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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 24, 1890. 3 k ON HUCKLEBERRY RIDGE. b Story of Ono “Bad jxnd Orful’* Chriatmaa Day. Trials and Tribulations That Hcfcll n Tan- ther Creek I*oy — kittle f?teer Hrln- dle, Ki d I.rather Shoos and a kong- Tall 'IViiuhL'stcr Coat. >’is Stories I have told now and then— ■lories on top of stories — but if iny r c in c ni - bmnee ain’t dead wrong I never did tell you Ilrit Fos ter’s Christmas story in regards to his little steer by the . irj name of Brtn- v > dle » h 1B r c ,l L mN \ : leather shoes ' «"d W» lone- tail Winchester coat. Many and many’s the time I have heard Urit tell that story, which at the same time, you un derstand, it was the unwashed truth— and I have laughed and laughed till by gracious I would ache all over in spots as big ns a saddle blanket. But Brit he never could And where the laughin part conic in. With him it was “a passle of meet hellatious sad and solcmcholy facts in history.” ••The Man and the Surroundlas Mot.” Hit was way out there in the Ban Handle country of Texas, in a town bv the name of Vernon, one Christmas • eve night, where me and Brit met up together the last time in this vain and flcetin world below. Seven long years had then come and went since me and .him had shook hands aerost the bloody chasm of the piust. There was n warm and hearty “howdy Bufe” and “howdy Brit,” and that night when we fell in with the town gang around a blnzin good tire in the back room—all hands braced up to about six bitn in the dollar and mellow onto the occasion—I lowed to Brit that the man and the surround- ins had met oncst more—that the day hour hud now come for him to t c ]\them Texas fellows about the sad and n£I rddc Christmas which he had Bjicnt onTTI^il 10 back there in the states in durin of our an(1 better days. Well, as usual, Brit puTTc??- ±t n the bits considerable, but under the geiaTJOj^ pressure of the surroundin circum ference he finally at last give in and come forth with that famous chapter from our local history. “TreroemUuii Bad Wherefore#.” "Bits been so monstrous long ago, Rtife.’nnd the whence ness and the where fores thereof are so tremendius rod unto iny wanderin thoughts till dnrned if 1 don’t raley hate to tell the truth whilsthlstory repeats herself. Hit wr.s the ups and donna, the trials and tribulations of that orful day, Bufe, which driv me away from the old home ^•hore I had spent the golden days of Jfetoyhood. 1 lit was 1 he seandlousscrape brnng down on me by that little scrub steer of mine, Brindle, them red leather shoes and that infernal long fail coat, which took me as a green and tender boy. fresh from the woods and hills—with the dew drops and the liay- ired in my hair—throwed me out into the cold world alone and made me what you see and what 1 am to-night—a gam bler which has hot his pile on two pair, queens up, as it were, whilst the other man holt four aces or a straight flush.” ••Over on Iluetilrbcrry ItUljc.” “Ton must recoil-ct, Bufe, that In them plain ok! days some of (iod’s own people lived right down there in the Banther Creek settlement. Most in generally rpcakin they Ix lorgcd to the ftld School I'nptk t.v (!cd ftnrin, debt payin, dram drinkin,democratic people. Bnt they were pore, Bufe, most holla- tlous pore—which I always did main tain they didn’t mean ro harm by that. And let me tell you, fellow citizens, money was money then, and it took foinc tall seratchin and starvin stlntin t* pay off the feed hills and keep up with the store account. Consequential ly as you no doubts recollect, Bufe, In onr young and gallin days the where withals and raiments with which I clothed iny awkward body were the plainest and but blame few at that. Now I can remember the skecrce on 1 ronnty manner of my dress the same as if it was but only yesterday. Honest to Coil, fellow citizens, I was pat-sin out from boyhood into manhood with w his kers sprout in on iny face and women brarin on my mind before I ever climcd up on the inside of a full suit of clothes. In the summer lime I had to wear a long tail homespun shirt, and in the winter it w as that same long tall shirt spliced out below with n pair of wool nooks to keep my wayward feet from freezin slap off. “But finally at last I was feelln my oats so promiscus and plentiful till nothin would do hut 1 must go out amongst the female generation. In the main tim? old man Larry Benton was llvin over there on Huckleberry Bidgc and raisin of a tremendius large and lovely crop of girls. And it did look to me like of all the places In the discov- tred world for a youngster to go and have n high heel good time that was Ihc mnincst place. But from that bright day down uiwo thlshlessed hour, fco fur