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0y r. S. HOWARD. VOLUME YI. I The Hi!er Courage. ,i thiit liie *s not what I dream, I l ' , li;!in gdtlsh, and woman vain; tlie gtren.? live made strong through . n .j. e me ahe but in bearing pain; I',. om -oili nre filled with earthly dust, , _ i ft ie. from our skies away, ( ; the human heart, like the mountain ; til grief on the brightest day. Te t most wo ll ve lor petty aims, V 1 P er:ecl * on ex * stß nowhere ? a , house-plants—well, what then ? j „ fields are green, and the hills are fair. ; dreams than evil facts, A ,. 0 ) } ] e (kith than ignoble deeds. v nth nay not run through fruits and }[-4l til: (tore fill my hands with weeds? y ; hiKnv they must die i , * rt r-; ghts of the misty dawn; ... i, > more at the shrines of youth, , ; i 1- are broken, their splendor gone, jy ncriing on as best we may, \\ v. r makes or whatever mars, [t can ho crime, ii our feet grow tired, j ; the dust he nearest, to look at the \ i7 ' find no fault wiih the world as it is, Though the end of till you may not see. Fictj nre God's thoughts, my friend; and Wbat is God but reality ? ffemust hd' )r on till the long day’s close; ft,, shall know lito’s meaning then. Oh, Acjuity find it true in the end—who knows ? I'se el 1 tide of the angel and Israel. —Augustus M. Lord. wled by the vigilantes. The recent twenty-fourth anniversary mthe murder of James King, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, led C. L. Divine, foreman in the office of the In dianapolis Journal, to tell a reporter the following stirring incidents of Califor nia's early days: I was in San Francisco in 1856, and aff.irs had grown from bad to worse, until tin re was no protection whatever to either life or property. Outlaws from all part of the world had flocked there, chiefly from the large cities of the Atitntic States, and desperadoes from Australia. Murder was almost of every-day occurrence. I was setting type on the Sui Francisco O obe; myself and other printers, when our work was done at night m in the early morning, always arranged to go home in squads of four or dve for self protection, carrying our revolvers in our hands. You can have no idea of the lawlessness that prevailed there, nor of the desperate roughs who r quired the heroic treatment of a vigi lance committee. But the work done by that committee was one of puritica tion, and for nearly twenty years after the moral atmosphere that pervaded Ssn Francisco was delightful. What 1 think started the vigilance committee oftfiat year wis the murder of General | Richardson, United States marshal, by igambler named Cora. Bella Cora, the wi f e of this man, was notorious, beauti- J and wealthy. One night at the theater General Richardson, through “ !< opera-glass, gazed on this woman. A-1 said, she was a woman o f remark a‘J‘e beauty, and he looked long and seaichingly at her. She, it seems, be tomeangry, and, considering herself in -1 ted, took offense. She told Cora that ' never would be satisfied until he had m.cil General Richardson, and he promised he ’ to do the deed. night or two after this Cora met in the Blue Wing, a grand unking saloon of that day, and charged •*' fatter with the offense. The general that he had not intentionally “'U.ted the lady, and made ample apol p?ltV The two men then took a drink -og l tlier— the California way of set ‘ U small difficulties—and stepped out 01 the saloon to the pavement. Amo i u!tPr a pistol shot was heard. L 1 had treacherously killed Richard- Hn ' ,ln '' woman was avenged. He and taken to jail, as he ex- L, , to e—a mere formality, a3 a UUtl amounted to nothing except a i , e , matter of money to bribe justice, _ r t ‘p.judges were notoriously corrupt. Mt'rifl was Dave Scannell, a rough, . a P a -ticular friend of Cora. The ns murmured, but it was only an . ‘ 1 lnan killed. There was nothing ; - clone. There would be, as there een before, a trial by jury, the ,i^ ou ‘and disagree, and soon after, j- exr itement having subsided, at the 'l" x: tr j a l the jury would acquit. ■ >ittK-s King, called James King of ot ,‘‘\ uim lo distinguish him from an s 'r. ‘ ie Same name, had just the San Francisco Evening Bul ;Vi * le was an honest, fearless man inW f UI asll scoundrels who H ' J ( 1 the Golden Gate without mercy. them openly and fearlessly. u r tx P°sed the villainy of Ned c " J wan, Billy Mulligan, Jim Casey, ,V an( * others, ballot-box stuff th'it 1 r^^ ves generally, and they saw T ,! m tlaa to be got oufc °* the way. w 11 f e named and one or two others *' Ce t 0 see w ho was to kill King, “ lot fell to Casey, thp .f U fourteenth day of May, 1856, 1 < rnoon that King was killed, I ofi]' at my case in the Qlobe w e - opposite Wells & Fargo’s. Casey, Fin-, U \ en f ur hing about Wells, K v V ‘ °*’ s . stood in the door as James down the street, going di g' ‘ ‘ \ across the street to Mont w L .