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He Had^HeaRD.?A good story is told of one of the old-time Philadelphia Quakers, whose sterling integrity was ingeniously commingled with worldly shrewdness. He .was an extensive vessel owner, and during his life made a fortune, which has since, in the hands of his heirs, been doubled again aqd ag$|R. ,AVt.one tinier when a period of stormy weather had greatly delayed shipping of all kinds, he became alarmed for the safety of a ship loaded with a most valuable cargo, and several.weeks overdue. Going to an insurance agent he truthfully .told him that he feared the vessel had been lost, but if the agent wished to take the risk he had no objections. Of course the agent hesitated and put him off from day to day, hoping for private information regarding the missing craft. One bright morning the Quaker drove up to the insurance office and called to the agent: "Thee need not make out those papers; I have heard from the ship.". Instantly the office was in a bustle, and in a few momenta the agent came hurrying1 forward, exclaiming: "Oh ! you are too late; the papers are already-made out; here they are!" As the Quaker looked them over (the ink, being scarcely dry) the agent asked: "Well, what have you heard?" "I have heard," "I have heard," responded the Quaker, with childlike simplicity, as he put the documents in his pocket-; "I have heard that the ship has gone to the bottom." A Boston Scene.?"Who is this welldressed man with the sealskin overcoat, hat amfgloves? He carries a gold headed cane and is followed by a bulldog in a scarlet blanket ? I)o you know him ?" "Oh, yes; that is S the noted pugilist. Fine man. Hard hitter. Very popular. Always surrounded by a crowd of admiring friends, as you see him now. He is very well off; was given a benefit the other night that netted him $500." "Indeed !" he is very fortunate." "Oh, yes, a very fortunate fellow; ranks high in his profession, yon see." "Who isr that white headed, weary-looking man close behind the pugilist and his friends? Poor man, he seems thinly clad for this wintry weather. Do you know him?" "Oh, yes, that is old Faithful, a country clergyman. Very learned man, they say. n *\wnn/>hni* cvf fVin n?ACrvo1 oil Hid 11TA JLICC1I U JpiCOfCHUl V/X tXXV/ gV/C|/VA UAA itAW but poor as a rat. He had a benefit, too, the other night." "Oh, indeed! Did it net him inueh?" "I don't think k did. You see it was a sort of surprise party. His parishioners . called upon nini in a body, ate up everything there was i& the house, and left him presents to the amount of sixty cents." p A Rare Instance.?"Father," began a Cass avenue lad the other night, "is Mr. T. a good man ?" "Yes, my son. I regard him asone of the best men in Michigan." ^ "Do you believe he would lie ?" "What, young man, are you crazy ? Why, sir, Mr. T. would not tell a lie for all the gold on earth. What makes you ask that question ?" ? "Why, when a man says he saw a spring robin on the loth day of February what do you call it ?" "Did he say he saw one ?" "He did." "Are you sure?" "Oh! I heard him tell three different men so. JQidn't he lie, father ?" "NOfO^QjJ think not," mused the father ; "but lefciiMbe a great moral lesson to-vou all the same. It isn't once in a thousand years tJiat a mhin romp* nn here from Tennessee at that dAteand exhibits himself to a single citizen and returns on the afternoon express !"?Detroit Free Press. IS?-The stranger carelessly tucked away in his vest pocket the change of a $5 that a Brooklyn bartender handed to him after serving a warm drink. There was nothing strange in that, but subsequently the bartender said to the bystanders: "I have made a customer of that man. How ? Why, as easy as rolling off a log. I have given him a fifty cent piece with a hole in it. He'll come in to-morrow when he's going by, politely call for a drink, inform me in the kindest manner that I have unintentionally put in on him a fifty cent piece with a hole in it. To all of which I will reply good-naturedly that I am really sorry, and ask the man to take a drink with me. We are both feeling quite satisfied with each other, and there is 110 refusing. Reminiscences follow, The man spentjs three or four dollars with me and then leaves, saying I am really a good fellow. I have bought all the perforated coins that I can lay my hands on. business nas increased thirty per cent, this week." Health Statistics.?Last summer two Austin ladies met at the railroad depot. One of them was very thin, while the other was exceedingly fat. "Where are you going ?" asked the thin one. "To Eureka Springs." - "Whatfor?" "Or. Bradley Barnes advised me to'"go there to get thin. I am too fat. Whereare you going ?" "I am going to Eureka Springs." "What for?" "Br. Bradley Barnes advised me to go there to get fat. I am too thin." When they returned to Austin the fat one was fatter than ever, and the thin one was twice as thin as when she started.? Texas Siftings. * 2 i ' ? ? Webster and Waiter.?Once when Daniel Webster was dining table iVhote at the Astor House, in the days when it was conducted on what we call the American plan, a servant came to him and said a man was waiting in the office to collect a bill. "Is he a good waiter?" asked Webster. "I don't know," answered the servant. "Neither do I," said the orator; "so we will have to ascertain. Tell him I'm at dinner?let him wait." And Mr. Webster finished his dinner leisurely, the man having lost patience and departed prior to the conclusion. * ^ tSf "How can I leave you, my darling ?" murmured a Toledo lover, in tones of distressing tenderness, as he observed both hands of the clock approach a perpendicular on the dial. "Well, John," responded the girl, with wicked innocence, "you can take your choice. If you go through the hall you'll be liable to wake up father, and if you leave by way of