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liumflwus Jfipstiment. FIRST-CLASS SNAKE STORIES. "Do you want some items about snakes?" asked an agricultural-rural-looking gentleman of the Eagles city editor the other day. "If they are fresh and true," responded the editor. "Exactly," replied the farmer. "These items are both. Nobody knows 'em but me. I got a farm down on the island a piece, and there's lots of snakes on to it. Near the house is a pond about six feot deep. A week ago my little girl jumped into the pond, and would have drowned if it had not been for a snake. The snake seen her and went for her and brought her ashore. The particular point about this item is the way that he did it." "How was it?" asked the city editor. "It was a black snake thirty feet long, and he just coiled the middle of himself around her ueck so she couldn't swallow any water, and swum ashore with his head and tail. Is that a good item ?" "First-class." "You can spread it out, you know. After they got ashore the girl patted the SDake on the head, aud it went off as pleased as Punch. Ever since he comes to the house regular at meal times, and she feeds him on pie. Think you can make anything out of that item?" "Certainly. Know any more ?" "Lemme see. You have heard of hoopsnakes ?" "Yes, often ?" "Just so. Not long ago we heard a fearful row in the cellar one night It sounded like a rock-blast, and then there was a hiss and things was quiet. When I looked in the morning the cider barrel had busted. But we didn't lose much cider." "How did you save it?" "It seefas that the staves had busted out, ' but before they could get away four hoopsnakes coiled around the barrel and tightened up and held it together until we drew it off in bottles. That's the way we found 'eih, and we've kept 'em around the house ever since. We're training 'em for shawl straps jow. Does that strike you favorably for an item ?" "Enormously," responded the city editor. "You can fix it up so as to show how quick they were to get there before the staves were blown off. You can work in the details." "Of course. I'll attend to all that. Do you think of anything more?" "I don't call any to mind just at present My wife knows a lot of snake items, but I forget 'em. By the way, though, I've got a regular living curiosity down on my place. One day my eldest boy was sitting on the back stoop doing his sums, and he couldn't get 'em right He felt something against his face, ami there was a little snake coiled up on his shoulder and looking at the slate. In four minutes he had done all the sums. We've tamed him so he keeps all our accounts, and i.~ * c lie id uic j igu uiiijgcdi at uj^uica jv u cvci seen. He'll run up a column eight feet loug in three seconds. I wouldn't take a reaper for hira." "What kind of a snake is he?" inquired the city editor, curiously. "The neighbors all call hira an adder." "Oh, yes, yes," said the city editor, a little disconcerted. "I've heard of the species."? Brooklyn Eagle. A sad looking man went into a Burlington drug store. "Can you give me," he asked, "something that will drive from my mind the thoughts of sorrow and bitter recollections ?" And the druggist nodded and put hira up a little dose of quinine, and wormwood, and rhubarb, and epsom salts, and a dash of castor oil, and gave it tp bim, and for six months the man couldn't think of anything in the world except new schemes for getting the taste out of his mouth. ffaT The mother of two sons, twins, met one of the brothers in a field one morning. "Which of you two boys am I speaking to ?" asked the mother. "Why do you ask ?" in quired the lad, prudently. "Because, if it is your brother, I will box his ears." "It is not my brother, it is I." "Then your brother is wearing your coat, for yours had a hole in it." "No, mother, I am wearing my own coat." "Good heavens," cried the mother, looking at him inteutlv. "vou're vour brother, after all!" J * J * / 8^, Two grammarians were wrangling the other day, one contending that it was only proper to say, "My wages is high," while the other noisily insisted that the correct thing was, "My wages are high." Finally, they stopped a day laborer, and submitted the question to him. "Which do you say, "Your wages is high," or "Your wages are high ?" "Oh ! off wid yer nonsense," he said, re* upjing his pick, "yer nayther ov ye right; me wages is low, bad luck to it." An Englishman says that no other people in the world,so far as he knows, can equal the Arkansians in off hand exaggerations. "Do you see that spriug. over there, stranger ?" said one of them to him. He said he did, whereupon the settler added: "Well that's an iron spring, that is, and it's so powerful that the farmer's horses about here that drink the water of it never have to be shod. The shoes just grow on the feet nat'rally." Recorder.?"You have been behaving very badly. You not only got drunk, but you resisted the officer, and used improper language." Prisoner?"I say, did you ever get drunk, and then just about the time you felt tired, and wanted to go to sleep, did you ever have a policeman paw you about like you were a green watermelon ? Say!" Recorder?"No; I was never drunk." Prisoner? "Then, don't talk." A market man was mercilessly swindled in the town of B . His misfortune gave him a very unfavorable opinion of the residents, and he expressed his opinion of them by saying that if the Angel Gabriel stopped at B* there would be no resur rectiou. "Why?" asked p listener. "Because the people would swindle him out of his horn before he had time to blow a single toot." A ruralist came into Tallahassee, Fla., and finding a news stand, ordered a lot of papers, which he took from the clerk with profuse thanks. He was astonished, though, when the clerk asked payment, as he "never heard of charging for newspapers before." He had been reading his neighbors' papers for nothing, and never know that they cost money. t&T An Irish woman called at the grocer's the other day and asked for a quart of vinegar. It was measured, and she put it into a gallon jug. She then asked for another quart to be put in the same vessel. "And why not ask for half a gallon, and have done with it?" said the grocer. "Oh! bless your little bit of a soul," answered she, "it's for two persons." "Bub, did you ever think," said a grocer recently as he measured out a half-peck of potatoes, "that these potatoes contain sugar, water and starch?"