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AMRHII/nRIL Small Vs Large Farms —T). D. T. Mi>orein Amerirsi' A gricnlturii-'t. Our notion is, that small farms, well cuUi rated are almost invari ably the most profitable; and bonce, we firmly b'licve (what has often been asserted), that if many a far mer would sell half or twothirdsof the acres he now occupies, and poorly tills and manages, and de vote his time and energies to the care and cultivation ot the remain der lie would derive far more prof it from his labor and investment, with much less vexation ol spirit. The fact is somebody truly asserts, we have to many farmers who are ‘‘land poor”—who have so much land they cannot make a living. Paradoxical as they may appear, it applies truthfully to many a natur ally fertile and productive locality. When such farmers learn that it is not economy to own more land than they can till in the most prof itable manner, so that it will pay for the money expended in keep ing it Horn {axes, weeds and other incumbrances, they will have solv ed the problem of ease in practical rural life, Tlic happiest and thrif tiest farmers we har e ever known lived on farms of only ten to one hundred acres every foot of which was made to count. On the other hand, the farmer who has so many bread acres flint lie cannot walk over them daily—where rods of lence corners are never cultivated or otherwise utilized—lives a life of anxiety and worry. Instead of working like slat es and living in a miserly manner, in order to "run a big furm” or purchace “all the laud that joins them,” it would be | xviso for the host of fanners to sell | some of their broad acres, and look ^ more to (lie comfort and happiness : of their household, and the comfort mid proper education ol' their chil dren. Even if largo farms were the most profitable—w hich we deny— small ones are to ho preferml for many reasons, not the least of which are the comfort, peace, and general welfare of the owners and their families. Preparing Pastures. It Is now a leisure season with our farmers and many matters of interest to the farmers can be atten dec! to lcisurnhly. which will prore to he real sources of profit or cuui fort hereafter. Among which is the preparation of wood land for pastures. This eati po done by grubbing out ail of the rubbish, stones etc., and the cutting out of all the larger and most iuferior of the timber. After this is done and the lire-wood is drawn oil’, ami the brush biuiied, then the whole should be bull-tongued thorough 1 v, alter which it should bo harow cd and cross-borrowed until there is loose soil enough for a “cutnh" for the grass. After this is done a mixture of blue grass, ami orchard grass-seed should be sown, togeth er with any other grass seed that.is found to do well in shade, after which the whole should be brush ed in. The sowing of grass-seed for woodland pastures may be done during the latter part of August, and from that time on until Febru ary next.—lluraland Workman. Leuviun tile l-'arin. The Journal of education nrguos that, if the young men from the ru ral districts, after relieving the benefits of education, desert the farms to engage in mercantile and other kinds of business, ‘where they i'm secure far themselves a larger share of this world's comforts and enjoyments, with shorter hours of toil,’ the schools ought not to be blamed lint praised, for affording 1hein, “the grand opportunity/’ This is a matter about which there is much difference of opinion. The boy ought, not to get the impression that all the “grand opportunities’' are to be found in the cities. There are “opportunities’’ quite as“grand'’ in rural life, and the hoy ought to be made to see them in order that be may not mistake bis proper course. The disposition of young men to leave the farm does not need any special encouragement.