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WV' f Vs 4 li-' >1 jfgi/m tvmmi*. Howto Keep Our Boys on the Farm. don.’t «ee. for my part, what «tisco«niry'a coming to!” exclaim ed my neighbor, a* he dropped tn on Monday evening; “so many of the beat boys are quitting the farm. Why, when I was a boy, 1 ’ lie pro ceeded, warming up with the recol lection, “it was considered a reli gious duty ior one of the sons in ev ery family to succeed to the home stead of his father ; and the steadi est Os hie brothers pursued the same honorable calling. Now and then, a promising youth adopted a profes sion ; but, as a general rule, not to be a farmer was considered about equivalent to being a vagrant.— How how is it ? Why, bless ujc ! three quarters of our boys are de serting the shelter of the farm-roofs, leaving their fathers"' aores to more patient plodders from Ireland and Germany, and eagerly seeking ref uge in the strange city. What can have got into them ? Such a state of things is surely to be deplored. The prosperity of a nation always depends on the thrift and (sappiness of its rural people. The sources of ibis dissatisfaction ought to be removed. As they are numerous, so is the remedy complex. 1. The homestead must he made more attractive. —A thrifty farmer’s boys generally see that their father’s house is built more carelessly and kept more slatternly than that of the ' city merchant. Their first uncon scious inference is that fine houses are the exclusive product of the ci ty ; their next deduction—“that’s tneplace to live.” What is the picture which they often leave behind when they take their flight ? A house unpainted and without blinds ; a barn rickety and hastening to decay ; rheumatic fbnees, offering kindly passage to hungry horses and filthy, bony cows; in the foreground, obtrusive piles of neglected tools, wagon-w heels, old iron, and infinite rubbish ; in the background, a dreary waste of skin nfed and.plundered fields. Without any expense, except a little time and taste, our farmers’ homes can be embellished and rendered de lightful ; and only so can the best youths of this generation be induced to remain in the homesteads ol their fathers. Farmers must sceJca higher*social training. —A few of the best educa ted and cultured men of America are farmers, and their studious sons are gracing the same occupation. But such are a small proportion of the whole. “The fault, dear Brntua, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” Farmers ought, as a class, to cul tivate better manners in parlor, kitchen and field ; at fireside and table. Urbanity and rusticity orig inally meant merely city life and country life; it is not by accident that these words have come to signi fy politeness and boorishness. Only through human contact can we ac quire polish, and, by lack of this at ."jtVftlon, we, as a class, have come to undervalue the affable manners which mark the gentleman. Integ rity and benevolence are not a guar antee of politeness ; there must be added to these, intercourses with well-bread people. To recover what we have lost, or gain what we have missed, let us seek to construct a society about us, to encourage neighborhood gather ing?, farmers* clubs, agricultural so cieties, and evening parties of every innocent kind, that may bring, us in I contact with others. To this in:,] j let us.try cooperative farming—thou- I sands tnMo the city because they! wish to “see folks.” To this end, j also, we can, if vve will, learn from I our wives, for they are often better read and usually better-mannered than wc. 3 Progressive farming must he sub stituted Jar routine farming. — Abolish the old plodding system ; break up traditional routine, and the boys wilj stick to farming. Scientific farming does* not mean the adoption of fancy theories; it means learning from the Ikws of Nature, and the experience of other practical farmers, how to exchinge bad habits of husbandry for better ones. Mind governs matter; and no art or profession demands for its perfect development so much general ancj special information, and so wide a range of science; as does the tilling of the soil. Yet, agriculture, as commonly practiced, is to-day be hind' every bther art. Farmers have studied less to master their calling than have the members of any other trade. How many thou sands there are, iu every State, who never see an agricultural jour nal qr book 1 „ Such farmers lack new' ideas more than they dp new riatplemfeDU/ Their minds need subsqiiiflg: more than their grounds ! To make farming attractive to ouriwys; the drodgefy of routine farming must be given up, and the scientific Why must be taught.