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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17
Thick vs.. Thin Seeding.

J J. Mechi, in answer to certain in
quiries relative to the quantity of seed
from which the best returns may be
expected, writes tl.uS:-
Fifteen years of experience are
worth something, or at all events,
ought 10 be of some value. Does the
quantity of seed sown regu late the
quantity of grain TO be produced'-
Most decidedly not. As general
rule, the iargerquantity of seed sown
produces the smallest result, because
it implies a poor or ill-cultivated soil.
having no power to compel the plant
TO tiller. 1t would be absurd 10 lay
down an arbitrary rule of quantity
for all sorts and climates; but we may
take these general rules as safe
guide:
That the quantity of seed must be
diminished in proportion as the natu-
raj or artificial fertility Of the soil is in
creased.
Tha, in such soils the sowing of
too much seed produces rank and
close vegetation, prematurely devel-
oped, laid early, apt to he mildewed,
and :uinously unproductive in quality
and quantity.
The extreme illustration OF this is
afforded by the lunches grown from
masses ofSeed dropped from the drill.
or accumulated by mice.
That time is gained or early harvess
ting is promoted by TWO causes-a
highly manured, drained, and fertile
soil, or by large quantity OF seed
In the latter case premaiurity. II |
were asked whether | would SOW
thick to produce an early harvest or
whether | would sow thin and earli-
er to produce The same result. would
most decidedly prefer the latter
mode.'' In those remarks Mr.. M as
sumes that everybody drills or dib-
bles the seed.-Raral Nel0 Yorker.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17
Perpetual Sunshine.

| Bayard Tay lor, who last summer made Z
journey to the North Cape, writes from
Hummerfest, Finmark, his Impressions ol
the Continuous polar daylight OF the A rctic
latitude, from which we extract the follow
ing:
am tired OF this unending daylight. and
would willingly exchange the pomp Of the
Arctic midnight for the starlight darkness OF
home. We are confused BY the loss oil
night: we loose The perception of time
One is never sleepy but simply tired. and
after a sleep of eight hours fy sunshine
wakes up as tired as ever. His sleep at
sass i ksakea aud irregular; he substitutes a
number Of short maps, distributed through
and fnasiy gets into d state of general
nneasi ess and discomfort. A Hammer-
fast nerchant who has made frequent voya~
ges 10 Spitzbergen, told me that in the lati-
tude of 80 degrees he never knew certainly
whether it was day or night, and the cook
was the only person who could tellhim.
AT first the nocturnal sunshine strikes
you as being wonderfully convenient.
You lose nothing of the scenery; you can
read and write usual, you never need be
in hurry, because there is time enough for
every thing. 1t is not necessary to do your
days work in the day time for no night
cometh, You have nevertheless somewhat
cf the stress of life thrown of your shoul-
ders.
There is no compulsive rest, such as
darkness brings-no sweet isolation which
IS the refreshment Of sleep. You lie down
in the broad day, and the summons "arise"
attends on the re-opening of your eyes
| never went below and saw my fellow
all around me without sudden
feeling that something was wrong, that they
were drugged or under some unnatural in
f1uence, that they thus slept SO fast while
the sunshine s.reamed in through the port
holes.
There are some advantages of this north
ern summer which have presented them
selves to me in rather grotesque light
Think what an aid and shelter is removed
from crime how many vices which can
only flourish in the deceptive atmospheres of
night, must be checked by the sober reality
of daylight! No assassin can dog the steps
,t his victim; no burglar can work in sun
shine; no guilty lovers can hold solemn in
erviews by moonlight--all conceaIment
; removed, for the sun, like the Eye OF God,
sees everything, and the secret vices of the
earth must be bold, indeed, if they can bear
his goze. Morally, as we'll as physically,
here is safety in light and danger in dark
less-and yet give the darkness and
ianger! Lei the patrollng sun go off his
,erth for while, and show a little conf |
ience in my ability to behave properly,
ather than worry me with his sleepless |
-igiIance -zz--(
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17

