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GROWING ASPARAGUS.

One the vegetables which every farm
might have at very small trouble and
cost and yet which is. one not often
found in the farmers garden, IS aspara
gus. It rs ct the same time one of the
most desirable. II is very rare to find
person who does not like it. 1t is
probable that the reason it is not more
grown is an idea'that it is costly thing
to start There is some reason for the
prevalence ofthis idea. Almost all the
works on gardening would indicate that
a great deal Of labor and trouble was
necessary in order to start an asparagus
bed properly. They say the earth must
be dug up two feet deep, that load on
load of manure must be incorporated
with the earth; and possibly they will
urge the importance of some rare and
costly fertilizer as an essential ingre-
di, mt in proper asparagus bed.
But all these things are unnecessary.
Any rich garden soil is good for aspar-
agus. 1t need be planted only as 9TH
er things are planted. Some say set
the roots foot deep, but four inches
beneath the surface is plenty. 1t is
not well to plant them too thick, or the
sprouts will be small. Twenty inches
or two feet apart is a good distances.
Plants one year old, or two if they can
be had, are the best IF one be at a
distance from stores oget roots, seeds
may be sown and the beds made tfe'
next year. These can be sown in rows,
like peas. -.
An asparagus bed once faade will
last for years, with no trouble but an
annual manuring and ,f5rking over eve
ry year, and one or fwo he eings during
the summer to keep the bed clear Of
weeds; but, except on the seore of neat
ness and cleanliness, this is scarcely
necessary where an annual spring fork
ing over is given. Almost ali other
crops have to be reset and otherwise
cared for every year, while this is an
enduring crop; and we are quite sure
there is nothing which will give one so
much pleasure and satisfaction as
good asparagus bed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20
Home Influence.

If the father chiefly talks ''money
money" at home, he generally rears a
family in worship of the almighty dol
lar. If he talks mainly Of horses,
games and races, he breeds batch of
sportsmen. It fashion is the family al
tar, then the children are offered up
victims upon that altar. If man
makes his own fireside attractive, he
may reasonably expect to anchor his
own children around it. My neighbor
Q-,makes himself the constant even
ING companion ofhis boys. The re
suit is that his boys are never found in
bad places But if the father hears the
clock strike eleven in the club house or
play house, he need not be surprised if
his boys hear it strike twelve in the
gaming room Or drinking saloon. If
he puts the bottle on his own table, he
need not wonder if drunken son stag
gers in by and by, at his front door,
When the best, friend that childhood
and sodth ought to have becomes a foe
the home becomes the starting point
for moral ruin. -ftyler.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20
CARE Of HORSES.

All horses must not be fed in the
same proportions, without regard to
their ages, their constitutions, and their
work, the improperly of such . prac-
tice is self-evident. Yet it IS constant
ly done, and is the basis Of disease of
every kind. - t'e .i5.-fge
Never Use bad hat o.. account of its
.cheapness because there is no proper
nourishment in it. -t
Damaged corn is exceedingly iniur-
ious because it brings on inflammation of
the bowels and skin diseases
Chaf is better for old horses than hay,
because they can chew and digest it
better -
Mix chaff With corn OF beans, and dc
not give the latter alone; because it
makes the horse chew his food more
and digest it better
Hay or grass alone viii not support
a horse under hard word, because
there is not sufficient nutritive body in
either. ~ >.
When a horse is worked hard its
food should be mostly. oats-if not
worked hard its food should be chiefly
hay-because oats supply more nourish-
ment and discriminating material than
any other kind of food; hay not so
much.
For saddle Or coach horse, half &,
peck of sound oats and eighteen pounds
of good hay are sufficient. If the hay
is not good, add quart or peck more
oats. A horse which works harder
my have rather m, re of each; one that
works little should have less.
Rack feeding is wasteful The bet
ter plan is to feed with chopped hay,
from manager, because the food is not
then thrown about and is more easily
chewed and digested.
Sprinkle the hay with water that has
salt dissolved in it, because it is pleas
ing to the animals taste and more east
ly dlgested. A teaspoonful of salt in a
bucket of water is sufficient. ~ ... /.
Oats should be bruised for an old
horse, but not for young one, because
the former through age and defective
teeth, cannot chew them properly; the
young horse can do so, and they are
thus properly mixed with saliva, and ,
turned INTO wholesome nutriment.-
London Horse Book.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20

