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Iluworotts ?epituwttt. | "Yes, Sib, I'd Shoot lira !"?Six or eight congenial spirits sat around a stove in a Grand River grocery the other night, and after several other subjects had ben exhausted some one : introduced that of panics in churches, the- j atres and halls. This gave Mr. Hopewell a , clumce to remark: "Gentlemen, I just long to be there.'' "Where ?" "Why, in one of those panics. Yes, sir, I'd give a new twenty-dollar bill to be in a theatre one night when there was an occasion for a panic." "Why ?" "Why, because one cool level-headed man could stop the thing as easily as you could end up a barrel of flour." "Well, I dunno about that," observed one _ ~:ii. urni ???***,*1 01 rue sivrers. xueie is aumccnmy a mm in the cry of fire, and hear it where and when you may, it startles and frightens. What would you do in a theatre in case there was a cry of fire and a rush ?" "I'd stand right up in my seat, pull a revolver from my pocket, and 3hout out that I'd shoot the first man who attempted to crowd or rush. One cool man would check the panic in ten seconds." While the subject was being continued the grocer went to the rear end of the store, poured a little powder on a board *ancl gave three or four men the wink. Directly there was a bright flash, yells of "Fire!" and "Powder !" and every man sprang up and rushed. Hopewell didn't spring up and talk of shooting. On the contrary, ne fell over a lot of baskets that was piled between him and the door, got up to plough His way over a" rack of brooms, and when he reached the sidewalk he was on all fours, white as a ghost, and so frightened that he never looked back until he reached the opposite side of the street.?Free Press. A Virginia Rebel.?In five weeks' wandering over Virginia, a correspondent "writes, I found but one rebel. She was a woman living hear Harrison's Landing. It was a hot day as 1 followed the track of Mcuieuan's retreat from Malvern llill, and I was lx>th hungry and thirsty. The woman being at the gate, I rode up and asked : "Madame, can 1 get dinner here V" "She saw the "Yank" in me quicker than a cat, and instantly replied : "The YankeesVcole all I had to eat!" jM'll pay you well." / ./"But I haven't got nuthin' to sell." / "If you had some potatoes and bacon and?" "Yanks stole 'em all!" she interrupted. "But you can give me a drink of water, can't you ?" "No,sir! The Yankees tilled up the well and carried away the dipper." "Is there a spring around here ?" "Used to be lots of 'em, but the Yanks toted 'em off!" Below us was the muddy James, and the drought had lasted so long that there was hardly enough water to tloat a cattish. Pointing to the historic stream, I asked : "Why didn't the Yankees steal the river, ton She scratched her head with a sliver pulled off the fence, and never unbent m particle as she replied: ' They wanted to do it, stranger?wanted to the wust way, and when they diskivered that it wouldn't load up worth a cent they galloped their old gunboats up and down and washed so many shirts in Turkey Bend that the Jeems has been ashamed to look a cow in the face ever since! May be you kin git a drink down thai', but this 'ere neighborhood won't stand by and see you carry off any of the sandbars ! Be a I&kle keerful how you paw around !" A Metaphysical Combat.?The great colored preacher of the Baptists is pitted against the Methodist divine. The first says : "De Methodise, my bruddren, is like de grasshopper?hoppin', all de time hoppin'? hop into heaven, hop out, hop into heaven, hop out. But my brudden, de Baptiss, when lie get to heaven, he's dar. De Baptiss is like de 'possum. Ilunter get after him ; he climb de tree ; he shake delimb, one foot gone ; he shake de limb, anudder foot gone; he shake de limb, ebbery foot gone ; but tink you, my bruddren, 'possum falls V You know, my bruddreu?you cotch too many?you know 'possum hang on by tail, and de berry debbil can't shake him off." Then Methody fell below par in the colored folks' heart, until some time afterward, when this particular belief again had admirers, for the opposition clergy demolished the Baptist as follows: His text was: "My sheep hears my voice ' T 1 ? i i. .. ?^ ;tnu i Know uiem, aim uey iuiiuws me. j. m-n he said : "Inde Bible de Christians is desheep.' He had a heap of Bible in dat p'int, and he preached a mighty long time, and made dat so strong no nigger can't dispute it. Now, my bruddren and sisters, you all knows you can't get a sheep into de water nohow, 'less you cotch him and carries him in." Then Methody had its great and final triumph. A Trifle AIixed.?A fashionable young lady visited a cooking school, the other afternoon, where her attention was equally divided between a new dress worn by an acquaintance and the directions for making a cake. Upon returning home, she undertook to write down the recipe for making the cake for her mother, and the old lady was paralyzed when she read: "Take two i>oundsof flour, three rows of pleating down the front, the whites of two eggs cut bias, a pint of milk ruflled around the neck, half pound of currants with seven yards of bead trimming, grated lemon peel with Spanish lace fichu ; stir well, and add a semi-fitting paletot with visite sleeves ; butter the pan with Brazilian topaz neck lace, and garnish with iceing and jetted i>assemeuterie: bake in a moderately hot oven until the overskirt is tucked from the waist down on either side, and finish with large satin bows.'' Iler mother said she wouldn't eat such a cake, and she thought these new fangled ideas in cooking ought to be frowned down. ? ? A Narrow EscahE.?"Boy, do you know what that can contains ?" said a tramp to a lad who was hurrying along with a tin pail full of lager. "Beer," responded the stripling, promptly. "Exactly," continued the tramp; "and that l>eer contains glucose, coculus indicus, corn starch, rice meal and raw grape sugar, all deadly poisons, and.enough to kill any man." . The lad set the pail down and moved off a little from it, whereupon the tramp picked it up and was raising it to liis lips, when the boy interrupted him to say : "Ain't you afraid of it V" "Yes ; it's dreadful to die this way, but I don't care to live," and draining it empty he handed the pail back. "He's a goner," muttered the lad as he walked thoughtfully off. "Lord, what a narrow escape dad had 1" Jones held an execution against a farmer, and when he called for a settlement, the agriculturist took him out into a big pasture, and I>ointed out a wild steer as the particular piece of property that should be levied upon. .Jones chased the steer around for awhile, aud then