The Greensboro patriot [August 29, 1877]

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Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1877. New Series No. 491.
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Scandal Mongers.
Do you boar the scandal mongers
Pawing by,
Breathing poison in a whisper,
In a sigh t
Moving cautiously and slow,
Smiling sweotly as they go,
Never noisy—gliding smoothly like a
snake,
Sipping here, aul sipping there,
Through the meadows fresh and fair,
Leaviug subtle slime and poison in their
wake.
Saw je not the scandal monger
As she sat,
Beaming brightly neath the roses,
In her hat F
In her dainty gloves and dress,
Angel-like and nothing less,
Seemed eho—casting smiles at.il pleasing
words about.
Once she shrugged and shook her bead,
Raised her eyes and nothing said
When yon spoke of friends, and yot it left
a doubt.
Did you hear llioacaudal monger
At the ball
Through the music, rhythm, beauty,
Light and ail I
Moving here anil moving there,
With a whisper light as air,
Casting shadows on a sister woman's
fame—
Just a whisper, word orglauce.
As she floated through the dance,
And the world is busy with a apotli-s
name.
You will hear the scandal mougers
Everywhere:
Sometimes men, but often women,
Young and fair,
Yet their tongues drop foulest slime,
And they spend their leisuro time
Casting mud on those who climb by work
aud worth.
Shun them, shun them, as you go—
Shun them whether high or low.
They are but the cursed serpents of the
earth.
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The Backwoodman's Story.
"Sell him. My dogf" The
man stepped down from the pros-trate
tree trunk, leaving his ax
where his last vigorous stroke had
buried it to the eye in the clean,
solid-timber, and removing his hat,
slowly wiped the perspiration from
his brow and lace; then, running
his fingers through his short, thick
hair, anil regarding the two young
sportsmen with a good-natured,
quizzical expressiou, lie continued :
" Well, no—not much, 1 think.—
I couldn't do it, gentlemen, even to
oblige a friend. You see, ho be-longs
to the family, and it might
cause hard feelings."
The quizzical manner suddenly
changed to one of eager interest,
as his eyes wandered to their splen-did
Remington breech-loaders, and
he civilly asked permission to look
nt them, at the same time inviting
the young men to take seats upon
the fallen tree and rest themselves
and chat a while, the dog—a pure
Newfoundland, by-the-way, a splen-did
fellow, as large as a yearling
with a broad, well-rounded
forehead and full brown eyes ot al-most
hiitnau intelligence—standing
by and looking on with the mien
and gravity of a judge. He had
seen the hunters when at some
distance, had walked out to meet
them with great dignity, had re-sponded
with a wag or two of the
tail to their friendly greeting, and
then turned and paced oousentedly
before them, seemingly saying,
" You appear to be well disposed
young fellows, as far as I can judge;
come and see my master, it von
like."
The backwoodsman examined the
elegantly finished fowling-pieces,
one after the other, giving vent to
his admiration by short ejaculatory
remarks the while.
" Pretty pieces ! Damation, pret-ty
pieces—that's so!" he said, as
he returned the last one to its own-er;
"and I judge they do good
execution, too, by the looks of your
game-bags. Ah! there ain't much
game about here now. Ten years
ago it was different; though then,
the large game was about all gone.
Oh, yes, I shoot—I use a rifle,
though''—this last was spoken hesi-tatingly,
as though deprecating the
implied assumption of superior
skill. " I never owned a shotgun.
I've got a good rifle: she ain't
showy—she wouldn't look like much
beside those pieces of yours—but
she's true as steel. I always kuow
just what 1 can do with her, and
can depend upou doing it every
time, you understand : and no or-dinary
sum of money can buy her.
"See here! you asked me if I
would sell my dog. Now just let
me tell you a little experience of
mine that'll convince you that
money cau't tempt me to part with
him or my rille.
" No, thank you ! No cigar for
me. My faculties are none ton
keen, any way ; and I can't afford
to dull 'cm. " Let a thiet in at the
mouth to steal away the brains,"
yon know. Yes, I know that ap
plies to strong drink, lint I guess it
might include some other things,
and tobacco lor me; but nevt i
mind, I'll tell you the Story I spoke
O'..
