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YOL. VI. " SEED SOWINC. St-'?? the seed of soothing kindness, To dispel the gloom and pain; Bow bright words of warmth and welcome, That o’er earth good will may reign; Sow upon a soil prolific, That shall bear an hundredfold, Choking Turning out weeds the thorns a'nd briers, to stalks of gold. Bcorn thou not, to i sow, moreover, On the Helds less rich in loam; Should it bear not many measures It will have its harvest home. If the sower will but harken. He will Lear what God will keep— Whether good or whether evil— What ye sow that ye shall reap. Though And tho soil be scant and sandy. the rocks be thick and keen, With the hand of faith sow broadly— Some stray soil may He unseen; This may nourish seed sufficient To bring harvest time around; And the hand or thrift may garner From the uninviting ground. What though wayside fowls fly over, You can cover well the seed; What through tares by satan scattered Should arise in evil greed. Wait, if must be, till the harvest Then Ripens grain and tares in turn; the grain thou mayest gather, And the tares may’st bind and burn. Cow the seeds otWve and mercy, • Worthy work fir angel hands! Sympathy Fitting and truth and justice— themo for heavenly bandsl Bow good will among thy neighbors. On Reap reward for thee in store; the sower that is faithful Blessings be forever more. —Virgil A. Pinkley, in Brooklyn Eagie. I The Sixth V: $ Commandment S^seiSsfeieieseieieieieieiei m < S it nothing to you r. M l that happiness your mercy? my lies whole Am at '■5SS m _j I only one more ■J! EM jj* j have of the flirted many with, you ww’v and then smiled <Cr M U u \p-' Sy> aside as if they ■were children? Ah! God never created any creature more cruel than a beautiful coquette without heart! Do not deny it! You have used every charm you possess to make me love you, and have succeeded. You shall listen to me now*. I love you! I love you! I love you! Nay, do not speak. I will not take your final answer to-day. To¬ morrow I will come for it. Ah! if it is ‘Yes, ’ I swear that you shall never regret it. If it is ‘No,’ then you will have sent one more man'to ‘hell!’ ” and without another word Jack Armstrong turned on his heel and left abruptly. Hilda Phare lookedjafter his retreating figure with a vogue sense of shame. She had won the love of the “woman hater, ’ but the victory was leaving a sting in even her hardened coquette conscience, herself though she tried to feel aggrieved at his outburst. ‘As if I can help men falling in love with me. I cannot marry them all. I certainly but do liko Captain Armstrong, I don’t like matrimony, I want to keep my freedom a little longer first. A pretty girl can at any time easily get gaged, but it requires an ugly girl to easily get disengaged, so that even beauty cluded, has its drawbacks,” she con¬ with a little soft laugh. Then, with the unconfessed desire to drive the recent interview from her mind, she took up a society paper and soon forgot all the crumpled rose leaves of her happy, careless life in the pleas¬ ure of reading a description of the dress the “beautiful Miss Phare wore at the Quean’s ball, where,'asjthe belle of the season, she was the cynosure of all eyes. ” dreadful “My dear Hilda, have you heard the news?” The girl look up from tho comfortable wicker chair where she was reclining lazily under the shade of the old oak on the lawn. “No, what news?” she asked, indif¬ ferently, looked for her portly aunt’s face she more important than horrified, as stood by her niece’s side, hold¬ ing a large white and green lined sun¬ shade over her bare head. “Mrs. Chester shot her husband and that pretty Miss Dene yesterday afternoon, and then killed herself.” “Ob, how dreadful I WhaU made her do it?” exclaimed Hilda, thor¬ oughly roused now, as she sat bolt upright in her chair. “Well, it appears that she caught him kissing this Miss Dene, to whom he had been engaged before he mar¬ ried his wife for her money. Fancy shooting both of them like that!” “What a wicked, cruel woman, Mrs. Chester must have been. It was only yesterday Hall morning I rode over to Hill to see her new Paris dress. It is quite horrible to think that I have touched the hand of a murderess, ” and the girl gave a shudder. £i“Yes, it is, indeed! I am so very sorry for their poor little daughter, but, of course, I can never allow Jessie and Pussie to