^s\m C. k KDWAIil) ii. xxszizzr^tsrz- ene dollar per aquamof tweJfo Niaieo ltoee Ohl? iM type) or leee for for foil toeertion, any own ooohfor tin nimlwi mrt ineer. tione, ud twenty-Ire md(i for eahfoqaent iaeertM*. Yeejrly eoatraete Will he fowde. All UmtlwwW Bait bare tb? number "f IkM/tiona in ark ad on then, or they will be imerted till ordered oat, nl charged for. Ualfw ordered otherwise, AdrertUemeoU Will l.weelokln ko U iltenl.wai ? Obituary no ticca, and all matter* Inuring to t? tba baneflt of any oaa, aro regarded aa Adrertlaaaaanta. Itltrirt ^attrq. Only a Boy. O ily a boy with hie noiae and fun, Tha verlrat myatary under the aun ; Aa brimful of miachlef, and wit, and glee, Aa ever a human frame can bt, And aa hard to manage aa?what? ah, tur J Tie bard to tell, If el we love bim well Only a boy, wllh his fearful tread, Who eannot be driven, must be led ; Who troubles the neighbors' dogs end cats* And tears more clothes, and apolt^ more bats. Loses more kite*, and tope, and bats, Than would atoek a store For a year or. mere. Only a boy, wltfc bis wild, strange ways, With hia Idle boors, or his bnsy day a; With his queer remarks, and hla odd repile*. Sometimes food*, add sometimes wise, Often brilliant for ope of lrla aixe, A< a meteor hurled From the planat world. Only a boy, who will be a man If oatura goes on with her first great plan ? If lotennpet ance, or tome fatal snare. Conspire not to roh as of this our heir, Our blessing, onr trouble, our rest, our cat e> Our torment, our joy 1 " Only a boy." Itnrt} for tjjt Iai)if5. THE HUSBAND OUTWITTED ; OH, TWO CAM PLAT AT TDAT GAME. A week at the watering place, and moet of the time each day epent in the company of Mr. Manwell, the gentleman Miss Elaworth's old friend, Ned (Vhittaker, had introduced to her one morning on the piazza. 8he had sailed with him, had strolled with him, or ridden with him along the em?re? on me moonngtit evenings, and she lia? ad here might as . well eni>>* yttirself.' InnweU < excused himself | from joining the party, and they 1 all went away, leaving him to eoui- 1 pleto hia work. . w,^oi;k 'it is well,' be mattered to him- 1 self. 4 Jf she cannot- take me aa ) * am she Is pot worihy of roo. The woinad that morrles the biust take I me for inyself.' v SSw J iJM i I t., . Dnrotefr to Itnos, 1ILEY. PRO'RS. Ho atood and looked after her nntil tbo bod disappeared. She did not once turn to look back. lie cave bis shoulder a shrug, compressed his lips, uttered a cynical 4 humph I' aud turned to finish ?<{$ work. i ' Let it be so, be muttered, when he was through, and was pnttinv < i on his coat. * I thought perhaps I had found a woman after my own ] heart. But let it be so. Amidst this world of wealth and fashion, she too, has lost her soul. Let her go.' I He proided her thereafter. He did not seek .to catch her eye for i a bow of recognition. When she 1 entered the drawing-room where '1 he was, he would go out by anoth* er w&y. Jttut bo was more than over in the company of Ned in i passing to and fro between Miss < Els worth and him, who served still as a sort of link between them. 1 Yon are a cynical fellow,' said i Ned one day. * Why don't you j take people as they are?' Vou t will find good enough in them.' < 4 But they won't take me as I < am : that is the trouble.' t 4 Pooh 1 You see yourself that t she allows no other suitors to ac- 1 company her. Don't you see that she is alone, or with the girls most of the time ?" i 4 Her heart its full of vanity.' i 4 Pshaw ! She is tied to luxurious notions, that's all' i Man well's trunk was awaiting < uim aim lue singe, outside on the piazza, at the time this conveisa- I tion was going on. On the trunk i wetlier rooms to which he conducted his wife, was one fitted up as a ? workshop, where be said he' was I* accustomed to indulge his lov.e for roeehspical work, after having, In assured her, regularly served his lo time at learning a trade. fa Mrs. Manwell stood and looked rc " ^'^fchon^r .bo bi : k N v: > > +?? :?? .*>* 1/ *.v>?> Politics, 3niiUig< c^ccoc<>?oc^?oc>oo<>ocooo?9<: GRi 4 Yea, madam,' . ** * And von are not poor, but rich r 4 You apeak the truth, Mr*. Manwell." 4 And why did you play tCe jeat upon me !' ^' " * 4 To see whether yon really lovad me for my own sake.* * Ah, pretty, indeed! And stipx>ee yon do not love met* 4 Bnt I do.* Hnmph P So there was a little family quar* rel on the spot. 4 Now Invite yonr father and mother to come and see us,' said blnnwell, after the cloud had some what cleared. 41 will,* she replied?41 will. But first yon innst go with me to tee them, and pacify them in view 3t what we have done.' 4 Very well.' In a few days they started ont in the carriage on their errtinrl Kirs. Manwell gave tbo directions :o the driver, and her husband *,ould net help expressing his bonier at tho increasing squalor of he neighborhood through which ;hey rode. The carriage drew up jotore a miserable looking tenement house, and stopped. 