WALKS AN"STALKS ON THE FARM. "Why don t you come West," writes an eminent Iswy.r and farmer of Ohio "and not wear yourself out among those stones . Suppose tba stones hare been placed in the ground on purpose to be taken out, doe. it EU that a good fellow who ba. brums and intelligence enough to do something better should be the man to taketbem out?' I wilt tell my friend why Ido not go West. hirst. Because I am here. Second. Because there is a very general disposition to change, and, as a rule, it is better not to do what everybody else is doing: and consequently those who stav where they are will be likely to do better than those who are anxious to sell their farms and go West. 1 bird. Be- j canse Ido cot believe all the good th.n S s of ;his life are confined to one particular place. Fourth.—Because, so far as I have seen, ta king everything into consideration, farms are cheaper hero than in the West. Fifth. Be- j cause there is abundant opportunity here to j improve our farms, and there is great pleas ure and profit in increasing the productive ness of land. Sixth.—Because 1 have stood in a two hundred acre field of corn in the vi cinity where my friend lives,—land, rich, I mellow, clean, no stones, and few weeds: I nothing to do but plow, harrow, plant, cu:ti vate, and harvest: and repeat the same thing vear after year:—and I did not think I should like tbat kind of farming. It is too monoto nous. To tell the truth I would ranch rather strike a stone occasionally ar.d have the pleas ure of getting it out. "But all the land in Ohio is not of this character." \ ery true; but if you take high rolling upland, you meet with just the same difficulties we have here, and there is no use in selling one farm and buying another merely for the love of change. Here, in Western New York, we have just as good land, all things considered, as there is in Ohio. We may have to pay more atten tion to making manure: we may have to un derdrain more; we may have to work the land more thoroughly, in order to kill weeds and develop the latent plant food in the soil: we may have more stones to get out; but what of all this? There is great pleasure in under draining, it is real fun to get out stones; and the good crops which result from killing weeds and manuring the land afford a kind and degree of satisfaction that can be obtain ed in no other way. It is a mistake, however, to suppose that the West raises large crops without cultiva tion or manuring. The recently published prize essay on the Farming of Delaware Co., Ohio, by Judge Jones, shows tbat even the farmers in this celebrated district need to ex ert themselves in order to raise large crops. He says: "The crop of wheat in 1866 was a failure, being killed outright by hard freezing and high winds while the ground was bare. In 1867 the crop was rerv superior in quality and fair in quantity." He tells us, however, tbat owing to these occasional failures and the high prices of labor, farmers bave "greatly reduced the quantity of land devoted to this important crop." He further stales : "The idea that wheat can no longer be grown with profit prevails to some extent all over the State." And let me say, the idea wilt pre vail so long as it is thought that men, with •"brains and intelligence, should be engaged with something better than getting out stones aud improving the land. "The average yield of wheat in Delaware Co., from 1850 to 1864 was a little over 11 bushels per acre." The county averages 33 bushels of corn per acre, which is about equal to the average iu the Scioto Valley. Ido not think I will go West, and "wear out" my life iu growing such crops. We ran do better here, though it must be confessed that our average yield of corn is no higher. But our land can be made to pro duce 80 busbels. All it needs is "brains and intelligence. *' The crop of oats in this coun ty in 1865 did not average 2" bushels per acre, and barley only 11 bushels; potatoes not 80 bushels per acre; rye not 13 busbels per acre. These are small crops for one of the finest counties in Ohio. And the pasture* are no better. Judge Jones thinks it requires "about two acres to graze a full grown cow or ox, which,"' be adds, "is but little more than half the grass our lands ought to produce." No doubt about that. One of my fields the past summer supported stock equal to at least two cows per acre until- after hay harvest, when I plowed it up, aod summer fallowed it for spring barley. And it was out of a knoll in this very field tbat we got the stones which seem to have excited the pity of my Ohio riend. Now If I can make such land carry double the stock it does in Scioto Valley, and have the pleasure