the back shed you'll be likely to wake up the dog." Curran hearing that a stingy and slovenly barrister had started for the Continent with a shirt and a guinea, observed, "He'll not change either till he comes back." Somebody told Curran during his last illness that he seemed to cough with more difflculty than on the previous day. "Do I !" said Curran^ "that's odd enough. I've been practising all night." ? What Could the Pooh Boy Do?? "William, my son," says an economical mother to her son, "for mercy's sake don't keep on tramping uj) and down the floor in that manner, you 11 wear um yuui uen boots." (He sits dowq.) "There you go? sitting down! Now you'll wear out your new trowsers! I declare, I never saw such a boy." S6&* A printer's towel fell out of a third story window in a New Jersey town, the other day, and cracked a paving stone. The crash was heard two blocks away, and a little boy ran all the way home, with white lips and trembling limbs, to tell his mother that he had seen a nigger man tumble off the roof and explode his head. 4 ? t??? We have near sympathy with that dear and saintly old lady from the country "deestrict" who, on examining the weapons in an antiquarian museum, declared that there was only one thing more she desired to look upon, and then she would go home satisfied, viz., the ax of the Apostles.?K. Y. Herald. AST An Irishman wrote thus to the wife of i? sick brother. "If Jamie isn't dead yet, remoind him of the twenty shillings he owes me on the pig, and if he is tell him not to give himself any consurrun about it." The man who believes in a place for everything, and every thing in its place, never has a postage stamp when he wants to post a letter.? Puek. Wht About Fattening C'attle.-The follow-! ing is summarized from reports of the ex- i perimental department of the Ontario Agricultural college: Most animals eat in m-oportionto their weight, under average hondJjionjfMge, I temperature ana ratness. Give fattening cattle as much as they will j eat and often times a day. Never give rapid changes of food, but change often. A good guide for a safe quantity of grain per day to maturing cattle is one pound to each hundred of their weight ; thus an ani- i mal weighing 1,000 pounds may receive ten pounds of grain. Stall-feeding in the fall will make the * winter's progress more certain by thirty per | cent. In qsing rootj?it is onfrgiydfc to give just so much, in association with other things, so that the animal may not take any water, i In buildings, have warmth, with complete ; ventilation, without currents, but never under forty degrees nor over seventy degrees Fahrenheit. A cool, damp, airy temperature will cause animals to consume more food without corresponding result in bone, muscle, flesh or fat, much being used to keep up warmth. Stall-feeding is better for fat-making than box or yard management, irrespective of health. rr**- - ? ~ ' ? 1 koilf me growmK uiuniiii, uiucuuru mvi, | requires a little exercise daily, to promote f muscle and strength of constitution ; when ! ripe, only so much as to be able to walk to market. Keep the temperature of the body about 100 degrees, not under ninety-five degrees, nor over 105 degree, Fahrenheit. 4 ^ + ? Water-Mklon?How to Manure and Plant.?I wish to plant a patch of watermelons for early market. My land has a deep sandy soil; will make half bale cotton per acre. Please give instructions : 1. At what time should the seed be:planted ? 2. What distance apart should they be planted ? 3. What kind of seed is best for market purposes ? 4. If manure should be used, what kind is best that can be got on a farm?I have no chance to get chemical fertilizers?and how to apply ; in the hill or broadcast ??E. C. C/aioorn Parish, I ax., Jan., 4th, 1883. Answer.?1. If the seed are to be planted in the open air, there is nothing gained by WQUIU f/iouua^a aju vv/wm. But by putting some warm manure in the hill, and having little boxes open at the bottom and eovered at the top with oiled shirting to place over them at night and in bad weather, they might be started three to four weeks earlier. 2. Not less than ten feet each way. What is called in Georgia the Augusta or rattle-snake melon is generally regarded as best for market purposes. 4. A mixture of stable manure and cotton seed, equal parts, is excellent. Check land and open Judes eighteen. inches wide and eight Inches deep ; in these put half a bushel of manure a month before planting, and make a low hill over it?just enough to keep water from settling on the hill. If you can get ashes, sprinkle some of it around the hill and work it in at first ploughing of the crop.?Southern Cultivator. How Butter May be Spoiled.?Good butter may be spoiled in churning. Overchurning ruins the texture and changes the proper waxiness to a disagreeable, sickly greasiness. This is the more easily done in a oh urn with dashes, which will press the butter against the sides of the churn and squeeze and rub it until it is spoiled. Too long churning spoils the quantity by the oxidation of the butter and the premature formation of strong-flavored acids in it, the full presence of which we call rancidity. It may be spoiled at too high a temperature, by which it is made soft and oily, and of greasy texture and flavor. No subsequent treatment can remedy this error. It may be spoiled before the cream reaches the churn by keeping it too long, or, what is practically the same, by keeping it in too warm a place; 50 degrees is about the right temperature if the-cream h? kept a week; if it is kept at (>2 degress three days is long enough. White specks are produced in butter by Qverchuruing or by having the cream too sour. Either or these faults produces curd in the.milk, and the .. . r> iL!^ i. ...- .r.Ln.