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The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14
DEW DROPS OF WISDOM.

Nothing is sharper and more penetrating
than the rebukes of love.
There are many who talk on from igno-
rance rather than from knowledge, and who
find the former an inexhaustible fund of
conversation.
Julian Hawthorne says Of q meerschaum
pipe: aIt is like woman's heart--as soft as.
light as brittle, and as enigmatic, and only
time and use can prove it true"
Truth wears well, and sits easy on the
wearer; while new-fangled errors, like new
fashioned Clothes please for q while, but
pinch men hard for the sake of the fashion.
Much Of our early gladness vanishes ut
terly from our memory; we can never re-.
call the Joy with which we laid our heads on
our mothers bosom, or rode our fathers
back in childhood; doubtless that joy is
wrought up in the soft mellowness Of the
apricot-George Eliot
HoNEsTY.-There is no man, but for his
own interest, hath an obligation to be hon
est. There may sometimes be temptations
to be otherwise; but all things considered,
he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest
profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and
the noblest fame, to be honest.
IDLENEss.--It is mistake to imagine
that only the violent passions, such as am
bition and love, can triumph over the rest.
Idleness, languid as she is, often masters
them all she indeed, influences all our de-
signs and actions, and insensibly consumes
and destroys both passions and virtue.
The man who does nothing don't amount
to much. It makes but little difference
whether he is a millionaire or a pauper. He
is only stagnant pool, without energy
enough to start ripple. He difnses a
moral miasma over everything around him
Do something; don't stand on the corner
gaping with your hands in your pockets
4 like an idiot. The world was made to worl
in, and if you fill your hearts with gooc
angels, the bad spirits will keep out because
there is no room for them.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14
NHTA WHEELER's MISTAKE.
BY ELIzAHETH A. s. CHESTER.

"Isn't it perfectly horrid? We're going
to have that Winslow girl next door to us n
remarked Miss Nita Wheeler to her room
mates Just after rooms had been assigned at
the "Ely Female College"
"What of that responded Nell Chapman.
"There'll be plenty of other girls in the hall
to associate with, if we don't like her."
"That may be; but you can't think how
annoying Miss Winslow's familarities are
to me. She's in my division you know, and
she addresses me by my first name, just as
Lou Wild, Nell Thornton, or any Of the
girls of our set do. Yesterday, when we
were going down to lecture, she actually
threw her arm around me, and said, Won't
you please let me look at your notes on yes
terday's lecture, Nita2 I've mislaid mine
Nita, indeed just looked at her and said,
Il don't think you could read my notes,
Miss Winslow.' She didn't know enough
then to take away her hateful arm. L just
detest this school, You have to associate
with everybody"
ITS dreadful" calculated Nell. But
Nell was just leaving the room, and Lou
Wild, who passed her in the hall, saw sar.
castle expression in her face. Nell was
Judge Chapmans daughter, and Nita was
fond of referring to her as her "most inti
mate friend" and of saying that she per
fectly adored her"
Nita was somewhat piquant, rather pret
ty, very stylish young lady, who had Sc
much to say about first families" people
who were ain society" and people who wer'
=" not in society,"" as TO create suspicion
among her teachers and the older girls tina
the social position of her own family wa
not Just what she wished.
At the first glance she had decided tha
the Winslows couldn't be "in society,"" an,
as she informed Nell Chapman she "didn'
wish while at Ely to form any acquaintance
which she could not recognize after leavin
school," so that, though the girls in tn
same division were closely associated, Nit
had persistently repelled all Mabels nd
vances.
"You so nearl Why, isn't that nice2
said Mabel, as she stepped out of Ss tn
evening after rooms had been assigned, an
saw Nita on the threshold of 81.
Indeed r' responded Nita very distantlJ
Though Mabel could have had nothin
whatever to do with her location in th
building, Nita appeared to imagine that sh
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14

FUN AT HoME.-Don't beafraid OF a little
fun at home, good people; don't shut up
your homes lest the sun should fade your
carpets and your hearts, lest hearty laugh
should shake down some Of the musty cob
webs there. If you want to ruin your sons,
let them think that all mirth and social en-
ioyment must be left on the threshold when
they COME in at night. When once home
is regarded as only place to eat, drink and
sleep in, the work is begun that ends in
gambling houses and degradation. Young
people must have fun and relaxation some
where If they do not find it at their own
hearthstones, it will be sought in other, and
perhaps less profitable places. Therefore,
let the fire burn brightly at night, ami make
the home ever delightful with all those lit
tie arts that parents SO perfectly understand
Don't repress the buoyant spirits OF youl
children; half an hour round the lamp and
freight of home blots out the remembrance
of many a care and annoyance during thu
day, and the best safeguard they can taxi
with them into the world is the unseen in
fluence of bright little domestic sanctum
-Dio Lewis.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14

