vol viii.--third series salisbury n c january 18 1877 no 14 v r .:. i*i:i svai ta and prop i t k ulll'.nei associate ed ;-,-( ltll'1 lo-v kates : hj rtletaadvaace is w i adv hi i'lslnc hates : hj ** ?° i - 0 nutks l-'l.'om arkansas i s etc hy a yankee who has i .; live years in the state nr watchman : i in il resources of arkansas are i really 1 1 lumped by the leading characteristics i of the country ihe southern and eastern parts i c ihe lowest hence the conn i : n i.'i west attaining an average i lhe ozark mountains of al.om ■ ... the level of the sea the rail-^b 60 inches in ihe s e part i is off towards the west to about i e in the n w portion the altitude i ive thus such a modifying in i climate and benson as to give in i .. il the valuable products of 10 h . re i single one of lhe great i .- ot onr whole country it'l agar corn which may not be pro i .].,,..,! n in this slate the climate i of lhe a - '■* valley is heller than elsewhere i siales in ibe same latitude i , is not lhe only element modifying i _ ■ ■ a diileiciiees e'.ist iu lhe climate i de this may he seen at til vrk'ausas the ozark mountains m i15 valley from the cold norlh winds h ansus river ri-ing in the rocky moun 1 the broad western phiins ■ iry trade winds of il.e gulf ol'l ,. e it en lei's the slate and ihus h , male in winter in the same h . lhe llio la i'lata affects the cli-h nos avers il is the same climate hj 16 live italian ami thus it re ■ it the temperature of arkansas valle h io ... 15 degrees warmer in winter h i ;,, any olher portion of the united suicsh \ lh jliany and rocky moiiniaoisuiih . so again exposedto theuulfh . -.. i.ii i blow with alltbereg 1 ularitv n tbt -■ reezeoverlheflal nioiinltii.iii.--h he summer temper lines i-h from i0 to l(t cooler than elsewhere norlh orl i there llie herniometcr h i lemperature during h buti.tei.-r i ihe n he a stati 3 and in win-h i rarely f.illa to wiihin 103h i aiosphe'dc ch allien are u-ssh lfie.|ii e than in the northern and ca.-it-r.i h i tliis unrivaled climate is a most ma-h hin-i eiettien in the agricultural buccesa and i iweatth of the state there men grow rich ath bfarinii.v md we modestly pul the in-h h the norlh or norihwe-.lh he - result from fannin aloiu-'.'m i eat up lhe fruits ofh h every northern farmer knowsh h icy bar between him and i h|r ,_-,.. th of prosperity ln arkans usi hw inter cm hot drives whole people into hi'oema-m hii.ti or lo seek subhistence in the workshops ofi h lo toil and exposure to ice and snow i haii.l howling blasts lhat soon bring down thel h in his course and send the fecbleb he i sick better land ihere cveryh h i is the year invites agricultural laborh hti i h the crops of all kill are excellent thisl hv ir tl mt the^state especially in th i h i western portilh of the state along thel h ik m as i'.ivi r and along the line of thel hi i ■ .: ck ii ■! k«.rt smith railway wheatb hv sel|f it o gin is corn 0 cents pork 5 to 7b h ler pound all other products are abund-fl hi ami elietip oood unimproved lands areb i fr..in j.i 0 1 10.00 per acre improv.-b led f.it-tiis s.il iroin 5.00 to 30.00 per acreb i liuf to quality location and improve-b there is also some good u s la mil ithtit may be homesteaded or pre-empted i i a li gayloe b l"prinj;tielil ark dec 1876 i y.xstan'llnorlk i constantinople is about thirteen miles it mi .'., and is enclosed by wtills on lhe hwe.-tei-n or land tile the harbour i -< id tt riorii mi the north divides it iti ei jalata and the b sphorous divides ■ i ii nn scutari these are properly but but made up together the city of h'.o -■ itinojd it would be quite ira i1 s ■ to imagine a site belter fitted for lie bui iiu of an imperial city on h'.di!!7 would becm wanting ; and it is m :,;!.;■ th it the eye nf the world is i tv now and ihen fixed on it the l"<j.i.7.7 ... ni this imperial cby is about bu a million and is made up of a some h*'*'1 : io"tl i":ip - of i ireeks armenians hi v .. ai;;b-,"l.urop a us aud turks the hi inks making up as it would seem about hhiie li.iltof tin population ii must be need lo av lli it the city stands on tbe h '■ ■.; ;-, 7 1 ti ]',_ zam iuni founded 656 i c bul long before byzantium even hlv !- must leeds have been a znlony of h un soil tn such a spot ot earth as tbis i : 1 ■ li t building on il of human h 1 i'ioi:s m y have been of the stonage by rude men who left no recoid tbe i n ilivil s his day and nighl into m v-tour hours it is true but bis day i'v.iis wiih lb mi'-sel an hour after sun h : it w ...;,. b'cln-k it is sunset tbere h>i , that the call to prayer is made h in ih galleries of the mosque minarets w uot al any one slated or set hour h - - il 7;iib uade uot a liule significant hi''1 absence of churches and clocks h^'nf'.'e tnast make the city strange if h'7.7 els cl i cl so thel tbere is — ■ ■'•-:, im v d was to be expected — the h ; v i . s and tortuous cmracler of the is and ways where uuytbing in the h''.v of plan ur arrangement never could d etts.