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YQL. II. SANDERSVTLLE. GEORGIA, JULY 4, 1873. -J. M. G. 3TEDLCICE. JYTKEO ABLIXE. R. It. HODGEES. By Mcdlock, A rliue & Rodgers, i The Hseald is published in’Sandersville, | <311.. every Friday morning. Subscription : price TWO DOLLARS per annum. Advertisements inserted at tbs usual rates. 2\o ciiarge for jmblisbing marriages or I deaths. POETRY. Tliree Old Saws. nr Lucy LABCosr. If the world seems cold to you, Kindle tires to warm it! Let their comfort hide from view Winters that deform it. Hearts as frozen as your own, To that radiance gather ; You will soon forget to moan, ■* ‘Ah! the cheerless weather.” If the world's a wilderness, Go. build houses in it! Will it help your loneliness On the wind to din it? Raise a hot, however slight, Weeds and brambles smother, And to rotif and meal invite Some forlorner brother. If the world’s a vale of tears, Smile till rainbows span it; Breathe the love that life endears, Clear from clouds to fan it. Of your gladness lend a gleam Unto souls that shiver; Show them how dark Sorrow’s stream Blends with Hope’s bright river. SELECT MISCELLANY. THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR. Mayor Huff's Address. Mayor’s Office, ) Macon, June 1, 1873. f To the People of Upper and Lower Ga. As you are aware, the Georgia •State Agricultural Society will hold its next annual Fair at this place, commencing on the 27th day of Oc tober. Every, true Georgian is justly proud "of his native State—rich in minerals as it is varied in soil—weal thy, indeed, in all that should con stitute a people prosperous and hap py. Me have here that diversity of production and peculiar adaptation of the various sections to the dif ferent industrial pursuits which com bine to make up the natural ele ments sufficient for an Empire. In agriculture, as in everything else, harmonious concert of action strengthens and supports each sec tion of the State. Lower Georgia has her peculiar interest to foster and protect and her great strength to boast of. The same may be said of upper and middle Georgia. The city of Macon occupies a grand cen- tral’position geographically, and her citizens have provided within her limits fair grounds and equipments equal, if not superior, to any in the United States, for the accommoda tion of visitors and for the exhibi tion of any and every article which may be brought here for show. The Executive Committee and members of the State Agricultural Society have evinced a determination to make this next the great Lair of the State. The handsome and liberal premium list now being circulated throughout the State speaks for it self. An examination of its pages will convince every one that the So ciety means business. But the “county displays” are looked for ward to as the prominent and great leading features of the Fair, and will doubtless present a grand pano ramic view of each county and sec tion such as has never before been witnessed by the- people of Georgia. The purposes of this appeal are, therefore, to invite and urge every county in the State, if possible, to be represented in some way, so that we may have no blanks in the pic ture. To do this is a plain, patriot ic duty; a duty which, if zealously ’performed, will conduce to the pros perity and success of every county in the State, without any regard whatever as to which gets the $1000 premium offered. This premium will, of course, go to the county which shall furnish the “largest and finest display.” But, as will be seen by reference to the premium list, there are three other handsome premiums to be distributed among other coun ties. as follows: A premium of $500 to the county making the second best display. A premium of $300 to the comity making the third best display; and A premium of $200 to the county making the fourth best display. There are now three prominent counties in the State which are known to be bending and concentrat ing all their vast powers and resour ces upon this great contest-—one in Upper Georgia, one in Middle Ga.’ and one in Southwestern Georgia. Other counties will report progress, and enter the list for competition at the next meeting of the Society, to be held in Athens next month. But while the foregoing county prizes are intended to represent the leading features of the premium list, they are by no means the most at tractive. The city of Macon has uni ted with the society in the effort to present a list of rewards that will not only please but actually reeom- 50 50 50 50 25 25 100 100 pense the exhibitor for some labor and expense. And among others which may be referred to with pride and satisfaction, are the following: For best acre of clover hay... .