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business Directory.
I.AMAU COBB. A. 8. ERWIN. noWELI* COBB.
COBB, ERWIN & COBB,
AAV,
Office in tbe Dcuprcc
Atlifcn*
building.
SI. VAN ESTES,
j\- T T O R N E Y AT LAW
llomer, Hanlis County, Ga.
1). «. ANDLER,
\ TTORNEY AT
ix.
LAW,
IX llomer, Banks County. Ga. Will practice
In the counties of Banks, Jackson, Hall, Haber-
• ham and Franklin.
The wheels ground along on the heat* I rites were performed, but if the Prince
PITTSIAN & IIINTON,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jr\. Jefferson, Jackson county. Ga.
SAMUEL P. THURMOND,
A TTORNEY ATLA W ,
•d-A. Athens, Oa. Office on Broad street, over
IUriy A Son’adiorCs Will give special iiltentiAi
to eases in Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of
all claims cntniMed to hie care.
J. J. k J.
1AEALERS
1 J In
r. ALEXANDER.
IN HARDWARE,
Iron Steel, Nails, Carriage Material, Mialng
ni, eincnts, Ac,, tVhltenallst., AH ini i.
RATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Cor. Whitehall St and M<f> .1. R. R.
K. 15. POND, PnopniF.TOR.
Corn Si tellers
— AND—
Agricultural Implements.
W i ARE AGENTS FOR THE
following standard Machines :
Darkey Reaper and .dower ;
Hall, Moore * lluckhard'N rower A Thresher ;
Saathrra Sorgho Machine AVs
Cane A ills and ttQffar Kvaporaiors ;
Te also hare a Tin Shop in the rear ef the store,
wl cre we keep all kinds of Tin, Sheet Iron ami
Copper wark. We also koop a good stock of Tin
W ire on hand, not “ the best in Georgia,” liut
no<? better than ours, and at low prices.
Ye most cordially return our sincere thanks to
our friends and customers in Athens and the coun
try, and hop*, by strict attention to business, to
merit a continnanco of their custom.
All Co min in Is fr • n the country ^;r!rtly attend
ed t>. Wo will h» i »:«py to see a' 1 ! ., jar stand,
No, 5, Broa 1 at • •», Athens, tin.
si: M 1-:y v WVTON.
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DY ALL WHO HAVE TRIED
.1—J them. ictae machines, w.th .ill the
IMPROVEMENTS
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Fireside Miscellany.
TiicLatr of Kindness; or, The Old Wo*
man’s Railway Signal.
BY ELIHU BURRITT.
Tlie most effective working force in
the world in which we live is the law
of kindness. For it is the only moral
force that operates with the same effect
upon mankind, beastkind, and bird-
kind. From time immemorial, music
has wonderfully affected all beings, rea
soning or unreasoning, that have ears
to hear. The prettiest idea and simile
of ancient literature relate to Orpheus
playing his lyre to animals listening in
iutoxlctrttjd'silence to itsstrains. ■ Well’,
kindness is the spontaneous music of
good-will to men and beasts. And
both listen to it with their hearts in
stead of their ears; and the hearts of
both are affected by it in the same way,
if not tc the same degree. Volumes
might lie written filled with beautiful
illustrations of its effects upon both.—
The music of kindness has not only the
power to charm, but to transform both
the savage heart of man and beast;
and on this harp the smallest lingers in
the world may play heaven’s sweetest
tunes on earth.
Some time ago wc read of an inci
dent that will serve as an illustration
of this beautiful law. It was substan
tially to this effect: A poor, coarse-
feat nred old woman lived on the line
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway,
where it passes through a wild, unpeo
pled district of Western Virginia.—
She was a widow, with only one
daughter, living with her in a log hut,
near a deep, precipitous gorge, crossed
by the railway bridge. Here she con
trived to support themselves by raisin^
and selling poultry and eggs, adding four Englishmen. He left his own
ed rails slower and slower, until the en
gine stopped at the decaying fire. It
still hijjSid enough to chow them the
beetling edge of the black abyss into
which the train and all its passengers
would ha ve plunged, and into a death
and destruction too horrible to think of,
had it not been for the old woman’s
signal.. They did not stop to thank
her first for die deliverance. The con
ductor knelt down by the side of the
engine; the engine driver and the brake-
men came and knelt down by him; all
the passengers came and knelt down by
them ; and there, in the expiring light
pf,the Amrat-ottt- pile! in the rain and
wind, they thanked God for the salva
tion of their lives. All in a line the
kneelers and prayers sent up into the
dark heavens such a midnight voice of
thanksgiving as seldom, if ever, as
cended from the earth to Him who
seeth in darkness as well as in secret
Kindness is the music of good-will to
men ; and on this harp the smallest
fingers may play heaven’s sweetest
tunes on earth.
