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AN ESSAY ON THE DOCTORS.
Quick, go for the doctor! All right, I'm
going for him. I've been aching to go for the
doctor a long time; so here goes.
There are a great many kinds of doctors?
big doctors and small doctors, old school doctors,
and doctors of the new school, and doctors
without any schooling whatever. There
are doctors of laws, and doctors of sons-inlaw
; ear doctors, and doctors difficult to get
the ear of; tooth doctors, nail doctors, and
doctors who go at you with tooth and nail;
eye doctors, and I. O. U. doctors; eclectic doctors,
electric doctors, and doctors not of the
elect, who go it mostly .on tick.
Thus ;we have cold-water doctors, and doctors
who "straw" it a good deal; root-doctors,
and doctors whose motto is, "Root hog or
die 1"
Spiritual doctors, and doctors very much
out of spirits; magnetic doctors, and doctors
who haven't any magnetism in them?or
much else; laying-on of hands doctors, and
doctors who will take anything they can lay
their hands on, except, perhaps their own
physic.
Sweat doctors are numerous. If they don't
sweat their patients, their patients sometimes
make'tHem sw^at. And there are a few doctore
who are compelled to sweat around a
good deal to get their pay.
Among Indian doctors are the full-bred,
half-bred, corn-bred, and doctors never bred
at all?at least not bred to medicine?the latter
class being far the most numerous. As a
general thing, Indian doctors, as they call
themselves, know nothing whatever about
Indians; many of them never saw one. But
that is nothing strange in medicine. Men
have nracticed medicine all their lives with
out enjoying the slightest acquaintance with
it.
Herb doctors are popularly supposed to
spend a large portion of their time in meandering
through the fields culling herbs.
Nothing of the sort Lots of them wouldn't
know catnip from "penny-rile" if they saw
them growing. They cull their herbs at the
druggist's.
There are lung doctors and doctors with
very little lungs, although tolerable livers.
Doctors are good livers as a general thing.
The throat doctor appears m a variety of
forms not strictly recognized in medicine.
The hangman is the most thorough throat
doctor we have. His remedy?a stricture of
hemp?rarely fails to cure the most obstinate
throat difficulty. Few persons have ever been
heard to complain of tneir throat after the
first application.
Bar-aeepers are another variety of these
doctors, whose mixtures, also, are too familiar
to many people. Cold water is the safest
thing for the throat as an inward application.
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years ago. They don't pepper so much as
they did, though many doctors are peppery
enough.
Mustard doctors are in the array for the
most, unless they are mustered out.
.Caocer dootors are almost as numerous as
cancers themselves. Every cancer doctor
exhibits so many cancers he has taken out
that I have sometimes wondered if they didn't
take it out in cancers. I was once shown a
tumor so large I asked the doctor if space
was valuable, why he didn't stick his patient
away in a glass jar, and let the tumor walk'
around.
Cora doctors should not be overlooked.
Some of them are very skillful in taking off
a obra. A corn doctor took off a corn for
me once, and he took it off so far it was nearly
a week before it got back again.
No man who hasn't horse sense has any
business trying to be a horse doctor, although
he may get a diploma to doctor men. Even
the constitution of a horse may be broken
down by unskillful treatment, yet in selecting
a physician for ourselves we occasionally forget
that. The horse doctor sometimes gets
racte kicks than coppers, though he is one of
the few privileged persons who is excused for
looking a gift horse in the mouth.
The healthiest town I ever knew was out
in Illinois, one Summer, when the doctors
went .bast to attend a medical convention,
neglecting to return for several months. The
doctors found, when they did get back, that
their patients had all recovered, the drugstores
had busted, nurses had opened dancingschools,
the cemetery was cut up into building-lots,
the undertaker had gone to making
fiddles, and the village hearse nad been gaudily
painted and sold for a circus-wagon!
Although I have metaphorically gone for
the doctors, let nothing I have said be construed
as reflecting upon them as a class.
They are good humored, and can, therefore,
take a joke, and for the most part are charitable
and humane. I have a good many
friends among the doctors, yet they are the
very last men I want to call on.?"Fat Contributor
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An innocent, honest yeoman, from Big
Creek, was in our office yesterday, contemplating
in wrapt attention Hart's painting of
the game of life and death. The poor fellow
in the painting has lost everything?is checkmated?and
his guardian angel looks down
pityingly, while grim Death grins grievously.
The gooid man's bosom was surcharged with
strong emotions. He was conscious of keen
sympathy with the loser. In fhct, he thought
he recognized the likeness, and was told it was
a picture of a noted prosecuting attorney.
The truthfullness of the painting burst suddenly
upon him. "It's bad; haint it ?" he
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corad to that end ; but thfe devil is a durned
fool. He would have got him just as well
wrtthout the trouble of playing checkers.
Heeze bin hell-bound ever since I first knew
him."?Memphis Appeal.
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Anecdote of the Road.?A lawyer, riding
through a town, stopped at a cottage to
inquire the way. The lady of the house told
him he must keep right straight on for some
time, and then turn to the right; but said
that she herself was going to pass the road
that he must take, and that if he would wait
a few minutes she would show him the way.
"Well," said he, "bad company is better
than none?make haste."
After jogging on five or six miles, the gentleman
asked if he had not yet come to the
road he must take.
"Oh! yes," said she, "we passed it two or
three miles back; but I thought 'as bad company
was better than none,' I would keep you
along with rae."