" It was a little over tour years
ago that it happeued. We'd lived
here two years—my wile and I—
and had got quite a sizable clear-ing
made, and I was cutting im
first wheat crop—about two acres,
mid pretty grain, too. The field
was some forty rods from the house,
most of the way through a grove
ir
I the il
zstl it i again ' of maples 1 had left standing for a
• my ' sugar bush. I'd finished cutting
«tomera to call ! „,„ ..%.-.■. ■ ,. * *
. tEIA NEW »tock my wheat in the forenoon, and, as
I was about going out after dinner,
to rake and bind and put tip, my
wife asked me if 1 couldn't take the
i child with me for a while, he pester-ed
her so about a piece of work
| she was in a hurry to get done.
lie was our first boy, a keen little
fellow, three years old, aud nothiug
pleased him better thau to go out
: i tion.
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ti will be called.
WM. B. H0GART._
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C. O. YATES.
with me: but I didn't take him of
teu, for tear of rattlesnakes. There
was now aud theu one around here,
and is now, though not as many as
iu some other localities in the State;
bat I hadn't seen any that summer,
and we begun to think less about
them. 1 said I'd take the boy, and
Monarch —that's the dog here—
could watch him. Having the child
to carry, I suppose, was the reason
I forgot my gun—for I almost al-ways
::»ok it with me—and pretty
generally knocked over some game
—a squirrel or two, or a patridge,
or, maybe, a woodchuck. Well, I'd
been at work an hour, probably, the
boy keeping close around mo for a
while—bothering mo like the inis-chiel,
too—when he got to amusing
himself by picking up straws and
flowers, aud one thing or another,
and playing with the dog, who kept
close with him, and I forgot all
about him for a few minutes.
" Suddenly remembering, I look-ed
around, and saw him sitting, or
half lying, rather, leaning back
against a clean, smooth stump, fast
asleep, his feet spread apart, and
his lap full of wheat-heads and
flowers, and things that he had
been playing with. Monarch was
lying a little ways off, winking
sleepily, but watching him faith
fully betweeu wiuks. I thought to
myself I'd stop iu a few minutes
and carry him to the house, so I
said to Monarch, " Take care of
him, old fellow P and turned to my
work again.
" It couldn't have been five min-utes,
and I'd glauted that way
several times, though I was work-ing
further away from them all the
time, when the first I knew the dog
was a hold of my sleeve, whining
and trembliug, and his bristles
raised, as though iu the greatest
terror.
" I dropped the bundle I was
binding and started toward the
child, but stopped when I'd got
within about two rods or so of him,
almost paralyzed with horror, for
there—my God ! I hope I may
never see such a sight again ; it
makes my blood curdle just to
think of it now—right between his
legs, almost touching his white,
tender flesh, was an enormous rat-tlesnake,
coiled auil ready for his
deadly spring.
" Without doubt, ic was the start-ing
of the dog that arrested it and
put it on the defensive, though why
he did not discover it sooner is
what I can't account lor. Ho was
young then, and hadu'u had much
experience, and he might have
dropped asleep for a minute, and
the snake being to leeward of him,
he didn't get the seen: of it until ic
was close to the child.
"If it had been a common black
snake, or any kind but a venomous
one, he would have made no bones
of shaking the life out of it; but
all animals, as far as I know,
have an instinctive fear of a rattle-snake,
and probably of all poison-ous
reptiles.
" As for me—well, I've been iu
situations that ate trying to a man's
courage, and 1 flatter myself that
no one who kuows me would call
me a coward ; but there's something
about a suake that chills my blood
— fills me with such dread and hor-ror
as nothing else can. It is a
feeling that has nothing to do with
cowardice and fear. It is a mag
netisni—a devilish maguetisui—a
magnetism of horror, or something
past explaining.
••.lust fancy, theu, if you can,
what agony it was to me to see this
repulsive monster so near my sleep-ing
boy, and don't wouder that for
itn instant 1 got sick and faint aud
in;, sight failed. 1 lought back the
faintness, and tried to think what
I could do. Think! I couldn't
think—or, rather, I thought of so
mncb that 1 could not separate one
thought from another.
" Mv mind was a chaos. I could
realize but one thing clearly, and
that was the peril of my child, and
my inability to rescue him without
hastening the catastrophe which I
would have risked my life to avert.
1 wrung my hands iu despair, my
eves lixed, as though fascinated,
upon the terrible spectacle!