sat down, and taking out his book, began to write : "What are you doing there V" asked the granger. "Charging mileage," replied the constable, without looking lip. "I)o I have it all to pay ?" gasi>ed the rancher. "You bet." "Then take this tame heifer here. I can't stand any such game as that." liF Do you mean to call me a liar ?" asked one railroad man of another railroad man during a dispute on business they had on Austin avenue yesterday. "No, Colonel, I don't mean to call you a liar. On the contrary, I say you are the only man in town who tells the truth all the time, but I'm offering areward of twenty-five dollars and a chromo to any other man who will say he believes me when I say you never lie," was the response. "Well, I'm glad you took it back," replied ! the other party, as they shook. Once upon a time a woman died, and, as | the mourners were carrrying her to the grave, they tripped against a stump and let the coffin fall. She revived, having been only in a deep trance. Two years after she really died, and as they were carrying her down the same road and ueared the same stump, the disconsolate widower sobbed : "Steadily, boys! Steady there! Be very, very careful!" ? ? I?" A thief who robbed a contribution box the other day has repented. lie is now obliged to carry around with him several pounds of punched coins which no one will take. Ihe aird Jirwflc. I Bermuda Gr ass.?There is no grass better adapted to the South than Bermuda. It seems to thrive luxuriantly in a hot sun and endures drouth. If the same pains was taken with it as with other grass, there is no telling how much it would yield per acre. It loves a rich soil, and thrives where it can have good manure. There is nothing more abused and underrated than Bermuda grass. It is looked on as a pest and a curse by some farmers. If the same grass wa? in some localities in the North the people would grow rich by it. As it is, most farmers don't value it in the South, but a Miasissippian writing to the Courier-Joiirnal seeims to appeeiate its value to some extent. One must go where a thing is scarce or not to be found, in order to see it highly appreciated. Thus in Georgia, many planters dread the Bermuda grass and take pains to exterminate it. They think it hard to subdue when it once gets a foothold, while they all acknowledge its value as a fertilizer and a cure for washes. A Grand Gulf (Miss.)correspondent, roundly asserts that Bermuda sod will sustain more stock per acre by half than the finest cultivated grass on earth, not excepting the renowned Kentucky blue grass. He quotes the authority of a grazier near Corpus Christi, Texas, who having a ten-acre patch of Bermuda, declares it gives more pasturage than any hundred acres of mesquite grass on his rauche. Our Mississippi friend says that his milk cows and beef cattle keep seal fat on Bermuda alone, and when driven off to the cane' i i h?i/?l.- h\ Dl'ilKCS Will HlViUliliM) mm vuvu uuj vuva w the Bermuda. Tlmt he and his neighbors have cut Bermuda from one and a half to two and a half tons to the acre. And in fine, for all purposes of hay, grass and pasturage there is nothing on earth to compare with it. while, as a fertilizer, everybody agrees1 that tnere is J nothing equal to it. On light sandy soils, covered with this grass the sod will thicken every year, even when submitted to exhaustive pasturage, which no other grass could sustain. Beyond a doubt the Bermuda grass, rightly utilized, will be j found one of the most valuable of all Southern products. Applied to oiu1 exhausted and washed soils it will reclaim them without labor, j It will furnish invaluable pasturage for beeves, sheep, goats and hogs. It will supply the country with rich milk and butter, and when treated with judgment, it is easy of extermination. The shade of grain and pea crops will subdue it fully in a single year. Sheep.?The eying need of American agriculture to-day : a more general incorporation of the sheep into the farming economy. More prolific than horses or cattle, as well as more tractable, subsisting on scantier herbage and requiring less supervision, it claims the additional advantage of paying for its raising in annual insta: merits of marketable fleece, I>ending its gro\ tli to maturity. It is more readily transfer:ed from one iuclosurc to another, and is easily restrained by fences which would prove no barrier against the encroachments of other farm stock. Its light tread and love of repose warrant its access to fields and pastures where tramping of cattle and tearing of hogs would not be tolerated. It wastes less food, in proportion to the quantity consumed, and will hunt and utilize much that would otherwise be lost to the farmer. Yielding a return in both fleece and flesh, it furnishes its owner with the double advantage of catching a good market for his product, requiring less water and disposed to work for its food. It is without a peer when Summer's drought taxes the farmer's resources for enabling his live stock to maintain an average of thrift and flesh. All that can be said in behalf of feeding live stock on the farm, as distinguished from the soil impoverishing policy of placing the raw grain and grass upon the market, will be found to apply with double emphasis to the farm that caiTies as a part of its outfit one or more sheep per acre. Xo other animal returns more fertility to soil in proportion to the amount exacted for its support, while none equals it in the evenness with which the droppings are distributed. Notwithstanding the evident advantages an increase in sheep culture brings the agriculture of a country generally, and especially inuring to the benefit of such farmers as incorpoi?ue | it into their system, the fact is apparent that | sheep are not so numerous or so evenly distributed as thev should lie. ? ? ? When to Plant Corn.?Formerly almost every farmer was anxious to get his corn planted the last week in April, or at least the lirst week in May. One of the principle reasons for this was that it was less liable to be injured by the grub and wire-worm 011 account of its early growth. Another was that in case of the seed rotting or the plant being damaged from any cause, there would be plenty of time to replant. A tiial of this method has not resulted successfully, as it is found that earlyplanted corn is frequently delayed in sprouting by unfavorable weather ; and when it does make its appearance it is yellow and stunted, and sometimes does not recover. Whereas, by planting from the tenth to the twentieth of May the ground is sure to be warm and adapted to early germination, the seeds start to I sprout at once and come up strong and