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TUB BtiOCH OF GALA VEK AH.
BY BBXT Hini'K.
“ Well, dog my cats I Say, atranger.
You muat have traveled far 1 „
Juet flood your lo^er lerfetT 5 '/
And light a fresh cigar.
, Dun’t tell me! In this weather 1
You hoofedall the way ?
Well, aBce uiy liver lengthwlae 1
Wliy, atranger, what’* to pay T
“ Huntin’ yer wife, you tell jne 1
Well, now dog gone my akin 1
TShe thougtit you dea<r ihamirtwt,
. And then lieatowed her fin ;
Upon aiiotter fellow 1 . .
Juat put it here, old perd!
Bonie feUoyif rtrlkoa the aoft thing*,
iiut you have hit it bard.
“ I’m right onto your fi i !in'f
Hn»* hotfiFwoufftJr 1
If my owu shrub alopjied over
Anti got away from me.
Say, strang« r, that old sage ban —
Thai * cookin’ thar inside
la warranted the finest wool.
And Juat a square }ard vide. ,^
“I wouldn't hurt yer, par drier.
But I teT you no mati
Was ever bkt na^aa I am
With l’iat old i<eii-an.
It • goth' on auuc two j ear
eh" wa* J'it.wl to me;
She wa* a w tdder prior,
H- r name waa .H .[ hi Lee— *
V"!' 1 ] o-«l: o:j titan, wluLi h»t>p»n«dt
ll«r* Sh '7 la that the one?
TUa. s Imw j y„„ r you tell me T
K <w reach ilowit for your gun.
ix-ter lajtiti d no man, *
And Do man no 1 , hut .quealed.
And any one who takee her
Muat
d »it well h' lrdl
“ 1 jrem;
’ B iKly. C< n*mly
I'll >H
> 7«a . -•* *t U«t.
r—k thi
*•««:- tire '•« r, •ire's to tki
I- tea
t pMif lumttuf'?
Sj» »k, m*n • <tM. k! Yu'** m’><
Xu!
Y»jr*! Y'4i rrexsnii**
V) *if
, ! u r »ii., tti* m»>- > n* f
Tfc* R
un vti'i si ja so Baal
■Pull!
j'ffi »b*t 1 my, |«r.lnrr;
I'm n<
« Wt-U m lire rt-U,
B it thl<
i II 'll i rtire on mm
*•**1
’ure* nprm a S*«t!.
If Uf •
» .f* 1-nM -»ta»dy,
t'rel !
l«'tt‘«, Xure sijr mat
RwH.t
I >A tree ita* * *. 7*e - *r%
Mj
re Thar. I'm *a.«A
■Bet M
m* reei - * m* ■>**.
V : tall Vr that 1 .Ire*. .
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m4 U>*t »«j, -.thaa, .
laet t
*0 trer Orel 1 rn*t
ft on! rata mu.-tv. S.x
ItoSr haf wh.t IS* tnm.
