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Huttt0WU!$ Department, j Counting Chickens.?The reason why people count their chickens before they are hatched is because it is easier. Mr. Beuson found a dead hen back of his barn one morning. He suspected it was one of his fowls, but he was not certain, and the only way to , ascertain, he thought, was to count his flock, which numbered sixteen. He gathered them ; together with a few flakes of cold pancake, and commenced counting : "One, two, three, ' four, five, six, seven? One, two, three, 1 four, five, six? One, two, three, four, five, < six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven?pshaw! , One, two, three, four?four?four?goodness , gracious! One, two, three, four five, six, seven?seven?seven?thunder and lightning! Oue, two, three?one, two, three, four, five, six?six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven?elev? ' blast ye, stand still! One, two?two?two, < three, four?four?four?four? O, you will, i will you ?" he suddenly screamed, choking ' with passion, and jumping up and down in an j ecstacy of rage. Then he dove after a clothespole, and bore down on the frightened and flpoinir Kono lito a utkUniioJ 4*? ' I mwvw6 ..vuw nav u niiuiniim, scattering ujc yard with feathers, and filling the air with i the shrieks of the crazed bipeds, and never : ceased the attack until every hen was out of , j sight. He don't know yet whether that heu j is his. j Rowing Against the Tide.?About thirty miles above Wilmington, North Carolina, lived three fellows, named respectively Barham, Stone and Grey, on the banks of North East river. They came down to Wilmington in a small row boat, and made it fast to the wharf. They had a time of it in the city, but for fear they would be dry before getting home, they procured a jug of whisky, and after dark, of a black night, too, they embarked in their boat, expecting to reach home in the morning. They rowed away with all the energy that three half-tipsy fellows could muster, keeping up their spirits in the darkness by pouring the spirits down. At break of day they thought they must be near home, and seeing through the dim gray of the morning a house on the river side, Stone said : "Well, Barham, we have got to your place at last." "If this is my house," said Barham, "somebody has been putting up a lot of outhouses since I went away yesterday; but I'll go ashore and look about, and see where we are, if you'll hold her to." Barham disembarks, takes observation, and soon comes tumbling along back, and says : "Well. I'll be whinned if we ain't at Wil r ? ? _ ri ? ? i miogton yet; and what's more, the boat has been hitched to the wharf all night." 1 Too Much Prosperm^.?A good for noth- 1 ing wretch was brought up before the raagis- ] trate on a charge of drunkenness. The evi- ( dence showed that he had been tipsy for a j week, and he was asked what he had to say for himself. "Well, Yer Honor," he replied, s "me and my old woman never did live easy * together." "That's no excuse for your get- j ting drunk," said the Court. "You're right, i Yer Honor, and so it ain't,'"' was the answer, j "We used to fight like cats and dogs together." "Drinking made it worse," remarked the magistrate. "That's true," rejoined the man ; "she c discouraged the life out of me, and kept me f poor, until last week when?" "Well, what s did she do last week ?" "She died, Yer Hon- j or." "And you have been drunk ever since ? j "Yes, Yer Honor; I never could bear pros- ^ perity." , The Foolish Virgins.?It comes to us 1 that a Sunday-school teacher having taken i much trouble to explain to her class the para- ? ble of the wise and foolish virgins, thought on , the following Sabbath she would see if they j remembered her instruction. Telling them to stand up (they were all under ten years of age), she said, "Now, girls, what did I tell s you about last Sunday ?" ( A perfectly blank look on the faces of ( all?no one had remembered?till a pair of r bright black eyes, sparkling with delight, and . a little hand raised to attract the teacher's attention, caused the teacher to ask, "Well, ] Louisa, what was it ahout?" The answer was, "Why, about thera wo- 1 men that forgot their kerosene." j She had seized the obvious idea, though ( Scripturally the answer was a little off color. ^ ? ? ? He Would Try It.?An old gent living 5 in the country called at the office of the gas company in Chicago the other day, having a I r two quart pail in his hand, and asked : I "Is this where they sell gas ?" j "Yes, sir, we can furnish you with gas," replied the clerk. "Well," said the old man as he pulled the cover off his pail, "I've heerd a good deal ' ahout gas, and ray wife's heerd a good deal i about gas, and I'll take two quarts along and j try it. How much is it a quart?" , When he was informed that pas was a va CD j por, and the method of burning was explained, he sighed and said : I "Hannah will be awfully disappointed." The Falling Tear.?An old woman sat on a bench in the Grand Trunk depot yesterday, wiping her eyes with her handkerchief, when a portly man, full of sympathy, said to another : " 'Tis sad to see the falling tear. It al- j ways makes my heart ache to see an aged person in trouble." ( Walking up to her, he kindly asked : "My good woman, why these tears?why do you weep?" She took down the hankerchief, looked up in surprise, and bluntly answered : "Ive got the wust cold in my head I've]had for forty-six years."?Detroit Free Frees. S&" A venerable African, over in Alabama, has sententiously expressed the principle cause of the decay of Southern prosperity in these words: "Afore the war the white gentlemen 'tended to the politics and the niggers worked. Consequence was crops was good and white folks had mouey plenty. Now-adays the white gentlemen and the niggers am both gone crazy on politics, don't neither of 'em do no work, and the consequence is ain't neither of 'em got 'nough to buy corn bread." An Unlucky Man.?On Saturday night two men got into a wordy controversy which waxed quite hot, aud finally oue of them challenged the other to a square fight. The challenged party filibustered around, and endeavored to avoid committing himself on this issue, but finally pressed by the other, he positively declined to fight. "Not that I'm any coward," he said, "or that I'm afraid of you, but I, was allers an unlucky man in a fight." "Five cents fare for that child, madam," said a street car conductor, as he opened the door and put his head into the car. "Very well," she replied, feeling in her pocket; "this is an orphan child and I'm its guardian. I must have a receipt for all moneys paid out, and as soon as you write me one, I'll drop a nickel in the box." He shut the door and leaned over the brake like a man in deep thought. Grandma's Portrait.?"Did you ever see that picture, grandma?" asked a young lady, as they took a view of the family portrait gallery. "See it! Why, it's a portrait of ray self when I was seventeen." "I thought you | had forgotten it, or you wouldn't always be- j lecturing us girls about modesty in dress." : Grandma looked over her spectacles,- and de-! clared the girls now a days were very impertinent to their elders. ft6T A zealous but ignorant negro preacher in expounding to his flock as to the astounding nature of miracles got a trifle confused in the matter. He said, "My beloved friends, the greatest of miracles was 'bout the loaves and fishes?dare was 5,000 loaves and 2,000 fishes, and de twelve 'postles had to eat dera all, and de miracle is dey didn't burst." i JwjtifuJtol ?cpattracut. | [Original.] , FENCES. The man that undertakes to break an individual from a long-formed habit, or to change j the manners and customs of a people, en- j gages in a difficult task. Success will only partially crown his efforts, and he will most probably be hissed as a setter-forth of strange doctrines by those whom he will fail to reclaim from bad habits, and by those whose long- j ( established customs he will not be able to ;hange. A large number of every commu- j nity are, with respect to their customs, as itj was with the laws of the ancient Medes and ;! Persians. They never change. They build i their houses, cook their food, sit down and get j, jp, eat and sleep, as did their fathers. The i, world moves forward, but they stand still, i rhe theory that "circumstances alter cases" i is, by this class of individuals, regarded as ' totally false in theory, and they feel at perfect liberty to treat it with absolute contempt j in practice. The custom in this country?we mean in ( the State of South Carolina?for the past 1 hundred years, has been to fence the crop and 1 let the stock run at large. Now the individ- j jal who intimates that he doubts the propri3ty of continuing this practice, may expect to , ncur the censure of some persons?how many, I lepends upon circumstances. The question, lowever, like the "Impending Crisis" about 1 ivhich we all heard so much some years ago, j nust come. Circumstances which no single nan cau control, will force the question upon s he country. We predict that when the pres- } mt fences which enclose the planted fields of | south Carolina rot down, they will never be rejuilt. We have, we think, good and solid 1 easons for making this prediction. In some j ections there is not timber to fence the fields. | Absolute necessity will force those residing , n these sections to fence in their stock and i urn their crops out. Partially, this is the s :ase now. In some sparsely timbered sections 1 >f the State there are not enough of rails on he farms to enclose one-tenth of the land cul- ^ ivated. All the division feuces have been ( emoved, and so also have been the fences i vhich separate the farms of differeut individ- i ials. There is now only a turn-row, where, < ifteeu years ago, there was a fence. Again, the Legislatures of adjoining States i lave partially passed what is known as a fence | aw. Some portions of Mecklenburg county, i tforth Carolina, have no fences around their ;rops. The farmers of those sections are de- 1 ighted with the working of the system. They ' lay it is cheaper and more advantageous in j svery respect. The system will gradually ] jass from one section to another until the i ences will all be removed from around the < ilanted field. It is clear that such are the circumstances 1 )f this country at present, that farmers must sither entirely give up the practice of raising itock, or put their stock in enclosures. As ( itock-raisiug is carried on at present, a large i ser cent, of the stock bred dies of neglect. < Df that raised, a large per cent, is stolen ; and 1 ;he remainder, in a multitude of ways and ' !rom a multitude of sources, is ruinously ibused. In this section, so well adapted to itock-raising, farming cannot be conducted jrofitably without raising stock sufficient for tome consumption. The objectors to a change in the present ( system will be mainly those who have a cow < >r a pig which they contemplate raising out J >f either the cribs or fields of their neighbors, s rkrttr mill nloim i k a f tKnii* nr\ ijtt anrl iKuir nwv Llixzj urn i/iaiiii vuokv vugu vun c*iiu ouvit j/'g lave an inalienable right to root and browse ( vherever their instincts may direct thera. ( rhese individuals will claim that their stock j lave rights guaranteed to them by nature, < iud perpetuated to them by law, to go into < jvery field that is not enclosed with a fence sight feet high, and so close that a ground- ' squirrel cannot crawl through the chinks. ' rhese individuals will claim this privilege for ! their stock on the ground that the world owes J them a living, and it does not matter how or ] from whom they get it. < This theory must soon explode. The man who buys a forest is entitled to all its ad van- 1 tages. The grass and canes which spring up upon it are as much his as the trees. They are as much his, and he ha3 as much right to say how they shall be used, as the corn that . grows in hi9 cultivated fields. Change the present fence system, and the number of stock i will be reduced, but the quality greatly increased. Stock will then be regarded as ' property, aud not as it now is?-a nuisance. t , TILLAGE AND HEAVY MANURING. Two very important helps to earliness in , gardening are not sufficiently understood? , heavy raauuring and high tillage. Heavy manuring is usually given with a view to big crops, aud no gardener would for a moment , think of dispensing with it. But it serves a , further purpose?that of inducing a quick , growth. When plant food is ready at hand in abundance, of course the growing crop consumes more of it; and this very food de- , velops more feeding organs, which in turu help to build up the plants, and to send the , roots deeper. Altogether a thrifty, quick | and tender growth is induced at a time when, , in poorer soil, and unfavorable weather, the , plant would but barely live and hold its own. , The most marked effect of heavy manuring j for earliness, is especially noticeable on cabbage, lettuce, beets, asparagus and rhubarb. ( Upon these crops it pays to apply at least 100 tons of manure per acre. , Frequent and almost constaut tillage pays, not only for the increase of the crop, but also i for quickening it. This effect I have noticed as very marked upon what we might call the u'liotKflr frnno tnmntnpa mplrma pilrMim .IWfc v.vr ? , , bers, squashes, beans and corn. So much is | gained by frequent tillage, that I think if two j crops of melons be raised, one on sod in the 1 hot-bed and set out in the garden and given j the usual tillage, and the other planted at the time of settiug out the first, but given three ! times the usual tillage?say that it be worked twice a week?the later crop will be as early, j if not indeed earlier, than the former. Cab- i bage, too, seems especially susceptible to this ! forwarding by tillage, and if to this be added j the heavy manuring before recommended, the ; capabilities of the orop will certainly astonish j the inexperienced. I have noticed such re- i raarkable results from constant, thorough tillage, not only in promotion of earliuess but increase of yield, that I have thought that upou this class of crops manure might' be dispensed with and yields, both large and early be secured, if the tillage be only sufficient.?J. B. Root, in Fruit Recorder. A Scrap Book.?Every farmer should 1 keep a book in which to paste agricultural j scraps. Every one, in reading a paper, will see things which he will wish to remember. He will, perhaps, see suggestions, the value j of which he will desire to test, or hints which j he will want to be governed by in future operations. And yet, after reading the paper, i he will throw it down, and will probably j never see it again. In such a case all the valuable articles will be lost. To prevent j such a loss, every reader should clip from the papers such articles as he desires to preserve, and paste them in a scrap book. Such a book, at the end of a year or two, would be , very interesting and valuable, and would well ; repay the little labor and time required to j make it. I flMfacn'si Dppartwent. THE MAGNET. Do any of ray little friends know what a magnet is ? There are two kinds; one is the natural i magnet, and is found only in a few parts of j the earth ; it is called natural, because God j made it just as it is. The other kind is called j artificial, because men make it. They were ; a long time finding out how to make it, but by a great deal of hard study and practice in experimenting, they at length succeeded in making a pretty good imitation of what God had already made. The magnet looks like a piece of iron or steel, and possesses some very peculiar properties. For instance, a little needle made out of it, and placed on a pivot, so as to be easily turned, will point north and south. Is not this wonderful ? It is one of the wonders of God, and no man can account for it, that is, tell the reason why. Truly does the psalmist iow "ITow iiiiqpo rntin KIp in Wis wisdom illld His ways past finding out!" But, you will 3ay, what if the magnetic needle does point north and south?what good does that do anybody? I will tell you. When a ship is out in the ocean on a dark night, and the captain cannot tell which way to steer her course, he looks at his little friend, the magnetic needle, swung on its little pivot, and it never fails to tell him. So, too, a traveler, who has lost his way in the great desert or in the woods, may look at his little friend, aud be told silently, yet surely, which way to go. Since it has been known to mankind, many thousand ships have been brought safely into port by its use. Ten thousands of precious lives have been saved by it. When I was a littlo boy, a gentleman stopped one night in the towu where E lived, xnd showed the people a magnet, the first one, nerhaps, that most of them had ever seen. When he placed it one side of a table, and then placed a little, commou needle on the jther side, the needle began to quiver and nove a little, as if blown by a gentle breeze; placed a little nearer the magnet, it would nove perceptibly toward it, that is, the magiet would attract or draw the needle; placed still nearer, the needle would jump and cling to the magnet, so that, in trying to remove it, fou would think they were glutd together, fhe blade of a common pen-knife, when r\lo oorl nrroiMcf f Vi a moimnf urAtilrl u1c/\ atmlr jyiavtu u^aiucv wuv lunguviij nwuiu uiou uviva ;o it, and, if allowed to remain a little while, irhen pulled off, would partake of the magnet's aatureor power of attracting a needle or othir similar metalic substance, so that you could, 3y holding the blade near a needle, make it quiver, and the needle, placed against the alade, would stick to it, and so you could, in die same way, pick up a tack or a shingle lail with the knife-blade. This all seemed very wonderful to me, but I lever thought, until long years afterward, low very much the magnet resembles the jreat God who made it, and how much you md I, little reader, resemble the common, little needle. Did you ever think of it? Take pour New Testament, and turn to the fourth chapter of James and eighth verse. It says: 'Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw ligh unto you." Now, compare this little irerse with what I have told you about the magnet and the needle, and ask your father jr mother to explain to you the meaning of ;he verse. They will tell you that the best and happiest people on earth are those who iraw nigh to God, and to whom God draws aigh. Yes, and all the saints in Heaven and :he angels of God draw nigh to Him, and are jnspeakably happy forevermore. May this be your portion and mine.?J. B. GUSTAYUS III. AM) THE POOR GIRL. One evening little Annie clambered upon her father's knee, which she was very fond of loitig when the work of the day was over. At once she asked for a story. "What kind >f a story, darling?" asked her father. "A Bible story, or anythiug else you please ; your itories are all good." Well, theu, listen: "There was once a good king of Sweden, jailed Gustavus the Third, whose death ocjured in 1792, after a reign of twenty-one pears. One morning he was riding through i village near Stockholm, his capital city. Seeing a young girl at a fountain getting water, he asked her for the favor of a drink. Without knowing who was addressing her, jhe stepped forward and lifted the pitcher to his lips. The ready kindness of the girl, her irtless manner, and her appearance of being poor, drew the king's heart toward her. He told her if she would come to live in the city, he would nlace her in a more agreeable and comfortable position in life. "'Ah ! good, sir,'answered the girl, lam not anxious to forsake the position in which Providence has placed me; and even if I were, E could not leave my home to accept your offer.' " 'And why not ?' rejoined the king, with some surprise. " 'Because,' replied the girl, with some signs of real modesty, 'my mother is poor and sickly, aud I am the only one she has to take care of her and comfort her; aud nothing that could be offered would lead me to leave her.' "'Your mother ?' returned the monarch, 'and where is she ?' "'In this little cabin,' was the reply; the girl at the same time pointing to an humble dwelling close at hand. "Gustavus descended from his horse, and went with the girl into the cabin to see her mother. There he found, lying on a bed of straw, the aged, suffering mother, who was sinking under infirmities. His kind heart was moved, and he said to the woman, 'I feel nr>M>> nnMMtr mothop f r\ fi twl ItAII Q/\ rloutlf Ilia VCi J dWliji ty U&JVA juu ou ucobiiuby and afflicted.' " 'Yes, dear sir, I am poor and sick,' she replied in a feeble tone, 'and should be distressed, indeed, but for the affectionate attention of my dear daughter, who labors and strives to support and comfort me, and omits no effort for my relief. May God remember it to her for her good,' she added, as her hand wiped away the tears which now rolled down over her cheeks. "The good king was very much affected, and never, perhaps, was he more thankful, than at that momeut, that he was able to help a suffering fellow-creature. Then handing the daughter a purse of gold, and directing the poor family to a better house, he said to the girl, 'still my dear young friend, go on taking the same care of your mother, and you shall not fail to have my help. Trust my word, I am your king. Good bye.' "On reaching his home, Gustavus made provision to have a sum of money regularly nnwl t<? the woman, fnr her sunnort. as lone I'"*v* - ' rr '? " o as she might live ; and when her death occurred, he remembered the daughter with a very rich endowment. IIow strikingly did God in this case reward, even in this life, the honor and love shown by this dear girl to her mother."?Lutheran Sunday School Herald. Why They Went to Wah.?A certain King sent to another King, saying: "Send me a blue pig with a black tail, or else?" The other replied : "I have not got one, and if I had?" On this weighty cause they went to war, j After they had exhausted their armies and | resources, and laid waste their kingdoms, they i began to wish to make peace; but before this j could be done, it was necessary that the in-: suiting language that led to the trouble should be explained. "What could you mean," asked the second King of the first, "by saying 'Send me a blue pig with a black tail,' or else??" "Why," said the other, "I meant a blue pig with a black tail, or else some other color. But what could you mean by saying, 'I have not got one,' and if I had??" "Why, of course, if I had I should have sent it." The explanation was satisfactory, and peace was accordingly concluded. The story of the two Kings ought to serve as a lesson to us all. Most of the quarrels between individuals are quite as foolish as the war of the blue pig with a black tail. I fUading fat the ^ahbath. CONDUCTED BY ItEV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] THE CHALDEAN HISTORY OF THE FLOOD. Besoru9, a Chaldean priest, who lived three centuries before Chri9t, wrote a history of the flood, some fragments of which have been preserved by the Greek historians. Inasmuch as he wrote after the Jewish captivity, and differed very slightly from the Scripture record, there was great reason to doubt, whether he may not have obtained his information from the captured Jews, rather than from alleged inscriptions on Chaldean monuments. But all doubt ou this question is now : happily removed. In 1842, M. JBotta was appointed French Consul at Mosul. Somo of his workmen, digging a well at Khoraahad, struck upon the walls of the palace built by Sargon, king of Assyria, seven hundred and twenty years before Christ. The winged bulls and other spleudid sculptures and antiquities, thence taken by M. Botta to Paris, sufficed to arouse the sprit of other explorers, amongst whom , Mr. Layard, assisted by Sir Stratford Can- 1 ning, met the first remarkable success. He soon discovered the palaces of Sennacherib and Esarhaddon, also some minor monuments, all of which he subsequently described and illustrated. After him Sir Henry Rawlinson, author of the historical evidences of the Bible, discovered many monuments, which he sent to the British Museum, and persevered until he discovered the key to reading the inscriptions upon them. Thus the whole volume of ancient Assyrian and Babylouish history was opened to subsequent explorers. This volume, George Smith has read and translated with great assiduity and remarkable results, which ? i i . i??j fiLi.e ne nas laieiy jmi-msucu. vmci aiuungob um discoveries aie the tablets of the "Izdubar Legends." There were twelve of them, but only the 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th, i have yet been found. The 11th contains the ' Chaldean history of the deluge. Izdubar was Nirarod, and his chief city, Erecb. (See Genesis 10: 10.) He was a mighty hunter, and his friend and hunting companion, Heabani, an astrologer and soothsayer, was killed by a wild beast. Izdubar, was inconsolable for Heabani's death; and the 9th tablet is inscribed with a funeral ode on the occasion. It bewails Heabani as "covered with the mantle of darkness"?"not lifting his bow"?"not grasping his mace"?"not sharing the noble banquet." The bitterest wail of all is this? "Thv wife whom thou lovest, thou dost not kiss; thy wife whom thou hatest, thou dost not strikeIzdubar in his grief and dejection, grows incurably sick, and iB warned in a dream to seek the aid of Hasisadra?the Noah of the Bible. According to this Chaldean history, he had not survived the flood ; { but at its close had been translated to heaven?or rather to the spirit state?in a far off < city, where he built the ark. That city is 1 named Surippak?"the ark city"?and lay on j the Persian gulf near the mouth of the Eu- i phrates river. Monuments found in Babylon ' show that it bore that name up to the 16th century before Christ, at which time it was captured by Haramenabi, king of Babylon. There Izdubar hasteus to seek the aid of the ' spirit of Hasisadra. After a long and difficult journey, in which he encounters giants < and demons, he reaches the spirit of Hasisa- ' dra, which tells the history of the deluge, and there directs Urhamsi to cure Izdubar by bathing him seven times in the sea. Thus the 1 leprosy is cast off, and Izdubar goes home in youthful beauty. 5 To condense this history of the flood, set j forth in the many columns of the tablet, we might say in brief that it differs very little 1 from the Bible history in the main facts, but is very much longer in its multitude of details. 1 r4 i. ii- ^ 1 lb represents uie peopic aoucauujrcu IU1 men wickedness by Hea?god of the sea. He ( warns Hasisadra to build the ark. Its dimensions are given in cubits, but the key to 1 the figures has not been discovered. Hasisa- ? dra, though then living and ruling in a city ( which he had founded on the Persian gulf, is nevertheless commanded to build the ship on l dry land. He hesitated, saying, "The young 1 and the old will deride me." The reply of j Hea is mutilated, but it causes the ship to be \ built?"on the earth fixed." The frame, the planks, the roof, he mentions, and then says, ' "three measures of bitumen I poured over the outside?three measures I poured over the j inside." Then come boxes and baskets con- ? taiuing articles for the sacriBce. "Wine in ' goat-skin3 I collected like the waters of a ( river." Food, as the dust of the earth." Hea i "gathered the beasts of the field." Women servants, female slaves and boatmen also were 1 taken in. The ark was entered and the door , shut. Then follows the description of the 1 terrible storm. Thus: "The raging of a storm ( in the morning arose from the horizon of i heaven extending wide." "Vu! in the midst , of it thundered." "Nebo went in front? ' throne bearers went over mountains and J plains." "The spirits carried destruction ; in their glory they swept the earth. Of Vul the flood reached to heaven." "The bright 1 earth to a waste was turned." "Brother saw not his brother." "In heaven the gods sought 1 refuge. They ascended to the heaven of i Auu." "All to corruption turned, and there I, in presence of the gods prophesied evil? to evil were devoted all ray people?like the young fishes, they filled the sea." "The gods ] were weeping, in seats, seated in lamentation, J covered were their lips for the coiniug evil." , "I nerceived the sea making a tossing, and the 1 whole of mankiud turned to corruption?like J reeds the corpses floated." "The ark drifted 1 until it rested on mount Nizir. There the j dove, the swallow and the raven, are success- \ ively sent forth from the ark?and the raven < feeding upon the corpses in the water did not ! return." As soon as Hasisadra came out of \ the ark, he built an altar and offered sacrifice, i and the gods?"like flies over the sacrifice 1 gathered." They promise not to make another deluge. They also purified the country and Hasisadra aud his wife, to be like gods, were carried away. The Christian in Sorrow.?We reraera- ! ber to have been told that when persons re- ! ceive electric shocks, if the balls are not , grasped tightly, they blister the hands?while if they are, the hands take no damage. Is not something of this kind true as to the spirit with which Christians meet earthly i sorrow ? If they are fixed in faith and firm in patience, is not the wound of the heart the less ? And is not the wound the greater, if they are unbelieving, timid,shrinking? Oh! for wisdom, when the "shock" of sorrow comes, to "grasp the balls tightly," and escape enduring pain !?Baptist Herald. Resolution which springs from Christian principle, and is fortified by it, is fearless : as well as unremitting. It is conclusive of good purposes and the pledge of their being \ executed effectively in noble sentiments and j worthy deeds. The soul of the resolute is less calm than firm. S8P There is a way that seemeth right unto > a man, but the end thereof are the ways of I death. THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. NEW PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS! UNPRECEDENTED OFFERS! BY a very liberal contractjust entered into with the Weed Manufacturing Company, we are enabled to offer greater inducements to clubmakers than ever heretofore. READ OUR PROPOSITIONS! Weed Sewinjj Machine, No. 1.?Price, $60. For a club of 40 subscribers, at $2.50each, we will ?ive a WeedSkwino MACHiNHoflhoabovestyle, the cash price of which is sixty dollars. Weed Sewing Machine* No. 2.?Price, $65. For a club of 45 subscribers, at $2.50 each, wo will ?ive a Weed Sewing Machine of the above style, the cash price of which is sixty-five dollars. Weed Sewing Machine, No. 3.?Price, $70. For ft clubof 50 subscribers, at 92.50 each, we will give a Wked Sewing Machine of the above style, the cash price of which is seventy dollars, .ja?-The reputation of the Weed Sewing Machine is equal to that of any other first-class machine in the market, and of its merits we can ipeak advisedly?having had one in constant use In our own family since 1860, during all of which fimn if hna nfludr failed to work in the most Sat isfactory manner. OUR LIBERAL OFFERS. In addition to the attractions of the Enquirer, we invite attention to our terms of subscription, ind the liberal offers wo make to those who may be disposed to form clubs. TERMS?FREE OF POSTAGE. finglo copy, one year, 86 00 Two years to the same address, 5 00 in clubs, eacii subscriber, one year, 2 50 PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS. To those willing to form clubs for the Enquirer we make the following liberal offers: 1. For 40 subscribers, at 82.50 each, we will give i No. 1 Weed Sewing Machine, worth $60. 2. For 45 subscribers, at 82.50 each, we will give i No. 2 Weed Sewing Machine, worth 865. 3. For 50 subscribers, at 82.50 each, we will give i No. 3 Weed Sewing Machine, worth 870. The engravings given above in this column rep esentthestyleofthedifferentmaehines. No. lis alack walnut, oiled, plain table. No. 2 is black walnut, oiled, half case. No. 3 is black walnut, ailed, half case, with two side drawers, and with ar without drop-leaf, as may be preferred. These offers are not confined to a single club, lor is there any competition invited as to who shall procure the largest club. Each and every dub of 40, 45 or 50 names will be entitled to the lesignated premium. The machines will be shipped from the nearest aranch office of the Weed Machine Company to fie persons entitled to receive them, transporta,ion charges, which will rarely exceed 85, if sent ay freight line, to be paid by the person receiving fie machine. The offG. made in this prospectus will be bindng upon the proprietor of the Enquirer until fie 15th day of October, 1875; and persons who may commence making clubs, can forward names is rapidly as procured, in every case to be paid in idvance, having until the above-mentioned date In which to complete their lists. It is not required that subscribers shall all receive their papers at the same post-office; butsubicriptions must be for a term not less than one year. One subscriber for two years will be equivalent, in making up lists, to two names for one year each. Subscriptions may commence with any number, and the paper will be sent for a full year from the time the subscription begins. Each club-maker will be credited with names is they shall bo received; and should any fail to secure either premium by the 15th of October, 1875, but should prooure ten or more subscribers, an 3xtra copy of the paper will bo given for the ten names thus procured, and for all subscriptions in jxcess of ten, a cash commission of twenty-five jents will be given on each name. The Enquirer is sent Free of Postage to ill Subscribers. Remittances may be made at our risk, by draft, [jost-offico order, or in registered letter; if made itherwise, we will assume no risk. Write names plainly, giving post-office, county ind State. Specimen copies of the Enquirer will be sent ;o any address on application. ANOTHER SPLENDID OFFER. PREMIUMS TU SlflULCi guratniiifiiu. For the advantage of those who are inaccessible by a club-maker, but may yet wish to avail :hemselves of our liberal offers to subscribers, tve have made arrangements with the publishers of Smith's Biree Dictionary by which we ire enabled to oiler that valuable work as a premium to subscribers, at a cost to the subscriber for the book and the Enquirer, of little nibre than the publisher's price of the book. Smith's Bible Dictionary is a standard work, and indispensably necessary to every student of the Bible, :>r to every person who desires to read the sacred volume intelligibly. The Dictionary is the work of Dr. William Smith, of the University of Lonilon, and the most eminent lexicographer in the world, who, in its preparation associated with himselfover seventy distinguished divines and authors, of both Europe and this country, in the great task of preparing a comprehensive Dictionary of tho Bible, and supplying a want long felt by tho religious public. The result of these labors appeared in three large and very costly volumes, a wonderful monument of learning. An abridgement of this great work, for popular use, madoby Dr. Smith himself, is tho one we have arranged to furnish our subscribers. The book contains every name in tho Bible respecting which anything can bo said. It ombraces the results of historic research, antiquarian investigation, the study of languages and dialects, and tho discoveries of the modern travelers and explorers in the Holy Land?Robinson, Rawlinson, Ferguson, Layard, Offert and Stanley. The book is printed from new stereotype plates, on good paper, and is appropriately 'illustrated with over 125 Engravings of beautiful Scenes, Ancient Cities, and Memorable Places of the Holy Land, descriptive Figuros and valuable Maps. It contains nearly 800 closely-printed, double-column, octavo pages, including 24 elegant full-page, Steel and Wood Engravings. It is printed in typo of a heavy, distinct, and very legible face. The publisher's price of Smith's Bible Dictionary is $3.50. We will furnish a cony of the work, substantially bound in cloth, ana a copy of the Enquirer one year for 34.50. Or for a club of five subscribers at $2.50 each, we will furnish a copy of the Dictionary to the getter up of tho club. The book will be mailed, free of postage, to the porson entitled to receive it, direct from the office of publication. Subscribers whose terms of subscription havo not expired, by forwarding the money, will receive a copy of tho Bible Dictionary, and have I their subscription to the Enquirer extended one year. The cash must accompany all orders. L. M. GRIST, Proprietor, Yorkville, S. C. * I "The sweetest, most powerful and durable j II | now in use." I BLOOMFIELD & OTIS, NEW SCALE PIANOS, j 209 EAST 19TH ST., NEW YORK. EMBRACING new and most valuable Patents, fl| giving a greatly improved treble; also, by a | new manner of stringing and a new method of in- | sorting sound board,the most important results jj have been obtained. g "The tone is full and sonorous, with a sweetness i I and delicacy of touch that cannot I>esurpassed. I I I have tested them as I would a Grand, for points | S of delicacy and strength, and they have stood tho r test in every way. In many respects they are su- | perior to any manufactured in America. CirARJ.ES FRAOEr,." (Tho eminent and favorite Composer and Pianist to His Royal Highness, the Due Gustave of Sax Weimar of Eisonach.) (Rochester Musical Times.) "The firm of Bloomfield it Otis have lately made several important improvements in their pianos, placing them in the front rank of American manufacturers." (Toledo, O., Blade.) "Bloomfield it Otis, of New York, carry away tho first premiums at the Ohio State Fair as they (lid at the Fair of the American Institute, con- q sidering tlio fact that they met in competition all ^ the established favorites, such as the Knabe, Dunham, Lighte, Bradbury, and many others, which were skilfully bundled, this is certainly a high compliment, as thetestawerethorough and critical. (Brooklyn, N. Y. Eagle.) ? "The Music Committee of the Board of Education, Brooklyn, together with the local committees, after examining and thoroughly testing all the principal instruments manufactured, have pur- "E chased Bloom field it Otis'celebrated Patent Treble Pianos for the use of the schools." These Pianos are warranted for seven years. Responsible and energetic AGENTS WANTED everywhere. /5S&" Send for Circular and mention the name of T the paper in which you saw this advertisement. January 28 4 tf C. WEST & SONS c ALADDIN SECURITY OIL. J WARRANTED 150 DEGREES FIRE TEST. M THE BEST HOUSEHOLD OIL IN THE WORLD. Indorsed by the Fire Insurance Companies. g Read tho followingCertiticate selected from many others: HOWARD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY t OF BALTIMORE. Bai,timork, Dec. 23, 1874.? Messi s. C. West A Sons?Gentlemen : Having used tho various Oils, sold in this city for illuminating purposes, I take pleasure in recommending your "Aladdin Security" as the sa/est and hest ever used in our household. Yours truly, T (Signed) Andrew Reese, President. r IT WILL NOT EXPLODE ! ASK YOUR STOREKEEPER FOR IT. T Wholesale depot, C. WEST & SONS, Nos. 113 and 115 W. Lombard St. m February 4 52 6m* 1 H A 1? CHAP. MJjrm, ml*. M-0 am. k7i?\/ & THOSE in want of an EASY SHAVE, a fash- _ ionable and stylish cut of hair, or a pleasant ? and luxurious Shampoo, are reminded that THOS. BALLARD, Professor of the ArtTonsorial, is still in business, in his old Shop next door to the Enquirkr building, where it will afford him great pleasure to wait upon all who may desire his services. Razors honed and sharpened, ? and any other work of that kind promptly done. He may be found at the Shop on Sunday mornings from 7 to 10 o'clock. THOMAS BALLARD. y June 11 26 ly x Nos. 3 Broad Street and 109 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. ? STITIQIIIS jj Ci First-Class Work ? OUR SPECIALTY, ? YET, BY USING CHEAPER GRADES OF STOCK, WE CAN FURNISH WORK AT LOWEST LIVING PRICES. FINE FASHIONABLFsTflTIONERY, Piries Paper and Envelopes. 'J Wedding and <?all Invitations ON THE BEST STOCK AND PRINTED IN THE ie LATEST STYLE. ? V sc September 10 37 tf jr W. L. BRADLEY'S it standard fertilizers, g B3J w SEA-FOWL. GUANO. * QUARANTKED j' equal to any ever sold! ^ POLLARD A C0.,C01T0N FACTORS, j ^ GENERAL AGENTS, Augusta, Georgia. | SEA-FOWL GUANO, in bags, of 200 pounds each. C. C. COE'S SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME, ? in bags, of 200 pounds each. LBRADLEY'S AMMONIATED DISSOLVED -1 BONES, in tight dry barrels and bags. Ln ROYAL GUANO COMPOUND, in bags, of200 [T pounds each. J" The abovestaiulard Fertilizers having been used ^ for the past seven years, in the South, with une- ' J qualcd success, areagain offered at prices that can- ' not fail to give satisfaction, while the standard is guaranteed to bo equal if not superior to any ever sold. * es For prices and terms, apply to W. H. A J. P. HERNDON, in Yorkville, S. C. February 4 5 3m cj, I THE JAS. EEFFEL I C1 i Doable Turbine Water Wheel, 1 1 & Mann factored by IT PUULiS & HUM', rn A Baltimore, Bid. ... IH 7,000 SOW IS VSEt < Mm n Simple, Strong, Durable, ! II always reliable and Bails- ] 1 Manufacturers also. of Portable & Stationary ^^^jJRSfirEngines. Steam Boilers, P, | & Grist Mills, Min. : faint 1 White Lead ami Oil miu Machinery, ^Jaraulic and other "Tk ; Presses,&c. Shifting, Pulleys and Hangers ; P a specialty Machine made Gearing; sccu- 4 rate and of Very best finish. Send for Circulars- <J March 25 12 6m AUCTIONEERING. ? T1HE undersigned takes this method to notify _ the public that he will give prompt attention to AUCTIONEERING in York and the adjoining counties. Communications may be addressed to 11 him at Yorkville, S. C. S. G. BROWN. H March 5 10 tf rnnn 3 If T 111liiPPilfl iVTW ifT^ VfIM Oi 01 wWwwwWWwiy si III <*! AVi 111 F1 w fflr.ifcl 0 WhVli /.\ Mfl T June 4 26 tf i ,n ''EH Day athoine. Terms free. Address ni ' *Jp JZiMJ G. Stixso.n St Co.,Portl:iiul, Me. 6 ly* ' fll IMPORTANT NEWS TO PLANTERS! GREAT DEDUCTION IN PRICES ! In view of the low prices obtained for Cotton ie_Bresentjicagoii, and in order to place our iianos within the reach of every planter, we ave greatly reduced our prices. They will be sold as follows: THE CAROLINA FERTILIZER, CASH PRICE, TETON OF 2000 POUNDS, $46. Payable May 1st, 1875. TIME PRICE, 'ERTON OF 2000 POUNDS, $53. Payable Nov. 1st, 1875, free of Interest. LARK BROTHERS, Agents, Yorkville, S. C. , M. IVY A; CO., Agents, Rock Hill, S.C. CURETON, ARDREY <fe CO., Agents, Fort till, S. C. THE IRADLEY'S PATENT PHOSPHATE. Cash Price, ?ER TON OF 2000 LBS., $46. Payable Mav 1st. 1875. ~~ "J ^ ' Time Price, ?ER TON OF 2000 LBS., $53. Payable Nov. 1st, 1875, free of Interest. . M. DOBSuN & CO., Agents, Yorkville, S. C. HE PALMETTO ACID PHOSPHATE. Cash Price, EE TON OF 2000 LBS., $30. Payable May 1st, 1875. Time Price, >ER TON OF 2000 LBS., $35. Payable Nov. 1st, 1875, free of Interest. HEIGHT AND DHAYAGE TO BE ADDED. Call on Agents lor Almanacs and Information. FOR SALE BY CLARK BROTHERS, Yorkville, S. C. J. M. IVY & CO., Rock Hill, S. C. GEO. W. WILLIAMS & CO., Proprietors, Charleston, S. O. January 14 2 4m i ikjp.. ? flHE COOKING STOVES manufactured atour L works in Greensboro, N. C., give universal tisfaction wherever introduced. They are made the BEST SCOTCH PIG METAL, with heavr and thicker plate than any other Stove in tho arket, and consequently will the longer withand heat and bard usage. They are of band >me pattern and neat finish, and warranted equal i every other respect to any Cooking Stove sold i the United States, while it is confidently claimed lat they are the CHEAPEST. All the usual ieces or ware and cooking utensils are tarnished ith each Stove. An important consideration ith purchasers is the fact that our patterns and ?es are never changed. Should a piece get acciantally broken at any time, we can replace it at te mere cost of casting. Not simply because it a home production, buton accountof its intrinc merits as an article of household economy, do e ask the patronage of home purchasers. More lan ONE THOUSAND of these Stoves are now i use, and among many others having them we ispecttally refer to the following: R. E. Guthrie, . M. Campbell, M. H. Currence, York county ; ,'rs. Elizabeth J. Wylie, Chester; D. A. Gordon, uthriesville; John A. Brown, Rock Hill; B. P. oyd, Joseph Herndon, L. M. Grist, Yorkville. ou can save the freight from the northern cities id the dealer's profit, which is no small item, 7 buying of us, and at the same time get a rOVE THAT IS MORE DURABLE than those northern make. Tho following are our prices ilivered at depot in Greensboro: o. 8, with 10 pieces ware and 8 feet pipe, $30 00 44 -J 44 44 44 44 44 44 14 26 00 Address, SERGEANT & McCAULEY, Greensboro, N. C. *r nnncAv At po a cents. Yorkville. S. C. , 1*1. - wttl ? _ )HN R. LONDON, Agent, Rock Hill, S. C. A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, Lowrysville, Chesr county, S. C. fcaiiaiVr GRAND, SQUARE, AND UPRIGHT PIANOS I AVE received upwards of FIFTY FIRST PREMIUMS, and are among the best now ado. Every instrument is fully warranted for re years. Prices as low as the exclusive use of e very best materials and the most thorough nrkmanship will permit. The principal pianists id composers ana the piano-purchasing public, the South especially, unite in the unanimous irdict of the superiority of the STIEFF PIANO, le DURABILITY of our instruments is fully tablished by over SIXTY SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, the South, using over 300 of our Pianos. Sole Wholesale Agents for several of the prinpal manufacturers of Cabinet and ParlorOrgans. rices from $50 to $600. A liberal discount to ergymen and Sabbath Schools. A large assortment of second-hand Pianos, at ices ranging from 876 to $300, always on hand. Send for Illustrated Catalogue, containing the tmes of over 2000 Southerners who have bought id are using theStieff Piano. CHAS. M. STIEFF, Warerooms, No. 9 North Liberty Street, BALTIMORE, MD. Factories, 84 and 86 Camden St., and 45 and 47 jrry St. May 21 21 ly APPLICATION FOE DISCHARGE. tottpe is hprnhv civon that the undersigned. Administrator of the estate of H. H. SMITH, iceased, will make a final settlement with the idge of Probate for York County, on the 8th iy of May, next, when he will make application r discharge as Administrator of the said estate. J. E. CURTIS, Administrator, de bonis non. pril 8 14 5t AGRICULTURAL LIENS," MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to f I Real Estate. For sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. Ike ?0tfewiU* (SNqitiw. TEIIM8?IN ADVANCE i ne copy, one year, $ 3 00 no copy, six months, ] 50 ne copy, three months, 2 50 nglc copy, 10 wo copies, one year, 5 00 sn copies, one year, 25 00 ZE#* To persons who make up clubs often or ore names, an extra copy of the paper will lie irnishod one year, free of charge,