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Newspaper Page TextIraraal—Jibotel) to Stature, lllltEI DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE. (nksirial Interests |ht ^9»ih»r*.j|annerJ ;• i.-l' IKit IVLLM.i, liY S. A. ATKINSON, xT THREE dollars per annum, STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. 0 lice, Broad st., over J. H. Huggins. nvm ov \nvKRTisiM). , lrrrinorocnu will be InMTtedftt One Dollar and fifty it lit* per SquaM of 13 linn, for the Bret, and x.*fnt*-#»e Cents for each subsequent Insertion, f»r*nv‘time under one month. Pork longer period ilb.-ril contracts will be made. Business Directory. Miscellaneous. Summey & Newton, ■I'tOAlk «T.. ITIIRNU, KA. IRON, PLOW STEEL, STEEL, HOES, NAIL* PLOWS, MILL SAWS, COTTON GINS, And General Hardware and Cutlery, at Wbolesale and Retail. .. SUMMEY<t NEWTON then*, Qa., April 14th. tf No. 6 Broad St. LAMAR CORE. A 8. ERWIN. H»' COBB, ERWIN *-001 A T TOlWEY SAT /\ Album, Oeorgla. Office In the Deuprec buttdlnK- __ _____ 1). (1, CANDLER, T T () R N E Y A T I* A W , A T' L V. Hoi H.inkit County msTh it. riiu:\, \ ttorxey at law, *.“\ »ml Notary Public, Athens, tla. Will l-rs-- ilc.in the Western circuit; »ill «''<■ particular attention tn the collection of claims, and will act as unit fur the purchase ami sale of real estate and p*c utes on wild Ian Is. janlAtl j. II. jliKlTON, W. SEIDELL, SKELTON & SKI DEI I*. ATTORNEY S A TLA W, » R ii Hartwell, II irt County PITTMAN A HINTON, YTTO RN E Y S AT L A W , , Jefferson, Jackson county, (ia. SAMUEL P. THURMOND, T T O R N E Y A T L A W , Athens, tla. OflW no Uroatl street, oyer Bury .% Sou’s <5|.»r<*. Will give special attention to esses in II iiikniplcv. Also, to the collection of all claims entrusted to his care. A T .A A *. 4. A I. r. tl.l XAMIKll. T^EALERS IN HARDWARE, Iron Steel, Nails, C image Material, Mining mplouients, Ae., Whitehall st., Atlanta. HI.VAN ESTES, A TTORVEY AT LAW, Homer, Hanks County, Ha. 4. It. H Cf.FSl A ,t T O II N E Y *_ V. CarnesviHe, Franklin c it. 'rn.wKky. AT L A W countv, <»a. Office eupied by4. F. Langston, Esq. iu-1 A. B. FARaVHAR, Pr®p*istor of Ponnsylvania Agricultural Works, Manufacturer of Improved [YORK, Pbnm'a. MrKdON h SWEKPS *0 UD STEELSWEEPS, plChso.N Mllilb, and SUtAFKKS. STEEL PLOWS, SHOVEL PLOW BLADES, CULTIVATORS. HnnsE-PowKits, Tiikesu- n><. M•ruiMKS.dc., Ac. Send for llluslrated Catalogue. ARTHUR EVANS, Watchmaker & Jeweller, (LATE WITH CHILDS A MOSS,) ESPECTFULLY announces to the eltiaen. of Athena and vicinity that he anted Jit the Sew Drug Store of Dr. Wb, WM. WOOD, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF F V EMIT URE. 1.7’URNITUEE REPAIRED, UP- JL 1 bolstered and varnished, also a large variety of wood co!h ns and Fisk’s Patent Metalic Burial Cases always on hand. Warerooius on Clayton St., next to Episcopal Church. ScpO Gm. WILLIAM WOOD. For Sale or Exchange. T HAVE 300 acres of land in Cle- J_ hurne Co., Ala., which 1 will sell cheap, or ex* change for real estate in this city. There are 60 acres cleared, 38 of it the l*»st bottom laud on Cane creek, producing .V) to 75 bushels of coni per acre, and cotton in proportion. The remainder is in the woods. The farm is *40 miles from the Selma, Koine and Dalton ltuilruad, oneaud a quarter miles from the county site, ivdwardsvilie, 6 miles from the located depot of the Columbus and Chat* tanooga Railroad, and one mile from the route of the Grilhn and North Alabama Railroad There is nil excellent store house (not be* longing to the place), which can be bought or rented chea,p and is a Splendid Stand for a Country Store. Titles indisputable. For further information ap ply to, or address Du. J. W. MURRELL, March 31 ~3m Athens, Ga. IV LJ t GltOVEU&lUKKU SEWING MACHINES!! pkonih'.xced tiik iii'.i :\ ise. >Y ALL WIIO HAVE TRIED Theso murhiiu'.. with all the IMPROVEMENTS —- AM>- — A TT A (' HMEKTS, may be had, .if luanu'it f uiei's prices, freight .viued, at I In* DANNER OFFICE. NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SCHEDULE <; kokgiT uaTLroad. Superintendent's Office, 1 (o >r«la and Macon k Au&rusta Railroad, > Aygiuta.G ., January 20,1871. J ( AN AND AFTER SUNDAY, ' ' JaMftaiy JJd, 1871, tbo Fasveiiger 1'iuins will rue It tuUuwa; ili.V Passtngtr Train, Daily, Suiulay Excepted. Uave Augusta at 8 00a.m. l«Ette Atlsuiaat ..................7 10a.m. Am>c at Atlanta at 6 30p.m. Arrifu at Augusta at 5 -top. in. Sight Passenger Train. I.rabe Augusta at... 8 30p. m. heave Atlanta at HI 13 p. ni. Arrive at Atlanta at 6 40a. in. Anive at Aug tsta at 7 30a. in. Ilersclia Passenger Train. heave Augustaat 1 13 p. in. LeaYf H v rrclta;>t 7 30 a. tu. Arrive at Augusta 0 23 a. in. Arriveoti Skrraelia —6 tHiu. in. H'th Day ami Night Passenger Trains will mnkc fUt connection* at Augusta nnd Atlanta with l*»sse tiger Trains of connecting roads. I’ass.