-ed the minds of those who l oi dwellings which line h':n tbey can only be compared to e regular way across au uneven field « ith cottages built close to fie edge of it i as tbe traffic across got year by year to i be thicker each street is a perfect zig i zag and a straight line is not to bo found i indeed tbere is a total absence of plan i ning in any sense from east to west i the city is about three miles and a half i while from north to south it is about three i miles the golden horn divides the i main part of the city from galata on the i norlh ; while tbe bosphorus divides it i frotn scutari as to the streets of con i btantioople they will but just bear the i name — ihey are rather long crooked laoes i with low timber-built houses ; and con i trusted witb like streets here with straight i and uniformly-built lines of brick-built i bouses would look bul poorly mucti is i sacrificed doubtless to the picturesque i in the streets or ways of constantinople 1 an oriental bazar is but little else than i a covered iu street with goods exposed on i either side of it h i ■ o ■_■ ■ — • - i a cask of one who would i i marry a negress anyhow ■ i the other morning a man sent to the ■ i oflice of the register of deeds to get al i marriage license he who was sent for i i the license bad to answer certain ques i i tions und among these as to the color of i i the parlies wbo were about to contract in i i marriage the deputy register of deeds i i was sui prised to bear in response to bis i i questions thai the man was white and i i the woman colored of course the license i i di<l not issue h i in ibe afternoon we happened in the i i register's office and while there the man i i who had wanted the license entered lie i i it id come to inquire why it was refused i i him and though he bad il lolly explained i i lhat the intermarriage of the races w;is i i illegal he left evidently uot at all satis i i tied because he said there are whiles i i and negroes living together here and be i i didn't see why be couldn't live with al ■ negro it anybody else did the man ■ i st.n that be was born and raised in i i denmark his conversation however i i indicated that be bas teen living iu this i i country for some time pa«t h i there was present in the office when i i ihis dane appeared i genlleman lo whose ■ i mind ihe circumstance recall ati incident i i f by-gone times he remembers to have ■ i heard all bis life ol a hessian who came i i into halifax county this state just at i i the end of the revolutionary war and af i i ter living there for awhile became much i i infatuated with a negrees living in tin i i ne'-ghborbood there was a legal iuhibi i i tion as now to the intermarriage of the i i races but there was a clause of the law i i which provided that if a white mau de i i siring to many a negro woman or vice i i versa should appear before a magistrate i i and make oath that be or she bad negro i i blood in his or ber veins the marriage might i i be bolemnized the hessian was aware i i ol this law and so iti order to dodge its i i in ent as well as to shield himself fiom i h1 indictmi ut for peijury be drew about i i lull a pin of blood from tbe arm of thel i negrees drank it and then went forthwith i i and made the necessary oath before al i magistrate the marriage was thereup 1 i on solemnized and the descendants of llie i i couple are still living iu halifax — raleigh i i a editor in heaven i i just as if editors were nol in the habit i of going to heaven ! we'll venture lol i say thai a greater portion of them go tol i that home of those wbo have peif'oruied b i their mission of mercy on earth than any i i other profession or calling that poor mor 1 i an editor in heaven ! there's noth-l i ing etrange about that at all it is al-l i most a moral as well as professional iin-l i possibility for them to go anywhere else i h once upon a time after tbe demise of i i a member of the coips editorial hei i presented himself at the gales of the i iloly cily and requested admission i the doorkeeper asked bim what bad been i bis occupation on terra tir ma he replied i thai be was an editor well said lhe h watchman we have a crowd of your kind i here uow and ihey all came iu