4 Whore the duce are you taking me ?" asked Mr. Manwell; looking ?harp!v at his wife. 4 Come and see,' she replied, as die proceeded to step from the carriage. 4 llerc, wait, he exclaimed, arter ds first hesitancy, 4 let ine get out kiret and let you out. What does hie mean I1 4 Follow me,' waa her reply. She led hira up stairs?up, up, hrough throngs, and dirt, and tnclls, to the fonrtli story. Here be opened the door Without knockng, and the two entered. The wonan was dressed ncatlv, and so verc the children, but they were ill dressed very poorly, in keep ng with the place, llie man was jlad more carelessly, and even norc poorly. On his head he kept lis hat, which, certainly, was full lalf a dozen years old. 4 My husband, Mr. Manwell; ny father and mother, brothers ;nd sisters,' said Mrs Manwell, inroducing all parties. Manwell, stood and started with ut speaking. 4 Ask their pardon, George,' said tire. Manwell, 4 for running away nth me.' 4 W ho are they ?' 4 Have I not told you ; didn't I ntrodnce yout a \rri - TL . - ?? no were inoso at tno waterrig place V 4 Sumo wealthy people, wlio had fen me at the milliner's where I awed for a livelihood?served my nde, Goorgo?and fancied my ppearance, dressed mo up, and >ok me with them.' * Yon jest.' 4 Do It No indeed 1 These cople seemed to recognize me as daughter and sister. Jest, Ineed ! Yon will find that out. 4 You are too cultivated, too isteful, too fine featured 1' 4 All lis,' 6ftid Mrs. Manwell, a milli er may be. or a sewing girl. Look jr yourself among the class. Is it ot true ) All that wo girls need, i dress.' Mr. Manwell lifted his fist and ashed it through the air. lie round his teeth, and, turning way, left the room, slamming the oor violently behind hitn. His wife took off h?r nW loak, and flung herself down at a ible and buried her face in her and kerchief. The door opened again, and lanwell put in his head. * You ave deceived me,' he said, 1 but ome, you are my wife, I will try nd bear it.' She sprang to her feet and con* -onted liitn. ' Your wife, am I!' ebe exclaim* d, 4 and doomed to live with one ho dooa not love her, but was in >ve with her circumstances 1 No, ir, you may go; 1 wiil not live a ifo unloved for myself?you must tke me thus, or I will stay. Still can work.* . I f _ _t__ J - * - ne cKwca me uoor end retired own stair* to the street, clinching is hands and teeth as he went. 4 The horrible disgrace of it,* he luttered. The derision that will e my lot. And then to marry iich a girl 1 But at the street door he tarried, le had to struggle with himself II alone. Suddenly lie tflrned and ashed impetuously up the stairs, nr.g open the door of tho room, lized his wife in his arms and asped bar to his heart. 4 My wife,' be whispered in her ir ;4 stich you are and ever shall b, before God and before the ortd.* (Now I begin to think that yon ve me'she said, smilingly in lus ce. 4 You do love me? You sally think yon do, George f lie clasped her mere tightly to im.^ ' % * - . ;M .1 ^ V il Ann *H* Intnt f wiw *yv EENV1LLE. SOUTH CAROLS * Come,, then,' ?a!4 Abe, ' (hongh of such parent* as these, pour as 'hev are, sbonld not feel ashamed ?yet they are not my parents, but have only played a part in which I have instructed them. Shake bands with them, George, they are worthy people.' And he did shake bands with them, and what is more, he helped them. A merry party was gathered that evening at Mnnwell's house, a party consisting of Mr. and Mis. Manwell, and their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth, and yonng lady ac quaintances of the watering place, and Ned Whittakcr. Ned never wos in better spirits, nor. let it be stated, were Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth, who forgave their daughter and her husband without hesitation. * I say, George,' said Ned, wl?is penng in xuanweiis' ear, * two can play at that game, can't they ?* Man well took Ned's jeering very soberly. 'Yes,' said i e, alter a few moments of thonghtfulness, 4 and the experience has taught me a lesson. What fools the pride ot wealth makes of ns all. I thought she ought to have taken me regardless ? f my circumstances, for myself alone, and without lnsita tion, even. And yet, when she tested tnc, 1 myself, was found W Ant i n or Slioll ?'o " *"? "*~C nw v * VI iuai II IV disregard a person's occupation, and tlie sonlf' Mr. Whittnkcr shrugged bis shoulders dubiously. *1 think I have learned the least n,' Mr. Manwcll added. A dvantages of Stock for the Production of Manure. A paper prepared to be read before the Topsail Agricultural Club, April 2, 1870, by ono of its members, says: A favored cow or full grown steer will produce annually, if fed with sufficient tbrngc and one peck of beets, turnips or potatoes daily, about