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The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20
Preservation of Potatoes for Seed.

Mr.. J N Chandler correspondent
of the Patent Office at, Washington,
speaking of the preservation of pota-
toes for seed, says the potato. when first
obtained from its native mountains, was "A
small. watery and even bitter tuber, but
by cultivation it has been brought into so
high and refined state, that most Of the
countries of the civilized globe, look at it
as one of the most important art clrs of
food. In answer to the question by what
means has 1t been made chief article of
food, he says, By violating tie lans Of ma
ture.
Every one who has ever noticed the
difference between the flavor of potato
in the fall when first dug, and one in the
spring which has been kept in dry cellar,
has observed that the flavor becomes much
paired-much more so than those which
are buried in holes in the earth, where
they retain nearly all their freshness and
vitality. 1t has been observed that farm
ers who have small, and inconvenient cell
lars; keep their potatoes in better condi-
ton than those who keep them in large
cool ones. Hence storing them in the lat
ter, and letting them wilt before planting,
and are subject to degeneracy and finally
to disease
In order to obtain good potatoes for seed
make choice of a small spot of ara
bic land on whie h water will not stand
eastern and new ground are the best
plowed early in the spring, furrowed 4 or
5 inches deep, 2 1-2 feet apart. Select
midling sized potatoes which have touch
ed the ground during the winter previous.
Drop one every inches along the fur
rows anil cover them by filing the fur
rows with earth. Then cover them with
a top dressing of forest leaves or straw,2
inches deep. AS soon as the tops of the
Young plants are 9 inches high, pass be-
tween them with shovel pillow, follow with
a hoe,i destroying the weeds and level
ing the ground; do not hill. This is all
you have to do until fall When the
ground begin to freeze, cover with straw
chaff, or forest lie yes, six inches deep to
keep them from frost. Your potatoes
will now have chance to ripen and last
during the winter. In this way you will
have the greatest yield, and best quality.
Continue this course from year to year,
and the rot will not only disappear, but
your crop will increase fronA25 to 100
per cent The third year you may increase
your field crop by plowing in fine ma
nure. ''You will now have had nature s
course"
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20
NUMBER Is.
A Pointed Inauiiy.

''Couldn't you gel young pork, ma'am
to bake with ycur beans?' said Old
Roger, somewhat cynieally, as he set at
the table one Sunday.
"They told me it was young said the
lahdlady.
"Well. it may be SO, but gray hair is
not juvenile feature, by any means, in
our latitude, ma am" continued he, fish
ing up hair about foot and half long,
with his fork. ''He may have been young,
but he must have lived very wicked life
to be gray so soon.'
As he spoke he looked along the table,
and slight emotion was visible among
the boarders, and the man who set oppo-
site with his mouth full of the edibles, with
which he had been endeavoring to smoth-
er laugh, grew dark with the effort. and
then collapsed, scattering dismay and
crumbs amid the nicely plated folds of old
Rogers shirt frills.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20
Getting Married.

1t is curious to come to note how peo-
ple's ideas of preparation fer this species
of amusement vary. Nose and Lie take
a notion to each other Nose buys a
second hand bedstead, three wooden
chairs, a table, a small looking glass and
a light stand, while Lie provides hen
feather bed, four sheets and two coverlids,
a table cloth, six towels, some little minor
arrangements, with the disposition to
make the best of everything forthwith;
two dollars are paid lor the minister's
blessing upon their joint adventure on
house keeping, the scene whereof is a
three story back room with a seven-by-
nine chamber attached, where the first
baby is born, before either parent is of
age. Mr.. Count-the- Cost, on the other
hand, never thinks of the matter until he
is thirty, courts Miss Prudence for four
teen years, perpetually putting off the
happy day. because he hadn't got quite
enough to by nine -storied marble front
On Style street, and finish two suits of re-
ception rooms in ebony and silver; prefer
ing { for >uch acquisition to wait un il
both are too old. They buy the big house
have a grand wedding, a great many ene-
mics, few friends, and no children. At
ter the property is at length equally di-
vided between the 'Timbuctoo Moral Re-
form Association, and the lawyers, who
contestlhe will in behalf of a blind cousin
who fights it on tie ground of INSANITY,
alleging the long courlship Of tie partit S
as evidence thereof. The cousin being at
length ruined, the sTimbuctoo' directors
compromised by paving the opposing
counsel's fees and costs, and the marble
front, with all its belongings, is converted
into cash. Ten years afterwards, the
book of the sexton, and the Stone in the
cemetry, are the only records of the ex-
istence of Mr. Count-the cost and his for
COTTON bride. Funny world very Wor-
ceytsr Transcript.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

H The tear of a loving girl (says
Moeser from the German, is like dew
drop on the rose; but that on the cheek of
wife, is drop of poison to her husband.
Try to appear contented, and your hus-
band will be so; and when you have made
him happy, you will become 50, not in ap-
pearance, but in reality. The skill required
is not great. Nothing fatters a man SO
much as the happiness Of hi wife; he is
always proud of himself as he source oft.
Here is my happiness; my husband is
my best companion, my children are my
Jewels; my house is my lone, and no
earthly pleasure excrls that of considering g
it Il domestic paradise-a centre of attrac-
ton to my family, so that they are nc
where else so happy; a place too Of wei
come and grateful reception to the stran-
ger.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

A SINGULAR VILLA man named j.
de Dios Chacon, recently died at Lima.
Peru, leaving fortune of one million of
dollars, all won at the gambl ng table
He willed the whole to woman residing
in the city, On condition that she should
give pessta( quarter..of a dollar) each day
to every convalescent discharged from the
hospital, and receive hundred poor men
and women daily at her table. In case
Of the legatee neglecting to fill either of
the provisions above mentioned, the usu-
fruc. OF the money is to be vested in the
Governments of France and England. on
the same conditions.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20
The BENEFITS of faith i'm the Doctor.

1t was about the close of the last CEN
tury that Benjamin D. Perkins, an A
merican surgeon pracdcing in London,
announced the sensitive virtues of what
he called "Me;allic Tractors" They
were couple of small tapering pieces OF
metal--one zinc and the other copper
which the practitioner drew along in re-
peated passes near the patient effected
with disease, giving out that thus the
disease was some how draw or magnetic
ed away. For time persons afflicted
with gout, rheumatism, and other disor-
derS, came in vast numbers TO Mr.. Per
kins to be healed. His tractors, for which
he mad taken out patent were sold at
FIVE guineas pair. The Society of
Friends, TO which he hnlonged. benevo-
lently raised hospital in which he might
pracli e on the poor. At length a Dr..
Haygarih, of Bath hit upon a method OF
Exposing the fallacy of he trac ors.
He suggested TO DR.. Falconer La they
should make wooden tractors, paint them
to resemble the steel f? ones and see if
the very same effects would not be pro-
duced. Five persons were chosen from
the hos pital in Bath upon whom to ope
rate. Four of them suffered from rheu-
matiSm in the ankle, knee. wrist, and hip
and the fifth had been afflicted for seve-
raj months with The gout. Ga the day
appointed for the experiments DR.. Hay
garth and his friends assembled at the
hospital, and with much solemnity
brought forth the fictitious tractors.
Four out of the five patients said their
pains were Immediately relieved. and very
much benefited. One fels his knee warm
er, and said he could walk across the
room. He tried and succeeded, although
on the previous day he had not been a
bic to stir. The gouty man felt his pains
diminish rapidly, and was quite easy for
nine hours, until he went to bed, when
the twitching began again. On the fol-
lowing day the tractors were applied to
all the patients, when they described their
symptoms in nearly the same terms.
To make still more sure, the expert
ment was tried in the Bristol In6rmary,
a few weeks afterwards, on man who
had rheumatic affection in the shoulder
so severe as to incap4citate him from
lifting his hand from his knee The fc
titious tractors were brought and applied
to the afflicted part-one of the physi
clans, TO add sofemnity TO the scene, draw
ing stop watch from his pocket to cal
culate the time exactly, while another,
with pen in his hand, sat down to write
the change of symptoms from minute to
minute as they occurred. In less than
four minutes the man felt so much re-
lieved that he lifted his hand several IN
ches without any pain in the shoulder"
There are cases in which the medi-
cine or treatment may have affected a
cure, more or less thorough and perma
nent, but in a wholly indirect manner
It's effect in hese cases is owing to the
Intervention of a mental affection on the
part of the patient. Maladies in which
this principle applies are chiefly of ner-
vous character.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20
1postrp.@-
THE FARMER.

