o,'was two ieAp land theo"Mills of Arka fy miles away. Tlh muls d on the upe foor of the hous the Cattle all been ago; planter, negroeq and overseer were confned in their re spetive domilciles; the grist-mill Was under water, and there was no meamis of Preparing corn for culinary purposes ex. ePt a wooden nominy-mortar. The hog-and-hominy diet (so highly extolled by some people who have never lived on it) was adopted of necessity, the former being represented by mess pork, salter than tongue can tell. There were no visitors, except now and then a so ciablo snake, which, no doubt bored by swimming around indefinitely in the overflow, and craving even human com panionship, would glide up on the gallery of some of the houas. There was no means of locomotion excep.6 the skiff and the humble but ever-se.viceabl dug-out--nowhere to go anF nobody within a day's journey otherwi or molp, comfortably situated. The onfy sense of sympathy from without was had from remote and intrequent glimpses of the gallant steamer J. M. White, which, leaping from poiut to point., made bot ter time from New Orleans to St. Louis than was evepkiade. before or for many years after. 'Viat year, nineteen plantations out of twenty failed to produce a single pound. of cotton or ia single bushel of corn, and when the flood was over and the swamp Noaha came out of their respect ve arks, the were, to say the least, malconitent. .hey were not ruined, of course but they had lost a whole year's gross income. Moreover, the prestige of the swamp ns i cotton country was wofully diminished. The planters in the "Hills," as the uplands are denom inated, began to hold up their heads, no longer overcrowed by the extraordinary crops alleged to have boon heretofore produced in the swamp. The swamp-planters set to work to re deem the disaster, and to prpvide, as far as posuible, against its recurrence. With the- purpose of retrieving their finaucial fortunes they took some unique measures. There is a tradition that, at a public meeting held in Green ville, Miss., in October, 1844, among other more commonplace resoli tions one was gravely and unanimously adopted to the effect that a demand for payment within twelve months from that date of any debt, great or small, upon any planter who had beei over flowed that year, should be considered distinctly " personal "-a clear case for pistols and coffee. The code was cer tainly a curious institution, but proba bly this is the only instance in which it was expectedl to do duty as a stay-Law. "The Leucces of the Mia.issippi," in &S'ribner. A Texas Mother-in-Law. A fall woman, wearing a sun-bonnet, came injto the office of the chief of po lice, and sitting down hard on the end of a bench, wviped her nlose, batted her eyes a time or so at the chief, and asked in a voice that reminded one of sharpen ing a saw. " Be you the galoot who locks folks up ?" " I regret to say that I am occasion ally obliged to resort to such extreme measures with refractory persons." " I know all that ; but be you the ga loot 1" "Yes, madam." " Why didn't you say so when I asked you ?" " Idid." "You are a liar, and if you don't treat me like a lady, I'll fold you up and sit down on you, " and battedi her eyes some more like a terrier. "What did you want?" asked the offi cial, looking as if he needed reinforce ments right away, and plenty of thgm. " I want that dirty little whelp what . married my darter. I want to talk .to him on business, but he evades me. If I could only get a chance to caress him once more 1" and she breathed hard and * gritted her teeth until the official felt in his pcketfor a police whistle. " etold my darter he wvould give three hundred and twenty acres of land, with a gold mine on it, to anybody who would amputate my jsw with a boot-Jack. He said my mouth was like the gate at the fair grounds. " "Ho meant, I sup~pose, it was never shut. I don't see how he came to make any such ridiculous comparison as that. Did you ever remonstrate wvith him ?" " You bet I did. I drawod him across the kitchen table by the hair with one hand while I blasted him wvith a long handled skillet, and you should have heered him calling me 'mother darling' and ' pet,' but Providence was agin me. Hlis hair gave away, and he lit dt'tbe fore I could reason with him any more. Just as like as not we will never meet again," and she sighed heavily. "pIo calm, madam, do not excite yourself too muoh." "I am calm. I like t'o talk about these family screts. It calls up sacred recoloctions. It makes me think of my fust huisband. It was real fun to remon strate with him. He sassed back, but, Lord, what a time they had holding the * inquest. That was at Arkansas, before we moved to G*alveston. Thero was some of his remains in one corner of the yard, and a few more remains hanging on the fence, and there was a right peart of him wrape around the ax handle. The jur knew me so they brought in a ver dict of justiflable homicide or suicide or something like that. And now to think of this pesky, little worthless, spindle shaken, goggle-ed whelp getting clear off, excepting a fwpounds of hiar. I want yu to find him You can know himnb the brands I made on him with the ho skillet, 'Wantad to amputate my jaw, the little brassy whelp I Said my monmth was lke... gate, did he ?" The official said be would hunt for him * and let her know. As she went out, she batted eor eyes significantly at the offi cial, anf said : "You had better find that prodigal s0nt or thar'll be music in these head Aw old angler says that a fish does hot eife~r much pain from being hooked. But lo$ him tell the yarn to the man who igit in his packet for his knife and . fonnd he had left seven fIihhooks in .~*tere, if he wants to~ be (cailed an un npedold slanderer. 4 -V .~: ed.. F ~~F.'V ,S-~ i '3 nakes a happy vsage. A is t an gi st1 h ng , s . thantat hwe. i 1e piefs~ t ar i n sof our A zqopoN, like the Von smh, shape a an it smites--Bovee. CowsoraNC either aggroves or repme each intelligent &eYaor MUMoDY records services with a pen- i oil, injuries with a graver. Tnumu are flaws in diamonds, flies in amber, and faults in elery man. . NO PADLOO, bolts or bars can secure c a maiden so well as her own reserve. . x L10TN to conscience more than to in- 1 tellect and learn to concentrate thought. A3sxqox of occupation Is not ret; A mind quit* vacant In a mind distress'd. C -Ootep- t Ta end of man is an action and not I a thought, though it were of the no- I blest. c Tim attainment of our greatest desires t is often the source of our greatest sor- 1 rows. < JEALousy is the hight of egotism, self- t love and the imitation of false vanity. Balzac. I THE earth can not be entirely covered with violets and mignonette; there must be weeds and vegetables. ON THIE sands of life Sorrow treads heavily and leaves a print Time cannot wash away. MEN have made of Fortune an all t powerful goddess, in order to be mide ' responsible for all their blunders. a TznurTATION belongs to the schedule V of life, and no man can altogether avoid it if he seek to do so ver so much. *" TEN thousand car will hear the audacious lie, One thousand to the refutation list, Ten, of ten thousand, will believe stern truth. W 4 4 -IVW. Story. C A WOMAN reachds her prime between t thirty-five and forty, for' though her I beauty has then lost the charm of youth, ( it has acquired that of expression. 1 ALL things that we clasp and cherish rass like dreamtu- we may not keeip Human hearts forget and perish, ~ Humuan eyes must fall asleep. t --leine. n As WATER containing stony particles incirusts with thom the ferns an(l mosses r it drops on, so the human breast hardens t under ingratitude, in proportion to its openness and softness, and its aptitude h to receive impressions. You niust. either soar or stoop, V Fall or triuniph, stand or droop; Ym must eltier serve or govern, Must be slave or mnuist be sovereign; Must, in fine be block or wedge, Must be anvil or be sledge., r -Goethe. t THE best part of man's life is in the a world of his natural affections, and that ni realm has laws of its own that neither ii know nor heed king nor congresses, and t are deaf even to the voices of shouting S popular majorities, but heed and obey d rather the gentle voice of wvoman and a the cry of helpless and feeble child- is hood. -Senator Bayard. Ul WHY are you barbarously imprisoned h by your fears ? Why do you carry bur- nx dens all the day on account of the fears yE of an unexplored next day, next week, next month ? Why do you fish on the troubled stream of fear and bring to land fish that have no money in their mouth? Why do you not say, "Let my life flow tranquil and pure in that higher realm of faith and trust and let a the future take care of itself ?" t 'JI StephensoniWhen a Boy. 5i Railway traffic, as it exists, was-not s even conceived or imagined a century a' ago. The man