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The Greensboro Patriot
Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1877. jNew Series No. 500.
SUPPOSE.
KV pna HI CAST.
Suppose, my little lady,
Your doll should break her head,
Conld j "ii niakii it whole by crying
Till eyes and nose were red I
And wouldn't i: in- plenaantcr
To treat it as a j'»k.-,
Aud say you're glad '[ ■ a, A
Ami not jour baad that broke "
Snppooe you're diesaed for walking
Anil then rain eoines pouring ilowu,
Will it elear oil any sooner
Becaii»o yon teold and Drown f
Anil wouldn't it be uieer
Fur yi,II to smile than pout,
Anil >o make sunshine in the booae
When there is none without f
Bappoae your task, my little man,
1* very hard to get,
Will it make il any easier
Pol j >u to ait and fret f
And wouldn't it be nicer
Than waiting like a dunce,
To go to work in earneal
Anil leam the thing at once T
Andaoppoaethe world don't please you
Nor the way some people do,
Do ymi think the whole creation
Will be altered Jnst for you I
And ian'l it, niy boy or girl,
The braveat, \\ isest plan,
Whatever eomoa ordoean't come,
To do the heal yon can ?
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A Poor Relation.
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SIGNAL SERVICES
I Oret nsboro.
I i i • THE HAME V* THOSE
lii i Practicing
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I oil » V. It kUKINttER,
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I Chatham,
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II QBKUUKY.
GREGORY,
A TTORKEYS A T L AW
i Beaft,
N. C,
and !'• deral w s i.rui .in lie al-ii
ly.
D. A. & R. F. ROBERTSON,
6URG1 rINTISTS,
Eveleen Blake was a school-teacher.
Rather a laborious and ill-paid
life it was lor a young girl of nine-t;-
eu; lnu tbe little heroine knew
she liatl her living to earn some
how. There wasn't any inkling of
romance in her life, except what she
had Dnoonscioualy absorbed out, of
novels in the circulating library.—
Her two sisters both married —Mrs.
Simon Sykes aud Mrs. Johu Smith
—ami each one of them looked out
industriously lor number one.
•• Kveleen has had an education,"
said Mrs. S.vkes. » Let her take
cue ol l.eself. Of course one wains
in be sisterly, and all that sort ol
Ihing, hut when dear Simon mar-ried
uie he did not intend to marry
the whole family."
" Ol course not," said Mis. .Smith,
•'She can't expect us to support
her."
Kveleen was mending a pair of
glover, one October ofiernooti. by
the window, when Mrs. Simon
Sykes walked in with a great rust
ling, and smell of patchouli. Mrs.
Simon Sykes —lire Blake—was tall,
large and rosy. Kveleen was on
the petite scale, large, limpid eyes,
very little color, aud straight brown
hair which shone like satin, in the
level rays of the setting suit.
•y. c. "Dear me,*' said .Mrs. Sykes,
m i an " how good that teapot smells. And
1,1 I am tired out with niv w: 'k."
;,:; "WoQ|dyoulikeacupofM.!''
upatain sa>" Kveleen.
M arket •' Well, I don't mind,"' said Mrs.
Jin if
sv,oro Boo* s
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■ < ion!
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> invite my
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ine]iection.
* - arj a sell to
1 b< called.
:: illy,
W'M. It. BOOAKT.
pplv uiid Peach llrniidy
the Barrel or
'•' Brandy is pure.
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8 WAGONEB,
Gibwnville, N. C,
Sykes, unpiuiiing her shawl ; " that
is, if you've a buu or a biscuit, or
something to nibble with it. Tea
alone gives me the heartburn."
So Kveleen went industriously to
work aud brewed a cup of tea, and
brought out a plate of rusks, which
were to have made her own frugal
meal.
" But 1 can eat a biscuit or two,"
i bought self denying little Kveleen,
as she watched the rusks disappear
befote Mrs. Simon Sykes' appetite.
" I've had such a turn," said Mrs.
Sykes as she held out her cup for
a second replenishing.
" A turn f said Kveleen, enquir-ingly.
"Yes," added Mrs. Sykes; "a
visit from a poor pelatiou. I dare
say she will be here next, but I ad-vise
you to send her about her busi
ness, as I did."
" Who is it I" asked Kveleen in
surprise.
" It's Mary Ann Blade. Wants
something to do, expects me to take
her in, and give her a homo until
she can obtain a situation."
"There's the little hall bedroom
that you don't use," hinted Kveleen,
who had a sort of instinctive syui
pathy for the houseless ami home
less.
