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CAM, \ MAN.
Any one win. is disposed to try a
laugh, will do well t read on.
" iotro'jac'i'Th wwg"~*T'< nMnijiiatrioii*,
. hard-working man, of twenty-three :
years, Being the . hirst child, at.ei th.
on'y son, he had always remained at,
home, assisting- l.is fat' er upon the f.rm.
John war mue ■ respccte and by every one
in the neighborhood, and many u b: .ght
eved girl had secretly thoughteho would
like to change her name to M:- John
Jackson. llut John was no lad (»’ man. j
Th» fact was John was very bashful,
lie would lather hoe potatoes all day
than undergo the e rene ny of an intro
duction to a young lady. Not tl. .1 J-'hn
disliked t'e dear creatures—f i from it.
We Uclic that he, in c:: :mi with all :
bashful, well-meaning in n, entertained j
the vrv login-st re-p ct and ndtn :a'n n |
lot- them. And tins, no <1- übl, was th
principal Cause ■ f bis bushluh: a. II
felt that they were shpeiior I- -and .
thst he was unworthy t - m-soci > wit,
them upon terms ot equality, llut w
cannot stop to tnoru ze
Nancy Child; was tie (laughter if
respectable fanner, whose lands adj ;
ed the Jackson tarm. Nancy was u
jirettv, saury little wench, an 1 she liked
John Jacks 01. When they were chil
dren they attended the same ,c< ... !, a-,
as he was a tew years her armor w ••
usually her champi n in the Cos! ; ' -lis
pules that an-s ;, and her companion in
going and reining. At last John h--
came so much <fa y ung man as tola
kept from school, as she hud been in pas’
years. John dir covered, too, that he lad
been growing in stature, and it seemed
as if he had been growing out of shape -
Ills feet and legs appeared very awk
ward; he dido’t know what to and with!
h's hands; his face pained hi;i, ar.d, ta
ken all in all, he was inclined to think In
was not more than half put together.
Now the truth was John Jackson *»« ,
rearly a fine looking young man, one
nothing but his admiration of Nancy
could have suggested any such foolish
thoughts abou'. himself.
As ti e novelist says, it was a lovely j
day in Angnat. The heavens were clear,
serene and beautiful —the trees were la
<aden with g.Jd n fruit, and the I- anti c
birds t V : . le-ei.-Tii.
branches. Earth— -There, we've s' !
down to eaitli (nice more; such 1- by
heights, they make our head dizzy.) \\ i
were about to say that “earth had yield
ed her bountiful harvest of a year's
grass, and cl ver, and honey-suckles,
which the noble ycr-monry' of (.'heater
ville had garnered within their st re
houses”—but epon second thought con
cluded to word it thus: The farmers of
Chester vile were done haying.
J( hn Jackson’s sister had a quilting
that afternoon. His father lad gone to
Keith's Mill to get seme wheat ground,
and John was left to .--pair some tools
to be teady on the won. w to commence
mowing the meadow grass. Suddenly
it occurred to John el at il he remained I
about the house in the afterno u, he
would he called in at tea time and re
quired to do the honors of the table. le.
avoid this, he quietly i;hoah..ied hi- ;
scythe and stole away to the m d-.w.
half a mile distant; fully res ,!v and that j
he would nut leave the re until it w ..s s
dark that lie c -uld cut see how to m.v
and thus avoid seeing the gills.
The meadow was surre.uuded on ah
sides by a thick forest, which iff. ctnally
shut out what little breeze tin re Diig t ]
bestirring. The sun p nred its ray.
as though the little mead -w was t .
focus point where the heat was contract .
ed. J Lu mowed and sweat—sw-a'
and mowed, until he was obliged to sii j
down and cool ejff. Then it ccearr.-d l
Juba that if he took off his pa .Is he!
'H IS j® A A.J &>;*>A A« A, <v *Sk W • A/A AAA« 4 t A-"
|r f sßgfcV; »'
■ 5
| might be nisc comfortable. There
j could bo no impropriety in it, as he was
entirely Concealed from observation, and
there wan not the slightest reason to
suppose that he could be seen by any
person.