-ngtrrs from Atlanta, Athens, Washington, Mstations on Georgia Railroad, by taking the btwn Day Passenger Train will make close connec- L’Siat(ainak with the Macon Passenger Train, Mil rqsrh Mac it theaaiut* day at 7 40 p. m 1'nhre Slts-ping Cars on all N iglit Trains. SrVbdul;. on Macon .V Ausrusta Railroad. T<> t'lil Effttt -fttH. toll, lb?l. ^AtfM Awjittta and Macon—Day /V Tcnii) Daily, Sunday Excepted. hu. r vugu^ia ; U 0On«Min. \ Mm on at ii 00 a. m. a i M Wll g ,||. ;.. 7 4ft p. m. ■t.'Mr ai A ijrusta at 1 45 p. m. t iJ 4 * Passenger Train arriving at Macon at v 'Makes cIinsc connect ions with Trains of <0 mrc 1ft* luruU at Macon. «\ leaving Macon at G a. m., will make atCaiuwk with Up Day Passenger ,T -yUuta, Athens, Washin*»ton, and all l'»U with”' >T *** ‘ ?al ’ ra;, ‘ 1, " * » «t a At- * iv. JOHNSON, Supt. Liberal Cash Advances on „ COTTOUb GROOMER. STUBBS & CO.. 1 RESPECTFULLY inform the * V Myi*h»nl«nnd pl».nlrre of (!o..r S ia, Florida Alaliama, that lhrir lar.-o F.r;- t roof Waiv- , ^.T' w 111 a rJ P o ilv liales, is now ready " rl 5*'.‘T r "" on > “ ,,J th > .' are now pre- WWI h. n,ak« lil«r«l cash adiances «s ration in ,,'VV 11 ' 11 hohl a reasonable length of time, chaq- >-»d i.e/ 11 " 1,1,ere ' 1 ' H you want money, GROOVER, STUBBS A CO., Savannah. Ga. To Housekeepers. T UST RECEIVED, a large assort- •/ meni of && r ur a e>-w be: mm • w bicli we are offering at very low prices. All stoves sold by us WARRANTED IN EVERY PARTICULAR. SUMMEY & NEWTON. E. S. ENGLAND & C(>7, A RE NOW RECEIVING THEIR NEW FALL STOCK! Selected with care by one of the firm, in New York, to which they invite the attention «»f their cuHouter* and the public. They have a good assort ment of STAPLE&FANCf DRYGOODS GIUMKHIF", PKOVlNlO.\8, IIARIMt AKR. HUM KKKV, IIATM. C'APM, BOOTH, 8IIOF.S, And in short, everything in the way of Family and Plantation Supplies, They will pay the HIGHEST PRICE FOR COTTON or other Produce, nnd Will store Cotton at ’43 C’enln n Bale p«r iiwntb. We are. deter mined to deal fairly, sell low, and by cio>e attention to business hope to please old custo mers and make many new ones. sepll5tf NEW FALL GOODS. p ENTER & REAVES have now in V-/ store and to arrive, 130 Itng* Collce, IOO IlnrrcU Hu^nr, -100 NncUs Molly IO Topa Iron Tics, !t,000 A nrclM Ragging. Also a large and'wcll-aelected stock of STAPLE GOODS. which we offer low to the public for cash or pro- We are also agents for the celebrated CARVER COTTON GIN. i-iin Fireside Miscellany. A Georgia Volunteer. DY ZARIKFA. Wc find the following touching lines in the Richmond “Enquirer.” They were written by Mrs. Townsend at the neglected grave of one who was a mem ber of the Twelfth Georgia, a regiment whose gallantry was conspicious on every field where its colors waved, and which won praise for peculiar daring, even among the “ foot cavalry ” of Jackson.— Plantation. Far up the lonely mountain-side, My wandering footsteps led; Tbo moss lay thick beneath my feet* The pine sighed overhead. The trace of a dismantled fort Lay in the forest nave, And in the shadow near my path I saw a soldier’s grave. The bramble wrestled with the weed Upon the lowly mound ; The simple head-board, rudely writ, llad rotted to the grouud. I raised it with a reverent hand. From dust its words to clear; But Time had blotted all but these— “A Georgia Volunteer.” I saw the toad and scaly snake From tangled coverts start, And hide themselves among the weeds Above the dead man’s heart; But undisturbed, in sleep profound, Unheeding there belay— His cotlin but the mountain soil, Ilis shroud, Confederate Gray. I heard the Shenandoah roll Along the vale below, I saw the Alleglianies rise Toward the realms of snow. The “Valley Cumpaign” rose to mind— Its leader’s nnmc—nnd then I knew the sleeper hud been one Of Stonewall Jackson’s men. Yet whence he came, what lip shall say, What tongue will ever tell, Wlmt desolated hearths and hearts Have been because lie fell ? What sad-eyed maiden braids her hair- Her hair which he held dear— One lock of which perchance, lies with The Georgia Volunteer. Whnt mother, with long-watching eyes, And white lips, cold and dumb, Waits with appalling patience for Her darling boy to come ? Her boy ! whose mountain gruve swells up, But one of many a scar Cut on the face ot our fair land By gory-handed war ! What fights he fought, what wounds he wore, Are all unknown to fume; Remember, on his lonely grave There is not e’en a name 1 That he fought well, and bravely too, And held his country dear, We know—else he hid never been “ A Georgia Volunteer ! ” ATIIENS, GA. OCTOBER 13, 1871. VOL XLI.