— Current. ? Mis. -away, while cleaning house, asked her husband to nail up some [[; be refused; she looked ti at him, told biui his conduct was without || and beat him with her *6e- until he saw II3 now lies in a ,tose state, and may be a subject for di»$. A man must be an * his life and limb in such a way as that. He 0 2 --Up and Jt her. She Knew V hat She Was Doing, j He was president ot a railroad >' and she his only daughter, and lie 'had ambitious hopes of her future. | One day she came into the mag ! nificent apartment, which he called his office, and trembling like a ; frightened fawn, she laid her soft ! white arms about his neck and whispered question! v: “Papa?” “Ye3 child,” he said kindly, for he loved his only daughter. “Papa,” she repeated; “will you be angry if I tell you a secret!’’ ‘‘f hope not child. What is it?” | he tenderly inquired, taking her hands in his, and drawing her around so that he could look into her fair sweet face, so like her mother’s in the dear, dead past, ”1 am loved, papa, and 1 love in return.” “Child,’’ lie cried, startled al most into harshness; “what does li is mean?” ‘'It means just what I have told yon, father, 1 am a women to the world, though only a child to you, and with a woman’s heart, 1 have done wliat a worn an always does.” “But child, you should have told me, I have high hopes for you, and have made many plans look ing to your future welfare and hap piness.” “I couldn’t tell you father, be cause-” and she hesitated and sobbed. “Well, hocause’what?” ho asked sternly pushing her from him. “Because, father, I have given my heart to one y ou and the world say is beneath mo. Father, ho is only a man in your employ.” “What! A hired man? A grove ling at so much a day! Great heavens, that all my plans should bo destroyed and all of my hopes blasted because of a foolish girl’s whim! Away from me! away! away, tboughtlets gill, ungrateful child!” and purple with rage, lie rose to his foot and thundered forth the cruel words. The girl staggered toward the door. ‘‘Hold,” he cri ed, “toll me who this man is? What is he?” 1 Spare him, papa, o!i, I love him,” she moaned; “for 1 love him. lie is young in years, but he is the eldest and best conductor on your road.” A change came over the father’s face, the purple clouds tailed away, the sunlight of a smile shown through the rifted frowns and ex tending Ins arm, ho exclaimed joy fully: “My child, my only daughter, loved always best, cuno to your father's bosom and bring a kiss of forgiveness. I was hasty, child. The young man you have chosen has been a faithful servant, he bus been with us many years, he has had many opportunities, and you i have done your father a noble ser vme in thus keeping the money in the family.” i llio weudmg took place u weeks, because the old gen' was nervous, and thought might be a chain e for the <J tor to escape if the affair wr [ oned.—Merchant Travelei 1’lie First Confederate Until From Mrs. Burton Ilarj Recollections ol a Virginia C the First Year of the War, we; the following: “Another iucii ot note, m personal experience du ring the autumn of’tin, was that ot two of my cousins aud to mo was intrusted the making of the first three battlo-tlags of the Confeder acy, directly after Congress had decided upon a design for them. They were jaunty square of scarlet crossed with dark blue, the cross bearing stars to indicate the num ber of seceding States. We set our best stitches upon them, edged t .cm with golden Fringes, aud when they were finished dispatched one to Johnston, another to lieaure gartl, aud the third to Earl Van Dorn—the latter afterwards a dash ing cavalry leader, but then com manding infantry at Manassas. The buuner was received with all the enthusiasm we could have hoped" for; were toasted, feted, (cheered abundantly. After two [years, when Van Doru had been killed in Tennessee, mine came back to me, tattered and smoke stained from long and houorable service in the held. Uut it was | only a little while after it had been I bestowed that there arrived one day |at lodging in Culpeper a huge bashful Mississppi scout-one of the [ most darringin the