Or, by two..! that balea j«a
Yew’S rnt M* bw* agma i"
o> t: Hvxunr.n vorsnn ke-
n AtUh
I had Urn m> yt-un a anr^ron in th«
luavy, atiil for tlw* U»t two <4 thoao ms
yowm I had U<*m mii<tog ■•o thwt dnmd-
ful lp4d<*«m*L r> rlut|re l wan not the
Vet-tain iwrcd man in the sefrir*, but
I thought I wim luMlly tiv-wtod. The Ad-
unity mud I luwl a aitgUt aLaagreeneot,
and the eud wa« that I threw up my
Odututadun in tliwgu-t. My health waa
niu- b l-rukea, and while I waa recruit
ing toy a Ire ng Ui in a little Do von tillage,
I did the ewe tiling w Itieh I have never
regn-t ted—fell in 'mto with a good girl,
^antl matried her. I bad a certain amount
of money, which I inreatad in a country
practice, and for some tinwall went well
with tin. Itnt we were not to cecapo our
aliare of trouble. My health, which had
anfbnd mon 1 mTiotLsly ,than I imagiued
during my period of acrrice, broke
down; my practice wcut to the dogs;
we got deeply into debt, and, to make a
longKtory short, three yearn after our mar
riage, one miserable Sunday in Novem
ber found qiy wife a-id myself, with our
two little children, occupying a single
poor room in Grenville street, off
Guildford street. We had then
been in London aliout six months,
and I hail been unable—chiefly on
account of my precarious health
—to get anything to da, * About
a month, however, before the day I
ajH'ak of, my only friend in London had
held out a hope of obtaining for me the
, post of private physician to a wealthy
relation. Bat my friend had been com
pelled suddenly to go abroad, and
though he w as daily expeeted'back, yet
three weeks bad now passed, and I had
gone to his house in Kensington day
after day without getting any tidings of
him. Meanwhile onr little stock of
money was quite exhausted; every thing
that conld be spared was sold or pawned;
and on this Sunday evening, with a
month’s rent due next day, my wife and
I sat before a miserable apology for a
fire, with absolute want staring us in the
face. We had not quite a shilling left,
and when I looked at my sleeping chil
dren and thought of the future, I fairly
broke, down iq utter despair. It waa
then I found what a treasure I had in
the noble woman by my side. Affecting
a cheerfulness wliich she oofild not feel,
she imparted to me a portion of her own
courage, and at length induced me—
* anxious to please - her, and glad to do
anything rather than sit powerless—to
go once mere to my friend's house.
It was 10 O’clock, on a cold, drizzling
night, when I set out on my walk. I
somehow felt a kind of fictitious hope
fulness, and walked briskly, resolntety
abutting out the thought of failure. I
**»od aome time at my friend's door be
fore I dared to ring the bell that would
* change my hopea or my fears into cer
tainty ; and, when at laat the servant
who answered my ring told me that her
master had not yet returned, I fairly
stager rrd into a chair in the hall, over
: mj euaditM*, brought mm a tiMk
VOL. W: NO. 33.
BARNWELL, C. H., S. THURSDAY, APRIL 21. 1881.
82 s Year.
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but it was some time lieforo I felt able
to move, and it struck midnight as I
left {fie door for my long and cheerless
walk. The rain fell in a steady vlrizzle,
but, though I was-lightly clad, I never
heeded it; my thoughts were fixodbri
for me and on the wretched news I was
bringing her. I walked on, heedless
of the bitter bolded of the constant
rain, feeling the numbneos of misery in
my heart
How it happened I do not know, but
somehow I lost my ; w».y, ; and, after
wandering aimlessly for some time, I
found that I was in a street I did not
know—the Gray’s Inn road, as I after
ward learned. . I nould see no one to
direct me, and was walking on rather
anxiously when I stumbled over the form
of a man, who was lying half in and half
out of the covered entrance of a wretched
court. For a few yards I walked, too
much absqrticd in my ovm troubles * to
think of anything else ; bnt then, thank
"GtfT! I thought t»f the nnfortnnatc man
lying in the rain, and, us a doctor, felt,
more atrongly perhajm titan I otherwise
should, that it was my duty to go hack
and assist him if possible. There was s
gas-lamp in the entrance to tttc court,
and by it I was enabled to sec that the
prostrate figure waa that of a singularly
tall and powerfully-built man ; and on a
closer inspection I was surprised to find
that his dress was that of a gentleman.
At ouce I thought he had lx>cu foMhhI
and perhaps murdered; but, taking his
hand to feel his ptilw> I saw that he had
a remarkably kanihomc diamond ring
m be* Auger, ami litre bearing of hi*
puli', though very faint, showed me
that he was not dead.
