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by and. b. freeman.
\ llord.Hhcll Sermon on <i*e Ea-
S*
Some years ago the Southern Maga
zine published a.sketch of “ bather Laf.
ter,” who was an old-time revivalist,
very fatuous in his day. It is very in
teresting reading just now.
He was an enthusiast on the subject
of “ immersion,” and being strung in
h'S own convictions, earnest and deci
ded in expressing them, he influenced
others, lie gathered around him as
disciples men of higher culture than
himself Ilis preaching would aston
ish any city congregation, but it was at
least stirring in its character. In the
woods arid uuder the giant tree) and
in the log school houses of Carolina,
where he was brought into contact with
minds as rude and uninformed an his
own, it was that his emotional nature
met a response and carried his audience
with him.
A favorite sermon of his he called
his “ eagle ” sermon, and was from a
text in Deuteronomy, “As an eagle
stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her
young, spreadeth abroad her wings, he
taketh them.” The wliter once heard
it, and its general tenor is indelibly im
printed on his mind. After a long con
tinued preliminary exercise he began—
“ JNJy fiends lhar is tnenny kinds of
eagles. They are singular birds—that
is they is quare birds. There is the
gray eagle, with white hairs on his head ;
thar is the bald eagle ditto, who goes
about like a roarin’ lioo, seekin’ what
he may eat up. Thar is the grand old
American eagle, who flops his wings
and flies over all creation : and I hev
heern tell of a double ht?d ’or, an Aus
trian, but I nev6r seed one, and I don’t
believe thar is one—though that don’t
signify, fur some of you uns might say
you hadn’t never seed God, cons queut
ly thar wurnt none. Hut thar is nev
ertheless, notwithstanding fur which
“Now I onct knowed an ea^le —that
is, I knowed on him—and her too, fur
thar war two on ’em, a big rooster eaule
and a hen eagle It wur in the big
mountings of Caroliny ; and thar they
pitched their tents in a tall and tower*
ing pine—right in the top —and it hung
over a deer precipice when the “loud
winds did roar on Caroliny’s shore
But it wurnt ; for He calleth .is sheep
by name, and they fuller Him, and the
desert blossoms like a rose, and the bar
ren are better than them that beareth
children —nevertheless, notwithstanding
fur which.
“Wall, those here eagles pitched their
tents in this waste, howling wilderness,
whar they wur as lonely as solitary
snipe in dog da s
‘ Fust, th y got whar there were two
cross limbs ; then they brought big
sticks, and laid ’em carefully round and
round until it began to look sorter like
a big balloon careening to the sky, only
it was on a tree ; then they put in it
littler sticks, and lit tier and littler, till
lirneby it wur small and compact like
Then they got all the wool ad down
and moss and soft things, and put ’em
down into the bottom, and on the sides
of its insides, and made it smooth and
warm and comfortable like—like unto
the man that filled his barns, and told
bis soul to be easy, and take things
nateral like—ard laid their eggs thar—
but for the terrible voice that said,
“Fool, this night thy soul shall be”—
and that is, he wur to die that very
night, and all nice things wouldn’t be
enny more use to him—though they
wurn’t hurt, fur their eggs were hatch
ed a.id all their young ur,s came out
with nary a single feather ou them—
nevertheless, notwithstanding fur
which.
“Wall, these eagles had thair young
uns in thair fine home, and had on soft
clothing like John the Imuierser wan
dering in the wilderness, whar they wur
in Kings’ houses—and the big uns fed
’em, as jarents feed thair little uns—
though thar’s a commandment agin
stealing, which the eagles have to do,
but. it’s their natur —though that don’t
signify, fur a man’s natur is to steal
sumtimes, and he’s got to fite agin that
natur ; fur when I would do good, evil
is present—and man ain’t an eagle bird
by chance—nevertheless, notwitbstand
ing fur which.
When the eagles growed up and had
feathers—that is, when they came to
the age of 'countaDility, which is ex
pected of boys aod girls like —though
eagles’ natur is different—then the old
eagles wanted them to fly abroad and
mount up on wings of eagles, and jine
the song that floats around the throne.
And that’s whar the text begins, for
that’s the way the Father up yonder
wants us to do when we reach the age
of ’couniability—to fly upward— to fly
upward, jine the band in the narrer way
and pass through the straight gate. But
they didn’t like to leave home and
their kindred and their parents, and
seek a country like unto the old Abra
ham.
“Whar, oh whar is the good old Abraham ?
Whar, oh whar is the good old Abraham ?
Whar, oh whar is the goop old Abraham ?
Safe in the promised land.”
“The eagle hath stirred her wings,
Bhe hath flutt-rred over her young—
and that brings us to the third pint of
our discourse.
“ And now, my dear friends, what
does she do ? Hhe spreadeth abroad
her wings. Thar she is right up in the
iky ! her wings stretched like the shad
dcr of a mighty rock in a dry land
Thar below is the little eagles a-stand
ing on the last s'ick, the last prop, hold
in’ on with their tremblin’ teet like grim
death, while fiery billows roll beneath—
afeard to fly, afeard to stay, afeard to do
anything, afeard not to do something—
xnowiDg thar is a deep precipice, whar
y v
Cdljonn eiincs.
the worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched —knowing thar is a place
where the streets run with milk and
honey, and whar thar’s no weepin’, no
mourning, no gnashing of their teeth
—knowing they haia’t got nothing
here, nor won’t have nothing thar un
less they stir themselves and fly upward.
Why don’t they fly upward? Thar
they tremble and shiver and cry out,
and wuut to fly but dussent—waiting
for a convenient season which never
comes, and thar above all is the old ea
gle a-spreading of her wings and look
ing down to see if they won’t do some
thing— like men and wimmen, instead
of jist staying thar like marble statues
to be wafted about by every breeze —
and thar she is a spreading abroad her
wings until at last she gives one great
squark of wrath and flops down on the
whole brood, and knocks the last pin
from under 'em.
“And whar are they 7 Yes, and whar
are you, my bretheren and sisters 7
Whar are you 7 Some a-fluttering like
wounded doves, down, down to the lake
where they cry for a drop of water to
cool the parched tongue, whar Lazarus
was in poor Dives’s bosom—or a-mount
ing up on wings of eagles—whar they
sliall run and not get weary, whar they
shall walk and not faint Neverthe
less, notwithstanding fur which.
But he taketh them—l don’t mean the
eagles—and leads them to near pastures
and beside still waters, whar thar’s no
more sighing and suffering, no more
weeping and parting—fur
“Parients and children thar shall meet!
Panentß and children thar shall meet I
Parients and children thar shall meet !
Shall meet to pa~t no more
On Canaan’s happy shore!
Daniel Webster and Jenny Lind.
Jenny Lind gave a concert at Wash
ington during the session of Congress,
and, as a mark of her respect, and with
a view to the eclat, sent polite invita
tions to the President, Mr. Fillmore,
the members of the Cabinet. Mr. Clay,
and many other distinguished members
of both Houses of Congress. It hap*
pe ed on that day several members of
Cabinet and Senate were dining with
Mr. Bodisco, the Russian Minister. Lis
good dinner and choice wines had kept
the par y so late that the concert was
nearly over when Webster, Clay and
Crittenden, and otherscame in. Wethh
er from the hurry in which they came,
or from the beat of the room, their
faces were a little flushed, and they all
looked somewhat fiumfied. After the
applause wich which these gentlemen
were received had subsided, and si
lence was lestored, the second p:irt of
the concert was opened by Jenny Lind
with “Hail Columbia.” This took
place during the bight of the debate
and excitement on the slavery question
and the compromise resolu'ions of Mr.
Clay, and this air as a part of the pro
gramme was considered peculiarly ap
propriate foi a concert, where the head
of the government and a large number
of both branches of the Legislative De
partment were present Ac the close
of the first verse Webster’s patriotism
boiled over; he could sit no longer,and
arising like Olympian Jove, he added
his deep sonorous voice to the chorus,
and I venture to say, never in the whole
course of her career did she ever hear
or receive otle-half of the applause as
that with which her song and Web
ster’s chorus was greeted. Mrs. Web
ster, who sat immediately behind him,
kept tugging at his coat tail to make
him sit down or stop singing, but it was
of no earthly use —and at the close of
each verse Webster joined in, and it
was hard to say, whether Jenny Lind,
Webster or the audience, was the most
delighted. I have seen Rubini, Lab
lache and the two Grisis on the stage
at one time, but such a happy conjunc
tion in the national air of “Ilail Co
lumbia” as Jenuy Lind’s tenor and
Daniel Webster’s bass ws shall never
hear or see again. At the close of the
air Mr. Webster rose, with his hat in
his hand, and made such a bew as
Chesterfield would have deemed a for
tune for his son, and which eclipsed
D’Orsay’s best Jenny Lind, blushing at
the distinguished honor, courtesied to
the floor; the audience applauded to
the very echo. Webster, determined
not to be out done in politeness, bowed
again. Miss Lind re-courtesied, the
house re applauded and this was repeat
ed nine times
farm Lite.
One of the compensations of the farm
pot measured by dollars and cents, ex'
ists in a feeling of independence and
security which no one can possess more
satisfactorily than a good farmer upjn
a good farm, well stocked and free from
debt. No reverse or revulsion of af
fairs can touch him. In the worst of
times the world must cat and be cloth®
ed, and the farmer feeds and clothes
the world. His market can never fail.
There is in addition to this, the less
satisfaction of possessing in security
something which he can improve and
adorn and spend his labor of love up
on. It pays io live and breath ; social
pleasures pay, the attachments of the
family pay ; the culture derived from
the study of books, of men, and of na*
ture pays; all these the farmer may
enjoy, if he will, in a greater degree
than the majority of other men. He
may labor harder and be exposed to
heat and coid and rains and storms,
but the sleep of the laboring man is
sweet to him ; he breathes the purest
air and enjoys the easy digestion of his
food, which consists of the best and
freshest the fields, gardens and orchards
yield. He may find tongues in trees,
books in the running brooks, sermons
in the stones, good in everything.
CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 81. 1877.
Small Farms and Thorough Cul
ture.
Although some of our farmers well
understand the advantages of small,
rich, compact farms, yet maay seem to
persist in adhering to old ruts ; opera
ting on extensive sterile surface (made
so by exhaustion) with all the apper
taining drawbacks, such as keeping up
extensive inclosures, slip- shod, shallow
and untimely plowing, scanty manure,
etc., resulting in poor crops, both as to
quantity and quality ; besides loss of
time, wear and tear and sowing, reap
ing, hauling and housing, difficulty in
keeping down weeds, briars and numer
ous other disadvantages too tedious to
mention. Better draw in fences, sell or
even give away t l, c surplus fields, un
less you have capital and force for large
operation'. Plow deep iu the fall or
winter, aod manure thoroughly the re
served acres. If careful attention and
high feeding produce fine stock, there
is no reason why high measuring
and high culture should uot produce
great yields and profitable crops. There
is, of course, a point beyond which ma
nuring becomes waste, but it is hardly |
probable that any farmer is likely to
reach it.
Each farmer had better find out by
experience vhat fertilizer is oest suited
to his soil and crops. This can soou be
ascertained, and trials in a small way
are inexpensive. The experience of
others, in this regard (soils being va
rious,) may lead to inefficiency and
lo£d§; the diversified character of soils
render this course absolutely nece.-sary
to iusure the greatest benefit ftom al
most any commercial fertilizer, and al
so to what extent it will profit hiju to
use it.
As to barn-yard and stable manure
it is good everywhere, and the farmer
is not apt to have it spread in quanti
ties that would prove injurious. It is
uot too late to make compost pens, and
to collect all valuable substances suita
ble for manure that can possibly be
collected. If this is done there will
be a big pile by the next spring suita
ble for the corn-field, the orchard, the
garden, especially good for cotton.
We repeat that in our present cir*
cumstances and situation, and, in fact
under almost any circumstances, the
proper cultivation of small rich farms
has so many advantages over large ones,
that it i3 really strange that more of
our farmers do not adopt this system.
Many of them have children, both sons
daughters, who unless provided for,
will be compelled to seek homes in
western wilds, or remain here in almost
h >peless poverty, unsettled and dissat
isfied. Better divide and *et them have
ihe portion you expect to give them
when you become old and will only
want a surface 4xß feet. They wouid
then know what to be at. These dif
ferent portions would soon be im*
proved and utilized as they should be.
And then the satisfaction cf having
one’s children comfortably settled
around and contiguous to the old home
stead can on y be appreciated by those
who have tried it. The seasons bring
round the holidays. The Christmas
turkey and sweet potato pies come once
a year, with all the surviving loved
ones present under the paternal roof,
where all can enjoy each other’s pres,,
ence, and the good cheer and bounteous
board.
If our children have already dis
persed and ignore farming, better by
far sell or give the honest poor man
our useless broom sedge acres. Give
them homesteads if they cannot buy ;
oi, at any rate, allow them easy terms
and set them to work. They will soon
make things look different. The State
cannot afford to continue losing this
valuable part of her popu'ation. Help
them to homes; retain the population
and aid in reviving the prosperity, and
in utilizing the vast resources that teem
within her borders.
We always feel misgivings of ability
to give valuable advice, but so confi
dent are we in the advantages and good
policy of the above suggestions that
we feel wo should no longer withhold
them from the consideration of our
brother farmers. — So. Farmer.
The Privileges of Wealth.
A rich man can wear a soiled shirt
without fear of being snubbed by his
acquaintances; a poor man does it at.
the peril of bis respectability A rich
man can at will distort the English
language without regarding the rules of
rest aid nominature; a poor man is
severely criticized and denounced for
any violation of the rules of grammar.
But these are only a very few of the
privileges of wealth.
In California there is no aristocracy
but the aristocracy of dollars. Blue
blood is measured by a bank account,
and hereditary honors by the cash cap
ital of the claimant. The aristocrat of
CaUforcia is the self-made man, who is,
by the way, the most arrogant, pre
sumptuous and generally disagreeable
off-’shot of these tree institutions. If
the S. M. man has built unto him a
spacious house, and furnished it after
his own exeei able taste, he is immedi
ately pronounced by his toadies a bene
factor to the human race in general and
the working man in particular. All his
gam heries are pronounced ecceotriei
ties; all his stinginess the prudence of
the man, who carefully husbands his
wealth, that some charitable institution
may bear his name, after the inexorable
death angel has got him.
The poor man cannot commit an in
voluntary rudeness without being set
down as a very low ;haracter. indeed.
In fact, wealth makes the grand differ
ence between them, and the man who
comes down With the most coin is the
Bayard of the city.
Wealth has many privileges. Law
and justice, the terror of the poor of
fender, Joes not scare the rich man a
bit Sometimes, certainly, he is caught
and mildly punished, but these occurs
rences are ve r v infrequent, and are gen
erally looked upou as the nistakes of
tjje Judiciary.
Ti;e rich man pays his pew rent and
is looked upon as ooe of the chosen of
the Lord. The poor man gets in ar
rears and he is aye the same, e’en the
same, as the sinner and the | üblican
There is a law for the rich and poor
alike, and the scales of justice in Cali
fornia are inclined to droop one partic
ular way if money be thrown into
them.
Of course this thing is never in any
manner admitted, but the public know
too well that hard cash is a worker of
miracles in judicial decisions.
The “ Tallest.” Storie.
In a memoir read before the Acade
my of Sciences at Rouen, M. Le Cat
gives the following account of giants
that are said to have existed in differ,
ent ages :
Profane historians have given seven
feet of height t) Hercules, the first he
ro, and in our day we have seen men
eight feet high. Ihe giant who was
shown in Rouen in 1834, measured
eight feet and some inches. The Em
peror Maximinius was of that size
Shenens and Phterus, physicians of the
last century, saw several of that stats
ure. and Horepius saw a girl who was
ten feet high. The body of Ortes, ac
cording to the Greeks, was eleven feet
and a half; the giant Galbara. brought
from Arabia to Rome, under Claudius
Caesar, was near eu feet high ; and the
bones of Secondrilla and Pusio, keep->
ers of the gardens of Sallust, were but
six inches shorter. Funnam, a Scotch
man. who jived in the time of Eugene
IT, King of Scotland, measured eleven
feet and a half, and Jacob Le Mairo,
in his voyage to the Straits of Magel
lan, reports that on the 17th of Dec.,
1615, they found at P„rt Desire sever
al graves covered with stones, and hav*
ing the curiosity to remove the stones,
they discovered human skeletons ten
and eleven feet long.
The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage
to the Peat of Teneriffe, says they
found in one of the sepulchral caverns
in that mountain the head of a Guanehe
which had eighty teeth, and that the
body was not less than fifteen teet long.
The uiant Ferragus, slain bv Orlando,
nephew of Charlemagne, was eighteen
feet hii*h Roland, a celebrated anat.
ouiist who wrote in 1614, says some
years before there was to be seen in the
-üburbs of St. Germain the tomb of the
great giant lscret, who was twenty feet
high.
In Rouen, in 1500. in digging in the
ditches near the Dominicans, they
found a stone tomb containing a skele
ton whose skull held a bushel of corn,
and whose shin bone reached up to the
girdle of the tallest man there, being
about four feet long, and consequently
the body must have been seventeen or
eighteen feet high. Upon the tomb
was a plate of copper, whereon was
engraved : “In this tomb lies the noble
and puissant lord, the Chevalier Ricon
de Valleuient and his bones.”
Platerus. a famous physician, declares
that he saw at Lucerne the bod v of a
man which muse have been at least
nineteen feet high
Valance of Dauphiny boasts of pos.
sessing the bones of the giant Bucart,
tyrant of the Vi varies, who was slain
with an arrow by the count of Cabillon,
his vassal. The Dominicans had part
of the shin-bene, with the articultation
of his knee, and his figure pained in
fresco, with an inscription show ing that
*he giant was twenty-two and a half
feet high, and that his bones were
found in 1705. near the banks of the
Morderi, a little Mver near the foot of
the mountain of Crusal, upon which
(tradition says) the giant dwelt.
m
Clean Lands.
Farmers, do not be discouraged if
vou are not making as much money as
you have a right to expect. Let us be
thankful and take heart for the future.
The farmers are the main stay of the
nation. If the farmer prospers the na
tion prospers. If farmers suffer all
classes suffer also. We must farm bet l
ter. We must aim to make our land
cleaner every year. Weeds are the
mo-t oppressive tax we have. We can
not get rid of them at once. Keep
fighting, and especially should it be
recollected that we must do thorough
I work as far as we £,<?. If not entirely
> dead they will grow again, and we lose
! what work we have performed. “Kill
ing weeds enriches the soil.” This is
the key-note to good farming. Mostcf
our soils abound in latent plant food.
Stirring the soil and exposing it to the
atmosphe-e favor decomposition and
render the plant food available—in oth
er words, make the land rich. The
fall of the year is the best time to do
much of this work. And the earlier
we can get at it the better.
J'lie Southern Cultivator says : “An
other point we woula earnestly press
up n the attentions of our farm rs is
| the raising of horses and mules—par.
ticular'y the latter. Nearly every one
keeps too many cows—dispose of this
surplus, and substitute mules in their
place. A uiule is almost as easily
raised as a cow, and at maturity is
worth at least five times as much \N hy
raise cott n at heavy expeos° of manu
facturing and cultivating to buy mules
and borses, when the land apon which it
is grown, if made into a go id pasture,
would grow horses and mules at almost
no expense. This diversion from cot
ton to stock raising would be another
means of diminishing cost of labor, by
lessening the demand for it. Raising
la r ge cotton crops places the farmer
completely at the mercy of the laborer.
No other of our crops —none, perhaps
in the cultivation and harvesting of
which machinery avails so little.
Proverbs of the Billings Family.
Don’t swap with yer relashuns un
less ye ken afford to give the big end of
th<* traid.
Marry young, and if circumstances
icquire it, often.
If you kant git gud cloths aod edi
kashun too, git the cloths.
Say how are ye ? to everybody.
Kultivate modusty, but mind and
keep a good stock of iuipidence on
hand.
Be charitable. Ten cent pieces was
made on purpose
Don’t take ennybody else’s advice but
your own.
If a man flatters yu, yu kin kalkifate
he is a roge ; or jure a fule.
Keep both izeopeu ; don’t set. morn’n
half you notis.
Don’t mortifi the flesh too much ;
’twan’t the sore’s on Lazarus that sent
him tew heaven.
If you itch for fame, go inter a
graveyard and scratch yourself against
a tuine stun.
Beggars don’t have tu advertise for
run-awa dogs.
“’Tis a long lane that never turns,”
and 'tis a good mill that alwas dus.
Young man, be more anxious abo M t
the pedigree yur going to leave, thau
you are about the wuu somebody is go
ing to leve yu.
Natur is natur, yu kant alter the
krook of a dog’s tail much and preserve
the length oi it tew.
I wud say tu all young men, “go in,”
and to all the fel ers, “kum out ”
About as sure a way tu git rich as
enny I no of is to git inter det tor a
thousaud dollars, and then go to work
and pay off the det.
Filosopheis tell us that the world re
volves on its axis, and Josh Billings
tells us that full haf the folks on the
arth think they are the axis.
N. B.—These proverbs hev stood for
rnore’n a hundred years, and hain’t gin
out yet
Economy ot Eight.
On this question, having, it is true,
rather an indefinite title, the Country
GenJeman gives some good advice to
the farmers who luve families of
growing up. If the advice therein
given was more generally heeded we
should hear less complaint of our vourig
men leaving the farm for some “more
congenial employment” If homes
were made more attractive the money
invested would be far from lost, not on
ly in keeping rhe boys at borne, but 1-
so gieatly beneficial front the influences
which it would throw around them.
“Somebody says, considering the high
price of kerosene, we ought to use can*
and es. Well, perhaps we ought, and so
far as I am concerned I am willing to
mould three or four dozen to use at
evening, when looking for the nicest
apples in the barrels down cellar, or
for the children’s light when crakin<r
uuts or popping corn ; but to depend
on candles altogether is asking too
much (of me, at least). Many a far
mer’s boy leaves home at nightfall for
the village store or tavern, simply be
cause it is gloomy at home and bright
elsewhere ; and my economicil plan
would be to put one less flounce on the
girls’ dresses, and to have the boys
leave off smoking cigars entirely, aod
to cut the wee one’s rations of candy
down one half; and when evening came,
to have the big table in the middle of
the floor, with plenty of books and pa
pers, and a good bright light in a pret
ty lamp. I venture to say it will cost
less, whether you know it or not, than
to si* in semi-darkness with a tallow
candle ; for if the ‘good man’ and boys
get to the village, they will be quite
likely to investa little money in cigars,
candies, or may be a glass or two of
lager—whereas, if it was bright and
cheerful at home, ttey would be sa:is
fied to r-’inain there, which would be a
decided advantage to both morals and
pockets. So let us have both candles
and kerosene, but do not let the long
evenings be made gloomy for the sake
of economy in so small a matter.”
-4 -+ ——
Guano and Colton.
The following plan for putting guano
under cotton was furnished us by a
gentleman who learned the lick in the
cotton patch. He thinks the reason
why guano “don’t, pay.” is because it is
not put in right. “Break your land
deep. Run off rows three feet wide,
with straight shovel. Double furrow
if the land is rough. Distribute from
one hundred to one hnndred and fifty
pounds of guano to the acre, owing to
the quality of land. List on it with
subsoil, after which throw two furrows
together with turn-pluw This makes
a nice flat bed. Open with a small
plow or coulter. Strew the seed. Cov
er with harrow. When your cotton be
i gins to come up. plough out the mid
dles with a subsoil plow. This leaves
the ground loos3 and clean. By put
ting your guano in by the above meth
od, you hare it directly under the cot
ton plant. The common practice is to
list with turn plow,and li nee the
; guano is on one -ide of the bed and
tne cotton on the other.” — Ex.
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