* 'dock. When he got about half C; , ! oss > Casey, following at his back, br - / >Ut to ' l^m - Kin? turned, and as and Ca?n fired, shooting him in THE FOREST news. (lie breast. When the shot Bred 3°,“: P " n ‘7 (711*11 heard the report) , here s another man gone!*’ out V 1 TT 110 t,lewindows to look r I, °f the compositors said: “My God. that s James King of the Bulletin .” evervt?' an u r hiS , friends ha(l Panned slm/ir-' 11 * b^ fore I!ind - As soon as he shot King, Casey give himself up to bis confederate, Sheriff Dave Scannell, and went to jail. What King wrote of asey was that he was an escaped con vict from Sing Sing. Weil, the news °t the murder went over the city like wudfire. creating intense excitement every where. Business houses were closed and merchants, mechanics, the best citizens, came out in the streets. Tnere wclc men speaking at nearly every street corne •, urging that the time had come or the people to take the law into their own hands. A printer, named An drews, and myself with others spoke at the corner of Merchant and Montgom ery streets. It was the first and°only speech I ever made in my life. As I finished speaking a man came up and said he wanted Andrews and me. We took several printers we knew and went with the stranger to a large warehouse on Sansom street, and were there told that a vigilance committee was form ing. We registered our names, and were each given a number and went out My number was 2,895. Mo man got into that organization unless fully vouched for as thoroughly reliaole. We met in a large hall the next night or two after initiation, and were put into companies, electing our own offi cers and forming regiments. No man was called by name; each had his num ber. We were armed at first in all sorts of ways—revolvers, knives, clubs, any thing; but we soon provided ourselves with muskets and ammunition. Our foi ce soon rose to b,OOO men, and was composed of cavalry, artillery, mounted riflemen and infantry. Who was the leader? I never knew any leader. All our orders came from “Thirty-three, secretary, by order of the committee.’* We took a large building in JSansom street next, in which we made cells, court-room, storage rooms for arms, and all necessary apartments. This building was got in order with a dis patch that rivaled the erection of Alad din’s palace. It was thoroughly guarded at every point. On the ground were sand-bag embankments, and there were four caunon upon the roof, while num erous projecting pieces of artillery were pointed down from the roofs of adjacent buildings. There were 6,000 stand of small arms and thirty cannon A large bell was placed on our quar ters in Sansom street, and when three taps were sounded every vigilante was co come instantly to the committee rooms. Governor Johson called this upraising of citizens an insurrection, rebellion and other harsh names, and issued a pro clamation taking measures to put us down. Then we had offers of help from all parts of the State. Word came from the mines and from the towns everywhere. Sacramento offered thou sands of men, if necessary, to help us. Many of the thieves and ox stuffer3 took the alarm and fled. On Sunday, May 18, 1836, three taps were sounded on the bell on the roof of the committee-rooms, and the vivilantes came to headquarters, 3,000 strong. They were completely organized and fully armed. Everybody understood what was going to happen as two com panies marched to the jail. Sheriff Scannell was on the roof of the jail, which was flat, with a posse, and the demand came from the vigilantes for Casey to be delivered up to them. Scan nell replied that he would protect Casey with his life. The companies then fell back for orders, when a bat tery came up, supported by the entire 3,000 vigilantes, and was planted in front of the jail. The man in command of the battery then demanded the sur render of Casey, and, drawing his watch, gave Scannell three minutes to consider the demand. Scannell par leyed until two minutes of the time had passed, and then came down and threw open the jail doors. Asa squad of vigi lantes passed by Cora’s cell with Casey the former cried out, “Jim Casey, you’ve signed my death warrant.” Casey was put in a carriage, surrounded by the citizen soldiery, and taken to the committee-rooms. The vigilantes then returned and demanded Cora, who was immediately surrendered and brought to the rooms. Casey and Cora were then brought to trial in the court-room of the vigilantes. They were allowed witnesses and coun sel, and the trial was conducted with fairness, except that all technicalities were ruled out. No names were used iu this trial, th ? judge, jury and all the of ficers of the court being designated by numbers. One of the provisions of the constitution of the vigilantes was that no person brought before the committee should be punished without a fair trial and conviction. If arrested and tried thieves, gamblers and dangerous men, as well as murderers, and in eases of con viction there |were but two penalties— death by the rope or banishment. Dur - ing its short reign it tried and disposed of over thirty cases brought before it— hundreds fled without waiting for trial —and of these, four] were hanged. It was said that after Cora was taken from the jail the wicked woman who had in stigated the murder offered SIOO,OOO to any one who would get him out of the hands of the committee. But there was no way of bribing or escaping that stern, unrelenting justice. On the twenty-second of May, Casey and Cora, a iter a fair trial, were hanged rom the windows of the committee JEFFERSON, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1880. rooms. A beam of wood projected from above each of two windows, from which dangled a rope A plank was at the foot of each ot tne two windows and on each stood a condemned man—Casey on one, Cora on the o‘her. They were not blindfolded. The funeral of James King took place on the same day. Ii was passing down Montgomery street just as the final ar rangements in the tragedy in which these two men formed the awful central figures were being completed. As the hearse crossed Sansom street, standing on the boar as at the windows, their heads in the noose, they could plainly see the somber vehich as it drew its dread length along. As it crossed the street and receded from their sight the boards fell from beneath their feet. The vigilantes continued the work thus begun, arresting, trying and fixing the punishment of the criminals brought before their tribunal. Among the arrests made by the com mittee was the noted pugilist, “ Yankee Sullivan.” He was arrested and tried for ballot-box stuffing, a crime in which lie had been so notorious that he feared the committee would hang him. He was confined in a cell after trial, and would probably have got no heavier sentence than banishment, but he got scared, and at night, in his cell, com mitted suicide. Someone had given him a bottle of ale or porter. He broke the bottle, and with the sharp gla'-s cut the veins in his left arm and bled to death. He was found stiff and cold, dead in his cell, the next morning. Only two other men were hanged by the committee. One of them was not a man in years, though a monster in hu man form. His nane was Brace. He was a hack-driver, and only nineteen years of age. He had been tried for murder on more than one occasion in the courts, but escaped without diffi culty. When tried by the committee no less than fourteen murders were found to have been committed by him. He would get a person into his hack, drive out upon the sand, and putting a revolver to the head of the heloless pas senger blow his brains out. Then he would rob him. Hetherington was a wealthy des perado. He had also been tried for mur der, but escaped from punishment through the use ot money In July the bell on the committee rooms rang out three times. Hetherington had gone in to the Metropolitan hotel, and fiad there met Dr. Randall. Randall was standing near a cigar-case as Hetherington ap proached him, taking a note from his pocket, which he held before the former, asking him if he would pay that now. Randall said he couldn’t pay it then, but would fix it soon. “Take that, then,” said Hetherington, firing' two shots. In an instant several vigilantes they were every where gathered around him and took him away to the rooms. The cause of the ringing of the bell was that a report had been received that the “law and order” party in tended a rescue. Brace and Hetherington were not uanged from the windows of the rooms as Casey and Cora had been, but from a sea ffjid erected half a square away in the -trects. The little notices sent out to the evil doers by “33 ” read very plain. There was no style about them, but