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Selected f 0ctrir. SPAKE THE HOKSE. (), teamster, spare that horse, How hard lie tries to go ; There's load enough for two, Don'tstriko another blow, (live him a helping hand, Or ease the load, I pray; And ho your kindness will A thousand fold repay. , IIow patiently he toils, All througli the heat and cold ; A faithful servant still, Though wearied, worn and old. Poor, dumb, unconscious brute ! And yet ho seems to know, Caressing oft the hand That deals the cruel blow. What an imploring look, Ami what "a knowing eye, And yet without the power To utter e'en a cry. See how he writhes and shakes, While smarting with the pain ; Oh ! cruel driver, pause? Don't strike the brute again ! Humanity, at last, Brought to a sense of shame, Will punish those who give Unnecessary pain. Oh. driver, snare thfct horse? How hard lie tries to go ; There's load enough for two, Don't striko another blow! Humorous fcjiartmcut. From the Yorkvillo Enquirer, January 20, 1809. JOHN EASTMAN AND THE DUMB BULL. RE-PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. Mr. Edilur:?I've bin a long time lowin tu tel you what happind up on Big Suggar Creek between John Eastman and the DumbBull, and how I gut intu hit tu. As hits bin a long time ago, and John and me haint bin so mitey freendly nuther, is the reason I haiut said nothin about it afore now. But as I've mooved up over the North Carolina line, and as peepul says and talks purty much as they pleas eny how up here, I reckon John won't oiink hard uv me ef I wus tu tel hit on him. Wei, you see, John and I, when we wur young, we wur considerable sparks amongst the galls in the diggins roun Big Suggar Creek, but we both got to hankerin atter old widder Jenkins'gal Sal, who wus as spruce and buxom a little-piece as ever trod in shuelether or wore pink ribbin. An Sal and I had almost gut tu be sworn freends, til John got to mucklin horns with me, and as he was a little better lookiu fed man than I wur, John was rather cramin hit on tu me; fur the last nifp we met. at the widder Jenkin's, I wur bad ly chawed, fur Sal and the old oraon both talked a peskey heap tu John at the suppertable?they almost choked him with 'tention and kept a sistin fur him tu heve his cup filled agin, and tu take out sum more of the collards; while they never sed wun time, "Bill Perkins make out your supper or hev another cup of butter-milk." And when I furstsot down I didn't have much uv an appertite, but I gess I et it with a commin stumake jes fur spite. And arter supper wur over, and the table red up, the old omon and Sal both got on ech side uv John jes to cut my fethers wus, and talked and cracked jokes tu him all the time, while I sot in tuther corner with wun fut on top uv tuther, pickin dobbin outen the cracks and eyen John mitey jubeously all the time, a feelin like I wus sent fur tu a quiltin and cudeut cum. The old omon was in a grate gale a talkin tu him and axin him about his nue house, and ef he wus a gwine tu hev a port-folio tu hit like squire Gilkin's nue house, and ef he had a gude crop uv yung pigs a cummin on, and ef his hens wur / 1- ? /?V?inlroria anrl ICUUIU up Llieuy jruuu^ v,iitv/ivbuo , uuu tuvii Sal primped hur face, a lookin as pleasin as a basket uv chips, and axed John ef he wud take a setten uv mam's dominickur hen eggs home with hira in the mornin. And hesed he wud and thank hur fur em tu; and feelin a little romanceful went and sed he wud set them under his valler legged luvly-cacklin-speckly hen on the highest pinnacle uv fodder uv his barn loft, and when they hatched out he wud take all the care in the world uv em fur hur luvely sake tu reraembur hur; and the old omon sorter mizled her countenance aud Sal kinder blushed and thanked hira? and then John rolled his eyes round 011 me in a kind uv a hyjiutin way, and looked as proud as a young rooster with his fust spurs, and they looked raitely conserqueutal uv Mr. Eastman, aud I cud see them turn thur noses up at me like they smelt wet pups, and I sot aud wished I wur sura whar else. But I thought to myself, as Deacon Brinley uster say?"every dog has his own day." But I tliot Sal wur a treateu me mighty unscruplusly, as she uster stick tu me like a sick l-jfton tu a hot hrick. But since John's grand-mamy had didc and left him the PeaHidge place and the Punkin Bottoms, and a couple of sows and litters, thur wus no body but Mr. Eastman a livin, and Bill Perkius wus nowhere. Well things kept a goin on tu John's glory aud salvation, and he wur a taken on and a rantin about with Sal a heap wus en ever I dun. And John hears uv a big show up in Sharlot, and so he gits his daddy's old gig and tuck Sal up to see hit, aud the old onion wur powerful uneasy all the time they wur gone, for fear them ugly animals mout git out of their boxes aud hurt sum body. Well, they cum home safe, and then sich a talkin about the show and Sharlot?as I wur at the old onion's when they cum. Sal sed they put up at a great big brick house wliar they had a nigger at your heels every time yu turned round, and every man and oman had a different room tu sleep in, and that the men and wimmen didn't see wun anuther only when they cum down inter a big room a full uv fine things, and that nobody didn't sleep in this room, and they called hit the parley! Widder Jinkins sed her darter Sal was mitey 'complished tu recotnmember and notise all things; and she sed she must git me tu rive her sum clab-boards and run a partition in bur house, so she wud have tvnn etwl