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Newspaper Page TextJ, Jfamilg loaxirrtal—geboteb to 'ITiREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE. ATHENS, 6A. OCTOBER 28, 1870. VOL. XL.™NO. 9—NEW, SERIES. VOjC. 4. N0 I lit Southern manner. ri'BMSHKD WKKKI.T, BY S. A. ATKINSON, aT three dollars per annum, STRICT!,r IS ADVANCE. Broad st., over J. H. Huggins. n\TF.S OK ADVERTISING. .1 will be inserted at One Dollar and r.fw (VhU iwr Square of 12 line*, for the fiiat, and Cents for each *uh*oquem insertion, (irsnr time under one month. For a longer period ufc, r j) contracts will be made. Fireside Miscellany. ^ {Only a Fanner’s Wife. ' Two women sat together at sunset in the porch door of a white cottage that stood under its “ old ancestral tree ” and among its fields of wheat and corn, like a poet’s vision of a quiet resting place for some weary, suffering human soul. L. k II. COBli, \ ttorneysat law, V Athene, Georgia. Office over It. M. Smith t Vs Drug More. ALEX. S. ERWIN, \ TTORNEY AT LAW, jA. Athena, Georgia. M. VAN' ESTES A ttorney at la.iv, Homer, Banka Count,. Ga. Jenny was silent. Here was the side of the bright picture which she had never seen or dreamed of before. “ You love your husband, Jenny ?” said her friend after a time. Jenny opened her eyes wide. “Love’ him! Why, isn’t he my husband*?” was her reply. Mrs Van Howth laughed. “Some women in society might Farm Miscellany. Is Farming Hard Work I Some farmers cannot obtain tile con veniently, and Many will not obtain them when tijey are within their reach; and many dj» not have access to' either tile or stone, but have wood in abund ance, and comparatively cheap. My . . „ A , , think that a reason why you shouldn t And one of these two women had , ..1.1 ... , love him!” she said drily. “And he loves you also ?” “ I should die to-morrow if I thought he did not. 1 ‘Tut,, child. People leave this eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to feel and appreciate it all She was a tall and stately lady, ap parently some thirty years of age—not Ail uuu I1J.IUUU paunm I- aivi UMI., The careful toillet, the nameless air of I*"" ** y ° U f»is infideli- D. G. CANDLER, A ttorney at law, Hom*r, Bunks County. Ga. Will practice In the countiua of Banka, Jackson, llail, Haber sham and Franklin. PITTM AN k HINTON, A ttorneys at law, •Jefferson, Jackson county. Ga. elegance rad luxury, the pale cheek? 5 °" and soft white hands bctrnved the city ” n 1 - , , “Don t talk of it Margaret. I dame. While the weary glance in her I ,, . , .... , . „ , , , ,. , J b , could not bear it Why, he is all the large dark eves, which even the pleasant ., * ~ ' - ,, T t. ? , , , ,, v . world to me. How could I bear to quiet of that sunset hour could not quite I j Qse j t drive away, showed that time had not I «* Xhen don’t wish him to be a city dealt gently with her and her heart’s merchant, my dear. I dare say there SAMUEL P. THURMOND, A ttorney a t l a w, Athens, Ga. Office on Broad street, over Burry A Son’s Store. WUl give special attention to oases In Bankruptcy. Also, to tho collection of all claim* entrusted to his care. ALBERT L. MITCHELL, L A W . ..... , Hull build ing. W1U practice In Clark and the adjoining coun ties. A ttorney ati Athens, Ga. Office in Heupree’s idols, but had thrown them, shattered and ruined, at her feet. are many good men in the city—men who love their wives; but on the other Her companion was some five years I there are so many temptations, her junior, and many times prettier I especially j n society, that I sometimes a little round faced, apple cheeked wo- W onder, not that so many go astray, man with dark blue eyes and dark fa,t that so many rernnin true to them- brown hair, and n rounded figure that selves ant i their duty.” There is a general impression that farming requires very hard work. I do not know of any kind of «"t that is easy, but I would like to kncAwhere the specially hard work on a farm comes expcrience i^fiHing drains wjth wood, in. Take the com crop; plowftg^ie f or twenty 'years past, is very much sod is sometimes rather hard work, bil\j fayore in favor of wood than I ever it lasts only a few days, and frequently thqgght it would be. I have a great so far as mere strength is required, a minv^rqds filled with wood, and thus boy will plow as well as a man. Har- far they bavol operated to my entire rowing, rolling, and marking are not satisfaction in every