?"Noa, I didn't," replied the boy, "but I heard mother say you put peas and beans in your coffee, and about a pint of water in every quart of milk you Bold." The subject of natural philosophy was dropped right there. aST* "I'll teach you to lie, and steal, and smoke, and use profane language," said an irate Galveston parent to his eldest offspring, at the same time swinging a good sized sapling. "I'll teach you, you young scamp!" "Never mind, father, I know all them branches already." fiST" A saloon keeper, having started business in a place where trunks had been made, asked a friend what he had better do with the oldaign, "Trunk Factory," "0," said the friend, "just change the T to D, and it will auit you exactly." i Jaw and f irwifle. HOW TO CHOOSE A COW. ' Some persons have a sort of intuitive discrimination in judging a cow. This is the result of experience as well as of a peculiar in' describable sense of fitness ; for a general apj i>earance of a good cow carries with it to I the mind a very complete sense of the fitness ; of things. The chief points about a cow are ! the uddef and the teats ; for the former sej cretes'the milk and the latter convey it to the ! pail. The udder should, then, be capacious, j and the teats of convenient size, well shaped j and well placed for the use of the milker. The most capacious udder is one that has large extent at the juncture with the cow's body ; it should be broad and extend far behind, and should be broad and come well to the front. It should not hang down and come to a point, but should be squarely formed and of a Hattish, spheroid sliape on the under part. The udder of an animal is supplied with the blood from which the milk is secreted by the branches of the posterior, abdominal or mammary artery, which emerges from the external pudic trunk, one of the most important arteries of the system. The veins which complete the very highly developed circulatory system of the udder, $ass on to the abdominal subcutaneous yein, which is prolonged forward on the wall of the abdomen, and has an enormous volume in the cow. This vein is known as the milk vein, and its volume is one of the common tests by which a cow is judged. It passes from the front of the udder to near the brisket or chest, where it passes through to join the external thoracic vein. The importance of the circulatory arrangement of the udder justly entitles the development of the milk vein to be considered as a te3t of great value in selecting a good cow. As the blood from which the milk is formed is supplied by the digestive apparatus, the next point to consider is the form and capacity of the abdomen. A capacious stomach is consistent with the habit of a generous feeder, and the development of the abdomen, with the resulting wedge-like form of the body, is the third point of promise in a good cow. At the same time, the food consumed should be well digested and tlioioughly assimilated, and the other digestive organs should be equally developed as the stomach, otherwise a paunchy appearance would b~ given which would indicate a gross feeder r ther than a hearty, healthy and profitable one Therefore, the whole form should be well balanced ; the chest wide between the ribs behind the shoulders, to give ample room for the lungs and heart, and the back broad and straight. As the whole force of the system should have been educated to expand itself in the production of milk and butter, the carcass should be finely built, the bones fine, the muscular portions?as the legs, head and neck?should be fine and thin and no waste material in bone, flesh and fat should be found in the carcass. The extremities should be delicately formed, the tail long and thin except at its root, which should be large and strong ; the muzzle should be fine; the head long, flat and thin, but broad across the eyes, to give room for a large brain, which is the foundation for a highly developed and active nervous system ; the horns fine, thin and neatly curved; the eye bright and active, agreeing with the active brain, but calm, quiet and mild in expression, significant of a quiet, contented disposition, arid one not readily disturbed or worried. As the secretions of the body all come from the blood, and as a rich, yellow color is desirejJ in the butter, so the skin should be filled with a yellow pigment, and the inside of the ears anil the thighs anil other places where the hair is light and the skin plainly visible, should be of a rich orange color ; so the scales of ear wax should be of the same color. The hair should be fine, silky and smooth, and, in short, the whole appearance should be satisfying to the eye, and consistent, one part with another, and well balanced. Some persons lay great stress upon the escutcheon as a distinguishing feature of a good cow. This is the growth of hair upon the ......4- flw. ,?U?? +T.w.].e icai |'iii i yjL vnc uituc/i anu un^no u|/?*oivi. The hair is reversed in position, and grows upward instead of downward, with various curls here and there. Upon the peculiar shape and extent of this varied growth of hair and the position of the curls, the advocates of this test base their opinions of the character of the cow. A well formed escutcheon, .broad, well defined at the edges, with distinct curves on" the lower part of the rear of the hams, is. supposed to denote a large capacity for milk and a persistent habit of milking up to the next calving. An ill-formed or defective escutcheon is held to denote t'"* reverse. It may be that this test is a good ji.e. I do not believe in it further than this, i.amely ; that a calf with a well-formed escutcheon, inherited with other favorable characteristics from a similarly well marked and good cow, will, in all probability, inherit the good qualities of its dam, as it inherits all lierlnarks. But if the dam is a poor cow, I don't believe an escutcheon, however perfect it may be, will make a good calf. I have had poor cows, and have seen poor cows, that had most excellent escutcheons, and have had good cows that have produced calves as good or better than themselves, that hav^iad no escutcheons worthy of notice except for their inferiority. As to color, a good cow may be of any color. I had one remarkably good cow that was black and without horns, but in form and figure, she was otherwise without a fault and was a model; but usually black cows do not turn out well; neither do white ones. Color depends somewhat on the breed, for color is a distinguishing part of some breeds, and this point will be explained further on. But a cow of 110 particular breed, and that has a desirable form and other good points, may be chosen as regards color according to the following scale, namely, first, brindle (yellowish brown ground with black stripes intermingled and gradually shaded down), then yellowish* brown ; light red and white patched; light red ; and darker red last. It is rarely that a dark red, solid-colored cow, holds 011 to her milk for a long time, for she has the general failing of the Devon race, from which she inherits her color.?Henry Stewart in Itural Hew Yorker. DRINKS FOITTHE SICK. The sick, especially those afflicted with fever, often