Drouths And Forests

The actioa of dense masaes of vogettion ui temperitig mul retarding tha r, pidity ot' rinda snd their mechanica] service as 80 reen a apiinst iu;asm;iti enianations, may be readliy und rstood. and Buoh moohanical aotinn ulone serve to explain why tbe absence of foresta tonda to render the winter seasons iiiorc sevei hotter nul drynr; bufc they emrcise mr.re reoonditi ■mil more potent funÉtions tban tbi regardo hoih oomfort iind health. In tfie 'irt place, is evory eduoated readjer knows, trees through their respiral their i .' noicl gI.S COllí! O ;:lli'il flülll aniljltll langs, Bgsiuiilaiing the e rbön and releAsing tlio oxy urne ita vivitving purpöse iu the anhnul eoorioïuy. idly, they favor the penetration and retention of raoisture in the soil, thöir shadn prpvpntin; too rapid evaporati(}n by partially exclndinj the suu's rays For this reasou, whilst woodinwis andèi oivilized siiptavifion are coniluciva to health, wild forost gro% ths where the oversaturated soil is oumbered wit iniderorush may givc riseto nialarial oinanations. Bat, bevond tliis. foliage has a more direct power of eondensintr ture froiu the atmosphere. The lenvn of ud average forest tree conjointly present a surí'aco ofsomethibg more than half in acre, and the terappratnre of this great surface is kept below thíit of the snrroiindhig air, not onlj' by the continual procesa of "vegetable evapomtion," but by radiation of heat when the sun's rays are withdrawn. Henee the strata of air lntruded between the leavap are cooled so quickly as to part with a portion of thcir moisture, jnst as the ontside of an iced-watev piteber receives a depogit of dew froni tho surr nriim; at tnosphere. This procesa of distillation, whilo sevving: to smue exti nt to prevé D tlio excessiva torrents ot r;;in by keepinfj; the atmospliere trom Decouunpr ovenoaaed with vapor of w6.ter, ako serves to umintain a oonstnnt and geutle supply of , and smaller water-coumes, especially Vlipro foresta exist in elevuted eituations. It is not, therefore, by. " attracting the clouds" (bat trees affect tbe local oonditioos of moisture, luit by their more remota ageney in sastaitiing the sources ' of wsitrr supply. Tlie actual amonnt of niinfa.ll is, of course, proportiomte to the absolute quautity of water contained in the atmosphere, being, as a rule, greatest at the equator; and ïshmg towards tne poies ; una rro Henry hns suceeeded in tracing the origin and course of tho different rain hearing curvents which respectively supply vrions sections of tho IJnitpd States. But, apart from euoh general phenoiuena, tbi r are local factors which exert an cssenfial moditying; power, and not the least important of these ia the growth of.forest folifigp, the dosfruction o f which over large tracts of country is mevitably followed hy drought and sicknesa. To sum up: Trers purit'y the air of the carbon with which our breathing vitiütes it ; they protect us from miusmiatic poison, not only by acting as sevccits, but by dissolving it into water which they distil ; they save us from extremes of temDerature, and secure for us equable liy .rronWic conditions. And of all these idvm'ag-es we have for vears post been trying to depri ve ourselves titfough our nattonal ujama for "olearing " wild kinds, until now it ia almost too late to repair the damage done. - N. Y. Vi orld. "Wliat is a csfeni Man. Haiga man wbo has tiaveled. Men now in bnsiness in the West are in general older th;.n the States wliere they live, and so must havo traveled. Not oip ii six of the Nebraskiaos was boni in Nniratpka. No Westernerperhfijja bas yoyged tufaras Baytud Tayloi, and somt 'cv other easterlings. But western trnvlera ure moro multitudinous. Uí' eighx'cii Americana wtio chartered u Cuno teamer to go up the Ntló in 1868, ton reided in' Detroit or west of it. The projortion woiild he larger todtty. In a vcstern villaje you always lind those vho before settling have royed over half dozen States, iiut, in New Bngland on cotistttntly encounter those whowere ever out of their nativo county Tweny years ngo there lived in South Daiiers, Mas., one Miss Eden, r.ear a hunrcd yesirs o!d During the oèntttfy.of ier pilzrimage, sofarfrom journoying to 'hiladelphia óf even New York, sfae had ever been in Boston, though born withn th ir teen miles fVom it. Her most dis;ant expedition l:ul 1 e n five and one half miles to Marblehead. 8he had been there only onee, and that for the purpose of haring the small pox, sonie years before the revolutionary war. It will be long beforo the West can show snoh a phenomenon, . " hxed like a plant to one peculiar spot." Á.II the better for the West. Eachroan there fiuds what he can do best, if üot in one pi nee, then in anoThpr. Along the Burlington and Missourii Ever li:ti!road in NeflDraska, there are niuny who have boughc lands on long credit, and are developing them intograin and stock farms with their earnings in Wisconsin luiuber canips, California diggingf, or while frfighting to Colorado and Montana. It sptaks wpII for Xebraska, that legions rloolf there to makt' a start from so many quarters where they earned raoney to miike a start with. Nebra+ka is for farmers, and farmers for Nnriraska f Prof. J. D. Butler. (iiouinbers S'lutftMl - Proportions. Four good-sized cucumbers, 0110 midble-sized onion, four ounces of bread, six spvigs of parsley, halt' a bay leaf, a few stalks of chives, two cloves, two ounces of butter, a pinch of nutineg, and a gilí of brotb. Soak the bread (soft part) in water, and wlien tborouffhly soaked press the water out of it ; split each cneumber in two lengthwÏBe, peel thern, out off a piece, about a quarter of uu inch, at each end, remove the seed from the inside with a small spoon ; slice the ouion and fry it with the butter, then add to it the seeds removed, from the cucumber, the bread, parsloy, bay leaf, chives, cloves, nutmeg and broth ; the cloves and piece of bay leaf should be wrapped up in a rag ; stir now and then, and simmer for about five minutes. H:)ve water with a little salt boiling in anotlier pan, and drop the cucumbers in for two minutes; take them off, drop thein in cold water, and drain ; then till eaoh half with thu mixture of bread, onion, etc, put a few slices of fat salt pork in a pan, placo the cuoumbers on them, dust with bread crumbs, put on the, top of eacb, and apart, three pieces of butter the; sizo of a obean, put the pan in a hot oven mi til the cuuuibers are well, baked, and serve. A little meat gravy uiay bo poured oyer each just beloi-e serving. Cusnixo os Doos axd Otheb Thintgs. - Hon. Caleb Cushing has addressed the following note to the editor of tho (iermantowu Chronide: Washingtok, D. C, July 21, 1873. Dear Sir - There is ro much both of good sense and good humor in your article on the lKth, ontitled "A Dog's delight," as to induce me to write you a few words upon the subjeot. I perceive that all the newspaporschroniele my dog fight. I have thus of a sudden become famous, protty inuch as Alcibiades did hy cutting off his dog's tail, to the astonishment of all Athens. I plead guilty to barking at Sir Alexander Cookburn ; bot I have done this in self-defense, andi as it spems to me, with great modera ti on, seeing that Sir Alexandei bogan by' barking at me throngh 130 pages of close-printed large octavo, while I barbed at liim through only 23 pages of large type leaded, these pages not half the size of the otiiers. You sen that I have been very toni pera to. In ju3tice to Mr. Fernando Wood atso, I desiro to say that the dog did not belong to him, but to hia tenant at wül, Thomas Kelly, find that, being wtitten to on the subject, Mr! Wood gave me full permission to act in my discretion against both Kelly and h3 dog. I remaiu yoars trnly, C. CÜSHING.