•• All at once, at some noise which
either I or the dog made in moving,
the reptile raised its head, evident-ly
to listen. " Oh, my gun ! my
L'IIII !' I thought, and I suppose 1
said the words. It was the first
time 1 had thought of it, and I
la i!> gnashed my teeth in rago at
having left it at home. I coned
myself and tore my hair. " Oh !"
I thought, •' with only my faithful
rille iu my hands, how quickly I
would make an end of the devilish
thing!"
" I dared not go to the house for
i'. for the child might move a hand
or foot at any moment : and that
moment, I knew, would seal its
death warrant if I were not there
to snatch him and run to the house
with all my might for antidotes for
the poison Suddenly it occurred
t . n. ■ to seud Monarch for my gun
— we had taught him to carry things
to and from the field—a basket, or
mv coat, such like—aud I turned,
expecting to find him at my side.—
lie was gone, nowhere to be seen.
Ag dn I fell into a frenzy of rage
anil despair, and cursed him as an
ungrateful, cowardly brute, thus to
desei r u*e in the timeol sorest need,
aud I vowed in my heart to
shoo: him the moment 1 could again
lay hands upon my gun. Talk
alum' moments being hours I They
were jears. centuries—those that
followed, while 1 walked bac'v and
forth there, inoviug cautiously,
from mere instinct more thau de-sign,
tor, at the slightest noise, the
cursed creature would raise its hate-ful
crest and listen : and I dreaded
every instant to hear it sound its
warniug rattle, or to see it change
its position for one more dangerous
to my child. I cried, prayed and
cursed by turns ; and, among it all,
kept trying in a blind way to think
of something I could do. Some-times
I thought I would spring sud-denly
forward and seized it and
tear it in pieces with my hands.—
Oh! if it had been some ferocious
wild beast. I could have grappled
with it eagerly. I stopped, at last,
and said to myself, " I will thiuk !
I will do something ! There must
be some way that I can destroy it
without hurting my boy !" and then,
a panting, sobbing breath, close be
side me, made me turu to look, just
as Monarch, the grand old fellow,
souk breathless at my feet, my rifle
dropping from his jaws as he fell.
Yes, he'd been to the house to
get it, the noble fellow. My wife
said he was nearly frantic till she
gave it to him. He barked, and
whined, and dragged her from her
chair, and across the room to where
the gun hnng, teaiing her sleeves,
and wounding her arm with his
teeth iu doing it. She wound a
large cottou handkerchief about the
lock ot the gun to guard it, aud to
give him a better hold, and gave it
to him, and then followed as fast
as she could, knowing that some-thing
unusual was the matter.— .
Gentlemen, I cau fancy, now, just
how a man lcels that is on the scaf-fold
with the noose around his neck,
ready to be swung off, when some
one comes rushing up the ladder
with a full pardon for him ; but I
doubt whether he or I could make
any one else quite understand us,
if we tried to put our feelings into
words.
Yon may believe, though, that 1
was not long iu picking up that gun
aud tearing the handkerchief from
around it. I had put iu the charge
that morning, but I took off the
cap and put on another, to make all
sure. I was nearly wild with baste,
but I did not make one false mo-tion,
and my nerves were steady as
a clock. I hadn't the slightest mis-giving
as to the result of my shot,
after I had made sure that all was
right about the gun. I took a po-sition
where I could shoot across
the boy's legs, of course, and then
lay myselt at my length upon t he
ground, and drew the breech to my
shoulder. Oh ! the sensation of
perfect rapture that I felt when my
cheek presse the cool, polished wood
of the stock ! Never was touch so
sweet as that! I'm ashamed to tell
it, and I could have pounded my-self
at that time for being so wo-manish,
but the tears spruug to my
eyes anil blinded me, so that I was
obliged to wait aoJ dry them upou
my shirtsleeves before I could dis-tinguish
the sights of the rifle. Oh,
how I grudged the titno thus wast-ed,
for every moment was priceless!
It the child sh.iuld stir now when
a moment would save him ! Again
I drew the gun into position and
cocked it.
" There.vou devil!" I said though
my shut teeth, "now raise your
head again ! aud with my foot 1
snapped a stick which I had i u
readiness for the purpose. Up
went the cursetl head, ami tiie next
instant I pulled the trigger. .Simul-taneously
with the report, it seem-ed
to me, 1 sprung to my feet, and
with three bounds snatched my boy
away from the touch of the writh-ing
monster before he was fairly
awake. I remember that much,
and then I grew deathly sick, and
I vow I did faint that time. And
the next I realized I was lying on
the ground, my wife bonding over
me, Monarch licking my hands aud
whining, and my boy stauding by
his mother, holding to her dress,
looking on with big.wondering eyes.
