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From the Charleeton Courier.
The Late Wm. Oillmore Bimmi.
wow.
He has gone from earth, to where ceraphe
shall sing.
His welcome to bowers of blleel
And the harps of the blest should joyously
ring
A^his flight from a world like this!
Yes, he's cone to the home of the pure in
heart,
With spirits of light around him.
Where the glow of that glory shall ne'er
depart,
In which God's messenger fouod him.
Then lament not for one who so haply
came
To beam round our path sweet delight,
And ere earth could have sullied that man^
ly frame.
His soul sought its heavenly flight.
And yet aged chronicler 1 thou canet not
die!
For a cliaate halo surrounds thee ;
It is not your fate whloh demands a sigh.
But that of the State that mourns thee.
IPSDEN.
(Drigiitnl Communications.
FOR THE GREENVILLE ENTERPRISE.
Tliecla'a Dream?Ho. #?Concluded.
Hacienda. Saluda, t
April, 1870. f "
My Dear ?***#* ? Tbccla's
chariot was carried by the current
through tho Caribbeo Isles, and
into the Caribbean Sea. She drernt
a black bird was sitting on a branch
overhanging tho waters of Rio de
Janeiro, singing?
" Commerce end trade in the works of ere
lion.
Unrigs with it improvement and civilize
tion.
Prom out of the sea some ship* and fish?
Foreign luxuries and food for the dish.
From over the land comes lbs railroad
whistle,
Gladdening the heart 'midst thorns and
thistle."
A fish lifted hie head out of the
water and said: " \V hat is the
matttcr? What are you singing
about? What do you want?"?
The black bird replied,singing:
" I am aa free as a bird, tinging none can
beat;
1 am studying and longing for wheat, for
wheat."
" I would like some bread myself,"
said the fish. " The best
wheat country in the world is in
North America," said tho black
bird. Tho fish jumped up and
flirted his tail out of the water
and said, " Which field can we
reach first ?" Tho black bird shook
bis feathers and said, "It is a fair
race, will you run tor the prize V1
"Yea, it is better to go and try
than to remain idle," said the fish.
" Well," said the black bird, "you
go your way, and I will go mine;
tho result will be decided at St.
Louis." Tho black bird spread
liia urinora on/I I-?1
w.ra u?n u?CI tUU 1huu.
Tlio fish worked his fins and poshed
out to sea. The black bird
struck a bee-line through the gorge
iu the Organ Mountains for Matto
(iros6o. Winked his eye at the
block folks building the railroad.
Thcucc to tho falls on the Madeira
River. VVinkod his other eye at
tlie Africans on the ship canal.?
Followed the railroad route from
the City of Pitete to Cartagena.?
Flow across the Caribbean Sea.?
Laughed as be passed by Cuba.
Crossed tho Gulf of Mexico, and
followed the Mississippi. Parching
himself on the fence in Mis*
sonri, he sang:
?' Mr. Flah, Mr. Fish, wbtr* are yon now?
fog and milt th? ootid to plow.
Dnap yon ara, aad dwptr yon aaa
Bat a land for mth, ta tho bona for m*
The fish made steamship speed
by sea. The black bird mftde railroad
speed from Rio de Janeiro to
Cartagena, and steamship speed
from Cartagena to the mouth of
the Mississippi River, and arrived
cftx days before the fish. The
lmack bird spent the summer in
the wheat fields of the West, and
takipg in his bill a branch of wheat,
returned a messenger from the
centre of one continent to the
other. The fish finding what be
wanted, remained happy and contented
io tbe Mississippi Hirer,
determined nevor a^ain to enter
the raoe with a black bird.
* After passing ?he Island of Jamaca,
the south side of Cuba, and 1
winding round tbe promontory of <
Yucatan, Tliecla came agaiu into .
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Dmotrfr to Ktmns,
1ILEY, FRffRS, .
the Gulf of Mexico. The current
carried her chariot around as
though going to Sisal, but it went
on into the Bay of Catnpeche.?
The sea was smooth and temperature
of the atmosphere delightful.
The current here is not strong.
