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WHITE, Manager. e-tf CONSUMPTION -C U R E D-_ (^Maltreatment. tbe Present remedies No liquor. employed None mey are as never have proved a success. Give a tnal-no charges made. AH chronic “plaints treated without medicine, correspondents address, must enclose stamp, Atets. M. Q. Walter. Stone King House, Mountain, Ga. a VOLUME VII. CHEWTON ABBOT BY HUGH COXWAY. Chapter II. Five long years have passed by. Frank Abbot is now a barrister of three years’ standing. He hard, is frequently on circuit, and if as yet he lias not achieved any brilliant forensic triumph, lie is neither brieflless nor without hope. Some small cases havo been intrus¬ ted to him, and he finds the number of these slowly but surely inercas ing, and knows that if the opportu¬ nity comes, and if, when it does come, he may be able to seize it and make the most of it, success may soon be his. Even now he makes enough to supply the modest wants to which he has tutored himself. But for some time after the last of his little capital had vanished, he had been hardly pressed. Indeed, in or¬ der to live at all, he had been com¬ pelled to accept some aid from his parents’ reduced means. They gave this readily enough, as, with all their faults, they loved their son. Even to this day Frank looks hack with a shudder upon one or two years of his life. The five years have c Hanged him from a hoy to a man. He is as handsome as ever, but his look is more serious; his features express even more character. He has given up all dreams of the woolsack, hut is conscious of possessing fair abili¬ ties, a good address, a commanding presence and a great deal of ready self-confidence. He feels that in a few years’ time he may have a home to share, if the woman ho loves is still willing to share it. He has not again written to her. He has heard nothing from her, although the time by which he promised to claim hei has long passed. He is, however, that as soon as he sees the future fairly promising, he will seek her and learn whether she is still true to him, or whether the sweetest episode of his life must be linked with the memory of a woman’s faith¬ lessness and inconstancy. He sighs he thinks of the time which lias elapsed since she waved him that last farewell at Plymouth. “She may be married years ago,” he says, “and have three or four children by now. ” Then he thinks of her stead fast eyes, and knows that he wrongs her—blames himself for his mis trust. To sum up, Frank Abbot’s constancy remains firm; hut he is obliged to do what thousands of otli er must do_hope for better days, w’orking meanwhile with might and main to bring the dawn of those bet ter days near. Does he regret the loss of bis for¬ tune much? Of course he does, be¬ ing neither a fool nor of a superhu¬ man nature. Many a day, as ae sits in wig and gown iu the stifling court listening to learned arguments on cases in which he has not the reiiio test interest, his soul longs for a da> with the pheasants, a run with the Duke’s hounds, or a ride round the home farm; and he anathematizes ail jotaHtock banks as soundly a, Lis lather may bo supposed to have done. But, nevertheless, Frank is not a soured man, He is somewhat grave snd self-contained, but pleas ant compauy enough to the few men whom he chooses to call his triends. He has not been near Chewton Hall since the family downfall. It had been bought, wit h a great part of the furuitnre, by a rich London merchant, whose name, although he had heard it at the time of the sale, had slipped from his mind. Frank cared little who held it. He knew it is only in romances that a ruined family regains possession of its king' dom. Some day he intended to run down have a lock at the old place which he had loved so well; although he feared the sight would not im¬ prove the tenor of his mind or make him less inclined to rail at fortune. Just about this time Frank made a new acquaintance. It was long va¬ cation. The Lord Chief Justice was yachting; his brother Judges, CONYERS, ROCKDALE CO., GA., JULY 18 , 1 SS 4 . Queen's counsel and learned leaders, were recruiting their jaded energies as it best pleased them; gay juniors had thrown their wigs into their boxes and veeve away on various i, oliday pursuits. Frank, however, who had recently succeeded in get¬ ting some occasional work on a jour¬ nal, and who hoped to get more, was still in London. One m orning a gentleman who wished to See Mr. Abbot was shown into his chamber. The visitor was a tall, middle-aged man, strongiy built, well dressed, and with pleasant features. He looked like one who had led a hard life, and lines on his brow told of trouble. His. hands were large and brown—it was evident they had uot been idle in their way. Not per¬ haps, quite a gentlema n, as we con¬ ventionally use or abuse that word, but a noticeable, out-of-tlie-common man. Me