S6?*In Scotland they have narrow, open
ditches, called sheep drains. A man was riding
a donkey one day across a sheep-pasture,
and when the donkey came to a sheep-drain
he would not go over it So the man rode
him back a short distance, and turned him
around and put the whip to him, thinking, of
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course, mat me aonaey, going so iast, wouiu
jump the drain before he knew it. But not
so. On they came, and when the donkey got
to the drain he stopped all of a sudden, and
the man went over Mr. Jack's head. No
sooner had he touched the ground than he got
up, and, looking the donkey straight in the
face, he said: "Very well pitched. But how
are ye going to get over yourself?"
"Let me Alone."?An Englishman and a
German were traveling together in a diligence,
and both smoking. The German did all in
his power to draw his companion into conversation,
but to no purpose; at one moment he
would, with a superabundance of politeness,
apologize for drawing his attention to the fact
that the ashes of his cigar had fallen on his
waistcoat, or a spark was endangering his
neckerchief. At length the Englishman exclaimed,
"Why can't you leave me alone?
Your coat tail has been burning for the last
ten minutes, but I didn't bother you about it."
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Jgy* A little Buffalo girl wants to know if fleas
are white?because her uncle told her that
"Mary had a little lamb with fleas as white as
snow."
g?partracnt.
IF I WERE A SUNBEAM.
"If I were a sunbeam,
I know what I'd do:
I would seek white lilies
Rainy woodlands through.
I would steal among them,
Softest light I'd shed,
Until every lily
Raised its drooping head."
"If I were a sunbeam,
I know where I'd go:
Into lowliest hovels,
D&rk with want and woe;
Till sad hearts looked upward,
I would shine and shine;
Then they'd think of heaven,
Their sweet home and mine."
"Art thou not a sunbeam.
Child, whose life is glau
With the inner radiance
Sunshine never had? .
Oh I as God hath blessed thee,
Scatter rays divine,
For there is no sunbeam
But must die or shine."
Bonnie Christie?Two boys were in a
school-room alone together, when some fireworks,
contrary to the master's express prohibition,
exploded. The one boy denied it;
the other, Bonnie Christie, would neither admit
nor deny it, and was severely flogged for
his obstinacy. "When the boys got alone
again:
"Why didn't you deny it ?" asked the real
delinquent.
"Because there were only us two, and one
of us must have lied," said Bonnie.
"Then why not say I did it?"
"Because you said you didn't, and I would
spare the liar."
The boy's heart melted?Bonnie's moral
gallantry subdued him.
When school resumed, the young rogue
marched up to the master's desk, and said,
"Please, sir, I can't bear to be a liar?I let off
the squibsand burst into tears.
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ser, and the unmerited punishment he had inflicted
on his schoolmate smote his conscience.
Before the whole school, hand in hand with
the culprit, as if they were paired in the confession,
the master walked down to where
Christie sat, and said aloud, with emotion:
"Bonnie, Bonnie, lad, he and I beg your
pardon: we are both to blame."
The school was hushed and still, as older
schools are apt to be when any thing true and
noble is being done?so still, they might have
heard Bonnie's big boy tear drop proudly on
his copy-book, as he sat enjoying the moral
triumph which subdued himself as well as the
rest; and when, for the want of something
else to say, he gently cried, "Master forever!"
the glorious shout of the scholars filled the
man s eyes with something behind his spectacles,
which made him wipe them before he
resumed the chair.
The King and the Ants.?According to
Jewish and Mohammedan tradition, King
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knew the language of animals, and could talk
with the beasts of the field and the birds of
the air. A rabbinical story is told of him,
which is in this wise:
"One day the king rode out of Jerusalem
with a great retinue. An ant-hill lay directly
in his way, and Solomon heard its little people
talking.
"'Here comes the great king,' he heard one
of them say. - 'His flatterers call him wise,
and just, and merciful, but he is about to ride
over us, and crush us without heeding our
sufferings.'
"And Solomon told the Queen of Sheba,
who rode with him, what the ant said.
"And the Queen made answer: 'He is an
insolent creature, 0 king! It is a better fate
than he deserves, to be trodden under our
feet?"
"But Solomon said: 'It is the part of wisdom
to learn of the lowest and weakest.' And
he commanded his train to turn aside and
spare the ant-hill.
"Then all the courtiers marveled greatly,
and the Queen of Sheba bowed her head and
made obeisance to Solomon.
" 'Now I know the secret of thy wisdom.
Thou listenest as patiently to the reproaches
of the humble as to flatteries of the great.' "?
John 0. Whittier.
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A Good Example.?All the children were
wondering what they could do for "our baby."
Baby is a year old, and can walk and almost
talk. She notices everything, and looks as if
she would like to give her opinion about
everything the others do.
Katie thought she would like to try and
make her a dress all by herself, but Nellie
said, "Mamma, don't you think it would be
better for us to make her something together?"
"I have been thinking," said their mother,
"that there is something I would like you to
do for her. Baby needs a good example set
her far more than any pretty thing you could
make her this morning. When you aud
Katie were quarrelling over the baby-house,
I saw her watching you all the time. Do
you want her to do so when she grows up?"
"Oh, no, indeed!" they both said, looking
ashamed.
"Then you musn't let her see you do it.
