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THE MOD EKE MXETIH' HOUSE. Jt dv will 8. hats. Howdy, Davy ! light and hitch ; Ibar's do one at home bat me; Thar ain't a man a livin', air, I toouor like to see; For Nance and Liddy's gone to see a sick man on the hill, An' Hiram's gone to git his grist at Jason Turner's mill. I was in town las' Sunday, an' my heart an' mo ogreed To go to meetin'?cf you'll woit I'll tell you what I seed. The bells were tollin' lively on the balmy mornin' air, An' folks were in a hurry, like the rushin' to a fair. The rnectin' house wor built of stones, the steeple p'inlcil high. The winders they wor painted all the colors ov the sky; An' runniu' up the steeple was a great long lightnin' rod? I kinder thought the members lacked a confidence in God. The big bell sorter hushed hitsclf an' then hit rung some more, An' people cum in carriages and get oat at the door; The wimmcn fixed thar dresses like they meant to tnake a call, Thar faces Bhowed they warn't a thinkin' ov tbe'r souls at all. Wall, Davv, thar I stood on' thought?'twas wicked I suppose? Some go to church to close thar eyes, an' some to eye thar clothes ; I'Overheard old Missus Swell to Missus Stebbins say, My darter Becky's dress warn't done? she won't be here to-day." I stood thar licsitatin' like what Bort ot mote to make, I thought that I should go inside for my salvation's sake, I started meekly in the house, I knew it warn't no harm. With my old broad brim hat in ban.' and jeans coat on mjr ur:u. I wont along 'bout half way up the velvet carpet ile, The inon an' witnmcn shut thar gates, and they bq?sn tq smile; I seed one open just a bit, went in and pulled it to. When Brown, (lie hanker ris an'said, "this 'ere's a rented pew." I got out or his "rented pew" an* sot down near the door, Kxpcctin' for some man to say, "this 'cro's a rented floor." A. fine dressed stranger?he cum in?the members didn't wait, But every feller jumped at him, an' openedwide his gate. Tho parson ris an' raised his hands, with cold wuu uwuguijf nil, An' everybody in the house stood up an' heard his prayer. I (luu'l kuuir how ii ia with tk*w somnkow 1 always feel, I'm doin' God iujustico when I get too proud to kneel. Then all sot down an' stared about, then at the parson's face, While he put on his specs and sed "Let's sing, Amasin' Grace." An orgin busted loose up stairs?the music hit was gay. Hit tickled them as could sing, an' them wot hed to pay. The music quit, the parson ris?they passed the hats round next, An' when the deekius sot them dowa^-tlie parsen tuck his text. lie prcach'd about two hours 'bout the Faith iu God to keep : Tlie wiiuraen folks were noddiu' while the'r husbands wor asleepOne gal sed to another, "Hev you seed my bow to-day ?" She'd nod her hed an' then say back, "The party hit was gay." One whispered loud enough behind Iter fan fur me to hear : "That bonnet Sofa Tag's got on is one she had last year." The parson quit and then sot down?the or gin played agin; I thought ef that was servin' God, the tunes they played was thin ; I hearn the bands at circuses jest play the self same air, The paison, when the organ quit, dismissed 'em all with prayer. Now, Davy, ef the angels seed what I did, I believe, Thar warn*I a one, among 'em all, b it what laffed in thar sleeve ; For God don't smile eu Christians who His blessin's will abuse; He hain't no use for orgins an' He don't like He rings no bells to tell 'em that the Sabbath's come once more; The angels hare no carriages to drive up to His door. Such Christians might as well look up to God an' sweetly smile, An' say, "I send my soul, dear Lord ; I'm comin after while," Our Master up in heaven, Davy, sees?hears everything. He likes to see His children kneel?an' loves to hear 'em sing. Vr.1. _ko. IJ. IS... Ik... I /~t? ... \ ??. nt??t iiv wiq M^oiDsiug, no v^imsuani git their dues, llis fnusic costs llim notluu' and he hes no ren- 1 ted pews. | Thar ain't no use o' follin' long tho road down i to the grave; Thar is"no way o* dodgin' when you're get your 1 soul te save. Fine churches, orgins, carriages, clothes, rented < pews an' "pelf." * Don't connt that day?It lays between yer Maker an* ytrself. ( Na animal should be killed for food im mediately after violent ezerciso. Under ' such considerations tho meat will keep but ' n very short time and sometimes it is impossible to keep it sweet with nil the salt > that can be used. Hogs, especially, should