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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-04-24
ICERS.
DIRECTORS.
AGENTS WANTED.

Apply to W. A. Roy, Winona, Miss, or E. W,
Peabody, West Point, Miss, General Agent for
II 81 Mississippi. mL-1y.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-04-24
Beacon Flashes.
From the Whitworth Beacon.

There is said to be a great similarity
between vain young lady and a con-
firmed drunkard, in that neither of
them can get enough of the glass.
"My DEAR" said cross-grained
husband to his long suffering wife,
edo you intend to make a fool of me?"
ono my love; nature has saved me
that trouble"
Beggar.-" Please, sir, give me a
penny to keep me from starving!n
Gent" Can't stop; in great hurry;
I've got to make speech at the So
ciety for relief of the Destitute"
Young Swell.-"I say, boy, what
do you do with your old clothes when
you have worn them out?" Boy
Wears 'em home agn !"
A young lady died at boarding
school lately of inconsistencies. They
should have tried the homeopathic
treatment.
When should a woman go into the
timber business? When she pines
for her lover, who is a spruce young
man, and of whom she thinks a great
deal.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-04-24
GARDENING IN MESsTSSIppI.

The following is written by Mr.. O.
c. Brown, Of this place, for the Farm
cr and Fruit Grower, published in
Illinois. Mr. Brown moved from that
State about two years ago, and has
/ been very successful:
CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss, /
April 5th, 1880. !
Editor Farmer and Fruit Grower:
Ipromised you on leaving your town
last January, that / would write you
in regard to things in this country, but
have never had the opportunity until
the present.
This has been a very unfavorable
season for gardening here; we have
had so much rainy, wet weather. There
has been large amount OF peas plant
ed but with a few exceptions, there
will not be half a crop; where the
land was thoroughly drained there are
"A few good patches. There is now,
and has been good many string beans
p anted, principally German wax
beans, but at this writing can't tell
with what success. There was also a
good many tomatoes, but the prospect
for a crop is not flattering. Brown &
Miller went largely into the tomatoes
the plants did well until the wet
weather commenced; they were then
transplantcd into too cold frames,
when they stopped growing.
Brown & Miller and Mr.. j. w. Day
are trying the Japan melons. The lat
ter's plants look well, while the other
gentlemen got bad stand, having to F.
replant a second and third time. +.
Brown d Miller are also trying the /.
pie plant which is starting nicely, but |
can't tell what will be the result. I
Their business is under the supervi- |
sion Of J. &. Brown. He has planted .
out nIuc acres Of strawberries the past .
winter, and has about three acres to
plant vet. They have seven or eight
acres in old Wilson, and the balance
Monarch Of the West and Sucker
State, Mr.. Miller's favorites.
In regard to field crops, oats look
well corn up two or three inches. y
great many Irish potatoes are planted
and generally look well and are laid
1y-have young potatoes on them.
Labor Is scarce here, owing to the en-
gratiOn Of the culOred people 10 Kan
'as this SPRING and if pleased with.
.he country great many more will /
90 next fall. The country is i'm a great ,
leal better condition than it was two {
" three years ago, when i first came
lere. Money seems to be plenty.
They bad a good crop Of cotton last
-eaE, and got good prices for it con-
the merchants and every
body seem TO be prosperous.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-04-24
Observation-Disclosures 4 Co,

- the well known Merchant tailors of st..
Louis Established IN 1850 will, upon re-
II quest, send free by mail full line of sam
pies of piece goeds their rules for self
measurement, prices etc, thus enabling you TO
order from them clothing of late styles and perfect
fit. The postal facilities now are such that whole
suit of clothes can be sent by mail at very small
cost and with perfect safety
TICKNOR & Co. refer to thousands of their Gus
toners whom they have thus supplied during the
past twenty-five years. TOct4-t
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-04-24
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BY JOINING
THE COOPERATIVE
Life Association,
OF MISSISSIPPI.