She imitates you in all she can. Now here is
something you can help each other do for
dear baby: have only loving words and acts
between each other. If she sees only these,
she will be far more likely to grow up loving
and gentle herself."?Child's Paper.
Truth and Falsehood.?"Willie, why
were you gone so long for the water ?" asked
the teacher of a little boy.
"We spilled it, and had to go back and fill
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tne DUCKet again, was me prompt, repiy ; uui
the bright, noble face was a shade less bright,
less noble than usual, and the eyes dropped
beneath the teacher's gaze.
The teacher crossed the room and stood by
another, who had been Willie's companion.
"Freddie, were you not gone for the water
longer than was necessary ?"
For an instant Freddie's eyes were fixed on
the floor, and his face wore a troubled look.
But it was only for an instant?he looked
frankly up to his teacher's face.
"Yes, ma'am," he bravely answered ; "we
met little Harry Braden and stopped to play
with him, and then we spilled the water and
had to go back."
Little friends, what was the difference in
the answers of the two boys? Neither of
them told anything that was not strictly true.
Which one of them do you think the teacher
trusted more fully after that ? And which
was the happier of the two?
"Mother, mother," cried a young rook,
returning hurriedly from its first flight. "I'm
so frightened! I've seen such a sight!"
"What sight, my son ?" asked the rook. Oh!
white creatures, screaming and running, straining
their necks, and holding their heads ever
so high. See, mother, there they go J" "Geese,
my son; merely geese," calmly replied the
sapient parent bird. "Through life, child,
observe, that when you meet any one who
makes a great fuss about himself, and tries to
lift his head higher than the rest of the world,
you may set him down at once to be a goose."
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J6T "I'll tell your mother of you," said one
little girl to another. "Tell her," answered
Maggie; you cannot tell her anything naughty
of me that I don't tell her myself." That is
right. Let every boy and girl tell mother
when they do wrong, and I am sure they will
not keep doing it.
An old farmer said to his sons: "Boys,
don't you ever wait for for a summit to turn
up. You might just as well go an' sit down
on a stone in the middle of a medder, with a
pale atwixt your legs, an' wait for a cow to
back np to you to be milked."
"George," asked the teacher of a Sunday-school
class, "who, above all others, shall
you wish first to see when you get to heaven ?"
With a face brightening up with anticipaI
tion, the little fellow shouted, "Gerliah J"
paling Ut the JFxiixik.
CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAN.
[.Original.]
SAUL.
In the history of Saul, the first king of Israel,
some very remarkable events transpired.
The life of Saul was a failure?full of grave
blunders, both in a moral and political point
of view. Still many very important lessons
may be learned by carefully studying Saul's
history. Some of the incidents which took
place in his history are, when not carefully
examined, strange and mysterious. A care-1
ful examination of all of these incidents can*
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to the Christian.
Soon after Saul commenced to reign over
the children of Israel, the Philistines, the
bitter and constant enemies of Israel, gathered
themselves together to fight against the Israelites.
The Israelites seem to have been greatly
demoralized. Some of them fled from the
country, and those that followed Saul did it
tremblingly. There seems to have been some
understanding between Saul and Samuel that
the latter would, at a certain time, come to
Gilgal. The understanding was that Saul
would remain at Gilgal for seven days, during
which time Samuel would come to him
in order to discharge his duties as priest for
the army and Saul, before going into the battle.
Samuel did not arrive until late, perhaps
on the seventh day. The people commenced
to scatter. They were anxious to get
some excuse to leave. Saul grew impatient
and ordered a burnt offering and peace offerings
to be brought to him, and because Sam.%?!
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offer up the burnt offering. No sooner had
Saul completed the work of sacrificing, than
Samuel came and at once rebuked Saul severely
for this act "Thou hast done foolishly,"
said Samuel, meaning by the word "foolishly,"
wickedly. Acoording to the constitution
of the Jewish nation, Saul had no right
to officiate at the altar. He did not belong to
the sacridotal tribe. >
We might be led at first to conclude that
this act of Saul's was an evidence of piety.
Such, however, is not the case. It was an
evidence of the want of piety. True and
genuine piety consists in doing our duty and
confidingly leaving the results with God.
Saul attempted to force results. He undertook
to secure the favor of God by doing an
act which it was not lawful for any one but
a priest to perform. Saul could have profitably
at that critical juncture of affairs engaged
in prayer. That he did do this, we have no
evidence. The probability is that he did not.
This act of Saul shows that he was of an impetuous
nature, and that like most of us, be
had very little confidence in the providence
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to "rest in the Lord and wait patiently for
him." It shows more than this. We may
infer that religious acts are sometimes evidences
of a want of piety. This may seem to
be a plain contradiction; but are not the religious
acts of all of us sometimes the evidence
of our sinful lives and more sinful hearts ? I
do not mean that these religious acts are acceptable
to God, nor do I say that these acts
are really religious acts, but to human appearance
they seem to be such. In fact they
spring from fear and dread, and many other
causes, none of which resemble faith.
After this unfortunate occurrence, Samuel
went from Gilgal to Gibeah, and Saul and the
army which he was able to control, went there
too. The Philistines encamped, it is said, in
Michmash. Gibeah, Jerusalem and Michmash,
were all in close proximity, which
^hows that the Philistines had pretty well
overrun the whole country. Whilst the two
armies were thus encamped, it seems that Jonathan,
the son of Paul, proposed to his armor
bearer to make an attack upon a garrison
of ttie rnilistmes. it ib evident irom me
connections, that Jonathan made known his
plans to no one but his armor bearer. According
to all the rules of warfare, this was
an unwise and rebellious act. No doubt,
however, Jonathan went in accordance with
the Divine intimation. The garrison of the
Philistines is taken by Jonathan and his armor
bearer, and a general rout of the Philistines
commenced. Soon Saul and the whole
army of Israel join in the battle and the Philistines
are smitten with a great slaughter.
