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Number 8.
ON
THE PROLONGATION OF HU
MAN LIFE.
simply woody fibre or organic
matter in a state of decay—it
matters not what, so it is the , . . ' .
product of growth. Nfcf taluahle • . , ^ L ' " . ,
plant* Of gun to pflfow O.n me earth opinion tliat human life was sliorten-
unt3 tfco soil laid boon futnished ed after tlie deluge. Whether this
with vegetable mould by the Je-I Mi " or not, many persons have
. °. , . . , J xir j been known to attain ages, since, nl-
cay of inferior plants. Woody | „ IO( . t incredible,
fibre consists of carbon, (or coal,) j The author, ‘‘Hermippus Hedlvl-
nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen, '. u> was John Henry Cohausem a
a. i5i . i i • u . x ’ Gei uuoi physician. He lived to the
the latter two being the elements I ft(ft llf nr, years, and commends his
of water. Valuable as humus is j p:an iu the consideration of pliysi-
to render soils fertile, vet, as hu-j^ iulll “ ‘"id posterity. The people of
ja Lea. one of the clycedes.) had a law
mus it does not < ntei directly in- tlluI ,. ulupo ii e a all those who survived
to plants. Ill its decomposition , tlu* a^e of three noore to drink the
it becomes a storehouse for car- ! juice <<f hemlock. We wonder of
bonic acid, the form in which **•* tbe Senators were who
plants derive their carbon. Hu-
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HUMUS.
this act of parliament! In
< hiuu they order matters differently.
T; • ui'cv-L... aded auges permit in
fanticide to prevent exces-of popula
te ei.. ii IsnOC'stumnj&t tin* old are
Ji-pose11 of in sfce Sam** ia|,
An odd instance, .ui fok> tie se, is
li,:.itKiiiculiy Valerius Maximus where
an nlU I'udy who had been happy all
h i- life committed suicide, lest an
and eloquently to live. After stating
tl ui she had experienced the smiles
ol fortunes she said, “I voluntarily
quit the light while yet I take pleas
ure in beholding my countenance.''
Exhorting her two daughters uiulsev
en grandsons to live in pence and uni
ty. lo rake care of her household anil
worship her domestic deities, she took
the glass with a steady hand and
drank the poison. She calmly stated
in altar manner the poison wrought,
lnni tli" lower parts of her body be
came cold and senseless, by degrees,
and at the last called one of her
to do the lAst office by-
eyes. As for tiS,' says
What it is—It* Value—Its Essential
ity to Profitable Farming.
A few years ago we presented
some thoughts on this important
subject that were so favorably re
ceived by many thoughtful farmers,
we are tempted to renew the dis
cussion of the subject and to pre
sent a few additional thoughts iu
regal'd to it. "We fear no contra
diction in the statement that the
distressing condition of Southern
farming now is chiefly owing to
the fact that the majority of our
farmers are cultivating soils so
nearly impoverished as to pre
clude the hope of making their
farming profitable, except perhaps
in occasional years when the sea
sons happen to bo propitious.
This poverty of tlio soil is ow
ing almost invariably to the ab
sence of humus from it. Long
continued cultivation in crops
that required clean culture with
out a rational proportion of grass
land and stock has brought the
bulk of the cotton lands of the
South into a condition so gullied
and impoverished of humus that
it is impossible for them to com
pete with the newlv opened rich
soils of the west and north-west.
Year after year we see one per
son or another planting land that
has not made a profitable crop
in years. One fails at it. Anoth
er stops in and tries his hand and
so it goes one year to another.
We see even the same farmer cul
tivating tho same piece of land
year after year, first in cotton, then
in corn or oats or peas or some
thing else and never getting
any profitable returns from it.
He seems to be led on by some
hope, a very unreasonable one,
that ho will strike it rich on it
some day to make up for all pre
vious failures.
Unless our farmers proceed at
once to restore this essential mat
ter of humus to their soils and
e P
laid down that
agriculture cauuot be established
and sustained without a proper
regard to grass land and stock, it
will not bo a good many years
more before we are in a condition
as bad or worso than Ireland is
to-day. Wo will want to emigrate
then but be too poor to carry out
the desire.
