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gy E. 1?. MUKRA Y & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1883. VOLUME XVIII. -NO. 4.7 BEA? iis-?i- 9KRING GCODS. iuei Bite UME., ami of mst KI.M I". j Ueautirui uooaa ai me i'Y over .Sharpe's Confectionery. I'"?., icc) XII " lia ANDREW * PREVOST ire Still on the Square, at the same old Stand, and are Sell ing Goods as Low as any House in the City. "rf have a complete line of SPRING GOODS on the way consistlmrof CAI IPniai J^ffllT COTTON A DES, SU?KS, HAW^JEPS "UBCBOCEHYiDEPARTMBNTisfulL The liest Sugars, Coffees. Ter., and ?d?OO?sst all prices, and satisfaction guaranteed. Everything delivered free in f8fr&MBR*'7"Y' nre,81ti?l ??enta for the Celebrated CHAMPION BEAPEH AND BfII Testlmoulala from all over;lhe Countythat it is the Machine for fanners jjtilltskc pleasure ill showing and explaining our Machine. Terms liberal. HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS ON HAND, ,..i?o!d low on Cotton Option. A few tons of KAINIT left. Call early Ev neel inc to ?rCWtoli.thia Fall, we would respectfully ask one nil to give us a showing.' ' ANDREW & PUK VOST. DEPOT STREET. ?.nhl. 1^3 2,_ SPRING OF 1883. HEW GOODS ! NEW PRICES ! MX PREPARED FOR A ROUSING TRADE ! I keep always on hand a FULL STOCK of DRY AND FANCY GOODS, AD Immense Stock of Dress Goods of every Description, SILKS, LACE CURTAINS, &c. Gire me a call, and I will convince you that I mean business. My motto : o?cksalea aud small profita. I make a Specialty of Zeigkr Bros. l inc Shoes. Come one, come all, and examino my stock before buying elsewhere. No Ifttble to ebow Goods. Will compare prices with any house in the up country. Very respectlully, W. A. CHAPMAN. No. ii Benson Street, Anderson, 3. C. Apni 18S3_3!l_ WHAT TS THIS I HEAR ? THAT Have thc Best Goods for the Least Money ! \7E HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FINE LINE OF SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING, Ibpted to the wants of all-Hoys, Youths, Young Men and Old. Also, a very liue as utBcnt of UNDERWEAR-sucl as Shirts, Drawers, Collars ami Cravat?. Also, a isnsjorlmcnt of WORSTED DIAGONALS, SUITINGS, CLOTHS and CASSI ?EKES, which we aro prepared to make up in thc very latest styles, and will sparc no ?ins,?ither in Cutting or Fitting, that we may thereby please those who will favor us ?iib their patronage. Call before purchasing elsewhere and he convinced. ?&" Poy last year's account and save costa. CLARK &, CO. JOHN W. DANIELS, Proprietor. Match 22, ??C> ??O _ FERTILIZERS FOR 1883 ! JAM still Helling the well-known brands of Fertilisers and Acid Phosphates, to wit Eutaw Fertilizer, Exeellenza Fertilizer, YemasBee Fertilizer and Eutaw and Ashepoo Acid Phosphates. fir- CALL AND SEE ME BEFORE BUYING. My Stock of General Merchandise is Complete ! Such ns suits the Wants of the people generally. Always on hand FLOUR, BACON, SUGAR, COFFEE, MOLASSES, dre FULL STOCK OF DRY GOODS. NOTIONS, SHOES, BOOTS, HATS, CAPS, HARDWARE, CUTLERY. CROCKERY and GLASSWARE, Ac. ?t" Call nt No 10 Granite Row. _ _ _ W. IT. BAK1?. Feb 22,1833 _32_'_ TIMES CHAIsTGE AND MEN CHANCE WIT .4 THEM, AND that ia the reason wo hnve just laid in A LARGE STOCK OF NEW GOODS, I for we know that all our customers desire something that is new and at the same I .""f serviceable. Our Stock comprises a line assortment of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, NOTIONS, HARDWARE, GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, ETC., Wilch we will sell at tho Lowest Prices. While other things nre changing, we would J?7that weare too young to change our plan of offering good and substantial Bargains w?ll who favor us with a trial. WHJ A.IWE ITV THE COTTON MARKET, And will give tito highest prices. Wo have a largo lot of BAGGING and TI*:S on ??A Cet our prices before closing a trade, __ / BROS. J*Pt21.1882 10 *m_ _ HEADQUARTERS FOR STEAM ENGINES, SAW MILLS, THRESHERS, AND ALL KINDS MACHINERY. HAV,?tetab,,'u?? ?'8 Southern Branch of the; GEISER W^^fThS C?5>r.iJM.?tt CO..at this place, I will keep constantly on hand a full supply or meir ?"?led Machinery, consisting of their ^Regulating Grain Separator, Cleaner and Bagger, Peerless, Portable, Traction and Domestic Steam Engines, SAW MlliLS, &C. .SSU^?8 Va,VM. OU? Water Gauges, Steam ?^Vi^^nT^ ! 0T-pTri?ri.ph Injectors. Kinlng Injectors, Corn and ^^^^?^t^u^ySl ffiKt?f?* Klbowi, Nippers, linton's Reducers, in fact etervthlng needed In the ii^jy boslnoss. Come and wine lM>r>?re biiylng, and you will he sure to get a nr? of JSSrAtWt SnOP.-I am always ready, with first-class tools, to repair all kind* finery entrusted lo me. E. F. DIVVER, 4*0l? SS*'* HEW BUILDING,. NE AB BAILBOAD BBIDOE, AHDIE80N,S? C. THE ENSILAGE QUESTION, ? Professor M?:Ilry?l?., uf thu Statu Culver- I Mtv, Teilt How to Curry Out tim l'ro- ' ceas. i To the Editor of thc Neu s and Courier : ; In my first letter an historical presenta lion of tho subject of ensilage waa at- 1 tempted. In the present communion lion, I approach it from the standpoint : of practice; and In my third and last I I will notice very briefly a few of the eco nomic and scientific questions more or ICM intimately connected with it. THE FRENCH METHOD ot preserving Indian corn, or maize, may be thus briefly described : Tho seed is carefully selected, the variety called the Cavagua-imported originally from Cen tral America, but directly from Algeria -being the one