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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23 1884. TWELVE PAGES. '7 farms and farmers. SHORT TALKS WITH FARMERS ON FARM TOPICS. Saudi Farms and Large-Bough Food for Btook??? Good] Tools--Seeding to Grass???Hydropho bia Cured???Boa ly.Legs-Freaerring Eggs ???Hog Cholera???Farm Notes, Small Fabms and Large.???This subject is still undergoing lively discussion at tho bands of the agricultural papers. Taking his turn the editor of the Indiana Farmer says in the jfew England states the proper size of a farm for general cultivation ranges all the way from fiity to 100 acres of arable land. In the south the tendency is to cut up the great cotton plan tation into farms of 100 or 200 acres, while Florida insists that twenty acres is as much as a man can cultivate profitably. In these mid dle-western states, where our farming does not run largely to grazing, wo have settled down in the opinion that a farm of 100 acres, or a quarter of a section, is tho proper size for economical farming; but the northwestern grain fields run up into the thousands of acres, while the cattle and sheep ranches of Texas, when any attempt is made to define their boundaries, are even [larger than the wheat fields of Dakota. But this question must ultimately depended on tho kind of producting we intend to devote our labor and our land to. Stock raising or pasturage in any form demands a large area of surface, and as grass requires little or no cul* tivation and live stock feed themselves a largo part of each year, one man can as easily man age 1,000 Bcres of grazing land as he can 100 acres devoted to grain growing. But even grain farming under the most thorough culti vation requires much less hand labor than it did a few years ago, and tho improvement in tools and machinery is diminishing in every year. But fruit growing and market gardening de mand vastly more labor and attention than or dinary tillage. A fruit farm of twenty acres judiciously divided between apples, peaches, pears and small fruits, will demand as much care and labor as two hundred acres devoted to miscellaneous farm products, or five hundred acres in grass; and usually it will yield as much clear profit as either. Tho objection to market gardening and fruit culture, at tho north, is that it gives employment and income but a part of the year. Toobviato this diffi culty, many have attempted to divide their mon sense methods in treatment of diseases, much might be gained for animals and men. Good Tools.???Mr. W. D. Boynton, of Wis consin, says every man and team on a farm, must cost the farmer from $500 to $800 pei year, reckoning fair wages and board for the driver, and the expense of keeping tho team in good working condition. How many farmers there arc who lose from a third to one half of this cost, by not having suitable tools. They not onlv lose in tho amount of work ac complished, out they lose, also, by tho work being poorly executed, and. still again by tho additional wear which poor, hard-running im- f on ^ tcam# j 8 0 ftel actual loss, which is in curred by getting behind with the work, as is always the case where insufficient tools aro employed. A friend of his told him last fall, that ho lo3t $500 by trying to make on old mower last him another year. The machine was constantly breaking in one part or another, and ho war obliged. to send quite a distance in order to ge 1 fiereut pieces replaced. This ncccssitat haying in conse quence. Ho had a lorge amount of gross and some of it got over ripe, and nearly all of it was injured more or less by bad weather. lie was finishing his haying, when he should have been harvesting, and there again he lost heavily. Ail winter long his, stock suffered from the effects ol musty, half-rotten hay. Directly and indirectly his loss, caused by using a poor machine, footed up to tho amount he stated. His experience, though rather a costly one, is not without its beneficial results, for it led him into a wiser method of economy, not only in regard to mowers, in particular, but with all his farm implements. Some arc not shrewd enough to profit by such failures, but keep blundering along, year after year, with the same mistaken idea of economy. Poor ploughs, worthless harrows, rusty cul tivators, shaky wagons, and the like, will eat up the profits of a good farm about as fast as anything Mr. Boynton knows of. Skkdixo to Grass.???It has been thought that ???ur climate is unfavorable to grass. This idoa has prevailed so long that it has come to be a firmly established belief. But like sotno other tia labor and attention between grain farming and email fruit; but almost invariably such ex* periments have resulted unsatisfactorily. Just at the time tho corn demands cultivation, the atrawberrio* must go to market without delay; and when the harvest demands attention, the raspberries and blackberries must bo picked ana marketed daily; and at the same time that the fallow must be broken and prepared for the wheat crop, the peaches and pears are pressing for attcutien and will not wait with out serious loss. It seems to him that grazing of sheep and cattle might be made to work harmoniously with fruit culture and market gardening. At tho season when his fruits end vegetables de mand bis undivided attention his stock ?are taking care of themselves, and when tho winter core of his stock demands his attention, his orchard and garden aro quiotly resting under tho snow. Tho admlrablo arrangement of our railroads has literally brought tho markets of tho cities to our doors and invito us to greatly " the productions of cur soil. But this diversify tthis will de mand that while we cultivate fewer acres wo should cultivtt! congratulate provement i twenty-five years. _ In tho last ten years is to bo credited tivatothem more thoroughly. He ties . iho farmer or a decided im- t in this direction within the last 9 years. Tho marked increase in ops in the last ten years is to bo credited ainly to tho better preparation of the soil and tho greater care in pfanting the seed. Tho more important question is not whether wo shall cultivate large or small farms, but how much labor can be economically put on each acre we till T What our crops need is a deeper seed bed and a more thorough pulverizing and fining of the soil. It is a waste of labor to at tempt tho cultivation of more grouud than can bo tilled thoroughly. It is hotter to raiso sixty bushels of corn on one acre than thirty bushels each, on two acres.' Hough Food ro?? Stock.???Colman's Rural World says thero has grown quite an extensive enquiry of late years as to the valuo of roii"h food and comparatively Innutritious food do mesticated stock of all kinds, in the matter of feeding the cob with tho corn, and the value of straw as feod, for instance. This has had more thoughtful experiments in the eastern states and older countries than in the west, because land is of higher valuo, and every product of tho farm necessary utillizcd. . It is,however,more from a physiological than an economical standpoint, wo would now present it. In a work on this subject, publish ed thirty years ago, we read: ???It is a well ascertained law of the animul economy, that ood, to be healthy must contain a consider- ???* i that is wholF - - J, ??? uglit our cliinato is unfavorable to grass. This idoa l como U like souk popular beliefs, it is utterly baseless. The truth is we have never tried to ly indices! bus, Magcndle,??tne physiologist, found that dogs, fsd npon sugar, gum arabic, butter, olive oil and aorao other articles of a rich or concentrated nature, ooch given to the animal se] soon lost t came emaciated, died invariably within the space of four or five weeks. Fed upon superfine flour brood and water, they lived unformly about seven weeks, varying only a day or two. When fed upon coarse or military bread, such as contained cither the whole or a considerable portion of tho bran the dogs thrived perfectly well, and were found in no respect to sutler. The **0*0 trtuh has often been illustrated on ship-board at sea. In many cases where the hay and straw wero swept overboard, it has been found that the animals in a few days, famished, un less ??some innutritions substance, as the shavings of wood, was mixed with tho grain S iven them. The animals have been observed i gnaw at the spars and timbers, or whatever wood they coula lay hold of, and thus tho idea was suggested, that tho grain alone was of too rich a nature for their sustenance. A week or two since the Wfstcrn Rural, re lying to a correspondent who idsisted that he -jsd known of cases of hollow-horn in cattUj and knew they had not died of want, wrote in the following interesting way on the same point: ???The fact that an animal is fat is not' con clusive evidence that some part of the animal Is not starved. The most striking illustration of this is in swine fed wholly on corn, for no other animal is so nearly confined to a single article of diet as the hog, and no farmer Laving had any reasonable amount of ex perience esn fail to notice tnat even this vo racious animal will finally refuse the corn diet furnished and will delve into the very bowels of the earth to*katiate his cravings, or utterly devour a board fence to satisfy the yearnings of the muscular or vital forces. In fact the very part which should net bo starved, jf the animal is to be kept in a healthful condition, is the muscular system. Chemistry demon strates the fact that bone Is composed largely of the phosphates, the lean meat of muscle of notrogenous elements and the fat .of carbon. Corn is carbon and for fat-forming food it is pre-eminent, but upon a corn diet alone.uo animal could subsist beyond a definite period of time, and would die of starvation, ana so it Would on any other one sided food. Food which builds up one part of the system while other parts are starved is certain to bring about diseased conditions in time. **We want to say to our correspondent that from our standpoint what Is called the hollow ness of a sick cow's horn only indicates one of the symptoms of the difficulty. Were it a fact that* noliow horn is a disease then the horns might be knocked off and the cow eared, as the patient would be by the amputation of m gangrened toe in a human being. Did oar veterinarians and doctor* come down to com tiblc and in* leparately with pure woter, that very t their appetites, began to droop, be- laciatcd, were attacked with ulcers and & b k grow grass. Wo have some timothy and clover os a hay crop, but so far as seeding down a meadow with grasses, it has not yet been done, except ing by nature, and a few farmors who have learned a lesson by observing natural effects. The American climate is especially favorablo to grass. If wo want a proof let us first look at our roadsides, where, ns wo have personally found, any observer may find a dozen varieties growing permanently in spite of every unfa vorable circumstance, as want of fertility, dry weather, tramping, and weeds. In West Vir ginia, Ohio, Indiana. Kentucky and Missouri we may find natural meadows of blue grass which equals the noted English permnnont grass lands, and which aro now a contury old, and as yet show no signs of failure. Further west the boundless prairio has been covered with perennial verdure, and still further mil lions of cattle range over our vast pastures, which have borne grasses of the most nutri tious kinds for no ono knows how many con- turics or tens of centuries. Interspersed among tho mountains beyond tho plains are sens of verdure in tho picturesque parks and smaller valleys equally ancient, and which bavo been green since the anciont days when the soil was first formed for tho cooled rocks which como from tho bowels of tho earth, vomited amid fire and earthquake. So that it cannot be the climate, but our want of tho necessary skill which prevents us from grow- ;rass upon our fields. ??? e great troublo in tho way is, wo do not choose tho right kinds, and wo do not sow grass. Wo sow grain and put in grass, and ?? . ' ^tb. This is against all wo look at tho grass upon the roadsides we may learn a lesson that may Wo shall find the grots covering the olosely that tho soil cannot be soon. ??? find several varieties growing inter mingled together, one maturing early and others later all through tho season. Even at this early period wo may find the first grass to blossom. Poa annua roadr to flower, if not already blooming. Then follows sweet vornal grass, the sweetly odorous breath of the ver nal spring exhaling from its foliage. Then como tho June grasses. Poa pratensis and Poa compressa, with their early herbage, and the fescues of soveral specie#; several kinds ef ogrostis; another usefuLPoa, the common fowl meadow grass. Poa scrolina, and others follow ing in succession, with tho not-to-be-forgotton white clover crowding in among them for tho place and living which nature owes it, but which it will have whether or no. Do we farmers grow grasses in this way? On the contrary, wo try precisely the opposite course, and sow ono grass and give that no kind of a chance. But wo aro gradually learning bettor. Sorao of us have tried tho reasonable way aud have met with success. Farmers aro now learning to sow even the common timothy and clover and treat it as a crop, that is, to proparo tho a round well, as if for a crop of grain, and sow 10 seed alone and so thickly that tho ground will bo fully occupied. Others aro mixing several kinds, aud so precisely following the example of nature, and tho more of this that is done the more the example is followed. Wo cannot dispense with grass. It is becoming more and moro indispensablo to us every year, and by and ty wo shall find the reason why we have not succeeded earlier has boon because wc have been blundering. Mixed grosses, perfect preparation of tho soil, liberal seeding, and sowing without any robber crop to destroy it, will give us excellent gross fields. Then we must learn to use these grass fields well, feed them generously, and they will be liberally responsive.???New York Times. Hydrophobia Cubed.???I can give some faet# which may bo of use to somebody, thereby saving life. The timo between the biting of on animal by a mad dog and showing signs of hydrophobia is not less than mno days, but may be nine months. After the animal has become rabid, a bite ar scratch with tho teeth upon a person, or slobber coming in contact with a sore or raw place, would produce hy drophobia just as soon as though he hod been bitten by a mad dog. Hydrophobia can be prevented, and I will give what is well known to be an infallible remedy, if pronerly ad ministered, for man or beast. A dose for a horse or a cow should be about four times as greot as for a person. It is not too lato to give medicine anytime before tho spasms como on. The first dose for a person is an ounce and a half of elecampane root, bruised, put in a pint of new milk, reduced to one-half by boiling, then taken all at one dose in the morning, fasting uutil afternoon, or at least a very light diet alter several hours have elapsed. The second dose same ns first except take two ounces of the root; third dose the same ns the last, to be taken every other day. These doses are all that is needed, and thero need bo no fear. This I know from my own experience, and know a number of other eases where it has been entirely successful. This is no guess work. Those persons I allude to were bitten by their own dogs, that had been bitten by rabid dogs, and were penned up to see if they would go mad. They did go mad aud did bite the persons. , . . Tne remedy has been used in and abmt Philadelphia for forty years and longer, with crest success, and is known as the Goodman reraedv. I am acquainted with a physician who told me he knew of its use for more than thirty years, but never knew a ca*e that failed where it was properly administered. Among ether cases he mentioned one where a number of cows bad been bitter! by a mail dog. To half of this number they administered this re medy, to the other half not. The latter all died of hydrophobia, while those that took the elecampane end milk showed no sign of that disease. gCALT Legs.???Your fowls hove the disease known as the sealy legs. It is caused by minute insects which burrow beneath the scales on tbs legs and feet. Any application that will kill these insects will effect a cure, but coal oil will probably do the work quicker than anything else, and it is always at hand. Take an old quart tin, fill it two-thi/4* full, hold the fowl firmly with both hands around the wings, and dip the feet and legs in up to the feathers; hold them there a minute or so until the oil penetrates beneath tho scales. Repeat this every third day until the scales begin to fall off; usually three applications will effect a euro. When tho scales begin to drop off do not attempt to hasten matters by scraping or rubbing the legs; it will mako them sore. Let the scales drop off, aud after the coarsest are off rub tho legs gently once a day with sweet oil or melted lard. As your fowls ore nearly all aflected it would bo well to whitewash tho house and wet the roosting perches thoroughly with coal oil. Examino j???our young stock closely, and treat every ono ihot shows afiv roughening of the scales an legs or leet. When next you buy fowls that you arc not acquainted with, shut them up apart from the other fowls until you arc sure they are all right. Pbeservixo Eggs.???Several correspondents want to know how to pack eggs so that they will keep good for winter use; and soveral more have asked my opinion of on egg 1 serving recipe that was advertised in tho Prairio Farmer o short timo ago. I don't know anything about that partioulor recipe, but this much I do know: Thero is no need for anyono who desires to preserve eggs, either for market or for homo use, to pay oue cent for any recipe. All the egg preserving recipes that are good for anything nave been publish ed over and over sgain in nearly all tho news, agricultural, and poultry papers in the country, end if you send money to any one for a ???sure method of preserving eggs so that they can not bo told from fresh laid, tho chances ore that you will get some one of tho old re cipes, just os it has been published for years or else with the addition of some useloss lngre diont. One of my neighbors paid a dollar for a recipe that had been published by every poultry paper in the country; another $2 for the salt method, and an Ohio woman paid $5 for 0 ???new and infallible method," which turned out to be the recipe for tho old salt hnd lime way that has been in use for years. Simply packing in fine salt is the easiest and best method for housekeepers who desire to save a few dozen of eggs for winter use, and for poultry-keepers who have only a small number to pack for market. Cover tho bot tom of a keg, cask, jar, hogshead, or what ever you choose to pack in, with a layer of fine salt two inches deep; upon this ploco the eggs, small end down, and far enough apart so that they will not touch each other or tho sides of the receptacle; then put on anothor two-inch layer or salt, then another layer of eggs, and so on until the package is full. Tho salt can be used over and over again. Eggs packed in salt took tho first prize for nrcsorv- cd eggs at tho recent poultry show in Birming ham, England. How to Git Rid* op Chick be Lick.??? If tho chickens are threo months old, uso coal oil; rub a little under the wings and into tho foathert on tho underpart of the body. Examino tho chickens in threo or four days and if you find lico repeat tho application of coal oil. If tho chickens aro roosting in coops, or houses, tho insido of their habitations should be white washed and tho roosts wet with cool oil. If they are roosting in trees, romovo them to a house, coop, or shed that has been cleaned and whitewashed. Also provide a placo whoro fowls and chickens can wallow in dry dust to their heart's content. In tho poultry houso there should always bo a largo shallow box two-tbirds full of a mixture ot perfectly, dry road dust and wood or coal ashes, with a tweuty-fivo cent packogo ol insect powder or carbolic powder mixed in. Two-thirds dust to onc-third ashes is our ???rccipo." Besides this insido arrangement there should also bo some out-door wallowing placo. You hove probably noticed that tho young stock, and tho old fowls too, are in the habit oiloafing around somewhere in the shade during a part of the day. Well, right thero you want to spado up a lew squaro feet of * 1 throw on a panful ol stovo. Other correspondents who havo asked for remedies for lico on chickens will please consider that this answer is also aimed at them. Hog Cholera Remedies.???I had over two hundred hogs, and had lost half of them by * * * I then dipped ears of corn in tag t WOMEN AS CLERKS. Commissioner John II. Gregory Shows Why Women Have Tbue Far Failed to Beaoh Appoint ment Through the Civil Bervioe???Tho Probabilities of the Future, Bto. Washington, September 10.???The following is a copy of a letter written by Hon. John W Gregory, of the civil service commission, on tho employment of women in tho public ser vice: Does the new civil service system favor the ap pointment of women to the public service? It must be admitted that thus far lower women have obtained places under this than under tho old system. Out of 331 appointments to the classl- fled service, made under the civil service rules, since July 16,1883, not Including tho special pen sion examiners, only 32 have been females. It is already generally known that tho civil scrvlco ex aminations for clerkships are open alike to men and women; that all tho applicants are examined alike, marked by the same rules, and plnced.it they pass, on common registers for certification to the appointing officers. The heads of tho departments, when notices of vacancies are received by tho commission, If no mention of tho sex required were Included In tho notice,tho four names graded highest would be sent without regard to sex, but thus for all the requests except two, for names to fill vacancies, havo contained the significant words, "males 0 or "females." The two requests In which no sex was mentioned wero recalled, and the omission corrected. Tho wroug, therefore. if wrong there be, lies not at the door of tho civil service commission, nor yet at that of the system, unless it be claimed that the system has relieved the appointing powers from the pressure, aud left them at liberty to select for the scrvlco such per sons as they deem best. No explanation has, u yet, been given of tho reasons of this prcfercnco for male clerks, but it Is hinted that under the old system an undue aud Inconvenient proportion ot female clerks was pushed upon tho departments, and that tho heads of these departments aro now using llicir opportunity to even up tho force. Jt is true that excessively large numbers of female clerks and copyists are found In some bureau*. One member of congress Is said to havo procured the appointment ot forty women from his district, and few men In power were able to resist tho importunities of women who claimed to be In found powerless as a means of winning places. It Is said also that the bad conduct of sorao ??? nted prejudices againr ireaus, while In other o??? 9 chiefs of divisions And, .worthy women has created prejudices against fo- ???malo clerks in some bureaus, while in otbe^^H tho difficulty which the MM or feel, in enforcing order and industry among N male clerks, renders them hostilo to any Incrcadff of such clerks. 8ome of those who appreciate at the highest the service of many capable, industri ous and altogether worthy women found in the departments. stilUfcel reluctant to ask for the ap- polnemcnt of unknown women whose names may Went there fiom the lists of tho civil service com mission, but doubtlessTnuch of this will chango wl <n the superior character and ability ot tho w< men brought forward by tho civil service ex- an iuatlons shall become known. Many of tho hot examination* hove been passed by women, at cl tho books of the commission contain at this time tho names of many who would bo an honor to the service. While these women are not supe- 1 ior to the best of those now In tho dojairtmont*, they will certainly be found better and more ca pable than hundreds who, under tho old system, wcio thrust in without examination, and too often without merit, by the "Influence" of sym- pathe tic congressmen, or of others high in Author ity. There is no general prejudice against good I female clerks, and as far as Is known tho heads of tho executive departments aro disposed to do full justice to tho women, and to give them their Of thO SOr- scrvlco system during to tho officer* a clttt of women whose capacity, Industry and good MMi||||Mii|aiajHAMMariaMjbtlng chief of a bu- conduct will prove to auy doubting rcau or division the sterling valu< men???s services. g chit iff ol TIIE JIlWISH NEW TEAR. Saturday's Observances nt the Atlanta Hynnguguc???ltiibbl Jacobson's Lecture. Saturday morning the observance of the Jowhh New Year was continued. The congregation met at tho syuagoguo at nine o???clock and tho services continued until nearly half past twelve. They consisted of a scries of readings from the scrip* tun * slid the prayer book, with a lecture by I??r, jneotenu and the ceremony of blowing of the trumpet. The reading was partly in English and partly In nebrew. Most of tho Hebrew waa rather chanted than read by tho rabbi. It Is supposed that the scriptures were thus delivered to the poo- >rn in that the scriptures were thus delivered to the peo- VwL,,, plo in tho olden time. The frequent interaperslon ,. and of music by tho excellent choir added greatly to them among the hogs. They ato it greedily,- ' flute nnd iu a week nil wero on tho road to rccovcyr Anothor remedy I have used successful is 11 Another remedy I havo used successful is that of feeding corn in tho ear, which baa been charred black. Farm Notes. This is an oxcollcnt year lor red clover, tho two cuttings yielding much hoaviqf than usual. Maino farmers who attend the state fair have got in a way of ???camping" on tho grounds. Tho Worden grape is said to be as good as the Concord and to ripen eyer earlier than the Hartford. # Mr. Vaughan, an American, bought the best bull at Lord Wiltou's salo of polled cattle, paying $10,050 for it. ???Timothy" grass took its namo from Tim othy Hanson, of Maryland, who introduced it in this country from England. Tho Messrs. Kendall, of Bowdoinham, Mo., have grown eighty acroa of oats this year. They estimate tho crop at 2,500 bushels. A Denver dairyman has a cow ho claimes ives ton gallons of milk a day. No ono will ispvte the fact that this is a good ???claim." Ten acres of red clover is sufficient pasture for at least fifty bogs, and is superior for that purposo to any other kind of grrts except alfalfa. In France, eggs are sorted and sized by pass ing them through a ring. The average sized ones must enter a ring four centimeters in di ameter; tho small ones must enter a ring'tbree centimeters. An Ohio lawyer Insists that the theory that the ago of a treo may be determined by count ing the rings in a cross section is correct. In his practice he bat often verified a surveyor's date by counting the rings on ???hacked" 'trees. Balt in their food when cooked, for poultry, is a very proper seasoning, but salt given in its raw statedf deleterious it much or it is eaten by fowls. We do not reconfmend its uso in any form save mixed with their mash of scald ed meal and boiled vegetables. 11UILD1NG FOR THE GRAVE. i Cat- A Mnn Who was Hurled Saturday In fln of Ilia Own Making. Mr. J. I. McAlister died Friday at Duluth and was buried in Atlanta Saturday. He was formerly a citizen of Atlanta and was Mr. W. E. McAlister's father. There is a very interesting story connected with bis death and burial that The Coubtitution will be pardoned for printing. Mr. McAlister was a 'most wor thy man end when he lived in Atlanta was a carpenter at the planing mill of Longley & Robinson. Ho was not a man of much property and being of a turn of mind determined save his heirs a small sum by making his own had nothing else frugtl save hi_ _ coffin at odd times when he 1 to do. lie secured some good poplar and made two coffins, one Tor his wifo &uu vuo for himself. His wife died soon after and was buried in the coffin her husband had provided for her. For five years the other coffin has remained at Longley k Robinson's. Fri day when Mr. McAlister died his son had the coffin taken out and carried to Patterson k Bowden???s, where Mr. Bowden dressed it in an appropriate style. It was a very handsome case and being nicely veneered was as good looking as a mnn could deiire and was snch a coffin as usually sells for sev enty-five dollars. It was sent to Duluth and Saturday the remains were brought to Atlanta in it. 51bny stories are told of men keeping their coffins ready for use, but U is not often that a man really makes the narrow box that is to be his last resting place. An Elector. Taixahamsk, Fla., September 19.???R. C. Long, one of the democratic electors, has resigned from the ticket and bis alternate, John O. fiaint Clair, has been chosen elector by the state committee. the interest and "impraaivcncM of the ceremony. the lictubk or tub fabbi was eminently practical and appropriate. Ho took for bis text the Uth aud 10th verses ot the 10th chap for of Numbers which read as follows: ???And IT ye go to war In your land against tho enemy that oppresaeth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and yo shall bo remom- bored before ibo Lord your Ood, and ye shall bo saved from your enemies. Also In the day of your gladness, and In your solemn days and in the beginning of your month*, yo shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over tho sacrifice* of your peace offcrltigs; that they may bo to you for a memorial before you Ood: 1 am the Lord your Ood. Dr. Jacobin said that tho Hebrew names for tho day indicated that it w??* "a day. ot memorial" I sml *lso ???a day for blowing the alarm." It is a day of memorial, tho beginning of a new year when we can look back over tho year that 1* gone and *co what ha* been given to us and what has been taken from us. H Is a time for calm reflec tion. It Is a time to consider whether by our lives wo have como nearer to Ood or drifted further away Irom him. But bo ride* being a day of memorial it Is a dnjr for blowing tho trumpets. Few of us In this enlight ened time believe lu an empty ceremonialism, hut there Is a deep significance in this blowing of the trumpets which la so emphatically enjoined til tho text. One of the great lessons U teaches us to-day Is that ws should not labor to ourselves, but togetherIn .earnest sympathy. It la *poor way to Uve, simply to at tend to one???s own business and to let other folks attend to theirs. That man Is poor, though he possess a million seres oI fertile land, who sows sod reaps for himself stone. The blast of these tiumi-cts should swakeu these Jews, who while professing faith In Judaism oontrtbute nothing toward suy congregation, and never communicate wlUi any except In time of distress The trumpet blast I* not commended for private sacrifice*. They should be offored In seemly silence and not proclaimed with trumpet*. But when all the con gregation ta gathered end the general offering is made to God tho trumpet blasts are acceptable. The lecture concluded with wholesome advlco to the congregation at to the duties of tho new year. In urging the faithful observance of all dutlca the raublsald, ???As we aro better men we shall lie better lareelltes. As we strive to live better live* In this new year at Its close we shall be better busbauds, better wives, if that be pornible, more careful aud more useful fathers and mothers, nobler men and nobler women.? blowing Tine trumpet. | T After the lecture there was solemn raiisid and the chanting . of the scriptures the service In Hebrew by the rabbi. Three times the congregation roae, and be blew each time three blasta on the trumpet, or hom, dedicated for Hint purpose. The service was very Impressive. It was followed by singing fn tho usual flue stylo of the choir which served the synagogue. A prayer was then ofleretf for all those ??? who bad been bereaved by death 'during the past year, they rising wherever they ??? happened to sit in the congregation. After an other bjrmn the benediction was pronounce 1. I The synagogue was quite full, aud thouuh the services were nearly three hours and a half long, they were followed with tho closest Interest throughout. The afternoon waa spout quietly at their own homca by most of the congregation. At 6 o'clock the new year passed away and they re sumed their regular business avocations on the second day of the year 5645. SPEAKING IN TIIE MOUNTAINS. Jmlga Lester's Mission for the National Ticket In North Georgia. Yesterday afternoon Judge Lester, hi* one arm adorned with a duster and a well worn valtsc In bis hand, wended hi* way to the passenger depot. When asked bis destination he replied that he was going to Pickens superior court which will meet to-morrow. Court week is a great time for the gathering of the people ??? * ??? counties and Judge Lester has nity to put in some good work on the Cleveland ana Hendricks . - the people of north Georgia and will give them feme wholesome campaign food. There arc a good many republicans in Pickens and the sur rounding conn tit*. It fs rumored that Mr. 8. A. Parnell will to'on hand at Jasper during court week to make a speech for Blaine and Logan. It Is not im proto hie that a joint dlscuwloii mry occur between him and Judge Lister. Tbs Judge to willing, A Rat filter Killed. September 16.???A r from ci baa token this opportu- 1 work as elector at-Urge mdricks ticket. He knows Cl at, Texas, September 16.???A negro rsv- isber, escaping from Brazos count; bought refuge in ibis place last night,was cap tured and shot by unknown parties. CHAMPION SNAKE STORY. Two Stories of Wonderful Encounters With Reptiles. From the Eatonton, Go., Times. As Captain James B. Darsey and Mr. D. F. Morrisan were on their way to tho captain???s ferry this morning, they noticed that the wiregrass was somewhat beaten or pressod After following tho trail for several hundred yards, to their utter consternation and sur- S riio they espied tho ynonster rattlesnake of 10 season. Thoy tackled him with a lightwood knot or two, when tho snako commenced hissing and rattling, and actually raised itself up to tho height of at least six feet and sprang at them, tumping about its own lengtli. They had to hustWfarther away and resort to powder and lead. Tho first shot took effect m one sido of tho snake???s neck, which only seemed to enrage him. Ho tinued his standing posture, making several more leaps toward his adversaries, making a faint nolso somewhat liko the hollowing of an alligator. They iinall after firing somo ton round . wounded him so badly that he could not movo, and soon finished him with clubs. On meas uring the snako it was found to bo ten feet and eleven inches long, seven inohes across tho head, twenty-two inches around tho body and twenty-three rattles, a button and a button hole. Captain Darsey says if he had not hm. a little of the ???odium vitoa" at the ferry whon thoy got thero, ho and Frank would scarcely have survived tho terrible conflict. . TIIIBTT-FOUR IN A BOW. From the Columbus, Ga., Times. A strange story comes to us from ono of the counties below hero, and if it wore not for the fact that fact is moro itrange than fiction, we should feel a hesitancy about relating it. Tho story is this: A gentleman having boon at worx in a field some distanco from iiome carried his dinner with him. Whon como he took his bucket and went in a piece of woods near by, and close to a crock, to oat bis dinner. After finishing the meal ho sat down on a log to rest awhile beforo resuming his work. While thus engaged, happening to g lance at au old decayed stump just before im, he saw a snake???s head protruding from o hole. Ho immediately seized a long polo and * uujq???var. In a short timo mo DiiuHo, nuir Boo ing him, crawled out and os lie did so the g entleman killed him with a well-directed low, (seeing then, to his horror, ithat it was that most dreaded rep tile, tho rattlcsnako. Toll is aston ishment another camo out and was also slain, and another, and another, until thirty-four had been counted. Whilo still watching tho holo lie observed that the last snako had only been wounded and bad crawled off and was, apparently, writhing in tho agunios of death somo distance ofl on a sand bar c&usod by tho overflow of tho creek. Ho immediately left his post and advanced towards the hideous roptilo to dispatch him. When ho reached tho spot tho snako was appa rcntly dead, Looking down oi_ tho smooth sand near by ho saw, to his utter amazement, tho words ???no moro" traced thereon in plain, distinct characters. Ho looked at tho snako and he looked at the words. Ho saw that a capital N should havo been used in commencing a sentence, and ho mado the correction, then, seized with a sud den superstitious fear ho hastened homo and told hia strange story. We givo it to tho pub lic for what ft is worth. Alter all, tho snako may havo lied; perhaps tlioro was no 11 BUSINESS AND TRADE. The Failure of the ltludakopf Brothers In New York. Nkw York, Bsptembar 10.???Simon Rind skopf, Morris Rindskopf, Raphael Duohavar and Jacob Rosenthal, comprising the firm of Rindskopf Brothers k Co., wholesale clothiers, doing business ot No, 168 Broadway, and who have been in business nboiit forty yoars, filed nu assignment to-day for the benefit of t L * creditors to Jacob W. Mack. Tho 'total amount of prcforcnccH n about $88,V71. Morris Rindskopf. of tho firm, is woll known for his cliaritablo bequosU to tho poor of tho city, llo is treasurer of tho united Hebrew chant let, and also of iho Jlobrow orphan asylum. Simon Rindskopf is also highly connected and well known. Assignee Mack is secretary and treasurer of the Nathat manufacturing company. Rindskopf Bros, k Co. organised In Gin riniinli in 1854, and moved to New York in I860. Thoy wero among tho largest clothing houses in tho country. They hnvo never be foro failed and havo enjoyed the highest credit. Raphaol Birtbinan, of tho firm, is a director in tlio Importers and Traders??? and Fifth avenue banks, and tho United States Life lnsursnro company. The liabilities aro estimated at $90,000, and the actual assets aro $101,000. Tho firm called on ite friends for largo sums a week ago, as it has suffered heavily from the stringent mouey market. Their frionds agreed to tide them over. On close investigation the firm felt justified in accepting help. This in vestigation was made, aud alter consultation with their attorneys, Stories k Meyers, 18 Wull street, it was deeided that friends should not bo imperiled, and au assignment was tho best for aU consented. They w??ro forced to this by tho foct that a largo interest wus In jeopardy, and efforts to secure it were unsuc cessful. Rindskopf Bros, k Co., who have fil ed on assignment, are the firm about which rumor* wero current yesterday. They havo a force branch house in Cincinnati. The firm he* been rated at $200,000 to $500,000, with credit very high. Tire llualness Failures, K zw York, Heptember 19.???Business failure* throughout tho country, occurring daring last week, aa reported to It. G. Dun k Co., number for the Unitedfllatcs, 196, and for Canada 23; total 210, compared with 220 last week. Tho number is nearly identical, and tho distribu tion of failures about the sumo c?? in the pro- FARM FOR SALE. PARK OF 185 ACRES IN THE WESTERN part of Newton county, 7 miles of Covington and within three miles of Presbyterian, Methodist or Baptist Cburchts. Lie* well and ta well water ed and suited to Cotton. Grain andl tbs Gramas, with gram and clover lots started. Ninety acres??? liioiiUy Irish, In high state of cultivation; ten acres fn bottom. Tine pasture. Stock law In opera tion. Four room dwelling wltb*lw.?? tenement house*, ail new. Flue water. Fruit has never teen known to fail. Eight months scho ??l conve nient. 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