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C. P. TOWIfEtS, EDITOR.
J. C. BA1 LEYt ASSOCIAtU
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AmSTlttt!*!!?l lnaortod tt tk? Ittn of
?? dollar Mr man of twoloo HImw Ba?
(tbla atoad tjrr*> ?r loot tar Ik* An* luwrtlw,
Any o?nt? ttck for Ik* mm4 and third tMtiona,
ni twaotr-d?o mn tar nkMfMt
insartlooa. Yaarly MOttMto will bo mada
AT) idvwtbMcate ioaat htrt Ibo uak*r
of iLMrtlou bmM on tbam, or tbry will bo
IbiiuhI till irlm< oat, and tbirjod tar.
Volaoa nrdaaod othorwlsa, AAnHtoiHiita
will iurarfably bo ? diaplayod."
Obitaary Bottooa, aM oil laatnart iaarht to
to tbo boiaott of aky ooo. or* rogardod u
Adrartlaanmata.
* ftlrrtA ^nrtnj.
Made Perfect Tlffotfk Suffering.
Hiddw 1b a bamlot lowly,
BlwpU, paoaotal way* abo trod j
Kapt bar aplrlt puro Bad holy,
Faaad a pallet: t path to Qod.
Front bar oarty girlhood, tllooao
Blanebed tba roaa upon bar cbeak j
Huabad bar bwoyoBey to atlllriaaa,
Till (Tom pais abb eoold not apoak.
In bar loaaly obambor lying,
CnrUlnad from tbo glodaoma day ;
Rnffertaf, awoot and aalf-danyiny,
Cbaarful pataod tbo hour* away.
Rlponod tfcoa bar aptfit'a baauty,
rwiwwa, MICIIUU IOT*|
^ Conquered life by fejth and duty,
Won an angal'a crown above.
^tnrq for tjie labiro.
PAULINE'S FLIRTATIONS.
4 Only eight o'clock 1 how slowly
the time payees!' And Pauline
Sedlev yawned, as she looked oat
over ilia purpling tints of ths twilight
sea, where now and then the
reflection of a star seemed to
splash into the waves.
It was a golden Angust evening,
moonless not radiant with the
balmy air full of tho new-made
liav, mil gling not nnpleasantly
witb the salt breath of the sea. and
the sky all glorious with the dolphin-like
bnes of the dying day,
and Miss Sedlev, sitting on the hotel
balcony in her wi ite robes of
Indian muslin, girded with scarlet,
and scarlet verbenas In her hair,
made an exceedingly pretty ad
jnnct to the scone. ShewasabrnnAtfn
with a hrilliwnt mmnlatlnn I
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all cream and crimson, jet block
hair, straight and glossy as an Indian's,
ana eyes whoso melting
tenderness was liko the dusky
glow of tropic stars.
No wonder that little Ralph
Mont acute, the enthusiastic boy of
eighteen, was madly in love with
her?no wonder that he hung on
her slightest word as an Eastern
devotee hangs on the priest's oracular
utterance!
4 Slowly. Pauline when I pm at
3'our side I' he said, a little re
proachfully.
Pauline laughed, and turned the
rlininnnH onH muil f!nn? mvoIos.I..
? ava(..w*>%? mm mm-Km i aii^O vaiVIWOOIj
round on tier tinker.
4 Ton are only a child, Ralph/
she Raid, a little disdainfully.
41 atn a year older than yon,
Pauline.*
Pauline Sled ley reached np to
tap bis flushed beardless cheek
with her fan.
' A girl of seventeen is equal to
a man of twenty seven, any time,
Ralph. Vou're a nice little cava
lier, and yon dance the polka delightfully
; but you are not fairly
? nt ot the top and ball phase vet
Now, there is Gnetavus Melville,
he's a inan?a man who ha? blushed
the bloom off of all the world's
temptation, and your cousin, liar
ry Livingstone, 1 cavaliersanepeur
et ?an* r*mmpmkt/* Major Livingstone's
eyes are enough
to set any woman's heart ablare.'
fche spoke abstractedly, looking
ont towards the sea, and apparent
ly quite nnoonscions that site had
any auditor but the far off waves,
and the mantling twilight.