This is home institution, managed by HON
people, and gives its members the benefits Of good
reliable insurance at the least possible ACTUAL
COST. No association or society can pretend to do
more than that.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

SUNDAY AFTERNooNs.-A the Sun
lay dinner, wht Well, it ali depends
person whose brain is wearied with
Intellectual work during the week. or
whose nervous system Is exposed to the
,rraln of business or prfessionaItlfe, ought
sleep, within an hour Or two after his
sunday dinner,lf he can. 1t is surprising
,ow much like II seven day clock the
ram will work. if the habit of Sunday
nap he once formed Nature will take
advantage OF it rs regularly and CRATE
fully us she does of the nightly sleep, and
10 her best to make up lost time. People
III the other hand. whose week of toll is
chiefly physical, may well give their
minds ACTIVITY while their body is resting.
Two sermons and three or four hours of
solid reading are a real rest to some on
sunday, while to others such course
amounts to positive Sabbath bronking.
Sunday is day OF rest,-not of work,
religious or otherwise. 1t is day for
repose, mot for exhaustion But what the
dogmatists on one side, and the illiberal
liberals ON the other, are apt to overlook,
IS the TACT that all men do not rest alike,
any more than they labor alike, and what
will help to save one, may aid iu killing
another.
After Sunday dinner. then, one should
,eek rest, innocent recreation, helpful
happiness. Sleep, or read, or 90 and help
Instruct and interest mission school, or
visit the sick and The suffering, according
your needs and your gifts. We Amer
leans haven't yet fully learned the art of
domestic enjoyment. any more than the
Jaw of service TO others. More men ought
relieve their wives Of the sole care of
,oung children, on Sundays, by taking
them out to walk or to ride, and inviting
he molber to 80 as company, or leaving
'er at home to enjoy unmolested much
needed season of quiet. In suitable
weather a portion of the day may be pro-
itably spent out-of. doors. There is moth
ng in the example or teachings of Jesus,
Nothing in the nature of His religion, of
Gods requirements, or of mans needs,
which declares that the Sabbath can only
nc kept holy indoors. 1t is 10 be honored
ind hallowed, but its highest observance
Is ministration to mans highest needs.
We hope and believe that the day will
never come when Sunday will be secular
zed or turned into a gay holiday in Amer
ca, as in Europe; but the progress made
towards rational Christian enjoyment OF
The day, within the past fifty years, shows
hat the superiority of man to the nsti
utiou, as proclaimed by the Savior, is
coming to be apprehended.- Golden Rule.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

LITTLE WAsTEs,-The cellar, laundry
and kitchen are among the places that
demand daily care, if one would guard
much wastefuness. 1. is incredible how
much that could be profitably used either
for the family or to help the poor, is
thrown away or rendered worthless
through the lack of little economy.
The wastefuness of only one day is small,
perhaps, and not easily recognized; but
the mischief once begun and suffered to
pass unrebuked, piles up rapidly till it
reaches the sum total ut the end of the
year, which is found to be immense.
For instance the waste of soap and
starch alone in the hands of an ordinary
good laundress, week after week, would
easily supply poor family with all they
would require. Clothes-lines, clothes-pins
left out TO rot and midew, instead of
being brought in and put in their proper
place, will help to swell the list of expen-
ses at the end of the year more than one
would at first imagine, not only by the
actual expense, but more by the injury
done to clothes by this neglect.-Chrts
tian Union.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

TALKING ACROSS THE CoUNTRY.-It is
reslly pleasant to note as you travel across
the republic from Maine to Colorado, how
the topic of conversation changes at state
lines, Just as the expression of faces, and
styles of clothes gradually undergo an
alteration. Down in Maine, when | got
away from the coasts, heard lumber and
"the woods" all the time. The men were
sin the woods" OF the man who talked to
you had just came out of the woods.
Then you 90 to the coast and everybody
fishcd and you dreamed of dorys and hake
and haddock, and things that you never
heard of before. When you get to Bath
you begin to pick up all manner of ship
carpenters slang. Then you come nearer
to New York, and commercial travellers
fill the air with mercantile argot, and as
you head your way westward you get
into the oil regions of Pennsylvania, and
for while Bradford and Oil City, Frank
lin and Titusvlle tasted bull wheel and
pipe lines and dry holes and heavy oils
and refinery. and tank and drill and rigs
and walkingbeam and derrick and pump
until you could taste oil every time yor
talked. Then you move along through
Johnstown and Pittsburgh and heard abou
blasts and open hearth furnaces and cruel
bles and Bessemer processes and rails,
wire and ingot, until you left them behind
and Indiana was talking to you abou
slaves and heads and hoop poles and
veneers and hard woods and quinine and
bent wood and wagon timber: and by-and
by Illinois got hold of your car and sale
SEQ r-n," and you got across the Misss
sippi and out into Nebraska and heard 0
man say to II neighbor, ben, where i:
that timber claim of Johnson'sP" and yor
hear Ben reply briefly, "12. 10, g." ant
you know that you are in a country o.
land, and that eighties and quarter Sec
tions, and timber claims and homesteads
and pre- emplions were to constitute youl
conversational pabulum for the next two Oh
three weeks, until you reach Colorado ant
began to hear assay, and dips and lead,
angles, spurs and sinuosities, and claims
and carbonates, and that is as far west as
l have been, and don't know what they
talk about beyond there. Bob Burdete,in
BnrlI1gton Hae0teye.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

POSTAL CARDs.--The postal card is q
little over six years old in the United
States, yet it is doing as well as could be
expected for its age. 1t has only two
enemies, the man who receives duns on it,
and the manufacturers of writing paper.
The little postal causes decrease of from
$4,000 to Sl6,000,000 every year in the
business of the writing paper trades in
this country. Postal cards are made al
Holyoke, and forty men are continually
employed at their manufacture The
cardboard is furnished in packages of
5000 each, and every sheet is made into
forty postals. Three presses are kept
going night and day. A machine slits the
sheets into strips of ten cards each, and
these in turn are cut into single cards and
dumped into piles of twenty-five each,
when they are packed by girls in paste
board boxes containing 500 cards. A
government officer is constantly on hand
to see that no pilfering of cards is done.
The Holyoke mandatory turns out about
100000 of cards a day. Last year
there were used in this country 246,-
004, 060 cards. OF the new international
card introduced few weeks since, there
have been 100000 used already. The
government keeps on hand in a tire-proof
vault 25,000,O00 of the postal cards.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19
VERBENAS.-I have never used an

VERBENAs.-I have never used any
liquid manure upon verbenas, except
soap suds ;and no housekeeper who cult
Yates flowers will throw away soap.suds,
if she learned their value as fertilizer
On washing days put the waste water
in barrel or tub back of the house, and
at night put it on the hower-beds, first
loosening the soil, that it may soak wei
into the ground. No flower pays better
for this treatment than the verbena.
There is one important operation tc
perform in order to keep verbenas ir
good Towering condition during the sea
son; that is to pick off the seed-vessels
When the flower fades, the strength o
the plant goes to the seeds, and, if they
are permitted TO remain. the number o
flowers will become less and less. one,
had beautiful bed of verbenas tina
bloomed well for a time, and then grad
ually produced fewer flowers. Thinking
it might be the maturing of seeds that hat
checked the towering, l commenced cut
ting away the stems of the fallen flower
and continued until had nearly filled
milk pan. In few days that yer
bena bed was u blaze of briliance.
continued to remove the faded flower
after this, and they bloomed until Novem
ber; the first Sunday in November ! Gu
bouquet of verbenas for sick friend. =
Correspondent of Nicb's Monthly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

PAPER AS A RAW MATERIAL
less progress in the industrial arts COM
pels US from time to time to note the
various, and, in most instances, surprising
uses to which paper ia put by ingenious
producers. Manufactured paper has be-
come protean raw material to manufac-
turers of everything all over this country
and Europe. In many instances. the
original makers of bona 1fde paper prepare
the useful material in accordance with the
peculiar demands of those who change
paper into the most surprising forms and
uses. AS rule, however, the ingenious
manipulators of paper take the product as
it comes from the mills and transform it
into railroad car wheels, roofing, carpets,
vessels for holding water, barrels, and
chimney pots. German papers Just now
TEEN with accounts of o paper stove, in
which a fire blazes cheerfully night and
day. without inflictinS the slightest dam
age on the material that for so long a
time universally considered one of the
most infiammable of all materials. English
inventors have conclusively shown that
paper can also be rendered absolutely
impervious to water, and has been so
treated as to serve admirably as an outer
sheathing of ships. Sheet copper
and brass had been regarded as the only
materials that could possibly answer that
purpose. Not only does properly pre-
pared paper exclude water quite as
effectively, but it is preferable to the metal,
because it is of less weight, more durable,
and cheaper.
The latest-or perhaps it is safer to say
one of the latest-uses to which paper has
been put is to make it serve as bed cover
ings. The warmth of ordinary sheets Of
printing paper has long been known. and
persons fond of novelty, if not economy.
have stitched newspapers between single
folds of muslin. securing thereby cheap
and cosy, though rather noisy. bedspreads.
An ingenious manufacturer has obviated
the latter objection and the former clums-
ness by making paper blankets. They are
quite as warm as their woolen prototypes,
very much cheaper, though not Of course as
durable. The paper blankets cannot be
washed, which, instead of being an objec-
ton, is recommendation
Circular.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19
Letter from Iowa.
IDA GROVE, IDA COUNTY, Iowa, !
April 80, 1880. {

EDITOR FREEMAN:-Agreeable to prom
Use, we will again pen you a few lines
from western Iowa, though we have few
additional particulars to give, ms we think
in our last letter we dcscrihed this Sec
lion somewhat at length. We are located
on what is termed the Missouri SLOPE
and this part of the state is considered the
best for agricultural purposes and is fast
settling up with Il thrifty and enterprising
class of citizens who choose the raising of
stock and the cultivation OF grain as their
vocation, and it is surprising to observe
the amount of land sown and planted
anil the enormous herds of cattle that feed
up our almost bounlless prairies, sus-
tainei and fatened by our nutritious and
luxurant grasses.
We give your readers one case of what
the proprietor calls "small farming" in
this neighborhood: Mr.. J. G. Freeman
owns ana improves himself, or by renters,
four thousand acres. His home farm has
fourteen hundred acres all in 10 crops
with IL pasture adjoining containing a Sec
tion of land. lie plows furrows three
miles long without II break of any kind,
There are larger farms just across the
county line. The smallest of the farmers
in this county would be thought big farm.
ers in Vermont.
The small grain is all sown and looks
well. Treble the acreage has been sown
this season than there has ever been
before. Corn planting will commence
next week, and the quantity planted will
be astounding to those not acquainted
with western farming-from one hundred
TO three thousand acres in field.
Stock is already turned out to grass into
herds-these herds numbering from five
hundred to fifteen hundred head each, col
lected from different owners and are KEEP,
upon the prairie for five or six months
without other care than watching and salt
! From the sale of stock and swine the farm
ers derive a large share of their wealth
The winds in this section this spring
have been very severe but not destructiv,
no cyclones, but steady, strong wind
sometimes detrimental to the farmer
During the past winter our literary
tastes have been satisfied by such talent as
IngersoIl, Burdette. Swing aud Anthony
Politically we are all republicans, but al
Vermonters would be pleased to SEQ Judge
Edmunds nominated. In our autumna
Litter we will give some of the results o
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19
And this for the children,

A discovery was recently made in Sty-
ria. Some woodcutters felled venerable
oak in the forest of Dromming. 1t was
found to be hollow, and was brought to
the ground with crash. A human
skeleton, in excellent preservation. was
disclosed. Even the boots. which came
above the knee, were almost perfect, BY
its side was powder horn, II proclaim
pipe-bowl and u silver watch, on which
was engraved the name, I'll. Krackwitz,
1872" The teeth were perfect. 1t was
the skeleton Of a man between thirty and
forty years of age. 1t is conjectured that
while engaged in hunting he climbed the
tree for some purpose, and slipped incau.
tiously into the hollow trunk, from which
there was no release, and he probably
died of starvation 1t will be remem
bered by many readers that similar
story forms the catastrophe of u recently
published English novel "Iost Sir Mas
singbird."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

Mrs. GLADsToNE.-Mrs.G Gladstone does
not confine her attentions TO the domestic
government of Ilawarden Castle. Her
influence will be enormous when Mr..
Gladstone sits once more on the treasury
benches and two of her sons are in parlia-
ment She is clever, pleasant, earnest
woman, but she dresses badly. Her bon
nets are of the dowdiest. The provincial
ladies quite resent her bonnets. Gladstone
himself is not II "buck." He wears trous-
ers that are baggy at the knees. His coats
never fit him. Ills gloves are always too
long at the fingers. But when he goes down
to the house of commons prepared TO
make an important speech, he is always
we'll brushed his hair is oiled,and he wears
% flower in his button-hole. Mrs. Glad
stone always revises him before he leaves
home on important occasions. Old men,
bers of the commons straighten their backs
and get ready for 'larks" when they see
Gladstone come in with his hair smooth
and flower in his coat.-LondOn Letter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

SNOW EATING UNHEALTHY.-A writes
in the chronological Journal admonishes
parents to guard their children from the
practice of snow eating. claiming that ii
has much to do with head colds of many
girls and boys, because of the chilling
effect of snow upon the palate or thin
partition between the mouth and nostrils
producing congestion in the fine mem
brane which lines its upper surface. As
this membrane is almost entirely consti-
tuted of delicate nerves and blood vessels,
Inflammation is likely to follow the con-
gestion, and perhaps degeneratng into
nasal catarrh, an affection so common
with persons in our northern latitude.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

A little brother and sister were talking
about their home, and their love for it
II wouldn't swap my home for any Other
in the world" said the sister. "Ohp
don't feel so," was the boys response
." l think that Willie As home is a.
pretty AS ours. It's bigger; and it's 60
more things in it. l think I'd like to swal
ours for that" But would you like tt
give up your father and mother for his9'
asked the sister. "And would you rather
have his sisters than yoursP" No,
wouldn't want Mat," said the boy. "Well
to swap homes means just that said the
sensible sister; "for home isn't house
A home is your father and mother ant
brothers and sisters. and everything yor
have in the house." Wasn't that wei
said? Isn't there truth in those word:
which is hid from many of the wise anC
prudent and revealed unto babes? A well
furnished house is not home. A home
is the life and the love which the family ir
the house represents. Who would swaE
his home for rich neighbor's?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

A teacher ought to feel q responsibility
for the spirit and methods and attainment
of all his scholars. He must take his
scholors as he finds them; but he must
not leave them So If they are not inclin-
ed to study their lessons beforehand, it is
his duty to sec that they come 10 this way
of doing. If they want him to do all the
talking and are reluctant to take any part
in questioning about the lesson, the re-
sponsibility is on him to see that they feel
differently and do differently. When a
teacher confesSes that his scholars do not
study, and are not attentive, and will at
the best be only passive hearers in the
class, he exposes his lack as q teacher,
rather than their lack as scholars. A
teachers true mission is to take just such
scholars as these, and bring them to a
better standard of thinking and doing.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

"There seems now to be nothing sacred
in this country but a rich mans money!"
said demagogicol orator in our hearing
last summer. He was demagogue, no
doubt. but when demagogue can come
before the people with declaration which
the experience of many of his hearers too
sadly confirms, then demagogues become
danger indeed. Our best protection
against them is the prompt righting of the
wrongs which give their orations power
with those who hear them.-Dr. Hoskiss,
in Waterman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

In the ninth century. Alfred, in England,
confscated the estates of money lenders.
and denied them burial in consecrated
ground. Even in ancient Greece, Aris-
totle condemned the practice, and in
Rome it was regarded as crime.
Luther got heated whenever he spoke on
this subject, and did not stop to choose
his words He said: Every usurer is a
thief and worthy of the gibbct. "-Dr.
HoSkins, in WdtcknlGn.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

The fountain of content must spring up
in the mind. and he who has SO little
knowledge of human nature as to seek
happiness by changing anything but his
own disposition, will waste his life in
fruitess efforts and multiply the griefs
which he proposes to remove.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19

Ida county farming, and in the meantime
would say to any intending to come wes'
to give western Iowa call, or they "mal
90 farther and fare worse"
L. d. C..