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THE, OGLETHOEPE ECHO. Subscription Ratos t ° n * T,i: ' tsxtt xmonth* . j qq Th* Month* ..." M Tfmu Ctuk in JSws PoltlT.l7 so pnpar Mat toga th* maatrj u paid. Notice given neb (nbasriber two week* before th* expiration o hi* time, end hr aabacripOon la not renewed, the paper la at onoe dlaoontlnned. Any person who will send na the name* of fir* new anbacriben, with *lO caeh, will be entitled to one year 1 * enbacrlptlon free. So club rates. On the Channel-Boat. “ What! Fred, you here? I didn’t aee Yon come abom and at Dover. I met the Browns last week : they said That you were coming over, But didn’t say how soon.” “Oh, yes, I came by the Britannic; And what a rash tljere were lor berths ' ’Twas almost like a panic. I’m mighty glad to meet you, Will: Where are you going ?’’ “ Paris.' 1 “ Good ! so am I. I’ve got to meet My cousin, Charley Harris, To-morrow. He and I have planned A little trip together Through Switzerland on foot; I hope We’ll have some decent weather.” “ lake care there ! hold your hat : it blows.' “ Yes; he w this steamer tosses ! I’m never seasick: Charlie is, 1 hough, every time he crosses. Whoh with you, Will*” “ I m traveling with My sister and my mother: They’re both below. I came on deck: It’s close enough to smother Down there. These chaps don’t care a snap For ventiliation, hang ’em ! Where did you stop in London? We Were stopping at the Langham.” You were ? Why, so was I. But then I only got there Sunday At break Plot time, and went away The afternoon of Monday; And yet within that short sojourn I lost ray heart completely: Such style ! such eyes ! such rosy cheeks ! Such lips that smiled so sweetly ! I only saw her twice, and then— Don’t laugh—'twas at a distance; But, Will, my boy, 1 tell you what, In all my blest existence I ne’er before set eyes upon A girl so really splemliA. But, pshaw ! I couldn’t stay, and so My short-lived visions ended. I don’t suppose she’ll ever know How I, a stranger, love her,” “Who was she, Fred?” “ Ah ! that’s just it: 1 couldn’t e'en discover Her name, or anything at all About her, Broken-hearted, I saw it wasn’t any use To try; ao ofl'l started, Aud here I am, disconsolate.” “ All for an unknown charmer T Your’re solt, my boy. Let’s stroll abalt: The sea is growingealmer; Or forward, it you like. The view May make your leelings rally. We’re drawing near to France, in hull An hour shall he ut Calais. Bee! there’s the town, and, just this side The port wilh shipping in it; And, there, beyond, you see the spires, And ” “ Here, Will, stop a minute. By Jove 1 look there ! that girl in gray, With red flowers in her bonnet ! I do declare—l—yes—it’s she: I'd take iny oath upon it. What luck ! It 1 had only known ! How can it he I missed her? Look ! here she comes !” “Why, Fred, you 100 l ! That girl in gray's my sister !” Geo. Collin, in i.ippincott. FOUND ON THE TRACK. Wet and dreary. It is midwinter: the scene is Kirklington, on the London and Northwestern: the time 10.45; just after the night mail has flashed through with out stopping, bound for Liverpool and the North. The railway officials— points men, signalmen, porters, platelayers— are collecting preparatory to going off duty for the night. “Where’s Dan?” :tsks one of the crowd upon the platform. “I saw him in the hut just after the 10.45 went through. Can’t have come to any harm, surely.” “No; he said he’d seen something drop front the train, and he went down the line to pick it lip.” And Dan had picked up something. It was a basket —a common white wicker basket—with -ilid fastened down by a string. What did it contain? Refreshments? Dirty clothes? What? A baby! a child half a dozen weeks old. no more; a pink and white piece of human china as fragile as Dresden and as delicately fashioned and tinted as bis cuit or Rose Pompadour. “Where did you come across it?” asked one. “ Wins. oll the lino, just where it fell. I or naps it didn't fall; perhaps it was chunked out. What matter? I’ve got it and got to look after it; that’s enough for me. Some day maybe I’ll eonie across them as owns it, and then thev shall pay me and take it back.” "Is there nothing about him? Turn him over.” 1 he little mite’s linen was white and of tine material, hut he lay upon an old s n l "I au ? 1 k’ w bits 01 dirty flannel. Ail they found was a dilapidated purse —a common snaploek hag-purse of faded brown leather. Inside was a brass thimble, a pawn ticket and the half of a Hank of England note for £IOO. good's half a bank note to you? “ Half a loafs better than no bread.” “ Yes; but you can eat one, but you cant pass the other. Won’t you catch it from your wife! How’ll vou face her Dan? What'll she say?” “She'll say I done quite right,” replied Dan. stoutly. “She’s a good sort, God bless her.” “So an> you. Dan; that’s a fact. God bless you, too.’ said more than one rough voice' in softened accents. " Per haps the child’ll bring you luck after all. * • • • Winter-tide again six years later, but this season is wet and slushy. Once mere we areat Kirklington. a long strag gling village, which might have slum p'd on in obscurity forever had not the Northwestern line been earned close by it, to give it a place in Bradshaw and a certain importance as a junction and cen ter for goods traffic. But the activity was all about the station. All the per manent officials had houses and cottages there: in the village lived only the field laborers who worked at the neighbor ing estate, or sometimes lent their hand for a job of navvying on the line. These poor folk laid a gruesome life of it, a hard hand-to-mouth struggle for bare exis tence against perpetual privation, ac companied by unremitting toil. Anew parson—Harold Treffry—had come lately to Kirklington. lie was an earnest, energetic young man. who had won his spurs in the East End parish, and had now accepted this country liv ing because it seemed to open up anew field 1 ‘ usefulness. He had plunged bravel> into the midst of his worn; he was forever going up and down among his parishioners, solacing and comfort ing. preaching manful endurance and trustfulness to all. He is now paying round of parochial visits, accompanied by an old college chum, who is spec ing some days with him. “Yonder. - ’said Treffry, pointing to a thin thread of smoke which roae from some gaunt trees into the sullen wintry air, “yonder is the house—if, indeed, it deserves so grard a tame —the hovel, rather, of one whose ease is the hardest ef all the hard one* in my unhappy cure. Oglethorpe Echo. Bv T. L. GANTT. This man is a mere hedger and ditcher, one who works for any master, most often for the railway, but who is never certain of a job all the year round. He has a swarm of young children, and he has just lost his wife. He is absolutely prostrated; aghast, probably, at the future before him, and his utter inca pacity to do his duty by his motherless little ones. Jack!” said the parson, stopping short suddenly, and looking straight into his companions face, “ I wonder whether you could rouse him? If you could only get him to make a sign; to cry or laugh or take the smallest in terest in common affairs. Jack, I be lieve you’re the very man. You might get at him through the children?