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7 K I~ ~ K MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, Si C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 189, JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MANNING, S. C. F. N. WILSON, F.Z SURA CE AGENT, MAN1NIXG. S. C. ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING. S. C. A&-Notary Public with seal. W H. INGRAM. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office at Court House, MANNING, S. C. M CLINTON GALUCHAT, " PRACTICES l CoUETS oF CHARLST cnud CLAREYDOX. Address Communications in care of Man ning TrIcs. JOS. H. MONTGOMERY, ATTORKEY AT LAW Main Street. SUMTER, S. C. p-Colleconasa.-specialty. W. F. B. HasswonmT, Sumter S, C. B. S. DmNIs, Manning, S. C. 1AYNSWORTH & DINKINS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. pR. G. ALLEN HUGGINS, DEPTIST - oFFICES - MANNING AND KINGSTBEE. -OCiE Davs Kingstree, from 1st to 12th of each month. Manning, from 12th to 1st of each month. -Omca Houas 9 A. M. to-1 PM. and 2 to 4 P.-M. J. BRAGDON, .REAL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTOR S. C. 0mersforsale on Main Street, in business portion(the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots; on Maning and B. R. streets TWO COTTG. RAESmENCES, 4 and 6 rooms;anda. number of VACANT LOTS sahahmorresidenes, and in diferent- lo eitias.. Terms Reasonable. ETABLISHED 1862.. Louis Cohen & Co. 284 King Street. CHARLESTON, S. C. Importers, Wholesale aid Retail Dealers in Dr; and Fancy Goods. -o -W s sand prices cheerfully sent on application. Orders .entrusted to me ill receive my prompt personal at tention. Will be pleased to see my friendafrom Clarendon County. ISAAC M. LORYEA, With Louis Cohen & Co., CHARL STO, S. C. WLhrmeter & Co. HAY AND GRAITN, Red RustProof Oats, a Spe Opposite Kerr's Wharf, CHA RESTON S. C. MAX G. Bryant,JJas. M. Taran, South Carolina. New York. Gran& Central Hotel. BRYANT & LELAND, PROPBIEToRs. Columbia, South Carolina. The grand Central is the largest and best hept hotel in Co'umbia, located in the EX ACT BUSINESS CESTER OF THE CITY, whereall Street Car Lines pass the door, and irsM&YE is not excelled by any in the South. THE BEULlAll ACADEMY. Bethlehem, S. C. B. B. THOMPSON, Principal. Fall Session Begins Monday, Oct 29, Instruction thorough. government mild and decisive, appealing generally to the student's sense of honor and judgment in the important matter of punctuality, de portment, diligence. &c. Moral and social m~uences good. Tuition from $1.00 to $2.00 per mon th. Board in good families $7.00 per month. Board from Monday to Friday per month 3s.00 to $4..00. , aaFor further particulars, address th Principal. :J. G. DINKINS, M. D. R. B. LORYEA. i, 01 DiRliRS&..0o., Drullsts and Phannacists, PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, STATIONERY, FIN~E CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Full stock of P.us-rs; Or~s, GL.Ass VauSHE and WmTE LE.., also Parar and WHrEWASH BUtSEs. An elegant stock of SPECTACLES and EYE GLASSES. No charge made. for fttting the eyi. Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded, day or night. J. 6. Dinkins & Co., Sign of the Golden Mortar, 1MANJmirG. S. C. WHAT A CHILD DID. An Anecdote Ilustrating Mr. Lincoln's Great Tenderness of Heart. Will the world ever know what depths of tenderness there were in the heart of Abraham Lincoln? An aneo dote, which has never been published, brings out one more instance in which his sympathies, awakened by a little child, nobly controlled his action. In one of the first skirmishes of the civil war, a young Union soldier was so se verely wounded in the leg that the limb had to be amputated. On leaving the hospital, the young soldier, by the aid of influential gentlemen, obtained a po sition as Government weigher of hay and grain. Not long after he had en tered upon his duties, his superior offi cer said to him: "See here, Mr. M--, this hay weighs so much on these scales; but to the Government it weighs so much more." "I do not understand, sir, that way of doing business. I can enter but one weight and that the correct one," an swered the young weigher. His superior walked away, muttering threats. The young man from that day suffered many petty persecutions for his honesty, and it was not long before he received notice that the government had no further need of his services. The summary dismissal made -him so down-hearted that when he told the story to his family, he seemed a man without hope. "Father," replied the eldest daugh ter, a girl of thirteen, "cheer up! I am going to see President Lincoln. I know he will make it all right." Her father and mother tried to turn her purpose, saying that it would .be useless to see the President, as he would not attend to such a petty matter as the dismissal of a weigher of grain. But her faith in