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■ books '.hey have read, with great advan
k (age to all concerned. More than one
nth I know lias laid the foundation of
Krell>'< tiuil tastes in a New England
■lfijiM, where hearty encouragement
Kits given to children and adults in their
| attempts to sketch the lectures they
Ihave heard the evening previous. The
thing was done with books.—
Union.
nit us* l.v/i ursixKss.
HHH'of practical talent are now
for in country and city. Tin y
vi.'ii' and rv- rywhere and will be
for hen-after more than ever,
are tin se men to come from.
|H a 'll , 'i of Major Generals in
Now is the time to train
for business pursuits, for
P tlu reat avenues to wealth, and dis
tiiikii and ptrwcr which wealth con-
7e are preparing young men for the
a] nx at West Point, for the navy at
■\fc-port, for the learned professions at
v ji o ns universities. Tliis is well. But
J e r$ one is wanted rs a graduate ot
o es ,- institutions a thousand are
' u --id in the gieat army of busi
| , ; Parents, as you value the happi-
I n( .. of your son,, give this matter a
I ~r id consideration, a thorough busi-
L 4 education wil ever be a blessing to
■ children.- -Birliuf/ton Hawk-/'in.
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By AYERS & McGILL.
VOL. V. NO. 19.
OLTJI JUVENILES,
The Lullaby.
* Littl- 80-Peep lias lost her (hoop!”
A mother is singing her baby to al< op,
Bnt the tiny Angers tipped with pearl
Round one another vexatloualy twirl.
And feet to cutting, so rosy and quick, ‘
Are tossing the crib-quUt with punch and kick.
And wide-awake eyes Just ss blue as the sky
Are saying to mamma, “ I’ll Bleep by-and-by 1
And you dkn’t hurt me one wee bit,
Though, trying your twee tost, you puticnUy ait
And sing by the hour beside me I”
“ Little 80-Peep has lost her sheep!”
“ Hurry up, darling! Do go to sleep 1
Maybe you’ll find in the Laud of Dreams
Little 80-Peep by the shady streams
Wailing for yon, with her to go
After her lambics as White as snow,
Hunting through meadow and glen and dell
To And the dear creatures all safe and woll
Out where the lovely harebells grow,
Bleating and feeding to and fro,
A-swingtn’ their tails behind ’em!”
Lower and lower the shadow dips
Over the forehead, the check, the lips;
Lovelit ayes are closed at last;
Lullaby, hush-a-by song is past;
Baby has gone to the land of dreams,
Hunting 80-Poep by the shady Streams.
Mother, unwearied, her vigil keeps,
Dreaming awake, while her baby sleeps—
Dreams which the future, perchance, may bring
To her winsome darling and leave no sting—
No waking grief behind them.
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Silently, tenderly enter there;
God has answered a mother’s prayer;
Baby, our baby, to-day has gone
Into a country to us unknown,
There to find, by the shsdy streams
Which border the city where no one dreams,
Gifts as costly, as rich and rare,
As ever were dreamed in a mother’s prayer 1
Oh Jesus, who sung her last, sweet lullaby;
Jesus, the little ones’ friend, be nigh
To comfort us, left behind her 1
The Mangostetn.
During their stay upon the island of
Java, Dr. Bronsofi and his young trav
eling companions took a trip on a rail
way from Batavia to Ruitenzorg, in or
der that they might learn something of
the interior of the island. While on this
trip tlie boys observed, among other
tilings, that the trees in some instances
grew quite close to the track. Dr. Bron
son explained to them that in the trop
ics it was no small matter to keep a rail
way line. *“’s '-lues, and
sometimes the vines would grow over
the track in a single night. It was nec
essary to keep men at work along the
track to cut away the vegetation where
it tlireatened to interfere with the trains,
and in the rainy season the forco was
sometimes doubled. “There is one
good effect,” said he, “ ci this luxuriant
growth. The roots of the vines and
trees become interlaced in the embank
ment on which tho road is built, and
prevent its being washed away by heavy
rains. So you see there is, after all, a
saving in keeping the railway in repair. ”
At several of the stations the natives
offered fruits of different kinds, and near
ly all new to our young friends, They
had been tola that they would probably
find the mangosteen for sale along tho
road ; they had inquired for it in Singa
pore, but it was not in season there, and
now their thoughts were bent upon dis
covering it between Batavia and Buiten
zorg. Two or three times they were
disappointed when they asked for it; but
finally, at one of the stations, when Fred
pronounced the word “ mangosteen,” a
native held up a bunch of fruit and
nodded. Tlie doctor looked at the
bunch and nodded likewise, and Fred
speedily paid for the prize.