of getting out the stones besides, why should I go West? Mr. Lawes used to say that in England the best farmers were found ou the poorest land, and the poorest farmers on the best land. Thus Norfolk has the poorest land and the worst climate in England, while nowhere in .e world can be found larger crops, cleaner land, or more intelligent enterprising, and wealthy farmers. Devonshire has the best c.iir.ate and the best soil in England, and with some exceptions the poorest fanners. Hitherto this rule did not prove good with ns. \\ e have the best farmers on the best and richest land. It will not always be so. lam mistaken if New England will not produce some of the most enterprising, intelligent, and successful farmers on the continent. - A mei-ican Agriculturist. HORTICULTURAL MAXIMS. W hen fruit trees occupy the giound nothing else should—except very short grass. Fruitfiilness and the growth of the tree cannot be expected in the same year. There is no plum that the curculio will not take, though any kind may sometimes es cape for one year in one place. 1 each borers will not do much damage when stiff clay Is heaped up around the tree a foot high. Pear blight still pnzzles the greatest men. Ihe best remedy known is to plant two for every one that dies. If you don't know how to prune, don't hire a man from the other side of the sea that knows less than you do. Don't cut off a big lower limb unless you are a renter, and don't care what becomes of the tree when your time is out. A tree with the limbs coming out near the ground is worth two trees trimmed up five feet, and four trees trimmed up ten feet, and so on till they are not worth anything. When anybody teila yon of agardner that understands all about horticulture aod agriculture, and tbat he can be hired, don't , ' * w ° rti '* f° r there are no such to 6 ac h a man can make more than you can afford to give him, and if. he has sense enough to understand the business, he will also have enough to know this.-/.// Cranhton, in Dayton Journal. HAS E \OU ANY CHRYSANTHEMUMS? If any one who has a garden has no Chrys anthemums we advise him to get some at once. It is not too late, and any florist will give him a set at a small eost. Put them out and then giva them good cultivation. Be cause they only bloom when everything else has done they are often neglected. We ap preciate them when in flower—flowering after the bard frosts have killed all the tender plants—but we do not always think in time that it is the summer care that gives us this autumn harvest of bioom. How glorious they are in the November days, briogiog back memories of ranuiarl Let ns, then, now prepare for this enjoyment. The first thing to do with a Chrysanthemum, after it has fairly started, is to snub it. Bemorsely pinch off its top, and it will give thauks for the treat ment by throwing out a dozn side branches; pinch these again, and again, until a compact bush is obtained. It will seem bard to the in experienced to do this, but in autumn he will be rewarded by such a profusion of flowers that he will regret that ha did not pinch a little more- We are now speaking of Chrys anthemums out of doors and in common gardens; those who make show plants for the exhibitions grow but one or a few flowers on e =tem, and aim at a different object. \\ ego in for a perfect blaze of flowers, without re gard to the perfection of individual ones. GiTe the sun of Indian summer something to reflect its own rich light—therefore let us have more Chrysanthemums. tumorous. LITERAL ANSWERS. A lecturer in Portland, Maine, or some, where else, was explaining to a little girl how a lobster casts his shell when he had out grown it. Said he, 'What do you do when you outgrow yonr clothes? You cast tbem aside, do you not?' 'Oh, uo,' replied the little one 'we let out the tucks.' Again, a teacher was explaining to a little girl the meaning of ihe word cuticle. 'What is that all over my face and hands?' said he. 'lt's freckles, sir,' answered the little cher ub. An answer of a similar character is often the result of a hard word. 'AViiiiam,' said a mother to her son, who had already eaten a very considerable amount of dinner, 'I don't know whether yon can cat this pudding with impunity.' | 'Well, mav be not,' said William, 'I think I would rather have a spoon.' A lady noticed a boy sprinkling salt OD the sidewalk to take off the ice, and remarked to a friend, pointing to the salt, 'Now that's true benevolence.,' 'No it ain't,' said the boy, somewhat in dignant, 'its salt.' ! So when a lady asked her servant girl if the hired man had cleared off the snow with alacrity, she replied, 'No, ma'am, he used a shovel.' The same literal turn of mind which I bare I been illustrating is somewhat used in tentional'y and perhaps a little mali ciously, and thus becomes the property of wits, instead of blunders. Thus we hear of a very polite and impressive gentleman who said to a youth in the street, 'Boy, may I inquire where Robinson's drug store is ?' 'Certainly, sir,' said the boy. very re spectfully. 'Well, sir,' said the gentleman, after wait ing awhile, 'where is it? 1 'I have not the least idea, your honor,' said the urchin. There was another boy who was accosted by an ascetic middle aged lady with, 'Boy, I want to go to Dover street.,' •Well, ma'aha,' said the boy, 'why don't you go there then?' One day on Lake George a party of gen tlemen strolling amoug the beautiful islands • f the lake with rather bad luck espied a little tellow with a red shirt and an old straw hat I dangling a line over the side of a boat. 'Hallo, boy,' said one of them, 'what are you doing?' 'Fishing.' came the answer. 'Well, of course,' said the gentleman, 'but what do you catch ?' 'Fish, you fool, what do you spose?' 'Did any of you ever see an elephant's skin,' inquired a teacher of an infant class. 'I have,' exclaimed one. 'Where?' asked the teacher. 'On the elephant,* said the boy laughing. Sometimes this sort of wit degenerates or rises, as tbe case may be, into punning, as when Flora pointed pensively to the heavy masses of clouds in the sky, saying: 'I wonder where those clouds art going:' and her brother replied. 'I think they are going to thunder.' Also, as the following dialogue: 'Hello, there ! how do you sell your wood?' 'By the cord.' 'How long has it been cut?' 'Four feet.' 'I mean how long has it been since you cut it?' 'No longer than it is now.' And also, as when Patrick O'Flynn was seen with hi 3 collar and bosotn sadly be grimmed and was indignantly asked by his officer, 'Patrick O'Flynn, how long do you wear a shirt?' 'Twenty-eight inches, sir.' This reminds me of an incident which is said to have occurred recently in Chatham street. New York, where a countryman was clamorously beseiged bv a shep keeper. 'Have yon any fine shirts?' said the coun tryman. 'A splendid assortment sir. Step in sir. Every price and every style. The cheapest in the market, sir.' 'Are they clean ?' 'To be sure, sir.' 'fhen said the countrymau, with great gravity, 'you bad better put one on for you need it.' Wit is said to excite an agreeable surprise. I fear the surprise here was not agreeable to one of the parties, but it was wit nevertheless. "I KNOW well euougb," said a fellow, "where fresh fish comes from, but where these salt ones are calched, I'll be banged if I can tell." "OH, mother, do send for the doctor !" said a little bov of three years. "What for my dear ?" "Why, there's a gentleman in the parlor who sayß he will die if Jane don't marry him, and she says she won't. A Niw Hampshire editor, who kept a record of big beets, announces at last tbat "the beet I bat beat the beet that beat the Other beet, is now beaten by a beet that beats all the beets, whether the original beet, the beet that beat tbe beet, or the beet that beat the beet that beat the beet." A pt-kix- SPOKEN Western preacher de livered the following from his desk: "I would annouce to the congregation that, probably by mistake, there was left at this meeting-house, this morning, a small cotton umbrella much damaged by time and wear, and exceedingly pale in color, in place of which, was taken, a large silk umbrella, and of great beauty. Blunders of this kind, breth ren and sisters, are getting too common." A CLEBOTMXK'S HOVSBBOLD. — Among tbe articles in the inventory of a clergyman who died at Weymouth, Mass., in the year 1784 were tha fallowing : "A now ball, valued at one shilling; cider prebs and mill, twenty shillings; flax break, three shillings; an old black coat, sixty shillings; a homespun coat, thirty six shillings; two wigs, twelve shillings; silver shoe buckles, nine shillings; knee buckles, six shillings; sleeve buttons, six shil lings; colored gown, ten shillings: silver tank ard, can, spoons, cup, pepperbox, etc., eight pounds; gun and cartrid C e box, twelve shil lings: four barrels cider, twenty-eight shil lings: four do. water cider, twenty shillings; thirteen and a half dozen emptr bottles, (price not given.) The appraised value of the household stuff was over eighteen hundred pounds. gltiirinat. ENDURE A LIVING DEATH? The confirmed dyspeptic may almost say with St. Peter, "I die daily." The object of this arti cle is not to remind him of his pangs, bat to show him how to banish them forever. The means of immediate and permanent relief are proffered him in HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS, And it U fur him to s*y whether he will rontinne to endure & living death, or to put himself in a position to render life enjoyable. LIVING ADVERTISEMENTS Of the efficacy of this matehless vegetable stom achic are to be found in every city and town in the United States —healthy men and women res cued from toiture by its use, and eager to bear testimony ta its virtues. It differs from any otber bitters in existence, in this especial particular—it is not alcoholic. For such eoustitutions and systems as require for their invigoration a diffusive stimulant, HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC Has been provided—a preparation in which the r-olid extracts of the finest restoratives of the veg etable kingdom are held in solution by a spiritu -a agent, purged of ail deleterious constituents. The patient, in choosing between these two great antidotes, should be guided by his own condition. If in a very low state, from debility, the Tonic should be bis selection; but in cases where the emergency is not so pressing, the Bitters is the specific required. Thousands find infinite bene fit from taking each in turn. There is no phase of indigestion, Biliousness, Nervous Disease, or Physical Prostration, to which they are not adap ted, and in which, singly or combined, tbey will not effect a cure. EXCHANGE PAIN FOR EASE, And Weakness for Strength. Get rid of the ail ments which interfere with enjoyment; cast gloom and despondency to the winds; take a stronger hold of life, and, in short, BECOME A NEW MAN! Through the instrumentality of the moat power ful tod popular of all vegetable iavigoraDta and correctives. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS. Biliouaness, Indigestion, General Debility, and, all the complaints which proceed from a want IOO EACH. DIRECTORS. Hon. ANDREW G. CURTIN. Philadelphia. PAUL S. FORBES, of Russell k Co., China. FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Bnttarfield k Co., New York. ISAAC LIVKRMORK, Treasurer Michi Central Railroad, Boston. ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer Ame can Express Company, New York. Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syracusa N. Y. 0. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Telegraph Company, New York. FLETCHER Westray, Qibbs k Hardcastle, New York. NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York. OFFICER'. A. G. CURTIN, Praeident. N. MICKLES, Vice President. GEORGE CONANT, Secretary. GEORGE ELLIS (Caskier National Bank Commonwealth,) Treasurer. Hon. A. R. McCLURK, Philadelphia, Solici tor. The Chinese Government having (through the Hon. Anton Burliugame) conceded to thit Compa ny the privilege of connecting the great eeaporte of the Empire by submarine electric telegraph ca ble, we propote commencing operations in Clin a, and laying dotcn a line of nine hundred miles at once, between the following parte, ris : Population. Canton 1,000,008 Macoa 60,000 Hong-Kong 250,000 Swatow 200,000 Amoy 250,000 Foe-Chow -.1,256,000 Wan-Cbu ....300,000 Ntngpo 400,000 Hang Cbean 1.200,000 Shanghai 1,000,000 Total 5,810,000 These porta have a foreign commerce of S9OO 000,000, and an enormous domestic trade, beside which we have the immense internal commerce ol the Empire, radiating from these points, throngh its canals and navigable rivers. The cable being laid, this Company proposes erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy asd trustworthy means cf communication, which must command there, as everywhere else, the commi uications of the Government, of business, and of social life, especially in China. She has no pos tal system, and ber only means now of communi cating information is by couriers on land, and by steamers on water. The Western World knows tbat China as very large country, in the main densely peopled; but a few yet realize that she contains more than a third of tha human raea. The latest returns made to her central authorities for taxing purpo ses by Ibe local magistrates make her population Four Hundred and Fourteen Millions, and this is more likely to be under than over the actual ag gregate. Nearly all of thsse, who are over ten years old, not only can but do read and write. Iler civilization is peculiar, but her literature is as extersive as that of Europe. China is a land of teachers and traders; and the latter are ex- ceedingly quick to avail themselves of every proffered facility for procuring early information, rt is observed in California that the Chinese make great use ef the telegraph, though it there trans mits messages in English alone. To day great numbers of fleet steamers are earned by Chinese merchants, and used by them exclnsively for the transmission of early intelligence. If the tele graph we propose, connecting all their great sea ports, were now in existence, it is believed that iu business would pay the cost within the first two years of its successful operation, and would steadily increase thereafter. No enterprise commends itself as a greater de gree remunerative to capitalists, and to our whole people. It is el a vast national importance com mercially, politically, and evangelically. The stock of this Company has been unquali fiedly recommended to capitalist# and business men, as a desirable investment by editorial arti cles in the New York Herald, Tribune, World, Timet, Pott, Eipreee, Independent, and in the Philadelphia Horth American, P.-ctt, Ledger, In quirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph. 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Country Storekeepers will find an op portunity of sorting up their stocks, if only a single piece is wanted, at wholesale prices. SPECIAL. EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS In ladies dress goods, such as Striped and Cbene Mohair, Striped plaid, Shot and Chcne Poplins in changeable effects, for suits and walking drasses, all that look at them say they are rheap. Extra heavy mixed Melange Poplins and ne plus ultra Repellants for suits, Empress Cloth, Eng lish Serges, Epinglines and corded Poplins, in brown, steel, violet, purple, wine green, garnet and bismark. They are beauties. All you have to do is look at them, and your own judgment wil say buy. French Merinos, Coburgs, Wool Pelaines and Alpacas in all the new colorings, lest American Delaines and Armurss in the new gripes, and palka dots, very desirable. CALICOES! 10000 yards of beautiful calico prints that won't tade, at 8, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15 and 18 cents. MUSLINS! 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The superior merits of the "Singer" Machines over all others, for either family use or manu facturing purposes, are so well established and generally admitted, that an enumeration of their relative excellence is no longer considered nec essary. OUR NEW FAMILY MACHINE, which has been brought to perfection regardless of time, labor or expense, is now confidently pre 'ented to the public as incomparably THE BEST SEWING MACHINE IN EX ISTENCE. The machine in qoestion {. SIMPLE, COMPACT, DURABLE A BEAU TIFUL It is quiet, light running, and capable of per forming a range and variety of work never be fore attempted upon a single machine, -using either silk, twist, linen or cotten thread, and sew ing with equal facility the very finest and coarsest materials, and anything between the two extreme*, in the most beautiful and substantial manner. Its attachments for Hemming, Braiding, Cording, Tucking Quilting, Felling, Trimming, Binding, etc , are novel and practical, and have been in vented and adjusted especially for this machine. New designs of the unique, useful and popular folding tops and cabinet cases, peculiar to the maeh ncs manufactured by this Company, h* r e been prepared for enclosing the new Machine. A faint idea however, ean at best be given through the medium of a (necessarily) limited ad vertiaement; and we therefore urge every person in quest of a Sewing Machine by all means to ex amine and test, if they can possibly do ao, ail the leading rival machines before making a purchase A selection can then he made understanding!/ Brandies or agencies for supplying the "Singer' Machines will be found in nearly every city and town throughout the civilized world, where machines will be cheerfully exhibited, and any information promptly furnished. Or communi cations may be addressed to THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. 458 Broadway, New York. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE, 1106 Chestnut Street. C. LOVER, Agent, Bedford, Pa. 9 out llui Q.°°D NEWS FOR THE FARMERS ! THE following kin da of T H E S HIN G MACHINES CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE MA CHINE SHOP OF P. H. SHIRES, BEDFORD, PA, TU Celebrated RAILWAY, or TREAD-POW ER Threhin,f Machines with all the latest -nd best improvements. ONE AND TWO-HORSE POWERS. The Two-horse Machine with two horns and fourhands will thresh from 100 to 125 bushels of wheal or rye, and twice as much oats per day. ONE-HORSEMACHIN ES with three hands, will thresh from 50 to 75 bush per day. Two and four horse TUMBLING SHAFT Ma chines, also, four-horse STRAP MACHINES, STRAW SH A K KRS of the mo approved kind at tached to all Machines. ALL MACHINES WARRANTED. 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