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Established In 1821. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1878.
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Written fur "The Bsltiniorean
Stray Thoughts of a Sad Heart
|1V DAISY.
Good bye.mj home,'now»ns»l«avsthee,
In distant laud, to roam ;
y,, I Dar«r can forget thee,
M own dear ciltist'" home.
M.v home, and childhood', happy hours
lUrr flitted by too fust,
And with item blossosaed lovslj llowere,
Too fair, too bright to laat,
Thrre was a time when I wan gay,
\Va» thoughlleM and wan wild ;
Hut ah I that time has llowu away.
And I am not a child.
There ia no voice to cheer me now ;
No bnille to chitoe away
The clouds that hhaduw my young brow
And anxious fear- allay.
No longer now tin- golden raja
Of life's gnat glorious light
[llann mv path, make l>nght my days,
And chase the gloom of night.
I ban is no touch to charm away
Thbl tierce and constant pain,
Which makes my heart its only prey,
That I may he glad again.
li it then a shad" of darkest hue
Iiims all thai ..nee VM bright;
It draws the heavy curtains down,
And all is dark as night.
iiii memory! crystal glittering wings
Comes ever 10 me now
A loving fact-, a genial Nulls,
A pure and pallid brow.
I bee a pail of loving eyes —
So gentle auil so mild—
When beaming with maternal love,
SI..- kisa.;d bar darling child.
A v ision eomei again to me,
And with it there'll a dread -.
li whispers - ftly to my heart ;
•' Thai she 1 love is dead."
There, lying in the lonely grave,
The grief 1 dare not smother :
(sod doee aol give —WO canuol have
ltus one dear angel mother.
in my eorrow, grief, and pain.
The proun-o now is given,
I u.il n our Falliei's blessed house
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I'tlemiilt, Md.
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From the S,.utherner,
Hans Kipper.
11\ SliiMA.
liana Kipper was a virifable
Dn'rimini ot tin- lvi|> \'an Winkle
t>pi-. llt>v, he t'ver got here re-niaiiiH
a irjHlerv lo thin tlaj, but
true it is that one tine morning- he
turned up in oue of the little tuwnd
mi the banks of the Roxnoke, stolid,
ill link, ignorant of English, and
Kmoking like a house a tire
Alter wandeiini; about (or a lew
,!,;'. s he settled upon a spot on the
ii,.nk nl the rivet, but little higher
tli.tn the swamp by which it was
surrounded, and built hiui a hut
from such material as he lound
lloating iu the water, where lie sat
himself down to meditate and
smoke his pipe.
His vocation was that of a usher-man
; his occupation smoking, and
there ia no doubt that he would
have been sitting there to day, at
the door of his hut, mending his
■ uets and complacently smokiug his
pipe, had he nut, iu a lit of drunken-ueas,
fallen into oue of his own
Dutch uets and been drowned.
To he day of his death he knew
i but little more of English than the
; price ol a bunch of fish, aud, to
I every Question upon any other sub-ject
than that of his wares, bis in-
| variable reply was yah, nein, or
I nii-litx femtay.
Nevertheless Hans had some
, most excellent • qualities amoug a
lew bad ones. He was not quarrel-some
or abusive for the reason,
doubtless, that his anger always got
cool before he could liud words iu
which to vent his spleen.
II he ever swore, no one was the
w iser t>l it unless soil tausend or
duiuur Wizen, invariably uttered
. bj him without changing a muscle
Of his lace or moving his (at, blue
eves from the direction iu which
they happened to be gu/.ing at the
time, might be construed into a vio-lation
oi the third commandment.
His wins; quality was a propen-sity
lor drinking mean whisky,
which lie rilled srlinnji/iK, aud smok-ing
bad tobacco. His great weak
ness was a susceptibility to the
charms nl the fair ses, and it was
upon tlnf rock that poor Hans was
doomed to split.
I:ie unlv thing on earth that
ever could move him from his ini-perturbation
was the sight of a
woman ; and one never passed him
without the exclamation "HeinGott
in hiuiiuel vat makes deni voomans
look so goot !" tailing from his lips.
On these occasion" he would thrust
his hands to the bottom of his ca
paciouB pockets, stare straight
ahead and smoke furiously until she
was out of sight. Afterwards it
seemed that he was ashamed ol
having betrayed his feelings in this
II inner, lor he would remain for
I an hour perfectly impassible, ami
not i word could be got out of him
concerning his foodoan tot the lair
MX beyond nichtx ferttay.
