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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 



guished author. Every man should read and 

 study this pamphlet. 



AGENTS FOR THE SO. PLANTER. 



F. N. W atkins, Esq., is our authorized agent 

 for the county of Prince Edward, and the re- 

 gion tributary to Farmville. 



Wji. Magiiee, Esq., of Petersburg, is our 

 General Agent, and is authorized to receive 

 subscriptions and collect money due us. 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE PRESS. 



Our thanks are due to numerous Editors who 

 have kindly noticed the enlargement of the 

 Planter, and lent their encouragement to our 

 humble efforts in the cause of Agriculture. We 

 cordially thank them one and all. 



A DUN IN THE RUNIC MEASURE. 



We find the following floating about in the 

 papers, and it fits our case so well that we can- 

 not help copying for the benefit of a certain 

 large and respectable class of our customers. 

 W e have taken the liberty to add a fifth and 

 concluding stanza to which we ask particular 

 attention. It may not be rhyme as Sylvester 

 said to Ben Jonson, " but it is the truth," as 

 Ben Jonson said to Sylvester. 



" Should you ask me why this dunning, 

 Why these sad complaints and murmurs, 

 Murmurs loud about delinquents 

 Who have read the paper weekly, 

 Read what they have never paid for, 

 Read with pleasure and with profit, 

 Read of news both home and foreign, 

 Read the essays and the poems, 

 Full of wisdom and instruction ; 

 Should you ask us why this dunning, 

 We should answer, we should tell you, 



" From the printer, from the mailer, 

 From the prompt old paper maker, 

 Fr:,m the landlord, from the carrier, 

 From the man who taxes letters 

 With a stamp from Uncle Samuel — 

 Uncle Sam the rowdies call him — 

 From them all there comes a message, 

 Message kind, but firmly spoken, 

 1 Please to pay us what you owe us.' 



" Sad it is to hear such message 

 When our funds are all exhausted, 

 When the last bank note has left us, 

 When the gold coin all has vanished, 

 Gone to pay the paper maker, 

 Gone to pay the toiling printer, 

 Gone to pay the landlord tribute, 



Gone to pay the active carrier, 

 Gone to pay the faithful master, 

 Gone to pay old Uncle Samuel — 

 Uncle Sam the rowdies call him — 

 Gone to pay the Western paper 

 Three-and-twenty hundred dollars ! 

 Sad it is to turn to our ledger, 

 Turn the leaves of this old ledger, 

 Turn and see what sums are due us, 

 Due for volumes long since ended, 

 Due for years of pleasant reading, 

 Due for years of toilsome labor, 

 Due despite our patient waiting, 

 Due despite our constant dunning, 

 Due in sums from two to twent}^. 



" Would you lift a burden from us ? 

 Would you drive a specter from you ? 

 Would you taste a pleasant slumber ? 

 Would you have a quiet conscience? 

 Would you read a paper paid for ? 

 Send us money, send us money, 

 Send us money, send us money, 

 Send the money that you owe us !" 



Do not put it off a minute, 

 If you do you may forget it, 

 Ah ! you surely will forget it 

 As so many have before you ; 

 And though it may be small to you, 

 Be esteemed a little matter, 

 Yet to us it is no trifle, 

 Yet to us it is important 

 That we have what each man owes us. 

 But we would not have you stop at 

 The mere payment of your just debt. 

 No indeed ! You should go further : 

 You should send us a subscriber : 

 One at least ; but we'll not grumble 

 Should you send a list of twenty 

 New and good names for the Planter. 

 For we want, and feel it deeply, 

 Feel it in our inmost nature, 

 Want, until it is a craving, 

 Every farmer in Virginia 

 To become our fixed subscriber ; 

 To become our punctual debtor 

 For a copy of the Planter. 



THE LIME AND SALT MIXTURE. 

 Several years ago, as the following letter as- 

 serts, we requested our friend, Major Gilliam, 

 professor of chemistry, &c, in the Virginia 

 Military Institute, — well known to most of our 

 readers by the contributions with which he has 

 favoured the Planter, — to test the accuracy of the 

 lime and salt mixture so perseveringly recom- 

 mended by Prof. Mapes. As it will be seen 

 below he has done so very fully, and the result 

 is briefly but satisfactorily stated below. Hood 

 told a story of a woman who asked the physi- 

 cian attending her sick husband : 



