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Year: 1873

Many people are afraid of sowing
wheat because they think that it is an
uncertain crop, liable to be destroyed
by smut or rust. / have grown wheat
for many years, ..and though have some
times suffered from rust, until I hit
upon changing my seed every year, /
have never had q particle of smut, and
no one need have any il he will only
take necessary precautions. l always
soak my seed in strong brine, not blue
stone water, which 1 believe is good too,
but prefer the brine because know it
to be good. 1 put the seed in a big
barrel or hoghead, half full of the
strongest brine I can make, and stir
it with q stick until every grain becomes
saturated. then skim off all the light
grain and foreign seeds which float upon
the surface, leaving nothing but heavy
sound wheat. 1 then pour off the
brine and put it in a barrel fixed Oh
legs like a ley barrel, with holes in the
bottom covered with a strong net, which
will keep in the wheat and allow the
water to run out. then pour into the
barrel sufficient quantity of thin white
wash Qime and water,) which runs
through and gives every kernel a coat
ing of the whitewash. After this is
done, I spread out the seed to dry, and
then it is ready for the sower, Since /
have done this have never had a smut
ty ear in my wheat, and those of my
neighbors who have adopted my plan
have had similar experience.


Since / have been in the habit of
changing my seed every year, that is
using seed brought from a distance, I
have escaped the rust. Icannot explain
the reason of this. can only state the
fact Southern Farmer.
Year: 1873

Disseminated people are sometimes
gifted with what they fatter themselves
by calling candors; if anything does not
please their peculiar whims, they can
by no manner of means be beguiled in
to passing it by, or thinking it is any
but radically wrong. They "candidly"
say they don't like the thing-they hate
the person, who has not one redeeming
Characteristic while person of liberal
vision might, while seeing the imperfec-
tion, find many good qualities. This
feature of our malcoHtent might be toll
erable, however, if, when by chance
anything or person did please him, his
candor would instigate him to acknow-
ledge the pleasure afforded him. But
candor does not go that far with him.
He never can ''speak his mind" unless
he has a mind to say something dis
agreeable. This may be a virtue as far
as the question of truth may be con-
cerned but it is not invariably best to
give utterance to all that may be true.
In the reverse, would it not be better to
endeavor to look for the good in men
and things than to be ever watching for
and anticipating evil? There can hard
ly be any doubt that such a rule of ac-
ton would conduce more certainly to
peace of mind, make people companion
able to their friends, and gain for them
selves reputation for amiability and
good nature
Year: 1873

Observe how self-importance makes
man moody and unhappy. He who is
always thinking of his own excellences
renders himself thereby unfit to enjoy
the good of others, and is prone to inn
agine that every token of affection given
to another is an insult offered to him
self. Hence he is touchy, sensitive,
irritable and envious. He takes offense
when none is meant, and even when
those around him are not thinking of
him at all he interprets their conduct as
if it were studiously discourteous, and
goes through the world smarting from
wounds which have sprung not so much
from neglect of others as from his own
overweening self-conceit. There is no
surer way to make ourselves miserable
than to think of ourselves more highly
than we ought to think. It isolates us
from all about us. It cuts us off alike
from human sympathy and divine as
sistance. It makes us very Ishmaels,
with our hands against every man and
every mans hands apparently against
us. It gives jaundiced hue to the be-
havior of those who, SO far from mean
ing to do evil to us, have our best inter
ests at heart, and love us with self-sac-
rificing affection. The map who has a
wound about him, no matter where it


may be, feels it to be always in his way.
Let him do what he will, or go where he
NAV. he cannot move himself but he is
conscious of its pain. In like manner,
he who has this feeling OF self-impor-
tance is continually smarting. Some
body has always been sighting him.
He is constantly complaining of having
been insulted, and when honor is given
to another he feels nothing but that he
has been overlooked. Thus he shuts
himself out from every festival, and
mopes most of all when others are mer-
nv. May God deliver us from this
idolatry of self. on whose altar all true
nobleness and real happiness are COM
pletely inundated Rev. w. M Tdy-
Tor.
Year: 1873

