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Newspaper Page TextPPR vvvwivpijjg mm THE mercury. Saadersrlllo, Washington County, fh. hjbushed ITT A. J. JERNIGAN, Pbopbibtob and Poblishka. Subscription* THE A. J. JERNIGAN, Pbopbietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1.50 PER ANNUM. •LSOpwYMr, VOL. II. SANDEKSVILLE, GA., JULY 26, 1881. NO. 17. MERCURY. : % ^ , PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE. oar All communications intended for this pa per must be accompanied with the full namo oj tho writer, not necessarily for publication, but ns a guarantee ot good faith. We are In no way responsible for the Timm oi ! indolent* of correspondents. Watches, Clocks AND JEWELRY REPAIRED BY JERNIGAN rOSTOPFICli nouns. 7:00 to 11:30 A. M. 1:30 to 0:00 i*. M. K A. SOI.LIVAN, 1\ M. Subscribe for the MERCURY Only $1.30 per annum, rqausiiun by JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH BUY YOUR Spectacles, Spectacles FROM JERNIGAN. Nono genuine without our Trade Marl,. On hand and for sale, Spectacles, Noi Blasses, Etc ac! Music -GO TO- JERNIGAN flUIll—, BOWS, STRINGS, HOMIN' BOXES, &e Machine Needles Oil and Shuttles I OB ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, fur sale I willal*: order parts of Machines that got broken, for which new l>icccu aro wanted. ■v. .r. JERNIGAN. G. W. H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, SANDERSVILLE, GA. ■ • H.MS OAHU. Olliro at liis Uobidonce, on Harris Street. April 3, 1830. heaving the Farm. Aiel so tlio time has come, my man, 3 ho end wo’vo long foreseen, When wo must leave the dear old farm, Witli all its moadows green; The mortgage is foreclosed, they say, And might makes always right. But this is not tho end wo saw When wo bogan tho tight. How often in tho ovontido • We’ve planned for futuro days, Wlion we could send tho girls to school And drivo our span of bays, hro then we thought a nico new homo Would lend an added charm, It looked bo easy then to pay Tho mortgage on the farm. But years passed on and troubles came; I think wo’ll always mind Tho summer that you broko a leg, And I got almost blind; We scarce could pay tho interest, With doctor’s bills and all, And hired help for everything, From early spring till fall. Tho “comer lot’’ has cost us, man, A hundred dollars cloar, For every aero stumped and fonced, It seems so very queor! I know we’vo more than paid tho price Of every rod of land, Yet wo go forth in our old ago With helpless empty hand. To ovory foot of tins old farm Wo’re bound by pricoloss bands; Tho orchard and tho shading elm Were planted by our hands; Tho “claim” wo hold within our hearts, Wrought out by honest toll; Tho counterpart our spirits hold No sheriff can despoil. Y'-t it ib hard, God knows how hard, To leave the dear old placo, And know that strangor hands will soon Old landmarks quite cffaco; But then, dour man, it is not long Wo’ll need a homo below, Wo’ll bide the “house not made with lmmls,” Whoro healing waters flow. —Jfca A, II, ilamen. MARGARET’S MONEY. B. D. EVANS, Attorney at Law, H VNDKIiHVILLE, GA. April 3, 1880. JSSrSi-t. . It ... m. WM. RAWLINGS, Physician & Surgeon, SANDKliSVILLE, GA. ,Wi ™ «t Sandorsville Hotel, April 10, 1880, E. A. SULLIVAN, PUBLIC, fSANPKHSVILLE, GA. |.^'“ iiu l attention given to tho collection ot Oifieo in the Court-house. o. H. ROGERS, Attorney at Law, SandersviUo, Ga. attention given to all business. •a’uy 1 la'au" 1 Mort, ‘" rcsti w *ng of Court-house. c. C. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Sandorsville, Ga. .e,m'ti* «w State and United States .' _ Court-houao. H. N. HOLLIrFlF ''.vsician and Surgeon, Haridorsvillb, Ga. ‘ft Iianls'8°reet° Bayn °’ S Iai)]inorj ’ BR. J. B. ROBERTS, ^ 1 .a >ician and Surgeon, Sandorsville, Ga. Stroi taRLW a r ¥ 8 ° m ' :o Haynes ’• ”>• lain 111 I “ 30 T5 Lo 'tg° building, from 9 1 ' ,| ' r lm. n !' ,;;,“ n ’ 1 *'' on i 3 to 5 p. m.; during v,,e nnoturof.]L- ro ?} aonco on Church Stroot, A 1 „ 1 il i ,) ^;f 10 “ al| y engaged. * l*JllKI , ejl steel IUtlJ.1, POINTS. TOOT," .“i' 11 "! mon KOoSi W ,b. d I rt " 1 nn »uKbita< from lh. «oll, product better developed , . * heitifl. fieml for llhmrafed Pamphlet r, „* in m P , , 06Umon, » 1 «- J.AJONES, WILMINGTON, ill t »*crS°lV , m r io T fir«S5 whcflt \ ft, ' a ut * week ngo, nn4 I Cjy I’oints.j Tom i r< , niorw whfcat where* It was drilled tWo iff&Mre* hVftfle lni ' nsural tonic rows, ami ‘7vL l r* f>1! ' r ftr ofdrtirt.' * &lne ofrpw etralnsi forty' .:7“*ciM*«»»VjR tr.VL^'r ufcLA yton, *lth vo liiuknu to u,„ "/-VUtlWim, Cel, and Farmer." 'i'hltt ,HlK jiiyl *• , “She has got £5,000,” said the old man, “ and she’s a good girl. She’ll be a catch for somebody.” Then I thought he looked at me. “Why should ho look at me?” I thought. “I’m not a husband worth angling for, as he know’s very well, this man who pays mo my small salary every week with his own hands.” Still he did look at mo, and I an swered with a word or two; I ferget whnt now. “ Yes,” he said, talking with a mean ing, too, looking at mo evidently to see how I took tho nows; “yes, and what do you suppose she does with it ? Has it locked up in my fireproof safe in my fireproof vault; doesn’t use it any way; doesn’t get -interest on it; locks it up as she does her rings and pins, and lets it lie never touched.” “ I wonder yo*.i don’t give her bettor dvice,” I said. “Give a woman advice I” ho said. “Try it. However, I approve of this. Better keep her dowry locked up safe than risk and lose it. I’m her guardian, Her father and I had quarreled, you know. But when he died ho left her and her money in my care, A nice thing for an old bachelor to have a young niece quartered on him for life I’ll marry her oil as soon us I can. I say, Fisher, come up and take tea with mo to-night.” Ho did mean it! He offered his niece and £5,000 to me I Ho hud never liked me either. “Shall I go ?” I asked myself. I was not a man to be bought by money, if she wero a coarse and vulgar creature like her uncle ; but otherwise why not see what sho was made of ? At leabt it could do no harm to take tea with old Simon Giddings. I went home with him that evening. I noticed some little changes in tho parlor, as though a lady’s hand had been busy there, and in a mo ment more I saw sitting in the shadow of the curtains a girl dressed in deep mourning. “ Margaret, Mr. Fisher; my niece, Mias Giddings, Tom,” said the old man; and as I bowed I saw a little velvet headed crutch leaning against the girl’s chair. She was lame then. Old Giddings thought this an obstacle to her making a good matoh, so he offered her to Tom Fisher. “ It won’t do, old man,” I thought. “I shouldn’t mind a plain face, so much, but a lame wife will never do for me.” Then something whispered faintly in my ear; *’£5,0001” For the rest Miss Giddings was fair and pleasant in her manner. She was a lady, too, which seemed odd for old Simon’s niece, for he was as vulgar as he was rich; and she sang to us after tea very sweetly. I liked a girl with dash and color, and still her blue eyes and sweet smile haunted me a little after I went home. “She’ll never quarrel with one,” I thought; “ and a woman worth £5,000 would be a catch cer tainly; but that crutch ! I’ll stay away from old Simon’s house for the future.” Bat he would not let me stay away; he kept on urging me to go home with him. There was a Marian Moore. Per haps she liked me a little. I admired her intensely; but she had no money, and I should take her away from her snug home to some poor sort of place if I married her. I should find it hard work to feed and clothe her decently. This fair, sweet Margaret was rich, and as timo passed on I began to see her liking for me. And I sat in the office one day, three months from the time of my first visit, wondering whether I could be quite sure that I should be good enough to the little thing I meant to marry for her money, to keep her from knowing that there was no actual love for her in my heart. And as I pondered, the voioe of old Simon reached my ears; “TomFisher, up in the moon again, eh ? Well, woll, when a fellow is in love we excuse lazi ness in him. There’s my niece Mar garet pouring the tea in the slop-basin aud oversetting the milk at breakfast. ‘Maggie,’ says I, ‘you’re a-thinking of some one, an’ ye.’ Sho blushed to her ears. You’ve managed to got into some good graces in that quarter, Tom. “Do you think so ?” I said. “ I know so,” said tho old mau. ought not to say so, you know, but I’m frank.” I listened to him then, two voices whispering to mo. “ You don’t love her,” said one, “ You don’t hate her,” said the other, “ You do want £5,000,” said the other. “ It would make a man of you. You could go into business on your own account. You’d cease to be a slave in this dingy offico.” Five thousand pounds 1 said I to my self. Then I started to my feot, “ Mr. Giddings,” I said, “would you bo willing to give your niece to me as my wife?” “ Tom Fishor, I’d give her to any deoent young man. A girl bothers mo; I m tired of tho charge. Every ono doesn’t want a lame wife. If you like her, take her, aud on your wedding day I’ll hand the £5,000 to you, and be rid of tho charge.” I turned faint and sat down to my desk; but went to old Simon’s house that night and saw Margaret. She looked as fair nud happy as a child. I sat down by her and took her hand. “Are you going to say ‘No,’ Mag. gio ? ” I said, and sho lifted her innocent lips to mine and kissed mo. “ I’ll be very, very good to you.” But there was no lover’s warmth in my heart; only a kind of gontle pity for tho girl who was to bring me £5,000. Wo wero enguged. Old Simon joked us coarsely, aud seemed to exult over the affair. I might oven have doubted the existence of the £5,000, but that Maggie told me of it herself. “Undo was keeping it for rae to live on when I was an old maid,” she said; “ but you shall do what you cliooso with tho money when I belong to you. Wo’ll buy u pretty house, shan’t we, dear, first of nil, and live tlioYe all our lives— somewhere whoro we can have a gar don ?” So, after that, 1 never doubted, but clung to the idea as I could not if I had loved t ho girl. We were married in a fortnight. Uncle Simon and his old housekeeper alone were present. It had touched me a good deal when Margaret had whispered that she had rather not have a wedding party, “Fancy the bride limping up tho aislo upon a crutch I” sho said. “Let mo be married with none to stare at me. You love me, so I don’t care about being lame anymore, but I’d rather not bo stared at.” I took her in my arms and kissed her then. “ I’ll bo good to her,” I said, as the clergyman uttered his prayer—“very very good;” and I was Raying it again when I sut with my wife in old Simon’s parlor, and he, coming in. the gas, and stood twinkling his a es at us maliciously. “So it’s over,” he said, with his fiend ish chuckle. “She’s yours; now for the £5,000. I’m going to hand it over to-night. I shall sleep better.” I blushed with shame. “ Not yet,” I said; “don’t talk of money yet.” ‘ No,” said Simon. “ But I will, though; I’ve got it here.” And he unlocked a sideboard which stood in the room aud brought out a small roll done up oddly enough in brown paper. “TherB it is,” said ho, “there it is Look at it; count it. Five thousand, plum. Count it I” He fairly grinned as he spoke. She smiled. I saw something in his laugh that made me shudder. Without a word more I walked to the table, opened the parcel and spread out the notes. There was £5,000 worth of them, read- ng the value on their faces; bat they were the notes of the Diddleton & Bilkem Bunk, which had failed years ago ! I had been deceived. The girl I had married was penniless! “ Impostor I” I yelled. Old Simon answered with a roar of laughter. “ Good joke,” he said. “I have done what I have promised. You’ve got the £5,000; I didn’t tell you what it was in. Of course such money is of no use to you ; but I can’t help that. Ha, hat ” I think I should have given him a blow, but just then I heard Margaret Bcream. I looked at her. I saw, as I had known before, that she had no hand in tho deception. I sayan awful look in her eye, a doubt of my love trem bling on her lip. I saw her rise and falter on her poor feet and stretch her arms toward me. I heard her cry, “ Thomas, I did not know 1” and then—oh, thank God for it 1—tho love I had never felt before rushed into my heart—a great all- conquering love. I ran to her. I took her in my arms. I gave her the first kiss of passionate and new-born lovo, and I said: “ Mar garet, try and bear poverty with me, for I love you better than my soul.” And all Margaret’s money—the money that faded before mo like fairy gold—- could never have given me half the joy that the wealth of loye given to and re ceived from her gave me npon onr bri dal day, gave me in all the first strug gling years of wedded life, and will give me, God grant it, until the end. A Vleroumnn’m Congregation. The following anecdote is related ns haring actually occurred not many months ago iu a large northern senport city in England; nnd wo have no reason to disbelieve it. It was a Sunday, and it was raining as it never does Tain but in the vicinity of mercantile shipping on the first day of the week. The docks boosted a lit tle church or bethel, which hoisted the union jack every Sunday morning in token that service would be held there, chiefly for sailors. Tho clergyman who officiated weekly at the bethel was rather lator than usual on the Sunday morning in question, owing to the difficulty ho had in getting a cab, tho rain having caused those vehioles to be in great de mand. He arrived, however, a few min utes before eleven, and hurriedly bid ding tho driver wait for him till service should be over, ho entered the scored odifico—to find himself alone there. Possibly seafaring people are not more prone to church-going in wet weather than their fellow-sinners who livo ashore; anyhow, every seat was vacant. The clergyman was a zealous man, so he resolved to wait a quarter of an hour, on the chance of some waif or stray turn ing up. His patience was not unre warded; for altor the lapse of a few minutes one very wot man came slowly in, and seated himself with some hesi tation on one of the back benches Even lie, probably, had only put into that haven under stress of bad weather outside, all tho public houses and other congenial places of shelter being closed Now, our parson was not only a zealous, but n conscientious man—not always the same thing—and lie resolved that had lie but ono solitaiy unit instead of a con gregation, ho would pursue tho service in full to the bitter end for that unit’s benefit—at least, as long as the unit would bear it—and ho proceeded to do so, and accomplished it. At tho end of the liturgy, touched probably by the patient endurance of his auditor, he condescended to address him personally, telling him that since the inclemency of the weather —we are not in receipt of information on that point, but wo feel sure ho said inclemency—had prevented the usunl attendance at the church, he would forego the sermon ho had pre pared, and would content himself with malting a “few remarks.” This, however, his hearer begged him not to do, and expressed a great desire to hear the ser mon; so, pleased with this evideuco of intelligence umong tho lower orders, and gratified by tho effect his eloquence was producing, ho took the victim at his word, and let him have it. Tho text duly chosen, blossomed into firstly, secondly, thirdly, fourthly and lastly. “In conclusion” was followed by “ono word moro,” nnd still tho unit sat on undismayed. After it was all over tiro preacher came down and shook hands with him, thanking him warmly for his attention, his gratification being somewhat dimin ished when ho discovered the enrap tured listener to be his cabman, tho sum total of whose “ half u crown an hour for waiting ” had been materially augmented by tho length of the worthy divine’s discourse.— Chambers' Journal. SCIENTIFIC SCItAFN. The mean depth of the sea is from four to five miles. It rains three times as often iu Ire land as it does in Italy. A moderate gale travels at the rate of sixteen feet in a second. VenuB, Mars and Jupiter compare in size as a pea, a pin head and an orange. The mean height of the Englishman is five and a half inches above that of the Frenchman. The amount of common salt in tho sea is estimated to be about five times the bulk of the Alps. In ordinary breathing a man’s chest takes in at one breath about twenty cubic inches ol air, the bulk of a full- sized orange. If the existing waters of the sea were increased but one-fourth it would drown the earth, with the exception of some mountain summits. A thermometer, plunged into the snow to the depth of four inches, will mark nine degrees more heat than at the surface. A Frenoh surgeon mitigates pain by administrating a series of wave sounds to the affected part by means of a tun ing fork and a sounding board. Neu ralgia is cured speedily. The vibration is kept up by an electro-magnet. A MONSTER OF THE SEA. Siivoko <! rent ii res tlinl Rlsn I tom tin. |toi- loin iifi hr Son Only when They nre lUullln- I oil--1 ut err mi inn Iiiltmnntlon About Thom. A Gloucester (Mass.) fisherman said to a New York reporter wliilo examining a squid at a Rockaway museum: “I’ve been round the world, seen sharks, whales and big snakes, but a big squid when he’s cornered is about the worst-looking creature you want to see. Generally their body is about ten feet long, looks like a grayish-white bag, with a tail like a big arrowhead. Tho head is small, but the eyes ore about as big as a large saucer or plate, and black and staring. When you catch a glimpse of them eyeing you out from among their arms, I tell you it makos a man wish lie hadn't come. The arms, ten of them, branch from tho head, eight short ones nbout fifteen feet, and two long ones from thirty to forty, depending, of course, upon tho Rizo of tho squid. Eight of them nre lined with suckers, each ono ranging in size from a ton- cont pieco up to a half-dollar. They aro liko so many air pumps. In each one is a ring of bone with edges like a Baw. These aro pressed into you, and the air is suoked out, whioh, of course, forces the teeth of the saw in, and you can imagine the offcot of hundreds of these flying around and striking on all sides. The long arms only have their suckers confined to the ends, whioh nre flattened out. Between all these arms is tho mouth, which has two beaks just like a parrot’s, only larger, and the upper one sets into tho undor so they can nip a pieco out of an oar blade as easy as to say tho word. “Do they swim? Yes, and backward, too, dragging the arms after them and going liko lightning. Sometimes they jump right out of water and como down as slick as a flying fish. Tho first one I ever tackled was just above Trinity bay, Newfoundland. We saw something in near shore, and a couple of us jumped nto a dory and pulled over to it. When wo got near a lug wave tossed us right on top of it, and the first thing I knew I got a shot of water and ink (you know they spurt ink from an ink bag) fair in tlio face, and by the timo I wiped it off the squid was half aboard us. It flung five of its arms over, and ono struck my mato on his bare arm and nearly hauled him over. I grabbed tho ax aud managed to out two of the arms, when another got round my leg, and hauled mo off my feet; down I went into the boat, and I believe that’s the only thing that savod us, as my hand lauded on a big boat hook. I lay on my back, the boat half full of water, and jammed that hook right through the ugly creature’s oyes, and, ns my mato had put an oar through it, it. slipped into the water. All this time, mind you, it was fuming and spurting wntor and ink; but it was only about half a fathom of water, and I stuck tho boat hook in it again. After we had bailod out tho boat wo made the squid fast by tho painter, towed it aboard and cut it up for bait, after wo had meas ured it. From tho tip of the long arms to tho end of tho tail tho lino gave flfty-ono and a half feet. Wo packed it in a tub that was made to hold ex actly ‘J00 pounds of cod, and it flheu it. I wouldn’t tnoklo one again like it for tho proceeds of a whole season. “Why, everywhere a sucker' had struck my mate’s arm it looked as though ft red-hot iron had been pressed on and sunk in, and where they had been tom away the flesh had gone, too. Ho was laid up a month. I had a heavy pair of boots on, and the leather showed tho marks, as if they bod been cut with a penknife. “Yes” (in answer to a question) “most all the Gloucester men can tell big stories about squids. Captain Col lins, now one of the United Statos fish commission, used to ran the schooner Howard, and they caught five in one day, averaging from thirty-five to forty- five feet on an estimato, and weighing about a thousand pounds apiece. Some difference betweon them and this mon ster, that we are money out on.” This account was not exaggerated, as any one may prove by paying a visit to tho zoological museum of Yale college, where Professor Verrill has the finest collection of these oreatures in this or any country. A few years ago they were not believed in, and the strange tales of Hugo were the only hints of their existence; but one was washed ashore on the Newfoundland coast, and fortunately fell into the hands of the Rev. Dr. Harvoy, who sent part of it to the Smithsonian institute, and thus their existence becamo assured and credited by many who some years back- classed them with the sea-serpent, At certain seasons they are more fre quent than others, and as they 'are only found or seen when mutilated, living at other times in the deep sea, it is sup posed that they become injured iu the breeding season; or perhaps at certain times parasitio animals are more fre quent. 1876 was a season extremely notable in this respect, and numbers were seen floating on the surface, food for birds, or partly dead and mutilated. Others wore found along the ooast washed among the breakers, where they swung, hanging by their two long ton- tacles, which were fastened to tho rooks, answering the purpose of cables to the living ship on a lea shore. A famous placo for them seems to be tho Flomiah Cap, a bank to the north- oast of the Grand BankB. Portions of theso monsters have been fonnd in whales, that indicated animals nearly ono hundred feet long and twenty-five hundred pounds in weight. These ani. mals are not now to the geologist. Their fossil beaks and ink bags are fre quently found in the strata of the recent formations, the ink being so well pre served that it was formerly used as the sepia of commerce, and a writer has penned a history of living squidB with the ink of one that perished tons of thousands of years in the past. Earlier forms of the squid appeared in shells, and these fossil coverings aro frequently fonnd almost as large as a cart wheel, whilo some of the straight-shelled vari eties reached a length of fifteen feet and, according to some authorities, thirty feet. Imagine a slioll thirty feet in length propelled like a battering ram through tlio water, waring its snake-like arms; a fitting forefather of the giant squid of to-day, the architenthis of the scientific world. Newottaite.ro in Mejtiieo. A letter from the city of Mexico to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Bays: Timo is not an element of news in n Mexican newspaper. In this country a live edi tor thinks that if nows is good enough to publish it is good enough to keep, that a roal piece of nows is as good at tho ond of two wooks as at the end of two hours, nnd ho acts up to this idea. I was startled by the reappearance of President Garfield’s message in Spanish four weeks after its delivery, No dis respect was meant to liis excellency, for the message of President Gonzales, whioh was delivered April 1, was pub lished by one of the leading newspapers here in tho monthly review of May 1. In fact tho American idea of news is unknown, and whatever nows appears in the papers is of no less importance than the political wisdom wliioh fills the editorial columns, and from which the papors are supposed to be published. There aro fourteen daily newspapers in this city, and not ono of them receives a special dispatch—many of - them do not tako tho troublo to publish tho dis patches which are sent to them ; some times several days pass without a single word from foreign hinds, nud when the dispatches como nil those which come over tho eablo aro addressed not to the newspapers wfiich publish them, but to Don Ramon Guzman, tbo president of tho cable company. On ono occasion I called at a news paper offico to mako a change in an arti cle I hud left for insertion in the next morning’s issue. I called at four in the afternoon, and found two stout boys working off tho edition on a cylinder hand-press. I asked them why they did not deliver the paper tho same day it was printed, and they told me that if I preferred I could get my paper in the evening. Now I have throe of my morn ing papers delivered the evening before, and they seem to have pretty muoh the same nows as the next morning’s papers, os woll ns the same advertisements of last month’s steamers. This is tho land of contrasts in every thing, and if the newspapers here are vacant as far as news is concerned, they uro a great success from the able edi torial point of view. Their editors are scholars, poets, wits, duelists, men of the world ond noarly all of them con gressmen. There is a natural fluency in tho race and a tendency to politics, whioh accounts for the number of papers, each one of which has a half dozen editors aud no reporter. It must be confessed that they write well and think clearly, and uli that, hut I have an idea that if there were less editorial intellect and more reportorial legs that even in Mexico a morning newspaper would not work off its edition on a hand-press the evening before. The Terrible Tragedy. The thick thunder threatened torrents; the tempest tossed the trees, throwing heir trembling trunklets topsy-turvy. Tripping toward the town, Theresa thought: “ To-night Theodore treads the tiresome thoroughfare, thinking things that—” Thud I The terrified truant turns to trace the threatening turmoil. There, toward the toll-gate, tramped Theodore, trying to throttle two thieves. “ Take to the timber, Theresa 1 ’ thundered Theodore. “ Tell that to timid things,” thought Theresa, treading tiger-like, tip-toe toward the trio. Then, telling Theo dore to throw the taller thief, Theresa, taking’ t’other’s toga, tied through the thickness the thief’s throat. Thus terminated the terrible trouble that threatened the twain. They turned triumphantly to town, there to tell the tale. To-morrow ties them together. The Kansas Editorial association have decided not to have a meeting this year, but June, 1882, they intend to have one, followed by an exoursion to California* FARM AND HOV8EIIOCD. Wnsli fur Fruit Tree*. A correspondent of the Rural Mes senger has had good results from the application of lime, wood ashes and 61d iron put around the roots of fruit trees that were not doing well, thus restoring the trees to a healthy condition and im proving the quality of the fruit. As a wash for mossy trees he gives the fol lowing; Heat an ounce of sal soda to redness in an iron pot and dissolve it in one gallon of water, and while warm apply it to the trunk. After one appli cation tho moss and old bark will drop off and the trunk will bo quite smooth. Htlnitn an Uor*c*i For years we havo condemned the praotice of deforming in appearance and injury physically the horse by the useless nnd foolish contrivance of blinds. The fabulous practice of carry ing a stone iu one end of the bag to balance the grain in the other is innocence compared tc tho relio of bar barism still indulged by toamsters. All tho arguments in its favor are mere pretense to hide such ridioulous prac tices. The blinds nnd tho infernal oheok-rein demand the intercession of Mr. Bergh ns the most serious and coolly premeditated wrong and cruelty to a noble animal. The horse is a noblo animal, nnd enjoys os well as man the sights about him. A d when he is treated rightly and has a full sight of all about him, is more kind nnd tractable. Imaginary evils and bugaboos aro olways moro frightful to man and boost than real ones. Besides the discomfort to the horse, and the disllguremont of his appearance, blinds are injurious to the sight. It onuses a sharp current betweon the olosely pressed blind t and the eye—causing the lodgment of dust and dirt in that too tender organ, and it aids in accel erating the too frequent blindness. Think of his patience, his faithful ser vice, his intelligent devotion, and leave off those torturing instruments—tho blinds and oheok-reins. Humanity de mands it; the progress of the age de- meals it; but more than all, the comfort and safety of that noblost of all animals demand it.—Iowa Stole Register. Farm and ilai-tltm Note*. New beginners in rood-making gen erally round up too mnoh. Any more ronnding than is necessary to readily carry off water is injurious. Wrens ore groat insect destroyers, ond it is an excellent plan to provide nest boxcB for them to breed in near the dwelling. Sometimes they rear three broods in a season of six birds each, ond they are always hungry for bugs. A strong tea mode from sassafrass roots is recommended for killing liee on cattle and horses, In applying it, take an old cloth and wash tho animal so as to Wbt the hair and hide thor oughly. Apply either warm or cold. No injury will bo done to tho animal, and the lice will be effectually killed. As soon as he has his poultry houses cleaned, Mr. Keorn tells the Ohio Farmer, he takes the manure and spreads it over his wheat field, or a poor spot in his meadow, and you can take his word that a man with one eye can see whoro he puts it. To put hen manure in a box or barrel and keep it one year before it is put to a crop he thinks is a wrong way. We find in a Western exchange, raw eggs, shells and all, recommended as a remedy for scours in cattle. Full out the tongue, crack the egg, clap it on the root of the tongue and let go. Tuo or three are enough for a young calf; from that up to two dozen for a cow. It is the best cure for loss of cud. Keep a calf dry, feed regularly in time, quantity and temperature; feed no un cooked cornmeal, and you will not be troubled with scours. I ItoDsoliold Hint*. Never put salt on a steak until after it is cooked. After trimming on each side equally dress to taste with sweet fresh butter, pepper aud salt, and add, if preferred, a teaspoonful of lemon juice. When striped stockings are washed and are ready to hang up to dry turn them wrong side out. This will prevent the color from running on the right side and spoiling the stockings. If you flavor a rhubarb pie with nut meg it will improve it greatly and make it taste like a fresh apple pie. A good way to cook liver is to fry it in butter, with an onion out in small pieces scattered over it. Cook slowly; when done add a lump of butter and a little flour; stir well and turn over the liver. Serve with Saratoga potatoes. * A St. Louis paper says that it is char acteristic of society in the case of, wed dings that the controlling feature of that ceremony is tho young woman. We have observed this remarkable faot, and, incredible though it may appear, have further notioed that she is frequently the controlling feature ever after. Chemical action is ■ cl ways aocom anied by increase of temperature.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, July 26, 1881, Image 1