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IfuttMrMtts Department. DEAF AS A POST. A western paper tells a capital story of a deaf gentleman's mistake. R seems that in the procession that followed good Beacon Jones to the grave, last summer, the Reverend Mr. Sampler, the new clergyman of East Town, found himself in the same carriage with an elderly man whom he had never before met They rode in grave silence for a few momenta, when the clergyman endeavored to improve the occasion by serious conversation. "This is a solemn duty in which we are engaged, my friend," he said. * "Hey ! what do you say, sir ?" the old man returned. "Can't you speak louder? I'm hard of hearin'." % ft 1 x. J i.L. "i was reraaramg, snouieu me clergyman, "that this is a solemnroad we are tra veling to-day." "Sandy road! You don't call this 'ere sandy, do ye ? Guess you ain't been down to the sputh dees trie. Ther's a stretch of road on the old pike that beats all I ever see for " hard travelin'. Only a week before Deacon Jones was tuck sick, I met him drivin' his oxteam along there, and the sand was pretty nigh up to the hubs of the wheels. The deacon used to get dredful rifled 'bout that piece of road, and East Town does go ahead of all creation for sand." The young clergyman looked blank at the unexpected turn given to this remark; but quickly recovering himself, and raising his voice to its highest pitch, he resumed the conversation. "Our friend has done with all the discomforts of earth," he said, solemnly. "A small spot of ground will soon cover his poor senseless clay." "Did you say clay, sir ?" cried the old man, eagerly. "Tain't nigh so good to cover sand with as meeder loam. Sez I to. Mr. Brewer, last town-meetin' day, "If you'd cart on a few dozen loads, and there's acres of it on the river bank," sez I, "you'd make as pretty a piece of road as there is in Hartford county." But we are slow folks in East Town, sir." It was, perhaps, fortunate for the clergyman at that moment that tl.s smell of newmade hay from a neighboring field suggested a fresh train of thought. 1- " --'J nnftil wand a! -L/OUK, saiu IIC, YYllU a gltMsVuut W? the hand, "what an emblem of the brevity of human life! "As the grass of the field so man fiourisheth, and to-morrow he is cut down." "I don't calculate to cut mine till next week." said his companion. You mustn't cut grass too early; and then again, you rausn't cut it too late." "My friend, shrieked the clergyman, in a last desperate attempt to make himself understood, "this is no place for vain conversation. We are approaching the narrow house appointed for all the living." They were entering the graveyard, but the old roan stretched his neck from the carriage window in the opposite direction. "Do you mean Squire Hubbard's over yonder? 'Tis rather narrer. They build all them new-faDgled houses that way, now-a-days. To my mind, they ain't nigh so handsome nor so handy as the old-fashioned square ones with a broad entry runnin' clear through to the back door. Well, this is the getting outplace, ain't it? Much obleeged to ye, parson, for your entertaining remarks." BLOW THAT HORN. Some years ago a gentleman was traveling through Mississippi, on a collecting tour for a commercial house, and as the facilities for transportation were not so good then as now, he purchased a horse, and-, like King Richard is said to have done, "went it on horseback." Just as the shades of evening were closing upon what had been to him a long and tiresome day, he emerged from the woods and found himself on the banks of a river. On the other side he saw what looked like -an inn, and reclining laxily in the end of his ? '"tfaTlo ! I want to get over," the traveler shouted. "Then blof the horn," carelessly replied he of the fen?'boat. - *- ? r_: i i.?j NoW, city uieu, uui mcuu nau never seeiyi horn, much less blowed one?in fact, he never known to even "take a horn." / , w?t to get over, he shouted again.. "Thf blow the horn," roared the ferryH'xi/raveler cast his eyes about him, and jigged the horn hanging to the limb of a ne$oring tree, but feeling his utter inability! blow it, said: lou can hear nie well enough ; come set jbver. /Blow the horn, I tell you," was the reply /the obstinate countryman. /"I can't blow the horn," shouted the colAictor. / "Then stay where you are," said the dis/ gusted proprietor of the flat, "if you're such a / derned fool that you can't blow a horn, it / can't make much difference which side of the / river you'ar on." / What's in a Name??In an eastern town there is a woman who is exceedingly deaf, and her affliction has caused an extremely unpleasant mistake, of which her infant child is the victim. She took the babe to church the other day to have him baptized. While she waited in the vestibule, she thought she would keep him quiet by feeding him from a bottle of milk. While the child was still taking his nourishment, the mother was summoned to the church by the announcement that the minister was ready. In her agitation she drew the bottle from the child's mouth hurriedly, when the gum nozzle came off and a part of the milk was spilled on the child's new clothes. When the clergyman took the child in his arms he looked down upon it and asked the mother what name i? DU- 1 snouiu ue given iu one, mm net uiiuu troubled with the accident, thought he