Saul, in order that he might accomplish as
much as possible, issued an order that no man
should eat any thing during the day. He
backed the order with a curse. This was
another foolish act. His greed defeated his
design. The soldiers became hungry, faint
and weak, and consequently many of them
were not able to pursue the Philistines to
much advantage. Like many a one since
him, Saul attempted to accomplish too much,
and the result was, he did very little. It would
have been eminently proper in Saul to have
issued an order forbidding plundering; but it
was foolish to forbid struggling soldiers to take
any food. Jonathan, who seems not to have
been present when this foolish order was given
out, whilst passing in the pursuit of the enemy,
put forth the rod or staff which he had
in his hand, and took up a piece of honey
comb and eat it. Night came on, and after
the people had gorged themselves with food,
Saul proposed to pursue the Philistines and
spoil them during the night. In this proposition
there is much of the coward, tyrant and
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mad-man. nis soiaiers were weary, ana
many Israelites were at that time residing
amongst the Philistines, and hence the expedition
would have been attended with much
damage to many innocent families. The
priest, Ahiah, who seems to have arrived in
the camp after Samuel left, proposed that
God be consulted with regard to this expedition.
God, however, in his wisdom, refused
to give any answer respecting the proposed
pursuit. Saul, and no doubt the whole array,
came to the conclusion, that some sin had
been committed, and that God was angry
with them. Saul, in a self righteous spirit,
proposed that a test be made, and that he and
his son Jonathan be on one side and the people
on the other. It seems that the matter
for which the lot was proposed to bo cast, was
to discover who had violated Saul's wicked
and imperious order. Saul and Jonathan
were taken and the people escaped. Lots
were then cast between Saul and Jonathan,
and Jonathan was taken. Saul, in a vindiotive
spirit, declared that Jonathan must be
put to death ; but the people interposed and
recued him. The question might be asked,
"Did Jonathan sin against God in eating the
honey which he found in the woods ?" We
answer most positively, no. He^is not charg
ed by God with any crime. The lot only
declared that Jonathan had violated the order
of Saul. This was the truth, and Jonathan
readily acknowledged that he had eaten
a little honey; but asked if it were possible
that he would be put to death for such a
thing ? The people magnanimously said no,
and Jonathan was rescued from the hands of
a foolish king and cruel father. We are not
to conclude because, the lot fell upon Jona- j
than that therefore he was guilty of any sin i
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JVgrifultural f^jrattmeot.
From the Southern Cultivator for November.
THOUGHTS FOR THE PRESENT MONTH.
Cotton has opened this season so rapidly,
that probably little remains to be picked.
We have never known it to open so early and
so rapidly. If crowding it on the market has
worked detriment to the farmer by depressing
prices, the early gathering of the crop may be
of great advantage in clearing the way for
next year's operations. One of the greatest
evils of.cotton planting, is thenncessant labor
it requires from January to January again.
This year some two months will be liberated
from its exacting demands. This will give an
opportunity for putting wheat in nicely, and
pressing forward the turning over of land.
Select a dry time for ploughing in the seed.
Experience has shown this to be a very important
element of success. Two acres of very
rich land will furnish a family with bread ;
surely every farmer in the South can afford to
sow that much.
FALL PLOUGfllNG.
Procrastination is natural to most of us.
We need the spur of a present necessity to
urge us forward. One says, "I shall have
a plenty of time after Christmas to break up
all my land. I have always done it heretofore
and can do it again." Perhaps he forgets,
however, that there have been seasons
when in order to get it done after Christmas,
he was obliged to plough when his judgment
told him it was too wet. Granting an abundance
of time, however, it is vastly better to
plough before than after Christmas. Land
turned over in the fall, will invariably be soft
and mellow in the spring?this cannot always
be said of that turned over in the spring.
The air will have brought its chemistry to
bear on the former, and the frosts will have
pulverized it vastly better than clod-crushers,
harrows and other human implements could
have done. The vegetable matter turned under
will have had a longer time to decompose
and get ready to nourish the succeeding crop,
and last of all, abundaut experience has de
raonstratea that crops grow oetter on lauploughed
than spring-ploughed land^ Ih
spring-ploughing, the land, as said before, is
very apt to be too wet. Even if the surface
is dry enough, the underlying clay may be,
and often is, entirely too wet, and at each
successive breaking, the plough presses and
solidifies the soft plastic clay into a compact
layer or "hard-pan" through which water can
neither descend nor ascend with auy degree
of facility.
Again, packing rains are likely to fall soon
after spring ploughings; these run the land
together and cut off the entrance of the air,
with all its beneficial results. In addition, it
is bad policy to throw this hard work on the
mules so late in the season, giving them no
time to rest, and prepare for the exhausting
work of spring and summer. It is very important
to begin* the planting of a crop with
stock in the best possible condition. A very
common mule in good condition will carry his
row with a really fine mule, if the latter is
puur turn wuru uutvu yy 1 in pjcviuuo ucavj
work.
