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VOLUME IX.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE IS, IS79.
NUMBER 23.
1 THE physical future of
,6W 5 AMERICANS.
m ? oresent eruption of Mount Etna j —— ;'.
tans to be . the most destraetivei Gep..If. Beard, in an;. article in the
has ever occurred, owing 1 to the ! ^ une number at.t\& Atlantic, discussing
, "La since that of 1852, in the.fertiL- I flie.pbjsiad ■/future,. of the .American
fftfie farms and population and people, concludes that although the ih-
^jlth of the villages. The cone, in habitants; o£.ouc/.> Northern i States are
'hU’thirty new craters have opened
a 3 ~ n oh m mi fr r»nn vl tt
Jithina few day 3 . “ a summit nearly
leren
lands,
ana nervous, prostration, than those; of year and on the present occasion, I can
Eiirope, owing to the chanceful nainre Avouch that starvation Ms' it's'own dis-
Of the Clunateand thp extremes'Of hqqt Kn^i Pictarniil nlwaiml nliPTinmona Tn
le oi tm J |L.. , -- and c ? ldi/ ^ ekv the ' raCe gradually
mitas wide of forests, aud grazing adapting itself to its environments, and
and beiow this-ngaidi’ encimmg* fWui« : wilTievrflfe"'a' powerful and
stable race of native Americans. He
centre - lids nt belt six or
these Catanians. w ere destroyed, and in
both 1527 and 1852 the streams of lava
penetrated the woody regions and over-
Jowed'the villages in the lower belt.
But before the surface was quite cool,
the people were back, building new
tomes over the buried mins' of the old
ones. Human nature was just as fool
ish as now in greediness, and men in as
peat haste to be rich when Pindar, 500
jears before Christ, told bow “the
tnowy Etna, the pillar of Heayoni the
onise of everlasting frosts, in whose
breast weje hid the fountains of unap-
B fire," slsw her victims by
the thousands.
There have been some singular cir
cumstances in which the eruptions of
this volcano have differed from others.
Ono occurred in 1852, when, after the
flowing of lava lmd ceased, in a certain
aiea the trees, vines and even grass
were struck dead as if by lightning, with
no visible cause. Another was the bur
ial of a glacier under the lava, which
Lvell states remained* for thirty years
uamelted; a gigantic ice-house for the
Catanians. Much of the ruin occasion
ed by Ike eruption of this volcano in
1755 resulted from the sudden melting
of thesnows above tlieVal del Bove
and the precipitation of a flood of wa
ter, two miles in width.
The present eruption no doubt will
Kt geologists again to speculating upon
the age of $iis most ancient •‘month of
lielL" Such speculations are usually
based npon the formation of tho cone,
reckoning the concentric layers of
scorias and lava much as we compute
a tree by the rings in its
Imek out. horizontally. According to
tigdljf estimate, Ettia; wgs .belch-,
iog fostiiiher Miyoeftidownidie Yul del
Bovoin thofirst'dayoof oieation.-whilo ditions, so that all classes are sharing
the earth was Without form and void *9. s° me extent the improvement, al-
. . . ' • "" ‘ though it is of
and darkness was upon tho face of the
top. Probably, too, there will be a
fresh outbreak of the old controversies
* *<• the origin of volcanio energy. In,
hese hot debates the physicists and
neurologists Lave been arrayed under Y'h ultimately die out, leaving the
the bate of the mountain, is another
to the mixture of lava with the soil, is
tbe most productive in Sicily, which ac
counts for the crowding of fruit and
wine growers from other parts ,of the
island to this quarter, Where death and
fjfflvM.tt' 19
pen of the Bev, S.G. Osborne, in which
occurs the following terrible descrip
tion of ti^ jj^ijjegtgpai^starvation f •
'■“■Bjrom my own experience. t ef-last
tinct external physical phenomena. Iu
grown-up persoiis, besides
df attenuation which seems to have ab
sorbed all appearance of flesh and
mnsclc, and to have: left the bonesfof
claims frame-barely' ’covered' with- some
shown a visible improvement in physi- coveriud whiv
uuv/iuuiuauiuu ui wcutuu, uo. ncu no
progress.of. science and., discovery, .
