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A long fiirewell we bd thee,
For IV v days, sweet mother,
are
And i h e lips of sorrow whisper.
She it? one, forever gone !
Thine eye that once did sparkle
Its last cherry ray of light. :
Thy si?le was always lovelyN
But far sweeter than the rest
"Was the one thy winging spirit
O'er thy lifcle&s features cast.
Aga-n farewell we bid thee,
' Full oft shall rise the prayer,
Thft thy disembodied spirit :
May linger round us here, j
AVhen we; think pfthee, of heaven
Our, second thought will le,
And when we think of heaven,
"Sweet mother, we'll think of thee.
'I ircsoinc EcIc.
There are eortaiu people whom
I u sal to think woiulertully eon
tivit.iil ; we liked the same books,
pictures, :iml whatnot; bad set
ourselves to the accomplishment
(if-much the same objects in !if ;
heyt-r qtiat ie!exl -.tbout' the slight
est ahiit anil yet tor some mys
terious reason I could never en
dure their compauyj more than
ha If -an hour at a time. There
were my old churns whose mature
tiisies and iuis were very diner-
cut 'from mine, yet near whom I
could spend davs ami; week and
years w.th the titmoti s-ertnity.
llow to accounr ior inis inner-
euce i mil nii kuuw- uuni u
last, l 'buml that the trouble lay
in the fact that these congenial
uncongenial friend.-? were; ad m
the same tone. It was like living
in some monotonously gorgeous
Vt llowstone countrv. than which
I could imagine nothing more
wearying to the tou. You see or
dinary people like you and me
cannot stand a constant strain
upon the higher emotions I
doubt whether anybody can. It
there is not an abounding; humor
to make a variety in the experi
ence of your grand, solemn na
tures, there is at least a grim
savagery that takes its place, and
answers the purposesi of recrea
tion. If we do not hear of Mil
ton's laughing much, we are well
aware that he knew' how to call
hard names ; and as for the mor
tal who, having seen Hell, never
smiled again, a-e we not told that
the l;ttlo Guelf boys and girls
were in danger of being pelted
with stones tin ng by that irautie
Ghibeliine lSeribtier's. -
Three prisoners escaped from
Ashe county jail, last week.
OFFICIAL
Iittoriiatioual E x Ii i bitio n
176. Byltie IrciIeiil of
the Uiafted States.
EECUTIOE ORDER.
U'liereas it has been brought
to the notice of the president of
the United States that, in the In
ternational Exhibition of Arts,
Manufacture, and Products of the
Soil ami Mine, to he held in the
cjt of Philadelphia, in the year
eighteen huidred and seventy
six, for the purpose of celebrating
the one hundredth anni versa rv of
the United States, it is desira
ble that from the Executive De
partments, of the Government of
the United States, in which there
may be articles suitable for the-
purpose intended there should,
appear such articles and materi
als as will, whetC presented in a
eollertlce exhilidion, illustrate the
functiojislmd administrative fac
ulties of the Government in time
of ence and its resources as- a
var jiower, and thereby serve to
demonstrate the nature of our in
stitut'ons a:id tlieir adaptions to
the wants of the people:
Xow, fpr the purpose of secur
in a rowplde and fiGrmontous r
rnitjcnicrit o f the articles and materi
als designed to be exhibited from the
Executive Depcuime.hts of the Gor
a nrherd, it is ordered that a. board,
to bo composed of one person, to
be named by the head of each of
the Exec u 1 1 ve I )e 1 n art men ts w h i ch
may have ..articles and materials
to bcexhibited, and a'so of one
person to be .named in behalf of
the Smithsonian Institution, and
one to be named in behalf of the
Departm lire.! be
rawqn)M)ty aud. s'fe-keephig of such
articles and wabriahas t.e heads of
the several Departments and the
Commissioner of Agii ulthreand
the Director of the Smithsonian
Institti tion way respectfully decide
shall be emhraced in the. collcdimv
that one- of the persons thus
named, to be designated by the
President, shall be chairman of
sa ch B ard , a 1 id that ti; e Board
appoint from their own number
such oilier". officers as they may
rhinhhecessnrv : and that the
said Board, wl-on organized, be
'authorised, under the directum,
of the President, to confer with
Executive Officers of the Centen
nial Exhibition in relation to such
matters connected with the sub
ject as may pertain to the respect
ive Departments having articles
and materials on exhibition; and
that the names of the persons
thus selected by, the heads of the
several Deparments, the : Commis
sioner of Airriciiltnre, and the
Director of the Smithsonian In
stitution shall be submitted to the
Predsident for designation.
