Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, March 24, 1870, Image 4

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PHILLIPS* FIB8T BABY. Mrs. Phillips was on the very pinnacle of felicity. She was the mother of a boy which weighed eleven pounds. Mr. Phillips bid fair to lose his mind entriely.. He danced and sung, and fired guns from the top of the corn house, whistled Yankee Doodle while eating his breakfast, and wrung the necks off all the fowls on the place to make a chicken pie for the celebration. This worthy couple has been married ten years, and this was their first child. People ] had laughed at them ten years on account of this luck?people who were overrun with chil- , dren, whose lives were made miserable by the i spankings and scoldings they found it neces- ] sary to inflict upon their wretched little dlive y plants. j Now, Mrs. Phillips said she guessed they'd t laugh out at the other side. There had never \ been so large a baby born in Smithfield befere. Mrs. Jones's only weighed nine pounds t bad a pug nose. Mrs. Sawyer's was red haired, an(j bad a mole on its right foot?a a sure sign that it would come to a bad end? n aud it only -weighed seven pounds and four- a teen ounces. guessed folks had better look to home before they laughed. Baby proved to be a Tartar. He had a l I'ke a wind-mill, and seemed determined ^^^^his^^ aud lungs to^the ut- n , twenty-four. But his mother declared that he was an angel. / We would never imagine an angel with puffy red cheeks, heels elivated in the air, sucking sugar rags, and being pounced about in a willow cradle to the tune of 'hig-diddledee,' but then our imagination is not by any means so vivid as it mi^ht be. Frqm the hour in which the baby was born he was the Autocrat of the Household ; everything had to bow to his nod* The scullery door creaked ; it was taken off the hinges, and the servant %is in the draft all the time, because the creak might disturb the baby\ For the same reason the coffeemill was moved into the woodshed; the dishes must be washed out of doors?the clatter of the plates made baby scream ; the washing was done in the barn; the dog was muzzled and the cat choked?all from the fear of disturbing the baby. Mrs. Phillips gave a blacksmith, who was located within a quarter of a mile, one hundred dollars to move his shop: and Biddy was moved to the cockloft of the woodshed 011 account of her snoring. The child's diseases were legion. It was a wonder that it could draw its breath with so many ailments clinging to it. Mrs. Phillips was continually on the watch for some new demonstration. , "Charles!" cried she, waking her husband from slumber one cold winter night, it seems to me the baby don't breathe just right." Mr. Phillips sprang up and listened. "Qood gracious! he's got the snuffles, ain't he ?" "Oh, dear! what shall we do, if baby is going to be sick ?" Mr. Phillips got a light, and the anxious parents brought it to bear on the face of their nhild. "Oh heavens !" cried his mother, "his face is actually purple! he's going to have the scarlet fever. See 'that red spot on his elbow." "It may be where he's laid on it," said Mr. Phillips. "Laid on it ? Oh, you unfeeling man! you unnatural father! And there it's sucking its thumb ! I've known from the first it would rnot live; it sucks it's thumb so much!" ."Seems to me I've heard my mother say it was a sign of a healthy child to suck its thumb, but I won't be certain. Any way, it's a good sign or a bad one, I forget which." "Run, Charles ! run for a doctor, it's going to die?I know it! Oh, don't stop to dress? i don't?it mav die while you're waiting. Call | for Granny bates, and tell her to bring me sonje catnip, and saffron, and rue, and peppermint?tell her to bring all the herbs she's ?ot, and to hurry Charles, do! Mercy on us! it's sucking both thumbs! Run?run!" Mr. Phillips caught up the first article of clothing he could lay his hands on, which proved to be an embroidered petticoat of his wife, but he was in too much haste and altogether to much excited to notice dress particularly. * He flung the garment over his head, had tied it around his waist?slipped on his shoes, and then plunged out into the keen air. The doctor was asleep and did not care about turning out, but on being told that it was a ease oflifeand death he yielded at once. Mr. Phillips left hira dressing, and sped to the residence of Granny Bates. The old lady was wise, but she was dreadfully superstitious, and believed religiously