Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-08
Agrifnltnral department,
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HOME.


stinct, the old man, when nearing the confines
of another world, goes back, in imagination,
to the spot where his boyhood days were spent.
The trees, the hills, the branches and all the
scenery which surrounded the home of his
youthful days, spring up in his mind, and he
contemplates the scene with peculiar emotions.
Even the irrational animals, when death be-
gins to creep upon them, often wander back
to the locality where they first saw the light,
and there lie down and die This is instinct
i've. 1t is interviewer in our being, as the
muscles cover the bones.
From this popularity Of our nature some
profitable differences may be drawn. They
are practical differences deductions which
have direct bearing upon the well-being of
the individual and upon society. We may
infer, since "home" is dear place, it should
be an attractive place. The home of all is,
no doubt, dear, but the home of vast mul-
titude of the human family is anything else
but attractive. 1t is deformity deformed-
ugliness in its most repulsive shape.
One of the characteristics of the human
soul is the capability to discern the beautiful
and delightin it. This native capability may
be cultivated and developed until it becomes
strong and delicate, or it may be crushed
If the scenes around the spot where the child
first sees the light of day, and amid which it
spends its infancy and youth, are mutilated
by the ruthless hand of ignorance, the love of
beauty in the soul of the child is retarded in
its growth, and if it expands at all, it is a
sickly development.
This is not all the beautiful and the moral
in our nature are inseparably connected.
Cripple the one and you MAIN the other.
Crush out the love of the beautiful in the
mind of man, and you make him, morally, a
demon. Now, in view of these facts, we con-
clude that the home of every man should be
made attractive The utilitarian may say it
is useless Anything that will keep out the
rain is good enough for house. 1t matters
not how unsightly may be its timbers or how
unseemly its proportions. Poles covered with
clapboards, says the lazy sloven, is good
enough to livein In such an unsightly den,
moral monsters may be born and reared, but
good and great men and women, rarely. The
ugliness of the scene exercises deforming in
fuence upon the tender and easily moulded
soul of the child.
As the majority of our people are farmers,
the influence of that class upon society is
necessarily the greatest Our country must
be what the farmers make it. If the children
of that honorable and numerous class Of citi
zens are brought up amidst scenes of ugliness
and inconvenience, the resources of the soil
never can be developed, and the moral char.
acter of our people never can attain that high
position which it otherwise might. The home
of every farmer should be beautiful place.
The house in which his children are born and
sheltered, should be attractive and comforta-
BILE. Its beauty and comfort will delight and
sooth the soul.
Again. farmers house should be perma-
neut construction. There is something de-
pressive in the thought that the dearest spot
on earth will soon be without trace to mark
its location. "It is no use," says the selfish
man, "to build houses and plant trees for pos
terity." Yes, it is of great use. 1t is being
good and doing good for ourselves, and it will
make others Of succeeding generations good.
That man who lives wholly for the present
and for himself, is living an immoral and
useless life. His candle will go out in dark
ness, and his sons and daughters will add
nothing to the general good.
One, and no doubt the great reason, why
so many persons have emigrated from South
Carolina is, that so little effort has been made
to render the homes of the young beautiful,
convenient and permanent. The soul longs
for something which is attainable, and yet, un-
der the circumstances, can not be attained
Hence, longing and uneasy citizens get up and
20 to some other place, where, as they suppose,
the beauty, convenience and permanency,
which their immortal souls so much desire,
may be found and enjoyed. Under such cir
cumstances, the State is constantly drained Of
many of her most promising young men.
Whenever the farmers of South Carolina will
make their homes what, with little trouble and
less expense they can be made, the moral
character of our people will be elevated and
the tide of emigration will be turned. The
value of property will increase, and young
men and women will be anxious to sustain the
good name of their parents by living upright
lives.
SULPHUR FOR FowLs.-There is no RENE
dy and assistant so easily or cheaply obtained,
so harmless to fowls, or 80 satisfactory in its
results as sulphur. 1t being in the system Ct
animals to small degree, there is a greater
affinity for it than there otherwise would be.
1t can be administered to the fowls by having
it in small box so that they can help them
selves, or by mixing it with their food once
week, or as often as there are any indications
of vermin. Penetrating, as it does, to every
part of the system, the parasites are quickly
and surely destroyed; also, gapes are said to
be prevented in chickens. Fowls need it
more than most animals-their feathers con-
tanning between four and five per cent. of
sulphur, and their eggs also having small
quantity, which is noticed by the discoloring
of silver spoon when it comes in contact
with boiled egg. Applied externally to the
fowls when on the nest, or to the nest ITSELF or
mixed with the soil in the busting box, it is
equally eficacious in destroying vermin.
Whenever it is used as fumigator in build
ings, it is necessary to remove the fowls, close
the room or house. mix little saltpetre with