fOn what curious combination Of


coporal structure, mental character, and


training" says Mr.. Darwin, "must


handwriting depend Yet every one
must have noted the occasional close
similarity of the handwriting in father
and son, although the father had not
taught his son. A great collector of
franks assured me that in his collection
there were several franks of father and
son hardly distinguishable, except by
their dates. Hofacker in Germany re-
marks ON the inheritance of handwrit-
ing and it has been even asserted that
English boys, when taught to write in
France, naturally cling to their English
manner of writing" l am disposed TO
think that peculiarities of handwriting
are generally rather the opponents OF
particular types of nervous organiza-
ton, than resultants of purposiye train
ing. In a primary school in which
handwriting is carefully taught, it will
often be observed that very close
similarity prevails among the individual
pupils whilst in a school of which the
pupils, belonging to a higher social
class, exhibit more marked diifereutia-
tion of mental type, therei is far greater
diversity of handwriting. The follow
ing curious case, which occurred in my
own family, and which can q am assur-
ed be exactly paralleled elsewhere,
seems to afford a strong confirmation OF
this view: A gentleman who emigrated
to the United States, and settled in
the backwoods, before the end OF last
century, was accustomed from time to
time to write long letters to his sister IN
England, giving an account OF his family
affairs. Having lost his right arm by
an accident, the correspondence was
temporarily kept mp by one or other OF
his children but in the course of few
months he learned to write with his left
hand and, before long, the handwrit
ing of the letters thus written came b. be
from that of his for
mer letters.-PTof. w. b. Carpenter
Year: 1873

We look wistfully into eyes that have
been wont to send back loving glances,
and weep to see them growing dim we
kiss lips that yesterday were eloquent,
now cold and speechless; we see them
carry to the place of graves, those who
were our hearts best loved, and because
the eyes were closed, and the quiet
hands folded over n pulseless breast,
we say" Their work is ended T. It is
not so. for their works do follow
them" The last touch Of their hand
fingers with us, their step on the stair,
and ~ the door, thrills on our ear ;
so4o gift of theirs it may have been in
the long past, is changed to holy tai
isman. Some prayers that we heard
them breathe years ago in our trusting
childhood, becomes a living voice to
guide us,


:. For touching so, they draw above,


Our common thoughts to heavens unknown"


The busy hands are still, the mortal
forms we loved and cherished, have put
on such shining raiment, that our tear
dimmed eyes may not behold th"m, but
the work they commenced still goes on.
They are still working through their in
fuence that cannot die. working for
God Yes, even they, our loved and
missing, they whose chairs are vacant
in our homes, upon whose names we
do not call, since dropping our hands
from ont their clasp-they went from
us, never needing tears or prayers


"Went out from us, far away.


From the dark world they knew,


No twilight in their gateway


The golden gate assed through.


Into the sudden glory


Out of the dark they tTOd;


Departing from before


At once to life and God"


So shall it be with her, the aged saint
who went out from our midst little
while ago.


It was on Thanksgiving day that they
laid her down in her last sleep, and
thought how meet it was, for she never
ceased speaking of the Fathers good
ness, until earthly speech was swallow
ed up in endless song.


=" 1 have had happy life" she would
say. "God has been very good to me
I gave my heart to him when [ was ten
years old, and He has kept me ever
since"


Nearly seventy-five years her name
had been upon the record of His follow
ers below, and written in the " Lambs
Book of Life. ,"


Kept! oh yes! He keeps very safely
all who so love and trust in Him. A
little child when she first learned to
praise Him; with the earnest simpli-
city, and loving trust of a little. child
she was praising Him all the journey
through, and when she came to the di-
viding Jordan, her hfe-song was echoed
back to us


How happy are they,


Who their Saviour obey!"


