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Year: 1859

farmers CREED.-We believe that the
soil loves to cat as we'll rs the owner, and
ought, therefore, to be well manured.


We believe in going to the bottom of things,
and, therefore, in deep plowing and enough
of it. All the better if it be subsoil plow.


We believe in large crops, which leave land
better than they found it-making both the
farm and the farmer rich at once.


We believe that every farm should own o
good farmer.


We believe that the best fertilizer of any
soil is spirit of industry, enterprise and in.
telligence- without this, lime, gypsum and
guano will be of but little use.


We believe in good fences, good barns and
good farm houses, good orchards and chill.
dren enough to gather the fruit.
Year: 1859

A HARD AND DURABLE SoAP.-A patent
has been granted in England for an improve
ment in the manufacture Of soap, by the ad-
dition of sulphate of lime to the usual ingre-
dents employed in its manufacture. The
sulphate may be added with any Of the usual
ingredients employed in the manufacture of
soap. The proportions of the sulphate which
it is best to employ, vary according to the
article manipulated upon, and the quality Of
the soap to be produced. Thus, about twelve
ounces of dry sulpllate is sufficient for one
ton of the best soap, whereas, in common or
highly liquored soap, six or eight pounds
may be used with advantage. Soap, made
with the addition of sulshate of lime, be-
comes hardened, keeps dry, and is not liable
to shrink while in water, its durability is in
creased, and it does not wear or waste away
before its cleansing properties are brought
into action.
Year: 1859

ny MRS. HALE.
Bury me in the morning, mother
Oh let me have the light
Of one bright day on my grave, mother
Ere you leave mo alone>witl the night:
Alone in the mig ght of the grave, mother
'Tis thought of terrible fear
And you will be here alone, mother,
And stars will be shining here.
So bury mo in tho morning, mother,
Aud let me have the light
Of one bright day on my grave, mother,
Erc am alone with the night.
You tell of the Saviour's love, mother
feel it in my heart
But, oh from this beautiful world, mother,
'Tis hard for tho young to part!
Forever to part, when here, mother,
The soul is fain to stay,
For the grave is ucop and dark, mother,
And Heaven seems fur away
Then bury me in the morning, mother,
And lot me have the light
Of ono bright day on my grave, mother,
Ere am alone with the night.
Never unclasp my hand, mother,
Till it falls away from thine
Let me hold tho pledge Of thy love, mother,
Till feel tho love, divine;
The love divine-oh look mother,
Above the beams sec
And there an angels face, mother,
Is smiling down on mo!
So bury me in the morning, mother,
When the sun-beams food the sky
For death is the gate Of life, mother,
And leads to light on high.
Year: 1859

Hoes vs.. DoGs.-"W What a dog lives upon
will keep hog" If anybody doubts the truth
of the saying, let him kill his useless dog, and
put pig in the pen and give it the dogs al.
iowance. He will find in few months that
he has fine, fat porker, fit to be eaten-a
use the dog could not be possibly applied
to by any Christian man. There are too ma
ny. If they had all been killed a year ago,
there might be 200 lbs. of good fat pork in
the country, to balance against every dog so
set aside, which would be no inconsiderable
item in the present scarcity of supplies. Dogs
are nuisance, and should be taxed. While
every farmer keeps his dog, and every free
negro his two or three dogs, sheep stand a
poor chance to get through the world, and
yield their annual fleece with uutorn throats.
The increase of the dog population accounts
for the scarcity of sheep.-N. c. Planter.
Year: 1859

"Tho souls calm sunshine and the heartfelt 10,
Il virtues prize"


The man whose early life has been charac
terizcd by love of virtue, and whose actions
ever borne the impress of pure and mng
unanimous mind, is indeed enviable. What s
store of joy is treasured up in his memory
Though grief may bend his form in old uge
and the overlooking cup of sorrow may spill
its poison round his heart, in memory balm
is found to restore the vigor of the mind anc
destroy the venom that breeds dispair.


Hope is written upon every page of a vel
spent life, and may be recalled whilst memory
lasts. Peace beams forth from every vision
of guileless childhood, and sheds its genial in
luence oer each reflection upon childhood'$
hours. The present may seem ominous, aid
the future be filled with the gloom Of dreary
forebodings, yet will the rays Of hope stea
from the dark of oblivion, soothing the sorrows
of the present, and shining through its gloom
cheer up the uncertain dark OF the future.


