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®hc Mkuhinscille ^draiuf. A Wlf KLT PAP1B, —AT— Watkinsvilie, Oconee Co. Georgia. NV, GK SULLIVA-Isr, KD1T0B VXD VBOFBIBTOB One TKRMSi year, in advance... ..........It OH S;> months................. 00 ....________ A Wasp in an Old Man’s Slipper. There are times in the life of the small boy when he feels very sad from tho nso of a slipper or switch upon him. If any¬ thing thus happens to the person is who has afflicted him, his joy great, as will bo seen from returned the following home incident; his A gentleman from daily toil and had pulled off his boots and was going to put on his slippers, when a howl of intense agony resounded through toe hall. The affrighted family rushed to tho door, and beheld their papa heaving and the shadows with wild ges¬ tures frantic gyrations. “ Take it off," he shouted, and made a grab at his foot, but, missing it, went on with tho war dance. ’Walter!” he shrieked, and started, up stairs, three at a step, and, turning, came back in a single stride. “ Oil, I’m stabbed ! ” he cried, and sank to the floor and held his right leg high above his head ; then he rose to his feet with a bound, screaming for the bootjack, and held his foot out toward lffs terrified fainily. 1 ‘ Oh, bring the arnica,” he yelled, and with one des¬ pairing it effort he reached his slipper and got off, and, with a groan as deep as a well and as hollow as a drum, sank into a chair and clasped his foot in both hands. “Look out for the scorpion,” be wlnspered hoarsely, “I’m a dead man.” The small hoy was by this time out in the wood-sited, rolling in the kindling in ally an ecstasy of glee, and pausing occasion¬ to explain to the son of a neighbor, who had dropped in to see if there Was any innocent sport going on in which he could share, “Oh, Bill! Bill,” he said, “you wouldn’t believe ; sometime to-day, somehow or other, a big blue wasp got into the old man’s slipper, and when lie came home and put them on— oh ! Bill, you don’t know what fun I’ve had .”—Dallas CTcxas) Herald. “She Retaliated Immejitly.” It was a suit for divorco. Tlie ltus band—a surly, mean-faced, ferret-eyed, beetle-browed man—wanted a divorce from liis wife. They were both in court. Tlie woman was sickly-looking, and, very terics likely, by had been driven into hys¬ tlie brute who called himself hcr husband. The principal witness for the plaintiff was another beetle-browed, ferret-eyed, shop-keeper meiui-visaged fellow, who was for the latter and board¬ ed n» his family. And this witness had been “ cooked ” —had been “done up brown”—by both his employer and his employer’s lawyer. It was plainly to he seen that lie an¬ swered by rote—that tho words he spoke bad been put into lffs mouth by another. When the counsel for the wife came tc question this witness, after his own law¬ yer had done with him, he said to him, with a smile, tlie whole meant for tho jury, of course: “ You’ve got your lesson pretty well, haven’t you, sir?” “ I haven’t got no lesson. ” “All right. But let us see. You say, if I understand you, that Airs. B- has a very retaliating disposi¬ tion ?” “ Yes, sir; that’s what I said.” Give “Well, and how did she retaliate? us an instance.” stupid “ Why,” grunted tho witness, with a Yes, look, “I’ve told lots of ’em.” “ and now I want you to tell mo one. Tell me and tlie jury, if you please, ing.” a marked case of her retaliat¬ always “My! I’ve told you once she was Exactly retaliating.” “ ; but we want a particular instance, so that we can judge of its real merits. Now, look. Did you ever see tlie plaintiff in this case—your employer —kiss his wife ?” “Yes, sir !” the man answered, quick ly “ And what did the wife do on that occasion?” “ She retaliated immejitly.” “ That will do. You may stand down. ” The counsel for the plaintiff would have called the witness back, but toe which Judge nobody whispered to him something else heard, but whioh caused him to let the witness go. The divorce was not decreed. The Elephant Myth. The elephant of our childhood no longer exists. Like behemoth and levi¬ athan and other mythical creatures in whom we once implicity believed, he has been proved to bo a figment of toe Oriental imagination. The authority upon which we make this unwelcome announcement is no other than Mr. Sanderson, who has for many years tilled the post of Superintendent of Ele¬ phants stands to toe in Government of India, and who the same relation to these animals toat Sir Joseph Fayrer occupies toward tigers and venomous snakes. In a lecture recently delivered to the Unit¬ ed Service Institution at Simla he roundly calls the elephant “positively idiotic iu its attempts to escape when eaptured,” and talks of “ its want of or¬ iginality and its positive stupidity in many of things.” In is short, “ in the facul¬ ty and reasoning it animals.” far below Nor will the dog many other Mr. Sanderson