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DEVOTED TO FO 08,-Sq MORALT JuvjATION AND TO THE 01 N A INT RESTO T"E NTRY B D RY .EY &0 CKENS S. C. TIURSDAY Y 4 1 82. .VOL. XI. NO. 3:3. 0' dsof thn. atanooga 7 ., e00 plt wortn I'It Ther ro et it pmsent in he NortbhCaroli peiltentiary, 124 of h m are white Uhd 862 are colored. -o' ge tree in-Orang county, Fla. jAbs"UTes six feet four inches in cir mference three feet .from the ground. 74; Atlanta merchant says one-fourth the corn coming into Georgia from hiie West is In a damaged sondition. The old Tallahasse gas-works were Old the past week for $50. They were abandoned at the commencement of the late -war.. The -Vicksburg and Ship Island and emphis and Vicksburg railroadsi have -been sold toa- I. T. Wilson & Co,, of New York, for 140),000. - A tract of good farming land w's sOld in Noxubce county, Miss., a1t. Sheriff's sale a few days ago for fifteen and twenty celts an acre. The Ohattanooga Times says the ne groes of that city' are accumulating property, and several of them are build inghouses to cost from $2,000 to $4,000. Mr. J. A. Anderson, who lives near Athens, Ga., has a gourd that has been in use to hold pepper and spices over 200 years. , The genealogy. of the gourd is clearly traced. A little boy at Mt. Crawford, Va., ran his arm through a crack in a hog pen, where it became fastened, and be fore help could reach him the flesh was completely torn from the bones by the hogs. Memphis Avalanche: Tl~e buffalo gnat is worse than high water. A fifty foot bank is no obstacle to him. With a grindstone under each wing he flies over hill and dalc and bores the life out 6f the $160 mule. Montezuma (Ga.) Weekly : A man from Drayton tells .us cf a combat he saw s6Yeral days ago between a rooster and a crowv. The rooster was attacked 4 in a field while attending to his own le gitimate business. The victory for a while seemed doubtful, but finally the rooster conquered and lef t his opponlen t in the field dead]. Near Penfield, Ga., li'.es two ladies, who, since the wvar, started to faring with oneO old blind horse. Now they own a good plantation well stocked, all paid for', and have eighteen or twenty bales of cotton on hand. They muan aged for themselves, one attendling to. the farm while the other managed the household affairs. The Mormon eld ers have been nto tified that they cannot teach their ab horre-nt doctrines in Morgan county, Miss., At a meecting o f the A ple1 Grove A ~ Grange the followving among other em phatic resolutions were adopted: Re 4 solv'ed, that a committee be appointed who will present to said parties ai copy of these resolutions,'and respectfully re quest these Mormon elders who are in truding themselves and their vicious and devilish doctrines upon this com-' further, to leave this community im, mediately. never to return. * Carrollton (Ga.) Times: "Mr. Jo hn R. Handley, living near here, has a rt' 4 mnarkable razor~with a remarkable hi -tory. It is madle like the ordinary rat'. *tier razor, the thick p art of the back ye .ing solid gob(1, so pr)foounced by silver' smiths. Ife has been offerod $2: for it. as it is thougha that the gold u.pou would amount to fully that much, the party making the offer proposing to re turn the razor as before minus the gold. Mr, Handley, who wvas present at the surrender of Gen. Stoneman near Macon, found this remarkable razor in1 the road, whore Gen. Stoneman had passed, just after the surrender, and it is thougflt by some, that the razor was the property of thie Federal General. ___ ,The Kind of Man to Marry. w Let us look at another case. -A young man, receiving a small salary, deterines' to put aside each week a certain sum ars a foundation for the pleasant home ho some time hopes to have. It forces him to make many sneritlces ; lie estihows 3ewelry and canes, soda water and cigars, and carries an unperfumed hanidkereuief. When in this semi-rustic plight, and wearing a suit (perfectly preserved) two seasons old, ho calls on a~maidon whuoe company ho desires, she looks with scorn at the -dowdy aross, anid is suddenly otherwise engiged. Discouraging as thi ma be heplods on ini the choseon path, and finally lays his heart before a quiet maiden wiho has, read : " I see at man : Ido not loe) his8 81hby dresa, I see him hui his manlIness; I see hia itx, I see~ h is sparle, hose a man that, (God has made. - If such a man h~ofro you st~Ando Gjive him your he'art, give him your haad, And thank your Ma ker for such men: The- innin of theirwde iei deq l tnho the splendor thata Ax~i4the other pair, but to them there aae ydeingto misery and woe. - hi~affectiordi ingneve~r -been trifled r ft reeed oee p h other, a 4 4 t4 30cln ever present ga. ladh TOPICS OF THE DAY. Tau elongated Oscar W. ildo has aihde $25,000 out of his lectures. Tn asssuranco has gone out that there will bo plenty