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________ ?????? _ _ _??_?_ T~ y * BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1881. NO. 23. VOLUME XXVI. 2lf^H The York town Centennial 0<le. IHark, hark ! down the century's long-reaching i eloj'C To those transports of triumph, those raptures of hope, The voices of main ami mountain combine ! In glad resonance borne on the wing of the wind, The bass of the drum and the trumpet that j thrills Through the multiplied echoes of jubilant hills, And mark how the years, melting upward like mist Which the breath of some splendid enchantress has kissed, Reveal on the ocean, reveal on the shoro The proiul pageant of conquest that graced them of yotv, When blended forever in love as in fame See, the standard which stole from the starlight its fame, And type of all chivalry, glory, romance, The fair lilies, the luminous lilies of France. II. Oh stubborn the strife ere the conflict was won! And tho wild whirling war wrack half-stilled the bud, $he thunders of cannons that boomed on the lea But re-echoed Tar thunders pealed up from the Where guarding liis sea-lists, a knight on the waves, Bold De Grass* kept at bay the bluff bulldogs of Graves, rr>i . 1. 1 . . il.? (urnn.l Jine uav lUIilVU iu iiamiics;, wn; ?ij,uv VJ fi.'C, Still more fiercer waxed the combat, moro deadly the ire. Undiiumed by the gloom, in majestic advance, Oh behold where they ride o'er the red buttlu ) tide, Those banners united in love as in fame, The brave standard which drew from the star beams their tlamc. And typo of all chivalry, Glory, romance, The fair lilies, the luminous lilies ot France. [ nr. No respite, no pause; by the York's tortured [ flood The gray Lion of England is writhing in blood. Cornwallis may chafe and coarse Tarleton aver As he sharpens his broadsword and buckles his spur, 'This blade, which so often has reaped rebels like grain, Shall now harvest for death the rudo yeoman ' again." Vain boast: for ere sunset he's flying in fear, 1 With the rebels ho scouted close, close in his j rear, The French on his flank hurl such volleys of shot That e'en Gloucester's redoubt must be grow- j ' ing too hot. I j Thus wedded in love as united in fame. Lo! the standard which stole from the star- ' light its flame, , And type of all chivalry, glory, romance, j The fi-ir lilies, the luminous lilies of Franco IV. Oh morning appear I when tuo siege reached j See! the sundawn ontblown like the alchemist's i rose 1 j The last wreath of smoke from dim trenches , upcurled , Are transformed to a glory that smiles on the 3 world. Joy, Joy! Save the waii, wasted front of the t foe, With his battle flag* furled and his arms trailing low. ^ i Bespect for the brave ! In grim silence they | yield And in silence they pas3 with bowed head from ] the field. Then triumph transcendent! so Titan of tone ! That some'vowed it most startle King George ] on his throne. < V* 1 When Peace to her own time the pvrise of the i land, ^ And the war weapon sank from the war-wearied hand, 3 Young Freedom upborne to the height of the goal ( She had yearned for so long with deep travail of bonl, j A song of the future raised, thrilling and ^ clear, Till the woads leaned to hearken, the hill slopes ] to hear, j Yet fraught with all magical grandeurs tha < gleam On the hero's high hope, or the patriot's dream, ? What futnre, though bright, in cold shadow shall cast Tho stern beautv that halos the brow of the past. * Oh. wedded in love, as united in fame, ^ See the standard which stole from the starlight its flame. And type of all chivalry, glory, romance, The fair lilies, the luminous lilies of France. "AHEAD OF TIME."! i n ! s " Now I'm going to show you wny I I ] struck out for myself." c I had been driving a mile or two ] with my cheery friend, Dr. Mary Stedman, and until that moment was un- r aware of r.ny motive for the ride other t than the usual one of pleasure to us r both. r " I have a warm place in my heart t for my native Vermont," she went on ; "And knowing how 1 love it, I am sure j p you have often wondered why I did not ' s remain here instead of seeking a home r and a profession for myself among strangere." i I had often speculated on this very ^ subject but there was no time to confess ] it, for at ihat moment my companion \ reined up suddenly, and with a brisk c " Here we are !" jumped from the car- ] riage. 3 "This," pointing to a weather-beaten but still comfortable-looking house, "is (_ the homestead. Since the death of our parents my eldest brother has lived ( here. You needn't be at all disturbed,"' ^ as I naturally hesitated about intruding ( among strangers, "for mj sister-in-law , ( axpects us." I j "How cool! how neat! how shady j \ and comfortable!" were my first ex-; j clamations as I followed my leader into ] the old-fashioned parlor. ! ] "Just so," she responded drily, j "And, my dear, you might search from j cellar to garret of this great house, and though you stood upon ladders, and ! j peered with a microscopo upon your j ] Vjanrla tn<iou rnn trnnM rovoi* lift i able to lind a fly." 11 Mrs. Stedman looked as her sister-in- j j law had described her?" like a very sad and troubled ghost." She was pain- I fully thin and haggard, and at least a dozen times during our short call I noticed her mournful eyes lill with tears. " "Well, Sarah," said the doctor, " you are as busy as ever, I suppose ?" "Oh, yes," our hostess replied; " there is never any end to work." j " Been making butter to-day ?" "I made a little over forty pounds this morning." "Before breakfast, I suppose?" The doctor's tone was somewhat crisp. "I churned at four, and I have jus} worked my butter over. I don't mind ' bo much when churning doesn't come washing days; and, you see, cream has I got to be attended to whenever it is ] ready." ( "JfcJeen washing, too ?" my friend ia. quired. "Ob, yes! And it did seem as if I had every garment in the tub that there < was in the house!" "So you've made forty pounds of butter," said the doctor, " washed?and what else 7* " Not much else beside the regular work. I picked some beans for dinner, and made a few pies; that's all." At this point my friend, much to my surprise, turned the conversation into other channels, and soon after we took our leave. ' It seems to me you have neglected an opportunity," I remarked, as soon as we had driven away. "I supposed you'd think so," my companion answered; "but you can form no conception of the amount of breath I have wasted on that very case. I am regarding it now solely from a Mi6atiflo standpoint. I think I calcu? ttirh l .'V I late the length of that woman's days 1 within a fraction of time." " I should think vonr brother wouldn't allow his wife to work so,*' 1 remarked. i: What does he know about it?" said ' the doctor. " He comes into the house for the three meals that are prepared tor him, and when night comes lie goes to bed and to sleep, or he drives over to the village and spends his evenings with his friends. My brother works hard, bnt he works out of doors, and that eaves him. Sarah has an excellent reputation as wife end housekeeper all over the country. She has helped my brother 1 'lay up'?in Yermount vernacular? .several thousand dollars. It doesn't take a prophet to fee that another wife will have the benefit of this one's toil; though it is probable, if she comes from this section of the country, she'll not have sense enough to bo benefited by anything!" "If your sister-in-law would only; have a servant," I suggested. "A servant! "Why, what a greenhorn ' you are'"said the doctor. you : think my brother and his wife are strong enough to bear the linger of scorn : that would inevitably be pointed at 1 them should they employ a servant ? It I' is far bettor, my dear, to work one's self to death tlmn to be called lazy, and ' i shiftless and extravagant. If this were | J not the case they would not think they 11 could afford a servant. My brother is j i dominated, soul and body, by the spirit i of economy, and his wife is a reflection i of bimself. Hero we are again,'' my j friend continued, coming to a stop be- j i foro the door of a more modern and < more pretentious mansion. "Myyoung- i ] est sister lives here. It seems singular, ! t doesn't it, that I have never introduced I < yen to my relatives before ? The truth is, you and I are perplexities to these f good people. We turn them out of ! t their beaten tracks for a while, with no other result than to aJd to their hard \ work and anxieties. Ten years ago my j i sister Anna was a^ healthy a girl as 1 there was in Vermont, and the brightest j j and wittiest one of the family. I had | some hopes that she would keep out of : the treadmill, and, if she did marry a j farmer and settle down here, that she , would furnish an example of common j( sense to her neigobors; but she is just j? like the rest, only worse perhaps." All this as the doctor hitched ber '? liorse, and we walked up the long j \ gravel eu \vhik. Sister Anna was scolding one of her j t children when we entered the house, | md we were upon her before she had finished her loud-pitched harangue. "I don't believo any one ever had such contrary youngsters as I have got!" ( die remarked, apologetically. " They ' :lo worry ine so sometimes that it seems j So mo I should enjoy myself iu my ; jrave " ! "Send a coui>le of them to me, Anna, j whenever you feel like parting with ! diem," said the doctor. "I would in a minute if their father !?as willing," the lady replied. " I : lon't know how to bring up children," j she added, "and if I did know how, ' [ haven't any time. To tell the truth, j t have such a pain in my side all the timo that I'm not tit for auything. I ivish you'd give me some of that medicine, Mary, that you gave me last sum- j mer."' | "I suppose you work just as hard, :\nna, as though yon hadn't a pain in four side," the doctor remarked. "Of course I do," was the somewhat irritable response. " Who else is thero | to do it if I give up?" " Where is the pain, Anna, and how long have you had it?" The doctor's tones svere even, and * lier manner so calmly professional that 1 [ had at the time no suspicion that any 8 3f it was assumed. J " It is under my left shoulder-blade," tier sister replied, "and I haven't 8 wreathed a long breath since last No- 8 rember. Sometimes it is worse than jthers, and I am conscious of it every * ninute." 11 The doctor drew a chair to her sister's side, and took her hand in hers. " Dear me, Mary, my pulse is all right," said the invalid, doing lier beat ^ :o make light of the situation. ; " How many men does your husband , ? aire this summer, Anna ?" the doctor nquired, as she prepared some medi- js ;ine. ,1 " Only six this year." " And you cook and wash for them, I : s suppose ! I "Of course." j " How many cows have you ?" " Fourteen." x " And you make butter for market ?" ? Sister Anna smiled as she answered ;1 his question. ' 1 " 1 average about sixty pounds a 1 veek." J " What time do you get up in the 51 norning ?* " About 4 o'clock. ' ^ " What time do you go to bed ?" " Anywhere from 10 to 12," and then, yith a glance in my direction, "you 11 ;ee, farmers have to keep ahead of time, i v !f they didn't manage to do this they c souldn't lav up anything, to save their ~ iveS." j " Anna," said the doctor, taking no lotice of the above remark, " I intend 0 stay in Vermont a month, unless I am 0 leeded in New York. Would you like * ne to take charge of your case during ^ hat time?" "My case!" her bister repeated in f 1 reat perplexity. "I don't suppose I 1! ihall need anything more than that s nedicine." n " I will gladly do all I can for you, j a ^.nna," the doctor resumed, "and n vhen I am compelled to go back I will; t cave you in good hands; but, it must, 0 >e on condition of the most perfect i t )bedience on your part. You have ' rnrd couching spells cvei-y morning, do . I rou not ?" i k "Yes, Mary, but how in the world t lid you Know that ?" J v "No matter how I know it. That I lo know it is sufficient. To begin a vith, Anna, your husband must liml * )ther places for his workmen, and some d >no must be found immediately to do c rour housework. You must go to bed | f ;very night at 8 o'clock, and remain c n bed till after breakfast. You must o lave all sorts of nourishing food, and 1 pork and codfish must bo eliminated j :rom your bill of fare." I " Mary, what do yon mean ?" There was a look of terror in the poor woman's eves, and her lips quivered j painfully. "I'meau, if you do exactly as I tell rou, you may get well; if not, it is impossible," the doctor replied. " If you ihink I am exaggerating, or don't know what I am talking about, send for any reputable physician you please and ask aim to tell you the truth." i " Oh, Mary ! There isn't any way of j loing the thing.? you speak of. Clarke j feels awfully poor this summer, and I have been trying harder than ever to make the ends lap over." " Where is Clarke V" the doctor in- | juired. " He is down at the creek, having." ,!I will drive down and liavo a tulk with him right away," said my friend. . making ready to leave. " Oh, Mary! Don't you think there j is any other way ?" The poor woman had broken down completely now, and the doctor held ber for a moment in her strong arms j tin/? fnrnssprl fondlv. I "No other wa/, sis," she replied; ' ' but we will do the best we can. ' There's no telling what a good rest and 1 careful nursing may do for your poor < tired body, my dear." ( "I was going to take you to Rome 1 other places," the doctor remarked, as ,1 we drove away, "but it would have been the same old story; work, work, work, , without rest or change, from year's end to year's end. My mother killed her - ' self by her attempts to get ahead of } time. Two sisters have traveled the same road that Anna has started on, one of them absolutely dropping dead , in her kitchen in the midst of her work. This is the kind of thing I ^ould not ! endure to see go on. I knev it was all wrong as soon as I knew anything, and > when I became old enough to have a : voice in my own education I persisted in taking a different course. My sister Anna has tried so hard to get ahead of time and make things ' lap over' that she lms abused and probably killed herself, beside criminally neglecting and mismanaging lier children. I don't suppose site has had live hours' sleep out of tlio twenty-four during tin* last tiro years, and think of that amount of rest for a woman whoso 1 train and muscle are forever in use! Every year I come up here and lind things going from bad to worse among my relatives and most of my friends, and the horrible part of it is that nothing one can say or do wiil ever have the slightest cfTect." ' Don't you think your verv natural anxiety about your sister may liave colored your diagnosis a little ?" I inquired. "Not in the least," my companion answered. "Anna's pulse was one hundred and twelve. The respiration was labored and ominously frequent. i c: v> a ?> n ci 1 \ '' AUUU xiu uiioiaaiu^ outu " How could she keep at work with such a pulse as that ?" I asked. "By the exercise of will power," said the doctor. " In our family will power is a direct inheritance. If it could otily have been put to a good use how much might have been accomplished! My clear, this will power eats salt pork when good beef and the most nutritious food are absolute necessities. It makes ill its cream into butter that the cash may ' lap over.' It dn'nks skim milk, ina works nineteen hours out of twentyFour." Soon after this the doctor dropped me at my boarding-house. "Now you know all about it," she remarked in parting, "and if anyone 3ver nsks you why Mary Stedman did not remain among her relatives you can ay that she declined to live among criminals and suicides." Five months after the above incident >ister Anna died, and one year from Ihat date the widower married again, fhe second wife is a duplicate of the first, working night and day and "layngup"for a future which it is more :han likely she never will enjoy.? Eleanor Kirk, in Christian Union. Xevtspapr. Advertising. The first-class newspaper or periodical possesses very obvious advantages is an advertising medium. It goes into ;he family, is read by each member, ma is irequentiy so mucn in aemauci ;hat wbilo ono is reading it another is mpatiently awaiting bis or her turn, [t lias features which causo it to be preserved for a day or two, if not longer, md it is usually taken up several times ifter the first reading. The advertisements are looked at as well as tho news ind if anything mentioned in the adrertising columns is especially needed n the household, it is eagerly noticed, md one of the family will be likely to start out to purchase it. Every day a arge number of persons who are in iced of eomo article turn to the adverising columns of newspapers in the lope of finding an announcement of vhat they want. Newspaper advertisenents are thus looked at when the eader is in a mood to make a pur;base, but the inscriptions on rocks and joards, and