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?HE SQUIRE'S DAUGHTER.
The girl ? lore is jost fifteen
s? With face so fair and bright;?
"?^ ? think abo? her ?lMbe day, g
I dream of herat night. - r?
She never k DOWS (how can she koo w?)
- that i'm ha loveriruej
i - i iFor ? sitwith-tbe Btu?coatBoys,
And she'3 in the Squire's pew ;
Yet still ? try her glance to meet j ;.
Ber eyes are large and grajr. ?- > -
There's only haifa church between, s
But what a world away,
My dear J
i* & Ab, w?l a.worldjiway V ??
i - i s? ~ m W *- ** * . % ? m .
p ?a > l watch ber when^fceEsa?ms oegw,
Singing?O earnestly;
And I am sare I bear her voice
Ring through the chant to me.
s I watcb-her when tBe vic?T; read?r
Aod wh?i wt kneel to g?ay.^ sR?
There*? o?ty "naif alcnurct?* between,^
Bot what a world away>
? My dear !
- , On^what ? worid aw*y'l?^
By the great pillar as she sits,
She looks so slight and fair
The light of the stained window falls
Upon her yellow hair
A bar of glowing amethyist !
And to myself I say : _
5 "There's onljraalf* church between,"
But what a' wol?d away,
My dear !
Oh, what a^worid away 1 ^ ^ "
If I were rich* and^ were-free, " t
How great would be my joy !
I'd be a grand Etonian,
- - And no,tr-a BlnecoatrBoy..
Yet, there she sits ; her smile I know,
Her?mil? I met to-day.
?j ..vTbere^pnljr half a.church^between,
But what a world away,' *
My dear !
Ah, what a world away.
-J& Kendall, in Longman'* Magazine.
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Sr. JOHN H. F??EMA2T, President.
Delivered Before the Sumter Agri
. s cultural^AsscK?iatiOD, onSat?rfJay,
: ApraH?t^ 385. > ^ I? S
; ? Brother Farmers : We hear on ev
ery??that tte agricultural interests
of our country are in a state of deca?
dence ; that the farmer is growing poor?
er and poorer erery day and year. Is
this so ? and if so, why ? Take tbe
oceans-remove ita waters dropsy drop,
and if no drops supply , their puce, the
time will eome when it mast" be dry.
So with jonr land, year after year,,
plant crop after crop upon it, that will
draw away its life's blood and give it
^Dotbifig ia return, no food, or but a |*
^tit^or^^iifficienfcrfiu^ply, and it will
'grow SICK aftl^ifry, impoverished and
sterile, and in return for your labor,
will .gfee you but a pjapy growth of
otante ^h?ch^ cac ^briner- ?no pxo?i? with
them. This will be tue result under
your own individual management, how
will it be if your land be rented ? Now,
by way of example, take say thirty
?acres .of good laudarent it to some, one
wup feels no interest in its per minent
improvement, hi sid?a being to gel the
most out cf the-liud, with, to.himself,
the 40*81 possibles outlay bf h. bor, and
manure, it is plowed badly, cu?f?ated
worse, in fact wretchedly f butchered.
?aa*fc^b???aften> wfofinnlh? noil iflifinUiratrd
with watery- Barely^snnure enough is
Hised tojmake the pSots hungry, not
'eoougjt?i&iigtve |be?Jbny permanent
supply of food ; so that they soon have
to fall oack.;opoc tbe-land for their sup?
ply and being for'the time, larger and
stronger and .-.hungrier. than-they other
'wi?e would be, they male" only tbe
greater drafts "u?on the same.
Ah ! that is the way your laud is
apoiled^iy- -being, half- mannred : and
fW?Urt??^U^yatbg fio
ishes thejwork.^ The land being good
ifewevj^uenpugii<OL made to give you a
reasonable rented, and him a subsis?
tence, with possibly a small surplus, if
he bias kept clear of the lieu. Soon,
fr^yer^g Mi begins to fail, and he|
demands a reduction of the rental, you
-ebjecfrr-ajid be-moves oS to work out tbe
Same* dostrnetwe ~ resalte- elsewhere
Another takes bb place, and soon falls
thopelfralj behind, whereupon a reduc?
tion of the rental must be made, or per?
haps yob get t? ot bingy ted so it goes on
to the f bitter ei?i-the inipay^rish ED en t
ofyourlahdi And if 'th?s be true of
thirty : : acres^4i wiU : eanally f apply to
thirty or three hundred thousand acres.
.This is jonrjopitel^perh^
if it is impoverished, do not you.alsc
rgrww po?s?^ AujdJ a^iin,? i?f it requires
economy, energy and persistent effort,
with a man who strictly adheres to the
I easb? system ;4} to sdpport ~ his ?mily in
conifqrt' and^iaj by anything afc ?lr?iow
mnst?t ber with taose,: who oBfce stand?
ing upon the same, plane, with him,
have' become, en te ngtai in tire mesh es of
the. wretched, so called credit system of
the, day., ,Irrefer rto] the lien (lying)
law," in- all; its 'extent,? appHcation and
its miserable results. Hew can they
meet an additional outgo of 25 to 106b
pee cent., without growing poorer and
poorer, until they feachi th?' ultimate
-extreme oi^tter impoverishment.
