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The Oransreburff De A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORANGEBURG COUNTY. V?l. I. ORASTGEBURG, S. 04 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1879. M?. 9. 'SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors.. SUUSCUH'TION. Ono Year.81 0 Six Months.1 0 Ministers of tho Gospel.1 0 Advertisements. Flrstinstertlon.v.$1.0 Eaoh Subsequent Insertion.?0 Liberal contructs made for 3 month and over. ?OB OFFICE 18 l'KEl'AUKD TO DO ALL KINDS OF Jo!) 3?riiitirig TUE NEGRO TH85I?S. ? o? ANOTHER EXPLANATION OF HIS CASE. Dr. Mtddleton Michel, the well known and accomplished Professor of Physiology and Histology in tho Medical College of South Carolina, recently contributed to tho "Boston Medical rind Surgical journal," a most original and vigorous article upon the base of the negro, Thomas ; a caso which so tile weeks ago, at tracted so much attention among our own savants, here in Augusta. Dr. Michel is evidently a skeptic in regard to the dusky gentleman's main performance, as the very cap tion of his article indicates ; this cap tion reading as follows: "Examination of the Negro, Thom as, who arrests bis Heart's Action, and pretends to throw his Heart into] the Abdomen!" After tt graphic description of Thomas' physique; and of "the extra ordinary pltty of his abdominal mus cles, which arb made to contract, not simultaneously, as roily be done by any one, but in sepcrate layer?, and in the several divisions of the recti;" the Doctor proceeds to depict with wonderful clearness that which Thomas considers Iiis great feat, the feat par excellence, of his novel exhi bition. "Invariably, Thomas bends the body forward to a greater or less de gree; takes a deep inspiration; not suspending the breath, but on the contrary, maintaining the diaphragm as depressed as possible, by keeping up very imperfect movements of ex piration ; then he throws certain ab dominal muscles into contraction, depressing the greater portion of tho walls of the abdomen, while he bulges out the spot where he assumes the heart to have migrated." * * * ? *' * * 4 V "His next performance consists in arresting the heart's action, and the pulse at the wrists (a phenomenon well comprehended by physiologists). Here, again, he takes a deep inspira - tion, but suspending kis breath com pletely?a necessary condition to suc cess?when all cardiac pulsation ceases and the pulse wave is no long er felt at the wrist," Thus, tho reader perfeeives that his special achievments arc these three*, viz: - Abdominal muscular contor tions, displacement of the heart, and temporary suspension of its action. All these, Dr. Michel maintains, 44resolvfc themselves simply into a display . of unusual muscularity and muscular tension." Hitherto) the chief explanation of Thomas' apparent heart-displacement has been ah assumption of "a fissure of the diaphragm." Our essayist uncompiornisingly re jects this notion as far-fetched and unphiloaophicril. The negro, he sitys, is an athlete in frame, with no discoverable mal formation. The play of u perfect diaphragm during his forced respira tions becomes evident in the ascend ancy of abdominal over costal respi ration. Emphatically he adds, "there is no fissure of the, diaphragm," because the violent play bf abdominal mureles, previously described with such a de formity present*, would drive the vis cera either from the abdomen into the thorax, or from the chest into the abdomen, and tender any such per formance, painful', dangerous, per haps impossible. Consequently, upon, the gr?uud of a normal diaphragm, (nud not upon any narrow theory as to the impossi bility of the translation of the heart through a fissured diaphragm from thorax to abdomen,) the asiiimption is rejected of, a migration of the heart from its natural postion. At the same time, Dr. Michel 1 ac knowledges thai Thomas docs effect something positive in his attempt, that he simulates wonderfully a dis placement of the heart; but the ex planation of the phenomenon, he con cludes, rests upon physiological and not pathological coniijti?us. Through tho minutiae of tho Doc tor's demonstration of this idoa we have not time, or space to follow him, but hia reasoning appears to us most vigorously lucid, and worthy the at tentive study not merely of savants and members of his'owti profession, but of the intelligent student general ly. A few significant sentences, as ' indicia of his argument, wc must howover quote: "It is reasonable to suppose," he tcmurks, "that in this indivadual, Thomas, the diaphragm in its,extra ordinary exercise, has participated in development with the abdominal muscles, and id Under such control, that during an exaggerated respira tory effort, he forces his heart even beyond the ascertained extent of de pression in ordinary persons ; which would place it some six to seVeii inches below the enslform