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Waste not a Moment.
BY CHARLES LESTER.
There is no time, in any clime, ;'
That should be unemployed ; '
An active mind will ever find
There's nothing dull and void.
All things that live, some charms will give,
If sought without delay ; . .
From year to year I seem to hear
This truthful voice of Wisdom say, . .7
Waste not a moment I
The singing birds, in simple words, '
As ever truthful lesson tell.
That indolence by no pretence, ' "
Can fill our earthly mission well.
Go, watch them work, they never lurk "
In indolence about,
Throughout the day, you'll find that they,
While the light of day is out,
Waste not a moment !
Jf you at ease, your mind would please,
Let not the time be wasted,
Hut take a book, and through it look,
And when its sweets you've tasted,
Peruse it well, and on it dwell,
And find some -truthful lay
To feed your mind, and then you'll find
The voice of Holy Truth will say,
Waste not a moment !
Heed not mankind, who are so blind
To look but at the covers ;
Like maidens fair, who only care
For the appearance of their lovers ;
But search for truth aspiring youth,
" Tis always worth your finding,"
!y plain advice is small in price
You'll find it 'neath the binding
Waste not not a moment !
In every hour we have the power
To do some little good ;
If we a neighbor help to. labor. ,
" 'Tis only doing what we should
For we were sent with the intent, .
Upon this fertile land,
Man and brother, help one another,
For 'tis thy God's command,"
Waste not a moment !
?over of the Soil to Absorb Odors.
h is well known thai onions, if buried in the ,
" h for a few days previous lO being COoked, :
Mil have lost much of their rank flavor. Wild ;
ucks, which are often too fishy in flavor to be j
0flnj , . , . J i n , i
5f)od, may be rendered much more palatable by j
wrapped in absorbent paper and buried !
:" the ground for a few hours. Dried codfish j
!jes much of its austerity of flavor (if we may f
''in a term) by similar treatment. During the j
J,aHUe. in Europe, clothing was often buried i
a time to disiofect it. This absorbent prop-
M'v nf i Via cnt i a A ttn m thp nrpspnpd nf r-ar. '
bntiaceous matters, for clean sea-beach sand
j ovit - . j" j
wiH produce no such results, while pulverized
charcoal will act with much greater energy
than common soil. On this principle, animal
roatier coaled with unreached ashes, and then
fied in pulverulent peat. or muck, will not
only decompose without giving off offensive
0to'fl, but the muck will also, by absorbing the
feuliing gases arising from decomposition, be
ledered highly valuable as a fertilizer. Dr.
na say6 thai a dead horse, if cut in pieces
5"d treated as above, will render twenty loads
liuck equal in quality to the best stable ma
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'Cure.
Making a Mark.,
A captain of a slooo hired a Yankee.
a green
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j nV to assist in load.ing his sloop vyith corn.
'-st as the vessel was .about to set sail, the Yan-
-e who was iinelinsr the price of his dav's work
I'" "IS nnnlalAnnc rr-aA llf ftrtm llio uiltn.r
av veou canlini? ! I lost Your shovel ovcr-
ii , 1
-'u out i cut a nig noicn on me ran tence
found ihe slarn, right over the spot where it went
;0Wn so't you'll find ycour shoYel when yeou
aire oacK r - '
The Camel.
"e ae indented to an esteemed friend for the
PaPer uPon e Camel, from the pen of
ia gentleman who has had much experience of thp
, , mumuui cApciiKiiLB 01 me
j nablts and character of the animal, and wishes to
; see i imported into America for its serviceable
Qualities Nntinnnl Tr,t0li;.
qua"es. alional Intelligencer.
j It is a fact well known to TCasfPrn trotllaw.
and especially to those who have visited the moun
tainous regions of Syria, Palestine, and the Penin
sula of Sinai, that the camel is as serviceable on
rough mountain paths as in the moving sand of the
desert. On this account the modern Arab never
troubles himself with road making. He will not
even remove a stone from the middle of the path
which leads to his usual watering place. The
dry bed of a torrent is his high road across the
mountains, and footprints are his guides through
the plains. The tough soles of the camel's feet
are affected neither by the burning sand nor by the
loose, sharp edged stones strewed over that vol
canic mountain range which extends from the
Taurus to the Indian Ocean. The long legged,
sure footed animal makes his way through the
heavy mud, crosses the rapid torrent, steps over
the huge stones and other impediments which he
often encounters, and this with a load upon his
back, and sometimes, perhaps, the additional weight
of the lazy driver, while the mule would be unable
to travel over the same ground, though without
any load whatever.