THE FARMER.
Does the farmer dig the dirtS
Aye, aye;
Does he wear a coarse shirtS
Ave. ave;
And if his cheek is brown
. With the kisses Of the sun,
Is he less a gentleman9
Nay, nay.
Does the farmer plow and sow2
Aye, aye;
Does he WELD the SPADE and hoe?
Aye, aye;
And if his hand is hard,
And his feet be roughly shod,
Shall we give him less regard3
Nay, nay.
Does the farmer work for all?
Hgs Aye, aye;
Labors he for great and small?
Aye, aye;
If from out the farmers store
Comes the bread for rich and poor,
Should we honor him the more?
Yes, yes.
Give the farmer then his due;
Aye, aye;
Though he SERVES, he's MASTER too,
Aye, aye;
And may Heaven its blessings shed
Down upoa the farmers head,
Till we cease our cry for bread,
Aye, aye.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20
A Rich Love Letter.

rPIcKED UP INIHE STREET BY oUR DEVIL.
To Mlster--: Aint you ashemed
of yure Sc ph tew kort orl the gals then
denui lit, yew ment Nee then at enne
Rate yew korted me, yes yew du no it.,
and [ know it and marin no it, and dad
nose it tew, and marin ust tew SKIOLD me
phor burnin out so much lie, and HANDLES
Wen WI ust to set up so late with me, |
know you aint forgott the happy minits
whot we spent Together wen yew ust to
klasp me tew yure bussum and ust to
grippe nv arm round yewer blessed body
an then fele yure Hart beet Agin mine
warnt they Bills, full minits, and kud yew
hay Hart to leve oph klere owt and leve
me SO, wal orl is ph yewl onny jus cum
Back lie forgiv yew now won yew that is
deer Mise young man an not leve me a
victim tew on wrk vited luve.
ps the Widder hcz got bow dad hez
killed the Pigg, un unkel tom haz killed
hiSn and Mary Smith hez got Baybee,
end we are goin tew have neu barn an
singin skule KUN hum an see me sune
fyr if yew aint a goln tew hev me lie git
S m other feler so their now.
don't yewer sea Your turkil duv
A sittln on yonder rea
1t is a murnln for its truw luv
Dew murine to be. With the
VICO Ia SEMANT A M CONDEN.
Number 2 pleee rite Nee.
] with trott nov The % ninte 1900 forty 8.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

MISD Your DORIS. A Kentucky member
ofcongress wrote to. his wife on his arrival
at Washington city, that he had formed
connection with a very agreeable Ness,
and expected to spend the winter very
pleasantly" Unfortunately to the surprise
and modification Of the good lady to.
whom he was writing, be inadvertently
dotted in the word Ness
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

~ THE Bu9ato Express says the au
thor Of this rhyme deserves to be "nip
ped by untimely frosts:
'Tis winter, and no more the breezes
Buz among the budding freezes;
And while the boy with ragged trowses,-
Shivering homeward, drives the cowses,
Newly frost-bit are his toses,
And bless my life, how cold h is nose is +!
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

~ Little children!-angels that throng
our pathway, and draY our feet from the
by-ways ofsin and crime. How much
the world is indebted to them for their
saving influence, for the controlling power
they exercise oyer the mid of man.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

GE The editor of the Burlington Re.
corder bears witness that he recently dis
covered in "A tiourishing city on the line of
the New Jersy railroad. graveyard in
winch stood tombstone, on which was
inscribed the following touching and SIM
pie, yet exquisitely poetic epitaph:
'.He wqS a good eggt'
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

EE Eliza Emery warns all the girls OF
the South and West, to look out for her
gay deceiving runaway husband. David.
Thinks, he may be easily known: and to
prove so, says-"David has scar On his
nose where scratched it"
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

