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*4 - DEVO'ED TO roLlrIGn, MORAL11Y, FDUC.VIIJN AN) TO TilE GENER-L INI'ERlS'r OF TIlE COUNIstY. By D. F. BRADLEY & C0- PICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1882. VOL I. N TOPICS OF THE DAY. ARAxi BEy and his adherents have been proclaimed rebels by the Sultan of Turkey. IT will be remembered that Vennor Said w" would have "a year without a lsummuer. TEXAs will have 50.000,000 bushels of corn to sell this year. Last year the State bad to import. POTATOs are being offvrod in Illinois Yor twenty-five cents a )ushol for fa delivery, with no takers. Mn. GLADSTONE looks upon Do Les sEps as a private indi- "'ual, out Do Los seps doesn't, not by any m.1oans. Monic than four t'nies the average an nMil destruction of life by lightning has tilroady oc.!urred in the United States this season. (1-onao ScovtrnE propcses to cOrn menee action in court against Dr. Hicks t the pasIses-sion of what there is of Guitean's body. Ti Decnver TribmHc invites the Malley boys to include Denver in their summer jaunt. It significantly adds that there are several tre(s with convenient limbs, closj to town. A'r TuLE Indian agency, Pine Ridge, Dakota, the Indians offer a roward of 050 for the apprehension of any person who sells, trades, or gives to any Indian or half-breod intoxicating liquors. Tim Detroit Free Press figures up that tber-o have )een 167 deaths from tetanus ti year, caused by the toy pistol, and suggests that next Fourth of July arse nic be used as a less fatal substitute. A cOTEMPORARY thoughtfully obseoves that " each place thinks its own river and harbor appropriation all right, but that in other places it is a steal." S, it is in all matters where finances benefit self. EravEN schooloys in Gen'3seo valked to Niagara Falls, August 4, 1832, and agreed t.) meet there again, if living, in fifty years. Seven of them kept the promise, coming with their wives and children on the 4th juit past. TnE Trustees of the Loveland Camp. meeting have decided to sell the i1ar rison cottage in dispultO and to give the Re v. Harrison $200 of the proeed~s. Of course, this is ini ad~ditioni to the $100 a week lhe received for his services. Tiii extensive war prepalrations in Russia evidlently has seome significa nce. If it detracts the attention of Nihilists from the Czair, there will be a probab) 1 ity of the co)roniation tak ig place. The Czar no dlonht looks up~on the projet with favor. A WVmmn paper, apologizjing for Mormon polygamy, t houg htfully re miarks that the system dtoes not throwv the burden of supporting a husbandl upon one woman. That is the best ar gunment that has been~ advanced in favor of lpolygamy. T1 ExAS, which is said to have 500,000 acres of school la:id, rapidly appreciat ing in value, and wvorth probably $100, '100,000, is expected to have in the not 'listant future aschool funid of $250,000 - 000, aL s;un greater thanL: the combined school fund of all the Stat-as. Tui fleral b)usines is one of the best, most p~rosperous and i'ost rapidly in creasing of any in the country. In Newv York $10,000,000 is niow expended for flowers annually, and~ asi much :as $5 given for a single rosebud. The town hans gone flower mad, and no) one can eat or dlanic or marry or (ie without a shower of flowvers, and this craze is spreadinig. A win-rea:i for the Newv York 1Hera/d was talking with as few fellowv jo)urnlist s the oth< r dlay, anId saidl: "'Not long ago Mr. Coninery, our mnanaging edito.', was Ii nn moned as a witness in court. Mr Bennett called him and said: 'You will he nasked wvhat position you occupy here. Sayv that you are a clerk. I am the edi tOr~ of the /Irrld, and the only editor.'" li. : mnemberis of the Garibaldi fa mily hmve erected over thme tomb of the Glen eralI a large grenmite monolith, weighing funir tonms. ThIe tomb) is watcheod day anid unighit. Thle decision na to the final ue ing place is left to Parliament, which meneuis to the Janiiculum. Dunring the first few days after the death of Gari baldi, 12,000 telegrams ieachecd the family. A n~.riuu to obey the scriptural in. jnnction, "' Obey your husbands, " had a sad ending in Chiengo. Paul Tollner took his young wife to one side, in their h ome, and calm[ly inquired : "' Wil you obey me af ter this ?' '1The wife replied e'vas ively, u~hierenponi he shot her dead, anmd theni stepp~jing into anl adjo~iig r om. shot. h imsel f thlronazhb the h eairt Th'Iey hadt~ b'n nmriedc~ two years andI hadk onue chl. 1 Anv)~ieFs fronm Saguia, Cubau, rep~ort thme dherf ruction of the ~orn) crop), owing to the extremO dronthi. The Presi (Ei of the Centra'il Roard of Agriculture of thie iS'elmblic of Columbia, writes the Captainu General, warning him to tako effective measures to prevent the larvmn and loensts devastating that Republie from being inItrodlued inlto Cuba by vessels carrying cattle to the Island. It is recommended that cattle on vessels be fed with hay only. It is thought that the locusts will soon invade the United States after reaching Cuba. '1HE jury wh acute th Maller b)oys and Blanche Douglass of the muir der of Jonnie Oramier, held a grand re. union the other day, visiting Savini Rock, where the girl's dead body was found, 'and other scenes. The re.