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J'am,
J. J. TOON, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR.
Talks With Our Little Boys.
No 4.
Robert Rinehoart made rapid progress at
school. It is surprising bow last a little boy
can learn when he puts his h**d to it. There
was no such word as “fail” with Robert, his
lessons he would have in spite of everything,
and there was no play for him until they
were known. When recess came, if there
was a lesson to be said soon after, he never
left his seat until he was perfectly satisfied he
was prepared, and sometimes he would
barely commence play before the bell would
ring; but he never cared how much play he
lost, so he never lost a lesson, and so, when
the class was called up you would see Robert
at the head, with a bright, ready look, anx
ious to recite, while oilier boys, who were
determined to have play'time, appeared con
fused and hated so bad to close their books.
There were two teachers, 3lr. Noble and Mr.
King, and they both said Robert was the
most uniform pupil with his lessons they had
ever taught. By uniform, they meant his
lessons were all alike, not good one day and
bad the next, hut perfect all the time. Every
Friday evening lie carried home to his adop
ted father, a diary with no imperfect marks,
and the longer he kept a perfect standing, the
more determined he was to persevere; there
was no persuading him to play before his
lessons were learned; the scholars all soon
found out that it was vain to tempt him, that
he showed plainly he came to school not to
play, but to learn, and gradually they ceased
to annoy or tease him about the matter.
ou may set it down as a fact that whenever
a boy is truthful and honest, ho is very apt
to be a good, close student, and 1 will tell
you why : his truthfulness will never allow
him to deceive himself; when such a boy
joins heartily in play, you may be certain he
knows his lesson; his conscience is quick and
tender—you may hear his lesson for him,
and he so anxious to get him to play that you
will say, “oh you know that well enough,
come on ’; but he’ll not be satisfied until his
conscience says “go,” .and that was the way
with Robert. Then his perfect honesty kept
him from cheating his teacher, he never
peeped into the book after the word was givn
to close it, he was too honest either to do
that or to say anything the boy next would
tell him. lie would rather miss a question
than answer what he did not know, and thus
deceive his teacher. Some boys are apt to
think, and probably have been taught no
better, that all honesty requires is, not to take
what belongs to another; but it means a
great deal more than that, it reaches to the
very thoughts and desires of the heart, and
God, who sees the heart, will judge us very
close about the matter. When you go up
with your class to recite, and the word is
given to “close the books,” your time is then
out for studying; what is in the book be
longs to the teacher while he is engaged with
his class—it is yours in one way only, fixed in
your memory. If you have been indolent or
played too much, and failed to put the lesson
in your mind, you arc a dishonest boy—if
you peep into the book, you are stealing with
your eyes. 1 hope none of the little boys I
am talking to have ever been guilty of this
kind of dishonesty; if you have, however, be
candid and own it, and resolve never to do
so again. Robert never opened his book
after all the books were closed, neither would
be say anything that another boy had stolen
from the book, that you know, would have
been equally as bad. Perhaps you think he
surely would tell a boy before lie would let
him miss t No, lie never did that neither,
dr. Non' ■ had but two rules, “Obedience
and Order,” in his school. Every scholar
must render strict obedience and keep per
fect order. W hen these two rules were carried
out, they comprehended everything, and there
was no use for any other. lie told his boys
it was wrong to tell each other in the class;
that instead of being a kind, friendly act, it
was just the reverse—it encouraged a boy to
be idle, and it taught him to deceive; it made
him give the teacher knowledge which was
not his own. “lom must not tell” said he,
therefore, if a boy did tell another, lie sinned
against Obedience, or he broke that law, the
first of the school, and by breaking that, was
guilty of other sins. Mr. Noble further told
hie hoys that nothing could be done without
order, and therefore, the boy that made any
unnecessary noise ,or confusion in sihool
sinned against Order. Now, Robert was the
boy, and the only boy in school that never
broke these two rules. What a pleasure and
consolation it is to a teacher and parent both,
to have an honest, truthful child to deal with,
one upon whose word you can depend at all
limes. Such a child is beyond all value.
Boys always speak and act the truth, no mat
ter what the consequences may be. If you
do anything wrong, come out manfully and
own it; have courage to say, “I did it.” An
honest, truthful character will make you a
better son, a better brother, and when you
get to be men, it will aid you in everything
you undertake; it will help you in every
way; it will make you pay your debts ; it
will make better farmers, merchants or
tradesmen of you, and if some of you should
become preachers of the blessed gospel of
Jesus Christ, it will keep you there, you’ll
never be afraid to tell men'the truth. But!
must stop now, as lam very weary. God
bless all the little boys, and make them fit to
dwell with Him in heaven.
Aunt Editji.
ECONOMY.
Jt takes the bringing up of a world of odds
and ends to constitute true economy. It is
real talent to be economical and vet generous.
1 have seen people who have thought them
selves patterns in this excellent quality, who
to my mind had scarcely an element in its
composition to boast of. They thought it
prudish and fussy to be careful, and in con
sequence had seldom anything in their rooms,
in their apparel, or in their larder in good
order. Such people would require a bank to
keep them in supply of hair pins, pins,
needles, gloves, handkerchiefs, veils—the ar
ticles of everyday use that can be disengaged
and lost. Never a thimble, never a pair of
scissors, never a book, never a key, that has
not to be hunted from garret to cellar daily,
and finally replaced with new, only to be lost
to-morrow.
Many a man has gone to his grave in pov
erty because his wife had this sad habit.
Many a woman who might have had plenty,
has been pinched with poverty by reason of
this carelessness in her husband. With such
people there is no accumulating of articles
that can cio duty for years—for a lifetime.