—« This is the day of transition between and brain; Thought hiding intro to rolfeve the Inventive genius has atrewn over Mingle county of Ohio more agri cultural machinery than could be foua<s * a the whole West a few year* ago ; and it is changing riel whole .character of farming aa an occupa tion. One intelligent man now can :do more than a stupid hundred, and derive from it more pleasure and profit. Farm machinery ia not only labor-saving, it is consequently civ ilized, because it saves human toil, it tends to elevate and refine oar people. Progressive agriculture carries a blessing to the future. The pro gressive farmer budds tasteful and commodious dwellings, with fuel and water convenient, and every accessory that can lighten the good wife’s toil; he adorns his grounds from time to time with shrubs and flowers; hegrafts pippins and green • ings on the native stock, sets out new orchards, and takes care of old ones ; he obtains the handiest tools nnd houses them ; he builds stalls for cattle, and raises roots and steams fodder to feed them. He adapts the soil to the needs of vege table life ; if wet ho drains ; if light or sterile, he turns under clover, and mixes more tenacious soil; if sour and cold, he gives lime ; and he. almost always ploughs deeply and manures liberally. He teaches his sons not only how to plough, but why to plough ; not only how to manure, but what is the effect of various fertilizers ; not on ly what will thrive host on a given soil, but the reason for it; not only how to drain and irrigate, but why —because if they know the Why, they cannot forget the How. Thus he turns their eyes from their State capital to their own township, school district, home, and cultivates that local patriotism which is the founda tion of the nation’s strength. Sueh farming pays —morally, mentally, and pecuniarily.—W. A. Crofut, in Hearth and Home. DBUT-WOOD. A Western town is sadly discon certed at finding itself without a graveyard. Louisa Muhlbach has purchased a villa near Dresden, where she will henceforth reside. Two hundred and twenty-four life insurance frauds have burst in in twenty-six years. The population of Liverpool is shown by the census to have de creased thirty-five thousand in the last ten years. The new style of ladies’ hats are very beautiful. They resemble a pen-wiper with a fringe, and they are quite becoming. General Forrest has engaged for his railroad all the Chinamen here tofore employed on the Stanton refad, numbering abouteight hundred. The San Francisco Chronicle says that Mrs. Fair’s appetite is “dainty and exacting,” but that she eats but little. She also sleeps but very little. A polish nobleman who speaks seven languages is working at Chi cago for $6 a week. One of his languages is undoubtedly the pro fane. It is quite certain now that the King of Bavaria will be married at an early day to the daughter of Czar Alexander 11. of Russia. The wed ding will take place at St. Peters burg. A railroad conductor being asked why they locked the stove, replied that it was “to prevent the fire from going out.” He would be a firsts class man for a New York murder jury live is the only woman who nev er threatened to go and live with ton rnxn a. And Adam was the only man who never tantalized his wife about “Lite way mother used to cook.” The book to reed just now is Tyndall on Heat. According to this author, heat is a mode of motion. In fact, it will shortly, if it continues in its present force, set men in mo tion toward the sea-shore. There are at least one hundred million acres of fertile land in Tex as, owned by men who for various reasons are compelled to sell it; and half the land in Texas is in mar ket at prices ranging from fifty cents