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ATHENS, GA. SEPTEMBER 22, 1871.
VOL. XLI.—NO. 4—NEW SERIES. VOL. 4. NO. 48
Miscellaneous.
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Business Directory.
1.AK Alt COBB. A. 8. ERWIN. ROWELL COBB
l COBB, ERWIN & COBB,
A ttorneys At law,
Athene, Georgia. OBe* k» the Deoprec
Summey & Newton,
BROAD «T..«THINa,ia.
IRON, PLOW STEEL,
STEEL, HOES,
NAILS, PLOWS,
MILL SAWS, COTTON GINS,
And General Hardware and Cutlery, at
Wholesale and Retail.
.. „ . SU.VMBY <t .VfillTOA’
them, Ga., April 14th. tf A’e. 6 Brood Si.
A ttorney at law
IlMir, llank* County. Ga.' Will pmetlre
In Oi* cuuntic* of Rinkd, Jackson, Hall, Haber-
*hatn and Franklin.
MISIJN W. IllDKN,
A T t o r n e y a t l a w ,
*A Notary PuMIe, Athem, Ga. Will pr»r-
llc. in lli* W,-,Urn circuit : will glre particular
atuntlnn to the collection ofclaimi. and will act as
arrnt for th* purchau and sale of real estate and
1.4, tat., on wild lands. janistt
J M. aBKLTOS, - C. W. aKIDKLL,
SKELTON Si SKI DEI L.
A ttorneys at law,
Hartwell, Hurt County, Georgia-
1 PITTMAN <ft 1IINT0N,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW,
A. V, Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga.
SAMUEL I*. THURMOND,
\ TTORNEY AT LAW,
-L V. Athens, Ga. Office on Bread atreet, over
Barry .% ftan’s Storo. Will Kivt: sjiecial attention
to in Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection oi
all cJaimaantrustcd to his care.
ARTHUR EVANS,
Watchmaker & Jeweller,
(LATE WITH CHILDS dc MOSS,)
TDESPECTFULLY announces to
All the eHiaena of Athena and vicinity that he
hae located at th* New Draw Store of Dr. Wn.
Kins, and la prepared to do all kind* of repair* on
d w ^b^a>i; welry ’ ,lc -
. TO THTB*'¥TOIiIC.
T HAVE PURCHASED the inter-
cstof Mr. Wm. J. Morton in the late firm of
Ditch A Morton, and will continue the business.
I hope, by fair dealing to retain the customers of
the late firm, and lo receive a fair share of the
trade in my line of business. A fresh stock of
Clothing and Furnishing
Goods
will be received for the Commencement trade.
July 21. J. E. DITCH.
WM. WOOD,
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
P VRNXTURE
l^URNITURE REPAIRED, UP-
J- holstercd and varnished, also a large variety
of wood coffins and Fisk's Patent Metalic Burial
Cases always on hand.
Ware rooms on Clayton St. # next to Episcopal
Church. Sep9 6m. WILLIAM WOOD.
Fireside Miscellany.
True Heroism.
Let others write of battles fought,
01 bloody, ghastly fields,
Where honor greets the man who wins,
And death the man who yields;
But I will write of him who fights
And vanguishes his sins,
Who straggles on through weary years
Against himself, and wins.
He is a hero staunch and breve
AVho fights an unseen foe,
And pnLs at last beneath his feet
His passions base and low;
Who stands erect in manhood's might
Undaunted, undismayed—
The bravest man who drew a sword
In foray or in raid.
It calls for something more Alton bptwn
Or muscles to o'er come
An enemy who marcheth not
With banner, plume, and drum—
A foe forever lurking nigh,
With silent, stealthy tread.
Forever near your board by day,
At night beside your bed.
All honor, then, to that brave heart.
Though poor or rich he be,
Who straggles with his better part—
Who conquers and is free
He ntny not wear a hero’s crown,
Or fill a hero’s grave,
But truth will place his name among
The bravest of the brave.
From the Herald of Health.
Keep the Distaff Ready, and God will
Scud the Flax.
BY FfiANCES DANA GAGE,
J. J. A J. f. ALEXANDER,
I DEALERS IN HARDWARE,
JL^ Iron Atari, XmN, Cimago Material, Mining
inpl«tncnta,;&c., Whitehall<«(., Atlunta.
. M.VAN ESTES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
-a-AJ Ho«er, IIink* County, Ga.
j. r. rai^KKT.
A XjT O R N E Y A T L A W .
V. Chincavillr, Franklin countv, G*. Office
a.rrty ucropletl by J. F. Lsngsion, Esq. ia21
A. B. FA mix: IIA K,
fr.pri.tcr of P*ae*ylv.Bia Agricultural Work,.
iUa-fvrturer of Impra.td [YOBK, Phnh-a.
