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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-04-30
Stock Raising.

It has always been matter of astonishment
to Us that more attention has not been paid to
the raising of stock by the people in this Sec
tion of the country. Wa believe it would
prove quite as profitable, if not more 80, in
the end, than devoting ones time, attention
and labor, as many Of our farmers have been
in the habit of doingrto the Guilty alton of cot
ton., 1t is argued by great many that the
climate is not suitable, the range is not good,
and a great many altogether mistaken and er-
roneous ideas are advanced as a reason why
stock raising, will not pay. Some say since
freedom there is no protection against thieves.
Of course there is not unless the proper atten-
tion is paid to them We know farmers who,
in the past, hired men to do nothing else bot
look after their stock, and they invariably sue
ceeded in deriving a handsome profit from it,
The great trouble is this. In this age of pro-
wheel of fortune amassed large sums of money
by speculation, etc. This has induced others
to abandon what they considered slow, plod
ding and uncertain method, and caused them
to rush too into the same giddy and exciting
scenes. .-. '- bin
We append the following, which we find in
an exchange, and which may prove interesting
as relating to this subject:
'The best sheep man we ever heard of was
a soldier, who saw somewhere how valuable
sheep were for renovating worn out land, and
after the cruel war was over, he went home to
his poor farm, and bought thirteen ewes, all
that; fortunately, he was able to buy. He put
them in small field of briers and weeds, which
they soon destroyed, then he fed them on bran
and meal. In the winter he sheltered them
we'll, feeding oats and swamp hay, and in the
spring he had thirteen fine lambs. Saving the
manure, he planted the old brier-patch with
corn, and harvested fine crop. All his spare
time was devoted to caring for the sheep. The
next spring he had more lambs; he was able
to plant more corn then came more lambs,
when he sowed clover and grew turnips, and
now, to-day, as the result of such small begin
nings he has several hundred fine young sheep,
free from disease, bringing him $4,000 year,
while his farm has become extremely fertile,
and he is rich man. We know that thou
sands and thousands of poor young men have
free course before them to become wealthy
by beginning in the same way. But the trou-
bic is, the way is too humble and slow; they
want to get along faster; they have no pa
tience, no faith, no pluck. Truly it does seem
small business to watch dozen sheep, as if it
were beneath the attention of bright Ameri-
can youth; but if said youth will look the
subject all over, he will see it worthy of all
his powers" .rcTg
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-04-30

Why is the elephant the most sagacious
of travellers? Because he never takes his eye
off his trunk. ,as .i.!. /. = 81
"A good -natured spinster used to boast
that she always had two good beaux-they
were elbows.
- When a man is put in solitary confne-
ment no matter how bad he behaves, he Is
never "found out" 49,. f.. .,.,.r.
According to a Kansas decision, a husband
and wife can enter show on ticket reading
"admit one''s Most righteous Judge! :.
- Without money, without friends, and
without impudence, is about as low down in
this world rs man can get, and keep Vlrtu-
Gus.
When boy passes through grave yard
at night, does he whistle to keep his own spir'
its up, or to keep the spirits OF other people
down? ,.,.,
an Arkansas Judge to convicted prisoner; lg
is next to stealing horse or mule, sir; and 1
shall send you to State prison tor SIX years,
sir"
- The Chicago Tribune says that frst-class
carpenters in that city, who were employed
year ago at So per day, are now glad to get
$3.50 per day, and that this decline in the cost
of labor runs through The whole scale OF en-
ployment.
- Hon. Jefferson Davis is said to be very
i'll, in London, with dropsy of the heart: his
condition gives rise to serious apprehension 1or
his ultimate recovery His wife and children
are now in New Orleans, but will doubtless
Immediately rejoin him. ...........
Two New Orleans darkeys arranged to
fight a duel, the other day, but were promptly
arrested by the police. Only white men are
permitted to disfranchise each other in Lousi-
ana The negro element is too politically pre-
cious for such deadly amusement.
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, is the
only New England Senator who has voted with
the West and South on the financial question,
and it is announced that the attempt of lead
ing New York bank to force him into bank
ruptcy is intended as punishment for his dis
obedience of the money power.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-04-30
No more truthful sentence was ever penned

No more truthful sentence was ever penned
bv man than the following, written by Chancel-
lor E Kent: 'The parent who sends his son into
the world uneducated defrauds the community
Of q lawful citizen and bequeaths to it nui-
sance." These words should be written in
letters of gold over the entrance Of every school
in the land.
was intoxicating, replied "Vell, trinks from
seventy to eighty glasses day und feel all
straight in mine upper story for any kind of
beesness, but can't tell votit YOU'D do nit men
vat makes swil-tub of himself"
- There is man in Colusa, Cal who took
an oath during the late civil war never to wash
his face or comb his hair until the cause of the
South had triumphed. An exchange says that
his face reminds one of a half acre lot skirted
by IL growth of tangled brush.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-04-30

How TO MAKE MIscH1EF.-Keep your eye
on your neighbors. Take care of them. Do
not let them stir without watching. They may
do something wrong if you do. To be sure,
you never knew them to do anything very bad,
but it may be on your account they have not.
Perhaps if it had not been for your. kind care,
they might have disgraced themselves a long
time ago. Therefore do not relax any effort to
keep them where they ought to be- Never
mind your own business-that will take care
of itself. There is Il man passing along-he is
looking over the fence-be suspicious of
him; perhaps he contemplates stealing some
of these dark nights; there is no knowing what
queer fancies he may have got into his
head.
Ifyou find any symptoms ofany one passing
out of the path of duty, tell every one else
what you see, and be particular to see great
many. 1t is good way to circulate such things,
thoug gh it may not benefit yourself or any one
else particularly. Do keep something going.
silence is dreadful thing; though it was said
there was silence in heaven for the space OF
half an hour, do not let any such thing OCCUR
on earth, it would be too much for this mum
dane sphere. ..,-.. .,; a,or.
If after all your watchful care, you can not
see ANYTHING out of the way in any one, you
be sure it is not because they have. not done
anything bad; perhaps in an unguarded mo-
ment you lost sight of thenl-throw out hints
that they are no better than they should be,
that you should not wonder if the people found
out what they were after little while, then
they may not hold their heads so high. Keep
it going, and some one else may take the hint,
and begin to help you along after while, then
there will be music and everything will work
with q charm.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-04-30

- The Western papers claim Nebuchadnez-
Ear as the father of the Changers. This IS
hardly So Adam cultivated Eden, and Eve
early went into the apple business as a patron
of husbandry.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-04-30

- The greatest magicians of the age are the
paper-makers; they transform the beggar's rags
into sheets for editors to lie on.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-04-30

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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-07-08
Why She Planted Roses.

A blacksmith had in possession, but under
mortgage, a house and piece of land
Like many others, he was, at one time, fond
of the social glass, but was happily induced
by friend to join the temperance society.
About three months after, he observed his
wife one morning busily employed planting
rose-bushes and fruit trees.
"Mary," said he, 81 have owned this lot
for Eve years, and yet l have never known
you before to care to improve and ornament
it in this manner
"Indeed, replied the smiling wife, i
had no heart to do it until you gave up drink.
l had often thought of it before, but 1 was
persuaded that, should | do it, some strangers
would pluck the roses and eat the fruit
Now with Gods blessing, this lot will be
ours, and We and our children may expect to
enjoy the produce. We shall pluck the roses
and eat the fruit.
Aud they did, Their cottage was known
as the prettiest in the neighbOrhood.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-07-08
What Men Need Wives For.

1t is not to sweep the house, make the bed,
darn the socks, and cook the meals, chiefly
that a man wants wife. If this is all he
needs, hired help can do it cheaper than a
wife. If this is all, when young man calls
to see a young lady, send him into the pan
try to taste the bread and cake she has made.
send him to inspect the needlewOrk and bed
making; or put broom in her hands, and
send him to witness its use. Such things
are important, and the wise young man will
quickly look after them.
But what the true man wants with wife
is her companionship, sympathy and love.
The way of life has many dreary places in
it, and man needs companion to go with
him. A man is sometimes overtaken by mis-
fortune; he meets with failure and defeat
trials and temptations beset him, and he
needs one to stand by and sympathize. He
has some hard battles to fight with poverty,
enemies, and with sin and he needs wo,
man that when he puts his arm around her,
he feels he has something to fight for; she
will put her lips to his ear and whisper words
of counsel, and her hand to his heart and
impart inspiration. All through life, through
storm and through sunshine, conflict and vic,
tory, through adverse and through favorite
winds, man needs wo@an's love. The
heart yearus for it. A sisters or mother
love will hardly supply the need.
Yet many seek for nothing further than
success il homework. Justly enough, hall
of these get nothing more; the other hall
surprised beyond measure, have gotten more
than they sought. Their wives surprise them
by sriag.ag out noble idea in marriage,
sslssing treasury of courage, sym
pathy aud love.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-07-08
Mr. Moody's Power,