--M 7—NEW SERIES. VOL 4. NO. 51 aug - SHARP & FLOYD, Successors to George Sharp, Jr., JewolUre AND—— • A tlanta, Gra. ^yE OFFER a large variety of FINE WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVER WARE, SPECTACLES, FANCY GOODS, FINE BRONZES, AND STATUARY. WE HAVE A FULL CORPS OF Saunders, Goodwin & Miller, Cotton Faeiorn, "'"mission Merchants u Wtr.ST., SA VANNAX, GA., f-ST.,liA°LT1MORE, HD. L* 'uatle on consignments. Agent* r, M »w*no. act 8-3n» ‘(tin* oid Furniture to WOOD’S .v.;,'; 1 ; l 1 I! S.IL ;1\ 'gnsciijnd Church,und have it IDE OOODASNEW. Uri [agttvu* •Vtmufaclureinany Fine Goods i.'l.V. u .r.“ w ? " ho P'. » n ' 1 ,re prepared lo FILL AM OLDKKs for goodn or work promptly. rnfL. AH goods engraved fnm of charge. \\ c make a specialty or PREMIUMS FOR FAIRS! and are prepared lo giro any informaUon on ap plication. Wc guarantee Ibc LARGEST ASSORTEMNT, THE FINEST GOODS, THE LOWEST PRICES, AND THE BEST WORK. roxll and sec us. SHARP & FLOYD, Whitehall Street, Atlanta. May 25-1 y lie sleeps—what need to question now If he were wrong or right ? He knows ere this whose cause is just In God the Father’s sight. He wields no war-like weapons now, Returns no foeinan’s thrust— Who, but a coward, would revile An honored soldier's dust ? Roll, Shenandoah, proudly roll Adown thy rocky glen; Above thee lies the grave of one Of Stonewall Jackson’s men! Beneath the cedar and the pine, In solitude austere, Unknown, unnamed, forgotten, lies “ A Georgia Volunteer.” The Old Maid. "!?'• Doggy & Wagon a f’>\'«'KIUA... i k direct from the * *ill bft sold M low m con - s ^\l.\iKY&iiE^f0N. Jut'll Blacking Brushes, *1 50 PER DOZEN. > > V-. AT T,I E N EW DRUG STORE. T09$03U4tt I TILL & BRYDYE, at the old es- 1 JL tahiUhud B ARBER-8HOP, on Broad street, over tbo store of Messrs. J. R. A L. C. Malthewa, bare the best and moat attentive workmen and all the modern appliances for SHAV- 1X0. SIIUIPOOINO. IIAIH-KKKSMM.. rtf. La- die* and children waited on at their residences, when desired. Post morion eases will rwestve prompt nnd careful attention. July 28. Carriage, Buggy & Wagon A LARGE and well selected assort ment, for sale by CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO. TIRON, STEEL, HARDWARE, X Nalls, Hoes, Axes, Chains andRnbberBelUDg for sal by SUMMEY 4 NEWTON. Ail old maid! What a vision is con jured up in our fancy by that word! We see a lady past the prime of life, with a lean, meager face, upon which a rather dissatisfied look is habitually settled. She has no friend, and is nobody’s friend. If you meet her at a party, she will mostly sit alone and devour all persous with hungry eyes. If one of her own age begins a con. versation with her, she unmercifully attacks the foible of everybody present and absent; if a young girl—moved, perhaps, by some sort of compassion thinking that her own lot may resemble that of the ancient spinster in years to come—addresses lier, she is mostly snubbed; but if a gentleman, be he young or old, takes the trouble to en tertain her, some of the acid of her disposition is melthig away, and SHE TRIES TO BE AGREEABLE and amiable. Why is this so? and is it really thus ? If we are obliged to answer this question in the affirmative, there is at least hope that the number of these unhappy females is decreasing. But the fact ascertained, let us look at the reason why they have become what they are, nnd by showing the root of the evil, let us hope that we shall be able to beguile some young girls, if not all, to avoid the dangers of such situation. In the lower grades of society you will seldom, if ever, find the above described type of spinsters; the women of the working classes are too busy to indulge in this luxury. It is in the wealthy classes that BO MANY DISSATISFIED FEMALES are found. The cause is, " They are not married”—“ They are left sitting,” as the Germans elegantly express their conditijn—so most people will tell you. But we are of different opinion; the cause is that they have no work to do. They are brought up, if not in luxury, at least in affluence; and into the minds of most of them has been in stilled the thought that in good time (meaning, no doubt, before they are old) they will get a husband, who will provide for them for the term of their natural life. Nobody ever told them that, even were such the case, a husband would expect some