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gumorfltts THJE PATRIOTIC TUKKEY. Early one morning, in the fall of '64, a squad of the ??th Virginia cavalry stopped at the widow T.'s, in Alleghany county Va., to "whack" a breakfeast. The widow was famed for her hatred to the "blue devils," as she called them, and had imbued everything on the place with her antipathy to them, extending even to a huge old turkey gobler, which was wont to strut around the yard with all a gobler's "fuss and feathers," but was always shoved up the spout whenever a Yankee appeared. Now it so chanced that the foremost of i our boys was clad in a blue Yankee over- i coat, and, at first sight, the widow took i them for Yankees, and hastened to have her old gobler secured. But she was soon i appeased by Sergeant L.'s telling her the i blue coated fellow was a prisoner. "Do tell," cried the old lady. "Well, I ] knowed some of those blue devils was about, ; by the way old 'Stony' got mad." "How's that ?" said Sergeant L. The widow then proceeded to tell them ] the history of her gobler, and wagered to bet that he would attack the Yankee if he , crot off his horse. "Done," cried they all; and one of them, walking to the pretended Yankee's horse, slyly fastened a fishing line to the saddle, baiting the hook,with a grain of corn. Sure enough, the gobler, as soon as he saw the blue coat near him, became furi' ous, and sidled up towards him, as if to attack. "Hurra for old Stony," cried all. "He shall have some corn," cried Sergeant L., suiting the action to the word by throwing a few grains to him. This was a rarity, and turkey nature could not stand it. The first one he swallowed contained the fish hook. With a sudden spring, the pretended Yankee was on his horse, and darted off as if to escape, while all were watching the turkey. Down the road he went, the turkey after him with outstretched neck and flapping wings. "Catch him!"?pop! and all hands star od in nnrnnif'. trVV* *** |/wkw?M*? "Lor sakes alive!" cried the widow.? ] "Run here, Sal, if here aint old Stony a running that Yank down the road as hard , as he can. Catch him, old fellow." There was a grand jollification that night . in camp. The widow always did believe , that turkey followed the Yank to his camp, and went up another kind of spout. WHO WILL. BE GOATT During the late war, a soldier of one of j the New York Regiments, who was home on a furlough, visited New York city for , the first time in his life. The boys in blue , were by no means given to the blues when 1 away from the tented field, nor as much S'ven to avarice as the celebrated Daniel ancer, who wore hay on his feet to save leather. Our soldier was no exception to , the general rule, and was making the most j of his limited sojourn in the Metropolis.? , Going up one of the streets, one night, af- | ter paying homage to Bacchus during the | day, he fell in with a crowd of colored people on their way to church. In this state < of inebriation he very naturally went with , the crowd into the church, thinking it a , theatre, and congratulating himself on his ( getting into the house without having to pay the usual fee, and anxiously awaiting | the curtain to rise. The officiating clergy- , man arose and said: "My bruddering, in dat last great day when de trump of de Lord shall blow, and de sheep shall go tu to the right, and de ( ornatq tu de left, who wants tu be eoat O J w After a short pause he said again, rais- , ing his voice: , "I say, who'll be de goat?" A long pause followed, when he said in a louder tone: "Who'll be de goat?" The soldier supposing the performance delayed for a person to represent a goat in , some play, exclaimed: "Look here, old fellow, rather than to have this thing play out, I'll be goat!" STREET SCENE. The other day, passing along Military street in front of the Court House, we saw a one-armed ex-Confederate soldier standing by his wagon and team of oxen. All at once the maimed rebel, with the fire of battle not entirely gone from his eye, straightened himself up, assumed the military stiffness of old Gen. Ruggles when calling his courier for a pipe of tobacco, whirled his long whip gradually in the air, Bhouted in the hoarse voice of command: "Attention battalion!" Promptly, with the word, the six steers rose from their recumbent attitude, shook their dusty flanks, and took the position of the soldier. Again the clarion voice: "Forward?march!" and the trained animola mnvA/1 nflf nnf-. u-irh a crraat deal of time in keeping step 'tis true, but understanding the command perfectlyThen, not satisfied with the pace 'at will' of his troops, the incorrigible 'reb' thundered out: "No enemy in front!" And the veterans quickened up like the Old Guard at Waterloo preparing for the headlong charge.?Mississippi Index. FAX ABOUT BUTTER. We went one week without it up to our hous, but at larst, giving wa tu the clamors ov the children and the tearful entreaties ov my wife, I bought haff a pound, and mortgaged mi house and lot. Oh, 4 a kow. Butter is very skerce. Kows ar as plenty as ever, and giv just as mutch milk, but the avaricious farmist packs hiz butter fur a big thing nex winter. Tha don't konsider that the wurld may kome to an end before that time, and thare butter spile on thare hands. A farmer brot a teakup full tu market yesterday, and he kame near losin his life bi bein smuthered tu detli bi grocers hoo krowded around and offered him fabulus sums for it. I modestly offered him mi life and sakred honor for half an ounce, and he arskt me with a sarkastic grin if I tho't hiz butter wuz strong. He finally sold hiz butter tu a man for 8teen dollars. The cup wuzzent thrown in. Thare hez bin sum very skaly butter in cirkulation within the parst few weeks. I got a roll sum time ago for an old gold wach that wuz left tu my wife with the strict injunkshun that she shoodent part with it onless it wuz tu get sumthin tu eat. We koodent eat that butter. I hired a powerful man to carry it far intu the country and bury it. Krixgle. j^rtrulhwal Department. SMALL GRAIN. New milch cows should be carded daily. They like it and it pays. i The potato is a great absorber of potash. Therefore, wood ashes are a good manure for it. < Put a few lire fish into wells if angle ] worms infest them. 1 If the roots of trees are dipped into wa- i ter just before planting, the earth that 1 sticks to them will give immediate support i to the small fibres. ] John Johnson says farmers must give ' special attention to sheep and cattle keep- f ing if they want to make grain .growing i most profitable. Calcined plaster is as good a fertilizer 1 as the uncalcined. But it is usually wasted I after its use in the arts. I Some one says if salt is kept before a horse in the stable, he will not gnaw his ? manger. Trial will tell. < Root crops, not grain, are the thing for < vouner orchards. Thev do not steal so ? O * much tree food. i Toads are capital helpers in taking care ] of vine patches. Laj boards between the 1 rows to shelter them in the day time, and they will make a carnival of the bugs at i night. t Experiments seem to prove that fence posts set up the reverse way from which t they grew, will last much longer. It is difficult to tell colic from hots in a I horse, but a tablespoonful of chloroform in ^ twice as much mucilage, is a good remedy c for either. c Rich milk is not the best for calves. A ? butter cow is not a good stock cow. Look out for morals as well as muscle in ( hiring farm hands. They may ruin the boys by their vicious examples. Carrots are recommended for horses, to I lid digestion, and tomatoes for cows to im- ) prove and increase the milk. i Feed stock regularly, and cook feed as t much as possible. Few farmers do it. ? Mangers Bhould be low, and stables well i ventilated and well lighted. * Many horses are made blind by being < kept in the dark. ' 1 Insects do not infest very late sown peas t as they do early ones. c Stewed pumpkin as a poultice has been c found of great value in reducing inflamma- ? torv rheumatism. 1 Pork and beans are the most nutricious * for the money that can be found. Smoke from rags, dry wood or corn cobs, is better than from tobacco in pacifying bees to remove honey. Tomatoes can be raised ten days earlier than usual by topping the vines. The proper time is when the first fruit is of the size of an egg. IMPORTATION OF BEES. Few of our readers, we presume, are awarc of the extent of the importation of bees. It is stated, that during the summer scarcely a steamer arrives from Hamburg or Bremen without bringing an invoice of bees. The common honey bee is not a native of the American continent, having been brought here from Europe early in the settlement of this country. Recently, within the last few years, Italian bees have been introduced ; and, still more recently, the Egytian bee, which, from its beauty and activity, bids fair to become a great favorite. Strange to say, bees can be purchased in California cheaper than in any other State of the Union ; and yet they have been car ried there since the discovery of gold. The climate and the unusual skill of cultivators of the bee on the Pacific coast have developed the raellificatory insect to an extraordinary extent. These intelligent little creatures, as remarkable for their geometrical instincts as their industrious habits, are . well worthy of the care which is bestowed upon them, to say nothing of the delicious product of their labors.?Journal of Chem istry. 1 ? ? . 1 Wheat per Acre in 1867.?In his last < report, the Commissioner, of Agriculture gives a table showing the average yield per 1 acre of the principal crops of the United t States (excepting California, Oregon and ] Nevada,) for 1867. These figures show I that there must be more attention given to \ scientific agriculture if we intend to pre- < serve our wheat fields. The skimming of i the soil year after year, taking crops from i the field and returning nothing in compost 1 to supply nutriment to plants, is fast redu- j cing good farm lands to barrenness. New : England, with its sterile soil, is far ahead ; of us in the acreage of wheat, and this is due to enlightened cultivation. The best ' wheat-producing States last year were Ver- i mont, Massachusetts and Connecticut. In only fourteen States did the yield to the acre exceed twelve bushels. In regard to barley, two-thirds of the States reported an average yield of twenty bushels and upward to the acre. Iowa returned the largest yield?twenty-nine bushels. To Manage Negro Labor Successfully.?I am satisfied, from my experience and close observations for the past two years, the correct mode of working our present labor is this: "Let each family work by itself, in separate fields or farms. This is much easier, and I "think, far better than the old plantation style of working all together, and have some work and the balance play. Under the arrangement I propose, you will be able to tell who is working and who i.s playing, besides, it gets up a spirit of rivalry amongst them, to see who will * * i . n ___ make tne most, i nave oniy twoiamines on my place, this year; one runs two plows and their crop is entirely separate and to themselves ; the other has but one mule, as there is no one to work but the man and his wife. Now, by this plan, I could work thirty or forty hands, and be able to tell who was working and who was not, and could cultivate more land, and with less trouble to myself, than under the old plantation system, and he who tries it will find it so.?ProIgress, in Southern Cultivator. j A Balky Horse.?A gentleman of Tioga county, New York, was owner of a balky horse, and had tried many ways to remedy his fault- One day, while drawing a load from the woods, he was unable to prevail upon the horse to try to start the load. Unhitching the true horse he cooly rode him home, leaving the balky one to his meditations. Next morning, riding back to the woods, the team was arranged and told to go forward. But the balky animal moved not. A fair coaxing and urging proved futile, and he was left to further meditations in the harness. Next morning, after fasting two days and two nights, he moved freely, and did so ever after. fpscdlMMUs JWictos. A KISS BEFORE PARTING. The following incident is said to have recently cause'd some amusement in the London fashionable circles: A lady of distinction, the Marchioness af Finsbury, lately spent more than an hour in a music store in llegent street, buying all the pieces of music with a sentimental title that she could find. When she aad finished her purchases, and was already on the threshold of the door, she aaused a moment with a hesitating air.? The clerk, who had assiduously waited on jo good a customer, stepped forward and isked her if she wished for anything else, rhe marchioness made an effort to collect ler thoughts, and turned back, fixing her beautiful eyes on the face of the clerk, who dushed to the ears. "I had quite forgotten one thing," said ihe, in a voice that seemed tremulous. "I lon't know what is the matter with me tolay. I came back to ask you if?" She made a short pause, as if to summon lp her courage. Meanwhile the clerk, sulling up his false collar, leaned gracefuly on the counter and bent forward, "1 came back," continued tne marciiioless, "to ask if you would be good enough o give me a kiss before parting t" "My lady!" exclaimed the astonished i derk. "I desire that you should give me a kiss >ef ore parting " repeated the marchioness, vith a deliberate air, fixing her eyes on the derk, who seemed turned into stone. With>ut betraying the least emotion she repeat;d the request for the third time, saying, i lif you cannot give it to me to-day I will :all some other time." The clerk, intoxicated with joy at the 1 rnsty thought that the beautiful marchioness lad taken a sudden fancy for him, did not vait for any further entreaties, but, springng over the counter, threw his arms around i he waist of his fair customer, and imprested the asked-for kiss upon her cheek. To lis surprise his sole response was a blow in 1 he face from the parasol of the marchioniss, who began to shriek wildly, and did lot cease until three policemen rushed into he shop and took the wondering clerk into :ustody. The affair was explained the next lay in Court, where the magistrate at once iet the nnfortunate culprit at liberty on earning that "A Kiss Before Parting' vas the name of a fashionable song, the 1 >xistence of which till then was wholly unknown to him. Things a Woman Can't Do.?A lady writer, who is slightly disposed to turn traior to her sex, states that there are three hings a woman can't do?the most imporlant admission that has been extorted from ler sex since Madame Eve ate the apple. 1 Sear the following open confession: 1 First, she can't sharpen a lead pencil, jive her one and see. Mark how jaggedly the hacks away every particle of wood a ound the lead, leaving an unsupported ipike of the latter, which breaks immediitcly when used. You can almost forgive ihe male creature his compassionate con;empt as, chucking her under the chin, he .witches it from her awkward little paw, and -ounds and tapers it in the most ravishing nanner, for durable use. I wish to hear no nore on that point, because when I once nake up my mind "all the King's men" ;an't change it. Well, then, secondly?a woman can't do lp a bundle. She takes a whole newspa )er to do up a paper of pins, and a coil of ope to tie it, and it will come undone at hat. When I go shopping, I look on with ,hc fascinated gaze of a bird in the neighjorhood of a magnetic serpent, to watch * * i i i* tt it r.n_ ;ierKs ao up Dunaies. now me paper ians ust into the right crease, how deftly they ;urn it over, and tuck it under, and tie it lp, and then throw it down upon the coun;er as if they had done the most common ;hing in the world, instead of a deed which night, and in faith does, task the ingenuity , jf "angels!" It is perfectly astonishing. Thirdly?I may allude to the fact that a voman can't carry an umbrella, or rather to ;he very peculiar manner in which they perform that duty; but I won't. When :hey unfurl the parachute alluded to, they put it down over their noses, take the midile of the sidewalk, raking off men's hats ind women's bonnets as they go, and walking right into the breakfast of some wight, with that disregard of the consequent disgust, which to be understood must be felt, as the offender cocks up one corner of the parachute and looks defiantly at the victim who has the effrontery to come into the world and hazard the whalebone and handle of her "umbrill!" The Oldest City in the World.?Damascus is the oldest city in the world. Tyre and Sidon have crumbled on the shore; Baalbec is a ruin; Palmyra is buried in a desert; Nineveh and Babylon have disappeared from the Tigris and Euphrates; Damascus retains what it was before the days of Abraham?a centre of trade and travel?an island of verdure in the desert?"a Presidential capital" with martial and sacred associations extending through thirty centuries. It was near Damascus that Saul of Tarsus saw the light above the brightness of the sun ; the street which is called Strait, in which it was said "he prayed, still runs through the city. The caravan comes and goes as it did a thousniul venrs apo: there is still the sheik, the / O" ' f / ass, and the water-wheel; the merchants of the Euphrates and the Mediterranean still "occupy" these "withthe multitude of their wares." The city which Mahomet surveyed from a neighboring height, and was afraid to enter "because it was given to man to have but one paradise, and, for his part, he was resolved not to have it in this world," is to this day what Julian called the "eye of the East," as it was in the time of Isaiah, "the head of Syria." From Damascus came the damson, our blue plums, and the delicious apricot of Portugal, called damasco, damask, our beautiful fabric of cotton and silk, with vines and flowers raised upon a smooth, bright ground ; the damask rose, introduced into England in the time of Henry "V III., the Damascus blade, so famous the world over for its keen edge and Avonderful elasticity, the secret of whose manufacture was lost Avhen Tamerlane carried off the artists into Persia; and that beautiful art of inlaying wood and steel with silver and gold, a kind of mosaic engraving and sculpture united?called damaskeening?with which boxes and bureaus, swords and guns are ornamented. It is still a city of flowers and bright waters; the streams of Lebanon and the "river of gold" still murmur and sparkle in the wildernesss of "Syrian gardens." 1^1 \ A standing dish in Utah?a spare rib* gtrifo rm* iwk PLAYING WITH FIRE. BY REV. F. R. GOULDING. Late one afternoon, Frank Gordon, aged seven years, and Anna, his sister, aged five, went with their mother to visit a poor woman, whose little son had been dreadfully burned. This boy, with several other children, who lived in the same valley with Dr. Gordon, had been playing with fire. They had met, early that morning, at their playground, for the purpose of roasting sweet potatoes, and of having a children's party. They had made their fire by the side of a stump, and had piled against it a quantity of leaves and dry sticks to burn ashes enough to make their potatoes roast. The fire was quite hot, and it blazed so high, whenever a fresh armful of dry stuff was thrown on, that the children screamed with delight, and ran for more sticks and leaves to make it blaze higher. This was no doubt very pleasant, and innocent enough too; but those poor little children had no idea what a dangerous play that was. Billy Sheppard, a merry little fellow, about seven years old, brought a big armful of bushes and grass ^to throw on the fire, calling to the others, as hedid so "See, how big my blaze will be !" when he felt a sharp pain on his leg. He had run against a burning branch that stuck out from the fire, and in a moment his heated clothes were in a blaze. The instant he felt the fire, he tore at his clothes to get them off, and streamed to the others to come and help him. And they did come, every one of them, and helped him all they could, but they did not know what to do. One boy tried to loosen and tear off the burning clothes; and a girl tried to beat out the flames with her sunbonnet, but the boy got his hands badly burned, and the girl's bonnet took fire and Bhe had to throw it away. There was no water near by to throw upon it, yet if Billy had only thought to fall flat on the ground, and roll over and overf he might have Braothered out the fire himself. But he never thought of that, and when the fire began to burn him very badly, he broke away from the other children and ran home as fast as he could. Now this running in the open air, with his clothes on fire, was the worst thing he could do. Instead of stopping the fire, it only made it burn faster, by causing a kind of breeze as he ran; aud when he reached home, he was so badly burned from his npot tr? bis Knees, that he could not live. His mother sent some one to tell Dr. Gordon what had happened, and to beg him to come over and do what he could for her poor child.. The Doctor made William, his servant mau, saddle the horse, and rode over to Mr. Sheppard's as fast as he oould carry him; but the moment he saw the little boy, he told Mrs. Sheppard that nothing could be done to save his life, and that he would probably die that day or that night. All that he could do was to give him some medicine to relieve the pain, and perhaps put him to sleep, and besides that he wrapped up the raw places with a thickcoating of wheat flour, which he said was very cooling to a burn of any sort, whether it were great or small. Late in the afternoon, as has been said, Mrs. Gordon took Frank and Anna with her to see how Billy was. Before they reached the gate they heard his screams, which at first were very loud, but they soon became weaker and weaker, until they stopped altogether. Poor Billy was dead. This dreadful death of a little boy that went from home that morning as well and happy as anybody, made Frank and Anna feel so bad that they could hardly think of anything else ; and when they were assembled in their father's study, that evening, they almost forgot to ask for their usual story. But they did ask him, and he answered : "I will tell you one, but it must be about fire. And before telling it I must say something in a very plain way about what children ought to do, and something too about what they ought not to do, to keep from being burned to death as Billy Sheppard was." "Do, do, father, if you please," they both answered, and he went on to say: "If you will listen well, I will tell you first, what they ought not to do. "They ought not to play with fire, nor with those things that make fire, such as matches and gunpowder, until they are old enough to know how to handle them safely. "Tf their outside clothes are of cotton, they ought not to go near a large or hot fire, nor should they be in the company ol those who are playing with it; for heated cotton takes fire almost as quickly as gunpowder burns very fast and is hard to put out. "Should their clothes take fire, they should never think of running, or of going out into the open air; for this is the worst thing they could do, and will be almost sure to cause them to be burned to death. "These are the things they ought not tc do. Do you understand them ?" "Yes, sirFrank answered. "We ought not to play with fire or matches or gunpowder ; and we ought not to go near a hoi fire with cotton clothes on ; and we ought never to run through the open air with out clothes on fire." "I see you understand," said his father, "and now think of little Billy. If he hac not played with fire, he would probably have been alive to-day. Or if, when playing with fire, his clothes had not been of cottor they would not have blazed as they did.? Or, if when his clothes were on fire he hac not run, it is possible that he and the others might have smothered out the flamef and saved his life." "And now, father, please tell us some thing that we ought to do," said Frank. "All persons who have much to do wit! fire," Dr. Gordon replied, "ought to weai nnfrnirto olntViPs of woolen, which nevei blazes, or else have their cotton clothef rinsed in strong alum water after washing which will make them almost as safe as woollen. "But if a person's ordinary clothes take fire, and cannot be immediately smotherec by the hand, or whipped out by a hat oi cap, or extinguished by water poured on, or by using something damp in place oi water (for even damp dirt will do) the} should be taken off as quickly as possible: and if this cannot be done, then the persor should wrap himself tightly in something woollen (a blanket, a rug, or cloak or overcoat) ana throw himself flat and roll ovei and over. And if he can do nothing else he should get quickly out of the wind, ther fall flat and roll' over to smother out the fire; all the time calling for help." "But why should he fall flat ?" askec Frank. "Because flame rum up a person's clothing very fast, but it burns sidewg-ys very : slowly," said his father. "And now," he added, turning to Anna, "I should like to know if ray little Anna understands and remembers what I have been saying. Anna, what would you do if your clothes should take fire ?" i "I wouldn't run out in the wind," she < answered. "I hope you would not," said her father, j "but what'would you do ?" "Why, if there was no water to throw on , my clothes, I'would fall down flat," she said, "and while I was rolling I would hal- ! loo fire! fire! Come help me! as loud as t I could bawl." "That would be acting like a wise little , girl," her father said. "But a wiser plan still would be for little folks, like you and Frank, not to play urithfire at all."?So. ' Boys and Girls Monthly. Ifot fotfeviHe (faftimr. TERMS?I3V* ADVANCE s HFKUIJC. UUKKJSnUX. 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