-J SiniUI HUKes OI II11S OHlinut ?r \uoucu uui in the butter. Milk from a cow in ill health and that is acid when drawn, will produce specky butter. So will the use of salt containing specks of lime, which unite with the butter and form insoluble lime scmp. White specks are covered up to a large intent by using good coloring, which is made of oil as the solvent. But this use of coloring being used to disguise a fault, and to an undeserved virtue, is worthy of denunciation. Raise Youii Own Coits'.-?Much has ix'pn said of late about -tile-prosperity of South Carolina within the last few years and the facts and figures brought forward must be very gratifying to every lover of the Palmetto State. The question now is how is it with you, reader? Are you prospering? If not, why not? All material prosperity must come out of the ground. It will thus be seen that the farmers ought to be the most prosperous people. But are they prosperous ? Are. the money-lenders, whether bankers, merchants or others who lend money or supplies to farmers accumulating the wealth of the country, or does it remain in the hands of the producer? "We feel perfectly certain that trie farmer who raises his own grain, molasses, potatoes and jpork at home can make money, and get rich at farming, but we do not believe that any man can make a living who has to come to the stores twice a month to buy corn at twenty-five per cent, above the cash price. The man who does that might just as well give it up now, as to surrender later. Clean and ditch every foot of bottom land. A crop can be made for five dollars an acre, and any acre will make twenty-five bushels of corn, whether it rains or not. Would not a farmer consider the merchant or the printer on the road to ruin if he had to give as much for the use of money as the farmer often gives? Corn can be grown on the farm at less expense than the cost of going to town after the grain, even if the merchant tn o-i vp the cnrn nwav.?Abbeville Press and Banner. Value of Birds to the Farmer.?Regarding the value of birds to the farmer, Prof. Stearns, in a paper read before the Connecticut State Board of Agrieulturo,^states that a young robin in the best YetfuTres a daily supply of food more than equivalent to its own weight. The swallows are the natural enemies of the midges and similar small insects that prey on grain. It is estimated that in three weeks the nestlings of a single pair of swallows will consume half 1 a million insects. Blue birds protect fruit j trees from insects. The king-bird is strictly insectivorous and a great protector. The i wrens can be induced to remain near hous| es if suitable boxes are provided and they : war without ceasing upon caterpillars. A Nice Expeuient Witre Btra.'W-buki Smtt-hoiYi Mmateirr-p-ardener se | cured slabs from the saw mill and bored ! two-inch holes in them fifteen inches apart | and laid them round side up upon the edge of ; some beds and set a strawberry in each hole, in August. Such a profusion of .strawj berries as he had from each of five exceptional varieties was a sight worth beholding. "When other strawberries in the neighborhood were all dried up by the great drought ; of that season his were perfection. A half 1 pint or more were taken at a time from each plant. It was but little trouble to keep the runners down.?Abbeville Medium. Fresh Vegetables.?'The time will soon be here for fresh vegetables. A time looked for by all housekeepers and when a bottle of Norman's Neutralizing Cordial is necessary | toeounteract all the colics and diarrhoea produced from eating them. Be sure to have a bottle convenient as "a stitch in time saves nine."?Advt. Plans for the Year?Systerrf''contributes to success in farming as well as in other ! pursuits. To reach high success it must be adopted in farm operations. Plans for the j year's work should be determined and all arrangements made that can be for fully ! carrying them out. lleadittg far the Sabbath. R^fV. ROBiSRT 'TiA^AN. [Original.J GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY. Webster defines sovereignty to be "The exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power." A sovereign is a person who has the right to do as he sees fit, or a perosn whose own will is his only rule of action. It is evident that sovereignty is a prerogative possessed by no creature. Kujgs are sometimes called sovereigns, but siicfr they are only in a very limited sense. The only sovereign in the universe is God. To him and to him only sovereignty belongs. He only can do as he pleases. Every other being is dependent. This arises from the nature of things. Whatever is not self-existent, omnicient, omnipotent and eternal cannot possess sovereignty. All of these attributes, at least, must be possessed before claim can be laid to the-prOto^htive oV sovereignty. That God has the right to exercise supreme power, or to act in all cases and under all circumstances, according to his own pleasure or will, follows as a necessary result of the perfection of his attributes. He has the right to do as he pleases, because he is an infinite, uncreated, unchangeable, self-existent and eternal spirit, from whom all things derived their being and on whom all things are dependent.