Then I th«sight, with something of
contempt, that I had a case of mert-
drnnksoneaa to deal with; but yst, on
careful exsminatiim, I could detect no
fume Of spirits, ami the faint action uf
hia heart at length convinced me that
the man waa in a complete stats of ex-
Imitation, proiiablv from want at f«**L
With mmudcraLls latsir, in my weak
condition, I mnnagol—half lifting, halt
dragging him—to convey him into the
covered paeaage, and determined to alay
with him until suture paaaar-by would aa-
aiai tun. 1 had not wailed long when u
half tipsy woman, walkii* past, looked
into the peaaaga and came over to aee
what waa thre matter. Hhe looked keen
ly at me ami at my uncuoacioiw patient,
and I noticed her eye an she
canghl sight of a missive gold chain on
his vest..
I asked her to go at once ami fetch
•.saist u»ce, Imt she immediately replied
that 1 need not trouble myself any fur-
tln-r. ** I know him well; he’s Rooney,
tbat owns tie* public bouse close by ; 1*11
get him all right."
At first her assurance almost imposed
upon me, but when I looked at the ]>ale.
uistocistie face that 1 supjiorbwl «u my
i*mu' I b it eotivinccd that she had in-
*4i re* -1 * %
venjctl the story with a view to plundor-
ng the helpless man. 1 told ncr ateruly
that if she did not go for a policeman I
would do so myself. Khe went off hnr-
ricdly :ts I thought, for that purjioreo-
iuit came back no more ; and now I ware
once more alone with my strange pa-
lient, and as the minutes wcut by I
kn< w not what to do.
Help, however, was near. I noticed
a |>oor girl—she did not look more than
Hi—wit!king slowly on the other side
>f the street; I culled to her, and after
a moment’s hesitation she came over. I
briefly explained to her the circum
stances, and asked her, if she possibly
could, to get me a drop of cordial, or the
man would die.
v “ I have only got fourjtenee,” she said,
in a kindly Irish voice, “ and I was go
ing to pay for my bed with ihat at the
kftchen in Ful wood’s Bents ; but, sure,
I’ll get something from the chemist in-
stead, and I’ll trust to God for a night’s
lodging; I’ve.slept out before now.’’
And away she went—surely not the
worst of Good Hamaritans, *
Very soon she returned with the med
icine, and I sent her again to fetch a
policeman. I forced a little\between
the man’s teeth, and, presently,
ho, came to and opened bis
oyt s. I asked him bow he came
there. He said, ’/Tired and starving.“
the time our own troubles. My wife
insisted .that something good would
como of the matter, and at 8 o’clock
next morning she roused me and made
me set off for the hospital. As I waa on
my way there, my eye waa caught by an
advertisement on a jhoprding:
And then I waked him where^he came
from, and he auddenly brightened up,
and, looking keenly at me fa* a moment,
rtaid, “ Edinburgh ;”“bnt, from the way
he said it, I felt convinced he vas (|e-
eciving me, and shortly after asked
•
the same queetipir again, and be, with
the same look, said, “Glasgow."
In his weak state, however, I forbore
questioning him further, and, a police-
man presently coming np, we got him
into a cab and took him to th* hospitiil,'
where I waited until he was pul to bed.
Before I left I naked the house surgeon
to give’s shilling to the poor gtrl—MVrv
Kennedy was her name. He readily did
so, and the went off to sleep in " Old
Walter's" lodging booas in Folwood'a
When at teat I got
wile waiting anxiously
ever, when t told ay
the detey, and i
alike
I found my
far as. How-
the strs'K*
ON* HUNDRED.BOCNtlS REWARD
A Gentleman of unsound jiimd haa escape'!
from the M Private Asylum. The above
reward will be paid to any person finding h m
anct rdstoring Rim to his Triehda. “
Then followed a description which
exactly tallied with the appearance of
my patient. Everything waa now clear
to mo, Mid I fairly ran to the hospital.
—Here, however, my hopes were
damped, for I found that Policeman Z
had gone there before me and told a
story very different from the true one
which I bare narrated, and had actually
gone the length of warning die anthovi
ties against me. The solicitor whose
address was given in the advertisement
had been sent for t and the worthy con
stable had evidently determined to
hraztm it ont and secure the £100. I
saw the house-surgeon, and told him the
whole story. He thought for a few mo
ments, ami then said : " We must get
that girl at onoe.” ^ ‘
I went myself immediately to the
wretched den where she had stopped
and brought her bark with me. A very
short examination tiefore the solid tot
settled Policeman Z’s caae. and an hour
afterward I was able to go tiack to my
wife with more money in my pocket
than I ha<l had for many a long day.