There were ouo or two spots of
blood on his dress and limbs, spat-tered
by the writhing serpent, but
he was safe and sound, thank God !
Head I Of course! That was
what I aimed at. There was a
clean ball-hole right through it, and
not enough of it left to bite any-body
with, you may bet. It was
over two feet long, and had four-teen
rattles; and I shot the mate
to it the next summer iu the
same field, with fifteen others, and
I hope to have a crack at more of
the devilish creatures yet.-'
A Snake Story.—"la the Snake
Editor iu I"
" Amid the slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune he never for-sakes
his post. Rehold in me the
Snake Editor."
" Well, I killed a rattle—"
" How loug was it t"
" Nine feet four—"
" W-what! less than ten feet ?
This paper is no receptable for mis-erable
tisliingworm stories," and
the exasperated editor seized the
visitor by the throat and shut off
from his insides the breath of heav-en.
" Yaas," gurgled the poor wretch,
"but it had eighty seven ra—"
" No back talk !" yelled the edi-tor,
"we want no rattlesnakes," less
thau from ten to twelve feet in
length," r.nd the snake ki'.ier was
dashed to pieces on the flinty pave
ment below.—Oil City Derrick.
Hon. Wm. M. Evarts has eleven
daughters, and in reference thereto
a correspondent says : When Mr.
Evarts travels with his family be
charters a car. But he don't like
to go to a sleepingcar agent
and say : "Give me twelve lower
berths and one upper," because the
agent always looks at him and asks
il it is a theatrical troupe, and if
they have arranged special rates
So "he charters a sleeper and says
nothing more about it. Of course,
when Mr. Evarts presents that pass
for the Hon Wm. Evarts and family
there is a ripple of excitement, but
he has learned to bear this with
equanimity, and frown down any
giggling that may appear impend-ing
on the part of the conductor."
What is that which has neither
llesh nor boue, and yet has four Au-gers
aud a thumb ? A glove.
[ ifrom the Baltimore American.]
An Aged Darling.
Curious CoseoJ Infatuation—Years
And Wickedness X0 Bar
To Love.
It is generally supposed that
when beautiful young women mar
ry elderly men they do it simply
and solely as a matter of business—
so much young flesh and blood for
so much money—and there is little
sympathy for either side if the bar-gain
does not turn out as good as
was expected. A young lady of
Brooklyn has recently, however,
reversed all the traditions in this
respect. She is an only daughter,
and the apple of her parents' eyes
She is extremely pretty aud petite,
with a rose-leaf complexion, a
plump yet delicate form, ami a
profusion of golden brown heir.
She had been educated at home ex-clusively,
and seen but little of the
world, except one year spent abroad.
This trip was projected in order to
get rid of an attachment which, to
her parents' horror, she had formed
for a man of nearly sixty years old,
who was iu the habit of visiting
her father occasionally, but who
took advantage of the privilege ac-corded
to his age, and of a still
somewhat fine and even distin-guished
personal appearance, to
make passionate love to his daugh-ter.
He is a very poor man—so
poor that his board aud washing
bills are always in arrears, aud he
is overwhelmed with debts for per-sonal
indulgence for which he never
thinks of paying.
All this had uo effect upou the
girl. She insisted upon returning
home; and the parents, really
knowing but little of him, after a
hard contest finally gave a condi-tional
consent, their daughter to
first accompany her mother abroad
for a year, and if she, on her return,
desired to marry her elderly lover
they would no more oppose it, but
pay his debts and give him a home
at their house, for they have abnu-dant
means, and the daughter has
every advantage that wealth could
bestow.
A few months ago the mother
and daughter returned from En
rope, the daughter still determined
on au alliance so repulsive to her
family that the thought had made
her mother's hair turn gray. But,
in the meantime, her father made
himself acquainted with some pre-vious
passages in the man's career,
and as soou as possible after her
arrival placed them strongly before
her. The man was found to be a
thoroughly unprincipled old scamp,
the father of an illegitimate child,
whoso mother he had refused to
marry—the boy, now fifteen years
of age, supported and kept at school
by his mother's daily labor. He
had even been compelled to leave
one place where ho lived to escape
lynching, and ielt everywhere in
debt. The father, with tears, told
his daughter he could not let her
marry such a man, aud that her
death would be almost preferable,
lie pictured her ten or fifteen years
trom this time, in the flower of her
womanhood (she is not yet nine-teen)
with a hitsbsnd decrepit and
helpless, whom she could not even
respect. Bnt it was all ot no avail.
