davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-09-28
Cotton Gins and Steam Engines
Repaired.

The citizens Of Pamela and adjoining o
ties are hereby notified that | am prepared to
sharpen Gins, repair Brushes, and repair steam
engines and mills, Special attention given
to repairing boilers All work warranted to
give satisfaction.
Ny shop is at Caldwell h Stitts planning
mill, Sardis, Miss, Refers to Col, J. r Dick
ems. Orders left with Hightower h Butler,
Sardis, will be promptly attended to,
a2l-lm D. W. HOOKS.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
To Make Bow Farmers.

We wish all the fathers would heed
what the american AgriculturiSt
says: Induce the boys to take new
interest in the farm, in the imple-
meuts, In the stock; tell them all
your plans, your successes and your
failures; give them the history of
your lie and what you did, and how
you lived when a boy but do not harp
too much on the degenerate charac-
ter of young men of the present age;
praise them when you c4n, and en-
courage them to 90 still better Let
them dress up IN the evening instead
of sitting down in their dirty clothes
in dirty room. Provide plenty of
light. Thanks to kerose ne, our coun-
try BONES can be as brilliantly ligh-
ted as the gas-lit residences in t1e
city Encourage the neighbors to
drop in, evenings. Talk agriculture
rather ethan politics; speak OF the
importance of large crops, Of good
stock, of liberal feeding, and OF the
advantage of making animals com
Portable, rather than of the hard
times, low rices and high wages
Above all, encourage tue boy to res d
good agricultural papers Get him
some good agricultural book to
study. Read with him, and give
him the benefit OF your experit nee
and criticism. When he has mas
tered this, give him another. In our
own case, we owe our love for farm
ing principally to the fact that our
father told us of everything that be
was doing on the farm; answe44i .g
all the ques ions and encouraging
rather than refusing our child like
desire of helping him to plow. to
chop, to drain, as well as firing the
brush heaps.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
The ResponsibiIity of Mothers:

Mozzini, in his photographed
papers just published by Hurd Il
Houghtcn, says: i: could wish that
mothers would bear IN mind that in
the actual state of Europe, none Of
us is certain of remaining the arbi-
ter of his own destiny, or that Of
those dearest to him, and could be
convinced that by giving their chill
dren q sternor education, hitting
them for any position in life, they
would provide better for their future
welfare, for their true happiness and
for their souls good, than by sur
rounding them with every luxury
and comfort, and thereby enervating
the character that should be Injured
to fatigue and privation in carly
years. l have seen young Italians
TEN pered by nature for noblsness
of life-sink miserably into crime,
or save themselves by suicide from
trials which have undergone with
smile; and 1 have mentally cast
the responsibility upon their moth
ers. My own mother blessed be her
memory , with the earnest, deep
sighted love that looks forward TO
the future, had prepared me to stand
unshaken In the midst of every mis-
fortune"
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
The Old and the New.

What is Stewart. or Belmont, or
the Marquis of Westminster, to
Ptolemy Philadelphus, of Egypt,
who amassed a little property of
$350,O00,000? And which of our
extravagant young ladies in these
boasted times ever gave her lover as
Cleopatra did, pearl dissolved in
vinegar Cor undissolved) worth
100000. Then there was Paulina,
one of the ton IN Rome, who used
to wear Jewels when she returned
her visits worth S80O,O0O Well,
they boast OF Mr.. Stewart marble
palace on Thirthy-fourth street and
Fifth avenue. We do not suppose
this house, which is about the best
they have in New York, cost more
than half q million of dollars. Cicero
who was poor man, gave $3.50, 900
for his house, and Clodius paid
$650,000 for his establishment, willie
Massala gave $2,0O0,000, for the
house at Antium. Seneca who was
lust a plain philosopher, like Mr..
Greeley, was worth $l20,000,000
Why they talk about a mans failing
IN New York for a million as if it
was a big thing. Ca ar, before he
entered any office-when he was a
young gentleman in private life
owed $4,000, 900, and be purchased
the friendship of Quesor for ST.
100000. Mark Antony owed ST.
100000 on the Ides of March, and
he paid it before the Kalends OF
March This was nothing; he squan-
dered $4,000, 900 of the public
money. Esopus, who was a play
actor, paid 100000 for a single dish.
Caligula spent 100000 on a supper.
Their wines were often kept for two
ages, and some of them sold for $50
an ounce. Dishes were made of gold
and silver, set with precious stones
The beds Of HehOgabulus were of
solid silver, his tables and plates
were of pure gold, and his mattress
ses, covered with carpets of cloth of
gold, were stuffed with down from
under the wing of the partridge 1t
took $4,000 a year to keep up the
dignity of a Roman Senator, and
some of them spent $1,0O0,OOO
year. Cicero and Pompey drop
ped in" one day on Lucullus-no-
body at home but the family-and
that family dinner cost $4,000. But
we talk of population. Weboast of
London and New York. Rome had
population of between three and
four millions. The wooden theater
of Scarurus contained $4,000 seats;
the Coliseum, built of stone, would
seat $4,000 more.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
Green Manurinq

