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A hundred years ago. Where, where are all the birds that tang A hundred years ago? The flowers that all la beauty sprang A hundred years ago ? Tbe lips that sallied, The eye3 that wild Tn flashes shone Soft eyes upon: Where, 0 where are lips and eyes. The maiden’s smiles, the lover’s sighs, That lived eo long ago ? Who peopled all the city streets A hundred years ago ? Who filled the chui eh with faces meek, A hundred years ago? The sneering tale Of sister frail; The p!,it that worked A brother's hurt - Where, 0 where are piots and sneers. Xiie poor man's hope*, the rich mat's fears. That lived so long ago ? She let him up, and he turned to the Vicksburger ana inquired: “ Stranger, was it a fa’r fought ?” **I guess it was!” “ Then I travel I” He entered the hat, put on hiB coat and hat, took np his rifle, and as he came oat he reached his hand to his wife, and said: “Good-bye, Sake! We agreed fa’r and equar’, and here I go!” Then, turning to the traveler, he added: “Much obleeged, stranger—ye held the candle plumb fa’r, and ye didn’t holler for either one of m ”* PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. Tbe Plan tor Bugllih and American Coalition—An mxtenslon gcheme. The executive committee of the na tional grange have spent considerable time in reoeiving and considering the proposition of the English co operators for a union for commercial purposes of the two bodies. The co operafors are represented by Thos. B. Wcrrall, of Manchester, England, who is th a man aging director of the company whioh is proposed as the bond of onion. The British co-operative societies are net lt i fill Via imnAflci. A FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY. Alt Authentic Incident ot Travel in the Southwest. A gentleman residing in this city had occasion a few days since to make a journey down the river and several miles back from it, using a saddle-horse. Darkness overtook him in a sparsely settled district, and as the roads were in a bad condition and the evening looked threatening, he halted before a forlorn- looking hut, and asked if he could find lodgings. “ I reckon ye mought,” replied the long-haired, sorrowful-eyed squatter, after hesitating for a moment. The Vicksburger found little to eat, and his horse found still less. The squatter and his wife were all alone, and they had but a few words for the stranger, and scarcely spoke to each other. When the evening grew old the traveler camped down on the floor on a blanket, and being very tired he fell asleep while host and hostess were smoking their black clay pipes at the other end of the room. He had slept about two hours when the squatter shook him by the shoulder and said : _ “Stranger, I’m powerful sorry to dis turb ye, but I want to ax a favor.” ««Yes—yes—what is it?” inquired the Vioksburger, as he rubbed his eyes and 6at « 1 Ye like to see fa’r play, don’t ye, stranger ?” “Yes, of course.” “ Wall, me’n the old woman can t agree; somehow she’s cross and tetchy, and I guess I’m a trifle ugly. Least wise, we don’t hug up worth ole boots. We’ve fit and fit; I’m old and she s chuck full o’ grit, and it’s about an even thing!” “ Well, I’m sorry,” put m the Vicks burger, as the squatter hesitated. “ We’ve been a-balkin’ since ye cum, stranger, and we’ve made up to ask ye to hold the candle and let us go in for an old rouser of a fight—a reg lar old sockdolager, whioh shall settle our fuss! If I lick, she’ll go; if she licks, I’ll travel !** “I’m sorry if there’s any trouble, and I hope vou won’t fight.” “ We’ve got to do it, stranger," re plied the woman, “ I won’t live with a man who kin lick me, and he’s just as high-born. Sam’s as good as the run o men, but he’s lazy and sass^y, and wants to wear his hat on his ear!’ “She’s right, Btranger,” said the squatter, “ and this cabin can’t hold both of us any longer! It’s to be a squar’ fight—no kicking or clubbing, and we won’t go back on yer decision! ’ The Vicksburger protested, but the woman placed a lighted candle in his hand, and posted him in the door, and man and wife stepped out on the ground. nuitet lor tjiuutsi uua m bodies ; lieuftft it will be impossi- ! And he walked down to the fence, j y e under existing circumstances for I leaped over, and was soon lost to sight, them to unite with the patrons, but ' “Good rnff on the shoot," mused the ‘ ' wife as she gazed after him, “but hiB ‘Suke, I’m going to wallop ye right smart in just four hoots and a holler! said the squatter as he pushed up his “ Sain, ye don’t weigh ’nnff into three tons 1” she replied in a grim voice, and the battle commenced. The Vicksburger mentally bet twenty to one on the man at the start, but in two minutes he had reduced the odds to ten. and in two minutes more he was bettiDg even. The wife was like a wild cat, springing, dodging, striking, and clawing, and pretty soon her husband had to stand on the defensive. “ Look out for the Bengal tiger. Sake i” he warned as he oiawed the air, “ I can whip the boots off’n ye, Sam I ehe replied, and the battle grew fiercer. One of the woman’s sharp nails struck the husband’s eye and blinded him for an instant. As he threw np his arms she seized both her hands into his hair, yanked him down, and in another mo ment had the “gouge’’on him. “Sam, do ye cave? she asked as they lay quiet. _ . , “That’s the dead-wood. Suke, and I’m a licked man!” he mournfully an swered. fighting weight is clar run down to nothin!”