There lived, not far from ttao's
peHielul abode, another fisherman,
aud his wile, as different irom him
in every particular, save one. drunk
enness, as black is from white.—
<'narrclsome as cats, they spent the
greater part of their time in hair-pulling
aud scratching each oth.-r's
faces. Wicked as pirates, they iu-
• rlarded their couversation with
spicy oaths and choice blasphemies.
With not a friend in the world they
did not seem to desire to gain one.
The man was a deformity ; with
tusks protruding from under his up-per
lip, his face always wore a most
repulsive griu, while his feet, con-torted
from their natural position
until the toes pointed directly to-wards
each other, gave him the ap.
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pearance, when he walked, of hav-ing
on heavy wooden clogs. The
woman, on the other hand, bad
some pretentious to beauty. She
was tall and well formed, with dark
hair and eyes; and straight and
lithe as a reed. It is perfect'- a-accountable
how she evei to
mate with such an abortion ..= old
Tom Whitlock Had she found a
more highly favored companion,and
kinder master, in the man oi her
choice her lot in life might have
been quite different.
Tired of the life she led and anx
ions for any change that promised
better-treatmeut, she singled out
poor Hans, knowing well his infat-uatiou
for anything that looked
like a woman, as the readiest means
of accomplishing her purpose to
canape from her brutal lord, and at
the same time gaining a protector.
Poor Hans ! As many a better
man has done before, and since, he
fell a victim to the wiles of a wo-man.
To her proposition to >come
and take her to his bouse in old
Tutu's absence, he assented with a
ready yah, and a grunt, like that
of a hungry pig, intended tor a
laugh.
" And if Tom comes for me,' said
she, " you won't let him take me
away V
"Tausendtuyfels nein, Ich—'and
an expressive gesture demonRtra
ted to her entire satisfaction that if
he came Hans intended to pummel
him soundly.
The day on which she was to
el'jpe with Hans soon arrived. Two
guns fired in quick succession was
the signal agreed on between them
fhat old Tom was out of the way
and the coast clear.
Getting into his canoe, he pad-dled
up to the bauk in front ot her
door and sat there, stupidly g.i/mg
at the smoke as it curled gracefully
from the top of her mud chimney.
How long he would have remained
there without making his presence
kuowu, he himself, probably, never
conjectured, aud he might have :e
in.lined there staring at the top ol
the chimney till old Tom came back
and tlitew him into the river, had
she not accidentally spied him,
through a chink in the house, and
came to the door.
To her inquiry if he was ready,
the same guttural yah was return
ed, without once taking his eyes
from the chimney-top, or inteirupt
ing the regular pulls ol smoke Irom
his mouth.
Her preparations to leave being
a little delayed for once excited
Hans' impatience, and he gave ex-pression
to mote consecutive words
tuau he had ever beeu known to
utter at any one time iu his life.
" Tuouer blitzen voman.-.' said
he, " vas fur you not coom I 1 gifs
you schnapps; you gits tioonk'
alery tay mit me ; ve vaah all de
essen touu mi', trinken."
Whether she was moved by his
appeal, or whether she even under-stood
it, is not known, but any rate
she soon transferred herself and a
small feather bed, the only article
of comfort she possessed, to the
canoe aud they put oft from shore,
he utteriug never a word aud only
evincing his satisfaction by pufBug
huge clouds of smoke Irom his
mouth, while she sat facing him and
doing all the talking.
Swiftly and smoothly the little
bark, laden with so many bright
anticipations tor the future of both
the occupants, glided along the
stream, propelled by the powerful
strokes of liaus' broad asheu pad-dle,
while the little wavelets rippled
musically uuder its bow. A gentle
breeze fauued their eager faces and
wrinkled the surface ol the waters
as far as the eye could reach.—
Joyously the little birds sang, and
the grey squirrels chattered among
the green trees on the shore. The
rays ol the declining sun sparkled
among the wavelets on the bosom
of the river, aud marked out a
broad shining track lor them to fol-low.
Everything was propitious
aud all nature conspired to aid them
in their dight.
They reached the shore in safety
But alas lor human expectations !
When Betsy had lauded aud gone
up the bank, and Hans had .-iio.il
deled the bed preparatory to follow
ing her to the house, a rough hail
liom the river broke the stillness of
the eveuiug air aud caused them
both to look hurriedly round.
