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Year: 1875

Gov. Chamberlain of South Carolina deserves
all praise for his manly effort to redeem his
State from misrule and to save it from con-
tinuance of the official robbery which threat
ened to reduce it to absolute bankruptcy
His special message to tho Legislature, an
abstract of which we print this morning, is
couched in language Enthusiastically sincere,
and the boldness of which can be appreciated
only by those who know the rapacity and
audacity of the villains in his own party with
whom, as ofllce-holders, he has to deal. 1t is
gratifying to learn that the Governor has the
hearty cooperation Of honest men of both
parties in South Carolina; certainly he has
the best wishes of good men everywhere.
Year: 1875

The voice of the Fall elections and of the
recent popular protests against Grantism has
been heard by the New-Hampshire Repubi-
cans, though rather indistinctly. The plat
form adopted by their State Convention yes
terday has q perspicuous declaration against
the election of any man to the Presidency for
a third term, together with patronizing ex-
preston of good wishes for the South; but
when it comes to the now absorbing question
of military interference in the proceedings of
a State Legislature. there is a vagueness of
expression which is, to say the least, unsatis-
factory. Who can tell from these resolutions
whether the Republicans of NewHampshire
approve OF condemn the Southern policy of
the Administration as recently exemplified in
New -Orleansf Nevertheless this is a decided
improvement upon the average Republican
platform of the last year.
Year: 1875

MANNER OF RETREAT OF ARABS
When an Arab tribe is pursued by an en-
smy, they sleep and take their food with
out halting. That they may not fall from
their camels when sleeping, they stretch
themselves out at length, placing their feed
in bag on each side of the animals neck.
Their food is prepared by the women. One
mounted on camel loaded with wheat
continues grinding with hand-mill, and
passes the meal to another, who is provid-
ed with leather bottles containing water,
suspended on each side Of the camel; she,
having prepared the paste, passes it to a
third, who completes the operation by
baking the bread in thin slices on chat
ing-dish, or portable oven, which is
heated with wood or straw. This bread,
with portion Of cheese and dates, is then
distributed by her, to those whom it is
her province to feed, and the frugal meal
is finished with draught of camel's milk.
The camels are also MIXED as they walk,
the men using for this purpose large wood
en- bowls, which are passed from one to
another.
Year: 1875

You are sitting in the first stages of
cold, or your wife at your side has little
fever, and the car is warm and undeniably
close. Suddenly some person of either sex
remarks audibly, what every body per-
ceives and deplores, that the air is close.
He or she adds that such an atmosphere is
unwholesome, that it is positively poison
Gus, that the car is Black Hole, and that
we are all suffocating; and thereupon, the
train flying at thirty miles au hour, on a
bitter night or day, up goes the window,
and the blast drives full upon you and
madam, heated and i'll, and there is no
escape for you, all the seats being full, but
to 20 forward and stand The good man
or woman holds the ground, insists that
the oxygen of the air is exhausted, that
we are all breathing carbonic acid gas, and
that all the books agree that apoplexy,
paralysis, softening of the brain, with a
vast train Of occult maladies, begin under
just such conditions.


"And so, madam, to spare yourself the
chance Of some remote disease you expose
my wife to immediate pleurisy and pneu-
monia."


"Sir, you know nothing Of hygienic





laws"


Madam, you know nothing Of common
sense"


1t is true that fresh air is desirable; but
will not these peripatetic philosophers learn
that icy blasts or sudden chills may be
fatalp When one of the apostles of fresh
air opened 4 car window under these cir
cumstances, gray-beard sitting behind
instantly arose and closed it again en-
phatically. And when the astoanded lady,
looking at him severely, said, in tone of
exceeding wrath, "SirF' he answered,
blandly, "My dear madam, bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush" She
looked scornful, but not in the least as If
she understood his meaning. II mean
only" he said, "that the one illness which
you are sure to give me may be more fatal
than the two or twenty which you think
to prevent by opening the window" But
she turned her back; and, as he said after
ward, if there was less fresh air, there
were fewer colds.-Harper's Magazine for
June.
Year: 1875