—that marvelous hanky-panky of yours, those surprising tricks; a child takes to you naturally at once. Try and make friends with these. Perhaps, when the father sees them interested and amused, he may warm a little, speak, perhaps, approve, perhaps smile, and in the end give in. Jack, will you try?” Jack Newbiggin was by profession a conveyancer, but nature ’ bad intended him for anew Houdin, or a Wizard of the North. He was more than half a professional by the time lie was full grown. In addition to thequick eye and the facile wrist, he had the rarer gifts of suave manner and the face of brass. They entered the miserable dwelling together. The children—eight of them —were skirmishing all over the floor. They were quite unmanageable, and be yond the control of the eldest sister, who was busied in setting out the table for the mid-day meal; one otner child, of six or seven, a bright-eyed, exceedingly beauti ful boy, the least —were not nature’s va garies well known—likely to be .born among and belong to such surroundings, stood between the legs of the man him self, who bad his back to the visitors and was crouching low over the scanty tire. . The man turned his head for a mo ment, gave a blank stare, than an imper ceptible nod, and once he glowered down upon the fire. “ Here, little ones, do you see this gen tleman? he’s a conjuror. Know what a conjuror is. Tommy?” cried the parson, catching up a mite of four or five fiom the floor. “ No, not you; nor you, Sarah ; nor you, Jacky ’’—and he ran through all their names. They had now ceased their gambols, and were staring hard at their visitors— the moment was propitious; Jack New biggin began. He bad fortunately filled his pockets with nuts, oranges, and cakes before leaving the parsonage, so he had half his apparatus ready to hand. The pretty boy had soon left the father at the tire, and had come over to join in the fun, going back, however, to exhibit his share of the spoil and describe voluminously what had occurred. This and the rcDeated shouts of laughter seemed to produce some impression on him. Presently he looked over his shoulder, and said—but without anima tion— “It be very good of you, sir, surely; yerv good for to take so kindly to the little chicks. It does them good to laugh a bit, and it ain’t much as they’ve had to make ’em lately.” “It is good for all of us, now and again, I take it,” said Jack, desisting, and going toward him—the children" gradually collecting in a far-off corner and comparing notes. “ You can’t laugh, sir, if your heart’s heavy; if you do, it can be only a sham.” While lie was speaking he had taken Ibe Bible from the shelf, and resuming his seat, began to turn the leaves slowly over. “ I’m an untaught, rough countryman, sir, but I have heard tell that these strange tilings you do are only tricks; ain’t it so?” Here was, indeed, a liopefnl symptom! He was roused, then, to take some in terest in what had occurred. “ All tricks, of course; it all comes of iong practice,”said Jack, as he proceeded io explain some of the simple processes, hoping to enchain the man’s attention. “That’s what I thought, sir, or I’d have given you a job to do. I’ve been in want of a real conjuror many a long day, and nothing less’ll do. See here, sir,” he said, as lie took a small, eare fully-paper from between the leaves of the Bible; “do you see this?” It was half a Bank of England note for £IOO. “ Now, sir, could any conjuror help me to the other halt?” “How did you come by it?” Jack asked at once. “ I’ll tell you. sir, short as I can make it. Conjuror or no conjuror, you’ve got a kindly heart, and I’m main sure that you’ll help me if you can.” Dan then described how lie bad picked up the basket from the 10.45 Liverpool express. “There was the linen; I’ve kept it. See here; ail marked quite pretty and proper, with lace around the edges, as though its mother loved to make the little one smart.” Jack examined the linen; it bore a monogram and crest. The first he made but to mean 11. L. M.; and the crest was plainly two hammers crossed, and the motto, “I strike”—not a common crest —and he never remembered to have seen it before. “ And this was all?” “’Copt the banknote. That was in a poor old purse, with a pawn ticket and 1 thimble. I kept them all.” Like a true detective. Jack examined every article minutely. The purse bore tlie name of Hester Gorrigan, in rude letters inside, and the pawn ticket was made out in the same name. “ I cannot give you much hope that I shall succeed, but I will do my best. Will you trust me with the note for a time?” “Surely, sir, with the greatest of pleasure. If you could but find the other half, it would give Harry—that's what we call him—such a grand start in life; schooling and the price of binding him to some honest traae.” Jack sl:ook the man’s hand and prom ised to do his best, and left the cottage. • **** When Jack Newbiggin got back to the parsonage he found that his host had ae eepted an invitation for them both to dine at the “ Big House,” as it was called, the country seat of the squire of the parish. They were cordially received at the “Big House.” Jack was handed over fortliw ith to liis old friends, who figura tively rushed into his arms. They were Jondon aequaintanees. no more; "of the sort we meet here and there and every where during the season, who care for us, and we for them, as much as for the South Sea Islanders, but whom we greet with rapturous effusion when we meet them in a strange place. Jack knew the lady whom he escorted into.dinner as a i gossipy dame, who, when his back was turned, made as much sport of him as of | her other friends. “ I have been fighting vour battles all ! day.” began Mrs. Sitwell. “Was it necessary? I shculd have ; t hought myself tod insignificant.” “They were talking at lunch of your wonderful knack in conjuring, and some | one said that the skill might prove in -1 convenient—when you played cards, for | instance.” i “A charitable imputation! With whom did it originate?’’ [ “ Sir Lewis Mallaby.” “ Please point him out to me.” He was shown a grave, scowling face ; upon the right of the hostess —a face like ■ a mask, its surface rough and wrinkled, i through which the eyes shone out with j baleful light, like corpse-candles in a i sepulcher. i “Pleasant creature! I’d rather not j meet him alone on a dark night.” j “He has a terrible charactog. cer i tainly. Turned bis wife out of doors , because she would not give him an heir. ; It is this want of children to inherit his j title and estates which preys upon his mind, they say, and makes him so morose and melancholy.” THE ONLY PAPER IN ONE OP THE LARGEST, MOST Jack let his companion chatter on. It was his habit to get all the information possibleabout any company in which he found himself for his own purposes as a clairvoyant; and when Mrs. Sitwel flagged, he plied her with questions, and led her on from one person to another, making mental notes to serve him here after. It is thus by careful and labori ous preparation that many of the strange and seemingly mysterious feats of the clairvoyant conjurer are performed. When the whole party was assembled in the drawing-room after dinner, a chorus of voices, headed by that of the hostess, summoned Jack to his work. There appeared to be only one dissenti ent, Sir Lewis Mallaby, who not only did not trouble himself to back up the invitation, but when the performance was actually begun was at no pains to conceal his contempt and disgust. The conjuror made'the conventional plum-pudding in a hat, tired wedding rings into quartern loves, did all manner of card tricks, knife tricks, pistol tricks, and juggled on conscientiously l ight through his repertoire. There was never a smile on Sir Lewis’ face; he sneered unmistakably. Finally, with an ostentation that savored of rudeness, he took out his watch, a great gold re peater, looked at it. and unmistakably ■ awned. Jack hungered for that watch directly he saw it. Perhaps through it he might make its owner uncomfortable, if only for a moment. But how to get it into his hands? He asked for a watch—a dozen were offered. No: none of these would do. It must be a gold watch, a repeater. Sir Lewis Mallaby’s was the only one in the room, and lie at first dis tinctly refused to lend it. But so many • ntreaties were addressed to him, the hostess leading the attack, that lie could not in common courtesy continue to re fuse. With something like a growl he t ook his watch off the chain and handed it to Jack Newbiggin. A curious old-fashioned watch it was, which would have gladdened the heart of a watch collector; all jeweled and enameled, adorned with crest and in scription —an heirloom, which bad pro bably been in the Mallaby family for years. -Tack looked it over curiously, meditatively, then suddenly raising his eyes he stared intently into Sir Lewis Mallaby’s face, and almost as quickly dropped them again. “This is far too valuable,” he said, courteously, “too much of a treasure to be risked in any conjuring trick; an ordinary modern watch 1 might replace, but not a work of art like this.” And he handed it back to Sir Lewis, who received