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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22
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JUDGE NOT TOO HARsHLY.


? When you meet with one suspected
Of some secret deed of shame,
= And for this by all rejected,
: As thing of evil fame,
l Guard thine every look and action,
Speak no word of heartless blame
For the slanderer's vile detraction
s May yet soil thy goodly name.
When you meet with one pursuing
Ways the lost have entered in,
Working out his own undoing
With his recklessness and sin,
Think, if placed in his condition,
Would kind word be in vain2
Or look of cold suspicion
Win thee back to truth again?
There are spots that bear no flowers,
Not because the soil is bad,
But the Summer genial showers
Never made their bosom glad.
Better have an act that's kindly,
Treated sometimes with disdain,
Than by Judging others blindly
Doom the innocent to pain.
The cruel and the bitter word
That wounded as it fell,
That chilling want of sympathy
- We feel, but never tell.
The hard repulse that chills the heart,
Whose hopes are bounding high,
In an unfading record kept,
These things shall never die.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22
Borrowing NEwspApERs.--An ex-

BORROWING NEwspAPERs. IAN ex-
change warns people in regard to the dan
ger of borrowing newspapers and not sub
scribing for them. It assures its readers
that borrowing their neighbors' newspa-
pers is not safe, and it adds: That it once
knew poor but honest man who borrow
ed paper. innocently and Inadvertently.
from q Wholesale ueighbor. Fatal act.
That terrible contagion. the smallpox.
was conveyed iusiduously into the fibres
of the sheet. OF that extensive and in
teresting family, 0 doting father. fond
wife. several intelligent and heroic sons,
thirteen lovely daughters. two popular
mothers -iu-law, and three besutiful aunts
not one remains to tell the tale.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22
Mark Twain on his Travels.

got into the cars and took seat In
Ijuxtaposition to female. That females
face was perfect insurance company for
her-it insured her against ever getting
married to anybody except a blind man.
Her mouth looked like crack IN dried
lemon, and there was no more expression
in her face than there is in cup of cold
castard She appeared as if she had
been through one famine and got about
two-thirds through another. She was
old enough to be great-grand mother to
Mary that had the little lamb. She was
chewing prize popcorn. and carried in
her hand yellow rose. while band box
and cotton umbrella nestled sweetly by
her side. l couldn't guess whether she
was on a mission of charity, or going
west to start a sawmill. l was full of
curiosity to hear her speak; so said:
"The exigencies of the time require
great circumspection in person who is
travelling"
Said she, "What?"
Says I, 1.-The orb of day shines resplen-
dent in the blue vault above"
She hitched around uneasy like. then
she raised her umbrella and said, Il don't
want any of your sass-git OUT" and [
got out.
Then I took seat alongside male fell
low, who looked like the ghost of Hamlet
heightened out He was stately cuss !;
and he was reading.
Said I, "Mister, did you ever see a
camel leopard p I said camel leopard.
because it is pious animal. and never
eats any grass without getting down on
it's knees. He said he hadn't seen a
camel leopard. Then, said I do you
chew ?"
He said. mo, sir"
Then I said, '.How sweet is nature p
He took this for connumdrum and
said he didn't know. Then he said he
was deeply interested in the history of a
great man. Alas! he exclaimed, we are
but few"
I told him l knew one; ''the man that
made my cooking stove was great man. "
Then he asked me "'would [ read p
"Says I. "What you got?"
He replied, Watts Hymns" "Re-
veries by Moonlight" and "How to
Spend the Sabbath"
I said, ''None of them for Hannah, y
but if be had an unabridged Business
Directory of New York City, | would
take little read.
Then he said. Young man, look al
these grey hairs"
I told him saw them, and when man
got as old as he was. he ought to dye.
Said l, ''You needn't think these hairs
are any sign of wisdom; it's only sign
that your system lacks iron and advise
you to 60 home and swallow crowbar.
He took this for ironry, and what
little entente cordiule there was between
us was spilled. 1t turned out that he
was chaplain of base ball club.
:. When We got to Rochester called fol
Ia bowl of bean soup. It ought to be cal.
led lean soup. l send you the receipt
for making it: Take lot of water, wash
it we'll, and broil it until it is brown or
both sides; then very carefully pour one
bean into it and let it simmer. Wher
the beans begin to get restless, sweete1
it with salt, then put it up in airtigh
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22
Taking off Hides.