But that waa not*the liest of it. I
visited my patient—who waa no other
than the wealthy Baronet, Hir Charles
FrampUm—every day. He aeremed to
take a strong liking for me, and when
he was well enough to be moved his
friends proposed that I should take him
under my care. He waa perfectly bans
leas, and, mflmr residing abroad with ns
tar a couple of years, he ao far recovered
that he was enabled to dispense with
ay services, and to manage hia own af
fairs. He abhwed hia gratitude, how
ever. in a most princely fashion, settled
an annuity on poor Mary Kennedy (she
had previously been liberally rewarded
l*y hia frieuite), and bought ae the
practice which I still bold. From that
day everything has prospered with ae,
and I aa now rich enough to leave the
work to ay eldcet eon, and aanae ay-
self in writing some of the ettrioua inn
den la of ay life, not the leagt strang>< >4
which is the providential occurrence in
ffito Gray’s Inn road.
rua omiarr or rar« n ow.
Not only the beginning of agrirnltnra,
but the invention at the plow itself, is
prehistoric. The plow was known to
the ancient Egrytmns and Babylonians,
and the very existence at these nations
points to previous thousands of yean of
agriruHttral life, which alone could have
produced such dense, settled and civil
ixed populations. It was with a sense
of what the plow had done for them that
the old Egyptians ascribed ita invention
to Osiria, and the Vrelic bards said the
Acvina taught its use to Mann, the first
man. Many nations have glorified the
plow in legend and religion, perhaps
never more poetically titan where the
Hindoos celebrate Site, the spouse of
Bams, rising, brown and beauteous,
crowned with corn-ears, from the plowed
fields; she is herself the furrow (rifn)
peisonified. Between man’s first rude
husbandry and this advanced state of
tillage lies the long interval nhieh must
l»e filled in by other than historical evi
dence. What has first to be looked for
is hardly the actual invention of plant
ing, which might seem obvious, even
to rude tribes who never practice it
Every savage is a practical botanist,
skilled in the localities and seasons of
all useful plants, so that he can scarcely
be ignorant that seeds or roots, if put
into proper places in the ground, will
grow. When low tribes are found not
tilling the soil, but living oa wild food,
as apparently all mankind once did. the
reason . .of the absence of agriculture
would seem to be not mere ignorance,
but insecurity, roving life, nnsnitable
climate, want of proper plants, and, in
regions where wild fruits are plentiful,
sheer idleness and carelessness. On
looking into the condition of any known
savage tribes, Australians, Andamaners,
Botocudee, Ftiegiaus, Esquimaux, there
is always one or more of these reasons
to account for want of tillage. The
turning point in the history of agricult
ure seems to be not the first thought of
planting, but the practical beginning by
a tribe settled in One spot to assist
nature by planting a patch of ground
round their huts.—Popular ijcicno*
Montidy.
Ws sometimes hear it sneeringly said;
That man’s father was a bootblack, or
that lady’smother was a washerwoman.
The sneers, of course, are direr tea
against those who are trying to make
some figure in the world. Would it not
je well for ns all to put on the robes of
'humility? The anoaatry of Urn whole
humeri family were only savages. The
ancestral beginning of every one ef ns
waa hardly worth bragging about, and,
in
a thonaand yenrs from now will
OK AI>1 FKT1SIXQ.
“ Tl* not In mortal* to command
Suacmii,” a* all can nnderatand,
And bualnea* man oft raek their brain*
How to Inoreaa* tbeir aales and gain*.
Of all tin plan* which man davtaa
Mona aquala this—to advertise <
In oompatlUon’* art son* raea
Dost thou desire a foremoat plaoa?