generally preferred. It is planted in drills far eunuch apart to poi mit tho free passage ol tho . plough, acc., on land heavily dressed with stable ! manure and superphosphates. The crop is thoroughly cultivated. It is cut in full bloom (i. e. in "the silk") and imme diately carted, unwilled, to the silo, or pit, where it is dumped on a convenient platform. HOW TO BUILD A SILO. The silo is usually of elliptical form, about 18 feet in depth, the same in width and from 80 feet to 100 feet in length. Large silos are preferred as presenting les? surface in proportion to cubical contents. The wall?, built of Btono, concrete or brick, and lined within with cement, are two-thirds below ground and one-third above, with the subterranean portions two bricks thick and the parta above ground a brick and a half thick. The pit is covered with an open roof raised on supports. A door, let into one end, is built up and cemented before the Hilo, which is placed as near the stables us possible for convenience in feeding, is filled. A powerful cutter, driven by steam, cuts the corn into little disks, four tenths of an inch thick. These falling on an elevator are carried up over the walls and deposited into the silo. Two men stationed within it keep the mass level and well-packed down. When it is full a layer of cut straw, a few inches thick, is first nut in, next a covering of boards, placed transversely to the length of the pit, and above all a heavy weight of rock, iron, blocks, of wood, bags filled with sand or soil, dee., about 900 pounds to _ each square yard of surface. This weight furnishes the continuous descend ing pressure which is considered the sine gua non of success. The silo is entered at any time during the winter by cutting open tho door and removing a part of the covering boards and weight at the same end. The part of thc ensilage exposed is fed to the stock within twenty-four hours. UOFFART'S METHOD, here described, is the one generally fol lowed in this country by those farmers whose means are sufficient to meet the outlay required. Within the last few \ vcars, however, hundreds of silos, differ ing widely from the French typo, and , from each other, in shape, size and materials, have been built, and the pro ceas has been variously modified. Some 1 pack down the corn uncut, others first . :ut into pices from J inch to J inch long. Some silos are merely ditches a few feet | in depth and width, in which the corn is '. carefully laid down and then carried ver tically upwards to the height of 4 or 5 , feet above ground and covered by heap- , ing from 18 inches to 24 inches of clay : >ver tho sides and top. One silo ?H j icscribed as a well, walled up and ce- , nented, and furnished with a windlass j md ropo for raising the ensilage to the , lurface. Two or more are frequently , Duilt parallel to each other under same , roof, with a common wall between them ; ind doors leading from one to tho other. , \nothcr form is described o3 an elonga- ? .ed cylinder, arched over the top in the ; lirection of its greatest length, after tho ? nanncr of a cistern, and with only a nar- , row opening left along the crest of this , ireh, through which the cora is deliver- ( id, and which is closed by a simple cor- ; ?ring of earth after the pit is filled. ' jome are built wholly and some partly , thrive ground, others wholly below ' ?round. A corner of a barn or stable , s often com erted into a Bilo by adding , he other two walls of the required quad ??lateral. The walls may be of concrete, lone, brick, wood or clay. CT8TERN8 AS SILOS. A farmer wrote to me a few years ago taking whether it would be practicable ,o couvert a cistern into a silo. He af ;erwards sent me the following account ! >f his experiment-bis letter is dated December 26, 1881 : Instruction? con .aiued in the report you were kind :nough to send me last summer led rae :o try putting up ensilage. I planted ' seven acres of ordinary land, heavily 1 manured with tobacco stems, in corn, ?ut and stored it away in September in i cistern 25 feet deep by 12 feet in diam eter. The cistern was plastered and i arched. I uBed on ordinary (what we I call) "ground hog' thresher and power; i had alf the teeth taken off the drum, and foo: steel knives bolted to it at equal distances apart, and found that tour ( mules could drive it so as to do good ( work. I had the corn tramped by men ( as it went into the cistern. When , through cutting I put on six inches of , straw, then about eight inches of dirt I and then pressed the whole down with a powerful jackscrew. I opened it in No vember and found it in prime order. Boarded fifty cattle for two weeks ; found they ate it well and thrived on it. In troduced it to our dairymen in Clarks ville, Tenn., and sold the whole of it at a good price." THE EFFECT OF TBAMPIKG ENSILAGE. Some object to the ti amping of the cut ensilage during tho process of filling the silo. Moulton in describing Mills's sys tem remarks: "Mr. Mills allows no no tramping or mussing of the moss, for the reason that he finds that any portion of the succulent Btalks subjected to pres sure will cause the juice to exude, and immediately upon relieving the pressure the air takes its place iu the cellular tis sue of the plant, and fermentation results in the body of the mass." It ia held that the pressure of the superficial lay ers is sufficient to force out the air and to prevout itu re entrance. This perhaps