respect. In 1842, yery back-breaking wofk. Plantipg ^fijie^ja Iar?te drain with beach and iawifNig nyiflgtiir diauir'-^KVoks four or five i;' 1 a boy fifteen yen* old wiU sometimes on t ^.v #ido 0 f* the bottc keep up with the men. He may not do as good work, but at any rate it shows that the men a$e not endanger ing their health with exhausting labor. And so with cultivating; a boy with a steady horse, provided you do not give him (as too frequently happens) the oldest, heaviest, and poorest cultivator on the farm, will generally keep up with the men. (improve his soil mechanically by the I often boils to pieces. All these effects use of a different kind of earth from are due to the presence of a large pro- the one to be improved. Fifty loads of portion of serum in the meat, and to stiff day to the acre, applied in the I the relatively large amount of intercel- * • i l l * I , v . A,* laf Miscellaneous. Mi Fall, to*a light sand, to be plowed in I lular or gelatinous tissue; for the fat the Spring, and one hundred loads of I and true muscular substance are to a sand applied to heavy clay land, and greater or less extent deficient. It is spread any time before plowing, will be at all times best to guard against the found to have very beneficial effects, possibUity of injury by having meat and this mixture of soils, where the well cooked- It should he so cooked necessary are not far apart, I that the very centre of the joint should (which very frequently is not the case,) be exposed for some time to the tempera- affords one of the cheap means of im- tureof212°Fahrcnheit The instructions the roil, especially as the oper- of Leibig in this particular are hardly be carried on at such times I safe; for although a * W ation when the ham ‘ * • » - endiujf this method is; twent) cLOTirtsfr At coetH’ By Wi ll H. "Wliite. AVING DETERMINED TO da«e out. mg ■ remaining stuck 4#. .. READYMADE CLOTHING I now offer, with but few excepUons, tho ontli* Stock. At • . --.f J. NEW- WHUi » *»T, OB UBSL H Many articles will be offered for LE88 TUAN HALF TUK ORIGINAL COST. The stock contains many will be offered as above, butONLT FOB tUlll. . The stock consists of an assortment of SprinfL Sunirn* 1 Jinll Cloihio*, for Men and Boys. ' A. M. COCHRAN, R eal estate agent, Galnosrille. Oa. Will give careful fatten- eTAY O. GAILEY, (AGENT) JMPOUTEU OF, AND DEALER CROCKERY TABLE GLASS - WARE, KEROSENE OIL, LAMPS, Looking Glasses AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, Broadest reel, Athens, (in. was set off to the best advantage by the afternoon dress of the tinted muslin that she wore. At present the pretty face wasalmost spoiled by a querulous discontented ex pression. She was contrasting her own hand, plump and small, but certainly rather brown, with the slender white She spoke absently, and her eyes had a far away glance, as if the dwelt on other things. Jenny ventured a question. “ Margaret, is your husband a hap py marriage ? Do you love your hus band ? And does he love you ?” Mrs. Van Howth started, and turn- fingers of her city friend’s, all glit- cd crimson. tering with rings. “Just look at the I “ Jenny. I would have loved him— two!” she exclaimed. “That comes 11 would have been a good wife to him; of making butter and cheese, and J but he never loved me. He brought sweeping and dusting, and washing dishes, and making beds all the time. That man told the truth that j said woman’s work is never done. me to place at the head of the house, because he thought me ladylike and in teresting ; that was all. He told me so once, though not quite so plainly johs imsrv \ l. w. bosks, John niiowN, 1 j. s. noses. BONES, BROWN & CO., TMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN JL Foreign and Domestic Hardware, Augusta, Ga. F. M. KDDLKMAN k CO. TO'HOLESALE DEALERS IN Boots, Shoes and leather, •ranch and American Calf Skin*, Lasts, Peg*, Lining and Binding Skins, Shoe Findings, Ac. IWitur Street, next door to SHtcj k Dougherty. ATLANTA* GA. know mine never is. Oh, dear, dear! to as this. And since then we have each think that you, Margaret, should have j taken our own way, independent of the married a city merchant, and be as I other. I seldom see him at our house rich as a princess in a fairy tale; and fa town, I have my carriage, my dia- liere I am planted lor life, plain Mrs. I monds, my opara box. In the season Hiram Parke, and nothing in the world I go to Saratoga, or