cartilage ; especially as he is aided by the flex ion of body with which he always ac companies the act. This would re move the organ beyond the reach of immediate nusculations at the nor mal point, and make it beat appar ently within the abdomen, though still resting upon the floor of ttie pre* ternaturally depressed diaphragm. ? # * * * i ."The explanation of this supposed dislodgmcnt of the heart certainly rests Upon the exaggerated play of j lung and diaphragm, and nothing else." ??. ? ? ? ? ?J * * "Apropros, Dr. Michel states that displacements of the heart, contin gent upon malformation, (a condition wb repeat", which he affirms to be non-existent in Thomas's case,) are humcroiifl and varied, forming more than one group in the classilicatiou of tenitologists. In illustration, lie al ludes to a ca?e published a century since, by Kamel; the case of a girl often, whose heart was recognized by him in the cpignstrum ; and the par ticulars of wliicb were subsequently mentioned by Geoifry St', ililaire, in the old Journal do Medicine', Chir: at Pharm; vol. xix, page -123. Also to a case recorded by Dechamps of an old soldier, with a renal disease, at whose death an autopsy took place revealing the existence of a fissure in the diaphragm, and the position of the heart in the left lumbar region. * ? ? * * # Also of the suspension of heart ac tion and of the head wave in the blood current which forms the pulse, there have been some noteworthy examples. The best known is that of the Hon. Col. Townsend, as related by his physician Dr. George Cheyne, author of a treatise on nervous dis case; but a similar, and perhaps, a yet more retnarkablo case, was wit nessed by Dr. Michel himself. lie tells "us that he was invited years ago, by the Dean of the Medi cal College of Charleston, to meet the Faculty, ili order to examine a Mr. Groux in whom there was an ar rest of development of the sternum. "Besides some interesting facts of the play of the heart, they witnessed a like experiment upon the suspension of his heart's action; and the subsi dence of the pulse. When he took a deep inspiration, and then held his breath, the pulse grew weaker and weaker, and finally stopped entirely ; while the ear over the prmcordial re gion could not detect the slightest im pulse or sound. Thomas performs the same act, though not so prolonged in duration as in the case of Mr. Groux, in whom the cxperitnet lasted two minutes, and.he does it in precisely the same way: Kn passant, the Mr. Groux here mentioned, was Dr. Eugene A. Groux, a physician of Brroklyn, New York, who afterwards graduated at the University of Gottingen. A na tive of Germany, he returned to this country, and died on the loth of last October at 426 South Fourth street. It may be observed as a singular co incidence, that he died . Only a few days before the publication or the1 es say, In which his name and caoe are so conspicuously brought forward by Dr. Micliel. In dismissing this instructive and admirably written treatise (the rare merits of which have already been commended by DaCosta, and equally distinguished scientists,) it occurs to us to say, that the analysis of the phenomena accompanying this power of heart and pulse suspension, are calculated to aid in unravelling the still more . wonderful o'ecurences known as "States of Trance," in which all evidence of life departs and persons have even been prepared for burial.?Augusta Evening Sentinel. The next time Mr. Tilden has a chance to buy the Presidency he'll probably do it, because he must have found out by this lime that tlie inno cent are those who succeed. Besides, it may be worfli &omcthing to be in a position to reward a dispatch, thdof with a foreign consulate. That.n.lpp Imightihclp to establish the innocence 16f all parties concerned. A PIONEER ROMANCE; A DESERTED WIFE, AN INDIAN ELOPE* A1KNT, A RUNAWAY SON, A MAUKIAOE. Recently there came from a nour ishing town of Sonoma County, on an extended visit to friends in this city, a man and Wife. Theatres were visited, a full roilnd of amusement and ?ighl-oeeiug was indulged, and ail ran merry tis the marriage hell, which rang for the couple in question as much as thiityand three years ugo away oft in Racine, Wis. A few nights since, while returning from tho California Theatre, the eouplc walked.aloilg Kearney street toward Market, uenx which, by the light from a. gas-lamp, they saw lying on the sidewalk before the tri it iady't? chatelaine and watch, which evident ly had become detached from the waist of some passer-by. Scarcely was there time to stoop add pick up the find when returned a compara tively young couple, li rather hand some man, who was remarkably light in feature to the woman who* walked beside him, dark enough in complex ion to lead to the belief that she was of Spanish extraction: A short ex planation between the two couples ensued, nnd the article of female or nament was retujned to the young lady who bail lost it; The young couple had scarcely be gun to move a?vay wubn tho elderly lady appeared rls If seized with- a spasm, and with a Shriek very unlike that of the traditional novel sort, screamed j' ''Charley 1 Charley I" and almost fainted; The sound of a name so familiar to him brought the 5'<mng man and his companion back, and then followed everi a stranger inci dent. Tlie young man looked at the agitated ladyv, a shade Of recollection seemed to cross hi3 mlhd, and though Struggling to subdue his emotions; he did not succeed, and quickly ejacula ted, "Motlier l'-' At the same time the older man Had been regarding the younger lady intently, arid in a mo ment moro exclaimed, "Good Godj it is shC l" v The scene had attracted quite a number of passers, and to prevent further notice by them the young man spoke firmly and directed the actors to the little comedy to go with him, which they did. Soon they were seated in a comfortable little, parlor within a radius of' a mile from the place of the accidental meet ing, and amid manv sobs from the old lady, much wouderiug surprise on the part of the young lady, and a called-for amotlnt of agitation and mingled anger on the part of the young and old gentlemen, respect ively, the story was made clear. To relate il lucidly requires a re trospect tif over thirty years) when in Racine, Dr. S-, Sellcrd will do, as being as near the real name db possi ble to speak without making a com plete revelation?a mall aged about 23 years, married one of three daugh ters of a farmer in the vicinity. Dr. Scffcrd had, for a young man, a lu crative practice, wanted only for lux uries, and for a time the young couple traveled the road of matrimony com fortably. But dissensions gradually grew between them. Life was not as smooth ns desirable, even though u son had been horn to them, nn': an other (events proved it n daughter) was expected. It wasn't the greatest wonder in the world, then, for Racine to learn, one day in '49, when Califor nia's wealth of mineral was turning men's heads, breaking apart homes and families, and turning the nation almost Upside down, that Di. Setlerd had die appeared. It was Conjectured and rightly, that he had started for California. The little homo in Ra cine was broken up, the deserted family removed to the old farm house, and when, some liriio later, the daugh ter was born, no word of the father was there to bhecr the mother's heart, nor. was he again heard of for years. He, in the meantime, had reached California, and because of peculiar ways of wealing his whiskers und hair, became known an an Aus tralian. After wandoring for a short time about the State, he entered fi nally, with a prospecting party, near tho latter end of 1850, the mining section known as ^Dcadnian's Bar," in R?tte Coilnty. Tho Bar was a lively place in those days1, not half civilized, with a rough, Cosmopolitan population, of which some tribes of Digger Indians formed a part, and many wero the characteristic robber ies, murders, and miscellaneous sen sations chtoniclccd. And Doc Scf fcrd was added lo Iho list, for before tlio year had drawn to ii close he eloped with the pretty wifeiof a mem ber of the Digger tribe and her prec ty daughter, then about '2 years old. The matter was scarcely a nine days' wbhdcr in the camp, and whatibo came of them no one cared to investi gate; and probably no one of the-resi dents of the Bar ever learned. Btit Doc and his companion, after placing the child in the cafe of an old Span ish woman, who they felt assured would take good care of it, ron.tned the the country together; until atjast the woman died". Finally Doc became disgusted yvith his rovin-.; life, came to San Francio cOj was dead broke, and decided to settle down; lie did so, resumed his profession as a homeopath, and Anal ly retrieved his fortune and grew comfortably rich. Then friends pre vailed upon him to send for his ivife. He did so, and one happy day the family were united, with the excep tion of the son, whose whereabouts none of the family knew. When he had grown to youth's estate ho had conceived a desire to travel, and one day disappeared in a manner as mys terious as had done his father, rile, too, came to California, and, having studied telegraph}', succeeded in ob taining a good position, the "only fault of which was it kept him travel ing about the country, filling th? va cancies that wcro constantly occur ring. Finally he wa3 sent to Los Angclos, where he was stationed a sufficient length of time to become acquainted with, court and marry a young woman of about his own.age, resident in a Spanish family, and the daughter of the woman with whom Doc SeUered bad eloped from Dead man's Bar in '00. So strangely fate had worked its wonders 1 The'rest is soon told.' The reunited family removed to Sonoma County, where they still live.?San Francisco Chron icle. Revenue