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llttMijrdttSi ffrpartmrnt. HOW TO TRIM AN OSAGE HEDGE. I saw an honest farmer trimming an osage hedge over in Henry county. It is a very peculiar operation, and I listened to it with a great deal of interest. I say listened, because the interesting feature of trimming a hedge consists not so much in what the farmer does, as in what he says. The honest farmer had a crooked knife on the end of a hoe handle. He stuck this into the hedge and gave it a jerk. Then he said: "Ah !" Then he jerked again and down came a hedge switch. Then he said: "Ah-h!!" Then he took hold of the withered switch and drew it away from the hedge. Then he put his thumb in his mouth, and stood on one foot, and said: " Ah-A-h-H!!!" Then he once more unto the breach dear, dear friends, made another prod with the hook and said loudly: t'Gee whiz!" Then he jerked at a wicked looking branch with his hook, and roared: "Great snakes!" Then he pulled out a crooked branch, so full of thorns that it made your back ache to look at it, and when he stumbled over it and it wrapped itself around his legs, he stood still for a second, then dropped his hook, lifted his hands to heaven, and screamed: "Oh! Bloody murder!" The next rake he made he brought a whole top of a hedge plant with five or six branches, right down on his back. Then he threw his hedge hook fifty feet into a ten-acre field, opened his mouth thrice in a voiceless gasp, spread his arms out and fell down flat on his face, dug his toes into the turf, drummed on the turf in agony with his clenched fists, and wailed like a storm of wrath: "Oh! dad essentially! Take him off! Somebody take him off!" When he got up he said I seemed interested in hedge trimming, and he would teach me how to do it myeelf. I said no, I wouldn't try to learn ; I would like to know how,'but I was too awfully lazy.?Burlington Hawkeye. An Obtuse Witness.?Thackery has been police reporting for the London JDiogonese. Here is a sample: Pat Fogarty went all the way from Manchester to London to thrash Mike Fitzpatrick, which he did, winding up the performance with the assistance of an "awful horseshoe." He was detected and brought before Mr. Justice Simpleman. A part of the examination is annexed: Court?"Well, sir, you came here rrora Manchester, did you ?" Pat?"Your honor has answered correct/' Court?"You see the complainant's head; it was cut by" a sharp instrument. Do you know what cut it ?" Pat?"Ain't your honor after saying that a sharp instrument did?" Court (becoming restive)?"I see you mean to equivocate. Now, sir, you cut that head ; you came here to do it,did you not? Now, sir, what motive brought you to London?" Pat?"The locomotive, ver honor." Court (waxing warm)?"Equivocating again, you scoundrel, (raising up the horseshoe and holding it before Pat); do you see this horse-shoe, sir ?" Pat?"Is it a horse-shoe, yer honor?" Court?"Don't you see it is, sir ? Are you blind? Can you not tell at once that it is a horse-shoe ?" Pat?"Bedad, no, your honor." Court (angrily]?"No?" Pat?"No, yer honor, but can yerself tell ?" Court?"Of course I can, you stupid Irishman." Pat (soliloquizing aloud)?"Oh, glory be to goodness; see what education is, yer honor! Sure a poor ignorant creature like myself didn't know a horse-shoe from a mare's." The Edge of the Grave.?A rat of a boy, who had in vain searched the post office corridors for the nickel which a careless band occasionally drops at the stamp clerk's window, took his position before a chestnut stand, and eyed the fresh nuts a long time before drawing a deep sigh and groaning: "Oh, I wish I was rich!" The chestnut roaster made no reply, and the odor of the roasting nuts finally induced the boy to ask ; "Are chestnuts healthy?" "No, bub; they are proline ot indigestion,' was the reply. Alter a while the boy thought it time to remark : "Did you ever hear the story of the man who gave a poor boy a handful of chestnuts, and when the boy grew up and got rich he re warded the old man with a diamond pin and a four-horse team ?" "No, never did ; but I heard of a man who brought a poor boy to the edge of the grave by giving him a dozen chestnuts." The youngster took a turn up and down, secured another strong sniff of the pleasant odor, and then leaned over and whispered: "If I'll take the chances on the edge-of-the grave business, will you take the chances on the chestnuts?" The vendor finally thought he would. A Splendid Wife.?We once knew a man who was always praising his wife. On the corner, down the street, at the post-office, at the race course, in the skating rink, at the theatre, in the sal that is, the choir meeting, he was always telling what a happy man he was, just because he had such a splendid wife, and he talked every man he met into a perfect frenzy of envy about her. Well, one winter morning, when it was not yet too light to make one appear over-ostentatious, we sneaked into that neighbors yard to steal a board for kindling, and had to wait until that man's wife came out and sawed a couple of armsful of wood, shoveled out three snowpaths, fed and groomed the horse, and cleaned out the cow shed : and then when she went in the house, and we heard her call to her husband that the sitting-room was warm enough for him to dress in if he wanted to get up, we were so amazed that we forgot what we were waiting for, and went back and kindled the fire with a corn cob and pint of kerosene. Sauce Fit For Both.?A friend of ours has a little boy, who, on account of his mother being an invalid, has been under the especial care of his nurse. During the summer, however, his mother went away for the season, taking the little boy and his grandmother. Being unused to receiving orders from his mother, he at one time rebelled, and she was obliged to punish him. To this he demurred, affirming that only the nurse had a right to punish hint, and going to his grandmother he complained that his mother struck him. "That was right," said she, "if you were naughty ; she is your mother, and has a right to whip you if you don't behave." The little fellow, sobbing, asked: "Have mothers a right to strike their children ?" "Certainly," she replied. "Are you her mother?" he asked, "To be sure I am." "Why, then," cried he, "don't you hit her ?"