- Tlfat' Hod ejercises sovereignty may be proven by a reference to facts as recorded in the Bible, and as seen by every individual who has watched, with the least care, the events which have transpired in his own history. We find the soverignty of God asserted either directly or indirectly in connection with every event that is recorded in the Bible. In the creation of the world God exercised his sovereignty. He \ya$4twjuqed by no ^lotive outside of biins^Mn bringing any creature into being. The existence of the whole world was not necessary to the essential glory of God. If it was, then God is not perfect. So soon, however, as we suppose him to be defective he ceases to us, at least, to be God. Right reason promptly assents to the announcement that there is a God, and that he is perfect in all his attributes. Such being the case, the act of bringing anything into existence was an act of sovereignty on the part of God. He inhdo'the fcorld and all that it contains, because it was in accordance with his own will. The exercise of sovereignty on the part of God is further seen in the peculiar natures which he gave the creatures of his hands, and the purposes which they manifestly were designed to subserve. Not only is there evidence of design in all the works of creation, but there in also a display of sovereignty. God not only made all things, but he fashioned them as he pleased. If we are jwteedwhyfish cannot live out of water and biras cannot live in water, the only answer, at"-feast-the only intelligent answer, we can give is, God made them so, or they are so in accordance with the sovereignty of God. If we are asked where the rose got its beautiful tints and its delicious fragrance, we can only say its sovereign maker gave them to it. The rose and the lily are what they are by the sovereignty of God as exercised in creation. What they possess can never be transferred to the thistle or nettle, and what the thistle and nettle possess can never be transferred to the rose or lily. The sovereignty of God is seen in the use which he sometimes makes of his creatures. In the exercise of his sovereignty, and on account of the wickedness of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, God rained down tire and brimstone from heaven, which consumed those cities and their inhabitants. Flies,, lice ancj frogs were made to plague the Egyptiaus and their king while the Israeliteswere unmolested. Darkneas brooded over Egypt, except in the land of Goshen where all was light. The Psalmist (Ps. 113) gives us an example of the manner in which God exercises his sovereignty when he says, "He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dung hill,.that he may set him with the princes, even the princes of his people." There is scarcely a single individual in any civilized country who has not seen some one taken from the hovels of squalid poverty, and often from the dens of ignominy and shame, and raised to wealth and rank and influence. Every individual has seen the sovereignty of God in actual exercise in raising up one and casting down another. Nothing can be clearer than that God does as he pleases. Short-sighted and dependent men are prone to say, "To-day or to-morr6W we will go into such a city, and J I 1 r?*wl continue mere a year, anu uuy ami sen, mm get gain." AVe forget that our living and accomplishing any object shall be of the Lord's will. God exercises his prerogative to do as he pleased in%uch a way-as to show forth his own glory and promote the welfare of his creatures. In the exercise of his peculiar prerogative he may, and often does, permit some of his creatures to combine together for the purpose of breaking off their allegiance to their sovereign, but all such plotters he holds in derision. (Ps. 2). Since only thp fool will say there is no God, and since none but the rebellious will attempt to deprive God of his rightful pre rogative to do as he pleases, the whole duty of all intelligent creatures is to obey the voice of the Lord. The solemn instruction of the Holy Spirit is to "Stand in awe and sin not; commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still." What can be more awe-inspiring than a Scriptural knowledge of the fact that God doesnis he pleases with all his creatures? What Can be more' consoling to. poor creatures than a knowledge of thefact that God will, in the exercise of his sovereignty, always do right ? What need those who obey ! thhvoideof the Lord fear ? Their Bovereigti has an arm that is full of power and a heart; that is full of pity. Says the Psalmist: Fret not thyself because of evil doers, i neither be thou envious against the workers ! of iniquity. For ihey shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good ; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily glialt thou be fed. Delight thyself also in the ' Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit*thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; aiuTTie shall bring j it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy 1 righteousness as the light, and thy judg-! ment as the noonday. Rest in the Lord and j wait patiently for him ; fret not thyself be-1 cause of him who prospereth in his way, : because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and for- j sake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evil-doers shall be cut off: but i i those that wait upon the Lord, they shall ! tiio novfh vet, a. little while. und the vpeked shallnotie: yea, thou shalt diligently "consider Ills place, and it shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him I with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at I him: for he seeth that his day is coming, j The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor ! and needy, and to slay such as be of upright j conversation. Their sword shall enter their own heart; and their'tftVws shall bebroken. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the- riches of many wicked. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord unholdeth the righteous. The Lord knoweth the days of the upright : and their J inheritance shall be for ever. IpscfHauwusi leading. DRTMUDD'^8~BHTER MEMORIES. T~ Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, of Bryantown, Md., who died a few weeks ago, left in manuscript a treatise on epidemic diseases, which, since his death, has been published. He wrote: ^ "In July, 18(15, I was sent a prisoner for ! life to the military prison at Fort Jefferson, better-known as the Dry Tortugas, an island of coral formation in the Gulf of Mexico. > Tried by a court martial, an unlawful tri-" bunal constituted for the purpose of conviction, the same that hanged an innocent woman, I was convicted on the testimony of paid and perjured witnesses of a crime the conception of which I never harbored or entertained. By such a tri-complicity in the assassination ot President Lincoln, j when all the world knew, and the members of that iniquitous and law-defying military ! commission knew it as well, that my only j offense consisted in setting the leg of a man j whom I did not at the time know to be a i fugitve from justice,and with whose insane j act I had not the slightest sympathy. 