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Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14
Give Him "a Trade,

If education is the great buckler of bu
man liberty, well developed industry il
equally the bucker and shield of ndivid
ual independence. AS an unfailing re
source through life, give your son equa
with a good education, good honest
trade. Better any trade than none though
there is ample fold for the adopting O
every inclination in this respect. Learn
ed professions and speculative employ.
ments may fail a man but an honest
handicraft seldom Or never-if its posses.
sor chooses to exercise it. Let him feel
too that honest labor craft is honorable
and noble. The men Of trades-the crea
ture Of whatever is most essential to the
necessities and welfare of mankind can
not be dispensed with; they above all
others in whatever reputa they may be
held by their moro iasti3ious fellows,
must work L. ssc OaG Of l.,EnGn progress
or all is lost But few brown handed
trade workers think of this, or appreci-
ate the real position and power theycom
pass.
Give your son q trade, no matter what
fortune he may have or seem likely to in
herit. Give him trade and an educa-
tion-at any rate. With this he can al
always battle with temporal want, can
always be independent, and better is in
dependence with moderate education
than all the learning of the colleges and
wretched temporal dependence. But in
this free land there can be ordinarily no
difficulty in securing both the education
and trade, for every youth thereby fitting
each and all to enter the ranks of man
hood definite of those obstacles which in
timidate SO many tradeless and profess
slonless young men, Such are the pc
culiarities of fortune that no more out
ward possession can be counted SO abso-
lutely secure or protective to man. -
Hoarded thousands may be swept away
in day and their once possesssors left
with neither the means of independence
or livelihood.
He was a wise Scandinavian King who
declared that his sons must learn useful
trades or to be cut off from their expect
ed princely fortune. They demurred but
obeyed the decree. The eldest as the
easiest trade to learn applied himself to
basket making. In time he reigned in
his fathers stead. In time also revolu-
tion came upon, and over threw him, and
he fled disguised, wandering and com
panionless save his wife and children, his
sole source for livelihood recurrence to
his humble, but honest and useful trade
The son of the rich as well as the poor
should be strengthened by this possession.
If never used beyond the learning no
harm is done-while possibly it may be
of incalcuable good. 1t is weapon of
assault or defence, Silich only fairly seiz-
ed, can never be taken from q mans
grasp. Think of it parents; examine
your boys bumps, or rather study the
bent of their minds and taste, and as the
best and most lasting service you can do
for them, apply them to the learning of
honest trades.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14
AnticiDating Evils,

En- 10y the present, whatsoever it may
be, and be not solicitous for the future;
for if you take your foot from the present
standing, and thrust it forward towards
to-morrow's event, you are in reckless
condition; it is like refusing to quench the
present thirst by fearing you should want
drink the next day. If it be well to day
it is madness to make the present misera-
bic by fearing it will be i'll tomorrow;
when your belly is full of to-day's dinner
to fear you should want the next days
supper; for it may be you shall not, and
then to what purpose was this days af-
Fiction? But if to morrow you shall
want, your sorrow will come time enough
though you do not hasten it; let your
trouble tarry till its day comes. But if i:
Chance to be i'll to day, do not increase it
by the cares of tomorrow. Enjoy the
blessings of this dag if God send them,
and the evils of it bear patiently and
sweetly; for this day only is ours-we are
dead to yesterday, and we are not yet
born to the morrow. He, therefore, that
enjoys the present, if it be good, enjoys
as much as is possible, and if only that
days trouble leans upon him, it is singu-
lar and finite. Sufficient to the day."
said Oh list, sis the evil thereof" suffic-
lent, but not iutolerable. But if we look
abroad and bring into one days thoughts
the evils of many, certain and uncertain,
what will be and what will never be our
load will be as intolerable as it is unrea-
sonable.-Jeremy Taylor.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14
From the Montgomery (Ala) Confederation, 18th !
How They are Tum bling in.

The way the Democracy of Georgia are
falling into line, is a terror to the Disrup-
tionists. The Columbus Times, hereto
fore one of the most extreme journals of
the State, and able and influential with
all, comes out for the National Democrat
ic organization and the Baltimore Con-
vention in one Of the most pithy and SEN
sible articles that we have read for long
time. Hon. H. V. Johnston, Judge Nes-
bitt, A. r. Wright and Hon. R. McMillen
are all out for the Baltimore Convention
and the National Democracy. We be-
lieve that every Democratic paper in Geor-
gia except one, has taken the same view.
The disruptioniSts are doomed to a perfect
Waterloo in the Empire State of the
South. Alabama will not be in the rear;
and by election day in November, she
will be ready to roll up her accustomed
old majority for the nominees of the Ma
tional Democratic Convention. The car
ofthe peoples opinion will roll over and
crush the disunionists in Alabama, in q
manner that will give peace and tranquil
ity to the country for long time tC
come. Let the clamorous and noisy dis.
ruptionists and secessioniSts go on and en-
JOY their brief career like the butterflies
this summer is their last.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14
"Do be quiet, my dear Miss Jellaby.--

| Ab bne says bne nus OIten seen yOu-----'
"Kissingl" exploded from the lips.
"Miss Jellaby, either you or I must b.
silent. From these things she has drawn
her own conclusions, and l am ashamed
to say that for brief space she persuad
ed me in believing them. / need not
add that from the instant you entered this
room, my suspicious vanished, and
would readily stake my life, this moment,
upon your perfect integrity"
"But my dear SIR" said Captain Gra.
ham, smiling, "of what does this lady
suspect us?"
Tell them, Miss Jellaby. l will notp'
"Pretty behavior, | am sure, to leave
the worst part to me, Mr.. Fullerton
However no one shall say I shrunk back
from my duty"
"We are waiting to know what helm
Gus crime we have committed" said Cap
tain Graham, drawing the bewildered Hell
en- close to his side. Miss Jellaby gasp
ed at the cares; then it seemed to give her
fresh energy.
"Before my very eyes, sir!"
"What do you mean"'
al suppose you will kiss her next"
"Well-now you mention it-I think
I will" And he did. Miss Jellaby
nearly tainted away with horror
"Mr. Fullerton, how can you stand
there so quietly, and watch this shameless
conduct? AS for you, sir" she added,
turning to the good -humored Captain
"you need not think every one will toler-
ate your audacious--''
"Take breath, my dear Miss Jellaby."
at is Infamous" shouted the enraged
spinster. "Brother and sister, indeed!-
You are no more her brother than you
are mine, Captain Graham"
81 know it. Inever said was"
Mr.. Fullerton looked rather puzzled;
Miss Jellaby was triumphant.
"Well-you are brazen about it l must
say! This town will soon be too hot to
hold you, you may depend upon it."
81 never knew it was a crime not to
be woman's brother. BEFORE" said the
Captain, quietly. "However, there is
relation between us, if it will please you
any better"
"What is it?"
81 am her cousin-the ward of her
father; and have always lived with her
family in England"
"Oh!"
There was word of meaning in that
simple ejaculation.
"Also, have the honor to be-"
"Well, sir"
"Her huSbund."
Mr.. Fullerton uttered most uncleri-
cal "hurrah!" and shook hands with the
young couple over and over again.
"IIer--her husbandp' .nltered the old
maid. "L-I neOer MougM Of MdN
"Allow me to hope madam, that you
will have your wits about before you try
to create another scandal" said the Cap
tain, suavely. 81 have the honor to wish
you very good morning."
He held the door open as he spoke
she could but take the hint, and rushed
ont of the house. and into her own, in a
state of mind verging upon distraction.
Staying to be laughed at and sympathiz-
ed with, was what she could not endure
the cottage was shut up the next morning
and she and Susan were far away. Miss.
Jellaby had found her match, and the vii
lage has known peace since her departure
for the first time!
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14
View Of this Pyramids.

These, as the earliest, the loftiest. the
largest, the most stupendous Of the works
Of man, deserve in this connection. a
passing notice. High on the ramparts OF
the Lyberian desert, overhanging the
meadows Of the Nile, they rest like the
perpetual hills in settled tranquility on
the basis. In sterile and gloomy gran
deur they have survived the waste Of ages,
while cities have risen. hourished and fall
len on the plain below, and will survive
all the ravages Of time on their mountain
masses, until the mountains themselves
shall depart and the hills be removed
They extend from the great pyramid Of
Gizeh to Dashour, distance Of twenty
miles. Between these extreme groups.
at unequal distances, are those of Abusit,
and Sakhara, near Memphis. In utter
despair Of giving the reader any just i'm
preston Of the vast dimensions of the
great pyramid Of Cheops, we must content
ourselves with the usual statistics, and
leave him in Imagination to gaze and
wonder at the enormous pile.
The foundations are T22 feet square,
and cover little less than thirteen acres of
ground. From this base the pyramid
rises to the height of 474 feet. Originally
it was about thirty feet higher, and
sheathed in a casting formed Of horizon
tai blocks of granite, hewn down to
uniform and polished surface, on every
side, from the apex to the base. The
kings chamber, the spulchral centre,
where the builders vainly thought to find
asure retreat for the last repose, is thirty
four feet in length, nineteen in highths
and seventeen in breadth, enclosed in wall,
Of polished granite. This venerable pile
had stood for several generations when
Abraham went down into Egypt. While
enjoying the favor Of the King of Mem
phis, he gazed habitually upon this stu
pendous monument of human power, if
he did not scale its awful heights. But
rom its summit now what spectacle
East, West, North and South, the Great !
Desert, in frightful desolation, unmiti- |
gated by single shrub or leaf; and below
the majestic, mysterious Nile, pouring
through this wide sea of death its foods !
Of living, life-giving water, and spreading
out on either side, up to the very brow OF
the desert, broad margin Of verdure,
"g-een, unutterably green;" and evoking
fertility out of the most
hopeless, hideous barrenness-a contrast
without parallel in the wide world.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14
Value of the Currant.