And gentlemer, it is not only a ruin?
ous system of credit, but it ruins and
farther-degrades fjur labor, and whether
it be good, bad, or, indfferent, it is our
labor,-and all we are going *to get?^
And gentlemen, I lore the negro, he is
a jovial, -kindly, harmless fellow, more
sic o ed against, tl an sinning Who, I
would ask you? at least you and I, old
men of ante-bellum times, who frolicked
with na in childhood's happy days, but
the negro? Who heightened our pleas?
ures and our sports, by his presence and
his sympathy'inr boyhood's joyous days,
the K??cyon days of bondage, but the
negro ?_ Who stood by out wives and,
children, when in manhood's i>rime^
war's behests tore us from them, but the
negro? And who now stands ready to
8erre;usr if only -something like equal
handed justice is meted out to him, but
the negro? And whenever large ras
"eal?ty is^erpeCrated, ,dig'deep^aud you
wifl f?ndt nl?e"t?Brie8 ouTbf ten, a white
mao at the./bottom.of .it. And whose
strong and willing arras, under the di?
rection of Caucasian intellect, placed
cotton on. the throne, she now occupies,
and keeps her there,. bat the negro's ?
Tbeu at least strive to do justice to him,
for he is your ward, your negro. God
gave him to yon, then keep bim and be?
ware of your responsibilities. And yoa
who cannot or wli not control1 and di?
rect him justly, have- nothing tn do
with him, for to you he will prove only
'vanity and: Vexation of spirit/then go
at something else. I tell yea, wise
med make tbe b ?st of - their s arro Und?
ings, and as they can-, improve them,
bat they seldom revolntioftue. God
made them (I mean o?r negroes
this purpose. His laws are su pr
and the roan who would contra
them is a fool. And this very 1
it perverts. If I can tat
negro fellow and make
produce eight bales of cotton, and
lien tolls him (tyitis fatuus like
some worn out old field, and he m
but two, a most liberal allowance in
circumstances, then unquestionably
six bales lost to the commonwealth
the wealth of iodividual citizens, in;
the wealth of the State. Afld wh
true of one, may apply to 20,000 (
any number. And it is a shame fl
us as men, as farmers, and as hum
tarians, that this ruinous law should
main in force, which allows, en coon
and almost compels, the grindio|
the poor and ignorant, whether w
or black; that pints it in the pow?
any false Jew, rash and io con side
Irishman, or renegade American,
mean this only for those, who feel
their hearts, if they have any, tua
will apply to them,) to take i your j
fellow-citizens by the'throat and ju
late them. Understand me not gen
men, as decrying that people, wt
history is-a marvel, running -back ;
illuminating as it does, the dknn
annals of the -past; and* who in mod
times have giveir- us a Judah P. Bei
mjn and En gland a Disraeli-. A
also ?Vouii?^?i^^?tEe gallan tf i
licking, high-souled- -Irishman. (
that ho had not linked his name
dynamite! But in behalf of my-o
people, I have nothing to offer. Th
its friends, say, it isf a"good credit's
tem, and necessary to the poor farrae
Was the*word good, ever so degrade
If a poor manv.comes to you. and sa
neig^b^rrc-g?s^ tob^y.j^ur 0Xj_a
you say to yourself, 'I know he is po
but then he is honest', then comes ii
your mind the lien, and you say, 'ste
myrfriendi are you under.. a lien V
tells you .'yes/you ^say .'how mud
he tel& andl.yon ,say,, .'wily that,
likely to be alj ypa will make* and t
poor fellow in desperation says, *0
but .you see, I hope_ it will rain .tl
year'and that ? will make a good Wo
for you know, ! work hard,' but h<
say you," if it should be dry again ? ai
being an honest man, he says not
word and you being moved by the bo
els of compassion say, (what few in i'
circumstance's would say,) ?well, I w
le?dlwn?|& |fou??r^*wiU gh^h?m;
yotti^?^F?aB?t sell ?umh&jDnyfor if
should, the lieu might disappoint D
and makft3^? f?libg8?0ri-.1
This .a. good .ergdit system, " whi<
shuts out all other credit from the po?
man, except its atrocious self! Ho
under Heaven is it possible for 'a poi
mao (and: it-maltes all alike poor 'wi'
scarcely one exception.) who cou
within its - upas like influence, when
takes all that.one can make, buying i
cash prices, to -carry OD his operation
support his family in comfort, educa
bis ^children ajad lay J>ya Jittte sqmt
tiring &r<a &&?Jday, (o$??3d ?g<
when the lien piles cn 25, 50, 70, 10
and sometimes even 200.per cent? hoi
I ask, is it possible for the poor man I
live*ttd be -an bouesLmani?.