$ 50 . For best acre of lucerne hay.*.. 50 For best acre of native grass... 50 For best acre of pea-vine hay.. ’ 50 For best acre of com forage... 50 For largest yield of Southern cane, 1 acre 50 For best and largest display of garden vegetables 25 For largest yield of upland cot ton, not less than 1 acre 200 For best crop of short staple cot ton, not less than five bales.. 500 For best one bale upland short staple cotton.. 100 (and 25 cents- per- 1 pound for the best bale.) For best bale upland long staple cotton 100 (and 25 cents per pound paid for the best bale.) For the best oil painting, by a Georgia lady 100 For the best display of paintings, drawings, etc., by the pupils of one school or college 100 For the best made silk dress, done by a lady of Georgia not a dress-maker For best made home-spun dress, done by a lady of Georgia not a dress-maker...... For best piece of tapestry in worsted and floss, by a lady of Georgia 50 For best furnished baby basket and complete set of infant clothes, by a lady of Georgia.. For handsomest set of Mouchoir- case, glove box and pin cush ion, made by a lady of Geor gia _ For best half dozen pairs of cot ton socks, knit by a lady over fifty years of age, (in gold)... For best half dozen pairs of cot ton socks, knit by a girl under ten years of age (in gold).... For the finest and largest display of female handicraft, embrac ing needlework, embroidery, knitting, crocheting, raised work, etc., by one lady For the best combination horse. For the best saddle horse....... 100 For the best style harness horse. 100 For the finest and best matched double team 100 For the best stallion, -with ten o£ his colts by his side 250 For the best gelding 250 For the best six-mule team.... 250 For the best single mule 100 For the best milch cow 100 For the best bull 100 Eor the best ox team 100 For the- best sow with pigs 50 For the largest and finest collec tion of domestic fowls 100. For the best bushel of com.... 25 For the best bushel of peas.... 25 For the best bushel of wheat... 25 For the best bushel of sweet po tatoes 25 For the best bushel of Irish po tatoes 25 For the best fifty stalks of sugar cane 50 For the best result on one acre in any forage crop.......... 150 For the largest yield of com on one acre •. 100 For the largest yield of wheaton one acre 50 For the largest yield of oats on one acre 50 For the largest yield of rye on one acre 50 For the best result on one acre, in any cereal crop.......... 200 For the best display made on the grounds, by any drygoods merchant 100 For the best display made by any grocery merchant 100 For the largest and best display of green-house plants, by one person or firm 100 For the best drilled volunteer military company 500 Eor the best brass band, not less than ten performers 250 (and $50 extra per day for ' their music.) For the best Georgia made plow stock 25 For the best Georgia made wag on, (two horse,) 50 For the best Georgia made cart. 25 These are among the many pre miums offered by the city of Ha- don, and the State Agricultural So ciety, aggregating in all more than $15.000. # But it is not to the value of the premiums that we look for rewards. The exhibition promises nobler results than this. There will be a great moral influence growing out of it. The political economist will here find food for his thoughts. The artisan will scan, with eagle eye, the work of his peers. The thrifty farmer; the enterprising merchant; the fowl fancier, and the stock im porter ; the horticulturist—all will be entertained, pleased and instruct ed. Here we will learn the sources of supply and demand in our own State. Here we will learn where, in our own State, each and every article is produced,' raised or manu factured. Our people will here be taught where, in our own country, they may follow that pursuit best suited to their interest and taste, without being forced to hunt homes among strangers, as is now too of ten the case. Exhibitors from Up per Georgia will here find a market for the ready sale of much, if not all, of their perishable articles at | full remunerative prices. In addi tion to all this, much general good must necessarily grow out of these annual reunions of so many of the thinking and working men and wo men of the country. The spirit of State pride is fanned into new life by these meetings, and we forget, as it were, our individual misfor tunes in rejoicing over our mutual successes. Let us then devote one week in next October to the very profitable work of meeting and dis cussing the important agricultural and commercial interests of the day. Let it be a week devoted purely to the explosion of' false theories and putting into practical operation the safe, sound, business ideas of the times. Among other things, let us prove, by the variety and merits of our exposition, the great and abso lute danger .and folly of looking to railroads, rivers or canals for relief from “hard times.” Let our Fair in October be the only argument ad duced by ns to prove the utter falla cy of that grand idea, that ignis fal um, called cheap transportation, which has. so suddenly become the all-absorbing theme among men in search of relief. For it may in time —indeed, it has already—become a serious question with thoughtful, ob serving men, whether we have not now too much transportation. Our seeming advantages may sometimes become our greatest misfortune. That which is oft-times a conven ience is always a blessing. It may become a vital necessity for us to in quire whether or not these immense railroad lines—traversing and cor duroying, as they do, our country from mountain to seaboard—are re ally feeding or absorbing ns ? That transportation which fosters and en courages our improvidence while it depletes our pockets, may be the transportation least of all others wanted in this country. And the objections now so strongly urged against our railroad systems might not be entirely overcome by these proposed water lines. It is not, however, the practicability of these grand sell ernes fur reducing rrelgnts that we must stop now to consider— for no matter how feasible they may be, Georgia is in no condition to wait their completion. The emer gency—bread—is upon us, and we must go to work, and go to work to day. We must teach our boys, by precept and example, that the great virtue of life and the necessity of the age is to be found in the truth of the old Latin maxim, “Labor omnia vin- cit.” The people of Georgia should never be dependent upon any line or any system of transportion for the meat and the bread, the hay and the fertilizers used upon their farms. Such a policy will bankrupt and starve out any people in the world. Show me the man with a fat smoke house and a well filled bam, and I will show you one who is not affect ed by low-priced cotton or high transportation. On the other hand, point me to that farmer with a lean smoke-house and an empty corn- crib, and I will show you a misera bly poor and mistaken wretch, whose dependent and destitute condition can never be reached by high-priced cotton, or relieved in any way by cheap transportation. The truth is, we have been betting our bottom dollars so long on three fatal cards, called “credit,” “cotton,” and “cat erpillar,” that we now have nothing left us but our mules and lands; and in seven-cases out of ten these are pledged to some warehouse firm for supplies to make this year’s crop with. And yet, in the face of all this crouching poverty and embar rassment, we leam from the news papers of the country that more land is planted in cotton this year than last, or even any year since the war. No wonder, then, that we should be crying out for more trans portation. Fifteen years ago, when I first commenced the produce business in Macon, my little orders for grain and meat seldom went farther west than the fertile hills of Cherokee Georgia, and the narrow valleys in East Tennessee. I had time then to write and send letters for these supplies and wait the return of quo tations before buying. I, with oth er merchants, 'purchased there, at our leisure, all that was necessary to supply the wants of Middle and South-western Georgia. Now we send our immense orders by tele graphic wires to the rich fields and broad plains of Illinois and Missou ri ; and if, by any chance or ill luck, a railroad bridge is burned or a transfer boat is sunk and a little blockade occurs en roicfe, a panic ensues and a meat, bread and hay famine at once threatens every man and beast south of Chattanooga. This is our miserably poor and help less condition to-day—fearful and unreasonable as it may appear to outsiders. But that annual defi ciency of fifty millions of bushels of grain ki the four States of Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Stratif Caro lina, commented upon so Igravely by the late Canal Convention in Atlan ta, tells fce whole story. We have suddenly Awakened, as it were, from a deep sle«p and discovered the un welcome fact that we are a poor, thriftless, nonproducing, all consum ing, dependent people. And just so long as the iarmers and planters of Georgia pursie their present mad policy of buyiig fertilizers to make cotton to buy corn, bacon and hay with, and th'«n pay two per cent a month for mcney from April to No vember of eaci year to run this wild schedule, just so long will, they be pitiable beggars and borrowers at the doors of transportation offices and Georgia shaving shops, provid ed a worse fate does, not speedily overtake them. The truth is, the whole country has become one common counting room and large gambling shop.— What we once did with the axe and the hoe, the plowshare and the reap ing hook, we nov seek to accomplish by 1 strategy and. chance, credit and speculation. And we must, sooner or later, come back to first principles or we most perish. We have too many able-bodied young men in shady places; too much tape catting and pin selling and too little cotton chopping and hay curing: too many yard sticks thrown around loose on smooth-top counters and not enough lioe-handles and plow-stocks; too many law books and lager beer bar rels in proportion to the rail-split ting and ditch-digging; too much foolish fashion and foppery, and not enough sledge-hammers and saw horses—in a word, too much whole sale idleness-. Georgia has to-day, buried in the rich bosom of her va ried soil and precious mineral beds, greater wealth and grander results than can ever be worked out by ca nal projects or Congressional enter prise. And how is to be done ?— Not by- dreamy theories and mythi cal plans, but in talking com instead of canal—in diversifying and devel oping our own vast resources—in writing more about home effort and less about foreign immigration—in planting less cotton and manufactu ring more yarns. In this, and this only, 1165 tl*o grp-lli: 5^PY*r£>i: Cl-tinTgi a success—agricultural as well as fi nancial and commercial. We are im mensely rich in resources but miser- erably poor in the handling of them. What we want is icork—honest, hard- fisted, intelligent, well-directed toil, labor and application in developing .and utilizing what we have here at home rather than so many spasmod ic efforts to bring from abroad that which we should not bug. Our pov erty, like our pride, is the result of misapprehensions and mistaken ideas of ourselves, of our country and of each other. The abolition of slave ry in the South has developed a vast world of sickly, sentimental, lazy, indolent, stupefied, inert and unapt population of young and middle-aged men, some of whom have known bet ter days. These men put on old store clothes, hang around dirty grogshops and dingy hotels, smoke cheap segars and drink' mean whis ky, affect old habits and anti-war style, talk politics a little and curse destiny and free negroes more, fret and fume over the results of the late war, write and sign up mortgage liens on then- cotton crops before they are planted, pay two per cent, interest on money for nine months in the year and then promise to pay annually in the fall more money per acraJoi^commercial manures to scat ter Over their lands than some of them originally cost. And, finally, when inattention to business and general bad policy and mismanagement have brought them and their State to the extremity of desperation—when- ruin and bank ruptcy stare us all in the face—we issue proclamations, call public meet ings, invite distinguished gentlemen from abroad to come here and sym pathize with us. We meet in ban- quiet halls, drink much ehampagne and discharge mor6 fc gas over the great and absorbing questions’ of ca nal schemes, Congressional aid and cheap transportation, than was ever mg pended Jay our fathers in. discuss- g the Declaration of American In dependence. And what does it avail? Will these idle and extravagant de monstrations ever work out the great S robleiu of Georgia independence? io! Never until labor becomes pop ular will money get easy. Never, until we feed fancy less, and learn to fatten chickens and hogs more, will want disappear and plenty step in. When these plain secretsof life shall have been, learned, when the wild mania for speculation shall have de parted from our farm houses and plantations, when our planters shall learn, from experience to abandon Wall street brokers and “cotton fu tures,” and come to deal more di rectly in the productions o£ square little “spots” of potatoes and corn, when agriculture shall become the ruling feature and controling interest iff our State—then, and not until then, will we become an independent, prosperous and happy people. And we have here in Georgia all the ele ments necessary to this great end. — Here God has blessed us with eve rything essential to the prosperity and growth of man or beast, if only worked out Everything) from a chicken au£ a chum to a cotton field and a coal bed, from a ground pea patch on the sand hillsf o a gold mine in the mountains. These are among the rich, rare and multiplied resources of Georgia; these consti tute our strength, our refuge and our power. Think of it, farmers and planters of Middle Georgia! Here we are, in the heart of the Empire State, the boasted owners of lands without stint, blessed with a climate and soil where two crops of grain or two of potatoes, or one each of pea vines and hay can be successfully grown on the same land the same year, and yet we go to Baltimore to buy guano to make a little cotton to sell in New York to get money to bny hay, oats and com away out in the rich States of Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri. And just so long as we are the vol untary patrons of produce dealers, heartless rings and pampered mo nopolies, such as now own and con trol, operate and direct our only lines of trade and transportation north, south and west, just so long will we belfit subjects for lien-dr-afts and homestead laws, mortgages and re pudiation. The South must work out her own independence. The remedy is ours, -if we will only apply it. Too often have we been beguiled by plausible schemes for great im provements and financial relief.— Let ns no longer be lulled into a false security by any promises which --can be made, outside of our own harvest fields and hog pens, our hay patches and cane mills. It is here we shall find it. To this end the State Agricultural Society throws open the doors of her Exposition halls, offers her premium lists to the public, and invites competition from every section of the country. It may sometimes suit the interest of small politicians to excite section al antagonisms in the State; but no such petty jealousy is to befound in the heads and hearts of those engag ed in the industral pursuits. All are expected at the Fair in OoHJiar.— Macon unites with the State Agricul tural Society in a cordial invitation to every county in the State to be represented. It will impart new vig or and energy to every industry; it will disseminate knowledge and cul- .ture among the great masses of the people; it will kindle a lofty emula tion among the working classes; it will present one vast field fortesting theories and tiring conclusions; it will cement us, as a people, in the bonds of fraternal union, and none should be deterred from fear of de feat- -for tlte triumph of one will be the triumph of all, and there will be no rejoicing over any defeat. From the ladies we expect much —yes, almost everything. Without their kindly aid and handiwork we shall have no Floral Hall, arid with out that pleasing feature in perfec tion the Fair can never be a grand success. The good women of our country saved us here two years ago —without their timely effort the Fair of 1871 would have been an immense failure. Their hearty co operation now is all we want to in sure success. Let us then unite in one mighty effort to throw together, in one com mon display, the grand and aggre- gate specimen resources of our proud old commonwealth. Let it be such an exposition of our pride "and our strength; such an evidence of our skill and taste, our genius and our | energy, and especially of our love for j agriculture and our homes, as shallj challenge, in kindness, the competi- f. tion of the South, while it excites the ' envy and admiration of the world. W. A. Huff, - Mayor of the city of Macon. -A »»♦«■•« i Avoid Evil and do Good.—It is ! to be feared that many Christians : think that their whole duty is done r when they avoid evil. Their piety ■ is negative rather than positive. Says a preacher: “A man who stays at home does not commit as many sins as he who ■ travels on the road. Nothing is so ’ faultless as nothing. If a person 1 wants to be safe, let him get under the sod. The grave is the fool’s *■ paradise. It is no trouble for a man { to break a sheep to the harness, but j let him try a horse, if he wants to ’ know what there is in blood. De-' feat is more honorable in a man • 1 that works, than victory is in a slug- j gard. Living just to get to heaven j is selfishness, and selfishness in Christianity is one of-the worst kinds of selfishness. A Church is good accordingto the work it performs. A rose null grow just as well in an earthen pot as it will in a silver one. Cheap Cake*—Two cups flour, one of sugar, one of sweet milk, five table- spoonfuls butter, two eggs, one table spoonful cream tartar; one half of soda. NO. 1. Cholera Treatment- The following, says the