Vegetable mould or liumus is
mus is also the medium through
which plants receive a great part
of their ammonia, i nitrogen, i
Humus acts, says Liebeg, in
the same manner in a soil permea
ble to air as in the air itself; it is
a continued source of carbonic | audition of years might “change liar
acid which it emits very slowly, countenance.’’ Imagining that the
An atmosphere of carbonic acid, f r ^ eUce of . 1>om P ey - w ^ u ¥ 1 d ,° h ° n . or
. , . ,, . ’ to the occasion, she invited him to be
formed at the expense ol the air, j present at her voluntary death. He
surrounds every particle of de- attended and exhorted her earnestly
caying humus. The cultivation
of land by loosening the soil
causes a free and unobstructive
access of air. An atmosphere of
carbonic acid is therefore con
tained in every fertile soil and is
tbe first and most important food
for the young plants which grow
in it.” I \ J I V 1
Unless the carbonic acid and
ammonia are in the soil in prop
er quantity profitable crops need j daughters
not be expected from it. The lit-| closing lie
tie of these derived from the at-1 Vill f ,-iu ?’ ™ almost stupefied
ui x xuwD ; at rhe sight ot so strange a spectacle,
mosphere, if any such is utilized, j q,.li-niL-sed us with tears dropping
goes very little ways toward mak-j from her eyes.
ing a profitable crop. Anv prac- ?’ < »fu-WAthor then proceeds to dlMiss
the great question as to the possibili-
*y ui prolonging life. He goes on to
speak of “Asclepiades the Persian, - '
who looks upon a physician as igno
re in ot his profession who could not
defend himself from diseases; and
tliN notion he supported by his own
example. (Our uutlior does not men
tion how long the Persian's patients
lived. 1 n one instance our good Dr.
Coliausen is very classical and lively.
Alter some argument he thinks, we
suppose, that it. is desirable to relieve
tbe dryness of his style with a little
of the imaginative and fantastical;
_ _ and, accordingly, he puts on the robe
izer available to farmers,"and no I thu " us lie wi y^ ” naf " ts
farmer ever has enough of it to , "When the blooming Thishe, whom
make it act the part of a humus | the graces adorn, and the Muses in
provider to any considerable ex- I struct, converses with the good old
f , t- • J • a;„ I Hermippus, her youth invigorates his
tent. Experience in this country npe nml the brisk flame that, warms
as wellas in older countries proves J h
that humus can be profitably re-, bb;
stored to land only by growing it i jKf'S.Sfel^Wr.i ...
oil the 1 ana. It cannot bo hauled j her purple veins; these old Herinip-
on to it as WO would SO much fer- ; pus greedily drinks in, and as spirits
tilizers containing tie mineral el- j *"
Thus the vapor, which
ing a profitable crop. -Any prac
ticod farmer appreciates this.
We may supply commercial fer
tilizers, especially the mineral,
without end to soils destitute of
liumus and yet produce no profit
able crop, for as remarked carbon
ic acid is the chief requisite in
the growth of plants of all kinds
and this commercial fertilizers
does not supply, either directly
or indirectly. Stable manure is
the only humus-furnishing fertil-
henrt, communicates its heat to
-o often as the lovely virgin
ithes the kindly vapors ily off
,J "'"■v.vxx—x.p, ^ " i preson tl v mingled with the blood of
ements with ammonia m audition tdn? old iii
bur a moment before was expelled I
tie- brisk beating of the heart of
Tiiisli-. is communicated by the
li>-r to Hermippus, and passing
cigli his heart serves to invigorate
- blood so that almost without
nctaplior, we may say, the spir-
uf Thisbe give life to Her
ippus l-'or what is there more easy
apprehend than that the active
iriis ui this brisk arid blooming
id should, when received from the
accept as true the principle long
ago laid down that a successful
thereto. Through the medium
of grass (or clover) and stock on
ly can humus be supplied on n
largo scale to loam not woruout t'
soils. In this section a system of ,1:
farming that recognizes the value i i; .
of Bermuda grass and gives it a 1 n.