it witli ill-concealed satis faction. He was as much pleased, pro bably, at Jack’s expression of possible failure in the proposed trick as at the re covery of his property. Another watch, however,was pounded up into a jelly, and brought out whole from a cabinet in an adjoining room; and this trick successfully accomplished, Jack Newbiggin, who was now com pletely on his metal, passed on to higher flights. He had spent the vacation of the year previous in France as the pupil of a wizard of European fame, and had mastered many of the strange feats which are usually attributed to clairvoyance. There is something especially uncanny about these tri -ks, and Jack’s reputation rapidly increased with this new exhibi tion of his powers. Thanks to his cross examination of Mrs. Sitwell at dinner, ite was in possession of many facts con nected with tlie company, although mostly strangers to him; and, some of his hits were so palpably happy that he raised shouts of surprise, followed by that terrified hush which not uncom monly succeeds the display of seemingly supernatural powers. “Oh, but this is too preposterous,” Sit- Lewis Mallaby was heard to say quite angrily. The continued applause pro foundly disgusted him. “This is the merest charlatanism. It must be put ■in end to. It is the commonest impos ture. These are things which he has coached up in advance. Let him be tried with something which upon the face of it he cannot have learned before hand by artificial means.” “Try him, Sir Lewis, try him your self’’cried several voices. “ I scarcely like to lend myself to such folly, to encourage so pitiable an exhibi tion.” But he seemed to be conscious that further protest would tell in Jack’s favor. “ I will admit that you have consider able power in this strange branch of necromancy if you will answer a few questions of mine.” “ Proceed.” said Jack, gravely, meet ing his eyes firmly and without flinching. " Tell me what is most on my mind at this present moment.” “The want of a male heir,” Jack re plied, promptly, and thanked Mrs. Sit well in his heart. _ . “Pshaw! You "trade learned from Burke that I have no children,” said Sir Lewis, boldly; but lie was a little taken aback. “ Anything else?” “The memory of a harsh deed you now strive in vain to redeem.” “This borders upon impertinence,” said Sir Lewis, with a hot flush on his cheek and passion in his eyes. “But let us leave abstractions and try tangi ble realities. Can you tell me what I have in this pocket?” He touched the left breast of his' tail-coat. “ A pocketbcok.” “ Bah! Every one carries a pocket book in his pocket.” “ But do you?” asked several of the bystanders, all of whom were growing deeply interested in this strange duel. Sir Lewis Mallaby confessed that lie did, and produced it —an ordinary mo rocco leather purse and poeketbook all in one. “ Are you prepared to go on?” said the baronet haughtily to Jack. “ Certainly.” “ What does this poeketbook con tain?” “ Evidence.” The contest between them was now to the death. “Evidence of what?” “Of facts that must sooner or later come to light. You have in that pock et book links in a long chain of circum stances which, however carefully con cealed or anxiously dreaded, time in its inexorable course must bring eventually to light. There is no bond, says the Spanish proverb, which is not some day fulfilled; no debt that in the long run is not paid.” “ What ridiculous nonsense! I give you my word this pocketbook contains nothing absolute.y nothing—but a Bank of England note for one hundred pounds.” “Stay!” cried Jack Newbiggin. facing him abruptly and speaking in a voice of thunder. “It is not so—you know it— it is only the half!” And as he spoke he took the erumpled paper from the lymds of the really stu pefied baronet. It was exhibited for in spection—the half of a Bank of England note for £IOO. There was much applause at this harmless and successful denouement of what threatened at one stage to lead to altercation, perhaps to a quarrel. But Jack Newbiggin was not satisfied. “As you have dared me to do my worst.” said Jack. “ listen now to what ,1 have to say. Not only did I know that was only the half of a note, but I know where the other half is to. be found.” “ So much the better for me,” said the baronet, with an effort to appear humor ous. “That other half was given to —shall I sav. Sir Lewis?’ Sir Lewis nodded indifferently. “It was given to'one Hester Corrigan, an Irish nurse, six year* ago. It was the price of a deed of which you ” “Silence! Say no more,” cried Sir l>*wis. in horrar. “ I see you know all. 1 swear I have had no peace since I was tempted so soreiy, and so weakly fell. But I am prepared to make all the resti tution and reparation in my power—un LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1879. less, unhappily, unless it be already too late.” Even while he was speaking his face turned ghastly pale, his lips were cov ered with a fine white foam, he made one or two convulsive attempts to steady himself, then with a wild, terrified look around, he fell heavily to the floor.” It was a paralytic seizure. They took him up stairs and tended him; but the ease was desperate from the first. Only just before the end did he so far recover the power of speech as to be able to make full confession of what had occurred. Sir Lewis had been a younger son; the eldest inherited the family title, but died early, leaving his widow to give him a posthumous heir, the title remain ing in’ abeyance until time showed whether the infant was a boy or girl. It proved to be a boy, whereupon Lewis ■Mallably, who had the earliest intima tion of the fact, put into execution a ne farious project which he had carefully coneoeted in advance. A girl was ob tained from a foundling hospital and substituted by Lady Mallaby ’3 nurse, who was in Lewis’ pay, for the newly born son and heir. This son and heir was handed over to another accomplice, Hester Corrigan, who was bribed with £IOO, half down in the shape of a Half note, the other half to be paid when she announced her safe arrival in Texas with the stolen child. Mrs. Corrigan had an unquenchable thirst, and in tier transit liet ween London and Liverpool allowed her precious charge to slip out of her hands, with the consequences we know. It was the watch "borrowed from Sir Lewis Mallably which first aroused Jack’s suspicious. It bore the strange crest—two hammers crossed, witli the motto “ I Strike ” —which was marked upon the linen of the child that Dan Bloc-kit picked up at Kirklington station. The initial of the name Mallaby coin cided with the monogram H. L. M. Jack drew his conclusions, and made a bold shot, which hit the mark, as we have seen. Lewis Mallaby’s confession soon rein stated the rightful heir, and Dan Blockit, in after years, had no reason to regret the generosity which prompted him to give the little foundling the shelter of his rude home. Indian Stage Drivers. A correspondent, writing from Las Vegas, New Mexico, says that lie got the superintendent to tell him about his stage line, which runs from Yinita, In dian Territory, to Las Vegas, New Mex ico, about 900 miles, and passes through some of the most dangerous Indian coun try in the world. It has 108 drivers, thirty of whom are native Indians. The lineearries the United States mail daily and what passengers it can get, although the superintencient is as yet the only white man who has been over the entire route. “ Can you trust your Indian drivers?” 