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JACK-SHOOTING.
A Most Remarkable Deer Story.
BY REV. WM. N. MURRAY.
I slowly rose in the boat, turned up the
jack, and peered anxiously into the fog.
The strong reflector bored a iane through
; the fleecy mass for s( me fifty feet, perhaps
even at 'hat distance objects mingled gro
tesquely with the fog. At the extreme etnl
of the opening I detected a bright, diamond
like spark. Nothing more could be .-een.
'"lt may be the eye of a deer, and it may
only be a drop of water or a wet leaf, 1 ' sai>.
Ito myself. Still it looked g uney. I con
eluded to hunch a bullet at it anyway.
Whispering to Martin to steady the boat, 1
sunk my eye well down into the sights, and
: holding for ihe gleam in the marsh gru-:
fired
' The smoke mingling heavily with the fog,
made all murky before me. while the ex
plosion striking against the mountains on
either side started a dozen reverberations, so
: that we could neither tee nor hear what was
' the re.-uit of the shot. After watting in si
i 1 mce a few moments, hoping to hear the deer
"kick," without any such happy u suit, I
told Mattitt I would go ash or to load, and
see what it was 1 shot at. lie paddled for
ward, and, seizing the tall grass, while be
forced the boat in against the bank with his
paddle, I clambered up. Being curious to
j ascertain what deceived me, 1 strode off
into the marsh some forty feet, and turning
up the jack, lo ! and behold a dead deer lay
at my feet. "Martin!" shouted I, "here
the deer is d- ad as a tick ! '
"The d—1!" exclaimed the guide from
the fog.
'What did you .-ay?" again I shouted.
"I said I didn't Believe it," returned
Martin soberly.
"Paddle your canoe up here, then, you
old skeptic, and see f >r yourself," I rejoined,
taking the deer by the ear and dragging him
to the bank. "Here he is, and a monster
too. Martin did as directed, "Well," ex
claimed he, as he unbent his gaunt form
from the curve into which two hours of
paddling had cramped it, and straightened
himself to his full heighth, until his eyes
rested upon the buck, —"well, Mr. Murry,
you are the fir.-t man I ever saw draw a fine
bead in a night like this, standing in the
bow of a saranac boat, at the twinkle of a
deer's eye. and kid. That jack of yours is
a big thing, and no mistake.'' By the time
he had finished the h. at hd drifted off into
the river, for the current was quite strong
at that point—and 1 was alone. I was just
fitting a cap to the tube of the discharged
barrel when I felt a movement at my feet,
and, casting my eyes dowuward, I .-aw that
the deer was in the act of getting up! The
ball as we afterward- discovered, lad
glanced along,tjie boat of the skull. Lae;lv .
crorstng the skin. It had touched the belie
slightly, and stunned him so that he
dropped: but beyond this, it had not hurt
him in the least. Quick as thought I put
my foot again.-t his shoulder and pushed
him over. "Martin I cried, "this deer
i-n't dead; he's trying to get up What
sha'l I do?"
"Get hold of his hind leg; I'll be with
you in a minute, was the answer.
I did as direetcd. 1 la:d hold of his left
hind leg, just above the feetlirks, and
sprang to'my feet.
Reader did you ever seize a pig by the
hirxl !e? If o. multiply that pig, by ten; for
every twitch he gives, count six: lash a big
lantern to your head, fancy yourself standing
alone 011 a swampy marsh in a d irk, foggy
night, with a rifle in your left hand, and
bang twit hed about among the bogs anl in
and out of muskrat holes, until your whole
system seems on the point of a separation
which shall send you in a thousand infinitesi
mal parts in all directions, like fragments of
an exploding burr wheel, and you have my
appearance and feeling as I was jerked about
that night amid the mire and uiar.-h grass,
as I clung to tl.c leg of that deer. Now,
when I !'a?tcu to anything I always expect to
hold on. This was my determination when
I put my fingers around ti Ink's log. 1
have a tremendous y rq>. .My father had
before me. With his hand at a two inch
auger hole in the head of a barrel I have
seen him clutch, now with Lis right, now
with hi> left hand, twenty-two hour rats as
they came darting < ut to escape the stick
with which I was stirring them up, and
dash them dead upon the floor, without get
ting a single bite; and everybody knows
th it a rat, in full bolt, comes out of a barrel
like a flash of lightning. I fully expected
to maiotain the family prestiy for grip. 1
did. I stuck to that deer with ail toy power
of arm and will. I felt it to be a sort of
personal coutest between him and myself.