scribed in the golden decalogue of
honest industry. Be careful, also, how
you g1it in yoar appropriations toward
the female sex. Let your love be that of
the purest and most exalted nature. In
stead Of hankering after the flesh, you
ought to have your affections placed
upon those heavenly virtues with which
it is stuffed for it is the stuffing alone
that contains the true spica ofreciprooal-
loYe yoy4i nj xis-lt.jl .s2n,, .aa e,
Go its young man, now in the days Of
your youth! Revel in the sweets of en-
joylnent while Fancy's flowers are in
their fullest bloom-while PM of
Hope droop not in, the cold storms of
adversity-while the sun of Ambition
still shines upon the far distant summit
OF fame. Let your heart abound with
good cheer-banish every suicidal
thought from the mind and let the
soul surfeit upon the luxuries Of mental
bliss; but, while yon are partaking of
the bounties, YOU must try, young
friend, to lay up aportion of them TO
least upol. when you become old aud
are no longer able to go itncw privileg-
ed The time will come when the
sweetest soup of lite will taste as in
sipid as dish water9-when every lump
ofjoy will loose its seasoning-when
your bread Of hope won't rise for the
want of leaven : and when, like dried
sapling, you will have grown 50 stiff
and old that you can't bend without
ctacbing . 81 ri a!Tase
Z My dear fi,iends--whenT youf are old
you cant go .ityno 1noresthap = broken
down stage horse; and if yon doa't en-
Joy yourself while you, feedtupon the
oats of youthful anticipation, you will
find out that YOU never can do il when
you gaze in the barren pastures pf. age.
If 6 ,mpare You to horses, my respecta-
bic hearers, thrust you will forgive the
comparison, inasmuch az the mortal part
of man is subject to that same decay
which horse flesh is heir to. Yes the
Juices of our bodies become dried IN
the autumnal winds of age-oul' hearts
are robbed. of all their former delights
- and the few jewels that remain in the
casket of memory. although pure and
brilliant, are hardly worth cherishlng
considering that the little comfort they
give is SO overspread with the mustard
of regret. "a. When our heads grow grey
with age sort of greyness comes over
the landscape Of existence, and fer
bidding gloom succeeds Then we don t
care about going it as we once did, less
we might accidentally bump our noses
against the tomb, and perhaps keel up
for all night; and if you should like to
cut capers and spend a copper, our
wishes can never be gratitied. There
fore go it while you're young in all that
is rational, becoming, before the evil
days draw nigh in which GU shall say,
l have no pleasure but the prospect Of
heaven, and no hope but that which is
eternal. So mote it be!
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20

The editor of the Chicago Democrat
has requested me to preach from the
following:
go it whils you're young,
For when you're old you can't"
My Henrers The old proyerh says,
"Irain up child in the way he should
90. and when he is old he will not de-
part from it," but this, rnodernized,
reads: Train up child in the way he
~ould go, and before he is old, he will
go it. Yes, my friends, there is no
mistake about tiff you let child run
loose over the fenseless fields ofhis own
inclination,he will wear out more moral
shoe leather in one day than anold man
will in six weeks, who walks moderate
ly along the gravelly highway Of sin. !
would, however, have you understand
that have no particular objection to
the sous and daughters of earth going
it while they're young, provided they
don't go it too strong for l know that
the honeysuckles Of pleasure grow only
in the green valley OF youth, and that
they all shed their sweetness in the
morning of life; that the declining sun
of age casts but a sickly glare on the
tomb of worldly epjoyment-and that
old men, tottering toward the lone
tenement of death, are ottentimes com
PEELED to hear the insults and jeers Of
thoughtless Juveniles, who rua after
them, shouting, 'Go it, ye cripples
when the young rascals know that they
are no longer able to go it as they once
did when the wheels of life were new
when every hinge in the physical
machinery operated without squeaking
and when the hearts tallow was
always kept melted by the warm blaze
of youthful enthusiasm. 50
My dear Chi dren, 60 it while you're
youn 2, but be careful hoao you go it.
Lie down and roll over as much as you
please upon the perfumed beds of in
diligence, but mind and not roll into
the brambles of everlasting misery.
Kick up your heels along the gay walks
of pleasure, but don't crush the tender
buds Of virtue beneath your careless
tread; and, above all, don t run so swift
ly as to produce spontaneous morality
for when that spiritual essence is once
destroyed, you are just as surely done
up and bursted as though you We're
obliged to borrow shirt to keep up
appearance. Drink deep from the cup
Of rational enjoyment, but shun the in
ebriating bowl as you would the small
pox, or the double width measels Don't
NEEDLE with it, my young friends, for
when you once get your sucker in, you
will find it scorched before you can get
it out-your finesympathies cIisped to
understand your reputation blasted
forever. In spirit Of niidtIess,t meek
ness, mercy and modesty, | Warn you
YOU aaaihst' that worst Of all vices.
ganibling. 1t is but tii'kof the devil
10. entide YOU into his sianghter house.
1T induces you'to lie, cheat and indulge
In pf5fane language; and it moreover
offers you an invitation to. get your
living by other means than those, pre-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20
EPlscoPALrANs::