the President's sense of justice was so strong that she went to the White House, and, after three days of patient waiting in the ante room, was admitted to Mr. Lincoln's presence. The hour for receiving visitors had nearly expired, and as she entered the room the President, throwing himself on a lounge, said, wearily: "Well, my little girl, what can I do for you?" She told. her artless story. Mr. Lin coln listened attentively, and with a smile asked: "But how, my dear, do I know that your statement is true?" "Mr. President," answered the girl, with energy, "you must take my word for it." "I do," replied the President, rising and taking her hand. "Come with me to Mr, Stanton." "Stanton," said Mr. Lincoln, as they entered the office of the great War Sec retary, "I wish you to hear this child'e story." "I have no time," answeredthe over worked man. "But you must," replied Mr. Lincoln. "I have not a,moment to spare to day, Mr. President." "Come again, my dear, to-morrow, and Mr. Stanton wilm hear you then," said the President, leading her away. The next day she was admitted at once to the President, who took her over to Mr. Stanton's office. The Sco retary listened to the child's simple story and was so moved by it that he indignantly exclaimed, before she had fnished: "The infernal rascal!" He went to his desk and wrote an order for the immediate dismissal of the dis honest official, and for the appoint ingthe little girl's father to the vacant place. Mr. Lincoln never forgot the child; he told her story to several Congress men,.and through their influence her two-brothers were enro1ed& among.:the pages-of the House of Representatives -7cutk's Comnpaion. The. African Elephant. In Petermanne's Bi~tegasngs Herr 3. Mnges. raises once more the geestion of the possibility-of utiliing the Afri can elephant. Herr Menges points out that there Is strong evidencsthatethe elepantwasamedli. ancient stimean in. Africa, and asserts that no seriousat temp&-has been madeuin modern times to subdue it to-theusesof humanity. He mnintans thst: it is quite as docile as theTerian elephant, and mnch strong er;-and that; ifitcould berealW.ytmed andtranedto work; it-would beefLim mnse utility in the-opening~ of Africa-. But, unless some protectton is.accorded to the African..elephant Herr.Nengses believesthat by the entof'next century. it wi-be quite extinct An Excellent Remnedyv. They were returning, from the. thea ter. "I am troubled with a slight sore throat, Miss CLara," he said, "and I think it would be wise if I should but ton my coat tightly around my neck." "I would, indeed, Mr. Sampson," re plied the girl with some concern. "At this season of the year a sore throat is apt to develop into something serious. Are you doing any thing for it?" "IRot so far," he replied. "I hardly kow what to do." "I have often heard papa say," shyly suggested the girl, "that raw oysters have a very soothing and beneficial ef fet upon such a trouble."-N. Y. ,Sun. A Heart-Breaking Loss. Bobley-Wonder what makes young erkins look so cast down. One would fancy he had lost his best friend. Wiggins-So he has. His sweetheart has jilted him. Bobley-Well, it's really a blessing in disguise. He has escaped a mother-in law, any way. Wiggins-Oh, you don't understand; the girl was an orphan-4udas MR. DUNER DISGUSTED. Carl Fails to Catch On to the Tricks . American Politics. "Well, what's the matter with you?" queried Sergeant Bendall as Carl Dun der limped into the station house the other day and flung himself down on. the nearest chair. "Sergeant, I vhas here to bid you good-bye." "No!" "I vhas going back to Shermany." "I declare! What put that into your head?" "I vhas seek und tired. . I can't un derstand dose peoples. Xopody vhas two times alike in America." "But you told me you were going to run for alderman, and that you had caught on to American:politlcs." "Dot vh s my troubles. I belief I know all aboudt her, bat I know noth ings. I vhas going. to -run for alder mans. I promise dot hay scales to feefty men. I promise twenty men dot dey shall be janitor of der. City, Hall. I promised more as one hoonered. fel lers dot dey shall work for the.city.for three dollars a day." "That was right. That's the way most of the candidates do." "Yes, but I don't understand.. Three days ago a feller comes in my place und says-vhasI. Carl Dnnder?: I vhas. Did you promise dot easternahay.scales to my brudder:if :he wote fer- you? I did. Und did'you promise herto more ash twenty odder fellers, too? I did. Vhell, you vhas a fraud und a liar, und now you take dot on der nose! Und he gifs me sooch a thump dot I see more ash feefty stars flying aroundt. How does it come dot some Americans can work dot dodge und be all right?" "Well?" "Vhell, I told you der odder-day dot I promise more ash feefty men dot dey shall be engineer of the City Hall if dey wote