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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,