healthy. To combat enemies, six grains should be placed in each hill, properly separated, and then, should the plants escape injury from the grub and wire worm by the use of salt placed around the hill after the corn is up, remove the plants above three, Again, farmers are beginning 10 put uieir inns ciosei in me iun, mm nun the increased number of grains to each hill, they seldom are disapi>ointed of a good crop, , if well attended to. "We have known a good crop of Dutton corn to be realized when planted far in June. One, indeed, was planted on the 20th of the month, and produced a satisfactory crop, contrary to the anticipations of many people who witnessed the planting and watched the growing of the crop. We do not remember the number of bushels it produced to the acre, but we should have estimated it between fifty and sixty. At any rate, too early planting is risking more than the farmer should 1?. willing to risk, in the face of so many disappointments. For Invalids.?When the yolk of an egg cannot be borne, the white may be given with perfect impunity. Albumenized milk is prepared by shaking in a wide mouthed bottle or jar one pint of milk with the whites of two eggs. These are so thoroughly incorporated by this process that few would suspect their presence, and the mixture is much more nourishing than the milk alone. A delicate egg nogg is made by beating the yolk of an egg separately and adding to it three tablespoonfuls of sugar with the juice of half a lemon squeezed on it ; when well mixed the milk is poured in, the white, beaten to a stiff froth with a small teaspoonful of sugar, and a few drops of lemon juice is heaped on the top and )>eaten through the milk, accordingto the fancy of the maker. Orange juice maybe substituted for the lemon. Albumenized water is a pleasant and at the same time a refreshing drink. It is prepared like the milk, by shaking together the whites of two eggs and a pint of cold water, and flavored with lemon juice, a slice of lemon being left floating in t he glass. Cold toast water can be used to make it. What is an Inch ok Rain ??An inch of rain is that quantity which falling upon a level surface and not absorbed or allowed to run off. stands one inch in depth. The amount of water falling upon an acre of ground when the rainfall is one inch would astonish any one who has given no thought to the subject. On each squ.ire foot of surface there would be 144 cubic inches, and on one acre, which contains 43,560 square feet, there would be 6,272,640 cubic inches, which, reduced to imperial gallons, each containing 10 pounds avoirdupois, would be 22,623 gallons, weighing 226,230 pounds, something more than 113 tons to the acre. The annual average rainfall in this locality approximates 50 inches, consequently each acre receives about 5,605 3-4 tons weight of water in a year. This amount of water would require 260 freight cars to carry it. if one had to water a 640 acre farm at this rate, it would require figures like those of the distance to the nearest fixed star. Damp Closets.?For a damp closet or cupboard, which is liable to cause mildew, place in it a saucer full of quick lime, and it will not only absorb all apparent dampness, but sweeten and disinfect the place. Renew the lime once in a fortnight, or as often as it becomes slaked. To Polish a Stove.?Mix together pulverized stove polish or black lead, the latter preferable, with kerosine, suet, or lard without salt, to the consistency of cream, and apply a thin coating with the stove slightly warm; and polish with a brush as usual. fdected ? THE FARMER'S WIFE. BY PAUL HAMILTON HAYNB. Bird- like, she's up at day-dawn's blush, In summer heats or winter snowB? Her veins with healthful blood a&ush, Her breath a balm, her cheek a rose. In eyes?the kindliest eyes on earth? Are sparkles of a homely mirth; Demure, arch humor's ambushed in The clear curves of her dimpled chin. Ah ! guileless creature, hale and good, Ah! fount of wholesome woiyapuood, Far from the world's unhallowed strife ! God's blessing on the Farmer's Wife! I love to mark her matron charms, Her fearless stops through household ways, Her sun burnt hands and buxom arms, Her waist unbound by torturing stays; blithe as a bee. with busy care, She's here, she's there, slie'severywhere; Long ere the clock has struck for noon Home chords of toil are all in tune; And from each richly bounteous hour She drains its use, as beesaflower Apart from Passion's pain andstrifo. Peace gently girds the Farmer's Wife ! Homeward (hisdaily labors done) The stalwart farmer Rlowly plods, From battling, between shade and sun, With sullen gle' e and stubborn sods. Herwelcomeon his spirit bowed Is sunshine Hashing on a cloud ! All vanished is the brief eclipse! Hark to the sound of weddenlips, And words of tender warmth that start From out the husband's grateful heart! I O! well he knows how vain his life, Unsweetened by the Farmer's Wife ! But lo ! the height of pure delight Comes with the evening's stainless joys, When by the hearths tone spiu-es bright Blend the glad tones of glrlH and boys; Their voices rise in gleeful swells, Their laughter rings likeeltin Itells, Till with a look 'twixt smile and frown The mother lays her infant down, And at her firm, uplifted hand, There's silence 'mid the jovial band; Her signal stills their harmless strifeLove crowns with law the Farmer's Wife ! Ye dames in proud, palatial halls? Of lavish wiles and jeweled dress, On whom, perchance," no infant calls (For barren oft your loveliness)? Turn hitherward those languid eyes And for a moment's space be wise; Your sister 'mid the country dew Is three times nearer Heaven than you, And where the palms of Eden stir, Dream not thatye shall stand by her, Tho' in your lalse, bewildering life, Your foily scorned the Fanner's Wile! l^iscfUancflus jeadittg. GAMBLING IN COTTON. An article on the above subject, in our issue of last week, copied from the New York Times, though written in a light vein, contains many facts more seriously and elaborately stated in the following New York correspondence of the Charleston Xews and Courier, and either article conveys an important lesson : Is it of any use preaching a sermon on speculation in your neighborhood ? I heard one to-day from an old broker, and as the subject particularly under discussion, was cotton, perhaps it may interest you. He told me last week that the recent high rates for cotton were due partly to the fact that in some towns, every man, woman and child took a "flyer" in cotton now and then. It occurred to me to get from him some account as to the methods and channels of losing money on the Cotton Exchange of New York. "It