of peaches in Southern Indiana. GoVPrNOn ORIrENDEN, of Missouri, is.of the opinion that Frank James ia dead. We feel pretty sure that the Govornor hopes he is, at all events. To sATrATra his blood-thirsty appetite, King Theobaw caused the butchery of fifty-four persons. It is to be hoped that this will last hini for some time. Coxannss is endeavoring to regulate oleomargarine. It is to bo sincerely hoped that it will succeed to that degree that tbe honest butter-maker may bo pro tected. SENATOR MA.HONE, the Virginia Read justor, readjusted his family affairs the other day by presenting his wife with a set of diamonds vnlued at $40,000. There is no repudiation bout that. Tum Queon of England does not for got those in death whom she held in high esteem in life. On the anniversary of Lord Beaconsfield's death, she sent two wreathos of immortelle3 and prim roses to be placed upon his grave. THE year 1882 has so far madz; rather a good showing in disastrous eventst. Missouri, Kansas and Pennsylvania have all suffered devastating cyclones, and there havo already been several shocking calamities. Tra President recommends Congress to make a law prohibling trespass on Indian territory by white settlers, mak ing the first offenso nnable in the sum of $600, and the second, $1,000. We rawther think the President is reaching for Captain Payne, of Oklahoma famle. Cirt. HoWGATE stole $160,000 govern ment funds, and now, that lie has esoaped from prison, Marshal Henry offers $500 reward for his apprehonsion. Five hundred dollars is very clever. If that is all his carcass is worth, the Cap tan may feel that ho is tolerably secure. QUERN VICTOnuA, who went to Men tone, France, for her health, has re turned suddenly and clauidestinely to England. That soems to be about the way royalty han to travel nowadays i.) escapo any stray bullets that may be flying around. Tan Bible used in the United States Senate in swearing in Senators has been stolen. It has been in use for fifty.. thrce years, and every Sonator admitted in that pleriod was sworn in upon that Bible, and had kissed it. Somebody probaby wanted- a relic. TamLondon sSpectator has an exalted opinonl of the wonderful strides inidivid uial possessions are aIssum~ing in Amerien. It srays "'tha't years hiene English for tunes will appe)~ar very paltry comu~nredj with American." The iSpectator hiad in its mind's eye Vanderhilt, Gould and the fry who are following in their foot steps. A CrnmAoo firm has hired Mason, tihe soldier who tried to ass*Assirnate GuitoanI as a salesman in their store for 0on0 year, at a' salary of $1,800, after ho is parlon ed from pris.on. As a salesman, Mason beinzg inexperience], would evidently not he much of a sn~ce ss, but as an rad vertising card, ho would probably be worth $1,800 for a year or two. TanE is no doubt but that the people of the Paciflo States want Chinese minui gration stopped. In voicing this senti men t, the San Francisco BuZllc'in says: The voto is a uniquo documenit among our Stato pa per.. It roserves, all its tenzderness for the S3ix~ Chinioo comupanijes, and slaps in too face, so to speak, thre sovereign States or the Ueion. It uphohls slavery after a bloody war wa~ged to deostroy it, and p)uts the "'lobby" abovo the Ameorican CJongress. AN. now Do Lesseps is going to flood the Sahara Desert from the Mediterra niean Sea, thme French Cabinet Coumndil approvinig of hisI plan. Scientists say that the great deserVt is above tho seaI level, and this being true, and D~e Lessep~s being a great man, wo sulppose the timo has arrived wheni we shall see "water running up lull." Tnm President has transmnitted to Congress a letter addressed by the Mini ister Plenipotentianry of Mexico to the( Secretary of State, proposing a coniclu sion convention between the two coun tries for defining the bounduaries between the United States and Mexico, from the Rio Girando to the Pacific Ocean, by the ereetion of durable monuments. Tim expense of erowning the Ozar at Moscow will be -ten million ronbles, almost eight million dollars, In other words, enough money to feed and clothe 30,000 peasants for a year will be wasted in gilding the ceremonnies of a tottering dynasty. The nobility of Moscow and ISt. Petersburg have volunteered their protection to the Imperial family, and the Czar has accepted the proffer. IT uIAs been decided, and the decision kahi-breadth escapo-18 to 12 1Wb!~~ ~not be educated for the Sfervard College. came6 pre1y euthat time. ~ .