the other catchpenny ways >f advertising,will only by mere chance neet one's eye when the mind desires vhat "is ment ioned. Moreover, the news)aper advertisement is superior to all >ther forms of advertising in versatilty. For instance, the advertisement >f a grocery man can be at once altered io as to considerably increase Lis trade >y putting an announcement of some lesirable goods just received in the )lace of some long-standing announcenent of staple articles with which tho mblic are already quite familiar. Tho j mblic are on the lookout for novelties ,nd special bargains, and there is no >ther medium than tho newspaper i hrough which they can satisfactorily | md easily keep posted in these ropects. It cannot be too carefully borne in nind that the great advantages belongng to newspaper advertising can only >e fully and satisfactorily derived from dvertisements in the best papers, those vhich have high literary and moral forth, and find their way into the most espectable and thrifty families. The ;ensational papers, the papers that reat only of ephemeral matters in a tnperficial way, that have a skim-milk nake up, aud are perhaps only hastily jlanced at as one rides in the horse-car md then thrown away, are obviously )00r mediums for advertising. The country weekly is undoubtedly >ne of the best papers in which to ad ertise. Its circulation may be small md mostly confined to one locality,but t goes among families who read it and reserve it more carefully than the city nan does his daily paper, and who de\orw1 nri if. vrliaf. .dvertising information they need. A arge circulation, by the way, although ery desirable, cannot make a paper hat is deficient in character and literary xcellence a valuable advertising melium, while a paper of high standing rith but a moderate circulation can ommand the most valuable patronage. -Paper Worhl. Inspecting Keely's Motor. A short time ago some of the directrs of the Keely Motor company exended an invitation to several New fork capitalists to como over to Philalelphia and witness the operation of his much talked-of machine. Accordingly a number of gentleman, repreen ing different commercial pursuits nd a good deal of capital, visited Phildel phia and were escorted to where the aotor is in place, in an old stable in he rear of Mr. Keely's house. The nlv possible way to gain admittance to he seance was by giving three raps on he door at short intervals, and Mr. jorimer, one of tho directors, and Mr. ichullerman, the secretary, as1 door enders, tried to exclude all but the inited few. As the clock was striking 8 the upper .partment of tho stable was full of j aen. Mr. Keely then poured twenty j Irops of cold water into tho generator >f his apparatus and connected the dif- j erent tubes which acted as insulators >f sound and vibration. After the first xpulsion, which caused the vaporizaion of apart of the twenty drops of vater poured iuto tho generator, Mr. veelv proceeded to b1iow the vibratory )Ower of liis machine, placing a hollow >rass globe between two plates of glass in inch thick. Certain combinations vere made and the globe began to rerolvo at the rate of a hundred revoluions a second, as claimed by Keely. die next experiment was the liring of a :annou ball through a four-inch plank md then flattening tho ball against an ron plato back of tho plank. Again a ittle wire was connected between the generator and the canuon, and, without tny apparent force except that supplied >y tho vapor gained from the twenty lrops of water, a ball went crashing hrough the room, striking the wall in vhat Mr. Keely calla his vice shop. No lot air escaped from the mouth of the annon. Th<?n Mr. Keely exhibited his jelting machinery and created what vas claimed to be six-horso power moion instantaneously. Many questions, ill wonderfully unscientific, were asked ind answered by Mr. Keely in an exutable, jerky way, iu incomprehensible jcientitic terms. After tho exhibition vas over a vote of thanks was tendered Mr. Keely. In bis reply he said: "I do iot claim to have invented this. Any nan who would make such a claim vould be a fool. This is an invention )f tho great Creator. I merely put together machinery to demonstrate the vibratory power of that you have witnessed to-night." Newspapers have become teachers. They form and give direction to the public mind on all public questions, the public view them as the work of men tvlio stand above mediocrity in education, general acquirements and natural ability; and they should onsequently be edited with a dignity, accuracy and ability becoming their high office.? Peoria Transcript. Of the 11G ministers of the Presbyterian church, North, who died last year, two were over ninety years old, nineteen were between eighty and ninety, thirty-five were between seventy and eighty, and fifty were under seventy, THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. i Extrnrt* from ClinrlrN IJuclley Wnrner'n , I'nper, Krnul Before the Americnn Social 1 Science Amoclutiun. The newspaper is a private enterprise. | j Its object is to make money for its j | owner. Whatever motivo may be given ! out for starting a newspaper, expecta- j , tion of profit by it is the real one, ' j whether the newspaper is religions, j political, scientific or literary. The ex-1 ! ceptiorial cases of newspapers devoted j j to ideas of " causes" witliout regard to I I profit, arc so few as not to affect the j I rule. Commonly, the cause, the sect, | the party, the trade, the delusion, the j idea, gets its newspaper, its organ, its i advocate, only when some individual thinks he can see a pecuniary return in establishing it. The chief function of the newspaper is to collect and print the news. The second function is to elucidate the news, and comment on it, and show its relations. A third function is to furnish reading matter to the general public. Nothing is so difficult for the manager as to know wliat news is; the instinct for it is a sort of sixth sense. To discern out of llie mass of materials collected not only what is most likely to interest the public, but what phase and aspect of it will attract most attention, and the relative importance of it; to tell the day before or at midnight what the world will bo talking about in the morning, and what it will want the fullest details of, and to meet that want iu advance, requires a peculiar talent. There is always some topic on which the public wants instant information. It is easy enough when the news is developed, aud everybody is discussing it, for the editor to fall in. But the success of the news printed depends upon a pr j-apprehension of all this. Scarcely less important than promptly seizing and printing the news, is the attractive arrangement of it, its effective presentation to the eye. Two papers may have exactly the same important intelligence, identically the same dispatches; the one will be called bright,attractive, "newsy," the other dull and stupid. AMERICAN AND FOREIGN* JOURNALS. In particularity and comprehensiveness of news collecting it may bo admitted that the American newspapers for a time led the world. I mean in the picking up of local intelligence and the use of the telegraph to make it general. And with this arose the old notion that news is made important by the mere fact of its rapid transmission over the wiro. The English journals followed, speedily overtook and, some of the wealthier ones perhaps, surpassed tho American in the use of the telegraph and in the presentation of some sorts of local news; not of casualties, and small city and neighborhood events, and social gossips (until very recently), but certainly in the business of the law-courts and the crimes and mishaps that come within police and legal supervision. The leading papers of the German press, though strong in correspondence and in discussion of affairs, are far less comprehensive in their news than the American or the English. The French journals we are accustomed to say are not newspapers at all. And this is true as we use the word. Until recently nothing has been of importance to the Frenchman except himself; and what happened outside of France, notdirectly affecting his glory, his profit or his pleasure, did not interest him. Hence, one conld nowhere so securely intrench himself against the news of the world, as behind tho barricade of tho Pans journals. But let us not make a mistake in this matter. We may have more to learn trom trie raris journals than from any others. If they do not give what we call