Nevertheless. I was perfectly willing at any
time to let go. 1 had undertaken the job
at the request of another, and was ready to
surrender instantly upon demand. I shout
ed to Martin to get out of that beat mighty
quiek if he wanted to take his deer home,
fori shouldn't hold on to him much longer.
It took me about two minutes to deliver
that sentence. Ii wa- literally jerked out
of me, word by word. Never did I labor
under greater embarrassment in expressing
myself. In the meanwhile Martin was meet
iug with difficulty. The bank of the river
was steep, and the light e -dar shell, with
only himself in it. was all out of balance and
har ito manage. It uiav be, that his very
strong desire to get on to the meadow where
I was holding his deer, operated to confuse
and embarrass his movements, lie would
propel the boat at full speed toward the
bank, then jump for the how; but his mo
tion forward would release the boat from the
mud, and when be reached the low the
bo.it would be half-way across the liver
igain. Now Martin is a man of great pa
tience. He is not by any means a profane
person. He bad always shown great re
spect for the cloth. But everybody will see
that his position was a very trying one.
Three several times, as he afterward in
formed me, did be drive the boat into the
to bank, and three several times when begot
the bow, that boat was in the middle of the
river. At last Martin's patience gave way,
and out of the fog came to my ears ejacula
tions of disgust, and such strong expletives
as are found only in choiee old English, and
howls of race aud disappointment that cone
but a guidecould utter in like circumstances.
But human endurance baa limit. I was
fast rea li ng a condition of mind when
fami'y pii-le and transmitted powers of
resolution fail. What did I care for iny
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 14 1860.
father's exploit with the tats at the two
inch auger hole?
What did the family grip amount to afle r
all? I was fast losing sight of the conne
tio ; such vanities -u-iaim dto me. L w.,8
| undergoing a rapid change in many respects
—. f body a- well as mini ! Whin I go:
In H it! that d r'- leg. I was uu in ally full
of pluck and I ope: my huntit coat, of Irish
corduroy, was whole and tightly button'd.
Now, mentally, I was demoralized, every
button was gone from the coat, end 'he
light sleeve hung disconnected with the
body of the garment. The jack had been
jerked from my head, and Ly a rod off in
; the marsh grass. 1 could hold on no 1 ngrr.
I would make one morecflint, one more ap
p-ai. I did "Martin." said L "aren't
i you ever going to pet cut of that boat ?
' The heavy thug of the. boat against the.
lack, an explosive and spluttering noi'O
which sound-d very much like the wotd
"damn spoken from between shut teeth,
a la-h, a scramble, at.d th n I caught sight
i " the gaunt form of Martin, paddle in,.
iitii d and hunting knife betwieii his teeth,
opittg along toward me, through the till,
rank jams-.-. B'.t, a'as! it was too late. The
i v.- 11 tut l>ad passed. 3ly finger*
on b\ on loosened ilicir hold, and the
deer all his strength, with a ter
rilie elevation of h;.- hind feet sent nic reeling
backward just as Martin, doubled up into a
heap, was about to alight upon hi- back
He mi-std the back, but a- the good luck
•.¥• ui-i have it even while the buck was in
the air,—the deer going up a- Martin caun
down, —the fingers of the guide closed with
a fall and de.-peratc, grip upon lis tail.
Quick a- flash 1 recovered myself from the
bogs, re|liced the jack, which fortunately
had ii"t been extinguished, upon uiy head,
i and stood an interested spectator of the pro
ceeding-. Now even body knows how a
wild deer ean jump when frightened; and
the buck, with Martin fa-Uucd to his tail,
was thoroughly rouse 1. The fir.-.t leap
straightened Martin out like a lath, but it
did not shake him fioiii lii.s hold. If the
reader has ever seen a small boy hanging to
the tailboard of a wagon, when the horse
was at full speed, he can form a faint idea
of Martin's appearance as the deer tore like
a v.!iii!wi:.d through the tall grass. II inded
and licwi'ieted by the I ght, frenzied with
f, ar, 'he buck, as deer often will, instead of
leading off. kept racing up and down just
within the border of light utade by the jack,
an ! occasions'!;.- making a bolt directly for
tt. My position was unique. I was the
sole spectator of a series of gymnastic
evolutions truly original. Small as the audi
ence was, the perfottiters w-re thoroughly
in earnest. Had there leeti ten thousand
spectators, the actors could net have laid
themselves out with greater energy. No
app) >u-e couid have got another jump out
oft he buck or another inch of horizontal
position out of Martin. When ever, at long
intervals, his feet did touch the ground, it
was "tily to leave it for another and bight r
Y.., 1 -I—' *.-* I-*—l.
would take a long stretch into the fog and
darknt—s, ■uy to iv-appeur with the same
iucvitabl, attachment of amis and legs
streaming behind.
