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THK JIONKY giJKSl'ION. Silvery Talk In Congress?Battle of I lie Giants?What Representatives a iid Senators Say on the Blatter. Washington. Aug. 16?The debate jii tho House to-day on the Wilson re peal bill began with but little prelimin ary. It was startod by MeCall (Hop.) of Massachusetts in favor of the repeal of tho purchasing elauso of the Sherman bill, and was olosod by Moses (Dom) of Georgia, in opposition thereto. Sand wiched betwoen these two speeches were romarks by Coombs (Dein.) of New York, Bryan (Dein.) of Nebraska and Henderson (Rep.) of Iowa. Bryan made tho speech of the day, and al though he occupied more than two hours in its delivery, ho commanded the earnest attention of his colleagues throughout, and his sympathizers re gardod his argumont unanswerable. Bryan said that he would fully ac complish his purposoif he wore able to impress upon tho members of this House tlio importauco of the question which was now under con sideration and te quicken their ap preciation of the grave responsibility which pressed upon thom. Upon the action of this Congress might dopend not only tho wolfaro of the South and Wost, not only tho welfare of the United States, but tho welfare of hu manity itself for ages to conio. Somo outside of this hull had us v med that tho ro.comraondation of tho President imposed somo obligations upon the Democratic mombors to do as ho do sirod, and somo had even been hardy enough to suggest that a failure to fall in with tho recommendations thoro made, would subject tho dissenter to administrative displeasure. But thoso porsons did tho President great injus tice. Tho President would not for a moment forgot tho Independence of the two branches of Congress. If ho could understand the language of tho messago it meant but ono thing. It meant tho burial of silver with no promise of resurrection. It was the argument of tho guld standard. It led to univorsal gold mono-metallism. Ho was opposed to a single standard of valuo, bo it gold or silvor, and was In favor of a double standard. The ques tion now presented was whether the United States was going to say that it was an English colony or an indepen dent nation. Bryan spoko in favor of tho retention of tho ratio of 16 to 1, arguing that an lncroa60 of that ratio would oe detri mental to an international agreement as to tho coinago of the two motals. Tho troublo now was not a lack of con fidence In Great Britain. The United States had got along before without tho confidence .of England, and, thank God, it could do so again. Ho wanted to restore confidence among the poo ple, but he did not boliovo in curing a headache by putting a mustard plaster to the foot of the pationt. [Applause.] Lot somo bill bo passed here which would make tho banks safo places of deposit. It was tho fear of the banks and not of the government that had caused tho present stringency. If tho Democratic platform meant anything it meant that tho Sherman law was a makeshift; but it proposod something bettor than that, and that somothiug was a silvor and gold coin age Tho question was not w both or the Presidont was honest or not. Tho question was whothor ho was right. The Presidont had won tho confideuco of the people; but ho had been deceived. Ho hnd said in his message that the people demanded the ropeal of the Sherman Act. Ho had hoard from tho boards of trade and from tho chambers of commorco, but ho had not heard from tho farmers or the men in tho workshops; and ho could no more judge of tho opinion of the people than ho could measure tho ocoan's depth by tho foam on tho ocoan's wave. Let tho friends of silver call tho battle on and nover leave the field until tho people's money was restored. In conclusion Bryan said: "Tho Democratic party stands to-day be tween two conflicting forces. On tho outside stand the corporate interests of the United States, the moneyed interests, aggregated woalth capital, imperious, arrogant, compassion less. These demand that tho Domocratic party shall becomo the agonts to ex ecute their merciless decroos. On tho other side stand an unnumbered throng, those who gavo to tho Demo cratic party a namo and for whom it has assumed to spoak. This army, vast and daily vaster growing, pleads with tho Democratic party to do its champion in this terriblo conflict. It can not press its claims nmid sounds of revolry; it cannot march its pha lanxes in grand parade. No gaudy banners float upon the breeze. Its battle hymn Is " Homo, Home, Swoet Home," its warrior, "Equality Beforo the Law." Between tho forces hesitating in doubt which sido to turn, yet conscious that upon its decision must rest its fato, stands the Democratic party, and to it, standing thus, come tho words of Israel's second law-giver : " Choose ye this day whom yo will serve." Mr. Henderson TRop) said the most gratifying thing that could reach the people of tho United States w ji*o these erics of ".Vote, vote, vote." Tho peo plo expected early action, if Congress wns going to act at all. He would be glad to como to a vote at once. Fourteen days had boon set asido by the Domocrats for debate ; but ho re gretted that so much tlmo had boon given. The country was congested by distress. Laboring mon wore be ing stricken from tho rolls by the thousands; tho treasury was closing Its vaults ; banks wore tumbling, tholr doors woro closed ugainst tho manu facturing Interests ; exchanges woro a thing of tho past. In suoh an hour and in such a condition Congress had been called together in extraordinary sossion. He tremblod when he thought that the fever had only ^ust brokon out. He trusted that this was only an error of judgment. Congress was asked to como horo, as a physician, to treat the alarming condition of tho country. Congress would not act wisely unless it actod with judgment. In his opinion tho froo coinage of silvor would drive this country to a silvor basis, and would eliminate from our circulation the j^.000,000 of j,'old now circulating in the United States. Lot all patriotic Republicans join to gether, as far as they could to meet the troublo which confronted tho coun try. Washington, August 16.?-In tho Senate the bill to increase the circula tion of national banks was taken up and postponed until tomorrow. But boforo It was so laid aside an important amendment was proposed to it by Mr. Cockroll?to authorize tho redemption (at par and accrued Interest) of such two per cent, bonds, over $25,000,000 In all, as may bo offered, and to authorizo the Issue of new treasury legal tender notes in payment there for. Tho amendment produced con siderable discussion, Mr. Sherman condemning it as an unhusiness like Jin .position, and Mr. Cookroll express ng his amazement and mortification that the friend and patron o! the national banks, the gr'eat gold mbuome THK JIONKY giJKSl'ION. Silvery Talk In Congress?Battle of I lie Giants?What Representatives a iid Senators Say on the Blatter. Washington. Aug. 16?The debate jii tho House to-day on the Wilson re peal bill began with but little prelimin ary. It was startod by MeCall (Hop.) of Massachusetts in favor of the repeal of tho purchasing elauso of the Sherman bill, and was olosod by Moses (Dom) of Georgia, in opposition thereto. Sand wiched betwoen these two speeches were romarks by Coombs (Dein.) of New York, Bryan (Dein.) of Nebraska and Henderson (Rep.) of Iowa. Bryan made tho speech of the day, and