in warnings and apparitions. Phillips gave a thundering rap at her door, and directly a night capped head appeared at an upper window. "What do you want at this time of night, and who be ye," said a cracked voice. Phillips stepped out and stood plainly revealed by the light of a dim moon. "Good gracioua, massy!" cried the old woman, "it's an apparatus from t'other world! And it's got a scolloped petticoat on. Lord! I didn't think they wasted their time on such vanerties as that are." "It's dying!" exclaimed Phillips. "Come down, quick.' "Not I! I ain't so green as to trust my old body with a supernatural ghost," and down went the window with a bang. Phillips pounded at the door till he was tired, ai then made tracks for home. Dr. Gray had just arrived. Mrs. Philli was preparing to go into hysterics as soonshe heard his opinion. Baby was much worse; it had not only sue ed its thumbs, but wiggled its toes. It could n continue long. The aoetor, with a grave fa entered -the sick room. Biddy rubbed h mistress with camphor. Mr. Phillips stood 1 wiping his eyes with the drapery of his scai attire. "Oh, doctoor, doctor! will it die? On! save it, and you may take all I have!" cri( Mrs. Phillips, wringing her hands. I'll g down on my knees and thank you forever." "Don't keep me in suspense! only lools^i its precious little arm! What is it ? For>tl love of heaven tell me?let me know tl worst!" "Well, marm, if I speak out, you promh not to blame me?" asked the doctor, gravel; "No, no!" "Marm," said he, with his long face sti more elongated, "it's my opinion, as a ma I urirl a ntiucimon that the nliild Viaahnon hittn M?\* W U<V?MU| W*>MV VUV WUilU UMO UVVU W4WW by four bed-bugs, or else it has been bitten i four places by one insect of that description. "Dr. Gray," cried the father, "do you mea to insult us?" "By no means, sir?I repeat it." "No you don't!" yielded Mrs. P. "It1 enough to insinuate that 1 have bed bugs, t say nothing of your libel on the little ange cherub. Get out of this house this instanl you mean, cheating, insulting old vagabond. And seizing the butter ladle from the tabl where Biddy had placed it full of hot peppe tea, she flew at him. The doctor knewenoug] about women to know -.tinst iir flight T&v in safety, and with a hasty bow he backed off th steps ab4 u<i ri ftrr h is gig. The groum "was inclining and quite icy. His heels fle? up?his head went down, and his whole bod; spun down the hill like a steel shod cutter Mrs. P., nothing daunted, rushed after him and shared the same fete. The two brough up together at the foot of the hill in a wate: trough; but no words of sympathy were ex changed. The doctor got out as quick & h< could and galloped home, and Mrs. Phillip followed his example. The baby lived .and throve. As it grev older its dictatorship became more and mon absolute. Phillips was down on all foursth* greater nortion of his time, that the babj might ride on his back; and Mrs. P. left hei arms bare in the coldest weather, because th< steel sprtn?s"of her dress huri the biby. Baby made a perfect wreck of all the crock ery in the house?pounded it with a hammer he kicked his heels through the looking glass, and tore the inwards out of pa's gold watch, unmolested. It pleased the dreary, weary, seary baby, his mother said?"the little jpitty sugar plummy baby." One day when this wonderful baby was a year old the village inhabitants were startled by the disheveled appariation of Mrs: ^Phillips?bare-headed, and wearing a wild expression of countenance?hurrying at a frantic rate to the joiner's shop where her husband worked. And instantly she re-appeaittl* followed -by Phillips at a dog trot. ? | 3l Old D^uiiejBntith saw them, and being a man who lived in constant dread of fire, he ;hou^ht it must be that the residence of Mr. Phillips was in flames. The old gentleman vas perfectly insane on the subject of conffag ation, and at the top of his lungs raised a :ry: "Fire! fire! fire r "Where! where!" cried a score of voices. "Charles Phillips' house!" said the old genleman. The fireman gathered, got out the engine nd rim with all speed to the iated house, but nuch to their surprise they did not even smell puff of Bmoke in the region. The head fireman, who was something of a rag, knocked at the door. Mrs. Phillips apeared, absolutely radiant. "Is this the house, allow me to inquire, la^am, that^wo^are^pected "I do not understand pxr.