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The Conyers Examiner.
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VOLUME V.
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CONYERS EXAMINER
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CAIiL AT THE
RESTAURANT.
• Under the Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, G A.
Where all the delicacies of the season
ill he furnisqoil in tbe best of style and
, cheap as any establishment in the city
If#"Meals furnished at allhours of the
day. BALLARD A DURAND. unej.20
1, no;l Morning, Professor.
In this favored land the Professor is
Vlitllllll iln> ( blond a pretty close race,
anil ill” 1 blond may just ns well under
.stand that lie has In hump himself or
Ill' ll o'rt shut out at the distance pole.
,)nsi alter the, close of the war the Col
on”! look such a start that the most
Kin:'true 'Fiends of (lie l’rolessor admit
i'(i that lie never could catchup. But
l*i' I’n/essor is one of the immortal lew
ilnil were not horn to die, and while the
Kopiiliiic, lasts lie will be on deck. Seed
film him linryesl may fail, summer may
'DJI unit llm winter may not endure,
nun ii:ii':' ami even 11 me may pass away,
Imt the Professor will be here. This is
llm 1 miiiiyv for him, and while it is dofi
ni'rly voiilcil by lhe last census that: the
< 'cloud is dying out, and that there is
new hut one Colonel to every tb.rty
M'\t"i of population, the Professor is
mi the increase and holds all that he
gains.
Dm title is most honorable, and at
one tin 1 1 it represented only the broa 1-
1 'clmlarship, h the profoumlest loarn
inr represented long years of hard,
pniieni study of men and books and
't meant thought. Jt meant
It. meant u is iom. Jt me: nt.
sian litig in the world o' intellect, tt
"a■. a till.’ Imrd i:, win and sparingly
Iwsinwcil, Now—_
1 1 >:irbor comes to town and
"l” ns ' lonsonal parlors”—one
two room
<'||". chairs he is Prof. Fcraper. A
I'"' ■"I 11 s s and around selling the country for ring-b< trad ng
a cure me
rol. Snallle, the eminent veterinary
1,1 ''" ,l: because where a physician who
iimiMris to human Mifl'ering, with all
1 11 mug and skill the colleges can
h ',V I 'l 1 11 doctor, * 0, ' s content the and proud to Ire
is always and traveling “hossdoc
It! 1 ’, A everywhere “ Pro
s " ! man hires a hall and toach
Vs I'coplc to dam '0 Prof. Lightfo t
;1 tnav j"'l Im able to make o.it Ids own
I 1 .,'"HK ', '• 1,11 lie is whottishe Pro with seven
cssor. A circus
'' m” i, p>es l( daring up in a balloon—Prof.
’ aeronaut. A ret ired
Muo Gg'Uer opens a gymnasium and
•'iiigK 1 ai linol^ science Prof. Bruiser, instructor
! ■ and muscular devd
, [ nl 1 . '; . rtv nine "um bull’s takes his rifle and
eyes in the tar
,1.. ", ‘I a possible forty at eight hun
s *’rof. Globesile, all over the
«,' ‘L L''! as the mail and telegraph
1,'., ' l ,ls degree. A Texas cow
taunt's 'J 01 J', 1 :u 'd breaks horses for a
1, 1 loeealk.
i' Uior bud , " 1 - A man swims
any other man--Professor.
|- 1 ' ' "'-^eorns ^ l0 ^ SS01 and cures waltzes bunions three for
I' 0 '’ whI resting ’ Fro’essor; plays
di" fiddle iU1, l imparts to others the
s of . 1 se
"ii'ks , a slack J '-' diabolical a rt —Professor;
M| 'M P n>f„ rope stretched across the
s goes without eating
(lavs - I ho lessor; rides four
choir bart'biuk Professor; sings in the
°"' s 'or ; teaches a brass band
l>, " , cures warts—Professor;
ir ■ s "| nu 'l.'"’ S 1 s Professor; , ,or a living—Professor; performs
" u tricks some
of of ai-tin-i.t sleight of hand—Profes- ......1 1
t, .1 "' :u 'vtli!ng in the world except
Miciafi" f(v<or' 1:111 , nvs does * ess of of Heaven—Pro- books and
10
Bk' Colonel differs widely from the
I 1,1 that no reason is ever as
•it a, * »or , his bo’ ng. A man is simply
1., 1 .... .
« IA " ('"cl,' either be ease he was
m ti,. ' !lant U L l it u 'he is army or never was
in. , '1. immaterial. He is
its. r " dainw ’n that’s all. But the Pro
. his title by reason of his
an,’ " lie:her it be the cob
K‘s or Ga uing of dogs. And
1 , " ns . increase variety the
. ' y; nioreases in in so
1 number.
i
nonor in the honorable old
to tlie scholars ■who have
An,| is an 1 wear it with dignity.
a shame that the title which
" C lively to their world should
worn in the circus, the
1 tables. Let us boycott
''' 'o>ssor a* an act of simple
A "ie , B' ofessor
l ;; whom we all es
J 'TJt'Jto n H
Society Note.
vpi-v' S S - Doxe, of Austin, who is not
his speech, has a very
'a HIS h( |> named Sammy, whose
ah miners and ways are objection
S() miu '' that the very father became
terv so
"itim lu , ‘'| ,| /' x !' , itPd a few days ago and,
s" ..' 1 .: inking 'he what he said, rebuked
ln foliowino* words:
"""S* are »o i.mpe?ami 1
L. q l ^"'ii he wondered why everybody
e ly0Ui Uughed,__ Texas Siftings,
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Georgia has 2,517 drinkingYtal oons.
The bonded debt of Louisiana is $11,-
786,850.
There are seventy-three saw mills, all
running, in Obeon county, Tenn.
Last year Texas imported corn. This
year she will have millions of bushels
to sell.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens says he
now weighs five 'pounds more than he
ever did before,
A sol id lump 01 pure silver, weighing
nearly a pound, was found near Mag¬
nolia, N. C., recently.
The explosion of a bottle of ginger
pop caused an Augusta, Ga., lady to
loose the sight of both eyes.
A steamship from Norfolk to New
York a few days ago carried 20,000
chickens from Southwestern Virginia.
North Carolina has 776 saw-mills,
with a capital of $1,743,217, employing
3,029 hands, and the products are worth
$2,672,796.
The total consumption of cotton by
North Carolina mills and factories for
the year ending August 31, 1882, was
20,000,000 pounds.
A panther six feet in length was re¬
cently killed in Buchanan county, Va.
Tt had for a long time been a terror to
the neighborhood.
During the year of 1881 ninety-six
wild cats were killed in St. Johns county,
Fla., and so far this year seventy-six
have bitten the dust.
The average corn crop in Tennessee is
60,000,000 bushels, but it will reach
100,000,000 bushels this year. The whea
crop will reach nearly 12,000,000 bushels.
Mrs. Bozeman, whose age is well am
thenticated to have been 115 years, died
in the Halifax county (N. C.) poor
house last week. She leaves a great
great grandchild forty years old.
The crop of sugar made in Louisana
during the season of 1881-2 amounted
to 159,874,950 pounds, equivalent to
122,982 hogsheads. The production of
molasses amounted to 9,691,104 gallons,
or 206,194 barrels.
An Alabama law, passed by the last
Legislature, prohibits the owners of
sheep killing dogs to permit them to run
at large. The first conviction under the
law was made in Jefferson county re¬
cently, and the owner of the dog fined
$75.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
learns with surprise that the “poor but
proud” young women of that city are
reluctant to engage as operatives at the
cotton milt for fear that such employ¬
ment is]“not quite respectable.”
Fifty one counties in Georgia have no
licensed saloons. Two others close out
October 1. Seven have only one each,
and in many counties the the sale is
confined exclusively to the county town.
The prohibition element is becoming
stronger and more formidable every day
The corn crop for the State of Geor¬
gia is estimated by the State Agricult¬
ural Department to be in the neighbor¬
hood of 30,000.000 bushels, which makes
the yield about equal to that of 1859
which latter has long been regarded as
probably the larges corn crop ever gath¬
ered in the State.
The Blair family, of Camden, S. C.,
have a sad record. Miss Blair, a beau¬
tiful girl, has just committed suicide.
Her great grandfather was hanged, her
grandfather committed suicide, her fa¬
ther, L. W. R. Blair, was tried for mur¬
der, and escaped only to fall in a per¬
sonal rencounter with Capt. Haile, a
short time since. One of her brothers
is now in the State penitentiary, serving
out a life sentence for murder.
At the Saviour’s Home, a fanatical
institution at Little Rock, Ark., no
medicine is given to the sick, no matter
what the disease with which they are
suffering. One of the inmates, a child,
died recently for want of medical treat¬
ment, and the inhuman managers of this
more than inhuman institution made no
effort to save its life. They should be
prosecuted for willful murder, and the
name of the house prefixed by some¬
thing smacking to ha °s. The present
name is a misnomer all reports be
true.
A Protracted Bankruptcy Case.
Just before his death, 101 years ago.
Commercial Councillor Scharf, of Fin¬
beck, became a bankrupt, and the
“Royal Great-Britanic Electoral Bruns
wickian-Luneburgish Chancery of Just¬
ice” in Hanover published an official
announcement that his estate would
undergo liquidation in due course.
That solemn process is now about to be
completed by the Second district court
at Goettingen, which informs the Ger
man public that by advertisement the heirs of Councillor in the lo
ca i papers
Scharf s creditors will do well to prefer
their claims to his estate, inasmuch as
the assets thereof amount to some 16,
000 marks. This sum the court holds
at the disposition of the estate’s credit
?: however, a ;Jentates a Se b -J tL 2^^
it will lapse to Prussian
exchequer, which has succeded to the
! rights and prerogatives foimeih en
joyed by the Crown of Hanover.
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.'
CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Philadelphia claims to hare 5,000
laudanum drinkers.
Patents for car couplers are issued at
the average of one a day.
-«» » -
A Southern paper calls courage the
temporary paralysis of discretion.
Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwau¬
kee and Louisville, are all holding expo¬
sitions.
It is stated that the free ice distrib¬
uted by New York philanthropists has
caused much sickness.
It is stated that the State cofiers of
Italy now contain 550,000,000 of coin
laid up toward the abolition of the forced
paper currency.
An Illinois woman gave a tramp a
bogus quarter to get rid of him, and he
made it cost her an arrest and fifty dol¬
lars in cash before he was satisfied.
The Postmaster General has decided
that a stamp cut in pieces and thereafter
affixed to mail matter is not good, though
the stamp has never been canceled.
The South will make 7,000,000 gallons
of cotton seed oil this year, and you will
buy some of it put up in nice shape and
labeled olive oil from Italy.
Liszt, the great composer, is always
surrounded by women, who cling to him
like lovesick maidens. He kisses both
hands and cheek whenever he takes a
fancy.
Owing to the opposition of the rela¬
tives of the late Charles Dickens, the
collection of his earlier plays and poems,
announced for publication in London, is
to be suppressed.
It is related that a young gentleman
connected with the English Foreign
Office the other day went to a telegraph
office and asked to see the original of a
telegram which had arrived from Egypt.
Mouse, who invented the telegraph,
and Bell, the inventor of the telephone,
both had deaf mute wives, which leads
a wag to observe: “Just see what a
man can do when everything is quiet.”
The richest man in Mexico is an Irish¬
man named Patricio Milmo, who owns a
400,000 acre farm, and is reputed to be
worth $10,000,000. When he went to
Mexico he had not a dollar. He got his
start by a fortunate marriage.
Czar Alexander III. evidently ex¬
pects to survive his coronation. He is
adding to the seventeen palaces of his
father a new one at Peterhoff, overlook¬
ing the Gulf of Finland. Its founda¬
tions are to be completed this fall at a
cost ef $300,000.
Etienne, the well known French au¬
thority on the subject, has issued his
estimates of the harvests of the world for
1882. His report is, on the whole, de¬
cidedly favorable, indicating no serious
deficiency in crops in any quarter of the
world, and a general abundance through¬
out Europe and America.
The Mormon priesthood has been cir¬
culating a secret circular in Utah, giving
instructions to their people directly
opposite to the law rulings of the Com¬
missioners. One of the circulars has
been unearthed. They also decide to
have three Bishops sit with the Precinct
Registrars and oversee registration. The
Gentiles are much incensed at the inter¬
ference.
A report is current that 300 of Gari¬
baldi’s old comrades have banded them¬
selves together with the determination
of taking his body from its present rest¬
ing place, and of causing it to be
cremated according to the desire
expressed in his will. Whether the
report, which is believed in Italy, be true
or not is not yet known ; Out it has been
thought advisable that a guard should be
placed near his grave.
Emory Thomas sent to Mary Brown,
at Jaokson, Michigan, silk for a dress as
a present. He wished to marry her and
she was inclined to consent; but when
she learned that the silk was part of the
booty of a burglary, she became the
principal witness against the wooer, and
he was sent to prison for seven years.
But they have become reconciled, and a
few days ago the prison chaplain joined
them in wedlock.
The well known German newspaper,
Algemeine Zeitung , of Augsburg, was
originally started at Tubingen, in the
year 1798, by the great publisher CJorta,
and two of its earliest contributors were
Goethe and Schiller. Among the foreign
correspondents have figured some of the
most gifted and eminent Germans of our
age. Heinrich Heine, for instance, was
for several years its representative in
Paris.
Thitrlow "Weed, in a receut letter on
civil service reform, complains that the
“academies and colleges contribute a
very large contingent to the army of of¬
fice seekers.” Mr. Weed expresses the
belief that there is too much “liberal
<“■'”* < T‘“T’ ^
dneea .dleneee and offlee beggam-men
who resort to office seeking as a means
.... , , .. . ,
of living, and who get to ha.mg hard
work.
The mother-in-law of the late Nathan
iel Adams, her daughter, her daughter’s
daughter, her daughter’s daughter’s
daughter, and her daughter’s aie daughter’s
daughter's daughter all living at his
late residence in the Roxbnry district of
Boston, Massachusetts. Thus there are
five generations of women in continuous
line living under the same roof, they
being Mrs. Hendley, Mrs. Adams, Mrs.
Wolcott, Mrs. Colby, and little Miss
n Colby. n. -vr Mrs. tt Hendley j, is • ninety-five . , „
years of age, and the infant a few weeks
on ]y
This is the way that Miss Elizabeth
' ar f Pbclps characterizes ■ . the .. Ql State , of .
Mame _ her novel, “Doctor Zay,”
m in
the Atlantic : “We allers do hev every
thing wus here than other folks,” said a
passenger on the Bangor mail coach.
Freeze and prohibition, . mud and fu
sion. We have got one of the constitu
tions that takes things,like my boy. He’s
had the measles, ’n the chickenpox, and
the mumps, and the nettle rash, and fell
in love with his schoolmarm, ’n got re
ligion, and lost the prize for elocootin’—
all in one darned year.”
This story of strange practice is told
of a Kansas lawyer: twenty-oueV™ The law requires
that a person must be
old before he can pre-empt land. When
one comes to ask if he can evade this
law and have his boys, who lack some
years of being twenty-one, “prove up”
some „ land, , , the attorney ,, smiles serenely
and says: “Of course; certainly; it is
the easiest thing in the world!” And
when the time comes to make out the
papers the attorney marks with a piece
of chalk on the floor, “twenty-one years
old. ” He places the affiant on the floor
standing on these words, and has him
swear that ho is “over twenty-one years
old.”
Watch Newly-Planted Trees.
The present season has been all that
could be desired for trees and plants
set last spring. It has been cool and
wet, excellent for the development of
abundant foliage. The moist weather giving
of foliage this has developed plenty
root, but root like that of any
plants in saturated soil is superficial. It
the season had been less wet, the root
growth -would have been less, but it
would have been deeper. The ten days
without rain in this vicinity during the
last of July, caused greater distress to
corn been and garden crops than would have
the case from three weeks of
drought Trees planted in an ordinarily dry season.
last spring and not
watered showed unmistakable signs of
suffering. business prevented Those who understood giving their
this, by the
soil a good soaking once a week.
The difficulty with those planters who
have not studied the nature of the
plants they cultivate isthatthey seldom
give water enough. They water often
enough, ficially. sometimes too often, but super¬
It is dissipated by the first
sun, and scarcely reaches the roots at
all. Let us illustrate in this way: The
water in a pond that is one foot deep
has the same number of superficial feet
for evaporation, as the pond four or
more feet deep. So it is with super¬
ficial watering. The inch or two of
surface moistened is soon dried out,
the roots having received almost no
good from the watering.
In the case of continual superficial
waterings the disability to the tree is
intensified; the roots extend nearer and
nearer the surface rather than down¬
ward. The autumn finds the tree with
all its roots near the surface, and the
next season, if a dry one, often kills it
outright. In fact the second season is
considered to be the most critical in the
life of a recently planted tree if it be
deficient in rain. Hence the planter of
ornamental trees and shrubs will see
the necessity of careful watching of
planted trees, especially such as have
not made fair leaf growth, for according
to the amount of leaf growth so will be
the root, for it is well known that there
is no root growth until the leaves
expand; and, hence, again, the reason
why an evergreen may be planted at any
season, and for the reason that the
leaves are always more or less active.
In fact deciduous trees may be most
successfully the planted when in leaf if only
leaves be kept from wilting. So
also it is well known that a tree with
plenty of top will make roots faster
than a tree cut nearly or quite to a bare
pole. then,
Science that they in tree planting, is to
see first, never suffer for
want of mo sture at the roots; and sec¬
ond, that the roots be induced to strike
deep as quickly as possible .—Prairie
Farmer.
Vanity of Highwaymen. —A Galves
veston lady was reading a mwspaper ac¬
count of a stage robbery that recently
took place west of San Antonio and was
very indignant on reading that besides
robbing the passengers they had opened
the mail and read the letters, among
them, possibly, a letter the lady herself
had written to a friend. “You needn’t
be alarmed,” remarked the lady’s hus
band, “I dare say they did not read a
word in auy of those letters, as those fel
lows don’t know B. from bull’s foot.”
“Why, then, did they make out that
they read them ?” “Oh, they made out
they could read so as to make a favorable
impression on the passengers.”— Gal
veston News.
—There has been discovered in the
sandstone rock at the Nevada State
Prison what is considered a great
“find.” It is the marks of the sandaled
foot of a human being, and the marks ol
the track of a mammoth in the .same
piece of sandstone, or upon the same
level, showing that man and mammoth
lived not only in the same age, but in
the same year, and, perhaps, in the
" These marks found in
same day. were depth of fif
the sandstone quarry at a
teen feet, on which is supposed to have
j been, border at the of time the lake, marks where were the made,
the a man
t went fishing *ad the mammoth to drink,
A Tory Rich Newsboy.
“ Boston, New Y'ork, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Cincinnati, , St. Louis, T San
™T C0 and kansas Clt >’ mora,n *
This cry has been heard on the streets
of Denver for years. It is uttered by a
square-built, smooth-faced, matter of
fact looking man, whose voice has struck
? certain pitch which has increased in
,0 ™ e long praot.ce.
His name is Mykins, and he is without
a d ou i 3 t the richest newsboy in the
United States. Mykins has discovered
no gold mines; he is no bonanza king.
He has made his money by selling pa
P ei ‘! at ten cents apiece and blacking
boots at ten cents per shine. He 111
ve sted his money in property in Denver
and loaned it out on good security, and
he is worth to-day from $40,000 to $50,
000.* A queer fellow is Mykins. Night the
and day he hawks his papers on
street. He knows just where a paper
C an be sold. .He is at the depots at the
right hours; he knows just when to go
to the hotels, and he can spot a stranger
on fke street, and sell him a paper,
"bile Onete wondering what place he
^ostom {
Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Louis, San
Chicago, and St.
Francisco Kansas City morning
papers!” There the cry is heard where
many people dimes are gathered raked together, in. and
there many are
the man of news. “He is worth $50,
000.”
“ How does he make it?”
“ He came here a few years ago an p
commenced selling Eastern papers an p»
blacking boots. He averaged and $10 per
considerable day at the former business the latter. no in
amount from
He invested his money and now owns
several fine residences on Lawrence
and Fourteenth streets, two or three of
those Grant houses on Walter street,
some fine property on California street,
and besides has any amount of money
loaned out at interest. Ho is a rustler,
and will still black your boots for a
dime—at least he would a few months
ago.” The speaker led the the
way to news¬
boy’s stand. An old coal box near the
corner of sixteenth and Larimer streets,
with a boot end blacking chair and appa¬
ratus at one of it, making the place
of business of a man who was worth
enough to make him comfortable for a
lifetime.
“Why don’t you interview Mykins?”
But this was easier said than done.
Mykins is evidently a man of sterling
business principles. One dime realized
front the sale of one paper is evidently
more to him than an hour’s conversa¬
tion with the most interesting gentleman
in the world.
He did not desire to tell anything
about his business.
Yes, he sold a good many papers.
Sometimes he had a boy to help him.
He had been here several years—-yes.
Most of these papers are shipped
through to Mykins direct. They cost him
from two to four cents. lie sells them
for ten cents a number, lie prefers to
peddle them on the street, and doubtless
has found that the most profitable man¬
knows ner of the conducting value his trade, business. He
of his and that
small businesses are often more profita¬
ble than large ones. By careful atten¬
tion he has worked up a line of custom¬
ers to whom he deli 1 ers papers at fifty
cents per week.
the Mykins hard-headed is unmarried. He looks like
business raau that he
is. His face is bronzed by exposure to
the sun and rain. His features are
sharp. His voice is as harsh and pierc¬
ing as years of continued exertfon in one
strain can make it.
“Some day,” continued the first
speaker, who started the train of
thought would about Mykins, “I should think
he want to retire from the boot¬
blacking and news business and live on
his riches.”
Perhaps he may .—Denver Tribune.
A Change of Mind.
“There is a certain man in this town
whom I’m going to lick until he won’t
be out of bed for six months after, and
I want to know what it will cost me?”
►80 said a man who entered a Gris¬
wold street law office yesterday, dander and it
was plain to be seen that his was
'Way “Let’s up. see?” “I’ll
mused the lawyer.
defend you for $10. If you lick him in
a first-class manner your fine will be
about $25. Then there will be a few
dollars costs, say enough to make the
whole thing foot up $4U. I think that
I can safely promise that it won’t cost
you over that.”
“ Forty dollars! Forty dollars for
licking a man! Why, I can’t go that!”
“Well, pull his nose, then. The last
case I had of that sort the tine was only
$15. That will reduce the gross sum to
thirty.”
“I want to tear him all to pieces, but
I can’t afford to pay like that for the
fun. How much would it cost to spit
on him?”
“ Well, that’s an assault, you know,
but the fine might not be would over ten dot
lars. I guess $25 see you
through.” “Lands! how I do to crush
want that
man! Suppose I knock his hat ofl ?”
“ Well, about $20 would cover that.”
“lean hardly hold myself, but $20
is pretty steep. Can’t I call him a
liar.”
“Oh, yes. I think $15 would cover
that. ’
“ Well, I’ll see about it. I’m either
going to call him a liar or else tell every¬
body that he awful is no gentleman, or else
give again.” him an pounding. I’ll see
you is $5,” observed the law
“My fee
yer. “What for?' 1
“For my advice.' 1
The pulverizer and then glared at him for half
a minute, laid down a “ V.”
| and “I'm stai-ted slowly out with the remark: and
j beg his pardon, going straight to that man I’m
; and tell him that
’ the biggest fool in Detroit! Thank
heaven that j ou didn’t get but one claw
on me !”—Detroit Free Press-
BALLADE OF A COQUETTE.
She wears a most bewitching harm—
Ookl curls made-captive, in a net;
tier dresses with precision hang;
Hit hat observes the stylish set;
She has a poodle for a pet.
And limes a da-diin^ Uraj: and pony:
1 Know n, though we've never met—
1 ve seen her picture by Sarony.
phrases are all fraught with slang,
The very latest she can get;
She sings the songs that Patience sang,
Can whistle airs from “Olivette,”
And, in the waltz, perhaps, might let
You squeeze her hand, with gems all stony:
1 know it, though we’ve never met—
I’ve seen her picture by Sarony.
Iler heart has never felt love’s pang,
Nor known fi momentary fret;
Want never wounds her with his fans;
She likes to run Papa in debt;
She’ll smoke a slender cigarette
Sub rasa with a favored crony:
I know it, though we’ve never met—
I’ve seen her picture by Sarony.
ENVOY.
Princes, beware this gay coquette!
She lias no thoughts of matrimony:
I know it, though we’ve never met—
I’ve seen her picture by Sarony.
—Frank I). Sherman, in Century Magazine.
The New Methods of Farming.
The time when the manuring of tlio
land and the feeding of live-stock had
to be done without any guide but ex¬
perience is coming to an end, and very
fortunately becoming so, since the old farming is
The science unprofitable on all worn soils.
of fertilization and the sci¬
ence of feeding had their birth just as
the old-time farming was declared not
to “pay.” As nature’s bounty seemed
to be exhausted, and the earth to refuse
her increase all along the eastern edge
of our continent as well as in Europe,
the investigations of science revealed
the fact that there were other manures
besides those of the farm-yard. It re¬
vealed also the fact that by a proper ad¬
mixture of the old and the use of some
new food materials, domestic animals
might be reared far more economically
and satisfactorily than before, And
this latter work has been also very
greatly helped by the application of.
science to the breeding of these animals,
by which breeds are now produced
which are especially adapted to each
distinct purpose for which such animals
are desired.
Scientific study applied to farming,
though yet in its infancy, has done
noble work in solving its most difficult
problems, and has much more than ac¬
complished ing the proverbial feat of mak¬
two spears of grass or grain grow
where one grew before. The immense
and constantly growing use of com¬
mercial fertilizers all over the civilized
world attests what science has done in
that direction, which is yet but a drop
in the bucket to what we shall see. The
wonderful improvement in every species
of live stock is, to the eyes of every
middle-aged of surprise. farmer, The a constant the subject
fat oxen, strong
or fast horses, the deep-wooled sheep,
the round and bulky swine, the milk
yielding cows and with their great records
of butter cheese, are as much a
cause of wonder and a mark of the prog¬
ress of this new age as are the inechani
ical discoveries, the steam engine, the
iron steamship, the railway, the elec¬
tric telegraph, electric light and electric
motors, the mowing machine and the
sewing-machine, the and all the other won¬
ders of time.
but as the much old-time instruction, stage-driver become can¬
not, without
a locomotive engineer, nor the old-time
postmaster become the skilled telegraph¬
er without training, so neither can
the work of the farm now be successful¬
ly conducted without the attainable possession of
more knowledge than was is rapidly becom¬ by.
our ing fathers. skilled Farming profession,
a success in
which will require a liberal training,
equivalent to, though not the same as,
that which has hereto p ore been given in
what are called tbe learned professions.
As much and as varied knowledge is
now about to be applied to the produc¬
tion of farm crops and their profitable
use and disposal, as ever went to make
the best lawyer, minister or doctor of
medicine.
It is hard to realize, at first, what all
this really means. Jt is no wonder that
so many old farmers have thrown scorn
upon “book-farming.” The history of
the world from the time of Adam re¬
veals the tiller of the soil as always an
unlearned man. “The times of this
ignorance” God provided soil for by stor¬
ing up in the primeval a fund of
fertility which should la-t until man¬
kind grew out of its infancy But now
the time has come for all men to open
their ears and learn, by the study of
God’s works and ways* in nature, to
provide for their own wants.
This then is what we must do: we
must study nature, and educated, in doing this
the farmer becomes an and
may become a learned man—as learned
as Solomon, who was said to have
known all the plants in his day—and
more learned, for and we must animals, not only
know 'of plants but
we must learn the laws of their life and
growth; and not only that, we must
have skill to apply those laws practical¬
ly, and make both plants and animals
gvow r according to our will, so as to
give us sustenance and wealth.
In short, the day is now at hand in
which the farmer is to be raised through
knowledge, not from labor, but from
unintelligent drudgery mastership to intelligent pro¬
duction, and a over nature
in lhe place of his old slavery to nature.
Understanding nature’s forces, we are
to direct them, instead than of being the directed
by them. With more subtlety
of Jacob, we are to mold the cattle to
our will and profit. Wilh more than the
wisdom of Solomon, we feed and nourish
as well as study the plants of the field.
Are the middle-aged and older farmers
of the time rousing themselves to these
great facts, and taking them in in rlieir
full significance? If so. they will be
found aiding the and favoring generation every means their
to Jit growing lor
new and wonderful inheritance.— N. Y.
Examiner.
—At the present rate supply of consumption
it is estimated that the of white
pine timber in the United Stttes will bo
exhausted in twelve years.
^ Chicago physician the — winter perhaps cholera an
a ] avm j s -t—claims that
- n city is a forerunner of a choler?
icoyggo a«xt ftommer.
$1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 35.
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
—Tlvo real ° ld harvest apple of our
grandfather 1( .. , s days is to bo found no
more.
--The farmer who leaves his plow to
rot m the tields all winter is usually f he
one who finds most fault with the con¬
dition ot tuo country.— N. Y. Herald.
—The Gardener's Monthly says: “Let
the laundry folk on ever 7 wash dav
pour the boilmg-hot . ... , soap-suds about
the roots of peach trees. This will de¬
stroy the insidious little fungus which
produces the ‘yellows ’ jml other dis¬
eases, and finish the la^rte of insects
which are injurious to the trees.”
—Red ants are said to like lard bet¬
ter even than sugar: for this reason, if
the red ants are troublesome in kitchen
or store-room, set a plate well greased
with lard in the room. It will soon bo
covered with them, and you can dispose
of them; put the plate back, and keop
on —N. doing Y. Post so until they are exterminated.
marble Cake: (Light.) One cup
sugar, half a cup each of butter and
milk, whites of three eggs, two cups
flour, one and a half teaspoonful of bak¬
ing powder. (Dark.) Half a cup each
of brown sugar and molasses, one-fourth
cup each of butter ami milk, two cups
of flour, the yelks of three eggs, one
and a half teaspoonful of baking pow¬
der, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon,
cloves and allspice.
—A correspondent of the Queensland¬
er supplies that paper with the follow¬
ing “I tried on the an subject experiment of potato-growing: with potatoes
this autumn, as seed was scarce. 1 took
cuttings in the of potato tops and planted them
wet weather, and they took root
and bore a better crop than the original
root. Some of the seed potatoes were
growing strong before I set them, so I
slipped off the superfluous shoots and
planted them, with very good results;
and any one with a small supply of good
seed may largely increase it by this
simple method.”
—One objection to a large farm, of
sufficient capacity to meet the wants of
a great farmer, is that it concentrates
ail the crops and all the manure at one
point. In harvest time short hauling of
hay and grain saves valuable time, and,
when manure is to be drawn, short dis¬
tances to the tields from the heaps or
sheds very much lessens cost, It is
better to divide on large farms and have
two or more separate points of concen¬
tration in distribution, and thereby savo
great cost to team work. And, too, it
4S very wise to divide the farm buildings
as to not have them all burn at one tire.
These are general considerations.— N.
Y. Tribune.
Caught by Themselves.
. There is a slang phrase now current
which aptly expresses the fatality at¬
tending the testimony of criminals in
court. They are almost sure to “give
themselves away,” that is, to really
convict themsMves while they are try¬
ing to prove their innocence, In a
court in Paris recently, two cobblers
were charged with stealing fifteen francs
from their master's till. The men had
asked for some money from their em¬
ployer, but he had refused and bad gone
off for the day with his family. So they
stole the fifteen francs and themselves
started off for a holiday.
“Where dd you spend your holi¬
day?” asked the Police Justice.
“We took no holiday. We worked
as usual,” said the first cobbler.
“Come, that won't do. The facts are
all against you, although, to be sure, no
one saw you take the money from the
bag,” said the Police Justice.
“It wasn’t a hag; it was a pine box.
Ah!” (to the other cobbler) “what are
you trampling on my feet for?” said the
second cobbler.
“How do you know it was a pine
box?” asked the Justice.
“ Why, I’ve seen the master take mon
ey from it more than two hundred
times,” answered the second cobbler.
“I only brought it home the night be¬
fore. I had always used an iron box.
So he couldn’t have seen this two hun¬
dred times,” said the master.
“Well, when I said two hundred,
perhaps 1 stretched it a little. I saw it
at least once that day,” said the second
cobbler. Justice.
“What day?” asked the
“ Why, the day that we took the fif¬
teen—Oh, stop trampling on my feet!”
said the second cobbler.
“So you acknowledge taking the fif¬
teen francs?” said the Justice.
“He means the fifteen pairs of slip¬
pers we made that day,” said the lirst
cobbler. day? said the
“So you worked all
Justice. towards
“ Yes, except that evening
we were tired and went out to Mont¬
martre and took supper, ’ said the first
cobbler. bad
“ But you told your master you
no money. How did you go without
money?” asked the Justice.
“ We borrowed three francs, said the
first cobbler. arrested,
“Yes, and when we were
they found no money in out pockets.
If we had taken the fifteen francs,
there would have been some left, for we
only spent seven francs,” said the sec¬
ond cobbler. borrowed three, how
“If you only seven?” asked the Jus
did you spend
ticc« credit,” answered the first
“ We got
cobbler. credit for francs, „
“ Yes, we got nine
said the second cobbler.
“Ithink you’ve satisfied us of your
guilt That will do. You shall have a
sentence of fourmonths,” concluded the
Justice. — Youth's Companion
—The largest theater is the new opera
house in Paris. It covers nearly tlneo
acres of ground. Its cubic mass is L-
287,000 feet, It cost about 100,000,000
francs.
_Since Ohio River steamboats have
taken to breaking in two in ihe middle
there is really no safe spot on bowd,
unless one can tell which end will drift