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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17
THE LUDICROUS.

There is so great charm in the sportive
play Of fancy and wit, that there is no dan
ger Of their being neglected and undervalued,
or that the native talent for them will re-
main undeveloped our chief solitude must
be to keep them, even in their wildes. flights,
still in subject to duty and benevolence.-
We must not allow ourselves to be betray-
ed into an approving smile at any illusions
of wit and humor which are tnctured in the
slightest degree by iIl-nalure. A child will
watch the expression Of our countenance,
to see how far he may venture, and if he
finds that he has the power to amuse US in
spite Of ourselves we have no longer any
hold over him from respect, and he will go
rioing on in his sallies until he is tired, and
seek at every future opportunity to renew
his triumph. Wit, undirecet by benevo-
lence, generally falls into personal satire
the keenest instrument Of unkinduess !; it is
so easy to laug h a. the expense Of our friends
and neighbors-they furnish such ready
materials for our wit, that all The moral forces
require to be arlayed against the propensi-
ly, and its early indications checked. We
may sa,irize error, but we must compassion
ate the erring, and this We mus! always teach
by example to children, not only in what
we say of others before them, but in our
treatment of themselves. We should never
use ridicule towards them, except when it
is SO evidently good-na,ured, that its spirit
cannot be mistaken the agony which SEN
si.ive child feels on being held up before
others as an objec, OF ridicule, even for a
lriling error, a mistake, or a peculiarly, is
not soon forgotten nor easily forgiven.-
When we wish, therefore, to excite con.ri-
ton for a serious fault, ridicule should never
be employed, as the feelings it raises are d.
rec.ly opposite 10 self Representatives,
tion of tie Feelings.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17
INDIAN CORN CULTURE.

We publish, for the information of our
agricultural friends, the following article
from the Easton, Nd, pepers. We hope The
competition which j: invites will be boil,
general and thorough:
The Ru0in Premium is open to compe-.
'ition by The farmers Of Maryland, and by
those of Virginia, Ess, of the Blue Ridge
mountains. IN illustration Of the one class
OF subjects, TO wit Experimental inves,l
CATION, recommended by Edmund RuAin,
Esq, in his lecture delivered before The
Agricultural Society of Talbot county,
Nd, in N ovember last, and to les, gene
raj practice Of questionable utility, aud by
which, if it be wrong, as it is supposed TO
be, the value of millions OF dollars may be
annually lost 10 the farmers of the u. States,
Mr.. Ruf1in has presented TO those Societies,
the following valuable premiums, to he a.
warded as follows.
For the best set Of experiments 10 be
made IN 1851. serving TO show the degree
Of injury Gf any caused 10 The product and
value of Indian corn by stripping of The tops
above The ears-or by both these operations,
as usual, compared with cutting eff the Gu
tire plan. close to the ground .. somewl,a,
later period, and securing the whole in
shocks-and all these compared with Germ
left standing and entire: The Farmers
Register in volumes handsomely bound and
appropriately inscribed-$55 90.
For The second, third and fourth grade Of
experiments, one bound copy of Ru1in's
Essay on Calcareous manures to each.
Note.-Each space for the different OF
serva.ions shall not be less than IA of an
acre. The measure and weigh, of the grain
from each space shall be ascer,ained precise
ly. The quantities Of other provender, lis
condition and value, which may be asceI-
tanned by estimate, and with such approx
nation 10 precision ss the stated circum-
stances may admit. The dates Of each ope-
ration to be stated, and for each the apparen.
degree Of maturity or other condition of the
corn.
Each experimenter shall measure his sevc-
raj parcels and she'll and measure and weigh
one half Of each parcel on or about the lst
of January next, and shall she'll and measure
and weigh the other half on or abou. the
lst of May next.
In awarding the premium, the Judges will
have regard TO all the circumstances, and
decide in favor of the competitor whose ex-
perments shall best combine iudicious
plan of conduct accurate procedure in details,
full and accurate results, and also such les-
timony of the important facts as the crcum-
stances will admi. Of being furnished.
Five competent and dsin,eIested gentle
men will in due time be selected to &C. as
Judges. Competitors will repor. on or be-
fore the 20h May next, by addressing at
Easton, Md,
NJ. TILGMAN GOLDSBOROUGH,
Sec'y Board Of Trustees of The Md. AZ. Sc
ciety for the Eastern Shore, and
DAVID KERR,
Sec'y Of Farmers Inspecting Association Of
Tslbo, county.
Talbo. county, Aug. %, 1851.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

