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tion, and then came back to Georgia and has insurance had been effected, and that there
ever since been with ns in heart, and sonl, and was nothing further to be done by any of them;
conduct, as well as by personal residence. He, that things remained thus, until the 19th of
from tho begining, adopted the profession of a February, 1866, when the Bteamer White Bose
teacher, and followed it with great reputation sunk at “Hell Gate" on her way to Apalachicola,
and success, till at last old age warned turn, and and the cotton was damaged to the value of nine
a comfortable estate permitted him, to retire | thousand five hundred dollars; that two or three
with grace and dignity, after having greatly days afterwards, Cromwell, the agent of oom-
added to the debt of gratitude, which the canse plainant, called on RuBt to arrange with him the
of education in Georgia already owed to the I payment of the insnrance, when, much to hiB
name of Beman. The two brothers have not surprise, Boat,after reflecting a little, said to him
only taught and trained a vast number of the that the ootton was not insured; that he had re-
finest youth in Georgia, bnt their example, ceived no money to pay the insurance with, and
characteer and career, have largely contributed he was not in the habit of advancing an insn-
to augment the honor and esteem in which the ranee; bnt complainant alleges that this was a
calling of a teacher is held. Senex. | mere pretext and afterthought, because Bowers,
in his letter, had requested him to send his bills
gatban S. S. Beman, D. D.
Mon Telegraph, and Messenger : The re-
iir announced death of this venerable and
—"yJZ and widely known man, at a very ad-
* ta 81! e calls up many interesting remims-
“ fl rf lone by-gono times in Georgia. For
f£d a mil active, useful and distinguished
mler in this State more than half a century
^ In tho year 1812, he arrived in Hancock
ireshfrom theNortb, newly married and
°““ U t Linbly endowed by nature, and accom-
fiStoe&ion. He founded at once the
*“ h00 l D t Mount Zion, of which he con-
So be rector and absolute head for eight
Cor nioie, whenhe retired from it and went
IHl in New York to become the settled pastor
fa largo and flourishing Presbyterian Church
“ne acquired while in Georgia a double cleb-
•t of the highest order—as a great and success-
-1 educator of youth, and, also, as an eloquent
•d powerful preacher of the GospeL In the
ateriinhere, ho vied in fame with the renown-
along lamented Dr. Kollocb, of Savannah,
id was thought by many to be his equal, and
. S0E1?) a little his superior. I never heard
i f K lioch but once, and it has been a joy to
je ever since to have looked upon him and lis-
toed to him. Happy is he who has seen and
card such a man; the holy, religious effect
ever dies entirely away, bnt remains in the
eart and memory through life. I used to hear
[r7Beman habituallv for a number of years,
tea my mind was yonng and forming. This, I
iea thought, was a great felicity—certainly it
>jg always a great treat. But I liave_ doubted
iscs whether it was not ultimately a misfortune
10 oe, for it had the effect of making me faatidi-
csstnd difficult to satisfy in regard to preach
er to a degree that has ever since rendered
aost sermonizing rather an infliction than an
delation.
His brilliant and unexampled success as a
leather and chief of a great school, was undoubt-
ly owing, in the main, to his extraordinary
lent, and qualifications, bnt be was much _in-
Ited, also, to accidental circumstances, which
tatlv favored him. Tho college at Athens
.] pone down very much; had, indeed, col-
jrctd and closed its doors, in effect at least,
for an i r -it unite period. That most useful and
meritorious man. Dr. Moses Waddell, had bro
ken up his great English and classical school in
[olumbia county, and crossing the Savannah,
id revived it in Willington, S. C., in the neigh-
irbood ot the Calhouns, with which family he
.is intimately identified by ties of affinity,
ileson Academy in Lexington, the academy in
iVaskington, Wilkes county, and those in Au-
nsta and Savannah completed, I believe, the
hole list of institutions then in the State, hav
ing classical pretensions. They were all at a
ery low ebb, as was mournfully and bnt too
dearly evidenced by the numerous rasort of
he first youths, in their respective vicinities, to
"x. Bciaans school soon after its establish
ment. Thus it will bo seen that Mr. Beman
hated his school at Mount Zion, at a for
tunate moment for himself and Georgia; at
moment when such a school as he started j
is a great public want, and the very best
litronage was ready to flow to it from
11 parts of the State and in some de
gree also from South Carolina. These advan
ce ho tamed to tho utmost account by his
irgy, talents and high devotion to his calling;
1 by the great care he always took to be sup-
orted by able and highly qualified assistants in
very department, and, most of all, by his ad-
irable faculty of firing youthful minds with
>b!e ambition, and stimulating them with a
lofty enthusiasm and an ardent thirst for knowl-
Ige and improvement. He was abundantly
coaled, moreover, by pnblio approval and en-
xragement, which not only overwhelmed him
itb pupils, bnt liberally supplied him with tho
leans of erecting a large, commodious Academic
sliding, and also of purchasing a well selected
cidemi'e library. He was never subject to any
oard of ’trustees, or supervision or direction of
lay kind. He was the Autocrat of his school
fll the while.
llsay of tho finest young minds in Georgia had
[the advantage of his instruction and discipline,
[low Governors, that were to be, two United
Slates Senators, some half dozen or more Re
presentatives in Congress, several Judges of the
Supreme and Superior Courts, and many
others more or less distinguished in the walks
public, private and professional life, passed
through his bands andreceived impressions from
tie which told upon them through life. Most
of them precceded him to tho tomb. Were tbey
“ring, ihore would not be one of them on whom
the announcement of his death would not fall as
a Eensorable and touching event. The numer
ous dead, Charles J. McDonald, Dixon H. Lew
is, Walter T. Colquitt, Henry G. Lamar,Hugh A.
Jjwalson, Hopkins Holsey, Grigsby E. Thomas,
H. Baxter, Milton Cooper, Jno W. A. San-
ford, and others without end, would unite with
phehoary-headed surviving few: Geo. W. Craw-
jfoM, Charles J. Jenkins, Mark A. Cooper, Ab
ide II. Chappell, Robert A- Jemison, Henry
Siams, and others, in paying honor to him
the grave, and sounding a requiem to his
ottl—in drawing the mantle of oblivion over his
failings, and eternizing the remembrance of the
Nat, good and noble qualities which made up
•he mass of bis character.