And here comes the hardest nut <
all to ; crack. lt. is? degrading ? oe
pe?^le;>^sad^|afiti)-Ht.-has already- di
graded' tb& many.^ This t know^for
have seen it lo! these many years an
fel?its- 3ir^ m fluency to?? gentl?oer.
belier- ?-stfy ?MIC^ TBeJ say^ther
is some good io it. The devil himse
does some r?oddv for -?ie stirs up goo
m eh 40: fight- amaina tr.^ vii, v and-by th
poweFof c?nTrasE,''shows ^tRT beauty c
k??^s^^^?iB!??^hw ^o&tast
for ppli?j?8s . I. have ofttimes covenant
w4?"myseJf,'t?at<;I would have,noth
ing to do wi: h them. Still asra prac ti
eal mau; ? know that, their almost ncc
essary accompaniment's and association
areJSf^S9iVit^* high-toned and sen
sit ive nature, ?ney are a necessary, eyjl
and as such we must.subordinate them
as farkas .possible to. the accomplish men
of.good7 instead'.. ofTeviE rTEey say i
t?e lien ti?3?}A^B^^?-m?rtgaoes
take itkplace. Thiat at least has beet
e??????d" by 'teft^t^^yWb^^ th<
few?-virtieron their founds, Beektngcleg
islativejau'r?fs1, wherewith_ to deck theil
classic brows. ::> _*'.- \
But gentlemen have you seen man j
ocany for considerable amount, whicb
were aot iack^dUvp by mortgages. And
gentl?nten', fmVc ts ode mjore'thing thal
I wiH -barely-allude to (^tt -bavfi nol
the time, fully to ^discuss ai?T'that
fet?el I^nd^ EoanT Association^ Is it
right-is it wise, that you should mort
gagefj?ptfr ?and.rfor one-fourth or one
nTth^ts rtfa{ vajue, when at tne?end-3f
fae years ?he mo?gage.^ may jae fore?
closed, and they may gobble up or sell
to others, for~o ne-fourth or fifth its value
all that:' you /have, and Tleaye y?tr as
naked as a well-picked goose. "No <?enr
tie men, let us .first .crush the head of
the cockatrice and then look after its
brood,. . Weare, no .ex treju^ists,.. Red uce
it sa ^hat it can only rea)h Jthe bare ne?
cessities' OT ?ife-^corn' aiad baCon) with
a heavy penalty for transgressing and
wi^;^operTnot^cation, at the-,nexfc
Bession.abolish it finally. And see That
you send no one to legislate, who will
not do his very best, and who has not
courage, eloquence aud skill to back up
his convictions, to the accomplishment
of its abolition. And gentlemen, I
trust, that -you and ? I have too little
taste for poli tros proper, to allow us to
introduce , them into this association,
while our pledges and relations with it,
compel us to exclude them. And it is
only where we have to consider..princi?
ples and systems, which bear upon them
immediately or remotely, that we are
couip??l?d to apply thc plumb line and
investigate Cb the "bottom , until we aro
satisfied, that they either bear disas?
trously upon, or uphold tho great cause,
which we profess to advocate, and to
suggest what outside of the same, may
remove influences, which we know or
believe as practical men, stand in its
way, that I have been induced, as a
practical mao, to utter these strictures
upon the lien law. If we old men have
to fight for the rights-the salvation of
the young ones,* I too, have boys to
follow me, and for one stand rca-ly to
do my duty, even though the sponge
with which I wipe out evil, has to be
wet io my life's blood, so help me God,
and that life may be taken from us by
means other than the bayonet, the bul?
let or the stab of the assassin.
Hard and unremitting toil, even in
thc causo of-humanity, of-iniud aud,
WA'TCfittAK, Established April, 1S3U.
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rood of all, and will keep whatever sur
plus yon put ia them.
Then all yon need is qualities witniu
yourselves J patience, energy, economy,
ind persistent labor and determination
:o learn only from those who know best,
?OW and what to teach you. You have
il ready almost too much 'individuality,'
jut yon do not like the trouble of think
ng for yourselves. Your pride keeps
poa from bowing to others, though
four indolence compels you to follow
;bem. Observe closely at one of our
neetings, and when a division is called
poa will see men, many ? am sorry to
tay, who will half rise from their seats,
hen look around to see how the majority
s going to decide, before they take
heir final action. Look into your own
leads and hearts, then keep your seats,
>r stand np like men. Gentlemen, only
io" your., duty, using faithfully the
ueans that a good God has placed with
n yoor reach ; and you will make old
Sumter a new and glorious Eden. She
viii indeed become thc Mecca, for all
igricultural wanderers, seeking after
ruth and a resting place.