wolves opened upon him, and awakened
him to sense Of danger. lie placed his
hands over his eyes, fell on his face and ST.
lent agony awaited his fate. lie now heard
a rustling in the bushes; steps approaching;
a cold chill ran over him. Imagination
creative, busy imaginary, was actively en-
ipoyed; death, the most hoIrid death await
ed him; his limbs would in all probability
be torn from him, and he be dcvoured a
live. lie fel. touch-lhe vital spark was
almost xtIDguished-anolher touch more
violent than the first, and he was turned over.
The cold sweat ran down in torren.s-his
hands were violently forced from his face
the moon passed from under the cloud-a
fain, ray beamed upon him !; his eyes in
voluntarily opened, and he beheld his wife,
who, in a scarce audible voice exclaimed,
"Ny husband my husband~ and fell up
on his bosom.
Morgan now learned from his wife, that
after the Indians entered the house they
found some spirits, and drank freely an
alteration took place-one Of them receiv-
ed mortal stab and fell +; his blood ran
through the floor on her. Believing it to
be the blood of her husband, she shreked
aloud and betrayed her place Of conceal
ment
She was Immediately taken and bound.
The party, after setting fire to the house,
proceeded 10 Byran,'s Station. On the day
of The battle Of Blue Licks, horse, with o
saddle and bride, rushed by which she knew
to be her husbands. During the action, the
prisoners were left unguarded, made their
escape, and lay concealed beneath some
bushes, under the bank of the river. After
the Indians had returned from the pursuits,
she had left the battle ground with some
others, who had escaped with her delermin-
ed to make search for their friends, and, if
on the field living, to save them, il possible,
from the beasts Of prey. After searching
for some time, and almost desparing of sue
cess, she fortunately discovered him.
The party of Col Logan found Morgan
and his wife, and restored them to their
friends, their infant and their home.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17
MIS- f Ii A n E lou s.
A THRILLING NARRATIVE.

Jsmes Morgan, native Of Mary land, mar
rled .. an an early age, and soon after sci,
tied near Byran,'s station in the wilds o
Kentucky. Like most pioneers of the west
he had cut down the cone, built cabin
deadened The timber, enclosed field will
q worm fence and planted some corn.
!. Yves on the 7!h Of Angus, 1882. The
surrounding wood the cane bowed under
It's influence, and the broad green leaves oi
the corn waved in the air. Morgan had
seated himself in the door Of his cabin, with
his infant on his knees. His young and
happy wife had laid aside her spinning
wheel, and was busily engaged in preparing
the frugal meal. That afternoon he had
accidentally found bundle Of letters which
he bad finished reading 10 his wife before
he had taken his seat in the door. IT was
correspondence in which they acknow-
ledged an ardent and early attachment Cor
each other, and The perussl left eviden, traces
Of JOY in the countenances of both The III
tie infant, too, seemed to par,ake of IFS pa
rents feelings BY its cheerful smiles, play
tul humor and inlantile caresses. While
thus sgreeably employed, the report of a
rifle was heard another followed in quick
succession. Morgsn sprang to his feet, his
wife ran to the door, and they both stimuli
tsneously exclaimed "lndians ~
The door was Immediately barred, and
the mex, moment their fears were realized
by bold and spirited attack of small par
~ OF Indians. The cabin could be success
fully defended, and time was precious
Morgan, cool, bave and prompt, soon de-
cided. While he was in the act Of conceal
ing his wife under the floor, mothers feel
ings overcsme her-she arose, seized the
infant, bu. was afraid that its cries woul,
betray the place Of concealment. She hesi
iated-gazed silently upon ia momenta
ry struggle between duty and affection took
place. She once more pressed her child te
her sgi,a.ed bosom, and again and AGAR
kissed it with impassi oned tenderness. The
infant, alarmed o. the profusion of tears tha
fell upon lis cheek, looked up in its mother.
face, threw its little arms around her neck
and wept aloud. s'In the name of heaven
Elizs, release The child or be lost.'' said ,h,
distracted husband, in soft, imploring tone
as he forced the infant from his wife, has,i
ly took up his gun, knife and ha,chet, an,
ran up the ladder that led TO his cham
Der and drew it after him. In a momen
the door was burst open and the savage
entered.
BY this time Morgan had secured his chill,
in bag, and lasbed it to his back ,hei
throwing of some claptoafds from The cab
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

