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THE
NEW ERA.
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“Onward and Upward.” '
SUBSCRIPTION: 11.50 Per Annum
VOLUME I.
DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA„ THURSDAY, JULY 5. 1883.
NUMBER 81.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Virginia jioumit crop is rottiug on
tho vino.
Viokhbuuo, Miss,, is soon to lnivo
water-works.
The Mississippi Iuup.Mo asylum lias 107
inmutett.
Of Virgiliia’s 5,587 schools, over 1,500
ore colored.
Hot BrniNos, Auk,, will he lighted by
electric light.
T-iirn, Book Auk., is si Kill to lmvo an
electric light.
Home, Qa., with her suburbs has a
population of 0,000.
Corn, sugar, cotton and rice crops of
Louisiana arc all doing well.
The gonuiuc army worm has made its
appearance in Halo county, Ala,
A uaiuibu-shop in Atlanta run by wo
men is doing a flourishing business.
One man in Louis county, Ky., lias
gathered 1,000 pounds of ginsing this
season.
Nearly a million acres of land in Lou
isiana have been sold recently to a Kan
sas speculator.
Twenty thousand pounds of zinc wore
Ehi]i)ied one day last week from Knox
ville to Connecticut t.
About 400,000 coeonnut trees lmv
lioeii planted on the keys near Key West
Fla., in the last two years.
The new bank of Nashville, Tenu.
"will start with a capital of half a million
dollars. Col. E. W
with $100,000.
There are found to exist three chan
nels outside the jetties below Now Or
leans, aud buoys are needed to clearly
mark these channels. ,
The States that brow no beer are Ar
kansas, Florida, Maine, Mississippi and
Vermont. Last year Alabama produced
only eight barrels and North Carolina
thirty-one.
The City Council of Alexandria, La.,
has deckled to exempt from taxation all
manufacturing for ten years. Many
other towns in the South have done tho
sumo tiling.
The Southern Telegraph Company are
pushing their lines rapidly through the
South. They will extend to New Orleans
and have, in all, 2,700 miles of wire in
two main linos, const" anil inland.
The Richmond, Vo., nail works find it
impossible to supply the demand from
the South. Six hundred kegs are rolled
out in twenty-four hours, or 8,(100 a .week,
and yet the demand is greater.
An alligator caught a little six-year-old
girl, daughter of Mr. Strange, of Calhoun
comity, Fla. A little nine-year-old sister
beat tho reptile oft". He was afterwards
killed and measured eight feet.
An Indiana land corporation has
bought over 1,000 acres of land at Wil-
sonville, ill Obion
An experiment lnia been rt'ctudly made
in scouring Wool id Fort Worth, Tex.,
tuid the dean product forwarded to Bos
ton for inspection. Thirty or forty mil
lion pounds will he exported from Texas
this.yonr in nu unsecured condition. An
allowance of fifty per cent for dirt and
grease is said to obtain.
A REEt.Eli of silk in New Orleans, who
has hitherto employed some nineteen
bunds, proposes to go into the mnnu-
fncturo of Bilk fabrieB, and to organize a
joint stock company for that purpose.
He lias already reeled. 1,500 ihiuiuIh of
silk mid him an mjiortution of cocoons on
tho way from Franco of 1,200 pounds.
It is found best to ship froth the South
only the pick of ii crop of any fruit, aud
evaporate the rest, or such ns permits of
evaporation. Tho improved process of
evaporating gives the fruit a value of
three or four times that done by the old
method of sun-drying. It is mentioned
on passant, that the demand for dessiea-
ted fruits and vegetables for use at sea
ulono lias never been fully met.
Auousta Chronicle : California and
Florida people are inventing ways of de
stroying gophers by poison. They had
better substitute gopher soup for ham
and bacon. Epicures is insider soup made
from gopher superior to that made from
green or soft-shell turtle. Properly ad
vertised and introduced, there is no rea
son why every Florida gopher shipped to
New York should not sell for five dollars.
that Mormon missionaries will send 20,-
000’ converts to the West this year. The
Apostles arc now buying land in Colo
rado for colonization purposes.
The people of France, hy a popular
subscription, have raised the money re
quired for the Bartholdi statue of “Lib
erty Enlightening the World,” and it has
been given to tlio people of America to
jbe placed at the outruUee of tho New
York barbel-. It is now promised to raise
by popular subscription throughout the
United States a fund to erect the pedes
tal. New York 1ms subscribed about
$110,000, and Uohihiittoos all over tho
llounlry are preparing to obtain tlio re
mainder.
A FRENCH STORY.
On Now Year’s Eve Baron 0. took
one of his visiting cards, penciled a few
words on it, and put it in an envelope,
whioh he carefully sealed. Then he
wont to Boissier’s candy shop. On his
Way his thoughts ran thus: "My Nin
ish is very fond of onndies. She adores
them. Therefore, besides the diamond
necklace whioh I have just sont her, I
Here is
The North Carolina Mining and Do-
Cole heads the list I veloping Company, with a capital of $2,-
1000,000, has been formed, and the
papors recorded with tho Secretary of
that State. Tho following gentlemen
are tho officers: David E. Aiken, Presi
dent! Theodore Conkling, Vice-Presi
dent; D. L. Wing, Treasurer, and Chav
es E. Lockwood, Secretary. The com
pany, in their properties embrace twen
ty-two gold mines, varying in their
assays from $25 to $500 per ton.
There are said to be at Overton and
Fentress counties, Tenu., thirty-sc
oil springs and two in Clay county. An
inspection of all these old wells and bo
rings has been undertaken by a party of
Pennsylvania gentlemen, who think < i 1
can bo produced there fifty cents a ban-el
cheaper than in Pennsylvania. They
have the proper machinery with them,
and have commenced work with n view
of testing the oil fields of Tennessee. If
the inspection is satisfactory, a pipe line
Avill be run to Sparta.
Bishop Kean, now traveling in tho
Holy Land, lias selected a corner-stone
in Oetlisemane for tho proposed new
cathedral in Richmond, Va. In a letter
he Hays it was cut from the rock of the
Oar-den of Oetlisemane, tho most sacred
spot on the Mount of Olives, quite cli si-
to the scene of the blessed Savior’s agony,
ho having previously procured the neces
sary permission for the work. The Budi-
jiuit.y, Tenu., and i op says he Haw the stone, twenty inches
will invest several hundred thousand 1 long aud fifteen inches square, and b(
dollars in that and other localities in the fore it is shipped for this country the
State.
Alauama newspapers report that the
price of common labor in that state 1ms
THE CENSUS RETURNS.
Name InH-rrslln* Figure. Pram tka Firm
CLEANSING THE CANALS.
Tho first volumo of tho compendium
of the census of 1880 is out. Tho popu
lation of tho United Stqtes is thus clas
sified;
Mules 25,(MS,83(1
FonuUo
Native
Whtto 5 " 43-102 1)70 1 N'' u > tho annual event upon which hangs
Colored . 1........! ’........;;;!,. fl',88o’,7tH) I the *nooess or failure of the crops. From
Cliim-He........................... . 'iom«3 tho Pharaolja to tho Khedive, oanol
Japimoso 148 dredging has been the special and an*.
Clemming the 8,500 miles of fresh
.2t,fl3fljmi3water canals thnt at presout exist in
• • -48,175,MO | Egypt is, noxt to the inundation of the
i Nile, the annual event mien which liniurs
increased twenty-five cents per day as
tho result of the recent growth in manu
factures, tile building of railroads and
the wonderful mineral developments.
A negro was killed at O. L. Cloud’s,
in MoDnffoe, On., a few days ago by a
broken spike rebounding while feeding a
thresher, the spiko striking him in the
forehead and passing on through the top
of the skull. Ho died iu a few hours
afterward.
Mr. J. E. Fi.emino, of Rome, On., lias
received a curiosity hi tile shape of a
bird, known as the New Zealand Croaker.
They are said to excel a eat or dog for
killing rata and mice, It has a long cur
ved bill with whioh it cuts the throat of
its prey.
Since September lost there has been
expended on the levees on the east bank
of the Mississippi, between Vicksburg
and Greenville, over $500,000, of which
amount the levee district furnished $225.
000. The National Government furnish
ed the most of the money.
' The hogs in Jackson county, Gu., are
dying iu largo numbers from hydropho
bia, and bite everything that comes in
their way. Some fanners have had all
the swine on their places thus afflicted.
The hogs die in twenty-four lipiirs alter
being attacked, unless killed.
New Orleans is now a deeper harbor
than New York. The white Star and
Guion line dare not load their vessels
above twenty-six feet, while the French
line steamships at twenty-four feet. At
jjew Orleans vessels drawing twenty-six
feet of water have no difficulty or delay-
in getting to sea.
Franciscan seal of the Holy Land will lie
put upon it ns authentication.
WAi.no (Fla.) Advertiser: B. W. Camp
bell, of our town, has just purchased the
famed Fort Hailey tree, This tree was
planted sixty-five years ago, and is to
day tho largest orange in the world. Its
complete dimensions are: Height thirty-
four feet, spread ol branches from tip to
tip fifty-eight feet, and girth one foot
above base of trunk nine feet and two
inches. It bus borne mpre than twelve
thousand oranges in one season. It
stood the cold Friday of 1835, which
proved so destructive to vegetation, and
to-day stands the noblest and grandest of
all orange trees, monarch of the citrus
family.
Charleston News aud Courier: Lieut.
Garlington, the gallant young Mouth Car
olinian who will command the party-
going to the relief of Lieut. Greely, who
was left at Lady Franklin Buy in 1881,
has distinguished himself as an indian
fighter in the Northwest. Greely is
probably safe enough. He himself cal
culated on the failure of the expedition
of 1882, and gave instructions that pro
visions should be left as far North as the
relief vessel could go. This was done,
and provisions were left within 300 miles
of Liuly Franklin Bay. Garlington will
probably sail to look for Greely on the
20th.
Editorial Notes.
When asked in court whether her hus
band had ever pounded her before, a
Washington lady answered: “Yes, he
lias slapped me, but that is natural for
husband and wife.”
will buy her some candies,
Boissicr’i
The Baron entered the shop, sclcoted
a costty old Japanese vase, put his card
at the very bottom as a Anal surprise,
and lmd it filled with tho best candies.
He left word where it should he sont,
and thou retired quite contented with
himself.
Two hours later Mile. Nflush was con
versing in her boudoir with a young actor,
Adalbert. Her maid entered witli a
Japnucso vase in her hands.
“Moro candies, mndame,” she said.
"Who sends thnt?”
"No card, mndnrne.”
“Put it anywhere,” said Niuish, care
lessly. The young actor looked at the
vase.
“What a beautiful vase,” ho said,
“If you liko it, take it."
“Well, if you give it to me ns a bou-
venir ”
In an hour Adalbert was mitering the
room of a singer.
“Adelaide, I have brought yon a Bur-
prise, some candies,” cried Adalbert,
opening tho door.
"Well, leave them here.”
In a few minutes Adalbert left.
•‘I will give them to Justine,” said
Adelaide.
Who is talking about mo,” oriod ■
silvery voice.
“Here is my Justine.”
“Ah, what a fino vase 1”
“It is for you.”
“Thanks, thanks. I will give it to my
professor, who has promised to arrange
my debut."
On the next day, tho beautiful Justine,
nftor her music lesson, said to Honor Fu-
diozini:
“That is for you.” She handed him
tho vaso. "My debut shall be soon?
Yes ?"
“Yes, soon.”
Sonor Fadiezini went home in ahappv
mood.
“That is just in time,” thought he "I
have no money to buy a gilt for my wife.
How glad she will be ! Times are hard,
the lessons pay badly; coal is dear.”
The wife of Senor Fadieziui, professor
of singing and elocution, formerly basso-
enntanto of (ho theatres of Milan and
Turin, was indeed glad. But she was a
practical woman.
“Guiseppe,” she said, “I am suro you
did not buy those candies and the vase.
That would bo madness. Don’t reply, I
know you. Somebody gave them to
you, and yon havo brought them to me.
That is very kind of you. But we must
,, make a good nso of them. Take them
to Mmo. Bondurin, the wife of the Chiof
of the Department of Arts. He may
appoint you as a rehearser the Acad
emy of Music.”
You me right,. Yon always foresee
everything. Put my card on it, lmt uot
t o ono colitaining the price of lessons.”
Mme. Bondurin said to her husband:
“Here is n beautiful vase. Please take
it to my mother. ”
“But—but I think it would be better
to give it to the sister of my chief, who
could promoto mo.”
• “You are right, monsieur.
The sister of the chief of M. Bondnrin
aHked her brother:
“Have you prepared a present for
Madame the Baroness C.? You have
dined at the Baron’s, and it would be
impolite not to send something to the
madamc, particularly in view of the fact
that the Baron is a Deputy and an influ
ential member of tho Left Centre.”
“Ah, I had forgotten all about, it.
will go and buy ”
“It, is not necessary. Take this vase,
which I have just received from M. Bon-
durin, who serves under you us a chief
of department.”
An hour later the Baroness C. sent for
her husband. She was pale, and trem
bling witli anger. The Japanese vase
stood before her empty. Mho lmd emp
tied the candies into u big basket which
was intended for an orphan asylum of
which she was a patroness. In one hand
she held a visiting card of Baron C
whereon was written:
“Happy new year, my Niuish.”
The Baroness sued for divorce. The
Japanese vase figured as evidence in
court, and the Baroness’s lawyer found
it necessary to relate tho adventures of
the vase.
Indians (111,307
Total .60,155,783
Otir population of 1880 was more than
double that of 1850, or 50,165,783,
against 23,191,870. Tho tendency of
population to centre in tho oities becomes
more marked ns the Union grows older.
The total number of inhabitants in the
cities 1ms about quadrupled sinoo 1850—
11.318,547, against 2.807,580.
The total male population of voting
age in tho States and Territories was 12,-
830,340, made up of 8,270,518 native,
3,072,487 foreign horn, and 1,487,844
colored, among whom, besides Afrionns,
Chinese, Japanese, and Indians are in
cluded.
Tho total number of people pursuing
gainful occupations wns 17,392,099, lin
ing 34.08 per dent, of tho entire popula
tion, niul 47.81 per cent. of the popula
tion of 10 years of age and upward. Of these
14,744,912 were mnlos, and 2,047,157
wore females, engaged oooording to gen.
oral classification thus:
Total. Male. Female.
Agriculture 7,070,403 7,075,033 604,510
Pi-ofoBH’ii'l and per
sonal BervtocH. ..4,074,238 2,712,043 1,801,205
Trade and trans
portation 1,810,250 1,750,802 60,334
Marnf’ct'rlng, me-
oli’lllo’l A niin’g.8,837,112 3,205,124 631,088
Tho totid population of ton years and
over having been 30,701,607, there were,
therefore. 10,809,508 of these not eugngod
in the giimful occupations, 2,091,088 be
ing males, and 15,378,470 females. Of
these 2,550,927 are males, and 5,980,200
females between tho ages of 10 and 15,
tho total of which figures substantially
equals tho number of children attending
school, who do not through any consid
erable portion of tho year, pursue any
gainful oecniiatioii. Invalid children,
vagrnnts, and inmates of charitable and
correctional institutions must also bo
ciphered out. Of male:: between 18 and
59 only 921,833 arc unaccounted for.
Those are students, the infirm in body
and mind, and tho criminals and paupers.
“The number of men at this period of
life, not disabled, who are not returned
ns of somo occupation by reason of in
herited wealth or of having retired from
business, is hardly important enough iu
this country,” says tho rejxirt, “to bo
mentioned. Of females between tho
ages of 18 and 59, however, tho number
not accounted for is vastly larger, for ob
vious reasons—11,093,887. In that total
are included tho students, tho disabled,
the criminals, and tlio paupers; but it is
made up in oliief part of wives, mothers,
and grown daughters who are keeping
house for their families, or living at home
without any special occupation. Of
those of 80 and over without occupation,
the totals aro 518,778 males and 1,804,-
1183 females. It iH obvious why these
ire unemployed. Finally, of course,
mly reputable occupations are included.
In Now York City, out of n total popula
tion of 1,200,229, 518,377 were engaged
in gainful occupations, of whom 378,159
were males aud 135,218 females.
The Growth of Our Manufactures.
ions euro of the government, and for
over five thousand years no Egyptian
ruler lias yet been able to get this vital
work done without resorting to forced
labor. A few philanthropists linvo ro-
lontly remonstrated with Ismail Pnoha
and the present Khadivo for compelling
tho reluctant fellah to work ; but when
ever their pookets an- touched Europeans
havo always been most zealous to urge
mid encourage tho most hrntill applica
tion of Egyptian forced labor. For in
stance, Ismail Paohn had to pay $8,000,-
000 in order to secure M. do Li-SHops'
consent, to aliolish that shameful clausa
iu tho Suez Canal oontrnot, whioh forced
20,000 fellaheen to lie dragged every
mouth ill chains from their own Ih-hls to
toil at M. de Lesseps' oannl, which him
been tho alpha and omega of all the
plagues that have liefnllen Egypt during
tlm last flfteon years.
Tho present Khedive lum dene away
with forced labor, except for the work of
cleaning out the eaiialH and strengthen
ing the embankments of tho Nile and
the larger oanalH when there is danger
of a flood, and these exceptions arc ab
solutely nceeHsnry to preserve the exist
ence of Egypt. Tlio Nile begins to sub-
side in October mid begins to riso ill
June. Tho work of cleaning nut the
cauiils begins iu February, when the
water is very low. Tho other day I rode
nit to a point on tho Ismnilia Canal,
about toil miloH from Cairo, where about
1,000 laborers were hard at work clean
ing. tho oanol. What I saw ia a fair
H]M-eiinon of forood labor aa it exiats to
day in Egypt. Moored near the bank of
lal—will
Czardine says, “X don’t want my son,
Henry, to learn type settin’. for the
Brigham Young Jb., is of opinion hoys would call him a ‘settin’ Hen. ’ "
The industrial growth of tho United
States, as shown by the hist oensus, is an
interesting study. Tho number of manu
facturing establishments in 1850 wns
123,029. Ten years later they hint in
creased to 140,433. In the noxt decode
the number advanced to 252 ; 148, but be
tween 1870 und 1880 tho increase wns
hardly noticeable, tho number in 1880
being 253,840.
A different rate of increase is shown in
tho amount of capital employed. In
1850 it was $533,245,354, increasing to
$1,009,855,715 ill 1800, and doubling
again between 1860 and 1870 to $2,118,
208,709. Between 1870 und 1880 it in
creased to $2,790,223,506.
The shops and manufactories gave em
ployment m 1850 to 958,079 toilers, who
lmd increased in number by the year
1800 to 1,311,240, aud by 1870 to 2,053,-
990. In tho noxt ten years tho increase,
as in the other casos, was slow, for in
1880 the workers numbered only 2,738,-
750, an annual increase for tho decade of
less than 60,000. In this army of work
ers there were 181,918 children, 531,753
females over 15 years, and 2,025,278
males over 10, inriiingn total of $947,-
919,674, or a weekly wage for each man,
woman, or cliildof abont$6.60, In 1850
tile wages paid were $236,755,464; in
I860, $378,878,966, and in 1870, $776,
584,343.
The fhatcrials consumed in manufac
ture were valued in 1880 at $3,394,340,-
029. The products increased from $1,
019,109,616 in 1850 to $5,369,067,706 in
1880.
In the payment of wages, all tho
Mtatcs show an increase excepting Ne
vada, Missouri, and Mississippi, Minne
sota and Texas doubled their annual pay
ment, of wages in the last census decade,
and California increased from $21,000,
000 to $48 000,000.
Infernal machines are now made so
small that they can be carried in a coat
tail pocket. The Detroit Free Fresf
kindly gives this fatherly advioe to its
readers: “ When you see a man acting
as if he wanted to be kicked you’d better
let the job out.”
the canal—whioh is 180 wide—a large
dredging machine wns throwing up a
continuous stream of vile mud 11)1011 the
towpntli of the oannl. About three hun
dred fellaheen—both men nttd women—
were squatting down on thoir haunches,
and with no other implements but their
hands were scooping up tho mud thrown
up hy tlio dredging machine ami til low
ing it into round, two-handed, flexible
baskets. About sovon hundred young
hoys and girls were carrying these
baskets full of mud on their heads and
“dumping" down thoir contents behind
I lie canal embankment, about two hun
dred yards distant. A Greek engineer
was superintending tlio whole work, mid
about twenty or thirty overseen—ex
perienced fellahs, alHiut forty years of
age—were walking alioiit promiscuously,
seeing thnt nobody wns lnzy. Those
overseers wore brown woolen foz-s and
long, blue cotton shirts, anil were bare
footed.
Each overseer had in his hand a short
stick, to the end of which wnN nailed a
long lint leather strap that might have
served in better days as a trunk strap,
Those flat Htrnps are a merciful substitute
for the famous nourbaah—nn oiled strip
of hippopotamus hido about, eight feet
long and twisted and stiffened with flue
brass wire. These flat straps would
occasionally come down with n loud
“ whack” upon tho back of some luck
less backslider, but as a rule there was
no undue cruelty. Tho lalwirers them
selves were tnkon from the neighboring
villages hy requisition upon the respective
Slioiks-ol-lieled to provide so man y hands.
They sleep in thoir village, mid at sun-
Ise say their players and eat a largo pot
if baked beaus, garlio and oil. Tliuy
nimmenoc scooping mud immediately
ft erward mid work away until noon.
They then pray again and receive from
ihc government a large flat round loaf of
bread. I have frequently seen young
inys and girlH of ton or twelve years old
working away in the sun quite nuked.
M>h In Fattening Cattle.
Most animals cat in proportion to their
weight, under average conditions ot age,
temperature and fatness.
Give fattening oattle as mnoh aa they
will eat, and oft times a day.
Never give rapid changes of food, bnt
change often.
A good guide for a sate quantity of
grain per day to maturing cattle is one.
pound to eneli hundred weight; thus an
suimol weighing 1,000 pounds msy re
ceive 10 pounds of grain.
Every stall feeding in the fall will
make tho winter's progress more certain
by 30 )H-r cent.
Give us much water and salt at all
times ns they will take.
I11 UHing roots it is one guide to give
just so nmoh, in association with other
things, so that the animal may not take
any water.
Tn buildings, have warmth, with com
plete ventilation, without currents, hut
never under 40 degrees, nor over 70 de
grees Fahrenheit.
A cool, damp, airy temperature will
causo animals to consume moro food
without corresponding result iu lionn,
muscle, flesh or fat, much being used to
keep up warmth.
Stall feeding is liettcr for fat making
than box nr yard management irrespec
tive of health.
Tho growing animal, intended for boef,
requires a little exi-reise daily, to pro
mote muscle anil strength of constitution;
whun ripe,only so much as to bo able .to
walk to market.
Keep the tem|>erntnre of tho body
about 0110 hundred dogrccs; not nndcr t
iilnoty-ftvo degrees nor ovor ono hundred
and five degrees Fahrenheit.
Don’t forget that one animal'e meat
mnV he another miimul's poison.
It takes three days of flood food to
make up for 0110 of hail food.
Tho raster the fattening the more
profits; less food, earlier returns and
[letter flesh.
Got rid of every fattening cattle beast
before it is throe years old.
Every day an animal ia kept after be
ing prime is loss, exclusive of manure.
The external evidenoes of primencss
are full rumps, flanks, twist, shoulder,
pores, vein and eye.
A good cattle man means a difference
of one-fourth. He should know the likee
and dislikes of every animal.
It pays to keep one man in constant
attendance on 30 hood of fattening
cattle.
Immediately when an animal licgins
to fret for fond, immediately it liegins to
lose flesh; never cheek the fattening pro-
He Was a Gentleman.
Eli Perkins tells of a hotel porter ho
met in Louisville, Ky.: I hesitated a
little about handing my portmanteau
to a secdy-looking menial to carry,
when tho landlord said:
‘Let him carry it, suh; He’s agenle-
man. He’ll take good care of it, sah.
Perfectly safe, sah.”
“Yes,” remarked I he landlord, as we
walked up the hill, “that man carrying
yonr hag is a gen'leman, soli. Why, suh,
he wns onee worth $200,000—lmd fifty
niggers and seven hundred acres of the
best blue grass land in Kentucky.”
“What became of it, sir?” .1 asked.
“Drank it all up, sah. Fast horses
and fast women and whisky got away
with it all, sah. And poker hod a heap
to do with it. too, That man lost $4,000
anil a 2:20 horse in one night. Oh, soli,
he’s got gen’lemanly instincts; he has,
snro’ j yor tio’ne. Ho’s poor anil ragged
and dirty, and bloated all over with
whisky—a perfect wreck mentally,
morally and physically, but lie’s 11 gou’le-
man, sah. He won’t steal your curpet-
beg.”
Doo Oil.—A Minnesota consumptive
went to North Carolina to spend the
winter. While there she met an old
negro woman who told her thnt dog oi
was far liettcr and less disngreenblo to
take than cod liver oil. The lady bought
a fat dog, hail it killed and the fat rend
ered into oil. It agreed with her very
well, was easier digested than the other,
uid she says she is getting well.
No cattle whatever will pay for the
direct increase to its weight from the
consumption of niiy kind or quantity of
foist —the manure must be properly
valued. -
Never begin fattening without definite
plan.
There is no loss in feeding oattle well
Ion the sake of the manure nlone.
On nn nvurugo it costs, oil charging
every possible item, 12 cents for every
additional pound milled to the weight
of a two or three-year-old fattening
boast.
In this country the market value of
store cattle cati bo increased 36 per
e.-nt. during six months of the fattening
finish.
“Hear Mother!”
In ono of tho county jails in Western
Pennsylvania a poor old man died lately
who had boon n prisoner there for fifty-
one years.
In 1831, William Standford, an English
farm-hand near tho villago of Union-
town, became violently insane and com
mitted a murder.' Ho was tried and
sentenced to imprisonment for life, anil
was chained to tho floor of tlio jail for
eighteen years, according to the inhuman
methods of tliut day.
Finding that ho wns harmless,- the
jailor at last took off his elinins, but he
lias remained in the prison ever since,
and was known as “ Crafty Billy," the
bugaboo of several generations of
children.
He was eighty-ono at tho time of hi*
death. During his whole life, and in all
the ravings of inodnoss, lie never waa
known once to allude to his childhood,
or to his early days. When, howevor,
I10 lay dying on his pallot in the cell,
tlio old man suddenly checked his foolish
babblings, and lay still anil silent for a
few moments. Then lie looked up with
a grave, tender smile, aud said, “Dear
mother ! ” He never spoke again.
Tho thought of his mother, who bail
loved him, anil whom ho had loved, hod
lain hidden iu that poor crazed, foolish
brain for eighty long years, through all
bis imbecility and ferocity and madness;
and woko tit the last. All the misery
and cruelty ho lmd suffered slipped away
from him, and like a little child he oame
book to the “dear mother” whom he
bad lost nearly a century ago, and who
bad loved him best of all the world.
If the happy mothers who, perhaps,
arc reading this paper to their children
gathered about their knees could only
understand how long their memory will
lust with tlioso children; how long after
they arc dust their words and aotions
will influence the lives of their sons and
daughters, how different those words
and actions would be !
There would be nn end then, we think,
of irritable wrangling, of barsli
judgments anil of petty deceits with tho
little ones; and every woman would hold
up her hands to God, asking Him to so
lead her that she may lie the “ d-\r
mother ” to whom her children will turn
smiling iu thoii- dying hour.
“Come down,” said the young man,
stroking his upper up.