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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-15

WEEKLY LINE TO
SAVANNAH, Ca, AND sEMl.WEEKLY 70
BEAUFORT, 8. O.
The Steamer
PILOT BOY,
Captain ". T. McNelty,
viii leave Accommodation Wharf ,aiSoh
every MONDAY MORNING, at 8sSIssISSi -
O'Clock, for Savannah, Beaufort, billion bead
and Spanish Wells. Returning Will leave SaVan.
nan every THURSDAY MORNING:
VIII leave f'r Braufort. Pacific and ChlsolmH
Landings every THURSDAY MORNING, at O'Clock.
Returning, viii leave Beaufort every FRIDAY
MORNING.
Good, consigned to care Of Agents will be for.
yarded free or storage or commission.
Freight received WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS
must be prepaid to Way Landings.
Freight received for poInLB on Savannah River
20 be transferred to Steamer CLYDE.
For engagements apply to ~
RAVENEL, HOLMES d CO.,
iaregs M. sD East Bay.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-15

Our Emporium will be found at all times large
variety Of Ladies', and Gent!emen's Travelling
Trunss. made OF the best materials. such as Sole
Leather. Zinc, Canvas, &c.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

HEAvEN.-There every house is pal.
ace, every step triumph, every stroke of
the bell wedding-peal, and every day a
jubilee, and every hour rapture. The
reunions of heaven, too, will be better
than all our conceptions of them. How
glad we are to meet friend in some
foreign land when we have crossed the
seas but when we have crossed the sea OF
death, and meet the friends of years gone
by, how delighted we shall be Now when
we see friend after the lapse of ten or
twelve years, and notice the increasing
wrinkles, and new marks of sorrow and
disappointment, we exclaim, How you
have changed ~
But when we see these friends in heaven
with all the marks of sorrow gone, then
shall We say, indeed, How you have
changed. Here good-byes and farewells
fill the air childhood lisps it, and old age
answers. Goodbye ends the banquet, and
closes the Christmas chant; bnt not so in
heaven. Welcome fills the air but nc
good-byes.
The ground there is constantly being
augmented Our friends are joining it
Jordan's waves roar SO hoarsely that We
cannot hear their voices from the other
side. We call to them but get no answer,
and unbelief says they are dead, but the
Bible tells US no They are waiting for
our coming. We shall grasp their hands
at last in the glorious reunion of heaven.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

Cons HoUsE.-We need to make Gods
house our best house, in order to convince
the poor that there is one place besides
the cemetery where men of all conditions
can meet on terms of acknowledged and
undoubted equality. We need to make it
beautiful and capacious religious home,
and have it SO pervaded by the spirit of
him who sis no respecter of persons" that
the poor can come there and forget their
poverty, and their wearisome toll, and all
external difference of position, and feel
that whatever has there been provided for
the richest and the highest in rank. has
been provided for them. We must make
them feel that they have right there, and
welcome, even if they have the smallest
portion of this worlds good, or none at all
We talk about the universal brotherhood
of humanity, and the gimpses which We
get Of a millennium, but we are to re-
member that the rich and the poor will
have to sit in the pew together long
time before the "ion and the lamb will
lie down together All these changes
must begin in the house of God.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16
CHE family Circle.
For the Freeman
For the Freeman.
A Geography Lesson for Vermont
Bows and Girls.

