The Prairie Chieftain, Volume 1, Number 3, Monticello, White County, 9 October 1850 — Page 4

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yv, h,.ltkc:r ,.::2 to r: ri i Now don't cry yet, for there has been once a boy, and twice a boy; but this we should have you to know, was a certain toy that lived in a certain place, we ere net permitted to tell where. Hi mother became a woman cf sorrow cr. d died. That grieves us, but truth must be told. He and a Hide sister were left alone, alone, far their father ' was a drunkard. Hand in band they went forth into the street, and sat down upon a marble carriage step, fronting a large brick dwelling.- The cold stone seat struck another chill to their desolate hearts. They locked into the win. dow of the rich mansion, and saw young faces bright and happy there, glowing in the sunshine of health and plenty; and they wept. It made them feel more keenly their helpless condition. And there they sat, -without coveringto their heads or shoes to their feet, and their thin garments 'all tattered and torn.' A cold October wind blew upon them. They shivered and sat close, and put their little feet together to keep them warm. As the stranger passed, they instantly covered .their pale faces to conceal : their tears. At length a gentleman addressed ' them: "Children, run home," said he; "why do you sit here and freezel" "Our mother has gone and left us,' replied the little boy. "There is no one left but my poor little sister and me. We looked at her obi rocking-chair and saw it empty, and it made us cry and feel lone some." "And did she send you out to beg while she was cone?" asked the stran ger. "O, no!" returned the boy; '.'dear moth er never taught us to bet. Beside, she will never come back any more, for they put her into a cofiin, and took her away, and told U3 she was dead." And their tears ran afresh. "But your father," said the stranger, "where is he!" The children shuddered perceptibly but shook their heads and male no .reply. Their little hearts swelled with prids, and choked their utterance. They cotdd not speak the words, "Oar father is a drunkard!" . The stranger, who had seemed rough and coarse in his manner, wa3 touched. Ha quickly surmised the truth, and asked -. ' ? boy: . . ' "What are your names, my lad?" "Mary and James Milford,"he quickly replied. , "The c' hlroa cf Wilhc n MIR muttered l'..3 stranger I h lAA t . tion, Li at.. .3 cf 1. t 'at ; If to satisfy a t.Idcrdy occurred idea. Yt rlr, responded the bay; and at th; .; r.e . t the rude wind played roughly widi their little bare heads, and pierced their thki garments. The boy drew his sister still closer to his side,and the stranger was gone. In a few minutes after, a lady widi a Li? 1 t oaevolent face, and we tru.t a waroi L' .t, came and took them by i". o I end 1: 1 them away. A R ottthne v.' :r this, we attended a t2mpciar.ee rr.ocd.. 3. C .3 cf th3 speaker:, i.i t!.2 cc . .3 cfid3 roereukrRaeol as (hi!.. :: T ? r - 7 Tears I krt a c .1 R I! '- erance do'r i i.i ulers .: 2 IV,.-. a. I- t'.M' 5 1 1.. 2e ik . I it.! R"k :d C ' - 'I z: ... t i.i i. y i f i . -1,1 . 1 a 1 L. , 1 ' 3 - 3 Li Jn, f ; - I

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caLr rd aal .. A.A.I A z r...:eIt V, 3 "V I L X. I A III 1.1 IIiFOKit! Ily deer y : arg rt : T-r, th is is cae I'.' . ; sketch en: . ;:d f.cn tl 3 i..vr:..3 of hots e::d u.. If it int:::s.s you, the writer may cms day give you another. N. Y. Organ. An Irish Mistake. An Irish peasant carried before a magistrate on' the charge cf having stolen a sheep, the property cf Sir Garret Fitz Maurice. The Justice asked him if hs1 could read. To which he answered, "a little." "You could not be ignorant then," said Mr. Quorum, "that the sheep belonged to Sir Garret, as his brand G. F. M. was on them, sir.". "True," replied the prisoner, '-'but I really thought the letter stood for Good Fat Mutton." The Wives. It is astonishing to see how well a man may live on a small income, who has a handy and industrious wife. Some men live and make a tar better appearance on six or eight dollars a week, than others do on fifteen or eighteen dollars. The man does his part well; but the wife is good for nothing. She will even upbraid her husband for not living in as good style as their neighbor; while the fault is entirely her, own. His neighbor has a neat, capable and indus trious wife, that makes the difference. Ills wife on the other hand is a whirlpool into which a great many silver cups might be thrown and the appearance of the water remain unchanged. No Nicholas, the diver, is there to restore the wasted treasure. It is only an insult for such a wo man to talk to her husband about her love and devotion. - CoaETiiVG By Eook. A' gentleman ends to the lady of his