fur t!i(> wimmen tosleenin. and the tuther fur the men folks; and so rite thar she j imployed me tu du the job, like as ef I wernt | fit fur uothiu else. Well so you see I loved Sal, aud I wud du eny thing tu be about whar she wus, fur I luved hur so I wud stand and look at hur and then wud look at the place I seed her stand last. And so you may guess I felt squeamish about the gizzard when things wur agoin on in this way. And to make me feel wuss, John wus a rantin and covortin and telliu hit all over Piddleburg, that he had now cut me out, and that the old widder had hired me tu rive clubboards, and sed I warn't fit fur nothiu else ; that he wus agoin tu put a portfolio tu his nue house, and jist at that particular time, Pea-Ridge and Punkin Bottoms wud hardly hold him. Arter the show iuSharlot, wurd cum that the lion had broken outen his den up thar, and wus on his way down Big Shuggar Creek toards our settlement, and the men folks, and the wimin folks specially, wur powerfully dreden uv hit, and so John tride tu hire me tu cum and stay with him uv nites. But I told him I wur workin fur the widder, and hit wud be unmannerly fur me not tu stay an purtect the ? P_1|? A ?1 nepiess Wliumiu xui&s. nuu su ?ncu me citement wus tu the highest pitch, Pete Scritchley and Tom Whizzler makes a trick they call the Dumb Bull, what I reckon every body haint seed, and I will tell you what hit is. Hit is made out a hollar sassafras about three fut long, scraped out thin and wun end is headed like a kettle drum, and a string jist run thru the centre uv the hcd and notted on the outside tu hang luse in the inside, which drawn tight and the thumb rubbed over hit and this makes the musick, and hit roars wusner than twenty bulgines runnin off the track. I recollect dad uster hev wun of em to skeer away the weazles frum mam's hen roost. So Pete Scritchly and Tom Whizzler made hit up tu give John a little skeer, and I wur knowen tu hit, too. Well, wun ?^gyenin Pete an Tom went up to Squire Sousej^^^^^^mH^^^^^u^i^uruad^John that nite; and as they wus a coining down the creek, down by John's, they seed him over in his Punkin bottoms a plowin and singin luve songs, a feelin happy, as if he had every j thing fixed between him and Sal, and so ' Pete and Tom made out like they wur skeered j and in a powerful hurry and called tu John : and told him that they had not cotched that i ar liou yit what had got outen his den up in Sharlot, and that he wus seed jist above old ( iSousley'sstore that mornin by several, and wur roaring orfully?and when last seed wur makin his way down the bottoms rite toards Piddloburg. Hit skeered John monsterously, as his j house wur the furthest up next the big thicket, i and John axed and begged them to cum and stay with him that nite; but they told him that thev must go home and mind their own ; folks, fur they nowed the lion wud he along \ afore day in the moruin and they wur in i a hurry to go round and circulate the nuse > tu the rest uv the nabors. John then lusens j his horse outen the plow rite strate and put | off for the house a listenen every ininit for the j lion, and feeds his things and goes in afore i dark and bars up his door rite close, and put j a nue flint on his gun and sot the broad-ax inside the door, and then shed off and went tu bed and tried to make hiself easy and cumposed a thiukiu about Sal, and hopin, thatorful varmint wud go on down the creek without hurtin him or Sal uther. Awhile after this as John wur a gittin a little hopeful and easy, Pete and Tom had got reddy fur thur surenade, and had got round in Punkin bottom aud gave the Dumb Bull wuu twang, and cum on a roarin down tu the spring and there stopt and roared hit a long time, and cum on up nearly tu the house. They herd T i _ ?j _..,i ? K? ,i,? JOIUl Jlliup, wuu UUU SCU ijiiij, uy inv thru the cracks, pantless, a ruuiu and a ran tin frum wun eud uv the house tu the uther. They then give it a low twang, sorter like unto a growl, tell they got rite up to the back door, 'tween the kitchen and the big house, and twauged and roared hit louder tliau ever. John cudent stand it no longer, but busted the glass and shuttur and jumped rite thru the winder?jest as he wus when he got outen bed?and then struck a bee-line rite across the cuckle bur bottom fur widder Jinkins', leavin a white streak out behind him to bring up the rear. We had all gone tu bed at the widders, and Sal and her mammy had been snuziu fur sum time, and tho I wus miety tired, fur I had jist finished rivin boards at sun down, but I cudent go to sleep fur listenin fur the Lion Surnade, and when I fust heered hit strike up, ef I hed had on my close, or if the lightwood nots hadn't ben given so much lite, I wud a gut up and went tu the door, but while I was lien a thinking what wude becum uv John, a knowen he wus miety skerry, I heered somebudy a cummin a lumberin up the spring hill raakin as much fus as a drove uv young mules, and then jumped over the fense, rite thru the old 'omon's bean patch, and a panten fur breath, hollerd out "fur God's sake! fur God's sake open the door," and then busted rite in an cum with sicli a rush that he knocked the door on the tuther side I nfion flip hincrps. and then stainrered back and like tu fel kerslue in the middle uv the flore, but backed and ketched by the old 'omon's bed post, and never stopped till he had planted hisself a straddle uv the jice. I tel you thar wur no use uv these here sponsion rods tu swell his skirt as he run up that ar wall?cept that part uv the skurt