She insisted that he had been r.'ons-ed,
wronged, and said it was the
one desire ol her life to be able to
comfort his temaining years, and
smoothe his pathway to the grave.
Thero seems to me something
radically wrong and morbid about
a case like this, and 1 think her
parents would be justified in tak-ing
strong measures to save their
daughter from her self-imposed
fate. If they do not, she will cer-tainly
blame them some time for
their failure to rescue her from her
situation, and should she even die,
as she threatens, her death would
be easier borne than the long, hor-rible
sacrifice to which she wishes
to confine herself.
European papers give a marvel-lous
account of a recent discoverv
at the bottom of lake Geneva. An
American, it is stated, was in a
boat which upset near the village
of Saint l'regts. The American's
carpet-bag went to the bottom, and
the owner, after getting ashore,
hired two divers to recover his lug-gage.
Thar was brought up, and
with it a superb antique vase with
handles, the lorm beiug Etruscan.
Numerous petrifactions and a frag-ment
of white marble were also
found, aud further exploration fa-vored
the belief that an ancient
town was there submerged. The
authorities of the neighboring vil-lages
took the matter in hand and
literally spread oil upou the waters
to obtain greater transparency. At
last accounts the remains of two
hundred houses had been discover
ed, laid out in streets and squares,
with, at one end of the town a
square tower, which had hitherto
been taken lor a rock. The Conn
cil of Vand is said to have decided
to euclose the site within a jetty
built out from the land, and theii
to drain off the waters from the
lost city.
Over-Gorerned Children.—A girl
that is never allowed to sew, all of
whose clothes are made for her and
put on her, till she is ten, twelve.
fifteen or eighteen years of age, is
spoiled. The mother has spoiled
her by by doing everything for her.
The true idea ot self-restraint is to
let fhe child venture. A child's
mistakes are often better than its
no mistakes; because when a child
makes mistakes, and has to correct
them, it is on the way toward know-ing
something. A child that is
waked up every morning, and never
wakes himself up; and is dressed,
and never makes mistakes in dress-ing
himself; and is washed, and
never makes mistakes about being
clean ; and is fed, and never has
anything to do with its food ; and
is watched, and never watches
himself; and is cared for, and kept
till day from doing wrong—such a
child might as well be a tallow
candle, perfectly straight, and good
lor nothing but to be burned up.—
Ilcnni Ward Beechcr.
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.
Baked Chicken Pie.—To make the
crust use one-half pound of butter
to every pound ol Hour and three
teaspoonlul ot baking powder ; chop
one naif of the butter into the pre-pared
Hour, until it Is well mixed
in; add a little cold water, aud
work into a stiff dough ; roll it into
a thiu sheet, and spread ou one half
the remaiuiug butter ; fold it up,
butter side in, and reroll it; then
spread on all of the butter, fold
again as before and roll out thin,
cut it the size required for the pie.
Line the bottom and sides of a well
buttered earthern cake pan or pnd
diug dish with the crust. Then to
a large tender chicken, add almost ,
half a pouud of salt pork ; have the j *_..,'.
pork chopped fine, and lay on one
layer of pork ; jiepper it, usiug no ,
salt, aud cover with pieces of chick- uuc.lu£ treea becomes covered with
FARMER'S COLUMN.
Woodland Pastures.
Since the passage ot the Stock
Law, the larmers are, of course,'
mucb interested ou the subject of
pastures. I would like to call their
attention to the great value of judi-ciously
thinned woodland pastnres.
Kentucky rears her splendid blood-ed
stock—horses, oows and sheep
—mostly in wooded pastures. Of
many grasses their favorite is the
native blue grass, which grows best
when partially shaded. Many of
our forest trees produce more food
than could be produced by the
ground which they cover in any
other ,vay. Others have an enrich-ing
effect upon the soil, on account
j of the nitrogen contained iu their
leaves ; such are the walnut, mul-berry
and honey locust. They all
produce food for stock ; hogs will
eat any kind of nuts, while cows
are fond of the locust pods and
mulberries. Both cows and sheep
fatten upon acorns aud chestnuts.