So John stripped off, and within, r v
er save his linen—e u. m n!y called n
shirt —he resumed l.is w. ik. He was
just e'-ngratulating himself upon the
good time he had haying, and the lucky
escape he bad m - from meeting the
j girls, ivliea l e ch anced to distut l> a
j huge black snake, a genuine twister,
with a white ring around IT* in k.
! John wan u.o coward, but he was nior -
afraid ■f kc. - ■ pre-erva
j Hon was the first passage that flashed
i upon Jpl u’s mind, and legs take care of
I she body, was the nest. Dropping l.is
' scythe and spinning round like a top, lie
was ready to all ike a ?.40 gait, when
i at thin moment thConake was near
! enough t > ho k ins crooked teeth into
John's shirt, j.i- 1 above the liotn. With :
a tremendous spring, he stalled < CT with
ilie speed of a loc m dive, liis first j
jump took the suuke clear from the |
gr-.ut.d, uud as John stole a hasty glance
over l.is shoulders, he was In n-fied te> i
find the r< ptile securely fastened to the
extremity of his garment; while the I
.speed with which lie rushed forward
kept tl e si rpeiit atari angle if nmety \
degrees with his body.
Here was aqu mdary. If he stopped j
the snake would c il about his body and
squeez - him to death; if he eotitoaird :
tlm.ijoee would so ii fall from sheer ex
haustion. On he lh» , scarce da:i: g to i
think how his dreadful race would end.
Instinctively he had taken the direc
tion of home, when a feeding e.t security
cane over him. .Suddenly <1 .u edaemss
l.is niud the true state of affeiis—l is
fathe r gone—the quilting- -and Worst us
all, the girls ! Tin's new horror sent the:
blood hack curdling ub ut Us neck, and
he earn.' to a (lead halt. Tho next mo
ment h.e felt the b ly of the Cold, clam,
my mi'll.;cr in contact w i!h his bare
legs, liis tai! creeping nreniud them in n
sort of an eieziiig n \. as thoHgli hi»
sn-ikcship only mediut. and a little fun,
by v. ay of tickling John upon the knees
This was too much for human end a
once. dV.'.li a yell, such as a man
.. ver niters ei.ve when in mortal toner,
poor John again act forward »t :■ break
neck pace and once more had the ph-as
arc ot seedig the snake resume liis har
riz .ntai position, S'inewhat after tl;e
t.islijon , fa comet.
On h flow ! John forg'd the quilting,
forgot the girs, forget every tiling but
the Snake.
Idis act ive i xcrcise f lie paid purlieu- ;
lar ntn s.iioii to Ids lunning), together:
with the ex i.ssive h «t, lied brought
on the uouc-bl 1 and, sad as lie iau, cals
erect and head thrown back, his chin, I
throat an K shirt-bosom wore stained !
with the tl .wing sjlieani,
His first wild shriek hue) startl'd the
quitters, soil forth they rushed. Wonder
ing if some rnaei Indian was not prowl
ing about. By this time John was
within a few rods of the barn, still run- j
niug at the top of his spied, l.is head I
turned so that h could keep one eye on
ihe snake, and wi:h the other observe i
what cours: he must taken The friend- |
ly barn concealed him from the sight of
the girls. 11-km-w that they were in
the yard, having caught a glimpse ot
them as they lushed from the house.
A few more bounds and he Would he in
their midst. T.r a moment modesty;
i'veucame fear, and he once more haled.
The snake, evidently pleased with his j
rapid transportation, manif'eated i.is
gratitude by /.tiomptii g to enfold the; |
legs of our beroimi in his embrace.
With an exp! - ;yc ou<:h! and urged j
so ward by circumstances ovei which he |
had n ; control, peior John bounded ou.
liie next moment lie was in full viow e.f j
the girls, an I as he tinned the corner of
the barn, the snake came round with a
whiz something after the fashion if .
c. acb whip.
Having reacle and the barn yard, to hip
dismay be fonud the bars up; but time
was too precious to be wasted in letting
dawn bars. Gathering all his -■>■:: gdi, j
he bounded ink the air—snake t to— j
and as he alighted on the other side', hi. ,
suakeship’s tail cracked across the upper!
har, snapping like an India cr .ethe r.