1 I had done merely an act of charity, from which no true physician would shrink, no matter what the matter might be. For this J was banished under a life sentence from my wife and children, from home, friends and society, and immured in the gloomiest and most distant prison of the United States. For this I was bound in chains like some savage brute, denied for a longtime healthy sustenance, and forced at the point of the bayonet to perform menial and offensive offices which I will forbear mentioning. The iron entered my soul. Even now, thougli> ?tI restoration to my family and social circle, I am brought back to life and to some portion of all that which was lost by four years of banishment, the recollections of these years of mental and physical sufferings and the nature of what I endured on that barren coral reef, accursed and plague-smitten, rises before me sometimes like a horror of great darkness, and will never- be effaced as long as memory remains.'l a The yellow fever broke out- on August 18, 1867. ''There were then at the Dry Tortugas," wrote l)r. Mudd, "Ave companies of the Fifth United Htates Artillery, a few civilians employed in the Engineer Department, and about 200 'guard' prisoners. These last consisted of deserters from the Federal army, bounty jumpers, <?c. The roll of State prisoners consisted of Messrs. Arnold, Spangler, Cloglilin and myself. There were also some Confederate prisoners, prominent among whom was Col. St. Leger Greenfel, sent there for life by sentence Of military tribunal for alleged complicity in the abortive attempt to releitse the Camp Douglas prisoners. It is generally supposed that he was drowned in the attempt lie made to escape from the island." Dr. Mudd tells.1 how the post surgeon, Dr. J. S. Smith, was stricken with the disease. In his delerium he refused all medicine or treatment and died. Dr. Mudd was the qnly person on the island who possessed a "knowledge of medicine. His follow prisoners of State urged him to do nothing, one of them remarking, "The yellow fever is a square deal, in which the keepers take an equal chauce at death with their prisoners, without regard to age, color, or previous condition of servitude." Dr. Mudd, however, offered his services to Major Stone, in command of the post. He remained in exclusive charge of the hospital for some time, and during that time he says he did not lose a patient. He cited his experience in support of the doctrine which he advocated in his work. It is that epidemic diseases of infection are not propagated by floating germs, but by absolute contact with infected material, so that the isolation of patients is an absolute prevention of the spread of the disease. He furnished the draft of a quarantine act based on this theory. Growth of the Earth.?The millions of aerolites descending upon the earth as an everlasting shower all over its surface prove that the earth is growing; the gradual rise of its oceans prove the fact, and the great truth is also demonstrated by the bottoms of all those oceans, according to their various depths, constantly getting filled up by primary formations. In short, the uni+e?.?.ouf5t?l (rrrnvfrli rlptnonstrsi VClCkW liUY V/i Mi.. *i_ tod by every .shell upon the .shore, which, by its formation is just that much permanently added to the bulk. But sinking into the bowels of the earth as deep as man can reach proves the growth of the earth far more strongly than all the facts and words which are available on the momentous question ; for no matter how far down, every inch of the descent was once the surface, however low it may now be out of sight, by the accumlationofcreativeincrea.se over it since the time. Thus so far as we have been enabled to penetarte, and the rule holds good over every part of its surface, we find the strata, however deep we may descend, all lying as to time, in the order of their formation. They cannot be otherwise, as no convulsions of nature could reverse the position of one stratum by superimposing it upon another. If we sink down through the strata to the depth of, say, a thousand yards, we pass through the works of several geological epochs, the first one that on which the drift of the deluge rests, the latest formation, the next?if in the sinking there is no missing link?a step in time earlier, and so on in succession, until we reach the lowest stratum at the depth mentioned, the oldest one in the series. There it is just where it was deposited, then on the surface of the earth? perhaps more than 1,000,000 years ago, while all the others I have been in latter times superimposed in their respective geological epochs, up to the i surface. There is another such epochal formation going on and getting thicker under all oceans since the present continental features of the globe arose, which will yet be dry land, and will be the latest formation for the geologists of the remote future.? Oolburn's Magazine. Judicious Advertising.?A man denouncing newspaper advertising to a crowd of listeners: "Last week," said he, "I had an umbrella stolen from the vestibule of the church. It was a gift, and valuing it very highly, I spent double its worth in advertising, but I have not recovered it." "How did you word your advertisement?" asked a