Volume XXV. No, 32.
THE PORT TOBACCO TIMES,
And Charles County Advertiser,
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BOOTS AND SHOES.
FALX AND WINTER TRADE.
1868.
74 KING STREET 74
ALEXANDRIA, Va.
The subscriber has now on hand and can af
ford to sell at prices to suit the times one of the
largest and best assorted stocks of fine goods
for Gentlemen, Ladies, Misses and Children,
and heavy work suitable for Farmers, ever be
fore offered for sale in this market. His long
experience in the trade has enabled him to pro
cure a stock manufacfured from the best mate
rial and in the most durable and stylish man
ner, and on the most favorable terms, and with
each advantages he can afford to sell as cheap
as the cheapest. All in want will do well to
call at 74, King street, before purchasing. His
stock comprises in part—
Men’s Kip Boots, suitable for Farmers.
Men’s Calf Double-sole Pegged and Stitched
Scotch bottom Boots.
Boys’ and Youths’ Calf and Kip Double-sole
Boots.
Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Calf, Goat
Morocco, Glove Kid, Turkish Morocco and
Lasting Boots of every style and description.
Men’s, Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Gam
Shoes.
Also, a good stock of goods suitable for
country merchants, to which we invite their
attention. W. B. WADDEY.
sep 17—3 m
GEORGES.-HENNING.
DEALER IN
CLOTHING
AND
FURNISHING GOODS,
No. 511 Seventh St.,
Ikteluoxncer Bdildins,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
All Goods are marked in plain figures,
and sold for
02STS PRICE oisrirsr.
nothing to fit all ages from two years,
ready-made, or made to order.
“The stock is one of the largest to be
found in the District, nearly all of it made
np for Mr. H.
Persons ordering by mail, need only
state the style, color and price desired.
- Sep. 3. 1868—6 m
CORTLAN &CO-,
816 4k 818 Baltimore st, Baltimore, Hd.,
IMPORTERS.
mm AID EASTHEIWJUIE.
Table Cutlery, and Family
Hardware,
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PXATED TEA 4k COFFEE SERVICES,
forks. Spoons, Casters A Batter Tabs,
IritMßia aod Block Tinware,
fWDEBS, eaOVEL AND TONGS, AND
STANDARDS,
AMD
HOUSE ’ FURNISHING GOODS
OF EVERY VARIETY.
tu'-
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The Goods bare all been selected from the
most celebrated makers, and are guaranteed
tebe first class in QUALITY, new in PAT
TERN, and beautiful in DESIGN. The
Stock baring been bought much uhdkb for
mer prises un account of the depression in
Bade, will be offered to customers at a cor
responding reduction.
COUTLAN & CO.
ang 30—6 m
STRICKLAND'S PILE REMEDY,
Mia. Allen’s Preparation for the Hair,
Forrest's Jumper Tar,
Jayne’s and Soheock's Medicines.
For sale by W. C. BRENT,
frbtf Port Tobacco.
file Port -Mateo limes.-
v• r r ■ WM
“IP WE KNEW.”
If we knew the woe and heart-ache
Waiting for us down the road,
If our lips could taste the wormwood,
If our backs could feel the load:
Would we waste to-day in wishing
For a time that ne’er can be;
Would we wait in such impatience
For our ships to come from sea?
If we knew the baby-fingers
Pressed against the window-pane
Would be cold and stiff to-morrow —
Never trouble us again:
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frown upon our brow ?
Would the print of rosy fingers
Vex us then as they do now?
Ah, those little ice-cold fingers,
How they point oar memories back
To the hasty words and actions
Strewn along onr backward track 1
How those little hands remind us,
As in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns—but roses—
For our reaping by and by 1
Strange we never prize the music
. Till the sweet-voiced bird has flown;
Strange that we should slight the violets
Till the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one-half so fair
As when winter’s snowy pinions
Shake their white down in the air I
Lips from which the seal of silence
None but God can roll away,
Never blossomed in such beauty
As adorn the mouth to-day;
And sweet words that freight our memory
With their beautiful perfume,
Come to us in sweet accents
Through the portals of the tomb.