behind what had cotched up the cuckleburs as he curu-thru the bottom, and he put me in mind, fur all the world, uv a white pony with his tail notted for muddy weather. The old omon an Sal waked up a screamiu like they would go into fits, and looking up and seeing John in that fix, they pulled the kiver over their faces, and John hollered out as sune as he cud git his breth, "Widdcr Jenkins, fur God's sake git up an shut tu the door, fur the Big Lion what's outen his den is rite arter me, fur hit is run me plum frum home< rite outen the bed." The old 'omon jumpt up and clapped the dore tu an pinned hit, and set the tuther wuu up an put the big table agin hit, aud throwed hur hands up an cried out "Lord hev mercy, hcv mercy upon us." Sal whimpered aud whined aud I sniggered ; I stuffed my mouth fill uv bed close to keep frum spilen the joke. "Johu ! John !" says the old'omon. recuverin frum the fust con vulshuns, "are you sure hit is the lion; did you really see hit? "Yes! Yes inarm, tu be shure, for Pete Scritchley and Tom Whizzler cum ^by from Souseley's store afore nite, and told me hit was seen up thar, and I went home an sliet up everything, an sure enuf a while arter dark I heerd hit a cummin roarin up in Punkin Bottoms, an then hit stopped down about the spring en hit roared an snorted down thar a long time and then cum a shakin hits lubberly self up the spring road tu the house, a growlin en nashin uv hits teeth orfully, and hit cum on till hit got between the kitchen en the big house, an thar hit smelt blud, whar I had throwed outeu the entruls uv a chicken?en then gewhitaker how hit did r-o-a-r!" "John! John!" ses the old 'omon, "git down ! git down outcn thar, fur yur a goin to faint!" He was tremlin and as pale as deth all over, cept whar the blud was a tricklin down his legs frutn runnin thru the hawthorn thicket. John then slided down the wal sideards and then cum tu bed tu me and lay thar til a little afore day, en begged me not to tell hit about the fix he cum thar in, eu slided outeu the door an sloped ofF home, and didn't show himself off Pea Kidgc and Punkin Bottoms fur six munths. And this Dumb Bull business killed him off at the widders as dead as kurflumix, and so I tuk the vantage uv hitaud give Sal Jinkins another scttin (u and now we are trottin in dubble harness. And now, since I've muved up in North Caroliner, tu my great satisfaction, I ken say when I meet John 'thowt gitten a fuss ! on my hands, "gcwhitalcer how hit dul roar I" But I mustn't say nuthin bout Sal with hit. Yours truly, BILL PERKINS. ? i A Valuable Ji:wi;l.?A young man of I Xuremburg, who had no fortune, requested a I lawyer, a friend of his, to recommend him to a family where lie was a daily visitor, and I where there was a haudsome daughter, who was to have a large fortune. He did so. The father inquired his means ; the lawyer said he did not know, but he would inquire. The next time ho saw his young friend, he asked him if he had any property at all. "No," he replied. "Well," replied the lawyer, "would you suffer any one to cut off your nose, if he would give you twenty thousand dollars for it ?" "Not for the world." "'Tis well," replied the lawyer ; "I had a reason for asking." The next time he saw the girl's father, he said: "I have inquired about the young man's circumstances. He has indeed no ready money, but he has a jewel, for which to my j knowledge he has becu offered and refused j twenty thousand dollars." This induced tho old father to consent to the ! marriage, which accordingly took place, j though it is said that in the sequel he often j Ulr. lioo/l tvlmttntror lio tliniicrllf nf tllf> 1 I SI1UUK. 1113 1IWU m uvuv. ? v.. ??v V. , jewel. J 5^ One of a party of Eastern men offered j | a miner a half dollar for showing them ! through the Nevada Silver Mines. He look- 1 ; ed at the money a moment, and then turning I to the Easterner, said, "May I ask you how ! much you are estimated at home to be worth ?" j "About twenty-five thousand dollars," was ! the reply. "Well," said the miner,"I guess I i won't take your half dollar. I made a quarter of a million here last month." | #! $' An absent-minded man entered a Troy | shoe store the other day and wanted his boy measured for a pair of shoes. "But where is the boy ?" asked the dealer. "Thunder !" said ' the man, "I've left the boy at home. I'll go ; , and get him and off he started for his home, : six blocks away. J BG?" I luv a phool, what little i know i hav ! larnt by hanging around them.?Billings', i Allminax. i ^gncultol Department.' From ilm Southern Cultivator. MUX-YARD M AXURE?COMPOSTS AND GREEN CROPS. Iu a previous article we advocated the con- | ccntralion of stable manure, for the sake of1 diminishing the cost of carting and applying j it. The method proposed was to allow the ! manure to accumulate in the stalls, without : using litter, throwiug the drier portions from ; the edges upon the central parts which were J moistened with the urine. The advantages ! claimed are, small bulk, comparative dryness, well-regulated fermentation, saving of all the ! urine, minimum of handling, and an article of ; the very best quality. Even iu France and j Germany, where labor has been comparatively j cheap, this plan is extensively practiced, and ; is constantly gaining in public favor. We ! mirrlif-. add that,, should the odor of es- ! *? ?7 7 - | caping ammonia be at any time observed, a sprinkling ofstrong copperas water will at once prevent loss by fixing it. Copperas is recommended in place of plaster, because