By order of the President :
IIamilton Fish, See. of State.
Washington, Jan uarV 23,1874.
DePAKMEXT OF bTATE,
Washington;--" March 25, 1874.
Sir: I have the honor to in
1ot m you thi't, in accordance with
the order of the President of .the
the 2Sl Jan. last, the following
persons have been named by the
heads of the several Departments,
c.,, mentioned in the order, hav
ing articles or materials to be ex
hibited at the CentenniarExhibi
tion to be held in 1870, to com
pose the board directed to be
created by the said order, viz :
By theSecretary of the Trea
sury -lion. F. M. Sawyer.
By the Secretary of War Co
loned S. C. Lyford, U. S. A.
By the Secretary of the Xavj'--Admiral
T. II. Jenkins, U. S. X.
By the Secretary of the Interior
Johd Eaton, Esq.
Bv the Postmaster General
Dr.. Charles F. McDonald.
By the Department of Agricul
ture Williani Saunders, Esq.
By the Smithsonian Institution
Poifesor S. F. Baird.
I have the honor further to in
form you that the President has
designated ColoneLS'. C. Lyford,
U. S. A., to be the Chairmau of
such Board. -
I have the honor to be, sir, your
obedient servant,
Hamfltox Fish.
h e IIox- William VT. Belknap,
Secretary of War.
Jroin State Agricultural Journal.
How to make a Cotton Crop.
As time for cotton planting is
near at Jiand, I will try and give
your readers some of my experi-
ence with cotton anil its cultiva
tion. - - ys.
A thorough: preparation of the
land isjjssential for a good cotton
crop, and the more thorough th'e
preparation, the better wilt be the
results. All land intended for
cotton, should be broken up in
January and February, m order
that all the old stalks and vegeta
ble matter may have time to decay
beforce planting time. Should
any part of youHand breal up in
clods, and remain s,o until the
middle of March, run j-our sweeps
over the land when it would he a
little' too wet for the turn plow,
ami yon will have a nice seed bed;
Land broken up early, causes the
grass seed to germinate near the
surface, and in bedding you kill
out the earliest arrass, aiid get the
start. The earlier barnyard man
ure is put in, the better, either
broadcast or in the drill ; if in the
drill, only two furrows should be
thrown upon it, in order to give
a fresh bed for seed by splitting
the middles just before planting.
Cotton rows should be laid off
in proportion to the "strength' of
the laud : sav from two feet nine
inches, to live feet. I believe
more cotton is lost by having
ro'vs too wide than too narrow.
tune as possltfte. iTve never Tie-
rived any benefit from second ap
plication alter planting.
A irood stand is verv essential,
without which you need not ex
pect a good crop The less seed
sown, if a stand can be obtained,
the better; for cotton stamVng
thin in the drill before being
choped out, is less liable to lice,
will not die out as much, and
will grow 6if better, and make
more cotton than when sown
thick. No plow, should ever be
permitted inside of a cotton row,
after tire- cotton is planted, ex
cept a sweervLBarnng ot cotton,
I've no iloub't hascostevery farm
er who has done it, one-lifth of
his crop annually. In barring
off, the lateral roots are cut, all
dirt is taken trom the young
plants '.the winds blow it dnvr,.