#e~not Fthe time-honored principle #f educating men only must be maintained. That lets the women out. ENOLAND made a great fuss about the "farce at Washington "-referring to the tndious trial of Guiteau-and advised this nation to make short work of the assassin. Singular indeed is it, thal right on the heels of this farce one Maclean shoots at the crown head of tha country and is acquitted on the groun< of insanity. Now, it is a questioi whether Macleau is as crazy as Guitean and it is self-evident that Guiteau knei he was committing a crime against th law. CoL. R. G. INGEnSOLL has been reply ing, in New York, to Talmage's assault and at his lecture Sunday night, speak ing of his defeat for the Illinois Govern orship, he said: They say I was defeated for Governor c Illinois booause I was an infidel, and that I an an infldol because I was defeated. That's logic Now I'll tell you. They asked me whether : was an infndel, and I said I was ! I was' de fentod. I preserved 'my manhood and Jost al efloe. If everybody were as frank as I was so1e men nOW InI office would be private citi ns. I wond rather be what I aM thanl hol< any ofie in the world and be a slimy hypo caito. cute. Ms. DONNOUGHT'S husband left he in Providence and went fortune huntinl to California four years ago. He sent be: money occfsionally, and now, having ac cumulated $20,000, has returned to hi! old home. lut he finds that his wifi married Thomas Frockleton, in 1879 and has since had two pairs of twins Frockleton says that she told him shi was a widow, and he is willing now t< giyo her np, but Donnought doesn' wianL her mider any circumstances. Thu: betweei the two she falls through, ani the twins come tumbling after. SPImAmER KImaEn has diiharged x second official stenographsr from tha Houise, the two men discharged beint the oldest of the corps and the most ef; cient men on the staff. In their placei have boon put two others, favorites, on< of whom has already acknowledged hii incompetency, and his dik!missal askct for by a committee. In asking for a: explanation the New York Herah pointedly says : "Do these discharge nian that the inquiries of Congressiona committees into alleged iniquitous train mactions like those of Shipherd shall bi rendered nugatory and void by incom ploto ind defective records?" Keifei perhaps can answer. Tuu John F. Slater Fund of $1,000,00( for the education Of the colored peop< of the South seems to have excitot wrathm ini the bosom of a Malden (Mass. editor, who charges that Mr. Slater az cumulated the money as proprietor o cotton factories in Connecticut and Mas sachusetts, which have been notoriom: for presenting some of the worst featureu of "loug hours, poor pay, and thieving truck stores." The aforesaid Mauldei editor says it should be st:dted thus : " The cotton operativen of Connecticut rani Massachuse~tts havo given one million dollara to ednoato theo nogro, and Mr. Blatter gets the credit of it." It muy barely be0 possible that this is "conscience money" that Mr. Slatter haii given. If so, good enough. ANOTIIrsR blowing up of vocks at l Glate will take place as soon ats the ar rangenAents now being mnade by Genera Newton are completed. This time th< nirea to be exploded will be three time: as great as that of 1876. Eleven acres of the reef known as .Flood Rock ar< being tunneled at a depth of fifty e: sixty feet, and when this work is com ploted, two years honce or so, the whol< reef will be b~roken up with one scat tered charge of dynamite. About sever aerosa are already completed. Halletti Pock, broken up ini 1876, has beer fished out and carried away untfl thor< is now a twenty-six foot channel at lov water, where six years ago was one o the barriers of navigation. IT Is believed that even newspape: corres~pond~n ts are o(cionally capabl< of exaggeration. At all events they ar< now telling of a boy in Paris who has teleopie eye. One eye is as large as ailver dollar and the other a small as: French pea. tip to a few months ag this large eye was of no use. Blut aftE anfl opeCrationl on it an astonishing chang occurred. The eye became telescopi ini its range, and the boy could expan or contract the pupil at will. At nigl Iho could sua the rings and moons< Jupiter and the newly disoovered sate lites of Mars. Thon -it was discovert hat the smaller eye was aicrosoopic, dro o waerappearing to him throug 'it as a world of life. The cnlists, mior< scopistsu, and astronomers of Paris al said to be in a state of great exciteme, ovoi- the leoy. Tra report of the majority of tia Committee appointed to audit the e: pensos. of the illness an~d death of tli late President allows Dr. Bliss $25,00( Drs. kgnew and Hamilton, $15,000 eaci and DrA. Reyhurn, Boynton and Susai Edson, $10,000 each. The muininori* in their roport, say:. IWe do not object to the payment by the ri eoral government of the funerai expenses oftt late Peident,'who was strieijen d~wmin t p)erfor3Zhaeso hind dutles, and b~ieof 4J I omtipyIng tMpublie ste ojn.0Y to w-rportesr out of the for thefor the pbyaiolan's dt4 ergeons yro attQ .No T i11 Presid'nt. We are perfectly willg t on cede that a liberal compensation should be al lowed the physioans and surgeoup, a componsa tion In excess even of what it fts possible for U any of those medioal attendants kshave earned t in their ordinary practice during that time. It the suus recommended to be paid by the majority of the committee are exoeusivo. Wo are of opinion there was no extraordinary n ad- d ical skill exhibited in the treatment of the case, S and nothing calling for an extraordinary al- E lowanoe for professional servioen, but whilo willing to be liberal we could not consont to the - banner of payment recommonded, nor to the extravagance ind wanton lavishment of the public funds. 4 There are a great many private citi ens who hol(1 about that same view. - - t Railroad Sociability. "Speaking about tie sociability ol I railroad travelers," baid the man with the crutches and watch pocket over his eye, "1 never got so well acquainted with the passengers on a train, as I did the other day on the Milwaukee and St. c Paul Railroad. We were going at the i rate of about thirty miles an hour, and another train from the other direction f telescoped us. We were all thrown into each other's society, and brought into t immediata social contact, so to speak. "I went over and sat in the lap of a corpulent lady from Manitoba, and a girl from Chicago jumped over nino seats and sat down on the plug hat of a preacher from La Crosse, with so) much timid, girlish enthusiasm, that it shoved his hat down over his shoulders. "Everybody seemed to lay aside the usual cool reserve of strangers, and we made ourselves entirely at home. r "A shy young man with an emaciated oilcloth valise, left his own seat, and went over and sat down on a lunch basket where a bridal couple seened to be wrestling with their first picnic. Do you suppose that reticent young man would have done such a thing on ordi nary occasions? Do you think if he had been at a celebration at home that he would have risen impetuously and gone where those people were eating by them selves, and sat down on the cranberry elly of a total stranger ? " I should rather think not. " Why, one old man, who probably at home led the class meeting, and who was as dignified as Rloscoe Conkling's father, was eating a piece of custard pie, wheu we met the other train, and lie left his own seat and went over to the iront end of -the car and shot that piece of cuIstard pio into the ear of a beautiful widow from Iowa. "People traveling somehow forget the a :asterity of their home lives, and form I pequaintances that sometimes last through life."-Laramie Boorerang. Trees and Raintall. It is universally acknowledged by all scientific observers that the rainfall of a country diminishes rapidly as its for ehts are cut down. In Australia thiere seems to be an exception to this rule. I In New South Wales, according to the Journals and Proceedings of, tho Royal Society there, about one-half of the tim. her land of the colony has, during the last twenty- five years, beeni denuided of trees b~y natural decay, ring-harking and clearing for cultivation. Naturally a diminution of the rainfall might have been expected, but this has certainly not been the case ; indeed, statistics - rather indicate the reverse. The priua cipal riv.ers, too, have not b~eenl dimiin hise~d in volume of water. The experi en ofr. Mr. Abbott, with ring-barking ofeeill oni runat. Glengarry, seems espcialy ignficnt.This operation (for improvement of grazing capacity) he lagried out in 1869) and 1870, on most of the watersheds of three creeks each about two miles long, drainmng well-de fndvalleys shut in by high ridges of I basailt. For twenty years previously thxese creeks were dry wvatercourses, only I holding wate'r for a fewv days after raiu, and ina few places in winter. But soon after ring-barking they became, and have continued, permanent streams, with increased flow of water and num b er of sprinigs. The explanation that Mr. Abbott offers is that the~ largo pro portion of the rainfall, formerly taken IDo the Australian gum-trees difler in .their action on the rainfall from those of other lands? ?.-. - Old Time Refor'metrs. It is the general opinion of the reform-| Iera of our day that they, or at most their immediate predlecessors, were first in the field, and that all was darkness biefore, 3 As far as5 suiffratge is conicernied, the fact r that women couild vote in New Jersecy seventy or eighty years ago throws somie d1oublt upon01 this claim. The 1sspicin is strengthened into conviction b y an aippeal to history. A Muaacluiisetts e woman has discovered that Alhigniil Adams, wife of Jlohn Adamis, and genier.. ally his wiscat counselor, as far biack as a 1774 wrote to him in behalf of wom1ian's citizenship. He wvas at the tirue ini at Stendance on dhe fhst Const itu',ional Con gress at Vlhiladelphiia. She speilly O asked hiri to remember the ladies in thim new code of laws and t~o treat themz lhet ter than his ancestors had done. Mercy 0 Otis, hister of James Oti, about th'm o samte timae hit upon the si wue uc uised a phlraise of "'iherenit righ ts,"' dec! lrig that ticey "' belonged to all mnank hid, and .had all been conuferi'd on all by thie (Gud -of nations." These are ol(d t horite according to the American standard of antiquity, but we think Semiramis and a Zenobir, saying ntoting of other an~cient h1 women of note, must have held very .jmuch tihe same idea of theu equality of the sexes, If no uitterance-s of theirs tc this effect are extant, their careers can still be Atudied, and "actions speak louder than words." Use of Oplom in America. e It is estimated that the number of c- opium consumers in this conutry has to doubled in the last four years, anid that ,they now uso 5,000,900 grains a year. The import of opium last year was 140 *% per cent. in excess of that in 1878, and that year the import waa 70 per cent. r, greater than in 1867. PhIysicins, drug.. gists and traders all report that the use of opium is largely on the increase, par eticularly among woXnen, who suppl~y k*Ifour-fliths of the vietims of opium. '.Lbi sincrease-is not due to a disuse of' *alej W'1'holio intdricoante, bwsis largely attribe od to the groWla5 us a the hypodetamid Forestry Statistlcs. In some cantons of Switzerland thero a law forbidding the destruction of a ree without planting another to talko its lace. This law is an outgrowth. of ecessity. It has been scientitically emonstrated that the increase in violent torms, inundations, and landslides in witzerland, scattering death and de truction on all sidUTs, is due to deforest g the mountains. Gradually the timber has diappeared util little remzains, excopt on the high 0o)s of the mouilntaills, and that little i of inferior size and quality. Unless lie process is arrested, the mount ains of iwitzerland will present as bald en ap 'earance as thso Alps which divide "rance from Italy; and nothing more esolate and dreary outside the steppts f Asia, or the desert of Africa, presents self to the eye of the traveler. Switzerland, 'coIlpared with tho area f the United States, it; but a speck, but Iwe have more aerealgo and wvider tretcies of timbered l(ads, we are also 'onusmniig them more rapidly. A glauco at the series of forestry bulle ins issuied by the Census Bureau is suffi -ient to alarm one for the future timlr mpplies of the United States. The naps siow the orignal extent of the lest lands and the( area do 1mded by the remorselens ax of the humbermani. Take Michigan, the great pie 8tate of the Northwest. More tha three-fourths of tim land, inclauding the upper peuninula, is been strippted of its timber. A few statistics will slow that the amounit of white pine remiilig on the Sagina; -.n1 its tribut aries, and iln the iii nso streamas nowing into Lakes Huaironl Id MJicligani, is estimateo iat 29,000,0ot,00,) feet, board measure, Inl tho single year ending with May 1880, 4,068,773,000 feet were eut. A this rato the supply will he exhausted ii less than eight years. Of the name tim her on the peninsula there were 6,000, D00,000 remaining, in round numbe.r and of this 328,438,000 feet wat il on year. From Menomiieo and Delt; ,!ounties the nierchiitablo pine, says ti B3ulet.in, hafs been almost entirely rv tuoved. Tho destruction of tile han woods has beon on the same exhaustiv -Cale. Tho mfapi E1how that along ove'ry navi -able stream, and on the rivers of th lakes, the timber has all beei (ut away vnd each year the lumbermen have t zo batck further into the interior for tliei suppliest, an1 the cost is increased hr the greater difficulty in gotting the tini her to market. Wiscoinsin 1has only (,100,000,000 fee rem1iaining of wlite p)ii0. Inl the conlsiu y ear 510,997,000 feet were cnt. IHo\ long before Wiscolsin will cea-.o t furnish a supply of this vahvble timbeir Sh1e 4's still 3,840,000 acres of har< wVoo1 forest ; but iln ravages in that a hardly less tian in the pine lands. Mi nesot a still has 17,200,"I 0,000 fee of pine, and some (3, 775,000,000 of uixe pine aund hartd wood to boiast of, blut th it during the census year was 115,777 000 feet, and each .ear as the suppldie ini Wisco~nsmin ad Michigiu d winlei th Luieren 'e. .111 ';alor, nless asomethling isa (10n1 t 'n cou rage the repltatiug of foresin (1 p)11mi nd hard wfood( it wilt not lbe twenut: 'ears before there will bie a timbtle faminie ini the land, with prices so ex travagant ats to put ani cnd to building i; w~oo~d and to tihe use of wood ns fuei. WeT need not d1well on tie effect of de forestry oni elimate and1( temnperature Thiis has ben repeatedly (don11 inths enluiusI1. It is the universal testimaore o flhmankii1d thait it results ini dinunuitial af rainfaili, aind thle dIwidlinug awaye arie 1(s amid in mvigule streIttIs I , 0.1ini anin L'rea-e in suddlien iind deCvastatinig stormn and1( violenit huirriennues. We hiave th history of the ol world before us, :nii if weoldo not profit by the warnig ex uample we dleserve to 1)0 pinise-d fo such a ('rime augainist nlature.,---Cnc innmat '-ars. Youir books!