Discussing the relief of work stock' oq the i
farm, brings up again the question of waterpower
for ginning and other like operations.
We desire to awaken attention to this very
important matter, and the present is a fitting
time for "prospecting," because it is one of
comparative leisure, and the streams being
low at this season, one would not be led to
over-estimate the amount of water at bis command.
The first thing to be ascertained is
the amount of water available. This can be
done by selecting some place in the stream
where there is the greatest fall, and turning
the water iuto a trough nearly level, letting it
fell into a barrel or hogshead, and observing
accurately with a watch the time necessary to
fill it. Half dozen or more of these "timings"
should be made, and the average or mean result
taken. From the known capacity of
barrel, calculate the amount of water for one
minute in cubic feet. The next point is to
ascertain the amount of fall which can be
had. This may be done by running a level
line with an ordinary rafter level from highest
point in branch to a point opposite to that
in the branch where it is supposed the gin
ought to be placed. Having reached this
point, place an ordinary carpenter's level in
position at the ground, ana sight along its
upper surface, and mark the point where the
line of vision strikes a pole held upright in
the branch. The distance between this point
and the surface of the brauch gives the required
fall.
Having the amount of water and the foil,
the power of an overshot wheel may be computed
by the following rule: Multiply the
weight of water 111 109. aiscnargea upon ine
wheel in one minute, by the distanoe in feet
from the centre of the opening in the gate to
the surface of the tail race; divide the product
by 33,000 and three-fourths of the quotient
obtained will be the horse-power. Example
: The volume of water discharged upon
an overshot wheel is 100 cubic feet per min-1
ute?the height is 15 feet; what are the
horses'power? 100 >4 62.5* >4 15
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33,000'
which multiplied by 1=2.13 horses power.?.
If the stream is too small to furnish thej
amount of water required in any given case,
the difficulty may be met, without backing the
water in the stream, by conducting the water
to some ravine or basin, and throwing a dam
across it, so as to allow the water to accumulate
during the night for the next day's work.
In that case a foot or so of the height would
of course be lost, but the amount of water
could be doubled. >
Unless a "shoal" is present in a stream, it
is seldom regarded as suitable to a water
power?the plan proposed is wholly independent
ofshoals, as it proposes to take advantage
of a very gradual fall, extending it may be
for a long distance. The plan proposed obviates
also the difficulty of backing water upon
a neighbor, or of sacrificing bottom land to
secure a pond. Conduct the water along the
hillside, make the pond upon the hillside, save
all your bottom land, get aqjood water power
and in the summer, when the water is not
needed for driving machinery, it will be all
ready to irrigate the hillsides. Facilities for
thus doing, exist on thousands and thousands
of Southern farms. "We shall consider that
we have done a good work, if we succeed in
directing attention to them.
* Weightin lbs. of a cubic foot of water.
Fall Ploughing for Corn and Cotton.
The many and great advantages of fall ploughing
seem to be almost entirely ignored by the
Southern farmer. Fields which have been in
small grain are pastured to exhaustion, and
what is left by the cattle is permitted to dry
up and blow away or lodge in the fence corners.
Corn fields are similarly treated, in fact
are trampled alJ winter by stocK, witn very
little benefit to the animalaand much damage
to the land. This is one of the deep ruts in
which we are running and out of which we
must get before we can find easy traveling.
On the stubble fields, cow peas, or some other
good green mature crop, may be sown and
ploughed in just after the grain is taken off, to
grow and be turned under before frost; or, if
nothing better can be done, the stubble and
weeds may at least be treated in this way,
while there shall yet be manurial value in
them, as may the stalks and grass of the corn
field. In either case the vegetable matter
will have time to decompose and become incorporated
with the soil before planting time;
and the earth turned up will get the full advantage
of the mellowing influences of the
winter frosts. Land thus prepared in the fall
is very quickly and easily put into condition
for planting in the spring.
Remedy for the Hair Falling Out.
"Wash the scalp twice a week with Castile soapsuds,
then rinse thoroughly in tepid water.
Use no dressing for the hair, whatever. The
same remedy is afeo used as preventive of
dandruff.
Will 11R IISItlK! SMI.
MEMPHIS, TKNN.
Branch Office, - Baltimore, Maryland.
ASSETS, $1,100,000.
Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS, ..President.
Gen. WADE HAMPTON, Pres. Baltimore Board.
J. D. KENNEDY, Stato Agent
W. B. SADLER, Yorkville, Special Agent.
June 27 , 20 ly
ROSE'S HOTEL,
(FORMERLY HUNT'S HOTEL.)
raHUiMBniiiHHBKi
, JaHSPf^^fim5S<Hffi3wwiilwWa!
COLUMBIA, S. O.
THIS HOUSE is in the centre of the city, convenient
to all the Public Offices and Business
Houses, located on the south-west corner of the
State House Square, has been recently re-opened
and renovated, and will now compare favorably
with any Hotel at the South.
ROSE'S OMNIBUS will convey passengers to
and from every train, free of charge.
Also, a first-class Carriage for the accommodation
of ladies.
TRANSIENT BOARD $2.50 per day.
W. E. ROSE, Proprietor.
September 12 37 tf
THE YORKYILIE BRANCH
OF THE
S1WWII1
Banking Office Opposite the Store ol J. H. Adams.
Deposits of $1 and Upwards Received.
