The Orangeburg news. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, August 28, 1869, Image 1
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. )? OOI3 .AJSTID OTTT* COTJIsTTIlY. -I ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
VOLUME 3. SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1869. NUMBER 28.
[From ?lw Southern Cultivator.]
Mr. Dickson on Immigration.
Sparta, Ga., June 10,1860.
Editors Southern Cultivator: I wish
to draw the attention of the cotton
planters df the South to tho subject of
immigration. It is one of great interebt,
and if successful, I think will prove
?destructive to tlio cotton interest. 1 do
not wish my views to prevail unless they
-are right. I wish both sides to be heard;
tho other sido has been heard already,
and wo have been taxed to promote this
-cause. The State of Georgia is moving
for oar destruction.
The negro we have with us, and wc
?cannot get rid of him if we would. They
%ill not die out, as most of our Northern
.friends and many of our people think.
Next census will show a large increase.
'The only way to make it tolerable fur
thorn to live amongst us, is to give them
?employment. With full employnicut,
they will steal less, he more law-abiding,
and a lesa nuisance in overy way. Do
we want more labor, and for what? The
?agricultural interest at the South is
?chiefly valuable for its production of
cotton, tobacco and rice. Can we make
'more mo?ey by doubling the quantity of
?labor, than we cnu out of what we now
have / Do numbers increase tho quantity
?of luhcr pro rata, or will tho dividends
be greater for all concerned f Can the
?first million of people in Georgia, having
the first choice ot lands to cultivate and
the balance for pasture, make more or
less than tho .second tii'llion, having tho
poorest hulf to cultivate, and no waste
?land for stock to grate on ? Is tho
?second million likely to be mum skilful,
industrious, law-abiding aud enterprising.
*f? 7 I think history teaches us that a
.population, with a plenty of room and
land, are more cheaply governed than a
?dense population?can live better and
?crn have.more labor to spart* f r improve.,
--incuts. What country has built the .same
?amouut of Ruiln ads and Factories as
the United States ? The I'nited States
having plenty ot lauds to cultivate, by
selecting the best, can, with one-half of
?its laborers, mako u plenty of.-ill the
products of the soil, whilst the other
'half can build Railroads uud machinery
?of all kinds, and work them. The
<3ottou Suites, with its present labor,
?can build mure Railroads, erect more
factories, dovelope more mines, carry
education and refinement to a higher
point than if the population was increased
fourfold. With cotton at twenty-five
cents per pound, you have money to do
whatever you wish collectively. In 1818
?and '40, with 900,000 to 1,000.000
bales of cotton in Liverpool, cotton sold
in Augusta at from 4J to 54 cents. With
?350,000 to 400,000 bales at preseut in
Liverpool cottou is selling in Augusta
from 25 to 29 ceuts per pound. Why
?do you wish to make the change? Our
Northern friends say, if wc do not pro
dace cotton cheaper, we will loso the
trade I am willing to lose it, if it can
only bo held by making cheap cotton. If
they would take a little more interest in
preventing the loss ofour liberty, instead
?of tho loss of the cottou trade, it would
insure to the benefit of both sections.
Give us our liberties and constitutional
Tights, with our best men to represent
us in all departments, and we can make
as much cotton as the world wants, at
fair prices, if it bo ton million of bales,
without an outsido man or dullar. Good
government would do more to develope
this country thnu all the men and money
in the world.
Cotton planters, it is not to your inter
?est to sell your laud at u mere nominal
price. How can you invest your money
to any better advuntage. Lund must
advance in price. In thirty years, with
out a single immigrant, Georgia will
have a population of two millions of
people?the sons and daughters of the
present population. Be patient?wait
for the natural increase, and what may
voluntarily como. Do not. spend your
money to hasten an over-populated
country. It will conic soon enough, and
when it docs come, you will have no out
let Some arc willing to cut their lands
up in email lots, and give every alternate
lot to immigrants, thinking it will more
thin double the price of the balance.