as anybody knows, I never have been caught foolin and fmnblin around ivlth a ixissle of gay and gorgeous girls. By gatlins, I give cm all the road now till they git broke and bridle wise and tpdt pnllln on the bit. Anyhow, after •tiiyln wake of nights for a week— winstlin with the question which would be the best, to go or not to go—thinkln ■bout that drove of girls over at old men Larry's, and plckln out the prit- Meat one In the pack for my own and onlyPHt sweetheart—I lowed that I would go. Aftertliat the mnincst thing w ith me wan the viggina and the flx- menti to put on.” pair of new coperas breeches for Sun day,” Brit went on, “and along indurin of the week I had took and swapped a right tolerable good fiddle to Lum Hankins for a long tail black coat—a reglnr Winchester, ns Aunt Liza Hal- born use to say—and six bits to boot. That want no rale, genuine, store bought coat, you understand. From the best of my recollection I reckon Lum Hankins must of got it made outen'onc of his mother’s old black dresses. But at any rates it was a regkir calf w iper, wind splitter and earth sweeper. But the general style and cut of my shirts was so infernal broad and long and full and bountiful like till durned if I had room enough to wear one with my coperas breeches—which they did fit mo as snug as a bug in a rug—and there I was, as the man says in the ■how. “So whom Christmas oomo—It was a worm and windy winter day—I climi into my red leather shoes and thorn coperas breeches, pulled on my long-tail black coat and buttoned it up tight and dost in front so nobody couldn’t tell for certain that I did’t have no signs of such a garment—tied a lovely red handkerchief around inj' neck— put on my hat, and sprinkled a few cinnamon drops on my hair—hooked up my little steer, Brindle, to the cart, and lit out for Huckleberry Bulge with the riggins and the flxments cm. “Say, Bufe, don’t you remember that blame little slab-sided, razor-back, wob- bledy-legged steer, which I called his name Brindle, and which I driv over to Huckleberry Bidge that Christmas day? Well, man, sir, Brindle went all the gaits and worked anywheres, single or double, and then he would also do his level di:rudest to cat up every thing In sight—from a hay stack to a cord of gum stumps. 1 TESLA IS SKEPTICAL i Doos Not Doliovo tho X Ray Will Enablo the Blind to Coo. “A Mlg Scutt«-r»tlon.” “When I driv <o the front gale at old man Larry ton’s that Christ mas moruin, by gollys, I was feelin like n four-year-old shod all around, with pocks in every foot. Bight then I didn’t give a continential dam if tho creeks all run up stream and meat was goin at four bits a pound. 1 lit out, I did, and roped Brindle to the pulhis. By this time Uie girls had caught sight of me and here they come. They were nil monstrous glad to see me, and I was more than proud to meet V^tUjhcm one sit more. In my l»old and recklessniukI ondifferent way I then leant up agi/N Hie gate, whilst the girls they clustered arSmml me like bees n.iound a molasses jiig; and wc pitched in to have a roglar Christmas confabu lation jest amongst us gals, as it IVgre. Everybody was bavin sich a. felonious good time till I couldn’t take notice of anything but the fenuile generation. By and by the girls they got to gigglin and goin on at a seandlous lick. And me, like a dad-burned idiot, l thought was all because Christmas had oome oncst more, whilst the air was full of music and the turkey iuthe|>ot. Aliout that time I felt somethin biowin his warm breath on the bock of my neck, and when I turned round to see what was goin on, dura my eats if Brindle hadn’t chawed out a full section of my long-tail coat, right up and down the lack from collar to hem. Rightabout then a high we h wind sprung up be hind, and Jest naturally (.bucked oil my coat, and hlorwed it clean out into the middle of the big roue!. “Now, white people, if anybody ever heard tell of a tremendius confusion- men t and mighty seatteration, we had it right over there on Huckleberry Bidge that Christmas mornin. The girls they blushed and laughed and screamed ami made a dash for the house, whilst l lit into my cart, poured the whip to Brindle and wo burnt tho wind for home.” Some InteroitMn^ F.wln O'otetned l>y tlio Electrician from UN I ntvxt I’.xperl- mentft—Manuract’jro of Fer tilizer* by Electricity. Electrical Review publishes an ex haustive communication from Nicola Tesla on his latest experiments with the X rays. Tesla states that the sunburn effects noted by many experimenters ■re not duedirectly to the raysor Roent gen streams, but to the ozone gen erated by the rays in contact with the skin. He says: “Nitrous acid may also be rospons'ble to a smaJl extent. The ozone, when abundantly produced, attacks the skin and many