The Edinburgh Daily Review, a secular
paper, thus indicates its view of the elements
of bis power. Are they not the elements of
all pulpit power? And are not some of them
lacking in many otherwise good ministers of
Christ?
He is not man of much education or
culture; his manner is abrupt and blunt (;
his speech bristles with Americanisms; his
voice is sharp, rapid, and cOlloquial; and he
never attempts any thing like finished or
elaborate composition. But he is in down.
right earnest. He believes what he says !;
he says it as if he believedit and he expects
his audience to believe it. He gets wonder
fully near to his hearers without any appa-
rent effort. Whatever size the audience may
be, he is at home with them at once, and he
makes them feel that they are at home with
him. He is gifted with rare sagacity, and
insight into the human heart, knowledge
of what is stirring in it and of what is fitted
to impress it. He has in his possession a
large number of incidents and experiences
well fitted to throw light on the points he
employs them to elucidate, and to clench the
appeals which he uses them to enforce. 10
addition to all this, he has deeply pathetic
vein, which enables him to plead very earn
estly at the very citadel of the heart. AT
first his tone may seem to be hard. He will
take for his text, "There is 10 difference,
and press the doctrine of universal condem-
nation, as if the worst and the best were pre-
cisely alike. Possibly the antagonism of his
audience is somewhat aroused. But by and
by he will take them with him to some af-
fecting death-bed, and his tone will show how
profoundly his own heart is stirred by what
is happening there. The vein of pathos
comes out tenderly and beautifully. He
seems as if he were lying on the ground,
pleading in tears with his hearers to come to
Christ But, most important of all, he
seems to rely tor effect absolutely on Divine
power. OfcOurSe every true preacher does,
but in very different degrees of conscious
trust and expectation. Mr., Moody goes to
his meetings fully expecting the Divine pre-
sence, because he has asked it. He speaks
with the fearlessness, the boldness, and the
directness, of one delivering message from
the King of kings and the Lord of lOrds.-
And he takes pains to have his own heart
in the spirit of the message. He tries to go
to his audience loving them, and actively
longing for their salvation. He says that
if he does not try to stir up this spirit of
love beforehand he cannot get hold of an
audience; if he does, he never fails. He
endeavors to address them with soul steep
ed in the corresponding emotion. He seems
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-07-08
Rev, Ir. Bonar in the Pulpit.

A correspondent of the COngregatiOnalist,
who has heard the Rev. Dr. Horatus Bonar,
on the other side of the water, has given this
off-hand portraiture of him:
"The striking feature of his face is the
large, soft, dark eye, the power of which one
feels across the church. There areno bold,
rugged lines in his face, but benevolence,
peace and sweetness pervade it. The first
thought was, He is just like his hymns
not great, but tender, sweet, and tranquil
And everything he did and said carried out
this impression. His prayer was as simple
as a childs. His voice was low, quiet,
and impressive. His address, for it could
scarcely be called sermon, was founded on
the words, The Spirit and the Bride say,
Come, the last invitation in the Bible. =
1t was marked by that absence of all attempt
at originality, which is, to an American, 80
striking feature of most foreign preachers
1t was simply an invitation, warm, loving,
urgent. His power over the audience was
complete. Even the children looked steadily
in his face, and once he paused in his dis
course and addressed himself especially to
the Sunday School children, who sat by
themselves on one side of the pulpit. was
sure the little things had never heard the
Good Shepherds call more tendery given.
With one of the most winning faces l ever
saw he closed: 'Whosoever' includes
yOu; 'Whosoever will,-does that include
Won p"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-07-08
Liquid Manure.

AS plants will grow much more rapidly if
well supplied with manure in liquid form,
we advise all our readers to prepare barrel
or cask of it, and sink it in convenient spot
where it can be used to the best advantage.
Put half peck of charcoal at the bottom of
the barrel and then fill it with horse or COW
manure (the former being the best,) adding
enough water to fill the barrel. Apply it
to the plants twice week after the sun has
set, taking care that it does not fall upon
the leaves or branches of the plants. Dig it
in with fork, and in little while you will
see, how eficaciouS it is for plant growth
AS the water is used up, fill in more, and in
three or four weeks turn out the manure,
spreading it around the roots of roses and
geraniums, to act as mulch, and refill the
barrel with new supply. If horse or cow
manure cannot be readily obtained, put three
or four pounds of guano into barrel holding
thirty-two gallons, and let it stand for week
before using, stirring it daily. Hen ma
nure can be used if desired, taking two
pounds to ten gallons of water.-N b.
E1rmpr
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-07-08
Profitable Business for Women.

One of the most profitable as well as in
teresting kinds of business for woman is
the care of bees In recent agricultural
report it is stated that one lady bought four
hives for ten dollars, and in five years she
was offered one thousand five hundred dollars
for her stock, and refused it as not enough.
In addition to this increase of her capital, in
one of these five years she sold twenty-five
hives and four hundred and twenty pounds
of honey. 1t is also stated that in five years
one man, from six colonies of bees to start
with, cleared eight thousand pounds of honey
and ffty,four colonies.
When properly instructed, almost any wo-
man in the city, as easily as in the country,
can manage bees, and make more profit than
in any other method demanding so little time
and labor. But in the modes ordinarily
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-07-08
Paleness of Our Women.