What do you care what your lands are
worth, if you havo none to sell?besides,
it would reduce the price of cotton more
than one-half, and the land you would
have left would not pay per acre one
half of the dividouds they do now?
reducing yuur profits three-fourths. Von
have a plenty of native poor people to
sell land to, if you wish to part with
any.
Do those who have no land, wish com
petitors in lubor, and in the laud market
?-reducing your wages one-half or inure?
Do you wish a groat increase of money
capital, reducing the rato of iutcrest to
the standard of Europe, causing all prop
erty to rise, in pyor. jrtion to the full of
interest. Your wages arc fixed by the
surplus of cotton you have to export,
and the prico it will bring in Liverpool.
Your prosperity flepeuds upon the
scarcity of lubor nnd n high rate of
iuiorcst. You Lave nothing but your
labor?you cannot borrow money, even
' if it gets down to 2 per cent. The value
of your labor boing fixed by the value
of cotton in Liverpool, where interest is
low, you can, by residing where it is
high, acquire proportionally, much more
iaud in a given time.
To those who have land to sell, or
inoro than can be worked, let me say
tho very scarcity of labor will make oue
half of y.iur lands bring in annually
more money than if all was planted?the
other half is worth 5 per cent to grow
broom sedgo for grating, nnd will ad
vance more than five per cent annually.
Eor the safety of the manufacturing
interest, especially in cotton, it is not
prudent to push it too fast?not faster
than markets can be found for the
products manufactured. Just as sure
as the winds return the wutcr, to be
condensed and fall again above the shoals,
the people here will possess tho money
and energy and skill to put the water to
work; and to effect this most speedily,
we want a scarcity of labor, that there
may bo a scarcity of cotton, und corres
pondingly good prices.
With cotton ut 20 to 2."> cts. per lb.,
we can in Georgia uppropriatereu dollars
towards increasing our manufacturing
interest with more case than one dollar,
with double the labor, and cotton 8 to
12 cents. Where arc the laborers best
fed and clothed3 Where labor is scarce.
Whore docs land pay the bust profits t
Where labor is scarce ; und the reason is,
the products of the farm bring the best
prie< s, under these circumstances.
I am equally Opposed to begging for
money to be brought to the "South, to bo
invested. If capitalists come of their
own accord, let them come, but it is not
to our interest that they should. You
now own tho property of Georgia?if
you sell one-half of it, you will own but
the other hulf. It is very difficult to
transfer real property from-one country
to another. The most you would get,
would be the means to live, and dress
fine for a few years.
What we wnnt is a system of saving,
nnd properly investing each year. We
could and ought to save annually fifteen
million of dollars, to he invested .in
machinery. That would pay future
dividends, to bo rc-invcsted. 1 am for
more lubor too, but 1 want such as we
may never regret acquiring. Accumulate
ull sorts of labor-saving machines ; im
prove your laud to n capacity double its
present rates; improve your systems
fully double of what they now arc. Learn
to do fully fifty per cent more work,
with the same labor than is now done,
and with more case ; learn to apply your
labor to greater advantage thau is now
done?do all this, and more too which
can be done, aud you will find your
products ample, without an}' increase of
populatiun. I um for non-act ion by
Georgia?non-action of our people.
Leave the subject of immigration to
.time, and tho free will of those who
wish to come among us, nud be of us.
Wc owe our prosperity at this time
entirely to the scarcity of labor?many
negroes having refused to work ; others
being employed iu repairing torn up
railroads, and building new roads. If
ull the negroes had gone to work on the
farms, nnd done full work, it would have
taken twenty years to roach our present
situation. The scarcity of labor is the
I only blessing we now enjoy us a result
of the war.
Tho scarcity of labor in the South,
gives us the proceeds of the very l::bc
some people wish to transfer hero. The
profits of one hand in the cotton field,
give us the labor of two in Europe.