organic substances most en ergetically, the action being no doubt hastened by the heat and moisture of the skin. Owing to this, I have always taken the precaution when getting im pression with the. rays to guard the persons by a screen made of aluminium wireo, which arc connected with the ground, preferably through a con denser. The rad leal means, however, of preventing such actions is to make impossible tho access of the air to the skin while exposing, ns, for instance, by immersion in oil.” The Inventor has the following to say in regard to recent alleged experi ments for making the blind see by means of Roentgen ray*: “Is it not cruel to raise such hopes when there is so little ground for it ? For, first of nil,, the rays are not demonstrated to be transverse vibrations. If they were, we would have to find means for re fracting them to make ]>osr,ible the pro jection of a sufficiently small image upon the retina. As it Is, only a shadow of a very small object can lie projected. M’hnt possible good can result from the application of these rays to such pur poses?” Tesla points out n possible method of manufacturing fertilizer by electricity in the following Interesting language: “With currents produced by jH'rfect- ed electrical oscillators the produc tion of the ozone is so abundant that it is sufficient to merely turn on the cur rent for a few seconds and ozonize strongly the atmosphere cf a large.hall. The»e currents are also capable of bringing about chemical combinations, of which the chief is tlmtof the nitro gen with the oxygen of the atmosphere, and an immense possibility, which I have been following up for a long time, is opened up, namely, the combination of the nitrogen of the atmosphere on fijv. industrial scale by practically no other ir.?ans than mechanical power. If merely fert/J'^ers of the soil would lie manufactured in *bis manner the bene fits to humanity ir-^ved therefrom would bo incalculable.”* SAYS HIS FACE EXPLODED. New Onnser from Cold In tho Iloa-.l D)»- oovered In Now York. If there l>o anything in the discovery which Eric Brermnnn, a night watch man in New York city, alleges he has made, suffering humanity is liable ton now and horrible danger whenever It catches a cold in the head. You may be walking along, annoyed by a stopimgr of the nostrils and thouc ether annoying feelings, when cudden- ly your omnium will swell to twice its normal size and then.—bang—your countenance will fly away in half a dozen ragged fragments. That Is whnt he told Policeman Khutor had happened to him when fouml tho other morning in Williama street. The Hist thing the policeman no th cd about Brcrtnann wa* the anor- mous size of his head, which, as he de scribed it, waa iia big as ■ lion’B, with a shaggy gray beard. The w atchman’s under lip wa« cut away with pretty nearly the whole of his right cheek. His left eye was closed by a great swelling, and there were several deep cuts acrorn the face. “Who hit you?” asked the policeman. “Nobody,” said the old man, with a strong Herman aceenL “Nor I didn’t fall down, neither. I was just walking, when my face swelled up with a cold and exploded.” Brermnnn ic a w idower, living in a furnished room, which he rents from Mrs. Pitzel at 27 Frankfort street. Khc sold that he suffered much from nose-bleed and always said that it came from exploding veins in his head. His condition is serious, but he will prob ably recover. WOLVES DESTROY CATTLE. METHODIST PREACHERS. CALIFORNIA GOLD PRODUCTION. ADS 1 A,NS AWP Wlf<S ®^ 00 0- “That Had and Orful l»ay.** With that I laughed ns I had laughed a hundred times before at Brit Foster and his Christmas story. And as for them Texas fellows, they laughed and laughed till they jest naturally had to lay down and roll over in it. But Brit never could, find where the laughin part come in, and there was a far-away solcmcholy look on his face as he breshed the tears from his cyea and went on with the story: “When I got back home I up and told my Uncle Griffin—which you remem ber, Bufe, iny own dear father was dead and gone then, and me and moth er wo hail went to live with Uncle Grif —I told him what had come to pass and bantered him to buy iny little steer Brindle. He laughed, at me till it was a sin and a .vcundalation, but I finally at last hnrnsnoggled him into a trade and cold him Brindle for seven dollars and uix hits ($7.25), spot cash. “That night I packed up a little wal let which belt all I hod in the way of ( his world’s goods except in t he torn and tattered remains of that durned in fernal old long tail Winchester coat, slipped out of tho back window and down through the orchard and run away from home. Tho next day I made 't to Belle’s Landin down on the Ala bama river and there I struck a steam boat goin to Mobile. I up and told the captain all about the orful time I had the day before over on Huckleberry Bidge, and soon ns he could stop laugh- in long enough he told me if I would promise to tell my troubles to the crowd on the boat he would let mo ride with him to Mobile free gratis for nothin. That was a sad and terrible thing for me to tell, hut money was money then, and the captain was traded with on tho spot. “When I struck the city I waa a plum show to them town folks, and somehow the gamblers they took to me »s quick and natural ns a sick kitten to a pan of sweet milk. In the run of time I fell in, and learnt the game and went to gal lop! n with the gang. Some times the documents have come my way, Bufe, anil sometimes -they have run from me like a shot. But necordin to what the Scripture says, everything that goes up must come down. RUFUS SANDERS. Value of tho Oatpnt In I'lguml at Nearly One ami n Half lillllon of Dollars. Charles G. Yale, statistician of the California state, mining bureau, has compiled a statistical review of the gold production of California from 1848 to 18t>5, inclusive. Mr. Yale gives not only hia own estimate of the production, but that of each of nine recognized authori ties, affording a valuable comparison of data. Mr. Yale has adopted an the ! basis of his own statistics the statistics compiled by Louis A. Garnett and the United States mint director’s report as being the most correct and complete of any extended continuousMatemenL In a note to his table he says: “A table made up of the separate es timate of Blake in the Tenth census. Page. 3S0; of Raymond in the United States mining commissioners’ report of 1873, Page 543, and of John J. Yah n- t in<*, of Wells, Fargo & Co., added toget h er, make a total to.Januury 1,1896,of$l,- 260,091,886, while that compiled by Yale from the estimates of Garnett and tho United States mint feports of January 1, 1896, make a total of $1,265,217,217. There is, therefore, only a difference in the two set« of estimates of $874,669, which is remarkably close. “The authorities quoted by Mr. Ynlc are: J. D. Whitney, J. Rossbrowne, J. Arthur Phillips, United States mining reports; W. P. Blake, B. W. Raymond, .1. J. Valentine, L. A. Garrett and the United States mint reports.” SPANISH BULL FIGHTS. Consul-General Ilowon Reports They Aro More Popular Than Ever. Consul General II. \V. Bowen, in u report to the deportment of state on “Spanish bull fights,” says that during the season—April 5 to October 20, 1396 •-there were 478 bull lights in Spain. During this period 1,218 build, valued at $300,000, and 5,730 horses, valued at $200,000, were killed. The number of “matadors” was 23, and they received for their services $221,500. The less re nowned fighters received from $300 to $400 for each fight, while the most re nowned received from $500 to $8,500 The famous “Guerrita” appeared in 68 fights, killing 174 hulls and received $51,000. “Bombita” fought 43 times, killing 112 bulls and was paid $21,000. “Mazzantini” entered the ring 29 times, hilling 08 bulls and made $21,700. Consul Bowen says that it cannot bo true that the interest in bull-fighting Is diminishing; on the contrary, it seems even more intense tlian ever. Petrlfleil FUh In Wyoming. For a score of years geologists have known of the ex Is tone of immense beds of shale in Wyoming, whichceasionally have yielded lino specimens of fossil shell fish, hut it is only recently that similar beds have lieen discovered In Colorado. These is-ds of petrified fish, containing millions on millions of in dividual specimens, cover hundreds of square miles in the northwestern part i of the state. Sam Jonoa Gives Us n Glimpse of Their Lives. Th« Annual Confercnco—Tlirro Kind* of Pastor*—“Gum Log*" In the Church — What Make* an EIToctlve Minister. Owners of tho Rftisgtvi West of tho Ml*- Hour! Ask Protection of tho Stats. Cattlemen in the bad lands section of tho great entitle range west of the Missouri river in 8>.uth Dakota l av* decided to ask a'.d of the state legis lature in ridding the region of the gray wolves which continue to do great dan.age to their herds. The catth men in a scope of country extending 45 or 50 miles along White r.vor, and Lock from that stream a distance of 25 miles to the head of Bad river, some time ago formed an organizat’on. having for its object the suinlhJki’tian of gray wolves, upon which u bounty of eight dollars ynch was offered by live outthm.en. Tho fund used for this purpose was raised by assessing members of the organization two cents (T.cli for each animal owned by them. During the past senaou three assessments have been levied upon the members of the organization, but there has lieen no [apprcciablo deorcr.se. in tiie number >»f wolves that Infest the territory. This has boeom* burdensome to the cattlemen, and tin* state will now be asked to assume the burden and protect the cattle Interests. C'onj;n Humjvn Southwlck Make* a Nsvcl YVaycr ami Comes Out AhoaU. C-eorgc N. Southovick, member of congiVw from the Albany (X. Y.) dis trict, hits lust won a wager of $2,000 by i.lsstaitting torn liquor for one year. Mr. Southwic\wnK warned by Anthony X. Brady, one of tjje wealthiest citizens of Allxuiy, on Novt^nber 25, 1895, that the. allurements of Washington life might prove too strong lor him to resist, l«rtieularly In the matto^-xof indul gence in strong drink. BantiS; nnd re partee among several gentlemrh pres ent led to a declaration by the rcpriv'T.