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BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. APRIL 23, 1869. VOLUME XVI-NO. 52.
TRUE TO THE GRAY.
9
BT FKARL BIVIK3.
1 cannot listen to your words,
land it long and wide; j
Go seek some happy Northern girl
To be your loving bride.
My brothers they were soldiers?
The youngest of the three
* Was slain while fighting by the side
Of gallant Fitzhugh Lee.
They left bis body on the field,
(Tour aide the day had won,)
A soldier spurned bim with his foot,
You might have been ths one.
My lovsr was s soldier,
He belonged to Gordon's band ;
A sabro pierced his gallant haart.
Tours might have been the band.
He reeled and fell, but was not dc^d,
A bomman spurred his steed,
And trampled on his dying brain,
Ton nji^y haye done the deed.
J bold no hatred in my heart,
IjTo cold, nnrjghteons pride,
Joy many a gallant soldier fci'ght
Upon the other side.
J3ut still I cannot kies the band
i. nut bicoiq my country tore,
Nor love tho foes that trampled down
The colors that she bore.
J)etween my heart and jours there roll*
A deep and crimson (ide?
My brother's and my lover's blood
Forbids me be your bride.
The girls yyho loved the boys in gray,
The girls to copntry true, .
May ne'er in wedlock give their hand
To those who wore ?he blue.
fDUCA'PP YOUNG MEN ENTERING
SOCIETY.
In some sense Americans ontcr society
at birth- They are born into
jt and tho world at tho samo time.
Doubtless thex*e are exceptional eases
that can givo the date subsequently
to babyhood when they were introduced
into company. But these arj
only anomalies on tho surface?more
incidental variations of the ruling
fashion which ordains that our countrymen
should grow up in society as
young tx-ees grow up in old foreBte.
Tho young trees are certainly the
better for it, and, with its evils, our
young people are gainers in certain
pbvious Respects by the usage.
During their educational period at
college our young men are moro orless
in society. The habit vanes according
to taste, means, and circumstances;
but, in the major it 3' of instanced.
it is a liabit. "Reimlatftd r?rn
perly, it is an excellent habit, as good
for the intellect as for the morale,
specially valuable as creating that
finer aura inwhieh the general sensibility,
as distinct from intellctual
emotion and 'from the affections,
lives and moves and has its being.
Perhaps this is one of the causes that
contributes its sha^e of developing
*:i:* .1
puwcr iaj buu pruiupu vuraitLiiiLjr imu
'ready perccptive energy of our young
men. Taking them at the average
nge of graduation, they are not as
good scholars as the graduates o 1
foreign universities. But they are
more active thinkers, more easy and
flexiblo in nsing what they know,
and more capable of working right
into the grooves of society. In brief,
their faculties have the social set, the
adjusted attitude, which is so large
'an element of success in opening
manhood. '
*' Nevertheless the period -at whicl
an educated ^oung man enters societj
is quite safficiently marked to mak<
it- a 66rt of; sub-era in his career
<jne division 01 nja eaueation suppo
sably finished he !a presented to th<
association of life with thus conscious
ness alive in btinself, as with ai
indefinite expectation o? the part o
procate*the feeling it
: his own nature. ^If lie boa com mo
vkattp toft lively sensibility, thi 8 sac
?d4ts Casirigof *6teiely as ayogng mat
4fi to*oryp* apt io bear upon him vrit]
oivcomfortablenes: ftn
lit oob>P?1b birato MI
, : ttbd he i
WitlDg1 ***** %' knfcwi inftte&d <
of m<
'TSkthttif Vklcb lifts ti
charm of. conversation. Like tl
Offish n ess, thiol
^Wi5Ein.-'7i(i4QcI hft etoc
l '! li ZLA. -Vri 1. ?' -..' ...UW
Urtsind y^t^ekpw
and if they bring this it is enough;
aud they must now go to work and
acquire tho culluro needful for intercourse,
And tho secrot of a gcod
beginning is to tako the level of current
sympatluos, and to move gently.