suffer from intense thirst. The quenching of this without injuring the patient is a matter which requires knowledge and good judgment. Dr. II. II. Kane says that plain water, when taken beyond a certain amount, is very apt to disorder the stomach and bowels, especially in levers, where much fluid ana out little solid food is taken. Enough water to quench the thirst would certainly be enough, in most cases, to disorder digestion, or rather further disorder it, and so important is the little that remains of this function that we cannot afford to abuse it. Small pieces of ice held in the mouth and allowed to dissolve, sometimes answers the purpose, but hot in the majority of cases. Up to a certain point, the action of water taken internally, in fevers, is excellent. Aside from allaying irritation by quenching thirst, it flushes the kidneys, carrying off much of the effete material produced by the high temperature. It has been found that the addition of certain substances to water greatly increases its powers to quench thirst. This is esi>ecially the case with acids. One drachm.of hydrociiloric acid added to a quart of water, will give it sufficient acidity to accomplish the desired purpose, while at the same time, it adds to its pleasantness, and sometimes relieves nausea. The use of acids in fevers is highly commended by some authors, and this is, I think, the best way in which to administer them. The same amount of sulphurous acid may be added to a quart of water when the bowels are loose, or there is a tendency that way. In these cases acidulated barley-water is pleasant and nourishing. The same may be said of toast-water. In constipation, oatmeal water may be used ; in the same manner. A few tamarinds added ! to a glass of water will often assuage thirst | and open the bowels gently. Theory and experience both show that drinks j made slightly bitter and somewhat acid, slake i thirst most effectually. A weak infusion of cascarilla or orange peel, ! acidulated slightly with hydrochloric acid, was with Graves, of Dublin, a favorite thirst-allay- \ ing drink for fever patients. : ! rvaspuerry viucgcu id a uomu uuuu. ing ice is very grateful. Sweet fruits, although at first agreeable and refreshing, must be taken with care and moderation, for they often give rise to a disagreeable taste, and are apt to produce Hatuleuce and diarrhea. Citre for Ear ache.?Take a tobacco pipe, pla^e a wad of cotton in the bowl, drop eight or ten drops of chloroform and cover with , more cotton, place the stem to the afflicted ear and blow in the bowl. Sore Throat.?Dissolve one drachm of chlorate of potash in half a pint of water, and gargle the throat therewith; a few applications will allay inilammation. i fUafottg fat the fatitratb. CONDUCTED BT KEV. ROBERT LATH AN. PERSONAL RELIGION. There is a tendency to substitute the religion of the church for personal piety. Multitudes have no other religion than that of loyalty to the creed and punctilious attendance upon the public services of some church. It would be a mistake to assume that they attend and support their church merely because it is fashionable and respectable to do so. To them it is a serious business, often a cross, to attend public worship twice a day and give what they are required to give for its support. They consider it a duty incumbent upon every man to go to church and support the Gospel. And they are right in this. Their error is in regarding the performance of this (luty us payment 111 uui ui an religious uuugations, and supposing that it will somehow be placed to their credit as a substitute for the religion of the heart and life. They look upon the church as a sort of reservoir of salvation in which they have a paid-up share that will accrue to them in the day of final account. Unquestionably, the work of the Gospel requires the existence of the church. Nor do the Scriptures recognize as a Christian any one who refuses to identfy himself publicly with some branch of the Church of Christ. The Church is needful and valuable, perhaps indispensable, as the means of inspiring men with a sense of their need of personal religion and helping them to work out their own salvation. But it is not an insurance company to guarantee salvation and supercede personal responsibility, by relieving men from the necessity of finding out God for themselves and opening their hearts to the direct influences of the Holy Spirit. Religion, to be of any value, must be a personal matter. The gospel of Christ makes its appeal to the individual. All its commands are addressed to each soul as personally accountable for the manner in which he treats them. "So then," says Paul, "every one of us must give an account of himself to God." If we do not repent, believe and be converted, each one of us for himself, the church can do nothing for us either here or hereafter. We shall l>e judged at last according to our character, and not by our church relations. Each human soul is created for personal union and communion with God. It is his privilege to have direct access to God, to have intercourse with him and receive law from his mouth without the intervention of church or priest. This intercourse is necessary to the life and normal growth of the soul as food is to the sustenance of the body. No loyalty to creeds,zeal for church or punctilious observance of its services, can take the place of this life of faith and piety. The very effort to find a substitute for it is an affront to God, an impious attempt to evade a sacred and solemn responsibilty. It is a sort of imposture and self-deception, which seeks to get rid of religion by something that seems to be religious; which, instead of seeking to awaken and nourish the spirit of faith und penitence by the use of prayers, hymns, sermons and other services of the church, invests these performances with a superstitious virtue, satisfies the conscience with something short of holiness, and fixes the heart on some sanctimonious machinery instead of Christ.?The Methodist. A Mother's Power.?A moment's work on clay tells more than an hour's labor on brick. So work on hearts should be done before they harden. During the first six or eight years of child-life, mothers have full sway ; and this is the time to make the deepest and most enduring impressions on the human mind. The examples of maternal influences are countless. Solomon himself records the Words of wisdom that fell from a mother's lips ; and Timothy was taught the Scriptures from a child by his mother and grand mother. John Randolph, of Roanoke, used to say : I would have been a French atheist were it not for the recollection of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hands in hers, and-make me say on my bended knee, "Our Father who art in Heaven." "I have found out what made you