for me. In comes a man in my place mit his hat on his ear und says vhas I Carl Dunder? I vhas. Vhas you going to run for some alder mans? I vhas. Did you promise all my crowd dot each one of us should run der engines mit der City Hall? I did. Den. Sergeant, he gifs me sooch a blow on my mouth dot I can't eat meat for seex months, und vhen he goes avhay he says dot forty-nine more fellers vhas to come after him. Some American candidates can promise dot shop to one hoonered fellers und be all right. How vhas she?" _ "I don't know." "Und pooty queek a feller comes in my place und says vhas I dot oldt Dutchmans who vhants to be an alder man? I vhas. If I vhas cszted he shall get all der paving shobs und makes lots of money. He calls me a liar und says I promise dot same thing more ash two hoonered times, und he mops me on my floor und ges avhay like a lark. If it vhas some American candidate he vhas all peaches. How vhas she?" "I don't know." "Vhell, eafery day somepody comes und calls me a liar und says I should be kicked. Eafery day comes pome feller mit his hat on his ear und charges me mit holding him oop for a sucker. My boy Shake vhas scart avhay, my wife vhas seek abed und I haf to lock up my place or be kilt." "It's sad lines," mused the sergeant. "Und so I guess I shall go back to Shermany. In dot country I vhas all right. If a man spreckens to me i Dutch I Jcnow vhat he vhas. If he shpeaks to me in Yankee may be he makes a fool of me. I like to go by dot Common Council and be a great man, but I can't stand sooch a racket. I vhas a good enough liar, but I leaf something else out all der while und der dear peoples tumbles to me. Fare well, sergeant. You vhas always two times alike. und I shall feel good by you when I am far avhay. If you meet some-. odder Duitchmans shust spheak mit him und tell him to keep out of dose politics."-Detroit Free Press. _____ A Few Fashion Notes. For half-mourning brooches are pansies of lusterless black enamel with a diamond center. Linked sleeve-buttons are seen re sembling coupled coffee beans. One~ will be silver, the other a copper tint, a third gold and a fourth oxidized silver. elaborately carved and stained very dark. The edelweiss, with its thick furry petals and centers of pearls is the latest flower brooch. Earrings in form of stirrups, one side set with diamonds, the other with sapphires, are a novelty. For table ware the prettiest articles are silver and cut glass in combination. Nurses' aprons of white lawn have two broad widths that almost meet be bind, and are trimmed with rows of insertion and tucks above a hem. The cap of white muslin has an Alsacian bow of embroidery, or else loops of colored ribbon are around the crown. Those worn .by foster-mother or wet nurse have ribbon ends that hang be hind almost to the edge of her dress skirts. A ball of cut steel mounted on a stem of black enamel is afavorite hat-pin. K. Y. World. -Taking the Safe Side.--Mother-in law (who is going home after a visit of six months)-"Have we plenty of time, Witherspoen? I mustn't get left." Mr. Witherspoon (dubiously) -"Well, it's ten minutes' walk to the station, and the train will leave in about an hour and a hail To be on the safe side, I think we had better sna aL ne"-K. . Tr-ibumn WIDOW'S SCH-ME. How She supported Herself Without Per. forming Any Work. There was a poor woman living in one of the little shanties up-town, with a large family of pigs, goats, geese and children swarming around it. She sup ports her family by taking in washing, and her poverty and industry have se cured for her the compassion and the washing of a number of benevolent la dies. One of these ladies recently remonstrated with her on the size of her bills, and said.that she had to pay much more for her washing than she did at any of the laundries. The hard-working widow admitted that this was the case, but she respectfully, but firmly, declined to reduce her price. "You see, ma'am," she said, "I do the very finest handwork, and it wouldn't pay me to do it for the price the laun dries get for machine work. If you compared my work with theirs you would see a great difference. Those Chi namen living in dirt like pigs are taking the bread out of honest women's mouths. I don't see how any lady can be willing to send her clothes to them. Of course they do it cheap when they have no families to support and can live on al most nothing; but they tear. your clothes all to pieces, and dear knows what you catch from them. No, ma'am, you'd better pay a little more and have your clothes done nicely by a clean, re spectable woman, besides helping her to support her family." The lady was influenced by this can did statement, and decided to continue her patronage. But a few weeks after she was surprised to see emerging from a Sing Sing laundry in her neighbor hood the well-known figure of the son of the poor but honest laundress, stag gering under a huge bundle of clothes. A dark suspicion crossed the mind of the charitable woman. Having a slight acquaintance with Sing Sing from a few previous negotiations, she entered the laundry and made some cautious inqui ries about the boy who had just gone out. Sing Sing readily acknowledged that he came every week with a large bundle, and it was too obvious that the poor but honest and hardworking laun dress was doing an easy and profitable business by subletting the washing given by her customers to the much despised Chinaman against whom she had warned them so vigorously.-Chi cago News. NO VERMIN- THERE. How a Lady in search of a House MystiBed a Landlord. Lady-You are sure that the house contains no vermin P House Owner (indignantly and very emphatically)-Vermin in a house of mine! Not much! Lady-Well, rm glad of that. If there is any thing I do detest it is a house overrun with roaches and House Owner-Oh,. I-won't say there ain't a few roaches.- Most any-house is liable to have a few- roaches. Lady-And rats and mice-are there any of them? House Owner-Well, there might be a mouse here and there and a couple of rats or so, may be, but there ain't none to hurt. Lady-How about bed-bugs? House Owner -Bed-bugs? Well, now, of course, bed-bugs is different. Ievver see a house that had been lived in at all that didn't have a few? (Warmly.) Why, the house I live inJ myself is chock full of 'em. What I do say, though, is, that there ain't no ver min In no house of mine; no sir, not: one. When do you think you'll mov& in? Lady-I'm afraid your house will not suit me. Good-day. House Owner (soliloquizingly)-Now [ wonder what that woman can find. fault with in this house? After 'almost sayin' she'd take it and my provin' that there's nothing wrong with it, she don't want it. That's just like a woman. T'hey ain't got no sense, nohow.-T2exas Sftings. Mr. Beecher's Estate. Henry Ward Beecher left a compara ively small fortune. He had an es ate in the Peekskill which cost him~ bout $150,000. JIe had insurance pol icies which footed up something like $20,000 or $25,000, and in hot haste his heirs sold his pictures and books and all! personal belongings endeared to his friends, at all events by many, many years of close association with the dear old man, and now how does it stand? The $150,000 place at Peekskill has literally gone to seed. Those magnifi ent flower-beds, on which the old man eloquent spent years of thought, for tunes of experience and thousands of dollars earned by the sweat of his im peial brow, are choked with weeds and overrun with grasses. Already the market price of the place has fallen to $85,000, and I understand-in fact, I have seen it stated in print-that an of fr of $65,000, which was refused, will, in all probability never be made again. And on the heels of this, with what was curiously called an "autobiography," written by one cf his sons and his son in-law, lying as dead as Mark Twain's own books upon the shelves of the stores, come a rumor that his simple will is also to be contested.-N. 7. Leer. He Was Not An Indian. Tramp--Could you give a bite to a poor man who hasn't eaten any thing for Lady of the House (shouting shrilly) -Tige! Tige! Come here, Tige! T. (loftily)-You are alling your dog, madam. I want you to under stand that I don't eat dog. T'm no In And he strode away in silent dignity. PUTTING BABY TO BED; An Incident Which May Prove of Glreat Value. to Many Parents. Last spring I spent a night with a friend. There were two : childr en in the family-the youngest a bright, restless boy, four years old, who might stand for the typical Amerie::a "hld aptly defined as "a bundle of nerve.' A lady and get'eman with their two children were visitors at the house, and after supper, Mrs. Brown, a neigh bor, left her little boy and girl in my friend's care while she went to make a call in the village. The evening wore on. The children played hard, and little Frank's ey.es opened wider and wider with the in toxication of the unusual excitement. After his bed-time was long past, his mother came into the room where her husband and I sat, and asked, anxious ly: "What shall I do? I told Fraik he could sit up until Mrs. Brown came after her children, supposing she would be gone only a few minutes. Now, shall I break my promise to him, or risk his being cross and ill by all this excitement?" Her husband raised his voice a little, and said: "'Where is Frank? I want to see him." The child immediately left his play in the dining-room and ran to his father, who lifted him in his arms and held him from him for a momentthen, clasping hi:i lovingl;y, asked, in that jovial ton; of comradeship no child could resisi,: "Whose boy are you?" Of course the answer came, proudly: "Papa's boy." . "My boy!"