as dead h beads if you can pay y.ur passage you i can come in if not you must place your h self under the control of a personage you i ruled tyrannically down below meaning h the devil — not having the wherewith i to go in our brother of the quill and scissors posted off and presented himself i at the entrance of clootie's dark domains h a very dark cnmplexioned genlleman i fi.i.,.,1 sentry antl asked iu a gruff voice h who comes ?" an bumble disciple of i faust wtis tbe calm reply then i hold on you can't be admitted exclaim i ed the gentleman in black evincing coti i siderable agitation and fietcely scowling i on him why not demanded the i typo who began to get huffish and look i ed around for a sheep's foot with which i to force an entrance ,: well sir replied bis sable majesty i we let one of your profession in here i many years ago and he kept np a cou i tiuual row wiih bis former delinquent i subscribers and tis we have more of lhat i class of persons here thau any other we i have passed a law prohibiting the ad mis i sion of any editors only those who have h advanced onr interest in iheir papers on i earth and even those wc keep in a h separate room by themselves you have h published many things tbat operated h against us and always blamed lhe devil i for everything that went wrong so you h can't come in we enforce this rule i without respect to persons for our own h peace aud safely you can jusl travel casting a droll leer at the outside sen i tiuel our typographical friend stalled i again determined to get in up above i tbis time be took witb bim an old file of i bis paper and presenting it to the guar b ili.iu ot tbe celestial city requested that h it might be carefully examined and hey woul see whether he was entitled to a free icket in due course of time ve conductor came along and took bim in tolling him that he published many good things and had been a martyr to the cause of human improvement and that resolutions had been passed to admit all members of the art preservative who had abused the devil while below he further added lhat tbey were punished enough by tbeir being with the devil all their lives their future punishment was commuted he further slated that not one delinquent subscriber could be fund in all heaven from ilte n y herald jan 10 progress toward a settlement ofthe electoral question action of the two committees oi'ntikg the electoral vote — progress of the committees in their work — prospects op an early agreement — till vi e-ri.esm'ext's power disposed of — anxiety of the people fob a set tlement from our special correspondent washington jan 9 1s77 tliere is reason to believe tbat the im portant work of tbe session the labor of the two committees on counting the elec toral votes gets on very well the senate committee consisting of messrs edmunds morton conkling i'relinglniy sen thurman bayard and ransom have been very cl isely engaged for several days and bave so far advanced with their preliminary work tbat they will be ready to-morrow to a.-k for a conference wiib the hiinse committee the latter con sisting of messrs payne llunton hewitt springer mccrary hoar and yvulard has not held many meetings as yet but the members have appointed a sub-com mittee to collect all tbe precedents on tbe subject of the electoral count and this work has been clone with surprising rap idity and completeness and is already out ofthe printer's bands il will be caie fully studied not only by the members of the two committees but by all who wish to inform themselves on ibe subject the discussion and conclusions in lhe two committees are kept very private but it is believed that tin amicable spirit prevails in llie senate committee and that the whole question will be fairly and fully considered by the members as an impor taut constitutional question and wiihout reference to what the immediate polilical consequences of their final conclusion may be the house committee on privileges powers and duties of the house in count ing he electoral vote is ready to report and may do so lo-morrow this is not one ot the joint committees but a special body consisting of messrs proctor knott sparks randolph tucker marsh burchard and seelye the report will i be in derate iu lone but will maintain by precedents and authorities by the declar ation of the most eminent statesmen from early times to ihe present and by ibe unbroken practice that the house litis tbe right duly and privilege of taking part in the electoral count in the words of henry clay in is i : lhe two bouses are called ou lo enumerate the voles for piesident and