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The Cherokee Georgian.
Canton, O«sb_,
WEDNESDAY, - AUGUST 18, 1875.
THE OLD BARN'S TENANTRY.
BY B. F. TAYLOR.
The rooster stalks on the manger’s ledge;
He has a tail like a scimetar’s edge,
A marshal’s plume on his afghan neck,
An admiral’s stride on his quarter deck,
He rules the roost and he walks the bay
With a dreadful cold and a Turkish way,
Two broadsides fires with his rapid wings—
This sultan proud, of a line of kings,—
One gutteral laugh, four blasts of horn,
Five rusty syllables rouse the morn !
The Saxon lambs in their woolen tabs
Are playing school with their a, b, aba;
A, e?I, o! All the cattle spell
Till they make the blatant vowels tell,
And a half-laugh whinny fills the stalls
When down in the rack the clover falls.
A dove is waltzing round his mate,
Two chevrons black on his wings of slate,
And showing off with a wooing note
The satin shine of his golden throat—
It is Ovid’s “Art of Love” re-told
In a binding fine of blue and gold !
Ah, the buxom girls that helped the boys,
The nobler Helens of humbler Troys—
As they stripped the husks with rustling fold
From eight-rowed corn, as yellow as gold,
By the candle light in pumpkin bowls,
And the gleams that showed fantastic holes
In the quaint old lantern’s tattooed tin,
From the hermit glim set up within;
By the rarer light in girlish eyes
As dark as wells, as blue as skies.
I hear the laugh when the ear is red,
I see the blush with the forfeit paid,
The cedar cakes with the ancient twist,
The cider cup that the girls have kissed,
' And I see the fiddler through the dusk
As he twangs the ghost of “Money Muskl”
The boys and girls in a double row
Wait face to fuce till the magic bow
Shall whip the tune from the violin,
And the merry pulse of the feet begin.
Small Farm Maxims.
1. Small farms are cheaper and easier to
manage than large ones, and pay better for
the capital invested. Therefore, small
farms are best.
2. If you want to make your farm pay,
you must give it your daily personal atten
tion ; but if your farm is too large, you
can not do this. Hence, small farms are
the best.
8. If you don’t want your farm to run
away, you must stop the little leaks. We
may expect fewer leaks on a small place
than a big one; hence, again, small farms
are best
4. Feed your land well, and it will feed
you. It takes less to feed a few acres than
a great many. So you see small farms are
best.
5. If you would live long and enjoy lite,
work a little, then rest a little; but if you
have a large farm, you must labor all the
time. Here, again, small farms are best.
6. To raise big corn, you must keep small
grass. To make small grass, you must cut
often. So in this we find small farms the
best.
7. If you have a good fence, you need
fear no loss by stock ; but fences are costly.
Thus, once more, we find small farms arc
best.
8. If you want good roads, and plenty of
schools, churches and mills, you must have
a dense population. If farms are large,
this is impossible. Therefore, I declare
small farms to be best.
9. Farms should increase in value year
by year. It costs less to improve a few
acres than a great many. Here, as before,
small farms are best.—[Correspondence
Rural Carolinian.
An Evil of the Period.
In olden times it was not thought de
grading to work with the hands. The child
of the man of wealth was compelled to do
a moderate amount of physical labor, in
consequence of which, when he arrived at
manhood’s estate, he was a man physically
as well as intellectually ; for the idea of a
well-developed brain in a feeble and effem
inate corporeal organization is a kind of
paradox. A sound mind requires a sound
body. In early days boys were taught
trades; now they aspire to professions, sim
ply because trades are considered disrepu
table, and poor brain work is a better pass
port to good society than skilled mechanical
labor.
We are peculiarly a people of theories.
Theoretically, we honor the sons of toil;
wo apeak in glorifying tones of the sun
burnt brow and the hard hand of the la
borer ; wc become eloquent when we tell
of the mountains being reduced, the valleys
elevated, the torrents spanned, the forests
leveled, and the wilderness made musical .
with the anthems of lalwr. But, practical
ly. we ignore the lalhirvr’a right to recogni
tion ; and we receive into our social circle
the doctor without patients, the lawyer
without clients, and the dead-beat with 1
nothing to recommend him except his
utter aversion to everything like honest
labor. We venture the assertion that in
•11 communities, with rare exceptions, if a J
man should require the services of twenty
professional men, he could get them in
half an hour; but it he wanted that many ,
skilled nvchanles, he would liave some
trouble U: finding them.
The average young man to-day detests
labor. U.- believes in fast horses, flashy
jewelry and gold watches, but is not will
ing to put forth any effort to obtain them.
He is “waiting for something to turn up,”
instead of turning up something, and the
man of to-day is as much like the man of
forty years ago as a pigmy is a giant It
is no pleasant thing to witness the decay of
men in all the attributes of manhood, but
the fact stares us in the face that we, as a
people, are deteriorating; that our skilled
workmen are foreigners, while our corner
loafers are native born ; that in our Senate
chamber we have no Clay, nor Webster,
nor Calhoun, nor Cass, nor Benton, but in
their stead a class of men who are wonder
fully dwarfed by the contrast they present
with such intellectual giants.
We suggest no remedy—we know of
none; but with the fact existing that Jack
son, and Clay, and Cass, and Fillmore, and
Lincoln, and Johnson, were children of
poverty, brought up to labor almost from
their earliest childhood, suffering all the
privations of the poorer classes, it becomes
us as a people so to regulate the physical
occupations of the young that we may be
able to raise a class of men who are fitted
to rule the State and perpetuate its liber
ties. It is high time that we should get
rid of some of our theories and be more
practical; that we should so mold society
that labor will be regarded honorable,
practically, not theoretically, and they who
give tone to society shall honor the laborer
and discountenance the drone ; that a man’s
passport will be his moral worth and his
willingness to labor, and that he who will
not labor shall not eat.—[Exchange.
Destroying Weeds. —July and August
are probably the best months in the year
for destroying weeds. The summer heats
are at their fiercest, and all annual weeds
cut down at the ro< ts speedily wither and
die. The tougher perennials have made
their growth for the season, and have near
ly perfected their seed. The root then has
least vitality, and if the top be cut off a
feebler effort is made to reproduce it, espe
cially if the weeds grow in a tough sod of
grass. We have known frequent mowings
of thistles in sod to reduce the vitality of
the patch so much that it would produce
only here and there a stalk until the field
was again ploughed.
In the growing corn, August is, of all
months, the time to destroy Canada thistles
and quack. Keep the plant down as much
as possible early in the season ; then, as
the corn begins to tassel out, go through
with a light hoe and cut out every spear of
thistle and pull up every blade of quack
with all the root that can be got attached.
The quack should be put in heaps and
burned, but the thistle roots will seldom if
ever start again, and pulling up at this sea
son of the year, or even cutting off, is final
and certain destruction. The cost of doing
this is not large, varying with price of la
bor and abundance of weeds; but we are
satisfied that it is always a profitable opera
tion on land foul with thistles. We have
( repeatedly had the cost more than repaid
not only in the corn crop, but in the suc
ceeding oats and barley, besides leaving
| the land cleaner for years thereafter.—
[Moore’s Rural.
A Hint to the Thoughtless.—Help
your wives in every way you can, trivial
though it may seem to you. For instance,
keep an extra pair of shoes or slippers in
the hall or entry, and always remember to
change your dirty boots before entering her
clean rooms.» Then you may be sure of a
smile of welcome, as no dirt will be left
after you for her to clean up. In the even
ing, comb your hair as carefully as you
ever did in your courting days. Put on a
I clean coat or dressing-gown, and, when
1 you take your paper to read, do not read to
| yourself and leave her Io lonesome thoughts
‘ while sewing and mending, but remember
that she, too, has been working hard all
day, and is still working. Read to her
whatever interests you, so that her interests
and opinions may grow with yours, and
that she may comprehend something be
sides love stories, which too many have
I read more than they should. You will
both be happier, and being a farmer’s or a
mechanic’s wife will not be such a dread
fully tiresome and lonely life as many girls
have every reason to think it is.
Onions.—To raise onions, the land
; should be thoroughly ploughed, made very
mellow, and rolled It should be made
rich with well-rotted manure, and wood
ashes makes a good additional fertilizer.
Thirty loads of manure per acie would not
,be too much tor a good crop. Five pounds
, of seed per acre may be drilled in rows
j nine inches apart with a light seed hand
drill. The ground must be kept very
clean from weeds, and mellow with a hoe.
A hoe with a pronged blade is made espe
cially for this work. The onions may be
grown as rinse in a row as they will stand.
They may be grown, if plenty of manure
is given them, with increasing profit. We
would rather sell a’ a fair price at a home
( market, than risk the chances of a distant
one.—[Farmers’ Union.
Bird-Scaheh.—The following device for
scaring birds from fruit trees or vegetable
seeds is an old one, but is none the less
| valuable on that account: Get a glass bot
tle and cut off the bottom, which can be
i done by tying around it a string satiire’ I *
in turpentine or kerosene a-J bv.T - : it.;
. A slight touch will detach the bou aifit j
’ does not part without Make a hole in the <
cork and suspend it by a string or fine wire ■
coiled two or three times to give it a little
spring. A good-sized nail, a stone, or any
. thing will make a clapper for your glass
bell. Then drive in the cork securely, or |
wire it down, and leave wire enough to
, hang the bottle to some delicate bending
twig, or to a pliant sapling thrust in the
I ground. The bell will ring by the motion
caused by the wind, or by the birds alight
ing on twigs near it.