Oue glance was sullicient to re
veal to the fleeing pair the injured
husband iu hot pursuit of the guilty
wife and her abductor. Bitterness
was on his tongue, vengeauce iu his
eye, murder in his heart and an old
I ni'.fd States' musket, well charged
with duck-shot, in his hand. Iu
the bow of the cauoe, ready to do
his master's bidding, stood his faith-ful
cur—lauk, lean and hungry,
short-tailed aud crop-eared.
" Fetch that 'oomau and that bed
bate, here, you cussed old Dutch
cat fish, or I'll let day light through
ye quicker'n h—1 kin scorch a miu
ner."
The threat was unheeded: the
woman had already entered the
house aud Hans was doiug his best
to drag the bed through the door
liter aim. wheu old Tom laid up
his gon to his shoulder aud pulled
i lie tripg'er.
A deafening report followed: a
womau's scream awoke the startled
echoes in the neighboring woods,
and Hans ejaculated Tout und Ha-ijil,
asjhe rolled out ot the door aud
onto the bed, kicking aud sprawling
as if a thousand yellow jackets were
inside his ample breeches.
The damage to Hans was not
very seriou . His legs were pretty
well peppered, but the rest of his
person was intact, the bed haviug
received the most of the charge.
Old Tom, however, was pretty bad-ly
frightened, t Inn king he had real-ly
" put day.light through" Hans,
feather-bed and all, he made the
best of his way for the swamps ou
the other side ol the river, where
he remained nntil he received the
news that Uans was not only not
dead, but was in good health and
spirits.
In a subsequent attempt on the
life of the simple Dutchman, he was
captured, imprisoned until coort,
and tiied for an assault, with in-tent
to kill.
Hans was the principal witness
and when he was doue testifying
the State's Attorney asked him if
he thought old Tom shot him with
malice. Ob, no ! Mein Gott,' said
he, with astonishment depicted iu
every feature of bis face, 'he shot
me mit a mooskit.'
The explosion that ensued from
judge, lawyers and spectators was
perfectly terrific for a few minutes,
and it was with difficulty that order
aud quiet was again restored.
After the verdict old Tom was
asked if he had anything to say.—
Kising slowly from his -eat and
placing bis hands on the rail in
front of him, ' I hev,' said he, with
a long nasal drawl. " Now, Jedge,
if a feller goes to shoot a hawk
what's fiyin' away wid his chicken
and he axerdentally hits that taut
eyed, Dutch sou of a sea cook in de
legs, is he got to be put iu jail fur
it T"
There was no more order in court
that day. Old Tom was not jailed
for shooting the hawk and when he
left for home Besty sat demurely in
front of him with the brown jug iu
her lap.
How a Newspaper is Made-
There are from HUOO to 110,025
pieces ol type iu the column of
every large city newspaper, the
number varying according to the
size of the type used. Agate, non-pat
lei, minion and brevier are most
frequently used on the principal
dailies. Agate, which is the small-est
ol the types named, is employed
chiefly for advertisements, quota-tions,
loug speeches, etc., uonpariel,
the next size larger, for news arti-cles,
and either minion or brevier
for editotial or semi-editorial mat
ter. When it is desired to give
unusual prominence to certain ar-ticles,
l hey an- "leaded,9 that is to
sat thin strips ol metal, called
'•leads,' are inserted between the
lints of type, thereby rendering the
matter more open, and theielore
more easily legible. Sometime.-,
but Very rarely, articles are -'dou-ble
I -aded," that is to say, two
'•leads" are inserted between each
line ut t\ pe ; the mallei is then very
striking in appearance. There are
from 1,090 to 2,020 words in au
average column ol haded type, and
trom 1,370 lo 2,7.>o in one of solid
type. There are trom loo to 275
lines in an average column, accord
iug to the size ol (he type. Every
letter, every stop, every note o< in-terrogation,
mark of exclamation
and quotation mark is a separate
piece ot type, and has to be taken
up Biogly ill the process of "Compo
sit ion."
The "composing room," the place
where the t\ pe setting is done, is a
distinct, very important and inter-esting
department ol a newspaper
office. It is in charge of a foreman,
who has between forty aud sixty
"compositors," or printers, under
him, each ol whom has a complete
cases ol type iu a wooden box; be
fore which he stands when at work.
This box is divided into little par
titions, each containing a letter,
Stop or dash of the various types
used in llii IWlife. The punters
are known, i.if by name, but by
numbers. As soon as the manu-script,
or "cop\," as they call it, is
received from the editorial rooms,
it goes to the foreman, who cuts
it up into "takes,"' or shares, of
about one tenth of a lo'umn each,
and distributes it at ig his men.