Newport, while he to compare with you. I am sick of favors Long Branch with his presence. being only a furiner’s wife.” Margaret Von Howth looked down at her grumbling little friend with a | sad smile. “ Jenny, it seems to me, as we sit here in this quiet place and look out We are perfectly polite to each other; wo never quarrel; and I suppose, if I were to die to-inorrow, he’d lie an in consolable widower—fora week. Jenny, you will not wish to change places with me again. Your husliand might over all these pleasant fields that are I change as mine has done, exposed to RATIONAL HOTEL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. C'r. Whitehall St. and H’.A.l. R. R. K. H. PON1I, PuoruiETon. UNITED STATES HOTEL— A !ahama St.. Allaulu, Gu. SasseiMi & Johnson, Proprietors. Coi'ii Shelters — AND— Agricultural Implements. W 2 ARE AGENTS FOR THE following .Undard Machine. : Burke) draper autl Xnwer ; lUtl. 7MfM.lv A llurklianT. l-nwer A Thresher ; Southern Soruho llarhln. IVa Cane nilln and S«»ar Krnpnralor* j Wo also have a Tin Shop Ir. the rear of the .tore, where wo keep all kind, of Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper w.rk. We also keep a K.»>d stock of Tin Ware on hand, not “ the l*»t in Georgia, but none better than nitre, and at low prices. We most cordially return our .Incere thank, to our Wend, and customer* in Albeit.and the conn- try, and hope, by strict attention to business, to merit a continuance of their custom. AU commands from the country strictly attend ed to. We will be happy to see all at our aiund, No. S. Broad .tree., Athens. G., y ^ ^ NEW CLOTHING STORE REMOVED TO CORNER BROAD STREET AND COLLEGE AVENUE. your own—it seems to me that you are almost wicked to talk like that.” “ I dare say, but you would not like it Margaret. You would never wish to change places with me.” “ Perhaps not. Would you like to change with me ?” “ Yes. ” “ And bo Mrs Von Howth, instead of Mrs Hiram Parke Jenny hesitated. .She dearly loved her handsome husband. “ Well, 1 don’t mean tliut I want to give up Hiram. I only mean that 1 wish he was a city merchant, instead of a farmer, and as rich as your husband is ; that is all. ” And that is a great deal. Jenny if your wish could be granted do you know what your life would be ?” said Mrs Von Howth coldly. “ What yours is I suppose, any lady’s is in your position.” But what is that life. Do you know ?” How should I ?” It is a weaiy one, Jenny, with more genuine hard work iu it than all your making of butter and cheese.” “ Oh, Margaret. ’’ “ And oh, Jenny! Believe me, my dear, there are no people on earth H AVE OPE! Clothing and Furnishing Goods, to which they invite public attention. We h»ve a Aral clans cutter connected with tho establish ment. Orders Ailed at short notice. GROVER& BAKER SEWING MACHINES!! pho\oixo:d thk best is i sf„ OY ALL WHO HAVE TRIED A-J them. These machines, with all the IMPROVEMENTS AND «... fo. i» a ATTACHMENTS, adtiadVat Um "“’'“fseturer’* prices, freight banner office. Wagon Yard in Athens. rp HITS UBSC RIB ERHA S J. nwfe, comfortable and commodious Wa-nn Yard on HI TOT street near the Upper HridVi- where Corn, Fodder, ltd *11 other necessary op! plluires, enn be pnrebased on reasonable terms — Chutes moderate. The highest market price paid for county produce, and baulk bills received In ei change for goods. WILEY HOOD. the same temptation. Thank Heaven you have him tus lie is, a good, true mail, who loves you; and never mind the butter and cheese, Jenny, so long :is your happiness and his is made up with them.” .She arose from her seat and strolled tip the garden path. Jenny did not follow her. She sat oil the step lost in thought. The rid dle of her friend’s life was at last made clear to her. She had often wondered why Margaret, in the midst of all her wealth and luxury, should seem so sad. She wondered on longer now. To lie the wife of a man who had no love for you! What “lower deep” can there be than this for a prouud and sensitive womnn ? Jenny turned with tears in her eyes to meet her stalwart husband as he What | came from the field. “ Well, little woman,” he cried, and then she got the hearty kiss for which she was looking. Yes, Margaret was right. The but ter aud cheese were of little consequence while love like this made her task easy toendure. And the rosy-cheeked little woman bent fondly down over her “ Hiram, ” as he flung himself down on the porch who work harder