L1FE--For every one life has some bles-.
sing-some cup that is not mixed with
bitterness. At every heart there is some
fount of pure waters, and all men at some
time or other taste their sweetness. Who
is he that has not fonud in his path of
life, some fragrant rosebush, seeming all
the air with its sweet perfume.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

@ Sometimes we impute to an un-
lucky or cross accident those chagrins
whose origin is entirely in the intempera-
ture of our humors, or in some disposition
of air that oppresses our machine
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

HWe are acquainted with printer
who is so enthusiastic in his business, that
Re never sits down to dinner without in
sisling on seeing "a proof of the pud--
ding
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

HA notice of the recent steamboat t
explosion ends as follows:
"The captain swan ashore. So did the
chambermaid. She was insured for Sis,
OoO and loaded with iron' A valuable
chambermaid, that.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

G#'There's our Gershom,' said Mr..
Shelton, 'he must go off to the city to get
a living by his wits
well, how did he make out?' asked a.
friend,
'Ah!' said the old man, with sigh,
tapping his forehead significantly, 'he
failed for want of capital!'
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

Southern Sketch bya Southern Editor.
The Richmond Examiner is in the habit
of argNing tha: Slave-labor society is the
only orderly, peaceable and permanent
form of association known amongst men.
We commend to its attention the follow
ing picture of the South drawn by a
Southern citizen, the editor Of the ST.
Louis Htelhgencer:
cat the South that character called the
Bully hourlshes in tropical gorgeousness
and uxuriance. He delights in blood,
and never walks abroad unplovided wi h
weapons to draw it. He bristles with
bowie knives, and is loaded to the guards
with daggers and six shooters. He is
overbearing to those who fear him, wary
of, and ready to have the first chance at
those who fear him not, and insolent to
all. He has money, and spends it so free
ly as to gain, from those whom he is al
ways reating, the title of .cIever fellow
He assumes unwarrantable liberties in all
places, and is ready to resent as a mortal
insu t, a hint to behave himself. His
clustering -brayadoes and burly black
guardism are ha! had at by the depend
ent lick spittles who always follow him =
If he insults man, who shows fight, he
is sure to draw his weapon and shoot or
stab first If he receives stroke from
ones fist, as he frequently deserves, he
butchers the off nder. and the LAWYERS
make the jury believe that the deed is
one of self-defence. He is nearly always
inashootny or stabbing scrape. .and though
every body knows heis in the wrong. some
how or other he invariably manages to get
out Of them. He is society's enemy, and
society is his enemy.
In the South, murderers and mansiay
ers are to be found in every village and
neighborhood, going at large, and ever
ready to add another to the list of their
victims. In the North-be it said, to the
credit of Northern courts and Northern
juries, these characters meet with less leni-
ty. These murderers are sent to ihe scat
fold, OF at least, to the penltentlary.- The
high position and humorous friends of
Professor Webster could not save him
from the penalty due to his crime; but
Mat Ward, in Kentucky, who committed
a crime equally henious. and more cow
ardly, is turned loose from the clutches of
the law, as an innocent man. For much
less offence than Wards, Dr.. Graham, in
New York, was justly sent to the peni
tentiafy.
At the South, if it can be proved that
a manslayer is in the ha6H 9f carrying aoea-
pons it is SO much in his favor, as it is re-
gard d as preclu ling the presump ion Of
malice prepense.'
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

Hello! | say, what did you say your
medicine would cure?'
'Oh! it'll cuse everything--heal any
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

'Ah! well I'll take bottle; may be it'll
heel my boots; they need it bad enough
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20

ent who were not found in their pews at
church the next day, owing to the inclem-
ancy of the weather.-We saw a great
many people who hardly ever attended
a public lecture and could not under any
circumstances be induced to contribute
their money towards securing course of
Lectures this winter, or for the purpose
of sustaining village Literary Society.
When we come out we found delinquent
who had been owing us these two years
engaged in pitching small rings at upright
nails which were driven in board at the
rate of shilling game in advance
He "ain't able to pay for what papers
he has had, or take any now, and his fam
lily is half-clad and poorly provided with
the necessaries OF life.
All +hese sights we saw and great many
more, and we came away fully impressed
with The conviction that people are more
willing to spend money for the graifica-
ton of their foolish propensi;ies than for
the comforts and nccessaries which would
render them happy and intelligent. Any
kind of "show'' will bring from l,50O
to 2, % people to town, but meeting to
advance the interests of education or push
forward some great and useful public en-
terp ise could not possibly attract an
audience of more than 800 persons
Conneautville Banner.
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-09-21

We publish this morning fun re-
port Of the winding up. Of the Kansas
Legislature and the Pro-Slavery Con-
yention. The Missouri Democrats
Reporter states, that Immediately af-
ter the adjournment. the Legislators
NEARLY all departed homeward from
kansas"--we presume 10 their fire.
sides in Missouri. Whether any Of the
acts Of this Pro-Slavery propaganda
comes so near 10 the letter Of the law,
as to pass the ordeal Of the higher
Courts. we cannot decide. Some Of
them are certainly so entirely In def
ance of the Constitution, that they
have only TO be brought properly be-
fore the United States Judge. to be IN
stantly put down as null and void and
their friends can only hope for them,
atemporary and shadowy existence.
Kansas must witness a bitter strug-
gle for the mastery between free and
slave institutions; and the pro-slavery
party boldly announce their determln-
alton to hesi tate at the perpetration Of
no fraud. and the commission Of no
deeds violence. that may be nec-
essary to secure their object. String
fellow, Speaker OF the Kansas House
Of Representatives and Atchison's lieu
tenant-general. says
Owe can tell the impertinent scoun-
drels that they may exhaust an ocean
OF ink, their Emigrant Aid Societies
spend their millions and billions, their
representatives in congress spout their
heretical theories ill doomsday, and
his Excellency Frank Pierce, appoint
Abolitionist after Freesoiler as our
Governor. yet we will continue to tar
and feather. drown. lynch and hang,
every white-livered Aboli,ionist, who
dares to pollute our soil. And though
our fair territory may be refused ad-
mittance into the Union as a slave
holding State. by the political dema-
gogues Of the North. we care as little
for their decision as for the continued
and futile attacks which have been
made upon our rights, by the indecis-
i've Cabinet who now administer the
affairs Of our nation. For we conf
IDENTIFY hope that the last National Con-
gress may meet in Washington on the
first Monday Of December next"
This precious Stringfellow says fur
ther, that by executing the laws pass
4 II h., H. Iasxs.l.t.~o <..~x. f..o.nsI-
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-09-21
BR0OKVILE FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2 B

| il would not have been half 10 hard 10
see him go down TO the cold grave
But now all was over. The brother
she had loved so we'll was gone for
ever. All his pleasant ways and low.
ing words came thronging back to hei
heart, and she could only remember
her own selfish cruelty to him when
he was suffering. She tried to com
fort herself by say ing. "0l il | had
only known he was sickl IL l had
thought to look at him. | might hare
seen he was not well. and then | am
sure | would have done everything
for him. o. how thoughtless, how
selfish and how cruel WASH
After the funeral, when they had
returned home. and Annie sat by her
mother in the still evening. she told
her, with many tears and Sobs, how
urkind she had been to her little bro
lher on tie first day of his sickness;
and how dreadful il was to know that
she could never ask his forgiveness.
never hear his sweet voice TO tell her
how he loved her, again.
Her mother wept bitterly, too; but
she told her that her little angel broth
er could feel no sorrow or pain; that
he loved her even better now than lie
did when he was on earth; for he was
redeemed from all sin, and could feel
no anger or resentment, but his heart
was full of compassion and love.
After this confession, and her moth
ers comforting words, Annie felt moro
composed and resigned than she had
been before: but she never could quite
forget, and never ceased to regret the
last harsh words her darling brother
had ever heard from her lips. 1t was
lesson to be remembered forever
and its influence was felt by her thro
all her life. When she felt temper {,
speak unkindly. the thought tha
''these might be our last words. woe
come with pang to her heart, anc
she was humble and gentle as lamb
Years passed by. and Annie grew
to be a woman, loving and beloved by
all. but in her heart she never iorgavC
herself for her last words TO Willie
Friend Of Youth.