It is on this account that manu-script
must be written on one
side o t the paper only. Each
••take" i s marked with a letter
aud a number; lor example, an
article of four pages is received,
the first page is cut up into five
pieces which are uumheied res-pectively
a 1, a 2, a 3, a 4, and
a 5, and so on according to the
number ot "take." The printers
then begin then work, picking
out the type with their lingers,
piece by piece, and droping it into
an iron receptacle known as a 'stick'
which they hold iu their hands
When they have finished their
"lakes." they drop thcui into a
brass dish or "galley," which is
numbered aud lettered to corres-pond
with the "copy," the man hav-ing
a 3 drops it ou that part of the
■•gallc.v" marked a 3, aud so on until
the ■'galley8 is full. It is then
given to the "proof-taker," who
takes proofs and hands them to
the "proof-readers," who mark any
errors the printers may have made.
The printers have to correct these
errors themselves; different modi-fications
of tins rule being made,
however, in the various otlices.
After the type is set and corrected,
it is put into the form and arrang-ed
under the direction of the fore-uiau,
who receives his instructions
Irom the night editor. The columns
are then "justified." or made even,
the "forms'' are "locked np" and
sent down to the press room to lie
screwed on to the press, when the
printing proper begius.—Illustrated
Weekly. ^^^^^^^
A Cure for Drunkenness.—A
mixture made up as follows, and
t,aken iu quantities equal lo an or
dmaiy dram, and as olteu as the
desire tor stroug returns, will cure
the worst case of drunkenness:—
Sulphate of iron, five grains; pep
pei miiit water, eleven drachms;
spirits of uutmeg, one draebm.
This preparation acts as a tonic
and stimulant and partially sup
plies the place of the accustomed
liquor, aud prevents the absolute
physical aud moral prostration that
follows from a sudden breaking off
from the use of stimulating drinks.
It is to be takeu in quantities
equal to an ordiuary dram, as often
as the desire for strong drink re-turns—
Botton Journal,
| New Series No. 510.
The Income Tax.
It ia understood that a majority
of the Southern and Western Con-gressmen
are in favor of a tax on
incomes, ud it is not onlikely that
a bill bringing this about will be
introduced shortly after the holi-days
and pass both houses. "The
opposition to the proposed law,"
says the Aogusta Chronicle and
Constitutionalist, "comes from the
New England and Middle States-sections
of the country on which
the tax will fall heaviest," and the
Chronicle might have added, sec-tions
which now escape, in too large
measure, the burdens of the gov-ernment
of which they enjoy the
benefits. The principal argument
employed by the friends of the
measure is that ita adoption will
tend to equalize the burdens of
nation which are very nnevenly
apportioned under present laws.
For instance, it is shown that in
1875 out of a revenue from internal
taxes of somewhat over 1103,000,-
000, the North-eastern States paid
$4,000,000, while in proportion to
population they should have paid
#9,250,000, and acordfog to wealth
nearly $14,000,000 The Middle
States paid $24,000,000. Their
contribution according to popula
t'oii would have been the same
amount, but their proportion ac
cording tc wealth would have been
•38,500,000. The Northwestern
States and the Teritories paid $33,-
500,000. Their proportionate share
i . cording to population would have
been only $30,333,333, Hi.d accord-ing
to wealth only $27,500,000
The Southern Middle States, in
•ihich North Carolina Is iqoloded,
paid $26,000,000, but tbefr'propor-tion
according to population would
b-we been only $17,750,000. and
a cording to wealth only $11,500,-
Ot-0. The Pacific States paid over
$3,000,000, bnt according to popn-lf'ion
should have paid !, -■- than
$2,000,000 and according to wealth
less than $2,250,000. A properly
graded tax upon incomes would
correct these euormous inequalities
nnd make each section of the
Union bear its proper proportion of
the burdens of government. Of
(hu enormous amount of United
States bonds held in this country,
folly seven tenths are owned by
citizens ot the Northern and Eas-tern
States. Very few are held in
the West; scarcely any in the
South. The bonds are non taxable
and their owners pav nothing on
the properly which originally cost
thi'si so little and which now pays
them so handsomely. A man who
or»« a million <•' the bonds, from
veliich he derives an annual income
of forty or fifty thousand dollars,
does not pay a cent for the protec-tion
and benefits of government.
The contemplated legislation would
do away with such unjust discrimi-nation
in favor of the wealthy
classes. Experience has shown
that a wisely regulated income tax
is the fairest method of taxation to
which a government can resort.
