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H l , ,I,IV harvi Kt-moon’e intenser ray,
nes’, .m l eliatifjes into sparkling oro>
1 /tH nt-'iies of granite gray.
,1 (f,e tall b Hie greedy ripple laps,
' ,ii the eblj.JiK tide they softly swing ;
elated s a-bird slowly flaps
Ills strong-plumed, dusky wing.
~r . !ightH, imaged on the waters, melt
1 vr pillars, such as visious show
■ ,am'; where fabled Oaliphs dwelt
’ In legends long ago.
H , boat steals down the moonlit- track,
I the still night its ou*-trokes echo far’
■ | with deft light, the outline sharply black’
‘ Heaves on the harbor bar.
H -it strange freight tills it? Yonder heavy sail
H ~r , ,nn form of blurred and shapeless dread*
■ ~, jg the pall, bill fitted well to veil ’
The ocean’s outcas t dead.
I. name, his history ? Vain it wore to guess,
■ / iiort to sum : a waif, a rnistery;
hV tow king gloss upon life’s loveliness*
A secret of the sea. ’
TAKTNOTnLL.
B The r oad was new and pleasant, too,
Ky stream and forest winding;
Inky was fair, and everywhere
surprises we were finding.
I said I, “ Tin f iueer ! the toll-gate’s near,
Au<l you cannot go by it
I without a kiss, ray pretty miss,”
She said, “ You’d bettor try it 1”
I (took tlio toll—a generous dole—
in spite her stout resistance.
Said she, “ The rale is very great
I'oc such a trifling distance,”
■i n mi you say, take back the pay
I each minutest fraction :
yor your sweet sake I’ll gladly take
A lesson in subtraction.’
She whispered, “Nay, your taking way
Has robbed mo of a dozen ;
Hut you’re no kin, so don’t begin
To prove yourself a cozen.”
W< journey on through shade and sun,
Regardless of the distance,
\ .1 every day the toll wo pay
That sweetens our existence
HAMPTON ROADS CONFERENCE.
itit Assistant Secret ary of War of the
Confederacy Upon that His
torical Kpisode.
l r m the Southern Magazine for November.
Baltimore, Aug. G, 1874.
My Dear Sir—The inclosed papers
will serve to explain a portion of the
history of the Confederate States, and
art' sent to you for that purpose. The
“ Memoranda of the conversation at the
jufereiico in Hampton Hoads” was
r, iido shortly after my return from that
j :tce, with the expectation that Messrs.
11 inter and Stephens would prepare one
irnilnr. This does not profess to be
full or particular.
In reference to the origin of that
lommision I have no special information.
Mr. Benjamin requested me to go with
him to the house of the president (Mr.
David, aud, in going, told me of the
commission and the names of its mem
hern. At the president’s house we
heard from him a detailed, well-consid
ered statement of the objects of the
mission, and that we must leave forth
with. My conjecture was that the ar
ingemont.fl had all been made through
I'l’anm I’. Blair. Wo wore* furnished
with a letter from President Lincoln to
Mr. Blair, stating that he was willing to
receive overtures of peace from any
prsou in authority in the Confederate
States, upon the basis of peace in “one
i immon country.” This letter was fur
nished to us as the passport to bo re
cognized, and as adequate to take us
through the federal military lines and
to the federal capita!. But our own
commission was to make peace between
‘ two countries,” and our instructions
were to make no agreement or treaty
providing for the reconstruction of the
federal union. Mr. Benjamin, in his
speech at the African church at Rich
mond after our return, stated the fact of
the prohibition correctly.
The commissioners did not find their
passport available. At Petersburg there
was detention ; so at City Point, at the
headquarters of Gen. Grant, the mili
htrv authorities denying all knowledge
f the matter and awaiting instructions
from Washington. Finally there came
"l officer from the war department of
tie United States, bearing a cop;* of
the name letter of President Lincoln to
UP. Blair, which was handed to ns as
* Passport to Washington, and we were
inquired of whether we were going on
the mission that letter contemplated,
hi answer we produced the commission
which authorized us to mako “ peace
between two countries.” The general
commanding (Grant) and the officer de
cithd that the discrepancy was fatal,
llQ( | that wo could not go. In this con
dition Gen. Grant sent a telegram to
j lO president advising a reception to
;, ie confederate commissioners, and on
’he following day we were sent to
Hampton Roads, where we found Pros
>leut Lincoln and Secretary Seward.
