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by and. b. freeman. OUR IDOL. Close the door light -J, Bridie the breath. Our little earth angel Is talking with death ; OeDtly he woos her, She wwhes to stay, His arms are around her He bears her away ! Music comes float!og Down from the Dome — Angels are chanting The sweet welcome home ; Come, stricken weeper, O i e to the b**d G--ze on the sleeper— Our idol is dead. Smooth out the ringlets. Close the Blue eyes — No wonder such beauty Was claimed in the skies; Cross the hands gently O’re the white breast, So like a wild spirit Strayed fioir the rest, Bear her out gently This idol of ours Let the grave slumbers Bo mid the sweet flowers. ' FARMING IN INDIA* A Frightful Talc of SuHcring- Dying by Thousands. The famine in India is stretching its lean and bony arms over a wide extent of the country. There has been an entire failure of the crops in thiee dis tricts of Bombay, and a partial failure involves severe distress in Khandish, Nassick, Abmednuggar, Poona, Satara and Belgaum. Large lelief works are sanctioned. About 287,000 people are on the ?elief works in Bombay. In Madras the scarcity effects twelve dis tricts, and to these must be added a number of native States The area of the smitten country comprises about 54,000 square miles, and the popula tion will reach 5,000,000 of men, wo men and children. In Madras large gangs of men are employed in making roads, digging wells and constructing tanks and 840,000 persons are being supported by the government by the distribution of rations daily. It is be' lieved that the distress will increase un til April, when it wili decrease, owing to the maturing of the new crops. In Bombay thenuuibci of destitute is thus estimated : February, 450,000 ; March, 750,000 ; April, ' 1,000,000; May, 800,000; June, 50.000 ; July, 300,“ 000; August, 100,000; September. 500,000. The government is pouring in large quantities of grain, and the cost to the State in the Madias Presi dency alone will be over $20,000,000. Taking the whole matter into consider ation it is computed that iu less than a mouth nearly six millions of people in Bengal, Madras and the adjacent coun try must trust to the government for the common necessaries of life. The calamity which now threatens a large part of the British Indian E npire is of such a character as to challenge the attention of the whole civilized world. In 1866 more than 175,000 people died of hunger in India in a few months. That was owing, in a great measure, to want of transportation from the seaboard to the districts where f a'd was needed Ample supp'ie- wore pro vided, bur could not be made available in time to stop the catastrophe. Now, however, means of transporting food are excellent, as the railroad which con nects Northern India with Madras runs through, or uear margin of, the districts to be supplied, and thus one great danger is arrested. With funds to purchase food and means to carry it to the districts where the crops have failed there cannot fail to be a most gratifying amount of relief extended to the famishing people of India A Liar’s Victory. The fact that Detroiters are long-suf, fering and kind-hearted was again ex emplified yesterday. One of the dozen passengers oe a Woodward avenue car suddenly remarked that it was an awful snow storm, and that he never saw so much snow on the ground befor \ “Pooh !” exclaimed a little whiffet of a man in the corner, “this is no storm at all! Why, in Omaha I have seen forty-seven feet of snow on the ground at once !” “Burned the town, didn’t it?” quer ied a man opposite. “Of course it hurried the town, but that was all right. We dug out the snow and left a crust, as a sort or sky, and in three days we had summer weather down there Hoses bloomed, peach trees blossomed, and the boys went in swimming the same as in July ! don’t talk t® me about such storms as this!” “ W-what became of the crust ?” gasp ed a man in the front end of the car. “It’s hanging up there yet!” replied the noble liar,“and the man who doubts my word want’s to step off the car for half a minute I” # There that whole dozen sat as mute as clams, not daring to even wink at each other, or to enter a rrotest, while the little man branched off anew and began telling that he had seen hail stones weighing six pounds each. % Honor thy father and mother both in words and deed, that a blessing may come upon thee from them ; for the blessing of the father establisheth the houses children, but the curse of the mother rooteth out foundations. CnUjomr ©him Burdock’s Music-Box. Last Christmas Miss Burdock’s ad mirer presented her with a handsome little music.box, and the family ear has been tickled ever since with half-a-doz en of the latest popular agonies. Tuesday night they had company.and the music- box, after doing gloriously for awhile, suddenly collapsed at the first verse of the “Mulligan Guards,” leav.. ing the balance of that gallant com mand in a sort of musical purgatory. The next morning Miss Burdock dressed her face with its company ex pression, and coaxed her paternal to take the box with him when ho went to business and have it nut in order and on hi- fi iui y r /..sootiog and' r protest, wrapped it up neatly, placed it in his overcoat pocket, and hustled him off. He caught a Fulton Avenue car,nod ded to a couple of business acquaintan ces, secured a seat and was iu the act of orening the morning paper, when the music-box suddenly found its voice again and proceeded to render the re maining verses of the “Mulligan Guards. The passengers dropped their papers, stared around at one and another, and finally, tracing the music to Burdock, focused their eyes upon him, nudged each other and laughed. "No music,gentlemen,’lowed in these cars,” called out the conductor, sternly coming in to collect a fare, just as the box rang out clear and loud wi*h the chorus. There was a perfect shout of laugh ter, iu which every body except Bur dock and the conductor joined, as the box suddenly changed its tune, and cau.o out as strong as a circus band,with “Meet Me in the Park Love.” “Stop that music. I won’t have such foolishness going on in this car,” yelled the conductor, scrutinizing the passen gers suspiciously from the rear plat* form. “D—n the infernal thing, I wish it was at the bottom of the Red Sea !” muttered Burdock, very red in the face and uncomfortable A minute later, as the music-box was about plunging into a third song, the conductor darted in, slapped Burdock on the shoulder, an£ said excitedly : ‘•l’ve got you at last. Now you juT stop it, that’s all !” "Stop it yourself, if you want to,” said Burdock, angrily. The conductor frothed and fumed, looked under the seat and behind Bur dock, but could see nothing, yet all the while the box was everlastingly howling out “Eileen Alanna” as if its heart would break. Bv the time the car reached the ferry, Burdock was in a cold perspiration, the irate conductor had checked off seven passengers too many, and was tearing his hair ou the platform, and the box, after going through its entire collection of tunes, looked as quiet and innocent as a rub ber baby. It required Burdock to use up all his spare stock of self-control to prevent him from heaving it into the river, and it was with a sigh of relief that he handed it over to be fixed. Saturday, on his way home, he stop, ped at the place where he had left it, and finding it rcpa’red, out it in the pocket of his overcoat and started off home, forgetting all about it on his ar rival at the house. Sunday all the fami'y turned out for church, and Bum! k had ushered them ull in, c osed the pew door, hung his overcoat over it, took up a hymn book, and was glancing around complaceutly, when the forgotten musie box in his overcoat pocket all at once struck up “Lanigan’s Ball.” The minister dropped the notices he was looking over and looked blankly around; the deacons sprang up like Jack-in-the-Box, and glared in every direction ; the congregation twisted their heads, craned their necks, and stared wonderingly at the choir, and the choir pulled away the curtains tha* hid them and stared idiotically back in return. The Burdocks alone kept tt'.eir eyes resolutely glued to the front, while their faces assumed the fashion able cardinal hue, and Burdock could be heard muttering fragments of em phatic language seldom heard inside of a gospel shop. After playing one verse, the melody ceased, and tbe Burdocks’heart®, which had been standing still, beat once more ; tbe excitement died away, and everything was quiet again. The min ister arose, and vas in the act < f giv - ing out the text, when a lady, who v as late, sailed up the aisle, and. chancing to brush against Burdock’s overcoat, started the music box off into a perfect fury of “Tommy, Sit Down by Your Aunty.” The minister paused, and frowned severely; the deacons shot up from their seats as if they were sitting on springs; the congregation tittered, and Buidock felt sick all over him as he made a savage kick at his coat, which had the effect of changing the tune, and it pealed forth now, “Ihe Night Before Larry was Stretched,” with the vatiations. Burdock felt that every eye i n the church was watching him as he made another side kick at it ; a subdued whirr followed, and he was congratula' ting himself on having hopelessly ruin ed it wheu it suddenly broke out louder than a troupe of' minstrels, with the inspiring strains of the “Mulligan Guards.” By the time it had played two verses and was commencing the third, five deacons bad arrived, at the pew door, and were interviewing Burdock, while the entire congregation were standing up on their toes to have a look at him. CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1877. Burdock tried to explain, but seven new deacons came up and accused him of sacrilege and desecration of the church. “Go to thunder, the whole caboodle of you!” he exclaimed, climbing over the back of the seat and making for the door. One of the deacons followed him with his hat and oVUrcoac, the music box playing, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” right merrily, as the grave-faced deacon carried it at arms length down the middle aisle. Burdock and his family are at tend*- frig nnotW ehrfh now. an<l f 1 e’music b x i-' Lurried tin ’or four tons of an thracite coal, in the cellar. - {*— The Dig for the South. Black or slate-colored pigs are freest from skin diseases in hot climates. The choice is practically between the Essex and Berkshire for males with which to improve the native stock of hardy grubbers of the root-or-die variety.