play with her again. I must go now, for I want to write and tell your Aunt Mary all about it. She will bo so interested—shocked, I mean,” and she returned to the house with that feeling of pleasurable impor¬ tance we all experience when we are the first to tell the news of some calamity that has befallen our friends. Left to herself Hilda sank back in the wicker chair and tried by reading to distract her thoughts once more, but this time from thinking of the tragedy at Hill Hall. The heat, how¬ ever, made her drowsy, and the paper soon dropped on the grass from the nerveless fingers, and the lids soon drooped over the beautiful eyes. Suddenly a choking sensation caught the sleeper’s throat. She tried to move, but could not. Was she dy¬ ing—dying out there alone on the lawn? She felt her breath coming quicker and quicker, her strength ebbing faster and faster. Then she seemed to lose all consciousness. “Where was she now? Who were those?” she asked one standing besid# her. “They the souls of the (lend ___ are 1 L HE RECORD waiting till the day dawns and the golden gates are opened.” “Then I must be dead, and those must be the gates of heaven, that beautiful place I used to like reading about when a child. I will join tlio throng and go in with them.” And when the day dawned she also pressed forward towards those golden gates, guarded by angels, but though many passed through, more were turned away. At last only Hilda and another were left. That other was a broken hearted woman, and the girl shrank back with loathing when she saw it was Mrs. Chester! As she re¬ coiled an angel beckoned to the weep¬ ing woman, and she fJeheld her no more. But now the gates were clos¬ ing. Hilda sprang forward aud stretched out her hands to those white robed guardians. “You have forgotten me.” “There is no forgetting here,” came the answer. “Then why do you not let mo through?” “Your sins expel you.” “My sins! My sins! What sins have I committed? What commaud ment have I broken?” questioned tho girl, with the surprise of self-con¬ vinced innocence. “The sixth commandment. ‘Thou shalt do no murder.’ « Hilda shrank back in horror, amaze¬ ment, anger. “I commit murder! I, who could never bear to see oven a bird shot.” “Yes, you are a murderess,” an¬ swered the angel, sternly. “Yon who recoiled from that woman are muoh more guilty. She, in great temptation, in great provocation killed but mortal bodies; you, in mero vani¬ ty, in mere idleness, have killed im¬ mortal souls! Thinkest thou there is no margin to a commandment. Know you not that though tho text be brief, yet does it overflow beyond the limits of words on the broad margin of mean¬ ing labeling unwritten sins, and you have broken a marginal command¬ ment, ‘Thou shalt do no murder. > t! “But I have committed no murder,” reiterated tho trembling girl. “Behold and see,” and tho angel passed his hand over the eyes of tho belle of the London season. “Yes, she knows that young face again. He had been one of her boy¬ ish suitors, whom slio had flirted with and then laughed at. He is holding a dicebox now in his shaking hand, and on that dicebox is written one word— ‘Hilda.’ Ah! who is that drunken man glaring at her with bloodshot eyes? He lifts a glass of spirits, and on that glass is engraved one word— ‘Hilda. * >> Ah 1 poor wife of a loveless marriage, made by the husband in a moment pique. Her tears as they fall one word—“Hilda.” ' - Yet another face she sees—the face of a last year’s flirtation. It is pale with the anguish of death, and on the pistol by his side is stamped one word —“Hilda.” Then the girl falls at the feet of tho angel with an exceeding bitter cry. “I am indeed a murderess.” Her own bitter cry awakens Hilda, and she starts up trembling in every limb, to find that the lace scarf arouncr her throat had caught in the wickmx chair, which perhaps accounted for the choking sensation of her dream. The next day the bell of the season said “Yes” to Jack Armstrong, and sealed with two loving lips the death warrant of the heartless coquette. On the Mississippi Kiver. The first vessels that over entered the Mississippi from the sea were the French frigates Benommee and Gir onde, January 6th, 1700. These ves¬ sels proceeded as far as the Tenesas, which they reached April 12. The first vessel built on the banks of toe Mississippi by white men was deatb^Jff launchfe in 1541, shortly after the burial of De Soto. The boatm a early navigators long in danger of the from present Indijys* cSTtury were resoBC^ and pirates. A notorious " hese was Crows’ Nest or Stock Isl Mand many flatboats and crews were sacrificed there nntil these pests were exter/ minated by mob law, in 1809. F <Je the five years following 1822, howe^f, the destruction by snags on the ofll and Mississippi amounted to $1,362,- 500, but'$381,000 though the next five years showed loss from the same cause. In 1842 there were 450 steamboats oa the Mississippi and its tributaries, with an average burden of 200 tons and an aggregate value of $7,200,000. In operating these boats about 35,- 750 persons were employed. The average value of the products carried each season was something-JJ^e $200, 000, or an aggregate of $90,000,000 up to 1842. Previous to the adoption of steam navigation the whole commerce from New Orleans to the upper tweW country was carried in about barges, averaging 100 tons each and but one trip a year., There we» ned over 150 keel boats thirtjfcms oWhe JRTgRW, carrying about each making the trim.fflsmPittsburg to Louisville and in two months, or about three voyages a season. From 1811 to 1850 676 boats were lost, valued^at over $7,000,000. In 233 cfflBsw^he gated 1660. killed The and wounded aggre¬ average age of all the boats lost was five years. From 1816 to 1871 there were 89 explosions, involving a loss of life in each varying from 1 to 1649.—Pittsburg Dispgjah, New York’s First Water Supply. In 1798 the best drinking water was procured well at the Tea Water well. This received its name from the fact that it was the best to use in making tea. It was twenty feet deep and four feet in diameter. The average daily supply weather was 14,300 gallons. In hot as many as 28,080 ions a were Bom* ■k Herald, DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF JOHNSON COUNTY" AND MIDDLE GEORGIA. WRIGTHSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 1898, THE GOLDBIJG 4 CLAIMS THAT WAGES RISING VOLUNTARILY. On the Contrary Heavy Redactions Reneral—The Dingley BUI Does In the Least Chock Gold Tendencies. A gold standard advocate, the do Blade, publishes the following torial, under the heading “Wages ing Voluntarily”: “Wages are the price of labor. bor Is a commodity, and like all its price depends primarily upon mand as related to supply, The vival of industry, consequent upon victory for honest money at the last fall, and the restoration of conditions which provide a sound for our industries by the enactment the Dingley tariff law, is now its logical result—an increase of without strikes or the employment brute force in any other form.” This is the general claim made the gold press without specifying ticular instances. The reverse is truth. Wages are being reduced over the country, even in those tries especially favored by the ley tariff. Following Is a portion the record as printed in the news umn of the same papers that are torially advertising McKinley Ity: Cotton manufacturers operating thirds of the spindles of New shire reduced the wages of their ployes about 10 per cent January At leqst 20,000 operatives are The Cotton Manufacturer’s tion, of Fall River, has reduced 10 per cent in all the mills of the The reduction affects 25,000 Amoskeag corporation, of ter, N. H., employing 9,000, and China, Pembroke and Webster mills Suncook, employing 1,500, wages 10 per cent commencing ary 1. The Housesmiths’ and union of New York made a surrender to the firm of J. B. & J. Cornell Monday, but quit work Induced to do so by threats of sion from their unions. The weavers at the Bridgeton, N. woolen mills went on a strike The Fishdale mills of have notified their employes of a duction of 10 per cent, About persons are employed. The Millbury cotton mills of Mass., have posted a notice of cut of 10 per cent. The treasurers of the Lowell mills, at a meeting held at Masai, Friday, voted to reduce wages’of their employes from 17. ecA jtfbout 15,000 operatives will be fe Tire remic' ions In wages have a great dej. of trouble in the mills Fa^jflku Mass., managing and the labor ere the case tTOqjrorKThgmen, have submitted a iflfiaiSatti'oposition Bfc^that to the proposition has been all rejecrelR^What the labor unions gest is arbitration by the state but that proposition has been poohed. It has been further by the toilers that the agreement posed be deferred until next so far as Its operation is The representations of the men they are at present degraded by wage scale below the standard of ilization is amply confirmed by pendent investigation. - Many of mill hands have been compelled support their families on seven lars k week. So poor are the tbht ^(Jt %eir children were forced to * ttl medical attendance during r gttopidemic a<Sists declare of that diphtheria. they are Nng the highest wages they can d, a truly astonishing statement w of the high protection they Joying who under do their the shopping Dingley lose in partment stores of the large ^^gstify prices from charged personal a for the ucts of the Fall River mills were so high. The grades of goods moreover, deteriorated In quality. the-, men whose toil produces commodities have been forced to mit to a reduction of their pay they are at the point of starvation. ganized The Worjji traces has canvassed the of New York, and ™ Iabor ’ fn t hat c lty OUt i of f i total of 297 oral , f ,08t f °" c man ‘ n ever y thrc ™e only trades showing increases « In number employed are ^ding be trades confe ® sed and that cigarmakers. in New -J ylzed 7®, gold as , ! n standard England, is, to the . • And this up date, J a n ure - is the year of 5jWd 1808 ' when may we ®YP e ct prosperity? Until very recently wages in Rocky mountains have been held up. $4 per day, but McKinley prosperity having a disastroun effect there. Pueblo (Col.) Courier days: week the management of the works imported a large number negroes. At the low wages paid,-$ per day, white men cannot be found endure the hard labor to be In these works. Cheaper labor to be the motto of Supt. whether the employes can live on earnings or not. The nearer we get to poverty and slavery the some men are suited who have It th^lf head that the majority of beings are only fit to make profits for some one other than themselves.” Still we are happy to be able to state that there is genuine prosperity in cer¬ tain portions of the country, as the following telegram from St. Louis proves; ‘‘MISS ANITA CRAWFORD, OF WESTMINSTER PLACE, HAS HAD THE EARS OF HER PET CAT PIERCED AND LARGE DIAMOND EAR-.RINGS they PLACED THERE. spa rkle beautifully against the black FUR.” The dispatch does not state whether Miss Anita is a relative of D. Craw¬ ford, the St. Louis merchant prince who discharged those of his employes who refused to abandon their free sil¬ ver ideas. WORDS OF WISDOM. Monopoly in all its forms is the tax¬ ation of the industrious for the sup¬ port of indolence, if not of plunder.— John Stuart Mill. I very positively can inform you the considerablest part of the misery of the world comes of the tricks of un¬ just taxation.—Rqjkin. What the people use most, the peo¬ ple should own.—Cicero. He who has a right to live has a right to food by which to live and land by which to live.—Washington Glad¬ den, Pastor First Congregational church, Columbus, Ohio. It we want beautiful men and wom¬ en we must have beautiful conditions. —Ben Tibet. The social revolution Is bound to come. It will either come in full panoply of law, and surrounded with all the blessings of peace, provided the people have the wisdom to handle and introduce it betimes; or it may break in upon us unexpectedly, amidsball the convulsions of violence, with wild, dis¬ heveled locks, and shod in iron san dais. Come it must, in one way or the other. When I withdraw myself from the turmoil of the day and dive into history, I hear distinctly its approach¬ ing tread.—Lassalle. No Bonds Without Bondage. What would bonds be worth if they did not bind anybody? How could there be bonds without bondage sorne where? asks the Appeal to Reason. The law and a bill of sale were tho bonds that took from the chattel slave the results of his labor and gave it to his master who held the bond. The law and the parchment of the gov ernment are the bonds that take the re¬ sults of the people's labor and hand It over to the bondholder. The holders of public bonds are as much opposed to doing away with conditions by which he profits as were the masters of chattel slaves. There is no ence between the two except in |h e method. The results on those in age is just the same so far as concerned. When the people wake up to the fact that they arc in bondage that they are still suffering from on"4 of the many forms of slavery thathas been the curse of the world-they will make short work of the That they submit is only because they do not realize the nature of their con¬ dition. The present system is-one form of slavery and the people ai'e fast finding it out V- ' Jff - Amerlcafr - -> + -/ ' : The Sovereign. found The in AmericaniiTja^reign all &m^«^unkingly can be mjBpeaAo posi tions. He does good royal ad He v antageAgJ|j^tlf-s is noQftihcely helstands tai ved miner, as with doffed haf, 'shrinkWNuAi \ho>|olds tretpbHtig before Ops master, in his kingly He is not hand TOjWrrfftgTflWwhen the threat fcdischar; he casts his kingly prerogatives, th&hallot, ployer in herds, before with his the' fear jof I His ..hi3,em eyes. soVer elgnty is not apparent when penniless he tramps the highways, hopeless, hangi„| and hungry, or when like grim death on the brake-beams beneath a palace car. Alas for fallen royalty, when he is arrested, chained and placed on the rock-pile under the scornful gaze of the public. Of what benefit is his sovereignty when it fails to preserve him from the conditions of the most'abject slavery? More than the mere title of “sovereign” is re quired to secure even his manhood Freedom, equality, Justice, are better words to conjure happiness with than royalty or sovereignty.—Labor Ex- ^ change Guide Duty of a Reformer* Are you doing anything, my brother, in the way of assisting your friends and neighbors to understand correct principles of reform? A true reform¬ er never should be idle; should never give up the fight. He may sometimes become a little discouraged when he men who need reform; who need a cl gc for the better, who will con¬ ;ue ti note Mayest against their own interest of their country at lai but iSls should not keep you Mng Bjfhe your duty and all in your triumph’oT powl ' right and for the final our principles.—Woodbury Messenger. The Eccentric Mr. Simpson. Mr. Simpson told his Detroit hearers that under the Reed despotism all he could do congress was to draw his pay. Mr. Simpson is now on his way to Washington to do all within his power In congress.—Detroit Free Press. Unlike some of his colleagues, Mr. Simpson is satisfied with the govern¬ ment’s allowance, and does not hire out to the corporaMowi a* w#JL— £ 4 . J> IV') •V ——^fpaF V m Corn Cobs for Kindling. Corn cobs are often used for kind¬ ling fires. But while they light easily, the cob being solid does not create a draught of air and the fire soon goes out. better, Finely split kindling is much as it gives more heat, and thus sets fire to the heavier wood. But if dipped in kerosene and placed under the wood, the cob will furnish heat enough to light dry wood in large pieces without using any other kind¬ ling. It is the only way in which kero¬ sene oil can be used with safety in lighting fires. Utilizing-Incubator Eggs. Eggs are expensive food for chick¬ ens, but when an incubator is used the clear ones are sometimes given as food, but usually cooked hard. This is a mistake. The best mode of feed¬ ing eggs to chickens is to pour boil¬ ing water on the eggs, beat them, and thicken the mess to a stiff dough with corn meal. Fed in this manner con¬ stipation will be avoided, but they should not be used oftener than every other day, giving them at night. Hard boiled eggs are excellent, they are usually fed too liberally and cause bowel disease.—Farm News. Hogs in Small Lots. It is neither profitable nor always entirely safe to keep great numbers of hogs together. Besides the liability to disease gettiug among them, there is always a certainty that the stronger will crowd the weaker from their feed¬ ing places, so that inequality in size will increase instead of decreasing. In every litter there are always one or two weaklings that were born runts, ■ and unless given a better chance than their fellows, they will always remain runts. The best way to manage this is when the pigs are seven or eight weeks old, take out the stronger ones and wean them, giving them plenty of the best food that can be got to make growth. Then'the runts left to suckle the. sow alone will in two or three weeks more take a start that may make them as good as the others, so that in, later life all can be fed to¬ gether. No other feed, without the sow’s milk, vwfl do this, .though such other feed encoffrSged s^uld be given^ind the pigs he to eat alRhey can ma( ^ e to eat - Providing winter Cows, Many farmeis who would like to breed cows so as to have them fan-ow iu the fal1 ai ' e unable to do so - because “ * s difficult to S et a cow tvhieli is giving milk to come in heat at this 8 ' ea8on ‘ It does not pay to dry off ,, he cow,in .... which case she . would ., come ter way is to feed extra with oats, wheat bran and middlings mixed with ground rye. If this rye has got some ergot in it there will be no trouble about the cow coming in heat. Rye in any form has the effect of increasing prolificacy in all animals that wiii eat it. There are many advantages in having cal es dropped in the fall, pro Tided there ..re warm quarters for them the urst winter. They will make dm best winter cows, as they Will naturally come m heat when a lit tie more than a y ar o d, and may be *»ed then Spring calves also coming in heat in the spring make cows which will give the hulk of their milk during the summer, when milk and all dairy products are cheapest.— Boston Culti vator. - The Sex o f Egg*. the mi There^s .ha«ig many of eggs-i. theories e. regarding the sex. Some claim that round smooth eggs Wl11 Produce pullets; others that the P osition of ail- s l lace bas mucb to do with tbo sex > cto - 5 but tbese are merl y theories—nqt a fact iu ihe lot. ^ ue tbese theories might soem to *P V0 8 oot t results one season, only to be 1 ' over8ed the next. There is room for much experiment Oil this line. The male bird has much to do with it—cockerels mated with two-year old hens and cocks mated with yearling hens. In our opinion the individuality of the male bird is all important. The stronger this in¬ dividuality be the more male birds will the result. In special matings or double matings for show birds this has ofteu been commentedjipon. We believe that this question will novel - bo settled, for the simple reason that heus have as strong individual quali¬ ties as cocks, and while a strong cock might influence a majority of bis get, yet the minority, due to strong indiv¬ idual hens, will always be present. While experiments along this line will bo profitable, yet it is idle for the average pon! try men to thus employ himself. Wo do not believe we will ever be able to mate so as to produce either all pullets or all cockerels.— Agricultural Epitomists. Siiccesawith Home Made For nearly 40 years I liavo been tbe occupant of a rough, sideTiill New England dairy farm, writes “A Vet eran.” I ran in debt almost wholly for it, having hardly means to stock it and buy the necessary teams au4 tools, And after all these years, I must say one of the greatest sources of pleasure has been in clearing land of stones and hushes, and increasing Its pro¬ duction fourfold. I well remember the pleasure given me by the first crop of hay taken from a nine-acre field of 24 good two-horse loads, this from a rough hilltop pasture without commercial fertilizer, and it is to¬ day a productive field, adding much to the beauty of the landscape. This is but oue of a number of fields that have responded bountifully to the ap¬ plication of homemade fertilizers, I recollect one crop of corn producing over 200 bushel of ears per acre with homemade fertilizer, with a very little phosphate applied in the hill and clover turned under. For composting manure, I have found nothing equal to dry soil, often taken from the roadside, where it has washed from the road bed, and is of little value to use again as road ma¬ terial. A friend of mine made a prac¬ tice of storing a large quantity in the dry season and using it as an absor¬ bent behind his cows during the stab¬ ling season. The results were in two heavy crops of grass and rowen one season. I use horse manure, sawdust aud dry waste material in the trenches behind the cows, as absorbents of the urine. This greatly increases the quantity of manure, with good results. The live farmer who enjoys his calling with eyes open, will discover sources of supply to increase the manure pile in fallen leaves, in the wild ferns in pastures, in swamp grass to be gath¬ ered and used for bedding for cattle, horses and swine. Much fertilizer is lost by allowing the waste from farm building to run in the same channels year after year, which should be turned in new channels, thus enrich¬ ing new parts of the fields.—New England Homestead. Poultry Notes. Good laying hens are neither hun¬ gry nor too fat. The large breeds, as a rule are tCe best for the table. Reduce the "winter stock of poultry to layers as much as possible. Use carbolic acid occasionally in the dust bath, to destroy the lice. Tho best plan is to give a good va¬ riety of both cooked/nd dry food. Paralysis in chickens is often due to overfeeding and lack of exercise. Wheat, corn and buckwhat fed/.o fattening fowls will whiten the fj/sli. It is often a good plan to feed corn on the cob aud let the fowls do the shelling. So far as possible in feeding,scatter hold the grain equal so that th\ whole flock will an Well fed fow flWrarely becomo over fat when they are compelled to scratch among litter for their grain. The winter care of M fowls is an easier ttel . tllan the 8Umnier because Hens will not lay when their combs ale fj° A s dry ted. quarters ibis is one reason why ’ varl are necessary, Never try to stimulate egg produe tion with irritating condiments, as they usually do more harm than good, Hardiness, vitality and vigor of constitution are of move importance in poultry for profit than all other qualities combined, it i 8 unreasonable to expect hens to Iay ^ iu wiutev un der advefte condi u na Xhey require more food’-fhan a t other times because a large per ceut s toward supplying physical ant llial heat to keep up their C0JQC ]jii 0 n \ A • Poultry myards . would ., give . better returns than if on a range if properly managed, but to give a small flock the proper attention would cost too much labor This is not counted when the flock is ice ^ Be for pleasure, but on the lnrm the c is different. It is found that when charcoal is added to the food of fattening turkeys they crowded, gain more rapidly, When a portion of che food is In¬ able to ferment in the gizzard. Char coal absorbs gases and relieves acid ity, and to this property of the char coal tlio benefits are due. Herd! 113: Sheep Good for ( onsumpiiveg. Another class of men who watch sheep are those who do it for their health. Dozens of men claim to have been cured of consumption sim^jy by putting in several months at watching sheep. Tho work gives what is most required in the deadly disease—plenty of l'resh air, moderate exercise, and employment that is not wearing on the brain, but is still enough to keep it occupied and prevent nervousness, Of course, if a man has plenty of money,ho cau got these without herd iug sheep, but there are many men who need them badly who have no uioney, and all who have taken advan tage of this knowledge have surely been benefited. A number of men who have taken up sheep herding have becomo so fascinated with it that they have stuck to trouble.—Providence it long after they got over the Journal. Captain Brown of the British ship Windward has spent forty years sail iug in the Arctic seas. He began on a whaler when twelve years old, and ha* been in the polav seas ol'tenex Probably than any other man. 3. It is Hot Strange —t That so many people have lost confidence in Medicines that havs been palmed off on the public as “cures” for every disease with which the human race is afflicted and frequently persons refuse to believe anything they hear about a reliable remedy. Africana.. . The Great Blood Purifier is Working Wonders. It Gives Hope For Fear. It Gives joy for Sorrow. It Gives Light for Darkness* It Gives Health for Sicness. IT IS KING OF ALL BLOOD REMEDIES. TRY AFRICANA. Sold by Dr. J.W. Flanders. (57) J. B. Pullen, Professional Gleaner, Dj^er and Repairer 61 gentlemen’s clothing. 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A certain gentleman in this town Is the proud possessor of a remarkably red nose, The term proud is used advisedly, as the owner is continually relating stories having a bearing on lh e brilliant hue of his nasal treasure, The following is one o£ them. He was in Exeter one afternoon, and hav l n S completed his business, was amus " * n S himself by an inspection cf the shop windows. While admiring some ties in a cer J^ 11 window, and considering whether should speculate or not, a little girl came out of the establishment, and finally caught him by the sleeve. . “Please will you come into the shop with me, only for a minute. she ask ed - ( Certainly,” answered the gentleman, following her at once. Arrived at the counter, the little one astonished everybody by remarking: Theer, miss, muvver wants a ribbon the same color as this gentlemans nose, As a successful writer of fiction tS* man who gets out the weather report easily distances ett «wnoetltee;