sort of return for the responsibility he undertakes (we are, of course, speaking of girls who don’tbring a fortune to their husbands,) consisting, we will cheerfulness, and in a general know ledge and interest in all things that affect the well-being of mankind. No body told them so, and therefore they did not prepare themselves worthily to Tecome a wife—or shall we take an other name—a sensible woman; a sensible woman who is able to fill her place, and do her duty, be she married or unmarried. Such a woman may become an old maid without being sub jected to commiseration or ridicule. Let us take a girl who has arrived at the mature age of twenty-five without having had a single ELIGIBLE OFFER OF MARRIAGE. By eligible, we do not mean to imply that our only consideration is money— but just the contrary. We wish to have it understood that nobody whose character promised some fair amount of happiness ever asked our young lady in marriage. And as she is a sensible woman, who has had a good education, and whom an excellent mother early taught the blessedness of work and usefulness, she has refused to marry only for the sake of avoiding the mis fortune of becoming an old maid. Un der the eye of that excellent mother she first learned to make hersclt useful to her younger brothers and sisters (for we will suppose the family to be a large one); and when they grew up she looked about for some other occupa tion, or let us rather say work—for though some young ladies are always occupied they never work. As she has taught nearly all the younger family, she lias, of course, gained some practice iu the art of teaching, and so she tries to find a situation. “Oh, what a mis erable lot!” we hear some of our lady readers exclaim. Granted, for those who follow this calling with unwilling heart and mind; but we began by say ing the our young lady had fitted her self particularly for that vocation, and that she did her work with a will.— The consequence is that she soon GAINS THE LOVE OF HER PUPILS. Thus some years pass, and she is thirty now ; but “She is quite young still,” her friends, male and female, aver. If she goes into society, there is always a vacant seat left for her, and there are none more eager to welcome her en trance than the young girls of her ac quaintance, for she is always full ol good humor—ready to listen to their stories, to their troubles, be they small or great—always ready with advice or help. Without their knowing it, there is, moreover, an under current in her talk, consisting in the desire to make them all sensible women—women who love to work ; women who take an in terest in the well-being of their fellow- creatures, whether rich or juxir; women who can stand alone, if there is no lov ing arm to lean upon, and who yet lov ingly, gratefully, accept and return each kindness shown to them. We have seen some fair specimens pf such women, nnd we think their number is daily increasing. They go upon their way without making ado; they ENJOY THE GOOD THINGS OF THIS there Milt always be the needy and the | poor to uhora she can be a friend, and who, if ffiey cannot repay her in any other waE will at least protect lier from that feehjjg of desolation which causes so many! undent females to say: “I had better die, for nobody will miss me when l ife gone, and I am ■ Y ONLY A BURDEN to those jl love." We have taken the most conlmon type of the old maid; ot course, i L the same whether she gains her indiyendence by teaching or by of industry; but we can- m adding a word ofad- who are most ready to bver considered, reader, how hard the world is to those females who strive to make an independence for themselves? This sort of work is not genteel—that sort of work* is not fitting for women. And why should not any sort of work be fitting for women which they are able to do? A great German professor, Holtzendorff, has decided this question by simply averring that they are fitted for everything which they are able to do. But does the world at large be lieve so? JudgingTrom our exper ience, we must deny this ; yet we hard ly know of a single instance in which a woman who tried to do her work well and faithfully, even if it was a clerk’s work, did not succeed; for independ ence of character slowly but surely .be gets esteem ; and there is no independ encc of character possible without in dependence of means. Our udvice, then, to those who would scoff at the old maid is, to think twice before they do it, and to remember whether it is not perhaps their own fault, or the fault of other equally prejudiced and narrow-minded people, that the poor dependent old maid did not become a hearty old lady. Perhaps she belong ed to those SOFT, MILD WOMEN who submit to be snubbed all their lives. Poor, miserable creatures! their youth was spoiled by the vain endeavor to “ catch a husband,” and their age is spent in vain regret for chances lost.— Let us hope that the time is not far oft’ when the term “ old maid” will bear no hidden and depreciatory meaning, but be onl^ tfuT simple statement of a fact.—Chambers' Journal. Farm Miscellany. The Want of the Times. An Alabama Practical Joke. WORLD as heartily as any bachelor; and they are for the most part much happier than any of our bachelor friends, for they have the great gift—which the lords of creation generally sadly want —of making a pleasant home to them selves out of scanty means, wherever they happen to build their nest. And so our old maid, whom we set up as an example, has, also, contrived, by the age of 40, to build a nest for herself— for all her family is scattered; her par ents have died; some of her brothers and sisters have married, some have gone away; there she sits, contentedly, but mostly not alone; friends arc drop ping in, inviting her and coaxing her to come with them. Sometimes she accepts, more often she refuses, know ing full well the truth of the proverb: “If you wish to get always a warm welcome don’t visit your friends too often.” But indeed she has no time left for unwelcome visits; she rises For twenty-three years old Jake Willard has cultivated the soil of Baldwin county, Alabama, and drawn therefrom a support for self and wife. He is childless. Not long ago Jake left the house in search of a missing cow. His route led him through an old, woru-out patch of clay land of about six acres in extent, in the center of which was a well twenty-five or thir ty feet deep, and at some time, prob ably, had furnished the inmates of dilapidated house near by with water. In passing by this spot, an ill wind Tiled Jake’s “ tile” from his head, and maliciously wafted it to the edge of the well, and in it tumbled. Now, Jake had always practiced the virtue of economy, and he immediate ly set about recovering the lost hat. He ran to the well, uncoiled the rope which he had brought for the purpose of capturing the truant cow, and_after several attempts to catch the hat with a noose, he concluded to save time by going down into the well himself. To accomplish this, he made fast one end of the rope to a stump hard by, and was quickly on his way down the well. It is a fact, of which Jake was no less obliyious than the reader hereof, that Ned Wells was in the dilapidated building aforesaid, and that an old, blind horse, with a bell on his neck, who luqi been turned out to die, was lazily grazing within a short distance of the well. The ^evil himself or some other wicked spirit put it in Ned’s cranium to have a little fun; so he quietly slipp ed up to the horse, and unbuckling the bell strap, approached with slow, measured “ ting-a-ling” the edge of the well. “ Dang that blind horse,” said Jake, “ he’s a cornin’ this way sure, and haint got no more seuse than to bill in here. Whoa, Ball!” But the continued approach of the ting-a-ling,” said just as plainly In an exceedingly well written article in the April number of the Southern Field and Factory on Our Young Men, the writer takes in review all the pro fessions, and shows the folly of so many young men of good intellects waisting their lives in a futile attempt to secure wealth and dignity, or ease and gentle manly leisure, by entering some one of the so-called learned professions. Toil is the lot of humanity, and no one can become successful who attempts to shun it The very fact that there are many young men who enter the professions from an ignoble love of ease, is suffi cient to account for the many failures which are found iu the professions.— We want working young men—men who arc not ashamed to be found at work either in the field or in the shop. Wirt never uttered a truer sentiment than when he said, “ There is no ex cellence without labor.” The- Creator of the universe did not consider it un becoming his high nature to work, and the creator cannot accomplish the high er ends of his nature without it. The want of the times, says the Field and Factory, is a race of young, edu cated working men. “ When it was announced first that 'labor is royal’ the sentiment was applauded, and every body adopted it and admired it as a noble utterance. But unfortunately few aspire to belong to the royal family, if labor is to certify to the genuineness of their letters patent. No, our younj men are not fond of work. How few go to agriculture as their sphere!