sixteen tons of unmixed manure termed solid?equal in ammonia to 1333* lbs. of Peruvian Guano, estimating the guano at 15 per cent. The addition of 260 lbs. of superphosphate of lime makes it equal in all respects to the Guano. Then sixteen tons may by careful drying be reduced to about the same weight as the guano. The liquids of the same animal yield double that amount of pure ammonia, equal to 2607 lbs of guano, say in all 4,000 lbs. of guano. Tho other phospbatic salts ot tho liquid equal the phosphates in the guano. So that you have ill the animal product ot the cow and about $3 expended for phosphates, a manure worth $180 ? sufficient with the addition of Dickson's formula to manure from 20 to 40 acres of land. If we assume the ammonia of the guano to bo in the form of a carbonate, we bave in the cow's voiding tor one year, an equivalent for tho ammonia of soven tons of gnano, And with one ton of superphosphate of lime equal to that , amount of guano for fertilizing, and with Dixon's formula to manure from 10 to 140 acres. Tins may and no doubt does seem incredible to persons who have been ' all their lives familiar with domestic manure. But no one of us, I ' presume, has ever kept a well fed ' cow or ox so confined us to have all i its excrements and in such a situation as will secure it from loss. Consequently we are unablo to deny the authority of Dana, Johnson and others upon whose careful measurements and scientific analyses of theso products the foregoing statement is based. It is further stated that the ammonia voided in one year's solids and finidA of a good sized animal will com* 1 bine with sufficient carbonic acid ( to make 2031 lbs. of carbonate of < ammonia. If we attempt to sup- i ply this out of the channels of 1 commerce, it costs $400. If the 1 loss sustained by the members of 1 tliis club, in the waste and neglect 1 of production of animal mnnnrA nt all kinds bo measured by its relation to Peruvian Guano, we shall J find no doubt it equals tho sum ot 1 all our products, or in other words, 1 that if all were saved and as mndi produced as is possible it would l more than double them. Animal manures absorbed by dry vegetable mould and pure phosphates will enable us to keep more stock, make knore manure, increase the stock and so on ad lib-turn, Shelters for stock and shelters tor manures, floors of puddled clay, and if required of cement. Are the only magic agents in this great reform. ' [Carolina Fanner. J Mr. Ctiyckanickbucks Yakutsk oiitmiiks eakiatskylitmiks Ankac- i bagainuks MekutonekutEokorts i keeps a hotel at Bitka, Alaska.? 1 He savt that thfe Americans have the queerest names he ever heard of, and it is with the utmost difl' ' cully lie can prottounco them. , I I I IW I I TiTHTfT 1 h\ll 'oxmiuui of i\}t 8 [A, MAY 18, 187ft [From the Rural Caroltoiaa.] Keeping Irish Potatoes. Mr. Editor: I see flint "Mrs \\. B. Itin your April number inquires for the best manner o keeping Irish potatoes. I am i great lover of that vegetable, anc Const quently I always try to keej them in good condition. For sev eral years I was not very success fill, nor was I until I adopted th< following plan: My house it about forty feet square, and abou three to fonr feet trom the ground with occasional pillar*to suppor it, so that there is a free circula tion ot air, at all times, nndor it When my potatoes are fully ripe which is known when the tops aie I dig them carefully, removing them immediately into a shadx\ place, where 1 assort them, leaving for preservation none but those which are perfectly sound aud not at all injured with the hoe. 1 put the soQild ones under my house, scattering them so that they wil! not touch each other, and let them remain there until there is danget ot their freezing. I have a large box under ray house, made on purpose, into wluct II put my potatoes lu the following manner : First, a layer ot perfect ly dry sand, and theu a layer o potatoes, not allowing one to presj on another, then alternately a lay er of potatoes and sand, untfl my box is filled, which will hold some thirty bushels. Adapting this course, I do not think I have loat a peck from rotting in five years, indeed, I have no tears whatever in regard to keeping or preserving uiy potatoes, and 1 often have an abundance until alter ulantino # # K C time in the spring. Tbo only trouble is in having dry sand, foi if it is tiie least damp the potatoes will sprout. Last fall 1 put up ir this manner my seed for planting this spring, and when I took them out to plant not one of tb m woe in the least injured, and the same was true with regard to my eating potatoes. I give this as the result of my experience, and tor what it is worth. Isaac Branch, M. D. Abbeville, C. //., ?S. C?, April !?