The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, July 17, 1867, Image 4
Jr. ' .1?AT NOT LOVE YOU,
I may-not'16ve you; but within my heart,
- "When"night and darkness set my spirit free,
And I sit mu8ingfrom the world aparfy
There is a low, deep voice that tells of thee.
That voice'is sweet and mournful as the tone
~ Of far-off music heard in sleep,
Or the wild cadence of a spirit lone'
Cer the hushed waters of the midnight deep -
I may- not love you, but thy blessed look
' Forever haunts my soul when thou art far ;
it glances upward.from each moonlit brook,
And down^arefffom: each bright and holy st ar'.
R'8 imaged in.each flower that lifts its eye,'
At.morn to greet the sunshine and the dew,
And in each fairy cloud that wanders by,
Floating in beauty over the mountain blue.
I may not love you, but" thy gentle words
Can stir within my soul its fount of tears,
And wake the echo of my heart's deep chords,
Like.some sweet''melody of early years.
I may not love you, but thy image seems -
\A loving radiance to my spirit given;
For, oh! T picture thee inall my dreams
Of bliss oh earth and -blessedness in. heaven.
TSE POWER OF KINDNESS.
i- i
A F^RETTV tlTTJLE STORV.
Jack .Sprout was ? good husband, an
fndulgont father, an honest man, an ac?
commodating' neighbor, and he possessed
many other excellences -of character
?winch might have made him an excellent
member of Bociety, had it not been for
certain loose i habits which had marked
his course from childhood. His parents
had been careless arid prone before him,
his lather had been a tough,.rough custo?
mer, 60. Jack had naturally come in the
eame track. But ho was good-looking
and kind hearted, and genial and social,
and so had gained'for a, wife one of the
very best maidens of pur town, as well as
one of-the handsomest.
? - Master Freddy Sprout, aged five years,
atood by his mother's side, with a sadly
begrinimed and tear-streaked face, and his
story was, that SoloinPn Gordon had
whipped him with a stick, and the boy's
legsstill bore a few 6light tokens of the
castigation. Freddy, with, some of his
playmates, nad-been throwing stones at
Mr. Gordon's dog, and ojie of the missiles
burled by Freddy had hit the animal, and
caused him to howl with pain. Qf course
the stone- thrown by such a tiny hand
could not have inflicted much injury upon
the canine brute;' but Solomon -Gordon
Joved his dog, and when he saw what
had been done, he caught Mr. Freddy and
gave him a.thrashing; for, be it known.
Solomon Gordon was just such another
man as Jack Sprout^-warni hearted, gen?
erous and-neighborly, .but, rough, unedu?
cated, strong-willed and impulsive.
Jftek'Sprout put on his bat and prepar?
ed to sally forth". His lips were pale and
tightly compressed, and the huge muscles
of bis arm worked like bundles of r?pe.
"Bear Jack," pleaded bis. wife, ''don't
go" out now."
"Let me alone, Abby. ~No man Rhall
strike a child of mine without having a
chance to strike me. I shall go and see
Sol Gordon, and I'll give him euch a lick?
ing, as he won't forget in a hurry."
"No, no, Jack?don't go. What good
"will it do?. Wait until you are morel
. cool."
"Pshaw I Go away, Abby. There is
not power eoough on earth to save Sol
- Gordon from a drubbing, and I'll give it
to him_before the sun goes down."
And as Jack Sprout looked-at that mo
.ment, he gave awful evidence that he was
'physically able to make good his word,
for a more magnificent structure of framo
work and muscle wa8 not to-be "found in
the town.
"Dear Jack," cried the wife, taking. her
nusband by the' arm. . "Oh, do listen to
ine~ one moment; Freddy -rs not much
hurt, and* he ought.not: to have thrown
stones at Gordon's dog.- You know both
Sol and his wife set everything by the
little animal, and he would not bark *at
the boys if they did'not plague him. If
yoa go-antf find Gordon as you are now,
Jon will orilyjnake matters worse. Ob,
wish.you; would drop it.". -
Jack rnterrupted his: wife with a de?
risive sneer
"Don't laugh- at mer Jack. I tell you
it would be better to do so than to resort
to blows. If you were attacked, I should
not blame you for trying to protect your?
self; but this is not the case that calls for
your strength of muscle. There is a high?
er, an d a nobler strength that you can use
now."
"Ob, ho," uttered Jack, "you arc preach?
ing. Xou are giving me some of your
Sunday school lessons. You may. experi?
ence religion as much as yo? please,, but
you mustn't preach the stuff to me."
"Jack," spoke tho wife, with stern so?
lemnity, "have I been worse.since I began
to have ah interest in religious things ?"
"No, Abby?yon were always good"
"Then why will you not listeu to me ?
If you will stay, with me now?if you will
wait until your anger is cooled?and then
f>-and speak kindly to Solomon Gordon,
give you. my solemn pledge that you
will feel a thousand times better than yon
will if you?"
But Jack would not hear his wife out.
He had said that he would thrash Solo?
mon Gordon, and he would keep his word.
His temper was at the boiling point, and
he was fairly aching to get his fingers on
the man who had dared to strike his boy ?
for Freddy was his pot, and every blow
that had been laid upon the child's body
had' made a mark.of fire upon his own
heart. So he put his-wife away from, him
and hurried from the bouse, slamming the
door after him.
Away went Jack Sprout with rapid,
heavy strides; and had Solomon Gordon
fallen in his way just then he would have
most assuredly been severely beaten, for
though Solomon was a stout, bold man,
Jack, was a very Hercules..
g But Jack was destined to get pretty
thoroughly cooled off before he met the
object of his wrath. As he approached
the river, just below the falls, he heard
loud cries of alarm, and upon hurrying'
forward, bo found that a. boy had fallen
from one of the projecting timbers into
? 1 M ' == -
trie water: Me looked over the. r?iftng,
and saw the little fellow, just coming to
the surface of thefoaming, boiling flood?
a curly.Jieaded'boy' just about the, age of
his own -darling Freddy?stretching forth
his tiny hands in agony of despair. It
was a terrible place, that seething, roar?
ing pool, where the- waters of the great
river came potmng down from over the
darn ; but Jack did not hesitate. He for?
got his enemy?forgot every thing but the
danger of the Httle one?and only stopped
to-kick-off his boots, and throw aside his
coat, he leaped down into tbe angry flood.
He caught the boy in his arms, and then
struck tor the shore. It was a mighty
conflict, but the strong, man persevered.
"Sore than once those who had gathered
upon, the rocks had reason to fear that
neither the man nor the boy would come
forth alive; but Jack "held his own against
the road torrent,.and finally reached the
shore, where many hands- were ready to
help him. AVfor himself, a few minutes
rest assured him that he was able to walk,
and he bad sustained no injury, save a
few trifling bruises. And as for the boy,
he had come forth in safety, for Jack had
held him high above the water during a?
the time of his struggle.
Aod when Jack Sprout had regained
his breath and was able to speak, he look?
ed to see the "boy that he had saved, and
he saw that it was Andy Gordon, a bright
eyed, curly-headed, fair-faced boy, not a
year older than was his son Freddy.
"Where's papa?" asked the dripping
child. ; :
"He is coming," answered some one in
the crowd.
Jack looked up and saw Solomon Gor?
don coming?Solomon, pale and terror
stricken?and with all possible haste he
seized his coat and boots and hurried
away. He could not meet Solomon Gor?
don- then.,
"Mercy! what is it, Jack ?"
Mrs. Sprout was alarmed. Her hus?
band was dripping wet, his step was tot?
tering, his breath va& labored, and there
was a livid mark on his forehead, as
though he had received a severe blow
"It is nothing, Abby "
"Has Solomon?"
"Pshaw ! D'ye think Sol Gordon could
have done this ? I have been in the river.
A little boy had fallen from the bridge
right into the flood beneath the falls. I
j jumped in and brought him out."
I "Aive?"
"Yes, alive and unhurt."
"Oh, thank God ! Whose child was it,
Jack?"
"Don't stop to ask questions now, Ab?
by, but make me a cup of hot, strong tea,
while I get on some dry clothes. M.y
soul! I think I had a narrow dodge of it."
I Jack put on dry garments, and when
?he had rested awhile, he drank his tea,
and iu the course of an hour all traces of
exhaustion had passed awaj\
"1 tell you, Abby. 1 have had a good
many tough jobs in my day. but 1 never
had one like that. A weaker man than I
could never have bn ught out that child
alive:"
- ' Ob, how grand it is, Jack, to use one's
strength in 6iich a cause! But whose
child was it, Jack? Do you know?"
Before Jack could answer, the outer
door was unceremonious opened, and Sol?
omon Gordon entered the apartment.
Abby shrank back in alarm when she saw
how pale and excited the man looked, and
how lie trembled, for she did not notice
tho moist brimming light that shone in
his swollen eyes.
"Jack!" spoke the new comer, in a
gasping manner, at the same time hold?
ing out both bis. bands. He choked and
stammered, but presently gained strength
to add: "Oh, my God! .what can 1 say ?
Jack! Jack!" Here the stout man
broke fairly down and burst into tears.
Jack, almost as much affected as was j
his visitor, arose, and took the extended
band.
"Never mind, Sol. It's all right."
"No, no!" cried Gordon, "it isn't right;
it never can be right. Oh, what can* 1
do? Jack, if I could only go back to
where.I was this morning! My God ! I
beat your child for a trifling thing, and
you saved mine from a terrible death ;
saved him almost at the expense of. your
own lite. Kill me if you will. Beat me,
Jack. Do anything you like, but only
forgive me, so that this saving act of
yours shant always be like a heap of coals
upon my bead!"
-And then with a sudden impulse, under
the influence of such an emotion as he
had never before experienced, Jack Sprout
said.:
"Solomon, I telJ you it's alT right. You
have no more reason to thank God that I
saved your child than I have. When I
went from my house I was full of wrath
^ind madness, and curses were upon my
lips and in ray heart, and I should have
sought such revenge as the wild beast
seeks. Is it not better that I found your
little Andj' in the flood? And is it not
better that my great strength was used
in saving bis life ? I forgive you fronxtho
bottom, of my heart. And now I say it's
alP right!"
And so was cemented a friendship holy
and lasting.
Seemingly slight perturbations in tbe
current of a man's life sometimes work
marvellous changes for good or ill.
"Abby," said Jack Sprout?it was late
! in the evening, and they had been sitting
for 6ome time without speaking.?'? I be?
lieve r am converted."
"Jack !"
"Yes, Abby, I am converted. Saul of
Tarsus, that you road to Freddy about
last Sunday, was not moro sudden ly
brought to light than I have been. Real?
ly and truly there is more virtue in kind?
ness than in enmity; it blesses everything
and everybody. Ho who bestows it is as
much blessed as he who receives it."
And then tbe wife, with her arm placed
around her husband's neck, gently, kind?
ly said:
"Dear Jack^-wouldn't we both bo hap?
pier if we would try to live by the bless?
ed rules laid down by our Saviour ? Oh,
I know that they wore given by one who
sought our highest good, and 1 think we
should find much.joy in trying to- square
our lives by the'golden rulo."
And Jack, with a kiss, made answer:
"My darling, we will try."
-O-:
? "Bob, you say you believe most dis?
eases are contagious". How long have you
entertained such notions ?? "Ever since *I
sat along-side of a blue-eyed.girl and caught
tbe palpitation of the heart. J
Reasons for Masonic Secrecy.
Secrecy in all things, where secrecy is
maintained,-is not only consistent with in
nocence, but is also imperatively enforced
by necessity, as well as demanded by every
consideration of policy. The direct bene?
fits flowing from Masonry, are. of course
intended for, and should be participated
in, only by" its members?by those who
have been regularly initiated into its mys?
teries, and contribute to its support.
They are secured by a knowledge of a
universal language, which is used as a
test of brotherhood. This universal lan?
guage?universal to Masons?is, under no
eireuinstances, communicated to the world
at largo. The words and signs of it are
secret; forte communicate them would
at once destroy their utility. Andrstrange
as-it may. seem to the uninitiated, oirr
society professes to have no seerets'be
yond this. There is little, very little, in
the lodge-to gratify the eye of the inquis?
itive. We do not tempt them with offers
to unfold some mighty mystery; we can
impart to them no super-human wisdom ;
we possess not the elixir of life, nor the
philosopher's stone, nor the.spells of Tar
shun;, we cannot and do not profess to
be bound by any ties but such as are con?
sistent with our duty towards ourselves
and families, our neighbors, our country
and our God.
About the general nature of lodge trans?
actions, eveiy one here can know as much
as any of its members; but for fear of
misappreherrsronjon this subject, we would
briefly state that nowhere are order and
decorum more strictly enforced than in
lodges; our business there is charity and
brotherly communion, the admission of
candidates, and the transaction of such
other matters, as necessarily pertain to
every association. Now, all this is of
such a character that it may, with great
propriety, be kept "to ourselves. We are
brothers?members of a large family?
met for tho purpose of transacting our
own business, with which the world has
uo concern ; und why should the world
be purmitted to witness its disposition?
Does a needy brother receive assistance
?it is not lor us to vaunt it; and it might
not be agreeable to him to proclaim his
wants before, strangers, or to have the
facts of his being relieved published; and
it .wouid certainly be impolitic and tin
charitable, by publicity, to trammel the
discussion of character; and how could
the announcement of the rejection of can?
didates for - our confidence be otherwise
than prejudicial to us, by exciting enmity
and diallection in the world. We seek
not collision with the w.rld. made up of
a thousand creeds; our objects are lew,
and their pursuit is quiet and secret; and
we have, as Masons, naught in common
with the m.iss of mankind. We do not
meddle with politics, nor the extension of
a creed by proselytism; we seek only ,to
cultivate the. social virtues amonjf our?
selves, to benefit each other by deeds of
Jove, and indirectly to benefit the world
by our own improvement.?Masonic Be
view.
-4". .
Abraham Lixcolx in his Tomb.?A gen?
tleman who recently visited the tomb of
Lincoln, says:
"It is not quite two years since I visited
here before, yet how changed the scene.
Then Lincoln's praises were on everybody's
lips; his virtues every one seemed to extol;
in front of the vault in which lay his re
mains, an armed sentinel stood guard day
and night, the vault inside wasstrewn with
flowers, brought there every day by ladies
from the city. But no word of praise is
now heard, his virtues are forgotten, the
tramp of the sentinel is heard no more ; no
flowers are scattered over his tomb; not
one eye planted there. During the half
. hour that I sat on. the hill above the tomb,
not one came to visit it, although there
were, perhaps five hundred people around
the grounds and in the park adjoining. In
a word, there is nothing to remind the vis?
itor of who it is that sleeps within the
tomb, except the simple word 'Lincoln' cut
on the stone door in large letters."
The Blessed Oxes.?Blessed are they
that are blind ; for they shall see nogohst.
Blessed are they that are deaf; fortliey
shall never lend mcrey, or listen to any
tedious stories.
Blessed are they that are ignorant;
for they are happy in the thought that they
know everything.
Blessed is he that is ugly in form and
feature-, for the gals shan't molest him.
Bfessed are they that expect lKrfrrnig
for they shall not be disappointed
Blessed are they that don't advertise for
they shall be rarely troubled with custom?
ers.
? There are four good morals?punctu?
ality, accurancy, steadiness and dispatch.
Without the S-rsS of these, time is wasted;
without the second, mistakes the most fa?
tal to our own credit and interest, and that
of others, may be committed; without the
third, nothing can be well; and' whhout
the fourth opportunities of great advanta?
ge are lost, which it is impossible to re?
call.
? "My-friend,''.said a seedy individual
to an acquaintance at the ferry, "I wish
you would loan me a quarter to cross the
ferry; I hain't got a dollar in the world."
"Well, I would like to know," was the re?
ply, "what difference it makes to a man
who hasn't got a dollar in the world, which
I side of the river he's on ?'r
; ? An editor says he would as soon try
to go to sea upon a shingle, make a ladder
of fog, chase a streak ofiightnmg through
a crab apple orchard, swim up the rapids
of Niagara, raise the dead, stop the tongue
of an old maid set Erie on fire with a wet
match, as to stop lovers getting married
when they take it fnto their heads to do so.
? ''George, do you remember the story
of David and Goliah ?"
"Yes, sir; David was a tavern-keeper
and Goliah was an intemperate man."
"Who told you that?'
"Nobody; I read it, and it said that
David fixed a sling for Goliah and Goliah
got slewed with it-"
? A very good sort of a man in Maine
was recently asked to subscribe for a chan?
delier for the church.
"Now," said he, ''what's the use of a
chandelier? When you get it you can't
get any one to play on it."
? A young lady refused to go into the
Waterville Arsenal the other day because
she had heard that some of the muskets
were without breeches She viewed the
arsenal from a distance. ,
Ute Jw'm fcji te?ctt.!
if>077? the Southern Cultivator;
Cotton-Seed as a Source of fertil?
ity.
In the April number of the Cultivator,
an enquirer asks the questions; "Suppose
a man has one thousand bushels of cotton
seed, in what way would they most bone
fit his crop, put out as cotton seed, or fed
to hogs put up in a covered pen and kept
supplied with straw and leaves? Would
he not get the full benefit of his seed and
manure, and several thousand pounds of
pork besides, to pay for the trouble of
cooking the seed, hauling in the trash, and
hauling out the more bulky manure?"
There can be no question that cotton
seed is 'more valuable as food for hogs,
cattle and sheep, saving their droppincs
properly, than for manure applied direct?
ly to the field. At the same time', the best
way to prepare and feed cotton seed, with
a view to utilize all of its nutritive and
and?fattening properties, is a matter that
deserves discussion. This seed contains
an excess of oil as compared with its flesh
forming principles. Oil is nearly value
less as a fertilizer, but very valuable, right?
ly used, for making fat bacon, beef "and
mutton. It is, however, not unlikely,
that expressed and sold for other purposes,
it may be worth more than for feeding
farm stock. By hulling seed and express?
ing the oil, a more concentrated article of
food, or fertilizer that may be drilled in
with a machine, can be obtained. The hull
has little value, cither as food or manure.
Every planter has not a hulling machine,
nor is there an oil press near by to pre?
pare cotton seed in the best manner. ? Un?
til these advantages a-e within his reach,
he must study and practice the art of pro?
ducing something like a pound of fat ha
con for every pound of "cotton seed oil at
his command. This result can only be
achieved by giving to the business of pro?
ducing meat and fertility on the plantation
far more attention than is now generally
done. Hoping to do good, and wishing
not to give offence, I remark, that the
capital, industry and talent of the South,
has been too much devoted to the work of
wearing out the primitive fruitfulness of
the soil, steadily enlarging the arena in
fenceless old fields, and constantly turning
a cold shoulder to evcy science, art and
practice that aims to increase the elements
of crops in all lands under fence or cultiva?
tion. Twenty years ago this pen urged
the readers of the Southern Cultivator,
through its editorial colutnns,to unite sound
stock-husbandry with legitimate planting,
as the best way to accumulate the essen?
tial constituents of cotton, grain ami grass
>n the most needy soils. The cartful study
and observation of two decades, aided b\
some practice, have confirmed t e opinion
that it is alike practical and profitable to
cover the present general nakedness of the
land with nutritious recuperative herbage,
and soon obliterate all gidlies und galled
places. How grass and a thick, unctuous
greensward rapidly and certainly impart
fruitfulness lo ground that was once poor
and naked, I will not stop to point out.
If grass did : ot, in the perfect economy of
Infinite Wisdom, draw the elements of
rich manure from water, earth and air,
it would be impossible for farm stock to
form their bones, flesh and uerves from
grass; for these, are fertilizers of known
power and value. It we can make grass
grow on our old and hew fields, we have
at once the raw material for an almost un
limited supply of grain, provisions, wool
and cotton, simply because, from grass we
can easily extract the most concentrated
and effective manures, and with these raise
cotton seed so plentifully that every farm?
er may have a "thousand bushels." It is
assuming a good deal to assume that quan?
tity as common at this time on plantations.
By raising cotton seed with reference in
part to its value for feeding purposes and
as a fertilizer, there will be more clear
profit on the lint, and a benefit done to
the farm in place of an injury. Such plant?
ing will pay as a permanent operation.
Oats and peas abound in flesh-forming
substances, in winch cotton seed is defi
cient. Hence, if a farmer were to boil 50
pounds of cotton seed, 50 pounds ot peas,
and 50 pounds of oats together for hogs,
the compound, well mixed, would be more
economical and profitable food than 150
pounds of either boiled and fed alone;
while the manrrre would be improved in
quality by the combination. Compared
with cotton, oats and peas are easily rais?
ed, and their straw, properly cured and
housed, are valuable in raising farm stock.
Suppose a farmer has a piece of low ground
where water accumulates more or less
from higher lands and evaporates. By this
evaporation,- it unavoidably leaves agri?
cultural salts behind, which it held in so?
lution. This suiface, planted partly in cot?
ton and partly in corn, peas and oats,
would yield up its agricultural salts to these
growing crops. Their seeds, in the mass,
would contain not a little of the most fer?
tilizing atoms known to science and farm.'
practice. They will, therefore,- make, if
duly husbanded and applied, any common
poor upland yield remunerating crops of
wheat, clover, cottony timothy or corn.
Now, it would be bad economy to apply
grain and cotton seed directly to this poor
upland as manure,- but let the farmer cook
these seeds properly and extract what meat
he can, aud carefully apply the large resi?
due as rich, un washed tood of plants. There
are many conditions of poor soils in which
the fertilizers, from the seeds named, will
produce more corn, cotton, oats and peas
than grew ofl- the first named field. Tlife
would be impossible, did not the same All
wise and Almighty power that gives to one
seed the functions and properties that de
ve'op a thousand seeds, make mineral ma?
nure equally reproductive for the suste?
nance of corn and other plants. As the
vegetable and animal kingdoms are whol?
ly dependent on Che mineral kingdom for
support, it is obvious that nature's base in
this grand affair is equal, in all respects, to
th*? whole vitalized superstructure. jS'o
man can properly claim to be a good prac?
tical planter or farmer at this day, who has
not carefully studied the reproductive
torce which exists in the mineral elements j
of plants and animals. Agricultural force J
is accumulated" on a farm by wisely bring- \
ing together the things in which it is most!
active mid efficient. A slight variation in j
the co-ulition of a cotton seed (and of ma- j
ny others; prevents the force of gei ruina?
tion ever acting. Precisely in the same
way, a slight variation in the condition lo
a particle of granite, felspar, hornblende. ?
or other mineral, will prevent its disiate-'
^= \ r* . Hi, ?
gration, and the subsequent inactivity of
potash, soda, lime, iron and magnesia, de?
veloped frohi the parent rock. Hence, the
Study of conditions is no less important
than that of things to the farmer; As con?
ditions are infinitely diversified, it is silly
to attempt to write, or to ask for any re
ceipt for things that will never misinform
or mislead. A knowledge of elementary
j laws and bodies is more instructive audre
t liable; as from these one may safely de?
duce general rules and principles. Thus,
the principle of diversified tillage, grass
culture and stock husbandry rests, not on
any abstract theory, but on the diversity
of wants, soils, rocks, plants and animals,
which constitute the body and life of ag
riculture. In this way, one may safely set
in motion and command the maximum of
agricultural force, and substantially be?
cause he acts in harmony with the laws of
his Maker. In an agricultural point of
view, the best expression of these laws
may be seen in the common and united ac?
tivity of domesticated animals, cultivated
plants and fertilizing minerals. It is an
unjustifiable mutilation of this natural sys
tern to cut off that large and indispensable
class of plants denominated grass, and the
invaluable animals adapted to grazing,
blindly and. insanely assuming that the
"sunny South" can maintain its natural
fruitfulness in perpetuity, as well without
these great physical and vital advantages,
as with them. This sad mistake iu a mat?
ter of public policy, first impoverishes the
soil, then the people, and then inflicts on
them the suffering, necessity ai.d humilia?
tion of sending abroad for com, received
as a chanty, to avoid starvation at home.
It is not less than forty years since the
writer first labored, through the press,
warning the sovereigns of this grasping
Republic of the suicidal folly of slowly de?
stroying at its fountain head, the source of
their daily bread. Everywhere, land is
becoming less and less productive, while
old fields multiply, except near cities; and
everywhere population augments the num?
ber of months to be fed and backs to be
clothed, from decreasing fruit? uTii^ss. A
continent of rare capabilities tor support?
ing mankind will, for a time, and to a de?
gree, conceal this great wn rig; vet, the
poor already begin to suffer and murmur
in many places, while oppressive taxation
is planting discontent in the hearts and
heads of millions. Such as have yet to
learn the \ ariety of riches, are not likely
to wait many years for another conflict o
ideas in the excitable American brain?
burning property like chaff in the war of
"vaulting ambition," and of that "love of
money" which is "the root of all evil."
Capital in land, that will support a fam?
ily independently, is so much safer than
property in any other form, that a few
words, in that behalf, will not be out of
place in an agricultural journal. Farm
stock, provisions, grain and cotton, may
be stolen like other movable property.
But it would be rather difficult to rob a
farmer of 100 acres of well sei Bermuda,
or of the fatness of the soil, developed by
this almost universal restorer of impover?
ished ground. If war should not come,
nor hostile armies molest, 100 acres of Ber?
muda would support sheep enough to yield
a fair income from wool and mutton; and
the sheep, properly yarded and sheltered,
would supply manure enough to manure
handsomely ten acres of cotton a year.
Thi* annual gain of manure would reap?
pear in cotton seed, and then in wheat and
corn, in hay and root crops, lor the sup?
port of the farm,
"Enquirer's" questions relating to the
management of stable manure, will be an?
swered in another letter, D. LEE,
Gap Creek, Tenn.
?
from the Southern Cultivator.
Young Men of the South.
To those who stood by the Lost Cause
until "the bitter em:." we would address
'his article. Those who faltered and
fainted by the wayside?who were "wea?
ry in well doing," from what cause soev?
er, are to be pitied. Many of them want?
ed in faith ; many were jealous of the
favor, so to say, shown to others, became
recreant to their high trust; many lack?
ed true courage, indomitable will, perse?
verance, and the nobler principles of pur
noble born Southern youth. Whether so
constituted by nature, or a wrong bias
.given by education, it is no less true, I hey
faltered arid fell by the wnyside. jirwj .- ??
pity them and their progeny.
But there are hosts of ye It-It. liiai
stood up to our Lost Cause until ?he ven
end,and whether with ao''ar'>rk.ws-|?e7c/'
or but one leg to hobble on through life,
yet ye are nobles, heroes, every owe, and
if you will but carry out your principles
through a If Ehe'? Ih-roge* trttd fluctuations
of life, 3011 will be certain of receiyii,ig
your reward?if not in this, you will in
another and a better ?vorki.
Patient perseverance will j^ve yent #t
least the knowledge of a conscientious
discharge of duty, worth all the silver
and gold, with- tire "mines- of Golconda"
added.
We have accepted the issue placed1 Upon
11s by force; we have been overcome by
numbers; we have acknowledged defetit.
Let us. one and all, old and young, stand
by our acceptance: and go steadfastly in
the line of rfffty, as you ull' have show ft a
rapacity to do?not influenced by the
cold shoulder, or dollbt? or fears of the
timitf. Each and; all of you had high
hopes, and an occasional misgiving, or
may he not so tar as-thai, but something
like a tear, we mighi fait: yet you relax
?(M_y(,i, liied not. ion were first to
the reveille, a.id the last at the mournful
dirge that pat to rest the last hope of lib
i-rtv :>n this continent.
We an; 1111 flatterer?we speak simple
truth when we say, when History dips
her pen in ink. and writes for unborn mil?
lions to read, t he young men who stood
I s-lioiihler to shotiMer until our Joe John?
ston yielded his sword1, ami struck his
colors, will bo classed with the heroes of
Therntopyla). and a new song will be
siiug, classing their names with " the
bravest of the brave." There was even
hope to some, when the great Root. E.
Lee yielded to superior force?never to
superior generalship or true bravery ; but I
when Joe Johnson fell, hope were fol\.y.
Your courage and steadfast adherence
to principle, proves beyond all question,
that you are capable of building up ouiv
wall, battered, down, by a- bloody and
hired fanatical soldiery. And we beseech
yon. by all you hold sacred on earth or
iv Heaven, that }rou now. turn to the
pea\. vocations of life,, and. show, to
the wo. "^<^ou^ro as competent to
bandle the plow, the hoe. the spade, the
axe, the sledge, the hammer, the plane,
the saw, the adze, &c., &c, as you did
bandle the sword, the carbine, the rifle,
the musket, the cartridge. Let others
say or do as they will, but let us. go to
work, and make our own, our sunny South
more than she ever was. We have tho
talent, the energy, enterprise, the indus?
try and zeal, for any work?only let not
case and luxury and display draw you
trom the work. Those of us who were
born to gloves and broadcloth, can, with?
out detracting Iron) any worth we may
have had, lay them aside, and if for a
blistered hand and a sunburnt face, they;
will be only the "shibboleth" .that will
pass us on to a higher station. Leave all
unkiwdness and harsh expressions of in?
dividuals, to those who lacked spirit to'
act. Be courteous and civil, even-to those
who were our enemies, and let industry
and perseverance, will) good morals, be
your jewels. Yuu have made too ?xalted
a record on the page ot time, to have it
blotted out by inaction and querulous
corn plaints. Be men, and leave politics
and meddling in General Government
?traii? to those who could not meet ?he
foe on the bloody field, and ''great will be
your reward." ? M?W. P.
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For Sale by Druggists and Storekeepers through?
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Anderson C. IL
June 26, 18C7 2 3m
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June 10. 1867 1 .6m
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Dec 5, 1866 36i
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