Interest allowed at the rate of 7 per cent, per
annum on Certificates of Deposit) and
6 per cent, compounded every
six months on aceounts.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE - COLUMBIA) 8. C.
WM. MARTIN. . President.
JOHN B. PALMER, .....Vice-President.
A. Q. BRENIZER, .....Cashier.
J. H. SAWYER. Ass't Cashier in general charge.
JOHN C. B. SMITH, Local Assistant Cashier.
Directors.?Wade Hampton, William Martin,
A. C. Haskell, F. W. McMaster, E. H. Heinitah,
John B. Palmor, Thos. E. Gregg, Columbia. J.
Ell Gregg, Marion. G. T. Scott, W. G. Mayes,
Newberry. B. H. Rutledge, D. Ravenel, Jr.,
Charleston.
BRANCHES IN S^IJTH CAROLINA :
Location. Local Ass't Cashiers.
Charleston,. .. D. RAVENEL, Jr.
Orangeburg J. H. FOWLES.
Sumter, J. W. DARGAN.
Spartanburg, JOEL FOSTER.
Newberrt. T. S. DUNCAN.
Laurens, JOHN KYLE.
Abbeville, Hon. D. L. WARDLAW.
Camden, W. D. McDOWELL.
Unionville, E. R. WALLACE
Yorkville, W. B. METTS.
FINANCE COMMITTEE AT YORKVILLE.
B. T. WHEELER, J. H. ADAMS, L. M. GRIST.
j&f SIGHT DRAFTS drawn on all the Branches
of the tfanic in tniB state, and aiso on an w? prominent
places in the United States and Europe.
Stocks, Bonds, Qold and Silver bought and
sold.
%?r~ Mutilated Currency purchased at a small
discount. ' W. B. METTS,
Assistant Cashier at Yorkville.
January 25 4 ly
ESTABLISHED 1857.
L. II. MILLER,,
MILLER'S SAFE AND IRONWORKS,
BALTIMORE, MD.
SALESROOM: 265 BALTIMORE STREET,
(One Door above Hanover,)
FACTORY: Square bounded by Henrietta, Claret,
Fremont and Warner Streets.
Every variety of the Best Fire and Burglar Proo
Safes, Bankers' Chests, JTmjiroved
uomoinanon ijocks, uiuik.
Vaults and Doors.
Send for Dlustrated Catalogue and Price List.
12,000 IN USE-TESTED IN 200 FIRES.
Near References National Bank, Chester,
Smith and Melton, Chester ; John Agnew & Son,
Columbia, S. Q. i I j- ; J "
September 12 '37 tf
Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar.
i 10 TEARS
PU8LIC TE8T
^r< brook's
WINE
^ TAR
3 To have more
' ... 1?A .f merit than any
similar preparalion
ever offered
the public.
It is rich in the medicinal qualities
of Tar, and unequaled for diseases
of the Throat and Lungs, performing
the moat remarkable cures.
Coughs, Colds, Chonic Coughs.
It effectually cures them all.
Asthma and Bronchtis.
Has cured so many cases
-L U_. t. ?
ill lilus UCCU piUUUUIIV^U a
specific for these complaints.
For pains in Breast Side or Back,
Gravel or Kidney Disease,
Diseases of the Urinary Organs,
Jaundice or any Liver Complaint,
It has no equal.
It is also a superior Tonic,
Restores the Appetite,
Strengthens the System,
Restores the Weak and
Debilitated,
Causes the Food to Digest,
Removes Dyspepsia and
Indigestion,
Prevents Malarious Fevers,
Ghes tone to your System.
Try Dr.Crook's Wine ofTar
October 3 40 ly
METALIC BURIAL CASES AND CASKETS.
THAVE just received a full supply of FISK'S
METALIC BURIAL CASES, of all_s[zes.
Also a few of those beautiful full glAss iJUitiAJb
CASKETS, surpassing in beauty anything of the
kind ever offered here. J. E. SMITH, Agent.
WOOD COFFINS, of any quality, made to
order. J. E. SMITH.
March 14 11 ly
THE PARKER GUN.
- PARKER BRQ'S
WEST WEmMN.CT.
' - ' " " 3 " ?
APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE.
! "\TOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned,
! J3| Administrator of the estate of ESTHEK Mc1
NEEL, deceased, will make a final settlement
j with the Judge of Probate of York county, on the
' 11th day of November next, when he will make
application for a final discharge as Administrator
of the said estate.
J. M. KIRKPATRTCK, Administrator.
I October 10 41 5t*
YQRKYILLE ENQ1
GREAT ATTRACTIONS
A SPLENDID CHB
THE VALUE OP $6.0
ORIGINAL SEE
$100 IN PREMIU
RATES FOR CLUBBING WIT
The ENQUIRER will enter imon the NINETE
uarv next, and in issuing our annual prospectus w<
perity of the paper at the present time that we are t
newspaper at the South, and to promise the public a
issued.
ELEGANT
In order that the circulation of the ENQUIRE'
mined to furnish, free of charge, to every subscribe
for the year 1873, an elegant Oil Chromo entitled
THE UNWELC<
This beautiful picture, the size of which is 13} by 17
maticprinting, and is a perfect fac simile, both in col
ing after which it is copied, and is equal in all r<
FIFTEEN DOLLARS, under which price iffcould n
of a new method of printing, by whicn pictures of t
old plan of lithographing.