allow the estimates of its great height. Out of many hundreds he has measured in Southern India and Bengal, he has not found one reaching ten feet at the shoulder. Yet one disil¬ lusion more. The elephant-hunters in lioth Ceylon and India corroborate Sin bad’s story that elephants, when they feel the approach of death, retire to a solitary in and inaccessible valley and there die peace. But Mr. Sanderson, though he admits that no living man has come across the corpse of a wild ele¬ phant toat has died a natural death, at¬ tributes this rather to their extreme longevity, which he is ilisposed to place as high as 200 years. This explanation, however, seems to us to violate that rule of scientific hypothesis which re¬ quires tiiat the cause should be udeqnatc to account for the result .—PaU Mall Gazette. Too High. At a oamp-meeting l»egan the last hymn summer a venerable sister : My tool, to on thy *u«-l; Ten tboaAfc&d foe* trim. Bit* 1 mgati tew high. “ Ten thousand I” * 1, aud stopped, “Hunt hi -1 at five thousand 1” cned a converted stock-broker proseut The Watkinsville Advance. VOLUME I. THE SCnOOtMASTfiR'S SLEEP. Tbe §c bool master was weary, Waa weary, old, and gray? Aba heaviness came o’er Into V jxm that summer day. A heaviness of spirit, And nameless sense of pain, He struggled hard to banish, But struggled all in vain. The drowsy school-room murmur He He knew heardj ms and, school in his trance, watching Ills were face with stealthy glan'oev He knew, and, for a moment, He roused himself again, To battle off the stupor That crushed his weary brain. In vain, for, with the effort. His His breath head dropped faint on and his breast. fainter, came And soon he sank to rest. And Ai:d then boundless arose ah upVoatl was the glee Airtong The those little scholars schoolmaster to see. And all the Jittlo urchins, And maidens shouts with joy; And, Cry with a tear of laughter, [the dunce]. what a funny boy An hour now was passing And And still the master the tumuk slept. These greater little grew scholars kep< Until a little maiden, Who watched the haggard face, With grave concern and wonder, Stole softly from her place,— Stole softly to the master, And gently touched his head, And started back in terror— The schoolmast er was dead I ’SQUIRE BLAKE’S LOSS. Mrs. Blake was house cleaning. With Oie assistance of Deborah, a colored woman, she had been hard at work for nearly a week; to-day they had comeito being*cleaned w:is to°be Jivly papered’ dared that he “didn’t see tho need of Sr£to l *‘ te ''"“ r sr zzfzs ,» Mrs.’ Blake had a plot in her mind re garding them, and that was to fill them with some old books which wore now view “only though lumbering if up Squire tho house,” in her tho bad been told quiftilferait foT'heseenmd to°lu!vo a mania for second-band books, and bought all ho came across the In tho’Squire’s family lived a boy by name of Archie Turner, who was a child olftneighborot t,„Bli«. Atat ar °hira TOdT'H'iXt’idti'ic'cit dicd i('Bvh 1B relatives or money; the ’Squire, seeing that ho was a smart, intelligent boy, and wanting some one to help about the “chores,” had taken him to live with them, where ho was considered as one of the family; his sister found a homo with sss? somebodv” SHSt ^o lL'„ A robin here, for 'tho ’Squire and his wife had often spoken of adopting a boy, their only child being the little Amy, a girl of alf thonght ^chto^nbt' adopt’ be ' tlilTb^ ho boy whom they would progressed Rut JaSbSiKS?32S£: Avliiln finely; Mrs. Blake i has called *1 Archic to go with her to the attic to help Archie come yolumcs, to do the and takin and B nu’crmfiil, loft same, went down stairs. As she entered the sitting-room she was met by Mr. Stevens, a wealthy farmer. ‘‘clemiS cleaning honse House, M frockS i reckon, e 4ell wen, Sa i 1 I wonq wont ’Squire anywhore’s leave ronndfso I jnstrlrop lied in to that money you hoard him tell of, very likely; if he hain’t to home no matter. Guess I can trust it to you;” and with a good-natured “ha, ha,” itTZScSoSS wanted, and handed it to Mrs. Blake. “The ’Squire understands; there is no need of a receipt," he said; then, with a “good day,” he was gone. Mrs. Blake stood a moment with the money n her hands—one hundred dol ^s»asssstS3 ovvfrorn^o 8 ! o/r I n ’ “ her swaying mournfully back aiul forth. “It’s done gone’n broke my arm now o’ sure,” she wailed. Mrs. Blake helped kitohenX^ W ^d rta a^& t toe& that she had fallen down some steps, The broken arm proved to be nothing more serious than a sprained in wrist; that was bad enough, however, Deborah’s opinion, though it “ might ha’ bon wuss er,” she confessed. Mrs. Blake bathed her wrist, and at length she was in a condition to go home. Meanwhile, Archie had packed the books away in the closets and had busied him self out of doors. It had taken some time to “straighten things out,” as Mrs. Blake expressed it, was not thought of again