No more healthy or delicious fruit is
grown than the currant; but great por-
ton of our farmers seem to be uncon-
scious of its value. First, then, to have
a good supply of this fruit attention must
be paid to the bushes, 1t is very often
the case, that if these are found at all up
on the farmers premises, they occupy an
old obscure corner of the garden. close to
the fence, and completely bound out by
grass; the bushes do not thrive, and pro-
duce but small amount of inferior fruit.
But we think they do as well as can be
expected under the circumstances, and the
farmer should not complain. Our advice
is, give the the bushes better treatment
Set them in a position that the ground
can be worked with hoe, and manured;
keep the earth around the roots well
drenched with soapsuds, and you will
have a good quantity of choice fruit,
which is luxury, used as fruit, OF
sauce, or pies, and for making jelly OF
domestic wine, has no equal.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14
portrp.
HE PA T.

am dreaming, sadly dreaming,
OF the silent vanished years;
am longing for their brightness,
Signing over all the tears.
Old time faces smile upon me,
Echoing voices haunt my brain,
And their kisses on my forehead,
Fall like pure baptismal rain.
As dream, the soft, still moonlight
Shimmers through the cambering vines,
And hear a lonely sobbing
OF the winds among the pines;
For each sad dirge-]ke whisper,
Memory hath an answering tone.
Blest the heart which keepeth only
Song and gladness for its own.
Every Pickering Of the moonbeams,
Every murmur of the leaves,
Something of the sweet past bringeth;
And within their cleaning waves
Fancies quaint and weired and olden,
That had life-tints long ago,
When our skins are blue and golden,
In the joyous summer glow.
Oh, the loved, dream.past which lieth
Close upon that lovely shore,
Where the moaning sea wave sigheth
Solemn anthems evermore.
Through life's storms and mists and darkness,
Still we turn to that green isle,
Where feet cherished hopes lie buried,
And their blossoms live and smile.
Thus, till hopes last dream be over,
And our hands are folded still,
With cold and pulseless pressure
O'er the heart so dead and chill,
Shall We yearn and strive and linger,
Where the waters seethe and foam,
Whispering softly, "Times rude billow
Soon shall watt us safely home"
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14

Coon NAME.-Always be more solicit
GUS to preserve your innocence than con-
cerned to prove it. 1t will never do to
seek good name as primary Object
Like trying to be graceful, the effort to be
popular will make you contemptible.--
Take care of your spirit and conduct.
and your reputation will take care of
itself. The utmost that you are called
to do, as the guardian of yoar reputation
is to remove injurious aSpersions. Let
not your good be evil spoken of, and fol-
low the highest examples in mild and
explicit standardization. No reputation
can be permanent which does not spring
from principle; and he who would main
tain good character. should be mainly
solicitous to maintain conscience void
of offence towards God and towards man.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14

LlNcoLN's STRONG PoNTs.-It appears
from various documents which have come
to light since the nomination of Mr.. Lin
coin for the Presidency, that the follow
ing are the strong points
l, That he is a selfmade man.
2. That he was first rate wood chop
per.
3. That be was for time engaged in
a still house in the manufacture of whisky.
4. That he could beat any Of the boys
at wrestling, running foot race, pitching
quoits, or tossing copper.
5. That he could ruin mere liquor than
all the other boys of the town together.
G. That he presided over a fist fight or
a horse race in a style which excited uni
versal admiration and praise.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14
True GreatM @ SIS.

Who are the truly great? Not always
those who occupy high position among
the sons of earth. 1t may not be those
who have toiled up education's steep,
and who have ascended to what men call
fame's highest pinnacle of renown, whose
eloquence enchains the minds of millions,
and who sways them at his will. 1t may
not be him who has thousands of votaries
that bow at his shrine, for wealth and
friends may gain man high position
midst his fellow-men, even if not deserv-
ing. 1t is not always those that occupy
the highest positions that are most de-
serving, very far from it, The truly
great are those that do not strive to OBJ
tain high position among the sons of
the earth, but whose greatest motto is to
do good, and benefit his fellow-mau, re-
gardless of self and the opinions Of the
fashionable and wealthy ones of earth.-
Live not for thyself but for others, is the
rule which he is striving 20 carry out,
and when he shall enter the scenes of an
other life, for his noble actions and phil
anthropic zeal he shall receive never
fading crown of glory. We need build
no monuments to such worth as this
monuments that would pierce even to the
clouds would be far too insignificant;
their monuments are their noble deeds i'm
perishably engraven in the hearts of those
whom they have benefited. Let us SO
live that when we have finished this life
we shall be enabled to say we have done
right and be this the enduring monument
to perpetuate our name.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14
Playing Cards for "a Wife.

A constable in Williamsport, Indiana,
while paying a visit to young lady a
few miles away, proposed game of
euchre as the evenings entertainment,
which was accepted by the young lady.
When the cards were dealt the young la
dy proposed "hyer" of fifty dollars, to
which the constable demurred. The young
lady protested that she would never play
with gentlemen unless there was some
stake up, but the gentleman still demur-
red, when, as a compromise, the lady pro-
posed that they would play. and if she
should beat him he should marry her,
which the gallant constable couldn't do
otherwise than accept. At it they went,
and the lady proved to be the winner
The constable was invited to stay all
night, and in the morning they would
proceed to the squire's and be made one
flesh. He plead pressing business and
went away. She followed him to his
fathers and stayed there three days with
out seeing the young man, when a COM
promise was effected by paying the dis
consoate lady two hundred and fifty dol
lars to fill the breach.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14

A Go-AHEAD LUNATc.-A reverend
doctor of Georgia had rather a slow de-
livery, which was the occasion of an
amusing scene in the chapel of the lunatie
asylum. He was preaching, and illus
trating his subject by the case Of man
condemned to be hung and reprieved upon
the gallows. lie went on to describe the
gathering of the crowd, the bringing out of
the prisoner, his remarks under the gal
lows the appearance of the executioner,
the adjustment of the halter, the prepara-
tion to let fall the platform, and just
then the appearance in the distance of fthe
dust covered courier, the iaded horse, the
waving handkerchief the commotion
in the crowd. At this thrilling point,
when every one was listening in breath
less silence, the doctor became rather pro-
lix. One of the lunatics could hold in
no longer; he arose and shouted: Hurry
doctor. for mercy's sake, hurry! They'll
hang the man before you get there!
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14
Making Shoes by Steam,

The Haverhill Mass. Publisher gives
an account of steam shoe factory in
that place, for sewing the seams and peg
gng shoes. The machinery is all worked
by small-five horse power engine. In
the basement of the building are the ma
chimes for cutting, stripping, rolling and
shaping the shoes. These are then pass.
cd to a story above, the shoes are lasted,
and the outer soles tackled on by hand,
which process prepares them for pegging.
The pegging machines are simple in con-
struction and mode of operation, but per-
form the work with great dispatch and ac-
curacy, driving the pegs st the rate of
fourteen a second. One of the most Gu
rious operations of the machine is the
manner in which it manufactures the pegs
for its own use. A strip of wood of the
required width and neatly lain in a coil
one hundred feet in length is put into the
machine, and at every revolution it is
moved forward, and peg cut off and
driven into the shoe. The rapdity and
unerring accuracy with which these ma
chimes perform their work is truly aston
ishing. After being pegged. the shoes
are passed up to the third story, where the
bottoms are smoothed, secured and brush
ed. The fourth story is occupied by the
stitching machines, attended by females
but run by steam, which saves laborious
and fatiguing operation.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14
TNay Making.

AS the season for making hay is ap,
preaching, we will give few words OF
caution in advance. Don't dry yoar
hay too much. Hay may be dried till it
is as worthless as straw. AS a good
coffee-maker would say, Don't burn
your coffee, but brown it," so we say,
don't dry your hay, but cure it. Our
good old mothers, who relied on herb tea
instead of "potecary medicine" gathered
their herbs when in blossom, and cured
them in the shade. This is the philoso-
ply Of making good hay in the shade.
The sugar Of the plant, when it is in
bloom, is in the stalk ready to form seeds
If the plant is cut earlier, the sugar has
become converted into woody matter.
Hay should be we'll wilted in the sun,
but cured in the cock. Better to be a
little too green than too dry. If on put
ting it into the barn, there is danger of
cheating in the NOV" put ON some salt.
Cattle will like it none the less.
Heat, light, and dry winds will soon
take the starch and sugar, which consti-
tute the goodness Of hay, out of it; with
the addition of shower, render it almost
worthless. Grass cured with the least
exposure to the drying winds and search
ing sunshine, is more nutritious than if
longer exposed, however good the wealth
er may be. If ever cured, it contains
more woody fiber and less nutritive matter.
The true art of hay making, then, con-
sists in cutting the grass when the starch
and sugar are most fully developed, and
before they are converted into seed and
woody fiber, and curing it up to the point,
when it will answer to put in the barn
without heating, and no more Ohio
Eurnner
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14

VINO CAN ANswER?-A curious cotem-
porary asks: "If all the babies in the
world were seated together, and spanked
at the same time, how many sugar plums
would it take to quiet them:"
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-14

STARE ribs-unmarried females.
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