— How few boldly aud manfully seize the plow handles and till the soil, and thus subdue the earth! But our people worry out their lives abusing the freed- man as a laborer, and then, as a reme dy, apply for foreign white laborers to some immigration society, and fail with them os signally, wasting their means and going in debt year by year, instead of taking hold themselves, and learn ing to be independment of all such out side, equivocal help. Let half at least of our young men (or better still three- fourths) go into farming; let them do it not simply as a mode of living, but let them make it their honest profes sion, and go into it heartily ; let them farm scientifically, laboring themselves, and looking into ever)’ part of their business with their own eyes; econo mizing time, labor, and all other means; read about farming; write about it; take agricultural journals; keep away from towns, villages, and political gatherings, except when they find that-their duty to the country de mands it, and this process, well kept up, will tell iu its influence powerfully and favorably on the next generation.” If this advice was followed, we should hear no more complaint of hard times; we should feel no more dependence upon a servile race; we should emerge from the slough of despond and take our places high among the favored of the earth. Is there not enough of pride, of patriotism, of love for the memory of the past to incite our young men to greater exertions? Let them but once resolve to depend on them selves, to shape their own career, to overcome all difficulties that obstruct their path to usefulness, honor and wealth, and one half the work will have been finished. We want farmers, enlightened, educated, persevering, not afraid of work and who are determined to succeed. The work would be tire some for a while. Difficulties like mountains rise iu the road to success; but earnest faith, persevering industry aud patient toil will remove all these and a triumphant success will crown the earnest laborer.—Nashville Uunion and American. I ding the hard masses, and giving free admission to air and the fertilizing gasses. You will see their work when you come tu break up a field that has borne a heavy clover crop. Turn un der the aftermath, and you set at work still another fertilizing and ame liorating influence in the added vegeta ble element. Many years ago, John Johnson, a noted successful farmer, having a large field of heavy day land that had been underdrained, aud was then in dover, to plough for summer fallow, suppos ed it would require two teams on each plough to break up such land in the summer, and he went to the Add pre pared to plough in this way. But in commendng he put a span of horses on a common plough to lay out the lands, aud they went across a wide field aud back without the least difficul ty, thus showiug that the land was in a condition to be readily ploughed with one team ; so* the- huge- ploughs were bid aside, each team put on a common plough, and a good dover sod was wdl turned under without difficulty in thi» way. One great fault in farming clay soils » workiug them wheu too wet. Al most any clay farm will hear witness to this fact. This is excused on the plea of necessity, but too- often heedless igno rance, or want of proper system in con ducting the operations of the farm, furnish the true reason. Try clover and rotation of crops- on* your day lands, and don’t break them up when the water will stand iu your previous day’s furrows 1—Rural Caroli- nina. How to make the Farm Fay. words that “ Ball" wouldn’t whoa. Besides, Jake was at the bottom rest ing, befure trying to “ shin it? up the rope. “Great Jerusalem!” said he, “the old cuss will be a top of me before can say Jack Robinson. Whoa! dang you, whoa!" Just theu Nod drew up to the edge of the well, and with his foot kicked a little dirt into it. “ Oh, Lord!” exclaimed Jake, foil ing on his knees at the bottom, “ I’m early, she is fully employed all day g<me now; whoa!—w-li-oa. Ball!