The camel is not exclusively made use of by
the peaceable traveller and merchant. Both the
privileged and unprivileged robbers of Arabia and
Africa prefer them to the horses of Nedjdee or
Dongola. The dromedary, or running camel,
(in Arabic, " bahree," or " bakeen,") is not a par
ticular species. Any young camel may be trained
for racing or for war, although the mountain breeds
are best adapted for these purposes. The camel
drinks only every second day ; but it may be de
prived of water for three days together, without
! any effect upon its health and vigor. It will per
form an eight days' journey with no other food
than three pounds of oil-cake and a few handfuls
of grain. The dromedary carries sixty pounds'
weight in addition to its rider ; and it will outstrip
the fleetest horse in a day's march. The "cavass"
of the Egyptian government travel on dromedaries
from Cairo to Suex, a distance of ninety-three
miles, in eight hours. It takes but half a minute
! to secure the camel in a sitting posture by the bri
dle siring, so that it con neither rise nor move un
til released. Camels would therefore, afford as
effectual protection to mounted riflemen against
the attack of cavalry as chevaux de-frisc.
The common day's journey of caravans in Syria
and Arabia is from twenty-seven English miles,
and the load of each camel is between four and
five hundred weight. The Indian mail is conveyed
from Suex to Cairo on Camels in eighteen hours.
An Egyptian camel, amongst the tallest and
strongest breeds, will carry for a short distance
six hundred to one thousand yards from 10 to
20 cwts.
The camel is also very successfully employed
for drought by the engineer department of Aden
It is far superior to the slow and greedy ox, (an
animal which none but a persevering Dutchman ;
ever forces to a trot.) The camel draws as much '
as two oxen : it walks twice as fast, and it cer-
tainly does not eat more than one ox. It may be j
i broken in when three vears old. and will be use-
ful and active to the aoe of 15 or 20. The best fnnrl !
;nnrnpvc ni1.raL-P. !iP.m. and TnrHan nnm !
n,, , - .,-. ..r..i .u .-.u !
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the lama, mule, horse, or ox, as well on account
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of lls suPerlor stren2th' 'ty, endurance, and
willingness, as of its adaptability to every climate
and ever' soil- 0n the journey from Damascus
to the coast, in the month of March, or from Ko-
niah to Smyrna, the traveller often passes in a
day from the snows of the mountain range to the j
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uuiuiijg annus ui me ucscii u laiaugc vvinuw lias
no effect upon his hardy beast.
Amongst the Mohammedans camel's flesh is an
article of food. When young it is not easily dis
tinguished from a beef. Camel's milk is the chief
food of the wandering Arab ; and the hide of the
animal is considered superior to every other for
sandals. '
I have thus enumerated some of the advantages
which would render the introduction of the camel
into America an inestimable benefit. There is no
reason why the camels should not be as servicea
ble to man on the prairiesrof Texas and the moun
tain regions of Mexico, and California, as in the
coresponding tracts of the Old World the line of
country from Orenbourg to-dogadore, and from
Mogadore to Pekin. It would be acclimated as
soon and as easily as the genus asinus, no species
of which existed here until the Spaniards imported
the horse and ass, and the New World already
possesses an animal of corresponding apeeies to
the camel the lama.
I use this name (which is derived from the Greek word
DREMO,) in . I lie sense in which it was employed by the
Greeks, to denote thcWnnJngiCamel. It ls jnoie loficn, but
improperly, applied tojlfelggrsian camel with two humps.
Camels are often annoyed by sore' humps and
the mange, which from the carelessness of the
Arab, are often neglected till they put an end to
the animal's usefulness. There are also other de
fects, which the dealers are as dexterous in- con
cealing as any dealer in horse-flesh In the Old or
New World. In purchasing, therefore, it is ne
cessary to be acquainted, not oniy with the nature
and habits of the animals, but also with the lan
guage and character of the dealers, and with the
laws which regulat e cattle-dealing laws which
are the same wherever the Arabic is spoken and
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the Koran revered. 1 have seen camels of bur
den sold for S3 and for $50, and running camels
for $20 and for $200. The cheapest and the best
are to be procured in those places where there is
least foreign trade ; for example, Mogadore, in
the Khalifat of Morocco.