proper place on the farm, and the j c '
value of peas either sown broad- ^ >
cast or being sown in the middles \ air. thaw the frozen juices of her aged
r.f all cultivated crops as tliov are 1 friend, and thereby give them a new
• -1 1.__ .1 .1 J.1.„ xVa fnrci- and a freer passage, and thus
H••nnippiis . possessing at, once the
si l 1 ' iigth his nature retains, and bor-
fresh spirits from the lovely
isbe. what wonder that he, who
enjoys two sorts of life should live
twice a.^ long as another maud'
Leaving the fanciful now, our au
thor proceeds to facts. We hear of
Uni-gins, who when 108 years old be
ing asked how he could support the
burden ol life so long, replied that
“he regretted nothing tliut lie had
done and felt nothing of which he
could reasonably complain. My
youth.'' said he, “cannot accuse me,
nor can 1 accuse my old age.’’ Of
Isocrates, who published u book at
9s. of VenophiluB, the Pythagorean,
who taught a numerous train of stu
deui-till he was 104, of Leonicanses.
who read his lectures at 90—Fusili fa
little short of this)—and others.
Among these is the celebrated Mar-
shad and Duke de Shomberg. of whom
laid by alone can solve the prob
lem of an econominal restoration
of liumus sufficient in a few years ! rpw
to render our soils worth culti- 1
vating. Such soil as a farmer de
votes to cultivated crops let the
rows in every case be wide enough
to admit a sown row of peas as
that crop is laid by, tho next year
planting the crop, whatever it
may be, where the peas grow, giv
ing a row of peas in tho middle,
every year. Alternating in this
manner a very decided improve
ment will be observed yearly.
Devoting a fair proportion of the
farm to fall oats, rye ai\d barley,
and allowing tho stubble to grow
up in weeds during the summer
and turning it under in the late
fall or winter will also help to
solve this important problem.
If preferred this stubble land cau
be sown to peas. Stubble land
should not be pastured at all and : an
no way when wet. Then with ^
permanent grass and stock in fair '
proportion to the area cultivated , H
wo may yet see our Southern' 11
farmers on the tidal wave of re- j,
turning prosperity, but not 1
fore. S. A. Cook
Midway, Aug. 24.
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■ U ill (Uivi jjuao vavi Ol TV I AO til
our author gives specific and pleasant
accounts. He wan one of the greatest
officers in the last century; wiu
Marshal of France, Generalissimo of
the troops of the elector of Branden-
burgli, Duke and grandee of Portu
gai. Duke anil peer both In England
1 reland, and knight of the Garter
-time of his decease. Ho was
iivs old and was killed when lead-
ins forces at the battle of tbe
w iili all the vigor and spirit of
mug man. The winter before he
killed iii Ireland he was walking
lie park with numbers of young
• around liini, and being met
a grave English nobleman, he
Iu not help telling the marshal
t h<- was surprised to see him in
ii company,
jlli
berg, “dontycm know that a good gen
eral always "makes his retreat, as late
ns he can"?''
Old Parr, as he was called, an Eng
lishman, was over 140 at tile time of
his dentil, aud the famous Countess
of Desmond, as was shown by deeds,
settlements and other indisputable
testimonies, was over 140 years old at
the time of her death, and Lord Ba
con, who knew her personally, said
she thrice changed her teeth. A lu-
dy who was intimate with her said
she was personally cognizant of her
having a new set of teeth after she
was four score years of age.
We pass over several notices in the
work before us, showing other in
stances of long life, and with here and
there an exception, the facts show
that rhe old age of nearly all the per
sons alluded to, was the result of fru
gal diet, pure air, regular exercise
and sufficient sleep. (< Our space hftH
forced ti« to much greater contraction
than we expected in the outset. It
would have taken fourteen columns
of our paper ^to make a satisfactory
abstract of Hie interesting facts con
tained in the I? large pages of the
magazine from which we condense
them.
No one can read the original work
without being impressed with the
fact that a due regard to wholesome
diet, used in moderation, to ample and
undisturbed sleep, to ample daily ex
ercise, as much as possible in the open
air, are essential to secure and main
tain health and give to life itself its
greatest duration.
INEBRIETY.
Morally, Physiologically and Path
ologically.
Hy MkDiets.