RELIEF FROM FLIEs.-Take two or three
handfuls Of walnut leaves, uPonwhich pour
two or three quarts of water let it inluse
one night, and pour the whole mex, morn
ing into tea-ke.,le, and let i. boil a quar-
ter Of an hour; when cold it will be fit for
use. No more is required than to moislen
sponge, and before the horse goes ou, of
the stable let those parts which are most
irritable be smeared over with the liquor,
namely, between and upon the ears, the
neck, the flank, SC. Not only the lady or
gentleman who rides ous for pleasure will
derive benefit from the walnut leaves thus
prepared, bu. the coacbman, the WAGNER,
and all others, who use horses during the
hot months.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17
HEATIlEN TRADITIONS OF TIE
AFTER LIFE.

The traditions and opinions Of mankind
concerning the state after death, have, apart
from written revelation, SO great unilormi-
ty, that the can did inquirer must, Of neces-
sily, attribute them to one fountain head
He may if he peases, call this the voice Of
nature; but the voice of nature either means
the voice of God, or i. means nothing.
The Egyptians represented the soul as
brought after death into the presence of its
judges, attended by accusing and approving
spirits. The Greek mythology, which was
likewise adopted by their imialors in every
thing, the Romans, carried the soul across
the river Styx, in the boat Charon, to the
bar Of three righteous judges, under whose
award it passed to an appropriate abode, ac-
cording to its work on earth,-lhose
ssWho suffered wounds
In fighting for their country's cause ; aud priests
Who kept their souls unspottcd, whilst their lives
Endured and pious bards whose warbled strains
Did honor to Apollo those who polished
Life by invented arts and such as made
Their memories dear to others by their deeds
OF goodness
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17
POI E T r Y.
STANZAS.

From poem by Miss .4lice Carey.l
Very pale lies Annie Clayville.
Still her forehead, shawdow crowned,
And the watchers hear her saying,
AS they softly tread around
"Go out, reapers, for the hill-tops
Twinkle with the summers heat;
Lay out your swinging cradles
Golden burrows Of ripe wheat!
While the little laughing children,
Lightly mixing work with play,
From between the long green winrows,
Clean the sweetly-sented hay;
Let your sickles shine like sunbeams
In the silver flowing rye;
Ears grow heavy in the corn-felds,
That will claim you by-and-by;
Go out, reapers, with your sickles,
Gather home the harvest store!
Little cleaners, laughing cleaners,
1 shall go with you no more!''
Round the red moon of October,
White and cold the eve-stars climb,
Birds are gone, and flowers are dying;
IT'S a lonesome, lonesome time.
Yellow leaves along the woodland
Surge to drift; the elm bough sways,
Creaking at the homestead window
All the weary nights and days
Dismally the rain is falling,
Very dismally and cold,
Close, within the village grave yard,
BY heap of freshset mould
With simple nameless head-stone,
Lies low and narrow mound;
And the brow of Annie CIayville
Is no longer shadow crowned.
Rest thee, lost one rest thee calmly,
Glad to go where pain is Ger;
Where they say not, thro' the night time,
81 am weary!" any more.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17
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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