affections, ia an othe? part of the country, a Bible, with the leaf turned down at Romans, Chap. 1, from the Sthto 12th verses: "For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son,tha without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers, making request, if by any means now at length 1 might have a prosperous journey by the will cf God to corns unto you; for I long to see you: that I may impart unto you some ' spiritual gift to the end ye may be established. That is, that I may be comforted together with you,' by the mutual faith both of you and ma." In return for which the lady transmits a Bible to her lover, with the. 18th verse of the 14th chapter cf St. Luke, marked: "I pray thee have me excused." A CMaess Caston The following curious experiment is adopted by;. the Chinese' physicians ia c ' : l) discover whether a per- . " ' - j ! :n murdered or died through the iolence cf others: t ' . "In order to make the discovery, the body is first taken and washed in vinegar. After this, a' large fire .is kindled in a pit, dug. on purpose,. sis feet long, three wide, and the same in depth. This fire is continually augmented until the sttrrc .-.Ik" earth tcocmea as hot as an over.; I: remaldbg fire is then taken out, a l:.rje qu: " tkj. cf vine ia poured into the pit, an 3 it is covered with a hurdle made of cs!:r twigs, upon which the body is strct:' . 1 cJ at fidl length. A clth i? thr: c .r b;.h, in t' 0 fern ci 1.1 i rh, in f . . . t t'..3 s,;.::n; t.3 v. : a r-, t ;t r; : 1 it i:i every dire :tlon. At 1' 3 r A tl t. j hours the cloth is t hen c.T, r ,1 if v. ry blows have been giv.n t' :y 1 ;:vr upon t..3 budy, in whatever it ioybo." TL- C 'zzt-1 h. 13 cat t'..-t if t j : "ci t .( C3 tJ t.. :d : " ;kos tho :;.".3 ; jh r.-.3 c' t, c - r -: -r " .' inI hi t' : so UiJ. s it r ;-3 frtri ri: - CO'"". t: 1 . 1 1 'It 3 1; . 1 - a.i u.lt 3 i . J - - Y 'A ., .... '. : .. itlit '3

1 , .1 ! t j 1 I ha 0 I -. 1 1: .hi: j .1 og.ln, ;.3 ' r.2,"i tl j c l Ik.rg" : i 1; :o-u v-,b -tthi cju! ;"ojir 3 rla d 3 vhj ' ! '.n t' e :cir.!t eft' 2 t'z.V.3 z A show-tents render critics! observation impossible. Many of the horses ,and cattle were brought out and passed in ree this morning, whereby they were seen to far better advantage than yesterday,, but this better opportunity for scrutiny suggested nothing new to my mind. It still seems to me that it is idle to call together Fifty Thousand Farmers,with many thou sands of Mechanics and Artisanst merely to show them a bewildering procession of symmetrical, spirited-Horses; sleek, thrifty, well-rounded Cattle; mammoth Vegetables, tempting Fruits, and so on. Such exhibitions may have some good though capricious effect in exciting the hitherto careless to effort and emulation, but a blind, misdirected ambition may be productive of more harm than good. What is especially wanted is a general diffusion of knowledge as to what a fanner should a.tetnpt and how he should set about it. If 1,000 or 1,500 lbs. is all an Ox can profitably be made to weigh,' then exciting men undertake to grow or fatten Oxen that will weigh 2,000 or 2,500 lbs. each.isa mischief-, which ought to be discountenanced and stopped. So of Mammoth Hoots, Fruits, &c. The consideration of profit must be held paramount in Agri cultural teaching; for if an enterprise tconH pay, the great majority of Farmers can't afford to embark in it, no matter how showy or astonishing it may be. Yet amorg all these splendid Horses, Cattle and Sheep, I see no evidence proffered that such choice animals may be pro duced (beyond the temporary and limited demand' for breeding) to the decided ad vantage of the breeder. Here, then, I think, is a deficiency to be supplied. Every animal entered at a State Fair should be accompanied with a concise statement of his age, stock, treatment, character of soil on which he was reared, actual cost, estimated value, and the highest sum which has at any time been paid or offered for him. So in its way of everything else exhibited or entered for competition.. That would teach something, and each statement should bo read at stated periods throughout the Fair in front of the animal or product therein referred to, so that any one interested in any particular animal or product might be en hand at the hour appointed. Unless something like this shall be attempted, I think a good part of the young farmers I see here, especially those who "step up and take something," every hour or so and still more emphatically those who congregaia around the gambling-boards so thickly stowed in and around the nearest tavern, may as well stay away from Stats Fairs hereafter. But my faith in Fairs is revived a liide by walking through the grand and spacious temporary structure devoted to Agricultural implements. . Stupid rs man may be, lie cannot be quite dumb enough to examine these Grain Sowers, Planters, Horse-Raises, Reapers, Scythes, Hay-Cutters, Horse-Powers, &c. &c, and go. home satisfied with the eld, awkward, inefficient implements of the farmer's vocation. Take the Water llam'for a sample cf the improvements of the last few years: it will give any farmer who has- a running brcck on his lice a constai.t suply ci' fiosh v.