had not been so obliging as to die in
Florence, but in his own country, the
ceremonies would have been most mag
nificent, accompanied with music, a
cow adorned with flowers, and a host
of more Hindostaifee emblems.
Wonders and Barrels of Xu.
Orientalism In Florence—Burning a
Hindoo.
A correspondent writes from Flo
rence, Italy, December 2:—Yesterday
an affair of unusual occurrence took
place, which was no less than the burn
ing of an Indian Prince. His High
ness, Rajah Murahaja, of Kolapore,
came to Florenop for his health, but
unfortunately for him, and luckily for
those who had never seen a Buddhist
funeral, he died ou the 30th of Nov.
He was prince over six hundred thou
sand inhabitants of Hindostan, and
was travelling with sixteen Indians and
taiy be ha-1, at niatu
added
freight
FICE.
Notice.
the Citterns of Franklin and adjoin
ing Counties.
M V. GURLEY,
S URGEON DENTIST,
Has recently located at Carncsvillo f«.r the
(•arposeof practicing his prefer ion. Persons desir
ing work in his line will give him a call. Teeth
inserted on thoinost improved basis for from $7 ,V»
to|r*S W). Office in Franklin House, over A. 1».
Fuller** Store. Nov. 11, 1870-6 m
berries in their season, and other little
articles for the market. She had to
make a long, weary walk of many miles
to a town where she could sell her
basket of produce. The railway pass
ed by her cabin to this town ; but the
ride would cost too much of the profits
of her small sales, so she trudged on
generally to the market on foot. The
conductor came finally to notice her
wutki ag^fay ~tiie shte- nf~tlic- line or be
tween the rails;’ anil, being a good-na
tured, benevolent man, he would often
give- her a ride to and fro without
charge. The. enginemeu and braker-
meu were also good to the old woman,
nnd felt they were not wronging the in
terests of the railway company by giv
ing her these free rides. And soon an
accident occured that proved that they
were quite right in this view of the
matter.
In the wild month of March, the
ruin descended and the mountains sent
down their rolling, roaring torrents of
melted snow and ice into this gorge
near the old woman’s hut. The flood
arose with the darkness of the night,
until she heard the crash of the rail
way bridge, as it was swept from it-
butments, and dashed its broken tim
bers against the craggy sides ol the
precipice on either side. It was nearly
Curiosities of the Frost.
Professor Huntington, of the Wash
ington Ob* •vatory, .who is located oa
Mount Wasnington, New Hampshire,
for purpose of scientific experiment
and disoove y, announced on Thurs
day last thy state of the thermometer
and barometer there for the previous
day, adding that the “thickness of the
frost at Tip top House was eight inches
deep.” Sotoe newspapers located this
apparently preposterous frost on the
Tip-top House, and aggravated the er
ror by making-ita depth on the shingles
eighteen, instead of eight inches.—
Eighteen inches of frost on the ground,
however, would have been an ordinary
matter for extreme northern latitude,
At Moscow, in a hard season, the frost
will penetrate two feet deep in the
ground, and in Oharlton Island, Cana
da it has been found to penetrate ten
feet, when the water in the same is
land has frozen six feet. In Sweden
it penetrates the earth from three to
four feet, and turns what moisture is
formed there into a whitish substance
like ice, and will penetrate standing wa
ter six feet. In Maryland and the Middle
States of North America the frost has
been known to penetrate one foot, and I
even deeper. The farmer is fully ■
aware of the advantages and disadvan
tages of this powerful agent of nature.
It is ruinous to all manner of plants
and even trees of a sappy nature, but
thoroughly pulverizes the plowed earth
aud renders it fit lor Spring planting.