Bot we must return to the thread of
mr story. A like mode of proceedure
i?rected for cotton, modified to snit otb
ir crops, will bring similar results.
But I can only suggest, for the scope of
mr Association, properly considered is
?ide and yet definite : All the econ
>mies of the farm ; all that will make
ts expenses less, and its profits greater,
ill that will tend, to the elevation and
Avancement of the farmer himself;
;hat will make his home more attractive
ind his family happier ; that will re
ieve his wife and daughters of the hard
Irudgery through wnich many of them
lave to pass, and enable them to culti- j
rate the higher instincts of their pure
ind loving nature.
Ah ! Woman, pure, gentle, loving,
iud unselfish woman. What were man
without thee but a' World without a sun.'
~)h I fai^:' g/?iyjjop_._ last and best ofj
^^s, creature in whom ex
I ^prtever caa to thought or sight
ie formed ; holy,divine, lovely, innocent
or fair. Ola Master tried no 'prentice
band' on her ; for she was and is the
perfect work of a perfect Architect.
And its province reaches all those in?
fluences that will cluster the affections,
of oar boys as they grow up to be our
young men, areund the old homestead ;
that will give employment to their ener?
gies and their intellects ; keeping the
best elements of oar population to agri?
cultural pursuits. If our association
?-1 materially in bringing about such
lits, then-indeed will it find a warm
se -in;t]^.??^'^^?^r>eopIe ; then
sof will it deserve tbat.plkfie.
- As the wealth of individual clt?r^tjs
oakes, the wealth of the State so must
mr old -commonwealth grow weak, or
trong as her agriculturalists languish
tr prosper ; for ibey constitute by far,
he largest element of her best popula
ion. Make the individual, farmer
frong, prosperous and happy, then in
[eed will she. grow strong. Then will
?ur dear old State gathering her robes
.boat her and having placed back upon
ter fair brow, by ber gallant sons, the
ons of agriculturists, much of the ina?
jenable crown State Sovereignty, stand
ortb tipton the Mil tops of deltverence a
gortons personification of Liberty. ! -
Bili Arp'a Experience.
I love to meet a nabor and bear him
ay 'how's craps?' I contiuue to like
armin. I like it better and better, ex
?pi that the wheat is somewhat doabt
ul about making a crap. A little long
mg with a tail .on both eends has got in
he joints and sucked the sap out, and
t-s fallin down in patches. Look like
here is always sumthicLpreyin on sum
bin, and oothin is safe from disaster in
his subloonary'world. Flies and bags
ind rast prey on the green wheat: We?
als eat it up when it's cot and pat
iw?yv Rats eat the com-moles eat
be gabbers-hawks eat the -chickens
he minks kill three or four ducks in
me night-cholera ki H s the dogs-and
he other night one bf my nabor's mules
:um along with the blind staggers and
ell up a pair of seven steps right into
ny front gate and died'without kicking,
rheo there is briars and nettles and
read-safts and smart weed and poison
>ak and Spanish needles and cuckle
lurrs and dog fennel and -snakes that's
ilways in the .--way of a farm and must
ie looked after keerfully, especially
makes, which are my eternal horror,
ind i shall always believe are sum kin
o the devil himself. I can't tolerate
?uch: long insects. But we farmers
lave to take the bad with thc good, and
here is no more good than bad with
ne up to the present time.
I wonder if Harris ever saw a pack
laddle. Well, its as putty as a rain
)ow, just lrke the most of all the devil's
?ontrivances. and when you crowd one
>n a foddertlade yo?M thiuk that forty
faller jackets had stung you all in a
)uhch and with malice aforethought.
\od there's the devil's race-horse which
lies around about this time, and, Uncle
[sau says chaws terbacker like a gentle
nan, and if he spits in your eye you'd
?o blind in a half-a-secood. And one
lay he showed me the devils darning
jeedlc which winds np the old fellow's
itockings, and the devils snuff-box,
vhich explodes when you mash it, and
me ounce of the stuff inside will kill a
?ound mule before he can lay down,
fheu there's some flowers that he wears
u his button-hole called" the devil's
shoestring" a nd the devil in the bush.
I like farniin. Its an honest, quiet
ife, and it does mc so much good to
vork and get all over in a swet of per?
spiration. I enjoy my nmble food and
ny repose, and got up every morniu re
uvenatcd like an euglo in his Hight, or
?ords to that effect. I know I shall
ike it moro and more, for we have nl
.eady passed thc ll a by com, and are be- I
?ming to reap the rewards of imlustry.
Spring chickens have got ripe, and the
jens keep Moomin ou. Over 200 now
?espond to my old 'omau's call every
liomin, as she totes around thc bread
;ray a eingio tehecky, tcheeky tebecky.