Vermont has four bridges-Wey, Cam,
Tun and Stock; a dozen fording places
Brad, Gull, Hart, Pitts, STAN, Straf, Thet,
Rich, Wood, West, Water and Walling
two ports of great importance-New and
Bird three huUens of rest-New, Fair and
West. Five stately 6oro's appear-Starks
and Reads and Wards and Brattle and
Mari also few " naughty burghers -
Enos and Ferris and Iras and Sears and
Hines and Lunen and AL. There are three
remarkable dens in the State-E and Wal
and Chitten. Two noted haHs-Guil and
Win. The State is watered by several never
failing acells-Or and Lo and another town
that is nothing but Wells. Gates are few
Rye and High and Sand. Such enterprising
farmers as the State boasts should have more
ways to 60 in and out ofitheir t,Oelpe fields
Fair and Brook and Marsh and Spring and
Plain and Pitts and Shelf and West and
North and Waits and Bakers and Weathers.
Vermont has three sons-John and Ben and
Add. But the family must be large for it
has thirteen 6urying places-Shrews and
Sails and Sud and New and Middle and
Shafts and Crafts and Glasten and Wood
and Water and Rox and Dux and st. Johns.
Three quiet riUes nestle among the hills
Gran and Dan and Water. Two brightly
burning Vick light the State-Hard and
Bruins. The land is divided into two parts
Rut and Hart. few boastful dons early
settled in Vermont-Bran and Lyn and Shel
and Claren and Men. The BY places of Yer
mont are Dan and Der and Gran and Kir,
The diet of Vermonters is ham in part
Wind and Shore and Walt and Peao and
Tops and Whiting and Rocking. The avoir
dupois weight of the commonwealth is
twenty mine tons - Benning and Burling
and Airing and Washing and Whining and
Leming and Browning and Hunting and So
Burling and Hubbard and Dummers and
Royal and Willis and Castle and Charles
and Bar and Fays and Graf and STRAIT and
Swan and Brigh and Mil and Monk and Yves
and Gro and SUIT and Boil and Pan and Rip.
few more places may be named-El and
West and Balti. In all we find three to,Uns
-Morristown and Wiliamstown and one
More.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

Acting upon the principle, that renewal
OF the earth Immediately surrounding the
roots Increases their activity, and acceleraues
the maturing of all parts of the plant, in
Guiding the fruit, Mr.. Stall removed the earth
about an early pear-tree, eight weeks before
the normal period of ripening, for a space of
thirteen to fifteen feet in diameter, and to
such an extent as to leave depth of earth
over the roots of only about two and half
inches, which could be thoroughly warmed
by the sun. He was surprised not only by
the rpening OF the fruit, in the middle of
July, but also by its superior juiciness and
hivor In another experiment, the removal
OF the earth from the north side of a tree
alone, caused the fruit on that side to ripen
several days earlier than that on the south
slde Frequent watering was, of course,
necessary in the above experiments.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16
agricultural.
Small Fields.

Upon this subject the New York World
has these sensible rcmaI ks, which although
well known to every thinking farmer will
bear reiterating.
1t astonishes a great many men to notice
bow many more other men presist in fencing
small heids-in keeping up fences where
they are not needed and blowing short fur
rows where long ones would save vast deal
OF time and labor, besides avoiding the
trampling OF the ground in turning, which
few men knew how to avoid. The econom Y
of time and labor in farming is as important
as the saving of crops. Two long rows of
potatoes are lar more easily cultivated than
eight short ones containing the same number
OF hills. An acre or ten acres of corn costs
far less money to cultivate if embraced in
only five or fifty rows than if double or
triple the number. Then there is not in the
case OF corn the loss from breakipg If
down in turning, if the farmer has left no
grass head-lands to turn on, or has not two
or three rows OF potatoes planted on the
outside of his field.
The fences about small fields involve not
only great waste of labor and money to
care for them, but are also great waste of
land. They are not only unproductive prop
erty but they cost In the waste of land alone
enough on many farms to pay the annual
taxes. 1t is also noticeable that the smaller
the farm the greater the number, proportion
ately, of fenced fields. 1t in the case of
pasture it is desirable to feed onl y part of a
field at time (Which by the way, is not Of
ten a wise pollcy,) it is cheaper to build and
move hurdle fences, unless the stock kept is
large.
The same principle applies in the culture
of garden crops. One sees little beds made
here and there about the spot set apart for a
Kitchen garden, 1t is now the practice
amoug the best farmers to plant row OF
beets (if SO many are wanted) the whole or
half the length Of the garden, then of car
rots, parsnips, lettuce, beans, &C., &c., and
each row such distance apart that horse or
hand cultivator can be used between the
rows. Thus the back-ache work of hoeing
and wedding by hand is saved to large exc
tent. and all this petty fussing which is in
volved is avoided. Nor is it bad practice
to grow the garden vegetables in some Dor
ton of the cultivated fields if near or
convenient to the house.
The main point aimed at is to suggest to
those who have small fields, or cultivate
small patches of ground, here and there, a
mode BY which great deal of labor and time
may be saved and a vast deal more produced
on the same areas. Instances occur to IFS
where farmers have added one third to the
product from the farm by removing the
fences, ploughing long burrows, cultivating
long rows, keeping the stock in the stable
and soiling it or enclosing them in hurdles
wherever the best food tor them conld he
found growing.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