al though he occupied more than two hours in its delivery, ho commanded the earnest attention of his colleagues throughout, and his sympathizers re gardod his argumont unanswerable. Bryan said that he would fully ac complish his purposoif he wore able to impress upon tho members of this House tlio importauco of the question which was now under con sideration and te quicken their ap preciation of the grave responsibility which pressed upon thom. Upon the action of this Congress might dopend not only tho wolfaro of the South and Wost, not only tho welfare of the United States, but tho welfare of hu manity itself for ages to conio. Somo outside of this hull had us v med that tho ro.comraondation of tho President imposed somo obligations upon the Democratic mombors to do as ho do sirod, and somo had even been hardy enough to suggest that a failure to fall in with tho recommendations thoro made, would subject tho dissenter to administrative displeasure. But thoso porsons did tho President great injus tice. Tho President would not for a moment forgot tho Independence of the two branches of Congress. If ho could understand the language of tho messago it meant but ono thing. It meant tho burial of silver with no promise of resurrection. It was the argument of tho guld standard. It led to univorsal gold mono-metallism. Ho was opposed to a single standard of valuo, bo it gold or silvor, and was In favor of a double standard. The ques tion now presented was whether the United States was going to say that it was an English colony or an indepen dent nation. Bryan spoko in favor of tho retention of tho ratio of 16 to 1, arguing that an lncroa60 of that ratio would oe detri mental to an international agreement as to tho coinago of the two motals. Tho troublo now was not a lack of con fidence In Great Britain. The United States had got along before without tho confidence .of England, and, thank God, it could do so again. Ho wanted to restore confidence among the poo ple, but he did not boliovo in curing a headache by putting a mustard plaster to the foot of the pationt. [Applause.] Lot somo bill bo passed here which would make tho banks safo places of deposit. It was tho fear of the banks and not of the government that had caused tho present stringency. If tho Democratic platform meant anything it meant that tho Sherman law was a makeshift; but it proposod something bettor than that, and that somothiug was a silvor and gold coin age Tho question was not w both or the Presidont was honest or not. Tho question was whothor ho was right. The Presidont had won tho confideuco of the people; but ho had been deceived. Ho hnd said in his message that the people demanded the ropeal of the Sherman Act. Ho had hoard from tho boards of trade and from tho chambers of commorco, but ho had not heard from tho farmers or the men in tho workshops; and ho could no more judge of tho opinion of the people than ho could measure tho ocoan's depth by tho foam on tho ocoan's wave. Let tho friends of silver call tho battle on and nover leave the field until tho people's money was restored. In conclusion Bryan said: "Tho Democratic party stands to-day be tween two conflicting forces. On tho outside stand the corporate interests of the United States, the moneyed interests, aggregated woalth capital, imperious, arrogant, compassion less. These demand that tho Domocratic party shall becomo the agonts to ex ecute their merciless decroos. On tho other side stand an unnumbered throng, those who gavo to tho Demo cratic party a namo and for whom it has assumed to spoak. This army, vast and daily vaster growing, pleads with tho Democratic party to do its champion in this terriblo conflict. It can not press its claims nmid sounds of revolry; it cannot march its pha lanxes in grand parade. No gaudy banners float upon the breeze. Its battle hymn Is " Homo, Home, Swoet Home," its warrior, "Equality Beforo the Law." Between tho forces hesitating in doubt which sido to turn, yet conscious that upon its decision must rest its fato, stands the Democratic party, and to it, standing thus, come tho words of Israel's second law-giver : " Choose ye this day whom yo will serve." Mr. Henderson TRop) said the most gratifying thing that could reach the people of tho United States w ji*o these erics of ".Vote, vote, vote." Tho peo plo expected early action, if Congress wns going to act at all. He would be glad to como to a vote at once. Fourteen days had boon set asido by the Domocrats for debate ; but ho re gretted that so much tlmo had boon given. The country was congested by distress. Laboring mon wore be ing stricken from tho rolls by the thousands; tho treasury was closing Its vaults ; banks wore tumbling, tholr doors woro closed ugainst tho manu facturing Interests ; exchanges woro a thing of tho past. In suoh an hour and in such a condition Congress had been called together in extraordinary sossion. He tremblod when he thought that the fever had only ^ust brokon out. He trusted that this was only an error of judgment. Congress was asked to como horo, as a physician, to treat the alarming condition of tho country. Congress would not act wisely unless it actod with judgment. In his opinion tho froo coinage of silvor would drive this country to a silvor basis, and would eliminate from our circulation the j^.000,000 of j,'old now circulating in the United States. Lot all patriotic Republicans join to gether, as far as they could to meet the troublo which confronted tho coun try. Washington, August 16.?-In tho Senate the bill to increase the circula tion of national banks was taken up and postponed until tomorrow. But boforo It was so laid aside an important amendment was proposed to it by Mr. Cockroll?to authorize tho redemption (at par and accrued Interest) of such two per cent, bonds, over $25,000,000 In all, as may bo offered, and to authorizo the Issue of new treasury legal tender notes in payment there for. Tho amendment produced con siderable discussion, Mr. Sherman condemning it as an unhusiness like Jin .position, and Mr. Cookroll express ng his amazement and mortification that the friend and patron o! the national banks, the gr'eat gold mbuome tall 1st from Ohio, should object to an amendment that would increase the amount of currency in circulation. Another amondmont to the bill was offered later on by Mr. Allen of Ne braska, for tho cessation of interest cn the bonds on which the increased na tional . bank circulation should be basod. Mr. Berry of Arkansas, addressed the Senate in favor of tho double standard of gold and silver. It was generally agreed, he Bald, that the Sherman act was thoroughly bad. It was a law which never should have boon passed, and he was particularly gratified that not a single Democratic vote had been cast for it either in the Senate or the House of Representa tives. In an evil hour for tho country, tho free silvor Republicans had parted company with tho friends on tho Democratic sido of tho chamber, and had consent ed to the pussago of the Sherman act and repeal of the Bland act. The repeal of the Sherman act without other legisla tion, would in his opinion place tho country upon a gold basis, would ore vent the future coinage of any silver and forever practically destroy silver as money. Ho -(Berry) boliovod in the doublo staudard, and was not willing to cast his vote for the gold standard of monoy. Mr. Clovoland had ofton declared in favor