A learned counsel once said to a witness
"Sir, did understand you /" say that you
saw the defendant strike the pla'nl,t1 - 81
know not wha. you may have understood" j."
said the witness, ''but if my eyes served me
properly, certainly did witness ma
nguvre ,ha. would warrant such descrlp-
tion."
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

"Pray, sir,' said Lady Wallace to David
Hume, 81 am often asked wha. age am
wha, answer should make 30 Mr.. Hume,
Immediately guessing her ladyshp's mean
ing, said, "Nladam, when you are asked that
question again, answer that you ore not ye!
come 10 the wears of discre.ion."
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

DECIDEDLY Cool "A very cool answer
from sophomore is indelibly recorded
among the memories of our college days.
Professor - had peculiar red nose
so red indeed, that, it was usually deemed
sign thu, the interior of the temple was
dedicated to Bacchus. Upon this point the
Professor was peculiarly y sensitive.
One day chestnut, propelled by some
invisible hand, HURLED across the room,
and came so violently in contact with the
learned gentIeman's bald pate, that ,'glsnciDg
off, it spun almos. up to the ceiling.
'Mr. F." thundered out the Profess
sor, "lhat was you, sir; ] know it sir,
dom. deny it, sir, your bushes betray you,
sir"
"Do you think that blush, sir?' modest
ly asked the student
"Blush !" re.or,ed the Professor "Your
face is as red as bee,'
"Pardon me, sir," replied F.. 81 think
it's only the reflection of Iigh. perhaps yow
looked at me over your nose."- College
Words and Customs. .....
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

When the Persian poet HaGz was asked
by the philosopher Zenda wha. he was good
for, he replied, "Of what use is a flower :"
"A flower is good to SMELL" said the philoso-
pher s'And am good to smell IT." SAID
the poet.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

The swee, light Of friendship is, like the
light of phosphorus, seen plainly when all
ar ound is dark
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

The Iicen,ous never love; and when even
levi,y preponderates, there Is seldom any
pure and ardent passion.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

Love is Of the nature Of a burning glass,
which, KEEP, sill in one place, fireh, but
changed often, II doth nothing.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

When the winds of applause blow fresh
snd strong, then steer with steady hand.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

posed echo TO be the voice Of the departed
II was common belief of the Indians o
America, that the spirits of the slain haunt,
ed their tribe till they were avenged.
The first profile portrait taken was tha
OF Anligonus, a General under Alexander
the Great. Having but one eye his Likeness:
was SO drawn, 3. c.. $50.
50 necessary at one time was coffee con.
sidered by the Turks, that the refusal t,
supply it in reasonable quantity to vile
was reckoned among the legal causes for O
divorce.
The speed Of lightning is so great, that i,
can 60 four hundred and eighty times around
the earth in one minute.
Small beer contains one and a half per
cent. Of alcohol; ale, seven per cent; por-
ter, four and half; brown stout, six and
three quarters; Burton ale, eigh. and hall
per cent.
E'ymologis,s find out queer things q,
times. The word 'bob," We. used to frighten
children is the name of fierce barbarian
General, who lived B. c., 60, and who was
so feared that his name became an exclama-
lion TO excite terror.
In the sixteenth century, poisoning was
punished in Eoglan by boiling the crimi-
mails 10 death.
Butter made in hot countries is generally
liquid. In India, it is called ghee, and is
mostly made Of buflaloes' milk The Arabs
are the greatest consumers of butter in the
world, and i. is common practice among
all classes to drink, every morning, cup
full of melted butter, or ghee.
The Latin aaina, the soul, is derived from
SsnscriPt an, the wind. The Greek psyche,
The soul, is connected with, and probably
derived from. psychos, cold air. The Greek
pneuma, spirit, is from pmeo to blow
Our word spirit is from spiro, to breathe or
blow. The Hebrew word for spilit signi-
ies air or breath. Our word ghost, q spirit,
is of Saxon origin, and the same with gust,
a blast Of wind.-.4rihur's Home Gazette.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