The second paper of this series had
reached a point where, from its length,
it had to be closed, wlien tho history
of several very interesting cases were
to be given portraying the sad and i
serious eonseiiuenc.es resulting from
that well known heredity that be
longs to inebriety ; whether from al
coholic liquor or opium, or other drugs
that enslave the human race. Any
number of remarkable instances have
occurred to the writer in tlio course
of a long pructice, both in civil and
military duties, but one or two will be
sufficient to mention. The first is that
of a boy eighteen years old, who,
though he has never tasted liquor iu
all his life, has been from his very
birth, and every moment of his life
since, staggering, stammering, maud
lin drunk; with only about as clear an
intellect as you would find in a man
of ordinary intelligence who was so
drunk he could hardly recognize you
and barely able to walk by catching
hold of chairs, fences, or whatever
was in reach as he attempted to navi
gate, and with that thick tongued,
Hsping tone und utterance that so un-
mistukeably indicates adrunken man.
This boy had the misfortune of hav
ing both a drunken father and moth
er. This is only one out of hundreds
of cases that could be cited and de
scribed to show the incontrovertible
fact that not only a predisposition to
drunkenness may be inherited, but
that beings may be born drunk and
remain so all their lives. This is not
so incomprehensible to the medical
profession when they are so well a-
ware that not [only n tendency to cer
tain diseases, but actually the diseases
themselves, fully developed, have been
seen iu infants in the very hour of
their birth. Hut other frailties, bad
habits, or call it by whatever name
you please, besides inebriety, are
transmitted by heredity. The Opium
Habit, which "is becoming in the Uni
ted States almost as much of a nation
al vice us it ever was in China oi Tur
key, lias been unmistakeably proven
to be in like manner transmissible to
the offspring of one or both parents
so addicted. A case that most strik
ingly illustrates this is a child, eight,
years old, closely related to one of
the highest government officials of
this state, who cannot live without
two or three hundred drops of lauda
num every twenty-four hours.
If the usual quantity of the opiate
is withheld from him, lie not only be
comes cross, peevisli and fretful, but
his hands and feet grow cold and
clumsy, he yawns and stretches, his
eyes become watery, a profuse, cold
sweat breaks out dll over him, with
alternate shivering rigors and burn
ing heat; lie cries, moans, his eyes
“in a fine frenzy rolling,’’ begin to
stare till they become set, lie foams at
the mouth and if the drug is still
withheld, he goes off into violent con
vulsions, which would result in death
if the opiate is still withheld; yet
strange as it may appear to those ig
norant. of the condition and necessi
ties of a confirmed opium eater, and
tlie incalculable power the habit pos
sesses over the physical organism, if
the boy be given his usual dose, he
will, in fifteen minutes, be entirely
relieved and as well as before these
alarming symptoms seised him on the
withholding of the usual dose of the
drug. This is a sad, sad case and bet
ter far would it be for this child and
his parents if he were to die, or bet
ter still if he had never been born.
This is one of those cases giving such
pointed and conclusive evidence that
u necessity for opium or some other
stimulant is often bom in the child;
for both the father and mother of
this child do, and have for years past,
taken every day from twenty to forty
grains of morpliine. Indeed for years
neither oue of them for a single day,
has ever been from under itsiniluence.
my lord," replied Shorn- 1 This is no hypothetical nor lieresay
case, foritlm writer knotorb all the par
ties well and has weighed out the
morphine for them.
Ill some respects the liquor habit
and the opium lntbit are sbmewhnt
similar, but dissimilar in tliat when a
man has a liquor habit lie may be
forcibly deprived of liquor without
much more serious trouble than some
uneasiness and nervousness, with an
intense desire for the nooustomed
stimulant; while with the opium hab
it, when once it fairly is formed and
gets full possession of its victim, to
deprive hiui of it would be to throw
him into convulsions and imperil, at
least, if not destroy his life. There
more serious results arise from the
fact that a man may, and generally
does, drink hard fof a week or a
mouth and t hen leave it off and re
main sober for week* or months or
even years before lie indulges again.