would hold true of large silos. Others insist upon tbe necessity of tramping down the ensilage layer by layer. Horses are frequently used for thia pur P?Another Tennessee correspondent wrote to me under date of October 29, 1881, as follows: "I finished putting up ensilage ten days ago. Corn planted on very rich land from July 10th to 19th. Ground very moist and corn came up immediately. Very heavy rain July 1st ; only 1-10 inch from that time to Sep tember 1st; no dews through August. Corn about 8 feet high September 1st; averaaed 7 feet when cut in roasting ear state and very line. I cut it up, first third I Inches, second third 10-8 Incoes, third third I laches: tramped in with horses; weighted with two feet of loose earT; packed this by sowing oats oo it and lettiDg about 100 bergs and shoats wt them, also by soiling aboat 40 bead I of cattle on it ; has settled from 12 feet of corn down to 10f, feet. Size of pit 12x 12x40 feet. Area of land in corn, 15 acres; rows 2J feet apart. I was nine days in filling silo with about 10 hands and ? mules." His silo was opened about December 20, of the samo year, and "the ensilage found in excellent condition." tutop, M'BKYPE'S EX PERI KNOB. My own experience with ensilage dates from the summer of 1879. After rending the accounts of tho'Freuch expe riments 1 soon arrived at tho conviction that they were of comparatively little value to the great body of our farmers. Few Southern farinera havo cither the money or the inclination to build silos costing hundreds of dollar?, to buy ma chinery costing hundreds more for the purpose of testing tho merits of ensilago. I deemed it best, therefore, to make my earlier experiments as simple as possible. Aa they were carried on in a section of country not unlike the upper porliona of our State in it? agricultural and other features, I will givo them somewhat in detail. A pit G feet long, G feet wide and G feet deep waa dug on the northern aide of a Bmall grove. The soil was a still loam resting upon a dry and compact red clay subsoil. Tho sides of the si!o were neither bricked up uor cemented. The torn in consequence of the long contin ued drought was dry aud wilted when harvested. It waa cut on tho 9th ol September, when tho ears were begin' ning to fill, and immediately carted tc the pit, Thc alalka were laid lengthwise in the silo and packed dowu layer bj layer. The mass waa carried vertical I j upwards, G feet above tho surface ii order to allow for ita settling. About ! feet of clay was then thrown on top ant it was ailowed to stand for 24 hours. A the expiration of tba1, time it had sultlci down within a few inches of the surface It was then heavily tramped and mon clay thrown upon the topa and ?idea. li a few daj's moro tho mass waa severa inches below the surface. The pit wa closely watched and everj' crack careful ly stopped. The corn weighed about 13, OOO pounds. Aa tho capacity of th silo waa 324 cubic feet tho enailag weighed upwarda of 40 pounds to th cubic foot. Tho pit was opened on D( comber 13 of the same year. Tho ensi Iago proved to be of excellent quality It? color was greenish yellow, ita tast insipid and its odor alcoholic. It wi greatly relished by our cattle. Tho ail was oponed by taking off the covering < earth and boards at one end. The po tion of ensilage uncovered was remove by making a vertical section from tl top to the bottom of the silo. Tl heavy, superincumbent pressure on tl remaining portion of the mass preven the entrance of the air at the expose ond. The superficial layer of ensilai immediately in contact with tho botto and sides of the silo was covered wil mold and slightly damaged to the dept of an inch or so. The loss from thia ar all other sources amounted to abo: 400 pounds. In 1880 two additional silos were pr pared. Both were Uko No. 1-simp pits dug iu thelclay soil. No. 2 was J feet deep, 10 feet wide and 20 feet lon The corn was cul August 4th and Ot and immediately hauled to the silo carts, whero it was dumped down aft being weighed in an adjoining acal room. It was then passed through a 2S ll Sinclairs feed culler, driven by sno-horse railway (tread) power. Tl cutter, although, it repeatedly sliced i a cart-load of corn weighing 500 poun into pieces about half an inch long five minutes' time, is too light for heavy crop of corn or sorghum. T machinery was aimple and cheap, au aa could bo usod for many other fai purposes. The corn fell from the cutl directly into the pit, where it was pack down by heavy tramping. Tho silo v, ailed with 35,000 pounds of corn a 33,000 pounds of green (second ere clover. The moss waa carried up 3 fi above tho surface. Tho proceas of fill accupied three days. Tho ensilage v covered with a few inches of chi boards were pluccd across this, and I required weight, about 100 pounds to t square foot of surface, applied. T weight was furnished by u covering red clay, weighing about ?0 pounds the cubic foot. Tho moss in a few di bad settled down well within the pit. rough shed was placed over the sile protect it from the weather. Silo No. 3, 11} hy 10 by 20 feet \ partly filled iu the same way with 43, pounds of corn and 5,000 pounds of C man millet. It was weighted with bricks. Silo No. 1 was enlarged and filled w 15,400 pounds of second crop clo Nos. 2 and 3 were opened during winter of 1880-81. Tho ensilage pro to be of excellent quality and ev pound of it was eaten by our stock. 