The true motives of our actions, like the
real pipes Of an organ are usually conceal
ed but the gilded hollow pre,ext is pomp-
ously placed in front Of the show.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17
were admitted TO-
EThc realms of ia

"Thc realms of ioy,
Delightful haunts of never fading green
The blessed seats in groves of happiness,
Where ether more ditiiIsive robes the fields
In purple glory
Here they gave themselves up TO the more
rational pleasures of our nature, following.
a. the same time such paths to happiness,
and such occupations, as had been dear Ia
them in life. Blu. the wicked were cast
down into hell, place inhabited by care,
sorrow, disease, want, fear, hunger, toll,
Sc, and in which
ssAn hundred tongues,
An hundred mouths, and speech by iron lungs
Inspired, could not cnumerate the names
OF all their punishments.'
The Scandinsvians taught, tha. the brave
were TO revel forever in the halle of Valhalla,
and drink mead, offered them by maidens,
from the skulls Of their enemies. Some of
the Pagan Arabs said, that of the blood near
the brain bird was formed, which once in
century visited the sepucI,re; aud others
believed in resurrection. The first native
Of this continent seen by the Spaniards
taught that the souls of good men went to
pleasant valley, where all kinds of fruits
were abundant; and that the dead walked
abroad in the night, and feasled with the
living. Charlevoin says that the Indians
paid great regard to dreams, as embracing
an intercourse with spirits. They imagin-
ed paradise in the West, land where ma
ture glowed with an eternal sunset. The
Mexicans supposed three places for the de-
parted: the House of the Sun, for such as
fell in battle, or died cap,ives, and women
who perished in child-bed the place of the
God of Water, for the drowned, for those
who died of dropsy, tumors, and of similar
diseases, or of accidental wounds and the
place OF Darkness, in the centre of the earth.
The Patagonans, in mentioning the dead,
call them those who are with God, aud on,
OF the world. The Tongo people suppose
the souls of their dead chiefs to be in de-
lighllul island of shsdaws, The Yuca,a.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

RELIGION AT IIoME.-sLei them learn
first" says Paul "lo show piety al home"
Religion begins in the family. One Of the
holiest sauctuaries on earth is home. The
family altar is more venerable than any ALTAR
in the Cathedral The education of The soul
for evern,y begins at the iresile. The
principal of love, which is to be carried
though the universe, is first un(olded in the
family.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

"MANY A SLIP BETWEEN THE CUP AND
THE Llr."-This saying was supposed TO
take its origin from one Of Penelope's WOO
ers being shot as he was going to d'ink.-
Blu, it arose, as Ainsworth has it, thus -
"a king of Thrace had planted vineyard,
when one of his slaves, whom he had much
oppressed in ,ha. very work prophesied tha.
he, the king, should never taste the wine
produced by it. The king disregarded the
prophecy, and when a. an entertainment he
held the cup full of his own wine, be sent
for this slave, and asked him, insul,ingly,
wha, he thought Of his prophecy now p
The slave only answered There's many q
slip between the cup and the lip Scarce
ly had he spoken when news was brough,
.ha. huge boar was laying his viney ard
waste. The king arose in fury, attacked
the boar, and was killed, wi.hou. ever 'ast-
ing the wine."
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

CHEERrULNEss.-Pers who are al
ways cheerful aud good-humored are very
useful in The world; they maintain peace
and happiness, and spread thankful tenn
DER amongst all who live around them.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

nese represeet the abode Of the good as a
Pleasan. land Of plenty, under the shade of
a mighty tree. The Chickasaws believed
that The souls Of the red men walked up and
down near the place where they died, or
were laid; and said that they had often
heard cries and noises where prisoners had
been burned. The Indians Of Cumana sup
posed echo TO be the voice Of the departed.
1t was common belief of the Indians of
America, that the spirits of the slain haunt
ed their tribe till they were avenged.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-09-17

The first profile portrait taken was that
OF Aniigonus, General under Alexander
The Great. Having but one eye his likeness
was SO drawn, &. c.. $50.
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