- tatlvc that It would not he a particle of trouble for him to never drink another drop. Mr. Brady promptly offered to bet him $2,000 lie could not abstain for one year. The wager waa taken, and in addition several side wagers were made by Mr. Louth wick's friends both for and against hia ehancesof success. One of these was laid by Mr. Brady with Eugene D. Wood, tho amount lieing $5,000 to $3,000 that the representative would fail. Although the temptations have been many, Mr. South wick comes out a winner by $2,000 and Mr. Wood by $5,000. AIRSHIP TRIP TO HONOLULU. Ban Jonc (Cal.) Man A«t(ts a Chapter to Aerial K*' i£ntlon I.lteratnro. John A. Heron, an electrician of Snn Jose, Cal., tolls of an airship etory which is admitted to be the bent to date. Heron is the patentee of an elec- trio platinum sinking apparatus. He says he went to Fan Francisco the other day by appointment to sec the in ventor of the airship Apparatus, whose name he says he is pledged to conceal. Heron adds: “We went on horsebnek to a point *n the sandy beach where the airship was. We got alxiard, and rose very high. The height wan registered by a meter on the ship. Tha Inventor does not count distance by miles, bnt by degrees. We traveled westward, and before day break we saw lights, which the bivent er said were Honolulu lights. We then turned cast, and at dusk on Saturday evening wc finished our two-days’ cruise and hinded near the starting |k)!nt. “The airship rose by means of two proiiellers. The movement was noise less and swift. It can lie stopped and held stationary In the air, and descends light os a feather. The motive power is neither steam nor electricity." Cnlted Ulktes Ktcet. Mulhall says the United States pro duces one-third of the steel manufac tured In the world. Too Fs*t f«r a ftwnllnw. A swallow Is considered one of the fastest cf flying birds, and It was thought until recently that no Insect could escape It, A raturnlisttellsof an exciting chase he saw lietwcen a swal low and a dragon fly, which Is among the swiftestof insects, the hitter finally ’scaping. Salt Makes Thick I.caves. Plants growing’ near the tea have thicker leaves than those growing in land. Apparently the sea salt is tho cause of this phenomenon, ns plants cultivated In nrtlfleaUy-salted soil yield thicker leaves. The annual gathering of the Norih Georgia conference bins just closed its session at Dalton, and when 1 got on board the truin yesterday in my town for Atlanta I found a train load of Methodist preachers—a jolly, hearty, noble company of men homeward Isjund from the session of their coufer- enee^some to move to new fields of labor and oome to go buck to their old lieldR. No Methodist preacher’s appointment to any pastorate lusta longer than 12 months. Their term of office expires every 12 montho—every year—and they are either removed or reappointed to the same work. This fact keeps up the interest in t hese annual gatherings. Kvcry Methodist preacher attends his conference if he has to borrow the money to pay his fare or walk. They look forv ard to their annual conference when they shall all he united socially and religiously again. Methodist preachers are very fond of each other’s company. A fellow feeling makes them wondrous kind. After the roll coll at the beginning of their annual session the regular routine of business begins. Each Methodist preacher’s character is passed, one after another, if there is nothing against him. There is no church that guards the character of her preachers more than the Methodist church. The fact that, he is a Methodist preacher is pretty good proof that he Is all right. If there is any report against him his case is referred to a committee, and if there be any grounds for the rejiort, specific charges are pre ferred against him. Now and then a Methodist preacher is arraigned for heresy, or for insubordination, and oc casionally one for immorality. No preacher's character is passed at th* annual conference until he first gives an account of his work, which embraces the success of his ministry in