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Year: 1873

There is freedman living in southwestern
Georgia, upon a plantation belonging to a
gentleman of this city, who has run it for two
years with the usual results, and in conse.
ouence has become not only previously de-
moralized, but immensely disgusted. In
January last he rented the place to the afore-
said freedman for certain number OF bales
of cotton; at the same time selling him
all the mules, corn and fodder on the place,
to be paid for in cotton the first day of Decem-
Der at farthest. He also agreed to furnish
the meat necessary to run the place for the
year, which was to be paid for before or by
the above date. The renter also agreed to
keep up the fences, ETC., and return the farm
to the owner at the end of the year in as good
condition as when put into his hands.


By the 24th of fSeptember the rent had been
paid, and by the 9th of October the debt
for the mules corn, meat, ETC., had also been
paid, every dollar, and the renter has now
only small Indebtedness for labor, orders
to hands, etc., to pay off with his surplus cot.
ton. He has made enough to do him next
year, and will commence operations the own
er of eight mules, all the necessary farming
utensils, wi. "a plentiful supply Of labor, and
with nothing to buy but his meat He has,
made the best crop with the least expense and
with fewer hands than has been produced on
the place in three years, and in all his ope-
rations has shown judgment in intelligence
and economy that entities him to public men,
tion and consideration. Although person
of much weight with his race, and able to
control a considerable number of them in po-
litical matters, he takes but little interest in
such things, and contents himself with voting,
if it is perfectly convenient for him to leave
his business to do so-if not, not We sup
pose he is Radical, but as he considers pol
itics entirely subordinate to the great business
of improving his material condition, and
laying the foundation Of substantial pros,
perity for his children, we conclude that he
is not very ardent politician. :,


In addition, he is a man Of his word in all
pecuniary and other matters, and enjoys the
highest character in his neighborhood, both
with white and black, for honesty, industry,
economy and kindly disposition. There is no
one more respected for the possession Of these
qualities than he. He is one often thousand,
it is true the exception to an almost univer-
sal rule, and as such we have thought that
not only for his own sake, but in order that
the bril- ghtness of his example may cast at
least one ray of light upon the dark picture
that surrounds him, this statement is worthy
of record.-Macoa Telegraph.
Year: 1873

facture of thimbles is very simple, but singu-
larly interesting. Coin silver is mostly used,
and is obtained by purchasing coin dollars.
Hence it happens that the profits of the busi'
ness are affected instantaneously BY all the
variations in the nations greenback promises
to pay. The first operation strikes novice
as almost wicked, for it is nothing else than
putting a lot of bright silver dollars, fresh
from the mint, into nasty crucibles and melt
ing them up into solid ingots. These are
rolled cut to the required thickness, and cut
by stamp into circular pieces ofany required
size A eolid metal bar of the size of the in
side of the intended thimble, moved by pow
erful machinery up and down in bottomless
mould of the outside of the same thimble.
bends the circular disks in the thimble shape
as fast as they can be placed under the de:
scending bar. Once in shape, the work Of
Frightening, polishing and decorating is done
upon lathe. First the blank form is fitted
with rapidly.revolving rod. A single touch
of sharp chisel takes thin shaving from
the end another does the same on the side,
and third rounds off the rim. A round steel
rod, dipped in oil and pressed upon the sur
face, gives it lustrous polish. Then little
revolving steel wheel, whose edge is a raised
ornament, held against the revolving blank,
prints that ornament just outside the rim. A
second wheel prints a different ornament
around the center, while third wheel with
sharp points makes the indentations on the
lower half and end of the thimble. The in
side is frightened and polished in a similar
way, the thimble being held in a revolving
mould All that remains to be done is to
boil the completed thimbles in soap-suds, to
remove the oil, brush them up and pack them
for the trade.-Sprinqfeld Mass. } Republican.
Year: 1873

SLEEPING IN A Cold RooM.-Hall's Jour-
nal of Health says that cold bed-chambers al
wavs imperil health and invite fatal diseases.
Robust persons may safely sleep in temper
ature of forty or under, but the old, the in
FAINT and the fral should never sleep in
room where the atmosphere is much under
fifty degrees Fahrenheit.