as a gen eral thing, when a “spotted” individual got one of these notices he disappeared as soon as possible, and the places that had known him knew him no more for ever. It simply said: “You are’or dered by the committee to leave in stantly, or in twenty-four or thirty-six hoars,” as the case might be, and it was signed “ 33, secretary.” The case of Judge Terry, as near as I can now call it to mind, was this: A man named Hopkins had an order from “33” for the arrest of some offender, and went into a business house to ar rest liis man. Judge Terry, United States judge, interfered with the arrest in some way; there was a scuffle, and the judge with a knife stabbed Hopkins in; e neck. Terry was instantly ar rested and hurried to the rooms of the committee. Hopkins, badly wounded, was taken with the most considerate tenderness to an engine-house near by. Here everything was speedily fitted up for his reception. The surroundings were made luxurious; ladies came and nursed him; the best medical aid to be bad waited upon him; ropes were Stretched about the building along the streets to keep vehicles and fcot pas sengers at a distance; sawdust was spread upon the streets to deaden sound. The life of a United States judge hung upon a verv frail tenure for days and weeks. Had Hopkins died Terry would undoubtedly have been hanged, and David Broderick would not afterward liav c died at Terry’s hands. The law and order party applied to the commander of a United States ves sel in the bay for assistance, saying that the United States judge was in the hands of rioters. The commander sent word to the committee to deliver Judge Terry on his vessel by three o’clock in the afternoon of that day, or he would open fire on the committee building. The guns of the vessel were turned broadside to the rooms, and it looked as if we were actually going to come in conflict with the United States author ities. The guns of the vigilantes were then trained on the vessel, and we sent back the defiance that in case the vessel opened fire we would blow her out of the bay. The committee had, however, in the meantime, sent word to Commo dore Stockton, I think, at Mare island, and he recognizing the gravity of the situation, ordered the vessel to leave for the Sandwieh islands, and at 3 p. m., instead of Judge Terry being delivered FOR THE PEOPLE. to that ship, she had her nose turned to the placid waters of Honolulu. Terry was held for several weeks, until Hop kins’ recovery was assured. The citizens, then, things h iving quieted down, concluded to again put their trust in an election. The ballot box staffers, thieves and blacklegs had been thoroughly wiped out, though a fragment of opposition, the “law and order party,” yet remained. The elec tion came off, and the “ people’s ticket ” was triumphantly elected. The vigilantes hai done their work, and done it well. They threw open the doors of the committee building for public inspection, and for two days a stream of people poured through the rooms, looking at everything. The weapons that were taken from the mur derous bullies, and the implements of the thieves, burglars, gamblers and ballot-box stuffers were all shown and examined by thousands of curious eyes. In September the vigilantes paraded through the principal streets. Eight thousand as brave men as ever stepped together, who had routed villainy and murder in their stronghold, and made California inhabitable. There were cavalry, infantry, artillery every branch of the service— and they marched proudly, as indeed they had good cause to do. Then they disbanded, each man settling down quietly to his work. Taxes came down; there was the most perfect security to life and property, and for two long decades San Francisco was noted as a quiet city. Some Curious Facts. A petrified pike has been dug up from a depth of forty feet at Newton, Ind. A street-car motor, to be run by quicksilver, is being made at Aurora, 111.; 800 pounds of quicxsilver are re • quired. The newspaper owes its oriein to the custom which prevailed in Venice in the sixteeth century of reading aloud in the public places a manuscript of the news of the day, prepared by au thority. A merchant of Portsmouth, England, purposely began a ship on Friday, launched her on Friday, named her the “ Friday” ana got a commander for her named Friday. She sailed from port on a Friday, and was never heard of again. Yet this proves nothing. The surveying for the St. Gotlwd tunnel was so nicely done that although the tunnel is nine and a quarter miles long the two galleries were bored with such precision that they met with a difference of only four inches in level and a lateral deviation of less than eight inches. Naturalists who have been exploring Borneo assert that in the stems of cer tain plants found there are galleries tuneled by a species of ant, and that the presence of the ant is essential to the existence of the plants, for, unless at tacked by the insects when young, the plants soon die. O xen an oyster, retain the liquor ir the lower or deep shell, and if viewed through a microscope it will be found to contain multitudes of small oysters, covered with shells and swimming nimbly about—l2o of which extended but one inch, Besides these young oysters, the liquor contains a variety of animalcule and myriads of three dis tinct species of worms. “Dear Old Pa” Was There. It was dark in the depot one day last week when the evening train came in. An elderly farmer was backed up against the partition, watching in open mouthed wonder the big puffing engine and the yellow covered cars as they dis charged their passengers, when a hand some young girl in a sealskin cloak dashed forward and throwing herself upon the honest granger’s manly breast., imprinted a kiss upon his sunburned cheek and exclaimed: “ You dear old pa, I knew you would be waiting for me! And how’s mother, and how’s Jennie and how’s John—and oh! I’m so glad to get back—and where’s my ti-unk—and oh! va, you take the check and let’s hurry.” The granger was old and kind of dried up, and he had never known what i was to have a wife, much less a daugh ter. He mistrusted the young lady in the sealskin sack had made a mistake, but instead of stammering and hem ming and hawing, he came gallantly up to the scratch, and throwing both arms around the fair creature, he made up his mind to be a father to her or die in the attempt. Imprinting a kiss like the report of a pistol on her cheek he enthusiastically ejaculated: “Oh, yer mother’s well , an’ John a Henry an’ (smack) an’ Jane an’ Susan (smack, smack.) an’ Horace an’ Belindy an’ Calvin (smack), an 1 Peter, (smack, smack,) oh, they’re all smart an’ hearty an’—” By the time the young lady’s friends could get to her she had slid into a stony faint and they had to lug her home in a hack, while the aged granger, as he finished the third round with her outraged young man and sauntered out of the depot, leaving him with a bad eye and a ruptured coat, chuckled to himself: “The old man’s getting old an’stiff an’ careless like, but when any young females wants to play any games o’ Copenhagen, they’ll find him right to time, an’ I should n’t be s'prised if it rained ’fore nine o’clock. G’lang, Kate!”—j ßockland, {Me.) Courier. TIMELY TOPICS. A French physician who has studied the effects of turpentine on some 300 painters, arrives at the conclusion that the injurious effects produced by turpen tine fumes can never be sufficiently se vere to cause death unless they are con tained in a very confined space. With good ventilation no fear need be enter tained of fatal effects from this cause. The earth turns upon its axis with a surface velocity of over 1.000 miles at the equator, while at the pole the rate is reduced to zero. A scientific gunner says that, under special circumstances, heavy guns with long ranges have to be corrected for the different rate of rota tion of the earth at the place from which one is fired and the point where the slot falls, which difference may cause as much as two yards deflection to one side or the other in firing north or south. The earth’s rotation is thus actually made visible. Dr. Manson has been communicating important information in regard to filariiß, which are now proved to be introduced into the human system by the bite of mosquitoes. These filarise are small microscopic worms, and Dr. Manson spoke of their singular habit of periodically passing in and out of the blood circulation.and gave a table show ing the hour of the day and night at which they were either present or absent in the blood. These worms were re markably punctual in keeping to their appointed times. The evening inrush to the circulation commences at about half-past seven, the overcrowding tak ing place about midnight. Dr. Manson exhibited drawings and specimens of the filarise in all its stagesot growth, and also numerous infected mosquitoes. There are 2,000,000 bee hives in the United States. Every hive yields, on an average, a little over twenty-two pounds of honey. The average price at which honey is sold is twenty-five cents