Thus will the present affect futurity. When
he who treads the shore of tim, shall feel its
footsteps dampcned by tho waters OF death, it:
waves will not wa h out the traces OF his past
pilgrimage as the Lethean tide. but dash the
shades OF lorgettillness from the footprints n!
ready tr ID. Happy is he who then can look
back upon profitable life, for the beams OF
hope reflected from the happy past will shine
over the dark waves and piercing the e loom
Of the tomb, light up tile shores Of eternity.


CLARE.
Year: 1859

Whv do our farmers not get this valuable


grass? Because they are afraid that when


they get their fields set with it, they never can
control it. This objection would be valid
reason for not getting it, if it were fact ;
but those who have tried this best Of grazing
grasses, assure us that they can, with but lit
tie attention, keep it in its own proper place.
This grass is very much in its general appear
ance like the common jointed wire grass, so
much deprecated by farmers; but it is Of
finer texture, more tender, and after running
its joints upon the surface CT the soil, it shoots
up tender head of very fine fodder, some
ten or twelve inches high, and is green and
fourishing for the most Of the year. 1t is
one of the most beautiful yard grasses we
have eses seen; and from oar limited esPeri'
Year: 1859

RARITY OF TRUE GENTLENAN.-Perhaps
a gentleman is rarer gentleman than some
of US think for. Which of US can point out
many such in his circle -men whose aims
are generous, whose truth is constant, and
not only constant in its kind, but elevated in
its degree, whose want of meauness makes
them simple, who can look the world honestly
in the face with an equal manly sympathy for
the great and the small2 We all know now
a hundred whose coats are very well made,
and a score who have excellent manners, and
one or two happy beings who are what they
call in the inner circles, and have shot into
the very centre and bulls eye of fashion, but
of gentlemen how many? Let US take q
little scrap of pager, and each make oat his
,iit.-Thackeray.
Year: 1859

= E We have heard it asserted that
there Is too much fun in the world for poor
man." Now we hold all entirely contrary
opinion, believing that rich and poor alike re.
,auire greut deal of fun to season the inevi.
table solemnities of every day life. Now fun
is democratic the poor enjoy it and tue rich
may, if they will unbend aud get out Of the
circle of precedents, conventionslities and
routine. A hearty laugh is o great medicine
and it does our heart good to see the face OF
the hard.worked mechanic literally expand
into broad grin of mirth, and hear the loud
guifaw of irresistible laughter burst from his


healthy lungs. This is we'll worth seeing and
hearing. Laughter is time hunored institu-
Ition-it was deiicd by the ancients and its
Iworshippers never die out. Long may they
flourish.


rR ENORMOUSLY PrT-"A good house:


wife should not be person Of "one,idea, y


but should be equally familiar with the flower
garden and the flour barrel though her les


sen should be to lessen expense, yet the scent
a rose should not he less valued than the


cent IN the till She will doubtless prefer a


yard of shrubbery to yard Of satin. II her


husband is skllful sower of grain, she is
equally skillful as sewer of garments; he
,keeps his. hoes bright by use she keeps the


hose 81 the whole family in order."-Southsrn


Homestead
Year: 1859

HE DlDx'r READ THE pApEks-1n the trial
of Doyan brothers recently, in Michigan, for
murder, much difficulty was experienced in
obtaining a jury free from prejudice. AT
last, after large number had been rejected,
man from the back part of the country was
called who, in response to the questions pro-
pounded, said that he did not take or read
paper, and had never heard Of the murder
This was too strong case, and Mr., Terry,
one of the counsel for the prosecution, said
awe object to your sitting on the jury in this
case a man that don't tuke paper, and
never heard of this brutal murder, don't know
enough to be a jurymau! We don't want
Youl'
Year: 1859

CONDEMN no man for not thinking as you
think. Let every one enjoy the full and free
liberty of thinking for himself Let every
man use his own judgment. since every man
must give an account of himself to God.
Abhor every approach, in any kind of degree,
to the spirit Of persecution. If you cannot
reason or pursuade man into the truth, never
attempt to force him into it. II love will not
compel him, leave him to God, the judge of
all.-Wesley.
Year: 1859

At the late session of the Court, says the
Darlington Fay, al action against the vii.
minyton & Manchester Railroad Company
for lost trunk, WIS tried. The value Of the
contents was proved to exceed five hundred
dollars; this company have an endorsement
npon their tickets which, among other things,
declares that they will not be responsible for
lost baggage to an amount exceeding one
hundred dollars; this endorsement Was re.
lied upon to limit the liability of the Company
in this particular case.


