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The Unattained
A vision beauteous as the mom,
With hoavonly oyos and trasses utroamimr
Hlmv glided o'er a Hold lato shorn
Where walked a poet idly dreaming,
lie saw her, and joy lit his face,
“ Oh, vanish not at human speaking,”
Ho cried, “thou form of magic grace,
Thou art the poem I am seeking.”
I vo so’t thee long! I claim thee notv-
My thought embodied, living, real,”
She shook the tresses from her brow.
“Nay, nayl” she said, “lam ideal,
I am the phantom of desire—
Tho spirit of all great ondeavor,
I am the voico that says, 1 Como higher,’
That calls men up and up forovor.
“ ’Tis not alone thy tlio’t supremo
That hem upon thy path has risen;
I am the artist’s highost dream,
Tho ray of light lie cannot prison.
1 am tho sweet ocstatio note
Than all glad music gladder, olearer,
That trembles in tho singor’s throat,
And dios without a human hoarer.
“ I am tho groator, hotter yield,
That leads and choors thy farmer neighbor,
For me ho bravely tills tho field
And whistles gayly at his labor.
Not thou alone, oh, poet soul,
Dost sock mo through an ondloss morrow,
lint to tho toiling, hoping wholo
I am at once tho strength and sorrow
Tho spirit of tho uuattaiued;
1 mn to those who Book to name me,
A good desired hut nover gainod, *
All shall pursuo mo, but none shall claim
i»o.” --Ella Wheelin'.
ESSIE’S FORTUNE.
“ It’s the same old pain in my side
again," «..id Essio Hooper, sadly.
Hho was sitting at tho window whoro
sho always sat and sewed—a little,
oooped-up spot, with a view of tin roofs,
factory chimneys and tho neighbors’
back yards. Just above a stack of brick
flues one could catch a solitary glimpse
of silver clouds floating across the
olhoreal blue—and this was Essie’s sole
dream of rest and gladness.
A pale, violot-oyed girl, with red-
brown hair gathered into a net, and
fitful shadows of color upon her check,
sho seemed scarcely more flmn a child
in years. Life, however, begins early
with tho poor—and Essio Hooper had
boon earning her own living ever since
slip was twelve years old.
“You have been sitting too steadily,
child," said Lucy Dcall, her neighbor.
“ Ticro - jump up, and run around to
the trimming store for half a dozen
cards of buttons to match this sample.
•Mrs. Peck told me to get them, but I
guess you need the exercise more than
I do.’!
Uoforo Essie could got on her hat,
however, the door oponed, and Mrs.
Peck herself came in, with a troubled
and preoccupied look.
“Young women,” said she, in her
hard, bnsiness-liko way of speaking,
u I desire your attention fora fow min
utes.”
“ She’s going to cut down our wages
ton per cent.,” whispered Hadie Hall.
“ Who’s going to clap on an extra hour
to the day’s work,” murmured Jane
Simpson, apprehensively.
“ I rogret to say,” spoke up Mrs.
Peck, “ that tmsinoss is decreasing, and
times are dull, and I find it necessary to
dispense with one of my hands. Miss
Hooper, as the youngest, is tho one upon
whoso dismissal I have decided. ’
Essie had turned very pale.
“Must I go?” she faltered.
“I am very sorry for it, my dear,”
said Mrs. Peck, who was, upon the
wholo, not a bad-hearted woman; “but
I cannot possibly afford to keep on so
many girls, and one must go, you see.
And it’s always the custom to send away
the one who has been with you the
shortest period of time.”
She counted out the slender sum of
money which was duo to the girl, and
stood calmly by, while Essie tied on her
hat, took down her shawl and mechani
cally bade the other girls adieu.
It was an every-day affair with her,
this’fliSmissal of a superfluous hand, and
sho never stopped to think what might
possibly become of the poor forlorn
young creature who was thus set adrift on
the world.
She had never troubled herself to ask
any questions of her youngest apprentice
or she might liavo learned that Esther
Hooper was quite alone and friendless in
the world, except for an old aunt down in
the country
< < Of course I must go to Aunt Jocasta,”
said Essie to herself. “ I have just money
enough to take me to Butternut Vale and
Aunt Jocasta can at least advise me, ii
she can do nothing else.”