4 Pauline t' ejaculated the boy,
pasaiooately,41 may be young iu
^ears, but you have taught my
nwi premature eeveiopment.?
Von nave no right to sneak to me
thus* after playing wfth toy affection*
all the summer r
? Pauline glanced op tn astonishikrat
Finished ouquette that ahe
ma, ahe hardly etpeeted tbia oat
tiurat from the m<*t insignificant
at ker vletima. Bhe had eneour*
aged. RjdpJi M?r'acute,a too visible
intatftMnw, "simply because it
amused her to make a captive of a
pretty boy, and now ahe was as
maoh taken by aurprlae as would
Dt IM Dttunwut ir the writhing
t>c>Wt shoe id ftnd voice to remonstrate,
when the hook wee being
twietod out of bU quivering Jawe.
. 'M/dearBalph, y on ere talklog
noneense,' $ue said, lightly.
4 JJoneeneel It it eoneenee to
t?U yon thet I love yon, that my
heart hae paoed irrevocably into
yner keepm*?that life wewd be
edelert witlioet yoef
Tea?very absurd nonsenea 1
Qobeek to eeboeL fialph. or ool
lege, or wherever It h, and forget, j
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Dreolrh lo Tltrus,
AILEY, PRO'S S.
My dear child, I should as soon
think oi marrying little Tony
Warwick, who has Just got out of
the merino frocks!'
Balph Montaoute was silent.?
Pauline's lightly apoken words of
ridicule cut him to the heart.
4 Pauline,' be said, almost stern*
do yon think you hate treated
me honorably V
Pauline Yawned.
4 HoilOTRhlr nna maiif onm.n
one** self at a place like this, and
yon certainly ought to understand
the difference between a mere
harmless flirtation, and real, sober
earnest. Now, Ralph, do lease
off teasing me; be sensiblo, tliut'a
a good boy 1*
Ralph turned away.
(I see Mr. Melville coming this
way?you will excuse me, Paul
ine r
4 Oh, certainly.'
Pauline drew a breath of relief,
as h. r vonthfnl swain walked away
towards the star-lighted beach.
4 Who would have imagined
that the little fellow would have
taken it so to heartT she murmurod
softly, as she extended hor
my wane liana to Mr. Meh ille, |
who, with bait a dozen others, had
sauntered up the piazza steps.
4 You are looking grave, f;?ir
tropical <jueen,' said Melville,
drawing his bamboo choir a trifle
near. 4 May one of the humblest
of all yonr slaves venture to ask
why !'
4 Did over you kill or maim a
butterfly!' demanded Pauline, suddenly.
4 A great many times, I am
afraid, in the thoughtlessness of
early youth ; but why do you
4 Because I have just done the
same tiling.*
Mr \fol-:uA ? *
. MVKiiiv gimivvu i^uesuuii'
ingly around.
4 Oh,' hutched Pauline, 4 it was
not a real winged insect, Mr. Melville.
I was sneaking metaphorically.
A ft cm all, its a matter ot no
roaf consequence?only a lesson
the ct ild needed, to cure liiin of
something very like presumption.
It's little Ralph Moutacnte; lie
has just had the impertinence to
tell me that he loved mol The
idea of a child like that taking advantage
of the little encouragement
I may have thoughtlessly
given him, to imagine?but it's too
ridiculous.'
4 But I don't see the ridiculous
side of it,' said Melville, 6ternly.
4 Montacute is young, hut he is a
manly fellow; and pardon roe,
sovereign lad}* ot all hearts, but
you did encourage him most
markedly,'
41 never thought of anything
serious,' lisjied Pauline, with an
nrtlessne s truly angelic. 4 It was
only the chance amusement of au
hour.'
Melville shrugged his shoulders.