care there any Episcopalians in this
vicinity, MADAME" asked a tall, thin
stranger, Of Mrs.. Artemus, as she stood
in the open door, in answer to his knock
"Any which?" ss,,,s, '.i,!5 lf1
,s'Episcopalians. ~. i 81 ifnE9i1
Now, if Mrs, Artemus has falling, it
was that she never would admit that
she could possibly be ignorant of any
thing. She always knew about any
subject mentioned. So she answered:
"Episcop.,lians! Wall, we don't exact
ly know. My John-he's my son---he
see something out in the cornfield. yes
terday. He didn't really know what it
was, but told him l guessed it was
cfipmunk. But now you speak ant III
bet it was an Episkerpalium. And my
next peighbor. FARMER Hawkins, he
said he shot at somethin that same day
that John see this strange critter; and
Farmer Hawkins he thought it was
some wild critter that had got out OF
some menagellc. somewhere. Anyhow
think that's Episcopaling, too. Be
they. biggern chipnunk!'
s'You misunderstood ME, madam.
"Wall, you needn't feel Uneasy. Eff
there's any Plscomaliums in this here
neighborhood, you can jest make up
your mind that they'll git rshot! We air
too feelin'' a community to let things
run at large which mout destroy and
devour somebody. Come in won't
ye?'' osel
IN 0 MA am. How far is it to the
nearest town." -
About six miles. Have you got any
friends there? Cos if you have, know
Almost everybody in town. You're
minister, | take it?"
81 am, madam"
"Air you hardshell Baptist, or
Nhat?"
s'No, ma'am; am E-a--well one of
the cid schools Good morning, ma
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20

All you have to do to raise oats Is to
plough the land deep, then manure it
well, then sprinkle the oats all over the
ground, one in place, then worry up
the ground with drag all over, then
set up nignts to keep the chickens and
woodchucks out Of them, then kradle
them together with a kradle, then like
them together with a rake, then bind
them together With band, then stack
them up with stack, theh thrash
them oat with fail, then clean them
up with mill, then sharpen both ends
Of them with a knife, then stow them
away in granary, then spend wet days
and Sundays trapping for rats and mice
1t amt nothing but plum to raise oats.
Try it. Josh Billings
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20

How IT is Done. The man who an
swer an advertisement to the following
effect says his cutsosity is satisfied now:
'slf you would like to know how to
make homie happy, send q postage stamp
and 25 cents to T. O, box No.-,Cin-
oinnati.."
He did send the necessary cash, and
soon received the answer:
of you are as big fool as we think
you must be for giving us your money,
you can make home happy by leaving it
and going West yourself"
And yet that man is not happy.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20
An editor is a man who lives on what

An editor is a man who lives on'what
other men owe him until he staryes to
death. A subscriber is a person who
takes a'paper and says he is very much
pleased with it, and he tells everybody
else that they ought to Subscribe. =
After he has subscribed about seven
years, the editor writes to him and asks
him to let him have two dollars and
fifty cents, and then the subscriber
writes back to the editor and tells him
not to send his old paper any more, for
there is nothing in it, and then the
poor editor goes and starves some more
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20
AGRICULTURAL, AND DOMESTIC.
: T'EN1i FI1lg aIIVTIIT-i . q
Tanning with TIE Wool On.