But when the opium habit is once
formed the vietlm 1ms to kKeri himself
under its iiifiuonce ail the time;' or at
least if he is nut absolutely compelled
to do so, its withdrawal produces such
distressing, painful symptoms that
rather than endure them ne will seek
relief iu another dose, aud yet each
succeeding dose that lie takes but
forges another link In the chain that
binds him to the rook of despair, so
that without help outside of his own
weak efforts he will never release him
self. The opium habit, too, is so much
ttorse than the liquor habit because
opium (or at least the quantity taken)
does not so completely intoxicate a
man as does the liquor, does not cause
him to fall and lie about In the mud
and iu the gutter, but is more slow
and insidious, but none the less sure
in sweoping its victims on to (lentil
anil damnation while they listen to
the soothing strains of its Siren song
and is winding its fatal coils so closely
around him. It is like tlie serpent,
it charms its victims but to destroy
them. Who that ever read that beau
tiful, easy-ilowiny book of Dsl)iiinoey,
his “Confession of an Opium Eater,"
or that imitation of it, “Tlie Hashisch
(pronounced Hashheesh) Eater,’* by
our own brilliant writer, Fitzhugh
Ludlow, without feeling an almost
uncontrollable desire to test the effect
of opium or hashisch, to feel those
transceudentally glowing and thrill
ing sensations so graphically described
by both of them. Hut alas, like alco
hol, only more seductive and hence
more fatal, poison lurks in the cup,
therefore “taste not, handle not,’ - vea,
even “look not upon tlie wine when
it is red” in the cup. But this history
of cures and tlie reflections induced
thereby iiave unconsciously led into u
digression from the subject, and this
paper has already grown so long it
must close till next week, when tlie
subject will lie again resumed with a
still further physiological view of it.
Milledgeville, Aug. llith.
Honesty Richly Rewarded.
New York Tribune.
“I think I’ve found tile most gen
erous womud in New York,” said a
Maiden Lane diamond merchant to u
friend in the Astor House rotunda
yesterday. “Proceed with your sto
ry,” replied the other, resting his el
bow on tlie polished bar.
“Ted, my little office boy,” the mer
chant continued, “found a lady's
pocketbook tlie other day. It con
tained about $100 in cash and several
valuable papers valuable to the own-
dr, 1 mean. lie picked it up near tlio
door of my store, but as no one saw
him do it,"lie could easily have kept
tlie money without any one being
aware of the fact, it must have been
quite a temptation to the little chap,
for lie only earns $2.50 a week, and
1 iis folks are very poor. Hut lie
brought it right in to me like a little
man. 1 watched the papers, lint it
was not advertised. Several days
passed and 1 had begun to think of
giving tlio book back to tlie finder
when l learned from a friend that a
wealthy lady customer of mine who
lives in Fifth avenue had suffered
from a loss of this kind. 1 sent Ted
up with tlie purse. Sure enough, it
was hers. When lie had explained
how he found it she became demon
strative over tlie honest way he had
acted. Him patted li is head and de
clared that it did her good to know
that there really was one honest boy
in New York. “You’ll not go unre
warded, either,’’ she added. “Just
come with me.” He went witli her
into an adjoining room, und then
what do you suppose she gave him as
a reward?"
“Oh, $10, perhaps,” returned tlie
friend.
Tlie diamond man smiled. “The
reward she gave him," he added,
“was a big piece of huckleberry pie—
simply that and nothing more.”
Conklin's Dakotalan: Nothing is
easier than to grow rich. It is on
ly to trust nobody—to befriend none
o gel
get—to stint yourself and every body
fne
For tlie Union Hoi onlor.
Pencilling* From My Perch.
JJy Mr. PlCKLK.
No. 2.
People, no less than Poetry, suffer
by translation. A poem is "never so
sweet, tender, sublime or inspiring
read abroad, or sung in strange lands,
as when felt and heard in tlie land
of its nativity. So with people. The
English duke maybe ever so “cliawin-
ing," and try ever so hard to impress
the American habitue of Broadway
anil Wall streets, New York, with his
impressive dress nml expressive “aws”
and h’s, but. lie is not appreciative as
ho would be within tint sound of the
bells of St. Paul’s. Even Dickens,
with all his £pod shiiso, good breeding*
and cosmopolitan popularity attract
ed no attention on his visit to the
United'States, yet Ids works are more
extensively read and ‘more generally
admired here than in England or any
other civilized country. This excep
tion Is due to the fact that Dickens
wrote iu tho same language spoken in
America.
