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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
BE GENTEE WITH THY WIFE. 
Be gentle ! for you little know 
How many trials rise; 
Although to thee they may be small, 
To her of giant size. 
Be gentle ! though perchance that lip 
May speak a murmuring tone, 
The heart may beat with kindness yet. 
And joy to be thine own. 
Be gentle ! weary hours of pain 
’Tis womans lot to bear ; 
Then yield her what support thou can, 
And ail her sorrows share. 
Be gentle ! for the noblest hearts 
At times may have some grief, 
And even in a pettish word, 
May seek to find relief. 
Be gentle! for unkindness now 
May rouse an angry storm, 
That all the after years of life, 
In vain may strive to calm. 
Be gentle 1 none are perfect— 
Thour’t dearer far than life ; 
Then, husband, bear and still forbear — 
Be gentle to thy wife. 
Fanny Fern. 
lnmtstic (EcDiinrai aiti 
DYSPEPSIA — INFAEifilBEE REMEDIES. 
We publish the following remedies by request, with 
the assurance, from the gentleman who furnishes them, 
that they never fail of effecting a cure : 
NO. 1. 
One oz. Virginia Snake Root, 1 oz. Aloes, 1 oz. Ginger, 
1 pint Molasses, 1 pint Cognac Brandy, best. Put in a 
pot and boil slowly for twenty minutes, and then strain 
and cool, and bottle and cork tight. Take every morn- 
ing, on an empty stomach, one teaspoonful; if it ope- 
rates too much, take less; if not enough, take more. 
Take it regularly. If you use tobacco, quit it at once. 
NO. 2. 
Take 4 ozs. of Sarsaparilla, bruised ; 1 oz. of Senna, 1 
oz. Quassia, Put it into 2 quarts of Whisky and set it in 
the sun for three days ; shake occasionally. Take three 
drams a day, just before eating. 
Cure for Distemper in Dogs. — To a grown dog 
give half a tea cupful of Castor Oil. If that does not 
cure, repeat the dose the third day, which I have never 
known to fail in making a cure. F. H. C. 
Jasps^- County, Miss., 1858. 
Valuable Recipe. — In ninety-nine cases out of one 
hundred, Cranberries applied as a poultice will effectually 
cure the erysipelas. There is not an instance known 
where it has failed to effect a cure, if faithfully applied 
before the sufferer was in a dying state. Two or three 
applications generally do the work. 
Pint Care.— O ne pint of dough, one tea-cup of sugar, 
oiio of butter, three eggs, one teaspoonful of pearlash, 
with* raisins and spices. 
New and Valuable Soap. — An improvement in the 
manufacture of soap is noticed in the English papers, 
consisting in the addition of sulphate of lime to the usual 
ingredients employed in its manufacture, and by which 
it is made hard and durable. The sulphate may be add- 
ed to the soap in a dry powder, or in admixture with any 
of the usual ingredients employed in the manufacture of 
soap. The proportions of the sulphate which it is best 
to employ vary according to the article to be manipulated 
upon and the quality of the soap to be produced. Thus, 
about twelve ounces of dry sulphate is sufficient for one 
ton of the best soap; whereas, in common or highly liq- 
uored soap, six or eight pounds are used with advantage. 
Soap made with the addition of sulphate of lime becomes 
hardened, keeps dry, and is not liable to shrink while in 
water; its durabiliSy is increased, and it does not wear or 
waste away before its cleansing properties are brought 
into action. 
Cure for Cough or Hoarseness. — A correspondent 
of the Charleston Courier gives the following : 
Chip up fat lightwood and put a handful of the chips 
into a pint of common spirits. A teaspoonful in a wine- 
glass of water on going to bed will cure a hoarseness, and 
if taken three times a day, or whenever a cough is trouble- 
some, it will effect a speedy cure. A few chips thrown 
into a hot shovel and the odor breathed, will be found 
serviceable in lung complaints, and is calculated to relieve 
asthma. This is much cheaper than “Cherry Pectorals,” 
and equatly efficacinu-s. 
To Remove Ink Stains prom Printed Boose, &.c. — 
Procure a little oxalic acid, which disolve in a small quan- 
tity of warm water, then slightly wet the stain with it, 
when it wHl disappear, leaving the text uninjured. 
Sweet Potato Waffles. — Two tablespoonsfu! of 
mashed potato, one of butter, one of sugar, one pint of 
milk, four tablespoonsful of wheat flour; mix well t!> 
gether and bake in a waffle iron. 
Soft Cakes in Little Pans. — One and a half pounds 
of butter rubded into two pounds ot flour, add one wine 
glass of wine, one of rose water, two of yeast, nutmeg, 
cinnamon, and currants. 
Jumbles. — Three pounds of flour, two of sugar, one of 
butter, eight eggs, wiih a little caraway seed ; add a little 
milk, if the eggs are not sufficient. 
Tea Cake. — Three cups of sugar, three eggs, one cup of 
butter, one cup of milk, a small lump of pearlash, and 
make it not quite as stiff as pound cake. 
Raised Waffles. — Make a thick batter of milk and 
wheat flour, add four eggs, beat light a gill o£ yeast, a 
spoonful of butter ; let it rise some hours. 
For Weak Eyes. — T wo grains acetate of zinc, in two 
ounces of rosewater; filter the liquor carefully, and wash 
the eyes night and morning. 
Pain in the Stomach, with Coldness or Wind — 
Swallow five or six grains of white pepper, for six or 
seven mornings. 
To Desthoy Crigkets.— Put Scotch snuff upon thtir 
holes. Cockroaches may be banished by red wafers. 
Paint is destructive to r.I! insert? and so is lime. 