SlfW^VmJs SOLID STEEL SWEETS,
8> YEKi », , nd sutATERs.
STEEL PLOWS, SHOVEL
PLOW B1.AU1.S,
I CULTIVATORS
nps«-Pow*ns, TiirE.ii-
IS . M \f |llSKS,Ac.,Ac.
iS 3 "*"** Sfud fir Illustrated CAialogue.
Toppy Maguire ts. Grant.
A RICH SCENE ON A
ROAT.
LONG BRANCH
FLOUR A ViAYt STORE!
OX COLLEGE AVENUE,
(opposite newton house.)
W3I. HENRY HULL.
Wilkie Collins’ Novels.
\RM.\DALE; paper, SI 60;—
^ A. c!«*th, f'J. Man and Wife ; paper, $1 ; cloth,
Si .V). The Moon-Stone; paper, $1 50: cloth, $2.
r , |MjM*r, Si 50; clotli: 2. The woman in
paix-r Si 50 : cloth, $2 For «nlc l y
T. A. BURKE.
0»KCA.K,A.’S
Giant Pocket Corn Sltellcr,
PRICE ONLY SI 50. Call and see
-L it at CHILDS, NICKERSON A CO’S.
HARNESS LEATHER,
AND
HARNESS MATERIAL.
POR SALE BY
-L 1 CHILDS, NICKERSON A CO.
Carriage, Buggy & Wagon
A LARGE and well selected assort-
muni, for *ale by
CIIILDS, NICKERSON & CO.
Horse, Cow, Hog & Chicken
^3^-_TL) U3d jSLJ a
N E WDKUg” STORE.
For Sale or Exchange.
I IIA YE *>00 acres of land in Cle-
.L hurne Co., All., which 1
>tl,:
li t heap, or ex-
Catu-
ho bt-M buttoin land
.reck, producing :•» T.'» busheb of corn ner acre,
and cotton in i ro}oii;on. The remainder is in
the wihnIh. The farm »> -0 miles from the Selma,
Home and Dalton Railroad, one and a quarter u»Ue»»
from the eounty site, EdwanUvilic, 6 miles from
the located dejMit of the Columbus and Chat
tanooga Railroad, and one mile from the route
of the Oritlin and North Alabama Railroad
There is an excellent store house (not l»e-
longing to the place), which can be lxiuglil or
rented cliea.p and is a
Splendid Stand for a Country Store.
Titles indisputable. For further information ap
ply to, or address
Dr.-J. \V. MURRELL,
March 31-3in Athens, Ga.
No S un
Wl*:tc ;
New Hooks.
r PHE COMIC BLACKSTONE; by
-L tiilbert Abliot A'Beckctt, with illustrations
h . T George t’ruikshank. One large volume. 52 50.
Why did he not l»ic? or, the Child from the
Khrxcrgang. From the German; by Mrs. A. L.
Witter, fil 75.
Heat. Being volume first of Science for the
Young; by Jacob Abbott, with numerous illustra
tions. <1 50.
Callirhor. By Maurice Sand (son of George
s »ul). From the French, by S. A. I>eponte, of
Nf« Orleans. $1 75.
Fat better thau Physic; or, Everybody's Life
Frew ver; by W. W. ilull, M. D. 51 50.
Tti« Ucathen Chinee; by Bret llarte, with eight
illust iiions. Price 25 cent*. For sale by
Jut.* 2 T. A. BURKE.
SUMMEY & NEWTOMi
Importers and Dealers in
, Steel, Nails, Hollow Ware,
11 H.kHV SINK. ANVII.N, VIBEN,
UtKDtVARR, AT,
8, Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
Ofira North raster n Railroad,
Athens, June 47; 1871.
\ WR E is hereby given that the
' u, '»' r iptiou to the Northeastern
“* nuw °I* n ft,r auhocrlption, at
stock T* ’ * per rant on the auhacrlheJ
u „. ’ ‘* Uf anJ payable to It. L. Moaa, Treaa-
. r. wputiea, at Jelferaon, llomer, Har-
,*n I Usington.
, , K I- BLOOMFIEI.D, Acting Prealdent.
Jtih- ***">*», Secretary.
bOXGS & lHLLUlPS,
BROAD ST., ATlltWS, GEO.,
THE GEM ! THE GEM !!
BEST FRUIT JAR ever in
ented. For Male st the
r PHE
JL vente
NEW DRUG STORE.
'PHAT BROWN’S GIN I pur
JL- chased of Summey A Newton (Agent* for it
in Athens) a'*>ut two years ago, is ns good as new
now, and there is tune better.
TIIOS. HOLDER.
Notice to Planters.
HAVE jterfected arrange-
ments with the Brown Cotton Gin Co., so
that we can allow time on these celebrated Gins.