?Bangor (Me.) Whig. Mrs. Tripp's Chickens.?Mr. Stephens has many stories to tell of negroes, and one is of a famous cotton and chicken depredator, who, since the war, met the ex-vice-president in the road. "Well, Thomas," was the kindly salutation, "I was sorry to hear that you had been in trouble about Mrs. Tripp's chickens." "Yes, Mars. Alec, but I done quit all dat now," said the negro, very penitently. "How many did you take before you stopped ?" asked Mr. Stephens. "1 tuck all she had," was the perfectly innocent reply. Ssay A subscriber to a southwestern newspaper died recent y, leaving a four years' subscription unpaid. The editor, who is of a practical turn, appeared at the grave and deposited in the coma a palm leaf fan, a linen coat and a thermometer. No reasons were assigned. Ihe ??n? Md ^hesidc. CHUFAS. In a discussion before the Georgia State Agricultural Society, a member said: I have been planting chufas for eight or ; ten years, and sent them to different portions ; of the State. Some have been afraid to plant j them; but they are very easy to get rid of j and easily cultivated. But I cannot endorse what a gentleman wrote in the Georgia , Grange about a year ago. He says one acre is worth, perhaps, ten of Tennessee corn. I would like to know his plan, if that is so. Also, I think that paper stated that on uplands where you could raise ten bushels of corn you could make one hundred bushels of chufas. You cannot do it. But on land that will make twenty bushels of corn you can make sixty bushels of chufas by two cultivations if you will keep the crab grass out of them. Let your chufa field lie out for a year, and you will get rid of them. They are a good crop to turn your hogs upon. By planting them early they will mature and make a good crop. They quit bearing as soon as the top3 turn yellow. They do not make good hay for me.- Stock will feed?on them when green. On extra land they will make 100 bushels. For feeding I think they are 60 per cent, under corn; some say they ?"V ? rtfi T fKinlr o KlloKol are wunu oo mutu ao uuiiu x binuu ? umwuv>i worth more than a bushel of peas. I do not think they are worth 85 to 100 per cent, of corn. I cannot say over fifty per cent. They are not easy to gather; I have paid freedmen 81 a day to gather them. If a man gathers them slovenly, with the strings and roots on them, they will pay very well, .but not when cleaned. They are very easy to spoil; easy to rot. If yon gather them, and harden them in the sun, they will be very sweet. If you put them in contact with salt it will rot them. They are like potatoes or peas, the salt atmosphere of a smoke-house will rot them. Any part of Georgia will do to plant them in. They make best on light soil; do not do so well on stiff land. I believe you could plant them as late as June and by October you would have as many as if planted in the Spring. They will make from fifty to seventy-five and one hundred chufas on the hill. Eating off the tops does not injure them. You need never to stop to uncover them, or care if you cut off the top; it does not injure them. I would not like to put stock on them, though, to tramp them, as that would injure the root. I have cut it for hay while it is green; and it will do, when a man can get nothing better; but on the same field a man can do better. I think a bushel of chufas is worth two bushels of green peas in the hull. I would as soon have a bushel of peas out of the shell as chufas. BOYS ON THE FARM. It is a proud day when the average boy gets his first pair of boots and trudges to school by the side of an older sister. He does not care any longer to take her hand. The leading strings are cut. But this early ambition to be a man is entirely eclipsed, when he has taken charge of his first pair of steers, and started for the fair. Jtias he not raised them, broken them to the yoke, taught them to pull and to back, to haw and to gee? They are evidence of his skill in subduing brute muscle. He is going up to the exhibition to display the fruits of his triumph, and, as he hopes, to wear the laurels of victory. He is no longer merely a spectator, but an exhibitor, an entertainer of spectators. There is a difference of nAtive tastes in boys. Some have a natural aptitude to one calling and some to auother, but most men have their callings determined by early circumstances, sometimes by incidents so trivial that they have hardly a place in memory. It is not difficult geuerally for a father, who loves the farm, to determine the calling of his children. If he makes it a business of thrift, and provides comfortably for his family, they will respect the calling. If he is discouraged and continually shifting his work, or his home, they will not be very likely to make tillers of the soil. One can hardly begin too early with his boys to incline them to the calling that is to give them bread, and the means of their future usefulness. If the boy is to be a farmer, he must begin to have a personal interest and venture in farming while he is yet a boy. Filial affection, in a happy home, is a very strong motive to industry and fidelity, but it does not shape a boy's plans for life like an investment of his own brains and muscles in daily work. He should have crops and animals, not only that he can 'call' his own, but that are his own, to keep, to enjoy, and to sell for his own pleasure and profit. The trusts may be small at first, but they should absolute, and let him have his own experience of success and failure in managing them. Let him manage poultry, a lamb, a calf, or a colt, and exhibit his own stock at the fairs. We notice with great satisfaction the increasing attentson paid to the boys at ihe fall fairs. Boys did some of the best wor k at a recent plowing rnatcn at one 01 our i fairs. One, a boy of fourteen, held the plow ! and drove his own team, and made as good a seed bed as his older competitors. These premiums for boy's work are in the right direction ; let them be noted in making up the lists for next year?American Agriculturalist for December. Nervous Cows.?No observing person can have the care of a herd of cows long, without notiug a great variance in the character and disposition of the various animals. The famous Mrs. Partington once remarked that "there is as much difference in *blks as there is in anybody," and it is just so with cows. The feminine peculiarities that we are apt to note in our own kind may, many of them, be detected among the domestics animals. Some cows are so phlegmatic and good-natured that a moderate amount of ill-treatment does not seem to disturb their equauimity. Others are naturally vicious, aud will kick and hook without provocation. There is another class that while not vicious, are so nervous that they may easily be made to appear ugly, and in time really become so, in consequence of rough handling or carelessness. It requires a considerate and good dispositioned man to manage such cows and get along with them. They must be humored, spoken kindly to, aud gently handled in milking. Swearing at thorn or beating them demoralizes them fear- ! fully and makes them almost useless in a 6hort time. It is ofteu among the very best1 milkers and butter-makers that these nervous ' animals occur, and we cannot afford to have their value thus impaired. No violence j should be allowed among the cows at any time ; but if you have impatient help, or are i quick-tempered yourself, let some person who doesn't get mad so easily milk the nervous cows. A cruel man ought never to have j | charge of any stock whatever. : What Farmers Succeed.?That farmer ' ; will succeed who makes up his mind that the i ! whol.e secret of success is in himself; that it I -? i it 1,11 j is the man and not tne ousiness mat tens. He will succeed if he brings to bear the same amount of skill, forethought, energy, economy J and judgment that any other business rej quires. Ho will succeed if he sticks close to J his farm, as the mechanic does to his shoi>, i and not expect to work three or four months 1 and then take his ease the rest of the year. | He will succeed if it is his intention that whatever he sends to market shall be the very best, and so made and put up than when seen, it' will be captivating for its freshness, cleanliness and purity, and will be unhesitatingly taken on account of his well known character for ! honesty of weight, measure and count. Those who have farms may think themselves for-1 tunate, for although they will not thereby find : suddeu roads to wealth, they will certainly ' prove that persistent farm labor will bring a 1 sure reward. It it worthy of notice that the adventurer and speculator, with blasted hopes i and shattered health and forpune, has in the . end to come back to the farm for health and safety. Agriculture is the basis of national ; strength and wealth and a most certain and libI eral support of all who follow it intelligently.' ? : . , * p ftcttiliug. THE WRITERS OF THE BIBLE. Moses wrote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Joshua, Phineas or Eleazor, wrote the book of Joshua, but it is not certain v?b?ch of them. Samuel is the penman of the book of Judges aud Ruth. He also wrote the first acts of David, and probably Nathan, and God wrote his last acts ; and the whole, formed into two books, which were named after Samuel as the most eminent person, called the first and second books of Samuel. .Tornminh rrmst nrrthnMv />rkniniIflrl t.he twn ?, V,- N. ^ V 1 ' books of the Kings. . Ezra compiled the two books of the Chronicles. He is also author of the book bearing his name. Nehemiah wrote Nehemiah. The author of the book of Esther is unknown. Elihu was most probably the penman of the book of Job. Moses may have written the first two chapters and the last. Some think Job wrote it himself. David w.rote most of the book of Psalms. Asap penned a few of them. Solomon wrote Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the'Songs of Solomon. Isaiah is the author of the prophecy of Isaiah. Jeremiah wrote the book bearing his name, and the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Ezekial, Daniel, Rosea Joel, Amos, Ob'adiah, probably Jonah, Micall, Nahuca, Ha bakuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah wrote the book of prophecies bearing their respective names. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote the Gospels named after them. Luke wrote the Acts of the Apostles. Paul is the author of the Epistles to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Phillippians, Colossiaus, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon and Hebrews. James, the son of Alpheus, who was cousin iierman to Christ, and one of the apostles, wrote the Epistle of James. Peter wrote the epistle bearing his name. The Apostle John wrote the three Epistles of John. Jude, the apostle, the brother of James called also Leddeus, whose surname waB Thaddeus, a near relative to our Lord, wrote the epistle of Jude. St. John, the Divine, wrote Revelation. SITTING BULL. A Canada paper, the Ottawa Citizen, gives an interesting account of the present position of Sitting Bull and his followers. A British officer, Major Walsh, i3 at present iu charge of a post in the immediate vicinity of Sitting Bull's encampment, near Wood mountain, and is on the most friendly terras with the "big Indian" chief. The major appears to have a decided influence over the red men, and they all look up to him as a great and noble chief of the White Mother. He has a contingent of twenty picked men, as brave and as true as steel. The Sioux camp at this point numbers about five hundred lodges, representing about one thousand souls, and is divided up, at present, into small hunting parties. The old braves are most peaceably ininclined, and there would be no fear of a breach of the friendly relations existing were it not for a number of hot headed young bucks who make depredatory incursions across the border, and sometimes go so far, when a favorable opportunity presents itself, as to steal tiorses in Canadian territory, and escape to the United States. The old braves deprecate this, and in every way endeavor to prevent it. In fact, they invariably make good the value of the horses stolen. To show how strongly they feel on this point, Inspector Allen says that the day before he left, a party of Sioux were out hunting, when they came across a young buck with a number of horses in his possession, evidently making his way to the United States. The father in-law of the young man was in the party, and wanted to know where he got the horses. He replied that he got them, as a present, from a white trader. The father-in-law quietly hinted that he handled the truth carelessly, whereupon the young buck grew impertinent. The father-iu-law considered this sufficient justification for him to dispatch the young man to the happy hunting ground, and without further parley dashed his brains out with a war club. Where the Sun Does Not Set.?The following graphic passage is from thedescrip tion of a scene witnessed by a Mr. Campbell and his party, in the north of Norway, from a cliff one thousand feet above the sea : "The ocean stretched away in silent vastneas at our feet; the sound of it scarcely reached our airy lookout; away in the north the huge old sun swung low along the horizon, like the slow beat of the pendulum in the tall clock of our grandfather's parlor corner. We all stood silent, looking at our watches. When both hands came together at twelve, mid night, the full orb hung triumphantly above the waters?a bridge of gold running due north spanned the blue waters between us and him. There he shone in silent majesty, which knew uo setting. We involuntarily took off our hats ; no word was said. "Combine, ifyou can, the most brilliant sunrise and sunset you ever saw, and its beauties will pale before the gorgeous coloring which now lit up the ocean, heaven and mountain. In half au hour the sun had swung up perceptibly on his beat, the colors changed to those of morn, a fresh breeze rip pled over the flood, one songster after another piped up in the grove behind us?we had slid into another day." ? The Heart.?Throb, throb, throb. Never sleeping, but often tired, loaded with care, chilled by despair, bleeding with wounds, often inflicted by those who do not understand it, or burdened with affection, it must beat on for a life-time. Nothing finds a lodgment iu ' its chambers that does not add to its labors. Every thought that the mind generates steps upon the heart before it wings its way into the outer world. The memory of dead loved ones are mountains of weight upon its sensitiveness; the anxieties of the soul stream to ( the heart and bank themselves upon it, as the early snow drifts cover the tender plant; love, if it loves, fires it with feverish warmth and makes it the more sensitive ; hate, if it hates, beats it to desperation and fills it with conflicts. Still it works on. When slumber closes the eye-lids, the heart is beating?beating beueath all its burdens; it works while we sleep ; it works while we play ; it aches when we laugh. Do not necessarily wound it; do not add to its bleeding wouuds. Speak a kind word to cheer it; warm it when it is cold ; encourage it when it despairs. Learn About tiie Pulse.?Every intelligent person should know how to ascertain the state of the pulse iu health ; then by coin paring it with what it is when ailing, he may have some idea of the urgency of his euse. Parents should know the healthy pulse of each child?as now and then a person is boru with a peculiarly slow and fast pulse, and the very case iu hand may be of that peculb arity. An infant's pulse is 140; a child of 7, about 80 ; and from 20 to 60 years, it is 70 beats a minute, declining to 60 at fourscore. A healthful grown person's pulse beats 70 times in a minute; there may be good health down to 60; but if the pulse always exceeds 70, there is a disease ; the ma- , chine is working itself out, there is a fever or ; inflammation somewhere, and the body is feeding on itself; as in consumption, when the pulse is quick, that is, over 70, gradually increasing, with decreased chances of cure, iintij it caches 110 or 120, when death comes J before many cjays. When the pulse is over j 70 for months, and there is a slight cough the lungs are affected. ftsif* It is an interesting sight, watching a young lady in Sunday-school endeavoring to instruct a class of little girls, while her whole j mind is centered upon a class of big boys. I H (. -I CONDUCTED BY { [ j ' } REV. ROBERT LATHAN. {Origin^./ ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. "Whenever we speak or write concerning God, it sltoiild be with great caution. Our ignorance on all subjects is very great, and it is not to lie supposed that we know more of God than we do of anything else. Of the things which come unilgr pur daily observatioji,.the,things wtiicifi fuse discernible by.out senst&, vfe know comparatively nothing. What, then, can we know of him whom no eye has ever seen ? Nothing certainly, except what he has been pleased to reveal of himself in his word and works." "It," says the Saviour, "I have told you of earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if t tell you of heavenly things?" If there are mysteries about those things which we have always seen, may we not expect to find mysteries connected with the existence and nature of him whom we can not see? riairinrv 6ofiultA.l AiiiHinltmc fhnf ilifiVD ACi O o?nr?Jncu vuibv IV God, the next step in our progress should he to inquire what are the attributes of God. By the word attribute, is meant that which resides in a thing so as to l>e inseparable from that tiling. When we say that form and divisibility a it Attributes of matter, Hfia' rijean that form and divisibility are essential properties of matter. In other words, we mean that matter cannot exist without having some shape and being divisible. In the same way, when we speak .of the attributes of God, we mean those properties which are inseparable from his being. The attributes of God are spirituality, immensity, eternity, uneliangeableness, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. They are susceptible of a two-fold classification. First, we may arradge tfliem under the heads of natural and moral. The natural attributes of God are bis spirituality, bis immensity, his wisdom and his power. The moral attributes of God are his holiness, his justice, his goodness and his truth. This classification seems to he correct, but there is sfpub,ambiguity.i^iiiected with the word natural, which may lead lis astray. It is possible for a being to be ]assessed, at least, to some extent, of spiritually immensity, wisdom and i>ower, and yet be destitute of any moral lirogcyxuttS. qtvu jis <t aiiuji. luin cunning?ii hot "wisdom?exercises <1 Wrful ]H)wer, and possesses something that, at least, resembles ubiquity. Still, he is emphatically immoral. We are not to suppose that these natural attributes of God exist, in any sense, separate from his moral attributes. The other classification is into communicable and incommunicable.. The communicable attributes of God are being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. The incommunicable attributes of God are infinity, eternity and ipichangeahleness, or as they are sometimes stated, self-existence,""unity of essence, immutability, eternity and immensity. The communicable attributes are seven in number, while the incommunicable are only three; or, if we adopt the last sj>ecifieation, Aye, H ; 0 The communicable are so called because they are, in a limited sense, the attributes of some or all creatures. Thus it may be said that beimj is an attribute of all creatures, whilst wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth, are partially possessed by men and angels. The incommunicalile ^attributes of God are so called because they are possessed, in no degree, whatever, by any creature. God only is infinite, eternal and unchangeable. Every creature is limited to a particular place ; had a beirinnincr and is the subject of constant mu tution. "When we speak of the communicable attributes of God being possessed by creatures, we must be careful to distinguish between the manner and degree in which they are possessed by-God, and that iii which they are-jHJHHeased by .-creatures. In God these attributes inherently exist; but they have simply been bestowed upon, those creatures in which they are found. In creatures they are only the gifts of God. Iwtlfc one case they are, strictly shaking, attributes; in the other only accidents suspended, absolutely, upon the will of the donor. It is not impossible to conceive of existence being withdrawn from any and.all creatures, and thus permitting all creation to drop back into a state of non-existence. We do not say that such will ever lie the case. The only thing, however, to prevent such an issue, is the will of him who communicated being to all things. We may say that God is, because beiug is an attribute,- of God'; but hviiefe we say that any creature is, all that we can mean is that being has been communicated to it and it is by accident and not by necessity. It is manifest that wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth, as they are found in creatures, are rather accidents than attributes, from the fact that some creatures do not possess them at all; and all those which do possess them, it is only in a limited degree, and they are constantly liable to be deprived of tliem. There is 110 active power in rocks and mountains; neither is there any wisdom in them. Power, as it exists in any creature, may become weakness; wisdom may become folly; holiness may become pollution ; justice may be lost; and unrighteousness take its place. Goodness may he driven out of the liuertiil oil,] >rvjlino tubti ni> itu lhnilo Hioro W...W ..r **w ....?..v , truth and verity may lie throttled, by. vile falsehood. From this we may safely infer that that resemblance which man originally bore to God, consisted in the wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth which God bestowed uiion him. Of angels?the highest order of creatures of which we have any information?we may repeat what has been said concerning man. These creatures originally were what God made them, and they possessed only what God gave them. Adversity,?rt is good that we have .sometimes some troubles and crosses ; for they often make a man enter into himself, and consider that he is here in banishment, and ought not to place his trust in any worldly thing. It is good that we be sometimes contradicted, and that men think ill or inadequately of us; and this although we do and intend well. These things help often to the attaining of humility, and defend us from vain glory; for then we are more inclined to seek God for our inward witness, when outwardly Ave he contemned by men, and when there is no credit given unto us. And therefore a man should settle himself so fully in God that he need not to seek many comforts of men. When a good man is afflicted, tempted, or troubled with evil thoughts, then he understandeth better the great need he hath of God, without Avlioni lie perceived he can do nothing that is good. Tlimi Uplament,eth and nrav etli, by reason of the miseries he suffereth. Then he is weary of living longer, and wislieth that death would come, that he might depart and be with Christ. Then also he well perceiveth that perfect security and full peace cannot be had in this world.?Thomas A. Kcmjtis. Some people go through life with a frown, a scowl or a gloom in their countenance. The very sight of them is chilling and repulsive. Others wear a cheerful expression, and thus lighten and bless all around them. The value of a smile is beyond estimate. It costs the giver nothing, but is beyond price to the erring and repenting, the sad and cheerless, the lost and forsaken. It disarms malice, subdues temper, turns hatred to love, revenge to kindness, and paves the darkest paths with gems of sunlight. To rise above others is the spirit and soul of society in its present constitution. To help others rise, to use our superiority as a means of elevating those below, is the spirit of Christianity and humanity; and were it to nreyai), would make a revolution more striking than any conquest made, HffiT The best recipe for going through life in an exquisite way, \yith beautiful manners, is to feel that everybody, no matter how rich or ho\y poor, need all tiie kindness they can gut from others in the world. " THE Y0RKVHLE ENQUIRER. PROSPECTUS FOR 1879. OUR LIBERAL PREMIUM OFFERS. IN announcing our PROSPECTUS for 1879, we deem it necessary only to mention the factthat the leading features which have characterized the ENQUIRER for the past TWENTY-FOUR YEARS will he retained, and, as in the past, the efforts of the Proprietor will be directed to making it an attractive and interesting family journal. We have already in hand a number of ORIGINAL SERIAL STORIES, written expressly for tho ENQUIRER, which will be published in the next volume; besides which, wo shall bestow upon the Miscellaneous and News Departments the same care and attention that have already given the ENQUIRER reputation for interesting variety and aeeurate statement. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION?FREE OF PO8TA0E. Single copy, ope year, $3.00. In clubs, each subscriber, per year, $2 50. MoneV may be.forward en at our risk, by draft, post-office order or registered letter?otherwise we will assume no risk. Write names plninly, giving post-office, county and State. Address all letters to L. M. GRIST Publisher. Yorkville. S. C. PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS. By a favorable arrangement with the different manufacturers, weare enabled tomnkethe following liberal and unprecedented offers of Premiums for Clubs. These premiums have heon adopted by us with special reference to securing only articles of value, which will prove serviceable to those procuring them. The regular retail price is given with each, and they are just as good as so much cash to those who receive them. All the articles are put down in our schedule at manufacturers' regular retail prices, and cannot be bought with cash any lower than the price here given. Premiums Nos. 1, 2 and 3 will be delivered through the mails, to persons entitled to receive thorn, free of cost. The other Premiums will bo delivered at the expen?n, for freight charges, of those receiving them. In cases where Premiums can be delivered at our publication office, arrangements may be porferted for reducing the freight oharges on small articles to a nominal amount. The charges for freight on the lowing Machines, Silver Wareand Cutlery Premiums will be from New York ; and on the Cooking Stoves from Greensboro N. O. READ THELIST. .* ?. i, .*1 ~~ No. 1.?For a club of 3 subscribers, at 82.60 each, we will give a treble silver-plated BUTTER KNIFE, worth 81.00. No. 2.?For a club of 8*ubscribers, at 82.50 each, we will give one copvof the family edition (cloth binding) of SMITH'S ARRIDGED BIBLE DICTIONARY, the publisher's price of which is83 50 per copy. Or for 84.50 we will give a copy of the Bible Dictionary and send the Exqutrer one year to any single subscriber not in a club. No! 3.?For a club of 10 subscribers, at 82.50 each, we will give a copy of the ENQUIRER one veAr, or a set of six treble silver-plated TEA SPOONS, worth 83.00. No. 4.?For a club of 15 subscribers, at 82.50 each, we will give one sot?six of each?Hard Rubber-Handle TABLE KNIVES AND FORKS, the manufacturer's price of which is 85.00. No. 5.?For a club of 16 subscribers, at 82.50 each, we will give either a trehle silver-plated SYRUP CUP, worth 80.00; or a set of six treble silver-platpd TABLE SPOONS, worth fO.OO. No. 6.?For a club of 18 subscribers, at 82.50 i. ~ :11 ? iurtuin A:i.,AM "DTTTTIT'T? WWII, ww win Kivt! itwouioauvoi -jjinicu u \j v a uiv DISH, worth $8.00. No. 7.?For a club of 20 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will crive one set of six solid cast steel oval-handle TABLE KNIVES. and one set of six treble silver-plated TARLE FORKS, the manufacturer's price of which articles is $10.00. No. 8.?For a club of 80 subscribers at $2.50 each, we will jrive a full set of extra superfine, full oval ivorv-handle TABLE KNIVES, with silver-plated blades, and a full set of treble silverplated TABLE FORKS the manufacturer's price of which articles is $15.00. . No. 9.?For a club of 40 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will eive one No. 8 TROPIC COOKING STOVE, with pipe and a full set of fixtures, the manufacturer's price of which is $80.00. No. 10.?For a club of 40 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will erive one threp-qnart, treble silverplated COMMUNION SERVICE, consisting of SIX pieces, worth $40.00. No. 11.?For a club of 40 subscribers, at $2.50 ea"h, we will privo one WEED SEWING MACHINE, Walnut Plain Half-Case, with one drawer, the manufacturer's price of which is $45.00. TERMS AND CONDITIONS. It is not necessary that the namps of a clnb should all be at the same post office. Names may he taken at anv number of places. One name for two years will be equivalent to two names for one year each. ^The time for cnmpletinfrjclnbs under the above ntTer is limited to tno riKtsr muihimi ur i MARCH, 1870. hv which time the names with the cash, should be returned to the office, fhongh names may be returned at any time between this and the above date. No premium will be delivered until the requisite number of names has hoen returned, and the full amount due for them paid. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. In sending names, write plainly, giving county, post-office and State. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. All subscribers to the Enquirer will receive tha papar free of postage. ? Persons entitled to receive Premiums, must give fnll directions as to whom and how they shall be delivered. A separate list will be kept for each club-maker, who will be credited with every name sent, so that the number returned by any person can be ascertained at a moment's notice. THE TIME OF CLOSING. Club-makers, and those who may wish to form clubs, should bear in mind that the offers we here present do not invite competition for Premiums, as in the ease of working to secnrethe largest club. Each club-maker sending the requisite number of subscribers will obtain the Premium offered for the specified number. Thetime. however. for completing a club is limited, under the present offer, until the FIRST MONDAY OF MARCH, 1879. Names may be sent in at any time prior to the above date. Send the names as fast as obtained, accompanied with the cash, and the Premium will be delivered when the requisite number of nameshasbeen returned. DESCRIPTIVE LIST. Our Cooking Stove Premium. The elegant Cooking Stoves which we nffrr as Premiums, are manufactured hv Messrs. Scrgpant & McCauley. at Greensboro, N. U. Those Stoves nre mnilpof the best Scotch pig metal, with heavier and thicker plate than any other stove in the market, and consequently will the longer withstand heat and hard usage. Thev are of a handsome pnttern nnd neat finish, and wnrmnted equal In points of apnenrance. durability and superior cooking qualities, to any Stove manufactured In the Union. The stove we have selected to glvp as a Prpmltim Is the largest Man made by the manufacturers, and with each one will be furnished, without charge, three joints and one elbow of pipe, and all the necessary cooking utensils, viz.: one ham bollpr, one bulge pot nnd cover, one tea kettle, one round frying pan, one long frying pan. one round griddle; onepnlrwnffle Irons, two sheet Iron bread pans, one scraper nnd one lifter. Over fivk thoosanp of these stoves are In use In Virginia and North nnd South Carolina, and they give universal satisfaction. The stoves will he shipped to those entitled to receive them as Premiums, direct from the manufactory In Greensboro, N. C Sewing Machine Premium. The superior Sewing Machine we offer as a Premium, Is the well-known Weed Machine and Is manufactured hv the Weed Sewing Machine Company, Hartford, Conn. It Is adapt eil to all the wants of family sewing; It can he readily comprehended hv anyone; It runs easily; Is always ready; will do anv anil all kinds of sewing with less changing nnd fewer extra attariimcnU; is self-adjusting; Is a two-thread Machine, making an Elastic l.ock-Ptlleh ; sfnnds solid and firm, has a neat case and convenient drawer. Several of these Machines, during the past year, have been delivered to persons who hnve returned the requisite number of names. Smith's Bible Dictionary. This Dictionary is thfi work of Dr. William Smith, of the University of London, and the most eminent lexicographer In tile world, who, in its preparation assoelated with himself over seventy distinguished divines and authors, of hotli Europe and this country, in the great task of preparing a comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible, and supplying a want long (Vlt by the religious public. Ttie result of these labors appeared in three large and verv 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 hnve arranged to furnish our sub serlhers. The hook contains every name In the Bible respecting whichanvthingcan he said. It embraces the results of historic resenrch, antitpiarlnn investigation, the study of languages and dialects, and the discoveries of the modern travelers and explo rers in the FIolv Land?Robinson, Rnwlinson. Ferguson, Layard. OtTert and Stanley. The hook 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, doublecolumn, octavo pages. Including 24 elegant full-page. Steel and Wood Engravings. It Is printed In type of a heavy, distinct, and vert* Inglhle face. The publisher's price of the Dictionary Is , 3.50. Three-Quart Communion Set. Churches unsupplicd with a Communion Set appropriate to the requirements of the sacred rite of administering the Lord's Supper, can, by our Premium arrangement, secure a fine, treble silver-plated three-quart Communion Set of six pieces, with little trouble, and, comparatively, at no cost. The number of sub?ii |? ,1,1m i*'iinn 1,1 it firwl nlnnnnI Sit. vice fun In' procured In almost any congregation; and the rnetu hers who mnv lie thus called upon to contribute their share ol the expense, will receive in return more than the value of their contribution in a year's subscription to the paper. Our Silver Ware and Cattery Premiums. With the very liberal offer which we are enabled to make, a beautifully ftirtilshi d table is now within the reacli of almost every housekeeper; and here is an opportunity, of which, if the I ladies avail themselves, they may secure, with but little trouble, a valuable set of Silver or Cutlery. Those articles are made for 1 us by Clias. R. Hiiiitiiurtoii, the successor of the I.ucius Hnrt ! Manufacturing Company, 2-2 Fulton street, New York, and are I warranted to be of the best material. Value of our Premiums. We would impress upon every one the fact that all of our Premiums are first-class goods. and the prices nttaclu'd to them in our lists are the regular retail prices at which the articles sell ! by all dealers and the manufacturers themselves, it Is only by j the most advantageous terms civen us by the manufacturers that ' we are enabled to make the liberal offers we do, and we guarnn| tec every article to be exactly as represented. j A Club and an Extra Copy. For a club of tkn subscribers paid in advance at the regular ! club rates, we will give, Instead of a Premium, an extra copy of the paper to any who may prefer that arrangement; hut in con- | sequence ofthe liberal Premiums we are now offering, we cannot afford to give an extra copy to the club-maker who receives j any Premiums enumerated on our list. ' SERGEANT A GREENSBO MANUFACTURERS OF "TROPIC59 COO] T. M. DOBSON & CO., Agent* JOHN R. LONDON, Agent, P A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, McCk J. L. CARROLL, Agent, Cheat August 2 The Best Family S The "NEW AMERICAN" is easily learned more work with 'ess labor than any other nru application. ' AGENTS^ J. S. 1)0VEI Manager, 64 Agent for Yorkville and vicinity, ! July 18 5 A. WILLI FORD, ~ FEED AND SALE STABLES. ' ROCK HILL, S. C. i ( PAY UP. ALL persons knowing themselves indebted to me for Stock bought in 1877, will be sued after the 1ST OF OCTOBER, 1878. Also, persons knowing that thev bought stock and their notes will fall due on the FIRST OF Ot TOBER. had better pay up, or I will force collection. I mean ' business. A. WILLIFORD. ( FODDER. ] THE undersigned will pay the highest Cash i Price for TEX THOUSAND POUNDS OF j OOOD FODDER, delivered at his Feed and Sale , Stables, at Rock Hill. A. WILLIFORD. DROVERS. 1 1AM prepared to keep Drovers on the MOST < REASONABLE TERMS, as I have good ont- < side Sheds and water in the lot. i A. WILLIFORD. I HO! THE FARMER ! HAVING secured the control of the sale of the J celebrated ] AVERY PLOWS, For the territory of York county, I am enabled : to sell these plows at lower prices than they have J ever been sold in this locality, In addition to my . , r r } I ; > STOCK ON HAND, I will receive in a few days, a large lot, consisting s of C. O., B. O., and Pony Steel Turn Plows, and Nos. 1 and 2 Cast Plows; one and two-horse c Hill Side Plows. \ i Also, a full supply of Steel and Cast Points and point bolts. I am prepared to furnish the i SULKY OR RIDING PLOW < 1 And Walking Cultivator, Gang Plows, and in fact, every variety of the Avery Plow that may J be wanted. Having met with so much encouragement in : the sale of these Plows, I propose to furnish the HOME AND FARM, A journal published by B. F. Avery & Sons, gra- ! tuitously for one year, to every person who may j buy, or may have bought an Avery Plow from f me. r Call and examine my stock. T. S. JEFFERYS. DAILY~EXCURSION! ' THE leaders of low prices are still in existence, p and are offering THE GREATEST BARGAINS I that have ever been known. We are closing out j the entire stock of Summer Goods f NOW ON HAND, i At and below Cost. We call the attention of eve- ! ry one to onr largestnck of Clothing, Cassimeres < and Pants Goods of all kinds, 11 WHICH WE ARE CLOSING. OCT. | i We call the attention of the ladies to our stock ot \ Dress Goods, bleached and unbleached goods, f Parasols, Kid Gloves at 25 cents, j AND A GREAT MAN IT OTHER GOODS, ' All of which must bo sold. We hope all of our friends will call and be convinced. r A. FRIEDHAM A BRO., I Rock Hill, S. C. t July 4 27 tf 1 SO OBNT 1 CIIAU* MICROSCOPE. t cheapest in the world , I MpHBu AlifniflM 6 Wi tlmM. bull la Pall* fla n po*? ?t one-tenth ?> iKulll [! co*t ofoth?rInitrumenU. Sun- J IrH B H |Pl0 ^ mall, poitpiUd, 25 etnU* ^jr ^NeWjlll^stoiUd Circular of Novernby 21 47 6m t NOTICE. v I RESPECTFULLY inform the public that I 8 am prepared to sharpen razors, scissors, shears and otner fine-edged instruments. Prices?for honing and sharpening razors, 25 cents, and for <? sharpening scissors or shears, 10 cents each, and 4 satisfaction guaranteed or no charge. TOM BA LLARD, Barber. November 21 47 4t* WRAPPING PAPER. c OLD NEWSPAPERS, of large size, suitable C for wrapping, for sale at 50 cents per hun- S died, at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. 1 August 15 33 tf 1 NOTICE^ r IAMstlll Agent for the "American" becauseitls ' the best and cheapest Sewing Machine made. J. R. SCHORB. 8 ? ? ; s A /ITIWTIC f you want to MAKE c AWJ^UlO MONEY pleasantly and JZJW t fast, address Fin ley, Hakvey A Co.. Atlanta, Ga. s October 17 4^ ly f : McCAULEY, RO, PT, C?t THE CELEBRATED KING- STOVES! PRICE GREATLY REDUCED on Cooking and Heating Stoves, Hollow Warp And-Irons, and Castings of al. ainds. Also, on | If 9; 'PLANTER'SPRIDE'PLOWS V | IjBr' and Plow Castings, [hU| straw cutters, HORSE POWERS, Saw Mills, Ac. i, Yorkville, S. C. lock Hill, York county, S. C. mnellsville, York county, S. G. ?r, S. C. ^ 31 ' tf ________ ___ Buy only the MT7 W kll JLJ f ? AMERICAN Only Sewing Machinn WHICH HAS A |clf-|bradin9|liu?i: It a&s Self Setting Needie. Never Breaks the Thread. Never Skips Stitches. 2s the Lightest tanning. The Simplest, the Most Dmable, and in Every Respect leving Machine! I, does cot get out of order, and will do ichme ; Illustrated Circular furnished on T ANTED. 1 Chariet Street, Baltimore, A(L HUNTER & OATES. 2 ; ly HILLS AND MILL MACHINERY. THE undersigned take this method of informing the public, that under the tirm name of a/rrT O OU/^tuvdq ?T J MUAUJ, wlCV aiu CIIKOj^CU III IU^ MILLWRIGHT BUSINESS, and are prepared to enter into contracts for the building or repairing of MILLS and MILL MACHINERY of evary description, from the largest and most compute Flouring Mill, to an ordinary Cotton Screw. Eaoh member of the Arm is a sk 11 fal I workman find has had the benefitof a nnmberof years' experience. We are, therefore, prepared to guarantee that all work entrusted to us, will beexecuted in i workmanlike manner. Bv permission, we refer to the following persons, for whom we have worked :>W. J. Rainey, Blairsville, S. C.; J. B. <fc R. M. Whiteside*, Hickory Grove, S. C. ; Major T. P. Whitesides, R. N. McElwee and Elia* Ramsay, Yorkville, 3. C.; W. D. Lessley, Clover, S. C. We are also agents for the sale of "Excelsior Bolting Cloths," and improved Mill Machinery if every description. Our post office address is Antioch, York county, S. C. W. S. WELLS, M. R. WELLS, J. W. WELLS. September 26 39 ly* ' HOUSE PAINTING. T1HE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he has resumed the business if HOUSE PAINTING in all its departments? i trade to which he has served a regular appren- -s tlceship, under a first-class painter,and in which tie has nad several years' experience. Work done in the most durable manner, and at the lowest prices at which it can beafforded. MARBLING, SRAINTNG in imitation of different woods, and ill kinds of FINE INTERIOR PAINTING X lone in as good style as can be done by any paint;r in this section "of the country. ] can "be seen ar addressed at Yorkville, and will cheerfully make estimates on work in any part of York, or ihe adjoining counties. References.?As to my skill as a workman, I respectfully refer to the following gentlemen: L. M. Grist, W. A. Moore, Hon. I. D. Witheripoon, A. W. Ingold.J. F. Wallace, I^awson Jenkins, Col. W. H. McCorkle, Dr. H. G. Jackson, Dr. J. F. Lindsay. Jaines L. Clark, James E. 3mith, Hon. A. S. Wallace, Yorkville; J. 8. R. rhnmson. Spartanburg: R. M. Wilson. Gaston: F. A. Brice, Fairfield ; J. Harvev Smith, Chester. NELSON DA VIES. July 11 28 Jy BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY" STATIONERY, AND book: bindery. rHANKING the public for liberal past patronage, I now invite attention to my complete itock of STAPLE AND FANCY STATIONERY, :onsisting, in part, of Flat Papers, Midium, Foio Post, Demy, Letter and Note. Blank Books, )f every variety; Envelopes, Slates, Ink, Ac, Fancy Stationery, Gold Pens and Pencils, Penknives, Writing Desks, Ac. Also, BOOK BINDING DONE, n all its various branches. Sheet Music, Periodcars,Law Books, Ac., bound in any style desired. Did Books rebound and repaired. ?BUrTED BILL AHD LETTER HEADS A SPECIALTY Orders promptlv attended to, at lowest cash :)rices. * E. R. STOKES, 155 Main Street Columbia 8. C. ROSE'S HOTEL, YOKKVILLE, S. C. THIS HOUSE has been thoroughiy renovated from cellar to garret, and newly furnished, inP eluding GRAFTdN'S PATENT 3PRING BEDS. In view of the times, our mot;o is a full House at a moderate price. L'ERMS?$1.50 PER DAY, OR 50c. PER MEAL. Sample Rooms reserved especially for Commer:ial travelers. HENRY W. SMITH. August 30 34 tf barber shop. * muncv in nF on P19V SH4VW a foafi 1 ionable and stylish cat of hair, or a pleasant ind luxurious Shampoo, are reminded that rHOS. BALLARD, Professor of the Art Tonsorial, is still in business, in his old Shop next door the Enquirer building, where It will afford iim great pleasure to wait upon all who may deure his services. Razors honed and sharpened, tnd any other work of that kind promptly done. THOMAS BALLARD. October ft 40 tf JAMES A. GLENN. D. D. S., SURGEON AND MECHANICAL DENTIST, pvFFERS his professional services J|3Sj^h l_| to the citizens of this seation.QJJBBBk iVhen desired, he will visit the resi lences of patrons. Teeth extracted without paini )v the use of nitrous oxide gas. Letters address d to Crowder's Creek, N. C., will meet with irorapt attention. Terms moderate. November 1 44 tf CLEANSING AND BEPAIEING. rHE undersigned would respect ully inform the public that he is prepared to cleanse garnents of any fabric whatever, rendering them lerfectly clean, and if unfaded, restoring them to he original brightness and lustre of the goods. Do not throw away your old clothes, but have hem cleaned and made to look as well as new. iVork promptly done, and at the most reasona>le prices. THOMAS BALLARD. August 22 34 tf , L R. SCHORB'S PHOTO-GALLERY, 1ST HOUSE EAST OF THE JAIL. A SUPERIOR Skylight, a gallerv with every convenience, and a determination to do mv test, enables me to promise satisfaction to all in rant of correct and nattering likenesses. Cloudy treatlier is as good or better tban sunshine for all ubjects, except small children. June 27 26 tf ???^????? Ihe fotfevtUe TKBM8?11ST ADVANCE t )ne copy, one year. $ 3 00 )ne copy, six months, 1 50 )ne copy, three months, .. 75 lingle copy, 10 "wo copies, one year, 5 00 ?en copies, one year, 25 00 To persons who make up clubs of ten or nore names, an extra copy of the paper will be urnished one year, free of charge. Advertisements inserted at One Dollar per quare, for the first insertion, and fifty cents per quare, for each subsequent insertion. A square mnslsts of the space occupied by seven lines of his size type. Contracts can be made for three, ix or twelve months, and a reduction obtained rom the regular transient rates.