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IF - * DEvD TO SOUTHEf-RN RIGHTTS, DEMOCRACY NEWS, LITERA TUESINEADT J. .MICHARDSON LOGAN, w . s AnN ells, Proprietors- 4 a-alo out'att. not". VODLOiDU SURTE RVILLE S. APRITL 19, 18D C0lture of Corn and Peas. Of old friend and correspondent, Dr. Philips, of Mississippi, gives us ohe foowing directions for the culti vatioti of Corn and Peas, on pages 886-=8 of Patent Office Report for '1851: Corn.=-The mode of culture I prefer, and therefore deem 'best' is to break up land deep-6 inches and thorodgh, in large beds, say of 32 feet; run off rows with a shovel plow, 4 feet distant; this is invariable with me, giving fewer or more stalks in the row, aooording to poverty or richness of land. Drill corn at rate of about half a bushel per acre; cov er with an iron-tooth harrow, When corn is fully up, tun round with a nayrow shovel-plow, (the bull-tongue, also called scootet-plow,) clean with the hoe very nicely, leaving no grass .or weeds; thin out either at this work ing, or wait for a 0rt spell of weath er. Jn a few days,~run round again xvith a 6-inch shovel-plow. I prefer these plowings to be deep and near to corn. The latter plowing should mould the plant well. If-, by this time,-grass has begun to appear in the tniddles, I would use an iron-tooth harrow to tear up clods and destroy 411-grass, if it required running the barro* twice. In the coutse of 9ome two weeks after last plowing, if time permitted, I would hoe the corn, levelling the ridge, cutting up grass, and cleansing around stumps and trees; and two weeks, or near it, after second plowing, I would run another furrow with the largest shov el, or use the sweep, which breaks out the row, if not broken out. I would do so early enough to keep the rows clean. When my corn is inbpuch,- I sow peas, and. either use the harrow, or sweep, or shovel plow, to cover, which cleans the row and 'lays by' the corn; though if not hoed previously, I now give a hoe ing, so as to leave the corn-field clean for peas and corn. Peas-I use the cow-pea of the long'- variety upon all corn land, principally as a renovator, using 10 to 15 quarts per acre, being scatter ed as regularly as possible over the entire surface, before the last plow ing. This has been a practice of some 15 to 18 years' standing; and so thoroughly am I convinced of the value of this pea as a renovator, that I intend to average hereafter one bushel per acre, even if I have to plant and cultivate peas merely for seed. I am not satisfied that I sow now enough. I find that where the shade is most dense, and earliest, the land has im. proved most. I have corn now on land cleared and cultivated in corn in 1880, which will this year give me 40 bushels per acr, to which there never has been applied any manure; no other aid used, save a rotation of two years in cotton, and one in corn and peas. The land being ~good, I did not deem it needful to jake any greater change this year 4 corn; and to give a bettor growth of vine, &c., to turn under, I shall next year continue in corn, and thus bring it under my usual rotation two years in corn and peas, and one in cotton, for all ordinary land. I hope this corn and pea story will not be too tedious. I thus dwell on it because I am thought as discard ing the pea; whereas, I knowv of not a solitary planter anywhcro who be stows more'labor to secure a growth of the pea-vine. I have 20 acres planted in peas, 8 feet apart, which have been plowed three times and howed twice; but I do it as a reno vating crop. Fifty head of hogs will feed my family abundantly; I have almost two acres per head. [Southern Cultivator. [From the. Newberry Sentinel.] Guano as a Fertilizer. We have been kindly permitted to publish the following extract from a letter written to the Hon. Chancel lor J~ohnston, by the Hon. D. J. Mc Cord. Its publication is especially intended for those to whom Col. Mc Cord promised to detail his experi m rents and success in the use of gu a ono as a fertilirger, It will however, prove interestintg and useful to all who desire iriformation respecting this valnable nture. LANGSYNE, Marcht 22, 1858. My Dear Sir:- In the winter I .re side entirely on the plantation hero, Your letter, being directed to Co lumbia, was not forwarded to me un til yesterday. I fear now that my answer will reach you too late, es pecially if you wish to apply guano to your corn. For many hereabouts have planted or nearly done; I am not half done. But to begin with my answer. For two years I mixed four bush els of dry sand with one bushel of gu ano: This year to save tiouble, I will mix two bushels of sand to one of guano. Fine charcoal taken from the rail road, a blacksmith shop, or coal kiln is excellent, because, like Gypsum, it will retain the ammon ia-any dry fine dirt will do as well as sand. My object for mixing is to increase the quantity to be put into each row of cotton, so that it can be pat down more accurately by dull and careless hands. My mode of mixing is this. I take for the purpose some dry shed-free from the wind is better, for it may mix and blow away much of it. I then take a coarse iron seive and sift a layer of sand, and, on that, a layer of guano, until I get it all mixed for the field. If the sand or earth is damp it will cause evapo ration and loss.-z-When thus pre pared you may put it into the ground just before you plant, or a month before-if put under the seed of corn or cotton, it should be cover ed by the plough or hoe two, three or four inches, so that when you put the seed in the ground over it, there may be two or four inches be tween the seed and guano; for if they come in contact it will kill the seed, but by the time the roots reach it, it will be diffused in the soil and nourish, and not destroy it. I have only once tried it on an' acre of corn-it was a very unfa vorable year for corn, being dry-I put a tablespoonful (not heaping) of guano in each hill, and covered it with fresh earth, and the corn was then covered about two inches. The adjoining acre was manured as usual with stable manure and cotton seed mixed. Tho acre manured with stable ma nure and cotton seed was 7 or 8 inches high, while that manured with guano was so small, and so wretched that I had some idea of cutting it up and replanting them. It rained, and in one week after wards the guanoed corn was as large as the other, and soon be came larger, and with much stout er stalks; and continued much the largest, yielding much better fod derf--but the produce of corn was about the same, each acre producing between 16 and 17 bushels. I plan ted in 5 feet rows, the stalks two feet apart. A tablespoonful a hill will take from 180 to 200 lbs. But if I were intending to use guano on corn I would not put the guano to it until it was up, and at the first ploughing run a bull torgue near the corn, and sprinkle the guano op posite the corn-a tablespoonful on each side might do, or half a tab~le spoonful on each side. It must be followed by another plough and cov ered immediately. I have heard of much less doing. I have never made any other- experiment with corn. A bushel of guano weighs 88 lbs. Now for Cotton. On Cotton I have used guano for 3 years. The first year my experiment was a small one, hut clearly showed the importance of guano. In 1851, I manured twenty acres old worn out red lands with two hun dred pounds guano to the acre. It yielded. Ist Picking 000 lbs. 2Jd "~ 1700 3d " 4995 4th "~ 4q53 5th " 76 12,315 lbs. Average per acre 616 1-2 lbs. Oneencre adjoining, same quality exactly, un. 1st Paeking 00 lbE. 2d " 00 3d1 " 60 4th " 108 5th " 76 2414 lbs. Difference per acre, in faivor gu ano 372 1-2. In 1852. I manured acres with 180, lbs. per acre. It produced 31, 54~0. lbs. seed cotton, or 876 lbs. to the acre. More than half of the land was very old, sandy land, nev er mannjred-vthe rest inferior old i-ed land. Of the adjoining acres uin manured :ny . overseer, by mistako, not believe that it averaged 450 lbs. At that rate, the difference was 426 lbs per acre. For 1853 I intend to manure 84 acres with 174 lbs. which is 3 bush els of guano, and 10 acres with 100 lbs. to the acre. I am told that quantity produces well, and per haps pays best, costing so much less. One of my neighbors last year used 1 bushel (58 lbs.) per acre. He kept no account of weights, his overseer told me that lie thought it produced more than twice as much as that not manured. Now for my mode of putting down. My acres are forty-two compas ses square-60 rows to the acre. To put down 174 lbs. to the acre requires 8 bushels guano, and if two bushels of sand or dirt is put to each bushel of guano, it will take of the mixture 4 quarts, I pint and 1 gill to each row. To put. down 100 lbs. to the acre of the same mixture requires 2 bush els of guano (less 1 gallon,) and takes 3 quarts of the mixture to the row. If you mix 4 bushels of sand to to 1 of guano, 17 1-2 bushels of mixture will give 200 lbs. to the acre, 15 1-2 " " 180 " 15 " " 174 " 13 1-2 " " 150 " So you must make your calcula tion in proportion to the material you mix with the guano, and divide by the number of rows in your acre. Let each hand have a'small box to hold the quantity out of the bags for each row, and take care that it hold out as even it can be put. They soon learn; after trying one or two rows, You must not attempt to put it down in windy weather, or it will be blown away. Take out what you want for the day only in bags to keep from wind, and covered if rain should come, for it would be in jured by getting wet, before covered in the ground. I forgot to say why you should sift it. In the first place you mix it better by so doing and besides, the guano has many lumpg,-and by sifting you get them out, and should break them in a mor tar or trough, so as to mix it with the earth, other wise these large lumps would burn up every thing. I believe I have told you all I know. Gypsum is said to be excel lent for mixing with the guano, and no doubt it would be so, as it would retaiu the -ammonia. This year I bought gnano in New York. It cost me delivered here at Fort Mott, $50 for, 2000 lbs. If many planters would unite and take a largo quantity it can be got still cheaper. By the new charter to the Rail Road to Columbia they can on ly charge 12 1-2 cents per 106 lbs. The fullest account that I have seen of the methods of using guano is an "Essay on Guano," by J. E. Teschcniacher, Boston, 1845. It was distributcd some years since to those who bought guano gratis. It was published by A. D. Phelps, 124 Washington-street, Boston, from whom it perhaps it can be had; and and by Sexton & Iluntingdeni, 29 Broadway, N. Y. I have been amused with some of the modes I have seen recommended by kncwing ones in the newspapers, viz: rubbing the cotton seed with it, &c. It killed the seeds wvherever they touched it the first year I used it-and in my regarding my cau tions hurnt up every thing. Let me know how you succeed with ycur guano, hope you will receive this in time. Truly yours as of old, D). J. McCORID. CURIE FOIR A FOUND)ERED) I IasE.--A correspondent of thle L ouisville J1ourn al says, that ifa hiorse is fouinderedl ov er night, he may be cur-ed in three. hours if it is attended to in the morn ing. Take a pint of hog's lard and beat it boiling hot, and after cleaning his hoof well, and taking elf'his shoe, put his foot in the lard, and1 with a sp)oon apply it to all parts of the hoof, as near the hair as possible. This, he says, lie has tried more than fifty year~s, and never knew it to feil. The application. should be to the foot of each foundered limb. To TAKS MEL.DFw OUT OF LINEN. R~ub it well with soap; then scrapo some fine ehalk, and rub that also in the linen; hay it on the grass; as it driea, wet it a little, and it wilI FgulT TREzs.-Wise Tn'en some times advance strange .-6pinions, the legitimate results of carelessness and inattention. Heresies are of daily oceur rence, in every departuient, and in all societies. The organization of our thinking powers is such that we may embrace errors, and, believe in them, merely for the inconsiderate sug gestion of others. When men think calmly, and reason dispassigpately, un der the full influence of knowledge, they rarely err in judgrnent. Prac tice accords with the views we enter tain, and if our views be erroneous, the results are a proof of the facts. But what has this to do with fruit trees? I will tell you. k I had an Irishman whoserngme was Michael, and a black man, called Tim. Decent fellows of the sort, and each conscious of superior skill. Mi chael told me that Octo was the time to transolant apple 'es. Tini and I thought the springeason was the best period of the ye4b for this purpose, but Michael kne better. Mi chael's argument was thus: "Pll go to the nursery, Suire, and dig up two dozen trees in be-month of October, and I will set theni out in the home lot. I will dig thei careful ly, make great holes to put them in, feed the root with rqtteri chips, and set them out nicely aid when spring comes they will* be: ready to grow. The fall is the tino to trans plant trees." ' Tim says to me: "Mastii, don't let Michael do it, for you wili.be-old be fore the trees will begin to-bear. Now, Master, let mne talk a mJnute. When wo dig up trees we always tear and bruise sonic of the shoots, and if we set them out in the fall the bruis ed roots will die before spring. I lived with the Doctor six years, and he always said that a fresh wound heals a great sight quicker thaui an old sore. So it is in trees. If we transplant trees in the fall, it is six tmonths be tre the bruised shoots e*n begin to heal, and the frosts ofdhit niakbN little bruisc a big one before spring. But if we vet out trees in April, they be gin to grow in a week, the wounds and bruises heal up very quick, and they have nothing to do but to grow." Tim was a negro, but lie had the power of thinking, and knew more than some Yankees. I thought Tim's reas oning was good, though his head was covered with long wool. Bitt I con trived to please Michael and Tim. In the month of October these fellows went to the nursery and dug .up and transplanted twenty-fbur trees, setting them four rods apart. They did the job nieely, and both of them saw that I was gratified. During the winter they worked together like brothers, and were faithful. In the next April Tim and Michael dug out of the same nursery twenty-four trees, and set out between those that were plan ted the fhil before. After the job was done, Tim told ine that the trees that were set out in the spring would grow as much in six years as the oth CrS would in tein. "Bedad," says Micha el, "may you live to see me a fool, and live on clans." Now fur the faet. Eight years ago this orchard of forty-eight trees were planted. Those planted in the fill, with the exception ot three, lived through the ensuing summer. The greatest growth of anty those trees was three inches upon the tijs of the limibs, and the least one-half inch. Tlheir growth is now aninally but little. Last year I. dug lip one o'f them, of medi uon size; the ends of the bruised roots were dreayed, and in places where the bark was started at the time of planting the roots were much rotten. TIhieir b od ies were covered with p'atches of mioss, and ther- were unhity Aly nteiglhbors 'saida cen was withbering t hem . ut 'Timi's treces grew fat The t rutth was, the wouinds began to heal sooni after the I ranisphtinug, antd thir removal from the nursery to the (orhatrd did niot ap parently, delay their growth ex etn Otte week. Tim's trees are thrice as large as Alichael's, at d begini to b~ear fruit, aind Tim, feels p~roudt of his lutck. Ailichael says, "'Bedad, you have beiat mue, andl I'll neCver p~iniat'O ter tre'e ini the fall." Now, whait we want is kntowledge. Wec wvant genuine expJ'ein) ats our guide. Beside this, inmy of' us want Zommon 1(1 Sense, or' rather we want to know how to use it. We haive cont sellors in abuniidiance, but they dhither widely in opiniion. Baron 12arry, Sur gcon-G(eneratl ini Blonapa rt c's armny, said that "wounds occuirrintg towar'ds~ even ing, after the toils and umarches of the daty, were slow to assume the heoaling process. Such patients frequtently died with the lock-jaw. and itf not, they got well slowly. But if wvouds occurred iii the miornting, when the fi-amie was vigor'iousM, they usually healed rapllidly, unattetided with constituttionail disease.' Vegettable anid animial l ife agree ini many paricuilars. li the fhil Ithe lifeb of'a tree is dortnettt-.-in :t stae '' r.t tigue. In the spring, aiter the sleep of winter, it is renovated, it is ready to expand and grow; and if a tree has.. been wounded, it heals quickly, without rot or decav. This is common sense; it isjust what we shlould expect. Let the fruit-raiser take heed to these facts, and, before he sets out a tree in the autumn, think of Tim. AOTION oF LIME.-As to the ques tion of how lime acts?-there is some diversity of opinion: but there seems to be a concurrence of sentiment among scientific men as to certain offi ces which it performs, and these are borne out by the observation of prac tical falrmers. Amog the oflices said to be performed by lime and marl, are these: when appied in full quantity upon stiff clays, it serves to disinte grate the particles of clay and lightees the texture of the soil, while on sands it tends to give tenacity to them. It desoves hard inert fibrous substances in the soil and prepares them to be come the food of plants. It neutrali zes the asids' of the soil, unites with them, and ultimately deals them out as the food of plants, thus rendering noxious bodies tributary to their healthful growth. Lime is found, by analysis, to form a part of the vege table structure of most plants, and hence the inference is, that it is indis pensable to their healthful existence. Lime, too, is said to possess the pow er of electricity: if such be the case, it must act as a stimulus, and like other stimulants, if not used to express, may exert hgihly faiendly influence upon the constitution of plants. Shese are but a few of the properties assign ed to lime; and experience teaches all sensible agriculturalists, that whenev er judiciouslo applied to lands need ing it, has produced the most amelio rating effects, that lands, chiefly through its means, aided by grass and clover cottage, which were worn out, have been brought to a state of fertili ty; seeing these things, 1lt no longer a nmtter ofsupprise that liming, Ai.t1 marling, which is virtually the same thing, has become the fashion ; and as fashion gives tone to public and pri vate sentiment, no one can longer doubt, that in a few years more most of the old friends which now so grate upon the feelings of the patriot will be covered with luxuriant crops. But we wish our agriculturial readers to bear these truths in mind-that with out one-fourh or one.fifth of the arable lands being kept in clover and grass, no progressive or permanent improve ment can be effected-that though ex hausted lands require lime, yet they require animal and vegetable manure also-that no systemn of culture can be either intelligent or profitable, that does not conline the culture of clover and the grasses in its elements-that it is useless to lime or marl wet lands before they are drained; and that when drained, deep and exact ploughing, and thorough pulverization, are indispensa ble'to full and perfect success. Anericrm Farm er. Origin of MaIles 11k tle United States. Mr. George Washington P. Curtis, in his last paper, under the title of Re collections aid Private Memoirs of the Life and character of Washington, gives the following acconnt of the. in. troductio~n of mules into this country, which will be Iound very interesting : U~pon Washington's first retirement in 173 he became convinced of the defective r.ature of the working ani mals employed in the agriculture of the southern States, and set about remedying the evil by the introduction of mules instead of horses, the mules being found to live longer, be less lia ble to dliseases, requiring less food, amnd in every respect to be more serviceable and ecoinmical than the horse iri the agricultural labor oft the southern States. Up to 1783 scarcely any mules were to be fonnd in the A meri can confederation : a fihw had been im ported from the Wecst Indies, but they were of diminutive size and of little value. So soon as the views on this subject of the illustrious fhrmer of Mount Vernn were known nbroai1, he received a present from the Kinig of Spain of a jack anid two jennies, select edh from thea loyal stud at Madrid. Tlhe jaec, called the Royal Gift, was sixteen hmands high, of a gray color, heavily made, and of a slnggish dispo. sition. At thme same time the Marquis do Lalhyette sent out a jack anid jennies from the island of Malta. This jack, caulled the Knight oif Malta, wvas a su perb animal, black color, with the form of a stag and the feroeity of a tiger. Washington availed himiselfof the best qualities of the two jacks by crossing the breeds, and hence obtained a fa vorite jack, called Cmnpound, wvhich anmiuma united the size and strength of the Gift with the high courage and ac tivity of the Knight. The jacks ar rived at Mount Vernon, if we mistake not, early in 1788. The General bred 59mi( veryu sunerior mnl from his )oach mares, sending them from Phila. lelphia for the purpose. In a few years he estate of Mount Vernon -became itocked with mules of a very superior )rder, rising to the height of sixteen uands, and of great power and useful less; one wagon-team of four mules lelling, at the sale of the General's ef cots, for eight hundred dollars. In no. part of- Washington's various abors and improvements in agriculture. was lie so particularly entitled to be iailed as a public benefactor,:as in the ntroduction of mules in farming labor, hose ahimals being at. this time almost xclusively used for farming- purposes n the Southern States. ScOURs IN HORsEs.-A neighbor has given us the following statement of uis treatment of this disease. Having i valuable animal badly effected, he irst parched to a brown color a luart of corn meal, to which he added i sufficient -quantity of water and in ounce of laudanum, and drenched rith the mixture.-This gave relief for iome hours, but the disease return ng, he boiled about a pound he hinks, of blackberry roots with half he quantity of sweet gum twigs, in hree pints of water and added in ounce phial of paregoric: when ,ool enough, gave as drench, which ef ected a cure. In ordinary cases, he hinks the first tried remedy would ae sufficient. To TAKE OUT SPOTs OF INK.-As loon as the accident happens, wet the lace with juice of sorrel or lemon, on ith vinegar, and the best hard i'hite soap. To TAKE OUT STAINS OF CLOTR OR 3iL..-Pound French chalk fine, mix vith lavenderwater to the thickness )f mustard. Put on the stain; rub t soft with the finger or palm of the land. Put a sheet of blotting and arown paper on tie top, an4 smooth it witha Iron milk-warm. Do As I Do.-This morning a elebrated fast man from the South End entered a refreshment saloon, where some fifteen or twenty of his riends are in the habit of congregat. ng about 11 o'clock. He, with his isual heartiness and generosity, 'ask ,d the crowd.' They, nothing loth, stepped 3romptly up. You must all do as I 1o, said the liberal friend. Oh cer ainly, certainly, was the universal -esponse, 'what is yours going to be?' I shall take brandy and water in nine. 'Very well, we'll all take brandy md water, they cried.' The party drank, and the waggish nviter laid down his fourpence upon he counter,.and immediately retired, vhispering in his softest tones, 'Do Is I do, gentlemen.' The party looked at each other :or a moment with a most comic ex 3ression of face, when one who felt h full force of the idea creeping powerfully through his hair, exclaim d, 'Sold, by!' 'Here,' he added, .urning to the bar-keeper, 'take my purse and treat freely for the next len minutes?' 'I CAN'T.-Apollo! what a face! loleful as a hearse; folded hands; iollow chest,; whining voice; the very picture of cowardly irr~solution. Spring to your feet, hold up your ecad, set your teeth together, draw hat fine form of yours up to the ceight that God made it; draw a ong breath,,.and look about you. What do you see? Why, all crea ion taking care of number one pushing ahead like the car of Jugger uaut, over live victims. There it ;oes; and you can't stop it. Are you going to lay down and be crush .By all that's manly, no! dash ihead! You've as good a right ~to nount the triumphal car as your icighbor. Snap your fingers at :roakers; if you can't got r-ound a itump, leaip ovedit, high and dry. [-Iave nerves of steel, a will of iron; uever mind sideaches, or heartaches; work away without stopping to repine, r to notice envy or malice. Set your target in the clouds and aim at t. If your arrow falls short of the mark, what of that? Pick it up and ire again If you should nev'er reach it, you'll shoot higher than if you only aim at a bush. Don't whine, if your friends fall off. A t ~he first stroke of good luck, by Nammon! they'll swarm around you iea hive of beces 'IJcan't.' Oh, pahaw!I ro gloves in your face, if I anaw you arc a disgrace to- cordurofsa... What! a mma -lack courage A man want inde to be discouraged at 0i man afraid to face 4t f Maker!-Whyl I'e the ti i igated contemptfor you. lanimous little pussy cat! nothing manly about you your whiskers. - Ax UNEAsY PBDrmA were the witness of,a Iudierolla dent which occurred in V few days since, for relatieg hth crave the indulgence of the ger directly concerned-deemisig IitoV good a joke to be lost. While sitting at our 4sk boring assiduously, with pen, and paste, to make out a,read per for our patrons, we weryesu "frightened from our propre y the hasty entrance of a geL ms 4 exclaiming, "For G94's sake li 4 to see what's the snatter!r.,gotsq e dreadful thing-scorpion or trTn' -in the leg ofmy pantaloo -quick-quick-help ;ne ' e instantly rose from our a , half tightened ourselves., "Our ifrl had broken in so suddenly aD 6 pectedly upon us, and was so won fully agitated that we knew nothe. er he was indeed in his senses or a1t We looked at him with a sort of sr prise mixed with dread, aid'har y knew. whether to speak wit seize and confine hirm for a R. The latter we came near att ),ft There he stood, quiveringf An -RS' with one hand, tightly graspedupon a part of his pantaloons just in the hol - low of the knee.. "What's the matter?" asked at last. "The matter!" he exlaipaed;o, help rue! 'e 'got somethig which justran up my -leg. me. p fernal scorpion or lizard,-I expect! 'o' these pants without. s'Aps; or wear, other pair open a bottom -long as . feel it again." "Feel what?" we inquired, standin at the same time, at-a respetfulgdis tance from the gentleman; fof we had just been reading our Corpus Christi correspondent's letter about shkes, lfi. ards, and tarantulas, and began.tin agine some deadly insect or repile In. the leg of our fuiend's unmentionables as they are sometimes called. "I don't know what it is,s. sft the gentleman; "help me to see V is. I was just passing that pile rubbish there, in front ~of for?"i flee, and felt it dart up my; 6ea quick as lightning"-and he tledeld his fist more tightly. If it ha the neck of an anaconda, h' w have squeezed it to a jelly' By this time two or threeo t newsboy had coma in; the, lerk 4 packing boys hearing the outcy, ped working, and. editors all stood around the sufferer ithodh minigled sympathy and alarmr "Bring a chair, Frita,'f sai'd "and let the gentleman be sei6d'- z ';Oh I can't sit," said thegedl14 "I can't bend my kneel will bite or sting me; no, I d nA' "Certainly you ean sitO' 4s146 "keep your leg straight obt, :a'd we'll see what it is you have got "~ "Well, let me give it one ntde hard squeeze; I'll erush it to deethv,". said he, and ngain he put the force. ofa iron vice uprn the thing, If it ha any life left, by this last eff'ort m Y have killed it." He then cautroiaJ seated himself, holding out his Ilsgas stiff and straight as a poker. NAshari knife was produred; the, pants wer cut open carefully, making a hole larg enough to ad mit a hand; the gentleman put on a thick glove, and slowly. in. sorted his hand, 'but haeidiscovertd nothing. We wvere all looking on hn almost breathless silence to' see t1e monstrous thing-whatever It nib be; each ready to scamper. ~out harm's way should it bei 'alive; wbpn euddenly the gentknm becamen if possible, more agitated than evei. "By heavens!' he eaclaimed; sit's inide my drawers; ' s alive, -tooI feecl it!-quick!-give me the knife a gain!" Another incisioni was made. in went the gentleman's gloved, ban once more, and lor est eamu.~ Hlow the steeking ever go tlIh are unable to say;s het tl~r ori tairrly was; anid such a lauh lowed, we haven't fseair P. a day. Ouir fiend, we told the joke himnself Pn~ don us for do i is all abo a ah e spotodtli Fo~i rau . ot to disapp~t~