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Year: 1873

lIc ldSdSCo VI Dilhc Nl1oSotHSI oht
mails. These if gathered promptly
may be saved. If house room is
ample, store away in the shuck; il
will keep better, and the Smoking
will be good for rainy days in winter
Besides time can not be we'll spared
from cotton picking to sbucls it now
AS opportunity offers gather peas
now is good time to pick those in
tended tor seed if ripe. Whip-poor,
will Ieas sown early are ripe by the
lst Of August or rsooner.


FALL CROPS.


Oats sown last autumn were badly
winter killed-in the first place it was
too dry for them to make mucl,
growth before cold weather, and the
first was sudden and very severe.
The winter also was one Of the cold
est known il would not therefore
be fair to judge of the certainty OF
fall oats by last winters experience.
Our own observation is that, properly
managed, it az sure as any crop we
raise. Some uncertainty attaches to
all. Corn is eminently uncertain, cot
ton often fails, and spring oats are
very unreliable. We urge our. read
crs to SOW full crops OF oats. and to
do it during this month. Every day
of delay after the middle of Scptem-
Der increases the uncertainty of the
crop. At the risk Of being tiresome
we repeat the condition Of success
prepare the land well-if not already
rich, make it SOFT is useless to SOW
iull oats on poor land-on such land
they are almost sure to be winter
killcd-manuro will carry them safely
through Select o variety not liable
to rust-sow in drills ard fill the
drills in part only, when covering the
seed-this projects the plants from
cold and from being lifted cut of the
ground by frost. During dry weather
Craze moderately with sheepo or calves
until cold weather sets in, and in the
spring give u moderate top.drcssing
Of some ammoniated fertilizer. II
they should fail it will be known in
time to SOW the same land in spring
oats, which can then frll heir to all
the preparation and manure applied.
CLOVER AND GRASS. = ~
We have discussed these crops at
such length recently, that it is un'
necessary to do more than remind the
reader that this is the month to SOW
both cluverand grass about the mid
die, if the weather is too hot and dry.
FALL pLoUaHING.


Whenever tie ground is damp
enough, two horse turn ploughs
should be kept constantly going,
burying the weeds before they have
matured their seeds. If hands can.
not be spared from the cotton field,
hire extra hands enough for this
purposc--no work on the farm pays
better than fall ploughing-it is a
luxury to work in the spring land
turned in the fall, it is so loose and
| ~ N 1,,u H,JJ;uuJor
Year: 1873

TIL" inhabitants OF a Western town
were badly frightened one night last
week Mt what appeared To be mon
ster comet i'll the constellation OF the
Bear. The local editor, however. put
their fears at rest by telling them that
the strange looking creature was
nothing more than Il c,'n"k ia the
ciO"d>


4 good little hoy, who started for
Sunday School the other day with a
very respectable umbrella, was seen
by his agnnize.l mother sliding by the
window in sitting posture. He hung
t. the umbrella, but lost his testament
and he left samples of his panfaloons
on every sharp piece OF ice for about
three hundred feet :"
Year: 1873

ever and wherever the necessity there
fore MAY arise, that the members of the
Bar will form themselves into an 1850
ciation for the publication and preser-


vati0n of its morals if not of its man.
Year: 1873

The Boston Post says, with refer


ence to the early nomination Of Grant
for third term, the Chicago Tribune


recalls the fact that this is only part of
the famous Rawlins-Forney bargain,


made before his first election. The


demand on the part of Grant was, that


he should be continued President long


enough to compensate him for the loss


of his salary as General of the~Armies


of the United States. To be sure, by


doubling lis salary for his second


term the parties of the second part in


this contract have in a manner dis


counted his claim to third election


but the Chicago Tribune is doubtless


right i'll its statement tEat the Presi-


dent is mot the sort of man to give


release deed, if he can help it, when


double that amount is to be had by


holding on to it," The Tribune shows
also that Grant deserves another term
as the best living embodiment Of the
remaining principles of his party.
This assertion is sIppafted by the
statement, in reference to the salary
advance, that he ''grabbed more than
anybody else," that he "believed in
the grab, lobbied for the grab, signed
the grab-biIl, and is now engaged in
pocketing the grab" His devotion to
other principles of his party is shown
by the Tribune by references to his
endorsement of Colfax his appoint
ment of Bingham as Minister to Japan
after his constituents had censured
that Congressman his alliance with
Butler in Massachusetts his support
Of Kellogg and Duren in Louisiana
and his disbelief in Civil Service re-
form. The Tribune certainly makes
out & strong case for the President !;
and the reply Of Congressman Hawley,
through his newspaper, that this would
''put the party i'll position to secure
its defeat in the next Presidential cleo
tion,' has no bearing upon the fact
that Grant deserves the Republican
in view both of his con-
tract with Forney and his conduct to-
ward his party.
Year: 1873

