Plymouth Pilot, Volume 1, Number 13, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 April 1851 — Page 4

The Country Lassie & her Lovcr. BY RICHARD COE, jr. "To-morrow, ma, I'm sweet sixteen! And Billy Grimes, the drover, Has 'popped the question' to me, ma, And wants to be my lover! To-morrow morn, he says, mamma, He's coming here quite early, To take a pleasant walk with me Across the field of barley." "You must not go, my daughter dear, There's no use now a talking; You shall not go across the field With Billy Grimes a-walking. To think of his presumption, too! The dirty, ugly drover! I wonder where your pride has gone, To think of such a rover!" "Old Grime is dead," you know, mamma," And Billy is so lonely! Besides, they say, to Grimes' estate, That Billy is the only Surviving heir to all that's left; And that they say is nearly A good ten thousand dollars, ma---About six hundred yearly." "0, now 1 hear, my daughter dear, Your last remark quite clearly, Well, Billy is a clever lad, And no doubt loves you dearly! Remember, then, to morrow morn, To be up bright and early, To take a pleasant walk with him, Across the field of barley." The Way some Wives are Californired.---Just see how wicked men induce their wives to let them go to the gold diggings, by working upon their innocent love of show: There is a wicked man I know, He coaxed his wife to let him go, But this is the way he did it though To get to California: Says he--I'll send you lumps of gold. Much more than your two hands can hold; In your own carriage you'll be rolled. Says she--Now love, you know, my dear, 1 cannot live without you here, Bat one's own carriage sounds so queer!--You may go to California. HUMOROUS. A little Humor, now and then, Is relished by the best of men. Saving Time.---A minister who had considerable of a farm, as was generally the case in our forefathers' days, went out to see one of his laborers, who was ploughing in the field, and he found him sitting on his plough, resting his team. 'John,' said he, 'would it not be a good plan for you to have a stub scythe here, and be cutting a few bushes while the oxen are resting?' John, with a solemn countenance, re-plied---Would it not be a good plan, sir, for you to have a swingling board in the pulpit, and while the congregation is singing, you might swingle a little flax.' The reverend gentleman turned away

laughing heartily, and said no more about cutting bushes. Cold, or Catarrh in Sheep. A certain tight-fisted old codger of this Flock masters should be particularly city happened in a Foster's Philosophi- careful of their sheep when affected with cal instrument manufactory a few weeks a cold during the winter months; for if since, where he was shown the Lord's neglected, it frequently becomes so deepprayer engraved in a space about the size ly seated as to be incurable, and ends in of a five cent piece, with which he was phthisic, or consumption. The best

very much pleased. Returning home he related the circumstance to his family and the following conversation ensued:

"My son, would you suppose that the any slightly purging medicine, with a Lord's Prayer could be engraved in a space moderate allowance of hay, and a bran no larger than the area of a half dime?" mash one-fifth of which should be oil "Well---yes, father, if a half dime is meal. Colds, or catarrhs, are not only as large in every body's eye as in yours, epidemic but endemic; be careful, thereI think there would be no difficulty in fore where you winter your sheep, that putting it on about four times, and have there be no predisposing cause in their space enough left for his Sermon on the locality; and when they are attacked, reMount!" The Lord's prayer has not been move them instantly from the flock. referred to in family services since. By following these precautions and keep-

A political speaker, by his dull mo-

notonous discourse, set the whole au- tered and salted, one may bid defiance to dience asleep, except a poor idiot, who disease among his flock.---Amrican Ag-Uvse a.m0"S his flock. American Agsat with open mouth, listening. The riculturist.

speaker enraged, exclaimed---"What! all asleep except this poor idiot?" "Yes, exclaimed the natural, and if I was not a poor idiot, I would be asleep also." A father wishing to dissuade his daughter from all thoughts of marriage, quoted to her the words, "She who marries does well, but she who marries not does better." The daughter replied meekly, "Father, 1 am content to do well, let those do better who can." "That's what I call capital punishment," as the boy said when his mother shut him up in the closet among the preserve. A Hoosier who has heard Jenny Lind, says that her voice sends pleasant thoughts through your heart, like the ringing of a dinner bell when a fellows mighty hungry. 'The British Empire, sir,' said a boasting Englishman to a Yankee, 'is one on which the sun never sets.' 'And one,' replied the Yankee, 'in which the tax-gatherer never goes to bed.' 'You want a flogging, that's what you want,' said a parent to an unruly son. "1 know it dad, but I'll try and get along without it," said the little independent brat.

AGRICULTURAL.

I know of no occupation more honorable, than that of the tiller of the soil.---Jefferson. PLUM TREES. Luke Wyman, Jr., of West Cambridge, Mass., is celebrated for his Plum Orchards, from which he has wholly extirpated the warts or knotty excresences that so often disfigure this tree. He breaks the ground up about the trees in the fall; in the spring following about two pail-fulls of drainage of the cesspool, with half a bushel of good new loam, must be spread about the roots, adding also three pints of common salt.---None of this composition must touch the bark or roots of the tree, but spread about the tree in a circle of two or three feet in diameter. At the first flow of the sap in the spring, pare the knotty excresences smoothly down to the natural dimensions of the limb. Salt is a great fertilizer of Plum trees, and may he applied to advantage, in small quanities, at almost any time. PROFITS OF POULTRY RAISING. Col. Minot Thayer, at the late Poultry Convention, held in Boston, stated that he had been engaged in Poultry raising for 15 years. His farm consisted of 200 acres, and was acknowledged to be a good one, yet with an outlay of $25, in connection with his fowl department, he derived more profit than from all the rest of his farm. It was his opinion that good policy required the keeping of but few fowls; he usually had not more than 100; with two acres of land and a running brook, that number would be very productive. His practice was to have two or three houses in which to shelter them in winter; these houses were made of stone on three sides. It was necessary, he said, to give the hens meat or fish in the winter when they would lay eggs as freely as in summer. Mr. Giles, of Providence, said that 200 or 300 fowls might be kept on two or three acres of land. Their houses should be cleaned as often as once a week, and a little slackened lime strewed in them. Mr. Giles was of the opinion that the Dorking and white Shanghae are the most profitable fowls. Leaves as Manure. Leaves, buds, and tender branches are peculiarly rich in the vegetable alkali; besides which they contain other organic elements, derived from the soil, enriching its surface, tending to prevent its exhaustion, or when newly applied---that is to other ground---to enrich it more than superficially. Leaves---and the remark is applicable to the tender branches also---seem destined by nature for the manure of the forest land and indeed of ground generally wherever trees grow. The roots collect the in-organic elements essential to vegetation, from the soil, penetrating deeply and widely; the leaves detain and store up a certain portion of them with other elements derived from the atmosphere, such as are required for their growth; and these returned to the soil with the fall of the leaf, and there undergoing decomposition, are ready to be appropriated again, and re-administered to the process of vegetable growth. English Farmer's Herald. remedy for a cold is, first, place your shcep in a well ventilated, dry stable, comfortably littered; and second, give any slightly purging medicine, with a ing them well fed, sheltered, aired, wa-Potatoes.---A correspondent, at Sweden, (Me.,) writes to inquire the cause of rot in potatoes---as for a remedy he has tried a gill of salt and a little plaster, on each hill. His potatoes have not rotted, while all the fields around him were very badly affected. He is not aware that Providence has interfered to favor him, as he is uncertain whether his success is owing to salt, to plaster, to both united, to a new soil, to a want of barn manure, or to a mixture of various kinds of potatoes on planting.---Mass. Ploughman. Youth is a glorious invention. While the girls chase the hours, and the boys chase the girls, the months seem to dance away with them upon their feet. What a pity our summer is so short! Before you know it, gay young lovers become deacons, and romping girls grandmothers. Benjamin Franklin very quaintly observes that "It was other people's eyes that ruined us." A young man at Niagara, having been crossed in love, walked out to the brink of the fall, deliberately took his clothes off---gave one lingering look at the gulf beneath him---and then---went home. His body was found next morning in bed.

Advertising.

As education is the cheap defense of nations, so is advertising the cheap agent of custom and profit to men in all kinds of business. It is a moving signpost, possessing the rare power of ubiquity. If a man pays for emblazoning his name over his door---and pays dearly for it as he must---one out of every hundred who pass by, may chance to recognize it; but if the same man places his name, and briefly states his business in the columns of a popular newspaper, it goes about, exhibiting both to thousands daily; informing the reader, who may be interested in the information, of the very thing which he was desirous to know. He did not care to be told that John

Smith resided in any particular street. JACOB B. N. KLINGER, County Surveyor. but when John's residence was coupled HUGH B. DIXON, Assessor. with cheap clothing, cheap millinery, GROVE POMEROY, County Agent.'1! Agent. cheap family medicines, cheap hardware, JAMES LOGAN, Coroner.

cheap furniture, cheap anything, it then became a matter of importance---a principle of economy with him, to make John's acquaintance. It is thus that some men attract liberal custom to themselves, and really confer a benefit upon the public, by advertising; while others assume high rents, fit out splendid stores, pay large salaries to clerks, and do everything to secure a prosperous business, but the one thing needful---advertising. This they fail to do, and hence they do not secure a fair share of business. A PRACTICAL JOKE. A gentleman of considerable talent as an orator become a member of the legislative body, in one the Eastern States. In speaking he was addicted to an old habit of handling his spectacles; first placing them on his nose, suffering them to remain a minute or two, throwing them upon his forehead, and finally folding them up and laying them before him on the desk. One day a very important question came up for consideration, and he commenced a speech in opposition. A friend to the proposed measure, who was a most incorragible wag withal, determined to spoil the effect of the honorable member's remarks, and accordingly, before he entered the house, provided himself with a dozen pair of spectacles; the member commenced his speech with his usual ability. But a few minutes had elapsed before he was at work with his spectacles and finally got them upon his forehead. At this juncture our wag, who stood ready, laid another pair upon the desk before the speaker. These were taken up, and by gradual gradations, gained a place upon his forehead, by the side of the other. A third, fourth and fifth pair were disposed of the same manner. A smile settled upon the countenances of the honorable members, which gradually enlightened into a grin, and at last, when the speaker had warmed into one of his most patriotic sentences, he deposited a sixth pair with the others, and there was one long and loud peal of laughter from all quarters of the hall---presidents, clerks and members joining in the chorus. The speaker looked around him in astonishment at this curious interruption; but raising his hand, he grasped the spectacles and the whole force of the joke rushed upon his mind. He dashed the glasses upon the floor, took his hat and left the hall. The bill passed by a triumphant majority, probably in consequence of the gentleman's silly and useless habit. Abuse of the Franking Privilege.---Some, twelve or thirteen bags of mail matter, weighing upwards of thirteen hundred pounds, all going to Mr. Senator Borland, of Arkansas, under his own frank, went from our own City Post Ofice to the mail-boat going south this morning. The postage on this single lot of books, &c, which this honorable Senator has franked to himself, would amount to two or three hundred dollars, so the people can see the manner in which Uncle Sam is made to bleed by those who are the foremost in cryng out against the irregularity of the mails. Such abuses as these ought to stimulate the people to demand that the franking privilege be taken away altogether. Louisville Courier. Curious Decision. The lawyers in New York must write a miserable scrawl, judging from the following laconic decis ion made by Judge Edmonds, on Saturday week: Bloodgood vs. Trow---Being unable to find out from the papers, what the parties want, or what they are after, the motion, whatever it is, must be denied. Myers & Co., vs. Huntly.---A motion to change place of trial denied, mainly because the moving papers are so illegible that they cannot be read. YOUNG LADIES ! Never marry a man who treats his mother or sister unkindly or indifferently; such treatment is a sure indication of a mean and wicked heart. A young man guilty of such meanness will never make a good husband. When you see a young man who is affectionate to his aged mother and sisters, attentive to all their wants with filial love and tenderness, virtuous and lovely in his deportment, fear not; his worth is above rubies. Why is a tailor called the ninth part of a man? Because 'money makes the man,' and tailors never get more than a ninth part of what is due them. True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others as you would love to be treated yourself.

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Wood engravings of the latest fashion; illustration of Story by T. S. Arthur. Costumes of all nations. Caps, Capes; Chemisetts, &c.---in point of fact it is a TRIUMPHANT NUMBER, and we expect to sell more than 100,000. The engravings are far superior to any that have yet appeared in any annual, it is offered to the public as a proud memento of the TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN ARTS. The reading matter is, as usual, by the most highly gifted American writers. Terms---Cash in Advance. Single Nos. 25 cents---five copies will be sent on receipt of $1. One copy one year, $3, two copies one year, or one copy two years, $5; five copies one year, or c re copy five years, S10; ten copies one year, $20; and an extra copy to the person getting up the club of ten. L. A. GODEY, 113 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.