— long. Besides the teaching she does Oh, Lord, have mercy on me.” for money—in order to live honorably and respectably—she does much for love. Thus our old maid goes on her way, cheering many who would grow feint but for her hearty encouragement She is fifty now, and age is approach ing with quick steps, yet she fears it not. If all her friends should fell off, Ned coaid hold in no longer, and fearful that Jake might suffer from his fright, he revealed nimself. Probably Ned didn’t make tracks with his heels from that well. Maybe Jake wasn’t up to the top in short or der; and you might think he didn’t try every night for two weeks to get shot with his rifle at Ned. not. Maybe Farming on Clay Lands. Our clayey soils are mainly among the strongest and best we have, but they are not generally liked, being diffi cult to manage, (as they are managed,) and yielding results far below those ot really inferior soils of a more friable nature. Such soils, however, when prop erly treated will be appreciated. Clay soils often need underdraining to bring them into a proper condition to be acted upon by other ameliorat ing influences, but in many cases this is not required. Where it is needed, and means will not permit us to under drain, we must do what we can, by means of open drains and subsoiling— the latter where it is found beneficial, But there is another means of im proving clayey soils that any one who has them—certainly throughout the larger portion of the Southern country —can apply and get well paid for his labor entirely aside from the improve ment of his land. The magic word is —Clover! Clover is a wounderful plant, and not yet half appreciated in the 8onth. Ifyoucauget it well seeded on your tough days the battle is half won. The roots pierce and fill the soil, acting like wedges; loosening, opening and divi- This question is one that at present is agitating the minds of more farmers than any other. Politics or the meth od of government has been supplanted by the still more important subject of how to exist. Mr. Obediah Jones of Arkansas, a State that has felt, with more severity the heavy baud ef gov ernment than any other in the South, except North Carolina, lias written at sensible and well digested artide on the subject in the American Stock Journal, iu which he makes it appear that to make the farm pay proportioned to in vestment requires greater skill then most fanners possess. Agriculture has been iu the South a gigantic failure since the war, and many farmers in the Northern aud Northwestern States have been just as unsuccessful. There must be some reason for this. It does not lie in the soil, nor climate, but in the want of a diversity of crops. One or two products are never remunera tive unless prices are exorbitantly high and for this he says there are two reasons: First.—One hand can produce more my being able to cultivate a larger aiea. Second.—Exclusive pooduction causes over production, and consequent ly low prices; also creates a demand fer articles not raised, consequently high prices for the necessaries of life. Tobacco has almost ruined ninny portions of Virginia, Kentucky, Mis souri, aud some of the Northern States. Wheat is ruiuing the Northwestern States and Territories. Cane culture is injuring Louisiana, and cotton has bankrupted the South. The almost exclusive production of cotton has brought upon us the compound evi s of cheap cottou, high provisions, worth less labor aud exhausted land. No farmer is making the farm pay 'unless lie is keeping up its fertility.— There is nothing gained by gathering a succession of crops and wearing out the soil. Crops will decrease from year to year, and the land finally becomes valueless. To “ make the farm pay,” first and foremost, keep up its fertility: there are three ways of doing this, rest, rota tion and manure; the first is adapted to all new countries, where natural summer and winter range is sufficient, land cheap, and hay valueless; the second and third are adapted to coun tries where winter food has to he pro vided for stock. There, instead of rest, it is more economical to rotate with clover, peas, etc., turning under the second crop as a fertilizer, and saving the first for hay; the third is adapted to all countries where land is extreme ly high. In such countries it is cheap er to feed all produce and apply ma nure, than to turn under green. To “ make the farm pay” every farmer must be governed by the cir cumstances that surround him; he is compelled to invest in land, labor and agricultural implements. Where land is cheap, labor and labor- saving implements high, as much of the former and as little of the two lat ter should be used as possible. This can be accomplished by devoting the larg est portion of the farm to summer and winter pasturage, requiring little labor, machinery, etc., and giving handsome profit on investment I think this sys tem well adapted to many portions of the Southern States. Where land and labor are high, labor-saving machinery is cheap, as much of there latter should be substituted for labor possible, as food should be cut and fed to stock, as graz ing laud is too wn.