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LOUISVILLE. JEFEEIISON COUNTY, GA., OCTOBER 28, 1875.
BE NOT THE FIRST.
Oh, be not the first to discover
A blot in the fame of a friend,
A Haw in the faith of a lover
Whose heart may prove true to the
end.
We none of us know one another,
And oft into error we fall:
Then let us speak well of a brother,
Or speak not about lain at all.
A smile or a sigh may awaken
Suspicion most false and undue,
And then our belief may be shaken.
In hearts that are honest and true.
How oft the light smile of gladness
Is worn by friends that we meet,
To cover a soul full of sadness—
Too proud to acknowledge defeat.
How often the sigh of dejection
Is heaved from the hypocrite’s breast
To parody truth aud affection,
To lull a suspicion to rest.
How often the friends we hold dearest,
Their noblest emotions conceal;
And bosoms, the purest, sincerest.
Have secrets they cannot reveal.
Leave base minds to harbor suspicion
And small ones to trace out defects ;
Let ours be a noble ambition,
For base is the mind that suspects.
We mine of us know one another,
And oft into error we fall ;
Then let us speak well of a brother,
Or speak not about him at all.
—
A GEM.
IV hat could be more teudcr in senti
ment or beautiful in expression than the
following lines from a poem of Mary
Louis Chitwood :
“If a pilgrim hath been shadowed
By a tree that I have nursed ;
If a cup of clear cold water
I have raised to lips athirst;
If I've planted one sweet flower
By an else too barren way ;
If Bye whispered iuthe midnight
One sweet word to tall of day ;
If in one poor 1 deeding bosom
Ia woe-swept chord have stilled ;
lfa dark and restless spirit
I with hope of heaven have filled ;
If I've made for life’s hard battle
One faint heart grow brave qud
strong.
Then, my Go 1, I thank thee, bless thee,
T or the precious gift of song!”
SHEEP IIIkIUNDRY IN GEOK
-67.1,
Thos. I’. Janes, Commissioner of
Agriculture of the State of Georgia,
lias issue 1 aul.nmalof Sheep Husband
ry in Georgia, from which we get the
following valuable information. The
especial attention of Representatives in
the Legislature are particularly called
to these facts;
“Of those who have teste l crosses in
Georgia 98 per cent., report the cross of
the merino and tlie native most profita
ble.
The average annual profit on the cap
ital invested in sheep in Georgia is (id
per cent. This presents a very marked
contrast between the : profits' of sheep
raising and cotton growing.
The average annual cost per head of
keeping sheep is only fjfr/.foitr cents.
In answer to Question No. 13, tiie ave
rage cost of raising a pound of wool is
only six cents, while the average pr'ce
for which the unwashed wool is sold is
331 cents, or cents not.
An average of seventy-four lamlbs are
raised for every lmndred ewes, notwith
standing the ravages of dogs.
The average yield of unwashed wool
to the sheep is 3.44 pounds, which, at
271, cents net, gives an average clear
income iu wool from each sheep of 94
cents.
The aWrage price received for lambs
sold to the butcher in Georgia is $1 87.
The average price of stock sheep is
$2 58 per head.
The average price of muttons is re
ported at $2 75 per head. 90. per cent,
of the correspondents report tlmjs the
priuoipal, and generally, the oahj 'obsta
cle to sheep husbandry.
75 per cent, ot the correspondents
recommend the protection of sheep
against the ravages of dugs, by some
appropriate legislation.'>Mauyi report
the 'enterprise generally abandoned,
on account of the absence of such pro
tection. j
There were in Georgia, in 18G0, ac
cording to the U. S. census, 512,618
sheep. 4
The IT. S. censns of !S7O, gives the
number of sheep in Georgia, as 411),-
465.
According to the returns of the Tax
Receivers, collected under the auspices
of this Department, the number-now in
the State is 31!), 323. This shows ado
crease from 18G0 to 1870, of !>3,153. ami
from 1870 to 1875, of 100,142 aheap"'in
the'State, or a decrease, in fifteen years
of 103,295, or 38 per cent.; decrease
during a period in which tl)ere should
have been 100 per cent, increase.