This is a new feature in Southern journalism, ai
Union; but as the usefulness and attractions of the
to the increase of its circulation, the proprietor has c
inducement, whereby every subscriber receives
THE VALUE OF $6.(
The following illustration of our Chromo giv<
of the picture, wnicb, however, Is printed in colc
distinguished from an oil painting costing hundred
"The Unwelcome Visitor/"the
ninetee:
It is the aim of the proprietor to make the ENQ
PAPER, acceptable alike to all classes of readers an<
by party, creed or section; and the features which
curing for it a circulation attained by no other seen
ORIGINAL
We take pleasure in announcing for the new voli
for the ENQUIRER. With the opening of the nev
thrillingand exciting original story from the pen ol
DEAS, entitled
THE MYSTERY OF MOSS GROVE: A STC
which will run through several numbers of the pap
detail, is one of the mo3t entertaining serials which
ful pen. This story will be followed by a vivid
FLORIMOND; OR DIVO
and another charming story, abounding in humt
JOHN'S
I * *'/ >*
These will be followed by other stories during the
contributions to the "Sabbath Reading" and "Chi
adapted to all tastes; the Agricultural Department,
the farmer and house wife: a column of Humorous
cing light current topics; together with a compend
abroad, in which the sparkling letters of our ?
"Nemo," will be a prominent feature; Commercia
appropriate subjects, will, we feel assured, rendei
readers.
PREMIUMS :
: . V ; >' Itfti
We offer FOUR PREMIUMS for the four large
ing in the aggregate to OVER ONE HUNDREDD
SILVER TEA SET, valued at $50.00; the second,
PLATED FORKS, valued at $31.75; the third, of o
$13.00; and the fourth, of one dozen 8ILVER TEA
The person procuring the largest club of subs<
person procuring the second largest cluU to the a
I largest club, to the third premium; and tne persot
I premium. Competitors may begin to procure subwhenever
the name is received, or on the 1st of J
J for each subscriber is expected to be paid when eve
will be oounted in competition, until it is paid fa
DESCRIPTION <
I The articles'which we have adopted for premin
surpassing beauty, but their intrinsic value as well
i in tne above schedule are enumerated at the man
1 pieces?a Coffee Pot, two Tea Pots, Creamer, Sugar
new style, with raised or embossed figure work. '
but the best tripple plate, the foundation being wh;
silver coating may cnance to be worn off in any 8]
LuciuB Hart Manufacturing Company, and sold by
selected from the best goods manufactured by the
have acquired a world-wide reputation in being th
their goods being acknowledged equal to any or Ai
Persons subscribing in clubs will be entitled
WITHOUT THE PREMIUM CHROMO, or b;
ELEGANT PICTURE, in addition to the paper, fo:
not interfere with the arrangements of any club-:
person, either at $8.00 for the paper and the Chrome
To persons who make up clubs often or more i
or at $3.00 for it and the Chromo, (or both as the case
cash premiums, we will send the ENQUIRER one
of twentv or more names, but who may fail to get
QUIRER one year free of charge, and a copy of eitl
which we offer to club.
The premiums will be awarded to the successful
Mottoay op March 1873.
TERMS OF SU
To all subscribers receiving the Chromo, whether i
Two copies one year, without the Chromo,
One copy to the same subscriber two years, without
Tea copies, one year, with an extra to the person m
CLUBBING WITH OT1
For the convenience of our subscribers who ma
made arrangements with the following leading I
whereby they can be secured at a reduced price by i
we extend to all who may desire to avail tnemsem
be selected, which, with the ENQUIRER, will bef
Prioo," ana for One Dollar in addition, our Oil Chroi
ENQUIRER and Southern Cultivator one ye
41 44 Carolina Farmer one year,.
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44 44 American Agriculturist on
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44 44 Rural New Yorker one yes
44 44 Scientific American one ye*
44 44 Godey's Lady's Book one y
44 44 Peterson's Magazine one y
44 44 Arthur's Magazine, with i
mium, one year, .
44 44 Arthur's Children's Hour <
44 44 Harper's Magazine one yea
44 44 Harper's Bazar one year,...,
44 44 Harper's Weekly one year,
44 44 Scribner's Monthly one yea
44 44 Hearth and Home one yeai
44 44 Leslie's Illustrated Newspa
44 44 Leslie's Chimney Corner oi
44 Leslie's Lady's Journal on
44 44 Leslie's Boy's and Girl's Vi
44 44 Leslie's Lady's Magttine o
44 44 Lippinoott's Magazine one
44 44 New York Weekly World
44 44 New York Weekly Tribun
Specimens of the above publications can I
lections may be made.
The Chromo Premium will be delivered U
it is possible to do so, after the reception of their
by mail post paid, securely wrapped in boards topi
be supplied, (unless otherwise directed,) through
Hnw to Rkmit.?Monevmav be forwarded at
ed letters?otherwise we will assume; no risk.
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IIRER FOR 1873!
FOR THE NEW YEAR!
OMO PREMIUM I
0 FOR ONLY $3.00!
IAL STORIES!
I ' . . i% " i * ?/? '* ff t -ft H t ) ?
MS FOR CliUBS! "
H OTHER PUBLICATIONS!
IENTH YEAR of its existence on the 1st of Jaa3
are gratified to announoe that each is the pros(nabled
to offer attractions unprecedented by any
i more entertaining paper than we have heretofore
CHROMO.