a pound. So that, after paying for their own board, our bees present us with a revenue of over $8,800,000. To reckon it another way, they make a clear gift of one pound of pure honey to every man, woman and child in the vast domain of the United States. In 1860 over 23,333,333 pounds of wax were made and given to us by these indus trious workers. An agricultural ex change says the keeping of bees is fone of the most profitable investments that people can make of their money. The profits arising from the sale of surplus honey average from 50 to 200 per cent, of the capital invested. James Parton concludes a recent very suggestive article upon the habits and death of B lyard Taylor, whom he had, as a personal friend, warned against the danger of wine and beer-drinking and smoking as follows: Mental labor is not hostile to death and life; but I am more than ever convinced that a man who lives by his brain is of all men bound to avoid stimulating his brain by alcohol and tobacco as only a slow kind of suicide. Even the most moder ate use of the mildest wine is not with out danger, because the peculiar ex haustion caused by severe mental labor is a constant and urgent temptat ; on to increase the quantity and strength o the potation. I would say to every young man in the United States, if I could reach him, if you mean to attain one of the prizes ol your profession and live a cheerful life to the age of eighty, throw away your dirty old pipe, put your cigars in the stove, never buy any more, become an absolute teetotaler, take your dinner in the middle of the day, and rest one day in seven. The work done by the Russian Red Cross society in Roumania during the Russo-Turkey war has lately been pre pared and published. Altogether eleven ambulance trains were employed in the conveyance of sick and wounded, four being supplied by the military authori ties and seven by the Red Cross society, the total number transported by the trains in 331 journeys amounting to 2,6518 oflicers, 75,099 men, and 1,350 sick or wounded Turkish prisoners. Besides these, 22,247 sick and wounded officers and men were taken on specially hired steamers down the Danube to Ibraila. The personnel employed by the Red Cross society comprised thirty-3ix dele gates and fourteen agents for admistra tive purposes, forty four surgeons, thir ty-nine medical students, fifty-three dressers, forty-three female students and dressers, and 516 sisters of mercy; while the money expended amounted to over two million dollars. A large amount of clothing and medical stores were also distributed by the society. One of the coaches on the Grea Western railroad, of England, has been painted with Prof. Balmain’s luminous paint. It is in appearance very little different from ordinary paint, but dur ing the time the carriage is exposed to the light the paint is rapidly absorbing the daylight, and when night comes it throws out a mild radiance. It has been employed on life buoys, rendering them visible from a long distmce. A clerk in a Broadway store recently asked for a half day’s absence, because he wanted to attend a funeral in the country. When he returned the next morning with red hands and freckled face his employer said, “ Where are the fish?”— New York Herald. Cats have no fixed political belief. They ar; usually on the fence. FARMf, GARDEN AN J HOUSEHOLD, lltilor Drills for Cam 1 The question as to which is the most profitable, the planting of corn in drills or in hills, is still considerably dis cussed, and we noticed hist season a number of fields drilled that produced well. Apparently there was much saved by the drilling system, as it only requires that the land should be marked out one way, and the corn dropped along the furrow and covered by the plow. There is undoubtedly good economy of time by this plan, and, if the plants are properly thinned, much more corn to the acre results than when planted in hills in the usual way. Three or four stalks in one hill necessitates a strong struggle tor food. These four plants do not do so well, thus struggling together in hills every four feet apart, as when each plant is but one loot from each other in a regular line. There are as many plants to the acre in one case as in the other; but each one being isolated, yields more than when four are together in one hill. If this were all, there would be no question about the value of this sys tem; but we have looked into both methods carefully, and have noted that the drill system, though taking less labor at first to plant, takes more labor