Njvoi* try any thing at first in which
your success will depend on the n
refiued appreciation of the few. Fall
into the hour, drop in so naturally
that the word said takes tho place
belonging by congruity to it, and be
sure that it springs from spontaneous
suggestion. Nover lug in thtf most
sensible thing. Any foVcing," the
least symptoms of straining, is instant- .
ly fatal. Bulwer says that the art of
conversing is the art of weaving your
remark into that of another. And
ho is right. Tho impulse of sugges- 1
tion is tho great element of success
Train' your suggestive fnculty to
keen insight and to immediate reciprocity
of service. Every thought
uttered in cultivated society has some
particular angle, from which the
brightest of its light flashes toward
yon; and if you wa'.ch for this, you
will soon get the fact of happy response.
This facile suggestivenees is
tho very soul of fact. In high perfection
it is a matter of nerves and
temperament. But it is susceptible of
remarKaoio discipline, anu,. in many
instances, is simply tlie product of
studious attention.
Every educated young man should
attach great valuo to conversational
ability. Not only is it tho most elegant
form of address, finding its "welcome
way to tho heart' and communicating
tho very aroma of your being
to others, but it is tho most en
obling of culture. De Quineey shows
in his essay "On Conversation," that
the mind in this way evolves its power
in a form generally unlike all other
modes of activity. This is mainly
due to the easiness and large scope of
suggestion. If an educated man will
try his intellect in private, or any
givon subject, and then go to a friend
and converse upon it, ho will see the
difference in the freedom and force of
suggestiveness. And hence conversation
is so acquirable an excellence.
The mind gets, on the truest forms,
the companionship of others, and this
is invaluable to the thinking faculties.
- Say what wo will, the intellect
is that portion of our nature
which needs society more than the
sentiments or affections. Books always
intensify our personal consciousness.
They lead us to measure our
selves; they introvert the eye; the}'
teach one to listen'to his own heart,
throbbings ; and ero wo know, the
faxorite book has shut us up in selfinquiries
and cummunings. This is useful
in certain limits. But it requires
a constant corrective, and society
supplies it in the art of conversation.
Whoever masters this art has added
the gifts of others to his own endowments,
has enriched his life with the
rarest treasures of other lives, and
has learned at the same time one of
the manifold meanings of that all
, revealing text: "It is more Heated t>
give than to receive." A man's thoughts
never perfect ,their worth to himself
until he gives them to others.
'
, Raising Calves "Witiiout Milk,
i ?Calves can be raised very readily
s without much millc, by feeding them
r on hav tea. oil cake and meat. Tliev
" * ' ' y
should have for the first three or four
i days, two or three quarts of milk at
t a meal, then gradually some food in
9 the shape of gruel is added and by
. degrees -water is substituted for milk.
>- Making oil cake of gruel is the secret
a of success. Uso half oil cake the
1. a i. m * *
i- dcbi you can Dny. xaKo a large
a backet capable of holding six gallons,
f put into it two gallonB of scnldipg wai
ter, then add several pounds of linseed
n cake, finely ground. Stir the oil cake
I- together and add two gallons of hay
i, tea.
bk ., The hay tea is mode by pouring
d scalding water in the morning on good
- sweet hay, in a.tab, the tea standing
te cohered till night, and having sev6n
is potifcda of ideal, (middling barley or
>f oat me<\l) 6tirr6d into a ttobfall before
>- used. : T,ho 'same hay will bear a sec
t0 ond infusidn during the night, for
te next,mortii tig. Two quart? per head,
si With an equal amotmt of cold Water,
id is etough for a feed. The old plan ol
st letting them suck through the cow
fri man's ftaaetsia preferred. and as booe
. ** * ' 7? " "
c- aathay catf at, croaked com,.Bwcel
k fc fty an d roots are placed within theij
t, yewB iftki> 'eoofc a* ready
lb tmi mnjagela, wiiicli flupplj
should Always be stored If praotioabli
U Thecalves should tofc placed in< aMi^
ie -weM vVtitihitod bouse/, kept very clear
fc dally, And tJbe measure frequently re
til ^ ^ j
? ' '^ '
A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.
TIIE MANNEKS OF TUE MOTHER MOULI
THE CHILD.*
Thero is no disputing this fact?i
shines in tlio face of every little child
[?!,o course, bawling, scolding womai
will have coarso, vicious, bawling
fighting children. She who cries 01
every occasion, "I'll box your cars?
I'll slap your jaws?I'll brcok you
neck," is known as thoroughly
through her children as if her un
womanly manners were openly dig
played in the public streets.