until after tea when suddenly Mrs. Blake exclaimed, “ T and sakes Iteuben left’that Mr. Stevens wits , to dav and Sit monev S’ bless rv" me I i Wt itied thought h ” ' The ’Squire turned a few leaves of h .3 1 >ook. “Well, where is it now, I wonder?” but his wife had gone to the “Bring ti light Beuben- I’m sure I left it here.” Alight was carried in. but no money carefully was to lie found. They searched around U.at and the other rooms; Amv ami Archie joinerl them, hut without siieeess. “Delsirah wouldn t tako it, of course,” said the’Bcptire, doubtfully. No, indeed, his wife answered,'turn ing her jss-ket wrong side ont. “No; imsides it was when I heard her cry that 1 left it here and wont to her, “And was no one else bore after that?” “ No one, except —Mrs. Blake heel tsted—“no one but Archie, WATK1NSVILLE, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 2, Neither of them spoke for n moment, btat the same thought was in the minds of both, and later, when the children had gone to bed, they talked the matter over and made a search, which proved as fruitless as tlie first. “ I can’t think Archie would take it,” said “I the ’Squire, don’t want to think So, but where has it gone? And you know, Kueben, how anxious he was to go to Chelton.” It was agreed, however, not to say it anything to Archie yet,” for they a few said. days, “for may come out But the days passed, and the monev did not come out, so it was thought that Arcliie must looked know something it about it. Both very sober ; was hard to believe that the boy they had known so long and who seemed to thorn almost like their own, should bo guilty of what they feared. “Well,” said the ’Squire, “ J suppose I may as well speak to him about itso after breakfast, which Amy and Archie alone enjoyed, ho called the latter back after the others had left the room. The boy before came him, back while and stood expectantly he looked uneasily about him as if for some way to escape, At last he broke the silence by saying, “Archie, I can’t tell how sotty I am to say fol-get this-to tliink it; but we can not that you wore the only ono in the room where the money was left, so we think—that is—no doubt it was a great temptation, but tell us the truth, that will be the best for as all.” Archie stood silent a moment ; the color left his face, as lie stood looking up, “ O, you don’t think I—I stole it!” “ We ho P° not if i4 is t ™ e - toU . rAJ.VteikoTt/^Jied ^^evo mvi’ tho bov • .. ^/ mo » lookto X loo . MrB - Blakc entered tho room just then - ;;0, it isn’t hkoly it would be 3“=’ih^STS «l,lfl.h „»io™othO,..W„V*W ’ B c U tll ;S i S,r ss "i‘ h h < F°““- ' nothu £ « could mako the . lum V°^ confess his B , r , ,• , ... to ....... ? ,dod f ha * was f oun q J r ^my" ^ £ , fK lftd f f nl tie roac ¥ f ^ 08 of h ls / orll ? er frlw ! ,lH > for Aul ^ alone believed r . nun innocent. ‘‘I just know you didnt tako tho old ,iere * JgSC; wIk fcilhis aImcdcc KSfito'SSl x . . ' meat Ac lorliia ' vif e hardened her heart against him, tho T wuro weU n<1 of 0i e httle rm T lie ro was no more talk , „ of _ adopting , , a , b ^ F Wd ° f “ e Ud ttie I>°rt ^always - n ? re was a good one. and left the money which so soon dis t ; sev f al room f, to . ^ ^ among them tho ' ^ II1V j s U( )w esentlhe a voun£? i,.,] v ; lls t 0 t 9cLooi; at P r is standing iu tho doorway be of the room, watching the man as tears off the paper, as it was •»*> J i “whft „ * 11^^?°° • k tiffs a O,or W" C ,“^? 81 f y r ^ ard r “& thora „ was not 4 S ?T? i on^ . 8ho dlfllCUlty climbed pned some 0pcn steps tf ‘° dwrs /Why.Tt’s of full of books !” she ox c ; alme( T thev° g °° d f—’i r “ ber ?hen th «y were P^t m; it was at t the time . tbllt mu‘ 1 »!"^ r0 money of you 4 ie r s, said ner mother. L lcx> V/^ over tho books 25 went , after WMa»*ss m her , . 5 , J mower, who had left the ro ^“’ .f , ave tound . it. she exclaimed, , T. “Si tfnr f answer „„„ disclosing . . , . he d it blJ fore’hw mother toe i 08t moul . y lliw ] y j ai(1 aw ay whew it had been undisturbed zsttAsr*** since tfie day Mrs. as±* wL fho imm n | * ^ ^ « / <J fi it< . iThKe t f hi i^mmt j wtoto^ marked, bis spades,’then “Bless the puttW boy f them on!re ?> never could qT3 ffi b * dl ^ 6 h8 t ? ok xt ', l i f ,ur B<) Arc . 1 bm must , be accpiaintod with •*, the , discovery, 1 ana the Sqture sud ? ea V remembered that he hail business in Chelton the next day. Accordingly 8aw 1,ua 0,1 hlB way; the youn ? law stndeiff was much surpnserl “T mis call from i.ie^ rtquiro. Tou don t know how hard xt has lieen all this time te> tinnk tiiat you believed lttt j ha “ taken the money, he said al .T. , '■ RU,r tolrl V was l h, "“° l - lle y e was the reply. .Archieglmliy * the Biakes accepted where he an invitation to y '’X 1 * 1 ,tb aad tbe fnendslup wasi welcomed ’ between him tban 11 in tbeir childhood But it esmetopass ca riTbv ^e to 01 mi gl adwtiou A coKHKHt-oNtiUNTsaystliat the “crop” £ ",£,7^^ goSfth^sS ,TanteT 8 ^’“afoilur^"“iV ^ 1 s' n hU tmrlm Zw‘,7 , ano a wm.] weens a w,, were t» s-nrfftudto rra,uea to grow up UIJ ,] choke ’em. It is a crop tost newb V erv careful attention and much coax ing! is-st iu Thu the top-dressing market, and should the be the should 1 plowed deep and thoroughly ground m< irrigated. If tlnsm directions are thor otighly obs, rved, we predict that Ute crop wtll Is- so large la-xt ststson that a young lady own g " out at id pick two or three off one bus ET . Norristown f/er o.!it. SOUTHERN NEWS. ,, t-en. J ,, Akers ,, l.ns , , -ecu re-appomtedtish Commissioner tor Middle Tennessee* Koine, <3a., had but five bar-rooins three year! note ‘ while it now has twentt-biie. A seventy-acre field a .. -near „ Norerois, Ga., yielded seventy bales of cotton this ye -r. A nugget of gold weighing two and a halt pounds lias been taken out of the Christian minc , in North Carolina. Port y thousand dollars have been snbserib ed for a gi-aiti needed elevator in IUchmond) Va, The amount is $f>h,0t)d. -The last grand jury impaneled in Claren d , “" « „ ow " ty , ’ h ,, '®-; ,, ,ncl . , ? ded , ,, f< T coIorcd , , me ”’ all of whom could read and write. The cotton oil works of Kufaula have been completed. They have 7,000 bushels of cot toll seed on iilitnl with which td Start opera, g ons . There are in Georgia 88,522 colored men who own, by the tax receiver's returns for their respective counties, 551,199 acres of land. t In 1 ’ od . * e eonnty, . U., .• a Mrs. Wright .... .. , has twenty yards of silk, having herself raise<1 the trees, attended the worms mid woven the silk into cloth, J"' ,,,, . . of ... ,e XT ,, * T. 1 , , hM ° K " r ’ .. .....- v "* wen ‘ something over $2,000. The expenses of all kinds, including premiums, will fail rather s,1ort of $1 ' 500 ' Edward L. Strohecker, aged thirty years, *"» »■ I'™,nil,out physician In Macon, (lx, was found itneonseiotis on the sidewalk, on Broadway, New York, suffering from poison i„g from using opium cigarettes. Mrs. Annie Perkins, the oldest inhabiiant of ---------------------Kb M .............................. rcn ; of whom mdy 4,031 are white. The de partments of modern languages and onI, s tbenics have been abolished in the schools o{ Savannah. Vicksburg is making a movement toward ip'™™* Niebolsoi. hcr pavement., , ; Wt re being laid on the same planks that have rested Under the old pavement, for ten year, ami the improv*- m^ut will bardly be peruianenb *• -.........TV....... ..................... A. Tii.klcwiciNhntd.ccl l.y u nesro Icy die had been in bis employ several years. Mr Tinkle lmd just sold bis cotton for $400, and the negro secured this money and escaped before bis crime was discovered, Two bales of cotton from Harris coiinly, trsrjs: z brought nine cents per pound for one and Vicksburg Herald: What this town and county wants just now is labor-good, indns trious labor and plenty of it. Negroes have become *° tri,li »f? th,lt the T »« anymore. Just think of a common rooster demanding a salary of $100 per month and ............—• A correspondent writes from Ameliaeonn '>> Va - "> at hveulylive cents is the usual .............. , l,."t | cl , ,TOl , c„ this county charged fifty cents a head for baptising; but, of late, one of tfiem bus agreed to do it for twenty-five cents cash, a "<« now all have come down to that.” ^ E. Hidden, the inemlogist, who was . North Carolina last in m year se»reh of «’>*««»m, to.supply Kdison's eleetrie light, is again m the western part of the State. Ifc is now looking principally for chromate of iron, which is being used in the manufacture „ fthe flIler kil(igof paintg ail( , in i( ......—.........* A hornel snake .s kept as a cmiosity by H- C. Gregory, at Ida residence in Mansboro, Va. • It is about three feet long and has a hor " on the end of the tail, about one and a half inches in length, a litt'e bent and resern bIin K vcry ™ uch " ,e K '"' r ,,f :l The “»*« th « horn as a weapon, which is * ai( ] “» be very deadly. Even trees are said Tarboro, ""•«...... North 1 Carolina, *r iim* a colored w,,ma “ "' l “> wasraia e' 1 a « a boy;docs„„t rec ollcc ' whcn sh,! acUe clothi 1 g; I'VTiTZiat an 1 bears a n an '!-*“ s name. Hbe has an ereiou < ng with women or doing their k.nd of work, and says she would go to the penitentiary before she would wear a bonnet, She is :» mother, but not at all motherly, and her child calls her papa. In (.eorgia the mm.berof children enrolled in the pnlilic schools of the Htnte has risen from 19,755 Vi 1S73 to tS2,m in \m, (he last year covered by the Klatc School ('ommis sioncr’s report. The nuuiher of colored children in attendance at the nub ic schools y I be Htoto r «kcs the same appropriation tor tb« colored Htate Hit,verity that it do«» f. r th.-whin-. Georgia leipures a poll-tax front all voters, and returns show that in 1879 tb, number of e,dor .1 men who paid this tax was 8 ,522, and ,hese fx-payers owned r,H r VM I • "(her words, from one-lnilf p, of the adult male negroes are tax p up* r y-m .. is. ^ B’.mg nmn mom dNoftsinger — bang,, I ..... " *' , *e murder of a man named Klise. The . videnee-howed ' that th muol. „, 1 .„i,., r sas u „ com 00 “ v “ r, “ "'kl'b while Kline * bis wife were sleeping out <,n the porch. his head being blown t«, atoms with a shot. gun. The widow of l lie murdered mail was ri-c iill> riiiifincij witli f win*, Hi ,* tillin'Ie die, and I-I,ii(r*f . <i tie ,„,ll. t„„ Km enri-b tor tfi, deed t„ |„ ...... . . M "" . J i. ....... . i ... t ..... believed, but bud ann u while her budixiel was asleep that the assassins might do their work. She says the shot was lired by one Gardner, but he was seconded by Noftsinger. Tlie latter was her lover before her marriage to Kline. The woman is recovering and will probably get Well. Tbs iliomituent erection in coinifiemntora tion of the bailie of king's Mo,Pit,-tin is a gran¬ ite shaft measuring twenty-six feet iu height and eighteen feet at (lie base, a shapely fig¬ ure whose smoot h outlines contrast pleasant¬ ly with the jagged edges of the surrounding rooks. The design was gotten up by a com mi tec appointed especially for the purpose, aud eon isfs of a shaft, resting on ft broad pedestal coup oned of five steps, and slopes to (lie top which is about two and a fluff feet square. It was originally intended to mr mount the whole with a bronze figure of a soldier in an attitude of expectancy, loading a rifle of the flint and steel variety in use during the Colonial period, but the present conditioh of the assrtciatioids funds would not permit, of t lie purchase of file sialiit/-, and in lieu of this, the monument has been surmounted by a pyramid shaped stone. The inscriptions are written oa marble slabs imbedded two inches in the granite masonry. Seven Troys. The famous archaeologist, Schliomaim, wrote from Athens to a Bussiau paper, as follows : “ I have just returned from Asia Minor, where 1 ImVoat last finished that digging out of Troy which I began in 1870. During ton years I havo strug¬ gled with great difficulties, among which the most troublesome has been the largo amount of debris under which toe an¬ cient city was buried. It has been neces¬ sary to dig down and dig up the ground for more than sixteen yards below the surface. But I am fully recompensed for all my trouble. I foun/l the remaine of soven diffbront cities ; tho last of thorn was tho Uiott of llonior. That city was built by the JKolians, banished from Greece by the Dorians in tho eleventh century before our era. In one of t.lio buried cities I found many statues of Minerva with the owl’s head, whence her name of Glaucopis. In another city were found many images of tho di¬ vinities. But tho most interesting and important *of all tlie discov¬ eries Priam. is, Every of course, tho city of King article found m tho ruins of that city bears unmistakable signs of having time of been destroyed by fire and in war. There were discovered many remains of human bodies in full armor. I dug out aud cloarnl away the debris from the entire waif that sur rounded the city, and also from all the principal large buildings. Now I am finishing a volume in English describing with full details all my discoveries, and containing important 200 illustrations of the most of the discoveries. My Troian collection is now in London, hut at toe end of this year I shall take it to my villa in Athens, which is fire¬ proof, built oidy of marble and iron. I nave received large offers for nay collec¬ tion from toe United States, England, France and Germany, but I cannot part with it for any money in toe world. Trlbutes of Audiences to Actors. Fruits, as well as flowers, now figure among the tributes proffered by London audiences to favorite actresses. To most of thorn, this is, no doubt, an agreeable innovation. A basket of luscious J tartlets or Oldmixons, if less poetical, is certain¬ ly too a rarest much bunch more of practical camellias present jacque¬ than or minots. These theatrical offerings vary curious¬ ly Spain iu different favorite parts matador of the is ovowhelmed world. In a with showers of tlie men’s cigars and tlie ladies’ gloves and fans. On our Western light coast in the hardy miner testifies Ids de¬ flinging gold a popular actor or actress by still pieces on tlie stago. A more singlar or much loss agree¬ able to Tom sort Playside of compliment Now Orleans. was once paid iu At toe end of a much applauded scone, when “bravos" rent toe air aud flowers wore falling thick around him, a carpenter’s broad chisel sped whizzing from the “flut” a few inches from his head. The offender was speedily discovered and brought before the indignant actor. “What have I ever done to you,” he said, life?” “that you should attempt my side !” cried “Attempt the honest your life, Mr. Play fell,e-v, with tears in his eyes, “I never dream; .-f such a thing. But they was all tin.,win’ you things, Mr. Playside, and I hadn’t noth¬ in’ but my old chisel to sltow how I liked ye, Mr. Playside, and so I tlirowed yerthat.” “All right,” said too actor, laughing, let “here’s your chisel, hut next time me tako your liking for granted. ”—New York Hour. Preserving Timber In Ground. f u speaking cA tho well-known methods of preserving post» and wood which are partly imbedded in the earth, by cliar ring and coating only with tar, it is saw these methods are effective when both applied. without Bhonld the miles only lie cl.ar r ,.<l the subsequent treatment with tar, the charcoal formation on tho surface would only act as an alisorber of the moisture, and, if anything, only hasten the decay. proviousfy By applying a coat of tar without charring, the tar would only form aja-s-?*.»*. a casing alamt depth whicit tlie alstorlnng woithf properties of the c | iar( ,, ft l 8tirfa<!e insure. Woo<l toat is exposed to the should action of water or let into the ground first lie charred, and then, before it torn en tirdy cooled, Im treated with tetr till the w<8«l is thoroughly impregnatci. Tim ^tic acid and offs contained in the tor Rr,, ,lv yB’ rab '' * lea t, and only the . left tmhind, . winch peuetrate-s the resin pttros of the wootl and forms an air-tight and waterproof envoi,tpe. nota. little It is importetnt ^ hue impregnate the tor here a it almve the of exptwnre, ts that the itelton of decay * affects the wissl first, ' , , , . , , w j a;)| r(<II1( , V0< j { roBl the earth or strained j,, testing, Aeeoaoiwo to London Truth, the life “I tic- I'ruii'*-of Wales M insured by a "Iiiuis-r of speculative idle persons, a* are lb" lives of many r prominent per HrftHiif/1**, li.tlut MIIUjH W#?r« |H*H| Jo IIV Mtf" .ml olllee* alte r the death Pit Al hurt, number ;;r>. THE FAMILY MCTORr A VKitv simple and expeditious way of cooking sick a little bit of chicken or thickly, fish for a person is to butter a paper and place the food to bo cooked within the paper, and place it on a gridiron over a clear fire. A very short time suffices to oook It tiioroughly; and I have often found that to be eaten when ttll other modes of invalid eookery havo boon tried iu vain,— Chambers’ Journal. Tbp.tii arc destroyed either by tho action of acids or the development of vegetal >le parasites. The former is the much nio.'o frequent cause of decay. It has been demonstrated by actual experi¬ ment that oven very weak acids may suffice to decompose the tcetli the juice sub¬ stances; In forty-eight hours of grapes trill render the enamel of a chalky stances consistence. inert until Most fermentation Vegetable takes sub¬ are jilaeo tuid acetic acid is formed. Animal sillistances exert no deleterious influences until putrefaction is far advanced. Wittes cold affects tlie head and eyes nnd impedes relief is breathing gained through by tho napkin nose, great a wet spread over too upper part of the face, covering tho nose, except an opening for breath. This is to be covered by folds of flannel fastened over the napkin with a handkerchief. So also a wet towel over the throat aud whole chest,, covered with folds of flannel, often relieves op¬ pressed lungs. So Hays Miss Bucher, and truly. In addition, nso a hot foot¬ bath anti take a glass of Ixot lemonade on retiring at night,. Tiffs is the best time also for tho hot foot-bath, which should bo followed by the lemonade. Invalids should keep tho refresh¬ ments covered in their sick-room. Tho jollies, uids used 1 dano-monges, cooling drinks, anil various liq¬ as arc more or less absorbent, whicit and float easily toko up the impurities about a sick-room. A glass of milk loft uncovered will warn become tainted with any prevailing odor, as freshly can lie painted. proven by How leaving important, it in a room thou, carefully that toe poisons from of all sickness should lie kept that is to lie oaten. If a person swallows any poison what¬ ever, or has fallen into convulsions from having overloaded the stomach, an iu stnnttuieous remedy, most efficient and applicable in a largo number of cases, is a heaping much teaspoonful ground of mustard, common suit, and as stirred rapidly in a teacupful of water, warm or cold, and swallowed instantly. It is scarcely down before it begins to come up, bringing with it the remaining con¬ tents of the stomach ; anil lest there ho any remnant tliq white of the poison, however small, let of an egg or a teo Bpoonfui of strong coffee he swtdlowed as soon as tlie stomach is quiet, as these articles nullify a large number of viru¬ lent poisons. _ Dueling in Florida. The bowie-knife was a favorite woapon with the Floridians. Only “doad game ” men could stand before this ter¬ rible weapon. Tho usual method of left fighting hands with knives was to clasp too of tho combatants together and put very keen, brood knives in their lianas; tho seconds then stood within reach of tho men, to interfere with a pistol ball if either combatant violated the rules of tin, fight. There were many affairs with bowie-knives in the ante-bellum days of Florida, One of the most noted was a meeting between Maj. Frenchman, Jim Jones and Col. Grinard, a Tho bowie in this caao seems to have been a compromise be¬ tween the sword of the Frenchman and tlie pistol of the Floridian. Tlie duel both was fought in 1852. It was fearfully, verv bloody, Jones men finally being gashed auu was out into slices across his breast nnd killed outright. It is said that this duel was remarkable for having been fought iu utter siloiico. Though tho knives slipped in anil out of the bodies of each man neither said a word. With their lips clenched aud their teeth set like a vise they fought hi (Hence. Not a sound came from the mouth of cither, and when at last Jones fell in death Grinard turned, and, wip¬ ing the blood irom his face, spoke foi the first time, addressing his soooigL Afghan Etiquette. An Afghan never receives unceremoni¬ ous calls. The visitor must send a few hours’ notice of his intention. He is then received at the door by some confi¬ dential retainer or retainers, aud con¬ ducted through an open courtyard which to the foot of a rude, winding staircase, landing, aud leads first to an uncovered thence to the ordinary reception Hero room he or is received bale/my of by the the proprietor. host in and person, oon dnetod with every mark of courtesy aud respect to a small row of chairs, tho use of which article of furniture seems to be general in good society in Gabul, and to have quite) superseded the older carpets anti felts which satisfied an gen¬ eration. After a few words of welcome and inqniries in a set formula after al health ly on both and sides, is a placed tray of fruits usu¬ the apjiears, feet of the visitors. upon The carpet at the fruits are followed by tho tea-tray, and a without cup of highly-sweetened is placed before green the tea, milk, vis¬ itor. Tlie conversation is then oarried on with more or less spirit on tlie ordi¬ nary topics of the day, and here, if toe visit is » merely formal end one, the inter¬ is view comes to tut and the visitor conducted to the door with the same formality received. aud courtesy If, however, with whioh confiden¬ he was a tial interview is desired, toe attendants are requested to withdraw. Big Thing in Mules. A Galveston man met u gentleman from Northern Texas, and asked how a certain inutua. friend was coming on. “ He is doing very well, ” was the re ply. “What business is lie at?” “He lias got lie tiie softest thing in the world of it. bought, a lot of Mexican don¬ keys at Kan Antonio for ft) apiece, and, having taken them up to his rancho, 1m clears 827 a head on them.” “ Do they bring such high prices?” “ No, hut he lets the railroad trains run over them, -uid the company hue to pay him $80 apiece tor them .”—Galveston News. \ Huhum'/tadv lawyer charged $7 for collecting a bill of but ah it was ouuinst another lawyer tho court held that tho services worn worth the money. r' 4HH A WBEKLT reran, PCBI.I9IIED XT Wafkinsvilfe, Oconee Co., Georgia. r ATES OF ADVERTISING : On-- pquaro, lirst inaertion.......... «1 00 Each isub.-equont insertion......... 50 Oil? Future, one montii.............. One ........... pqimre, three months.......... ........... 5 00 One Equtkre, six months............. 7 00 One tquare, one year........................... 10 00 Onc-fourth . One-fourth column, column, one month............ 5 00 0ne-fo«rth three months.................. 8 OD One-fourth column, colutnm, six months..................... 15 oo Hull column, month one ye*r......J................. 20 «t one ............................... 8 09 Ila'f column, three mouths........................... u qq Half column, six mouths................................ 10 QO Half column, one year...................................8fi OO MUER.4L TRBJIS FOR .WORK BPAUK PITH AND POINT. Tub most popular cure among poli¬ ticians—Tho sine-cure. Tiib first American inscription put up¬ on the obelisk will bo, “Post no Bills.” “ He sleeps whore ho fell,” says a late ballad, which suggests tiiat he must havo been drunk. Wit at a beautiful thing is a rosy cheek ! How great tho contrast when the blush settles on tho nose. Husband —“Mary, my love, this ap plo-dttmpling “ Well, finish is it,-then, not half done. dear.” ” Wife— my It was a young housekeeper who sot tho cako she hail baked for a picnic out of door one cold night to bo frosted. “Biudoet, tho dust upon the furni tnre is intolerable. What shall I do? ” “ Do as Ido, inarm—pay no attention to it. It’s a poor rulo that won’t work both ways. A Milwaukee girl marriod a bar¬ ber, and bo turned out to bo a rich Baron in disguise. A modern novel has this thrilling pas¬ sage: “Witluonehand ho held her beau¬ tiful golden hood above tho chilling wave, and with tho other called loudly for as¬ sistance." A young lady wrote) somo verses for a paper about her birthday, and headed them “ May 30tli.” it It almost modo her hair turn gray when appeared in print “ My 30th.” The average lifo of a farmer is sixty six years. At sixty-flvo ho may safely begin to return borrowed tools, pay old debts and ask forgiveness for cheating in horse trades. “Is your cough any easier?” said one of poor Hood’s acquaintances, on oalling bo,” to tho see wit how ho was. “It should said from lffs pillow, “ I’ve been practicing all night.” The negro’s definition of bigotry is as good and iuelusivo as that of Webster’s Dictionary. who “A knows bigot 1” said he; “why he’s a man too much for one, and not quite enough for two,” At a celebration back in too country a female arose and began; “This is our 104th anniversary.” in crowd A wicked young man back the yelled out: “ Good gracious 1 You dou't look that old." Hon— “Father, the lecturer at the hall to-night said that lunar rays were only concentrated luminosity of the earth’s satellite. What do you think alxnit it?” Intelligent parent—“All moonshine, my son, all moonshine.” Miss Flibtinoton-— “ Yes, I like the place very much, Major; hero.” you have such a jolly setof awfully men down jolly. You’d Tho Ma¬ jor—“Yes, heart, Flirtington, hotter steel your Miss in case of accidents.” Miss F.—“Well, while I’m about it, Major, don’t I’d rather steal somebody else’s, you know ?” A Sat TKKr>KH winding young potato vine, bug h on a And dighud unto a maiden bug: 44 1 pray you will be mine.” Then aoftty upake the maiden bng: 44 1 love you fond and true, But O, my crucMioarkd Par Won’t let m« marry you.” With acorn upon hi* buggy brow. With glances cold and keen, Thutha nighty ink lover answered hor: “I Ul your Par-is-green.” “ An I” said Gilhooly, yesterday morning, “I’ve done one good aot.” “Sent a barrel of flour to too poor house?” “Better than that. I’ve just told De Smith, who don’t stand a ghost of a show, that ho will be nominated by acclamation.” “Well, that is one of those kindnesses that do a great deal of good mischief and it don’t don’t cost anything.” anything I “The cost 1 bor¬ rowed $2 from him on the strength of it .”—Galveston News. A noOTOB, being out for a day’s shoot¬ ing, took an Entering errand boy field to carry the game-bag. a of turnips, the dog pointed, and the boy, over¬ joyed at the exclaimed: prospect of “Lor, his master’s there's success, if master, a covey ; you get near 'em won’t yon physio ’em I” “ Physio ’em, you said young doctor. rascal, what do kill you menu ?” the “ Why, ’em, to be sure," replied the lad. Shall We Meet Again 1 'The following is one of the most brill¬ iant mented paragraphs George D, over Prentice written by the la¬ ; “ The flat of death is inexorable. There is no ap¬ peal for relief dust. from Wo tho flourish great law and which dooms us to fado as the loaves of tho forest, and the flow¬ ers that bloom, wither and fado in a day have no frailer hold upon life than the mightiest monarch that over shook the earth with his footetops. Generations of men will appear and disappear as tlie grass, and toe multitude that throng the world the to-day Bhoro. will Men disappear seldom as foot¬ steps on think of the great event of death until the shadow fulls aero is their own pathway, hiding from their eyes the faces of loved ones whose living smile was is the sunlight of their existence. Death the antag¬ onist of life, and the thought of the tomb is tlie skeleton of all feasts. We do not want to go through the dark val¬ ley, although the dark passage may lead to paradise; we do not want to go down into damp graves, even with Prin¬ ces for bed-fellows. In the twautiful drama of ‘Ion’ the hope of immortality, so eloquently uttered by the death-de¬ voted Greek, finds deep response iu ev¬ ery though tful soul. When about to yield his life a sacrifice to fate, his Cleumnthe asks if they should meet again, to which he responds ; I have asked that dreadful question of the hills tiiat look eternal—of the clear streams tiiat flow forever—of stars among whose fields of azure my raised spirits have walked in glory. All are dumb. But, as I gaze upon thy living face, I feel that there is something in love that mantles through its beauty shall that cannot wholly perish. We meet again, Clumantoe. ” The scales of the red fish, famous iu New Orleaus and sold markets, about are carefully pre¬ served at $8 per bushel, being iu great demand by the fabricat¬ or* of ornaments for wreaths and arti¬ ficial flowers for ladies’ bonnets, and for vnrious other purposes of iashiuuahlu use and ornament. From a fish of six or eight pound* the scales are os large as a quarter of a dollar. They are so hard and firmly planted thut the scaling process lias to bo performed with au ax or hatchet.