news, local news, events, casualties, the hs.ppenings of the day, they do give ideas, opinions, they do discus.? politics, the social drift, they give the intellectual ferment of Paris, they supply the material that Paris likes to talk over?the badinage of the boulevard, the wit of the salon, the sensation of the stage, the new i movement in literature and in politics; this may be important or it may be trivial; it is commonly more interesting than much of what we call news. WHAT 13 NEWS? What is news? What is it that an intelligent public should care to hear of and talk about ? Run your eye down the columns of your journal. There was a drunken squabble last night in ja New York groggery; there is a petty but carefully elaborated villago scandal about a foolish girl; a woman accidentally dropped her baby out of a fourth-story window in Maine; in Connecticut a wife, by mistake, got into the same railway train with another woman's husband; a child fell into a well in New Jersey; there is a column about a peripatetic horse-race which i exhibits, liko a circus, from city to city; a laborer in a remote town in , Pennsylvania had a sunstroke; there is the edifying dyiDg speech of a mur- : d?rer, the love-letter of a suicide, the j set-to of a couple of Congressmen, and there are columns about the Gigantic i war of half a dozen politicians over the : appointment of a sugar-gauger. Grant- j ed that this pabulum is desired by the i reader, why not save tho expense of i transmission by having several columns i stereotyped, to be reproduced at proper ] intervals? With the date changed it < would always have the original value | and perfectly satisfy the demand, if a demand exists, for this sort of news. Tbis is not, as you see, a description of your journal; it is a description of only one portion of it. It-is a complex j and wonderful creation. Every morning it is a mirror of (he world, more or less distorted and imperfect, but such a mirror as it never had held up to it before. But consider how much space is taken up with mere trivialities and vul- f garities, under the name of news. And ! t this evil is likely to continue and in- < crease until news-gatherers learn that I, more important than .the reports of acci- ] dents and casualties is the intelligence \ of opinions and thoughts, tho moral \ and intellectual movements of modern j life. A. horrible assassination in India i is instantly telegraphed; but the pro- gress of such a vast movement as that of the Wahabee revival in Islam, which may change the destiny of great provinces, never gets itself put upon the wires. We hear promptly of a land- j slide in Switzerland, but onlv very i slowly of a political agitation that is changing the constitution of the repub- j ( lie. It should bo said, however, that < the daily newspaper is not alono responsible for this. It is what the age i and the community where it is published make it. So far as I have ob- , served the majority of the readers in ; America peruse eagerly three columns about a mill between an English and a : naturalized American prize-fighter, but will onlj glance at a column report of a i debite in the English parliament which involves a radical change in the whole policy of England; and devours a page about the Chantilly races, while it ignores a paragraph concerning the suppression of the Jesuit schools. NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIP. Perhaps the most striking feature of the American newspaper, especially of the country weekly, is its enormous development of local and neighborhood news. It is of recent date. Horace Greeley used to advise the country editors to give small spnee to the general news of tho world, but. to cultivate assiduously the home field, to glean every possible detail of private life in the circuit of the county and print it. The advice was shrewd for a metropolitan editor, and it was not without its profit to the country editor. It was founded on a deep knowledge of human nature, namely, upon the fact that people read most eagerly that which they already know, if it is about themselves or their neighbors, if it is a report of something that they have been concerned in, a lecture they have heard, a fair, or festival, or wedding, or funeral, or barn-raising they have attended. The result is column after column of short paragraphs of gossip and trivialities, chips, chips, chips. Mr. Sales is contemplating erecting anewconnter in his store; his rival opposite has a new sign; Miss Bumps, of Oath, is visiting her cousin, Miss Smith, of Boz rah; the sheriff has painted his fence; Farmer Brown has lost a cow; the eminent member from Neopolis Las pnt an L on one end of his mansion and a mortgage on the other. On the face of it nothing is so vapid and profitless as columns after columns of this reading. These "items" have very little interest except to those who already know the facts. But those concerned like to see them in print, and take tlio newspaper on that account. FACTS AND COMMENTS. Tho reports of the semiannual conference of the Mormon church at Salt Lake do not indicate any abatement of zeal, on the part of ihe men with many wives. Fifteen thousand delegates were gathered from Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada, and their religious enthusiasm was remarkable. A joint committee of tho Colored and African Methodist Episcopal churches is to meet in Baltimore next Februarv to discuss the subject of the union of the two bodies. These are two of the three u leading African Methodist churches of the country. The Colored church is Southern and is an off-shoot from the Methodist Episcopal church South. Newspapers seem to us to show a marvelous improvement within the last fifteen years, and the promise of a great growth toward a high ideal. Here and now we do not define the improvement and the promise. But the marked tendencies toward the condensation, the culling, the purifying and the pertinence of news; toward conscientious and thorough work in reporting and reviewing ; toward embracing all objects of human interest, with preference for the best; toward independence in every lino of action and thought, social, religious and political; toward the elevation and stimulation of the best there is in humanity?these deserve consideration and encouragement. The destruction of propprty by fire during September, in the United States and Canada, amounted to 813,250,000. Thn f/vrOQ+. fires in Afiphierftn anrl where swept away 84,000,000 worth of property at the lowest estimate. The Commercial Bulletin says that, apart from the three great conflagrations of modern American history, it cannot recall a single month so full of fiery disaster to tho country as that of September, 1881, and it adds: "With every allowance for pure accident and elemental adversities ? such as the drought, lightning, etc. ? the great bulk of all this waste must still be charged upon that disregard of plain precautions which has started and fed these flames. Care might have prevented nine-tenths of the fires. But carelessness, in fact, has been the incendiary, and for carelessness there is no other penalty than loss, in which too often the innocent suffer more than the guilty." A Chinese philosopher, writing in the Shenpao, claims that the reason why so many rulers in Europe and America are assassinated, and so few in China, is because the former countries do not possess tho elaborate ceremonials of the latter. He says: Westoms possess few ceremonies; superiors and inferiors are commingled, and subjects venture on their poisonous plots. China lias her shortcomings, and her ceremonial may be excessive, but tho highest authority never falls into such abeyance. Westnvti nornrrir.nio 1 ia c/iAnf nr?il 4lin nln'aP V.iU AO OUUUU UilU L1J U power is often laid low. The Jack of ceremony in the^West brings constant trouble and fear o'f death to the prince, but the excess cf it in China saves hsr at any rate from this and makes the state stable. The guards of the Russian emperor and his inabilty to go abroad, though preserving him, are not so efficient as would be the enforcement of decorum. The title of prince and minister without the ceremonial bring inevitable revolution. Mr. D. H. Williams, secretary of the Michigan Fire Kelief committeo of Pittsburg, has made a thorough inspection of the burned district, and, for the satisfaction of persons who have contributed to relieve the sufferers, makes public a report in which he says that the funds and supplies have been wisely and efficien tly distributed. There is peneral satisfaction amcng the beneficiaries, and unbounded gratitude to the donors. Mr. Williams adds: The fact that planting-time had arrived when the fires occurred, a:ad tliat there is now a larger acreage sown than ever before, is the best evidence of the efficiency of the committees. There are no fences, but the crop is in no danger of being destroyed by roving cattle. A little watching and an abundance of green grass will protect the wheat for the nronpnt. Tim fwf.