than the fashionables seat, and fanned him, talked to him, who unly Uavp their own amusement j brought him lemonade, and made him amusement is a dog’s life, the best.” enny, at Hoeing is very hard work; so hard that the men sometimes require a little cider to enable them to keep up with the women and boys,’working in the same field. Cutting up the crop is also heavy work, but still there are few men who feel ashamed to have a boy keep up with them. Husking is such hard work that it is often left to the women and the boys. The same remarks will apply to the potato crop. Haying and harvesting are such hard work that the men must have higher wages and better fare. Riding on a mowing machine not so very laborious, if it was not for the fact that the knives have to lie ground and sharpened occasionally and nuts screwed up anti the bcariugs oiled. When I rake up liay with sulky, steel-toothed rake, one of my little children sometimes goes with me on the rake, and apparently enjoys rid ing up and down the field as much any of her city cousins would a drive in Central Park. When we had only one-horse tedding machines a man could use them without overtaxing his strength, but now we have (tco-horse tedders and we expect otic man to driv I>oth horses. Is it not hard work Cocking, opening, spreading out, turn fag, and re-cocking, are not tradition ally hard work. Pitching requires some strength, but the work may be greatly lessened aud facilitated by the exercise of a little mechanical knowl edge and common sense. Unloading is down-right hard work, but we have good forks that do away with the neces sity for it. Mowing away in a close ltam is anything but agreeable, but in a commodious barn, with a hay fork, it requires a very short time to stow away a load. In harvesting grain, binding is hard, and when there are thistles, very disa greeable work, and it is time we got rid of the latter, and had a machine to do the former. Pitching sheaves is com paratively light work. I would much rather pitch than load or unload. But where is the killing labor? Is it in thrashing ? With the exception of feed ing, if there is any really hard work about thrashing you will gencratly find that it is assigned to a boy! I had a man leave me because I would not let him have three men to help him on the | straw stack. We were thrashing as we drew in from the field, and one man did the pitching. If we had been put ting grain, strew, and all in a stack before thrashing, he would have re quired only a boy to help him. But to stack the straw alone required four men! Such is the force of tradition. Depend upon it, the hard work on a farm is a myth—an idea of the past the, drafa; wiih fliit stoneS'on'the^top them. In' srtme 'instances, ; one pole only was laid^n the ditch, on one side, and flat ston& whijrji had been hauled one and a hiB. 'mil^ were lai$ with one end on me pole and the other end on the groa|0 in the bqttoin of the ditch. I exSked some of thesS poles 1 after they had min there eighteen years; and although they were somewhat ’do zy,’ as we usduly .say,when timber is iu the first stass of decomposition, still. I am confideim|hat those drains will be as serviccaqKfor twenty years, to come, as theypffie Already-been fi>? nearly that lei “ * ‘ “ £ - Jl .Ibumcn and develope the flavors of - ri^Tmsugethede- pvr-fcjie, less, of manure to ‘the acre j strin-tion of^^^crous parasites. It •wiir be attended with equal results, u ‘the production of a crop. There are l tie over cookecd than^ other means of m&banicajly improving I LethAy, Rep: on the soil, of which we may take the op portunity to speak ifa some future oc casion.-—Journal of Applied Chemistry. therefore better to have the meat a lif. Log 1 Dams. 7 % These, in a locality w $lenjy, are cheapest, If the bottom lie of iime. My ususi rigidt adherened of a majority of drivers practice, howdeer, jjSU when : filling drains with wood, to haul iny-logs in winter, ands luNs them sawed of the desired dirtici drains, and considerable water te throat of the drain. both for. small where there i: carried in the For small' drajiis, in which two-iuch tile would' carry all the water, I baefcome of my logs sawed into stuff two inches -by one andTi-half square for the si^£ pieces. These, were i, sometimes twelve e logs were sawed six inches wideband to two inches in of larger size, MischieTons Olil Errors. In the midst of change, improvement, ’foundation, begin