[ tell yon sh i watches those birds close,
or she knows the value of 'cm. She
sfas raised a Methodist ?be was, and
nany a time has watched through thc
?racks of thc door sadly, and seen the
preachers helped to the last gizzard iu
the dish. There was 54 chickens, 7
ducks, 5 goslings, 12 turkeys and 7
pigs batched out last week, and Daisy
hud a calf , and Mollie a colt besides.
I This looks like business, don't it
' This is what I call successful farmiu
multiplying and replenishing accordi
to Scripter. Then we have a plenty c
peas and potatoes and other gard i
yerbs, which helps a poor (ban ont, an
by the 4th of July will have wbe?
bread bisfcit, and blackberry pies, an*
pass a regular declaration of independ
enes.
I like fannio. I like latitude au
longitude. When we were penned u
io town my children couldn't have
sling-shot, or a bow and arrow, nor
chicken fight in the backyard, nor sid
a dog on another d?g, nor let off a bi*
Indian whoop without some nabor mak
iog a fuss about it. And then, again
there was a show, or a dance, or a ba
zar, or a missionary meeting, most ev
ery Hight, and it looked like the chil
dren were just obleeged tb go, or th
world would come to ed end. It wa
money, money, money, all the time, bu
now there isn't a store or a milliner
shop within five miles of us, and we d<
our own work, and have learned wba
it costs to make a bushel of corn and
barrel of flour, and by the time Mrs
Arp has nursed and raised a lot o
chickens and turkeys she thinks so mud
of 'em she don't want to kill 'em, ?fl<
they are a heap better and fatter thai
any we used to buy. We'eve got :
great.big fireplace in the family room
and can boil the coffee, or heat a ketti?
of water on the hearth if we want to
for we are not on the outlook for com
pany all the time like" we used to be
We don't cook half as much as we usec
to, nor waste a whol? parcel every dai
on the darkey, aDd *we eat what is se
before us, and are thankful,
It's a wonder to me- that everybody
don't go to farming. Lawyers and doc
tors have to set about town and plaj
checkers, and talk politics, and wait foi
somebody to quarrel or fight, or gel
sick ; clerks and book keepers figure
and p?n_ltiijVj ami ^JVTX Vu'j'j^ey gp?
to counting the stars, and thc"*fi^?^
the ceiling, and the peas in the i
and the flowers on the papering ; tir
jeweller sits by his window all the yeai
round, working on little wheels, and tb
mechanic strikes the same kind of a lid
every day. These people do not belonj
to themselves ; they are penned op liki
convicts in a chain-gang; they can'
tate a day nor an hour for recreation
for they are the servants of their em
ploycrs. There is no profession tha
gives a man-such freedom, such latitude
and such a variety of employment ai
farming.
While I was ruminating this morn
ing, a boy come along and said that thc
dogs had treed something down in thc
bottom. So me and my boys ?boul?
s^red the guns and an az, and took Mj|
Arjf^nd the chife^'aTo^g'l?Ve?'the
sport. TrVcut down a holler gum-tree
.and caught a 'possum and two squirrels,
and killed a rabbit on the run, and had
a good time generally, witb no loss on
our side. We can stop work most any time
to give welcome to a passing friend and
have a little chat, and our neighbors do
the same by us ; but if you go into one
of these factories or workshops, or even
a printing-office, the first signboard that
greets you says, "Don't, talk to the
workmen." Sociable crowd, ain't it?
There's no monotony upon-the farm.
There's something new everyday, and
the changing work brings' into action
every muscle in the human frame. * We
plow and hoe, and harrow and sow, and
gather in the harvest-time. We look
after the horses and cows, the pigs abd
sows, and the rams and the lambs., and
the chickens and the . turkeys, and'
geese. We cut our own wood and raise
our own bread and meat; and don't ta ve
tobe stingyof it like city folks. A
friend, , who visited us not long ago,
wrote back from the town that bb grate
don't seem bigger than the crown of a
bat since he sat by our great big friend?
ly fireplace.
" Uttt they: git the joke, ou me-some?
times, for you see I'm farmio according
to schedule, and it don't, always -make
things exactly luminous. For instance,
I it said that cotton seed was an excellent
I fertilizer. Well I had 'em, and as they
were a clean, nice thing fo handle, I
put 'em under most everything in my
garden?- ? was-monin inyun sets
heavy, and one-morning went out to
i persue 'em, and I saw the straight track
of a big mole under every row. He j
, had histed 'em all up about three inch-J
i es. He hadu't eat nary one, and .thinks
I to myself, he's jest a-going^' roun
a-smelling of'era. Next mornin all my
sets were a-settin about six inches up
with air right on top of the thickest
stand of cotton you ever did see. Now,
if I had read about spilin of 'cm, as my
oabors call it, before we used 'em, it
would have been more luminous. How?
soever, I knifed'em down and set. the
ioyuns back again, and nobody ain't
got a finer crop.