was asking how the clothes became soiled, so she answered: "Nozzle came off." Rather surprised, he asked again for the name, and she, thiuking he did not understand her, bawled out: ^^^ 'Nozzle came off I say." feflMjyhereupon the astonished divine poured child's head saying: ^^H|^H|^Mne-off Ferguson, I baptize thee," wants to know is, whether the legislature, or something, can't have that child s name changed to Henry, or Lucullus, or "William, or some other euphonious appellation. A jgy "Maria," said a lady to a colored ser^toant, "that's the sixth silk dress you have worn since you came to me; pray, how many do^you own ?" Only seven, missis; but I'a saving my wages to buy anoder!" Seven ! whaifc use are silk dresses to you ? why, I don't ownV) many as that" "'Spect not, missis," said Ihe smiling darkey, "you doesn't need 'em so much as I does. You see, you quality folks everybody knows is quality; but we better-most kind of cnllud pussons has to dress smart to distinguish ourselves from common niggers!" An invalid once complained to a neigh bor of a shanghai which the latter kept. Tht bird was a terrible nuisance, and gave mix no peace day or night. "But," said the skep tical owner, "my cock only crows four or five times a day. I don't see how that can annoj you so much." "Because," replied the suf ferer, "you don't take into account all the times when I am expecting him to croio!" tciT "I don't miss my church so much as you suppose,' said a lady to her minister who had -v called upon her during her illness, for I make Betsey sit at the window as soon as the bell begins to chime and tell me who are going tc church, and whether they have got anything new.' fUiding far the j^ahkth. j : , CONDUCTED -BY / ' s i REV. ROBERT LATHAN. j - fOfiginnl.} THE BURNING OF CHICAGO. Instinctively the mind couples great calam-! j i ities and great sins together. The prince of f i | Roman poets hays that punishment, though I lame of foot, seldom fails to overtake the ; transgressor. That sin is followed by punishI raent, is true. It is the doctrine of the Bible. ; It is demonstrated in the providence of God. ( The wages of sin is death. Sin works death. These are correct principles ; but we ought to < * " loot too moVo a nrmnH mistake IUC VCl J W?1CIU1 iWV If V 1UMUV M in applying them. Why God permitted a i large and flourishing city to be destroyed, we : cannot tell. It would perhaps be better for , us not to attempt to tell. Prosperity and ( adversity are both liable to be wrongly inter- ] preted by us. Julius Caesar, with his usual 1 good sense, gives utterance to a sentiment of 1 much practicftl worth. "I have observed," ' says the author referred to, "that the gods , ; grant long continued prosperity to those men ( : whom they determine to visit with direful i : calamities." We do not mean that it is not i ' our duty to study the providences of God. It \ I is as much our duty to meditate upon the I wonderful things in the works of God, as it is 1 to meditate upon the word of God. What : we mean is simply that we should be careful in tracing such calamities as the burning of i ; Chicago back to a specific cause, lest we make 1 I a mistake. We may safely say that it was j for the sins of the people. This is always ! true; but God does not always see fit to inform us for what particular sin he visits us with affliction. No one knows what particular crime of Jacob exposed him to so many i severe afflictions. What had David done that subjected him to the indignation of Saul and the suffering resulting from it ? ^ Pki/lftArA TT7A m Q IT Too rn X* X'Ulil Uie UUIUIUg U1 VUlVOgu, n? IUUJ 1VU1U many practical lessons. In tho midst of our , greatest prosperity, we are on the very verge ' of ruin. We are ever, whilst in this world, liable to great and sudden transitions. We may go to bed surrounded by all the comforts of life, and wake up in the morning dispirited beggars. The man who puts his confidence in what he has, or what he is, will one ' day discover to his utter dismay, that he is i nothing but dust, and that he has nothing that does not perish with the using. They that trust in princes are often disappointed, and when they most need help are cast off in | disgrace. So thought Cardinal Woolsey. It j | is vain to trust in riches. A spark may kin- j I die a flame that will convert millions into 1 smoke and ashes. It is vain to trust in power ! or position. The blood of Julius Csesar flowed : around the pedestal of the statue of Pompey. Xerxes, who crossed the Hellespont, with an army of more than one million of men, re- , crossed it in flight in the bark of a poor fish- i erman. The only thing that we can safely 1 trust, is the love of God in Christ Jesus. I j God in Christ Jesus is a sure portion. Nothioon toko if fmm ns_ "Neither death nor ...