The handsome fan is broken, the gloves are
soiled —the watch key is lost. The pin-paper
is forever empty. The bits of lace, of velvet,
of silk, of fringe are tumbled, mussed, or
irrecoverably lost when most needed. A
woman who, but for such fault, would have
been wonderonsly perfect came to her dying
day. Os a life-long friend who stood by her
bed, she asked for her handkerchief, which
could not be found. She looked up from her
pillow ana said faintly, but expressively, “No
handkerchief to the last!” It had been a
common practice with this friend to carry two,
in order to supply a need so sure to come.
I wonder that the reverse picture is not so
attractive as to influence the erring. Careful
people keep everything in tidy readiness for
use. There is always something to wear, some
thing to use, something with which to be com
fortable, even if the usual supplies are fox the
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time being out off or curtailed. There is al
waye excepted, a little supply
ahead, agrowing supply—a penny to turn to
on a rainy day—something to bfcsftow on a
needy friend. The dress is \VeIl preserved, the
shawl, the gloves, the shoes are ready for
seeond-bestdaty, and there are means in store
to furnish the new. The little leaks have not
been allowed to drain all the dollars.
A mother with careless habits increases the
misfortune to the world as many times as
there are olive plants arodnd her table.
Children are imitative, and not only see early
the force of example, but are ready to follow
it, especially if it is one that ministers to
their love of ease. The furniture is batered,
the sewing-machine rifled, the china broken.
There are rips, rents and holes that go unre
paired. Everybody has lost something which
nobody can find, and every other thing is
misplacad or turned topsy-turvy in the search.
Everybody is in the blame, but none are
willing to bear it, and there are criminations
and recriminatiorffe? confusion and torment.
People who arc thus careless with their own,
are equally careless with the. things of another.
How many times have 1 heard the complaint
—my books, my articles of clothing, my
machines were lent, but carne home soiled,
injured, broken.
There are very different scenes from these,
and I advise every little boy and girl to see to
it that they follow the example of those who
“ have a place for everything, and everything
in its place,” that they handle everything
with care—that they cultivate habits of neat
ness in regard to their person, their rooms,
their boxes and bureaus; don t throw'things
about—don’t scatter your scraps, and threads,
and crumbs ; save your strength for something
better than gathering what need not have
been strewed, and I’ll venture you will in
time come to love order and neatness for their
own sake. Mother's Journal.
I Can’t Afford It.
“ Just come and give me a hand’s turn at
my garden, Jim, of a Sunday morning, will
you?” said a working man with his pick-ax
over his shoulder, to an old hedger who was
trimming a quickset hedge.
Jim took off his cap and scratched his head
a bit, in his own country way, and then said
in reply :
“ No, master ; I can’t afford it.”
“ Oh, I don’t want you to do it for nothing.
I’m willing to pay you.”
“ I can’t afford it.” *
“ Why, man, I w ill put something in your
pocket, and I’m sure you’re not too well
off.”
“ That’s it; I can't afford it.”
“Can’t afford it! What do you mean?
You don’t understand me.”
“ Yes I do; but 1 beant quick of speech,
do you see. Hovvsomever, don’t you snap
me up, and I’ll tell ye. I beant too well off
—that’s as true a word as ever you spoke.
Times be mostly hard with me, but if 1 ain’t
well off, d’ye see, in this world, I have a hope
—a blessed hope, my missus calls it—of be
ing better off in the next. My Lord and
Saviour said these words with his own lips :
‘1 go to prepare a place for you, that where 1
am there ye may be also.’ I learned that
text twenty years ago, and I’ve, said it over
hundreds of times when things went cross,
and me and my wife wanted comfort.”
“Well, well ! What’s all that got to do
with your saying in answer to my offer, ‘1
can’t afford it?’ ”
“ Why, no offense to you, but it’s got all to
do with it. I can’t afford to lose my hope of
a better lot in a better land. If my Lord be
gone to prepare a place for me, the best I can
do is to ask Ilirn to prepare me for the
place. And you see Sunday is the only day
that I can give all my thoughts to these holy
things. Igo to God’s house and hear about
heaven, and I seem to be waiting at one of
llie stations on the way there. No, no ! Man’s
work for man’s day ; but on God’s day 1
can’t afford it.”
Reader, poor unlettered Jim had counted
the cost of disobeying God’s command by
breaking the Sabbath. “ What shall it profit
a man if he gain the whole world and lose
his own soul?”— British Workman.
Christ Takes no Silent Partners.
A minister in Brooklyn vas recently called
upon by a business man, who said :
“1 come, sir to inquiie if Jesus Christ will
take me into the concern as a silent partner ?”
“ Why do you ask 1 ?” said the minister.
“Because I wish to be a member of the
firm, and do not wish anybody to know it,”
said the man.
The reply was, “ Christ takes no silent
partners! The firm must be ‘Jesus Christ
&Co.,’ and the names of ‘Co.,’ though they
may occupy a subordinate place, must all be
written out on the sign-board.”
Reader, are you trying to be a secret Chris
tian 1 Jesus Christ takes no silent partners !
Conyreyalionalist.
Stopping a Newspaper.
One of our exchanges has the following
allegory, which we commend to the careful
consideration of those gentlemen who, the
moment they see anything which displeases
them in the columns of their local journal,
rush to the printing-office and cry out, “Stop
my paper !” It uncertainly anew song upon
the old subject":
“A certain man hit his toe against a pebble
and fell headlong to the ground. He was
vexed, and under the influence of anger and
self-suffienov, he kicked the earth right saucily.
With imperturbable gravity he looked to see
the earth itself dissolve and come to naught.
But the earth remained and only his poor
foot was injured in the encounter. This is
the way of man. An article in a newspaper
touches him in a weak spot, and forthwith he
sends to stop his paper. With great com
placency he looks to see the crash, when he
finds he only hit his own toe against a world
that does not perceptibly feel the shock, and
injures no one but himself.
A good anecdote is told of a house painter’s
son, who used the brush dexterously, but had
acquired the habit of putting it on too thick.