j Its a great comfort to me to set in my
piaza these pleasant eveuings and look
I over thc farm, and smoke the pipe of
peace, and ruminate. Humiliate upon
the rise and fall of empires and parties
and presidents and preachers. I think
wheu a mau has passed thc ltubycon of
li*?, and his share of trouble, smoking is
allowable, for it kinder reconciles him
to live on awhile longer, and promotes
pbilosofic reflections. I never knowed
a high-tempered mau to he fond of it
I may be mi-taken, but it seems to
be a little higher of happiness to lo<k
out upon the green fields of wheat and
thc leafing trees and the blue moun?
tain? in the distance and hear the dove
cooing to bis mate, and thc whippoor?
will sing a welcome to thc night, and
hunt flowers and hubby Morsums with
the children, and make whistles for VIII
and h ear om blow, und see'em got after a
jumping frog or a garter snake, and
hunt hens' nests, aud paddle in thc
branch and get dirty aud wet oil over,
and watch their patient and subdued
expression when they go borne, as Mrs.
Arp looks at 'em with amazement aud
exclaims, "Mercy ou me;- did ever a
poor mother have such a <et ! Will I
j ever get done making cl?>thcs? Put
j tlie.-e ou right clean fhra morning, and j
I not another clean rig in thc house!
j Go get me a switch, right straight ! go ?
j I will no! stand it P But she witt stand
it, and they knew it-especially if I re?
mark. "Yes, they c i.^ht to be whip?
ped." That saved Vin and by the time
j the switch comes the tempest is over,
i and some dry clothes are found, and if
i there is any cake in thc house they get j
i iU Blessed mother I forXuu4i^ ?ih.ildiet>l
What wto?ld they do without ' ber ?
Why her ve^-v scolding is music io their
ears'/*,I'm thw^kful there are some
tbing3'that'coruer\jQ the domestic circle
that Wall street cannot buy nor money
kings depress. \
ARP.
A New Indu8tr^Sw
Porpoise'fishing for the oil alo?w?
has bee? carried on for many yearsV
off the North Carolina coast, but la?t
Bummer a.company was formed with
its headquarters at Cape May, N. J.,
not only for trying out the oil, but for
utilizing the hide. The process of
rendering the oil is very simple, and
the average amount obtained is from
6 to 8 gallons. The experiment made
last summer by this company proved
quite successful, $3,740 being realized,
it is said, from an outlay of $1,000 in
five weeks fishing, and its facilities for
taking porpoises will be gr?atly in?
creased the coming season. The
"skin f the porpoise makes a very su?
perior, soft, and pliable leather, and j
the estimated value of each individual
for its oil and skin alone was placed
at $20.* Last autumn it was discov?
ered that the flesh made quite a
savory dish, and it became so popu?
lar at the fashionable watering places
along the coast that a Philadelphia
Sf m recently made a proposition to
take all that may be caught along the
coast this season, -with thc view of
working mach of it into mince meat.
The Cape May company, it is taid,
will reject the offer, as it already has
offers from prominent Philadelphia
and New York hotels and restaurants,
and it is believed that there wilLbe~a
demand for the meat which cannot be
met.
The meat is red aryL juicy, and re?
sembles in appearance beef, but is
more solid, finer grained; and very
tender ; much more like venison,
T^tnuV ?IWMIH ?TiMt'r- .f~i \:'"U'T
are taken io seines about l,00tr~?ew,-?
mpg and very wide, and when cap?
ped, if not already drowned, are
EsSd by' stabbing with knives. It
w?ulo>eera that the outlook for the
success <f a new and valuable indus?
try being\gtablished along our coast
was most eijellent.-Scientific Ameri
can. '
me of contention
'Russia, iscora
Lacc of such par
^taming bi rely
situated i a
?mit of ai kv
jwjij/'g. j?_if ,fj
_rats of the great Safeid
KoHiP^lfTlountains) range, which
rans across Northern; Afghanistan from
west to east?.. . It is surrounded by a
wall which measured from the base of
the earthen mound on which it stands,
attains a height of 75 fe?t; which is
considerably exceeded by several of the
150 towers that strengthen it. But
these defenses, though seemingly formi?
dable, are now, like those of most Af?
ghan fortresses, fast crumbling to decay
from long neglect. The citadel, like
thai c f Cairo, stands on a steep rock in
tbe centre, of-the town. There are four
bazaars, which lie just within the four
princi pal gates. The place has a con?
siderable' trade whb Persia; -India,
Turkestan and Western China,- the
chief local products being saffron, ossa
foetid a, saddlery,. caps; ' cloaks,, shoes,
carpets; sabl?s and dressed sheepskins.
The name of the town is said to be de?
rived from Heri '.Rad," or*river, which
flows .along the southern base of the
ridge' upon which Herat stands.-AT.
Y. Times. . .. Z
'? Nemesis.