of bimetallism ; and ho (Berry) was confident that, notwith standing the President's failuro to dis cubs bimetallism in his message, ho would approve any bill that repoalod tho Sherman law and provided for tho circulation of both gold and silver on such terms as would givo them equal value Mr. Gallinger addressed tho Sonuto. ile declared himself ready to vote, at tho earliest possible moment, for the repeal of tho Sherman aet, though he did not beliovo that that mueh-abused law was largely responsible for tho existing financial evils. His proscrip tion for ovils ufllicting tho body politic bo gavo as follows : " Let tho bill pcrinittoing banks to increase their circulation bo onacted into law ; and let this resolution and amondmont bo adopted, and confidence In our finances will bo at once restored, both at homo and abroad ; t rude, will brighten and another era of posperity will speedily come to tho people of the United States. CAROLINA AT THE CAPITAL.. What Our Senators and Representa tives Are Saying ami Doing. Special to the State. Washington, Aug. 17.?Tho House will hoar from South Carolina on both sides of tho silvor question now beforo Congress. Representatives McLaurin, Talbort, Latimer and Brawloy are all down for speeches; but it is probable that only McLaurin nnd Brawloy will 1 bo hoard, as there will be a greut press of timo before the closo of tho fourteen days' debute. Representative Talbort was to have spoken to-day, but owing to tho death of Representative Chlpman, the House adjourned beforo the namo of Mr. Tul bert was reached. Ho will, however, ' be called on to-morrow, whon he will rattle tho air with a freo coinage speech. Ho will possibly bo followod immediately by Mr. Breckinridgo of Koutucky. Senator Butler will take a hand in tho debate in tho Sonate, and will also argue against tho uncon- ; ditional ropoul of the Sherman pur chasing clause. In fuct, Major Braw loy will bo tho only one of tho South ' Carolina delegation who will vote for unconditional repeal. Mr. Talbort says that tho Sherman law will not only not bo repealed un conditionally, but that tho silvor men 1 will succeed in getting a froo coinage 1 bill through tho Houso. If such a bill should paas both House and Senato, it would still affect tho attitude of tho silvor men very little, as tho Presidont would be suro to voto such u measure. In fact, it is well known that ho will veto any measure onacted which has silver provision in it at all. In spito of the sanguine hopes of the 1 South Carolina representatives tho indications aro that tho law will bo repealed unconditionally. Tho patronage whip in bringing the extreme silvor men to conservative views, and many aro convincing them selves that until tho repeal is effected there will bo no hope of silver legisla tion at all. Senator Butler has groat bones that his bill for an appropriation of $60,000 for u public building at Spartanburg Will ho passed. Mr. Crisp will announce his com mittee on Monday, and there is a strong likelihood that Mr. Shell will bo made chairman of tho committee, on agricul ture. Tho appoint menL of a COlloctor for South Carolina will probably bo mado in tho next two* weeks. Ben Perry is still hero, with his apron spread to catch the plum whon it falls. Senator Irby's friends say that ho will not write a card in answor to Jim Tillman. The Senator, so his ifrionds claim, has refuted tho chargos to their satisfaction, and ho does not caro to rush into print with a card. It is understood that this course was adopted af tor a consultation with friends. Senator Irby.has loft tho old Nat tional Hotel Ulld established Iiis head quarters at 1,014 Twolfth si reel. Since his return ho baa been dividing his time botwoon committee work and tho departments. Representative Latimer called at tho Postofflco Department this morning re garding a postofflco to bo established at (Meinsen college An offico will bo established thoro, and Mr. Latimor has rocommonded as postmastor, J. P. Calhoun. G. A. Norwood is horo. It has leak ed out that tho Greenville banker hus lost 83,000 by advancing monoy for the building of the Federal court houso at Greenvillo. Ho advanced $6,000 and took orders on tho Comptroller of tho Curronoy for tho amount. Ho called on tho Comptroller and found that only half of that amount could be collected. J. C. Youmans arrived yostorday, and in a few days will bo disporting himself In tho uniform of a Capitol policeman. Representative Talbort has secured places in the govornment printing of llco for W. 8. Sell of Hampton and John R. Durisoo of Edgeflold. ?"Johnny, would you like to bo a missionary to tho savages ?" " Somo times I'd like to bo a missionary and sometimes I'd like to be a savage," ro plied tho boy. "Why?" was the as tonished query. "Woll you soo, a missionary has to v/ear clothes in sum mer." ?An ingot of gold weighing 2i ounces and worth about $50 is made by the gold beaters into sheets so fine that it would tuko 18,000 to measure an inoh in height. By the labor of boating the gold acquires a value of $-100, making ovor 20,000 shoots of gold foil, or gold leaf, as it is usually culled. ??From 103S to 1852 musket balls wore used as currency in New England at a valuation of a farthing apiece, and Wore a legal tender up to One shilling. Tin; STATUS AT CLEMSON. The Wounded Boys all Recovering? The Institution Progressing Finely? Applications Still Come Flooding in ?More Room Needed In the Me chanical Building. The Columbia Register interviewed Presidont E. B. Craighoad, of Clemson College, while he was in that city last week, and obtained from him interest ing facts concerning the condition of affairs at tho institution of which ho is in charge He said none of the sufferers by the recent deplorable ac cident were in danger when he left, or else he would have remuined at Clemson. The boys who were most injured are in tho infirmary, where they are receiving the best of attention. Thoir overy want is cared for immediately. Those who wore only slightly injurod did not quit thoir quarters in tho barracks. All are getting along nicely and it is hoped that in a short timo every ono of tho injured will again bo at work. Tho bridge whoso fall caused all tho trouble sooms to have been little moro than an apology for such a structure. When tho great crowd of boys got upon It, tho planks fell out like the slats In a bed sometimes do, letting the struggling mass of humanity fall about li ft ecu feet. Tho boards accom panied it and wore responsible for most of tho wounds and bruises. A new bridge has already taken tho (dace of thojcollapsod structure. It s built in tho most substantial manner and will hold a carload of males. There is not the least danger of Its following tho bad example of its pre decessor. This bridge is a great con venience, as it saves tho boys the troublo of descending tho sldo of tho excavation made to secure a lovol for tho foundation of the barracks and of ascending a flight of stairs to tho second floor. Most of tho boys have. rooms on tho second and third floors. The work feature is ono of tho most important of all industrial colleges and htthorto moro have solved tho problem of Incorporating it with tho other features without interfering with thorn. This problem has been given a successful solution at Clonison College Tho schedule wus propared by Professors Strode, C. W. Welch and Harrison, who spent two days at this job. Thoy have