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LOUISVILLE. JEFFERSON COUNTY. GA., AUGUST 17, 1876.
'floetrii.
“NOW I LAY ME DOWN -TO
SLEEP.”
BY BEQUEST
It is said of the lato John Quincy
Adams that he never went to bed with
out repeating this little prayer, the first
taught him dy his mother whoso mem
ory was so dear to him to the last.
There are two little poems descrip
tive of a child saying this prayer, that
are among the teuderest in onr language,
and wo give one ofthem. This is from
Put mm,'a Magazine into
Scribner's Monthly:
Golden head, so lowly bending,
Little feet so white and bare,
Dewy eyes, half shut, half opened,
Lisping out her evening prayer.
Well she knows when she is saying.
“Now I lay me down to sleep,”
’Tis to God that she is praying,
Praying him her soul to keep. 1
Half asleep, and murmuring faintly,
“If I should die before I wake”—
Tiny fingers clasp so saintly—
“l pray the Lord my soul to take.”
O, the rapture, sweet, unbroken.
Of the soul what wrote that prayer!
Children’s myriad voices floating
Up to heaven, record it there.
If of all that has been written,
I could choose what might be mine,
It should be that child’s petition,
Rising tothe throne divine.
GOOD NIGHT.
Good-night! I have tA say good-night
To such a host of peerless thihgs :
Good-night unto that fragile hand
All queenly with its weight of rings ;
Good-night to fond, uplifted eyes,
Good-night to chesnut braids of hair,
Good.night unto the perfect mouth,
And all tho sweets that nestle there—
The snowy hand detains me then
I'll liave to say good-night again.
But there will come a time, my love,
When, if I read our stars aright,
I shall not linger by this porch
With my adieus. Till then, good
night !
You wish the lime were now? And I-
You do not blush* to wish it so? r <
You would have blushed yourself to
death
To own as much a year ago—
What, both the snowy hands! ah
then
I’ll have to say good-night again.
AGRICULTURAL.
[communicated.]
FERTILIZERS.
Tho subject of this essay is one of
gigantic dimensions; a subject upon
which probably as many essays have
been written, and as many speeches
delivered, as any topic of the age.
Though it has been written and spoken
of so often, its value has never been
realized, or if realized never apprecia
ted as it should be by farmers who
have to get our bread out of poor laud.
But in the beginning, of this essay, let
us understahd that by fertilizers we do
not mean commercial fertilizers alto
gether, for tiiis is by far too extensive
ly used now. Too many farmers have
been driven to bankruptcy by the im
position of nefarious articles called
commercial fertilizers. In many cases
has tlie dirt of some cellar, or river
bottom, been well ventilated with some
obnoxious odor and sold as the best
fertilizer in the market; and in many
cases, though this preparation is man
ufactured at a very trifling cost, it is
sold at the most exorbitant prices.
For this very article some of us are
willing, and have done it, bonnd our
selves, not only in honor, but by the
strongest articles of writing, placing
at the disposal of the parties selling
this so-called commercial fertilizer ail
tho proceeds of our crops, together
with our stock, etc., and some go so
far as to give mortgages o.n their land
for the payment of this fertilizer; and
shameful to tell in many instances has
this nefarious stuff failed to be of the
least advantage to the purchaser.
What is the consequence? They are
robbed of their land, the only source
from which to obtain bread and cloth
ing for a loving wife and precious lit
tle ones. His all is swept from under
him, and ho left desolato and homeless.
This is one grand cause of there
being so many vagrants in the country.
If the farmor had been allowed to keep
his land, he would have had employ
ment Dot only for himself, but could
have given many others profitable em
ployment. Whereas, the laud having
fallen into the hands of guano venders,
who, as a majority, know nothing of
the country, much less cultivating the
soil, cannot make it profitable to him
self, but loaves it to the care of a worth
loss set of negroes, whose highest am
bition is to pillage and steal from his
neighbor what he has gained by hon
est labor, add are always glad to have
such a place, free from the eye of a
whito man, where they deposit all their
illgotton gains. Wo are sorry to know
that so many 1 armers have been so il
literate as to be led on from year to
year in this cut-throat channel. Many
evils of our land can bo traced back to
the too free U3C of commercial fertili-
zers, especially wgien bought on time.
Many are the poor farmers who have
been made to spend’-sleepless nights
beftause he knew he had something
buried beneath his crop which would
have to bo paid for whether profitable
or unprofitable. Hlany liave we seen
wearing long faces and going with
drooped heads in the month of June.