there are some facts in relation to
: l,ls dtday which came to our know
-1 '"o afterwards. The commission was
apiv>infeed and announced the 27th day
’ innary, 1865; on the 3d day of
o bruary, 1865, the conference took
h‘ :lCo * In that interval the thirteenth
■'monument to the constitution of the
u ited States passed through congress
'• the requisite vote. In one of the
1 vrs of the time (Pennsylvania In
i rO L 1 think jit was stated tliat/Secre
rv Seward and Chief Justice Chase
"' ro on the floor of the house of repre-
( Natives of the United States urging
adoption of the measure, and that
‘ Ro cretarv said he desired to use it
a conference with the commissibn
: also that he took the amendment
binapolis, procured the governor to
u ”ait it to the legislature, and caused
1 ''e adopted within an hour, and
1 bink passage to Hampton Roads to
j the commissioners.
r Abe seen from “the memo
'fa that President Lincoln disa
of m ’knowledge of the object
, i r ’ Blair’s mission to Rich
aP(l all connection with that
frA °m an y torm. My information
0 ler 80u rces is in direct contra
this statement,
writ? 0 t,e . paper I inclose is a letter
t ntten b v me to Wm# A Graham> G f
c . .federate senate. There were a
a 'r ! er the members of the senate
R j rp j ‘° UBe °t representatives who de
for P ea ?. e iu
Wits • 7.V . 10 aDßw er to them
fn, ’ ' President Lincoln offers no
ti:irin„ B ? Ve pnfy the restoration of the
ilavp-* l a "tbority and the abolition of
lieenAt , ere is nothing besides to
® a bout. Senator Graham re
aaal.' f 6 to address him a letter in
PrertomPrecise objection. I
iaclospn fetter, of which a copy is
°rauda nf a this letter and these mem
bv Ronnt- tie inference were examined
“natots and representatives.
Two Dollars Per Annum,
VOLUME 11.
™ as aso f t of hesitation, timid
y, and dread of responsibility preva
lent which resulted in inaction. Mv
opinion was that there was enough dis
closed m the conference to warrant the
be P setHcd n \ hat i termH of P eace could
bo settled which would avoid some of
the evils of conquest and subjugation.
y opinion was that there wore no re-
Hoimvß for another campaign, and that
without the settlement of terms of
peace there would be conquest and sub
jugation The groumfH of this opinion
were submitted to Gen. Breckinridge,
secretary of war, a few days after, when
I was advised by Senator Graham that
the president would not send another
commission to negotiate for peace,
v cry resjiectfullv and truly yours,
n Trr , „ John A. Campbell,
At. W. Mumford, Esq., Secretary South
ern Historical Society, Richmond, Ya.
• - TV T7l_l. n . -- .■
Hon. William A. Graham, Senate of
the C. S.:
I understand the position of Mr.
Lincoln to be that he will not make any
treaty or agreement with the Confeder
ate States, but only that ho will treat or
confer with individuals resisting the
national authority, and will declare to
them the terms on which he will make
an adjustment. Ido not consider that
this position of his will prevent the
settlement of the conditions.
In any event the action of congress
(United States) might be required to
carry into effect the stipulations, and
whether these are informally agreed to
or are formally made, it is presumed,
will not make a wide difference in the
final result.
The stipulations that the president
can settle under his powers as president
it is material to consider. He is the
commander-in-chief of the army, and
has exercised a large share of power as
such. He has the power of pardon by
the constitution, and the acts of confis
cation provide that “the presidency
may by proclamation extend to persons
who may have participated in the exist
ing rebellion, in any state or part there
of, pardon and amnesty, with such ex
ceptions and on such conditions as he
may deem expedient for the public wel
fare.”
The act of congress of the United
States of the 16th of July, 1862, em
bodies the principal of the provisions
that have been made l relative to confis
cation. This act provides that “to in
sure the speedy termination of the pres
ent rebellion, it shall be the duty of the
president of the United States to cause
the seizure of all the estate and proper
ties, moneys, stocks, credits, and effects
of the persons mentioned, aud
the same and the proceeds thereof to
the use of the army.” The proceedings
are to bo in rem in any distrietjeourt of
the United States or in the District of
Columbia, and the property is to bo
sold under decrees of condemnation.
There is another act on this subject
upon condemned and abandoned prop
erty, and provides for its sale, etc., etc.,
and that the party interested may re
claim the proceeds after the war upon
proof of loyalty.
I think the effect of the amnesty
would be to relieve all property from
the operation of the law of confiscation.
My impression is that it would have the
effect to destroy the judicial sales made
under it. These sales were made be
fore any conviction aud without service
of process on the party, and it is diffi
cult to realize liow the act can bo sup
ported against one c aimed to bo citizen,
and whose loyalty is vouched by a presi
dential pardon. In this connection all
fines and penalties incurred by any vio
lation of revenue laws would have lo be
considered, and a release from arrears
of taxes and duties.
