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VOL. V. THE NEWS & FARMER. p'/ f f rj <i / p BY ROBERTS <fc BOYD. Published every Thursday Morning AT 10UISV1LLE, GEORGIA, t _______ PRICE OF SUBSCRIPTION, f IN ADVANCE. One copy one year ...... $2 00 “ “ six mouths... - - J.UO “ three months-..---...... 50 For a Club of FIVE or more we will make a eduction of 25 per eeit. A D V EBTISINO RATES' Transient Adoertisements , One dollar pe square (ten lines ol this type or one inch) for the lirst insertion and 75 cents tor each subser duent insertion A liberal deduction made on advertisements running over one month. i.ncal notices will be charged Fifteen cents per line each insertion. All bills for advertising due at any time ntter the first Im-ertiou and will be presented at the pleasure of the Proprietors, except by ppecial arrangement. LEUAL ADVERTISING. Ordinary’s Citations for Letters of Administra non, Guardianship Ac-.-,,....... U0 Application lor djsm’n from adm’u ti HI) jtoiuestead notice •••• j? 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This is one of the cheapest week* lies published, it is not a blanket sheet in which all sorts of matter is promiscuously thrown. It is a neatly printed four page pa per, compactly made op and edited with great eal'e. Nothing of a dull or heavy chaiacter is admitted into the Weekly. It is an elaborately compiled compendium of the best things that appear in the Daily News. The teieg.aphic despatches of tile week are re-edited and ca.e lully weeded of everytning that is not strictly of a news charactea. It also coinains full re ports ot the Markets; thus, those who have not the advantage of a daily mail, can get all the news, for six months, by sending One Dol lar to the publishers ; or for one year by send ing Two Dollars. i'he Daily Mousing News is tbe same reliable organ of public opinion that it has al ways been vigorous, tliougliiiul and conserva tive in the discussion of the issues of the day, and lively, spa.kling and entertaining in its presentation of the news- In gathering and imbiisiliug the latest information and discuss ing questions of public policy, .the Morning News is fully abreast of ilie mosr euterpr sing jouruulism 01 ll,u times. Trice, SIU OU for jy months ; $-2 dll for li months The Tuy-Wekki.y News has the same fca tmes as the Daily News. Trice, f.d 0,1) for fl{ months; $3 for ti mouths. Money for either paper can be sent b.y I O order, registered letter or Express, at publish er's risk. __ The Morning News Printing Office I* the lH'geet-in the State. Every de-crip t on of Printing done at the shortest notice Jtlank Uooks of ad kinds made to older. Book Binding and Ruling 0 executed with dispatdli. Estimates for work promptly lurnished- Aidress all letters, J. 11 ESTILL, Savannah, On. .JH As Wk UA . <dU .KAiJ L £Ei.T gP fit minus,,, WEIL AUCfR AND "#niDRILL In good tm'tory. IJQiIWt m _ ■tlsti.mumai.B FROM GOVERNOR' ■ W% I ■ OF IOWA, AUK ANSA S AND 1)A? Wt'itol-fciu'fw- W- iiiu.tm Wuit.l# srofcßStoniil ©am. -- ,i • ■ -■ ■ '"'W 1 W. 11. Watkins. * R. L. Gamble. WATKINS & GAMBLE ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Houisinlu, ©a. /annary 27 ly*. J. G. Caiu. J. H. Polliill CAIN & POLHILL, ATTORNEYS AT L A ItOWSVILL, C ft. '*<" May 5, 1871. 1 ly. T. S. BOTH WELL, Attorney at Law, Cherry Hill, near LOUISVILL GA June 3rd, '.STS* Gm A. F DURHAM, M. d7 LMiysiciau aud surgeon. Sparta, Ga. SUCCESSFULLY treats Diseases of the Lungs aud Throat, diseases of the Eye, Nose aud Ear, and all fo*ms of Dropsey ; eases of ihe Heart Kidneys, Bladder and Stric ture, secret diseases, long standing Ulcers.— Removes lleimniheidal Tumors wiuiout pain Makes a speciality ol diseases peculiar to Fe males. Medicines sent loauy point on the Railroad. All eorrespwiidence confidential. Fehy 15, lt<7 ly HOTELS. - • Mulberry Street, MACON GEORGIA 3, MB* Proprietor tree bm. il) u fr maud to ihe Depot. MARSHAL HOUSE, Sji VaJs JV A it) CiLl* A- B. LUGE,— Propriftlor -150 MID PBlt DA V SO. OO PALMER HOUSE 238 Broul St., Aiitrusln, (:}, Orer A. C. Fora's Shoc Store. Mrs. S. J. PALMER, Propriiilress. 15. 11. r\TA.