All letters cheerfully simmered.
SUMMEY & NEWTON.
W E „.
DEALERS IN
MEDICINES,
AND
CHEMICALS,
DYE-STUFFS,
PAINTS,
OILS,
GLASS,
. PUTTY,
ST VTIOJNERY ;
YFRU HERY. IJQronS. BITTERS,
\^b EVERYUHING usually
IXii". .I' 4 * 11 ! kt P> >■> » Flrat Claaa Dra* Store.
»lwr. l 1 "' 1 ' 11011 haa been parJ in the selection
w,t, „ 'he purity and reliability of out
k “'He* and phyilclana are assured that
| <>« — k* ktled with promptness and fidelity.
;?u f S OF FANCY GOODS
fmbr * c * n * *(wat variety
J () JLKr articles,
BRUSHES,
ii: COMBS, AC.
W .. , ' Preparations, Hurley's
. "a Mpsrrila, Drake’s
h”i . '4 1 •»»:».n’s t'rimean
Jtl * ..j,’ } ,l »ri's»ierm«nBltt«W,
‘ ,rr P'*"ri4r Drvparstions always on
Uuiitl.
JHK.SH garden seeds
^d^*\E £&. toT
JT. LOUIS LEAD,
'vd.trlctly pure-th. heat In the market
fall and Winter Importation.
1871.
RIBBONS,
Millinery and Straw Goods
ARMSTRONG, GATOR & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
BONNET, TRIMMING, AND VELVET
Bonnet Sillcs, Satins and Velvets,
Blonds. Nells, Crapes, Ruches, Flowers, Feathers,
0 BN A MEN TS,
tynuuU and Judies’
TRIMMED AND UNTIUMMED,
, Sll.tKF.lt IIOODS, AC.
237 and 239 Baltimore Street,
BAl.TiyiOltR, si o.
Offer the !srgest stock to be found in tbis conn
try, and unequalled in choice variety and cheap
ness, comprising the latest European novelties.
Orders solicited, and prompt attention given.
Aug 11 5t
Wm.* A. Talmadge,
OF. POST OFFICE, COL. AVF.ME, ATUF.X
^^•W.22S.tE? Wfc
Cook Book.
N ' SUPPLY just received, by
T. A. BURKE.
Dealer in Watehea, Clocks, Jewelry, Sllvor-pla
Ware, Musical Instrument*, Spentsclet, Gun
Platola, Sporting Equipments, Ac.. Ac.
A Select Stock of American and Im
ported Watches, Double Guns with
40 inch barrel, ejixltemt/or leap
range. Plttoll of all kinds.
Penetration of bull 6%
inches into wood.
With a desire to please all, will aell the'abovegond
at very reasonable prices.
REPAIRING-.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Gun* and Pistols,
jvnmiptly attended lo in a satisfactory manner.—
1 and aee for yourselves.
apr4
To Housekeepers.
TUST RECEIVED, a large assort
ed ment of
which we are offering at very low prices,
stoves sold by ns
WARRANTED IN
EVERY PARTICULAR
SUMMEY & NEWTON.
Six weeks ago last Friday, Geu.
Grant went down to Long Branch
from this city on the Jesse Hoyt
He went up into the upper cabin, and
passed out to the forward deck. There
he dropped into un easy cliuir.
Soon after the Hon. Hosca B. Per
kins took a seat fifteen feet from Gen.
Graut. lie wore black clothes and a
high hat, and talked with everybody
within speaking distance. Gen. Grant
meanwhile had pulled the newspaper
from his pocket and was reading it
very intently.
After the boat started, the Hon.
Toppy Maguire, proprietor of the
Cayuga House on Harlem Lane, ap
proached Mr. Perkins.
“ How do you do, Mr. Perkins?
said Toppy Maguire.
“ Quite well, thank you,’ responded
Mr. Perkins “ how is Mrs. Maguire
and children?”
“ First-rate” answered Toppy.—
“ You’re looking well, Mr. Perkins.”
“ Do you think so ?” said Mr. Per
kins, “ There’s a man over there looks
better than I do,” pointing to Gen.
Grant.
“ Who is it ?” asked Toppy.
“ Why, don’t you know who that
is ?” said Mr. Perkins, in much aston
ishment.
“ Well, he looks like a horse fanci
er,” replied Mark ; “ but I never saw
him before. Who is it?”
“That is the President of the
United States,” said Mr. Perkins, im
pressively.
No ! You don’t tell me so!” ex
claimed Toppy, gasping for breath.
“Yes, I do,” said Mr. Perkins;
and do you know, Mark, that there’s
a great resemblance between you and
the President ? though I think,’ look
ing nervously from one to the other,
‘ that the President’s a better looking
man than you are.”