merchant. "Here it is," said the man, producing a slip cut from a newspaper. The merchant took it, and read: "Lost from the vestibule of church, last Sabbath evening, a black silk umbrella. The gentleman who took it will be handsomely rewarded by leaving it at No.?, San Fernando street." "Now," said the merchant, "I am a liberal advertiser, and always found that it paid me well. A great deal depends upon the manner in which an advertisement is put. Let us try for your umbrella, again, and if you do not acknowledge tlieu that advertising pays, I will purchase you a new one." The merchant then took a slip of pgper from his pocket and wrote: "If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the vestibule of church, last Sabbath evening does not wish to get into trouble and have a stain cast upon the Christian character which he values so highly, he will return it to No.?, San Fernando street, lie is well known." This duly appeared in the paper, and on the following morning the man was astonished when he opened the front door of his residence. On the porch lay at least a dozen umbrellas of all shades and sizes that had been thrown in from the side walk, while the front yard was literally paved with umbrellas. Many of them had notes attached to them saying that they had been taken by mistaken and begging the loser to keep the little affair quiet. The Proposed Postal Note.?A model of the proposed postal note is about as large as a greenbacK. At the right hand are two columns, giving the months of the year and the dates of twelve years, beginning with the present. At the left hand are three columns of figures, one representing dollars, is numbered up to four ; tne secomf, representing dimes, is numbered up to nine; the third, representing cents, is also numbered up to nine, and each series ends with a cipher. The note is for sums less than $o. | The postmaster at the office issuing the i note will punch month and year, the num- j ber of dimes, dollars and cents in their re-j spective columns, thus preventing any al-1 teration to the amount or date. By this! system the postal notes can be issued for any j sum from 1 cent up to $4.99. No written ! application will be necessary. The note ; will be bought like a postage stamp and I will be payable to bearer at anytime within three months from the last day of the month in which it was issued. The body is in blank form, stating the office where it is issued and the office to which it is sent. When paid, the person obtaining payment puts his signatnre upon the note. Energy.?Energy of mind is necessary in order to do gootl in the world, because it is to be expected that wise and benevolent designs will be opposed with energy. The 'greatest and best purposes have been the most vigorously opposed. The want of i energy disqualifies men for every duty of! life. All duties are connected with ditlicul- j ties from within and from without. Without j energy no man, in any profession or busi-1 ness of life, can do his duty. Men may acquire energy of mind by placing themselves under a necessity of acting. So long as they feel themselves under no necessity of forming and executing any noble and important designs, they icn nu uuvaniuu iui a^ijuiiiu^ cuv?gti v* i mind. But those who desire to serve God i and to do all the good they can in the world, are willing to devise and promote great and noble designs, which will lay them under a necessity or exerting all their mental powers and capacities. Another way to acquire strength and energy of mind is to keep noble and worthy objects in view and pursuit. If men would only propose and pursue great and good designs, they would soon find resolution and energy to execute. Xo man knows how much good he can do in the w?orld until he makes attempts, for he cannot know the power and faculties lie possesses till he tries them by repeated mental exertions. How many men have lived years in obscurity without knowing-their own circumstances or some important event constrained them to exert their talents and abilities in doing great and noble deeds.? Dr. Edmunds. 1 J. ^ ? Rejected Manuscripts.?Rejected contributors are sometimesavenged. A Scotch newspaper, the Greenock Advertiser, has ceased to exist, after a life of seventy-eight years. This paper will be remembered for one thing only; it rejected Campbell's poem of Ilohenlinaen, on the ground that it was "not up to the mark." Campbell himself thought lightly of the poem, it issaid, until he was assured by Sir Walter Scott that it was one of the finest things of the kind that he ever read. Since thai time, the poem has been worn out by the myriads of schoolboys who have spoken it-fn public on the stage. Charlotte Bronte's great_novel met with a similar reception. "Jane J\vre" was written in the grey old parsonage under the Yorkshire hills; the rough notes, sketched hasty in pencil, were transcribed in a neat hand as legible as print, and the manuscript, in its brown paper wrapper, was sent off from the station-house at Kleighley to publisher rifter publisher, only totind ite way back again, "returned with thanks," till the packet, scored all over with publishers' names, and well-nigh worn out by its travels, found its way into the hands of Messrs. Smith & Elder with a stamped envelope inside for a reply. This story of "Jane Eyre" is, with authors who cannot find a publisher, one of the standing sources of consolation, and it is a very striking instance of the loose way in which publishers' readers now and then look through manuscripts that find their way into other hands. m ?0thviUe inquirer. TKUM8 OF SUBSCHIPTION: Single copy for one your, 8 2 50 For six months, 1 25 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. AUVEKTI8ING 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. /pST" Contract! will be made at reduced rates for advertising space to be used for