Being a worker in the leather manufac-
ture. I have constantly under my notice
the awkward manner in which the farm
ing community take of the hides Of ami
mails of their own slaughter. The hind
leg, for instance, being slit up along the
under or perhaps inner side, so as to
leave the hook of the hide in the form ol
skull cap. AS upon being brought into
work every part must be made to lie fat,
this portion has to be opened by cutting
unsig ghtly strips, which materially impair
its usefulness. The following directions
may assist the novice is performing the
operation:
We will suppose the animal dead and
placed on its back: the operator. by
thrusting his knife point foremost and
edge up, makes slit the entire length o.
the carcass, from the chin over the centre
of the breast in the line of the naval te
the vent Let him now stand by its side,
with his face looking the way the head
lies, and taking the fore foot in his lef'
hand, run the point of his knife in the
line of the cleft of the foot and cap of the
knee, up the front of the leg and into the
central slit of his bosom. For the hino
leg. having. reversed bis position. let the
slit be made in the line of the heel, over
the centre of the cap of the hook. dowr
the back of the ham into the central slit
In this way the hide when spread out viii
have square form without long projec
tions. and consequent deep iudentions, o
its outline-COr. Canada Farmer.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22

INTERESTING TO FARMERs.-A series OF
experiments. instituted to test the average
loss in weight by drying, shows that corn
loses about one-ffth, and wheat one four
teenth by the process. From this, the
statement is made, that the farmers will
make more money by selling unshelled
corn in the fall at seventy-fve cents than
the following summer at ST. 90 bushel,
and that wheat at $1.32 in December is
equal to $3.50 for the same wheat in the
June following. This estimate is made
on the basis of interest at seven per cent,
and takes no account of the loss from tho
depredations of vermin.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22

/ ~A A Scottish nobleman one day visi-
ted a lawyer at his Office, in which at the
time there was a blazing fire. which led
him to exclaim, "Mr.-, your Office 10
as hot as an oven." $50 it should be,
my lord" replied the lawyer; ''as it is
here make my bread"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22

~A good, finished scandal, full-armed
and equipped. such as circulates in the
world is rarely the production of single
individual, or even of a single coterie. It
sees the light in one; is rocked and nur-
tured in another; is petted. developed
and attains its growth in third; and
receives its finishing touches only after
passing through multitude of hands.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22
IT'S THE LAST CLOCK OF FIFTY.

| JEWISH WATCH AND CLOCK MAKER 8 ADVERTISE
MENT; BEING PARODY UPON MORRIS "LAs
ROSE OF SUMMER"
IT'S the last clock of fifty,
Left standing alone;
ALI its noisy companions
Are purchased and gone.
No watch of its kindred,
No time-piece on tick,
To reflect back it's music,
Or give click for click.
pll not leave thee, thou lone one,
To pine on the shelf,
Since no one will buy thee,
I'll keep thee myself.
Thus kindly I'll place thee, ,
Behind my own door,
Where thy mates of the mantel
Have fourished before.
Oh long mayest thou follow
The course of the day,
As from Times faded circle
Each hour falls away.
When old clocks want cleaning,
And people seek new,
Oh! who can supply them
Like Bartholomew?
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22

HA man in New Jersey has inven-
ted stove which will consume its own
smoke. Now, if he will devise method
whereby tobacco smokers can consume
their own smoke, be will be entitled to
the thanks Of all the ladies in the land
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22

Eel is not until the flower has fallen
off that the fruit begins to ripen. So 10
life it is when the romance is past that the
practical usefulness begins.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22

Hor BEDs.-To obtain early vegets-
bles.. requires the use of hot bed. Such
beds are so simple, SO easily constructed
and cost so little that they are really
within the means of every farmer. and Of
their great advantage there cannot be but
one opinion. Assuming that the manure
has been hauled, the hot bed frames pro-
perly set and that the heat has srisen-six
inches Of rich sifted soil should be next
used to form the bed; and as soon as the
temperature is such as will admit ofseed.
ing-lay off the bed into compartments
and SOW the seeds of early aud late cab
bages, tomatoes. egg plants, lettuce, DO,
sowing radish seed sparingly between the
rows as radishes mature early and viii
not therefore interfere with the later,
plants.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22

H Emerson says: 'Tn the great
household Of nature the farmer stands st
the door of the bread room. and Weighs
to each bis loaf" q sg SIS 80. @s Ssss'
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22

@A bore Meeting Douglas Jerrold.
said /: SWELL, what's going on to-day"
II am" exclaimed Jerrold. darting past
the inquirer. ..s,E-.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22

@Sambo, 10 speaking Of the 5happ;.
ness of married psopls. said: "Dst as
pends altogsdder how dry eeoys dea-
selves
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22

Ew Punch says be has observed that
the unfortunate mans friends live long
way Of.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-03-22
Terms: So, in advance.


From sreport of o committee Of %
the New Jersey Agricultural Societies.
who visited Delaware. we CLEAN and con.
dense the following in relation of tho
requisites of peach culture: I. To pre-
lpare thoroughly, clear and enrich the soil
for planting. q To give plenty Of room.
or plant twenty-five or thirty feet apart.
8. Not to shorten in the branches. &.
To do great deal of work among the
trees-plowing. narrowing, cultivsting.
SLOWING no grass or weeds. 5. To hunk
the borers once year. in autumn. sg0z
No raising corn and potatoes, except the
first three years, in the orchard. and then
only provided fertilizers are applied. Z,
After the third year to plant nothing. but
cultivate thoroughly. '''sa
The objection TO shortening in the
shoots is'thatittends to unproductiveness,
and the formation of dense, unyielding
head, and increases the difficulty Of gas
thering the fruit. It is obvious that when
performed, the necessary thinning in CON.
|nection with shortening back was omitted,
It may be impracticable to do this on .
large scale, or in hundred-acre orchards.
In some localities this cutting back has
been found the easiest way to effect the
desired thinning of the fruit Ian operation
that has triplcd the size Of the peaches,
and tripled their price, in cases which ws
have known. Cutting back, If properly
done, increases the vigor ofthe trees. and,
makes old trees bear the large fine speci-
mems commonly found ouly on young
trees; yet it may be adapted to amateur
culture only. in ordinary practice.
The thorough cultivation was believed
by owners to keep the curculios within
bounds. and so rapid was che growth
impaired to the trees, that orchards only
four years old had trees With heads
twenty feet in diameter and fifteen feet
high. The cultiyators are broad. reacL-
ing nearly halfway from row to row, and
doing work. - 80, :, - -,
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-04-11
No Change in the School Law.

The Legislature made no change in
the School Law, at its last session. The
american Journal of Education" says {:
On the 18th of April 10000 School
Directors are to be chosen. These di.
rectors are to manage Z 900 schools they
are to employ 1000 teachers to direct
the education of 100000 children, leav,
ing 100000 unprovided for. They will
expend about s2,0O0O00 of the peoples
money.
Voters Of Missouri, do you duly con,
slider the importance Of this election Z?
Do you realize that the directors are to
select teachers for your children? =? Do
you realize how much depends upon the
teacher? If he is in every respect such
a one as you desire, your children will
make progress in mental discipline and
moral culture, in good manners and good
habits; but if you have a poor teacher,
all these benefits will be lost to them
their schooling will be more than thrown
away.
On the 18th of April your votes will
tell what sort of School Directors you
prefer. You can choose competent, 10
telligsnt men, who will employ none but
good teachers, and the schools will be
good. On the other hand, if you elect
men who are incompetent or indifferent,
men who will employ the cheapest teach.
ers-the schools will be farce, your
money will be lost, your children will
contract loose, irregular habits, which it
will require years of toll to correct.
How immense the amount of good that
will accrue to the state and to the cause
Of education by selecting competent di.
rectors; how heavy the loss that will
come from the selection of incom pc te Mt
or indifferedt persons
Ia view Of all the vast interests in
volved, may We not hope sha. no district
will disgrace itself by electing ignorant
or Indifferent men but that the directors
to be selected will rank among the most
intelligent citizens OF the state-tha,
they will be men Of good sound practical
sencc, who feel q deep interest in che
cause Of education, and are willing &c
spend time and efforts Tor the advance
ment of the schools unde. their charge
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-04-11

DREADFUL EARTHQUAKE.-AL London
telegram Of the Sth says that intelligence
has been received from Constantinople to
the effect that the city Of Antioch, in
Syria, has been visited by an earthquake
causing a terrible loss of life. The dis
patch states that onchalf Of tho city was
totally destroyed, aud that fifteen hun
dred persons lost their lives. Great dis
tress prevails in that portion of the city
which was no, demolished, and the 70
manning iuhsbi,auss ase sadly in oesd O.
assistance.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-04-11

A second amnesty bill is before the
United States senate, the house having
passed the measure. 1t only exempts
those who resigned from the army, navy or
congress 20 join the South. 1t is said
Sumner will not antagonize his civil
rights bill as an amendment now, but
will allow the amnesty bill TO become 4
Law.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-04-11

The OLDEST MAN.--The oldest man
now living in Madison county, aud prob.
ably the oldest mao in Kentucky. il
Enos Hendren, who resides neas Silver
Creek, in this county. If ne should
live until the 9th day of July mex, nc
will have reached the advanced age o,
40 years, lie rs still in good health
and frequently in fine weathes saddles
his own horse and tskes his turn of corn
to mill,-Richmond Ky Register.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-04-11

1t is said that the National Democratic
committee will meet 10 Washington
about the 25th inst., in order to adopt
measures to secure an immediate and
thorough organization Of the Democratic
party for the presidential campaign.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-04-11

DR. lloPsoN's HONESTY ED. w.
II. Hopson, one Of the most prominent
Christian ministers Of the present times
during the war had Aourishing female
college at Palmyra, in this state. 1t was
broken up by the Fcderals, and the Doc
tor left largely in debt, exceeding his
assets about $1,000, He assigned his
property to Mr.. A. W. Rush for tho ben
eft Of his creditors, who now says that he
is Informed to state that DR.. Hopson has
paid all his Missouri debts, as far as
we're know to exist. amounting with in
terest thereon to about slS 600. Thank,
are also returned to his creditors for tn,
reason that not one of them dunned him
but were all liberal to him on final set.
Element.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-04-11

DEMOCRATIC GAIN IN RHODE ISLAND
The election IN Rhode Island on he
ID inst. resulted in the election Of q
Republican governor and . Democratic
lieutenant-governor. The Republican
majority was only l,l57. against 4 l9S in
1871, and 3,573, in 1870.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-04-11

1t il assertaincd that madness has in
creased in France in proportion to the
consumption Of alcoholic drinks in chat
distracted country.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-03-08
ECCE.vrRICITIES OF cove RRSs-
,NE.v

A constituency which sends buffoon to
Congress, deliberately and with knowledge,
does a most thoughtless, disgusting and
hurtful act. 1t was very funny TO see and
hear Mullens OF Tennessee get up and bawl
out ..Mister Speaker, l want a pint Of
order just here = or to hear him, speaking
of an Arkansas member who had been
killed by ku klux, as he did speak in my
hearing about the late Mr.. Hines, in the
most sorrowful and bewaling manner:
"Mister Speaker, he has gone down 10 his
last grave, wrapped in the peaceful sililo-
guy of his blood" 1t may be funny for
the boys in the gallery to see a member
put his big dirty boots upon his desk, slide
down in his chair until he sits on a spot
between the small of his back and his
neck, and go to sleep and snore during the
proceedings of the House, as an Illinois
member used to do in the Forty-first Con-
gress. Perhaps it was amusing TO the COL
ored gallery to see member get to his feet
by the strongest efforts and tie help of his
neighbors, so drunk that he could not
stand, and insist upon quarrelng in an in
coherent manner with the speaker, until
his voice was drowned by the deafening
strokes of the mallet. This exhibition was
given about year ago by Pennsylvania,
who is still member OF the House. Pet
haps the sight OF three or our members
during the session stretched out at full
length upon the sofas in the space back of
the circle of seats, all sound asleep and
sweating like bulls nose in winter is an
inspiring view from the reporters gallery.
Perhaps it looks well to see congressman
squirting. tobacco juice in quantities rang
ing from teaspoonful to a quart all over
the snow white marble of the stairway and
besmearng costly carpets. 1t may be
among the proprieties for down-east
Senator to smoke n five cent cigar in n
hundred thousand dollar room, as have
seen Hamlin do in the unequaled and sup
erb mlrbe-room of the Senate. And it
may be the right thing to do for two mem-
bers OF the present House, who pay about
twenty or thirty dollars month for board
in the Washington hash houses, to bring
lunch of some kind at certain hour in the
day, go into the room marked Exclusively
for members" and eat their luncheons in
happiness. | may say, however, that this
ROOM, Notwithstanding its character is the
cleanest, brightest and purest room in the
capitol, but l submit that ii is hardly the
place to eat greasy sandwich. things
l have described may be funny, amusing
and laughable to the witless herd who go
through life for no other purpose than to
find things to laugh, at, but such congress
men as I have alluded to are a positive in
jury to any district. They have no inhu-
ence here, and no acquaintance they come
here with the same narrow notions they
had at home, serve out their term, draw
their pay, their mileage and stationery, and
go home TO tho same cramped sphere.-"H
T. RI in Cincinnati Commercial.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-03-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

New Hampshire has veteran stage
driver who has during his stage life driv-
en- l7l,O00 miles, equal to nearly seven
times around the world.
The Ohio Liquor Law is difficult
thing to evade. Driven to the wall by its
stringent regulations, sixteen saloon keep
ers in one town have banded themselves
together, agreeing to sell nothing but lager
beer and wine, not even those beverages to
an intoxicated person or TO habitual drunk
ards, Il list of whom is furnished each mem
ber of the society. Should member who
has obeyed the constitution and bylaws OF
the society be mulcted in damages by the
courts, each member will bear an equal
share in the payment of them.
The large clock at the English Parli-
ment House is the largest one in the world.
The four dlals of this clock are each twen-
ty-two feet in diameter. Every half min
ute the point of the minute hand moves
nearly seven inches. The clock will &c
eight and half days, but 1t only strkec
for seven and half, thus indicating any
neglect in winding ii up. The mere wind
ing up of the striking mechanism takes
two hours. The pendulum is fifteen feet
long; the wheels are of cast-iron the hour
bell is eight feet high and nine feet in di-
ameter, weighing nearly fifteen tons, and
the hammer alone weighs more than four
hundred pounds.