BY MEYERS & MENGEL.
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TKE BSDPOBII GAZETTE is published every Thurs
day morning by METERS A MSKOEL, at $2.00 per
annum, if paid strictly in advance ; $2.50 if paid
within six months; $3.00 if not paid within six
months. All subscription accounts MUST be
settled annually. No paper will he sent out of
the State unless paid for IN ADVANCE, and all such
übscriptions will invariably be discontinued at
the expiration of the time for which they are
aid.
All ADVERTISEMENTS for a less term than
three months TEN CENTS per line for each In
sertion. Special notices one-half additional All
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imited or individual interest, and notices of mar
riages and deaths exceeding five line?, ten cents
per line. Editorial notiees fifteen cents per line.
All legal Notices of every Bind, and Orphans'
Court and Judicial Sales, are required by law
t be published in both papers published in this
place.
All advertising due after first insertion.
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JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with
neatness and dispatch. THE GAZETTE OFFICE has
just been refitted with a Power Press and new type,
and everything in the Printing line can be execu
ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest
rates —TERMS CASH.
UTAH letters should be addressd to
MEYERS A MENGEL,
Publishers.
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ITIII E BED FG R D GAZETTE
POWER PRESS
P RIN TIN G ESTABLISH MENT,
BEDFORD, PA.
MEYERS & MEN GEL
PROPRIETORS.
Having recently made additional im
provements t< our office, we are pre
pared to execute all orders for
PLAIN AND FANCY
JOB P R I N T I N Gr ,
With dispatch and in the most
SUP ERIO R STYL E.
CIRCULARS, LETTER HEADS, BILL
HEADS, CHECKS, CERTIFICATES,
BLANKS, DEEDS, REGISTERS, RE
CEIPTS, CARDS, HEADINGS, ENVEL
OPES, SHOWBILLS, HANDBILLS, IN
VITATIONS, LABELS,\c.bfc.
Our facilities for printing
POSTERS, PROGRAMMES, Ac.,
FOR
CONCERTS AND EXHIBITIONS,
ARE UNSURPASSED.
"PUBLIC SALE" BILLS
Printed at short notice.
We can insure complete satisfaction
as to time and price
rjVHE INQUIRER
BOOK STORE,
opposite the Mengel House,
BEDFORD, PA.
The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the
the following articles belonging to the
Book Business, at CITY RETAIL PRICES :
MISCEL LAN EO US BOOKS.
N O V E L S.
BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, AC.:
Large Family Bibles,
Small Bibles.
Medium Bibles,
Lutheran Hymn Books,
Methodist Hymn Books,
Smith's Dictionary of the Bible.
History of the Books of the Bible,
Pilgrim's Progress, Ac., Ac , Ac.
Episcopal Prayer Books,
Presbyterian Ilymn Books,
SCHOOL BOOKS.
TOY BOOKS.
STATIONERY,
Congress, Legal,
Record, Foolscap,
Letter, Congress Letter,
Sermon, Commercial Note,
Ladies' Gilt, Ladies' Octavo,
Mourning, French Note,
Bath Post. Damask Laid Note,
Cream Laid Note, Envelopes, Ac.
WALL PAPER.
Several Hundred Different Figures, the Largest
lot ever brought to Bedford county, for
sale at prices CHEAPER THAN
EVER SOLD in Bedford.
BLANK BOOKS.
Day Books, Ledgers,
Account Books, Cash Books.
Pocket Ledgers, Time Books,
Tuck Memorandums, Pass Books,
Money Books, Pocket Books,
Blank Judgment Notes, drafts, receipts, Ac
INKS AND INKSTANDS.
Barometer Inkstands,
Gutta Percba,
Cocoa, and
Morocco Spring Pocket Inkstands.
Glass and Ordinary Stands for Schools,
Flat Glass Ink Wells and Rack,
Arnold's Writing Fluids,
Hover's Inks,
Carmine luks, Purple Inks,
Charlton's Inks,
Eukolon for pasting, Ac.