-** said Mrs- P. "but the bal^y has walked two steps?tw< steps on his ovfcffeet alone!" "Sold! by Jupiter," cried the fireman; "ant now, boys, here's three times three to the bab1 that's walked two steps! Hearty, my men And they gave three cheers, drank a barre of cider which Mr. Phillips rolled out, and re turned home. 4-^-4 ? The Professor in a Fix.?Some student in one of our colleges being frequently <|UiBoy ed by the nocturnal and inqnlstorial visits o a professor, who suspected them of playinj cards, one evening prepared a kettle of mush otherwise called hasty pudding, and by th< time it was boiled, had seated themselve around the table in the attitude of card-play iug, waiting patiently for the well known ste] of the professor. It was no sooner heard thai a large outside pocket of one of them wa forthwith filled with hasty pudding, and al were seated as before. As soon as the pr'ofes sor had opened the door, the student who wa loaded with the mush made a sudden sweej over the table with his hand, as if to gathei up the cards, and with another motion appa rently put them into the pocket containing the mush. These movements could not hel[ being noticed, as they were intended to be, bj the professor, who, considering them as a prettj strong evidence of guilt, broke out with th? following: "Well, young gentlemen, "Fv< caught you at it at last, have I ?" "Why, yea, air, we are all here.'" "So I see you are, and you have been play iug cards, too." "No, sir, it is not so." "It isn't, ha! What have you got in youi pocket, young man ?" "Hot, hasty pudding, sir." "Hot, hasty pudding, ha! hasty pudding have you ? I'll hasty pudding you," said tin professor, at the same time thrusting his hanw half-way to the elbow in the hot, nasty pud ding. The dolorous looks, the shaking of fingers the groaning and capers of the professor, "be long to the sphere of imagination, not descsrip tion. 4 TiieScotch Music Master.?A Highland piper, having a scholar to teach, disdained t< crack his brains with the names of semibrieves minims, crotchets, and quavers. "Here, Don aid," said lie, "tak yer pipes, lad, and give us a blast. So, verra weel blawn, indeed; but, what's a sound, Donald, without sense? You may blaw for ever without making a tune o't if I dinna tell you how the queer things or the paper maun help you. You see that big fellow, with a round, open face (pointing to a semibreve between two lines of a bar); he moves slowly from that line to this, while yo\ beat ane wi your fist and gie a long blast; if now, ye put a leg to him ye make twa of him and he'll move twice as fast; and if ye bl.acl his face he'll run four times faster thai), thi fellow with the white face; but if, after black ening his face, ye'll bend his knee, or tie hi leg, he'll hop eight times faster than the white faced chap I showed you first. Now., when ever you blaw your pipes, Donald, ren lembe this?that the tighter those fellows' 'legs ar< tied, the faster they'll run, and the quicke they're sure to dance." + A Jolly Judge.?A judge in Wisconsii who had tried a suit for the recovery of a li quor bill, the defence to which was that th< liquor sold was a very inferior quality, charget the jury in the following sensible language: "Gentlemen of the jury, pure and unadul terated liquor is a wholesome, pleasant bever age, and as far as the experience of the Cour extends, conduces to health and longevity but a bad article, gentlemen, cannot be tole rated; and if dealers from below will send uj in this country, so blessed with the smiles o a benignant Creator, such miserable quality o liquor as the proof shows this to have been, ii this court, gentlemen of the jury, they canno recover." The verdict was, of course, for th defendant. ? t&~ At sixteen, a woman prefers the bes dancer in the room; at two-and-twenty, th best talker; at thirty, the richest man*. 1 fkadioij fcrdftr faMrath. pa - , .. , , , ,. US CONDUCTED BY . , f REV. ROBERT LATHAN. k- 7 .... ot [Origin*!.] 01 CHRIST THE WAY. C0 er Both in the Old and New Testament our )yj Saviour is called the way. There is in this ot, appellation a peculiar beauty, which will be readily discovered by any one who will reflect |y upon the purposes for which Christ came into ^ our world. When Christ is called "the way," the language, of course, is figurative; but it is not less impressive than if the offices which ie Christ executed were' plainly narrated. On ie; the contrary, theferfe both beauty and strength I in the expression ^'Christ is the way." God's j people understand ^intellectually, and their 7. . i?