These are startling facts which do-;
mand the careful consideration of the
statesman and the legislator.
Why is it thaf a branch of industry
which, according to the verdict of those
engaged in it, pays an annual profit of
63 per cent, on the capital invested,
should be languishing, and, in many
instances, entirely abandoned?
Fromtlte same source from which the
tX> * ,V- >, [ f \ . ... V •
number of sheep in the State is obtain
ed, we learn that there are 90,415 dogs
in Georgia, and that they destroyed be
tween April Ist, 1874, and April Ist,
1875, 28,625 sheep. May wc net find
an explanation of thy decrease in the
number of sheep in the above figures?
In the .Tune reports, three-fourths of
• the regular crops reporters represent
the ravages of dogs as the principal ob
stacle to sheep-raising, and estimate
that 15 per cent, of the sheep in the
State are annually killed by dogs, and
that 6 per cent are lost by disease and
other causes.
The special correspondents on sheep
husbandry—those actually engaged in
the business, and hedce more familiar
with the subject—were asked to state
the principal obstacles to slieep-hus
j baudry. 90 per cent, of the whole num
| her report the ravages of dogs as the
principal . and generally the only, obsta
cle.
The statistics collected by the Tax
Receivers seem to corroborate the re
ports ot these two sets of correspon
dents, since there are thirty-one dogs
for every one hundred sheep, or nearly
one to three, and since these dogs are
allowed to destroy in one year 28,625
sheep, worth $73,852 or 9 per cent, of
the value of all the sheep in the State.
Notwithstanding this loss, the annual
profits are 63 per cent. Remove the
cause of the loss, and the profits will
be 72 per cent, on the capital at pres
ent invested in sheep, and the amount
so invested would, in a very few years,
be quadrupled, when the clear profits,
at the above rates, would he $2,372,687.
per annum—more than the total re-1
ceipts into the treasury of the State in |
the year 1874, and more than one-fourth
the State debt.
The value of sheep annually killed by j
dogs, $73,852, would more than pay tne
per diem and the mileage of the mem
bers of the House of Representatives of
Georgia.
Correspondents report that 100 sheep
regularly folded will fertilize, so as to
double the yield of crops, eight acren a j
year. At this rate, even the number at
present in Georgia will fertilize annu
ally 35,544 acres.
\Ve will suppose this area to ho plant
ed in cotton, and without the sheep ma
nure it would produce one half of a
hale of Cotton per acre. The increase
on that area would be 12.772 hales of
cotton, worth, at SSO not per bale, $338,-
600.
If there were 2,000,0dd sheep iu
Georgia, as there would be if properly
protected, the increased pro luction from
the effects of thier manure, at t he above
rates, would be worth $1,000,000 per
annum, or one half the amount of the
.State debt.
It is hoped and believed that the
Legislature will, at its next; session,
adopt such measures as wdl remove the
present obstacles to this most impor
tant enterprise.
If this is done, thousands of fanners
in Georgia will inline liately embark in
sheep husbandry, arid millions of acres
of land now idle and an expense to
their owners will be ren lore 1 profitable
as sheep walks, and gradually improved
in fertility. It will open the way for a
tide of emigration into Georgia of thou
sands of the best, most quiet, peaceable,
industrious and profitable laborers, who
nearly double their number annually,
demand no wages, do not steal or com
mit other crimes, labor assiduously
throughout the yea", feed and clothe
themselves and their masters, make no
strikes, litter no complaints, and never
“die in debt to man.”
Such a laborer is the sheep, the best
and cheapest in the world.
Is it not remarkable that such la
borers can not lie down to rest at night
in a civilized community without risk
ing thier lives at the hands (or rather,
the mouths) of their idle and lawless
neighbors, the dogs, who spend the day
in idleness or sleep, and the night iu
murder and theft?”
MR. MONTGOMERY BLAIR ON
"NIGGERS.”