Chief Detective Wood, of Washing?
ton, details ari interview he-had with
Stanton,, who was. believed to have
Judicially murdered"' Mrs. Suratt.
Wood represents Stanton as the picture
bf despair, and saying ''the Suratt wo?
man haunts me so that my nights are
sleepless and ray days are miserable/'
Putting his hand on his head? Stanton
continued, 'I cannot stand the pressure.
I am dying ; dyingsurely ; dying now.'
The,following day he was dead. We
hjfve it apoo creditable authority that
Stanton cut his own throat. One.of
his familiars-a distinguished North?
ern editor-told us Stanton was piti?
less and bloody. Nemesis 'overtook
this violent man, and be said be was
suffering the 'torments of hell' above
ground.-Richmond Christian Adv??
cate.
-- rn^m
The Mule.
The mule is a miracle of patience,
endurance and intelligence. The mol?is
naturally kind and gentle, and bis tricks
-his stubborc^,os,his vice.etc,-are the
result of hard treatment. The mule bas
ilways been a butt. Ile has meekly j
submitted to violence, to obloquy and to
2outempt. Where a horse is petted and
argued with, a mule is knocked on the
bead. Any irregularities of behavior j
in a horse are ascribed, to mettle, to
high blood, etc. He is admired as a
lofty minded creature, a proud aristo?
crat, and all that- Amul?is simply
cursed under similar circumstances
viewed as a pig-headed and malignant
brute and treated accordingly. You j
can ride a mule the darkest night along
& road infested with mts and bridges,
but he never will fall down, never put
his foot into a hole, never betray your
confidence. A hor&e will do ali these
things. In a word the horse depends
upon his rider, whereas the wisc rider
may safely depend upon his mule.-:
Columbia Register.
"I hope." she said to thc new boy in [
school, "that you do not indulge in the j
wicked and filthy habit of smoking j
cigars?" "NaW," replied the new boy i
in a burst of prowl disdain. "giinrue a j
clay-pipe and some niggerhead tobacco j
when ycii .want ruc to enjoy comfort ;
None ?' your fancy smokes for mc." 1
And then she knew that tho now boy ?
u'sod to clerk on a ralL-^L^irdeUc.
Mr. dc Browne-'.'May wc ask in '
what direction you ladies are going?" j
First Young Lady----'*We are' going to j
look ai some poor people's dwellings j
near herc.'" Algernon (aghast)-"Just j
fancy! Oh! I couldn't manage j
'slumbering.' I shouldn't bo wide :
enough awake, you know." Second [
Young Lady-"Ah! 'Slum'-bcring is j
more iu your linc, then." _.'_
forests v* 1-"-* .
" In the German sc$&atho Bost<>?
Fair are t\ro'pictures th';kattI?l?t o?e s
attention. They aire in d^fTm.es'
and are.covered withglass; Is3>
landscape background, agaihst^s"l:t
Is a bough cf a tree upon. .ivbichN^
perched a bird. Yon would think that,
they wer? a kind of embroidery with:
the" bird in very high relict But no;.
It is an oil painting with a real bTd.
(pressed rather flat) mounted on tho.
bough. The pictures are by one of tho.
?ssors at the Forest School a.t.Eiselj.
-Eisenach*, not far from, tfie for?
est o\?Vartburg, where Luther threw,
bis ink^and .at Mephistopheles. The:
person wdt? has charge of this, depart*
ment knowsS* good deal about .the. ioi-?
est schools.. ?K^he vast tracts of forest
that Germany haX there is not a square,
rod that is notundeV^?reftilinspection..
This is necessary in orater to keep up.
the supply of fuel, beclknse .the Ger-^
mans cannot bc induced to\any great
extent to burn coal, fearing ibanoxious,
gases. .. ;> ..\
The forests of Germany have ai
much of a history as those bf Engl
In the time of the crusades, when .
nobler wanted to get money to go 'to/
the east, the towns would buy their
woodlands; so it happens that there is:
hardly a town in Gennany. which, .dpe^
not possess line forest tracts. ' ?n?iti?
well that they should have got hold of
them, as the private owners seem to,
?ave been irresponsible personages. Lt
the sixteenth -century so many of them,
had got into the hands ot the Jews that,
many of the estates were forfeited. The?
new owners, in order to get at .their/
money in the quickest way, proceeded,'
to fell the timber. Thu? large/tracts,
were devastated. Afc this juncture the.
government stepped in and took the/
forests under its immediate protection;
and that was the beginning of the forest
royalty. Tiiey appointed.&sclass ?fof?.