-ttor i.i lis ) i:d, 1 is gardi. a. ar.d if ho ' k. jiu his i 0 : o : t a wry modcrats cott 1'.2 t ..e - t Liv&terirg r t:'.3 and Louts cr. rr.a.iy frms wculd 3y fir a Ik-..i in two yeai3, -a d t'; prod : 01 rtorya gor. on wsum L 2 uci I Lj lo.3 i.i hiVg-itku. 1 a a 'v.. . t - j- ' " J "r-lu3 U n'1 -- $) 1 ;y '. '-h c ' t to L ; v t ; th a 1 li A ... jtii j d "dors to th in v r r J:- ny l t3 t C- i ' V U.a. 5 I cl.o . t:j iovc-t 1 r i- ,: Ik 1 i Y.: ?:t . 0 ' t c ..-..vd i ' . - As E . e 1 1 i. r sj1' i t ; t cut 1, t I. i ! . , C "- ;. , 1. :1 ' u ; : e 111.' ' 0 t v . v. - S i i I J t : 1

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rle--:rt. cr -h - - - - .vl z s . ii- r n .. . r c 1 c J. .0 t wr ci - 1 L "ncr, 1 1. ..'y, w ::h 0 ; ' c f ' cr .h.'ous arro: er.t3 fihr cb-.rat-cn, end for practical e . ; hf .at on, wuuii be better worth atfc; d rg t!...'i any enc I have yet seen. Fat would t'. e poc4le attend! There were atbaat-iV -0 peep1 a ltkin the enclosure when I left, at noon, and think the entire attendance to-day can hardly, fall below 100,000. . Correspondence of the Dollar Newspaper, Phil. Transplanting; Trees. Notwithstanding there are some whooppose the system, I Jhink it is decidedly the best time to transplant trees in the autumn; for the accumulation of water by the melting snow, combined with the operation of the frost, tend to work the earth in among the roots; besides it is a season of more leisure than the spring, and tho ground is in much bettor order for setting out trees. Trees set out in the Fall "get better rooted than those transplanted in the Spring, and are consequently, better calculated - to withstand the drought. Some objectto Falltransplanting.because, they say, the trees will get winter-killed, but such is not the case; they are just as liable to be winter-killed in their natural situation as when transplanted. As to the above sentiments, I can vouch for the truth, as I have seen the experiment tried time alter time. I have seen fine thrifty peach trees set out as late as the middle of November, and live throughout the ensuing summer, notwithstanding, in some instances, the season was remarkably dry. Now, as fruit and crnamen'al trees are so easily procured, it is astonishing to me that so little attention is paid to their culture. Every p ersou, who owns slot, though it may be small, has 100m enough to plant soma kind of tree or vine, which, with comparatively little labor, will repay him ten-fold. How much better a farmhouse looks when the place is well-stocked with fruit and ornamental trees, shrubbery, Soc; while, on the.contrary, a farm without an orchard, and a house unsha ded by trees, denotes a tasteless owner. Hence, a3 the time is coming on, I would advise every owner- of a lot to get some fruit and ornamental trees, and transplant them on your place, as there are always 1 1 1 many unoccupied spots wmcn may oe turned to profit in this way, L. Cellars. Probably one of the chief causes why vegetables of certain kinds, particularly carrots, beets and turnips, rot so-soon af ter being deposited in the water bams, is the want of proper care in ventilating the cellars ia which they are deposited. The Germans who are famed for their exemp lary domestic economy are rigidly cicum spect in this particular. In ail or most of their houses there is a communication maintained ' between the ..cellar and the principal chimney, in order to facilitate the escape of the noxious and stagnant gases engendered "by the vegetable or other contents. It is a well known fact that the air in cellars from its rapid detsriora tion and impregnation by nauseous mias ma, soon becomes highly deleterious to health; and to this fact doubtless, is attributable, in a great measure ,the almost un interrupted ill-health of many, families a mong us, both in town and country. PadJy, att;nkrg a Conwit n f Qua tors : .r tt.e t.t 1 ;.;e,v os i.'.uo ; t: " 1 an i 1 ir.loa w.t.ial t .tir tuor.ucr ti wor ship. iL-h-,; -:i t 11 t: at 0 "hot' ti.t..rin sp .i e; t.i ti t. oy were move a tv t':.o C lilt.' i c v ,.4oh: 1 their rr.oeedi" "s tt kh i it 0 - , d tlh z". t for tli f ir'hay ! , cf . h : r rcc t 1 v 'Liv.fi ic-i, T ' 'Tho A.: . Q.::l.cr ;.t J s hit rnoir,g 1 rt 1 t rc 1- e g: 'h.t ' rc.T, I i eft' j Lord.' k. td;o ! L' t tho . r a r . 1 1 t ; 1 t ' - d . - r 1 u,L:.