arranged such a schedule that overy student of the college is enabled to work two hours a day without in the least interfering with his literary studios. The mechanical shop is entirely too small for tho wants of this college. It was built whon tho trustees aimed to accommodate only 200 students. Undor tho schodulo, thirty-five boys, as many as the building will accom modate, work in it for two hours. Four squads work there each day, each squad staying there two hours. So that, working the professors oiglit j hours a day, 140 boys are all that can take tho mechanical course. This same foat was accomplished with the farm work. Tho schodulo was so arranged as to allow each boy taking tho agricultural course to work on tho farm two hours a day without In tho least Interfering with their literary course. A boy cannot take both tho agricul tural and mechanical course at the Bame timo. Tho students are paid for their work, and President Craighoad realized from tho first that tho faculty had to soo to It that the boys did such work as thoy could be paid for. Tho boys in tho mechanical and woodwork department will not be paid a cent unless thoir work is made profitable by themselvos. As a matter of fact, for the first year or so, tho work of the boys, except Buch as havo a natural bent for it, in this department will simply entail ox ponse upon the collogo, for thoy will destroy much material wltheut obtain ing safoable results. On tho farm, tho work is different and tho boys can all do such work there as will merit pay. It would bo impossible, however, for ono man to superintend all this work, and Presi dont Craighoad so stated at a mooting of tho faculty. Tho faculty considered tho matter and now the boys work in squads under tho supervision of tho mombors of the faculty. For instance, Presidont Craighoad sees a pieco of work to bo done. Ho assigns that job to Professor Clinkscalos, who nn modlatoly sets his squad to work. At the end of tho mouth he makes a report to President Craighoad about this labor of tho boys, just as ho reports tho work thoy havo done in his class rooms. This report serves as a pay roll. This plan works very success fully. Tho boys in tho mechanical depart ment will mako chairs, tables, desks, school furniture ote, which will bo sold at low prices, tho proceeds to bo used in paying tho boys for thoir labor. It is thought that this department can sell goods at half tho prlco Northern houses charge Professor Tompkins, who has chargo of this department, is on his way back from Chicago where ho had chargo of some important ex hibits. Tho truck farm at Clemson is very large and supplies plenty of vegetables. The boys work this farm and it will furnish fresh vogotablos for six months. Tho boys will run a largo cannery, which will put up vegetables onough for uso during the other six months. Tho college owns a largo herd of high grade and thoroughbrod cattle Tho boys will bo required to tako care of those. They will furnish milk and butter for the studonts in tho greatest abundance Tho refuse from tho kitchen will feed about sovonty-fivo hogs. Those will not furnish onough meat, but thoy will go a long ways. Commandant Donaldson has got the boys In fine shape. Ho has worked hard with them and they are beginning to drill very well. Three hundred uniforms have already been received and distributed among the boys. Tho balance will be roceivod in a short time. Tho boys are not yot ready for tho guns, which will shortly be furnished by Uncle Sam. There are now 440 boys onrollod at Clemson Collogo. Moro would havo boon onrollod had not tho faculty de cided not to receive applicants aftor August 10. Thoro are only 150 rooms In tho dormitory. Three boys to a room Is as much as they will comfort ably hold, though four might bo crowdod togothor. Putting three to a room, tho dormitory will hold 450 boys; with four to a room, 000 can be accom modated. Applleatlons are steadily coming in and when admissions are again made in Fobruary tho dormitory will bo taxod to its utmost. Not ovor fifty will quit in Fobruary. Some of those will bo boys who are no longor wantod at Clemson, boeauso they havo not properly appreciated its advan tages and opportunities. Most of thorn will bo boys whose work is nooded on farms. Tne boys are not anxious to leave. If it only depended upon thorn, Clemson CollogO would I.e. amply sustained. A number of tho boys who went homo shortly aftor tho college oponod, because they were dlssatisflod with some of its managements, or be oause they could not study Latin and Greek at ft, are writing back, wishing to enter again. The expenses at Clemson aro pho nomeaally low. This point should be taken into consideration in connection with the charges at Clemson, that college runs ten months each year, while almost all of the other colleges in this State only run eight or nine months. The holiday commences on the third Thursday in December. All boys from neighboring States who attend Clemson College have to pay tuition. Thero aro now twelve students at Clemson who come from other States than South Carolina. President Craighead thinks if an effort were mudo it would bo easy to obtaiu students from every Southern State. The students and faculty at Clemson aro working hard and it will be through no fault of theirs thac Clem son College will fail. But Clemson will not fail. It camo to perform a grand mission and is performing it. DURING SKA TROURDKS. The Decision Gives General Satisinc < ion in Washington. Washington, August 15?Tho de cision of tho court of arbitration in the Boring Son matter appoars to give gen eral satisfaction at tho Stuto Depart ment and to tho niembors of tho Senate committeo on foreign rotations, which committee had all thoso vuestions in ohargo when tho troatgy was beforo tho Senate. Senator Butlor statod that, if ho undorstood tho brief dis patch that camo early in tho day aright, tho award gives oven moro than ho expected. "I novor believ ed," said the Senator, " that tho con tention of tho United States that tho Boring Sea was a closed sea could bo maintained ; tho sea was too largo a body of wator for such claim to bo ox ercised ovor it; and, necessarily, tho court having docided against us on that point, incorporated under tho first four sections of Articlo (J of tho trouty tho fifth foil with it. "The chief thing in which we wero intorosted was tho prevention of that kind of soaling which is suroly destroy ing tho soul life, and if England, us those dispatches say, intends to join the United States in tho preservation of tho souls and establish and maintain u closed season between certain dates in both tho Northern Pacific and Ber ing Sea we have achioved a victory and gained a material point." A dispatch from Now York quotes Frederick It. Caudort, who was ono of the counsel boforo tho council of arbitra tion, as holding views of the decision similar to those of Senator Butler. Mr. Caudert was especially pleased with tho clause regulating tho use of fire arms on soaling vessels. This prohibi tion, ho says, will be a deathblow to polugie seuling. Unhappy Leadvil-le.?The sus pension of the Colorado mines has made a durk day for Leadville. Built upon a mountain thero is absolutely nothing to support a city but the mining busi ness. Tho cessation in silver mining is like shutting off tho supply of air from a man's lungs. A newspaper correspondent in tho Omaha Boo declares that only