-teful where laud is an object. Mauy of the Northern States furnish examples of such locali ties where land is extremely high and labor extremely low. Ten hands can be profitably employed on the same area that only one would be required, were the condition reversed ns in the South. To “ make the farm pay” we must diversify products, have a variety to sell instead of raising one or two and haviug a variety to buy. It is cheap er to raise all the necessaries of dife, ? (to which our country is adapted,) than to raise one or two products and buy them. • , , To “ make the farm pay," study farming in nil of its various branches, take agricultural periodicals, buy books on agriculture, don’t be afraid of “book farming.” Agricultural books are nothing but the writings and exper iences of our best farmers. If your laircumwtnncos admit of it, buy im proved stock, implements, etc., and e.’cn improved knowedge. Learn to farm scientifically, syste matically aud economically, practice a smooth rotation of crops, save all man ure and apply to crops best adapted to it, select good seed, cultivate well wlmt you do cultivate, and my word for it, by practising all of the above you will have learned “ how to make the farm' pay-” The Strawberry In Hills—Try it Ones. I mean, try cultivating your straw berries in stools. For once dctcrniiae- that yon will adhere strictly to the plan> of cutting off every runner and keep ing down all foreign growth; and I mean by foreign growth everything ex cept your plants. Select a good pietto off ground, about sixty feet square, and’ put iu excellent tilth. Theu take a garden tine that will reach across it, *rrcl<ae-early iu March ns yon can tfiefell iu this climate] get good, strong, well rooted plants, and put them out hy the line,.two feet apart each way— spreading out tiic roots fan-shape—nr.d cover up to but not over the crown.—• Work this plant every ten days durii gr the growing season; aud almut tl e- middle of December following, scatter some kind of seedless straw all over the plat about two inches thick, os a whiten' protection and let this straw remain ■ ewer the-Bed 1 as a spring and summer mulch, which will keep the plants- moist; and then your work is done un til the bearing' season is over. Culti vated in this way your berries will ho much larger, and the yield euormous. If the-scoson should be » goad on«*r yow wdl gather from a pint to a quart to the stool. After they are done Injur ing, spade up the bed—straw and all— and keep it clean of runners and filth, as you did the season before;, a nth the following DbsemiWr apply fresh-atalrlL- ing, and so on from year to yean, smll your bed will last in fine condition for many years. Try it once, and you will never udopt any other plan.—Wood man, in Prairie Farmer.. Why do Animals need Salt ?— Prof. James E. Johnson, of Scotland, says that half the saline matter of the blood (75 per cent.) consists of com mon salt, and as this is partly dissolv ed every day through the skin and kid neys, the necessity of continued supplies of it to the healthy Ixxly is sufficiently obvious. The bile also cmituius stain (one of the ingredients of salt) us n special and indispensable constituent, and so do all the cartilages of the laalv. Stint the supply of salt, aud neither will the bile, lie able properly to usssi-t digestion, nor the curtilages to la- built up again as fast ns tla-y naturally waste. It is better to place suit where stock can have free access to it than to give it occasionally, in small quantities.— They will help themselves to what th need, if allowed to do so at pleasure, otherwise when they become salt him- gry, they may take more than is whole some. China Berries as a Manluk.— I have noticed a statement from the Hawkinsville Dispatch, recommending the common China berry as a measure for corn. I do not know that the berry is any better than cotton-seed, using the same quantity to the hill, but can say from nn experience of two years, that the China berry iscqualL as good as the cotton seed. The China berry was first recommended (to niv knowl edge) by O. R. Folk, Esq., i a young planter, but one of the most successful in this vicinity,) in the spring of I860; since then they have been used by a few persons in small quantities. The lierry should be gathered before shriv elling, say in March. Birds will de stroy a great many but may be pre vented by a “ scare crow” put on the tree.—W. in Rural Carolinian. Because a friend is polite, do not think his time is valueless.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1832-1872, October 13, 1871, Image 1