1 was not opeued ?yo til the follow winter.*1881-82-fifteen months afU was filled. The euailago (clover) somewhat more acid than that of Nc and 3, was eaten with less relish by cattle. THE OBJECTION TO CARTU EN SILO The great objections to B?1OB? I earthen walls is the falling in of the s during winter weather. When emp of their contents it is almost impost] to prevent the heaving disintegra action of the frost upon tho damp c To ensure the uniform descending pi ure so essential to the success of process the walls must bo perpondic and smooth, and hence the only ren is to enlarge the silo. It is often In veuient and expensive, and ?omet impossible, to do this. Encouraged hy the successful ex| monta of the preceding years, I d mined in 1881 to construct silos more permanent character. Two accordingly excavated on tho upper of a hill-side barn, each about 22 long, ll feet wide and ll feet c They were strengthened on the insid a brick wall, lined with cement, were covered by a projection of tho of the barn. The cost of tho two about $200. In consequence of the continued drought the crops plante ensilage were almost failures, and one silo was partly filled with 4 pounds of corn, 11,780 pounds of di ra aud 4,785 pounds of sorghum. G F?ounds in all. The quality of the agc was all that could ba desirer! was greener and less acid than tl the preceding years. In 1882 we succeeded in filling silos with corn and sorghum. Ead held 75 tons, and our crop grown f< silage amounted to 250,000 pounds, silos were opened last winter (188 with the Hame gratifying results i fore. Tho foregoing statements show have put up about 500,000 POUNDS OP EN8ILAOI and that my experiments, contlnui four years, nave been uniformly su ful. From my own expbrience, ported by that of hundreds of farm diff?rent sections of our country, I I can safely claim for the process i silage that with ordinary care sue the rule and failure the exception. J. M. McBif! A MERCIFUL Ml'HDF.RKSS. A Starving Mother Hurls Un Chi ld roil Into tho Uiver. Tu thc fulhur mid muther who last evening tucked their little ones into bed and kissed them a fond good night there ia no story of the last twenty-four hours which sc terribly appeals as thal of wid owed Margaiet Oraban! and ber father less babies. Where Fourteenth street runs down to the East Uiver early yesterday morning the men sweating at work in tho dock saw a gaunt, wolf eyed woman w ith her small wizen creature six months old in her arms and a wee hungry girl of two years staggeringly clutching her skirt. There were famine and despuir in the poor wretch's hunted stn-e and the children were too weak to cry. These three woeful examples of the human kind wandered aimlessly up and down the dock for an hour. There was not enough of life in the woman to let her weep. The children's wretchedness, eloquent beyond expression in its silence, waa observed by the roughest stevedore on the wharf. These rude workingmen have babies of their uwn, and they cuuld nut keep their eyes off tho appalling spectacle uf misery and want. All at once thc famished muther clasped her feeble lillie girl round her waist, and, tottering to tho briuk of the wharf, hurled both lier starving young .tito thc river us it whirled by. She stood for a moment on the edge of the stream. The children were too weak and spent to struggle or to cry. Their little helpless heads dotted the brown tide for nu instant, then they Bank out of sight. The men who looked on stood spellbound. With a harrowing shriek of profound despair as her children vanished in thc ruthless flood the mother toppled into the stream and joined her drowning young. Foran instant nobody moved. Tho scene wits too sudden and too terrible. There was only one shriek to express its horror. Then carno silence and the swift disappearance of three human beings. Instantly a man leaped over board with a rope and seized the motlier. A waterman in a boat clutched the fam ished babies as they drifted past him, and before the desperate effort had been accomplished mother mid children were restored lo the dock and the cruel pinch of living. After rude but kindly luburiug tho men on the dock restored the mother to consciousness. Meantime the children, half drowned and wholly exhausted, lay blinking at the sun and wondering what this new anguish in their little lives portended. Thc ambulance arrived in due time. The three sodden and feeble creatures wero carried to Bellevue. There tho surgeons plied them with stimulants and at last got the mother, gasping on her cot, to confesa the motive of her crime. She lind barely breath enough to tell tho shameful story. Fur daya neither she nur her babies had eaten a morsel. Homeless and hungry, the weary feet of the woman and the dragging Utile limbs of the child had all night lung beat the dead march un the flagstones. Their vague wanderings hud brought them un consciously to the edge of tho river. The rushing Hood fascinated the poor wretch, to whom it .seemed infinitely more hnspitablo thai tho barren streets. The child at hei skirts drowsed feebly. She blindly felt that oblivion and abso lute release confronted thom. So, starv ing, houseless and abandoned, stung by a rude instinct of justice, abo hurled with a lost desperate c-iib rt into the river the twu helpless creatures un whom she had inflicted the bitter injury of bring ing them into existence. Fed and warmed back to life, the poor wrelch, who is only thirty years old, was reminded that she bau committed an infraction of the penal code. They j told her that she might bo tried for at tempted murder and suicido and bo sent to State prison and torn from her miser auiu V.UIIUIC.1. It is no less pathetic than thc rest of thia true story that the wild-eyed mother thua threatened hugged her whimpering babes to her breast, and, denying her first confession, vowed that her feet bad slipped and that she had fallen into the river. Thia wretched trinity remains at Bellevue Hospital. When they are strong enough to be parted the bodies will bo sent to the official refuge of their kind, and the wan woman who bure them, whoso heart bled for them and who tried to spare them the woo of liv ing, will bo sont to the Penitentiary as a misdemeananl.