One day his father, after having frequently
scolded him for his lavish daubing, and all to
no purpose, gave him a flagellation. •' There,
you young rascal,” lie said, after performing
his painful duty, “ how do you like that?”
“ Well, I don’t know,” whined the boy, in
reply ; “ but it seems to me that you put it
on a thundering sight thicker than 1 did.”
A recently married man in Franklin,
county, Mass., coming home rather late the
other night, took an umbrella from the rack
in the hall and proceeded to his room. The
grieved and indignant wife open her eyes, and
seeing her husband supporting himself by the
foot board with one hand and holding an um
brella spread over his hand with the other, cried
in astonishment: “Whatare you doing? Are
you crazy ?’’ “ No,” said ia an unsteady
voice, but—hie—l supposed there’d be a
storm—hie—and so Pve Cbme prepared for
The Place to go Nex:t Summer.— ln States
ville, North Carolina, a town with a popula
tion of about 1000 whites and 700 colored,
situated about 145 miles west of Raleigh,
corn, apples, and Irish pojatoes may be had
in abundance for 50 cents a bushel, sweet
potatoes and turnips at 25 cents, beans at 75
cents, chestnuts at sl, butter at 15 cents, and
choice beef at 6 cents per pound, and half
grown chickens at a bit a piece. Board, with
lodging at the hotels, is sl2 per month. The
town is in a high and hilly seotion, watered by
mountain, streams.
Gen. Lee’s Advice to his Son.
The following letter was written by Gen.
Lee to his son, long before the commence
ment of the war:
Arlington House, April 5, 1852.
My Dear Son: lam just in the act of
leaving home for New Mexico. My fine old
regiment has been ordered to that remote
region, arid I must hasten to see that the
men are properly taken care of. 1 have but
little to add in reply to your letters of March
26th, 27th, and 28th. Your letters breathe a
true spirit of frankness; they have given
myself and your mother great pleasure.—
You must study to be frank with the
world; frankness is the child of honestly
and courage. Say what you mean to do
on every occasion, and take it for granted
you mean to do light. If a friend asks a
favor you should grant it if it is reasonable ;
if not, tell him plainly why you cannot;
you will wrong him and yourself by equivo
cation of any kind. Never do a wrong thing
to make a friend or keep one ; the map who
requires you to do so is purchased at a sacri
fice. Deal kindly but firmly with all your
classmates. You will find it the policy which
wears best. Above all, do not appear to
others what you are not. If you have any fault
to find with any one, tell him, not others, of
what you complain. There is no more dan
gerous experiment than that of undertaking
to be one thing before a man’s face and an
other behind his back. We should live, act,
and say nothing to the injury of any one. It
is not only best as a matter of principle,
but it is the path of peace and honor. In re
gard to duty, let me in conclusion to this
hasty letter inform you thatneaHy a hundred
years ago there was a day of remarkable
gloom and darkness—stiil known as the dark
day—a day when the light of the sun was
extinguished, as if by an eclipse. The Legis
lature of Counectitcut was in sesssion, and
as its members saw the unexpected and un
accountable darkness coming on, they shared
in the general awe and terror. It was sup
posed by many that the last day—the day of
judgment—had come. Some one, in the con
sternation of the hour, moved an adjournment.
Then there arose an old Puritan legislator —
Davenport, of Stamford—and said that if the
last day had come he desired to be found at
his place doing his duty and therefore moved
that candles be.brought in so that the house
could proceed with duty. There was quiet
ness in that man’s mind—the quietness of
heavenly wisdom and inflexible willingness
to obey present duty. Duty, then, is the
sublimest w’ord in our language. Do your
duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You
cannot do more, you should never wish to do
lesß. Never let me and your mother wear
one gray hair for any lack of duty on your
part.”
“ Y r our affectionate father,
R. E. Lee.”
“ To G. W. Custis Lee.”
Christian Temperance.
A few years ago, two men were caught in
the rapids above Niagara Falls. They were
being hurled on to destruction. The end of
a rope was thrown out. One of them seized
it but the other caught hold of a floating
log. The first was drawu to the shore ; the
other, in a few moments, passed with the log
over the falls.
So, we look at two men endeavoring to
save themselves from the rapids of a terrible
appetite. One of them seizes upon the rope
of a Christian faith, that is fastened in heaven,
and is saved. The other depends merely
upon the uncertain purposes and resolutions
that he has made, an appetite sweeps him on
to ruin.
He who would successfully struggle with
temptation and appetite, and he who would
work successfully as the saviour of the de
graded, must not only add patience to his
temperance, but also godliness to his patience.
The madness of appetite is like demoniac
of the Gadarenes. You may bind it with the
fetters of laws, and pledges, and resolutions,
and they may all be broken. You cannot
bind intemperance, “no, not with chains.”—
You cannot tame it with constant watching.
Christ must come near and bid the fiend
“Come out of him changing his heart
with divine love, ere he can be 3een “ clothed
and in his right mind.”— Caline Fisk.
Preparing Sumac.
Sumac, undoubtedly one of our neglected
resources, is now genera[ly prepared for the
market as following, according to the Country
Gentleman:
“ Cut the stalks of the present year’s growth
and cure them as you would hay, taking
care to preserve it from rain and dew, as
both injure it the same as they injure hay.—
Put it in the barn and examine it often for a
time, for it will heat and spoil very soon if
not properly cured. Let it lie until the
weather is very cold, then thresh it. This may
be done by throwing it on the barn floor three
or four feet deep and put on a span of horses.
They will soon tread the leaves from the
stalks. Rake off the sticks and put on an
other flooring. When the leaves and small
branches that do not rake out have become a
foot or more deep on the floor, put the horses
on to that, and tread it until quite fine ; then
sift it with a large coarse sieve—about half
inch mesh—and it is ready for sacking. Before
using, it is ground in a mill. Those mills
are made in Virginia, and we suppose it U
usually sold after being ground and bolted.—
It is used for tanning morocco and for dying
and printing calico, and could probably be sold
where morocco is made or calico printed, and
in cities where these manufactures obtain
their supplies, but we have no positive in
formation on this point. Richmond, Va.,
is quite a market for it.”