Chickens want no food many hours after
they are Matched, as they are then aigesting
the yolk of the egg, which costitntes their
first food, and acquiring strength to run
about. When they begin to peck, they
should be fed with soft food and very small
grain. Unquestionably the best soft food
is an egg beaten up with tablespoon OF
milk, and heated in an oven or by the side
of fire until it settles into soft custard
Chickens fed, or partly fed on this make
wonderful progress. If they are to make
large fowls they must be fed soon after day
light; if, as is too often the case, they are
left hungry for three hours in the morning
they are always stunted in their growth
They must be fed the first thing, and while
they are young, every two or three hours
during the day.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14

A president of an agricultural society
calls attention to the fact that there is in a
standard legal barrel only 100 quarts, while
the ordinary -four barrel, most in use among
farmers in the sale of potatoes and apples,
contains nearly one-eighth more. Farmers
sell their produce in -four barrels, and
merchants transfer the same to standard bar
rels making profit on quantity as well as
on price. In the sale of 800 barrels of po.
tatoes from farm, the proprietor loses l0(
barrels, worth $3.50 for which be might al
well be paid. The middle-man, not the con.
sumer, profits by this. Farmers, see to i
that you employ the one-hundred quar-
barrels hcreafter-Paciic Rural Press.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14

ORIGIN OF THE COP HYMEN.-Danchet,
the French poet, tells us, respecting the DEL
fication of Hymen, that he was young
man of Athens, obscurely born, but ex-
tremely handsome. Falling in love with a
young lady of distinction, he disguised him
self in female habit, in order to get access
to her ana enjoy the pleasure of her COM
pany. As he happened to be one day in
this disguise with his mistress and her
female companions, celebrating on the sea-
shore the rites of Ceres Eleusina, gang of
pirates came upon them by surprise and
carried them all of. The pirates, having
conveyed them to distant island, got drunk
for Joy and fell asleep. Hymen seized his
opportunity, armed the virgins, and dis
patched the pirates; after which, leaving
the ladies on the island, he went in haste to
Athens, where he told his adventure to all
the parents, and demanded her he loved in
marriage as her ransom. His request was
granted and so fortunate was the marriage
that the name of Hymen was ever after
ward invoked in all future nuptials, and in
progress of time the Greeks enrolled him
among their gods.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14
Enigma.

/ am composed of q letters.
My1.23 G, and Is is the vapor Of water.
NV 8 and 6 is something to drink.
NY IS 10, 6 and is something TO eat.
My TO- 13, II, l6 and is something that.
ladies wear.
MY 10, 8, II, and 10 is an animal.
My6, 9, g l. Is, 10 and 20 Is seen every
My2. 6 and ls is a resinous substance.
N.Y. 6, 10 and IA is desert.
NY II, 6 and 2is large cistern.
NV 10. is, 18 and 19is n silver coin.
NV l3, 6, Is, 20, IL and 16 is the name of
one Of our Hickory merchants.
My whole is seen in the NNDIcAIoR-
weekly. NAP
Hickory Station, Miss May, rs
Answer to ~. w. Ms" enigma Of last
week ~ Pay as you 60"
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14

SEAsoNABLE ADvIcE.-Getting up in
cold room to make fire is like getting up
in life. If you crawl timidly out of bed, 60
on tiptoe to the stove and allow the shivers
to get control of you before kindling starts,
your fire will probably be failure, and
you will half freeze to death in the opera
ton. But If you jump out bravely, hustle
around, pull on your clothes, kick over
chair or two and pitch in the stove wood
you will probably be to warm by the time
the fire gets to burning. Soin life; attack i
timidly and you fail. Grapple with it
hurry up things, stir around conquer for
tune, and you will be a success.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14
IT, souzd Strive to Enhance Comfort Atroaons our Homes

