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' j - Tie fearoiiisi; w atclHiait .y 1 1 - ' - t 1 !. ; f a ' : ,".;.;:..! ; . I VOL IX. THIRD SERIES SALISBURY, IJ. C, SEPTEMBER 5, 1878. HO 46 A STATESMAN'S CALM SURVEY. Tlie report conversation with Hora tio Seymour cornea, says the New York World, ithe present feverish and unheal- j 1 he Hon. II . M. Robins. Hit state of public opinion, like a pleas- - , - 1 1 rpi ta ! We follow up to-day our work of ex ant breeze through a hospital. There la y 1 3 o x. ... M11 liibiting the reconl of oiir Representatives hea niriui its wuigs, ami a certain sense . 7 , , ... , . i.-...ii- of freshness and breadth of scope breath-, . .. . . i. c,n1 es through it 1 he statesman has ceased e8 b. it , . OMMi to be partisan but he has not ceased to - 1 Democratic 111 his cast of thought. The .i;ftinltitH of tlie times have a tew ter-! UIH'V" rorsfornim, oecause kiwi uim . . " 1.. 1 1w,. vere to be expected 111 a popular orem- Lnttested by the evilsthat follow finan- 1 S mismanagement, and because he has nllfaithintheabilitv of a popular govern-J t .. .. . ;., .,irt..J ment to surmountall threateningdangers. , .i . 1 He cons ders Commnuisiu dangerous on- - ! lv where the lowest classes are without 3 . . w. .... i,t hoie of attaining wealth or comfort, but - - i this country there are few who do not .. ., 1 :...i:..:.i l dream of winning more through mdivitlu- 11 0 ... al exertion than Communism can i.oia mit to them. He is even of option that the Kii and reckless advocacy of Communis tic theories of government will so far edu cate the public that they will be ready not only to reject all new experiments in that direction, but to reject those ele ments of Communism which the Re publican party has already introduced in to the National policy, and to receive once more ito favor the old-fashit ned Democra . I A. tic theories ot nou-iutei ierenceoii ine pan of the (Jovernmentin business enterprises. He turns this point into a powerful argu ment for free trade. The protective tsuift was basfd on the idea that it is the duty , of ;civeniineut to take care of private en terprises and foster particular interests, lit pursurance of that theory Congress selected certain manufactures for pro tection. Virtually the people were taxed to keep the artisans '-'engaged in these manufactures -emphned and to make the capital Pin vest ed in these manufactures profitable.. This is Communism, amlllora tio Seymour thinks everybody will re cognize the fact when the plea for a pro tective tariS is set lieside tlie plea for the . employment of all idle workmen by the floveriiHiciit. Indeed he. goes so far as to describe the former -as the more danger ous form of that fallacy "that political power, and not industry and pursuits adapted to the condition of our conn try ,--1 is the true-source of wealth and pros perity." If the romihuhism which has taxed the consumers of the, country.- to procure for New England factories and Pennsylvania iron mills ami mines a brief pn eper'.ty has leen followed by bitter distress and utter prostration among the protected operatives, and interests, what good can come of devoping the prin ciple! If sustainin; our ship-builders by protective navigation laws has resulted in the destruction of our foreign com merce awl the ruin of our ship-building industry, what can we expect if the na tion take in hand the management of all business enterprise ? This argument Is double edged, and Socialist and republi can alike w ince from it. Never w as more said in a short space for the Democratic ju incline uiai me iiiiicihmi 01 government should lie confined within tin; narrowest possible limits, and the ordinary avoca tions of life left to individual enterprise and the people of tlie neigh borhood. The issue st;itil in this v:rv wmilit 1m KYr trade a ml liome Kule against Commun ism and Centralization. Mr. Seymour thinks that the West lost seriously by the inflation of the - currency, but he holds that that section is now growiug rich far more rapidly than the East, as it is sell ing more than it buys and profits by the appreciation of our currency in value. Another reversal of valuation would be fruitful disaster, but the continuation of - the present tendency will gradually bring the preponderance of political power west . ofthe Alleghanies. - -. To suni the whole matter up, continues the World, Mr. Seymour cheerfully de clares that the agitation in politics which scans to threaten contusion and disorder will .result in sound views on labor, gov ernment, ami finance. The new parties may electa few candidates, but they will " pass away, since they appeal to men as members of particular cl asses, not as citizens. . - "THE STORE CLERK. Clerks iu our shops often make a very serious mistake by overmuch praise of the goods they exhibit. Auy sensible person wishes to examine articles before purehas . ins, and is disgusted when a voluble clerk keeps up an incessant strain concerning the excellence, beauty, cheapness, etc., of what it is simply his duty to show with . pi.Hilill niiui IllilJ HOI oe l0- vioas, and giving such in formation as may be desiml. "The very, best fabric ever made," cou claded a clerk, the other day, after much fnfit-f I,.?..!. ... a. t - I. patting of his -good.-- "I am selling it to Tou at less than tlie actual; cost of manu facturing." . ! The lady at the counter turned awaj ayitig, "1 will not take thegootls. I have newish to pay less than the cost of man afactnre, and no merchant cau attbrd to do business on such terms." Of course there am cases where goods arc purchased by merchants under such circumstances that they can afford to sell at less than tlie manufacturing cost? And fetatiugthis fact is very well. Rut the persistent, incessant commendation of goods, combined with a disagreeable air of insisting on a purchase, is very obnox- - ioih to all refined people. From the People's Press THE CURRENCY QUESTION. lleeord of Xortk Carolina Jiepresentatires 111 ougress ou me aosoroing lssnes ui b . . enrreacy and finance. Ami we begin, as J . : fo ' most convenient, with that of the Hon. tl . . . . . W. M. Robbins, of tle Seventh Distnct p . - y. ', ther Democratic Congressmen -one of . . . - i-i.t . . monta P1 opiJiUon to forced - sumption and contraction , fl gold ! favonUsin to the bondho d- era ana money-Kings. ve premise man J 1 - wo are indebted to Mr. JR. huuself, for tlie . compilation: - , 1. When the Resumption Act was pass- r ed by the 4.J Congress, he voted agaiut it. J b jic nits cuucuuiut imuicu 110 ii-uru, .... . . , 4l , nnil 1 10 liilwtroil nnil vntfil fnr tlift rpTWMil- 7 V. iV' " V A mg uiu which passeii cue iiouse 4ov. .j, 1377. 3. January 22, 1874, the House Com mittee of Ways and Means reported a bill enlarging the limit of United States legal tender notes to $400,000,000. Mr. Rob bius voted for this. Amendments weie ottered to this bill limiting the1 amount to $339,000,000 and $382,000,000, respective ly. Mr. Robbins voted against both these amendments. 4. April 11, 1874, Mr. Reck, of Ken tucky, ottered in the House a proposition' to issue $400,000,000 additional United States Legal Tender notes, and gradually substitute them in place of the National Rank eurreucy. Mr. Roubius voted for this; but that House being Republican it was lost. 5. June 19, 1878, 'the Committee on Banking and Currency had a bill before the House providing for the gradual sub stitution of United States Legal Tender notes tor National jtiank currency. Mr. Robbing voted for this bill, and it passed the Democratic House. 0. June 18, 1878,Mr. Robbins voted for Towusend's bill to forbid the sale of bonds to raise money for resumption purposes; and also requiring the Government to receive legal tender notes for duties on imHrts. This bill received a. majority vote but not "the retired two-thirds ma jority. 7. June 20, 1878, Mr. Robbins voted for .Southard's bill providing that Miyineiit of customs duties niight I Hi made in leal tender notes. This bill missed the House. bat failed in tlnj Senate. 8. January 21', 1878, Mr. Robbins Voted for the .Mathews' resolution declaring that U. S. Roiuls are payable in silver as well as gold, and not in yoUl only, as the Re publican Congress in 1609 had enacted they should be, in order to favor the bond holders. ' " 0. Robbins voted for the bill remone tizing silver in the early part of the late session, and in favor of sundry amend ments to it which looked to the enlarge ment of the.amount of silver coinage. 10. February 28, 1878, the President having vetoed the Silver Rill, Mr. Rob bins voted to override the veto and pass the bill, and this was done. 11. April 2!), 1873, Mr. Robbins voted for Fort's bill to prevent the further con traction and retirement of legal tender notes, and to require the re-issue of such of these as might come into the Treasury 111 the course of business. This bill pass ed the House. ROMANCE OF A NUN. Mother Theresa, the oldest member of the order of Carmelite Nuns iu America, died recently, at the convent of the order, corner of Caroline and Riddle streets, Raltimore, in the 81st year of her age. Her name in the world was Miss Mary H. Sewall, and her birthplace was at George town, D. C, in 1797. Her father was an officer in te Revolutionary war, and, it is believeiLwas a member of GenTWash ing ton's start. Ho was wounded iu bat tle, and Gen. Washington, who was par ticularly interested iu him, stopped 011 one of the battlefields until his officer's wouuds were attended to. Mother Ther esa, when a child, was a pet of Gen. Washington, and often sat on his lap. When 19 years of age she took the veil and vows of the order at the only Car melite convent in the country at that time, which was in Charles county, Md The cause that led her to take the vows, as told by herself, is rather singular in its ciiaraccer. Mie was engageu to oe mar ried, and the time for the wedding had been fixed. She was called to attend the funeral of nu intimate friend a young lady of remarkable beauty whose .death had been a severe affliction to her. The burying ground was some distance from her home, and the coffin which contained the--body of her fiieud was borne the whole distance, as was then the custom, upon the shoulders of pall-bearers. Ry an accident upon the way, the coffin slip- ped from the gnisp of the bearers, and the body of the dead girl, clad in its white robes, was thrown out upon the roadside. Miss SewaU, who was a near witness-of the accident, was so terrified by the view of the dead body, that she immediately resolv"ed upon a life of reli- giousjseclusion. Her engagement of mar- riage was broken, and she at ouce entered the convent. - MONEY. There is more money now by nearly three times than there was in 18G0, bnt it is scarcer than it was then, and the perti nent inquiry is made, where haft all the money goneT There are thousands of dollars scattered aU through the country in sums-effrbro $50" to $5,000, in the hands of farmers and nonrtrading per sons. This money is laid away and kept inactive, consequently drawn from circu lation as effectually as if it had burned. And why is it t The legislation not only in North Carolina, hut in many other States, for the past twelve years has been such as to destroy confidence by the pass age of the homestead, bankrupt, stay and. other laws that would prevent the col- I lection of debtsr consequently men are afraid to lend their money to their neigh lors, as they do not know who is good, and to properly secure a loan, a mortgage was to be taken, little investigated ami other formalities gone through with that the common run of people are not acquain ted with, consequently an attorney has to be employed, hd expenses incurred that it makes it too costly to loan small sums, and the result is that thousands of dollars in every community are lying idle, that would, if we had good laws, be loaned out at small rate of interest. This money, if it gets in circulation at all, is deposited in some bank at a small inter est, where it is then loaned out second handed atone per cent, a mouth, and when used at this price in business eats up pro fits and makes business nnremunerative, iu other words, keeps all the business of the count ly engaged in work payiug its profits to the money lender. Refore the homestead and like laws were passed, when everything a man had was bound for his debts, if a man was worth one hundred dollars his credit to that amount was as good as a man who was worth a hundred thousand. A man with small means was enabled bj his credit to trade and make money and rise in the world. Rut the homestead law has struck down the credit of the poor man, when credit w as his only capital, and has bound him iu shackles stronger than iron, that will keep him and his children after him jMMr. It has built up a moneyed arristo cnicy by prescribing; how much a' man must Ik? worth ltctorc he can be trusted. Poor men, young men, who aspire to ac complish something, with only their as pirations, their energies, their capacity and their credit as their capital, have had this taken way from them by law, and it takes years of toil and savings under dif ficulties to place themselves outside the umirs nxeci iy law tnat makes tiiem re sponsible. The farmer raises his produce and his stock. His neighbor can't buy from him because if he is not worth so much money the law makes him irreonsib1c, conse quently unsafe. The result is competi tion iu buying is lessened, and men with money or good credit are enabled to fix the price of almost everything they lriy from the producer, and when a poor devil who has the protecting arm of the home stead law thrown around him, gets credit for anything he has to beg and promise and mortgage for it, and pay two prices. The homestead low injures the poor man because it destroys his credit. To the moneyed man it is an advantage because it gives him exclusive control of the busi ness of the country and enables him to fix the buying and selling price of every thing, and the mortgage system that fel low's in it trial will eveutually rob the poor man of this homestead for which have been sacrificed his credit and his manhood. If we ever get the goiid old prosperous times of our fathers again, we must return to the old honest ways of our fathers, when the laws of the laud com pelled a man to make his word as good as his bond. The government may issue greenbacks until it is as plentiful as the leaves ou the trees, it will do no"good. Nothing short of that good credit that is born of confidence will ever restore pros perous times to our country. Winston Sentinel. NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. In fluence of Electricity on Plants. Some interesting experiments as to the influence of atmospheric electricity on the nutrition of plants have lately been made by MGrandeau, and communicated by him to the Academy of Sciences, of Paris. He placed two plants of the same species (tobacco, maize, wheat) under same con ditions as to soil, aeration, isolation, etc., but the one withdrawn from the action of atmospheric electricity by means of a Faraday's cage. The plants thus with drawn elaborated, in equal times, 50 or ! 00 er cent less of living matter thau the others. Plants of small elevation above the ground are also affected by atmos pheric electricity. The centesimal amount of proteic matter formed appears not to depend sensibly on this action; it is pro- portional to the yield. The proportion of ash is higher in plants removed from tho electricity, and the proportion of water is Jess. The French scientist, however, does not explain why it is that two plants of the same species, growing in a field side by side, and under the (same conditions, do not always attain the same develop- ment nor elaborate the same amount of material from the soil. BILL ARP AGAIN. He Malts a Dig at the Officeholders and Ofliceseeters. " "Rill Arp" haviug threshed out his "wheat, Beeins to think her. needn't work any more, and is resting himself by writ ting letters to the Constitution. His last is in that paper of Sunday,' and this is an extraetfrom it : ' r- p Well, the corn is growin7 out of sight. It ain't givin' ns any chanco to lay it by decently, for the rain : come along every time when we get ready-to ploy, and then we have to wait-for the ground to dry. Old Peckerwood remarked,, that it .was the raiuest time he ever experienced, and he reckoned somebody must have hungjip a power oFdead enake9 thlspriug. If these good seasons continue, there will be com enough made for another small war, aud I'm afread it wou't bring more than 25 cents a bushel. I everybody had a little money we would all be comfortable for things we have to buy are powerful cheap. Rut that's the trouble, and I've noticed for thirty years that when the things I wan ted are cheap as dirt I didu't have a cent to buy with. I do believe it is better to have a pocket full of poor money and let things be high, for there is comfort in feeliu' of it tho' it ain't worth much. When it took a hundred dollars iu "Con fed" to buy a pouud of tobacker I felt sorter like a gentleman, if I had the mon ey, but now I feel as mean as a yullcr dog when niy assets gitts down to half a dollar. I think I understand these law-makers party well. It is their intrust to make money scarce. You see they are keerful not to reduce I Ik ir salaries, tho' one dollar will buy three times as much now as it did when they voted themselves six thousand dollars a year. Its no wonder they, "stand for the relection." Human nature would stand forever on such a hand as that. Rut we, the people, are the sufferers, for if they don't reduce taxes, we are just like tin m mules that pulled round the thrasher work, work all the day long at the crack of the whip, but the wheat is all for the white folks. I suppose we will get a little of the straw. Times use to was when the people called a man from his retirement, and axed him to serve them, hut now-a-days a feller can hold on to an ottis until he thinks it be longs to him. lie don't wait to be called but he gits there tirt ahead of every body, and you can hear him a mumbling "Pni in, and I'll be durned if I aint goin to stay in. I've got some pursonal frieuds, and I can get the niggers and scalawags, and you ..may go to the devil with your convention." "You see they coutrolc the scalawags by keepiu' 'em in ofiis, and scalawags control the niggers, and they all mix up hash together and call it independence. This hash party is growin, bigger and bigger, ami if our people don't mind they will absorb a heap more sorebacks than Toombs. Rob never would work in a waggon with a driver behind nohow-, and 1 have thought thai maybe if I get in the rear and but it around like a goat, and once or twice iu a while turn the concern over, he would be satisfied. Rut some how or other I like Rob as a man not as a very great man tor in my opinion, one man ain't very much greater than another nohow. The principal difference is iu the quantity of conceit and impu dence. Time was when modesty was one of the earmarks of greatness, but that's a lost art now. Yours, Riu. Arp. THE SAGACITY OF ANTS. Professor Leidy, in a recent article, states that in order to ascertain whether a house he had just entered was (as he suspected) seriously infested with red auts he placed a piece of sweet cake in every room. At noon every piece was found covered with ants. A cup of turpentine oil being provided, each piece was picked up with forceps, and the ants tapped into the oil. The cake was replaced, and in the evening w as again found covered with ants. The same process was gone through the follow ing two days, morning, noon, and night. The third day the number of ants had greatly diminished, and ou the fourth there were none. He at first sup posed the ants had all been destroyed, but in the attic he observed a few feasting on some dead house flies, which led him to suspect that the remaining ants had become suspicious of the sweet cake. He accordingly distributed through the house nitres of bacon, w hich were afterwards found swarming with ants. This was re peated with the same result for several days, when, in like manner w ith the cake, the ants ceased to visit the bacon. Pieces . . a1... of cheese were next meu wiui me wmie result, but with an undoubted thinning in the number of ants. When the cheese proved no longer attractive, dead grass hoppers were supplied from .the garden. These again proved Uo much for the auts, but after a few days' trial neither grass hoppers nor anything else attracted them; nor has the house been infested with them since. Boston Journal of Chemistry. Dr. Ganse, of St. LoiU, uttered a true sentiment, when speakiug to the working men, of the Sabbath, and its value to them, he said, "Don't girdle the tree that shades you. STATE RANKS. xr r. Xewbe" X. C, Aug. 20, ls7. JJear btr From the various couimu- nicatious and comments which have ap- peared 111 our papers, it seems to be the universal opinion, that the only means we have of relieving the present finaSl distress, is tlie re-establishment of State Ranks. It is only through them that the volume of currency can be increased, the nieaus of borrowiuir mouev made mom easy,and the rateof JedS . Such being the ease, is it not well worth ' making n effort to re-establish tliem T ) The great impediment in the waty is a United State tax of 10 percent on their circulation. This tax is Hnjut, and in-; jurions to the best interests of the roun-1 try. It is nnjost, because it discrimiimtea in the interest of a few, and against the . interest of the masses of -the people. It v , - - which should i,orex4st: It is injbe! , tuinma. if r,ll...o V'...: ...1 T. i . ! cause it allows the National Ranks to charge IS per cent interest, while others can' only take 8 per cent. It is injurious, because it prevents competition,' (which comiietition, if allowed,) would enable money to be obtained for at least one half tho rates uow charged. In order that Congress may le induced to repeal the tax law alluded to. it is nec essary to bring all the influence, possible to lear when Congress again meets. During the late session of Congress I was instrumental iu gettiug up 40 or 50 petitions asking for the repeal of this law. The petitions were referred to the Com mittee on Ranks. I received a number of letters from our Senators and Repre sentative urging me to forward more pe titions, saying it was "only by them that the voice of the jK'ople could be heard.'' The large accumulation of business, aud the early adjournment of Congress, pre vented any action lieing taken. It is now proposed to make a united effort, and as soon us Congress assembles to pour in petitions from every section of the coun try. If the proper efforts are made, these petitions will contaiu the signatures of not less than two hundred thousand per sons. There should not le less than twenty thousand from N. Carolina. I have had a number of petitions print ed, which I will cheerfully furnish to auy one who will simply get signatures to il. .1 l r a. i xi iiiem, ami wnen congress meets lorwaru resentutives Yen respectfully, WILLIAM il. OLIVER AMMONIA IN THE AIR. Dr. R. Angus Smith, who has done so much for the chemistry of the air, lately' read before the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Soi-iety a paper on the dis- . the separation is entailed, and how hard tribution of ammonia, in winch, be dc- ; it was for an officer's wife to know what scribed the simplest method yet proposed to do, whether to follow her husband or for determining the amount of ammonia in stay with her mother. "Of course C -the air. And since such ammonia may ' tain Lee,'' said Mrs. Rliss, "like all men, be taken as an index of the amount of de- you think a woman should leave all and eayed matter in any locality, the hygienic cling to her husband." "Not so, madam," importance of an easy test for it is not he said; "my advice is, stay as long as small. The availability of the proposed test arises from the circumstance that am- monia is deposited from the air on every object exposed thereto. "If you pick up a stone in a city, and wash off the matter on its surface, you will find the water to contain ammonia. It' you wash a chair or a table or anything in a room, you will find ammonia in the washing. It' you wash your hands you will find the same, and your paper, your pen, vour table cloth, and clothes all show ammonia, and even the -lass cover to an ornament has retained some on its surface." In short ammonia sticks to everything, and can be readily washed olf with pure water. Hence Dr. Smith inferred that he might save himself much of the trouble he bad been taking iu laborious washing of air to determine the presence of ammonia. and gain the desired end by testing the ot the bully tree, which ttourishes on the superficial deposit of ammouia which j banks of the M inoco and the Amazon. It gathers on clean substances during ordi- J is called balata, and ranks lietween caout uary exposure. Accordingly he sus-wii-: chouc aud gutta pcrcha iu useful qualities, ed small glass flasks in various parts of ( It resembles gutta percha so closely in its his laboratory and examined them daily, general probities that