— i hose who have tried the former have been delighted at first, but after a few years begin to recall with longing the lean hams and thin but solid and fla vorous bacon of the old race horse breed. The trouble with the Essex pigs for the south is that they are not active enough. They are of the eat and sleep, and sieep-and-wake-to-eat kind, and their grades are, of course, like them. The aide fat is superb, and ,-o is the leaf lard, and so far the breed is all that could be desired; but the hams and shoulders are too fat for profit, and the ham is not marbled with fat like the Berkshires. These (the Berks) are much more enterprising, more wide awake, less easily controlled, but good foragers Their grades are a wonderful improvement upon the orig inal stock, may be made very fat, and yet tbe proportion between fat aud lean in the hams, shoulders and side pork or bacon is such as to develop and pre serve the excellencies of tbe meat The hams are large ana rich, and juicy with diffused fat. Berkshires are no quite so easily fattened when penned and systematically fed as the Essex grade, but they will take much better care of themselves in the woods, and when penned tor fattening may be fin ished off with half the feed the origi nal “laud pikes” would require. With many Northern and Western breeders the Essex is a more profitable pig than the Berkshire, because hisna ture leads him to take little exercise, so that all he eats goes to flesh and fat.— Respiration, which, if rapid, reduces fat greatly, is with him never accelera ted by moving about, and, with plenty of feed, the sole burden of life is to digest it. This breed is pre-eminent among the black breeds, and excelled by none as fat producers. — American Agriculturist Fence Posts Top End Down. A study nf vegetable physiology led me to try several experiments, many years ago, to throw light upon this question. The sap of moisture goes up in the sap-wood from the roots to the leaves of the trees, I found if the post is butt-end down, the pores are open upward, and water can go up, and thus keep the post moist between wind and wm which must cause a rapid decay. It appeared probably that the cores were open only upward and not downward i' the tree. To test this, I cut a small maple sappling, (two inches through,; in May, leaving the limbs all on, and placed the butt-end in a pail of brine. In thirty-six hours the leaves were saturated with this brine, the taste of the salt being strong. At the same time I had cut another maple sappling, and cut off the top branch, leaving the rest of the limbs on. After winding a cloth around the butt-end, to prevent evaporation, 1 jlaced the top end in a pail . f brine, and allowed it to remain several days, but no brine had been absorbed at the top end. It had not penetrated the pores as far as the end was immersed in tbe brine, for if the bark was scraped, there was not the sliglrest taste of salt to be found. This being the case in the green tree, how much more must the poics of the dry tree be closed from the top end downward ? I have tried many similar experiments, iDd think the question settled that if a post is placed top end down, no moist ure can ascend from the bottom of the hole up the [Ost to rot it; but when the butt end is down, the moisture can ascend the pores very rapidly if green, and slowly if dry. Seasoned posts are found to last much longer, because the pores are more or less filled within the seasoned wood. I should also infer that placing the top end down would make more difference in a green than in a dry post. In pursuance of the fact that the pores of green timber have been olten saturated with differ ent solutions to preserve it, by immers ing the butt-end. freshly cut. in the so lution to be absorbed, it will also he noted that burning or charring the posts only closes the pores and prevents the absorption of water. — E. W. Sin Country Gentleman. A daring Brooklyn man who ven tured to kiss a Boston girl thus tereely depicts the resulting phenomena : “She rose in sections —rigid, awful, sublime —towered Medusa like —fixed hei stony stare a moment on nothingness, then telesc oped, collapsed, sc< ot id, and I saw her ne more.” He Clot Religion. Simon Stringer was a bluff old far mer. He prided himself upon beiog a plain matter-of-fact man, about whom there was no foolishness or s.nti* meat. On more than one occasion he had mortified his wife and daughters by hustling them out of religious meetings when they had began to show signs of emotion . He said he didn’t believe in “i --raketlous conversi ms,” and that peo ple who cried aud veiled over getting religion ‘‘wasp t gettin’. it by* durn and sight.” He believed that the genuine article was soothing and calming, aud not ex ci'ing in its influence. Once the Campbelites had a pro* tracted meeting iu his neighborhood, and as it was carried on without any sudden outbursts of feeling, Simon took kindly to it and attended regu larly. One Sunday morning he told his wife to lay out two suits of clothes. “Why, Simon,” exclaimed she in her | shrill tones, “whatever do you want with two suits of clothes V 1 "That’s my business —uot yours,” he replied gruffly “You lay out my black suit for me to put on, and wrap my brown one up in a bundle, aud don’t ask any foolish questions.” His wife wundenugly but silently complied aud Simon douoed one suit, aud, with the other under his arm, mounted tiis Horse aud rude away, fol lowed by the anxious eyes of the big and little Striugers, who marveled great ly, and said uue to another, “Muat’s ! dad goin’ to do with his t’other clothes.” Simon didn’t return till supper time. He took his place at the supper table, which was the usual siguai for the faun y to begin an on slaught upon the victuals, but on this occasion lus voice airested every arm in its desceut, and lor the second time that day astonished the Striugers. Glancing around the startled circle, he th ’S delivered himself : “L want it understood that the head of this household has to-day been bap tized. Re is a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, and the fiist crittei at this table that dips into auything afore a blessin’ is asked’il git suatched baldheaded. Drop yer eyes, ye heathy en.” The blessing was asked, and tha* meal was eaten in silence. After the chores were done, the Stringers were stringiug off to bed, when°the stern voice of the old man again arrested them and filled th ir minds with grave forebodings as -o what was coming next. He addressed them as follows ; “Come in this room, every devil of you, and flop down on your Knees. It is my duty as a devout Chris\ian, to have family worship, and I’ll have it, too, and have respectful attention or I’ll bust some domestic tie- asunder This mansion must resound with praises to the Most High, or it will re sou and with somebody gettio’ a h—ll of a thrashin’ —I mean bein’ severely chastised. The first one who snickers or makes any onseemly noise I’ll git up and throw a cheer througn him, or her, as the case may be. Lcl u- I pray ” The prayer was prayed, and n ver was there a more attentive audience. This sort of thing continued about two weeks, and the Stringei family was kept in a state of extreme mis ery. The younger members had been sev eral times severely whipped for conduct unbecoming the children of a true be -and the older ones received such pyramids for failing to fall into the new order of things and to comport themselves with due dignity. Then one morning Simon came in. with a battered milk-pail, and the knees of his pants torn. Dropping into a chair at the table, he plunged his fork into the nearest dish. ’J he children looked up from the backs of their plates questiooingiy, and their mother squeaked : “Why Simon !” “Shut up and cat he growled, and then in a few moments added : “This blessin’ and prayer busines- is j suspended for a while I d'm t fore f mv obligations an’ duties as a Chris tian, an’ I’ll resoom ’em after ve cm- | quered that dol-ding-d heit’ r The ’tarnal critter parsoouis too mu-' on my Christian forbearance Darn a hypocrite. I won’t pray when uiy - >u! ain’t into it, it’s too great a strain. Fur the time bein’ I’ve descended from grace; pass the tamattusses.” A sigh of relief went round the cir cle and if the red heifer had known how she had risen in the estimation of a majority of the Stringers, her fractious soul would have leaped with joy. Thflfc was several years ago, and now the red heifer is a cow, and the worst one in the neighborhood. The S f ringers say as they punch and plague her, “S longs it we keep Old lied wild dad won’t git any more o’ that awful relijun.”— Boys of New York. M • Mrs. Partinger said : After dissolv ing the matter over in her mind, she had come to the delusion to seek out some quiet country retreat, in order to pervade the expsessive h at ot the sea- Bon, and hereifter lead a more disentary i life. A PROPOSED WONDERFUL. FEAT, A Cannon Weighing One Thouv sand Pounds to Be Fired While Held in a Man’s Hand, Among tbe million and a half of in habitants of this city and its vicinity Mr. Richard A. Peunell is known to be possessed of more muscular strength than any other individual. In someone feature, such, perhaps, as the lifting of a dead weight, the gentleman referred to may not be superior to Captain Cur* tisjO.t i bioagou, but on ihe whole he. stand-* ai the head of powerful men.— To lilt with one baud a dumb-bell weighing 180 pounds, and then by pure muscular exertion to push that enor mous plaything above his head,is a pliys ical feat to him by no means uucome mon. Indeed, Mr Penneli has, on one occasion at least lifted a dumb-bell weighing no less than two hundred aud on- pounds. Mr. Penneif now propose es to perform a feat which, if success fully accomplished, will create for him a reputation in all parts of the civilized world. He announces Lis intention, at an athletic entertainment to be given shortly in this city, to raise and hold in his hands, free from bis body, a cannon weighing 1.000 pounds, and loaded with a blank cartridge, which will then be fired while thus supported. One is re* minded of the story told of an army of ficer who conceived the idea of firing off cannon from the backs of mules, whose excellence as carriers had long been recognized. Tbe first experiment however, convinced the commanding of ficer that the plan was not altogether an ecotii mical one. When the cannon was fired the mule disappeared, and the unanimous opinion was that there was uot sufficient mule to resist the recoil.— Among the latest experiments in the firing of cannon, the most important has been that of the application of hy draulics, especially as a power of resist ance to the recoil of the gun. The most powerful steel springs, and tbe strongest cables, iron or hempen, were found nec essary resistant force, and the new dis covery was hailed with unbounded sat isfaction. It is true that the recoil of a guu weighing l,ouo pounds is not so great as that of one weighing 70,000 pounds or more; but the principal of res coil is tlie same in both, and the neces. sary resistance must comparatively be "as great in one as in the other. Who. evo r has fired a fowling-piece will have a to idea of the sudden recoil caused by the explosion of gunpowder. It has been said that strong men have been knocked over backward by tbe "kick” or recoil caused by the filing of a shot-gun. If such is the effect created by so small a weapon, how much greater must be the recoil of a large cannon. Mr. Pennell seems c n fident, however, and after a lew exper. iments now making, will soon be able to anuouuee the exact time when ho will give his exhibition of a feat as novel as it is wenderlul. —New lark Tunes. Above all earthly gifts a good moth er stands pre-eminent; she is worth her weight in gold—more than an army of acquaintances. Those who have play* eel round the same door step, basked in the same mother’s smiles,in whose veins the same blood flows, are b ’und by a sacred tie th .t c*an never be broken.— Distances may separate, quarrels may occur, but those who have a capacity to love anything must have at times a bub* bling up of food recollection, and a yearning after the joys of bygone days. Every woman has a mission on earth.— There is “something to do” for every one—a household to put in order, a child to attend to, some class of unfort unates, degraded of homeless humanity to befriend. That soul is poor indeed that leaves this world without having exerted an influence that will be felt for gooi after she has passed away. The following paragraph from p. speech of Aaron Burr when Vice-Pres ident, said to have been one of the most effective pieces of oratory ever pronounced under the roof of the Cap itol, may not be inappropriate to the present crisis : ‘•This house is a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order, and of liberty, a id it is here —it is here, in this exalted ref use —here, if anywhere, will resistance h<: mad< to the storms of political fren zy and t he silent arts of corruption ; and if the Constitution be destined ever to perish bv the sac-religious hands of the demagogue or the usur per, which Cod avert, its expiring agonies will be witnessed upon the floor ” Did he behold, in a long vista. Grant in the White House and Morton in the Senate?—A r Y. Sun. Rules of Ball for 1877. Our American game of base“bill is rev oiutiomzed agon, the national league having resumed the lively for the dead hall. This is to be made by an author ized firm—a “soft-job ’ for somebody— and to come io a sealed box, to be bro ken by the umpire on the field. Other important changes in the rules are : The home club in all cases goes first to the bat. A flayer not going to the bat within a minute after beiug called by the umpire is declared out, as also when he runs to the first base inside the foul line. When a runner is struck by a hit ball he is out. The object of this 1 ist would seem to be to allow every advan tage to the “out,” and if is further de creed that, the runner must go round and back of fielder who obstructs his i path to capture a bali.” Domestic Sewing Machine nttestie Paper Fashions imestic Underhraider • mestic Machine Find' gs OMESTIC MONTHLY. THE Light-Running: DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE. IS 11IE BEST. Greatest Range of Work* Rest Quality of Work. Lightest to llun. Always iu Order. “Domestic” Sewing Machine Cos., NEW YORK and CHICAGO. 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By reason of error oi fraud many attor neys are suspended from practice before the Pension and other offices each year.— Claimants whose attorneys have been thus suspended will be gratuitously furnished with full information aud proper papers on application to us. As we charge no fees unless successful, stamps for return postage should be_ sent us. Liberal arrangements made with attor neys in all branches of business Address GILMORE & CO., P 0. Box 44, Washington, 1). C. astiington, D. C., November 24, 1876. I take pleasure in expressing my entire confidence in the responsibility and fidelity of the Law, Patent and Collection House of Gilmore & Go., of this city. GEORGE H. B. WHITE, (Cashier of the National Metropolitan Ban 1 ,.) dec9-tf. 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