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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!” Subscribe for Ths Georgian- Brewster, Sharp & Dowda, rcßuutßM or THE CHEROKEE GEORGIAN, Real Estate Agents, Examine Titles, PAY TAXES. FURNISH ABSTRACTS. Make Collections. ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL BUSI NESS IN OUR LINE. omci or THE CHEROKEE GEORGIAN* CANTON, GEORGIA- H _]| r . ... 1 I'" —wre THE CHEROKEE GEORGIAN, A Weekly Newspaper, PUBLISHED AT CANTON, GEORGIA, And Devoted to the Interests of Cherokee Georgia. TZHZZE yv ill contain, from time to time, the Latest News, and will give its readers an interesting variety of LITERARY, MORAL, AGRICULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, TEMPERANCE AND POLITICAL, READING MATTER. It is a Home Enterprise, and every citizen in Cherokee and adjoin ing counties should give it his encouragement and support. Thb Georgian will be AN EXCELLENT ADVERTISING- MEDIUM, and merchants and others, who wish to secure the vast trade from the mountain counties, would do well to avail themselves of the advantages which it offers. > ‘ A Job Work of .All Kinds Will be executed at The Georgian office, in the neatest style and on the most liberal terms. BARTER of all kinds taken for Job Work and subscriptions. TERMS OF THB OEORGIAN. One Year, £• Eight Months * •*» Four Months *• A liberal discount will be made to clubs. BREWSTER & SHARP, Proprietor/, J. 0. DOWDA, Business Manager. The Greatest Medical Discoverv OF THE Nine teen th Cent ur v. 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Had disease of the womb, attended with headache, weight in the lower part of the back; suffered from lan guor, exhaustion and nervousness, loss of appetite anil flesh. She had become so ex hausted and weak, her friends were apprehensive she would never get well. I tried doctor after doctor, and many patent medicines—had despaired of the improvement when, fortunately, she commenced tak'ng DR. BRADFIELD'S FEMALE REGULA TOR. She is now well; and three oi four liottles cured her. Improved in health, ap petite and flesh, she is blooming in all her pristine beauty, strength and elasticity. I re gard you as her saviour from the dark portals of death, and my benefactor. May your shadow never grow less, and you never become weary in well doing. aug26-ly JOHN SHARP Thankful for the very flattering reception the FEMALE REGULATOR has met with from all portions of tbe country, the Proprietor begs leave to announce that be has largely increased his manufacturing facilities, and hopes that before very iong he will be able toplace within the reach of every suffering woman this, the greatest boon to her sex Price, $1.50 per Bottle. For sale by all Druggists in the United States. b H. BRADFIELD, Proprietor, Atlanta, Georgia.