the latter will fix ammouia only when there is a plenty of water present?in substances simply moist, the requisite chemical changes will not take place. We proceed now to discuss the best method of treating manure, which is daily or fre- j qucutly removed from the stalls. When this j plail is adopted, litter has to be used to absorb j the urine or else this substance must be con- j ducted into tanks or allowed to ruu off and I waste. No intelligent farmer would permit j the last to occur; practically it is a question j therefore between the use of litter or tanks. | The Southern farmer, with his present sur- j rouudings of deai, unsystematic aud uncontrollable labor, would not hesitate long in j choosing the littering arrangement. As an I Absorbent, straw is the best material to be I had?an equal weight of leaves will not take i up near so much fluid. Dry saw-dust is good as an absorber, but not equal to straw or leaves in the elements which its contributes to the manure. Whatever material is employed, enough should be used to absorb all the urine, as the value of the urine furnished by a cow in a year is almost equal to that of the solid excrement dropped during the same time, and that of the horse is half as valuable as his excrement. Not only so, but the elements in which the solid excrements are deficient, abound in the urine and vice versa, so that a mixture of the two approximates a complete manure. However thoroughly stalls are littered, if the manure is removed daily, a strong amtnoniacal odor will always be present. It is advisable therefore in such practice to make frequent additions of some substance that will fix it. Plaster or copperas is to be preferred ; if sufficient moisture is preseut for the former to act and remove the smell, it should be selected. (This is easily tested by trial.) If it fails, the copperas will not?let a small quantity reduced to powder be sprinkled in the wettest part of the stall, just after it is cleaned out and before more litter is added. TREATMENT AFTER REMOVAL FROM TIIE STALL. Pens, to receive the manure, should be located on high ground over which no water runs, and if possible in shaded situations. They , _-.Urt.ll/l Ua no 1 r\ r>r*r\ no nnoei M o fa o^mif nf mfl. I S11UU1U UC UO 1 5^ iVO Ww i?v*.*a*v V? ?Mm terial being thrown from the side to the centre, and should be from four to six feet high. The object in having them large is to diminish the amount of surface exposed to the air in comparison with the bulk. Having selected < a spot and determined the size, excavate to the depth of a few inches, and ram the bottom well. This serves as a reservoir to catch any drainings which might run through aud be lost. Let the dirt removed be placed around the edges, so as to elevate them and prevent water running in. The sides of the ! pen should be boarded up tight, to prevent , the edges from becoming dry. If rails or poles are used, these should be notched and let down ou each other as closely as possible. Everything being ready, the manure from 1 the horse stable, the cow stall, the pig pen, 1 etc., should be placed in uniform alternating 1 layers of a few inches in thickness clear across i the pen?and firmly trodden down. If taken ( directly from the stalls, the materials will j usually be moid enough for a well regulated putrefactive fermentation to go on. (There . ought to be about as much moisture present, as in land in good ploughing condition.) If 1 less than this is present, water should be < mow Tnctrtnd nf nnrp 1 11J IV 1 UVU l>lio uiugg, ai.wvw%?%? w - , water a weak solution of oil of vitrol would be | preferable?using the oil at the rate of about 20 pounds per annum to each horse and cow whose droppings are added to the pile. The acid would not interfere at all with the fer- 1 mentation, but would most effectually fix and i retain all the ammonia generated. < ADDITION* OK OTHER SUINSTANCES TO MANURE I HEAP. 1 It is best to mix no other substances of a 1 bulky character with the manure taken from I the stalls, because here also concentration is < highly desirable?the most value in the ( smallest bulk is the desideratum. If great pains are taken to regulate the fermentation . and oil of vitriol added to prevent loss of ammonia, concentrated aud valuable substances, 1 such as cotton seed and bone dust may with I advantage be added to the pile. Cotton seed may be put in layers of half the thickness of j that of each substance from the stalls and al- , tcrnating regularly with them ; thus?horse , manure, cotton seed, cow manure, and so on. Bone flour or phosphates should be sprinkled 1 on the layers of horse manure. Remember f that moisture and even packing down in every < ?vift. fir<> essential to a well regulated fermen- 1 tation and to secure loss from over-heating or j fire-fanging. If water from roofs does not ; fall on the pile, there is no absolute necessity for covering a manure pile. Shade is desira- 1 blc, however, and if a roof cau be cheaply and conveniently thrown over it, let it be done? 1 possibly during excessive rains, some drain- 1 ings may run off laden with valuable materials. how i.oxg .should the manure remain in | ? the heap? ( We answer until thoroughly decomposed; i our reason for so answering is, that after com- ? plete decomposition, the bulk and weight are only about half what they originally were. Much is gained therefore in the cost of handling and applying, while little is lost but hu- ] vim-forming substances, which it is contended I can be furnished cheaper by other