Cullivatiug Young Orchards.
Mr. Cummings and Mr. Fennimore, two
celebrated orchardists of New Jersey, give
us their opinions, relative to cultivating young
trees. Says Mr. Cummings :
“ You may raise some crops on the vacant
land till the trees and plants begin to yield
their fruits, but after that the land ought not
to be taxed with anything other than the in
tended crops. The trees, etc., should be ma
nured and limed to keep them in heart, and
the ground cultivated like a garden, that no
weeds or grass may interfere with the orch
ard. 1 plow my orchard, harrow and culti
vate ; the latter process three and four times
every summer, when I lay it by.”
Says Mr. Fennimore:
“My experience has taught me that all
vegetables, from the very smallest to the
greatest, small fruit and fruit trees, require
the very best and constant cultivation in due
season ; not to suffer small grain, and particu
larly white clove, to grow around the roots.
As the trees come into bearing, it is very
necessary that Some stimulating manures
should be applied.
“ Leached ashes are probably the best fer
tilizers you can get—lso bushels to the acre ;
the next best is well-composted manure. In
all cases plow shallow ; the feeding roots are
are all searching moisture and the best soil.
Therefore, as the roots work for the surface,
where the manure is, if you plow deep you
destroy the feeding power.”
A Significant Title.—A countryman came
to one of our hotels, and wrote after his
name,— “ P. O. P. S. F. C.” xiere was a
title which none but himself understood.
“ Pray, my dear sir,” asked the barkeeper,
“what do all these letters stand for?”
“ Stand for! Why, that’s my title.”
“ Yes, sir; but what is jour title ?”
“ Why, sir, Professor of Psalmody and
Schoolmaster from Connecticut.”
Sow Oats.
There is no crop whose cultivation will re
turn greater profits to the cotton planter than
the oat crop, and yet of all the products of
the Southern farm none has poorer attention.
Indeed, on many large plantations not an
acre is devoted to this valuable cereal. Even
when an attempt is made to grow oats they
are, as a general rule, sown upon the poorest
land on the farm, and seeded in thie most
rough and imperfect manner.
It is quite common to hear planters say
that “oats do not pay,” that “the crop is too
uncertain,” and the like. The truth |s, that
the failure to raise large crops of oats is due
to causes which would produce failures in
any other crop, if affected in the same way
and to the same extent. In the first; place,
planters who fail with oats are always too
busy to sow the crop at the proper tinm —
they wait for a “convenient” season, dn the
second place, they are always too much in a
hurry to prepare the land properly for seed
ing. And lastly, they select their poorest
land for this crop—land that will produce
neither corn or. cotton —and never think of
assisting this poor land either with home
made or commercial fertilizers. Under such
circumstance it would indeed be surprising if
the crop did not invariably fail.
Under our present inferior and expensive
labor system, we should seek to stimulate
and extend the cultivation of those crops
whici will give the largest returns from the
smallest amount of labor expended upon their
production. These are small grain, includ
ing wheat, rye, oats, barley, peas, clover and
grasses.
On some soils—'-particularly in the flat
sandy pine lands which lie along the coast
tier of counties m the Southern States, ex
tending as far up as the beginning of the
granite formation, wheat cannot be success
fully cultivated. Neither are such lands
adapted to the growth of clover or barley,
but in ail of our rolling, clay and rocky lands
wheat can be as cheaply and successfully
grown as in Virginia or Maryland. The oat
will grow and thrive on almost any soil, from
the low flat lands of the coast to the rocky
hillsides and fertile valleys of the mountain
regions.
The best time for seeding oats in the cot
ton belt is in the fall, but the oat is a hardy
plant that thrives well sown as late as the
last of February. It should be borne in mind
that a good crop of oats caa only be secured
in the same way that a good crop of other
farm-products are made, by thorough pre
paration of the soil, careful seeding, and judi
cious fertilizing.
The land should be cleaned of trash, briars,
bushes, and the like, and then plowed
thoroughly with a good turning plow or a
long diamond pointed scooter. By the latter,
if the land is free from grass and stubble,
and by the former if rough and covered with
vegetable matter. After the land is well
prepared by thorough plowing, the seed
should be sown at the rate of from three to
five pecks to the acre. On very strong moist
or wet lands a little more. Then harrow
nicely and cross harrow the sod, and if the
land is open, porous and sandy, much benefit
will be derived from running a heavy two
horse roller after the harrow. If the land is
not sufficiently strong to produce at the rate
of twelve bushels of corn or seven to eight
hundred pounds to the acre, some fertilizers
should be applied after the land has been
plowed. Thirty bushels of cotton seed, or
150 pounds of good superphosphate, thrown
broadcast on the soil and harrowed in with
the seed will secure a good crop.
We urge our planting friends to turn their
attention at once to the preparation for a
large crop of oats. The crop matures at a
time when the use of much corn can be saved
and in our present condition of a short sup
ply of the grain, will prove a great saving and
convenience on the plantation.— Banner of
the South.
The Great Farmer’s Maxims.
The successful life of Mr. Jacob Strawn,
the prince of American farmers, is attribu
ted to the close observance of the following
maxims, originated by himself:
When you wake up, do not roll over, but
roll out. It will give you time to ditch all
your sloughs, brake harrow them, and
sow them with timothy and red clover. One
bushel of clover to two bushels of timothy
is enough.
Make your fencing high and strong, so that
it will keep cattle and pigs out.
If you have brush, make your lots secure,
and keep your hogs from the cattle; for if
the corn is kept clean, they will eat it better
than if it is not.
