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Remarkable Epitaph on a Wife. In Horsley Down churchyard, England, is the fol lowing Inscription: Here lies the bodies of Thomas Bond and Mary his wife, * She was temperate, chaste and charitable. But She was proud, peevish and passionate. She was an affectionate wife and a tender mother, But Her husband and child, whom she loved, seldom saw her countenance without a disgusting frown, Wh ilsttbe received visitors whom shedespised with an endearing smile. Her behavior was discreet towards strangers, But Imprudent in her family. Abroad her conduct was influenced by good Breeding, But At heme by ill temper. She was a professed enemy to flattery, and was Iseldcm known to praise or < ommend; “ But The talents in which she principally excelled Were difference of opinion and discovering flaws and Imperfections. She was an admirable economist, And, without prodigality, Dispensed pleniy to every person in her family, But Would sacrifice their eyes to a farthing candle. She sometimes made her husband Happy with good qualities, But Much more frequently miserable with her Many failings. Inasmuch that in thirty years cohabitation, He often lamented that, Maugre all her virtues. He had not on the whole enj< yed two years Of matrimonial comfort. At length. Finding she had lost the affection of her hus band, as well as the regard of her neigh bors, family disputes having been divulged by servants, She died of vexation, July 20,1768, Ageel is years. Her worn-cut husband survived her four months and two days, and departed this life Novt mber 28, 1708, In the 54th year of his age. William Bond, brother to the deceased, Ereeteel this stone as a ■Weekly m< nitor to the wives of this parish, That they may avoiu the infamy of having Their memories handea down to posterity With a patchwoik character. MAY VEHTUEY; -OB,— The little Teacher. BX LAVINIA H. May Vertney had just left her pler.sant home her friends, her pets, her flowers, aDd gene to a distant part oi the State to teach school. Quite lonely she felt at first among strangers, but such a nature as May’s could not live in isola tion. Her sunny smiles and graceful wajs soon won her many friends. May was young and inexperienced, to go out in the world to tarn a support for herself, but knowirg -where there’s a will there’s away,’ she went determined to succeed. She was nearly nineteen, though seemiDg three years youDger, so petite and child like was her gracelul figure. Slender, active as an antelope, a quality cultivated by her love for wild mountain rambles, htzle eyes full of frank ness and purity, brown,wavy hair clustering all about her well-shaped head, and full, broad brow upon which intellect and energy were written. By constant application she had improved the opportunities given her, and being sweet- tempered and conscientious, was well prepared to fill the place she occupied. V- She had not much difficulty in winning the affections of her pupils; and, their confidence once gained she knew that it would be easy to control them, and secure their obedience. True she had an obstinate case now ani then, but when the rebellious ones found they were in the wrong, they were always ready to acknowl edge it, for tear of losing the love of the teacher who looked more grieved than angry at their dereliction. As the end of the school term approached, each pupil was stimulated to do his best, for there was to be a public examination, when all the|trustees and school directors, would sit in sol emn audience, and all the neighborhood would be sure to attend. But whenever May thought of this event, she was troubled with no little misgivings, for it was her first examination, and should her pu- E ils fail, what would her patronB say ? But she ad done her best, and now the day was fast approaching;could she go through the ordeal ? She must now, for she had gone thus far, she could not tnrn back; but how could she face so many people, so many new faoes and she so young and timid ! She almost wished it wonld rain or storm on the eventlul day, but no, the morning dawned brilliantly. The sun shone, the birds sang cheerily to her as she went out to walk off her nervousness. ‘Cheer up, cheer up,’ whistled the blackbird, but when she stopped still and the stein face of the school Superintendent rose before her and she imagined the eyes of several hundred people looking at and criticising her, and commenting on her presumption, she for got the bird's hoptful injunction and sudden ly covering her face with her hands exclaimed alond: ‘Oh dear, I shall never go through with it. I will stammer and fail and want to sink through the floor.’ The next instant she heard the rustle of boughs close beside her, she dropped the hands from her face, turned quick as thought, and there, with his gun on his shoulder and the busby tail of a squirrel hanging from his game bag, stood one, who to tell the truth, had been uppermost in her mind, when she thought of all those criticising eyes that were going to look adversely upon her. There he stood—the hand some, rising young lawyer, Fred Claremont, with a reassuring smile on his moustached mouth, and a merry twinkle in his hazle eyes. ‘You heard me!’ she ejaculated, blushing vio lently. ‘Yes, I couldn’t help it though. But never mind, I can sympathize with yon. I’ve been all along there. Why, you ought to have seen me the day I was to make my first speech in court. I was cold as a frog and was flushing in spots, and my heart thumped up and down like a steam piston. I was sure I was going to make a grand failure.’ 'And did you ?’ May asked naively. ‘Not a bit of it. I did first rate, the old law yers declared. I nerved myself up to it, and I tried to forget myself and the people that were about to listen to me and to think only of what I was going to say. It’s best not to look for ward in such matters. Don’t think about bow cola the water may be or you will lose courage to take the plunge. I feel sure you will acquit yourself with credit. I know you have consci entiously tried to prepare your pupils and when we have done out best we may confidently look for a reward. But what a pretty spray of wild morning glories that is, hanging from that gol den red! let me gather it for you.’ Then he walked on back with May, Baying no more about the examination, but talking of the weather, the birds, the fruit crop, the flowers, the last ‘Lippincott,’ which he promised to bring May—that she might read a poem he was sure she would like. Altogether he quite calmed and steadied the little nervouB teacher, and made her forget her apprehensions. His tones were so quiet and strong, his very look had something soothing and reassuring in it May felt inexpressibly grateful to him, and as for him, though he had met the little teacher before, she had not made such an impression on him as she did now. He wondered he had not noticed how pretty was her modest apple blossom faoe,and how expres sive the brown eyes under their long, drooping lashes. They parted at the gate, and May ran in to her breakfast full of courage and hopefulness. The dreaded day passed with much gratifi cation both to May and her patrons. So well pleased were the parents of her pupils that they resolved to secure May for the next session. The eveniDg exercises were equally gratifying. Many went because they had no other way of spending their time and not because they were interested in Miss Yertney’s welfare, neither caring whether she was successful nor intend ing to stay until the entertainment should close. But at the close of the first piece they had be come interested, and declared the entertainment was gotten up with taste and care. The girls were complimented for acting their pieces so well while many crowded around May to express the pleasure they received. Her praise was on every lip and the stern looking chief of the school board shook hands with her and compli mented her for the admirable manner in which the examination had been conducted and the concluding entertainment—the dessert of the exercises—had passed off. Her eye sought Fred Claremont. He had no opportunity of conversing with her; he could only bow and smile his congratulations; his compliments must be reserved until a better opportunity. May would like much to have spoken to him but she was busy all the evening. Next evening however he called to bid her good bye, and though others were present, with flat teries and attentions she prized his few words of praise and the farewell pressure of his hand more than their more demonstrative atten tions. When she returned to her school after vaca tion, she again met Mr. Claremont. He came sometimes to spend the evening and he learned, to admire her frank, pure nature as well as her lovely lace, while his earnest, manly character revealed itself to her gradually and enlisted her warmest regard, still their intercourse was only friendly and no word of love had been spoken, till the time drew near when, she would return home for the winter holiday. It was near the last of November, but the mildness and rich beauty of Indian summer still lingered over the eaith, and the sunshine lay, soft and still upon the hills where May and Fred wore walk ing under the tall plumy pines. Walking slowly along they came to a little mossy knoll. They sat down upon it; for a mo ment they were silent. He took her little hand within his own and softly spoke her name. She looked up into his face. As their eyes met, she flushed rosy as a mountain pink and her lids dropped quickly but not before he had read her secret. They had resolved to be friends but friendship was forgotten at this moment. ‘May,’ he exclaimed ‘my darling, I love you. My heart beats for you alone, you are my first, my only choice. Will you be mine, my wife through all time and eternitj? He read his answer in her blushing face and in the eyes full ot tender trust that