A large portion of the revenue ol
d fron
graphic combinations, made in
much simpler shape than in the
most primary stages of phono-graphy,
are easily made by elec-tric
actiou, ai .1 as repidly as the
sounds are attered. The main
value of this instrument is that it
will do awr-y with all necessity lor
telegraph ojierators, requiring only
one mail in an office, aud abolish
iug a vast amount ot intermediate
red tapeism in the telegraphy. Its
greatest advantage, however, will
be to the newspaper press ol the
country, for with one ol the simple
instruments the composiug room,
copy from the instrument can be
furnished to the printers, whose
only previous preparation will be a
day's study of the phonographic
alphabet in order to become famil
iar with the signs. Once familiar
to the pi inter, he'eaaMake a piece
of this copy and set it up in type
as readily as reprint. A person to
whom a message is addressed, un-derstanding
the signs, could read
it as easily as though printed in
Roman type. The instrument is
being rapidly perfected, and the
inventor has no doubt of fnf great
success aud useful ness ii the
world's affairs.—Atlanta Constitu-tion.
What Did Oeorge Washington
Know?
We don't like to be irreverent-bat
would like to ask. What did
our fore-lathers know t What, for
instance, did George Washington
know t He never saw a steamboat.
He never held his car to a telephone.
He never sat for his picture in a
photograph gallery. He never re
ceived a telegraphic dispatch. He
never sighted a Krupp gun. He
never listened to the "fizz" of au
electric pen. He never saw a pret-ty
gitl run a sewiug machine. He
never saw a sell propelling engine
go down the street to a fire. He
never beard of evolution. He uev-er
took laughing gas. He never
had a set of store teeth. He never
atteuded an International Exposi-tion.
II.' never owned a bonanza
mine. He never knew " Old Prob."
He—but why go on 1 No; when
he took an excursion it was ou a
flat boat. Wheu ha went off ou a
train it was ,a mule, train. When
he wanted to talk with a man in
Milwaukee he hud to go there.—
When he had his picture taken it
was done in profile with a piece of
black paper and a pair of shears.—
Wheu hu got the returns Irom back
counties, they • had to be brought
in by a man with an ox cart. When
he took aim at the enemy he had
io trust to a crooked-barreled old
flint lock. When he wrote it was
with a goose-quill. When he had
anything to mend his grand mother
did it with a danm.g needle,—
When be went to a lire he stood iu
line and passed buckets. When bo
looked at a clam he never dieunied
it was any relation ot his. When
he went to a concert he heard a
cracked fiddle and an insane clario-net.
When he had a tooth pulled
he sat down and never left off yell-
When he cot out of teeth he
Great Britian is derived from it tax
upon incomes, and there is every '"£•
reason to believe that it WOOld gammed
work well and satisfactorily in the |
United States Incomes of $3,000
and under should be exempt, trom
taxation and on incomes of mine
than $3,000 the tax should In-graded—
the rate being made high-er
as the income grew larger. Be
sides the justice ot such a law the
amount ol money derived from it
would enable Congress to reduce
the rate ou products, etc., now too
heavily taxed—for instance on
whiskey and tobacco, the duty
upon which is found to be very-grievous
to our people, particularly
those of the mountains, who have
little or no other source of ready
niouey than their fruit and Corn.
and which cannot be niitde availa
ble under existing circiimstauces
on account of the heavy tax ou
brandy and whiskey.
The Telephonograph
What is Claimed lobe Ih' Most Re-marlcable
Instrument Yet Diseor-i
ml.
But it has been reserved for an
Atlanta man 10 discover a possi-bility
beyond all these. We are
not permitted at this time to state
specifically all the points belonging
to the invention in question, but
we cm say that an examination ol ;
the "oiking model leaves no room
to doubt of its successful applici-tJon
lor the purpose designed. The
gentleman of whom we speak has1
carefully watched the progressive
movements heretofore mentioned,;
and trom them he conceived tbe j
combination for thai is what hel
wanted an international show be
sent tor Lafayette and ordered his
friends up from Old Virginia with
I the specimens carefully labeled ill
bottles, * When he once got hold of
I a nngget of gold from au Indian
Chiel he felt rich. When he wanted
; to know anything about the weath
er he consulted the ground hog or
! goose-bone. When—but why go
on f What did such a man kuow !
Who was he, anj way ?
A Very Strang Story.