A clause in the act of 7th June, 1862,
is to this effect: “ That the title of, in,
and to each parcel of land upon which
said tax has not been paid as above pro
vided, shall thereupon become forfeited
to the United States, and upon the sale
hereafter shall vest in the United States
or in the purchasers at such sale in fee
simple, free and discharged from all
prior liens, incumbrances, right, title
and dues whatsoever.”
There are some conditions precedent
to the operation of this section of the
act which perhaps have not been fulfill
ed ; but another section imposes a lien
upon the lands which does not depend
upon any condition. The arrears of
taxes for three years and the stringent
conditions of the act will occasion the
forfeiture of a large amount of property
for taxes if the collection of the arrears
is insisted on.
The legislation upon the subject of
slavery consists of acts of congress for
the abolition of slavery in the District
of Columbia, in the territories, forts,
arsenals, and the repeal of the fugitive
slave acts. Besides there is an aet to
liberate all slaves in places captured by
the United States, and the penal pro
visions of several of the acts of congress
provide specially for the emancipation
of slaves of the* owner.
Western Yirgiuia was admitted to the
Union in December, 1862., It purports
to have been done upon the consent of
the people of that section of the state
and of the legislature of the state.
In a number of the states the public
lands have been appropriated by the
state, as Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, and Arkansas, and in others
a portion of the public money of the
United States was seized.
I cannot see myself that order can be
restored without a long interval between
the decision to reconstruct the Union
and the consummation of that act, I
question whether this will be agreed to,
but wise statesmanship clearly indicates
that it would bo better that this should
be adopted as the mode of procedure.
Very respectfully,
J. A, CAMPBEMi.
MEMORANDA OF THE CONVERSATION AT
THE CONFERENCE IN HAMPTON ROADS.
I suppose that, arrangements as to
these will be required.
The commbsioner being empowered
to settle the terms of peace upon the
recognition of the national authority,
would have to consider very carefully
the laws that have been made since
July 1, 1861.
Besides these arrangements, the dis
banding of the army, the adjustment of
the public debt, the disposition of the
public property, the admission of the
states into fellowship, the suppression
EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, •THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IS? 1.
of governments that have grown up
during the war, and affairs connected
with the internal police of the states,
should command attention.
Ihe conference was opened by some
conversation between Mr. Stephens and
1 resident Lincoln relative to their con
nection as members of a committee or
association to promote the election of
General Taylor as president in 1848
The composition of the association, the
fate of the different members (Freeman
Smith and Mr. Toombs and others), the
time that the parties had served in con
gress together, when Mr. Hunter and
Mr. Seward became members of the
senate, and other personal incidents
svoro alluded to. After this the parties
approached the subject of the confer
ence. At a very early stage in the con
versation, Mr. Lincoln announced with
some emphasis that until the national
authorityJbe recognized within th
terms or conditions could take place.
Mr. Stephens then suggested if there
could not be some plan devised by
which that question could be adjoarned,
and to let its settlement await the calm
that would occur in the passions and
irritations that the war had created ;
that it was important to divert the pub
lic mind from the present quarrel to
some matter in which the parties had a
common feeling and interest, and men
tioned the condition of Mexico as afford
ing such an opportunity.
Buying and Selling Pennies.
There is a man in New York’city who
is amassing a handsome fortune by buy
ing and selling pennies, two and three
cent pieces, and five cent nickels. In
many of the newspaper offices, news
depots, ferry offices, houses where cheap
goods are sold, bakeries and other
places the accumulation of small coin
very often becomes so large as to be
cumbersome. It can not be disposed
of, for coin is so plenty that customers
object to taking it in change in any
great quantity, and in business houses
where it is needed the regular sources
of supply ere always ample. The coin
might be sent to the Philadelphia mint
for redemption, but the requirements of
the redemption department are enough
to discourage any business man. To
send pennies to the mint they must
first be sorted and wrapped in packages
of five dollars each. Coin of each sep
arate mintage must be put together. It
will not do mix the old-fashioned cop
pers with the bright or bronze-colored
nickels, nor can a two or three cent
piece be mixed with the pennies. If
they are packed in this way they are not
even counted at the mint, but are ship
ped back to the sender without delay or
notice of any kind. The law also pre
scribes that the coins shall be packed
in iron-bound boxes, and shipped at the
sender’s expense. As coins are heavy,
tlitA of aawwh./lava
Die. The officials count tbo monoy at
their leisure, and sometimes the sender
does not hear from his consignment in
nearly a year. He thus loses the use of
his money for that length of time. This
combination of vexatious details pre
vents those who have an accumulation
of coin from sending it to the mint, and
it seems as though the officials at Phila
delphia intended that they should not
be troubled with it.
Every day a man rides to the newspa
per and other offices in a buggy, and
buys the coin which has been taken in
from the newsboys and the customers.