to keep clean. In the hill culture it is necessary to have considerable hand labor to keep the weeds out of the hills until the corn gets large enough to take care of itself; but the drill system gives us three or four times the number ol hills to look after. Indeed every stalk is a hill. Thus the manual labor is nearly quadrupled. After all said about the profits of farming, it is not so much the crops which are produced, or the prices the produce brings, which makes our profits. Labor—human labor—is the great draw back in all questions as to what we can make from our land; and, as a general thing, those systems prove, in tb. long run, and most profitable, which pro duce the best crops by the least amount of hand labor. In this mooted question of drilling or hilling cord, there is no doubt but an acre of the former will yield more than an acre of the latter; but it costs more hand labor than the other, and therefore does not pay as well. We have seen it carefully tested, and know whereof we speak. When hand labor can be had lor twenty or thirty cents a day, we may have another opinion. —Germantown Telegraph. Soot tor the tiarden. Those who have soot, either of wood or bituminous coal, should, says the Prairie Gardener , careiully save it for use in the garden. It is valuable lor the ammonia it contains, and also for its power of reabsorbing ammonia. It is simply charcoal (carbon) in an ex tremely divided state, but from the creosote it contains, is useful in de stroying insects, and is at the same time valuable as a fertilizer for all gar den crops. It must not be mixed with lime, else its ammonia would be dissi pated, but if the soil is dry and hungry a little salt may be used with it. Soot steeped in water and allowed to stand and settle for a day or two is also a most excellent fertilizer for house plants, possessing precisely the same qualities that the parings of horses’ hools do. For flowers out of doors it is especially valuable, since it may be easily applied, and tends to increase the vividness of the bloom, and mixed with salt it is a most excellent fertilizer for asparagus, onions, cabbage, etc., in connection with compost, in the pro portion of one quart of salt to six quarts of soot. For two bushels of compost this quantity makes a heavy dressing for each square rod, to be worked tn next the surface of the soil. Kill Tour Sheep Young. There are few animals kept on the farm which, when in their prime, pay as well as sheep, and there are very few, if any others, upon whom old age has such a damaging effect. As the sheep is much shorter lived than any other of our domestic animals, it is not strange that many farmers attempt to keep them too long. At ten years of age the horse is just in his prime, and the cow is as good as ever, with the prospect of remaining so several years longer. But the sheep is very old when it reaches the age of ten, the natural limit of the term of its life. After reaching this age sheep are very likely to be injured by the slight exposures which do younger animals no harm. They are more liable to be attacked by disease, and if they live they will be likely to produce less wool and smaller lamb3 than they have done previously. We do not think it pays, except perhaps in special instances, to keep sheep after they are six years old. —American Cultivator. To Bleach Cloth. S. M. B. sends the followin'? direc tions which ?he has followed with suc cess for twelve years without injuring the fabric: Into eight quarts of warm water put one pound of chloride of lime; stir with a stick a few minutes, then strain through a bag of course muslin, working it with the hand to dissolve thoroughly. Add to this five bucketfuls of warm water, stir it well, and put in the muslin. Let it remain in one hour, turning it over occasionally that every part may get thoroughly bleached. When taken out, wash well in two waters to remove the lime, rinse and dry. This quantity will bleach twenty-five yards vjf yard-wide muslin. This muslin will bieach more evenly and quickly if it has been thoroughly wet and dried before bleaching.