FARM. CARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Maine Matters. ! I' u tins department brief suggestions, facts and NKWS AN!) COSHir ! ROM All, OVKK THK STATK experiences are solicited from housekeepers, larmers and gardeners. Address Agricultural K'U A I, IMI'ROYI.MKN IS. editor. Journal Office. Iteltast Maine ] In a low u»wu« aiui viiiages m our State. Village Association.- are | Written for the Republican Journal. | Improvement l»eing organized and are accomplishing a good deal in the work of Henderson’s Hand-book of Plants the natural embellishment of the village. lu on. or two instances such societies have existed for In tht honorable of seedsman fraternity more than one year, and the good results ot and Horists no man stands higher, or is their efforts are already quite apparent. This better or more favorably known than is the case, notably, at Urnnswick, on** of the Peter Henderson, the senior member of most beautiful villages in Maine, where a Village Improvement Association has been in the linn of Peter Henderson \ seeds- operation Co., for one <>r two years, and which is, this spring, iien, market gardeners and tlorists, :i."> pushing forward the work of rural adornment Mount ! with more than ever. Cortland street. New York. Mr. Hen- Hou-e-CleamnK llmts. Desert hero of our old Wtto was ilavid Robbins vigor Its efforts embrace story found himself <|uite sahnon-fashion drifted tail fore- S* Portland If' ho is as is be they yet living, probable, the planting of ornamental trees, the derson has had an extensive with none of his own kind near most could tell a cleaning up experience A terrible row alone, down the stream. A very interesting story. |Portland Ail of and Helen Campbell, in her recent book on FEW VKAlts IN TIIF MIDDLE 01 A STRAN'OB ! neglected unoccupied lots, the cleaning of of over a of a in Is started now. him. vertiser. quarter century all de- just But that did not trouble him N'ext a settler in the Bitter- MANS 01' of weeds, rubbish and litter: the drain some excellent murl), morning, LIFE. KEMINtSi KNEES (II.|l TIMES IN The Advertiser highways housekeeping, gives very Which shows William lame is. says editorially—The singular ot streets the partments of horticulture-, and is the Shakspeare quite and he went on his own his 1 toot the brook near MAINE age painting of fences about the and hints in to house- way, getting region, passing by ot' David Dobbins, related on the first of helpful regard In trying; to show story page and the diffusion of a of author of three books on dinner when he was which was his a public grounds, spirit gardening we hungry, house, noticed that \\ iio was I El v 111 Kobbins ! His own the Advertiser, is condensed from a his- cleaning. which our lady readers, who are (Though better know) “dog-salmon’’ wile knew rambling taste, neatness and public good order A public which have had a sale, and are non- all the time, and then a little be- had run in of* his life had ill a ill ISA; at Mass. large about that will That nothing at all in a name is eating there and seemed “mighty notliing w\iat been before lie mar tory printed pamphlet Dowell, entertainment was held which added a considera passing through ordeal, 1 bo name standard ried her: bis. own of no ot the writer does not David works. They are ‘•Hardening tween meals for his stomach’s sake. nigh tuckered out.” So he took a children, course, have appear. bio sum to tho funds of the Association, and one be very glad to see. She says, if coal or The trouble is this hoe, idea of the which that versatile who "■ So went ndine they should have borne. Dobbins, genius within live or more “Field have taken l’rotit,' “Practical Floriculture" and An lustlietie miss it on for three long years: and and. into the brook, the general Fvcuings," wood are to belaid in for the winter wading rapped Sixty years bake since he left this years established, lirst a character as an honest sup- at the passed world, place, the object being for all the members of the for -.Pleasure.” His latest is reckoned somewhere in the end of this time our little lish had tish on the head with and it in an man. a faithful an ••Hardening let it be done before (She thirties) it, carrying nnblest and disgraceful way : and it is not workman, honorable sweet Association to meet ,ind work in lily, house-cleaning Who together clearing ork --I lendei son's Hand! of Plants” has been there, tis guessed. grown to he a fine of