l»y lm reform, Ijuite a number of questiona- across the stream, at tr ble : old notions continue'to be followed, .face of the- intended dr efen now when the very erroneous char-1 extend from bank to acter of some of them has been general-1 on e log at the end of jam ly ackowiedged; Of this character is I each piece as long and .care to clear away 'ofhorses,to that useless' and injurious ! that will wash out-feoiq relic of - old times, the check-rein. Its fivherc hollow’ places occur, -put^. s.hort. use with draught horses is positivelyTJogSaqross undergo*as to give it asafe cruel. -When, a horse is drawing a foundation. Then put short logsacross heavy load, and particularly “up hill,” this,* six or eight leef apafl,_ their butt lie needs the utmost freedom' of lungs j efids lying 'upon the log and ih’eir \op and wind, and this he can never have l enfla upon the ground, up stream from .a .tnt. J nluA.Min ’I’liaf j!,. .1. nntr I ’ 1,,, _ . I tier sawed an illch and. m three to fjour ig to the amount and thnplanks wed of any wtdtli) These were laid in the feet in length, into pieces five from one and a thickness. Fof the side pieces v a half thick inches wide, ai of water to lie for covering were without squarin were srfwed witii eight to twelve ing to the size of the drain, and laid cross-ways in the ditch. Slabs and planks of all widths may be entirely orked up in this way without any waste. I have used basswood, white elm, and hemlock for side pieces and planks; but hemlock is far more dura ble than cither of the other two; and tile or stone is far better than wood of any kind. But it will pay well to drain en with basswood, when nothing more durable is at hand. Timber for draining should be prepared in the inter, so that it may be ready to be laid in the ditch when it is needed. It ill last twice as long if it is well sea soned before it is laid in the ground, and it will remain sound much longer in a clayey soil, than in a sandy soil, and if the covering pieces were dipped iu a kettle of warm tar, which could be quickly done, and in winter too, it would insure durability equal to the life of any man.— Working Fanner. Poor Never again would she wish to be “ I should like to be convinced ot it I more, only a farmer’s wife. Lumber! Lumber!! "IITE have at the Steam Saw Mill, Y V nrar Ut« upper bridge, at Athens, 200,000 FEET OF PINE LUMBER on hand, a portion of which 1* seasoned, and are continuing Its manufacture. We are prepared to deliver on short notice, to any point In Athens, or at the Athens Depot, at the lowest price*. Also, Laths, Furrowing, Stripe, and aquantity of rough lumber, suitable for out houses leap fence*. J. E. PITTMAN A GO. , All ordere will recclre prompt attention If left With J. E. Piltrosn, R. J. or J. F. Wilson, or with Col. J. if. Muggins, No. 7, Broad street. Jaly a- lf Preserve Your Fruit. r PHE BEST AND SUREST WAY -*- to do this la to buy UM IIERO fruit jar, last * D “** h r fomilies in Athena for the nefoisItwTak vln f «?«re aatls&cUon. The by actual experience,” said Jenny, doubtingly. “ So I said aud thought once. I have been so convinced. And it is all vanity aud vexation of spirit, my dear.” “ But how ? ” persisted Jenny. “ How ? In ten thousand ways. If you live in the fashionable world, you must do as the fashionable world does. You must rise and dress and shop and lunch, and dress again and drive, and dress again and appear at certain balls, parties, concerts, exactly as your friends do, or be voted bizzarre, and out of the world altogether. You, my poor Jenny, who are by no mean: fond of dress, what would you do at a fashionable watering place in the hot test days of August, with five changes of toilet between morning and night, and a French lady’s maid to tyrannize over you all the time into the bargain ?” “ Horrors!” ejaculated Jenny. “ Balls that you must go to in spite of fatigue, parties that you must grace n spite of the heat, calls that you must make on people whom you detest! Oh, Jenny, I should for rather be at home with the butter and cheese if I were you.” Margaret! " Happy Jenny! V* voung man need hesitate about ,. ...iA „t.„ „:.l i. devoting his life to agriculture on ac count of the great labor and strength required. If he has health, industry, energy, perseverance, a cultivated mind, some mechanical ingenuity, and a good No blister draws sharper than the 1 ft of <~ n *“*■* wWt * big interest does. Ofall industries none™" 1 ^ that "? U , ne | ver 1 d is comparable to that of interest. It I!