& ? ? , life, nor all the principalities and powers of angels, nor things present, nor things to come, nor things above, nor things below, nor any power in the whole creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord." ~ * [Original.] GOD'S WAYS. Some one has said that God acts according to a plan at sometimes ; at others, without any plan ; and at other times again, contrary to all M V.WV..MKV MHMI OMV vuw V* this sentiment. A little reflection will show any one that it is a jumbling of truth and error. God is a God of infinite wisdom, and I never acts without some design. Nothing takes places, it matters not how insignificant, or how great, but is contemplated either as an end or as a means to some end, by the Almighty. That God ever acts contrary to his own plans, is inconsistent with the perfections of his nature. If it is meant that God often acts contrary to all the plans of man, this is true. Nothing is more easily proven. It is not only foolish, but also wicked, to say that God acts contrary to his own plans. There are many things about the ways in which God executes his plans, which are in- ] teresting to us all. There is something inter- 1 esting about the mystery which is connected j with them all. Sometimes the most feeble | i instrumentalities are chosen to accomplish the j I greatest ends, and often the very reverse is < 1 true Naaraan was healed of what was re- [ I garded an incurable disease by simply wash- 1 ing seven times in the river Jordan. The Sy- i rian army was once put to flight by imagining . that they heard chariots and horsemen com- { ing upon them. Rome, it is said, was once < saved by the cackling of geese. A little boy < took a lamp into a stable in order that he 1 might.see while he milked a cow. The cow ! kicked the lamp over and a great commercial city was laid in ruins by a fire thus kindled. ^ The means in these cases were small; but the ^ results great. If a body of men had met to ? consult how any of the results specified in the * cases mentioned could be effected, means very 1 different would have been chosen. | Another interesting feature in the ways of i God is, that we are nearly always mistaken t as to what will be the results. Things never j turn out in every particular as we expect. ' David thought he would one day fall by the 1 hand of Saul, and Saul, no doubt, thought he ^ would some time or other capture David and ( : put him to death. David was deceived and i l Saul was disappointed. Darkness surrounds i i all the ways of God. "Things are not what 1 j they seem," is most true. Gloom is often the j j precursor of light, and light frequently goes j ' before darkness. "What we regard as the ( harbinger of evil, is often but a herald of joy, i ( and what we think the forerunner of bliss, is ] many times but the beginning of woe. What ? j we call little things often terminate in the i | greatest events; and what we call great things I sometimes do not amount to much in the end. } ' All this is not strange. Blind men cannot | j see ; neither can deaf men hear. Like al-1 < ways produces like. The same cause will al- j i ; ways produce the same result. The great.' i misfortune in our case, is that we are both ! - blind and deaf, and it is no wonder we are so j, | often deceived and disappointed. The only 11 ': key that unlocks the ways of God, is the word |' | j of God. Take the Bible from us and all is j! j conjecture. The infidel says, and thinks too, that the ways of God are hard. The child of j; ! God looks at every thing through the light of! ! i divine revelation, and says it was good for j, [ j me that I was afflicted. The infidel exclaims \ ,j in anguish of heart, on account of bereave- i r ment, "hard fatethe child of God says, 1 .! "the Lord gave and Lord hath taken away, i 5! blessed be the name of the Lord." ! ?* :: j JSf Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou j 11 knowest not what a day may bring forth, j, [ j Let another man praise thee, and not thine ; j j own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own j i j lips. A stone is heavy, and the sand weigh-! > > j ty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them I ; I both. 3^rath is cruel, and anger is outra i geous; but who is able to stand before envy? jlUisccUancous Articles. VA PERILOUS TRADE. Those who have never visited the regions where wild horses are caught or reared, have but little idea how the untamed steed of the , prairies is rendered tractable and useful. At the preseut day in Texas the hordes of mus- i tangs that formerly ranged over its vast prai- j ries have become almost extinct in the settled j portions, and confine themselves to the ex-! treme western countries. In their place are ; horsey mostly crossed with American stock, which are in a state of semi-wildness?that is, they roam at will until certain seasons of the pear, when all such as can be caught are drivsn in herds to huge pens constructed for the purpose, to be branded and marked, after which most of them are let loose to roam at! will again. When the owner of a portion of a herd de- j sires to break any of his young horses be pro- ' ceeds in this wise: the first movement is to ! lasso the horse selected, by the head and fore feet, and throw him to the earth ; then a kind of hair halter, called a "bosal," is put on his head, both to serve as a bridle and to stake the animal by, it being much more effectual than a halter or "bridle in checking his frantic sftbrts to liberate himself. He is either tied up closely all night or staked, at the will of the owner. The next morning the sport be- 1 gins. All horse and stock raisers have one or more vaqueros, whom they employ for the special purpose of breaking and riding wild and refractory horses. These go out, followed by the members of the family, and proceed to overhaul their saddles and see that there is dq defect in the "rigging." When they are satisfied that all is secure, they lead or rather drag, forward the. steed. He is alternately led, dragged, and whipped forward until he reaches the point where he is to be saddled. A leather strap attached to the bosal is then i pulled over his eyes, and a saddle blanket is I dropped gently on his back, but very seldom remains at the first trial, as he will almost invariably shake it off. After one or more trials, however, he submits to both blanket and saddle. The latter article is strapped on tightly with two girths, fore and flank; strapped, indeed so tightly that a person who is unaccustomed to the sight would think that it was intended to cut the animal in two; .1 i jxi ? tne naer now aujusuj me aiane-rupciuiuiciiig by tying it securely to the bosal, leaving a long end by which to hold on, in the event the horse should succeed in throwing him. Everything is now ready for the mount. The rider adorns his heels with a huge pair of spurs, stands directly facing the horse, or little forward of the shoulder, seizes the under part of the bosal with his left hand, pulls the horse's head around near him to prevent being kicked, takes the stirrup in his right hand and turning it toward him places his left foot in it firmly. Grasping the pommel, he now gives the saddle a shake or two, makes one or two feints at mounting to see how his horseship will take it, and then suddenly springs, seating himself securely in the saddle. The blinds, of course, are still over the eyes [>f the horse, and as a general thing he stands with his neck stretched out, head partially down, a perfect picture of awkwardness. The rider is at his ease, and adjusts himself and everything about him with the greatest care, as heknows there is warm work before him. When ready for the start he reaches gently forward and slips up the blinds. Naturally the horse is rather astonished at first, and refuses to move. A sharp application of the whip and spur however, readily induces him to change nis mind. He takes one or two awkward steps, then suddenly doubling himself up until ne resembles a camel, and throwing his head down before his fore feet, he begins a series of pitches, which consist in jumping as high and as far as he can, coming down 3tiflf-legged. Those who have accomplished the extraor- I dinary feat of going down a flight of stairs at one step can form somok faint idea how it feels t Some otthe more vicious will lie down when the saddle is buckled on, and it requires a tremendous amount of whipping to get them started; some will rear and fall backward, occasionally killing their riders; some will pitch straight ahead for quite a distance, while others will pitch straight forward for a few jumps, and then, as the Texans say, "swap ends so quick that it makes your head swim." Fortunately they soon tire of such violent exercise, being wholly unaccustomed to a sadlie or weight on their backs, and break down completely in a few hours. The saddles are ;hen taken off, and they are reserved for another trial next morning. THE TEACHING^ OF ANIMALS. Long years before the American Rarey's earne was heard as a horse tamer, a secret ex- ! sted as a family heirloom, among a set of the 3'Sullivans, in the south of Ireland. This ' 'amily was known as "The "Whisperers," and 1 ;hey possessed the power of renderiug as quiet ] is a lamb the most stubborn and unmanage- J ible horse that ever existed. Whether th^y lid anything more to the horse than to breathe 1 uto his nostrils, we know not; but by doing 1 ;his and by kind soothing, and other ways 1 cnown to themselves, they ef%cted their pur- J Dose and retained their fame. Putting the ' juestion of drugs or stimulants, or other fas- ' einating means aside, and coming to a point ' >f pure and unadulterated domestication and J caching, perhaps there was no one person in ' nodern times who achieved so much success j n animal teaching as S. Bisset. ' This man was an humble shoemaker. He vas born in Scotland, in 1721, but he after- 5 vards removed to London, where he married 1 i woman who brought him some property; 1 hen turning a broker, he accumulated money intil the year 1759, when his attention was ; urned to the training and teaching of ani- , uais, birds ana nsnes. ne was lea 10 mis j lew study on reading an account of a remark- j ible horse show at a fair at St. Germains. j Bisset bought a horse and dog, and succeeded , jeyond his expectations in teaching them to ( perform various feats. He next purchased ( wo monkeys, which he taught to dance and ] ;umble on a rope, and one would hold a can- , lie in one paw, and turn a barrel organ with , ;he other, while his .orrpanion danced. He ( iext taught thrC1 nat* ;jd do wonderful things, , to sit before music books, and to squall notes , pitched in different keys. He advertised a ( 'Cat's Opera" in the Haymarket, and success- j fully carried out his programme, the cats ac- ( ;urately fulfilling all their parts. He pocket- , id some thousands by these performances. He next taught a leveret and then several ipecies of birds to spell the name of any per- i son in company, and to distinguish the hour of 1 ;he day or night. Six turkey cocks were next (I rendered amenable to a country dance, and '< ifter six months' teaching, he trained a turtle j to fetch and carry like a dog, and having ; chalked the floor and blackened its claws, he made it trace out the name of any given person in the company.?Land and Water. i Sure Cures for Warts.?Take a half pint of beans, boil them up and wash your j hands in the water, using the same water un- j til it sours. Throw it away then, boiling up j more, and by perseverance your hands will; be as well as ever in a few weeks. When you ! have washed them let them get entirely dry;' when you have done this they will be perfectly smooth and without a scar. Another remedy is, take lunar caustic, wet it and rub on j the warts. It will make them look black, I but will remove them in a short time, and j does not make them sore. The proverb has it that "It is never too j late to mend." The opposite is equally true? ; is is never too early; the earlier the better., Take less thread, and not so many needles or so much patience. I It was a delicate way of hinting to his j company that it was getting late when the old gentleman said to his wife : "Hannah, j i hadn't we better go to bed ? These folks J: want to go home." I jtgiifliltml iiaftment. How to get Plenty of Fresh Eggs.? J In a long communication to the Germantown Telegraph, upon the subject of poultry,' Mr. E. Dwight, of Hudson, Michigan, consid- j ers the question, "How to get plenty of goodflavored fresh eggs with little trouble," and ; thinks if there is any secret in it he has dis-1 covered it, and makes the same public for the 1 benefit of all interested. He says: "Once, thirty years ago, I was troubled just; as my neighbor now is. I fed my hens plenty i of corn and got but few eggs. I reasoned upon j the matter, and happened to think that the j constituent parts of milk and the white of eggs j were much alike. Now, it has long been known to milkmen that wheat middlings and bran are about the best of any feed to maitfc a cow five milk : whv not then the best to make ? -- 0 ' V t # hens lay eggs ? I tried it, and since then have had no trouble. My mode of preparing the feed is to mix about five parts.of bran with one of middlings. In the morning I wet up with water about four quarts of the mixture in a large tin pan, taking pains to have it rather dry, though all damp. This I set in a warm, sunny spot south of their shed, and they walk up, take a few dips, don't seem to fancy it like corn, and start off on a short hunt for somethink better, but always coming around in a short time for a few more from the dish 'off bran. Theie is little time during the whole day but what one or more are standing by the pan, and likewise helping themselves. "I am careful to mix for them just as much as they will consume during the day. Al night, just before they repare to the roost, I usually throw them about a pint of shelled corn, well scattered, so that^ach QDe cqa<'fl^, a few kernels. If your hens don't meJjraTo eat this feed at first, sprinkle a little Indiftn meal on top. I would like all who complain of getting no eggs to try my plan, and I think they will never he sorry." ? Whitewashing Apple Trees. ? This very old mode, among tidy farmers, to make their apple orchards look nice, but which for many years has been next to abandoned, is coming into vogue again, and discussions are being indulged in as to the propriety of it What we know about the matter ourselves is that we do not think that it makes muoh difference so far as the health or productiveness of the trees are concerned, whether they are whitewashed or not. In other words we don't think that "it pays." It certainly has a tendency to close the pores of the trunks, as well as that it has an unnatural appearance. So far as it is claimed that the whitewash cause* the old bark to scale off, and hiding-places of iusects to be disturbed, and this is about all that is claimed for it, how much better for every farmer having an orchard, to scrape the trees once a year, or only every other year, and follow it with a washing of whale-oil soap or carbolic soap and water, applied with a stout broom? This would be sure to dislodge the insects, open the pores, of the trees, and give them a natural, healthy appearance. This would do the work effectually, and leave no room for doubt or discussion. Whatever aid the whitewashing trees may be to their health and productiveness, the best orchards we ever saw, which bore full crops for a generation, were not whitewashed, but scraped and washed with "soft" soap and water.? Ger. Telegraph. Watering Horses.?On the subject of watering teams, Mr. Joseph Harris, an agricultural writer, advocates frequent watering of work horses, as a renewer of the vigor of the animals. We disagree "with him. We think both man and beast are geuerally watered too much. Man and horses at hard work in warm weather perspire just in proportion to the quantity of fluids taken into the stomach. Frequent drinking in hot weather, according to our experience, emasculates instead of refreshes. Some years ago, being, at Cape Is-, land, in driving out in one of the stand-coaches of the place, on a very hot day, we asked the { driver how it was that his horse*perspired so j going at a slower speed, were covered witff* foam. He replied that he watered his horses i three times a day only, though he sponged their mouths frequently; while the private drivers watered their horses whenever they stopped. He said, and it seemed to us as very sensible, that the frequent watering of horses effected no goOd purpose, while it made them- very uncomfortable and lethargic. Horses, no matter what their work was, did not need watering oftener than three times a day. Our own experience, with horses all our life, is to the same effect. Drenching Horses.?Whenever it becomes necessary to administer liquid medicine to a horse, extreme care should be taken that it does not pass into the lungs. A horn should be used, and the animal's head should be well elevated, and the mixture be poured down steadily, but not too fast. Horses, after the administering of a drench, are often troubled with a cough and very offensive breath, occasioned by the passage to the lungs of some of the medicine. The animal may recover from such ill treatment, but often dies after the lapse of weeks or months, or perhaps may suffer for years from a chronic n/tuswl* nnd nn/iooinno 1 inflammofion nf fKn 1 L/UU^ll) M11U UWUOIUUUI luiuiujuiwvtvu v? vww lungs. The fact is, that the administering of liquid medicine to a horse is a very dangerous operation. Great care should therefore be exercised in feeding, watering and working horses, so as to keep thera in good condition, needing no medicine. Especial care should be taken to avoid exposing them to cold winds or rains when in a state of violent perspiration. When medicine becomes necessary, a ball is much the safest plan of administering it.?Hearth and Home. How to cure Chicken Cholera.?The Edgefield Advertiser says: "The chicken cholera has recently played sad havoc with the poultry in the Pine House region?worse than a two weeks Methodist camp meeting? but ere the breed was entirely exterminated i remedy has been found. Mr. Mark Etheredge tells us that after trying blue mass pills, juinine pills, spirits turpentine, assafcetida, lime water, hickory ashes, epsora salts, arsenic, parched pepper pods, paregoric, charcoal lust, and a hundred other recommended cures, without effect, he finally adopted the plr.n of confining all sick fowls in ta&igjijjk j pen; and that he has put up chickens in alt stages of the disease, and in every instance* the penning plan has resulted in a permanent sure. Therefore, if your fowls are troubled with cholera, remember Mr. E's. plan and try it. + BTo aid farmers in arriving at accuracy in estimating the amount of land in different fields under cultivation, the following table is given: Five yards vide by 968 yards long contain 1 acre; 10 yards wide by 484 yards long contain 1 acre; 20 yards wide by 242 yards long contain 1 acre; 40 yards wide by 121 yards long contain 1 acre; 80yards wide by 601 yards long contain one acre; 70 yards wide by 691 yards long contain 1 acre; 220 feet wide by 198 feet long contain 1 acre; 440 feet wide by 92 feet long contain 1 acre; 440 feet wide by 369 feet long contain 1 acre; 110 9CQ oAnfom 1 onro AH 1CCI W1UC UJ UVJU icci lUug vuuiaiu x uuv> ww 1 feet wide by 726 feet long contain 1 acre; 120 ] feet wide by 363 feet long contain 1 acre; 240 feet wide by 181$ feet long contain 1 acre. To Stop Bleeding.?It is said that bleeding from a wound on a man or beast, may be i stopped by a mixture of wheat flour and common salt, in equal parts bound on with a cloth. If the bleeding be profuse, use a large quantity, say from one to three pints. It may be left on for hours, or even days, if necessary. The person who gave us this recipe says that in this manner, he saved the life of a horse which was bleeding from a wounded artery ; the bleeding ceased in five minutes after the application. Fleas on Hogs.?Rubbing coal oil on hogs will cure them of fleas, their sleeping places should also be cleansed and whitewashed, the floors Bprinkled with chloride of lime, or,1 washed with cresylic soap. Mdreti'g Department. HOW JACK LOST HIS POSITION. "Well, my little man, you are here on time, I see," said Mr. Jones, to Jack Knowles, as he stepped into his store one morning; "that is a good beginning, and I hope you will always be prompt in meeting every engagement, and energetic in attending to your duties." "I will try to be both, sir," Jack answered ; and just at that moment he thought nothing could tempt him to neglect any part of his work. "Come this way and I will tell you what you will have to do." Mr. Joues then led him into his countingroom and kindly placed his hand on his head while he said : "Now Jack, you know the bargain between your mother and myself is, that yon come into my family as my own child. Do whatever I ask you to do quickly, and cheerfully, and try to make yourself useful all the time. You will be expected to run errands, such as carrying small packages home for customers, going to the post-office, delivering messages, and assisting the clerks in whatever way you can. In return I expect to clothe and feed you, send you to school during the winter months, and, if you prove yourself worthy, will advance you in your position in the store. Really I do not need a boy, but I do this for your mother's sake. Do you agree to the terms ?" "Yes, sir, and I am very grateful to you? indeed I am?and you shall see by my work how much I love ray mother and you." Jack spoke these words earnestly. He pieant all he said... ,. "I believe you, my boy, and will do all I to ^elpyou keep your good resolutions." ? /"Thank you, sir." ?r "Your place will be in the salesroom ; remember to help all you can." . "I will, sir. You may depend on me." Mr. Jones turned to his desk, and Jack hastened to do something, to show Mr. Jones how desirous he was to please him and how nicely he would do his work. In an hour or two the room began to fill With customers, and soon all the clerks were busy as they could be. Jack was nearly everywhere, with his pleasant, "Let me help you, please," and when night came all were ready to praise the "errand boy" for goodnature and willing assistance. That night Jack slept sweetly. He had done his whole duty. His employer approved his conduct; but what was better than all, his own conscience whispered, "Peace; you've done right." The sun was just peeping over the hills when Jack rose next morning, and as soon as the store was opened he was in his place. All day, as the day before, Jack was busy. When the store was closed he felt happy, but his limbs were tired ; the work he had to perform was more than he was accustomed to do, but he did not complain. Thus matters went on. Jack gradually rose in the confidence of all who knew him, and if a message was to be sent in haste, a package delivered promptly, or a check cashed at the bank, Jack was the boy to do it. His word was considered truth itself. One day one of the clerks wished to send a package to the express. Calling Jack, he said: "Take this to the office, quick; run, please. I want it to go out to-day, and I am afraid you will be too late." Away Jack bounded, but had not gone far before he heard some one shout: "Hallo Jack Knowles! wait for a fellow. I am going that way." "I can't Bill; I must hurry with this package." "Wait till I catch up. I am going that way." Bill hastened, and came up with Jack, who never stopped until Bill Smith seized him by the shoulder, saying, "Walk a bit. Don't kill youreelf. Whose is that you got? Where are you going? What's the k Surry?" .. - "It is Mr. Johnson's; I am going 4o the -impress office. I am afraid I will be too late; if you go with me, you must run." So sayjL..,! ^vd tw? ,"w. having his companion behind muttering to Himself: "Such a boy 1 He'd kill himself, if old Jones or any of them clerks told him to. You wouldn't catch me work in that way for anybody." He turned to find some one, who had more leisure than Jack. "Here, sir, please, send this package to-day, sir, please," said Jack to the clerk in the express office, stopping two or three times to get his breath. "All right; you are just in time, my little man ; two minutes more and the office would be closed." "Oh, I am so glad I didn't wait for Bill Smith!" he said half aloud. Then, after stopping a moment to rest, he hastened back with a light step, feeling that he had done right, ard that this pleasaut feeling more than paid him for his trouble. "Justin time, Mr. Johnson ; two minutes more would have been too late." "Thank you, thank, you, Jack; I will not forget this favor." "No thanks are due me; I have only done my duty." A few days afterwards, Mr. Jones called Jack into his counting-room and handed him a package, saying, "This was left for you." Jack opened it and found a beautiful Bible with his name in gilt letters on the side, while on a fly leaf he read : "To the boy who is always on time?J." Tears of joy came into his eyes as he stammered, "I don't deserve it" "I am sure I know nothing about that, said Mr. Jones; "I suppose some one thought you did, or they would not have given it to you," he added kindly. "It must be Mr. Johnson, and he hurried off to find that gentleman, but he was busy and continued so all day. Jack thought he was unusually industrious, for he could never see him at leisure, and could not tell him how much he prized the little gift. Mr. Johnson, however, read it in his eyes, and that was all the thanks he wanted. "Here,_Jack, take this check and get it cashed. The amount is one hundred dollars and seventy-five cents. Count the money before you leave the bank." The banker knew Jack; besides Mr. Jones had told him to let Jack have money whenever he him, so ha had no difficulty in getting mortey on the 'After it was paid to him he stopped thidcomriienced to count it slowly. - "Don't you think I have given you the right amount," said the casher, vexed to see the little fellow slowly turning the bills and counting, "Ten, twenty, twenty-five, fortyfive." "Are you satisfied now ?" said the cashier, with a contemptuous curl of his lip. "No, sir; this is not right." "Boy! what do you mean. Not right ?" "Yes, sir; not right I want only one hundred dollars and seventy-five cents. You have given me one hundred and seventy-five dollars." "Impossible!" "Look and see." He looked and saw that Jack was correct. He then paid him the right amount, saying, in an undertone, "Whew! beat by a boy." Jack thought he had done nothing worthy of comment, and therefore never mentioned the occurrence to his employer. One evening just before closing, Mr. Jones summoned all the clerks into the countingroom and then called Jack. When he had taken his seat among them, Mr. Jones arose and slowly said: "Jack Knowles, it is my duty to tell you that you are no longer an errand-boy in my store." He then sat down. For a moment Jack was speechless. The eyes of all the clerks were upon him. Suddenly recovering himself, speaking through tears and choking emotion, he said, "Oh, Mr. Jones! what have I done? What have I done?" "These gentlemen will tell you," he coolly answered. "Mr. Johnson may speak first." Mr. Johnson arose and said: "He runs all the way to the express office when there is a possibility of being too late." Mr. Henderson said: "He is always on hand when a package is to be delivered." Mr. Holmes, the book-keeper; "He helps me post my books at night." Mr. Henley: "I heard him tell the I cashier of the Union Bank that he had paid I him too much money once last summer." Mr. j Howe: "He is always neat and tidy, and can | tie up a package as quick and as nicely as I j can." i "Now, boy," said Mr. Jones, scarcely able j to keep a straight face, as he saw Jack's look | of mingled surprise, joy and fear, "you see j what you have done, and I say again, we do not want you as an errand:boy, but make you a clerk in a department of the store." Then the gentlemen present grasped him j J by the hand and congratulated him, saying, j "You have lost one place, but secured a bet* \ j ter one." Not many days hence there will be seen the : sign, "Jones & Knowles," in Shepardsville. So much for an obliging disposition, attention to interest of employer, strict honesty, energy and punctuality.?Reformed Church ? Messenger. ? THE LENT HALF DOLLAR. When Charles Gleason was about ten years old, a bright half-dollar was given him by his grand-father, to buy anything he pleased for 1 a New Year's present. The boy's mother that morning had taught him the verse : "He that hath pity on the poor lendeth to, the j Lord, and tnat which he hath will He repay ; j him again." The words were running in the boy's mind, on his way to the store to pur- j chase a toy that he had seen in the window of the shop the previous day. Just before Charlies reached the store, he 1 met a poor woman, who had sometimes done washing for bis mother, and she seemed to he in great distress. "What is the.ma^r, Hannah?" said this kind-hearted child. "Oh, Master Charlie, I've got to be turned into the street this cold morning, and my little Bill is so sick, too!" "Turned into the street?you and Bill? inKot fnr?" "Because I can't raise my weekly rent. I have just been to see my landlord, and he says its three days over due, and he'll not wait another day. There go the men to put out my bed and stove, and a few other things, on the sidewalk. Oh, what shall I do ?" < "How much is your rent, Hannah?" asked the boy, with a choking voice. "It's half a dollar," said the woman. "It will kill Bill to put him out in this cold, and sure I will die with him." "No, you won't?no, you shant 1" said the tender-hearted child ; and feeling in his pocket brought forth his treasured half-dollar and placed it quickly in her hands. Seeing she hesitated to keep it, notwithstanding her great need, Charlie told her it was all his own, to spend as he pleased, and that he would rather give it to her than have the nicest toy in the store. Then walking away swiftly from the shop windows, which were all full of tempting New Year's presents, he went bravely home to his mother, sure of her approbation. The first person he met was his grand-father. He had observed Charlie go down the street, and waited for his return, that he might see what he had bought. So his first salutation was: "Well, Charlie, what haye you done with your money ?" Now Charlie's grandfather was not a religious man ; and the boy knew, that though he ' sometimes gave money to his relations, he seldom or never bestowed it upon the poor, so he would rather not tell him what he had done with his money ; but while he hesitated, the verse he had that morning learned, came into his mind and helped him to answer. Looking pleasantly into his grandfather's face he said: "I've lent it, sir." "Lent your half-dollar, foolish boy! You will never get it again, I know." "Oh, yes, T shall, grandpa, for I've got a promise to pfty." - " "You mean a note, I suppose, but it isn't worth a cent." * . ^v"-Oh gywdjft- it ia good, J, i am sure aboa?i?T?itffw 1Kb JSmtir | "You mean you have put it there for safe keeping, eh ? Let rae see it" Charlie brought him the book and showed him the verse: "He that hath pity on the poor, lendeth to the Lord, and that he hath given will He pay him again." "So you gave your money to some poor scamp? Well, you'll never see it again. Who has got it, pray?" "I gave it to Hannah Green, sir." Charlie told him the sad story. , "0 fudge!" said his grand-father, "you i can't pay poor folks' rent. It's all nonsense. And now you've lost your New Year's present?or if I don't make it up to you. Here," he added, as he threw him another half-dollar, "seeing your money is gone where you will never see it again, I must give you some more, I suppose." "On, thank you 1" said Charlie, heartily. "I knew the Lord would pay me again, grandpa, because the Bible says so, but I didn't expect to get it so quick." "That boy's too much for rae," said the old gentleman as he walked quickly away. ?lte #tnpum. TERMS?IN ADVANCE : One Copy, one year, $ 3 00 One Copy, Six months, 1 50 ] OneCopy, Three months, 100 Single Copy, 10 Two Copies, one year, 5 00 Ten Copies, " " 25 00 1 ^^To persons who make up clubs often or j more names, an extra copy of tne paper will be furnished one year, free of charge. 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