The palene8s of our women seems to be
indigenous to America; for while English
women, from twenty to thirty, are rosy
checked, and yet not wholly animal, the
cheeks of the American women, generally,
if not sunken, are yet palid to an alarming
degree, suggesting the appearance of disease
and premature decay. The vagaries of fash
ion and style are powerful in every cline.
Fond parents in China squeeze their daugh-
ter's feet till the little maiden is manned
for life, and unfit for any active occupation.
Among US matters are carried just as far (;
for we suffer our daughter s lungs to be COM
pressed into the narrowest space; we cannot
compress her brains-for, if she had any, she
would not submit to the squeezing process
and the paler and thinner she becomes, the
greater is our complacency. She cannot
take any exercise, for it is only fatiguing.
She cannot eat much, poor thing, for she
has no appetite. She can only pick at this
dish and sip of that The fresh ar is tabooed
as unhealthy, and she lives in an artifcially
heated atmosphere. What wonder, then, if
she falls into consumption before she is thirty,
and, at the very age when life should be joy
GUS to her, she becomes premsturely aged
and grabbed? Our picture is not exagger-
ated, when one recalls to mind that vast
number of people still live who think it is SO
vulgar to grow fat and rosy, and so genteel
to grow thin and pallid.-Jes0isb Messenger.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-07-08
Religion in Business.

The Northern Christian Advocate makes
fervid appeal, enforcing the idea that the
true Christian man has religion in his busl-
ness, and business in his religion, from
which We make some extracts:
Active business men are among our most
efficient church workers. We know OF breth-
rem full of worldly cares and enterprises
taxed necessarily with business pressure, yet
they have time for an hour in the weekly
prayer meeting. Such men bring life, aud
power, and energy into the work OF the
church. The sacrifice they make Tor the
cause of Christ is seen aud felt 1t carries
conviction to men. x
The world almost altogether overiookS the
fact that wealth is one of Gods great pro-
visions for men. He meant it for blessing.
The gospel of His Son is calculated to in
crease its facilities and multiply its benefits.
He has put its growth and development un,
der positive law. The true attainment OF
wealth is not grab game. 1t is grand
business process under great practical law,
which, if observed, brings its great general
results. Fortune building may be reli'
gous work more, it should be such. Con-
8ecration to God entire is no drawback to a
business man; it may be the means of his
more rapid success. The prayer-meeting
brings no danger to the business man. The
true Christian will find time in the pressure
of daily life to honor God and to help His
cause. y
Consecrated business life is one of tht
great needs of the church. 1t is an age O
business. The business man is really th'
prince of our times. From business ranks
come most of our public men. They MAKE
good Congressman and Senators. Our prac
teal age has need of them everywhere. s.
the church needs her business talent brough
into earnest conservation to Jesus. Weneet
our business men at our affairs, We need then
in our Sabbath School teachers meetings
at our missionary gatherings, and in ever!
place where strong hands, vigorous brains
and warm hearts may give help to our Chris
tan work.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-07-08
Apples for the Off Year.

One of the most successful agriculturists
in the country is Robert Pell, who has
1920 acre farm in Ulster county, N. Y, all
in the highest state of cultivation. One fea-
ture is an orchard of 200 acres, planted ex
clusively with the Newton Plppin, and the
produce of this orchard is famous in England
and Europe, as we'll as at home. To attain
his present perfection in fruit culture, Mr..
Pell studied the art of pomology and learned
how to assist nature in her efforts to support
mankind. Commonly speaking the apple
tree bears every alternate year. MIR. Pell
determined to have an annual harvest, and
to give his orchard handsome start be sac
rifced the crop of bearing year. All the
apples were picked while green. He dis
covered that the germ of next years fruit
was in existence at the time of the apple har
vest, but that the tree would be so exhaust
ed that this germ would fail to develop,
and year of rest would follow before an
other crop could be produced Having stop
ped Ills trees from fruiting in the manner
have mentioned, he was sure of crop OF
what was generally the off-year, and deter
mined to follow this up by treatment which
would abolish the year system. He Learned
that trees required variety of food, the
chief of which is found in potash, lime anc
soda, and his orchard has been thus fed will
all the success that could have been antici
pated. The potash is found in wood ashes
lime is obtained from oyster shells at low
cost (stone lime being undesirable) Will
soda is supplied by common salt. Orchard
thus fed and judciously pruned cannot fai
of success, and although this season is gene
rally short of apples, Mr.. Pell's crop is o
usual abundance. -New York Tribune.