About every, six weeks, we have At,
inquiry as to the best method of tan
ming sheepskins with the wool on, for
the use of door-mats, rugs, &c. Here
are the directions: Take the skin up
on board with the flesh side out then
scrape with blunt knife next rub it
over hard with pulverized chalk, until it
will absorb no, More. Then take the
skin from the board, and cover ii with
pulyerized alum double halfway over
with the flesh side in contact; then roll
tight together, and keep dry for three
days, after which unfold it and stretch
it again on board or door,, and. dry.
in the all, and if will be ready for use.
Afsisaa.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20

Silently as fbe drops of light, I'd - ..,o
Peacefully as the stepsof night. :,a5 :.
AS the dear ones Of Christ. Withlilies white
Stealing always on loving breast; ="
So do We come DER the eagles nest.
Over the cotter's lovely rest.
Where is your home, we beautiful thugs?
Who sent you forth Oh your shining wings
And taught ye the ways OF the Ethe,
springs? ,.-.-,+..
Who babe you come in the weary hours.
So tenlierly to the sieepin flowers, Ieff
AS angels come in tie weary hours? a
Who bade you shelter the snow-drops head
Seeking the sky from her darksone bed.
With flith's soft halo around her she'd?
Have We ministered to- the Untold years. 8
Casting your life with their lahors and
tears, SESAME --i -,.. ~ tai ''+f
As now We comfort the strong, old years?
Does your Father work where His love
hath room, *. SO t15b ss 3-sa is-s:r
From Eternity's breast and Times dark
~ womb. ff'>'lE'f4's ''-''I l.tl1;
Filling the heart Of Life with bloom? =
As ye5bes beam along the Infinitc-wild, m
Methinks your lovliness undefiled,
Is like to the Heart of Mary's Child. ,y. q
~ d.
( dear to me, is your mystic rfylnel,
Irw are your murmurs and sweet your
. chime, &zR 20 .a-@NH -''-'
As, ayers of the saints at .even-time.
Ye ralc. meek prophets, l love your lore: z
Ye tell me the tales of a far-of shore d
The Home of my warnings evermore. 81
Do We know of my Elder Brother there?,
Tell me, We prophets. meek and fair, sisess-
Do We know, do ye know OF my kindred
theres III 81
Do We know of peace fsr the troubled
heart? .-....
Tell me, o tell me, ere we part, .s,. .,
Is there healing there for the breakii.g
heart? -sI,
O, saw, shall my robes like yours be bright?
viii the Child OF Mary make them whites
And fashion me in His glorious light?
At the Morning-tide, at the Morninngg-tide,
When the Bridegroom coneth to meet the
Bride, ...s
Shall be one with the Crucifed?
There is REST in the spell of your Won
dfUjis art, '-.f
AS ys steal through the Ether and Ger my
heart, -
Take We my blessing ere we part. MARY.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20
judging By Appearances.

A good story is told by Yankee
eiitor in Illustration Of the folly Of
judging from appearances. A person
dressed i'll homsspun clothes, stepped
into house at Boston, ON some bust
ness, where several ladies were assem-
bled III AN inner room One of the
company remarked in a low tone, that
countryman was in waiting, and
agreed to have some fun. The follow
ing di g ensued:
"You re from the country | suppose e.
eyes I'm from the. country"
'Well, sir, what Go you think Of the
city?"
otis got a tarnaT sight of houses in
it."
II expect there are great many
ladies where you come from
cob yes, a woundy sight; jist for
all the world like them" pointing to
the ladies.
"And you are quite a beau among
them, no doubt"
Eyes, beaus EN- to meetin,' and
about"
':Mayoe The gentleman will take a
glass OF vine" said one of the company.
Il thankee; don't care if | do"
''But you must drink toast"
81 eats toast, what Aunt Debby
makes, but as to drinkin,' [ never seed
the like
What was the surprise of the com
pany to hear the stranger speak as
fellows:
'Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to
wish you health and happiness, with ev-
cry other blessing the earth can afford,
and advise you to bear in mind that
we are often deceived by appearances.
You mistook me by my dress for a
country BOBBY; |, for the same cause,
Thought these men were gentlemen.
The deception is mutual. l wish you
good evening" ~4 -e
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20

Weston editors are never better
pleased than when they say something
startling about "New York's doings.
l;ere is a fair sample from a western ex
change: can .aristocratic New York
tailor isengaged in evolving suit Of
clothes to consist entirely of cravat
that will wind about the body from
neck to ankle, and be fastened with
diamond pin.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20

ExAMINER.-"Now, my young friends
supp Sc twelve men buy twenty-four
bushels Of wheat, to be divided equally,
how many bushels is that for each z
Boldest Of the Toys, please, sir, we
have not gone that tar 2
.Sa Examiner, CHOW is that I? Your
teacher told me you had learned all the
first rules
Boy eyes, sir; but We have always
done our sums i'll potatoes and tuinips.
We have never had wheat
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A Beautiful Extract.

Have given them up forever? Is all
this discipline, all this love Of the nur-
sery, all this sweet life upon the knee,
a.! this night and day in my bosom, as
they lay sick while they were babes =
is all this gone forever? My boys are
they mine only as they are everybody :?
Is there nothing Of me in them? Is
there nothing that my heart mIy claim
in them? | doubt not that we shall find
our children there. = do not believe
that the heart has been kinded to so
much fear and suffering that it may be
quenched with everlasting forgetfulness
This is my liberty. 1t is not Gods re-
velation. 1t is my necessity. And |
am not rebuked when | indulge in such
thoughts. My heart cries out to those
who have loved me and gone to the
heavenly land; and when cry to them
| hear a voice answering, as the Spirit
and the Bride are represented as saying
"Come!' At night, 10y day, at twilight,
in joy and in sorrow, | hear the voices
Of loved ones saying, Gomez Over all
troubles, louder than the noise Of winds
and storms, hear the voices of those
who have gone before me, saying,
'Heaven is real; God is real; love is
eternal; come, from out Of winter, from
out OF trouble from out of storms, from
out Of sin-land, come!" There s"und
perpeinally from the wall and battle
ments OF the celestial city, voices that
win and WOO every aching heart, say
ing, ''Come, come, comet"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20

One of the importunate Juveniles who
solicit pennies was asked: "Where is
your mother?" She answered ditfident-
ly. ''ohe is dead" "Have you no faith
era Eyes Sill; but he is sick" '.What
ails him?' continued the auestioner.
He has got sore finger, sir" 'sln
deed! Y.s sir. ''Then why don't he
cut it OFF," ''Please, sir, responded
the little maid, "he hain't got any mon
ey to buy knife.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20
A man living in Prospect street, nea

A man living in Prospect street. near
Jay, Brooklyn, went home the other
night in bad temper His supper
wasn't ready. "What in thunder's the
ma,ter?' be asked, though thunder"
wasn't the word he used 'sThe fire
isn't as hot as YOUR temper, my dear"
was the reply. He didn't ask any more
conundlums that evening"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20
n. BUCK,

J. T. BEcKHAM. VIM. H. FowLE. D. s. DELAPLANE
D GCKHAM, DELAILANE co.
ID GLNERAL COMM SION ME E(EPfS,
Agents for spraaue Mower. And dealers in
FISH. SALT, ILAsIER, sIET, FIE1JLIZER, &c
No. IS KING STREET,
ALEXANDRIA, va
Parti suIar attention paid to the selling of Flour,
Grain &C. Liberal advances made on Flour &c, in
Store feb 15-tf
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20

Is GUNPowDER Coon FOR DoGs?-
This is the way woman st Rising sun,
Ind, cured dog OF sucking ,ggs: The
wife OF Thomas Murrel, living on
Detzell oheppard'spl being troubled
with dogs eating her hens eggs, thought
she would give them a lesson they
would remember, So, placing an egg
on the ground, she took glass bottle
filed with gunpowder and poured a
circle around it, then hid till the dog
was about to take the egg, when she
would touch it Off This she did twice,
but the third time coal of fire which
she did not see caught the powder and
the bottle bursted i'll her hand, burning
her face, neck, and hands. Her dress
was burned entirely off. Three chill
dren having followed her, two Of them
were burn,d, one, about five years old,
severely, the other slightly. The eldest,
having escaped unhuit, screamed for
help, or they must all have pe,ished.
The dog now whines for gunpowder to
eat with his eggs.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-03-20

WIN BEN. PRICE,
w SUCCESSOR TO PRICE co.,
GENERAL COMMISSION Merchants;
FOR THE SALE OF ~.
FLOUR. GRAIN, AND ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE
No. 933 LOUISIANA, AVE.
W ASKING ON,
rr- consignments solicited, and prompt return
made. apr 1t-M.
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9nftital.
[From the Episcopal Methedist.]
SNQW-FLkKES. 9e

DEDICATED WITH Owe TO KATE r. HICK-
MAN, OF THE. FOREST, SHENANDOAH. VA.