Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 January 1869 — Page 4

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About Deficiencies. Hardly a day passed during the Presidential campaif"! of last summer in which the Ti men did not charge that, the apprepriation bills of the last session of Con gres3 were merely electioneering documents, framed to mislead and elective the people. They were plausible lies utte:ed by Congress and sent abroad by its authority. They were intended to affect the Presidential election, by inducing the people to believe that the work of retrenchment had been seriously and honestly be sua. ' See," said Republican newspapers, how the appropriations for the current fiscal year have been cut down. The army will cost but $33,000,000. The navy wil! cost but 17,000,000. There will be a large reduction in the Civil-Service bill. Appropriations tag works of internal improvement will not be nearly as many as they were last year, and the expenditures of the Government will be reduced to tit lowest possible point cor. detent with a wise economy." Peradventure, some of "the little creatures whom God for sjrne inscrutable purpose permits to edit the majority of the minor journals of the Republican party" we quote from Horace Greeley did really believe that their representations with regard to the rede ion of national expenditures were true. The more influential newppapers of that party knew that those representations were false. Every Congressman on the stump knew they were fahe. Lyman Trumbull knew they were false, and yet he repeated them. John Sherman, Chairman of the Finance Committee in the Senate, declared in the Senate that the army and navy and civils rvice establishments could not be carried on in their present strength under such appropriations. Without such authority, Senator Trum Will knew that the appropriation bills were a humbug and a fraud; yet he made them a basis for statements which he knew were not true. In this he was followed by all of the other l'adical Congressmen. By this, and other devices even more disreputable, the Republicans carried the election. They knew the day of exposure Btnt come and precisely in the manner and at the time predicted by the Democratic press when the appropriation bills should come up during the present session. But what does the party in pow er care for exposure now f What must be thecoatagious'rottcnne?3 of a party which infects men like Fessendea, and Sherman, and Trumbull, and Conkiing with views which they would loathe were it not for their political associations? It is not natural for them to be political grub-worms, and wallow and wriggle in the slime of meanest partisanship ; and yet in what have they elevated themselves save in refusing to perjure themselves on the impeachment trial above the ordinary level of the party in Congress is called upon to appropriate for the deficiencies I f the present fiscal year $21 ,000,000. C7 ieago lines, 8th.

Story of a Pet Tiger. In the volume of Travels in Venezuela, by Don Raman Paez, we find the following : In a solitary ranch no1 far from San Jaime, Venezuela, there once lived a poor widow, who out of com pa -sir r. .or a young cub which had been ptc&ed up by some hunters, undertook to raise it w ith the milk of her own goats, sheltering it at night from the damp under the folds of her bed, covering and treating the foundling with as much affection as if it was her child. In return the little tellow became so at lached to its adonted mother, that it could not endure a moment's separation from her, and would lie like a cat by the fireside, while she devoted herself to the occupations of the kitchen. As it grew older and stronger, the woman's slender stock of goats rapidly diminished by its repeated depredations ; it was therefore deemed purdent to give it a wider range than the widow's little farm yard, and it was encouraged to seek for game in the neighboring woods. Whenever successful in these excursions the intelligent creature brought some home, and with seeming pride laid it at the feet of his benefactress. On one occasion, some of her neighbors havinir come to pass the day with her, she thought a9 game "was plentiful and easily obtained she would epre such of her goats as had thus far escapeel the teeth of her favorite, and instead procure with its assistance a supply of venison with which to treat h r guests. Accordingly leaving the hut in their charge she and her efficient hunter started for the woods, proposing to be back in time to cook their dinner Tbut to the astonishment of her visitors the dinner hour arrived, then the night, but no tidings of the hunters : and up to thiä time nothing has been heard about either of the former tenants of the solitary ranch, although it is not difficult to imagine the poor woman's fate. STORY OF A SHAKE MIA iL. V KU. Du Chaii.i.i , in his last book about Africa, says : One day I witnessed a fearful scene. A man, a native of Goree, an island on the coast of Senegambia, who had the reputation of being a snake eharmer, and was then at the Gaboon, had succeeded in capturing one of these large naja. He was a bold man, and prided himself on never being afraid of any nake, however venomous the reptile miL'ht be ; nay, not only was he nut afraid of any of them, but he would light with anyj;f them, and get hold of them. I had often seen hin? with snakes in his hands. He was careful, of course, to hold them just by the nec k below the head, in such a manner that the neck could not turn on itself and bite him. That day he brought into a large open place, perfectly bare of grass, one of these wild naja that he had just captured, and was amusing himself by teasing the horrid and loathsome creature when I arrived! It was a huge one. Most of the people of the village had fled, and the se natives who, li.ee myself, were looking on, kept a longwty ofl. Not a Mpongwe man, not a single inhabitant of the whole region I have explored, would have ever dared to do what the Goree man did. Twojor three timep, as the .snake crawled on the ground, we made ofT in the opposite direction with the utmost speed, myself, I am afraid, leading off in th j general stampede, though I had provided myself with a gun. It was perfectly fearful, perfec 'y horrid and appalling, to see that man making a plaything of this monster, laugning, as we may say, at death, for it could be nothing else, I thought. At first;; when I saw him he had the snake around his body, but he held it firmly just below the neck, ami I could see by the muscles of his prm that he had to use great strength. As long as this part of the body is held fl.mly the snake loses much of its great power of crushing one to death, as the boa constrictor or python does with larger animals, and as small snakes do with smaller game ; but with this naia the danger would have been the venomous bite. Then with the other hand he took the tall of the snake, and gave it a swing and gradually unfolded the reptile from his black body, which was warm and shining with excitement, but always holding the head. On a sudden he threw the snake on the ground. Then the creature bftgna to crawl away, when suddenly the Goree man came in front of it with a light stick and instantly the monster erected itself Jrnot to half its full length, gave a tre-