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. c 2 1 i ; 1 , - s . t r ; e.re ctY. I r, ! r . - I.i d v A p roluv.c n.- 1. :; t 0 u - 1 ' 1 -ci3 tho s:r-o r. :r a 1 r - nure. . Thrt u;ie cow, well i'A v. clo Ti'-ta I ro.1t than tv o kept ca tho ta--3 f. 11. r. TA v,::i l!-o 'y 1o c'l l . r: -.k. T. -tenet iw".r;'CJ! :t' o---.; bsgins to blossom, will produce. as. much milk as two tons cut when the seed' is ripe. That herd-grass and clover will run cut cn good land in a few years, if cut quits early. That the farmer needs patience, per severance, good, judgment, aad experience. - That i! by the plow man would thrive, himself must either hold or drive. But good economy is of more importance to the farmer than hard labor. That cold water is the best 4 rick, unbolted meal makes the best bread. That a well conducted paper is worth four times its cost to the farmer. Graniie Far. Serving: a Hum Customer. "Have you got any good West India rum, sirl" asked a woman, a day or two since, of one of our disciples of Esculapu us, as she slowly unfolded her shawl,s.nd placed on 'the counter a goodly sized bottle, for the accommodation cf the 'critter.' "For what do you want it, marm!" in quired he, as he scanned her counte nance. "Oh, simply for bath hog, sir; I never use the vile stuff for any ether purpose "Well." said he, "I h- - h' k ":. but it is net cf thft best c- h ! I I.--, -heard' much complaiat cf my last Lrrt! but it is excellent for bat! hig in slokr.L3 i it is just treat enough, without the usu al dilution of water." "Well, I'll have the b:V.l3 fiiioi.anl try," said she. Andha-.kg received it, left wenderinrr whv she tho-ld be ques tioned so closely about a 1".; !o rura. "Our mm i3 all cut, C- ," said he to his clerk the next ro.trrfi: g. "I A. try to procure a better art'cLthsn t"' 0 last has proved to be." "All out, sir!" replied tha astonished clerk; why I sold a quart jost be fire yc x came, and it did net run dry then, for I left it running by accider t, aad lost nearly a gallon there must be near ten gfilo-s left yet, tor 1 have sold very 1'. . do of it lutely." . "Y.'hy ycu must be r.-.".j:..k:ri! I had to tip ths barrel yesterday tofi.ifi.3 m:os:o. Dj show ma whero ycu d:ow ii." "What barrel did ycu take it from! asked the clerk, a little ffiglucnc I, Laring he must have been u p:nolrg akohck . "Why, this ' one, of cturso!" rcr II he, (pointing to one rear -:t tl 0 d:tr.) have sold for a fortnight from it!" The clerk could n.t cutdn lfir.i.k any longer. "Why," said he, as on r s ho c : J 1 1 ' smother his laughter, t.. : a z I c. rain xcater that I brought to use Lr my plants, and I had it fd'ed at the burg to save the head. A Capital Anecdote. Professor Eisley,wl.o ii r z-v i 1 h:'f says that recently when he vrs at Yfift an American captain cr. 1 :.:i V.; A.A..- 1 met at dinner.'You are an American, sirl' call t'.o Englishman. 'I reckon I cm, returned tho c:t izA. You have ths noma cf lei.-j grer.tr :rriorsl' 'Yes,' replied the Yard , y,"y.AA 'I ' I ; k " : 0 . .. . Y . .0 : . 1 !kh h.o. '" k 1 t t r L'li ) 1 Cr "

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