Tennessee Baptist, is communicated at our spe cial request. The writer, Capfr. Duf- field, an old steamboatman on the Mississippi, ha§ treated nearly a thousand cases, first and last, and with the most signal success, by the treatment below given, which orig inated with Dr. Hawthorn, of Liver pool, England, and for which he re ceived a seance of plate and the thanks of the profession. Let eve ry one cut it out and preserve it, against the time of need, and let ev ery family have the remedies pre pared at hand, for in the hour least expected the enemy cometh : Editor Baptist : Seeing that the cholera is prevalent in Memphis and many other points at present, I take the liberty of giving you a memo randum of medicine I used in 1848, ’49 and ’50 with a success and entire satisfaction, together with the mode of treatment: Becipe-Po wdered opium 12 grains, camphor half a dram, capsicum 9 grains, spirits of wine and conserve of roses of each sufficient to mix; make into.12 pills; from four to ten of these pills to be given immediate ly, as the severity of the case may indicate, to be followed immediately by the following Antispasmodic Mixture: ' Chloric ~ether, aromtic spirits of ammonia, camphorated spirits, tincture of opium, of each one dram, cinnamon water two ounces; mix and let the patient swallow it imme diately after the pills. Wash the whole down with a glass of unadul- tered brandy or whisky, flavored strongly with cloves, essence of gin ger or some warm aromatic spice.— In the meantime have him covered with additional blankets and bottles of hot water, bags of hot salt, hot bricks, or what ever can be most easily and quickly procured, to be applied without delay to the feet and different parts of the body, so as to restore the temperature and produce perspiration as quickly as possible, for upon perspiration we must rely for the restoration of what has been lost by .vascular depletion. As soon as the perspiration has be gun to flow freely, give the patient a strong brandy punch, to be taken as hot as he can drink it. After this no drink should be given till the perspi ration has flowed freely for a few minutes. The stomach will then re tain it, and he should be indulged freely with copious draughts of ren net whey, warm toast water, flavor ed with some agreeable spice, mint or balm tea, or any snch agreeable beverage. When copious perspira tion takes place, the discharges from the bowels cease and the danger is over ; but the perspiration must be kept up until the secretions are nat ural, which will be in abont 12 or 14 hours, and be known by the action of the kidneys in the proper direction given to the urine. Death is caused m cholera by vascular depletion, as is well known to the medical profes sion, therefore the rationale of the treatment. The antispasmodic pills and mixture holds, as it were, the bark of life at anchor until, by the application of dry heat, the temper ature of the body is equalized and perspiration produced, and by this means the loss from vascular deple tion is replaced and the patient sav ed ; therefore, first place the patient immediately in bed, in a horizontal position, covering him with an addi tional blanket, and apply dry heat as directed, giving him the pills and antispasmodic mixture, followed by the brandy and brandy punch as di rected,and if the physician gets to the patient before he gets into hopeless collapse he can and will save the pa tient. This is about the treatment laid down by Dr. G. S. Hawthorne, of Liverpool,'and I know, if pursued with boldness and skill, will save 99 out of 100 cases of. cholera. In all clearly developed jsases of cholera that have come under my observation, an entire suspension of urine took place after the first few discharges from the bowels. Yours, very truly, B. Dl fitkld. Winchester, Tenn., June 12,1873. No Plac£.—A great many boys complain that there are no places. Perhaps it is hard to get just such as you like. But when you get a place—and there are places—this big country, we are sure, has need of every good boy and girl, and man and woman in it—when you get a place, we say, make yourself useful in it; make yourself necessary to employers; make yourself so neces sary, by yorir fidelity and good be havior, that they can not do without you. Be willing to take a low price at first, no matter what the work is if it be honest work. Do it well; do it the very best you can. Begin at the very lowest round of the lad der, and climb up. The great want anywhere is faithful, capable work ers. They are never a drug in the market. Make yourself one of these, and there will always be a place for you, and a good one, too. A Bit of Advice. I- was in- £wiowering passion and turned and walked rapidly from the quay. “Come here, boy, I have something to say to you,” shouted .a gruff voice,, as I moved off,—and I tamed and: observed that the shout was uttered by a rough looking jack tar, sitting quietly with a clasp knife.. “Well, what is it ?” said-I coming. up to him sulkily. The man looked at me gravely through the smoke of his pipe, and ' said, “You’re in a passion, my young buck; that’s all, and in .case you didn’t know it, I thought I’d- tell you.’ 1 I burst into a fit of laughter.— “Well, I believe you are not far wrong; but I am better now.” “Ah f that’s right,” said the sailor, with an approving nod of the head; “always confess when you are in the wrong. Now, youngster, let me give you a bit of advice. Never get into a passion if you can help it, and i if you can’t get out of it, give a great roar, to let off the steam, and turn abont and run. There’s nothing like that. Passion hain’t got legs. It can’t hold on to a fellow when he’s running. If you keep it up till you’ve almost split your timbers, passion has no change. It must go-astern.” Tact.—Love swings on little hin ges. It keeps an active little serv ant to do a good deal of its fine work.. The name of this little servant is Tact. Tact is a nimble-footed and nimble-fingered servant. Tact sees without looking, and has always a good deal of charge on hand; tact carries no heavy weapons, but- can do wonders with a sling and stone; tact never runs against a stone wall, but always finds a sycamore tree up which to climb when things are be coming crowded and unmanageable on the level ground; tact has a won derful way of availing itself of a word or a sprite, or a gracious wave of the head; tact carries a bunch of curi ously fashioned keys, that open all kinds of doors; tact plants its mono syllables wisely, for being a mono syllable itself it arranges its own or der with all the familiarity of friend- shi; tact, sly versatile, divining, fly ing tact, governs the world, yet touches the big baby under the im pression that it has not been touch ed at all. Only the Chiseling.—A Christian mother lay dying. Beside her a lov ing daughter stood, smoothing from the deatfi-damp brow the mattered hair. Prolonged suffering had made deep lines on the once beautiful face; but still there rested on those fea tures a calm, peaceful expression, which nothing but a hope m Jesus could give. Tears fell upon the pallid face, from eyes that were closely watching the “changing of the countenance.” Conscious of the agony that caused them to fall, the mother, looking heavenward, whis pered, “Patience, darling, it is only the chiseling.” Reader, the Master Sculptor “seeth not as man seeth.” There are many deformities that must needs be chis eled off before thou canst find place in the gallery on high. When a grumbler or a tale-bearer comes to you with a complaint, cen sure, or scandal concerning any friend or stranger, you may rebuke his errand by asking, well, sir, or madam, have you said anything about this to the person whose char acter is involved ? Have you men tioned the matter to him who is most concerned ?” Ten chances to one, you will trap a coward, or a liar, or both! From these busy-bodies that hear about the real or fancied ills of other people, have seldom the courage or Christianity to obey the scripture injunction to go first of all to the very individual of whom wrong is reported or suspected, and talk with him face to face and heart to heart. Try the next slander-monger you meet by this rule, and see the beantifnl effect. Soft Gingerbread.—One cup butter, one cup molasses, one cup . sour or buttermilk, one cup sugar, one table-spoon full cinnamon, two eggs, about five cups flour.— Work in four cups first, and then add cautiously. Stjr butter, sugar, molasses and spice together to a light. cream, and then set them to slightly warm; beat the eggs; add the milk to the warm-mixture—then the eggs and lastly the soda and flour; beat very hare!. Half a pound of raisins cut will improve this excellent gin gerbread. Flour them well before patting them in. Good Wheat Crops in the West.— The St. Louis Democrat of the 18th inst. says: “There is a paragraph circulating among our exchanges to the effect that the present winter wheat crop (now largely being har vested) is a bad failure. From every quarter of ‘Missouri, Kansas and Southern Illinois we hear but. one story, namely: That no crop ever looked better or promised to yield better wheat, or more of it, than the one now ripening.”