We know-that the feeble hands are
folded very peacefully. She has faded
from out an earthly home, but her work
is not done, for children, and children's
children shall tell to other little ones
the story handed down of her holy life,
and it's beautiful close, so this memory
shall live, and not die. "She followed
Jesus from a little child.
Year: 1873

Grace church on Broadway, New
York, is to rival Trinity with a sc, 900
chime of bells. Some trouble, however,
is anticipated in the setting who shall
preside at the bell ropes. Hitherto
Brown, the sexton, has been the the
autocrat of Grace church. Even the
rector although nominally superior,
knows that Brown is his senior, and that
hence he may properly be styled the
dean of the church. Brown, however,
cannot ring the chimes, and hence q
performer must be hired for this pur-
pose. Thus the honors of Grace church
must be divided, which will be very
hard on the dean. Grace church has
existed thus far without any bell, and
these innovations are perplexing to an
aristocratlc sexton.
Year: 1873

To WASH FLANEL. rub soap
upon it. MAKE suds by dissolving the
soap in warm water. Rinse in warm
water; very cold or hot water will
shrink flannel. Shake it ont several
minutes before hanging to dry. Blan-
kets can be washed in the same way.
Year: 1873




A single person of sour, sullen temper,
what a dreadful thing it is to have
such one in the house There is not
myrrh and aloes and chloride of lime
enough in the worldto disinfect a single
home of such nuisance as that; no
riches, no elegance of men, no beauty
of face can ever scr en- such persons
from utter vulgarity. There is one
thing which rising persons hate the re-
putation of more than all others, and
that Is vulgarity; but trust me, i'll tenn
per is the vulgarest thing that the lowest
born and illest bred can ever bring to
his homo. II IS one of the worst forms
OF impiety. Peevishness IN a home Is
not only SIN against the Holy Ghost,
but SIN against the Holy Ghost in the
very temple of love. Theodore Parker.


The nan who produces the largest
yield to area cultivated, with the least
expense, and increasing the fertility of
his soil, is the most scientific farmer,
however ignorant he may be of the fact.


Young pigs should be fed all they
viii eat and digest. Nothing is better
for them .han corn-pudding and milk
AS the pigs get older and the weather
warmer, corn-meal, soaked for u or "a
hours in cold water, may take the place
of the pudding"
Year: 1873

Scolding is mostly a habit. There
is not much meaning to it. 1t is
often the result of nervousness, and
an irritable condition of both mind
and body. A person is tried, or an
noyed at some trivial cause, and
forthwith commences finding fault
with everything and everybody in
reach. Scolding is habit very
easily formed. 1t is astonishing
how soon one who INDUCES in it at
all becomes addicted to it and con
firmed in it. 1t is an unreasoning
and unreasonable habit. Persons
who once get into the way of scold-
ing always find something to scold
about. If there is nothing else,
they fall a-scolding at the mere alb
sence of anything to scold at. 1t is
an extremely disagrccable habit
1t is contagious. Once introduced
into a family, it is pretty certain to
affect all the members. People in
the country more readily fall into
the habit Of scolding than people
in town. Women contract the habit
more frequently than men. This
may be because they live more fire.
quently in the house, in confined
and heated atmosphere, very trying
to the nervous system and the health
IN general; and it may be, partly,
that their natures are more susceptl-
bic and their scnsitiveness more
easily wounded"
Year: 1873

The Cincinnati Gazette speaks of
the instinct of the suppressed sex.
and with lorgnette in hand, satisfies
itself that women, from the nature
of their apparel, actually sit higher
than men;-adding:


And the fashion is a good one, as
are all the female fashions of the
time. We read of Solomon's rich
apparel, but we doubt, if Solomon,
in all his glory, was arrayed as
finely as a well dressed woman in
the present fashion, or if he was as
sweet. 1t must be much easier to
support the hair on the top of the
head than suspended on the back of
the head. The weight being over
the perpendicular, will make the
carriage more erect, as does the
carrying of burdens on the head Of
the women of some countries;
whereas, its suspension from the
back head would, by the law of
physics, incline the body forward,
to fetch the burden over perpen-
dicular line, and thus would cause
deformity. And when borne on the
top of the head, the fastening of the
foreign hair makes less strain on
the native. Teachers in our public
schools, preparing for re-examina-
ton, and department clerks, cram
ming for competitive examination
under the rules of civil service re-
form, by reading this particular ex
planation of these female phenome
ma, may be equipped for questions
that may be asked.


