The weekly clarion., 1879-02-26
ODDS AND ENDS.

EDITORS CLARIoS: The story COPIED in.
/ 10 a late issue Of your paper about doctor
who fell stunned 70 Insensibility when the
snake which had charmed him" was STRUCK
/ wi'h rock reminds me of on incident
/ which happened in Hinds MANY years ago
I and was told to me by the chief actor in
+ the scene, an oli-time citizen Of high stand.
ing who has long since passed away.
/ One day when making his accustomed
rounds on his plantation about eight mile,
south OF Raymond, he saw a rabbit acting
strangely, aud drawing nigh to investigat
he discovered huge raJt.esnake, coiled and
gazing iuteutly on his victim.
Poor, timid pu-s was completely in the
/ tolls OF her enchanter and could not for a
moment withdraw her eyes from his burn
9ug Orbe, but drew nearer ana nearer t.
him in her own peculiar gait, staggering,
geeIing, drunken, thoroughly intoxicated
by the spirit oil charm which he had poured
into her susceptible body through his bale
fuI eyes, streaming with the power Of fasci-
ration
Ny relator watched these curious aud
interesting events, till the parties were not
more than ten feet from each other. when,
tD save poor, tim ia pussy from her impend-
lug fate, he pierced the serpent's head with
a rifle ball, aud the rabbit Tell dead in its
tracks, aud never kicked again.
These Two cases, and numerous others
Ihlt III ght be gathered up, clearly demon
state that
There are more things in Heaven and
earth loir Editor,
Tuan are dreamed of III your philosophy -
and that the deep mysteries in which we
live, and move, and have our being" fur
uisn a wide field for learned men to expati-
ate in, aud bring To light their wonders.
Who viii rise aud eX plain?
50 much tor the odus-and now for the
ends.
II cannot be denied that the chief ends of
our people in our present condition Of dis
couragemenJ aud want, are, or ought to be,
TO build UP the broken down houses and
fences, restore the waste places, and make
tie worn out fields OF our goodly land once
more to "rejoice and blossom as the ross, -
and the best theory by which to work out
these desirable ends-this grand renovation
is one proposed by Robert Tate, Esq, o.
lazoo county, during his late sojourn at my
house while attending the United States
Court, which 1 will write out and print pro
bono puJtco.
Mr. Tate suggests that all our old, worn
out, waste, washed lands be circled to an eX-
act level, and that every fifty or one hundred
yards apart, more or less, according to the
Lay of the land one of these levelled beds
be closely drilled in china berries, aud the
field cultivated for two or three seasons in
corn, oats, or cotton, thus giving the young
trees the benefit OF the work " ithOut special
expense. BY this time the trees, if brought
to lroper stand, will be able to take care
OF them elves, and will form solid walls pro-
tecriug the land from washing into gullies,
and catching all the loose surface soil that
would otherwise be drifting away and lost
forever. Now SIT all the lands between
these rows or hedges of trees in BERN uda
grass. and in tour or five more years. i'm
stead OF the naked, barren slopes and gulch-
e. that now every where Tepel you, broad.
deep forests of valuable timber, aud rich.
green lawns Of uneqUaled grass, will every
where greet YOU; and ins cad OF the profit
less possessions that we now hold, we will
bequeath to our children the best pasture
land, in the world as their priceless her
ituge.
Another feature of Mr.. Tate's plan is this
The china berry is valuable winter for
age for sheep and as it is seli-teeder,
dropping to the ground in detail, it will en-
able u TO raise Sheep with less expense OF
money and labor than any other people in
the world. And the thick set of hedges OF
china teees running in every direction
through our pasture lands will form shelters
of every exposure to protect our 1ocks from
the wind, and these largely do away with
the expense of building houses to shelter
them.
Again, china-berries are equal TO cotton
seed As "A fertilizer; but when manufactured
by the sheep and scattered broadcast, their
value will be increased many fold.
Surely, Mr.. Editor, there is a bright
future before US If we will work for It,.
Who VIII try first?
Yours. &c. ). X. JONES.