Thanks for the lesson you have taught
me- said Miss Williams, when she again
cIasped the hand of Mrs. Elder in parting
'I'll try to grow old, as the years pass ineV~
itably onwards, in the better way that you
have walked. And may my last days be
like yours, my best days, and radiant with
light shining down from the better world
Il am skeP;ic no longer (sbe was now
in the street with Mrs. Barton;) beauty and
age are not Incompatible
But the beauty of age replied Mrs. Bar
ton, SIS unlike the beauty of youth; one is
natural, the other spiritual and celestial
The one is of the earth-earthly-th 9TH
er is of the heavens-heavenly. An evil
soul gradually mars the face, until every
lineament becomes repulsive; but soul of
goodness continually re-ereates and covers it
with living beauty
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17


On Monday last. the prairie to the north-
west OF the town was discovered to be on
fire. The wind was blowing quite gale at
the time, and the waves of flames came
sweeping toward US with mighty roar, like
unto the breakers of old ocean. Ii was
certainly very grand and beautiful To look
Awhile danger was unIhreaIe ned, but as the
cracking of the tall prairie grass became
more distinct, reminding one of discharges
OF artillery, our quiet admiration OF the scene
changed to u very lively scene of i'm rnediate
peril. The whole affair WAS SO unlocked for
SO sudden, and caught us SO unprepared to
resist successfully, that our promising town
came near to ashes before an effort was
made to fight back the flames. 1t approach
ed to within five and ten feet OF our printing
office, destroyed the hay stack oil our neigh
Dor Whitney, across the street, ran like q
startled deer toward the private residences
in the western part of the place; swept past
the recently erected frame of Captain WIN.
Hemsiey. consuming for him 5000 shingles;
q claim house in the vicinity escaped mi
rsculously, that one should be left standing
ia astonishing
A busy scene among the people was then
enacted-Inen, women, and children com
bined in a little army, to keep back the
enemy. Weapons of extraordinary appear
ance and singular constl uction, were used in
the melee: here might be seen an individ-
ual with his Sunday coat twisted into IA swab
performing feats of prowess with his con-
stantly flying garments; again, lady as
suming for the first time the peculiar aabii>
ments"of her lord, hurled his breeches at the
fiery foe with eminent success; another with
great grace and efficacy. welded plank,
dropping it upon the intruding monster, putt
ting out whole yards Of fame at pop.
We contented ourself with a towel tied to
the end OF a walking stick. and with motion
somewhat resembling the shreshing out of
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17

ASHES. Take especial care OF the ash es
made on your place; permit them to be ex.
posed to the weather; but keep them under
cover. Five bushels of ashes, mixed with
Two double horse cart louds of marsh or
river mud, muck or peat, will convert the
whole into good manurej hogshead or two
of good soup-suds would do the same thing;
therefore, among your savings. save and
utilize them.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17
THE EDEAD SEA

AS / first looked over the Dead Sea
! thought it lovely. Its waters were beauti-
| fully blue as those OF the noble lakes of my
own native land. Not ripple disturbed its
fair face; it seemed dreaming in the tranced
hush of the hot noon day. It's translucent
waters lazily toyed with the pebbly beach
that wound about its skirts in many a grace
full curve. Then it stretched endlessly away
between two frowning ramparts of the hills,
mirroring on its CLASSY bosom the mountains
of Moab, and the mountains of Judea. /
could not realize that this lake that lay SO
TRANQUILITY sleeping. and smiled SO sweetly on
the desolate wilds around, could be the fatal
Sea on whose every wave rode grim and
CHASTITY death; that its breath had bias ted the
plain and blighted every speck of verdure
the hills. But ] looked more intentiy
over it's broad expanse, it seemed to assume
certain unhealthful, lurid hue; and there
came up from it hot and sickly mist, as if
it were seething in its rocky cauldron. Its
rest. too, seemed troubled, as if it were rath-
er the stupor of fever than the hcalthful
hush of sleep. And the transIucence of its
waters was deceptive, for wherever they
touched the shore there remained a black
and oily deposit.
Nature does not furnish a more desolate
scene than that OF the region of the Dead
Sea. 1t lies in a vast basin four thousand
feet below the Mediterranean. II is bound
ded on the north by the plain of Jerico; on
the east its waves wash the base of the cal
cined hills of Moab; on the west the barren
mountains of the Desert of Judea rise
above it's shore; while it's southern extremi.
ty touches the regions of Arabia Pe;re.-
The eye looks in vain for any sign or vestige
OF human life. No living creature iHhabits
its shore: no fish swim in il; no birds dip
their wings in its waters. One endless
reach of mist-wreathed waters-one endless
range of barren hills, meet you on every
side. There is no escape-no refuge from
the desola ton. that begirts you. This sea,
which receives the living Jordan, has no out
let. 1t remains probiem-an enigma to
science. Numerous efforts to explain it
have been msde-muny adventurous travel
ers have lost their lives in the attempt-and
Mr.. Lynch, whose survey is SO imperfect,
lost his first assistant. Even the wild Bed. |
ouin, whose home is the desert, shuns it in |
his wide wanderings. Its origin involves
wild and fearful history. The shores it laves
once tecmed with life Its waves roll on
the cites of the Cities OF the Plain Deep I,
down in its accursed depths lies dead and |
damned Gonlorrah. And Sodom and the I
cities that snned with her are rettiDg there !
too.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17
PERSONAL, ASSIMILATION.