1 asked. •‘Oh. yes,” said he. “Everybody said at first that I couldn’t do anything witli them; but I had to dso.nething, for the redskins liad“ a habit of killing the white drive*-* 5 - -'"-qc localities. h got some r f them broke in at last, liow ever, and they do very well. They like the salary, for it enables them to put on style above their brethren, and I tell you they do 'like to dress. It catches the squaws, and the young men like that as well as you fellows down East One day an Indian driver ran off after a buf falo, and was gone two or three days. I sent men to hunt him up, but he came back before they found him with a dead buffalo an'd Uncle Sam’s mail as uncon x-erned as if nothing had happened. I discharged him, and it taught the others a lesson. “You ought to see them hunt paths at night. If they can get a glimpse of a single star they c-an find their way the darkest night that ever blew. Some of them are great astronomers. They have an idea that there was once a great flood which covered the whole earth. Everybody was drowned but seven chiefs, who were storomr enough tc climb to the top of the highest mountain in the country. They wouldiiavebeen de stroyed also had they no* prayed to the Great Spirit so fervently that their sup plications were answered. They lived to a great age and replenished the earth. When they died they each became a brilliant star in the heavens. These In dians know the principal stars by the names of departed chiefs. This belief is prevalent among nearly alt the savage Indians in the southern part of the In dian Territory.” “ Are any of your Indians desperate characters?” “ Some of them. Six of my drivers saw the Custer massaci-e. They proba bly took partin it, but they claim that they were near by herding ponies. They describe the whole bloody affair, but wiil not tell who killed the whites. Cus ter ha? many friends, and they are afraid of them.” “Have any of your Indians ever seen the cars?” “ Yes, seven chiefs went up to Yinita one day, and I got them to look at a locomotive. It suddenly whistled and blew off steam, and you ought to have seen those seven Indians wilt. They fell down on their knees in consternation and began to pray to the Great Spirit. I guess they thought the engine was the Great Spirit, but I don’t know as to that.” He Thought it a Good Joke. Tramp! tramp! tramp; and a farmer with solid, old-fashioned feet came into the editorial rooms of this paper to say: “ Howdy ? I’ve walked down from the market to give ye the partickelers of a good joke.” “ All right—proceed.” “You know them lightning rod fel lers?” observed the old man, as he drop ped into a chair. “ Yes—heard of them.” “Well, ye know they’re a purfy tuff set. Been after me for more n twenty years. I've got signs out all along the road warning ’em to keep off the place, but t’other clay one of the chaps driv right up to the gate, big as life.” “Did, eh?” “ Yes, he did, and ’fore I could get my tongue to going he had about a thou sand feet of rod out ot the wagon and ready to put it up on the bam.”*’ “ What cheek!” “ I guess ’twas, but pretty soon I went for him. I had my mind made up to kill' him right there. The old woman, she came out. and sailed right in with me, and the two hired men supported me on the flanks.” “ And you jumped him all to pieces, of course?” “ That’s where the hull fun comes in,” answered the old man. “ That ’ere fel ler squared off. shed his coat, and he licked the whole four of us in less’n two minutes by a wig-wag clock.” “Did. eh?” “ Ytou bet he did, and he drunk up a whole pan of milk and drove off whist ling ’Yankee Doodle Dum.’ When I got out o’ the catnip whar’ he piled me. and saw one of the men with his nose mashed flaf, the ’tother with three teeth knocked out, and the ole woman jist crawling out from under the old bob-sled, I begun laffing and didn’t stop till midnight! He slapped his leg and uttered a “haw! haw! haw!” which echoed clear to Canada, and in his contortiont he broke the back off his chair. “But the joke was on you,” said the perplexed journalist. “ Sartin—sartin. but I am such a dod rotted idiot that I can't laff at the wav we four sailed in on him, calkerlating to mop him all over the barnyard, and laff harder yet at the way we all started in to pray afore he had fairly got the rust off his elbows: When I saw Hanner clawing up from the bobs I—!” And ne went off into another fit and choked and gasped till he went down stairs with his collar hanging by a single i button.— Detroit Frrr Pro a*. FARM, GARDEN, AND HOUSEHOLD. The Depth to Need*. Rules are often laid down by writers as guides for farmers when planting the seeds of their various farm crops, as though any rule could be depended upon under all circumstances, when the fact is every one must use judgment in this as in every other operation on the farm. We have before us an account of an ex periment made by someone in sowing wheat at different depths from-one-lourth of an inch to three or more inches deep, also in leaving it upon the surface. That sown from one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch came up soonest and grew best, while that left on the surface, and that covered thiee and a half inches deep, was two weeks in getting started. Tlie writer would, therefore, recommend covering grain not less than one-half inch, nor more than one ineli deep to se ure the quickest germination and the most vigorous grewth, which would be a good depth whenever the soil is in the best condition for planting, that is, when it is just perceptibly moist throughout, from the surface downward. But there are times, during severe droughts, when there is so little moisture in the top soil that seeds planted less than an inch deep might lie for weeks without germinating, while if covered two or three inches deep, they would find moisture enough to sprout them. Much mav be done to insure germination by stirring the.soil deeply just before sowing, to bring up moist soil from the bottom, and by roll ing the surface after sowing with -< heavy iron roller to compact the soil and rendes it capable of taking up moisture from below by capillary attraction, but rfter all it is usually good economy, in dry weather, to sow seed, grain especially, quite liberally, and endeavor to work it well down into the soil with a cultivator, disk harrow, or something of the kind. The smoothing harrow may then follow to level tlie surface, after which the land should be rolled smooth and as hard as the nature and condition of the soil will allow. ■ Some farmers delay sowing grass or frain in autumn when the weather is ry, and wait for rain, but we al ways prefer to put in the seed as soon ‘as the ground can be prepared, after the season of sowing has arrived, and then trust the future for rain to sprout it, and suitable weather for its growth. If one could plant no more seeds than would grow to maturity, a great saving would be made io a term of years, but still we believe it is usually a better plan to seed liberally and allow something for uncertainties than to stint the quantity. In the early spring when the ground is usually quite moist, shallow covering and even surface seeding may be advisable, but in mid summer deeper covering is demanded.— New England Farmer. Carelessness as a Source of Income. It is amazing to consider the extent to which losses are incurred on the one hand, and sales and occupation afforded, on the other hand, by the inexcusable carelessness of people who know better and ought to do better. Tlie fastening of a well-bucket is deranged, or a hoop Js loose, but the thoughtless man or woman never notices the trouble until the bucket is dropped in the well or the •bottom is out. Then t’me is lost, the family is inconvenienced, and perhaps a neighbor gets a job of work and the pay. The gate-latch is out of order; no attention is paid to it; the hogs or cows get in; the yard is rooted up; the shrub bery is destroyed; the gardener is em ployed, and the nurseryman has an order. A tire is loose on the wheel; the wood is swiftly wearing away, a little care would set the matter right; no pains are taken; away on the road a wheel is crushed, and the wheelwright has some employment. A shingle is out of place on the roof: one nail would mend the trouble; that nail isn’t driven; the ram steals in, and soon the plasterer is paid to use trowel and brush. A bridle rein is weak; a bit is worn; nobody thinks of examining either; a horse is drawn to one side, or a horse runs away; a vehicle is broken; a carriage-maker or black smith is profited, and perhaps a surgeon has a profitable professional engage ment. The water of a well is impure; those who use it complain, no proper steps are taken; the family have serious sickness; the druggist sells his medicines, and the doctor gets his fees. In the same way the cellar is foul: the mephitic gases escape through the floors; the blood is poisoned; tlie fever rages, some suffer: some die; the physician has a harvest, and even the undertaker and sexton find employ ment. A stove-chimney is in a danger ous condition; people have eyes to see, but don’t use them; the fire soon does its dreadful work, and carpenters and merchants have a good time. So ®f many —very many tilings. Are you innocent of such neglect? There are far better and cheaper ways to give work and protit to others. By taking care of what you have, you may become able to add other and more val uable things which you desire. There is true economy in proper attention to small as well as great things.— Rural New Yorker. Firm Butter Without Ice. From W. P. Ilazzard’s treatise on butter and butter-making, we extract the following: In families or where the dairy is small, a good plan to have but ter cool and firm without ice is by the process of evaporation as practiced in India and other warm climates. A cheap plan is to get a very large-sized porous earthen flower-pot with an extra large saucer. Half fill the saucer with water, set it in a trivet or light stand—such as is used for holding hot irons will do; upon this set your butter; over the whole invert the flower pot, letting the top rim of it rest in and be covered by the water; then close the. hole in the botton with a cork; then dash water over the flower pot, and repeat the pro cess several times a day, or whenever it looks dry. If set in a cool p'ace, or where the wind can blow upon it, it will readily evoporate the water from the pdt, and the* butter will be firm and cool as if from an ice-house. For Cabbase Worms. The following is recommended by Philip Osborne, of Girard, Pa., as sure death on the cabbage worms. “ Take one part slack lime, one part plaster, one part wood ashes and one part salt. Mix well together. Sprinkle a little on the center, and no matter if over the entire surface. Four quarts of the composi tion will save one hundred cabbages— about a handful to five plants. I applied it to mine this morning while a light dew was on. and it was gratifying to see the worms tumble off to rise no more. Last year I saved all my cabbage that I applied it to. Have no fears of this com position injuring your cabbage. It will all work out with the growth of the plant and the salt will make the heads solid.” Words of Wisdom. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. What cannot be required is not to be regretted. Do good with what thou hast, or t will do thee no good.. " You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. is to worth what shadows are n a painting: she gives to it strength asd relief. There are nfsfoy men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. If a man have love in his heart, he may talk in broken language, but it will be eloquence to those who listen. * Don’t despise the small talents; they are needed as well as the great ones. A candle sometimes as useful as the sun. The diamond fallen into the dirt is not the least precious, and the dust raised by winds to heaven is not the less rENT AND WEALTHIEST COUNTIES IN GEORGIA. KATE BENDER FOUND. A Horrible Crime in Jlew Mexico Reveals Her Whereabouts. Sheriff Whitehill, of Grant county, New Mexico, was recently in St. Louis, en route for Indianapolis, where he was taking a bright nine-year old boy, named Josie Granger. The laa is the nephew of Bishop Granger, of Indianap olis, and the sheriff is confident that the boy’s father, who was the bishop’s brothei, was murdered at the instiga tion of none other than Kate Bender, who six years ago wasjifie most odious woman in tue United Slates. It will re quire no effort on the part of the reader to call to mind the Bender family, who for several years kept a human slaughter house in the shape of a little hostelrie on a lonely Kansas road, about sixty miles from Fort Scott. The tracing of a prom inent citizen named York to their house, and the discovery of his murder, led to revelations of the most horrifying char acter, and the grizzly old murderer with his inhuman family fled in great haste from the wrath which must follow the discovery of the graveyard which they had made all around their home. Whether they were overtaken and all lynched, or whether they really escaped and scattered, has always been an open question. The most fiendish member of the family was Kate, then a stout young woman, whose thews had grown great in wielding the hammer that crushed travelers’ skulls. The story which the sheriff of Grant county tell? has refer ence to Kate. He says that William F. Granger, the father of the boy in his charge, married a wite in California, and when she died moved with his son Wil liam, a weak-minded, cruel sort of a boy, to Fort Smith, Ark. A second marriage took place there, and Josie was the is sue. Mr. Granger took into his family as nurse and sei vant a young woman who had been a domestic in a hotel, and who went by the name of Dora Hesser. The family moved to Grant county, New Mexico, and Dora went along. The second wife died, and about a year ago Granger married Dora. Just three weeks after he was enticed into the mountains by his own son, William, and a man named Young, and tlie boy fired a bullet fom a needle gun through the old man’s brain. They dug a hole, jammed the body into a lieaD and threw it in, then covered it up and stamped the ground level. Going back home they divided the old man’s possessions, amounting to about $5,000, Young tak ing one-third. William one-third and the bride one-third. The authorities suspected something wrong, and a sher iff went to the Granger house to arrest the trio. He found them all in bed, and hidden under one bed were tlie old man’s gray clothes, which Dora had chopped into pieces. William was closely ques tioned and finally acknowledged that his stepmother and Young had fixed up tlie job on the old man and induced him to do the killing, the object being one of plunder. He led the officers to the scene ot the murder, and the body was ex humed. Since then the belief has been growing: that Dora is Kate Bender. She acknowledged that her name is Kate, and she knows a deal about the Ben ders. A young man who went to school with Kate Bender when slie was about sixteen years old visited Dora in jail, and positively identified her as Kate. In her trunk was found about SSOO worth of silverware, most of it marked “ Galt House, Kentucky.” The sheriff lias her picture and it represents a woman about thirty years old, with full heavy face, large lower-jaw, very small eyes, and a mouth of a virago. The woman is still in jail, and will be tried. Meanwhile, the sheriff intends to give the little boy Josie, who is a very amiable and intelli gent child, and who gives a graphic ac count of the murder, in charge of Bishop Granger. Mental Effects of Physical Injuries. Dr. Henry Maudsley, in a paper before the Royal Institute, England, said: Many instructive examples of tlie per vading mental effects of physical injury of the brain might be quoted, but two or three, recently recorded, will suffice. An American medical man was called one day to see a youth, aged eighteen, who had been struck down insensible by a kick of a horse. There was a depressed fracture of tlie skull a little above the left temple. Tlie skull was trephined, and the loose fragments of bone that, pressed upon tlie brain were removed, whereupon thepatient came to his senses. The doctor thought it a good opportunity to make an experiment, as there was a hole in the skull through which lie could easily make pressure upon the brain. Ht asked the boy a question, and before there was time to answer it lie pressed firmly with liis finger upon the exposed brain. As long as tlie pressure was kept up the boy was mute, but the in stant it was removed he made a reply, never suspecting that he had not an swered at once. The experiment was re peated several times with precisely the same result, the hoy’s thoughts being stopped and started again on eacli occa sion as easily and certainly as the engi neer stops and starts his locomotive. On another occasion the same doctor was called to see a groom who had been kicked on the head by a mare called Dolly, and whom he found quite insen sible. There was a fracture of the skull, with depression of bone at the upper part of tlie forehead. As soon as the portion ot bone which was prising upon the brain was removed the patient called out with great energy, “ Whoa, Dolly!” and then stared about him in blank amazement, asking: “Where is the mare? Where am I?” Three hours had passed since the accident, during which the words which he was just going to utter when it happened had remained locked up, as they might have been locked up in tlie phonograph, to be let go the moment the obstructing pressure was removed. The patient did not re member, when he came to himself, that the mare had kicked him; the last thing before he was insensible which he did remember was, that she wheeled her heels round and laid back her ears vic iously. Selling Whisky to Indians. There is not a town in Montana, says the Helena Independent, where an In dian cannot get a.l the whisky he wants, as is evinced by their drunken sprees immediately after leaving the place. Whisky is the cause of all the disturb ances between whites and the Indians, and no doubt the primary' cause of all thefts and outrages by the Indians. Nearly all the trouble with Indians, says the Statesman, of Walla Walla, WWashington Territory, is occasioned by the action of a few depraved whites sell ing them whisky. Go where we will, we are sure to find some saucy, drunken si wash trying to get up a little war of his own. There are various dodges by which the Indians can obtain liquor. One is to sell them “skookum flour;” that is, they buy a sack of flour in which a bottle of whisky is concealed. Any white found guilty of providing the dians with whisky, or gambling with them, is entitled to a coat of tar and feathers, after which performance he should be turned over to be dealt with by the law. James Stewart, twelve.year-old son of James Stewart, residing near Willy’s Neck, Dorchester county, Md., was sent into an out-field to make a smother, to keep the mosquitoes from the cattle Not coming back after a reasonable time had elapsed the father went into the field to search for him. He was found lying face downward on the ground dead, his mouth, throat, nose and ears liter ally packed with mosquitoes. The entire population of the United States could be provided for in the State of Texa, allowing each man, woman, and child four acres of land. The entire population of the world could be provid ed for in the United States, allowing •aeh person one and a half acres ef land. A CHOCOLATE CITY. Interesting Retails of a Model French Village. When the son of the great chocolate manufacturer, Menier, was married in Paris the other day, the workmen of the Menier establishment sent a pillow of roses as their bridal gift, which was an improvement upon the custom which sends pillows and cushions of flowers only to funerals here. But the Menier workmen have good reasons lor the graceful tribute. Their employer has not strewn their path with roses, but he lias shown, on a large scale, how pros perity and comfort and good-feeling among his workmen are as much the foundation of a flourishing manufactur ing village as its tons of exported goods. The Menier chSeolate. although the best in Europe, is not a whit better than our own Philadelphia Whiteman’s, if as good. But the factories at Noisiel make a town of themselves on the banks of the Marne, and their active proprietor is one of the powers ‘of France, a repre sentative manufacturer of the solid men who supply for the republic .what the great bankers used to do for the empire, confidence, and when needed, the sinews of war. The best test of the security of the French republic is found in this ad hesion of merchants and manufactur ers, the bourgeoise, as it was once tlie fashion to call them under the monarchy, and who used to be solidly Bourbon and Orleanist. The details of- this fragrant manufac ture, the huge hydraulic engines on the Marne, the amount of water-power, the sugar, cacao nut and packing boxes re quired—this last a business ot itself— with the busy women at work on tlie dainty envelopes of tin foil and yellow papeis, although of much interest, might be in other shape, and, instead of the chocolate city, this might be an iron city, or glass, or cotton, equally on the same good basis as that ot Noisiel. The town of Raltaire, in England, at tlie famous works of Sir Titus Salt, probably approaches it in thrifty detail, and then*, are American manufacturers who lend themselves to many plans for the com fort and improvement of their men. But Noisiel seems to be a pattern and to pos sess in itself all tlie modern improve ments. The cottages tire close to the works, each with its four rooms, its good cellar and a garden, and for which the rent is twenty-four dollars a year. Flowers, fruit and vegetables are culti vated in these blooming gardens, and, although the women are largely employ ed in the factory, there are arrangements, as will be presently seen, for lightening the household cares. The schools at Noisiel are maintained at M. Menier’s expense, and they are graded from the infant school, where the children go at the age of three years, to a day nursery for tlie still younger ones, who are taken care of in their tiny cots in tidy, cozy rooms on the one hand, and the upper schools, where the boys and girls are taught to the age of fourteen. The branches are those of a good French education, with needlework, singing, bookkeeping and drawing. All this is conducted at M. Menier’s expense and without a sou’s cost to the married em ployees. So that one great difficulty of manufacturing towns, where the mothers have to be busy all day and their chil dren left to themselves (and the matches) seems to be very squarely met at Noisiel, in the Ecole Gardienne. From the babies of a year to tlie time the boy or girl is ready to go into the factory, it is under cave or instruction, and this last fits these children to find good positions either at Noisiel or elsewhere. There is a library also belonging to the operatives, and a savings bank, which they are encouraged to patronize. But the most striking feature of the place, after schools, are the co-operative stores. There are no store-orders, it appears, at Noisiel, of the sort that are so hateful and oppressive to workmen in this coun try, although tlie Meniers are in position to make as good profit out of these as any Northern manufacturer or Southern planter here. Tlie workmen at Noisiel are their own shopkeepers; they get tlie profits and the benefits of the low prices of the wholesale supplies. Meat, gro ceries and other articles of daily domes tic need are sold at low prices and good quality, the membership of the associa tion being entirely made up of the choco late workmen, the thrifty ones who get tlie benefit of their savings in a double sense. We have given some space to this little French Arcadia, because it seems to hold the solution of many vexed questions. Tt is the pleasure of this wealthy manufac turer to furnish schools, libraries and good living homes for liis men, and to see them well into co-operative societies like the savings bank and the stores, but the workmen themselves, in this coun try of better wages, might, with a little forethought, have the same sort of shops, and especially the same kind of day nursery establishments, so that all the little children too young for school would be sure of warmth, care and comfort while their mothers went out at work: Noisiel is, in fact, an answer to a sum well worth working out, for both mill owners and operatives. Philadelphia Ledger. A Chinese Cure for Cholera. The following letter from a China man in regard to the cure of cholera is published by the Iliogo News. The Hiogo paper, in publishing it, says; As evidence of its genuine nature we may state that it was originally handed in as an advertisement, the physician whose skill in the cure ol cholera it makes known having (we are assured by one of the most respectable Chinese residents of Kobe) made a fortune out of his practice during the brief period in which the cholera has been raging, and being therefore in a position to pay for the fame which he