With regard to transpoit, a vessel of 250 tons
would hold sixty camels. If such'a vessel were
to go to Marseilles with a cargo of American
goods, and leave that port on her return under bal
last, with ten tons of linseed oil-cake and two hun
dred and forty bags of Egyptian beans, slop at
Mogadore. and take on board the camels, which
should already have been purchased and held
there in readiness, they would probably be in Gal
veston in about three moths from the time the ves
sel left America. Twenty-five dollars cost, and
twenty-five dollars freight of each animal, would,
I think, be the maximum of the expenses, .t all
events, for $4,000 sixty camels could be easily
brought to Galveston, which would enable a com
pany of fifty Americans, with ten African servants,
to cross the continent to San Francisco, with the
greatest comfort, in two months and a half. They
could take 150 cwts. of baggage, besides arms and
ammunition ; and could also carry food and water
for man and for beast sufficient for four, or if ne
cessary, even eight days. Two extra camels
might be employed to carry two small field how
itzers, the weight not to exceed one-fourth of a
ton each : and another camel might be used for
draught where the road was level.
A. Swiss Traveller in Syria and Arabia.
Hit liini again.
The following capital anecdote wej find, in the.
National Intelligencer :
Gen. T. of New York, a gentleman of known
wealth and liberality, was not long since called
upon by a person to obtain his signature on a pe
tition for the abolition of capital punishment.
The person unfolded his papei.s and documents,
and presented and enforced his argument in rather
a tiresome speech, stopping occasionally to deposit
a mouthful of tobacco juice upon a nice parlour car
pet Gen. T. was in favor of diminishing capital pun
ishments, but doubted the propriety or expediency
of abolishing them in all cases. At the expres
sion of this opinion his visitor began to bridle up
and prepare to lay down his arguments wiih
greater force ; and in order to give greater facility
to his enunciation, he took from his mouth a huge
quid of tobacco and threw" it upon the white mar
ble hearth, saying he wished the General would
be so good as to Inform him in what cases capital
punishment could ever be justified or defended.
14 Well," said the General, it strikes me that
if, we are going to abolish capital punishment,
there are two cases which should be made excep-
tions.
44 Two cases, are there ?." said the Detitioner.
" Well. sir. I should like to hear them statPrl and
tho rnnmpnk fnr thorn ?"
i nu. :. .t. r i , : .u. ri
a iic nisi, saiu me ucucidi, is mm ui umar,
cold-blooded, premeditated murder. The person
who lies iu weight or in ambush, with malice pre
pense, and takes the life of a fellow-creature,
ought to forfeit his life in return. He deserves to
be hung."
44 Well, I have abundance of arguments to meet
that occasion said the visitor. 44 Now I should
like to know what is your other case."
44 The other case," said the General, 44 is that
of the animal that walks on two legs, calls itself
a man and carries a mouthful of disgusting filth
into a clean house, and there pours it fourth upon
the carpet and scatters it over the hearth. Such
a being is certainly not fit to live in decent society,
and I do not know of any better or more ready
mode of getting rid of him than to hang him.
With these two exceptions, I think I should be
willing to sign your petition for the abolition of
capital punishment.
The visitor gathered up his papers, thrust them
into his pocket and with a very bland look hastily
withdrew. He has not called since to receive the
General's signature.
Gold Mines of Ohio.
A farmer in Harrison county, ploughed and
hoed up $ 100 in gold off 3 acres of his ground.
It was in small yellow grains, beautiful to the
eye, and finer than 22 or any other number of
carrots. In fact, it was 392 bushels of shelled
corn, and the gold was obtained by the attrac
tive qualities of the grain over-mastering that
of iho metal. What mine can be wished for,
more rich or attractive I
How Lazy Sam Wei the Race.
A Keniuckian horse drover being in South
Carolina with a drove, happened to take it to
the neighborhood of General H , whose
character for jockeying and maneeuvering in
trade is much more celebrated than his feats in
arms. The Keniuckian having perfect ac
quaintance with his character, went to see him
to sell him horses or to swap or to run a
race, as the destinies might order and decree.
He was one of our careless, unconcerned,
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lows: who would assume lust as much sim-
plicity of countenance and address, as circum
mJ
stances might require. He had the appearance
of about twenty-two or twenty-three years of
age, and as usual, was dressed in the blue
mixed jeans to hide dirt, and wore a drab col
ored hat for the same reason.