HOMEMADE IcEs.-Now that the heats of
summer are upon US, the following from
Scri6ner's Monthly will be found practicable
luxury in many places. Currant- juice well
sweetened and frozen without water forms a
ruby cone delightful to look and taste
Frozen peaches sliced into cream and we'll
sweetened are delicious; and apple-sauce
an0 cream are not to be derided. In fact
there is no fruit OR mingling of fruits, which
will not blend tremendously under the magic
influences of the freezer. The most unlikely
things turn out most toothsome We dis
tinctly remember once eating mixture OF
wonderful goodness, which proved on inves-
tigation to be compounded of milk, Hour, a
little melted butter, very little cream,
sliced peaches, and the juice of stewed pears
After that who shall hesitate? Pound your
ice very fine, and add plenty of rock salt,
packing it close with stick or broom handle,
These precautions taken, the freezing be-
comes very easy affair.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

into it, and hear how it blazed and crackl-
ed. 1T repeats old memories to me-"
said godfather !; and so it was with little
Mary, too, who often tsed to find out pic
lures in the Ere,
But in a large bookcase close by
stood good books, in one Of which god
father often read; this he called the Book
of books; it was the Bible. In the pic
lures were the histories of the whole world,
and Of all the people-the creation, the
deluge, the kings, and King of kings.
Everything that has happened and will
happen is in this book" said godfather.
!" Such an endless quantity in one single
book! Think of it! Yes, everything
that man has to pray for is said and con-
tanned in few words in the prayer, Our
father; it is drop of mercy, the pearl of
consolation from God. 1t is laid as gift
in tie infants cradle-laid in the chiId's
heart. My little child, guard it we'll |!
Lose it never, however big you grow ; and
you will never be forsaken on the change
full ways. 1t will shine within you, and
you will not be lost"
AND then godfather's eyes used to shine
they beamed with gladness. Once, it
was IN the new year, they had wept.
" And that was good, too" said he; F." there
were times of trial, when the prospect
was gloomy. Now l have sunshine around
me and within me. The older one be-
comes, the better one sees that both in ad-
versity and prosperity our Lord is always
here; that life is the most beautiful tale
that he only can give it to us, and that it
wears away into eternity"
{" 1t is beautiful to live," said little
Mary.
So too said the boys, both little and big
father and mother, all the family said
1T; but godfather more than all. And
he had experience, he was the oldest of
them all; he knew all histories, all tales,
and yet he said right out of his heart.
" Lite is the most beautiful tale. Hans
Christian andersen.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

DR.. Hagar states that a plumber of cases
have occurred in Berlin, where colored WOOL
en- garments worn next the skin have pro-
duced peculiar kind of poisoning. Violet
gray wooden stockings. after having been
worn less than six hours caused redness of
the skin, and permanent pustules, in connec-
ton with teversh symptoms, aud constipa-
ton. The same results followed after the
stockings had been treated with boiling
water, Similar symptoms were produced
by gray wooden shirts, next the skin, and by
the red binding of others. He considers the
analine colors, as rule, poisonous in their
action upon the skin, as has been esta blished
in regard to coralline, in spite of all deniais; ;
the exceptional character of few in this
respect being difficult to establish. He rec
ommends. therefore, that wooden garments
colored with analine colOrs should not be
worn next the skin, and suggests as test
Tor these colors, that portion of the wool
be heated to boiling, in test tube, with
ninety per cent alcohol, and if the latter
acquire a red, violet, or violet-bIue tint, the
cOl0ring matter is suspicious.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