-N. Y. World, Mag 29. ' A (?oo(l Edgeflold Anecdote. Tho recent agitation of thc public road question reminds me of an anecdote that a mail carrier, who rode between Augus ta and Longmires in ?dgeficld county, used to delight iu telling to show the average condition uf the mutes he trav elled. He ?nid on ono occasion he waa riding along at the rate of a mile an hour, his horse sinking to his knees at every step, when looking some distance ahead of bim he saw a small black object mov ing about the middle of the road which bj at first supposed to bo a bird. As be drew nearer he eaw that it was a black hat and when he got within reach he lifted it and saw a man's head just far enough above the mud for him to breathe. The mail courier asked him what was the matter ; he replied that he had struck a very soft place in tho road and had im mediately sunk so rapidly that he was unable to extricate himself. The couri er said, "well, my friend, you are cer tainly In a very had fix." The stranger replied, "well, if you think I am in an unpleasant position, what do you think of my mule? I am on a mule." This happened about Red Hill in Sen ator Butlers county and this occurrence, which ia vouched for, will convince anyono that thc Senator is in earnest in his efforts to improve tim condition of the public highways.-Columbia Corres pondence Augusta Chronicle. They Settled. Two men were wrangling in front of tho City Hall the other day, when one of them called out : "I tell you I don't owe you no $f? !" "I say you do I" "Andi won't pay it!" "Then I'll sue you !" At this pointa pedestrian halted and inquired of the one : "Do you honestly owe bim?" "Not a penny, sir !" "And will you sue him for $5?" he asked of tho other ! "I will !" "Give him seven dollars," continued tho pedestrian to the debtor-"give him seven and be glad to. If ho rues he's sure of a verdict, and your expenses will reach at least ten dollars. Give him seven and be thankful that you aro beat ing two lawyers, a justice and a consta ble, sis jurymen and two witnesses ont of their fees." A satisfactory settlement was made on the spot-Free Prese. ,4I Have no Mother*" ".Mayn't 1 stny, ma'am ? I'll do any thing you tell me-cut wood, go for water, and do all your et randi." The troubled eyes of tho speaker were filled with tears. " lt was a lad that stood at the outer door pleading with a kindly looking woman who still seemed to doubt the reality of his good intentions. The cottage stood by itself on a bleak moor, or what in Scotland would have been called such. The time was near the latter end of September, mid a fierce wind rattled tho boughs of tho only two naked trees near the house, and lied with a shivering sound into the narrow door way, as if seeking for warmth at thc blazing lire within. Now and then n j snowflake touched with its soft chill the ; cheeks of the listener or whitened tho angry redness of thc poor boy's benumb ed hands. The woman wus evidently loath to ; grant thc boy's request ; and tho peculiar look stamped upon his features would liavc suggested to any mind an idea of, depravity far beyond his years. lint her woman's heart could not resist ' thc sorrow in those large, but by no means haudsomo gray eyes. "Come in, at any rate, till the good mai cimes home. There ! sit down by the lire; you look perishing with cold ;" and she drew a rude chair up lo the I warmest corner; then, auspiciously glancing at the child from the corners of her eyes, she continued setting a table fur supper. Presently came the tramp of heavy shoes, llie door was swung open with n quick jerk, and the "goodman" presented hine-oif, wearied with labor. A look of intelligence passed between his wife and himself; bc, too, scanned thc boy's face with au expression not evincing satisfac tion, but nevertheless made him como to the table, and theu enjoyed the zest with which ho dispatched his supper. Day after day passed, and yet tho boy begged to bc kept "only till to morrow ;" so that thc good people, after due consid eration, concluded that ns long as he was so docile aud worked so heartily they would retain him. One day, in the middle of tho winter, a pedler, long accustomed to trade at the cottage, maile his appearance and dis posed of his goods readily, as if he had been waited lor. "You have a hoy nut there splitting wood, I sec," he said, pointing to tho yard. "Yes. Do you know him?" "I have seen him," replied tho pedler, evasively. "And where? Who is he? What is ho?" "A jail-bird," and tho pedler swung his pack over his shoulder. "That boy, young as bc looks, I saw in court myself, and heard his sentence-'Ten months.' He's a hard one ; you'd do well to look carefully after him." Oh, Ibero was something so horrible in the word "jail," the poor womau trem bled as sho laid away lier purchases; nor could she bo essy till she called the boy in and assured him that she knew {.hat dark part of his history. Ashamed, distressed, tho child hung down his iiend ; his cheeks seemed burst ing with the hot blood ; Iiis lips quiver ed, and anguish was painted aa vividly upon his forehead as if tho words were branded into thc flesh. "Well," he muttered, his whole frame relaxing SH if n burden of ???lt or joy had suddenly rolled oil ; "I may as well go to ruin at once; there'd no use in me trying to do better ; everybody hates and despises me ; nobody enres about me ; I may OB well go to ruin at once." "Tell me," said the woman, who stood oiT fur enough for flight if that slum Ul bo necessary ; "how came you to go so young to that dreadful place? Where was your mother-where?" "Oh !" exclaimed the boy with a burst of grief that was terrible to behold-"O, I hain't got no mother. O, I hain't had no mother ever Binco I was a baby I If I'd only had a mother," he continued, his anguish growing more vehement and tho tears gushing out from h?H Htrange-iooking gray eyes ; "I wouldn't ha' been bound out and kicked and cuffed and laid on to with whips ; I wouldn't ha' boen saucy and got knocked down und run away and then Btole because I was hungry. O, I hain't got no mother! I haven't had no mother since I waa r. baby !" The strength was all gone from the ?ioor boy, and he sauk on his knees, sob ling great choking Hobs and rubbing tho hot tears away with his poor knuckles. A nd did thal worn an H tan d there unmoved? Did she coldly bid him puck-up and bo off -the jail-bird ? No.no; she bad been a mother, and though all her children slept under the cold sud in tho churchyard sho was a mother still. Sim went up to that poor boy, not to hasten him away, but to lay her fingers kindly, softly on his head-to tell him to look up aud from henceforth find in her a mother. Yes, even put her arms about the ueck oftbat forsaken, deserted child ; she poured from her mother's heart sweet, womanly words-words of counsel and tenderness. O, how sweet was her Bleep that night ! bow Bolt her pillow ! She had linked a poor suffering heart to bers by the most silken, the strongest bonds of love ; she had plucked some thorns from the path of a little Dinning, but striving morts*!. Did the boy leave her? Never 1 He is with ber still, a vigorous, manly, promising youth. Tho unfavorable cast of his countenance hos given place to an open, pleasing expression, with depth enough to make it an interesting study. His foster-father is dead ; his good foster mother aged and sickly, but-she knows no want. The once poor outcast ' is her only dependence, and nobly does he re pay the trust.-Belfast Witness. He Got Thar'. Going down the great Jackson route from Grenada, Mississippi, a regular old homespun native of the State entered the sleeping car and paid for a berth. Tie had never been inside of a car of the kind, and everything astonished him. When the porter came to make up the beds I saw that the native was greatly perplexed, but as ho made no direct ap poa! it wasn't my duty to post him. He was tho first ono to make preparations for bed. He glauced anxiously around, Smiled off one boot, and then took a rest or five minutes. When the other boot carno off ho had solved tho problem. Pushing his boots under tho berth he started for the rear platform, and nothing waa heard from him for about ten min utes. Then he put his bead into the door and called out : "All 'uus iu thar', look out, for Pm coming 1" And come he did. He had disrobed while standing on the platform, made a bundle of cont, vest and pants, and as he ?hot into bed after a run up tho aisle ho girgled out : "Old Missiasip may be a little alow, but she allua gita thar'just the samel" Demand lt, and take no other iron reparation except Brown's Iron BIttorr. t ia the best Whnt I Uko to See. I like to see persona conic to church after the services have begun; it shows tiley have lcarued the proverb, "Better late Utan never." I Ilka to see thc congregation turn 1 around and look at those coining in lato; 1 it allows they aro interested in their per- j sonni appearance. I like to see a person ait down in tho end of thc seat and compel nil others to 1 crowd past him ; it shows that ho has sta(y)bi)lty. A turtle on a log will j move over und let bis brother turtle up I beside bim. I do not Uko to seo that, ? for it allows that the turtle hus ucver been to church. 1 like to see ;i person accept thc usher's offer to aliow him to n neat, and then drop into thc tir?t ono ho cornea to, and lut the usher glide on up tho aisle alono like nn engine whoso train has como uncoupled ; lt shows that person renlir.cn that a "friend iu need is a friend iudeed." 1 Uko to see young people giggle and laugh in church, it ?hows they aro funny and mischievous-so arc monkeys. I like to see boys whisper during ser j vices ; it sets one to wondering who their parents arc. I I Uko to see peoplo write their names I in the hymn books ; it RIIOWB that they I know how to write, which is moro than I you would expect of such people. 1 Uko to sec people ransacking thc four corners of their purses in search of a copper to throw into tho missionary collection ; it shows that they practice economy aa well aa benevolence. I Uko to seo peoplo sit bolt upright during prayer; it remind? ono of th nt "stiff necked people" of old, who were moro upright than pious. I Uko to nee peoplo go to sleep in church. A church with sound Bloopers is likely to bc au immnvuble church. Hut if it does not blow over it ought to be "blowed up"-hy its preacher. 1 like to see a crowded audience with all the windows closed up tight ; it shows that the janitor is determined not to waste thc sweetness of that service on the desert air. I Uko to soo men put on their over couts and rubbor shoos while singing, " Praise God from whom all blessings How ;" it HhowB that they appreciate what blessings coats and shoes arc. 1 like lo see peoplo look ns though they were nt a funeral when tho minister announces thut n subscription paper will bo passed ; it shows how hard it is to part with their most dearly beloved friends-live cent pieces. I like to seo people absorbed in far off contemplation, and fail to observe the collection basket ; it shows that they aro thinking of tho poor heathen who do not take up collections. I Uko to see peoplo let their do^s fol low them into church, and then look as if tiny did not know whom in the world they belonged to ; it SIIOWH that those people are not dogmatic in their viewB. I like to see a preacher close his ser mon with the Bevoutccnthly at farthest; it shows tlint ho knows that the most popular thing to prench about ?H-about ii half mi hour.- Western Christian Ad vocate. William and the Widow. "I am back again from Jasper's stormy shore," ?aid Bill Cirant, as ho laid bis quilt from oil' his broad shoulders, "and il is my opinion thal in aouuU juiigsnc-?i and right down, sharp Bense, womar , far superior to tho monarch man." "Why so ?" wo inquired. . "Well, you see, in the past twenty years I have, made more brick and been refused hy more women than any ten men in Georgia. I thought I had the thing dead at Nevi ton factory until last night, when I asked a well-to-do widow if she could warm over a few of her buried affections and make room euough in her heart for a second husband. She said she would never marry another man unless alie liked the way he walked." "William," she sweetly said, ''the moon is up. tito night ?H olear: now. come out mid get in the middle of tho road and step toward town, and if I ad mire the style of your gait I will call you back and marry you, promising to cook for your brickyard crowd all the days of my life, remember if you stop or look back before I call you, you are never to darkan my door again." "ThinkiDg I had a soft thing ol it I went out into thc road, threw my head back, placed my artus 'a-kimbo,' and promenaded up the road. I continued to walk, thinking surely she would call me back. Wei!, you seo I'm here, and it'd twelve milca ft tn where 1 entered the road to walk for ii wife. Why do you suppose she failed to call me back?'' "Couldu't see your style," said we. "Hanged if Judge Bunks didn't say the same thing when I told him about it inst at day, and my opinion is she didn't intend to call me back from the beginning. You ace that walk the little widow put on mo convinced me of the superiority of her sex over my own." Detroit Free Press. Two Way's. One man is thankful for his blessings. Another morose for his misfortunes. "I am sorry that I live," say one mau ; "I am sorry that I must die," says an other. When it rains one man says, "This will make mud." The other, "This will lay tho dust." A servant thinks a man's house is prin cipally a kitchen. A guest that it is principally parlor. "I am glad," say - one, "that it is no worse." T'I am sorry," says another, that it is no better." Two children looking through colored glosses. One said, "The world ia blue." And the other said, "It is bright." Ono man spoils a good repast by thinking of a better repast of another. Another enjoys a poor repast by con* frosting it with none at all. Two mea being convalescent were askod how they were. Ono said, "I am better to day." The other said, "I was worse yesterday." Two boys went to hunt grapes. One was happy because they found grapes. Tho other was unhappy because the grapes had seed in them. Two boys were eating their dinners ; ono said, "I would rather have some thing other than this." The other said "This is better than nothing." One man thinks he is entitled to a bet* ter world, aud is disappointed because he hasn't got it. Another thinks he is not justly entitled to any, and is satisfied with this. - Inductive reasoning-Mr. William Doodle-"Yes, Miss Frost; I always wear gloves at night ; they make one's hands so soft." Miss Frost-"Ah 1 ?nd do you sleep with your hat on ?" Now they speak of Crude Petroleum as a remedy for Consumption ; better not try it, bot take Dr. BulVa Cough Syrup, -the standard Cough Remedy of our age. lt is agreeable to the taste, never fails to euro and costs only 2*5 cents a bottle. Taper Cross Ties. A tall mnn, with sharp features and a thoughtful air, sat in a small study and gazed gravely at n brown object that lay at his feet. "It is a paper railroad cross tie," ho said. The reporter raised it with Home diffi culty. It was of, very close fibre, and so highly polished that it resembles rose wood. Its inventor tapped it will? his nail and said : "It doesn't look much like paper, does it?" "It seems moro like iron. Ia it possi ble that it is made cf paper ?" "Oh, yes ! almost anything can now be made of paper. A paper ball can be rendered so Holid that nothing will in dent it but H diamond tool. Car wheels arc now mad? of paper. Its strength is astonishing. You can suspend '?'