Perhaps we had better let Fred tell the
story of the mangosteen, which he did
in his first letter from Buitenzorg ;
“ We have found tho prince of fruits,
and its name is mangosteen. It is about
the size of a pippin apple, and of a pur
ple color—a very dark purple, too. The
husk, or rind, is about half an inch
thick, and contains a bitter juice, which
Is used in tho preparation of dye ; it
stains the fingers like aniline ink, and is
not easy to wash off. Nature has wisely
provided this protection for the fruit ; if
it had no more covering than the ordi
nary skin of an apple the birds would
eat it all up ns soon as it was ripe. If 1
were a bird, and had a bill that would
open the mangosteen, I would eat noth
ing else as long as I could get at it.
“ You cut this husk with a sharp knife
right across the center, and then you
open it in two parts. Out comes a lump
or pulp as white as snow, about the size
of a small peach. It is divided into sec-
orange,
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you can describe how a canary sings, or
a violet smells. There is bo other fruit
I ever tasted that begins to compare
with it, though I hesitate to admit that
there is auytliing to surpass onr Ameri
can strawberry in its perfection, or the
American peach. If you could get all
the flavors of our best fruits in one, and
then give that one the ‘ meltinguess ’ of
the mangos teen, perhai>s you might
equal it; but, till you can do so, there
is no use denying that the tropios have
the prince of fruits.” —“The Boy Travel
ers in the Fur Fast.”
, Patty's Stare. .
Wien Patty was a very, very little
girl, sho one day took it into her curly
head to run away.
Her mother was busy at work and did
not miss her until she had been gone
some minutes. Then sho looked out and
saw Patty’s pink dress, like a little flow
er, moving along slowly away down the
dusty road.
There was no one to send for the run
away, so the tired mother had to leave
tho bread burning in the oven, and tho
baby crying in tho cradle, and start out
herself in the hot sun.
There was an old man coming along
tho road toward Patty, an old man that
she knew very well, but was really afraid
of him.
She need not have been, for he was
kind and pleasant; but he was a queer,
simple old man, and everybody called
him old Daddy Morse.
Patty was so afraid that sho turned
out of the road and went along close by
the fence to get by him.
He saw the little girl was running
away, however, aud, in the kindness of
his heart, he went and picked Patty up
to carry ner back, and save her mother
the long, warm walk.
How frightened and aDgry little Patty
was! How she did kick and scream !
The old man held on all the same,
and tried to soothe her by gentle words;
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ning away, told liorirV-nR n:uTpfhn\ tuid
tliat Daddy Morse was very kind to
bring her back, but Patty still sobbed
and sighed, and could not get over her
fright.
She shut the outside door, and stood
by the window watching in fear that tho
old man would come again.
Pretty soon her brother Allie came
whistling across the yard. Patty opened
the door a little crack. “M’in, Allic,”
she said, in a trembling voice. “Man
hite ’ee!”
Then her little kitty came around tho
corner. “M’in, kitty,” sho called. “Man
bite ’ee!”— Youth's Companion.
810 FARMING.
A correripondcnt of the St. Louis Re
publican tells of the ■wulerful farming
operations of Dr. 1 lugh J. Glenn, of
Colusa county, Cal. Tlio farm consists
of C 5,000 acres, 45,000 of which are in
wheat, and has 175 miles of fence. The
acreage yield is 25 bushels in favorable
seasons, and this is considered a favora
ble one. Of this year’s crop Dr. Glenn
says, although he has on hand 350,000
sacks, each holding 140 pounds, he
thinks they will not hold his wheat
Ho has Ids own machine and blacksmith
shops; boring, turning and planing
machines ; buzz saws, etc. Ho manu
factures his own wagons, separators, :
headers, harrows and nearly all the ma
chinery and implements used. He has
employed 50 men in seeding and 150 in
harvest, 200 head of horses and n*iih‘s,
55 grain-headers and other wagons, 150
sets of harness, 12 twelve-foot headers,
5 sulky hay-rakes, 12 eight-mule culti
vators, 4 Gem seed-sowers, 8 Buckeye
drills, 8 mowers, 1 forty-eight-inch sep
arator, 36 feet long and 13$ high, with a
capacity of 10 bushels per minute; 1
forty-inch separator, 86 feet long; 2
forty-feet elevators for self-feeder, 1
steam barley or feed mill, 2 twenty
horse-power engines. The working
force to run the separator is 66 men, 8
headers, 22 header-wagons, 100 horses
and mules. The average run of the
machine is 1,800 sacks, containing 2$
bushels each, per day.. The utmost ca
pacity of the machine is 3,000 sacks or
1 7,000 bushels per flay. The harvesting
force cut and thrash simultaneously,
and in fifteen minutes from the time the
header begins in the grain the wheat is
in the sacks.
Thb Pennsylvania Railway Company
is adding the artificial decoration to the
nature by beautifying the
curve, near Altoona,
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
In North t'arolina there are 2>7 tobacco
factories.
Fine specimens of pure plumbago have
been found in Cherokee county, On.
Key West yields about $21,500 per
month to the internal revenue fund.
Real estate in Lafayette, Ala., is as
sessed $111,175 and personal property
$112,175.
TWevival at the Baptist church at
€., resulted in forty-seven
eonversjols.
It it proposed to scale the city debt of
New Orleans to the extent of fifty cents
on the dollar.
L.nds in Montgomery county, Ala.,
have more than doubled in price within
five or six years.
The building of the Library Associa
tion, at Thomasville, Ga., cost $.1,000.
It has 2,000 volumes.
It is against the law in Fort Smith,
Ark,, to carry a pistol in any other way
except in the hand.
lit Perry county, Miss., John A. Syl
vester planted a poplar tree near an ap
ple free, and the poplar bore apples.
In some instances in Grayson county,
Va., five and six persons of a family died
of diphtheria, and in one instance an en
tire family.
p<;me thirty families from Michigan,
New Jersey and Florida, are locating in
North Georgia, en the line of the Atlan
ta and Charlotte road.
'William Lockridgo, of Highland coun
ty, Va., says that he has killed in his
time as many as 1,500 deer, lhe old
man’s step is nt ill firm.
The receipts of the State of Nortli Car
olinjt from all sources during tho year
omUd September 30, were $546,790.04,
Mai the disbursements were $402,720.34.
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Bull H .. bIl
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rived at SWttrnny. A
colony of Armenians arc expected in the
spring.
The entire amount collected hv way of
taxation in North Carolina is $2J | H2,7< 0,
of which the counties spend two-thirds,
the schools one-sixth, and the State the
remainder.
Walnut furniture has been received
roin Chicago and put in place in the
new post-office at Atlanta, Ga. ihe
old furniture will l>e used to furnish the
post-office at Macon, Ga.
The dueling bill has been passed by the
South Carolina Senate, with an addi
tional section providing that it shall not
effect indictments now pending or offenses
committed liefore its passage.
Three men sit in the 1 nited States ben
ate who were Governors of Southern
States when the war broke out, and re
mained in office by re-election at its close
Harris, of Tennessee; Vance, of North
Carolina, and Brown, of Georgia.
The flat lands on the Escambia river
in Santa Rosa county, Ila., are alluvial
deposits from the rich lime lands of Ala
bama, and it is thought that they will
make the largest possible crops of rice
for hundreds of yeas without any ma
nure.
—Two hells found by a diver between
Fort Bumter and Fort”Moultrie, taken
from the wreck of a vessel of about 350
tons burden, bear the date 1374, and
must have been cast nearly two centu
ries before the discovery of America.
There is an extensive deposit of kaolin,
or porcelain clay, in Beuth Carolina,
near the Georgia city of Augusta, of the
finest quality, equal to the demands of a
hundred years. It is said to have been
used to adulterate flour, being soft, white
and free from gravel.
Old Poldo Lamar, in Alabama, is dead.
He was positively known to he 110 years
old. But according to his statement of
his aue when he came to this country
from Africa and his recollection of war
times long ago, he must have been 120
years old. He was able to go about
where he wished until about a month
ago, when he fell in the fire, since which
tipie he has beeri’con fined to his lied.
The South Louisiana Canal and Navi
gation Company in less than twelve years,
six miles west of fort
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ting into I lay on Lafourche about twenty
miles above its mouth, arid extending
nearly three miles further west, into the
hack waters of Timlxiller bay. This
gives safe and easy inland navigation to
Bayou Terrebonne at a |>oint alsmt twen
ty miles from the gulf.
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the fist merit nrtrnoß.
Tho first consignment of 5tee1—27,460
pound*—for the superstructure of tho
East River bridge has boon received,
and rapid deliveries are expected from
this time on, the Edgemoor Iron Com
pany having put its full force upon this
contract. The guys of the auperstruct
ure, manufactured by tho Roeblings, at
Trenton, of Bessemer steel, have ah-oar
rived. The Cambria Stool Company,
which furnishes tho steel, has about
1,000 tons ahead of tho Edgemoor Com
pany. Col. Paine reports that the steel
has all been tested and is of superior
quality, the strength of the steel trusses
being six times greater than is likely to
be required.
The last, structure to l>o razed to make
room for tho New York approach will
soon bo cleared away. Thus fur the
bridge has cost sl4, (XX), 000—of which sum
$3,000,000 went under water and 94,-
000,000 went for reid estate, to bo cov
ered by a mile of costly masonry. In
the profile drawing of the completed
structure the lofty towers sink to com
parative insignificance. Tho projection
carries in tho observer’s mind a sense of
length rather than of height. Tho su
perb arches at Vandewater and Rose and
William aud North William streets, the
massive anchorages at Franklin square
in New York ami Main street in Brook
lyn, and the airy bridge over Pearl
street become, suyH a critical observer,
more conspicuous in the picture than
are the towers, which are so imposing as
seen at midstream on tho East river.
It is calculated that witalic greatest
FA It SI SCFNICH IN NIC W FNOLAND.
The cider mill challenged tho boy’s
attention in tho fall, when apples were
brought by the cart-load and dumped in
huge piles on the ground, then carried in
large baskets to tho hopper, to be con
verted into pomace. The sternly old
horse turned the creaking mill. When
tho pomace was put into form and
pressed tho swoct jnico ran out into
tubs that invito sampling. Cujis and
glasses wero a barbarism; tho only
proper instrument for tasting and test
ing was tho long, bright straw. No
cherry cobbler was ever so delicious as
that new cidor. It was good sport to
hunt hens’ eggs, in obscure manger cor
ners, or high hay-mows, or in tho tall,
standing grass ; to see the swarming bees
settle on a limb of the near peach tree,
and watch the process of hiving them ;
to ride on high loads of fragrant lmy ; to
trap the sly woodchuck, and see his grit
as a prisoner; to follow tho harvesters
afield, and stack tho clean oat-sheaves
in “ shocks," and to see the same oats
fly from under the alternating flails.
About the best fun of all was in tho
haskings on the great barn floor. Here
were at once activity and repose, indi
vidual excolleneo and social enjoyment.
Every man has his stories to toll. The
gray-haired grandfather recounted his
early exploits, and told how his nimble
feet used to trip those of heavier and
stronger wrestlers. “Stand up a min
ute,” he would say to his best hired
man ; and, taking him by the collar and
elbow, ho would illustrate his youthful
“science,” and send his man tottering
across the floor. Hardly less was the
sport of shearing time, when tho boys
were allowed to hold the big shears and
trim the sheep’s fleecy legs. The shear
ing was preceded by a general sheep
washing, at the bridge on tho nearest
cross-road. It was “high jinks ” for the
boys to stand waist-deep in the water,
pass along the swimming sheep, and give
the larger lambs a useless bath by them
selves.— Martin Kellogg, in September
Californian.
Canada has definitely offered herself
up to the capitalists. She has definitely
agreed to turn over tq a Syndicate tlm
now Canada Pacific Company, in per
petuity, that portion ol tip* line which
haa already been built and’ all informa
tion in its possession, and will grant sub
sidies in the form of $200,000,000 of
Canadian Government bonds Uid several
million acres of land along yr line < '
road for the sake of its corqpletroß*
the Pacific coast.
CUHIttiNT ITEMS,
Humors of the day—Small-pox, saß
rheum, etc.
Dammit is a postofflea name in Sevier
county, Tcnu.
A nkwi.y-wkddkd husband say* B
should be called “ matrinieney.**
Homh Philadelphians named theftf
Colorado Htlver mine the “SoMMifl
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Inkank by over-study of the
young man named Pierce, oL Theresa,
Jefferson county, N. Y., tliat
his left hand hud offended, delilierntely
cut oft’ every finger.
Bmall boy (rushing in front of young
Indy wearing large poke bonnet, and
staring her full in the fafto) —“You’va
lost your bet, Charlie; I told yer it
wam’t an old woman.”
Dogs chased the murderer of their
master, at Nuvusota, Tex., but only held
him fast, when they caught him. The
human pursuers wore less merciful, for
they hanged him to a tree.
Titr medical student of Maine mast
dissect before ho can become an M. D. f
but tho law provides that no bodies shall
be dissected except those of executed
criminals, and another law abolishes
capital punishment, P
At Exeter, England, a young farmer
has been sent to jail for a month for
shooting a rabbit on a farm of his own
occupation, while a man brought before
tlie same bench for brutally ill-treating
his wife was fined 5 shilfonn^,
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Ins relations pnua..csi.
Bomis philosophical porographor luJH
been struck with wonder at the persist- ■
once of mothers in teaching their chil
dren to talk, and the equal persistence
With which they endeavor, a few
later, to litcp them from uxercisiuglMfll
This word “ welcome ” on
mat, or worked in silk floss and framed
to hung on the wall, does not always
mean Unit tho relatives, oven unto the
third or fourth generation, may come in
at all times and make themselves per
fectly at home. —Boston Globe.
Tub tradition that Cologne
would never lie finished took its rise m
follows : A young architect in despair
at the refusal of his pin • by Archbishop
Conrad went to the 1 nk of the Rhino
meditating suicide, wlien there ap
peared the devil in. elf, who joffered
him, in exchange for his, soul, the plan
of the cathedral :■ jp ds to-day.
Tho young man dm sfled twenty-four
hours for reflection, Ad submitted
matter to his confeshor, who suggested
that on the momVw, wlien Baton
showed him again tig! and *ign, he should
seize it with his left hand, and, drawing
rapidly a relic of BdUmdtt from under
his robe with the tho evil
spirit with it on the " 5
done. Baton said : “ H .t’H a
tnek nl the church, 1 it the
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tect di< and of mortiticathA without recon
structing tlie phm. ®or years event#
seemed to bear out the old legend.
A PALP tHLK TllVTlt.
Bays a sensible woman, discussing the
dress question : “If many of our work,
ing girls but knew what guys they mako
of themselves through buying and wear
ing cheap imitations of fashionable up- -
parol an 1 jewelry, th?y wouldn’t do
Jt cau."o a wealthy lady can aflVmgggj
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