( Pny thatt cats are "'ne tnunal in thet'ri habt',"' and~ this sita> moant will not hurt you, for it is I eue. .I met(ans that ents w'inhl to take tliir rcre ation when peop~le wish to sleep. Thi: dift'erenen of taste accounts for the guer rilla wvarfaro which is waged unijus themi night after night and year alte year from tail tim back windows ini town ~It ailso neconts forw the enrtinn thlilne wich you siomnetimes fuwl in the 1bue! yard in the morninug amd whi'h thm"e col tells you are mtieib :i. Not hmjing k heena devised thamt kills (atS, ad weo ons ar l\ imiit'd to ,'uh li hand pojmet il st4)m-thlrowin~g mnaehines of the (GreeL andt Romansiif! were or iginaumlly de'viwde f, this kindu oif (comhlut, tad' were in-ne< calld emitapu11t. '4 \ry (1 ault (':t in hiad more costly artltitltiin'(Wn a it thman tany operia sinmger that ''veri Iiw for, when a man 's nt*: of m Id hwa e such that heo gi-t- out of bed- to ori:m hi. country in this e(uSoh-, the 1irs.t art ieh hi touchtesi is the lhing" thmat go, weth it he a eoail senttile, nui ivor v-baucke, hair-brush or a di:nnuonud braecl-t. \mw has the right of tham conafliet, and he wa surely win if hie liven 1long (U ongh I. 1Tisroo-o girls, saysa the St, ,Tmames (b Ze/t', are. taughf~it to thinul: cGf mar ring ~ almostt ats soon at they (ril talruk ; indot they are often conutraicfed mn mairrmage: 6 yeamrs1 oif age, andi~ go tAo live with fthe husbandsi~i at t2 or 18. 8etvro this, at iI age of 5 they~ are taughtL to propiiia the gods in1 order toi seenre a good hu1 band, anid t heair- littao miids are dlistracit by thle idea of whlat a model hush 'ri ought to be. The orthtodox concept i( is ai hiusand like the god Siva, who w: holy, anstere, advaaned~ in years, at faithful uand devoted to onet wife, tI godtdess D~oorga. Glood littln girls revo at theo ideai of a husnfdLd milarryinlg seond wvife -whilo the first is alive, an will !onsequlenatly cOofes their iar met to mtarr'y a faithful spouse like Siva ; aun they learn from their (elders to utte3r thm mnost vindictivo curses against a rivi wife.' Buit for all that, Kiurshnai the idol of Hijndoo women, and ho we ranythinag bur, faithful to one wife, H not only kicked over milk pans, and ra *S.with the clothes of milkmnaid *)t boey went to bathe, but he dance tMAred ~with other men aB wives thryldamsels, at~ mardje toambrof an eng Silos and Eusilage. The now system of preserving and 1 reeding ensfiage is one of such simplicity that doubting minds Pro incredulous as to possible results. If the buildiig o* %I silo and the subsequent process of illing with ensilago were some wonderful secret, or perhaps a new discovery pro tected by a serics of patents-if the uo of the system wAero pirmitted only uider I the paymeit of heavy royalties-there is a1 class of skept ical minds who fatten on ulicertaini qu1ntities, an1d who have but little faith .in any practice which is witlui the reach of persoms of ordinary intelligolce aid commloon ns011. It is difliuhid for many miy.,as to realize the facts claimed for ensIge, or to explain to tlmsolves why such results sliould be secured by processes so simple and by apportios) so economical. Yet proof I --absolute demionstratiJo-is withiu the reach of every inquiring mind, or of every enterprising farmer who is williung to expeiid $50 for commencti)g oxperi ments upon his own farm. It is the most singular fact that the doubting minds are those who have had no practical experienceo on the subject, but whoso consorvatism is on pirmio. It is equaily surprising that no intelli gent, practical attempt at silo building or ensiilage feeding has resulted m fail uro, al thiough men of all chasses 1and at. tainments havo experiinented with the new system. It would be reasonalle to expeet many failures among so many beginners of varyirng capncities, were there anything intricate or uncertain in the process anmid its auxiliaries. No autlhotrity in this country is competent to pr.nIounice p;Sitively uipoin the future succe-s or failure of this new system ; it is for the interest of no on0 to urge or inu n th d'ption of the system by b any imwilling farmer, and no one is to I be eiricied by tho muntaplication of silos, exceptl, perlhips, the iidividnial - owners. Miny a ctuservative farmer will await the report of his more enter prising helghbor, who ias built, or is in 1, tending to build, a silo, yet it. is (1uite L certailln thlit before many years, every 0110- Will ha11ve 11111ple olportuiity to Sjudge, im the most careful manner, the i in-rits and drawbacks of the sy stem of enusilage. - Grave doubts have been expressed by (3 somlOle auitiorities of repuo ist to 1 the effect of feeding ensilage 11pon the1' but ter pro(1uct. Though ny aco11s1 of r successful1 butter milking have bewen F recorded yet our sel f-imposed critics have wisely shaken th ir heads as if expectiig disaster without. leiig ablo to triwa the cause or adv lie cure. s Tht1 value aid di irlailitv of en sihnge V is capable of prattia <1emostrtion, and th) intelligett farmer w llesi re to make his business proi 11 ble will It fail I to iIvestig:1to for hlimSelf a si1ple pro L) ((5Ss v lich will enable him to add largely to the cnpacity of his farm ..1 t feediftg live stock anld th1usv enrjeIichi his Ssoil. t meiucricanl ('ti/ivtor. - Flora and Fauna of thie Desert. imehi grass, as gray ais the sa1ndt it. ru-lf, dwazrf ev1ergreens,4 neanrly b)lack in color, ' and cactus, with aL few wvild flowv era, aire ahu~ost the0 only b)otaniical con Itritioni to the chiiaging pictur(. No f ret s g row oni tihe desert. TIhe cactus familily, the most eCeentic ot pilanits, m lakes this region its h1ome1. 111e first -to b e seeni cominlg froml the East is of the varijety most famniliar to Eastern hot hiouir::, slipied like mlittens. upjonl ex tende(1.d 11mman1111 hnids, thumbul ess, and 1 ordered with sharpI Sinehs. A comn numojer valrietyV inl the desert, is of a vine r like charneiite'r, clinginig somo1what closely tf .h groundi andllii p uig forthI brahe's1IQ at angles as4 cen tric as those of the let ters~ of the Cins ii ;'fualabt. East of Tueson(j this v~uitv taikes to itself a it self, black, leadh-ss, biranchling muc1h l ike a st itg-hon1, ma1(1l beariing its vme I hi-m 1)11rden upon s each terminail iolint. The o'st sinigiuar variety of tihe enetus grows neair T'ueson, wlwret a provo num her-ing several hltedI~ indtiviolimd plantIs i seln upon1 aL barr'eni, mtonyv hillside. $ shiloots up1 roumid11( a -I truaight like' a t elrah po(le, thle largest specinwnsmi att ainiing nearly two feet in1 circumrfer enuce, 1by twelve to) (ighteen feet in hieig~ht, often without biranches, but generally puttinlg forth two shoots like I theC e1lbows and comnnectimig liiks of a Istove-iple. It ben( ta uipon its uppelr cad -a smnall Iuoft or flower. S~o great a ds propo' ri iom between sft im amid flower is prol i bly found1( ini no other lanilt. The~ t runmk is covered with regulair rows of '1 he Spn~ish hayonet occupies thiou sad o cres and has its4 Mllare oft ec eentriciti.s. When yugits long~ tough bayonlets poinit in'very dire(ction1 as it guardling someit precionls fruuit wi tlh in its worth less stump11. Later all lbut those poiniting upiward anid downward1H fall ofi, l''avinug a band~ ini its midiedle, gPiing it thle appearance of ai snmll hun11 (tlo of strmaw tictI upi and readly fo r the harvest wagonif. .Jmilividua~ls of tho variety send up a shoot from the center four or Yve feet, like aL hamboo 1, bealrinig at the top) aI plheaing1 einste~r of smallih 1 lowers.--Newu Yoi'rk TIribunc. -.(reat Expcetationis. Every day somne new Muggestion is - maldo as to Ilho piroblie uso0 of el(ctric eity. A Hani Franceisco professor thinuks I, the time is (com~ig wheni swamnps anld it sower will be deprlCIived of their uniwhole ir somen1 ess by strokes of lightning, or, in eo (other words, by (l'ctrie clurrents which to Iwill kill tihe genms and spores which s- | comn1~miento d isease to the ilunan sys ail i tim. . This is baIsed uipon the germf i|theory of dlisenso, which is to the effect , that marlaria~l and other foul air conta gi'(gions are (due to aniimahcubo, or infusoriai, 4 whirdh mniltiply in a flhe victim's bod~y oafter inoculation. But would it not bo a mirace if all atmosphieres were# ren a dered wrholesome by elect rical discharg (1 es? The electric light byi made 01no y change in cities which m-ay frvl to im 4 portatt resulta. It hals enabiledi budd o ings a1'd other publio works to lho con structedi at night aus well as day. Labor s ra at o employed eight and twelv'o Shour s'ifts, and ediaces aro comleltedl e in ikss than half tho time r-equirecd n when onfy day work could be emploed a In autpmner laborers prefer to work: at c ight. Scientists toll us as yet we otly diny__ reit the marvelous changes that wi be wrought by' electricity in h3uman coditIOlS,----OmrEa8'*MQ~lN IT WAJS #i4 I&,NO that copyjit eto tp awen Worda in wi. TMM revenues e. wer dissolved aW.t. moufnted to overA OAMOMrLA, not .s 1hip of 0edar with (ems- had 'a pear avorite horse. -K. BY A erACTOB of overed with cloth we140* he manufactare ofe >e encouraged. AccoBDING to on ties, from 50,000 to. vere put to death in luring the reign of )ount of their religious UNr-rA the seventeenth OentttV class nor soap were manuf 4cotiand. In 1620 the art 'of eatber was introduced there, and p vas first made about the middle of ighteenth century. THE influenee of John Knox in promo ug the Reformation was greater th m ;hat of any one man, though his sanction )f the murder of Archbishop Bton, to 4ether with valious other cruelties, leI ste a stain on his memory. Two of the assassins of Capo d'str President of Greece, were sentenced t be immured in brick walls, built aronM Lhem up to their chins, and to be sup plied with food, in this species of torture, bill they died, in October, 1881. FERDINAND and Isabella issued a decree expelling from Spain every Jew who re fused to deny his faith. To mako thea Christians, or, failing in that, to extermi nate them, was the business of the In quisition, established in the same reign. NEITIHRw Columbus nor Cook ever dis covered more degraded and brutish be ings than were the aboriginal inhabitants of Greece. When Solomon was in all his glory and the Hebrew nation in its unity and greatness, the Greeks were divided into more clans than are our North America Indians. A Southern Case of Witchcraft. "If the town of Salem, in Massachu. setts," said Bob Billingsby, " tinks she hIs had the onhiest witches in this coun try, all I got to say about it is that she is simply mistaken. Now, there was old Brother McGraw and old Sister Hut ton-" Bob's story, in short, was thus : Old Brother McGraw and old Sister liutton were members of Philip's Bridge Church. Brother McGraw was a consistent mem ber, but old Sister Hutton, to say the truth, was regarded somewhat as a heathen. and oven addicted ta'witch craft. A calf! of Brother McGraw's,. of ncomimon promise, dwindled in spite of uncomnmon pains, and finally died, and the good man, p~ersuaded in his minj. that his neighbor, although a spiritual ' sister, had bewitched it, set out ini his wrath for her house, and, taking herby the hand, gave her a violent wrench. Sister Hutton reported the case to the church, and, at the conference one Sat urday, Brother McGraw, being mildly remonstrated with, went so far as to say that he would have to think about it. The moderator blandly suggested to him to withdraw for a few moments, retire into the woods, reflect and pray ever th ater. He did so. O tu ne moatorr'a graugfa to ooll e the calm regret was visipiie upon his countenance. This moderator was a man of p~ower, both as to intellect andl character. It was Silas Mercer. Then this dialogue ensued: Mfr. Merer-" Well, Brother Me Graw, I see you've returned, and I think you've come to a just conclusion in the matter about which you have been re ilecting." lie looked inquiringly at the aged brother, and the aged brother answered his inqluiring look with meek silence. "I think you feel sorry, Brother Mc GIraw," suggested Mr. M., in a kindly, leading tone. " Yes, Brer Moderator," answered the aged b rother, " wery sorry ; I'm wery sorry." Yet there was some grufrness in his tone which led the moderator to doubt the nature of his regret. "BDrother McGraw," said he, " will you let the church know what sort of sorrow it is you foel ? Is it a godlymsor row, Brother McGrawV ?" Then the ag&-a brother lifted high his hiead, looked the moderator full in the facee, and answered: "Brer Moderator, I'm sorry-I'm sorry-that I didn't break her neck."-Ed'itor's Drawer, in JIarp)C)'s Mariazinc. Good Taste Among the Mighty. The more I think about the elephants, the more wonderful they seem to be. Th'le great clumsy creatures are so very knowig, ) very loving, and so like hnmuan beinigs in many of their qualities. They knowi their power well, and they also( knIow just wvhen they must not use it. Decacon Green tells mec that keepers and trainers of elephants often lie dlown on the ground and let the huge follows step right over them ; and that they feel perfectly safe ini doing so, because they knuow the elephants wvill pick their way carefully over the postrate forms, never so miuch as touching them, still less' treadinig on them. Yet the nmighty crea tnures can hirnsh a man out of existence as easily as a man can brush away a fly. And what delicate tastes they have-de lighted, I'm told, with strawberries gmua-dro'ps, or any little dainty of th~ Lind. Th'ley aro fond of bright colors, too, and travelers toll wonderful tales of seeing ('elphiants gather flowers with the greu ats care, and smell them, apparently with the keenest pleasure. It is true they eat the flowers after wm d, but dear me! I've seen girls do the samte thing! Many a time I've watched a little lady pluck a wild rose, look at it a moment, sigh ."'how lovely)" then open her pretty lips and swallow the petoas one by one. WIhy shouldn't an elephant ?-JaXWin HUORING customers : "Yea," said a ' lady customer, " these are very pretty but haven't you something more ex p~ensive ?" The gentlemanly (ilerk took dlown another package of the same goods, remarking briskly : "Oh, yes ma'am ; here is soraething whic'h will cost you a dollar more pr yard, but itv i muelh flner, yon will notice." 'GO course, she took the highest-cost piece, lhecause ~ it wna the highat.