The violent" northers" which blow
over the dry plains of Texas down
the coast of Mexico, lose their
?tronrrtl> mm
w.. vugku MU ?UVT * VUVU IUO OUVI O VI
Yucatan. Thecla felt as thongli she
had reached a harbor of safety. As
ber chariot moved along towards
the Isthmus of Tehuantepcc, she
fell asleep and drerat her chariot
was ancnored amidst a fleet of
shipping, the masts of which looked
like the forest in the winter.
She landed among a mass of people
all deeply engaged at wort.?
Thousands of Chinamen were constructing
a ship canal from the
Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mex
ico, and it was nearly completed.
Ships from the western coast of
South America and China wero
waiting on the Pacific shore to
push through the canal?run across
the Qulf and on up tho Mississippi
River. Ships from England
wanted to cross into tho Pacific
and move along the western coast
of North America. The engineer
explained : 44 Will European ships
use this canal on their way to and
from China 1" said Tliccla. 44 N o,"
said the engineer. 44 A ship from
London can reach Canton by tho
Suez Canal in the time it would
take her to reach tho Tehuantepec
Canal. Europe, Atuca and the
most of Asia, will uso the Suez
Canal, while tho Tehuantepec Canal
may be said to be almost exclusively
an American institution.
Tn tlm ??? !??? v.. ???
uio ibw, uiu uuiuuunu iiutiona
bavc (lie advantage. The producer
and consumer is advantaged in
proportion as the distance to market
is shortened. A French merchant
can send to China from
Marseilles via. the Suez Canal, and
bis ship in return mav pass the
Strait of Qibralta on tlie way to
Charleston with a load of tea before
an American ship can reach
Canton by tho same route."?
M What advantago is there to the
United States in having a ship ca
nal at Tehuantepec over ono at
the Isthmus of Darien?" asked
Thecla. "Thero is much to bo
said ou tbis subject. Men of mercantile
foresight understand that
time is everything in mercantile
matters. The daily expenses of a
ship at sea are onormous. Merchants
order ships by the shortest
route. A ship from Halifax, in
Nova Scotia, may make tho trip
to Canton abont as soon by the
Suez Canal as she can by tho IVs
huantepec Canal. If tho Ilnlifax
merchant had to send his ship to a
canal, at Daricn, ho would not go
there?he would always use tlie
Suez Canal, because time with merchants
is money, and that to him
would bo the shortest route to
China. A ship leaving tho mouth
of the Mississippi River with a
cargo from St. Louis, for China,
would have to run two thousand
miles out of the way if she had to
go by the Isthmus of Darien instead
of the lehnantepec ronte.?
Such a draw back to tho commerce
of Mississippi valley would
impede its progress, and blast its
full development. A ship from
Valpariso, in Ghila, bound to St.
Louis, in Missouri, finds no shorter
ronte by the Istbnms, of Darien,
than by Tehnantepcc. The oil
fleets of the Pacific Ocean will
find in time of pence a commanding
depot for toe distribution of
the ingredients of light, and a
harbor of safety in the Qnlf of
Mexico during war. Foreign nations
have naval stations among
the West India Islands from which
they oonld annoy the commerce
of the United nQfltSnw I
through the Caribbean Sea to a
canal at the Isthrans of Darien.?
But a few iron clods at the month
of the Gnlf of Mexico would protect
the trade of the country crossing
this inland sea to and from the
Tebuantepec Canal in time of war.
Looking into the future developments
of wealth and necessary
safety for the commerce of the
United States, there is no doubt
that a careful investigation of this
subject will prove vastly ia favor
of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec for
luteroeeanio communication," said
the engineer. u What part of the
United States will be most intimately
connected, and most directly
advantaged by theTehoantepec
Canal!" asked Thecla. " The valof
the Mississippi," said the
engineer. What country are you '
from f asked Tbeda. UI am a Hollander,
liana is my name. I am employed
by the Chinese Republic
to work on the Tebuantepec Canal,"
said the engineer. "Mr. ,
Hans, have anv or voer conntrw.