army—with the ; frame ot a Hercules and the face | of a child. He was bidden to come | there by his general, he said, to ask it I would not give him ay or der to letch some cherished object j treui iuv dear old liuuie — souicthmg j that would prove to me ‘how much j they thought of the maker of the | Sag!’After some hesitation I ac j quisccd although thinking it a gest. j j A week later I was the astonished 1 recipient of a lamented bit of finery jiett ‘within the lines’a wrap of white and azure brought to us by Dilliou himself, with a beaming face. lie had gone through the i Union pickets mounted on a load j of firewood, and while peddling poultry had presented himself at I our house, whence ho carried ofi'j ! his prize in triumph, with a letter I in its folds telling us how relatives ■left behind longed to ho sharing | die joys and sorrows of those in | the Confederacy. ... . . -If.1 ■ T Wilkins’ Star Proverbs. ♦It is a had omen to owe men. ♦ When Dame Fortune wants a recruit, she calls for him. ♦In prosperity, enemies flatter, in adversity, friends encourage. ♦Nature puts up the perfect form for fashion to desecrate. ♦Many men before the people j are like a football—the moment | the kicking ceases, they fall dead. \ ♦ Man’s career is a skip, hop and j jump. Naked he skips into the 1 world; handicapped with cares he : hops through it, and bald-headed ; he jumps head lirst into eternity. ♦Misery is cured in the brine of 1 tears. ♦The cream of a joke should ! never be sour, ♦Man’s character often speaks the loudest when hi s lips are si lent. ♦ Put no faith in “tale-benrers,’ when milking a cow in tly time. ♦ To climb a pillar of fame, rise early from the pillar of your couch. ♦“Retribution belongs to God,’ and He only has a monopoly in’ that line. ♦“Reverence your superiors’ but do not let them use you for a cushion. ♦ No man can successfully fight his way through the world with soft gloves. ▼ not certainty ior nope, for a certainty in hand is worth two hopes in a bush, ♦Many keep their reputations polished only that they may out shine their neighbors. ♦Anticipation is the seed of par ticipation, and oftentimes the seed j is the most palatable. ♦A religion for this world finds | i more takers than a religion for the i next. A religion to live by may not be a good religion to die by.— Whitehall Times. "Smartest man in Longview. ” — In the trial of a lawsuit at Long view,.Texas, one day last week, lion. John W. Duncan, one of the attorneys in the case, vehemently argued that no value or reliance ons op tu’s ter h o Iso /eil by act no t un ove In tint next day, when in open court, he read a solemn petition praying that the court would hung iheir fellow townsman Luke Howard who is 1 one of the most respectable and on ! terprising citizens of the place, i Duncan displayed the names of all the oounty officers and fifty busi-j ness men signed to this ludicrous petition, Among the signers were j the brother-in-law and father in law of Howard. Every signature was proven genuine, and it was 1 conceded that ‘ Lawyer Duucau is ! just a little the smartest man in ! Longview.” The printing press lias made presidents, killed, poets, furnished bustles for beauty, and polished genius with the sand papers of its i criticism, it has set the price on1 a bale of cotton, and made the | country post office the glimoring goal of the rural scribe, it has! j curtailed the power of kings cm- j bellishod the pantry shelves, and ' i brought eimiipds to punishment; it has furnished the whole female j race with dress patterns; it has converted bankers into paupers1 made wood sawyers college presi- j dents; it has educated the home-I j less lail and robbed the philosopher of his reason; it smiles and kicks iiud cries and dies; but it cant be run to suit every body, and the editor who tries it is a fool.—Ex, Little Mary's Question. A good story is told of the Bish op of Atlanta, (ia. He recently addressed a large assembly of Sun day school children, and wound i*.p by asking in a paternal and coiule sceudirtg (vay, .‘‘And now is there a-a ny little hoy or a-a-ny little girl who would like to ask me a ques tion?” A little shrill voice cried out, “Please, sir, why did the angels walk up and dotvn Jacob’s ladder when they had wings?” ‘‘Oh ah, yes—I see/’ said the Bishop, “And now is there a-a-ny little hoy or a-a-nv little girl who would like to answer little Mary’s question?'5 _J-L The longest recorded prayer of our Savior can be read in four min utes, the model petition, as given in the Lord’s Prayer is not one minute long. The recorded pray er of Soloman at the dedication of the temple, can be uttered with ill gravity and deliberation in six or seven minutes. Yet a case was lately mentioned of a pastor whose opening ’prayer frequently occu pied a full hour and not a few good men think it their duty fo occupy with one prayer five, or ten, or tifteen minuies of the short hour of an ordinary weekly prayer-meet ing. Would it not he better to bring down the length of our ordi nary prayers more nearly to the limit of the Lord’s model? This would give time for a large number to take part in the prayer-meeting, and might add something to the spiritual intere t and life of the ex ercises.—Ex. _l1_"_ L “What is v, or name, little, girl?, asked the Sunday school teacher of a new scholar. “Sheolen Miller, Miss.” “Sbeolen,” repeated the teacher much surprised, “isn’t that rather a queer name?” ‘‘Yes, Miss, but before the revis ed version came out it was not so queer.” Then the teacher fell to thinking of spiritual matters.—Ex. WOMEN Needlxg -viewed itrcoftll, or whe itffer Ava UflrmlUeo pcanllar to (Mr au« skoal* try BEST TONIC Thin medicine combines lr »n with pure vsgstabla tonic*, and is invaluable tor Dine tec * peculiar to WoaieB* aud ail who lead sedentary Uvea. Jt Kn rlrbea and PirlfleN the Blood, Htlmnlates the Appetite*, Mrenflhen* the Inuarh a and KMfft-ls tmet. thoroughly In vigor ntce. Clear* the complexion, and makes the skin smooth. It does not blacken the teeth canae headache, or nrodu.-e constipation—ail Otter Inm medtanej do. MHb. ELIZABETH Rutrd. 74 Far* *-11 Ave.. M.lwau kee. WiH., says, under date of Dec. JGth l4'*!: "I have used Brown'.* Inm Bitten*, and it has been more than a doctor to me having ounxl me of the weakness lad tee have in life. A Iso cured mo of I.iv er Complaint, and now mjr complexion is clear aud good. Hat been t>enofi>'ial to my children. ” j Genuine has above trade mark and crossed rsd lines on wrapper Take no other. Made only by IIBOWN CHKMM'AL CO.. !i A l.TMf OKK, MO. Laptxa’ Hand Boo«-useful and attractive. con taining list of prises far rvcipes. information aU.nl coma, etc., given away by all dealer* in medicine, ug (bailed to anj address on rwooipt of Sc. stamp. Warning Order In Justice Court before J. XV. Neill, J. P XV. G. Burton Co.," 1*1 ft'. 1 up. i Oft • Attachment. Jno. Timmons, I> ft- | The DefenAuit, John Timmons, is here by warned to appear in this court within thir ty dn\s to answer the complaint of the Plnintift, \Y. Cl. Burton «fc Co. Given under my hand this the 20tli duv of Julv, A. D. 1885. J. W. Neill, J. P. 13 B G ret n'8 K I.Vft OF M,iJYi.nEJYTS \\ ill cure Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Chill blains, Burns, Old sores, Fr-wh cuts, Ilead »ch, Tooth ach, Son-throat, and almost anv ache or pain. Certl'li-ates from the following named cit izens of 1’reaeott and vicinity, who have been cured of many of the above troubles, by its use, will attest its cilieaoy: 1' . M, Smith, Ex Mayor. O. S. Jones. Mrs W.J. Blake, Mr T. M. Neill, Mrs. Maud Kirkland, Mrs. A. F. Griffith, Mrs. C. Watters, Mrs. J. M. Mont gomery. Mrs. W. K. Story. Mrs. Sam Scott, Mr and Mrs. Isaac Moore, Mrs. J. B. Moore and a number of others. Ask thorn ubout this splendid medicine. 1 ran la- found at my residedee at all times where parties can see me and get medicine, or if preferred it can be procured at Milner & Milbum’s Drug Store. Satisfaction guaran teed in every ease. I will pav agents a lib eral csinuiissioii. Cor res pond once solicited Address me at Freseott. H. H. GREEN <»oo«l Farin For flair. A valuable improved farm for sale, situa ted two and a half miles South of Freseott; church and school half mile away. 100 nerca red land in body-06 in ciiltiv atioii uuder good fence. Good residence and barn, and sup plied with good artesian water, from two overflowing wells. Farm part of estate ofj L. Crossland and must be sold. J. B. CHGS3LA.ND.Ad vi'b • •lection Proclamation. N otice is hereby given that u, pursuai.ee of a proclamation of the Governor of the Slate of Arkim-as isuied on the 10th day of August, 1886, there will be an fleet ion held at the various voting p re volts in Nevada county on September 71Is, lbs.*;, for the purpose ef - looting a Congressman t represent the Third Congressional District oftheStati el Arkansas in the congress of th*1 l iiit* (i s*iit(i'.», t fill a v:i<*nney ctu$ed by the rcsignati -n ol .las. K. Jonss. Has August 10, 1885. OSCAR PHILLIPS. Sheriff. Self Defenoa. To * criminal neglect of preventive medi tation maj t'e ascribed a majority of the ailments which affect humanity. It is a well-ascertained fact, that a course of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters will put even a naturally feeble system in such a state of defence that it will be competent to resist the most prevalent causes of disease, such as the malign influenre nr miasma, un wholesome water, excessive heat, damp. Cold, sudden changes of temperature. Ac. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. MARBIASEGUIDE 200 Pag€>S< tlla**r*tod In #Ioth nixlflit binding 60a. ooduv or postage, sum<•. purer cover* 25e. Tbis book eootalaa i.ll tba eariotm. doubtfol or iaquisitlra want to know, large editions, I0jb>»eacb, aold «eerj few montha. Tlanlth. Beauty, Itapplneufl, are prosiot#4 by it* «4> vice—vi»o racy r*nrrr, who not, wby, medical aid, whao Cte«fasary brought hoiac to you. 60 wonderful ran true to lifo. Beat aemWd by T)r. WHITTIER, Si Loul*, ^o^b^grent^ip^laHat^oDauUatlon^aBd^PU>phUU|raj| Cuat Biliousness. Dvrofosia, Sick Headache, Tohpio Liver. Malaria, Indigestion Sour 8tof ach, Bag Breath.Vehtioo. Jaundice, Dysentery, Enlarged 8pleee. OnowsiNtss after Meals.&o. WlTHJUT CniPISf. SlOKFMINU OR WlAKEKlMC THtS'i'ITEM DOS*. CNF. Mil A W. PRICE, £6 CERTS. ASK for ISILE BllANS-Tak* no Bulmtltnt.. Mnilad i to any uddrew. for k5rta. i a Blamea Sold b> Droe.-i.r and M« Hoi to bonier, everywhere. Bend for Oirealars, ; J. 8. 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Mo . fur • r.RVCA M LOOK" • fall of etrangu and uaelul tafarmatiou. frea W D« MAarea'* Iron Tonio is foa Gatv „» au ©RUCK* i, I $ ANW OkALtRS fcVCHYWMiFIk. , 1R0X MOUmk ROUTE ! ™ ST. LOUIS sss wpiiVOEITB NORTH AND EAST. D.A.XX-i'Z' TX3^.XXT a H. C. TOWNSEND General Passenger and TicetAnt. -PUBLISHED AT Prescott, Nevada County, Ark. iv. ii. ivihte i J. %V. UAKIENEK, j Editors and Prop’s. ~ — y -. Zrm~ - - - - _ THE PICAYCK As in the past, will over remain, a is the only paper published 1n tlm Lar2:o and Prosperous COUNTY < >ie 1C V A 1>A. It luia a population ns slmwn by the census 1880 of IS 000 Ort a tais number it has a voting capacity of 2800. The ’ valuation' o proper t\ iu the county is given in at over $,000,000. PRESCOTT, THE C0UHTT SITE, Is a prosperous town and although yet in its infancy, being only Eleven. XTeetrs Old, lias a flourishing trade from ‘several contiguous counties; has a population of over 2,000 [ I nlial>itant the picayune Will always work tor the upbuilding of PreBeott and Nevada county it lias a Lar*o Circulation In Nevada and contiguous counties, and a bettor J VERTIIN G MEDIUM < annot be found in S C S 1 WI «.V ,f ft ft.f.’i ,v. is. oiiti \ office ill II,r p,ufe rnn rxeculo job V7ok:eh t.\l« or with greater dispatch, thauthe Picayune Job Office it proposes to do all work at as Reasonable Itnte** A’ ®Ul" »“J 'Mfcctlully solicit. II,e patronage of all, 4