Again John set forward, now utterly i
icgard'-.-sB of T c piegeiiceof the gir , !
for the extra tick e,f the snake’s tad as:
he leaped the bars, banisa and all the bash j
tulucss and modesty, and again he ha i
the pleasure of finding tin- snake in a
straight line, dtawing steadily at the
hem if bis solitary garmeu!.
The bouse new became the centre <!
attraction, and around it he revolve and
with the speed of thought. Four times
in each revolul'ou .- s iie tuim-d the cor
ner his snukeslJp came around with a
wh'z whic was qui-e rebesoing
While describing the third circle, ns he ,
c ime near the gr. up «.f woueicr-siriick
giris, w itlmut T‘ mo. ing his gaze bum
the snake, lie managed to cry out :
••call a man!”
The next moment he whisked out of
sight, and. as quick as th light, reap
peared on the other side of the bouse—
ucaz shall tux raziz r:iz a r.isttTS maintain, un.v.vzd by pba?. anb unblibud by cain.
QUITMAN, GEO.. JANUARY 6, 1871.
“cam. a man!”
And eway he whirled again, turning
| ihu corner so rapidly that the whiz of the
i make sounded half way b tween a whis
tle and the repeated ptonui cialiou of a
1 (1 111 l.'C.
! either of the girls had stiiced
f - . n» their Macks, he had performed an
I other revoiution
“cai.i. a man!'’
Away he flew, but liis strength was
; >up;..!.. ailing Nancy (Hark was the
| first to recover her presence**of mind, and
seizing a hooj -pole, she took her si.eiion
near the corner of the house, slid as John
reappeared, she btougi t it down upon
the snake with sueli a force that it br. lie
his back and his hold upon John’s nether
garni.■ name time.
John rushed into t m house and in !.i»
room, cud at tea-time appeared in his
best Sunday suit, but little the worse for
the race, and to a I appearance cured of
ban! in nc-is. That night he walked be me
with Nancy Clark. The New Year they
were married, and now, when John feels
inclined to laugh at his wife’s lieu p, or
any other peculiarity, she Ima only le>
say “C.J! a man,” when he instantly so
lids down.
Tbe WayaCesi !»Mtm Dili ii.
I.V I.Et'XHll .SEN.
Taking the census must be a funny
ihirig ;•> a funny man, tend it must be a
dec de lly Miidancl.oily .pursuit to one I
wl ose tears and curses emmo easier than
!aug!,tcr. There arc many people whose
reading is chiefly e i lined to tracts, be
cause such lit. ratine is cheap, whose
infuin iu. ii t'Oiching lirmy things—the
census included—is consequently h >
limit" i that they are obeli qni.e cl.i'.l i
line in the presence el'aiiything new, and
if the n w thing is 11.1 pre-tty which
the cvusns-takcr, for instance, rarely is
with i,is big book and his catching
.(■•leatiotis—tie"- ..r • apt to deal with h
after the ma ' children, tl at is, get
frig iii-oid at a oi mad at it, or hot In.
1 uv< r'neanl the lollowing race, and,
among the few times in my solemn life,
1 laughed.
‘Madam in?’
'I am,’ (aianding in tho outer door
way with an expression . I face at once
su pe cting anil militant)’
‘Will you let me step in out of this
rail:?’ (It is a Cold d.izzlc )
‘Come in in il you want !o.’
Stepping in, the gentleman takes the
first chair he comes to mid sits down,
the enemy furtively glancing at the
bro in in the corner and standing u lit
tle aloof.
'I am taking the census Madam.’
‘1 havn'l any. You’d better go along.
I tel! you I haven’t any,’ getting in n
vi-ib’e tremor.
Opening bis big folio (he gentleman,
!e> i-.'ng' up beniguaiitly, says, ‘Will you
tell me your husband’s lian e ?’
‘No, I won't, lie don't owe you any
thing. lie eh n’t owe nobody nothing.
You'd better go along. 1 don’t want
you he re,’ making a motion towards the
broom.
'Madam, I don’t want your money.
I wouldn’t give you any tremble fir the
world. Allow me to ask you some ques
t ous, will von?' smiling blandly.
If they are decent, ye u may ask them;
of (..mrse yon may. I havVnt said you
shouldn’t. Ask cm, and be cjuick about
it.’
‘Welt, now, wl at is your husband's
~4Arii‘ T *
‘What doyen want to km w that for?'