™ ,Ct works all day and night, fa fair weath- Ilenry Ward Beecher on Interest. er and foul. It has no sound it its footsteps, but travels fast. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth. It binds industry with its film, as a fly is bound in a spider’s web. Debts roll a man over and over, bind ing hand and foot, and letting him ed by cable. Such appears to be the join the great army of farmers. We noed such men, aud I cannot see why his chances of success are not as great as they would be if he adopts any other business.—American Agriculturist. Heavy storms in Englaud, resulting in great losses of property, are report- hang upon the fatal mesh until the long- legged interest devours him. There is but one thing on a farm like it, and that is the Canada thistle, which swarms new plants every time you break its roots, whose blossoms ore prolific, and every flower the father of a million seeds. Every leaf is an awl, every branch a spear, and every plant like a platoon of bayonets, and a field of them like an armed host. The whole plant is a torment and vegetable curse. And yet a farmer bad better make his bed of Canada thistles than attempt to be at ease upon interest Don’t neglect the sowing of wheat reaction in the elements from the late long and widely prevailing drought both hemispheres. There are three things in the world that know no kind of restraint, and are governed by no laws, but merely by passions and brutality—civil wars, fam ily quarrels, and religious disputes. A new method for the prevention of 6heep killing by dogs is suggested furnishing the dogs with bells that only ring when they are running. Linen can be glazed by adding a tea spoonful of salt and one of finely scraped white 6oap into a pint of starch. Special attention elver t« cutting, for tboM Wfe. wish to have their clothl •>« made •■utslde. t. AU are solicited to tall and *e* If they cannot hA pall W.U. lLWlflTE, ue.’eu eb« July 1 —2m. , ** > . * ».» jt - NGERS DESIRINH TO VISIT * • ANY OFTHE ' orllieru, Southern, Eastern, , , Western Cities, i- Sliould study well the attraction* offered by tb* with# tight check-rein. That the check-1 (his ; you- jftttrioir'- rein-prevents ahorse from stumbling J upon >*dy#.tecitl’^allel with is more than doubtful; on the contra-: j the first one. but inclining slightly up ry, by elevating his eyes, it preyents stream; tliein another set of short ones, hup frem seeing clearly wl^a#4^|ilace thtir butts upon; the last tier, and top fits foot. When aJhorSe does stumble,, | r nd upon the ground beside the first cross ties. These must be a little short er than the first ties, to admit of laying where they are far ahead of us in every-1 a smallish log on the ends ofthe first thing pertaining to horses, the check-! on es, and up into the angle fjrmet^ by _______ • ‘ the second ones; you can now lay rein has been abolished; the lost sur render being that of the artillary and eqmmissariat 'trains to the British ar my, the change having been made by Sir George Bui^oyne, the Commander- Jhief,. and Ke testifies to thejbenefi- effects attending it. In New Yorl City, thanks*’ 1 (6-llr. Ttargfc, -tT the finest equipages are driven without the check-rein, and a few humane peo ple have thrown it out of use here. The old-fashioned “ blinkers,” or blind- halters, are also useless, if not positive ly injurious, by coming fa contact and rubbing the lids of the horse’s eyes: ‘ skids” upon these small lp§s, and JRCr ^^bri*r wmi ■ ‘tbc fflebratAl'tiwtCngi-r ruiitq «rthe H.Sutb. ;X - Only Route ffoni Atln'ntu RUNNING A DOUBLE daily: through trae- Preventing tbs possibility Qfa delay of Four Hours Incident to, lines running but one dally train. ; Tho raisenger Equipment orihU Road la super!* or to that of any rutul in tbr .South. In addition to the. . COACHED Of the Road, thero are. attached to ail night tralu*. the bi Bill . - • S-f. an.