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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01
agricultural department.
From the Rural CarOlinian.
CLOVER! CLOVER! CLOVER! !

The following letter will not fail to interest
those who advocate the development of South
ern agricultural enterprise. The time is sure
ly not far distant when the an't-grow-clover
party in South Carolina, will be compelled to
strike their colors, for the advocates of grass
culture and stock raising are increasing in
numbers, and ere long will introduce stream
of four-footed immigrants that will bring fat
ness to the soil, as we'll as wealth to the State:
SOCIETY HILL, S. c., June 3, 1872.
Cok D. Wyatt Aiken Il regret very much
that you did not see my clover and other
grasses when you were here. AS have just
finished cutting must give you some account
Of my great success.
es date back to the spring of 1868, and all my
paintings have been as late as March, not,
however, from CHOICE for am convinced that
the early fall is the proper time to SOW.
I have one field Of five acres, one year old
from the seeding, from which 1 got sixteen
four.horse wagon loads, equal to eleven and a
quarter tons Of hay, ascertained by weighing
one load and estimating the whole. This clo-
yer was cut in the early bloom, and before
any ofthe blooms were turning it stood uni
formly over the land about two.and.half feet
high and as thick as it could stand. The land
upon which it grew is what we know on the
Pee Dee River as Sweet Gum land, very stiff
and of dark color. Such lands when fresh
are productive in corn and cotton, but become
very hard and stiff, and therefore Improbable,
requiring the expenditure of more time and
labor than we are able to give them in these
times.
That they are still valuable is evidenced by
this growth of clover, which was unmanured
and the soil very poorly prepared. -..---~
had, also, rather less than two acres out
side of my embankment, and Immediately
upon the river bank, planted in mixture of
clover, orchard grass, timothy and herds grass,
from which I got still larger crop of what l
think is better hay than the clover alone.
The yield was five large four.horse loads of
we'll cured hay; but as it was not weighed, I
cannot give you the exact product only it
surpassed my most sanguine expectations.
The grasses seem to do quite as well as the
clover, and especially the orchard grass, much
of which was four feet high.
My success will induce me to plant largely
this fall, with the hope of raising sheep prof.
tably and I write now mainly to ask your
advice as to how I can best get twenty ewes
and ram pure Merno sheep.
Yours, truly, SAM. W. EVANS.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01
&eading fur the Sabbath.
CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
LIFE.

loIieiiaiJ
In the word of God life is compared to
many things, all of which are calculated to
impress it upon our minds that the days of
man are few. In childhood we sometimes
come to the conclusion that manhood will
never come; and in manhood we conclude
that old age is far in the future. These are
vain conclusions. The two extremes of life
are not far apart. The years that hang heav-
lily on our heads in childhood pass away rap
idly in the latter part of life Hours pass
with the :apidity of moments as we near the
western shore oflife's voyage.
Life is not only short, but it is full of trou-
BILE. None of Adams race are permitted to
pass from shore to shore on the sea of life
without storm. In most men it is storm
from the cradle to the grave. Not unfre-
quently the breeze, gentle at first as the even
ing zephyr, is increased into a tornado. 1t
fills the soul with sadness to contemplate a
world peopled with immortal beings whose
hearts are so often filled brim-full of grief
What countless millions of the human family
groan beneath the oppressive burdens of care
and anxiety! The young mothers heart is
rent with grief which no mere words can
describe as she stands over the grave and sees
her tender babe laid in the dark tomb. How
the fathers breast heaves with grief as he
stands watching with intense anxiety his dy-
ing boy. Life is full of sorrow to us all.
Sin and misery are welded. Wherever sin
goes misery follows Is there no remedy for
life's sorrow? Is there no place where sorrow
is unknown? Yes. The blood of Jesus
ceanses from all sin and removes sorrow from
the heart. There is happy home for the
believer in Christ. In heaven the turmoil
and troubles of earth are unknown. God
will dry every eye and soothe every heart in
heaven
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01

RICH WITHOUT MoNEY-Many man is
rich without money. Thousands of men with
nothing in their pocket, are rich. A man
born with good, sound constitution, good
heart, and good limbs, and pretty good head
piece, is rich. Good bones are better than
gold tough muscles better than silver; and
nerves that flash and carry energy to every
function, are better than houses or land. 1t
is better than landed estate, to have the right
kind of father and mother. Good breeds and
bad exist among men as really as among
herds and horses. Education may do much
to check evil tendencies or to develop good
ones; but it is a greater thing to inherit the
right proportion of faculties to start with.
The man is rich who has good disposition,
who is naturally kind, patient, cheerful, and
who has flavor of wit and fun in his dispo-
sition The hardest thing to get on with in
this life, is mans own SELF A cross, selfish
fellow-a desponding and complaining fel-
Iowa timid and care-burdened man-these
are all born deformed on the inside. Their
feet do not limp, but their thoug hts do.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01

s9- Should prayer offered in public be an
grafton? A few months ago we went to
Church on Sunday evening in large coun-
try town, and heard something which so i'm
pressed US that we have since thought about
it very often. 1t was not the sermon; there
was nothing memorable in that. 1t was a
prayer, or, at least, when the minister began
he said: "Let us pray" and the people
bowed their heads as if in supplication. Then
we heard, first, brief eulogy on human ma
ture, setting forth its dignity and indepen-
dence Then there was description Of the
horrible and enslaving effects Of superstition,
and of false views of the character of God,
which have always been entertained in the
Christian Church. After this, the results of
modern theological criticism were summed up,
and the prayer concluded with a sketch in
outline of the "good time coming, when man
will be emancipated from the bondage of tradi-
tions, and rites, and superstitious usages, and
will reverence and worship only the Divine
in his own nature" This is no caricature it
is an accurate report of what we heard on the
occasion referred to, and in important respects
it is much like that we have often heard in
our own denomination and in others. There
is great deal Of praying in public that
closely resembles speech-making. Of course
we intend no criticism of the obvious ideas
and opinions of the minister whom we heard !;
we only ask, whether such an Grafton can
properly be termed a prayer ?-Lberal Chris
tian.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01
Ghildteu's department.
THE LITTLE BOY THAT CRIES.

THE LITTLE BOY THAT CRIES.
know little dumpy boy,
He's almost five years old,
And he is but baby yet
grieve to have it told.
His eyes are black, but often dim
With tears that freely fall;
We've other babies in the house,
But he out-cries them all!
Sometimes we have doleful wall
Before he's out of bed,
And while he's dressed you'd be surprised
To see the tears he'll shed.
He hurts his finger-then he screams,
Falls down-screams ten times louder;
And if you laugh, you might as well
Set off keg Of powder!
He cries for bread, he cries for cake,
He cries when some one teases;>
And when he's washed, you'd really think
He'd cry himself to pieces
But must say-to speak him fair,
He is not always screaming;
His black eyes often shine with fun,
His face is bright and beaning.
And he can laugh, and jump andsing,
And am glad to tell you,
His lips can smile and kiss as sweet
AS any little fellow.
And don't you think this little boy
Should try to stop his crying?
We all should love him so much more,
It's surely worth the irving.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01
An14uruns department.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DARKEY.

An elderly darkey, with very philosophi.
cal and retrospective cast of countenance, was
squatting upon his bundle on the hurricane
deck of one of the western river steamers
toasting his shins against the chimney, and ap.
parently plunged in state of profound medi.
tatlon. His dress and appearance indicated
familiarity with camp life, and it being soon
after the siege and capture of Fort Donaldson,
was inclined to disturb his reveries, and on
interrogation found that he had been with the
Union forces at that place, when questioned
him farther. His philosophy was so much in
the Falstaffian vein that will give his views
in his own words as near as my memory will
serve me.
"Were you in the 6ght?"
81 had a little taste of it, sa."
"Stood your ground, did your"
"No, sa, runs
"Run at the first fire, did you?"
eyes, So, an would hab run soona had I
know'd it was comm"
"Why, that wasn't very creditable to your
courage"
"Dat isn't in my line, sa-cookiu's my pro-
fesson."
"Well, but have you no regard for your rep
utatonP"
"Reputation! muffin to me by de side oflife. "
"Do you consider your life worth more than
other peoples"
otis worth more to me, sa"
"Then you must value it very highly
"Yes, So, does more dan all dis world
more than million dollars, sa; for what
would dat be wuth to man wild de bref out
ofhim? Selfpreserbashun is de first law wild
me, So"
"But why should you act upon different
rule from other men"
"Cause, sa, different men sets different value
upon derselves; my life is not in de market"
"But if you lost it, you would have the salts
faction of knowing that you died for your
country"
"What satisfaction would dat be to me,
when der power of feelin' was gomez"
"Then patriotism and honor are nothing to
you?"
Muffin whatever, as-I regard dem as
among de varieties"
"lfo soldiers were like you, traitors might
have broken up the government without resis-
tance."
eyes, sa der would hab been no help for
it. wouldn't put my life in de scales ginst
any guberment dat eber existed, for no guber-
ment could replace de loss to me. Spect,
dough, dat de gubernment's safe, if da all like
me-"
"Do you think any of your company would
have missed you if you had been killed?"
"May be nc, sa. A dead white man ain
much wild desc sogers, let alone dead nigga
but I'd a missed myself, and dat was de pint
wild me-"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01
THE LITTLE GIRL AND HER COPY.

A little girl went to writing school. When
she saw her copy, with every line so perfect,
81 can never write like that" she said.
She looked steadfastly at the straight round
lines, so slim and graceful. Then she took
up her pen and timidly put it on the paper.
Her hand trembled; she stopped, studied the
copy, and began again. 81 can but try" said
the little girl; 81 will do as we'll as 1 can."
She wrote half page. The letters were
crooked. What more could we expect from
first effort? The next scholar stretched
across her desk, and said-"What scraggy
things you makew Tears filled the little
girls eyes. She dreaded to have the teacher
see her book. "He will be angry with me
and scold," she said to herself.
But when the teacher came he smiled. III
see you are trying, my little GIRL" he said
kindly, "and that is enough for me-"
She took courage. Again and again she
studied the beautiful copy. She wanted to
know how every line went, how every letter
was rounded and made. Then she took up
her pen and began to write. She wrote care
fully, with the copy always before her. But
O, what slow work it was! Her letters strag-
gled here, they crowded there, and some Of
them looked every way.
The little girl trembled at the step of the
teacher. 81 am afraid you will find fault
with me, she said; "my letters are not fit to
be on the same page with the copy"
II do not find fault with you," said the
teacher, "because I do not look so much at
what you do. By really trying you may
make little improvement every day and a
little improvement every day will enable you
to reach excellence by and BY"
"Thank you, sir" said the little girl; and
thus encouraged she took up her pen with
greater spirit of application than before.
And so it is with the dear children who are
trying to become like Jesus. God has given
us heavenly copy. He has given us His
dear Son "for an example, that we should fol-
low his steps," He "did not sin, neither was
guile found in his mouth" "He is altogeth-
er lovely" and "full Of grace and truth"
And when you study His character, 81 can
never reach that" you say; 81 can never be
like Jesus"
God does not expect you to become like
his dear Son, in a minute, or day, or year !;
but what pleases him is that you should love
him, and try to follow his example 1t is
that temper which helps you to grow, day by
day, little by little, into his likeness, which
God desires to see. God loves you for try
ing, and will help you.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01

CHICKEN CHoLERA.-A correspondent of
the Southern Cultivotor says: 81 know a lady
who in the fall of 1869, began to feed her
chickens on the seed of the plant known as
Worm seed or "Jerusalem oak" Prior to
that the cholera had been among her chickens
almost incessantly. Ina week it disappeared,
and has not returned since. She continues
the remedy to this day, mixing it in the feed
of the chickens, from one to three times
week, using sometimes the leaves of the plant
instead of the seed. These are the facts. l
cannot say what put stop to the cholera"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01

PASTE THAT WILL KEEP YEAR.-Dis-
solve tablespoonful of alumn in quart of
warm water, and when cold stir in as much
-four as will make it as thick as cream-mix-
ing the -four in separate cup so that it will
not be in Jumps. Add as much powdered
rosin as will lie on dime; and throw in 8
dozen cloves, to give it pleasant odor. Put
tea-cup Of boiling water into tin dish, and
pour in the -four mixture.
Boil for fifteen minutes; if cooked in anoth-
er pan of boiling water it will be less likely
to burn. Let it dry away, and when needed,
dissolvea piece in little boiling water Conn
try Gentleman.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01

s6 At an infant Sunday school the teacher
gave the Bible story Of the "Prodigal Son. y
When he came to the place where the poor
ragged son reached his former home, and bis
father saw him "great way off," he inquired
what his father probably did? One of the
smallest boys with his fist clenched, said :
81 dunno, dessay he set the dog on him.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01

a9- The grandma of little four year old
had been telling her one day not to say that
people lied, but rather that they were mista-
ken. Her grandma, to amuse her, told her a
bear story, which was tough one to believe.
After she had finished, the little girl looked
up into her face, and exclaimed, "Grandma,
that is the biggest mistaken I ever heard"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01