All know the danger of going direct into the
cold from very warm room. Very few
rooms, churches, theatres, and the like, are
even warmer than seventy degrees. If it is
freezing out of doors it is thirty degrees-the
difference being forty degrees more Persons
will be chilled by such changein ten minutes,
although they may be actively walking.


But to lie still in bed, nothing to promote
the circulation, and breathe for hours an at
mosphere of forty and even fifty degrees, when
the lungs are always at ninety-eight, is too
greata change Many persons wake up in the
morning with inflammation of the lungs who
went to bed we'll, and are surprised that this
should be the case. The cause may often be
found in sleeping in room the window of
which had been foolishly hoisted for ventila-
tion. The water.cure journals of the country
have done an incalculable injury by the blind
and indiscriminate advces of hosting the
window at night.


The rule should be everywhere during the
part of the year when fires are kept burning,
to avoid hoisting outside windows. tits safer
and better to leave the chamber door open, as
also the ireplace-then there is a draft up the
chimney, while the room is not so likely to
become cold. Ifthereis some 6rein the room
all night the window may be opened an inch.
1t is safer to sleep in bad air all night with
a temperature of over fifty, than in pure air
with a temperature under forty. The bad air
may sicken you but cannot kill you the cold
air can and does k4ll very often.
Year: 1873

SAssAFRAs LEAVES FOR BoILs. See
ing a friend sorely afflicted with boils a
few days since reminded us Of the SOW
erign virtue which sassafras, pounded
into sticky paste, and applied as a
poultiee, possesses. The writer has tried
the remedy on his own person and ap-
piled it to persons of others in many in
stances, and never knew the remedy to
fall in drawing the most obstinate boil
to head" within twenty-four hours.
am aware that the sassfras tree in Cali
fornia, but that is no reason why any
nurseryman should not introduce it. and
our people cultivate it extensively. The
bark Of the root is an article of COM
merce and the tree is useful and orna-
mental. H.
Year: 1873

A STRONG CERTIF1CATE.--Tlns is a
certificate Of good moral character,
which Troy legal gentleman signed
without looking at, for student who
was about to p esent credentials for adj
mission to the bar-''I hereby certify
that the bearer, -, was student IN
nv Office for ten months, that during
the whole of taat time his character for
piety, chastity and honesty was above
repfoach, and his example was such
that, from my daily contact with him, l
have become a pious and consistent
member of the church, and a useful
member of society,""
Year: 1873

How TO SAVE Coal IN CRATES.
most practical suggestion yet made to-
ward economy in coal seems to be the
use of solid bottom in ordinary fire
CRATES. It is asserted and indeed prov
ed, that IN fireplace not excessively
small plate of iron placed upon the
CRATE will save the consumption Of coal,
reduce the smoke, and leave cheerful.
free burning fire. Quite sufficient air
enters through the bars, 10 pokins is
necessary, and the fire never goes out
till the Goals are consumed. There is
no ash and no dust, every particle of
fuel being consumed. Any householder
can try this experiment, and reduce his
coal bills say so per cent.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General of the United States, after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is a fact worthy the attention of consum-
| org
Year: 1873

Renne Pain Killing Magic Oil is not a
sticky, nasty compound, but clean, sweet
and pleasant to use, and wonderful to cure
any kind of pain Try it on bruises, or
bilious headache, or kidney troubles, or
sore throat
Year: 1873

From lands end to lands end, that all may read,
and reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who are on the road to an untimely grave
with bilious complaints there is but truly great
and reliable remedy and that is
Year: 1873

ITCHING PILES is generally preceded by
a moisture like perspiration, producing a
very disagreeable and often times distress
ing itching; particularly at night, after
getting warm in he'd
Year: 1873

a couple Of girls put bullfrog into
the hired man s he'd to see if they
couldn't make him talk Dayie threw it
out of the window and never said a
word. Soon after he put half bushel
of chestnut harrs into The eiils' bed =
About the time he thought they would
make the least shadow Davie went to
the door and ratified the latch furiousiy.
Out went The candle and in went the
giils; but they did not stick. though the
burrs did Cal ing upon them. he beg
gea them to keep quiet, for he only
wanted to know If they had seen any
thing OF that pesky iuliflog He'd
give two dollars TO find it
Year: 1873

rFA well known Connecticut cler
pyman had deacon who insisted npon
Leading the singing and PRAYER meeting
He was great blunderer, and he sang
all sthe sad and melancholy tunes he
could think of. The hymn was given
nIt
Year: 1873

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


An advertisement has lately been inserted in
several OF our leading newspapers, the intent OF
which is chiefly to injure the Equitable Life
Assurance Society.