three, six, or twelve months. * HZ3r Tributes of Respect and Obituary notices charged for at the rate of ten cents a litie. Usually there are about seven words in a line. 7fdH- Rejected manuscripts will not he returned to the writers. Persons who send manuscript to this office for publication and desire a copy of the same, should make a duplicate. YORKVIEEE LIVERY AND FEED STABLES, HEAR THE COURT HOUSE. A RE now open and will be kept in first-class J\ style with comfortable vehicles of all kinds, good horses and careful drivers. BUGGIES AND PHJETONS. J list received another lot of those nice Cincinnati Leather Trimmed Buggies, warranted standard work. I sell no inferior work. Come and ot'ihi !nomv T,eather Trimmed Hickory Buggies, Frimpkin Side-Bar Buggies, Eureka Jump-Scat Phictons, Ac. All furnished with the best handmade Harness, manufactured by first-class workmen, and as cheap as can be bought anywhere. A Second-Hand Carriage, in good order, for sale cheap. Also, a good Spring Wagon for sale cheap. Call at the Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables and see them, feeding. You can have your horses fed as cheap as the cheapest, at the Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables. wanted. Corn, Oats, Fodder aiul Hay always wanted, and the highest market price, in cash, will be paid. F. E. SMITH. ~ fruTt! WHEN you visit Charleston, do not forget to select a stock of Fruit. If you have not sold it before, begin at once. There's money in it. We have a number of vessels employed in importing, direct from the West Indies, cargoes of Oranges, Bananas, Pine-Apples, Cocoanuts, <fce. While our stock of Apples, Lemons, Peanuts, citrons ?s well as of Potatoes. Cabbages and Onions is well selected, c. battt a co., Importers and Wholesale Dealers, Charleston, S. C. TtSf Orders filled promptly. October 19 42 Cm GARRY IRON ROOFING CO. Ore Paiiit and Cement. 79 and 81 Columbus Street, CXjEVJEJIjAND, OHIO. Send for Circulars and Price Lists, L. M. Grist, Yorkville, S. C., will take orders for the above rooting. February 2C 9 ly FERTILIZERS. NAVASSA GUANO, NAVASSA ACID, STONO GUANO, STONO ACID, PATAPSCO GUANO, PATAPSCO ACID, GERMAN ICAINIT. I am prepared to furnish the above Standard and Reliable Fertilizers. T. S. JEFFERYS, Agent. January 18 3 tf GKRJIAN K VIMT, Direct importation. PERUVIAN GUANO, ! Direct from the Agent of the Peruvian government. FISII GUANO G to 8 per cent, Ammonia. NOVA SCOTIA LAND PLASTER. SOUTH CAROLINA GROUND PHOSPHATE, Fine ground and high grade. For sale bv 'HERMANN BULWINKLE, Kerr's Wharf, Charleston, S. C. December 14 50 3in ' RED SOLE LEATHER A SPECIALTY. EDWARDS & CASTLE, LEATHER AND FINDINOS, BOOT AND SHOE UPPERS, No. 38 North Fourth St., Philadelphia. House Established 1823. ^3-Inqniries for prices promptly answered. February 8 G 3ni* H SERGEANT B Parrar Turl SAW MILLS, CAI PLOWS, STRA 2 xi bx I c = o 115i s-s5s!?5t i x " - t - - ^ r: ^ - i, : ; a ? i c = t s : ? \ ? * .2 f f- 3 2 i ? 5 g = ?~ \ |25^:gs|3 j z J = | zi: c-ssssS^fsssi >.* s: J ? = 2I1?| ?5* = =1?5i VM i| I S&hrf3 p? sal! . Jm 2\2 - *" J: B x. 5 o ? ~~ Jgttr/ r- " u "3 *2b3X//?!=I'?s;^=!5g=>>g TJrT?V ~ .a-? s.s 5m.s c5 e >i~ r? "trc We also manufacture the PALMETTO COOK .s ninrket. HEATING We make the ORGAN PARLOR STOVE in om in six sizes?from $4.50 to $14.00. PLANTERS' PI The hest material and workmanship used in thei Send for Circulars and Price Lists. FRED. II. LONDON, Agent, HERN DON BROTHERS, Agents, : November ?5 ' J ASHLEY PHC CHARLES1 SOLUBLE GUANO, highly ammoniatcd; DISSOLVED BONE, highest grade; ACID PHOSPHATE, for < ASH ELK.ME GENUINE LEOPOLDSHALL K A IN IT, import rant GENUINE FLOATS, of highest grade, product <: SMALL GRAIN SPECIFIC; COTTON AND CORN CO! GROUND DRI GRt Special Formulas nuule to order. Special inducements for cash ordertf.:; For terms, Illustrated Almanacs and cards, ad December 21 THE , . . * * HARTFORD Sewing Machine. I JUST PERFECTED. ' The Largest under Arm. The Lightest aiul Quietest. THE MOST LAVISHLY DECORATED. | ? The Least Vibration of Any. A Galaxy of New Patents. Rail-Rearing Balance Wheel. Knife-edge Treadle-Rearing. Newest and most Elegant Designs in Stands and Woodwork. I Positive take up. Perfect Stitch. The well-known and popular "FAMILY FAVORITE." Is also manufactured by us. For tinely illustrated descriptions, apply to W. C. LATIMER, Yorkville, S. C. W. G. REID it CO., Rock Hill, S. C. si WEED SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, | . HARTFORD, CONN. February 8 <i tf I : 1 IT STANDS AT THE HEAD, j THE LIGHT RUNNING DOMESTIC. THE best material; will do any and all kinds j of work; complete in every respect; the ! largest arm; the l^Ltest running*; most beautiful Wood work. Mftlv warranted for live vears. Also, the PENNSYLVANIA, the best SINGER Machine made. Prices and terms reasonable. Call at my PHOTO-GALLERY, one door eust1 of the jail and examine Machines and work. It I will be to your advantage to call on me before purchasing a SEWING MACHINE. T am prepared to do any work in the PHOTOGRAPH LINE to satisfaction, and at reasonable prices. J. It. SCHORR. P" NORMAN'S "Hi fi a StTRE and effectual Remedy for the enre of jj$ B IX all irregularities and disoixlers of the Stoni- U B ooh and Bowels, whether In children or adults. B . , B It Is acci'ptable to the Stomach without being at m Promptly rolle?lng Dysentery, Diarrhoea, Choi- B era Morbus, Cholera Infantum, Flux, Griping Pains, Flatulency, Itcudache and Dyspepsia. May Kg*,.?' Oj intestines or a change of food or water. ^ Is as pleasant and harmless as Black- I / [I berry Wine. Does not contain Opium I I and will not constipate. Specially rccom- H || mended for Soaaickness and Teething H W Price 25c. and $1.00 per bottle. ;l Sold b'j all Druggists and Dealers in Medicine, K 1 ESQELSIOE OHEMIOAL CO, B Sole Proprietors, January 4 1 ly t7r. jiagill, ! Wholesale Grocer, COLLEGE STREET, CHARLOTTE, N. C. j Orders solicited and promptly lilled. January II 2 6m TONSORIAL. J\V. BAUMAN, Barber, is still at his stand . opposite the old Masonic Hall, prepared to ; do all work in his line. Feeling thank fnl for past patronage, he hopes to merit a continuanco of the same by giving prompt and accommodating attention'to customers. MANUFACTURING CO., 1ENSBORO, N. C. ANUFACTURKRS OK >ine Water Wheel, k'D HEATING STOVES, " IE MILLS, HORSE POWERS, W CUTTERS, ANDIRONS, JS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. )PIC' COOK STOVE. JTOVE, which, for its capacity, is the best in the ssttovjiiw. 