gave Frank a sharp, quick glance, as if trying to guage his in¬ tellect and powers. Apparently sat isfied, he took the chair offered him and explained his errand. He had a law suit pending, and wished Mr. Abbot to conduct the case. Frank interposed smilingly, and told liis new client that it was eti¬ quette for his instructions to come through a solicitor. He explained that a barrister and the man whose cause he pleaded must communicate through a third party. H s visitor apologized tor bis ig¬ norance about such matters, and said he would see his solicitor. However, after the apology was accepted, instead of bowing out, Mr. John Jones—tor by that name he called himself—entered in to a general kiud of conversation witn Frank. He spoke easily and pleasantly on a variety of topics, and when at last he left the room, shook hands most cordially with the man and hoped he should meet him soon. “Wonder who he is?” said Frank laughing over the sudden ness this stranger had exhibited. “Anyway, I hope he’ll make his so¬ licitors send me that briet.” However, no brief came; but tor the next few days Frank Abbot was always stumbling across Mr. Jones. He met him in the street as he went to and from his chambers. Mr. Jones always stopped him, shook hands, and as often as not, turned and walked beside him. Frank be¬ gan to like the man. He was very amusing, and seemed to know every country under the sun. Indeed, lie declared he was a greater stranger to London than to any other capital. He was a great smoker, and as soon as he found that Frank did not ob¬ ject to the smell of good tabacco iD his chambers, scarcely a day went by without his paying him a visit and having a long chat over a cigar Frank was bound to think that Mr. John Jones had taken a great li¬ king to him. Perhaps the inau wanted a friend, as he said he kne.w no one in London, and no one knew him. So young Abbot drifted into inli¬ macy with this lonely man. and soon 4 nlte looked forward to thei sound of his ciiee.ful voice and ih« fragrance of those particularly good cigars he smoked. He even, at Mr. Jones urs gent request, ran down to the seaside tor a couple of days with him, and feund the lime pass yery pleasantly in his society. Although the young man was very reticent on the subject of ms family misfortune, Mr. Jones had somehow arrived at the conclusion that he was not rolling in wealth. He made no secret of the fact that be himselt was absurdly rich. “I say, Abbot,” he remarked one day’, “if you want any money to push yourself up with, let me know.” Perhaps Mr. Jones fancied that Judgeships were to be bought. “I don’t wany any,” said Frank, shortly. “Don’t take offence. I said, it you do. Your pride—tue wois p*r you. It’s very hard a man can on lv help a fellow like you by dying and leaving 6 him money. I don’t want ^ to die just . , yet.” „ Frank laughed, ‘‘I want no money left me. I shouldn’t take yours if you left it to me.” “Well, you’ll have to some day, you see.’’ Then Mr. John Jones lit another cigar from the slump of the <*!d one and went his way, leaving Frank more puzzled than ever with his new friend. But the next clay an event occur¬ red which drove Mr. John Jones, money, and everything save one thing out of his head—Millicent Keene was in England, in London. Nobth and South.— The Indus¬ trial South, of Richmond, Va., says: “The resources of the South are at¬ tracting Northern capital, and North¬ ern capital brings along with it Northern men. These men see for themselves, and, having interests in the South, they soon find, naturally that in their Southern associations they have Southern sympathies too. They learn much of truth and they unlearn much of falsehood as to the characteristics of the Southern peo¬ ple. They soon become defenders of the South. And they are the host defenders the South can have, for they are partial witnesses made im¬ partial by a removal of traditional prejudices and delusions through the agency of their own intelligence per¬ tinently applied in practical inquiry and observation.” [to be continued.] I11TS OF SCIENCE. German ingenuity has produced an explosive for mining purposes or firearms from coal tar. This result¬ ant is a mixture of saltpetre, chlo¬ rate of potash, and a solid hydro¬ carbon, the latter being paraffine, as phaltum or pitch. An early human skull has been found near Prague in a bed of chalk from which the tusk of a mammoth had been dug a few days previously. The skull has an extremely low fore¬ head and a great developement of the ridges. Mr. Bradlee, an architect, has late¬ ly proven beyond all dispute that Portland cement does expand. He filled three glass bottles with cement and closely sealed them. One ol the bottles burst in two days, another in eight days and the third in ten days. A committee of the Royal Medi¬ cal and Chirurgical Society of Lon¬ don, appointed to examine the mi cro-organisms forwarded hv Dr. A. Strass, of the French Dholora Com¬ mission, reports ail inability to dis¬ cover anything peculiar in them, as they are identical with germs com¬ monly seen in ordinary diarrhoea. A writer in the British Journal says : The best remedy for cramp— the simplest and most efficacious that I know of—is a band of cork. It is easily made by cutting a small new wine cork into thin slices, which must be sewn close together upon ribbon or tape an inch wide. It can be tied around any part affected and worn during the night. Investigations concerning the ef¬ fect of different forms of artificial il¬ lumination on the health show that the tallow candle is the most un¬ wholesome agent and the electric light the best. The incandescent electric lamp produces only about onethirteentli as much heat as the tallow candle, while it gives out no carbonic acid or water. One gas-jet in a room is said to vitiate the air as much as six persons. L. A. Johnston writes the South¬ ern Cultivator as follows : I. notice in the May number ot The Cultiva¬ tor, that you ask some one to tell Mrs. Pruett how to make milk stop foaming while churning. Put the churn in a tub of. hot water and churn fast, or put boiling water iD the nulk, churning rapidly while do¬ ing so, and when it feels warm to the hand, stop the hot water. The cream won’t foam when the milk gets warm &nd & little hot water won’t hurt. Old housekeepers say hot wa ter ma kes firm butter even in the summer. When we set the churn in hot water we churn it so until the butter comes- NUMBER 19. Improved Methods on the Farm. There are very few farms in this country, that have ever been made to produce over fifty per centum of their capacity, and very few farmers capable of making even 100 aceesdo more than this. A vast majority of those who own more would be ben¬ efited by selling the surplus and us¬ ing the proceeds as a capital to im¬ prove the remaining acres, and by purchasing better stock. The Island of Jersey is said to maintain one animal for every two acres in the Island, including roads, fences, and the ground occupied by buildings. Their farms average ten acres. In a very few instance* in this country one animal has been supported to each improved acre. This proves what is possible under the best management. The best of talent; the intensest study, the most knowledge and the best business methods should be, and will be de¬ voted to agriculture for years to come. The professions are overstock¬ ed. Doctors are without patients, and lawyers without clients, as most of them ought to be ; but good land is cheap and plenty. Intelligent la¬ borers on the farm are scarce and better paid than any other class. Farming has been accepted as a last resort for those unable to live by their wits, or good enough for such as were considered incapable of or indifferent to thorogh culture. The mentally active boy has taken a med ical course or a law course of lec¬ tures after completing his education at the academy or college. These avenues are now full to repletion. They are in great need of thorough drainage. Now that farmers begin to see that they need more culture, more knowledge and better business methods to attain any standing in their own business, and to fill credi¬ tably such public stations as their numbers and their occupation entitle them to, let them win back their sons from the shops and offies to the farms, where all of their intelligence can be more profitably employed. Let them send their sons to the ag¬ ricultural college instead of the med¬ ical school ; let them attend a course of lectures on botany and chemistry instead of law, and they may possi¬ bly do something to make farming more attractive as well station as profitable, in life and take and hold that to which the poet’s fancy has assign¬ ed them. Sunlight In Stables. We tried an experiment, some years since, to test the effect of ab¬ sence of light up\i a calf. We had two deep-red calves of the same age (60 days), one weighing 180 lbs. and the other 182 lbs. The latter he placed in a dark room, with a through that could be filled by a spout through a partition. The oth¬ er was confined in the same amount of space, but in full light, and both were fed exactly alike for the next three months. The object was to test the effect of light upon such a growing animal. At the end of the time, the one iu the light weighed 430 lbs. and the one in the dark weighed 360 lbs.; and its eo’or had faded to a very pale, dirty red. Its eys were so much affectod when ad¬ mitted to the light, that i‘ kept them closed most of the time, lor the first week or two. The two calves were kept on together, but the one trou the dark room never fully recovered from this three months of darkness. It never recovered its bright red col¬ or, although the color improved. Any one who noted these two calves, during this experiment, would nev r after doubt the impolicy ot a dark stable. Sunlight is iudispeusable to healthy vegetable aud animal life. Every farmer e«e« his cat and dog select a belt of sunshine on the flour to lie and bask in; and if he will watch his cattle when turned out, he will find them seeking at once the sanny side of the barn yard. Aud with all these indications before his eyes, still the farmer keeps his ani¬ mals in a dark statue, much to their discomfort and his pecuniary loss. We do not, of course, include all farmers in this statement, lor a small minority fully understand the importance ot sunlight in stables, and make ample provision for its introduction. Advertising Rates. One square, lo fines, 1 inseition. . D,o 0 . Each subsequent insertion.......... °. 7 S Local notices ten cents a .hie each issue. Large advmbements taken at upeeial rates'. All advertisement* are due after the’ fi st, in-ertion unless by special agree¬ ment Aii notices advocating men for posit on ten cents a line. Address all communications to Tna Weekly, Conyers, Ga. HINTS FOR JULY. The following sensib'e remarks were written for the Mirror and Fanner: Here we are again, with the grass crop waiting for ns. It is very im¬ portant to finish the hoeing in good shape and kill all the weeds before we leave them, for it is hard to get back to hoeing after we begin hay¬ ing; but some of that June grass has got its growth, and the sorrel on that knoll where the clover died out is going to seed, and we begin to be in a hurry. In such a case we must bear in mind that we can do only one thing at a time ; decide which is the most important, keep cool and busy and we can do a great deal. Fretting is a dead loss in many respects. It destroys our pleasure, injures our health, makes it unpleas¬ ant tor all around us, and we cans uot do as much work. When any¬ thing happens that needs immediate attention see to it and let other things go; and call that a part of the business. Things will wear out or break sometime, and wo know it; and if we are not prepared for it. iu mind and material the fault is our own and we should not make others urteorafotta¬ ble for our failings. If the pigs get out, it is as much tun for the hoys to orive them back agaiu as it would be to chase rabits iu the woods, it ibey onJv think so. It is fashionable for agricultural writers to begin alnut the first June and continue till the last of July telling ns to put in a little more lod d; r corn, or millet, or turnips; scrape over the baruyard and get a little more manure, and put in a few more beans, as if we did not know when it was time lo plant and time to stop planting. There is little danger but we shall plant as much as we shall get time to hoe thoroughly; and a patch of turnips over-run with weeds and not thinned looks much worse than the ground would if let aione, and the time is lost besides, ff you have planted enough, don’t plant any more. Take care of what you have growing, and keep in mind "11 the time that providing absorb¬ ents to save the manure is the most important work to he done at any season; for it is less waste to let hay stand a few days longer than it is to let the liquid manure run into the ground. and Take a good rest at noon do your chores before dark. That is what these long days are made for. Take off your sweaty clothes and take a bath at night and you will rest better and let! better next day. While you are haying you cau be planning what to do next; but be sure to arrange for a rest and vaca¬ tion of a few days for your self and family. A change of thought and scenery is so desirable that people often weary themselves more to get a day off than they would to stay at home, and then Borne one, too often the woman of the house, must stay at home and look out for things. A better way would be to club with a few of your friends or neighbors, and get a tent and camp out a few days in some fdeasant spot near home where all could enjoy it, and all help look out for things at home. Early cut hay is more easily in¬ jured by wet than later, after the juice has hardened in the stalk, which fact ought to show that it is more digestible cut at that time. I have no fears that the dew of one night will injure hay. It changes the color a little, but hay that has been exposed to a dew or a light shower smells sweeter and is rel¬ ished better by stock than hay of the same lot that was secured entirely dry. The fact that it gives offisir odor in the air has no more signifi* canoe than the fact that fruit or any other substance can be smelled while drying. Don’t stop for foggy morn¬ ings till you get as much down as you cau handle. It will take no harm till it wilts and then it can lie turned over or raked. Be sure and dry the bay enoughs Fine hay es¬ pecially, is apt to press together" closely in the barn and leaves ©»■ chance for ventilation»-