OF the company, as It's Actuary feel it my DUTY to
notice 1t. The advertisement, commencing with
some general remarks on life insurance, soon
enters into comparison OF the mutual and Joint
stock systems, much to the advantage OF the for
mer, and then goes on to comparison OF results,
taking the Mutual Life Insurance Company OF this
city as an example Of the mutual system. and the
Equitable Life as an example OF the joint stock
system, making IL appear by necessary implication
that the Equitable Is subject to all the evils which
have just been asserted to belong to the Joint stock
class OF companies


1853 the Legislature, in their wisdom, and after
perence OF dangers attending the simple mutual
system, passed law that no new llie insurance
company should be started without frst depositing
with tile State 100000 as guaranty for their
policies. This In effect prevented the formation
has a. see ouned SINCE In the State With
out stock capital.


When the Equitable Society was founded this
the amount named Dy the State by means Of
stock capital but, to make 1t clear that prent on
their stock was not their motive in starting
the Company, they adopted the principle In
their charter--a principle not adopted by any
company previously formed, and BY very few
formed since-that the dividends upon their stock
which, In obedience to the enacted wisdom OF the
state, they pledged as q guarantee OF their good
vestment it reproduces), thus cutting themselves
Oh from any large dividends thereafter, and secur-
ing TO the policy holders all the benefits that could
arise from tho mutual system, with the added ad-
vantages OF an outside amount pledged for their
security aud the prudent management OF the
Society.


In respect to the numerical comparison made In
the advertisement, 1t Is to be remembered that
ratios OF income and expenditure are affected very
materially by the comparative age, extent Of busi-
ness and other circumstances Of the two
companies compared. The Equitable Society
has for several years past done more
new business than any other life company in the
world, and It's expenses should be larger, COM
paratively, than those Of other companies whose
new business bears much less proportion to their
old. But It Is 10 be remembered that, while a
large new business n expensive In the obtaining,
It forms the foundation for substantial growth and
permanent reduction OF expenses in the future
The Equitable Is less than half as old as the Mutual
Life, and q brief comparison between Its present
state and the state ofthe Mutual at the same age
Will perhaps, show more clearly the relative sue
cess OF the two companies, ana give slight gm'
mering OF what Will be the condition Of the Bquit
Ny~AaA Xhnn " .haa a. taipad me pSesept
Year: 1873

The enterprising individual who
earned few dollars by charging sight
seers for admission to the house where
his father had been murdered, has a
rival in the London proprietor of a
music hall who hired for exhibition ten
of the survivors Of the Northfleet dis
aster. Penniless as they We're, they
consented, and the very night after the
catastrophe, less than twenty-four hours
since the terrible tragedy in real life
had been enacted, these ten men found
themselves seated upon concert saloon
stage with the curtain rising and re-
vealing them amid loud cheers to very
large and uncontrollably enthusiastic
audience. The entertainment was re-
peated again and again, the contract
being for twelve nights. Crowds greeted
them every evening and financially it
was a great success. 1t is a singular
illustration of the freaks of fortune
that the calamity which shocked the
whole news-reading world and sent more
than three hundred souls into eternity
should have filed the pockets of this
saloon keeper with money and brought
upon the uncouth, disappearing men
round after round of applause for
merely sitting upon stage from which
forty-eight hours before they would
have been ignominiously driven. The
temporary victory over death makes a
man something of hero sfter all, even
if it is certain that the victoIy is really,
at best. but check.
Year: 1873

Among my more recent inventions
are:


A printing press that sets its own
type, writes it's own editorials and stirs
up delinquent subscribers. 1t answers
very well for a clothes press, or sub
soil plow, or a threshing machine, and
is warranted to press the question, or
to press forward.


