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VOL. V.-NO. 1. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Arabi Bey and hia adherents have been proclaimed rebels by the Sultan of Turkey. It will bo remembered that Vennor said we would have “a year without a summer.” Texas will have 50,000.000 bushels of corn to sail this year. Last year the State bud to import. Potatoes are being offered in Illinois Tor twenty-five cents a bushel for fal delivery, with no takers. Mr. Gladstone looks upon De I«eS seps as a private individual, but De Les seps doesn’t, not by any means. e More than four times the average an nual destruction of life by lightning has already occurred in the United States this se d son. I .' ♦ » George Scoville proposes to com mence action in court against Dr. Hicks for the possession of what there is of Guiteau’s body. The Denver Tribune sA vitas the Malley boys to include Denver in their siimmet jaunt. It significantly adds that there are several trees with convenient limbs, close to town. At the Indian agency, Pine Ridge, Dakota, the Indians offer a reward of SSO for the apprehension of any person who sells, trales, or gives to any Indian or half-breed intoxicating liquors. The Detroit Free Preu figures up that there have been 167 deaths from tetanus tins year, caused by the toy pistol, and suggests thsi next Fourth of July arse nic be P'sed as a less fatal substitute. A cotemtorary thoughtfully observes that “each place thinks its own river and harbor appropriation all right, but that in other places it is a steal.” So it is in all matters where finances benefit self. Eleven schoolboys in Geneseo walked to Niagara Falls, August 4, 1832, and agreed to meet there again, if living, in fifty years. Seven of them kept the promise, coming with their wives and children on the 4th just past. ——e ■■■ ■ The Trustees of the Loveland Camp meeting have decided to sell the Har rison cottage in dispute and to give the Rev. Harrison S2OO of the proceeds. Os course, this is in addition to the SIOO a week he received for his services. '+ e The extensive war preparations in Russia evidently has some significance. If it detracts the attention of Nihilists from the Cz ir, there will be a probab 1- ity of the coronation taking place. The Czar no doubt looks upon the project with favor. , , A \\ estern paper, apologizing for Mormon polygamy, thoughtfully re marks that the system does not throw the burden of supporting a husband upon one woman. That is the best ar gument that has been advanced in favor of polygamy. Texas, which is said to have 500,000 acres of school land, rapidly appreciat ing in value, and worth probably SIOO,- 000,000, is expected to have in the not distant future aschool fund of $250,000,- 000, a sum greater than the combined school fund of all the States. Ihe floral business is one of the best, most prosperous and most rapidly in creasing of any in the country. In New York $10,000,000 is now expended for flowers annually, and as much as $5 given for a single rosebud. The town has gone flower mad, and no one can eat er dance or marry or die without a shower < f flowers, and this craze is spreading. A writer for the New York Herald was talking with a few fellow journalists the other day, and said: “Not long ago Mr. Connery, our managing editor, was summoned as a witness in court. Mr. Bennett called him and said: ‘You will he asked what position you occupy here, bay that you are a clerk. I am the edi tor of the Herald, and the only editor.’ Fhe members of the Garibaldi family have erected over the tomb of the Gen eral a large granite monolith, weighing f°nr tons. The tomb is watched day ail ‘l night. The decision as to the final resting place is left to Parliament, which k—pities to the Janiculum. During the | days after the death of Gari ' • telegrams reacted the ' n Fr % ; all i-S ' ®he fflfllton -Minis. They had been married two years and had ohe child. Advices from Sagua, Cuba; report the destruction .of ths corn crop, owing to the extreme drouth. The President of the Central Board of Agriculture of the Republic of Columbia, writes the Captain General, warning him to take effective measures to prevent the larvm and locusts devastating that Republic from being introduced into Cuba by vessels carrying cattle to the Island. It is recommended that cattle on Vessels Be fed with hay only. It is thought that the loctlstS will soon invade the United States after reaching Cuba. The jury who acquitted the Malley boys and Blanche Douglass of the mur der of Jennie Cramer, held a grand re union the other day, visiting Savin Rock, where the girl’s dead body was found, and other scenes. The re-union was marked with hilarity and story tell ing. Meantime, Blanche Douglass is enjoying herself with fashionable people at watering places, where she was seen by one of the jurors, who related to his fellow jurors the attention she was at tracting, and how supremely happy she seemed to be. New Haven people are peculiar. — A glance at the naval register shows that with a total force of 12,000 men, including marines, we have twelve Rear Admirals, twenty-two Commodores, sixty Captains, 110 Commanders, 315 Lieutenants, 180 Masters, 400 Ensigns, while the Naval Academy is prepared to add from year to year largely to the number of the Litter, This is certain!v a large enough staff of officers to com mand as great a navy as we shall pos sibly ever need, and it is quite natural that a movement, such as that recently inaugurated by Senator Miller, of Cali fornia, should be made to reduce the number of officers to make it in some measure proportionate to the number of seamen and marines. Os all the English correspondents at Alexandria, it is to be said that they have shared the perils they have de scribed. Afloat they have shown them selves ready to face shot and shell, and ashore the knives of Arabi’s assassins, not to speak of mobs and explosions. They have done their work under a cli mate of great heat, and have done a great deal of it. Altogether, they have been a credit to their profession, and the profession seems in no particular hurry to take credit to itself or award due measure to the brave and brilliant men who lift journalism a step higher by their devotion and capacity and courage. The public looks on in wonder at the quantity of readable matter turned out each morning for its eager perusal. The Library at Abbotsford. The library is the handsomest apart ment at Abbotsford. It is fifty feet in length by thirty in breadth, and has an immense bay-window that affords a charming glimpse of the Tweed. The ceiling is carved alter designs from Mel rose Abbey. There are twenty thou sand volumes here and in the study. The book-cases were made under Sir Walter’s direction, by his own work men. Some of them conta'n rare and curious old books and MSS. that are tnirefully guarded under lock and key. Here, on the wall, is the portrait of Sir Walter’s eldest son, who was Colonel of the Fifteenth Hussars. He went out to Madras in 1839, and was a very pop ular .and efficient officer; but he soon fell a victim to the fatal climate of India and died on the return voyage to En gland, whither he had been ordered on account of his health. Here, too, is the bust of Sir Walter at the age of forty nine, by Chantrey. There are chairs exquisitely wrought, from the Borghese Palace at Rome, the gift of the Pope; a silver urn upon a stand of porphyry, from Lord Byron; and an ebony cabi net and set of chairs presented by King George IV. In a glass ease, shielded from‘"the touch of profane lingers, are the purse of Rob Roy; the brooch of his wife; a note-book in green and gold, once the property of Napoleon I.; and agold s-nutl-box. also g.ven by King George IV. When this royal friend was Regent, he"invited Scott to dine with him in London, addressing him famil iarly as ••Walter,” and showering upon him evidences of h's esteem; when he succeeded to the throne, one of the fust acts of the kingly prerogative was to create him a Ba onet. — St. Nic/io r 'in. Deadly Weapons. A detective frightened a young man nearly to death yesterday. Ihe young man 'was standing on the corner when the detective tapped him on the shoul der and said; “ 1 shall have to arrest you for carrying deadly weapons.” Ihe young man turned pale, and his lips quivered, and he stammered out that he never carried a revolver or a knife in his life. “Yes.” said the detective, “that may be all night, but look at your shoes.” The young man looked at his pointed, tooth-picked-toed shoes, and asked what was the matter with them. Then the detective told him the shoe- were so sharp at the toes that if he should get mad and kick a man he would split him wide open. Then the detective winked, and said: “You may go this time, but don’t let it occur again.” Milwaukee Sun, DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1882, Farmers and Farm Help. As there are I ‘books and books’*— meaning good and bad ones—so there are “men and men.” Some farmers never have any trouble with their help and the farm work moves as steadily and with as little friction as clock-work; others are incessantly in trouble and everything goes wrong. We are ac quainted with men who are laborers by the month or year on the farm, and who make their employers’ interest their own. They work as well when the “boss” is away as when he is near, and, in everything they do, they consid er how they would act if in t heir employ er’s position. There are others, also, who labor simply for the money they re ceive; they have no interest in the work, but listen with a keen ear for the dinner horn and watch with eager eye for the setting of the sun. To do the work somehow—not necessarily well—is the principle which governs them. The farmer who is particular as to whom he employs; who mis the bargain well understood, who pays well, pays willingly and pays promptly; who ap preciates good service and fairly fulfills his part of the agreement, need have little fear of being troubled by his help. For such employers there is always some one to offer service; such employers are sought by “hired men,” and in nine cases out of ten, satisfaction is mutual. But, unfortunately, not all employers are thus careful as to whom they hire or how they treat their help. They se lect from the “rough scuff” class, from tramps and those who never have had a steady situation, simply because they can hire them for twenty-five cents less per day though, in reality, they receive a half dollar per dav less in return for services. The usual result is that the farmer has to oversee all his work per sonally. look after the implements when not in use, go here and go there to give instructions, and thus lose largely his own time which, with intelligent, in dustrious help, could be elsewhere more profitably employed. In fact, each is intent on getting the most possible from the other, neither having the welfare of the other at heart. Such a condition of things is neither agreeable nor profita ble. We are aware that the same differ ences are liable to arise between em ployers and employed in other occupa tions, but the effects are more striking and more noticeable on the farm than in the work-shop or store where the rou tine of duty is more easily marked and the labor is more mechanical in its na ture. Farm work can never be reduced to such exactness in detail that the workman can perform it satisfactorily unless he is thoroughly interested in it, and in hearty sympathy with his em ployer. So much for the hired hand, and on the other hand, to keep this in terest alive, there must be on the part of the employer the approval and appre ciation of work faithfully done. But there is something more in this than the bare facts of work well done and well remunerated. There is a gen uine satisfaction on the part of both em ployer and employe, and the resultant happiness which accrues to the men themselves and to their respective fami lies is a thing to be sought for and prized. But when the men are continually at “loggerheads,” their families leel the reactive influence, and even society is, in a degree, affected adversely by it. Whatever, then, will bring about mutu al contentment and good will among farmers and their help should be fos tered, and while “hired men” are falli ble, the farmer should remember that it is largely in his power to make their mutual relations agreeable. — Hural New Yorker. A “Rustler” in Dakota. Bismarck has a “boomer.” He is hired by the Chamber of Commerce, at a good salary, to ride upon the trains east of Fargo and talk to emigrants about the advantages of settling near the Banner City. In a word, he is a drummer for his town. When I was there he had not started upon his mis sion, and I found him plowing a field for oats on the only farm within sight of the town. He was a member of the Territorial 1 egislature, he said, and he demonstrated his capacity for the busi ness of booming by fifteen minutes of intelligent conversation on the capacity of the soil of Burleigh County ami its attractions to people who by the plow would thrive. He was evidently what they call in Dakota a “rustler.” To say' that a man is a rustler is the highest indorsement a Dakotan can give. It means that he is pushing, energetic, smart and successful. Ihe word and its derivations have many shades of meaning! To rustle around is to bestir one’s self in a business • way. “What are you going to do in Mandan? asked one man of another in a Bismarck sa loon. “Oh, I’ll rustle around and pick up something,’ 1 which meant that he would look about for a good business opening. “Rustle the things 0.l that table,” means (dear the table in a hurry. To do a rustling business is to carry on an active trade. The word was coined by the Montana herdsmen to describe the action of cattle brushing the snow from the roots of the bunch-grass with their noses.—Cenfwr// Magazine. In sentencing a co'ored man who was convicted of stealing a pair of pants, an Austin Judge took occasion to say : “I hope you are sorry for stealing those pants/’ “ I was sorry, Judge, de same dav I tuck dem ar pants. I was sorry at not finding nutfin in the pockets ceptin a kear ticket.” The most singular thing about the poverty-stricken pants was that they did not Meogto* U newspaper mam— Austin Sifting*. 1 A Cunning Bascati Now and then a pretty lively sWindlef is produced over in this country, though the people here affect to believe that the only frauds in the world are practiced by Americans. The other day a man known as Malcolm Fairfax was brought up at Bow street on charges of forgery and confidence operations covering a long term of years. He had enjoyed about as brilliant a career as you often hear spoken of. He had traveled in the best society for a decade, and had stood very high,"partly by reason of his fine breeding and bright qualities, and partly on account of his supposed wealth. He was understood to be a retired Indian merchant, and everybody seemed to like him. When arrested he was living in Alexandria, Egypt, where the English colony regarded Malcolm Fairfax as one of its most particular ornaments. Only a month or so before his downfall he actually had the audacity to sit as pres ident of a “court of honor,” appointed to inquire into certain performances by a well-known military officer. His sig nature is affixed to the document of that body finding the officer innocent of the charge brought against him. At Gibraltar he committed a forgery, and it brought him to grief, for detec tives were set after him at once, and they hunted him down. He was having a dispute with the British consul at Alexandria, when the latter said to him: “The detective is waiting for you with a warrant on that Gibraltar charge.” Malcolm never changed color or gave a sign of discomfiture, but smiling, said: “Ah! then I don’t need trouble you further.” With that he quietly stepped aside, drew a razor out of his pocket, and slashed himself across the throat. He bled fearfully, but was fixed up by the surgeons and brought to England, where he pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against him, and was sen tenced to five years’ penal servitude. Somehow, you can’t help sympathizing with a bright rascal like this, when he’s finally brought to bay. You know per fectly well that he deserves all he gets byway of punishment, but when you reflect that he has succeeded all his life in wresting a luxurious living from the smartest classes of people in the world, you can’t help admiring his talents.—• London Cor. Chicago News. Lead Poison. Os all the metallic poisons, lead is perhaps the one most often taken into the human body. It is eliminated from the other poisons, and excepting those that directly kill, its effects are the se verest and most varied. Lead may enter tne human system through the mouth in water from lead pipes, or from type held in the mouth by compositors. It may be taken in through the lungs by breathing in lead factories of various kinds; be absorbed by the mucous membrane of the nose from snuff containing it. It may be taken in even through the unbroken skin from hair-dyes and rouges, and through both skin and nostrils by paint e: s. Some persons are much more sus ceptible to it than are other persons. Among the symptoms that show that it has been taken into the body are colic; great muscular weakness; consti pation; female disorders; blindness, com plete or partial; neuralgias of the head, face, joints; in the small of the back, between the ribs, or in the upper and lower limbs; loss of sensibility in the skin, alternating with over-sensibility; m iscular spasms; and finally and most frequently, paralysis, which may affect almost all the muscles of the body. One of the most constant signs of the pres ence of the poison is a blue line along the gums. As the system left to itself gets rid of the lead very slowly, the lead accumulates in it until what was for a while harmless may become a fatal poison. The treatment should aim to palliate the pains, and to quicken the eliminat ing organs. But the fundamental thing is to invigorate and improve the general heath bypure air, nutritious diet and warm baths, (’old baths injure. There is good authority tor the state ment that workers in lead-factories who drink milk several times a day are un affected by the lead. Youth's Cornpan- | ion. The Ztmis on Witchcraft. They had been told of the persecution of the witches at Salem, and ns witch craft is a capital crime in Zuni, they heartily commended the work, and said that it was on account of the energetic steps taken in those times that the Americans were prosperous to-day, and rid of the curse of witchery. At the public reception held for them in Salem, when told they were in the famous city of the witches, they fell into an ani mated discussion of the matter among themselves there on the platform. Ki a-si, when invited to address the audi ence, preached a little sermon on witch craft, which would have pleased old Cotton Mather himself. He thanked the good people of Salem for the serv ice they had done the world, and gave them some adv oe h'»w to d al with witchcraft should it ever trouble them again. “Be the witches or wizards your dearest, relatives or friends, con sider not your own hearts, ’ said he, “but remember your dutv and spare them not; put them to death.” The Centurv. „ —lt is reported that English detect ives have proved useless in Ireland, on account of their accent. We should think so. It rather gives a fellow .■>.vay, baio'.e. when he walks into ft Land £’< <■„ sufh ’a thing as •* !lbout / '•xe. y know?”— Chicago hmi>- Indigestion Among our vegetables are those con taining sulphur, such as onions, leeks, waterci esses, radishes, mustard and cress, etc. Their use should be shunned by people of weak digestion. If they are not digested they produce sulphur etted hydrogen and bad breath and un comfortable distention from that gas. Celery is a salutary vegetable; so are some roots. Carrots and parsnips, if thoroughly cooked, w ill be better digest ed than turnips, as the latter also con tain much sulphur. Steaming these vegetables is far better than boiling them, and preserves the sugar in them. All fibrous materials should be avoided, such as cabbage-stalks, green leaves with strong or coarse fibers, green beans with fibrous skins, etc. Whatever is used of vegetables must be thoroughly well cooked and reduced to a pulp with out losing its nourishing properties. Steaming, wherever it can be employed, is, therefore, better than boiling. Salads can only be used sparingly, made ot dainty head iettuce, the leaves having been well picked. Cucumber can never be eaten raw, but, if stewed, it is di gestible. Os fruits the berries are the best. Strawberries eaten with sugar or raspberries are better than currants; oranges are good, eaten without the skins; apples or pears must be eaten sparingly, and are best stewed with sugar and a little spice. Oranges ought to be avoided unless eaten without the pulp ; lemons, however, may do good if they are made into a lemonade with warm water and sugar. Nuts are en tirely to be done away with. Os vege table beverages we have tea, coffee and cocoa to consider. There is no doubt that tea has a refreshing influence on the digestive organs, if used moderately and not in too strong an infusion. It is better, however, not to use it in the morning for a weak digestion, as it will stimulate too soon. and rather weaken than strengthen the flow of the gastric juice at that time. One cup of ta a diy is all that can be allowed for the dyspeptic. Coffee, when well roasted, is made strengthening in its effect, but it must not be taken too strong, and, more than this, it must not have been boiled, but only have had the infusion taken off. I may here say that the roast ing of coffee leaves, as yet, much to be desired, and that inferior coffees might be made more useful than they are ii they were properly. prepared. A pre paration has come under my notice which I found most beneficial with persons ot weak digestion. The best brands oi Java or Mocha coffee, mixed with roast ed and ground dandelion root in propor tion of two or one of dandelion to three or four of coffee. This article, if deli cately manufactured, is a most whole some" mixture and can be well recom mended.—Food and Health. The Future of Our Republic. If the percentage of increase in popula tion shall be maintained, in 1890 we shall have a population of more than 65,000,- 000; in 1900 the population of the Re public will exceed 85,000,000. If the rate of growth for the last ten years is maintained, the baby born in this year and living the allotted three score and ten years will see this Republic, if the Republic stands, holding a population of 315,000,000. What a Republic! What a future! How great the task of keeping this Republic Republican, of keeping this Democracy Democratic! How splen did and boundless the service to man kind if the world shall be taught that it is possible for so vast a Republic to exist whose fundamental idea is to exalt the individual, to protect the little, local self-governments and to dignify the doc trine of local self-government on earth. But this population is to be one not of ignorance or squalor, but of intelligence, thrift, and plenty. How measureless the work of such a Republic! We can not compute it by multiplying the free dom and happiness which democracy gives to the single home into the many millions of homes which will make up 315,000,000 of people. In 1910, a gen erous lifetime hence, will it be possible for the Republic to maintain the sim plicity, the democracy, which ought to be its commanding and everlasting fea tures? Will the time have forever passed when “ Fishers, and choppers, and plowmen, Shall constitute a State.” A Dangerous ratent. A correspondent who has been aston ished at the number of ladies who have been burned to death by their clothes tahiug fire at an open grate or fire, says he is experimenting on an invention by which a lady in case of accident of this kind can, by pulling a string, throw off all her clothes at once and escape de struction. It seems as though something ought to be done to protect ladies from the fireplace, but the remedy will event ually come through the making of dress materials fire proof. The scheme spoken of by our correspondent, if made to work satisfactorily, in case of fire, might sub ject her to embarrassments. The string might catch on something when she was out shopping, or some villainous man might find where it was located, and while pretending to escort her across the street, he might pull the string. There are men mean enough to do it, in Chicago. We advise our correspondent not to waste anv more time on his invention, as no body would wear it, after ho had it per fected. — Peck i Sun. _ K boy’s composition on girls : “ Girls S «■>A”- I she I TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR. BITS OF INFORMATION. The largest national cemetery is at Lynchburg, Va. The name of God in the Hindoostanee language is Rain. In the Persian, Sire. Gibbon began to write his “ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” in Lon don in 1772. In Moscow the plague introduced by the Turkish army carried off 20,000 vie tims in a month. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in France guilty animals suf fered death on the gallows. Peacocks were carefully reared in the island of Samos, and sold at such high prices that Varo says they fetched yearly £2,000. The Franklin Arctic expedition sailed from Greenhithe, England, May 24, 1845. The last heard from them were dispatches sent from the Whalefish islands dated July 12, 1845. The English language has a greater number of words than the French. There are also in English a greater number of ways to express thoughts than in French. The expression “commencement ex ercises” is applied to the concluding exercises of a college term, from the fact that they mark the “commence ment” of the graduate’s independent life. The invention of glass is commonly attributed to the Phoenicians. Very an cient discoveries of glass in Egypt have somewhat shaken this attribution, and it will remain uncertain until further discoveries settle the question. The phrase “ suited to a T ” is said to be derived from the so-called T-square, an instrument used by architects and mechanical draughtsmen in drawing plans. As the T-square is often used to test the accuracy with which lines and angles have been drawn, it is altogether probable that the expression originated in this fact. The word “vendetta” (vengeance) originated, it is said, hi Corsica, where the practice was formerly general, and still prevails in remote parts of the island. The custom, one writer re marks grimly, flourishes among ihe Bedouins. Traces of it are found some times among the Montenegrins, Alban ians, Druses and Circassians; and, in deed, it may be said that the custom prevailed at one time or another among every tribo and nation. Whenever a person was murdered, the practice among those holding to this custom was to avenge the death; and that duty was imposed upon the son, brother or near est kinsman, who forthwith sought pri vate vengeance upon him who shed the blood of the relative. As the adminis tration of justice became a more and more settled social institution, the cus tom disappeared, although Corsica still clings to it in its most cruel form, and on that island it plays a most important part in a social life. The Poison of Tobacco Smoke. A series of experiments has been re cently conducted by Herr Kissling, of Bremen, with the view of ascertaining the properties of nicotine and other poi sonous substances in the smoke of ci gars. He specifies as strongly poison ous constituents carbonic oxide, sulphu retted hydrogen, prussic acid, picoline bases and nicotine. The first three, however, in such small proportions, and their volatility is so great that th share in the action of tobacco »mok the system may be neglected. The olinc bases, too, are present in con ativelv small quantity, so that th’ sonous character of the smoke urgeOll,’ almost exclusively attributed to t proportion of nicotine present. j elß j,. Only a small part of the nicoi _y cigar is destroyed by the pr<;Q"H<U smoking, and a relatively large passes off with the smoke. The pw eo i> tion of nicotine in the smoke dep. wWitilebt of course, essentially on the kind <«■'■•« s. bacco: but the relative amount of nL. . tine which passes from a cigar into smoke depend vL.efly on how far the cigar has been smoked, as the nicotine contents of the unsmoked part of a ci gar is in inverse ratio to the size of this part, i. e., more nicotine the short er the part. Evidently, in a burning cigar, the slowly advancing zone of glow drives before it the distillable mat ters, so that in the yet unburnt portion a constant accumulation of these takes place. It would appear that in the case of cigars that are poor in nicotine, more of this substance relatively passes into smoke than in the case of cigars with much nicotine; also that nicotine, not withstanding its high boiling point, has remarkable volatility.— London limes. —“I should like to know somethin# about this Egyptian question, dad. said a young New Haven midget at tea last evening. “What are they firing at Alexandria so it is the great. “Yes, my child, I suppose so.” “And who is Arabi Bey and Dervisch Pasha and Ismail ” “They are all foreign- ers, mv son. You can have no possible interest in them. Eat your supper and keep quiet.” This is the way some parents have of withholding informa tion they haven’ tgot from their children. —New Haven Register. -The “United Brothers o.rnW “Sisters of the ans- SLis'Ten.’’ two secret orde» . / signed for men and u ome ttn nu>d must be carry.