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; iii mmmm lIMiii, TWO DOLLARS PER AKNUM. "The Prico of Liberty is Ilfcetnal Vigilance." PAYABLE IN ADVANCE* CY DAVIS & I TOLLING S WORTH. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1856. VOL. XII NO. 44. saaasBiLiLAffligoitjs. A BACHELOR'S TROUBLES. nV PJIINKAS I'llUMULE. 11 Come, while voii wt silent. III liavo you to hear The truth or n lie from ?? old lmehelarc; They'll wt :m<l they'll ihink, till they weur out their liriiiu, * ' - i.., I ?:. __ i Ana wisii lor u win*?* ? m vnin i Ring <iu\vii?Jerry dowui" Cohfound tlie luck ! llcrc I've been half on hour looking after Sunday hoots, and finally, I found one of ihem on tlie centre table, beneath a thousand, more or less, books atvd p:ipeis, :ili?l the other away back In a cuddy-hole, where I store away old hibbish. Well, I've found my clean shirt nt last; and where do \'Mt think it was ? I hope to holler if 1 hadn't |?ut it in my hat box ; and my hat 1 had placed in a chest where I keep my linen. Hat all smashed lo thunder?cost live dollars?oh, oh ! Je-iu-sa-lcm ! Here's a discovery. This -I.!-* 1 . 1 .... .. ... !4 i sun t iiasii t g?>i a imiiuhi ?ii it?ami mo wrist hands ami collar arc all frizzled up with *'derliceurs" Iik<: tin*fringes (I believe that's the name) on a woman's?what d'ye call 'em??neck cncirchr; that's near enough, any way. Why, what's tli<- matter with this shirt? Kip! I can't get it oil", nor on.? Kip! that's the way th?* money goes. Shirt cost a dollar an<! a half; another expense, by Jupiter! Ciack.-e! how cold it is! why the lire has "clean gin out.*' That's another job. Crack?crack ? phizz! Why, what's the matter with tin- cords i Come to think, I threw a pail of water over thein. Have to borrow some splinters. " Mis. Saiiciiiii-tiiioiis, will you give me a few splinters <" it \ I ? U'l \r ? ? iU'-rry on ns ; n iiv, n Air. i'liumhlc hasn't coiik; riglit out :if<ii<; me, with nothing on l>llt hi* hri'crln.'S! his wig is off, too. Law &;ikcs ! I irv?.t knew liu wore a wig 0, dear! "W hy ?li'!n't I throw something over i My wig is oil", too. Now it'll J own in n tt-w minutes, tlial i . ; wig. \\ oiihln't lnive it X<?, Mr-ue! ; "ii*. holm: way. L>jl inaku splinters j -n't of any us?> j will <lu just as | !v, iK'Ct'Ssi'.y j \* to use oM ! . SoUK'lllillj; j , I j Midi j moni- I ! 1 I lln l.d glitv . y! if 1?III v .iiy dear, . hoo !" mil ! liutherailiimdcr any lime, . i in tears and hear her j heart begins to melt?it's all " running down," like a clock, or butter 011 a hot summer's day. " Dear Mrs. Sanely?lieavcn bless you ! Here's a ten, fur smashing your treasure. | Now dry up; there's a good woman?and please leave this room in a trifle shorter than liiilf a dozen seconds." "Dear Mr. l'liuiuble! ten dollars, as I live! why, that's enough to |>ay for half a dozen such keepsakes. What a winning way the man's got! you're a jewel, Mr. Phumble?that you arc." And you're a confounded old swindler ! ten dollars gone to her capacious pocket.? I wish my heart was made of iron. Well, the tire's going at hist. Craek? crack?whiz?tur-r-r-r; what a cheerful glow it sends through the room ! 13ut it cost ten dollars. That's very much like lighting cigars with ten dollar hills. Well, what am I to do for a shirt? Thank fortune, and my usual foresight, I've got half a dozen in my chest?my wash atajul rather, as it is now. What wonderful knack I have of " killinrr two binls with O ~ one stone11?half a dozen sometimes. Now that chest answers all the purposes of a mantel piece, a side tahle for books and pa pors, and eating table sometimes?and now U comes in play as a wash stand?a capital wash stand, and the inside a pcrfec.t museum: Linen, cigars, pipes and tobacco, matches, "aclmripjw," letters, and "other articles too numerous to mention." Ah, there's a great deal in knowing how to ar range tilings. I know a woman couldn't / arr"Mje, and economize, and turn everyWjo advantage, half as well as I. JBct and the prophets! if the water Aren't leaked out of the wash bowl, and got all "mixed up" with my linen and other "Jxingsl Crash, ship, dash ; there goes the lest of the water, bowl and all, right on to tny shirts. Howl all smashed to pieces, anJjPier expense! I guess that chest won't do for a wash stand, without I make a place for my linen under the bed. A capital idea ! I'll arrange it all to-morrow. Well, I'll have to dry a shirt before I can wcai <toe. fliti ..flflicre it hangs on tlio back of a chair beA Abo bb>zing fire?lucking for all th< ft> WorUi, "like a nliirt on a bean-pole." lie minds mc of an answer a larly once gav< i i me. I saw some sort of an uudurgarm once, (Irving before tbo fire, like my sbirt " Miss," said I to a young lady iti room, "can you inform mo what that c landisb thing is?" "Tliul," sbe answered, blushing, "i oiufiuwyoc t. She didn't think I heard hor, when muttered in a low tone, " I'll bet my shoes that 111:111 isn't married." A queer name, truly?that "shimmy." ?should think shimmy-rro/ or hang wo he a good deal more proper. | Ten o'clock, as I live; and cliurch v commence in half an hour. IIow can I e j get ready 2 I shall have to wear the si I as it. is. As good luck would have it, 1 i bosom isn't wet, and as I hut's the only p 1 shown, it won't make a "dif of biticrciic I . A great practice?that of " putting the b | on the outside." Bosoms are no cxeepti j ?and who can toll how many bosoms j bosoms white as the driven snow?('tis ' every one bus a good wash* woman) boso | that rise and swell like the heaving of I ocean, (or a nwcll clerk,) and cause real 1 i soms to swell ditto?are, when you sear { below, false as my wig, and fastened to I body by false strings? Thank my stars j never wore a false bosom, and I never w I Well, at last 1 have got to church?1 with a heart in which "angry passions lis ' and in a state of mind very unfit for tl holy place. Somehow the chime of the < I bell don't sound its sweet as it is wont, n ; the singing of the choir, though nlw.-i beautiful heretofore, seems but a boll< | mockery. All, when the In-art is not rig how vain the hope of deriving pleasure fit religion, or indeed anything else. What a craek?.'d voice the minister li got! I declare, it reminds nie of the hi ken wash bowl. Ah, there's Mi>s StK | (iabble. Susan is a sensible sorL of a w man ? rather old?but then she's not o of the sort that " never grows old." Thcr a great deal of comfort in knowing tli though a person may change outward I here's .something lasting within, that defi even the ravages of time. And in the ho of death, it must be sweet to know tli you can leave behind you a name that e; " never grow old." Susan doesn't belong lo ibis class?vc few ?!<>. Let rue see?I've about come !lie conclti-ion iliat I want a wife?if I iloi marry, I'm afrai<l my name will grow o the day after I'm dead?inasmuch as I = the last of ' my noble family," the last three brothers ? all bachelors to the la This is one very serious objection to siti^ blessedness?a fellow's name is apt to <1 away ; and on that account I should advi no one lo be a bachelor?if they can help It wouldn't woik well in the long ru were the world?the masculine portionone vast society of ' Shakers" or baehelo it would be a world of hypocrites, and t human family would of course die awn Speaking of Shakers, I believe, had I be a Shaker in my youth, I should have be married long ere this. M unkind is avei to being fettered, womankind ditto ; ch;i them down to rules and regulations?ma them go to church six times every Sum! ?forbid intercourse between the sex while young, and they're mighty apt kick in the trace*, and overset the fond< wishes of their mistaken guardians. I believe I'll see Miss Susan Gabble hoi after meeting. That's an awful long-winded minist I've a great notion to throw my boot him. I do hate long sermons; I'm a gr< lover of tlie "short and sweet" doctrii and I believe that even a link of pleasi can he too "long drawn out." At last service* are ended. The li psalm is sung, the last prayer is offered, t benediction ? there goes Susan. "N< comes the fug of war." " Miss Gabble-?Mi>s Susan Gabble? allow me, my dear inadatnc on account the similitude of our ages?to?to?h? the supreme felicity?to" ? Why, what a look ! I guess she nc spoke to a gentleman before. "Our ages, indeed! I'd have you know, sir, that I'm not so old a* io be * liged to wear false hair, and a false set 1*1 teem, mm ? " I don't wear a false bosom, plague tf you !?nor yet a cotton bosom !" " Home, sweet home," eaj? Payne?a tlius says Phumble. IIow dear to i lioarl in bachelor's liall, after tlie cxhihiti I have just had of woman's lack of sen! Susan Gabble too old for me! just as i didn't 'went a courtin' of her many t many's the night?five and twenty ye ago ; (to my shame I _tell it)?just as she wasn't proud of me, and would hi become Mrs. Phumble for the aaking; i just as if she was as young now as i was five and twenty years ago. Oh, Su ?Susan Gabble; too well have you lean tlm whva of the world?too- well hnva i learned to practice the deceit of your c! of community. But you can't hide wrinkles, Stfsan j they brand you in fucc as a Jiar?and the rose on your ch ?like your would-be girlish actions?ii filial n<t vnnr Rwcllinir cotton bosom ? Ah, what tale-bearers theae old wor * , f nve 1 How soon the story of my wig w over the town; magnified and ineref > until I find out my teeth are false. Toll - it to my teeth, too ! and then left to r ; the cud of my solitary fancies. Wollf v ent I was tol?l I was in lore (//) the oilier day; . ahd that I'd gut the mitten ; (this was hy a the young tale-bearer?jiikL beginning to de>ut vclopo her natural propensities.) I was told, too, that I was dead, and that my s a spirit had communicated to this world the astounding fact, that the reason I was she never married was because I was a victim old of a.'coquette. Of eoursc overy word is true. Ilow can I deny the stories of res ict" portable scandal-mongers? But I will uld "throw down the glove" to these "respectable" old &e., and to every story I say, vill prove it. ver Women are nuisances?with a few exeep liri lions. I look around my liumblo tenement, llio and I can't help congratulating myself on art being free from their scandalizing presence, e." Home, home, sweet, sweet home ! " Home is win re love in," ion s;,)'s somebody. Whom have T to love? and echo answers " whom !"?but it doseu't ?'t answer " ??/<?/.'' Hurrah for the neuter ms gender ! Here's a bachelor's solace?a hncliil?, elor's " how to make home happy,'' a good [hi- cigar (pnft", pulF!]?float away, care and c|i trouble, float away, Susan CJabble, talel.,v linnrnrc ;m*l cr?!uul'i1.nir?hifnvc ? n I tiv; """ ...-/..jjx i.j ?"<??' | I .away wiili the blue smoke. [Puff, pun'!] i ill. I believe I am the most contented mm in nit tlie wide world. Like Silkirk, L,?' " I run monarch of ill I survey," ,.lt if I don't look out of the window. [Puff, ild P"'V. pull*!) I wouldn't be a married man n,j for all the world ! [Puff, puff! AudsomelVS thing see.ms to say, "I)o you know the >w reason why Jack didn't eat his supper i"] ''b Arc Von a Lutlj??The term lady is an "n abbreviation of the Saxon word "lcofday," which mi ans broadgiver. The "lady of the ias manor" was aceustoined once a week to move among the poor ns an alms-giver, en:m riching their tables, and bearing away their Messing*. She moved in queenly beauty, , and ti> her uui-enlv rolio elnmr tlu? rliililrr>n .? . 1 ? *7 I of (lie lovvlv, looking at her as if their at litllo eyes could never be satisfied with | ')"> seeing. ies ? 'j'licir little lienrt* could never utler iir IIow well tliey loved their bread and bntter." 15uL they loved her smiling face. 'J'liey necdeil not that any tell thcin !.ow priceless is a smile. It was May day with thein ' ry whenever she came among them with I to smiles and bread, and it was always May i't day with her, for the smiling j?oor loved I Id her, and crowned her queen of all the i t?? y<?!ir 1 ()f Header, arc you a lady? Are you a sl queen among the poor? Do the children | rjc of the poor put a crown on your head ? | |l(. i/u un*> iii.iur. yuiii 11:111 wiiii | sc or is it burning with diamonds that the | if. ting('rs of the poor never set there ? Do ( ? . the poor man's children cling to your gown | and find a protecting shadow in its folds ? , i>? Are your jewels the graceful hearts of the , he I,oor ^ I' they are, then they will never lose their lustre, but shine brighter and , on brighter the longer tliey wear them. I , t,n would rather have one graceful tear a fain- j -se ished child I had fed, than all the jewels j tin that glisten on a queen's brow. I would ( ke rather carry light and joy to one desolate , heme, than call the kingdoms of the world es, "?yown. , Plain Talk for the Ladies.?The West- ' ^ cm editors are ceitainly very free speaking individuals, and their rhetoric, like the j ne howie knives of some of tlieni, is sharp < and to (lie point. One of them speaking of | or. low necked dresses and short sleeves, | at says: ,-at "The prevailing fashion among the laIie) dies, whieli transposes an angel into a ire model artist, is universally detested by every gentleman whoso good opinion a lady ust should desire. It blunts the finer feelings lie of both sexes, and is a disadvantage to the JW wearer. A. round, plump, white arm is beautiful and may be admired with all proal priety ; but an arm shaped like a three of co> nered file with red elbows, is not beautiful, ive and in competition with a Spanish gurrotc would stand no chancc of being elected to irCr one's neck. An alabaster base half concealed by a coquetish collar is the most to bewitching sight in tlio world ; but a large 3|,. expanse of bony shoulders, painted like a of patent ham, with its contiguous unprotected territory, has about as many attractions as ike a newly painted Windsor chair. ?- < vm ^ Sad Story.?The Troy, N. V., papers tell a sad story. A 3*011 ng lady of that city was engaged to be married to a gentleman IO" from Long Island, and the wedding day ,c ' was appointed, but on account of the death ^ of a brother the ceremony was postponed. Again the wedding day was appointed, H when the death of a sister occasioned another postponement. For a third time a md WHS aPP?'nte^? an<^ before >t arrived the I intended bridegroom fell before the "insatiate archer," leaving the thrice stricken sa" mourner desolate indeed. fk6(l fou tS3T Master B., a remarkably smart stulass dent at Harvards, is another " gentleman by the instinct." He once said to his mother : the " I 8?y? ma'mn, where's Bill I" ., 44 o An I nf mA li/uto tr/M? an?v Kill 1 CUV dwiij uwu v let iicai J\Ju on| i^m ? as again. Yoh should say William." " Well, mother, whereas William V* ncn " In the yard, feeding the ducks." rent " 0, yes, I see linn now. But, mother, wed what makes ducks have such broad, Hat d of Williams T hero " fto out with yonr brother, directly, you veil, ?oh I?" and she fainted* The Unguarded Moment ; Yes, my lipn to-night have spoken 111 Words I said they should not speak ; jt And I would I could recall tliem? ^ Would I liad not been so weak. Oil ! thill one unguarded moment 1 Were it mine to live again, !l' All the strength of its temptation Ol Would appeal to me in vain. ill True, my lips have only uttered '* What is ever in mv ln.nrt I W - - ?J ? ? I am linppy when heshle him? p Wretched when we nre npurt; \v Though I listen to his prniseu pi Always longer than 1 should, j( Yet my heart can never lioar tlu-m Half so open us it would. 'c And I would not, could not, pain him, Would not f">r the world olU'iid ; I would huvc him know I like hitn As u brother, ns a friend; al But I meant to keep one sccret Y' In my bosom always hid, bi For I never meant to tell hitn sc That I loved him?but I did. is A Hint to the Ladies.?The following ? sc paragraph, which we cut from an exchange, is local in its application : ^ " Among all tlic .accomplishments" which ^ uiir young ladies are expected to acquire, it J o) is to bo regretted that the art conversation | (j io nut ihviikicu. ?>o grace ot person or maimers can compensate for a lack of this. In youth the conversation of our women is j apt to he trilling ami insipid, and in middle age is too often confined to complaints of . . health and the scandal of the dav. Lively , . . " c-' conversation, upon instructive and elevating j. topics, is hut little practiced, hut whenever it is found, it gives a charm to the society of females which nothing else can. It tri- jD umphs over deformities and old age, and makes ugliness itself agreeable. Curran .u speaking of Madame de Stael, who was hy no means hadsoinc, hut a splendid conver- fr, nationalist, said that "she had the power of ;u talking herself into a beauty."' Ladies should think of this. " beauty lies in w ?.l.? .1 : -i? < jLni:i unngs man nne icaiures and cos- UI luetics." <f( J Tom the ^forfeit Man j con Mistaken.? I'lio Lowell Colliicr is responsible for the following; lb " In a neighboring citj*, at Thackeray's 'K ledum, a few evenings since, a young genleinan, ilie modest man of I>is sex, ami no c>s pome man modest, was Kilting 111 a pew rather remote from the light. A n,! [>reltv lady sat next to him. Looking on ctl lIic floor during the lecturj, he e=pied what io thought was the lady's handkerchief, t't the lace trimmed edges just visible from i t ... I.J ? - 1? it11vi*ri IIVI uicnn, J m iini^ to III? |icw maiu :ic gallantly whispered, " You've dropped your handkerchief, madame!" and before 1,! die could reply, he proceeded to pick it up. Horror! he had seized the edge of her su pet skhl, and did not discover his misLake until the lop of a gailer hoot stared him in the face, and the faint ?ound of a laugh ^ just nipped in the hud by the application <f a real "handkerchief warned him of his i st mistake. " Monti.?Don't attempt to pick up anything with lace to it before yon know what ^ f it is." as A Western pedagogue, in " teach- fa ing the young idea how to shoot," found it very difficult to impress the letter 'G' upon the memory of an Urchin of four years. He finally asked the young hopeful, by way of ^ illustration: " What does your father say to the hor scs, when ho wants them to turn to the su right ?" of " Ilep ! git along 2.40 on a plank !" ex- a' claimed the youthful prodigy, his connte" nance lit up with animation. The teaehcr <li lias since adopted a different manner of i(-* |e lustrating his subjects. g( A young dandy with a dirty mous- j1 tache curling over his upper lip, was passing the residence of two young damsels, when ho heard one say i 44 LaOfa, 1 do wonder ^ how it goes to kiss one of those creatures with a moustache 1" " Why of course I don't ^ know." Here the dandy felt encouraged. 44 Well," said the other, 14 I'm going to get the hoot brush and try it." Dandy had urgent business up street/ jt3T The coolest specimen of editorial tli sang froid we have seen Intelv, is the fob lowing apology of the North Carolina m Times to its readers: "The Times has . not been issued for the two past weeks.? The cause of this omission was, week before last, we were absent on business, and last week we wero very much indisposed from bad cold." *n "***'* ? . tr< JEST1 On the occasion of two oppo',*,on Boats starting from Pittsburg, em" ployed a German band to passengers ; the other, being intiMM fbe music, and not desiring to be outdone, started lW v< steam whistle, which completely drowned cc thfl music of the band. Tbe mavor. being or r- ' V ' ? "I culled upon, decliued to interfere, saying fa that " one was ft specimen of German mtote, and the other genuine American." ? ?' T ICr" The Lancent or some other equally 4 edifying paper on the subject .of human p food, Bays that large quantities of sausages are made of horse flesh. A friend of out* says he believes it, as he invariably has the s night-mare when' he has eaten them for c i supper.- t Jitwfe of Capturing the iiyCiXd.?" Tlic ev. N. Davis, in his 'Evening in My Tent,' ivcs the following account of tlie peculiar lode of cnptliring thu hyena : 'This animal,' appears, has *t\Vo doors,' according to the ral> phraseology} to its abode, on account f its being so narrow that it ennnot turiv liout in it. liy one it enters, and t>y the llier it goes forth. The Arabs, on obscrvig one of those animals, watch (he hole y which it enters, and, being prepared ith a strong rope net, they proceed to lace it carefully over the opposite hole, hilst one of their fatcrnity, skilled in the rofession, and prepared with a rone, works is way into 'the door'by which the hyena ;is entered. As lie nears the animal, lie harms it,' according to my informant, iving, 'come,' my dear little creature, I ill lead you to places where many carcases "e piepared for you; plenty of food waits 3U. Let me fasten this rope to your autiful leg, and stand quiet whilst I do This sentence, or something very milar to it, is repeated till the operation effectually performed, when the daring >n of Sahara begins to gore tlie brute ith a stilletto, or somu such weapon, till 3 is forced to run into the net prepared r him, when he is either at once killed, r canied off alive, lint when it happens mt the men in charge of the net commit >me blunder, through which the hyena is tabled to struggle ami re-enter his abode, io 'charmer,' in spite of his charming, falls victim to his savage rage, and frequently is companions can scarcely contrive to got ear without feeling something of its efCl" ? _ I What Hope. Done.?It stole, on its pin- j ns to the bed of disease; and the sulfur- j 's frown became a smile?the emblem of ;ace and love. It went to the house of mourning, and ;?in the lips of sorrow there came sweet id cheerful soiifs. It laid - head upon the arm of the poor, liich ?' udied forth at the command of dioly impulses, and saved him from disace and ruin. It dwelt like a living thing in the bosom the mother, whose son tarried long after e promised time of his coming, and saved :r from desolation and the "care that Ik-tli." It hovered about the head of the voutb Ill/ II/1U ucufiuc lllU inillliaui Ol SOL'IUIV, id led him on to works which even his icmies praised. It snatched a maiden from the jaws of rath, and went with an old man to heaven. No hope ! my good brother. Have it? sckon it to your side. Wrestle with it, at it may not depart. It may repay your tins. Life is hard enough at best, but >pe shall lead you over its mountains and stain you amid its billows. Part with all :sides?but keep by hope. A Contented Wife.?It is a blessed thing r a poor man to have a contented, loving ife?one who will not wish to live in a yle beyond her husband's income, just rc-wiae ner next aoor n> ignnor (toes?one lio can be happy in the love of her husind, her home, and its duties, without king the world for its smiles, or its vor. ? ? m m ? ? &3T Watch the busy spider. If he eaks his thread fifty times, he will mend as often/ Don't be cast down by trifles, lie ant will toil all dsiy in removing a pebe from his path. Persevere and you will icceeJ. rut trouble behind you, and be good chcrtf, though clouds hide the sun I the day long.?Spirit of the Aye. ir* r i:-- t>i. i uy/n mi? Ji wnny jjuuic j. 1IIU J'Ollllg IJles of Aurora, III., have determined not to t the leap year pass without an effort to ;t into "another and a better state." At public meeting they have resolved, "That we, the young ladies of Aurora, don't :t married this year, somebody will be to utne." - Sensible Child.?"Ma," said a little girl i her mother, "do the men want to get arried as much as Lire women do " Pshaw ! what are vou talking about?" " Why, ma, tlie women who come he?o o always talking about getting parried ; le men don't do so." An affection*"e ??<' endearing other, not a tJjc??tJand miles from Mobile, feeding he' daughter on pickles, to promt her wing eaten up by the young men, ho yS M',e's " to? 8? eet to live.* A medfcaf student wishes to know what portion of the animal economy the >m-6one is to be found. He says that he ? frequently heard of u, f4(lt cat,not in the medical books. ? One of the CaU?ea for Divorde.?A tone* was recently granted by ono of the ....A. T? mltAM *1ia AVtln inn >uru> vi muiuiiOt t?uv?o mo \jutj [aingt Llie dufemknt was tfcat It? bud cold ?tr. . I I* ? ' U j ?. ! " r! ? ' W ??*? . . ?3F "Guilty, or notgtfifty'f' asteod the >utch Justice. * Not guilty." " Den vat e doytef tfo fovt here* QOapout your irineM." t . .. ? f .?r ?ST The best capital for a.young njnn to <--? *?i#k ut ISAfc- fa in/1 aai?u maa/I oahoa. wrv; III ! iWUMOVWjt oursga and the fear of God. "It is better hnn alV the credit that wax ever raised/ I II ! ! I I ?IWHIIBIB n jfrssTiit i iL'if "' Blood Stock?What Is It? Many farmers have most curious notions ' in regard to tlio meaning of the pharse " Blood Stock." Many have an idea that , it must ho imported Stock, and held at a ' high price, because it has been brought ; across the ocean. 13ut in Knglaud there is a wide distinc- 1 tion between what is called blood stock and ' ; the common stock of that cotintry. Oer- ' tain breeders of stock have been extremely 1 j nice in regard to breeding. They have se- 1 lectcd from the common run of cattle the 1 very best thev eotild And, rttid haVe kept them apart from the common run of cattle, I casting otf all the inferior individuals that often show themselves in the best herds. i By pursuing this course for years in sue- i cession a racc is produced superior to tin: j ' common run of cattle?ami at length this . race becomes so perfect that you can place much reliance on such progeny. Different courses have been pursued by stock breed- . ers in England?but generally the aim has ; been to produce large animals, and such air j ! will fatten early, regardless of their merits 1 , as milkers. I T!ic short horn Purhams meet the views ( , of those who pride themselves in the ! growth of the largest animals, and such as ! ! will tatteii at three or four years of age. i These cattle are said to fatten at loss ox- ? pense also tlian the promiscuous herds of our country?hut as reliable milkers the fall | I)urhams have failed to give satisfaction to ! purchasers. lint prejudice exists against what is call- j i cd "blood stock," thai is, imported slock,! and the question is often a>ked, why is not | our own native slock as good as any that 1 can he imported? We have cows of no | particular breed that will excel the general , run of imported cows, and why shall we , not rely on them in preference to what is < termed " blood slock ?" i Now we have no idea that the farmers | of Britain are the only people capable of j producing " blood stock." They have ta- | k?->n til/' ln-.nl in tlitu '? ? - .v..m ... wMiiinvijc, <?iivi iv? cn?;iii \ we look for iuforin:ition in rognr<l to results?tut \\is are not bound hand and foot, to the opinions of foreign breed- ( ers. ? Let us examine this subject fairly. Is it , i t. i.. _ 1 of the mass production the best looking | individuals?or is it better to endeavor , to roar :i race from the most noted milkers, and keep that race apart from the | mean animals which are often reared as farm stock ? I A drover who goes into tlic interior to , buy cows will prefer such jis are l?rcd by :in old fanner wbo lias long been in the practice of raising his own calves, and breeding from the best of his cows. A farmer who ] has pursued this course for twenty years or I more has now, in fact, " blood stock" of i his own production, and can calculate with i considerable confidence on the qualities of i the calves or young cattle that he has produced. * I ]}y pursuing this mode we can rear as ' good blood stock as any foreigner who eve i lived. Time,- patfefico, and strict attention i are needed to come to the result which for[ eign breeders have come to in the im provement ot their herds. ?'e can ha?e I as gnod cftttJe as any (lint have been pro- < duced in England if we will have patience I and continue long in the right course. < It often happens that an individual cow, i of no particular breed, will yield more milk I and butter than the average of blood stock, i What of it? Will her progeny do the ! like ? If we cannot rely on her progeny i wo tairnot account her as of any great ad- I vantage to the public, though hef owner I may have made profits out of her. < Drovers go annually into the interior to I buy cows to supply a demand of people i i:... .1... i -1 - I waits nve tjii me sea uuaiw. ur near uirgu i towns where young cattle c/innot l>o raised > withont great eost. A shrewd drover picks I up thirty or forty of the heat cows that he i can find in Vermont or in Canada. < "Well, lie sell* ta those who cannot nfforil . to rear calves. The purchasers are benefited by this course of trade, but the State is not advancing by this course of traffic.? J The best lot of cows is transferred from ' Vermont to lthodo Island*? but not the 1 least advance is made in the improvement of stock. Rhode Island still continues to I make veal of all tlio calves, and Vermont v continues to rear all, good and bad. " A ?.l 1 ? . xxuu vet wo nuar uruaKers declaiming i against blood stovk, ot e?tect stock, because ii a bastard individual is sometimes found to f< prove superior to tfio average blood stock " or legitimate stofck/ o Imported stock and alf blood stock should e will pay 'tbo 'samfe'1 Anreffcrfns ? wbich foreigners hate dorte, they can, *ith* 8 out doubt, rear as good aiiimals as any of * foreigh production. Will they not make ' the trial)?Massachusetts PUmgliman. . j Rice Balls.?Boil rice until it i? soft, and ? while warm nSake it into cafc^fi Ot f{ai balls, i Dtp thefttfbfflls into a beaten egg, and then foil theih into Indian meal fill thoroughly coated. This dono. fry them in lard, which is better than butter for Una purpose.?= Serve them with aauce, or with bolter, or "cream and sugar.<? rhe Corn Cob and tiio Husk or Bran of Wheat. The high priccs of grain nro teaching useful lessons of ceonomy. Never before lias there been sueli demand fur the valuable machines made for grinding tlie corn nob with the grain; We receive constant ftssltrances of the value of tlio food thus prepared, and have 110 doubt the use of these machines will become so general as to I*fleet an immense saving of food. All the ["acts connected with the consumption of the corn cot>, indicate an intrinsic valile otuiiely independent of the preparation by tliO machine. \Ve wish to call attention to nrioiimr ?h. licle, which is estimated far below its real value. One which more concerns consumers generally than the farmer, but which it becomes every intelligent farmer to understand?we mean the husk or hrun of wheat; I'rof. Johnston in his(.'lu'tiii.