And the increase of height by
this fashion increases the magaif-
cence the woman. Let her tower
to the stars if she will. Heayenward
seems her natural tendency. These
OF servations are thrown in to plaster
over unintentional otfense we hear
we have recently given to women,
when we thought to show zeal in
their cause. We say let her tower
to her native skies. 1t is good to
see her spread herself, as the boy
said when he sat hen on hun
dred eggs. But when in audience
at lectures and concert, why may
she not, for her own sweet sake,
take off her hat, and hold it in her
hand as man does? II is not for men
that we speak. They are of no con-
sequence. But these towering struc-
lures on women's heads obstruct |
the view to women. Far would it
be from us to suggest this if we
thought it would mitigate in the
smallest degree the elegance of her
appearance while sitting, for that is
the paramount consideration.
Year: 1873

Every afternoon a middlc-aged
man, with high boots, reaching out
side his pantaloons, sailors guern-
sey short, small cap and long curly
hair flowing over his shoulders,
Ia Joaquin Miller, appears on Leis
desdorf street, and either basks in
the sunbcans that struggle around
the corners or walks up and down
the sidewalk with that swinging
gait that characterizcs the sailor
ashore This individual is Greek
and has been officer in one of those
lateen-s sailed crafts that dot the sur
face Of the Mediterranean. A few
days ago he applied to commits
sion merchant on Front street for
employment, and the gentleman
noticing his remarkable appearance
drew from him some important facts
of the history of his life.


For five or six years he led
semi-piratical existence on the Med
iterranean, pilaging pilot boats and
occasionally robbing an English
yacht, when a good chance offered
of taking the crew unawares. His
vessel was ostensibly a fruit trader,
and the crew, though as big a set of
cut throats as ever hauled ropes, as
sumed the character Of pious Greek
mariners who never went to sea
without an image OH the Madonna,
their patron int.


One night when all hands except
a watchman went ashore from a no
bleman's yacht: in Malta, this man
Of the flowing locks crept up along-
side, boarded her with his fellows,
gagged the watchman, and, while
one portion Of the boarders proceed
ed to plllage the cabin, the others
lay alof., and noiselessly cut away
the sails from the spars and slowed
away in their boats all the running
gear worth taking The English
gunboat which was anchored about
half a mile from the yacht, sent a
patrol boat ashore to pick up some
of their hands who were off on a
spree. AS they pulled around the
yacht they observed the men aloft,
and, suspecting that all was not
right, boarded her, and hand-to-
hand scufflc ensued. Some of the
Greeks were cut down, and the
leader, who Just at this time crawl
ed out of the cabin with handful
of the yachts plate, dropped his
prize and leapei overheard. The
few men who remained aboard the
naval boat saw him and gave chase.
When within fifty yards of the
swimmer he dived ard came up be-
hind his pursuers, while the latter
pulled ahead. The refugee got
hold of the yachts rudder and hung
there until all was quiet, portion
Of the naval men being left aboard
her whilst the rest pulled ashore to
find the owners of the ransacked
vessel. lie then let so again and
quietly padded ashore, half mile
from the landing. This lesson
made him virtuous and he shipped
aboard an English merchantmen in
Marseilles for China. From China
he came to this port in the Kelso,
deserted here, and is now in search
Of honest employment. As there is
no place in that commission house,
it is probable he will move up the
country to try his luck among the
| farmers
Year: 1873

A lady residing in Lansingburg
hailed a passing car with her little
son the other morning, to see him
safely on the horse car for trip to
Troy. lie stepped on board and
scrambled for the front of the car.
AS he was going, his mother said:
"Why, arn't you going to kiss your
mother before you go?" The little
fellow was so delighted at the pros
pect Of ride, and in such a hurry
that he hastily rejoined, looking
back excitedly: "Mr. Conductor
won't you kiss mother for me?"
Year: 1873

The tornado that recently passed over
Mississippi did considerable damage at
and in the vicinity of Hazlehurst, one
item of which was the blowing down of
the colored church. On the Tuesday
following, another storm damaged sew
Year: 1873

the armory of the school, of which
young Blow had charge.


