walks in the
shadow of the cliffs, and iu the sound of the
falling waters. In a future article we will
consider the species of feros found at Rugby."
C. O.
No. VI.
In our la&t article wo touched chiefly
upon the soils of this section, quoting
Colonel Killebrew's report. .The follow
ing are bis suggestions for improving,
and maintaining, when improved, the
quality of the land, which ho snows
may be done at le83 than one-half the
expense incurred in improving New
England farms. He gives three rea
sons :
"1st, The subsoil is uot bo porous as
the subsoil in New England, where the
drifted pebbles commingled with sand
lie beneath all the soils on the elevated
lands.
"2d, The soil under consideration,
will on account of the climate, grow a
much larger number of green crops,
which can be utilized in adding humus.
"3d, Both the soil of New England
and tho soil of the plateau; need the
application of lime, and this article can
be burned and applied tor one-third the
costs to tho lauds of the plateau than
it can be applied to the soils of New
England : 1st, becauso lime-rack is
abundant and cheap, and is found in
many valleys belonging to and con
tiguous to the lands of tho company :
and 2nd, because fuel both coal and
wood, exists in such quantities as, to be
practically without cost. J
"The laud can further be improved
by sowing tho cow-pea and turning
under the vines. The climate and soil
are both adapted to the growth of this
legume, and, in the experience of the
best planters south, no renovator not
even clover is equal to the haulm of
the pea. , But clover also grows well
on this soil. The writer has seen it
growing at Greutli three feet high,
upon a sou far more sandy and far less
productive naturally, than upon the
ands of tho company. No fertilizer
was applied to it except two bushels of
plaster per acre, at a cost of less than
per acre.
"Rye is another green crop that can
be grown with success upon tho silico-
argillaceous sous of tho plateau, also
buckweat, both of winch are regarded
as excellent crops tor, renovating the
soil. - '
"The most rapid improvement in
tho soil, however, can bo obtained by
the sowing or one or two crops of cow-
peas during tue year, une ot these
may be taken on for fodder and theother
turned uudcr. In this way .tho soil
may bo continually improved without
tho loss of a single
crop. Nor is this
mere surmise. It has boon done again
and again, uot only on the plateau but
on the sandy soils of Tennessee. It may
be laid down as a general rule that
all lands which rest upon a clayey
foundation can bo rapidly improved by
the application ot manures, green or
dry j and after manures have been ap
plied lor several yeara m succession,
the laud becomes a garden mold rich
enough to produce any crop, and as easy
to keep up thereafter as the most fertile
virgin sou. 1 he lands of the plateau
have been kept in a condition of com
parative infertility by the pernicious
habit of annually, burning tho leaves,
thus destroying the material for humus,
and exposing the soil to the parching
influence of tho sun, drawing away all
humidity, without which there can be
no improvement in the productive
capacity of the soil."
A history of Chattanooga, and the
battles in its vicinity,' will shortly be
published. " .
At the last . moment wo are disap.
pointed by not receiving the cut of the
"Old Commissary" from the engraver,
but it will appear next week.
In a letter to the Poioell Valley Sen
tinel Mr. Frank Lindsey, of Jacksboro,
Campbell County, relates many interest
ing particulars of natural curiosities in
East Tennessee, attested to by reliable
natives, but not very generally known
outside the districts in which they
exist. Mr. Lmdscy concludes his ac
count as follows :
it A. !
" Ancient mummies are iound m
East Tennessee caves, with sandals
petrified on their feet Timber in our
forests disclose wounds inflicted near
the heart with sharp edged tools lon
before Columbus quit wearing petti
coats.
" Triangled shaped coins, of unknown
alloy, of the dato of 1215, are plowed
up in our fields. Fossil remains of
animals long since extinct, are found
petrified on our hill sides. Dried
brick, prepared of clay and cut straw,
are unearthed many feet below the
surface of the earth, where they. are
supposed to have remained many cen
tunes, and if space ant time would
permit, 1 could multiply hundreds of
other natural curiosities which have
never found their way iuto print.
which are peculiar alone to East Ten
nessee.
Aaron C. Burr, adopted son of the
renowned Aaron Burr, died last week
in New York City, at tho age of 7-t
years Emma Young, n Gipsy Queen,
who has been traveling with a tribe for
some time, on account of ill health, died
receutly in a well known "fort," erected
by the mound-builders, near Newark,
0. Iu private, Court life Queen
Victoria, it is said, uses only the Ger
man language. Mr. uiadstono was
first returned to Parliament in 1832,
and has sat in every session since that
date An American club is to be
established iu London. Mr. Gillig, of
the American Exchange, is supposed to
be one of the chief movers. Hart's
statue of Henry Clay, at Richmond,
Va.i' has been thoroughly cleaned of
weather stains and vandal hands, and
moved into the ceutral hall of the
Capitol. Mr. Matthew Arnold de
fines the Protestant idea of heaven "a
glorified unending tea-meeting,"
Seventy-nine thousand women are re
quired to balance the sexes in New
South Wales. -A party of twenty
five dry goods clerks, connected with a
Boston house, are touring in England,
and were receutly received by the Right
Hon. John Bright, and . entertained at
luncheon by the Lord Mayor of London.