Do** high ambition An thjr toul,
-Man’* mind* and pooketa to control t
Then listen to this counsel wise, >
And largely faealy aiTsartla*
Would*! thou behold the people flock
To see the wdl-eelected stock.
And, tempted by the bright rtlapiay,
Delighted buy—and gladly pay T
This pleasant tight shall meet thin* eyes
If thou wilt simply—adesrliae.
Put forward thins undoubted claim, 1 1 -
IM entry household know thy name.
The people shall accept thy MU
And honor It with right good wllL
Kurres* is given to him who tries.
And trie* again—ao allvertise.
Hang ont thy linnon on each wall,
lad them be neither few nor small.
Ho that the people may glia bead.
And hr who runs may also read,
In let lam of gigaatle Mas,
Tire facts which thou doet—adrsrttaa
Hu shad thy bualnsas still I
Aiid*H Ib> doubts and fa
Tire l-roplr shall thy same record
Familiar as s household word.
J 'A UP akstt vlu the prias
Who fairly
-r*tr*!S< WfT.KnA Adi
j
A CORNER IN COFFINS.
Ouce, in a eerteta mining town in
Nevada, a man died. It waa an isolated
town, and ita )>et>pla had to procura
threir supplies from a long distance. Tha
inau died because, among other reasons,
Itf could not postpone it.
Tlii) brother of the dead man ordered
a hantkMNbe coffin for the oeeerion. * He
■nlcrred it from an undertaker by the
name of Hotchkiae. The mother- in-lew
4 thre deoeaaed, not knowing of this,
■r.lrrrd s coffin, too—a cheap one. She
•nlrrrd it of bud berry, another under
taker.
Hotehktaa came, measured the corpse,
anti withdrew. Hhoelty afterward Bud*
(terry aiqieamL He took
4 thre remains, too, the
psaing that he waa in
red with tbs other
In the aftrernonu Hotchkiae
hia coffin. It fitted tike a glove. Joel
as he was giving
and making tha corpse (reel
knew if any one elae set tip in the under
taking business, weeks would elapse
before his coffins arrived. There was
s great falling off in the mortality that
had prevailed. None but the wealthy
could afford to die, that is, to die de-
eently. . - x
There was a great deal of dissatisfac
tion. People expostulated with' Hotch
kiss. They said it waa perfectly legiti-
to to make a comer in nny other
article of trade, bnt to make it in coffins
was sacrilegious and ought not to be en
dured, Hi answered that he had aa
much right to put up the price of hia
wares as a baker or a butcher had to put
up prices in his bminem; that he did
not cause the death of people, and was
under no obligation to bury them. Said,
though, that he would bury all be killed.
He further explained that there was no
overwhelming necessity of a man to have
a coffin, or even to be buried, ae to that
matter ; that no man would make any
complaint if not buried. Booh argu
ments did not satisfy the people. None
of them were needing coffins either, x'
Old man Eli Stona waa taken sick be
fore the undertaken had oompromtaed
matter*, and waa not keeping abreast
with the coffin war. He was known to
be the most contrary man in Nevad*.
He waa old and failing rapidly. The
doctors told him to make whatever prep
arations he desired, aa tha end was not
far off, A lawyer, being called in, waa
writing the old man's will The dying
man’s words were scarcely audible, and
he would have to cease speaking, at
abort intervals, to get his leering brseth.
Ha could hear good. As the writing of
the will progressed, he overheard bobm
of hia friends in an adjoining mom talk
ing about tha monopoly in coffins—the
unheard-of chargaa. Hs told the law-
where he had got
lis.kred at each other ; Hotchkiss smiled;
Stidl>ciTT dt In't. The latter saw that
the former had got ahrestd of him ; Imt
that wae not all. Hotchkiaa' coffin waa
"t only a very haudsumc one, but he
had srrtnged tilings ao that the corpse
! *>k I litre it «aa |«niud of l>eing dead.
Its apiN-anutoe cheered grief-stricken
fru nds and relatives. They wrere related.
SudU rry’a coffin waa cheep and coarse
•ml it a as empty.
Tltrey had words. Budbrerry blurted
or?
a mean, sneakin' ad
‘'Yott're-
vai htgre <i mre."
•• (tiffin was ordered <4 me in a regular
waf,” fretsirted Hot. Iikiss.
*• I'd like to furntah a t-oflin to bury
you in,” continued Budliorry.
” t‘d rather live forever than be buried
in one of yottr old cheap coffins.”
** I'll cut down the price of coffins un
til you'll have to pack your blankets out
of town.”
“ Out away!
He did cut down prices so low that
he got all of Hotchkiss’ business. Then
Hotchkiss cut Itelow Sudberry’s prices.
It was getting cheaper to die than to
live. Several availed themselves at
the reduced rates. Old Giidsey, who,
as a matter of economy, ate only one
meal a day, took this occasion to get off
and avoid the expense of even one meal
a day.
Sudberry cut again. Hotchkiss met
it. Then the former began to pay f 1
for the privilege of undertaking a
oorpae. His bosiness livened up. Ted
dy O’Flynn, who had a partner in a
boot-black stand that he could not get
along with, availed himself of this op:
portunity to dissolve the partnership,
and make a dollar. His partner died
very unnaturally. The increase at the
death-rate of the town was very notice
able. A good many people seized the
occasion to get rid of their enemies and
turn an honest dollar. .
—Hotchkiss, too, began to offer a re
ward of j:l a corpse,. snd a drink of
whiskv thrown in. The next morning
Hattlesnake Bill, a desperate character
of the town, stopped before Hotchkiss’
shop, with four dead Chinamen in
tv agon. He wanted $1 and the drinks.
The undertaker objected to taking the
Chinamen. Bill told him he could take
them or be dumped dead in with them,
and go over to Budlierry’a. Hotchkiss
took the four Chinamen. Bill took the
four drinks.' Hotchkiss had cut prices
about as far as he could. He had i
Urge family dtqiendent iqstn hilri; find
berry had no family—no family Wt the
time. He had previously buried the
members of hia family, as
it
rum MMITOB
BWMMT
Aim
unrnam.
He wae a consumptive-looking young
man, with a hollow eye, long hair, a
chronic Byronio frown, and gloomy-
tinted finger nails, aa it were. In feet,
te wee ao evidently a poet that the ed-
tor scowled ae he entered, and let off
an internal oath at the* fighting editor
or always being out when he wae meet
wanted. r - •
“I notice,” said the bard, in a gentle
and conciliatory voice, V that one of onr
trominent pioneer citizens, Mr. Julius
i ’. Juniper, died this morning, and I
thought that mebbe you’d like a few
appropriate verse# referring to the ad
event."
' Nary verses," said the editor, snap-
ting his watch impatiently.
“Wouldn’t—er—wouldn’t earn to
tlirow the lambent glow of poesy around
the mystery of the hereafter, then.
Don’t wish to gild the portals at the
tomb with harmonious sympathy and
hope, eh ? "
‘ Not a gild,” eaid the editor.
‘Of course, it—er—the contribution
would be a gratuitous one,” explained
the sweet singer, earnestly.
'' That’s our schedule price for poetry,"
said the pencil nibbler, grimly.
" I observe that the rain has come at
last,” remarked the poet, after an awk
ward silence. .“Don’t it strike you
that e few graceful stanms beginning:
tom Meat taw* M H*7 *b*d
. Cfmm tha talratlacaarta. ,
would form a leading attraction tar jour
weekly edition ? "
“'Frmid not,” ejaculated the ehetracri
ed alieer-shover.
“ How would a little religioaa poetry
mo with jour readers daring tha preseat
revival T
y*r »© ■top ngm
Haid he wt
The feeling of hostility
for a day or twet Finally
ad ia trait at hia i
would watch
Iffil—<
400 pounds. No one
thought at hie being buried ia a
Hogshead. The
topmceutl, their knowledge at
coffin shope l«reing quite limited. It wee
at first proptawd to burn the building
ami re intents. ' T)u« wee objected to, ae
it would (reeve the town without eoffine,
atwf coaeeqnenUy, without inducements
to thre ciriaens to die. Then one infuri
ated little man shouted :
“ We ran use hia coffin*."
