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11. F. lUlll’, Publisher.
VOLUME 11.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
And finally the Prince of Wale* la
afflicted 'with gout.
The Pacific coast is filling up with
Italian immigrants.
October 5 is the fiftieth anniversary
of the birth of President Arthur.
Tiie Star Route trial occupied 103
days, and cost something like $200,000.
It is stated that a German has in
vented a gunpowder that water will not
affect.
Benjamin H. Hut expects to publish
his father’s speeches and letters, togeth
er with a biographical sketch, shortly.
The hew Orleans Times-Democrat b&jb
the South will pay the West $100,000,-
000 ietis this year for food than in 1881.
An Indiana schoolma’am says it is not
only less trouble to rule the boys by love
but she thus manages to get the best ap
ples and nicest bonnets.
A St. Louis paper remarks that the
finances of Canada must be in good con
dition if the royal party can afford to
visit Niagara Falls and Chicago in close
suc:o’,sion.
The -war in Egypt virtually ended
■when the British took possession of
Cairo. England has wanted Egypt for a
century, and the coveted land has fallen
into her hands like a ripe apple.
George Francis Twain still lives,
which we learn by the statement that
seventeen boys were recently arrested in
New York for tormenting him while sit
ting in the park of evenings.
Lord Dufferin, Admiral Seymour,
Sir Garnet Wolseley and Lord Beres
ford, who have distinguished themselves
in the Egyptian campaign, are all Kelts.
Thus England is under renewed obliga
tions to Ireland.
A gentleman writing from Georgia to
a friend in Washington, says that Gov
ernor Colquitt will probably succeed the
late Senator Hill to the United States
Senate. The election of Senator will
take place at the next session of the
Legislature to be held this fall.
AMassachusetts law makes the owner
of a house liable for treble any loss dial
xxi ay bo sustained by gambling thorein
with his consent. A saloon-keeper at
Lowell has just been compelled to pay
SI,BOO, the money going to a man who
had lost only SOOO in playing poker on
the premises.
These is authority for each of the fol
lowing methods of spelling and pronun
ciation : Mo-Aamt-ed (short a,) Ma
ham-et (long a,) Mj-hom-et (short a.)
Properly speaking, Mahomet is the name
of the prophet, and Mohammed that of
his successors, and therefore the faith
should only be known as Mahometanism.
Mr. Lot, who accompanies Herbert
Spencer on his visit to this country, told
a Buffalo Courier reporter that instead of
getting better Mr. Spencer has grown
worse. His trouble is in the nature of
insomnia. He is not able to sleep ex
cept by fits and starts. Night after
night he tosses about, and the day
comes only to find him more fatigued
than he. retired.
J hdge Hilton, who refused Banker
Seiglman entertainment at the Grand
Union Hotel, Saratoga, because the lat
ter was an Israelite, now offers to give
SIO,OOO to exiles fund for the benefit of
■Russian Hebrew refugees. Several gifts
and subscriptions offered by Judge
Hilton to different Jewish charities have
already been refused. Dr. Brown, of
the Jewish Herald, thinks that the so
ciety for the relief of Hebrew exiles
should accept the gift.
New York Herald: Getewayo, says
London Truth, objects to the barbarism
of taking different kinds of food on ths
same plate, and insists upon having his
vegetables served separately. Wliat
would he think of a beauty at a cele
brated watering place hotel, who had on
her plate a roast, two entrees, mashed
potatoes, succotash, and several sauces
and juices, and then, pointing her jew
eled finger at a dish of wine jelly, said
to the waiter, “Bring me some of that
liver?”
A North Carolina correspondent oi
the Atlanta Constitution writes : “ I sup
pose Morehead City is the only city in
the world without a wheel in it. Ido
not think there is a wagon or a buggy
horse in the town, and very few in the
county. Everything is done in boats.
There is not a house in the county that
a boat can not get within a mile of. Not
a doctor or a lawyer in the county owns
a horse —they practice in boats. The
people go to funerals in boats, and when
they arrest a man they carry him to jail
in a boat.”
A war which has probably cost Egypt
the agricultural production of one year,
and hundreds of millions besides, and
has put Great Britain to enormous ex
pense to send 30,000 men to Egypt, snd
to gather transnortaion from all the
world for their campaign, ended at the
first real touch of arms, with a victory
in which the heroio victorious army lost
Shirty killed sad WO woundad. Eng
THE JACKSON NEWS.
land will make much of it. And poor
J,j gypt must pay for the destruction of
Alexandria, which was British work, and
for her conquest by theßritish; all this
out of her destroyed crops, and her poor
agricultural laborers. With the mili
tary prestige gained by this war, will
not Great Britain be looking about for
other countries to conquer? Will she
not be arrogant and dangerous? But
Great Britain has had military success
in several wars, in her recent pursuit of
an imperial policy, which has not been
Profitable in tlie outcome, and it may be
so in this instance. After all this mili
‘ary glory, tho thing passes to the realm
of diplomacy, and the other powers will
claim to have a finger in the pie of
Egypt. The outcome may be a sort of
joint arrangement which will be humil
iation to the conqueror, and will be
worse iu tho matters of national and
commercial security than that which ex
isted before the British destroyed it by
making war.