CLovER.-In the fall of 1866, I selected
about an acre Of grey land with heavy clay
subsoil, and sowed it in wheat; strewed broad
cast fifty bushels of green cotton seed, and
plowed them in with the wheat then on the
fresh plowed land sowed six quarts of Red
clover seed, and left the ground without brush
ing or narrowing; obtained fair stand. The
next summer I reaped twenty-seven and a
half bushels ofwheat from this piece ofground.
Suffered nothing to CLEAN orgraze it that year,
1867. In February, 1868, I narrowed off the
old wheat stuble and weeds, which disclosed a
beautiful sward of young green clover two
inches high. commenced moving the clo-
yer in May, and for six weeks filled my
racks each night for six head of mules-sa-
wing many bushels of corn and several hun
dred pounds of fodder.
believe it to be the most profitable crop l
ever grew on an acre of land. The second
crop of that year, or aftermath, as it is called,
grew knee high, and loaded itself with blooms.
This let calves, sheep and goats eat, as it is
this growth that acts so powerfully on the sa-
livary glands of horses. Not being exactly
satisfied with the stand of clover again in
the fall of 1865 seeded it to wheat and clover,
with the same application of cotton seed. l
reaped twenty-three and half bushels of
wheat in 1859; kept off the stock narrowed
off the old stubble and weeds this week, and
the young clover is now three to four inches
high, owing somewhat to the warm winter for
its size.
Tell "Young Planter" of Pleasant Hill, if
he has land with clay subsoil, even if it is
sandy, not to be discouraged. Manure heavi-
ly, and when once the clover roots get down
into the subsoil, it will stand the summer we'll
and yield him an abundance of forage. Many
advocatesowing in February or early in March
with oats. This certainly will avoid the win
ter freezing, which sometimes Injuries the stand
of fall-sowed clover.-R. W. Bonner, IN Tai
bottom { Ga.) Standard.
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GALL HANDS BELOW.0

A good story is told of parrot who had
always lived on board ship, but who esca.
ped at one of the southern ports and took
refuge in church. Soon afterward the con-
gregation assembled, and the minister began
preaching to them in his earnest fashion, say
ing there was no virtue in them, that every
one of them would 60 to hell, unless they
speedily repented. Just as he spoke the SEN
tence, up spoke the parrot from his hiding
place.
Gail hands belowp'
To say that "all hands" were startled,
would be mild way of putting it. The pc
culiar voice, and unknown source, had much
more effect on them than the parsons voice
ever had. He waited a moment, and then, a
shade or two paler, he repeated the warn
ing.
"All hands below!' again rang out from
somewhere.
The preacher started from his pulpit, and
looked anxiously around, inquiring if any
body had spoken.
Gall hands below !' was the only reply, at
which the entire panic stricken congregation
got up, and a moment after they all bolted for
the doors, the preacher trying his best to be
the first, and during the time the mischievcus
bird kept up his yelling:
Call hands beloww
There was one old woman there who was
lame, and could not get out so fast as the
rest, and in short time she was left entirely
alone. Just as she was about to hobble out,
the parrot flew down, and alighting on her
shoulder, again yelled in her ear
Gall hands belowr
"No, no, Mister Devilw shrieked the old
woman, "you can't mean me- I don't belong
here. 60 to the other church across the
way"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01

p@ A close-6sted old fellow, in treating
friend to some liquor, poured out very small
drink. The latter, taking the glass and hold
ing it above his head, remarked very skepti.
cally: "You say this is forty years old? p
eyes" replied the host, "Then," replied our
friend, "all I have to say is that it is very
small for its age"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01

1@ Hiram Green, says: Gall the difference
I can see atween the lait Artemus Ward and
u. S. Grant is, that Artemus was willin' to
sacrifice all his own and his wife's relashuns
to save the country, while U. S. Grant is will
lin to sacrifice the country TO save all his own
and bis Wife's relashuns."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01
PAVING HORSES,

I bought horse the first of last winter
which appeared to be all llright-in good condi-
ton, hair looked nice, limbs all smooth
harnessed him to sleigh and rode away.
AS often as stopped and hitched he would
paw with his fore feet and also with his hind
feet sometimes he would lift his hind feet so
high as to get over the trace. Rode home
and put him in the stable. Soon heard him
paving Justify. When I went into the stable
he rushed up into the stall as far as he could,
sncrted, trembled and looked back at me as
though he was frightened. This told me as
plain as any language could, that he had
been whipped for paving. Here I found
trouble worse than paving. There are but
few more dangerous faults in horse than to
be frightened when you come near him. I
first went to work to cure this fault by petting
him, feeding him from my hand and in the
stall with apples, pears, gingerbread, popped
corn and everything [ thought would please
him. Finally made him understand that we
never use whips in our stable. I watched
him to ascertain the cause of his paving
found he was inclined to rub his sides and
neck, and his name was mostly rubbed off.
On close examination, found small patches of
eruption on the skin; also found just below
the lower end of the short ribs, soft wart
about an inch long and half an inch thick
this yielded to ashes, and was we'll in less than
two weeks.
I concluded that pawning was caused by
itching, and that, whether the itching was
caused by parasites, such as lice or itch, or by
humor on the skin, sulphur would be the
thing gave large tablespoonful every day
in his meal Turned him out half an hour
three times week to prance and roll, and de-
cided if this course was not effectual, my next
would be to give him more work and less
grain but he is cured. never saw better
horse in the stable or hitched at post. He
has worms, which I shall treat with an injec-
tion of brine-Cor. Country Gentleman.
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