" ficials i^o^^?r-^s?^?^?S?&?^
trees. Before entering one.o? the
?t is needful to have graduated from
one of the public schools; then to have
spent a year in the forests as assistant*
in order to have some practical knowl?
edge of the art; another six mon^r
must have beentlevoied to tfce st^iy ?f .
forest booking in order to bc able tc?
superintend the cutting f?o\selling of'
'^?'^wo?aC^Js?^S^?s^ of this time* the;
student is ready to enter the school,",
when a year and a half ' must be de- **
toted to the science and theery ol. thjfc
business- /
The cost of attending the lectures afc
the school is about .$40 a year, while,
the previous half -year . -given- to the;...
study of forest bookkeeping, has been,
at th? rate of $75 a year., -\yhile at th?,
school the students are /called forest,
practitioners, and affect the^air or the
university students. . They also affect a.
peculiar costume. This is ?shbi*tihr%h1^
greencloak, a;hat with the wing of ft.
forest bird arranged .on one side, and.;
high hunting boots. After graduating,
they go into the forests for five J
r*-^>ssistants, a5 a- salary of $1
_ lary
as forester they,
may be promoted to the position of for*
'sst inspector, in which position they
have four districts under their/ charge,.
receive, an annual salary-pf ;$700, with'
som? gratuities, and look out for the
moneys accruing from the timber.-'
They have now reached.the topmost
.bough to which, they can reasonably^
" hope to * attain. '* There ls* of course^
the position of ^-hoad: of th? Forest/
School at. the salary of ..$2,000. odd-i
?very munificent for Germany), but as:
tte chances for each one are only one ]
.inahundred, and.it is only the most,
^talented that are chosen,'it is to be pre- '
sumed that they "do not reckon on it
with any confidence These foresters .
. support thirteen newspapers especially'."
dedicated "to their science, two of wMch:,
.are, illustrated, and, by them,'the sci-"'
enc? of arboriculture is carried to the
highest pitch of perfection. As one.
: expresses it, .''the forests of Germany '
are as. carefully looked after as a gar?
den-patch1' . " " " . .'
Costly; Woods Crom Afar.
Perhaps the finest and most,
brought to . this country, so fine and/
costly indeed that it is rarely used sol*
id. but for veneering, is what is called/
'f?ench walnut, which does not; howev*
er, como from Franec, being grown on* i
ly in Persia and. Asia Minor. As the"
tree is crooked and dwarfed, large .
pieces .can rarely.be obtained, from it,',
and.-it. is ehiefiyevaluable . for the'*
churls," e.? tough excrescences which .
grow, upon the trunks These, when .
polished, are of singular and striking .
. beauty, the'grahxl^in^J^^icd in beilul,
tittil,' though symmetrically,- intricate^
figures. Next to this so-called French
walnut* ebony is probably , the most
; valuable of tbb cabinet woods. Ebony,
also, is difficult to get in pieces of size?..
-a fact which quite as much as its deep .
dark hue causes it to be prized. Rose--.
wood and mahogany are also choice
woods, and ar? just now particularly
fashionable and in demand. The best [
mahogany is that' of San Domingo,
though nearly as good wood comes
from Cuba, Honduras, Mexico and Af* .
rica These woods are to be had at.
fair prices, as there is a considerable
quantity in the market. Fair rose- ?
wood is selling in the market for from .
oj to 7 cents a pound, in the log. Of
the domestic woods, bird's-eye maple
is very handsome for cabinets, and is .
very populan Thc rod variety of
beech is a beautiful wood, arid can be'-'
made to imitate cherry. Oak, ash and
whitewood can be worked--up very.*
handsomely by simply usiirg a- good'"
filler and bringing out tko'-natural",
beauty of tue wood by har&.j-olishmg- *
Black walnut c/ the best f]ual% also/
presents a beautiful appearance when
subjected to the samo treatment.
T?tuted States SfaJiontr' . . .
"Where would we be without wo*/,
man?" asked a writer. We would be
all right; but thc- little pug dog-,
where would it be? * /. - /
Things one would rather have left'
unsaid: Dearest friend (admiring the '
new portrait)-"How sweet! Howr
charming! How prcttv! And vet so
like!" . ?-Vi
A Connecticut m?n /had to entertain '
bis own motlier and bis wife's mother '
for a week at the same lime, and'he*
says he is now ready to join any show
as a lion-tamer. ? ? -
Mistress to new cook: ''Wednesdays .
and Saturdays I shall go to market
with you." ?New cook: "Very well, :
mum; but whose a goiu' to carry the
basket the other days, muni?"
A Louisville lady has sued for adi-'
vorcc, asserting that her husband has '
not done any work for fourteen years.
There arc some women who want a
man to bc on the jump ail thc time.- .
"What will the eom?ng wof?f?rt" '
wear ?" asked a fashion magazine. If'
she's anything like thc present woman, :
and you take her word for it, she will
have* "absolutely noi iring to wear." g '? -
"No," said Sylvia, "Hallie would/;
not admit thu: she had young Mr.--X
Bonnifaee at her foot, though he is/a.1; ,
singularly handsome man nn'd> very ;
popular. You see hois ? ehir?poi??L .