means? than through bulky manures. Again, after , thorough decomposition lumpincss disappears, , and the manure cau be distributed much more thoroughly than in its raw state. ... ? ? * l Remedy for Colic in Horses.?Take 1 one pint of hog's lard?melt it over a slow ; fire, and add soot from the chimney to make i | it of the consistency of cream; also two or |, three pods of red pepper; pour mixture in a j! bottle and drench in the usual way. If the ' horse is not relieved in fifteen or twenty min- j( utcs, repeat the dose. I have given this to a J great many horses, and have never known it i to fail, if given in time. There are many j valuable remedies, but the difficulty is, gener- \ j erally, that the ingredients cannot be obtained ' on a plantation ; but this one can always be |1 obtained. If no lard can be had, a pint of j grease from fat bacon will answer.?"Small ' Farmer," in Rural Carolinian. i Make tiie Farm Self-Sustaining.?In |, an address at the recent annual meeting of: 3 the North Carolina Agricultural Society, 1 Col. A. A. McKay, of Sampson, dwelt upon the necessity of making each farm self-sus-j taining; said that "all cotton" encourages j extravagance, bringing cash, which is wasted, 11 as it was last year, when the Southern farm-1 j ers "gambled away in cotton futures one I ] hundred millions of dollars." Let every j ^ farmer, he continued, raise first what he needs > to make his farm self-sustaining, and then let,i the cotton come in, and the cotton money will:( be clear gain. I I (KliiltU'cn's JJcjiMtmcnt. [Original.J DUMB BRUTES. The dumb and irrational animals are possessed of more sense than we are accustomed to think they have. It is said by those who have made the experiment, that young pigs only a few days old, if taken, in a close vessel, a considerable distance from the bed, will, when turned out, in most cases, run hack in a straight direction. Bee3 may be moved for miles during the winter season into a strange neighborhood, yet, when spring returns, and they become warmed up, they will scour the fields far and wide in search of flowers, and when satisfied, return to the hive. This is strange, from the fact that there is nothing by which to mark their wanderings. When we think of it, we are astonished that they do not lose their direction and never get home. There are no paths, no roads, no blazed trees by which they can be guided in their return ; still they seem to experience no inconvenience whatever. If. we watch closely the movements of most animals, we will be convinced that they not only possess more sense, or something that resembles sense, than we are accustomed to attribute to them ; but that they are in possession of a something that we do not have. If a man would make half the wanderings in a strange section of country in a day, that a little honey bee usually makes, his head would become so addled that he would scarcely recognize his own house when he would see it. This inheritance which dumb animals possess we call instinct. It is incapable of being educated. The young bee knows as much as the old one. Instinctively, it knows how to make honey. It needs no one to teach it the process. Amongst the many remarkable things about the dumb brutes, is their affection for man when domesticated and kindly treated. There are some animals that, it is said, cannot be tamed, but not many. Some tamed animals exhibit some wonderful things. All of them are able to distinguish between their master and every one else. A dog will track his master through a crowded city and recognize him whenever, or under whatever circumstances he may 6nd him. The ox and ass, by common consent, regarded as the most stupid of the brute creation, make this attainment. With brutes generally, the sense of smell is of the greatest importance and very highly developed. With man the sense of smell is of minor importance. It is but little, if any, knowledge of the external world that mau gains through this sense ; but with brutes it is different. By this sense they judge of the character of their food and drink, and by it they protect themselves from the invasions of their foes. The horse and cow invariably smell their food before they eat it. The same is true with regard to their drink. Every one who has been accustomed fn water st.nnk. is aware of this fact.' A horse will not taste water in a vessel in which there has been blood, it matters not how clean it may have been washed, so long as the odor of the blood remains. Gregarious wild animals always travel in a direction facing the wind. Their object seems to be, and no doubt is, that the smell of any foe may be brought to them by the wind before they approach a dangerous nearness. Every turkey and deer hunter has made this discovery. It is said that the reasou that dogs are accustomed to manifest a disposition to bite those persons who are afraid of them rather than others, is that they smell them. Fear, mger, and any powerful passion, when it is in full operation, produces some peculiar change in the body of the individual in whom it is operating, which causes a peculiar odor Lo be emitted. The instinct of the dog eua-1 oles him to make this discovery. Dogs, even ;he fiercest, rarely, if ever, attempt to bite crazy persons: It may be that the reason of this is that the dog does not, by thejsmell, detect any fear in the crazy man ; but on the contrary, the absence of fear. Most animals appreciate kindness, and manifest no disposition to take vengeance upon those who treat them kindly. There is something wild and wayward, stubborn and contrary, it is thought, in the nature of the mule. This is not the case. All mules are not alike; some are, just as some men are, better than others; but in the great majority nf cases, a stubborn and contrary mule is circumstantial evidence of a cruel and heartless master. Feed a mule well and treat it kindly, and as a rule, it has more affection for its master than the most of men have for their benefactors. Brutes seem to possess something that, if it is not memory, resembles it so much that it would puzzle any one to tell the difference. Ihey remember the place where they were nn/1 fta i n fl i jrM n n 1 K V wlinm tllOV fl r A fed for years. When a horse once learns the :oramon words used to direct his course in plowing, he never forgets them. In confirmation of the above statement, respecting the memory of animals, the following will serve is an illustration : A gentleman once owned a very valuable horse. He had been very kind to him, and had learned him a great many little pranks. Amongst others, he had learned liiin to pull jut the pin that fastened the door to his stable and then opeu the door. This he did by taking the pin in his mouth, and then with his lip throwing the door back on its hinges. Ihe horse was greatly prized; but this did not protect him from rogues. One night he was stolen out of the stable. Diligent and persevering search was made for him, but the horse was not found. Several years after, when the horse had ceased longer to be thought of or inquired about, the owner of the horse met on the public high-way a gentleman riding him. He was halted and told that the horse he was riding had been stolen from his rightful owner. Some parleying took place, when the original owner proposed that the horse be taken to his lot and turned in, j in<1 if tin rlid nnt. nrn tn ft nftrtaill Stable in tllC ; b" ? - lot, pull the pin out of the door, open the loor and go into the stable, he would lay no further claim to the horse. The rider thought it was a fair test and assented to its being applied. The horse was taken to the lot and turned in. He walked directly to the designated stable; took the pin out of the door and walked in. His present owner, who had come honestly by hira, then described the man from whom he obtained hira, and in this! rather round about way, the horse-thief was eaught. This, with an almost numberless : number of examples, shows that brutes are possessed of something that resembles the faculty of memory. Many of the inferior order of animals seem j to be able, in some way or other, to discern ipproaching changes in the weather. Crows, j before the approach of a warm spell of weather, are seen in large flocks flying in a northern direction, and toward the south before a eold spell. It is said that some birds are able ;o prognosticate the seasons. I ftcadiug far the JMktlt. CONDUCTKD 11Y HEV. HOIiEItT LATHAN. [ Original.] LAW. I Many individuals have given definitions of j the word law. That given by the celebrated ; English jurist, Blackstone, is, if not the best, ! clear and easly understood by all classes of . men. The definition of this illustrious author i is as follows: "Law, in its general and most | comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action." If we take this, as in the main, a correct definition of what is rueaut by the word ; law, it will be evident that there must of necessity be some one, whose prerogative it is to prescribe the rule by which we are to be gov erned in our actions. In other words, there must be a law-giver. Where there is no lawgiver, there can be no law, and where no law or rule of actiou exjsts, there can be no transgression. This is a conclusion to which we are warranted in coming, both by the dictates of reason and the plain teachings of the Scriptures. So much being premised, the inquiry thrusts itself upon us : "Who is the law-giver whose prerogative it is to prescribe a rule of action which we are bound to obey ?" From the nature of things, the inferior must obey the superior. The inferior cannot prescribe what the superior must do or what ho must not do; neither can the equal prescribe to his peer or equal. A little reflection will convince any one that the only being in.the universe who has the right to prescribe a rule of action to any creature, is God ; and the only rule of action by which man's action is to be governed, is the Bible. It may sound origi nal and strange, that the very fact that men attempt to make laws by which they are to be governed is prima facie evidence that the original and natural order of things is changed. In other words, the simple fact that men attempt to frame a code of laws which is to be to them a rule of action, is proof positive that man is a sinner. There may be gradations amongst creatures, and no doubt are; but not that degree of inferiority or superiority which entitles one creature to the high and exalted position of prescribing cither a mode of existence or a rule of action to another creature. Amongst the countless tribes of creatures which people the earth, air and waters, there is great diversity in their mode of existence, and the rule of action'differs so as to correspond with the nature of the creature for whom it is prescribed. God exclusively and absolutely, in the beginning, assigned to each and every creature its mode of existence, and the laws by which all were to be governed. He v.n/4n tlm nip f,,r tlio Kirrl nnr! f-.hfl hire! for the uiauu iiiu iku A\jk viiu M>k u ? air; the water for