the man you are," said a gentleman one morning to President Adams. "I have been reading your mother's letters to her son." \v asmngcon s motner trained ner uoy to 'truthfulness and virtue, and when his messenger called to tell her that her son was raised to the highest station in the nation's gift, she could say, "George always was a good boy." A mother's tears dropped on the head of her little boy one evening as he sat in the door way and listened while she spoke of Christ and His salvation. "Those tears made me a missionary," said he when he had given his manhood's prime to the Lord. Some one asked Napoleon what was the great need of the French nation. "Mothers," was the significant answer. The Seven Biw.es of the World.?The seven Bibles of the world are the Koran of the Mohammedans, the Eddas of the Scandinavians, the Try Pitikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the three Wedas of the Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and the Scriptures of the Christians. The Koran is the most recent of these seven Bibles, and not older than the seventh century of our era. It is a compound of quotations from the Old and New Testaments, the Talmud, and the Gospel of St. Barnabas. The Eddas of the Scandinavians were first published in the fourteenth century. The Pitikes of the Buddhists contain sublime morals and pure aspirations, but their author lived and died in the sixth century before Christ." There is nothing of excellence in these sacred books not found in the Bible. The sacred writings of the Chinese are called the Five Kings, "king" meaning web of cloth or the warp that keeps the threads in their place. They contain the best sayings of the best sages 011 the ethico-political duties of life. These sayings cannot be traced to a period higher than the eleventh century B. C. The three Vedas are the most ancient books of the Hindoos, and it is the opinion of MaxMuller, Wilson, Johnson and Whitney that they are not older than eleven centuries B. C. The Zendavesta of the Persians is the grandestof all the sacred books next to our Bible. Zoroaster, whose sayings it contains, was born in the 12th century B. C. Moses lived and wrote his Pentateuch fifteen centuries B. C., and, therefore, has a clear margin of J00 years older than the most ancient of the other sacred writings. How to Do It at Home.?"Doctor," said a gentleman to his pastor, "how can I best train up my boy in the way that he should go ?" "By going that way yourself," blandly responded the pastor. No sounder advice could liAve been given. Sound instruction is excellent. Education in morals and correct theories of living are not by any means to be neglected. But those families where the quiet influence of pure and noble example are found are most likely to be the ones where childhood is most successfully trained. In nothing is the influence of little things more important than in the family circle. Parents naturally and properly live a free and unrestrained life in the presence of their own families. If they are cross, petulant, fault-finding, it is idle to expect that the children, who are hourly witnesses.to this petty ill temper, will be of sunny disposition or unselfish in life. But if home life be filled with little deeds of kindness, with gentle, lov ing helpfulness, the "small, sweet courtesies," of hourly intercourse, they will descend from father to son and from mother to daughter. Home will borrow a radiance that is the best foretaste of the blessedness of the heavenly world, and children that are reared in such an atmosphere are likely to fulfill the expectations of those who are interested in their welfare. Tjie Dear Ord Mother.?Honor the dear old mother. Time has scattered the snowy Hakes on her brow, plowed deep furrows on her cheeks, but she is not sweet and beautiful now! The lips are thin and shrunken, but those are the lips which have kissed many a hot tear from the childish cheek ; and they are the sweetest lips in the world. The eye is dim, yet it glows with the soft radiance of holy love which can never fade. Ah yes, she is a dear old mother! the sands of her life have nearly j run out, but feeble as she is, she will go fur- i ther and reach down lower for you than any j other upon earth. You cannot walk into aj midnight where she cannot see you; you can- j not enter a prison whose bars will keep her j out; you cannot mount a scaffold too high for her to reach, that she may kiss and bless j you in evidence of her deathless love. When the world shall despise and forsake you, when it leaves you to die by the wayside unnoticed, the dear old mother will gather you up in her i feeble arms and carry you home and tell you of all your virtues until you almost forget that your soul is disfigured by vices. Dove her tenderly, and cheer her declining years with : holy devotion. Dr. Waugh tells us of a converted Hindoo, who, when too weak to kneel and pray, said:, "I cannot pray, but X feeep up a talking with j Jesus in my heart." ' {ptftHnmwf fUadittg. DISCOVERIES MADE BY ACCIDENT. Valuable discoveries have been made, and valuable inventions suggested, by the veriest accidents. An alchemist, while seeking to discover a mixture of earths that would make the most durable crucibles, one day found that he bad made porcelain. The power of lenses, as*applied to the telescope, was discovered by a watchmaker's apprentice. While holding spectacle-glasses between his thumb and finger, he was startled at the sudden-enlarged appearance of a neighboring church spire. The art of etching upon glass was discovered by a Nuremburg glass-cutter. By accident, a few drops of aqua fortis fell upon his spectacles. He noticed that the glass became corroded aud softened where the acid had touched it. That was hint enough. He drew figures upon glass with varnish, applied' the corroding fluid, then cut away the glass around the drawing. When the varnish was removed, the figures appeared raised upon a dark ground. Mezzotinto owed its invention to the simple accident of the gun-barrel of a sentry becom ing rusted with dew. The swaying to aud fro of a chandelier in a cathedral suggested to Galileo the application of the pendulum. The art of lithographing wa9 perfected through suggestions made by accident. A poor^ musician waacurious to know whether music could not be etched upon stone as well a9 upon copper. After he had prepared his slab, his mother asked>iiim to make a memorandum of such clothes as she proposed to send away to be washed. Not having pen, ink and paper convenient, he wrote the list on the stone with the etching preparation, intending to make a copy of it at leisure. A few days later, when about to clean the stone, he wondered what effect aqua fortis would have upou it. He applied the acid, and iu a few minutes saw the writing