spiritual things and which discloses his fidelity in raising tho various collections ordered by the church. Then they have applications for ad mission into the conference, whose eases are all voted upon after pretty 1 borough representation of the special eases. These sessions or annual confer ences last generally from five to seven days. In the meantime the bishop and his cabinet hold their sessions between the sessions of the conference, and gen erally at night. The bishop and the cabinet at tho conferences is compoaed of tl e bishop and the several presiding elders on the districts of the confer ence. The presiding elders are simply an advisory Ixiard to the bishop. They discuss the fitness and unfitness of cer tain preaehersforcertain appointments. The bishop who seeks the glory of God and the good of men only has an ardu ous task at an annual conference be cause he acts for both parties, the preacher and the church he Is to serve. One of our bishops said: “We have three classes of preachers in our con ference. The first class are the best preachers whom everybody wants st every church. The second class is com posed of the preachers that nobody wants. The third is conijiosed of the preachers who are taken by any church nithout murmuring.” The first two ! i’.asses give the bishop a good deal of I trouble. It is hard to determine w.hcre { to send a preacher when 200 places want him. It Is hard to know whnt to j do with n preacher when not one out of i ihc 200 places wants him. It Is an easy task to place a large majority of prcoch- ' era who will go anywhere and whom any place will take without murmur ing. Each conference has whnt Is called Its “gum-logs.” They are generally men who are inefficient and don’t know it. They ore men that no charge wants, and yet they flatter themselves that they are generally sought for by nil the churches. Two of our Georgia preach ers once upon a time when they were Voung and effective being mutual friends agreed with each other to keep tab and that so soon as one found that the other was growing ineffective and getting to be a gnm-log he would so notify him. Time wore on. By and by they were both old preachers. Finally one screwed Jiis courage up to the sticking point, took his friend out to one side and said: “I have a jxunful duty to perform. W’o pledged each other in our younger days that if either of us grew Ineffective wc would notify the other. In compliance with that promise. I come to you to say that you are no longer sought after by any of the churches. None of the ehurches want you. You are a gum-log the conference can’t float.” Whereupon the gum-log replied to his friend: "There is not a word of truth, sir, in what yon say. I am more sought after to-day than rver in my ministry. But I am candid when I say to you that you arethe most inefficient man in our conference. You are the worst gum-log of all.” A preach er is the last fellow In the world to find aut that he la a gum-log. From all these annual gatherings many preachersgoowaj’disgruntledand dissatisfied with their appointments. Sonic of them talk outright. Others put on an air of injured innocence and sub dued greatness, and feel that great In justice hna been done them. If all the preachers were effective pastors and all of the places were good appointments every annual conference would bo a religious picnic. But there ore many gum-logs to be disposed of by the bishop and his, cabinet and there are scores of places that no preacher wants. The salaries of these preachers range from $3,000 (the highest) down to $60 (the lowest). There are not many, Methodist ehurches In the south that ■ pay their nastor* $3,000. Many pay FI,000. Onc-third pay lesa than $50^. The Methodist preacher never knows until the upointments ore read out at :he close of the annual conference whether he will be returned or removed, whether he will get a goo<l appointment or a sorry one. In the meantime the ■diurches within the bounds of the con ference are likewise uncertain as to who their pastor will be. As a rule the preachers are loyal to the powers that Ik*.. As a rule the churches accept loyal ly the preacher the bishop sends them. Many times there is simply a misfit that cannot lie adjusted, but the preacher re mains with his people for the year and they pay him his salary, looking for ward to the time when they shall get rid of each other. It is the preacher's desire in a religious way to get the be»»t | d|)ointineiit available to him. On the other hand, every church wunls the best preacher possible whether they pay much or little. I suppose our preachers like everybody else are graded in their s.alariee. \Ye have a few $3,000 preachers; some $2,000 preach ers; some $1,000 preachers, and then al most any sort of a preacher j'ou want. We ran. supply the demand. One of the saddest phases of theso Annual conferences Is the memorial service that each conference holds In memory of the preachers who have cone to their reward during the year. The old heroes fall by the wayside every year. The ranks are filled up by .voting and vigorous men who apply for meml>ership in the conference each yefir. It takes three things to make an effective preacher. First, one who can proseh; second, one who succeeds In buikling up his church *nd adding to it such as shall lie saved; and last, but not least, the preacher who raises the money a-sseosed to his charge. The monies to he raised by a preacher are, first, bis foreign misRioniiry money; second.thpdojne.sticmiEsionary money: third, the fund f«r our colleges and schools; fourth, the church extension fund; fifth, the bishop’s funds iwid sixth, what we call the conference col lection. This fund goes to supporting the worn-out preacher, or the widows and orphans of deceased preachers. Thescoolloctioasasnrule amount to *s much on many charges os two-thirds of the pastor's salary. It takes money to run anything in this world. The Lord will provide, but most of His provisions for man are such a« enable man to pro vide for himself. The ravens enme to Elijah and the manna rained down on the children of Israel in the w iUlcrncos. hut the Lord gives a man health and strength and sunshine and rain, and if he does not provid'*. then a.s a last re sort Providence has provided u poor- house in almost every county in our states. •», : As n rule the Methodist preachers aro jolly on their way to eonfeixHiee. They are a jolly set at conference. They arc jolly on their way home from confer ence. As a rule a more consecrated set of men never get together tlvan you will find composing these annual confer ences. They are ready to rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that do .weep. They are the most liberal set of men on tlie face of the earth. Almost every preacher comes away from conference, when* they have had repeated collection*, r.bsolutely broke, snd ns poor in money as preach ers usually are it Is morvelous the amount contributed In the collections ♦okwi at the •r.nunl conferences for some brother In distress, for some brother who bos lost his horse, or who has been stranded In some vvny; for missions; or for any good work. Out of tlx* 200 prenchers on the. train the other morning T doub't If then* whrWOO cash In their poeketeas they came away from the conference. If the Mel hod lift preachers preooh in>ernlity to their con gregations they eertn'nly set the ex ample. They practice w hnt they preach. I have mingled with Methodist preach ers for 25 years ns one of them. I be lieve In them, I love them, I reverence them. Other ehurches may have n« good and faithful men, bnt no church on which the sun shines to-day has purer, better.nobler men than they who compose our annual conferences. BAM P. JONES. ' The K1d£’s Dor. A curious advertisement appeared In a London paper in the year 1650. Some body had stolen one of the king’s dogs, and on the 23th of June a request was made for the animal’s return, stating that ho was “a smooth black dog, less than n greyhound,” and was to he re turned to John Elies on his majesty’s back stairs. The dog was not forth coming, and a second aivpeal was issued. It Is supposed to have been written by Kink Charles himself, as no one else would have adopted such a familiar style In using the monarch's name. The king’s sense of humor and appreciation of the state of affairs nt court are well ihovvn In the little advertisement. “We must call upon you again for a black [log, between a greyhound and n span iel, no white about him only a streak on his breast and a tail n little bobbed. It is his majesty's own dog, and doubt less was stolen, for the dog was not born nor bred In England, and would never forsake his master. Whoever finds him may acquaint any nt White hall, for the dog wins better known nt court than those who stole him. Will tliey never leave robbing bis majesty? Must lie not keep a dog? This dog’s place (though better than some Imag ine) is the only place vvhlch-nobody of fers to beg."—Youth’s Companion. The I.lttls Too' Is Doomed. It seems that there are to be no more little toes. A comparative anatomist': , ileclnres that the little toe must go, and announces gravely that already it is showing signsof degeneracy. Once up- < on a time It seems that the norse was tho possessor of four well-developed toes, whereas now he has but one to save his ilfe. But that toe. la a great one. And man's toe that is to survive “the crash of matter and the wreck of worlds*. !■ to be the great one; so this wise sei- | ratifle anatomist says. « ■ (i