--a little surprised--"are you sure?" The child laughtingiy re-asserted his ownership. "Woll," connued the father, "my boy always does just what his niher thinks best-goes to bed just when she thinks it's time." A pause. "Are you sure you're my boy?" Oh. yes, lie c'as papa's boy. "Then mamma," said tha wise father, I "you can undress this fellow just as fast as you like." The child was put into his little bed in an adjoining room whence he could hear the merry chatter of the other children and the talk of the older peo ple and see-the bright lights. There was no lamp in his room, but somebody laid down on the bed with him for a few minutes, when all at once he turned his face to the wall and his clos ing eyelids almost caught the happy laugh on his lips as he dropped off to dreamland. I said to myself: "I will put an account of this incident where the fathers and mothers of those ba bies who associate bed-time with a cy clone of sobs, tears and spankings, or a barter of candy and sugar for obedi-, ence. may read and profit by it if they will."-Anna M. Libby, in Christian Union. EXTRAVAGANT LETTERS. The Pensio/ Commissioner Writes About the Humors of His Office. A few samples from among 10,000 instances will show the variety of the inquiries addressed to the Commis sioner, and they are herewith sub mitted. One woman in the best faith ad dresses the Commissioner and asks that he see that the school house in her neighborhood be established in the center of the district. Another in forms him that her husband has long been absent. She has wandered over the face of the country in search of him, and she would now like to have him take up the search. Many such cases occur. ~Letters contaiuing" souvenirs dear to the senders, but ut terly valueless to any one else, are re ceived; letters .of advice detailing whole pension schemes to be substi'tu ted for the present system of laws; letters of extravagant commendation, of censure, of anger, of contempt, of wrath, of unmitigable hostility; let-I ters of insane writers threatening vileness and violence; letters excited by the granting of pensions and asking benisons upon the~ heads of all concerned; letters of bit terest reproach for pensions denied. calling down the wrath of God an-d1 men upon those who have been trying to do their simple duty-all these and multitudes of <41ers, fantastic, sober, rational and wild, pour by the hun dreds and thousands into the mail of the bureau; and from the charity and patience which forbears to respond, and the sense of duty which compels the neglect of idle inquiries, arise many of the complaints and denuncia tions of the office for its alleged neglect. And now, to give in one hugo total the figures which will show how idle such complaints in general are I need only say that the number of papers of every description sent to the Commis sioner during the year ha~s been 2,G97, 608. The number of answers immedi ately sent out thereto has been 1,836, 182; the remainder being of the kind above indicated and those which re quire no reply unti answered by the execution and transmission of proper documents in authentic sh11ape.-Comn missioncr's Report, 188.. -Sone--"Hello, Upson, old man, you're looking fine; you must have struck luck since I last saw you." Downes -"Yes, old boy, I've struck the boss fake; no more poverty for me, no more small salaries for me; I've written a book and my fortune is made." Stone-" 'id like to know what you could write about." Downes -"Hush! don't give it away; great snap; have written on 'How to Live Comfortably on Ten Dollars a Week.'" Stone-'"But you never could."DIownes -"Nor any one else-that's the reas on they nil buy the book to find out."' Stne--"ll'm. ye- see."-Puck. UI1Lb IN UiLLhAh. What It Costs to Enter the Big Institutions of Learning. At Vassar College the smallest sum on which a girl can pay her bills, aside from scholarship aid, is about $450. Of this amount $100 is for tuition and x300 for board and washing. A genius in thrift-and Vassar sees such a genius now and then-can buy her books and stationery and supply her self with the small incidentals dear to school girls for the remaining $50. Car fare, if she goes home between terms, and the larger items of dress are not included. Necessary expenses at Smith, Wellesley and Byrn Mawr do not vary greatly from these figures. Five hundred dollars would represent the average yearly expenditure of no small proportion of the girl students in Eastern schools. Six hundred dol lars is a liberal allowance, and $700 more than luxurious. The largest sums spent hardly rise above the min imum which the president deemed necessary for comfort and peace o: mind at Cambridge. Boston University, of the co-educa tional schools, has no dormitory sys tem, and girl. students from a. dis tance exercise no small ingenuity in housing and feeding themselves with out overwhelming board