His Honor ruled, and so charged the jury,
that common carriers could not thus limit
their liabilities; he dwelt upon the injustice
which would result if the endorsement upon
the tickets referred to, was taken and consid.
cred as a contract, to which the passenger
was presumed to have ussented. The jury
found for the plaintiff to the amount Of the
contents of the trunk, as proved.


We learn that the defendants have appeal.
ed. If we may presume to express an opinion,
we think the views taken by bis Honor are
correct, and have but little doubt as to what
will be the decision Of the Appeal Court. This
is an important question, both as regards the
travelling public and Railroad companies, and
we are glad al opportunity has arisen for tho
Anal adjudication Of it by the highest tribunal
known To our laws.
Year: 1859

DG- STANDING ny His FRTESDs.-In the
flush times of Vicksburg, when the phrase
"hard case" meant something more than j,
does now, Harvey jenkins was admittedly one
of the hardest. Bv some strange accident
Harvey found himself at church one evening
The sermon being over, the preacher reques
ted oil who were friendly to religion to rise
and hold up their right hands. The whole
audience, apparently, were on their feet. After
they were seated again, the minister con
tinucd


"Now, if there is single one here who
desires TO see Satan and his kingdom prosper
he will rise and hold up his hand


Harvey, with some difficulty, got to al
erect position, and said:


"Had the vote been less unanimous,
should have retained my seat but l make il
point ot'honOr never to abandon friend
under adverse circumstances.
Year: 1859

sudden effort. "Have | been waiting for
this stroke, so long, and shall it fail to do it's
work when it comes! 1t is fatal, and /
shall debut not here"


I have to relate horrible and incredible
thing, impossible as it seems, is yet true.


The German locksmith started up from
where he lay, pushing aside all those who
stood around him with an unnatural and in
conceivable strength. His body swayed for
an instant from side to side and then he dart.
ed forward. He tore along The streets-the
few people whom he met giving way before
him, and looking after him in horror as he
flew along-his clothes cut open atthe back,
blood stained and dripping, and with death
in his aspect. Not one pause, not an abate-


ment in his speed till he reached the mfr.


mary, passed the man who kept the door,


and upstairs he few nor stopped till he came
to bed whce stands beneath window
and across which, the shadow Of a cypress
falls when the Sun begins to go down.


1t was the bed on which his friend hOt
, breathed his last


II must die here" said the German lock.
NTH, as he fell upon it. alt is here that
, must die"


And there he died. The haunting though


that made his existence living death, wa
d justified. The presentiment had come tru
- | loo IL tt,n nIae CI1u tDhi hio
l. had hung SO long over this mans life, ha
d discharged its bolt upon his head, it SCENE
e to US os if the earth were then lighter, fc
| the shade had passed away.


Is death the name for a release like this
Q Who could look upon his happy face as h
e lay upon that bed, and soy SO?
+" It was not the end Of life-but the b
b, ginning.
Year: 1859

She bowed US out of the room and
locked the door behind us. Every .on5
was loud in her praise but me; and al
for the prisoner, he swore with a more
emphatic oath than should like to re.
| cord, that six months or year was no
thing after that and if he tho't all
| American women were like her, he
| would cross the ocean TO find one III
his own station, the moment he was sec
free. But l was silent. And when
the house breaker had been consigned
to the tender mercies Of the police, ant
the hotel was silent, and alone in my
room, scarcely knew what to think
Such courage almost frightened me
and yet remembered how pale shs
looked, and that she leaned against the
mantlepiece at first, as if to suppor.
herself; SO forgavs her bravery and
thought only of the beauty Of her eyes
and the sweetness Of her voice, and
sank away to sleep at last, With tho
firm resolve that another day should not
pass over my head before / had tola
her how had learned to love her.


But the next day brought it's own
events, and, what was worse, its own
personages with it. A carriage stop:
ped before the door rs I entered from
my morning walk a tall, bearded man.
with an honest, handsome face, dartcd
into the house and up the stairs. three
at a time. There was cry of surprise
on the second landings murmur, and
a sudden mingling of voices, that rous-
ed my curiosity to the highest PITCH
| ran up to my own room, and passing
the half open door of No. AZ, there was
divinity in the arms of the stranger.
(confound him calling him Georges;
and kissing him, in a way that made
me long to poison him. Down stairs l
went, three at time, and collared the
land !ord in the hall.


who is that man.


Just come ? In az p he gasped half
choked and quite surprised.


Yes


Captain Arnold-Mrs. Arnold's hus-
band. Just come from a voyage to
India. l say, sir, no more midnight
adventures now, suppose? You new
er will have a chance to play the part
of a guardian angel again-eh, sir ?
so, sir?'


My hand dropped from his collar. and
corsigning him and Captain Arnold to
perdilion, | walked cut TO the rooms of
friend, and deliberately got drunk.
More than that managed to keep drunk
for nearly week and when came to
my sober senses once more, Mrs.
Arnold and her party had gone. |
hear she is in America now, in New
York. And Ihave no doubt she will
read this story, and laugh till her love:
ly blue eyes fill with tears. over my
folly She will show it to her husband,
too, and he will laugh. Never mind.
! must take care that Mrs Cathcart
shall never see it; she at least must
never know what tremendous fase-
hood I told when swore, on my bend
ed knees, that had never loved any
woman before--(she wouldn't marry
me on any other conditions land there
by alone can my peace of mind be en-
sured.
Year: 1859

w Never hesitate about doing good
thing. Be sure it will be all right in the
end, whether the deed be marrying an
amiable girl. giving dollar to the dis
pensary. dinner TO poor family. OF
rosy glances to Mary.
Year: 1859

To the public and consumers OF Coal generally.
would respectfully that have recently
tablished Coal yard at Prairie du Chen where will
be kept on hand supply of Illinois 4 Pennsy ly qnia
Coa-Orders respectfully solicited, and the public
III be assured that it shall be my endeavor to give
satisfaction in regard to quality, price and attention


Office and yard Lower Town, below the Ferry Land


Sltf H. F. AVERILL.
Year: 1859

The Boston Courier dissents from the pop
ular encOmiums of 1.-The intellectual game of
chess" and objects to the gloriication of
its champions. 1t says:


ave cannot assent to the disposition mani
ferred, naturally enough by distinguished
chess PLAYERS to magnify their Office and func-
ton We cannot admit that there is any me-
cessary and inevitable connection between
eminence in chess playing and in general in
tellectual superiority. While it is true that
many distinguished men have been excellent
chess-players, it is never equally true that the
dence of conspicuous ability in anything else
There were many men at the Boston banquet
on Tuesday evening, whom we should rank
in intellectual stature far above Phillidor,
Macdonald, Des Chapclles, De la Bourdanais,
whether dead or living.


The game of chess is certainly intellectual
game so is whist, with, to be sure, an ele-
ment of chance superadded; so is checkers.
But is but a game after,all and the best
thing you can say of it is that it is very ex-
cellent contrivance to enable idle men to get
through the lazy-pacing hours without damage
to the packet, the conscience of the constitu-
ton. 1t is, for an amusement, the nearest
possible approach to real intellectual work.
But it is barren tree; it bears the blossoms
of entertainment, but not fruit of utility
the rest of mankind are very little benefited,
mentally, morally, or materially, by the dill
gent study Of the game of chess by limited
circle. To our taste, too, the spectacle OF two
men, especially young men, crooking their
spines for hours and trying knots their brains,
over parcel of figures cut in white and read
ivory is little dreary but this is merely a
matter of taste, and we are far from insisting
that others shall square their conduct by the
line of our tastes
Year: 1859

The people of Minnesota have experienced,
at an earlier day than we had anticipated, a
foretaste Of the evils growing out of the mis-
taken policy of lending the credit of that State
to the horde of spectators and sharpers con-
nected with her projected system of railroads.
Although their troubles have but Just begun,
their present condition is deplorable in the ex-
treme. The most profound despondency has
settled down upon all classes, which, to a
stranger just landed in any one of her princ-
pal towns, is suggestive of the times of dead
ly epidemics, when the victims of today re-
ceive sepulture at the hands of those who will
require the same sad offices of others to-mor-
row.


Since the revulsion of 1857 set in, every
part of the country has experienced more or
less pecuniary reverses and embarrassments;
but in Minnesota there have been superadded
to the burthens which the people of other
States they have borne in common with the
pressure Of loan of five millions of dollars
which they must Eventually pay, both princi.
pal and interest, an also an irresponsible cur
rency based upon these bonds issued to meet
this loan. Their condition is precisely what
ours would be in Illinois if, in addition to the
late financial revulsion and the partial failure
of the crops for the last two years. we were
about to be saddled with double the rates of
our present taxation, and if the currency, fur
nished by our stock security banks, had sud-
denly become worthless in the hands of the
people. #hife we deeply sym pathise with
our neighbors for finding themselves involved
in financial difficulties from which extrication
is well nigh impossible, it affords US not a lit
tie qualification to remember, that while yet
they had the power to avert the evil, we urged
them to use it wisely to that end.


