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; gillie , ? hbd to Him.?It occurred in Kan villages, where a worpwyed oat rather late one night, lame in a state which he knew pa for him if his wife discover nrfght was one of the freezy, Kna the moment of his return be one of the thawing interlured to the man that, if he took I) house, and went y, hw^wife might he room standing I have told by^her ozen into the gutonderingly, until ay boots, ghat's a e there?" ^ t sat down on' the he doorstep, and >ootsin with him qt Stand the ow of poplars on 1^ apparently a^t gers on the Fort } bluff in Buffalo, ry wealthy bankras beloved by a man was inclined &1 skill of young im to the test, diDominion shore, -which should be >rtwo. The trial icy and forthwith it and in despair river. Perhaps keen eyes can nthe fbrtherest view of thesituMfed a different sr much discus oAlomn, >!Ui'woo lanuu w ?nv ouivimi' ^Blpai^strai^r to. solve the problem. ?: - The first and the last," said he, calmly |TWimi!Jg his cigar and walking away with |HP; ADipi/OMatic Marketman -"Ah, good Rcmorning, ma'am. Beautiful morning. like the early air for making "How much are peaches?" inquired the Well, ma'am, eatin^peaches are $1.25 a "Wel? they are^iJ& I've only got a.few I more baskets left. As it's yon I'll let them j^^ym^j^piece. ^ How many, please, and > Why, yoi couldn't get couple 01 Jars d|t lof that. If get married befor&peaches come' and go to housekeeping you ^^^^HP--Iam married." P^Married! Who'd a thought. You ain't l^t^of yom^t^ens yet. Welf,l'H send one |Hr^*Perhaps one basket-wHl not be endugh, Kyou had better send me four and oneof eatK jng," was her reply, as she handed out a $5 and 25 cents In change. : "Thanks, ma'am," said the dealer, and E she was gone.?Detroit Tribune. Eiange Habits.?The author of "Greene's 'English Grammar." havd^restled in their of tb^iostrgenhdimtf ring tine later years of essor of mathematics New England college, lis classes a somewhat studious, young man, mes. On a certain ocad repeated carefully tents about the effects earth, and was tryfng me next in the book, 3ed with : n the shadow of the sir. do you spend your > tell.?Harper's MagaHaihmond, of Georat the expense of Emia independent, now t Judge at Savannah, as at White Sulphur , Georgia, four years eer was running for ict asan Independent, Dcrat. Meeting one of id asked him how he I' reckon I'll vote for jow. "That's right," ndler is a first rate him?" "No," said I know Speer." p la nation.?"Soineidaru?" hequeried, as Hpshe was going out of the store. "Why, 1 came in for a pair of shoes, and ^^Kp've waited twenty minutes, and no one has Bcoflfenear me.- I've got tired." B "Wait just one minute," he whispered. H^H"I've -spent twenty-five minutes with this ^^Hfcdy^vith the big feet, but it won't take live Bo tit your little No. 2's with something BflRnice." ? Although she wore 5's she smiled and sat ^ Wowh to wait.?Detroit Free Preas. j^MpA Waggish Baci :elor.?Rev. Sam BR^ones paused in a disco arse on patience at ^^ Oraaha and said if tliere were one man B^present who never had tepokeh a cross word |B - to his wife he would ask him to rise. By BB and by a round-faced, good:batured man ^H> stood up. "Thank God," said^&m, "there's K on? man who never spoke a cross word to his wife." Everybody took a gdod look at paragon, when he broke thesljence with ^^^fih^einark^^javen'^n^wiJe^^n^i ||lt5ceUaur0H5 ftadittij. * SNOW AS A FERTILIZER. The opinion prevails, generally among the farmers, that snow is quite a fertilizer to winter grain crops, The opinion, doubtless, migrated with our ancestors frorta England to Virginia and North Carolina, and thence to the more southern States, as the population moved southwesterly. That snow greatly benefits grain crops in those regions where it covers the ground the greater part of the winter, there can be no i shadow of a douDt. Jiuthowr ininenrsi place by protecting it from cold. Absurd, says one, to say that anything covered by snow is protected from cold. Why snow itself is a terribly cold thing. Admit it is a pretty cold thing, but its temperature need not be lower than 32 degrees, and the ground under it need not be colder than 32 degrees. Suppose just before the snow fall the soil of a wheat field freezes slightly. A light freeze would not hurt grain. Now cover it up with six to ten inches of snow, and let the weather turn very cold. Let the thermometer drop down to ten degrees, or, as it sometimes does, to zero. What then? Will the soil temperature-sink down to those figures? Not at all. The loose, porous snow checks the escape of heat from the soil, just as a good fur keeps the heat from escaping from an animal's body, and the soil retains its temperature of approximately thirty-two degrees. The wheat plant is kept about as cold as it would be> on a nice frosty morning, just cold enough for a little ice to form, it is protected from the zero cold, and (from what is of more importance still) the cold, drying winds , which invariably attend these severe spells of cold. The destructive influence of cold W1UUB Ull vc^nttliuu IS api iu ue yn^nvuaw.. ~~It intensifies the cold very much and is often the cause of-death in plants: Snow, then, effectually protects crops from extreme cold and from cold and drying winds. But does it Hoot do more than that? Does it not really enrich the soil; is it not really a fertilizer? Not much. Snow, like rain water, contains a little ammonia; but only a little. In numerous cases, all the snow and rain water* which falls in a year, upon a given area, have been carefully collected and examined; the amount of ammonia in them ascertained, and the calculation made as to hew much ammonia would thus be carried into the soil of an'acre. The largest amount thus determined has been a very little over ten (10) pounds per acre, the smallest about four (4) pounds per acre; and the most careftil observations indicate that the average amount of nitrogen (both as ammonia and nitric acid) which an acre receives from rain and snow in a whole year, is only about five (5) pounds, representing or equivalent to six (6) pounds of ammonia, snow does not carry into the soil any more ammonia than a corresponding rain, all of which soaks into the soil. A fall of ten inches of snow is about equal to one inch of rain; which is a good soaking rain. Now, divide six pounds of ammonia by the number of rainfalls in a year, and see how little ammonia would be carried iutothe soil by one rainfall or one snow. Thirty rains in a year would make one rain or snow carsy pne-flfth of a pound of ammonia into the soil of on acre, or not more- of that substance than three'pounds of cotton seed meal would supply to an acre; and ammonia is the only fertilizing material which snow contains. It is obviously, therefore, a very . boor fertilizer, though it may greatly bene fit crops by the protection it affords against cold." At the North, where snow takes the place of rain, the winter leeching of soils is greatly reduced, because the snow melts in the spring and runs off, in great measure, without soaking into the frozen ground. With us it does not remain long enough on the ground to protect grain to ^,ahy extent; neither does it take the place orrttfri sUm&ently to diminish tho leech ing of the soil in an appreciative aegree. THE EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS. The following is the text of the Act passed at the recent session of the General Assembly to establish experimental farms and stations: _ Section 1. That the j#ard of agricul -tnreis-tiereby authorifced^nd directed to ' locate and establish two experimental farms and stations, to be known as the South Carolina Experimental Stations, the object of which shall be to determine the capacity of hew plants for acclimation; the manurial . value of fertilizers and composts; testing the purity and vitality of seeds; examining weeds, grasses and other plants; investigating the growth, requirements and comparative value of different crops; studying the economic production of milk and.butter; and of conducting such other tests, investigations and experiments in the field as may bear upon questions connected with either the science or practice of agriculture. Sec. 2. That the said board shall, as soon after the passage of this Act as practicable, give ninety days' notice in not less than three newspapers of this State they will receive from counties, communities or persons bids or proposals to donate lands and buildings or money for the purpose of-establishing said experimental larms and stations. Sec. 3. That in selecting the sites for , said experimental farms the board may have reference to the healthfulness of locality, the adaptability of the land, to represent the variety of soils in the State: Provided, That one shall be located in the Piedmont region of the State and one in the lower tier of counties. Sec. 4. The board shall employ one director and such other employees as may be in their judgment necessary for said stations. Sec. 5. That the board of agriculture shall take into careful consideration plans and specifications for an agricultural and mechanical college, together with probable or approximate cost of the same, and report the result of their investigation to the I A eoo??KU? ii f J fc novf dUkVOAIl i uuuciai nwciuuij ai no IICAI or.-viwu. Sec. G. That toestablish said ex penmen-! ! tal larms and stations the sum of ten thous' aud dollars, if so much be necessary, be, | and is hereby, appropriated out of any funds ! in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and for the support and maintenance of the said experimental farms and stations all moneys arising from privilege tax or so much as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, except so much as may be necessary to defray the expenses of the department of agriculture. The Beauty of Simplicity.?Next to i suitability, I say, let there be simplicity, j John Newton, giving advice to a lady, said: j "Madam, so dress and so conduct yourself ^hayrersons who have been in your compa^^Hlnot recollect what you had on." if followed, would lead to style of dress from which 1 v o f the ing coals. The sound of the roaring, hissing and bubbling is described as loud and awful. The walls of the crater are of a light brown color, and are composed of successive layers marked out with striking regularity, like the seats in an ampitheatre. Allowing ten of these layers to each interval of twenty feet, the depth from the surface to the incandescent matter would appear to be 200 feet. The periphery otf the crater is about half a mile, although the Japanese calculate it at two miles and r_ half. RETRIBUTION. Just now there is a pcpular reaction against the gospel doctrine,of retribution, which is felt to some extent within the church. The superficial popular mind is clamoring for a popular creed that has no "woe to come" in it, and some Christian teachers are doing the best they can, in the shape of plain Bible-teachings in the way, to give it to them. This reaction, which is unhappily no figment of the imagination, is ..anrinlnm cuilnn nf tlio hmrmn minfl UlC pcuuuiuui on iwi ??>v Push any one truth too hard or too far, and it will produce a reaction. There is little question that a retribution has been preached in past days disproportionately, intemperately and almost savagely. It has been presented in that coarse aspect in which it now lies in the popular mind, which once awakened fear, but now only awakens defiance. The popular reaction is against the distortion of a great truth, and the folly is being committed of casting off a great and solemn truth in the guise of a distortion. . Retribution has been presented too much in the light of a juidicial infliction, and the thinking of the multitude has run almost entirely in the light of a judge visiting arbitrary penalty upon a culprit, the Almighty seeking to get even with the sinners after the clumsy fashion/of the earthly judge. The naturalness of retribution has not been enough impressed upon men's minds. The truth needs to be preached from this standpoint more. Let men be told in all solemnity as Paul told them, not to deceive themselves: "God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Let men be taught to thiuk of retribution as the unfolding and manifolding of the tendencies of being which they are developing here; that for them retribution will- be only the reaping of a harvest in kind from the seed which tUrv** n>v??ino( in 11 fa T.af thorn UJC\y {lie svmiu^ iu who mv. xjv. w know that God does not need to reach penalties after the bungling fashion of man, and that he has so constituted us that the dragon teeth of penalty are sown in the commission of sin, and by a universal law, in the spiritual as well as the natural world each sin brings on the penalty after its own kind. Back of the law is God who made it, and who sees that it is executed; but the result is no more arbitrary than is the harvest of cocle from the cockle-seed.?Rev. D. E. Platter. AGE ANlPEXPERIENCE. We make a great mistake in America when we lay our old men on the shelf while they are still in their prime as counselors. Benjamin Franklin was sent to France as a Minister when he was seventy years old, and the best work he did for his country he did between his seventy-first and seventy-eighth years. The State of New York had an absurd statute which removed Chaucelor Kent from the bench because he was sixty-five. After that time he wrote and published his Commentaries, a book recognized by every lawyer and statesman as one of the most important books in the study of our jurisprudence. So much good did the country gain from one of the frequent absurdities of New York legislation. In England, Lord Palmerston and Mr. Gladstone are recent instances, well remembered, of the force which statesmen gain, almost by the Jaw of geometrical progression, from the memory of the experiments which fall, from what I call organic connection with the national life of the last two generations. The truth is that the old analogies and some of the old saws deceive us in our social conditions of to-day, in which life is longer, and tihs4?tKi?;r.-ixame in better order generally, than it was a hundred years ago. Perhaps fhe lower races of mankind, and .the worst fed orders of society, do not 3how much improvement in the passage of centuries. But in the class of men and women from which leaders are drawn, from which come teachers, authors, law-givers, inventors, or, in general, directors of society, these people are on the average in better condition at seventy than their ancestors were at.sixty. They have a better chance for life, they have ten years more experience, by the measure of time, and by the measure of amount, they have a hundred times more. One might not take the risk of conducting a great war, with the Count Von Moltke at the head of one's armies, when he is over eighty years old. But so far as intellectual force goes, and immense experience, with the knowledge of.men and certainty what they will do?so far as these go?the Emperor William has been wise in trusting his affairs to Bismarck, though Bismarck be counted such an old man. Bismarck is no older at eighty than Richelieu was at three score.?Edward Everett Hale, in Chautauquan. Happiness as It Is in Youtii and Maturity.?Isn't it a little queer, that as we grow from youth to manhood the objects change which bring us pleasure? The amount of happiness realized varies but little ! There seems to be a certain amount of the article implanted in us; no more, no less. The boy's sled gives place to the richly caparisoned sleigh, the toy house to the imposing residence, the toy watch to the, real one, the toy boat to an ocean yachtbut the first yielded quite as much pleasure as the last. The Christmas gilts and pleasures of youth brought as much happiness as houses and lands, honors and fame do in after years. Our happiness is all relative, any way. We enjoy by comparison. The boy's sled is big enough to fill his mind. The man's yacht is merely a toy, which has its use for a time and then ceases to amuse. Christmas is a reality to the young?a definite pleasure point. To the full grown boysand girls it is an attempt toarouse the old enthusiasm, the belief in Santa Claus, the enjoyment in gift giving and gift receiving. It con^s and goes, and they tryjiard to persuade themselves that they enjoyed it with an old time zest. /.iniL.vm /vL' 'HIT V till OnilVTUV xjtj\ rjA/1 .u V*A\ I rrr?rmrm?uuiu* i iw i Several years ago Mr. Theodore Wen/.el, a young merchant, of Hamburg, Germany, visited South Carolina, meetingevery where with a welcome. A year's tramp through the wild regions of our own beautiful up country and that of North Carolina, convinced him that it afforded great advantages to immigration. Since then he has continued for three and a half years his to-ientifie researches of the Rhine, in France B^inHungary?all for South Carolina, ^DBH^^succeeded in obtaining the con^^^ ^HKierman government for the or^^H^H^nj^Gorman company, with an ^^^H^^Kin antkone at Walliuila, to decountrj^"(?f^ciuth Carolina, subserved capital of the MR. AND SIRS. BOWSER. BY MRS;. BOWSER. This fall Mr. Bowsed took a notion to keep a few hens. I opposed"the "prqiect at once, and recalled to mind the three or four dismal failures already scored against us, but he turned on me with that majestic airol his and replied: "Mrs. Bowser, we shall keep hens. It is true that former experiments have been failures, but there are excuses for it. In the first place, I did not get the right brand ol hens. In the next, you did not take care ol them as yoirshould. The hen business, to be made a success, must be pursued the same as any other business." "I've got all I can attend to without fooling with hens, Mr. Bowser. "Certainly no one wants any of your help, Mrs: Bowser. Indeed, the further you keep away from my hens the better I shall like it. The sight of a woman in a Mother Hubbard, with her hair twisted up in a knot and a hole showing in the heel of each stocking, is enough to stop any hen in the country from performing the egg business. You just attend to your gossip and your call * \ 1 Till -li. 1 .. ers, ivjLrs. x>owser, nnu 1 ji uuenu iu my poultry!" Mr. Bowser ordered up $20 worth of lumber and a carpenter, and then took the children's playground for the site of the hennery. The two men were working around four for or five days, and one evening Mr. Bowser came in and said: "Mrs. Bowser, the hennery is an accomplished fact. I have erected a structure which even the most fastidious hen must commend for external beauty and internal convenience. I am going down to the grocery to-night to see how many dozen eggs jvecan dispose of per week." "Can't we eat them all?" ".Can you c^aWJurty^rlorly dozen eggs per week,"madam ?" That silenced me. The grocer said he would take eighty dozen per week, provided they were fresh, and Mr."Bowser came home and made his figures as follows : To keep of 20 liens per week, $ 2 0C To sale of 80 dozen eggs per week,. 16 0C Clear profit, .; $14 0(1 "Aren't you figuring rather high on the number oY eggs?" I ventured to inquire. "High ! 1 should say not! I'm figuring at least ten per cent, too low. We'll use about four dozen per week, and sell eighty dozen. That's eighty-four dozen, or twelve dozen per day. That is less than eight eggs a day for each hen. A hen who has our interests atVheart will surely produce that matay." "Well, if they'll do it." "Do it I Mrs. Bowser, what you don't know about hens makes me tired! What is a hen feiHmt to lay eggs? What would be her obj&ct in doing otherwise, or in skipping a day ?*V. Duringthe next week he was studying up on poultry and making purchases of small lots.? T heard him talking about white and black Xeghorns, Cochins, Shanghais and other kinds, and I know he paid as high as a dollpf apiece for some of 'em. At the end of a week he had twenty hens and a rooster, and he swelled with pride and said to me: "Mrs. Bowser^' prepare your mouth foi fresh eeffs for breakfast." "But hens don't lay in the night, dc they,?" I asked., , '.'They may, or they may not. If there is any good reason why they shouldn't I don'l kuow it. I am going to leave a lighted lamp in the coop to-night, aud if they take a notion to lay they will fihijl everything handy.';' Next morning he was out of bed at daylight to pay a visit to the coop, but we had no fresh eggs for breakfast. He said that nc hen could be expected to~do her best until she had become familiar with the coop an^J on speaking terihs with the family. Day after day passed, but we got no eggs. Mr. Bowser's idea that a hen could be wound up and set to lay like an alarm clock was abandoned, and he bought lime, red pepper, egg shells, Indian meal and a dozen other things for food. On thet ninth day he brought in ar^egg. Ii was one X Instructed the cook to take out there and place in a nest. Bowser -come running in With it, his lace all aglow, andtrs he held it up to view he shouted : "Mrs.' Bowser, here is the living proof ol my sagacity J" l t<J "Yes, but don'nt'aTceTfifc baby.ir~ ?Baby be hanged I What's a red-faced, wall-eyed,'ten-poundhaby, to the fact that our hens have commenced to lay I" Poor man! I felt sorry for him as the days slipped away and wegotnomore eggs. He bropght up a horse doctor, a fortune-teller, a farmer and a dog-fancier, and he carefully followed all their suggestions, but the result Was eggless. Some one told him that the^hens needed a Sudden fright to set their laying machinery in motion, and he sneaked out at intervals and suddenly fired an old shotgun over the coop. No good. When he was told that they were too warm he i-inno'l nff tVin hottnna Whon tnlrl thnt. thpv lipfVU V..w ^ were too cold he nailed them on again. One morning when I came down stairs hepaused in his majestic pacing back and forth and said: "Mrs. Bowser, white you recklessly slumbered last night, some one came and stole every fowl from the coop!" "No!" "Solemn fact. And that's the kind of a person you are, Mrs. Bowser!"' "But I've got toi'sleep." "Yes, it seems so, and at my cost. Mrs. Bowser, I'm out ajx>ut$70." "But you can't;blame me. I didn't tell you to go into the hen business." "You didn't! Mrs. Bowser, I've always known that you were a slack housekeeper and a great gossip, but I did not suppose you could look me in the face and tell a deliberate untruth. Farewell, Mrs. Bowserfarewell, wall-eyed baby!"? But he came sneaking home at 10 o'clock that night, and the word "hen" has-not been spoken in our house since.?Detroit Free l^ess. THE BILL IX RELATION TO FORFEITED LANDS. Section 1 gives the former owners of forfeited lands the right, on or before July 1, 1887, to redeem such lands upon the payment to the sinking fund commission of "the amount of the State, county, school and municipal taxes due and charged against said lands, and all penalties and costs which attached thereon before such forfeiture, together with the State, county, school and municipal taxes which would have accrued thereon had such land not been forfeited to the State; and the taxes' which would have been so due shall be computed to be the sum to which the regular levy of taxes from year to year, from the time 01 such forfeiture up to the date of redemption, together with any special and municipal taxes that wouldhay^accrued thereon, and the amount of the taxes, costs and penalties up to the time of said forfeiture added, upon which payment the commissioners are authorized to issue a quit claim deed. It is made the duty of the commissioners to bring suit against the owners of all such lands not redeemed, and the attorney general is directed to take charge of such suits, with power to call upon the solicitors to aid him. The suits are to be tried in the counties where the land in question is situated, and in case the defendants fail to answer, or plead to the complaint, are to be entered up in the office of the clerk of Court, and the executions are to be turned over to the (SUewtr, who is| directed in the usual course, to advertise ahd sail the land in question. The sherifH^to tcimake titles to the purj Mkaserof saPl^and' and the title so issUM 'V<!>y'4* 77frr<revklence in all CoujS ^^ fe|^^tfn*f^inthegranteeJiis^?M sheriff or refuse to vacate shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by , imprisonment not more than twelve months. The sinking fund commission is author' ized to sell at private sale the lands that they may purchase at such sales, provided r the amount shall be not less than the full amount of the taxes, costs, penalties, Ac. 1 AN ACT , To regulate the time for collecting Taxes by ex1 ecution or distress. ; Be it enacted, &c., That hereafter County Treasurers shall not proceed to collect delin1 quent taxes, by execution or distress, until 1 ten days after the addition of the fifteen per cent, penalty, so that delinquent taxpayers shall have an opportunity within such time to pay the taxes and penalty 1 without additional costs or expenses. 1 This Act shall take effect from and imme1 diately after the date of its approval. ) HTTfifjRKTTnvs AnnrTT HPATTir?Phv_ sicians prescribe less medicine than in 1 former days, and probably would give still fewer doses if it were not for respect to the prejudices of their patients, who feel that ' nothing is being done for their cure unless they have something to take. The truth is that pure air and abstinence from food is all that is needed to givd relief, and thecon scientious doctor hesitates to order drugs 1 which are unnecessary. If a person who is feverish is shut up in an unventilated room, breathing the same air over and over again, covered with twice as many ! bed clothes as are required, for fear he ; might take cold, and given whatever he can be persuaded to eat, the fever is not likely to abate. Yet, if when the physician 1 came, he were to say, "Open the window, takeoff all the blankets but one, give him a cool sponge bath and let him have noth1 ing but milk, eracked ice and cold water," and then go away without prescribing fur1 ther, the friends of the sufferer would shake their heads and sigh to one another: "We 1 must send for some one else at once. How can he get well without medicine?" 1 Whereas the doctor has really done more 1 to promote the recovery of the sufferer than if ne had left him in the unsanitary condition in which he found him, and prescribe quinine and. aconite ad libitum.?Good Ifowekeeping. How to Rkad Books.?It is always worth while to read a thing twice over, to make sure that nothing has been missed or ' dropped on the way, or wrongly conceived | or interpreted. And if the, subject be se1 rious, it is often well to let an interval elapse. Ideas, relations, statements of facts are not to betaken by storm. We have ' to steep them in the mind, in the hope of [ thus extracting their inmost essence and significance. If one lets an interval pass, ' and then returns, it is surprising how clear and ripe that has become which, when we \ left, seemed crude, obscure and full of perplexity. All this takes trouble, no doubt; but 1 then, it will not do to deal with ideas as a [ certain bird does with its eggs?leave them 1 in the sand for the sun to hatch and chauce ; to rear. People who follow this plan pos; sess nothing better than ideas half hatched and convictions reared by accident. They are like a man who should pass up and 'down the world in the delusion that he is elarl in sumntunus robes of du*" 'e and ] velvet, and when in truth he is only half covered by the rags and tatters of other peo| pie's castoff clothes. ' Furman'sCompost?The Southern Cultivator gives the following formula for a fa moos fertilizer in thecottou States : ' The materials of Furman's compost are | barnyard manure, cotton seed, acid phos1 phate and kainit. The proportions are thir1 ty bushels each of the first two, 400 pounds r of phosphate and 200 pounds of kainit. These may be intimately mixed at first, or 1 put in alternate layers of cotton seed, phos' phate and kainit, and manure and so on. i The whole to be well moistened and the 1 mjlxing, in the latter case, effected by cutr ting down the mass clear through from top > to bottom. You could add to a heap from time to time, using always the same propor> tions, but it is usual to make up all of a giv. en heap at one time. If the heap is made In pens, It should be, with perpe'ndieufar sides and at least four feet nigh, and the compost covered on top with a layer of rich i earth six inches thick, there is no necessity ; for a roof; rain, unless very excessive, will - not more than keep the mass as mpist as It ( should. The. compost should be put up at least three weeks before it is to be applied , it is usually done six to eight weeks in advance. i Graces of Old Age.?A face which has ' for years been under the controlling and shaping influences of good feeling and noble thoughts has obtained thereby a beauty of the finest kind. Oliver Goldsmith must i have thought something of this sort when he pithily wrote, in his inimitable "Vicar t of Wakefield," that "handsome is that handsome does." So it comes about that the-human countenance is a magician's glass, in ? which is seen the very image of the actions emanating from the volitions of the mind i and heart. It is, indeed, as Spenser appropriately put the thought in his "Hymne in Honour of Beautie," where he says: For of tliesoule tho bodie forme doth take : For souleis forme, and doth the bodie make. And it is,-indeed, as the poet Young de ciarea: The body charms, because thesoul is seen. Consequently beauty is not confined to youthfulnesss; neither is it the exclusive monopoly of those who are upon the hither side of middle age. There is a slow but steadily growing beauty, which can only come to maturity in old age.?New York Home Journal. Prehistoric Americans.?Professor F. W.Putnam, in a paper read at the recent meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Boston <5n archreological explorations in the Little Miami valley, gives conclusions reached as to the early inhabitants of this continent. His researches show that there have been at least two types of people?those whose graves are the so-called ash pits, and those who built mounds over their chiefs and buried their common people in trenches?recently discovered by Professor Putnam himself. Both these occupied the central regions, and spreading northward were met and conquered by the Indians, who spread from east to west. It is imderstood that Professor Putnam is f>reparing a large volume which will doubtess contain accounts of many important discoveries he has made in his explorations, and throw important and new light on the early inhabitants of North America. -4?^?+? -- Fresii Eggs Won't Swim.?"How do you ten wnetner un egg is Jrteh Of hbti"' was asked of a Reed street produce dealer yesterday. The dealer picked out seven eggs and dropped them in a tub of water, "That egg," he said, "which went plump to the bottom was laid to-day. Those two which stopped when they went to within two inches of the bottom were laid yesterday. Those swimming around through the middle were laid three days ago; that one on top about a third out of the water, is ! probably a week old; and that one standing up like a cork is old .enough to be gray, i They never get quite old enough to rise out J of the water iDto the air. That water has i two ounces of salt to every pint in it. But ^ ^rdv way to be sure of getting fresh |BH^|fcbu^rom the hens.?iV. Y. Sjm. B^^H^^B^Bjm-Sensntic expo- Jre J. CattA nature^H^B | YORKTHLE EHQOTREK. | i Prospectus for 1887. : ^EXTRAORDINARY OFFER TO CLUB-MAKERS. | Three Desirable Preminms. A BUGGY, A WAGON* AND $15 IN CASH. (kfl the 1st of January, 1887, the YORKVILLE I ENQUIRER wikl enter upon its thirtythird volume, and while we shall strive to make it in every respect a more acceptable weekly fpublication thru it has hitherto been, the leadng features of the paper, which have always rendered it popular with all classes of readers, will be retained. Besides the general makeup of the Miscellaneous department, which feature has given the Ekquirkr a distinctive character, we shall publish CS ?T> A Y TTPC3 JLIu IV l JU CT X VXVXXiiO Throughout the year, from the pens of the most popular writers of fiction' in the world, and which department alone, on account of the character of the stories that we shall secure, will give it additional interest to all readers of light literature. In addition to the Story, Literary and Miscellaneous features of the paper, careful attention will be bestowed upon the News department, which will embrace a record of the leading events at the State and National Capitals; Congressional and Legislative proceedings ; "Scraps and Facts," being a hotch-potch of light current topics; a compend of the News Abroad and at Home; County and General Correspondence; Market Reports; Local and State News; Editorial Articles upon appropriate subjects intended to promote the welfare and prosperity of our State and people, which will, we trust, continue to render the Enquirer a welcome and entertaining Family Journal. TEBMBO? SPB80EIPTI0H?FREE OF POSTAGE. "Single copy, one year,'. .$2.50 Two copies, one year, 4.00 One copy, two years 4.00 PREMIUMS TO CLUB-MAKERS. To club-makers for the approaching volume, we offer THREE PREMIUMS for the three largest clubs, as follows : One BREWSTER SIDE BAR PIANO BOX BUGGY, worth $60. ' i One TWO-HORSE "OLD HICKORY" WAGON, worth $55. A Cash premium of FIFTEEN DOLLARS. Description of Onr Premiums. THE BUGGY Is a tirst-class vehicle in every respect, made of the best materials, and is known as the piano box style, which has become the most popluar buggy now in use. It is hung on the celebrated Brewster Side bar Oil tempered springs, which are the most comfortable, and, therefore, the most widely used side spring. It is full leather trimmed with "lazy back," Savern patent wheels, steel tire, best steel, faintail, double collar axles. It is painted a rich black. The buggy is a good one and will give satisfaction. It is worth ?60. It is furnished to us by Mr. M. C. WILLIS, successor to the late B. 'f. Wheeler, manufacturer of and dealer in buggies, carriages <fee., and may be seen by calling at his factory in this place. THE WAGON Is known as the "Old Hickory," manufactured by the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Co., ol Louisville, Ky. The "Old Hickory" is recognized as one of the best wagons manufactured in the United States. The materials of which it is made are of the best quality and are put together by skilled workmen, and it is thoroughly and handsomely painted. The wagon is a two-horse, thimble skein, of two thousand pounds capacity. The lowest retail price is ?55. The wagon was furnished to us by Mr. JOHN R. ASHE, the Company's agent a't Yorkville. CONDITIONS. The three Premiums mentioned abovo will be awarded on the following conditions: The person getting up the largest club of yearly subscribers to the Enquirer, at ?2.00 pei annum, for each subscriber, will be entitled to the first choice of one of the above Premiums; the person getting up the second largest club, at the same price, to the second choice; the person getting up the third largest club, to the third choice. The time for completing clubs under the above offer is limited to 1 o'clock P. M., on the SECOND MONDAY OF MARCH, 1887. Competitors may begin to secure subscribers at once-the time* of subscription to commence whenever the name is handed in. The money for each subscriber is expected to be paid at the time the itRnic lo-^ntoroU -upon- *>u?* bookstand no name will be Kunted in competition for a premium and no pftmiutn delivered until the subscription price haqpieen paid. To persons who make up clubs of ten or more names, but who may fail to obtain one of the above premiums, we will send the En<Juirkr one year free of charge, and to those who send a club of twenty or more names, but who may fail to get a premium, we will forward the Enquirer one year free of charge, and a copy, one year, of any weekly newspaper or monthly magazine published in the United States, the publication to be selected by the person entitled to receive it. < It is not necessary that the names of a club should all be at the same post-office. Names may be taken at any number of places. One name for two years will be equivalent to two names for one year each. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. Wo will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when sent by draft, registered letter or money order drawn on the Yorkville post-office. In sending names, write plainly, giving postoffice, county and State. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. A.separato list will be kept for each club-maker," wno will be credited with every name sent, so that the number sent by any one person can be ascertained at a moment's notice. ?'I?a /mmmnnnA mnlrirttr will JL CI 3UIIO niiu uviituiotivv uaua?aa*n .. M. not be permitted, after the names have been entored on our books, to transfer the names to another club-maker's list. The time in which additions may be made to clubs under this proposition, will expire on the SECOND MONDAY OF iMARCH; 18'7. Therefore, persons who desire the benefit of club rates, must subscribe and pay for the paper before that date, as after the expiration of that time it will not be furnished for less than 32.50 unless new clubs are formed. All letters should be addressed to L. 31. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. RELIEF ~ Forty Years A Suffer From Catarrh. WONDERFUL TO RELATE! "T30R FORTY YEARS I have been a victim to CATARRH?three-fourths of the time a sufferer from excruciating pains across my forehead and nostrils. The discharges were so offensive that I hesitate to mention it, except for the good that it may do some other sufferer. I have spent a young fortune from my earnings during my fortvyears of suffering to obtain relief from "the doctors. I have tried patent medicines?every one I could learn of?from the four corners of the earth, with no relief. A,nd at last (57 years of age) have met with a remedy that lias cured me entirely?made me a new man. I weighed 128 pounds and now weigh 145. I used thirteen bottles of the medicine, and the only re 1 T 1 ? *' KaJm in tliA liuinUa vrrrVIru nt ?101 1 UUVC JS IU<U UCillf, III LI1U life I may not haye influence to prevail oil all catarrh sufferers to use what has cured me Guinn's pioneer p. loo i) renewer. "HENRY CIIEVES, "No. 267 Second St., Macon, Ga." Mr. Henry Cheves, the writer of the above formerly of Crawford county, now of Macon, Georgia, merits the confidence of all interested in catarrh. W. A. HUFF, Ex-Mayor of Macon. A Superb Flesh Producer and Tonic! (ininn's Pioneer Blood Rencwcr Cures all Blood andSkin Diseases, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Old Sores. A perfect Spring Medicine. If not in your market it will be forwarded on receipt of price. Small bottles 81.00; large bottles 81./o.' Essav on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. MACON MEDICINE COMPANY, Macon .ifoeorgia. For sale by DOWRY A STARR, Yorkville. November 17 11 ly ROCK HILL AND CLARK'S FORK. "PERSON'S residing alonfcAhe mail ro?jtos JL from Yorkville to Ro(Y~Hili^yuL fl^Bn Yorkville to Clark's Fork, v)LZad^^^kMrany, who wish to subscribe E?JUIRER for the year Heced convenient to ^?gmediDi^i?Ahe^ FOB 1880-87. 1 ///FFICI-l, YORK COUNTY, Torn*- //-., S. C., December 1,1880. A CCORDINi^.'b law, Alie TAX BOOKS OF J\ YORK COUNTY, fori the fiscal year commencing November 1st, 1886, will be open from JANUARY 1ST, 1887, UNTIL FEBRUARY 20TH, 1887, inclusive. The Auditor will attend at the following places and tiroes to take the tax returns of the several tax-payees of York county for the fiscal year 1886. V. At Thompson's Mill, on Thursday, January 6, 1887. ? \ At Clay Hill, on Friday, Januaryl7, 1887. At Neely& Son's Store, o l Saturday, January 8, 1887. \ At Massey's Store, on Mondav, January 10 1887. ' J At McConnellsville, on Tuesday, January 11, 1887. { At Bullock's Creek Church, on Wednesday, January 12, 1887. At Harney's Mill, on Thursday, January 13, 1887. ^ "S. At Hickory Grove, on Friday; January^ 14, 1887. " ; \ At Clark's Fork, on Saturday, January M5, 1887. I At Rock Hill, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, January 17,18, ;19, 20 and 21,1887. ~ " L AtCoates' Tavern, on Saturday, January |22, 1887. I At Fort Mill, on Monday and Tuesday, January 24 and 25, 1887. ) At Grover, on Wednesday, January 26, 1887.; At Black's, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 27,28 and 29,1887. . At Yorkville, from Januarj' 31, to February 20,1887, inclusive. At which time the Books will close and penalty attach to all delinquents. All residents in York county, between the ages of 21 and 00, are liable to poll tax. W. B. WILLIAMS, Auditor. \ December 1 48 tf C. & L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD ?wr SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains \ from Newton, N. C,, to Chester, S. C., taking etfect at 12 o'clock, Noon, Sunday, December 19th, 1886: \ 1 aoiNO SOUTH. Leave Newton 7.50 A. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, C.U2 ,i. M. Arrive at Dallas, :0.06 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia I...10.34 . M. Leave Gastonia...; 10.44 A. M. Arrive at Clover, < 11.42 A. M. Arrive at Yorkville,.. 12.30 P. M. Leave Yorkville, 12.40 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 1.10 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville, 1.45 P. M. . Arrive at Chester 2.20 P. M. GOING NORTH. Leave Chester, 4.25 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville, 4.58 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 5.35 P. M., Arrive at Yorkville,. 0 00 P. M. Leave Yorkville i 0.10 P. M. Arrive at Clover 0.40 P. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 7.42 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 7.58 P. M. Arrive at Dallas, .. 8.21 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 0.25 P. M. Arrive at Newton, 10.40 P.M. G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent. 1 December 20 52 tf "MOTHER'S FRIEND" Not only shortens the time of j labor and lessens the intensity of i pain, but it greatly diminishes the i. danger to life of iioth mother and ' child, and leaves the mother in a condition highly favorable to i speedy recovery, and far less lia! ble to Flooding, Convulsions, and ' other alarming symptoms inci- / dent toslow or painful labor.' Its I wonderful efficacy in this respect V I entitles it to becafledTHK Motit' kr's Friend, and to be ranked as i one of the life-saving remedies of ' the nineteenth century. From the nature of the case, it will, of course, be understood that we cannot publish certificates concerning this remedy ; j without wounding the delicacy of the writers. Yet we have hundreds of such testimonials on tile. ? x.? I fianH frir nni* Trfi'itiafl nn and* ITiinnl ness of Woman," mailed free. THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Ga. August 11 r, 32 ly f. NOTICE. L1 All wnonrir Jfay Concern : _ PURSUANT to the order of theC?ourt of Com^**^"^^ mon Pleas for York county, in the case of "Dan'l McLure et al. vs. George Steele, Adm'r, et al.," notice is'berobv given that the proper 1 parties are required to call for the following dividends, to wit: One-half Fi. Fa., Thos. Davies vs. Win. McLure and Moses Lindsay, >592 32 . Linusay <fe Gordon 50 (50 < James W. Nelson, .1 .1 8 50 ! W. B. Ashe, 2(5 50 ; S. C. Yonngblood, Executor, 13 50 J. H. Tobit, 23 50 R. Springs Moore, deceased, :.... 285 10 Heirs of Mary Nance, deceased, 12 25 And notice* is hereby also given, that order will be made by-the Court, at its next Term, to distribute to other creditors, who have proved claims, the balance then on hand of the fund now held to pay unclaimed dividends. York C. H., S. C., November 30, 188(5. JOS. F. WALLACE, Clerk. December J 48 4m GOODS AT COST, AT McCONNELLSVILLE. - . ??7'E would again respectfully remind the pubV v lie that we are sellingour stock of GOODS. AT COST FOR CASH. Owing to tho reduction in our prices, we are now selling for cash only. Our stock includes a general assortment of desirable and seasonable Goods, and we can safely guarantee satisfaction to oul* customers. LAST NOTICE. Those indebted to us will take notice that settlement must be made by the 1ST TO THE 15TH OF JANUARY, 1887. Accounts and claims duo to us, if not paid by the last-named iliifo will hfi nlacod in the hands of our lawver for collection. Debtors should remember that they can make settlement more easily with us than with some one else. Owing to our misfortune in the early part of this month, our needs are pressing and this notice applies to all who - -OW8 UM. ?_ WliiLrAMS & MOORE. December 29 52 3t "chattel mortgages, MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to Real Estate. For sale at the ? ENQUIRER OFFICE. 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