PENS AND PENCILS.
Gillot's, Cohen's,
licllowbush A Carey's, Payson,
Dunton, and Soribner's Pens,
Clark's Indellible. Faber'sTablet,
Cohen's Eagle,
Office, Faber's
Guttknecht's, Carpenter's Pencils.
PERIODICALS.
Atlantic Monthly,
Jlarper's Magazine,
Madame Demorest's Mirror of Fashions,
Elootic Magazine,
Godey's Lady's Book,
Galaxy,
Lady's Friend,
Ladies' Repository,
Our Young Folks,
Nick Nax,
Yahkee Notions,
Budget of Fun,
Jolly Joker,
Phunny Phellow.
Lippincott's Magazine,
Riverside Magazine,
Waverly Magazine,
Billion's Magazine,
Gardner's Monthly,
Harper's Weekly,
rank Leslie's Illustrated,
Chimney Corner.
New York Loiger,
New Y'ork Weekly,
Harper's Bazar,
Kvery Saturday,
Living Age,
Putnam's Monthly Magazine,
Arthur's llosne Magazine,
Oliver Optic's Boys and Girl's Magazine Ac.
Constantly on hand to a;-oaiodate those who want
to purchase living reading tnattter.
Only a part of rhe vast number of articles per
tainiug to the Book and Stationery business,
which we are prepared to sell cheaper than the
cheapest, are above enumerated. Give us a call
We buy and sell for CASH, and by this arrange- i
inent we expect to sell as cheap as goods of this
class are sold anywhere
Jang 1870 '
*UbrcUancous.
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| TELEGRAPH IN CHINA.
THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY S
OFFICE,
Nos. 23 & 2f> Nassau Street,
NEW YORK.
Organized under special charter from the State
of New York.
CAPITAL $5,000,000
50.000 SHARES, SIOO EACH.
DIRECT O R S.
Hot ANDREW G. CURTIN, Philadelphia
PAULS. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China.
FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Bu tterfield A C
New York.
ISAAC LIVERMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen
; tral Railroad, Boston.
ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American
Express Company, New York.
Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y.
0. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele
graph Company, New York.
FLETCHER WESTRAY Westray, Gibbs A
Uardeastle, New York.
NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York.
OFFICERS.
A G. CURTIN, President.
N. MICKLES, Vice President
GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com
monwealth,) Treasurer.
| HON A K. MeCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor.
The Chinese Government having (through the
Hon. Anson Burlingame) conceded to this Com
pany the privilege of connecting the great sea
ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele
graph cable, we propose commencing operations
j in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred
miles at once, between the following ports, viz :
Population.
Canton 1,000,000
Macoa 60,000
Hong-Kong 250,000
Swatow 200.000
Amoy 250,000
Foo-Chow 1,250,000
Wan-Chu 600,000
Ningpo 400,000
Hang Chean 1,200,000
Shanghai 1,000,000
Total 5,910,000
These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,-
i 000,000, and an enormous domestic trade, besides
; which we have the immense internal commerce of
! the Empire, radiating from these points, through
j its canals jjnd navigable rivers.
The cabfh being laid, this company proposes
erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and
trustworthy means of communication, which must
; command there, as everywhere else, the commu
nications of the Government, of business, and of
social life especially in China. She has no postal
system, and her only means now ofcommuuicating
information is by couriers on land, and by steam
ers on water.
The Western World knows that China is a very
large country, in the main densely peopled; but
few yet realize that she contains more than a third
of the human race. The latest returns made to
her central authorities for taxing purposes by the
local magistrate make her population Four hun
dred. and Fourteen millions, and this is more
likely to be under than over the actual aggregate.
Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old,
not only can but do read and write. Her civili
zation is peculiar, but her literature is as exten
sive as that of Europe China is a land of teach
ers and traders; and the latter are exceedingly
quick to avail themselves of every proffered facili
ty for procuring early information. It is observed
in California that the Chinese make great use of
the telegraph, though it there transmits messages
in English alone. To-day great numbers of fleet
steamers are owned by Chinese merchants, and
used by them exclusively for the transmission of
early intelligence. If the telegraph we propose
connecting all their great seaports, were now in
existence, it is believed that its business would
pay the cost within the first two years of its suc
cessful operation, and would steadily increase
thereafter
No enterprise commends itself as in a greater
I degree renumerative to capitalists, and to our
whole people. It is of vast national importance
commercially, politically and evangelically.
stock of this Company has been un
qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi
ness men, as a desirable investment by editorial
articles in the New York Herald, Tribune,
World, Times, Post, Express, Independent, and
in the Philadelphia North American, Press,
Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph.
Shares of this company, to a limited number,
may be obtained at SSO each, $lO payable down,
sls on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in
monthly instalments of $2.50 each, commencing
December 1, 1868, on application to
DREXEL & CO.,
34 South Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica
tion to Heed A Schell, Bankers, who arc author
ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all ne
cessary information on the subject. sept2syl
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W E combine style with neatness oi fit.
And moderate prices with the best workmanship
JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE
604 MARKET STREET,
GEO W. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA.
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RPJIE BEST PLACE TO BUY
1 choice brands of choiring Tobaccos and Ci
gars, at wholesale or retail, is at Oster's. Good
natural leaf Tobaccos at 75 cents. Try our 5 cent
Yara and Jiarauna cigars—they cant be heat,
nnelßjn3.
BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 18, 1869.
pnt-<&ootl$, &(.
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AT J M. SHOEMAKER'S BARGAIN
STORE
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M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
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M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
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M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
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Bedford, Pa., June 11. 1869.
/ 1 11. 08TER & CO.
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READ AND SPEAK OF IT!
COME SEE AND BE CONVINCED !
We are now receiving our usual extensive and
well assorted STOCK OF NEW AND
CUE A P SUMM Elt GOO DS,
And are now prepared to offer SMASHING BIG
BARGAINS TO
C A S II B U Y E It S ,
111 Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Car
pets, Oil Cloths, Cotton Yarns, Carpet
Chains, Huts, Boots, Shoes,
Clothing, Brooms, Haslets,
Wall aud Window
Papers, Groceries. Queens
ware, Tobaccos, Cigars, Fish, Salt. r
IT e invite everybody to rati and see for them
selves. NO TREBLE TO SHOW GOODS.
T E It M S GASH.
BRING ALONG VOCB CASH and we will guarantee
to SELL you Goods as CHEAP as the same styles
and qualities can be sold in Central Pennsylva
nia.
Be assured that CASH in hand is a wonderfully
winning argument, and that those who BUY and
SELL for CASH are always mastersof the situation.
junelSmS G. R. OSTER A CO.
NT II It ACT T E COAL!
MITCHELL & HAGGERTY,
Shippers and
DEALERS IN COAL,
IIARKISBUKG, PA.,
Would respectfully beg the attention of
consumers of Anthracite coal to the
purity and cleanliness of that which
we are now sending to Bedford.
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SPIDLE <t- MINNICH,
PAINTERS. PAPER-HANGERS, Ac.
The above firm are prepared to do all kinds of
PLAIN and FANCY PAINTING,
GRAINING, and everything in that line, in town
and country. Paper hanging promptly atended
to.
Shop on the corner of Pitt and Richard streets
opposite Hartley A Metzger's flarlward store.
oct2Byrl.
J A T E S T S T Y LE S
WINTER GOODS
MRS. E. V. MO WRY
Has just received from Philadelphia and New
York, and now openod a stock ot the latest styles
of
MILLINER Y. DRY GOODS, FANCY
NOTIONS, IfC., ifC.