And learn the cattle if you will, and it
will be that the "grass is about to get
away with his crap, and the abomina
ble free negro ciinot be induced to
work as he slioulcfc ll< looks ahead at
the consequence, which the freedmau
never does, and Jie sce3 bankruptcy
staring him in the,face.
The question tori! -would naturally
arise, What are we "to do—those of
us who have poor laud that will not
pay to cultivate without assistance?
To this we would answer, Fertilize your
lapd. Assist it, of course. You can
do it. By no means would we have
you go to the expense of cultivating
land that you know the proceeds of
will not pay you for half the labor that
it requires to cultivate it. Never cul
tivate land without you have it in such
condition that you are sure the pro
ceeds will pay you at least ten per
cent, on your labor, for cultivating,
housiug, etc. This can be, and is done
in many places, and why cannot we do
the same. I say we can, and that with
out commercial fertilizers, as they are
called, (but more properly called farm
drainers.) We can make our own for
tilizers. It is true we cannot make
enough at first to fertilize a great deal,
but if we cannot fertilize much, why
don’t plant much. Most of our farms
are too large, anyway. One acre, man
aged as it should be will make more
than any two we cultivate. ■ If we are
running a two-horse farm, and have not
labor sufficient to make fertilizers for
a two-horse farm, lot us sell one of our
horses and run one, putting our extra,
labor to improving our land. This will
pay much better than running a two
horse crop on land that cannot at its
best more than pay you for the labo:
of cultivating, housing, etc. It rill
pay better than buying commercial fer
tilizers at the exorbitant prices now
asked for them. Do not here under
stand me to soy no commercial fertili
zers will pay. But I say it will not—
no, the best of it will not —when
bought at present prices. Instead of
getting better oil' by using it, we are
getting poorer and poorer, but after
having settled all pur indebtedness and
bought what our 'families will neces
sarily need during the year, if wo have
any cash on hand and nothing else to
do with it, why then buy some fertili
zer, or chemicals, to increase the value
of your home-made fertilizer. If the
farmers will adopt this plan, they can
be an independent people Otherwise
we are nothing more than slaves to
guano venders and commission mer
chants. They will eventually own our
lands, and hire us at starvation prices
to cultivate them and carry them the
produce. Let each and all of us then
resolve to stop this cut-tbroat business.
Let us haul more litter into our lots,
keep our stables and cow-lots well
filled with it. Let us give more
thought and attention to making our
fertilizers at home. It is no hard job,
once we get at it. We have plenty of
material at our doors to work upon.
1 Why we have here in our natural
forest fertilizers far Superior to some
we buy. If it was not for our use,
what was it put there for? It would
seem strange that an allwise Provi
dence should ordain that wo should de
pend upon the land across the seas to
furnish us with substance with which
to enrich our land. Did you ever think
of that? This I do not believe is the
case. We have the substance here,
and it is our short sightodness that
causes us not to use it. God has placed
at our hand everything necessary for
our welfare, and if wo do not hunt them
out and appropriate them to our use, it
is our fault. I cannot think it ever
was intended that we should have fer
tilizers from across the great waters to
enrich our soil, when we have an abun
dance of material that will answer tlie
same purpose. Allow mo to close by
saying, that by economy and close at
tention to business, wo can yet over
come tho great evil wo have unguarded
ly foil into. Let us then put mir shoul
ders to the wheel, and with unity soo
what wo can do.
A FTER-MAhTiAGMIL OS O
MY.
"You love me no longer,” said a
.bride of a few months to her better half
in his gown and slippers.
“Why do you say tflat, Puss?” lie
asked, quietly removing a cigar from
his lips.
“ Tou do not caress me, nor call mo
pet names; you no longer seek so
anxiously for my company,” was the
tearful auswer.
“My dear,” continued the aggrava
ting wretch, “did you over notice a man
running after a car? How he does run 1
over stones, through mud, regardless
of every thing till he reaches the car and
ho seizes hold and swings on. Then he
quietly seats himself and roads his
paper.”
“And what does this moan?”
“An illustration, my dear. The car
is as important to the man after he get*
in as when ho is chasing it, but the
manifestation is no longer called ’ for.
I would have shot any ono who put
himself in my way when in pursuit of
you, as I would now shoot any oue who
would come between us : but as a proof
of my love you insist on my running
after thojear.”
A ROMANCE Cl< RHODE ISLAND.