When the contest would have end -d,
what would have bent the result had it
contained, whether the luck or the guide
would have come off the winner, it is not
en-y to -ay. N r it ncce-sary to specu- \
late, f..r the close was speedily reached, and i
in an uulookt-d for uiannerr The de< r had
led off some dozen jumps out of the circle of
light, and 1 wis beginning to think that he
had shaken himself 100-c from his. enemy,
when all a' once he emerged from the fog
with Martin sir. streaming behind him, and
made sir..ight 'or the river. Never did I
see a buck taut higher or project himself
fa - ill •in SUece-sive leap-. The Hliacacvr
vv; ■'>■) much put to it to articulate a word;
ou'y a scric- of gruuts, a- lie was twitched
along revealed ilie state of his pent-up fetl
ilias. I hist lie the d. r flat-led like a
feathered shaft, heading directly for the
bank. "Hang on, Martin! ' 1 screamed,
sobered by the thought that he would save j
him yet if he could on'y retain his grip—!
"hang to him like death ! ' He did. Never
did my admiration go cut more strongly to I
ward Martin, as red iu the face and unall"
to relieve himself by a single expression, be I
went tearing alcng at a fearful rate In full
bolt for t!> river. No one man in fifty j
could havi kept his single handed grip, I
jerked, at the close of such a -trucrgle a- the j
Saraimcer had pa-sod through, aud twitched
inerul. - ly as he new was being dragged
through the tali bog gra.-s and over the un-;
even ground. IJut til • guide's blood was up.
and not iiiogcould loosen hisclutcb. Thebuek I
retched the bank, and, gathering himself ;
up for a desperate leap, he flung hi- body i
into the air. I saw a pair of widely spread
legs swiu? widely upward, and the red face
of Martin, head downward and reversed, so 1
a- to be turned directly towaid by the
summersault he was turning disappeared
like a waning rocket in the fog overhanging
the tiver. Once in the water, the buck was ;
no march for bis foe. I hurried to the edge
of the bank. Beneath me. and half acro--
the river, a d sperate struggle was going on.
Martin itad found his voice, and was using
it as if to make up for lost tiui . In a mo
ment a gurgling sound reached my ears,
and I kntw that the deer's load was under
the water; and shoitly, in answer to my hail,
the guide appeared, dragging tie buck be
hind him. The deer was drowned and quite
dead.— From " Ado uturcs in fit Wihftr
***, or Casrp &f e -Wiwiatkn. * *
A FOOL'S ANSWER. —In years gone by
was a Baptist clergyman, called Elder
Stoop, who preached at Bclcodh, Momoc i
county. New York. One day the reverend
old elder sawed off a bl .ck of wood to make :
a beetle, and com in' need to bore a hole
tbroui.lt it to put in a!• "d'e ; ' t , U | ow .:IR to
the shortce.-s of the block, it would n< t lie '
still, but would turn with the auger. A
half wittsd fellow, eounnonly called Al
bright's- fool —Bill Albright by name—came
along and said in a lisping manner.
'Elder Stone. I can tell you how to bore
your beetle; put it in a hog trough, and then
you can bore it.
The old parsou turned atound and looked
at Bill and said :
'Bill, there is something to be learned
trout almost any fool.'
'Yes,' replied Bill, '1 thought so Elder
St ne, or there would not be so many peo
ple go to hear you preach.'
SIXTY-SEVEN female T tuckers in Cin
cinnati have i etitioned for the tame salary
a mal s, on the gr ui l th it they fit.d to
reduction in bo: rd bill on ace un' of sex.
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thst to sr y ail the succes-f ui newspaper men
in n-w \ ork arc what may properly be eall
•■•d - If ui:de. Henry J. Raymond, who
j made the Tan's, and is, in the front rank of
journal • ts. worked himself up from the low
est r and in the ladder. In 1543 he wrote
h'tti's fi,r the Cincinnati Chronicle, for
which he roc-jived about two dollars each.
I Ho utado a living at that timeehiefiy by
torresponding for out of town new.-papers.
Th" Tow* would now sell for $1,250,000,
anil Lajmond is still at its In ad. Horace
Greeley started the Tribune without capital.
It is now one of the most valuable pieces of
n.-w-paper properly here, and Greeley is
st; I lit its head. The Tribune association
ha',', 1 understand, dtc!ared a quarterly
divi 'en lof thirty per cent. Its shares are
worth $70,000, the par value of which is
SI,OOO. J fie Herald was started ty James
Gordon Benn.tr, his capital being brains
'.icilindustry. Benri.tt is now worth mil
lions end his paper yields a clear profit of
$: hi ,qo pr annum. Mantou Marble took
the it ,bl when it was an experiment. He
had no money; the paper was not paying,
but he was aided by capitalists. He? built
up tl; paper, made it profitable, and is now
sole proprietor. It yields a handsome and
ant it'ii income. Charles A. Dana was. for
several years, managing editor of the Trib
it ie. He was subsequently editor of the
Chicago Republican, but did not succeed.
He came back to New York, and, in com
par.y with others, bought the Nun, which,
under his management is already a great
succe.— . The circulation of the Sun, on the
Ist of Sinuary. 1.569, was 31,000. It is
now 42,000 and growing rapidly. The Sun
u a two cent paper. The profits on thecir
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plenty of advertising at twenty-five to fifty
co:its per line. The New York people ad
vertise lib rally, and pay big prices.
I be Messrs. Brooks, of tlie Express, are
a'so -elf-made men. I believe they started
'he Depress, and are ,-till managing it. Ido
not know who -tarted the Post, but W. C.
Bryant ha.- been identified with it, il not
from the beginning, at least tor a great many
yea: -. Ilis capital was made up of brains.
It i- a very pi ofi table paper. The old pro
p : iters of the Journal <j Commerce are
d ad. It. pay- largely. Bonner, of the
LcJe/er, i. worthy of remark in this eounec
tion, although he does not run a daily pa
per. He went into the E'dtjee from the
ca-e, and now publishes one of the lest and
mo-t piofitable weekly papers in the world,
and competes successively with Vandcrbilt
in the horse line. .Speakingof Vanderbilt.
reminds nit- that lie laid the foundation of
his prosperity. He began on brains, and
n w, at a ripe old age, has bis brains in
good order, and about seventy millions of
mooey. But I have not space to go into
this c'us- of self-made men. It is a fact,
however, that nearly all the wealthy men
J.-OV (IJVI OTJ roiecCOC-. TOW, "tucic
fote, know how to keep thcut; but as it is
generally in this country, so it is here; rich
timn s sons are of very little account; and
rich men's sons in-law are usually of the
-ame kind. Therefore, large fortunes rare
ly pa-s to the third generation. Society isali
the bet;i r for this. If the descendants of the
rich men of New York should be as suecess
ful it; making and keeping money as their
fathers, a few familic- would soon cwn the
l-land.
JOHN CHINAMAN IN CALIFORNIA.
tit SAMI"EL lIOTVi r.S.
The ever present Chinese will pique our
curiosity. We must i. ok into their homes,
compact, simple, yet not over clean or sweet
smelling quarters. —into their restaurants
and their theatre, if it is in operation, and
into t'i t "Josh llou.-:-." Their stoics
invite us e ith open door.-, and tempt our
pockets with all the various specialties of
Chines- manufacture at reasonable prices.
A few are mm of stature and presence, with
face- of refinement and gentle strength; the
many co sneaking about their work, —a low
type of mankind, physically and mentally,
ioip.M tt d here like merchandise, and let out
to labor under a system only half removed
from slavery ilseif. Yet they arc an im
portant clement in the industry and pro
gress of all this side of the continent. But
for their labor the Pacific Railroad would
have been at least two years longer in build
ing. Twelve th usand of them have done
nearly all the t irking and drilling and shov
elling and who ling of the road, from Sac
ramento to Salt Lake. They furnish the
principal labor in the factories; they make
cigars; they dig and work over neglected
gold gulches; they are; cooks; they almost
monopolize the clothes washing and ironing;
in all the lighter and simpler departments
i f lab ir, where fidelity to a pattern, and
n<>t flexibility and originality of action arc
required, they make the bc.-t and most re
liable workers. At least seventy five thou
sand of them are scattered over these Pa
cific StaU-s west of b tah; and though our
American and European laborers quarrel
with and abuse them ; though the law gives
them no rights, but that of suffering pun
ishment; though they bring no families
and .-.ek no citizenship; tbou' ha 1 their
women here are not oil' com aid T '"it
expressly imported as ntch; thou; h they
are mean and contemptible in their vie s as
in their manners; though they ate de-pisvd
and Licked about cn every Latil; -rill thoy
come atid thrive, -lowly letter their pbysi
- 1 and moral and mectal conditions, and
supply this country with what it most needs
for its growth and prosperity, —cheap labor.
What we shall do with them is not quite
c! ar yet; how tloy are to lank, socially
and politically, among u.-\ is one of the nuts
for our social sen no st dents to crack- if
they can; but now that we have depopula
ted Ireland, and Germany is holding on to
its own. and the old sources of our labor
supply are drying up, all America needs
tb in; and, obeying the great natural law of
demand and supply, Asia seem* almost cer
tain to pour upon and over us countless
thousands or her superfluous, cheap-liviog,
-biw-chaticing, uoa-similating but very use
ful laborers. And we shall welcome, and
then quarrel over and with them as wcliave
lone with their Irish predecessors. Our
vast grain, cotton, and fruit fields, our ex
tending system of public works, our multi
plying manufactures, all need and can em
ploy theui. But rnu-t they vote, and if so
to what effect? — Atlantic Monthly.
To stive God is to obey bis laws. Wor
ship is not service, unless it makes us more
ready to do bis will.
YIF.S, WOMEN AND MANNERS.
l anny Fern, in the Ledejer, has some
1 plain, common-sense talk regarding the
> int:rmrse of intimate friends, which she
thinks is much more reasonably conducted
> j among men than by w- men. Thus, in or
f der to avoid offending a female friend who
may chance to call whtie a lady is occupied,
1 the latter may not send down word that she
ts engaged but most resort to a "white lie,"
and say that she i.- out. Fanny once excus
ed ht:rse : f to a female visitor because she
had an article to write. The visitor, as soon
a> 1-anny had gone, turned to another with
the mild rematk : "I suppose she said that
to get rid of us—don't you?" Fanny says
; the intercourse of men with each other has
| always aroused admiration. If one wants to
read or write in another's company, he doe
so, and no offense is taken.
If one has to leave, lie often says no more
than "I m off, * or "Good-by, old fellow."
Sometimes it is only the touch of the hat,
or a hand laid on the other's shoulder in
passing, and no bls-k eves follow, no locks
of hair fly, nor do any hard words cr looks
te-ult in the future. Further fancies follow
regarding the possible conduct of females in
imaginary emergencies. We quote ;
If ladies smoked, which the gods forbid!
do you suppose one lady would allow an
other to stop her in the street and light a
cigar from her lips, when she never was in
troduced? When she didn't even know who
her dressmaker wa-, or where she bought
her bonnets? Good heaven-?
Did you ever notice, it anything un
expected occurs in the mutual path of men
passing through the same street, bow
naturally and frankly they accost each other,
though perfect strangers, and converse
about it. and go tin ir several ways, to their
tombstones, after it?— Not to. sweet
women? Catch her speaking to "that nasty
thing" How does she know who or what
she is ?
Children are so delicious about these
matter-. I saw two little girls, the other
day, trying to crack a nut upon the side
walk by pressing in turn their tiny little
shoes upon it. Despairing of success, they
said to a gentleman passing, "Man, man,
crack this nut for us, will you?" His
handsome face was luminous with fun as be
pressed his polished boot down upon it, to
the delight of the youngsters and myself.
Now, these little girls wouldn't have thought
of asking a lady to d'i that; or if they had,
do you think she would have stopped to do
it?
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HU
MAN FORM.
WHOLESOME ADVICE TO FOOLISH WOMEN.
Many leau'iful forms are made decidedly
homely by individual- attempting to set at
naught thj laws of nature. For this pur
pose delicate young ladies laee themselves
until they can scarcely breathe. And all
for what? To deceive poor, weak minded
creatures like themselves, and in their own
niiagiiiii.wn), appear ocauuiut. When IS a
girl most beautiful? Before she b;t- reach
ed her teen.-; before she has disfigured her
form by ti.bt lacing. When should she
appear most beautiful' When she has ar
rived at her majority. Young ladies forget
that if they set a-ide the laws of nature,
they must necessarily c ntract a deformity,
and consequ ntly, c-au-e the body to become
di-eased. We noticed a young uiiss ou the
streets a few days ago, hor waist encased in
about half its naturally requisite space, her
back something iu the shape of a camel's
by reason of a pannier, fcer feet cramped iD
shoes about half as laree as her feet, caus
ing her to walk as if she was stepping on
burning coals, l'oor creature! Her folly
is indeed her puni-hment. Our young la
dies [and their mother-, too,] either forget
that the proportions of the human figure
are strictly mathematical, or else they nev
er have been made acquainted with the fact.
The wairt should measure five inches in
circumference for every foot the lady is
b'irh. The whole figure is sis times the
length of the foot. Whether the form is
slender or f lump, the rule holds good; any
deviation from it, is departure from the
highest heauty i The Greeks
made ali their statues according to this rule.
The face, from the highest point of the fore
head where the hair begins, to the chin, is
one. tenth of the whole stature. The hand,
from the wrist to the end cf the middle
finger, is the same. From the top of the
chest to the highest point in the forehead is
onc-sercnih. If the length of the face,
from thi' roots of the hair to the chin, be
divided into three equal parts, the first di
vision determines where the eyebrows meet,
and the second the place of the nostrils.
The height from the feet to the top ol the
head is the same as the distance from the
extremity of the fingers when the arms are
extended.
A GOOD JOKE.
Many years ago, when church organs first
came in use, a worthy old gentleman was
pastorof a church where they had just pur
chased an organ. Not far from church was
a large town pasture, where a great many
cattle grazed, and among them a large hull.
Oue hot Sabbath, Mr. Bull came up near
the church grazing; and just as the Rev.
Mr. B was in the midst of his ser
mon —boo woo woo went the hull.
The parson paused, looking up at the
singing scats, with a grave face said:
"1 would thank the musicians not to tune
their instruments during service; it annoys
me very ranch.'
The people stared, and the minister went
on.
'Boo woo woo,' went the hull again, as
lie drew a little nearer the church.
The parson paused again and addressed
(he choir.
'I reaily wish the singers would not tune
their instruments while I am preaching.'
The congregation tittered, for they knew
what the real causa of this disturbance
was.
The old parson went on again, and he had
just about started good, when "800 woo woo
eaiue fiom Mr. Bull.
The minister paused once more and ex
claimed:
'I have requested the musicians in the
gallerv not to tunc their instruments during
the sermon. I now particularly request
Mr. L that he will not tunc his
double ba-s organ while I am preaching.
'lt is isn't me. Parson —it—it is that d d
town hull.
ACCORDING to the Tribvnr, New lork
city consumes between three and four tons
of hair, at a cost of $2,000,000 per rnnunt,
for its wigs and chignons.
VOL. 42: NO. 19
CUT THIS Ol'T.
The Mercanti'e Times gives the following
reasonable roles for young nun commencing
business:
The world estimates men by their success
in life—and, by general consent success is
evidence of superiority.
Never, under any circumstances, assume
a responsibility you can avoid consistently
with your duty to yourself and others.
Base all your actions upon a principle of
right; preserve your integrity of character,
and in doing thi<, never reckon the cost.
Remember that self interest is more likely
to warp your judgement than all other cir
cuinstances combined; therefore, look well
to your duty, when your interest is concern
ed.
Never make money at the expense of your
reputation.
Be neither lavish n ir niggardly; of the two,
avoid the latter; a mean man is universally
despised, but public favor a stepping stone
to preferment—therefore generous feelings
should be cultivated.
tGy but little—think much—and do
more,
Let your expenses he such as to leave a
balance in your pocjfet. Ready money is a
friend in need.
Keep char out of the law: for, even if
you gain your ease you are generally a loser
of money.
Avoid borrowing or lending.
\\ ine drinking and cigar smoking are bad
habit-. They impair the mind and pocket,
and load to a waste of time.
SMOKIXG IX THE STHEET.
The Round TabU makes the following
sensible remarks in regard to .-uiokiEg in tbe
street:
'"The street is not a private smoking
room. One man has no more right to void
his tobacco smoke into, the face of another
man than he has to void his saliva. If he
has. why in the name of sense? Because the
smoke is the less disagreeable? That is a
matter for individual preference; and, be
sides, a man has no right to do the least dis
agreeable thing. Why may not a man ap
pear on Broadway with a stick strapped
horizontally across his hack, or an open
package of assafuetida in his pocket, or a
polecat in his arms, or his clothes dripping
with kerosene oil, or a rattlesnake around
his neck, with a.- much right as bo may
smoke there? Because it is not customary
to carry assafoetida in the pocket, nobody
thinks about it; if it only were the custom,
we should hear a fearful cry from the tobac
co smokers themselves. If a mau treads up
on another's foat he apologizes; but he will
carelessly void offensive smoke into his very
throat, and never think that he does any
thing reprehensible. If a man dislikes
smoking, he can keep out of the street.
But the right of the tobacco hater in the
street is equal to that of the tobacco lover:
to refrain from smoking in public places is
not trar.tiuc a c ucession, but not to refrain
is vtoiat-.r.ga right. Upon aetuai ngnt,
without reference to the sanction of custom.
a man would he perfeet'y justifiable in re
sentiug the smoking of tobacco near him as
a personal affront."'
Sll ENT INFLCEHCE. — Albert Barnes says:
"It is a bubbling stream that flows gently ;
the little rivulet that runs day and night by
the farm-house, that is useful rather than
the roaring cataract Niagara excites our
wonder, and we stand amazed at the power
and greatness of God there, as lie pours it
from the hollow of his hand ; but one Ni
aeara is enough for the continent or the
world, while the same world requires thous
ands and tens of thousands of silver foun
tains and gently flowing rivulets that water
every farm and meadow and every garden,
and shall now on every day and night, with
their gentle, quiet beauty. So with the acts
of cur 15Vf > Tr is not by great deeds, like
those of the martyrs, that goes! is to be
done, but by the daily and quiet virtues of
life, the Christian temper, the good quali
ties of relatives and friends.
SELF EDUCATION. —It is surprising how
much maybe obtained by devoting a lew
hours each day to study during a series of
years. Gibbon produced his great work,
rather by the regularity than the protracted
nature of daily studies. Franklin became
the wisest and one of the best read of his co
temporaries, in the midst of most incessant
labor. And if the workinau with Lishealth
ful mind, so well prepared for the reception
of knowledge, will give two hours each day
to careful study, he may, in a few years, sur
pass in general information the great body
of college graduates, who so ofteu obtain a
diploma without dascrving it. or who have
laid aside their learning the moment they
left their preceptors. He may elevate bis
own intellect by coming into communion
with the eminent intellects of the past.
A BEAUTIFUL SPNTIME.V.— Dr. Chalmers
beautifully says: "The little that I have
seen in the world, and know of the history
of mankind, teaches me to look upon their
errors in sorrow, not in anger. When I
take the history of one poor heart that has
sinned and sufferd, and represent to myself
tlie struggles and temptations it passed
through—the brief pulsation of joy; the
tears of regret; the feebleness of purpose;
the scorn of the world that has little charity;
the desolation of the soul's sanctuary, and
threatening voices within; health gone,
bappine-s gone—l would fain leave the er
ring soul of my fellow man with Him from
whose hand': it eame.
Six things are requisite to create a 'happy
home.' Integrity must be the architect and
tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warm
ed by affeetion and bringing in fresh salubri
ty day by day; which over all, as a protect
ing glory and canopy, nothing will suffice
except the glory of God.
Two laws are more adequate to the regu
lation of the whole Christian community
than all political in-titutions together—
namely, the love of God, and that of our
neighbor.— Paschal.
IT is in filling a child's mind as in packing
a trunk. We must take earc what we lay iu
below, not only to secure for that a safe
place, but to prevent it from damaging
what is to cotnc after.
A boy eight years old, in one of our
schools, being told that a reptile "is an ani
mal that creeps," and being asked to name
. one on examination day, promptly and tri
umphan'ly replied: "A baby.''
! TIME, pa-ience, and industry are the three
• grand maftiH of the world.
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.farm, (larta&j&mwlJoUl.
MANURES.
The failure to raise good crops of wheat
upon laud long cultivated is uot so often at
tributable to different seed as unfair cultiva
tion. In most cases the soil has been robbed
of the wheat producing properties, such as
the ph -sphates, pota-U and other salts.
This is true in a large degree of the wheat
growing section of the older States, where
the soii has been so lung drained of its sub
stance that it is lio longer possible to raise a
heavy crop of wheat in tbe liest season. On
such iaudi fanners should apply bone dust,
or solube bone dust, or bone super-phos
phates and ashes to restore the potash.
Lime should be u-ed to gather carbonic acid.
Little dcpo.-ittd in large pile 3 will collect
carbonic acid Irom the air and become a
, Letter fertilizer. Liuie should be applied
with grass or other vegetable matter, upon
which it acts chemically and produces plant
food. It also corrects the sours acid in the
soil. Some fields need sulphuric acid which
is supplied by sowing plaster.
Sown upon clover, plaster causes it to
draw to it the ammonia from the air and
water, and if the clover be plowed down when
in fuil bloom and quick lime be used the
clover is converted into plant food.
The be.-t fertilizer in tbe experience of the
writer is a compost of muck, barn yard
in a cure and clay, thoroughly decomposed
and mixed with equal parts of lime, ashes,
salt, ) 'aster, and bone phosphate. No soil
except a virgin soil will fail to produce wheat
with this compound. It should be thor
oughly mixed and screened, so that it can
be drilled in with the wheat. It should be
used in the Fall, when the rain helps to de
compose it and to enrich the surrounding
soil, aud when the graiu roots are ready to
take up the parts most needed for food for
the wheat plant.. Plant toots do not perme
ate manures and take thctu up until tbey
are decomposed by the action of the mois
ture, and in times of great drought manures
yield very little nourishment. When tbe
moi.-tu-e penetrates the soil the roots of
plants search for nourishment, and if the
soil be loose they cau penetrate the particles
and gather it.
Vegetable manures contain a very small
proprotioo of salts, and these must be sup
plied if the farmer wishes to enrich the soil
and raise large crops of grain.
EXPERIMENTS IN WHEAT DEED
ING.
For the last six years I have had a plot
of ground at the front of my house, of
■ 600 square feet, dibble-seeded with 3600
seecds, and which is after the rate of less
than 4 quarts of seed wheat an acre: and
the crops every year have been as thick
on the ground before the harvest as they
could well trow, and this next ,vear the
same plot is again pianteu with wheat,
though for the seventh time in succession
and exactly in the same way, and I now
engage to show that at harvest next the
crops shall be again as thick as they will
be able to grow to perfection. I have
said crops, because it has been my cus
tom for the last six years to plant sever
al kinds of wheat, but this year there are
only three kinds, but all shall be the
same; but one year I had 16 different
kinds, or I obtained so many samples from
corn dealers and others who believed that
they were so many different kinds. But I
inform my readers that I did not sow such
small quantities of seed to prove whether
full crops could be grown from them, for I
had known ihis for almost every year for
more than half a century; but in this I had
two different objects in view, which I
thought aouhl ho interesting to farmers and
the public generally. I wish to prove the
vitality of ordinary wheat seed, and this I
did by seeding many acres and half acres
with one single seed only in a square foot of
ground—and I had this done with several
kinds of wheat—and all the seed germinated
and grew, as might have been witnesssed by
all people who would take the trouble to ex
amine the rows, for ail were planted in rows.
I instituted experiments in conjunction
with some scientific meD, to prove how
many years wheat might, by any scientific
process, be made to retain its vitality. As
the late Br. Bubeny, ; Professor of Botany
at Oxford: and other scientific men had done
the same, we compared our processes
together and their results, when we found
that neither had been able to make wheat
germinate after having been kept seven
years, though every system of keeping it
that could be devised was adopted. All was
in vain, aud showed that at the end of seven
years, vitality was gone, and never again to
be brought back; and I think life would be
gone at the end of five years. — Agricul
tural Gazette.
WASHING SHEEP.— Grease or yolk, with
which the fleece of all shc-cp is more or less
imbued, is a natural soap, consisting chiefly
of pota-h and oily matter. It is not imme
diately soluble iu water, but alter the fleece
is wet, and remaius so for a few hours, it is
in condition to betjuiekly washed out, bring
ing the dirt with it. This is to a considera
ble extent, accomplished by the sheep being
exposed to a raiu the day before the wash
ing. Sometimes sheep are dipped, and
then shut in close sheds or rooms over night,
to keep one another warm, and washed the
next day, and this secures a very thorough
cleansing. .Shearing may be done mnch
earlier in the season if the sheep are not
washed. Colds and Snuffles ensue if the
weather be not favorable, and there is even
great rßk of losing valuable sheep.
POTATOES. —There should be little delay
now in planting the whole of the crop. On
poor land, we think animal manure is quite
as likely to prevent as to cause the rot;
though in very rich soils, no doubt it ren
ders the plant more liable to take the disease.
There is little risk of potato seta rotting now,
if cut even to single eyes. Manuring in the
hill with ashes and plaster is good practice,
but this dressing is probably equally effec
tive, if placed upon the hill at the first or
second hoeing. Among the concentrated
I fertilizers in market, a good superphosphate
i is probably the best application for potatoes.
S < juano is rather stimulating, but, like castor
pomace, which is very good for this crop,
must be mixed with earth in the drill.
CODFISH aristocracy is defined by an es
j change as "a set of fools who think more
of themselves than better people think ol
i them.''