who gave us wings, who C taught us to beat the racehorse, to sur- r pass the flight of the swiftest bird, and to make huge argosies, with multitudi nous passengers, skim over the earth far more easily, swiftly, and obediently than h. over the sea, was such as modern phil- . anthiropy loves to look down on as the" object of compassionate aid. He was r the son of an engine tenter at a colliery. r< 'The surface works of a pit or mine may u be curious, but they are not picturesque. It is hard to believe that the heap of de- h bri8 and wrecked machinery now form- 1) ing Sheffield Manor was once the most pleasant of all the prisons of Mary B Stuart. B~ut a hundred years ago .the colhiery engime was a very poor, rickety, asthmatic creature, compared with an engine of theae days. Puffing and blow ing and blowing, shaking and clanging, t it was always more or less out of order, to be stopped every now and then to see 0 what was the matter with it. Sympathy is the soul of all goodness and greatness, 0 and, as a good shepherd must love his sheep, a good groom his horse, and a good sailor his ship, so anybody em ployed on an engine must have a genui- B me affection for it, and a deep concern in its troubles. He must learn to feel its 11 pulse, look into its mouth, and inquire tenderly into its poor inside, if he is ever to do it any good. There was mughi op portunity for mechanical patholony- min those days. George Stephenson becarhe hi a little man, as a pit engine b~oy at 2d a day. No wonder, wvhen much coal was sold only sixty years ago at 5s a ton at4 the pit's month. He had absolutely no ~ education in the departmental sense of a that much-abused word. He only learnt yi his business. That was all. At eighteen el he began to read, and had the luck to h~ fall in with twvo teachers, one of them a a Scotch dominie, wh col teachhi something more, lie then became stoker and brakeman-that is, he had to feed the furnace and liberate or stop the rope at the right time. Most men of genius would hardly think it their proper sphere to throw coals on a fire or to keep their eyes constantly fixed on a rope going up and down ; but George Stephenson had to go through this ordeal, and found ox ereise for his mind in it. An opportunity '.1 came. A condensing pump engine had tJ bothered the engineer. He volunteered, for love's sake, restored tlhe patient to perfect health, and having reached the root of the disease, effected a permanent n improvement in the constitution. .Then s he became an engine man, and married on 12s a week. So he went on, curing C the diseases .of engines and wagon ways, t3 and took tramns under ground. Indeed, t~hey would go anywhere with him. But oi his bena volence was diffusive. He mend- di Bd everything that came in his way-- s< alooks, watches, shoes, and even the out f pitunen's olothes..---London Timee. THE Arizona .Democr-at claims that ji :hey have neither sun-pokes nor mad logs in the health Stam of Arizona. MANYv Philadelphia manufacturing es ablishmnebts are boring artesian wells to A ibtain supplies of pure water,.I 1NOW &Mia. Ahat 1hNew and aM nuisalioes in the shape I unAhtly ences. The most costly aid artistio fenoe deforms a fine land *pe. FenOes must sometimes be .lerated as necessities but should aver be regarded as oahent. The Scessity for them is far less than has eon supposed. The modern disoovery hat fences are to keep cattle in, not to eep them out, is a valuable one. If 'ou have a sow and pigs, fence off a lot ' enough to keep them in, but don't b your neighbor to support two ailes of road fence to keep them out JnsghMY fences are disap3pearing in asn districts, and it is probable th rhere little stock is kept, it will soon be heaper to cut their feed and carry it to hem than to fence. pastures. -If the iens that we pee in our country vil ages were taken awayA with proper are, all would live in a beautiful park his would foreshadow and aid the re Moval of social and sectarian barriers, a onsummation devoutly - to be wished. e hange of public opinion in regard 6 fencing has been a. pleasure and a urprise. In many places we can hardly 66 a fence, and rods of old fencing may le had for the asking." A Conuopm. The Washington Poit propounds an riginal conundrum: "Can't some other rord than tgenial' be found to describe he man who shakes hida and rith everybody smiles, on everybd nd laughs at YEe thrice-told anecdotes Vhich vex the ears'of drowsy m&n?" WARNER'S Safe Kidnog and tiver Cure. I'vE had enough of kisses, I've got pfough of love I Oh, give mnp back my id eeouch hat i my comfortable glove ! ake offghwicoat that fits so tight I oh, et me mussamy hair I there's a balm in lilead yet I iope, " God bless the hap >y pair 1" We learn that Ellis & Oo., propiietors f Bailey Sprihgs, are making prepara i~is to entertain an ubusual 1r1 arge umber of visitors this summer. riey are eeivimg communications from all over lie south inquiring rates and making con racts forboard. This isoaly their due, r not only are they most auccessful tel keepers, but their place'1 in every y worthy of patronage. It is one of lie coolest, shadiest, breeziest places in lie South; the locality and surround is are delightful ; the buildings are )omy, airy, and conveniently arranged; lie accommodations, fare and attention re first class, arid Shoal Creek is the iost romantic stream and the best fish ig water you ever saw. Add to this ie unrivalled power of the 01(1 Rock prmng in the cure of dropsy, scrofula, rapepsia and diseases of the blood, skin 1.d kidneys, and the sum of attractions irresistible. If you have ever been tere you know this is all true. If you ave not, try it just once. You will ever regret it. Address Ellis & Co., ailey Springs, Ala. Proper Dress for Children. In Spanish America, where infantile iseases are as rare as in Hidostan, ha ics of all classes and all sizes toddle bout naked nearly the year round, and ae -Indians of Tamnaulipas, between 'ampico and Matamoras, raise an aston shig mnumber of brown hantlings, who re never troubled wvith clothes till they re big enough to carry garden stuff to'a ity where the police enforces the apron 3gulation. -Popultar Sccce Montly~. Wicked for Clergymen. lL.v. -- WVashinaton, D). C., writes: '1I slieve it to be all wrong and even wicked r clergymen or other pulIic meni to be led to giving testimonials to quack doctors or le stufle called miedicines, but when a ally meritorious article made of valuable ~medies known to all, that all physicians ue anid trust in daiily, we shtoutld freely >mmend it. I therefore cheerfully and eartily comimend Hop Bitters for the good icy have done mec anid my friends, firmly ehieving they have no equal for family use. will ntot beC without them."-New York iptist Weekly. - Got Back at Her. A very neat mot by Mlle. Fargueil, 1e actress: One night on entering the green-room fthe Vaudeville she surprised Mile. Ilmire Paurelle ir1 the actdeof "taking ff" her acting, with many gestures and rimaces. The mimic stood petrified, but Mile. 'argueil smiled benignly on her and "'Very good,. indeed ! Try and act ke like that always-then you won't be issed I"-renoh paper. Cured of Drinking. "A young friend of mine was cured of an satiable thirst for liquor, which had so -otrated him'that lie wvas unable to dlo any slness. Hie was entirely cured by the us'e Hop Bitters. It allayed all that burning irat; took away the appetite for liquor, aide his nerves steady, and he has remained sobier and steadly man for more than two ars, andl has no desire to return to his ips ; I know of a nnmblhler of others that tve becaen redl of drinxking by it." -- Fronm laiiR.Oflieial, hcg" l.Tms IF A BEIC attempts to sting yelu, hit im with a shingle-make a bee flat of im. WuxrN you go to bed take a dose of Kiddfey ort. It keepsa the bowels in order. Tanu price of carriages for funerals in ew York has been raised 20 per cent. hey're bound the sorrow exhibited by le mourners shall be sincere. "Dlseases of Men," Giving information greatly desired, but >t at tainable from sources wvhence generally tught. "GLIAD1 TID)INGS FOR MOTH-IERS." rmntaining matter of highest interest to all ho would pass safely and with little pain rough the great trial of motherhood. These are the titles of two works, either bot' of which is sent for a smp > ad essed to the author, Da. STAINnJAUK Vic IN, Atlanta, Georgia. Their truths should be knLown to all. SoMn feiales have just been arrested i Kentucky for the manufacture of ii -it whisky. This is the first reco led .. neo of a woman keepinig still. Ma. VANDEBILT'r. in eIs marvelous ; R0 is Enberg's Letter File. Try it. Camzeroni Amt rg A na. Cago prope B omak nak&" MpwSAN' Itsz ootan lo, the whether the reslt of exhaustion, nervous po tration overwork, or acute diseaise, artil if resulting from pulmonary aints, 0.5 well, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York. 1oW TO XECURE HEALIEf. It is strange any one will suf'et from derangements broughtona by impure blood, when ROSADALIS will re. store health to the physical orgaula ition. ROSADALIS is - strengthening syrup, pleasant to'take, and the IM BLOOD PURIFIER over disaovered, ouring Scroals, dyphilitio disorders, Weakness of the Kidneys, Erysipe. laS, Malaria, Nervous disoidors, Dbility, Bilious com. plaints and. Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys, Stoutach, Sklu, ete. . BAKER'S PAIN PANACEA oure pain in Man and I.t. DR. ROJER'S WORM STRUP latently destroys WOnMS. PERRY DAVIS A SAFE AND SURE REMEDY FOR Cramps, Cholera, * Diarrhoea, P Ie SpraIns AND Iruises, Burns AND Scalds, Toothache AND Headache. FOR S&LE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. CELEDRATEw Malaria is an Unseen Vaporous Poison, spreatting disease and death in manny localities, for which iuinine is no g enuinle antidote, but for the ellects of wvhich klIOs tttr's stomach Bitters is not only a thorough remedy, but a reliable prevenitive. To this fact there is an overwhelming array of testimony, extending over a period of thirty years. All disorders of the liver, stomjoeh1 andl howel3 are allso) conquered b~y the lBitters. For sale by all Druggists anid Dealers --_____ enierally. AMERICAN AND FOREIaN PAT EN TS. GEORGE E. LEMON, Att'y at Law, WASINGm roN, D. C. eernces given tro tlen Ir ie ary every Con model for opinion asto the pataality. No charge for TOG those ai~mieted with chroniic diseaises of Ithe liver, kidney, entlarged s pleent, rhieu mattismn, chronic dliarrhtoa and female corn plaints cured. No charge until cured, if deC. sired. Correspondenee S lidited with stamp Address DR. J. STOATE, Oxford, Miss. ar 3made. Coetl 4 .g e ot D'o'd llo e.5yv.~q~ 'ee donGmeo suactono a none gao ve aatio and sikn chill.t tis eI wa ot krnwa bat. I ael ofe thre ote tothat 1 eers ione thae ais uig yi~e boyb* oe lsstierns of U wd6se Ma k, ased Pho. UFATUB B TlEDR. HARTER MEDIOII Booi Effect, Compact, Guaranted Who runs u Bteam powei 3 Horseo 61 s8j MILL and FACTORY. SUPP OF ALL KINUS.4 and PAClING, . OILS AL KINDS, IRON PIPE, FifINO, A GOODS STEAM GAUIEN I E GOVERfdORS &c. Sn for Prie List. W. l. DILLINGHAM & CO., 143 Main Street, LOUISVILLE, KX. $5 to $20 Tag,* ,th 0 1zr Pc188 no@T791 PRE0S. h~Ui* ribt, .' has 4 a so s e* *tee, EANHA1'AN B00E 00.. 15 W. 14th St., NY. P.O. Box 4so "O hills. m and' ir'er AND ALLt DISEASES Cusod by Mala-ai Poteonilng or te. Foed. A WARRANTED CURE. 'Prioee 01.00. lr ente br an D The Purest and Beo edicine eer ae. Sbation VIM,%Zan aUra tive properties of all other Btters, ane beagtq~ostl pd qPurifr Liver. U1 he ad LUt de He lth 19 strin S it earth. Xo disease 0 an possibly iong oxist where Hop Jutters are us dso vaicd and perfect are their opQrsati givnow n fe sad v1gortotheag and Inam. S-tTo alt Whose e ploymentscauso Irregulari' ty oethe bowelsor urinary organs, or who re quir an Appetizer Tonic andmild Stimulant, Hop Bitters are inval uablo, Without Intox icating. No matter whatyour t. elings or symptoms are what the disease or ail nt Is use Hop Bit, ters. Don't wait untilyoua rM sick but 1i you only feel bad or iis17erablo, Use them at once. It a&y save your lIfe.It has saved hundreds. *5~ wll bepaidfor a n they will not, mire or help. Do not suf or Oet your friends sufferbut use and urge them t use Hop 8 Ibmember, flop Ditters is no Tile, drugged drunken nostrum but the Purest a n d Best Medicine cror n4le ; tho "INvAUDS VBIED and HOPE" and no person or family shudbe without them. anabsolute and Irresistible cur or runkenness, Se of Upium, tobacco o for Circiiar. p1-V ts Send. Rochester.N.Y anel Toronto. Ont. COTTON IS KING "? "S "t aKINGOfCATTON (or Cotton GOn ud z rcvral planta n purposes, not found inta.s a:) . rine in1'ths world. Fo Pamphlets and Price i.ist a~'ply by mail to AULTNMAN & TAYLOR Co , PANY,' MANSFIELD. 1) AY 1ellng Rubbe Hand Itampe Circular. d~~c~ ON TI-GNT W TED-9 best .FAddress Jyay Bronaon, Detroit~ ih For Two . 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N BOSJ~~* " " Power Ir I K * ,- -5 wa" " an owe withon a"er-n -Ws4 awend the circa'st preima' t o Soruterlnd Mchaa Presso.o, MERxasA,.1880.9 V HOA d.Aov wer 100.a " " PoerMas 1 erare au 80 " Han Pw Iros ,(r Se60fo cl.". art."..Ad..*e"'* BRN~AD MUOO.ryMa. o ' lli aifsW 19E38S Everyvea -awsswit - eatbyw ti5 baV with Re Awies5 6O A 00way einferior*E.drs trick