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JACKSON HERALD. ROBERT S. HOWARD,? Editor and Publisher. \ VOLUME L- 3VL- B. 3VC : 'OI3SrT‘^' 3 VYAVVOO - - VtWEAS, IV, V., (Below S. G. Dobbs and opposite A. S. Dorsey.) WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE, COFFINS & CASKETS. I have the largest stock of this kind ever brought to the city, ad can undersell any house in the South. Be sure to give me a call, and I will save you money. 1 also keep, at my store on Jackson Street, all sizes IDoors, Sash, and 331inds, And Builders Material of All Kinds. M. B. McGINTY, Sept 23 Broad Street, Athens, Ga. £epf iUpettisements. 3NJ" otice. WILL he let to the lowest bidder, before the Court House door in Jefferson, Jackson county, (la., on Tuesday, the2oth day ofOcioher, ISSI, the contract for superintending, managing and caring for the inmates of t!ic Poor House of said county for the years ISB2 and 1883, the coun ty to furnish all provisions, clothing, medical at tention, Ac., necessary for the paupers, and the person making the lowest bid, per month, for said service ©{'superintending, Ac., will be award ed the contract, upon the following conditions: The contractor will be required to do and per form all duties necessary for the comfort and welfare of said paupers, and to control said in mates with humanity, looking both to their wel fare and the county's interests ; to plant and cul tivate, at his expense, a garden sufficient to sup ply vegetables for the inmates of.said Poor House ; and will he required to give bond, with good se curity, in tlie sum of live hundred dollars, condi tioned for an honest administration, respectful and humane treatment of the paupers, and faith lid discharge of all duties thereto required; and will be required to make monthly reports to the Ordinary, showing the number and condition of the inmates, amount expended for provisions, clothing, medical attention, Ac., during the month, and the amount of provisions, Ac., on hand at the end of each month. Besides forfeit ing said bond, the contractor will be subject to removal by the Ordinary at any time upon a case made for failure or refusal to comply with any of the conditions or regulations. The person to whom said contract shall he awarded will be al lowed the proceeds of the farm, cultivated at his own expense, to be taken as a part compensation for services as Superintendent. Also, at the same time and place, will be let to the physician who is the lowest bidder, the con tract for rendering medical services to the inmates of said Poor House per month, subject to like regulations as to duty, monthly reports, Ac., as the Superintendent. For more definite specilications, apply at this office. 11. W. BELL, Sept. 23, 1881. Ord’y Jackson County. Jackson Sheriff’s Sale. ILL be sold, before the Court House door in t? Jefferson, on the first Tuesday in Octo ber, 1881, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder, the following property, to-wit: A tract of land, lying in the 218th District, G. M., in said county, containing one hundred and seventeen acres, more or less, adjoining lands of J. A. Me Ever and Webster White on the east, lands belonging to the estate of T. R. Kiningham on the north, lands of M. R. Messer on the west, lands of C. M. Shockley on the south. On said land is a comfortable dwelling and out-buildings, and three tenant houses and out-buildings. There is about seventy-eight acres in a good state of cul tivation, about fifteen acres in original forest, about twenty-four acres in old pine field ; all good up-land. On said place is a good orchard. Levi ed on as the property of Martha King, deceased, to satisfy a li. fa, issued from the Justice’s Court of the 448th District, G. M., in favor of J. 11. New ton vs. Martha King. Levy made and returned to me by J. O. Tolbert, L. C. Notice of the levy given to 11. C. Gilbert, Howard Vandiver and F. A. Reinhardt, tenants in possession, as the law directs. T. A. McELII ANNON, Sh'lf. Administrator's Sale. IAY virtue of an order from the Court of Ordi ) nary of Gwinnett county, Georgia, will be sold before the Court House door in the town of Lawrcnccvillc, on the lirst Tuesday in October, 1881, the following described tract or parcel of land, situated in Jackson county, Georgia, and belonging to the estate of Jesse Osborn, deceased, to-wit: One hundred acrcs~of land, more or less, adjoin ing the line between Jackson and Gwinnett coun ties on the west, the lands of I. N. McMillan on the east, Martha llenson on the north, and on the south by the road le ding from Lawrenceville to Jefferson, and being the place whereon Mr. Shell nut now reside;. Sold for the purpose of distribution among the heirs of