4 A good deal like the story ot
thtjrogs and tho !>< )*?,* he said.?
4 But to dismiss all less pleasant
thoughts?what do von rov to a
row on the sea bv starlight V
41 shall be delighted P
And the merrr gronp vanished
into the empurpled darkness, their
voices ringing into the air, long
after their forms wero iinj?eiceptible.
Tlien, and not till then* a tall
figure raised itself from the h nn
boo settee, or opnch, just within
the wide open windows, where the
cool muslin curtains waved softly
at every breath of tho soft Rummer
breeze, and &I?jo: IT an y Livingstone
coolly walked out on t; e
piazza, igniting a cigar afi he did
so.
4 The coquette,1 he muttered between
his set teeth; the health-*?
flirt ! Now I can better coinpnhend
Ralph's verviw mood* of
lato. She baa broken the bo\ >
heart, and earea no move f?>r it
than if she had cracked one of the
China oologne bottles upon her
dressing table! Well, this is a
strange world. If Pauline bad
taken a handkerchief, or purse,
from Ralph ^s pocket, the iron
hand of the law woftld be down
on her immediately ; but she steals
hie heart right out of hie
and society looks on with a smiling
face and folded hands! Why
| is there~ug law made and enacted
to punlinauch heartless crimes as
this 1 For Crimea they are? black,
treacherous crimes, even though
i iiwy uro perpetrated by such beautics
as Pauiine Sod ley, and her eieter
coquet lee t Ami this fair in
nocent boy, whom I Wed like a
brother ( tha coldest heart might
have spared him. By Cupid and
all hie attendant doitie* I 1 will be |
avenged on Paulina Sod ley tor
thler
At almost the same instant,
Ralph Hontacute came slowly up
the plana steps. The lightneea
and elasticity oi hie step were
K; ha walked like one who
received a mortal woond.
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GR1
Montacute started at his cousin's
voice.
1 You here. Harry I*
'Yes, all aloue; Bit down beside
me, old fellow ; why are you
not with the boating party V
\I did promise to make one of
them t.iis morning; but?but?
somehow I don't ieel like it tonight.'
Livingstone took his cousin's
hand and pressed it with a firm
loving grasp.
'I know all a lion t it, Ralph,' he
said mildly. * Don't he cast down
?she isn't worth one pang of
memory. The world is wide; life
is long?you'll ou'live this blow, if
yon only have patience to wait.'
Montacnte's head dropped on
his cousin's shoulder.
* Oh, Harrv, I did love hor?1
loved her dearly.'
1 Tuke courage?she is not worth '
it.'
And the stalwart soldier, sooth
ing away hit} boy-cousin's woe. whs
as gentle as a woman, even while
he wondered to see that Ralph
took it so to licnrt.
From that day, the gay little
world at the fashionnble watering
j place were astonished at the devo
lion accorded by Major Living
stone to Miss Scdley.
Pauline was tnoro than nsfon
ished, she was elated and overjoyed.
Major Livingstone was a man
who was sought and courted by all
the belles ot society ; a man whose
magnetic eyes, as alio herself had
termed it, and gently modulated
voice, were enough to set any wo
man* Heart on fire.
He walked with lier; lie rode
with her ; ho road poetry to her ;
lie nat by her Bide during the long,
f^ilden September twilights until
'auline felt that life beside hitu
was the greatest boon Providence
Could bestow upon her. She
haughtily discarded all other suit
ors; (lie cared no longer for ball
room or picnic parties?to her the
whole world held but ono man, |
and that man was Harry Livingstone.
Hut 6till he kept outside of
the charmed circle of love-making*
?he did not propose. And Pauline,
counting the days that still re
tnained ot "the season," grew al
most heart-sick.
1 Ho will pioposo to-morrow?
perhaps tbo day after,' she wbia
pored to herself. 4 Oh, surely it
must come soon.'
It was the evening before tliu
dopartnro of the gay party that
had enlivened the sea side hotel all
summer, and a brilliant ball bad
been gotten tip to celebrate the
close of the brief, happy season.?