is a fact," said this broker, "which is more and more apparent to me the more I see of this business?and I have seen dealing in cotton for forty years?that there is no such tiling as good judgment in cotton speculation. It is all luck from beginning to end. I have known men who have devoted themselves for years to compiling and studying statistics of cotton fluctuations, only to lose all their money by acting upon their deductions. The ups and downs iu cotton are due to no appreciable cause, aomeuuies wneii uie siirewuest juuges agree that it must go up, it will go down, and vice versa. You can also say that looking back over a career of forty years, I cannot remember half a dozen simulators in cotton who have made money and kept it, and on the other hand, I have known scores of men who had made fortunes and lost them because they were unable to keep from simulating. Once a speculator, always a speculator. It is pure gambling, and every one knows that the Western gambler cannot stop. 1 know three men who have each made several fortunes out of cotton and lost them all again. Experience, shrewdness, knowledge of the market, all go for nothing in this business. Some Southern people think that because they are 011 the spot they can estimate the probable crop of the future. They get bitten worse than others, because they operate on a restricted view of the field. My experience has been that the inveterate losers at this game are the Southerners who know all about it. "The Cotton Exchange came into existence in 1871, when the old Merchant's Exchange, where the Customhouse is now, was found too small for the daily meetings of merchants. Until the organization of the Exchange, very little speculative business was done. Some years ago the mania for buying and selling cotton that did not exist, or had not yet been grown, came into existence and has dwarfed all legitimate transactions. The last report to the members of the Exchange gives some notion of the proportion which speculating in cotton has attained in proportion to legitimate transactions. During the year ending May 27, 1881, actual cotton was sold as follows: For export, 143,202 bales ; for spinning, 151,911 bales ; for speculation (holding in store for a rise,) 42,133 bales; in transit, 3,100 bales; total, 310,916 bales, which represents the entire strictly legitimate business of the Exchange. During the same period 20,721,800 bales were sold and bought for future delivery?that is on paper, no actual delivery of cotton taking place. So that the actual cotton transactions bear to these on paper a proportion of about one to seventy-five. "As I told you last week, cotton is quoted at so much a pound in cents and hundredths of cents; in time we may get to thousands, and quote cotton at 12.334 a pound. We recognize fifteen grades of cotton, as follows : Strict ordinary, the poorest quoted ; good ordinary, strict good ordinary, low middling, middling, strict middling, good middling, strict good middling, middling fair, strict middling fair, strict fair, fair, good fair and tine. This last is used by jewellers and for such purposes. All cotton contracts in which the quality is not mentioned are made on the basis of middling. Cotton is divided broadly into two divisions, 'upland'and 'gulfs' the former coming from North and South Carolina and Georgia, and the rest from the Gulf States and Arkansas. To the -majority of brokers the quality of cotton never enters into the calculation, for they have no more intention of buying actual cotton than actual ligs. An expert is uhJe to distinguish any one of the grades mentioned from another, but the average speculator or scalper?they all call themselves brokers by the way?does not know the best grade from the worst. "We have four calls a day, the call being an action at which the auctioneer puts up and asks for bids upon lots which members desire to sell. The price obtained goes forth as the olllcial quotation. All transactions are made on the basis of lUObalesof middlings weighing 4">,000 pounds. Brokers charge $1 for selling or buying UK) bales lor a member of the Exchange, in case they give up the real name of the buyer or seller. But as many members do not wish to be known, and refuse to allow the broker to disclose the name of bis principal, the broker has to assume the contract, and charges $2.50 for it. To outsiders the broker charges $1*2.50 for buying and $12.50 for selling each 100bales, or $25 for the 'turn,' as it is called. The man who buys 100 bales on speculation has to sell them again of course. The margin required by brokers is $225 for 100 bales. A change of one point, or hundreth of a cent, in the market is equivalent to $4.50 on the 100 bales, onc-liundretlbof a cent a pound on 45,0001annuls. If cotton falls fifty points?from 12.00 to 1*2.10 for instance?a fluctuation that is not unknown?the entire margin of the unfortunate speculator is wiped out, and unless be is able to put in more money, or, in the slang of the Exchange 'put up' more margin, bis one hundred bales are sold out. A lively day on the Exchange is characterized by fluctuations of at least thirty points; we had one day last week when there was a change in value of thirty-five points. On the quietest days of the year the variation may not exceed three points. "It will naturally be asked: IIow do the thousands of cotton simulators make a living V Where do their profits come from? From the whole country; from all the lambs who want to speculate without being on the ground. The scalper watches the market on the spot like a cat watches a mouse. When it goes up or down enough points to enable him to make twenty or thirty dollars upon the fictitious 100 bales of cotton that he passes his life in selling and buying back again, he closes out the transaction and pockets the money. Some days he wins, some days lie loses, but being on the spot, ready to take immediate advantage of any chance change in value, he makes a living out of the outside lamb in the long run." - - - - ? Popping tiie Question.?Constitutionally timid men might, if necessary, resort to some such expedient as that of the youth whose bashfulness would not admit of his proposing directly to the object of his affections, but who at lengtli summoned up sufficient courage to lift the young lady's cat aipl say : "Pussy, may I have your mistress ?" To which -the young lady very naturally and cleverly responded : "Say yes, pussy." Bashfulness on the part of lovers, and want of courage in connection with popping the momentous question, have formed the subject of many a story. Here is one : A gentleman had long been paying attention to a young kttly