vice president of coins tbey are called on to decide what are votes ami iu case of a disagreement between lh houses as mr clay added que house would say the votes ought to be c ninted the olher that they ought not and then the voles would be lost altogether the republican members ] of the committee have s uld id lite question closely their conclusion is not known bul tbey are bo ii solid and honorable men desirous of a fair and constitutional decision of the question a t tioiig desire is felt by the le3t men of boih panics that the whole question in eveiy detail shall be decided on by tbe two houses before tbe day when hy law tbey assemble to count tbe vole this bas been lhe general though not the universal practice and every body sees lhat it would not only prevent much i p issible diflieul.y in joint meeting but : would also relieve lhe public apprehen sions of trouble and thus set business going again congressmen from al parts ofthe country receive constantly nuiner • ous lei ters from their constituents com ! plaining of the absolute stagnation of business nnd industry protesting against the plans for a new election as sure to increase the general distress and urging a speedy settlement of lhe dispute such communications have a good effect here as ihey show the country is wearied out with the political dispute and will not favor any plans which looks lo its need less prolongation a memphis sunday school teacher was undertaking to acquaint a bright liule tour-year old witb ibe mystery of her creation who made you ?" dod quickly replied tbe cherub what did he make you out off yosesaod vileis iisped the liule sunbeam the teacher said oh no litile girl be make you of the dust of lhe earth the innocent meditated one moment then looked up and shaking ber linger said : i des don'l be'icve you taus when i get in my baf tub why don't i tome to pieces den ?" by the side of a snowy peak from which light is reflected in countless scien tillations there is a yawning unfnlboma ble abyss ; near by an arid sandy plain i here is a grove perfumed by all the flowers of earth thus side by side in ibis great world are to be found good and evil happiness and woe tbe mountain of holiness is but a step from tbe aby.-*s of sin and the heart paradise is not far from lhe thirsty heated wilderness a bad egg is not a choice egg but it is hard to beat beauty sold by auction circassian girls at two hundred pounds j turkish and georgians at one hun dred and twenty — black girls at ! thirty-eight i a correspondent of the parish gaulois describes a receut visit to a slave sale in constantinople notwithstanding the nominal abolition of the slave trade in turkey through the efforts of the civil ized european governments it still con tinues iu a fuitive way as loug aa tbe harem exists this trade will exist i tbis sale was iu a house and the i windows facing the streets were closed | tbe correspondent accompanied an egyp | tian friend and his valet in a carriage to i the moseque of the sultan mahomet at | which point they turned into narrow and i complicated streets which finally became impassable they alighted before a pile i of mud which could be crossed only on i foot reaching tbe bouse they were i introduced into the selamlike or chamber i reserved for male visitors here tbey i found tbe slave dealer standing a short i pipe in hand he was a liule old tri i politan gassirgi-messoud-age by name i lie has followed tbe business for forty i years after tbe customary salutations i pipes and coffee were offered and taken 1 with the silence usual to orientals before i any business transaction i an ebony young eunuch soon entered i and whispered iu messoud's ear the i latter made a sign of acquiescence and i turned to the guests said : bonyouroun i permit me the guests rose and foi i lowed in ui into a room of the harem a i long divan about a foot aud a half high i and four feet wide surrounding three i si lea of a chamber an excavation in i the wall held the cushions and coverings i used til night the floor was covered i with mats and loose pieces of carpot 1 upon the divan were seated side by 1 side two white girls from cireassia iu i lhe dress of iheir country opposite i were three other women one of whom ii was white i'otu georgia and the others i all arose as the visitors entered one ■ of the circassians seemed scarcely tour i teen she bad blight chestnut hair ■ long dark eyelashes which shaded eyes lot liquid blue a light well rounded form i and regular features overcast with mel i ancholy she was a beauty of the first i class her companion aged