- TULLMAN SLEEPERS* • Which furnish accommoaailons equal to a 6n%S class hotel. There are on sale at reduced rates, for the umm* , tickets to In addltio LUXURIOUS proceetl to roll up your third tier of large logs, aloug the faces. Case must be taken to notch them a little wji they cross each other, to insure tl lying safely, or btegk them secure with stone or piece bf .wood Where the small ends come. Your next tier of ties must be notch ed well down at the small or up-stream end, and you must proportion your two parallel tiers of logs and these ties, so that the front or breast places, is good to cbink these cracks, as it grows and and many experienced horsemen long increases in such a place, instead of ago came to the conclusion that horses i washing out. Cedar bark, pounded are more easily alarmed by what they ifa e oa kum, is also good. Such a hear and do not see, because, being in- covering requires but little graveling telligent animals, if they can fully see 11 0 make it tight, as the pressure of the the objects which when unseen, or im-1 wa ter forces the packing down into the Improvement of the Soil by Mechanical Means. It must lie evident to every one, that, other things being equal, the perma nently productive capacity of the soil will bear a direct proportion to its depth. By deepening the soil the cul tivator can change the character of the laud itself, and also alter both its phys ical qualities and change its chemical constitution, aud thus fit it for bearing other kinds of plants than those which would be found naturally growing upon its surface: or if those should be con sidered desirable, he can very easily increase their productiveness. But ho cannot deepen the soil without increas ing his labor, which is the first consid eration of the farmer, especially here where it bears so high a proportion compared with other count ries ; and in no other branch of business is the strictest economy so essential to success as in the one we are treating of. But here science comes to his aid and war rants the outlay, and suggests that if he deepen his soil his plants will have a wider range for their roots in search of food which will give an increased growth, that the portion of the subsoil brought to the surface by deep plowing, will receive the ameliorating influence of frost and rain, by which previous, perhaps hurtful, properties are altered and washed out, that in the times of drouth those roots can seek the grate ful moisture which is being condensed from the atmosphere within its cooler depth; and he finds his account in the increased product of his crop. The same science will suggest the frequent stirring of the soil to expose fresh particles to atmospheric influence, the use of the subsoil plow, and where necessary, draining, which has been attended with so mach benefit wherever Again, the cultivator can perfectly seen, tend to frighten them, they are more readily calmed. Another popular error which bears hard on the horses is the custom of making the axles of conveyances of all sorts of one uniform width. This cus tom is of ancient date, and it has caus ed great detriment to our public high ways, both in town aud country. It is not, perhaps, saying too much to assert that the uniform adhernce to it has cost our Highway Department for the last fifty years hundreds of thousands of dollars. . Had there been a latitude or play of from ten to twelve or four teen inches in the tread of the wheels, especially in carts and wagons, it would have been impossible to have cut onr pavements into the ruts we now see, and which render hauling so difficult along our streets and roads. Like the Couestoga wagons of the last genera tion, with their wide tires, a difference in the width of our axles would have improved rather than damaged our highways, and we should not see them cut into alternating sidges and ruts, as no many of them are now.—Philadel phia Ledger. seams formed by the round logs, where is not easy to wash it out, or displace freo ' by any other means. Such a dam is cheap, strong, and durable, where there is a constant sup ply of water; but on small streams lia ble to dry up in summer, and allow the logs to dry, and heat, and check, they cry soon rot, nnd are therefore not to be recommended for such a situation. Appearancoof Good and Diseased Meat. Good meat is neither of a pale pink ish color nor of a dark purple tint; the former is indicative of disease, and the latter is a sign that the animal has died from natural causes. Good meat has a marbled appearance from the ramifica tions of little veins of intercellular fat and the fat, especially of the internal organs, is hard and suety, and is never wet; whereas that of diseased meat is soft and watery, often like jelly or sod den parchment. Again the touch or feel of healthy meat is firm aud elastic, and it hardly moistens the fingers, whereas that of diseased