Two singular im idents, which
will furnish nuts to crack to be-lievers
iu the supet natural, have
come to light in England in regard
to the recent loss ot the Avalanche
in the British Channel. A lad, who
was a great friend of one of the ap-prentices
who was lost, made ar
rangements to accompany him down
the channel and come ashore with
the pilot, but at the last moment
before sailing he was seized with
such an Indefinable and uugovem
able misgiving thai he declined to
go, anil thus escaped aim isl certain
death. The ippteuti'.- who was
lost had a rain, vel dog which was
very fond ot him, and which an-swered
to a sin nl dog whistle which
be carried. On the night ol the
shipwreck his mother and aunt
were in the sitting room and the
dog in the kitclu B. Betwei n !) and
in o'clock the ladies were startled
by hearing a shrill whistle upstairs,
ili sound resembling thai ol the dog
whistle nsed bv the young man.—
The dog beard it also, gave his
IISUHI recognizing bark, and Imoud-
claims Inn instrument to bej where | ed up stairs, where he supposed1 hhiiss
bv sound could be telephoiiically master was. The whistle w-ts heard
transmitted and phonograpbically just a'»on« the time tin:: the Avar
registered iu visible sigus capable j anohe went down, and it was heard
translation
Tui - seems
of the
points
of ceil am and prompt
into written language,
at first glance an almost inconceiv
able achievement, but a slight rei-erence
lo tbe method employed
should dispel all doubts:
telephoiiomaph" is I he name
new combination, and i.s
are a follows :
First. Telepl es. as iu common
nse, lor lbs transmission of the
sounds of I he speakvi'- voice.
Second. A telegraphic instrn
ment oi the same nature as the
printing telegraph, whereby the
sounds may be registered by pho-no
graphic signs upon slips of pa-per
as in the printing telegraph.
Third. A delicate and ingenious |
instrument which indicates the
slightest or loudest tones, and |
produces currents that open the
precise key that would indicate
them. ,
Fourth. An alphabet ol rounds
arranged upon phonographic priu
ciples, bv which every combination
of sound's and inflection iu lau-goage
can be fully indicated
The eutire machine is electric
and automatic, and the phono
| o\ wo credible witnesses, whose
testimony was confirmed by the
response made to it by the dog of
the lost sailor.
Sheep and Dog3-
Hr-MtH", I>>e- '-"-'• '*""
To the Editors of tht Dispatch:
Farming iu Virginia H up-hill
work, resulting maiuly from three
i-aii.-es.vi/: Worn oat lands, bad
-,ia,i-. and trespasses with dogs
Worn out I mils may be
1
and
but
im
und
am
five
of
the
junliiig.
renovated by seeding in grass
leedrbgoi grazing with Bheep
this process is rendered almoo
pos.-ibio by tbe prominenc*
protection jiven to dogs.
living the experiment on a
acre field with » small Sock
-lo-ep. and although 1 tak
precaution to house them at night
they are so worried in the day by
hunters with dogs that it makes
the experiment impracticble. Sheep
ate so timid that the appearance ol
yelping hounds and cuts among
them sets back the thrift of the
bheep so much as to render good
aud successful breeding impossible.
For the Patriot.
Whither Drifting
Where do we stand to-day,
This -he cloee of 18T7,
Are we -till further a way,
Or • e we Mam Heaven f
O let as exemine oor hee-ru,
And see if all ,, well,
If nearer the e»leeti»l world.
Or bearing down to HeU,
Ah ! jee let m atop dear one,
And eee whereon we stud.
Whether on the solid rock,
Or ou the crumbling send.
. If uot ajpon that solid rock,
The nuly safei, given,
We must he farther Mill from God,
still further off from Heaven.
O, then I warn TOO SOW.
Lift np your heart in prayer,
To God, our Father, in the akiea,
To show you when you are.
_ D- L. C.
High Point, N. C.
HOUEHOLD RECIPES
Cur-ant Saucr.—Vat in a small
saucepan a pint of Espngnole sauce,
a' pinch ot cinnamon on two
tablespoontnls of currant jelly ; mix
well, boil five minutes, preen
through a uapkin into another
saucepan, add four ounces of dried
currants, boil two minutes longer
and serve in a sauce bowl
Steued Beef—Boil, peel and cut
in slices a sullicient quantity of red
beets; try a chopped onion in two
ounces of butter, add an ounce of
Hour and dilute with a pint of good
broth ; mingle well; set on the fire
till itboils; then add the beets aud
season with salt and pepper ; boil
slowly ten minutes longer, and
finishing with two parts of butter
and a tablespoonful of vinegar,
serve.
Cold Slaugh.—Shave cabbage
fine, scald half pint of vinegar,
mix one small teaspoonful ot norn
starch in two thirds cap of cream,
(or condensed milk a very little
• liiiincr.i with oue egg well beaten
and a little salt, pour the scalded
vinegar ou the mixture very slowly
so as not to break the egg, then
boil until thick, pour hot on tbe
cabbage, a few capers aud olives
will improve tbe slaugh for those
who are fond of such things. Tbe
above is a very nice dish to eat
cither with tried or scolloped oys-ters.
Sponge Cake.—Take the weight
of ten eggs iu the finu white sugar,
and the weight of seveu eggs iu
.-ilted Hour; beat briskly together
to fifteen minutes the sngarand the
yolks of twelve eggs: then lutothis
stir the grated peel and juice of oue
lemon, the white of the twelve eggs
beaten to a very stiff troth, anil
lastly the Hour. Stir in these in-gredients/
juicklr, and bake imme-diately
in a brisk oven. The pro-portions
here given will make three
!oaves,|imd if skillully compounded,
will result iu a superior sponge
cake.
Pen Soup.—Use half a pint, or
•even ounces ol dried peas, tor
every two quarts ol soup >ou want.
But them iu three quarts ot cold
water, after washing them well;
bring them slowly to a lioil : add a
bone, or a bit of ham, if you have
it to spare, one turnip, and one
carrot peeled, one onion «!uck with
three cloves, and simmer three
hours, stirring occasionally to pre-vent
burning; theu pass the soup
through the sieve with the aid ol a
potato masher and it it shows any
sign of settling stir into it one
tablespoonful each of butter aud
Hour mixed together dry, this will
prevent settling; meantime fry
some dice of stale bread, about two
slices, cut half an inch square, in
hot lat, drain them on a sieve, and
put them in the bottom of tbe soup
tureen in which the |>ea soup is
served ; or cut some bits ol verj
hard stale bread, or dry toast, to
use instead of tbe fried bread. By
the time the soup is done it will
have boiled down to two quarts,
aud will be very thick aud good.
1'u.sts Top End Ihncn.—Mr, Bruin
ol Newark, N. .1., in a discussion at
the American farmers' club, agreed
with 1'rolessor Brewer, and said
posts should be set top eud down.
Mr. Hudson took issue with the
New Jersey farmer, and advocated
posts butt eud down.
Whereupon President Ely and
various other members reiterated
the first cry oi -top end down," the
majority being ou this side.
Mr. Curbs briefly gave the theory
of placing posts top end down : the
wood contains ells through which
the sap lines and falls. Seta post
butt down—the natural way—and
capillary attraction will draw the
water from the ground through
these pores, hence the jiost is dryer
wheu put top end down. As a
rule, the older the growth the poor
er the timber; what is known a-second
growth usually has the pre-ference.
Salt water will preserve
wood almost indefinitely; hence
posts which aie salted wheu put
down will last much longer than
without this precaution.
A farmer having experience with
chestnut posts said that he had
tound that chestnut poets of young
timber lasted much longer than
old ; that those set top eud down.
Also, that smaller |K>sts, say three
to four inches in diameter, outlast
larger [tosts. The best size for en-during
is Irom lour to eight inches
in diameter ; the larger sizes above
live inches to be split.
FARMER'S COLUMN
Study the Soil
It is in vegetable as in animal
life; a mother crams her child ex-clusively
with arrow root—if be-comes
fat, but, alas! it is rickety,
and gets its teeth very slowly aad
with difficulty. Mamma is igno-rant,
or never thinks that ber off-spring
cannot make bone, or, what
is the same thing, phosphate of
lime, the principal balk of bone,
out of starch. It does its best, and
were it not for a little milk and
bread, perhaps, now and then a
little meat and soup, it wonld have
DO bones and teeth at all. Far-mers
keep poultry; and what la
true of fowls is true of a eafbage,
a turnip, or an ear of wheat. If we
mix with the food of fowls a sulli-cient
quantity of eggshells or
chalk, which they eat greedily,
they will lay many more eggs than
before. A well fed towl is dispos
ed to lay a vast number of eggs,
but cannot do so without the mate-rials
for shells, however nonriasang
'ii other respects her food may be.
A fowl with tbe best will in the
world, not finding soy lime in the
soil, nor mortar fssta walla, no.-
calcareous matter in her food, Is in-capaciated
from laying eggs at all.
Let farmers lay such facts as these,
which are matters of common ob-servation,
to heart, and tranfer the
anrlogy, as they may justly do, to
the habits of plants, which are aa
truly alive, and answer as closely
to evil or jndieious treatment, aa
their own horses.
A New Foosi ahx Horses.
A new kind of mash for horses is
now coming into nse. It is thus
described by the California Far
ner: It is composed of 2 quarts
of oats, 1 of bran and a half a pint
of flax seed. The oats are first
placed in the stable bucket, over
which is placed tbe linseed, add
boiling water, then the bran, cover
the mixture with an old rag and
allowing it thus to rest for five
hours ; then stir the mass np well.
The bran absorbs, while retaining '
the vapor and tbe linseed binds
the oats and bran together; a
greater quantity of flax seed would
make the preparation too oily and
less relished. One leed per day is
sufilciea4j it is easily digested; and
and is especially adapted to young
animals, adding to their volume
rather than to their height, giving
substance to the frame. 1'rol.
Sampson reminds us not to over-load
food, i-i connection with the
amelioration of stock. He consid-ers
oats, so generally given sheep,
as objectiouab.e and approaching
the unprofitable : rams generally
received 1 pouud of oats daily;
ewes hall the quantity. Oats torm
ing an exciting food, are especially
suited to rams during the season
they are to serve, but for hasten-ing
the development ol young
sheep they only build up the bones
not the flesh.
What is High Farming.
An American farmer ol note,
alter visiting England and cxamin.
ing with llu-ciitic.ii eye of a prac-tical
and experienced agriculturist
the system pursued there, says:
"I am thoroughly confirmed iu my
old faith that the only good farmer
nl our future is to be the "high
farmer." Tin re is a widely prevail-ing
antipathy among the common
farmers ol our country against not
only the practice ol high tanning,
bill against the us- nl Hie phrase
by agricultural wi •. i ■>. Tins is all
wrong, and should be at once cor-rected.
Through seine misconcep-tion
ol the meaning ol (he phrase,
and ol Ps application, they have
come to believe it synonymous with
theoretlical "book laiigled notions,''
boasted progress, followed by dis-appointed
and final failure. This
is all an error. High [arming sim-ply
means thorough cultivation,
liberal manuring, bountiful crops,
good leed, ami pav ing profits there
Irom. li i- n it strange that mis
conceptions have arisen in tbe
minds of doubting farmers who
have been eye witnesses to some of
the spread eagle uxperiments of en-thnsiastic
larmers, better supplied
with money obtained in a business
I bey knew how to mauage than
With practical experience on the
I a i in. Boiiutilul crops and paying
profits, oi course, are what larmers
who are depending upon tbe farm
lor an II.come are striving to ob-lan.
; and every yeai as it passes is
reconfirming the opinion that prof-its
are small, aud will grow lie^tfiu-full)
less where high fanning is
not practiced."
fioir to Cure Cancer*.—Make a
tea ot the common red clovei
Drink of it freely ; say as much as
a pint a day. Oo this aud yonr
canc-r will disappear. I have
known of it curing in four cases,
one when the doctors had tailed to
give any reliof whatever.
Waste of Land.
If a farm of 100 acres is divided
bj fences into lields of tea acres
each, there are five mile• of femes.
II each ictii— now is one rod wide,
no less than 10 acres of the land
are occupied bj them. This is
equal to six and one fourth per
cent, ol the i.ii.a aud the loss of
the laud is exactly equal to a ohai |6
ol ix aud oue fourth per cent, on
the whole value of the farm. But
neatly ever} leuice low in the coun-try
is made a nursery for weeds,
which stock ih, whole farm, and
make an immense amount of labor
necessary to keep them from smoth-ering
the crops. Much damage
always results to the crop from
these weed.-, and il thebC i-xpuuses
are add.-.l to the til -t oue, the
whole will easily sum np to L'o i>er
cent, "r a t..\ ol oui li'th the valne
ot the taim. To remedy this, we
would have lewei Luces, or we
would clean ami SOU down the.
ler.ee rows to grass or clover, aud
mow them twice a year. Ten acres
ot clover or uinotli.v would at least
supply a farm with .seed aud a few
tons of hay every year. We would
iu short, consider the fence rows
as a valuable part of the farm, and
list' them as such.—Amricaa Agri-culturist.
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The tomato is one of tho most
poweiful aperients and in all a lice
lions ot tbe liver, where calomel is
generally used, it is the most ef-lective
and least harmful remedial
agent known to thi profession.—
Vrof. Bennett.
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