the fish and the fish for the water. This law or mode of existence 110 creature can reverse. The bird cannot make its home in the great deep ; neither can the fish float in the air. An angel cannot repeal or abrogate this law. The same is true with regard, both to the higher and the lower order of creatures. With regard to angels, the highest order of creatures, we know but very little; but we may safely say that they cannot change their mode of existence, nor ...Wl, imiMinUv low nf oofirm whifll viuiutv; Willi iiu|yuiiiij Wiivy iuu W* mvv>w?. ......... the Author of their being prescribed to them when they were created. No one of ordinary intelligence, will deny that the same is true respecting man. A certain law or mode of existeuce has j been prescribed to man which he dare not, on pain of death, violate. We see this demonstrated daily respecting man's physical being. He cannot, as the mole, burrow under the ground, nor as the eagle, fly through the air ; neither can he, as the fish, sleep below the | waves of the ocean. The bounds of his habitation, and the mode of his existence, are prescribed to him ; not by himself, nor by any other creature, but by God, the author of all things. When God created man, he wrote the mode of his existence, and the law by which he was to be governed in his actions upon his heart, and clearly revealed it to his intellect. Man sinned and the law became effaced from his heart, and his intellect became dark and benighted. In mercy God gave man a revelation from heaven. This revelation we call the Bible. In this book are written all the laws that are necessary to govern man in every department of his being. It is law emanating from the only proper source, and sanctioned by the only proper authority. It is perfect. Every other code of law is imperfect. It is a light to our feet and a lamp to our path. Every other law springs from darkness and produces darkness and confusion. The sun which illuminates our world, and the harmony which attends the machinery of the universe, faintly resemble the light and harmony which is contained in the word of God. The sum of Bible law is contained in the ten commandments. The grand priuciple which underlies the whole, is love to God aud love to man. It may be said that human codes have existed for thousands of generations and still exist. All this, and even more, is admitted. But the existence of a thing does not prove that it is right or that it could exist in a perfect state of things. If this were the case, sin would be right, because it is universally admitted to exist. Under the present sinful condition of things, God permits some things to exist that do not receive, in any degree, his approbation. This has ever been the case, and will no doubt. continue to be the case, until our world is completely redeemed from the physical and social curse which rests upon it at present. God suffered Abraham to live in a state of polygamy; he suffered the Jews to practice divorce, and oven to enact statutes concerning it; but our Saviour, who knew the designs of his Father, says it was not so from the beginning. God permitted the children of Israel to establish a regal government, and to select a king; but the whole thing, from beginning to end, was in direct opposition to the will of God. Just so it is with respect to all human laws and human governments. They are simply suffered by God to exist. None of them are perfect, and all of them contain much that is oppressive to man and dishonoring to God. At present they are necessary; i but when that day arrives when this world | will be redeemed through the blood of the j Son of God, from the physical and social , curse that has rested upon it since the day that Adam eat the forbidden fruit, human ! 7 I laws and human governments, will sink be-1 neath the waves of oblivion as God's law j and God's government has been concealed for ; six thousand years beneath the rubbish of the | fall. It may sound new, but we are conviu-1 ced that when the glorious things which are I spoken of in Zion shall be fully realized?when God shall be all in all?when man is restored J to his original lordship over this world? j when the lion shall again, as at the creation, , eat straw like the ox, aud the young lion and ! calf shall sport in the same pasture and a lit- ' tie child shall lead them?then, and not till J then, will it be realized that one of the curses which rests upon this world, is, in the language of the illustrious Jefferson, "too much law." ?Itc Ifot'lmllc (fruquim. TERMS?IN ADVANCE : Ono Copy, onoyear, 9 3 00 Ono Copy, Six months, 150 One Copy, Three months, 1 00 Single Copy, 10 Two Copies, one year, 5 00 Ten Copios, " 44 25 00 ^serTo persons who make up clubs often or moro namos, an extra copy of the paper will he furnished one year, free of charge. 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HATS, CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES, with the usual assortment and variety kept IN A FIRST-CLASS HOUSE. Thankful for past patronage, and being determined to merit a continuance of the same, I respectfullysolicit AN EXAMINATION OF GOODS I AND PRICES. JOHN H. ADAMS, i December 11 50 2t A may learn something greatly i to their advantage and obtain! specimens and full particulars free, byaddreasing ' WOOD'S LITERARY AND ART AGENCY, Now burgh, N. Y. 21 MACHINE NEEDLES^ A LOT OF HOME SHUTTLE MACHINE, /V NEEDLES justarrivedand for sale by W. L. GRIST, Agent. ' V WK^^S4 B jft^ry fl Jfi B |J fi I ?