-union, was marked with hilarity and story tell.. ing. Meantime, Blanche Douglaiss is enjoying herself with fashionable peope ait watnring places. wherea she wao .na A GLANOE at the naval register shows that with a total force of 12,000 men, iucluding inarines, we have twelve Rear Admirals. twenty-two Commodores, sixty Captains, 110 Commanders, 315 Lieutenants, 180 Masters, 400 Ensigns, while the Naval Academy is prepared to add from year to year largely to the number of the latter. This is certainly a large enough staff of officers to com mand as great a navy as we shall pos sibly ever need, and it is quite natural that a movement, such as that recently inaugurated by Senator Miller, of Oali fornia, should be made to reduce the number of officers to make it in somo measure proportionate to the number of seamen an4 marines. OF AL the English correspondents at Alexandria, it is to be said that they have shared the perils they have de scribed. Afloat they have shown them selves realy to face shot and shell, and ashore the knives of Arabi's assassins, not to tpeak of mobs and explosions. They have done their work under a cli mate of great heat, and have done a great deal of it. Altogether, they have been a credit to their profession, and the profession seems in no particular hurry to take credit to itself or award die measure to the brave and brilliant men -who lift journalism a step higher by their devotion and capacity and courage. rhe public looks on in wonder at the quantity of readable matter turned out each morning for its eager pernsal. Farmers and Faun Help. As there are "hooks and books" meaning good and bad ones-so there aro "men and men." Some tarmers uverr have any trouble w:tl their help and thle famin work moves as steadily aid with as little friction as clock-work; otiers are incessantly in trouble and er\ lninig go on. 'e are ac quainted vith men vho are laborers by the month or year on the farm, and who make their emupioyers' interest their own. They work as well when the ' boss" is away as when he is niear, a1nd, in everything they do, they consid er how they would act if in theillmplov el s poSition. T[here are others, also, who labor simply for tle mony they re eeive; they have no interest in the work, but list(i with a keen ear for the dinner horn tand watch with eager eye for the Se1tng of tle sun. To (1o the worl: somehow -- not necessarily well-is tihe pwillip le which governs t'hem. The farmer wlho is p irti-ular as to wh .m he ernploys; who Jas the bargain well under:tood, Who pays well, PaYS wV1iIly and pays promptly; who ap preciates good service and fairly Liills his part of the agreement, need have little fear of being trou)led by his help. i'or. such em ployers there is alwvays sonme o)ne to oil'r se:-vi(e; such emphloyers are souigh~t by ''hired mlen."' and in nine ea:ses out of teln, satisfaction is mutual. But I, il unfotuniately, niot all emloyers Ire timls careful as to wvhom they hire or how they treat their help. 'They se lect fromi th "w'rough senfIi'"c laes, from bramnps and those whlo niever have hadl a steadly situnatioll, siimp)ly because they :ai hire thenm for twenty -five etsls per haf though.a i realit y, t hevy foriv i afdolrpr dhay less in re'turnfo wervices. The uisual result is that the~ farmerwi has to oversee all his wyork per1 sonal ly, look after the imp)lemecnts wvhen not. mi use, go here and wo there to give listruictions, andI thtus Tf)se largely his )wn1 t imle which. with intelliget, in lust rious help, could 1)e elsewhtere more prolit ably emlo1yedl. In fact, each is mienit ont gett ingu the most possible from the other, nteithter having the welfare ot t he ot hier at. heart. Sneh a contdition of things is neither agreeable 1nor profita ble. We are awvare that thte same difl'er alnees are liable to arise b~etween em players and emtployed int ot her occup~a tions, butt the~ etl'eets are more striking' and1( mlore noticeable on) the fartm thtan in thei work-shop) or Store wvhere theu roui tine of dutly is nmore easily m arked andl the labor is moire mechanical in its na. ture. *Farm work can never 1be reduiced to such exactness in (detail that theo workman can perform it satisfactorily unless he is thtoroughly interested in it, aind im hearty sympathy wvith his em plover. So miuchi for the hired hand, and on the other hand, to keep this in terest abire, there rmust be on the p)art c~f the employer the ap proval andl appre eiation of wyork faithfully (lone. But there is something more in this Lthan the bare fa--ts of wvork well (1011 rund wvell remunlleratedl. T1here is a gen onme satisfaction on the part of both em ployer and employe, and the resultaunt haippmeflss which accrues to the men themselvyes and to their respective fami bies is a thiung to he sought for anid prized. But when the menCl are continually at "'loggerheadls,"' their families feel the reactive infinence, and etveni society is, i a degree, all'ected adIversely b~y it. Whatever, then, will br'ng about mutu 11 contentmient and good will among rarmers and thteir help should be fos ered, and while "'hi red men '' are falli ble, the farmer should remlemb~er that it is harrrely in his power to make th~eir rniiutm relations agreeable. -Rural New Yorker. Deadly Weapons. A detective frighitenedl a