said Osborn, and to carry out his last will. Terms cash. V ROB’T 11. BRADFORD, Adm’r de bonis non. Jackson Mortgage Sheriff's Sale. WILL be sold, before the Court House door in Jefferson, Jackson county, tia., on the first Tuesday in November, 1 SSI, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder, the following prop erty, to-wit: One black mare mule, about eight years old. Levied on as the property of Crotf Duke, by virtue of and to satisfy a mortgage li. fa. in favor of 11. Atkins k Cos., vs. Croll’Duke, issu ed from the Superior Court of said county. The property described in said fi. fa. T. A. McELHANNON, Sheriff. Q.UOKCU, JaOisoa County. Whereas, J. C. Wheeler, Administrator de lion, with will annexed, of DanT Wheeler, deceased, represents to this Court, by his petition duly filed, that he has fully and completely ad ministered said deceased’s estate, and is entitled to a, discharge from said administration— 4his is to cite all concerned, kindred and crcd itQfs, tq show cause, if any they can, on the first Monday in December, 1881, at the regular term uf tl\c Court of Ordinary of said county, why Let ters of Dismission should not he granted the ap plicant from s;ud trust. Givep under ipy official signature, this Aug. 31 1881. r il. W. BELL, Ord’y. ' { JacKson County. \\ herv-as. Nancy Lyle and J. W. Lyle, Adm'rs pn the estate of J. B. Lyle, late of said county, dec and. applies for leave to sell the land belonging to said deceased— ' ltfis is Ip cite all concerned, kindred and crtJ jtors, t° show cause, if any, before the Court of ruinary of said the Ist Mo; ’.ay in Oc , c ,h 1881, why said leave not l>e grant the applicants. ■uwi lVeu Ul *der my signature, tips Sept. 1, Wl- 4|. \V. HELL, Unity. Jaclison County. Whereas, C. M. Wood, Administrator on the estate of A. M. Loggins, late of said county, de ceased, represents to the Court, by his petition duly.filed, that lie has fully administered said es tate, and is entitled to a discharge— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1881, why said applicant should not have Letters of Dis mission from his said trust. Given under my official signature this June 28, 1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jaclixioii County. Whereas, W. P. Cosby, Administrator on the estate of Frances C. Cosby, late of said county, deceased, represents to the Court that he has fully administered said estate, and is therefore entitled to Letters of Dismission— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1881, wliy said letters should not be granted the appli cant. Given under my official signature, this June 28, 1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jackson County. Whereas, J. B. Pendergrass, Administrator of the estate of Hugh Sargent, late of said coun ty, deceased, applies for leave to sell the land be longing to the estate of said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, ISSI, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 31. 1881. ' 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. JacliMMi County. Whereas, /. T. Niblack, Guardian of P. L. Niblack, applies for leave to sell six shares of the stock of the Georgia Kail ltoad and Banking Com pany belonging to the estate of said ward— This is to cite all concerned, the next of kin, Ac., to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1881, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 31, 1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. Administrator’s Sale. WILL he sold, before the Court House door in the town of Jefferson, within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in October next, the one undivided one-half interest in and to seventy acres of land, more or less; the place whereon Julia Burson, late of said county, uec'd, resided at the time of her death (together with her sister, Sarah A. Flannigan, who owns the other half, and her husband, AY . S. Flannigan,) adjoining land of AY . W. Millsaps, Randall Craft and Mary Burson, on Barber's creek, in said county. On said land is situate two dwellings, small orchard, twent} 7 - five acres cleared land, remainder in pine old field. .Sold for the purpose of paying debts and distribu tion. Terms cash. VY. S. FLANNIGAN, Administrator of Julia Burson. Jacliseii County. W. P. Kent has applied for exemption of per sonal; and I will pass upon the same at 10 o'clock A. M., on Saturday, the first day of Octo ber. 1881, at my office, sep 23 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Notice to Debtors Creditors. 