The history of the projected railroad sys
tenn in Minnesota is familiar to readers OF the
Year: 1859

Whom first we love, you know we seldom we'd
Time rules us all. And Life, indeed, is not
The thing we planned it out ere hope was dead,
And then, we women cannot choose our lot
Much must be borne which it is hard to bear
Much given away which it were sweet to keep
God help us all who need indeed His care,
And yet know, the shepherd loves his sheep.
Ny little boy begins to bubble now


Upon my knees his earliest infant prayer.
He has his fathers eager eyes, know,
And, they say too, his mothers sunny hair.
But when he sleeps and smiles upon my knee,
And can feel his light breath come and 60,
i think Of one (heaven help and pity meD
Who loved me, and whom loved long ago.
Who might have been-ah what dare not think!
We are all changed. God judges for us best :!
God help us do our DUTY and not shrink,
And trust in heaven humbly for the rest.
But blame us women not if some appear
Too cold ut times; and some too gay and light,
Some griefs gnaw deep. Some woes are hard to


bear.


Who knows the Past and who can Judge US


right.


All, were we judged by what we might have been,
And not by what we are, too apt TO fall!
Nv little chid-he sleeps and smiles between
These Thoughts and me. In heaven we shall


know all
Year: 1859

A Lawyer Taking 1t Coony at l4O De-


grees.


Baron Anderson, in letter to one of his
sons says:


Il have been obliged at last to send for
Sir Benjamin Brodie, to see me for my scia-
ia; and to-day, by his order, 1 have been
stewed alive in vapor bath. Dreadfully hot,
l can tell you-l40 degrees, while a hot bath
is 90 degrees. Yet it was not unpleasant af-
ter all; for hot air does not burn like water, as
it communicates its heat gradually to you, air
being what they call bad conductor of heat
So, by the time hot air makes you warm, a
perspiration breaks out and cools you again.
People have been known to bear 400 degrees
of heat without serious Inconvenience. Sir
Francis Chantry told me once he had gone in
to an oven where he baked his moulds, which
is heated by nearly red-hot plate at the bot
tom He wore thick wooden shoes to protect
his feet, and flannel dress, and was able to
bear it very well. That was a dead heat that
would bake pie, and yet man alive would
not be heated much above blood heat, or
about 100 degrees. Is not this curious p
Life is able, you see, to bear heat which
would roast dead body"
Year: 1859

o casket of dear fancies-


o little case of gold
What rarest wealth of memories


Thy tiny round will hold;
Why this first curl of baby's


In thy small charge will live
All thoughts that her little life


To memory can give.
o prize its silken softness!


Within its amber round,
What world Of sweet rememberings
Will still by us be found!
The sweet, shrill cry, so blessing
The curtained room of pain,
With every since-felt feeling
To US twill bring again.
Twill mind us Of her lying


In rest, soft pillowed deep,
While, hands the caldle shading,
We stole upon her sleep
Of many blessed moment,


Her little rest above,
We hug in marvellous stiffness
In ecstacy of love.
Twill mind us-radiant sunshine
For all our shadcwed days
OF all her baby wonderings,


Of all her little ways;
OF all her tiny shoutings,


OF all her starts and fears,
And sudden mirths, out cleaning
Through eyes yet hung with tears.
There's not care, watching,
A hope, a laugh, fear,
Of all her little bringing,


But we shall find it here.
Then, tiny golden warder.


U safely ever hold
This CLASSY silken memory
This little curl of gold.
Year: 1859

She is mcde-t, but not bashfnl-


Free and easy, but not bold;
Like an apple ripe and mellow


Not too young, and not too old.
Half inviting, half repulsive,


Now advancing and now shy,
There is mischief in her dimple,


There is danger in her eye.
She has studied human nature;


She is schooled in all Its arts;
She has taken her diploma


As the mistress of all hearts.
She can tell the very moment


When to sigh and when to smile,
True, maid is sometimes charming,
But the widow all the while.
Are you sad? how very serious


Will her handsome face become:
Are you angry? she is wretched,


Lonely, friendless, fearful dumb.
Are you mirthful? how her laughter,


Silver-sounding will ring out
She can lure, and catch, and play you
AS the angler does the trout.