Marriage is a very matter-of.fact affair.
There is little poetry in it; and all expert
ence shows that ii is better to get rid Of
nonsense before committing matrimony."
So says good writer but we beg to differ.
All experience does not show any such
thing. If nonsense means here, as il
seems to mean, all those things that make
the poetry Of life, we say the more you
have Of 1t the better. Because thing is
real must it be commonplace The light
of love illumines the homcliest duties and
because there must be eating, and drink
ing, and sleeping, and earning bread and
butter in its years, marriage need not be
a matter-offact arrangement coarse
sort Of bargain, in which the wife becomes
housekeeper, and the husband the bank
er. Better that there should be no mar
rying at all; for what shall they do in those
hours Of trouble and pain which come 70
all Of us, when every heart Graves sympa-
thy, and when none can give it 50 well as
the lover whose love has endured through
many years. When two people Of oppo-
site sex, temperament habits, resolve,
through union by marriage, to live to-
gether for the rest Of their lives, there is
need Of sentiment between them. There
is necessity for little romance that
makes people seem better and more beau
tiful than they really are, If in time they
would not hate each other. No---if you
have no other part in life that is not COM
mon-place and matter-of-fact, forbid that
home life, which Is the consequence Of
marriage, to sink to this Have thon-
sand "songs without words" for every day.
Nourish your most delicate sentiments aud
weave them with the hours as they glide
by. Don't have all your poetry in the
bookcase; and all your music in the piano.
Life is short. Let us live virtuous lives,
and extract all the enjoyment from il we
may.
Year: 1875

LASTING WHITEwAsH.--To make white
wash that viii not wash of by the rain,
one peck Of lime should be Stacked in Eve
gallons Of water, in which one pound Of
rice has been boiled until il is all dissolv-
ed. The rice water should be used hot,
and the mixture should be covered up
closely until the lime is Stacked. Then a
pound Of salt should be added, and the
wash heated to boiling whea used.
Year: 1875

The hundredth anniversary of the bat
tie Of Bunker's Hill, on June 18th, is to


receive due recognition. But two days
earlier there will occur the centennial an
niversary Of an event which had even more
influence than Bunker Hill upon the war,
yet which has as yet scarcely received
mention. On the 10Th of June, 1775,
the Continental Congress in session at
Philadelphia elected George Washing on
"Commander-in-Chief of all the forces
raised, or to be raised, for the defence Of
the colonies A little before this il had
voted to enlist an army Of 10000 men, Of
which the militia and minute-men Of New
England were made the nucleus. The
defensive movements which before then
were only local thus received national
endorsement, and the colonies we're solifed
into a combined resistance to Great Britain.
Year: 1875

The Circuit and Superior Judges have come
to vary wise conclusion in deciding to make
each criminal term Nl,te months instead Of
one. Under tho present system OF rotation,
it has been the practice Of tho Circuit aud
Superior Judges to take charge Of the GRIM
inal business, ono each month. This practice
has seriously impodod tie business Of the
Court. No sooner had judge got fairly
into the harness thnn he was obliged to give
way to ono Of tho others. Ths term was so
short that many important Cases were thrown
over to the next term in tho fear that they
could not be finished before the torn ended,
and SO indefinitely postponed in soms casea
Under the new rule, there will be ample
Tina for tho Grand Jury, the States At
torney, md the Court to g.vo full Justice to
any and every criminal case tl,at is presented,
and each one of the Judges will become more
competent to preside over the trial Of Grim
inal cases~
Year: 1875

We printed the other day an
account of old Zach Chandler's
going down to Newspaper Row.
at Washington loaded to the.
guards with wrath, whisky and
eight or ten revolvers to shoot
Dom Piatt, whom he didn't find.
The DOM tells the sequel in his
Capital paper Of last Sunday, as
follows: es


The neXt day we had business
with the Sergeant-at-Amrs Of the
Senate, Mr. French, and while
sitting upon Il sofa talking to that
gentleman, who should loom up
at the door but the war man of
Michigan, and as lie approached
directly upon us we gently slid
our right hand into the pocket Of
our overcoat, where our fingers
gently caressed a revolver, and
had the ex Senator made any
move indicating the production OF
that navy, we rather fatter our
selves there would have been a
vacancy iii the court circle Of
Ulysses. We do not propose be-
ing snufted out by an ex-senator
or anybody else, drunk or sober.