*, 1870. ? ? Use of Lime in Aokicpltcre.? The use of lime is two-fold: 1st, physical, 2d, chemical. As a mechanical agent, it opens stiff clays, rendering them friaple, mellow, and more easily worked; chemically, it acts on tho vegetable matter of the soil and sets free those stores of valuable substances which, without the action of this agent, must have remained inert ami useless. It enters directly in to the composition of plants, and in many varieties forms largo pro portions of the weight oi their inorganic constituents. It neutralizes certain acids which are often present in soils, rendering them useful in vegetation instead of being positively injurious, which they are in their original state.? The existence of water in the soil, however, affects the action of lime very considerably. If the land is wet and undrained, lime will not exert the same influence which it would do in the case of thoroughly drained land A greater quantity ot lime is necessary to produce a given effect, thus the neglect ot thorough drainage entails a considerably greater expenditure in liming than would have been necessary if the land was eidier naturally or artificially dry.? Camron a Chemistry of Agriculture. A California letter says : " I was quite certain that the * Shoo Ply * mania would culminate in a tragedy. News has just been received from Trinity county that a wanderingminstreT troupe, which recently ponotrAted to that benighted region, was warned to cease singing the ditty, and on their refusal, wore granted a fair trial by the Indignant miners.? Their cloths didn't fit the jury, so lliAV trora nrAmtffn/1 Irs i^?rvnn - -- VJ -1l?SS?*?"l O. Kkvknob . pnta yon on a level with your enemy ; forgiveness lifts you far above him. 5KPR i ' ' wi ,i- : trttf nitb Country. The Men Who 8neeeed. Take twenty boys of sixteen, in our or any city in the State, and let them go to work, three or fonr | in a dry goods store, boot and t shoe, or blacksmith establishments I and printing offices. In ten years ? they will become inen of twentv? 1 .1. t?f oia, nnu inn iimjuriijr 01 mem win then be about as far alone: in the [ business as tbev ever will be.? j One or two only in each of the t above branches will be establish ed in business for themselves or ? connected with some firm doing a good buisiness, and the rest will be barely getting a living and growling about their poor luck.? 1 Now, we assert that there is good \ reason for their poor success, and * that luck has but little, if any thing r at all, to do with it. If we take ; tho trouble to ascertain the real ' facts in their several cases, wo ' shall find that those yonng men who became masters in their i trades, or leadiug men in their J persuits, were not afraid to work, . and were determined to succeed. They look beyond tbe day and r week. They madethjmsdveavalj nable and useful to their employers, by bcirn; always faithful, relil able and willing to do what they j- could for the interest of those for 9 whom they worked. When a press of business came, they were r ready and willing to work extra j hours and without sulking or ( grumbling, well knowing that business must be attended to when it came, and that there were ! plenty of dull times during the , year, which would more than 1 counterbalance any extra brisk, ness of the busy season. To sum ! it all up, these young men iden. tified themselves with the es;ab j lisbment where they were employ^ ed, became useful to their employp ers, in fact fixtures, who could be [ illy spared, and in due course of ( time, having gained experience, , were invited to take a hand with , tho already cstablahed house, or else boldly stride out for themselves. Here, then, is the lesson, which is, if you wish to become successful masters, learn first to > become faithful servants. American Wonders. The greatest cataract in the woria is me t alls of M mgnra, where the water from the great upper > lakes forms a river of three quarters of a mile in width, and then, being suddenly contracted plunges over the rocks in two columns, to the depth of one hundred and seventy feet each. The greatest cave in the world is the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, where any one can make a voyage on the waters of a subterranean river, and catch fish without eyes. The greatest river in the world is the Mississippi, four thousand one hundred mi.ee long. The largest valley in the world is the Valley of the Mississippi. It contains five hundred thousand square miles, and is -one of the most fertile and profitable regions of the globe. The largest lake in the world is Lake Superior, which is truly an inland sea being four hundred and thirty miles long and, one thousand feet deep. The longest railroad in the world is the Pacific Railroad, over 3000 miles in length. The greatest natural bridge in tlie world is the Natural Bridge over Cedar Creek, in Virgina. It , extends across a chasm eighty feet in width and two hundred and