What is called the white, or hoar frost,
which is seen in the cool mornings cov
ering the ground, and which some sup
While the gastric juice has a mild,
bland, sweetish taste, it possesses the
power of dissolving the hardest food
that can be swallowed ; it has no iu-
ffueenc whatever on the soft and deli
cate fibers of the living stomach, nor
has it any upon the living hand, but,
at the moment of death, it begins to
eat them away with the power of the
strongest acids.
There is dust ou sea, on land, in the
valley and on the mountain-top ; there
is dust always and everywhere; the at
mosphere is full of it, it penetrates the
noisome dungeon, aud visits the deep
est, darkest caves of the earth, no pal
ace door can shut it out, no drawer so
“ secret” as to escape its presence;
every breath of wind dashes it upon
the open eye, and yet that eye is not
blinded ; because there is a fountain of
the blandest fluid in nature incessantly
emptying itself under the eyelid, which,
spreads it over the surface of the ball
at every winking, aud washes every
atom of dust away. But this liquid,
so well adapted to the eye itself, has
some acidity, which, under certain cir
cumstances, becomes so decided as Jto
be scalding to the skin, and would rot
away the eyelids were it not that along
the edges of them there are little oil
manufactories, which spread over their to i*. only frost, is frozen dew - s0 f° r some weeks, there can be no ob-
to the
country to travel for the purpose of
education and pleasure. After his
death, immediate application was made
to the city authorities for permission to
burn the body. After a few of the
inevitable red-tape objections had been
smoothed away, the permission was ob
tained, and a place at the end of the
“ Cascino,” the park adjoining Florence,
was assigned to the swarthy applicants
on condition that the cererooBJf-ohould
be conducted by night and with the
utmost secrecy. However,'the clair
voyant reporters, correspondents, and
about five hundred other p-rsods heard
of the affair and went to see the show.
According to the Indian religion the
ceremony was to take place by tlie side
of a running stream, so that the spot
chosen was in reality at the confluence
of the Arno and the Mugnaue. Soon
after 2 A. M. the body arrived. A
pile, of wood had been erected six feet
long, three wide, and three high. The
body was then laid upon the ground
and a gold coin placed in the mouth.
He was dressed in red satin and silk.
A long tunic or toga reached nearly to
1 the knees, while red stockings and
leather boots compl ted the dress. On
his breast there was an immense
number of jewelled orders, around his
neck there was a necklace of very large
Farm Miscellany.
Influence of Potatoe Seed.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman inquires: “What is your opinion
on the influence of cut and uncut pota
toes for seed, and on small and large
ones? There are many contradictory
statements in the papers.” To which
that paper replies:
The contradictory statements are ow
ing to the varying circumstances under
which the experiments are made, with
out a sufficient repetition of them.—
Conclusions are drawn from too few
tests. A single experiment will not do
for the basis of a theory.
If the soil is sufficiently moist when
potatoes are planted, cutting is an ad
vantage. It reduces the number of
stalks, gives fewer new potatoes and as
a necessary consequence allows those
few to grow larger and develop them
selves better than where they are nu
merous in the hill, resulting from many
stalks from all the eyes of a whole po
tato. But even here there is a consid
erable difference with different varieties,
some potatoes growing thicker and more
numerous in the hill than others.
If the soil and season happen to be
quite dry, the cut pieces dry up rapidly,
lessen the supply of food to the young
and growing sprouts, and the plants are
enfeebled. Iu such cases the crops will
often succeed better by planting whole
potatoes, the skin of which lieing nearly
impervious to moisture, keeps them
plump for a long time. If potatoes are
planted early in tlie spring, when the
soil is nearly always moist and remains
lific of eggs, than hens, aud annually
produce more flue feathers than the
duck originally costs. Tho first and
only argument against raising ducks is
the darkness of their flesh, and that is
simply a question of looks more than
of flavor. The duck, is best hatched
by hens, and when young should be
kept in a dry pen for several weeks, for
if permitted to visit deep water while
young, they will paddle iu it until they
become benumbed, and die off rapidly
in a few hours thereafter.
Give them a sufficiency of greeir
grass, frequently thrown to them, and
keep fresh water before them mshallow
vessels, and feed them often. A pen
of boards a foot high, covered with
laths uailed across the top, with one
end covered, to turn the rain, will be
sufficient. The coop should frequently
be removed to a fresh dry spot, covered
with short grass, as cleanliness is es
sentially necessary to healthy poultry.