We have observed through life;
in our checkered career, that wlerf
"A man is killed he is just as dead
when murdered by a drunken
man as when demised By d son Of
temperance. s,
Year: 1875

A sentimental young man Of
Chicago went to see his girl
the other day, and found that
his letter had been pasted over
thetop Of preserve cans. Those
beginning With my Darling
Susan" went over the peaches,
and those commencing with
"My Own Darling" were put
over the apples. This was too
flatteringly sweet to allow the
engagement to remain substan-
tial.
Year: 1875

We recur so often to the subject of
agriculture as vocation, because we
wish the farmers, and young men of
our State, to have proper appreciation
of the dignity of the calling.


We often hear the observation made
by farmers sons, that farming is not a
"genteel occupation. 1t is a sad
mistake, to suppose that it is the par
ticuIar vocation of man that makes him
genteel or worthy of respect. We all
know men in every position in life,
who, by uprightness of character and
ability in their particular pursuit, dig
Nifty their occupation, and win respect
and esteem from all whose opinions
are worth anything.


Agriculture asa vocation, if properly
conducted, is healthful, regular, inde-
pendent, and far more remunerative,
taking into consideration the number
who follow it, than any other calling.
Year: 1875

We readily admit, that careless, sloyen'
| ly and discontentcd farming is a hard


life; but the same course pursued in
any other business will lead to the
same results. Agriculture rightly
pursued, furnishes constant, pleasant
and elevating employment for the mind
as well as the body. The study and
management Of the soil, of the atmos-
phere, of plants, Of fruits. of flowers
and Of stock, are all of them directly
connected with farming, and contribute
to success in its pursuit, and make it a
source OF enjoyment.


Agriculture is the basis Of our whole
national wealth and power and would
you not, like the late David Dickson
Of Georgia, be the foremost farmer in
Mississippi leading the van in all use
ful improvements, striving to elevate
the system Of farmiog and the farmer,
and rousing all around you to new life
and progress, than to be the highest
official in the land? 8..


We must impress upon the minds Of
our young people, the Importance and
dignity Of agriculture, and make them
contented and happy at the old home
stead. With all the admitted folly of
the young men, in being carried away
by the delusive sedu:tions of town life.
Might not something be done to make
home more attractive? Might not
pleasant evenings be devoted oftener
to friendly visitors around the tea-table,
with papers, books, pictures, magazines
and fun, to make them entertaining.
We know well, in thousands Of farm
houses in Mississippi, all this and more
is done now, and done we'll; but is
there not yet room for Improvement on
ten thousand farms
Year: 1875

LUCK IN BUSINESS. Nothing is
more common than to hear people
complain that they have no luck, that
they cannot get on in the battle of
life; that every avenue Of business is
overcrowded; and they languish in
obscurity and pine in neglect, they
grow old before their time, and die at
last of disappointment and heartsick.
ness. Undoubtedly, there are many
sad instances of capacity overlooked
and talent sighted, but the complaint,
as a general thing, is false and foolish,
and the evil is in the complainers and
not in the world. A knowledge Of
our own capacities and a fixed and
steady aim, steadiness of purpose and
persistent effort are conditions Of, and
will command success in almost any
business. That is the luck to rely
upon.
Year: 1875

The season for cutting grass and hay
making is nearly at hand. An opera
ton SO simple as that Of cutting and
curing hay every farmer feels that he
understands, and would disdain, on this
subject any attempt to advise or instruct
him. But the wise are glad to exam
inc any subject, on which possible dis
cussion or inquiry may throw some
light, correct prejudices, or suggest new
and better means Of management.
The wise in respect to any and every
subject are never too acise to learn and
though their own observations or sug-
gestions may have no just foundation,
and pertinency, they may be useful if
they excite the inquiries and elicit the
observations of wiser and more expe-
rienced minds.


The rule for cutting grass uhen 1t
first comes into fo,cer applies to nearly
every species of herbage, which is to
be dried for winter food but to coarse
hay, the produce of wet, marshy
grounds, it is more strongly applicable,
for most of the plants that grow in
these situations, when they are in full
vigor are as tender and contain as
great a proportion of nourishing juices
as any other description of hay, and
when cut at that stage and properly
cured afterwards, form valuable arti-
Gle of food for stock but when the
cutting is delayed, as it often is, until
an advanced period of the season,
when the plants have not only reached
their ultimate growth, but begin to
decay, this description Of herbage be-
comes at once the coarsest and the
least nourishing of all food.