" I want that for Mr. S.vkes" reia
lives when they come to town,"
said Mrs. Sjkes. "He's got a single
brother with property, and a mar
ried sister, with no children, who is
\eiv well off indeed; and if I didn't
want it. i dou*t propose to opeu a
free as>luui for every old maid that
comes along."
•■ Bnt what will she do?"
'• Do I Why do as other folks do.
I suppose, (lo to a lodging-house.
There's plenty of them I"ni sure."
" But she hasu't got anj money."
•■ Then She's no business hero,"
s.inl aristocratic Mrs. Sykes "Whj
didn't she stay where her friends
could take care of her?"
•• I'ei Imp.- she hasu't any friends."
"Then she certainly most be an
undeserving char?cter," said Mrs.
Sj .is shaking the crumbs down
upon Kveleen's neatly swept carpet.
" Oh, here's Seliua Smith, as true
as the world."
Mrs. John Smith came flattering
in—a thin, sharp-featured little wo-man,
with snapping black eyes, and
a uew hat all a quiver with artificial
asters.
" Oh," said Mis. Smith, '■ you're
here are you. Debliy ? How do
you do, Kveleen ? Well, since you
are taking tea, I will have a cup."
" Heard the news?" as she sat
herself down.
"About M;lry Ann Blake?"—
"Yes, ol course," answered Sykes,
with a toss of the head. "She's
been to see us ; but I sent her about
her business."
" Well she certainly can't expect
us to provide lor her," said Mrs.
Smith, begiuuing to crumble up
the reserve ot the biscuit that Kve-leen
had broughU with a sigh.
" Smith's salary ain't large, and I've
a good sized family.of my own. I
told her pretty plainly that as far
as I was concerned, she needn't ex-pect
anything. I do hate these
geuteel beggars! I hope you will
give her the cold shoulder. Hush !
There",-* a kuock now. It it should
be her !''
" It's a good thing we're here to
advise her," said Mrs. Sykes as
Kveleen went to the door. " Kve-leen
is so uusai|H-c; in2 '■ Anybody
could itnpos- njvwi h.-i "
" Yes, to be sue," nodded Mrs.
Smith, oompU'.'«<itly. •• And—but
dear me, it is Mary Ann !"
Both sisters nodded frigidly at
the approach of a tall, nervous-looking
female, in poor black, fol-lowed
by Kveleen, who drew out
the softest easy-chair for her ac
commodatiou, and gently uutiei
her whiapy bonnet-strings.
" Do sit down," said Kveleen ; "I
am sure you are tired. L-t me
give you a enp ol tea at once."
•• Yes," said Mary Ann Blake,
looking apprehensively from Mrs.
.Simon Sykes to Mrs. John Smith,
" I am tired. I've been walking a
good ways."'
" I hope you've got a situation !"
said Mrs. Smith, icily.
But Mary Ann shook her head.
" It was very foolish ot yon com-ing
here at all, wasting your money
on a expensive journey," said Mrs.
Sykes. "Why couldn't you go to
Aunt Pamela :"
Now Aunt Pamela was the rich
old aunt who systematically ignored
her nieces, and kept mouey in
bonds, instead of investing it in
Mr. Sykes's wholesale grocery, or
Mr. Smith's insurance company.
" I did," said Mary Ann, deject
eill.v. " but she declined to assist
me."
" Stingy old harridan !"' said Mrs.
Sykes with energy.
" She has u right to do as she
pleases with her own, I suppose,"
said Kveleen, who was making
some tea for the pale guest.
" No she hasn't," said Mrs.
Smith. " People get so miserly."
"Sykes thinks wo might some
day slap her iuto a lunatic asylum,
and put the money into the hands
of trustees, for the use of her rela
lives," said Mrs. Sykes.
" I don't know about that," said
Mary Auu Blake. "I 'iiiow she
wouldn't give anything. And I do
noi know what to do. You are my
cousins. Perhaps—"
••Oh, indeed we can't do anything
for you," said Mrs. Sykes, becom-ing
more (rigid in her demeanor,
while Mrs. Smith drew heiself up
and set her thin lips together in a
thread of carmine. " Better go
back as tast
Mrs. Sykes
" By all means," said Mrs. Smith
with a toss ot the artificial asters.
"And do tell that old lady that
sin's a deal better able to provide
for you than we are "
" No," said Kveleen gently.—
" Cousin Mary Auu shall stay with
me. There's plenty of room on my
little iron bedstead tor two, aud I
can go out with her looking for a
situation, after school hours.''
'• Eveleen. you're crazy !" said
Mr. Simoti Sykes, uplilting both
her bands.
•• You're a fool!"' politely added
Mrs. John Smith.
But the stranger's lips quivered.
"God bless you, child!" said she,
rising up, and putting aside the
veil of worn lace that dropped on
her lace. " Aud now girls, I may
as well tell you that I am Aunt
Pamela."
" You J Aunt Pamela ? shrieked
Mrs. Sykes.
•■ Yes, I."
-• Bnt—you are rich."
•• People say so."
•' Then gasped Mrs. Smith, " why
do yon come here in tbe guise of a
beggar I"
•■ To try the hearts and natures
of my three nieces," said Aunt Pa-mela,
•• Deboiab calls me an old harri-dan
; Selina reluses to help my by
so much as a penny ; but little Kve-leen
is willing to share her scanty
all with me. What money the old
woman has to leave, shall be Eve-leen
Blake's."
Mrs. Simon Sykes and Mrs. John
Smith looked at each other iu dis-may,
but it was too late to apolo
gize now. Aud little Eveleen was
ceiress, after all.
The Family.
The family is the educator of the
race. Here men and women are
made. What they are in the world,
that they were in the family as
children. The family is the place
where first the lessons of law are
received, and where the whole char-acter,
in view of law has a direc-tion
given it. Tbe citizen is made
hi the family long before the time
for voting or activity has come.—
When Napoleon said, in answer to
Mail,1111 degStael'sq uestion about
Prance's greatest need. •• Mothers,"
he asserted, the all-potent influence
ot a true life. The family is the
greatest means for the development
01 character. What f« world does
it present tor the affections to abide
in I Where in all the earth beside
are sympathies so warm, love so
l>ure and fervent as he-re? All
that gives value or beauty to human
character finds in the family at once
an atmosphere iu which to expand
and develop the elements which
shall bring it to the highest per-
Icon.in.
It doesn't look so much like a
rebel advance upou the government
as it might, when a Northern war
Democrat is made Speaker of tbe
House, a Union soldier from Ken-tucky
is to be chief clerk, aud a
civilian from Ohio is taken for
sergeant-at-arms. The lost cause
got Polk, of Missouri, for door-keep-er
; Stewart, of Virginia, for post
master, and Rev. Dr. Poisel for
chaplain. Beecher received ten
votes for Dr. Poisel's place.—PAi/a.
XitMC*.
Deaconesses in the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
The telegraph has stated the
11 oiisc of Bishops, in session at
Boston, had adopted a cauon con-cerning
deaconesses. The follow-ing
is the canon reported last Sat-urday
by the committee, and is no
doubt the one that was adopted—
possibly, with some amendments :
"OF DEACONESSES OE SISTERS."
1. Women of devout chatacter
and proved fitness may be set apart
by any bishop of this Church tor
the work ot a deaconess or sister,
according to such Irom as shall be
authorized by the House of Bish-ops.
2. The duties proper to a deacon-ess
or sister are declared to be the
care of our Lord's poor and sick, the
education of the young, the reli-gious
instruction of the neglected,
and the work of moral reformation.
IS. No womau shall be set apart
to the work of a deaconess or sis-ter
nutil she shall be twenty-five
years of age, unless the bishop, lor
special reasous, shall determine
otherwise ; but in no cas-i shall the
age be less than twenty-one years;
it being turther provided that no
womau shall be so set apart uutil
she shall have laid before tbe bish-op
testimonials certifying (o) that
she is a communicant of this Church
iu good standing; (6) that she pos-sesses
such characteristics as, in
the judgment of the persons testi-fying,
lit her for at least one of the
branches of duty nbove declared.
Such testimonials shall be signed
by oue presbyter of this Church,
and by lay communicants of tbe
same, of which two shall be men
aud three women. The bishop
shall also satisfy himself that the
applicant has had an adequate
preparation for her work, both
technical aud religious, which prep-aration
shall have covered the peri-od
of at least one year.
4. No deaconess or sister shall
work officially in a diocese without
the express authority in writing of
the bishop of that diocese: nor
shall she exercise her office among
1 he people of any parish, except
with permission and under theover-of
the minister thereof.
5. A deaconess or sister shall not
take auy vow of perpetual obliga-tion
as regards the office, and may
ot any time lesign the same to the
ecclesiastical authority from which
she received it ; but having once
resigned her office, she shall not be
re appointed unless, in the judg-ment
ot the bishop, such resigna-tion
was for weight] cause.
0. A deaconess or sister may be
transferred from one diocese to an-other
upon request of the bishop ot
the diocese to which she is trans
ferred.