she raised for a moment to meet his own. When the last leaves were falling May returned home. Fred soon followed. Seeing her in her own tastefully arranged home, he found her still more lovable. He felt he had won a prize, as indeed he had. And when he led her to the alter, as the May roses were begining to bloom, the bless ings of many friends went with them,—and, in tLeir pleasant homo, among the flowers that May loved to tend, the birds never seemed weary with their songs, and the sun seemed brighter there than elswhere. banting all over the oity, bat with little effect Nearly all the physieians and narsee smoke all the cigars they can. That helps them a little while visiting the siok. On Poplar, Carroll and Yanoe streets, for instenoe where the better classes live, the plogne is not so malignant hat even them terror prevails and great suffer ing is experienced. On Winchester street the scenes are terrible. Q n Monroe Btreet I found five women all sick with the fever whose hus bands had fled.’ ‘Is that common ?' •Quite common among the lower classes. One can have no idea of the panio existing there. Indeed, it is no uncommon thing for the sick to be entirely deserted. When it is noticed that there are no signs of life about a house, it is broken open and the dead are found in advanc ed stages of putrefaction. The work of their re moval is a job before which the stoutest quail.’ ‘Who suffer the most—the women or the men ? ’ ‘The women by far. Of the number attacked fully 80 per cent, died. They hardly ever get well, and suffer much more than the men from hemorrhages, and the children come next.’ Domestic A Hail’s. The City ot Horrors. Wiiat A Washington Doctor Saw 111 Jlemphls, Dr. William T. Ramsey, one of the physicians who went to Memphis with the corps of Wash ington nurses, has returned to Washington, in company with Dr. T. P. Pease and Miss Wallis. The following interview with Dr. Ramsey dis closes some of the horrors and necessities of that plague-stricken city: ‘Before reaching Memphis, even when five miles out, the air was laden with the yellow-fever poison, and as we approached the city the stench was absolutely sickening. Dr. Pease and myself went to Peabody Hotel, the only one now open, and were shown into a room from which a dead body had just been removed. Vessels of black vomit were standing about the room, but the bed-clothes had beeu changed. The hotel itself is a perfect pest-house, and victims of the dis ease are in two-thirds of the rooms. Sulphur pans are kept burning in the halls, and the clothes, bedding, <fcc., are constantly disinfect ed, but thev cannot get help enough in the ho tel to do one-half what ought to be done.’ •What seems to be their greatest need?’ ‘Provisions, clothing, physicians, money, nurses and medicines, and about in the order named. The best thing that can be done now is to send plenty of provisions and clothing. The negroes and many poor whites, for a section of 150 miles aronnd Memphis, have flocked in there hearing they could get something to eat, and as for clothes, hundreds of poor people are going about the streets—especially colored women— with hardly anything on at all. The sights in this respect are distressing.’ ‘Where do these people go to who come in from the country ? ’ •They wander about the city in bands, and when they find a vacant house they break into it and take possesion and appropriate whatever they want. The authorities are powerless to pre vent such outrages.’ ‘About the physicians ? ’ ‘There are seventy-five there now from abroad and fully one hundied and fifty more are need ed. The volunteer physicians are doing a noble work, and without pay, except such as are paid by their home friends and and socities. They are not paid by any one in Memphis, and don’t ask or expect it. At the same time, however, a volunteer physician going there ought to be liberally supplied with funds, for he is under constant personal expense.’ ‘How did you protect yourself from the fe ver ? ’ ‘On my arrival Mr. Langstaff, President of the Howards, and one of the noblest men God ever let live, urged my immediate return, but I de termined to stay. Dr. Pease and myself took each of us thirty grains of quinine and 120 drops of tincture of iron every day, and the only effect it had was to increase the perspiration. Such doses could not be taken here, which leads me to believe that it is in some sense a powerful an tidote to the fever. Of course we use carbolic acid freely as a disinfectant. I wore linen suits, changing them every day, and they turned fairly yellow from the effects of the iron. At night we wore thick veils, soaked in carbolic acid, oyer our faces, for there is no language to describe the awful stench in the city. It is now filthy to the last degree. The bayous which set in from the river and the surface drainage with whicn they are filled, the nncieansed streets and alleys, rotten wooden pavements, deep dust of the ma cadamized streets, dead animals and putrefying human bodies and the half-buried dead all combine to make the atmosphere thiok with poiBon and something fearful to endure. Bon fires of tar-barrels and sulphur fires are kept Gbape Pbesebves.