A brick ship, to sail the mighty
waters of the great Atlantic 1t has a
granite foundation, with fine cellar,
and a good well with free-stone- paved
walk running in front of it at the rate
of ten knots mile.


A simplified pot-hook, which you can
unfold, and it makes nice spring bon
net for your wife and 1t is equally easy
to turn it into an overcoat, or you can
use it for handkerchief or standing
collar.


A compound toothpick, which will
pick anything out of a hollow tooth
from n shoulder of meat to toothache.
You unfold it and behold you have n
step-ladder; give it another twist, and
then you have a aone-horse dray reverse
it. and you have cottage with three
rooms and an acre lot.


An umbrella, 50 antagonistic to water
that, if you should fall in the river
with it, ould come out perfectly
dry. 1t is a1.o yether unnecessary even
to hold it over you in a storm. Fold it
up and it is walking cane, press on a
spring and it is coal scuttle turn it
inside out and it is plug hat turn it
again and you have pair of boots.
Everybody gets dry who carries it.
Year: 1873

The Sacramento Union describes a
curiosity found in bed OF gravel in
that city, fourteen feet below the sur
face, while the discoverer was digging a
well. 1t is composed of rock, hard as
flint. dark green in color, with white
specks, perfectly round and smooth,
about 81 inches in length, about an
inch in diameter in the centre, and
tapering to a point at either end. About
half an inch from one end a hole has
has been drilled through it and o
groove cut from the hole around the
end of the stone, as if it was intended
to pass line through the hole and
suspend the stone by it. The rock,
however. is so excessively hard that it
is almost impossible to scratch 1t, and
the question therefore arises as to what
sort of an instrument the aborigine
that did the drilling-which was prob
ably performed hundreds OF years ago
used.
Year: 1873

One Of the great social problems Of
the day is TO explain why there are 80
many marringeablc women who never
get married. Some say that ii IL owing
to an excess in numbers of women over
men. in consequence of which there
are not husbands enough to 60 round.
This, however, is disproved by stats.
tics. Take the world through, and the
figures show that there are rs many
men i'll it as there are women Others
attribute it to the expensiveness OF
modern life. Men do not marry be-
cause, it is said, they cannot afford to.
But the fact il, that no man who truly
loved woman ever hesitated to become
engaged to her and eventually marry
her because Of poverty. There are cold
blooded men, with no idea OF any feel
ing for woman stronger than languid
admiration, who may be deferred from
assuming what they regard as burden
in the shape of n wife. unless assured
of n liberal income; but most are not
so calculating. Others, again, attribute
the evil TO women's fastidiousness.
They expect too much in a husband,
and, while waiting for an impossible
shadow, let the possible substance slip
through their fingers. This is libel
on the sex. As rule, they are no more
fastidious than men are, and are Just as
susceptible as men to that enchantment
of love which invests its object with
every perfection, and covers up every
fault. SO far MS men and women them
selves are concerned, they are as prone
to marriage now as in any period of the
worlds history. Nevertheless, there
the women are wanting for husbands,
and not getting them. Every social
circle is full of them. They are ,retty,
they are accomplished, they ar 5 Isl
BILE, and under proper train e .hey
would make excellent wives I'D 10th
ers; but they never get nance.
What seems to be needed is i more
thorough method of bringin men and
women into social contact With each
other,
Year: 1873

OuR COLORADO LETTERING have
another breezy letter this morning from a
young lady who belongs in this city but
who has been sojourning some months In
the mountains of Colorado and who has
sent Us occasional letters before. For one
who has not had much experience with
the pen, and who makes no sort OF literary
preteusions, our lair young correspondent
writes very gracefully and pleasantly in
Irrd
Year: 1873

and what paper would gain in one way
it would more than lose in another. What
father would like to see his son porlng
over a circumstantial account of how
Mike McCoole ''punished' Tom Allen:
1t may be news. bat all that transpires in
a large city. even al that comes before
the courts, and may therefore be regarded
as news. is not to be set before the public.
Year: 1873

agents in regard to their business, so that
the alterations Of the political writer's de-
ceive nobody except those who have no
interest in the question a. ALL Some Of
the New York dailies give their readers {.
heap of nonsense for four cents
Year: 1873