Be sure to get your hands to bed by seven
o’clock—they will rise early by force of cir
cumstances. Pay a hand, if he is a poor
hand, all you promise him ; if he is a good
hand, pay him a little more; it will encour
age him to do still better.
Always feed your hands as well as you do
yourself; for the laboring men are the bone
and sinew of the land, and ought to be well
treated.
I am satisfied that getting up early, indus
try and regular habits are the best medicine
ever prescribed for health.
When rainy, bad weather comes, so that
you can’t work out doors, cut, split and haul
your wood.
Make your racks, fixing your fenoes or a
gate that is off its hinges, or weatherboarding
your barn where the wind has blown the sid
ing off, or patch the roof of your barn or
house.
Study your interest closely, and do not
spend any time in electing presidents, sena
tors, and other smaller officers, or talking of
hard times, when spending your time in whit
tling store-boxes, etc.
Take your time aud make calculations,
don’t do things in a hurry, but do them at
the right time, and keep your mind as well
as your body employed.
To Cook Vegetables.
It is often observed that a meal from vege
tables is not satisfying. I have found it fre
quently happen that the persons who objected
did not know even how to boil a vegetable.
The rule is simple and should never be for
gotten.
Every kind of vegetable intended to be
serve whole should, when put to boil, be
placed at onco in boiling water ; and this ap
plies especially to potatoes, and vegetables
from which the outer cover has been removed.
Now, it oftens happens that potatoes, etc.,
are, to save time, placed in cold water and
left to boil gradually. It is just that which
allows the nutritious matter to escape and
renders the meal unsatisfying.
When, on the contrary, the water boils
from the moment the vegetable is immersed
in it, the albumen is partially coagulated near
the surface, and serves to retain the virtue of
the vegetable. The reverse is, of course, the
rule for making soup, or any dish from which
the water will not be drained.
By placing the vegetables in cold water
the albumen is slowly dissolved, and actually
mixes with the water—a process most neces
sary for the production of nutritious soup.—
It is to be hoped that those who have a
special need for the most their money can
produce, will learn, in whatever haste they
may be, not to boil all the albumen from
their potatoes, reserving for their meal only
the starchy matter. —Southern Cultivator .
“ Gentlemen, I have won this cup by the
use of my legs; I trust I may never lose the
use of my legs by the use of this cup.”—
These are the eloquent words of a successful
competitor for the prize of a foot race.
Cheap Fertilizers.
Prof. Nesbitt gives us a sensible little
talk through the Farmer's Gazette, as follows:.
“Every farmer who tries to buy cheap
manure, is sure to be deceived; because, if
he will have it cheap, people will be found
to make it at his price and he will have to
pay the cost of mixing, and probably fifty
percent, besides. If manures are worth using
at all they are worth a proper price. Ma
nures of the lowest price are the least valua
ble to the farmer. If he cpuld obtain a ma
nure intrinsically worth £SO a ton, it would
be proportionately more valuable to him
than Peruvian guano, because of the saving
of carriage, and other facilities arising from
small bulk. You cannot, therefore, be too
careful in purchasing these artificial manures.
“ Let us advise you, when purchasing the
article, to deal with none but men of estab
lished character and integrity. Do not try
to buy everything cheap, for it is certain that
you will be cheated if you do. The quantity
of adulterated guano annually made up, can
not, 1 think, be less than 20,000 tons, and I
estimate the lowest amount of which the
farmer will thus be defrauded at £IOO,OOO
[ssoo,ooo] per annum.”
Dutch Method of Fertilizing Fruit Trees.
As 1 have never yet seen any notice of the
Dutch method of applying liquid manure to
fruit trees, in any of our agricultural papers,
l now send you an account of it, as I think it
may be a useful way of watering trees, even
when no liquid manure is desirable. An
iron shod stake of about three inches in diam
eter, with a piece of wood nailed on to one
side to place the foot on, is used to make a
circle of holes just under the ends of the
branches, about eighteen inches or two feet
apart, and from twelve to fifteen inches deep,
and the liquid manure poured into them;
theu the holes are easily filled up again, so
that the liquid cannot be evaporated, or the
earth baked hard by the heat of the sun} In
wet weather the liquid manure is applied
alone, but in dry weather an equal quantity
of water is mixed with it. This is used
about once a week. Two precautions are
necessary ; first, not to use the liquid manure
till the fruit is well set, otherwise the leaves
will grow too strong, and rot the fruit, caus
ing it to drop off; and secondly, to discon
tinue the use of it at the first signs of ap
proaching maturity. I have used this plan
on applying liquid manure to vines, and also
in watering cabbages, or anything else, either
in the flower or kitchen garden ; but in these
cases a common walking stick will answer. —
Canada Farmer.
Scraping and Washing Fruit Trees.
The insects which hide in the bark and
crevices of the trees have, by this time, re
tired to their winter-quarters, and can be
easily destroyed. There is nothing equal,
as a “wash” with which to scrub the trees, to
a preparation of, say one pound whale oil
soap to a large bucket of water, well dis
solved. There is nothing more nauseous to
insects than this. It will lay “cold” every
thing we have tried but the curculio— that,
however, cares no more for the mixture, even
though accompanied with sulphur, lime-water,
and tobacco juice, than if it were a gingery
dose of pure spring water. But rose-bugs,
and the tteel blue bug, surrender to its power
incontinently. Every farmer and gardener
ought to have a supply of this soap on hand
for use whenever necessary. Apple and pear
trees well scraped and then washed with this
preparation, will not only be freed from some
of the chief insects preying upon foliage and
fruit, but will sensibly feel its invigorating
effects. — Germantown Telegraph.
Tomatoes.
Mr. P. E. Bucks, in the Canada Farmer
gives us the following on how to produce
early tomatoes:
“ There is no doubt in my mind, from
practical experience, that cuttings taken from
the plants in autumn, just hefore freezing-up
time, stuck in damp soil, and when well
rooted removed to six-inch pots, kept in an
gtmosphere of 40 or 50 degrees, and watered
just sufficiently to keep them alive during
winter, (and by keeping the shoots as they
appear properly pinched, and a part of the
large leaves, so as to retard growth as much as
posible,) is the true way of obtaining the
earliest fruit. It will be found that if the
plants are well attended to, by the spring
they will be thick and strong at the base,
and as woody almost as a flower. Growing
tomatoes—as almost all gardeners do—in
hot beds is decidedly the wrong method, as
no doubt many of them have found out. —
The hot bed plants are weak and spindling.
Many put down seeds in this way so early
that the plants run on the grass before the
weather becomes sufficiently warm to put
them out in the open ground, and the leaves
either scorch or become frost-bitten. I have
seen many a frame of tomatoes for which I
would not give five cents for the best five
hundred plants in them.”
ITEMS.
The Manufacturer and Builder says one
quart of powdered charcoal sacked and sus
pended in the water of a foul ci-tern will
make it pure.
The receipts of the Cincinnati “Industrial
Exposition,” which closed its session on the
7th of last month, amounted to over seventy
thousand dollars —a gam of twenty thousand
over former expositions.
“ A farmer,'’ says the lowa Homestead ,
“purchased of a Northern tree peddler fifty
different varieties of apples for a large orch
ard. In a few years these fifty varieties re
solved themselves into only two kinds.” A
wonderful, though not unusual, instance of
vegetable transmutation.
The working life of the mule, says the
National Agriculturist, is estimated at about
three times that of the horse, while the sav
ing of feed is at least one-fourth in favor of
the mule. Mules often live and are service
able thirty or forty years.
The North American Beekeeper’s Associa
tion will meet at Cleveland, Ohio, on Wed'
nesday, the 6th of December. Papers as
suming to be posted, promise that it will be
the most interesting convention of the kind
ever held on this continent. Southern people
will not be likely to relish the time of meet
ing.
The October Agricultural Repoitsnms up
the yield of crops for this y ear as follows:
Corn and Oats above the average; Barley
an average crop; Wheat, Irish and Sweet
Potatoes, below an average; Buckwheat a
very poor crop and damaged by frost; Cot
ton, three'fourths of a crop —about three
million bales.
Hearth and Home says : “ The Department
of Agriculture has ordered for distribution
large quantities of jute seed from India. The
plant will thrive as well as hemp in the val
ley of the lower Mississippi, and its unsuc
cessful cultivation (in the South) will relieve
us from dependence on a foreign source of
supply. During the past twelve months
more than $5,000,000 worth of this material
was imported into the United States.
Peter Henderson, the author of “Garden
ing for Profit,” holds that the practice of
soaking most seeds before sowing in dry
weather, is worse than useless. He is in
favor of patting the soil over with the back
of a spade, maintaining that it causes them
to germinate quickly and come up evenly.
There are some seeds that could hardly be got
ten up in the year of planting, without soak
iUg—the locust and silk tree, for instance.
The quickest, best and most efficient way
of cleaning your pig-pen is to throw a few
shovelsful of dirt into it every two or three
days. The dirt should be dry and well pul
verized ; it then absorbs all the offensive mat
ter and puts an end to the noxious odors. The
same prescription is applicable to fowl-houses
or anything else from which dangerous odors
arise. Fresh earth is one of nature’s best
disinfectants.
The New York Day Bwk learns that a pat
ent is about to be taken out on a process for
rendering perpetually fruitful, year after year,
pear, apple and, perhaps, every other species
of fruit trees. We are to have no more old
barren orchards, and there can be no more
bad fruit seasons to those happy individuals
who invest in the new discovery. The ap
plicant for the patent ought to form a copart
nership with Mr. Ilardee, the “sound” man,
for the two processes are likely to conflict in
their efforts.
Hon. John 0, Way, of Woodsfield, Ohio,
Judge of the Belmont and Monroe Circuit
Court, was found dead in the streets of
Wheeling on the 15th inst. There were no
signs of violence, and the presumption is that
the Judge, overcome by infirmity, had fallen
early in the night, and perished from ex
posure.
The ceremony of lying the knot is very
much simplified in the Iloosier State, as the
following scene will show: “What is your
name, sir?” “Matty.” “What is your
name, miss?” “ Polly.” “ Matty, do you
love Polly?” “No mistake.” “Polly, do
love Matty ?” “Well, I reckon.” “Well, then
‘“I pronounco you man and wife
All the days of your life.” ’
Cure for Cold in the Head. —lnhale
hartshorn through the nostrils six or eight
times a minute uutil relief is obtained. Then
after an hour or so repeat it again. This
remedy is much used in France, and I have
always found the use of it attended with good
results.
To Clean Knives. —Use the dish cloth,
rub it on the Sapolio, and then rapidly over
the knives. This will give a brilliant and
durable polish, without scratching.
The following lines are copied from an
English life insurance painplet, entitled
“ Thinks for the thoughtful.”
When poor pa died and went to heaven,
What grief mamma endured!
But ah I that grief was soon assuaged,
For pa, he was insured ;
And when ma went there, oh, how funny!
The office paid her all the money.
The Advantage of Printing. —Mr. 8., a
well-known Metropolitan printer, once told us
that on one occasion an old woman from the
country came into the printing office with an
old Bible in her hand.
“ I want,” said she, “ that you should print
it over again. It’s gettin’ a little’ blurred,
sort of, and my eyes is not what they was.
How much do you ax ?
“ Fifty cents.”
“Can you have it done in a half an hour?
Wish you would ; want to be gettin’ home. 1
live a good way out of town.”
When the old lady went out, he sent
around to the office of the American Bible
Society, and purchased a copy for fifty cents.”
“Lor’ sakes a massa!” exclaimed the old
lady, when she came to look at it, “ how good
you’ve fixed it! I never see nothin* so curi
ous as what printers is.”
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Address all communications for the paper to
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Laws Relating to Newspapers.
The Scientific American of August sth furnishes
the following in response to certain requests. It
says: -‘We have been asked to give the law, as
it stands, relating to newspapers and subscribers:”
1. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary, are considered as wishing to con
tinue their subscriptions.
2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of
their periodicals, the publishers may continue to
send them until all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
periodicals from the office to which they are di
rected, they are held responsible until they have
settled their bills, and ordered them discontinued.
4. If subscribers move to other places without
informing the publishers, and the papers are sent
to the former direction, they are held responsible.
5. The Courts have decided that refusing to
take periodicals from the office, or removing and
leaving them oncalled for, is prirna facie evideuce
of intentional fraud.
6. Any person who receives a newspaper and
makes use of it, whether he lias ordered it or not,
is held, in law, to be a subscriber. 2551—ts
The rural accountant, a simple
and Piactical, yet Complete System of Plantation
aud Farm Accounts. —Contents: A Plan of the Farm,
Inventory of Farm Investment, Time Rolls for each
month, Gestation Account, Cash Account, General Ac
counts, Crop Accounts, Memoranda; prefaced by a full
and complete explanation of the book. Also, compris
ing a Selection of Practical Information needed every
day on the Farm. Price : Small size, $1.25 ; per mail,
$1.40. Large size, $2; per mail, $2.30. The great
value of these books must be apparent to every farmer.
Orders for the size wanted, with the money addressed
to J. J. Toon, Atlanta, Ga., will meet with prompt at
tention. 2550
BELL FOUNDRY,
Established in 1837.
Superior Bells for Churches,
Schools, etc. .of Pure Cop
per and Tin, fully war
ranted, and mounted with
our Latest Improved
Rotary Hangings, the
Illustrated Catalogue tent free.
VANDUZEN & TIFT; a
102 & 104 E. Second 8t„ Cincinnati,
2540—90—501
THE STEWART COOK STOVE.
WITH DUMPING GRATE.
LATEST IMPROVEUENtT"BEST LN TIIE WORLD.
MANUFACTURED BY
FULLER, WARREN & CO.,
TROY, N. Y.
The Stewart Stove, which has been in use for more
than a quarter of a century, and by its economy and
euinpieto adaptation to the wants of the kitchau,£has
maintained an acknowledged superiority over all other
stoves, is now introduced to the public with all (he
modern conveniences of Front Draft, Ash Drawer
and Dumping Grate. The Flues have also been
enlarged and improved, so as to ensure an excellent
Draft at all times, aud still to retail) in the Stove its
unrivalled economical features. No store has ever yet
been made to do as muck work with as little fuel as the
Stewart. The following brief summary is the result
of One Day’s Work, recently accomplished at Glo
versville, N- V., with one Stewart Stove:
Baked 415 pounds of bread, half a bushel of po
tatoes, 5 apple pies. Roasted 73 pounds of beet.
Boiled 1 barrel of water; also, 17 gallons heated to
150 degrees. All this with one coal fire, not a particle
of coal being put iDto the stove after the fire was start
ed in the morning. Those in wantof Cook Stoves will
secure the most economy bv procuring tbe best. The
Stewart Stoves are for safe in nearly every town and
city throughout the United States.
FULLER, WARREN Sc CO.,
Exclusive Manufacturers,
Troy, N. Y.
Rranrhmnnw, • 1 63 State St., Chicago, 111.
BranchlHonses .{• 80 RiTer st ’ cle7e | and( 0 .
The Warren Double Oven Cooking Range
the most perfect operating Range in tbe market, and
the Lawson Hot Air Furnaces, the very best for
heattng Churches, Public Buildings, aud Private Resi
dences, are also manufactured and for sale by
FULLER, WARREN A CO.
tar Descriptive Pamphlets furnished on appliwrtion.
For sa.e in Atlanta by ,
2484 Peaohtree Street.
BUSINESS CARDS.
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Patented March 12, 1867.
FOR THE 101 LET, BATH ASD NURSERY
This Soap baa no equal. It preserves the complex
ion lair, the skin soft, flexible and healthy. It removes
all dandruff, preserves the hair soft and silky, and pre
vents it from falling off. It cures Pimples, all Diseases
of the Scalp and Skin, and is a GOOD SHAVING
SOAP. Agents wanted. Office, 43 Ann St., New York.
Ask any dealer for A. A . onstantwr’s Soap.
2532—t
SHARP & FLOYD,
(SUCCESSORS TO GEO. SHARP, J*.,)
WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GA.,
Manufacturing and Merchant Jewelers, Watch-
Makers, Silversmiths, and Engravers.
We Do First Class Work.
We sell only First Class Goods.
Wo sell the Diamond Spectacle.
We believe it to be the best in use.
We Keep the very Bast oi Workmen.
We have a large stock of Fine Jewelry.
We have the Latest Styles.
We have a large stock of Diamonds.
We are legitimate Diamond Dealers,
We have a large stock of Watches.
We sell at Small Profits.
We buy our goods for Cash.
We buy them very low.
We sell them low as the lowest.
Wc nave more Solid Silver Ware manafao
tnred than any Jeweller in Georgia.
We Engrave all our Ware free of charge.
We have a motto-Quick Sales, Small Profits.
We guarantee every article sold.
We gnaruntce all onr work.
We make Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals.
We want to furnish every Fair in the State.
We can make Premiums for Fairs.
We know that we can m ike them at a less prioe than
any house in Georgia.
We can make Premiums, theu, as low as any House
in the United States.
We cannot, shall not be excelled in Finish, Price or
Quality.
We shall not be undersold.
Give us a fair trial. SHARP A FLOYD.
2543-63—251
IMPORTANT NOTICE
-l_ TO
CONSUMERS OF DRY GOODS.