“ Well, now, come,” said Toppy;
that’s a little rough, Mr. Perkius.—
I’ll have to bet a little bottle of wine
that Pm a better-looking man than
Grant. If I ain’t, I’ll shut up the
Cayuga, and travel.”
“ Well, I’ll xvager a small bottle,’
said Mr. Perkins. “But whom shall
we leave it to ?”
Oh, leave it to the first Jerseyman
that comes along,” responded Toppy.
At that instant a Jerseyman ap
proached. He xvore a small hat, a
blue cotton necktie, no vest, a pair of
barn-door pantaloons of a red sand
stone color, and army shoes. Mr.
Perkins accosted him thus:
“ Would you oblige me, sir, by set
tling a little wager between this gen
tleman and myself?" pointing his
thumb at Toppy Maguire.
“ Well,’ replied the Jerseyman,
coming to a dead standstill. “ Jest
as lieve’s not. What’s the bet 1”
“ Well, we want you to decide which
is the best-looking of these two: This
one,’ pointing to Toppy, ‘ or that one
over there reading the paper,”pointing
to Grant
The Jerseyman stuck his hands in
his breeches pocket, walked over to the
President, straddled his legs, and took
a good look at him. Then he return
ed, gazed at Toppy Maguire in the
same manner.
“ Well, what do you think ?” asked
Mr Perkins.
“They look enough alike to be broth
ers,” responded the Jerseyman. “ But
I think this here man,” looking at
Toppy, has got a good deal more intel
lect about him than the other fellow.—
He’s about as stupid a looking sped-
nen as I ever saw.”
“That’ll do,’ said Mr. Perkins.—
AU “ Mark, let’s go down stairs.”
And Mr. Perkins hauled out three
dollars and bursted a bottle of wine.
New York Sun.
It is many a long year, fifty or more,
since my mother sent my little sister
and myself over the big hill to do an
errand to the old Irish woman who
lived there with her widowed daughter
and her little ones.
“ Get your sleds, girls; for there is
quite a heavy basket to carry—a bun
dle of flax for Granny’s wheel, and
some meal, meat, and cheese for her
New Year’s dinner; it’s very cold, but
you love to coast; so draw your sled up
this side of the hill, and slide down the
other, and when you come hack up the
other side, you can coast down this,
and that will be rare sport, you know.”
Off we trudged, well pleased with
our work • for we loved to visit Gran
ny, as we all called her; to hear her
musical brogue, less common by far
than now, and to hear her sing her
Irish rollicking songs as she turned her
wheel.
The forest path glittered with well-
trodden snow, and the trees on every
hand were strung with diamonds that
the clear rays of the winter sunshine
made brilliant beyond conception.—
Icicles hung like spears from every
post and fence-rail, and the whole world
xvas glowing like fairy laud.
Little cared we for col l or toil, and
our load was soon deposit?d at Granny’s
fireside. “ Array! didn’t I tell yez
now,” exclaimed the delighted woman,
“ when yez toukl me to put by me
wheel the day ? Och, nanny mavour-
neen! it’s meself that know’d it. ‘I
must keep my distaff ready, and God
would sind the flax!’ and here it comes;
and ye, wT your eyes so rid! There
was noe meal in kist, noe pertaties in
the bin, and noe meat in the bar’l.—
Ach, nannie cushla! ye’ve no faith,
ye’ve no faith !”
I never forget Granny Allison’s pro
verb : “ Keep the distaff ready, and
God will send the flax.” Mayhap, I
did not quite understand its meaning
then, at ten years old. But I went my
way ponderiug. It was a long time
ere its full significance was revealed.
But as I grew into womanhood, as the
cares and duties of life came upon me,
as the obligations and responsibilities
which my surroundings imposed called
for action, I slowly learned the import
of those deepmeaning words ; learned
there were other distaffs and other
spindles than those with which we spin
threads to weave into garments to be
kept ready for use, and also that there
was other flax xvhich the good God
sends us than that which goes through
the heckle ; and those that kept not the
distaff ready, and the spindle bright
for turning, and the foot strong for the
treadle, would fail to draw out day by
day the strongest and most durable
threads for their own and the world’s
good.
As I went forth into the world,
among its bursting buds and flowers of
spring, I noticed the plow in the fur
row, and the' golden grain dropped
therein ; the birds building their nests
among the trees and grasses ; the bees
among the maple buds, and the hen
preparing for her brood; the brooks
wearing their own channels; the vio
lets gathering their blue, and the rose
its red. I asked myself, Has all Na
ture, animate and inanimate, instinct
and intuition to lead it to be earnest
industrious, and persistent in its work—
all but the human life ?