c be butchered early in the morning after a I quiet rest during the night.? Our Horne Journal. * 1 i Nothing has so many tics binding it to t tho earth as a railroad. i f ? ? \ TENEMENT HOUSES IE HEW YOBS. Nparly every bouse in the tenement district' is tivo or six stories high. The hallways are narrow, and at night are mostly without lights. Many of the bed-rooms never have a ray of sunlight in them. The rooms at f^ont and rear, which havo windows, are used for living rooms. The bedrooms have windows locking into the narrow and uulightcd hulls. At the rcur of the hull is a window, looking out to another tenement house in the rear, whoso wall is twenty-five feet away. This distance of tweuty-five foot is required by law, othcrwiso the whole ground would be built ou, and tenants might Bcek for light aud air as they pleased. Family privacy is out of tho reach of these people. Tho scenes which are enacted in the hallways are too abomiuablc to put in print. The utter demoralization of every boy or girl who is reared among such surroundings is a matter of course. To pass along these uieghborhoods on a summer eveniug, wheu tho lodgers who have been at work havo come homo, is to see an unpleasant sight. The pavements will uot hold half tho people who would swarui out upon them. xGutter and street aro amply occupied. From almost evory window all the way up to the-top men and womon, iu ever style of slovenly dishabille, lean out to get the fresh air and chat.? Much of whnt. Ihcv nnv i? "unlit, tor nnlili. cation." If that is the state of things in suuiuior, what arc thoso peoplo about in winter ? A winter eveniug in a crowded tenement houses present possibilities too disgusting and too demoralizing to contemplate with pleasure. There aro hundreds of these pest-houses where from twenty to fifty families live and move and have their . being uuder one roof. While some of the expensive families in costly dwellings mourn the fact that Providence has vouchsafed them only one or two children, the tenement house folks have little ones born to them as plentifully as kittens, puppies or rats.? The brutalization cf tbcao children is ono of the most terrible elements of tencmeut house existence. They "go astray as soon as they arc born" and contribute lrrgely to the ranks of the paupers and the criminal classes. In some of tho lower and viler classes of tenement, houses, beggars and prostitutes and thieves herd like vermin. And yet theso uuclcan and bestializcd persons manage to prolong their wretched existence and seem to defy the laws of health with somo degree of impunity. It is a wonder that the bad air does not kill them. Almost any respectable and well-fed Christiau would pronounce the diet of a teribmcnt house family enough to eausc death in a week. Yet they in4nago to stand it.? They aro not heathy. They aro for the most part aifllctcd with consumption aud kindred diseases, whoso seeds they transmit to the offspring tfcev no UWnlly bring iuto tho world. It must be added that the abominations to which i have alluded take place in houses which are built in accordance with tho requirements of tho laws of the city aud which are regularly inspected. it may be asked, who arc these people, and whence do they come ? Many of them aro reduced pcoplo, who have seen better days. Many of them aro mechanics, who work in factories. Some of them carry on light work iu their rooms. Much of the cigar-making of the city is done in the tenement houses. It may not be very pleasant to think of putting in one's mouth tlieend of a cigar which lias been rolled together by a fever-strickon woman with six unwashed little children playing about the floor aunng the tobacco leaves. But to those who have doubts as to this business many a tenemcnt-houso door is open for free observation. There aro many of the tenants who seem to have no particular trade or profession, and whose source of income is a mystery. It is often asked why those who arc not yet down to the lowest degree of degradation do not seek cheap homes in the country. The answer is two-fold. In tlio first place, thero are no cheap homes to which they-can go. Iu the second place, tlinv linvn lnaf. thnir omWtinn Qntlcfi...! ,.W(V ivuv wuvii uuiUiVIVU. Ui^VIOUCU to live from linud to mouth, and having no money with which to better tberaaelvea by making a uiovo, they have given up any idea they may onco havo entortained of changing. It may be that beneficent capitalists will do something for tbia olaes of people in erecting cheap houses in tho regions to be reached by the olevated railroad. (Certainly, it is greatly to bo bopod that We confess our little faults only to persuado others that we havo, no great onea. Whosoever would work wisely and with success must have clearly before him the ends ho wishes to accomplish. Hnvo nothing to do with any man in a passion, for men aro not like iron, to be wrought upon when thoy are hot. It is a most mortifying reflection to any mau to consider what he has done oompared with what he might have dono. Tllrt nhin#?f nf all *ml.!?!