" .. l' h :
R may be still further increased, we have deterr
who pays THREE DOLLARS IN ADVANCE
OME VISITOR.
ri inches, is finished in the highest style of chroloring
and expression! of the celebrated oil paintjspects
to pictures which until recently sold for
ot now be afforded, but for the recent introduction
;his class are more rapidly produced than by the * _ ^
nd an offer made by very few newspapers lit the
ENQUIRER can only beenhanced in proportion
letermined to offer to the public this unparalleled
10 FOR ONLY #3.00.
. / v : .. . '! . ' .i:{ Vtv -aj \
ss a general idea of the subject and composition
>rs true to nature, and when foamed cannot be
8 of dollars. Ttti.jT ~ no
~ , ^' ' , ~ ' ' 1 -U; f?f<'r
Enquirer Premium Chromo.
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\TH VOLUME,,
UIREE A LITERARY AND FAMILY NBWR- .
I ft wftVomft visitor to the Home Circle, unwarped
have so greatly contributed to its popularlty-^s6lar
weekly in the State?will remain unchanged.
STOBI1S.
ft
ime three Original Serial Stories, written expressly
v year we will commence the publication of a
" the favorite California authoress, Mrs. HENRY
i . '
)RT OP THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,
ier, and in point of thrilling plot and interesting
has yet appeared in our oolumns from her gtaeeLife
Sketch, entitled
ROE OR NO DIVORCE,
; ,"Vi.-'Sf ,'.Y :
>r, pathos and the marvelous, entitled tim-nVIFE.
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volume, which, with Mr. lathan's Regular
ldren's Department# y* Miscellaneous Readhlg,
containing practical and useful information for
Reading every week; "Scraps and J?acts,": embmofthe
News of the Day; Correspondence from'
:egular traveling correspondent,
1 and Market Reports, and Editorial Artlelanop
r the enquirer ,an acceptable visitor to,
FOR CLUBS.
. ... : : 1; ,i>
st Clubs of Subscribers, for the year1878, smtwiti
ollars. The first premium consists of a heavy,
of one dozen PLATED KNIVES "and; due flown
ne dozen SILVER TABLE SPOONS, valued at
SPOONS, valued af |6.76. . ,;i },...
iribere will be entitled to the first premium:, thp
econd premium; the person procuring the third
l procuring the fourth largest club, to the fourth
bribers at opoe?the time of snbecnption to begin
r&nuary, 1873, as may De prererrea. me money i
r the name la enterea on our books, and no name '
p .1 j..; ; . .1 iI 2 ' lU ' ? t.i '
3F PREMIUMS. "'
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mshave been selected not only on account of their
. They are guaranteed to boas represented, and
ufacturers' prices. The Tea Set oonaiste of six
and Slop Bowl?all of beautiful, uniform pattern,
rhey are not the gommon silver-washed artiolee,
ite metal, so as not to showeven when the heavy
uot by long, hard usage. They are made by the
: them at $50.00 per set. The other premiums are
Meriden Cutlery Company, of New York, who
ie exclusive manufacturers of fine table ctttlety,
nerican or foreign manufacture. . .
to receive the ENQUIRER one year for $2.60
y paying $3.00 will be entitled to receive the
r one year. But the option of the subscriber will
maker, as names may be received by the same
>. or 82.60 for the paper alone,
lames, either at ^50 for the ENQUIRER only,
) may be) but who may fail to obtain either orthe
year free of charge: and tothose who send a club
a premium, we will forward a copy of the RNlerof
the publications enumerated below, With
1 competitors at ova o'clock, p. sc., on thh riiurr
BSCRIPTIOXs ' U
clubs or singly, $3 00 *
*00
t theChromo,.... i..? 0 00
aking the club, exclusive of Chromoa,..?....25 00
3ER PUBLICATIONS.;
lv wish to read some other publication, we have
literary, Scientific and Agricultural Magazines
clubbing with the ENQUIRER?* benefit which
m of the opportunity. Any of the following may
urnishedatthe prices named under head of "Cltjn
nao will alBO be furnished. i *.* *im!i *.
Club Price. Regular Price.
ar, ~$4 50 $5 00 ,. !
4 00 5 Q0
. 4 50 5 00 '"
eyear, 4 00 4'80> *'
4 50 ,fi00, ,
ite one year, ...3 50 4 00
S75 ' i W
ir, 6 00 5 50
ir, 5 50 6 00
ear, 5 25 6 00
ear, 4 40 * 5 00 11
i Steel Engraving Pre
5 00 6 00 .
me year, 4 00 .4 60 .
x, 6 25 7 00 t!
6 25 7 00 1
- 625 it! r-oo; -J
r, 6 00 ,7 00
5 25 6 00
iper one year, 6 00 ' 7 00 '
ne year, ... 6 00 7 00
e year, 6 00 7 00. ,
reekly one year, 5 00 5 50' ,
ne year, 5 80 6 50
year .w 0 00 7 00
one year, 4 25 v . 6 00
e one year,........;. .....4 25 5 00
>e seen at our office at any time, from wblcty pe>
all subscribers entitled to receive it as rapidly as
names. Subscribers at a distance will reoeive it
reyent injury, and those subscribing in clubs will
their respective club-makers,
our risk by draft, post-office order, or in register>ounty
and State. . , be
sent to any address on application. Address
. GRIST, proprietor,
Yorkville, 8. C.