4 LL persons having demands against the estate -XjL of Julia F. Burson, late of said county, tie ceased, are hereby required to present them”, duly authenticated, for payment to the undersigned, and those due said estate arc requested to come forward and settle. W. S. FLANNIGAN. Sept 2 Administrator of Julia F. Burson. Notice to Debtors §' Creditors. A LL persons having demands against the estate XI. of Sarah Booth, late of Jackson county, de ceased, are hereby required to present them, duly authenticated, for payment to the undersigned, and those due said estate are requested to come forward and settle. JOHN A. BOOTH, sop 23 Administrator of Sarah Booth. A<- l-IAT* WAX n:3> for the Best and Fastest-Selling Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prices reduced 33 per cent. National Publishing Cos., Atlanta, Ga. apl 1 3m Jackson Coimi.v. Whereas, J. R. Crane makes application to me in proper form for Letters of Administration on the estate of John li. Colt, late of said county, deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, before the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the Ist Monday in Oc tober, 1881, why said Letters should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3L 1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jackson County. Whereas, Jas. L. Williamson, Administrator of the estate of Micagcr Williamson, late of said coun ty, dccM. applies for leave to sell a tract of land belonging to said deceased’s estate, known as the E. M. Thompson place, tying in said county — This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors. to show cause, if any, on the lirst Monday in October, 1881, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should not he granted the applicant. Given under mv official signature, this Ang. 31, 1881. ' 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Land, for Sale! I OFFER for sale the place whereon 1 live, near Hood’s mills, in Jackson county, containing two hundred acres. Fifty acres o£good land open for cultivation, a very fair residence and other buildings, and plenty of good strong lands in for est and old field pine, and also bottom land un cleared. Will sell at a bergain. Call on W. C. Howard, JelVerson, Ga., or myself, on the place, for information. M ARG A RET CAR ITT! EPS, Sept. 23d, lSsl. Apple Valley, Ga. JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1881. wy/\;vA‘\' mscwLiAm. The Garnered Life Full of Usefulness With Its Work. The History of the Struggles of the Garfield Family—ln the Wilds of Ohio—The suc cessive Steps that Led from Obscu rity to the White 1 louse and to Death. The following sketch of General James A. Garfield is from the pen of the well-known journalist and Republican, Mr. E. V. Smalley, and appeared shortly before his nomination for the Presidency by the Republican Nation al Convention : “James Abram Garfield was born Novem ber 19, 1831, in the township ofOrange, Cuya hoga county, Ohio, about 15 miles from Cleve land. IPs father, Abraham Garfield, came from New Y'ork, but, like his mother, was of New England stock. James was the youngest of four children. The lather died in 1833, leaving the family dependent upon a small farm and the exertions of the mother. There was nothing about the elder Garfield to dis tinguish him from the other plodding farmers of the rather sterile township of Orange. No one could discern any qualities in him which, transmitted to the next generation, might help to make a statesman, unless it was in duslry ; but his wife, who is still living at an advanced age, was always fond of reading when she could get leisure from her hard household duties, and was a thoroughly capa ble woman, of strong will, stern principles and more than average force of character. Of the children no one besides James has made the slightest mark in the world. The elder brother is a farmer in Michigan, and the two sisters are, I believe, farmers’ wives. James had a tough time of it as a boy. lie toiled hard on the farm early and late in summer and worked at the carpenter's bench in win ter. The best of it was that he liked work. There was not a lazy hair on his head, lie had an absorbing ambition to get an educa tion, and the only road open to this end seem ed that of manual labor. Ready money was hard to get in those days. The Ohio canal ran not far from where he lived, and, finding that the boatmen got their pay in cash and earned better wages than he could make at farming or carpentry, lie hired out as a driver on the tow-path, and soon got up to the dig nity of holding the helm of a boat. Then he determined to ship as a sailor on the lakes, but an attack of fever and ague interfered with his plans. lie was ill three months, and when he recovered he decided to go to a school called Geauga Academy, in an adjoining county. llis mother had saved a small sum of money, which she gave him, together with a few cooking