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SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME. Nome FactM About Cotton. In recent letter Mr. Edward Atkin son, of Boston, shows by comparison of results the enormouseconomic superiority of free labor over slave labor, in the cul tivation of the cotton. The cotton crop of 1878 and 1879 was the largest ever raised. The ten crops of 1852 to 1861, inclusive, being the last crop ever raised by slave ‘labor, nttmliercd 34,995,440 bales,. The ten crops of 1870 to 1879, inclusive,number,being the ten last crops raisjd by free labor, numbered bales. The excess of the ten years of tree labor amounts to 6,459,303 bales. ■ The value of the ten last crops, of which about two-thirds have been exported, has been not less than $2,500,000,000, and has probably amounted to $3,000,- <•(>0 000. The increase is progressive, the excess of the five last crops over the five crops immediately precedmgthe war has been 3,932,415 bales. * * * The world’s crop of cotton is now equal from ten to twelve million bales of the average weight of American cot ton, probably the latter. Os this quan tity five million bales are raised in the United States, ami between six and seven million bales are spun and woven upon machinery contained in large factories in Europe ami America. The rest is spun and woven by hand, and there is proba bly a larger portion of the population of the globe still iusufficiently clothed in hand made goods, than arc clothed in those furnished by the factories of Eu rope and America combined. The aver age work of one operative working one year ip Lowell will supply the annual wants of 1,60(1 fully clothed Chinese or 3,(100 partly clothed East Indians. No country in the world, except Egypt, pro duces any substantial quantity of cotton so well adapted to work upon machinery as that of the southern states. Nearly one-half the work remains to be con quered by cotton and commerce. To the cotton fields and factories of the United States will not the increase surely come as commerce slowly but surely opens the way ? The whole cotton crop of the world could be raised on a section of Texas less than one-twelfth of its area; or could be divided between any two of the other principal cotton states without ex hausting one-half of their good lands, or it could be all raised on less than one half the Indian Territory that is not yet occupied at all. Touching the cost of raising cotton in the south, Mr. Atkinson suggests the opinion that if the cost of labor be meas ured by its effectiveness as well as by the measure of the money with which it is paid, there is no place in the world where so effective an amount of manual labor c an be procured at so little cost as in the employment of negroes upon our south ern cotton-fields. The price of bacon and corn guages the cost of cotton. Eaten together they are digestible and nutritious—eaten separately quite otlier w ise. They constitute the food that the negro field-hand freely chooses. Three and one-half pounds of bacon, one peck of meal, and one quart of molasses or syrup constitute the week’s rations of an adult man or woman. This ration has been lately and can now be supplied ata cost of 38 to 42 cents per week, or six cents or less per day. The plat of sweet potatoes and fish from the ponds and rivers servo for the rest. —Scientific American. Vermin on Chickens. Vbout one-half of my customers and correspondents ask : “ What shall I do to ' -yet rid of chicken lice?” I have heard that question so often, and answered it to many times that 1 am getting a little tired of it; but still, for the benefit of the afflicted fowls and their owners, I am going over the ground once more. “Eternal vigilance” is the price of freedom from lice in fowl-houses. A great many poultry-keepers, when they find their fowl-houses swarming with liee, go to work and clean them out in short order and then seem to think that the work is done for all time; but the little torments multiply ami increase with astonishing rapidity, and in the course of- two or three months the inex perienced poultry-keeper is astonished to to find that his fowls have more liee on their bodies than are welcome or agree able. If you expect to keep your fowls and their premises free from chicken lice, you must “ wage an eternal warfare.” The ounce of prevention in the shape of a proper place for the fowls to wallow in, and an occasional whitewashing, and washing the perches with coal-oil, is w orth more than several pounds of cure after the liee once get a hint-hold on your fowls; but when you do get them, don’t be discouraged, but go to work and work faithfully until t'hev are ex terminated. The plan that I have given repeated and thorough trials—and that has never tailed me, is to whitewash the inside of the houses every spring and fall, and once or twice during the summer ; to fumigate occasionally with sulphur; to use coal -oil iueely as a wash about the perches and on the bodies of the fowls; to use sulphur or tobacco stems in the nests, and to al ways keep a supply of road-dust and ashes where the fowls can wallow in it at pleasure. After the dust bath has been in use a month or six weeks, the contents are emptied into a barrel and used to sprinkle on the platform under the roosts, and the box is refilled with a fresh mix ture of dust and ashes. For young chicks, mylirst care is to see that they come from the nest free from lice ; afterwards 1 annoint the old hen and chicks every two weeks with a mixture compounded of five ounces of sweet oil mixed with one ounce of oil of sassafras, and applied with a sewing machine oil can. 1 found this receipt in some poultry journal two or three years ago, tried it. and know it to answer the purpose tul • mirably. Carbolic powder is also an ex cellent remedy for liee on youngchickens, and to mix with the contents of a dust box. When nothing else is at hand for young chicks, annoint them with lard oil,"sweet oil, or any kind of grease slightly’ salted will be beneficial; but keep coal oil from young chicks, setting hens ciiick< ih; no oil or grease V. ' v '” ’ • ■'•’•l :| h mi O-Mfea- _ tin - Ml pan of it every day, and they will need no meat. At hog-killing time save all the refuse scraps that usually go to the cats and dogs, salt them in an old keg, and you will have plenty of meat for your fowls. The best wav to feed it is to freshen, boil until tender, chop fine and mix with soft feed, using the water that the meat was boiled in for mixing the mass. A little meat will go a good ways—too much meat does more harm than good. A half pint of chopped meat is enough for a dozen fowls, and it should not lie fed oftener than twice a week. It is more work to cook meat for fowls than it is to throw it to them raw, in chunks, but the cooked food is the most economical, and, if you expect to make poultry pay well, you must study economy’ in everything.—[ Prairie Far mer. Fall Oatain the South. Hon. Thomas B. Jones, of Georgia, has the following to say about this crop: Fall oats must be the chief reliance in making this crop “meet the next.” If sown early, they will mature in time to meet the wants of most farmers next spring. An abundant supply of rust proof seed oatsshouldat once be secured, or assured, and sowing should commence in September in the northern part of the State—in October, in the middle and southern portions. There is perhaps no crop on which commercial fertilizers will pay better than on oata. A few acres at h ast, may be sown as early as may be deemed prudent, and well fertilized with an ammoniated pot-ash super-phosphate. There are several important advan tages in favor of oats as the general stock grain of the south, and it is to be hoped that Georgia farmers universally—as a few have done, already—will soon adopt the system of farming which embraces this feature. These advantages may be briefly' stated as follows: 1. The soil and climate have been proven to be perfectly adapted to oats; anil with the rust-proof oats, now so generally’ known, rust is no longer feared. 2. The chief labor of growing the crop is 'included in the sow ing, which involves little more labor than would be expended in the bare prepara tion of the land for corn. 3. Sow early in the fall; the crop is t'arcly injured by winter freezes, and matures a certain crop before the winter drouth sets in. 4. Oats are a less heating and more muscle-producing food than corn, and threfore better suited for working ani mals during spring and summer. 5 It costs less to produce oats than an equal food value of corn. These, besides other advantages, arc sufficient to decide the question in favor of oats as the food crop for working stock. Horses With the Toothache. Horses, like human beings, are sub jected to the most excruciating tooth aches, and it is only within the past few years that any at?” in pt has been made by veterinary surgeons, to allay the pain and extract or till their teeth. It is only after patietfi study, too, that one is able to discover when a horse is suffer ing, and upon what tooth to light would puzzle indeed the phenomenal Philadel phia lawyer. When suffering from toothache, horses manifest the greatest impatience, and are vicious and unman ageable, and bite and kick continually. Htablemen and managers, at different times, have been badly bitten or kicked by horses suffering from toothache, who nt other times are. the most docile creatures. The experiments made by veterinary surgeons have been of great practical advantage, ami they’ are gradu ally getting the matter down to a per fect science. “ What is the mode of treating tooth ache in a horse?” was asked of a veter inary surgeon the other day. “ Well, they differ, according to cir cumstances.’ Sometimes the horse is in the stable and sometimes in tho field when attacked, and the operator must use his judgment. Generally, however, a man puts his arm around the horse’s head, and with his disengaged hand presses hard on the nose of the animal. Then, without more ado, tho hand is thrust into the mouth and the jaws felt slowly and gently, then each tooth is felt, and when the right one is touched there is no mistaking it, as the horse elevates his feet in a manner somewhat after the style of the boss danseuee in the /Hack Crook. In most cases the defective tooth is found at the sides of the jaw, where the sharp points have lacerated the flesh. A file must then be inserted and the points filed down, and in a short time the animal feels relieved. But this is not actual toothache. The gradual growing of the molars and the sharpen ing of the edges, however, leads to it. How can I tell when the horse has the toothache? Why, it’s easy enough; you can tell in the manner in which ho holds his head. When a horse is affected it goes about with the head down and the lower lip drooping, and if the rein is pulled sharply, the creature is ready to jump and prance. Then again, the eyes are tired, and if the horse is compelled to back by the pressure of the rein u]x>n his teeth, the agony is terrible, and the attention of the driver is thus at tracted.” A Turtle ami Sturgeon Fight. I American Republican.] C. S. S. Horne, while- fishing recently in Flint River, Ga., was disturbed by the cont inual falling of some heavy body in the water. After listening for some time he concluded that something un usual was going on, and seizing his gun, went forward to investigate. On the opposite side of tho river he saw a white object with a large dark one attacking it. A boat being handy, he bailed it. and expeditiously and quietly passed over. He struck the bank about twelve feet above the cause of the disturbance, seized his gun, and as the boat swung around with the stream, fired at the head of the dark object. He then dropped the gun, and as tho boat drifted he lifted animmense logger-head turtle into it, after which he pulled in tho other object, which proved to be a large stur geon. Before ho could recross the river, the turtle, which was only stunned by ■ Ihe bird shot-, recovered and showed ■ light. The situation was lively and in | tei-eding The boat was leaky, tho i w.u r deep and swift, the turtle large, | strong, and determined on a fight It I advanced with open mouth, and Cui’s . gun was empty. Ho gave z <he boat all ■ the impetus possible, stuck the paddle ; in tb.o lieast’s mouth, drew’ a little pen knife from his pocket and tried to cut jgMßhumt. As the turtle kept its hold Hw ■hklle. he succeeded in ties : ftcr Hffint ' then «>»'.<! i.is MHL t, nt it vei II 1 SUNDAY READING. Bealdea Little Grav«. “( all no one happy till ue dies,” the old Athenian saying has the stamp of truth : And oh ! how many a bright and glowing youth, Lit with the morning’s sunshine and its gold, As years swept on has darkened with the mold Os vice and bitterness and sin-brought care! How many a fond and tearful mother's prayer Had been mattered if she could have told His future life wliom she sought God to spare! Nay, rather she had prayed he should lie cold In all the purity of childhood drest; And standing o’er my first-born’s little grave I can but humbly intirmur God knew best. Stainless he took the precious flower he gave. —Good Words. The Nonl. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with our life’s star, Hath had elsewhere its setting And oometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God who is onr home. —Wordsworth. Better Thoughts- “< >’er the darkest night of sorrow, From the deadliest field of strife, Dawns a dearer, brighter morrow, Springs a truer, nobler life. We are architects of fate. There is no remedy for love but to love more. That religion is the best that produces the fairest fruit. Christ will be either King oi jiobody. “Aut Ctesar, aut ntfllers.” All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Wherever you go, let men.track your pathway by your Christian life. The intellect of the ’vise is like glass—it admits the light and reflects it. ■ 'The veil which covers the face of futu rity is woven by the hand of mercy. Fortuno does not change men ; it only unmasks them, and shows their true character. The pain of parting is keenest to those who go, but it stays longer with those who are left behind. Insult not another forliis want of the talent you possess; he may have talents which you want. —Mann Weigh thy words in a balance, and make a door and bar for thy mouth.— Aprocryphal Old Testament, 130 B. C. Earth can never be completely happy, because it is not heaven ; nor completely unhappy, because it is the way thither. It would tire the hands of an angel to write down all the pardons that God be stows upon true penitent believers.— Bates. Sober sense, self-possession, intelligent self-control are the safeguards of head and heart, and make a beautiful temple for the soul. In a sermon Dr. Baird, says, “It is not the fact that a man has riches that keeps I him out of the kingdom of heaven, but rather the fact that riches have him.” If we traverse the world it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without schools and theatres ; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayers, and the like, no one ever saw.—Plutarch. A Massachusetts paper, commenting on the fact that a farmer nealry lost Ids life by sinking in a quagmire, adds: “men who don’t susberibe for a newspaper must expect to be sucked in every now and then.” To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set qbout it, is as if a man should put oft’ eating and drinking from one time to another, till he is starved and destroyed. There has been no great people without processions, and the man who thinks himself too wise to be moved by them to anything but contempt is like the puddle that was proud of standing alone while the river rushed by. One must be sure of two things—love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, waiting vour play to begin; and the other is, youjjmust not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. There is a curious tendency in human nature to crave sorrow in an unconscious way. It is like the physical longing for salt. Pure joy and peace are savorless without this pungent flavor of tears. There is no relief to sculpture without shadow; no delight to the eye like dawn, and yet dawn implies darkness inevitable. If a man foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my ungrudging love. The more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me. Overcome anger by love; overcome good by liberality; overcome falsehood by truth ; overcome evil by good. Hatred never ceases hatred, but by love —this is an old rule.—Buddha. Old Master Brookes says: “If you only have candle-light bless God for it, and He will give you starlight; when you have got starlight praise God for it, and He will give you moonlight ; when vou have got moonlight, rejoice in it, and He will give you sunlight; praise him still more and He will make the light of your sun as the light of seven days, for the Lord himself shall be the light of your spirit .” The little life-boat of an earth, with its noisy crew of mankind, and all their troubled history, will one day have van ished ; faded like a cloud-speck from the azure of the sky. What then, is man? He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the beginning and in the working of a faith ful man is there already (as all faith, from the beginning gives assurance) a something that pertains not unto this death element of Time; that triumphs over time, and is, and will be, when time shall be no more. —Thomas Carlyle. As long as you are sailing on the still waters of pleasure, and your affairs glide I on smoothly, you may be deceived about the treacherous nature of the element to which you trust, and may flatter your self. But when the storm rises, when tho obstinate gale drives you toward the sharp-edged reefs which threaten to crack and sink your shell of a bark, then, in your helpless struggle what can be more welcome to your soul than the heavenly message, “ I am the Lord thv God who stirreth up the sea that its waves roar. And I have placed my words’in thy mouth, and with the shadow of my hand I cover thee.” Such mes sage is calming and reassuring. It in creases the human strength to resist un til the storm will have subsided anti the victory shall be won. the sweetest thing in life to see simplicity and deference to ; i which a maiden of ■ *jfe»d--!. xb I : - ike Celluloid—lts Composition and Uses. Celluloid is a composition of fine tissue paper and camphor, treated with chemi cals by a patent process. A rather com mon impression that it contains gun cot ton is a mistake, which arises from confounding it with collodion. Celluloid, it is said, is entirely non-explosive, and burns only. when in direct contact with flame. When crude it looks like a transparent gum, and its color is a light yellow-brown. It can be made as hard as ivory, but is always elastic, and can be readily molded into every conceivable form. With equal ease it can be colored in any tint desired, the dye running through the'entire substance, and being, therefore, ineffaceable. As a close imi tation of ivory, celluloid has made great inroads' in the business of the ivory manufacturers. It* makers assert that in durability it ’ much superior to ivory, as it sustains hard knocks without injury and it is not discolored by age or use. Great quantities of it are used for piano and organ keys, to the manufac ture of which one company is devoted. So extensive is its use for this purpose that the ivory manufacturers have re duced their price for keys below that of celluloid, in the hope of cheeking the competition. “It is only a question of who can hold out longest,” said a cellu loid manufacturer; “but we can make our own elephants, and the ivory men have got to catch theirs.” Within the last year and a half a branch of celluloid manufacture has been developed, which promises to reach enormous proportions. It is the use oL celluloid as a substitute for linen or paper shirt cuff’s, collars, etc. It has the appearance of well-starched linen, is sufficiently light and flexible, does not wrinkle, is not affected by per spiration, and can be worn for months without injury. It becomes soiled much less readily than linen, and when dirty is quickly cleaned by the application of a little soap and water witli a sponge or •rag. For travelers and for wear in hot weather, this celluloid linen is especially convenient. It has been lately muclt improved by the introduction of real linen between two thicknesses of cellu loid. Shirt-fronts have been made of it, as well as cuffs and collars, and it is be lieved that these will prove equally de sirable. Luminous Moss. [Galignan’s Messenger.] In many parts of the Alps, the Py renees and other mountainous districts of the south of Europe, travelers are fre quently astonished on entering caves or caverns to find them lighted up to a cer tain extent. This appearance is pro duced by a small, elegant moss, the Schui tottc'ja oumvndacea, which forms a mono type genus created by the naturalist Mohr, at the commencement of this cen tury. Hedwig had placed this moss among the Gymnostonum, but afterward Mohr distinguished it from the fact that the small covering which protects tho fruits splits instead of being raised all in otte piece like most other mosses, and from this circumstance its name is de rived, composed from the Greek Schitos tega (split cover). In the dimly-lighted caverns this plant usually inhabits tlie walls, or tho ground where it grows ap pears to be lit up with a greenish glow which has been compared to the reflec tion of an emerald. At first this effect was attributed to phosphorescence, but about 1825, when Bidel, one of the most distinguished botanists, published his “Bryologla Uniterm," the phosphorescent theory had to be abandoned, for he pointed out that when the entrance to the cave was completely closed the lum inous effect, disappeared. This observa tion showed that the light was due to reflection caused by the particular form of the delicate cells and with grains of chlorophyle composing the filaments to bo observed at the base and in the neigh borhood of the Sc'iinttislega. These fila ments are nothing else th in the vegeta tive slateof the moss itself which follows tho germination of the spores and seed contained in the fruit of this small plant a state which botanists have termed pro tonema. When the germination of a moss spore takes place, a filament is pro duced containing grains of green matter; soon this filament closes up and forms a string of cells, then ramifies, and only after having existed a certain time, vary ing with species, does the protonema give birth to shoots which take root and pro duce a stem and leaves. Thus the moss owes its peculiar reflecting powers to a special disposition of the cells in the shoots it throws out for its reproduction. The Man Who Hadn’t a Cent. Says the Lewiston Gazette: Capt. Broughton, of Portland, tells a story which we think too good to keep, which is as follows; Some time in ’64 there was a number of army officers stopping at a hotel in Washington. Among them was a Capt. Jones, who was a first-rate fel low, a good officer, and very pompous. Emerson and Jones used to have a good deal of joking together at the table and elsewhere. One day at the dinner table, when the dining hall was well filled, Capt. Jones finished his dinner first, got up and walked almost to the dining hall door, when Emerson spoke to him in a loud voice, and said: “Halloo, captain! see here; I want to speak to you a min ute.” The captain turned and walked back to the table and bent over him, when Emerson whispered, “ I wanted to ask you how far you would have gone if I had not spoken to you.” The captain never changed a muscle, but straight ened up and put his fingers into his vest pocket and said, in a voice loud enough lor all to hear him: “Capt. Emerson, I don’t know of a man in the world J had rather lend $5 to than you, but the fact is, I haven’t a cent with" me to-day,” and turned on his heel and walked away. Emerson was the color of half a dozen rainbows, but he had to stand it. He never heard the last of it, and it cost him more than $lO to treat on it. Western Titles. The traveler who journey’s westward in our favored land should make up his mind to accept, without demur, such military’ or judicial rankand title as may be conferred upon him! He njay lie quite sure, too, that when his brevet has once been settled west of the Missouri by proper authority, it will cling to him aa long as he remains in that region. “I don’t half like,” onco remarked a Scotch fellow-traveler of the writer to a friendly group nt Denver, “ the promo tion back-war-r-d which J receive. East of Chicago I was Colonel; at Chicago I was Major; at Omaha a man called me Captain, and offered me dinner for t'uir-r-ty-fiye cents!” One of the group, after a careful sur vey of the face and figure before him, the kindly yet keen expression, and the iron-gray whiskers, replied: “ You :yn’t Colonel wuth a cent. 1 allow that you’re J edge!” And “ Jedge” he it as from that time forth. Nobody’ called him anything 1 else. Newly-made acquaintances, land- I lords, stage drivers, conductors, all used |_this title, until his companions Iwgan to had known him all his life LISTZ’S COURTSHIP. The Romantic Story of How the Fam »u* Pianist Won His Bride to Whom Was Added a Dowry of Three Ml Al ion Francs. The following story of the narrative of Listz, the pianist, is, if true, certainly very remarkable and romantic. It is as follows: Listz was at Prague in the autumn of 1840. The day after his arrival a stran ger called upon him, and represented himself as a brother artist in distress, having expended all his means in an un successful law-suit, and solicited aitl to enable him to return to Nuremberg, his place of residence. Listz gave him a hearty reception, and opened his desk to get some mcney, but found he posseessed only three ducats. “ You see,” said the generous artist, “ that I am as poor as yourself. How ever, I have credit, and I coin more money with my piano. I have here a miniature given me by the Emperor of Austria; the painting is of little value, but the diamonds are fine; take it. sell the diamonds, and keep the money.” The Stanger refused the rich gift, but Listz compelled him to take it, and he carried it to a jeweler, who, suspecting from his miserable appearance, that he had stolen it, had him arrested and thrown into prison. The stranger sent for his generous benefactor, who imme diately called upon the jeweler, and told him that the man was innocent; that he had given him the diamonds. “ But who are you?” said the jeweler. “ My name is Listz,” he replied. “ 1 know of no financer of that mime,” said the jeweler! “ Very possible,” said Listz. “ But do you know that these dia monds are worth six thousand florins'?” “ to much the better for him to whom I gave them.” “ But you must be very rich to make such presents?” “My sole fortune consists of three ducats,” said Listz. “Then you are a fool?” said the jew eler. “No,” said Listz. “I have only too move the ends of my finger to get as much money as I want.” “Then you are sorcerer,” said the jeweler. “I will show the kind of sorcery that I employ,” said Listz. Seeing a piano in the back parlor of the jeweler’s shop, the eccentric artisi sat down to it, and began to improvise a ravishing air. A beautiful young lady made her appearance, ami at the close of the performance, exclaimed; “ Bravo, Listz r “ You know him, then?” said the jew eler to his daughter. “ I have never seen him before,” she said; “but there is no one in the world but Listz who can produce such sounds from the piano.” The jeweler was satisfied, the stranger was released and relieved, the report of Listz being in the city flew, and he was waited upon and feted by the nobles, who besought him to give a concert in their city. The jeweler seeing the hom age that was paid to the man of genius, was ambitious of forming an alliance with him, and said to him: “ How do you find my daughter? ’ “ Adorable!” was the reply. “What do you think of marriage!” continued the jeweler. “ Well enough to try it.” said Listz. “ What do you say to a . dowry of three million francs?” he was next asked. “ I will accept of it,” was the reply, “ and thank you, too.” “Well, my daughter likes you and you like her,” said the jeweler: “ the dowry is ready. Will vou be mv son-in low?” “ Gladly,” replied Listz, and the marriage was celebrated lite week fol lowing. Altisky Traffic in Al,.skit. A correspondent of the New York Herald accompanying the American Arctic expedition of the Jennette, the Herald's enterprise, in a long letter re lates the following concerning the illicit whisky traffic at Ounalaska, in Behring Sea: “Itis notgenerally knownthatan enor mous but illegitimate business is being carried on in these regions by dealers in whisky. It is contrary to law to sell whisky to the Alaskan or Aleutian In dians, yet year after year vessels fitted out as whalers to all appearance, but which are in reality whisky ships, leave San Francisco and Honolulu for the Behring Strait settlementsandexchangc the. “rot gut” for furs, ivory and whale bone. The Indians of these coasts, like the red men elsewhere, will pajt with anything for whisky. The only English word most of them know is “wheesky,” which they sling at you the moment their feet touch the ship’s deck. They beg for“whee?ky” almost piteously. Tak ing due advantage of this well known thirst for the spirit of civilization ex hibited by the natives, the traders load up their vessels with the cheapest and worst kind of whisky and visit the little settlements along the coast, where they sow the seeds of murder, thievery and all kinds of abominations among the hapless natives. The revenue cutter Kush and several agents of the Treasury, including Mr. Smith, the collector afore said, unite their efforts to stop this traffic. The suspected vessels are searched, and those found engaged in tjhe whisky trade, seized according to law. There is now in store here about sixteen hundred gallons of contraband spirit that were recently captured up the coast. A vessel was recently wrecked at Nounivak notoriously engaged in the whisky bus iness. When she ran ashore it is re ported that her captain destroyed the vile spirit as a measure of safety, for if the natives came down on the wreck and found the, to them, precious liquor, a grand national drunk would be organized forthwith, which might wind up with the massacre of the wrecked crew by the frenzied savages. It will be seen, there fore, that the services of a competent officer to control the trade of these is lands and coasts, as well as to stop illegit imate trade in whisky, are much needed. A Fatal Engine. [Fhiladelph.a Times.] John Peterson, and old engineer on the Northern Now Jersey railroad, on Tuesday ran over and killed a young lady, Miss Mary K. Bussing, of Brooklyn, who had been gathering ferns near the track at Englewood, J., and a few hours after ran over a lit tle boy at Tyler Park. When the train reached Jersey City, Peterson wept like, a child, and jumping from the fatal en gine he said, excitedly: “ You can take charge of that engine yourselves, for I’ve had enough of her.” He was so affected that he went home sick. Miss Bussing was the daughter of Mr. K. S. Bussing, one of the wealthiest citizens of Brooklyn. She w-,>* with two young ladies at the time of the terrible’ acci dent, i ri.,l got her foot caught between the rails of a switch. Nearly the whole train passed oy. Zfier befoi ' it . t, u stopped - > An Enoch Arden Case. A romantic Enoch Arden case has re cently v conie to light at Fowler, Ind. A correspondent says that it is so ex traordinary in its details and so exceed ingly novel and romantic that the peo ple do not tire in discussing it in all its phases. Morningstar was so poor that he was unable to support himself and family and he battled as best he could against the incursion of the wolf until, unable to stand the contest longer, he enlisted in the regular army. His little girl was scarcely able to speak the parent’s title when he left. He had repeatedly written to his wife, but received no an swer, and by some means ascertained that she no longer resided in the little town in Illinois. He gave her up as dead, and, too poor to follow and seek her if she still lived, he joined a party of emi grants to California, and crossed the plains and snow-capped mountains to the new Eldorado. Here he encountered the vicissitudes of early mining, and his was indeed a rough time. As he strug gled on in almost abject poverty he grew gray and old. He was no longer the young man who left his wife and baby years before. His letters to his wife were unanswered. They never reached her, and he was too poor to obtain money to enable him to return to Illinois. Thus he worked -until one day recently he struck a bonanza, sold out and came back. Mrs. Morningstar, after her husband had left, wonted hard t<> feed herself aryl child, and when she heard the report ..that he hrtdbeen killed in battle, she suc cumbed to the inevitable and married Ben Scott, a drayman. He was a kind friend to her, and he had a kind heart and possessed many of the essentials that go to constitute a good man. At length they were married, and their life has been a struggle with poverty ever since. Their union has brought five lit tle children into the world, and these, with Scott and wife—the poverty striken home—greeted Morningstar a few days ago, when he came home after an absence of twenty years, to find his wife and baby. J lis little girl baby, whom he found working out as a servant girl, is a bright and modest young woman who, of course, does not remember her father, knowing none other than poor Scott. Her father has removed her, and dressed her as becomes the daughter of a wealthy retired mine-owner, and there are pre parations in progress for a trip to Cali fornia. What Mrs Morningstar-Scott will do is not known. The long absence of her hu-band would entitle h r to a divorce, and she might then legally marry Scott, but her first love is alive and blessed with abundance of worldly goods. It is a question too intricate for solution by any one save herself The Star of Self-Love. The first thing to aggrandize a man in his own conceit is, to conceive of himself as neglected. To undeceive him is to deprive him of the most tickling morsel within the range of self-complacency. Were we. to recite one-half this mystery all the world would be in love with dis content; wc should wear a slight for s bracelet, and neglects and contumacies would be the only matters for courtship. The first sting of a suspicion is previ ous; but wait —out of that wound there is balm to be extracted. Your friend passed you on such a day without notice —he must have seen you. Go home and make the most of it ami you are a made man from this time, that your self up: conjure all the kinds feelings vou have had for your friend; what you have been to him, and how bis reputa tion was nearer to you than your own! Stop not here, but enlarge your specula tions, as a spark kindles more sparks. Was there one among them who has not proved hollow and false? The little star of sell-love twinkles; that, is to encour age you through deeper g’oom. You are not yet half sulky enough. Think the very idea of night fled from the earth, or your breast the solitary ex ception of it, till you have swelled your self into at least one hemisphere. To grow bigger every moment in your own conceit : to deify yourself at the expense of your species; to reflect with what strange injustice you have been treated in all quarters —these are the true pleasures of sulkiness. . Artificial Lumber. The versatile ingenuity of a Western inventor, who doubtless loosei-s the lime in the fnf-di.-t ipf future when the forest shall cease to <■ Jodie the hills and dales, and the demands for lumber shall prove vastly in excess of the supply, has suc ceeded in devising a substitute for the natural product, of virgin or the culti vated soil. His plan is to use that fragile vegetable, straw, and by a pecul iar process to compress it into a sub stance’as hard and indestructible as oak lumber. It is claimed that this process converts wheat-straw into timber which is susceptible of as fine a polish and finish as mahogany and black walnut, at a cost not in excess of that of the best clear pine.- The straw is first manufac tured by the ordinary paper-mill process into strawboard, and a sufficient number of sheets of this of the right size are taken to make the required timber. They are soaked and softened in a chemi cal solution, which is, of course, the in ventor’s secret. After the fiber of the pasteboard is sufficiently saturated, the pile of sheets is pressed between a scries of rollers which consolidate them so that when dry, the whole is a hard stick. It is claimed that the process renders this wood substitute impervious to water, and the chemicals used are such as to make it fire-proof. Bu t too sanguine inventor has only made samples thus far. Peavine Tom’s Encounter. (Plumas (Cal.) National,] An Indian known as “ Peavine Tom ” had a hand-to-hand encounter with a lot of bears last week, on the mountain above Buck’s ranch, which must have been a terrible battle. He was hunting in the locality spoken of, and found a “bear wallow” in a little valley, and suddenly came upon live bears. He says that he shot one, killing it, when another attacked him. His only de pendence was in his butcher knife, and with this he managed to kill the second one. About this time another attacked him, and ihc conflict must have been fearful. Fart of the Indian’s scalp was torn from his head, bis face badly lacer ated, and his arm, Side and one thigh fairly “eaten tip.’’ No bones were broken, however, and he managed to staggerand crawl io the road, where he wns found and tr.kon to Buck’s ranch. Mr, Wagoner div— <d hi- wounds, and at last accounts he v.a»iuipioving and in a fairway to neoMcr. He -aid he would have been killed but that he kept his face down most of the time and lot tho bears bite ids back. A par 1 y went out to the scene of the fight, and found the three bears dead and the I udiiin’s knifo sticking in one of them, lie must have been ‘‘game Io the b:iel.-hew ” and de serves the title of the “ b.. hour hun ter.” A San Francisco Trick. [San Frandtco Chronic!*.] A well-dressed individual enters a saloon—for these human excrescences upon the body social are the pink of perfection in their personal attire—“like the lily of the valley, they toil not neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was ne er arrayed like one of these.” After calling for a drink -he glances about the room, compliments the proprietor upon the tasteful adornment of ths walls, and casually remarks that he owns an elegant oil painting which would add greatly to the decorative dis play, and that he would sell the picture at a great sacrifice. The proprietor probably replies carelessly that he is “not buying pictures this year,” and. after some further conversation upon the subject, the owner of the picture makes a proposition to bring it around and hang it over the bar, preparatory to disposing of it by a raffle. The propri etor readily assents to the proposition, as the picture will be an ornament to his place, and raffles are always a source of revenue to a bar, as the winner is ex pected to spend the value of his prize in treating the crowd, which hitter the bar tender always multiplies by three. The game has now commenced, and the gudgeon is within the toils. The same day an express wagon arrives and un loads the picture, securely packed in a wooden box, emblazoned with the letters, “Handle with care,” which inscription the average expressman usually’ recognizes by tossing the pack age upon the sidewalk. In this partic ular instance,’however, the picture is carefully handled, and, upon being opened, there is disposed an elaborate gilt frame, surrounding a cheap daub representing a rural landscape, with red, white and blue verdure, supplemented by a glorious cardinal red sunset, which casts indescribable shadows upon impos sible cattle drinking yellow water out of an orange-colored lake. The golden magnificence of the frame seems fi? dis tract the attention from the glaring de fects of the picture, and besides, the vic tim is not supposed to be a connoisseur. The owner of the picture superintends the hanging, all the time dilating upon the merits and value of the painting. On taking his departure, he leaves his name and address, in case the proprietor should want to communicate with him, and signifies his intention of having the raffle tickets immediately printed. He also states that he must realize $l5O from the raffle, and tickets to that, amount will be sold. In the course of the week, the accomplice in the scheme makes his appearance upon the scene. He is also attired in elegant raiment, and is even more distingue in appearance than the other. He steps into the bar and carelessly calls for a cocktail. (Spy ing the picture, he carefully adjusts his eye-glass and critically scans it. He in cidentally remarks that he possesses the companion picture, and if this one could be purchased at a reasonable figure, ho would like to secure it. The proprietor informs him that the picture is to bo disposed of at a raffle, and it is valued at $l5O. After some further conversa tion, the sharper offers to give $l5O for the picture, and generously allows the saloon-keeper whatever profit he can make by the transaction. He then pulls a handful of gold from his pocket, and car. ,’essly throws a ten-dollar gold piece uppn the bar as an earnest of hi? inten tions, and secures a receipt for the same. Before leaving, he states that he will call around in the evening with his car- I riage, pay the balance and take the pic ture away. When he takes his depart ure, the "saloon-keeper, who imagines he sees a chance for a lit tie lucrative specu lation, immediately repaint to the ad dress of Shaper No. 1, who is anxiously I awaiting his arrival. The saloon-keeper informs him that the picture has been greatly admired I y his customers, and he : has decided to purchase it if they’ can agree upon the terms. After prolonged discussion, a bargain is finally struck i upon a cash basis, and the victim lays the flattering unction to his soul that he lets consummated.'!shrewd business trans action, and cleared a handsome profit j with little effort, lie returns to his place of business to await the arrival of the customer, but the day’s lengthen into weeks, and the weeks into months, and \ the stranger cometh not. This clever i swindling dodge is now being success i fully “worked” in the city, the victims ‘ rarely lodging a complaint at police “well l.mraing that they h::v , cause for action, in ! dreading the ridicule which an exposure of their gullibility would subject them to. When Are Women Lovely? Loveliness in women, though it may vary in its character and manifestations at different periods of life, is not the prop erty of youth only. There is a great and undeniable charm in a fresh beauty of eighteen, to which inexperience and early romance lends, perhaps, additional fascination. A pretty girl of that age, who lias been untouched by care, and who knows of the world through imag ination only, is a very delightful object ; and many men wish they might take cap tive her first affections. Between eign | teen and twenty-one the changes in a girl, so far as the charms of her person go, are not likely to be great; but in that time, by longer intercourse with society, and by natural development, she may get more companionable for men of maturity, and her carriage and self control become better and greater. Those are important years in a young woman’s life, the years during which, in our climate, the majority of the sex are married. And yet, from twenty-two to twenty-five or twenty-six a maiden may, and generally does, still further advance in attractiveness, and add to the store of her charms. She is still young, but she has outlived some of the youthful fancies, and feels some of the dignity of womanhood. No better ages than those in a maiden’s life, and never is she love lier. But why stop at twenty-six? What fairer women are to be found than many of those between twenty-six and thirty, and even older? Girls of eighteen may look on them as unsought old maids, and yet they are in their womanly prime, and may capture hearts that have been steeled against girlish fascinations. ; Oftentimes they make the best of wives, and men find a solace and communion ship in their society which immaturity cannot give. They have the advantage Os experience, and they have learned the lessons taught by longer contact with the world, while still they may not be averse to falling in love, It is a mistake to think that the good :ifid "lieautiful are not at home on earth ; that we axe to entertain them as gods. No.person ever walked the earth or lived in the hopies of men who was too fair or liio noble foHiis place. Goodness is not out of its eienieiit in this world.' It is the very persons that we say are too good for the world that We need to make the world better. There was hover yet kind ness too kind for humanity, never good ness too good lor mortals, never num or woii.jii too lii-Ji and poor for earth. Let II.; hull’ll to say. “ He is good enough to lit. The world. i loi llio . who make it Loll' r. -Index.