For the pennies and two-cent pieces he
pay ninety-seven cents a hundred, and
for the three and five-eent nickels he
gives ninety-nine cents for a dollar’s
worth. The sellers are glad to dispose
of the coins at this discount. The man
then rides to about the only tradesmen
in the city who desire a quantity of pen
nies—the pawnbrokers—and to them
he sells the coins at par, taking their
notes for three months in payment.
The pawnbrokers who have shops
among the poorer classes say that they
need small denominations of fractional
currency or coin, as many of their loans
do not exceed ten or fifben cents. Many
poor persons pawn their articles of wear
ing apparel or trinkets only when driven
to do so by the want of a single meal of
food, and such are not particular as to
the denomination of the money they re
ceive. The pawnbrokers give their
notes without interest, thereby gaining
the use of the money for three months.
Gardening in Japan.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune writes : The native gardeners
possess a wonderful skill in the training
and dwarfing of what in America would
be large, coarse-leaved trees; the pine
and cedar are brought into diminutive
grote?qre shapes, and the maple, with
its tiny leaves and delicate colors, forms
a favorite house-plant. Many thick
shrubs are clipped into the shape of
various animals, and by the aid of bam
boo twigs as a support a certain fine
leaved vine (of the name of which I am
ignorant) is so woven as to represent a
man, a boat, and other curious devices.
At a certain flower show, which took
place in Yedo some months ago, a Jap
anese lady, life-size,,holding an open
parasol, was accurately represented by
the peculiar twistings to which a chrys
anthemum in full bloom was subjected.
But the cultivation of fruits and vege
tables is by no means attended with the
success that is met with in the training
of flowers. Fruits, especially, though
of tempting appearance, are most of
them utterly tasteless. It is said that
foreign fruits, when planted in this
country, partake of the tastelessness of
the native ones after the first year of
bearing, which compels the importation
of fresh seeds to supply the wants of
the foreign community. Some of the
fruits and vegetables are of an unusual
size ; persimmons average three inches
in diameter, and turnips are about the
length and thickness of a man’s arm.
—To fill the place of the jaunty lace
pockets that ladies took delight in
wearing on the left side all summer,
fashion has decreed for winter a saucy
looking, but very pretty, pocket made
of fur. The European style, we hear
from a correspondent, is made of mink,
with an edging of seal, or seal, with
sable edging, ornamented with silk or
silk and chenille tassels. They are at
tached to the waist with heavy brown
silk cord. Mink will again be largely
worn, but seal is all the rage—sealskin
jackets especially.
In God We Trust.
SOUTHERN SERVANTS.
The Servant (luestion from a Southern
standpoint.
Anterior to 1861, southern farmers
and planters, like the centurion of old,
had servants under them to whom they
said go, do thus and so, and it was done.
This authority ended with the war, but
the lesson taught has not been commit
ted to memory, nor have we attempted
to forget this peculiar but lost privilege.
A servant to black my boots as well as
to harness my horse, to fetch me a pitch
er of water, or to build me a fire, to go
on errands, or otherwise consume valu
able time, is a perplexing luxury too
frequently indulged in by men who con
fess their poverty, and are ever ready to
lament their condition. To be waited
upon is a normal arrangement of south
ern life. The cost of such indulgence is
an afterthought, and is seldom calcu
thought to be the sum total of the cost,
whilst the “scraps,” if vigilant economy
were habitually practiced, would be
found to exceed in value the monthly
wages, and the countless perquisities of
his position would amount to more than
both wages and board. These employes
are everywhere among farmers, and they
are expensive superfluities. Should
they be discharged at Christmas, and
the farmers resolve to do this work them
selves during 1875, one year’s experience
will teach them how extravagant and
useless are such aitaches.
This übiquitous servant frequently
has a wife, who is the cook or washer
woman, with an attendant tribe of little
ones. These must be fed, and they,
too, seemingly get “ scraps,” which are
thrown to the dogs and pigs,
because the perquisites of office supply
much more dainty food. But wood must
be cut and hauled, and fires built to keep
these brats warm, for negro children
seldom wear clothes nowadays; and
here begins another lack of economy.
If the farmer’s house is on the road
side, the wood-pile is on the opposite
side, the kitchen as far in the rear of
the house, the well o' water is away off
at the horse lot, and the “cabin” is per
haps still further off in the woods, or
beyond the spring. But time costs noth
ing, and the cook spends her’s hunting
up wood aud water, and looking after
her “chillun,” except when standing
over the kitchen fire, built of a cord of
wood, ad hot enough for a smelting
furnace.
Let us s.ystemize a little just there,
and see what might follow. Rebuild
the kitaoen within twenty feet of the
pantry, eonnect the two by a shed, un
der which have the well or pumps, with
the woodshed hard bv filled with sea
soned wood; and why should not the
farmer’s own daughter be the cook ?
The wholesome exercise of kneading
tuci uuugu VII tit lit i O' ”
and plying the improved stove, would
develop her into a matronly robustness,
the very envy of many a hot-house plant.
And other beneficial results would fol
low this change, not the least of which
would be neat and tidy kitchens. Are
southern kitchens proverbially clean?
Not more so than negro cooks, who are
systematically filthy. They are adepts
at hiding cleanliness with dirt, and con
sequently most housewives are ashamed
ever to have a visitor think of stepping
for a moment into their kitchen. South
ern farmers, look inspectingly into the
conduct of your cooks for one week. See
them throw the coffee grounds here out
of the door, there slop through the
cracks, yonder pile up egg shells and
bones on the shelf in the corner; now
scouring a table all smeared with filth
with a dirty rag, and then sousing the
same rag into a pot of dirtier water to
rinse it, and then cleaning out with it
the pan or oven into which the food is
immediately dropped that is to grace
your table, or tickle your palate within
an hour. Is it any wonder that each of
us cats his peck of dirt before we reach
our teens ? And yet nogro cooks aro a
universality at the south, and our daugh
ters are seldom taught to perform this
daintiest of all work.— D. Wyatt Aikin
in Rural Carolinian.
About Eels.
The eel season is now at hand ; the re
cent rains having started them in the
Susquehanna and all the creeks and
streams on tlieir fall journey back to
tide-water, and the consequence is that
large numbers havo been caught in dif
ferent parts of the country within the
past few days. The eel travels up stream
in the spring, and returns down to the
salt waters in the fall, always going in
large schools. There are a great many
peculiarities connected with the eel that
but few people know of. For instance,
there are some eight or ten kinds of
them, of which several never enter into
fresh water. Some of the varieties are,
when full grown, ten or twelve feet in
length, weighing one hundred pounds.
The kind here, the common fresh and
salt water eel, is usually from twelve to
twenty four inches in iength. Eels, it
has been proved, have both sexes in one,
and spawn somewhat after the manner
of other fish. Like the turtle, they can
travel out of the water for some dis
tance, from stream to stream, so that in
almost every rivulet, however small,
they can be found. The gills or breath
ing organs, are covered up by a most
delicate curtain, which acts like a valve
and a reservoir for water, so to speak,
to keep its gills moist during the time
it is out of the stream. It has a heart
in its tail, the same as is known to xist
in the salmon, with pulsations at about
ninety four to the minute.—Pennsyl
vania paper.
The School Boy.
The Burlington Hawkeye writes of
the deceptive little boy : “ Passing by
one of the city schools yesterday, we
listened to the scholars singing, ‘Oh
how I love my teacher dear.’ There
was one boy, with a voice like a torna
do, who was so enthusiastic that he em
phasized every other word, and roared,
‘Oh how I love my teacher dear ,’ with
a vim that left no possible doubt of his
affection. Ten minutes after that boy
had been stood on the floor for putting
shoemaker’s wax on his teacher’s chair,
got three demerit marks for drawing a
picture of her with led chalk on the
back of an atlas, been well shaken for
putting a bent pin in another boy’s
chair, scolded for whistling out loud,
sentenced to stay after school for draw
ing ink mustaches on his face and black
ing the end of another boy’s nose, and
soundly whipped for slapping three
hundred and thirty-nme spit balls up
against the ceiling, and throwing one
big one into a girl’s ear. You can’t be
lieve half a boy says when he sings ”
The Bible and the Republic.
The Protestant apologists, after all
oou and advise nothing more than the
readme- of the Bible. I can not com
prehend how the Protestant people of
Europe delay so in embracing the re
public. Often in my reflections upon
history I have maturely considered that
vivacity with which the Latin people
comprehend and the rapidity with which
they realize the most advanced ideas
especially in the sphere of politics!
Here all the elements are employad to
keep the people in complete ignorance,
liberal ideas wfiich tfiere^desekna 1 rrbni
the pulpits, mingled with the aroma of
religions ideas and eternal hopes.
When I heard in the church of St.
Peter, at Geneva, a sermon full of allu
sions t o the spirit of the age, the genius
of liberty, to the Gnd of the gospel,
the book and code of democracies, in
voluntarily there passed through my
memory the sermons I had listened to
in my parish church, filled with threat
enings,. with terror, with pictures of
hell, with all the rhetoric calculated to
belittle the mind and cast it into dejec
tion and despair, which can only end in
the slavery of the conscience and the
soul. If the Latin people could read,
if they were obliged, at least everv
Sunday, to turn the pages of their little
bibles instead of hearing the chants of
their priests, in a strange and unintelli
gible language, would they not have
been two centuries ago republicans ?
because the bible is a book full, from
the first page to the last, I will not say
of republican ideas, but certainly of re
publican sentiments, and sentiments,
with their poetry, have greater influence
than ideas among the people.