_i x j.2. x it nearis give a coraiai assent to its truiu. It is with great propriety that Christ is xx called the way that leads-to happiness here on n1 earth, The object which all are pursuing, is n happiness. . Some, yes, many, seek it in the gratification of morbid and depraved appen titea. The epicure seeks happiness jn apjrory dish'es; the bacchanalian in rare and costly >8 wines; the debauchee in beastly lusts. ' None 0 of these find the object of their pursuit Their ;1 portion is jmorse, regret and shame." t, But not only does disappointment, await those who seek happiness in the gratification e of these low and groveling passions; but those k who are without an interest in I Christ Jesus, wliuhjrui?amj bv dlth CSHlpja or a?ocadon e in life, are continually navigating a troubled 3 t t f I / f '' . ri : - .... 3 sea. v The omnipotent voice of Jesus drives away f the gloomy clouds that hang over us?calms * the winds and brings back the sunshine. He 1 is to the .moral world, what the sun is to the r physical. Blot out the sun, and light leaves - the world?all is gloom. Night?a long, 2 dark, and dreary night?settles upon the eartH. 3 Take away Jesus from the soul, and all is mor' al darkness. The sage gropes his way ih im; penetrable gloom.,. AU things, are against us j when .Jesus is not for us. Misery springs r from the earth. It produces for us briers And r thorns, and nothing else. The air we breath? ' is loaded with death and, like captives in olden timar,<v6 are mocked .and derided, and | subjected to excruciating tortures before we ' are put to death. In Christ the spul finds Ye, lief Tbepipus Christian excitingly exclaims o T ia rvai^lan \"\P mtr oamI o Hbnri | X UC AAT1U 10 tue jAII WUU 1/4 U^J[ Dl/Ui| OIUIVU^U I walk through''the dark Valley and shadow of death, I will fear no evil." When thesoul thus nestles under the wings of the blessed Saviour, it is cheered with the soul-reviving and soul-snstaining Words, "Fear not, I am with you," utteifed by th<f feiviour as no mortal can utter theniV ^Vho can be miserable , when Jesus is with 'them? No one, is the i response of all the redeemed in heaven and of i all the pious on earth. "I would," says the Psalmist, "rather be a door-keeper in the house'ef God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness." < .This is the testimony/ of all good people. Poverty and God's favor is better than a title to the whole world without God's favor. A Jitle .that a righteous ma# hath is better than the rich? of many wicked. P's. 37:16. I But Christ is not only the way to true and genuine happiness here in this world, but He is the way that leads Jo glory aV God's right hand.' The fofcdthat leads to heavien and endless bliss, is through the blood of the atonement The New Jerusalem is hard by tlje ^os8 js th^Ci^of Jeru^alem 1 ? of Mount Sinai. He died for sinners. His 5 blood sav? the sinner from God's avenging I wrath. By His death and obedience, He j made it possible for God.to save sinners, and ' certain that God will save all who believe in 1 J?us. He unbarred the doors of heaven - which man had shut by his sin. In Christ, God's mercy and'truth, and justice, and righteousness, and holiness, meet in glorious har? mony. Christ i^. the way in which God can f show mercy ancl save the ungodly sinnery But Christ points out the way to heaven , His holy example-apd pjjous life. He spake B as never man spake* and He lived and died 9s 8 no mortal man can live add die. His life was holy and harmless. The energi? of His j body and soul were spVnt in going about do inn/ Infidels and scoffers, skeptics and a ?o O" ?. t 1 despigecs of Jesus of Nazareth, ought to blush when they read His life. Who is so far lost 8 to all sense of shame, as to dare say that Je* 3 sus did an immoral deed or uttered an immorf * * al word? His life was a.life of holiness, Hi! , heart was fVtll of pity. Who does not feel thfe ) approvings of conecieno? when Jesus is made 7 the pattern for our acts and words ? Who 1 does not feel that he is advancing.on the king's ( * highway to the"celestial city wheh he follows Jesus? Who can do wrong and do what Je? sus did ? , . . The advice of John Brown', of Haddington, j when lying on. his dying bed, to his little chil-1 dren, was ."Follow .Jesus." - Pious parents, in T every nook and corner of the earth, repeat the j precious words, "follow Jesus." To follow Jesus may subject us to many severe struggles 3 with the flesh ( biit it will land ns safe at last I in the haven of eternal rest. It may not take us - to the cross, but it will ultimately take us to the right hand of God on high. ' All other ways of salvation lead to ruin. The scheras which men devise to save the soul are baseless fabrics. They cheat the immortal soul out of repose which it can find in JeII sus. The way of the transgressor is a hard ' J way. It is full of disappointment. ? MORE THAN ENOUGH.* 1 exodus 36: 5. [ When the heart is filled with gratitude to God for redeeming love, a desire to manifest [ th. is in some way is felt To meet this long, in{ > of the grateful heart, God has left His | ca> use in our hands, and as God himself needs , no thing from ;U8, lie asks us to help on His I ki] lgdom upon earth, as the evidence of the sin cerity, and the gange of our love for Him. We have only to turn over the pages of the ^ BCble, to see that this has been God's plan, B frocm the beginning of the organization of His Church upon earth. When the Israelites, g brought in safety through the Red Sed, had h encamped at the footiof Mount Sinai, they . were called upon to build the tabernacle, apd mafnmolc tvorp n?lrpd at. their hands. Tn p | UIC iliabVAlWiU II v*v mvmwm B grateful love for redemption fVom Egypt's r bondage they gave freely, and so abundantly, that they even brought much more than ''enough for the service of the work?and Mo1 ses caused it to be proclaimed throughout _ "the Camp, saying: 'Let neither man norl a "woman make any more work for the offering 1 "of the sanctuary.' So the. people were resstrained from bringing. For tne stuff they . "had was sufficient for all the work and too . "much." t The Church of the present day needs no j |: juch restriction ! ! Again, at the dedication of the tabernacle, d I and of the altar, we read of munificent offer'f j ings made by the princes of the twelve tribes, f Numbers: 7.' a | When the Jews returned from Babylon aft! ter the captivity, and sat down among the e leaps of Jerusalem, to lament over the stones, I auad weep over the ashes of the holy and beauj tiful house, in many tears they laid again the t: dfoondation of the house of the Lord. In the e ! progress of their work, they met with obsta| cles, and yielded to discouragement, allowing ? J^-S ' vain excuses to hinder them, saying: MT? time is not come that the Lord's house shoy* be built" But while they aflowed the ho<e of God to lie waste, they did not neglect Je building of ceiled housm for themselves! in punishment of this self-love, God called t a drought upon the land?the heaven was stjfed from dew, and the earth fromher fruit As long as the cause of God was Forgotten/hen "thej looked for much, it came to little, 'hy? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of myouse that is waste, and ye run evert man uto his own house." But, when heeang thesxhortations of the prophets the people nc?e, and did vork in the house of the Lord < hosts, their God," glorious promises Mere iven'bf future prosperity, and &t the-^fljjgjtao the bleating of God descended upJith^ine, the fig tree, the pomegranate and theolive, instead of the blasting and the'irSM^ and the hail with which God had pretfojly visited them for their neglect of His and of His glory. Shall not we arise -and build, iving will-1 ingly and abundantly out of our lltlf?bringing the tithes into God'i store-houeyoelieving that He "will open the windows otieaven and Ear out such a blessipg that th^ shall Bot room to receive it'r I Oh, for the spirit that aniwatelthose who for the building?)f Gtd's sanctufir, brought so much more than enough for IMpervice of the work," that a proclamation s aajeeded to restrain them "from bringing," "fothe stuff they had was sufficitnt for all th<work to mate it and too much 1"? THE Man 'die-, and ^heirJvorksancW^Mff^l forgotten. "Not so wiCj the workv^ JeStr they come down to us through all tje centi ries, with that same freshness, love aid merl with which they were uttered more tlan eiglj een hundred years ago. The wor<h, "Con unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy 1 den, and I will give you rest," havethe san sweet meaning now as when they firelfell fro the lips of Jesus. "Except ye repenj, ye sh^ all likewise perish," has the same sdemn ill port now as then.? They are for usof to-di just as much as for those who liwd in tl days of Christ, and as much for chJdren ai youth as for older people. Our natires hal not been changed.* No new plan cysalvatit has been provided. New creeds ind "isrn[ have sprung up, flourished tor a tine and dlf away, Dut Jthe words of Jesus ataifl forevei; no change can effect them; no crerf can sniplant them; no logic uproot then: TheB they stand for all the gene rati ms to just as they stood for those thafh^paaed away." Precious words?words olmercy-3words of love-^warning words?tea'ul words, truthful words. Words of Jesus, >"hat were they given us for? Were they nof given is to save us from eternal death, andlead us to heaven? Oh, these words of jesij! We do not prize them enough. Whatwould the poor lost soul do without them ? \ftiere could it look for comfort, hope and peafe? Reader, do you believe the words of jsus? Oh, take them home to your heart; mdltate upon them; seek to realizethe simple but solemn truth, Christ speaks to me. Wil you obey His voice ? "Ye dying-sons of men, K h| : Immersed in sin and woe, j The Gospel calls again, I / Its message is to you: Ye perishing and-guilty, eomd ^ In mercy's arms there yet is r^m. * "No longer now delay jNor vain excuses > Christ bids you come to-day. J,, ../<} . 4 The poor, and blindj and l&je: All things are ready, sinners cine, In mercy's arms^there yet is rota/ "Compelled by bleeding loyer Ye wandering souls a raw ndr, j He calls you from above, .? His melting accents hear j . Oh I whosoever will, may co|fe, ^ The firstjda^in 1 benign and sanctifying influence, is family. All the relative duties of life-aiut as concentric circles, ranged around Vernon centre; and as the family is the ne? ana the first in order, its influence. thereto be pre-eminent. A family where religueigns supremely, is a charming spectacle tagejs and men ; and shines as a brilliant lien the world. There, mutual affection andjbearance, one toward another,^habituallyevail. Within its peaceful habitation paril authority, blended with kindness ana gelness, is always maintained. Wisdom anil pence in training the youthful members for. duties of life, are continually displayed, pund that altar kneels each day, a group oivout worshippers; and sweeter than th^jrant breath of the morning, rises the uupe of prayer and praise to Israel's gentle ?Sherd. The 1. ada of that family feel that^et act of theirs is charged with influence; aihat their spirit, temper, and deportmeiif^ all moulding human character for time Eternity ; and therefore their deep solicihjand watchfulness are unceasingly exercistfiat they may bring up those committed heir charge, in the nurture and adraonitioijthe Lord. On such home culture the ss of high heaven rests. And to show his"'probation of it, God declared concerning jra* ham, "I know him, that he will comin&hre children, and his household after hlnnd they shall keep the way of the Lord, do justice and judgment." Such influer is like the aromatic perfume of the violet,dnuating itself into the deep recesses of finfantile mind and heart, where no othenld penetrate. And to the present day, Inspired aphorism is true, "Train up a clin. the way he should go, and when lie is aha will not depart from it."?Rev. John P . Oh ! be Joyful.?Of course we wiqur dear young friends to have joy, and aliho love you wish this also for you. Yourod friends and relations wish it, and araad when you are glad. The good angels Wit, for they all rejoice when they see evebe sinner?and every one is a sinner?commk to God. Your own Saviour Jesus 1st wishes you to rejoice; for did He not heaven and come here to enable you o? Did he not become a little chTIcTf^ETf^FSIfJ1 more than thirty years in the world to' 1h you how to be good ? And did he notdfcr your sins, and rise again and live forevto make you like Himself? And is he no^ | ways seeing you and thinking about you eft day, and all to make you good ? And t, your own Father, loves you; and does a fitr not wish to make his own children good 9 glad? , . ^ [ Faith's Touch of Jesus.?That wa sweet little sermon which was conveyed in| sentence from the lips of the poor woman \ crept up through the crowd to touch the li of our Saviour's garment. She despaired help from any other quarter. She "gavj up.' Her money was gone; her health gone | her hope was gone. All this was n<\ Jul to send her to the Divine Healer. So di God strip away all vain hopes from manj sin-sick soul, and show them how their bd less attempts only beggar them aqd make th^ the wdjfcse. The guilty prodigal had to down from his dandy-raiment to dirty rags down from sumptuous tables to the swine ai the swill, before his good old father's fa could be sought in penitent humility. Fai is often born of despair?as starlight is bo of darkness.?Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler. Said a very old man: "Some folks i ways complain about the weather, but I a very thankful when I wake up in the mornii to find any weather at all." It is often easier to suborn a false w ness against the humble than to find men wJ dare speak the truth against the powerful. t&~ Most persons choose their friends as thi do other useful animals, preferring those fro whom they texpect the most service. 4?" The worst cowardice in the world that which makes us shrink from what i know to be right. v I fepartment 2 . J . r -'-f e DR. ^RKER ON CORF? CULTURE. a At a eeting of the South Carolina Agi- 8 culturalind Mechanical Society; held n * Columbjlast November, the subjoined repit c on "Cot Culture" was read by Dr. Parkr, of that ty. He says: ' 1 ! In pefarming the duty assigded me by te Agricutyral and Mechanical Association^ proposepriefly, to give my own experiei e with thresult of two or three experiment c As earl* as the year 1827,1 became conviri< d that, in-he event of drought in summer,1 te Jj ordinal method and routine of planting o< n j in my jeighborhood was ruinous in its resujs, 1 entailing on the planter the necessity of Otting hi supply elsewhere than from his J field. A.cting upon the suggestion deried from b?oks on agriculture, I took for my frat experiuent a level, much exhausted, red cby , fluo KtlfiVlplu ftf />/m I I1CIU, VU1UJU Jliuuuvau ^uii U1M j per acre the preceding year. 1 1 Abont the 1st of December, I started ;he worlt of ploughing and sabsoiling with hull tongue plows and an old-fashioned couler, ) running two of the former to one of the latter, / thus siibsoiling every alternate furrow. Early in February, the field was laid off, 1 four feet each way, with a seven inph shorel, followed bv the subsoil plow. In each check ar small shovel-full of a compost of cotton seed, stable manure, and the scrapings of the lots were put and covered with a tongue plow. In March, the field was planted in corn, the seed having been soaked in a solution of ?Itpetre, a^id, was covered with hoes to the depth. ~ A* ?ooji as^njFjplfnB-st*" Ijfincd the height of three or four inches, it .was thoroughly ploughed with tongue plows and followed bv the hoe hands. It received two other ploughings, with short shovels, and was laid by before the tassel appeared. The cultivation was level, rather drawing the earth from than to the stalk, at the early stage of its growth. 9 The contrast between this and other ields around during a hot and dry season, was striking. In this field, the vigorous growth and dark green blades gave but little indicatiou of drought, while in many fields around,- the plant was literally being scorched to dryress. The product was put down at twenty-five bushels per acre, being a gain of at least twenty bushels per acre over the preceding crop. From the foregoing experiment, we learn the beneficial effect of opening the soil for the reception and retention of moisture during the tka hatter mil vorimtmn hv freeflnCT. I TTIUbVI) VUV R/vvw* ?J and adaptation of the soil for the ramification of the lateral roots of the corn. . * It is remarkable that this method of preparing the soil, so successfully practiced amongst the ancients, should have been- lost sight of in our country until within the last forty or fifty years, and what is more strange, but few formers of our day know from their own experience anything of the benefit derived from deep ploughing in winter or fall. In the foregoing experiment the error committed was in putting the manure in the hill, instead of ploughing it in the land broadcast. When manure is put in tfie hill, the plant is vigorously pushed forward, and attains a great height before the shoot apjpears, and then commonly within three or lour blades of the top, consequently distant from its source of nourishment below, and with but little protection from above. Take carefully that stalk from the ground and immerse its roots in clear water ana remove all dirt. YouLwilLobsetvathe roots confined to a small circumfereqpe, all seeming to grasp the food just at their exit from the stem, and comparatively but few lateral roots. ; When the manure has been properly ploughed in the land broadcast, the (ilant at first does not make such rapid headway ; but from a wise provision of nature, the lateral roots aW being sent out with their thousand mouthi^O&earch of food and mois11111 r* linp T rr~ 3 tj, .Jatuf IL VpLfpiiUiS innriuIT, tu.