Farmer" contributes to the
/" Ohio Farmer" some excellent
thoughts on subject that has fire.
quently engaged the attention of our
Farmers Club, and which is always
of importance to those who are seek
ing means to renovate exhausted
lands.
This system of renovating lands is
best adapted to those soils where the
vegetable matter has been exhausted
by improvident cultivation, or where
they are naturally deficient of this
substance. 1t has also a beneficial
influence in decomposing and en-
riching stubborn clay soils, and by
its use in connection with the deep
autumnal piowing the stiffest clays
may be converted into a fine, rich,
friable soil.
Where the land is so we'll stocked
with the weeds that full crop may
be expected, they may be allowed to
grow until they give evidence of re-
producing seed, when they should
be plowed under for manure. Al
though this may be considered by
some a profitable means of improv-
ing and enriching the land, yet at
the best it must be viewed as a very
improvident one. Weeds ought not
to be allowed to occupy the ground
so abundantly as to furnish a crop
for this purpose.
Buckwheat is employed in many
portions of the world as prepara-
tive crop for wheat. Buckwheat,
like all broad-leuved plan is, shades
the ground and draws its nourish-
ment largely from the atmosphere
II sown as early in the spring as pos
sible so as to escape the spring
frosts, a strong growth of plants
could be had upon the poorest des-
cription of soils, which, if plowed
under for manure as soon as 1t be-
Genes in full flower, will enrich and
meliow the land so as TO materially
change It's characte and adapt ii
for wheat. Where soil is remarka-
bly poor, SO much so that it's cultiva-
ton is deemed Improbable, the plan
of sowing buckwheat for the purpose
of oh aiming crop to be turned I'M
der for green manure is doubtless
the best that can be pursued, when
a supply of barnyard manure OF
mari cannot be had.
The first crop might be powed in
as above, and the secon / allowed 10
ripen It's seed. along with which he
and might with adv intage be seed
ed down with clover Instead ot
moving the clover, as would ordina-
rily be done, it should be fed off
with sheep until the month OF july
when 1t should be allowed to remain
/ IN sod two or three weeks previous
to the land being plowed for wheat
/ Along with the wheat crop the lanC
should be again seeded with clover
and by alternating wheat with clover
ani blowing in from four to FIVE
weeks growth of clover every other
year, that, in connection with tbs
manure made on the ground by thi
stock, and the roots of the Glove
plants, together with the application
Of the manure made on the farm
viii in a very few years, where Tia
soil is adapted for the growth o
clover and wheat, convert poor an,
comparatively barren soils into thos
of the most fertile and rroductiy
character.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
CriminnlImposition.

4 bad bin substituted for good one is simply a
loss to the pocket of the taer; but poisonous stop
substituted for lfe-sustaining medicine imperiIs
the health ofthose who lmbibe it. and the who
concocts or Sells or recommends such an article IS
criminal impostor and deserves to be visited
with a heavier penalty than If he had counterfeited
gold pieces or forged bank bills. Many vile. IN
wholesome potious now being offered for sale in
various paris the country ''tonics" and .'re-
storatives,r are recommended by their dishonest
proprietors and vendors as superior to the famous
national specific, Hostetter's stomach Bitters.
Desperate attempts are made to thrust these per
nicious compounds into the hands and down the
throats oflife-long patrons Of the great vegetable
stimulant and stomachic; and although these con-
spiraces against health and life very rarely s1c-
ceed it nevertheless seems to be duty occasional
Iy to warn the creduous against them IIosterter'a
Bitters the unequalled remedy for casual indiges-
tion confirmed dyspepsia. biliousness, liver com
paiut, malAuous fcyers. constipation. constitutions
al weakness. and the functional arrangement Oi
the weaker sex. has Tor twenty years stood at the
render competition futile. lt has not Yet
reached tine metdlau of It's popularity It's sale De
ing larger now than at any former period since It's
Introduction. It's utility a preventive Of diSOr
dcrs cuge udered ny an ilsalubriuus atmosphere oI
uuwhuiesUue water IS admitted by hysclan-
pracJicng in unhealthy districts, aud it Is recon
mended as a stimulant by many practitioners who
viii not take the responsibility Of prescribing lie
aduItcrated liquors Of commerce.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
MoRNLNGeG PLEDGEN