Theso remarks were suggested by
a conversation in an omnibus?tha
great institution for tho students o
men and manners?between a friem
and a schoolmaster. Our teache
was caustic, mirthful, and sharp. Hi
wit flashed like the polished edge c
a diamond, and kept tho "bus" in i
1'ivinr "
Tho entire community of insider
?and whoever is intimato with thes
convej-ances can form a pretty gooi
idea of our numbers, to the fralerui
ty?turned their head, eyes, and car
one way, and finally our teacher said
"I can always tell the mother by tli
boy. Tha urchin who draws bad
with doubled fist' and lunges at hi
pkiymatc if he looks at him askanct
ltno n nnnaliAniiI\ln ti At*
UUS CI YVJI J ?|UV,OllUlltlUlU liiVlUV.1. KJXI
may feed him and clotLc h:m, crar
him with sweetmeats, coax him wit'
promises, but if she gets mad sh
fights.
"She will pull him by the jaekd
she will give him a knock in th
back ; she will drag him by the hair
she will call him all sorts of wickc
names, while passion plays over he
red iueo . in lambent flames that cui
and writhe out at the corner of he
eyes.
"And -wo never see tho courteou
little fellow with smooth looks an
gentle manners?in whom delicac
does not detract from courage or mai
liness, but we eay that boy's mothe
is a true lady. Iler words and waj
arc soft, loving and quiet. If she n
proves, her language is 'my son'?m
'you little wretch"?you plague of m
life?yon torment?you scamp P
"She hovers before him as a pillc
of light before tho wandering Israc
ites, and her beams are reflected i
his lace. To him the word mother
synonymous with everything pur
sweet and beautiful. Isbhoan artist
In after life, that which w.ith hoi
rediance shines on his canvass will I
the mother's face. Whoever fli
across bis path with sunny smiles an
soft, low voice will bring 'mother
imago' freshly to his heart. 'She
like my mother,' will be the liighe
meed of his praise. !Not even whe
the hair turns silver and the eye groy
dim will the majesty of that life ar
presence desert him.
"But tho ruffian mother?alas th;
there are such?will form tho rufth
character of the man.- Ho in tui
will become a merciless tyrant, wii
a tongue sharper than a two-edg(
sword, and remembering the brawlii
and cuffing, seek some meek, gent
victim for the sacrifice, and make h
his wife, with -the condition that ]
shall bo master. And the master ]
is for a fow sad years, ^?n he Wea
a widower's weeds till he finds a vi
tim number two."
Wo wonder not that there are
many awkward, ungainly men m t
ciety?they have been trained . 1
women who know not, nor cared, f
the holy nature of their trnst. Th
had been mnde bitter to the hear
core,- and that bitterness will fii
vent and lodgment somewhere. Stri
the infant in anger, and he will, if
cannot reach you, vent his passion
beating the door, the chair, or a
inanimate thing within reach. Stri
him repeatedly, and by the time
nrano l,? til 1 ?
nvMto puuto iiu Will UUVO UCUVIliC
bully, with bands that double i
fight aB naturally as if especial pa:
had been taken to teach him the <
of boxincr. ;
?o- ?
Mothers, remember {hat your mi
nena mould tlbC child. Who * ill i
say that mothers ought to be th
' oughly educated whether their s<
!.' aire or not ?
I . i v. r >ti\ ... .
. ; ...Iinw mm*
1 "We announced, fn ft recent editi
' the fkct that that ' the castor b*
plant, ?f placed &r6nnd th$ bord
i or diotributed at intervals of two
r br thirty feet alotig : the rows of
y Cotton fleld, wouldprotect the oot
from the worms and all other
11 .Btructive ' Oat fltyt infori
0n this subject wf obtained fyoih I
' 'riii'rtvlfffr ;
A Kiss.
) Let me kiss you for your mother,
For your uister, cousin, aunt,
Or somebody ?r other
\N horn 1 long to k'us and can't;
b I could wibh my lovo beside me,
As I've you beside mo now;
^ But the pleasure is denied me,
Ho I'll kit>? you anj how.
1 1 adore thee lady dearly,
- (I assure you Ihut 1 do,)
r Can you und rstand mo clearly,
That my kiss id uot for you ?
In your keeping I may leave it,
As another's?not your own ;
(* So I bi-g you not rcceive it
As a gift, but as a loan.
