The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18

TRANSPORTATION OF SoULs.-Ihe Hid
doc creed derives its peculiar character from
the tenet, so generally diffuscd throughout
According to this belief, the spirit of man af-
ter death is not conveyed into different
state of existence, but yoes to animate some
other mortal body or evea one belonging to
the brute creation. The receptacle into
which it eaters is decided by the course of
action followed during the present life. The
virtuoas man may rise ffom an humble caste
to the raak of = prince or even q Brahmin,
while the depraved not only sink into degra-
datioa as human beings, but evea have their
souls inelosed in the bodies Of animals. With
this view the Hindeo oracles endsavor to es-
tablish certain conformity between the Of
fences committed and the condition uader
which they are expiated The theft is con
verified into some animal addicted to steal the
articles which we're the wonted objects of his
own depreciation. The piiferes Of grain is
motanorphorsed into rat while he who stole
roots OF fruit becomes an ape. The person
thus lowered 10 the scale Of being must pass
through long succession Of degraded births
ere he can re-assume the harnan form sad en-
dowments. This belief is so familiar to the
Hindoo that his conversation is filed with al
lusions to it. IF he sees any suffering under
evils that seem unmerited, he at snee pro
nouces that the penalty Of sin committed 10
a previous stage and form of existence Even
on seeing a COW or dog receive severe beat
ing, he iafers that the soul which animates
them must under its human shape, have
committed some oAense worthy of such easti-
CATION. Wives, who consider themselves in
juriously treated by their husbands, or ser
wants by their masters, indulge the earnest
hope that In some future state of being they
shall exchange conditions, and obtain the OPP
portuuity Of signal retaliation. ~ "a
TOMATOES AND THEIR CULTIvATIoN.-A
writer who seems to cave some knowledge Of
the cultivation of tomatoes, gives the follow
ing directions:
Tomatoes are now essential articles of diet
in every household; and, when one grows for
his own use, quality is Of far more conse-
queuce than mere quantity. We have now
for several years noted the growth of toma-
toes on poles, and compared them with all
other ways, and think there is no question as
to their absolute superiority in every respect
The common field plan Of leaving them grow
as they list, spreading everywhere over the
ground, may be, as truck growers say it is, the
way in which the heaviest weight of fruit can
be had in proportion to the labor spent; bu:
ia this ~aythe fruit is more acid thaa my
other system. Another plan is to make a
treilis SO that it looks like an inverted '. with
the plants trained up Oh both sides; but the
| great shade to the fruit. in this way prevents
that perfection which the sun and air gives
them when TRAINED up to stakes.
The best way to proceed is to do as is done
with Lima beans that is, set the stakes be-
fore the plants are put out. These need not
| be over six feet of the ground, and may be sci
about four feet apart each way. As the plants
grow, tie them up to the stakes, but that vii
| not be required over half dozen times du
ring the season. Twenty plants in this way
will yield as much fruit as double the quanti-
~ on any other plan, and in quality, there is
no comparison Ia planting do not set ou
until the soil is warm, CT they will be stuntee
and nothing gained.
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