— Vicksburg Herald, Alexander Dumas in the Drawing Room. A writer says: DrawiDg-room and table talk is practised' as an art in France, and Dumas has a reputation in this way, and is probably as fond of his effects in society as of those he furnishes for the stage. French being admirably adapted to epigrammatic conversation, this professed wit avails himself of it with rare skill. When he is present, talking groups disposed about a room gradually dissolve and gather near to listen to him, and he becomes the auto- orat of the conversational domain. An occasional word is put in, a one given, and this is the usual limit of expression of those who surround him. In the telling of risible wit—for he naturally has several kinds—he affects the serious, unmoved face to produce hilarious effects, like a comedian, but a comedian of the highest type. His epigrams and anecdotes are so well made and so well told that some people believe there is previous preparation; all agree, how ever, in the opinion that he has special a in this way. His experience aB a atic author has evidently perfected him for this social amusement; in a certain sense he transfers the stage to the drawing-room, a ad adds the charac ter of author to that of actor. As we all know the manner adds much to the matter; so when the laugh begins to be heard the raconteur, cool as a May morning, looks around surprised at the risible manifestation, whioh naturally increases it. He speeds an arrow at folly as it flies, and fixes a wicked witti cism on the absent with remarkable dexterity. In private life, where inter course is more intimate, he is fond of M assing a portion of his time in that 'arisian gossip to whioh the gentle sex is supposed to be more particularity given.* In this fireside intimacy he is ready to enter into that wide field called chiffons with the zest of a fashionable woman. . Wobking Teams in the Coon op the Day.—A writer in the Country Gentle man says that he breaks prairie soil as follows: “ The sod is in splendid con dition, the grass well forward, render ing the labor of teams comparatively light. Indeed, my cattle seem to bear the toil on grass alone far better than I could expect. I am trying an expert iment with my breaking this season, in order to avoid the excessive heat of mid-day. My cattle are at work as soon as it is light enough to see. They work steadily till 10 a. m.; ai< then turned out until 4 p. m.; and worked from that time as long as I can eee. One week’s trial convmoes me that I can thus do more work, without danger of hurting my cattle, than to wait till 7 a.m., and work through the heat of the day. The cattle, after a weeks work, take me round a land 120 rods long as fast as I have any desire to walk, pulling a fourteen-inch breaker, and cutting two and one-half inches deep ‘ In France and other continental countries the bodies of deceased persons are committed to their parent Jeartb much sooner after death than is the cus tom in this country. The iaw, in con sequent, insists on great care being iakeu U> avoid premature interment. In Brest lately, however, * marine fell into a lethargio state, was certified as dead by the hospital authorities, and his supposed remains were conveyed under a military escort to the cemetery. A few days afterward some of those wno had buried him were surprised and horrified by meeting him in the street. Fortunately he had been reserved f6r scientific purposes, and when he was placed naked on the marble slab in the dissecting room the sudden chill revived him, them to unite with the patrons, but this difficulty has been met by the for mation of a trading company having the indorsement and support of the united co-operative bodies in England, and fully organized under the English laws. The propositions are to have two branches of the society, one in Englani and the other in the United States. The board in each country is to have the absolute control of the funds sub scribed therein, and all to be used for the purpose of the international ex change of commodities. The capital is 825,000,000. All transactions are to be for cash or its equivalent. The British co-opera- tors number 500,000; have over one thousand stores, some fifty or sixty cot ton spinning mills, about twenty flour ing mills, an agricultural and horticul tural society, and a number of manu factories, and, of course, consume a large quantity of American products. The funds subscribed by the English branch of the company will be employed in the purchase of ships, the erec tion of warehouses, and the manu facture of suoh articles as are in constant demand among the patrons of husbandry. These ships will bring the goods to New Orleans and other south ern ports, and to eastern ports if neces sary, and they desire tne patrons to employ their portion of the capital in carrying American staples and produots to meet these ships, and thus to make the necessary exchange in the most direct and simple manner. The co- operators have a large surplus capital, whioh is constantly on the increase, and whioh they think can be profitably em ployed in this trade. While eaoh branch of the oompany will have oontrol of its own affairs the two boards will form aconnoil, who will by joint aotion decide what branches of business will be engaged in, and define the method of oondnoting the safne. An American will be sent to Liverpool to watoh the interests of the grange branch of the company, and the Eng lish board will have a like representa tive in New Orleans,. while the general supervision will be in the hands of a managing direotor, already elected, and who, though an Englishman born, has been twenty-three years in America. The proposition is regarded with great favor, and it is expeoted the sub-oom- mittee of the national mange, to whom the whole matter has bo jn referred, will report Monday. The executive committee determined to <end three of their number, viz.: Messrs. Shanklaud, of Iowa; Chase, of New Hampshire; and Jones, of Arkan sas, to represent the patrons of hus bandry in the cotton states congress, whioh meets in Baleigh, N. O., on the 13th inst. Wicker Coffins. A number of prominent medical men in England are conducting a spirited crusade against the present method of tacking our dead bodie: under the dniaiftw, recommending that wicker baskets be substituted for the splendid motniiin and air-tight affairs with which corpses are now enveloped preparatory to interment. While ic is the aim of our scMnlifio undertakers to so perfect their caskets that the remains enclosed will preserve their life-likeness as long as possible, these medical folks across the waters arc endeavoring to pop ularize the use of wicker^ ooffins, in order that, ihe uiBBuIutiuu ut and its resolution into mother earth will be allowed to proceed in the natural order oi things without hindrance. The movement seems to be a sort of com promise between the costly process of inhumation now in vogue and the more repugnant, though cheaper, eremation. “ Dust thou art, dust returnest,” seems to be the text of the advocates of the new movement, and they are in favor of making a practical application of it. Dr. Seymour Haden has opened an exhibition of the wicker basket with open meshes, which he reoommends for burial, at the duke of Sutherland’e house, and fashionable society has flocked to it as one of the sights of the season. When fashion commends a new idea in anything, no matter if it is a coffin, of course the suocess of the thing is pretty well assured. Bnt it is doubtful if the project will really succeed. There is entirely too muon earnest sentiment in the world regarding the preservation of the form ana facial lineaments of deceased friends to allow the proposed innovation to gain pop ularity. Oh tha oontray, the world would rather know the secret of the old Egyptian process of mutniuy-makiug, and learn thereby to preserve through all time the physical semblance of the departed, even though a mummy, after it gets to be ten or twenty centuries old, is one of the most hideons things imaginable. In an agricultural point of view, however, the wicker-basket idea is not a bad one. “Tempered" Glass. Varied as will be its application for scientific and industrial uses, its utility for domestic purposes will be consider able. It will be a boon to the careful housewife; besides its utility for all articles of common household orookery, china, hot water, and washing appara tus, M. de la Bastie’s invention will in future relieve her mind of all anxiety regarding her most favorite china and glass, for, if “ tempered ” by this pro cess, they will be proof against the carelessness of the most careless ser vants. To give an illustration. Amongst several artioles whioh we in spected and tried one, whioh appeared to us to be a common china plate, turned ont to be of the tempered glass enamelled on the top. It was thrown on the floor, gave forth a bell-like sonnd, but did not break. In fact, it may be thrown about anyhow without breaking. A square piece of glass about one-eighth of an inoh in thiok- ness was put into a wooden frame, rest ing only with its sides on the latter, and we were surprised to find that it sub? tained the weight of an adult mail. Chimney-glasses and globes will fly directly if the gas is turned on too sud denly on lighting up; tempered glass will stand any sadden changes. It is even stated that pipes made of this glass will withstand the greatest press ure, and that it would be worth while trying it for water-pipes. If it were once established to be proof against frost what disoomfort wauld be spared the householder of London, who looks, at the breaking up of frost, for the bursting of his water-pipes and its con- oomitant misery, as regularly as to the non appearance of watering-carts when an east or north wind is blinding him with dust. We shonld not omit to mention that there is a great probability of the efficiency and durability of the new glass being put to a severe test. We are informed that there is some prospect of its being used for the large tanks of the new Westminster aquarium, now in course of ereotion. Tne glass plates forming the sides of the tanks are, of necessity, of snoh an enormous thickness, to insure safety, whioh is not always obtainable, as to make their con struction very expeasive. Glass tem pered by M. de la Bastie’s process, it to stated, need only be of a quarter the thickness of ordinary plate glass used for that purpose, and even ihen resist any possible amount of lateral pressure. Does Giant Farming Pay? Three years ago a company of Eng lish capitalists offered $1,500,000 tor the Sullivan farm, in Ford oounty, HL The same property has since passed into the posession of the Hon. Hiram Sibley, of Rochester, N. Y., who values his interest at $500,000. Part of the decline in value of the Sullivan farm may be attributed to the general busi ness depression, but a large share must be ascribed to the poor success of giant farming. Mr. Sibley, the new propri etor, is fitted by nature and education to carry on a work cf this description, but he is one n an picked out of 10,000, Farming on a large scale depends tor success on the elements that are essen tial to the safe and prosperous conduot of a large business, and also requires a milianty with details of farm work. Since the Sullivan farm, embracing 40,000 acres, and the Oaynga oounty, N. lY., farm of 4,000 acres, are now under one management, we may have an opportunity to dotonnino what brains can accomplish in the highest depart ments of agriculture.—Chicago Tribune,