fifty feet in depth, at the bottom of which the creeks flows. The greatest mass of solid irou in the world is the Iron Mountain of Missouri. It is three hundred and fifty feet high, and two miles in circuit. Tl.o ^ * ? a?v wot opcviuicn ui vjrectHii architecture in the world, is the Del phi a Girard College for Orphans, Phila. Mosquitoes are begining to sing their sanguinary songs in cool, dark corners. Josh Billings says the mosquito was born of poor but honest parents, who had in their veins some of the best blood in the country, and the progeny will undoubtedly take care that the best blood will not lack replenishing. A clergyman, in a recent sermon iu New York, quoted an anecdote of an old merchant, who instructed his clerks: M When a man comes into a store and talks of his hon aty, watch him ; if he talks of his wealth, don't try to sell to him ; if he talks of his religion, don't trust him a dollar." A fokthkn teak old boy at San Antonio, Texas, pointed a six shooter at hit father Just to scare the old man. A funeral there don't attract hardly any attention. > The boy and his ma were abort i the only onca who cried. ISE. MA M v ? f. y !?>; - ' t *'*? < ? ? > T VOLUME XVI-.NO. 62. * i _ _ ... ^ The moaning oi the tied?a husband'* grumbling. An unpleasant sort of arithmetic?division among families. Troubles are like babies ; the/ grow bigger by nursing. Never intrust a secret to a belle ?it will be to&d. - Somebody says night gowns are " late habits." Book-keeping taught in one lee" son?Pon*t lend them. A man often regrets that be did speak on certain occasions: very seldom that he did not speak. When the cat is away, the cook finds it difficult to explain how the cold meat goes. How we do love to hear the. whole barn-yard cackle every time our selfishness lays an egg. Queen Victoria is the richest * widow in the world. She has laid up $10,000,000Strivk to do right because it is right; shun the wrong because it is wrong. An exchange is not far from right in saying that a sour-faced wife often helps the liquor trade. Baltimobb announces that her foreign commerce is steadily in* creasing. Fashion decrees that ladies' boots shall be laced hereafter?not buttoned. Sepabatb cars for colored people are now run on the Baltinioro street railroads. Vice does not pay; the sin is less sweet than we fancied, and it cost more than vra bargained tor. It is a great shame to venture npon any wrong tiling, and then presume upon forgiveness. Wmen shall we look at, the rosebuds or the rose-hugs, when we visit a neighbor's conservatory? All history shows that it is in* finitely easier to control than to rule a corps of priests. Somk married men go out like candles, leaving their wives in the ^.,-1. ...i ? uai n. ao lU Wlieie lllCy BpCIlCl their evenings. All young men have inalienable rights, of which none is so sacred as the privilege to be " somebody." White your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of those you t-ome in contact with, and you will never be forgotteu. Base all your actions npon principle ot right; preserve your integrity of right; and, doing this, never reckon the cost. Men of genius are often dull and inert in society ; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. God takes notice of every paticular man as if there waa none else; and yet takes notice of all as if there were but one man. Be not over hasty to combat public opinion without pressing reason. lie that spits against the wind, spits in his own face. Tiie upper ten of London regard it us bad etiquette to ride to church on Sunday, whenever it is possible to walk. Eioht million copies of tho French Emperor's letter to the people on the plebiscite were piinted for distribution. An Irishman that was very near sighted, about to fight a duel, I insisted that he should stand six I paces nearer his nntnm~n;n? ?'? ?? Nm %umi the other did to him. u Whkn he shot at me the third time," said a California teaunster, " 1 began to think he meant business, so I up-with my rifle and put a bullet through his head." A totino man in Coldwater, Michigan, suddenly lost his voice on Christmas, and he has been unable to speak since, except in his sleep, when he talks as fluently as ever. Immediately after tire burning of the Richmond Theatre, in 1811, the Council of that city passed an order forbiding any public show, assembly or dancing tor the period of four months. A monkey has been born in Pittsburg. The event being the first of the kind in that city, the editor of one of the radical newspapers has visited the wfant, and is disposed to recognise it as a man ana brother. " Ah interesting game, nc doubt," the typical witty Frenchman Is reported to have said, on his first introduction to the ground i of the London Cricket Club, " but , why can't yon Englishmen, who ; are so rich, hire some one to run [ about for you P