—Wash the fruit, press the pnlp into an open dish, the skins into another; cook the pnlp sufficiently and put through a colander; weigh pnlp and skins, then take three quarters of a pound of sugar to one of fruit; put into your kettle; when dissolved, add the fruit and boil twenty minutes. Washing Soda.—Be careful,how you use wash ing soda. Ail above an ounce per gallon of wa ter is wasteful and injurious. Do Not Deink While Eating.—A simple and effectual remedy for dyspepsia is to abstain from drinking immediately before and during meals, and for an hour afterwards. Good foe Pigs.—Wood ashes, with the bits of charcoal in them, and coal ashes too, are excel lent for fattening pigs. Figs cannot stuff them selves week after week, without their stomachs getting out of order, and the bits of charcoal check aoidity and regulate them, and help to improve their appetites. A Cube fob Wakefulness.—To cure wakeful ness, wrap cloths dipped in cold water around the waist and sometimes lay a wet cloth on the top of the head; or take a sponge bath just be fore retiring, having a plenty of pulverized borax in the water, and rubbing the body well with a coarse towel to get up a good circulation. The Good Qualities of Blown Bee.yd.— Good brown bread supplies in itself the nourishing properties of many kinds of food. It contains albumen, fibrine, gluten and phosphate of lime; it makes bone, muscle, blood and tissne. The wandering Arab lives almost entirely upon such bread, with a few dates as a relish—and this not because meat is scarce in his part of the world, but because he feels no need for it. To Behove Mildew.—Wet in rain-water; rub the spots with soap and chalk; lay in the sun and dew two or three days and nights. The spot should be thoroughly rubbed with the soap and ohalk once or twice each day. Angel Puddings.—Two ounces of flour, two ounces of powdered sugar, two ounces of batter melted in half a pint of new milk, two eggs, lea v- ing out one white, mix and bake half an hour in sancers, tnrn them oat into a dish, and serve hot with sweet sance. Light Paste fob Taets. —Beat the white of an egg to a strong froth; then mix it with as mach water as will make three-quarters of a pound of fine flour ipta a stiff paste; roll it very thio^4hen lay the IhMLpart ef half a pc«uad of butter upon it in little bits; dredge it with some flour left out at fiist and roll it up tight. Iioll it out again and put the same proportion of but ter; and so proceed until all be worked up. Subpeise Pudding.—One cup not quite full of sugar; two cups of flour; four eggs; two full teaspoons of baking powder; a little salt and frtsh lemon. Break the eggs in an earthen dish without beating; pour over these the sugar; sift in the flour and baking powder; first stir and then heat all well for ten minntes. Bake in well- buttered oval tin, in pretty qnick oyen Ot ought to bake in twenty minutes.) Eat with cream or any sauce preferred. Apple Dumplings.—Six cups of flour; one and one-half cups of batter and lard mixed; two tea spoons of baking powder; enough milk or water to mix. Boil an inch thick and cut in round cakes. Have ready nice, ripe.juicy apples quar tered; place three pieces on a cake sugared and seasoned to taste; and a small piece of butter; cover with another cake; pinoh and roll the edges together till well closed and round in shape fleur your pudding bags (I use knitted ones); tie loose and steam one and one-half hours. The above can be made into one dumpling if prefer red. It takes longer to cook and is not so nice ly served. Eat with cream or wine sauce. Colds.—By simply abstaining from drink and liquid food of any kind for as long a period as possible, the internal congestion, which is the condition known as ‘a cold’ becomes reduced. The cause of the congestion is said to be the ex cess of blood contained in the overcharged mem branes, and this is removed when the general bulk of blood has been diminished by withhold ing the usual supply of fluid; by keeping the supply of drink for a day or two down to a point at which some degree of thirst is yet ex perienced, a complete cure may be effected. To Keep Tomatoes.—Just before the first frosts in the fall of the year, pull the tomato vines up with the green ones on it and hang them under a shelter by the roots. They will ripen and taste good until Christmas. To Clean Bbass RoDs.^r-Get flour of emory. Wet a woolen cloth with kerosene oil and rub well. The emory costs about twenty cents a pound and will last for a long time. In making cake, accuracy in proportioning the ingredients is indispensible. It is equally indispensible for the success of the cake that it should be placed in a heated oven as soon as prepared. It is useless to attempt to make light cake unless the eggs are perfectly fresh and the butter good. Neither eggs nor batter and sugar should be beaten in tin, as its cold ness prevents their becoming light. To ascer tain if a large cake is perfectly done, a broad- bladed knife should be plunged into the center of it; if dry and clean when drawn out the cake is done. For a smaller cake insert a broom- straw ; if it comes out in the least moist, the cake should bo left in the oven. Two Noted Grave Robbers. Our readers will remember the account given in these columns of the robbing of the grave of the Hon. Scott Harrison, in Ohio last May, the body being found in the dissecting, room of the Ohio Medical College. Publio indignation just ly brands any man as a scoundrel who will rob the grave of the dead, But there are two noted grave robbers in the oountry, so far from being the subjects of the people's wrath, are univer sally lauded for their virtues. The reason is plain. .While the former class steal the a«.ad bodies of our loved ones to submit them to the dissecting knife, these only rob the graves to restore the living victims to oar hearts and homes. Their names—Dr. Pieroe's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pell ets—are household Words the world over. The Golden Medical discovery cores consumption, in its early stages, and all bronchial, throat, and lnng affections; Pleasant Purgative Pellets are the most valuable laxative and cathartio. The Famous “Echo Farm.” Why It haa Mode Haney. Conducted Strict ly by Hyitern. A group of commodious buildings, and flagstaff crowning a hill, whioh forms part of a ridge 1300 teet above the sea, and about one mile east of the anoient and historic town of Litchfield, marks the site of the Echo Farm. In 1869 Conn. Mr. F. Batehford Starr, a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, bnt for nearly thirty years a resident of Philadelphia, purchased a small tract of sixty- six acres on the Bite indieated for a Bammer resi dence. The principal object in view was health. Mr. Starr had accumulated a large fortune in Philadelphia as the general agent of several of the largest foreign and home insurance com panies, He early married a daughter of John Atwood, a prominent citizen of Philadelphia, and then made his permanent home there. He soon, however, became deeply interested in this little track in the Litchfield hills. Notwith standing the wildness of the country and the bonlders which encumbered the land, the soil was fertile and especially adapted to grass and grazing. There was a fascination about the clearing of new fields. Each year Mr. Starr be came liS8 interested in his elegant Philadelphia home and more fascinated with his new scene of industry, Mrs. Starr, a matronly woman, and still showing traces of extraordinary yonthful beauty, informed ns that she raised great oppo sition to the new scheme. She coaid not see why a gentleman with a delightful home in a large city, a fine yacht, in which he coaid cruise and entertain his friends in snmmer, and an abundance of means to gratify every inclina tion, should abandon a life of refined leisure for hard work and responsibility. But, with wifely devotion, she soon found ample compen sation for all her sacrifices, in the restored health ot her husband, and a year ago she and her daughter, their only child, consented to the closing np of their delightful Philadelphia home, and the transfer of their residence to the isolation of the Litchfield hills. To-day the little tract of the sixty-six acres has expanded into four hundred acres, miles of stone walls have been built, lawns, meadows and pastures have been cleared of huckleberry, elder and hazle bnshes, and a tangled growth of nnderbrnsh. Tons of the granitic and micaceous boulders of divers diminsions have been removed. This now is the clebrated Echo model farm, and the interest taken in its successful management is shown by the fact that two days in each week have been set apart for visitors, sometimes six ty in a single day, who come from far and wide to witness, for information or cariosity, the wonderful results reached by Mr. Starr. A visit to the Echo farm must convince everyone capable of approaching such thing that the difficulty with the majority of farmers in the United States, we allude to those who have the means and ability, who complain that there is no money in farming, is that they carry on their operations in a slipshod way, with a sort of save at the spigot and leak at the bang system of economy, and never know whether their crops cost more or less than they realize. Farm ing on business principles has been treated derisively as fancy farming, or book farming, and the application of a little intelligence and a system of accounts has been regarded as the forerunner of bankruptcy. Mr. Starr thought otherwise. The same energy and system and familiar business principles whioh made his former enterprise successful he now determined to apply to farming and an improved system of agriculture which might be profitably followed by others. The starting point of his theory is a thorough system of accounts. Not a dollar is expended upon the farm, nor a dollar realized from it without being entered ia an appropriate* account. An account is opened with every field which is debitted with labor and fertilizers, and credited with the amonnt of hay, grain, pasture or anght else realized from it An account is opened with each animal, which is debitted with all its food and attendance and credited with milk or other source of revenue. A regular account is also kept between Mr. Starr, who lives in the homestead, and Farmer Starr, who snperintends the farm. Every quart of cream or milk, or pound of butter, every bushel of vegetables, every ton of hay or pound of oats, or anything else supplied from the farm to the homestead is duly oharged, and Mrs. Starr, who resides there, is required to make weekly settlements with farmer Starr as if he were any other farmer instead of her husband. There is also the pay account, the construction ac count, repair account and the general crop and feed aoconnt, with which the detailed ac counts with each head of stock must balance. In order to facilitate business a number of tel egraph wires run between farmer Starr's office in the homestead buildings and tbe barns and dairy, for giving orders and communicating signals. An Artist’s Home in Boston. Boston is a nice place for small people to live; that is for homes on small incomes. Folks, and nice folks, have snoh a way of doing as they Massachusetts please about living, live in snch odd. comfortable ways that it makes less differ ence whether one Has $10 or $100 a week than in any place I can just name. A range of dor mer windows in the roof of a business building on Tremont street was pointed out where one of the finest artists in the country has kept house for twenty years. The family have the upper floor, with sunshine and pure air abundant, above the noise of the street and other tenants, and there they spread their rugs and pictur esque furnishings, and the wife has her sitting- room, with its photographs and casts and flowers by one big window, and her husband’s studio the other, and the big, skylighted dining- parlor beyond sees goodly company of wits and artists of all professions. There they gave their friends champagne and game when they had it, and ale and crackers when they had nothing else, and there, a stone’s throw from Kings Chapel and the common, they mado their nest and reared a child to manhood. The original of this home is so well known that I mast disclaim a desire to intrude on its privacy, save to illus trate a style of life, taken up and apologized for in some oases elsewhere, but accepted here as a picturesque variation on houses with improve ments and burdens. These grimy brick busi ness buildings are honeycombed in odd nooks by small households of one or two women, per haps, not living like artists and professipnal peo ple I have seen, by the aid ot a sooty nttle gas- stove and wash-basin behind a screen, or in frowsy, doubtfal luxury of furnished rooms, but in bright family fashion, with fresh carpets and lounges and the neatest cupboard kitchens, from whioh they will bring suoh coffee and ohops as prove their membership of the Breakfast Club, where Boston girls learn muffins and crumpets and salads, in the prettiest brown linen aprons, bound with scarlet and blue.—Saxe Holmes. FUN. Mr. Ontoh of New York mentioned his name to the bystanders os the oar door jammed his fingers lost week. It is the experience of cirons proprietors that one stock of clown’s jokes will outlast seven sets of canvas covering. The New York Commercial says the street car drivers have ‘struck for their haltars and their hires.’ Sonthern papers record how, just before tfae hanging of a man in Alabama, the band ployed •Dixie’ and ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me.’ This band had a good deal of brass. If two swallows make a summer, and two pieces of bananna peel on the sidewalk make a full, sorely the water-heater on the bar-room counter is proof positive that dread winter is close upon us, and that the time for redeeming last winter’s ulster is at hand. A letter recently produced in a breach of promise suit as evidence contained the following sentence: ‘Dearest Love: I swallowed the post age stamp on your letter becanse I knew your lips had touched it.’ The same all-wise Providence that watches over the man with a dyed moustache, guards the gentle maiden of forty odd summers who persists iu putting two thick layers of chalk on her face, aad declares in her most truthful tones that she abominates the practice of painting the face. Hartford Times: A little five-year-old boy, re siding with his parents in the Cheney block, was asked by a lady a few days since for a kiss. He immediately .complied,but she, noticing that the little fellow drew his hand across his lips, remarked, ‘Ah, but you are rubbing iioff.’ ‘No I ain’t,’ was the quick rejoinder. ‘I’m rubbing it in !’ Every man has a right, in this free country, to blow his nose, but it should be made a penal of fence to imitate a saw-mill explosion in doing so. We need a nicer adjustment of things in this world. A man in Illinois committed suicide by drowning, lately, in six inches of water. He could have done it alone, but his wife, with that self-sacrificing devotion and hopefulness so characteristic of the sex, sat on his head. IMPERIAL UKASE. THE HARVEST FEAST. To the King's Loyal Subjects: Geand High Chambeblain's Inneb Sanctum, } In the Year of our Reign 5570- \ I, Hijim, am specially directed by his Jovial Majesty, ltex, the Magnificent, to order a change in the annual coming of the merry retinae; and so, from doll and gloomy January days, when slush and sleet begrime the street, the fair har vest season shall become oar time; and to the end that all persons may enjoy the occasion, it is hereby commanded: 1. Laying aside all civil and other avocations, the good people of this country do assemble and pay tribute to the Harvest Feast; for hark ye ! have ye not rolled iu wealth and sucked the juice of the blushing grape ? fed upon the lusty pig and sturdy ox? aye, grown fat upon Nature’s bou lty ? Surely some fitting tribute you must pay to the goddess ! 2. Becognizing as much, it has been our pleas ure to command a gathering of the tat of the land in October of this year, in order that all persons, from all sections, may make some fit ting demonstration to celebrate our coming; and therefore the North Georgia Stock and Fair Association is ordered to convene in the good city of Atlanta, October 21st; and upon October 25th the grand celebration of the Harvest Feast will transpire. Occupying as it will an import ant episode in the history of the country, a com mand is hereby issued to everybody to attend and eDjoy the occasion. We are pleased to command the attendance of Military Companies, and all such comply ing with the Boyal Mandate shall fill a position in the Spectacular Cavalcade. The Queen of the Feast, by special Eoyal or ders, will be elected from some visiting belief upon which occasion the Crown will in person be placed by his most Jovial Majesty. I am further desired by his Majesty to ac knowledge former courtesies, and to express for him a hope that great effort will be made to make the occasion one of nnprecedented inter est in the history of the oountry. Surely you should celebrate the occasion of a plenteous harvest, and offer that praise necessary to so im portant an occasion. All things considered, the time is ripe and laughter shakes our sides. Behold ! The Lager shall flow in plenteous streams,and lantern-jawed gossips take a back seat. Fun and pleasure shall bold high carnival, and a new era be in- augerated. Hum. Approved: Warwick. This meets with Boyal sanction. EES. HOUSE. Monday Evening, September 30th. 1 Patronized by a bon ton clientele everywhere! EMERSON’S California Minstrels and the original Great statesmen, huge stallions, fat hogs and mammoth pumpkins startle the rnral popula tion at their fairs this season. Mrs. Partington says that her minister preach ed about ‘the parody of the probable son.’ A grooer advertises in the following terse manner: ‘Hams and cigars, smoked and un- smoked.’ Spontaneous Combustion. —Oiled sawdust, aoted upon by the rays of the sun, will soon burst forth into flame. SMITH, WALDRON, MORTON and MARTIN, headed by that acknowledged Prince of Minstrelsy, BILLY EMERSON Occupying the same position in the Minstrel world that Edwin Booth does in the Dramatic, with a COTERIE OF TWENTY ARTISTS! Scale of Prloes-Sk'. and $1.00. Reserved seats obtained three days in advance at Phillips & Crew’s. ERNEST STANLEY, Director. DYKES* BEARD ELIXIR <im ' it. anti will do It 6a ttie smoothes! face. iMore thou tb.000 vmin* taer ALREADY WEAR 'HEAVY MOPBTAfcUF, AND BEARD, haring u~-d ftom ItoS Pock'g*. Nainjury. Easily applied. C*rtat in effect. Package^itlkdirectlon* Tot Wet*. L. L. 8M1TH&CO. SolaAg'u, PalaiiM.HL Th» preparation iuu teueco. Tbe pablic will aaa QaacanUoa and Addr— mm at ore AGENTS WANTED In every city and county throughout the Southern Status to sell our celebrated F renounced the Champion Lightning Plaiter of the world t makes any and all variety of plaiting in one-dfth tho time, more regular and uuiform thau any other machine. It will make from 50 to 100 yards per day. and is so sim ple that a child can use it. It is the best selliu" article in the market, selling in every family. No lady will pos sibly be without it after once seeing the working of it. Energetic agents can make from $3 to $10 per day. Pur chasers should see to it that every machine bears out name, and is stamped : Patented April 18th, 1S78. Price, postage-paid, #1.30. Address Hochhemkb & Maas, . .Manufacturers, aogl3-lm Atlanta. Ga,^