" Gineral." said ha. " T am inst frnm nlrl
Kaintuck, with some powerful nice horses, and
mav be vou want some. Daddv told me if I
come on your pans lo call on you, and he rec -
koned may be you would buy a pair of matches,
or hold me out in tradin ; for he said you had
a power o'f money, and understood tradin lo a
scribe. Here's a letter from him," handing
one. 41 And besides I've as nice a pair of
maiches, as you. could shake a stick at ; and
as tight a nag for a quarier, Dadd, says, as any
in tne pans; ne says l must run no races, j"10 . vuy us nausiucu as a
cause I mought lose, and we want all the mon-! sheeP and as heavy shouldered as a hog and
ey we can scrape to pay for land. Bui I reck- j cal hammed besides : I would not give a mule
on he'd suit you to a fraction caze you're a for lhrf e of ll- Why did you not bring a lo:
sportin character, and mought win. a powerful I of mules market? I would have bought
chance of money on him. j some at a falr Pr,ce- Your horses do not suit
While he was thus introducing himself and rae- whal do you ask fr ihis thing which
telling his business, the General opened lne!?0" caH a ruing "ag It may do lo plough
letter which read as follows ' i a season or two. Does it work 1"
T , .
I take this opportunity to
Dear General-
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wugiu iu juu uy my juu, wuu is itttiuu lilt! uisi
drove he evei driv, and I want you to roll logs
a leetle for him, if so he su'us you. Job's spry
enough at home, but hasn't cut his eye teeth,
and if you'll lend him a hand, I'll due as much
for any of your boys if you've got any, when
soever they come here tradin or any thing else.
So no more at present but remain your affec
tionate friend till death. Peter Tompkins.
The hero of our horse races, cotton bags,
and sugar hogsheads, thought he perceived a
neat speculation and acted accordingly. Mr.
Job Tompkins was received with much cour
tesy ; his man and boy eniertained with the
best in the larder : whi a his hve-and-twentv
horses were not neglected. It is true the Gen
eral had not the siighiest recollection of his
friend and correspondent Peter Tompkins.
He might have once known him, or not it
was the same thing. Here was Job, a raw
Kentucky stripling, with twenty-five horses,
as easily squeezed as a ripe
not in his nature to forbear.
lemon. It was
In the meantime, Mr. Job Tompkins made was brought forward,
himself quite free and easy ; and swaggered I While Job examined, his adversary endeav
about the cosily furnished apartment as if he ored all he could to fret him by dispraising his
had been in a log cabin. He viewed the sil
ver plate on the sideboard with much apparent
astonishment ; and a pair of silver snuffers,
especially, excited his curiosity.
14 Lord, Gineral ! ar them thar candle-snuffers
made out of the pure stuff? I never see'd
any afore but ir'n ones and matny uses hor
sheers. And all them ar things on that ar big
chist (ihe sideboard) is the ra'el Spanish cast
ings ! I heard talk of this afore, but never seed
it. Now if I was to tell this in our settlement,
may be they wouldn't hop straddle of me, and
ride right over me rough shod, for a liar. But
they say you're a powerful sight the richest
man in the South States, ain't you ?
To all which the General returned suitable
answers ; and Mr. Job and he were hand in
glove, lor the time being. Each man reso
lutely bent to make a successful lodgment in
his neighbor's pocket with the view of taking
it out a Herculean task to be sure when Job
heard in the next room the sound of music.
Severa Kentucky reels were n avert, anon,
the sweet breathings of a melodious voice
j ( j , ,
sung 41 Sweet sweet home."
" May I be d d," said Job, " if that dont
beat Bob Walker, and. he's a patch above com
mon. But that aint none of your music boxes,
I know ; it can't be. Is it VT
" My daughter is playing on the piano," said
the General, 44 we will walk in the room and
hear her." Here wore blandishments to strike
Job dumb, and entrance ajl his senses.
" The man who has no music in his soul,
And is not moved with concord of sweet sounds
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils"
Job thought a man might love music and
spoils also. He fell a liking for both. Thete-
fore ho applauded the music in his own way
most rapturously.
Said Job. 4 May I never pull another trigger,
if she's not a priming above anything I heard
talk about. Why. site's chartered f She's a
ra-al oner I assure you. Why, it's enough lo
mako a fellow swim that can't ; and if.il wasn't
for all these fine kiverlids over the track, (the
carpet); and I had a partner to my mind, I'd go
my drove to nothing or less, I can shake the
ick off any boy you can produce.'
