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DEYOU'D To. 1OLI UI~ll, XORALITY, IUVLUON AND TO TUR GENER IL INTEREST OF THE COI~k By Do F. BRADLEY & OO~ PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, 'NOVEMBER 16, 1882, VL I.N.8 SW8 GLEANING8. Four negro colleges flourish in 'Atlan ta., Talbot was the only county In Geor 4 ga that hield a fuir thip year. A stock cormpany hs been erganized *t Birmingham, Ala., to build a cotton factory. The-new dhectory for Knoxville, Tenn., places the population of that city at 17,151. M. W. Harris, of Perry Ga , has some EgyptiaR cotton growing on his place wgich is ten feet high. A lot of Confederate bonds, amounting to $145,00, was sold recently at Charles. ton, S. C., for $12 50 per thousand. Columbus, one of the most progress ive cities in Georgia, is moving to build a thorough system of street railway. George Crane, who murdered his wife in Daugherty county, Ga., has been sen. teiced to life imprisonment in the pen itentiary. 'l he Selma (Ala.) Times says $15,000 has been squandered by Selma people in matrimonial insurance companies, all of which has been lost. . At Tirzah church, York county, S.C., Felix Jones and Charles Starr fought over a woman and Jones was killed. Starr, who is but eigh en years old, escaped. -V A meteor fell at Mt. Airy, N. C., re, cently, burying itself several feet in the carth. The mass greatly resembled iron ,ore, fand weighed several hundred pounds, A North Carolina exchange says the Liberia fever has broken out strongly Lmon]g the negroes (f that State, and a large number are anxious to emigrate to that country. Two years ago so little dried fruit was shipped from Tennessee that it was scarce worthy of note. The business has now grown, however, to be one of the most important in the State. Near Luray, Va., recently, an eagle whose body was snow white and wings jet black, was killed. From tip to tip of its wings it measured six feet seven inches, and weighed twenty pounds. The artesian well at Trh(ninaville, Gn. -has reached a dlepth of 1,100 feet mostly through solid rock, without getting a flow of water. Many fine specimens of fossil sea shells are brought up from the bottom. Thonmaston, Ga., is overrun with rats, and it is saidl the rodents have become a perfect plague, In the country round about the farmers are loosing heavily by the pests and can find no way to pro tect their grain or kill off the raiders. 0. W. H~obbs, of Sampson count y, N. C., recently exhibited a very line sam pie of watermelon brandy. Its flavor is good, it is clear as crystal, and has none of the disagreeable smell of ordinary brandies and whiskies, but has an odor like that of bay rum. The tcottoni planters of Mississippi are condemning the Cotton Seed Associa tions of Memphis, New Orleans and other places, becankse they have dIivided territory and fixed rates for seed. They think the price of seed should be gov erned by the laws of trade. The suit brought by the heirs of A n drew Johnson to recover 160 acres of land in the most valuable portion of the Fifth Ward, in Chattanooga, Tenn , has 1 een settled by a decision in favor of Sihe present holders of the property. The mutount involved was about $200,000. The Jacekson (Miss.) Clarion says: A wealthy English syndicate last year pur chased 700,000 acres of land in the Ya zoo dlelta and they are now examining 9 600,000 acres of pine land with a view to purchase. The same syndicate have bought 8,000,003 acres of grazing land in Texas. The French Government has sent an expedition to Florida to observe, from thc classic battlements of old1 Fort San Marco, at St, Augustine, the transit of Venus November 6. The expedition carry with them scientific app~aratus * ~ weighing 30,000 pounds. They have ar rived at St. Augustine. Nashville American ; The grand jury yesterdlay found eight indictments for mmider in the first degree nind assault with intent to commit murder. All these cases were of recent occurance. The large number of murders, attempted murders and other s:mnguinary afihirs which have occulrredl here are givin.~ the capital city an unenviable prom mece. One of the most brutal crimes ever cornmmitted is reported from Dan vil let Va., A little negro boy, agedl eigh, years, had a silver dollar, which D~ave Mills, a colored man, coveted. Thle boy refused t> give it up, andl Mills, in or der to coerce him into compliance with his demand, caught him and hel him over the escape pipe of a steam engine un'il the little fellow was nearly cooked. Mills has been arrested. A few days ago, says the Gainesvill" (Ga.) Southron, Mrs. Martin and jour children undertook to cross the Chatta hoochee at Faulkner's ford to the left of Belton. A little boy had charge of the boat, and it becoming unmanageable the little fellow jumped out. At this Mrs. martin became frightened, and her little'child fell overboard. She jumped out to save iit. Both were drowned. An.. other little girl-went overboad and was drowned. Two othera saved their lives by clinging to limbs and rocks The b~odies were all recovered as soon as the peoele in the neighborhood could get to the scene. The water was not over fo'Ir L.