Demosthenes never spoke against the
kings of Macedon as the last of the
Judges speaks against the kings whom
his misguided tribes demanded. Even
yet when we wish to condemn the ser
vile tendencies of the masses we must
repeat that sublime language and an
nounce the same punishments. The
discourse of Samuel is reiterated irom
age to ago as well in the imprecation of
Danton against the kings of France as
in the songs of Schiller which paint the
birth of the republic of Switzerland.—
Harper's.
A Suicide’s Reasoning.
At least one man who knew he had
become a bore, and when convinced of
.This. was.a
scapegrace son of a San Francisco ban
ker. Before the suicide he wrote a let
ter in which he said : “ That the public
should not suspect that the deed was
done in a fit of insanity, I state that
after a month’s reflection I take leave of
this world in the full possession of all
my senses, and that I am calm and col
lected, and I am driven to this by ex
treme despair, nervous excitement, etc.
I have gone to the dogs. For years I
have deported myself correctly in this
world, but during the last ten weeks I
found that I would have to becomo in
volved in debt and live upon the charity
of others. Even now I find that I have
overstepped the bounds, and can no
longer obtain a cent’s worth of favor.
For weeks I have offered my services for
my board, and they have not been ac
cepted. It would take too long for me
to regain my former status. I have al
most bogged of those who havo through
me made hundreds of dollars and they
turned, from me with their dimes in
their pockets. Some did help me at
first, but their manner was such that to
approach them a socond time for a favor
becamo impossible. My innermost
thanks to [here follow the names of a
dozen persons], who have this day that
I take poison refused me credit.”
Labor-Saving Machinery.
The saving in the operation of hus
bandry by the use of modern imple
ments ancl methods is equal to one-half
the former cost of working. By the
improved plow, labor equivalent to that
of one horse in three is saved. By
means of drills two bushels of seed
will go as far as three bushels scattered
broadcast. The plants come up in rows,
and may be tended by horse-hoes;
being in the bottoms of iittle furrows,
the ground crumbles down against the
plant, which is not so readiiv heaved
out by the winter’s frost. The reaping
machine is a saving of more than one
third of the labor when it cuts and
rakes, and will eventually save fully
three-fourths when it is made to bind
automatically, as it shortly will be.
The threshing machine is a saving of
two-thirds on the old hand-flail mode.
The root-cutters for stock in England,
and in some places in the northern
states "and Canada, much reduce the
labor of winter feeding. The saving
in the labor of handling hay in the field
and barn by means of horse rakes and
horse hay-forks is equal to one-half.
With the exception of the grain drill,
which had a precarious existence pre
vious to 1776, all these improvements
have been commenced and brought to
the present relative perfection within
the century now closing.— Harper's.
Increased Consumption of Wheat.
An able writer in the London Times
on the annual growth and consumption
of wheat, says : “It is probable that
the importation by Great Britain the
coming year will be little if any below
ten million of quarters, if the home
harvest turns out to be as large as the
highest estimate. In all the estimates
as to the probable demand and supply,
an important item in them has been
overlooked. This is the annual in
crease of population in countries where
wheat is the principal bread grain. The
San Francisco Journal of Commerce
places this increase at 3,000,000 per an
num, and estimates an additional in
crease of 3,000,000 persons who
change from rice, barley, rye and maize
to w eaten bread. This being allowed,
48,000,000 more bushels of wheat will
be needed this year than last. ”
Payable in Advance.
NUMBER 43.
Child Life in Shakerdom.
Children that are placed with the
bhaiiers at Lebanon are indentured to
Benjamin Gates, or some authority, un
til they become of age,” he agreeing
in papers to provide them food, cloth
u??*efcc * They are then placed in the
children s order, under the charge of
sisters designated to care for them who
commence at once to install into ’their
minds the glories of the creed. In their
management never a blow is struck.
Refractory ones are punished by being
laid flat upon the floor, face down.
When they have been thus kept pros
trate for a length of time, they are
.aken up and “ talked to,” the enormity
ol the offenses pointed out, and are ex
horted to behave better in the future.
I hose from eight to a dozen years of
age “ go to confession” every Saturday
fu i'lR wn . u P’ : ’ ( or are supposed to) to
the little sms of the week that have es
eer~ 7th vcfj 'lui’i uuniofth'm,
they early learn to conjure up quite
enormous stories, knowing that they
“ gull” their confessors into a deeper
belief in their penitence. “Now, don’t
you feel better after confessing all
that ?” asks the ancient virgin who has
heard the story. “Yea, yea,” says the
little miss, and tipping a wink to her
companions, she walks out as sedately
as a spinster of seventy. Another meth
od of punishment is to put the young
ster into a large sack, tying it tightly
around the neck. Should the child re
fuse to get into the bag, it is drawn
over the refractory one, and then, head,
feet and all enveloped, he or she is left
to repent of the offensive disobedience.
The children are sent to school four
months each year—the boys in the win
ter and the girls in ihe summer. Co-ed
ucation hasn’t the slightest support
here. The girls and the boys
must not converse together. If they
happen to meet, and if a roguish young
ster is bold enough to break the silence
with some pretty maiden, the maiden
must be deaf and dumb to him. “Isn’t
there some boy here that you are just a
little fonder of than the others ?” is a
standing question in the confessional.
The reply always is “Nay,” and the
blind old goodies believe it!
A Circus Trick.
An interesting incident has just oc
curred in Bucharest, and has created a
profound sensation in theatrical circles
in that place. It seems that the pro
prietor of the Suhr circus, anxious to
provide amusement for the public, late •
ly published an announcement that a
challenge given by Jules Rigal, a
wrestler attached to the circus, had
been accepted by a gentleman, who,
wishing to preserve a strict incognito,
would appear before the public in a
wegk t _The amateur athlete, who ? it
high social position, was rumored to be
no other than Prince Stourdja, a Molda
vian noble, who has the reputation of
possessing herculean strength. On the
evening when “the great unknown”
made his first appoarance in the circus,
the stalls were filled with eager specta
tors long before the commencement of
the performance. Rigal and his masked
opponent, having made their bow to the
audience, at once commence the strug
gle, which was, however, of short dura
tion, for the distinguished unknown in
a few minutes, amid frantic applause,
floored his professional antagonist. So
great was the success of the spectacle
that the manager announced to the ad
miring audience that the noblemau
wrestler had condescended to appear
again before them on the following
evening, when the performance was ac
cordingly repeated, and was continued
for several successive nights, until an
indiscreet member of the troupe unfor
tunately divulged the fact that tlig
masked wrestler was not a distinguished
nobleman but only one of the elowns
attached to the circus. This led to a
disturbance—the “ great unknown ” nar
rowly escaped being torn to pieces by
his late admirers, the manager and his
troop had to fly for their lives, and the
circus building would probably have
been dismantled and destroyed but for
the exertions of the police, who with
great difficulty succeeded in repressing
what promised to be a serious riot.
Best Colors of Walls for Pictures.
The question as to the best color for
a wall one of whose chief objects is to
show off framed pictures is a vexed one.
Messrs. Christie k Cos., the famous art
auctioneers, have their rooms hung with
dark green baize from floor to sky-light,
and certainly the result justifies their
experience ; but I think any one who
enters the hall of Mr. F. Leighton, R.
A., will see that there may be a more
effective wall color to f-et off pictures
than green, not to speak of certain other
effects of tho latter which really put it
out of the question. It is difficult to
say just what the color in Mr. Leigh
ton’s hall ie. It i a eomhrfi red, which
at one moment seems to be fconea iu
direction of maroon, and at another in
the direction of brown. It has been
made by avery fine mingling of pigments;
but the general result has been to con
vince me that there can be no better
wall for showing off pictures, especially
in a hall with a good deal of light, than
this unobtrusive reddish-brown. I re
member that when the Boston theatre
was first opened a wall of somewhat
similar color added greatly to the bril
liancy of the scenery. But there are
many eyes to which this would not be a
pleasing color or shade even for a hall—
it would hardly be beautiful in a purely
domestic room—and such will do well
to try some of the many beautiful shades
of olive or sage-gray. Mr. W. J. Hen
nessy, the eminent American artist, has
made his house in Donro Place remark
ably charming by a careful use of such
shades throughout. His quiet rooms
are restful as they are pervaded by re
finement, and each frame on the walls
has a perfect relief, each picture a full
glow. — Harper's.
—A youth who attended a Scotch re
vival meeting for the fun of the thing,
ironically inquired of the minister
whether he could work a miracle or not.
The young man’s curiosity was fully
satisfied by the minister kicking him
out of the church, with the malediction,
“We can not work miracles, but we
can cast out devils 1”
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
A philosopher has discovered that
men don’t object to bo overrated, ex
cept by assessors.
A lady residing near Davenport,
lowa, has a beautiful green lizard in
her stomach, and still is discontented.
—The “headless trunk” of a young
lady, which was found in a railroad sta
tion out west, proved to be a Saratoga
trunk.
—A San Francisco paper savs there
are two hundred Chinese gambling
houses in that city, carrying on bus
iness night and day.