young man nearly to death yesterday. TIhe young man wasH struidlingl on t he corner when thle (detective tapphedl him on the shoul decr andl saidl: "' I shall have to arrest you for carrying deadly weapons." The young manti tuirned pale, and his lips quiivered, an~d lhe stammered out that he never carriedl a revolver or a knife in hris life. ''Yes.'' said the detective, " that may be0 all right, but look at your shoes." The young man lookedi at his pointed, toOt h-picked-toed shoes, And( asked what was the matter withi them. Then the detective told him the' shoes were so sharp at the toes that if he should1get mad and kick a man lie wuld split hi IUwide open. Then the [leeCtive winked, andi said: '"You may' go this time, but don'tle itoccur ain. Pek's Milwma.ke 0.. MY LOVE. Mv lovo's worth all thie world to me; 1er walk to others' (danace isi ligiht. Whon sse cories b.y, the sunl rides high, AndI wheira she's pitt, 'tis night. Her gentle voice, that hids "good-(lay." I miusic that illy soul loves best; I1er deep-set oyes, hor low replies' The dreans that Itunt my rest. He' presence, like fresh inorning showers, Gives to sill tiings refreshing grace If she lut stoop, sweet btis tiat droop Gaze uII) into her face. That May- liay face-whIere not hing lives rhat is sot bright, for long togetler Tlotights (oino asil go, like wins that blow fhe clouis inl golden weather. Life's passlsig shuoles have sstreely cliil'd Ihe ghsmlivsSs of her spirit's light 0 wIset she's Iy, the sui sees it - higl And when sli's paist, 'tis siighit! -i. Aidle. Incrasilng the Corn Crop. Till within the past few years little anxinty has been felt in Vany part of tho country about the supply of corn. There was a general imlpression that it could be raised with considerable profit in in nearly every Slate and territory. In ioet of the States esnugh was raised to supply the local demand. In some states it was a le iding crop, and it was that its profitable production could be greatly extended in others, where the attention of farmers was mainly dovoted to the growing of cotton, tobacco, and the small grains. There was se-arcely any demand fur it for exportation, and its employment for making ghucose and starch waq not known. It was used to a considerable extent as food for human beings, and was very generally employ ed for fattening hogs in sections where it was extensively grown. Itwas rarely fed to other horses than those engagedgp in work on the farm, and was still more rarely fed to cows. There was n fresh beef or mutton sent abroad, and there was only a limited denand for highly fattened meat at home. As -t conse quence, shoe) and steers were gener ally fattened on grass, with the aid of a few roots. In niostof the Western States corn was a drug in the markets. With poor facilities for transportation, con paratively little of it was sent to Eas tern cities. Corn was often so cheap and plenty that it was burned for fuel. Farmers preferred to raise small grains for the market, for the reasons that their price was higher and they would stand transiportation better. In parts of the country where corn was very pro ductive it was generally thought that the business of raising it was greatly overdone. A short time has been suicint to produce great changes in relation to corn. Yts uses ha've multiplied an1d increased, it is now employed to make starch and glucose, as well as to make alcohol, whisky, highwines and vinegar. Considerable quantities of it are con verted into malt. In all the great dairy districts it is extensively employed for feeding milch cows. There is a grow ing demand for fancy fattened beef and mutton for exp'ort andi home eonsump tion. To fatten steers and sheep as the market requires it is found necessary to feed corn in large quantities. Vast quantities of it are now Sent to almost every country in Europe this side of Russia for the same purpose. American corn is used to feed both beef and dairy cattle in Denmark. It is also usedt to feed the coach and dray horses in most of the large cities in Great Britain and France. Now, while the us~es for corn have Increased and multiplied in a most remarkable manner, its cultivation has riot extended in any considerable extent nto any new sections of the country, ind has not greatly increased in foreign sountries. The entire country from Puget Sound to the Gulf of California is >pened up to settlement, but no corn is raised except in a very few favored localities. Dakota and Montana are rast being peopled with farmers, vet scarcely any corn is or can be produced there. Few of what are called the new States and Territories produce much corn. They are deficient in warmth or moisture, or in both. Corn was never a profitable crop to raise in the Southern States, and as the soil becomes exhausted of its fertility its prodluction becomes still more dhflcult. People have finally become convinced that the extent of country adapted to the profitable production of corn is quite limited. It is embraced in a strip of country about twvo hundred miles wide, and terminating about a hundred miles west of the Missouri River. .If the amount of corn in the country is to be largely increased it must be (lone by imp~roved methods of cultivation in the places where it succeeds best. Much