from Advertising. . As to what -revenne cotnes from^iV vertising, there can lie little said, us this is a part of Ihc private business of the concern', and figures are not easy to arrive at. London and New York papers; however, head the list, and the London Times and New York Herald enjoy the largest patronage of any newspapers in the world. What these papers receive is unknown, but it is said that the proprietor of the London Times gave the receipts of one department of his paper to his wife for pocket money, and it amounted to ?100,000 per year. This is no doubt an exaggeration of probably forty diameters. Several Parisian papers arc reported as re ceiving $100,000 per year on adver? ing, and a number of American pa pers can equal and excel this amount. Whatever the amounts, the question is decided by more than 200 years of fair trial that advertising pays, and thoroughgoing business men of the nineteenth century considers a knowl edge of the best of means of ad vor Us ing almost its necessary id business as a knowledge of goods he has to sell.??Veto York Times. Captured the Calico. A gentleman who journeyed lately from Alken to Kdgcficld overtook a spry negro woman giving cba?e to a somewhat shaky man Of the same race. She finally overtook and vio lently wrested out of his possession a bundle of calico. The tale is this: An Kdgcficld negro man married an Aiken negro woman. *Thc latter growing tired of Edgelield and of the man, sloped incontinenlty over the border into Aiken. The man, who is almost blind, after a few days of un utterable loneliness, bought twelve yards of gay calico, wherewith to toy the false one back to his bosom, and boldly crossed the line. Instead, however, of yielding to his soft allure ment, the woman pursued him, upon sight, and wresting the calico from his hands, returned permanently into the land of her nativity. The same old tale. A man too fond and a wo I man too false !?Etlgejleld Advertiser. It is one of the unwritten laws of Delaware that ho lawyer shall be elected governor. Their lawyers, they think, should be sent to Congress. Some respectable farmer, merchant or doctor, is chosen to look after State affairs, and but once hau the governor aspired to the United States Senate. That aspirant, Dr. Sauls bury, failed. He was defeated by his brother. SOMli??DV'S DAK LI Ml. A 6TOUY THAT MAY II K KUbh OF INTER EST IN SOME SOUTHERN HOME. , The battle ofShilob was fought-on the Gib and fill duya of April, 18?2. On the 9th of that month, with u par ty of Federal ollleers; 1 ?viis visiting the field, and a short distance in ad vance of where the main aeti?n had been fought, in an open space, which had escaped the ilaincs that had swept over a portion of the ground, wo discovered a dead fair-haired Southern ?oldicr apparently not more than eighteen yearn of age, his cloth ing, consisting of a loose jacket, a blouse and pants of plain home spun material, either gray or brown, and a slouched hat. He lay upon bis back, bis right arm extended out towards his smoke-stained musket, which,with his powder-blackehed lips, and the nearly empty eartride-bo"x, were mute evidences that he had faithfully done his duty ns a soldier. The trunk of a tree, about eighteen inches in diameter, which had been severed by a caunon shot, lay direct ly across his legs below the knee, holding him firmly to the ground. This hud evidently occurred after death, as there was no indication of a struggle or of suffering. One of the party observing some thing protruding from the dead sol dier's blouse above the belt, Stooped and drew forth a knit blue yarn mit ten, ou the wrist of which was em broidered in yellow yam the name, "VY*. Hall." The mitten was laid back upon his breast and we passed on. As I reached the fringes of un dergrowth that hemmed in the small open space in the timber, I turned to take a last look at the Silent, sleeper, and the scene was an impressive one. That calm young face turned up to the bright sunlight, the long auburn curls 1} ing in confusion around bis head, with the background of shrub bery, now green with the comiug spring, presented a sad; quiet pic ture-such a peaceful contrast with the dread surroundings of the burned, blackened bodies of men and horses; shattered trees, broken artillery car riages and equipments?an oasis, as it were, auiid the wreck of battle that, aftdr a lapse of sixteen years, it has remained vividly before me. Per haps through your paper this may reach the notice of some of the friends of the person named. Although I cannot recollect that there was anything on the body to in dicate the regiment to which "W. Hall" belonged, tho impression left upon m}' mind is that he was from Mississippi. lie was doubtless some body's darling, who, equipped by lov ing hands, and followed by a mother's blessing, went forth to tho wnrs, to be thenceforth numbered among the "unrelurning brave." II. 