It is tlie common cry with pessim
ists and tlie hypercritical Jiow-adayg
that whatever is excellent .is not orig
Inal. Shakespere is tossed aside as
whole-sale piracy liecause tlie great
bard made Othello speak before the
Duke and Senators in the style that
Paul spoke before King Agrippn; and
because his tragedies are mere refin
ed copies of historical men and wom
en who appear better in the original
costume than in the dress the immor
tal bard gives them. Byron, too, is
made a plagiarist because he stud
ied Isaiah and Job, and got some of
his ideas from David and Holomon.
Facts are facts, but they appear very
differently told by different writers.
Land is land, and only land, but cul
tivated by different men shows vastly
different results.
If there was a great moral sifter into
which tlie characters of men could be
emptied and well shaken, some of the
most pretentiously pious would dis
cover more bran in tlie siftei than
meal iu the pan.
‘,*L ***
Nick-names—how they Jo stick,
and how they do hurt! The shirt or
xVessus never stuck to its wearer clos
er or longer than a nick name given
to a boy or girl at school. It clings
to them, all through life, and lingers
as long as the memory of them lasts
after death. Oh, tlie mischief they
have done; the friends they have es
tranged; characters clouded, anil
hearts broken!
What is known a*s fashionable society
in tlie principal cities at the North,
with advanced ideus. is, to quote
words from Dr. Taluutge, “rotten all
through, and reeking with tlie odors
of hell.” Its slimy, snaky, sinuous
trail is not. only seen in the new
ground of youth and innocence, but
is marked on tapestrv and tinselliugs
of elegant mansions'and in coteries
and clubs of exclusive rank and dis
soluteness. It murders morality, not
so much by what it says, us bv wluifc
it does; not so much by what it ex
poses, os by what It suggests. Its
types aye not Falstull ami Dame
Quidkly, but Juan aud Haidee.
%*
“I didn’t gotodo ft,” is the A. It.
<)., as “1 didn’t know it was loaded,"
is the last chapter in many a youth’s
ruddy revelations. Sparing the rod
in the beginning, means bearing the
cross in the end.
Show mo a boy who is fond ot
frightening people one who steals
up unexpectedly and shocks them,
“only for fun" and i will show you
a winning candidate for the peniten
tiary or the gallows. There is no
possibility of any mistake here.
***
The wise man said, “lie thnt in
oreasetli knowledge iucrenseth sor
row." The fool su.ys, "if this be true,
then ignorance is bliss." Not so.
Only knowledge can remove tlie
sting of sorrow. Tlie fool quits life
to lay down the burden of sorrow;
the wise make life tlie means of re
moving it.
Nearly ev#ry villain who is hung
assigns women as one of tile main
factors in his ruin. These wretches
would come nearer the truth by us
ing Fulstaff’s confession: “I have
suffered more for their sakes, more,
than tlie villainous inconstancy of
man’s disposition is able to bear.*'
*%
It is said that water will always
find its level. Has its level ever been
found in a jug of whiskey or a can of
milk?
—to get all vou cau aud save all you
get—to stint yourself aud os
belonging to vou—to be the friend of
" hi
no man, und have no man for your
friend—to heap interest upon interest,
cent upon cent—to be mean, misera
ble and despised for some twenty or
thirty years—and riches will couio as
sure us disease, disappointment and
death. Aud when pretty nearly e-
nougli wealth is collected by a dis
regard of all the charities of the human
heart, and of every decent, honora
ble and manly impulse and at the
expense of every enjoyment but that
of counting the accumulating dollars,
deatli will finish tlie work—the body
be buried—the heirs (lance over boo
dle that is left, and the spirit will
go(1).
Athens Banner: The farmer’s con
vention refused to adopt either tariff
or anti-tariff resolutions, preferring
not to bring up political questions.
It will be noted that all the Georgia •
members except one voted for a revis
ion of the tariff. This must have
been a bitter pill for tile “great dai
lies” in Georgia.
Tlie anti-poverty convention inNeW
York lias put up a united labor ticket,
at the head of which Henry George
will run for Secretary of State.
An Expensive Delay,
Is failing to provide the proper means
to expel from tlie system those dis
ease germs which cause scrofula, in
digestion, debility, rheumatism, and
sick headache. The only reliable
means is Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic.