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A PLEA FOR TOLERANCE. An Address by Henry Watterson, Ed? itor of LouisYille Courier-Journal. Henry Watterson delivered recently before the literary societies of the Indi? ana State University at Bloomington, Ind., an address entitled "A Plea for Tolerance." He said at the outset that he had to offer a few loosely jointed re? flections Upon every-day life with some particular references to the compromises needful to" its well being and safe con? duct. After explaining that the founda? tion of all greatness in man is character* lie said: I believe that in the conduct of life the first of the virtues is tolerance. In? deed, tolerance of a certain kind is a basis of physical necessity. We do not move along the street or drive across a bridge in a straight line, looking neither to the right nor left, giving the way to Ho one, keeping our own course regard-1 less of consequences, and priding our? selves upon the "principle" of obstruc? ting everybody ana everything in a vain,' and, practically, in an idiotic effort at "directness." The man wrho does that is justly accounted a madman, or an enemy to socie^io^ atthe least, a blackguard; and a bully. I knew a man once who did not end his days in a lunatic asylum, but who canxe^fplra balt-Wddenly with half a.dozen bullets in his mortal frame, 'who' had ?- paStien* ?dmewbat "? exaggera? ted, I am bound .to, admit, for keeping the neighborhood in: ? state of perfect ortfe^reducing men and things to his own acute sense of propriety. He was possessed of. great personal courage and vigor of .intellect; was as pretty a spe? cimen Of manly beauty as one might meet and take &> passage - of pistols with on a summer's day; an Apollo Bel videre; flausible, kHd-hearted, and exacting, 'or ten years he kept many hundreds of people in a state of perennial terror, swearing all the while and believing that, if it were not for him, things would go to the bad. Well, finally, he carried his regulating propensities to a point which a young friend of his could not brook, and, to use a newspaper technicality, the verdict of the coroner's jury was "justi? fiable ^homicide.",. .The people about there were immensely relieved, and be? gad -' forthwith to make a hero of the slayer, who was elected to the Legislature ?in consequence, of Jiis-act. There is in most of your primitive schoolreaders a bit of versification which recounts an interview between the great Alexander and a poor devil of a bandit who had fallen into the hands of the Macedonian captain. I have always thought theribandit got the better of the argument. He fell, like my own unfor? tunate acquaintance, who carried .his revolving, six barrelled system of domes? tic reform too far?like many another social philosopher who does not know where to stop?and he suffered in conse? quence. But, after all, what more did be do "than Alexander, Napoleon and Bfemarck? The difference lay in the de? gree, not in .the classification. Not to be too classic, nor yet to be too vaguely illustrative, let us take the pres? ent situation of European, affairs by way of example, and look at it from an im? partial point of view. You all udmire Prince Bismarck. He is your current type of hero, uniting many ancient and modern characteristics ; a stalwart man who might hold his own with Rolando or ??cfauf Hood^ a cultivated political mefephysician, able to cope with Glad atone or Manning; an astute statesman and diplomatist, who circumvented Na? poleon and set Gambetta down to the foot of the class. You admire him. He is your idea hero. And why so? Because be i3 successful You do not ask why or bow. You do not stop to consider whether he is right or wrong, whether bis purposes are good or bad, just or un? just^ and for the reason they do not im , mediately affect you. You merely see a being who mows down all before him like a skilled scytheman, a lucky gam? bler who beats every one, and is never beaten. There is nothing like success. Yesterday it was the Hero of Austerlitz; to-day it is the Hero of United Germanv; to-morrow it may be?one of you. "Who can tell? So you-fall down and worship the. graven images of success, never thinking of the unfortunates who fall in His way and are wiped out, never car ingjbr the.principles *of evil or of good wbieffhe rnay^emjgloy or sacrifice in bis career.* To make a dirrct example, you do not sympathize with France at all. The beautiful country! the brave, the gener ou3 people! who nave been, time out of mind, precipitating themselves over the precipice of liberal.impulses, yet, withal, frugal .and^bonest, paying-;, their,, just debts, refusing to confess defeat or to be humiliated,-.regaining their foothold and coming again-to the scratch,, undaunted in spirit, undiminished in ardor, demon? strative and-- sympathetic, and true to J their native country. Every man of you j is more or less indebted to these quali- j ties in the French for the freedom he en-1 joys, to-day But there are not many Frenchmen in America, while there are a great many Germans, and, as the Ger? mans, are considerably ahead in the struggle for absolute supremacy on the part of Bismarck and for national exis? tence on the part of France, why you let your opinions cheap, like an unmarket? able, out-of-the way tenement, and go in for the upper dog in the fight. You will understand that I am plead? ing for tolerance against brutal force, and, to make the point still clearer and bring my meaning nearer home, let me come back to our own country and dwell for a moment with our civil dissensions. You have most graciously invited me to address you, restricting me in nothing, and as, in a patriotic sense, I feel myself to be equally entitled with you to all that should belong' to an American citizen, yet find myself, and the class of people -whom I represent, constantly proscribed ?in the partisan parlance of our time. I want to remonstrate with you?not against tho personal ascription?for which I care nothing whatever, but against the wisdom, the policy, the right mindedness, and the right-hcartedness of such discriminations. I am not going to discuss the American conflict; nor shall I abuse your hospitality and confidence by diverting what should be a purely ethical inquiry into a partisan discussion. It is for tolerance that I speak, for the two-sidedness of every question. All of yon, I dare say, have been taught to be? lieve in human freedom and to hate hu? man slavery. There came at the end of an epoch of agitation a war, whereof an institute of human slavery was the cen? tral figure, where the slave power was beaten. Ergo, there is nothing quite so bad as slavery; ergo, no class so wicked as the slave-owner. If there be a one? sided question in the world you will say it is the slavery question. That men and women should be bought and sold like sheep, that they should be denied all chance for mental and moral elevation, that they should be treated worse than we treat our cattle?no such thing as vir? tuous wedlock, vet the common instinct of parentage?fathers and mothers divi? ded, children separated and scattered? the twin devices of the master and the overseer for making a profit out of wretchedness aud squalor, uniting them? selves to the brutish passions of absolute authority?could any picture of despot? ism and depravity go further or excite a deeper feeling of detestation ? Certainly not; and you visit all the sin and blame upon the beaten party in a sectional con? flict, wherein many issues were involved, failing totally to see the other side of the case. What was the African's condition in his native country ? How came he, by God's providence, to come to America ? Who brought him here ? Why you in the North are equally responsible with ; us in the South for the sum total of the wrong, if, indeed, as to the final account the balance be really on the side of the wrong. Originally slaves were owned in the North as well "as in the South. The North found that negro labor was not profitable, and so it sold its slaves where they could be put to the most advanta? geous uses. I never have heard it stated that the North failed to put the money it received for its slaves in its pocket to be invested in better yielding stock. The South, on the other hand, utilized its slave labor as best it could, according to its own notion, and doubtless did a deal which no morality can approve. It is not slavery that I defend when I ask you whether it is yet determined that the joint sin of the North and South against humanity in the person of the African had no redeeming feature, and may not be a legitimate spoke in the Almighty wheel of destiny, whose evolutions are directed by the Divine hand under the inspiration of the Divine law? The desideratum of success, a mere physical incident having no abstract moral force, would have made every Southern soldier i a patriot ana* a hero, whereas the event which came about prescribes a very dif? ferent label. In short, do we not allow our moral nature to be bullied as we do not allow our outer man to be, by the i idea that he who is in the ascendant is always right? I think we do, and it is 1 from such a source that popular troubles spring, the children of narrow-rainded j ness and hot-headedness, artfully manip ! ulated by unscrupulous demagogues. Do you suppose there ever could nave been a sectional war in America if the people of the North and South could have un? derstood themselves and the issue a little in advance ? They would have hanged a dozen fanatical and unprincipled agi? tators on either side, have settled the ir? repressible conflict between slave labor and free labor by a system of gradual reform toward final emancipation, have averted the war, and the baleful period of reconstruction following the war, all by the interposition of tolerance, which, like our good nature, is a national char? acteristic when left unexeited and undis? turbed by the politicians. For the American people are a homogeneous people, there being no reason why the Ohio, or any other water line separating your homes and mine, should make us, sprung as we are from the same ancestry, the representatives of two or more races. What I mean, in short and in fine, is this, that the world habitually dupes itself to its images and its passions; the extremist sets an idea going, and the demagogue seizes on this as soon as it can be made effective for his purpose; the poor fanatic, simple and honest, is not rewarded for his pains ; he is left far in the rear and out of sight. The shifty i manager takes up the cue at the oppor? tune moment, turns it to shape, and I gives to an ideal theory local application and utility. The North is made afraid of the slave power through its detestation of slavery; the South is frightened into secession through its property interest; and there proceeds thence a war of sec? tions to nobody's profit and everybody's loss except the lucky adventurers whom chance, and the waves of civil commo? tion, throw upon the surface. As soon as this is over a fresh set of issues, based upon the fomentation of partisan passion, are precipitated upon the people, deraug ing and dividing- and befogging, all to the advantage of the demagogue. It is not history that repeats itself; it is hu? man ..nature.. The country must be torn asunderto please existing cliques. There must be ,a war to please the military. Peace must be made on terms that will please only those who command the situ? ation. It is a game of hazard ever, in which those laugh most who laugh last, abstract questions of right and of wrong j having little to do with the thing that is ! done. No thought is given to justice, the parent of all sound policy, either as j a concrete agent or as a principle. We laugh at the philosophy of Berangcr and disregard it; yet his lines embrace the beginning and the end of it, and I only wish the sentiment contained in them were universal: "If I were Queen of France, Or, still better, Pope of Rome, I'd have no fighting men abroad, No weeping maids at homo. All the world should bo at pcaco, And if kings must show their might, Let those who make the ?inarrolu Bo the only ones to fight." Beautiful Answers.?A pupil of the Abbe Sicord gave the following ex? traordinary answers: "What is gratitude ?" "Gratitude is the memory of the heart." "What is hope 1" "Hope is the blossom of happiness." "What is the difference between hope and desire?" "Desire is a tree in leaf, hope is a tree in flower, and enjoyment is a tree in fruit." "What is eternity?" "A day without yesterday or to-mor? row ; a line that has no end." "What is time?" "A line that has two ends; a path which begins in the cradle and ends in the tomb." "What is God ?" "The necessary being, the sum of eter? nity, the merchant of nature, the eye ot justice, the watchmaker of the universe, the soul of the world." "Does God reason?" "Man reasons, because he doubts; he deliberates; he decides. God is omnis? cience: He never doubts; lie therefore never reasons." CHAMBERLAIN'S PERIL. The Verdict in the Parker Case a Verdict Against the Governor. Charleston, S. C, July 22. The verdict recorded in the Parker case, in which the State was the plaintiff, was : "We find for the plaintiff seventy five thousand dollars." The suit was for 225,000 worth of stolen coupons, the $450,000 of coupons being valued at fifty cents on the dollar. The Judge had charged that if there was a larceny, and the defendant Parker participated in it, he was liable for all oi it. The finding of the jury was therefore considered queer, and threw a suspicion on the public mind that as the jury found there was a larce? ny, and that Parker was onl responsible for S75,000 of it, they had accorded with Capt. Ladd's testimony, and virtually that other responsible parties than the defendant should refund the balance. To do away with this inference the Chamberlainites, or rather those of the Conservatives who have lately joined his forces, have caused the secrets of the jury room to be exposed. In this exposition they say the jury stood ten for $225,000, against two for 75,000; and that these ten went over in two hours to the two? as the best they could do. This is their version, and it is correct as far as it goes. My information is that upon the promise of the ten to the two,it was a unanimous agreement that as Park was only held for one-third of the $225, 000, the others who had shared it with him should be held for their quota; and that while they would find the one third against him, they would recommend that the others engaged in the steal should be prosecuted in the criminal courts. But when the verdict which they had found was brought in late at night, it was discovered that this recom? mendation was on a separate sheet of pa? per." This could easily, legally and prop? erly have been filed as a record, But for some reason it was discarded; and the verdict above stated, without any com? ments, was entered upon the journals of the court. To effect this the jury had to be remanded, and to write their formal finding on the complaint in the case. Notice was given of an appeal upon the part of Parker. If any one should have appealed it should have been the State?that the finding was insufficient. But the state did not appeal: nor is it supposed that Parker will prosecute his appeal. Not that the Supreme Court may not lend a willing ear to his appeal, but that Capt. Parker is too luxuriously rich to abide in a hot jail until the deter? mination of the case, and it is better for the rest of the banditti inculpated in the verdict that the matter shall be smoothed over. Parker can make a schedule of his assets available to a levy by the Sheriff, and come out. This showing of course will be small, and if his sacrfiice amounts to anything, it will be shared with him by his confederates. This, I hear, is their calculation. But there is many a slip be? tween the cup and the lip; and your cor? respondent will rather write after than before further proceedings in this mat? ter. The verdict in the Tarkcr case took peo? ple by surprise, and can onlv be accoun? ted for upon the ground that Chamber? lain has no reliable friend in the republi? can party., His appointees.the two jury commissioners, together with the Repub? lican chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, certainly did their best to fet a favorable jury for the prisoner, 'wo radicals offered to bet me teu to oue against conviction, and two to one against mistrial They were certain of a perfect acquittal, and they were officials who ought to be posted in these matters, though individually thoy do not like the Governor and each from a different stand? point thinks his Excellency should be in the penitentiary. Notwithstanding the. assurances I had had that there would be a conviction, I did not bet. I knew the power of a Governor in South Carolina over a jury, and I knew that in this case, which represented himself, that power would necessarily bo evoked. It was, therefore, as much of a surprise to mc as to any one else that the jury should find such a verdict. I The next case on the docket was tho cause of D. H. Chamberlain et al., Com? missioners of the Sinking Fund, against Niles G. Parker, for embezzling $21,000 of the siuking fund. This was the suit which the Governor commenced by tele? graph from Boston. It was intended less for Parker than for Whipper, the ex chairman of the Sinking Fund, who had stolen the proceeds and made Parker primarily liable by accounting to him. Whipper is a coal-black negro, and was to be a candidate next winter for Judge Reed's position as Judge of the First Circuit. To effect this he was to be a candidate for the lower house of the Leg? islatures, and Chamberlain undertook to estop his ambition by putting him in jail before that election by the people. Since then Whipper has been clcetcd to the Legislature, and is now ready to be a candidate for Judge. No mere accusa? tion can effect him before his fellow members of the Legislature. He is "bomb-proof," as he says?ono of the ruling color. There was no use, therefore, to bother Parker with a suit which has failed in the end it was intended to accomplish, and accordingly the sinking fund case against] Parker was nolle prossed. Whip? per has boasted often since the com? mencement of the suit that he defied Chamberlain and his friends to their faces to go on?not that Africa was inno? cent, but as it stood on the defensive, the war would be carried on in Africa against Chamberlain and company, who are really more guilty than their former fol? lowers. If he had to go to the penitentia? ry, then the State Goverment would have to go too, and all of them together would work in their ringed, atreaked, and striped suits for the benefit of "our be? loved State." Chambcrlan will return to-morrow from his Yale excursion. He will find a sea of trouble ahead of him, unless he shall take the natural advice of those near and dear to him, of confession and restitution to an outraged people. If he does not, he will find others of his former confederates turning State's evidence be? fore him, and receiving tho benefit of his convietion. Talk about it as he may, the wires are already laid by which the Su? preme Court will next winter be remod? elled, and the last vestige of safety for him swept away. The Bond Ring has been unveiled. The coupons for interest are incident of the bonds, and if the late jury indicated the principals, the next jury will certainly not fail to convict them. No combination with new recruits will save him. It will only serve to con? vict them of ?riminal intent, when the time for sharing the plunder had passed. KEELY'S MACHINE. The First Accurate Description of Its Construction. From tin Philadelphia Times. Cheap production is one of the abso? lute needs and demands of the age. The nation and people that produce at the minimum rate will command the maxi? mum share of the trade of the world, for the very certain reason that cheap pro? duction is followed by cheap sales, and commands the markets of all countries at all times. In order to produce cheap, uation must have cheap labor, or its equivalent in mechanical force. In early ages all work was hand-work. There was no other power used. Then came the employment of animals. Then water was put in a condition to aid man as a motor, and that was followed by the ' erection of mills to be driven by wind. I But the great aid to the progress of the \ labor department of the world was steam. That produced a revolution of the most vital character. One small engine was equivalent to the labor of scores of men, and the cost of running such a machine was comparatively trifling when com? pared with the pay of the men represen? ted by its fruits. But as the price of fuel advanced, the cost of steam as a motor or driving power increased with evcn>| pace, and thoughtful men began to in? quire whether some other combination of elements could not be discovered which would produce more power than steam, and at a less price to the producing com? munity. That was a most important problem to be solved. The wdiole indus? trial world was anxious to arrive at some practical conclusions upon this point. After years of experiments in relation to this matter, both in the United States and Europe, John W. Kecly, a native of Chester county, a machinist by profes? sion, claims to have hit upon the great secret and put it in a practical shape. His motor is a vapor of immense pressure, which is created from a small quantity of | water with a certain admixture of air. And this vapor or motor is produced by simple mechanical means, through the instramentality of a device invented by him and called a multiplicator. There is no heat, electricity, galvanism or chemical substance used, only air and water, and these manipulated in the con? trivance of Mr. Kcely. The multiplica? tor is a series of iron chambers, of cylin? drical form, connected by pipes and fur? nished by cocks and valves. It is about thirty-six inches high, twenty-four inches long and thirteen inches wide, and has a capacity of seven gallons. At a distance of eight feet from the multiplicator is a I cylindrical wrought iron reservoir, six inches in diameter and forty inches long. This is connected with the multiplicator by a one-inch pipe. A stand-pipe of; brass, about two and a half inches in diameter and three feet high, having a spherical chamber at the bottom made in two parts, is connected to the pipe unit? ing the multiplicator and a reservoir. The multiplicator is also connected with a register of force, at twelve feet distance, I by a pipe one-tenth of an inch inside ; diameter. This register of force consists of a piston of one square iifth area, pressed down in a cylinder by a lever. A small beam engine stands about six feet from the apparatus, and a hydrant cock connects the whole with the water main from which a supply is obtained. This is a description of the machine by which Mr. Keely generates and de? velops his new motor. Now, as to the operation and power of the contrivance. At the test exhibition of a machine of! the size described, the inventor proceeded to make an "expulsion," that is to devel? op a force or pressure from the multipli? cator that would raise the weight on a force lever previously prepared, or in other words, to exert a pressure of 1,430.36 pounds to the square inch upon the valve register piston, which, as before stated, was connected by a tube of one-tenth of an inch bore with the multiplicator.? This was done by disconnecting the gutta percha tube, which led from the hydrant cock to the multiplicator, and blowing from his lungs for a brief time into the nozzle upon the multiplicator, to which this gutta-percha tube had been connec? ted. A cock was then shut upon the nozzle, which closed its communication with the atmosphere, the gutta-percha tube reconnected, and the water from the hydrant turned upon the multiplicator. This operation can be completed by other means. But this is the most simpie. The operation was completed in about two minutes after the attachments to the hydrant had been made, by simultane? ously opening two cocks upon tubes which connect the first and second drums and the second and lower drums of the multiplicator, when the lever and weight of the force register were raised by the piston. There was no measurable inter? val of time between the turning of the cock and the raising of the weight ? The first propulsion raised the weights about two and a half inches. This pow? er, it is claimed, can be increased to al? most any given quantity to the square inch, and thus its value enhanced as a driving motor. It is said that one pecu? liarity of this vapor is that it can be used to the best advantage when at a very high pressure per square inch, and that little or no danger is to be apprehended from employing it in such a high state of force. In this respect it differs from steam and all other moving forces and agencies. In order to attach an engine to this manu? factory of force or power, a short tube, carrying upon its ends a reaction wheel, having two arms about two and a half J inches long, with open ends turned in reverse directions, so as to be revolved by the reaction of an escaping fluid, is screwed upon the end of the reservoir, and put in motion by the manipulation of the two cocks upon the generating depot or multiplicator. Then the con? nection is complete. In order to reduce the immense pressure of this motor to the volume necessary to run an ordinary engine, it can be supplied through a iced pipe of any dimension required, from the size of a pipe-stem to an inch or more in diameter. A ten horse power engine, it is claimed, can be supplied with a pipe of the bore of a knitting-kncedlc, as a tenth of a pint of the motor vapor wdll be equal to all the driving power required. The presentation of the case in this man? ner will enable the public to see how important the new motor will bo, if it comes fully up to all those points that are claimed for it by those who have witnessed the manipulation of the ma hine by the inventor. If even a portion of the merits claimed for the discovery are put in a practical shape they will to? tally change the whole motive and driv? ing power of the world. In the first place the new motor will be costless, ex? cept for machinery and one or two men to attend to it when in use. The multi plicator takes up but small pace, and the ?earn engine is by no means bulky. Coal need not be carried by ocean steam? ers, except in limited quantities, and the space thus emptied could be filled by paying freight. The trifling weight of the Keely vapor motor would also adapt it to the use of street railroads. All these remarks are predicated upon what is claimed fer the Keely motor. We have presented these claims in a fair manner, for an idea of such commanding significance in connection with the trade, traffic, commerce and manufactures of the world as to demand a full and patient j investigation of the subject. That there are other motors than these now in use hidden in the vast storehouse of nature is beyond question. Steam was discovered at a certain point and applied to common use. But that did not exhaust the supply in the same di? rection. Other combinations of element yet remain, and it is the province of scien? tific men and inventors to reap that field and gather the sheaves into the common granary of the every day world. In the meantime, while deception should be guarded against and prevented by all proper means, care should be taken not to let prejudice or preconceived ideas blind the judgment or stop the wheels of real, sound, intelligent investigation of all the reasonable claims for improve? ments that are needed in any of the great forces and agencies of the world. The more movements in that direction the better. Many of them may be bottom? less when tested by keen-eyed, practical men, but if one succeeds, as in the case of steam, the world will be amply repaid for the time spent in examining claims of a visionary character. The Turning Tide. Under this encouraging heading the Nashville Union and American, says that so far as the general business of the country is concerned, we notice every where indications of a more hopeful feel- j ing?attributed more to sanguine reports concerning the condition of the crops. These proving true, money will once more move in all of its accustomed chan? nels. From the family of the farmers, who require their annual supplies, to the jobber of merchandise in our great cities, i fresh impetus must be given to trade. The country cannot go backward. We have passed through the era of collapse and are now recuperating. It may not be a process visible to the eye, but si lently and stealthily it is leaving its trial. The New York Times says, in its re? view of the situation, that many mer? chants have this week struck their bal? ance sheets for the half year, and have found that matters are better than they expected. In regard to the great produ? cing interests of the country, there is much in the situation that calls lor gen? eral congratulation. The farmers of the Northwest are now rapidly marketing the surplus grain left over from last year, and the grain after reaching the lake ports, is being rapidly transported to the East; in evidence of which may be men? tioned the fact that on one day recently freight engagements were made in Chic? ago for 700,000 bushels of grain for the Atlantic cities. Crop accounts continue to be of the most cheering character. In the South a full crop of cotton, sugar and rice will no doubt be raised, which will do much toward recuperating the Southern States, while at the West the wheat harvest promises to be the most abundant for many years, and other grains promise equally well. The grain crops of Hun? gary and Russia are likely to be below tho average, and the recent floods in Hungary and France will further reduce the Continental harvests. This makes it pretty certain that the surplus wheat of America will all be wanted on the other side of the Atlantic, and every business man knows that a good export demand for our cereals, especially with decreas? ing imports, means better times for the country at large. In the coal regions, the contest between labor and capital is over, and labor has succumbed to the general demand for lower wages. Cheap labor in a country like ours is very im? portant, that being a great element of general prosperity. It is evident that from this time forward we are to rely up? on ourselves for all the iron which we need in the construction and repair of railroads and for other purposes; and looking still further ahead, it is uow gen? erally conceded that in the future wo will compete with Great Britan for the supply to other countries. This is a very important matter, and hns not yet re? ceived that consideration to which it is properly entitled in estimating the fu? ture of the general situation. Theannu- j al increase in the production of gold and silver in the United States is yet another matter that has to be taken into account when considering the prospects of the country. The Western Territories and the Pacific States are very rich in gold and silver, and the supply seems to bo almost inexhaustible. This brief summary of the general sit? uation should convince every intelligent man that there are substantial reasons for the improvement which has recently set in. An Embryo Diplomatist.?The other day when a Vicksburg boy had trouble with a neighbor's boy and came out first best, he realized that something must be done at home, and he slid into the house and said: "Mother, you know how good and kind you have been to Mrs. B?, next door?" "Yes, I have tried to be a good neigh? bor to her." "Well, do you know that she says you clean your teeth with a whitewash brush, and that lather ought to have a pension for living with you!" He slid out, and when Mrs. B. reached the gate, on her way to the house to ask why her boy must be pounded up in that way, she heard a shrill voice calling her: "Vile wretch, don't you enter that gate or you'll get scalded." She returned home, and the young statesman dropped down and under a shade tree, kicked up his heels, and soft? ly chuckled. "That settles her, and now I want to catch her Tom again for just fourteen seconds.'''? Vicksburg Herald. The Value of Red Rust-Proof Oats. In August, 1874, I published an ex? periment with red oats, that several friends assorted was an exception, be? cause "it was growing oats too cheap." Another year has come and gone. I have repeated the experiment, succeeded equally as well, and am pleased to say, I have witnessed a better success with more than one of my neighbors. Red oats can be grown at an expense of twenty-five cents per bushel upon any ordinary farm in the South, every such bushel will weigh thirty pounds, and a pound of oats will produce just as much muscle and fat as a pound of corn. I have kept a horse for two years without ever feeding him an ear of corn or a blade of fodder, his daily diet being shelled oata and straw, or cut oats from the sheaf; he has been ploughed, wagoned, hacked about in a buggy, and ridden under the saddle, and there never was a time he was not ready and willing to do a full share of work. Any land that ever I have seen in the South will produce two bushels of oats where it will grow one bushel of corn; each farmer for himself can calcu? late the cost of growing the two crops. Red oats will yield more grain to the straw, and more delicate straw than any oats I have ever grown. Sown in the fall, they will produce a remunerative crop on good land, even if frozen out during the winter to a single stool to every square foot. They are heavier than any other and have never been known to take the rust. A few years ago, I selected eight adjoining acres, and on them sowed a bushel to each acre of eight varieties of pats. Some were en? tirely destroyed by the winter, some were ruined by rust, and all but the red oats were more or less damaged by this para? site. Not even a blade of the red oats was touched, though the acre was in the midst of those most thoroughly ruined. The time is upon us when they should again be sown, though they are remune? rative if sown at any time between this and the 1st of next March. I prefer to sow in cotton-land broad? cast, and plough in with three or four sweep-furrows. This lays by a cotton crop as well as sows a small grain crop, hence a saving of half the labor. It is cheaper to sow in the cotton field even if postponed till September or October, be? cause cotton requiring clean culture the land is in better tilth, and fewer furrows are necessary. The hands while picking cotton during the winter will trample upon the young sprigs, and make them stool out better therefor. Sheep will winter on oats in a cotton field and never molest the cotton till they have eaten up the oats. "Where .cotton is the exclusive crop, there is no little vexation and harrassing doubts at harvest time to him who ven? tures to sow small grain. In June the cotton and corn need the attention of the laborer constantly. Hence, the policy, almost necessity, of interesting the labo? rer in the ownership at least of the oat crop. A fair contract, in this regard, is for the employer to furnish the seed, fer? tilizer, and land, and require the em? ployee to supply the labor of seeding and harvesting, and at harvest time divide the crop, one-fourth to the laborer and three-fourths to the employer. An acre of land, producing twenty bushels of oats, would thus give the laborer five bushels of oats for about two days work, (plough? ing, scattering manure, knocking down stalks, and harvesting,) and fifteen bush? els to the owner, one and a half bushels of seed, three and half bushels to pay for fertilizer, and ten bushels rent. I have never known red oats to sell for less than seventy-five cents per bushel, and even at fifty cents per bushel, ten bushels arc a very fair rent for land that will not produce more than twenty bushels of oats per acre. Fair uplands in middle South Carolina will average twenty bushels without manure; and I have seen it stated that the Mississippi bottoms have yielded one hundred bushels per acre during favorable seasons. D. WYATT AIKEN. Rural Carolinian for August. A Cure For Drunkenness. We desire to draw particular attention to a prescription which has been'printed by the Scientific American, which is said to have proved a practical and efficient remedy for the chronic love of strong drink. It is described as follows : "There is a prescription in England for the cure of drunkenness, by which thou? sands are said to have been assisted in recovering themselves. The receipt came into notoriety through the efforts of John Vine Hall, commander of the Great Eas? tern steamship. He had fallen into such habitual drunkenness that his most ear? nest efforts to reclaim himself proved un? availing. At length he sough t the advice of an eminent physician, who gave him a prescription?which he followed faith? fully for soven months, and at the end of that time had lost all desire for liquor, although he had for many years been led captive?which he afterwards published, and by which so many drunhards have been assisted to reform, as follows: 'Sulphate of iron, five grains; pepper? mint water, eleven drachms; spirit of nutmeg, ono drachm; twice a day." This preparation acts as a stimulaut and tonic, and partially supplies the place of accustomed liquor, and prevents that ab? solute physical and moral prostration that follows a sudden breaking from the use of stimulating drinks." We can scarcely conceive that the Scientific American would have printed this without being satisfied of its efficien? cy. We commend it, therefore, to the consideration of our physicians and drug? gists. There are many men addicted to strong drink who are worthy objects of commiseration, lost beyond their own mental and moral powers for recupera? tion and reform. If there is anything in the world that can help them out of the slough of despond in which they find themselves, it is a blessing which ought to be disseminated.? Chicago Tribune. ? Those persons who began to eat large quantities of fish a few years ago, and have kept up the practice ever siuce without having experienced the desired increase of intellectual capacity, may thank the New Orleans Republican for this explanation: "Unless a man has brains, it is useless for him to eat brain food. It has never been claimed for fish that it creates it only strengthens the brain, ? A wealthy Philadelphias who died recently, stipulated iu his will that his nearest relative should assassinate the obituary editor of the daily Ledger if he made any poetical remarks on the sub Vet. The Leisure of Boy?. We would suggest to many parents who are perplexed with the difficulty of finding the wherewithal to amuse and in? terest their boys, to give their lads every opportunity of acquiring a mechanical trade. The industry and ingenuity of a boy of average ability, says the Scientific American, may be easily made to furnish him with a never failing source of amusement of the best order. The boy who can produce or make something, at* ready begins to feel that he is somebody in the world, that achievement of a result is not a reward reserved for grown people only. And the education of mind, ear, and hand, which this use of tools and mechanical appliances furnishes, is^f a great and real value, beyond the time. Having nothing to do is a great snare to the young as it is to the full grown ; and no greater benefit can be conferred on youth than to convert time now wast? ed, and often worse than wasted, into means of pleasant recreatiou and mental improvement. The boy whose time and mind are now occupied with marbles and kites, may be a Watts, a Morse or Besse? mer, in embryo; audit is certainly an easy matter to turn his thoughts and musings into a channel which shall give full scope to their faculties. To most boys the use of mechanical tools is the most fascinating of all occupations. As logic and mathematics have a value beyond accuracy in argument and correct solution of problems, in that they teach raeu the habit of using their reflecting powers systematically, so carpentry, turn? ing, and other arts, are of high impor? tance. These occupations teach boys to think, to proceed from initial causes to results, and not only to understand the nature and duty of the mechanical pow? ers, but to observe their efforts, and to ac? quire knowledge by actual experiment, which is the best way of learning any? thing. All the theories culled out of books leave an impress on the mind and memory which is slight compared to that of the practical experience of the true mechanic. Our advice is, to all who have the great responsibility of the charge of boys: Give them a lathe, or a set of corpenter's, or even blacksmith's tools; give their mind a turn toward the solid and useful side of life. You will soon see the result in increased activity of their thinking capabilities, and the direction of their ideas toward practical results ; and, still more obviously, in the avoidance of idle mischief and nonsense (to omit all refer? ence to absolute wickedness and moral degredation,) which are, to too great an extent, the pastime of the generation which is to succeed us. The Music of Silence.?There is scarcely a substance in nature out of which some kind of music has not been evoked. Metals, wood, air, water, have all, through the agency of human intell gence, been made subservient to musical tones. Even stones, and hills of sand, we are told by travelers, have been known to emit sounds resembling an in? strument being played at a distance. Thus, we see nature, unassisted by art or ingenuity, furnishes for us music?some? times grand and awful, again soft, sooth? ing, until at last hushes into silence. Even in silence there is a kind of music, as every musician well understands. And in every composition do we not see nature's music mirrored ? There is the rush of the torrent in grand Crescendos, the moaning and shrieking of the winds, the dashing of the pelting rain, then the gradual dying away of the storm in grace? ful diminuendos, until all is hushed to silence. Then comes the rest. We all know the beautiful effect of the rest in music, which is the symbol of the music of silence. There is majesty in absolute silence, often grand, awe-inspiring, more than is produced By the loftiest strains or richest harmonies. When we are told by the writer of the Eevelations that there was silence in Heaven for the space of half an hour, what a magificent idea it conjures up in the mind! Thousands of thousands and tens of thousands of bright and glorious angels, who swell the choir of Heaven, lay down their harps, with one accord, for the sublime rest in the mighty song. A Tender-Hearted Brother.?A couple of enterprising men, doing the clothing business in Atlanta, are inter? viewed oy a customer in search of a coat. The senior of the firm handles the new? comer, and soon finds "a first-class fit." In answer as to the price, the response is, "Eighteen dollars." ''Well, sir, I like your coat very much, but don't like the price." "Well mine frent, ze price is nothing so you like ze coat. We let you take 'em at fifteen dollars." The customer still complains, of the price, saying that fifteen dollars was too much. Tdiis was too heavy for the dealer, so, taking his customer to the extreme end of the store, and drawing him into a dark corner, he wispere in his ear, "Mine frent, I let you have zat coat for twelve dollars aud a half." "Well, sir," said the customer, "I like your coat very much and am satisfied with the price," yet I would like to know why this mysterious performance ?" "Veil, mine frent, you see dot leetle man dere ? He was mine broder. He got ze heart disease, and, so help me gracious, if he was to hear me tell you I take twelve dollars and a half for zat coat he drop ded mil his track." ? A traveler on horseback was once jogging along a road in the wire-grass region of Georgia, when his attention was attracted by a small, tallow-faced urchin who was plowing a "patch" of corn near the roadside, the patch being, in every respect, in full keeping with general surroundings. The traveler ac? costed the boy, when the following con? versation ensued: "Hello, my sou, vour com seems to be small 1" "Yes. sir, we planted small corn." "Ah! but what makes it look so yel? low?" "We planted yellow corn, sir." "Well," said the traveler, as he moved off, "I don't think you'll make more than half a crop." "No!" says the tow-headed youngster, raising his voice, "We don't expect to make but half a crop; we only pleated on shares any wayJ" The traveler trotted away, perfectly satisfied that it wou't do to judge by ap? pearances at all times. ? In covering a multitude of sins for 50 many years, charity has grown quite thin.