men settled Jo Mexico since the j
Chinese here bed control of the i
countrjJ"askedThecle. "No. I t
Jo not think there ere any Euro i
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Politics, 3ntcUige
GBl
peans now living in Mexico?certainly
no landowners. The Chinese
are not friendljr disposed towards
Europeans in tbeir own
country. As poor laboring men
are dependent upon the Europeans
in the United fifAto? tliev nhoraH
the law, and were contented only
in so long a time as it required
them to reach a higher order of
intelligence end wealth. They
then began to learn that although
the door ot eqnal rights was open
to theui, the feet that a majority
of white men (so to speakj had
control of tho country, ana that
they?tho copper colored Chinamen?could
never reach a satisfactory
system of Republican Government
for themselves without
independence. Tho exodus commenced
when their children could
teach the English language. They
formed a nation ot their own with
the seat of Government in the
balls ot Montazuma. They populate
the land from the Rio
Grande to tho Isthmus of t'anama,
nii/1 fn/vm lltA T).?- ? a.. ? !?
nuu ai viii liiU J. UVI1IU VCCUI1 lO UIO
Gnlt of Mexico. They encourage
emigration from China," said Mr.
Ilans. " Would you adviso Europeans
to settle among thorn if
their Government opened the country
to such emigration?" asked
Thecla. "No moro than I advise
the African to settle in Great
Britain," said Mr. Hans. "The
English arc superior to the Africans,
while the Chincso are not
equal to the Europeans," said
Thocla. "It is a bad rule that
don't work both wave. In tho
first cose, ignorance would be sub
nriiinnto to intollim>n/>o T??
second case, tbe minority would
bo subordinate to the majority.?
Doth cases are only tolerated for
all time with chances of safety
where a nation is iormed purely of,
one race?either of Chinese, Eu
ropeans or Africans," said Mr.
Hans. "Look how the United
States advanced by introducing the
African and Chinese among the
Eurojieans," said Tliecla. "That
is another question, so fur as digging
canals, building railroads,
clearing up a new country and developing
the agricultural resources
of wild lands is concerned. It is
labor which is looked for. But
when that has in a measure been
accomplished, the question of in;
terual safety appears in full viow.
It is the duty ot a Government to
look well into tbe future for the
wellfareofall, and to assist iu opening
tho doors of Progress. It i6
be6t for the world generally, that
the African Republicans have a
nation of their own in the valley
of the Amazon. That tho Chinese
have a Republic in Mexico, and
that tho Europeans have a Republic
in tho United States. Each
have a climate suited to their nature.
Eternal ice cannot stand on
tho Equator, nor will the fig tree
grow in Arctic regions," said Mr.
Hand. "Are there any political
questions unsettled among these
people?" asked Thee I a. " Yea.?
The question of capital punishment
has entered deeply iuto the
Presidential campaigu. There are
a large number ot people opposed
to the death penalty for any crime,
while nearly all the newly naturalized
citizens believe in cutting the
very vitals out of the people. Tliere
is a very plain way of eiy>resaing
it in High Dutch. The Japanese
call it IJL&ri Karl," said Mr. IIans.
Thecla awakened, her cbaiiot
was becalmed in the centre of the
Qnlf of Mexico.
Very truly yours,
LAKDNKit GIBBON.
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Ilolcmsburg, Philadelphia, Ponn.
nru?i ?
niwv uio * armor Ann A.QOW.
The farmer, like tho business
man, must know what he is doing:
lie most have some pretty decided
ideas of what he is to accompKsh
? in fact ho must calculate it before
hand.
He must know his soil?that of
each lot; not only tho top, but of
the subsoil.
' He must also know what grain
and grasses are adapted to each.
He must know when is the best
time to work them, whether they
need summer fallowing.
He must know the condition in
which ground must be when plow*
ed, so that it be not too wet or too
dry.
He mast know tbat some grains
require earlier sowing tbaa others,
and wbat tboae grains are.
He must know how to put them
in.
He must know that it pays to
have machinery to aid him, as well
as muscle.
He most know about stock and
manures, and the cultivation of
frees and small fruits, and many
rther things; in a word, be must
know what experienced, observing
farmers kuow, to be sure of
tnccess. Then he will not guess?
sill not ruu such risks.
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r^<YlLLE. SOTJTH CABOLTO
From tkt Wheeling RogUtcr.
A Roin&ntts Story.
. Wo have heard the particulars ,
of a story which, to our thinking,
is rather romantic, and 1
proves the truth of two adages !
as old as the hills, ono of which is
mat " the course of true love never
did run smooth," and the other
assures us that if we 44 inarry in
haste we may repent at leisure." ,
Something near four years since t
a young couple iu this city imagined
themselves desperately in
love with each other, and sought \
to have their love fructify in matrimony.
The relatives and friends
of the would-be bride warned her
against the match, and advised her
to wait, for there is always plenty
of time for waiting in such matters.
But hers was a love that
would not be advised, and so, unknown
to all but four persons besides
tboinselves, they sped away
to Pennsylvania, that Gretna G rcen
of runaway couples, and wero
thero united by a clergyman.?
in.? J -
?. iiujr iviuriiuu l(> III IS City Oil tUO
a if mo evening and parted about 10
o'clock, each resolved to "keep't
unknown," as Shakespeare Bays,
until a favorable 6cason to reveal
the marriago should arrive. Silence
was imposed on the four
fricudrt, and well did they hide tho
secret for nearly four ycarB. Not
a soul else has dreamed that the
pronng lady was u married woman.
The strangest part of the story is,
that tho husband, who never saw
his wifo save one of her friends
was by, left tho city tho next day
and ha^. never been seen by her
ince, as we nre informed, nor has
ho aided in her maintenace in any
way since ho callod her wife.
The young lady is vory attractive,
and has not lacked tor suitors
in the years of her desertion, but
she has rchiscd all candidates and
claimants for her hand, greatly to
tho astonishment of her friends,
who knew that somoof tho match
-/r i
va uuurcu were most eligible, and
could not nccouut lor her preference
for a life of single blessedne33.
At length, satisfied that her husband
was her husband only in
name, she revealed to her astonished
relatives and friends the fact
i>f her marriage ai.d all the attendant
circumstances. Measures were
set on foot at once for a divorce,
and on yesterday the hasty ties
wore sundered by the court, and
she is again frco? free to chose a ,
more fitting mate, and to 6ccuro <
yet a world of happiness.
Improvement of Grain by Natar&l
Selection.
At the Exeter meeting ol tho
British Association, Mr. Ilullctt,
Brighton, read a paper giving an
account of his experiments upon
the improvement of grain by applying
the principles of u natural
selection." By this method ho
succeeded in obtaining a grain of
wheat, which, when sown, produced
a whole multitude ot stalks,
each of which bore magnificent
6eeds, and the prodnco is thus in
creased more than a hundred fold.
Mr. Llallett lays down tho following
principles as tho result of
his observations:
1. Every folly-developed plant,
whether of wheat, oats or barley,
has au ear superior in productive
power to any of the rest on that
plant.
2. Every sncb plant contains one
grain which proves more produo
ive than any other. ,
3. The beet grain in any plant
is found in its host ear.
4. Tho superior vigor oi this
grain is transmissible in different
degrees to its progeny.
6. By repeated careful selection
tho superiority is accumulated.
6. The improvement, after a
long series of years, reaches a limit.
7. By still continuing to select,
the improvement is maintained.
at id practically a fixed type is the 1
result.?liural Carolinian.
A youko lady mat in company
a young gentleman who evidently
had an excellent opinion of himself.
During conversation he introdnced
the subject of matrirno* '
ny, and expatiated at length upon
the kind of wife he expectod to
marry ; that is, if ever he should
take the decisive step. The hen* "|
ored lady roust be wealthy, beau- <
liful, accomplished, amiable, <fec., 1
&c. His listener quietly waited
until be ended, and then complete- i
tv confounded him by asking in <
the coolest possible manner: " And 1
pray, sir, what have you to offer
in return for all this V* The young
man stammered, reddened a little, '
and walked away.
Taaaa is a literary roan out
West who calls himself Junius (
Henreigh Broughne.. A fow ,
years ago he was known as piuiu I
John Heury Brown. i
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IA, JULY 6, 1870.
An Avalanche of Death.
Brevet-Colonel Merrium, Major
of tbo Twenty fourth Infantry, (
who is now in Austin, after four ,
years of military service on the
frontiers of Kansas, New Mexico
and West Texas, had" received
leave of absence, and was jour*
neying with his wife and child
from ?1 Paso to the Texan coast.
Iliey bad reached the head of the
Concho River, and camped for the
night on Sunday, the 24th of
April. The stream at this point
is so small that a man can step
across it anywhere. The banks
WAPA twontv fonf oKaho fl?A K/wl
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tho water. Fatigued with the
long journey ot sixty-eight miles
in the previous twenty-four hours,
without water, the party were
pleasantly resting, when, early in
the evening, Colonel Merriain was
roused by the signs of an approaching
storm. The tent was
fastened and made secure as possible,
and about 9 o'clock a hailstorm
burst upon them, accompanied
by some rain and a strong
wind. The fall of hail was unprecedented,
lasting until nearly 11,
the stones being of the size if)
hens' eggs, and striking the tent
and prairio with a noise liko near
and incessant musketry.
The Colonel, who was not ignorant
of tho suddon and extreme
overflows to which tho mountain
stroani8 of Texas aro liable, went
out into tho darkness as soon as
tho storm had ceased, tonotowl at
effect had been producod on this
rivulet. To his amazement, lie
found in tho formerly almost dry
bid of tho creek a resistless torrent,
loaded and filled with hail,
rolling nearly bank full, white an
*
aiiu oiivuv. uq u rivur UI oil.
Ho ut onco saw tlio danger, and
run back to tbo tent shouting to
tlio escort and servants to turn
out. llo placed Mrs. Merriam,
the child and nurse in tho carriage,
and with tho aid ot three
men, started to run with it to the
higher ground, a distanco of not
m re than sixty yards. Scarcely a
minute had elapsed from tho timo
tho alarm had been given, but already
the water had surged over
the bank in waves ot such volume
and force as to sweep tho party
from their feet before they had
traversed thirty yards. Merriatn
then abandoned tho hope of saving
his family in the carriage, and
tried to enter it in ordor to swim
out with them, but ho was swept
down tho ice-cold torrent like a
bubble. Being an expert swimmer,
ho succeeded in reaching the
bank nbout 200 yards below, at d
ran back to renew tho effort,
when ho received tho terriblo tidings,
that tho moment after he was
swept down, the carriago, with all
its precious freight had turned
over and gono rolling down tho
flood, his wife saying, as sho disappeared,
" My darling husband,
good-bye." The little rill of a fow
hours before, which a child mi^ht
step i\pro6s, liad become a raging
river, covered with mosses of driftwood
a mile in width, and from
thirty to forty feet deep.
Before day, the strange and
momentary flood had passed by,
and the small stroma shrank to its
usual sizo, and ran in its wonted
bed. The sod search began. Tho
drowned soldiers and sorvants,
four in number, were found, and
the body of the wife taken from
the water about three-fourths of a
mile below, and prepared for a
jonrnoy of fifty three miles to the
post of Concho for temporary burial.
Not till thrco days after,
was tho body of tho child found,
fnnr milna /tmon tlm
w v.v?*u iiiu on vaiiiy nuu
a long distance Irom its bod. lho
boaver ponds, from which tho
Concho takes its rise, were so filled
with tho} icy hail, that the catfish
wore killed by the congelation,
and were swept in wagon loads,
together with myriads of smaller
animals of the plain, such as rabbits
and snakes, all over the conntry
by the sadden and rnshing
flood. Three days after tho storm,
when the party left the Concho,
the hail still lay ih drills and winrows
to the depth of more than
six feet.?Austin {Texas) Journal.
s
Fanny Fern wishes this sentence
ot hers pat into the crowns of the
gentleman's hats: A fool ot
either sex is the hardest aeiinal to
drivo that ever required a bit.?
Better one who jumps a fence now
and then than yonr snlky, stupid
donkey, whose rhinoceros back
feels neither pat nor goad."
A man at Atlauta, Ga., recently,
who sleeDS with his month nn*n
had his "false teeth stolen by an
sdroit thief.
Whknevbk yon see a vain perion
continually talking about bira?
wlf, you may make up your mind
that be baa not much to talk
ibout.
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ate Attir (Countni.
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AMoroenu.
Ao empty barn-yard at this
season is the sign of a slack farmer.
lie has cleaned out his styes, 1
yards, and the barn cellar, aud the 1
planting is all finished. Weeks or <
months go by, perhaps, before lie
thinks of laying the foundation for
the next crop of manure. The
cows are yarded at night, bnt
there is notning to absorb either
liquid or solid manuro. It is exposed
to the hot sun, the rahis,
and the winds, and much of its
value is lost. The summer is the
best time to make manure, if the
materials are seasonably furnished.
The process of fermentation goes
011 mnch more rapidly, and the
valuable gases are diffused through
the whole mass of absorbents.?
While the yards are bare, no farm
work will pay so well as gathering
absorbents, at least cnongh to cover
the whole surface an inch or two
in depth. It is not necessary to
fill the yards all at once. A low
loads added every week will prevont
loss. All waste vegetable
matter makes a good absorbent,
and swells the compost heap.?
Peat and muck thrown out during
the post season and weathered, are
excellent; but that freshly dug
soon cures in tho yard and should
not bo overlooked, if tho others
fail. If these nro not availablo,
use surface soil. The valuo of dry
earth as an absorbent has not begun
to bo appreciated. Turf makes
a good absorbent, and by its docay
adds value to the manuro. It
is much better for a farmer to peel
? r..... ?.J- -r !_ _ i ... ?
?? lunr iwuB III Uia uesi meiuiow,
than to havo his manure waist iug
all summer for want of ubsorpts.
Fi?kd thk Fiiurr Trees.?It must
bo apparent to every reflecting
person, that tho material round
about a fruit tree, which renders
iinportuut aid in the production of
flno fruit of any kind, must necessarily
bo moro or less exhausted
aftor a vine, bush or tree has produced
nbundnnt crops for several
successive seasons. For example:
A largo pear trco or applo tree
will frequently yield from ten to
sixteen bushels of fruit annually.
Many trocs have pr.oduccd more
thau twice theso quantities at one
crop. ,
After a few seasons, tho inateri
al that tho roots must bo supplied
with, in order to develop fruit,
will bo more or less exhausted.?
For this reason fruit begins to fail;
and the failure is often attributed
to an east wind, or some mysterious
atmospheric influence, when in
roality tho sole cause is starvation,
arising from an impoverished soil.
The remedy is to feed tho roots
of all kinds of fruit trees with
lime, wood ashes, gypsum, chip
dirt, bones, fishos, and anything
that will renovatoau impoverished
soil. It is evident that fruit trees
cannot produce fine fruit out of
nothing, or out of such material as
may bo desirablo for some other
purpose.?Hearth and Uoine.
Feeding Homes.?Do you consider
it good policy to feed horses
onlv twice a aay when at work ?
D. W. B.
Wo do not, as thoy are inoro
liable to founder and cholic. Wo
wore lately consulted about some
horses, among whom had occurred
a strange and nnaccoantablo
mortality. On inquiry, wo found
that tho custom of tho establishment
was to kocp their horsos at
work for ton hours together without
food, and to food them in
bundauce on tboir return home.
Tho soureo of tho evil at onco bocaino
evident. We ordered, for
tho lime to come, that tho horses
he fed once in the course of the
time they were put out, by means
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ui iiuqv uagti j ?iiu mo iresn practice
immediately put to flight a
disease which had caused the death
of several of thorn. In casos of
this kind, tho stomach and intestines
frequently becomo distended
with gas.
[American Stock Journal.
"Patrick, will yon tako yonr
steak rare or well done}*' "Well
done, if ye place, for it was rare
enough I got it in the ould country."
Burunoton, Iowa, hab a female
citizen who bos so far advanced
toward the equality of rights botho
sexes, that she goes to tho
barber's to be shaved.
A Toe no daudy, about starting
on a sea voyage, went to purchase
his life preserver. " Oh, you will
not want it." suirireetcd the r.Wlr
" bags of wind won't sink."
A sailor attempting to kiss- a
pretty girl got a violent box,oil
the ear. " There," be exelaimod.
Mjust my hick; always wreckeo
on tbc ?oral reels."
Blksbcd are they that do not advert
life; lor tbey shall be rarely
troubled with customers.
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YULUME XVII-NO. 7.
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Work For The Month?igricultural
Operations.
Cotton must now be encouraged
by constant and careful, but shallow
culture, to promote the production
of forms and bolls. Uso
light sweeps and follow by tho
hoe.
Corn, if not already laid by,
must be kept clean till the blades
meet across the rows. Cow peas
may be sown broadcast at the lost
working, where not already plauted,
covering with a cultivator or
harrow. ,
Cow peas may be sown broadcast,
as a separate crop, for bay.
From a bushel to a bushel and a
half per acre will bo a sufficient
seeding.
Corn Fodder may bo pnlled,
but we doubt the propriety of tho *
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Sowing corn in drills for fodder,
ranking hay and cutting up your
corn, instead of pulling the cars,
and using the stalk and leaf tor
feed, arc better plans.
Sweet Potato draws and cuttings
of vines may still bo put
out, but do not delay this work,
ns it will soou bo too late for a
crop.
11 ay is a most important and too
much neglected crop. Mako all
you can, and prepare to make
raoro next year, by getting eonio
suitable laud into grass.
Draining and Ditching may bo
done to advantage now if you
have any time and ha' ds that can
be devoted to it, without neglecting
kliu
Turnips should bo largely plantod.
Prepare tho land thoroughly
and manuro heavily, and you
may mako your first sowing about
tho last of this month ; and, if it
fail, you can try again in ten days,
and 60 on, till a statu) is obtained ;
but August and September aro
generally better months tor sowing
the main crop.
GARDEN WORK.
Clear off and turn under weeds,
dig up deeply, luanuro as required
and prepare for tall crops. .
Cabbage, Cauliflower and Broccoli
may bo transplanted, if you
have plants in your seedbed, choosing
tho ovening or rainy day for
tho operation, shading tho plants
for a few days ; but next month's
plantings will, bo likoly to do
bettor.
Of Beets, Carrots, Parsnips,
etc., it is now very difficult to get
u stand, bnt if you can protect tho
young plants against tho hot sun
and beating rains you may yet
get a fine crop early in tho fall.
Simp I>eans may still bo planted
for a succession.
En^sli Peas may bo tried,
mulching heavily between the
rows.
"Water Melons, Squashes and
Cucumbors for a late crop may bo
planted, and if they survive they
will givo you a good lato crop.
Tomatoes may still bo planted,
using cuttings if you have 110
young plants. *
THE FLOW Eli GAKDKN.
Ruses may now bo budded and
layered.
Chrysanthemums, and many
other plants, may also now bo
propagated by layers.
Evergreen Hedges should bo
trimmed, and box edgings clipped.
Savo seeds, and put away in
paper bogs, carefully labelled, with
natno ana date.
[Ilural Carolinian. ?
War is tlio young lander liko
the national cnrrcnci' ? Eecauso
ho is legal tender and somewhat
green.
A nkgko orator, in South Carolina,
says, 44 We'll nebor desert
do old flag, boys, nebor. Wo hub
libbed under it for eighteen hundred
and sixty-uine years, and
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wo u uie ior 11 now."
A Boston firm advertises to euro
dyspepsia^ for $2, and when they
Tecoivo the money, send the victim
a picture of a wood-saw and
saw buck. That is ahead oi nutmegs
made of time.
Ah old stage driver says, Mtbo
hardest kind of traveling is to sit
in a bar-room, and bear them toll
hew hard it is outside?when you
get on the road, you go along easy
enough." Good philosophy, that.
A scuoor.master asked a class of
boys the , meaning of the word
44 appetito? After a short pause,
one ooy said,441 know, sir ; when
I'm oatin', I'm happy, and when
I'm done, I'm tight.
44 Mai?ame, ran yon givo mo a
glass of grog?" said a traveler in
Arkansas, as he entered a cabin
on the roadside.
M I ain't got a drop, stranger."
w llut a gculltenan told mo just
sow that you had received a barrel."
"Why, good gracious! What
do you reckon one barrel of whls*
kjr is to ine and my children when
we are out o! milk !''