If the young ducks become drowsy,
and noticed to lrc moping, looking
swollen, or apparently out of sorts in
any way, give them bread soaked in
:. ilk, red with Cayenne pepper. The
most popular kinds of ducks are the
Crocery atid Confectionery Store,
Matthews & Bostick,
FINAKE this method ® announcing
JL to the public that they havo ju»t opened,
on Collage Avenue, next d , to Kiicli .v Morton’s
comer, a large and carefully selected stock ol
Choice Family Groceries,
Canned Fruits, Jellies,
Preserves, Oysters,
Salmon and other Fish,
ilc caroni, Candvx, large Variety,
Smoking anil Chcwiqg Tobnrco and
CIGARKi
Iu abort, every article to be found in an e«t;ib-
lUhmcut of this bind. We shall keep none bnl
the freshest and purest articles. Call aud see us.
Athens. ^ ..-i-wk — -■ ,
ESTABX.i3H£D 1811.
Cnsliings & Bailey,
"DOOKSELLERS .and Stationers,
JL) 262, BALTIMORE 3T., BALTIMORE, bare
the hugest and best assorted stork- In tlio cicy, of
School, .Medical, and I-aw.
Dental. Classical and Mlscellineom
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Isaac T. Heard & Co.,
Cotton Factor-!,
Corner Reynolds and M’lntosh Streets,
AUGUSTA, CEORGIA.
^GENTS FOR THE SALE OF
(lallctl’s Patent St tel Itrush Cotton t,’iu,
Hall’s Patest Cotton Gin Feeder
AND
Cirehton’s Ammoniated Soluble Super
phosphate of Lime.
In accordance with the will of the late Isaac T.
Heard, the business of thn firm of Isaac T. Heard
A Ga., will he continued under the mine ninte and
style as heretofore .under th* management of the
surviving partner. O. M. STONE,
Surviving Partner and Executor for
Nov iS-lm Estate of Isaac T. Heard, dcc’d.
Demurest & Woodruff,
(Successor* to Tosilixsos-Demarest Co.,)
628 & 631, Broadway, N. Y.
manufacturers of
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, k,
EspeOaHy adapted to Southern Roads.
OUR STOCK .'COMPRISES
LIGHT VICTOMAS,
PHAETONS,
CABllIOLAS,
ROCK A WAYS,
And all atkar stylos of Fine Carriages,
For oil# or two horse*.
TOP & NQTOP BUGGIES,
<>b Kliptlv and Side Springs.
COXCOHf) JWCdTF.S,
•'Ifni nmt.frrself
WV art* ulna *olc minufeetuivr* of the
Woodruff Concord Buggy
PlantaUnn Wagon for 1, 2. 4 and 8 Horses.
The best Boggy and Wagon in America fur the
midnight. The raiu fell in a flood, F arls » each worth a small fortune in
nnd the darkness was deep and howl-
with the storm. In another half-
hour the express train would be due.
What could she do to warn it against
the awful destruction it was approach-
She had hardly a whole tallow-
catidle in her house ; and no light she
could make of tallow or oil, if she had
it, would live a moment in that temp
est of wind and rain. Not a moment
was to be lost; and her thought was
equal to the moment. She cut the
cord of her only bedstead, and slionl-
lered the dry posts, side-pieces, and
head-pieces. Her daughter followed
her with their two wooden chairs. Up
the steep embankment they climbed,
and piled all their house-hold furniture
upon the line a few rods before the
black, awful chasm, gurgling with the
roaring fiord. The distant rumbling
of the train came upon them just as
they had fired the well-dried combusti
bles. The pile blazed up into the
night, throwing its red, swelling, boom
ing light a long way up the track. In
fifteen minutes it would begia to wane,
and she could not revive it with green,
wet wood. The thunder of the train
grew louder. It was within five miles
of the fire. Would they see it in
time? They might not put on the
brakes soon enough. Awful thought
She tore her red flanneljerown from
her in a moment, aud, tav it to the
end of a stick, ran up t^muck, wav
ing it in both hands, while herdaugh
ter swung round her head a blazing
chair-post a little before. The lives of
a hundred unsooucious passengers hung
on die issue of the next minute. The
ground trembled at the old woman’s
feet. The great, red eye of the engine
burst upon her as it came round a
curve. Like as a huge, sharp-sighted
lion coming suddenly upon a fire, it
seut forth a thrilling roar, that filled
itself. Our Protestant idea is that we
cannot carry anything into the next
world with us, but the Indian doctrine
seems to differ, for it requires that the
body shall be burned with many of the
jewels on the person. His head was
covered by a black and red turban.
The body was then wrapped in a large
beet of red silk with quantities of j>er-
fumes aud laid upon the funeral pile
with the feet to the East. The at
tendants then commenced a series of
V u, „ l "’ ,J ->-l fir Clrautau. and P»i
x«w York «ro e-qi wlaUy luvitotouilli ,
ftwn. Wa ooiiclt Iha l.-ale of merchant* and
(Iliutratiol milk
. , - inn i.
JJSft- nia«tmi«t Cin-n’
-Iolyjy-.lv
Circnlan^ By
W. \V. WOODRUFF, G.\'.
'E? *> •>»! (Hi expvieoau of thirty year* In
^KSajg^agryig. k w: aUthe wild heights and ravines attomd.
The train was at full speed; but tha
brakemen wrestled at their leverage
with all the strength of jjesperation.
surface a coating as impervious
liquids necessary for keeping tlie eye
balls washed clean, as tlie best varnish
is impervious to water.
The breath which leaves the lungs
has been so perfectly divested of its
life-giving properties, that to rebreathe
it, uumixed with other air, the mo
ment it escapes from the mouth, would
cause immediate death by suffocation:
while, if it hovered about us, a more
or less destructive influence over health
and life would be occasioned; but it is
made of a nature so much lighter than
the oommon air, t^at the .inafordifr e%-
capes tlie lips and nostrils it ascends to
tlie higher regions above, to be rectified,
renovated, and seut back again replete
with purity and life. How rapidly it
ascends, it lieautifully exhibits any
frosty morning.
But foul and deadly as the expired
air is, Nature, wisely economical in all
her works aud ways, turns it to good
account iu its outward passage through
the organs of voice, and makes of it
the whisper of love, tlie soft words of
affection, the tender tones of human
sympathy, the sweetest strains of rav
ishing music, the persuasive eloquence
of the finished orator.
If a well-made man be extended on
the ground, his arms at right angles
with the body, a circle, making the
navel the center, will just take in the
head, the finger-ends and feet.-
The distance from“ top to toe,’
precisely the same as that between the
tips of the fingers when the arms are
extended.
The length of the body is just six
times that of tlie foot; while the dis
tance from the edge of the hair on the
forehead, to the ehiu, is one-tenth the
length of the whole stature.
Of the sixty-two primary elements
known in nature, only eighteen arc
found in the human body, and of these
seven are metslic. Iron is found in
the blood; phosphorus in the brain;
An immente supply of Oeuurxl BAnk and doom-
ng House
STATIONERY.
Blank Book* made to order in any my ie of IIfad
ing or ruling.
The »anio cartffii! attention given to
OHDBRSi
jut to personal purchasers. ISSlDi! >*/fr VRK9*
altcay*.
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Roueus, Aylesbury, and Cayuga bhicks. | It E l) U (J E 1) l* It' ] C E S .
Ducks prujKjrly cared tor will furnish
its many pounds of feathers as geese,
and can be picked every seven weeks,
which is a valuable consideration.—
Southern Agriculturist.
Virtues of Borax.
F
REHH OYSTERS AND >ISH
Ftatf
tfart.
unintelligible motions, putting on their | limestone iu the bile; lime in the
turbans and taking them off, bowin^
md stretching their arms in every ima-
inable direction, and repeating num
erous short prayers in Indian, which I
will omit for several reasons. Then
they threw more perfumes on the wood
and much fat. Then they put more
coins on the breast and in the hands;
then came more turban shifting, more
prayers and pounds of camphor ; then
sandal wood and fat, interspersed with
gestures; then straw, then wood, then
more fat, then more gesturen; then a
short sermon, which I will also omit;
and finally the torches were applied,
and the whole burst into a fierce flame.
At the same moment the plank ou
which the body had been borne was
thrown into the Aruo. The Indians
continued to throw perfumes into the
fire during the burning, and to offer
more prayers.
At 9 A. M. water was poured on
the pile, and the -ashes of the body
were religiously collected in a porcelain
vase, while all the rest of the materials
that remained were thrown into the
river by two Indians, who waded out | drop,
to the middle. Earth was
over the spot in the shape
bones; dust and ashes in all. Not
only these eighteen elements, but the
whole sixty-two, of which the universe
is made, have their essential basis in
the foursubstanees—oxygen, hydrogen^
nitrogen, carbon, representing the more
familiar names of fire, water, saltpetre
and charcoal; and such is man, the
lord of the carili! a spark of fire,
drop of water, a grain of gunpowder,
an atom of charcoal! But looking at
him in another direction, these elements
shadow forth the higher qualities of a
divine nature, of an immortal existence.
In that spark is tlie caloric which
speaks of irrepressible activity;
that drop is the water which speaks of
purity, iu that grain is the force by
which he subdues all thiugs to him
self, makes the wide creation the sup
plier of his wants, and the servitor of
his pleasure; while in that atom of
charcoal, there is the diamond, whicl:
speaks at once of light and purity, of
indestructibility and of resistless pro
gress, for there is nothin" which out
shines it; it is purer than the dew-
moth and rust corrupt ” it not,
then laid nor can ordinary fire^destroy it; while
of a heart, it cuts its way alike throiurh brass and
Take it out in Trade.—A lathy
looking fellow entered a down-east res
taurant, and ordered a double stew of
oysters. The man who kept the res
taurant was a small red-headed individ
ual, evidently very high tempered.—
He prepared the stew in quick time,
and the lathy fellow sat down to his re
past, and ate with evident relish; after
which he selected a first-class cigar,
regaled himself with a mug of foaming
ale, sitting with his feet elevated upop
the top.of the stove. He was very de-
liberate anA ^elfjxissessed. After the
"CTgSF hod almost disappeared in smoke
he called for his bill.
“Sixty-five cents,” said the proprie
tor.
How is this f* asked the lath.
Fifty cents for the double stew,
and fifteen cents for the cigar.”
“ You forgot tho ale,” remarked the
lathy fellow, looking quite serious.
Ah yes, that is ten cents more—
seventy-five cents.”
“ Well, I am ready to pay it.”
Tlie red-headed man made no reply,
and the follow kept his scat.
“ I tell you I am ready to pay the
bill ”
“ Well, pay it then,” said the pro
prietor.
“ I ain’t got any money.”
“ Hain’t got any money 1” repeated
the man of refreshments..
“ Not a darned eeut.”
The red-headed limn opened his eyes.
“ Then how do you expect to pay
the bill?”
“ Well, I’ll tell you—I’ll stand about
seveuty-five cents worth of your jaw—
so go ahead.”
The red-headed man was the mad
dest individual ever seen. He seized
the nut-cracker and let it fly at the of
fender with a will; but it only hit the
chair back and broke its own handle.
The lathy fellow had gone. He had
aeatod his seat at the nick of time,
and the last seen of him he was walk
ing very leisurely down the street fin
ishing his cigar.
and little vases of rice were placed
around it. All the Indians then
prayed with their faces turned toward
the earth, after which they went away,
bearing the emery urn. The bones
will be thrown into the Ganges, so that,
the Prince may enjoy a thousand years
of happiness. Thus, the necessary
adamant and.hardest steel In that
light we see an eternal progression to
ward omniscience; in that purity tlie
goodness of that divine nature; in that
indestructibility, an immortal exist
ence; in that progress, a steady ac
cession toward tho homo and bosom of
(God.
Bits For Horses.—The Rural
World says: “One of tlie cruelest
thiugs done to dumb beasts is putting
hard, frozen iron bits into a horse’s
mouth. It is not only a painful, but a
dangerous aot. For every time living
flesh touches a metal below the freezing
point, the latter extracts the heat from
the former ajul freezes it, Thus a
horse’s mouth becomes frozen by the
cold iron several times a day put into
it; each time causing the freezing to go
deeper, to end at last in extensive ul
ceration. With such a sore mouth the
poor horse refuses to eat and pines
away, which Gills the horse doctor iu.
TheynSaJI it Lotts, glanders, horse ails,
etc., and go to cramming down poison
ous drugs, in dose3; and the next you
know of the poor abused creature, he is
trotted off to be food for fish and crows.
Many a valuable horse has been ‘mys
teriously’ lost in just that way. Think
ing and humane people avoid this by
first warming the bits; but this is
much trouble and sometimes impose!
ble, as in night work, like staging and
physician’s work. Now, all this trouble
is entirely avoided, as we have found
on lar_o trial, by getting the harness
makers to get leathern bite for winter
use, so made that no metal substances
can touch" the flesh.
Columbus was the son of a weav
er, and a weaver himself.
jection to cutting potatoes into pieces
before planting, and the crop will be
likely to be better and the tubers more
uniformly large.
There is much diversity of opinion
relative to the value of small imtatoes.
They are not usually so successful as
large ones. But the wrong reason is
assigned. It is said that “ like tends
to produce like,” aud that therefore
small potatoes tend to produce small
cues. This would lie true of true seed
from flowers, instead of (tortious of the
root or stem were employed. We might
as well say that grafts cut from a large
tree would produce larger' fruit trees
than others, or that planting large trees
from the nursery rows would give or
chard trees of greater size. The truth
is, the tubers of potatoes are essentially
under ground steins, and the eyes are
the buds. We could no more expect
to get larger trees by using large buds,
than larger potatees bv planting large
tubers. Nevertheless, we find by ex
periment that large potatoes givo the
heaviest crops. What is the reason ?
Simply this, that tlie large tubers give
j a greater supply of nutriment to tlie
young sprouts, just in the same way
that in a moist soil they will do better
than in dry, hot ground. In repeated
triaLs with potatoes not over an inch
long, cut into ns many pieces as those
four inches long, no perceptible differ
ence was observed in the size of the
tubers produced from both; but on
careful weighing, the large seed was
found to yield about one-eighth more
on an average. This difference was
undoubtedly owing to the earlier and
more rigorous start from the large seed,
and to the continued supplies of nour
ishment, and not from any inherent
change, as of “like producing like.”—
The planting of the jwtatoes in these
experiments was done in fine mellow
soil, and early in the season; had it
been late, or in a dry or parched soil,
it is probable that the small potatoes
would have yielded almost nothing.
It is well kuown that some varieties
deteriorate iu successive years in partic
ular soils, so that the magnitude of the
crop is gradually diminished. It would
be interesting to determine by a long
series of trials, whether the constitut
ional weakness is effected by selecting
the largest seed only, on the one hand,
and small seed from poor crops on the
other. Several years would be re
quired to determine such questions,
under differing circumstances, side by
side.
It may not be generally known how
very valuable borax is in various pur
poses of household use. We find it the
very best cockroach exterminator yet
discovered. One half-pound, costing
but fifty cents, has completely cleared
a large house formerly swarming with
them, so that the appearance of one in
a month is quite a novelty. The var
ious exterminating powders puffed aud
advertised have bceu found not fully
effective, tending rather to make the
roaches crazy than to kill them. There
is something peculiar, either in the
smell or touch of borax, which is cer
tain death to them. They will flee in
terror from it, and never appear again
where it has once been placed.- It is
also a great advantage that borax is
perfectly harmless to human beings;
hence no danger from poisoning. It is
also valuable for laundry purposes.—
The washerwomen) of- Holland and
Belgium, so proverbially dean, and
who get their linen so beautifully white,
use refined borax as washing-powder
instead of soda, iu the proportion of a
large handful of borax powder to ten
gallons of water. They save soap
nearly one half. All the large wash
ing establishments adopt the same
mode. For laces, cambrics, etc., an
extra quantity of the powder is used ;
and for crinolines (requiring to be
made stiff) a stronger solution is nec
essary. Borax, being a neutral salt,-
does not iu the slightest degree injure
the texture of linen. Its- effect is to
soften the hardest water, aud therefore
it should be kept ou the toilet-table.
As a way of cleaning the liair, nothing
is better than a solution of borax in
water. It leaves the scalp in a most
cleanly condition, aud tlie hair is just
sufficiently stiffened to retuin its place.
This stiffness, however, can be readily
removed, if objectionable, by washing
with water. Borax is also an excel
lent dentrifrice ; dissolved iu water, it
is one of tlie best tooth-washes. In hot
countries it is used, in combination
with tartaric acid and bicarbonate of
soda, as a cooling beverage.
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wife has been chagrined so often over
the loss of her entire brood of chickens,
that she has little heart to make an
other effort to raise a qew flock of the
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picking, at that time, should put them
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weeks tocomc, with fair promise of
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