about 250 of the thousands of men in various ways connected with the mines uro now at work. Ho says bouses aro closed, and front doors boarded up, while " miles upon miles of shafts, drifts, levels and tunnels are filling with water und "are deserted." Ho says : " As the revenues of this city aro in directly derived from tho income of tho men who work in tho mines, tho outlook for the futuro is vory dark, for with the mills and mines closod no taxes can bo levied and collected, which means that the municipal und county govormonts must bo abandon ed ; that the schools und acadomies must close, und.that tho churches must do away with their preachors who for years have been expounding the word of God to thoir littlo llocks. Not only does tho present condition of affairs mean all this, but it means moro. It means that unless tho mines open with in a short time the entiro population must move away, and leave what will be tho ruins of fortunes that it bus takon years to accumulate." Danger in Being Too Funny.? Cbaunooy M. Dopew illustrates ugain the danger of being too funny in his oratorical diversions. It is occasioned by a letter just rocoivod from a clergy man in Texas. Tho missive begins by roforring " My dear Dr. Dopow " to a speech which tho writer alleges the President of tho Now York Central Railroad delivered recently, in which he said a man should go into dobt if neod be, rather than miss seoing tho World's Fair. Tho lottor continued: " As it comes from such high authority I havo no choice but to beliovo what you say. I havo been laboring hard in tho Lord's vinoyard in tho South for twenty-two years and havo never bud a holiday. I was always afraid to go into dobt, but as your ndvico is gen oral, I thought I would usk you to loan 1110 $200. This would enable my wife and myself to go to Chicago, and I am sure it would freshen mo up in tho hard work that is still before mo in turning men's minds to God. My salary is not largo, but if you will furnish mo with tho loan you may rely upon my paying it back." Mr. Dopow has not yot sent his eheck to the prenchor. the Reason Why.?Counsel for tho dofonco (to witnos)?You say that on tho night of tho attempted murder tho moon shono so brightly that you could seo tho burglars in tho room. Was your husband awako at tho timo ? VVitnoss?I don't know. Counsel?Was his faco turned to ward you or not ? Witness?I don't know. Counsel?What! you don't know whether his faco was turnod to you or tho wall P Witnoss?No. Counsel?My lord and gentlomon of tho jury, you hour what this witness says. She has declarod tho prisoners to bo tho burglurs who wero in tho room, nnd yot she is unablo to state in what position hor husband was lying in hor bed. Well (to tho witness), how is it you don't know? Witness?I could not soo him. Coutisol?Ha! ha! Just what I thought, you could not seo. You woro bo positivo in your recognition of tho accused, and yot eould not see which way your husband's face was turnod. Explain that if you can. Witness?Well, thon, sir, my hus band is so buld that in tho twilight I am unablo to distinguish his faco from the back of his head. ?As the othor Southorn States are slow to act, Texas is laying her plans to draw within her borders sovoral hundred thousand now settlors from the Njrthwest. ?Lucllo Adams, tho aotross who died in povorty tho othor day at a New York hospital, was tho widow of an English lord and was once worth $1,000,000. She invested her money in a western mine and lost it all. LiKTTIOlt? AND MKSS<V?E8. BUI Arp's Advice to Wandering Boy? ?The Cheapness and Quickness of the Mall Service. I was ruminating upon the Presi dent's message and have come to tho conclusion that perhaps I am tho only reading man in all tho country who does not understand the question. The trouble is I read both sides and have got all tangled up. If a man wishos to preserve his peace of mind and his solf concoit ho should road only one sido of I>olitics or religion. This may make )int wrong in his path, but ho is moro contentod and more zealous. Uo can Just rip around and raise Cain in politics and he can go it blind for his church and his preacher. An intelligent friend who is just from Washington told mo yesterday that Mr. Cleveland was tho grand impersonation of tho national govornment; that he was greater than partieB or platforms and would run the machino independent of all restraints. " If," he said, " Grovor Cleveland should die to-morrow tho country would go to ruin in thirty days." Another friend said tho mos sago was an abortion and Mr. Clovo land was a huge mistake?the most OA orrated man in the nation. But I am not going to worry about it. If there aro not enough brains among the statesmen at Washington to lix up this money business I can't help it. So lot it rip. I read tho mossago on my way homo from tho postofilco and when I reached tho piazza where Mrs. Arp was sitting I said : " Here is a letter, a mossago from tho President, would you like to road it ?" " No." she said. " Did you bring mo any letters from tho boys V" " Nono," said I. "I am afraid they are sick," she said. " They haven't written for throe or four weoks. They never write when they are sick." Tl ticro it is. A letter from a son or daughter who is far away is a bigger thing to a mothor than Grover Cleve land's message. Everywhoro all ovor the land the " old folks at homo " arc waiting for letters from their absont chiidron. I have seen them sitting on tho piazza or by the firesido with a shado of sadness on their faces and as they look dreamily away I know what they are thinking about. There is nothing sadder in lifo than tho separ ation of aged paronts from their chii dron. Dr. Samuol Johnson said : " I have always looked upon it as the worst condition of man's destiny that most persons uro torn asunder just as they become happy in each other's society." If this bo true concerning the friends and companions of our youth, how much moro touehingly does it apply to the aged onos whoso children have ro nioved far away from tho old home stead. Lovo and memory is about all their earthly capital and from day to day and week to week they look for let ters?kind letters, loving letters from tho absent ones whom perhaps thoy will never soo again, but hope to meet ?yes, hope to meet?on tho other sido. Letters from the children aro the next best thing to their presence, and tho children ought to write thorn? write them often?write regularly. While I was ruminating about this I heard the sweet strains of that pretty j song, " I Sent a Letter to My Lovo, and then I got to thinking what a blessed contrivance these letters wero, tho dally mail, tho government post, the swift messengers that like Mer cury speed over soa and land to com fort us. Memory went back to tho time when I was away from homo for a long, long year and how happy I was when a letter came?a lettor from homo, especially when there was a lit tlo money in it. Heard u colloge boy say the other day that a lotter from homo with money in it was tho best lettor and the best monoy in the world. Parents are sure to write them and to send a little money when they can, and so when the parents grow old and feeble the children should pay them back and let no sad memories make furrows on their brow. I would plead with tho boys everywhere to comfort their old mothors with kind and loving lettors?tho good old mothers who have potted them and nursed thorn and comforted them and took their part in all their troubles?novcr lot a mothor feel tho truth of the proverb, " How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." I have heard of boys going away to tho far West to seek their fortune and not writing a lino back home for years. I have seen aged parents who had not heard from their boy so long thoy had given him up for doad. Thoy had written to where ho was last, but had no answer. But ho was not doad und in one ease ho camo back after eleven years of absence?camo back and com* farted thorn for ho had sown his wild oats and reaped the crop and was tired. Boy's don't do that way, please don't; write letters, write from every place; your letters are treasures, thoy aro read und reread. I know whoro is a bundle now, a big bundle tied around with tape and it gots bigger us tho years roll on. If the writers should got kilted or die from sickness tho tape will bo untied and tho letters read again while a tear drops here and there upon the opon leaf. Writing lettors regularly to kindred and friends reacts upon tho writer and makes him better, gentler, kinder. Thoy take but little time and cost only two cents to send and aro really the I most valuable things for tho cost that I can bo found in tho world. A good . loving homo lotter that cost only ten 1 minutes in time and two cents in money is worth ton dollars to any mother who lovos her child. Tho mulls are a blessed priviloge, and ono that was almost unknown to our fathers. Ono hundred years ago t heiv wore but sevonty-llve postofllcos in tho United States, now thoro are nearer 75,000. It is not generally known that Ben Franklin was tho iirst postmastor gonernl in this country, and held his office for twenty-one years un dor tho British government. Ono mail a week was considered quite enough botweon tho largo citios. I remember whon one mail a weok was tho allow ance in our country towns. By and by we got it twlco a week and felt our consequence. Four times a day we have it now in Cartersville. I rcmom bor when tho sound of tho stago horn us tho ji.nll coach camo ovor tho dis tant hill was tho most inspiring music that ovor greeted tho small boy's oars. "Oh, if I could only drive that team and crack that long lashed whin, and blow that bugle how happy would I bo." It was tho ultimatum of my hopes, and my ambition. I romomber whon a book en me out that was called " Ton Years Among the Mall Boys," and It had pictures representing tho "Pony Express " that Wells Fargo had estab lished from St. Louis ovorland to Cali fornia. They had hundreds of boys, tough, hardy, lightwood boys, weigh ing from sovonty-flvo to ninety pounds, and each had to ride 10? milos in a canter in twenty-four hours and carry twonty pounds of lottors in his saddle bags. Every ten milos hu mounting was changed, but he was not relieved, nor Was be rested until he had made half his journey, lie had to eat his lunch on the fly, and at tho stations he was lifted from his pony to a fresh one and was off with a word and a bound. Those pictures nearly ran mo wild and I longed to go West and ride tho ex press and have the Comraancho In dians tako a crack at mo and miss. What a chango has come over the world ! Tho English postal system is only 250 years old. Before that the kings had special messengers to carry letters, but the peoplo hud nothing save the passing travelers. Horses had boon Hubstituted for footmen. That was tho only chango since tho days whon tho prophet wrote "How beautiful upon tho mountains are tho feotof those who bring glad tidings," and Solomon said : "As cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." If such rude contri vances were lovely then how ought wo to prize our privilogos now. Cheaper uud cheaper is our mail ser vice made as civilization advances. I remember whon letters cost us <>i, 12i, 181 and 25 cents, according to tho dis tance they had been carried. A letter from Arkansas or Texas or Now York wus 25 cents, und they wore never pro paid. Many u time whilo I was tho lostmaster's clerk a poor fellow would nqtiiro for a lottor und if there wus one ho would look at it, and turn it over and handle it awhile und say: "Well, it's from Jack, l know, and I would like to tako it homo tho best in the world, but you will have to put it back and keep it until I can get tho monoy." Sometimes ho would borrow it from a neighbor and tako it homo, and tho noxt Sunday all the neighbor* hood would gather in to hear what Jack said about " Tho Arkansaw." Thero wore no envelopes then and no paper but foolscap. This was a long paper and was culled by that numo be cause tho watermark wus a cap and bells. Tho letter was written on one sido and then tho sheet wus folded in such a way that one side slipped into tho other and it was then sealed with a wafer or with sealing wax. Tho poorer people sealed them with soft rosin from tho pine. Whon a letter wus not sealed there was no penalty if it was opened and read by any ono, and hence, 'it is said, oamo tho word sincere (sine cerum) without wax and having no secret nor anything that tho writer desired to conceal. It is a pretty word and has u fitting origin. My father was postmaster for thirty years. Ho know of my ambition to ride the pony express and so ho pre pared mo for it by mounting mo on a big, long dromedary of a horse and made mo ride the mail to Roswoll and back twice u week during a long, hard winter. 1 hud to make ftfty miles a day and some days 1 liked to bavo frozen, for 1 was but a lad of twelve summers, but this service cured mo and sinco then 1 have not aspired any more to that business. Bill Akp. A WONDERFUL MEMORY. A South Carolina Darkey Dents the World's Record. A Barn well letter to the Philadel phia Times gives the following strange story : This county possesses a negro boy 12 years of age, who is looked on as tho owner of tho most remarkable memory of which the world has any record. Ho committed tho entire book of Genesis to memory the other day in tho space of three hours, repeating every chapter after reading it over once, and forgetting only some half dozen words from the first verso to the lust. Some 'weeks ago a local politi cian delivered a speech of nearly two hours at a county meeting*, and, on re turning home, the boy was able to toll tho discourse over with such accuracy that the following day the man who de livered it went to seo him to take a copy it of from his mouth, himself having lost tho manuscript on which it was writ ten. This gift seoms unaccompanied by any unusual degree of intelligence, tho boy being only a day laborer in the fields, and ho appears not to tako in tho 8en8o of what the camera of mind preserves, but to repeat it after the manner of a parrot. His mother says that he has possess ed this faculty since a baby, and at the extraordinary ago of a year he cou'd repeat any conversation that took place in bis presence, irrespective of its length and purpose. He does not know how to read or write, but bus frequently given exhibitions of being able to copy out any sheet of writing ho has-read over onco, giving every punctuation mark and flourish, and imitating tho handwriting with start* ling accuracy, and this for several pages of ordinary lottor paper. In the pres ence of reliable witnesses ho, a few days ago, gave, word for word, tho text and discourse of a sermon he hoard over two years ago in itichmond, tho preacher being present and amazed at tho correctness of the boy's memory and the readiness with which ho re peated every gesture he made through out the delivery of the sermon, even pausing to cough ut certain points whore, on the original occasion, a bad throat affection of the clergyman had forced him to do so. A Priestly Hero.?There recently died in Macon, Georgia, a man who wus truly one of the heroes of tho civil war. Though he never bore arms save those of the warfare of tho Cross, Father Hubert?he was known by no other name?wont to the front from no I motives of political ambition or love of ' glory, nor at the call of an imperiled country ; bo was a Frenchman with no stake in the great struggle of North and South. Ho came to tho field of war because ho saw there an oppor tunity to minister to his fellow men. " As chaplain in the Confederate army," a correspondent says, "ho showed the highest courage of man hood, and tho manly gentleness of the minister of God." To he near the men I of his command, he shared their toils and privations to the full. Ho march ed afoot with them through bushes and brambles until his clothes hung from him in honorable rags. When the "Merrimac" put back disabled after her duel with the " Monitor," ho sent word to her commander, Admiral Buchanan, that ho wished to go on board to attend to thoso who might need his services." " Father," said tho admiral, " I do not wish you to come aboard. If tho " Monitor, returns to-mbrrow, I may blow up tho 'Morrlmuo,' with all on board, for wo aro In no condition to fight, and we will novor surrondor. Kenia in on shoro." " My placo is with the woundod and dying," replied Fathor Hubort " If it bo nocossary, I wish to die with tho men." Surely such quiet and earnest dovo tlon Is the stuff of which the truost horoes are made, whethor they woar epaulettos or cassock.?Blue and Gray for August. ?"Ono of you boys has boon steal ing rasins again ; I huvo found tho seeds on the floor. Which ono of you was it ?" Tommy?" It wasn't me ; I swallcrwsd the sesds in mine." DIRECT TRADN WITH BUROPB. Port Royal to Itonlize the Dream of Past Generations. C!ol. I. W. Avery has giveu tho fol lowing interesting news on ttie direct t null' movement to tho Atlanta Consti tution : "Tho money stress hero and in Europe has slowed up direct trade. It has only slopt, however. It has not only kept intact, but been quietly per fecting. " It was planned to start so as to bring peoplo to the World's Fair by the South, but tho stress stopped it und the dull trudo summer gup hud to bo bridged. The fall will soon bo hero with its crops and ships can thrive for the winter and will sail and direct trade begins in earnest. " A now great line from England to Port Royal, S. C. has boon arranged as a now victory and a striking result of tho direct trade movement. Tho emancipation of tho Port Royal and Augusta railroad from tho control of the Central railroad made tho project possiblo and a certainty that, with Carolina and Augusta money and men interested and tho Georgia, Nashville and Chattanooga and Louisville and Nashville railroads and their connec tions to back it, tho thing would bo tried sooner or later. Tho Johnson Bros., ship owners of London, sent over Mr. Wolsford, their agent, who. with Pat Culhoun, went to Port Royal and fixed tho scheme, which has since boon completing. They have twenty live steamers. Tho lino starts in Sep tember. Both sides of the water are being worked up. Their English ugent is hero. An American agent is there. All preparation is making. " One of tho activo mon in this line Port Royal plan doubted our success whon Colonel Stovall und I began tho direct trade agitation, but soon saw it could be done and has been an effective worker for it. " All things havo been to aid direct trade and givo it success. The very stress hus made more ships idle and turned more capital and enterprise to get Southern trade. Our Southern farms have made fine crops, with less debt than years before to support direct trudo, with greater freedom from interfering restrictions. The money pinch hus been harder West and North than South : has made Southern advantages shine out: has turned notice South, and will Hood folks and dollars Southward to settle and invest. And this will help direct trade. "But the largofit idea of all is this : Tho great bug-a-boo used against direct trade by its few opponents hus been that Now York was the immov able citadel of financial exchange, the unchangeable money center of this country, and it could not be changed. This panic and Hurry has broken New York's supremacy as the only moneyed center of America und the domination of her bank paper. The quostion springs out right here, is not this the chance of the South to strike for financial emancipation, which sho so ardently craves and needs, and establis h her own monoy power and independ ence and build up her own money cen ter ? " The last few days have proved that New York exchange is no longer sovereign and has lost, anyhow for the time, its negotiability und that there are financial exigencies it cannot meet and public demands it cannot supply, its scepter broken, its prestige shatter ed, and the South, the most unharmed part of the land by this money trouble, is now in good condition to start tho effort to build up her own money inde pendence. And direct trade is a powerful means to do it. " And our great cotton crop, soon ready to move, is tho agency to start with. it seems providential. Over two-thirds of the crop goes to Europe and tho money is ready to come hero direct for it, instead of through North ern obannels us heretofore. Wo have but to seek it. Foreign money, and not Northern money, has to buy it. The chance is at huud for us to use if we will. Lot us invite it. We have timo to arrange for it. It can be done. Our merchants met to plan means to move tho cotton. This is the solution of the problem. Our banks favor it. And it will lead to larger and direct money relations with Europe and the giving the South a money center. The idea is vast and valuable and tho end in our grasp if wo will only take it. "Wo are certainly on the threshold of immense commercial and industrial changes in the South and beneficial re volution wrought will find a tre mendous factor in successful South ern direct trade with foreign lands, planting manufacture in the midst of raw material, carrying products direct to market, orecting a money center where it is most needed and enforcing the laws of trade." ?- ? ? ? * Conquests ok Modern Science.? Surely 1 havo established my thesis that dirt is only matter in a wrong place. Chemistry, like a thrifty house wife, economizes every scrap. The horseshoe nails dropped in the streets are carefully collected, and reappear in swords and guns. The main ingredi ent of the ink with which 1 now write was probably once the broken hoop of an old beer barrel. The clippings of the travelling tinker are mixed with the kinds of woolen rags, and these uro worked up into an exquisite blue dye, which graces tho dress of courtly dames. The dregs of port wine, care fully decanted by the toper, are taken in the morning as seidlitz powder to re move the effect of tho debauch. This offal of the streets und the wastings of coal gas reappear carefully preserved in the lady's smelling bottle, or are us ed by her to flavor blanc manges for her friends. All thrift of material is an imitation of the economy of nature, which allows no waste. Everything bus its destined pluoe in the process of the universe, in which there is not a blade of grass or even a microbe too much, if wo possessed the knowledgo to apply them to their fitting pur poses.?North American Review. What AILED Smith.?A plainly dressed man, who introduced himself as Mr. John Smith, walked into a doctor's ollico in a Texas town, and, having ex plained ibis symptoms, asked the doc tor how long it would take to cure him. Tho doctor, who had treated tho visitor with every possible courtesy, replied : " You will require caroful treatment under my personal supervision for a bout two months liefere you uro able to roBUine your lnbors in tho bank." "Doctor, you are foolingyoursolf. I am not Smith, tho banker, but Smith, the strcot car drivor." " Is that so? Well, my good follow, I don't 8oo what you came to mo for. There is nothing tho matter with you, except that you aro not a banker." n?Mrs. Potts?"I know that one of tho young men who visit you bo ro gularly is your brother, but who Is tho other ono ?" Mary Ann?" Yos'm, one of'em le my brother, and?and?I guess theothsrone is going to be his brother in-law after a tittle while." f horses' hoofs and the worst HOW THE Al?OSTIiE8 DIED. An Interesting Summary of Facts and l rail i l ions. A religious exchange gathers from history and tradition the following statement concerning tho modo and manner in which the apostles died, and as the Sunday school lessons are at this timo connected with the work of tho early Christians, this informa tion will prove instructive and help ful to teachers and scholars : Andrew was crucified at Patraj, in Achaia, eu u cross of uecullar shbpo (X). hence St. Andrew's Cross. Barnabas was preach iug in a syna goguo in Salamis, whon a party of on raged .lows dragged him forth, stoned him to death, and burned his mangled body. Bartholomew is said to havo suffered crucifixion at Albanopolis in Armenia. .James was beheaded by order of Kiug Herod Agrippa, and became tho first martyr among the apostles. Clomont, of Alexunuer, relatos that tho accuser of James on the way to tho place of execution, stung by remorse, confessed faith and asked to bo for given. James gave him an affection ate kiss, and said to him : " Pcaco bo with theo." He was beheaded with James. James tho Less was thrown from a high pinnacle of the templo and then assaulted with stones: he was finally killed by a blow from a club. John, full of days and honor, died a natural death. One of tho beautiful stories told of him is that when ho was too old to preach he was accustomed to say to the congregation the char acteristic words: "Littlo ehlldron, love one another," and when asked why ho always ropoatod this sentence only, ho replied: "Because it is tho commandment of the Lord, and enough is done if this one command bo obey ed." Judas, in a frenzy of despair, hanged , himself. The rope breaking ho wus dashed tc pieces on the rocks. Acelda ma, where he committed suicide, is Still shown on the southern slope of the valley of Hinnom. near Jerusalem. The money for which he had betrayed '? innocent blood " was used to purchase a bm ial place for the poor. Luke, the author of Acts, was hang ed in Greece. Mark, according to Kitto, died in Al exandria in tho reign of Nero. Tho story of Matthew's martyrdom in Ethiopia is said to be legendary. Kitto claims that he did not suffer martyrdom. Paul, according to ancient tradition, died by the sword in Rome at the com mand of Nero, and tho place of his exe cution is still pointod out a little dis tance from the city. Ho himself al ludes to his martyrdom in these noble words : "1 am now ready to be offer ed, und the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good light. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith ; henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day ; and not only me, but unto all thorn also that love, his ap pearing." 2 Tim. iv:<i 8. Peter, so Origen tells us, suffered martyrdom in Rome under the terrible Neronian persecution. Dooming him self unworthy to meet death as did nis Master, he was, at his own request, crucified with his head downward. Philip preached In Phrygiu, and met his death by being hanged at Hierapolis. Thomas else suffered death by mar tyrdom, either in Persia or India. Why Did He Lib??She was a bright mathematical scholar and pret ty, and whon she rattlod at the stamp window and laid down a dollar bill the handsome young clerk in a blue neck tie on the Inside was all attention. " There's a dollar,'- she said. " Give mo four times as many twos as ones and the rest in threes. " I beg your pardon," he stammered. Sho ropoatod her request. "Certainly," he Bald and began to lay out the stamps. He worked at it 10 minutes without success, she waiting patiently tho meanwhile. He wasn't busy with any one else, and she didn't seem to mind watching him calculate, so sho gave him anoth er five minutes. Then a customer came in. "Just keep the dollar." she said sweetly, "and I'll conn! around in the morning and get the stamps in the prop er proport ions." He thought she was becoming sar castic and turned to wait on the next comer, but when he looked again for the girl of tho mathematical turn she was gone. That evening he visited the news paper offices for counsel and advice, and tho next day when she called he swore, thoro wasn't a It-cent stamp in the office. Now, why did the clerk lie ? Dispensary Trade Mark.?A dis patch from Washington says that Gov ernor Tillman of South Carolina has applied to the United States Patent Otliee for permission to use the palmet to tree as a trademark for South Caro lina dispensary whiskey. The patent officers are reticent on the subject, and say it is not the proper thing to give OUt information concerning trademarks until they uro issued ; then the subject is a public one. The facts in tho case tire that stunts time ago Attorney General Townsond of South Carolina came to Washington, and it is reasonably thought now that his mission was to secure, the trade mark desired. Tim examiner to whom the application was referred denied it. Ho maintained that the statute proxided for tho issue of trade marks only to persons, (inns and cor porations and that a Statt! is neither. The attorney for tho State then ap plied to Commissioner of Patent Sey mour. Thoir brief sets forth that a trademark is incidental to the right of trade, and that u trademark cannot bo denied a State without a denial of a State's right to trade. It then rea sons that the right of a State to trade is not disputed, and cites the mall service, the government control of railroads in Germany, of tobacco in France and of wines in Hungary Tho commissioner's decision as to whether the trademark sought shall issue will be made public within a few days. ?Cows holding up thoir inilk is caused by letting tho calf suck. The calf draws the milk from one teat at a time and slowly at that. A cow, as all milkors know, will let her milk down at once soon after beginning to milk ; having it drawn slowly, thoy soon got in tho habit of holding it up. At any rato I havo always noticed that the cows that had nursed calves for one season wore the ones that held up thoir milk. Never lot a cow intended \ for tho dairy raiso her calf. I ?"Say, Bobbio," said Jack, "sup pose I should hit you bohind tho oar ! with a snowball, what would you do ?" ! M I'd hit you bohjnd the ear without a snowball, laid Bobble.