The spring gave place to summer
and autumn; the flower perfected
seeds; the yellow corn grew into a har
vest ; the birds filled their nest with
life that flutters away when the snows
come; the bees laid up their honey
and the brooks had worn deeper chan
nels. But where was the instinctive
life and freedom of my own soul, and
the souls of those that surrounded me
what hail we done to give health, plen
ty, life and joy to the future? Was
our distaff always ready, and our feet
upon the treadle ? How many bundles
of shining flax had rotted ? God sent
flax that might have been drawn into
beautiful threads, if we had been ready
for the blessing, ready to act our part
in the great drama of life’s usefulness.
But our wheel was set aside by con
ventionalism. The distaff was not in
fashion, custom had made the treadle
vulgar, and the golden hours went by
and no work was done. There was no
bread for winter, no flower-aeeds for the
spring-time, no birds to come back
and twitter their loves in our listless
ears, no meandering brooks among the
circumscribed existence watering the
violets and roses of a healthy, happy
existence; only (oh, pitiful tale!)
waste, dead pool of stagnant water,
giving out its miasmas and death
Shall human bees lay by no boney,
and human hens prepare no nest for
future loves. Ah! let us onoe more
try to get out the old wheel of useful
ness, and, keeping the distaff always
ready, and the foot strong fur work
despite custom, fashion, conventional
ism, or law, be a law unto ourselves,
and careftftly using the flax that God
sends, take into our owu souls rest and
peace, with faith, like Granny 'Allison’s
that to every human soul that “ keeps
the distaff readv, God will send the
flax.”
—^ ...
The Curfew Bell.
Many have heard of the “ curfew
bell,” but not all who know its origin.
Its histoiwin England runs back to the
time of William the Conqueror, who
ordered a hell to be rung about sun
down msaminer, and eight o’clock in
at which time
fire and lq&s 'Were fo be put out and
the people tonremain within doors, and
penalties were imposed upon those who
neglected or refused to comply with the
law. This was called the “ curfew,” a
word derived from the French couvrefeu,
cover fire, and so the appropriateness
of the name is readily seen. The old
King has been generally charged with
instituting this custom in order to im
press upon his subjects a sense of their
abject condition ; but as the “ curfew
bell” xvas rung in France long before
William’s time, as a safeguard against
fires, it is uot improbable that he brought
the custom with him into England from
the continent, and that he has been
slanderer! as to his motives. At any
rate, ho has sins enough to answer for
without this.
In the sixteenth century “ bellmen”
were added to the night watch in Lon
don. They went through the streets
ringing their bells, and crying: “ Take
care of fire and candle; be kind to the
p; or, and pray for the d, ad.” It was
the bellman’s duty also to bless the
sleepers as he passed the doors. In
“ II Penseroso" Miltou refers to this
custom:
“The bellman's drowsy charm,
To bless the doors trout nightly harm."
Poets have often referred to the cur
few or cover-fire bell. Gray begins his
beautiful “ Elegy” with
“ The curfew tulla the Uuell of parting <lajr."
Longfellow, too, has a pretty little
poem telling the story of this bell with
charming simplicity :
“ Solemnly, mournfully dealing It* dole,
The curfew bell is beginning to toll.
Corer the ember, put out the light,
Toil comes with the moruing, and rest with the
that class of persons here than any
other, xve have passed a law prohibiting
theadmission of any editors, only those
who have advanced our interest in their
papers on earth, and even those we
keep in a separate room by themselves.
You have published many things ope
rating against us, and always blamed
the devil with everything that went
wrong, so you can’t come in. We en
force this rule without respect to
persons, for our own peace and safety.
Now travel.”
Casting a droll lear on the outside
sentinel, our typographical friend start
ed on again, determined to get above.
This time he took with him an old file
of his paper, and presenting it to the
guardian of the celestial city, requested
that it might be carefully examined,
and they could see whether he was en
titled to a free ticket. In due course
of time the conductor came along and
took him in, telling him that he had
been a martyr to the cause of human
improvement, and that resolutions had
been passed to admit all members of
the art preservative who had abused
the devil while below. He added that
as they were punished enough by being
w ith the ‘ devil,’ all their future punish
ment Is commuted. He further stated
that not one delinquent newspaper sub
scriber could be found in Heaveu.
Farm Miscellany.
What Shall be Done With Weeds I
| .. Origin of Agricultural fairs.
KING DAVID OF THE JEWS FUKSIDKXY
I OF THE FIKtT AOKICCLTUILVI. FA 111.
Dark grow the windows, and quenched I* the fire,
Sound f.tdcs into silence, all footsteps retire.
No voice in the chambers, no sound in the hall,
bleep and oblivion reign overall."