<?nt. of land under im. provement wasnoi: anticipated by me, and the most astonishing fact was that, with snch an area of improved land, bo much destruction was possible. It is rare to see so much good farming land in one body as exists in this region. To 3um up my observations, they lead me to believe that there has been a widespread destruction of property, great loss of human life, and a vast nnmber Df people requiring relief thrown upon the charity cf the country. It is a matter of discussion what Congress will do for Mrs. Garfield. In this 3onnection the acts. passed in relation to Mrs. Mary Lincoln are of interest, rhero were three acts of the kind i passed by Congress. The first act, passed when Cong res 3 came together j ifter the assassination of President! Lincoln, was as follows: " That the ! secretary of the treasury pay, out of j *ny money in the treasury not other- j svi ie appropriated, to Mrs. Mary Lin-; 2oln, widow of Abraham Lincoln, lafe ' President of the United States, or iu . the event of her death before payment, j to the lawful neirs, the sum of ?25,000; I provided always that any sum of money j which shall have been paid to the per- j sonal representatives of the said Abra ban Lincoln since his death, on ac- I [jount of his salary as President of the ' United States for tie current year, shall j bo deducted from the said sum of j $25,000.' The amount thus granted to | Mrs. Lincoln was the salary of the President for one year. Now that salary is 850,000. In February, 1S0G, Congress passed v,he following act: " That all letters aad packets carried by po.st to and from Mary Lincoln, widow of the late Abraham Lincoln, be carried free of postage during her natural life." In 1870 the following act was passed : " That the secretary of the interior be and is hereby authorized to place the name of Mary Lincoln, widow of Abraham Lincoln, deceased, late President of the United States, on the pension roll, and allow and pay her a pension at the rate of 83,000 per annum from and after the passage of this act.' Plenty of (Jame. Common people, who have not received tbe proper amount of educational j nutriment, are apt to be careless in the use of their mother tongue. Some folks ask a question in such a way that vrm rlnn't. knrw whftf tViov rnrnn while the trne scholar says exactly what he means and means exactly what he says. For example: A gentleman with a gun over his shoulder, while wandering through the " rheu barbs " of a far Western hamlet, met an unfledged Milton, and said: "Sonny, is there any game in theRe parts ?" He did not explain that he meant elephants or tigers or grizzly bears, and so depended upon the native genius of the youth to answer his question correctly. The boy, who had spent most of his time.in a miner's camp, and had made himself acquainted with the pastimes of that simple-minded and bucolic folk, replied at once: "Yes, sir, there's plenty." The hunter took his double-barreled weapon from his shoulder and put a new cap on, and in a very enthusiastic way asked again: "Well, what kind of game is there ?" The rustic sonny replied: "Well, si;*, there's considerable euchre,' but then it's mostly ' seven up' in these parts." THICKS IN* THE HOUSE TRADE. Monte rueful illntnto Intending l*urchn??er? ; ?-?Slini-p 1'rnctlcc Amoiiu Hokum A?lver- ; tUcri?Where llip RcMt Hornc* Come l-'roin?Kncin to Kcinomber. In the course of an interesting coc-! versation with n gentleman who has for several years been largely interested in ! the purchase of horses, a representative j of this journal gleaned several import-: ant facts. Of late years qui'e a large business j has sprung up in Canadian ponies, ; which, owing to their toughness, aro in great demand by retail dealers, as grocers, butchers, peddlers, etc. Two I French Canadians, who travel between : the province of Quebec and New York, annually import several thousand ani-1 mals of this class, the selling price of which ranges from S90 to ?200 apiece. Tho duty is twenty per cent. These are purchased in Canada for from 8-10 to $125, the latter price boing considered n very high figure across the lino. Horses intended to run to street-cars, or, as they are technically termed, "railroaders," come mostly from Western Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and j even as fur as Missouri. The two ! largest firms engaged in this line are Isaac Dolmun and Messrs. Oakley & Smith. They cost from $120 to ?150 a head. A good railroader will last five years, at the expiration of which time they aro sold by tho street-car companies to small farmers and peddlers. Before a final purchase is made by the street-car companies the horses are | generally tried in harnesss, and if j found suitable for tho purpose are accented. The largest build of horses, for brew- i ers, express companies and heavy truck j work, come almost exclnsively from j Western Pennsylvania, and realize from | $200 to $400 apiece. They approach j tho Percherou tribo in look and form, and at the present time these animals are somewnai: scarce. Carriage, trotting and saddle horses come mostly from Kentucky and command fancy prices, ?3,500 not being considered an out of the way figure for a well matched span. The average price is about $1,000 a pair. Considering the large dimensions which the horsb jrade has assumed, it is in comparatively few hands, and the pxiblic ignorance which prevails in regard to a fair knowledge of horsefiesh naturally presupposes the existence of extensive fraud. This, however, is chiefly confined to one or two gangs of sharpers, who havo for several years infested Brooklyn and New York city. "From tho fact that the trade is in a few hands," said one informant, " it would scarcely pay them to make fraud a specialty, and there- ! fore most of them do a straight busi-1 ness. Occasionally they may sell a horse, which turns out to be bad, at a good figure, just as you may find a bad cigar among a box of good ones. Neither do I think the practice of j 'doctoring' horses is nearly so preva-! lent as formerly. Perhaps for a $20 bill a veterinary surgeon can bo found who will pass a bad horse upon an ignorant i customer; but such cases are entirely exceptional. The kind of fraud, however, which is perpetrated upon the I public comes from another source' altogether, and is put up by rascals j who mate their living in this way. At j the preseat time the police are engaged | in hunting up a gang of these fellows, ; who operate through unprincipled livery-stable keepers, who go shares in the transaction." " Can you give any instances within ; your own knowledge?" " Yes, several. Whenever I see an j advertisement to the effect that a lndy : having met with a serious affliction, j and being compelled to reduce her establishment, is willing to sell her fine bay n:.aie, warranted sound and kind,' etc., I confess I am always suspicious there is something wrong. Tha wording of the advertisement attracts attention, and those not up to this very old trick imagine they can purchase a good animal cheap. Another j popular form of headiDg is ' Owing to the death of my wife,' or, 'A gentleman being suddenly called to Europo' or inrougn serious reverses in my iamuy, or, 1A gentleman pecuniarily embarrassed,' etc. I tell you these gentry are well up in tlie sentimental order of literature. Then comes the swindle, which is carried out in the following manner: The person who, having been attracted by the advertisement, wishes to purchase, goes to the stable where the animal is said to be, and is met by a gentlemanly-looking man who represents the owner. Gentlemanly man shows the horse, which may be really a good one, but declines to sell him, as a party has already bespoken him; but if the would-be purchaser is willing to deposit ?25 the gentlemanly man will let him have the horse at some ridiculously low figure, provided previous I party does not call at a certain hour. I Unsuspicous party deposits ?25, re-1 turns to claim his wonderfully cheap j horse, and finds the horse and his rider ! flown. The livery-stable keeper is applied to and says he doesn't know anything about the man, who had put up bis hcrse to board only the day before. Another trick," continued our informant, " was one which was successfully accomplished only a month ago. A | good road horse was advertised for sale j for ?150. There were several applicants i to buy, but they were not sufficiently j green for the purpose. At length one j turned up who appeared to be anxious to ' buy. The owner asked him if he meant j i * n / r\ * t i _ i 1 ? - ji x 1. _ f uusiness r ui course jl uo, repiieu uie | innocent; 1 why do you ask?' ' Because j I've had several applicants who! eaid they wanted to buy, and came just j out of curiosity. Now, if you mean business, I'll hitch up thut horse and show you his paces if you'll make a deposit of $50. I won't do it under. It doesn't pay me to throw away my time for nothing.' The victim paid, the horse was harnessed to a sulky, and the owner drove him up and down the street, much i to the victim's satisfaction, who was j about to congratulate himself upon hav- j ing got a good thing, when the owner : drovo the animal around the coiner, and ! that was the last that was seen of him. After waitiug an hour the stable-keeper { was appealed to. ' Whnt does this mean?'inquired the victim. 'Why, it ( means that I have been swindled as well| as yourself.' ' Do you mean to say that; you don't know the man that's got my \ money?' ' I don't know him any more i than you do, except that he owes me for i three days' board for his horse !' This, i of coutde, was untrue, the stable-keeper, j in all probability, being in with the | swindler. I might tell you many similar tricks, but the above are within my own knowledge." "Do these frauds ever get caught?" "Not very often, although a cele | brated horse swindler named 'Jewj Abe' got three years not so very long : ago in the penitentiary for obtaining | money by false pretenses much in the way 1 have told you." " How do these people operate ?" "Mostly in gangs. There are supposed to be six or eight of them. They change about from one part of the city to auother, and when the city gets too hot for thom they go v lsewhere for a month or so. There are several boiirding-stable proprietors supposed to be in league with them." "How many competent veterinary surgeons do you suppose there are in : Brooklyn and New York?" " Very few really tirst-class men. I Most, of Hioso who nrofpss to 1>r votpri- 1 ? ?-? x nary surgeons have been farriers in the British army, and they combine the study of surgery with that of a ridingmaster. Horse riding has become quite a fashionable pastime, and American ladies make good horsewomen and appear to take naturally to the exercise. There are three riding schools in New York, one in Brooklyn and one in Hoboken. The rising generation are going to make good riders." " Among what class of persons are the frauds you have mentioned mostly perpetrated ?" "Mostly among people of private means, who, lured by seductive advertisements and unacquainted with horses, more easily bite at the attractions held out to their pockets through the supposed reverses of others.: ' FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Clover Hay for ilomn. Clover hay is very nutritions food for horses, and when well cured and put up so as to he free from dust and mold, may he fed with entire safety. The principal objection to its use lies in the great difficulty which attends its curing and preservation. Another objection is found in the fact that sometimes the second crop oxcites in horses an unusual and exhausting flow of saliva. When either of these objections are present, it is better to dispense with its use entirely, so far as the horses are concerned; but otherwise it is a good and eafe food. A TonTc for Fowln Daring the winter season it will be found n very good plan, twice or thrice a week, to drop an even Bpoonfnl of common cayenne pepper into say two gallons of water given to the fowls for their daily drink. This is a good tonic, and it works very kindly toward warming the blood on chilly day3. Another excellent provision is to place at the bottom of the pail or vessel containing their drink a bit of assafetida. This impregnates the fluid with its tonic qualities and it is very wholesome for fowls in the wintry days. Homo AdvimtfiffrH of the Silo. A silo properly constructed will not burn up, rot down, blow over or wash away. It will require no insurance and need no repairs. It can be filled in any state of the weather. If farmers are driven out of the harvest field on account of the wet they can employ their time in filling a silo. A great variety of substances can bo ^reserved in a silo that cannot be cheaply dried to as to insnro their preservation. During many seasons it is extremely difficult to cure fodder so that it will not lose its leaves and become black. It is difficult to dry corn fodder bo as to insure the preservation of the stalks without causing the leaves to become very hard and crisp. When clover'is dried in the hot sunshine a large proportion of the juices it contains passes off by evaporation. They may be perceived in the air a mile away. Every chemist and physician knows* that j plants dried in the open air and under 1 a hot sun lose many of their most valuj able properties. All know that the I valuable properties of fruits and vege' tables are better preserved by the proj cess of canning than by that of drying. Ensilage is much more easily digested ! than dry fodder. It will be eaten by I all kinds of animals at an earlier age. It requires less mastication.?Chicago I Times. How to Trent Animnla. Another individual attempts by running and yelling to catch his cow or cows. Why do these naturally gentle animals run away from him ? Because they remember full well that on former occasions when he ha3 succeeded in catching them a series of blows from somo heavy cudgel has been their reward. Is there not some better way of securing tho good-will of our herds and in managing them as we wish ? There is a hollow place on the head of every cow, just behind the junction of the horns, which is commonly full of dust, short hairs and the like, causing the 1 animal an itching sensation. It is a source of extreme pleasure to the cow to have the spot scratched, and sinco ! from its location the animal cannot j reach it, hence when her keeper ap- j proaches her either in the stable or in | the pasture, an era of good feeling may j be ettablished it duo attention be paid to scratching the hollow spot. If at J your first approach the cow is a little j shy, offer her from one hand a nubbin of corn, while with the other hand you geirtiy scratch the particular spot in her head mentioned above. In a ve)y short time, whenever you go into pasture, the whole herd will come to you to have their heads scratchod, and you j will soon be satisfied that it is as easy to have them follow you as to resort to ! driving and loud noise.?American Cut- j uvaiur i j HomeOIndc Fertill^c-rn. i An English gardener says: I have long had great faith in eoot as a ma- ' nurc, and have here a covered box . placed near the castle into which 1 ho i sweep puts all the soofc from the chim- j neys and flues from time to time; this j in the course ci Ihe year amounts to an : incredible quantity of manure, and very handy and u.seful we find it. "\Yli9n a piece of ground is dug we give it a dressing with soot, and then, in gardening phrase, " break it down" for the crop. This really means running a harrow or rough rake over "it, and it mixes the soot nicely, and the result is always satisfactory in the crop. Last year our onion crop showed unmistakable signs of the maggot. I immediately had the piece dressed with soot. Heavy rains set in j list after, and soon the onions were on their legs and the maggots were gone. The rain water 1 from off the roof of the kitchen ru ? into a tank and is heavily charged wjth soot. This is handy to the flower arden, and we find it capital for watering flower beds in summer. The park one j au tumn had a lot of what the country j p eople here call "old to r"?why I know j not, but it means a lot of old, coarse, grass?a good dressing of soot in the j spring, and it soon gave place to fine, j young, fresh grass, bnd ever sinco the i deer and Highland cattle may bo found ! at pasture on this brow. While I am on this subject of home- [ made manures, allow me to mention a j few others, and the next shall be ashes, more especially wood ashes. This is invaluable in a garden if kept dry till j used. We all know what a terrible [ plague "the club " is amoDg the Brassica tribe; well, if the seed is sown on j the surface and covered with ashes, and J at planting time a hole, with a large | dibber, is made in the ground and filled | with the ashes, inserting the plant into j this, I have never known the club to ; trouble one, and it is the very best I tiling to dress lawns and meadow lands, j encouraging the best grassos and clo- j vers. In a woody country like this 1 there is plenty of charcoal dust at the bottom of the heap; this is most useful for potting and fruit-tree border mak-1 ( ing; some say it makes grass extra dark in color?that I caunot positively be : 1 sure of, although I rather side with the 1 belief. Lime is not nearly enough used ' '' i t-< u:i _ ? .1 1 i in tne garuens. xivery uiu in jjiuuuu should, in my opinion, bo limed once in j1 five years. It kills slugs and insects ( anil lichen on trees, and acts clieini- I cally on the ground, and is often bet- 1 ter than manure for certain crops. ! I remember once seeing ground 1 dressed in the gray limo produce i3 barley fifty-seven pounds per bushels- j 1 Horse-hoof parings make a most excel- 1 lent manure for potting pines, vines, ' pelargoniums, etc., and one can easily : make arrangements with the nearest blacksmith to savo them. When one reads of horn shavings beiDg run after, ! I cften think there are as good at the village forge. Bones are most valuable in a garden; they decompose but slowly, i: keep the ground opm, and are invalu- ' able in vino border making. The champion bench of grapes grown at ! JliUlUUllI^ll CULUtJ jeuis VYCJ^UJIJg over twenty-six pounds, did the clever gardener who grew it great credit; but it should aiso be known that there were heaps of bones in the border. A gardener whom I had got a good situation for took it into his head to send me a couple of geese at Christmas time. The geese were eaten, no matter when or where, but the bones were saved; these, with some others, were put into the , bottom of two vases on the terrace wall, ( two good plants of Tom Thumb pelar gonium were planted in them, and at , the end of September they measured , seventeen feet six inches in cireumfer- , ence. So much for bones and pleutv ( of water. llCClDPH. Milk Toast.?Cut your bread rather 1 thick, about three-quarters of an inch, 1 allowing a slice for each person ; toast it quickly before a bright fire to a rich , brown ; dip lightly into boiling water ; butter each slice and pile into the bowl J it is to be served in; for five persons j ] take a quart of milk, boil with a teaspoonful of salt, and when at the full boil add a heaping teaspoonful of butter, creamed with a light one of flour ; stir the milk until it is as thick as cream ; pour over the toast and serve immediately. Apple Snow.?Pat twelve tart apples in cold water over a slow fire; wheu softv skin ana core. Mix with a pint of sifted white sugar, beat the whites of twelve eggs to a stifl' froth, then add to the apples and sugar. Put in a dessert dish and ornament with myrtle. It will be found much better if frozen. Pish-Pash or Mutton.?Take any lean mutton, cut it in small pieces without any fat or gristle, boil it down into a nice broth. Then take out the meat. Wash a teacupful of rice nicelv, and boil it for a little while in tlie broth until it begins to look transparent. All grease to be skimmed off. Then take a mutton chop or two, take out the bone, cut in dice. Boil the whole together with a wholo onion and a little pepper aud salt for a, quarter of an hour. Serve without straining. The same receipt does for beef, chicken, turkey or rabbit. Chocolate Puffs.?-Beat stiff the whites of two eggs, and Leat in gradually one-half pi und powdered sugar; scrape fine ono ounce and a half prepared cocoa, dredge it with flour, mixing in the flour well ; add this gradually to the eggs and sugar; stir the whole very hard. Cover the bottom of a pan with a sheet of white papei ; place on it thin spots of powdered sugar about the size of a half dollar. Pi In o r\nrHnri Via m t f n vo on top of each, smoothing with a knife wet in cold water, aiffc a little sugar over each. Bake in a quick oven a tew minutes. When cold loosen them from the paper with a broad knife. Cooking Peaks.--The usual way to cook pears for pickling is to make the syrup of vinegar, sugar and spices, and prop the fruit into it and boil it until it is tender. But if the pears are large and hard the syrup boils away, and there is danger of -the outside of the pear becoming too soft to keep its shape, while the inner part is still too hard. These difficulties may bo dono away with by simply steaming the pear3 until you o an pierce them easily with a broom-splint. Then have the syrup hot and drop them in and let them come to a boil. These pickles will keep in unsealed jars, but if you have plenty of cans use them, since pickles that are canned certainly retain a peculiar ffeshness. WISE WORDS. Try your skill in gilt first, then in ' yuiu. Publish your joys, bat conceal your sorrows. People's intentions can only be decided by their conduct. One day is worth three to lrim who does everything in order. Gravity is but the rind of wisdom, but it is a preservative rind. The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes. The king-becoming graces?devotion,* patience, courage, fortitude. Judgment and reason have been grand jurymen since before Ncah was a sailor. Promises hold men faster than benefits; hope is a cable and gratitude a hread. Whoever looks for a friend without imperfection will never find what ho seeks. We love ourselves with all our thing rem.nneil unexplored, it is too soon to talk about the futility of exploration. We know no more what wo i may fiud or to what use we ruay put the knowledge to be gained than Christo- : pher Columbus knew of America when lie sailed from Palos to find a new passion to the East Indies. Where the Horses Went. Farmers in the neighborhood of De Witt and Brunswick, Mo., recently bave missed great numbers of horses. It was known, of course, that the ani rnals were being stolen; out wnero tne thieves took them the victims had 110 idea. Roads were guarded all night, hcrses continued to disappear. A few ilays ago a hunter penetiated the depth of a forest of willows that grow at the mouth of the Grand river. The forest ( covers an islaud of some .r?,00l) acres, ^ and so thickly interwoven are the limbs j of the trees that it is extremely difficult to enter. The sportsman heard the neigh of a horse far in among the wil- , lows. It occurred to him that the nc'gli had some connection with the mystery of the missing animals. A half-hour's hard work brought him to the heart of the forest, and there he saw forty or more horses quietly feeding in a barbed j ffiro incloaure. The thieves had a se-! ?ret path to tho pound. They h: d been removing the horses at pleasure duriug [light by means of a Mississippi Hat boat. On the evening of the discovery :hey were nabbed. The density of tho Dead sea and the Atlantic ocean, distilled water being as I, the former is 1.13 and the latter < L.02. j Rub or Rust. SI Idler, why lie down to (Me? H Better rub than rust. Ih| liar':! the lark sings in tho sky? 9 Dio when die thou must! Day is waking, leaves arc shaking, flffi Better nib than rust. flH In the grave there's sleop enough- I Better rub than rust. Featb, perhaps, is hunger proor, SI Die, when die thou must; mm Men are mowing, breezes blowing, . 89 Better rub than rust. He who will not work shall want; Naught for naught is just? Won't do, must do, when ho can't, PH Better rub than rust. Bees are flying, sloth is dying, H Better rub than rust. 'MB ?Eoeiezer Elliott . . IMC HUMOR OF THE DAY. A bear story is not necessarily the The ring of tho street car bell sometimes faro warning. Jfl Hauling a man in effigy is about as much fun as making faces at a blind "Excuse the liberty I take," as the cr nviot remarked when he escaped from $ 'j|H the State prison. H A manufacturing wire worker, in an- . v*mH advertisement, invites tho public to .JSH come and see his invisiblo wire fence. M A base hit. Perhaps after all, the surest way to wipe out the Apaches would'bo to invite them to play baseball with a baseball nine. JH A piece of petrified bread has been found in Iberville Parish, La. No clew to tho mystery, as there is no railroad. lunch counter in the county. S| A young clergyman in Iowa recently fl married a couple in the following brief jB manuer; "Do you want one another?" Both replied yes, "Well, then, have. ;8B one another." Tho bicyclo is a great thing to put . ? W flesh on a man. The Chicago Tribune > knows of a man who had one only a week, and his left ankle is tbreo inches 9 larger around than it was when he first J9H xiiu luiiu uarnco ouuu uiuii. xtu * tongues of lire high up toward the glow- .<*! Hj iDg heavens, a3 if they were, in their vengeful fury, endeavoring to sear the "'-jSfHH bright faces cf the twinkling stars I", 4x90 It was only a 850 stable, containing 825 worth of hay, but the reporter felt that way and really couldn't help it.?Detroit - ^ H " Engineer, is that boiler perfectly '.j-t safe?" asked an apprehensive passen S ger, glancing at the machinery suspi- jam ciously. " Perfectly," said the engin- -^SS eer. "How do you know?" "Easiest fl thing in the world," he returned; "I -S i plugged up the first crack in it last ? week myself, and the new Crack ain't more'n two days old." M An Indiana editor, s.track by light- ' . JflH ning, was stripped of his clothes and 9 thrown against a wall. If he was relying on running a weekly paper for his B support, we don't blame the lightning, for lie was probably so thin that the ,/M lightning took him for a lightning-rod ' w B and struck him while under the im- 'vJjHS ! pression that he was simply attending '||S 9 to business.?Eransville Arrjus. M Tri "R^of/^n -r/iAonflxr /Inrinrr Kanlnnflr Xr^^H faults, and we ougnt to love our menaa in like manner. A man has no right to occupy such high moral grounds that he is constantly so far above his fellows that he can be of no earthly assistance to them. A great deal depends upon a man's courage when he is slandered and traduced. "Weak men are crashed by detraction, but the brave hold on and succeed. Arctic Explorations. Every once in a while a newspaper breaks into declamation over the perils of Arctic navigation. Referring to the fact that it is now two years since the departure of the Jeannette and that nothing has been heard of her, the Springfield Republican remarks: "The search for the golden fleece fades into flat prose beside the dar ng and subtle sentimentalism which sustains these repeated and perilous assaults on the great mystery of geography." In the first place it shows a weak head to assume yet that an evil fate has befallen the Jeanette. Sue ' was provisioned for three years, and other supplies were cached at St Michael's to J --1- t? iU pruviue iui iue cmcigiruuj vx tuo auuudonment of the vessel and the return of her crew upon the ice to that point. It is hardly to be believed possible that the vessel and her entire company should disappear and Ic-ave no trace. 1 ^"1" A?>/1A in Aim f J tYI Ci O llOQ O V u iy UU(/C XU uivu^/iu uiuAVst? UUJ M iruviv expedition been lost, and the fate of Sir John Franklin's companions was due to the fact that he had no steam power and that the art of traveling on the ice had not then been rcduced to the perfection which the genius of Sir Leopold McClintock afterward developed. Indeed, under the improved condition of later day Arctic explora j tions, it may be questioned whether there is anything more perilous in undertaking a voyage in search of the! pole than in embarking in the fall of the year on an overladen wheat carrying schooner at Chicago for Buffalo. Nondenskjold mulo his great voyage from sea to sea without losiDg a life. Even on board the Polaris, a vessel ill-prepared for everything except mutiny and disorder, with two rival captains who were sailors and a commander who was not, the only men who did not come back safe and sound after all those romantic adventures was the chief. Dur- ! ing the search for the Franklin expedition, which was carried on by a large 1 fleet first and last, and was kept up for many years, although several vessels 1 were abandonee!, very few lives were sacrificed?probably not more than j' would have been lost in the ordinary . naval service covering an equal perio 1 ( of time. Neither the ice, nor the snow, ' nor the cold, nor the sea has been the explorer's worst enemy, but the scurvy, J ind the process of canning meat and regetables offers an excellent means of defense against this scourge. It is said that Nordenskjold bids defiance to the < iisease. As it is too soon by a year to ] ^ive tip the Jeannette, so long as any- [ 1 hours and with all the clerks present, a I man stepped behind the counter, walked : B to the safe, entered, took up a paokuge 9 containing 8600,000 belonging to the *t1B president of the back, and walked away fl j with it unmolested, The man who fl j executed this cool proceeding baa 7fl always stood high in the community fl and is well known. He is the president . of the bank. fl Severe Droughts. . An interesting record is that of severe I droughts as far back as the landing of 4 I the Pilgrims. How many thousanfl times are observations made liko 9 | the following: "Such a cold y^Hlj j season!" " Snch a hot season 1" ? & i "Such dry weather!" or "Such xj^.jaBj wet weather!" "Such high winds or ' 1 calm !" etc. All those who think the dry spell we have had this year is the n longest ever known, will do well to read the following: gfl In the summer of 1621, 24.days in H i succcssion without Jain. In the summer of 1630, 41 days in ' ^4pfl ' succession without lain. ' fij In the summer of 1657, 75 days in 9 succession without rain. fl In the summer of 1662, SO days in ; succession without rain. In the summer of 1674, 45 days in 5 j succession without rain. In the summer of 16S0, 81 days in g succession without rain. In the summer of 1694, 62 days in I succession without rain. _ . In tho summer of 1705, 40 days in I succcssion without rain. -' In the summer of 1724, 61 days in I succession without rain. jx&M In the snmmer of 1728, 61 days in | uccession without rain. In the summer ot J73U, y~' nays m saccetsion without ra;n. I In .the summer of 1741, 72 days in I succession without rain. I Iu the summer of 1749, 108 days in | succession without rain. "idj'jl In the summer of 1755, 42 days in J succession without rain. I In the summer cf 17o2, 123 days in | succession without rain. I In the summer of 1783, 80 days in I succession without rain. In the summer of 1791, 82 days in sueccssion without rain. In the summer of 1802, 23 days in j succession without ruin. Iu the summer of 1812, 28d?ys in .1 succession without rain. a In the summer of 1856, 24 day3 in I succession without rain. In the summer of 1871, 42 days in | succession without rain. *|S In the summer of 1875, 2G days in H succession without rain. In the summer of 1S7G, 27 days in succession without rain. Io will bo seen that the longest 1 rought that ever occurred in America .' nas in the summer of 17G2. No rain 'ell from the first of May to the first of 3eptember, rfiaking 123 days without 'ain. Many of the inhabitants sent to England for hay and grain. t His Honor anil the Small Hoy. ' Bub," said his honor, as ho leaned aver the desk to look down upon a redheaded rat of twel\e,."do you expect to be sent to State prison for life ?" " Y-yith, thir," was the reply. JI "Well, you'll get there if you keep 7! on. Don't you know that it is an awiul thing for a boy like you to throw a big apple and hit an ex-alderman in the left eye?" "Itslipped, thir." *ja " IIuwV' " I tbrowed at a b-boy, an' it wentol? t'other way." " Thro wed at a boy, eh? Suppose you had killed the boy?" s ^ "Yitli, thir; I'd like to kill him,'cause * he clubbed my dog." His honor looked under the desk for - au imaginary umbrella, and it was a t long minute before lie straightened up j and paid: " Vonrs is a serious ease." ^ "Yith, thir." "] " You must bo cheeked in your young career. If you will assault an alderman now, what wouldn't you do when you ire a man V" "Yith, thir, I wouldn't." "I don't want to send you to the workhouse, and vet I feel that you mnsti be made to respect the law. Bijah, hadn't vou better take care of this b \y ?" liijah led him into the corridor and shut the door. What passt d there may never bo revealed. \Yh^n the door was opL ned the floor was strewn with pieces of shingle, and the boy had gone around the cornel. Those who saw > * * 'i * ' - 1 1)1111 8.1m t11110 i1u lul'l\tjil iuiiicu tlu* back of his nock down to his heels, and that he was in a great hu-ry.? Detroit Press. Jd A fev.* drops of muriatic acid poured on a tablespoonful of pulverized marble will produce carbonic acid fjas.