The above opinion, here given, is
not from theory, but from the solid
grounds of experiments carefully made,
on different kinds of herbage and at
different periods of their growth, the



result OF which establishes a fact which
cannot be too generally known, viz:
That plants Of all sorts, # they are cut
acten in full uigor, before they haze ma
tured their seeds, contain weight for
aoeight, quantity Of nou'ishing matter
nearly double suhat they do suhen allOaoed
to attain their full gro,ctt, and make some
progress toscards decay.


These suggestions are stated with
great confidence, and are entitled to
much consideration from our farmers
as much valuable hay may be made
from our wet lands, creek and branch
banks, and deserves particular atten-
ton. The cutting and curing of these
grasses receive very little care; they
are left standing generally until very
late in the season, and when cut at
that time, the hay from them is almost
worthless except for litter; but when
cut when in bloom it makes good hay
which is much relished and greedily
eaten by all kinds of stock and is much
better than nine-tenths of the hay we
receive from the North.
Year: 1875

By request, we again publish the
following remedy for this fatal disease.
1t appeared in the VINDIoAToR of
April Sd, 1874. Hear what CORES
pondent says about it; II have used
kerosene oil with marked success as q
remedy for chicken cholera. | had a
pullet which was actually on its last
legs, not able or willing to feed any
more. My better half took some
grits, mixed with it enough kerosene
to make it into pills, and crammed the
pills down its throat. The effect was,
/ may say instantaneous. At the next
regular feeding Of the fowls, it appear.
ed and ate; since then it has got well.
I have now made it a rule to feed corn,
thus mixed with kerosene, three times
a week, and since adopting this mode
have had no new cases of cholera"


Another remedy friend gave us, is
to use grits and bones. Each is parch-
ed quite black and the bones reduced
to powder; then mix together with
sufficient water to make it into paste,
and give it to the chickens. He as
sures us since he adopted this remedy
he has lost none.


Still another remedy. Mrs. 7. b.,
of Golden, ILL.,, says: "Take peach
tree leaves and boil them in water;
make the water very strong; then
strain the leaves out and stir in enough
corn meal to absorb all the water"
This is said to be a sure remedy. The
above are simple remedies for that
fatal disease among chickens. We
hope some Of our lady friends will try
them, and report success or failure.
Year: 1875

Fl


This is THE QUESTION that interests


every farmer in the State. We do


not deny that capitalists, merchants
and railroads pay taxes directly to the
county and State, but they only pay
directly, while the landowners pay
both directly and indirectly. The
farmers have to pay their own taxes
per valuation and assessment Of prop
erty, real and personal, and indirectly
the taxes on railroads by way Of high
freights and unjust determinations,
and upon capital invested in merchan-
die by paying heavy prices for what
they consume, and to United States
bond holders in interest on bonds which
the government allows the capitalist to
hold free from taxation.


This must ever be the case while
the farmers are the chief consumers
and circumstances remain as at present,
and while the whole power Of the coun-
try is in the hands Of capital, as vested
in railroads, banks and bonds. The
few rule supreme over the many.


Let us illustrate the way this thing
works in every day life. If farmer
or consumer wishes to purchase an ar
ticle Of any kind, he must go to the
merchant and pay him good profit
on his wares, ,cih tages included, for he
can rest assured that the goods are
marked high enough to cover rent,
clerk hire, freights, taxes and all
other expenses Of doing business and
then leave profit besides. The same
is the case with railroads, if they are
taxed to any amount, the producer and
consumer would have just the amount
of that tax to pay by an increased rail
road tariff. But how is it with the
United States bond.holders? They
have no taxes to pay, not even in
directly. They go on from year to
year drawing this interest in gold, to
buy more bonds to draw more interest,
until this centralized capital has be-
come the controlling power in the land.


Capital in the present condition Of
affairs fixes prices both ways, it sets
the price on the farmers products
and upon the goods sold to them;
while the producing classes will have
to bow their heads in ruinous submis-
sion and such, we fear, will ever be
the case while we are represented by
corruption and our tax laws remain at
variance with the interests of agricul-
ture.


The true policy of the government,
both State and National, should be to
build up the agricultural interests of
the country the foundation of its great
ness and power. We could never see
the justness of making the bond.hold-
ers a privileged class and exempt them
from the burden of sustaining the gov
ernment. 1t has made them purse.
proud and they look with Indignation
and horror upon any movement on the
part of the farmers to relieve them.
selves from the great burden of un-
equal taxation. All taxes find their
way back to the landowners and hang
rs an incubus upon the industrial in
terests Of the country.
Year: 1875

KEEP AHEAD OF Your WORK. -
This is good advice in any business,
but especially is it applicable to agri-
culture. The great trouble with us at
the South is, that we lay out too much
work for ourselves to do. We get a
great many things half done, and work
twice as hard as need be in conse.
quence, when the same amount Of labor
if previously expended would have a
three-fold result. This is just how it
is, when we come to cultivate our crops
and war upon the weeds and grass.
We are so accustomed to get into a
''great hurry" about putting in the
crops in time, that we forget the weed
crop that is already in the ground.
We have. not unfrequently seen the
greatest exertioDs in getting in seeds,
that would have done just as well a
week later and if that time had been
spent in rebedding or narrowing the
ground would have killed the first crop
of weeds and grass, prepared the
ground better for the seeds and enabled
the cotton or corn to get ahead of the
weeds. If we would adopt such a
plan in getting in our crops we could
always Keep ahead Of our work.
Year: 1875

The following interesting letter is
published In the London Spectator


Being accustomed to walk out be-
fore breakfast with two sky terriers, it
was my custom to wash their feet IN
tub, kept for the purpose in the garden,
whenever the weather was wet. One
morning, when I took up the dog to
carry him to the tub, he bit me 60
severely that was obliged to let him
go. No sooner was the dog at liberty
than he ran down to the kitchen and
hid himself. For three days he refused
food, declined to go out with any of the
family, and appeared very detected,
with a distressed and unusual express
sion of countenance.


"On the third morning, however, upon
returning with the other dog, 1 found
him sitting by the tub, and upon COM
ing toward him he Immediately jumped
into it and sat down in the water. At
| ter pretending to wash his legs, he
| jumped out as happy as possible, and
| from that moment recovered his usual
spirits.


''Ihere appears in this instance to
have been a clear process of reAsonong,
accompanied by acute feeling, going on
ID the dogs mind from the moment he
| bit him until he hit upon a plan of
| showing his regret and making repara-
| ton for his fault. It evidently occurred
to him that I attached great Importance
| TO this foot bath, and If he could con-
vince me that his contrition was sincere,
and that he was willing to submit to
| the process without a murmur, should
| be satisfied. The dog in this case
reasoned with perfect accuracy, and
! from his own premises deducted 8
legitimate conclusion which the result
! justified"
Year: 1875

In General Stanley's expedition to
the Yellowstone river, two hundred and
eighty wagons and sixteen hundred and
eighty draft mules were required to
carry forty days supplies for force Of
twelve hundred infantry and about six
hundred cavalry. In the Black Hills
expedition, one hundred and fifty wag-
ons and nine hundred mules were nee
essary to carry sixty days supplies for
a command numbering nine hundred
men and six hundred horses.


The average load for pack mule is
from two hundred and seventy-tive to
three hundred pounds. The heaviest
weight which pack master confessed
he had ever imposed on a mule was
eight hundred pounds, piece of ma
chinery which could not be divided.
From fifty to one hundred mules make a
good sized train, though three or four
hundred sometimes follow the same
train IN close succession. Low, snug
built, chunkey, short-coupled animals
are the best for this work. The well
broken pack mule is proud of his bur
den. Should it by any means get loose
he quietly steps out of the line OF pro
cession and visits for a pack master tc
come and tighten it. The value of pacH
mules as an auxiliary to a wagon train
says a writer, was well shown on the
| Black Hills expedition. Packing oul
extra rations and forage On few o.
these animals under charge of Mr. Wag
ner, our chief packer, we were enabled
to make In three days a journey of {
| hundred miles over hills and mountain
which would have embarrassed our trail
| for two weeks.