The white oak is particularly vain-,
able for its vast quantity of nu-tritious
acorus. Chinquapins are
also eagerly eaten by all kinds of
Persimmons are equally
popular with our four-footed friends.
A woodlaud thinned of all non-pro-en
; theu another layer of pork, and
so ou until the chicken is used up ;
have three hard boiled eggs chop-ped
up and added with the chicken.
Before laying on the top crust ;elm. re,ll,u'1. »eh, alder and poplar,
a lew small lumps of butter : onKh
1
t to ™ cut ol". 'earing room
native grasses, and thus everything
in it, grass and trees, furnishes food
lor its occupants. The sweet-gum,
pine, sycamore, dogwood, sassafras,*
A grandfather was amicably chaf-fing
with his little granddaughter,
who was seated on his knee : 'What
makes your hp.ir so white, grand-pa.!"
the little maiden asked. "I
am very old, my dear; I was in the
ark," said he, with a reckless disra
gard ot truth which does uot pre-possess
one in his favor. "Oh!"
s iid her little ladyship, regarding
her distinguished relative with re-newed
interest, "are you Noah!"
'•No, I am not Noah." "Ate you
a, then '." "No, I 'in not Sbem.*
"Are you Ham f "No, I am not
even Ham." -Then you musl be
Japhet," insisted the littlo maiden,
at the end of her historical tether,
and growing somewhat impatient
With tlic difficulty that surrounded
her aged relative's identification.
"No, 1 am not Japhet," said he,
wagging his head, intensely enjoy-ing
the joke." "Then grandpa,"
said the little maiden, firmly and
decisively, "you are a beast !"
place i
about the top, and add water
enough to make as much gravy as
may be desired. Cut a star or oth-er
ornament on the top, and bake
for an hour in a slow oven.
Veal Steak.—This should be cut
thinner than beefsteak, aud In-rooked
thoroughly. Broil upon a
lor the native grasses and food pro-ducing
trees. II.
Protect the Toads.
Many boys seem to have a won
derfnl itching to knock over every
toad with a stone or club, ami when
they happen to go within a lew-rods
of a bird, they look around,
almost instinctively, for a stone to
kill the dear littlo songster. This
is exceedingly wrong, as toads and
birds are the farmer's best and
most useful frieuds and helpers.—
It is said that there is actually a
considerable commerce in toads be
tweeu Trance aud England. A
toad of good size and iu fair con-dition
will fetch a shilling (twenty-five
cenls) in the Loudon market,
and a dozen of the extra quality
are worth £1 sterling ($5.) A writer
iu a European paper slates that
one may see these imported toads
in the market gardens where the
6oil is moist, ant! the owners of
these gardens even prepare shelter
lor them. Many grave persons
have shaken their heads when they
heard ut this new whim of the
English but those laugh the best
who laugh the last. This time the
English are in the right.
The toad is very helpful to bus
baudmen as a destroyer of injurious
insects on which it chiefly leeds.—
Toads have a curious, net-like lasso,
which they throw out so quickly to
trap insects, that a fly is not suffi-ciently
agile to escape. Boys, spare
the harmless and useful toads and
the dear little birds that subsist on
insects which destroy onr fruit and
giain. The President of the Farm-ei's
Club of the American Iustitute,
N. C. Ely, who owns a farm worth
fCO.OOO.in Connecticut, once stated
to the Club that he was accustomed
to pay fifty cents each for toads
which were put on his farm to de-stroy
insects. We placed small
pieces of boards over little depr. -
sions in the garden aud about the
j ard, as refuge for useful toads.
The cotton crop just being closed
out is said to have amouuted to .'{,-
966,000 bales, or within 130,000
bales of the largest recent crop,
that of 1876. Both corn and cot-tou
are favorably reported, but
about a fortnight later than usual.
The harvest weather throughout
the West is said to have been well
nigh perfect. The crop of wheat
and corn will be especially heavy.
It is believed that the business of
the year to come will ba upon a vast
scale, but transactions in all lines
of trade will be carried on at low
prices aud small profits.
"i
All that is Necessary.—"Aunt
Julia," said a blooming girl of sev-enteen,
"what is necessary in order
to write a good love-letter !" "Well"
replied the aunt, "yon must begin
without knowing what you mean to
say. and finish without knowiug
what jou have written."