But when she reached the old red
farmhouse on tho edge of the pine
thickets, it had been modernized by tho
addition of a fine new veranda and rus
tic fences of twisted cedar wood, and in
stead of Aunt Jocasta and her knitting-
work at tho window, she saw the dim
pled faces of little children, standing on
tiptoo to peep over the sill.
“Where is old Miss Hooper? sue
asked of a smart young woman who was
training sweet peas upon a home-made
trellis.
“Miss Hooper I”' echoed the woman,
with a start. “ Well, only think of that.
Don’t you know ? She’s been dead tor
three months.” .
“Dead! My Aunt Jocasta, cried
poor Essio, feeling as if all the world
were in a whirl around her.
“ Then yau are the niece in Now
York,” said the stranger. “ They wrote
to yon but I suppose the letter never
reached you. It was a paralytic
stroke, she only lived six hours, poor
dear! And alter she was buried and the
expenses paid, there was nothing left.
My husband moved into the houso last
month—wo have a three years’ lease
from the landlord,” rather defiantly
added the young woman, as if she wish
ed old Jocasto Hooper’s niece fully to
understand that she, Mrs. Moms Mills,
was no usurper there.
“ Yes ; I understand—I know,” said
Essie, feebly; “ but I have come all the
way from New York, and I am very
tired. Might I stay here to-night ?’ :
“And welcome,” said Mrs. Mills,
kindly. “ We’ve a house full of board
ers coming to-morrow. Mr. Mills is ac
quainted with a doctor in Boston who
reoommends all his ailing patients here,
for the pine groves and mountain air,
you know; and there are two young
theologians from tho seminary who have
engaged tho top room, and an old gen
tleman who is wild about trout. So
we’re likely to bo full enough by-ond-
bye. But just to-night we’ve plenty of
room.”
But while Mrs. Mills was chatting on
and the children were making merry tu
mult over their toys, and the birds wore
singing in the woods, Essie’s mind was
busy with tho evor-recurriug question,
“ What am I to do? What is going to
become of mo ?" Aunt Jocasta had not
been much of a help to her, but she was
something to cling to—and now she too
was gone.
"I might sell stencil-plates,” bIio
thought, dreamily, to herself, “or turn
book agent, or look out for a place in the
woolen factories. Blit I am not so very
strong; and I am afraid I have not cour
age and enterprise enough to make my
living as a genteel peddler. Oh, dear-
oil, dear! I don’t see what I was put
into this world for."
And a quiet tear or two trickled down
her cheek, and dropped noiselessly into
the bowl of hot water wherewith she was
assisting Mrs. Mills to wash the supper
dishes.
At sunset the young farmer liimself
came home—a stalwart, hearty, blaek-
bearded specimen of humanity.
“ Well, Polly,” ho Baid, as ho acknowl
edged the introduction to Essie Hooper
with a kindly nod, “ I’ve engaged a first-
class cook for yon—a woman that has
had lots of experience in Newport hotels,
and wants to come up among the moun
tains for change of air; but as for wait
resses and chambermaids, there wasn’t
one would consent to leave tho city
limits, though I offered them as high as
two dollars a week.”
Mrs. Mills’ blooming countenance loll
visibly.
“ Oh, Morris, what am I to ?" sho
cried. “The chamber-work I might
manage myself, but the waiting! ■ And
with twelve people coming to-night!”
At this, Essio Hooper spoke up:
“ Could I do it?” said she, wistfully.
“ I am in need of employment of some
kind."
“ I—I am afraid I couldn’t stay,” said
Essie, coloring.
“ You aro not goiug lack to dress
making?” said Mi-b. Mills.
“ No,” said Essie, in a low voice.
“ Have you any othor plaoo in view ?"
urged the farmer’s wife.
“ No—that is, yes,” confessed Essie.
“ To tell you the truth I am going to be
married.”
“Well, I declare!” cried Mrs. Mills, a
sudden blaze of light breaking in upon
her brain. “ Not to old Mr. Miggs?”
“ Of course not.”
“ Mr. Popper, the clerk in the bank ?”