the rams wash it nn. ami it is
. - - . , ,
impossible for ihe plants to grow
until the top. root3 extend below
the furrow cut by the plow, and
then one -fifth is covered up by the
jilow in trying to dirt it. My
plan is, to have 1113- beds as fresh
as possible at planting time, to
let inv cotton come up before the
grass ; start ma" sweeps LDicIson j
as soon as my cotton is up, then
side as close as -possible, not to
cover the cotton entirely up. The
consequence ; is, the tirst rain
washes the dirt down around the
cotton, covering the little spngs
of grass, if any, and leaving a
ridge about two inches wide for
theThoe, aud hands will chop one
third more land thus treated,
than any other way I've yet seen,
and leave the cotton standing up,
and ihe lateral roots undisturb-
.i. i ;. ;
Always chop to a stand the nrst
time, no matter who says "block:
it i.ut." And take pains and'get
out every sprig of grass the first
time, and be sure and break the
crust and pull it from the tton.
I've had farmers to ask me why
I was so particular about hav
ing the crust broken and .pulled
otf. They " thought the plow
cover up such places. You can't
plow sufiiciently close the first
tiine" to cover up suph places with
out covering tire cotton, and then
you countenance hands who are
d isposed to slight their work a
bad sign on a farm. 1 would not
thank a man to block my cotton
nor would I give one cent for any
machine to do it, Cotton chop-
a ' - " " VITTW 1J. 'II.IT
pers and pickers haven't yet been
invented, nor never will be in our
day and generation I mean suc
cessful! ones. Sweep close, chop
to a stand, get all the grass, break
the crust (if any) to kill the seed
that
is germinating ; keep your
sweeps moving rapidly.
round every ten or tvvelve davs:
and you need not have more than
one hoe hand to every fifty acres,
if you have good plow "hands, j
alter your cotton is chopped out.
You will have no trouble in pick
ing out, and your expenses will
be one third less than the old way.
Try it and report.
FttANKLLN.
April 3d, 1874.
Save.
It is a remarkable fact in the
history of farmers, that it is rare
ly those who have the greatest
gross income-, who make, the great
est progress in wealth. In the up
per portionnf South Citrolinajmore
men have made fortunes by tilling
poor lands than have grown rich
by cultivating rich lands. The
same thing, no doubt, has taken
place in other sections of the
country. Those persons cultivfit
ing poor lands contract, through
necessity, the habit- of savins:,
whilst those cultiv iting rich, lands
contract the habitof wasting. Oil
every farm in this section of coun try
there is. annually wasted, in
one way and another; an incredi
ble sum. During two-thirds of
the yar, no sort of attention, on
the majority of oOr farms, is paid
to making manure. Not only so,
but what accumulates, of its own
accord, is permitted fo bewasl'ijidl
1 . . .
penned at night, during the sum-:
mer months, on our farms. On
the contrary, they are permitted
to take up their quarters on the
public high way; or, if penned at
all, the object is to secure their
presence 111 the morning, and no
effort is made to save the manure.
A cow properly penned during
the whole year, will make manure
enough, if it is carefully saved,
to pay for all the food that she
will eat during the winter.
Another example of waste in
this country is found in the con
struction of corn-cribs and their
irrain houses. It is astonishing
the amount of grain, especially
corn, that is eaten up or destro'ed
bv rats. There is not one corn
crib in everv five hundred that is
rat-proof, and there is not a plan
tation in the country on which
the rats do,not destroy five per
cent, annually, all the corn made
This is a clear loss ; tor rats anc
mice . counteract the ravages o
of nothing else, so faras is known
A corn-crib can be so constructed
that a rat cannot get in it. The
cost is, comparatively, very little
more than the cost ot building a
crib in the usual way.
It is wonderful,, the amount
of capitalwasted iu agricultural
tools and implements. A large
number of farmers use tools of so
inferior an order that they may
be regarded as time-wasters.