bills. F6ur dollars a week, when necessary, some of them find it possible to live for, or $148 for thirty-seven weeks in the city. Add $100 for tuition and $50 for books, car-fare and incidentals, and a year's schooling is provided at a cost of $300. Some of the country colleges, while giving a substantial education, trea the pocket-book with great lenienoy. St. Lawrence University, in the north ern part of New York, for instance,. tutors young women as well as men for $40 a year, and the townspeople take them to their hearts and their best guest chambers for $3.50 a week Education there still costs substantial ly what it used to at the older schools in the pioneer days. To work one's way through college unaided is a hard task, but is now and then accomplished by a sturdy girl. A large-eyed brunette, not sturdy. but fragile-looking, graduated from Bo. ton University a few years ago by finding a situation as waitress in a restaurant, wearing the whito apron during the rush hours at morning.aud night, and in vacation se.ason. the day through. To save is sometimes easier than to earn. and I have in inird one group of four girls, two from Boston University and two at the Harvard Annex, wh:o engaged two adjoining rooms in a quiet house in noston and boarded themselves on an average of $90 per week. Their rooms cost $5, or $.25 each.. They took breakfast at a small restaurant, where oatmeal and steak cost 2) cents. They ate an ap plo and a slice of bread for lunch and at night they pooled resources, spread ing napkins on the top of a trunk and feasting on bread and milk or brea l and a taste of canned meats. Once a neighbor surreptitiously inserted six glasses of jelly in the bureau drawer which served as commissary depart ment, and then they dined royally for several days. The food cost them each 35 cents per day, and none of them suff'ered by the experiment. Their expenses for clothing were no greater in proportion. QOe mem berof the quartette possessed a single gown, a well-worn black cashmere. Being invited to a professor's reception one- evening, she remained away from a day's recitations while she sat in a cloak and petticoat cleaning and pressing and freshening with ' ribbons her old apparel. At night she enjoyed herself quite as thoroughly as the rest of the company.-N. Y Cor. In dianapolis Journal. BONE-MEAL FOR POULTRY. It Is Nutritious and strengthens the Bones. :mnd Legs. Many. farmers- think that the hens may shift for themselven. .If they do well, all right; if they are found dead or dying it is not much loss. For the capital invested no stock on the farm will pay as well as the poultry well cared for: One of the little things that ought to be looked after to have the peultry always in good trim is a sup ply of bone-meal. Poultry raisers should not neglect to use suffict raw bone either crushed-or- in the form of* meaL It. contains lime as do oyster: shells, but it contains animal matter which is of great value. Bone when burnt is of comparatively little value over oyster shells, but when crusbed or ground raw supplies value peculiar to itself.. All classes of poultry are ex tremely fond of it. Care should be taken to have it pure and sweet. It is. good for all classes and ages of poultry. For young chicks it should be used in the form of meal. mixing a 'small quantity two or three times a week with their soft feed, say one quart to a bushel of corn-meal. In young turkeys it is almost impos sible to prevent leg weakness. About the time of their "shooting the red," when their health becomes established and they grow apace, the development of their frames and legs require a more liberal assimilation of material than can be afforded by the usual arti cles of food. It is well to begin to mix a little bone-meal with the feed of young turkeys and from the time they are four weeks old it can be used freely. No injurious effects will follow, for it is nutritious and strengthens the bones and legs. All raisers of young turkeys know that leg weakness is one of the evils to which they are ex posed and this is a natural preventive, and here is onc of the cases where prevention is better than cure. Brahi ma and other Asiatic chaks for the same reason are greatly benefited by its use.