^ . You have silken yellow tmsei,
^ While my love's aic black as night,
i And ycur eyes?e'on love confesses
i As a dozen times as blight;
r But I covet from another
What Another cannot grant;
Bo I'll kiss you for your moth?r,
Or your sister, cousin, aunt.
a
m> *
a The New York correspondent of
e the Providence Ptest narrates the
[1 following of an energetic woman: \
[_ She was born a ''lady," as the
a world says. She had a loving father,
. who spared no means to give her the
e brilliant accomplishments of her stale
tion. She had a troop of friends?
3 i gay fluttercrs around her beauty and
wealth. One she married, and rich
') I
e | and imposing was the wedding. But
n j the married life run out of course.
[x The husband, after spending tho for0
tune of his wife in reckless living and
wild-cat speculations, and involving
t the father in disaster; after doing
? this, and fretting her life away by
. inches, eloped one day, and left, the
^ young mother of his child alone, with
r his debts and disgrace, mid her own
sad heart?alone, to work for her
,r living as best she could, or starve, if
?l./v rni._ ,i
oui< V.UU1U iiui ywjk jx. J. 11U UUSUI IL'U
. woman pined jiway at first, and shed
1 bitter tears, and became faded and
broken. One day she awoke to the
^ stern fact that she must work or
1 starve. She could not go back to.her
' father, and her pride kept her from
former friends. What did she do ?
0In
vain she told over her list of tal.
ent5. Every chance seemed closed to
y .
her. By sewing' she could not earn
enough to live on and pay tho.rent.
tr Her music sho had neglectcd after
I ?
marriage. Tho doting father had
,n given her ornament and froth in her
18 education?nothing by which she
e' could put hands to for support. At
this time a man said to her, "Come
y down to my farm this seaBon, and
)e work in the strawberry field I" Nothing
but diro necessity made her go.
IC* The man was kind to her, and made
8 tho work light. All tho season she
18 worked for him, and in the open air,
8t and with the plain, regular living, her
!U heart came back to hex*. " She became
,s healthful and hopeful, as in former
?d fljivn TTf>l'A WOO lioi> f.liorif.n Wkon
?J-. ?w.
the season was over, she said to ber
at employer, "Take me into your busiin
nessl I have shown what I can do.
rn My past life I shall drop. I will belli
come a business woman 1" He thought
3d she was jesting at first: but she wae
*g in earnest. Her offer was accepted,
le For three years this woman acted ae
er clerk and manager for one of the
large produce raisers of Jersey. The
he details of the business came into hei
re hands. No better salesman than she,
ic- no better executive. At last she
bought an interest, afterwards hall
bo of the business. It eecmed as if hei
in. old life hnd Vipoti le/J-hv anm?Snrl?
j
ijy else: from being a nervous, timid
or woman, she grew into a brisk, Bound
oy laborious worker. She made a hopu
t's in Jersey for her child and aged fath
nd er. And to-day there is no more pop
ke ular dealer in the markot, and n<
he moft capable woman in Now Yoi'k
by and no liner appearing lady any
ny where, than this self-made woman
ke who can daily be seen managing hei
he extensive business in Washington
i a Market, associating with marketmec
for but never forgetting, nor do thej>
ins that she is a lady, and commanding al
art the respect due to her aex.
a?.??,
ib- ; *
lot Ta? Ramey Plant.?The cultur
Qr of Barney has been very successful!;
and vigorously prosecuted in certai
' " Southern localities. A single plante
on the Mississippi offers 500,000 plant
for sale; landlord ore for ramey ai
po, pouring, into New Orleans and He
-3an bile, from all .parts of Europe, offei
ers iQg to publish the rough fibre at te
I'i?AJI S?* . i- - ^ 1 * *
city UOUH> 1Q goia. xne ramey m or til
>' a thistle family j ia probagated easil
ton by cuttings; require* colnparativel
Am^ littlo care: iamrenniftL vielria tliw
ma- fTfen'iflWW P* \ffot 1
4q. 8,^00-|>ouna???i #ar^ wjd >. *?rt
? #$#$|fcrlPfc ibre*
The Seed and tha iJowers.Ever
an little the ee?>d may bo,
tver bo little the hand,
But when it issown it must grow, you see,
And develop its nature, weed, flower or tree;
The bitnehiue, the nir, aud the dew are free
At its command.
If the seed he good, wo rojoice in hope
Of the harvest it wi:l yield.