Old. Strawberry Beds.
Strawberry vines that have been pct>
milted to cover the ground mid have
borne one good crop of fruit, will not
pay the labor of Weeding out, and as a
rule should be plowed under ns soon as
tlie crop has) sen gathered; but if one
fins neglected to set anew bed the past
spring, and desires to grow enough for
family use, two or three rods Of the old
bed may be saved, and made to furnish
pother year what fruit is wanted for
home use.
hue of the easiest and perhaps the
best way to clean out an old bed, is to
spade in tlie vines, leaving rows about
a foot in width und four feet apart. A
good dressing of manure should be
spaded in with the vines; and the rows
of vines leit standing should bo Well
cleaned out, leaving heither weeds or
grass. Some believe it best to mow off
the tops of tlie old vines, but as we have
never tried this method we cannot
speak of its advantage from experience;
but if the vines do just as Well by so do
ing, it^ would lie an improvement, be
cause it would lessen ihe labor of weed
ing out, which is the one great draw
back on continuing an old bed; not
only is it a very tedious task to weed it
out iu tlie first place, but the weeding
must continue until cold weather, or
the grass will become so thick that it
Will greatly lessen the crop the next
season. If the land bo in good condi
tion, the space spaded up will fie well
covered with vines before cold weather
6cls in; if so, then next spring the old
vines may fie spaded in to make paths
to stand in while nicking the fruit.
Jf one has a strawberry lieu away
from tho garden, and it has been kept
clean of grass and weeds, it may fie left
over another sea-on without cleaning
out; and ill will perhaps furnish half a
crop another season without expense,
except the use of the land; but if in the
garden, this should never be done, as it
tills the ground with weed seeds, which
will take many years to get out.
A strawberry bed in the garden
should under no circumstances be per
mitted to stand over the second year
without being kept as clean of weeds as
it is the first year. We know that the
temptation is great to let it stand,
hoping to have time to clean it out,
which in many cases never comes. Tho
decision should be made within two
weeks after the crop is gathered; and if
it is decided to let it stand another year
the work of cleaning out should be
commenced at once. Massachusetts
riouQhmav.
The Draft of a Plow Sulky.
Why is the draft of a plow sulky less
than that of a walking plow ? asks and
answers a writer in the Ohio Farmer.
Simply because the plow is carried
through the soil instead of being pulled
though. In the common walking-plow
the weight of the soil upon the mold
board causes the plow to rest upon the
bottom of the furrow, with so much ad
ditional friction. With the plow sulky
this weight is transferred from the bot
tom of the furrow, with its friction, to
the wheels, including the weight of the
soil that is being overturned. With a
common plow it will be noticed that the
under edge of the land-side makes a
very smooth track in the furrow, which
can only be produced by considerable
pressure; but this disappears when the
plow is suspended upon an axle between
two wheels. Then again, there is no
plunging of the plow, going deeper than
is needed, or running to land and mak
ing a wider furrow, with increased draft,
or running out and taking off only a
strip. At the ends of the furrow the
plow is hoisted and wheeled into its
place, instead of being dragged about;
and in starting a furrow or closing up a
landing no walking plow can do as easy
and as satisfactory work as can be ac
complished by a sulky.
Why He Fainted.
He was a thing of beaut}-, with his
waxed mustache, green kids, little cane
and curly hair. Two old women on the
car were wondering if he would melt in
a rain-storm, w hen the car stopped and
a stylish-looking lady got in. The
young man bowed, smirked and rose
up to take her fare. She handed him a
silver dollar, with a gracious smile to
back it, and he rushed to the front and
shoved it out to the driver with the re
mark:
“ Give me change.”
“ That’s too old," replied the driver,
as he returned the coin.
“What—how?”
“ Got a hole in it; no good. ’
“ It had, for a fact, and the beautiful
young man grew white in a second,
i Could he take the dollar back to the la
dy 9 No; he would substitute one of his
own He felt in his pockets, fished tip
a penny and two kevs, and, as the fact
1 that he was dead broke rushed over
him he didn't drop the dollar on the
floor, or rush from the car, or return it
*0 the lady and state that the line was
carrying dead-head 5 that day. No,
ma’am. He just fainted dead away,
and he never came to until only one pas
senger was left on the car. Your real
“purty” fellows never resort to mean
dodge* to get ground a poiufc— l)t roti
Fret Ft t.