A Special Dispatch from Washing


ton to the Boston Post says: 1t ap-


pears that the movement of the office
holders to secure the denomination of
Gen. Grant for third term has al
ready commenced. 1t is stated that
the preliminaries were arranged at
Long Branch several daysa ago, and it is
not denied that the President is cog
infant of it. Those having the mat
ter in charge seem to count very large
Iy upon the divisions supposed to
exist in the ranks of the opposition,
and upon their ability to rally the
moneyed interests of the country to
the support of their scheme. Under
the head of "moneyed interests, they
include the National Banks, the Rail
Road Corporations, and large Capital
lists. These, they allege, are for Grant,
because under his Administration it is
not likely that any Legislation will be
enacted hostile to these institutions.
Another argument used is that there is
no man in the Republican party, who
has developed greater popular strength
than Grant, and it is hardly probable
that within the next three years ne
will have dangerous rival OF course
the official patronage will be used in
manipulating Conventions, and in
securing delegates. Some of the
Presidents friends think it is too soon
to agitate the question of succession,
but the matter has been kept very
quiet, and it was not expected to be
made public until at least a year hence


eff Grant should fail to get the NOM
nation" his friends assert that he will
at least, be able to name his successor.
Year: 1873

The Legislature of North Carolina
costs the people nine hundred and
forty dollars each day of its sessions
exclusive Of lights, fuel, stationery and
printing.


The Constitution, as il stands, re
uuires the Legislature to meet once
every year whether there be any bllf1-
ness to be transacted or not.


The second amendment proposes to
strike out that part of the Constltu-
tion and fix it like it was before the
war, so that the Legislature shall meet
only once in every tero years.


Do you wish to save over thou
sand dollars day every other winter
to your heavily taxed pocket books
If you do, vote for the amendments on
the first Thursday in August.


If you vote for the amendnt nts, YOU
vote for the Legislature to meet onct
in every two years, instead oI every
winter If you vote for the amcnd
ments You vote to save the Stat
over a thousand dollars 4 day every
other winter.


Be sure then to vote for the amend
ments
Year: 1873

ARE you opposed to running the
State to the heavr expense of taking
census when one is already taken
every ten years, at the expense of the
Federal Government? Then go to the
polls and vote for the amendments.
The first amendment proposes to
strike from the Constitution the clause
requiring census to be taken, at
State expense, in 1875, and every ten
years thereafter. II you vote for the
amendments you vote against taking
the census.
Year: 1873

"Scratch a Russian and you will
find a Cossack." Scratch profess
sional politician, who is offering him
self to the farmers as political Moses
to achieve for them their deliverance,
remarks the Chicago Times, ''and you
will find an office holder or a fellow
who, in some way, has got government
for his partner in business"


Iowa is the only State of the Union
represented as being entirely free from
debt, and yet it is State that has
doubled its population in the last ten
years, and places it in the matter of
population as number eleven in the
Union, against number twenty in 1860.
With such growth and prosperity, to
be entirely free from debt is most
enYiable distinction.
Year: 1873

Our manufacturing friends ut the
North are still unhappy because of
the continuance of that curious state
of things commonly called a ''corncr'
IN which cotton keeps mp in New York
when it is down in Liverpool. The
New York Ereni,ag Post says:


As between the ''bulls'' and the
s'bears" we have no special sympathy
to waste upon either party. But it
happens, unfortunately, in this case,
that however it may fare with the cot
ton gamblers, the cotton manTIfactG-
rers, unless they can stand out until
the game is finished, are likely to be
ground to powder.


Apprehending, it would seem, that
the cotton producers would witness
the conversion of the cotton manufac-
turers into powder with equanimity
and fortitude, if not with cheerful
resignation, our cotemporary proceeds
to pour little gall into the cup of
their satisfaction as follows:


Should that be the case, we may
look for louder howl of distress than
usual from the protectionists, who VII
demand Immediately higher tariff on
imported fabrics to enable us to manu-
facture cotton goods in this country in
competition with foreign manufactu-
rers. A corner i'll cotton, therefore,
may mean not only loss of employment
and severe suffering, for the time bo-
ing, to thousands of operatives IN
American mills, but the enhanced cost
of necessary clothing to every man that
wears shirt and every woman that
wears petticoat on this side of the
Atlantic.


s'Every man that wears shirt and
every woman that wears q petticoat Oh
this side of the Atlantic" is to be made
to suffer because a few New England
manufacturers are compelled to pay
more for cotton than they think they
ought to pay. Stronger proof OF the
degrading, disgraceful vassalage and
slavery of the people of the South and
West to their New England manufac-
lures cannot be given than this Is it
to be wondered at in view of such facts
as these that the Farmers Oranges
have sprung up all over the South and
West, and that they number the mem
bers of them organizations by hun
dreds of thousands? No wonder that
these New ENGLAND manufacturers
desire to make Grant President for
third termi


But the Post is not the only paper
IN New York that feels grief at the
corner in cotton and that desires to
speak word of warning to the South
ern producers of the great "woed." ="
The New York World very kindly tells
us that this shocking cotton gambling
should not mislead the planters into
overestimating either the present or
the prospective value of cotton. The
WOy1G also informs us that "a price
of fifteen cents for the coming crop
would j." remunerative and good
If the IIDria had said that this price
would Iemunerative to the manufac-
turers and spectators the statement
would doubtless have been true.


We begin to feel hopeful. The
World informs us that the cotton
mills at the North are "either stand
ing idle or running Oh half time"
This is game at which the producers
of cotton can play with comfort about
as long as its manufacturers. 1t is
said that the corner will be broken I'D
this week. eve shall see what we
shall 900 -
Year: 1873

Do you know the origin of the fashion
of that cruelty to the horse, known as
blinkers on the brides? No Then ]
will tell you. In 1902 they came into
fashion in this wise: The Duke of Kent,
the father of Queen Victoria, was woe
fully in debt. Being Prince, he could
not be sued at common law, or arrested,
but ribbon stretched across the side
walk must not be broken by the debtor.
So his creditors contented themselves
by using this ribbon to compel him to
take to the street, or go back. So he
had to travel in q coach-and-four. His
off leader got "wall eyed" The duke
could not buy another team, and this
white eye made the horse unpleasant-to
look upon Here was a fix, princely
fix. Poverty and no credit ruled the
roost, and it seemed that his Royal
Highness would have to go on foot,
until one of his drivers lit upon the
blinker dodge, and so one was fitted to
his head. 1t completely hid the white
eye, and then a blind was put on the
other horses to make things even and
uniform.


Our stages were once driven through
the country with four blinkers on the
horses, 4. e., one on the outside of each
head-stall, and that fashion continued
many years, or until one-horse wagons
came in vogue, and then two blinders
were placed on each head-stal1. Thus
because the duke was too poor to sup
ply his carriage with sound horses, ol
those having sound eyes, we to-day
after over seventy years experience
follow the fashion set by him.
Year: 1873

In his address at the Worcester Coun-
ty, Mass, Agricultural Fair, Senator
Boutwell, said do not imagine that
Massachusetts, farmers are generally in
debt, but 1 am quite sure that some of
them have applied their annual earn
ings to the payment of mortgages, when
the money could have been more profit
ably used for the improvement of the
farms. 1t may seem strange that I
should suggest that it is not wise al
ways, and under all circumstances, to
pay debts. 1t is told of Mr.. Webster
but whether with any foundation in
truth, cannot say-that in speech
at Philadelphia, on festive occasion,
when Pennsylvania was embarrassed
and her credit impaired, he insisted
that her public debt must be paid.


Warmed by the occasion and subject,
he said "The debt of Pennsylvania
must be paid 1t shall be paid-if I pay
it myself" b" And then, after little de-
lay; he added, "but as to private in
debtedness, that is different thing"
Private Indebtedness, gentlemen, under
some circumstances is a different thing
from from a public debt. 1 do not
speak of the obligation, but of the wis
dom of delay with the consent of the
creditor Public debts usually repre-
sent the cost of wars, of public build
ings, of enterprises too vast for private
undertaking. There are no available
assets except the private property and
the producing power of the people.
Every delay shifts something of the
burden from accumulated wealth to the
wealth-producing classes The interest
on the public debt of England can be
wrung largely from the laboring classes,
but the principal could only be paid
from the accumulated wealth or from the
income of the accumulated wealth of
the country. The logic which forms
the base of British policy on this sub
ject is clear. The wealthy men of the
country receive from the laboring classes
interest at three per cent. upon q debt
which they themselves ought to pay.
Hence the policy of Great Britain, die
tated by the wealthy classes-no sur
plus income, no payment of the public
debt. Her example teaches that public
debts ought to be paid, and paid with
the least possible delay; but private
indebtedness, under some circum-
stances, is different thing. If far
mer has half the sum of money neces-
sary to buy farm suited to his tastes
and plans, there can be no doubt of the
wisdom of the purchase. The debt is
secure it is represented by real prop
erty. There is hardly any personal re-
sponsibility attaching to the debtor.
He enjoys the use of the land upon the
payment of a certain annual rent, sub
iect only to the chance of rise or fall in
the value of the estate. Every i'm
provement is for his benefit The debt
is an annual charge to the extent of the
Understanding more. Ii the farmer
can use his annual gains in the develop
ment of his farm, in the increase of his
products, he adds to his wealth more
rapidly than he would by the payment
of the debt. The debt is fixed sum
the increase in the value of his farm
shows his gains. 1t is certainly wiser
to add to the value of the estate than
to diminish the incumbrance while the
owner has not all the means in his bus
mess that he desires.
Year: 1873

A GAMBLING SToRY.-It was some
time ago that man at one of the gamb-
ling tables in New York city, after play
ing a time, got up "broke." He felt
in his pocket for any stray money that
might remain there, but there was none,
and he drew forth only cough lozenge.
He was about putting it into his mouth
when he was struck with the similarity
OF its appearance to "split, and part
ly in jest threw it upon the table. 1t
won and was paid by the dealer, who
did not notice the deception, and with
this amount he continued to play until
he left the table winner of more than
$4,000, and with this sum he estab-
lished himself in business as a druggist
and apothecary. Never after could he
be induced to bet on card.
Year: 1873

A SToRY.-The Recordof Chico, CAL,
furnishes one of those quiet, unvar-
nished short stories which seem to verify
the Shakespearian adage. Two sisters
we're sleeping together IN an apartment.
One of them awoke during the night
and beheld, to her amazement, little
girl dressed in white standing short
distance from her. She awoke her sis
ter, who also saw the little girl. In
stead of screaming they struck a light,
and as the light increased the object
faded. The description corresponded
with that of little girl who had died
in the same room few months previous.
The family were afraid of the apparent
ly harmless visitor and moved from the
house the next day.
Year: 1873

The female swan, if one may judge
anything from her conduct, makes
most careful and excellent mother. The
human mother is an unknown thing in
comparison. To see the swan with her
gray cygnets sailing about is not much
more in itself than if she were a goose
and goslings; ; but when she takes a
mind to give the little things ride,
then we see riding pic-a-back "eleva-
ted," as the newspapers say OF circus
riding, "to the rank of Fine Art. "
She assists the youngsters to mount
her back either by lowering her tail
into the water and thus teaching their
infant minds the use of an inclined
plane, up which they straightway walk,
or she "sticks out the black fut of
her," Gas we once heard the performance
of protruding her web-footed limb al
luded to by low person next us) and
makes a convenient step. She then
raises her wing, and arches back her
neck, and thus makes most comforta-
BILE cradle lined with swan's-down, i'm
pervious to the wind, in which the
babies sit at their ease, or sleep, or
look out on the landscape.
Year: 1873

The golden sea its mirror spreads
Beneath the golden ski&,
And but narrow strip between


Of earth and shadow lies.
The cloud-liko rock, the rock-like cloud,
Dissolved in glory float,
And midway of the radiant flood


Hangs silently the boat.
The sea but seems another sky,


The sky a sea as well;
And which is earth and which is heaven
The eye can scarcely tell.
Sc when from us life's evening hour
Soft fading shall descend,
May glory, born of earth and heaven.
The earth and heaven blend;
Flooded with peace. the parting soul
With silent rapture glow,
Till where earth ends and heaven begins
The spirit scarce can know.
Year: 1873

little elbow leans upon your knee,


Your tired knee, that has much to bear;
A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly


From underneath thatch Of tangled hair,
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch


OF warm, moist fingers, folding yours so tight
You do not prize this blessing over-much,


You almost are too tired TO pray tonight.
But il is blessednessi year ago


did not see it as do to-day
We are so dull and thankless (; and too slow


To catch the sunshine till it slips away.
And now il seems surprising strange to me,


That, while wore the badge of motherhood,
did not kiss oft. and tenderly,


The little child that brought me only good.
And if, some night when you sit down to rest,


You miss this elbow from your tired knee
This restless, curling head from on your breast,


This Hsping tongue that chatters constantly;
If from your own the dirnpIed hands had slipped,


And ne'er would nestle in your palm again
II the white feet into the grave had tripped,


could not blame you for your heartache. then
I wonder so that mothers ever fret,


At little children clingiug 10 their gown;
Or that the footprints, when the days are wet,


Are ever black enough to make them frowu.
II could find little muddy boot,


Or cap, or jacket, on my chamber floor;
II could kiss rosy, restless foot,


And hear its pstter in my home once MORE
II could mend hrsll,sssss 20 r.,s.i, f,s
hare IS rs woman n
She was more bIissfully content than 1.
But all the dainty pillow next my own


Is never rumpled by shining head
Ny singing birding from its nest is flown,
The little boy used to kiss is dead!
Year: 1873

As the Baltimore San says: The most ef.
fcient agency 10 his hands of employers to over
come the difficulty of obtaining domestic service
is for American ''matrons," like those of Rome
and Greece, to show by their own example and
by the training of their daughters that they
hold "housework" honorable, and then Amer
lean girls" will be no more reluctant to under
take that kind of service than American boys
are to hire themselves for field work to farmers,
who themselves lead the way in handling ''the
shovel and the hoe" 1t is evident, however,
that all sides Of the question must be looked at
before We cen arrive at satisfactory solution
of the great problem of American housekeepers,
efficient and reliable domestic service Pre-
judice against honest industry, no matter in
what form, is unreasonable In any class, not
less 10 those who cannot live otherwise than in
those who can. No one in need of employment


is justified in refusing that for which he is COM
petent because it does not suit false social ideas
of dignity and responsibility. Real dignity and
responsibility require the performance of duty
and personal independence. It is more dis
graceful to live a life of Incidence and want. OF
of needless dependence upou others, than to ac-
cept any opportunity of honest employment.-
There is nothing in household labor more than
any other which should cause shame to any one,
nor need it involve any exposure to wrong or
insult, under any circumstances, if those who
perform it respect themselves. Self-respect,


n all stations of lfe secures the respect of 9TH
ers when accompanied by a faithful performance
of duty. 1t only requires these to make house
hold work as acceptable to INDECENT and capa-
bic American girls as any other employment.
Aside from the prejudices against it we have
mentioned, it is in itself more healthful, more
remunerative, aud affords more personal com.
fort than some other female vocations, especial
ly needlework, in which so many women wear
out their lives in incessant toll for wages which
yield them miserable pittance. If domestic
labor was more sought by needy aud industrious
women, it would effect great reliet in the con-
dition of mutitudes of women who are now re-
duced by fashionable prejudices to extreme
privation and suffering.
Year: 1873

I
When Pm dead and buried, then
There will be mourning among men.
l hear one musing on my dust:
''How hard he fought to win his crust"
And one, He was too sensitive
In this cold wntered world to live"
Another, weeping, ''Ah, how few
So gentle hearted and so true"
II met him only once, and yet
think never shall forget
The strange sad look in his young eyes,"
One other says, and then with wise
And solemn baking head-.'No doubt
The hot heart burnt that frail frame out"


II.
Good friends, discount on your griefl
a little present help were worth
More than a sorrow-strickeE earth
When am but withered leaf
Anoutstretched hand were better to me
Than your glib graveyard sympathy.
You need not weep for, and sigh for, and sain


me
After you've starved me-drive me dead.
Say do you hear? What want is bread