“ I don’t want to use one,” said an
other.
“ I hinted 7 I do,” exclaimed a third.
“Me,uutbcr,"chuBediBamar dressed
in buckskin.
And “me nuther" eeemed to be the
general feeling.
At last, Hotchkiss, speaking through
an auger hole, agreed to a compromise.
He was to reduce prices for poor peo
ple, and, where e whole family died, to
allow them excursion rates.
Old Eli Stone got well. It was
thought he would put up an opptaririou
mdrertakcr’s shop, to punish Hotrhkiak
for his meaunefs. No. He presented
Hotchkiae a 8200 gold watch, inscribed
“ Yours gratefully."— Cai/famiun,
TUMKMT CAMFBTB.
The revival ef the favor ia which
Turkey carpets were formerly held is
bringing fresh prosperity to Austin
ttte so-called Smyrna carpets nearly all
of them coming from this province.
The beet of these carpets era made at
Ouchack, by Turkish women. The
manufacture occupies on an avers*
4,000 hands, of whom 3,000 am women,
500 young girls employed in weaving
the wool, and 600 men who wash and
dry the wool The aveidge of the wages
is about 94 cents a week, and each
woman weaves in the oottrie of a day’s
work abont ten inches at carpet two feet
broad. The town of Ouchack usee in
the course of a year about 630 tons of
raw wool, which yields about half that
weight when apon, and the manufacture
of carpets has increased very much of
late years, the total for 1879 having been
nearly 116,000 square yards, of which
only 6,000 yards ware sold in the coun
try, half of the 110,000 yards exported
going to England sod a quarter of the
other half going to France,
right in hia lias, and he did h at
first oost. TVs former approached the
latter to see if they eonld net agree to
old prtoaa. Badhesr* would not
any aaeffi panpasitma. Bate
he mmmz —
la retrina has loaeee, ha pat
in Hkaty to
prove aa expensive lot lo tha English,
if they are listsasd to Yakoob
wants a palaot in fcghatd sad £10,000
a year aa compensation for
he has lost Abdul Bahama, tbs
eligible of the prclendsm, wants £800,
000 to fit him oat for Oabul, while Mo-
Jan is ready to
to Great Briteto for m
and a laaidsnm in India. }
Rate* of Advertiffilnjg.
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One inch, one
M <4 _
Quarterly,
tracts made on litoral
orjwriyi
Ovntrset advertising is payable 80
days after first inreruoa, oaloss other-
wise stipulated. , <vi ; . ^
No oomamnioatioa will to paUnbod
unless sooompanied by ths name and ad-
dram of the writer, not aeossmrUy for
jjubdeation, but as a guaranty of good
^TflJC PEOPLE,
Bara wall 0. B. 0.
■J-reret'
•• MBB CMBSTirUT MAIM,"
I stood by h*! MS* whaiTths H4* «aaM (e,
With ita orsaptaf kia* sad Ms wsUtsf asi
I held bar fast—was shs mis* to wtat
Mifht I osll tor, aoma Sar, air oea t
I looked tat tha SagOi of I
CtOMtOOU I
In lb* taodar too** that food tofts prixa,
I Md tor how fair to* was to aw. *—jrf
I prataad n* (iam e( tor saaaeir !
Tha iaahlnf warts aesf low and unlit
Tha bright agrat atoaa at tea word* 1 taU,
Whita tha Usht foen BwOad sboat tor laaA
I
I prslaad (ha ahaen of ter ohaataat
Mever a word she asM to sat.
Bat eloeer aha crept to my
By Urn
“ Cnutd ah* be min* T" Aa l bead bar laet
Asd aald, M ns weeld aril ■*, ftnl aiUl taalk
For S busdrad deHare, that abreatost BUMW”
A MBMATOBTt IHDUMTUT.