Good work cannot be done with
such tools, and the amount of
work is much less than what cm
be executed with tools of good
order. A plowman can do more
and better plowing with a "good
plow than, be can jW'ith a bad
one. The wear and tear on the
-horse or mule, in tle case of the
bad plow, is greater than in the
case of the good one. Using bad
tools is a wast of ti me ami capital.
This capital and time saved End
p ropei ly i 11 vested , w o u 1 d rel i e ye
the country trom many a strait,
and increase the wealth of the na
tiou by increasing the wealth of
the individuals. I 'orhcillc -EVi-quirer.
Come, don't be timid," said a
couple 01 snobs to two mechanics;
sit down and make yourselves
our equals." "To do that we
should have to blow our brains
out," replied one of the mechan
ics, ,
NO. 1(0.
The Ties of IXomc
No view of life is f worth any
thing which does not recoguize,
as a fundamental fact of human,
nature, the existence of countless
ties, which bind each man to his
fellows, many of which he did
not make and yet can not de'stroy.
If only a man recognizes in any
degree the reality ot even one .
such tie, it raises him out of him- ..
self from the narrowness aud pet-,
tiness of inerely personal airas
Who knows not the beauty, ami
even holiness, of home affections?
The labor and watching, and self-
d enial of parents for their cblldreny
or of children, for their parents
are not evils, to be compensated
for by a return in this world or
the next ; they are, arid are felt
to be, actual; blessings, 111 which
"it is blessed to give rather than
to receive," tor "they j exalt and
widen out the whole uatoro of
those who make the sacrifice, and
deliver them from that worst ty
ranny the tyrrauny of selfish-
less aud selt-indulgeuee. Who
knows not the blessings which
are enshrined in the sacredness of '
patriotism or loyalty? Look at
hem on the battlefield, and you
will findthem the only brisrht
spotsiti its darkness- and horror,
the 'only influences which exalt
and glorify natures otherwise ig
lorant or self-indulgent, frivolous
or brutal. Who knows not the
softening and glorifying power of
charity over the souls ot those
who practice it freely and as a
matter of course ? Look at the-
nursing sisters of an hospital; at
the visitors and Bible-Women, who
puttimr their higher! character
and mission aside) are so often
he only representatives ofuuraan
ove and charity amia the grinds
mg or me great mucuiuery wo
call " business," and you will see
ii. each and all of them a beauty,
a tenderness, a. grace and peace
of spirit, which the power ot loyo
alone can give, and the worm can
not take away. It we coma con
ceive a community, in which such
brotherly love was perfect, -no
power 'ionlu stand against it. ; ii ,
would need no miracle (as has,
been well said) to make its power '
of this world, and its peace the
earnest of -the happiness of the t
next. Exchanjc. , j! j
The press is the guardian of k
our liberties. To keep it pure iu
its sentiments, is? to add to its
power and influence for good. ' A
corrupt newspaper, like the dead;
ly Upas tree, poisons all who.
come in contact with it. To acv
cept its teachings, is to drink the ,
uuwboleseme water flowing from;
a poisonous fountam. The pure-s-ntiments
of a good, paper are to
the mind what the cool sparkling-
water is to the body retreshiiig t
ami health-giving. Newspapers
that teach justice and morality,
and advocate honesty aud patriot-"
ism as the basis of good govern
ment, should receive liberal sup
port from all citizens who desire
to advance the best interest of the
public: Algood paper shpiild
nevcr-ianguish for the want1 of
support. It shoild be upheld,
strengthened, and its usefulness
enlarged hy the patronage .of
'thdSiS who believe iu its senti
ments. The great journal of.our
l.tre cities inav tend to enlighten
the people on the news of the
world, but to the country press,
exerting its quiet influence in
every section of our land, we are
indented for the mouluing of pub
lic seutimentvou all itnportaut
public questious.-i27n.
A clergyman at the examinar
tion of the young scholar? of his
Suuday school, put the following
question : Why did the people
of Israel set up a golden calt .'
Because they had not money
euough to set up an ox,' was the
reply of a little chap, who took a
dollar and cents view 'of .49
matter, ' ' ,: