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sfmmw0u$ fhpattmcut. Not Going to Be a Dude.?A young lady, a Sunday-school teacher in a church near the corner of Gilraore street and Lafayette avenue, was, on Sunday, defining faith to her class of young Americans, aged from 6 to 10 years. She set about her task in a practical way. "Faith in anything," she said, "is to believe that something existed which could not be seen. Suppose," she said, "your papa should tell you he had put ten dollars in the bank for you, and that you might draw it from the bank when you grew older. You did not see the money put in, but you know it is there because you t>elieve what your papa tells you, and when you grow up ana want the money, you dress yourself, with your gloves on, and your high hat, and your cane, and you?" At this juncture the teacher was startled by one of the boys, who cried out: "What are you giving us ? Do you think I'm a dude?" The young lady says she felt prostrated, and that it will be sometime before she stirs up the question of faith again.?Baltimore American. t?- A good story is told of a certain prominent railway director, who is equally re nownea tor nis aDiniy 10 rase or maae a joke. A railway employee, whose home is in the country, applied to him for a pass to visit his family. "You are in the employ of the company?" inquired the gentleman alluded to. "Yes." "You receive your pay regularly ?" "Yes." "Well, now, suppose you were working for a farmer, instead of the company, would you expect your employer to take out his horse every Saturday night and carry you home?" This seemed a poser, but it wasn't. "No," said the man promptly. "I would not expect that; but if the farmer had his horses out and was going ray way, I should call him a very mean fellow if he would not let me ride." The employee came out three minutes after with a pass good for twelve months. The Object of the Ditch.?A New Yorker who was in Missouri last fall found a number of men digging a ditch between two small lakes. "I can't see theobject," he observed, after surveying the work for a while. "No?" dryly answered the boss. "The lakes are too shallow to be navigated." "Well?" v ' "And the ditch can't be of any use except to the fish." "Mebbe not." "Say!" called the nettled New Yorker, "what is the object of your infernal old ditch anyhow ?" "To issue ?100,000 worth of bonds on," was the calm reply. A Knotty Question.?A duel was fought in Texas by Alexander Shott and John S. Nott. Nott was shot and Shott was nr?t Tn thic pflOA it, was better to be Shott than Nott. There was a rumor that Nott was not shot, and Shott avows that he shot Xott, which proves that either that the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or that Xott was shot, notwithstanding. Circumstantial evidence is not always good. It may be made to appear on trial that the shot Shott shot Nott, or, as accidents with firearms are frequent, it may be possible that the shot Shott shot shot Nott himself, when the whole thing would resolve itself into its original element, and Shott would be shot, and Nott would be not. We think, however, that the shot Shott shot shot not Shott but Nott. Anyway, it is hard to tell who was shot.?Exchange. Chemistry, Practical and Theoretical.?"Young gentlemen," said the lecturer in chemistry, "coal exposed to the elements loses ten per cent, of its weight and heating power. This is due to the action of the alkali constituents of ?" "But what if there is a dog sleeping near the coal, Professor?" "None of your levity, young man. This is a serious matter." "That's what dad thought when seventy-two per cent, of his coal pile disappeared during three nights of exposure. Then he asked ray advice as a student of chemistry, and I told him to buy a dog. He bought a dog, with baywindow teeth and the string-halt in his upper lip, and now we don't lose one per cent, of our coal a month. That's the kind of a practical chemist I am. Now go on with your theory." A Funny Year.?Jim Webster has been before the courts of Austin innumerable times for various offences. He was tried for stealing chickens one day last week. Finally the Judge told him: "You can go. You are discharged. The jury has decided you are not guilty." Jim passed his hand over his brow, and asked in a dazed sort of way: "Me not guilty," "Yes, you are not guilty." "You don't tell me so, boss. I'se neber had nothing like dat happen to me before. I)is am a mighty funny year anyhow. Fust the 'Publicans didn't 'lect dar President, and now I'se been found not guilty ob tampering wid dem pullets I stole."?Texas mjiwgs. A Narrow Escape.?They were telling some pretty tough stories, "and, presently his turn came. "Yes. he began, clearing his throat, "people lose their lives sometimes in the foollshest sort 'o way. I recollect an Irishman, poor fellow, who some years ago sat down on what he s'posed was a keg 'o black sand to smoke his dudeen. After finishin' the fust pipe he got up an' knocked the live ashes right into the keg." "Many killed besides him?" asked a breathless listener. "Many what?" "Killed?blown up." "Oh, there wasn't no explosion, nothin' explosive 'bout black sand." Time a Great Hearer.?"Good morning, Elder Henpeck, you have been away?" "Yes. I just returned from Australia." "How is your family?" "Alas, I found my poor wife dead on my return." "You don't tell me!" "Yes, poor soul, she died six weeks ago, and I didn't hear of it until I got home yesterday." "The sad news must have well nigh broken your heart." "No, not so bad as that. You see time is a great healer of the wounded heart. She has been dead six weeks, you know.?Chicar/o Xeic*. + + Ax Easy Sentence.?"You are charged with bigamy," remarked the Judge impressively, while the prisoner glanced over his shoulder at three stern-visaged women. "Now," continued theCourt, "I intend to give you the severest penalty the law allows." Here the prisoner covered his face with his hands and wept. "I shall sentence you to the State prison for twenty years. What are you grinning at ?" "I thought," smiled the prisoner through his tears, "you was a-going to turn me loose."?Xetr York Graphic. A New Customer.?"Who is that new man that opened a wood yard or something on Second street and bought a bill of goods of us last Saturday?" asked Old Hyson; "I've lost his card and forgotten - his name." "I don't know," replied the office ooy. "Well," said the old man, "I hate to ask him. Run down to the corner and see what is on his sign; that'll give it." Presently the boy came back. "Lime and coal," he said. And Old Hyson calmly charged the bill up to Lyman Cole. jjgrThis anecdote must be old, but it is good and not common. A devoted Methodist, it is said, asked John Wesley what he thought as to his marrying a certain woman well known to both. Wesley advised him not to think of it. "Why," said the other, "she is a member of your church, isn't she ?" "Yes, was the reply. "And you think she is truly a Christian woman ?" "Yes, said Wesley, "I believe she is." "Well then, why not marry her?" "Because the Lord can live with a great many people that you and \ can't." ?hc arm awd Jfiwsitlc. j Hard Times and Book Farming.?It ! has always been the fashion among a large class of our Canadian farmers to decry "book : farming" as being altogether the opposite of practical farming. The farmer who year : after year blunders along in a hap-hazard sort of a way, making up in a great measure by plodding industry what he lacks in intelligence, is pointed to as the practical fanner, while the man who goes about his work - like a rational being and insists on thoroughly understanding it is called the "book ; farmer." Now it often happens that for the first few years of the careers of the two farmers of these widely differing types the so-called "book farmer" appears to have considerably the worst of it. They are on now farms norhnws anfl >LS the Soil is of 30 parently inexhaustible fertility the one's care in saving manure is to all appearances thrown away, though of course it tells in the long run. In the meantime the "practical man is skinning his farm and putting the proceeds into his pocket in the shape of dollars. And in the matter of stock the "book farmer" is spending his money in laying the foundation of a well-bred herd of cattle and a valuable flock of sheep, while the "practical farmer" is contenting himself with "scrubs" that cost him a mere trifle. To all appearances the latter has the best of it, but any one who visits them ten years after their start in life will see that while the "book farmer" has been laying deep and sure foundations of a prosperous career, the so-called "practical fanner" has been absorbing his resources in making a mere show of prosperity. The present season of unexampled agricultural depression in England has shown the value of "brains" to the farmer. Times are so hard that it is only what we are pleased to call "book farmers" who can succeed at all. Every pound of manure has to be saved, and every foot of land made the most of, so that it is easy to see how quickly the so-called "practical farmer" would be left out in the cold in the pursuit based on such accurate calculations as to the cause and effect.?Canadian Breeder. Planting Irish Potatoes in Midsummer.?A correspondont of the Rural Record writes: In the province of Equador, South America, it is said that the finest potatoes of the world are grown. The climate there is usually about 80 degrees, and varies but few over or under during the entire year. The climate of South Carolina is naturally too warm for potatoes, but by planting about the 20th of June they mature in September and October, when the climate is of about the right temperature. Mulching with leaves and other substances, serves the double purpose of keeping the ground moist and cool. Hence, by planting in midsummer, with the aid of mulching, an artificial temperature of about the right degree can be attained. Potatoes thus grown are inclined to be round, smooth, free from protuberances and better every way than those grown without mulching in a climate that is naturally too warm for them, to say nothing of the largely increased quantity that can be grown where the conditions are favorable. A farmer in Georgia planted a small bed 8 by 20 feet, very rich?and made a heavy crop, gathered it, and spaded and raked the bed preparatory to putting in turnips. A rain coming on, the small potatoes ieft in the ground came up broadcast, and he concluded to let them grow. They did and matured a second crop in September, when the bed was again spaded and raked as before. Again a rain came on and the potatoes sprouted and were left as before, and after frost, a third crop, as fine and as large as either of the others was gathered. This can be done by anyone, provided the land is made exceedingly rich, which can easily be done on a small bed, and should rain happen to fall conveniently, or sufficient trouble is taken to water the bed. Trackings by a Sage.?This is the advice of an old farmer who has tilled the soil for upwards of forty years: s ; I am an old man of upwards of three-score years, during two of which I have been rich ; always have .all I need; do not owe a dollar; have given my children a good education, and, when I am called away, shall leave them enough to keep the wolf from the door. My experience has taught me that? i Ona oppo nf lnnrl u'pII nrenared and well tilled produces more than two kept on the same amount of labor used on one. 2. One cow, horse, mule, sheep or hog, well fed, is more profitable than two kept on the same amount necessary to keep one well. 3. No fanner who buys oats, corn or wheat,-fodder and hay, can keep the sheriff from the door in the end. 4. The farmer who never reads the papers, sneers at book farming and improvements, always has a leaky roof, poor stock, broken-down fences, arid complains of "bad seasons." o. The farmer who is above his business and entrusts it to another to manage soon has no business to attend to. Cutting off thf. Timrer.?Only the other day we learned that a leading farmer of our State had been caught in a blizzard in Dakota, when going to his new ranch, and was afterward found frozen to death. It came like a shock to all of us who knew him. An intimate friend of his, a devout man, knelt with his family that morning, upon receiving the sad intelligence, and thanked God that they lived in a State far removed from the terrible winds that come upon men like murderers in the night, destroying life and desolating households. A few moments thereafter, he sent his men to the little wood lot that had been preserved at the back of his farm, saying: "Boys, I have decided to cut it all off; I can sell the timber for enough so that the interest of the money will always keep the house in wood, and what we can raise on the land will be clear gain." What strange inconsisistency. Thanking God one moment for conditions which prevent blizzards, and the next, with axe in hand, doing the very best to bring the blizzards to his door.? Chan. If. Garfield, in Vick'x Magazine. Straw?In the hands of a skillful feeder who knows what food to give with straw to makeup the deficiencies, it is worth more than half as much as good hay. A ton of oat straw mixed with a ton of the best clover hay, would make a mixture equal in value to ordinary meadow hay. And 400 n/vffAn ooo/l mool ?ni v. puuiiu* Ul IIIJSCCII yjk vutiuu Iiivui, iiiia ed with a ton of straw, would give 2,400 pounds of fodder, equal in value to 2,400 pounds of meadow or Timothy hay. This gives an important food value to straw, and the point to be well considered is, that nearly all that is digested in the straw has no value as manure. Nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash are the only valuable manure elements, and scarcely any one of these are digested in straw so that straw is practically as valuable as manure when fed as when not fed. Straw should be used as food and all its value saved. | #aTlt may not be known to some house! wives that if flour is kept in a closet with ! onions or cabbage it will absorb unpleasant i odors from them ; you may not notice this | until the flour is cooked, but then you will. A large chocolate and cocoanut cake was prepared for a tea party not long since. It was not tasted until it was passed at tea time, when the mistress observed a strong onion flavor, which though an excellent one in its proper place, was here a thing of evil. It was discovered afterward that a basket I containing onions had been left for two days i in the store room with the flour, and everything, even the bread baked from this flour, ! had the onion flavor. 8ST Those thrifty housekeepers who make I soap at home will find it greatly to their ad; vantage to prepare in this way the fat that i ic fn hn ncorl "NTn mnttor linvv small the , quantity of tallow or suet is that is not to he cookecl with the meat, fry it out ana let it form a clean little cake; put this away in an old tin pail with a cover, then when you have enough to pay for the trouble make it into soap; you will thus have perfectly pure and clean soap tor dish washing, and if you use it to cleanse the clothing also, you will I see that it will look better and will have a sweeter odor than if washed with any kind 1 of snap. | ^lisccUaueous fUflding. School Government.?All government i is a means to an end. School government should always be treated as a means, and never as an end. We frequently hear young teachers, especially of a stronger class, say, j "I am going to have order if 1 do not have anything else." This class of teachers will, 1 in alt probability, have nothing else. What | an unhappy place the family is when the j | parent rules with no other object in view : I except order. In many families things are i i so ordered that little or'nothing is ever said | about government, and yet everything is in | perfect order. In some schools, where the ! desire for knowledge is created and sustain! ed, good order follows as a natural result, j This always give3 a very pleasant state of I Vnthinir rtlnnrr Hk?' lino nf.wluinl. aiiauo* witibuv nuv w* uvkwv* work is more beautiful than this natural, resultant order. Much of the disorder in families and schools results from the want of a proper centre of gravitation. All goverment is concentric. That every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportional to its mass, and decreasing as the square of the distance increases, is a law of mind as well as of matter. If the teacher possesses qualities of soul which entitle him to rule, he will find little trouble in assuming his natural position, and he will naturally become I the centre of a system. Around him as the centre will revolve other minds, and all in perfect harmony. The teacher may fail to establish himself as the centre. He may have the qualities necessary, as a college education, and the advantages ol an early training; and yet if he lack the tact of impressing his many good qualities, and of showing how much he is really worth to those around him, he will live at such a distance from them as to have very little attractive force. This may account for the fact that some of the best teachers are those of limited early education, but having the power of coming very near to those with whom they are associated,and thereby make up for what they lack in "mass" of mind qualities. He that has the faculty of arousI ^?m?ilofin/* lift II HQ XTCk ffAnfl fffUT lllg auu U1 Sltlliuiaviug ITIU IIUIV gwu ^w. ernment as the result of his efforts. If the whole time is employed, and the general order good, it is better that nothing be said about rules, order or government. Mindgrowth?not order?is the great object of school-work. Order is a means, not an end. ^ ^ Punishment of Falsifiers.?During the fourteenth century there can be no doubt that the companies exercised an effective superintendence over trade and manufacture. The city records abound with accounts of the exposure and punishment of fraud at the instigation of the companies, whose representatives seemed to have used their powers of scrutiny and search with considerable vigor. Some of the cases reported with all solemnity in the "Remembrancia" are very quaint, and afford a curious insight into the manners of the time. Thus in 1311 we read of a scrutiny of "false hats" being prosecuted "at the request of the hatters," with the result that fifteen black and forty gray and white hats were received as false, and condemned to be burned in Chepe, while certain other hats, of the bona fides, of which there was some doubt, were "postponed for further consideration." In 131G, "the good folk of the trade of potters," denounced to the mayor and aldermen divers persons, and especially one "Alyen le Sopere," who busied themselves by buying "in divers places pots of bad metal, and then put them on the fire so as to resemble pots that have been used and are of old brass, and then," the record continues, "they expose them for sale in West Chepe on Sundays and other festival days, to the deception of all those who buy such pots, for the moment they are put ? +/* /yunot fhntr Upull LI1C 11115 iUIUCA|JU-5tu i/u nuiu lih,j come to nothing and melt. By which roguery and falsehood the people are deceived, and the trade also is badly put to slander." The magistrates of the fourteenth century were not restricted to the dull monotony of "40rora month," and they seem in devising penalties to have given free scope to their powers of invention. For example, one Quilhogge having bought a putrid pig, that had been lying a long time by the riverside, for 4d., cut trom it two gammons for sale, and sold part thereof "in deceit of the people." He was sentenced to stand in the pillory while "the residue of the gammons was burnt beneath him." In the same way a seller of bad wine was condemned to stand in the pillory, to drink a draught of hisown stuff, and to have the remainder poured over his head. We may well envy our ancestors the protection of this excellent law, and sigh that the solaceof its discriminating application is denied to us.?London Quarter/)/ Review. Action op Alcohol on the Heart.? Dr. N. B. Richardson, of London, says he was recently able to convey a considerable amount of conviction to an intelligent scholar by a simple experiment. The scholar was singing the praises of the "ruddy bumper," and saying he would not get through the day without it when Dr. Richardson said to him: "'Will you be good enough to feel my pulse as I stand here ?' He did so. I said, 'Count it carefully; what does it say ?' 'Your pulse says 74.' I then sat down in a chair and asked him to count it again. He did so and said, "Your pulse has gone down to 70.' I then laid down on the lounge, and said, 'Will you take it again?' He replied, Why, it's only 64; what an extraordinary thing!' I then said, 'When you lie down at night that is the way nature gives your heart rest. You know nothing about it, but that beating organ is resting to that extent; and if you reckon it up a great deal of rest, because in lying down the heart is doing ten strokes less a minute. Multiply that by sixty and it is six hundred; multiply it by eight hours, and within a fraction it is five thousand strokes different; and as the heart is throwing six ounces of blood at every stroke, it makes a difference of thirty thousand ounces of lifting during the night. When I lie down at night without any alcohol, that is the rest my heart gets. But when you take your wine or grog, you do not allow that rest, for the influence of alcohol is to increase the number of strokes, | and instead of getting this rest, you put on something like fifteen thousand extra strokes, and the result is, you rise up very seedy and unfit for the next day's work till you have taken a little more of the "ruddy bumper," which you say is the soul of man below.'" Beauties of Bermuda.?The climate of the islands, writes a Bermuda correspondent to the St. Louis Republican y is not tropical. They are in the same latitude as Charleston, and Charleston is far north of the tropic, which passes between Key West and Cuba. The Bermudas are a winterless region, and this is their special merit. Snow, ice and frost are unknown; the temperature rarely is below fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit, and fires for heating purposes are not considered necessary, though, as a matter of fact, the hotels do have fires in the parlor and smoking-room for the coinfort of invalid guests. There is no languor in the atmosphere; on the contrary, it is highly exhilarating, and walking is not only a healthful exercise, but a positive delight. The cedar which covers all the hills, and is the only real wood on the islands, imparts a balsamic property to the air, and the absence of swamps and marshes exempts it from the malarial poison that infects the atmosphere of the West Indies. The summer heat, it is said, never rises above eighty-five, and is never oppressive. All the vegetation of the tropics grows here, but none of it attains the tropical size and luxuriance, and the fruits lack the full flavor and luscious character of the Indies. Irish potatoes, onions, and tomatoes, all grown for the early New York market, are the chief productions, and they are diligently cultivated as the source of livelihood to a l -xi Vrtrt ? large proportion 01 tne population, i^eiinj all the flowers cultivated in hot-houses in "the States" thrive out-doors, and bear one crop of blooms after another all the year round, and one of the surprises that first arrest the attention of a northern visitor is that of seeing potato fields hedged with aristocratic oleanders,and onion beds placed in a setting of geraniums, coleus and begonias. Fifty Years Ago.?An old gentleman, who was a boy fifty years ago, says that in his young days it was very uncommon to see a young man with store-clothes on, and that a young man considered himself handsomely dressed with a pair of clean copperas pants and a blue homespun sack coat. The first pair of boots he ever had was when he was 17 years old, and it took a pair of No. 12 brogans to fit him. He bought them Saturday, and the next day went to church, and thought himself handsomely dressed with his new boots, copperas pants, blue sack coat and wool hat. In those days it was fashionable tor gentlemen to wear straps under their boots to keep their pants down. He cut him some strips of leather about an inch wide, and strapped his pants (which were very tight) down under his boot, and when he made his appearance at church next day, thought he was very much admired. He thinks that if a young man were to make his appearance in public now, dressed similar to what he was then, that he would attract the universal attention and ridicule of the public. He says he would willingly give $5 for a nicture of himself at that time. This old gentleman now is one of our most prominent and prosperous citizens.?Elbert on (Ga.) Gazette. The Announcement of Washington's Death.?The Georgetown Centinel of Liberty, a semi-weekly, in its iasue of December 17th, 1791), thus announced Washington's death: "It is our painful duty first to announce to the country and the world the death of Gen. George Washington. This mournful event occurred on Saturday evening about 11 o'clock. On the preceding night he was attacked with a violent inflammatory affection of the throat, which in less than twenty-four hours put a period to his life. If a long life devoted to the most important public service; if the most eminent usefulness, true greatness and consummate glory; if being an honor to our race and a model of future ages; if all these could rationally suppress oar grief, never perhaps, ought we to mourn so little. But as they are the most powerful motives to gratitude, attachment and veneration for the living and of sorrow at their departure, never ought America and the world to mourn more than on this melancholy occasion." A Chicago Widower's Grief.?"I wan't you to come up, Dan and tell me what you think of the way I've got my wife's grave decorated. I tell you what it is, there's some few things I won't allow no one to get ahead of me in, and one of them is in decorating wives' graves. I flatter myself that there ain't a wife in Rosehill, from one end to the other, any more decorative or with any more money spent on it than my wife's grave. It costs like sin, but it takes the rag off the bush for decorating. I've done the whole thing up brown?got shells, bushes, cut flowers, rustic benches, tombstone and the whole business, and I ain't ashamed to take any one, man or or woman, to see my wife's grave." This is a true story and many or tne readers of the Tribune have paused with feelings of amazement at the variety of garnishing on the above mentioned resting-place of a wife who, if report be true, was never overburdened with decorations in life.?Chicago Tribune. Moscow.?Many newspaper readers may not understand why the Czar of Russia should go to Moscow to issue a declaration of war. Moscow is the religious centre of Russia. It is the Holy City. All the Russian emperors have been crowned there, and it will appeal strongly to the superstition of the people when they learn that the Czar has in solemn state in the Kremlin declared war against the enemies of the empire, and afterwards in the great cathedral of the Assumption prayed for the blessing of God upon his armies. Moscow was founded in the twelfth century. ItcontainsIOO churches, the great university of the empire and the famous Kremlin, the citadel which, in itself comprises cathedrals, churches, arsenals, palaces and fortresses, the whole surrounded by stupendous walls. The city is also the centre of large commercial and manufacturing interests. It is the Russian Mecca, and the visit of the Czar in these stirring times carries with it profound significance. Dollars and Cents.?I'll write you a ballad on dollars and cents, every line shall be perfectly true; and I'm writing these verses on purpose, my friend, to present a few home truths to you. A quarter looks small when you're out with the boys, fifty cents or a dollar soon goes; and a ride on the car or a beer is but five, which is nothing, as every one kuows. If you squander a quarter each day of your life, though it may seem remarkably queer, if you put it away in the bank you would have $91.25 in a year. But a quarter a day is not half what you waste if you count your occasional sprees; waste will well pay for your board and your domes, aim me re?L ^uu can anc if you please. So shut off your treating, and walk when you can, and give up the excitement you've craved, and you'll be quite surprised at the end of the year at the tidy amount you have saved.?Kxchange. Insanity Cured by Work.?A physician gives a suggestive incident on the treatment of the insane. A patient who had been enveloped in mental darkness for more than three years was cured by occupation. At first the insane man assisted on the mangle; then he set himself to picking up buttons, and in a few months had 2,000 on a string, with which he ornamented the walls of his room. He was then offered a small bounty for every rat, mole or muskrat he would destroy and was given the full liberty of the grounds. He soon gave evidence of ability to take care of himself and was released from the asylum.?Philadelphia Telegraph. You want to be good and are trying to be. Learn these two things?never be discourged because good things get on slowly here, and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. Do not be in a hurry, but be dilligent. Enter into that sublime patience of the Lord. Becharitable in view of it. God can afford to wait; why cannot we, since we have him to fall back upon ? Let patience have her perfect work, and bring forth her celestial fruits. Trust to God to weave your threads into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet. George McDonald. "Be patient. Do not fret and fume over the troubles of this life. I don't think a mosquito is a very agreeable companion, but I should not want for a friend a man who would run around all day to get rid of a mosquito. We are all soldiers on the march to victory, and it is a shame for men to run through all the moods and tenses of discontent and be forever reproaching God because his lot is harder than that of some of their fellows."?Henry Ward Beecher. gaT Probably as curious an article of export as is often carried in an ocean steamer was lately taken out to New Zealand. It consisted of a consignment of "bumble" * x 1 - -1 - --?* / ! /-?AO t'cno/111 Ofos.'' .-vi prestsut cmvui uuc.-5 nut jitcu in that country, though it grows readily, because there is no burhble-bees to fertilize the flowers. The importer hopes that the humble-bees will save him C"?,(H)0 a year in clover seed. Attorney General Garland drinks no liquor. When asked why, he replied that wandering through the*cemetery at Little Rock he came to the graves of so many bright young men who began life with him but had fallen intodissolute habits and died, that he realized that he was about the only one left. Then he changed his mode of life and began the struggle that resulted in his present success. flgT A girl's taste differs according to her age. At sixteen she wants a dude with toothpick shoes and a microscropic mustache; at twenty a chief justice with piles of tin ; at twenty-five, will be satisfied with a member of Congress; at thirty, a country doctor, preacher or lawyer will do; at thirty-five, anything so it's a man. Agy*-The more the Christian goes on, through the course of years, towards the horizon of eternity, the more, above all things else does his faith deepen?as the traveler crossing the Alps, as he rises, sees the intermediate heights diminish, until at last nothing meets his gaze but the supreme summit of Mont Rlanc.?Laeordaiir. fig^Xo machine of travel that man ever invented can equal the speed of wild fowls. The canvas back duck flies two miles a minute. The broad-bill goes slightly slower. 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Usually there aro about seven words in a line. mothers" FRIEND! Vn Mnro TWrnr ' This invaluable prepilU JlUl c IrllUI . ftr!ltion is truly a tri# umph of scientific skill, No More Pflin ! and no more inestimable i benefit was ever bestowv n ? t\ I |ed on the mothers of the No More Danger ! world. { pfl- It not only shortTo jehs the time of labor and 'lessens tho intensity of Mother or Child rain' but- ,,etter than iUUIUVl ?i I'UIIU. all, it greatly diminishes the danger to life of both mother and child, and leaves the mother in a condition highly favor? able to speedy recovery, The Dread ot and far iegs jjable to flooding, convulsions, Motherhood and other alarming symptoms incident to Transformed to lingering and painful labor. Its truly won,derful efficacy in this reJCf spectentitles'the MothJkii's Friend to berankand led as one of the life-sav|ing appliances given to -p {theworld bvthediscovi # ieries of modern science. i From the nature of | the case it will of course be understood that we cannot publish certificates concerning this Safety and Ease writers. Yet we have {hundreds ot such testi TO jmonials on file, and no (mother who has once (used it will ever again Suffering Woman. b? without it in her time ? of trouble. A prominent physician lately remarked to the proprietor, that if it were admissible to make public tho letters we receive, the "Mothers' Friend would out-sell anything on the market. I most earnestly entreat every female expecting to be confined, to use Mothers' Relief. Coupled with this entreaty I will add that during a long established practice (forty-four years), I have never known it to fail toproduce a safe andquick delivery. H. J. HOLMES, M. 1)., Atlanta, (la. J" or sale bv Dr. .J. u. KuyKencuu, Dowry ?x?iarr and May it May. A CHILD! Talbottox, Ga., Sept. 12,1884.?My little son, now seven years old, broke out when a bnhe three weeks with what the doctors called eczema, beginning on the head and gradually spreading over the whole body. He was treated for five years or more by various physicians without relief, and the little boy's health was completely broken down. About n year ago 1 was inducI ed to use on hint Swifl's Specific, and two bottles cured him sound and well, and there has been no sign of a return of the disease. P. O. Holmes. Foisonod by a Xurse. Some eight years ago I was inoculated with poison by a nurse who infected my babe with blood taint. The littlechild lingered along until It wa#about two years old, when Its little life was yielded up to the fearful poison. For six long years I have suffered untold misery. I was covered with sores and ulcers from head to toot and In my great extremity 1 prayed to die. Nolanguagecan express my feeling of woe during those long six yenrs. I had the best medical treatment. Several physicians successively treated me, hut all to no purpose. The Mercury and Potash seemed to add fuel to the awful flame which was de vouring me. About three months ago I was advised to try Swift's Spe- and I felt hope cific. We did so ^9 again revive in my breast; but alas! alas! we had spent so much for medical treatment that we were too poor to buy. Oh! the ngony of that moment! Health and happines within your reach but too poor to grasp It. I applied, however, to those who were able and willing to help me, and i have taken Swift's Specific, and am now sound and well once more. Swift's Specific is the nest blood purifier in the world, and Is the greatest blessing of the age. Mrs. T. W. Lee, Greenville, Ala. .1 Druggist 25 Years. Auburn, Ala., Sept. 8,1884.-1 am an old Pharmnclat, and have had to do largely with blood diseases for over twenty-five years. 1 have dealt in all kinds of blond purifiers,and do not hesitate to sny that Swift's Specific is the best and has given more general satisfaction than any other I have ever handled. Last year a young student came to my store emaciated and covered with sores. I recommended S. S. S. He took only three bottles, and the sores disappeared, his throat healed up and his skin cleared oft'. His flesh was smooth and fresh as that of a child, and he has gnined ten pounds. I scarcely knew him when he returned after an absence of several weeks. He claimed to be renewed in flesh and spirit. A number of other cases less malignnnt have come under my observation and all with the best results. Swift's Specific is an excellent tonic, and as an antidote for malaria, has no superior. Many ladies are lining it an a tonic for general debility, and find it tlic most satisfactory one ever used. I have been denling in Swift's Specific for five yrars or more, and am satis tied that I do not place too high an estimate upon its merits. G. W. Dixoa. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta Ga. For Sale hy Jons C. Kuykkndai. and Dowry 8t Starr, Vorkvilie, S. C. December 11 SO IV WEST LIBERTY SHEET. Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables. JUST received a lot of Cincinnati Buggies, Carriages, Juinpseat Phaetons, all standard grade work. Also a few Columbus Buggies will be kept in stock and sold at the most reasonable prices. SECOND-HAND VEHICLES. The following second-hand Vehicles for sale, in which bargains will be given : 5 Buggies, 2 Spring Wagons, 1 Four-Seat Phaiton, 1 Two-Horse Wagon, All in good running order, and will be sold cheap for cash, or on time. Buggy Cushions, Shafts and Poles will be kept in stock. Something New. I now have in connection with my Livery Stable a No. 1 Queen City HEARSE and a glassfront COACH, which will be furnished for funeral occasions, at short notice and for moderate charges. FEED STABLES. Have vour horses fed at the YORKVILLE LIV- , ERY AND FEED STABLES, where the/will re- , ceive the best attention at reasonable prices. F. E. SMITH. April 2.1 17 tf , BRICK FOR SALE. j FIVE hundred thousand first-class BRICK are ? offered for sale?100,000 at McConnellsville, I and200,000 at Lowrvsville, on the C. it L. N. G. " T* * i...- tli.cn Rfi?lr in lots of IV. iv. .viiy iiuiiiiH-i tii m?c ... . not less than 2,500, will be delivered on cars at j cither place at $<>.00 for salmon, $8.00 for J salmon I > and S blue, and $9.00 for all blue per thousand, j I Samples can be seen attheStores of C'apt. W. B. : j Smith, Clover; John R, Ashe, Yorkville; Ashecfc ! | Ashe, MeConnellsville ; Hope, Bovvrv & Co., j ! Lowrvsville, and Heath, Crawford & Co., Ches- j I ter. We will give a discount for large lots on the | | above prices. , W. N. ASIIE, Jr., MeConnellsville. W. A. ANDERSON, Lowrysville. October 10 42 tf JAM KS K. HART. OKO. W. S. IIAHT. HART A HART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Yorkville, S. C. Gi KO. W. S. IIART, Notary Public, and Com1" missioner of Deeds for Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina and Texas. ! April 24 27 tf GARRY IRON RO Manufacturers of all kinds of IRON ROOFING jflSSS OKI31 FED AND OORRCGATED SIDING, ^HjnHSjgf Iron Tile or Shingle, FIREPROOF DOORS, SHITTERS 40., THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 0 May 10 WELEAD, Othei's Follow. | THE LIGHT RUNNING ? DOMESTIC" HAS THE HANDSOMEST WOODWORK. IT is the grandest triumph of Sewing Machine Mechanical skill. It has the best set of At-1 tachments. It is the most reliable. Itexecutcs a greater variety of work than any other machine inthemarket. "ithasahigharm.'theattachments are all easily worked, and it will do any kind of work, from the lightest to the heaviest, and in as good manner as any other machine. Call and examine the Machine and learn particulars. We will sell on as liberal terms ana at as low prices as any first-class Machine can be bought; and in addition, will compliment every purchaser with a number of photographs of himself or any other person the purchaser may designate. PHOTOCRAPHY. I would also inform the public that I am yet making PHOTOGRAPHS in all the various styles. Also, Ferrotypes and other cheaper styles of1 pictures. Pictures by the photographic process enlarged, and all work done in the best style of the art at reasonable prices. Gallery on West Liberty street, near the jail. * J. R. SCHORB. October i) 41 tf J. ED. JEFFERYS & CO. AEW FURNITURE TORE. COFFINS, CASKETS AND CASES. WE have on hand a eompletestoek of Coffins, consisting of Wood Burial Caskets and Cases, all sizes, which we are offering on very reasonable terms. Cottage Furniture. A full assortment of Bedroom Suits, Marble Top and Plain Bureaus, Centre Tables and Washstands. BEDSTEADS, CRADLES AND CHAIRS. Walnut and Maple Bedsteads, common Bedsteads, fancy and plain Tables, Spring Beds and Mattresses, "and a variety of Chairs. Pleture-Frame Moulding, Of several styles and prices. Picture Frames made to order. Furniture Repaired. Terms reasonable. Our motto is "LIVE AND LET LIVE." J. ED. JEFFERYS A CO September 11 37 tf FOUNDRY a vn Macliine Shop. THE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he now has in operation, on his lot on King's Mountain Street, a FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP, in which he is prepared to do all manner of work in light iron and nrass castings, and general machine work. BEPAIBim Of all kinds, promptly done on short notice. Steam Engines, ancl agricultural machinery of any kind overhauled and repaired. Besides, any class of work that may be wanted in his shop, he will attend any call for repairing stationary engines, doing the work on the premises, thus obviating the necessity of moving the engine. Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on completion of the work. EDWARD THOMAS. _ B U S T THE undersigned has taken the agency for the sale of the THOMPSON PIANO, one of the best instruments in the market, and also for the sale of the ORGANS manufactured by the Great Western Organ Company. The Pianos I represent are in different styles, both square and upright, full 7J octaves, ana besides having all the modern improvements of the best makers, with highly ornamented case and superior finish throughout, have also three strings in the treble, and are thus nearly equal in tone and power to the Concert Grand. I represent ten styles of Organs, and can suit any purchaser as to quality and price. If you contemplate the purchase of an instrument? either Piano or Organ?do not buy until you confer with me. I can suit you with either instrument and will make prices satisfactory. Every instrument fully warranted by the manufac turers. There is no longer any excuse for paying a fancy price for a piano bearing the name of ?i.i imit-iii-?which name is AUI11U Will, iliniuwiiiiiv - usually the only thing to recommend it?when you can buy one equally as good in every respect for half the money. Correspondence invited, and all information cheerfully furnished. Miss ZO RAID A IXGOLD, Yorkville, S. C. November 20 47 tf THE STATE OF SOITH CAROLINA, ( 01'XTY OF YORK--COURT OF COMMON' PLEAS. Alex. B. Wells and Robert S. Wells, Plaintiffs, against Lueinda Wells, Robison S. Wells, Arthur Wells, David R. Wells, Emily Wells, Jane Sansing, and Isabella Gordon, and heirs of Mrs. Thomas Paris, unknown, Defendants. Summons for Relief?Complaint not Served. To the Defendants above mentioned : \roU are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, which is this day tiled in the otlice of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said County, und to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers, at their otlice in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Dated 25th April, A. D., 1885. WILSON it WILSON, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. To the Defendants?David R. Wells, Emily Wells and Arthur Wells, and the heirs of Mrs. Thomas Paris, unknown: Take notice that the Summons in the above action, of which the foregoing is a copy, together with the Complaint, was tiled in the otlice of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for York county, and the State of South Carolina, on ??? a??;i a r? iuh" WILSON it WILSON, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. May 7 10 fit IOHN M. M'NEEL. J. KILLOUOH HKNRY. MfSEEL A HENRY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. OFFICK WILKKS" BUILDING, MAIN STREET, CHESTER. S. C., Practice in all Courts of the State anil United States. Promptness and Fidelity in all Business. October .'10 44 " ]y OFING COMPANY, i? IRON ORE PAINT ?|k[\ And. Cement. W; 152 TO 158 MERWIN STREET Cleveland, O. ^ jZS2T* Send for Circular and Price List No. 75. F IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. 9 ly CENTENNIAL YEAR. The Augusta Chronicle. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE was established in 1785, but is still young, vigorous and progressive, and fully up to all the requirements of a first-class newspaper. Democratic in politics,honest and fearless in the advocacy of all good i measures?the organ of no ring or cnque, 11 nas no friends to reward, or enemies to punish. The purpose of the CHRONICLE is to advance the general good and support such measures as will inure to the moral, social, educational and material advancement of the State and country. The columns of the CHRONICLE are free from the taint of sensationalism and the depravity engendered by immoral publications. Our telegraphic news service is full and complete. The CHRONICLE contains an average of nine thousand words per day from the New York Associated Press. This service is supplemented by specials from our able and taientea correspondents at Atlanta and Columbia, who are indefatigable in their labors to give our readers the latest news and the most interesting letters. Our accomplished and brilliant associate, Mr. JAMES R. RANDALL, of the editorial stall', sends our readers his graphic and interesting letters from Washington during the session of Congress. The CHRONICLE publishes the full telegraphic serviceof the New York Associated Press. TERMS: Morning Edition, 6 months $ 5 00 Morning Edition, 1 year 10 00 Evening Edition, 6 months 3 00 Evening Edition, 1 year 0 00 Weekly Edition, <> months 75 Weekly Edition, 1 year 1 25 Sunday CJironicle, 1 year 2 00 The EVENING CHRONICLE is the largest and cheapest Daily Paper in the South, as it publishes all the telegraphic news, and all the news of the morning paper, and is sent to subscribers at $6 per year. The WEEKLY is now a ten page paper, but in April it will be twelve pages?84 columns. It is filled with important news. The SUNDAY CHRONICLE is a large eight | page paper, and contains fifty-six columns of matter. Specimens copies free. Address CHRONICLE & CONSTITUTIONALIST, Patrick Walsh, President, Augusta. Ga. March 5 10 tf G. & 1. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains from Newton, N. C., to Chester, S. C., taking effect at 12 o'clock, Noon, Sunday, March 1,188;"). Standard of time, clock in telegraph office at Chester. going south. Leave Newton 0.00 A. M. Arrive at Maiden, 0.35 A. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 7.20 A. M. Leave Lincolnton, 7.30 A. M. Arrive at Hardin's 7.50 A. M. Arrive at Dallas, 8.08 A. M. Leave Dallas 8.08 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 8.25 A. M. Leave Gastonia, 8.45 A. M. Arrive at Pleasant Ridge, 9.02 A. M. Arrive at Crowder's Creek, 9.12 A. M. Arrive at Bowling Green, 9.22 A. M. Arrive at Clover, 9.35 A. M. Arrive at Yorkville 10.15 A. M. Leave Yorkville, 10.30 A. M. Arrive at Philadelphia, 10.44 A. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 10.55 A. M. Arrive at McConnellsville, 11.05 A. M. Arrive at Lowrysville, 11.25 A. M. Arrive at Chester 11.55 A. M. goino north. Leave Chester, 4.30 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville, 5.03 P. M. Arrive at McConnellsville, 5.25 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 5.35 P.. M. ^ Arrive at Philadelphia, 5.45 P. 3l. Arrive at Yorkville, 0 00 P. M. Leave Yorkville, 6.10 P. M. Arrive at Clover, 6.50 P. M. Arrive at Bowling Green, 7.00 P. M. Arrive at Crowder's Creek 7.10 P. M. Arrive at Pleasant Ridge, 7.20 P. M. Arrive at Gastonia 7.35 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 8.00 P. M. Arrive at Dallas, 8.18 P. M. Arrive at Hardin's, 8.43 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 9.10 P. M. Leave Lincolnton, 9.20 P. M. Arrive at Maiden, 9.55 P. M. Arrive at Newton, 10.25 P. M. G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent. March 5 10 tf ___________ OWING to our superior facilities with the best machine presses, an abundance of type and ftrst-class appointments throughout our office, we are prepared to execute all manner of JOB PRINTING in superior style, and at prices that will compare with New York or Philadelphia charges for the same quality of work and materials. We have recently made a reduction in prices for the following classes of work, to which we invite the attention of business men : BILL HEADS. For 500 For 1000 Half-sheet Bill Heads $3.50 $<5.00 Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.25 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.00 3.00 Monthly statements at same price of sixth-sheet oill heads. We will fill 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 every 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, rrom a visiting card to a large volume, and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any stvle of worlc desired. Address, L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C, DON'T DELAYS BUT go and see the largest and handsomest stock of Jewelrv, Watches, Silverware and T>? - jpancv 000(13. ever oauiuiiuu a" v/ucaicr, narpains in GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. If vou want to buy an engagement Ring, a Wedding, Birthdav or Christmas present, call on E. C. STAHN, you will tlnd an endless variety of presents, from 25 cents to 81.50. Just received for the lovers o/ art, Steel Engravings, Oil Paintings and Photographs. Hanging Lamps, Student and new patent Fan Lamps, giving a light equal to gaslight. Remember all goods are sola under guarantee to be as represented. No wish for the purchaser to be deceived. We call gold, gold; and brass, brass. My prices are as low as the lowest for reliable goods. Long years' experience and ample capital enable me to buy at lowest prices, and I will not be undersold by any one. Cash purchasers of Watches, Sewing Machines and Organs can secure special Bargains, as I want to reduce my large stock. An improved high arm Machine, drop-leaf and drawers and all attachments, warranted 5 years, for ?25.00. WATCH REPAIRING receives my personal attention. Satisfaction guaranteed at moderate prices. Orders by mail promptly attended to. Respectfully, E. *C. STAHN, Chester, S. C. November 27 41 ly MARSHALL HOUSE, Chester, S. C. 1 THE undersigned takes pleasure in informing the people of Chesffn ' ter county and the traveling pub^ ijflT lie that he has taken charge of the MARSHALL HOUSE, and is now prepared to receive both PERMANENT AND TRANSIENT BOARDERS. The building has just been repainted and put in lirst rate condition throughout. A The table will be supplied with the best that the local and neighboring markets afford, and no pains will be spared to insure the comfort of guests. A SAMPLE ROOM is provided, conveniently arranged for the use of Commercial Travelers. TERMS REASONABLE. A share of the public patronage is resnectfullv solicited. JAMES K. MARSHALL, Proprietor. November 30 48 tf J. BEATTY WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY A.T LAW, Yorkville, S. C., WILL practice in the Circuit Court of York county. Prompt attention given to collections, -flg? January 15 3 lv*