whom he was very anxious to marry, but to whom he had never ventured to declare bis passion. When opportunity offered liis courage deserted him, and when lie was resolved to speak the fair one never could be found alone or disengaged. Driven to desperation, he one day succeeded in accomplishing his purpose in a somewhat remarkable manner at a dinner party. To most ]>eople a dinner mrt.v would hartllv seem the most suitable oc easion for overtures of this description, esi>ecially when, as in this instance, the lady is seated at the op|>osite side of the table from her admirer. The latter, however, was equal to the occasion. Tearing a leaf from his i>ocketbook, he wrote on it, under cover of the table : "Will you be my wife ? Write yes or no at the foot of this." Calling a servant, he asked him in a whisper to take the slip?which, of course, was carefully folded and directed? to "the lady in blue, opposite." The servant did as requested ; and the gentleman, in an agony of suspense, watched him give it to the lady, and fixed his eyes, with badly disguised eagerness, to try and judge from her expression how the quaintjy made offer was received, lie had forgotten one tiling?namely, that ladies seldom carry pencils about them at a dinner party. The beloved one was, however, not to be battled by so trilling an obstacle. After reading the note calmly, she turned to the servant and said : "Tell the gentleman yes." They were married in due course. Money and its Use.?One celebrated writer gravely exhorts his countrymen, in order to banish all vice at once, "to throw their money into the sea." But is not all this empty cant ? Is there any solid reason therein ? By no means. Let the world be as corrupt as it will, is gold or silver to blame ? "The love of money is the root of all evil," but not the thing itself. The fault does not lie in the money, but in them that use it. It may be used well; it is fully as applicable to the best as to the worst uses. It is of unspeakable service to all civilized nations in all the common affairs of life; it is a most compendious instrument of transacting all manner of business, if we use it according to Christian wisdom, of doing good. It is true, were man in a state of innocence, or were all men "filled with the Holy Ghost," so that, like the infant church at Jerusalem, "no man counted anything he had his own," but "distribution was made to every one as he had need," the use of it would be superseded, as we cannot conceive there is anything of the kind among the inhabitants of heaven. But in the present state of mankind it is an excellent gift of God, answering the noblest ends. In the hands of his children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked; it gives to the traveler and stranger where to lay his head. By it we may supply the place of a husband to a widow and of a father to the fatherless, it may ue a aeiense ior n?e uppresse<l, a means of health to the sick, of ease to them that are in pain; it may be as eyes to the blind, as feet to the lame; yea, a lifter up from the gates of death ! It is, therefore, of the highest concern that all who fear God know how to employ this valuable talent; that they be instructed how it may answer those glorious ends in the highest degree.?liev. John Wesley. Tiie Magnetic Needle.?A condensed explanation in regard to the needle pointing to the northward and southward is as follows: The magnetic i>oles of the earth do not coincide with the geographical ]>oles. The axis of rotation makes an angle of about 230 with a line joining the former. The northern magnetic pole is at present near the Arctic circle, on the meridian of Omaha. Hence the needle does not everywhere point to the astronomical north, and is constantly variable within certain limits. At San Francisco it points about seventeen degrees to the east of north, and at Calais, Me., as much to the west. At the northern magnetic pole, a balanced needle points with its north qpd downward in a plumb line. At San Francisco it dips about sixtythree degrees, and at the southern magnetic pole the south end points directly down. The attraction of the earth upon a magnetic needle at its surface is of about the same force as that of a hard steel magnet, forty inches long, strongly magnetized, at a distance of one foot. The foregoing is the accepted explanation of the fact that the needle points to the northward and southward. Of course, no ultimate reason can l>e given for this natural fact, any more than for any other obeserved fact in nature. IIow tiie Snake Gets a New Suit.? "Some people think that snakes only shed their skins at certain seasons of the year," said the-keeper. "That's a mistake. If they are well fed and kept right warm they change their coats about every eight weeks through the year." "Does it pain them?" "Not a bit of it. You see the skin of a snake does not increase in size as the reptile grows, as with us. While the old skin is getting smaller by degrees, a new one is forming underneath, and the other gradually gets dry. When it is ready to shed, it loosens around the lips, and the reptile rubs itself against the earth or the rock in the cage, and turns the upper part over the eye and the lower part over the throat. Then it commences to glide around the glass case, all the time rubbing itself against something until the entire skin is worked off. Sometimes this takes three days; occasionally they get rid of the incumbrance in a few hours. I don't believe they have a bit of intelligence. For all I feed them and care for them, they would as lief bite me as any stranger. I can handle a good many of them safely, but it's only the knack of the thing?not that they won't bite, but that they can't get the chance." ^arge heads are found in the cold regions, and smaller ones in warm regions. Men with large heads endure cold better than those with small ones. More vitality is required to sustain life in cold climates than in warm ones, hence nature gave largest heads at the north. The Lapps have the largest heads in Euroi>e in proportion to their size ; Norwegians next; then come Swedes, Danes, Germans, French, Italians. Arabs have the smallest of all men T3.,'XrnL'niiLii* liotfQ uri/lo lianrla Ill UIUUJ'U. luu.