ADVICE TO A GIRL WHO is FINISHED
Josh Billings gives the following:
Gertrude, yu tell me yu have been years
at A boarding skool, and have just finished
your edukashun, and want to kno what yu
shall do next. II
Listen, mo gushing Gertrude, and will
tell yu.
Git tip in the morning in good season, 90
down into the kitchen, seize a potato BY the
throat with one hand and d knife with the
other, skin the potato, and q dozen more
Just like it, stir up the buckwheat batter, look
in the oven and see how the biskiot are DO
ing hustle around generally; step on the
kats tail, and help your good old mother to
gitbreakfast.
After breakfast, put up the yung chill
dren,s luncheon for skool, help wash up the
dishes, sweep sum, put things in order, and
sumtime during the day nit at least two
inches and half on sum Of your brothers
littleblue stockens for winter.
In other words, 60 to work and make
yurself useful now that you have becum
ornamental, and if you have emmy time lett
after the beds are all made and the ducks
have been fed, pitch into the pianner and
make the old rattle box scream with music.
Do this for one year, and sum likely yung
feller in the naborhood will hear ov it, and
win begin to hang around yuand say sweet
er things than yu ever heard before, and
finally will give yu chance to Keep house
on your own hook.
You follow advice Gerty, and see II ne
don't
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14
Ghe 9ireside.
For the Farmers Vindicator.l
Farmers Ode.
BY T. Z. TATE

BY T. L. TATE.
The sun. great orb Of burning fire,
DIVES the horizon red, sa
And ali nights sable shades retire
BEFORE his burning spreadi
The grass appears, like angel tears,
Upon it had been flung,
Or fairy hands, from crystal lands,
A pearly shower had hung.
The woodland songsters sport and sing
In every gay, green tree,
And soon the emerald forests ring
With bursts of minstrelsy.
Now farmers gay, at dawn OF day,
To grassy fields repair,
And maidens bright, at morning light
To milk the cows prepare.
Bright, laughing boys, with happy looks,
Drive in the lowing herds,
While little misses con their books,
Or watch the feeting birds:
And some II suits, to gather fruits,
Some help to dust the house,
Some guide the reel, or spinning wheel,
While some in play carouse.
And now the mornings work all done,
The breakfast Der at last,
Out to the field the boys all run,
To ply their daily task;
Beneath the sky, Of fierce July,
They toss the shining hoe,
No idle hand, in all that band
Fails to keep up his row,
AT length the dinner-horns glad sound,
Peals through the heated air,
The hoes are thrown upon the ground,
And homeward all repair;
And many jump, and many bump
Our little worker takes,
While the old man, with steadier plan,
A soberer journey makes.
The house now reached, the thirsty horde
Flies to the water shelf,
With life's elixir filed, the gourd
Dispenses living wealth;
No epicure, I'm very sure
Fer quafed bis rich champagnes
With such pride, as they imbibe
This nectar from earth's veins.
And now in right good country style
They take their friendly dinner,
Each face wears just that jovial smile
AS i'll becomes sinner.
Their meal now done, away they run,
To sport, to climb, to swim.
And truest pleasure, without measure
Abounds in every whim.
When thus two blissful hours are spent,
They seek the sunny field,
Till darkness shrouds the continent
Their plows and hoes they WELD.
No cares annoy, the farmer boy,
No troubles can depress,
Who, working still, with iron will,
Subdues wilderness.
All honor to our Farmer Band,
Our nations crown are they,
Whene'er stern war assails their land,
These prove its proudest stay.
To their lasses, fill your glasses
To the foaming brim, and drain;
Our toast shall be "Our country free,
And her noble farmer men" Z"
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though she accepted and did her best 70
conciliate her school-mate, II was Of no
avail. Mcb. had, when arst at school, been
pleased with Nita's piquant ways, but her
eyes had been fully opened 70 the girrs
shallow character and she did not now wish
to make friend of her. Besides, she felt
that her unladylikc conduct deserved re-
buke.
Nita soon discovered that Mrs Brockles-
bic had conceived prejudice against her,
and she welcomed the day for her return 70
school.
aI declare said she to Nell Chapman
zone never knows who any one y. Who
would have thought that Mabel Winslow
was governors daughter And there's
Nell Thornton, whom we've made so much
of,--her father is just shoemaker
aI'ye known that these ages. Who
cares ~ responded Judge Chapmar's
daughter. M
Nita's mortifying mistake did not make
her a "dcmocrat at once, but she was at
least careful afterwards to conceal her silly
notions about the caste and "set " OF her
associates. True men and women estimate
people by their moral and mental qualities,
not by their apparent position in society.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14