--nhin Pnoun, JrornaL THE LAND OF LAKES. An English Traveler's Impression of the Province of Finland. Finland is, in the language of the country, Suomesimaa, "the land of lakes," and this is really the truth, as no less than one-third is under water. Much of this is, however, marsh land, though the lakes Saima, Lodoga, En are, etc., cover somethousandsof square miles. The surface of the country is flat, with a chain of low hills about the center, the highest of these being the mountain "Aavasaksa." The coasts are deeply indented and picturesque, with bold granite cliffs standing clear out against the deep blue sky, and many islands belonging to the Archi pelago of Aland dot the surface of its western waters. Inland there are dense forests of pine, fir and birch, which have a strange and enthralling influence up on the imagination. Notwithstanding their usually somber aspect, there are innumerable pleasant glades-in the re cesses of these woods, where the tall white-stemmed birch and great bould ers covered with lichen crop up from the grass and form a pleasant picture; besides this the lakes have a beauty solemn and romantic-which can scarce ly be found elsewhere. The landscape, too, dotted with numerous windmills, and the church towers, built apart from the places of worship, present strange pictures. From these towers the night watchmen sound their horns or play up on triangles as an alarm of fire. Often in the dead of night a great blaze on e horizon will tell of some forest f'e. These are mainly owing to the carelessness of the peas antry, and, combined with the greatex portation of timber and its lavish use for firewood and for building purposes, have caused* a great rise in its value within the last few years. Traveling in the country, though cheap, is not al ways pleasant. Many of the roads are what would be described as "corduroy" -that is; having rough logs laid across, over which one's vehicle bumps and jumps in a manner calculated to make the bones sore for a considerable time after a journey. The velocity with which the natives send the carriage down hills is also likely to try the nerves of any not to the manner born. Most persons posting through Finland have their own vehicles-wheeled ones for the summer and sledges for the winter-and they change horses at each stage of about fifteen versts (ten Eng lish miles). Should you have to trust to the post-house for a conveyance you are more likey than not condemned to traveln aicr witiout springs and a hard seat with no back- to it oran ordi nary work sledge. The charge for post ing is little enough, being ten Finnish pennies (id English) per verst, and the driver is required by law to take you at, the rate of one Sweedish or seven. Eng lish miles per hour.-Cornhill Mag azine. THE HANDSOME MAN. What Constitutes One According to Fanny Fern's Critical Mind. Well-in the first place, there must be enough of him; or, failing in that but, come to think of it, he musn't fail in that, because there can be no beauty without health, at least according to my way of thinking. In the, second place, he must have a beard; whikes -if the gods please, but a beard I in sist upon, else one might as well look at a girl. Let his voice have a dash of Niagara, with the music of a baby's laugh in it. Let his smile be -like the breaking forth of the sunshine on a spring morning. As to his figure, it should be strong enough to contend with a man, and slight enough to trem ble in the presence of the woman he, loves. Of course, if he is a well-made man, it follows that he must be grace ful, on the principle that perfect ma chinery always moves harmoniously; therefore you and himself and the milk pitcher are safe elbow neighbors at the tea table. 'This style of handsome man would no more think of carrying a cane than he-would use a parasol to keep the sun out of his eyes. He can wear gloves, or warm his hands in his coat pockets, as he pleases. He can even committhe suicidal-beauty-act of turning his out-. side coat collar up over his neck of a stormy day with perfect impunity. The tailor didn't make him, and as to M's hatter, if he depended on this hand some mans patronage of the "latest spring style," I fear he would die of hope deferred; and yet-by Apollo! what a bow he makes, and what an ex pressive adieu he can wave with his hand! For all this he is not conceited -for he hath brains. But your conventional handsome man of the barber's window-wax-figure head pattern; with a pet lock in the mid dle of his forehead, an apple-sized head, and a raspberry mustache with six hairs in it; a pink spot on its cheek, and a little dot of a goatee on its cun ning little chin; with pretty blinking little studs in its shirt-bosom, and a neck-tie that looks as if he would faint were it tumbled, I'd as lief look at a poodle. I always feel a desire to nip it up with a pair of sugar-tongs, drop it gently into a bowl of cream, and strew pink rose-leaves over its little remains. Finally, my readers when soul mag ntizes soul, the question of beauty is a dead letter. The person one loves is always handsome, the world's arbitrary rules notwithstanding; therefore when you say, "what can the handsome Mr. Smith see to admire in that stick of a Miss Jones?" or "what can pretty Miss T see in that homely Mr. Johns?" you simply talk nonsense, as you generally do talk on such subjects. Still, the par son gets his fees, an~d the census goes on all the same. -Fan ny Fern, it the N. 7. Lgr. -