Paulino Sedley bad dressed for
the occasion with unusual care?
somehow 6he felt it was to be a
crisis in ber life. She wore a lemon
colored crape dress on lemon
Colored silk, like a fair, aureate
cloud, and her hair was looped up
in shining braids, with slender
gold chains. Her toilette, she
knew the moment she entered,
I was u success, bv the murmur that |
pervaded the hall room ; and Harry
Livingstone's e> os rested upon
her face with evident admiration.
But the evening passed away,
throbb.ng its brilliant bouts in
music and pertuiuo, and Harry
never came u ar her. She bad
cavaliers in abundance; she was
| the cyn< nte of all etc-*; bnt lie,
the mi . of all men, kept oboti
\ nately aloof.
i 4 Take me to the ba'conv, I am
islirtiiitr for the ivsinr . f ?!? 4 clw.
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I mud, almost pettishly, to u partner
! with whom *le ha<l just glided
l through a icdouji. *1 need not
j detain you longer.'
And Mr. (imhlerslccn, feeling
i himself abruptly dismissed, left
i Paulino 1?\ ilie bale of Hai ry Jav|
ingshme, unci stalked uivay in high
dudgeon.
4 Jlarry,'she said softly, with a
pleading glance upward into Ida
eves,4 you fiave not been near me
this evening.'
41 have been very busy with
the companionship of my own
thoughts,' lie said, mldly ; * I start
for Europe to-morrow morning?'
4 For Europe 1'
4To be gope, I hardly know
how many years. 1 may visit In
dia and the Eust before I return."
4 Harry I'
He beut his head down in cold
ouuriwy,
*1 beg yon r pardon, Miss Sedley?did
you s|*ak ?'
4 You will leave me, Harry V
41 shall I* obliged to leave
many kind friends,' bo answered,
indifferently.
Tlu re wm a cold chill in PaulineVbeart?
a dizzy blindness before
her eyes; bul still she commanded
herself. With her it was
no idle uiwtfcr of etionette ; it a as
a struggle or life *nn death,
4 And yon can Wave me so calmly,
Harry P
He lightly whistled the bars
of a popular tone:
"IsWill, Wfin W atpijMnHa,
WW frrrM, wl ?k? rM?? iwj "
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SENV1LLE. SOUTH CAROL11
4 Harry,' sue cried, forgetting in
the moment of agony all her feminine
training, all her womanly
impulses, 41 thought yon loved
me I Oh, Harry, I caunot lot you
go!'
41 am not avrarc, Mis9 Sedlej,
of having given you any encouragement.*
4 Encouragement,' eho answered
bitteily. 4 W at has this livelong
8u.inner been? What lias your
whole course of conduct towuids
tne been ? Oh, Ilarrv, it' you
leave me now, you will break my
heart P
4 Pauline,' he answered sternly,
trv to I'UPllllnol II llirrlit ill A ii?nDl
...
when Rnljili Montacute, uleadfhg
tor mo-e then life, stood before
von. -As you said to him, so pay
I to you now: 'One must amuse
one's self in a |?iace like this, and
yon ought certainly to understand
tlio difference between a harmless
flirtation and a sober earnest 1' I
am now holding to your hps the
bitter cup winch he drank to the
dregs. How do you relish tlio
I flavor. Miss Sedley, I have the
I honor to bid you adieu?forever V
And Pauline was alone in the
flower wreathed balcony-?alone
with the stars shining above, ami
the sorrowful music of Strauss'
waltzes throbbing and moaning
within. Truly she had received
her lesson !
Ilarry Livingstono was gone,
and she never snw him again.
Pauline was never married.?
oh- : i ? ?
one is mi oiu tnaia now with her I
glorious beatify faded, and her
temper irritable and exacting.?
Who knows what she might have
been, if?
Ah, this world is full of ifa !
About Onions.