\liKYp < l rk, McCOMB’S HOTEL, MiHc<lgcviilc, (a C. 0. \YIL (sN—frnpritt ;r. HOARD PER DAY $3 00 li. 11. lUCHAIiDSON & CO. Publishers’ Agents, 111 UiK SUUSEf, SlliVVlH, til, Are autuoriztd to contract for a lvprtising in our paper T. MARKWALT£R, Marble Works EP.OAD STP.33T, Keau Lcwek Market a i tiu via, <u Monuments, Tombstones wSSSzAUG UST A, GA Louisville Drug Store. E. H. W. HUNTER, M. D. Druggist & Apothecary. Suscettaor to 11 UN T tilt & CO. Keeps on hand a full and well assorted stock •l* THUDS, MEDICINES, (MIEMICAES, PAlN'kfjj OILS, VARNISH E-i, DYK BTUK FS, p E up {jjri- Eitv, Soaps, combs. BRUSHES, TfUL- El’Articles, LAMP CHIMNEYS, GAR DEN BEd’iD ol all kinds; FINE CIOARS and CHEWING TOBACCO WINDOW OLASS and PUTTY &c. k: Which he oilers to sell FOR CASH, as che.p as they can be bought, At retail in any town, in the Stale. Drdkes Magic Liniment and Dr. Win, Hauser's Diarrhoea ami Dysen tery Cordial. Always on lumd, and; for sale. Also Dr. Morris’ syrup Tar, Wild (herry and Horehound, Anew and valuable remedy in Coughs and affections of tile Lungs g-ui'nily THE NEWS AND FARMER. LOUISVILLE. JEFEEIISON COUNTY, GA., OCTOBER 28, 1875. BE NOT THE FIRST. Oh, be not the first to discover A blot in the fame of a friend, A Haw in the faith of a lover Whose heart may prove true to the end. We none of us know one another, And oft into error we fall: Then let us speak well of a brother, Or speak not about lain at all. A smile or a sigh may awaken Suspicion most false and undue, And then our belief may be shaken. In hearts that are honest and true. How oft the light smile of gladness Is worn by friends that we meet, To cover a soul full of sadness— Too proud to acknowledge defeat. How often the sigh of dejection Is heaved from the hypocrite’s breast To parody truth aud affection, To lull a suspicion to rest. How often the friends we hold dearest, Their noblest emotions conceal; And bosoms, the purest, sincerest. Have secrets they cannot reveal. Leave base minds to harbor suspicion And small ones to trace out defects ; Let ours be a noble ambition, For base is the mind that suspects. We mine of us know one another, And oft into error we fall ; Then let us speak well of a brother, Or speak not about him at all. — A GEM. IV hat could be more teudcr in senti ment or beautiful in expression than the following lines from a poem of Mary Louis Chitwood : “If a pilgrim hath been shadowed By a tree that I have nursed ; If a cup of clear cold water I have raised to lips athirst; If I've planted one sweet flower By an else too barren way ; If Bye whispered iuthe midnight One sweet word to tall of day ; If in one poor 1 deeding bosom Ia woe-swept chord have stilled ; lfa dark and restless spirit I with hope of heaven have filled ; If I've made for life’s hard battle One faint heart grow brave qud strong. Then, my Go 1, I thank thee, bless thee, T or the precious gift of song!” SHEEP IIIkIUNDRY IN GEOK -67.1, Thos. I’. Janes, Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Georgia, lias issue 1 aul.nmalof Sheep Husband ry in Georgia, from which we get the following valuable information. The especial attention of Representatives in the Legislature are particularly called to these facts; “Of those who have teste l crosses in Georgia 98 per cent., report the cross of the merino and tlie native most profita ble. The average annual profit on the cap ital invested in sheep in Georgia is (id per cent. This presents a very marked contrast between the : profits' of sheep raising and cotton growing. The average annual cost per head of keeping sheep is only fjfr/.foitr cents. In answer to Question No. 13, tiie ave rage cost of raising a pound of wool is only six cents, while the average pr'ce for which the unwashed wool is sold is 331 cents, or cents not. An average of seventy-four lamlbs are raised for every lmndred ewes, notwith standing the ravages of dogs. The average yield of unwashed wool to the sheep is 3.44 pounds, which, at 271, cents net, gives an average clear income iu wool from each sheep of 94 cents. The aWrage price received for lambs sold to the butcher in Georgia is $1 87. The average price of stock sheep is $2 58 per head. The average price of muttons is re ported at $2 75 per head. 90. per cent, of the correspondents report tlmjs the priuoipal, and generally, the oahj 'obsta cle to sheep husbandry. 75 per cent, ot the correspondents recommend the protection of sheep against the ravages of dugs, by some appropriate legislation.'>Mauyi report the 'enterprise generally abandoned, on account of the absence of such pro tection. j There were in Georgia, in 18G0, ac cording to the U. S. census, 512,618 sheep. 4 The IT. S. censns of !S7O, gives the number of sheep in Georgia, as 411),- 465. According to the returns of the Tax Receivers, collected under the auspices of this Department, the number-now in the State is 31!), 323. This shows ado crease from 18G0 to 1870, of !>3,153. ami from 1870 to 1875, of 100,142 aheap"'in the'State, or a decrease, in fifteen years of 103,295, or 38 per cent.; decrease during a period in which tl)ere should have been 100 per cent, increase. These are startling facts which do-; mand the careful consideration of the statesman and the legislator. Why is it thaf a branch of industry which, according to the verdict of those engaged in it, pays an annual profit of 63 per cent, on the capital invested, should be languishing, and, in many instances, entirely abandoned? Fromtlte same source from which the tX> * ,V- >, [ f \ . ... V • number of sheep in the State is obtain ed, we learn that there are 90,415 dogs in Georgia, and that they destroyed be tween April Ist, 1874, and April Ist, 1875, 28,625 sheep. May wc net find an explanation of thy decrease in the number of sheep in the above figures? In the .Tune reports, three-fourths of • the regular crops reporters represent the ravages of dogs as the principal ob stacle to sheep-raising, and estimate that 15 per cent, of the sheep in the State are annually killed by dogs, and that 6 per cent are lost by disease and other causes. The special correspondents on sheep husbandry—those actually engaged in the business, and hedce more familiar with the subject—were asked to state the principal obstacles to slieep-hus j baudry. 90 per cent, of the whole num | her report the ravages of dogs as the principal . and generally the only, obsta cle. The statistics collected by the Tax Receivers seem to corroborate the re ports ot these two sets of correspon dents, since there are thirty-one dogs for every one hundred sheep, or nearly one to three, and since these dogs are allowed to destroy in one year 28,625 sheep, worth $73,852 or 9 per cent, of the value of all the sheep in the State. Notwithstanding this loss, the annual profits are 63 per cent. Remove the cause of the loss, and the profits will be 72 per cent, on the capital at pres ent invested in sheep, and the amount so invested would, in a very few years, be quadrupled, when the clear profits, at the above rates, would he $2,372,687. per annum—more than the total re-1 ceipts into the treasury of the State in | the year 1874, and more than one-fourth the State debt. The value of sheep annually killed by j dogs, $73,852, would more than pay tne per diem and the mileage of the mem bers of the House of Representatives of Georgia. Correspondents report that 100 sheep regularly folded will fertilize, so as to double the yield of crops, eight acren a j year. At this rate, even the number at present in Georgia will fertilize annu ally 35,544 acres. \Ve will suppose this area to ho plant ed in cotton, and without the sheep ma nure it would produce one half of a hale of Cotton per acre. The increase on that area would be 12.772 hales of cotton, worth, at SSO not per bale, $338,- 600. If there were 2,000,0dd sheep iu Georgia, as there would be if properly protected, the increased pro luction from the effects of thier manure, at t he above rates, would be worth $1,000,000 per annum, or one half the amount of the .State debt. It is hoped and believed that the Legislature will, at its next; session, adopt such measures as wdl remove the present obstacles to this most impor tant enterprise. If this is done, thousands of fanners in Georgia will inline liately embark in sheep husbandry, arid millions of acres of land now idle and an expense to their owners will be ren lore 1 profitable as sheep walks, and gradually improved in fertility. It will open the way for a tide of emigration into Georgia of thou sands of the best, most quiet, peaceable, industrious and profitable laborers, who nearly double their number annually, demand no wages, do not steal or com mit other crimes, labor assiduously throughout the yea", feed and clothe themselves and their masters, make no strikes, litter no complaints, and never “die in debt to man.” Such a laborer is the sheep, the best and cheapest in the world. Is it not remarkable that such la borers can not lie down to rest at night in a civilized community without risk ing thier lives at the hands (or rather, the mouths) of their idle and lawless neighbors, the dogs, who spend the day in idleness or sleep, and the night iu murder and theft?” MR. MONTGOMERY BLAIR ON "NIGGERS.” Mr. lllair has exposed to a reporter of the New York Graphic this opinion : “Now,” said Mr. Blair, with opinion atedness of lJaillie Niohol Jarvis, ‘you needn’ tell me anythiug about niggers. As the Kentucky Congressman said he knew all about hogs because he was broughtu p amongst ’em. 1 know all about niggers. They have just learned to sell out their votes, and for the re mainder of the history of the'country the negro will be up for sale, lie’ll got that forty acres and a tnulo out oil rad ing his vote. You have just put a solid chunk of everlasting corruption into the Southern States, and as the white natives arc picking up a little money there now, they have the means to buy Unit black mass to the end of days.—, It'll be just the same in Mississippi as in Maryland. Consequently the South ern States are lost forever to the Repub licans by the measure they relied on to hold them. What do you think of a race that never lifted a hand for themselves in a war for their freedom four years long? ” - - -. Y “What's all this talk about the curren cy and the five-twinties and the siviu thirties that I hears about, Mike?”— •‘Wily, bless yet sow!, don’t you know, Rat? !t manes that the government wants to make the laborin’ man work from five-twinty in the rnoniin' until sivin-thirty in the a veil ing.” “Oeh,, the spalpeens! may flic divil choke t’hTfrt r • IMF ROVED FARMING. We copy from the Atlanta Herald some account of the operations of an agricultural club in Clayton county, Ga., called the Philadelphia Farmers Club. It has adopted the mode of diversify ing crops and providing first for the needs of the farm for its own consump tion—cotton afterwards. The Herald states the results as follows: This club, composed of forty-three persons of Clayton county, has worked a reform in the planting interests of that county that is simply wonderful.. Out of its forty-three members there is not a man who does not raise his own provis ions ; who is, as a matter of course, in a comfortable situation. The average profit made by the farmers of Georgia is less than 3| percent., as is shown by their own returns; the average profit made by the forty-three members of tliis club is 10 per cent. Since this club has been organized, land lias gone up 50 per cent., in the section covered by its influence, and in many cases lands have quadrupled in value. Its members have more orchards, more poultry, more sheep, better hogs and cattle, and make more crop on less land than any other forty-three farmers that can be picked up anywhere, outside of similar influ ences. The reason is quite simple. In the first place, these farmers meet monthly and discuss, in a practical way, fertiliz ers, new methods of planting, new crops, new machines, the best variety of see l, and the thousand and one matters of the farm; so that each member really has the benefit of the wisdom and ex perience of the other forty-two. At certain intervals, the club, in a body, visits and inspects the farms of eaclief its members; each one learning some thing at each farm visited, and being able at the same time to drop a hint that will do the proprietor some good. Whenever there is anew labor saving machine, that promises to work well, invented, the club purchases it and gives it a trial; and, thus, experiments in machines, guanos, new crops, new breeds of stock, etc., can be made at comparatively little •expense. The club has a good oircn.atiug library, and sub scribes to several good agricultural pa pers, which at one cost, are served to fifty readers. With all these a 1 vantages, the Phila delphia Club has fairly regenerated old Clayton county, an 1 we bid it God speed in it3 goo and work. There ought to be just such a club in every county in the State. If there was, it is our hon est conviction that wc could double our products in five years, and very nearly double the value of every acre of farm ing land in Georgia. LUCK—OiI NO LUCK. We were asked by a young man a few days ago, if there was any such thing as luck. We replied uuiiesitat iugly, no ; that is, not in the comm m acceptation of the term ••luck.” Most people think there is such a thing as luck; many think there is a great deal of it; some that there is, to a great deal of good luck, and others that there is, to them, a great deal of bad luck. “It is his luck,” says the neighbors of one man ; “his elforts always turn out well; he is bound to make money.” We remember, by the way, hearing the remark made once, by an ambitious young man. about one many years his senior, “it is his luck ” said the young man, “whatever lie touches turns to gold and on the strength of his faith iu the elderly man’s luck, the young man broke off from an engagement with a true-hearted young girl, and married the lucky man’s daughter ; but it turned out the lucky man failed, and instead of everything that he touched turning to gold, the young man’s hopes and expec tations turned to ashe:). But is there, in reality, any such thing as luck? We would say to our young readers, to whom this article is addressed, there is, if the word luck be limited to its proper signification. Luck properly applies to such events as are entirely beyond one’s control, and even outside of mail’s intluenoe. The common error on the subject con sists in attributing to luck or fortune those tilings which depend entirely, or mainly, or in some part, upon one’s own conduct and management. One man fails in everything ; it is his luck ; so lie thinks, and so others, half believe; when, as the fact is, it is all Ins fault. He does nothing at the right time, or in the right way. He may work very hard, yet he works to little or no purpose ; and yet it is entirely attributable to tile fact that his efforts are iiot timely, or are misdirected og misapplied. Another man almost invariably suc ceeds. It is his luck, people say. Y'et luck, in most caso3. lias little or nothing to do with it. IRs plans are judiciously laid, and promptly and pofSeveringly executed. The result is. simply the nat ural product and consequence of his exertions. If an accident which coul l not be foreseen by the passengers occur to a railroad train, it may be a matter of luck whether a traveller happen to be in a car which is crushed or in one that escapes. If wft look back to the root of the matter, however, we discover that the accident itself, instead of being consequent upon luck, in most cases is occasioned by smite carelessness or mis manage nt. The, truth is that Luck is the name of a convenient packhorse oil whom care, less and indolent and thoughtless peo-. pie delight to place the reiponsibillty | for their own errors and shortcomings | i would impress it upon the mindset j my young readers that a person who al ways does his duty at the right time and to the best of his ability is apt, in the long run, to turn out lucky. S PUTTING WOOD. Yes, sir, I can split wood without splitting my iiead open, and pride my self in the fact, woman though I am.— I trie;! it the other day, and I’ll tell you just how I did it. I was expecting John home a little earlier that night; so I determined to have some nice spring chickens broiled just to a turn for him when lie came. All went very well until, just as the crisis came in the broiling of those chickens, 1 discovered that the wood was out.— What should I do! If I waited till John came the chickens would be quite spoiled. There were no street boys in our well ordered village to be hired, and I just picked up the ax and walked out to that woojpile, Mr. Wadkins, the bald-headed bach elor across the way, was sitting on his porch reading his newspaper; but I didn’t care. I’d just show him what a woman can do. Maybe he'd be sorry that he hadn't a nice, smart wife like John's 1 pic ke 1 out a nice, stra'g’it maple stick, and leaned it up against smother stick just as I'd seen John do, and then 1 ac tually laughed at the idea that a wo man couldn't split wood. I placed the tip of one of my toes against the stick, arrange l my dress gracefully (pull back dresses are handy on such occasions.) and then taking hold of the extreme end of the handle, 1 raised the ax high over my hea 1 and brought it down with all my might, the bin in striking—not the stick, but boyoul it. Oh! oh! how in V hands did sting ! I rolle l them up in my apron for a moment, and after strug'ing a moment to keep back the tears, 1 took up the ax an 1 went at it again. Tliis time I took hoi lof the lian lie nearer the blade, but when I came to bring down the ax 1 remembere l my former experience. I hesitated just half a S3oo:t l before letting the ax strike. Fatal hesitation ! I:. turned the ax a hairs breadth, and it. glanced olf the side of the stick and struck deep in the soft earth. I wam't prepared for this, and losing my balance, over l went hea 1 foremost, stick and all. 1 can't tell exactly how I landed, I scrambled up so qiuck, but when I glanced at Mr. Wadkins he dodge! his heal behind his paper, which shook visibly. i never did like Mr. Watkins any how, t!iough he a:i 1 John are great' friends. I think it would have lo iked much better for a single gentlman like him to have come an 1 od’ere l to split the wool himself than 1 1 sit there and snicker behind his paper. 1 always did have a contempt for bachelors’ opinions, so I just turned iny back on Mr. Wadkins, placed my stick iu anew position, shut my teeth hard, and—no 1 didn’t though. There was a clothes line just behind which L ha 1 not noticed; my ax caught in this, and jerked me backwards over a big chunk, the arc falling almost into my face.— There was a sharp twinge in my back and a buzziugin iny head, so L lay quite still, until I was startle l by the straine 1 voice of dear John, “Mollie, Mollie, are you hurt?” lie picked me up in his great strong arms aid carried me into the house. I wasn’t hurt very much after all, but 1 had a good cry on John’s shoulder, and ever since that I’ve hal a whole wood-house full of nicely split wood always oil han 1. If a woman can’t do a thing one way she can another. Avis Nik. THE LATEST FASHIONS Private milliners have had their fall openings of bonnets, aid settled the matter of shape for the season. Fas!.- ionable French milliners have already modified the extremely large bonnets sent out at the begining of the season, and now make a graceful bonnet of ad mirable proportions and smaller size.— File Haring aureole brim is retained, but the crown is smaller, and the cottage side3 fit the hea t so closely that the bonnet scarcely needs an elastic for hold ng it on. The ribbon strings th. t we recorded as a sensible fashion, it seems are not to serve their natural purpose of tying the bonnet under the chin, but are to be crossed around the neck as a drapery l’or the na k, instead of the blank lace scarfs lately worn. Blank tulle and lace are use l for this purpose as well as ribbon, and this is the only way in which black appears upon the bonnets. Ecru cashmere lace is seen at. all the best millinery Louses, but is most sparingly used. Very full face trimmings, usually ol velvet, chiff mine—that is, in irregular loops, knots, half bovvs, rosettes that are placed an one side, and in many odd curves, a lit IlmaisMitcc —are in all the new bonnets. Tua stylish flowers are full soft tufts, of roses, or carnations, or artemisias, witli much brown foliage, mossy buds, pine cones, burs and unblown bu 1-. Felt hats will he worn before velvet ones are put on, and many of them are so hand some that they will be worn on dressy occasions throughout the seaspti. There will be less matohiug the glove with the shade of the dress than for merly, Such, dark shades are now chosen for costumes that light colored gloves of some harm anions tint are used to, brighten the toillette. Thus with myrtle grceli. plum, or navy blue dress es the VG -o-eofthe natural shades NO. 25. ot tin iecolor, wood drab or cream. 'or ,;e Who prefer a monotoned toi | it i > -j are dozens of shades of each . ish colors, slate gray, blue, | gre. land brown. It is said that gray | will be thy prevalent color for e-loves Ito wearV wish various dresses. iSrovyn is slibwn in all the “beige” hues and m many sea’ frown nut shades.— Green gloves’ . cvisible” hues, and the blue-biai . .’last year rea, - .. ue .safe. .-is however, is tie derm-shade roc, a u 1 gray, such as the natcr lors o. undressed Rid gloves, as these . • woniv-ith any dress, and especially vith bi. .'j cos tumes. Elegant costumes for uie earriao-- w among the latest imports' mis. 'q are ma le of velvet ami gross . rail, - square (rains added to to the upper snirt that give the effect of a coiht train.— These consist of three lougvstraio'hfc brea, ths, usually of velvet, sewvl”to the upper skirt, just back of the tablier and forming the back of the upper skirt, jct long enough to fall below the dress skirt proper and entirely concealed it, no matter of what rich fabric it is male. Embossed satin with velvet raised figures is the novelty lbr cuirasses and trains of dinner dresses, Tims a full dress toilette of whit e satin lias a square train covered with black embossed vel vet arabesques, and all of the cuirass ex cept the side forms is made of this em bossed satin, while the side bodies are plain white sat in. as also are the sleeves. The tablier is isf white satin, with a Bounce of blade, velvet, which is edged with the new strawberry velvet, Loops and hows of wAjite Win lined with strawberry velvet VvWtlie hack of the basque, the front :. Vvk'i.■ cuffs of the coat sleeves. Acres; the tablier are three diagonal ruches of black ostrich feathers, edged with heavy fringe of black and white chenilc. ni _ TilE 1101 SEKEEPEII. If \ou are buying carpets for dura bility, choose small figures. Butter will remove tar spots. Soap an 1 water will afterward take out the grease stain. Be Ibugs are kept away W washing tar crevice with strong saltwater, put o.i with a brush. Dusting articles of steel, after they h.no bem thoroughly clean ed, with un slacked lime, wdl preserve them from rust. I lie coils ot •'’piano wire thus sprinkled will keep from rust many years. Ia eify houses one cannot Le ioi careful to stop ( lie drains of the wash basins an 1 close the doors of war h cioset.s during the night, for many a fever is generated from the drain pi: e of a wash basin. In country hnu • c.uv should be taken to have no foi 1 water stau ling in be 1 rooms, as it so n gu'ns the quality of unwholesome ness. In washing flannels or other woolen articles, have the su Is ready prepared, boiling up an Iso dis.s living asina’l Piece of soap in rain-water, without so da , but do not use the suds when, boiling, let them he lukewarm only when the articles are put in. The flannels ■should not be rubbed with a large piece of soap, nor should the material itself be rubbed, as in washing linen,etc. lhe fibres ol the wool contain number less little hooks, which the rubbing knots together; I ice-h? thickening of the fabric, and consequent shrinking tn dimensions. Well sluice the articles up and down in plenty of suds, which af terward squeeze (not wring) out. After rinsing, squeeze out the water, and dry in open air, if the weather is such as to admit of the article drying quickly; if nut, dry in a warm room, hut avci l close proximity to the fue. Let any dust or mud be beaten out or brushed o f prior 1 1 washing. HOW TO KEEP A SUBSCRIBEII. An indignant fanner recently enter ed a printing o Ha ail 1 ordered his paper st ippe because he differed from the ed itor in views regarding the advantages of subsoiling fence rails. The editor of course conceded the man’s right to stop his paper, but he rem irked coldly, looking over his list: • l)oyou know Jim Sowders, down at Hardscrabble !” “Very well.” said the man. “Well, he stopped his paper lasi, week because l thought a farmer was a blamed fool who didn’t know that timothy was a good thing to graft on huckleberry bushes, and he died in a few hours.” “Lord, is that so?” said thea stonisheil granger. Acs; and you know old George Erickson, down on Eagle Creek?” “Well I’ve heard of him.” “Well, sr.jl the editor, gravely, “he stopped his paper because 1 said lie was the happy father of twins’ and congratu lated him on his success so late in life. He fell dea l within twenty minutes.— Tiiero are lots of simiiar cases, but it don’t matter, I'U) just cross your name oil’, though you don’t look strong, and there’s a bad color on your nose.” “See here, Mr. Klitor,” said thesuln seriber, somewhat alarmed, ‘I believe I’ll just keep it another year; ; ’cause I al ways did like your paper; and come to think about, it, you’re ayonngman and, some alio .vauue orter be made,” and I e departed, sa isle l that, tie had made a • narrow escape from death. The boy who was kioke 1 out of time by a gun. said he fired and ’tell buck ip good order. .