WoMAN's JUDGMENT OF MAN.-Many
men are managed into matrimony
indeed, than are led by love. Manager as
woman is constitutionally, she is seldom q
mere manager under connubial provoca-
tions unless she has been duped and mis-
treated before. Deceived again and again,
she is forced intoan attitude Of self-defence,
and this by added rudeness and repercus-
sion, grows to be invasive. If she learns to
despise certain class Of men, it is that class
who have been her teachers. If her under.
standing of their set be unfavorable, 1t is
because she has known none of superior
order. She is rarely rendered skeptical OF
morose as to lose faith or feel bitterness to-
ward men even one of noble type has
come to her. Rather, she makes him the
standard; through him she judges leniently
and favorable of his kind. After Briseii
lad loved Achilles she fancied the Greeks
were all heroes. So much better for tht
Greeks; so much worse for Briseis.- Galaxy
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14
4 Coon TuoueHr WELL spoKEN.-N

A Coop THOUGHT WELL SPoKEN-No
young woman, says contemporary, ever
looks SO well to sensible man as when
dressed in plain, neat modest attire, with
but little ornament about her person She
looks then as though she had worth in her
self and needed no artificial rigging to en-
hance her value. If young woman would
spend as much time improving her mind,
training her temper, and cherishing kind
ness, mercy and other good qualities, as
most Of them do on extra dress and orna-
ments to increase their personal charms, she
would at least be recognized among thou
sand-her character would be read in hei
countenance.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14


A GRAND REBUKE.-- Recently, in Dublin.
after the excitement of the personal visit OF
Messrs. Moody and shankey had somewhat
subsidized, one of the theatres of the city had
attempted to sound and demoralize the pub
lie mind on the subject Of the revivals OF
religion, by the introduction OF aprofane
comedy, where one ofthe characters thought
he felt little Moody, and another had bad
symptoms Of being decidedly Sha''ky-moni-
Gus. At first the audience showed surprise;
then, as the wicked design Of the plot be-
came more evident they Kissed and kept
things lively, as they gave testimony against
the satanic purpose Of the play. AT length
a stentorian voice, like the call Of bugle,
started one of Bro. Shankey's most stirring
and contagious songs, "Hold the Fort"
Hol nv comrades, see the signal
Waving in the skyl
Re-inforcements now appearing,
Victory is nigh
'Hold the fort, for am coming,
Jesus signals still,
Wave the answer back to heaven
\"By thy grace and Will"
The line of hereto battle wavered but for
an instant and then, as the chorus was
reached, the whole audience Joined in
feryor and an enthusiasm which drove
the astonished actors from the stage and
rolled down the curtain-that dark and
gloomy emblem of defeat. Satan had
struck his flag.
How often little true heroism, exhibited
in Christian spirit and at the right time
could save the cause of Christ and trutl
from dishonor and defeat When th'
sanctity of the Sabbath, when the cause
temperance are assaulted and endangered
let the battle hymn Of self-sacrifice and tru'
Christian courage be sounded, "Hold tn
Fort" Standard.
The farmers' vindicator., 1875-05-14

Parafine is the best material for protect
ing polished steel or iron from rust.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-18
THE BILLIARD rOCEN4uENE

sLOs-oN, cYRuLE DIoS, SEXTON, AND JOSEPH
DION THE wINNFRs.
Yesterday afternoon the seventh and eighth
games OF the billiard tournament at Tammany Hal were
played. The attendance smaller than that OF Tues
day. The frat game between O. +. oossOn ana A.
bert GARNER. soss0n played careful! game, and won
in 81 innngs making average of 95, ana leaving MS
opponent - points behind with average Of rs. The
game occupied hour and hty1ye minutes Mr. Slos
sons highest runs 90 2s ~ 26 and 22 those Of
Mr. GARNER we're 81 So TO- IL and H. The scores were
as follows:
22O. o. :, p Z, o . IS - Z6, 4 O. ~ Total 900
-55' "a iG II :: -. - H. g. Total 5IS -
The second game was between CyHlle Dion and y T.
Rudophe MI Dion led his antagonist from the start
ana at the 2sth inning 40 points ahead Mt
Rudophe ia the 2sh inning. claimed snot which tho
referee decided he had not made. Mr. Dion then made
several attempts to pay, but was prevented - Rudcphe
who caught his and moved the balls. DION then
claimed Tie game The referee ordered the play 10 pro-
coed but Kudolphe seized the balls the referee Sir
Gleason. placed the balls in their former position and
ordered Mr Dion TO play. Dion made run Of II and
won the game, amid applause from the spectator
Diou's highest were 81, 90 80 ana 20 'o'e oil
Rudolphe we're 81, 49, 81 and 20. :.
The frst game in the evening between Maurice DAILY
and William sexton. by the latter IN - INNINGS
greatly to the establishment Of the spectators for it was
generally couce led that Mr. DAILY much the superior
% his oppo.ut But the result of the play, welt rs
the play itself evinced the decided superiority IN every
thing except gracculncss o. the new conner OllSna!
Of play j. hardly expected in game which in tire last
few wears has been reduced almost TO science but Nh
sexton displays freshness Of style than any player
WHO has appeared IN EeY Tk in years. He ana Joseph
Dion have more marked characteristics than any players
i'm the tournament Mr. D0ns style is familiar 70 most
N,yYorl PLAYERS; Nj sexton who is 10 the public
may be described as bodest player IL the lists lie
exce in IL, precision and Judgment Of his play and 1t
It Will not he surprising lac proves the superior Of any
contestant il, tie tournament The following the score
, of tte game between Mr.. sexton and III Daily:
william ~exonO e. o. J. 1876. :, o. J. Il, o. 81, O. :, s.
D. le 80 IA A! s IT, To- ., 20 t. &C. g. - r.
g, :, 30. 90 3-251 -
/ the second game, between Joseph Dion and c.. y
Slo-oD resulted IN au easy victory Tor tht ioilhci' hi
so-ou did not appear Go b. u play during TIE gaiue' az
In. first part OF marked y many SIPS which NouI
h4v, dsLraccd an amateur. Dion n.is-r4 me zane -
JAe tnrj y-ecoud inning. HIS erase was 10 IA"t o4
/ slo-scu IS IS J-sl.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-18
TIE BALLOT ron WONhN.

AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.
OPENING oF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL BIZ! TNG-AD-
DRESSES BY BISHOP HAVEN, CHARLES BRAD
LAUGH, MRS LUCY STONE, AND OTHERS.
The seventh annual meeting Of the American
Woman suffrage As ocaton began sttinwIy Han last
evening. Bishop Gilbert Haven OF Atlanta, Gu the
President OF the Association in the chair and there
as large audience present Among those on the Plat
form were Mr. Lucy stone, Mrs Margaret l.. Wnchr--
TEL Mrs Francis H. Harper, Mrs. 81. v LOuslcy, Ms. A.
s White MIS-. R,becca NOISE, Miss Jane Doiorest Mis-.
,Dt.lpe-.4 Brown Blackwell 1irs Hlleck, Nr, Henri
eta johnson. Nr.. Mary J.. DAVIS, and Miss Mallory.
Bishop Haven in his introductory address, said that
the proeress VI new idea, like that Of woman suffrage
naturally waa greeted first with contempt aud sur' >
tf-rrwarl atlcmuts made 10 connect u with ui
- rly associations But tac inevitable result OF true
hoe. vu- that % would ake Oh a -ich CONNECT ous ana
r. iu 70. own STRENGTH AMI truth the woman Suffrage
Association bad now reached that pomt wher.
s1luIne il ON IT., own merits. suffrage wac a
uuiai right belonging 70 al prisons Oh DoiA sfS
, g be- ,ue men aui women ia tncr relations To thc
various department., al poe. sue pa" Una, "a. Ie.a on
~ women 10 tlt cover "'-L III 'ti ~. .'.'
THAT Of men. Buf tiis was reason Why women sn"I
nave voice iu r Gov ,I"ine 80 &c 20 represent &C
own relations toll. II Was 'te.7s ""h !" o.,
aud mus, ~ aud anrrr'lc lii"s' no Hfr own mo-
'.du.' alei. 4" is.li, oar s.i' "7 ,,,'' y In
MGs. iutt stone SAID titt the ctAthhti' Ly" '.'i
celebrated fugn.d lever to serve ih, cause OF woman
ai.t.e.. Tao very tu-iLr .nt of representation Iu
tIr t'tr L"ich' 'I'h tht cen 'tNii''' '.'..
di- pf 100 y8.t ago va, what woman 'std Tor ~
Ihe 1000, ycar Of inc Republic ought 20 De NAG ~
rah.s as t.o men did n century be.'.a.
ms. E.. Al Women nov. t!,... ith cruiI.uel o.
-a for tr right GO vote And he! would get Dr. beau
a. b., lilli tus ,li that uasuL t- hot - vents r
Dol. .r Ae Dad 90 aided ipi lie i-hts of women. ~ N'
H ,' 'N FIJI, ~. ,hn., world sad ~. eve,
.i..au. %" s-6." said Mr B-adituFh. ia hJ own cou-
ir,u what as ior men 100 Eas4.d. an iaeinhef e.
81 N.A'h s1.-4.-e ..'. ',.-- anu l - S,