The General now thought the Keniuckian
ripo enough. To aid in w hich ho had been
plied with choice liquors as he denominated
the Brandy and Madeira.
The norses were brought out and examined
and praised, and cheapened, and fauha found"
wiih all.
They could agree upon nothing.
" Well, where is your quarter horse ?" asked
the General. " Oh, hoi 1 sort oT tho't what
you were after," answered Job, for you hardly
looked at ihem thar matches, and these fine
geldings." So you must be after the quarter
ing, Jim, feich up Lazy Sam, will you ? Now
Gineral, I'll tell you, honor bright, he's never
been Iick'i in a quarter spurt, but once ; by
Joe Miller's sorrel mare which runs like a
streak of lightning. She's a ra-al screamer.
Daddy swapt for him last fall, after she tanned
him out. Iflknow'd her I'd give you her
marks, so as you mightn't be tuckt in. Fur I
heard Joe was bringing her to the South to
I wm his expenses. But here's the horse
how. 1 assure you he's not sIoV."
any-
l W.ow be 'l remembered that honest Job was
1 nl ignorant, that General H was at that
i ,ime lne owner o" lhis identical mare, and rr
reasons best known to himself he wished to
arke a race between her and Lazy Sam.
j Tne General examined Lazy Sam with the
ieye .a Jockey.
, Pf h," said he very contemptously, " why
Unlike the Job of ancient-days, Job Tomp-
kins suffered his anser to rise and master hi, ,
At least he made the General think. 'I o use
his own words he corvorted. He scieamed
out.
" Hallo ! Mister, I wonder you're so mighty
wise considerin you know so little. Why, you
make me feel all over in spots, to listen at you.
I reckon may be you've got a quartering your
self: aim you ?"
" I have a plough nag here," said the Gene
ral very cooly, " that I am sure can run away
from that thing of yours."
" Thing!" halloed Job, " why, you make me
feel a sort of wolfy, and I've a good mind to go
; my whole lot again any thing you can parade
, m tne wnole south.'
" I would not spoil a good mind then," quoth
the General. ' But I suppose you are afraid
to run, as your father has forbid it."
" I don't care a solitary flint what daddy say
when my Irish is up," exclaimed Job indignant-
ty- " Bring out your nag and let's see it."
The General gave the order : and as Job
expected, the sorrel mare, (once Joe Miller's)
horse ; and Job appeared worked to fever bent.
To cut short the story, the drove was staked
against twenty-five hundred dollars in a check
upon the o bank. And the com pany
adjourned to the Ceneral's track, to see the
race. On the way Job stopped short and fa
cing the General, asked very earnestly :
41 Now you're sure this aint Joe Miller's
nag 1 My mind sort o' misgives me, caze from
what I've heard they sort o' favor like."
44 D a your Joe Miller and his nag also,""
replied the General, 4' the mare is mine, I tell
you."
This appeared satisfactory.
I have given you the General's description
of Job's running horse done to fret him. It
was by no means a correct one. Lazy Sam
was a well made poney of the Printer stock,
but was of a mild, sleepy, sluggish disposition -r
until his metal was roused. He generally went
with his eye half shut and his head dropping
at an angle of forty-five degrees. When the-
i general vieweu mm ne was in tnts conuttion.
The horses were in the General's stable, and
the check for two thousand dollars was in the
hands of a gentleman present. The Generaf
had no doubt keeping all Joe's fine horses and
sending him home on his ten toes Lazy Sam
was led along by Job's boy as sleepy as usual.
The preliminaries were adjusted, and riders
mounted. As Job threw Jim on Lazy Sam,
he sprang all four off ihe ground ; and his
dull, sleepy look, was changed into a wild, al
most devilish expression.
He looked as Job did when he 44 cavorted"
The General lost his mahogany cuiur andi
looked pale ; but he said nothing.
Lazy Sam won the race by thirty Teet,
Job was suddenly cool as a cucumber. And
as he pui the twenty-five hundred dollar check
in his easy greasy pocket book, which he did
very deliberately, he looked round cunningly.
44 I sort o' think that's first rale and a half,"
said bob, 44 and a leetle past common. Why,
Gin'ral, Sam's laid you as cold as a wedge."
He turned round suddenly to his rider, 44 Jim,"
said he, 44 hert-'s five dollars ; why it all goes
in a man's lift- time, but the Gineral looks as
if he'd been qi.etzed through the little cud of
nothing or less,"