Tin's vegetable is biennial, and is
highly esteemed both as a 6nlad
and for seasoning. In order tosccuro
a good cr??|>, when not sown
the preceding fall, the seed should
bo got in as early in the spring as
the com! it ion of the soil will ml
in it. '1 lie hind best adapted to the
cultivation ot' tl.c onion is that of
light, loamy texture approaching
to sand, and should he so prepared
as to insure the advantages of
a considerable degree of heat with
out becoming pnrchcd or too dry
in seasons of drouth. There are,
however, few vegetables that re
quire less moisture, or to the full
and perfect devel pmcnt of which
heat is more s'rie.tly indispensable.
| Soon after mid-summer the onion
is observed to make a pause in its
| growth, and should then he taken
I up and stored for use. The onion
is one of the very few vegetables
of a biennial nnim-A tvliinh ,
of being changed by art into a triennial.
This is effected by sowing
the seed qnito late, in close pr<>x
imity, tlie first snmtncr, on soil
quite sterile, and transplanting
Item in the spring. Onions
grown in this manner are some
times denominated "scullions."?
They are much more mild and
agreeable to the palate, besides being
generally more perfectly de
veloped in the bulb
It is said by some, and no doubt i
very correctly, that the onion has
been found to succeed best when I
grown tbr many )ears in succcs-1
sion on the same soil. A spot of
ground was shown some years
since in Scotland, which had been
cultivated in this crop for eighty
years, and the last crop taken
was, to all appearances,
as good as the proprietor had
any tecollection of. I have
have cultivated the onion for six
consecutive years on same piece of
soil, without ploughing or digging,
the surfaco being merely lighten
ed and prepaicd for the reception
of the seed by raking, and without
the application of a single particle
of excrement, or ra'her fcrinentahlo
matter; soot and ashes and
plaster being the only applications
allowed.?JY. K. Horn stead
Pkjcsfbvino Milk.? A simple
way of ke ping milk fresh for a
long time is now extensive!) prac
ticid in the vicinity of Paris.?
This consists merely in adding to
.a ?:ii. i ?
inv.li *?i II con ii lure
the cream law risen upon it, about
six gruins ot bicarbonate of soda
or i otasli, nml then placing the
milk in bottles, which are to be
corked, for tour hours, in a waterhath
heated to a temperature of
abont 190 degrees, taking care not
to go beyona this limit. When
the bottles nrc removed from the
bath, they aro to bo made perfect
)y tight t?y coating the cork with
wax, and the milk can then be
kept a long time unchanged.
Thbuu is said to be an organiza
tion of blood-thirsty young females
in Iowa, the objeot of which
is to intimidate mon to discontinue
the habit of waxing moustache*.
They tiokle so.
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comment of il)c St
<A, JUNE 29, 1870.
Nitro-Gljcerine. ]
Nitro-glycerino is a combination
of glycerine (the sweet principle
of annua) fat) and nitric and sul <
plinric acids. The process of man- i
ut'acture is very simple. Take, for 1
inamnce, one pound of glycerine I
and ten pounds of the acids and I
place them in a proper vessel.? <
The sulphuric acid operates on lite
rest of the maps, extracts all aqueous
matter, while the nitre sinks
to the bottom of the vessel, and
joins with the glycerine whose
destiny carries it there ut once.?
The result is an oleaginous sub
stance, not nntike castor oil in color,
but rather more thick, which,
on being washed and thoroughly
cleansed from such particles oi sulphuric
acid as may have remained,
is nitroglycerine. Kttro-glycorino
strikes itt all directions when
it explodes ; but the greatest force
is always turned toward that point
offering the greatest resistance.?
Thus, if y??u should explodo a
mass of the " oil" (winch is
0 short " for nitro glycerine) in the
center of an empty room, the
great force of the explosion would
ho downwind, in the direction of
the floor. A cartridge submerg
1 cd. and having for its base a rock,
would act most forcibly on the rock
although it would also displace the
water.
In removing the obstructions at
llcll Gate, it was intended to use
nitroglycerine, in the form of J
what is known as eilieious powder
; hnt as it was lower in a
frozen condition, the experiment
was a failure. At 6<?me future
day, there is no doubt that this ox- !
plosive, which is thirteen times
more powerful than gunpowder,
and is, moreover, capable of being I
exploded at the bottom of the sea, j
it need he, will he used in tiiis
great work.
Although nitroglycerine has
been in use for so short a time it bus
already been used with great success
in war. In 1&64, dm ing the
war of ihe Aurtriansmd Prussians
against the Danes a detachment
ot three liundi *.<, * Misli troops
retreated to Aire:;. ; mi near
which a great hat tie -. just
been fought, and were ' - egcl
hv 2d,000 of the allied tr?> ips.?
But the Danish engineers had undermined
all of the approaches to
the town with .nitro glycerine, the
town and the mines being connected
by electric wires, and the immense
force was kept at hay for
three days. In the Russian war,
the nitroglycerine torpedoes kept
t)u? I<Vn!inh mwl Foi/wllul. 1
...V - VIIVM uiau DUtJItt UUt
tlie harbor of Cronstadt. These
torpedoed were so constructed as
to explode either by concussion or
electricity, and it would have been
a bold sailor who would daro to
approach a harbor so guar tied.?
Experiments have frequently been
made to see if nitroglycerine
could not be made available as the
explosive power for shells, but little
success has been attained. It
lias been found 'hat the beat and
concussion caused the sensitive oil
to explode beforo the shell had
lelt the month ot the cannon.?
Experiments were tried with
"cushioned" shells?those containing
some soft 6u hst a nee bet ween
the nitro Ucerine and the iron?
but this also failed.
Notwithstanding the discourseincuts
which have beset the intra
daction of the new explosive, it
has persistently worked its way
into favor with practical men, and
there is now scarcely a laige public
work in this country where it
is not used. As time progresses,
inventive minds will devise even
more ingenious methods of using
it than those now in vogue, and it
issafcto prodict that within a short
period, gunpowder will be forced to
give way to this more potent ri
val.
A Rkoulak Rogue.?Old Hen
Ilngliop, who used to live near
Halifax Court House, Va., and
who has now been dead sonic few
years, was a rourue alter ilio nntn
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ral kind. Ben served his time in
the penitentiary. and then at last
lie died like " any other man," at
home in hod. Ben used to tell a
light good thing on himself. lie
Couldn't help stealing a thing to
save hia life; if ho ever got near
it and nobody was looking, it ^
" went up." One night he was |
out 'possum hunting and got lost
in the woods; he wandered about
and at last came to his own spring, ,
but he didn't know it, win* si
left a big iron pot his win
been washing in. lie stole ins
own pot auk toted it off till he got |
in the big road for borne, and then 1
lie bid it off the side of the road
in gome bushes. Tlio next wash
ingday Ben's wife reported to him
that some one had stolon her pot.
lien thought the mailer over a bit,
and finally sneaked down to tlio
woods and brought the pot back.!
He was a constitutional tbiif
HI
ate anir Connlvi).
Black-eyed Poas an Improver of the
BoilSo
many instances have recently
2orne to our knowledge of the
redetntion of worn out lands by
black-eyed peas, tlmt we think the
Tact worthy of j nhlication. The |
tap-root ot this pea is remarkably j
energetic, never stopping moil it i
finds the food it is searching for.? I
Obstacles like stone or vacuums. ;
often found in the sub stratum of
porous, gravelly soils, which ob-,
struct clover and other tap-roots, I
do not stop this pea It passes
around and through them all, if
its food is father on or beyond
these obstructions; and it is in
this way flat, craw-fishy, poor
lands are enriched by it. Tliero is
a piece of land in onr neighborhood
which was so poor it litterally
produced nothing, and which,
by three crops of peas, without
the use of any fertilizer whatever,
has been made to produce fine I
,.r
VI Vfpo V'4 M HVdV (iliu will. JLllIRj
land having a porous, gravelly '
sub-stratum, letting everything in
the shape of manures pass through
it,beyond the reach ol every kind <>f
crop, except the bluck eyed pea
could not he improved in any
other conceivable way ; for even
covering it over with stable manure
(which was done) proved
beneficial to only one crop. The
nrnnt o/"t ? o- C ?-- -
v?w i?u? nutate ui I III* |)6!l US UI)
improver is that it is remunerating
at the same time it is is improving.