PERSONAL ASSIMILATION.
1t is noticeable fact that people who
live long together grow to look alike. We
are such initiative and deceptive creatures
that unconsciously, in spite of ourselves, we
imbibe the spirit and assume the characteris
tic of those with whom we come much in
contact. You may even dislike man; new
ertheless, :fy you are much in his company
you will soon be found copying the very ges-
lures and tones of the voice which you hate.
Where sympathy exists between persons,
this assimilation is all the more facile and
thorough. We not only initiate habits and
receive opinions, and eat of the same dishes,
both material and spiritual with our daily
sociates; but there is an interpenetratng
personality which flows from each to each,
particles of John that are absorbed by Peter
who is re>absorbed in return by his COM
panion, and all these influences working up
on the impressible spirit, and thence outward
into the face and form, write in the express
sion history of mans friendships, and re-
port to us whether he has walked with saints
or sinners, and loved beautiful or ugly souls.
The marriage relation, which makes, or
should make, one flesh and one spirit OF two
uniCeu lovers, ldSOTS most lniS dSSliHiId"
ton. Even where dissatisfaction and differ
ences exist the power to mutually mould
and influence character remains. Be sure
that day after day you shall grow to be like
the wife you have chosen; and you, woman,
assuming the yoke, know for a certainty
that you become not the partner of this
man's house and home only, but that his no.
bleness or meanness. his greatness or his
groveling. his high-toned character or his
coarseness, you likewise shall share and
partake.
'Asthe husband is the is welded cL,wn.
the grossness shall weight drag
thee DOWN.
What therefore behooves US is, to choose
our companions, and above all, ia marrying,
to consult higher interests than social posi-
tion and money. Poets have ceased to sing
after marriage; it is because they have uni
ted themselves with consorts void OF interi-
or beauty and song. Women of rare and
delicate qualities often grow uninteresting
and commonplace in the welded state,
having found unfit companions.
All that fine within them growing
Coarse to synipahlze with clay
And SO the pure face of the young man
who has gentle sisters, is seen to fade and
change, and grow dark and moody, and SEN
sual, after he has learned to smoke, and ta-
ken to the society of loa:ers.--Ofiue Branch.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17
NUMBER 81.

grain did we think, our part as an extin
euisher. Al worked hard, and eventually
succeeded in saving the town. To great
many citizens the sight was novel. they
never having witnessed prairie on fire be-
fore; to every one the scene was sublmely
beautiful and exciting. g.-MactsaE II. r. Sen
ktnel. ---
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17

Ia Valera de la Paniega, residing at Paris,
Avenue des Champs Elysees 81, daughter if
Don Jose Velerea Viapa, Marquis de Pam
iega landowner, and of Denna Maria de los
Dolores Alcala Galiano y Pereya. Marquis
de la Paniega, his wife, residing at Madrid.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17
Liberal.

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, at his last
communion, said:
Il invite all to sit with Us, that feel they
have the true love of Jesus within them,
whether they are members Of any church or
net, they being the Judge themselves
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17

A rapid mind continually struggles, the fee
bic one limps, but great mind selects the
surest points, and upon these it stands.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17
THE PULPIT AND SECULAR MAa-
TERS.