" Do you really believe. Mr. Pod-kins,
that any body could make a
head from butter !" asked the land-lady.
"Well, yes, ma'am, I .should
think they might," said Podkins, as
ho pushed back his individual but-ter
plate. "Somebody has got as
far as the hair with this."
A crusty old fellow once asked :
"What is the reason that griffins,
dragons and devils are ladies' fa-vorite
sobjects for embroidered di
signs.'" "Ah, because they aie
continually thinking of their hus-bands."
was tt lady's quick retort-
With what colors would you
paint u storm at sea. The waves
rose and the winds blew. How
should a secret be painted ? In
violet. How would you paint an
absent-minded friend ? Iu a brown-study.
No Irishman ever made a greater
bull than the English lawyer who
drew up an indictment charging
that the prisoner killed a man with
a certain wooden instrument called
an iron pestle.
A tramp has confessed that beg-ging
is profitable in New Haven.
Conn., "Just say that a Hartford
man gave yon a dollar to help you
out. and you'll get two dollars from
the New Haven party. Anything
to beat Hartford."
When our hatred is violent it
sends us beneath those we hate.
Tea does not always cheer—no-tably
for instance, when a man
pays twenty cents for a cup of it.
A restaurant keeper advertises
for "a boy to open oysters fifteen
years o'd."
Sandy Land made Fertile.
It is well know ii that sandy soil
is difficult to render fertile, becanse
il manure is applied its virtues leak
down through and are lost. This
well-greased gridiron over a clear can be remedied, however, on sma'l
plots of ground, by applying muck.
A writer in the Countru OenfUman
says :
•• About one third of au acre of
light sandy soil, so light as to be
considered wasted, was mocked
from three to lour inches deep, and
this was thoroughly worked into
the soil. This was done yen
fore last. East year it bore a good
crop of potM es with common ma-nuring.
This year it is bearing the
heaviest ayd best corn on the farm,
with no more manure than the
other field,"
Sandy land, if it can only be
made fertile, has two great ad-vantages—
it has natural di til
and it. is easily worked. Mo
Rural New Yorker also t peaks ol a
farmer who had a large field ot
sandy land which was so unpro-ductive
as U> be considered ot little
value. The land was plowed in the
Fall, and during the Winter the
faniH-r set his teami drawing clay
from a bank near the creek, and
close at hand, la the Spring the*
clay was disti ibuted ovi i thi
faco as evenlj as possible, and
rowed in, and the field was theu
sown with grain and see .led down
to grass. A good men.1
thus obtained, with proved pro-ductive
for a number ol 3
though only a light coating of
nine was applied Horn •one to time.
lire, and turn frequently while the
steak is cooking. But into a sauce
pan four young onions minced fine,
a tablespoonful of tomato catsup, a
lump of butter the size of an egg,
and a little mixed parsley, with a
cup of hot water. Lot tuom stew
together while the steak is broiling
thickening, before you turn the
gravy out, with a spoonful of brown-ed
flour. Add half a wine glass of
white wine. Boil up once, and
when the steak is dished (with bits
of butter 011 it,) pour the mixture
over it and serve hot. Spinach is
as natural au accompaniment to
veal as are green peas to lamb.
To Cook Soft Shell Crabs—Opeu
one side with a knife and remove
the "deadmen," lift up the pointed
end at the back and pull out the
tuft, or whiskers ; at the head there
is a small sand bag; remove that,
then wash thorougly in salt water;
all of this must be done while the
crab is alive ; dry well and fry in
plenty of hot butter and laid mix
ed ; do not keep the crabs all night
before cooking, for the shells har-den
in 21 hours.
JIMMOU Chops.—Buy them nicely
trimmed, comely in shape. Dip
them in egg, roll in biead crumbs
and fry nicely brown. Season with
butter, salt and pepper. Another
receipt is to broil them over a clear
fire, saving the juice as carefully as
possible and making a gravy, in
which is stirred a teaspoon of toma-to
catsup, or a smaller quantity ol
Worcestershire sauce.
Boiled Mutton.—Break and turn
in a shank bone into a saucepan
with a couple of carrots and two or
three turnips, two bay leaves, two
or three sprigs of parseley, some
whole peppers and salt, quantum
xuf. ; pour iu boiling water enough
to cover, boil slowly from ouc and a
half to two hours; served garnished
with carrots and turnips aud with
caper sauce iu a boat.
Meat Croquettes.—l.'se cold roast
beef, chop it fine, season with pep-per
and salt, add one third the
quantity of bread crumbs, and
moisten with a little milk; have
your hands floured, rub the meat
into balls, dip it into beaten egg,
then into fine pulverized cracker,
and try in butter; garnish with
parseley.
To Make Mustard.—Mix the best
Durham—as many spoonfuls as are
needed tor immediate use—with
some new milk. Mix gradually un-til
perfectly free from lumps, and
add a little cream. The addition
of half a small teaspoonful of sugar
is thought by many to be an im-provement.
Graham rie Crust.—Take thin,
sweet cream, and prepare a dough
as for crackers, roll out and make
your pie as with a crust ot grease
and lino flour, anil you will have an
article that is very eatable and
heal thl til.
Deacon Jones,just deceased, had
a very red uose. His widow
thought it rather personal iu the
minister to begin bis funeral dis-course,
"Another shining light has
been taken from our congregation."
A man made a bet that be could
ride a fly-wheel in a Baw mill, and
as his widow peid the bet, she re-marked,
"William was a kind hus-band,
but he did not kuow much
about fly-wheels.5
Mr Johns m was famous for dis-regarding
public abuse When
people eiiticised aud answered his
pamphlets, papers, etc., he would
say, "Why, now, these fellows are
only advertising my book ; it is
surely better a man should be abus-ed
than forgotten."
Mrs Partington says that jusl
before the late war circumstances
w.-re seen rouud the moon nightly,
snooting stars perambulated the
earth, the desk of the sun was cov-ered
with black spots ot ink, and
comets swept the horizon with then-operatic
tales. Everybody said
that it proliigated war, and sure
enough war did come.
Tho Time to Cut Grass
The proper time to cut grass lot
hay is a matter of some dispute,
thougii the weight ol tes : .
in favor of early cutting. As an
old writer on agriculture has wittily
said, '• grass should be cut whi
is grass, anil not alter it has become
hay." The flavor or richness of the
grass passes away as soon as the
stalk becomes dry, tough and fib
fins, and evidently much nourish
ment is lost as well as the fragrance
winch gives it relish by leavio
standing too long. Farmers as a
rule do no: attach thai importance
to the hay crop which itsreal value
demands, and are apt to con
the exact time of harvesting il
matter ol no greal consequence.—
But when it is considered that it
is the ciop that lurnisiies the largest
share 01 food for both horses aud
cattle during at least half of the
year, it will be admitted tfa .' it is
of value 1 warrant the
best care iu cutting and curing. II
it is cut at tho right time a very
few hours of sunshine will fit it for
the mow or stack. It is better to
be put up a little dam;, than to
have all the moisture dried out in
the sun. It should be pul away In
such a condition as
and bright when teed out in
Wfntl r. It is then eaten with the
greatest relish and yields :
amount ol nourishment.—InA
/■'arnur.
New England Farming.
New England faimei - il
a row 'o weed in this life. The
jority of them are tei ad a
Boston paper >-.iy* the land of moral
ideas is dotted all over with forma
that have been run down by two
or tbn
owners who have rented to chaug-.
ing tenant i,
I
renl al 0
sore, or sometimes I
paper says, " the pasture, will sum-mer
two or three cow
poorly, ami the upland Bel I -
lowland swales •■• ill 1 at h ly enough
for a wintet supply for the same
numbei ol
or two ot tiie best to b
market towards paying ti,
•' • Kith cannot
better for both owner and ten
than these Ne«
The following is told of a gravel
digger in a cathedral town in the
north ot England : Oue day, while
"gathering in" the remains of an
aged parishioner, he observed some
women weeping by the grave side.
Taming around, he sharply de ! „ , ... .
mandelof them, "What are ye -ihtot, ,n his
crying for? If yo dinna bring 'em f" ll " "Money is
at'eighty, when wad ye bring 'em f" •>«" : ; ' " " "'*«>»8n t0 reacu-
Believing Cattle Fed too
Grain,—A c •■!
n.i'. e tn al
for ovi 1 1 a' ,.. and 1 al i
tbeni about a quart
of melted lard. It can
given them by using a long nect
stout glass bottle, (live now
at all for the
hours, aud then nparingly. It
treated a - I 1 ■ B DO barm will 11
from the 1 eat-in-;.
Let th • animal have mode
but uot enough to get
tin ti.