There is another pea culled
the white.eyed black pea, which
is also a remarkable improver ,
oi the soil. A few years ago, a
gentleman in this neighborliood,
alter cut ing his wheat, (which
was seven bushels to the aero.) be
f.?rc stacking it, sowed, broadcast,
on the stubble, this latter named j
pea, and put it in with small j
ploughs. At the proper time to
seed, he turned under tlie peas, I
and put in his wheat in the usual j
way. The following year, he'
reaped twelve bushels ot wheat'
per acre, lie sowed lie pens1
again, and seeded the wheat crop
just as lie had done before ; when
the following season lie reaped
sixteen bushels of wheat per acre,
lie repeated the same ays cm, and
reaped twenty two bushels per
acre; and finally sowed the pea*
the fourth time, and harvested
twenty-live bushels per acre.?
Now, if sneh facts ss these should j
he disregarded, and tanners go,
on in the same old track, spend- {
ing nearly all they make in lcrtili-1
ti'n no 1 . *vl ?. MM... - '
?.<_ IT, ?> u WIII1UI. in_-||J ll. J. IIU ISK'IS '
are before our leaders, and if
they wish to know the names of
the gentleman referred t", to
whom we are indebted tor the experiments,
we will give them to
any who may desire them. We
consider this tact worth many
millions of dollars to the State of
Virginia.
A \Vondkk in Utaii.?We will
never know when tiio la>t great
natural wonder of this Continent
has hcen discovered. A dispatch
from Corinne, Utah, now reports
the discovery in that vicinity of
an immense maelstrom, supposed
to be the outlet of that other won
der, Salt Lake. Scientific men at e
already on the way to investigate
the matter. There is nothing so
calcula cd to g:.vo na great ideas
of the grandeur and magnitude
of the domain we occupy as thus
to suddenly discover on the silent,
unexplored wiida of the great
West such stupendous wonders,
hitherto unknown.
A i.ady made her husband a
present <-f a silver drinking cup
with ah angel at the bottom.?
When she filled it for him he used
to drink it to the bottom, and she
asked him why ho dmnk every
drop. " Because Ducky, I long
to see the dear little angel at the
bottom." Upon which she had
the llln?nl taken nut nnd o ilncil
rw. w - ? ? "Y M
engraved at the bottom. lie
drank all the same, and she again
asked him the reason. " Because,
I won't have the old devil a
drop," lie replied.
Thk Mexican Congress adjourn*
cd on May 31st. liesuhmt Juarez.
in his closing message, states
that tiic rebellions in various quarters
have been alnun-t entirely sup
pressed. The earthquake in the
interior, on May 11th, destroyed
almost the whole town of Miahutln, i
and caused considerable loss ot
lite. The civil government they I
have in Mexico is worse than '
' i.< ir earthquakes.
A i11111.adkl.ruia urchin, basted
by his hnher for fishing Irotn
the dock nnd taMing in, thinks
" jft.p couldn't licked him worse if
he'd drowned."
Lim n four?ycar-o!d's inquiry on
first attending church, and M?>>ing
the rector iu his surplice? Mamma,
what d oes he wear his4 nighty '
for 1"
4
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ISE.
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' -? * 4^VVOLUME
XVH-XO. 6.
Clover and Peas Contrasted.
In those parts of tho country
where clover is raised with difficul
ty, peas of various kinds grow well,
ut small expo se and with great
profit. In parts of Ponaylvauia,
Maryland and in the Valley of
Virginia, clover requires no other
preparation than that made for the
wheat crop, on which it is sowed
in the month of March. This
sowing is ofteu done vory carelessly,
by men walking by guess
across a largo Held, distributing
the seed with as much regularity
as they can with the thumb and
two fingers. It is strange how
so many seed find lodgment suitable
and come up. Often largo
fields are well set by sowing one
gallon per acre, managed in
this way. We wilt 6ay to our
readers in the South, where peas
thrive, that clover is not so valuable
a crop as the pea. As a fertiliser,
the pea is incomparably the
best. The hay which the clover
affords, unless it is well mixed with
some other kinds of grass, is not
the best for stock of any kind.?
Indeed, clean, fresh, wheat straw
is preferable for horses, and corn
fodder, we know by actual experiment,
is better for cows. On the
other hand, the peas, which may
he gathered without impairing the
fertilizing effects of the crop, arc
more valuable for hogs an<l sheep
than the hay is for the other 6tocl< ;
and it this were not a fact, the pea
should be raised to fertilize tlio
soil; for, so far as wo can learn,
ita qualities as an improver do not
change by repetition. But the
I clover, after using it many years,
j doet> not improve the soil as it did
at first. The tap-root, in which
] consists the clover's main improving
power, after n few crops,
seems to he unable to find in the
subsoil the plant food, which was
abundant at first. We published
in this paper on the 24th of June
last, an article on the blaek-eycd
pea and the white eyed Hack pea
as a fertilizer , and in it we gave
tlte result of an experiment made
in th's neighborhood some years
ago. The pea was sowed after
harvest, on the 6tubble. and put in
with small pi ?ws. They were
turned under at the usual time for
seeding wheat, and the crop which
followed was an inerea-te of ?
than one hundred per cent, over
the preceding one. Tlio same
cout?0 was pursued after this harvest.
and it was continued for four
\eai6, \v>th the same remarkable
results ; the first crop being four
bus elsot wheat per acre, und the
fourth twenty seven bushels. No
fertilize! of any kind, but the pea,
was used. A case, remarkably
similar, we met with a few days
ago; which wc published below.
These two experiments prove
enough to inauce every farmer
where the pea thrives to adopt
the plan with confidence.
We desire to give our agricultural
friends the result of a careful
experiment, made l?y a planter
in Guinnett county, to encourage
them to make similar efforts.?
Our Guinnett planter had a piece
of old exhausted land, twenty
acres of which had been lying in
broom sedge for a npmber of
years. This he broke deep with a
turn plow in the summer, and in
the succeeding fall put down in
wheat. The crop, carefully mcailiro.d
W!L? A litll? 1..CO till"
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bushels to the acre.
As soon us the wheat was cut,
he sowed JKJH8, at the rato ot two
bushels to thoncrc. Early in Octo*
ber, the peas were turned under
with a deep furrow, and a few
weeks later, wheat was sown
and carefully harrowed in upon the
l>ea sod. The yield from the crop
was nine bushels to the acre, a little
more than double the first
year's crop.
The field was again sown in
peas, as soon as the wheat was
harvested, and turned under as
before, in the fall, and wheat sown
upon the soil. The yield this year
was seventeen and a half bushels.
The fourth year, with the samo
treatment, ho made twenty seven
bushels, and this (the fifth) year,
the crop bids fair to make forty
bushel*. Nothing had been applied
to the land as a fertilizer, except
the pea, and we find that in five
years, with the cow yea alone, tho
production has inn eased ten fold.
! This actual experiment speaks
more for the pea than any aigu!
nient which we could make.
We trust some of our planting
j friends will be induucca to trv
- ? "J
I the pea on the next crop oi wheat,
and let us know the result of their
experiment.? Chronicle and JStii
I tliwl, A uyusta. (ie< r<j%a
A SrvoAY School teacher atdiod
a 'ittle fellow it' he had l? nvnfd an*.
." hing dnrincr ho week. " YrV'
he. "What is it von have
\ learned 1" " Never to trim|> your
t partner's ace."