^91 ^ ^ ^Tb^/J^EirdsMt^Sinj^kxllM^^r ^ I U p* B SktesTdMd/Ue^vdki;FlocreiidJ)ni^ 3 Sm > HUntrjWhib2fye,WdiwtRjuyLaaLtT) \ ? M \ C&bwriM&forxKntWoadi&ju \ v rv S .All WorKWaimntel, I ' b| fe J LOWEST PBICES, I r W ! SejidprPrueLUfi LH. HALL & CO, | } Jtajvafutnrm ILDrdem3| ZAA d,70, Market Strat* ? U 223,22F,l?d3t?dy) . 5 jf CHARLESTON/ S. 0. fig This Cut entered according to Act or Congrats, In the year 1873, by I. H. Hall it Co., In the office of the Librarian of Congicsi, at Washington. July 3 27 ly HOSE'S HOTEL, (FORMERLY HUNT'S HOTEL.) " r-; ^ COLUMBIA., S. C. THIS HOUSE is in the centre of the city, convenient to all the Public Offices and Business Houses, located on tho south-west corner of the Stato House Square, has been recently re-operffed 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 18 38 tf ~ BOOT_AND SHOE MAKING. THE undersigned respectfully announces to bis friends and the public in general, that he is prepared with A FINE STOCK OF MATERIAL, in his line, suitable to the wants of every customer, who may give him a call. They may not only obtain an article of good quality AT A REASONABLE PRICE, but are also certain to secure what is equally as desirable, a good lit and fashionable style. These are advantages which should not be overlooked. O !?1 ?*:? AiAf 1? opuuiai nuuuticii in uuucu iv iuo bcicuiatwu wivvu top Congress Gaiter and the Congress Shoe FOR SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR. Also, on hand, a good stock of light and heayy BROGANS and OXFORD TIES, which are warranted to give entire satisfaction for the price paid. ^Er Special and prompt attention is given to repairing. F. CHRISTMAN, Agent. March 28 13 tf Iron in the Blood #THE PEETTVIAJT 8YEUP Vitalizes and Enriches tho Blood, Tones up tho System,Builds up the Broken-down, Cures Femalo Complaints, Dropsv, Debility, Humors, Dyspepsia. AcThousands havo been changed by the uso of this remedy from weak, sickly, suffering creatures, to strong, healthy, and happy men and women; and invalids cannot reasonably hesitate to give It a trial, Caution.?Bo sure you get tho right article. Boa that "Peruvian Byrup" Is blown In tho glass. Pamphlets free, 8endforono. BETH W. FOWLE A SON9, Proprietors, Boston, Mass. For sale b? druggists generally. October 2 40 ly REMEMBER THE DEAD! YORKVILLE MARBLE YARD. # F. HAPPERFIELD Respectfully informs the public that he is fully prepared to supply, at short notice, MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES, And every other description of work in this line, for which there is a demand in this section. Ho will endeavor to give satisfaction to his customers, oni-1 will criinrantftfi that in everv ease the aualitv and style of his work will be in accordance with the price charged for it. Thankful for the patronage hitherto bestowed on him, he solicits a continuance. THE HOME SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE. THE best Cheap Machine in the Market. If the number sold is a criterion of merit, it is the BEST MACHINE in use, as there have been more HOME SHUTTLE MACHINES sold in the State during the last twelve months than all other Sewing Machines combined. You can buy a HOME SHUTTLE MACHINE for about half the money you will have to pay for a first-class Machine. pir- Home Shuttle Needles kept constantly on hand. pg~ Any Home Shuttle Attachment furnished at short notice. pgr Repairing promptlv attended to. W. L. GRIST, Agent. November C 45 tf Cooking- and. Heating Stoves at Retail. Pictures of* each, with full descriptions, as well as prices and lists of* furniture for Cook Stoves, will he promptly sent on application. WILLIAM SHEPHERD & CO., Charleston, S. C. September 4 36 6m a sensible man's logic. " HE who provides not for his own family, is worse than a heathen. Necessaries and conveniences should first be provided. A good SEWING MACHINE has become a necessarv in every family. The "AMERICAN" IS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST; containing within itself all the latest improvements. Therefore I will go at once and buy one of J. R. SCHORB & SON, Agents for York County. our partnership with "old sol" STILL continues, and we are prepared, better than ever, to execute PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES of every style, at our gallery in the "Adickes' Building." A lot of nice ALBUMS always on'hand. Also, Stereoscopes and Views. J. R. SCHORB <fe SON. December 5 49 ly missouri tripoli. JUST received a lot of Missouri Tripoli, especially adapted to housekeeps for polishing Plated-ware, Brass, Steel, Glass, or any materia, where a brilliant lustre is required. Full directions accompany each package. For sale by W. L. GRIST, Agent. August 14 33 3m unton-h e ra l d. TAM agent for this sprightlv daily, published o f fliA Po nifol n f fUn C'fo4n V* 4L? 1 ^ av wau vtt|;iK?i \*i uic otaiu. it WIIU*1IJ3 tu? littest telegrams, market reports and general news, and reaches Yorkvillo on the day of publication. Subscriptions received for twelve, three and six months. Terms: One year, $7; six months, $3.50; three months, gl.75. W. L. GRIST, News Agent. J. S. R. THOMSON, SOLICITOR IN BANKRUPTCY, YORKVILLE, 8. C. Special attention given to the filing of Petitions. July 31 31 2t M E DICAlTjnotice^ ~ DR. L. ALEXANDER respectfully offers his professional services to the citizens of Yorkville and surrounding country. Calls, either day or night, promptly obeyed. September 11 * 36 tf RAGS WANTED. A POUNDS of clean cotton and linen Rags wanted, for which 2 cents per pound will bo paid, at the "ENQUIRER" OFFICE. December 1 45> 2t