The hair store of Mrs. Elms, under
the Southern hotel, was burglarized
some time last night, of about one thou
sand dollars worth of unmanufactured
human hair.
Year: 1873

WTE, the undersigned BARRIERS, have taken


w legal advice in regard TO BARRIERS work.
ing on sunday, and learn that IL is unlawful
so TO do, as win clearly appear from reading
the following section OF the Code of this State:


Section H23.-If any merchant, artifcer,
TRADESMAN, farmer, OR OTHER PERSON,
shall be guilty of doing or exercising any of
the common aVocations of life, or OF causing
or permitting the same 70 be done by his
children or servants, acts of real necessity or
charity excepted, on sunday. he shall, on due
conviction thereof before any Justice OF the
Peace of the county, forfeit and pay three
dollars, ONE HALF TO THE PERSON WHO
WILL SUE FOR THE SAME, the other half
for the use Of the county,"


We have determined henceforth TO respect
the above law. Furthermore, we here give
motive that we have employed an Attorney to
prosecute every one in any way connected
with a barber shop FOR any violation of the law
herein set forth. We do not want TO prosecute
any barber, and hope that there viii be no oc-
casion to do so, but prosecution viii follow
with certainty any violation of the law. The
costs Of each suit, TO be paid by the party con-
ylcted, will be from three to i've dollars, when
added TO the hne of three dollars will make
the tax for barbar to work on sunday 50
nioh n 4 n, ms . nm q la1f1r
Year: 1873

The dread of death is universal and
instructive, and yet how many rush in.
to its arms Suicide is most impress.
i've fact in this connection. The disap-
pointed lover, the discouraged adven-
turer, the suspected clerk, the child
wounded in its selflove or fearful pun.
ishment, faces the great enemy and in.
vites his blow. Every now and then
the community is shocked by suicides SO
unprovoked and SO frequent as almost
to persuade us that the natural fear Of
death is passing away. The inconsisten.
cy is easily explained. LORD Bacon says
there is no passion that will not over.
master the terror of death. For passion
is thoughtless; occupied wholly with an
immediate suffering, it makes no esti
mate of any other kind of pain alb.
sorbed in an instantaneous sorrow ii
takes no other sorrow into account. The
mind entertains but one passion at a
time, whether it be JOY or fear. But men
are not always or generally under the
influence of passion. Ordinary life is
calm, calculating, considerate, and it is
to ordinary life that death is so terrible
1t is the thought of death that is terri
BILE, not death. Death is gentle, peace.
ful, painless. Instead of bringing suffer
ing, it brings an end of suffering. 1t i,
misery's cure. Where death is, agony
is not. The processes of death are al
friendly. The near aspect of death i,
gracious. There is picture somewher,
of a fearful face, livid and ghastly


which the beholder gazes on with horror
and would turn away from, but for a
hideous fascination that not only rivit:
his attention, but draws him closer to it.
On approaching the picture the hideous-
ness disappears, and when directly con,
fronted, it is not any more seen the
face is the face of an angel. Il is 9
picture of death, and the object of the
artist was to impress the idea that tn,
terror of death is in apprehension. The
odore Parker, whose observation o.
death was very large, has said he nevel
saw person of any belief, condition OF
experience, unwilling to die when th,
time came and my own more limited
observation confirms the truth of tn,
remark. Death is an ordinance of ma
ture, and ike every ordinance of nature
is directed by benefcent laws to benef
cent ends. What must be is made vel
come. Necessity is beautiful.