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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. ! omestic Sewing Machine S domestic Paper Fashions '*/ M omestic Underbraider jl IS omestic Machine Find gs OMESTIC MONTHLY. THE Light-Running: DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE. 18 1 HE BEST. Greatest Range of Work# Best Quality of Work. Lightest to Ru< Always iu Order. “Domestic” Sewing Machine Cos., SEW YORK and CHICAGO. 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By reason of error ot fraud many attor neys are suspended from practice before the Pension and other offices each year.— Claimants whose attorneys have been thus suspended will be gratuitously furnished with full information and propel papers on application to us. As we charge uo fees unless successful, stamps for return postage should be sent us. Liberal arrangements made with attor neys in all branches of business Address GILMORE & CO., P O. Box 44, Washington , Jj . (7. Washington, D. C., November 24, 1876, I take pleasure in expressing my entire confidence in the responsibility and fidelity of the Law, Patent and Collection House of Gilmore & Go., of thi3 city. GEORGE H. B, WHITE, (Cashier of the Natioi al Metropolitan Bank } dec9-tf. Hygienic Institute ! 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