-TtUrb teim ! begins to shoot about the time the roots are in condition to bestow their treasures for its support. Just at this important crisis "in the growth of the crop, it has been urged by old planters that the ground should have its last good ploughing. I have seen more than one field-of luxuriant corn thus ruined. Common sense should admonish the plowman to stay his hand and leave undisturbed the delicate little veins or roots in the discharge of their important funtions. To gratify my farmer, as well as to convince him of his error, he was allowed to give what he termed a finish with the plow and hoe to a dozen rows?the result was a decided falling off in yield. The foregoing experiment shows that with the proper preparation of the soil, four feet by four gives sufficient distance on upland, aflkl that the preparation of the land and first plowing to the crop should be deep, and all other cultivation shallow and level. My next experiment was of more recent date, and on land very different Jlncharacter from the first, being nothing more llor less than a quagmire, near by the city of Columbia. It .tfav&town over with rushes, willows and sour grh$g&, abounding with snakes and malaria, through which a serpentine branch made its sluggish way. My firs! work was-to secure thorough drainage by means of a' canal and under drains, then to clearing and leveling, 'and tnira, to lime and break up with a twohorse jflow,.all of which was the work of the summer. In November a heavy coat of cow-hobie manure was applied and turned under with a two-horse plow. In January the same process was repeated, and again in March, and the subsoil plow used. In April it was nocessary to plow under a luxuriant growth of weeds, lime being first applied as at first In Mar the hands were again on the ground with manure carts, two-horse plows and hoes; after plowing another coat of manure in, the land was harrowed perfectly level, and laid off thirty-six inches apart; throughout each furrow Peruvian Guano, salt and plaster were sprinkled at the rate of 200 pounds per acre of each. The seed corn, after being soaked in a solution of nitre, was rolled in plaster and dropped ten inches apart in the rows, covered with rakes and the land roller. Five days jfttanjlanting, this corn was up. and growing. AaWHKit was large enough to bear plowing.^S^Hrun around with a long, narrow plow, fc^Bred by the hoe. There was nothing remaHable in the culture of this lot. It was kept clean by shallow and level culture until it began to shoot and tassel; irrigation WS3 then resorted to by conveying from a reservoir a gentle flow of water through every alternate row. Thus the land was kept moist and the plant in a growing state. The Agricultural Society awarded the pre ' 1 * -i-iJ raiura lor tne largest yieiu iu ujio iui, wioio being 147 bushels per acre produced on two acres. The following year the same experiment was repeated, except that the rows were thirty instead of thirty six inches apart Inasmuch as there were doubts entertained as to the correctness of the first crop, we were the more careful in having a larger committee to measure and report on this. Their award was the first premium as before, the yield being two hundred bushels and twelve quarts of good corn on a single acre. The land was surveyed by the city surveyor. From the foregoing remarks and experiments the following conclusions may be drawn: 1st. Deep breaking up. 2nd. Underdrainage on moist flat land. 1 3rd. Judicious manuring. 4th. That the first work should be deep; subsequent work shallow and level. ( 5th. The roots of the corn should not be < disturbed after it bunches to tassel, j Under the old method of culture, the question has arisen whether or not corn can be ^made a remunerating crop. I should say on jour old plantations it cannot. On the other lhand, by the improved culture, the effects of drought or scalding from too much rain, can be overcome, and instead of harvesting fifty per cent, less than an average crop, as is the case the present year, there would doubtless ,jbe an increase of fifty per cent, over the average of post years, on the same area of ground. I 'he question, would then be responded to afrmatively? and demonstrated by Evidences verywhere of increased prosperity and dolestic com forts. Fat stock of all kinds wou Id ive evidence of full barns, and the old adage' rould be verified: "It takes corn to mlike attle and cattle to make corn." J. W. PARKER. Ik ? orHriUc (?ttqmw. 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