meat is soft and wet in fact, it is often so wet that serum runs from it, ant then it is technically called wet Good meat has but little odor, and this is not disagreeable; whereas diseased meat smells faint and cadave rous, and often has the odor of medi cine. This is best observed by cutting it and smelling the knife, or by pouring a little warm water upon it Good meat will bear cooking without shrink ing and without loosing very muoh in s-.AtlanSc Railroad,* \ Moatsoacry Whites Alleghany Springs, .Conyer’s Springs, Black Springs, Warn./ring*,. . Little Street Springs, Bedford Alum Spriggs. Xontrale Springs, Bersheba Springs. Natural Bridge. »f Virginia, Lookout Moan*- 1- ’ Niagara-FtaUw “* Hut Sprlags, of Ark And ail other resorts * In the United States*’ This Is the only road in tho South offering thruag^f tickets to j , i. f Yokohama, Japan, Hioga, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Shanghai, China, Nagaslci, China. STEAMERS LEAYe" SAN FRANCISCO' FOR CHINA AND JAPAN, On the First Day of Each Month. Tickets can he purchased In all the cities. ItagRage checked to destination, and handled Ask for Tickets via W. & A. Railway* It. W. WRENS. General rassengcr and Ticket Agent. A. L. HARRIS. Master Transportation and Superrix-r. FOSTER BLODGETT. .Superintendent. L. M. HARRIS. Southern l’assenger Agent. How Much Bacon was Consum ed Last Season, and What it costs us.—There is no possible reason why the South cannot make its own supply of meat. There is no section ofthe country which will not produce the hog, nor does the climatic effects prevent its being properly cured. * Our agricultur al journals which very rightly cry “ plant more corn” should also add, raise more hogs, cure your own meat and save your money.” From one of our exchanges we find that the South alone spent in meat last season 830,000, 000, or counting last year’s crop of cot ton to have averaged one hundred dol lars per bale, it took 300,000 bales of cotton to pay for meat alone. We have never heard but one single argument used by planters to explain why they could not raise hogs, and that was, that the freedmen stole the stock, having a liking for other people’s meat. We cannot see any strength in this line of argument. Just as the freedman is interested in his masters’ cotton crop, so could he be made personally liable for the hog crop. What however is the truth, is that the com crop is utterly neglected, and of course, where there is no grain there can be no pork. 8houId the present European war continue, which would be likely to en hance the price of all provisions, we should think our planters would tak>> every measure to insure them a stejk of meat, made by themselves.—Savan nah Newt. LONGS &: BILLUPS, BROAI) ST., ATHENS, GEO., DEALERS IN DRUGS ID MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS. OILS, GLASS, PUTTY, STATIONERY ; PFRFUJIERY, LIQUORS, BITTER*, A ND EVEKYUHING usually xA. usually kept iu a First Class Drug Mntm. Particular attention has been nar.t In tlie selection and reliability uf out -slelans arc assured that promptness and fidelity. STOCK OF FANCY GOODS la Urge and attractive, embracing a great varlaiy, PERFUMERY, TOILET ARTICLES. BRUSHES, COMBS, AC*. Helm bold’s and Ayer's Preparations, Hurley'* Worm Candy and Sa-saporilU, Drake's PUntatlon Bitters, Remain's Crimean - BUters, HooUand's German Blturs, and many other popular jirrparatloiis always Ml ofaur stock, to the pnrlty and rs goods, and families and physicians orders will be filled with pmrnptn. FRESH GARDEN SEEDS of the moat approved varieties on hand and foe tale In any quanUty desired. Also Grass Seed. ST. LOUIS LEAD, Warranted strictly pore-the best | B the market. The Pimatua and West India Tele graph cable was opened for public busi ness to Jamaica on September 19. An Illinois husband laments the loss of several bushels of apples, shaken prematurely from the tree on which weight; but bad meat shrivels up, and I his wife hanged herself. Horse.' Hog, and Tattle Fewrtrn. Invaluable for all diseases of stock. |”i other expenses, and * resionabl* commission on sales. ImmadtalaappHtoUon. are soUdted torn proper ^tamrfk&“£* eXCh * n| ^’ Appl)r ,0 ' or * d ’ July 29—It J. PACKER & CO.. " Continental Mills,’. *84 Bowery, New York. pardons, at t&a

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Southern banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1832-1872, October 28, 1870, Image 1