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HlumflMttis ?*pattment. i A REGULAR PRESCRIPTION. Scene in the Detroit police court: "Eliza JaueDension, why are you here, and what do you want?" inquired his honor of a fat female \ who came around in front of the desk. 11 "I want my rights," she replied, pushing j her bonnet back and making ready for a f speech. $ "Very well, madam, go ahead, while I take a few bites from this apple. Elucidate, s and sparemo pains to bring out the truth." j "Well, you know," she commenced, unpin- j uing her shawl, "you know I got kicked by a i horse." 1 "Possible?" t "Yes?a week ago. I fainted away, had a c doctor, and came near dyiug. Kicked me [ * i ? iti IIIC oiuuy ii^ut ncrc, Q "Goon, raadara." t "The doctor prescribed sling for me," she said, "and the sling was too strong, and I g lost my senses in the street." v "How does it come, Mrs. Denison, that you v were under a neighbor's window, sleeves rolled c up, hair down, and offering her fifty cents to g come out just fifteen seconds ?" he asked. 1 "I don't know ; I know the doctor prescribed 1 sling," she answered. ( "Well, Eliza Jane, I cannot countenance 1 any such doings. This is the nineteenth cen- ( tury, you know, and people can no longer t act like barbarians. I shall?" f "Remember, it was a regular prescription," < she interrupted. s "Yes, and this a regular sentence. It's ten ^ dollars or sixty days." How is This for Pedigree ??A very j searching investigation was carried on a few j years ago, in the North of England, by two families who were searching up their respect- t ive ancestry. t The strife was great between them, each { one determined to look back into antiquities s farther than the other. ( One of the families, whose name was Spen- j cer, employed an artist to paint an"historic scene, representing the building of the ark, t an/) tkn lna/)inr? nn tka ckin kw \Tno k art/") auu tut ivauiug u^s vi vuw ouip uj i.i vuu uuu his sons with its multefarious and various cargo. On the gang-plank leading to the deck of the ark two men were seen rolling up a large box, on one side of which was painted in large letters, "Relics, insignia, and papers belonging to the Spencer family." This was considered a coup d'etat hard to beat, but the other family, determined not to be out done in antediluvian preteuces of their name, prepared, at great cost and research, a record of their antiquity. In describing the exploits of one of their ancestors, at a very early day, who was represented, as a man of some authority, this remarkable passage occurs : "During this year Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise." f" flay One of the last as well as one of the neatest hits made by Ben Butler, just before the close of the last session of Congress, occurred during the famous "dead lock" fight on the civil rights bill. The question of adjournment was under consideration, and Gen. Butler had stepped over to Mr. Randall's desk for a private consultation. Butler favored a Sunday session. Randall opposed. "Bad as I am, I havesome respect for God's day," said the Democrat, and I don't think it proper to hold a session of Congress on that day." "0, pshaw!" responded Butler, don't the Bible say that it is lawful to pull your ox or ass out of the pit on the Sabbath day? You have seventy-three asses on your side of this house that I want to get out of this ditch tomorrow, and I think I am engaged in a holy work." I "Dou't do it, Butler, pleaded Sara. "I have some respect for you that I don't want ? to lose. I expect some day to meet you in a better world." "You'll be there, as you are here," retorted Butler, quick as thought?a member of the Lower House." What He Wanted.?A shock-headed youth went into Morris' music store, Saturday afternoon, and softly scratching the shin of one leg with the foot of the other, asked if Mr. Morris bad the new songs. "Certainly," said that gentleman, stepping sprilv ha?k of the counter; "which one do you wish ?" "Have you got that air piece called? called?" here the young man paused and then suddenly added?"called?Gray Hairs s in the butter ?" p "What's that ?" said Mr. Morris, rubbing I his hand in painful abstraction. "Gray Hairs in the Butter," repeatedj the young man, changing legs. "Perhaps," kindly suggested a gentleman s who ha3 boarded for twelve years, "our young I friend meuns 'Silver Threads among the ( Gold.'" i "That's it, by gum," shouted the young i man, in a burst of pleasure. r Mr. Morris had it.?Danbury News. i ? ? t The Yankee Outwitted.?A Yankee r and a Frenchman owned a pig in copartner- ? ship. When killing time came, they wished ( to divide the meat. The Yankee was very ( anxious to divide so that he could get both ] hind quarters, and persuaded the Frenchman ] that the proper way to divide was to cut it ] across the back. The Frenchman agreed to t it on condition that the Yankee would turn ] his back aud take choice of the pieces after it 1 was cut in two. The Yankee turned his back t aud the Frenchman asked : "Vieh piece vill you have?ze piece wid ze ( tail on him, or ze piece vat ain't got no tail ?" ( "The piece with the tail," replied the Yankee. "Den, by gar, you can take him along, and ( I take ze oder one," said the pleased French- | man. , Upon turning arouud, the Yankee found } that the Frenchman had cut off the tail, and ( stuck it into the pig's mouth. I Approximating It.?Judge B., of the j Supreme Bench of California, was trying a . case where a farmer claimed damages against 1 a mining company, for blowing vailings on ' to the farmer's laud. A witness testified as to the effect of a stick lying in a stream of wa- ' ter carrying the vailings, and obstructing the ' same. Judge B. (to witness)?"How large !' was this stick you speak of?" Witness?"I j 1 don't recollect." Judge?"Can't you approx- [' imate the size?" Hitness?"Well no; I did ; 1 not measure it." Judge (growing impatient)? I , "Well, sir, was it as thick as my wrist ?" Wit- \ "Well, yes somewhat larger. From my j recollection now, I should judge it to be j - ^ ~- 4 An no VAIll* Kaort I" UUUUl* OS 111icrv ao juut uwuv? i The Ten of Diamonds.?The first services j1 at Independence, Texas, were held in an ex-1 temporized church, the building having been ( previously used as a saloon and gambling- { place. The first Sunday after the prelimina- < ry services, just as the Rev. Mr. Pierce had beguu his sermon, a gust of wiud struck the i building aad blew a card from one of the rafters. It was the "ten of diamonds," and j fell face upward upon the open Bible. The i circumstance seemed to disconcert the minister, wherupon old Felix Robertson stepped j up, and, taking the card said, "Well, parson,! you've got him. The devil has thrown up his baud already." - | i flay Mr P. is proprieter of a hotel in one of | the populous towns of Illinois. He has a lit-' I tie son, who, when about four years old picked J i up various phrases from the boys, about the stable and other places, that were not always j of the most moral character. One day, when : I he had been using language quite exception- i able, his mother, after giving him a good i shaking, said, "Why, Charlie, where do you < expect to go when" you die, if you talk in this j i way ?" j < "Well, ma," replied this young son of the i West, "I guess I'll go to my funeral." After that the conversation lagged. i WHAT I WOULD DO, WERE I A YOUNG FARMER. Perhaps I would get married ; I am sure I vould, if I had fifty acres of land, a cow aud ioree, was healthy and willing to labor ; and >rovided a nice, well raised girl could be bund, brave enough to marry a poor man, md not be sorry for it afterward. If from ten to thirty acres of land could be ipared from cultivation, I would plant it in jecan nut trees, which would, in twenty years, >rove a source of income to me. When past niddle age, I would cultivate bees to obtain loney for home consumption at least, and, if he pasturage is good, for market, also ; should :ertainly raise cattle, for an ample supply of nilk and butter; there is no good living without milk and butter; not much digestion and >ut little perfect health. I should keep sheep also ; say four or five heep to each head of cattle, and if my farm fas too small to graze them, and no privilege vas offered me of grazing them on the public lomain, I would sell out, or move without elling, and locate myself, not in the far West, >ut within a line of sixty miles from the AtaDtic and Gulf coast, extending from North Carolina to Alabama; would seek a healthy, evel pine land, with a light sandy soil, lying ipon a substratum of red or yellow clay, and lear enough streams to obtain cane pasturage "or my cattle during the winter. Our own state furnishes thousands upon thousands of mch acres. Colleton, Beaufort, and Barnveil counties fill the bill exactly. I would plant corn, cotton, peas, potatoes, )ats aud sugar-cane ; would not speud a dollar for commercial fertilizers, but all my dolars for sheep and cattle, and would keep as nany as I could winter, or that could wiuter .heraselves, if the number should reach one housand, and the.farm should be proportioned ,o the size of the herd. Cattle aud sheep should herd together, to protect the latter from logs; and if the pasture was within two miles hey should be driven up and penned in portible pens every night, for eight months in ;he year. In this geuial latitude there are put few days of winter so cold as to forbid lerding cattle in the open air. My cattle aud sheep would be the source of all the phosphates and ammoniates that could be desired. rhey would be living and portable phosphate ?ia.!. ^...i :? u JtfUB, putting men UCpUBllO VVIICIC It YVUUJVI uu ;he most good, without the aid of lazy negroes, uules and an old rattling wagon to haul straw ind then haul out the lot treadings upon the lelds. There is nothing to prevent the gathering of fabulous crops from a few acres enriched by this process. Moreover, it is asys;era requiring but little labor, and that job abor, just the kind our fellow citizens of African descent prefer to render. Our planters lire men to sit upon the fence and watch cot;on-pickers. I would prefer to pay a stock niuder, and watch my highly fertilized acres *rom a cool piazza, through an object glass. Where never less than one five hundred pound laleof lint cotton per acre is grown, three ire quite practicable. I should want but few ahorers, a little while at a time. Splitting ails, plowing, hoeing, planting, cutting oats, grinding sugar-cane?can all be done by job, )r day labor. For whenever the plan of mating large yields from small areas, when the )ld plantation system, with a dozen mules, md its two or three dozen careless, lazy, thievsh, and destructive "hands," shall become jverlastingly obsolete, all enterprising men, vho take hold of farming and stock growing it the right end, will find themselves emanci >ated from Sambo's destructive clutches, and jerfectly able, without the aid of exhaustive ind crushing liens, to begiD safuly, and carry >ut successfully the only system of agri^ul,ure that can redeem the South and save its jeople from destitution. Men of small capital should begin on a imall scale ; always within their means. Let t be one cow and calf, and four sheep, if no nore. Instead of hiring a man to drive up his miniature herd,.better hire the herd to some without driving, by paying it every iveoing a few peas, oat sheaves, or fresh cut jrass. Stock are more faithfully responsive o regularly paid wages than eight-tenths of >ur hirelings. Pen them in a movable pen orty by forty feet, and move the pen every en days. This will enrich laud faster for the utlay than any other method known to me. [rue, it covers less than an acre in one year ?f eight months; but if this area be increased sach year from fifty to one hundred per cent., t will, in ten years, develop a snug farm, and ts owner will find that he 'has slowly but urely been growing comfortable and inde>endent.?Dr. J. W. Ooilvie, in Rural Caroinian for May. Dr. DANIEL LEE o7BERMUDA GRASS. Cato pleaded eloquently for reform with his hort-sighted, mistaken countrymen. Mr. ioward is the Cato of our age and generation. Jato told his frieuds to make water meadows f they could command water for irrigation ; f not, then make upland meadows, and by all neans have good artificial pastures and grazng. Mr. Howard invites public attentiou to he agricultural phenomenon of ten tons of nnet mitrifi.mc hnu hpitirr i/rnwn Rlld harvest "" ' ?J to to id on an acre of naturally poor land, near Charleston, in one year. To corroborate the sredit due to Mr. Kavenel's report, on which Mr. Howard's statement rests, in regard to 3ermuda grass for hay and grazing purposes, [ copy from the Patent Office Report of 1849, he statement of Mr. Thomas Affleck, then of Mississippi. Let me say that I knew Mr. AfHeck, as an educated Scotchman, who knew ill about grass, hay and fine stock, in his naive country, and one whose word commandid the universal confidence of those best acquainted with him : "I repeat, (see Southern Almanac for 1848, oage 61,) aud can refer to numerous witnesses ;o prove, if needful, that we have measured the ground, and weighed the well-cured hay, ind this more than once, when one cutting, ind that the second one that season, yielded )ver five tons per acre. After that a fair third cut was taken from the same ground. Five tons per annum is a moderate yield from a good well set Bermuda meadow, which a either top dressed with sludge from an jverflow, or receives one of manure annually." If the first and third cuts of grass on Mr. Affleck's land were together equal to the second, (and they probably exceeded it,) this Mississippi bottom yielded considerably over ten tons of good hay per acre. In another paragraph on the same page (156) this gentleman says: "I am not aware to what extent experiments have been tried with other grasses. I have imported from Europe seeds of over forty kiuds; from Texas aud the far West, over ten or a dozen ; and have, also, tried any number of native (?) grasses with varied success, of whieh the relation might be of some interest; but will only remark here, after careful and repeated trials, I have found no grass to compare, for hay or pasture, with the one comraeuded above?Bermuda grass, the Doub?the sacred grass of the Hindoos. Of its value for summer grazing, I must state further that it far exceeds that of any other grass within my knowledge in abundant yield, in sweetness, and in nutritive qualities." The writer may be pardoued for telling his readers that after studying the climates, soils, rocks and crops of Georgia, and other planting States, two years, editing the Southern Cultivator in the meantime, he went to Washington to look after the infant agricultural de? ? i a. 1 tl ^ partment or tne raieui ^uice, ?nu uicm up the questions answered by Mr. Affleck and many others. The difficulty under which F., and thousands of other planters labor, and appear to labor in vain, is, not that the climates which are damp enough to produce Sea Island and upland cotton, are too hot and arid for successful grass culture ; but grass culture, stock raising in a large way, wool growing, and dairy husbandry, are branches of productive iudustry, arts and trades, which they have yet to learn.?Dk. Daniel Lee, in Rural Carolinian for May. (fiMfattt's Department. THE BUNCH OP KEYS. There was once a bunch of keys, large and small, that had hung for more than twenty years on one and the same steel ring. Now, you would think that having passed so long ' a time in such close intimacy it would have 1 made them very fond of each other; but this | was not at all the case. They did not agree about anything, and whenever they were sure of not being heard, were continually disputing; moreover, they did not always stop at words, but when called on for service by their mistress, the housewife, and so interrupted in their angry debates, often beat each other to their hearts' content. The cause of this dis- i sension was nothing but pure pride and envy I arising from each of them believing himself I the most important of all, and consequently j expecting to be the first employed whenever i Mio Kiirwh wna tfilrpn in hand. so that the chosen one immediately became the object of ! jealousy to all the others, who thought themselves neglected aud set aside. One day the entire bunch was missing, and ! | great was the excitement among its members; : for, much against their will, they had slipped ! down behind a big sideboard, and then fallen : into a rather large mouse-hole, where they I lay in dust and darkness, totally unable to j move, and where, although they could not see : their mistress searching for them up above, ; her lamentations at not being able to find ! them were plainly to be heard. Those of the keys themselves were quite as j bitter, realiziug as they did what important j and indispensable personages they were; most sorrowful of all those of the one belonging to the plate chest. "What a misfortune," exclaimed he. "To-day there was to be company to dine, and here am I in this hole! How is it possible to entertaiu guests without i the plate? What will they do without forks | and salt-cellars, the gold teaspoons, and the J silver jug to hold the cream for coffee? It is j distracting!" "Vnn ura uq iianul moL-inir vminaplf nilt ?I A ",v ? ? to J j together of too much importance," said the ! oue to the linen chest, severely. "They can | get on well enough without the silver. That is not the first thing called for every day, and the want of it won't destroy the appetites of the guests; but that I am missiug is a real affliction ; for yesterday the laundress was here and carried away all the linen which had been used, and I know very well that our lady hasn't giveu out any more. What is to be done ? They cau't sit down at a bare table. Our mistress would go to her grave first. She'll cry her eyes out, I know she will, if I'm not to be found." "Oh ! they can manage well enough without you," cried the key of the pantry, breakI ing in upon this wailing. "But that I should | be wanting?that is despair indeed ! Why, they can't get anything to eat! In that room ! is everything needful for cooking, and the delicious dishes that were yesterday prepared for the feast are there too. Now, there'll be no getting at any of them, and they've nothing, actually nothing, with which to make more. You see at once which of us must today be most missed. Oh ! if I were only out of this dirty hole!" "Ah ! indeed !" exclaimed the key of the writing-table. "I'm sure it would not be much matter what had become of any of you if only I were not among the missing. Food and everything else that is needed can be got easily enough, provided one has the mouey. Rut. that, is inst what the folks above can't get, because I've locked it all up; and for want of me they're no better off this minute than so many beggars. Poor things! If I could only let them know where I am and help them out of their trouble !" "Nonsense!" said the key of the clothespress; "people so well off as ours are can easily borrow money enough if they'll only set about it. But there's the pinch ! They can't go anywhere to do that. My lady is still in morning wrapper and slippers, and without me cau get neither gown nor mantle. If I could but go to her there would be an end of this trouble." At these words all the other keys united in abuse of this last one, which was universally regarded by them as the most unimportant of their number, yet now talked more boastfully than anybody else, and apparently considered the losing of him the worst part of the whole affair ; and then they fell to shrieking out so loudly and disputing so hotly that they would have certainly come to blows had not the place in which they were been quite too small for that. But suddenly they all became silent, for the voice of the housewife was heard above, and neither of them wanted to miss a word of what she was saying, for each expected her to break out into lamentations for the loss of him, and so give him a triumph over the others. She was not alone. Besides her foot-steps they heard the heavy tread of a man. She spoke again ; they listened : "Now, my man," said she, "open my writing-table for me ; that is the last; aud I may rely, may I not., upou your punctually keeping your promise to let me have the new keys this evening, or, at the latest, early to-morrow morning?" "Surely, madam," was the answer "I shall keep ray word. Nobody likes to have things left unlocked, I kuow and the door closed behind lady and locksmith. But the keys remained quite speechless. They were completely confounded. New ones, the lady had said ! They were, then, dismissed and abandoned, in spite of their being so important and indispensable! "And is this all the thanks we get for twenty years of faithful service," said the one to the writing-table at last very dolefully. "But shall we indeed lie here to all eternity?" clinked out that of the plate-chest in a rage. He had hit the truth ; for they were hidden in that mouse-hole once for all, and there have they time for still further discussiou as to which of them is most indispensai ble.? Christian Register. The Pilgrim and the Knight.?In a I noble castle there once resided a very rich j knight. He expended much money in adom! ing and beautifying his dwelling, but he gave I very ttttle to the poor. A weary pilgrim ! came to the castle and asked for a night's lodging. The knight haughtily refused him, 1 and said? j "This castle is not an inn." The pilgrim replied : "Permit me to ask ? V Ml \ . ?> : two questions, and l win depart. "Upon this condition speak," replied the ! knight, "I will readily answer you." ! The pilgrim then said to hira : "Who dwelt in this before you?" "My father," replied the knight. "And who will dwell here after you ?" still asked the pilgrim. The knight said: "With God's will, my son. "Well," said the pilgrim, "if each dwells but a short time in the castle, and in time must depart and make way for another, what ' are you here otherwise than guests ? The 1 castle then, is truly an inn. Why, then, spend so much money adorning a dwelling which you will occupy but a short time? Be charitable, for he that hath pity upon the ' poor lendeth to the Lord, and that which he hath given he will pay him again." The knight took these words to heart. He ? > -i*-_ />._ .l? i gave tne pilgrim sneuer jur me uigui,, aim was ever afterward more charitable to the poor. feiy Some men's miuds are like a nest of clean and unclean birds, all crowded together; so that one can with difficulty get out a clean bird without pulling out an unclean bird | with it. t@r Study contentment. In these days of inordinate greed and self-indulgence, keep dowu the accursed spirit of grasping. What they dont have makes thousands wretched i and miserable. grading fat tit $faWati. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. . BUILDING FOR ETERNITY. This life is fitly compared to the process of putting up a building. As soon as life begins, this building process begins also. Whatever means and influences are brought to i bear ou the formation of the disposition, de-! sires, habits, thoughts, words and actions,! these are the materials used to build a person's i character, and this character decides that, person's destiny for eternity. If the materials used in this building pro-1 cess be such as are in accordance with the j will and the word of God, they will form a j character, by His blessing, likewise such as j God approves; but, if the materials be bad, 1 then the character will be bad also, unless j the grace of God prevent it. It becomes, then, a matter of the greatest j importance that all the influences which are j brought to bear on the formation of these , JUnKWo ? ft* A ll/if I firtsi uiapuoiuwua, ucguco^ nauiw auu uuimuv^ be such as will form them according to the will of God ; such as will draw the person toward God ; and not away from him ; then they, will be good materials for building up a good, substantial character, well pleasing to God. But, if the influences constantly brought to bear on these persons be such as tend to draw them away from God, toward the flesh and the world, then these materials will be bad, and, if put into the building, the whole will have to be taken down, and better materials used, or the building will perish. This is our blessed Saviour's own illustration, Luke, 6 : 47-49: "Whosoever coraeth to me, heareth my sayings, aud doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built a house, aud digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock ; and when the flood arose, the stream beat veheraeutly upon that house, and could not shake it; for it was fouuded upon a rock. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that, without a foundation, built a house upon the earth, against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great." Paul, in 1 Cor. 3 : 9-15, uses the same figure : "Ye are God's building." Jesus Christ is the foundation. The preaching of the pure truths of the gospel was building with good materials, "gold, silver, precious stones," and the work would stand the test in the day of iudnment. But preaching error in doctrine and practice was building with bad materials, "wood, hay, stubble," and these would be burned. Now, if, in education, worldly knowledge, worldly motives and worldly influences, be the materials mainly used, and brought to bear on the minds aud hearts of children and youth at home, in the school aud college, the character will be formed accordingly ; it will be a worldly character; the mind and heart will be filled with worldliness, aud there will be no room for God. On the contrary, both mind and heart will be averse to God. Such education is agreeable to the natural heart, and the lessons are easily learned. Besides, to change the figure, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." If these souls are ever saved, all these worldly things must be rooted out and destroyed, and opposite influences must be brought to bear in forming the character; or, to recur to the first illustration, materials of an entirely different kind must take the place of those* bad materials, if we would have the building stand for eternity. How foolish is it to build wholly or mainly, or even partly, for this world, when very soon "our earthly house of this tabernacle will be dissolved." And then there will be for us no building of God, no house, no shelter from the storm of God's wrath, which will abide on the soul to all eternity ! How deceptive the common opinion, that one can go on in worldliness, and neglect of God, the soul, and the kind offers of salvation, and then suddenly, at any time, become a Christian, and all will be well! Awful, fatal delusion ! How erroneous our system of education, which trains our children and youth almost wholly for this world, and not at all for eternity ! At home, then, in the school and in the college, let us take the Bible, these precious sayings of Jesus, and on this foundation, and with these materials, these blessed influences, let us resolve to build for eternity.? M. J. \V., in Christian Observer. . family Recipes. 1. For repairing family jars?Mutual love well stirred with forbearance, mixed with readiness to forgive and general good temper, is an admiral cement. It is well to let all family jars be shelved at once. 2. Preserving?The temper is best kept by using as little vinegar as possible. The heart, by using abundantly of the oil of grace. Treasures, by laying them up where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt. 3. Creams?The milk of true faith, if it stands long enough, yields the cream of assurance ; if flavored with the essence of love, it is a delicious dish. 4. Stews?These are best avoided by leaving our troubles with him who sent them. Pickles?Those persons get into them most who meddle with other people's business, or who act on the rule of policy rather than that of truth and unswerving honesty. 6. Dressed peacock?This is too common and poor a production to be introduced into Christian families. 7. To cure cold and heartburn?Do all the good you can, live near to God, love your neighbor as yourself. 8. Fritters?Novel reading, silly conversation, gossipiug, ceremonial visits and late rising, soon fritter away time. Christians have not a moment to waste. 9. Tart?Some think tart replies to be smart, but it is never wise to let our wit wound other people's feelings. Soft answers turn away wrath, tart speeches lead to general sourness. * 10. Sauce?Never to be tolerated in children ; a vulgar and evil thing in any one. Generally found to go with goose. 11. Crabs?Need grafting with some sweet fruit. He who can do it is named in John 15: 1. 12. Toasts?Least likely to affect the head when drunk in water. Toast and water is far better than healths drunk in wine. 13. Mincing?Only practiced by very silly ! persons; natural manners are best. See Isaiah 3 : 16, for a warniugagaiust those who i are described as "walking and mincing as i they go."?Rev. Spurgeon. I Many persons think of the cross only ! as a whipping-post; a gloomy thing that i makes all natural enjoyments and emotions : impossible to the sincere Christian. They j j are perpetually crucifying themselves, and all ; with wnora tney come iu uunwi, m n iuau-. ner that is not intended to make religion at-1 ! tractive. The people want light at every ' step. Distant glories are too faiut and uncerI tain. Give thera a lamp at the start, the assurance of Jesus' love and guidance, and when they come to the dark places they will know just what to do. A cheerful guide is a heaven-sent companion ; and joy in the heart puts wings to the feet, making obstacles in an earthly path, but stepping-stones to the I heavenly. 5*$- Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, aud your Maker more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life unto which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss. I JteaT How frequently Christian people make j their disasters or disappointments an excuse for cutting short their benevolent contributions. This is generally the first place where retrenchment begins, but it is both ungeuerousand unjust. THE TORKVILLE ENQUIRER. NEW PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS! UNPRECEDENTED OFFERS! BY a very liberal contract just entered into with the Weed Manufacturing Company, we are enabled to offer greater inducements to club( makers than ever heretofore. READ OUR PROPOSITIONS! Weed Sewing Machine, No. 1.?Price, i860. For a club of 40 subscriber*, at $2.50 each, we will give a WkedSewing MACHiNEoftheabovestyle, 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, we will give a Weed Sewing Machine of tho above style, the cash price of which is sixty-five dollars. Weed Sewing Machine, No. 3.?Price, ?70. ForaelubofSOsubscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a Weed Sewing Machine of the abovestyle, the cash price of which is seventy dollars. ^a?~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 speak advisedly?having had one in constant us< in our own family since 1866, during all of which time it has never failed to work in the most satisfactory manner. OUR LIBERAL OFFERS. In addition to the attractions of the Enquirer, we invite attention to our terms of subscription, and the liberal offers we make to those who may be disposed to form clubs. TERMS?FREE OF POSTAGE. Single copy, one year, $3 06 Two years to the same address, 5 0D In clubs, each subscriber, one yoar, 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 $2.50 each, we will give a No. 1 Weed Sewing Machine, worth $60. 2. For 45 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a No. 2 Weed Sewing Machine, worth $65. 3. For 50 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a No. 3 Weed Sewing Machine, worth $70. The engravings given abovo in this column represent the style of the different machines. No. lis black walnut, oiled, plain table. No. 2 is black walnut, oiled, half case. No. 3 is black walnut, oiled, half ease, with two side drawers, and with or without drop-leaf, as may be preferred. These offers are not confined to a single club, nor is there any competition invited as to who shall nrocure the lamest club. Each and every club of 40, 45 or 50 names will be entitled to the designated premium. The machines will be shipped from the nearest branch office of the Weed Machine Company to the persons entitled to receive them, transportation charges, which will rarely exceed $5, if sent by freight line, to be paid by the person receiving the machine. The offe. made in this prospectus will be binding upon the proprietor of the Enquirer until the 15th day of October, 1875; and persons who may commence making clubs, am forward names as rapidly as procured, in every case to be paid in advance, having until the above-mentioned date in which to complete their lists. It is not required that subscribers shall all receive their papers at thesame post-office; butsubscriptions must be for a term not less than one year. One subscriner 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 as they shall be received; and should any fail to u?n urn ftithor nremium bv the 15th of October, 1875, but should procure ten or more subscribers, an extra copy of the paper will be given for the ton names thus procured, and for all subscriptions in excess of ten, a cash commission of twenty-five cents will bo piven oh each name. Thb Enquirer is sent Free of Postage to all Subscribers. Remittances may be made at our risk, by draft, post-office order, or in repistered letter; if made otherwise, we will assume no risk. Write names plainly, piving post-office, county and State. Spocirnen copies of the Enquirer will be sent to any address on application. ANOTHER SPLENDID OFFER. premiums to single subscribers. For the advantage of those who are inaccessible I by a club-inaker, but may yet wish to avail themselves of our liberal offers to subscribers, we have made arrangements with the publishers of Smith's Bible Dictionary by which we are enabled to offer that valuable work as a premium to subscribers, at a cost to the subscriber for the book and the Enquirer, of little more 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, or to every porson who desires to read the sacred volume intelligibly. The Dictionary is the work of Dr. William Smith, of the University of London, and the most eminent lexicographer in the world, who, in its preparation associated with himself over seventy distinguished divines and authors, of both Europe and this country, in the great task of preparing a comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible, and supplying a want long felt by the religious public. The result of these lal>ors appeared in three large and very costly volumes, a wonderful monument of learning. An abridgement of this great work, for popular use, made by Dr. Smith himself, is the one we have arranged to furnish our subscribers. The book contains every name in the Bible respecting which anything can be said. It embraces the results of historic research, antiquarian investigation, the study of languages and dialects, and the discoveries of the modern travelers ami explorers in the Holy Land?Robinson, Rawlinson, Forguson, Layard, Otfert 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 Figures 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 type of a heavy, distiuct, and very legible face. The publisher's price of Smith's Bible Dictionary is $3.50. We will furnish a copy of the work, jiubstantially bound in cloth, and a copy of the Enquirer one year for $4.50. Or for a club of j five subscrihers at 32.50 each, we will furnish a copy of the Dictionary to the getter up of the club. The book will be mailed, free of postage, to the person entitled to recoive it, direct from the office of publication. Subscribers whose terms of subscription have not expired, by forwarding the money, will receive a copy of the Bible Dictionary, and have their subscription to the Enquirer extended one year. The cash must accompany all orders. L. M. GRIST, Proprietor, Yorkville, S. C. CHESTER FURNITURE STORE, OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE. $ j A full assortment of ' III! HI Mil!! (BIB SITS, s COTTAGE FURNITURE, J BEDSTEADS, MATTRESSES, EXTENSION J AND OTHER TABLES. J A great variety of ? CHAIRS, PICTURE FRAMES, LOOKING GLASSES, ETC., j constantly on hand. As I buy direct from WESTERN MANUFACTURERS FOR CASH, I am enabled to sell as low, and a little lower, than any other house in this country. Persons wanting to buy JO u JTtJJN I X U J_V_LLJ r will find it to their interest to examine my stock. Orders sent by mail or by Mr. F. M. GAL- s BRAITH, will receive prompt attention. o Goods bought from me will be sent (freight ii paid) to the nearest Railroad Station of the pur- c chger. R. BRANDT, Proprietor, s Chester, S. C. s February 4 5 ly i: "The sweetest, most powerful and durable t now in use." F BLOOMFIELD & OTIS, J NEW SCALE PIANOS, 3 209 BAST 19TH 8T., NEW YORK. J EMBRACING new and most valuable Patents, s giving a greatly improved treble; also, by a \ new manner of stringing and a new method of in- t serting sound board, the most important results i have been obtained. r . ] "The tone is full and sonorous, with a sweetness I and delicacy of touch that cannot be surpassed. I ( have tested them as I would a Grand, for points 1 of delicacy and strength, and they have stood the 1 test in every way. In many respects theg are su- a perior to any manufactured in America. I Charles Fradel." S (The eminent and favorite Composer and Pian- < ist to His Royal Highness, the Due Gustave of ( Sax Weimar of Eisenach.) 1 (Rochester Musical Times.) "The firm of Bloomlield A Otis have lately made several important improvements in their pianos, i placing them in the front rank of American manufacturers." (Toledo, 0., Blade.) t "Bloomlield it Otis, of New York, carry away ! the first premiums at the Ohio State Fair as they did at the Fair of the American Institute. Considering the fact that they met in competition all the established favorites, such as the Knabe, Dunham, Lighto, Bradbury, and many others, which : were skilfully handled, this is certainly a high compliment, as thetestswerethorough 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- ( chasou Bloomlield A Otis' celebrated Patont Treble ? Pianos for the use of the schools." ! These Pianos are warranted for seven years. * Responsible and energetic AGENTS WANTED ( everywhere. 1 pST Send for Circular and mention the name of the paper in which you saw this advertisement. January 28 4 tf t The above is a reduced eopv of the TITLE PAGE of the RU- ^ UAL CAROLINIAN. 8 THE publishers have determined to change the ^ commencement of the Volumes of the rj RURAL CAROLINIAN c From October to January. j THE RURAL CAROLINIAN is the leading Agricultural Journal of the South. Publishers c and Editors are all Southern men, and it is devo- 1 ted exclusively to the interests of Southern Agri- ( culture. While it is not the paid organ of the Patrons of Husbandry, or of any society or set of I men, it has been the most powerful advocate for the establishment of Granges in the South, and its r influence has contributed greatly to the present a prosperity of the Order. D. H. JACQUES, Esq., of Charleston, S. C.t Editor-in-Chief. CHARLES H. DODGE, Esq., of the Depart- j ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., Entomological Editor. Regular Contributors. Col. D. WYATT AIKEN. Washington. D. C. HENRY W. RAVENEL, Esq., Aiken, S. C. Rkv. C. W. HOWARD, Kingston, Georgia. i Col. N. H. DAYIS, Greenville, S. C. RURAL CAROLlNIAN--?2 PER ANNUM. -j Address WALKER, EVANS & COGSWELL, Publishers. Charleston, S. C. The Rural Carolinian and the "Yorkville Enquirer" will be furnished at $1 per annum. I January 28 4 tf rar==*3 i Nos. 3 Broad Street and 109 East Bay Street, ^ CHARLESTON, S. C. STATIONERS : First-Class Work i OUR SPECIALTY, 0 1 YET, BY VSINO CHEAPER GRADE8 OF STOCK, ( WE CAN Fl'RNISH WORK AT ^ LOWEST LIVING PRICES. J FINE FASHIONABLTSTATIONERY, ' Piries PaDer and Envelopes. Redding and ?all invitations on the best stock and printed in the LATEST STYLE. / September 10 87 tf HERRING'S PATENT CHAMPION SAFES, Established more than a third of a Century, REDUCED IIV PRICE. Also two hundred Second-Hand Safes for sale at very low prices. HERRING & CO., 251 AND 252 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 50 AND 60 SADBURY ST., BOSTON. ] February 18 7 3m? I , MMMLI.I j 11M' yJetlii!/ c fTPr IrMi c I MI s I >1M AYJ IIiKE Mt.iiTd.1 Hi I A la 0 t June 4 23 tf 1 ith g. ilhi9?\VFM Term* free. Addres* ^ yp+9 yp stinho.v & Co., Portland, Me. U ly* fl rHE COOKING STOVES manufactured at our works in Greensboro, N. C., give universal atisfaction wherever introduced. They are made n?Arrnu tirn \a irnn a t T ttie Bi/OX OtUlVU I 1U 1UUXAU, TTlUi UW1Br and thicker plate than any other Stove in tho narket, and consequently will the longer withtand heat and hard usage. They are of hand ome pattern and neat finish, and warranted equal 11 every other respect to any Cooking Stove sold n the United States, while it is confidently claimed hat they are the CHEAPEST. All the usual lieces of ware and cooking utensils are furnished vith each Stove. An important consideration vith purchasers is the fact that our patterns and izes are never changed. Should a piece get accilentally broken at any time, we can replace it at he mere cost of casting. Not simply oecause it s a home production, buton accountof its intrinic merits as an article of household economy, do ve ask the patronage of home purchasers. More han ONE THOUSAND of these Stoves are now n use, and among many others having them we espectfully refer to the following: R. E. Guthrie, ). M. Campbell, M. H. Currence, York county; ilrs. Elizabeth J. Wylie, Chester; D. A. Gordon, Suthriesville; John A. Brown, Rock Hill; B. P. loyd, Joseph Herndon, L. M. Grist, Yorkville. ? fou can save the freight from the northern cities ind the dealer's profit, which is no small item, jy buying of us, and at the same time get a STOVE THAT IS MORE DURABLE than those >f northern make. The following are our prices lelivered at depot in Greensboro; So. 8, with 10 pieces ware and 8 feet pipe, $80 00 u 7 a a H n <i a ft 26 00 Address, SERGEANT A McCAULEY, Greensboro, N. C. r. M. DOBSON A CO., Agents, Yorkville, S. C. rOHN R. LONDON, Agent, Rock Hill, 8. C. a it T.TunsAY. Acrent. Lowrvsville. Ches ?r county, S. C. A. WItrlilFORD, BOCK HILL, S. C. MORE YOUNG HORSES. [NOW have on hand, at my Stable in Rock Hill, S. C., SIXTY HEAD )f young and fat Kentucky Mules and Horses? imong them some good saddle and harness aninals, which I will sell ON TIME, payable first of X-tober, 1875, the payments to be satisfactorily secured ; or I will exchange them for old ones, on easonable terms. ? A. WILLIFORP. NOTICE. ALL persons i ndebted to me for Horses or Mu les purchased in 1874 and due in that year, are -equested to pay up at once and save cost. A failire to comply may injure their credit with me hiring the present year. A. WILLIFORD. CORN WANTED^ ?Tiwrtm o nnnv ONE THUUWAXN v cunnr<iio tvnn cuiku, for which I will pay the highest cash price. A. WILLIFORD. FODDER WANTEA ^ [WISH to buy 10,000 pounds GOOD FODDER, for which I will pay fl.50 perbundred_pounds. A. WILLIFORD. gum GRAND, SQUARE, AND UPRIGHT PIAN O S HAVE received upwards of FIFTY FIRST PREMIUMS, and are among (he best now nade. Every instrument is fully warranted for ive years. Prices as low as the exclusive use of he very best materials and the most thorough vorkmanship will permit. The principal pianists ind composers and the piano-purchasing public, >f the South especially, unite in the unauimous rerdiet of thesuperiority of the STIEFF PIANO. Hie DURABILITY of our instruments is fully istablished by over SIXTY SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, n the South, using over 300 of our Pianos. Sole Wholesale Agents for several of the prinlipal manufacturers of Cabinet and Parlor Organs. Prices from $50 to $600. A liberal discount to Clergymen and Sabbath Schools. A large assortment of second-band Pianos, at >rice8 ranging from $75 to $300, always on hand. Send for Illustrated Catalogue, containing the lames of over 2000 Southerners who have bought md are using the Stieff Piano. CHAS. M. STIEFF, Warerooms, No. 9 North Liberty Street, BALTIMORE, MD. Factories, 84 and 86 Camden St., and 45 and 47 Perry St. May 21 21 ly C. WEST & SONS AL.ADD1W SECURITY OIL. WARRANTED 150 DEGREES FIRE TEST. PHE BEST HOUSEHOLD OIL IN THE WORLD. Indorsed by the Fire Insurance Companies. lead the followingCertificate selected from many others: HOWARD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY )F BALTIMORE. Baltimore, Dec. 23, 1874.? lfess/s. C. West & Sons?Gentlemen: Having ised the various Oils, sold in this city for illumilating purposes, I take pleasure in recoramendngyour "Aladdin Security" as the safest and est. ever used in our household. Yours truly, (Signed) Andrew Reese, President. IT WILL NOT EXPLODE I ASK YOUR STOREKEEPER FOR IT. Wholesale depot, C. WEST <fe SONS, Nos. 113 and 115 W. Lombard St. Volirnnrv 4 52 6m* IN THE DISTRICT COURT >fthe United Statesfor the District ofS. Carolina. Tn the Matter of ) T? ,. D. McMACKIN, Bankrupt. { In B^knipUgr. h! Yorhville, in the said District, on the 22d day of April, 1875. ' kTOTICE is hereby gi ven that a petition has been filed in the said Court, by L. D. McMACKIN, f Greenville county, in the said District, duly delared a Bankrupt, under the Act of Congress, ntitled "An Act to Establish a Uniform System f Bankruptcy throughout the United States," ipproved 2nd March, 18(57, for a discharge and ertificate thereof, from all his debts and other laims provable under the said Act; and the 13th ay of May, 1875, at 12 o'clock, M., is assignd forahearing of the same, before W.I. Clawson. 5sq., one of the Registers in Bankruptcy of said !ourt, at his office in Yorkville, South Carolina. .'lien and where the creditors may attend and hew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of lie said Petition should not lie granted. I. M. WALLACE, U. S. Marshal as Messenger. By T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger. April 22 16 3t ! THE JAS. LEFFEL Doable Turbine Water Wheel, JuL Manufactured by W POO IE & HUNT, A Baltimore, Hd. HP 7floo sow lirysEt i Ma ? simple, Birong, uurmoie, l| always reliable and satlsManufacturers, also, of I W Portable & Stationary ^5^?j?SSi/Fnguies, 8team Boilers, f MgggHsaw ftOriat Kills, Min. for? Oil Mill Machinery^^i^anSther i Presses,ftc, 8hnfting, Pulleysand Hangers i a suecialty Machine made Gearing; accuattfand of very best finish, bend for Circulars. March 25 12 6m AGRICULTURAL LIENS, Lyf ORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to M I Real Estate. For sale at the M ENQUIRER OFFICE. %fo ? orhtilic TERMS?IN ADVANCE i >ne copy, one year, $ 3 00 >ne copy, six months, 1 50 >ne copy, three months, 2 50 ingle copy, 10 'wo copies, one year, 5 00 'en copies, one year, 25 00 jzarTo persons who make up clubs often or , lore names, an extra copy of the paper will be iirnished one year, free of charge,