standing out in relief. The next step necessary was simply to ink the stone and take off an impression. The composition of which printing-rollers are made, was discovered by a Salopian printer. Not being able to find the pelt-ball, he inked the type with a piece of soft glue which had fallen out of a glue pot. It was such an excellent substitute that, after mixing molas ses with the glue, to give the mass proper consistency, the old pelt ball was entirely discarded. The shop of a Dublin tobacconist, by the name of Lundyfoot, was destroyed by fire. While he was gazing dolefully into the smouldering ruins, he noticed that his poorer neighbors were gathering the snuff from the canisters. He tested the snuff for himself, and discovered that the fire had largely improved its pungency and aroma. It was a hint worth profiting by. He secured another shop, built a lot of ovens, subjected the snuff to a heating process, gave the brand a particular name, and in a few years became rich, through an accident which he at first thought had completely ruined him. The process of whitening sugar was discovered in a curious way. A hen that had gone through a clay puddle went with her IJ.. C 1 - A- _ 1 OI._ l-tt. L luuutiy leei iiilu a sugHr-uuuae. one icii nei tracks on a pile of sugar. It was noticed that wherever her tracks were, the sugar was whitened. Experiments were instituted, and the result was that wet clay came to be used in refining sugar. The origin of the blue-tinted paper came about by a mere slip of the hand. The wife of Wi liara East, an English paper-maker, accidently let a blue bag fall into one of the vats of pulp. The workmen were astonished when they saw the peculiar color of the paper, while Mr. Enst whs highly incensed over what he considered a grave pecuniary loss. His wife was so much frightened that she would not confess b$r agency in the matter. After storing the damaged paper for four years, Mr. East sent it to his agent in London, with instructions to sell it for what it would bring. The paper was accepted as a "purposed novelty," aud was disposed of at quite an advance over market price. Mr. East was astonished at receiving an order from his agent for another large invoice of the paper. He was without the secret, and found himself in a dilemma. Upon mentioning it to his wife, she told him about the accident. He kept the secret, and the demand for the novel tint far exceeded his ability to supply it. A Brighton stationer took a fancy for dressing his show window with piles of writing paper, rising gradually from the largest to the smallest size in use ; and, to finish his pyramids off nicely, he cut cards to bring them to a point. Taking these cards for diminutive note paper, lady customers were continually wanting some of "that lovely little paper," and the stationer found it advantageous to cut the paper to the desired pattern. As there was no space for addressiug the uotelets after they were folded, he, after much thought, invented the envelope, which he cut by the aid of metal plates made for the purpose. The sale increased so rapidly that he was unable to produce the envelopes fast enough, so he commissioned a dozen houses to make them for him, and thus set going an important branch of the manufacturing stationery trade. A RIGHT HAND SERVANT. Asa and Ira were brothers whose farms lay side by side. When the young corn, the oats, and the barley were springing up, the weeds took advantage of the rich soil and came with them. "Do you see," said Asa, "what a hold the weeds are taking ? There is danger of their choking out the crops entirely." "We must be resigned," said Ira. "Weeds as well as grain was a part of the Creator's plan." "I can only be resigned to what I cannot help," said Asa. So he went to work and hoed until the fields were clear of w.eeds. The army worm is in the neighborhood," said Asa to Ira one day, "and is fast moving toward us." "Ah!" exclaimed Ira, "it will surely destroy what the weeds have not choked out. I will immediately retire to pray that its course may be stopped." But Asa replied : "I pray every morning for atreugth to do the work of the day." And he hastened to dig a trench around his land which the army worm could not pass, while Ira returned from his prayers only in season to save a portion of his crop from its ravages. "Do yon see, Ira ?" said Asa another morning, "the river is risiug, and our farms will be overflowed." "Alas!" it is a judgment upon us for our sins ; and what can we do ?" said Ira. "There are no judgments so severe as those which our own sloth brings upon us," said Asa ; and he went quickly and hired workmen, and then raised an embankment that withstood the flood, while Ira witnessed the destruction of all his wealth. "There is one consolation said he; "my children are left me." But while Asa's sons grew up to be strong and virtuous men, among Ira's son's there was a drunkard a gambler, and a suicide. "The ways of the Lord are not equal,'" said Ira to his brother. "Why are you always prospering, while I am afflicted and dis- j graced ?" ! "I only know this," replied Asa, "that heaven always helped me to meet my chil- j dren's faults as I meet the weeds, the caterpillars, and the floods; and I never sent a petition upward without making Toil, my right hand servant the messenger of my prayers. Work and pray."?Exchange. Evading a Fare.?The stealing of a pin is apparently a slight offense. Yet it may reveal character as clearly as the theft of $100. Some years ago there lived in New York a shrewd old merchant named Aymar. He used to receive cargoes of mahogany and logwood, which were sold at auction. On one occasion a cargo was to be sold at Jersey City, and all hands started from the auctioneer's store to cross the ferry. When they were going through the gate, Mr. Aymar noticed one of the largest buyers slip through without paying the 5 cents fare. He told the auctioneer not to take a bid from that man. "Why," said the auctioneer, with an expression of surprise, "I thought he was good." "So did I," answered Mr. Aymar; "but I have changed my mind, and I will not trust hira for $1." A few months proved the accuracy of the judgment of Mr. Aymar, for the slippery merchant failed, and did not pay 5 cents ou the dollar. It does not by any means follow that business disasters will come as a retribution to a dishonest trader; but this is certain, that a nan who will steal even so trifling a sura as would pay his fare in the horse car or the ferry boat, will cheat you out of a larger sum if he fiuds a safe opportunity. How to Preserve a Piano.?It is evident that if the piano is to remain in good order for many years, good care must be taken of it. The instrument should be closed when not in use, in order to prevent the collection of dust, pins, etc., on the sounding board. However, it must not be left closed for a period of several months or longer, but be opened occasionally, and daylight allowed to strike the keys, or else the ivory may turn yellow. Any hard substance, no matter how small, dropped inSide the piano, will cause a rattling, jarring noise. It is in every case desirable that an india-rubber or cloth cover should protect the instrument from bruises and scratches. The piano should not be placed in a damp room, or left'open in a draft of air. Dampness is its most dangerous enemy, causing the strings and tuning-pins to rust, the clotli used in the construction of the keys and action to swell, whereby the mechanism will move sluggishly, or often stick altogether. This occurs chiefly in the rainy season ; and the best pianos, made of the most thoroughly seasoned material, are necessarily affected by dampness, the absorption being rapid. Extreme heat is scarcely less injurious. The piano should not be placed very near to an open fire or heated stove, nor over-close to the hot air furnaces now in general use. Moths are very destructive to the cloth and felt used in the pianos, and may be kept out of it by placing a lump of camphor, wrapped in soft paper, in the inside corner, care being taken to renew it from time to tiirae. Many persons are unaware of the great importance of having their pianos kept in order, and only tuned by a cpmpetent tuner. A new piano should be tuned at least once every two or three months during the first year, and at longer intervals after ward. To preserve the polish, dust the piano daily with a brush of soft uncut feathers. Do not use any furniture polishes, but sooner employ the services of a professional piano-case polisher, if your instrument needs polishing, as the process requires great skill. The bluish haze which sometimes appears on a polished rosewood surface, and which is nothing but the mark left by moisture which has settled upon the piano, will disappear after polishing. The piano should always be kept carefully covered when not in use. What Not to Do for Sick People.? Don't make a fuss. Don't bustle, don't fidget, don't prognosticate. Don't hold consultations in or about the patient's room, recounting all your own and your neighbor's experiences in what you suppose to have been like cases. Don't meddle, and advise and experiment. We all need a great deal more letting alone than we get, and when we are sick it is one of our prime needs. If mortuary lists were honestly tabulated, we should find that more people have been bored to death than have died from neglect. The pest of the sickroom is the inevitable friend who drops in to "cheer up" the patient, the glistening eyes and flushed cheek which such ministrations evoke being hailed as evidences of success by the well-meaning persecutor. Don't tease the patient with questions about food or drink, but present the'proper quantity at suitable intervals, and if one article is found to be disagreeable, quietly substitute another without remark; don't think, because the patient declines nourishment, that it becomes less necessary to administer it. By quiet, firm, methodical persistence in presenting food at stated periods, objection will income feeble and cease, in self-defence. Soi.d food need not be insisted upon unless by special direction of the physician, but milk and beeftea should never be omitted. Don't shut out the pure air and sunshine. The physician will exercise his skill in vain if wholesome food, pure air and peace do not abet his effort.?Home Quardiatj. Curious and Interesting?Henry, upon being asked how many boys were in his Sabbath school clas9 said : "If you multiply the number of Jacob's sons by the number of times which the Israelites compassed Jericho, and add the product to the number of raeas ures of barley which Boaz gave Ruth ; divide this by the uumber of Haman's sons ; sub tract the number of each kind of clean beasts that went into the ark ; multiply by the number of men who went to seek Elijah after he was taken to heaven ; subtract this from Joseph's age at the time when he stood before Pharaoh ; add the number of stones in David's bag when he killed Goliah ; subtract the number of furlongs that Bethany wa3 distant from Jerusalem ; divide by the number of anchors cast out at the time of Paul's shipwreck ; subtract the number of people saved in the ark, and the remainder will be the number of boys in the class." How many were there? lite ^orferiUe inquirer. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! Single copy for one year, 92 50 For six months, 125 For three months, 75 Two copies one year, 4 00 Ten copies one year, 20 00 And an extra copy for a club of ten. ADVERTISING RATES. ONE DOLLAR per square, for the first insertion, and FIFTY CENTS per square, for each subsequent insertion. A square consists of the space occupied by seven lines of this size type, iff?-Contracts will be made at reduced rates for advertising space to be used for three, six, or twelve months. ROBERT J. HERNDONr Late Student of Boston Conservatory of Music, TEACHER OF BRASS BANDS, AND THE CORNET. Music arranged to order for any number of Instruments. Terms moderate. Agent for all kinds of first-class BAND INSTRUMENTS. April 22 17 ly NOTICE. THE time has arrived for settling, and all persons indebted to me, either FOR SUPPLIES OR GUANOS, are earnestly requested to bring in their cotton and settle at once. Those indebted to me.by NOTE, or of long STANDING ACCOUNTS, will do well to call and arrange a settlement, as my business must be settled up. J. W. P. HOPE. October 14 42 3t rR. SCHORB'S PHOTO-GALLERr, 1ST HOUSE EAST OF THE JAIL. A SUPERIOR Skylight, a gallery with every convenience, and a determination to do my ' - a. A? ? a _ | best, enables me to promise sausiacuon to an ju j want of correct and nattering likenesses. Cloudy ! weather is as good or better than sunshine for aU j subjects, except email children. | August 5 32 tf NOTICE. I RESPECTFULLY inform the public that I am prepared to sharpen razors, scissors, shears ' and other fine-edged instruments. Prices?for 1 honing and sharpening razors, 25 cents, and for , sharpening scissors or shears, 10 cents each, and satisfaction guaranteed or no charge. TOM BALLARD, Barber. September 9 37 3t | IRON SAFE FOR SALE. THE undersigned offers for sale one No. 2 IRON SAFE, manufactured by Mosler, Bahman A Co., of Cincinnati. This safe has a combination lock, and for all practical purposes is equal to a new one. It is offered for sale for no reason except that it is too small for my purposes. L. M. GRIST. !~ NOTICE. APPLICATION will be made to the Clerk of the Cf ori the 23RD DAY OF OCTOBER, next, for a Charter for HOWELL SALEM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, in York county, South Carolina. September 23 39 5t OLDNE WSPAPERST" OF large size, suitable for wrapping, for sale at one cent each, at the . ENQUIRER OFFICE. NOTICE. I AM still Agent for the,,American"becauseitis the best and cheapest Sewing Machine made. J. R. SCHORB. August 19 34 tf THE FAVORITE OF THE WORLD. TFjE Family Favorite Improved Weed. These Machines have been remodeled and Improved until they are almost perfect in all respects. The parts are all of Steel and Wrought Iron Forging*. Every Machine sold by us will be fully warran . Prices as low as any First-Class Machine, either for Cash or on Time until the first of November next. W. G. REID A CO., Furniture Dealers, Rock Hill, S. C. LATIMER A HEMPHILL, Agents at Yorkvllle, S. C* NOW IS THE OPPGRTimiTir! AVAIL YOURSELF OF IT! PRESERVE YOUR BOOKS, PERIODICALS, NEWSPAPERS AND MUSIC. ?? ALL families have old Books, Periodicals, Newspapers, Music, Ac., which they desire to transmit to their posterity. Then HAVE THEM REBOUND! Which will preserve them and make them look almost as well as new. Old Books, Ac., should not only be rebound, but Biocurrent literature of the present day should be put in a durable form for preservation as well. This can be done in the shortest possible time, with tlie best material, in the most handsome and durable style, and at prices which cannot be duplicated anywhere, by E. R. STOKES, Stationer, Book Binder and Blank Book Manufacturer, No.' 155 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. Send in orders at once. THE BICKFORD AUTOMATIC FAMILY KNITTER. Knits all sizes of work, narrows and widens it shapes all sizes complete. Knits over 50 different garments, Socks, Stockings, Mittens, Leggins, Wristlets, Gloves, etc. It knits every possible variety of plain or fancy stitch. 75 per cent, profit in manufacturing knit noods. Farmerscar treble the value of their wool, by converting it into knit goods. Agents wanted in every State, County, City and Town, to whom very low prices will be made. For full particulars and lowest prices for the best Family Machine, send to BICKFORD KNITTING MACHINE MFG. CO., Brattleboro, Vt. February 26 9 ly COTTON FOR GUANO. THE Notes given for Fertilizers sold by me have been sent to me FOR- COLLECTION. I have made arrangements with Capt. J. R. GARDNER to WEIGH AND GRADE THE COTTON. He will enter the weight and grade on a slip of paper which must be brought to me FOR SETTLEMENT. I would urge my customers to deliver as RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE, As the price is good and cotton green. I will pay THE MARKET PRICE For any excess. T. S. JEFFERYS, Agent. September 23 30 tf ANNUAL MEETING. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Board of County Commissioners of York County, will be held at Yorkville, on TUESDAY. THE 2ND DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1880. Al! persons holding bills, accounts, or demands of any kind against the county, which have not been before presented to the Board", will deposit the same with the Clerk, on or before the FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1880, so that they mav be examined and ordered to be paid on the 2nd of November. Trial Justices will exhibit with their accounts, all original papers, in each case in which costs have accrued. By order of the Board. JAMES SCOGGINS, Chairman. September 30 40 5t FRESH MEATS. THE undersigned respectfully in- MM| forms the citizens of \ orkville and jPfll vicinity, that he -will have for Rale, in , /i ff. the building immediately South of the Banking Office of T.S. Jefferys, FRESH MEATS, of good quality, on TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY MORNINGS of each week. Every effort will be made to keep the market supplied with meats of the best quality that cau be procured in this section. pS* The highest market price will be paid for FAT BEEF CATTLE, SHEEP, GOATS and HOGS. Poor cattle, sheep, goats or hogs are not wanted. J. N. ROBERTS. September 33 40 . tf DR. J. B. PATRICK, JR., CHARLESTON, S. C., SURGEON DENTIST, WILL make his regular visit to YORKVILLE IN JANUARY, with all the most improved instruments and appliances known to the profession ot Dentistry. Teeth extracted by the aid of nitrons oxide. ARTIFICIAL TEETH supplied. All Dental operations performed and satisfaction guaranteed at as reasonable rates as can be done by any firstclass Dentist. August 12 33 ly SUBSCRIBE FOR THE WEEKLY PALMETTO YEOMAN, COLUMBIA, S. C. IT is an 8 page paper, designed for the people, filled with interesting matter?Family Reading, News, Markets, <fec. Subscription: One year, $1.50; Seven months, $1.00; Three months, 50 cents?payable in advance. Forsix names and nine dollars, an extra copy for one year. Specimens furnished. The DAILY YEOMAN", an afternoon paper, is $4 a pear. C. M^ MeJUNKIN, Editor and Publisher. September 30 40 tf ROSE'S HOTEL, YOKKVILLE, S. C. 4 THIS HOUSE has been thorougbly renovated from cellar to garret, and newly furnished, inff!Lr"aT" eluding GRAFTON'S PATENT SPRING BEDS. In view of the times, our motto is a full House at a moderate price. TERMS?$1.50 PER DAY, OR 50c. PER MEAL. Sample Rooms reserved especially forCommercial travelers. HENRY W. SMITH. June 17 25 tf GARRY IRON ROOFING CO., * MiinnfiiMiirfirs ) and Cement. 79 and 81 Columbus Street, CljJjV MT? A TVTP, OHIO. Send for circulars and price lists. February 26 9 ly 1 REMOVAL. 1 WE have moved into our NEW BUILDING, ! j opposite the old Stand, where we will keep A FULL LINE OF GENERAL MERCIIAN- j DISEcontinually on hand. 1 A. FRIEDHEIM & BRO. i Rock Hill, S. C., Auk. 26, 1880. 35 tf NOTICE. A PPLICATION will be made to the Clerk of < /V the Court for York county, on the 30th day ' ofOotober, 1880, for a charter for BLUE BRANCH < PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, in York county. 1 8. C. ? September 30 40 5t* JOB PRINTING. , OWING to our superior facilities with the best machine presses, an -abundance of type and first-class appointments throughout our office, we are prepared to execute ALL MANNER OF JOB PRINTING in superior style, and at prices that will compare with New York or Philadelphia charges for the same quality of work and materials. We have recently made a reduction in prices for the following classes of work, to which we invite the attention of business men : 1IILL HEADS. For 500 For I COO Half-sheet Bill Heads, |3.00 $5.0) Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.2.5 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.0(1 3.03 Monthly statements at same price of sixth-sheet bill heads. We will fill an order for bill heads, giving any desired number of either size of sheet at proportionate prices. LETTER HEADS. rur duu i wi luvu Commercial Note" $2.15 $3.25 Packet Note, 2.25 3.50 Letter (large size) 3.00 5.00 For the above work we use a superior quality of paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in every instanee. We also give special attention to the printingof Briefe, Arguments and Points and AutBoritins, 3j which we famish strictly according to the require- J ments of the Justices o'f the Supreme Court, and in proof reading exercise the utmost care to ensure accuracy. We are prepared to furnish all other kinds of printing, from a visiting card to a large volume, j| and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any ^ style of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST. Yorkville, S. C. C. & L. NARROW GAUGE BAILB0AD. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE, 1 Yobkville, S. C? July 22,1880. J THE following Schedule of the Mail and Passenger Trains took effect at 6 o'clock, a. m., on the 20th of July; 1880. GOING SOUTH. Leave Dallas at .'. 6.00 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia at 6.20 A. M. Leave Gastonia at 6 40 A. M,. Leave Pleasant Ridge at ..7.00 A. M. Leave Crowder's Creek at 7.15 A. M. Leave Bowling Green at 7.25 A. M. Leave Clover at 7.40 A. M. Arrive at Yorkvilleat ..8.20 A. M. Leave forkville at.- ?.8.S0 A. M. Leave Guthriesvillo at. 9.05 A. M. Leave McConnellsville at 9.20 A. M. Leave Lowrysvllleat... 9.40 A. M. Arrive at Chester at 10.10 A. M. GOING NORTH. Leave Chester at 2.45 P. M. Leave Lowrysville at 3.20 P. M. . Leave McConnellsville at 3.40 F. M. ^ Leave Guthriesvillo at 3.50 F. M. Arrive at Yorkville at 4.20 P. M. Leave Yorkville at 4.25 P. M. Leave Clover at 5.05 F. M. Leave Bowling Green at 5.15 P. M. ^ Leave CrowdeFs Creek at 5.25 P. M. Leave Pleasant Ridge at 5.35 P. M. Arrive at Gastonia at..... 5.65 P. M. Leave Gastonia at 6.10 P. M. Arrive at Dallas at 6.30 P. M. JAMES MA80N, Superintendent. July 22 . 30 tf ATLANTA AND CHARLOTTE AIR-1INB RAILWAY. PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. Atlanta, Ga., May 20,1880. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. ON and after May 23rd, 1880, trains will run on this road as follows: DAY PAS8ENGER TRAIN. (eastward.) Arrive at Gastonia, 2.16, P. M. Leave 2.17, P. M. (westward.) Arrive at Gastonia, 11.37, A. M. Leave 11.38, A. M. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. (eastward.) Arrive at Gastonia, 2.16, A. M., Leave 2.17, A. M. (we8tward.) Arrive at Gastonia, 1.08, A. M., Leave 1.09, A. M. LOCAL FREIGHT TRAIN. (eastward.) Arrive at Gastonia, 4.33, P. M., Leave 5.02, P. M (we tward.) Arrive at Gastonia, 7.43, A. M., Leave 8.03, A. M. THROUGH FREIGHT TRAIN. (eastward.) ^ Arrive at Gastonia, 5.55, A%M., Leaye 5.55, A. M. (westward.) Arrive at Gastonia, 5 00, P. M., Leave 5.00, P. M. Connecting at Atlanta for all points West and Southwest. . 9 Connecting at Charlotte for all Eastern points. Through Tickets on sale at Greenville and Spartanburg to all points East and West. _ G. J. FOREACRE, Gen'l Manager. W. J. Houston, lien'i rasa. <e j icsei Agent. June 10 25 If REMOVAL. THE YORK MARBLE YARD. I WOULD respectfully announce that I have REMOVED MY MARBLE WORKS to the new building South of Wheeler's Coach Factory, on ray own premises, and near the Railroad depot, where I shall hereafter be better, than ever heretofore prepared to ftirnish MONUMENTS, TOMB STONES, or ANYTHING IN MY LINE, as low as the lowest. As an evidence of this, I can furnish Tomb Stones for CHILI-REN from $3.00 upward ; for ADULT8, from $8.00 upwird. Monuments and Tomb Stones designed and finished in the most elaborate stylo, andin point of workmanship and material, eqnal to the work of any establishment in the country. Specimens always on hand, to an inspection of which, those in want of marble work are respectfully invited. Estimates and other information furnished on application. Work delivered at any point on the Chester " and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, between Chester and Dallas, or at any place between Rock Hill and Winnsboro, on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, free of charge for transportation. Thankful for the patronage heretofore bestowed upon my establishment, my determination is to merit a continuance of the same. F. HAPPE RFIELD. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF YORK. WHEREAS J. F. WALLACE, C. C. C. Fleas, has applied to me for Letters of Administration, with the Will annexed, on all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of JOSHUA HOLMES, late of the county aforesaid,deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to b? and appear at our next Judge o." Probate's Court, for York County, to be holden at York Court House, on the 6TH DAY OF NOVEMBER,, next, to shew cause, if any, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal, this 30th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and in the 105th year of thelndepcndenceof the United States of America. J. A. McLEAN, Judge of Probate. ri 4. 1 OA Af\ flfc cwpiciiiuer ou w v. NEW STORE! NEW STOCK! HAVING erected a new and commodious Store on the site of our Old stand, our facilities for conducting the Foreign and Domestic Fruit trade are now unsurpassed in the Southern Country. The attention of our friends, and dealers generally is called to this fact, and also to our fresh supplies arriving to-day. 100 barrels of Northern Apples. 50 boxes Messina Lemons. 25 barrels and half barrels of Pears. 15 packages Delaware and Concord Grapes. -* 200 barrels Early Rose Potatoes. 25 barrels Onions. 100 barrels Northern Cabbages. Peaches and Grapes fresh every morning by Express. C. BART A CO., 55, 57 and 59 Mhrket street., Charleston S. C. September 23 , 39 4m ~ GEORGE T. SCHORB, PH0T0GEAPHER. CHESTER, 8. CAROLINA. PICTURES taken in all kinds of weather, and pains taken to please every customer. Old Pictures COPIED AND ENLARGED, as low as can be done in any city, North or South. Have on hand a fine selection of CHURCH AND PARLOR ORGANS, which are offered very cheap. Instruments guaranteed to be flrstilass. Call and seo for yourselves, at the PHOTOSALLERY, opposite the "Cotton Hotel." Also, authorized agent to receive Subscriptions, Advertisements and orders for Job Work for the Yorkville Enquirer. GEORGE T. SCHORB.1 February 13 7 tf CLEANSING AND REPAIRING. ' THE undersigned would respectfully iDfarm the public that ne is prepared to cleanse garments of any fabric whatever, rendering them perfectly clean, and if unfaded, restoring them to he original brightness and lustre of the goods. Do not throw away your old clothes, but ha*?e hem cleaned and made to look as well as new. Work promptly done, and at the most reasonaale prices. THOMAS BALLARD. August 12 29 tt NOTICE. CREDITORS OF WALTER B. METTS, deceased, are hereby notified to present their lemands to me, duly authenticated, on or before he 22ND OF OCTOBER next. JOS. F. WALLACE Administrator. September 23 39 5t V