Ipon the death of the ever-to-be lamented
hr. liobert Finley, who died in the Fall of 1817,
Jitbin a year after he had become President of
ttacklin' College, Mr. Beman was chosen his
successor, and after holding tho matter long
-uder advisement, at length accepted the ap
pointment ; bnt as tho time drew near towards
’•« close of 1818, for him to repair to Athens
*sd enter upon his duties, instead of going, he
tasigned. This vra3 tho great and irreparable
saatako of Ms life. Ho had acquired a prestige
a capacity for increasing usefulness and
Ipatnoss in Georgia, of which his call to tho
|«adsbip of the University was the proud cul-
jtaa&lion and pledgo. Ho fell from his lofty
I Vintage.ground by bis resignation. Never wn3
lUte a more perfect ripeness of things in favor
r* «>y man—never a happier preparation of tho
IP-blie mind—never a more eager and general
Ijfptctation and desire, tin* that which was al-
I welcoming him to his new and honorable
IN®. But a great domostio grief was weigh-
upon his heart—a great domestic be-
l-tivenient was overhanging him, and cloud-
bis vision and embarrassed his judg-
l~ent. Had that bereavment came a year
or a year later, it would not have
|g7®R e f fli as it did, the destiny of his life.
|.®'Mr*. Beman’s long sickness ending in
l„tb early in the year 1819, occurred at a
| j?® s “* t ‘t critical and fatal to his destination as
I if* Resident of the Collego. Whilst his de-
° n was the subject of universal regret,
■of n° 8ma H censure, those who were fully awaro
the circumstances, were always inclined
1^®*“ gently, though not approvingly, with
I M regard to it. But for that ill-starred ro-
Idonmi* 00 ’ Nathan 8. 8. Beman would law
IbrinKi 3 run a long and ever widening and
Ihtm career of usefulness, dignity and
Isoil Geor 6 la » and he would have died on her
I n- foQ nd a resting place in her bosom.
■ brother, (now the Rev.) Carlile
»<*>«■«» «•*?«
Georgia. press, and that Bust had aoted on his letter by
delivered at Atlanta, tcesday, auouot 29,1871 hunting up Cromwell, reading it to him, and re-
From the Atlanta Constitution.] “^8 fro “ Mm the particulars of how tho
, T n xr „n™ - f -i cotton was to be shipped, and did acton it in
M. C. McCann, et al., vs. T. C. Brown. Far- respeet to tb 0 other lot of fifty bales, in respect
T-TO. •• •• 4„ to which he did not only insure as the agent of
Wabntb, J. This wM ^ apphcation to tike Underwriters Agency, but made out all
Superior Court for partition of lot of land No. bi3 charges, indnding the premiums for insur-
1 iO m Marion county. The P ar titiouera ap-1 ancQ against Bowers, making no objections to
pointed by tho court to make partition of the Ljj r g0 ^ t rmg of p a y men t. The corn-
land reported to the Court that it could not be plai ^ an t a i Iege s that Bns^ by his conduct in the
equally divided between the parties agreeable prem i seg induced him and his agents to believe
to law, and recommended the sale of the land £rthetod insured said cotton^ so prevented
for division, to whichreportofthepi^tioners hiia and them from effecting an insnrance
the defendant filed objections in wntmg, afieg- thereoQ elsewhere, as there was ample time to
ing that said land could be equally dmded be- havedone> inasmT | oh aa the gteemer did not
tween the parties by metes andboundswithout i eave Albany for several days after he received
injury to the value thereof. The court, with-1 u owers » letter, and read the same to CromwelL
out having any evidence in regard to that ques- and ^3^ sink nnt il the 19th of February. The
bon, ordered a sale of the land on the report oj complainant aUe ges that in consideration of the
the partitioners, to which tho defendant ex I premises, he reposed full confidence in Bast as
cep ted. . the agent of the Underwriters’agency aforesaid
Held, That it was the legal right of the 1 that ho would insure the cotton, and that his
fendant to caveat the return of the partitioners, I omission or neglect to do so was contrary to his
and that the court should have heard evidence dnty bot h legal and equitable, and contrary to
as to whether a fair and equitable division of the trust and confidenco which the complainant
the land could have been made by metes and and hjs Bgents rep osed in him, and is a
bounds, andif fromtiiat evidence offered by the I f raud 0p on him for which ho is not only liable,
parties in interest, it should be proved to the bn j. yj e underwriter’s agency also, who are
satisfaction of the court, that a fair and eqnita-1 bonnd forth0 care> ^ijgenoe and fidelity of
ble division of the land by metes and bound-1 their agents, in their business, and responsible
conld not be made, then to order a sale of the j f or b ; a neglects and frauds in the transaction of
land.
Judgment reversed.
B. B. Hinton, for plaintiff in error.
M, H. Blanford, for defendant.
such business; wherefore, he says that said un
derwriters agency and the said Bust are liable to
him for the loss of the cotton. As a general
rule of law, the principal is bonnd for tho care,
_ _ , r .. _ . , diligence and fidelity of his agent inhisbnsi-
E. S. Mott vs. J. L. Mustian. Equity from neg3) and f or t ba neglect, and fraud, of his
Muscogee. . . agent in the transaction of such business. In
Wabneb, J.—This was a motion to dismiss a al j caSGS 0 f f rand (except fraud in the execution
bill pending on tho equity side of the court. It 1 0 f a w jm equity has concurrent jurisdiction
appears from the record that the bill was filed with tbo conrtg of i aw _Code 3115. mere law
on the 31st of December, I860, and the process and £ q n jfy ba y 0 concurrent jurisdiction, the
attached thereto required the defendant to ap-l CQUrt ^ rst J takil)g ^ letain itj un i es s a good
pear on the fourth Monday m October, 18<0,1 reaaon can bo Riven for tbo interference of
and was served on the defendant on the 22d of eqn i t y_304i. The allegations in the com-
April, 1870. The complainant moved to amend plainant ’ s bi n ma ke a prima facie case of fraud
said process so ns to make it returnable «> the £ r lect on ^ att of tho agGn t of the un-
May term of the court in 1871, and havo an derwriter ’ s agency, in failing to effect an in
alias snbpcena issued returnable to said term, surance on tho cotton, whereby the complain-
which motion tho court allowed, and refused I bsg been injured and damaged, and the
to dismiss the bill, whereupon the defendant ex- cotlr j. 0 f equity having first obtained jnrisdic-
cepted: I tion of the ease, should have retained it nntil
JJrfd, That under the liberal provisions of the the canso was heard and determined on its
Code a9 to amendments of pleadmg3 and pro-
cess, there was no error in the court in allowing That the court below erred in dismis-
the amendment of the process, and this court j tho complainant’s bill for want of equity
will not interfere with the exercise of its dis- . |rii - 1 -
cretion in doing 60 in this case and refusing to |
dismiss the complainant’s bill.
Judgment affirmed.
Moses & Downing for plaintiff in error.
H. S. Benning for defendant.
A Rondeau.
At my last ball became I bonnden thrall
To Love, and by Love’s tender hands and small
Was taken ere my heart was well aware,
In toils of gray eyes and warm golden hair,
Which graced a woman most divinely tall,
Nay, though I see a hundred times the fall
Of hopeful com, and .hear tho cnckoo call,
I shall see none as her I saw so fair
At my last ball!
Who fills long nights with bitterness and gall—
Have I not canse, good canse, since all tbingB pall
Before her beauty, for sad dreams and care ?
Such sour f mit that sweet kiss from soft lips bare
For me, without one thought of barm at all,
At my last ball!
[.Belgravia.
E, S. Bowland vs. W. A. Bansom & Co.
Equity, from Muscogee,
1 trial term thereof.
Judgment reversed.
H. L. Benning for plaintiff in error.
B. J. Moses for defendant.
The State of Georgia vs. J. J. Bradford,
Sheriff. Buie against Sheriff from Muscogee.
McCay, J.—Where a Sheriff, in answer to a
1— w ..... ,, , rule calling upon him to show canse why he had
Wabneb, J.—This was an application to the 1 ot madom0 ney onafi. fa. issued by the
Judge of the Superior Court for an injunction, comptroller General against a defaulting
which was refused, whereupon tho complainant ^ rece j Ter showed, for canse, that tho defend-
excepted. On reading the allegations in com- ant bad no p ropei ty on wMch to levy the fi. fa.,
plainant’s bill, and the affidavit of the' com-1 and Jn ft traver g 0 of the return it appeared that
plainant’s solicitor thereto, this court will not ^ de f endan t was in possession of a tract of
control tho discretion of tho court below in re- j and bad been set apart as a homestead,
fusing the injunction prayed for in this case. £ or tbe bene gt of his wife and family.
Judgment affirmed. 1 jjdd, That there was no error in the court in
Lochrane, O. J., having been counsel below, I re f n6 j n g ) under the circumstances, to make tho
did not preside in this case. . I mjo absolute, as the sheriff appears to have act-
L. T. Downing, E. J. Moses, for plaintiff in ed in good faitb> and tbe property was real es-
error# Itste#
Chappell & Bussell, H. H. Blantord, Farrow jj t \d, also, That it was the dnty of tho court
& Thomas, G. E. Thomas, Smith & Alexander, {(J bay6 ’ d £ ree t e d the sheriff, by order, to levy
for defendant. npon tbe property, that the parties may have an
——- . opportunity of testing, before the courts, wheth-
J. F. Winter vs. H. H. Epping. Assumpsit, e J^ be homestead so set opart, is or is not snb-
from Muscogee. Meet to an execution by the Comptroller General
Wabneb, J.—This was an action brought by aKa j ns (; a defaulting tax collector,
the plaintiff against the defendants to recover & Judgment affirmed,
the sum of five hundred dollars infold coin. Lochbane, O. J., concurred orally.
On the trial of the case, a motion was made by •yy AESEB J., dissenting.—This was a rnle
the defendants to dismiss the plaintiff’s case, on inst ‘ tl J e g ber iff, calling on him to show
the ground that no affidavit of the payment had canse wby be bad not made the money on a tax
been filed as regulated by tho act of 1870, which execn y 0 jJ issued by tbe Comptroller General of
motion was allowed by tho court and the case I ^e state against Brooks, a defaulting tax col-
was dismissed. Whereupon the plaintiff except- j ec j cr and b is securities. The Sheriff showed
ed. It appears from the record that the plain- for CRUSe tbit there was no property of Brooks’
tiff and defendants, on the 20th of March, I860, U 0 be found on which to levy the execution,
purchased $25,000 in gold coin on joint account, Tfa0 retnm 0 f the Sheriff was traversed, and the
which was deposited with the defendant. The fo ]j ow i ng B tatement of facts was admitted and
plaintiff claims that there is $500 of the gold Emitted to the court for its judgment, to-wit:
so purchased on joint account due him. There on the first day of Jnne, 18G9, tho date of
is no evidence in the record of any demand hav-1 tbe 6xecn tion, Brooks, tho principal defendant
ing been made by the plaintiff on tho defend- ^^,.£1) -was tho owner and in the possession of
ant for tho payment of tho gold prior to the rt 0 j’ tw0 i 0 ts of land of the valno of $2,500,
1st of June, 1SC5, and the majority of tho court [ hat on ^ 21s t day of August, 18G9, said land
are of opinion that this is not such a debt or wagse £ apar tt 0 thewifeandchildrenof Brooksas
contract as comes within the provisions of the abome8 te fl a. After argument had, thecourtdis-
act of 1870. Believing that act to be unconsti- cbargedtbexn leagainsttheSheriffandtbeSolic-
tutional and void as to contracts, made prior to £t or General for the State,excepted. By the 915th
tho 1st of Jnne, 1865, 1 concur in the reversal aeC ££ on 0 f the Code, the property of tax collect-
of tho judgment in this case: . or s £s bound from the time of tho execution of
Held, That the court below erred in diarms- j tboir bonds. Tho record does not show tho
sing tho plaintiff’s action on U10 statement of 1 da j 0 0 f j b0 j ax collector’s bond in this case,
facta disclosed by the record.
Judgment reversed.
Peabody & Brannon for plaintiff in error.
Moses & Downing for defendant.
bnt as tho execution against him as such tax col
lector, was issued on tho 1st of Jane, 18G0, ho
must have executed his bond prior to that date.
Tho homestead was set apart on his land to
his wife and children on the 21st day of Angnst,
■E. M. Seabrook, administrator, vs. Tbe Un-11869. By tbe constitution of 18G8, and the Act
ct,L ** a * 1
4.-TU, . tm b, I S.ggti/.IS
plamant against the defendants, on the NHh of ,., d d homestead act, and it was
April, 18CG The defendants had answered the ^he sheriff to havo levied this tax
bill when tho cause was called /PL 1 ***} Z® I execntionoattie homestead set apart on his land
November term of the court, 18,0, and after ^ w j f0 and c bUdren, as tho property of tho
bearing tho bill read, tho oonrt dismissed the d0 . dan £ £bere£n, inasmnoh as it is not exempt
same for want of eqnity.to whMi the oom^sin- frQm j andsa!6 f 0 r taxes under tho provisions
ant excepted. The facts alleged in tho bill are institution and tho act of 18G8, as a
in substance os follows: ThaTtho complainant ome8tead> The fact that a homestead is claimed
had two lots of cotton at Albany, G&., one of „ Iand of a de f endan t in a tax execution is
fiflybales, the other of sixty bales, which ho d^ | q . excng6 or protection to a sheriff who
sired to ship to Apalachicola, and to inroro the 1 8 ne „j eC £ g jq £ ev y an execution for taxes
same. On the Cth of February, 18G5, Bowers, tbereon _ t ^ e more especially, as the Iand was
as agent of the complainant, wrote .0 Bust, the tbo payment of the tax oxecution,
agent of tho Underwriters -Insurance Agency, ^ homestead was set apart on it.
at Albany, to please find Mr. Oliver Cromwell I Delore ...
(who was also an agent of complainant) and get • Seusatlon-Grant
particulars of how ho ships two lots of cotton York Huns ^ c . Komluntion ^
to Apalachicola, one of fifty and the other of 1 wui uecun
sixlv bales, and insure them to Apalachioola, We find tho following Western press dispaten
send bills to me, and I will remit by express. iQ Njebville Union and American, of Tnes-
Yonr prompt attention will much oblige, etc. _
Tho bill alleges that this letter was received by aa y- „■ . __ „ Th« Rnn’ii Wash.
tain from
shipping 1
informed 1 h?m that W 4eTot MtaIdete7minationpositivelytodeclinoa ro-norr
mmsm
pfngMxtySof cMtonbyX steamer White in aU probabffity, tMowmgthe Presidency into
Bose, now loading at this place, the other fifty tho hands of tho Democracy.
bales ho will not bo able to got off in time for 1 . TfltnrnH the State of Ala-
tho boat, bnt will sMp next week; that this leU e ; eb t D»raons of an even mil-
tor was received by Bowers two or throe days bama “P’y^^S^eightbofomad,
after its date, who considered it to mean that lion of Son ?
vnnnAcf liflrf eomnlifid tiith and tlie COfc- * 80 thftt th© btfl.1© J
•JBeman, camo quite a youth to Georgia with
and was partly a student, partly a bearer of his request had been complied with and the cot- 1 so
STOR3K AMD SUNSHINE.
Sow Sis Sblp Came In—An Affecting Story
of Struggles, Patience and Trlnmpli.
From tho Capital.]
I ran across what at first struck me as a very
singular genins on my roam from Springfield to
Boston. This was a stout, black-whiskered man
who sat immediately in front of me, and who
indulged, from time to time, in the most strange
and unaccountable maneuvers. Ewery now and
then he would get up find hurry away to the nar
row passage wMch leads to the door in these
drawing-room cars, and when he thought him
self secure from observation would fall to laugh
ing in the most violent manner, and continue
the healthful exercise nntil he was as red in the
face as a lobster. As we neared Boston these
demonstrations increased in violence, save that
the stranger no longer ran away to laugh, but
kept his seat and chuckled to himself with his
chin deep down in his shirt collar. Bnt the
changes that those portmanteaus went! He
moved them there, here, everywhere, he put
them beMnd him, in front of him, on each side
of him. He was evidently getting ready to
leave, bnt, as wo were yet twenty-five miles
from Boston, tho idea of such early prepara
tions was ridiculous. If we had entered tho
city then, the mystery would have remained un
solved, but the stranger at last become so ex
cited that he could keep his seat no longer.
Some one must help him, and, as I was the near
est. he selected me. Suddenly turning as if I
had asked a question, he saia, rocking himself
to and fro in his chair the mcantimo, and slap
ping his legs, and breathing hard. “Been gone
three years!” “Ah!” “Yes, been in Europe.
Folks don’t expect me for six months yet, bnt I
got through and started. I telegraphed them
at the last station; they’ve got it by this time.”
As he said this he changed the portmanteau on
his left to the right, and tho one on tho right to
the left again. “Got a wife?” said L “Yes,
and three children,” he returned, and he got
np and folded his overcoat anew, and hung it
over the back of the seat. Yon are pretty ner
vous over the matter, ain’t yon? I said, watch
ing his fidgety movements. “Well, I should
♦Link so,” he replied; “I haven’t slept soundly
for a week. And so you know," ho wont on,
glancing round at the passengers and speaking
in a low tone, “ I am almost certain this train
will rnn off the track and break my neck before
I get to Boston. Well, the fact is, I have had
too much good Inch for one man lately. The
thing can’t last; ’taint natural that it should,
you know; I’ve watched it. First it rains,
then it shines, then it rains again. It rains so
hard you think it’s never going to stop; then it
shines so bright you think it’s always going to
shine; and just as you’re settled in either be
lief, you are knocked over by a change to show
you tfiat you know nothing at all about it.’
' ‘Well, according to this philosophy,” said I,
“you will continue to have eunshine_ because
you are expecting a storm.” “It’s curious,” ho
returned, “bnt tho only thing that makes me
think I will get through safe is, because I think
I won’t.” “Well, that is curious,” said I.
“Yes,” he replied; “I’m a machinist—made a
discovery—nobody believed it: spent all my
money trying to bring it out—mortgaged my
house—all went. Everybody laughed at mo—
everybody but my wife—spunky little woman—
she said she would work her fingers off before I
shonld give it np. Went to England—no bet
ter there; came within an aee of jumping off
London bridge. Went into a shop to earn
money enough to oomo with; there I met the
man I wanted. To make a long story short,
I’ve brought £30,000 homo with me, and here
I am.” “Good for yon," I exclaimed. “Yes,”
said he, “£30,000, and tho best of it is, she
don’t know any tiling about it. 1'vo fooled her so
often, and disappointed her so mnch, that I
just concluded I would say notMng about this.
When I got my money, though, yon better be
lieve, I struck a bee-line for home.” “And
now you will mako her happy,” said L “Hap
py !” he replied, “why, yon don’t know any
thing about it. She’s worked like a dog while
I have been gone, trying to support herself and
the children decently. Tbey paid her tMrteen
cents a piece for making coarse shirts; and
that’s the way she’d live half the time. She’ll
come down there to tho depot to moot mo in a
gingham dress, and a shawl a hundred years
old, and she’ll think she’s dressed up. Oh, she
won’t have no clothes after tMs—oh, no! I
guess not 1” And with these words, which im
plied that his wife’s wardrobe would soon rival
Queen Victoria’s, tho stranger tore down the
passagoway again, and getting in his oH cor
ner, where ho thought himself ont of sight,
went through the strangest pantomime, laugh
ing, putting his-mouth into tho drollest shapes,
and then swinging Mmself back and forth
in the limited space, as if he were “walk
ing down Broadway,” a full-rigged metro
politan belle. And so be went on till we
rolled into tbe‘depot, and I placed myself
on the other car, opposite the stranger, who,
with a portmanteau in each hand, had descend
ed and was standing on the lowest step, ready
to jump to the platform. I looked from his face
to the faces of the people before ns, but saw no
sign of recognition. Suddenly he cried, “There
they are,” and laughed outright, but in a hys
terical sort of a way, as he looked over the
crowd. I followed his eyes, and saw some dis
tance back, as if crowded ont, shouldered away
by the well dressed and elbowing throng, a
little woman in a faded dress and well worn hat
with a face almost painful in its intense but
hopeless expression, glancing rapidly from win
dow to window as the coaches glided in. She
had not seen tho stranger; bnt a moment after
she caught his eye, and in another instant he
had jumped to the platform with his two port
manteaus, and making a hole in the crowd,
pushing one hero and there, and running ono
of his bundles plump into the well developed
stomach of a vonorablo looking old gentleman
in spectacles, ho rushed toward tho place where
sho was standing. I think I never saw a face
assume so many different expressions in so short
a time as did that of tho little woman wMle her
husband was on his way to her. She didn’t
look pretty. On tho contrary, 6he looked very
plain, bnt some way I felt a big lamp rise in
my throat as I watched her. She was trying to
laugh; but, God bless her, how completely she
failed in the attempt! Hor mouth got into the
position; bnt it never moved after that, save to
draw down tho corners and quiver, while she
blinked her eyes so fast that I suspect sho only
caught occasional glimpses of the broad shoul
dered fellow who elbowed his way so rspidly
toward her. And then, as ho drew close and
dropped those everlasting portmanteaus she
just turned completely round, with her back
towards him, and covered her face with her
hands. And thus she was when tho strong man
gathered her np in his arms as if she had been
was a baby, and held her sobbing to his breast.
There were enough gaping at them, heaven
khows, and I turned my eyes away a moment,
and then I saw two boys in thread-bare round
abouts standing near, wiping their eyes and
noses on their little coat sleeves, and bursting
out anew at every fresh demonstration on the
part of the mother. When I looked at the
stranger again he had his hat drawn down over
his eyes; but she was looking np at him, and it
seemed as if the pent-np tears of those weary
months of wailing were streaming throng^, her
eyelids. _
• Pale sapphires exposed to intense heat, slow
ly and gradually applied, and permitted to cool
to the same manner, can be rendered colorless.’!
They acquire greater brilliancy by the pro-
oe3S, and are tho best counterfeits of diamonds
sold.
EDITORIAL COBBESPOXDBNCE.
Cuthbkbt, September 6,1871.
Until the present fool weather set in, for a
week past, the season has been propitious for the
farmer, and'ootton forced to premature maturi
ty by previous drouth, has opened rapidly. We
hear of some who estimate that one-half of the
total yield is already ripe for the gatherers.
Bust continues its ravages, and the weed seems
to have ceased blooming and remains almost
stationary in size. The crop in this section
will fall far below the figures of the Agricultu
ral Bureau at Washington, and the gamblers in
“future deliveries” must, as they deserve, oome
to grief.
middle oeoboia baptist colored association.
The meeting of this religious body here forms
an era in African history. For several days
Cuthbert has teemed with sable divines, and
the tinkle of “the church-going bell” has been
interrupted ^nly by the stentorian tones of the
boanerges who held forth in divers places. Two
hundred and fifty delegates, representing nearly
all the colored centres of the State, have been
present. Among them were quite a sprinkling
of intelligent, fine looking men, while the
whangdoodle and muscle parsons of course pre
dominated. Eev. Wilkes Flagg, of Milledge-
ville, was chosen Moderator, and presided with
dignity, firmness and sagacity. Mr. Flagg is
one of the noblest specimens of his race, and
they woald do well to give heed to his example
and admonitions.
SABBATH EXERCISES. .
According to usage, the moderator occupied
the pulpit of the Baptist Church (wMte) at 11
o’clock, which had been kindly tendered by its
pastor, Mr. Campbell. From early dawn to the
Tour of worship, a stream of veMdes of every
character, from the primitive go-cart drawn by
a single bullock, to the more pretentions ba
rouche or buggy, and the ponderous plantation
wagon crammed to overflowing with young and
old, poured into the groves and vacant spaces
of the town. At least 3000 were in attendance;
and gleaming ivory, happy smiles, and costumes
vising with the rainbow in their hues, greeted
the vision on every side. Soon every seat in the
spaoions building was occupied, and even tho
aisles were crowded with listeners, many of
them prone npon the floor. Some pews were
doullc tanked, tho inmates sitting in each
others laps by turn, “ride and tie” fasMon.
THE 8EBM0N
was based upon the simple passage of Scripture,
“For the love of Christ constraineth me.” It was
_ practical, fervent appeal to his hearers, de
void of pretention, and though wanting in ele
gance and rhetorical finish, was deeply interest
ing at least to the writer. The speaker said he
was no “politicianer,” nor did he desire office,
or wish to degrade the pulpit by an allusion to
politics. Had he received a good education,
and been born a genins, he might have been
tempted to preach tho gospel tor fame; bnt now
the love of Christ only constrained Mm to do so.
In passing through Smithville, he had met a
lady friend who begged him to get the Associa
tion to silence those ignorant ministerswho are
doing so mnch injury to the church and people.
He felt bound to say that they who were not
able to preach were not called npon to do so;
and like the blind leading the blind, both they
and their hearers must fall into the ditch. If
any of you wished to send your children te
school, would you select a teacher who did not
know A from B ? Bnt is it not equally absurd
to expect to have the Bible expounded, and to be
instructed in theology by men who could not
even read God’s Word ? Such men did more
harm than good, and should not be allowed to
preach at alh The principal object of his dis
course was to advocate the claims of a colored
Theological Seminary to bo located at Atlanta,
for tho express purpose of qualifying candidates
for the ministry. And here he would publicly
proclaim, that no yankee, or carpet-bagger,
would be allowed to have anything to do with
tMs Institution. Its professors would be South
ern white men in whom the colored people had
confidence. He then paid a toucMng tribute to
tbo services of Bev. Mr. Warren and others, in
their efforts to instruct the colored ministers,
and said he was a staunch friend of that glo
rious seat of learning, Mercer University.
The sermon over, a collection was taken np,
to wMoh tho wMtes present contributed liber
ally.
BEV. GREEN MCARTHUR,
Before concluding this sketoh we feel that it
is but just to relate an inoidont wMch occurred
at the close of the Moderator’s sermon. Bev.
Green MoArthur, a respeoted citizen of this
place, read the last hymn and directed the col
lection. He was interrupted by a black brother
on the floor, however, who addressed the
meeting and claimed that thewMte people, hav
ing been educated by negro labor, were bonnd
now to give freely to the enterprise under con-
consideration. In reply, MoArthur stated from
the pulpit, that he was compelled to differ, “re
ligiously, however,” from the brother who had
just taken Ms seat. If the negroes in slavery
times had helped to educate their masters, it
was because they were forced to do so, and it
was likewise their duty a3 faithful servants.
They had no right then to claim any merit in
the premises, nor shonld they ask assistance of
the whites in such a spirit. We challenge the
records of the country to furnish a nobler in
stance of true moral courage than was here af
forded.
GREAT EIRE IN DAWSON.
Again has tMs flourishing village been visited
by a moBt destructive conflagration, wMoh has
laid in ruins a large part of the biwiness por
tion of the town. On Monday night about I-
o’clook the flames made tbolr appearance be
tween two buildings on the northwest side of
the square, and dofying all opposition, soon
sweptaway ©very edific© in th©ir course. So fen
stores, ono large ■warehouse, two other Bhops
and several dwellings were destroyed. AU
agree that it was the palpable work of anincen-
diary. The loss is estimated at over $o0,000.
The amount of insurance we could not ascer
tain. The people of tins enterprising little
city have our heartfelt sympathy in this the sea
son of their calamity. J-
Foreign Notes*
PREPARED FOR THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER.
A celebrated diplomatist is reported to have
recently said that Bussia, after the capitulation
of Sedan, found herself in the same position aa
Franoe after the battle of Sadowa. During the
war the Russian press was very anti-German,
but Alexander the Second adhered to a friendly
neutrality which was of incalculable valno to
Germany. "We tMnk pnblio opinion in Bussia
was right in dreading German unity. While the
Czar sinoe the times of the Holy Alliance, had
always played the part of a protector towards
Prussia, the war Of 18GG greatly diminished
Bnssian influence, and after those brilliant vic
tories in Franoe the Mosoow and St. Petersburg
press warred against the establishment of a
German Empire which wonld prove a check to
to Eossian lost of conquest. There will be a
war of xeveDge on tbe part of Franoe aa soon aa
the French have Bomewhat recovered from their
last political bankruptcy, and as far-sighted a
statesman as Bismarck is preparing for that
eventuality iu time. France alone has ceased
to be a dread, but she wiU ardently covet an al
liance with Bussia. To meet suoh a powerful
combination, the Germans must seek new aUi«s»
and Austria and Italy suggest themselves as
their natural auxiliaries. We believe that Aus
tria. in time, will dissolve her Germ*up r °v mc es
joining the kindred Empire; f et Germanys
wisest policy is to hold the monarchy of the
Hapshurgs as long together as p<wsible, be
cause, in oase of dissolution, the large slave
population will considerably strengthen the
power of Bussia. Hungary, numbering fifteen
millions, and forming suoh a vital nation
ality in the Empire, has learned to look
Upon Bussia as her deadliest enemy. There
is nothing to prevent a sincere friendaMp be
tween Italy on the ono and Germany and Aus
tria on the other hand. Prussia and Italy have
already fought side by side to mutual advantage,
and since Austria has given up Venetia, both
countries have no interests at variance- It is
otherwise with the relations between Franoe
and Italy. We need only cast a glance at the
papers of the Peninsula to learn that pnblio
opinion is very hostile to France. The debates
in the National Assembly on the Boman ques
tion have convinced the Italian people, that
France only refrains from meddling again with
Italian aff airs, because the charm of her power
is broken. “Italian unity was the mother of
German nnity,” said Monsieur Thiers, and we
acknowledge that Germany is vastly indebted to
themaster-intelleotof Gavour. It will, hence
forth, be the aim of every Frenoh ruler, whether
he be a President, King or Emperor, to destroy
German unity. Woe, then, to the Italians,
should France ever succeed in this task. To
arrange a definitive treaty of alliance to wMoh
Italy is said to have already given her adhesion,
the Emperor of Germany and Austria will have
another meeting in Salzburg. There the Boman-
ian question will also be discussed. The
present difficulties withBomania’originated in a
great railway contract; Strousberg, a wellknown
Berlin contractor, had made with the govern
ment of Prince Charles. Strousberg had the
roads built partly with hands furnished by a
oommittee of Berlin Bankers, partly with the
proceeds of obligations the interests of whioh
were guaranteed by Bonmania. Almost this
whole stook is owned in Germany. The roads
being now almost finished, the Chamber has
cassed a resolution refusing to refund the cap-
: 'tal borrowed in Berlin, as well as to pay the
interest guaranteed, on the ground that the
roads were badly bnilt, that the rolling stock
consisted of old worn-out Prussian cars, eto.,
etc. In vain did the Government, denying
these allegations, protest and state that the
work had been faithfully executed; the deputies
did not wish to be convinced, and Prince
Charles, though reluctantly, was compelled to
add his signature to the bill. The Prussian
Government, anxious to protect German inter
ests valued at many million dollars, appealed
to the Sultan, as the Suzrain of Bonmania, and
proposed to bring the question before a Con
gress of the powers wMoh signed the treaty of
Paris. Turkey, however, having deolined to
do tMs, Prussia endeavors to gain one or two
of the powers over to her views for the purpose
of forcing the Sultan to a European Congress.
Perhaps the Emperors of Germany and Aus
tria may also wish to come to an understanding
in reference to the polioy towards the preten
sions of Borne.
The Prussian Government seems to bo de
termined to make a most decided stand against
the Papal Syllabus. The Berlin “Provinzial
corresponden z, ” thus comments on the situation:
‘The Government,” the paper says “arecleariy
justified, after they had vainly warned the
counoil of the dangerous results of its resolu
tions in refusing to lend their assistance to the
promulgation of such principles. Though the
Prussian Government viewed them from the
first with disapproval and regret, it had suffi
cient confidence in its own stability and the
good sense of its subjects to refrain from im
posing any restrictions npon the full religions
iberty of the catholics. It has not forbidden
any bishop, clergyman, or teacher to propagate
the dogmas of the council. It ha3 only refused
to lend the assistance of the temporal arm to
compel catholic teachers to incnloate, iu oppo
sition to the dictates of their conscience—prin
ciples which, in the opinion of the Government,
havo not only introduced important changes
into the creed of the chnrch, but also modified
in many very important respects her relations
with the State. The question now at issue is
not, whether the Government will acknowledge
e religious dogma as such; this it leaves to the
conscience and religious liberty of every indi
vidual catholio. What it is now called npon to
decide is, whether it will lend its legal influence
to support a dogma which it considers fatal to
the existing relations between tho chnrch and
the State.”
On the authority of the Vienna Free Press it
is reported that the Prussian Government is
determined to close all Catholio colleges, shonld
tho Bishops continue to persecute those teachers
who decline to submit to the new dogma. The
Bishop of Paderborn, Westphalia, on the occa
sion of the Papal jubilee had issued a pastoral
letter in whioh the flattering epithet of “Bob
ber” was bestowed npon King Victor Emanuel.
His Eminence, after having been tried for this
offence, was found guilty and is said to have
been oonducted to a Prussian fortress.
The Frankfort Journal states that in Offen-
baoh six families, consisting of thirty-five per
sons, have seceded from the Boman Chnrch, on
account of the oonfliot arising from the procla
mation of the infallibility of the Pope.
Alan in Southern Germany the old Catholio
party is gaining ground among the educated
olasses. In Bavaria they have began to perform
the marriage ceremony after the Council of
Trent, whenever a priest refuses to marry peo
ple who are excommunicated. Bride and bride
groom call on the priest, and, having stated that
they will take each other, for better or worse,
they join hands before him, wMoh ceremony
constitutes a legal marriage, no matter whether
he sanctions it or not.
In Weurzburg,Weurtenburg, Professor Eeiss-
manD, who is decidedly opposed to Papal infalli
bility, has been elected Eectorof the University
there.
After a most violent debate the French As
sembly was declared to be possessed of consti
tuent powers. Thiers’ term of office was also
prolonged. Gambetta, who most fiercely op
posed the assumption of constituent^ powers,
is said to have withdrawn Mo proposition for
a dissolution of the Assombly.
The feeling between the inhabitants of Strae-
burg and the Germans has not much improved.
There ocourred serious disturbances between
the people and the German soldiers, in wMch
several on both sides were seriously injured.
The Duke of Montpensier, now sojourning In
Paris, who is suspected of being distantly con
cerned in tbe assassination of Prim, has offered
to testify before competent Spanish authorities
in relation to that event, his daughter’s sickness
preventing him from leaving the French capital.
The Spanish government has issued a decree
of amnesty, applying to all political offenses
committed in Spain. TMs wise act has caused
great satisfaction among all classes of the peo
ple, and much increased the popularity of the
new ministry.
The Turin Gazette reports that Garibaldi is
improving, and requires only repose to recover
his perfect health.
The Holy Father toldthePapal Guards who, in
a body, paid him their homage, that he conld not
name the day of their deliverance bnt that the
time was not remote, when they wonld issue
together from their prison.”
The Italian journal “Concordia” states that
His Holiness is so embittered against the Prus
sian government for its decided attitude against
the Ultramontane party, that no one in his snr-
nailing on a plowhandle, or ever tying a hame-
string. “Plowhandlee” is all the time writing
about five or six bushels of ooro per acre and
two hundred pounds of seed ootton per acre.
Now if he has ever attempted to farm at all,
that is about tbe amount of com and cotton he
made on his plantation, and the poor fellow thinks
every crop in the whole country is like his.
•'Plowhandle s” seems to have wretched moles
on the brain. No donbt his mules look as bad
and as wretched as they well can. I guess be
does not see them fed and watered often, as he
spends so muoh time in reading the works of
Tull, Von Thaer, Loudon, Liebig and others of
equal eminence. Planters that farm on paper
in a comfortable room, with a pitcher of ioe
water by their side, generally have poor, wretch
ed looking mules, and everything else on their
plantation looks very bad, also.
My friend P. talks very fluently about’'Bon-
Bingault, Buel, Sanford Mid others and general
ly sprinkles in the usual amount about subsoil
ing and under drainage. This class of farmers
generally make from three to five bushels of
corn per acre, and everytMng else on the plan
tation in proportion. “Plowhandles” knows too
muoh about BoUsingault and Liebig to make a
successful farmer. He makes poor crops, and
no donbt he feels bad, andif an opportunity
offors bo bolts for some agricultural convention
and endeavors to obtain consolation by drafting
highfalutin resolutions and delivering bunoomb
speeches.
“Plowhandles” seems to be very bitter in
deed; he says our instincts are as blunt as our
scooters. That may be so. We do not pretch'd
to be as sharp, intellectually, as the gifted
“Plowhandles.” Dull as I am I oan assure him
that if he oontinues to Bit in his fine rooms and
read Tull, Von Thaer, London, Liebig, Voelck-
er and others too tedious to mention, and con
tinues wasting his time talking about subsoiling
and under drainage, he will soon find his
pockets as empty as his cribs, and he Mmslf
will be as bare of flesh as Ms old poverty strick
en mules.
It is common at tMs time for the so-oalled
scientific to call suoh men as Tarver and Everett
fogies. Yes, men that made prinoely fortunes
farming, are now called by a few upstarts fo
gies of the old Bip Van Winkle order. When
Tarver and Everett died they were very rioh, and
they made their fortunes, if I am correotiy in
formed, by farming. Yes, they wore non, and
strange to say, they never heard of Bousingault
or Voelcker. “Plowhandles” says much about
galded spots and wretched mules. As to galded
spots, I have none on my place. Yes, wretched
mules is Ms words, but I stand ready to bet that
my mules are in as fine a condition ashis. I have
plowed some of them twenty years. I have
one on tho farm that has plowed on an average
forty-five acres every year for the last twenty-
four years. She is fat and Bleek now at this
time.
“Plowhandles” says my neighbors do not
agTee with nib. This I deny. They utterly re
pudiate tho abominable theories of “Plowhan
dles,” and they say if such expensive farming
as he recommends was put into practice, that it
would break every farmer in the country in a
few years. Now, I am going to make a sweep
ing assertion. I have plowed deeper and ma
nured heavier than any man in Georgia. On
my experimental plat of seven acres last year,
I applied thirty loads of lot manure broadcast
and plowed it in with a two-horse Brinly, send
ing the plow in to the beam, and then run in
tbe same farrow with Murphy’s snbsoiler. _ I
then applied 540 ponnds of guano in the drill,
and on a quarter of an aore I applied at the rate
of a thousand ponnds of guano per acre, and
forty bushels of cotton seed. “Plowhandles”
himself wonld call that heavy manuring, wonld
he not ? Where I manured so heavy I made a
heavybaleperacreandyetitdidnotpay. Apor-
tion of the patch I broke with a one-horse turn
ing shovel. I made as mnch cotton there as
where the land was broke fifteen inches deep.
“Plowhandles” would have the people believe
that “Plain Farmer” opposes manuring the
lands. Not so, however. Last year I cultivated
320 acres. I used 2,000 bushels of cotton seed
and 23 tons of gnano. How is that for Mgfa,
“Plowhandles?”
“Plowhandles ” wonld create the impression,
if he conld, that I regard such men as Mr.
Dixon and Simpson as upstarts. I do not say
any such thing. As evidence of sincerity I
have adopted Mr. Dixon’s system of farming,
because I believe it pays. I cultivated one
hundred and forty acres in com tMs year,
with eight furrows to six feet rows. Had my
sweep been twenty-six inches wide, it wonld not
hav6 required but five. The entire crop will
average fifteen bushels per aore. I never used
anthing in my crop after it was planted bnt the
Dixon sweep.
In 1867, 1 run a two horse farm. That squad
was under my control and worked as I directed
them. I made on that little farm fifty bales of
cotton, one hundred bushels of corn, and two
hundred bushels of potatoes. At that time I
did not know that the distinguished gentleman
Tull, Von Thaer, London, Liebig, Bousingault,
and others ever existed on the face of the earth.
Neither did I have the enlightened “Plowhan
dles” to instrnot me. I did not use one pound
of guano on that crop. Last year my crop suf
fered severely with drouth, but notwithstanding
all the draw backs, I made ninety bales of oot
ton and 1464 bushels of com with fourteen
bands and only worked them five and a half
days in the week.
I know a young man that rented a plantation
tMs year, and is to give fifty bales rent for it,
and I am reliably informed that he was offered,
a month ago, $7,000 profit and he be at no more
trouble about the business. I call that good
fanning. Now, I will make a lively bet that
that young man never heard of Bousingault or
Liebig, and furthermore, I doubt his ever read
ing ten pages in any agricultural magazine in
his life. I do not think he knows muoh about
my friend “Plowhandles.” That young man
was taught how to farm by his daddy, and
taught in the fields. He was not taught in a
fine room with the floor carpeted and a pitcher
of ice water by bis side.
I have a son, 18 years of age, and one negro
boy (and a very trifling negro he is) that have
made 400 bushels of corn, and I think he will
make twelve bales of cotton, and did not use
any manure at all on his cotton. He had, how
ever, some advantages that other young men
did not possess. His path has been made plain
by the writings of the gifted “Plowhandles” as
he L»i» read Ms letters once a month.
I am opposed to erecting a college for agri
cultural purposes at toe expense of the State.
“Plowhandles” Breaks of the State endowing
the oollege liborally. I will oppose any such
proceeding^ long aa I live. Farmers can never
be madoiu colleges and in tbe little track-patches
connected with the institution. The plantation
id toe place to train them. There is one elaan
that it will benefit. A lot of professors will have
roundings dares to utter toe name of Bismare* that it will benefit A lot of professors will have
ana Emperor William before him. He i» «*» to be employed. They would have a fat time
■ '*— at the expense of toe State. And toe very men
that wonld get the situations would not know as
much about praotical farming as a common
Emperor —. _
said to have recently expressed Mm«»ff con
cerning the policy of Bismarck tow*™ 8 ■ L a "
pal claims as follows:
“I had expected that the C T a ?°^
would be treated with MSjy*
oonceal from you tb^ I ? btn f n ^TvLl
mat as Prince B^marck would not have pro
voked discord in the new Empire. All measures
that are uadertaken against toe Church are
alwavs converted to her ultimate gain. They
hnYpalways reinforced her, have made her mem
bers more compact, have fortified them in their
faith.” Jaen °.
John Plowliandles.
Neab Bybon, Houton County, Ga.,1
September 5,1871. )
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: “John
Plowhandles,” in the September number of toe
negro. If yon wish to make farmers of your
sons, put them on the plantation under intelli
gent, practical farmers, and there they will learn
all that is necessary for them to know, to make
them successful planters. Do not put them
nnder a set of bigoted, fat, ignorant, lazy pro
fessors at some agricultural college. If you do,
they will spoil your boys. When they return
they will be too proud to work and probably not
able to live without it.
Now I am done with you, ‘‘Plowhandles.”
I have written in a good spirit, and would not
write otherwise. I would not under stay con
sideration wound the feelings of my friend P.
If I have written anything that irritates or
wounds toe feelings of toe gentleman, I here-
Farm and Home, is down upon toe way our by beg his pardon in advance. I will close by
daddies did, and wishes somebody wouldmusale ] hoping that “Plowhandles^ will always have
“Plain Farmer,” from near Byron, Houston
county. .
No doubt but he wishes my mouth was her
metically sealed, as I will, in spite of him, occa
sionally show np toe absurdity of his preten
tions. “Plowhandles” professes to be a firstrate
scientific farmer, and so he is on paper. He
talks fanning and writes farming very wefi.
I haven’t toe smallest idea, however, that he
ever lost a drop of sweat in his life following
good lack on Ms little track patches, as he
seems to have a great fancy for pop-oom, grass
nuts and lucerne, and such like. Now yotl may
consider Plain Farmer muzzled on this subject.
I suppose that will afford yon some consolation
if yonr track patches should fail to make a
good yield. Flain Farmer.
A .Wisconsin lover wrote his sweetheart:
eyoi mo .. w “There is not a globule of blood in my heart
toe 1 plowhandle^ and doubt, capitally, Ms ever that doeB not bear your photograph.”