All Retell Orders amounting to S2O and Over Delivered
In any Part of the Country,
Free of Express Charges.
HAMILTON, EASTER &. SONS,
OF BALTIMORE, MD.,
n order the better to meet the wants of their RetaQ
ustomors at a distance, have established a
SAMPLE ZBTTZR/HLAaj,
and will, upon application, promptly send by mail Bill
lines of Samples of the Newest and most Fashionable
Goods, of FRENCH, ENGLISH and DOMESTIC MAN
UFACTURE, guaranteeing at all times to sail as low,
if not at less prices, than any house in the country.
Buying our Goods from the largest and most celebra
ted manufacturers in different parts of Europe, and
importing the same by Steamers direct to Baltimore,
our stock is at all times promptly supplied with the
novelties of the London and Paris markets.
As we buy and sell only for oash, and males no bad
debts, we are able and willing to sell our goods at from
T*n to Fiftrun Psr Cknt. Lbss Profit than if w• gave
credit.
In sending for Samples, specify the lcind of goods de
sired. We keep the best grades of every elass of goods,
from the lowest to the most costly.
Orders unaccompanied by the cash, will be sen t 0, 0. D.
I'ROMPT-Pa YINO tHOLKSALE BUYBRS are
invited to inspect the Stock in our Jobbing and Pack
age Department. Addtess
HAMILTON, EASTER A SONS,
107, 199, 201 and 208 West Baltimore Street,
2525 —2575 Baltimore, Md.
THE MENEELY BELL FOUNDRY.
(Established in 1825.)
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rS~ ~ Factories, etc., of whiab more have
p been made at this establishment than
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QMITH, CHEATHAM & CO.,
(Successors to ELON G. SMITH A C 0.,)
PORK PACKERS,
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MERCHANTS,
Corner Third and flprnoe Streets,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
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TRAVELERS’ GUIDE.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD CO
E. W. Cole, Superintendent, Atlanta.
Night Passenger Train — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 10.30 P M
Arrive at Chattanooga 0.10 A.M
Day Passenger Train — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 0.00 A.M
Arrive at Chattanooga 1.21 P.M
Fast Lene to New York — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 2.40 P.M
Arrive at Dalton 7.03 P.M
Night Passenger Train — lnward.
Leave Chattanooga 5.20 P.M
Arrive at Atlanta 1.42 A.M
Day Passenger Train — lnward.
Leave Chattanooga 5 30 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 2.20 P.M
Accommodation Train lnward.
Leave Dalton 2.25 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 9.10 A.M
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
S. K. Johnsoj , Superintendent, Augusta.
Day Passnger Train.
Leave Augusta 8.00 A.M
Leave Atlanta 7.10 A.M
Arrive at Augusta • • • • 5.40 P.M
Arrive at Atlanta 0.20 P.M
Night Passenger and Mail Train.
Leave Augusta 8.15 P.M
Leave Atlanta 5.30 P.M
Arrive at Augusta 3.45 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 0.40 A.M
Athens Branch Train leaves Union Point daily,
Sunday exeepted, at 1.15 P.M., arriving at Athene at
4.35 P.M. Leave Athens at 9.15 A.M., arriving at
Union Point 12.50 P.M. On Monday and Tuesday
nights, n train leaves Union Point at 2 20 A.M , arrives
at Athens 5.15 A.M.; leaves Alliens, 8 P.M., arriving
at Union Point, 11 P.M.
Washington Branch.—Train leaves Washington
at 10 A.M., arrives at Barnett, 11.30 A.M.; leaves
Barnett 2.15 P.M., arriving at Washington at 4.10
P.M. On Monday and Tuesday nights, leaves Wash
ington at 10.20 P.M., arriving at Barnett. 12 at night.
Leaves Barnett, 1.50 A.M., arrives at Washington,
3 30 A.M.
Macon and Augusta Railroad.— Train leave*
Cainak, 12.40 P.M., arriving at Milledgeville Junction
4.20 P.M.: leaves Junction at fi.ls A.M, arriving at
Camak, 9.25 A.M. Connects Augusta with South
Carolina, Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta, and
Augusta with Savannah Railroad.
ATLANTA AND WEST POINT RAILROAD.
L. P. Grant, Superintendent, Atlanta.
Dap Passenger Train— Outward.
Leave Atlanta 7.10 A.M
Arrive at West Point 11.40 A.M
Day Passenger Train—h ward.
Leave West Foint 12.4$ P.M
Arrive at Atlanta 5.00 P.M
Night Freight and Passenger — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 7.00 P.M
Arrive at West Point 10.45 P.M
Night Freight and Passenger — lnward.
Leave West Point 3.00 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 10.07 A.M
N ASnVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD
J. W. T iio.\tas, Superintendent, Nashvite.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Nashville 9.30 A.M
Arrive at Chattanooga 4.20 P.M
Leave Chatianooga 3.45 A.M
Arrive at Nashville 1.30 P.M
Night Passenger Train.
Leave Nashville 6.15 P.M
Arrive at Chatianooga 4.30 A.M
Leave Chatianooga 8.00 P.M
Arrive at Nashville 5 00AM
Night trains run daily; day trains run daily, Sun
days excepted.
Roth trains connect at Chattanooga for Rome, At
lanta, and all principal Southern cities.
Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad.
DAT PASSENGER THAIS— SORTS.
Leave Seh-a. 10:08 a.m
Arrive at Rome. 8:80 p.m
Arrive at Dalton 11:80 p.m
NIGUT PASSENGER TRAIN—SOUTH.
Leave Dal ton 8:10 p.m
Arrive at Rome 11:86 p.m
Arrive at Selma 10:80 a m
ACCOMMORATION TRAIN.
Leave Rome 1:48 p.m.
Arrive at Roma. i;46 p,®.
The accommodation train runs from Roma to Jacksonville
dally, Sundays excepted. The through passenger train only
wlu be run on Sunday.