mendous whistle, which we all heard, looked glaringly and fiercely in the man's face with its sharp, pointed tongue out, and then stood still as if it could not move. The Goree man, with his little stick in his left hand, touched it HghtJy, as though to tease it. It was a fearful sight and if lie had been near enough, the snke would, no doubt, have sprung upon his antagonist. The man, as he teased and infuiiated the snake with the rod he held in his left hand, drew the attention of the rep

tile toward the stick ; then suddenly, and in the wink of an eye. almost it quick as lightning, with his right hand he got hold of the creature just under his head. The same thing that I have just described again took place. The snake f olded itself round his boely ; then he unfolded the snake, which was once more let loose, and, now this horrid serpent got so infuriated that as 6oon as he was thrown upon the ground he erected htlMwIf, and the glare of his eyes was something terrible. It was indeed an appalling scene; the air around) seemed to be filled with the whistling sound of the creature. Alas ! i more terrible scene soon took place! The man became bolder and holder, more and more careless, and the snake probably more and more accustomed to the mode of warfare of his antagonist, and just as the monster stood erect the man attempted to seize its neck as he had done many and many a time before, but grasped the body too low, and before he had time to let it" tro, th? head turned on itself and the man was bitten I I was per fectlv speechless, the scene had frozen my blood, and the wild shrinks of all those round rent the air. The serpent was loose and crawling em the ground, but, before it had time to go far, a lo.ig pole came down upon Kl back and broke its spine, and In KM time than I take to write it down the monster was killed. To the French d el or who had charge of the little colony the man went (happily he was just at hand)'; all the remedies were prompt and powerful ; the man suffered intensely; his bo 'y became swollen, his mind wandered, and his life was despaired of; but at last he got better, and, though complaining of great pain near the heart, he was soon able to go out again. A short, time after this accident, having an ax in his hand, going, as he said, to cut wood, he suddenly split his own head in two. He had become insane ! Bimllim on Railway Train. A nmKF description of some of the principal gamblers whose names have become familiar to the experienced traveler on the railroad from this city to New York, and especially from New Haven to the metropolis, seems almost demanded. Gamblers and pickpockets are reaping a rich harvest on this route, despite the very pcrftJsteBt efforts of the railroad corporations to oust them ; and nothing will make them shrink back so quickly as seeing their portraits in print. The traveler by the afternoon train, bound, let us say, for New York, will notice, if he enters the smoking car which naturally is a business man's resort on a long journey shortly after the train .ves New Haven, a miJle sized, fairlooking man, about thirty-eight year3 old, wearing short black whiskers reaching under the chin, and curling round the face. He generally wears a silk hat and dark brown broadcloth clothes. He is neither a brilli int nor a stupid looking individual; his eyes alone are quite keen. He might be taken for a country schoolmaster or village lawyer, were it not t r the searching glance3 of suspicion he gives before he proceeds to business. He is the "stool-pigeon," or gambler number one of the party. This man steps quickly through the car, generally at New Haven, stops a few mo- , ment3 at the door, quietly and modestly surveys tha passengers. He then selects a vacant seat, if possible in the immediate vicinity of several gentlemen who are talking together, and generally mingles in the conversation. Ere long the door opens again, and an entirely different specimen enters. This is gambler number two, who has something of the " liowerv" air about him. lie has a red, full face, fringed about with short, red hair; wears a round top sldüched hat, is dressed with a general air of carelessness, is between twenty-five and thirty years old, under medium size, probably weighs 1 10. He usually selects a seat at some little distance from hi.s comrade and interests himself with thecountry boys and confident young men. Wambler number three is not long now in making hi3 appearance. As he swings open the ear doot with nervous energy he would almost be taken for a banking or insurance clerk, or pome down town bookkeeper who lives fast. TIr wears this season a wide band soft hat, short cutaway coat, tight pants, a bit of jewelry : is about thirty years old. weighs perhaps- ILiO, short in stature, fair face, wi'.h no especial distinguishing characteristic. He takes in the situation, whatever it may be, ;t a glance, and gets a seat, if possible, in the front end of the car 1 icing the passengers. He looks about a few moments, then passes through in an inquiring way. Finally he arrives near " stool pigeon" and carelessly asks him if he will play a game of euchre. " Stool pigeon" replies that he docs not care to play, but (turning to the victim he has nfcefted) "perhaps this gentleman 1 may," and generally one or two will be coaxed into trying a hand. So gamblers two and three take down a euchre table, j and " stool pigeon" loafs negligently be1 hind. Thus the part2' is made up of two ' professional gamblers and two green men. . The play begins. "Stool pigeon," standing in the aisle, becomes interested. As they are sitting and he is standing he can pee every man's " hand." Presently : the euchre game is ended, and gambler number two says, "I have a splendid bluff hand ; " then number three bursts : out with u So have I ! and I will bet five dollars that one or the other takes the money? " "Stool pigeon" now btoomes interested in one of the green men and sayR private ly, " Pshaw 1 you've got a hand you can go 'em a hundred on, if you will !" Green 1 man bets, and is, of course, " cleaned out." The party breaks up soon after and " stool I pigeon " goes on to the next car. It must be remembered that this trio of gamblers and others of their ilk do not I confine their operations to the smokingcar where card-tables are placed, and where a mau is rather more on his guard, but in the regular passenger cars, where the conductor is continually passing and repassing. You may see them almost any day the red-haired, red-faced man, the short, nervous-faced man, number three, and the modest " stool pigeon." Heware of them'.-springjkld (Mass.) Erching IV' The Language of Ma de. The followirg is a specimen, not only of what might happen, but what, no doubt, does happen very frequently in many musicsl circulating libraries: Scene. -A Shop. Youno Man discovered sorting Music behind a counter. Enter Yocno Ladt Kith a roll of Music. Young Lady (softly). Oh ! I've come to return a Love's Whisper." Yovno Mm. Allow me to offer you 41 The heart bow'd down." I'm sure it will please you. Y. Ij. Fie good enough to change " The heart bow'd down " far " Happy lb ;irt," an I then I'll tae it. I left it behind me the last time I was here. Y f. If I had known you had left it behind you, I would hv looked out The Manly Heart" to go liack with It. Shall J send it by Parcel' Delivery