Devoted to tlie Interest of Jaclcsou and I3u.tts Oountv.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. I£B2.
Prairie “Signs.”
About two miles from town lie sud
denly checked his horse, gazed intently
on the ground and said: “ Some fellow
has lost his saddle-horse here this morn
ing.”
There was no advertisement on any
of the trees Offering a reward for a lost
horse, and as there was no lost horse iu
sight we were at a loss to understand
liow, if a horse was lost, our friend
could know so much about it
The doctor inquired: “How dr you
know that a horse has been lost?”
“I see his tracks.”
“ Are there hot hundreds of horses
pasturing on the prairies, and how do
you know that this is not the track of
one of them?”
“Because he Is shod, and the horse?
herding on the prairies do not wear
shoes.”
” How do you know that he is a
saddle-horse and lost?”
“ I see a rope track alongside his
trail; the horse lias a saddle on, and tlie
rope hangs from the horn of the saddle. ’ ’
“ But why may lie hot be a horse that
someone has ridden over this way this
niorning, and why do you insist that it
is lost?’ 7
* l Because, if a man had been on his
back lie would have ridden him on a
straight course, blit this horse has
moved from side to side of the road as
lie strolled along, and that Is a plain
sign that he grazed ah lie went and that
he had no rider. ”
"After that it would not surprise me,”
said the doctor, “if you wore to tell us
the age of the horse, and the name of
the owner,”
“ Well, that would not be very hard
to do. There nre signs that have told
me the owhetI’s 1 ’s name, and there are
other signs that, if I had time to exam
ine, would tell me his age. 1 know lie
is one of old titan Rehaegrast’s horses.
Pendegrdst lias a large bunch of horses
down in the bottom, and an old nigger
down there does all his shoeing, and
shoes no other horses except his. So we
know his shop track jhst the same as we
know his brand.”
After this conviction on circumstan
tial evidence it would not have seemed
if the Remnant had given
us his opinion of the life and character
of ourgrettt-grandiiiothers, drawing bis
> cohcllisibns from an examination of
Some of our physical peculiarities.
It is wonderful how expert these men
become in reading what they call
“signs” on the prairie or in tho woods.
No sign escapes their practiced eye; all
manner of tracks, trails and marks are
to them data on which to base conclu
sions. The peculiar movement of an
animal will indicate the presence of
some other animal in the neighbor
hood. A broken limb _o,f a tree, a
crushed weed, the debris around a
camp-fire, the flight of a buzzard, and
other such signs arc to the cow-boy and
the frontiersman what the sign-boards
and advertisements are to people who
live in cities. Texas Siftinas.
The Channel Tunnel.
Some interesting observations on the
Channel Tunnel have been communi
cated to the French Academy of Sci
ences by M. Daubree. After referring
to the three stages of the work, the sci
entific researches, the preparatory op
erations, and the execution of the pro
ject, he points out that while the ltoueu
chalk is water-bearing in its upper
strata it is only slightly so in its lower
beds. The French Association have dug
two wells at Sangatte, ea h about nine
ty-five yards deep, and have begun to
run two galleries from them toward
Shakespeare’s Cliff under the sea. In
one of these galleries, at a depth
of sixty seven-tenths yards below
the French hydrographic bench
mark. the Beaumont perforator
will he at work, and in the other the ma
chine of Mr. Brunton will be employed.
On the English side the under-channel
gallery begins at a depth of about thir
ty-two yards below the French hydro
graphic bench-mark, thanks to the drier
nature of the chalk near the surfa c,
and runs under the sea at a descending
slope of one in eighty. This gallery is
now newly a mile long under high
water mark, and no water has entered
it as yet. The mass of the rock through
which the tunnel is bored is quite dry,
but from time to time little tunnels of
water are met with issuing from cracks
in the rock. The cylindrical form of
bore adopted by Colonel Beaumont has
an advantage under these circumstan
ces, as it allows of the gallery being in-
sulated from these trick lings by means
of an iron lining formed of rings having
a diameter equal to that of the gallery.
These rings are in live segments, bound
together by ribs, through which pass
bolls which connect the segments to
gether, and each ring to the next ones.