We copy from the Parkersburg
Times well written article on the
subject Of immigration, all OF which we
can heartily endorse, except the express
sion OF lack of confidence in the present
legislature to render judicious aid to the
scheme. The one great need OF West
Virginia to-day, is immigration, We
have physical advantages that can
satisfy and astonish any reason
able man who cares to examine the nat
ural wealth OF the country. Our
mines of iron and coal are far superior
10 those OF any other State in the
Union and all that is needed 10 make
West Virginia a hive of industry and
wealth is the population necessary to
utilize the natural advantages that are
here presented.


The State legislature may be relied
upon TO do its part in the work OF
inducing immigrants to settle
upon West Virginia soil. What
ever policy is deemed the best
will be eagerly adopted by West Vir-
ginians, and settlers here need feel no
fear Of social ostracism. The same in
fluences that have contributed to swell
the population OF the States Of the
Northwest operate with still greater
force in favor Of West Virginia, and it
seems that all that is needed to turn
the tide OF immigration in this direc-
ton is the proper presentation
of the advantages here enjoyed. This
is being done by all newspaper corres-
pondents who pass through the state;
the wonderful mineral wealth Of West
Virginia is being duly advertised and
the time is not far distant when coal
and iron lands in West Virginia will
be quoted as hign as the most favored
localities in Pennsylvania.
Year: 1873

One Of our city jewelry establish =
ments was confdenced by . woman on
Tuesday, out OF o valuable set OF jewell
ry, by representing that she had been
sent for it by the wife Of well known
business man. The woman cannot be
found
Year: 1873

beds made here and there about the spot
set apart for kitchen garden. 1t is now
the practice among the best farmers to
plant a row Of beets Gf so many are
wanted) the whole or half the lettuce,
beans. &c. and each row such distance
apart that II horse or hand cultivator can
bc used between the rows. Thus tho
back ache work of hoeing and wedding
by hand is saved 10 large extent, and
all this petty fussing which is involved
is avoided. Nor is il bad practice to
grow the garden vegetable in some por-
ton Of the cultivated fields il hear or
convenient TO the house.


The main point aimed al is TO suggest
to those who have small fields. or culil-
cate small patches Of ground, here anu
there. mode by which great deal oil
labor and time may be saved and vast
deal more produced on the same areas
| Instances occur to Us where farmers
have added one third TO the products
from the farm by removing the fences,
ploughing long iurOws, cullivatinS long
rows. keeping the stock in the stable
aud soiling ii or enclosing them in hur'
dies wherever the best food for them
could be found growing.
Year: 1873

Upon this subject the New York
W0rld has these sensible remarks. which
oltkough well known to every thinking
farmer will bear reitsrating:


1t astonishes great many men to
notice how many more other men per.
sist in fencing small fields-in keeping
up fences where they are not needed and
ploughing short furrows where long ones
would save vast deal OF time AMI labor,
besides avoiding the tramping of the
ground in turning. which few men know
how to avoid. The economy of time
aud labor in farming is as important "a
The saving OF crops Two long rows OF
potatoes are tar more easily cultivated
;han eight short ones containing the
same number OF hills. An acre or ten
Scres oil corn cost. tar less money TO cul-
tivaIe If embraced in only five or fifty
rows than if double or triple the number
Then there is not in the case of cDrn the
loss from breaking it down in turning. if
the farmer has left no grass head. lands
TO turn on, or has not two or three rows
Of potatoes on the outside of mis- field.


The fence. about small fields involve
not only great waste Of labor and
money to care for them. but arc also q
great waste OF land. They are not only
nnpToductive property but they cost in
the waste of land alone enough on many
farms 10 pay the annual taxes. 1t is al.
so noticeable thai The smaller the farm
The greater The number, proportionately,
of fenced fields. If in the case of past
me il is desirable to feed only part of
ield at time (Which by he way. is not
often wise policy.) it is cheaper to
build and move hurdle fences, unless the
stock kept is large.


The same principle applies in The cul-
ture OF garden crops. One sees little