F. L. No ; I'll take that and " The Manly Heart " home with me together. Have you any thing else very pretty to tell me" of? F. M. (looking over stock of Music, and con mult" expressions). I love her, how I love her!" " She shines before me like a Star." F. L. (also turning over Music "Will you love me then as now ?" 7. M. "Dearest, then I'll love thee more " '. f., " Then you'll remember me."

Now, can I depend upon all these ! Y. M. Certainly : and may I be al lowed to add " My last thoughts of thee ?" T. L. That's strange. I was gointr to say, "Why do I weep for thee?'' But, perhap? we had better say both. F. M. I will put them both together. )' L. Do. I will go over both when I get home, and as soon as I can make up my mind I wil let you know my choice Good morning. Mbit. F. M. Good morning. I Inking orcr Music M the Icons the shop.) from my gaze." She is gone MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. How to prevent sea sickness Keep on shore A curious contradiction the reiirn of snow. If industry is no more than habit, it is at least an excellent one. Lady Palmerston, although over sev enty, was sprightly enough to electioneer for her son. The last illness of Sir Richard Mayne was the first for the forty years he had been Chief of the London police. Texans believe that the story of the cattle plague was a put up thin-: to reduce the price of their beef. The man who attempted to Jtan:: himself with a cord of wood abandoned the enterprise, because it was too expensive. Caleb Giles, a celebrated rifle !shot, was accidentally shot dead at a shooting mach near Toronto, Canada, on the 1st instant. Roman Maxims 1. Never work within doors when there is anything to be don without. 2. Never do in fair weather what may be done in wet. A littt.e girl, on Christmas eve, seeing the sun setting, said : " Mamma, I know what makes it so red, over there ; Santa t'laus is baking." Canada has 8,00t miles of telegraph wires, and an office to every 7,000 inhabitants, while in England there is only one office to every 10,000 people. A Boston artist painted a bottle of spruce beer so naturally that the cork flew out before he could paint the string to I fasten it. Wonder what became of the ; beer ! I An American gentleman writes from London that common American corn ! cobs are sold in the streets of that city j as " patent fire lighters eight for a . penny." j TnE Pope bought a pretty cottage for I the widow of Monti, executed for attemptj ing to blow up a Zouave barrack, in Home, but she scornfuMy refused the gift and then lied the city in diguise. Two American students at Gottingen

fought a duel last month, in which one of . nf the improved breeds, would yield a betthem, the son of a Philadelphia banker, ; ter return, and at a far less cost for keepwas severely wounded. A quarrel about j ing. Twenty Iloudans, Creveeo.urs, Grant and Seymour had given rise to a j Black Spanish, or some other good breed, challenge, which was promptly accepted. I will produce more eggs, during the year, The duel was fought with pistols at fifteen : and as many chickens (If not non-sitters), yards distance. onc hundred common fowls, as the lat It is said that the only infallible way to : ter are usually kept, or rather not kept ; ascertain that death hz taken place, with for they are allowed to run where they the exception of decomposition, is bv ' please by day, roost where they please by

holding a candle to a part of the boely. If the blister forth a fluid taken place, occurred. on being punctured gives substance, d ath has not If air is emitted, death has BOBBY," said Uncle Peter, as he examined the points of the beast, "I don't see but one reason why that mare cannot trot her mile in three minutes." They gathered round to hear this oracular I opinion, and one inquired, " What is it?" Why, he replied, " the distance is too great for so short a time." A poor laborer in Manchester, England, ha 1 such an infatuation for attending prize fights, that frequently he would walk fifty miles to witness one, when he cemld not afford to ride. His last journey was fatal. He had no money to pay a ferryman on the River Mersey, ana attempted to swim aeross. He was drowned in the effort. Deacon Samuel M. Andrews, since his arrival at the State Prison at Charles town, has manifested the same calmness and tractability of demeanor which has usually characterized hi,3 conduct. As he had had some experience of the machinery of a cotton-mid, he has been set to work in a machine shop. He seems to work with good humor and with a fair amount of diligence. Six Waterbur, Conn., sportsmen went pickerel fishing one bitter cold night, re ccntly, on a mill-pond a number of miles from that town. After they had cut several holes in the ice, and fished patiently for several hours without a bite, they were told by a small boy that the owner of the pond had drawn it off a few days before and captured all the fish. The recent death of Mr. John Bairstow, a munificent benefactor in England, is announced. From poverty he rose to the possession of a princely fortune, which he distributed liberally in charities. The bequests to religious and benevolent societies exceed $200,000. He rose at 6 a. m., and, at the period of his greatest wealth, Us personal domestic expense was little over 900 a year. He was ninety at his death. An old gentleman in Kidgefield, Con necticut, who is fond of buckwheat cakes, and who cooka them himself every morning, the other day prevailed on his son to try them. Son thought they had a queer taste ; father thought so too. What could be the matter I After breakfast, one of the neighbor's girls came in to wash the dishes, stir up more cakes, and put the house in order. On stirring up the buckwhoat, she fished up a huge rat from the bottom of the dish, and, on stirring again, fished up four more in succession. The common artificial licrhts vitiate the