Will Sheep Keeping Fay ?
A writer in an agricultural journal gives
hts idea on the subject: “Sheep pay better
than any other stock, no matter what the
kind of stock is. I have been feeding some
three hundred head of cattle, and I am sat
isfied that, even with the most favorable
condition for selling, when the time comes
I shall make more money on sheep than
on cattle. I have about six hundred sheep,
running without any particular attention
or care, and have sold fourteen hundred
dollars worth of wool of this year’s clip,
and have two hundred and fifty lambs be
sides. Ido not think it possible to have
done so well on an equal amount of capital
invested in cattle. One great advantage
that sheep have over other stock is, they
never die of the contagious diseases which
. they contract. They git the scab or foot
rot, or something else, and, if not checked,
it gets them in bad condition, and would
ultimately, perhaps, kill them. But the
very worst contagious diseases to which
sheep are subject give the owner ample
time to treat the affected animals, and the
diseases are generally of a character which
yield readily to treatment. But a man
may have a lot of hogs, and feed them
hundreds of bushels of corn daily, and
about the time the bottoms of his cribs are
neared, and he is thinking of selling, some
unknown disease breaks out, one animal
after another, following in rapid succession,
is affected, and the greater portion die. 1
have known farmers to be well-nigh ruined
by the appearance of a contagious disease
of this character. Sheep are happily ex
empt from such rapid and fearful mortality.
Besides, when a sheep dies —and they will
die sometimes —his pelt is sufficient to pay
for his keeping from the last shearing to
his death. It makes no difference when
he dies, or what kills him, the sheep never
dies in debt.”
Recommendations.—A gentleman once
advertised for a boy to assist him in his
office, and nearly fifty applied for the
place. Out of the whole number he in a
short time chose one, and sent the rest
away. i
“I should like to know,” said a friend,
“on what ground you selected that boy
He had not a single recommendation with
him.”
“You are mistaken,” said the gentleman.
“He had a great many :
“He wiped his feet when he came in,
and closed the door after him; showing
that he was orderly and tidy.
“He gave up his seat instantly to that
lame old man ; showing that he was kind
and thoughtful.
“He took off his cap when he came in,
and answered my questions promptly and
respectfully; showing that he was polite.
“He lifted up the book which I had pur
posely laid on the floor, and placed it on
the table, while all the rest stepped over it
or thrust it aside; showing that he was
careful.
“And he waited quietly for his turn, in
stead of pushing the others away ; showing
that he was modest
When I talked with him, I noticed that
his clothes were carefully brushed, his hair
in nice order, and his teeth as white as
milk. When he wrote his name, I ob
served that his fingernails were clean, in
stead of being tipped with jet like those of
the handsome little fellow in the bluejacket.
“Don’t you call these things letters of
recommendation? 1 do; and what I can
learn about a boy by using my eyes for ten
minutes is worth more than all the fine let
ters he can bring me.”
Farm Life vs Public Life.—Hon. A.
G. Brown of Mississippi gives the follow ing
excellent advice to young men :
“Be a fanner ! There is a fascination in
office which beguiles men, but be assured,
my young friends, it is the fascination of a
serpent; or, to change the figure, it is the
ignis fatuus which coaxes you to an inevi
table ruin. I speak of that which I do
know, and, if my young friends will be
governed by my advice, I have this to say :
After all my success as a public man, now
when my head is blossoming for the grave,
I feel that it would have been bettor for
me if I had followed the occupation of my
father, and been a farmer. Os all the pur
suits in life, that of a farmer is the most
respectable. It may have its trials and its
disappointments; so do all others. The
mechanic may lose the wages of his labor,
the professional man his fees, the editor
may weep over delinquent subscribers, but
the honest, industrious farmer is certain of
a fair return for his labor. True, “Paul
may plant, and Apollos water, but God
must give the increase.” But where is the
faithful cultivator of the soil, God’s heritage
to man, who ever yet suffered for bread?”
A fourteen year old girl in Sandy, N.
Y., eloped with a school boy,.got married,
and returned home with him to be forgiven.
She was soundly spanked by her mother,
and the husband on his way out of the
house was kicked eighteen times by her
father. They bad never read anything like
that in novels.
The Univtrsalists of Troy are buildings
fine church. A passing traveler inquired
recently of a hod carrier what kind of a
building it was. The man didn’t answer.
“Is it a church, or hall, or what?” “Faith,
11 think it’s a church.” “What kind of a
j church ?” “Can’t tell the name, sir, but it’s
i for them folks as is trying to knock the bot
■ tom out of hell.”
A Virginia paper announces the mar
riage of Miss Jane Lemon to Mr. Ebenezer
Sweet: whereui>on somebody perpetrated
the following:
“How happy the extremes do meet
In Jane and Ebenezer;
She’s no longer sour but sweet,
And he’s a lemon squeezer!”
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