of the land in the Western States that is capable of, producing the larg est crops of corn is in no condition to do so d ur mng seasons as wet as the present one. It is covered v. th water in the early spring, and can not be plowed till it is too late to plant without incurring the rianger of an early frost in the fall. By [iraining it with tiles it can be made t'o produce more corn than any land in the 3ountry. It is naturally rich in mineral and organic matter, andl its only dlefect is its imability to p~art with the moisture that accnmulates during the winter anid early spring. The drains will not ontly riarry off this water, but will extend the g~rowing season several weeks. Experi rnents made in the counties of this State show that the average yield of corn is nereased one-fourtn by puItting dlown rain-tile. T1he cultivationi of thIm crop "-also rendered more easy and the or linary risks are avoitier ini a great, measure. lImprovedl meth1od1s of p~re marin g the soil, of putting in the seedl, tud of cultivating the growing crop vrill do muiich towardI inlcreasinlg 3roduction. Generally the farmers of r 'ennsylvania, and others of the l1&ern t tates produce msore corn to the acre han the farmers do in tihe most feruile >f the Western States. TJhecy have a nuch poorer soil, but t hey prepasre it >etter, pay more attention to manurinig, md employ the hand-hoe in Corm secthon vith the horse-cultivatoir isn working the lelds. It is not only possible but prac- t ieal to produce eighty bushels of con o the acre on mucha of the landl in the t Vest where only forty Is ordinarily liar !ested-l~Ciao '1'imes.r MRs. EMMA P. EwING, an authority } ru culinary science, Hays that bad cook.. I iig has made America a nation of dys Dentica. inebriates and criminals. From Death to Life. A reporter for the Mail and E rpress was walking in the vicinity of the Fulton Ferry a few days ago, in the company of one of the oflicers att ach( to the life. saving service. Theic was a rush of pcople to the Fulton Market sil), and the officer and the reporter joined the crow d to see the excitement. "It was nohing," one of the spectators said, io nog to go away; 'only . boy d(ow ne d!" The life saving officer, how. ever, seemed to take a different View of the drowning of a boy, and he huitrriedly e!lbwed his way througIh tihe crowd till he w as at thc watcr's edge, with t he re porter at his elbow. Thrue of the fish. gc scho00rers Were tied up t this of tlie )icr side by side, and on the (leck of the third lay a naked boy aplparently deact. Half a dozen market men and fishet men stood by, saying t hat I he boy was deal and that that, was allt there was of it. The life-saving officer sprang aboard t he nearest schooner, an was immediately stop.ed by a )olicemian who was on guaid-for the boy had been out of the water for some tini)'. " Stan(d back," said the life-saver, "I am a physician," and, followf'ed by the rcl)orter, he was soon on the d(eek on which the drowned boy lay. The officer-physician felt the boy's skin, felt for his pulse, drew i one of his eyelids and looked at the pupil, and askett the bystanders how long the boy had been out of the wiger. "You can't get no job here unless you are an undertaker," said one of the men. "'I1o was stuck in the mud most tel n min utes, and lie's been layin' here ten minules more; so, if vou fetches him to life, it'll be a little riusurrection, and don't you forget it." The oflicer paid no attention to the man's opinions, but devoted his whole time to the boy in a way that seemed to imdicate some hope of saving the life that was apparently crone. The boy could not. have been coioder or more ap parently lifeless if lie had been dead for a week. The ollicer ol)ened the boy's mouth, an operation that required some force, and found it full of mud. Pulling tle lower jaw down as far as possible,he in troduced one of his finirers and care fully but <quickly c!eaned it out. There was enough mud in the mouth to choke the boy if he had not beg iin the water at all. The otlicer w isked off his coat, rolled it up into a pillow, and laid it on the deCk. With the assistance of two or three bystanders, he turned the boy over on his face and laid him so that the coat-pillow was directly under his stomach. Taking the boy's two ankles in ene of his hands and giving them to onn of the mien to hold up so that the patient's feet were several feet higher than his head, the officer pressed carefully but firmly in the region of the small of his back, and immediately a stream of water gulihed out of the boy's mouth. It had been all this time in the lungs, waiting only for pr-oper- treat ment to help it out. The boy was then, after a minute or two of this exercise, tmrned1 over on huis back again, and the officer knelt over him. Putting one hand on the b)oy's right side and the other on his left, just over what are known as "the short ribs," the oflicer gave them a powerful compression, and then suddenly let go. '[hle instzant lie took off his hands t he ribs spi-ane back to their natural position, and a A'raught of air rushed into the lungs. T Ihis was repeated a dozen times or more, but still the boy wae, to all appearance, a corpse. "Oh, give us a rest on that,'' said another of the men. "The boy's dead, atnd that settles it. Can't you let a drowned boy alone!" TJhe assertion that the boy was deadI ~eemued to be only too true, lie looked like a piece of marble ; and the reporter suggested that it was not worth while to muake any further efforts. "W~hy,"' said the officer, "1 haven't begun yet. The boy may live and he may not. But lie's going to have a fair ehance for his life, anyhow. Stand back a little, all of you, and give him a little more air." .JDiscontinuing for a moment the arti ficial breathing process, the officer took one of the boy's hands between his ownl andl began to slap it vigorously, at the same time setting three of the bystand ers at work on the other' hand andI t wo feet. The reporter relieved the oflicer at the slapping business, andl the latter re sumed the rib)-squeezing priocess, com pressing the boy's frame till he must hatve (rled for mercy if lie had been coniscious. WithI four men slappinig his hatnds and feet, andl ani expert tr'y ing to) start his breat hing, the boy must have been unreasonable, i ndeed~, had( lie beeni [issatisfied. But he still lay as dlead1 as it stick, and, happily unconscious. After about~ five minutes of this t reaL ment, very much to the surprise of the market men andl the reporter, and treat ly to the delight of the life-saving' >llicer, the bo(y gave a 5ligh!lt gasp for >reat h. ,Just at this moment of triumih the >olicemiani on gutard1 cal led :ieron thle leeks: "'Say, youa'd bet tei' let thaut boy done. lie's dead~ eniough."' "' Never mindm wha2t they have to say, hey don't know what t hey're tlkingr hout.,"' said the olicer'. ''Get mec a class of briandy."' Ile redouled'( his artificial bireat hmiig reat ment, and1( one of the fishi ng ailhors vent (down into the cabin and( soon r'e urnedt with a tumbler nieai'ly fuill of not 'cry inviting-looking brandy. TI lhe y neaniwhile gasped( againa; had I wi tched ,little ini the legs ; had rolledl his hiead o one side, and at leng.t~h had drawn a :00(d-sized breath. Tihe minute lie orenthbed the oflieer picked up the glass f brandy andl poured the liquiid dfown lie boy's throat. "Now, get me two or three blankets, a quick ats you can,'' said ho, and at he same time hie Unrolled his coat andl u~d it over' the boy. Tihe p'otient con moed t~o show more signs of life. ie oon drew short b)ut regular breaths,andt aisedl one hand to his head. U~nder he influence of thme wa m ibrandy* in us stomach and the fre Ih air in his ungs, lie opened one of hi ('eyes. ''lie is all right now,"s.iid the oflicer, :ettinmg up with difliculty and straight.. ening the "kinks" out or his back. "Wrap him un well in these blankets and put him ~in a berth. Be sure you make his ha nd< and feet wai m. I f you have a eenple of empty bottles till them with warm water, C,)rk them up well, and put them against his feet. In ten or fifteen minutes give him another glass of brandy. lie will bo able to talk to you inside of an hour and tell you where lIe lives. But he will probably be too weak to walk home; some of you will have to carry him. Come, old fellow (to the reporter), let us go. There is nothing more for us to do."-N. Y. Mfail amd Krporess. A Curious Snuff-Box. Shortly after the breakin out of the French Revolution, its allvoentes do nounced our Premier as "an enemy%, to the human race;" that mati. "so easy to live with," who sang the song about himself, called "Billy Pitt, the Tory." hlis Secretary on1e (lay told hiim that a foreigner, who spoke En gilish tolerably well, had t wice or tlrie asked to see him; bulotnot looking like a proper ap pllicant., had beni sent away, the great lan's tnime being too pIeciois for him to admit every st.ger whilo, on frivo lols pretexts, m.rlit seek t grat i fy an idle utriosit'y.. This person, however, had said he shohil return in an hour; the Secret ary, therefore, tiluoht it his dhuty to in foimu Mr11. Pitt, of such int en tion, and ask his futrther orders in the alair. " Have the goodliess," said the Min ister, "to open the top left-hiuid drawer in that cabinet, and briiir ie its con tents." These were a pair of pisto!s, auld a morocco case: Opent Iig Ih latIer he pro. (Ilced a suil'if-box, in wNhtichi was set a portrait. " Is that like our visitor?" asked Pit.t. - It is the mn1, Sir," :Isweredl tihe Secret arv. " La, I have expected hi m for some days! He is senit over to as- inate Me; so, IhenI Ie calls agi 1 l him be "Sir!" exclaimed tle attached re tainer, " will you ox pose to (1,-) aner your life on wlicl so tn1eh <h-pentds. "' There will Ie no dangtier, I thank you; but ynou may be within call, if you please." Accordinugly the Freihlmuiiani , oil Iis retr11nti, was uishered into thle room wlere Willi:ini Pitt sat ahmne-a loaled pistol in onie had. the miniature in thui othier. "11Mnsieuir "Mehle do la1 Toulche," said Pitt, calmly, "you see I am ir. every w:iv prepalred for you, thanks to an iet emCilployed by tihis Gove rnmei( t. Attempt iyi lile, andi your own instant hy pays the forfeit. In an1y case, I shall have you secured. and given ver to the law,' The fintndel assassii stood paralved a1d dumbl at this cool reception. "Bt,' (onti tiued Pitt, "there is an other alternative -personal safety and -1i hiighi re w:i rds arei~ ni yCour p)ower. Sell your serv ices to G reat Britain: nm:uke your nu k et of wha :te ver seer t in for liiatio ou t canl pro).ure, t hat rmuyguardl ius aga:iin-t. thle miachuintions011 o1 youIr (coutry-; he, ini fact, one of thle niecssa1 ry evils which policy force's uts to Use in deosperaite caises; do( w ha~t Uno hono rale ma~n couhi do0 to save yourself from sp ee1'y deat th; y~our coniscienice is st aintedl by 1 prosedC murd ICer. (Comlv per~iforce, wvithI fliu-e condoit ions, aind v'oum shia'l be as liber'ally pahI as you mus't, by aull par ties, be jtustly dlesp i ed." The Secreta:iry used to) repea:t hiis illuis triouts maister's wo'rds, wvhiich we re, as nearly as possible, to the foregoing ef fect. Thle clever miservaunt joy fully accepted hese termis, antd for uo v vears e-in-ned the bribe~ s of a syv in our'bhalifI . No do4ublt a snull-hox waLs the safest, umed iumn for the~ w aLrniigortria fancy be ('as freq uent Iv :alorned sucht a ihig: hil, hd te nina urei bee sta aN a loe!ket, wvhoever .-aw it musitt hiave bee sutre thai~t it (depic'td Csome real in dividumal. --/. omtitn Noity. Rich Find in a Trunk. A young fellow who was one of the I"reserve" was ordered to Rouen last Iyear to se'rve the usual fourteen days. HeI had no trunk. His funds wvere low. He asked a maiden aunt to lend him a trunk. She had nothing but an old fashioned porfmnanteaui, which was so Iqueer hie refused to take it. Hie could, however, find( no0 other, and, ashamed as lie was to be seen in snch company, there was no help for it, shoulder it he was obliged to (10. Offered1 employment ini Roueni, hie made(1 it his home. Thle trunk lay hidhden atnd forgotton m1 a dark closet, un11l (neidy while rtminmaging he~ Camfo upon it. Hie dletermiuned to send it backc to his auntt. As he empJtiedl it lie fomndo it had a doub11l ottom ; lie opened this d 'ouble bottoum ; lie found in it $1fi,000. h.e carried theml~ to thme banik and found the mfonley good. He capl ered for joy, nmot only with his legs but with his tongune: so news of the dliscovery reach ia his aunt's ears, and sheo said the moniev bhlngedl to her, and she foumnd the j ui; (ealer who hind sold her tie trtuik ; 1 o willinigly becanie her wvitniess to this fact, i1st aidded : "' Zat dirunlk ces my righid4 and( zat mionuish Ces mine." So they have all gone to law. --Pars (/rrspondencc New Orleans P'icayiune. -A cutrious freak of lightning occur red at the house of Alexander Avery, ('ent rev ille, Ala. None of the inmates were killed, but the shoes of each were d es troy0ed. Tihie str'oke fell on Miss Josio Avery's neck, andh pafssinlg (down the Ibody threw t he shoe firom the foot wvithi terrific force, a great distance. TJhe shoes on thle feet. of her mother were cut to pieces, while Mr . Logani, a gue.-, had his shoestrings torn comnphetely out, the sole of one shoe wrenebhed off, and a hole torn in the othier.-fi---Chimo Trib In sentenirig a colored man who was convicted of stealing a pair of pants, an Austin Judge took occasion to say :" I hope youi are sorry for stealing those pants. ' " I was sorry, Judge, (10 samo Iday I tuck (lom ar pants. I was sorry at not flidinig nutfin in the pockets ceptin' a kcar ticket.." The most singular thing about the poverty-stricken p ants was that they (lid not belong to a Texas newsaaer man.-Austin Sifuinna Fw Young Pig Feeding. Few persons really know how to feed YoUlj 1igs aright. They enerally verFO the 0matter and give tiem too aiuch at a time. 'hey muss and wal 'ow in the feed left in the trough, so that it is unfit for them, and when hun ger forces them to cat it. it makes them sick. The owner, seeing feed in the trough; either adds more to it, or waits till it is eaten. In either ease he does wrong. Before feeding the second time the tIough should dways be washed or swept out clean. Pigs should never be made to eat food in whit I they have ramped with their dirty feet. This leads to the remark that their feet. should not be dirty. The pen should be so zonstructed that the feeding place-the trough-should be sufficiently elevated so tilat tie juices in the pen will not nasty up" this part, and there should be 1)eddiilg enough in the pen to enable the pigs to keep their feet and their en tire bolies clean, wlien this is done the trough Vill not be so dirty and the pig will (10 better. We have often cattionied tgainisti giving young pitr t letrty foo(d, as it is imjurious to thiei; so is dirty food. The former produces de rangement of the stomach and bowels, leamding to diarrhea, and if cotiinued to ilflamination of the bowels, and the lat ler to nausea, loss of appetite and per iaps the same results. In either case the pigs do not thrive. Another mis take which must be guarded against is feeding swill or milk too sour. WNheni wheat or rye branl is mixed viti the swill, ferientation is ,very rapid, especially ill hot we.t her, and the swill will reach a colditioll unfit for food before the owner is aware of it, unless he mixes only a suflicient. quanti tV at a timle for one or two feedinrs ahead. Fermlentation in a swill harrel whiere sour miilk is mixed with the coi tents is aetively going oil all the time. As fermentation changes the character of feed, the farmer often feeds his young pigs just exactly that which is almo-t if not absolutely p) oisoous, vhile he is Supposing all of the tiie lie is givig thitemi t he most. healthful and nutritious kinds of food. For instance, he puts skim milk into his swill I arrel, so much of it that it is not fed out as it is simply sour and lopperd, and it re mais there until it uilergoes the other forms of fermentation, n 1111(h e (oies either acetous or putrea*tive, either condition renlering it unit for food. A swill barrel, to put it in plain language, so sour that its contents are cither % ine(rar or alcohol, or so stiinkin? that put retaetion is (' i(lelt, is not the10 proper iedium for healtiy pigs. The deleteriouis etlects of k :d food may be counteracted somewthat. by feeding charcoal freely, which pigs, with a knowing instinct., will always devour greedily. " A lit tle and often," is the rule of all successful pig raisers; a lit Ie" im I neais jist I'hat the pig will eat witbout leaving the trough, amiol when it is first taken from the sow, it. could ba mleasured ini a gill euip; as it grows older aiid larger, the rat ion shoul growv with mlereased size and( aippetite. "'Often" mean s. when t he pig is youn~g, not less thaii six times a day and when older not less than four, uint iilie growing age is over andh the fat tenin g season beginis, whien a pig will eat three timies in ai (lay alil the foodl it can dligest. Ti do0 juhst right, the milk skimmed in fti o~iirng should1( all lie fed by iiht time the same dlay, t hat is. sk.immied or sour milk should all be fed within t welve hours aifter skiuin~ig, aiid birani ixCed in it silud also be fed wvithtin t welve hiours. lIn hot. weat her six hiouirs w~ouild bec better. To manage t his business prop e rly thIiere should bi11Ie two swill bar rels, arole mix tuires be madle accordingly, one lbeing fed as thle other is emtiedi. F.D urtis, in Ru ral Newu Tork.er. ThIngs Learned by ExperIence. If your eoal fire is low throwv on a Ia lelspooniful of salt, aind it will hellp it ver~y mnuchi. A little giniger puit into) sauaisage meat impiroves thle flavor. Ini icing cake dip the knife frequently in cold water. 1.1 boiling mfeauts tor soup~s use cold water to extraet the juice. If t hle meat is wanted for itself alone, phmge' in 1hoiliig wateri at onice. You cant get a bottle or barrel of oil off anty earpiet or woolen stuff by applying dry limekwhatt plentifully and faithfully ; neverpu water to such a grease spo' t e'r liequid o aniy kindi. Broil siteak without saiting; salit draws the juice ini cooking ; it is de sirale to kdeip these in if poss1ilte cook over' a Ihot fire, turnig fre~enetly sear inlg Onl b)oth sides ; placie oin ai p hit ter, Isalt anid pwpper to taste. Beef hutvineg a teneneucy to be tough ennl be iuale very paltabe b stwig ver'y genitly fo r two hours, pepper and salt, taking out abiiout a pinit of litiuidl w'heni done, and1( Jetting the resft b oil inito the mnent . I rowni the meat ini the podt. A fter taking upl irmke ai gravy oft the pint oif higiil saved. A sniuil piece of chiarcoaul ini thie poit with Iboiling cabbamge remioves the smell. (lean oilcloth with milk and wvater ; a brush and1( sohap will ruin thuem. Tumbnl ers that have had mail k in them sihou111ldiever lie put1 ini hot water. A spiooniful oif stewed( toaitoes( ini the gravy of either roasted or fried imen'ts is a'n imphroveimnt. '[le skini of a boiled egg is the muost efihencious remiedy thant can wve, ando app~lly it to) the part alff(elted. It will drlaw off the mait ter and1( relieve the soreniess in) ai fewv hours. - An Iiliois farmer gives an East erni writer for the Newv E'ngland~ I lometead the follow inmg directions for e urin g galled shioulder~s in hlorses, amnd say~s hat. it is iinfallible. Take ol leather and lbuirn it to a crisp; rub the ashes oni lhe galled part ; a few applicat ions will effec, a perfet cure. A new wvork horse put to the plow t his spring re eniveti se:verad severe galls on both shouldlers. A few applications of thme burnt heathe1r made them as sound1( as if never inju red, andi nio scar is niow seen. --A cenlsus of the mnarriage'able prin~es of Europe appears to have been taken. .The age for marriage of a prince ie, it seemna, from 21 to 4I: feor a princess, from 18 to 28. '[here are thir ty-eight mnarriageabl~e princes, and only trenty-four mahirriageable prinesse4. Germany furnishes the chief s Ipply. I'hero are twenty Germ tn prinlee4 now in the market, including King I['d wig of flavat ia, the most eligibe aheo in Europe.. tlelallr T= name e language is Rain. the Gruscr 'gan to-writo ane Fall of the Roman Em n don in 1772. f Ix Moscow the plague in the Turki4h army carried off tims in a month. DUBING the fourteenth and fif centuries in France guilty animal fered death on the gallows. PzAoos were carefully reared in the island of Samos, and sold at such high prices that Varo says they fetohed yearly X2,000. Tim Franklin Arctic expedition sailed from Greenhithe, England, May 2, 1845. The last heard from them were dispatches sent from the Whalefish islands dated July 12, 1S45. Tz English language has a greater number of words than the French. There are also in English a greater number of ways to express thoughts than in French. TnH expression " commencement ex ercises " is applied to the concluding exercises of a college term, from