BETTER STocK, WELL FED.--Mr Willard
estimates the annual average produce--in
butter-of the dairy cows of America to be
one hundred pounds. This at thirty cents
per pound, price higher than the average
TOR the year throughout the State, would
bring an income of $50. To keep the COW
year will require pasturage. Sc, six bushels
OF meal, and two and halt tons of hay.
This will return S. for the hay. Now in
crease the butter product to three hundred
pounds by the selection of good COW and by
good iced and care, and Notwithstanding the
cost OF keeping is somewhat increased, very
much more Will be received for the hay fed
out. AT the same time increase the price to
nifty cents per pound, the price no received
tor the product of some diaries in the State.
by strict attention to quality, and the com
plant of small receipts for the hay fed will
no longer be heard. The same intelligent
course will produce similar results in ALL
branches OF stock husbandry, though not in
precisely the same ratio Will not farmers
study this lesson ?-Maine Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16
their experiences, and participate in their
life, enter As constituents into true So
liability.

WHAT THE LEAF DoEs.-It pumps wa
ter from the, ground, through The thousands
Of tubes in the stem Of the tree, and sends
it into the atmosphere in the form of un-
seen mist, to be condensed and fall in
showers; the very water that were it not
for the leaf, would sink in the earth and
find its way, perchance, through subterra-
mean channels to the sea. And thus it is
that we see that it works to give US the
8. early and the latter rain" 1t works to
send the rills and streams, like lines of
silver, down the mountain and across the
plain. 1t works to pour down the larger
brooks, which turn the wheels that energize
the machinery which gives employment to
millions-commerce stimulated and wealth
accumulated, and intelligence disseminated
through the agency of this wealth. The
leaf does it all. 1t has been demonstrated
that every square inch of leaf lifts 0.035
of an ounce every twenty-four hours.
Now, large forest tree has about five
acres of foliage, or 6,272,620 square
inches. This being multiplied by 0.035
1.-THE amount pumped by every inch) gives
the result 1882 ounces or eight barrels.
The trees on an acre give 800 barrels
in twenty-four hours. An acre of grass or
clover or grain would yield about the
same result. The leaf is worker, too, in
another field Of labor, where we seldom
look-where it works for the good of man
in a most wonderful manner. 1t carries
immense Quantities Of electricity from the
earth to the clouds, and from the clouds
to the earth. Rather dangerous business,
transporting lightning; but it is particu-
larly fitted for this work. Did you ever
see leaf entire as to its edges7 1t is
always pointed, and these points, whether
they be large or small, are just fitted to
handle this dangerous agent. These tiny
fingers sieze upon and carry it away with
ease and wonderful dispatch. There must
be no delay; it is " time freight" True,
sometimes it gathers up more than the
trunk can carry, and in the attempt to
crowd and pack the baggage, the trunk
gets terribly shattered, and we say that
lightning struck the tree but it has been
struck thousand times before. This
time it was Observation-Disclosures En-
tomologist.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

AFTER THE EvENT-A FABLE.-A swal
lows nest fell from the caves of a farm
house, and the barnyard poultry and the
hedgeblrds gathered about the ruins. and
went into committee on them.
:" L knew it was going to fall felt
sure 1t must the last time went on the
roof" chirped sparrow.
Stupid bodybuilding its nest I'D
there" Kissed a goose.
81 could have taught her how to Law epps
without getting them smashed, if she had
only come to me-" quacked duck.
And could have taught her how to
hatch them have had to hatch YOURS
Neighbor Duck, clucked hen.
"Gobble, gobble, gobble-if people choose
to be tools they must take the conseouen.
ces'" said a strutting turkey-cock, putting
out his feathers.
My friends,you are very kind to take
50 much interest in my affairs" twittered
the poor swallow "but if you were so sure
that my house was going to fall, isn't it a
pity that you didn't tell me so little soon.
er? Good Things. ' ''''
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

BEING SoCIABLE.-Some people display
a wonderful tact for unsociabiiity. it is
not so much by their silence, their modesty
or their reserve, as by a peculiar DISPOSE
ton they manifest-an indefnable atmos-
phere in which they envelop themselves so
as to repel the advances and resist the
invitations of others. Indeed silence is
not inconsistent with social feelings, and
those who say little and listen much, and
well, are always popular in society. 1t was
Miss Edgeworth who, after talking with
charming and incessant volubility to a
deaf mute for an hour remarked that he
was one of the most intelligent and inter-
esting persons she ever met. Oftentimes
those who talk most have least real So
ciability. Their gable hides their utter
want Of social feeling and personal sym-
pathy. Their prattle is purely selfish,
mechanical and cold. Volubility and va
cancy seem to be naturally related to each
other, and oftentimes the tongue is the
substitute for thought instead of its organ.
and loquacity may co-exist in
the same person; but generally the one
who talks the most feels the least.
True, sociability is matter of senti.
ment, of mind, of character rather than Of
words. 1t comes from surplus of SYM
patty, Of kind feelings, of personal re-
CARDS. Of contagious interest in things and
thoughts. 1t is the overflow of the gen.
erous and kindly qualities of the heart,
those which make US social beings, those
which bind US most closely and tenderly to
others and the family to which we belong.
All real interest in others, all desire to
with others, and share in
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

"A recent traveller says -" What i'm.
lmpresses ne more than ANYTIME ,a,aa
10 Egypt and Palestine, has been the an
tire absence OF cheerful and exhilsratino
music especially from children. Yon
never hear them singing in the huts. 7
never heard song that deserves the n.ma
IN the streets or houses of Jerusalem One
heavy burden of voiceless sadness res,s
upon that forsaken land. The dan.hts.s
OF music have been brought low. The
mirth of the tabret ceaseth, the noise IF
them that rejoice endeth the JOY Of the
harp eeaseth p'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

PAsTURING MOVING FfELDs.-I do not he.
lleve in feeding rowen in the fields. With
mowers that easily cut an acre per hour and
tedders aud rakes that will turn and gather
1t together in good weather reaay for the
cart In another hour, we can better afford to
Iced the second crop 10 the barn, where the
manure can be better preserved and where
the cattle will be in no danger of cronnino
too closely or pulling up the grass by the
roots or OF tramping 1t into the ground. NV
moving fields nre never fed by any animals
do not mean to NOW later than the first
OF September; that gives time for another
crop to come up sufficient to protect the life
OF the grass through freezing winter. It
is well known by observing men that the
tops OF plants cannot make much growth
unless the roots grow also, and that the roots
cannot increase without a CORRESPONDING
growth Of the tops. Now when a heavy
nelu OF grass Is cut In midsummer, the plants
receive severe shock; but with favorable
weather for a few days, they are able to re-
cover and put on new growth: but when
cattle are turned on to such a field thew keen
the tops eaten down so closely that the roots
cannot make strong, healthy growth, such
as Will carry them safely through severe
winter.
| practice top-dressing to some extent If
top-dress at all, 1t is while the grass is
thick and vigorous, instead of waiting till
the best varieties are exhausted. The best
time for applying manure, believe-other
things being equal it is just after removing
a crop. 1t then acts both as a mulch and a
fertilizer.
The question of top-dressing or re seeding
Will probably remain an open one for some
time yet there are SO many attending circum-
stances to be taken into account. The cos,
OF seed, the labor of ploughing and cultiya-
ting' the destruction OF the sward by droughts
winter-kiillng or grubs, the impurity of the
grass-seed in market that is full of fonl
weeds, all have bearing that makes i,
necessary for each one to decide for himself
whether to top dress or re-seed.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

Corn FoDDER.-Coru for fodder NAV be
sown from the first Of June till the middle of
July with success, if the variety of corn is
adapted to the season of sowing. VERY large
crops are obtained by some farmers from the
seed of the large sorts which are grown in
Southern Ohio, or in the Middle States. the
seed being brought from those localities.
Such corn must be sown early to mature
sufficiently before autumn. The later the
sowing. the earlier must be the corn used
Small Canada corn, put in twice as thickly
as the other sorts, as late as the middle 0i
July. will give a good crop in September.
Corn fodder will grow on almost any land
but to have good and profitable crop, the
best and richest ground must be selected.
Many have rejected it because they have
never given is fair chance. One of the
most successful cultivators of corn fodder
William Croker Of Long Island, who raises
twenty acres annually, not only gives it rich
field, but manures heavily in plowed burrows.
sowing drills foot in breadth over the
manure. He uses seed of the largest varieties.
cultivates we'll, and secures enormous crops.
If those Aho BOW the smalier sorts later in