/>? .L.-IJ 1 ? V* MM UUJWIV1UU DUUUIU DO LO be happy at hoxe. If we aro not happy ihcrc, we cannot be happy elswhere. It is better to wear out thau to rust out. We must not only striko the iron while it a hot, but strike till is made hot. It is easier to detect error than to discovsr truth; the one lies on the surface and :an bo easily discovered; the other lies bidlen deeply, and few are able to find it It is difficult, I own, to blend and unite ranquility in aecepting, and energy in usng, the facts of life; but it ismot imposlible to be happy. You know that it is a right heart that, n the end, makes a safe head, aid the andents used to say that the punishment of a (nave is that ha loses good judgment. Times of general calamity and confasion lave ever been productive of the greatest ninds. Tho purest oro comes from the hotest furnace; the brightest flash from the lark est cloud. j, / % . .?r/ i. ' * ' V?. * \ ?eegggaafarars ? ^ THE KXHAUSTIO^ O^SOILS BY PLAIT Plants ~?re constantly drawing water from the soil, through their roots, and thawing it off through their leaves, and this water io the 60)tis-e:irrvi?g away from the minerals in tho eoil ash constituents which are constantly beingj developed through tho oxygen of the air, and this process, if left in a state of nature, as in our abandoned pastures aud forests, will add fertility to the soil at each fall of the year. So that plant growth, if not disturbod by man, tends to niako tbo soil richer every year till it becomes a magazine of plant food. But when man comes to the scone and carries off tho plants, the store of fertility dccroasos. Plants may get ahead of naturo?that is, they may take up tho plant food in tho soil faster than it can be developed by natu IU1 IUIUUI. Wo bavo no roil here in tho United States that cannot bo made infertile by constant cropping without returning anything to it. The growing of crops is an curiching process, but harvesting them is a depleting one. Even tho great barren deserts are full of pfcinuiijud, ntrdta vc soluble condition, too. Tho sands of Utah- under the influence of water, have been made to blossom like the rose, and what water will do in Colorado, it will do in a certain sense in Massachusetts and New England. It is said that Massachusetts soils arc no longer suitable for growing wheat. That crop was growu till the yield ran down to five bushels por acre; then rye was grown ou the sauio land with yields of twelve bushels per acre. Why could the ryo produce doublo tho amount of grain, both requiring tho same material in growth ? Simply because the ryo had the greatest power to gather this food. After land becomes incapable of producing full crops of rye, it still may be made to grow a good crop of corn, partly because the dorn bus a longer poriod in which its roots can suck food from the soil, but chiefly becauso of its greater root poWnr. ' Some plants are as unlike others in their ability to livo from a soil, are as mules uuliko short horn steors in their ability to live upon the vegetation that grow? from the soil. The corn plant, with its multitude of roots lias a great power to pump water through the soil, carrying away at the tame time tho dissolved mineral elements set free by the action of tho air and water, or the inorganic portions of the earth.?Neto England Farmer. Poultry Mites.?These small insects, after they secure a lodgment, may well be classed among the pests of the poultry house. They are often termed lice, but they belong to the spider family. They luuitsuav wun astonisnmg rupiclity, aud soon swarm by millions in the nests, on the > [ I r; I poultry house. They will cause sitting hcus to leave their nests; and we have heard of instances where they have worried the poor hens to death on the nests'. Tho best plan to follow is prevention. In these cases, it is worth more than "a pound of cure." Clean out your roostiug places, and keep them clean by removing tho droppings at least once a week, but better remove every day. A ton of hen manure is worth at least one and a half tons of the best commercial guano sold in the State.? Keep all the perches well whitewashed.? Add to the wash sulphur uud carbolic acid. Apply kerosene with a brush or rng once a week to the roosting poles. Iu tho nests of your sitting hens sprinkle sulplur and snuff or tobacco stems. Follow tho above troatment, aud you will never be bothered with mites. Hut you must oommcuce noic aud keep it up. If you wait till the weather gets warm before you commence, these pests may get 1 -r ?J uuuuu ui yuu uuu chuso you more trouble. AfUr they once secure a lodgment in your beuucry, you can only get rid of thein by a sharp, quick war of extermination. You must make thorough work of it, or your labor will be lost. Wash all tho roosting perches with kerosene, and whitewash the walls of tho house. Break up and built all the litter in the nests, and apply scalding water to all the parts infostcd by the rcrmiu. Wash all your fowls with carboU io suds before yon allow them to return to thoir elennsed nests. By this course, with a half day's work you can cleanse them out. ?J. P. H. BROWN, in JSo Cultivator. . Profits of Heavily Manuring Oj ... 0>rT ? K xmr'r? tlu> Nnc York Tribune says, the plder trBfon IT1B turner manured so heavily thirty years ago yielded far heavier wheat this year than tho othor portions of tho field. From tho-yield of one load, tallied and thrashed by itself, he estimates the produce as over twenty bushels per aore. "Our clay," he says, "does not soon forget a heavy manuring." This fact is not unknown to many observing cultivators of the soil. Tho profits derived from a heavy application of manure are not to be calculated merely from the additional produce of one orop. The improvement of the soil from the good cultivation, and mora still, from the heavy manuring in one season, makes itself known in tta increased profits reaped by the farmer in sucoecding years. This is an invariable rule in animal and inanimate nature. A Soak for Sjikd Corn.?A correepon- j uem 01 atrvxcDflBge Das tried Making teed corn in * solution bf obloride of lime, end eye of it: "By aoaksng seed corn for seven hoain in e very strong doooction of chloride of lime, corn een bo foroed ahead to malarity two or three weeks sooner than U will mature otherwise; besides, he thinks, it ronders the seed almost proof against the depredations of gopbers< The lime warms up the germ of the seed, and sends it np quickly, giving it two or three weeks the start of oorn planted in the ordinary way, thereby insuring against the frost at tl e close of the season." - ? v" *_. * \ Muok on Sandy Soils.?In some po:j tions of tbo Southern States, where they are slow in adopting new methods of culture or hints leading to experiments, they aro beginning to find out that muck hauled ] upon sandy soils tends to increase their -J productiveness. This is no now thitfg ?We recommended it, as did correspondent?, flve-and-twenty years ago, and pointed tut I instances that had been attended with marked success. Even pure clay hauled npon light sandy soils, and intermingled, has been followed by excellent results, the laud increasing its crops full fifty per cent. Where clay or muck is as convenient of transportation as uiauure, there is no question out its application ?s here suggested would prove of tho most decided advantage. Even in gardens, where the soil has become exhausted by long-continued cultviatiou, a dressing of clay is fur better than a coat of the best manure.? Gcrmantown Telegraph. New I Desirable1 Fall , and Winter Stock: JUST RECEIVED'BY J.T. HILL & CO.. WE respectfully inform our patrons and the j public generally that our largo and well selected Stock of FALL AND WINTER G00D8 : is in Store, and was purchased at a time when good bargains were to be had, and with the view of pleasing the people of the County, both in j QUALITY AND PRICES. OUR STOCK CONSISTS I IN PART OF 1 DRY OOODS, ? Ladies' Cloaks,' Fancy Articles, 1 Notions, , BOOTS i SHOES.' WE WOULD CALL PARTICULAR AT- ' TENT10N TO < 111 tUflO STOCK MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING, Which we were induced to buy becouse of the extremely low prices such goods were selling at, and we DroDose to our Aiinimnm <t>* k??? fit