?'J pounds from n Hank of England noto and it will not part. Hath tubs, pots, plates, knives, forks, cooking stoves, printing presses, Hteam engines and chimneys nre made of paper nowadays, and there is absolutely no limit to thu uses to which it may be put." "Have paper crossties ever been used ?" "Not yet. Thc crosslie is my inven tion." "IJow did you happen toathink of it?" "Well, I didn't happen to think of it, exactly. I atartcd deliberately to invent n substitute for the wooden crosslie or sleeper, and kent Hteadily si it until I was successful.* I thought of paper. There arc scores of mills in the country where paper, straw, prairie grass und other fibrous substances aro converted into straw board. The process is simple. Tho straw is reduced to a pulp and run out into boards. These straw boards aro sold all over the country as substituto for wood. My invention utilizes straw hoard. Tho crosstio is constructed of sheets or layers of paper or straw board, laid one upon another, cemented and compressed into moulds. It makes a perfect crosstie. It is practically water and fire-proof, ns it is manufactured under f)UU degrees of heat. Atmospheric changes have no effect on it. It can bo made ns cheap as wood at the present ?imo and will last at least twenty-five years."-New York Sun. At tho Wrong House. The late Alexander ll. Stephens had a keen sense of the ridiculous, and used to relate anecdotes from his own experi ence, to amuso his friend?. Ono which ho was very fond of telling occurred du ring his service in Congress before tho war, when Senator Edward Everett and M. de Sartiges, the French minister, re sided in adjaceut houBCB on G street. Ono evening, os tho guests invited by M. do Sartiges to a dinner party arrived, Mr. Stephens carno with them in evening dress. The polito Frenchman, not hav-. ing invited the well-known representative from Georgia, asked him if he wished to converse with him on any subject. "No, thank you," replied Mr. Ste phens, who went on chatting with the other guests. M. de Sartiges went to his di tiing-mum, told his butler not to announce dinner until that little gentleman in V") parlor had gone, and returned th After waiting a quarter of an hour, with tho full knowledge that his good cheer WUH hoing spoiled, ho again approached Mr. .Stephens, saying : "MeeBtear Steven, would you like to see me about something?" "No, sir! No, sir I" was thc prompt reply, and, as the disconsolate host walked away with a gesture of despaii, Mr. Stephens said to a gentleman with whom he WOB conversing : "What does that impertinent little Frenchman mean by thinking that I want to talk with him ?" "That," waa tho reply, "is our host, you know, and .perhaps he invited you to have a little chat before dinner." "Our host I" exclaimed Mr. Stephens ; "why I ramo hore to dine with Senator Everett, of Massachusetts I" The joke was too good tobe kent quiet, and after Mr. Stephens had left tho guests at the French legation joined in the roar ; he created another hearty laugh in Mr. Everett's drawing-room next door, where the guests for another dinner had been waiting for his arrival, lie had gotteu into the wrong house. Tho Action or the Heart. As with each stroke the heart projects something like six ounces of blood into tho conduits of the system, and as it does BO some seventy times every minute and 4,200 times in an hour, this implies that it does the aame thing 100.800 times in twenty-four hours, 30,000,000 times in a year, and more than 2,500,000,000 times in a life of 70 years.' The mechanical force that is exerted at each stroke amounts to a pressure of thirteen pounds upon the entire charge of blood that has to be pressed onv.ard through the branching network of vessels. Accor ding to the lowest estimate that bas been made, this gives an exertion of force that would be adequate, in another form of application, to lift 120 tons one foot high every twenty-four hours. Yet the piece of living mechanism that ia called upon to do thu, and to do it v. I thou t a pause for three-score years and ten with out being itself worn out by the effort, is a ?mall bundle of flesh thnt rarely weighs more than eleven ounces. It is in the nature of the ease, also, it must be remembered, that this little vital ma chine cannot be at any time stopped for repair. If it gets ont of order, it must be set right as it runs. To stop the beating of the heart for more than the briefest interval, would be to change life into death. The narrative of what med ical science haa done to penetrate into the secreta of this delicate force-pump, so jealously guarded from the intrusion of the eye that it cannot even be looked Into until its action has ceased, ls, never theless, a long history of wonders. By means of the apygmograp-a writing style at .ached to the wrist by a system of levo rr and springs-the pulse is made to record actual autographs of cardiac and vascular derangement.- The Edinburgh Review. - A darkey, who was stooping to wash bis bands in a creek, didn't notice the peculiar actions of a goat just behind him. So when he scrambled out of the water and was asked how it happened : "I dunno, tactly ; but it neared aa if the shore kinder hasted and flung me." 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