AII of which will be sold at very short Profit*, i
Bedford oct2Bin3 J
FILW (FINITE.
THE IHStOSTEXTEI) <OI'PEE.
An old discontented couple, who had
hard work to procure the necessaries
of life, were constantly complaining of
the faults and failings of others, instead
| of seeking by Divine help to rectify
their own.
"All this trouble and sorrow in the
world is through Adam aiul Eve,"
the old man would exclaim. "Jf J had
been Adam i never would have allow
ed a woman to lead me in such a
scrape."
A wealthy and pious lady lived
near, who had frequently relieved the
old man and his wife. One day, in
passing, she heard them grumbling as
usual about Adam and Eve. She felt
anxious to convince them of the im
portance of being contented with the
station in which Providence had placed
them, and how wrong it was to be thus
constantly murmuring at their lot in
life.
The next morning the lady's ser
vant in livery came to the cottage
with a message from her mistress for
the old couple to go to the mansion.
The looks of discontentment vanish
ed for once, as the old folks were de
lighted with such a mark of distinc
tion from one so very rich.
On arriving at the mansion the lady
received them most kindly, and thus
addressed them :
"I have set you apart two rooms in
my house, and so long as you attend
j to my wishes you will be allowed to
; remain here, and have everything
needful for your comfort. Hut if you
disobey any of my rules you will be
immediately turned out and sent back
to your old mud cottage."
"Thank you, thank you kindly," re
sponded the old man.
"Never fear we will do anything a
gainst your wishes, ma'am," added
the old woman.
"Very well," said the lady, "then
you will find a home here for life."
Everything necessary for their com
fort was provided, and all went on
well for some time. There was one
thing that somehow puzzled them.
For several days there was placed
j upon their dinner table a covered dish,
which they were desired not to touch.
"My lady desires me to say that ev
ery dish is at your service, except that
one," said the servant.
On one day, having nearly finished
their hearty repast, the curiosity of the
old woman was greatly excited as to
the contents of the forbidden dish, and
she said to her husband :
"What can it be ?"
"Never mind," said the old man,
we've had a capital dinner without
it."
"As the lady was doing us good, she
; might as well let us taste every dish,"
; added the old woman.
"Why, yes, she might as well have
done handsomely,,' rejoined the old
j man.
"There can be no harm in looking,"
: continued the old woman, "the lady
will never be the wiser for that."
The old man was silent, and silence
serves to give consent. He was al
most as curious as his wife about the
j strange dish. The temptation was so
j strong, and the longer it was parried
i with the stronger it became.
"Oh ! oh ! oh !" exclaimed the ter
rified old woman, as she started back
! and upset the dish on the floor.
Out jumped a mouse.
The uproar roused the lady of the.
j house who suspected what was the
, matter, and she was quickly at the
i door.
"What, is this the return you make
for my kindness? You, who were so
' ready to blame Adam and Eve for eat
ing the forbidden fruit, could not obey
my trifling request ? You have now
forfeited (he privileges I conferred on
you, and you must therefore leave my
house immediately, and return to your
mud cottage. Never blame Adam and
Eve for what you would evidently
have done yourself, had you been in
their places."
QDITBA SPECTACLE.— One of the
handsomest and best-dressed gentle
men in the city, says the New Orleans
Picayune, is a worthy merchant, whose
great personal care of himself and his
addiction to fiuc living have procured
him a rotundity which, while it de
tracts nothing from his good looks, ut
terly conceals from his own inspection
his extremities. This circumstance
twas on Friday morning the occasion
to him a mortifying exposure,
while others looked upon it as an a
in using spectacle. Before break fast he
invariably takes a morning walk, and
his urbanity and polite recognition are
looked for by early pedestrians with
pleasure.
Dressing himself, therefore, with
great care, he sallied out, but strange
to say, every one he met turned their
heads and laughed, and some ladies
from the gallery of a residence over
he way ran screaming into the house,
"What did it mean ?"