of our bargains. ?ALSO TO OUR? ^omplete Assortment of * MENS AND BOYS' HATS. WE UA VE A FULL LINE OF GROCERIES, HARI>WARE, TINWARE, CROCKERY. &C. Wo simply ask an examination of our GOODS 1 and l'ltlCES to convince the publio of the fact that they can save more money by purchasing 1 from us. J. T. HILL & CO. Oct 18 42 tf B. F. RAWL8, DEALER IN GROCERIES, HARDWARE, DRUGS, AC. NO. 1, EAST UNION. it 1/1/ nuw, MADDER, cor ERAS, ROSIER, FOR COUGH AND CONSUMPTION Wild Cherry and Tar, , ? IJUU prret-on -I urW, "" " 1 Cod Liver Oil with Wild Cherry and Lime? lutes good. Cod Liver Oil with Lime, FRUITS! FRUITS! ORANGES, RAISINS, CURRANTS, ALMONDS. \ COCO AN UTS, French Candles, a fall Assortment, Don't forget to call at Ne 1, East Union. Deo 18 60 if OILS, LINSEED, KEROSENE, HARNESS, MACHINE, SWEET, CA8T0R, AND TURPENTINE, Sold Ch?*p by B. F. BAWLS. Nov. 16 46s UPAINTS AND VARNISHES. 4 PAINT BRUSHES, ' DRUG8 AND MEDICINES, CIGARS, SNUPP, CHEWING AND SMOKING TOBACCOS . A FINE LOT OF CROCKERY, JUST IN. TINWARE, WOODENWARB, i HARDWARE, JUGS, JARS AC. _ 1 For Ml* very low by B. F. RAW Ml. Old Papers for Halo. h ^INQUIRE ?t thU office. S. W. Porter's * STEW STOCK! ;o:? '^4 LOW PRICES, AST O QUICK SALES. I OR CASH ONLY. THE CHEAPEST DRY GOODS, .NOTIONS, ft P V T ' C U II TO vi AI ai A u JU a i u ) IE AD Y?MADE CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, HARDWARE ?AND? GROCERRIES, Can bo had atS. W. Porter's Cheap Store,?for 3ASH ONLY. Please don't ask for credit,' as it is very un)leasant to refuse it; but 1 sell too cheap to alow a day's credit to my best friends. S. IV. PORTER. j Sept 27 80 tf fl ONION HOTEL Reopened and Furnished Throughout with NEW FURNITURE, THE Subscriber has the pleasure of announcing to the public that he has leased the Union Hotel and fitted it up with new Furniture tnd every other convenience for the comfort of die traveling public. THE TABLE iliall be provided with the best of everything \nd served in the best style, to suit the tastes of ill. Attentive and obliging Servants will be FVinnrl al sail Kahm ?1 A- lL- -",l- 11 - ... ... uv?io iu icoywuu iu iuo cans OX IIIO patrons of tho house. A First C'Iiihh Barr in the basement, where gentlemen can always find the choicest of all kinds of malt and spirituous liquors, served in all styles. Having determined to make the Union Hotel squal to any Hotel in the State, in all respects, L hope to receive the patronage ef the public. H. J. THOMPSON. Spartanburg Herald and Carolina Spartan :o^Mliree mont*ia Fine Brands of Chewing Tobacco: LUCY JUNTO N, GOLDEN PIP PEN, PIG TAIL TWIST, FINE CUT, TIN TAG NAVY, NICKEL, ELBA AND QUID PRO QUO, For Sale by B. F. RAWL3, No. 1, East Union. Dec 20 61 tf Trusses, Trusses. ? A LARGE assortment, for Sale Cheap, by B. F. RAWLS. Dec *20 61 tf Greenville and Colnnibia R. R, CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Passenger Trains run daily, Sundays except* cd, connecting with Night Trains on Seuth Car* olina Railroad up and down. On and after MONDAY, May 20th, the follewing will be the schedule: up. Leave Columbia at .\ 7.46 a tn Leave Alston 0.80 a m Leave Newberry 10.60 a tn Leave Cokesbury 2.17 p tn Leave Helton 4.00 p m Arrive at Greenville 5.86 p in DOWJf. Leave Greenville at 8.05 a m Leave Helton 0.55 a m Leave Cokesbury 11.88 a m Leave Newberry 2.40 p m Leave Alston 4.20 p at Arrive at Columbia 5.66 p m ANDERSON BRANCTT AND BLUE RIDGE DIVISION. ~ DOWJf. TXP. Leave Perrvville...7.00 a m Arrive 6.40 p m Leave Pendleton...7.60 a m Arrive 6.00 p m Leave Anderson...8.60 a m Arrive 6.00 p m Arrive at Belton...9.40 a m Leave 4.00 p m THOMAS DODAMBAD, General Superintendent. Jabrs Nortov, J*., General Ticket Agent. June 9; 1876. 28 tf I IVUVVI JL ?|7CI Mm auuiKciiinnflr (owptnf. IfANUFACTURER8 of Book, Newn and, LVJL wrapping PAPER. John W Nicholson, Agent, Athens, Ga For sample of Nows, soo this shoot. Nor 22 45 tf familyIiboceri^. ~ HAMS AND MIDDLINGS,. MACKEREL, RICE, FLOUR, LARD. m CORN MEAL AtU> MOLASSES. ^ tolsl cheaper than ever, hr B. F. RAWIJS", *< s. -1 ??i ??_?? ww af mwv unioir. Not 16 46 tf Miss Reid's School. ^ rHE exercise* of M1m C. M. Raid's school will bo resumed on Monday Jan. 6th 1879, n the building occupied last year by Msj. 'ownaend, m a .School House, next door to Capt, M. Fair's resideaoe. The course of atudr will embrace all the ranches of a thorough English education. . Instruction in Calisthenies given. Terms, current prices. Jan 8 1 *t