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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, MARCH 15,1882, 7 Cottage Homes. Cheap, cosy and comfortable homes are in demand. They find a more ready sale or rental than almost any other sort of prop erty. Kvery one ought to possess a home that combines the qualities of beauty, conveni ence and reasonable expenditure. For the information of our readers, we present a design for a cottage costing $1,000 to $1,600. The architect of this design is Mr. Horace G. Knapp, of 61 Broadway, New York City, and the cottage represented on this page is one of a series in course of construction in the sub urbs of New York. They are estimated to cost from $1,000 to $1,600 under the , most skillful and econom ical expenditure of ma terials and labor. Through out every department of the work the most assid uous thought lias been bestowed to make every dollar expended tell. Tiie internal arrange ment is well explained by tiie accompanying floor plans. The parlor is 11x16 feet; dining-room, 12x14 ft. 2 in.; out-kitclien, 7 ft. 6 in.xlO ft. 0 in.; front chamber, 10x14 ft.; back chamber, 9x12 ft.; front bed-room, 6 ft. 6 in.xlO ft.; back bed-room, 7 ft. x7 ft. 6 in. It will be noticed that tiie house contains seven rooms, all of fair size and of convenient access and pleasant communication. Bya very slight modifica tion, tiie arrangement can lie adapted to double con struction, reversing the ar rangement of one build ing. This would not only Jreduce the cost of tiie two buildings, but would af ford more available space to tiie plot. We are under many ob- igatlons to Mr. Knapp for the use of tiie design, and iny further information concerning details may be liad /rom him at address ■hove given. Cotton SkkdOilinCook- ehy.—We have tested the refined cotton seed oil, as a substitute for hog's lard, and we pronounce it n complete success. On themorningof tiie elec tion we ate as nice biscuits, in which the cot ton seed oil was used, as we ever saw, and we here and now declare we take no more lard in ours. Tiie oil is clearer and cheaper than lurd and lias a better flavor. Housewives and cooks will understand what we mean by cheaper when we tell them that a gallon of oil can be bought for $1.00 and that a table spoonful is enough to put in a pint of flour for muking biscuit. For frying fish or steak the cotton seed oil is superior to anything we have evcrscen used in this country. The discovery of the utility of the oil is destin ed to prove a bonanza to the South. Tiie seed will, in time, become as valuable as the lint, and if we can only establish manufac tories in our own section, which will work up the fleecy staple, tho seed and even the fiber on the stalk, it will not be many years before the cotton section of this Union will become the richest and most prosperous por tion of the continent.—[Chickasaw (Okolo- na) Messenger. Buttkb Easily Spoiled.—Of all tho pro ducts of the farm butter is the most liable to to be tainted by noxious odors floating in the atmosphere. Our. people laid some veal in the cellar, from which a little blood flowed out, and was neglected until it had com menced to smell. The result was that a jar of butter we were packing smelled and tast ed like spoiled beef. We know of an in stance where there was a pond of filthy, stag nant water a few hundred feet from the house, from which an offensive effluvium would be borne on the breeze directly to the milk room when the wind was in a certain direction, the result of which was that the cream and butter would taste like the dis agreeable odor from the pond. As soon as the pond was drained there was no moredam- aged butter. It is remarkable how easily mtter is spoiled. Homs.—Something is surely wrong in the plan of that life from which intellectual and spiritual culture is crowded out. Tiie man who comes in from his office, ids store, his farm, night after night, to And his house in nice order, an inviting supper waiting for him, his children clean and well clothed, but his wife so tired that she would go straight to bed if she could. Alas! she can not, because—as I have said—there is her work-busket full to overflowing, may make up his mind that there is a mistake Bome- wliere. This is no plea for idleness, no plcn for mere pleasure seeking. Every wife, out into tiie world with him. Some hus bands and wives are so busy that they have no time to love each other, no time for the interchange of the small, sweet courtesies, without which wedded life is like tiie salt that has lost its savor.—[Farmer's Friend. Give your children your confidence in the affairs of your business. They will thus take interest, and become co-workers with you. If you enlist their respect, then their sympathy and co-operation, they will quite likely remain to tuke up your work when you have done, and will go abend perfecting wliut you have commenced. the home circle only as a place to let off the steam of anger and rudeness, which has been kept under pressure while out in the world. How many men would not dare to speak to others as they do to their wivesnndchildren, and these same men who are so surly and cross at home to their own wives and daugh ters, are all smiles and bows to other men's wives and daughters. Such a state of uffuirs should not exist in any home. The least that can be said of sucli it man is flint lie is a coward and desperately mean, to inflict his spleen and bad temper where he knows it will not be resented. DESIGN FOR COTTAGE COSTING ONE THOUSAND TO FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. high or low, rich or poor, in palace or in cot tage, should strive to be a "helpmeet" to her husband. But being a helpmeet does not mean being a mere drudge. It does not mean working like a galley-slave for one’s board Hood Manners. A pleasant address, accompanied by good manners has often proved a fortune to young men entering on a business career; insuring success from the very beginning. Good man ners joined to sound integrity, and strong determination and firmness, will control af- and clothing—poor clothing, too, very often. It docs not mean the sacrifice of all a wo man’s tastes, and the loss of all her bloom and freshness; and more than all, it docs not mean a rude awakening from all tiie happy dreams that wero lier’s when she placed her band in that of the man she loved and went The Guinea Gross Cose in Mississippi has been de cided. A live planter thought there was money in making liny. In cast ing about, therefore, to as certain the best seed for his purposo lie at last con cluded to try Guinea grass, otherwise known as John son grass. He hnd heard almost fabulous stories of its productiveness, its ten acity, and its marketable value as forage, and he made up his mind to try it. The neighbors heard of it. They declared that the grass would cover tho earth with its rank luxu riance, and (lew to the courts for an injunction which was granted. Blun ter appealed. Witnesses from Mississippi, Ala bama and Georgia enme by dozens to prove that they had found Johnson grass more profitable than cotton; that it grew with marvelous vigor, was hardy, fruitful and nutrl tious; that the hay was in constant and eager de mand at handsome prices, and that, so far from being an indestructible and mis chievous pest like coco, it was no more difficult to eradicate than Bermuda grass or wire grass, with one or the other of which nearly every Southern field is infested. In short, tho iduintiffs had no cose at all. Their suit was shown to be unfounded and frivo' Vis, und Johnson grass conquered with great car nage. And truly, considering the matter seriously, it would liuvo been u vary un wholesome spectacle if the case had turned out otherwise. PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR. fairs, and enable a person to almost shnpc events and changes according to the will or purpose. Circumstances can be surmounted by such an array of forces. In no place should manners be so perfect as in the home circle, and yet this is the place where they are ignored, many using A New Cotton and Corn Planter.—Dr. E. 0. Elliott, of Sparkling Catawba Springs, has been exhibiting here this week whut appears to be a highly meritorious inven tion which has just been patented by Elli ott & Hefner. It is a cotton planter'by the use of which one man and one horse can open the furrow, drop in tho cotton seed and cover it. The plow to be used on tho machine is an ordinary bull-tongue. On the top of the planter are two compart ments, one for the seed and the other for the fertilizer. Tubes lead down from these to the heel of the plow, and the flow of seed and fertl lizer can be regulated as dcsi red. A board attached to tho rear end of tho planter covers up the furrow after the seed und fertilizers have been deposited in it. The cotton seed dropper can also be used as a corn dropper, which can be regulated as to drop the corn any desired distant apart. It is claimed that with this invention 6 to 8 acres can be planted in cotton in a day, or 8 to 10 acres in corn. To look at the planter and see its work ings on the streets, one could hardly doubt that it will do all that is claimed for it. Many of our farmers who saw it wero greatly impressed with it, and its general Introduction will doubtless be found to effect a large saving in labor and money. We hope tho patentees will reap from it tho reward of their skill.—Statesville Landmark, Dr. Hamtuond, formerly Surgeon General of the United States army, says: “ I know of no possible condition which renders the use of whiskey, gin, rum or brandy neces sary or proper.” Pretty positive language this.