^umi turn untv ?? i\?v> n^uvtu, because tlie large muscles ou the sides of the skull pulling daily while chewing pull the side plates outward. Bony men, with stronger bone and less powerful muscles, have narrow, long heads. There are signs of character in the form of the skull, but they are less reliable, and not so easily scanned, and there are not one-tenth as many as in the face. The form of the head is principally given by the bones and muscles, and not by the brain as some believe. A Fragment ok Life.?When one breaks camp in the morning lie turns back again and again to see what he has left. Surely he feels that he has forgotten something. What is it? It is only his own thought? and musings he has left, the fragment of his life he has lived there. Where he hung his coat on a tree, where he slept in the boughs, where he made his coffee or broiled his trout over the coals, where he drank at the little brown pool in the spring run, where he looked long and long into the whispering branches overhead ; he has left what he cannot bring away with him?the flame and the ashes of himself. The bridge on the extension of the Erie Rairoad, on the top of the Alleghany Mountains, across a ravine 300 feet deep, which is now in progress, will be the tallest bridge in the world. The length of the bridge will be over '2,000 feet to be covered with twenty-two piers, will be 110 feet wide at the base, tapering gradually up to a width of twelve feet at the top. The Kentucky River bridge on the Cincinnati Railway is the nearest in height to the above. It is 270 feet high. flatting fat the ? ahhafh. CONDUCTED BT REV. ROBERT LATH AN. | Original.] FAITH. The importance which is attached to faith in the divine economy, may be inferred from the frequent reference which is made to it in the Scriptures. If we except the names and titles by which the Supreme Being reveals himself to us, there is. perhaps, no other subject which is so often and in so many different ways brought to our attention in the Scrijv , tures, as faith. Every form of expression is used which is calculated to illustrate what is meant by faith, and to impress upon our minds the necessity of exercising faith. Notwithstanding this, the subject is generally not well understood. In every evangelical sermon something is said about faith. Men , are constantly exhorted to believe every time the gospel is preached. Still, there is a vague iiess in the minds of many concerning the origin and oflice of faith. As to its origin, faith is traceable back to the creative energy of God. It is usually defined to be belief in testimony. This is true ; but it is so general that some explanation is necessary. Before testimony can be believed it is necessary that some correct knowledge is possessed of the ]>erson giving the testimony. Xot only so, but some knowledge of the subject matter of the testimony itself, is necessary. This is so clear that it needs no illustration. The testimony which we are called upon to believe is the record which God has given us of his Son Jesus Christ. This is evangelical faith. We may believe that there is one and only one God, that he is the creator and preserver of us all. We may believe this, not because we know it in the sense of a fact capable of demonstration, but because it is the testimony of God as contained in the Scriptures. However necessary this faith may be, it is still not evangelical or saving faith. It is clear, from the general scope of the whole Scriptures, that the ability to believe the record which God has given us of his Son is not natural. Or, in other words, men in their normal state do not possess the ability in and of themselves to accept Jesus Christ as he is offered to them in the gospel. Before they can do this they must be born again?they must be regenerated. Those wljo are dead in trespasses and sins never exercise saving faith. They m,ay, and many of them do believe many things that are revealed, both in the word and works of God, but they do not and can not accept of Jesus Christ as their Saviour until by God's Spirit they are born again. This being the case, it may safely be said, that so far as its origin is concerned, faith is traceable to the creative energy of God. Faith is said, in the Scriptures, to be the crift of God. Now it is not a gift which has a separate and distinct existence from those who receive it. On the contrary, faith is so identified with those who receive it, that it forms a part and parcel of their very being. God, by an exercise of His almighty power, so enlighteus the understanding, purifies the affections and subdues and directs the will of men, that they receive and rest upon Jesus Ciirist as God offers him to them in the gospel. Faith is a grace, because it is a gift. God gives this power to believe. In its exercise faith is a work. In this there is a great similarity between faith and life. God gives us . life; but motion, the evidence of life, is our own. In living, we simply use the power which God has bestowed upon us when he gave us life. So when any one believes, he simply exercises that gift which God bestowed upon I him when He created him anew by His word : and spirit. The object of faith is Christ Jesus. We are not called upon to believe that we will lie saved, but to trust in Jesus Christ for salvation. Many persons annoy themselves unnecessarily in vain efforts to know what is not knowable. They would measure their fitness for Heaven by what they have done or liaye not done. The consequence is that they are constantly vacillating between hope and fear. Ill order to believe, these things are absolutely necessary to be known: 1st. That there is a God ; 2nd. That all men are sinners; 3rd. That God has provided a way of escape for sinners ; 4th. That in the gospel Jesus Christ is offered to sinners, freely, fully and in good faith; 5th. That all that accept of the offer shall be saved, and all who reject it shall be lost. In faith there is nopurchasing merit. Faith is not a satisfaction for or.r sins. Jesus Christ rendered to the law of God, by His obedience and death, all the satisfaction that the law requires. Faith may be appropriately denominated a growing grace. Except in extraordinary cases, it is, in all persons, weak. Its growth depends upon the growth in Scriptural knowledge. The office of faith is to take hold of Jesus Christ and rest upon him, and upon him alone, for salvation, as He is offered to us in the gospel. Some old divines called faith the hand that takes hold of Christ. This is a good and safe illustration of the office work of faith. All our natural affections draw us away from Christ, and so far as our natural understanding is concerned, it leads us to exclaim against the plan of salvation proposed in the gospel as insufficient, and our wills rebel against the new obedience required. Faith enables its possessor to rest on the promises of God. Hence it may be said that a part, and no small part, of the office work of faith is to sustain and comfort. Ilie ? orMlr TUJRM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION: Single copy for one year, $2 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. Contracts will be made at reduced rates for advertising space to bo used for three, six. or twelve months. RICHMOND AND DAN VILLE RAILROAD, i '' r^ar PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. ON and after February 26th, 1882, Passenger Train Service on the Atlanta and Charlotte . Air-Line division of this road will be as follows: EASTWARD, Mail and Express. Mail. No. 51. No. 53. Leave Atlanta, 2.15 P. M. 5.00 A. M. j Arrive at Gainesville, 4.54 P. M. 7.55 A. M. Arrive at Luis, 5.26 P. M. 8.30 A. M. Arrive at Rabun Gap Juno 6.22 P. M. A. 13 A. M. Arrive at Toccoa, 7.06 P. M. 10.06 A. M. " Arrive at Seneca, 8.24 P. M. 11220 A. M. Arrive at Greenville 10.08 P. M. 1.25 P. M. Arrive at Spartanburg,...11.40 P. M. 2.58 P. M. . Arrive at Gastonia, 2.06 A. M. 5.10 P. M. ' Arrive at Charlotte, 3.15 A. M. 6.00 P. M. WESTWARD. Mail and Express. Mail. 5 No. 50. No. 52. t Leave Charlotte, 12.40 A. M. 11.05 A. M. 1 Arrive at Gastonia, 1.35 A. M. 12.02 P. M. I Arrive atSpartanburg 4.04 A. M. 2.35 P. M. Arrive at Greenville, 5.32 A. M. 4.09 P. M. Arrive at Seneca, 7.15 A. M. 5.54 P. M. Arrive at Toccoa 8.28 A. M. 7.05 P. M. -1 Arrive at Rabun Gap Junc.9.32 A. M. 8 00 P. M. Arrive at Lula, 10.18 A. M. 8.43 P. M. g Arrive at Gainesville, 10.51 A. M. 9.15 P. M. | x Arrive at Atlanta, 1.40 P. M. 12.05 A. M. I c T. M. R. TALCOTT, General Manager. I r I. Y. SAGE, Superintendent. 1 A. POPE, General Passenger Agent. March 8 tf AHEAD ACAII ? REPORTS from all Sections of North and Soi claim that the WILCOX, GIBBS & CO.'S Is the BEST, MOST RELIABLE AND CHE WILCOX, GIBBS & CO. Which we pot out for the first time last Season, ha? on the Market. It is not necessary for us to say anything about t! tained from our agentsor ourselves, cover the whol We will have a moderate supply of each, which ton next Fall. If there is no Agent at yoilr Railro WIL( January 20 ATTENTION! BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS. -- - ? - tii?? ?? ? r? TVT CST3T? A TT Ar Of >_ K HEP on hand a large lot of DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS, lumber, lime and laths, Dressed, Tongued and Grooved FLOORING AND CEILING. MOLDmGS, PINE AND CYPRESS SHINGLES, &C. LUMBER YARD at C. <fc L. N, G. Depot. DOOR, SASH AND BLIND WAREHOUSE, next door to Court House. fiSr Prompt and careful attention given to shipping. Complete Bills for Dwellings or Store Rooms furnished at short notice. For prices Ac., address B. M. SPRATT & CO., Chester, S. C. Febrnar3f 2 5 3m theIISTeuableT ONE OF THE BEST NEWSPAPERS IN THE SOUTH. NO SENSATIONALISM, NO IMMORALITY. AUG-USTA (IIIIUllKKTITniUK subscribe eur it! THE Chronicle and Constitutionalist is the oldest newspaper in the South, and perhaps the oldest in the United States, having been established in 1985. While thoroughly Democratic in principle, it is liberal, progressive and tolerant. The CHRONICLE contains the latest news from all parts of the world, and is recognized as a firstclass paper. As an advertising medium, it covers the country in Georgia and South Carolina tributary to Augusta. We endeavor to exclude sensationalism. We publish no articles of an immoral character. TERMS: Daily, one year, ?10 00 Tri-Weekly, one year, 5 00 Weekly,one year, 2 00 Address WALSH A WRIGHT, Augusta, Ga. January 26 4 tf "yorkville omnibust THE undersigned would remind the public that his LIVERY STABLES, on his lot, near the Court House, are in operation, and that he is amply prepared with HORSES, CARRIAGES, BUGGIESand WAGONS, to attend to all calls that - ' * ? L? * rs,. Mi/, may De mane upon mm uy mo uavcun* p......v,. Special attention given to conveying TRAVELING SALESMEN to any point (lesired, in comfortable vehicles, and with careful drivers. Horses and vehicles to hire at reasonable prices. HIS NEW OMNIBUS Makes regular trips to and from the trains, and will con. ey passengers to any part of the town. FEED STABLES. In connection with the Livery business, I am also prepared to furnish feed and stabling for horses, by the meal, day, week or month. My long experience in the Livery Business warrants me in ensuring satisfaction to ali who may favor me with their patronage. A few second-hand Buggies for sale at a bargain. > F. E. SMITH. February 2 14 ly GERMAN KAINIT, (Direct importation.) PERUVIAN GUANO, Direct from the Agent of the Peruvian Government. FISH GUANO, fi to 8 per cent. Ammonia. NOVA SCOTIA LAND PLASTER. .South Carolina GROUND PHOSPHATE, Fine Ground and High Grade. For sale by HERMANN BULWINKLE, Kerr's Wharf, Charleston, S. C. December 15 50 3m Will be mailed frxi to all applicants, and tocustomen without ordering It, It contains five colored platss, 600 engravings, about JOQ rages, and full descriptions, prices and directions tor planting loOO varieties of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Plants, Fruit Trees, etc. Invaluable to all. Michigan grown seeds will be found more reliable tor planting In the South than those grown In a wanner climate. W o make a specialty of supplying Planters, Truckmen and Market Gardners. Address, D. M. FEBBY & CO., Detroit, Mich. January 12 2 eawl2w GARRY IRON^OOF^^a ^ md Cement. 79 and 81 Columbus Street, OTiJU X/ !* i i A3XT l ff Send for circulars and price lists. February 26 9 ly j. r7 schorb's photo-gallery, 1ST HOUSE EAST OF THE JAIL. A SUPERIOR Skylight, a gallery with every convenience, and a determination to do my aost, enables me to promise satisfaction to all in tvant of correct and nattering likenesses. Cloudy veather is as good or better than sunshine for all mbjects, except small children. March 10 10 tf CLEANSING AND REPAIRING. rHE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he is prepared to cleanse garnents of any fabric whatever, rendering them lerfectly clean, and if unladed, restoring tnem 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- I >le prices. THOMAS BALLARD. February 23 8 tf I APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE. ! IVfOTICE is hereby given that the undersignLx ed. Administrator of the estate of DEMP- I 1EY COOK, deceased, will make a final settle-' nent with the Judge ot Probate for York county, in the 17th day of March next, when he will nake application for a final discharge from all iability as Administrator of the said estate. J. R. COOK, Administrator. Februajy 9 rt fit* MAS USUAL! jtb Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, sustain our * MANIPULATED GUANO APEST FERTILIZER in use, and that the 'S SUPERPHOSPHATE, i proved unexcelled by any ACID PHOSPHATE liese Fertilizers, as the'reports, which may be obe subject, and will amply repay perusal, can be obtained from our Agents, payable In Cotad Depot, get your merchant to order it ?OX, GIBBS & CO., Savannah, Ga./and Charleston, S. C. 4 2?n ' \ JOB PRINTING. OWING to our superior facilities with the best machine presses, an abundance of type and first-class appointments throughout our office/ wo 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 samo 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 : BILL HEADS. For 500 For 1000 Half-sbeet Bill Heads, $3.50 $6.00 Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.25 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads, .. 2.00 3.00 Monthly statements at same price ofBixtb-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. V For 500 For 1000 Commercial Note $2.15 $3.25 Packet Note, 2.25 3.50 Letter (large size) 3.00 5.0C For the above work we use a superior quality of paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in every instance. We also give special attention to the printingof Briefs, Arguments and Points and Authorities, which we furnish'strictlyaccordingto the requirements of the Jnstio.is of the Supreme Court, aud in proof reading exercise the utmost care to ensure accuracy. We are prepared to furnish all other kinds of "S printing, from a visiting card to a large volume, and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any style of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST. Yorkville. S. C. C. & 1. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD, jlrwiv frr-Wry w wr SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains, from Chester, S. C., to l incolnton, N. C., taking effect at 3.15 o'clock, P. M., Deoemher 19, 1881: GOING NORTH. Leave Chester 3.15 P. M. Leave Lowrysville 3.45 P. M. Leave McConnellsville 4.05 P. M, Leave Guthriesville 4.15 P. M. , Arrive at Yorkville 4.40 P. M. Leave Yorkville 4.50 P. M. Leave Clover 5.30 P. M. Leave Bowling Green 5.40 P. M. Leave Crowder's Creek 5.50 P. M. Leave Pleasant Ridge 6.00 P. M. Leave Gastonia 6.30 P. M. .Leave Dallas 6.50 P. M. Leave Hardin's 7.15 P. M. Arrive at Lincolntoii * 7.45 P. M. GOING SOUTH. Leave Llncolnton, 7.00 A. M. Leave Hardin's 7.26 A. M. Leave Dallas, 7.50 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia* 8.10 A. M. Leave Gastonia 8 30 A. M. Leave Pleasant Ridge ; 8.50 A. M. Leave Crowder's Creek ;....9.00 A. M. Leave Bowling Green 9. ID A. M. Leave Clover .0.25 A. M. Arrive at Yorkville : 10.00 A. M. Leave Yorkville 10.10 A.- M. Leave Guthriesville 10.35 A. M. Leave McConnellsvllle 10.50 A. M. Leave Lowrysville 11.10 A. M. Arrive at Chester 11.40 A. M. Breakfast. JAMES MASON, Superintendent. December 22 51 tf CHERAW AND CHESTER RAILROAD. PRESIDENT AND SUP'TS OFFICE,1 C'HBSTKR, 8. C., Nov. 28, 1881. J ON and after Nov<?mber 28, 1881, the following schedule will be run on this road daily, Sundays excepted: Leave Lancaster Depot 8.00 A. M. Leave Miller's Station ?8.10 A. M. Leave Waxhaw Station 8.20 A. M. Leave River Depot 0.00 A. M. Leave Fort Lawn 9.15 A. M. Leave Cedar Shoal Factory 9.25 A. M. Leave Howze's Station 9.45 A. M. Leave Riuhburg 10.00 A. M. Leave McDaniel's Crossing - 10.10 A. M. leave Knox'sStation 10.20 A. M. Arrive at Chester 11.00 A. M. Leave Chester 3 50 P. M. Arrive at Lancaster Depot 6 50 P. M. v Passengers will buy tickets at all stations where sold: WM. H. HARDIN, President. January 19 3 . tf STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, C0UHTY OF YOEI-OOUBT OP C0MM0H PLEAS. Joseph A. McLean, as Trustee for the heirs-atlaw of John H. Adams, deceased, Plaintiff, against Martha B. Lowry, John T, Lowry and Agnes B. Harris, Defendants.? Summon* for Relief?Complaint not Served. To the Defendants above named. YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action; which is this day herewith filed in the office of the Clerk ofCom'mon Pleas, forthesaid connty, and to serve a copy of your ans wer to the said complaint on the subscribers, at their office, in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty dava after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated Yorkville, 8. C., Febrnary 1, A. D., 1882. Summons and com plaint endorsed: Filed February 1, 1882. JOS. F. WALLACE, C. C. Pis. WITHERSPOON & SPENCER, Plaintiff's Attorneys. [L. S.] Jos. F. Wali.acb, C. C. Pleas. February 96 6t STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Y0BK OOffHTY?COUBT OF 0OMM0H PLBA8. James F. Hart, Plaintiff', against John R. Gardner, as Administrator of Louisa E. Lowry, deceased; and others, Defendants.?Complaint to Marshal Estate. BY virtue of an order of said Court, made in the above entitled cause, notice is hereby given to all and singular the creditors of Mrs. Louisa E. Lowry. deceased, to establish their claims before me,"at a Reference to be held In the Clerk's Office, at York Court House, on THURSDAY, the lfilhday of MARCH next, at 10, A. M., or be barred from anj' benefit to be had under the final decree herein, touching the settlement of her estate. January 31,1382. J. BEATTY WILLIAMS, Special Referee. withei?sPOON<fc Spencer, Plaintiff's Attorneys. James L. Wilson, Attorney for Estate. February 2 5 6t TURBINE WATER WHEELT WE have one 18-iuch RIGHT HAND TURBINE WHEEL, as a sample of Farrar's Invention. We are working a 134-inch Wheel ot the same kind, and there is no better Water Wheel made for the same money. Those who contemplate using a Turbine Wheel can do no better than to get one of these Wheels. Wo have Circulars giving all the details in regard to the working of it, and with the sale you have the privilege of-trying the Wheel, and if it does not do as represented, the money will be refunded. Come and see the sample lS-inoh R. H. Turbine Wheel, Manufactured by theSERGEANT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Greensboro, N. C. HERNDON BROS., Agents, Yorkville, S. C. February 10 47 tf / J. W. BAUMAN, PRACTICAL BARBER AND HAIR DRE8SER. SHOP in SPRINGS MOORE building, on first floor, in the rear of Withers Adickes' store. Easy shaving, fashionable hair-cutting and dressing "and polite attention to all customers. Call and give him a trial. Also dealer in CIGARS and TOBACCO. September 15 25 tf HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE. THE undersigned offers for sale, the Lot In Yorkville, known as the ''Meek Place." It Is situated near the Methodist Church, and contains TWO ACRES, more or less. On the lot is i two-story Dwelling House, containing SIX LARGE ROOMS AND A BASEMENT, a lumber house, corn-crib and stable. Terms will be made easy. L. M. GRIST. CHATTEL MORTGAGES MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to Real Estate, For sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE.