Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-07-16

II Is evident that we are 70 nave
a backward season for grain.
Therefore, it will be well for the
farmer 10 begin setting out his
corn.stalks and planting his buck
wheat cakes in July instead Of
August.
Concerning the Pumpkin.-This
berry is q favorite with the natives
OF the interior of New England,
who prefer it to the gooseberry
for the making Of fruit cake, and
who likewise give it the preference
over the raspberry for feeding
cows, as being more filling and
fully as satisfying. The pumpkin
is the only esculent Of the orange
family that will thrive in the North
except the gourd and one or two
varieties ofthe squash. But the
custom Of planting it in the front
yard with the shrubbery is fast go.
ing out Of vogue, for it is now gen
orally conceded that the pumpkin
as q shade tree, is a failure.
Now, as the warm weather ap.
proaches, and the gardens begin
TO spawn.
The excited listener sprang to-
ward me to shake hands, and
said:
There, there-that will do! !
know | am all right now, because
you have read it Just as l did, word
for word. But, stranger, when !
first read it this morning, l said to
myself, l never, never believed it
before, Notwithstanding my friend
kept me under watch so strict, but
now | believe am crazy and with
that / fetched a howl that you
might have heard two miles, and
started out TO kill somebody-be.
cause, you know, / knew it would
come to that sooner or later, and
so might as well begin. / read
one ofthem paragraphs over agai n
so as 10 be certain, and then I
burned my house down and start
ed. l have crippled several peo-
pie, and have got one fellow up q
tree where l can get him if:.I want
him. But l thought / would call
in here as l passed along, and
make the thing perfectly certain ;
and now it is certain, and / tell
you it is lucky for the chap that is
in the tree. / should have killed
him, sure, as I went back. Good
by, sir, good-by-you have taken
a great load off my mind. MY rea.
son has stood the strain of one of
your agricultural articles, and /
know that nothing can ever unseat
il now. Good.6y, sir"
/ felt a little uncomfortable
about the cripplings and arsons
this person had been entertaining
himself with, for | could not help
feeling remotely accessory to
:hem but these thoughts were
quickly banished, for the regular
editor walked in! II thought to
myself, Now if you had gone to
as ! recommended you to,
| might have had a chance to get
my hand in; but you wouldn't do
and here you are. / sort of ex-
you.l
The editor was looking sad, and
perplexed, and detected. He sur
Teyed the wreck that old rioter
and these two young farmers had
and then said:
This is a sad business-a very
business. There is the mucii.
lge bottle broken, and six panes
IF glass, and a spittoon and two
,andlesticks. But that is not the
The reputation Of the pa
Der is injured, and permanently, l
ear. True, there never was such
! call for the paper before, and it
lever sold such a large edition or
scared to such celebrity but does
)ne want TO be famous for lunacy,
prosper upon the nflrmities
If his mind? Ny friend, as / am
IN honest man, the street out here
s full Of people, and others are
on the fences, waiting to
get a glimpse Of you, because they
.hink you are crazy. And well
hey might, after reading your cd.
torials. They are a disgrace to
journalism. Why, what put it in
o your head that you could edit a
paper Of this nature? You do
lot seem TO know the first rudi-
nents Of agriculture. You speak
If a furrow and a harrow as being
he same thing; you talk of the
noulting season for cows; and
'ou recommend the domestication
If the pole-cat on account of its
)!ayfulness and its excellence as q
Your remark that clans
viii lie quiet if music be played to
was SUPPLEMENTARY
.aperHuous. Nothing disturbs
CLAIMS al,0ays lie quiet.
'lams care nothing whatever
bout music. AL, heavens and
'arth, friend, if you had made the
.cquiring Of ignorance the study
# your life, you could not have
,raduated with higher honor than
'ou could to-day, l never saw
.nything like it. Your observa-