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fekrted Itoriw. WILLOW WHISTLES. BY OLIVE n. WADSWORTH. The world is wide awake to-day, Tlie laziest drones are bustling, The brook slips by, the wind is gay, And every leaf is rustling; This shady bank, 'neath l>each and oak, With lance-like grasses bristles, And you and I, two idle folk, Sit making willow whistles. Oh ! heavenly sunshine of the May, Succeeding Winter hoary, What shade can shut its light away, What gloom resist its glory ? Down through our leaty canopy, Dart myriad golden missiles, And gild the brooks, the banks, the trees, And even the willow whistles. Such wealth of leaf! such worlds of green ! Such balm, no words can utter! And all the birds that ever were seen, Have gathered hereto flutter; They pertly pereh, with heads away Upon the swaying thistles, And evidentlv wonder whv Tall Talk.?A certain political speaker closed an address, in behalf of his party with the following peroration: "Build a worm fence around the winter's supply of summer weather; skim the clouds from the sky with a teaspoon; catch a thunderbolt in a bladder; break a hurricauo to harness; ground-sluice an earthquake; lasso an avalanche; pin a diaper on the crater of an active volcano; hive all the stars in a nail keg; hang the ocean on a grape-vine to dry ; put the sky to soak in a gourd ; unbuckle the belly-band of eternity, and paste 'To Let' on the sun and moon, but never, sir?never for a moment delude yourself with the idea that any ticket or j party can beat our candidates." + ? + fla?* An Irishman being recently on trial for some offense, pleaded "Not guilty," and the jury being in the box, the State Solicitor proceeded to call Mr. Furkisson as a witness. With the utmost innocence Patrick turned his face to the Court and said: "Do I understand, your Honor, that Mr. Furkisson is to be a witness foreninst me again ?" The Judge ; said dryly : "It seems so." "Well then, your Honor," exclaimed Pat, "I plade guilty, an' ; your Honor plase ; not because I am guilty,! for I am as innocent a3 your Honor's suck- j ling baby, but jist on account o' savin' Mr. Furkisson's sowl." flaT A minister examined his school boys thus: "What is the meaning of the word repentant?"' "Please sir, don't know." "Now, if I had stolen a loaf of bread, what should I be ?" "Please, sir, locked up." "Well, should I feel sorry?" "Yes." "Well, why should I feel sorry?" "Please sir, cos you was cotched." - ? ?flaT Two urchins, five or six years old, returning from school recently, were overheard discussing great theological questions. "Well," says urchin number one, "The Lord owns all this world, don't he?" "Yaas, I 'spose he does," responded number two, "but dad says the devil's got a big morgidge on it." ? Two Hibernians were passing a stable which had a rooster on it for a weather vane, when one addressed the other thus: "Pat, what's the reason they didn't put a hin up there instead of a rooster ?" "An' sure," replied Pat, "that'saisy enough; don't you see it would be unconvanient to go for the eggs ?" flo?* A Galesburg farmer, whose pew rent was raised to 825, exclaimed: "Great Ctesar, here's a nice state of affairs?the Gospel going up and pork going down. What's to be come of us T' A little girl sent out to hunt eggs, came back unsuccessful, complaining that lots of hens were standing around doing nothing. We're makfng willow whistles. How dare you, comrade, trifle so, In thase grand forest temples, And laugh, and beat your sappy bough, And set me bad examples! Such songs of praises here arise, And never were found in Missals, And we should haarken, were we wise. Instead of making whistles. They say the world's a vale of tears, And man is born to trouble,? The words sound idly in my ears Beside the brooklet's bubble; Friends change, I fear, and hopes grow pale, The fairest project lizzl&s,? I'm glad there's no t.uch word as fail In making willow whistles. The brook shows back two heads of brown, Though one's a prettier color, A Titian hue?no need to frown, I've said but which is duller ; They'll bo the same, both yours and mine, When time their brownhess grizzles, And then we'll laugh at Auld Lang Syne, When we made willow whistles. Scribner's for May. tumorous Department. BILL SIMPSON ON COURTS. Many years ago the Legislature of Tennessee passed an act to organize the county of McNairy, otherwise Snake. At that time the county embraced in the limits of Snake was occupied by a steady set of backwoodsmen, totally unacquainted with courts, jails, etc. The county assembled at the appointed site for the purpose of cutting logs, making boards, etc., to build a court house and jail. The only theme of conversation, when the men were assembled, was the court, etc. None of them had ever seen a court in session, as yet developed. Each one would give what his idea was of court, etc. None, however, were entirely satisfactory, until Bill Simpson was called on to give his ideas. He said he knew all about a court? Ua Vkiir) o ton? onif in fla *v\lina I tuat uc iiau a lau ouiv iu iwi vu vuivu One of his neighbor's hogs kept coming where he fed his hogs until it got fat. One morning he got so mad that he shot the hog; he thought it would not do to throw it away, so he cleaned and salted it. Shortly afterwards his neighbor and a man came to his house, and took him to town and put him in a little office. About three months after that, this man came and took him up to a large room. A large man sat upon a high bench?a man was sitting at a desk?about a dozen fine dressed men sat in a place that was paled around. The man put in a pen just behind them. He then called in twelve men, they took seats in a box in front of the fine dressed men. The man that was writing gave the twelve men a book and said something about Bill Simpson and State. Then one of the fine men read something about Bill Simpson and the hog, and he and another one of the fine dressed men had the biggest quarrel you ever heard? I thought they would fight every minute, but they didn't. It was Bill Simpson and the hog, and the hog and Bill Simpson, and sometimes Mr. Simpson, but very seldom. After they quit quarreling, the big man talked a while to the twelve men, and then they went out and staid a short time, and came back, and said something to the man at the desk. The man on the bench said something to the man that put me in the office, and he took me out and tied me to a persimmon tree, and commenced fighting me with a cowhide, and it made me so blamed mad that I shook all the persimmons off the tree. + ? "Kittie's going to join our Sabbath School, she's coming with me next Sunday, ain't you Kittie?" "Oh ! I don't know, I've never been to Sabbath School?what do you have to do?" "Why, get saved, of course?and books and albums and?" "I meau, what do you have to do?do you have to study anything?" "Oh! it isn't like that. Its like church, you know. Whm you first go in you have to put your head down and pray." "But I cant pray," says'heathen Kittie, "I don't know how." "Oh ! well, do as I do. Shut your eyes and count fifty." Agricultural iPqiarimmt. CORN VERSUS COTTON. Some writers in the newspapers are discussing the question whether a large crop of corn should be planted generally at the expense of the cotton crop, or a large cotton crop at the expense of the grain crop. I believe the j I "centre-shot," advocated by Gov. Smith, of j Georgia, is not where to put it, but proportionally between the extreme limits, including rotation. To see this question in its true light, let us examine the working of heavy cotton planting at the expense of the grain crop. The entire preparation of a large cotton crop requires more labor and expense than a DroDortionate erain crop. Suitable cleaning off of the land is requisite at an ear-1 ly period; and arrangements for applying! fertilizers must be looked after in due time. ; The price is high when you come to sum up ; the drayage, freights, costs and wastage; and then comes the chance of reaching unfavorable results from dry or overwet seasons. Sufficient arrangements for supplies of food for labor and horses must be made. Corn must be, in many instances, shipped, price not low, when freights, bags, wastage, &c., are i supplemented. Fodder and hay, too, must be provided. An increase of doubtful, and to some extent, ineffective labor for heavy cotton cropping, must be secured. In many instances liens must be given on the crops for fertilizers, provisions, &c., which will, on an average, reach forty per cent, on prime cost. The farmer thus corapromits his independence under the idea that he is wonderfully accommodated, and making haste to grow rich. His lands are much more exposed ; more especially exhausted by the heavy rain and washing and leaching during the winter and early spring rains, which are likely to be heavy. Here applies a moral taught in one of .<Esop'8 Fables, in the case of the man who had a goose that laid golden eggs. Now, suppose the heavy cotton planters succeed to their heart's content, what follows ? More labor to gather it; more bagging to clothe it; more iron bands to secure it; more experience to get it in market; more grumblings in selling it at low prices and discharging liens; much of the cotton dirty and poor; cold fingers ensue in opening cracked bolls and lifting painted cotton off the ground. No corn in the crib; no long food to winter The nursnit of this Dolicv can never wwww?. I IT ^ make the Southern planters, generally, a thriving people. I have been a planter for forty years. My policy before the war was to raise my grain, corn, wheat, some oats, rye and barley, some stock, and then as much cottou as could be gathered in due time. I have, measurably, pursued the same course since, with hired labor, and am satisfied with it. I cease to go into a minute contrast of the results of the proportion and rotation plan of cropping. The advantages, I think, must be apparent to any thinking and experienced farmer. I can easily see what classes of operators are willing to see the doctrine of large cotton planting prevail. Manufacturers of iron, bagging, cotton, Western stockraisers, phosphatic companies, railroad companies, cotton and grain speculators, provision and general dealers of various kinds ; all these see, more or less, some gain to them. They may gradually grow rich on our labor and wants, whilst we sink slowly into poverty. What an effort is already making to know the amount of acreage planted in cotton ! What calculations are already made as to the results? For whose benefit? The planter? No, verily no. Catch a weazel at sleep. The sharpers in speculation are preparing. If we are simple enough to put all trumps into their hands, we have no good grounds to blame them, but ought to reflect upon our own dealings. When I see men advocating a peculiar policy in anything, before I am carried away with it, I stop to enquire, Where do their interests mainly lie ? "Nuff sed." Joirx C. Hope. Lexington, S. C., June 2, 1873. "How to get kid of the CUT WORM."? Editor Southern Cultivator: Although not a farmer, my greatest delight is in the Farm, Orchard and Garden, and everything of interest to these branches of industry, is highly prized by me. "How to get rid of the Cut Worm," is of much interest to the farmer and gardener, and every one can do it, with but little trouble or expense?in fact the simplicity of the plan is very likely the reason w,hy it is not universally adopted. It is, to plant one or more China (JP ride of India J trees and every fall gather the leaves and berries and mix with all the manure used, taking care to destroy the vitality of the seed by heating or otherwise. If a moderate quantity of the leaves, stems and berries be composted with all manure used and applied to the plants, no fear need be felt of "Cut Worm." There will be none to trouble plants man ired with this compost. The China tree grows easily and very rapidly in all the middle and Southern States, and many persous consider it quite ornamental. I would be obliged to you if you would place this matter before your readers, asking of them a trial, which will prove successful in every case fairly tested. N. L. CLOUD. Bainbridge, Ga., May lith, 1873. 4 4 Remedy for Chicken Ciioi.era.?B. H. Knapp, Esq., of this city, in a communication to the Atlanta Sun, states that he has found a mixture of two ounces each of red pepper, alum, rosin and sulphur, to be an infalible remedy for this scourge of the poultry-yard, and adds: "Last summer I lost more than fifty common fowls from cholera, my Buff Cochins not beiug at all affected. When glancing over the columns of the Rural New Yorker, I chanced to see the above mixture recommended, and tried it?mixing one tablespoonful in three pints, of scalded meal; and though several fowls were in the last stages of the disease, they recovered and I have not lost a chicken since. In severe cases I would advise giving about one-third of a teaspoonful in a meal nellet to each fowl everv dav till well. Put a small lump of alum, say the size of a hickory nut, in their drinking water." Simple Process of Hardening Plough Points.?A friend who has been residing for ! a long series of years in the country, and who ' is an experienced mechanic, sends us the following simple process of hardening plough points or other farm implements, which he says he has often tried with success: After finishing, heat to a bright red, put on j a lump of prussiate of potash; continue the heat until the potash melts and runs over the surface of the iron you wish to harden. Let it burn until a blue flame appears, then plunge 1 in cold water. I have often hardened the thread on a bolt 1 by the above process, and substituted it for a ' tap, cutting a good thread. It would be advantageous to farmers to harden their plough points in dry weather, which can he done by auy ordinary smith, by the above process. T. W. D. Have a Scrap Book.?Every farmer j : should have a scrap book, in which to paste 1 agricultural scraps. Every one, in reading a : paper, will see a number of things which he will wish to remember. He will nerhans see suggestions, the value of which he will desire to test, or hints which he will want to be governed by in future operations. And yet, after reading the paper he will throw it down and probably never see it again. In such case all the valuable articles will be lost. To prevent such a loss, every reader should clip from the papers such articles as he desires to preserve and remember and paste them in a scrap book. Such a book, at the end of a ! year or two, would be very interesting and valuable. To Prevent Iron from Rusting.?Kerosene applied with a cloth to stoves will keep them from rusting during the summer. It is J also an excellent material to apply to all iron I utensils used about a farm. ftcading fur the jfrttatb.! CONDUCTKD BY ItEV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. God's providential dealings with his people are often mysterious; but they are always wise. Rarely do we see or fully understand I what God is about to perform, until the act is completed ; and even then, we see through a glass darkly. The whole history of the world teaches us that God made nothing in vain; but all things were brought into existence for a special purpose. The declaration of God himself, concerning all the works of creation, was, that "all was very good." The same is true respecting the works of providence. God, in providence, does nothing iu vain. Every act, however small or insignificant it may appear in the eyes of any of his creatures, is done with some fixed and settled desigu. In their beginning, all God's providential acts are small. They are like the cloud that the servant of the prophet descried rising out of the sea. It was not larger than a man's hand?a mere speck on the face of the sky. It gathered, increased, and spread, until the whole heaveus were covered with blackness, and the earth deluged in water. In the accomplishing of his providential purposes, God rarely is in a hurry. With implicit confidence in his wisdom and power, he takes his time. Sometimes it consumes the whole of a single individual's life to bring about a single providential purpose of God. Not unfrequently, several successive generations of men pass away before some particular providential purpose of God is fully developed. The means which God employs to accomplish his providential designs, are often apparently insufficient and inappropriate. A single man is often chosen as an instrument with which to reform a whole continent. Weak mi*/1 InoMn 00 flm mnanc ujKIpK Onrl aplaptc to bring about his purposes may appear, they ! cannot be resisted successfully. God never fails. Whatever he undertakes he accomplishes. Men may undertake to thwart God in his purposes, but discomfiture, sudden and irremediable, awaits thera. No man is safe who opposes the providences of God. His destruction may slumber, but like the extermination of the Araelekites, it will certainly come. * [Original.] CONSCIENCE. That faculty of our moral nature which enables us to decide with regard to acts and affections, whether they are right or wrong, is called conscience. Everybody is conscious of the fact that some things are approved of, and others meet with only disapprobation. Some I men. of very great learning and mental ability, assert that man has, by nature, no such faculty as conscience. They teach that this moral sense, by which we decide that some things are right and other things wrong, is the result of education. This seems to be an error. It is not within the proviuce of education to create anything; it only develops. Any one of the five senses is capable of being educated. The eye of the sailor is said to undergo a very peculiar physical change. The sense of touch is rendered very delicate in those persons whose occupation requires its constant use. This does not prove that an individual in whom the occular nerve does not prist, pan he taucht to see : or that one could learn to hear, in whom there is no auditory nerve. To assert that conscience is a mere creation of education, is a similar assertion to that of saying that the nerves of hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling and feeling, are created or brought into existence by education. No one, we think, would make this last assertion. It is too absurd. Taking it for granted that conscience is one of the endowments bestowed upon all mankind by the Author of our being, we remark that its decisions are always bindiug. By this we mean that we are bound to obey the mandates of conscience. Whenever conscience tells us that such and such acts are right, we are bound by the laws of our nature to perform those acts; and when our conscience condemns certain acts as morally wrong, we sin if we commit those forbidden acts. This is not declaring that we invariably do what is absolutely right when we obey conscience. ti 1? i ?c lilt; uuijr menus wu nave <ji juu^iu^ ui tuivio is by the eye. If our eyes declare that black is red, and green yellow, we are bound by the laws of our nature, to treat black as if it were red, and green as if it were yellow. Such defects do not often exist iu the physical senses, but they do sometimes exist. Whenever they do exist, the individual is, by the very nature of things, bound to be governed by them and act iu accordance with their perceptions, be these right or wrong. The moral sense of all men, uuiversally, is in a ruined state. ' Disease often greatly injures the nerve of sight, or of hearing, orsome other one, or of all the senses. In the same way sin, which is a moral disease, has injured the moral sense. Conscientious scruples are always to be respected ; but they are not necessarily absolutely right. Since the fall, the only rule by which we can test an act, thought or feeling, whether it be right or wroug, is the Bible. Take away from us the word of God, and we will still feel that some things are right and that other things are wrong; but what we call and feel to be right, may be absolutely wrong; and what wg call and feel to be wrong, may be a duty which we are bound to perform. We should never forget that since the fall, the Bible, and not conscience, is the rule by which we are to judge of the morality of an act. When the mind is enlightened, the decisions of conscience are never at variance with the decisions of the Bible; but in our natural condition there rarely is any agreement Detween tne x>iuie and conscience. The Bible, and not conscience, is a light to our feet, and a lamp to our path. He is Able.?God is able of these stones to raise up seed to Abraham. Able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him. i What he has promised he is able to perform. i Able to make all graces abound toward you, that you, having all sufficiency in all i things, may abound to every good work. I commend you to God, and to the word j of his grace, who is able to build you up and I to give you an inheritance among all them : that are sanctified. Able to keep that which I have committed unto him. ! | Able to keep you from falling, and present you faultless before the presence of his glory, j with exceeding joy. Able to succor them that are tempted. Able to keep all whom the Father hath given him, so that he will not lose one. Able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. Believe ye that he is able to do this. AS?* The names of God correspond with his [ acts; both mutually explain and confirm one l another, and throw light upon his being. OlhMrett's Department. | WILLIE'S BREECHES. BY K. a. 8AULSBURY. I'm just a little boy, you know, And scarcely can remember, When people ask how old I am, To tell 'em four last 'vember. And yet for all I am so small, I made so many stitches For mamma's lingers that she put Her little boy in breeches. You may be sure that I was glad? I marched right up and kissed her, Then gave my bibs and petticoats, And all to baby sister. I never whine, now I'm so line, And don't get into messes; For mamma says, if I ain bad, She'll put me.back in dresses ! I'd like to tell vou how I look, And will, if Tarn able: My eyes are black, my hair is white, I'm taller than the table. Sometimes I pass the looking-glass, And, peeping in, I see there A round-faced, rosy, roguish boy, And mamma says it's me there. There's buttons up and down my legs, I'd count 'em all, but baby makes, Just now, an awful racket, She's sitting there, behind the chair. With blocks and dolls and kitty A playing "go to mamma's house," Alone, and that's a pity. I think I'll go and help her some, I'm sure it would amuse me, So I won't bother any more To talk?if you'll excuse me. But first I'll stand before the glassFro m top to toe it reaches ; Now, look! there's head, and hands, and feet, And all the rest is breeches! A STORY AND A SEQUEL. One of the richest men of New York, being called upon for a speech at a public meeting out West, said in substance: "Ladies and gentlemen, I will give you a true story, as I told it some months since to another audience with a somewhat startling effect. It illustrates the fact that honesty aud industry are pretty sure to meet with the reward they merit. About twenty years ago I started one ffne Sunday morning on a search for street children to attend a school with which I was associated. Near Norfolk street I saw a hatless, coatless, barefooted, boy. His unkempt hair was fiery red, and "seemed to be looking seven ways for Saturday." Now I have no fault to find with red hair. Cato had red hair, Cicero had red hair, Robert Peel had red hair, Silas Wright had red hair. Bulwer says: 'Tis the golden treasure nature showers down On those foredoomed to wear fame's golden crown. I invited the red haired boy to attend my school. He frankly and bluntly told me he would not do any such thing. "You ought to attend the school," I said, blandly. "Why ought I?" he inquired brusquely. "We teach boys to be good," I answered. "But I don't want to be good," said he. "Why not want to be good ?" I asked, with earnestness. "Because I am hungry," was the prompt reply. "It is nine o'clock," I said, looking at ray repeater; "haven't you had breakfast yet?" "No, sir." "Where do you live ?" "Up in the alley here, with aunty." "Nothing to eat?" "Nothing to eat to-day, and aunty is sick." "Will you eat some gingerbread and crackers, if I go to the bakery on the corner and buy some for you ?" "Yes, sir, that I will, and glad to get 'em." I purchased nine cents' worth of gingerbread as red as his soft, luxuriant hair, and he ate the supply with a relish that would have astonished an alderman at a turtle-soup festival. "Would you like to have some more ?" said I, to the hungry waif. "Yes, sir, a little more, if you please," was the quick response. I handed to hira the second supply, and then asked him what he thought about going with me to my pet school in a little hall around the corner? "Well, sir," said he, "you have been so good to me, if you wait here till I take this gingerbread I have left to aunty, I will go with you." He soon returned to the sidewalk, where I was waiting for him, aud accompanied me, apologizing in his way for not having anything to wear at a Sunday school. It was his first day in school, and he did not know how to deport himself. He had a vague idea that slaps on the palm of the hand with a ruler, pulling the hair, and pinching the ears was a part of the discipline, and you may judge of his surprise when he found himself in the hands of a pleasant young lady, who spoke to him kindly, without scolding him for his untidy appearance. Our red haired friend was highly pleased with his treatment, and when the school was dismissed hastened to tell every boy and girl of his acquaintance about the kind reception he had met with, and he persuaded a large number of them to attend school on the following Sabbath. He continued his work, week after week, and was the most successful missionary connected with the school. He added so many boys and girls to our numbers it was found necessary to move to a larger hall, and even that soon became too small to accommodate the teachers and scholars. When a company of the boys was taken from the city to the West, to be distributed among the farmers, the red headed boy was among them. I used to hear of him most encouraging accounts; of his growth in moral, mental and material influence and position ; and although I have not heard from him of late years, yet I feel sure that he is an honor ed and prosperous man in the community where he lives. "When I," said the speaker, "had reached this part of my speech, I was astonished to see a very tall, red haired man rise in the room to address the audience." He said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am the person who stood on the 6treet in New York city and ate the gingerbread! I came out West here, and by minding by own business, I have earned money enough to buy a farm. I own five hundred acres of as good land as you can fiud out doors. My horses and carriage are at the door, and I shall be happy to take the speaker to my house, where he shall bo welcome to stay as long as he pleases." Manners.?Manners are more important than money. A boy who is polite and pleasant in his manners will always have friends, and will not often make enemies. Good behavior is essential to prosperity. A boy feels well when he does well. If you wish to make everybody pleasant about you, and gain friends wherever you go, cultivate good manners. Many boys have pleasant manners for company, and ugly manners for home. We visited a small railroad town, not long since, and were met at the depot by a little bov of about eleven or twelve vears. who con ducted us to the house of his mother, and entertained and cared for us, in the absence of his father, with as much polite attention and thoughtful care as the most cultivated gentleman could have done. We said to his mother before we left her home, "You are greatly blessed in your son, he is so attentive and obliging-" "Yes," she said ; "I can always depend on Charley when his father is absent. He is a great help and comfort to me." She said this as if it did her heart good to acknowledge the cleverness of her son. The best manners cost so little, and are worth so much, that every boy can have them, j Youth's Guide. What not to Do.?Don't spit on the floor; don't spit at all if you can help it Don't drum with your fingers or feet; don't sit i with your feet higher than your head; don't! | go with dirty nails; don't trim or cleau your nails in company ; don't clean your nose, ears,! j or teeth in the presence of others ; don't eat j with your knife ; don't blow your nose at the j table; don't make sipping tea or eating soup j a vocal exercise ; don't eat fast. IpsMltattwusi fteadittg. STORY OF THE FIRST TELEGRAM. The bill met with neither sneer? nor opposition in the Senate, but the business of that House went on with discouraging slowness. At twilight on the last evening of the session (March 3, 1843) there were 119 bills before it. As it seemed impossible for it to be reached in regular course before the hour of adjournment should arrive, the Professor, who had anxiously watched the tardy movements of business all day from the gallery of the Senate chamber, went with sad heart to his hotel and prepared to leave for New York at an early hour the next morning. While at breakfast, a servant informed him that a young lady desired to see him in the parlor. There he met Miss Annie Ellsworth, then a young school girl?the daughter of his intimate friend, Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth, the first Commissioner of Pateuts?who said, as she extended her hand to him : "I have come to congratulate you." "Upon what ?" enquired the Professor. "Upon the passage of your bill," she replied. "Impossible! Its fate was sealed at dusk last evening. You must be mistaken." "Not at all," she responded. "Father sent me to tell you that your bill was passed. He remained until the session closed, and yours was the last bill but one acted upon, and it was passed just five minutes before the adjournment; and I am so glad to be the first one to tell you. Mother says, too, that you must come home with me to breakfast." The invitation was readily accepted, and the joy in the household was unbounded. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth had fully believed in the project, and the former, in his confidence in it and in his warm friendship for Professor Morse, had spent all the closing hours of the session in the Senate chamber, doing what he could to help the bill along, and giving it all the influence of his high personal and official position. Grasping the hand of his young friend, the Professor thanked her again ana again for bearing him such good tidings, and assured her that she should send over the wires the firot moQQdcta> oo lior rotror^ TKo moffoi* rnaa LM IOU lUWSUgVI UO UV1 t^llUtUl JL IIU KUCIVVWt fT UO talked over in the family, and Mrs. Ellsworth suggested a message which Professor Morse referred to the daughter, for her approval; and this was the one which was subsequently sent. A little more than a year after that time, the line between Washington and Baltimore was completed. Professor Morse was in the former city, and Mr. Alfred Vail, his assistant in the latter; the first in the chamber of the Supreme Court, the last in the Mount Clare depot, when the circuit being perfect, Professor Morse sent to Miss Ellsworth for her message and it came. "What hath God wrought?" It was sent in triplicate in the dot-and-line language of the instrument to Baltimore, and was the first message ever transmitted by a recording telegraph. The story of the first message has beeu often told with many exaggerations. It has roamed about Europe, with various romantic material attached to it, originating mainly in the French imagination, and has started up anew, from time to time, in our own country, under fresh forms, but the above story is simply and literally true. An inventor in despair receives the news of his unexpected success from his friend's daughter, ana he makes her a promise which he keeps, and thus links her name with his own, and with an invention which becomes one of the controlling instruments of civilization for all time.?Scribner's Monthly. + + What Makes a Home.?I never saw a garment too fine for man or maid; there was never a chair too good for a cobbler, or cooper, or king, to sit in; never a house too fine to shelter the human head. These elements about us, the gorgeous sky, the imperial sun, are not too good for the human race. Elegance fits man. But do we not value these tools of house-keeping a little more than they are worth, and sometimes mortgage a home for the mahogany we would bring into it ? I had rather eat my dinner off the head of a barrel, or dress after the fashion of John the Baptist in the wilderness, or sit on a block all my life, than consume all myself before I get to a home, and take so much pains with the outside that the inside was as hollow as an empty nut. Beauty is a great thing, but beauty of garments, houses and furniture is a fnujrlrtr nrnomont ^nmnnrofJ toit.li rlnmPfltlf! love. All the elegance in the world will not make a home, and I would give more for a spoonful of real hearty love than for whole shiploads of furniture, and the gorgeousness that all the upholsterers of the world could gather together.?Theodore Parker. 1 ? Romance of Arithmetic.?The most romantic of all numbers is the figure 9, because it can't be multiplied away or got rid of anyhow. Whatever you do, it is sure to turn up again, as did the body of Eugene Aram's victim. One remarkable property of this figure (said to have been first discovered by Mr. Green, who died in 1794) is that all through the multiplication table the product of nine comes to nine. Multiply by what you like, and it gives the same result. Begin with twice 9, 18; add the digits together, and 1 and 8 makes 9. Three times 9 are twentyseven ; and 2 and 7 are 9. So it goes on, up to eleven times 9, which gives 99. Very good; add the digits; 9 and 9 are 18, and 8 and 1 are 9. Going on to any extent it is impossible to get rid of the figure 9. Take a couple of instances at random. Three hundred and thirty-nine times 9 are 3051; add up the figures, and they are 9. Five thousand seventy-one times 9 are 45,639; the sum of these digits is 27; 2 and 7 are 9. Construction of Pianos.?In an ordinary piano there are fifteen kinds of woods, namely: pine, maple, spruce, cherry, walnut, whitewood, apple, bass-wood, birch, mahogany, ebony, holly, cedar, beech and rosewood, from Honduras, Ceylon, England, South America and Germany. In this combination, elasticity, strength, pliability, toughness, resonance, lightness, durability and beauty, are individual qualities, and the general result is "voice." There are also used of the metals, iron, steel, brass, white metal, gun metal and lead. There are, in an instrument of seven and a-half octaves, 514 strings, making a total length of 787 feet of wire and &UU feet ot wliite (covering) wire. Such a piano will weigh from 600 to 1000 pounds, and will last with constant use (not abuse) fifteen or twenty years. Tiie Length of Days.?The days of summer grow longer as we go northward, and the days of winter shorter. At Hamburg, the longest day has seventeen hours, and the shortest seven. At Stockholm, the longest has eighteen-and-a-half hours, and the shortest five-and-a-half. At St. Petersburg, the longest has nineteen, and the shortest five hours. At Finland, the longest has twentyone and one-half, and the shortest two and onehalf hours. At "Wandorbus, in Norway, the day lasts from the twenty-first of May to the second of July, the sun not getting below the horizon for the whole time, but skimming | along very close to it in the north. At Spitz-1 bergen, the longest day lasts three months and ! a half. Once upon a time before the negro had acquired no other than a pecuniary value, an ' old colored divine who was holding forth to J an audience of his own race on the watchful care and goodness of the Almighty, and endeavoring to impress upon his hearers the value of a christian darkey in the eyes of heaven, illustrated the point thus: "My bred-; ren, though you can buy seven sparrows for j a farthing, the Almighty has a book to put, down where ebery one ob dem falls. Now if; the Almighty takes so much care of the spar-: rows, dat cost only one-seventh of a farthing,' what you suppose he do for you, a thousand < dollar nigger ?" $he ^AtfeviUe (Nqntnt. TEHMH?IN ADVANCE s One Copy, oneyear, f 3 00 One Copy, Six months, 1 60 OneCopy, Three months, 1 00 Single Copy, 10 Two Copies, one year, 5 00 Ten Copies, 44 41 25 00 jJ29~To persons who make np clubs often or more names, an extra copy of the paper will be furnished one year, free of charge. A DVEKTI8EMENT8 Will be inserted at One Dollar md Fifty Cents per Hquare for the first, and Seventy-five Cents per square for each subsequent insertion-less than three months. A square consists of the space occupied by ten lines of this size type, or one inch. No advertisement considered less than a square. Semi-Monthly, Monthly, or Quarterly Advertisements, will becharged'Two Dollars per square for each insertion. 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It believes that, while it A S Is woman's privilege to purify and comfort and *"T , , adorn. It should be man's pleasure to provide y H for, cherish, and protect It would have chil- Q Odren treated as feeling, thinking and growing 5} creatures?perfectly created,but not fullgrown. T M Yet In advocating these doctrines, the Maga- U X *'ne docs not employ doctrinal sermons?long JJ 5 uud dreary disquisition* which do not interest O Eand therefore do not profit the reader. On the n contrary, it would rather preach as though It H preached not?an Interesting story,for instance, F " being made to serve the purpose of a long dls- jT Q course by giving the reader something real, In- Ob tcrestlng and profitable to think about. J L. The wont as well as the best feature of the n Magazine is Its price. The idea of getting a U rf really first-class Magazine at one dollar a vear, V M seems absurd to most people. Yet it employs A A some of the best contributors In the country? H including Sail Hamilton, its leading editor, ft Cwho receives a salary of three thousand dolAlar* equivalent to about ten dollars per day. P Each number contains nearly eight hundred gf Zdollan' worth of matter, which coats the sub- B scriber about eight cents. At I Hope and Joy?two beautifully tinted cravon | portraits worth Four Dollars?will be mailed J N free to every subscriber to the Magazine at $1 fiO ft E Specimens free. Agents wanted. Address S. JJ S. WOOD A CO., Newburgh, N. Y. T lit li Joy-An mil Joy || United Voice of the Press.?Wood's Uf V magazine Is one of tbo monuments of business " (J enterprise which mark the age.? MdhodiA llont ft p Journal, Phlla., Pa. ... .As Its title promises, It L Is devoted to the Instruction and entertainment V E of the family circle,and,In order to place It with* ft &in the means of readers In moderate clrcum- "f . stancesjt la furnished at a remarkably low rate K J In proportion to the Interest of Its contents.? N. m Ol". Tribune. . .It lsessentially a home magazine, M and Is Just the thing that one would most desire V to place In the hands of hts wife and little ones, w ii or that a man of business would himself take II M up for the employment of a leisure hour.?forf * ft Wilmington, N. C Were we out of our S n chulr editorial, as a "private citizen," cut off m r from our exchange list and all that, one of the B gf first magazines to which wo should subscribe |J *2 would be Wood's Household.?RnjiMer, Hart. " 6 ford, Ct It Is au Intellectual and moral ft I educator, highly prized by all who become nc- jT *!L qnalntcd with lL?ChriKian Adcotale. ....If L Q popular writers are, therefore, good writers, % Yand If high prices prove the merit of literary wares, then Mr. Wood's magazine is a good M H one.?TAs Indepmdtnt, New York lis artl- "V Oclcs breathe a spirit of economy, morality and A virtue which Is highly refreshing in this age of f% p fashionable folly and extravagance.?ScnNnsf, Vs Edina, Mo It is undoubtedly one of the A fc freshest, liveliest journals we have examined. A ?Ktmrrl, tiprlnglJeld, Tenn The articles a i are short, piquant, and of such unquestioned <J excellence, that this periodical ought to be both ft familiar and welcome In very many house- N w holds. Wood's Is a marvel or cheapness and c T ilrst-class quality combined.?A'eio York Tiuut. B ffil'S Hill IBM DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS, j MOULDINGS, Brackets. Stair Fixtures, builders' Furnishing Hard- j ware, Drain Pipe, Floor Tiles, Wire j Guards, Terra Gotta Ware, Marble and ! , Slate Mantle Pieces. WINDOW GLASS A SPECIALTY. I Circulars and Price Lists sent free ! ! on application, P. P. TOALE, I 20 Hayne and 33 Pinckney streets, Charleston, S. C. Orders received by my Agents, j Messrs. JEFFERY8 A METTS.at the ' Citizen's Savings Bank, Yorkville,S.C. i J&T* White Pine Lumber for Sale. ! Octobers 40 ly ROSE'S HOTEL, (FORMERLY HUNT'S HOTEL.) COLUMBIA, S. C. THIS HOUSE is in the centre of the city, convenient to all the Public Offices and Business Houses, located on the south-west corner of the State House Square, has been recently re-opened and renovated, and will now compare favorably with any Hotel at the South. ROSE'S OMNIBUS will convey passengers to and from every train, free of charge. Also, a first-class Carriage for the accommodation of ladies. TD 4 MSJTRVT RfliRR <*9 SO nsr Hnv. W. E. ROSE, Proprietor. .September 12 37 tf CHARLOTTE, COPL AND AUGUSTA E. E. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,) Columbia, S. C., September 22,1872. j ON and after this date, the following Schedule will bo run over thia road: going south. Train No. 1. Train No. 2. Leave Charlotte, 7.15 A. M. 8.20 P. M. Leave Columbia 2.29 P. M. 3.30 A. M. Arrive at Augusta, 7.42 P. M. 8.20 A. M. going north. Leave Augusta. 6.35 A. M. 5.50 P. M. Leave Columbia 11.53 A. M. 11.05 P. M. Arrive at Charlotte.... 6.15 P. M. 6.00 A. M. Standard time ten minutes slower than Washington ; six minutes ahead of Columbia. No. 1 Train daily. No. 2 Train daily, Sundays excepted. Both trains make close connection to all points North, South and West. Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all principal points. JAMES ANDERSON, General Sup't. E. B. Dorsey, Gen. Freight and Ticket Agent. THE MORNING STAR. DAILY EDITION: THOUGH only live years old, has the largest Daily Circulation of any newspaper in the State, and a circulation in Wilmington fifty per cent, larger than that of any other paper. WREKLY EDITION: Now combined with the CAROLINA FARMER, making one of the best Family Newspapers in the South. Circulation very large and rapidly increasing. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Daily Star, 1 year, $7 00 " " 6 months 3 50 " " 3 months, 2 00 Weekly Star, 1 year, 2 00 11 " 6 months, 1 00 " ' 3 months 50 It may be safely asserted that no newspaper ever established in North Carolina has made such rapid progress as THE MORNING STAR. JsEt-Send for Specimen copies. Address, WM. H. BERNARD, Wilmington, N. C. OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH "OLD SOL" STILL continues, and we are prepared, better than ever, to execute PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES of every style, at our gallery in the "Adickes' Building." A lot of nice ALBUMS always on hand. Also Stereoscopes and Views. J. R. SCHORB & SON. April 10 15 tf "SATURDAY EVENING POST. SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received for yearly subscribers to the Saturday Evening Post, the Great Family Paper for Half a Century. Price $3.00. Also subscriptions received for the Lady's Friend, a Monthly Magazine. Price $2.50. W. L. GRIST, News Agent. For over FORTY YEARS this PURELY VEGETABLE LIVER MEDICINE has proved to be the GREAT UNFAILING SPECIFIC for Liver Complaint and its painful offspring, DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Bilious attacks, SICK HEADACHE. Colic, Depression of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heartburn, CHILLS AND FEVER, Ac., Ac. After years of careful experiments, to meet a great and urgent demand, we now produce from our original Genuine Powdera THE PREPARED, A Liquid form of SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR, containing all its wonderful and valuable properties, and offer it in ONE DOLLAR BOTTLES. The Powders, (price as before,) $1.00 per package. Sent by mail, 1.04 per package. pa- CAUTION ! Hp Buy no Powders or PREPARED SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR unless in our engraved wrapper, with Trade mark, Stamp and Signature unbroken. None other is genuine. J. H. ZEILIN Si CO., MACON, GA., AND PHILADELPHIA. HOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. February 6 50 6m Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar. > vi 10 YEARS t PUBLIC TEST Has proved |>r. Crook's fWlJNJti TAR To have more merit than any Himilar preparation ever oiler (Ml the public. Tt is rich in the medicinal qualities of Tar, and unequnled for diseases of the Throat and Lungs, perforniinjj the most remarkable cure*. Coughs, ('ohls, Choiiic Coughs. It effectually cures them all. Asthma and Aronchtis. Has cured ho many cases it has been pronounced a specific for these complaints. For pains in Breast, Side or Back, Gravel or Kidney Disease, Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Jaundice or any Liver Complaint, It has no equal. It is also a superior Tonic, Restores the Appetite, Strengthens the System, Restores the Weak and Debilitated, Causes the Food to Digest, Removes Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Prevents Malarious Fevers, Gives tone to your System. ' Try Or.Crook's WiuioiTar October 3 40 ly I THE HOME SHUTTLE SEW^^^^^riNE. THE best Cheap Machine in the Market. If the number sold is a criterion of merit, it is the BEST MACHINE in use, as there have been more HOME SHUTTLE MACHINESsold in the State during the last twelve months than all other Sewing Machines combined. You can buy a HOME SHUTTLE MACHINE for about half the money you willhaveto pay for aiirst-class Machine, "so-called." W. L. GRIST, Agent. " GEa sTHACKER, ui h.-_ DOOR, SASH AND BLIND FACTORY, CHARLESTON, S. C. fllHIS is as large and complete a Factory as there X is in the South. All work manufactured at I the FfCctory in this city. The only house owned and managed by a Carolinian in this line in Charleston. Send for price list. Address, ' GEO. S. HACKER, Post-Offlee box 170, Charleston, S. C. Factory and Warorooms on King street, opposite Cannon street, on line of City Railway. December 5 49 J ly KING'S MOUNTAIN R. ROAD. DAILY TRAIN. HEREAFTER the trains over the KING'S MOUNTAIN RAIL ROAD will run daily, (Sundays excepted) as follows, making close connection with trains on the Cnarlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad: Leave Yorkville, promptly, at 7 J o'clock, A.M. Arrive at Chester at 9i o'clock, A. M. Leave Chester at 4 o'clock, P. M. Arrive at Yorkvilleat 6 o'clock, P. M. All Freights must be delivered at the Depot by 4 o'clock, P. M., on the evenings previous to the departure of the train. GEORGE W. MELTON, President. THEPARKERCON. dadutp pprfc r All l\U 11 Wlivw WEST MERIDEN.CT. CAROLIIA LIFE IJ1AICE UPAJY MK3IPHIS, TKNN. Branch Office, - Baltimore, Maryland. ASSETS* $1,100,000. Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS, President. Gen. WADE HAMPTON, Pres. Baltimore Board. J. D. KENNEDY State Agent. W. B. SADLER, Yorkville, Special Agent. June 27 26 ly K TO PER day! Agento wanted ! q!) p a ^ f&AiXj All classes of working people of either sex, young or old, make more money at work for us in their spare moments, or all the time, than at anything else. Particulars free. Address G. Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine. October 3 40 ly A rrpnts may learn something greatly to their advantage and obtain specimens and full particulars free, by addressing WOOD'S LITERARY AND ART AGENCY, Newburgh, N. Y. WRAPPING PAPERS A LOT of TIDDY'S large-sized WRAPPING PA PER on hand and For sale, by W. L. GRlST, Agent.