7. The constitution aud rules for
the home government of any in-stitution
lor the traiuiug of deacon-esses
or sisters ol auy community
in which said deacouesses or sis-ters
are associated shall have the
sanction in writing of the bishop of
the diocese in which such institu-tion
or community exists. All
books ot devotion aud toruiularies
of worship used in such institution
or community shall have the like
sanction, ami shall be iu harmony
with the usages ot this Church and
principles ot the Book of Common
Prayer.
A Snake Story.
At Cox & Brown's mill, some
three miles from Belton, a small
snake, belonging to the tribe known
to a great many as the "kiug snake,"
has takeu up his abode regularly,
aud amoug ihe rats and mice be is
a " fell destroyer." He has become
quite tame and gentle, and often,
when the keeper ot the mill takes a
uoouday nap, his suakeship will
crawl around and over him, and
frequently lie quietly iqion his
bosom. We have frequently heard,
rather traditionally, that this
species 01 serpeut was harmless to
wards man, but was a relentless
enemy towards all other serpents,
and as substantiating this idea we
will relate a further incident con-cerning
the snake under discussion,
which comes to us through au au-thenic
source. One day recently a
medium sized water moccasin was
seen lying ou the sand beiow the
mill, aud ere long the king snake
was seen approaching him cautious-ly.
He crossed the small stream
which runs from the race below the
wheel and very slowly neared the
moccasin, all the while swaying his
head from the right to the" lett
This tnotiou was morn and more
contracted the nearer he approach
ed, until when within a few inches
ol his victim, he lay for some time
perfectly motionless. Then sud-denly
he darted upon the moccasiu,
caught him by the back of tiie neck,
aud proceeded to coil himself
around him. When he bad made
several coils be freed his mouth
hold upou the moccasin's neck and
by making loops ot his body and
inserting his head through them he
tied himself in two or three or four
kuots around his victim's body,
which must have been very tight
indeed, for when he iiad remained
there some ten minutes he loosened
himself and crawled triumphantly
back to the mill, leaving the dead
body of the moccasin upon the
sand.—Anderson Journal.
Disfranchisement of the Ne-groes.
As predicted by Gov. Hampton,
the first movement to disfranchise
the negro, comes from the North.
It is now seriously proposed by
Northern Radicals to reduce the
representation ot the South in Con-gress
by disfranchisement of the
colored voters. They claim as rep-resentation
in Congress is based on
the voting population, the present
House of Representatives would
not be nnder Democratic control
but the fact that the negroes are
allowed to vote. They have dis-covered
this fact after the negro
vote has passed from under the
influence of the carpet-bagger. As
loug asjthey could be manipulated
by Radical demagogues, it was a
good thing for them to vote, but
now, when the South sends up
almost a solid Democratic delega-tion
to Congress, the negro vote is
unprofitable and canuot be endur-ed.
The white people of the South
opposed placing the ballot iu the
hands of the negroes immediately
alter their emancipation, not from
any hostility to the negro, but be-cause
ot their ignorauce and in
competency, aud the danger of
their being controlled by bad men
to the detriment of the country as
they have been iu the South. Aud
now as the day of their political
vassalage is passing away, and
they are cutting themselves loose
from the bondage of Radicalism,
tbe cry for their disfranchisement
is echoed by the very men who
were loudest in favor of their vot-ing
when it would resound to the
benefit ot Radicalism and give cor-rupt
leaders an opportunity to mob
aud plunder the Soutiiern people.
Let the selfish hypocrites remem
ber that chickens come home to
roost, and that Hainan himself
swung from the gallows that was
prepared for Mordecai.— Wtfera
Advance. ^^^^^^^^^^
Fifteen States have yet to hold
elections this fall. Louisiana, Mas-sachusetts,
Minnesota, Mississippi,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey,
New York, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, Tennesspe, Texas, Virgin-ia
and Wisconsiu vote on the 6th
of November, aud Georgia on the
5th of December. In addition Illi-nois
elects county officers on No-vember
Cth.
Tennessee will send to market
this Fall 150,000 bushels peanuts,
and calls that a very small crop,
at least one-third short.
Free Schools-
From ihe Charlotte Obeen BI .
The public mind appears to be
agitated by tbe question oi educa-tion.
The vote in favor of Graded
Public Schools s-cms to have ear-ned
by nearly six to ore. The ne-groes
generally 1 .fused to vote ow-ing
to the misrepresentations made
to them that their present schools
aud colored teachers would all be
abolished The vote was generally
cast by the intelligent property
holders and tax payers. It is "vex-atiously
slow" to bring up igno-rance
to advocate tbe education of
the masses by taxation—approved
of by all the intelligent world
around us. Voluntary contributions
will never maintain public free
schools in Charlotte or elsewhere.
