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Wrightsville, Ga., Thursday, March 17, 1887.
THE NOCTUBNAL COW.
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Bill Nye's Boomberang.
With the opening of my move
ments in the agricultural line comes
the cow.
Laramie has about seven cows that
annoy me a good deal. T hey work
me up so that I lose ray equinimity.
I have mentioned this matter before,
but this spring the trouble seems to
have assumed some new features.—
The prevailing cow for this season
seems to be a seal-browfi cow with a
stub tail, which is arranged as a
nightikey. She wears it banged. v
The other day I had just planted
my celluloid radishes and irrigated
my royal Bengal turnips and sown
my liuptingicasc summer squashes,
and this cow went by trying to con
vey the impression that she mas out
for a walk.
That night the blow fell. The
queen of night was high in the blue
vault of heaven amid the twinkling
stars. All nature was hushed to re
pose. The people of Laramie were
in their beds. So were my hunting
case summer squashes. I heard a
stealtky step near the conservatory
where my celluloid radishes and
pickled beets are growing, and I
arose.
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It was a lovely night. At the head
of the procession there was a seal
brown cow with a tail like the han.
die on a pump, and standing at an
angle of forty-five degrees.
That was the cow.
Foliowing at a rapid gait was a
bewitching picture of alabaster limbs
and Gothic joints and Wamsutta
muslin night robe.
That was me.
The queen of night drew behind
a cloud.
The vision seemed te break her
all up.
Bye-and-bye there was a crash,
and the seal-brown cow went home
carrying the garden gate with her
as a kind of keep-sake. She had
plenty of garden gates at homo in
her collection, but she had none of
that particular pattern. So she wore
it home around her neck.
The writer of these lines then care
fully blushed the sand off his feet
with a pillow sham and retired to
rest.
When the bright May morn was
ushered in upon the busy world the
radish and squash bed had melted
into chaos and there only remained
some sticks of stove wood and the
tracks of a cow, interspersed with
the dainty little footprints of some
Peri or other who evidently stepped
about four ^rds to the lick, and
could wear a number nine shoe if
necessary.
,, Yesterday , , . it
morning was very
cold, and when I went out to feed
my royal self-acting hen, I found
this same cow wedged into the hen
coop. O, blessed ^opportunity! O ’
thrice blessed and long-sought re¬
venge!
Now I bad her where she could
not back out, and I secured a large
'picket from the* fence, Jand took my
coat off, and breathed in a full
breath. I did not want to kill her,
I simply wanted to make her wish
that she had died of membranous
croup when she was young.
While I was spitting in my hands
she seemed to catch my idea, but
saw how hopeless was her position.
I brought down the picket with the
condensed strength and eagerness
and wrath of two long, suffering
years. I struck the corner of the hen¬
house. There was a deafening crash
and then all was still, save the low,
rippling laugh of the cow, as she
stood in the alley and encouraged
me while I nailed up the hen-house
again.
Looking back over my whole life,
it seems to me that it is strewn with
nothing but the rugged ruins of my
busted aticipations.
The standard for a good cow is
said to be five hundred gallons of
milk a year, and of this there should
be ten per cent, of efieam.
Business and Suicide.
While suicides’ are frequent, it is
not often even in a country as large
as this that three are reported on the
same day. On one day of this week
three persons died by their own hands
The first, Annie Maria Barker, whose
home was in Jeffersonville, Ind.,
killed herself because she was disap<
pointed in love. Tho second, George
Sy mends, a carpenter, whose home
was in Omaha, Neb., killed
in a fit of despondency. The third,
A. O. Payne, a traveling salesman,
whnra Lome was in Conueaut, O.,
kim-utnrusen on account of fln&h
cial troubles,
The history of suicides shows that
they .are much more frequent in ci
ties than in the country. The victims
it is held, are either sacrifices to bad
habits, or are driven to madness by
the bewilding whirl of city life. A
distinguished physician, who liae giv
en mush study to the causes of sui
cides, declares that the larger nuin
her of them results from living too
fast. He does not mean too fast in
the sense of dissipation, but in that
of working all the time at high pres
sure and without needed rest,
The danger of such a life has of
ten been pointed out by physicians,
and the press has repeatedly uttered
words of warning on the subject, but
with apparently little effect. It is
well-known fact that business men
in this country, of ail classes, are at
work too many hours out of
twenty-four. Not only is this true,
but in many cases they do not
enough time to their meals. A trav
cling salesman, whose home is in
vannah, said, the other day, that
frequently misses two meals each day
from Monday morning until night.
when he is on the road. In addition
to this hurtful practice, he does not
know what it is to have regular
hours for sleeping. Sometimes be
sleeps eight hours in a night, some
rimes three, and sometimes none.
When he comes home for his Sunday
rest, he is worn out, and generally
spends the entire day in bed.
In such a life there is no satisfac
rion, and, if it does not result in mad¬
ness or suicide, it is almost certain to
result in ill health that lasts until
death comes as a relief. It is argued
that there is no help for it, that the
demands of business requirejtliat the
laws of nature shall be defied, and
that if one refuses to undergo the
hardships of such a life another may
he easily found who will nos refuse.
Doubtless the argument is founded
upon facts, hut there ought to be
some remedy. -Do thyself no harm”
> s a commandmeant as well for the
physical as the spirtual life of men.
Those who direct the business of the
country arc responsible, and they
ought rbe to manage so chat life shall
no so needlessly sacrificed.-Sa
vannuh News,
Preternatural Laziness.
Some prospectors in WestVirgin
ia found signs of natural gas on a
farm belonging to an old man, and
they went to his house and asked per
mission to bore and try further de¬
velopments.
“ TFhat’s the gas good for?” he
asked.
“To take the place of fuel.”
“Will it take the place of wood?”
“Oh, yes!”
“Then you can’t bore a darn bore
around here. I’ve got five slapping
big sons who are too infernal lazy
to do anything more’n cut wood
enough to warm their shins; and if
we brd natural gas to burn, I’d have
to hire a nigger fo help the boy draw
their breath.”
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Now and t hen the President drops
exprefsions which seem to indicate
that his tnind is fixed upon a second
term. At his J/onday’s reception
there was present a large crowd. The
Baltimore Sun says that he took the
congratulations good-naturealy, and
once, when a stranger said he was
glad to shake him by his hand and
added. “I hope I’ll be able to shake
it during a second term, too,” Oleve
land smiled all over bis face and
shook his head and said; “I hope so,
too.”
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Mr. Beecher’s Idea of Hell.
"If a man to-day believed in the
old idea of hell,” said Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher Smiday, “be would
be regarded as a fit eanditate for the
lunatic asylum. He must give up
either his Christ or his hell. Man can
enly be saved by the voluntary suf¬
fering of love, and that is not con¬
sistent with the idea of a revengeful
God. Hell has been pretty much
left out of the Bible in its revised
state. Sbeol and Hades have taken
its place. This does not do away
with the( idea of future puiuehr;#jut.
I believe in that. But the old metb*
ode and machinery have been pretty
generally given up.”
In speaking of John the Baptist
Mr. Beecher said that his teaching
was the same in tone as the teaching
of Jesus. But John did not rise above
his atmosphere and Jesus did. John
compared to Christ, was like the al¬
phabet in comparison with the whole
literature. Christ preached repent
cnce; and repentance in its truest
sense meant the complete changing
of a man. Repentance was the base
and heart of the whole religion.
“It is an education,” said the
preacher, “for a man to repent faults
and become completely changed, as
he wonld if he truly repented. There
is no grander sight than to see a man
stop a course of evil and say fare¬
well to it, and then start out in a
different direction to go forward to
all that is great and noble and good.
No man ought to be suddenly con¬
verted unless he has been living on
the lower plane of his basilar, ani¬
mal nature Such a man changes his
mode of life because he fears that he
will go to hell and be damned.
If a man can’t be held by any oth>
er element than fear let him be held
by that. Such a man would begin a
new life by giving up the vice of
swearing, and would tell nojmore lies
in his business than was absolutely
nvcessaiy. [Laughter.] lie has not
gone very far, but he has laid a good
foundation.” $$
To illustrate the different methods
of Christians, Mr. Beecher said: “If
you start a worm, an eagle, a lierse
and a tortoise from New York to
Pennsylvania, the worm wonld crawl
the eagle would fly, the horse would
walk and the tortoise would crawl,
but they would get there just the
same. [Laughter.]
Repentonce could not be done up
by wholesale, but must he repeated
over and over again all through life.
—New York Star.
He saw His Father
“Father,” he began, after taking
the old man out back of the barn,
“your years are many.”
“Yes, my son.”
“You have toiled early and late,
and by the sweat of your brow you
have amassed this big farm.”
“That’s so, William.”
“It has pained me more than I can
tell to see jfou, at your age, troub¬
ling yourself with the cares of life.
Father, your declining days should
be spent in the eld aim chair in the
chimney corner.”
“Yes, William, they should.”
“Now, father, being you are old
and feeble and helpless, give me a
deed of the f arm, and you and moth
er live out your few remaining days
with me and Sally.”
“ William,” said the old man, as be
pushed back his sleeve, “I tlunk I
see the drift o’them remarks. When
I’m ready to start for the poor-house
I’ll play fool and hand over the deed.
William?”
“Yes, sir.”
“In order to dispel any delusion on
your part that I’m old and feeble and
helpless, I’m going to knock down
half an acre of cornstalks with your
heels 1”
And when the convention finally
adjourned William crawled to the
nearest haystack and cautiously whis
pered to himself:
“And Sally was to broach the
same thing to ma at the same time!
I wonder if she’s mortally injured,
or only crippled for life!”
Good Methods
Some farmers are successful, oth¬
ers are not. Some live well, have the
comforts and luxuries of life around
them; others live hard, work hard,
have few of the comforts and none
of the luxuries. Some have a better
start, perhaps, than others; better
farm are better oquipped: but it will
be found that the men who sucoeed,
who live well and make money are
men of method, men who believe in
and have a system of management
men who think on what they are do¬
ing, and do nothing at haphazard.
The speculator, dealer in futures and
stock jobbers may take efeaneco. tart
there is no chahce work with the far¬
mer . Nature establishes laws which
are imperative, as to vsbat may he
produced in oertain claims and on
certain lands, while the law of sup¬
ply and demand regulate the prices,
and consequently the profit on what
is produced. The thoughtful andsuct
cessful farmer, while recognizing na
tureVTaws, will also give heed to the
law of supply and demand that ho
may not waste his time in cultivating
what already is a drag upon the mar¬
ket, and will consequently cause loss
to him. If experience proves that
there is more money in an acre of
cotton, the wise farmer will give
some attention to grass and less to
cotton; if one acre of potatoes will
yield twice, three or four times as
much as an acre of tobacco, the wise
fanner will give more attention to
potatoes and less to tobacco: if one
good cow is more profitable than two
poor ones; if the farmer can save
money and feel independent by raist
ing his own family supplies and feed
his stock himself, the wise farmer
will raise them instead of buying,
when it may sometimes be hard to
get the money to buy with, from
what he has got to sell. The man of
method thinks of all this, lives well,
makes and saves money; the man
without method does not, works hard
lives hard and is always run to the
throat-lotoh to make ends meet—and
they don’t always do it.
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A Discrepancy in Cotton Statistics.
New Orleans Picayune.
r,1 he fact that the net and gross re¬
ceipts of cotton at Charleston havo
been reported the same during the
entire season, has caused considerai
ble comment among local statisioians.
To remove all doubt on the subjeot
the Secretary of the local Cotton
Exchange (Mr. Ileste*-) telegraphed
the Exchange in Charleston for par¬
ticulars, and received in reply tho
information that no cotton had been
received from other ports. Subse*
quent telegraphic inquiry at Savant
nah disclosed the fact that 27,280
bales had gone from the port of
Charleston, but tho Cotton Exchange
of the latter place contended that
the cotton in question was consigned
io Charleston and only passed thro’
Savannah in transit. While these
inquiries did not fully solve the prob*
lem, they have developed the fact
that 27,280 bales of cotton had b$(en
most likely counted at two points,
hence that amount would in alljwob
abifity l4>e to bo deducted from tho
total receipts.
The Proof was Clear
Winks: “Do you believe the spir¬
its of the departed can communicate
with the living?”
Jinks: “Yes, I have absolute proof
of it.”
“You don’t say so?”
“I suppose you know when I mar¬
ried the present Mrs. Jinks she was
a widow.”
“Yes.”
“Well, some time afterward I went
with a friend to see a medium, just
for the fun of the thing, you knowj,
and as sure as I’m alive she gave jns
a message from my wife’s first bus
brnd.” ’•'■•
“In his writing?”
“Oh, no!”
“Did you see him or hear him talk?
“No, the medium jusr told mo
what he said.” ,
“Nonsense; then what proof havo
you that the communication was gen¬
uine?”
“He said he was Borry for me.”—
Omaha World.