~t/y of Common Life, has the following: " The bran or husk of wheal which is separated from the fine flour in the mill, ami is often condemned to humbler uses, i* somewhat more nutritions than either tlio grain as a whole, or the whiter part of tho llour. The nutritive quality of any variety in grain, oepeiuls very iiiim-Ii upon ilie proportion <?f g!ut?'ii it contains; and the proportion of this in the whole grain, the bran und the fine flour respectively, of the same *a tuple of wheat is vi-ry n? arly as follows: Wlio'e liran (xiit'-r and inner *kin) l-1 l# IP |?<-r cL VVIitil<* irruiti.;;.. . ;.-. {i:: . . .... I'J per ct. Fine tlniir 1(> perct. "The whole meal obtained by simply grinling the grain, is equally nutritions with the grain it-elf. ]?y sifting oft the bran( we rentier the meal less nutritious, weight F-?r weight, and when we consider that the l?ran is rarely loss, and is sometimes more than one fourth of the whole weight of the fiaia, we must see that the total separation >f the eoTeriltg of the grain, causes much ivaste of wholesome hninaii food, lircad made from the whole meal is therefore more nutritious; and as many persons find t also a more salutary food than wliile jroad, it ought to be more generally preferred and used. "The gluten c>f the husk resides chiefly n the inner covering of the grain. ITenee lie outer covering may be removed/ >ut sensible loss of nutriment, Kea&iisgf tfc f cmainder both more jutri'iy"' 0 - 'o Jiisu more uigestvpm :han when the thin outer covering ia iefy upon tlie corn. i > "An ingenious American instrument has been patented, by which the removal of the >utor covering is said to be completely ef e.cieo wunoui injury to Uic bttJk of thcf jrain." Variety of Fond IFec.cssury.?ft is iri rogol:il?le as in animal life ; a mother crams lier child exclusively with arrow-root?it becomes fal, it is true, but alas! it is rickety,;ind gets its teeth very slowly, and with difficulty. Mamma is ignorant, or never thinks, that her offspring cannot make bono ?or, what is the same thing, phosphate of lime, the principal bulk of bone?out of starch. It docs its best; and were it not for a little milk and bread. r>prh:ina ' I - 17 now and tlicn a little mc:d and soup, iI would have no hones and teeth at all.? Farmers keep poultry ; and what is true of fottls ?s tftie of cabbage, tt turnip, or an oar r>f wheat. If we mix with the food <>/ fowls a snfliriciit quantify of egg-tlu'lls or L'hnlk, which ihoy eat greedily, they will lay* many more eggs than before. A well bfed fowl is disposed to la)r a vast t'lUiYiber of' fjlgs, but cannot do without the materials for (he shells, however nourishing in other . * re?poets her' food inay be. A fowl, with the best will in the world, not finding any lime in the soil nor mortar from walls, nof alcarcous matter in her food, is ineannciln * ? Led from laying any eggs at all. Let fnf? mers lay such facts as tliese, which aret matters of common observation, to heart, mil transfer the analogy, as they inay do, [o t/ie habits of plants, which are as truly dive, and answer as closely to every injulicious treatment, as their own horse/?* Afuine Farmer. Use of Salt in Cooking Vegetables..? lere is something everybody ought to have' mown Inner nrm nml llml 9 -*?*-) """ ? ?? vi vij WUUJ' OilVHKI 10'tf tead and retrtenber i If one portion of vegetables l>e boiled in >ure distilled or rain water, and another iii vater to which a little salt has been added, i decided difference is perceptible in the endernefis of the two. Vegetables boiled 11 pure water are vastly inferior. This JnM iriority may go so far, in the case of on-* 5ns, that they are almost entirely destitute f either taste or order, though when cookd in salted Wafer, in addition to the plearfrrt salt taste, have a peculiar sweetness and oluble iuH?w ...T.u?w ul?n contain mora vater. Water which c^tOains l-420lh of u weight of salt is far belter fot cooking vegetables than ptfW Water, boehwc tiie salt linden thejplution and evaporation joluble aml flavoring principles of the a tables.?Scientific American, SitUeratus used in Making iBiiiter.*-** SntarntuB is very mefftf to put into the' cronm just before cburtiinpj, ^speciaHj^.^ the cream is vefy sour. , Two ful (o five gallons of cream is sufficient*. .> 4>