Henry Irving will make his debut
in this country in the fall of next year.
- Tho King of the Belgians is
plaintiff in a case before the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts, involving some
$340,000. The suit is against a man
named Bernard, who fled from Belgium
with funds belonging to the king.
Senatorial!!, of Georgia, is worse.
Michael Davitt has returned to Europe,
with about $20,000 for the League.
With the exceptionof Mrs. Trollope, it
is believed that no foreigner who has
written a book on theUnited States has
lived twelve months in the Country.
A monument is to bo erected to
Samuel Pepys in St. Olave's Church,
London. Eight American artists are
sketching and painting in Port-avon,
Brittany. The Duke of Westminster
was married at Ilolkham, last week, to
Lady Catherine Caroline Cavendish.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, of
England, has accepted an invitation
from the Bar Association, to visit New
York. Mrs. Langtry is to make her
first appearance iu America on October
30th, at the Park Theatre, New York.
Rev. J. A. Cunuane, pastor of St.
Mary's Catholic Church at Newport,
Md., acted as priest and physician to a
sinall-pox patient who, was deserted by
every one, and when the unfortunate
man died he further acted as the under
taker and sexton. In recording this
tho Baltimore- Sua says: "There aro
heroes who never drew a sword."
Nineteen thousand eight hundred
and forty-seven pounds of fruit, consist
ing of peach ei, grapes and tomatoes,
were shipped on the 24th of July, from
this city to Cincinnati. Small fortunes
have been made by fruit growers in this
section in this one season. There is
room on our mountain sides for all who
come to join in the useful army of
workers. Tie Tradesmanf Cattanooga ),
' Our shipments of fruit 'mid vegetables
to the northern and western markets
continue to be quite heavy. , During the
month of June all shipments from this
office that is both perishable aud ordinary
merchandise, trebled the shipments for
the same month of 1881. We are now
shipping from five to ten thousand
pounds of tomatoes every evening, via
the Cincinnati Southern railroad, as
well as quantities cf peaches and black
berries. By the way, the shipment of
blackberries is somewhat of a novelty
to us here, but it is an enterprise that
has paid the parties engaged in it quite
handsomely, as they have realised from
five to twelve dollars per two-bushel
stand upon them. Chattanooga Cor
respondent in the Express Gazette.
It is a little singular that the flag of
the united States is one of the elder
among national symbols, although the
country is among tho younger nation
alities. The Union Jack of Great
Britain, tho flag that has "braved
thousand years, . the battle and the
breeze," was not finally adopted till
1801, whereas the Stars and Stripes goes
back to 1777, With whom it origin
ated is not now known. Previous flags
had stripes but no stars, and a rattle
snake, with the motto "Don't tread on
me," was often placed where the stars
are now. Before the Declaration of
Independence the Union Jack, as it was
before 1801, was in one corner, while
thirteen stripes represented the thirteen
colonies. France adopted her present
flag in 1794, Portugal in 1830, Italy in
1848, the German Empire in 1870, and
Spain in 1875. Tho flags of Kussia
and the Ottoman Empire are older than
the American, but the Chinese and
Japanese are younger.
Cincinnati, August 2nd.
f7our-Fancy $5.50 5.75. New family
$1.75. Spring family fcu.SO 7.00.
mcat-i-o. 2 at $1.02. No. 1 new lied
sold at $1.03.
Com No. 2 White shelled sold at 80 k
68c.j No. 2 Yellow at 70Jc.; No. 3 at
74ic
Oats No. 2 White 60c. No. 2 mixed at
47c. 48c.
Rye No. 2 sold at 7 lie.
Onions $2.00 $.50 per bbl.
Tomatoes There is no demand for shipped
stock.
Potatoes Are firm with a light supply at
$1.00 , 2.25 per bbl. for Early Rose.
Hay No. 1 Timothy sells at $18.50 Q,
$19.50 ; No. 2 $17.00 17.50. Mixed Hay
at $15.00 16.00, ana Prairie Hay $3.00
$9.00 per ton, in bales, on arrival.
Mill Feed Bran sells at $13.00 $l3.i0,
Shipstuffs at $15.00 to 17.00, and Middlings at
$22.00 25.00 per ton in bulk.
JSTTho Diamond Dyes for family
two have no equals. All popular colors
easily dyed, fast and beautiful. 1 0 cents
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