the fact that they mark the "commence ment" of the graduate's independent life. Tim invention of glass is commonly attributed to the Phconicians. Very an cient discoveries of glass in Egypt have somewhat shaken this attribution. and it will remain uncertain until ftirther discoveries settle the question. THE phrase " suited to a T " is said to be derived from the so-called T-square, an instrument used by architects and mechanical draughtrimen in drawing plans. As the T-square is often used to test the accuracy with which lines and angles have been drawn, it is altogether probable that the expression orignated in this fact. TrE word "vendetta " (vengeance) originated, it is said, in Corsica, where the practice was formerly general, and still prev ils in remote parts of the island. Tle custom, one writer re marks grimly, flouri3hes among the Bedouins. Traces of it are found some times among the Montenegrins, Alban ians Druses and Circassians; and, in deed, it may be said that the custom prevailed at one time or another among every tribe and nation. Whenever a person was murdered, the practice among those holding to this custom was to avenge the death; and that duty was imposed upon the son, brother or near est kinsman, who forthwith sought pri vate vengeance upon him who shed the blood of the relative. As the adn'inis tration of justice became a more and more settledl soc;ial institution, the cus temn disappeared, although Corsica still clings to it in its most cruel form, and on that island it plays a most important part in a social life. The Library at Abbotsford. Thle library is thle ha~ndsomest apart ment at AI)bbotsfordl. It is Ii.ty feet in length 1hy1 thiy ini breadth, n'nd( hazs an immense.ii~ bay-windlow that a'lords a charingi ggIlmpse of thle Tweed. Thie ceiling is carvedi after designis from Mel rose Abbeyv. T[here are t. wenty thou sandi( volumes here and in the study. Th ook-case~s were made under Sir Walter's dlirectin, by his owvn work mlen. Somei of themit con:a'ni rare and curious old boo iks and MSS. that are enrefully guard, d under lock and key. llere', on the wall, is the portrait of Sir Walters eldest son, whlo wa~s Colonel of thle Fifteethl lussars. Hie wvent out to Mad~ras inl I 8m, andt wVas a v'ery pOp.. ulhir and eflicient oficer; but lie soon fell aL victi if o the fatal clina' e of India and( ( died on thme return voyage to En glandf, wither lie had beeni ordeed on account of hiis health. 11ere, too, is the bust of Sir Water at the age of forty nine, by ('hiatrey. There are chairs exquisitecly wrouight, from thle llorghese Palace at Romue, thle gift of tie Pope a silver uirn upon01 a stand of p)Orph yry, from Lord Byron; and an eb~ony cabi net and set of chairs presanted by lino George IV. In a glass case, shiehled7 from the~ touch of proE alne lingers, are the purse~ of lRob Roy; the brooch of' his wifeo; a note - book ini green andl gold, once t ho prop~erty of Napoleon 1.; and a gold e n ui -lho . also g~veni by K ing' ( eorge IV. W hen this royal friend was Itegent!, lie invited Scott to (ine wihh him ini London, a~ldressing him famil iarly as "' Walt er," and showvering upon hijim ev'idences of his esteem; when he su1crceded to thle thbronte. one of the first acts of the kingly prerogative was to create himii a lia onett.--M. Nicholas. Catching a Crab. A San Francisco correspondent writes: They tell a story of a would-be funny broker, whol( last season adopted a most fiendish methodl of getting even with one of the chronic flirts who are said to' make the piazzas here lively later in the seasoin. IIe obtained half a dlozen ienergetic cralbs from the fishing beach, Iand, watching for an opportunity when ino one was' ini a particuilar' tank, except the inconstant fair object of his ven geance, he dropped in the crustaceans (way up term for crab). The young lady continuuedi her n atatorial exercises (jam up for paddling) a few minutes longer, whlen she 'suddlenly uttered a blood-curdling shriek, and was helped uip the ladder with a crab hanging on her pink little too. She had several consecutive epileptic fits while the ma rine corn doctor was being removed. Tlhe Mephistophelean glee of the broker, however, gave him away, and1 for fear of some counter trick he decided to bathe early in the morning thereafter. A few (lays after that the bath-house keeper was startled by some terrific oells, and, hastily entering the tank house, he behieldl the broker floundering out with a big, jagged-toothed spring rat-trap clenchied on his heel. "Who the dlickens put this horrible thinr in the water?" roared the broker. " I did, sir," sweetly replied the crab bed young lady aforementioned, step ping out of a bath-room. "I put it there to catch those horrid crabs, you know." The broker wvent home on a crutch. -On her wedding day, an Indiana girl wrote something, sealed it in an en velope, and gave it to an intimate friend. "lf I am alive six months from now," she saidl, "give this~ back to me un op~enedl. If I am (lead road it." On the day t hat the half year expired the bride comminitted suicide, and the inelosure was found to be a statement that she exp~ected no joy from the marriage, but wai- willing to give It a trial before de.. ciding to take her own life.--8g. Louis C(lonew