We wuit and wut<-h for ite springing up,
Admire its growth aud count ou the crop
That will couie from the lit' le 8aed? we dtop
Tn ?t.~ ~ ? C..1.I
au w>ic gicav| n iut uviu?
But if we' heedlessly scatter wide
Seeds we may happen to find,
We csre not for culture or what may bol ide,
?' hether they've lived or whether they've died
We never mind.
Yet every sower must one day reap
Fruit from the seed he has sown.
How caiefully then, it becomes v.s to keep
A watchful eye on the need, and set k
To sow what is good, that we muy udt weep
To receive our own.
What our State Produces.
No State in the Union, and pcrhapf
no country in the world, possesses
such a variety of soil and climatesuch
a capacity l'or general produe
tion?as does Georgia. In additioi
to all tlie valuable products of agri
culture grown in tbe Eastern, Middli
unci Western States, there are pro
duced in Georgia, cotton., tigs, lemons
oranges, castor beans, olives. A1
these can be produced in abundance
and the soil on the seaeost and South
ern Georgia is well adapted lor th
production of rice. There is scarcely
a branch of agriculture that cauno
be profitably engaged in, in this Stat
?scarcely any article of comnierciu
value?the results of agriculturn
pursuits, which cannot be producet
in ibis State. Wo append a list o
all the agricultural and pastoral pre
duct, which experience lias demon
strated can be profitably produce*
| in tnis btate, under intelligent man
agement: *
Wheat, barley, oats, bay, corn, rye
buckwheat, peas, peanuts, beans, cat
tor beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes
hops, tobacco, turnips, parsnips, pump
kins, squashes, (and every variety c
vegetables,) cotton, broom-corn, bu<
ter, cheese, wool, honey, apples, peacl
es, pears, plums, cherrics, nectariani
quinces, apricots, figs, lemons, orange
olives, pruues, mulberries, walnuts
goseberries, raspberries, blackberric:
strawberries, grapes, wine brand}
cattle, hogs, sheep, Cashmere an
Anirora eroats. Croats. all manner c
fowls, flour, lumber and every variet
of wood, leather, gold, iron, eoppei
slate, lime, marble, whetstones, mil
stones, granite, manganese, coal, ai
phaultum. If
there are not elements of wealt
and commercial prosperity moro tha
arc furnished by any other State i
the Union, or country in the worh
we are sadly at fault in our calcuh
tions. All that is needed are specia
ties in the dificrent productions, an
not so much cotton.
, "What fo ly to be moving from th
State, when such riches lie buried i
, tho soil and need only -patient or ii
, tclligent labor to develop such varie
, resources. There is more true wealt
. in specialities in husbandry than i
the production of one or two stap
, crops.
p ijet the 1 arm or ana planter cast h
. eye over the production enumerate
r and ask himself if he should create
market by the production of one <
L two upecial articles if it would n<
, pay better to the acre than cottou
5 There is a market for everythii.g
. man con raise, and a ready market i
that.? Georgia Recorder.
> ? >'
> Original Method of Poppip
" the Question.?At a recent weddii
> in South Carolina, a decidedly nov
r matrimonial scheme was inaugurate
1 which proved quite successful.
^ was arranged, after the wedding tot
> place, that one person, who was elec
I ed to preside, should be sworn to ke<
entirely secret all commonicatio
forwarded to him on the occasio:
after which each unmarried gent
6 tleman and lady should write 1
^ or her name on a piece of paper, ai
p under it place the name of the persi
r ho or a he wished to marry, then hai
* it to the president fbr ineoection. ai
T ^ Any. gentleman or lady had reei
>_ rocftily chosen tbe'otber, the preside
r" waa to- Inform eaeh other of the recti
n &nd thope who had liot been redpi
'e cal it? their oboico were.to be kept <
y tirejy secret. After the appointor
J; of . the pre^detit, oomraunkjatic
S'JI*MR?0& wwfiw
J3 .gMtUmea tad ;
The Siamese twins, Messrs. Chang
aud Eng Bunker, who have long resided
in North Carolina, and lost their
property during tlio war, have gone
to England to make a little money by
exhibition. The question ot' a surgical
separation of the brothers has
been submitted to some eminent physicians,
and tlio results of recent examinations
of their condition havo
lii'mi nillllisllOil Tlior am firtr.ni.flit
, j U.v;-v.^..v
. years of ago, short in stature, lSug
being live feet two and one-hulf inches
in height, and Chang an inch shorter.
The band that unites them sprang
originally from the lower portion of
I each breast-bone, and at first held thorn
face to face, but, by efforts in childhood,
they were enabled to stand nearly
shoulder to shoulder. Their inner
arms are usually crossed behind each
other's backs, but they can bring them
forward over eaeh other's heads,
which is quite a curious movement,
and are thus enabled to use all their
hands, as at meals. The cartilaginous
band which joins them is'about four
inches long and seven in circumference,
at the centro. Tho nerves of eaeh extend
a little beyond the middle of the
band, so that a touch about an incli
^ on either side of the centre is felt by
uuiu. j-iicrw is, t?i course, a sugm
communication of tho blood vessels
but no interchange of blood, and nc
mutual dependence of circulation 01
j respiration. They are, therefore, in
dependent in personality, and ar<
' simply two persons tied together by t
living knot. But although their men
tal operations aro entirely distinct
^ their life-long similarity of oxperiouci
experiendt has brought them into ai
j extraordinary concord in thought am
j action.
j The relative positions of the twin:
have produced an inequality in tin
action and efficiency of their organs
those turned toward each other, am
, therefore less used, beiner weakest
The adjacent eyes are in this way en
feebled, and the adjacent legs measur
an inch less in cireuinfereneo than th
external one?.
The Messrs. Bunker married sister*
and have nine children apiece, Air. I
Bunker having six eons and thre
daughters, and Mr. C. Bunker ai:
daughters and three sons. Th
" cousins do not get along together a
> well as. tho fathers, and there ar
times when each family wishes t
i have a father all to itself. Tho ques
> tion of their separation has been raie
' ed on this grouud rather than be
' cause the brothers desire it. The sur
f geons think there is probably no an
atoinical impediment to their separ;i
j tion, but that the moral shock to twi
not very robust men, advauced in lift
3" which would follow the breaking o
the chain of life-long habits, wouli
h prove serious if not fatal.
n They are reported as having edi
n catcd themselves fully in tho languag
-1, and literature of this country ; to b
i- intelligent and agreeable conipaniom
1- agd to have won tho respect and et
d teem of their "neighbors.
10
Good Breeding.?I believe thi
^ matter of good manners and goo
kMAAilin// 4 n i? *1?A 1? r? A
Ul^WUllJg liV kJ\J VAiiVXiJ 1U tilv IJUIIVJ
j4 of mothers. It is as easy t
I teach a child to Bay " Thank yo
le for the bread,!' as "Give me som
bread ;" ns easy to accustom a famil;
j8 of children to bid their parents goo
^ morning upon ordinary, us guesf
a upon extraordinary, occasions. Le
>r there be no "company manners.
Convince children by example, no let
1 ^ than precept, that the best they ha\
ftt to offer in matter and manner shoul
bo laid before those they love moi
earnestly. A boy taught at ten 1
enter the parlor and bow to hi* mot!
fa er's friend, will do it with ease an
)fif OAlf-rtnenoaciinn ni t.wnntv. l?np who
, r j
61 after all, is ease of manner but polit
neea long practiced, and incorporate
It as an unconscious constituent of tt
individual ? It may be well for us \
}tr remember the original significan<
3P of gentleman, gentlewoman-*-tern
us which I fear would never hare grow
nonfc of tho blustering oarriace of
I*" largo class of modern gallants. " Gel
?is tie blood," and " noble lineage" wei
3d '$yaoaym? in tbdso old days. "Sttat
5n ior in modo forliter in r?," was tl
"d Latin proverb, and it bos often oecu
ad red to the writer that we, of the pre
P* ent generation, are more in danger
nt forgetting the mildness of m*ni)
lfc> than the strength, indeed.
ro- ^. .
^ ? . i
,nt Cum won, foundrh.?Bleed coi
,OT onely j pound op about thrt* onnc
lie of alum, and with a ?poon put it;
ve the horse's month aafar bacU poasib
.-rfc- '< - ili *. f..T .4k" VtrtAtwli-'-Li
m. xnen lie wju gwmuojr iu jlubu n
Beautiful Extract.
Tlio following waif, afloat on the
"seaof reading," wo clip from au exchange.
Wo do not. know its paternity,
but-it contains some wholesome
truths beautifully But forth : j
Men seldom think of tbo great ;
I event of death until the shadow fulls 1 j
i across their own path, hiding forever j
from their e3-es the trace of the loved j
ones whose living smiles were the sunj
light of their existence. Death is the
I great antagonist of life, and the cold 1
thought of the tomb is the skeleton of
oil feasts. Wo do not want to go
through tho dark valley, although its
! passages may lead to paradise; and, |
j with Charles Lumb, we do not.want; ?
to lie down in the muddy ^raVe/f^eii j
with kings uud princesses ibr our bedfellows.
But the fiat of nature is inexorable.
, Thoro is no appeal of reliel from the
1 great law which dooms us to dust,
i \Ve flourish and we i'ade as the leaves :
' of the forests, und the flower that
, blooms and withers in a day has not
a frailer hold upon life than the
> migbtest monarch that ever shook the
i : earth with his footsteps. Generations
of men appear and vanish us the
t , grass, and the countless multitude
, : thai throngs the world to-day, will, to- j
> j morrow, disappear as the footsteps on i
r the shore.
In the beautiful drama of Ion, the ;
3 instinct of immortality, so eloquently <
1 uttered by the dealh-devotod Greek,
finds adeco response in uverv tliomrht- i
A JL~ O *,
> 1'ul houI. When about to yield hia j
2 young existence aa a sacrifice to late, j
1 hi? beloved Clemanthe aska it' they |
* shall not meet again, to which he replies:
"1 have asked that dreadful
9 question of the hills that look eternal
e ?of the clear streams that flow for
ever?ui me stars among wnose neia
* of azure my raised spirit hath walked
' in glory. All were dumb. But while
l* I gaze upon thy living laee, I feel that
e there is something in the love that
0 mautles through its beauty that ean
not wholly perish. We shall meet
again, Clemanthe."
1
it
e
x New Publications Daring 1888.
3 The American Publisher and Bookseller
C utnt uO i litif lia MnrvvkftM ????"*
0 publications in the United States
during 1868 was 2169, classified as
'* follows :
k Fiction 754'
- Religion - - 258'
- .Directories, Almanacs, &c. - - 173
- Law - - -123
3 Biography,' ic - 113
*> Poetry 105
* ALedieine, Surgery, &e - - - 97
History - - >, 85
Miscellaneous Literatur - - - 81
l_ Arts, Trades, &c - - ... 75
0 Education 70
0 Fine Arts ,.'.---.-51
S Travels aud- Geography - - - 43
' Sociology - - ------ 40
Government and Politics - - - 30
^Jrt.tnrn.1 PU'lAiifA ------ 90
Philology and Learned Literature 17
j Mental Philosophy ----- 11
I Military and Naval 5
Mathematics ....... 4
Periodicals - - - - - - - - 5
? Total 2169
y
j Of these, 1866 were bound books.
8 lshe same authority gives 2124 as the '
)t total publications in 1867, of which
? 1773. irere bound. This shows a slight 1
18 increase during last year.
re Tfre London Publisher*' Circulard
statta that 4581 'now publications and
st reprints appeared in Great Britain
:0 during 1868. The American Lilrrury
j. Qitgttu places the notnber at 4439,
d against 4144 in 1867, and 4204 in 1866.
t In, either case, the British publica0'
ti^ni fttr exceed those ot the United
l(j Spates. It must be remembered, howie
ever, that many more editions de lux
>Q Qfy which bat small numbers are
rtjJnt/ul am iunod in TJnirlanrl than irt
lg war country ; and, farther, that, nun
i^wrically, opr newspapers far exceed
a j|om of tjhe mother country, while
a. ;thoir circulation is incomparably
>e \. The Island of Hawaii la aDnarently
is- "lowly into the SO*. This anof
&mforUble phenomenon: vu flr?t
er (imi<M>d ?oon idUr fWrtC awd*1
.kgjgdco, ofl*?t April; battht dftrapg*
; ' JPfcift 6t level w?? it rfi supposed to
*'' 'tflttniowinr and dan ta'thici iirtal
Dear Little Pattering Feet
*
BY STILL A.