Rev. H. w. Bee cher expresses himself
on this point as follows:
.sWe have no doubt that rigorous iand>
lord, having sharked it all the week. would
be better pleased on Sunday, TO doze
through an able Gosple sermon on Divine
mysteries, than to be kept awake by prac-
teal sermon that among other things, set
forth the duty of a Christian landlord. A
broker " ho had gambled on magnificent
scale all the week, does not go TO church to
have his practical swindling analysed and
measured by the "New Testament spirit.
A mer chant, whose last bale of smuggled
goods was safely stored on Saturday night,
and his brother merchant, who, on that same
day, swore false Invoice through the Gus
tom House-they go to church TO hear
sermon on faith. on angels, on the resur-
rection. They have nothing invested in
these subjects they expect the minister to
be bold and orthodox. But if he wants
respectable merchants to pay ample pew
rents, let him not vulgarize the pulpit by
introducing commercial questions. "A rich
Christian brother owns largly in distillery,
and is clamorous against letting down the
pulpit TO the vuIgarity of temperance SER
mons. A merchant that plies his craft with
INSCRIPTIONS appliance OF every means that
wins, he wants "doctrine" on the Subbalh
not these occular question. Men wish two
departments in life; the secular and the
religious. Between them high wall and
opaque is To be built. They wish TO do
just what they please fer six long !ays.-
Then stepping the other side of tBe wall,
they wish the minister to ussuage Their fear
to comfort thoir conscieDees, and furnish
them a clear ticket and assurance for heav
en- BY such a shrewd management, our
modern financiers are determined to show
that Christian can serve two masters, both
6 cd and mammon, at the came time.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17

The reputation of IS like his shadow
gigantic when it precedes him, and pigamy in
It's proportions which it follows.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17

There is life in the grave too. The effects
'cf good. actions, of virtues are proofs of life;
Tire effects Of fdleness and sins are Of death.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17

Tender roses and other Towering
shrubs that are not hardy should bs
protected without delay.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-17

after he had been some time with the third
son, he also found him burdensomes7 and
said to him, 'F ather, the people run N and
out here all day, as if it were pigeon
house, and you cannot have your nooa-day
sleep; would you not be better off Il my
sister Kate's near the town WALL" The
old man remarked how the wind blew and
said TO himself, "Yes,I will do so; Twill
go and try it with my daughter. Wgnen
have softer hearts" But after he had spent
some time with his daughter she gsew
weary of him, and she said she was always
SO fearful when her father went TO chureA or
anywhere else. and was obliged TO descend
The steep stairs; and at her sister E5iza-
beth's there was no stairs, to descend, as
she lived on the ground foor.-For the AXE
of peace, the old man assented, and went to
his other daughter. But after sometimesshe
too was tired of him, and told him BY q.
third person, that her house near the wafer
was too damp for a man who suffered = n
the gout, and her sister the grave digger's
wife OF St Johns, had much drier lodgings.
The old man himself thought she was right,
and went out side the gate to his YOUNGEST
daughter Helen. But after he had been there
with her. her little son said to his grandfa-
ther: .'Mother said yesterday to coasin
Elizabeth that there was no better chamber
for you than such one as father digs.
These words broke the old nuns heart, 80
that he sank back in his chair and died.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-04-28
miscellaneous.
I q q
MANUFACTURIN
DAVENPORT g. CLAY

Would respectfully inform their
AF8Xxf~ patrons and the public general
s<5s@ ly, that they continue to receive
M-A w o Q l.
At the establishment of the Middlebury
Manufacturing Company, to manufacture in.
to different kinds Of Cloths, such AS
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, DOESKINS,
TwEEDS, FANCY GOODS,
And all kinds of
atBBED GOODS, WHITEAND CoL'D FLANNELs
OF permanent colors and mixes to suit he
taste, on shares OF by the yard; at the option
OF the owner,
Having been to great expense In purchas.
ing looms suited to weaving
FANCY CHECKS,
And using nothing but pure wool forthe fab.
rio, VIC feel warranted in saying that our
goods, as to style and quality cannot be sur
passed in the country.
They will keep a large assortment on hand
of the various kinds of their manufacture, so
as to accommodate those of their patrons
who may want their cloth in advance.
The subscribers would say that they have
been encouraged to venture this large outlay
in machinery, from the fact that they have
hardly been able, by the utmost effort OH
their part, to supply the home demand for
their cloths for the last two years.
Encouraged by the favor with which their
goods have met thus far, they hope by strict
personal attention to business and the inter-
ests Of their patrons, to receive a liberia
share Of patronage.
WOOL CARDING.
We would announce to the public that we
have also purchased a new set of machinery
suitable for carding wool into rolls for Gus.
TONERS at short notice and atthe usual prices
nTerms rs reasonable as at any estab.
lishment In the vicinity.
JASON DAVENPORT,
VALENTINE V. CLAY.
MiddlehurY- May % 1RhR
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-04-28