3 size, and the "Forest Rose" HEATING STOVE RIDE PLOWS. r construction, and they give general satisfaction* Rock Hill, S. C. Yorkville, S. C. 47 ly SPIIATE CO., roN, s. c. ouiuosting; i ? . > NTflnade of Floats, for Cotton, Grain and Peaw; ed direct from the Mines in Germany, and wared pu re; if the Due Atomizer; MPOUND; ED FISH AND BLOOD; >UND RAW BONE; N. S. LAND PLASTER ; COTTON SEED MEAL. dress the Company. 51 dm JOB PR IN TIN G7 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 i'Kirvnjsu ill superior sivie, aim m puces turn, 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 : IlILiL HEADS. For 500 For 1000 Half-sheet Bill Heads, $3.50 $0.00 Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.25 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.00 3.00 ?? Monthly statements at samepriceof sixth-sheet iiill heads. Wo will till an order for bill heads, giving any desired number of either size of sheet at proportionate prices. LETTER HEADS. For 500 For 1000 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 everv instance. We also give special attention to the printing of Briefs, Arguments and Points and Authorities, which we furnish strictly according to the requirements of the Justices of 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, and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any stvle of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C, November 30 * 48 ' tf C. & L.N ARROW GAUGE RAILE0AD7 SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains, from Chester, S. C., to Lincolnton, N. C., taking effect at 2,45i'cloek, P. M., May 2, 1882: OOINO NORTH. Leave Chester, 2.45 P. M. Leave Lowrvsville, 3.15 P, M. Leave McConnellsville, 3.35 P, M. Leave Uuthriesville, 3.45 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 4.10 P. M. Leave Yorkville 4.20 P. M. Leave Clover, 5.00 P. M. Leave Bowling Green 5.10 P. M. Leave Crowder's Creek, 5,20 P. M. Leave Pleasant Ridge, 5.30 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 6.00 P. M. Leave Dallas, 6.20 P. M. Leave Hardin's, ......6.45 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 7.15 P. M. GOING SOUTH. Leave Lincolnton, 7.00 A. M. ? - HP A Leave naruin s, Leave Dallas, 7.50 A. M. Arrive at Gastonfa,* 8.10 A. M. Leave Gastonia, 8.30 A. M. Leave Pleasant Ridge, 8.50 A. M. Leave Crowder's Creek, 0.00 A. M. Leave Rowling Green, 0.10 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 McConnellsville, 10.50 A. M. Leave Lowrysville, 11.10 A. M. Arrive at Chester, 11.40 A. M. * Breakfast. JAMES MASON, Superintendent. ^QW READY History of the Associate Reformed Synod of the South. IN the above Work, I endeavored to give aconeise and aeeurate history of the causes which led to the secession of 1733,"under the Erskines, together with a full and detailed account of the organization of the old Associate Reformed Synod, the General Synod, and the parties entering into the organizations. The history of the Associate Reformed Church in the South is traced t!io PfnuKutorv nfthn ? Carolinas and Georgia, the Synod of the Carolinas and the Syno4 of the South, down to the present time. In addition to this, a brief historv is given of the Reformed Presbyterian and United Presbyterian Churches. The Work is printed on good clear type, on good heavy paper, is bound in cloth, and contains four hundred and eighteen pages. It will be sold at $2.25, either at my office, or delivered by mail. Address, * R. LATH AN, . Yorkville, S. C. October 19 .1- tf DENTAL NOTICE. gm Dr. W. M. WALKER, flllHw^UXJ-Lf RESIDENT SURGEON DENTIST, Respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens' of Yorkville and vicinity. He is well prepared, with instruments of the* most approved style, and all modern appliances, supplemented by a continuous practice of twenty-ilve years, to guarantee satisfaction. In keeping with the general reduction of ? prices, he proposes to furnish complete UPPER AND LOWER SETS, of the best material, for $20.00; SINGLE SETS, either upper or lower, $10.00; and for partial sets, more than two teeth, $4.00 PER TOOTH. Patrons waited on at their residences out of town, charged for expenses of visit. July 6 27 tf . WELLS A BROTHERS, Practical Millwrights an<l Machinists, WHITAKER, S. C.f GIVE" special attention to the building of MILLS, and the REPAIRING of MILLS, GINS, and all other kinds of MACHINERY. All letters addressed to them at Yorkville, or Whitaker, S. C., will receive prompt attention. ,&?rWeare also Agents for all kinds of Mill Machinery, such as Turbine Wheels, Burs, Holtimr Cloths. Smuttcrs. Ac. November 30 48 4m* ("OLorIEd pictures. PERSONS having old or faded pictures of deceased relatives or friends, and will send them to us, giving color of hair, eyes and complexion, we will painta 14x16portrait andreturn it by express, prepaid, for ?2. This is a five dollar picture, but we make this oiler that you.may test our work, and in every case money will bo refunded if work is not PERFECTLY SATISFACTORY. Good Agents wanted to solicit orders. Address j. LEE LATTA, Hickory, N. C. January 25 4 6t old xewsi'apeiw, OF large size, suitablo for wrapping, for salo at one cent each,at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. March 1". 11 tf