— Neoi York Tribune. PRICE-51.50 PER ANNUM NUMBER 3. The Rain. How gently comet h down the rain! Shut out from earth the day god sleeps, And each lull cloud now sadly weeps Its tribute on the spiinging grain. Tears! tears horn nature’s dewy eyes, Those rain-drops stem which fall to earth; They call the fruits and flowers to birth, And bid all perfumes sweet arise; Quivering on every leaf, they seem Like glittering pearl, or costly gem Which flash in eastern diadem, Or on the brow ol beauty gleam. They come from heaven to cheer the thirsty plaiu, Hut soon on sunbeams they fly hack again. —Luther G. Riy&s, in Kokomo Tribune. ITEMS OF INTEREST. There’s as macii craft on land as on water. The legion of honor was instituted by Napoleon I. in 1802. Earrings were worn by Jacob’s chil dren in 1732 B. C. The forests of the globe are estimated to cover about one-fifth of the land sur face. Every time a wife scolds her husband she adds anew wrinkle to her face. This was discovered by Humboldt. The water in Wolf river, so long de tested by Memphians, has been officially pronounced the “ third best water in tlie United States.” Nova Scotia advices are to the effect that the emigration to the United States this season is much greater than in former years. There is something higher than look ing on all sides of a question. It is to have the charity to believe that there is another siue. The packages of tomatoes put up last year in the United States reached the total of 16,968,000, of which New Jersey put up 5,591,000 cans. W. T. Blackwell & Cos., of North Carolina, at a single transaction in Chi cago, sold 1,000,000 pounds of smoking tobacco for $500,000 cash. A movement is now on foot to erect a crematory in St. Louis, and it is more than probable that within the next twelve months it will be built. This year’s general meeting of the American Social Science association will be held at Saratoga from the seventh to the tenth of September inclusive. A Cleveland man spent ten dollars experimenting on an invention to enable him to crawl under a circus tent with out being caught. Tickets to the show, fifty cents. The site of Boone’s fort in Madison county, Ky., is still pointed out, though a farmer runs his plow through the mounds that mark the place of the chimneys. A Berks county (Pa.) merchant has a fancy for sparrows, and keeps a hun dred pair of them suspended in cages along his store. They keep up a deaf ening din. A London physician is said to have found a remedy by which an attack of gout may be cured in two days. The first application removes all pain, the second all traces of the disease. A brick, the size of an ordinary cigar box, made of the counterfeit nickels collected in the street car cash boxes, is one of the curiosities which adorns the new street car office in Memphis. Iron Mountain, Mo., is all that its name implies, being seven-tenths pure iron. It is neatly a mile long, half as broad, and several hundred feet high. It is being carried away at the rate of 850 tons a day. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, That when he on bananas tread, Will once in ten times ever stand? But rather, when his leet fly ou* - And he comes down kerchunk hell nout, “ This is m.y own, my native land!” —Keokuk Gate City. How to Become Rich* You can probably be rich, my son, if you will be. If you make up your mind now that you will be a rich man, and stick to it, there is very little doubt that you will be very wealthy, tolerably mean, loved a little, hated a great deal, have a big funeral, be blessed by the relatives to whom you leave the most, reviled by those to whom you ieave nothing. But you must pay for it my son. Wealth is an expensive thing. It costs all it is worth. If you want to be worth a million dollars, it will cost you just a million dollars to get it. Broken friendships, intellectual starva tion, loss ot social enjoyment, depriva tion of generous impulses, the smother ing of manly aspirations, a limited wardrobe and a scanty table a lonely home, because you fear a lovely wife and beautiful home would be expensive a hatred of the heathen, a dread of the contribution box, a haunting fear of the Woman’s Aid society, a fearful dislike of poor people because they won’t keep their misery out of your sight, a little sham benevolence that is worse that none; oh, you can be rich, young man, if you are willing to pay the price. Any man can get rich who doesn’t think it too expensive. True, you may be rich and be a man among men, noble and Christian and grand and true, serving God and blessing humanity, but that will be in spite of your wealth, and not as a result of it. It will be because you always were that kind of a man. But if you want to be rich merely to be rich, if that is the breadth and height of your ambition, you can be rich if you will pay the price. And when you are rich, son, call around at this office and pay for this advice. We will let the interest compound from this date.— Burlington Hawkeye.