~s A,~.. mL.~ sL ....2.if. - - -. or two ago. One Scott had been sued at the spring term, 1878, of the Superior Court of Wake county, but 1:e died about a month later. His death was never suggested to the court, and in 1879 judgment was taken against him, no administrator having been appointed. It would appear to any one not up in law that such a judgment would be void, but strange as it may appear, the question is a doubtful one and is being contested, one side claiming that it is worthless and the other that it is binding on the estate. The Virtues of Coffee. The action of coffee is directed chiefly to the nervous system. It produces a warming, cordial impression on the stomach, quickly followed by a diffused, agreeable and nervous excitement,which extends itself to the cerebral functi ns, giving rise to increased vigor of imagin ation and intellect, vithout any subse quent confusion or stupor, such as are characteristic of narcotics. Coffee con tains essential principles of nutrition far exceeding in importance its exhilaratinm properties, and is one of the most dosir able articles for sustaining the sy-tcm ir certain prostrating diseases. As com pared with the nutrition to be derived from the beot of soups, coffee has de cidedly the advantage, and is to be pre ferred in many instances. The medicin d effects of coffee are very great. In in termittent fever it has been used by em inent physicians with the happiest ef fects in cuttiug short the attack, and if properly managed is better in many cases than the sulphate of quinine. In that low state of interfmittent, as found on the banks of the Msis.ssippi ltiver and other malarial districts, nee )npa nied with enlarged spleen and torpid liver, when judiciously adiniiitore(i it is one of the surest remedies. In vellow fever it has been used by physicians, and with some it is their main relia tce after other necessary renedies have been Administered; it retains tissue change, and thus becomes a conservator of force in that state in which the nervous sys tem tends to collapse, because the blood has become impure; it sustains the nervous power until the depuration and 1 reorganization of the blood are acconi plished, and has the advantoge over other stimulants in inducing no inj(uri. ous secondary effects. In spasmodic asthim its utility is well established, a3 in whooping cough, stupor, lethargy and such troubles. In hysterical at tacks, for which in many cases a physi cian can form no diagnosii, coffee is a great help. Coffee is opposed to malaria, to all noxious vapors. As a disinfectant it has wonderful powers. As an instantuneous deodorizer it has no equal for the sick room, as all exhalations are innedi ately neutralized by simply passing a chating-dish with burning coffee grains through the room. It may be urged that an article possessing such powers and capacity for such energetic action nmst be injurious as an artic!e of (diet of ha hitual emp)loyment, and not without deleterious prop~erties; but no corre sponding nervous disairrangemients have beeni observed after its effects have dis appeared, as are seen in narcotics andl~ other stimulants. The action implarted to the nerves is natural andl healthy. Habitual coffee drinkers generaliy en joy good health. Some of the oldest people have used coffee from earliest infancy without feeling any (depressin g reactjion, such as islprodued( by alcoholic stimulants .--Phsiladellin'a Imefls. A Woman's Clever Escape Fromi Prio. Probably the most original escape from prison ever devisedl was sue-~ ess fully (arriedI out yesterdlay ini lrooklynu. Mary lRowe, conIi ned in the Havmoimd Street .Jail under indietnuent for ' Prand larceny, coolly walked across thle coui' t yardl from thle womn's prison in the old jauil to the visitor.s' room d inl thle new wing, and after sitting iniietly inl a (chair for a few moments was bowed ont, by a keeper at the front dboor. She was committed by du tetice Fisher, oin Sep tend er 19, to await thle aet ion of thle (rand Jury, amid was placed ini a cell on the upper tier of the old jail. She hi::.s been freq itly visited by fiundas since her inicarecerat ion, who brout t her up parel that she m'rht presenti a resp~ect a b le appeuaranc wIlen arra:Iigined in t rt. It is thle cuistomi of thle t emale pri. on that the inniait es shatll in t urn serve meals to t he other lpisoners, aund ves-. terday Mary was anumig thiose di'tailedc to bring thle br-ead and (0ollee from the kitrheun..( Going to aL ret ired 1o0rtion of he jail she attired hierse'lf in deep nmournmng and dIrew a heavy ernae veil over her face. She thlen passedl through oneC (t the corridlors, crossedl the coulrt yard :11n( entered the jail ollice in the new wing. Keeper Cowaun wa's on dut y, and eingI ; hso urprise' at s -uch an early vi-sitor, sli(' aninouned~ that. she lm'dl comeI to meI(et her sister, M rs. Malecn, who' hadl been locked nyl for intoxica.. tion 0, bu t wVho( wasI to be diischiarged t hat morning, aind that. she hadl been unisue-. 