11 AY.MOND. Now, Who Wouldn't? We read, now a*ud again, about the salaries paid to editors of the great dailies. For instance, Dana, of the New York Sunj gets $11,000 a year; Wbitelaw Reid, of the Tribune, 812,000; Nordhoff writes for the Herald when he feels like it and is paid ?10,000 a year, and so forth. Now', who would not be an editor? But hold on. The Reporter receives patent medicines, big wheat seed, ap ples, wood (when he can get it,) po tatoes, cotton seed, shucks'; peaches, (sometime rotten at that,) poetical effusions by the quantity, ?'original'' stories without end, (at least without point,) any amount of newspaper and magazine selections, and as the auc tioneer would say, "inauy other arti cles too numerous to mention." Now, just wouldn't you like to be ??Chester Reporter. Hard on Blaine. A correspondent of the Savannah News relates a horrible story about Senator Bluinc. He says that some thirty years ago Blaine was teaching school in Kentucky and was "a fiury Bourbon Democrat." On one occa sion Cassias M. Clay made himself a candidate fbr office on an abolition platform and was billed for a speech i at Frankfort. Young Blaine declar ed he would reply to him) and a gen tleman now living loaned him ten dollars to pay his expenses: History doesn't say whether he answered Clay or not, but th? party who loan ed the money says he still has the plumed knight's promissory note. As it is a Southern claim there is no use I in carrying the case to Congress. In the Matter of Visitinf] Cards. A very good story is told of the lute Admiral Goldshorough with re gard to the eUijtiCvtte ol visiting curds. II? w?s ti bluff old sea-dog,und baled'| sham ?rid. pretense. An airy young, diplomat, d great Irian of society and fashion, called on the admiral; end finding him out, left his card with '.he letters E. P. pencilled on it. The brave salt was puzzled thereby, and when the young man accosted him on the street and asked, "Did you get my card, admiral?" he bhoutcd out, '?Yes 1 and what's the theaillng Of K Pi that you wrote od it?" "Oh, why that means cn perionnc\ that X called in person." "It does, eh I" said the admiral, and went off in a .inood of disgusted meditation. In a few days he returned the call by send ing a card around by a tncs?en'ger, first writing S. B. .N. in. one corner. Again the two met'. "You received my card did you?' inquired the ad miral. "Yes, and what does S. B. N. mean?" asked the polite young man. "heat by a nigger 1" thundered the admiral. Next. "Talking about cold weather," sud denly broke in ope of our oldest in habitants, the other evening, "why, you ought to have be n out in the State of Micnesota in '3G. I don't s'posc fourteen thermometers spliced together would a given the mercury room to drop as low as it wanted to go. One nwfttl cold night?colder than two of otii' ebliieSt lilglits con solidated?a hunter named llosking built an extra big fire in his log shan ty to keep warm, an' he kept a piling on the wood until his shanty was all ablaze, and when a few persons livin' there saw the light an' run to his as sistance, they saw llosking a-settin' in the midst of the flames n-shivcrin an' a rubbin' oi his hands as though he couldnt get warm ; and when the shanty was burned to ashes, they found him in the ruius a-settin on a big hickory log frozen to death How the persons who went to Hos~ king's assistance managed to escape freezing to deatli is what excited the wonderment of the oldest inhabitant's listeners, A Woman's Confession ot. Murder. Isaac New. landed c??ntjry rrierchant living near Fort Wayne; Ind., started home lrora Fort Wayne one etening iu September, 1870, getting off the cars at New Haven, the nearest sta tion to his house. His body was found the next morning in a lonely piece of woods. He had been brutal ly murdered for the money known to have been on his person when he left Fort Wayne. Last week, Mary D?rrer, a woman of ill-repute, con fessed that Perry Tracey, Joho Gar ineyer, and herself murdered Newland and robbed his body of 851. They drove out in a carriage, and headed him off after he left the train. Gar meycr is dead, and Tracey is serving out a life sentence for murdering James O'Brien. Mary also says that the same persons murdered a woman named Lizzie Early four years ago, she having incurred their enmity. Heavy Weights. The Rock Herald says that scatter ed about in tlte Upper portion of Lan caster bounty, there .lives a negro family; corripoued of father, mother', nine son3 and six daughters, whose aggregate weight is a little over three thousand four hundred pounds, or an average of two bnndred pounds for each member. The father of this fat family has never weighed over i-15 pounds, while the mother's weight has always been rather above 200 pounds. Of the children the heaviest is a woman, who weighs 250 pounds, while the lightest is the youngest, a boy of 10 years, whose weight is 18f> pounds. There has never been but one death in the family, that of a man, who died about two years ago, and who had attained his 80th year. His weight w?s about 200 pounds. Gov. Vance; before retiring from the executive chair, pardoned the on\y Hebrew in the North Carolina penitentiary. IIo was under a ten years' sentence for manslaughter. The Clovjrnor endorsed upon the pa per: "I take pleasure iu saying that I sign the pardon,in part recognition of the good and law-abiding charac ter of our Jewish .citizens, Ulis being the first sei ions case ever hrohght to my notice on the part of any of that people." i?B tRiaPXm fa, A SliABP CRITICISM OK JUDGES MACKEY'S "UKLICT OF ItAKIIAUiSM." Apropos to tiUlli we are inclined to .know that Judge* Mackey doii'4 know <jdud? ht? iaUalking dhout, ami that (In much of I113 law and , spine of hi& facts he is irib're indebted to a chronic intclUctual vagary than is prudent or piously accurate as he dances along in each stage of his per formances with vague, regardless e\es. 'Ihe prisoner's dock , isi not a relict of barbarism in fact nor a ban bnrou? appointment in itself. Ii ist a modern contrivance provided for tho convenience und comfort-of the pns*: oner. Before its adoptiojrtu.the pris oner-was brought into coUrt and stoo l in bis Shackles during irjal'vJti$re of less subject to the jostling.and je^rs of the multitude, a condition of things which is filly illustrated by the indigt nity visited on., our . blessed Lord;, when he stood for trial before.?Pon tius Pilate and was spit upon by tho angry rabble. Now the manacles ans removed and a seat afforded wuhin an inclosure, and it was raised abovo . the nudience that the pi ioc'uor ^oltlti "look upoti the juror5' and lhfe?"j.uror upon the prisoner'' without' interrup tion. , ? ; . ; , Now, it is a mawkish sentiment, a pulling objection which-talks ubqufc: this dock as an offence. ?Whatsis-., there in it so far as the dock^seLr concerned to bring sljaineupr.aocusa*: tion tti any manr Many-arv innocent man has sat in the dock and many a scoundrel on the bench. It is . not. the poor dock, a thing of wood, tbo$ can make a m n hold down his heart in shame. It is the crime..which brands his soul: deeper tha:;- .{rcti -hr the quiveiiug flesh. It Is the guilt that enters the precincts of ^Conscience which is sharper than t,ho i. inuiaiv.v. knife that cuts away the rogue's car.'. So, too, it is not the crime that, makes the pure and spotless judge,.but the high consciousness of aq unfliuehv-. ing integrity which would be.drawn and quartered before it would give a judgement for fear or favor or p> do cretal make to suit the sharp demands of the situation. ? ? ' Let us have dope wjj&.bhis mawk- ? ish septiiqetit. . Lot the dock stand, as a reminder to many^a >ma.iji wb?. walks abroad,, perch/yaha sits-in high places, of wbctb, Uc ought to be,if he;, bad ...hls\de3crts, apd.if it be, poor,, dumb thing, a preacher, cf this sort, let it preach, say.,we, in open court,' standing -high db?yc the hCa-s.,of men and standing face to face with the bench itself in solemn accusation all the wh le of the handy and unju.it judge.?Columbia Register. ? Never Shirk. . , . ? The habit of shirking 18 a great evil in our land. Sad and bitter are. tho experiences of multitudes who have lost positions of .emolument- and- trurt by shirKing dtitics nod responsibili ties devolving upon them. Th'ey so\y their mis'nice after.it was top l{Ue. It is a hud sign to seb a young man contracting tile. Habit of Shirking. You may set it down at onto thai sooner or later he will be a drone iij the great hive of human indhstryi living without any purpose in lifo and scorned by all who have willing hands, and fo-low up what they can find to do. Young man, if yop, tV^'nc to.gain the coufldeqcq and cjSti-ia of you'r. employer, never shirk from a duty. If overtasked, lay in your complaints, and you will always get a hearing. If you will begin life"aS u shirk, you may set it down ap ^ fixe<| fact that the habit will follow yob. through life, and. as a "success you will be an titter failure." *: C??id Not Account for it. General..Sherman's reccnj; visit to Atlanta gaVo rise" to a number of bu iliorous incidents, which have nearly, all found their way into print. The following is new: During his stay in Atlanta, tho General waa asked by a journalist of that city, who serv?d in the late war on the Confederate side with distinction, for a set of the maps illustrating the military op-, era) ions in and about Atlanta. The request wqs of course granted and thu necessary order given. Yester day a letter jvas received at tho War. Department acknowledging the re-? ccipt of tho gift,, and closing with thu. following witty comment: tkI really. I did not know; how badly we were whippbd Until 1 saw it- illustrated. ?, realized the fact in 18G4, but ecu la pot .account for it."? Washi?fjto)i Post.