ashore that more will ever be heart, a fond,husband and father, and then as otherwise much dust will be great, salmon, forty threw it to the hogs. But the likely anything discovered loving up the public lawns, etc. This has been done with begins, Does protest about him. as a child-stealer, a robber, liar a want long felt the gar- loudly pounds and as a had a surfeit of salmon and hypocrite, and a will and Ladies are members of the supplies by the house. It is not nec- That the name Fesert is weight, shining silvery hogs meat, good spirit. spread through of the place Mount David Kobbins, as be called himself, double murderer, was a rtiuawav eriiui d’-ner ami tlorist, while many others will new tin and with rows of the loveli- ate the soft the appeared in probably association, and are quite as efficient, if not more to even pan, they only parts, leaving the town of nal when be lirst in as essary take up heavy carpets Bethel, in this State, in Is-Jti. No appeared Bethel, it ,s not s* lu much of the as and it a valuable book of eom- a est round black on work, gentlemen. reference, Not so," says spots his head, and head untouched. And a natu- knew or otten that a man eomiflits his tirst so or oftener than once in two or three chap. wandering body hiui. whence he came. He was a crime !ate What has been done in and also .11 year table a Itrunswick, ising as i does, a concise (living rap back, and tail, one as he was swim- ralist it and to fellow of three, in life. ju yet compre- unless are in constant use. day, found there, sent it the powerful young twenty weighing hundreds of villages in Massachusetts and other years they II is are badly, he says, hurt. about ISO The hensive of It would feelings about, a l nited States Kish Commission to be pounds, athletic, hardv, industrious, Phillips Phonograph adds The Portland of New should this season be dictionary plants. And his ears. ming idly chasing big scnlpin, parts Lngland, very The tacks, however, should be taken out outraged and insensible to and Advertiser, of has a article on e a to the i with a head so was apparently fatigue exposure, Wednesday, long undertaken in more than a hundred of great acquisition library of a when he hears thorny that he ne\er identified, and thus it came to me. lie David villages every year and the carpet folded back a Kxcept [ Pop- merely said that lie wanted work Ho en Dobbins, the murderer of Hinds and son. -Maine Oh these beautiful and attractive Maine or Farmers club. The of The Mount I>esert swallowed all of a sudden ular range scope proper pronouncing. by anybody, Science gaged with a rich farmer named Stearns to evidently made trorn the matter m yard m two and the tloor washed in .Monthly. work up published towns, located in the midst of a wealth ot natural '!!•• the a for the season. He was the a few wort thus indicated in the Intro- salmon noticed change in the water an excellent farm hand. Phonograph weeks since. With us, the but so suds in which borax has been dis- a beauty, shabby, unkempt, and with such a strong •You're wrong," says third Advertiser is in d action around him. Bob Steady, adaptable, strong, good tempered, readv error in locating tlie abduction of back ! W hat broken in sidewalks, at the rate of a to a “Yes, both, on word IngersolFa Orthodoxy. yard appearance solved tabiespoonfu! my and obliging, iic labored on at all kiuds of work, the boy from Avon l’arties now living, who then barren -,\S book ot it is name I commons, dilapidated fences, and want ol reference, believed it The from the French declare is. had come and the soutli- as resided hi of water, and alter black Spring again, i'KoVKb m mi: i;i:Ki.iN<; r<*x utterly unconscious of weariness as a machine that vicinity, say the location was in trees pail dusting And therefore." | iiawki.vk many of them present. And what a work is !l take the for all says he, on v\ hen asked whence he came, he the vicinity of Mr. Powers in jtlaee. practical pur- on the < down i lung snow-drifts the Cascade mount- sometimes men- Beni. butter b her© for the to ac pepper the edges tack arpet Tis as as can be Some one sends us a little tract plan Village Improvement Society a e plain containing epi- one tiitioii. a few tl and voluminous once more tioned place and sometimes so that miles above Madrid. The statement Not a expensive this means moths are The correct to it is ains felt that the '‘earth was grammatic i.s from Col Robert G another, eomplish.