'essful ly sek'ng her thlrouigh thle jail for an hour. ( owanu informied her tiat MIrs. Madden hail h~eon dischiarge~(ld lhe day before. TEhe supiposed skIter biur.st into tears and)(, exressing her regre't at hiav ig arrivred too late (, was e'scorted( to the door by the keeper, who drew hack the bolt and bowed her out , saying lhe was sorny hue conul not aid her. Tent minutes later it was dliscovre.l that Mary Howe had escaped and a generaul alarm wvas given. Keepe)r ( 'owanu has b~een sus51pnded and thle Brooklyn police are bustily searchuing for aL woman~tl .in black. Mary's met hod of laiceny Vwas as followvs: She would ad vertike for a J)OSitioii Rs a Servant and1 oiler' to wor'k at nominal wages, having~ never been in service before. After a few days in the house she would disappear with wvhat ever* valuables she could get. Many complaints were lodged at police head --The average man is supposed to Jose six cuff buttons per year, and he is just mean enough not to throw away the old ones so that the Ainder can make a pair. --Raw starch, applied witih a little water. as a paste. will fenerally 10. move all stali frQIm bed-tic 11ng, -q(v 000 Wews. TOPICS OF TH1E DAY. A TEnEPiHoNE has been run into a church in plean, N. Y. LIEUT. THACKARA bas resigned from the United States navy. MINISTER HANNIBAL HAllMIN will pMAs the winter at Bangor, Me. TE revision of the Old Testament will be completed in a few months. DANIEL SEALIs, of Cleveland, is said to be the wealthiest c9lored man in America. 0 NON THE new directory for Knoxville, renn., places the population of that city it 17,151. ANY Romqu Catholic who can prove that the Apostle Peter had no wife, can cbtain a $5,000 prize offered in Scot land. IT Is asserted that in the three years 3nding 1880, there were no' fewer than 252 theaters destroyed by fire, or partly 40, resulting in 4,370 deaths, and about B,400 injuries. GENERAL BRADY, of Star-route noto riety, is said to have lost $75,000 in op erating his Canadian lumber mills, which lie is now trying to dispose of to avoid further loss. ONE of the blenevoleut New Yorkcre who helped introduce the English spar cows here, has had .to remove every L)rackot from his house and go to an ex p)ense of $100 for painting. A NEw underground railway is pro )osed for Paris, to cost about $30,000, )00. The central station is to be at the Palace d la Bourse. In all, the lines will be twenty-four miles. - Mrs3 GABRIELLE GREELEY has begun making improvements on the Greeley iwamp at Chappaqua, and has given a [)lot of ground to the Episcopal Society >f that village on which to erect a shapel. --al(3. - - . IN TIE high school of Dedham, Mass ichusetts, the experiient is being made :f using daily newspapers instead of text-books in the reading class. The Principal thinks that the plan is suc cessful. A nOoK has just been issued in Ver mont entitled "The Resurrection of Christ from a Lawyer's Standpoint." It is an investigation according to the laws if evidence, and it ends with a full ac 2eptanice of the resurrection of Christ as in historical fact.' THlE Hon. Levi P. Morton, is giving laudlable attention to the interests of the American colony in Paris. lie has ro 3ently been chosen as a warden of the americanm Episcopal Church in that city, mnd has become a patron or the "Paris, British and American Schools." JAY GOULD stopped at Rochester re 3ently on his return from the WVest. On ilighting from a car at the new depot, ie stepp~ed on a sidetrack in front of a noving locomotive, and would have been run over but for the ou tcrics of those standing near. PROF'EssoR RE~EsI, an astronomer, de noes that the comet of 1882 is identical nith the comnet of 1843 and 1880. From lata given after Gbze"'.'" en of its orbit. he says it will not return to our systuer mn less than four thousand years. It is not necessary, therefore, to lie awake at night dreading a catastrophe. .RICrARD WAoNER has sold the copy. r'ght of all his musical productions to Behott, the Mayence publisher, the con. sideration of the agreement being the yearly payment to the composer of 150, 300 marks (about $35,000). This an nuity is also to be paid to Wagner's heirs for thirty years after his death. And still it is thonght the publisher baa made a p~rofitable contract. 1URUNKA~RDs are sullering in the rural counties of Wisconsin, where the local option law of the State enable the total abstinence people to vote down the pub. lie sale of intoxicants. Heretofore the traffic has been continued out of sight, but now the railroad companies have prohibited their employes from taking liquor as freight, and the dealers can therefore obtain only very limited sup 1lies. CONFEDERATS bonds still have some value in the South. A large quantity of them belonging to the estate of Jacob Barret, of Charleston, South Carolina, were sold1 recently at auction. The whole lot, $149,600, was bought by Ed. ward Moreland at $12.50 per $1,000. The bidding, which started at $10 per $1,000, was quite spirited, $6,450 of Oonfederate Ijank b~illS were also sold al $10 for the lot. GurrEAU's skeleton is not yet articu lated. It is ready for wiring with the exception of the thigh bones. which are riot yet sufficiently bleached. They are submerged in an ether bath where they will remain for some weeks before the process of preparation is completed. It is not likely that when articulated the skeleton will bo placed on public exhi bition. It will probably be consigned to repose amnong other ghastly relica of eye of an outsider is never allowed tc rest. THE harvests of 1882, with few exoep tions, resulted favorably, and there :i immense wealth in the granaries of the country. Crop failures were appre hended, but not realiz'd. The autumn too, has been most favorable to the ma turing corn, and that which the usua frost might have destroyed was saved b, the prolongation of fine weather. Bn in the face of the great wealth whiel lies back in the country in the hands o the agricultural classes, business is dull The boom that was expected to follosi the assurance of good harvests has no been experienced, and merchants in th< country and in the cities are complain ing of slow sales and slower collections ENOUGH is already known of the radi cal movement in France to justify grea uneasiness. The conspirators, who ar mostly young men iri cities and manu facturing villages, are united in clos organizations, which long escaped obser vation by passing for trade unions. In cendiary papers and tracts are sedulom ly distributed, and as each group or fed eration of alliances has its distinctiv name, the existence of a national leagu was not so apparent. A central con mittee, composed of one delegate fror each federation, has been meetin monthly at Geneva. There are evidence not only that the'objects of the conspir ators are akin to those of the Russiat Nihilists, but.that one, at least, of th champions of the latter, Prince Krapat kine, is an associate of the French plct ters. The federations of Paris and yvi cinity are known to have more thai 1,200 members, while Lyons is anot'. stronghold. A PelissO Item. "Je)tla!" said Mrs. Jones, as shi was writingta note to her dressmake with her mouth full of stub pens ant eraser, " how (10 you Spell police?" Mr. Joncs started and nearly droppet the paper he wai reading. " What's the matter now, Maria Cl(ot lIes-line stolen again?" Mercy, no. I don't meanthat kin of poice: this is a garmalent soniethin< like a dress." SOh., said .1 ones, in a relieved voice '"well I never heard of but one way o spellng thile word p-o-1-i-e-e." "Yer." answeredI Mrs. J., thiought fully, "that's the way I have spel!ed it but the-e seems to be several meaning for the same word." Easiest thing in the world," mum bled Jones, with one eye on his payier "it means com)rt, protection, etc." "Does it," asked his wNife, innocent ly; " well I never heard of the polie comforting or protee~ing any body yet 1 thought it was their mission to assaul >eople-t here--' she continued, placid y. "111 sendt that note ofY this mo ment.; I hope Madame Bias wvill be a home." She was: and she nearly fainted whei she opened Mr's. J.'s note andl readi: 'I shatll send the police to-day-bi prepared.'' "It's the pieces!" she gasped whet she came to, "'a few miserabile p):lltr silk p):eoes that I kept out of her hai dIress -saved in the cut ting! Well if sh< ain't the meanest! Run, Katy, and go them out of the trunk up-stairs-th< plush is made into a hat-she won' t gei that. Good heavens! what a hard tim< an honest woman has to get a livin' it this world!'' It was Mrse. Jones' turn to be aston. ished, wheni in reply to her note she re coived the followmng: (ldeer MIs .Jones Herewith I sen you all, anc ( v.ry pence in tnt posses tlon an I hno inor< so help mue hi heving! You will Piese to ciai ol7 the Po Lice wich would disograise mue for ever Yure tru friend MAny' JA:N. nlhss. Thlen Mrs. .Jones hunted up a mna-a. zine deos modles and found that pofIe< was spelledl in this connection pelis e, and shte saidl it all ramo of her beinn muarriedl to a man who couldnm't speli but ,Jones takes a sly revenge by re. fer:ing to his wvife as "'a distinguishet me iber of tihe Pelisse force'" --Dkro l'ost and Tribune. Costlues. A Russian General, who now hoilds a very important command in the fai East, complainedi, wvhen sonie five 0i six years ago. lhe visitedll~ Inndon, that ii was impossible to undlerstandi fn wl principle the English dressed them selves. A few male friends had invit-ed him to dinner; anti on appearing among them lhe found h'iiself thet < uily one 0 the p~arty wiho wore a frock ei at. Th'e niext mtornling he wvas ti breakfast wit! a fewv mlore fiendiis; andt, dletermline this time to be on the safe side, lhe pre senited himself in a dress suit. We hiavt met with1 a novel in which one of thi principal inicidecnts wvas the refuisal of check taker at the lioyal Italian Oper: t! amit a (dist inguishted foreigner who with the regrulatio n evening coat, wi rt a pair 6f lighlt-colored trousers sue as, ini a l ike connection, wouhi he acceptedl on the' Continent (a least in suimmer) as qunite ap~prt piate to a festive occasion. TIhie onl approach, indeed, to a dlesp~otism ti taste that now exists in England is thi authority exercised in the matter o costume by our operatic officials, wh toicrate nothing but black and whiitte Jn ordinary life peop le will doubtles continue to dress as they may think tit without heetling thie remonstrances an< app~eals addresscd to them by those whi have studied the subject. andi who hav' at once better Information and bette percepftions than the general mass e mankind. But wvhat may be permittei to ordinary individuals can not be tol crated on the part of painters, sculptor and stage mantagers. Smith, Jones ani Birown live, dress absurdly, die, and'ar forgotten. But the men whose lot Iti to mniluence the pulblic mind have heavie espontsi bilit ies; andl~ the ovil they 4, lives after them. -Lonfdon Standard. --On a small island near Fiji a so1 material is found which on oxposur harden and looksP much lika fleabrl "Do Mortuls Nil Nisi Bonum." Why should we "say nothing but good of the dead?" Of all the ignorant, silly and absurd maxims ever manu factured that one is the worst. Espe cially is it to be deprecated because it is apparently prompted by a kind, forgiv Ing and generous spirit, and is, there fore, calculated to appeal to the inno cent, the unthinkino- and the generous minded. We will Tet a ducat that the man who built that maxim was some mean, sniall-souled scoundrel who was guilty of rascalities that he wanted cov I ered up when he died. We believe in throwing the mantle of charity over the dead, and when a man b dies we (o not believe in publishing to the world all the frailties and eccentricities of his character that resulted in placing him, diring life, in jail or the Legisla ture. We d(o not believe that all lead _ ing citizens after they die -play on even b electro-plated harps, and we cannot un derstand that there is any sense in ex I pecting public journalists to pretend - they believe the deceased was a man of all-wool virtues, entitling him to a glo . rious immortality beyond the sunset glow, where his, credlitors will (ease froi troubling and the weary tax col lector will not break through and steal. When some insignilicant Alderman e dies, why should established custom de e mand that the editor of the local paper should array himself in sackcloth and a a gum coat and vrit e a gorgeous obituary, In which he tries to show that the ab 9 sence of the deceased will leave the world - lop-sided, while he knows that lie does not believe what, he says, and that the readers do not believe it., and even the deceased would not believe it. and would blush to see it in type. We enn uiderstand that it is a seemily 'hing for the living to refrain from rak Ing up 11old grievanices rec'arding the 1 dead, and letting bygones.o bygones; r but it is entirely beyond our compre hension wh'ly the livingishould pretond to see virtues in the dead that they know the dead never possessed or had a soul large enough to appreciate. It is true, however, that " Custom 41hw1'S often reason overrulo And only sr'ves for reason to the fool." We recall a circumstance that goei to prove what a hollow sham obituaries usually are. In the office of the Daily Aryus one night there was brought in news of the death of a local Justice of the Peace, named Schumerhoff. The managing editor told the local editor to " give the remains a gilt-edged send off." 'I h local edito-r was a eompara tive stranger in the town and had never heard of the deceased before. He sharpened his pencil and began: It Is our painful duty to rocord the death of our esteened townsman, .Judgo Carl Schu imerhoif. lie died this evening at seven o'clock, after a brief but painful illness. which he bore with Christian fortitude." Then he turned to the night-dispatch editor and said: "1 What kind of an old landmark was Schumerhoff?" 1 "Old Schumerhoff! why he was a .common, har'd-listed Dutchman; made t money by parsimonious econ)omy and - usuriy-a regular mnoney-lendinug, two - perI-cenit. at month Shylock; eame here t from Germany years ago. 