'I wont to n>*t it down in this book.'
‘Are you one of the Grand Jury? 1
tel! you my mail’s an honest, hardwork
ing man. Ho never did nobody any
harm, lie earns his money. He don’t
go around insulting people, asking in
decent quest! ms. I'm a decent, woman,
ton, a-k my ne g hbors if I h ii;'t.’
‘Hot that woilhl be ask leg questions,
my dear Mad..lll.’
‘Don’t diir roe, you! —You’d better go
along!' taking two steps towards the
broom.
After a short pause, during which the
manes qu stions sceins to be writing:
‘Y. u say y.mr husband's name is John
St- ik; well, ’
'I didn’t say so, I didn't t;ay no such
tiling. Its Joshua 1) eking, and 1 uin t
b»; inr-d us it neither.’
“His ag<-?'
‘T oo .• : s again! 1 wouldn’t tell y- 0,
if ii w.t.» t save you . ’
‘Have- y a any children?’
‘Acs, we have; and honestly come by,
too.
‘ls that the old. !?' (a daughter stale- |
ding ly V v ‘ w gnawing tier thumb
nail and dr. .rn v contemplating the j
lain and some very duty el gs in the!
street.)
'How old are * 011, Miss?’
•r • urt ’
‘Dunk you tell him, l. zz e-!’
‘Madam, will y u pera.i; m: to ask :
yoil wheie 30 u were born?’
‘ln Hartford C unty where decent |
people come fr. m. ’
‘ln Haitford County. And your hnsbaml |
w: s born in the same place.’
‘No be wasn’t. lie,- was born and
reared in this town; brought up by
tn,mi: his father fuel mot 11. T liulii died of j
ammonia on the breast—ti.e san e week,
and left the; poor little infant without
father nor mother in thin wicked world'
jto care for it and bring it up. Hut God
| eared for it I don’t suppose) you bo—
! Iteve in a God, do you?’ ’
| ‘.Madam, was he twenty-one or two
when he married you?’
‘Ho wasn’t neither twenty-one nor
twenty-two when 1 married him. He
was twenty four years old, and u much
better looking man than ymi ever will
be, if you live to b: a hundred.’
‘Then he is now thirty-eight.’
‘Uz, did you tell him that? Go in j
the kitchen, you! and stay there till I j
come,’ —which she makes a pretense of
doing.
‘Now what is your husbands occupa
tion?
Hi* which?
What does he do for * living?
lie works on the railroad.
In wh*t capacity?
lie dont work in anything of the
kind. He helps make embankments and
mend em. And ho full .down one, last
summer's a year. Somebody had coax
ed him to drink; and his wheelbarrow
fell on top of him and broke all to pie
ces and broke his leg. lie hasn't never
been \vh it you may say drunk since.
Has your hu.-baud any pamerly—real
estate e r chattel.-?
1 l.n w \vh t you me :■! - r now. You
eor t fool me! Yon are the lux man.
N', hi : a-.- no 1 iy. '-d pit know
what you mean by them ether things.
He has no property at all.
Have you any?
1 wish tils' 1 had.
How many children l.avo you, Mrs
I) .s'.ing?
Might living, two dead; poor things!
both eh ini and and in I eaven I hope: that
one’s tvvin b (.then and that one’s twin
sisier. T.. y have all found their way
in to seo the sight—Lizzie partly invisi
ble.
Were they all born in this town?
All but tw o. Wipe your nos. Laza
rus.— which in done with the right sleeve,
afterwards with Ihe lelt. Stop llmt,
fydial! -whose hand is buried and
closely occupied in the mystic depths of
tier own tresses.
Where were Lazarus and Lydia born?
In Uhl Town.
How many «t tlie-m go to school?
You mean, how many of them go to
school? -
Yes.
Id just like'to know what you’ll ask
next. May be you’d like to find e<qt
how many of ’em has had tho measles
and the he opii g-Ooiigh—from Liz down
lu Lillian
And m ne of them g" to tecbojl.
That's so! Liz, go straight in the
kitchen and go to sorting th. 111 potatoes! ;
Wiiuldu' you like to know whclhci
they havo teen buptized? They liuve ,
been,. I see you think the. holy baptism i
a humbug. Such mrn ns 3on are
My good lady, 1 have one more ques
tion to ask you: What is your ag- '?
Guess at it! Now guess at it! If my
i.wn father should ask me that he would
have to gins** I doi.t blame you fur
wanting to know.
I must put it duwn'hrre.
Hot it down for all I care.
Shall I write, twenty eight?
Ye*, t»euly-eight. That’s—
0, rn .?
Liz! You m'nd your business, you
g iod-for nothing child!
Ho writes, and afterward* murmtrs,
Arammtbe Disking sgc, twenty j ft.
Tiiat’s my name, and you are r ■• n
tieniaii, sir. Wont you take a glass of
buttermilk?
After ascei taming tho name and age
of the remaining children, lie rises to de
part.
If you ever com ■ this way, sir, drop
in,—almost laying hands on him not
violently however.
In tho absence if Mr. Dusking?
0, lie’s no account nohow. Here,
l izzie, say good day to the gentleman.
Lydia, haven’t I tol 1 yon to stop that?
The gentleman will think you've go!
ci ■-•.•pel a. Aid yen're a; too—my
gracious, S lomonl I reckon it must be j
in the weather. Call again, sir. G-oei !
d *y- ti
(>'•'ll !Icm: a A Dctt,—Can any one)
d:fi. 1 gdi iim r ? Wo can feel and .
enjoy ii, but il is hard to pin the thing :
and wu 1 any (1.1 isMil definition. The good
1 nmol "J man is at all events a happy
man, « noc. to be envied, a man on whom
Ir.'iib 1 Hi'! ' p ly, lend u man who con
'ers .is mucl ha; piec.-s as he enj o.s. lie
radiates it a- it were, and Ira good hu»
timr become :- an atmosphere in which
dtlier pe< po.-V g ■ and humor, I tent or p : n
ed naif to death, cm -s out, revives and I
flonrisht'S. G o l hum »r can scarcely be ]
called .1 im-ral virtue. Ii depends per- ,
hups ns mucb cm disposition and the per- I
f ct action e f the liver as on anything!
else. A good I iin.i'M and lean niiist Le j
ipso facto a eupeptic man, « man t• ti n
joys a good dinner. Now, a quality
which depends upon the: act on of a man’:,
liver (.'un scarcely Le a high urial qme -
ty. And yet has any man a right to be
dyspeptic, is it not a moral duty not to
be ? Hitting aside the lare cases of in-
. vitable misfortune, is not dysp* psia a
mail’s ..veil fault, g- ncrolly—llie result
(’fills gluttony, his laziness, bis stupidity,
his carelessness or his ignorance ? And
are these things moral virtues f Has a
man any right to make himself wretched,
to peep’e ihe world with horrors, to be a
nuisance to himself and everybody
about him, because he lack- sense to
control bis appetite or tho or -rgy to
take sufficient exercise to keep Ins liver
healthy ? On<*<f these elajs we shall
conic to the conclusion that the snarling,
fulfill, ill tempered or complaining and
dojuvssed victim is not merely to lie pit
ied, but deserves to bo punished a* he is
He may be very devotional in liis way,
make high pretensions to piety and
religious feeling, hut he is none the leas
a nuisance; and on the whole, dyspep
tic piety is as unhealthy ua any other
dyspeptic thing—-Ex.
Widow Jones’ ® -w.
Widower Smith’s wagon stepped one
morning before Wid vv J. lies’, and he
gave the usual signal that he wanted
somebody in (tie house by dropping tils
elbows on biskn.es. Out tripped the
widow, lively as a cricket with a tre
mendous black ribbon on her anew - white
cap. Good morning was soon said on
both aides, and the widow waited tor
what was further to he said.
__ “WIG ma’am Junes, perhaps you
don’t want to Bel! one of your cows, no
how, nothin’, no way, do you ?”
“Well, there, Mr. Smith, yi 11 mightn't
have spoken iny mind better. A poor
lone woman I il- er me docs not know what
10 do with so many creature's, and 1
should bt> glad to trade, if we can fix it.’
So they adjourned to the meadow—
funnel Smith looked at Koun—then at
the widow—then at the Downing Cow
then at tho widow again—mi l no on
over the whole forty. The same cal*
wan made every day for it week, but far
mer Smith could not decide which eov.
ho wanted. Mt length on Saturday
when widow Jones wu# in a hurry to
get through her baking for Sunday
and luid ever so much to do in the house,
an all farmei’a wives and widows have
e 11 Saturday—uhe was a little, impatient-
Farmer Smith was as irresolute as over
“Tom D wuing cow is a pretty fair
. : ure—blit’.—lie stopped and glanced
at the widow’s face, and then walked
around her—not the widow, but the'
cow.
“That ere short horn Durham is not a
bad looking beast, but I don’t know’’ —-
another lo k at the widow.
‘'The Downing cow I knew before the
late Mr. Jones bought her.” Here lie
sighed at the ullusiou to the late Mr
Jones. S' e sighed, and they both look
ed at each Other. Il wua a tiighly inter
es; ing m uivit.
“Old R"an is a faithful old milch cow.
and *0 is Hriudle, but I liuve known bet'
ter.” A long stare succeed this speech
—the pause was getting awkward, and
at last Mrs Jones broke out :
‘La! Mr Smith, if I’m the cow you
want why don't you say so !’
The intentions us Widower Smith and
Widow Jones were duly published the
nex'. day ns is the l«w and custom in
Massachusetts, and as soon as they were
“out piib'ishcel,' they Were, married.
“Dally, I UoHrrcJ.”
Joe Stetson was a wild, rollicking
fellow, who spent most of his time in
I drinking and gpreeing, while his wife,
Fully, was h ft at home to and 1 the ch res
Upon n certain occasion Joe left h. me,
to be Lack os he said, that night. N g'ht
came but Joe did not. The next clay
passed; übcmtdMiusot Jo- came up in the
ee. i-.t ci.nditfoii |-oio; Llo—hia el Ahes
were dirty and torn, one eye in and -ep
moiiriiiii.., and his face presenting more
the sppeatenco of a p.eeie of raw meat
than anything else, l’olly met him at
the door, am! noticing his upp -ranee ex
claimed :
“ "T.y, Joe, what in the world is the
matter?”
“Fully ” paid J.. 0, “do you know Jim
Andrew'*? Well, him and me had a
fight ”
“Who whipped, Joe?”
“Fully, we had the hardest fight you
ever did see- I Lit him, and he hit me,
ami then we clinched; ain’t supper most
re a ly? 1 ain’t had anything to cat since
. estorday morning.”
‘•Hut firs! tell me who whipped, Joe,”
continued l’olly.
“Polly,” continued Juo, “I tel! you,
you never did see sue. a fight rs mean 1
him hud. When he clinched me I jerked
loose from him, then gin him three er
four of tho all-siifficientest kicks 3 011 ev
er ’'hoard e.f. Folly ain’t supper most
ready? I'm nearly starved.”
“Joe, do tell me who whipp'd,” con
tinued Ful y.
“Folly,”replied Joe, “yon don’t know i
11 >t .ing about lighting. 1 to!! you w«- j
f..ught like tigeis: w rolled and turn-- j
I led—first him on tup tl cn me—then the ;
. . ys would pat me e n the shoulder and j
| holler, ‘Oh, inv! Stetson!’ We gouged j
and hit, and tore up tho dirt iu Seth
I Kumntl’s grocery worse nor two wild
| nor Auiium
NO. 1
| hulls. Folly, ain't supper moat ready?
I’m monstrous hungry.”
“Joe Stetson,” exclaimed P.dly, in a
t‘ ii" bristling with anger, “will yon lelt
me who whipped!”
“Fully,’’said Joe, dra wing u very long
sigh, “I hollered.”
To (V. a Rusty Flow . —Take «
quart us water and pour slowly intu it
half pint of sulphuric acid. The mixture
will become quite, warm from chemical
action, ami this iu the reason why tho
acid should be poured slowly into the
water rather than the water into the ac
id. Wash the nit u.’d-board, or any OUI
- iron that is rusty, with this weak ac
id, and let it remain on the iron until it
evaporates. Their wash it again. The
object is to give time for tho acid to dis
solve the rust. Then wash with water
and you will see where the worst rusty
spots are. Apply some more acid and
rub those spots with a brick. The acid
and the scouring Will remove most ol tho
rust. Then wash the moulboard thor ■
e.'iighly with water to reunovo all the ac
id and rub il dry. Brush it over with
petroleum or other oil, and let it be until
spring. When yon go to plowing take
a lull lie of the acid water to the field
and apply it generously do. urty spots us
rust thut may remain. Tnd ucid’and the 4
scour r.g ol the earth will soon make it
pc: Let ly bright and smooth, ll all iron
work he washed over with petroleum as
bouii as we put our tools, implements,
and machines aside for tho winter, it
will keep tiicin from rusting, and save a
great de.J of trouble and annoyance, to
suy nothing of depreciation grid loss.
How i'rc.in 1 a Mads V'.Tnric.—The way
in winch sugar is made perfectly white,
was found out in a curious way: A hen
that had gone through a clay mud-pud
dle, went with her muddy feet into a
•'.ngar house. Ii was observed by some
one (La: wherever the tracks were Ilia
sugar was white. This led to some ex
periments, the result was, that the clay
came to be used iu refining sugar. It is
in this way: the sugar is pul in eartheu
jar", shaped as you sec the sugar is. The
Luge end 1 are upwards. The ends have
il hole in them. Tlu. jer is filled with
sugar, the clay put over tho top and
kept we-t. '1 Lo moisture goes down
through thou garii.ei drops from tho
“Jo in the small cod of tho jar. This
makes the sugar perfectly white.—Ex.
How in.-.ny take a wrong view ofljfo,
atid ..a.do their energies and dis troy
their nervous System in endeavoring to
accumulate wealth, without thinking us
the present happiness they are thr Jiving
awry. It ia riot wealth or high station
which m ik"s a limn happy. Many ul
the most wretched being* ou earth liavo
both; but it i» radiant, Bunny spirit,
which knows how to b ar littjo trials
and enjoy little comfo t«, and thus ex
tract happiness from eveay incident us
life.
P*K..Kt:VATio» oir Wood.— The best
preservative of wood in said to he a com
pound e.f one part eiliente of potaasa and
three ul | nre wate r— the wo .and to remain
in tlie Kolntion tvveuty f ,ll r hours, then
(ired for several days, then BoakeJ and
dried a second ’on", und Bubsequently
p liutr-l tv:ice. over with a mixture of one
part water-cement and (our of the first -
mention'd mixture “Thus prepared, it
will not decay in the ground, and wifi be
incombustible out of it.
Tux Last Two F.-cxim.—Do not kill
the turkeys until they arc fat. A pour
bird is always slow of sale, even at a
low price; while a good 0113 will Bell
much quicker, and bring from tlireo to
fivu cents a pound more. Reckon the
hint two pounds at the extra price ths
turkey w l! bring, audevry turkey raiser
will Bee tlisl tkeko fwo pounds bring him
in nearer fifty cents a pound than twen
ty five.
Fi.antino Onion:.—Mr. Van Wy>.k
cak'd the Farmer’s Club if any 0:1c pres
ent ln:d tried raising bilious in ridges
Mr. Lyman said they didn’t do it in
Wethersfield, where they had been grow
ing onions f.r the past two hundred
cars on the sum; lau !. Mr Derby said
that, onions should not bo planted oa
ridges like the carrot and beet.
An exchange, discussing kerosene
o | ;, lays that if the; wicks are soaked
-tr ng vinegar f.r twenty-four hours,
.in! th'.ion; ly dried before used, all
ke will he avoided, ti e wicks will
last lunger, and increased brilliancy will
he 1 htained.
Tl •• N: w Yuik Times asks—Shall
we* have ale male I5;ble?-:i bright and
-o ion: light, now gone to blazes, lie—
el.:r. and t ::.t “Wo want an anti-slavLuy
Bible and an anti-slavery God.” Tho
kind - I god they wanted they g..t, and
he proved to he the devil.
At a le.-eiit ex -miuri!inn, the qiirslL n
was pill to a dues of sill ill boys ; ‘Why
.0 tl.e C< ..'(too.! i ;\-e 1' su Call. (!?’ wlu 11
a blight little fellow i ut up I. s hand.
•Ho you kinvv, J.eiues?’ \ s, in.i’.eui;
L.'i.a so it e mu-e ls Vermont and N.w
lianij shire, aid cuts il.iougl’ Ala-suchu-
BCtis! was the triumphant i\p*y.