At last he met a little boy whose im
moderate laughter drew from him the
indignant inquiry :
"What do you see about me, you lit
tle scoundrel, that everybody laughs
at ?"
"Why, Mr. D , you've forgot to
put on your pants !"
Overwhelmed with shame the old
gentleman hurried home and eagerly
sought out the mirror. In his haste
he had carefully adjusted his attire,
hut had, indeed, forgot his pants.
Some people don't believe in adver
tising because they say "nobody reads
the papers." But let them get into a
scrape and you will find them flying
around to the newspaper office with
the request, "Please don't mention
that little affair, it's all a mistake; I
don't want my name published all ov
er the country."
A .MOVIN4J SESHOS.
We have the subjoined discourse, de
livered by a Southern divine who had
removed to a new field of labor. To
his new flock, on the first day of his
ministration, he gave some reminiscen
ces of his former charge as follows:
"My beloved brethering, before I
take my text I must tell you about
my parting with my old congregation.
On the morning of last sabbath I
went into the meeting house to preach
my farewell discourse. Just in frontof
me sot the old fathers and mothers in
Israel; the tears coursed down their fur
rowed cheeks; their tottering forms
and quivering lips breathed out a sad,
"Fare ye well'.Brother Wat kins,—ah /"
Behind them sot the middle-aged men
and matrons ; health and vigor beam
ed from every countenaucejand as they
looked up, I could see in their dreamy
eyes, "Pare ye well, Brother Watkins,—
ah /" Behind them sot the boys and
girls that 1 had baptised and gathered
into the Sabbath School. Many times
had they been rude and boisterous,
but now their merry laugh was hush
ed, and in the silence I could hear—
"Fare ye well, Brother Watkins,—ah /"
Around on the back seats, and in the
aisles, stood and sot the colored breth
ering, with their black faces and hon
est hearts, and as I looked upon them I
could see a— "Fare ye well, Brother
Wat kins, — ah /" When I had finished
my discourse and shaken hands with
the brethering—ah! I passed out to
take a last look at the old church—ah !
The broken steps, the flopping blinds
and moss covered roof suggested only
—"Fare yewell, Brother Watkins, —ah!"
1 mounted my old gray mare, with my
earthly possessions in my saddle-bags,
and as I passed down the street the
servant-girls stood in the doors, and
with their brooms waved me a— "Fare
ye well, Brother Watkins, —ah /" As
I passed out of the village the low
wind blew softly through the waving
branches of the trees and moaned—
"Fare ye welt, Brother Watkins,—ah !
1 came down to the creek, and as the
old mare stopped to drink I could
hear the water rippling over the peb
bles a— "Fare ye well, Brother Watkins,
—ah !" And even the little fishes, as
their bright fins glistened in the sun
light, I thought, gathered around to
say, as best they could— "Fare ye well,
Brother Watkins,—ah /" I was slowly
passing up the hill, meditating upon
the sad vicisitudes and mutations of
life, when suddenly out boun ed a hog
from a fence corner, with aboo! aboo!
and I came to the ground with my
saddle-bags by my side. As I lay in
the dust of the road my old gray mare
ran up the hill, and as she turned the
top she waved her tail back at ine seem
ingly to say— "Fare ye well, Brother
Watkins,—ah l tell you brethering,
it is affecting times to part with a con
gegration you have been with for thir
ty years—ah !"
WEBSTER'S RETAINING FEE.
S. C., Jr., sends the following anec
dote of Daniel Webster to the New
York Ledger:—
One day a gentleman from New Bed
ford waited upon Mr. Webster in his
office on Court Street—wishing to en
gage him for the defence of an im
portant ease in law. The visitor was
himself the defendant, and the amount
atjdake in the suit was sixty or seven
ty thousand dollars, lie presented all
the important points, and Mr. Webster
was willing to undertake the task.—
But the client could not tell exactly
when the case would come in.
"Very well," said Webster. "Ifyou
wish to retain me for the defence in
this suit, I will hold myself in readi
ness, and will not engage for the plain
tiff."
The gentleman asked what the re
taining fee would be.
"A thousand dollars."
"A thousand dollars!"
"See what I engage to do sir. I not
only hold myself at your command,
perhaps a month or more, but I debar
myself from accepting any offer, no
matter how large, from the plaintiff."
The applicant filled out a cheek for
one thousand dollars, and gave it to
the great expounder.
"And now, sir," said Daniel, after
he had put the cheek in his pocket, "I
will give you a bit of advice gratis.—
"If you can compromise this business,
upon fair terms, with the plaintiff, you
had better do so."
The client acknowledged his thanks,
ar.d then took his leave. Daniel sent
the check to the bank, where it was
duly honored.
On the very next day the gentleman
from New Bedford called upon Mr.
Webster again. The plaintiff was in
Boston —had come up on the previous
day on purpose to compromise—and a
compromise had been affected.
"Inshort" said thcclcint, "we have
made a clear and satisfactory settle
ment."
Mr Webster was very glad ; and hav
ing so expressed himself; and duly
congratulated his visitor, he would
have turned to other business; but
the visitor seemed to have something
furtheron his mind—something that
made him restive and uneasy.
"Of course," ho ventured, after a
pause, "I shall not require your ser
vices, Mr. Webster."
"Certainly not, sjr ; "
"And—and—how about the thou
sand dollars I paid you?" faintly quer
ied the gentleman, who could not see
the propriety of paying such a sum for
services which were never to be ren
dered."
"O—ah," responded Daniel, with a
bland smile, "you don't scent to under
stand. It is very simple. That was a
retaining fee—called, in law; a retain
er. What should I retain if not my
fee ?"
And the gentleman from New Bed
ford went away thoroughly instructed
in the legal signification of "a retain
er."
HOW FAIt VI KltN CAW KEEP THEIR
FARMS PRODUCTIVE.
This subject is one of the special in
terest, and deserves the attention of
every agriculturalist. By'what meth
od is the richness of the soil to be pre
served and continued in productive
state? This question is based on tiie
following assumptions, viz: that the
amount of produce depends on the
quantity of manure applied as food for
plants, of whatever kind they may be.
Although nature has furnished man
with a soiljof virgin richness and fertil
ity, it cannot continue so while we
draw from it yearly, and continually,
our vast resources of food and clothing.
The soil must he renovated, or it will
cease to yield her increase for the sup
ply of our wants. The farmers of the
Southern States, by neglecting to re
new their exhausted lands, have be
come poor, and in many instances
have abandoned them, as worn out
and worthless. Whereas, had they,
from time to time, renewed the fer
tility of their lands with suitable ma
nure, there would not now be seen
those vast, deserted and worn out plan
tations that exist in that section of the
Union. If we do not renew the fer
tility of our soil, it will cease to re
compense us for our toil. We must
expend money and labor upon it, in
order to provide for our wants and
those of our families. In order to de
velope the resources that nature has
imparted to the soil, it must be well
tilled.
Suppose a man should take a quan
tity of new land for the purpose of
gaining a livelihood, and should year
ly plant it with corn, or sow it with
wheat; if he should neglect to renew
it, in a few years it would degenerate,
and his crops would grow scantly and
soon fail altogether. Now what is
necessary to keep his land in good con
dition is thorough cultivation, by
draining, (if it be wet) and by careful
aud judicious manuring; deep plow
ing. also, and harrowing are necessary
to pulverize the soil, and give free
passage to the roots of plants to de
scend. By thus conducting his farm,
the owner may for an indefinite time,
reap a sure and plentiful reward for
his labor, and at the same time keep
his lands in prime condition.
It is not judicious management of
a farm to plant or sow oue kind of
grain from year to year, as this will
soon exhaust the soil, unless highly
manured. A rotation of crops is In
dispensible also, to prevent the land
from degenerating. As to the kiud of
fertilizers to he used, almost every
farmer knows, or ought to know, what
kinds are best adapted to his lands.
Barn-yard, stable and hog manure,
ashes, lime, guauo, and all kinds of
vegetation in a state of decay, are use
ful manures, and should be carefully
preserved for use.
"I WISH I HAD CAPITAL."— SO we
heard a great strapping youug man
exclaim the other day. We conclud
ed that he wanted practical advice, and
we shall give it to him.
You want capital, do you? And
sjppose you had what you call capital,
what would you do with it? Haven't
you hands, feet, muscle, bone, brains,
health, and don't you call them capi
tal ? What more capital did God give
anybody ?
"Oh ! but they are not money," say
you. But they are more than money,
and nobody can take them from you.
Don't you know how to use them?
If you don't its time you wore learn
ing. Take hold of the plow, or hoc,
or jack-plain, or broad-ax , and go to
work. Your capital will then, in due
time, yield you a large interest. Ay,
but there's the rub, you don't want to
work, you want money on credit, so
you can play gentleman and speculate,
and end by playing the vagabond.
Gr you want a farm with plenty of
hands upon it to do the work, while
you run over the country and dissipate;
or you want to marry some rich girl
who may be foolish enough to take
you for your good looks, that she may
support you.
Shame on you, young man ! Go to
work with the capital you have, and
you'll soon make interest enough upon
it to give you as much money as you
need, and make you feel like a man.
If you cannot make money on what
capital you have, you could not if you
had a large amount in cash. If you do
not know how to use bone, muscle,
aud brains, you would not know how
to use gold ; you would only know
how to waste it.
Then don't stand about idle, a great
helpless boy, waiting for something to
turn up, but go to work. Take the
first work you can find, no matter
what it is so that you do it well; al
ways do your best, if you manage the
capital you already have, you will soon
havb plenty more to manage; but if
you can not or will not manage the
capi.al God has given you, you will
never have any other to manage. Do
joa hear young man ?
GYPSUM.— Mr. Wiliiard says:—lt
has been estimated that in Herkimer
Co., a third more feed is obtained from
the land one year with another by the
judicious use gypsum. However this
may be, the increase in grass from its
use both in meadows and pastures, is
very considerable, and dairymen re
gard "plaster," as it is termed, as one
of the important adjuncts in dairying.
It is certain that our pastures are kttyt
fresher and greener by the use of "plas
ter," and a neglect in its application
for any considerable time is made ap
parent in the milk pail, and decrease
of the cheese product.
The New Haven Lever sounds this
note of warning: "Beware, young
mau ! The pearl powder now used by
her is poison ! One touch of those
eager lips to that enamelled cheek may
result in death most horrible! Be
warrrre!"
VOL. 65.-'WHOLE No. 5,517.
1.1 VE Tin PER ATE.
A "merchant prince" of New York
—a portly six-footer of great manly
beauty, who never dined without his
brandy and water nor went to bed
withouta terrapin or oyster supper, and
who was never known to be drunk,
died of chronic diarrhoea—a common
end to those who are never intoxicated
and never out of liquor. Hall's Jour
nal of Health gives this account of his
d< i ath:
' Months before he died—he was a
year in dying—he could eat nothing
without distress, and at death the
whole alimentary canal was a mass of
disease; in the midst of his millions,
he died of inanition. That is not the
haif, reader. He had been a steady
drinker, a daily drinker, for twenty
eight years. Scrofula had been eatingup
one daughter for tifteen years; anoth
er is in the madhouse; the third and
fourth were of unearthly beauty ; there
was a kind of granduer in that beauty;
but they blighted and paled, and fa
ded—into heaven we trust—in their
sweet teens ; another is totering on the
verge of the grave, and only one is left
with all the senses, and each of them
is weak as water."
The same periodical instances anoth
er case that should supplement the
one just given:
"A gentleman of thirty-five was sit
ting on a chair, with no specially crit
ical symtoms present; still he was
known to be a'dissipated young man.'
He rose, ran fifty feet, fell down, and
died. The whole covering of the brain
was thickened, its cavities were filled
with a fluid that did not belong to it,
enough to kill a half a dozen men with
apoplexy; a groat portion of one lung
was in a state of gangrene, and nearly
all the other was hardened and useless;
blood and yellow matter plastered the
inner covering of the lungs, while an
gry, red patches of destructive inflama
tion were scattered along the whole al
imentary canal. Why there was e
nough of death in that one man's body
to have killed forty men. The doctor
who talks about guzzling liquor every
day being'healthy,' is a perfect dis
grace to the medical name, and ought
to lie turned out to break rock for the
term of his natural life, at a shilling a
day, and find himself."
FURTHER NOTES ON BREAD-MAK
ING. —Janet, of Ilarrisburg, Penn.,
takes exception to certain ideas on this
subject which have had currency
through the medium of the "House
keepers' Club." Janet, who speaks as
one with authority, thinks the repor
ter of the discussions of the associa
tion named has fallen into a mistake,
especially in relation to brewers' yeast.
"Brewers' yeast," says Janet, "rises
in two hours, and bread set at two or
four in the afternoon, and left to rise
all night, would be very sour in the
morning. And then, to use soda to
correct the acidity that she carefully
allowed to generate Is not making the
matter much better. Soda ought to be
used very little by a housekeeper who
regards the health of her husband and
children, as well as her own. It certain
ly should never outer into bread at all.
It is bad enough to have yeast in it.
The time is coming, I apprehend,
when we shall make bread without e
ven this ingredient." In continuation
of this discourse, Janet proceeds pleas
antly and forcibly as follows:
"Flour in bread has a delicious
sweetness that nothing should destroy.
"It has beeu said of republics that
they may rise to a certain height of
national prosperity, and then must as
assuredly decline. This we deny with
regard to republics, but it is certaiuly
true as to the staff of life,
"There is a point at which the sweet
ness has departed, even before the
sourness begins. The great art is to
arrest the fermentation before it reach
es this point."
PEBBLES.—Never stare any body
full in the face, it is rudelyimpertinent.
lusolent or haughty words, even to
the meanest, always degrades the per
son who uses them, in the eyes of sen
sible people.
Never interrupt a person when ho is
speaking; wait till ho is done, and
then answer respectfully.
Churlishness will render any man
disagreeable, while good humor will
gain love and esteem.
Never seek to be witty at the ex
pense of others, it discovers an uncul
tivated mind.
Avoid unprofitable discussions, they
engender strife.
Mere external beauty is of little
value, and deformed of penson, when
associated with excellent qualities of
minu and heart, should not preclude
our respect and approbation.
When we suffer ourselves to be ruled
by passion, our minds resemble the
puddle in a storm, and as oil poured
upon the waters will allay the waves,
so reason, if we hear her voice, will
calm the tumultuous raving of pas
sion.
The Rome correspondent of a London
paper, writing in regard to the (Ecu
menical Council, says that the dogmat
ic definition of the Assumption of the
Virgin Mary will encounter no obsta
cle, but that the erection into a dogma
of the necessity of the temporal power
is not considered possible by its most
ardent champions.
Letters received by the British Min
ister at Washington indicate that her
Majesty's Goverment is prepared to re
duce the single rate of postage between
the United States and Great Britain to
three-pence, and therefore that theear
ly adoption of this measure of postal
reform is highly probable.
An exchange says, in a town in Ma
ryland, pic-nics are wound up by the
girls standing in a long row, while the
young men go along the line and kiss
them all "good night." Wish we
lived there.