“Do you think I would marry him?”
almost indignantly retorted Essie.
“Then it is—it must be Mr. Gerald.”
And Essie could only hide her face ou
her friend’s shoulder, and shed a fow
happy tears.
“But, my dear, lie’s rich,” said Mrs.
Mills.
“ Yes, I know it,” said Essie.
“And he bolongs to one of the best
familios in the State.”
“Yes.”
“ And Miss Earle bus been laying
steady siege to his heart ever since ho
camo into the house,” added Mrs.
Mills.
"I don’t know anything about that,"
said Essie. “ I only know that he loves
me.”
And so our courageous littlo heroine
passed out of tho world of trials and
troubles into woman’s truest element—
that of a beloved wife.
And Miss Earle thought it was vory
strange—she believed that society was
all upBido down nowadays.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
About Oi'clinrilx.
If you have money to fool away seed
down your young orchard to clover or
timothy or sow a crop of wheat or oats.
But if you want your trees to thrive cul
tivate woll till they are seven to ten
years old. Spread ashes, manure or
salts broadcast. Stop cultivating in Au
gust, weeds or no weeds. To judge of
tho condition of an apple tree is liko
judging of tho condition of sheep in
pasture. Look at the sheep and not at
tho pasture; if they are plump and fat
tho pastiu'e is all right.—American Cul
tivator.
Cronin In the Lui Milk.
The last inilk drawn from the cow, uud
usually called tho strippings, is very
rich in cream. This is doubtless due to
the fact that us the milk is secreted in
tho udder tho oream rises, and the last
that is drawn contains tho most of it.
In a number of experiments made to
test this question it was found that tho
milk of various cows differed, as fol
lows:
Ha***!*®*
| **‘" J [Specific Far cent. Per cent.
Gravity, of Cream, of Fat.
ty.
i.O
v . , 1 First milk.. 1032.0
'■ i Last milk.. 1031.2
No. 2.
No. 3.
(First milk.. 1081.1
(Last milk.. 1020.4
(Fiist milk.. 1033.0
iLnst milk.. 1030.5
(First milk.. 1033.4
i Last milk. .1020.0
7
10
Ii
11,V
n
12
5
14
2.20
3.02
1.07
4.34
1.32
3.77
1.04
0.00
“You?" cried Mrs. Mills. “But you
arc a lady.”
“But why can’t I be a waitress,
too ?” said Essie. “ I must do some
thing to earn my living.”
“You are a darling I” said Mrs. Mor
ris Mills, with a kiss. “And I do be
lieve Providence lias sent you straight
here to help me out of my dilemma. Pnt
on that big apron, and I’ll show you
about the china-closets at once.”
It was hard work, but nfter all, as Es
sio confessed to herself, not unpleasant.
Miss Earle, the Boston beauty, turned
up her Grecian nose at her, and old Mrs.
Hallowell was perpetually finding fault
because Esther didn’t como quickly
enough to her call, while Mr. Miggs, tho
vegetarian, harangued her on tho proper
preparation of salads, and Mrs. Jotsam
and her daughter treated her as if she
wore the dust beneath their dainty,
French-booted foot. The first-class cook
who had been imported was found sense
less beneath the waslitubs one day, with
a black bottle clasped tenderly in her
arms, and Mrs.[Mills was compelled per
force to take her place, while Essie as
sumed the double duties of chamber-
maid-waiti'ess.
“What a very remarkable specimen
of the New England young person that
waitress-woman is!” said Miss Earle,
one day, with a giggle, to Mr. Gerald,
the young theologian, whom she had in
cidentally discovered to be rich and of a
fine old family.
“ Yes,” said Mr. Gerald, “ I think she
is rather remarkable.”
“ Reads Hiawatha on the back door
step when the dishes are washed,” said
Miss Earle. “ Has a collection of rare
dried ferns on tho kitchen dresser, and
trimmed a hat for Mrs. Mills as if Mad
am Navarro herself had trimmed it.
Aro all the farmhouse waitresses like
this ?”
“I don’t think they are.” said Mr.
Gerald.
When the summer was over Mrs. Mills
counted up her gains gleofully.
“We’ve made a success of it, my
dear,” said she to Essie. “And I’m
quite willing to divide the profits with
y 0U _t,hnt is, if you’ll promise to stay
here and help mo through the winter.
The Thompsons aro going to stay, and
old Mrs. Hallowell, and—”
Hats in Church.
To all wearers of silk hats, when once
they get inside the churoli, tho hat be
comes a sorious difficulty. Of all the
various expedients by which ingenious
clmroh-goers have endeavored to safely
dispose of their hats there is no ono
that has not proved to bo fallacious.
Tho extreme danger of placing a hat
in the aisle immediately outside the
pew is universally known. The first
lady that sweeps up tho aisle carries
with her a confused mass of defenseless
hats, which are deposited in tho shape
of a terminal moraine in the front of
the pew which is her final goal. Of
courso the hats which have been sub
jected to this process are reduced by
attrition to a rounded form, and are cov
ered with scratches, reminding ono of
glacial action on granite boulders.
However interesting they may bo to tho j
geologist, they are of no further value ns
lints, and can rarely be bent into a shape
that will ullow thoir ownors to wear them
homo. In the days when expansive crin
olines were in fashion, tho fate of the
hat deposited in tho nisle was still more
appalling. When a well-dressed lady
imssed by its vicinity it. disappeared to
tally from sight. There are cases on re
cord whore one fashionable woman has
caused the disappearance of thirteen sep
arate hats during her passage from the
church door to tho pew in tho
neighborhood of tho pulpit. What
was the final into of those
lints was- never ascertained. They
simply vanished and left no trace be
hind. As to putting one’s hat on the
floor underneath the seat, no man who
follows this reckless course can expect
nnything but disaster. If there is a
small boy in the pew ho will in
fallibly discover that hat and kick it
to the further end of tho pew within
the first thirty minutes of the service.
If there is a lady in the pew a surgical
operation will bo required to removo
her boot from the interior of the hat,
while, in any event, the hat is cer
tain to absorb every particle of
dust within a radius of eight feet, and
to fasten itself to the floor with the aid
of forgotten Sunday-school gum-drops.
Neither under the seat, on the seal, nor
in the aisle, can the worried hat find
rest, and the plan of establishing a hat-
pound in the vestible, whore hats can be
ticketed‘and kept during the service,
would simply result in converting a
church into a hat exchange, where tho
sinners would secure all the good hats,
and the saints would bo compelled to
content themselves with tho worn-out
and worthless ones.—Halter’s Exchange.
This fact is bo well-known that the
patrons of creameries or clioeso factories
are specially forbidden, under large
penalties, from milking the strippings
separately and withholding them from
the rest of the milk.
To Tell I III' A git of Cut lie.
Tins age of horned cattle umy gener
ally bo known by rings on tho horns till
their tenth year; after that time they
give no indication of ago further than
that the animal 1ms passed its tenth
year. Tho first ring appears on the horn
nfter the auimnl 1ms passed two years
old -soon after, as a general rule, though
sometimes before that age. During the
third year the ring gradually increases,
and at three years of age it is completely
formod. Tho secondj'ing appears dur
ing the fourth year, and at the fifth it
is complete. After Hint period an addi
tional ring is formed each year. This
and fat; place iu a wet mold; skim all tho
fat from the liquor and add u half ounce
of geletine, a littlo butter, pepper and
salt; when the geletiuo is dissolved pour
all over the chicken while hot; season
pretty high; Berve cold, cut in slices.
Southhbn Beef Hasp.—Take the
rarest cold roast beef, cut into small
pieces, but not so small as for mince
meat; pour into a vessel with cold
water enough to cover it; cut up a
onion; add pepper and salt enough to
season it. Cook until the onion is
thoroughly done, adding hot water, if
necessary, to prevent burning. If pota
toes aro liked with the hash, add fresh
ones sliced thin. By no means add cold
potatoes, as these are unfit to be used in
making a nice diBli; and be sure to have
pleuty of gravy, as on this depends the
completeness of the hash. A tablespoon
ful of butter will improve it.
A China Boy.
An old iody came from the East to
visit mo, and, my health not t being good,
volunteered to take all homo cares off
my hands. Then came the tug of .war.
First, “grandma,” as we called her,
came to complain that the China boy
would not obey her. When I sent for
Ah Ohoon and asked what ho meant by
such conduct, he said: “You buy this
house ?” “ Yea,” I said. “ Old lady no
buy him ?’’ “ No.” “ Then old lady no
bossee. Yon bossoe woman. Old lady
too mnehee sass.” I explained the situa
tion as well as I could in pigeon-Eug-
lish, and, remembering tho respect paid
to their parents and elders by the Chi
nese, I reminded him of that, aud asked
him how he would like to liavo a “ Mel-
ican” boy treat his mother as ho treated
grandma. He listened to all I had to
say, seeming impressed by it, repeating
many times, “ Elka klukla me. Mono
sass old lody.” Shortly after he ran
over to his cousin to borrow a phrase
book, iu which I found that “ elklu klu
kla me” meant “ excuse me.”
In a littlo while grandma cuino back
agaiu, crying: “ I do believe that China
boy is swearing at me in Chinese now.”
Agaiu Ah Choon stood before me, his
shining eyes dimmed with tears. “Ah
Choon," said I, reproaolifully, “ yon
said yon would be good to tho old lady,
and now she says you talk badly in Chi
nese toiler.”
Ah Choou’s dark face Hushed, aud the
No can
The Cheaper Way.
A man with a black eye called upon a
Griswold street lawyer yesterday and
said:
“ I have been knocked down.”
“ Good case—good caso, if you have
any witnesses,” was the smiling reply.
“ I’ve got this black eye aud an old
woman for witnesses.”
“ Correct—correct. I’ll take the evi
dence and see you through.”
“ For how much ?”
“ Well, the whole thing won’t cost
over six or eight dollars.”
“ And what’ll I get?”
“Justice, of course.”
“ And what’ll tho other man get ?"
“ Oh, he’ll probably bo fined $5.”
“Say, you go to grass!” suddenly re
marked tlie plaintiff. “ You must think
I’m a fool to pay $0 or $8 and have the
bother of a lawsuit, when three differ
ent men are just aching to liok the feller
in rotation at only $1 a head ! I’m not
purty-looking, but I’m no cundurango.”
•—Detroit Irce Press.
rale is sufficiently plain, and even a
young farmer needs but little practice to I tears poured down liis cheeks,
enable him to read a cow’s age ou her Jo ! no con do I" ho cried. “ l no sass
horns. A cow with three rings is six 0 jJ i a j y Helicon talkee. Old lady
years old. No new rings are formed after j talkee, talkee, too muehee sass— alien
the tenth year ; tho deeper rings, how- j time too muehee sass. Lilly China boy
over, and the worn appearance of the i no CftU talkee; lilly China boy no eau
sass. Byra-bye lilly Chino boy die !”
Spell Kits.
Spell kiss ? Wliat a silly question !
Tiie simplest I over heard;
No hints—I need no suggestion
To spell bo common a word.
A “ k,” ’tis a kingly letter,
A trifle distant at first;
But you’ll soon pronounce it better—
I’d show you if I durst.
Then “i,”— Oh, bother that dimple—
Just wait till I dot that “i;"
Tho rest of tho word is simple,
Anil will keep till by-and-bye.
Then the “a,” tho sibilant sighing,
Make it as long ns you will,
Liko a chord in music dying
With a shuddering, tromulouB thrill.
There! that “ s ” is finished, aud sweetly;
But wait; aro you ready ? Yes?
I. must spell tho word completely- -
Draw breath for tho second “s.”
'Tis a most important letter;
It shows that tho word is done;
And I liko it oven bettor,
I think, thau tho other one.
I hold by tlieso object lessous,
They illustrate things so woll;-
See, you’vo learned tho vory essonce
Of the word that you couldn’t spoil.
—Baldwin's Monthly.
A good kidney pad is a large bunch
of greenbacks in the hip pocket.— Wat
erloo Observe!'.
Nover address your conversation to a
person ongaged in footing up a column
of figures. There’s nothing so deaf as
an adder.
A littlo boy came to hiB mother roj
cently and said: “Mamma, I should
think if I was of dust I would get
muddy insido whenever I drink. ’
An exchange prints an artiole headed
“How Oil-cloth is Made." We have
read it through carefully, but have
failed to find the information we seek,
which is how oil-cloth is always made
so allllred cold ?—Rome Sentinel.
horns are pretty sun
age
indications of old
Troaliufllt ill'C'liiy Hulls.
Clay soils, says a writer, give stability
to the roots of tho wheat, preventing
it from freezing out; they furnish the
necessary alkalies and absorb gaseous
substances which are essential to that
crop. Clover may be applied to them
with benefit. But stable manure—any
thing and everything organic that you
can get—will benefit them. No matter
how coarse or strawy, all tho better if you
can work it in. They will make the soil
lighter and establish a freer circulation
of the air—two important things to be
gained, two great advantages in the me
chanical conditions of tho soil. Then,
the addition of organic matter helps
these soils chemically; it is just what
they need. Clay soils readily absorb ma
nure and keep it. Like the wise woman,
“ they take all they eau and keep all they
get." Don’t lie afraid of losing your
stable manure on clayey ground. Slap it
on. It will hold it tighter than you can.
Unless the soil is already rich in lime,
you can apply nothing better. So with
ashes. These will help it me
chanically and chemically. If you have
clay soil underdrain it; mix sand with
it if you can ; light composts you must;
sow it to wheat and harvest forty bush
els to the acre. But do not forget to
apply lime if it lacks that. Olay soils
arc better suited to timothy than clover,
although they grow both. But it will
not pay to raise clover on them unless
tho bottom is dry. Clay soils are also
good for oats and potatoes if the bottom
is dry ; in short, clay soils are generally
good for nothing unless underdrained.
I would resort to green manuring on
sandy soils ; to light composts, lime
ashes and stable and barnyard manure
on clay soils, On sandy soils, while
practicing a rotation of crops, I would
raise com principally, unless the ground
was hilly ; on clayey soils, while again
practicing rotation, I would raise wheat
and oats as much as possible, also tim
othy for hay. Yet green manuring is
profitable on clay soils, if you under-
drain. In manuring these soils your
object should bo to make them warm
and light. To do this the manure
should be thoroughly incorporated into
the soil with the plow.
I am bound to say that iny sympathies
leaned toward the “lilly Oliiita hoy.’’
To grandma I counseled moderation, ad
vising her to ullow Ah Choon a little
latitude, and take no notice so long as
he confined himself to his mother
tongue, which from that time he did re
ligiously. —Lippi ucotl's Muyanire.
“ Do you follow a sedentary occupa
tion ?” asked the judge, jocosely, of a
vagrant. “Well, I should relax my
| features!” was the responso. “All the
money I have had in ten years I got
from sitting on juries.”
Francis Hopkins, of New York, has
patented a pair of tye-glassos that will
stay on the nose. It is a groat improve
ment, as wearers of eye-glasses have
heretofore been obliged to nso flesh-
colored putty on the sides of tho nose,
or hire a man to go aiound with them
and hold the glasses on. -Peek’s Sun.
Littlo Grace, who was quite familiar
with tho hurdy-gurdy and its simian
attachment, but who was making-her
, first acquaintance with the church
organ, watched the player long and
earnestly. Finally her eye caught the
blower, pumping up and down in the
background. “ Mamma,” sho exclaimed,
“ that’s the biggest monkey I over did
soc. ’’— Huston Transcript.
The Cork Tree.
The London fi'lobe, referring to the
recommendation that the United Htates
government should encourage the growth
of the cork tree in.tliis country, says it is
not everybody who would care to invest
capital in au enterprise of this kind,
seeing that a generation would have to
elapse before any return could be ob
tained in the shape of salable cork. At
least twenty-five yearsjnust elapse before
the treo will yield a bark of much value,
and in introducing it to fresh regions
there is a posssibility of its bark becom
ing modified in a manner to diminish its
value. Still the cork tree has been
cultivated in new quarters aud with ex
cellent results. The French, in 1822,
planted vast tracts of laud in Algeria,
and their nurseries have become now
most valuable forests. It is very desir
able that the culture should be extended
since the valuo of cork has long been
steadily ou the increase. Most of the
forests in Spain and Portugal are said to
have been very badly managed. It is not
tho living bark that ought to be stripped
for sale, but that which the tree is about
to shed, and it ought to be done only at
intervals of eight or ten years. Vast
numbers of trees are said to have been
ruined by too great eagerness to make
them pay their owners.
“Aw," lispol Ohawles Augustus to
i MissSoplironia, “Aw, Miss Sofy, I am
: become quite a pedestwian of late.”
j “ Ah, indeed?” replied Miss J3. “ Yes,
and Miss Sofy, I am become a gwoat
walk ah.” “ Why, Charles, I think you
would make a more suooosful runner."
“ Aw, you flattuh me now, Miss Sofy;
but why would I make a good wnneah ?”
and Charles contemplated his well-
built limbs iu a self-complacent way.
“ Oh, because,” replied Miss Soplironia,
“ I think yon are just soft enough to
ran well.” Ghawles Augustus has re
tired from tho pedestrian track and is
now writing poetry for tho newspapers.
—Steubenville Herald.
Recipes.
CitEAM Cookies.—Two cups sugar,
two eggs, one cup cream, one cup but
ter, one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoon
ful lemon extract or one-half a nutmeg,
grated; flour enough to make a dough
us soft us it can be rolled.
Jellied Chicken.—Boil a fowl until
tho flesh will slip easily from the bones;
let the water be reduced to one pint;
Hindoo Caste.
Among the Hindoos it was formerly
the case that the Brahmins were the
only educated people. The law of
caste cut off' all the others and kept
them in comparative ignorance. Most
of the converts to Christianity came
from the lower castes. The indications
now are that caste is breaking down, and
that all are to have an equal chance for
enjoying the advantages of education.
The missionaries regard this as an ex
tremely hopeful sign. They now begin
1 to look for converts from among the
higher classes. While they regard one
man’s soul us quite as good as the soul
of any other man, still they realizo that
if the educated Hindoos shall ever
throw the weight of their influence in
l'avor of Christianity, the gain to the
cause of missions will be very great.—
York Sun.
| Discovery of a Letter Written by Adam to Eve
In Josh Billings’ “Cook Book and
I Picktorial Receipts the following jnter-
! esting letter is found:
Edonia, December, Year Two.
Dkab Eve—I have been on the ram- •
page now ono month, prospecting for
our new home, aud have seen some
ranches that will do pretty well, but
none of them just the ticket. The old
garden is a hard place to beat, but we
have lost that and aro turned out now to
root hog or die. We will fight it out
now on this line if it takes all summer,
Eating that apple was a great blunder,
but, my dear girl, let bygones be by
gones;’ there’s hope for us yet. Just as
soon as I strike a- good claim I Mill
come back to you. Watch over Cain
closely; he is a brick. The weather is
raw and cold; I feel that I am too thinly
clad. No more now from your loving
Adam.
P. S.—Has Cain cut another tooth
yet ?
A Clever Ruse.
i A story is told of a great French satirist
which finely illustrates his knowledge of
human nature. He M'as traveling in Ger
many, iu entire ignorance of its language
and currency. Having obtained some
small change for soma, of his French
coins, he used to pay drivers in the follow
ing manner: Taking a handful of coins
from his pockets, ho counted them one
by one into the creditor’s hands, keeping
l»^ii dvnil nn flirt VrtrtaivAV’s. Am
his eye fixed on the receiver’s, face,
soon as lie perceived the least twinkle o
a smile he took back the last coin de
posited in the hand and returned it to his
I pocket. He afterward found that in pur-
; suing this method he had not overpaid
for anything. ■
A man who knows a groat deal about
the sweets of life—-The sugar refiner.
By the recently verified official ac
count the loss to the Federal forces in
pick the meal from the bones in good-1 the civil war was 327,184, whiletbeCon-
sized pieces, leaving out all the gristle ! federate loss was 200,000.
The Now Orleans custom house is the
largest is the largest in the world. It
was begun in 1848, has cost $4,180,000,
and is sfitLunflnished.