to two dollars per acre. It is not (says the Army and Na vy Gazette) the intention of the Brit ish Admiralty to construct any more huge armor-plated ships for the pres ept. The largest vessels which will be built during the current year will not bq of a heavier burden than 2,000 tons. The works of Adolphe Thiers have been translated into eleven different languages, and the Belgian Literary Review has reason to be lieve that altogether over one million volumes of the historical writings of the President of the French Repub lic were sold. ;' - C. N. Payne, formerly “cham pion long distance pedestrian of A nterica,” undertakes to bsat Wes ton's 112 miles in 23 hoars 44 min utes, for a wager of $2,500. He is to walk at the Empire Rink in New York, commencing between 10 and Ilf. u., July 3, .jF.vwwsM* ' wu twutusfc uuu Prtwee Frederic Charles, the two great commanders cf the Prussian armies in France, are among the beat chess-players in Germany, while Bismark is not only a very in different player, but also gets easily impatient when defeated. A short lime ago a very strict young lady in society gave ner pho tograph to a devoted admirer for hri locket. Two dftys afterward her brother found it on the floor of a billiard-room decorated with a pair of mustaches and an immense ci gar, artistically done with a pin. The King of Sweden has munif icently rewarded a young Swedish composer who has set a number of the king's poems to music. One of these songs bids fair to become “the Swedish Marseillaise .” It is sung evety where, in the city and in llm village, in the palace and in the peasant’s cot. As Sheridan was entering court one day, carrying his books and briefs in a green bag, according to the cus tom of the time, some ol his brother barristers, thinking to play a joke on trim, urged some boys to ask him if he had old clothes for sale in his green bag. “Oh no,” instantly re sponded Sheridan ; “they are all new suits.” Prior to the settlement of Califor nia, singing-bird?, fragrant flowers,, and honey-bees, were not to be found in the entire country. Now, however, in all parts of the State may be found many varieties of singiqg-birds, like the mocking-bird, bobolink, lark, linnet, thrush, Balti more oriole, and the common robin, which always follow civilization. The forests in all parts of the Slate are filled with the honey-bee, and honey from Los Angeles county is an important article of commerce. And, as for fragrant flowers, Cali fornia can now beat the world. One of the Siamese Twins islying at the point of death, at their home in North Carolinia. The other is in good health. In anticipation of death, arrangements have been made for the immediate separation of the living from the dead brother. The dream of an ocean pier at Long Branch is about to be realized. Engineers are now upon the ground selecting a location. The pier will be of iron, 1,200 feet long, and throughout the first one thousand feet it will be thirty feet wide. The last two hundred feet will have a width of 100 feet, and on it will be a pavilion and parlors having ac commodations for 2,000 persons. A Prussian cavalry officer, who was badly wounded at the battle of Gravelotte, was greatly annoyed by the cries of some wounded soldiers lying near him. He stood the annoyance as long as he could, and then testily called out: “Stop your howling over there ! Do you think you are the only petson killed in this fight?” A story is told of a father in a church, who, when the marriage service came to the point where the clergyman asks, “ Whogiveth this wo man to be married to this man ?” re plied : ,‘Well, sir, I am called to do it, although it do go again the grain. I wanted her to marry Bill Plowser, who is worth twice the money o’ that ’ere man.” The answer was not considered regular. The fastest railroad train in the world is probably the new express on the Exeter and Great Western Railway, England, which runs from Plymouth to London, one hundred and ninety-four miles, in four hours and a quarter. In view of the vatebing season all the girls are becoming nauticle to a degiee unprecedented. Sailor hats and sailor jackets occupy their entire attention ; all sorts of phrases of the ocean, which no sailor outside of a novel ever heard of, are sedulously conned with a view to the astonish ment of the natives; sea songs are being practiced, and general good limes anticipatedly talked over.— And by-the-byc, ladies’ brandy and red pepper is splendid for sea’ sick ness. Niagara is suffering from a cata ract of brides. They are said to arrive by the dozen every day, and add no little to the natural attrac tion of that watering place. Letter writers are trying in vain to account for the anomaly, but agree in as signing it to one of two reasons.— Either Fashion has dictated anew necessity, or else the matrimonial fever is raging without precedent. They speak of the air of “newness” Worn by the cooing wanderers as “rapurously bewitching.” Persons contemplating a Northern trip will doubtless note the information. A story is going the rounds of the press that an Alabama planter, sev eral years ago, becoming satisfied that the vitality of the cotton plant was destroyed only by fost, tried an experiment with a single plant.— The second year he picked 800 pounds from it; last year it yielded 1,293 {lounds of best cotton, and now it is twenty-five feet high and promises to yield not less than three bales of the staple. There is noth ing incredible about this, any more than there is about the true and vo racious history of Jack and the bean stalk, tmr— ~W. H. FAY, LOUISVILLE, GA. m A P X> Xj 3EI —AMD— Harness Maker. ALBO, HOOTS Cb SHOES ade to order AH work warranted and ant is {action guaranted both aa to work and prices Give me a call. May 5,1871. I Cm.. WARREN <fc HAYLES, XUBTAXL DEALERS XXV FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, —AND— ART2O&&S of every DESCRIPTION. NOTIONS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, "White G-oods, BOOTS, SHOES, LOaiOss aaaadOL CSsijpss of the most seasonable styles always found on hand. In connection with our business we have a fine assortment of GROCERIES, which we offer cheap for O-A.—-S-.-EC WARRBKT A HAYLES, Louisville, Oa. MnyS, 1871. 1 ts. BOWDEN COLLEGE. £36 Miles, by Stage, West of Newnan, Ga.] BOWDEN, CARROLL ? County Ga. ( THE Next Scholastic year begins on Thurs day, August 17th, 1871. This is a good time to enter, in order to escape the sickly season in lower latitudes. For Catalogue just issued, and giving full particulars. Address. Rev F. H. M. HENDERSON Pres’t. J. D. MOORE, Jr., Sec. B. TANARUS, p n r S( f June 24, p 76 n 8 Im. PULASKI HOUSE Savannah, Ga. WILTBERGER & CARROLL, Prop’ “BROWN'S HOTEL, Opposite Depot, MACON GA. W- F. BROWN & CL, Prop’rs (Successors to E. E. Brown & Son,) W F. Bbown. Geo. C. Brown 18'7’1. Spring o.xicL summer, iS'ZI. MILLINERY GOODS. MRS LECK.IE IT **AVING returns i from New York, takes pleasure in informing her friends and the Ladies generally, that She has now open a SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF E^ E ? N A B 0 » n ' l HATS purchased from some of the LEADING IMPORTERS oLXEW YORK. Beautiful SASH RIBBONS, cheap. Ladies’ DRESS CATS Infant’s LACE BONNETS and HATS' The largest stock of FRENCH FLOWERS in tlio city. The handsomest assortment of Jet and Gilt JEWELRY ip the city. The largest stock of Jute and Roil HAIR CDRLS and CHIGNONS in the city. All the above goods will BE SOLD AT REMARKABLY LOW PRICES MBS. LEOHXEf, 171 Broad street, „ . Under the Augusta Hotel, n &p April 8,1871. 65 ts. JOHN VOGT & C 6., IMPORTERS OF French China, Belgian and Bohemian Glassware, Lava ware UPtsoupaciAua SXSsacp'Dbllq&o ££33® o® 86 <Sc 87 place, Between Church St. & College Place, NEW YORK. 54 Hue de Paradis Poissonniere, PARIS. C Cour* Jourdan, Limoges, FRANCE 46 Neuerwall, HAMBURG. , 8 ’ Jane 4,1871, np r C 73 22 6m. Agents Wanted. IN Middle sad Southwestern Georpin for Mortimer's “Acme Linen'Marker,” end .Cfrd Printer, a neat end ingenious Utile instrument lot mtfriuefl all; artiaJea »f peering appwsel, and for the printing of Business Cuds end Envelopes neatly and quicklrr Idbwhl termq, given to rood canvassers. No humbug. Ad dress with stamp, H. W. J. HAM,* General Agent, Louisville, Ga. n May 19,1871. ? 3tf. Look to Your Interest! M.A. EVANS & CO. Bartow, Ga-, No. 11, C. R. R, Keep on hand the LARGEST AMD BENT Assortment of Goods, to he found in this Section of Coun-, ,r y- Which will be sold la'.O W FOB OAS H. - If Profits and Correct Dealings are properly estimated, This is the Place to Trade. Liberal Prices Given for COTTON, WOOL, HIDES, EGGS AND POULTRY, See., &c. Don’t forget to Call on M. A- EVANS & CO- Bartow, Ga. n. May 5, 1871, 1 3m. SPOTSWOOD HOTEL ©2>sP®33S>3a S’ASSliSS'SJilia DEPOT, T. 11. HARRIS, Proprietor MaCON, GEORGIA. To Gin Owners! TIIE Undersigned Repairs Cotton Gins at Gin House—On Tiipe, Thos. E. Dick* ena agent at Sparta; E. A. Sullivan agent at Sandersvilie; Thos. N. Sliurby agent at War renton; T. 11. Harlow agent at Louisville. J. B. CAEN, Louisville, Ga. p April 1, 1871. G 4 ts. Carriage Manufactory. THE UNDERSIGNED takes pleasure in informing the citizens of Jefferson and adjoining counties, that I have opened a Buggy, W agon —AND— PLOW MANUFACTORY, where work of all descriptions, both new and repairing, will-be done with neatness and dis patch. lam also agent and manufacturer of the celebrated Ham Universal Plow, a specimen of which may be seen at the shop at all times. Plows of all descriptions made and ropaired upon short notice. The celebrated DICKSON SWEEP furnished on demand. IIORSE SHOEING done in the neatest and most substantial manner. Coffins Furnished at Short Notice. GIVE ME A CALL. G. 11. ikARRELL, ~ r Louisville, Ga. May 5, 1871.- ] ts Books, Music, Stationery &c/ *v Vu*?* * * TCNO WING THE ADVANTAGE AFFORDED THE PEOPLE BY A Southern Branch Book and Music Depot, we have accepted the management of a branch of eeveral large Publishing and Manufacturing Houses, by which arrangement we are enabled to sell Books, Music, Mnsical Instruments, Stationery &e., &e., Ac -4 at New York prices. IN our Book Department we offer at lowest publishers’ rates. LAW AND MEDICAL BOOKS, SCHOOL BOOKS, MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, THEOLOGICAL BOOKS Music Books ! Music Books 1! a PIANO PORTE METHODS, PIANO STUDIES, PIANO MUSIC. Primers, Dictionaries and Theoretical works, Musical Literature, Organ Instruction Music. ”~HARP AND GUITAR, VIOLIN INSTRUCTION BOOKS, FLUTE INSTRUCTION BOOKS, FLUTE AND VIOLIN MUSIC. ACCORDEON, FLUTINA AND BANJO, FIFE, DRUM, BUGLE AND BAND MUSIC. . •:!' t« r. ’ e VOCAL METHODS and Exercises for Adults and Juvsnile Classes. GLEE BOOKS AND PART SONGS, VOCAL MUSIC, CHURCH MUSIC, ORATORIES, SABBATH SCHOOL MUSIC A &e., &c Under each of the above beads we have a large and varied selection. All kinds of First Class writing papers. Note, Cap and Letter Paper, Cards, Envelopes Bill-Head Paper, Leva 1 Blanks <fcc., Ac. As we have a Job PrmtingOffice in connection with onr store, we can famish printed Let ter Heads, Bill Heads, printed Envelopes Cards Ac., &e„ at a small advance on first cost. Pianos, Organs, Melodeons and any other Musical Instrument famished at Ivl anufaoturers’ Frices When a large organ or piano is sold, wo send a man to put it up, free of charge. 0- Miscellaneous. GOLD AND STEEL PENS, GOLD PEN AND PENCIL CASES, -‘ ENGLISH, FRENCH AND AMERICAN WRITING PAPER S COPYING BOOKS, COPYING AND SEAL PRESSES, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN COPYING, - WRITING AND INDELIBLE INKS, LETTER, NOTE AND WEDDING ENVELOPES, PORT-FOLIOS, WRITING DEBKB, CHESS AND BACKGAMMON BOARDS AND MEN, DOMINOES, CROQUETS, PLAYING AND VISITINtFfcARDS, SEALING WAX. INDIA RUBBER BANDS, PEN KNIVES, DRAWING AND TRACING PAPER, MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS, SURVEYORS’COMPASSES, ' PORT MONIES, &c„ &c. Subscriptions received for any Periodical, American or Foreign, payable in ail eases ih advance. Foreign Books imported at New York prices. , Books are being constantly ordered, and a single volume of the smallest value may at any time be sent for. Small packages sent by Express or mail at a very slight cost Parties unknown to ns must remit with their orders. Packages sent by Express collect on delivery, when desired. All inquiries as to cost of any article, must be accompanied with a stomp for return letter with price lists &c. ' ‘ Address all communications to . . . B. A, HARRISON & CO., ■parts, 04- May 5,1871, ! >' >: <>.’ v 1 t