D1DN'T TAKE THE PAPERS In Cincin-
natl, a few days since, a man who resides
within twelve miles of the city walked in
to the Citizens Bank for the purpose of
obtaining a sum of money which he had
deposited there several years ago. Imag-
inc his feelings on learning that the bank
had failed six months ago! He had not
even heard of the extraordinary financial
panic which recently spread over the coun.
try with such q levslling influence.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-04-28
Iftf0itol.
HEALTH OR SICKNESS ?
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS

The blood furnishes the material of every bone
muscle, gland and dbre in the human frame.
When pure, 1t secures health to every organ; whea
corrupt, it necessarily produces oisense. H0L
PILLS operate directly upon the ele-
mcnts of the stream of life, neutralizing the prin
ciple Of disease, and thus radically curing the
malady whether located in the nerves, the stomach
the liver, the bowels, the muscles, the skin, the
brain, or any other part Of the system.
USED THROUGHOUT II WoRLD
HoLLoWAY'S PILLS are equally efioacious
in complaints common to The whole human race
and in disorders peculiar to certain climates and
localities.
ALARMING DISORDERS.
Dyspepsia, and derangment of the liver, the
source Of infirmity and suffering, anu the cause OF
inumerable deaths, yield to these curatives in all
cases, however aggravated, acting rs Il mild pur-
gative, Alternative and tonic ; they reneve the bow
els, purify the fluids, and invigorntc the system
and the constitution at the same time.
GENERAL WEAKNESS
NERVOUS CONTAMINATION all stimuiants
fail, the renovating and bracing properties Of these
Pills give irAness to the shaking nerves aud en-
fcebled muscles OF tho victim Of general debility.
DELICATE FEMALES.
All Irregularities and ailments incident To the
delicate and sensitive organs OF the Sex are remoy
ed or prevented by II few doses Of these mild, but
infallible alternatives. No moiher VINO regards ier
own or her children's health should fail to have
them within her reach.
SCIENTIFIC ENDORSEMENTS.
The London Lancet, !" The Lonaon " Medical
Review" and the most eminent OF the faculty in
Great Britain, France and Germany have euioq-
lied the Pills and their inventor.
Holloway's Pills are the best remedy known in
the world for the following diseases
Asthma Debility ~iections
Bowel Comps Fever Il Ague Worms Of allkinds
Coughs FeI ale Com Stone & Glsyel
Coids plants Secondary Symp
Chest Diseases Headaches toms.
Costiveness Indigestion Inward Weakness
dyspepsia Influenza Liver Complaints
DiarrhRa Inflammation Lowne,s ofSpirits.
Dropsy Venereal AT. Piles.
CAUrIo one are genuine unloss the yotds
" Holloway, New York and LON on" are discern
hle as II Water-mark in every Ieai OF ths book of
directions around each pot or box the same NAV
be plainly seen by holding the leaf to the light.
A handsome reward will be given to any one rem
dering such information Rs NAY lead TO the detec-
ton OF any party or parties counterieitng the med
icines or vending the same, knowing chem to be
spurious.
**~Sold at the Manufactures of Professor Hol-
loway, so Maiden Lane, New YORK, and by AZ
respectable Druggists and Dealers III Medicine
throughout the United States and civilized world.
in boxes, at rs cents, 90 Leg cents, ami 81 each. '
0L There ID considerable saving Dy taking the
larger sizes. 2.I
N. B.-Directions for the guidance, of patients
n every disorder are affixed to eoch box.