BY CORNIE WILLIAMS LAwES.
Yellow sunshine on the meadows
Ofthe dallying dew-drops sup,
And with warm o'erbowing measure,
Fill each lifted fiower-cup-
Sun crowned mornini
Days adoring!
Thy golden gates are open up.
And, trembling DER thy shining threshold
The echoes steal of mornings bells.
That break on strands of summer glories,
In fields. in grove, and bloc ming dells
Golden hours
Sun-hIled flowers!
Thy promises were made in vain.
OF Soul of Youth, the gilded dawning
Does not always tell the day.
For the skies may nurse the tempest,
Though they wear the hue of May.
Doubt the dawning
OF each morning
Doubt when sun beams brightes play.
And Soul of Youth Though LIES fair
morning,
Ofafter days sweet joys ailege,
1t is but the calm that sitteth
on the foaming cataract's edge,
In shadowed hours,
In rain-flled flowers,
Morning breaks her golden pledge.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
How to Feed Chickens and What to
Give Them.

Corn, wheat screenings, and oc-
casionally coarse meal, scalded and
mixed with hot water, make up their
food. 1 never give them corn meal
mixed with cold wa er-don't -oe-
lieve in it-in fact I think that is one
source of their sickness and disease.
All their food is better for them
cooked-but cooking of corn and
wheat implies trouble. SO it does
but it pays to do lt-and does any
thing pay without trouble? How
ever, let me say-whether you feed
on raw corn or not-nevsr feed on
raw cornmeal Now, when I feed.
my plan is to walk all over the yard
about half an acre-and scatter
the food right aud left (two grains
never fall in the same spot) and i'm
II ediately you see the whole army
scatter themselves as skirmishers,
and the ward presents, for an hour
and more, somewhat the appearance
of an upturned ant hill. [ never
give them as mach as they can eat !;
they always leave off hungry. By
nv system OF scattering the food
old tspdi. oIlng, weas uud strong,
small and large all get their chance
and share, and all are kept so busily
and actively employed hat the very
process of feeding stirs them about,
and keeps them from being too lazy
to move about. CeaH water (you see
I emphasize the clean part) they
must have free to all. Drinking foul
standing water kills more chickens
than nine-tenths of us raise. Occa-
sionallyIin summer | drop a lump OF
lime into the water aud let them try
the lirle water. alli ais make them
cayenne pills whenever notice them
dropping or their discharges SHOW
ing symptoms Of diarrhea. Gapes
come from drinking 1onl water, hv.
ing in dirty uoarters, and want q
good food, properly given. The best
cure for this and ali other dsea-
ses chicken flesh is heir to, is pre-
vention-in this case. an ounce f2I
prevention beir g worth GOOD many
pounds of cure q We them good
wholesome food, healthy, Jean GUAR
ters. paw some decent regard TO the
comfort, and my word for It, they
VII make you rel ice in the roflta
BILE gratitude they return you-yon
will be but little troubled with chol
sra or gapes. or any other pest, eE-
cept the miserable chicken thief, and
the best cure for him is a spring
gun. properly arranged to dose him
when he makes his marauding at
tenn pit. RllraI Rellster.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
The Sunnower.

The highly ornamental and extern
sive genus Of plants to which the
sunfiower belongs derives its sclen-
titic name, helidnfhus, from hetois,
sun. and anthos flower, on account
of the brilliant color of the flower,
and from the erroneous idea, prop
agated by poets and authors, that
the flowers always turned toward the
sun-hence, also, the French name
tournesol 1t appears to possess far
more profitable qualities than have
been hitherto supposed, and may be
cultivated with advantage and ap
piled to many useful purposes. An
acre of land viii contain 70, 200 sun
flower plants, ct twelve inches dis
tance from each other.
The great variety of valuable pro-
perties belonging to the sunhower
seed haze been much neglected. No
plant produces such fine honey and
wax: and when the flower is in bios
som. bees abound on it. The pro
duce will be according to the nature
OF the soil and mode of cultivation;
but the average has been found to
be fifty bushels of the seed per acre,
which will yield fifty gallons of oil.
The oil Is excellent, when refined,
for table use, for burning in lamps,
for soap-making, and for painting,
especially for mixing green and blue
paints. The marc or refuse OF the
seeds of the above quantity, after the
oil has been expressed, made into
cakes, will weigh 500 pounds, and
the stalks, when burnt for alkali, will
give ten per cent. Of potash. The
green leaves of the sunhower, when
dried and mixed with bran, make
excellent fodder for milch COWS. The
oil makes an admirable soap, par
ficularly softening to the hands and
face, and it is pleasant to shave with.
The cake is superior to linseed for
fattening cattle. Sheep pigs, pig
cons. rabbits, poultry of all sorts.
etc, will fatten rapidly upon it, and
prefer the seed to any other; it
causes pheasants in particular to
have much more glossy plumage,
and to be plumper IN the body. 1t
also increases the quantity OF eggs
from poultry fed with it. The seed,
shelled, mares when ground very
fine sweet -four for bread, particular
" tea-cakes,
The sunfower viii grow in any
corner that may be vacant, and will
give farm a most agreeable garden
like appearance. 1t should be plant
ed about twelve inches apart, and
one inch deep, ard when abont a
foot high should be earthed up; it
will then require no further atten-
ton. Every single seed will pro-
duce 1000 or more; the main head
generally produces 500 to 1000
seeds, and there are usually four col
laterals, producing so to 60 seeds
each.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02

4 correspondent of the Practical
Farmer says: have known many
men, and women too, who, from
various causes, had become so much
affected with nervousness that wheb
they stretched out their hands they
shook like as2en leaves on windy
days; and by daily moderate us,
of the blanched foot stalks of the
celery leaves as a salad, they be-
came as strong and steady in limbs
as other people 1 have known
others so very nervous that the least
annoyance put them in a state of
agitation. who were In almost con-
slant perplexity and fear, and who
were efectually cured by a daily
modera use of blanched celery as
salad at mealtiines. I have known
others cured by using celery for pal
pitation of the heart.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02

FALL PLowING.-Unless the soil is
very sandy and liable to leach or
wash away, you can not go amiss In
keeping the teams busy in plowing
land intended for spring crops. If
possible, pillow the corn-stubbles this
fall. If there is not time for this go
over them with two-horse cultiya-
tor 1t Will kill great many weeds.
and level down the hills, and leave
the land in far better shape to plow
in the spring 1t will also do good
by exposing the soil to the atmos-
phere, and thus develop plant food.
It will also cause a great many weed
seeds to germinate, and the young
plants will be killed by plowing in
the spring We think SO much of
this work that we often cultivate be-
tween the stocks of cTn as soon as
the crop is cut. Try the plan. 1t
will pay
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02

CURE FOR SrAMMERING Many cures
have been recommended for the dis
tressing habit of stammering, a few
of which are sure This is one of
them: keep the teeth closed To-
gether, and before attempting to
scta ak. respiIe deeply; then give time
for quiet utterance, and after very
slight practice the hesitation will be
relieved. No spasmodic action of
the lower Jaw must be permitted to
separate the teeth when speaking
This plan. regularly carried out for
six months, will cure any one who
has the determination to persevere
in it"
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02

THE season for coughs and colds is
rapidly approaching, and every one
should be prepared to check the first
symptoms, as cough contracted be-
tween now and Christmas frequently
lasts all winter. There is no better
remedy than JohnSon's Anodyne Lini-
q1ent. For all diseases of the throat
and lungs it should be used internally
and externally.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
About Bears.


The provisions of nature are
strange Climate forces upon ami
mails different habits. Toward the
end of December the female white
bear places herself in position
where the snow will drift over her.
Lying still upon rock, the snow
falls thickly upon her, and cell i
formed for Winter habitation In
this cell the animal resides during
the period of accouchement. The
cubs are produced. and the mother
remains secluded with them until
the month of March. The young
are very small at first, but as they
grow the heat of their bodies melfs
the snow and thus enlarges the cell
Tee warm breath ascends upward
and makes an aperture for the ad-
m ssion of pure air. Before hberat-
ing, the bear eats enormously Of nu-
tritious food, and becomes very fat,
on which fat she exists during her
Winter retirement. The phenome
non is all the 10 ore singular, as the
female bear is compelled to give sus-
tenance to her young as well as to
live erself, and the surplus fat in
her own body is her only store OF
food. Pertinent to this, DR.. Wood
remarks: cit is worthy of notice
that in the bears of the Old as well
az the New World, is found the curl
Gus phenomenon of "tappen " "a
hard cornered substance, which
plugs up the intestine, and seems to
be of service in retaining the ami
NAL in condition.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02

DON'T HAWK, HAWK, SPIT,
SPIT, BLOW, BLOW, and disgust
everybody with your Catarrh and its of
fensive odor, when DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy will speedily destroy all odor
and arrest the discharge. 595.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02

MOTHERS WHO HAVE DAUGHTERS THAT
HAVE WEAK LUNGS arrest the
disease when it is in the incipient
stages. 1t is indicated by hacking
cough, pains in the chest, difficulty of
breathing, or oppression of the lungs.
If this be permitted to run on, tubercles
viii form, and Consumption will be the
result. A most valuable remedy will
be found in Aliens Lung Balsam to
cure and check this disease in its first
stage.
For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
For sale by all Medicine Dealers.

LUNG fever, common cold, catarrhal
fever, and nasal discharge of a brownish
color in horses, may be checked at once
by liberal use of Sheridan'S CdUdlJy
Condition POlCderS,
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
Use Magic Arnica Liniment for Aches
and Pains.


tTIaI VII saIlsiy All thHt tnls DeaIfuI hrOmniIc
linimeut is superior the compounds Of rancid
grease commonly sold under the name of lini-
meut. il is All instantaneous destroyer Of pains.
RKAD THE FOLLOWING:
IUKA. MISS June 26. 1sG9.
McSsrS. MdnSdsld & Higtec.
tfESTLEsI The following voluntary state
ment>- ! make them alone i0r the good of the sur
fering. Whei- / in your city you recommended
10 me and advised me TO buy the Magic Arnca
Ltniment- Ny reply WAS had no confidence in
patent nostruns. 1 told you OF "a hurC received
eleven years since. that had been relieved. but 10
was increasing with age You then presented me
with a bottle of this iinimeut. / TOOK II through
courtesy 10 yeu. \ week after l got home I con-
cluded 10 IT, applied il twice each day for two
weeks. since that me have felt pain, but
feel ts well as / did twenty years ago. The bottle
Of lintmcnt has been worth 10 than the
bottle full OF gold would have been. l recommend
the liuiment TO all who find suffering with pains
from strains. bruises. rheumatism any other
CaIsc whatever. IL recommends itself wherever
sold. am, dear sits
IUurs. etc,
bis :. J. WADLEY.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02

least one inch above the chine. The
head is then put in position, and
pressed down by means OF lever.
Apples packed in this way can be
carried long distance without dan
ger of bruising Do not put any poor
fruit with the first quality; as 1t wlii
seriously affect the price. After the
fruit is all barreled it should be
stored in cool place, where there IS
do danger from frost.
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02

PoULrRY.-F. ed well, and get such
as you intend to sell or eat as fat as
possible. Keep the hen house clean
Do not allow the fowls or turkeys to
roost n trees or on the iml lements.
A little attention for a lew nights
will teach them to go to their proper
roost,
The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
THE QUEENS TOILET,
or Improving and Beautifying the Com.


AND REMOVING
Tan. Sunburn, Freckles and all Eruptions on the
Skin.
This preparation Is the only of its class which
is prepared from PHYSICIANS PRESCRIPTIONS, s,
and of which a bona-ide analysis accompanies
each bottle as a guarantee of its
PURITY AND GENUINENESS.
Printed on the wrapper Of every bottle is the fol-
lowing certificate from Prof. S. Dana Hayes, State
Assayer and Chemist for Massachusetts.
DRs. s. 3. FITCH 81 Son:
Gentlemen-''The Queens Toilet" received from
you has been analyzed. with the following results:
This is purely vegetable preparation. free from
poisonous materials, injurious substances of any
kind; and il is composed of ingredients having
known emolient and healing properties.
Respectfully, s. DANA HAYES,
20 State St, Boston:
Price s1.co per Bottle. Sold by all Drugeists