'There are lots of people wvon't be howed down with gr'ief when they hear he is gone."' TheIn the local editor continue I the obituary "Judge Schumer'hoff came from the Father 111land When ho was quito young. Although of , an old and prominent famnily in Germna'iy he wasg poort, but by energy and1( eitn'prlse, comn billed with a liberal, prog ressive policy in busi ne~ss, he amalssed a ha~ndsfomdO comfpetenlcl. It ('nnl truly be said( of him that be was tho -architect of his own fortune. Such en ar(~ilO searci'e in these dlays, anid thie Judgo's place in soiciety and btusiniess c'rcles will not bo easily fille I. is dealth has cast a gloom over thme enitir'e commutnty.'" "H'Iad he a family?'' "Yes, and lie us'ed to bang his wvife arolundI and~ pound her black and bluo until she got a divorce. but you need not dIwell on that point, you knowv, for lie was a lpromineont citizen andl well connected." "'iIhe' dtc(alQed WaIs an ex('llenlt husband, a fond father and1(-" "'How dlid you say his moraTh wveren' "Morals? lhe dlidn't have any. lie wvas a regular old rip." "a use'ful andiu e'xi'mplairy mnembler or society."' "How wvas lie politically?'' " Well, lhe usedl t o be a redl-hot Know.. nothing, but lately he0 was a Green backer." "Although we have been obl~g''d to dilffer w~th him p)olit ically3, . et we cann~ot let this op portuinity pass without pay'ing a j st tribuito to h a sinicer'ity. u ItS was a man ot'~11) simpli ty of 'bar'n'ter andl liber'al wvays in poliiticma mlatters." "lDid he ever hold any offce?" "No; never was anlythling but a ,Jus tice of tile Peace. lie was too unpopular to be elected to anything, although he was always running for someithing.'" "And his maniiy e'xcellenit qualltlties of hea:d endi' nea'rt indlear'ed hIm to all who knew himi. His modest and unlassmiaing mnananer prevente i himI froml ta king that act iv~e part in poldit i's, or regelv'ing the r'eward1s of oflice. that hhi mlerits "Say, y'ou might hint, iln that oblit iiary', that 01(1 Schumerhoil- is hiavinig a warm receptionl if lie haus gone to where lie dheserves.'' " While all that is mortal of Judge N. lies Io the cold1 embrace of d'ath, at his late residence, 3 the Immortal hats gone to put on immnortality in a but ter land, where thero awaits hIm the roe wairds or ani uipright man, a jusat .Judare, anid a 6 (Christianiltizen'l. Altor life's fitful fever lhe , sleep. we(ll." Anid then old Schumerhoff had a i pompous funeral, a gildied monument I and a lying epJit aph, all in keepiner wvithb t the obituary thle Argus publisfed. .. Texas Sfig S -A man and woman lived together as man and wife for nine years. At the Sexpiration of that period the man 1 claimed to have discovered that the wo -man had another husband living. To 2 offset this the woman professed to have -discovered that the husband had anoth ci'e wife still in existence. 'Then it was 3 ascertained that the first-or second a hiusbandl of the wife had in the interval marr'ied again. Then it was attempted to be proved that the first-or isecond Swife of the original husband had died, ~ andl at last the much muddled suit was " dropped by mutual consent.--N. Y SIleraldl. - -Those foot-prints in the sandstone L' at Carson, Nev., turn out to have been made by a ha.emoth. The women folks will now breathe easier.-Deit c -G.oarse salt, ln 0r7stnt., I e~obq . to use in plckling, Friction. That machine will run the smoothest, the fastest and the longest which has the least friction. The farmer realizes that his horses are wearied out and die young, - often, because of this extra stra'n upon them which comes from without. But this is not the only kind of friction with which they are familiar. There is a friction which is due to the make-up of the animal. Some horses are constantly fretting and fuming and wearing themselves out, while others go steadily along with their load and never turn aside to fret themselves. These last possess the staying qualities which are valuable in horses or in men. Now it is possible to decrease the amount of friction, both external and in'.ernal. It is, and ever should be, the aim of the good farmer to buy ma'thines which have least friction. And the in ventor who does most in this line will win both fortune and renown. Con paring the tools and machines now in use with those used fifty years ago it will be seen at once that a great advance has been made in this particular. But men are much like horses. They are very largely in the harness and pull ing heavy loads. And niany of then are breaking down in health, or coNMI plaining bitterly of their lot, when there really is no need of it. Friction is kill ing them or souring their natures. And this friction comes often-times from with out, and oft-times from within. One man Is being crushed between mill vtones which lie cannot lift off or pu~t far down beneath his feet. But this is not often the case, and when it is the lest thing that man can do is to leave that position at once at any sacrifice. But miuch of the friction of' life which comies from without may, or might by forethought and good judoment, be avo'ded. Many cruel wor~is are rc ce:ved hy, and unkind deeds done to, those who have not tact suflicient to leave certain words unsaid or questions tin asked. Some persons never know when not to put a question, Some other per sons never fail to put it exactly at the right time. One gets a curt, cold or insulting roply. The oth er receives a courteous and full answer. One wins respeet, the other contempt. Now thingalls and frets the tactless one, but if lie only knew human nature better, he - perhaps more often she-might hjave avoided it. You may be. constantly in company with another of greater slowness or u ickness. If the latter, one moment's haste on your part may make him pleasant all day. If he is slower than you and you keep steady step with him for a brief time, it may smooth your path. In other words, tact to see and know the fitness of things and willingness on your past to make concessions to meet their de mands, will generally win the (lay. It makes no difference who the other par ty is; whetLer between parents and children, husband and wife, teacher ters and people, whoever thle ot her par ty may be, tact, kindness and a wvilling ness to bend wvill save a great deal of the wear and tear of life. We do not say all, but it is worth trying to see how much. But the fact remains that more friction comes from within ourselves t han from without. A mbition, e&nvy,and~t thle legion of foul spirits whliich attend1( t hese, unite to wear away the heairt. flow often do they succee]i in squmee ing out the juices of life, and lea vintg it. buit a dr y, bitter rindl. And t hen the man looks ouit uplonl the world anid thiniks it all as dry and bitter as his own heart. What is this beauteous worldl andi the great loving hearts in it to such a soul? No w~oinler he cannot com~prehendi them. WVhat we need, each one, is to c ultivate fruit, andl by so dloing kill out~ the wveeds. Re joice ini others' prosperity, and then wve shall not envy their good fortune. Think of our blessings, and then we shall not revile our hard lot. Look for flowers, and1( raIinbo(ws, and gorgeous sm'nsets, not for cloudts, and fog, and rain. We need to think more of our fellow men andI forget self. We neeud to live in the sunlight of the presence of God, and our hearts shall sing a newv song~ of gladness, pcelC andi love. TIhen slii~l wve have conquered the frictions of life, anti in this light and t his spirit, we shall ever do our best work--workers for God, wvorkers for man, and thereby workers for our best selves. -G~o/den Rule. _________ Mr.4. P'artinmgton. An " old man with a cane" is not an uncommon object in thme city streets; but wvhen that ma~n is the p~erson andi that cane the auxiliary limb of one who has contributed largely to the reading publie's e*n~oyment, whio was for many years the bright .artieular star of almost numberless social gather ings, andl wh'ose fun was always fresh and1( crisp and never unkindly, the man andI the canei are a pleaisureO and a benediction. We feel that we 1st echo the sentimenit of all his 01(d frends and admirers whien we ex press thle hop1e that the aill iction which hie ''in herited from his wife's family'" will henceforth treat him miore lenient ly, that Benjamin P. Shillaber anid his trusty cane may be oftener seen taking their walk abroad, andl that his sunset (lays may be as bright andl genial aus the thousandi andl one goodi things that have come from his read~y pen.--Bostoni TJran SCrip'._____ ___ Didn't Want a Pass. The other day an Arkansaw man se curedi a free pass over a railroad. He was very much pleased at first, but after discovering that if injured in an acci dent he could not recover damages, he approached the Superintendent and said: "Look here! how about this thing?" "What's the matter with ltP' "What if I get killed on the road, my wife wouldn t recover damages." "No, sir." "Then [ don't want the pass. I ain't got no wife nor no relations, but I want to feel that if 1 had a wife she'd get pay for my death. I'm much obliged to yer, but I reokon I'll have to walk."-Arkansaw Traveler. - 1t is said the Horseshoe F~alls at Niagara have lost the sh~ape which won for them thoW game, and now roeible alau-v. '. . -. . - . '* ~ * . . WIT AND WISDON. -The man who.worsbhps the fow s0m he has made is no more Intelligent than the heathen who prays to the litSle wooden god he has wiuttled into 4b" ---It is an old and true sayinrg tbat opportunity has hair in front, but e bald behind. If you catch her by the for.: look you can hold her, but if you wait till, she gets by your hand slips and she is gone. -A queen bee lays In the height of the season from 2,000 to 3,000 eggs In twenty-four hours. The man who will dist over how to graft a queen bee on a hen will make money enough to buy out the wjiole continent in six months. Philadelphfa News. . -In a village near Cork, a physician wadisturbed one night by repeated tarpings at his door, and on getting up he Found a laboring man. " Have you been here long?" asked the doctor. Indeed I have," answered the caller. "Why didn'tyou ring the bell?" "Ooh, be ause I was afraid of disturbing your honorl'-Il". Herald. -SA smart young man asked a gen. tleman from Cape Cod: "What's the difference betwewn ycu and a clam?.' thinking that the Cape Codger would say he didn't know, and then the young man would pity him for not being able to see any din'erenIce between himself and a clan), but the thing didn't work. The C(odger took the young man and swept a path across the street with him, and then, aftcr crowding him into an empty fish-larrel, and yanking him out again. said: ' A clam wouldn't be play ing with you in thfs way. That 8 the difference' between me and a clam." The Young man had no more questions to ask.-Ncw Laver. Register. -The Ass and the Cat: An Ass one day Observed a Cat ascend a Tree to Escape from a Dog, and a Bright ide:t entered his head. "When my Master comes to set mc to Work I shall run up the Tree and Rema'n for the Day.'' And when the Master came, lo and be hold, the Ass Started for the Nearest Tree at Full Speed, and Ascended about four Feet. wvhen lie fell back to the Ground. and was so Completely Knocked Out of hiape that his Master found it Impossi ble to Adjust his harness on him, and was obliged to l)es'roy him There and Then. Moral-Never Attempt to be too Versatile, an, don't F.ndeavor to Dodo-o Honest Wor- when you have to Worc for a Living, lest Peradveriture you get Left.--r-J. K. D.. in Puck. A Fable and a Moral. One day a Giraffe met an Ass en the banks of a river and called out: "Say, my friend, why can't you keep that infernal bray of yours still for half an hour at a time. I no sooner fall into a doze than oil'goes your "gee-haw! gee haw!'' until my nerves are all uin strung.'' At that moment a Monkey camo swinging down from the top of a tree, and remarked: "Mr. Girafl', I wish you would keep your nose at home. it isn' t very pleas ant to have you come poking it into the tree-tops just as the family are settling down for the,. night. And why do you go troopjing~ through the forest like a beast who is a 'raithe Constable may attach his neck for debts?" " And I desire to remark," began the Parrot. a he settled down on a limb near by, "that if I was a Monkey I'd have some respect for other people's rights. You (10 nothing but chatter and chuckle a'l (lay long, and there is a growving suupicion in ~these wvoods that y ou had rather dine on Parrot than on berries." "And what are you talking about:" demanded the Hare, as lhe cre pt through the grass. "As for chatter, I'd lke to hear some one equal you, and your squawks and squeals are enough t o drive a Hare crazy. You are of so lit tie account that even a hungry Hunts man won't waste powder to kill you!" " I wish the whole crowd of you would clear ouit" exclaimed the WVolf, as he ca~me for'ward andl licked his chiops with self-satis'ar'tion. ''Fact is, an honest, indu1Istious Wolf, can scarce ly keep his head above waiter when comn p)elled to exist among you." " And I would like to add," observed the Alligator, as he crawled to the bank, "that if any of you are meaner than the member from Arkansas, who has just sat downVf, I'll pr'esent him with a medlal!" " And it was only yesterday that this Alligator devoured one of my kidls!'" shouted the Goat, as he came down the p~athI. " And you have often tokn do)wn my houses for the mere fun of the thiing:" charged the Ant as she came out of her abo dc. MORAL: " Ladies and gentlemen," remarked the Rhinoceros, as lie hove in sighit, "let this convince you that we all have our faults, and that we are expected to bear with each other's. WVhile the Ass may bray, the Parro)t chat ter, the Wolf howl and the Alligator rake in the pot. they allow the rest of us to go our wvays and do as we like, lie wvho begins to find fault with the Ass will not stop until he has discoveredl that the whole world is wrong. Let us now shut upl and look for breakfast."-Dctroit Frco Press. Thle "Mitch-Cow Racket." D~uring his wanderings through the yards yesterday the reporter stumbled onto another little scheme which it was thiougnht wais exterminatedl a few months ago, buit while there are ''suckers" in the world scalpers and other not over scrupulous persons will alw~ays do a "rushing business.'' The "milch-cow racket" is the term used by those who are postedl, andI from the protits derivedl therefrom the racket is a profltable one. Milch cows are alwvays in demand, and the prices obtained approximate sixty dollars. When the (demand exceeds the supply the '"scalper,'' in order to "accommodate" the customer, goes to some1 remote pen and purchases a cow called a "stri pper"'-that is, one whose (lays of usefulness as a milker are orer. A calf a few days 0old is then purchased for a few dlollars and tied in a pen along with the cowv, which is suplposed to be its mother. The customer soon makes his appearance and a trade is ef fectedl-the purchaser takes the boguis cow and calf and the accommodating "scalper" the sixty dollars. The trick is soon found out, and the buyer makes a strenuous comnplaint, but there is no remedy, and lhe has to accept the in evitable. The trick was practised yes terday, and came to the surface shortly after wards5. The buyer on this occasIon made an unusually strong break, which was subsequently tfottled by a com promise.- thlicaao Tribune. ...Fo. a rnnd lemon-craam cake use