Let ns gather up the sunbeams
Lying all along our path;
Let us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out their thorns and chaff;
Let us find our sweetest comfort
In the blessings of to-day ;
With a patient hand removing
All the briars from our way.
■■
g filling Hamlik
From Lippincott’s Magazine for December.
A TERRIBLE VOYAGE.
At sunrise next morning they let go
their hawser and resumed their voyage,
still preferring empty stomachs to such
food as they had. Still, as throughout
the previous day’s voyage, the river flow
ed on smoothly between low and verdure
clad banks, but the velocity of its current
was perceptibly increasing. At length,
toward noon, they came to rapids swift
and rocky, in descending which they lost
their carbines and their little store of
flour—their only provision—while their
revolvers were wet so as to be unservice
able. Below these rapids the banks were
steep and rocky; but an island of some
extent afforded them a convenient place
to haul out for repairs, while the screw
pot mezqnit with which it was partially
covered furnished them with a scanty but
not altogether unpalatable meal.
(Of mezqnit, a thorny bush which
grows in great abundance on the Colora
do, and in many other portions of Califor
nia, Arizona and Mexico, there are two
varieties —one producing beans in a large
pod resembling onr ordinary garden beans;
while the other produces small seeds, a
bout the size of those of the locust, envel
oped in a small, spiral pod from two to
three inches in length, which is fleshy,
and has a pleasantly sweetish taste. I
have tasted them and found them to be
' rather tongh, but otherwise palatable.)
* Having passed the night at the island,
onr voyagers set out in the morning with
* their raft in better condition than before,
and with renewed k°P e °f ßooo gating to
the end of their voyage, or at l eas *
reaching a port. From the size and
depth of the stream, they argued that the
I head of navigation—Callville—must be
near. After they had floated for a few
hoars, however, the sound of falling wa
-5 ter was borne to their ears, becoming
I more and more distinct as they proceeded,
■ until they were satisfied that they were
9 approaching a cataract. Meanwhile, they
' bad gradually and almost unconsciously
1 drifted into a canon with high, precipitous
walls, which confined the river within a
narrower channel than it had conrsed in
above. A hasty reconnoisanoe convinced
- them that they could not escape from the
gorge by olimbing the walls, while the
current was now so swift that it was use
less to think of attempting to tarn back.
White, however, took the precaution o<
AND CHARLES COUNTY ADVERTISER.
PORT TOBACCO, MARYLAND., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11,1868.
lashing himself to the raft, and advised i
Strobe to do likewise.
“No,” replied the latter; “I am an
old Mississippi boatman, and can stick to 1
the raft wherever she goes, without tying. '
It isn’t much of a fall, and there is no 1
danger in running it: but if a man is 1
tied in such a place, be might lose his life 1
before he could get loose. We had better '
tie our revolvers, though; they’re wet 1
now, and a little more won’t hart them.
And we had better be rid of them.”
On swept the raft with rapidly increas
ing speed; the voyagers, silent, stern,
with compressed lips and tense nerves,
boldly facing the peril which they were
now powerless to avoid. A moment they
were balanced upon the brink of the
cataract—the next were plunged sheer 1
twelve feet into the seething waters be
neath. Emerging at length, White found
himself alone upon the raft, which an
eddy bad caught in the rim of its vortex 1
and was slowly whirling around. When
he had partially recovered bis self-posses
sion, which had been seriously disturbed
by the shock of the fall, he looked around
for bis companion, and quickly descried
him in mid-channel, some twenty yards
distant, buffeting the current with feeble
and uncertain stroke. Shouting to him
some words of encouragement, and hastily
freeing himself from bis lashings, White
prepared to make such efforts as be could
to assist and save bis comrade; but al
most immediately poor Strobe, half stran
-7 gled doubtless, and bewildered by his
frightful plunge over the cataract, with
out a cry or a groan, sank and rose no
more.
The fate of either of bis comrades would
have been a merciful one to White in
comparison to what befel him. Poor fel
low! his troubles had hardly yet begun,
while theirs were ended, at least for this
world. The death of Strobe fell upon
i him with crushing weight. Sticking up
on the raft, which floated slowly around
with the eddy until it stranded upon the
bead of a small island, he abandoned him
self for a brief period to all the misery of •
despair. But his rugged and energetic
> nature would not long succomb to such a
feeling. Recovering himself, he began
i to snrvey as calmly as be might bis situ
> ation.
And now came hack upon his memory
’ the stories he bad heard .from some Sid
" prospecters while be lay in camp at Salt
■ Lake—idle tales be bad deemed them
1 then, but now he coaid not resist the eon-
victioa of their reality—of the terrible
f Grand Canon; of its great length, tre
' tnendoos depth and impassable walls; of
' the vain efforts which had been made to
‘ explore its fearful solitudes. Looking a
-9 round upon the high, steep walls which
9 hemmed him in on cither hand, and
■ stretched away before, dark and frown-
T ing, far as the eye could reach, be no
longer doubted but that he was in the
veritable Grand Canon, through which
9 no living human being had ever passed.
‘ He thought of endeavoring to return, but
■ a brief examination convinced him that
9 would be impossible unless he were gifted
i . with wings. He thought of attempting
to scale the walls of the canon, bat as bis
■ eager eye wandered over their dark flat
* surfaces, where a lizard could hardly gain
9 a foothold, he abandoned the idea as too
> wild to be entertained. There was no
[ way open for him except in the course of
9 the river through the canon ; and in that
direction there seemed not the shadow of
, a chance that he might succeed and live.
> He only dared to hope that by carefully
. tying himself to the raft, his body might
> float through with some portion of it, and
f he identified by means of a pocket meal-
I orandum-book, which he endeavored to
3 secure to his person, so that his fate
3 might become known to his relatives and
f friends. Having considered these things
- with the desperate calmness of a man who
; regards himself as doomed to speedy and
, inevitable death, he nevertheless omitted
9 nothing which might tend to the preser
f vation of bis life. First, he overhauled
f his raft and tightened its lashings. Next,
s he stripped the mezqnit bushes which
a grew on the island of their scanty crop,
a with which he partially appeased bis ban
-1 ger. Then, with a fervent appeal to the
e Great Father of all, he launched bis raft
e and floated away to encounter unknown
dangers and terrors.
It is hardly necessary to say that White
>f 1 kept no “log” of his voyage, and it would
therefore be impossible to give, from this
point the details of his daily progress.
Never before did mortal mao perform sneb
a journey. For near five hundred miles
be floated over a succession of cascades
and cataracts, varying in height from four
to twenty feet with patches of smooth wa
ter between. Frequently, in plunging
over a fall, the raft was overturned, and
it was with mnch difficulty he saved him
self from drowning. Once he was so
long under water that he became insen
sible ; but on that occasion the raft pro
videntially emerged right side up. and
when be revived he fdand himself floating
along as if nothing had happened.