suiting in better food, better horn
§hojvn
stronger, fuller, healthier—they'weigh
more than their parents. “The women
of all oar great centres cf population
are yearly becoming more plhmp arid
die beautiful; and in the leading
rain-wording occupations tmr. ntentare
also acquiring robustness, “amplitude,
qnaiuaty of being. A" thonsaad girls
and boys; a thousand men in the prime
of years^ taken by; accident in any of
the large cities,.ore heavier and more
substantial than were the same number
of the samje'jjge ani^.walltpf lifeitwerity-
five years ago.” We thin IT'our read
ers who have exercised any observation
will agree with this statement. It is
true morfe especially of thd now rising
generation. Mr. Beard attributes the
tbo improvement largely' to the greater
accumulation of wealth, as. well ns the
.re
houses,
more suitable clothing, less anxiety,
more ease, and more variety of health
ful activity and amusement than even
the best situated of onr immediate an
cestors could enjoy.
There is also, we think, a visible im
provement in our country population,
largely from the same causes. The New
England farmer of the past generation
or two, although lie might be well
enough off, did not have wife or ser
vants who knew how to cook. Heavy
and soggy bread, or saleratus biscuit
were served up for breakfast; a greasy
mass of pork and boiled vegetables for
dinner, with fried pork and suety
johnny-cake and molasses for supper.
Now this is all changed, owing to the
great general increase of intelligence,
and in the majority of farmers’ kitoh-
eus iu New England and elsewhere,
however plain the fare may be, it is
more healthfully cooked and served np
in a more tempting manner. Iu the
cities, too, constant betterments are be
ing.made an homos amL tenements for
the.poor iu reference to sanitary con-
lly. among the to any thing we could esteem to be
siilelj different banners. Some have
pinned their faiUi.to the chemical theo-
of volcanoes, and field that the in
to reactions which must take place
uder enormo.usjore'ssure in the earth’s
“> l 8ri° r ^re3raMto produce .those
eruptions of which Etna and' Yesuvi
weak; millions must pel
dreds may survive.”* Who. will, be the
hundreds, and who themillions? Why,
furuisifed sh6hisplendid ; examplet.i -evidently the former will be those who
iglope
- noment.to be expl
tany moment by the forces raging
rithinrit, and that volcanoes afford a
safety yalvo for tho extraordinary
toms which agitate the molten seas
aider our feet.- These, it is true, are
ocientWpeculations, and afo 'gradually
blown as the contraetiorrtheory. Ac-
children in that
will be made u
appetite,: of:
of the persist „ _ 0
Md pf free schools ignorauBLteTtifti
p failures
.to succeedin' life a prpbl.dtb“ to oth
ers, as welTaa to themselves; ‘Th
i
of the sun is^-by;-contraction. Jt
held that the contraction and ernsh-
ag down oi the solid crust produce
^rtlrqnakes and set free an enormous
aroant of heat which only requires the
absence of water to cause volcanic
actions. Without water, says Mallet,
great advocate of this theory, there
^ be no volcanoes; and it is a singu-
het thait Etna and Vesuvius 4BOd
and the terribly destructive Yol-
of Japan, are all found near the
sea.
rone of these speculations will afford
a^cli coadort o the poor Catanians
crops are swept away or burned
7 ue streams of lava, or buried uuder
"showers of ashes;but to the rest
^ may be consolatory to know that
pforld’s inner fires are fading, and
^ na and her rival volcanoes will
; day he as quiet and as harmless
>• e ®itinot erateis of the moon.—JV7
AjUx
among the wealthy or well-to-do. Mr.
Beard holds that on the principle of the
survival of -the.fittest, the weaker indi
viduals and families on this continent
strongestand best fitted. fp t v. their spr;
ronndin^8 ! tb’perpetuate th’e tace. -*'*T1je
strength of tho strong,” he says, “must
come in part from the weakness of tho
3 mnst perish' that ‘bun-
out
- i SB— !>» ■«—
There are some.men wj
are indnstrioits, prudent and economi-
cai ;yet, after u long life of striving,
THE
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HORRORS OF STARVA-
- v;.;; tion. \
. A book of startling.information, not more tl);m S!S m0 ntus on
recently appeared m London, from the from we ll-broken parents and
covering; which has but little' semblance
fiesh; the skin of all the limbs assumes
a peculiar character;. it is rough to the
touch; very. dry, and did it not hang
in places in loose folds, would be more
of the nature of parchment than any
thing else-to which I could compare it.
The eyes are mucli snnk, into the head
and have a peculiar, dalljipainfdl took;
.tog shoulder bones are thrown np so
high that the-column oL the neck seems
tp havj
the face and head, from the wasting of
tbe fiesh and the prominence of the
bones,-hgve a skull-like appearance; the
hair is very tluu.tipqn the head; there
is over the countenance a sort of pallor,
quite distinct from that which utter
c ecline of physicalpower generally gives
in those many diseases in which life
still continues after.the entire consump
tion of the muscular part of the body.
The skm over to e cliegt.bones and up
per part of the stomach is streched so
tight that every angle und curve of tbe
sternum and ribs stands out fn relief.
No words can describe the appearance
of ’the arms. From below the elbow
the two bones (the radins and the ulna)
seem to be stripped of every atom of.
flesh. If you fake hold of the loose
skin within the elbow joint, and lift
the arm by it, it comes away in a large
thin fold, as though you l>ad lifted one
side of a long narrow bag, in which
some lo»se hones had been placed.
There is one comfort, to be found in
these sad cases—there does not appear
to be great present pain. It-has never
been my lot to hear one single child,
suffering from famine or clys entery,
utter a moan of pain. I have seen many
in the very act of death; still, not a
tear, not a cty. I have scarcely ever
seen one endeavor to change his or her
position. I have never heard one ask
for food, for water, for any thing.
Two, three, or four in a bed, there they
lie and die; if suffering, still ever silent,,
unmoved.” r *
SENSATIONAL FARMING
|3omg -injury is v-done- yto^ the plain
simple-minded folk 'by 'the reported
statements of enormous agricultural
enterprises in California, Minnesota
and Dakota, with vast profits growing
out of the fabulous operations. One
Californian farms, or rather skins 45,-
000 acres yearly by sowing it ih wheat.
His harvest is said to have produced
910,000 bnshels of wheat, netting nim
$765,000 in one year. One would
one years operation; but we now learn
that after ten years’ exciting business,
•heiriSbs abotfl aamfrionf tfollafs'l afe|§
practically a bankrnpt; “land poor, "
which he can
orjet go, on his hands.
Sdiui the 1 Northwest, wejbave bad re-
iffefe#T\ Rctsbf
;wo things
essentially different,' they have supposed
that, if they were always busy, they
wonld be certain to be advancing their well that the facts should be knowD,
fortunes. They have foigottehihai mis- and that these giiiferiiii
diiected labor is but waste
The person who would i
marksman firing’ at a target
shots miss the mark, they are a .vaste
of powder. So in the. great game of fig the whole fabric; specularots, farms;
life, what a man does must be made to
a man does must be made to crops; armies of^labprers; troops of
mitrlit almdst as welF havd horses; parlm ^f Aiiac%ihery; all these
np on North
.. . W*n. He went to Philadelphia 1
^ Paid $320 for a
a pedio r ^
E °logical table of the kings ofEug-
aud ibedog hadn’t been hometwo
’ ^ e ^°. rC ^ ue uext door neighbor kill-
01 with a brick linn .linneo I
eonni* or
been left undone. Every body knows
some one in Ms circle of frivmls who,
though always active, has this want of
energy. The distemper if we may call
it such, exhibits itself iu various ways.
In some cases tbe man has merely an
executive capacity, when he should have
a direct one—in other language, he
„ . . . makes a capital clerk of - himself when
* i ke ought to do the thinking of the bnsi-
n. ^ jjj other cases what is done is
either at the nght time, or in the right
time, or in the right way. Energy,
correctly understood, is activity pro
portioned to the end.
pnre-blood bird
longer than the
twelve
: - a,
«>e I A nam6d Henry AckIey ’
is -s u'lecrhiiu and rare >J cars of p S e > committed suicide m
•itUe.
S as it is
tiouth American; the Philadelphia house of refuge lust
; Monday.
i
ntg,.
..ts
ou the business and meet, current ex-
penses, or on the' J inevitable final re
sult of mined land, barren fields, wast-
nities and a general wreck
alone fs left behind of the base-
, the weafh-
an and marketsheing tbe largest
which are risked, and possible success,
barren at the best; ? a cheap - notoriety,
or final min, are the alternatives. It is
ig stories slionid
speculative
be understood
entures in-which
ing, and that a grand crash,
taiu of vdebt toppling over and ernsh-
ere is but one end
a moun-
involved in one general ruin. This has
been, will be, and must be, the end of
this illegitimate use of the bo.untifnl
soil which is made to ponr ont its life
in' a few short years of wasteful, riotous
agriculture.
.Ten years ago a widow ledy in Lib
erty county found a little half-starved
lamb. She raised it and took care of it.
From the beginning she now has eighty
sheep, and has from time to time sold
thirty head. The Hmesville Gazette,
relating this circumstance, says: “If
this is not a good dividend from such a
small investment, we would rise to n
point of order aud ask what it is?
A light snow fell near Chicago ou
Monday last, and overcoats were la
great demand.
5 &7Lfie■ t x.-v3 QT’' : :
TRAINING A SHEEP DOG
Commence breaking the pop when
not more than six months old. Pnps
ancestors
on both sides of the kennel are most
apt to prove sensible and easily train
ed. The best place to train a pup is
on the road. In driving sheep on a
journey, he will learn more in a month
than in herding on a range during snm-
mer: The first thing is to teach your
pup to mind your word. Call to him
kindly by name, and if be doesn’t come
at once, pinch bis ears until lie learns
prompt obedience. A couple or more
severe floggings are an almost indispen
sable part of a; pup’s" training, but be
sure that he knows for what offense he.
is being whipped. Let the punishment
follow the offense promptly,' and if it
can’t be administered then, don’t whip
him an hour or two later, or when he
has forgetien all about the matter.—
Nearly all directions for the pnp should
be given by motion of the hand, in the
direction you wish him to go, and al
ways accompany the voice by metion of
of the hand. After your pup haslearn-
iuto the chest; e g | 0 m i n g the word, and is trained to
march back and forth from one side of
the flock to the other at the sweep of
yonr hand, commence to teach him to
pass np the side of the flock. To do
this make a motion with yonr hand np
toe side you wish him to go, throwing
your arm out as you would direct a
man bryond the reach of your voice,
and call ont “Away np!” antil he gets
hold of your meaning.
To teach him to go clear round a
flock and so turn them towards yon, re
peat the motion of sending him up the
side until he gets partly around the
head of the flock and theu call him
down on the opposite side. After he
has once learned to go around the flock,
a sweep of the hand from the side
whence you wish him to start to th e
other is the proper motion, accompanied
with tbe cry, “Around there!” Al
ways call his name before giving any or
der, and be sure to make tee direetirg
motion with your baud. To teach him
to drive behind the flock to whatever
direction you wish to go while leading
on ahead, get the flock in a lane, your
self in advance, and if the dog under
takes to follow you drive him back, and
when he has got to his place keep an
eye on him and sing ont occasionally,
“Drive them!” To train him to bark
whenever you wish, make a fuss your
self and get him excited, and theu sing
uiit, “Speak to them.” What makes a
sheep-dog a shepherd, is the instinct,
uatitral or acquired, which leads him to
trot to and fro behind the flock, and a
well trained animal will take as rnnek
pleasure in driving sheep as curs do in
following a wagon. Always treat tne
dog kindly and rationally, and, when
compelled to whip him, pat him on the
head to show him you don’t bear mal
ice, and to keep him from skulking.
One Lucky Bullet Saves Hundbed:
op Lives.—In the middle of the fight at
Korke’s Drift, when the Zulus had fired
the hospital, a rush was made by a band
of the enemy to fire the store house, the
the other building which outlasted
defense. As fast as th fi Zulus came on
with firebrands they were shot down,
gift in close to tfewail bftod stofehDusa/
Thp defenderaf wife.their rifles through;.
the loopholes, could hot slope their
weapons to kill him; and it seemed as if
his. purpose of firing the thatch on the'
0 roof of the house should succeed. .For
tunately, ia young Corporal ot the Army
Service Corps named Atwood bethought.
rv ' r ’* ' ■* ’ " “ amp of the
{there was
a dmall square hole in the wall which
had been used as a window, and the Zulu
happened to get to this. .Atwood,
with his carbine, made his way to this
hole and pushing ont his weapon let it
hang pointing to fee ground. It "was
impossible to take aim in this awkward
grapd Vision. „ It is a. -p 0b iti 0n> . so he trusted tofate. The Znln
had by this time stuck a firebrand on the
end of his assegai and was in the act of
rising np to set fire to the thatch when
Atwood, not seeing the Zqla at all. but
knowing about = his position,- fired the
carbide with his thumb. The shot prob
ably. in fact, saved Natal from an in
vasion of fee Zulus. The Zulu at day
light was fonud at fee spot with his
skull smashed hi and the assegai, with
the firebrand stuck on the end of it,
held tightly in his dead hand.—Edin
burg Scolmaii’s Durban Letter.
The British government has been get
ting rid rapidly of iis women telegraph
clerks. • For two years no women have
been engaged as clerks in the telegraph
department; and the government has
closed the woman’s branch of its tele
graph scHooL Its is also stated in the
London oVeics that the work of the wo
men clerks who remain is made increas
ingly severe. No publicity has attend
ed the changes made by the govern
ment in the clerkships, and they are
now brought to notice by communica
tions to the pi-ess. It would be of pub
lic interest to know why the dischar
ges have been made, and what are tbe
faults of the women which disqualify
them for telegraphic service.
THE ARTICHOKE.
There seems to be an tmusual interest
manifested in regard to tbe artichoke.
I have lately read several articles in to®
while others differ widely from my ex
perience. But I did not set out to crit
icise, for I-feel sure all are doing good.
Tlie more we talk and write npon this im
portant siibject the more we will know
about it and the better wa can appreci
ate the importance of it The time has
come when the farmers mnst deiise
some plan by which he can produce
pork at a less cost than he can with com,
or he must qu : t tbe hog and tarn liis at
tention to something else. I have
grown the artichoke for a number of
years, and daring the time have experi
mented in various ways, and I am now
ready to say that growing it for hogs is
one of the means to produce cheap pork.
Usually the crop is ready to torn out on
to by the 1st of October. One acre
will keep twenty hogs in good growing
condition from that time till the middle
or list of March; or, with the addition
of half the corn, nsnally fed, it will fat
ten them in less time than all corn, and,
as far as I have been able to see, the
pork is just as good. A portion of the
crop should be dug and housed -or put
in mounds, to be feed when the ground
is too hard frozen for the hogs to root.
While the artichoke is generally valued
only for hogs, I have found it quite
valuable for all kinds of stock.
HOUSES RELISH THEM,
and work horses will look better and
feel better on half tho corn usually
fed if they get plenty of artichokes.
They are fine for sheep especially ewes
with young lambs. And if yon want
gilt-edged butter in midwinter feed
your Jersey cow no corn, but plenty of
artichokes, wife good clover and timo
thy, hay, and you will get the best. I
will not undertake to say that artichokes
will cure fee so-called hog cholera, hut
I believe it to be a good preventive.
I have never known hogs to have any
disease while feeding on them. Iu deed,
I believe they are as near a natural hog
food as any product we grow. I grow
a variety known hero us the large white.
I have had but little exprience wife any
other, bat .from all I can learn from
persons who have grown other varieties,
J. consider it preferable to all others.
I wish to say I have none tor sale. I
would like to hear from others on the
subject of cheap pork. The nations of
tbe world must be fed, but the farmer
cannot do it in the old style at present
prices.—\J. G. Evans in Rural World.
At the close of the trial of the habeas
corpns-case in Omaha last week, which
resulted in the vindication of the per
sonal rights and liberties of the Poncas
Indians, whom the United States milita
ry authorities were endeavoring to force
to return io the reservation assigned to
them, their chief, Standing "Bear, pro
se u t ed to Mr. Wqhater, the. liwyer : who
had won their case' for them, an In
dian tomahawk, accompanying the'pre
sentation with a speech in which he
said:
“We had no law to pnnish those Who
did wrong, so we took tomahawks and
went to kill, * ********
bnt you have found a better way. Yon
have gone into the courts-for ns, aud I
find our wrongs can be wrighted there.
Now I have .no more use for the toma
hawk, aud I want to lay it down for
ever.” To Mr. Poppletou, another of
fee counsel for the Indians, the chief
presented a head-dress worn when the
Poncas made the first treaty with the
white men. “It is true.” remarks the
Philadelphia Ledger, “that the figura
tive eloquence of the Indian is not to
be always trusted, now that dealing with
white trickery has sharpened bis natu
ral cunning, the defence of all wild
thiDgs of the human as well as the lower
animal tribes. But this first recogni
tion of the civil status of the Indian is
a step in advance, embarrasing as it
may be to the. present complication of
inherited difficulties in the govern
ment’s dealings with him. As an indi
vidual committing crimes against per
sons and property, State court ought to
have jurisdiction oyer him, and in like
manner, as an individual, he should
be protected by the ccnrts.”
CAUGHT A TARTAR-
Thd Belfast, Me-, Journal says: “A
Belfast mau last week had an encounter
with a gang of Boston swindlers, in
which the latter came off second best.
He was accosted on State street by an
innocent-appearing young man, who
called him by name, began glibly in
quiring by name for well known resi
dents of tout place, and pnt on sneb an
appearance of innocence as to complete
ly deceive our friend. The innocent
young man professed to be. fee lucky
drawer of a lottery prize, and invited
his acquaintance to go with him while
he got the money. The young man led
the way to a room in the alley-way lead
ing from Court street to Cornhill. Hav
ing secured the prize, fee young man
commenced to gamble with his. money
and soon indheed the Belfast man to
loan him considerable money on bank
checks, which lie drew. The game was
worked so smoothly and plausibly that
several hundred dollars of onr friend’s
cash was transferred to the lottery-
dealer's till, the till being at last closed
and-the money declared forfeited. Onr
friend being a man of nerve, proceeded
to knock down the lottery-dealer,
wrench open fee drawer and transfer
the contents to his pocket. A confed
erate, who came to the resene, was also
knocked .down. The Belfast man then
finding the door fastened from fee ont-
side, kicked it open and gained the
street. Meeting there the innocent
young man. aforesaid, the two proceed
ed to the steamer Cambridge, where,
ou counting the money, onr friend
found that he had something over $400
more in good money than when he en
tered fee lottery shop. He ref nrned to
the smooth young man fee amount that
he had staked and lost, retaining 870 in
excess of his disbursements. During
the day hi was visited by nnmeroos
members of tbe lottery-dealing tribe
and sham policemen, endeavoring to
recover their money. But he brought
it away and keeps it as the reward of
his exertions in behalf of the- cause of
right and justice.”
Salmox in the Scottish rivers are suf
fering from a pestilence. It begins as a
entaneons disease, and soon a white
mould eats into the head of the fish,
which rubs itself te pieces in its agony
against gravtl and rocks. Mr. Buck-
land, a connoissucr iu salmon, writes
that the plague is the result of over
stocking; that “preservation carried on
for a eeriis of years possibly brings
about this disease, particularly when
there are many keits in the river, just
as in old times overcrowding originated
typhus in jiils and work-bouoes."
SUBSTITUTING THE LAW FDR
THE TOMAHAWK.
Could be Settled.
A Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Bulletin says: “Johnston in
conversation with yonr correspondent
recently said.- ‘I have always received
the most generous treatment from Un
ion soldiers wherever I have gone, and
many courtesies which I sincerely ap
preciate, have been extended to me by
Union officers and soldiers since I have
been in Congress. If the so ldiers
who fought in the war, on both sides,
were permitted to settle the difficulties
that now beset ns. it wonld be soon and
promptly settled to tbe satisfaction of
both the North and South.
We heard, and believed, during the
war just what General Johnston said in
his last sentence, but it will be now, as
it was then—the soldier’s will not be
permitted to settle it—these matters
are easily originated or settled by the
men who do the lighting.—Lynchburg
Neics.
Soft Water.—Those who are obliged
to use hard water to do washing may
prepare 4 t by boiling wheat bran iu it.
Two or three qnarts.of bran are quit in a
bag made of strung, bat tbin muslin,
tied np and put in a boiler full of cold
water, the boiler placed upon a stove and
the water allowed to boil for an honr or
so, when it is poured out aud the boiler
refilled. The bag of bran is putin and
again boiled foi\ an hour or so. This
operation is repeated nntil enough water
has been prepared, for-all the rubbing,
boiling, etc. The .water in whiih the
clothes are rinsed needs no preparation,
but is used as it comes from the well.
Ladies who have used hard water for
years and have tried lye, soda, sal-soda,
eta, tells us that the water washes better
and injures the clothes less prepared in
this way than in any other in which they
have seen it prepared. A bag contain
ing three quarts of bran may be boiled
in three boilings of water, but if more wa
ter than this is required, fresh bran
should be used. The water acquires a
softness from the bran that renders
it more pleasant to the hand and is not
injurious to the colored clothes, flannels,
etc., as when prepared with the alkali.
From South Afhica.—The Zulu king;
Cetewayo, on the 16tb, dispatched an
envoy to Colonel Crealock asking him to
send an European to him to discuss the
terms of peace. John Dunn according
ly went to Cctewayo’s kraal, but has al
ready returned. The negotiations fail
ed, because the British refused any
terms but an unconditional surrender.
Cetewayo’s good faith is doubted. It is
thought probably he will shortly threw
his whole strength against the lower
Tugtla column, which contemplated a
rapid march against Cetewayo. The
kraal at Ulundi has been abandoned.
Transport difficulties are increasing,
owing to tbe searciiy of grass. The
health of the troops is improving. It
is: ep >rted Major Chard who distinguish
ed himself at Baoke’s drift has died of
fever. It is again rumored that the Zu
lu commander, Dabulmanzi, while on
his way to surrender to the British,
was intercepted and killed.
A great fire at Grey town has destroyed
large commissariat stores.
A max coming out of a Texes newspa
per office, wife one eye gouged out, bis
nose spread all over his face, and one of
his ears ehc-wed off, replied to a police-
man who interviewed him: “ T
I didn’t
like an article that penred in the paper
last week, an’ I went in ter see the mau
who writ it, au’ lie war the rp, ’ > -
THE THEORY OF ADVERTISING.
Use the Newspapers—Keep at It.
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Some adyariisers .thiuk (hat becadso
an advertisement which appears to-day
is not followed lo-morrow by an ap
preciable increase Of sales the adver
tisement has done no good and .tho'
theory of advertising is false. Though
it is perhaps impossible to insert 3 no
tice that shall not bo read—-let .any
Didymus pnt a three line Oafd, “Want-'
ed—A Dog,” in the obscurest corner,’■-
and be convinced of this—it is not to.bo'
expected that the moment a person
casts his eye upon an advertiser’s an
nouncement lie sets out for the adver
tiser’s store. He may not; at the timo
need any articlo iu the merchant's line;
or he may deal with another house:
Bnt if the representation is attractive
he will almost iuevitably, when he Heeds
anything of fee 'kind announced, ho'
sure to turn to the paper where he saw
the card and give the advertiser a trial;
The merchant should regard his outlay
for advertising as he would that for
painting his building or pnttiDg up biff
sign-board —as a necessary charge upon
tue whole year’s business, tbo effect of
which is not to be perceived immediate
ly. Men do not sow wheat one day
and harvest it the next.
The man who bus begun to advertise'
must keep ou advertising if he desires «■
continual iucrease in the volume, of liis
business. He may keep a steady, clien-
tels of customers, but the chances are’
that some of these may be detached by
seeing the advantages of other dealers'
persistently advocated. He will cer
tainly not attract new patrons. They
will go elsewhere, just as they wonld
seek another store than his if, on com
ing to his door, they found it locked
and the shutters put up.
The testimony of a leading dry goods
house in New York is herewith present
ed:
“Of all the methods open to the mer
chant for advertising his business, an
experience of nearly half a century, en
ables us to unhesitatingly declare in fa
vor of the newspaper. It is, without
exception, the most economical, persist
ent painstaking and successful canvas
ser any business firm can secure for tho'
purpose of bringing their goods to fee 1
attention of the consumer.”
No comment upon this recital of ex
perience is needed, furtner than to’
note that the firm who write this have'
taken the sound scientific view of ad
vertising, that they recognized the ne-‘
ccssity for persistence and understand
that the newspaper has done its duty'
when it has brought tbe advertiser’s-
goods to tbe atention of the consam-'
Sugar from Indian Corn.—Near tile'
close of the Centennial an exhibit was
made of crude crystallizable sugar, made
from maize Indian corn) grown in Penn
sylvania, and in the Ledge) of December
1, 1876, Mr. F. L. Stewart, fee invent
or of the process of extracting sugar
from maize, described the results ho
had obtained, claiming feat his process-
afforded a much better prospect of suc
cessful sugar raising in tbe Northern’
and Western than could be expectvd-
from beet rootculture. Since that time
be has fully tested the process, and’
claims to be able to make sugar from
luc'ian corn wherever tho latter can be
economically raised. The sugar is said
to be in all respects similar to feat pro
duced from the tropical sane, and tho'
inventor declares that fee yield is as-
great.—Philadelphia Ledger.
A Dress-of Beiders’ Webs.—A dressr
woven from tho webs of fee Large spi
der common in South America has been
presented to Queen Victoria by tbe
Empress of Brazil. It exceeds in fine
ness any manufactured silk" known, and
is very handsome. Spaniards nearly
two hundred years ago endeavored to*
make gloves, stockings, and other arti
cles of spiders’ webs, but they yielded
so little profit, and necessitated so=
much trouble feat fee manufacture was
abandoned, tn 1710 the calculation
was made that the webs of about 700,-
000 spiders would be required for
about forty yards of silk. Such dres
ses are oceasi mally seen in Sontlr
America.
The Proposed Isthmus Gaxal.—A
Paris dispatch state that M. de Lcsseps
has already commenced the formation
of a company to construct the proposed
tide-water inter-oceanic canal from Co
lon to Panama, across fee Isthmus of
DaricD, the route Selected by the In
ternational Congress. A first subscrip
tion of 400,000,000 francs will be open
ed simultaneon.-ly all over the world
about September next. It is to be an es
sentially popular loan, without the gov
ernment aid or guarantee. M. de Les-
seps, it ls farther stated, will go to Pan
ama via New York to take, ont the first
spadeful of eaife on fee 1st of January,
IS80.
The British troops and their African
allies are getting
close quarters,
is said to
Cetewayo in
the Zulu