When a water fissure is encountered,
one or more of these rings are placed
over it so as to mask it completely. At
first four segments are put into position
and then the fifth or key is added. The
last joint is tightened by a band of thin
sheet iron inserted into it. When the
spring from the rock is tolerably strong
it is luted with a cement containing red
lead before the rings are placed over it
If the fissure is oblique a sort of tube
has to be built up of the rings until it is
masked, but half an hour serves to place
a ring into position. Owing to the slope
of the gallery the borers recently at
tained a depth of fifty-six yards below
the French bench-mark. At this point
the depth of low water is live and one
half yards, so that the thickness of
strata between the tunnel and the sea
bottom was there about fifty yards. -
Scientific American.
—1 ne pastors oi tne Aietnoatst Epis
copal Churches of York, Pa. publish a
card giving their reasons for refusing to
attend -• so-called Methodist camp-meet
ings.’ Many of these enterprises, they
say, are not under the control of any de
partment of tbe church, and are man
aged by grossly immoral men, who use
money to bribe uneducated consciences,
and obtain this money by collusion with
railroad corporations. “We are in fa
vor of camp-meetings.” the clergymen
a-Id, •• whenever it can be demonstrated
that their influence is more helpful than
hurt: til to the catiso of Christ, ’ — Ciuc'u
•in Tribune.
—Thee ate f<mr nickel mine* in the
T'n ted Mutes, till qf tvhidt are owced-
Uth>y pndiUbio.
Why a Kerosene Lamp Bursts.
Girls, as well as boys, need to under
stand about kerosene explosions. A
great many fatal accidents happen from
trying to pctvtr a little koinspue dn tHd
lire to make it kindle better, also by
pouring oil into a lamp while it is light
ed. Most persons suppose that it is llio
kerosene itself which explodes, and that
if they are very careful to keep the oil
itself from being touohod bv tho lire or
the light there will bo no danger. But
this is hot so. If a ean or a lain]) is loft
about half full of kcroser.o oil the oil
will dry up—that is, "evaporate”—a
little and will form, by mingling with
the air in the tipper park H vtiHr ffxplm
htvb gas. ion cannot see this gas any
more thau you can see air. But if it is
disturbed and driven out, and a blaze
reaches it, there will be a terrible explo
sion, although tho blaze did not touch
the oil. There are several other liquids
used in houses and workshops which
Will produce ati explosive vapor iff this
way. Benzine is one; hunting fluid is
another; and naphtha, alcohol, ether,
chloroform may do the same thing.
In a New York workshop lately, there
was a can of benzine, or gasoline, stand
ing on the Hour. A boy sixteen years
old lighted a cigarette, "and threw tho
burning match on tlie floor close to the
Can. He did not dream there was any
danger, because the liquid wa3 corked
ftp in the can. But there was a great
explosion, and he was badly hurt. This
seems very mysterious. Tlie probabil
ity is that the can had been standing
there a good while and a good deal of
vapor had formed, some of which had
leaked out around the stopper and was
hanging in a sort of invisible cloud over
and around the can; and this cloud,
when tho match struck it, exploded.
Suppose a girl tries to fill a kerosene
lamp without first blowing it out. Of
course the lamp is nearly empty or she
would not care to fill ft. 'This empty
space is filled with a cloud of explosive
vapor arising froiii the oil iti file lainp.
When she pushes the nozz.le of the can
into the lamp at tho top, and begins to
pour, the oil, running into the lamp,
tills the empty space and pushes the
cloud of explosive vapor up; the vapor
is obliged to pouf out over the edges of
the lamp, at the top, into the room out
side. Of course it. strikes against the
blazing wick which the girl is holding
down by one side. The blaze of the
wick sets tlie invisible cloud of vapor
afire, and there is an explosion which
ignites the oil and scatters it over her
clothes and over tho furniture of the
room. This is the way in which a ker
osene lamp bursts. The same thing
may happen when a girl pours the on
over the lire in the range or stove, if
there is a cloud of explosive vapor in tho
awßejtsk sttl;
the oil as it fails. Remember that it is
net the oil but the invisible vapor which
explodes. Taking carp of the oil will
not protect you. There is no safety ex
cept in the rule: Never pour oil on a
lighted tiro or into a lighted lamp.—
Christian Union.
rnc oldest miiaimnnt.
Williem Bassett, an aged negro living
in Carjden, N. J., last May celebrated
his I26th birthday, ar.d is without doubt
the “oldest inhabitint” of tho new
worlu. Bassett was born in Delaware
in 1755, where his pa-ents were slaves,
for many years owned by the Bayard
family. During the Revolution Bassett,
then a young man of twenty-one or
twenty-two, was working for a farmer
by the name of Wilson. While there
he married, and became the father of a
large family, each member of whom he
has outlived. Upon the death of his
wife Bassett married again. When the
war broke out in 1812 he became a body
servant to Col. Morris, of Jackson’s
army, whom he accompanied to the
front at New Orleais. He married his
thiid wife upon lis return from the
South, and had by lor quite a numerous
family, all but one f whom died prior
to the civil war. Fir the last eighteen
years ho has been tiken earn of by his
children and granichildren, spending
the time between Cimderi and Moore,s
town, to and from vhieh places he has
traveled oil foot unny a time. The last
trip was made earl in the fall of 1881.