1 bey have been tried and have fail-ed
everywhere. For good teachers
and schools you must have some- ;
thing reliable, some certain income. 1
This can only be had by taxation.
A spasmodic effort from interested
or personal motives may maintain
a voluntary subscription free pub-lic
school lor three or six mouths,
but they all fail, alter an Interval.
This is the experience the world
over. Hence the free schools are
maintained among civilized and
enlightened people by taxation—
the only sure and permanent basis
on which they can rest and prosper.
The intelligent white vote was re-markably
unanimous for the Grad-ed
School. The ball has been put
in motion, the discussion lias done
good, the cause is moving onward
rapidly, and a system ot tree pub-lic
schools, supported by taxation.
is just as inevitable in Charlotte as
that the sun will rise to-morrow.
Ignorance, prejudice and misrepre-sentation
may delay it, but they
cannot defeat it. The education of
all citizens is one of the highest
duties of government whether
State, county 01 city.
PROGRESS.
Machinery Moving South.
The vi ar is slowly but surely
bringing about some remarkable
changes in this country, and among
these one of most important is in
tbe movement ot tbe machinery
towards the cotton—the mills to the
fields of production. This is illus
trated with peculiar fo-ce and
meaning at Columbus, Georgia,
where a prosperous company now
manufactures forty-six different
kinds of goods, trom spool cot-ton
to twelve quarter blankets.
Their saies during the last mouth
averaged over $5,000 per dav, fil-ling
orders from all parts of the
South. They have no agents, but
everything is sold at the factory-
Their ginghams, diapers, tickiug,
denims, jeans, cassimere, occ, com-pare
favorably with the best pro-ducts
from English and Northern
looms o| similar quality. The cap-ital
of the company is 81,-50,(MKI-Their
profits for 1S70 were $12t>,
875.60. The stock on hand on 1st
January last, (time of last report)
consisting of cotton, wool, manu-factured
goods, dye stuffs, chemi-cals,
&c. amounted to 1408,461.78;
cash and sight exchange $214,232.-
o'i; reserve fuud 1210,630.53.
There is a very commodious sav-ings
bank connected with the es
tablisbment, the books ot which
show amount due depositors (chief-ly
employees) 8129,417.78. Tins
great factory has been built up nt
a small inland town (which was de-vastated
during Wilson's raid)
siuce the termination of the war.
Yes, My Love, I
Thee
Do Adore
President Hayes is now living at
the Soliders' Home—oue of the uni-que
institutions ot the country. Its
origin is interesting. When den.
Scot 1 captured Mexico, instead ot
sacking the city, ho levied $300,000
upon its residents, which was glad-ly
paid. A portion of this was
used to relieve the temporary wants
of tho soldiers, tho balance went to
the Treasury Department. In 1801
Congress gave $100,000 of it to
establish the Home, and that is the
only mouey it ever received from
the government. It is supported
by ;; contribution of tweuty-tive
per mouth irom the pay of
each soldier in the army, witli all
the money due dead soldiers un-claimed
after three years. The fuud
is now very large. The Home
oa 506 acre-, has twelve miles of
carriage drives, and is kept iu per-ii'ct
order. There are now 500 in-inales.
Tli: y are their own bosses,
and are required to do nothing but
b' liave themselves. They are al-najs
free logo or come as they
plea,:-, and without being required
to do any work, each oue of them
picks out some iittlo duty to per-fnrni
for an hour or two daily. Re-ligions
services are held every Sun-day
morning—first by a Catholic
priest, afterwards by an Episcopa-lian.
Some of the inmates leave
every summer to procure work, but
they generally return toward wiuter
Bach inmate is allowed to draw a
small amount monthly as pocket
money. Aud the sole credit of its
( xistence is due to Gen. Winfield
Scott.—Harper's Weekly.
Indians in Florida
There are probably from tour
hundred to six hundred Indians in
Florida, occupying a strip of territo-ry
South of latitude 27 degreesthir
t'v minutes, on and about Lake
Okeeebobee and the Kissimee river.
They live in small villages or settle-ments,
in rude houses of poles and
palmetto. The women cultivate
fields of corn, pumpkins, melons,
potatoes aud the coontie, a species
of arrow root. The men hunt, fish,
aud care for their stock, many of
them having large numbers. They
are entirely peaceable ami friendly
with their white neighbors, who
have entire confidence iu them,
They frequently visit the coast and ;
settlements to exchange their veui
son and poultry for ammuu ti >n,
dry goods and groceries. They arc |
generally very temperate, dress
comfortably and the n en gaudily
ou some occasions. Except the
chiefs, they have butone wife. _ Re-cently
a number of Harper's Bazar
among them, and two white
walked forty miles to a
The old Egyptian aud Assyrian
bad the downward slope of the eye
and no calves on the legs. The
same with the Greeks and other
old savages. Tbe men had no
calves. Wherever we find the
downward slope of the eye and
no calves we find fanaticism and
ignorance. Show me a man with
out calves and I will show you a
nincompoop. The cat has a down-ward
slope of the eye, and the
cat is a fanatic. In Massachusetts
wc have a statesman with a down-wan',
slope of bis eye, or rather
both eyes, and he is a fanatic. I
refer to General Butler. Another
thing: Our forefathers bad small
noses. Having small noses, they
munched their food; yes, munched
it. Your great graudfathers actu-ally
munched what they ate. As
they grew more civilized they cut
their meat: their jaws grew smaller
aud they gradually ate it. My
friends, cut your meat small, ami
you will have small jaws.—Pro/et-sor
Gunning.
The Laugh of Woman.
A woman has no natuial gift
got
squaw
white settlement, and Hid Li-o.ics
cut in the most rigid pin-back style
There ate a few ne^iocs among
them who are held as slaves, but
willingly so, for as an old Indian
said, "Nigger work little: bungr.
all the time." Ly the constitution
of Florida the Indians arc entitled
to send a State Senator t 0 the
Legislature, but suspicious that
it they take part in making laws
they may be visited by tax officers,
they have not availed themselves
of the privilege. Some years ago a
shiftless half-breed was persuaded
by a noted scheming politician to
assume the seuatorship, but tar-rying
by the way on his journey
ho was overtaken by John Barley-corn,
and returned back a sadder
and wiser man.—Semi-Tropical.
more bewitching than a sweet laugh
It is like the sound of flutes ou the
water. It leaps from her in a clear
! sparkling nil, and the heart that
i heals ii feela as if bathed iu a cool,
exhilarating spring Have you
1 ever pursued a fugitive through
thi s reels, led on by a fair laugh,
noa there, now lost, uow found?
We have, and we are pursuing that
wandering voice to this day. Some
times it comes tons in the middle
of care and sorrow, or irksome
busiaess, and then we turn away
the evil spirit of the mind. How
much we owe to that sweet laugh!
[I ti ns piose to poetry; it brings
sui bine to flowers, over the dark
ness of the wood in which we are
traveling; it touches with light
even our sleep, which is no more
than the image of death, but is
e .aiiied with beams that are the
shadows oi Immortality.
Never pick the teeth at table.
OuUivaUon 0/ Canary Seed.—
With tbe immense increase in con-
Bumption of canary seed, it seems
Strange that 110 steps are taken to
grow it in our country. It is as
easily produced as wheat or oats,
.mil "yields prolilieally. Forty or
fifty bushels per acre can be readily
produced, and while it may not Ire
a hardy plant, it will stand corn-id
arable frost, and our seasons will
give ample time to plant and ma
tureacrop. A few acres devoted
to growing canary seed will return
large profits, as it is uow all im-ported
aud pays duty. Some en-terprising
farmer can set an exam-ple,
aud not only demonstrate the
fact, but put mouey in his pocket.
Ye«, my love, 1 do adore thee,
And that too witli all my Leart:
When I see iliw Hit before me,
Like a fniry, a* tliou art.
Then my col.lent blood nnthiekeoe,
And with joy flies through uiy frame
While my heart Its motions quicken.
'Till By breast seems iu a dame.
Hut I can't describe Ihe feeling—
When I'm seated by thy side ;
That is past all earth's revealing,
It's to Heaven so near allied.
Then my heart by stealth advances
To my lno.iih on wings of dame,
And in extacios there dances
To the music if thy name,
Sending through my cheeks a river
Of pure crimson from Ihe soul.
With such force it makes them qolver
As its waves there surging roll,
Throwing up at every pulse-beat
Still a hot and redder tide,
While 1 am huuored with a seat.
Dearest one, close by thy side !
Household Recipes.
PtatM Fruit Cake.—Three eggs;
two and one half cups sugar ; oue
cup ot bntter ; one cup ot milk ;
one cup of raisins ; one of currants ;
one tablespoouful cinamon; ono
teaspoonful of soda in the milk ;
two teaspooufula of cream-of-tartar
in four cups of Hour.
(linger Snaps.—One cup of mo-lasses;
one-half cup of sugar ; one '
half cup of hot water; one half cup
of butter; one teaspoonful of soda
and one tablespoonful of ginger.
Coffee Cake.—Two cups of sugar;
one-half cup of butter; one cup of
molasses ; one cup of cold coffee;
four cups of flour; three eggs; oue
teaspoonful of cinamon and one ot
cloves; four teaspoonfulsof bakiug
powder.
Soft Ginger Cake.—Two cups of '
molasses; one and one-half cup of
hot water; oue half cup of butter;
two eggs; oue aud one half tea
s[>oonful of ginger; oue-half of
saleratus; one tablespoonful of gin-ger
; one half teaspooutul of ground
cloves; stir in the least quantity of
flour that will enable it to rise.
Railroad Yeast—One pint of
coarse flour; oue teaspoonful ot
soda; one teaspoonful of ginger
and one teaspoonful of sugar. Pour
boiling water on it and stir uutil it
is thiu enough for rising; set iu a
warm place until light, then place
where it is cool. In making bread
take tour tipoonfuls of uew milk, a
little pinch of soda, aud add one
cup ot hot water ; when cool enough
not to scald, stir iu flour and one
spoonful of tho above yeast.
Cookies.—One egg; one-half cup
of butter; one cup of sugar one-third
cup of sweet milk ; one-half
teaspoonful of soda, and one of
cream of-tartar.
Johnny Cake.—Two eggs; one-half
cup of sugar; one-half cup of
butter; one quart et sour milk ;
one teaspoonful of soda; one tea-spooutul
of salt aud enough corn
meal to make a thin batter.
Cream Puff*.—Two cups of flour;
one cup of butter; one-halt pint of
water: boil the water and butter
together, aud stir in the flour, a lit-tle
at a time while boiling; when
cold add live well-beaten eggs and
one-fourth teaspoonful of soda;
make into cakes one half inch thick,
and put at once into a rather hot
oven, not disturbing them uutil
they are of a light-brown.
Soda Biscuits.—Six cups of tlonr;
two cups of sweet milk ; two table-spoonfuls
of butler; ouefourth tea-spoonful
of solt; one teaspoonful
of soda and three of cream of tartar.
Dissolve the soda in the milk and
rub the cream ol tartar in the flour.
Lemon Pie.—Yelks of three eggs
and the white of one; one cup of
sugar ; oue cup of water; oue and
one half spoouful of flour; juice
and grated peel of one lemon; stir
all together aud bake as a custard
pie. Beat the whites of two eggs
to a froth ; then add four spoonfuls ;
of sugar; flavor with lemon, aud
when the pie is done spread this
over the top ; return to the oveu to
brown.
Cream.—Beat together two eggs:
one cup of white sugar and one hall
cup of flour or corn starch ; stir In
one pint of boiling milk aud flavor
with lemon or vanilla. When the
cakes are cold split them partly
open and put in the cream.
FARMER'S COLUMN.
Fences and Fenoe Laws.
Judging from the discussion of
our farm clubs we may suppose
that farmers are begiuuing to re-alizo
that the true office of outside
fences, and iu fact of all fences, is
' not to keep out the stock of a neigh-
; bor, but to restrain our own. As a
1 result of this idea we see that laws
preventing stock of any kind from
( running at large in the highways
are gaining in fotm, and tbe area
over which they extend is every
year increasing. It is a mistake to
suppose, as many do, that the fruit
and grass growing between tbe
fences of a public highway of right
lulling to the public. The public
have only the right of passage over
the ground, but have no right to its
products, which belong to the owner
of the adjoining farms. As soon
as the traveler or the stock on the
farm diverge on either side of the
legal limits of the road, they be-come
the trespassers to tho full ex-tent
of the term. In strict equity
it. is no excuse that there w^s uo
fence, for as before stated, fences
are to keep the proprietor's stock
within bounds, and not keep the
others ont. It takes a loug time
for ns to get rid of tbe idea that " a
; legal fence" must be " horse high,
1 bull proof aud hog tight." Sooner
or later we will arrive at a point
when every farmer will be the judge
'of the quality of his own leuces, or
in fact whether he will fence at all.
Much has been said of the in-justice
aud cruelty of a law which
prevents the poor man from turn-ing
his cow out on the public road.
lo the first place it is poor economy
for any one to turn a cow into tho
pubbc road. The time spent in
bunting her wueu she fails to come
home, ami the loss from not being
milked at Ihe proper time will
usually pay for her keeping in much
better pasture Ol all fence break-ers
the road cow is probably the
most efficient and active, ami inde-pendent
of her own efforts her
presence leads the farm slock, other-wise
quiet, to break out and cause
trouble. When cows were allowed
to run at large, it was impossible
to keep a bull more ihan two or
three years, for he became so un-ruly
as to be a nuisance to its own-er.
By Ihe laws excluding stock
from she roads this trouble is avoid-ed.—
Philadelphia Times
German Millet-
Tin- first -•-.: on of perimental
culture of this new (to ns) foi
plant has passed, and we believe
with thorough conviction of its
gieat value all who have tried it.
We have seen two or three crops,
of which we can personally speak ;
one in .own, raised by Dr. Hooker,
which was sowed somewhat thinly,
bur which nttai 1 a line height,
and was heavily beaded. Mr. W.
I!. Gordon had a piece of rathei
more than one acre from which he
estimates that he cut fifteen thou-sand
pounds. This may bo an
over estimate; but we saw the Mil-let
standing iu cocks alter beng
cut and the Held looked as il all
the forage of the neighboring farms
had been dumped upon it. Mr.
Harris who lives not far Irom
Mebanesville tells us that from a
little less than two acres, he cut
eleven loads, each one ol winch ho
believes weighed a ton This was
on land not specially prepared for
Millet. Last year it was in com,
and tbe yield of the two acres was
live bushels.
The general testimony is uniform
as to its nutritive qualities, and all
stock are excessively fond ol it. In
reply to the question whether it is
an exhauster, all say that il is not
to and excessive extent. A crop
that yields so heavily must draw
upou the laud. Put a crop that
pays so well is worth the trouble to
manure and prepare well. High
CUltur- always pays well, and this
is tin-system that must be adopted
to make farming pay. A lew acres
well cultivated pay belter than a
large number neglected. Millet,
by the abuudance of manure mak-ing
substance, renders Ihe work of
restoring exhausted lands less diffi-cult—
Hillshoro Reeordi r.
Brain and Muscle.—Men who use
their muscles imagine that men
who use their brains are strangers
to bard work. Never was there a
greater mistake. Every successful
merchant does more real hard work
iu the first ten years of his business
career, than a farmer or blacksmith
ever dreamed of. Make up your
mind to work early aud late, if ne-cessary,
that you may thoroughly
master every detail of business up-on
which you propose to enter.—
The habit of persistent, rapid work
once formed, you have gained a mo
mentum that will carry you very
successfully through many a pinch
iu business where a less persistent
worker would find it vastly easiei
to lie down aud fail.
Cut The Weeds While Small.
No farm, or garden even, can be
kept clear ol weeds unless they are
attacked early, when they are small,
tender and easily extirpated. Let
tnem gel a start on us, and they
will not only lake a double share ol
soil nourishment, but will resist the
hoe or the plow stubbornly, and
not always come till second best.
If their roots once become firmly
established not even the plow or
hoe will always remove them root
aud branch ; but take them early
and at them whenever they show
their heads and they are easily
keptdown. This fact is well known
to all who cultivate the soil; but
sometimes the hurry ot work will
force one to defer the weeding pro-cess
for a while ; meantime a pro-longed
rain sets in, a godsend to
the weeds, which make great strides
to run their course and mature
their weed.-: and then we all
the-labor of dislodging them. Wc
may harrow and cross I a;row, and
still some ire left, and nothing but
a carefully used hoe or the hand
can get at tin in. An 1 after all.
there will be found to be some of
tho roots that have (scaped and
will require additional labor to ex-tirpate,
thoroughly.
When young the v.ec da cau be
dispatched easily. They have but
little hold of the soil, aud once re-al
,i d they are disposed Of, and it
is only the- new young ones follow-ing
that will require attention, and
cau be managed as before.
An old negro cook says, " Soss
am |K>werful good in ebery ting but
chifu. Dey needs some oder kind
ob dressin."
A queer mourner at a boy's funer-al
in Grangeburg, Ky., the other
day, was a small pig. It followed
its little master's remains to the
grave, trotting along under the
hearse some seven miles to the
burying-ground.
I luring the last, nine mouths the
1 ted States exported to England
86,132,730 pounds of fresh bed and
1,883,860 pounds of mutton. The
total expoits ol meat- to the Old
World for the period mentioned
amounted iu value to $11,226,562.
There were also exported 12,828,63^)
pounds ol butter and 75,917,443
pounds of cheese, au iucrease in
these lines of 33 percent over 1870.
Don't use table cloths and nap-kins
as dish wipers.