eighteen i was slightly less beautiful but was a i performer on ihe kemendji or turkish i violin in addition she was recommend i i ed as a good cook seamstress and wash i er her brown hair fell lo her knees i she looked at the visitor coolly and i fixed her eyes on the egyptian with an i expression that seemed to ask him topur i at a sign from messoud one of the i black g'.ils disrobed the circassians i this was not i complicated process as i their dress was simply a tunic a pair of i trousers and a chemise the younger i seemed distressed lhe olher simply fixed i her eyes upon the floor messoud passed i his hands over i hem called attention to i their good points aud made them show ■ tbeir regular pearly teelh he dwelt i also upon ihe strict decorum of their au ■ u cedent s i after an examination of the georgian i a d a glance at the black girls the party i returned to the salemliku lo close the i bargain the youngest circassian was i quoted at 200 pounds tuikisb tbe elder i at io0 the georgian at 120 the egyp i iim found ibem too high-priced took one i of the blacks for 3s pounds he simply i wanted a bouse servant tbe sale being lj completed the party were again served i with pipes and coffee and left the bouse i the pie.iiinin_.ries to this wereconducl i ed with great caution tbe valet of tbe i egyptian wa6 sent the day before to i announce his master's desire and mas i soud immediately came to tbe latter to b assure himself lb-it all was right by a ii personal inspection of hid customer as i a mere visitor to ibe harem would have li been eyed askance lhe correspondent i was introduced as tahir-bey a syrian i gentlemen who pished to take a cham i bermaid borne with hitn b a correspondent of tbe lindon agri wheauiiral gazette traced tbe change of b opinion with regard to bay in his own i neighborhood years ago the practice bi was almost invariably to feed the milking i cow on hav alone ilien some few dairy i ni'ii begin io give those cjws that bad i latelv calved two or three pounds of lin i seed cake per day then some of be b poor grass laud on the dairy farms bega i i to be broken up and some mangels lj grown now the rule is often lo cut up i partly straw and partly hay and mix b with pulped mangels and give every cow bj four or five pounds of cake or meal or i hints fob the girls b an old stager who bas been through ■ the mill gives the following paternal ad ■ vice to the girls : b tike lessons on the piano and learn i to paint and sing but let your mother do i lhe washing ■ do worsted work and make nice lil tie m neckties for the heathen but don't ac i quire that mystic art to cook pork and h go to boarding school and pursue some i french spaniard and german but neg i leet your good old mother english h flatly deny the soft impeachment that i you are engaged treat your young i sprig precisely as if you were ashamed of i him it is complimentary anyhow to i tbe young sprig h when you laugh laugh hearty your ■ gold fillings may be seen it is a card i for the dentist h tell people who are posted and con b bequcotly know better that you are exactly nineteen last or next summer you forget which they'll believe it you know say naughty things of your rival and next door neighbor and speak dispara gingly of miss q.'s nose but entirely overlook yonr own incongiuities by all means tote a nice little dog after you on tbe street tbere is a chance of you being taken for some one else while it speaks volumes — for the dog walk lour abreast and keep the cen tre of the sidewalk but never for a moment allow yourself to be disconcerted it shows consideration for the happiness of others finally quit being girls by marrying some old bald headed buffer with bits of tin and ruthlessly thrust aside a man of brains with a becoming competency running in debt i dwell on this point for i would deter others from entering that place of torment half of the young men in tbis country with many old enough to know better would go into business — that is into debt — to-morrow if they could most poor men are so ignorant as io envy the merchant or manufacturer whose life is an incessant struggle with pecuniary difficulties who is driven to constant shinning and who from month to month barely evades the insolvency which sooner or later overtakes most men in business ; so that it has been computed that but one man in twenty of them achieves a pecuniary success for my own part 1 would rather be a convict i;i the slate prison a slave in a rice swamp than to pass through life under the bar row of debt let no man misjudge him self unfortunate or truly poor so long as he bas tbe full use of bis limbs and facul ties and is substantially free from debt hunger cold rags bind work contempt suspicion unjust reproach are disa greeable but debt is infinitely worse than them all and if it had pleased god to spare either or till my sons to be tbe sup port of my decling years the lesson which i should most earnestly seek to impress upon them is never run in debt avoid pecuniary obligation as you would a pestilence or limine if you bave but fifty cents and can get no more for a week buv a peck of corn parch it and live on it lather than owe a dollar of course i know that some men must do business tbat involves a risk and must give notes or other obligations and i do not consid er him in debt who can lay bis bands directly on the means of paying at some liltle sacrifice all be owes ; i speak of real debt — that which involves risk oi sacrifice on one side obligation and de pendence on tbe other — and i say from all such let every youth humbly pray god to preserve him evermore — horace gree ley a mixin of the babies some lime ago tbere was a dancing parly given up north ;" most of tbe ladies present had little babies whose noisy perversity required too much at tention to permit the mothers to enjoy the dance a number of gallant young men volunteered to watch the young ones while the parents indulged in a break down no sooner bad the woman left the babies in charge of the miscb.vious devils than tbey stripped the infants changed tbeir clothes giving the apparel of one to another the dance over it was time lo go home and the mothers hur riedly took each a baby in the dress of her own and started some to their homes ten or fifteen miles off aud were far on i tbeir way before daylight but the day following there was a tremendous row in tbat settlement mothers discovered that a single night bad changed the sex of . tbeir babies — observation disclosed pbysi cil phenomena and ihen commenced some of tbe tallest female pedes iranism ; living miles apart it required two days to tins mix the babies and as many months to ; restore the women to tbeir natural sweet dispositions to tbis day it is unsafe for any of the baby mixers to venture into ibe territory where do men usually discover the ; women who afterward become their wives ' is ibe question we have occasionally heard j discussed and tho result il invariably ; comes to is worth mentioning to our young , lady readers chance has much to do ; in the affair ; but then there are important ! governing circumstances ii is certain ; that few men make a selection from ball ! rooms or any other place of public gaiety | and neaily as few are influenced by wh it ! may be called showing off iu the streets j or any allurement of dre.-s our convic | tion is that ninety-nine hundredths of all ithe fineiy with which the women decorate or load tiieir persons go for nothing as far as husband-catching is concerned — where and bow then do men find tbeir _. wives ? in the quiet homes of their pa rents or guardians at lhe fireside where i the domestic graces and feelings ate alone | demonstrated these are charms wbich most surely attract the high as well as tbe bumble against these all the finery and airs in the world sink into insignifi cance ««»• experience in australia serves to con trovert the notion of some people that thoroughbred animals do not degenerate horses in lhat country are of ibe best blood from england but on the runs where ihey have increased without care tbey are worth only the value of their hides and hair the lutheran church almanicfor 1s77 states that ih number of lutheran com municants iu the united states is g 40 415 an increase for tbe year of 07,270 agriculture commended from a high and ancient source : the following is a translation of a portion of cicero's tract de sen ectute : i come now to tbe pleasure of tlio farmer in which i delight ver much i which are not obstruced at all by old age | and which seein to me to add much to tbe | life of a wise man fer tbey have a re lation to the earth that never refuses obe dience nor ever returns what it receives without interest sometimes with less but generally with a greater increase though indeed 1 am delighted not only with the products but the nature and power ofthe earth which when it receives the seed scattered in its broken and softened soil holds it covered up in the first place and then swells it by warmth and pressure and shoots out from it the green sprout this supported by the fibres of the reots grows gradually and standing erect the downy head is shtil up as in a sheath aud wheu it emerges from that it puts forth the ear of grain ranged in a row and protected from the depredations of birds by the deft-nee of u beard and why need mention the planting shooting and growth of vim a ? that you ma know bow great diversion and pleas ure i bave in my old age i canuot obtain satisfaction enough of this kind for to pass over the strength of those tilings wliich the earth bear from bow small a seed of a fig or from a grape stone or from the smallest seeds of other j plants and shrubs bow laige trunks and boughs it produces , du not the scions shoots branches and slips set out to grow effect this in such a way as io fill any one with admi ration and deli^lt and indeed the vine which naturally is unable to bold itself up and unless it is propped falls to the earth this ■-< izes hold of whatever it finds with its tendrils like bands that it may raise itself up which as it creeps along with many turns and windings the farmer prrines with his knife and restrains lest it should pill out too many shoots and spread too far in all directions so in the beginning of spring theie is in the vines ih.it ate left what is called the eye at disjoints of the branches the clusters of grapes spring form and show themselves here they swelling wiih the sap derived from the earth and with the beat of the sun are at first very sour to to ihe taste bul after ripening they bes come sweet and being covered by the . new eh lots they neither want a moderate degree of beat nor buffer the extreme beat of ihe sua — and what can be more delightful ib in ihe fruit or more beauti f hi t li t ii the sight ? for not the utility alone delight me but the cultivation aud even nature herself so do the rows of props tbe union of the main stems the extending of new shopts the pruning away of pome and the penuiiing of others to grow i may also mention the irrigation the digging and spading of the ground by which it is rendered much more f riile and what shall 1 say of the utility of manuring ] 1 nave remarked in tbe trea tise i wrote ou farming business that the learned hesiod when writing upon agri culture said nothing on this subject but homer who lived 1 think many ages before represents liter t s as soothing his grief lhat he fell for the absence of bid son by cultivating the soil and manur ing it nor nun i pleased in the country with the crops the meadows and tbe vineyards only but with lhe gardens and orchards : with the grazing of herds with the swarms of lees and the great , variety uf flowers nor is the planting of trees alone gratifying but the grafting j of them which is among the most advan tageous things in agriculture and i will proceed to speak of some farmers : there were senators and those old men in the fields since the informa tion was carried to cincinnatus of his election to the office of dictator at the plough curious and other old im-u were called from their farm-houses into t lie senaie was their old age unhappy then who found satisfaction in the culti vation ofthe soil ? indeed in my opinion i do nol know a ha pier life not only on account of the duty but because the cul tivation of tbe acids is profitable to ibe whole human race but also for the pleas ure which i hav mentioned and for ihe full supply of all things which relate to the sustenance of men or the worship of god for the skillful and industrious master bas bis wine celi.tr hi > oil cellar and bis pantry crammed full the whole family is well supplied he has plenty of poi k goat's meat lamb poulliy milk cheese and honey cicero adds in de officiis book 1 chapter 42 : but if a merchant satiated or rather satisfied with his profits as be sometimes used to leave tbe open sea an 1 make the harbor shall from the b.irbi step into an estate and lands such a man seems most justly deserving of praise for of all gainful professions nothing is better nothing more phasing nothing more delightful nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture i they had been engaged a long time and one evening were reading tbe paper together look nty love in exclaimed only fifteen dollars for a suit of clothes ' is it a wedding suit 1 she asked look ing naively at her lover oh ! no he replied it is a business suit well i meant business she replied women have a much nicer sense of the beautiful lhan men they are by far the safe umpirer in thematters of propriety and grace a men school girl will be thinking and writing about the beauty of birds and flowers while ber brother i robbing nests aud destroying the tlowers one smile for the living is better thag i a dozen tears for the dead when is a candle like a tombstone ! when it is put up for a late husband when a man attains the age of ninety he may be termed nc-dingly old it was a drunken carpenter who said be couid not carry his level what piece of carpentry becomes & gem as soou as il is finished ? agate good headquarters for young men — oa the shoulders of tbeir sweetheart why is a compositor like a cripple ? because he cau't get along withont a slick when does a ship of war become a ship of peace ? wheu she drops her anchor the best seats in tbe theatres are ap prop hated by the managers — they aro the receipts . why is the elephant the most sagacious of travelers l because be uever takes bis eves off bis trunk . here is a door-keeper in a edinburg theatre so very strict that he won't admit an argument unless it has a ticket time waits for no man that's another doesn't time always wait for a man to get firmly seated on the top rail before il breaks ? connubial bliss — a henpecked hus band declared that the longer he lived with his wife tbe m re bo was smitten by her trying to interest a small audience with a comic lecture is a great deal like trying to hit the two corner pins ou a ten pin alley willi a single ball fanny davenport is said to be a very fiue swimmer swimming is an art that all ladies should acquire lt inspires courage and il saves soap moreover nothing is so uncomfortable just after a steamboat explosion as^to find yourself in the waler with a frightened woman wbo can'l swim clinging to your leg the tomb of agemcranon bas been found we are glad he had a tomb we have all along been afraid that a subscription would have to be bet afloat for ibat purpose tbe illustrious dead will always find a hearty welcome in this country if they are well provided with good comfortable tombs — danbury ascivs . ..«-■ do not meddle above all things take care how you interfere between man and wife even though they may not be living together in the completest harmony conscious though tbey may be of each other's faulty tbey do not care to find the world equally so instances are constantly occurring where the uncalled-for interference of some relative or professed friends between them has utterly destroyd forever the peace and happiness of a family and the most hateful feature of these imperti nent intermoddlings is tbat tbey are gen erally committed by what are called good people and professedly from conscientious motives many great crimes are attended with less destructive consequences what therefore god has joined together let not man put asunder is a command which should be obeyed in all its cod prehensiveness it does no prohibit merely the entire sepa ration of husband and wife it applies to every act on the part of any one cal culated in the least degree to disintegrate or weaken the bond of complete uniom between them a thrilling scene from the london standard the following incident occurred during a g.-neral review of the austrian cavalry a few months ago : not far from 30,000 cavalry were in line a little child — a girl — of not more than fouv years standing in the front row of spectators eiiher from fright or some other cans rushed out into the open field just as a squadron of hussars came sweeping around from the main bo they made ihe detour for the purpose of saluting the empress whose carriage was drawn un in that part ofthe parade ground down came ibe flying squadion charging at a mad gallop — down directly upon tl e chill the moth er vas paralyzed as were others for there could be no rescue fr.-m the line of spectators the empress uttered a cry of horror for the child destruction seem ed iuevitabb — and such terrible destruc tion the trampling to death by a thou bind iron hoots directly under the feet of the horses was the little one — another instant must seal its doom — when a stau wart hussar who was in the front line without slackening his speed or loosen ing his bold threw himself over by tbo side of his horse's inch seized and lifted the child ai.d plac.-d il in safety upon \ bis baddle-bow ; and this be did without ' chan"ink his pace or breaking the correct alignment of the squadron ten thou sand voics bailed wiih rapturous ap \ plause the ga'laut deed and oilier thou 1 sands applauded when tbey knew two women there were who could only sob forth their gratitude in broken accents — tbe mother and the empress and a proud and happy moment must jt havo been for the hussar wheu bis emperor taking from bis own breu<*t the ricbly-en .,.,,,.! l i of lhe o.der of maria theresa hong it upon the breast of his brave and gallant hooper