His death is now looked for daily.
Predictisis Verified.
Senator Jackson of Tennessee, was
reminded not longsinee by a friend who
was at the University of Virginia witli
him of the curious verification of predic
tions made thirty tiars ago aud more.
Jackson, Thomas Aalioiie and Charles
E. Fennor occupiel contiguous rooms
in the University of Virginia. They
were fast friends, jonstant companions
and the foremost sen in their class. A
brother student sletched the tlirce in a
group one day. ‘What shall I put un
der each figure ?” le said, when lie had
completed the dr.wing. “ Put under
mine,” said Jacksa, “ Jackson address
ing the Senate of the United States.”
“ And under mine ’ said Malione, “ de
liveiing a lecture 1 the students of tho
University of Tenessee.” “And under
yours, Fennor?” “Oh, Fennor an
nouncing a decisiti from tho Supreme
bench of Louisian. ” The inscriptions
were appended. lackson is to-day in
the Senate of the Tnited States, Maiione
is at Vanderbilt *ni ver-ti l " Tennessee,
and Fennor is a mmber of the Supreme
Court of Louisian.
Chinese is Printers.
A Chinaman offrs his services to the
publisher of a mnthly paper in this
city, to set up all he forms of bis paper,
send him proofs of each article, and
make the correrions marked in tbe
proofs when retrned, and convey the
forms to and frtn the press-room for
seventy-five center column, 'ihero ate
forty-eight colums in the paper, each
column twenty au ont half inches long
by two and onrqnarter inches wide.
The offor was denned, whereupon the
Chinaman said e was doing the same
work for two othf periodical in the city.
They learned themsiness in Hong Kong
and Canton, whee papers are published
in the Engbsh togue, and where China
men are drilled ito the work on account
of the scarcity A white labor. —Sun
TrunoUeo JJuttan.
A Four Hundred Miles Walk by Six
Girls.
To-day the party of six girls Who
Wanted about tho fust of the mouth to
Walk till over North Carolina arrived at
Laurenburg, where their Walk ends.
They are all Well and in good spirits,
and, though much sunburned, are as
comely a sot of lady pedestrians as ever
undertook a long tramp. They started
in Iho neighborhood of Hendersonville
htJarly a month ago upon what was re
garded by their friends as a foolish
scheme to walk over North Carolina
and see tllo principal points of interest
ih the State, and to pav special attention
to the mountains. Tit red tif the girls
wore at school when the project was
first agreed upon, and the other three
who agreed to join them were friends.
They made all their arrangements for
the proposed journey as quietly as pos
sible, for they knew attempts would lie
made to dissuade them from the under
taking, Their friends were taken com
pletely' by surprise when they were told
but a day or two before the commence
ment of the walk of the intention to
tramp over the State without any es
cort. To tho Suggestions that going
alone and with no one to protect them
they would subject themselves to insult,
they replied that they were willing to
make the attempt, And they Averred to
day that from first to last they had
never received one rude word or rough
iust from any one, their only grievances
being that once or twice some persons
of their sex attenfptcd to prevent them
from continuing their walk by charac
terizing such an undertaking as immod
est and unladylike. One old lady of
fered to be their chaperone if they per
sisted in their purpose, but the would
be chaperone wanted to go in a buggy,
and when she learned that they expect
ed to tramp over mountains where there
were no roads, she backed out, al
though they mischievously gave her
an invitation to join. On the first
week of their trip they suffered much
from exhaustion, and the youngest and
frailest of the party, Miss Murdock,
had to stop and rest by reason of
severely-blistered feet. It was feared
that she would have to abandon tho
trip, hut she pushed on nobly, and after
the eighth day she began to gain
strength, and is now one of tho health
iest of tiie fair tramps. Her weight
when she started was but ninety-two
pounds, and she turned tho scales to
day at 103 pounds. All save two of tho
walkers fattened after tho first week,
while two who were inclined to obesity
were pulled down twelve and eighteen
pounds. Their record shows that they
made 420 miles. They started out with
the expectation of making between 500
and 600. Each walker wore a pair of
„ .i , —*•'“ pointing-shoes. nd wore
short walking-dresses, ami
strong staffs in their hands and knap
sacks upon their shoulders, in which
wore packed hammocks and other
necessary articles. they also woco
very broad-brimmed hats, which, how
ever, do not seem to have protect od
their complexions, for they are all
burned brown. Two of the parties
carried pistols to protect them from ac
cidental incursions of wild-cats and
bears. Much of the time they slept in
the open air in their hammocks under
canvas coverlets, which were used to
shield them from heavy dews and rain.
One night, ten days ago, apprehending
a severe storm, they camped in a grave
yard and slept between tho graves.
Another night, in tho mountains, they
were thrown into consternation by tho
appearance of a bear, but tho beast be
ing as frightened as they were, fled
without offering to molest them.
In the mountains they were
in great terror of rattle-snakes,
but did not encounter any of
the reptiles. Along their route 1 hoy
were treated kindly, many of the hos
pitable fanners entertaining them, but
they shunned notoriety and avoided all
the towns and villages, frequently going
some distance out of their way rather
than meet crowds. A novel feature of
their undertaking was the keeping of
what they called their log-book. In
this the record of their impressions and
adventures were kept, each taking her
turn. Tho book contains 1,246 closely
written pages Although frequently
offered vehicles, they always declined,
saying that they started with the deter
mination of walking. They spent three
days in exploring the celebrated Bald
Mountains whose mysterious rumblings
some years ago created so much excite
ment. 'They not only made the difficult
ascent to the top, but went into one of
the crevices, which they examined mi
nutely, with tho aim of discovering
wliat caused the strange sounds in the
interior. The novel trip of the six
young ladies has been much talked
about, but as they had avoided tho
crowded thoroughfares they were igno
rant of tho interest taken in them, and
were much astonished and slightly in
sulted when they learned tiiat bets had
been made by certain sporting nu n
that they would not make four hundred
miles in the month. Tho parties are
modest and shun notoriety. They aver
they end the trip now because three of
their number will begin their school
days early in September, hut they assort
their determination to walk over tho
unexplored portion of the State next
summer. They leave tn-morrow.bv rail
for their homes, near Hende-sonvilie.—
Monroe [N. () Cor. Chicago Times.,
Honest, Hut hot Reliable.
Not long since a lady cnlled on Moee
Schaumburg, to find out if a oolored
woman, who had formerly been a servant
at his house, was honest, she having
given him as a reference.
“She vas honest, too honest to suit
me, put she vas not reliable.”
“ flow in the world can that be?”
“ Veil, vou day I leaves a five tollar
pill on de floor, and I dells Matildy to
sweep dot room ont. I almost vant to
see if she keep dot pill.”
“ Well, did she keep the bill?”
“No, she brings rne dot pill pack.”
“ That looks very much as if she
reliable.”
“No she vns not reliable, for dot pill
vast counterfeit. I vas in hope she
dakes hot pill, and deti I would nev< r
have paid her dot twenty dollars I owed
her; put she’s fooled me py bringing tne
dot pad pill pack, so I cannot say she
vie. reliable, lmt wayim alto va* hoiicat.’ 1
—letat <S it'Uuun,
A Southern Case of Witchcraft.
“If tlie town of Snlem, in Massachu
setts,” said Bob Billingsby, “ thinks she
has had the onhest witches iuthis coun
try’, all I got to say about it is that sho
is simply mistaken. Now, there was old
Brother McGraW and old Bister Hut
ton—'[
Bob’s story, in Short, was thus : Old
Brother McGraw arid ’*hl Bister Hutton
were members of Philip's Bridge Ghureli.
Brothef McGraw Was a consistent mem
ber, but old Siste'f Hutton, to sav the
truth, was regarded sotflewhat ns a
heathen, and even addicted to witch
craft. A calf of Brother MoGraw’s, of
uncommon promise, dwindled in spite of
uncommon pains, and finally died, and
the good mmq persuaded iu his mind
that ids neighbor, although a spiritual
sister, had bewitched it, set out in his
wrath for iier house, and, tailing her by
the hand, gavo her a violent wrench.
Sister Hutton reported the case to the
church, and, at the conference one Sat
urday, Brother McGraw, being mildly
remonstrated with, went so far as to say
that he would have to think about it.
The moderator blandly suggested to him
to withdraw for a few moments, retire
into tlie woods, reflect and pray over
the matter. Ho did so. On returning,
tho moderator and tho brethren went
gratified to observe the calm regret that
was visible upon his countenance. This
moderator was a man of power, both as
to intellect and character. It was Silas
Mercer. Then this dialogue ensued :
Mr. Mercer—“ Well, Brother Me-
Graw, 1 see you’ve returned, and I think
you’ve come to a just conclusion in tho
mattor about which you have been re
flecting.”
Ho looked inquiringly at tho aged
brother, and the aged brother answered
liis inquiring look with meek silence.
“I think you feel sorry, Brother Mo-
Graw,” suggested Mr. M., in a kindly,
loading tone.
“Yes, Brer Moderator,” answered tlie
aged brother, “ wery sorry; I’m wery
sorry.”
Yet tlioro was some gruffness in his
tono which led tho moderator to doubt
the nature of his regret.
“Brother McGraw,” said lie, “will
you let the church know what sort of
sorrow it is you feel ? Ir it a godly sor
row, Brother McGraw ?”
Then the aged brother lifted high his
head, looked tho moderator full in the
face, and answered: “Brer Moderator,
I’m sorry—l’m sorry—that I didn’t
break her neck.”— Editor's Drawer , in
Harper's Magazine.
What is Soiling!
The soiling system is that by which
stock of various kinds are excluded from
pasture fields, and the food prepared
and fed to them regularly. The soiling
“J • associated with wluit to
known as “high farming, which lias
for its rule “the largest return from the
smallest available space,” and it is to
this point we aro journeying on our road
to perfection in agriculture. It is a
system, however, that, demands extra
labor and oloso attention, and one that
entails great expense. It calls for con
stant examination of tho condition of
stock in order to prevent injury to them
from confinement; but usually cattle
seem to thrive well under the soiling
system whenever practiced As none
but the most progressive farmers have
ventured on tho plan, it is safe to say
that success is due more to good judg
ment and care than to the system itself,
so far as the health of the animals is
concerned, but thut it is the only true
way of keeping forms in a high state of
fertility cannot be denied. But few
fences are required in soiling. This is
a source of considerable saving. The
food can be of a variablo character, and
it undergoes careful preparation, in ac
cordance wit li the capacity of the ani
mal, and whether the desire of the
owner be for milk, beef or butter. The
system takes into consideration tho
question of shelter, likewise, and tho
animals are as tenderly treated as they
are well fed. It nails for the selection of
the best stock, of the breeds suited for
the purposes desired, and no other; and
the improvement of t he stock every year
is a paramount object, no expense being
spared to accomplish it; nor is tho
manure overlooked, for every ounce is
not only saved but well preserved.
There must not be any loss of ammonia,
no leaching from rains nor exposure to
the sun. It is treated as an article of
the greatest value, and fitted for proper
assimilation by the crops which it is to
nourish. Great as the interest of tho
farmer may be in his slock, yet, with
all his care, he does not cease until tho
ultimate object }s attained, which is to
increase the productiveness of the soil,
and every year the Htock becomes more
valuable, the dividends larger, and Ilia
soil richer. Less land is required under
the system, and no energies are wasted
overbroad fields, but lime, labor and
money are concentrated on the smallest
possible space that can be made to sup
port the amount of stock required,
manure Is spread thickly, and when it
is all taken from the barnyard not
another acre is touched outside of the
area the manure cover#except for green
manuring. 'The crops are put in just
where they do best, and no land re
mains idle, for green crops are turned
in, a proper system of rotation is fol
lowed, and the best manual skill and
the best machinery are called to the as
sistance of the farmer in making every
thing pay. In fact, soiling, properly
conducted, is scientific) farming, f'liilu
dcljilau Iteeurd.
—Fannie Cornan, fourteen years old,
has rivaled the famous daughter of the
light-housekeeper, by the bold rescue
of her drowning companion, Jessie Ken
ton. The latter, eight years old. tell
into Harlem Kivcr the other afternoon.
There was a light tide and strong < ur
rent. but Fannie sprang in without re
moving an article of her clothini and
succeeded in bringing the child ashore.
—N. V. Time.■<.
—The value of property in the United
Stales is held to be fully $00,004,000,-
000, making it. the richest country in the
world. England, the next richest, lias
$41,100,000,000, and France conies next
with $37,200,000,000. The average to
every inhabitant in England is about
$1,300 tuid iu the United States but
$l,OOO. ihruid.
IE It MV: $1.50 per Annum.
NUMBER 2.
WIT AND WISDOM.
- Love reckons hours for months, and
days for years, and every little abscncs
is au age. — Drj/dcn.
- Th • proper way to cheek slandet
is to despise it; attempt to overtake and
refute it, and it will outrun you. —Georgs
Eliot.
- A thick corn-husk is not a sign of a
hard winter, as some folks think. It
makes no difference to corn-husks what
the weather is .—Detroit Free Press.
—A man has been arrested in New
York for counterfeiting theater tickets.
His villainy has put him in "a box,” but
ho sighs lor th a family circle. --Steuben
vMe Uraid.
—lt is said that the debt of the world
is over $*211,000,000 but so long as it is
not in shape of x /intest oil will the law
yers may gnash tfieir teeth in vain.—
Detroit Free Press.
—“Yes, sir,” says the oldest resident,
“ tho first trip I made from Lowell to
Boston was over the old eanal. and I
worked niv passage on tho canal beat.”
“Worked” your passage? How?” in
quired his audieuce. “I led the horse.”
solemnly remarked the ancient mariner.
—Fogg lias got an idea at last, and lie
says there’s millions in it, as it meets a
long-felt want. It is nothing less than
a revolving house, which is to turn upon
a pivot, so that the best rooms shall al
ways face the sun in winter and be in
tlie shade in summer Fogg has a great
head. — Few Haven Register.
—A student of human nature was tha
Yankee schoolm’am who undertook the
care of a school out West, where her
predecessor, ft man, had been tossed
through tlie window by tlie rebellious
pupils. Blio got along splendidly; and,
wlion tusked how sho managed it, re
plied: “ Oh, easily enough. I thrashed
the little boys and mashed tho big
ones.”
A coachman calls upon the doctor
to ask what can be the matter with
him. “My good man,” said the prince
of science, "you’ve got dropsy--that’.-
what ails you.” “Dropsy! Whals
that?" “ It's a morbid collection of
fluid in the serous cavities within the
body.—in your ease, I tako ithydropori
toneuni caused by cirrhosis of the liver,
but curable by paracentesis.” “ I
know, but what is it iu EnglishP"
“You are all full of water inside."
“Water? Oh, that’s nonsense.” (Re
flects a moment) “ That scoundrel of
a saloon-keeper must have watered liis
liquor, and yet he swore to me lie
didn’t.” —Chicago Times.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
—The oldost Presbyterian Church in
the world, tho Waldcnsian, Bends out
*“ ,,y .,-.„nripa Trom nor highland
valloys than all fief ministers at. homo
—Three thousand rv< Knmlrpd church
es have been built in this country dur
ing t ho past, fifteen years, and more than
ono for every day in the year during the
last twelve months.
—A candidate for a teacher’s certifi
cate in the recent examination at El Do
rado, gave as a reason for the length
ened (Fays of slimmer that they were ex
panded by the. heat. Of course they
contract in tho xvinter.— Leavenworth
Times.
—Rev. Miss Anna Oliver says that the
ideal Christian woman its the salvo,'ion
of the Church, and expresses the belief
if women lose faith in the Church and
Christian religion in its general outlines
the whole fabric of modern theology
will fall apart.
A Hindoo mother, after listening
hour after hour to the lady missionary
as she explained the way of free salva
tion, exclaimed: “Tell me more.” At
last when the long talk must close the
old mother drew from under her veil
the thijj, gray hairs, saying: “'These
hairs have grown wlcte waiting for
suoh words as these.”
—'The industrial schools are 'having
an apparently good e lect upon ties In
dians. The rod men have begun to
work well and to take a pride in their
work. General Armstrong believes
that within live years, witli tlio 100 In
dians at Hampton, Va., and the 800 at
Carlisle, Fa., and others under intruc
tion elsewhere, all the shoes and har
ness needed oil the plains can be made
by tho young men at home. —Chicago
Journal.
—Mr. Spurgeon, while in Scotland,
recently preached in the grounds of
Benrnore. A temporary pnlpit was
erected on the lawn, and Mr. Spurgeon
addressed an open-air congregation of
nearly 5,000 poople, who had come in
from “all the country side,” many per
sons iiaving walked over ten miles ex
pressly to be present, for the austere
Puritans of tlii- part of Scotland would
regard driving on such an occasion as
a “Sabbath desecration” of the most
heinous nature. -X. }'. Cost.
Flash Words.
I think there is one habit—l said to
one company a day or two afterwards—
worse than that of punning. It is tlto
gradual substitution of cant or flash
terms for words which characterize their
object. I have known several very gen
teel idiots whose whole vocabulary had
deliquesced into some half dozen ex
pressions. All things fell into one of
two great categories, fust or slow. Man’s
chief end was to be a “brick.” When
the great calamities of life overtook their
friends, these last wore spoken of as be
ing “a good deal cat up.” Nine-tenths
of human existence were summed up in
the single word “bore.” These ex
pressions come to lie algebraic sympbols
of mind which have grown two weak or
indolent to discriminate. Tliev are the
blank checks of intellectual bankruptcy;
you may fill them up with wliat idea
you like; it makes no difference; for
there are no fuuds in the treasury upon
which they are drawn.— Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
Physicians who have had opportuni
ties for studying the opium-smoking
habit of Chinese, state it as their opin
ion that as a vice it is no more prevalent,
hurtful or degrading than the dram
drinking of Western nations, and that
opium-smoking is ftur less hurtful than
opium-eating,