A young lady fearful of becoming
stout devotes two hours to every meal’
because she had read somewhere that
“ haste makes waist.”
Ono U*- M.UUV -“O
in the world is to see a newspaper c -
which provides that husbands and wivt*>
without children may be considered
divorced.by simply ceasing to live to
gether.
—lt is estimated that the world con
sumes annually 250,000,000 pounds of
tea and 718,000,000 pounds of coffee.
China furnishes almost all the tea, and
Brazil the coffee.
—Rev. Mr. Candor, of Philadelphia,
announces: “ Let us continue our wor
ship by listening to a piece of sheet
music performed by the operatic quar
tette, who have been secured regardless
of expense.”
—The maddest kind of a woman is one
who spends a half hour in arranging
her toilet before descending to the par
lor on the arrival of a visitor—who
proves to be a book agent.
—A disgusted old line-back voter at
Ottumwa, lowa, put in a ticket which
read : “ For general principles, General
Jackson; for congress, don’t care a
dam; they all steal, anyhow.”
—A fashionable but illiterate New
York lady, traveling on the continent,
writes to a friend that she has just seen
the “ museum of iniquities ” in Genoa,
and she does think it is “perfectly
splendid.”
-Mr. Dubois, of Fall river,’has had
the blood of a live lamb introduced into
his veins, as a remedy for consumption.
It is probable that there will be no un
usual effect save an abnormal fondness
for all girls named Mary.
—Rev. J. H. Todd, of Sioux City,
played a rather neat little joke on his
wife, the other day. While she was un
suspectingly engaged in half soling liis
winter trousers, he quietly slipped out
at the back gate and eloped with a mil
liner.
—An old gentleman in Stowe, Ver
mont, tells how he broke off drinking
wdura
as it filled up his potations grew grad
ually smaller and finally ceased alto
gether.
—At Neuilly, in the suburbs of Paris,
there is a harem, which the police have
inquired into and—left alone. It is the
home of a Turk. He has 160 wives,
but keeps the mass of them at Constan
tinople, and only brings twelve to Paris
at a time.
—You know in the old country, when
anything unfortunate happens to the
good people, it is called “ affliction,
which is to be overruled for their spirit
ual good but when it happens to be
the heterodox, it is “a judgment.”—
Watson's Lecture.
“ Nobody surpasses me in this
specialty,” said a Cincinnati girl to her
new lover the other night as she gave
him a parting kiss with a report to it
like that of a pistol. The astonished
youth walked away wondering where
that girl got her experience.
—“ Mamma, where do the cows get
the milk?” asked Willie, looking up
from the foaming pan of milk which he
had been intently regarding. “Where
do you get your tears?” was the an
swer. After a thoughtful silence he
again broke out, “Do the cows have to
be spanked ?”
—lf the times are hard stop your
paper, but do not shorten your allow
ance for whisky or tobacco. A good
paper in a family is a great comfort to
the wife and children, but that is no
reason why you should provide them
with a weekly luxury at the expense of
a daily necessity.
—ln Scotland, on the ordination of
elders, a grave old elder delivered the
charge : “Me brethrin, rule weel, rule
weel, but rule sae that nae a man ar
bairn i’ the kirks will know that they
are ruled. Me brethrin, pray God to
give ye common sense. It is a chief
grace o’ an order.”
—An Aberdeen preacher recently com
mented in the following complimentary
way upon the conversational value of
men and women : “There is the same
difference between their tongues as be
tween the hour and minute hand —one
fast and the other sig
nifies ten times as much. '
—A Milwaukee man, having heard
that a piece of salt pork, inserted in
the ear, will cure the ear-ache, pickled
a pig, and dropped it in under the flap
of his starboard auricular appendage.
As nothing wss heard of it, he sent
down a yearling porker. At last ac
counts, he was inquiring anxiously for a
pickled elephant.
—A country exchange gets off the fol
lowing on delinquent subscribers: Look
ing over an old ledger, we see a Jong
array of names of former subscribers
who are indebted to us. Some of them
have moved away and are lost to sight,
although to memory dear. Others are
carrying the contribution boxes in our
most respectable churches, and others
again have died and are angels in
heaven, but they owe us just the same.
—Black-and-tans have gone out of
fashion, bless ’em! Tiny bull-dogs,
just as small as nature will allow, now
accompany French ladies on the prom
enade, and sit on the carriage seat.
The uglier the better, as the morose
expression of their pup features is a
great requisite in their selection. Even
the parasols, buttons on one’s gar
ment’s and trinkets by the score, are
adorned with the bull-dog’s head ; and,
a sure sign of a lady’s visit to Paris
this summer, is the canine phiz that
makes the knob of her natty umber ell a.