no doubt considers to be his due, outside of the narrow sphere in which he has been laboring. The letter itself is written in a fine, bold, clerkly hand, and we *are in formed is the unassisted production ot a Chinese. We give it verbatim, and shall be happy to show it to the cur ious: “ Sir —With your permission I would beg to direct, through the medium of your valuable' journal, the attention of the public to a subject which is most important and interesting to the medi cal world. In the general opinion of the European, as well as the Japanese, cholera is an infectious disease, a plague against which there is no cer tain remedy; whereas, according to the opinion of the Chinese doctor who has been curing hundreds of Japanese in Osaka, it is not at all * infectious; as soon as the black blood or the poison ous matter is let out from the joints in the limbs and the middle fingers, the disease can be cured immediately. This may seem an absurdity to the European, but it is, nevertheless, a fact, since hundreds of the natives have been cured by this operation. If the medical men of the West would care to see how this disease is treated by the Chinese doctor referred to, and analyze the blood of their patients at the va rious stages ol the disease, as a Yoko homa resident in his letter to the Japan Daily Herald suggested, they will, with their superior medical knowledge and skill, discover an important anti dote for the disease. * “ I am, dear sir, your most obedient servant. “ A Native of the Flowert Land.” Prof. Brun, of Geneva, has described a curious case of poisoning in a child of two years of age. It was caused eating a combination of cabbage tigs. The cabbage he says, must have produced a great abundance of lactic acid, which, m the presence of the figs, developed enough of butyric add to cause the death of the child. VOL. VI. NO. 1. TIMELY TOPICS. Georgia is about to elect a monument to Sergeant William Jasper, of South Carolina, who fell in the assault on Savannah. October 9, 1779. This is the hero who leaped from the parapet of Fort Moultrie and regained the flair which had been shot away by a ball from the British fleet. On another oc casion, aided by a single companion, he captured a British guard of ten soldiers and rescued twelve American captives. “ Wild Bill," the frontiersman, who in his day was as notorious as Kit Carson, and who was killed three years ago, has turned to stone from scalp to toe. His remains, which were buried at Dead wood, in the Black Ilills, were taaen from the grave for re-interment at an other place, when they were found to have become petrified. The features are as natural as life, save that a whiteness overspreading all gives to the face the appearance of chiseled marble. The following statistics will prove in teresting to those who raise either dogs or sheep: In 1860 Massachusetts had 114,000 sheep and 112,000 dogs, and it is believed that the present number of sheep in that State is actually below 55.000, while there are good re:isons for believing that it has more than two, perhaps nearly three dogs to every sheep kept in the State. During the year 1875, 11.489 dogs killed 1,673 sheep; and in 1878, there were 10,000 dogs taxed, and sheep killed by them to the value of $10,584.55. The cotton crop in the South this year will correspond well with the enormous crops of wheat and corn in the West and Northwest. The report of the executive committee of the National Cotton Ex change, just received, says that “dur ing the last five years cotton-culture in the United States has outstripped the most sanguine expectations: that the problem of free labor lias been virtually solved, and that the South must be re garded as the future reliance of t he cotton manufacturers of both America and Eu rope.” The plague of rats in the Deccan, Bombay, for the second season in suc cession, is occasioning serious alarm. These animals overspread the country like locusts, destroy the crops almost as thoroughly, and are even more difficult to keep down. So grave had become the aspect of affairs that a “ Rat Committee” was appointed to inquire into the best means of disposing of these creatures. They have advised the people to turn out en masse and face the enemy. Re wards are to be offered for dead rats. and. in fact, the invasion is to be treated as a matter to be dealt witli vigorously by the whole community. In the meantime Ihe question lias arisen as to how the rats have multiplied. On t e 31st of December, 1877, there were 58,466 postoftiees in Europe, with 223,517 persons employed, or one postal establishment for every 6,134 inhabit ants. These postoftiees are most thickly planted in Switzerland, and after Swit zerland in Great Britain and Ireland. A striking contrast to these two coun tries is afforded by Russia and Turkey, there being in the former only one post office to every 5,708. and in the latter one to every 1,105 square miles. Altogether, 5,682.000.000 letters, papers, etc., were sent by post in Europe in 1877, 3,597,- 000,000 being letters or post cards, 1,522,- 000,000 newspapers, and 563,000,000 pat terns and the like; and the greatest number of letters, papers, etc., were sent in Great Britain and Ireland, the total number dispatched being 1,483,075,000, or at the rate of 34 7 letters and 9.4 news papers for every inln bitant. I.ieut.-General Maxwell writes to the Life Boat Journal, an English periodical, to give to the public, or rather to swim mers, a valuable hint for use in case they are called on to save a drowning man. He picked up the idea while in service in India. A man had fallen into a large reservoir used to store the rainfall, and a native, who happened to be passing by with a long staff, jumped in. taking the staff with him and pushing it forward in tront as he swam. The drowning man eagerly clutched the staff and was thus towed slowly in by the swimmer, who was obliged to keep his body nearly up right. A person who is not used to the water loses his wits as well as his breath when he suddenly finds himself over board, and is apt to seize upon the swim mer who would rescue him in such a way as to fairy both down together. The lesson Gen. Maxwell lays down is that if you have to jump into the water to save a man, take with you a long stick, an oar, a plank, a broom, or a bit of wood of some kind, if one is at hand. It will the# be possible to keep the drowning man at a safe distance and still get him out. The Next United States Census. A Washington Post reporter has inter viewed General Francis A. Walker, chief of the National Census Bureau, in regar I to taking the census next year. The reporter asked. “ How will agricultural statistics be secured ? “ It would not pay to employ special agents to take agricultural figures,” said the general, ‘‘ and this duty will be in trusted to the enumerators. This a wide field. There are probably 3,000,000 farmers in this country, and you will see the objection to employing especial assistance when the ground can be cov ered as well by the regular force.” “ Does this apply to all granger in terests ?” “No; there are certain branches, such as fruit culture, live stock and im portant crops, where special agents must necessarily he employed, and the work will be done as never before. The special officers will collect facts and figures re lating to the growth of these crops, and fruits, meat transportation and exporta tion, and the shipping of live stock to England. Lumber, honey, beeswax, pea nuts and other industries that are becom ing of great importance, will also re ceive the special attention of this agent, and the product of these efforts will form a valuable adjunct to the census, and show a vast difference to those of former years. Heretofore, these Statistics have been grossly erroneous and inadequate. Then the law provided for no special assistance in procuring these facts, and was so constructed that codfish, coal oil and mining were placed on the same schedule.” “ Is education a class of itself?” “ It comes under the branch of ‘ social statistics,’ which embraces education, schools, libraries, newspapers, wages, wealth, debt and taxation.” “ A most important branch.” “ Yes, and will be collected almost en tirely through special agency, as will also vital statistics, pauperism, crime, idiocy and deaf muteism.” “ How have they been collected be fore?” “ By enumerators, or else by deputies of the United States marshals in the sev eral districts.” , * “ What force will be necessary, and when will it be selected?” “ There will be 150 supervisors, one or more to each State, according to its size. The supervisors’ districts will be formed and announced about the middle of October, and the appointments will probably be made at the meeting of Con gress in December. In January the su pervisors will appoint the enumerators. The special agents will be selected as ne- requires.” “ How many enumerators will be re quired?” “ I suppose about 15,000 to 20,060, and those in thecountry will be required to complete their labors during the month of June, 1880. Those in the city are con fined to the first two weeks of the same month. The reports will come ias rapidly as completed.” , THE OGLETJOBPE ECHO. Advertising Rates Space, 11 w|3w| 4wj 3 j |3m |Bml Irr > 1 inch jsl.oU!*l.*o *3 Uoi*4.U) *5.01) *7.OuJuTio oinchea..... i.so 3JO 4.OC' 6.00 I.OOIJtoo! 18.10 3 mchea 3.00 3.60 4.7*1 7.00 8.00 auo 4 inch**..... 8.00 4.00 0.04, 8.00 10.00 16.00, PtOO x column... 4.00 6.00 8.00:10.00 13.00 30.00; 30.00 h column.. 8.00 13.00 15.0048.10 33 00i56.00 1 flfcCO <4 column.... 13,00 16.00 3u.uoj 35.00 86.00 60.00* 100.00 Legal Advertisements. Sheriff Salas, per levy *5.0 > Executors,*, Admiuistraun’ and Guardian** Sales, per square S.tlu Notice to Debtors and Creditors, thirty days.. 4.u0 Notice of Lease to Sell, thirty davs 5 u Letters of Administration, tii! r*j- day* 5 no Letteraof Dismission, thrre uioiittn........ .. n..V Letters of Guardi inship, thirty days 0 Letters , f Dis. Guardis, -hip, forty day- 3 0(1 Homeatead Notices, tnree i:,--rimes a.OO Bale Nisps per sqiuri, each m... ruou l.u) In tbe Vestibule. \ •; t A little, chubby, raUppad child. With dreamy qye 'neath fringe of silken la*h, And, working o’er its ientnree, wonder mi'-'. Like tipples kindled by the sunbeam's fiasn, Just at the ei trance of the maze called lile. Heedless of all its turmoil, blare and strife, r Yon is waiting, H^sitqtmg Not with little nerveless fist to beat its tap. And iu lile’s vestibule Ida sound its sott li*(i rap. Say, what shall be th entering ii .' Through halls oh right, or halls o: sin* To right, to latt. beside the gal Attending spirits beckoning wai< Oh, shall the good or evil win? It. A youth beside a church-door stands; Across the way the ruby wipe doth loan'. And comrades lure with beckoning hands, Whilo swelling org-u tones pUtjy‘ Heaven's my home.” : ■ Behold him on the verge of mnnhdmi here, With careless heart imd love ol worldly choet '.llsilmg, waiting, Hesitating, A voice within him pieatiing, - “ To the right.' Vet on the lett he Mes a world ot dear delink' Say, what sliail be the entering heroT The organ 'notes persuasive, clear, Swell out in strains inspiring, grand, And sweet, “ Heaven is Lather-land, While siren tones sing “Winedoth cheer. 4 111. A ripe, old man, of honors full, 1 Conqueror of ologies and tame. From vestibule to vestibule, Having gone m and writ.en high his name At lile’s last door finds still n entrance hall. And feeble, nerveless, infant-like in nil, * Yet is waiting, Hesitating Here at this final vestibule to find Entrance by death alone where pass in all mankind. * . , Say, win', shall be tiie here ’ : . In loving faith or loathing fear? r s I'pon the right, 11 ansions ol bliss. The shadowy left, realms all unbleat, In wliicn, ob, Soul, wilt thou appear? — Louise S. Door, in Portland J'ranscripl. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A prowed thing— A ship. Cold muffins—Ragamuffins. A moving sight— Old cheese. You can’t beat a porcelain egg. A judge’s position is a trying one.— Post. Did the man who “ shot at random”' bitit? How strange it is that hot words should produce a coolness. It is reported that the Indians in Florida now number only 300. No hotel porter ever tried to smash an elephant’s trunk .—New York News. ' ’ The strength of an elephant is calcula ted as equal to that of 150 men combined. The greatest height at which visible : clouds ever exist does not exceed ten miles. By anew law the French postoffice undertakes the collection of small bills in the provinces. The Philadelphia Times says that girls who sing in hotel parlors have conspicu ously large mouths. “I expend a good deal of panes at my work,” as the glazier said to the window sash.— New York Mail. Mercury freezes at thirty-eight degrees Fahrenheit and ljecomcs a solid mass, malleable under the hammer. Before man iage “ honey; ” after mar riage “money;” which is anytiiing hut funny.— Meriden Recorder. Mr. Barry Sullivan, the English actor, prides himself on having plajed Hamlet more than 2,800 times in all quarters of the globe. When you are down-lieartea and the world looks black to you, you ought to be hospitable enough to entertain a hope of better days. “All’s well that ends well,” said a vio tim of the toothache, as his swollen cheeks resumed their former size.—Dan ielsonville Sentinel. A lad being asked “ What is Rhode Island celebrated for?” replied: “It is the only one of the New England States which is the smallest.” It is said that the entire population of the world could be provided for in the United States by allowing each person one and a half acres of land. The official returns of the registrars of Ireland for the second quarter of the year contain a record of the death of persons aged respectively 105, 107 and Two boys have been arrested in Paris for cutting buttons from men’s coats. It was learned that they collected dozens a day and sold them to obscure tailors. The flouring mill industry in the United States employs 90,000 men m 25,000 mills, turning out yearly 50.000,000 barrels of flour, of which 4,000,000 are exported to foreign countries. The world’s wheat crop in 1879 is put at 1,540,000,000, —not much above a bushel to every human being in the world; and much wheat is consumed by the lower animals. From the report to the British Board of Trade it appears that the number of persons returned as having been killed in the working of the railways during 1878 was 1,053, and the number injured 1,007. Of these, 125 persons killed and 4,752 persons injured were passengers. We believe L stands for fifty, according the Roman notation, and that is the rea son why a young man who hail just in herited a fifty dollar legacy won the con sent of the girl’s father by telling the old man he had just been left a bare JL of money. —Keokuk Constitution. “ I’m sitting on this tile, Mary,” He said in accents sad, Removing from the rocking chair The best silk hat he had; And while he viewed the sliafieh-ss mass. That erst was trim and neat, He murmured, “ Would it had been telt, Before I took my seat.’ 1 Yacob Stratum Prussia has eighteen prisons for tramps and vagrants. In 1874 there were 4,600 commitments to these insti titutions. but the number has increased* every year, and for 1878 was 9,000. Of these. 8,000 were men and 1.000 women. They cost the country' $650,000. but earned while in durance $270 000. Many of the arrests were capable of artisans, who were really desirous of finding work. According fo the report of Consul Per eeval, of Port Said, the total number ot vessels which passed through the Suez canal in 1878 was 1.550, of which 1,227 were British, 89 French. 71 Dutch, 44 Italian. 38 Austrian, 22 German, .21 Spanish. 8 Egyptian. 8 Japanese, 6 Dan ish, 5 Swedish and Norwegian. 4 Portu guese, 3 Turkish, 2 Belgian, 1 Amerng*jr, and 1 Zanzibar. Total, 2,178,316 to* t) which 1,706.946 were British. Herr Krupu. the German gun-# J** 1 is a tall, line-looking man of reins j y° u commanding presence, with wh* sell - heard, high forehead, brigh> and a strikingly intellectual exprn At seventy his natural force is not a ed, but he is active and energetic, w broad bn ast is not broad enough for An. medals an orders that have been (Im ferred upon him by his own and sovereign l ; be lias repeatedly declined * patent of nobility during the last fifteen yarn.