King William died, and the original
obligations of the curfexv xvere at last
removed about the time of Henry L,
in 1100; but the custom of ringing an
evening bell is still kept up in England,
ith variations as to the hour. The
nine o’clock bell”—familiar to most
New England people—which sends so
many young jieople home and to bed,
and xvhich in the early history of our
country, xxas almost as rigidly obeyed
by all, both old and young, as the old
curfexv, traces its origin almost directly
to the cover-fire bell. In Lougfelloxv’s
Evangeline” the custom is well de
fined :
*' Anon the bell from the belfry
Rang out the hour of nine—the village curfew—
and straightway
Rose the guests and departed ; and silence reigned
in the household."
But now the customs have changed;
and though the bell still rings out on
the evening air, in country village and
city streets, it has lost its |>oxver, save
as a tale of passing time. Let the old
bells ring on; xve love the sound ; or,
in the xvords of Moore—
" Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tiue their music tells.
Of youth, and home, aud that *wc-1 time
When last I heard their soothing chime."
“An Editor in Heaven.”
How Siberians Eat.—We have
heard of the enormous appetites of the
natives of Siberia, writes a correspond
ent. We now had occular demonstra
tion of it. One of our Tungusians
had been sent back on an errand. The
other txvo sat down to their supper.—
First they made axvay xvith a gallon of
hot tea. Then they prepared a four-
quart pailful of boiled fish and soup.
Just as this xvas dispatched their com
rade returned, and the same pail was
twice filled xvith boiled beef, all of
xvhich xvas devoured by the three, the
bones being cracked for the marrow.
They then rinsed out the pail, and
cooked it full of “ crupa,” a kind of
mush, which xvent the xvay of the fish
and beef. Then they fell upon “ ukale"
or dried salmon, devouring exen the
skin, after broiling it over the fire.—
Then they built their oxvn camp fire,
and began to cook another meal. We
did not keep any account of the dishes,
but the last thing xve heard after retir
ing xvas the cracking of beef bones to
get at the marroxv. Swartz tolds us
that a fexv months before a number of
horses had been sent to Ajan under
charge of a half dozen Cossacks. One
of the horses broke its leg, aud had to
to lie killed. At evening the six Cos
sacks sat doxvn to the carcass, and in
the morning there xvas nothing left of
it but the hide and bones. Even the
head and entrails had been eaten.
A Frenchman gives the folloxving
account of the Temptation and Fall of
Adam and Eve: Monsieur Adam, he
xvake up, he sees une belle demoiselle
aslip in ze garden. Voila dc la chance.
Bon jour, Madame Iv.” Madame Iv
she xvoke; she hole her fan before her
face. Adam put up his eye-glass to
admire zc tableau. Zey make < ne
promenade. Madam Iv, she feels hun
gry ; she see appel on ze arbre. Ser
pent se prome sur l’arbre, make on
xvalk on ze tree. “ Mons. le Serpent,”
say I\% “ will you not haveze bonte to
peek me some appel, J’ai faim ?”—
“ Certaiument, madanie,” say ze ser
pent, “charmede vous voir.” “ Hula,
mon ami, ar-r-r-eter vous,” say Adam;
“stop, stop, que songen x’ous faire?—
Certainly not pulled, and left upon
the ground, if their seeds are only form
ed. It is not safe at this stage of their
growth to throw them into the hogyard,
or to put them in a heap with manure.
Nor xvill it be safe to leavo them upon
the ground where they grew. Some
of them are so tenacious of life that,
even if the plant be pulled up it is said
that the sap will floxv upward, the
flower will bloom and the seed ripen
to be scattered over the fields next
year. There is no killing them by gen
tle means. They xvill live three feet
under ground for years, and if the
land is again stirred to that depth, up
xvill spriug a thick crop of weeds again
to flourish iu their full strength. We
haxe seen a stout pigweed pulled entire
ly out of the ground, with the excep
tion of the end of a very small root,
not ouly to go on aud live, but to blos
som and perfect a large crop of seed !
Do not trust them iu nuy position,
xvliere a complete decomposition xvill
uot speedily take place, either by lire
or the agency of some strong alkaline
or other susstaucc.
If dried on the ground after the seed
is formed, there xvill be no danger.—
If thrown into heaps, they xvill not he
likely to rot before some of them have
perfected seed. If thrown to sxvine, a
portion of them xvould be left to go on
xvith their work of maturitig seed, and
so it xvould be if they xvere mingled
xvith manure. They cannot well be
burnt in their green state, so that the
sate and economical course is to throw
them iuto a compact heap, and mingle
them xvith quick lime, or wood ashes,
or keep them moist so that they be
come thoroughly heated and decom
posed. Even then, the moss should
lie exposed to the sun and air until
quite certain that the vitality of the
seeds is destrox’ed.—N. E. Farmer.
Mixed Farming.
We ask those farmers in our State,
xvho rely exclusively upon one product
for their income, to read and ponder
the folloxving words of xvisdom taken
from the Farmers' Herald, of Chester,
England. Small accretions make the
xvealth of the farmer. His business,
rightly managed, is a x'ery sure one,
but sometimes sloxv. The risk is small
and so are the profits, but the liability
to loss can with great certainty be
guarded against by planting and cul
tivating a variety of crops.
Mixed husbandry is needful to real
ize the full amount of profit which the
farm properly managed will yield.—
Every year the price of farm products
x'aries—some xvill be high, and some
xvill be loxv, and thus the farmer catches
good prices for a part, if not all;
xvhereas, if he is xvholly dependent up
on one kind of crop, he may lie wholly
disappointed. A little sold of every
thing makes a niucklc, and if one does
not pay, another xvill.
Kindness to Animals.
Apropos to an article going the What Madness is zees, you must not
rounds under the above heading, an j peek ze appel.” Ze snake he take one
exchange presents the folloxving legend:
Once upon a time after the demise
of one of the corps editorial, he pre
sented himself at the gate of the Golden
city, and requested admission. The
door-keeper asked him xvhat had been
his occupation while on terra firma !
He replied he had been an editor.
Well,” said the xvatchman, “ xve
have a crowd of your kind here noxv,
and they all came in as * dead heads.’
If you pay your passage you can come
in; if not, you must place yourself
under the control of a personage you
ruled tyranically down beloxv ”—mean
ing the devil.
Not having the xvherexvith to go in,
our brother of the quill and scissors
posted off, and presented himself at the
entrance of Clootie’s dark domains.
A very dark-complexioned gentleman
stood sentry, and asked in a gruff voice,
Who comes ?’
“An hutnble disciple of Faust,”
xvsis the calm reply.
“ Then hold on, you can’t be ad
mitted,” exclaimed the gentleman in
black, evincing considerable agitation,
and fiercely scoxvling upon him.
pinch of snuff, he say: “ Ah! Mons.
Adam, do you not knoxv there is nos-
sing prohebeet for ze ladies ? Madame
Iv, permit me to offer you some of this
fruit defendu.” Iv, she make one
courtesy, ze snake he fill her whole
parasol xviz appel. He say “ Eritls
sicut Deus. Mons. Adam, he will eat
ze appel, he xvill become likedne Dieu,
know ze good and ze evil, but you,
Madame Iv, cannot become more of a
goddess zan you are noxv.” And zis
finish Madame Iv.
Arsenical Ornaments.—A fexv
days ago a little girl had a bunch of
artificial grapes given to her. After
amusing herself with the toy she gave
it to a playmate of her oxvn age, who
presently picked a grape off the bunch
and sucked it The next day she was
a corpse. An eminent physician, who
analyzed the fatal plaything, deposed
that ten of the grapes yielded three
graius of arsenite of copper
The great secret in raising orderly
and tractable animals, lies in treating
them kindly and gently when young.
A heifer that is kicked, roughly treated
and occasionally scared into xvildness,
xvill probably make a vicious coxv—one
that xvill kick or hook occasionally; for
she has learned to consider those xvho
approach her as enemies. On the con
trary, one that has never learned to
fear those xvho feed or attend to her,
xvill submit to the operation of milking
xvitliout resistance, and can be broken
to all the customary duties of a cow
xvith ease laid safety. Give that gentle
creature tnat will lick the hand or her
attendant, iuto the charge of a coarse,
ill-natured keeper, who xvill use her
roughly, and xvheu she shrinks natu
rally from such treatment xvill abuse
and beat her, the instincts of nature,
heretofore dormant, xvill be aroused,
and in fear, more than anger, she will
kick and otherwise resist the unaccus
tomed cruelty. It is thus xvith colts.
A stubborn and ill-tempered horse is
very easily made out of a well-meaning
colt by unkind usage. We do not de
precate proper discipline when neces
sary. Let it be administered xvith
judgment, and xvhen required to correct
a fault, afterxvards let kind treatment
shoxv that punishment is administered
for certain purposes only.
The following is taken from the
Farmers Home Joumc l:
Of the multifarious objects to which
the interests and attention of David,
King of the Jews, xvas directed in pro
moting the national policy of his peo
ple, we have, in a very brief recital of
the organization of the “ home depart
ment,” a glimpse of the prosperous
state of agriculture in the latter part
of Jm reign. It appears from first_.
Chronicles 27,' that, in the department
of the interior were twelve distinct
subordinate departments of offices, the
incumbents of xvhich were doubtless of
the first intelligence and skill, each at
bis appropriate business. These offices-
were in the folloxving numerical order s
1. Treasury.
2. Overseer of Htore-liousaL
3. Tillage.
4. Vineyards.
5. Wine Cellars,
6. Olive Trees.
7i Oil Cellars.
8. Sharon Henlman.
9. Valley Hcrdman.
10. Camel Overseer.
11. Overseer of Asses.
12. Shepherds.
David’s xvars had ended—his onoinios
subdued—the nation was settling down
in peace. The military chieftain, from
planning aud conducting campaigns,
became the President of the National
Agricultural Society. It was au era
in the history of David and of the ua-
tion—a delightful epoch iu the annals-
of the xvorld—the formation of era
agricultural society. The orguuizatioD
is proof not only of tho prosperous
condition of agriculture at that time-
among the Jews, but marks the wisdom-
of David, of whom it must be admitted’
that lie xvas the. originator or founder
of agricultural .societies.
The progress of the nation during
David’s reign xvas very great us it was
only in the next preceding reign and
generation under Philistine servitude
that it is related that “ there was no-
smith found throughout the land of
Israel, but all the Israelites went down
to the Philistines to sharpen every man
his share aud his coulter and his axe
and mattock.” But in David’s reign
the xvhole country seems to haxe liecn
resolved into one great patent farm, un
derlie combined superintendence of
the “ twelve,” a number so familiar
and prominent in the national auuals.
If this first agricultural society had uot
the appendages of a cattle show aud
the annual autumnal fair which per
tains to societies of modern times, its
instructor, as briefly sketched in the
sacred history, has all tho important
elements obtained by those of the pres
ent day, after a lapse of three thousand,
years.
Immediately succeeding tho account
of David’s agricultural society, which
appears to have heeu among tho first
acts of his life in farming, is his faro-
well address. The address was deliv
ered to the vast assembly composed of
princes, various officers, civil, religions
and military, instituted and appointed
by his classifying hand, and a great
concourse of people. The occasion xvas
in striking contrast to his flights in ear
lier days from cave to cave. The xvar-
clouds that hung dark, lowering and
heavy, xvere noxv all dissipated and his
unclouded setting sun shone with soft
ened but magnificent splendor, in tinif
it xvas the birthday of agricultural so
cieties, the offspring of peace.
A writer in the Massachusetts Plow
man has this to say about potatoes:
a deadly The Early Rose potato is a success with
poison—and that each vine-leaf on the
bunch contained enough to kill a child.
Another child’s cupboard, in which its
‘ toys xvere kept, was lined with green
Why not?” demanded the typo,
who began to get some huffish, and
looked around for a “sheep’s foot”
with which to force an entrance.
“ Well, sir,” replied his sable majesty,
“ we let one of your profession in here
many years ago, and he kept up a con
tinual row with his former delinquent
subscribers, and as we have more of
paper. The poor little thing sickened
and died, obviously from the effects
poison mysteriously imbibed. Dr.
Letheby analyzed the paper-hanging
of the cupboard, and found that a piece
of it only six inches square contained
nearly thirteen grains of the deadly
compound—enough to kill two groxvn-
up persons!—The London Inquirer.
myself and neighbors this season. The
yield in some cases is surprising. The
King of the Earlys is less productive
and later. It is “ played out” before
it is “ played in.” Planted in roxvs
and hills beside the former kind the
yield is less and the tubers inferior as
to size and fairness. Instead of the
“ king,” its name should be the “ coun
terfeit” of the Earlys. But the origi
nator of the Early Rose deserves the
title of benefactor of mankind and
monument. Who is he ?
Spoiling Horses’ Feet.—It is al
most impossible to get a horse shod
without having the frogs cut away.—
All x’etcrinary surgeons, all horse men,
all leading blncksmiths, agree that tho
frog should not be pared one particle—
not even trimmed. No matter how
pliable and soft the frog is, cut it away
smooth oii all sides, and in two days it
xvill be dry aud hard as a chip. You
might as xx-ell cut off all the leaves of
trees and expect them to flourish as to
para away the frog and have a healthy
foot The rough, spongy part of the
frog is to the foot what leaves arc to
the tree—the lungs.
2. Never have a red-hot shoe put
upon the foot to burn it level. If you
can find a blacksmith that is mechanic
enough to lex’el the foot without red-hot
iron, employ him. The burning pro
cess deadens the hoof and tends to con
tract it. If you do not think so, try
the red-hot poker on your finger-nail
and sec hoxv it xvill affect the growth of
that.
There are muny other important
points in shoeing horses, but these two
are of more importance than all tho
rest, level to the apprehension of men
not skilled in horses, and the two most
-Mirror and Farmer.
The Elmira Gazette remarks: “The
champion sardine-eater of the xmriffts f
the local of the Anbnm Advertiser.—
He says: ‘ We pay nearly $4,000,000
annually to Franco for sardines.’”