United BUtes Senator Dennia, of
Maryland, has about twelve acres ef
land pat down in a pond, that fa fed by
salt water. This pood makes the largest
terrapin farm probably in the world, and
fa the source of a heavy ineoane. In H
terrapins are raked for the market, and
it fa said that over 11,000 “ counts” have
been sold bum it in one year. It may
ho noted, for the bmistift uf the unin
itiated, that a “count” fa atermpin over
•even inches in length; and tha
“ counts" are sold by number—bringing
from 810 to 814 a down, or about 81
each. In market they retffil for about
890 per dnmn—ond in tfan
d at81-60 a]
terrapin filling about three
am sold at lower fig-
arse, but all bring good figures and are
in (act as well ao
8 o’clock of e shill
8 o’clock of e colder
WA
The funny editor of the
(burier gives the following example of
e bewedta of algetoa;
We have studied algebra in our youth.
We loved it, end need to get up nights
to dig into He depths. We had to, or
else get our neck twisted by the teacher
next day. In later years we find alge
bra of vast service to ns in our business.
It helps Ub in solving many a difficult
problem. For instance, we will suppose
we owe our paper-maker a bill (a very
■uppoeable case), and he writes to find
out when we propose to pay him tome-
thing on account. We at onoe brush
up our algebraical information, and the
situation appears ss follows :
Let a represent the paper-maker, b
the paper, o ourselves, d the amount of
the bill and x the unknown quantity.
Then the problem stands: a minus b
and c plus d; transposing, according to
the well-known rale in each cases made
• ; . ~ . ■
and provided, we get a minus 6 and d
and c plus 6, which, by invemoo, gives
z, the indefinite quantity, which is the
date when we shall make a remittance,
if it doesn't storm. We draw all this
out nicely on a clean sheet at paper and
forward it to our paper-maker, remark
ing that, having received his favor of
the, etc., we beg to band him in reply
the inclosed, etc. He looks it carefully
over, sees that a, which fa himself, fa
minus 6 and d, which are the paper and
the money to pay for it, and thst c, our-
selves, are plus b, the fifty reams of
paper, more or less, and tbat the quo-
tii vit x, the indefinite quantity, fa a very
indefinite quantity indeed, and he rubs
his aching head in a dazed sort of way
and feebly instructs his bookkeeper not
to draw on the Courier as before direct
ed, as they will probably remit ia a few
.lays.
Dr. Oetove
anti* G. W. Bice tl
snd Mr. Hsury day,
great statesman, wffl
aid of the expedition. The
fa a British-built veaeel, but tl
ney General haa
mfasloa to fiy the
of the
Wax Napoleon formed the Legion of
Honor there was much dtoonsainn as to
the color of the ribbox Napoleon was
for whits, probably because oa state oc
casions he loved to diem in scarlet, and
saw how happy the color contrast would
be. It was represented that white was
pre-eminently the itokr 'flf the exiled
house. He then snggested red, end •
T. Babbum has josi
his 70th birthday. Hs
work at U as clerk in a country store; at
18
revolutionary color. But, remembering
that blue was the color of meet of the
uni'orms in the army, and that zed
would answer as a contrast, he said,
“Let it be red."
Moody wants new nymna. He gives
the scriptures rather than tracts to infi
dels. He would like to see places of
worship warn and well ventilated.
Prayers, he says, should be short. He
knows of s bunch of grapes sent around
people from one to aaqther.
and all the sick people
Advertising, especially in regard to
church notices, does, in Moody’s opin
ion, more good than hirtn. Fault-find
ing, he beHevea, fa a nuisance in the
church. Hs says, “Hava no feattrala.
There fa no gambling at prayer mset-
mga.” '
Asfaraotts.—It is much better Is rofl
ap the banohea in muslin than Is da-
psnd apon a string. Boil in salted
shoes of thin bread, dtp into ths
in wkfah ths aspsragu
ter plsntifalty. Taka ap Em