Planter's Hotel, St. Louis.

We remembered the eclipse, and Mr. S. having brought with him a piece of broken glass from one of the windows of the 'Magnolia,' I smoked it over a piece of candle which I had brought from Room No. 22 of the Planter's House at St. Louis, and we prepared to see the eclipse.

Tump and Peter walked on up to the entrance of the Planter's Bank and there awaited Mr. Henry Hooker, the cashier.

He climbed the steps into the Planter's Bank and opened the screen-door.

"Oh, please first of all let me see the remains of the silk parachute that was attached to the bark letter!" said Andy, after they had conversed for a short time and some of the planter's hired servants had unloaded the boxed aeroplane, which was stowed away in a place of security.

" "What!" ejaculated the planter's son.

In days of American slavery the planter's interest prompted him to treat his human cattle with consideration, yet Simon Legrees were not unknown.

Perhaps he intends to marry some rich planter's daughter and to get his plantation and negroes in that way.

Nature is here young and vigorous, and amply rewards the planter's toil.

The Planter's punch, which was something he had never before encountered, encouraged the great young man to unbend.

Another feature in the Barbadoes system was to raise sufficient provisions in the island to maintain the slaves, or, in planter's phrase, to feed the stock, without being dependent upon foreign countries.

We were not left to this recommendation alone, suspicious as it was, to infer the character of this magistrate, for we were advertised previously that he was a "planter's man"unjust and cruel to the apprentices.

After the planter's claim was set aside, the woman said, "Now I will stay with massa, and be his 'prentice for de udder two year.

One is in the "Planter's Intelligencer," Alexandria, La., March 22, 1837, containing one hundred and thirty slaves; and the other in the New Orleans Bee, a few days later, April 8, 1837, containing fifty-one slaves.

After the planter's claim was set aside, the woman said, "Now I will stay with massa, and be his 'prentice for de udder two year.

" The "Planter's Intelligencer" publishes the following from the Vicksburg Sentinel of June 19, 1838.

Mr. Baker was the owner of a grocery store; of the others, one was the proprietor of the St. Charles hotel, New Bremen; the second was a young lawyer, the third was a clerk in the "Planter's House."

A planter's home, like the good Highland laird's, seems made of India rubber.

" [Footnote 3: Letter of Thomas Spaulding, Sapelo Island, Georgia, Jan. 20, 1844, to W.B. Scabrook, in J.A. Turner, ed., The Cotton Planter's Manual (New York, 1857), pp.

[Footnote 4: Cotton Culture is described by M.W. Philips in the American Agriculturist, II (New York, 1843), 51, 81, 117, 149; by various writers in J.A. Turner, ed., The Cotton Planter's Manual (New York, 1856), chap.

23-25; Thomas Spaulding in the American Agriculturist, III, 244-246; R.F.W. Allston, Essay on Sea Coast Crops (Charleston, 1854), reprinted in DeBow's Review, XVI, 589-615; J.A. Turner, ed., Cotton Planter's Manual, pp.

[Footnote 36: J.A. Turner, ed., Cotton Planter's Manual, pp.

Even without pestilence, deaths might bring a planter's ruin.

The planter's own dietary, while mostly home grown, was elaborate.

In this island he spent the remaining part of his days, and, we are informed made a tolerable accession of fortune, by marrying a planter's daughter, who surviving him was left in the possession of several hundred pounds a year.