In connection with Newport and pi
racy, the “History of Rhode Island”
records a touching story, which, as the
author says, seems more like fiction
than fact. We give the domestic talc—
which would make a much more charm
ing and attractive theme for the poet
and dramatist than “Enoch Arden”—
in the words of the historians:
Samuel Cranston, a gentleman of
noble docent, and who had highly dis
tinguished himself as a merchant in
Newport, on the breaking out of the
Drench war, of 1756, being of an act
ive temperament of mind, was induced
to start on a voyage to Jamaica, not
however anticipating tlio scenes and
events which he was destined to en
dure in the prosecution of tlie voyage.
When off the keys of Florida they
wore attacked by a practical vessel.
They defended themselves to the ut
most, satisfied that should they fall
into their hands, no mercy would be
shown them, but all their efforts were
in vain, and they wer<} compelled to
surrender to the enemy. Such was the
savage cruelty of tiiese buccaneers
that prayers nor expostulations had the
least effect on their hard and obdurate
hearts. The passengers and crew were
all inhumanly butchered on the spot
with the exception of Mr. Cranston,
who was spared to labor on board the
vessel as a common menial.
To a mind like his it must have been
deeply humiliating to lie suddenly
thrown from an elevated position in
society and compelled to heard witli
brutes in human form. In this condi
tion lie was doomed to labor seven
years. The thoughts of home would
rush on the mind, producing pain and
disquietude, and anxious looking for
ward to the moment of deliverance,
when he should once more participate
in the enjoyment of the domestic cir
cle. He liad watciied every moment
from the time of his captivity for an
opportunity to effect his escape; the
propitious hour seemed to have arrived
and he availed himself of it. Having
secured a boat and secreted some pro
visions, he committed himself to Un
winds and the waves, trusttng in the
Divine Providence for protection. Af
ter being tossed about for many days,
lie was so fortunate as to fall in witli
an English ship bound from Jamaica
to Halifax, who Kindly took him on
board and treated him with marked at
tention. On his arrival at Halifax a
passage was given to Boston. On his
arrival there, ho was startled witli tiie
minor that his wife was on the eve of
getting married to a Mr. Russell, of
Boston. This was an additional stroke
and rendered his mind a prey to the
most gloomy thoughts. Poor and pen
niless he started from Boston on foot
for Newport, there to await the issue.
On his arrival he entered the back door
of his former residence, in the charac
ter of a mendicant and craved food
from the servants, which was readily
granted. After appeasing the cravings
of hunger ho inquired if Mrs. Craston
was the mistress of the house. On
being answered in the affirmative, lie
stated that 110 had a message which he
wished to communicate to her. On
being informed that it would be entire
ly*out of her power to comply with his
wishes, as she was then making prepa
rations for her nuptial celebration,
which was to take place that evening,
the heart of Cranston was seized with
the most painful emotion, that las love
ly, ador and wife was about to espouse
another. He requested the servant to
tell his mistress that lie hail seen her
husband at 12 o’clock crossing How
land’s Ferry.
Such intelligence, so unaccountable
yet sg highly interesting, brought Mrs.
Cranston from her toilet to look on the
bearer of such intelligence. He briefly
rehearsed over the sufferings which her
husband bad endured, which she lis
tened to witli the deepest interest, lie
wished to know of Mrs. Cranston
whether she had ever seen him.
Dressed in sailor’s garb, with a tarpu
lin hat partially drawn over his eyes,
she replied in the negative. Finding
himself a stranger and unknown in his
own mansion, he at last raised his bat
and gave her a significant look, at the
same moment pointing to a scar, on
his forehead, and exclaiming: “Did
you ever, Mrs. Cranston, see that mark
before?” She at once flung herself on
his bosom, and exclaimed, in trans
ports of joy. “You are my ewn, own
dear, long-lost husband.”
It required, as you may well imag
ine, some little time for the paroxysm
to subside, and for Mr. Cranston to
dress himself in a manner becoming
his rank and station, before entering
the drawing-room, where the elegant
’group had assembled to witness the
ceremony.
Then and Now. —They swung to
gether on the gate in the clear moon
light, nnd with hands clasped looked
silently into each other's soul for the
wealth of love that was there. Final
ly he spoke : “Sweetheart,” he said in
tremulous tones, “it wrings my heart
to say good night, but I must no long
er keep you hero in the chill night air.
Good night 1 a fond good night!” and
he was gone. That was years ago.
Last week thoy stood together on their
own stops, but there was no moonlight
and no sentiment. “Old woman,” ho
said, “you’d better sbiu into the house
or you’ll be wheozing and sneezing all
night and keeping me awake. You’ve
always got a gol-danged influonzy in
that snoot of yours.”
A DREADFUL CHANGE IN A
YOUNG MAN'S INCLINA
TIONS.
Some time ago there lived in our city
a young gentlemau and lady who, (in
convenience sake, we will call Ned and
Kitty. They were frequently seen to
gether exhibiting unmistakable evi
dences of tender attachment, which
were fast leading them towards the
vortex of matrimony.
Buggy riding was a favorite past
time with tho young lovers, and there
was scarcely woodland gleen or prairie
flower for miles around here that did
not, at some time, witness their love'-
msking as they rode by or stoppetha
moment to bill and coo.
When the young man wanted a bug
gy lie invariably wrote as follows to
jihe livery man:
Mr. Me Please send tho narrow
seated buggy to my door at 5 o'clock
p. m. and oblige yours. Ned.
P. S. If you can't send the narrow
seated, don’t send any. Ned.
111 course of time they were married,
and a few weeks after tho event trans
pired Ned presented himself at Mu’s
office and told him that he wished to
take Mrs. Ned to the country for a few
days, and desired him to get ready for
him a buggy.
All right, old boy; I am glad to see
you round again, and can give you
your favorite buggy.
All eight, old boy ; I am glad to see
you round again, and can give you
your favorite buggy.
Which?
Why, tho narrow-seated rig, of
course.
Never mind it, Me ; that one will do,
and he pointed to a buggy that two
persons might have set in with a yard’s
space between them.— W</c> Patron.
HOW HE OUT HIM.
A man named Wells kept tavern in
one of our western villages; but though
his house had a very good name it was
more than lie had himsell; for it was
surmised by bis neighbors that he
a great deal of fodder, corn, etc., for
which he never gave an equivalent,
though it had never been clearly proved
upon him. Larly one morning he met
an acquaintance, names Wilkes, as he
was driving before him a heifer, which
he had most probably borrowed from
some farmer.
Hollow Wells! where did you get
that heifer? cried Wilkes.
Bought her of Col. Stephens, was
the unhesitating reply.
What did you pay the Colonel for
her?
Twenty dollars, said Wells as he hur
ried along.
About an hour afterwards as Wilkes
was sitting in Well's bar-room, Col.
Stephens entered. After a few min
utes conversation, Wilkes said:
A fine animal 'that which you sold
Wells.
I don't understand you, I never sold
Wells any Animal.
Didn’t you? 1 met him this morn
ing with a Heifer, which lie said lie
bought of you.
11c did, eh? well, since he said so,
he has got to pay me lor her, said the
Colonel.
Weils entered soon after, and Ste
phens stepping up to him said :
Come, Wells, I'll trouble you for the.
money for that heifer; it was a cash
bargain, you know.
I never bought any heifer from you,
said Wells.
Don't you remember you bought one
of me for twenty dollars? Here is
Wilkes, who can prove it.
No lie can’t said Wells.
You told me this morning, said
Wilkes.
A curious expression passed over
Wells’ face : he felt himself cornered ;
he had either to tell where he got the
animal, or lose twenty dollars; and
thinking it not safe for him to do the
first, he .pulled out his wallet, counted
out the money, and handed it to Ste
phens, saying:
So I did—So I did. I had forgotten
all about it. Colonel, you must excuse
me.
They looked sad and doubtless felt
so as they stood up against the horse
rack.
‘Times iz hard sighe 1 one.
‘Wars then confcdcrit,’ the other re
sponded.
‘An’ work's too ex’auslin !’
Hit draws a man down pow'rful!’
‘I never did see money so hard to git
a fist on.’
•Yas; hit's rcareorn lien’s teeth.
‘Rut I've got one filty cents note
left, you bet 1’
‘Ah, well, I hain't.
‘Let's soak her down for the drink?’
‘Now that Bonn's sumthing like re
sumshnn tiv business, that do!’
And they hid themselves behind a
bar screen in a jiffy.
—— •>♦- —i
“IVliat a traveler you have become,’
exclaimed a Rostonian, on meeting an
acquaintance at Constantinoblo. “To
tell you the truth,” was the frank reyly
“I am obliged to rug about the world
to keep ahead of my character, for, the
moment it overtakes me I am ruined.
“My boy,” said a solemn visaged
evangelist to a lad who had just emerged
from a hair-pulling match with another
boy, ’’do j*ou expect to rove hereafter
in a lond of pure delight? “No, said
the lad, l,ve busted another button off.n
my trousers, and I expect to got a lickin
for it.
GOOD MAXIMS FOR BOYS.
If you have a place of business, be
found there when wanted, or in busi
ness hours.
Do not stop to tell stories in busi
ness hours.
No man can got rich by lounging in
stores and saloons.
Never “l'ool” in business matters.
Have order, system, regularity, lib
erality and promptness.
Do not meddle with business you do
not understand.
Never buy an aiticlo you do not
need simply because it is cheap, and
tho man who sells will taka it out in
tsadc. 'tirade is money.
Endeavor to avoid hard words and
personalities.
Do not kick every stone in tho path.
More miles can bo made 111 a day by
going steadily on than stopping.
l’ay as you go. A man of honor
respects liis word as his bond.
Aid, but never beg.
Help others when you can ; but nev
er give what you cannot afford to,
simply because it is fashionable.
Loam to say ,‘no.” No necessity of
snapping it out dog-fashion; but sav
it flrinly and respectfully.
Have but few confidents, and the
fewer the better.
Use your own brains rattier than
those of others. Learn to think and
act for yourself. Bo vigilant^
Keep ahead of, rather than behind,
tiie times.
A darkey, with a shirt on too ragged
to describe, presented to a country
store-keeper 111 Mississippi an onlei
from his employer for" two dollars.
“What do you want for it?” said the
merchant. “Bacon, sab, to do last
nickel,” replied the darkey with a good
natured gun. “From tlm looks of the
rags you have on,” said the merchant,
‘ yon bad better take half of the order
in bacon and the balance in a siiiitr’
‘’Hat’s all zackiy so, boss,” said the
darkey, feeling on top of his shoulder
where there was no shirt, at all, “but
you sco, boss, when I call3 on di’s hero
back for credit, I always gits it, but
when i axes desc here bowels of mine
for credit, dey always calls fordo ri^’
—. —mm Mi 1
He ran his rubier ! nose into the
door of the sa]puu an/hreiuaiked :
•Tho ealupatto cuiumitty haz't bin
aroun’ to errango fur the boys, jiat vit,
I reckon?’
‘Notyeti’ answered thVkeeper.
‘1 ’sposo old riamTildea han't knock
ed in the head o’ that barrel of scads—
yil'r’
‘Hardly,’ was tiie reply.
‘las; well ye might gimme a return
check, or a kind of cuepond, ye know
ter show that I've bin round to stand by
the nannnyuashuns!’
‘O, bite it off right there!’ veiled the
mixologist.
‘All right then ; ta-ta! But I warn
ye that henceforleward I’m fair prey
for the inemy 1’ and he slid in the street
again.
You musn’tthink, boys, remarks one
of our leading orators, that you can
slosh around with a hatchet and be
come great men. If George Washing
ton had used a cheese knife it would
have been ail the same.
You must cultivate decision of char
acter and learn to say ‘'No,” said a
father to his son. Soon afterward,
when the father told tho son to chop
some wood, tlie boy said “No,” with an
emphasis that showed a remembrance
of the lesson.
They were talking of death, when
one man asked : What were his last
words? He did not say anything, was
the reply. That's just like him, said
tlie first man with an approving nod.
There was no gas about him. lie was
business.
1 whispered in my darling’s car,
“Sweet, do you love me yet. Ska
blushed, then came, in accents sweet*
the soft reply, You bet! Oh! 1 could
die for you! I cried, my charming,
winsome elf? She iiftcd up hoy eye3
and sighed, I know how ’tis myself!
A man with a largo family com
plained of the difficulty of supporting
all of them. Hut, says a friend, you
have sous large enough to earn some
thing for you. The difficulty is, said
the man, they are too big to work.
An lowa paper advertises for “an
apprentice, girl or boy, we don’t care
which, only so the office be kept clean
and the wood sawed.”
Why is a Chinaman the most wonder
ful of known animals? Rccause lii3
head and tail sprout from rho samo
end.
When is the weather most favorable
to bay making? When it rams pitch
forks.
tarn
Why should young men not got thirs
ty at dances?- Because thoy are direct
ly over pumps.
Why are sood when sown like gate
posts? They arc plantod in the gate
to i ropagato (prop a gate).
Why is a woman’s tongue like apian-’'
ct? Recause nothing short of the pow
er that created it is able to stop it in
is course.
Live within your moans, ifyou would
have the means on whieh to live. .
NO. 15