Transfer him hero, and lie will compete
with the labor wo now have, or he will
labor with those we now have to lessen
their profits, and bring about a state of
things, which will get np strikes. You
must recollect, n strike in the cotton or
harvest field, is not like one iu a cotton
mill or on a rnilrond. If the mill stops, '
what has boon done is not lost?if the
hands refuse to move any more dirt,
what has been, remains. Not s> with
wheat and cotton?all is lost, unless you
continue to advance. The guano must
be pumpod up into tho cotton bolls, and
they must be gathered by uninterrupted
labor. ?.?
One moro point I will mention, and
then leave the subject to be discussed
fully, I hope by abler pens. Tho press
of tho South has labored earnestly, to get
tho cotton pluuter to make all his sup
plies at home, urging it as being the
cheapest policy. Now every cotton
pluuter knows that nothing pays as well
as cotton, and all the presses in the
world cannot change his opinion. But
if the press will strike at tho root of tho
evil, they may do incalculable good. I
will state what it is; I have always
practicod it; both the true iutcrest of
the cotton planter and patriotism, should
mubo all adopt it. Apply one-half of
all labor and land to the making of.full
supplies of all kin.Is that are needed on
the plantation, aud cuough to spare, for
those engaged in other pursuits. Do
this, nud you will get more money,
(take ten years together,) for the other
half of labor and land engaged iu cotton
culture, than if the whole was employed
to produce cotton. If this is true, im
migration is certainly not to our iutorcst,
and why should not tho cotton planters
cousult their interests as well as other
people.
Very respectfully,
DAVID DICKSON.
- in-mn hi
Horrible Chicago.
I think 1 remarked iu my last letter
that I once met a Chicago lawyer who
warmly advocated marriage, and who
explained to me his reason fur hu doing.
For such a man to du such a thing, was.
to say the least, surprising. I listened
with breathless interest while \o gave
me a brief history of his expert nee du
ring the Brst ton years of his residence
in that oek'bratc,;: ?'i*.y.
Said ho : "I fust came to Chicago fif
teen years ago. Then I was youug aud
innocent, which it is hardly necessary
fur me to say that 1 am nut at present.
1 had a friend living here whom I had
known while lie resided in New Volk,
and conducted himself like a civilized
cumtnunity. As he had written tu ine
to visit himself aud his wife when I
came to Chicago, 1 remembered the in
vitation when I did visit that city, and
immediately on my arrival proceeded to
his houso. He was not at homo just
at the moment, and so 1 asked to see his
wife, whom 1 had known only a year be
fore in New York. In unswer to my
inquiry fur Mrs. De Vurse, a pretty
black eyed girl came into the drawing
room and received me quite warmly.
"Well, we chatted very pleasantly to
gether until my friend came up, and 1
really'felt myself beginning to experience
a very affectionate impulse towards her.
supposing, of course, that she was his
niece, or cousin, or uncle, or something
of that suit. But ia the oourso of the
evening I asked him whether his wife
was at home, and if so, when ho proposed
to let me see her '.'
"To my astonishment, he replied,?
'This lady is Mrs. De Vorse ! 1 thought
you wore already aware of the fact.'
'?Of course 1 blushed and felt horribly
uncomfortable, and said that I was not
aware that he had lust poor Emily.
" 'Oh,' said he, 'Emily is well, anil
has married a partner of mine. We
were divorced, you know, about six
months ago, and I married my present
wife only last week.'
"Well! I didu't feel quite sc- aficc
tiouatu toward her after that, for I had
been warmly attached to Emily ; but we
said no mure about the matter, and I
weut away, vowing never to get myself
into such a scrape again by askiug after
auybody's wife. 1 did not soo my friend's
new wife fur about a month afterwards,
until I one day met her iu a house of a
mutual acquaintance, aud in the course
of conversation said to her: 'By the
way, might I ask you to say to your hus
band thut I waul 'hint to come to my
office some day next week ?"
?? '1 don't think you know my hus
band,' she said smilingly.
'? 'What do you meau ?' said I, getting
rather nervous.
"'W hy, my new husband is named
Smith,'she answered. 'I was separated
from Mr. Dc Vorse yesterday morning,
and married Mr. Smith last night."
''I left that houso protty rapidly, and
registered a second vow, to tho effect
that I woulJ never, to my dying day.
ask a Chicago lady about her husband
again. Tho two mistakes 1 had already
ax tn iMiii-.aj.ro wives uhd husbands
made mo decidodly shy ofLthem. Hut
the very next duy i wcnJ^^Do Vorse's
store (euro, pork, nnd P^Hbioob-), and
found him engaged in conversation with
a terribly angular female, who looked
like a compound of a New England old
maid, a Western wouiau's rights lecturer,
and an Arkansas sijtuittcts wife Of
course I pitied my friend, and, when the
terrible female had gone, tcmurked, 'I
congratulate you on your^scapo; that
horriblo female would have exhausted
uuy man's patiene? in ten ulonionts' con
versation.' What was my horror when
he replied : *I must beg you to speak
more respectfully ofthat lady; she is at
prcseut my wife?a fuct of which you
uro, of course, unaware, nsfwe were mar
ried very privately lust night.'
"I never said a word, but fled abrupt
ly from his presence. Once more 1 swore
?and I went before a notary, who had
tho biggest kind of a Bible, so as to
make the oath more binding?that never,
pever would 1 speak disparagingly of
any Chicago woman to any Chicago man.
Aftor that I felt better,* and for two
weeks avoided mukiiig any more mis
takes. At the end of that time, how
ever, L met the new and ,'angulur Mrs.
J)c Yorso, to whom 1 had' in the mean
time, been iuti-oduccd, having tho live
liest kind of a quarrel with n big, prize
tightiyg looking fellow, who was ap
parently on the point of knocking her
down. Of course I flew to her rescue
and demanded to kuow jf the fellow
what lie meant; also if he was aware
who that lady was, and who her husband
was? To which he briefly, sontoutious
ly, but, us it struck me, i<revcluntly re
marked, 'Hell I'
''I paid no further attention to him,
but turning to Mrs. l><^ Vorse, said :
?Madam! permit me to p: 'feet you from
that ruffian's insolence' '
'?instead of thanking r?\ she actually
slapped my face, and s?jfjl: 'III teach
you to interfere bctwc**r*^!k\h mid wife.
That's my husband, and we've been mar
lied three day. It's pretty hard thing
if a wife can't stop in the street to speak
to her husband without having some idiot
come and make a muss ah >ut it.'
"N'.w." continued the lawyer, "this is
not only a true story, but it is a fair ex
ample of the continued trouble that a
man gets into who lives in Chicago, and
doesn't know bow to bold his tongue.
You now understand why 1 bate the
Chicago customs, and why I go in lor
indissoluble mat riages. I never made a
mistake in asking n man about his wife
the whole time 1 lived in New York, but
here 1 have got into more awkward
places, and hud more lights than 1 e.io
count, just becuuse no man stays married
more than a mouth at furthest."
We drank weak lemonade together in
solemn thoughtfulticss, and I patted
from him with the feeling that bad as it
is to be iudissoluhly connected with an
unpleasant lliottior-itl-law, it is better
than to be constantly but lu red by a
change of wife.?Mobib Register.
Attacked hy a Snaky..?On Tues
day, the ltd instant, a black Ftiake. meas
uring six fret in length, attacked a boy;
about eight ye ns of age. while he was
sleeping tinder a tree. The boy is a sou
of W. Strickler of Cotiostogn Centre,
who was out with his father mi the Korge
Hills gathering blackberries. While
the father was off some ten or twelve
yards lit! was alarmed by a BCroani from
his sou, who had lain down and fallen
asleep ; and on going to see what was
the matter, he found a suako coiled
around tin- body of the boy. Mr Strick
ler immediately dispatched the snake
and rescued his son from his perilous
situation. It is supposed that the snake
Was on (he tree at the time the boy lay
down, and that it dropped upon him
when he was asleep. That is one of the
peculiarities of the black snake, 'flic
boy was considerably frightened by bis
undesirable visitor.? Lancaster Intelli
gencer.
There is a girl in Schuylcr County,
Mo., who "one night last summer at
tended a ball, danced all night, went
home in the morning, got breakfast, din
ner, and supper for ten harvest bands,
did a two weeks' washing, and the milk
ing, made tt calico dress, practiced her
music lessons, weut black berrying, gath
ered n gallon, walked to town in the
evening to attend a concert, und walked
homo again before bed-time." Who
says that woman is not entitled to the
ballot?
Tho Comet.
Comets have always been regarded
with terror, especially by the unscien
tific. In times past, certain comets have
created great consternation, such, for in
stance, aB that of 1456, which appeared
again in 1531, in 1607, in 1682, in 1758
and in 1885, aud, which astronomers say
will reappear every 75 years. This was
the comet that Pope Calixtus III ordered
to be said, in connection with tho Ave
Maria, "Lord, save us from the Devil,
the Turk, and the Comet." Tho comet
of 1456 hud a tail more than ninety-six
millions of miles long. ^
Forty-three years bclorc the birth of
the Saviour, a comet appeared which
could be seen in the day-time, this comet
rc-appcarcd iu 1106.
There is a bare possibility that this
planet may come in contact w:th a comet.
Dr. Brew.sters, in speaking of this says,
"The transient effect of a body passing
near the earth, could scarcely amount to
any great convulsion; but it" the earth
were actually to receive a j-hock from one
of these bodies, tho consequences would
be awful. A new direction would be
given to its rotary motion, and would
revolve around a new axis. The seas
forsaking their beds, would be hurried,
by their centrifugal force, to the new
equatorial regions; islands and c nti
nents, the abodes of men and animals,
would be covered by the universal rush
of the waters to the new equator, and
every vestige of human industry and
genius would be at once destroyed."
It will be seen from the following,
which we clip from one of our exchanges
that a comet of a dangerous nature, is
stealing a liery inarch on us :
"For more than ten years past, the
most scientific astronomers of the world
have told us, through publications in the
magazines and otherwise, that dur*ng
the mouths of July. August and Sep
tember, this year. (1869), the most wou
derfitt comet the world has ever known,
would re-appear. They have also as
sured us thut it would approach nearer
the earth than any comet ever did before,
and that either the earth or the comet
would have to change its course or a col
lision would be inevitable. As this
comet is said to be many thousand times
larger than the earth, and as it is a solid
mass of lire, with a tail of tire that
would reach round the earth more than
I a hundred times, it is not at all unlikely
that a collision with it would prove us
disastrous to the earth as the late acci
I dent on the Krie railrftad did to some ol
the more unfortunate passengers. Ac
cording to astronomers, it was this comet
that immediately preceded the terrible
civil wars in Greece, and was immediate
ly followed by a terrible contagion in
Persia and other eastern countries, a
most dreadful plague that in a few weeks
swept from the face ol the earth more
than one half of the people ol the coun
tries visited by it. Some years after,
this COIUCt appeared again, and was pre
ceded by a most terrific ei\il war in
Koine, ami followed by a plague, or
<courgc, that piled tho dead up iu heaps
in the streets ol' that proud, but corrupt
city, until there were scarcely enough
persons lclt alive to bury the dead.
That is the comet that is paying its re
spects to old mother earth again. It has
been much talked of, and its visit much
dreaded by those who teel that they have
good reason to dread, not only the tire
works they may be compelled to witness
in this world, but the real ami consum
ing tires with which they are threatened
in the next.
A Stinging Protest.?The Free
man's Journal, one of tho best friend? of
the South, thus protests aud warns:
We hope the people of the States on
the lower Mississippi will not make the
mistake of encouraging an influx upon
them of the scum of pagan China, and
dream that honest Christian Kurojienns
will go near regions thus infected.
If the devilish spirit of making money
anyhow has so degraded the ruling ele
ments iu any portion of the South as to
make them willing to accept Chinese
residents, with all the rights >ecured to
them by the Burliugame treaty, then
these States or regions, thus besotted,
are very good places tor European emi
grants to keep away from.
The effect of manuring with green
crops, or vogetablo r^nure, is to render
the soil loose and mellow Heavy, sticky
clay soils are changed b) its process.
A Terrible Calamity.?A terrible
calamity occurred in the town of Cald
weil, New Jersey, not iong since. A
young man named Stephen Pierce was
walking home from the Methodist Epis
copal Church, in company with a young
lady, when they were overtaken by. a
violent storm, which was preceded and
accompanied by thunder and lightning.
The entire village was suddenly illumi
nated with an intense light, aud Pierce
and his companion full to tbc ground.
The -lady was stunned, but she soon re
covered, and screamed for help. When
help arrived, nothing was found of the
young man who had accompanied her
but mangled remains. His boots were
stripped from hie feet; hie limbs were
severed and laccrat"d, and the features
were not recognizable by those who had
know him in life. The unfortunate
young man is said to be tho third one of
his family who has lost his life by the
same cause. lie was about eighteen
years of age, and was respected in the
neighborhood where bo residwd.
Chief Justice Chase Favoring a
New Party.?It is said that jnst after
the result of the Virginia election be- i
came known Chief Justice Chase wrote
a confidential letter to n prominent poli
tician in Tennessee, an old friend of his
wherein he expressed much gratification
at the defeat of the bitterenders in Vir.
gint:;, and rpjoiced over tho success of
the Conservatives. Tho Chief Justice
expressed the hope that results similar
to that in Virginia would be produced
in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas,
and strongly hinted that in his opinion
the Republican party bad served it? day,
and the tin.e was nt hand when a new
Conservative party should be formed
which would embrace the moderate men
of all existing parties. This letter was
kept very quiet for some time, but .after
the Tennessee election the gentleman to
whom it was addressed seemed to con
sider the seal of secrecy removed aujd
showed it around quite freely. Tie re
fused, however, to give it to the pres?.
A COOL PrOCEEDINO.?A married
couple in this county, says the Kvans
villc (Ohio) Courier, who bad been liv
ing together for something over n year,
separated'recently in a very peculiar
manner, and to say the least of it. uudcr
unusual circumstances. We know noth
ing about their married life, whether it
had been happy or otherwise, but sup
pose it to have been very agreeable be
tween the parties. The husband came
home to dinner one day, ns usual, and
while eating his wife said to him,
"Stephen, you had better eat a hearty
dinner, for it is the list that I will ever
cook for you." lie enquired what she
meant, when she informed him that she
had just received a letter from a young
man (a former beau) whom bhe loved
better than any one else in the world ;
that she was going to leave her husband
and go to him ; mid thatcho never loved
(Stephen) her husband. After dinner
was over she attired herself neatly, and
soon after a hack culled, her trunk (al
ready packed) was placed on it. the wo
man got inside, tho driver cracked his
whip, and away went the wile froift home
and husband forever. Stub are the cir
cumstanccs'of the case as they have beeu
tol 1 to us.
"Pi/.eu Hill, hunter ;md Prospector,"
of Klk Mountain, Wyoming Territory,
is down on the Pacific Railroad,
fie says : "It skates of the gaim ami
drives of the fraters and bulwhackers
and pilgrims, and brings down all prises
of things. If a feller wants to go any
whares they raze bcl if he bnngs gun
into the kcarfl an to take it an put it in
the baggage kear and nock the sites
outcu place. The grate nashnul hi wa
is a grate cuts to the koutry, bekase it
brings in ohyoees wuu wa an yaokya the
uther." It is furthermore his opinion
that the Powell expedition is drowned,
as the Colorado cannon is liable to drown
anything except a fish.
Tho Norfolk Virginian of Thursday
says:?"We have good reason to believe
that a telegram wus received in this city
yesterday evening to the effect that the
President had given instructions to (Jen.
Csnby to install the Governor elect with
out delay; but inasmuch as there was no
pressiug business for the Legislature to
convene, that tho meeting of that body
would bo deferred for the present."
The hops are all destroyed in the hop
growing regions in Wisconsin.
Pomkkoy oh Buti.er.?Bri<?
roy does get off a good thing sotuctiawa.
We are not ordinarily an admirer $f his.
His red-hot politics is Iiis cool Stock*
trade?tho inventoried capita! of V*
business. He has made money out" afrit,
and he expects to mate more. Cohiuina
of his editorial matter pruned 4om%*?
their pith arc simply very ingemo4tt4afi
diversiGed abuse, withoat much idea bt*
yond undisguised hostility to what fie is
pitching into. But the following isi
ly said and contains a true thoughts
The right honorable and distingaii
Benjnmin F. Butler, of Massachai9Mp?
has offered an opinion in the caae of Vir
ginia, and his opinion is to the effect thai
those officers elected, who cannot ta*e
the test-oath, because of their partlci?tV
tion in the rebellion," should be
aside, and those whozi they defeated *aV
initted. Once there was a time it this
country when the thief was not permit*
ted to express an opinion in the cose of
homcst men, and a time when honest
men were in position of trust, instead of
plunderers and speculators. ' Tfc?a?
times have gone. Then there was *a?4b>
er time, so many year* ago, whea a aaofe
put Christ upon the cross and cried that
Barnbbas, the thief, might -be saved,
and those times are returning.
A Western paper relates this story i
"Deacon B., of Ohio, a very pious ma?>
was noted for his long prajere, especially
in his family. One Monday morning
the deacon aud his wife alone, and.as
wa^ his custom, after break fact, a prayer
was offered. There being an unusual
amount of work that day, the de-aeon's
prayer was short, and seizing his hat and
milk pail he started for the barn. His
wife being deaf did not notice his_ ab
sence, but supposed him to be still e
gaged in prayer. On ?ii? return
milking, he was surprised to sec her still
kneeling. He stepped up to her and
shouted 'Amen,' when she immediately
arose and went about her work as it ao?_
thing had happened."
A Brilliant Whitewash*?When
wc wish a wash of this characftJ#y we
wish an article that will be durable, and
wc arc willing to be at a little more, ex
pense if wc can get it. We have it ia
tho following recipe: Take clean lumps
of well-burnt lime, slackened; add to
five gallons a quarter of pound of whiting
or burnt alum pulverized, half a pound
of loaf sugar, one quart and n half of rice
Hour made into a thiu aud well boiled
paste, boiled out in water. This may
be put on cold within doors, but hot out
side. This will be as brilliant as plas
ter of Paris aud retain its brilliancy for
many years.? Western Farmer.
Strawberry- Fertilizer.?*A Lan?
taster, Pa., correspondent of the .Small
Fruit Recorder says : "Au experiment
made last year by myself may not come
amiss at this time with those who grow
strawberries. I procured a half hogs
head, filled it with raiu water, and put
into it one-quarter pound of ammonia,
aud one-quarter pound of common niter.
When the strawberry plants were' blos
soming out, 1 gave them a sj>rink?s:g of
the solution at evening, twice a week,
until the fruit was full size. The result
was double the amount of fruit oa those
where the liquid was applied to what
was obtained from those vines right
along side of thoso where none ef the
liquid was applied. Let us all give it a
trial."
A drunkcu German in California, who
had borne patiently many iusults from a
young man w ho was making game of him,
at last turned, and assuming mach digni
ty, thus addressed his tormentor : flrees
ter, mind vat Isay.l he's drunk, aud you
he's sober: but veu I vants a shentjeman,
den 1 wouldn't swap mit you ; ven I vants
a man. den I woldn't swap mit you; bat
vent I vants a shackass den I swaps
quick." N p*
A Good Hit.?An editor who seems
to have last his temper, gets off tlio fol
>wing well merited hit:
Those fellows who don't take their
home paper, watch them I they are al
ways on the alert on publication day, tad
when the papers come aroaad aa yeur
place of business, are the first to snatch
it up; failing in this, they read, it over
your shoulders, too impatient to demean
themselves in a respectful manner. Spot
these fellows. They are the. snmll
souled, stingy-hand-ful, who go through
the world With other folks money,