[ luv- tbf music diucoui-sed by the brook,
Tile wind and the murmuring *ea;
And of art, tliougu 'u? taLcu from Nature'*
b ?ok,
For tln'y i>ing mighty Father, of Thee;
but, all I there's no music iu glen or in glode
To me t.iat is li?I> aw?ct
tne blent little humt-noieA that are only
pla_, ed
iiy deur ll tie puttrl i:.g feet,
Tia music that wnfis ou' tbe.wii.ga of pure Iota
The heart to its linker on high;
Lt Boiteii tl>a sorrows Mtid hallows the love
Of ull 'neath the oVr arching sky ;
A nil .it lovingly wouv?s in the dull warp of Ufa
Bright ecriiistliut-re lusting and sweet, x
L>li I iuii.Uowb of 'ove, in the daik rky of strife,
re t'<- so Uear little pattern.g feet.
Uh I dearest sounds I sure tngcla nbovo
Nevt-rlizard tweeter music than this;
Evcy fairy like iio(? breuth such volumes of
love
That, the heart is enraptured with bliss.
Lot Lai ur and art sing their ch<>iti< st 01 songs j
lo tne tlie> euu n?vei compete
*Vitu tne pit-a-pu uitisic tiiut only belongs
To d^ai iivlle puitei lug feet '
?Hontehold.
A Short Lecture foe Young
i?x . JUL V V |/ WUUipcaritjr U1 UVUU?
Never be idlfc. If your bands cannot
be usefully employed attend to the
cultivation of your mind. Alwaya
speak the truth. Make few promises.
Live up to your engagements. Keep
your own secrets, if you have any.
When you speak to a person, look
him in the face. Good company and
good conversation are the very sinews
of virtue. Good character is
above all things else. Tour character
cannot be essentially injured, ex
cept by yourown acts. Ifone speaks
evil of you, let your life be such that
none will believo him. Drink no
kind of intoxicating liquors. Always
live, miafortuno accepted, within your
income. Whon you retiro to bed,
think of wbat you have been, doing
during tho day. Make no haate to be
rich, if you would prosper j small and
steady gains give competency, with
tranquility of mind. 2*1 ever play at
any kind of game of chance. Avoid
temptation, through fear you may
not withstaud it". Never run into
debt unless you bee a way to get out)
again. Never borrow if you possibly
can avoid it. Never speak evil
of any one. Be just before you are
gonerous. Keep yourself innocent,
if you would be happy. Save when
you aro young, to spend when you
are old.?HuhCs Magazine.
How to Apply Cotton Seed Meal.
?lu reply to W. B. S.' of Brandon,
Miss my mode of using it fot corn
planted in hills is substantially as
follows: On uplands. & pint tin cup
full ol' the meal to caeh hill of corn,
which should be dropped 4 or 6 inches
from the . fertilizer, aud if it be
covered with a harrow, it should ap
prouch tbe corn first, so as not to
drop the meal over tho. corn. If the
land has been deeply plowed before
planting, and the after culture is snuilow,
with ordinary seasons the appli*
cation will give twenty or thirty
bushels of corn per acre as per quality
of the lands; and I will add, the
? 1 .L- J
uvm *vi vwv (k^puvaviuu ?UU UIO UUUJJ*
i the plow I ut'ore the planting the
I greater will be the return. If the
corn is in the drill* 4} feet apart, and
tbe corn .4 feet;. and X stalk, tben
tbqre is hardly a possibility of failure.
P. S.?I applied 300 lbs.per acre
on three acres of feweet potatoes- lost
year, and harvested bet weed six and
seven hundred- bushels, and left a
quarter to an acre in the ground for
pigs. Col. Gurlaud says mine' is. the
poorest place in Piko county..
isii
Chinese Industry. ' ik ^Writer
shows how it islhSt the Vast population
of China is enabled to Uve* and
thrive:' - ' f'
"For patient,and untiring industry,
it ?eems to.me the Chiuvae have
no eqq^ Anithing: which needs .
great labor aid but Uttle they
: kktu.' *i - -H ri?r.iir t.
wu uv tutui jwy -vfvuw uo*
?M?. Ef it be the digging of lonu?
merablamile* of catmh^ or ttut taiM*
iog of greot/fraJJ^tb** Jttr6*ty half
w*y iwrq* # oouiiflest.t^y eiin do .
economy
:ri:ssar?
w tidiiy ik 1
fyfcor U tE^ of
, tho *oH, RTjd work how feft^r hoa to
p irrigate it, carry nig oi t a
[ ftf considerable Ui
. iiV' '' ?