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the mercury. isecond- das* matter at the Sanders- EnW ville rostolllco, A'.i'il 27, 1880. Sftm lersvilIo, Washington Comity, 0«. rtinuanED by A . J. JENNICAN, Pltnl'HIETOR ANl) PUBLISHER. Siil>t*‘ription. .$1.50 pct'Ycar. the: mercury. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. 81.50 PER ANNUM. VOL. II. SANDERSVILLE, GA., MAY 10, 1881. NO. 6. THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE. tfB-AR communications intended for this pa- por must bo accompanied with the full namo of the writor, not noccssarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Wo are in no way responsible for the views or opinions of correspondents. G. W. H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, SANDEHBV1LLE, GA. Touts Cash. Office at his Residence, on Harris Street, April 3, 1880. B. D. EVANS, at Law, Attorney SANDERSVILLE, GA April 3, 1881). DR. WM. RAWLINGS, Physician & Surgeon, SANDERSVILLE, GA Office at Sandursvllle Hotel. April 10, 1880. E. A. 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D, °. on * i nefl rows, scatter It 8U, 4, and 6 in*, j -foHTnm 8 , . U S dln « tiUtr apart, hlv. non BOOM TO STOOL, derive more nourishment from the soil, become more vlforoue, produce better developed average heads. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet .lUiTe.tiuouui. J.A JONES, WILMINGTON, DEL heat, about a week ago, THE HEMAL AND HIS PARTNER. The gen’ral sat before the lire in his little dirt-roofed cabin on tho side of the stage road, near the summit of tho Truclio pass. His old clay pipe was botweon his lips, which had occasionally opened to emit a cone-shaped cloud of smoke, as ho gazod with meditative eye at a piece of salt pork sizzling in the frying-pan in preparation for supper. His cabin was but scantily furnished —a bunk in one corner, in another an assortment, of drills and hammors, and a prospecting pick. A table stood in the middle of tho door, covered with tin mips and plates, on top of which lay a stray copy of tile San Jnan Prospector, Scattered about wore three or four empty powder kegs, sorving for seats. Upon one of these the genr’al was now seated, with an' elbow on either knee und his head resting upon his hands. Tho blnzing flro of “pitch-pine" shouo upon his bluff and weather-beaten face, outlined by a fringe of grizzlod beard, and flashed in his ful' gray eyes— “Lit up With summer lightuings of a seal Bn full of hutinner warmth—so glad, Bo healthy, sound and clear and whole,” Tho gon’ral was roused from his rov- erie by tho sound of approaching wheels, and, oxolniming, “There she comes!" ho rau out, as was his invariable custom, to take a glance at the incoming San Juan coach. As he opened the door tho firelight rushed out, illuminating a long, narrow spaco far up the mountain-side. As the coach drew into this it stopped, to his great amazement. “ Evening to you, gou’ral!” cried the driver, familiarly. “Hero is a visitor or you." With that a man descended from tho box-seat,; a roll of blankets and a va- iso wore flung off, and, ere the gen’ral could recover from his suqiriso, tho liglits of the coacli were twinkling in the darkness, as it whirled rapidly on the down grade to tho mining camp below. “Comein, come in, stranger!” said tho gen’ral on hospitality intent, as ho advanced and picked up tho blanket. Como in, and make yourself at homo.” “Thank you.” And seizing his valise ho followed tho gen’ral without more ado. The gen’rnl flung the blankets on the bunk, and drawing his sheath-knife rapidly added two slices of pork to that already in the frying-pan. The coffee-pot was replenished with a double allowance, and then the gon’ ral, stirring the flro to a fresher blazo, turned to look at his visitor. He beheld a tall and rather slender young man, with a head of dark hair surmounting a fresh and boyish face. His frank brown eyes were fixed upon the gen’ral with an expression of inter est not unmingled with curiosity as ho drow a letter from his inner pocket and presenting it, said pleasantly: “ From my mother, sir.” The gen’ral gave a start of surprise and held out his hand for the letter. Stooping down before the fire, Re exam ined the superscription very minutely. I used to be mighty well acquainted with this handwrito twenty-five or thirty year ago,” said he, reflectively, looking absently at his guest. And the firolight must have shone upon his face with a ruddier glow than usual—or was it that the gen’ral blushed ? You are welcome, young man,” he said, after reading it; “ I knowed both your mother and your father before yon was born, and you yourself when you wasn’t higher nor that,” and held his hand on a level with his knee. “Did you? No!” the young man said, and glanced at him with more in terest than beforo. said the gen’ral. TOMTOMS ** ... , * sot fu,. Da’lkof Middleton Del.,nnd Farmer.' pthjoor Point.’ i- ,Q , tho “ooo more w',-.e»t, r/r.cro I drilled • **,1, ,1.0k|n, l ' un , wi lli Illy old blyl'/. I py.ro them a fair o 110 laior. “OSHIIA CLAYTON, Jf , Mt. I’lcoiMlt, D*l< “ How are times out here ? Anything a fellow can get to do ?” asked the guest, ns seated before the tiro after supper ho watched tho gen’ral replenish the clay pipe. “ Well,” replied the latter, reflect ively, “ times ain’t very lively about the camp just now, but I have hopes—I Lave hopes, sir.” Aud the clay pipe described a parabolic curve ending in a flourish, ns if the gen’rnl’s hopes were either too lofty or too indefinite for ex pression. “ As to what you aro going to do, let mo ask yon if you happened to notice a hole in the mountain side as you came up?” “No, I didn’t," replied the young man ; “but perhaps it was too dark to distinguish it.” “ That’s so. I never thought of that 1’ tho gen’ral exclaimed. “ But there is a hole there nil the samo, and that, young man, is the mouth of a tunnel I am driv ing in to strike tho ‘ Tip-top’ lode, n mino which, from tho surface indica tions, I expect to pan out tho host of anything I have yet struck ; and I’ve prospected some in my time. Thero,’’ he continued, pointing to somo honey combed rock lying on a Bholf above tho fireplace, "is somo of the blossom rock, which assayed over seventy ounces." “Indeed I” oxclaimcd tho other, ex amining a pioco with an air of interest. “ I was o-thinkiug,” said the gen’ral, after a short panso, " that maybo you would like to take a half interest. No capital ain’t required." To this tho young man replied it would, no doubt, be just tho thing for him. But tho gou’ral suggested that, upou second thought, maybe ho’d better wait until morning and seo things for him- solf, whereupon, after a desultory con versation, the gen’ral spread the blank ets and they retired. Jntho morning tho young man, "upon seeing things for himself," expressed his satisfaction with tho proposal of the previous night. The gen’ral then placed the pack saddles upon his two hurras, and they set off to tho camp for in creased supplies, necessitated by this addition to his household. Upon entering a long, rough-boarded building, decorated in front with an im posing sign of “Dobson & Co., Gro ceries aud Provisions," tho gcu’ral was greeted by a crowd oi loungers within with a volley of loud aud hearty salu tations. “ How are yon to-day, gen’ral V" “ ITow is tho Tip-top, gen’ral?” All of these questions, as betokening iis public importance, the gon’iul re ceived with an air of pride, roplying in general terms that both he and the Tip - top were “a-doing well.” ‘ ‘ And now, gentlemen,” said ho, anil tho clay pipo described a parabola in tin direction of his companion, “lot me make known to you my pardner, as I’ve took in on the Tip-top." After this the gon’ral’s partner was welcomed very cordially, each gentle man, as he grasped his hand in turn, declaring, with an omphatic invocation, that he was glad to meet him. Thus was tho gen’ral’s partner initia ted into life, as it appears in a mining camp, and duly launched upon the society of Summit City. The solect society—usually rareht supercilious in its reception of “tender- feet ”—received him with unwonted cor diality, as was evidenced by the fact that ho soon became as well and favor able known as the gen’ral and tho Tip top mine. Light-hearted and vivacious, ho en tered into his now life with a boyish zest for its novolty, ho and the gon’ral getting along so amazingly well together that the latter began to regard him quite paternally. It had long been the custom of the gen’ral to pass tho evenings sitting beforo the fire, in silent communion with that constant com panion and consoler—liis clay pipe. The presence of his partner, however, effected a complete change in liis habits in this regard. The evenings now were usually occu pied by the gen’ral in relating to liiB eager listenor some exciting episode of his adventurous life, with numerous characteristic digressions, and eccentric flourishes of the irrepressible pipe. “ Gen’ral,” said his partner, as they thus sat one evening, “mother has so often spoken of yon that I judgo yon were quite intimate in your young days.” “ Do yon, do you ?” said the gen’ral, with a kind of hoarse chuckle. “I guess you aro about right young man. Me and your mother was mighty thick before I went to Calaforny in ’49. In fact, I may just as well tell yon—wo was bespoke.” “Were you?” exclaimed liis partner, I opening his eyes. “ What happened l to break it off ? I know mother lias 1 always regarded yon as a great friend.” “ Yes sir, I did,” _ , „ _ . . , . “We were all old friends, and I’m; “ Has she, pardner-has she, though f miirhty sorry to hear about your fath- exclaimed the gen’ral, with an air of m n J * | svt.nof nrvofi finnfinn. er’s death.” At this his guest looked in the fire rather sadly, seeing which the gen ral resumed: “But there, you must bo hungry, and I’ll dish up supper right off.” great gratification “Well,” he continued, “wo was be spoke, as I’ve said, and was only waiting till I could get enough ahead. Then the excitement of ’49 broke out, and turned my head as well as everybody else’s. Nothing would do me but go —and go I did. In them days lettera was mighty upt to go astray, and I neVoi was niuchof a hand to write,-no wav. So I only writ two or three, and got about as many replies, though your mother has since told me she writ reg- ’lar for a long time. After the first year I kept putting off writing, and putting it off, thiuking every month I would go home as soon as I got a little richer. What with wandering from these diggings to them, sometimes striking it, sometimes not, somo years rolled away beforo I knowed it. “ Ono day I happened to come across one of your mother’s old letters among my things, and it kinder reproached me. I made up my mind I had enough and in t vo days lit out for home and your mother. “Woll, pardner, I got to tho old place, and without saying nothiug to nobody I just walked over to your mother’s old home, and ns I got near it who do you suppose was tho first porson I saw ?" “ I am sure I don’t know, unless it was mother,” said his partner. “No, sir I no, sir I It wasn’t your mother, by a long shot. It was you. Though, blosB my heart, pardner, you wouldn’t have knowed yourself. Thero you was, sir, a littlo tow-headod boy not moro’n kneo-nigh to a duck, a swinging on the front-gate, just as your mother used to do. Of courso, I didn’t know it was you at that time, so I snys: “ ‘ Can yon toll me, littlo boy, if Miss Mevindy Thompson lives hero yit ?’ “‘I don’t know nothiug ’bout no Miss ’Riudy Thompson, mister,’ says you, * but I’ll run and ask my mother.’ “ And off you runs and brings her out by tho hand. As soon as sho sees me she turns kinder whito-like and cries: “ ‘ Why, John, it can’t bo you?’ " ‘ Yes it can,’ says I. ‘ It’s mo, Hure enough, Merindy, como back to claim your promise.’f “ ‘ Oh, John,’ says she, ‘ I can’t, for I’m—I’m married.’ • ‘ "What 1’ cries I. “ ‘ Yes,’ says sho, 1 and this is my lit tlo boy, Johnnie,’ putting ber hand upon your head, pardner.’ “ Well, pardner, I was considerably astonished, but presently I says: “ ‘ You don’t say so, Merindy! Who’s his father ?’ “Then she told me, and I was glad to hoar, if it had to be anybody but mo. it was Jim, for vour father, pardner, was a mighty good feller.’ " Well, wo walked into tho house, u-talkiug about old times, and purt\ soon in conies your lather. “ ‘ Why, John !’ snys ho, ‘ is this yon or your ghost? Wo all thought you wa- lead long ago; but for all that, wt never forgot you, and here’s our little Johnnie a-uamed after you.’ "Well, pardner, threo weeks from that time I told both your mother and your father good-byo. Yon was n-play- ing ncur-by, and giving yon a double .•agio for a keepsake, Hold your mother if my little namesake ever needed a friend to send him to mo. Then I struck out West and have been a-pros- pecting over since here, thore and everywhere.” And the gen’ral’s pipe described sev eral eccentric geometrio curves in vari ous directions. “Now, pardner,” said be, in con clusion, “ if you’ve got a sweetheart— aud of courso you have ?” With a blush his partner pleaded guilty to the soft impeachment. “ Then let my ease be a warning and don’t forgit to write, but just write rog’- lar, or somo other feller will carry her off sure. And just as soon os the Tip top begins to pan out back you must go after her.” “ I’ll follow your good advice, gen’ ral,” said liis partner, with a laugh, and then each soaglit his blankets. ******* Day after day camo incessantly from tho tunnel’s mouth the faint and silvery clink of hammer striking drill, pausing only at intermissions, when tho moun tain would reverberate with a hollow, muffled explosion as a giant-powder car- tride too!: out the solid rock. Day by day tho partners drifted nearer to the vein and to tho culmination of their hopes. “Pardner,” said tho gen’ral, one eve- ning, ns he tamped tho lost shot for the day, “indications have been mighty good all day, and I kinder feel that something is going to show up when this goes off.” “ I hope so, gen’ral, said his partner, and, applying liis candle to tho fuse, cried “Skip 1” as it began to sputter. When tho smoko had cleared away, in they both ran eagerly. A large mass of rock had been dislodged by the blast, and lay broken in pieces on the floor of the tunnel. Back of this, the entire cross section of the drift sparkled brilliantly in the light of their candles. The gen’ral ex amined the wall carefully; and, turning to the other, said, impressively: “ Pardner, it is my opinion that this here is a true fissure vein, and we have struck it rich!” The inmates of the cabin slept little that night. Early in the morning two sacks were filled with ore, and packed on the hurras. The partner departed with them for tho smelter at Summit City. In tho af ternoon he was descried returning by the gen’ral, who ran to meet him. "Gen’ral,” cried ho, breathless with excite r ent and tho rapid ascent of the grade, "we aro rich men. She pans out G12, ami a trace of gold, besides. More over, I have alrjady been offered 1550,000 for my share of the Tip-top.” I knowed it I I knowed ii I The Tip top was bound to pan out big 1” ex claimed the geu’ral. And, Hinging his old slouoh-hat in ho air, he uttered n wild whoop. No less affected, liis partner grasped his hand, and, unconsciously, they exe. ented a kind of triumphant “ walk around ” about the mouth of the tunnel. Pardner, your sweetheart. Now that you can git tin $50,000, hadn’t yon better go after her?” were the first words of the gen’ral, upon recovering liis mental equilibrium. What I ’ cried his pardner. “ Sell ont, and leave yon here alouel Not much I No, Bir 1 Tho Tip-top shall nover have other owners than yon and I, gen’ral.” Oh, no, pardner 1 Wo are bound to take in your sweotlieart,” said tho gou’ral, with a chuckle. Many wore tho congratulations re ceived by tho gen’ral and his partner on their rich strike. Summit City was all astir with excitement. In throe days the mountain was honoyoombod with prospect-holes, and, us tho gen’ral expressed it, “Times was as Hush as they used to bo in Cnla- forny." Wagons were in demand to haul the ore to tho smelter. Day and night re lays of *men drilled, blasted and “ tim bered up" in the Tip-top mine. Day and night tho gen’ral and his partner waxed richer. “ Pardner," said tho gon’ral, a month from tho first day of their striko, “I wus thinking as the Tip-top is booming right along that you might now go for your sweetheart and take a wedding- tower to Eurip, if you and hor fancied it. As for me, I’ll stay aud ran the mine.” “ Well, gon’ral, I believe I’ll follow your advice, pnd start East to-morrow.” After tho departure of his partner the gen’ral felt most unaccountably low- spirited. Though everything worked like clock-work about the mine, he grumbled incessantly, and the cloy pipe scarcely ever loft his lips. Ho was, therefore, as much delighted its surprised when, ono day, his partner suddenly appeared at the mino. “How d’ye do? Glad to see yon. L’hought yon was on tho way to Eurip. Got your sweetheart ?” ho exclaimed, all in ono breath. "Yes; and she’s waiting now over in Summit City to boo you.” “To seo mol" cried tho gen’ral in consternation, glancing at his overalls smirched with mud from the miue. “Yes; como along. You can spruce up a littlo when we get to the hotel It had been qnito a number of years since tho gen’ral hud called upon a lady. Now, in honor of tho occasion, he re paired to a clothing store and issued forth in new aud unwonted apparel. And really, thus attired, it would have been diilicult to have found a better-looking gentleman of his age. “ Do you think she will like me?" asked he, anxiously, of his partner, as they walked through the hall of the hotel. “ Oh, of course,” returned that de signing young gentleman, suppressing an inclination to laugh. Then, opening the parlor door softly, ho whispered: “ Walk in, gcn’ral,” and closing it, van ished. Tho gen’ral thought this very unac countable conduct. Much embarassed, he looked about and beheld a very comely lady of middle age seated upon a sofa, absorbed in a book. “ Merindy I” he cried. “John!” exclaimed the lady, arising, evidently as much surprised as himself. Then recovering herself she added, with emotion: “Oh, John! how can I over repay yon for your noble conduct to my boy ?” At first it was the intention of tho gen’ral to say he was more than repaid for any little kindness, etc. But as ho stood looking in the eyes of liis old love, a flood of pleasant memo ries swept over him with irresistible force. And inspired by a happy intui tion he said, taking her band: “ Merindy, you can repay me in only one way, and that is by saying ‘ yes ’ the same as you did thirty years ago. 1 Is it necessary to add that she said it? Shortly afterward there was a knook at the door. The gen’ral cried: “Come in!” and his partner entered, accom • panied by an extremely prepossessing young lady. One glance at the elder pair was suffi cient. “Ah! another new partner, I per ceive,” said he, with a joyous augli. “ Well, gen’ral, suppose you make the tour of Europe yourself if you aud mother fancy it?” “No," replied the gen’ral, “me and your mother is too old for towers, and I’ve gnlliviuiu’d enough about tRt world to settle down now.” **••»• An unpretentious, but very comfort able and commodious residence now stands upon the site of the Gon’ral’s old log cabin. Here at evening upon the piazza, a hearty, gray-haired old gentlo- mnn is in the habit of sitting, gazing with a meditative eye down the stage road as he philosophically puffs a cherished olay pipe. Two chubby chil dren gambol about him, or, climbing upon either knee, say: " Grandpa, won’t you tell us a story?” "Yes, Johnnie, you and your little brother Jimmie listen good and I’ll ted yon bow mo and your pa went pardnors in the Tip-top mine.” WORDS OF WISDOM The Poison Habit. But under all oircumstancos make a firm stand against the poison habit. It is best to call things by tlioir right names. The effect upon the animal economy of every stimulant is strictly that of a poison, and every poison may become a stimulant. There is no bano in the South American swamps, no vir ulent compound in the North American drug stores—obomistry knows no dead liest poison—whoso gradual and per sistent obtrusion on tho human organ ism will not create an unnatural crav ing after a repetition of the lethal doso, a morbid appetency in every way analo gous to the hankering of the toper after his favorite tipple. Swallow a table- spoonful of landanum or a fow grains of arsenious acid evory night. At first yonr physical conscionoo protosts by evory means in its power; nausea, gripes, gastrio spasms and nervous headache warn yon again and again; the struggles of tho digestive organs against tho fell intruder convulses your whole system. But you contiuuo the dose, and nature, truo to her highest law to preserve life at any price, finally adapts herself to an abnormal condition adapts the poison at whatever cost of health, strength and happiness. Your body becomes an opium macliine, an arsenio mill, a physiological engine moved by poison, and performing its functions only under the spur of tho unnatural stimulus. But by-and-byo the jaded system fails to respond to the spur, your strength gives way, and alarmed at tho symptoms of rapid dilirium, you resolve to romedy the evil by removiug tho cause. You try to renounce stimulation, and rely onco more on tho unaided strength of the vis vitro. But thut strength is utmost oxhausted. Tho oil that should have fed the flame of lifo has been wasted on a health-consuming flro. Before you can regain strongtli aud happiness your system mustreudapt itself to tho normal condition, and tho difficulty of that re- iiiTiingonont will bo proportioned to tho degree of tho present disarrangement; the further you have strayed from na ture tho longer it will take you to re trace your steps. - Popular Science Monthly. Use of the Eyes. The man who avoids excesses of every deicription has a fair chance of retain ing his eyesight until old age sets in. A time comes to every one when the physioal powers begin to decay, and then, unless tho brain has been kept active and recipient by exercise, thero is nothing left to live, and the man perishes. We say that he died of gout, or over-eating, or of heart disease, or kidney disease, or of the failure of the particnlar organ which was the first to exhibit symptoms of the approaching end. In reality he has died of stupidity, artificially produced by neglect of tho talents with which he was endowed. That which is true of the orga oism as a whole is true, also, of its parts ; and the eyes, among others, are best treated by an amount of systematic use which preserves tho tone of their muscles and the regularity of their blood supdly. Acuteness of sight is aided by the at tention bestowed upon objects within the vision. In people who cannot read, tho sight is far from aoute. I have even had reason to think, says a writer, that the wives of such men were in debted to their household needlework for the maintenance of a higher stand ard of vision than that of their husL ands; and I have no doubt that idleness of tho eyes, if I may U3e such an expres sion, is in every way hurtful to them, and that propor and varied employment is eminently conducive to their preser vation in beauty and efficiency. To keep on repenting for past sins is easy enough. It is the beginning to do bettor that is difficult. Nothing can constitute good breeding that has not good nature for its founda tion. Who is powerful ? He who can con trol his passion. Who is rich ? He who is contented with what he has. Wo carry our neighbor’s crimes in Right, but throw our own over our shoul • ders. If you would never have an evil deed spoken of in connection with you don’t do one. Lifo is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. Self- command is the main elegance. Blessed be he who gives to the poor, albeit only a penny; doubly blessed be he who adds kind words to his gift. He who can contemplate his past and not receivo many warnings from it must have had a remarkably stupid oxistcnce. A man is great just in proportion to his superiority to tho condition of life in which he is placed. Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things aro bitterer than to feel bitter. A man’s venom poiBons himself more than his victim. An ill argument introduced with defer onco will procure more credit than the profoundest science, with a rough, insolent and noisy management. Wise mon mingle innocent mirth with their cares as a help either to forgot or overcomo them, but to resort to intoxi cation for the ease of one's mind is to cure molanoholy with madness. Wo may compare tbo ooul to a linon cloth; it must bo first washed to take off its native hue and color, and to make it white; and afterward it must bo over and anon washed to preserve it white. Two New Zealand Citlet. A correspondent, writing from New Zealand, says : Christchurch is the “ City of the Plain,” and plain enough it is. It spreads over two miles square, and looks like some of onr overgrown villagos out West. But it has a river Avon running through it which is as crooked as a ram’s horn or a sheep's hind leg. This is not the Avon that Shakespeare lived on at Stratford ; but everything here is named after some- body or something in the old country. Thero is one of the finest museums here I have ever seen, and the domain, or public ground, is very fine, with maplo troes aud several barberry bnsbes from America, and many choice flow ers. The drainage is on top .of the streets; cement gutters, which liavo to be cleaned every morning, as thore is not full enough on many of them for the water to run off. Still it’s rather a tine city, and in time will be a large aud prosperous one. It’s so quiet, now, you can hear your heart beat anywhere in the streets. And it reminds one to bo thankful you have one to boat. Dunedin is the best built city in the colony, and lias a population of 30,000. The residences are upon the hillsides und tops, and have a splendid view from all parts of tho city. Princess street is over a mile in length, and is solidly built. It lias street-cars and all the conveniences of our cities, but no hotel. There is not one in the colony. There are hundreds by that name, but they are nothing but rum-holes. I did not eo much of the city, for it rained all the time I was there. Its public build ings are fine, and there are many things there to interest the traveler. The Bast Wood to Uu. On this subject the Farmer'» Union, Minnesota, has some suggestions worthy of attention in various parts of tho land. It says: The fuel question is one of a good dual of moment not only to city and village folks, but ulso to tho farmer. We have taken considerable time in finding out which is the most economical variety of wood to burn for our Minnesota patrons. At this time the hard maple is the favorite in Min- eapolis. The people will give a dollar or more a cord for this wood in prefer ence to any other variety offered in the market, but it is far from being the most economical. The reason the ma plo is so universally used is that it bums so roadily. A cord of good sea- oned white oak will make more heat than a cord and a third of maple. In any oveut, it is a great convenience to know the comparative value of tho different kinds of wood for fuel. Tak ing shell-bark hickory as the highest standard of forest trees and calling that 100, other trees will compare with it for real value as follows: Arkansas wants no “ sas” in hor pro nunciation. Tho legislature of that State lias passed an act declaring that Arkansas shall bo pronounced Ark an- saw 7 . Now let Warsaw bo pronounced War-sas. It is a poor rule that won’t work both ways. But if Kansas under- ' Shell-bark hickory.. 100 Hard mapto 5# takes to change her pronunciation to ; whito oak Si lted cedar 88 ICan-saw sho should be visited with an- i White ash 77 Wild cherry 54 Dogwood other grasshopper plague. It is hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom, nature will always be endeavor ing to return, and will peep out and be tray herself one time or another. 75Yello\v pine Sor ib oak 73!Buttomnt Rod oak 69|Whito birob i’“—h 62iWhitoplno Yellow oak 601 54 51 ...48 ...40 Both the President and Mrs. Garfield are said to be fluent talkers of French and German.