Below each fall there was an island,
formed by the sand thrown up by the ed
dying waters, affording him an opportu
nity of hauling up bis raft for repairs—a
very necessary operation, as the ropes
with which it was bound were frequently
cat upon the edges of the rocks at the
head of the falls—and a place of rest dar
ing the night. At first the mezqnit grow
ing upon the islands supplied him with a
scanty allowance of food, but after the
sixth day be found the islands barren. A
rawhide knife-scabbard then afforded him
some slight sustenance and a good deal of
chewing for a couple of days, after which
he was without food of any kind until be
got through to the mouth of the Rio Vir
gin. One day he saw some lizards and
tried to catch them, but was too feeble to
succeed, and so the tempting creatures
escaped. To add to his misery, he was
stripped by the rooks and waters of bis
hat, pants, drawers, boots and socks,
while the sun, which be was compelled
almost constantly to face, sitting in a con
strained posture during the hottest part of
the day, beat with horning fierceness
upon bis unprotected bead and legs, the
latter soon becoming blistered and raw
from the an wonted exposure. And all
the time the canon tow
ering above him, nowhere less than a
thousand feet, and in some places a mile
and a half in height, to the best of bis
judgment; he bad no means or opportu
nity of measuring the distance. Anxious
ly he watched for some avenue of escape,
some crevice or fissure in the adamantine
walls which confined him, but there was
none. The consoling reflection remained
that it was perhaps better to be dashed to
pieces, or perish of simple starvation in
the cannon, than to scramble oat of it and
add the torment of thirst to those which
he already endured. So be voyaged on,
now helplessly broiling in the merciless
rays of the sun (no one who has not been
upon the Colorado can form an adequate
idea of the heat which prevails there in
summer), as he floated calmly yet swiftly
along upon an expanse of comparatively
smooth water; then tumbling over a cas
cade or rushing through a rapid, at the
imminent peril of shipwreck upon the
rocks, which bumped and thumped his
frail raft until its light timbers rattled a
gain; and now, shuddering and with
bated breath, plunging over a fall, for
aught he knew into eternity. Day by
day and hoar by hour be grew weaker
from want of food, while, from sitting in
a cramped position and from exposure to
the sun, his legs were so stiff and sore as
to be almost entirely disabled. Still with
dogged resolution he persevered, improv
ing every available moment of daylight,
and making, as be believed, at a moderate
estimate, between forty and fifty miles
distance every day.
At length, on the evening of Septem
ber 6th, the raft—with our bruised, bat
tered and starving voyager, more dead
than alive, but yet retaining a great deal
of the wonderful vitality which has thus
far sustained him, still clinging to it—
emerged from the canon. Again the
broadening river flowed between low green
banks. White felt that the worst of his
voyage was over—if he could but hold
out a day or two longer he would be
saved. Bat, though his spirit was un
daunted, bis physical strength was nearly
gone. He floated on, watching eagerly
for the signs of human habitation. Soon
he passed the month of a considerable
stream—the Rio Virgin—and almost im
mediately be heard voices shouting to him.
He could hardly convince himself that the
sounds were real; and as he gszed in
wondering suspense toward the bank, a
number of Indians leaped into the water,
swam off to him and pushed the raft a
shore. Being pretty well aroused by this
summary proceeding, of which he did not
know whether the intent was hostile or
friendly, White attempted to rise to bis
feet, hut the Indians palled him down
again so violently that the skirts of his
coat, which they took hold of for the pur
pose, came off in their bands. They then
seized one of the two revolvers which re
mained fastened to the raft, but White,
who had no idea of being robbed without
resistance, stoutly retained possession of
the other. One of the Indians then ad
dressed him in English, informing him
that they were Pah-Utes and “good-Indi
ans whereupon White" demanded some
thing to eat. After some parleying they
agreed to give him a dog for bis remain
ing pistol; but, having secured the wea
pon, they let the animal go. He was
finally obliged to give them bis vest for
catching and killing the dog (a small one),
and then they appropriated the fore quar
ters. The Indians seemed to comprehend
the fearful trip which he bad just made,
and to express some astonishment among
themselves that be should have survived
it; but bis condition excited not the small
est spark of sympathy in their dusky
bosoms. He was a white man, and their
' lawful prey. The fact that they were
“at peace” with the whites hardly ac
: counts for their treating him with so
much forbearance as they did, since they
could have killed him without fear of dis
, covery; and I have known but few Indi
i ans, however “good,” who could resist
; an opportunity of shedding a white man’s
: blood with impunity.
White ate a bind quarter of dog, raw
and without salt, for his supper, and then
lay down and slept soundly. In the
r morning he ate the other bind quarter;
i and having learned from the Indians that
' Callville was near, again embarked and
’ resumed bis voyage, which bad now last-
I ed fourteen days.
It chanced at this time the barge
Colorado of Fort Mojave, in charge of
1 Captain Wilburn, with a crew of four or
> five men, was at Callville, receiving a
cargo of limo and salt. Standing on the
river bank, Captain Wilburn saw the
strange craft pass by on the other side,
■ and hailed. The response came in feeble
i tones; “My God! Is this Callville?”—
I “Yes,” replied Wilburn; “come ashore I”
' “I’ll try to,” replied the voyager, “bat
> I don’t know whether I can or not.”
i Wilburn and his men, being busily em
i ployed, did not particularly notice his ap
, pearance, and when they saw him bring
i the raft to abont two hundred yards be
i low, they thought no more of the matter
until nearly two hours after, when a
i strange-looking object make its appear
r ance on the crest of the hill near the land
r ing
. “My God, Captain Wilburn!” exclaim
i ed one of the crew, “that man’s a hun
> dred years old !”
1 And he looked as if be might even be
' older. His long hair and flowing beard
9 were white; his eyes were sunken; bis
r cheeks thin and emaciated ; bis shrunken
r legs were in front a mass of black and
r loathsome scabs from his loins to bis toes;
1 and as he crawled slowly and painfully to
) ward them, with his hands resting upon
9 his knees, the men, with exclamations of
‘ astonishment and pity, went to meet and
' assist him. They brought him into their
1 camp gave him food, washed and annoiht
-9 ed bis sores and clothed him. The revul
-3 sion of feeling was too mnch for White.
He became delirious, and remained so for
- some hours; hot toward evening his wan
- dering senses returned, and he was able
1 to give an account of himself. James
1 Ferry, U. S. Quartermaster’s Ageot at
s Callville, on bearing of the conduct of the
- Pah-Utes, seut out a runner for their
j chief, whom be compelled to restore eve
i rything that bad been taken from White,
3 and then dismissed him with certain moral
1 and humanitarian exhortations which it is
i to be hoped will do him good. He took
- White to bis house, and kept him there
j until be had recovered, so far as he oonld
1 recover, from the effects of his terrible
i voyage. When 1 last beard of White, he
3 was carrying the mail between Callville
- and Fort Mojave. At the latter place,
• Gen. Wm. J. Palmer, Treasurer of the
3 Union Pacific Railway Company. E; D.,
i saw and conversed with him, and from bis
I! statements was satisfied that the length of
> I the Grand Canon is not less than five hun
*: dred miles, and that its thorough scientific
8 exploration, while not absolutely impossi-
ble, will present difficulties which will
not soon he sarmonnted. Gen. Palmer
thinks the numerous falls in the canon
have been formed by immense masses of
rook which have fallen into,the river from
its walls. I believe the course of the
Colorado might be advantageously divert
ed above the canon; and, from the char
acter of the country above and around it,
I think it probable that if this were done,
a large quantity of gold might be found
in the river bed.
IjtkWj SlwtUamj;.
Hints to Young Gentlemen.
Don’t say complimentary things to a
young lady at a party without first mak
ing sure her “intended” is not standing
behind yon the whole time.
Don't accept a lady’s invitation to go
shopping with her, unless yon have pre
viously measured the length of your purse.
Don’t stay later than eleven o’elook,
when you spend the evening with a pret
ty friend; the wisest and wittiest man in
Christendom becomes a bore after that
boar.
Don’t believe any woman to he an an
gel. If yon feel any symptom of that die*
ease, take a dose of sage tea and then go to
bed; it is as much a malady as the small
pox, and it is yonr business to get over it
as quickly as possible. An angel, in
deed ! If yon don’t find out pretty soon
that she lacks considerable more than the
wings, we are mistaken I
Don’t make np yonr mind about any
creature in a belt-ribbon and velvet rosette
without first asking yonr sister’s advice.
Depend upon it, one woman can know
better in five minutes than you can anoth
er in five years.
And, above all, don’t think that you
must keep yoor lady-talk and gentleman
talk in separate budgets, labelled and
sorted, unless you want the girls to laugh
in their sleeves at yoor wishy-washy sen
timentalism. Talk to them in a frank,
manly style, as yon would to an intelli
gent gentleman. Don’t snppose, because
they are women, they don’t know any
thing.
Remember all this advice, sir, and yon
may make rather less of a fool of yenrself
than yon would otherwise.
Useful Hints.
Floor and meal of every kind should be
kept in a cool, dry place.
To select nutmegs, prick them with a
pin. If they are good the oil will instant
ly spread aronnd the pnocture.
Keep coffee by itself, as its odor effects
other articles. Keep tea in a close chest
or canister.
Oranges and lemons keep best wrapped
in soft papers and laid in a drawer of linen.
Bread and cake* should be kept in a
tin box or stone jar.
Soft soap should be kept hi dry place
in the cellar, and should not be teed till
three months old.
Bar soap should be eat into pieces of e
convenient size, and laid where it wiU
become dry. It is well to keen it several
weeks before osing, as it spends fast when
new.
A Scene in Coubt.— An individual
possessing unmistakable evidences Af
rican extraction, was arraigned fpr larce
ny. The Judge, as of right, was digni
fied, bat with severe presence, “Are yon
1 guilty or not?” he inquired. “Golly,
boss, ’clar never done it.” “This man
1 says yon did?” “He ain’t notin' but
white trash.” “And what are
“Me! Why don’t you know me. Jrid
wtd yon in de peroession. I helped to
i tote yon home when yef got tired 3af
f night—don’t yer ’member toe noirf*-i
--l There was the “suddenest” not proa, m
, that darkey’s case that judicial annals *f- :
ford an example of. So much for the ad
-1 vantages of good society. —New Orleans
• Picayune. u v .
jarla Bible Language a day’s journey l
was 33 atfd 1-5 miles. A Sabbath Ay’s
■ journey was abont an English toil#.—
i Ezekiel’s reed was 11 feet,.pearly, Onhit
, is 22 inches, nearly: A hand’s breadth
is equal to three and five-eighth inches'. A
• finger’s breadth is equal to one inch. A
1 shekel of silver was about 50 cent*. A
■ shekel of gold was $3.09. A talent of
. silver was 516.32. A talent ofgold was
$13,308. A piece of silver or u penny
. was thirteen cents. A farthing was' three
[ cents. A gerah was one oeol- A mite #s*
i one and a half cents. A homer eUtttalns
; seventy-five gallons and five pints. A fir
, kin was seven pints. An omCT wafc six
i pints. A cad iras three plots.
—'
• His Tram.-*—An old'fashioned olergy
i man, named Moore, was riding on hone
( back one stormy day, enveloped in a loose
cloak of large proportions, and having' a
’ broad scarlet collar. By the action of the
9 wind the cloak was tossing about In all
, directions, when a gentleman rode np on
i a spirited horse which shied, landalmost
[ threw the rider. Rii
“That cloak of yours would frighten
’ the devil,” said the gentleman.
9 ‘‘You don’t say so?” replied Mr. Moor#,
. “why tbst’s just my trade.”
Terms: $2, in advance.
Bemipt for Curing Meat
To erne pllon of water, takell* poowdV
of salti, £ pound of angar, 1 ounce knife
petre, 1 ounce of potash, in this ratio
the pickle to be increased .to any quantity
desired. Let these be boiled together;
Until aH the dirt from the sugar rises totht
lop and is skimmed oft ' Thin tbrOW H
into a tub to cool, end when sold, pout ll
over jour beef or pork* to remain the usosi
time, say four 6r t five weeks. The meat
roast be weH covered with piekty end
should not be {rat down for sl iskit MHf
days after killing, during Which: tjmeit
should he slightly sprinkled, with powder-t
ed saltpetre, which removesoli the
blood, &c.. leaving the meat fresh and
clean. Some omit boiling l the pickle, ana
find it to answer well; though the operartoif
of boiling purifies the piekle by lWf#in#
off the dirt bejband in sak ana,
sugar.— Ed. Germantown Ttlqgrofh. ,
• ' *• - -■ i ■■
Eeeeipt fiat Bouagt Meat * 5
The fallowing practice I have been in
the habit of for th* last $5 yearn; aod oon
confidently; recommend it. It is impor
tant, in the first place, not to allow your
meat to lay in bulk after '' it % separated
from the' body of the bbg, bat keep if
spread out until you are ready to cut Jin*.
If the mettt lays .sometime; in hulk, your
sausages will soon become strong. This,
plan prevents it. When you are ready,
cut It in small pieces for griuding through
a cotter,and weigh in order for-MMshgi’
Then for every 40 lbs. of mast take Ift
oa- of salt, 4 os, of best blsek. pepper and
2 os. of sage, all of which mix together..
Then mix this with yonr meat. After
wards put it through your sausage grind-'
er, and you will find, if a judge of (good
sausage, au article, io that line, which is
first-rate.—Cor. Country Gentleman.
Keeping Cabbage Through the Winter.
The Massachusetts Farmer gives the
following method of keeping cabbages
through the winter, for Which its editor
vouches, having tried it sooeetsfalty'fot
several years:
“Cut off the stomp close to the head,
and pull off loose leaves. Cm clean straw
or bay and cover the bottom of a bomb
or box with it. and sprinkle the stsaw with
clean water untjl ifrts quite wet. , Add a
layer of beads, then cover with more wel ,
straw, and go on. Put the whole in a
cold place, and they will keep until May
in excellent toodition. No matter if Ahoy
freexe a little. This is a clean and easy
method. The barrel used not be head
ed.”
A correspondent writes as follows: *
*‘l have tried hanging cabbages Id the
cellar, but they wilt and loose all their
flavor. My way is this: 1 let tbem stand
in the fall as long aa possible; dj gn traadk
about a foot deep., cutoff ths stumpa efoep
to the head, strip off the loose leaves
cover them With the earth taken from tbs'
trench. They tenstfreeie mid thaw with
the ground, which make* them brittle and
tender.aad very mush improved in tevor.
They mngt be taken out offtha grounds#,
soon ,as the frost leaves otherwise they rot.
I have practiced' id tikis Way for forty
yearsand never had ahead rot Byway
of experiment I have thrown id a few Up*
pies with the cabbage; they ; all same oui;
spund in the spring. , JTry,i|.” J; ...
The Prairie Farmer#\f9f thsfollefr-
Ing. as the method practiced l*y tbs gar*,
deners of * j 6li ,
“Select s
will not settle, diga.pU sayfive [eft wide,
twehfo feet long and tWo feet deepi'throw-*
ing tbs dirt s litils tecWfrotothe edgebf
the pit. Set strong poeto eight foot htofVT
two feet ia ti**grauod fe.^umudd^oi;
e .*f h “f “J
ndge pole aod pm Make a roof
them Wfth a mtfe stri* aW' sf* Weight*
inobea of dirt, digging s CrUnetrttirbhM l
i the pit; .teat down the.:diet bird>wmh
smooth, ao that *a
.
late is mild weather. lUtxfa we esfibagba'
hSaddowx, two layera !|it> oft
the dUnenaioas mentioned
ly two hundred heads of cabbage- lib
very severe winter. Kciuherbandfea of
very .wid wmter may reqOi* . a titter*
1 covering than here recommended. Bui
generally. we think •this Will dOL” J w A
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the school and enfeHl upoU fha c herberi si*
Kfe it is painfully anfUsing to witness his
sdH-auffieienojr—hi WoiAd‘ltivW alTHba
world to understand that tohu Vhimdi
out"—that he is ma|et of ah tetowledgep,
few 1
1 grows older he grows wiser, he learns that
be knows a great deal less matrhe atft£ °
posed hsdidi aadb) thfc timsdfo
to three-score j ears, W, is prUpaeed: to Aea
dopt. aa hie own. ti* Mfti;
Wesley. ‘‘When I was-yoong I was sor
Of every thing; in {* foWsWljjhsvrteea
but wbsi God bte wvnsfod