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Building on the Sands.
Ti well to woo. ’IU well to wed,
For o the world hath done
Pitre myrtle* grew nd roeee ' lew,
And mom inf brought tho nun.
Hut hare * cere, yo 7<>unf Mid fair.
Be sure jou pledge with truth ■,
ft* rtrtain that yoor lore will wear
Beyond the d*y* of youth !
For if we giro not heart for hrnrt,
' A* well as hand for hand,
Yfu’U find you're played the nnwine part,
And only bull# upon the # eand.
Tie well to aarc. ’Tia well to ha?o
* goodly (rfAre of g*L
And held enough of ahining atnff ;
W For -charity ia gold,
Bnt place not your hope and truat
On wbst the dep mine brinf a ;
We cannot live on yellow duet
Unmixed with pnror thing*;
And ha who pile* up wealth alono,
W ill often he.ro to ataud
Bealde hie coffer chest, nnd own
'Tie “built upon the aaud.”
'Tie good to * pewit in kindly gui#**;
And aooth wher’or wo can j
Fair epeerh ahould bind the human mind.
And lore link man to mat.
But stay not *t the gentle words,
L*t the deed with Ungunge dwell |
The one who pitiea atarring birda
Should aentter crumbs a* well.
Tha merry that ia warn and true
Must land a helping band.
For thoae Who talk, yet fail to do.
But “build upon the rend.”
How to Keep Sweet Potatoes.
]>o not dig your pot Atom until the
vines arc killed. Dig your potatoes in a
dry time if you ran, and when dug leave
a place in the north or northwest corner
©f your garden or lot, put nl>out twenty
bushels in a hill, never over twenty-five,
let them aland some two or throe days,
If the weather suits, then net up dry corn
qjoimd each hill, done enough
to out the dirt from the potatoes.
Cater with dirt, three inches deep, dig
ainw the dirt all around tlie potatoes in
■boat OHO toot of the potatoes, leaving
the tip* of the etalks uncovered. Next
•belter with boards and let them itnnd
until Christina*, then cut off the top ol
jot* sulks and cover six inches deep all
over, anc I when you take out for use,
brqak your hill ou the south side, and
co aw B°°^*
is great danger in the first of
the whrtor of keeping too warm, and in
the iftt'gr part in letting them get too
oold.
If you Will follow strictly the above
plan, I would not be atraid to guarantee
your potato crop, nine years out ot ten.
I have kept them forty -four years out cf
forty-five* There is no reason why we
abould not have potatoes almost lrom
one year to another.
When the spring ccines, let ymir po
tato hill stand open on one side and they
trill lay in the hill nntil they dry up. It
you wish to keep them through the sum
mer, barrel them up in dry sand, and put
them up staii s. If you will fut them
•way without anythiug with them they
trill keep, after the weather gets warm,
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Seed Wheat.
- Tim time is rapidly approaching for
•electing and sewing winter, Se
lections should lm made as soon a* possi
ble. The plumpest and ripest should be
selected for seed, and before sowing, the
wheat should bo run through the tan
aeveral tunes, so a* to procure heaviest,
oleanest and largest grains.
It is generally conceded that early
•own wheat dot's the best. It is more
apt to escape injury from insects, and
more deeply rooted before winter sets
la.
The old way of sowing wheat broad
cast is pretty well gone out with the bet
tor olsss of farmers, and the drill is now
generally used, saving nearly half the
quantity of seed. By drilling the seed
is-put in the ground at a uniform depth,
comes up ami marines evenly. Kxperi
enos lias shown that drilled wheat is
much heavier, the heads are much
{dumper, larger and better th >n wheat
Sown broadcast.
Bow to Break off Bad Habits.
UsdePßiiKHl the reason, and all the
reasons* why the habit is injurious.—
Study tbe subject until there is no lon
ger a doubt iu your mind. Avoid the
places, the persons, the thoughts that
lead to temptation. Frequeut the pla
ce*, associate with the persons, indulge
in the thought tiiat lead away from
temptation Keep busy -, idleness is the
strength of bad habits. Do not give up
tbeJJ struggle when yon have broken
your resolution once, twice a thousand
times. That only shows how mnoh
need there Is for you to strive. When
yon hnve broken your resolution just
think the matter over, and endeavor to
understand why >t ia you failed, so that
you*uy be on your guard against ro
cutfebcO'Of the same circumstances. Do
not, think 1118 au eaß y task you have un
deftaken. It is a folly to expect to break
oft a habit in a day which may hsv?
btieu gXkering tor years.
A uGtli-xUstj.
(. ov. TilAvii ia a bachelor and old.
weighs 117 iHOtidb. A remefljf eoilh
tertdily 1h; found for th. first tie tent, bui
hanged if we huow how to help the o'h
er.
Gov. Tildfn it naitl to he engaged to
an Alabama widow, but we hardly be
in vo't. From what we know of Ala
bama widows, a 117 pound husband
wouldn't last very long in the family.
Some people are down on Tflilen because
be ia an old bachelor, hut then yon must
remember that' Hendricks has been twice
married.
Every old.bachelor that ever run for
President was elected, while a great
tr any manied candidates failed to make
the trip.
President Buchanan was n bachelor
hut he had a delightful niece to preside
over the White House. Tihlen no doubt
|, ; u j.ot a nice niece too, so his bachelor
Uood will„be no draw back.— Griffin
Netrs.
Worth : Knowing.
Under w.it*T, glass may b; cul to
n ny sha| c. Thc.'glass must be quite
level while the icissors are applied ; it is
better to begin the cutting by taking ofl
small pieces at. the edges, and so reduce
(lie shape gradually to that required; for
it an attempt is made to c i* the glass nil
at once to the shape, an we rut a piece
of card-board, it will most likc’y break
just where it is not wanted. Some kind
of glass cut much better thnr. others;
(he softer glass cut best. The scissors
need not be at, nil sharp, as their action
does not depend much dfron the edge
presented to the glass. When jthe op
end ion goes on well, the ’g.aas bit; ks
away from the scissors in small pieces, in
a straight line with the blades. This
method has often proved very useful in
cutting ovals, Am , which would be very
expensive if ground cut, and thongffthc
edges are not so smotb as may be desired
lor same purposes, the method is worth
knowing,
The issues upon us arc not war issues,
but peace issues. The practical questions
nil the time are:
Ist. 1 tetter men is office.
2d. Honest and intelligent administra
tion.
Bd. The war is over.
4th. Official rogues must be punished
sth. No military interference in elec
tions.
(ith. Less faxes and rnoro economy.
7th. Tl e earliest practical ;reaumpiin
of specie payments.
Bth. OvvrnuM.nt onlarioa aud pay
conform to salaries paid for comfwtent
like services out of public life.
9Ui. Less federal centralization and
more respect for the rights of the peo
ple.
10th. Let tho'ootnmon sohoo’s a one.
lllh. No federal interference with re
ligions faith, soots or organizations.
12th. One term for the President, and
a h'ix year’s service, if the constitution is
amended.
This is substantially what the Demo
crats are fighting for, and tluir candi
dates, if elected, will insist upon these
reforms.— N. Y. Evening JEkcprets,
Aug. 22.
Young Men Should Marry.
Dr. Dio Lewis having learned the min
ium quantity of food on which life can
he sustained, advises all young men to
marry and settle down in life, His idea
is that ‘until a man is married his life is
lacking in that which develops his man
hood.’ He gives ‘old bachelors’ some
hard raps in a letter published in the
Green Pay (Wis.) Advocate, and then
administers this rebuke to the class who
are anxious to so the world before mar
rying :
‘Seeing tho woild as tho y< un f man
does who lias to eavn his living as he
goes along amounts to very little. YY hat
lie doe* see is nothing flint 1 efps him
fight the battle of life mote successfully.
It only keeps from habits which arc in
direct antagonism to a correct and hap
py and successful life, and when he gets
through ‘knocking about’ he has nothing
to show for the misspent yearn save the
habits which he must overcome it’ lie
would make anything of himself.
Do you call this gain or loss? So,
yonng man, take the advice of a man
who lias kept his eyes opeu for more
ye&vs than you have lived, probably, arid
don't ‘knock around.’ If you think I
have overdrawn the picture, look around
you, aud out ot the men you know select
those who have ‘knocked around’ and
see if they don't bear witness to the
troth of every assertion I have made
concerning the o'ass they represent.
Are they men you envy t I tell you,
boys, ‘knocking around’ makes a man
good for nothing else, and I take it you
have a (Who to be good for something
higher in life.*
Among the graves at the poor-house
cemetery is one of John Smith. Pa
pers friendly to the family please copy.
When ft Canada g : rl loves, shj does
love. In a breach ot promise suit the
other day it wus shown that a young
lady wrote to her lover eight times per
day.
Got xitr Aiewter.
For nnny days, says the Charlottesville
(Yu ) Jeffersonian, we have noticed an
old colored woman plodding her way to
he l*ol Office, never missing a day, and
nvai iihly returning as she csine, withou'
any mail. She had imbibed the idea
prevalent among these people, that, a
itie Post Office is a Government iustitu
lion, she had a right lo’exeroiae her new
privilege of ‘Quinn’ Jar fur a letter,
even though iie cxjiected nothing, and
with a persistence that was commenda
ble, her face appeared at tho general
delivery as regularly as the mail was
opined.
Some persons, getting tired of seeing
her fruitless attempts to accomplish her
desires,’fixed op a letter iidhieroglyphics,
signed it 'Jeems Higgins,’ stamped it,
and left it to await her coming.
She was there on time. When th*'
clerk handed out the missive she had no
idea it was intended for her, and looked
all around at the crowd who are usually
at the windows, expecting sonic of thorn
to take it; hut wlurn the clerk insisted
that it was for ‘Polly Brown,’ it was a
study for •" physiognomist to see the va
riety of expressions that her countenance
underwent. She look hold of tho pre
cions thing and exclaimed :
‘Bress de Laud !'
And as she backed out of l ltd crowd
with tho letter held high above her head,
her countenance open from car to ear,
she ejaculated:
Th got it.! bress de Laud ! I knott ed
de Guvverinent was gwine f© gimme a
letter ’fore long. I seed dat letter hs'
night on de candle——dat I did, and she
waddled off down the street, hunting tor
someone to read it for her.
She liually got a geullemau to open it,
but as the writing was entirely tiuir.tel i
giblo, lie could do nothing but fell the
writer's Jnanie. She pondered a long
time over the name, trying to remember
who ‘Jeems Higgins’ was, and where she
had known him. She tried several other
gentlemen, but all failed to decipher thi
hieroglyphics. At lasi she said :
‘Well, dat Jeems Higgins inns' be a
mighty smart culled pusson to write a
letter what dcse while gemmen can’t
read. ’Spec’ he some o’ dem gin rule in
de army, what knowed me when I was a
gal. An’ be 'nfenfbers fAiov old Polly
O I
yit -’
And she assumed such an ait of digni
ty as to make it excruciating to look at
her. She look her letter and went home.
Siie cornes to the ottksu wo. more now.
•£ iiWMi inul.sv’ i vniifrU. A rt |
six-footer trotn Harnett County, as he
cracked his whip at the market yesterday
morning, Tte got a turtle at home which
knows as much as I do, and I want to
hear somebody say that I in halt tool.
No one said so, and be went on :
‘l’ve stood around here and heard men
blow about kicking mules till I’ve got
disgusted. When you come down to
kicking, I want to bet on my mule. A
preacher came along arid too, dinner
with me the other day, and as lie seemed
a little down heaved I took him out to
see Thomas Jefferson, jny champion
mule. I was telling the good man how
that mule would flop his hind feet ai ound,
and he saul he’d like to see a little fun.
Ile’d jia&sed his whole life in the South,
but iiad never seen a mule lay his soul
into a big time at kicking.’
•Well,’ he continued, after borrowing
some tobacco, ‘I took Thomas out of the
stable, backed him agin a hill, gin him
a cuff’ oi. the ear, and we steed b ick to
see the amusement. It was a good place
to kick his davndest, and what d’ye ’spose
ho did 1 In ten minutes by the watch
he was out, ot sight. In five more we
couldn’t feel him with a twelve-foot pole,
and—and— ’
The crowd began to yell and sneer,
and the old man looked around and ad*
ded :
‘Does anybody think I m lying t
'A ould I lie tor one mule ?—Raleigh
Sentinel.
On Front Street the other day a col
ored man Who was carrying a long
whitewash brush on his shoulder was
addressed by a friend who had just pass
cd him, and ho whirled about suddenly,
jamming the brush into the mouth of an
old lady who was coming up the walk.
As he turned around to apologize the
lady rushed at htm with an umbrella and
he hastily retreated forcing the brush
into the eyes of his friend and nearly
blinding him with the quicklime. 11 is
friend changed into an enemy, and rush
ed forward striking tlm ohl lady on the
nose, while the whitewash artist gently
slided out and a policeman came up and
arrested the lump-post.
Davs come and go, the thermometer
rises and tails, but the industrious wee
vtl, the wide awake chinch bug and the
heroic army worm pursue their way un
checked, and the farmer, as lie meditates
thereon, wishes that churches aud minis
ters had no absurd prejudices against
profanity.
‘Darien,’ wrote a Griffin clerk a few
i days ago, 4 pine tor tlm. Monte tue on
the stares or in the parler this eaveuing
at nine ooloc.’
protecting Love.
Vi.py W er coming down ft’ <)m <w .^ ,l
caw on the boat, and as'ff stfleTl rocked
the steamer, the young bcly screamed
out and crawled nvound unt'l she seized
a young man’s arm.
'Filler yer head right here Susan !’ he
exclaimed, patting Jlifi heart with one
hand ar.d slipping the other around her
waist. ‘When a feller loves a gal as 1
do you, he could take her on his back
and swixt eighteen miles in a bee line,
and then go homo and hoe corn till sun
down. Filler yer head right here, my
love, and if she rains, and hails, and
thunders hint blazes, don t squeal one
squeal.'
‘Are we safe ?' sbe tremblingly enquir
ed.
‘Safi as a cow tied to a briek wall
eighteen feet lli'ck, my love! Just lean
right over here, shut yonr pearly eyes
and ft el as contented ns if ye si t on the
top mil ot the pasture's fence waitin’ for
a tin peddler to hove in sight!'
She ‘pillered,’ and everybody remark
ad that he looked like a hero.
Sermon by aClowil.
The follering sermon was preached by
a clown, in a circus that was exhibited
in one of the country towns in the
State of Kentucky. There is a good
deal of bitter truth in it; and though
published before, it will bear reputation:
My fiiends, we have taken in nbowt
six hundred dollars here to day, more
money, I venture to say, than any min
ister of the gospel in this town will re
cievo for a whole year’s service. A
large portion ot the money was given by
the church members—as a large number
of this audience is composed of mem
bers of the chinch—and yet when your
preacher asks for money to aid .in sup
porting the gospel, you say yon are 100
poor to give anything . Yet you come
to hear my nonsense. lan a fool be
cause I am paid for it; I make a living
by it. You profess to bo wise, and yet
yoAiupiiorl me in my folly. But, pif-r
haps, you say you didn’t come to see the
circus but the animals. All ! now is
hi an excuse! If you came to see the
animals, why did you not look at them
and go away? Why did you stay to
hear my nonsense? Now, is this a pretty
place for a Christian lo be .in ? Do you
not feel ashamed ot yourselves? You
ought to blush with shame, to be caught
in such a place as- this.
A French Doctor claiiift tiiat one hal
of the so-called drowned persons are
buried alive, and that they may be
brought to life by proper treatment
alter having been “several .hours under
water. His remedy is get out the Water
pour in and inject alcoholic stimular.’s,
and use a fWhip energetically , .or hot
irons in bad eases. lie says that life re
mains longest in the intest nes, and that
they may be stimulated to such an ex
tent by heroic treatment that_the heart
will resume iis action.
Smith and BroVtrii runnmg opposite
ways around a coiner, struck each other.
Oh, dear, how you make my head
ring,, said S.
That a sign if is hollow, said B.
But dtc.n’t yours ri*rtg ?
No.
That is a sign it’s errttfieefl 1 said ids
friend.
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A Vermont man lias sued his next
door neighbor for giving his family .the
smallpox, and the defendant'said that.the
plaintiff look it from him violently aud
without his permission.;
Dnnbtvyjias the champion lazy boy.
He eonufs from a chronically borrowing
family. The other day lie went to a
neighbor’s for a .cup ot milk. "I haven’t
got anything but sweet milk, said tbe
woman, pettishly. ‘l’ll wait till it sours,’
said the obliging youth, sinking into a
chair.
A man who had experience witli grass
hoppers in tho West Indies writes to the
, Count'll 111urts Globe that a pound of
sulphur, burnt on charcoal, in the inidd e
of a moderate sized field, will effectually
protect the crop from the ravages of the
pest. The farmers of Georgia who are
suffering from grasshoppers can well af
ford to give this simple recipe a trial.
Too True. — A philosopher says:
‘Planets govern not the soul uor guide
the destinies ot men ; but trifles lighter
than straws aro levers in the building up
of our character.' How true tins is. A
meteot 15,0(10 times as big as the earth
may sweep across the heavens without
disturbing the moral standing ot a mail
carrying a footbath full ol hot water down
stair*, when a piece of soap no bigger
than a pigeon’s egg may lift his heels as
high as the hall lamp, drag him all the
way down stairs ala wheelbarrow, emp
ty the footbath in his lap, spoil his
clothes and ruin his standing in the com
munity until the frightful stories of his
unriddled profanity are lushed up.—
Burlington Hmoker/e.
Lulu, “the champion female trapezisl
of the world,” lately tell aud dislocated
her hi-i in London. The a Vending
physician discovered that Lulu is a
man!
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