utensils and a stock of provis ions. lie hired a small room and cooked his own food to make his expenses as light as possible, lie paid his own way after that, never calling on his mother for any more as sistance. li}' working at the carpenter’s bench mornings and evenings and vacation times, and teaching country schools during the winter, he managed to attend the Acade my during the spring and fall terms, and to save a little money towards going to college, lie had excellent health, a robust frame and a capital memory, and the attempt to eom b ine mental and physical work, which has broken down many farmer boys’ ambitions to get an education, did not hurt him. “ When he was twenty three years of age he concluded that he had about all there was to be had in an obscure cross-roads academy, lie calculated that he had saved about half enough money to get through college, provi ded he could* begin, as he hoped, with the junior year. lie got a life insurance policy and assigned it to a gentleman as security for a loan to make up the amount he lacked. In the fall of 1851 he entered the junior class of Williams College, Massachusetts, and grad uated in 1856, with the metaphysical honors of iiis class. I have seen a daguerreotype of him taken about this'time. It represents a rather awkward youth, with a shock of light hair standing straight up from a big forehead, and a frank, thoughtful face of a very mark ed German type. There is not a drop of German blood in the Garfield family, but bis picture would be taken for some Fritz or Carl just over from the fatherland. Before he went to college Garfield had connected him self with the Disciples, a sect having a numer ous membership in eastern and southern Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, where its founder, Alexander Campbell, had traveled and preached. The principle peculiarities of the denomination are their refusal to formu late their beliefs into a creed, the independ ence of each congregation, the hospitality and fraternal feeling of tire members and the lack of a regular ministry. When Garfield return ed to Ohio it was natural that he should soon gravitate to the struggling little college of the young sect at Iliram, Portage county, near his boyhood's home. lie became professor of Latin and Greek, and threw himself w ith the energy and industry which are leading traits of his character into the work of budd ing up the institution. Before he hud been two years in the professorship he was rip pointed president of the college. Iliram is a lonely country village, three miles from a railroad, built upon a high hill, overlooking FOR TIIE PEOPLE. “During his professorship Garfield married Miss Lucretia Rudolph, daughter of a farmer in the neighborhood, who had emigrated from Harford county, Md., and whose acquaint ance he had made while at the academy, where she was also a pupil. She was a quiet, thoughtful girl, of singularly sweet and re fined disposition, fond of study and reading, possessing a warm heart and a mind with the capacity of steady growth. The marriage was a love affair on both sides, and has been a thoroughly happy one. MucH of General Garfield’s subsequent success in life may be attributed to the never-failing sympathy and intellectual companionship of his wife and the stimulus of a loving home circle. The young couple bought a neat little cottage fronting on the college campus and began their wedded life poor and in debt, but with brave hearts. “ In 1859 the college president was elected to the State Senate from the counties of Port age and Summit. lie did not resign his pres idency, because he looked upon a few months in the Legislature a3 an episode not likely to change the course of his life. But the war catne to alter all his plans. During the win ter of 18G1 he was active in the passage of measures for arming the State militia, and his eloquence and energy made him a con spicuous leader of the union part} 7 . Early in the summer of 1861 ho was elected Colonel of an infantry regiment (the forty-second) raised in northern Ohio, many of the soldiers in which had been students at Hiram. He took the field in eastern Kentucky, was soon put in command of a brigade, and, by making one of the hardest matches ever made by re cruits, surprised and routed the Confederate forces, under Humphrey Marshall, at Pike ton. “ From eastern Kentucky General Garfield was transferred to Louisville, and from that place hastened to join the army of General Buell, which he reached with his brigade in time to participate in the second day’s fight ing at Pittsburg landing. He took part in the siege of Corinth and in the operations along the Memphis and Charleston railroad. In January, 1863, lie was appointed chief of staff of the army of the Cumberland, and bore prominent share in all the campaigns in mid dle Tennessee in the spring and summer of that year. liis last conspicuous military service was at the battle 'of Chickamauga. For his conduct in that battle ho was promo ted to a Major-Generalship. It is said that he wrote all the orders given to the army that day, and submitted them to Gen. Itosecrans for approval, save one. The one he did not write was the fatal order to General Wood, which was so worded as not to correctly con vey the meaning of the commanding General, and which caused the destruction of the right wing of the army. “The congressional district in which Gar field lived was the one long made famous by Joshua R. Giddings. The old anti-slavery champion grew careless of ihe arts of politics towards the end of his career and came to look upon a nomination and re-clcction as a matter of course. liis over-confidence was taken advantage of in 1858 by an ambitious lawyer named Hutchins, to carry a conven tion against him. The friends of G’ddings never forgave Hutchins, and cast about for a means of defeating him. The old man himself was comfortably quartered in his consulate at Montreal, and did not care to make a fight to get back to congress. So his supporters mlde use of the popularity of General Gar field and nominated him while he was in the field without asking his consent. That was in 1862. When he heard of the nomination Garfield reflected that it would be fifteen months before the congress would meet to which he would be elected, and believing, as did ♦very one else, that the war could not possibly last a year longer, concluded to ao ceiJ., I have often heard him express regret that" he did not help fight the war through and say that he never wou ! d have left the army to go to congress had he foreseen that the sti aggie would continue beyond the year 1863. He continued his military servieeTip to the time congress met. “On entering congress in December, 1363, twenty miles of cheese-making country to the southward. It contains fifty or sixfy houses clustered around the greCTT, in the center of which stands the homely red brick college structure. Plain living and high thinking was the order of things at Hiram college in those days. The teachers were poor, the pu pils were poor and the institution was poor, but there was a great deal of hard, faithful study done and man}' ambitious plans form ed. The young president taught, lectured and preached, and all the time studied as diligently as any acolyte in the temple of knowledge. He frequent!} 7 ' spoke on Sundays in the churches of the towns in the vicinity to create an interest in the college. Among the Disciples an} 7 one can preach who has a mind to, no ordination being required. From these Sunday discourses came the story that Garfield was at one time a minister. lie never considered himself such, and never had any intention of finding a career in the pulpit. Ills ambition, if he had any outside of the school, lay in the direction of law and poli ties. General Garfield was placed upon tfie com mittee on military affairs with Schenck and Farnsworth, who w.cre also fresh from the field. He took an active part in the debates of the house, and won a recognition which few new members succeed in gaining. lie was not popular among his fellow members dur ing his first term. They thought him some thing of a pedant because he sometime show ed his scholarship in his speeches, and they were jealous of his prominence. 11 is solid, at tainments and amiable social qualtics ena bled him to prejudice during his second term, and he became on terms of close friendship with the best men of both houses. His committee service during his second term was on the way3 and means, which was quite to his taste, for it gave him an opportunity to prosecute the studies lie had always felt a fondness for. lie was a hard worker and a great reader in those days, going borne with his arms full of books from the congressional library and sitting up late at nights to read them. It was t ien that lie laid the foundations of the convictions on the subject of national finance which he has since held to firmly amid all the storms of political agitation. He was renominated in 1864 with out opposition, but in 1866 Mr. Hutchins, whom he had supplanted, made an effort to defeat him. Hutchins canvassed the district thoroughly, but the convention nominated Garfield b3' acclamation. “ He has had no opposition since in his own party. In 1872 the liberals and democrats united to beat him, but his'majority was larger than ever. In 1874 the greenbackers and Jem ocrats combined and put up a popolar soldier against him, but the} 7 made no impression on the result. The Ashtabula district, as it is generally called, is the most faithful to its representatives of any in the north. It has had but four members in half a century. “In the fortieth congress General Garfield was chairman of the committee on military affairs. In the forty-first lie was given the chairmanship of banking and currency, which he liked much better, because it was in the line of his financial studies. liis next promo tion was to the chairmanship of the appro priations committee, which he held until the democrats came into power in the house in 1875. Ilis chief work on that committee was a steady and judicious reduction of the ex penses of the government. In all the poli tical struggles in congress he has borne a lead ing part, his clear, vigorous and moderate style of argument, making him one of the most effective debaters in either house.* “When James G. Blaine went to the senate, in 1877, the mantle of republican leadership in the house was by common consent placed upon Garfield, and he has worn it ever since. In January last Gen. Garfield was elected to the senate to the seat which was vacated b}' Allen G. Thurman on the 4th of March, 1881. lie received the unanimous vote of the republi can caucus, an honor never given to my man of any party in the State of Ohio. “ Asa leader in the house he is more cau tious and less dashing than Blaine, and his judicial turn of mind makes him too prone to look for two sides of a question for him to be an efficient partisan. When the issue fairly touches his convictions, however, lie becomes thoroughly aroused and strikes tremendous blows. Blaine’s tactics were to continually harrassthe enemy by sharp-shooting surprises and picket firing. Garfield waits for an op portunity to deliver a pitched battle, and his generalship is shown to best advantage when.! the fight is a fair one and waged on grounds where each party thinks itself strongest. Then his solid shot of argument are exceedingly effective. On the stump Garfield is one of the very best orators in the republican party, lie has a good voice, an air of evident sin. cerity, great clearness and vigor of statement, and a way of knitting his arguments together so as to make a speech'deepen its impression on the mind of the hearer until the climax is reached. “ Of his industry and studious habits a great deal might be said, but a single illustration will have to suffice here. Once during the busiest part of a very busy session at Washing ton l found him in hi3 library, behind a big barricade of books. This was no unusual sight, but when I glanced at the volumes I saw they were all different editions of Horace, or books relating to that poet. ‘I find I am overworked and need recreation,’ said the general. ‘Now my theory is that the best way to rest the mind is not to let it be idle, but to put it at something quite outside of the ordinary line of its employment. So I am resting by learn ing all the congressional library can show about Horace and the various editions and translation of his poems.’ “The nomination, election and inauguration of James A. Garfield as presidentofthe United States are events fresh in the memories of all reatiers. The republican national convention met at Chicago, June 2, 1880, and balloting for a presidential candidate commenced June 7. The principal contestants for the nomina tion were U. S. Grant, James G. Blaine and John Sherman, the fortune of the latter being committed to the leadership of General Garfield. On the-second ballot Generl Gar field received one vote, which he kept nearly throughout, occasionally receiving two votes, S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM, i SI.OO for Six Months. until the thirty*fourth ballot, when a break j began. On the thirty-fourth ballot Garfield | received 17 votes, oil the thirty-fifth ballot i 250, and on the thirty sixth ballot 399 votes land the nomination, which was at once made unanimous. The campaign which followed was an exceedingly exciting one until the Indiana election in October, which resulted in a re iinbliean victory, which greatly disheartened the democrats and threw a damper on the canvass. The result in November gave Gar field 214 electoral votes and Hancock 155. From the day of his election until election until that of his inauguration as presi dent General Garfield received many distin guished visiting republican politicians, but carefully kept his own counsels and did not complete the formation of his cabinet until a da}* or two before his inauguration. 11 is in augural address was a thoughtful, scholarly and generally well-received production, but his nomination of Senator C'onkling’s most, bitter personal and political enemy, Judge Robertson, to the collectorship of the port of New York precipitated a war between these giants, whilst the president’s partial recogni tion of the Mahonc repudiation movement in Virginia, under the insincere guise of a demand for “ a free ballot and a fair count,” alienated , from him the great bod} r of democratic senators who were disposed to accord to his administra tion a cordial support where that could bo done without a violation of principle. Scarcely had the impotent extra session of the senate adjourned when the president was confronted with anew trial in the critical illness of his wife. 11 is devotion to his wife during her long illness and the close attention shown) her is said to have been very beautiful and touch ing.” Circulation of Matter. Notwithstanding the constant returp. of plant and animal to the parent earth, all the mineral matter thev contain does not remain *■’ . .1 • 1 *ft i where they arc deposited., Ilpins and rivers daily remove from the soil a portion of the materials which arc so essential to the per petuation of animal and vegetable forms, and transport them to tho sea. Thus the natural store of mineral food becomes daily smaller, and the land in consequence less fitted for the growth of plants. Hut for this contingency, also there is a provision. The solid rocks which form the crust of the earth contain all these cssent'al forms of inorganic matter in minute proportion. As these rocks crumble and mingle with the soil they yield constant small supplies of each ingredient —of phos phoric acid, lime, magnesia, etc., etc. These springs, which trickle through the rocks from above or from beneath, dissolve and diffuse wherever they go. Thus, in many localities, a moderate supply is day by day brought to the surface to replace that which, by natural causes, is constantly removed. And the great seas help in this work of restoration. They heave their lofty waves into the air, and brcjfle in foam, that tho rough wind may take up and bear back-again to the land a portion of the salty spoils with which the rivers are ever enriching them. And then, lost these small , daily restorations should not succeed in perpetually maintaining the necessary rich ness of the soil in mineral plant-food. periods of convulsions come at last to their aid. Great physical revolution from time to time in tervene. Now all at once and now by slow . degrees, the bottom of the sea becomes dry. Land and water change places, as they have .often done during the geological history of (he globe ; and after each change new races of plants forthwith begin to take up what rivers and rains have carried down into former sea-beds. The same mineral matter begins to play over again the same part as before in the constant succession of animal and vegeta ble life. In this we sec another long cycle, through which certain ingredients of the solid , earth are ever slowly moving. HOW TO TREAT YOUR WATCH.. Wind it up at the same time every day. Keep it in as even a temperature as possible. Sudden ’ transition from heat to cold may cause the main- ' spring to break. If you would keep it clean nev er put it in any pocket except one of leather. ' Those pockets which arc lined with cloth, cotton or calico, give by the constant friction a certain Huff, which enters most Watch Cases and makes its way to the delicate parts of the watch. See that the pocket is turned and cleaned often, and take an old linen handkerchief and wipe carefully all the dust from under the hacks, bezel and cap of the case. But above all you must be sure that * the Case fits firmly, and to bo sure of this, select, one where the parts (center, backs, cap, &c.) arc each made from one piece of metal. The JAMES BOSS’ Patent Stiffened or filled Gold Watch Case is so made, and not only does such a Watch Case become stronger and fit more perfectly, but it enables the manu facturer to turn and form three pieces of metal (the outer ones being gold and the inner one Of an inferior metal) into shape for the round parts, * making to all appearaoes and practical purposes just as good a Watch Case as the solid gold, at about one-half' the cost to the purchaser. There are nearly one hundred thousand of these Watch Cases now carried, andtheirgood qualities are acknowledged by the same number of happy possessors. All Jewelers keep them, also illustrated cata logues for gratuitous distribution. ' ** ''' Mr. James A. Weatherford, of Springfield, Ohio, says: “Brown’s Iron Bitters cured, me of the worst case of dyspepsia man ever . had. The muscles of my stomach, liver and bowels now seem so strong. I believe I could , almost digest petrified cheese ! I recommend - it to all who suffer as did I.” NUMBER 32.