atmosphere in two ways by removing its them hollow and perhaps badly discolored oxygen, which is indispensable to respira- I in the middle. Not only are the center tion, and by producing carbonic acid gas. portions ol such potatoes unfit to be put A six foot burner will produce as large a ' upon the table, but the same is true of the quantity of this poisonous gas as would 1 interior of very large potatoes. The finest be expired by eight or nine persons in a j portion of the potato lhat which is most state of quietude; and it would abstract ! mealy when cooked and the most abundmore oxygen from the air than thev ' ant m starchy matter is situated very

would absorb during the same time. Ven tilation, therefore, should be carefully secured after the gas or lamps an lighted at night, and particularly where they are to be burned all night. Altuouoh enlightened men generally do not stop to think about the reason why they have married, and continue to maintain the family union, if they will look at the subject closely, they will find it is a longing for happiness; to build for themselves a home, in the bosom of which they may hide from the deceit, cold hearted n ess and ceremony of the world ; where nothing but love enters, where there is no strife, no Jealousies, heart burnings, envy or selfishness ; nobody to cheat, defame or deceive them, but all is love and unity. Dr. Byford. i m Tor franking privilege of the members of the Russian Parliament, which the (lovernment recently abolished as too heavy a burden for the Post-Office Department, it has been ascertained, cost the mil die exchequer only Men hundred ' ssian dollars a ye

Jarm and cusrhaUl.

Best Soil for Wheat. Ii a soil is destitute of wheat producing material, it cannot produce a bountiful crop of that kind of grain. There are many that will produce fair crops of ludian corn, barley and oats, which will not yield a remunerating crop of wheat and why f Simply because the crop of wheat they plant cannot find in that soil the right kind of materials to form the kernels. In one soil the minute roots find abun dance of material, which they m?y take up for the formation and perfect development of kernels : while in another soil the roots may send out their numerous little hungry mouths into every cubic inch of soil in search of material to produce the grain and not find it. This is the great difficulty with soil that will not produce wheat ; and until such materials are added to the soil, it may be cultivated and sowed in vain. Our aluminous, heavy, slippery, clay soils are by no means the best for the production of either winter or spring wheat ; although they will yield good crops when well drained and thoroughly pulverized and manured. Our country abounds in soils of a mixed character, which wiil produce a remun?rating crop of wheat once in five or six years, while they cannot be set down as good wheat sods ; and they cannot be very much improved for growing wheat unless a vast amount of clay were thoroughly mtngk'd with the soil. On some soils, where nnd predominates.wheat would not grow heavy enough to pay for harvesting it. And the same is true of soils where alluvion constitutes a large portion of the soil. A sandy soil will furnish silica enough to form a good still straw, while a mrcky soil will produce a slender and soft straw, which will fall down before the grain is matured. The best soil for wheat is one in which the preelominating characteristics are clay and loam, having neither too much of the one nor too much of the other. The lighter loam soils and such alluvions as have been brought from clayey localiexcellent wheat ; and sometimes a mucky soil will yield a fair crop of this kind of grain. But their fertility for wheat will soon.be exhausted. Calcareous clays, gravelly "clays, a'uminous clays, as well as many soils that are a mixture of all these just named, with good management cultivating, manuring, and draining will almost always yield fair crops of whei Anierii-an VHidit Culturixt. Common vs. Improved Fowl: Ynv is it that farmers, poultry raisers, and others who keep fowls, either for pleasure or profit, cannot see any advantagein keeping improved breeds of poultry over the common dunghill fowls ! Is it not patent to every one that, it costs no more to keep good stock than poor? Every progressive farmer will acknowledge that a herd of thorough-bred cows will pay better than the common mongrel stock : but why do they not carry the same idea into practice in the poultry yard ? The fifty or more chickens kept by most farmers, if renlaced bv twentv of some one 1 nicht, and shift for themselves. Either of the above varieties, and others we could name, will yield two hundred to two hun1 X J ,421V 1 1 o tw VgS I Pmi y-,7r many other older varieties will yield from one hundred and fifty to two hundred But how many yard3 of common fowls will you find that will average over fifty to seventy-five eggs each? It is impossible to give any guide as to the number of fowls any one should keep. One person could profitably keep one hundred, anel perhaps two hundred ; while another would be overstocked with twenty. Keep only so many as you can keep well, is always a safe rule to follow. M any think it is impossible to keep large numbers of fowls together and have them thrive. It is a mistaken idea, and origin ates from the fact that, where large yards of fowls are kept, they rarely receive proper care and attention, and therefore cease to be profitable. While it is very little labor to care tor a dozen or so chickens, we are very apt to begrudge the time expended on a hundred or more. It se ins "too much time to waste on a lot of chickens f but actually the time thus spent will pay better than in any investment of equal amount on the farm. We believe that, giving them the requisite time and attention, there is double the profit on two hundred anel dfty dollars, (or doublethat,) invested in poultry, than in an equal investment in any other kind of farm stock. Look at the prices paid for eggs in New York city, the past winter, aud during the past few years sometimes as high as fifty cents per dozen. The average for the 3ear will go a'iore thirty cents. Now, two hundred eggs at two and a half cents each make just five dollars. Allow two dollars for care and feed, and there is three dollars profit on the eggs, and probably a brood of chickens yet to be counted in. But to secure this result, they must be cared for, good quarters for roosting and laying provided, kept free from vermin, regularly fed and watered, anil the necessary time devoted to their care and com fort, and then it will be found profitable as well as pleasurable. Rural Ner Y r. r. Mashed Potatoes. Wiikn potatoes are smal', cut or misshapen, they should never be put on the table without some preparation that will not only tit them for easy digestion, but make them have a more attractive appearance when they are placed among the other dishes for dinner. The good housewife, too, will feel a considerable degree of mortification in seeing her guests cutopen boiled or baked potatoes and find ! near the surface ; WolM mat which is near the center, except in some particular varieties grown in the best soils and will ripeneu, is apt to De watery, lasietcss ana indigestible. To have a very nice dish of mashed po tatoes and when well prepared it is a very nice dish ; though when badly gotten up, an utter abomination we should boil the potatoes in the most approved manner. Remove their coverings and select only such portions as are mealy and white, being careful to put in the swill pail e very discolored portion and the interior of all he larger potatoes. The mashing should be thoroughly and quickly done so that the mass does not become cold, and then placed on a substantial dish that will bear a considerable degree of heat. If it is shaped by means ol a tin Tcsool such as is nseo for baking oaks in, its appearance will he greatly Improved, The addition of good rich cream w ill be an addition indeed, and will render the dish more attrac tive both to the eye and the palate. Some add tho yolk, of at egg for ft like purpose

The dish of mashed potatoes is now ready, not for the table but for the oven, which should be hot enough to impart a delicate brown to the entire surface, or this desired color may be obtained by bringing over it the inner surface of an iron vessel which is heated quite hot. A cavity should now be formed at the top and a piece of butter placed in it, just as it is placed upon the table. Another niceway of serving mashed potatoes is to shape and brown them in small tins such as are used lor taking cup cakes ; if pre-

; pared in this way one portion may be ! handed to each guest on a email plate by itself. Mashed potatoes also make an excellent breakfast dish, if they are shaped in round bills covered with the yolk of eggs and fried brown. Prairie Farmer. USEFUL RECIPES, ETC. Tin: white of an egg in sweetened water, is a French cure for ( roup, said to be sure. To be given in repeated doses so long as necessary. Hot Slaw. Cut the cabbage in half, and f-havc it very finely. Put it into a stew-pan, with a piece of butter, and salt to the taste ; pour in just enougn water to prevent it from sticking to the pan. Cover it closi ly, and let it stew, stir it frequently, and when it is quite tender, add a little vinegar, and serve it hot. Food Of Work Horses. A horse that is in the harness every day needs an abundance of food, and the Tight kind. Ofi's make more muscle than corn, and should always form part of the food of a hard-working horse. Corn gives plumpness and imparts warmth. The colder the weather, the more corn ; the harder the work, the more onts Lxrhwge. Rye. The G.ermautown Tdegrapkmsrs : " All sandy lands, and even those which marly approximate in their nature the charnr-ter of the sandy loams, part with their humus much more readily than luyr-y soils. This renders them capable of producing good crops of rye with less of soluble humus than would be necessary to tit them for the production of a crop of wheat or corn." son it well with pepper and salt, lay it int a pudding-dish lined with slice3 of ham or pork, and a pint of veal gravy, and an onion finely minced : fill up the dish with boiled nee well pressed and piled as high as the dish will hold, cover it with a paste of flour and water; bake it one hour, and serve before taking ofl'the paste. Tin: Canada Vbrmer says: The blanket should not be used upon a horse at all in winter unless it is used faithfully. The trouble arises in this way : When a team has been driven a few miles to market, or the same distance for pleasure, blankets or robes are nut on, but when drawing losrs ( to the saw-mill, or doing other heavy work, thev are made to haul iarne loads a mile or two and return at a brik- trot and stand uncovered until another load is put on. In this way the horses are suddenly cooled off) and the succeeding day finds them sick and unable to labor for some time, if not ruined entirely. Pumpkin Bcttkh. Take four good pumpkins, peel and prepare as ior pie boil till dry, then strain through a coarse sieve. Put one cuart of molasses into your kettle, let it beul ten or fifteen min utes, then stir into the molasses the pump kin, and let it cook slowly five or six hours, stirring frequently. Just before removing it from the fire, add one tablespoonful of ginger, cloves, cinnamon or allspice, each or all as suits the taste ; ten or twelve drops of lemon oil may please some persous' taste. The above quantity of pumpkin will make two gallons of but ter. Exchange. bTU.MN Tin: lit TTKRMii.K. a correspondent of the Germantown 'lehqeaph, a ! ily Of course, gives the following bit of I. , . .r :iu information about straining buttermilk and its economical uses : " Place a com mon wire sieve over a pail, draw or turn the buttermilk into it, gently stirring the bottom with a spoon; what N saved in the sieve can be put into a jar, and when a quantity accumulates it can be stewe out by placing it in an iron kettle and simmering slowly until the oil or butter ris?s on top and the sediment settles to the bottom. It makes good shortening for pie-crust, and where there is a large dairy it may be used to fry in. Before it i tiled it makes excellent cream-biscuit." Fruit Pi ddinc Take a small piece of dough and roll it out about half an inch thick, a little longer than wide. Spread any kind of fruit thinly over it, and then roll it up and tuck in the ends so they will not open in boiling. Put it into a bag with room enough for it to swell, and pin the ends of the cloth together. Place a little plate or pan in the bottom of the pot and lay three or four in, and pour boiling water over them. Have boiling water in the tea kettle ready to pour over them as the water boils away. They must boil an hour without stopping. Slip them out of the bags, one at a time, is they are needed on the table; they pet heavy if all taken up at one time. Eat with BWeetened cream. If canned fruit is used, drain all the jr.ice off before spreading on. Exchange. How to Put Saws in Order. A saw is an edged tool. The edges of the teeth out with a crushing stroke. For this reason the very points should be brought to a fine edge by means of a tine file and a fine gritted whetstone. When the points of teeth have been filed sharp, on most saws, the edge is coarse and wiry. No saw will cut satisfactorily when there is such a rough and coarse edge on the teeth. When a saw that has a good temper is put in proper order, it will cut oil a hard 1 ir with a very limited amount of power. The philosophy of putting any kind of a saw in order consists of having the very points otyall theteeth range as perfectly as may be practicable. When one tooth is only a trifle longer than two or three on either side of it, too much is required of it. When ten men of unequal stature arerequired to carry a stick of timber on their shoulders, the taller ones must bear all the burden, while the short men carry nothing. This illustrates the case precisely in regard to saw-teeth of unequal lengths. When a few teeth are so much longer than those on each side of them, the poinls take such a rank hold of the wood that the saw jumps and the teeth do not cut a true kerf. This requires more power to work the saw, and the teeth will not cut so smoothly, so easily, nor so bat hs if all the points were of a uniform length, and all were standing in rows, as straight as a mathematical line. When the teeth of a good eaw are properly set, and correctly tiled and whetted, a saw will run through a board like a warm knife through cold butter. To put a saw in order, secure the blade in the saw clamps ; .joint the points true with a flat file ; then file the points to a sharp edge. And always file where there is sufficient light to enable you to see the points distinctly. Be exceedingly careful to stop filing as soon as the tooth is filed to a perfect point. One thru&t with the file after the tooth has been brought to a complete edge, will shorten it, put the saw out of order juFt in proportion as the point is filed off Let the points be set uniformly, and only a little. Go over the teeth with an old tue, to give them a more perfect edge. Then lay the blade fiatly on a smooth board, and pass a fine-gritted whetstone along the lloes of the poiuts, to remove the wiry edge and togive the teeth as fine a cutting edge as practicable. A good gaw, when in prime order, is one of ifce moflt effort! "e toU tn nse.- Krth(irq$,

How to Raise a Rood Crop of TTheat. An " Old Farmer" writes to Hearth ud II nn. as follows : The first important step will be to relieve the soil of excessive moisture, where the land is at alUnclined to be wet Nature has made ample provision for the drainage of some sections of the country ; while in other localities, even where the land is cultivated from year to year, the soil is quite too wet for wheat. Another requisite of prime importance is, the improvement of the seed. The farmers of our country can never raise gooel crops of this or any other cereal, until the seed has been saved with fpreat care, from year to 3-ear, for many successive seasons, just as we save the seed of Indian-corn. With the imperfect cultivation that our wheat now receives, if the seed were improved as seed-wheat may be, by careful selection, for a few successive seasons, the wheat crop would be increased fully one third. Another consideration is, more thorough culture and preparation of the soil. Somekinds of plants will flourish luxuriant v. and fructify bountifully, where he plant-

food is rough and the culture ot the toil rude. Hut abundant crops of wheat cannot be crown under such circumstances. Wheat requires s system of thorough and progressive agriculture. The wheat-plant is a delicate and dainty leeder; the roots will noticed on coarse manure: they need the fine and delicate pabulum that has been prepared bv the growth and decay of the roots and stems of red clover. The wheat-plant must be supplied with such fertilizing material will form large heads and plump kerr- la of grain. Strawy manute w ill not make trrain. the wheat-plant reouires such pabulum as is left in the soil after a heavy crop ot reo lover lias iitin pi wed linlup qui! alcn tiOnr s Virv- il roa ..i-nrr rf U U 11 V.1 , .MM U . . I I I ... t ' - - - g I - t r;ch barn-yard manure has been applied, an'l a crop of Indian-corn removed. The barn-yard manure must be such as is made by fattening sheep or beef-cattle on grain. Such manure will yield a liberal supply of grain, producing material such as the growing wheat-plants must have before larjre and plump heads ot gram can be developed. IJy aeloptine a system of mixed husbandry feeding out much coarse grain and oil-meal, so as to make rich manure by proper cultivation of the soil, and improvement of the seed, larui ers all over New England can raise large crops of fine wheat, wherever the soli will produce red clover, Indian-corn, and turnips. M If rata and fruitleee bfl yonr toil. We ought to blame the- -idt'ire not the oil.' Blanketing of Horses. Fbofeobob Liai tard, the veterinary surgeon, has favored us with some obser vations upon the subject, which are of special importance at this season ot the year. He believes that very much harm is done by too It-aril UanMing, supporting this view by sound physiological reasons. The skin of one domestic, as of all verte brates, consists ot two distinct layers. The outer, or cuticle, is composed of layers of round cells, in which resides the coloring matter. Though deprived of blood-vessels and nerves, this outer ekin has a true vitality, and its proper func tions. i ne inner or true skin nas a more per feet organization, is more sensitive, and is the real rooting-place of the hair. It varies in thickness in different animals, and in different portions of the same ani mal. It is much thinner and more sensi - a . . mm 1 . a tive in tue tnorougn-oreü racer than in the ordinary cart-horse. On the interior part of the thigh, the skin is thin ; on the exterior, much thicker. The hair, also, which is distributed over the whole surface, varies in thickness and length, as protection against cold is more or less needed. From all domestic animals in a healthy state there is an exhalation from the surface of the skin, called innifle tr in.u'rution When this excretion becomes sensible, by active exertion or condition of tempera ture, it is called sweat. Both forms of excretion are important to the vital economy, and vary greatly ith the state of the atmosphere, activity of the digestive organs, and quick or longcontinued muscular exertion. It is, if ire may use the language, a sort of skim br tth inj, by means of which foul or unnecessary matter is eliminated from the boely, just as vitiated and carbonized air is thrown off by the lungs. Thus,somctin es this cutaneous transpiration will have the odor of urine; at other times (after dec in: it will have the odor of sulphur. This natural transpiration should neither be cheeked nor shemld it be excesi v.-ly provoked. Heavy blanketing in stables will very likely make the hair lie smoothly (thus saving some labor to the groom), and make the skin supple ; but it will open the pores unnaturally, and make a delicate horse fearfully sensitive to sudden changes of temperature. Nature very wisely provides a thicker and more rapid growth ol hair in the winter than in the summer ; and the disposition of the hair to assume a bristly appearance in cold weather, however obnoxious to finical tastes, is nature's own adjustment of covering, to ward off danger rom cold, and to keep healthy the pores of the skin. Grooms may rub as much and as often II they will, but they should not find an excuse lor laziness in heavy and dOM blanketing. Blankets of coarse wool are the best, which permit a free circulation of air, aud, if lined, they should be lined with a porous cloth. Buffalo-robes, used for this purpose, are bad, and, if used at all, should be used with tht hair side doirn, by which means the vapor will be absorbed by the wool, and not held. in cloe contact with the sweltering skin of the animal. It is the poorest of all policies to secure a sleek, supple skin at the expense of constitutional vigor and native hardiness 11, ariA an' ll"nu. The Farmers' Savings-Bauk. I have been acquainted with two farmers more than twenty years. They re -spectively came into possession of farms of some two hundreel acres each, worth at that time about thirty dollars an acre. They are both industrious and economical, yet public spirited and liberal : have both been members ol the Legislature, and occupy a hih standing in country society, but have pursued two very ditl'erent systems ol farming. Mr.U. I), iinnieiii ate lv began to plant his surplus revenue in the soi. Instead of dealing out his manure inlhonueopathic doses over several acres he plowed no more than he could manure highly and cultivate thoroughly, thereby producing as lsrge a crop from one acre as his neighbors did from two, and was one of the first in this i cinity, to introduce a system of high culture. Having a large amount of pastures and meadow, he bought young cattle to consume his hay, never selling any, and so increased his manure. The loose stones in the ritld were gathered, and put into permanent stone fences and under draics. Iiis barns ani sheds were gradually extended, so as to give a warm shelter to his stock, and so save a large percentage of their lood. His stock were always well housed and well fed. I recollect one year, when, in consequence of excessive drouths, his crops were small, that he did not hesitate to buy corn by the car-load, rightly judging that the next spring his cattle, if in good condition, must s.ii at a high price. Boggy naei dows were drained, the bogs eonverted jnto fertilizing material Tor the up-

land, and the lowland brought into good mowing-land. By this slow but sure syst m of Veturning the profits of the soil to

the senl aain, he lias increaseo us produc'smore than six fold, has a farm that you could not buy for one hundred dollars an acre, and over twelve thousand dol lars in tarming and t'nited States stools and money. Such is Iiis savings bank. M r. E. has been equally industrious, out by no means so successful. He looked upon his farm as a bank of dividends, instead of a bank of deposits. His idea of fanning has Ik cn to sell all he could spare, and losn the money at high rates of inter est. iy purMüntr this course his fields are impoverished, barns rickety, fences tumblipff down, cattle often found in the growing gram, wnilc he is away from home, with his team, thinking he is making mon'-y, because he god five dodars a day for his work. His cattle and sheep sre fed at stacks, or in open yards, where they waste and consume as much food as would carry them through the winter, in good coj diticn, if properly sheltered ; but as it is. tuov come ( ut noor and thin, anel jf sold at nil, must sell at a low price. As a ratuiti coneequence, his farm is not worth as mucu now as when he bought it, end he is not worth a dollar more than he was twenty years ago. Skinning the farm and lending money has hcen his savings bank. Which do you like be-str A. in lharth and Ihow. A Hint to Fkkr I.rNrrn.rs. There is a ciiüimnn cuter in rar:, who ?oe nnoui dining at "prut fixe'" rfftauruit?, (that if, KM I an rati t- where you tav -o much a men!, no mat ter how much you may eat. and i. like Olive-r Twite tlwaya ancha; for more. Itocentey he wetit to dine at Hie Kesianran; dn Grand Opera. " 11 foa wUl clv NM one vice a turn to-1ay.'" M)' the proprietor. I h:iU he really obliacl, and here are tea Trane5."' M Can't be done at the price." was the lvply: - ihe Diner de lKorope pave in" fiileen frane. to come here.". A tame deer in the city park at Charleston. S. C. attends church regular ly every Sunday. On a recent Sunday he walked up the aisle in the chapel in ueen street, and look his place in one of the pews beside a lady. Exuberant Health I- blessing vonrh5lcd to few. Even thotm who have le -n favored by nature with strong conttitotioE aii'l vigorous lranie are apt to iicirlect the precautions pecoMWy. to preserve thec pMtlMM endowment-. Indeed, as a rule, the more healthy and robust n mm 1. the more Hbtrtb"" he i icclinecl to 'ak-' with his own t-livr-ique. it ip sane consolation to the nattmilly weak and treble to know that they can be so invieoratcd and bniit np. bv a proper use of the means which Kience 1ih mm at theirrtisposal, as to have a much better ( MBCfl of loss life and exemption from clisea; and pain, than the mc-t athletic of l heir fellows who are foolish enough to euppoM themselves invulnerable, and act accordingly. It i not too much to ay that more than bslf the people of the civilized worid mhI flu occacn-c'. toh'u'. to emble them to purport the strata upon their bodies and minds, which the fast life of th;trestless asre occasions. In lact. a ptr. tchoUott Maro itkwf tottk is the rrand desideratum of the bnsv millions, and they have the article in HOSTETTEK S STOMA! H BITTERS. It U 1 iff MP n Ai. Mem- ink, f t it imoarts permanent treneth to weak svstoiri and inviporates delicate constitutions. Its reputation and Its sales have steadily incre.i'H.'d. Competitive preparation" have been introduced a DMun, and. as far as the public is concerned, ml uiviuw. in tb? hope of rivaling it ; but they have all Hthtr ptri-hed in the at'empt. or been left far in the rear, it has been theoKAT UIMCil WOC'EM ok THK FMUMUre CI.NTCKY. and it is quite certain that ao proprietary medicine in this country is as widely known, o: as generally used. Ten lightniiii: presses, running irceesantly 'Sundays excepted. the whole year through, barely supply the demand for the il'u-:r:ited Almanac, in which the nature and ne s of the preparation are set forth, the circulation now being over five million a year. Hf.yrtii and Home is a weekly illustrated Agricultural and Fireside Journal of nixteen haudome franf, devoted to the interests of Farmers, Gardeners, Fruit-G rowers, and Floritts. BdMsd by Mr. Donald a. Mitchell, a-si?t d by a knjt corps of practical Agricnlturi-ts. The nteid Drjwrlmrnt edited by H rrif-t Bkkchkr Stowe, assisted by Mr. Mary E. Dodge, with (iraee Greenwood, Madame LeVcrl and olher able contributors. Tekms tor lftiQ: Single cop lc ft. invariably in advance; 3 copies flfl; 5 copies f 15. Any sne eendintr us g for a clab of 15 copies (all atone irn" v. i : revive a copy free. A specimen copy tt the lirst number sent fr--'. Address Pbttexcill, Bate a o., Publishers, II Park Row. New York. Be on Yonr (iuard Against Connterfeits. We cordiallv respond to the request of Dr. S B. llanmin .v Co., Proprietors ot MAULER'S HEKB BITTERS, to warn the public that this celebrat' d Touic and Stimulons is not sold by the quart, irallon or barrel. It i pnt up iWy in tquan class 1 ot ties, with a prirtff 'aii) trvr ti, cork, bearing a likenee of Dr. Mishler. All others are counterfeits. AJDYKSTIBMMMJm rwiwl for Mi on Ao-ifmi otlrr W?t n fnlr it the loirt lilt tat-A. A'. KEL L'rGd. A usduiry IibluJu-r, 101 HMftf0t0M .ST., Ctiicigo. w ANTKI. A person In every t.'W:i To work fol ii I..-trK- pay for little w- rk. snrt si aviitit for particulars to T I :akk i. Kosh tu. ni.-wuya, jr. y. ry book Kor l AGENTS WAKflB i l'.nok of Kare alue. " SACKED BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY." BY oVMOVn TIFFANY. Mas no coine'itln. I iiavc eiii. kak'oj an avor.nce of IOO "i'lt-r er month, and tili be (lad in employ a lew more uo.jd men on sahiry oi commlkn l nnlllsh my uvn hooks and on svr lar rom mission-. Andrew CHAULSb IHU-, Chicago, 111. EVERY 4.KOC ERYHA.V Wlio re:i1 thl wil' find If for hi- Intor-t t. send Ml card or addn to K. I. SAH". Cram well. Conn. ' KB.ITZKvanTill,FiHl., D iM . ami article ap. ertalntng t Mechanical pnrp -of every daeriptton. Mann far tnrer i very superior Borrhara Mill, and nnd a-id Power Corn tbril-rt. (a snc laiiv in their ironor aeaooV, ani Machinery ueralry. rrompt atr-ntion t all extra . . v . a a a V ana rr-'vr.nii ing. S rl lor Cireular-. Till: WESTERN FARMER Tho -' fui f-.ifwsf nzrienltnral paper. Rnhfrr!'e at onee J.no a year, tx r.-l taai ternm to elnh :ie.nt to W. It MAVIS I- Mr "iTinicn a ni l 9 I I I" treet, iTlni- Hiilldhu') 1 hleago, or Madison, W The Patent M&ttlCCOMH contains no noiaon, will col . ... Ir.n1 . r- r. - - u ' ii IUI ! i III Black or Browm. Snt hy mll rwf'ntofll.'i.'i AI;-- WM P'llnV Tr.-a.,urrr Matfic Conit- Company, ttpringrU-M. Maua. Winchester ftepeatins: Rifles FIRING TWO SHOTS A SrX 0M AS A RKPKATKK. AN P twkiti iiio r a Muvirra as a mteu BRKM H loajmjok. Thw powerful, acrnrate an 1 wonderfully rflectlve wtapona, carrjinR eighteen cparees, which can te fired In nine neeonda. are n w r al r for t t e marter. and are for aale hy all t!i- responsible tinn Itealera throoehout tae country. Kr fall Information, send tor circular and pa-.ir'hl.t f the W1NCHKS1KK KhlK.VHV. ARMS CO N w leaven, Cr.. FKDiBifKTowN. Knoi Co.. I V A AAA r o v em i -er a, ipop. LirpivooTT A rUaawat.t - , i l ree-ied youraoosM Boi Joafcf An per express, and now acknowledge the an ' r w the repent ol all wnoae dlra ot cecoMltlei make i; their tnf.1nea to Chop with an 1 would say : Try the Bed .tacket; and. as the Hupreme Conrt have heidthat a Doctor's opinion without hte reasons la of lhtUr value, 1 will jrlve my it at-.ns "n The Hed Jacket cuts deeper thin the common bit. .y ies-It he'.a round on the cnt.lt a not stick the m 7'. Every chopper w'tli the r on. mon axe fh us tr ease-over that there s much !a!or and upci nh -xpena ed In taking the axe ont of the cut as in nvtklnf toe blow. Fturtk This with the Ked .Tacket Is all avoldd, and from one-ttiini to on -hall ' ' lafibr la tavaa in cutting the same quantity. rtM By putt'ta In the same la'mr thnt U neces ary Mh a common ax yo cs e.sltv make at 'east ti tny -t re j-r rei.t -tv--wood In thi same lüde. Vo are aan ui lotting any Imnwtmn,. in onrKed .la. li t n lhee test, a: d U It falls, niuml tdin his money. 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