Mr. lllair has exposed to a reporter
of the New York Graphic this opinion :
“Now,” said Mr. Blair, with opinion
atedness of lJaillie Niohol Jarvis, ‘you
needn’ tell me anythiug about niggers.
As the Kentucky Congressman said he
knew all about hogs because he was
broughtu p amongst ’em. 1 know all
about niggers. They have just learned
to sell out their votes, and for the re
mainder of the history of the'country
the negro will be up for sale, lie’ll got
that forty acres and a tnulo out oil rad
ing his vote. You have just put a solid
chunk of everlasting corruption into
the Southern States, and as the white
natives arc picking up a little money
there now, they have the means to buy
Unit black mass to the end of days.—,
It'll be just the same in Mississippi as
in Maryland. Consequently the South
ern States are lost forever to the Repub
licans by the measure they relied on to
hold them. What do you think of a race
that never lifted a hand for themselves
in a war for their freedom four years
long? ”
- - -.
Y “What's all this talk about the curren
cy and the five-twinties and the siviu
thirties that I hears about, Mike?”—
•‘Wily, bless yet sow!, don’t you know,
Rat? !t manes that the government
wants to make the laborin’ man work
from five-twinty in the rnoniin' until
sivin-thirty in the a veil ing.” “Oeh,,
the spalpeens! may flic divil choke
t’hTfrt r •
IMF ROVED FARMING.
We copy from the Atlanta Herald
some account of the operations of an
agricultural club in Clayton county, Ga.,
called the Philadelphia Farmers Club.
It has adopted the mode of diversify
ing crops and providing first for the
needs of the farm for its own consump
tion—cotton afterwards. The Herald
states the results as follows:
This club, composed of forty-three
persons of Clayton county, has worked
a reform in the planting interests of that
county that is simply wonderful.. Out
of its forty-three members there is not a
man who does not raise his own provis
ions ; who is, as a matter of course, in
a comfortable situation. The average
profit made by the farmers of Georgia
is less than 3| percent., as is shown by
their own returns; the average profit
made by the forty-three members of
tliis club is 10 per cent. Since this club
has been organized, land lias gone up 50
per cent., in the section covered by its
influence, and in many cases lands have
quadrupled in value. Its members have
more orchards, more poultry, more
sheep, better hogs and cattle, and make
more crop on less land than any other
forty-three farmers that can be picked
up anywhere, outside of similar influ
ences.
The reason is quite simple. In the
first place, these farmers meet monthly
and discuss, in a practical way, fertiliz
ers, new methods of planting, new crops,
new machines, the best variety of see l,
and the thousand and one matters of
the farm; so that each member really
has the benefit of the wisdom and ex
perience of the other forty-two. At
certain intervals, the club, in a body,
visits and inspects the farms of eaclief
its members; each one learning some
thing at each farm visited, and being
able at the same time to drop a hint
that will do the proprietor some good.
Whenever there is anew labor saving
machine, that promises to work well,
invented, the club purchases it and
gives it a trial; and, thus, experiments
in machines, guanos, new crops, new
breeds of stock, etc., can be made at
comparatively little •expense. The club
has a good oircn.atiug library, and sub
scribes to several good agricultural pa
pers, which at one cost, are served to
fifty readers.
With all these a 1 vantages, the Phila
delphia Club has fairly regenerated old
Clayton county, an 1 we bid it God
speed in it3 goo and work. There ought to
be just such a club in every county in
the State. If there was, it is our hon
est conviction that wc could double our
products in five years, and very nearly
double the value of every acre of farm
ing land in Georgia.
LUCK—OiI NO LUCK.
We were asked by a young man a
few days ago, if there was any such
thing as luck. We replied uuiiesitat
iugly, no ; that is, not in the comm m
acceptation of the term ••luck.”
Most people think there is such a
thing as luck; many think there is a
great deal of it; some that there is, to
a great deal of good luck, and
others that there is, to them, a great
deal of bad luck.
“It is his luck,” says the neighbors of
one man ; “his elforts always turn out
well; he is bound to make money.”
We remember, by the way, hearing the
remark made once, by an ambitious
young man. about one many years his
senior, “it is his luck ” said the young
man, “whatever lie touches turns to
gold and on the strength of his faith
iu the elderly man’s luck, the young
man broke off from an engagement with
a true-hearted young girl, and married
the lucky man’s daughter ; but it turned
out the lucky man failed, and instead of
everything that he touched turning to
gold, the young man’s hopes and expec
tations turned to ashe:).
But is there, in reality, any such
thing as luck? We would say to our
young readers, to whom this article is
addressed, there is, if the word luck be
limited to its proper signification. Luck
properly applies to such events as are
entirely beyond one’s control, and even
outside of mail’s intluenoe.
The common error on the subject con
sists in attributing to luck or fortune
those tilings which depend entirely, or
mainly, or in some part, upon one’s own
conduct and management. One man
fails in everything ; it is his luck ; so lie
thinks, and so others, half believe;
when, as the fact is, it is all Ins fault.
He does nothing at the right time, or in
the right way. He may work very hard,
yet he works to little or no purpose ;
and yet it is entirely attributable to tile
fact that his efforts are iiot timely, or
are misdirected og misapplied.
Another man almost invariably suc
ceeds. It is his luck, people say. Y'et
luck, in most caso3. lias little or nothing
to do with it. IRs plans are judiciously
laid, and promptly and pofSeveringly
executed. The result is. simply the nat
ural product and consequence of his
exertions.
If an accident which coul l not be
foreseen by the passengers occur to a
railroad train, it may be a matter of
luck whether a traveller happen to be
in a car which is crushed or in one that
escapes. If wft look back to the root of
the matter, however, we discover that
the accident itself, instead of being
consequent upon luck, in most cases is
occasioned by smite carelessness or mis
manage nt.
The, truth is that Luck is the name of
a convenient packhorse oil whom care,
less and indolent and thoughtless peo-.
pie delight to place the reiponsibillty
| for their own errors and shortcomings
| i would impress it upon the mindset
j my young readers that a person who al
ways does his duty at the right time
and to the best of his ability is apt, in
the long run, to turn out lucky.
S PUTTING WOOD.
Yes, sir, I can split wood without
splitting my iiead open, and pride my
self in the fact, woman though I am.—
I trie;! it the other day, and I’ll tell you
just how I did it.
I was expecting John home a little
earlier that night; so I determined to
have some nice spring chickens broiled
just to a turn for him when lie came. All
went very well until, just as the crisis
came in the broiling of those chickens,
1 discovered that the wood was out.—
What should I do! If I waited till
John came the chickens would be quite
spoiled. There were no street boys in
our well ordered village to be hired, and
I just picked up the ax and walked out to
that woojpile,
Mr. Wadkins, the bald-headed bach
elor across the way, was sitting on his
porch reading his newspaper; but I
didn’t care. I’d just show him what a
woman can do. Maybe he'd be sorry
that he hadn't a nice, smart wife like
John's
1 pic ke 1 out a nice, stra'g’it maple stick,
and leaned it up against smother stick
just as I'd seen John do, and then 1 ac
tually laughed at the idea that a wo
man couldn't split wood. I placed the
tip of one of my toes against the stick,
arrange l my dress gracefully (pull back
dresses are handy on such occasions.)
and then taking hold of the extreme
end of the handle, 1 raised the ax high
over my hea 1 and brought it down with
all my might, the bin in striking—not
the stick, but boyoul it. Oh! oh! how
in V hands did sting !
I rolle l them up in my apron for a
moment, and after strug'ing a moment
to keep back the tears, 1 took up the ax
an 1 went at it again.
Tliis time I took hoi lof the lian lie
nearer the blade, but when I came to
bring down the ax 1 remembere l my
former experience. I hesitated just
half a S3oo:t l before letting the ax
strike.
Fatal hesitation ! I:. turned the ax
a hairs breadth, and it. glanced olf the
side of the stick and struck deep in the
soft earth. I wam't prepared for this,
and losing my balance, over l went
hea 1 foremost, stick and all. 1 can't
tell exactly how I landed, I scrambled
up so qiuck, but when I glanced at Mr.
Wadkins he dodge! his heal behind
his paper, which shook visibly.
i never did like Mr. Watkins any
how, t!iough he a:i 1 John are great'
friends. I think it would have lo iked
much better for a single gentlman like
him to have come an 1 od’ere l to split
the wool himself than 1 1 sit there and
snicker behind his paper.
1 always did have a contempt for
bachelors’ opinions, so I just turned iny
back on Mr. Wadkins, placed my stick
iu anew position, shut my teeth hard,
and—no 1 didn’t though. There was a
clothes line just behind which L ha 1 not
noticed; my ax caught in this, and
jerked me backwards over a big chunk,
the arc falling almost into my face.—
There was a sharp twinge in my back
and a buzziugin iny head, so L lay quite
still, until I was startle l by the straine 1
voice of dear John, “Mollie, Mollie, are
you hurt?”
lie picked me up in his great strong
arms aid carried me into the house. I
wasn’t hurt very much after all, but 1 had
a good cry on John’s shoulder, and ever
since that I’ve hal a whole wood-house
full of nicely split wood always oil
han 1. If a woman can’t do a thing one
way she can another. Avis Nik.
THE LATEST FASHIONS
Private milliners have had their fall
openings of bonnets, aid settled the
matter of shape for the season. Fas!.-
ionable French milliners have already
modified the extremely large bonnets
sent out at the begining of the season,
and now make a graceful bonnet of ad
mirable proportions and smaller size.—
File Haring aureole brim is retained, but
the crown is smaller, and the cottage
side3 fit the hea t so closely that the
bonnet scarcely needs an elastic for
hold ng it on. The ribbon strings th. t
we recorded as a sensible fashion, it
seems are not to serve their natural
purpose of tying the bonnet under the
chin, but are to be crossed around the
neck as a drapery l’or the na k, instead
of the blank lace scarfs lately worn.
Blank tulle and lace are use l for this
purpose as well as ribbon, and this is
the only way in which black appears
upon the bonnets. Ecru cashmere lace
is seen at. all the best millinery Louses,
but is most sparingly used. Very full
face trimmings, usually ol velvet, chiff
mine—that is, in irregular loops, knots,
half bovvs, rosettes that are placed an
one side, and in many odd curves, a lit
IlmaisMitcc —are in all the new bonnets.
Tua stylish flowers are full soft tufts, of
roses, or carnations, or artemisias, witli
much brown foliage, mossy buds, pine
cones, burs and unblown bu 1-. Felt
hats will he worn before velvet ones are
put on, and many of them are so hand
some that they will be worn on dressy
occasions throughout the seaspti.
There will be less matohiug the glove
with the shade of the dress than for
merly, Such, dark shades are now
chosen for costumes that light colored
gloves of some harm anions tint are used
to, brighten the toillette. Thus with
myrtle grceli. plum, or navy blue dress
es the VG -o-eofthe natural shades
NO. 25.
ot tin iecolor, wood drab or cream.
'or ,;e Who prefer a monotoned toi
| it i > -j are dozens of shades of each
. ish colors, slate gray, blue,
| gre. land brown. It is said that gray
| will be thy prevalent color for e-loves
Ito wearV wish various dresses.
iSrovyn is slibwn in all the “beige” hues
and m many sea’ frown nut shades.—
Green gloves’ . cvisible” hues, and
the blue-biai . .’last year rea, -
.. ue .safe. .-is however, is
tie derm-shade roc, a u 1 gray,
such as the natcr lors o. undressed
Rid gloves, as these . • woniv-ith any
dress, and especially vith bi. .'j cos
tumes.
Elegant costumes for uie earriao-- w
among the latest imports' mis. 'q
are ma le of velvet ami gross . rail, -
square (rains added to to the upper snirt
that give the effect of a coiht train.—
These consist of three lougvstraio'hfc
brea, ths, usually of velvet, sewvl”to
the upper skirt, just back of the tablier
and forming the back of the upper skirt,
jct long enough to fall below the dress
skirt proper and entirely concealed it,
no matter of what rich fabric it is
male.
Embossed satin with velvet raised
figures is the novelty lbr cuirasses and
trains of dinner dresses, Tims a full
dress toilette of whit e satin lias a square
train covered with black embossed vel
vet arabesques, and all of the cuirass ex
cept the side forms is made of this em
bossed satin, while the side bodies are
plain white sat in. as also are the sleeves.
The tablier is isf white satin, with a
Bounce of blade, velvet, which is edged
with the new strawberry velvet, Loops
and hows of wAjite Win lined with
strawberry velvet VvWtlie hack of the
basque, the front :. Vvk'i.■ cuffs of the
coat sleeves. Acres; the tablier are
three diagonal ruches of black ostrich
feathers, edged with heavy fringe of
black and white chenilc.
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TilE 1101 SEKEEPEII.
If \ou are buying carpets for dura
bility, choose small figures.
Butter will remove tar spots. Soap
an 1 water will afterward take out the
grease stain.
Be Ibugs are kept away W washing
tar crevice with strong saltwater, put
o.i with a brush.
Dusting articles of steel, after they
h.no bem thoroughly clean ed, with un
slacked lime, wdl preserve them from
rust. I lie coils ot •'’piano wire thus
sprinkled will keep from rust many
years.
Ia eify houses one cannot Le ioi
careful to stop ( lie drains of the wash
basins an 1 close the doors of war h
cioset.s during the night, for many a
fever is generated from the drain pi: e
of a wash basin. In country hnu •
c.uv should be taken to have no foi 1
water stau ling in be 1 rooms, as it so n
gu'ns the quality of unwholesome
ness.
In washing flannels or other woolen
articles, have the su Is ready prepared,
boiling up an Iso dis.s living asina’l
Piece of soap in rain-water, without so
da , but do not use the suds when,
boiling, let them he lukewarm only when
the articles are put in. The flannels
■should not be rubbed with a large piece
of soap, nor should the material itself
be rubbed, as in washing linen,etc.
lhe fibres ol the wool contain number
less little hooks, which the rubbing knots
together; I ice-h? thickening of the
fabric, and consequent shrinking tn
dimensions. Well sluice the articles up
and down in plenty of suds, which af
terward squeeze (not wring) out. After
rinsing, squeeze out the water, and dry
in open air, if the weather is such as to
admit of the article drying quickly; if
nut, dry in a warm room, hut avci l
close proximity to the fue. Let any
dust or mud be beaten out or brushed o f
prior 1 1 washing.
HOW TO KEEP A SUBSCRIBEII.
An indignant fanner recently enter
ed a printing o Ha ail 1 ordered his paper
st ippe because he differed from the ed
itor in views regarding the advantages
of subsoiling fence rails. The editor
of course conceded the man’s right to
stop his paper, but he rem irked coldly,
looking over his list:
• l)oyou know Jim Sowders, down at
Hardscrabble !”
“Very well.” said the man.
“Well, he stopped his paper lasi, week
because l thought a farmer was a blamed
fool who didn’t know that timothy was a
good thing to graft on huckleberry
bushes, and he died in a few hours.”
“Lord, is that so?” said thea stonisheil
granger.
Acs; and you know old George
Erickson, down on Eagle Creek?”
“Well I’ve heard of him.”
“Well, sr.jl the editor, gravely, “he
stopped his paper because 1 said lie was
the happy father of twins’ and congratu
lated him on his success so late in life.
He fell dea l within twenty minutes.—
Tiiero are lots of simiiar cases, but it
don’t matter, I'U) just cross your name
oil’, though you don’t look strong, and
there’s a bad color on your nose.”
“See here, Mr. Klitor,” said thesuln
seriber, somewhat alarmed, ‘I believe I’ll
just keep it another year; ; ’cause I al
ways did like your paper; and come to
think about, it, you’re ayonngman and,
some alio .vauue orter be made,” and I e
departed, sa isle l that, tie had made a
• narrow escape from death.
The boy who was kioke 1 out of time
by a gun. said he fired and ’tell buck ip
good order. .