much of it is ship washing the outer surfaces with pure wa- ped from Guiana and sold yearly for gutta ter. and testing at once for ammonia with 1 percha although it has many points of the Nessler solution. Subsequently a superiority. It is tasteless, gives an agree -great many observations were made by ' able odor on being warmed, may be cut means of glasses exposed to air in door j like gutta percha, is tough aud leathery, and out, where the air was tweet and ( is remarkably flexible, and far more elas whereitwas foul. Ry using glasses of tic than gutta perchar It becomes soft, definite size it was easy to determine j and may be joined piece to piece, like gut whether the ammonia in the air was or . ta perch, at about Fah., but requires was not in excess. Iu his laboratory ex- 270' Fall, before melting. It i complete nei inients ammonia, was observed when ly soluble iu benzole, and carbon disul- the glasses had been exposed an hour and a half. Of the practical working of the test Dr. Smith remarks thnt.it must not be lor gotteu that the ammonia may be pure or it may be connected w ith organic matter; and consequently this mode of inquiry is better suited as a negative test to show what is present. When ammonia is ab sent we may be sure that the air is not polluted by decaying matter; when it is present there is need of caution. Dr. Smith adds that he hopes to make this a ready popular test for air, a test for sewer gases, for overcrowding, for cleanliness of habitations, and even of furniture, as well as for smoke and all the sources of am monia. Of course it must be used with consideration aud the conclusions must not be drawn by au ignorant persou. Scientific American. Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track or the measles set in. A placard iu the wiudow of a patent medicine man in Paris reads as follows "The public are requested not to mistake this shop for that of another quack just opposite," DRIVING A HEN. Whin a woman has u hen to drive into .a . a cooP sle takes hold of her skirts w ith lth hands, shakes them quietly towards the delinquent, and says "Shew there''' t 1 i , . f"tw, unit . "e look at rtie to oouv,uce Jieraelf that it's a woman jind t,,eu stalks majestically into the coop iu perfect disgust at the sex. A man doesn't .i i . T . Jvnefe.ntdo.and .f 18 8Hlgttlar "boly here cau drive a lien but njer ad picking up a stick of wood, hurls it at the offendiu" bined and observes: "Get iu there, you thief '' Ti, 1, j. . v 1 1 , 6 1,en "um-lwU;ly loses her reason and to the other end of the yard. The mn straightway dashes after her. She comes back again with her head down, ,,er S Ut m,d folhwcd & UlCUt Of StOVeWOOil. fill it fulio rwl .K.,1- meut of stovewood, fruit cans and clinic era, with a much puffing and very mad man in the rear. Then she skims up un der the barn, aud over a fence or two, and around the house, and back agaiu to the coop, and all the w hile talking as only an excited hen can talk, and all the while followed by things convenient for hand ling, ami a man whose coat is on the saw buck, and whose hat . is on the gronm1, aud whose perspiration and profr.nity ap pear to have no limit. Ry this time the other hens have comeout to take a hand in the debate and help dodge missiles, and then the man says every hen on the place shall be sold iu the morning, and puts on his things and goes down the street, and the woman has every one of those hens housed and counted in two minutes, and the only sound heard on the place is the hammering by the oldest boy as he mends the broken pickets. Selected. These plans of driving are applicable i u the cases of other things than hens. The person who goes about the busiuess gently aud calmly will seldom fail of suc cess, while for him who resorts to the tire and thunder plan we may always look witii doubts as to successful results. Mo- - General Lcc' Adrice to Officer's Wires. I have heard General Lee relate the following incident : At a dinner party given by Geueral Taylor shortly after his accession, General, then Capt. 1'C chanc ed to be ou the right of Mrs. Rliss at the table. They w-ere discussing army life, you can under your mothers wiug. ou never caifhave more than oue mother, j but a pretty woman can always supply a husband's loss." Years afterwards he J vas again at the right of Mrs. Rliss at a dinner party, but Col. Rliss had died Jn ' the meantime; his widow had married again and of course bore a different name; and Captain had become Colonel Lee. ! After discussing several subjects, she laughingly said, "Colonel, do you remem- ber a piece of advice you once gave ine F ' "Indeed, I do, madam. It has been in my thoughts all day, but I would have never dared to remind you ot it. ion lollowed the advice, I see." A'eir Article of Commerce. A new and valuable member of the grmip of elastic gums is found in the sap phide in the cold. Turpentine dissolve it with the application of heat, while it is only partially soluble in anhydrous alco hol aud ether. It becomes strongly elec trified by friction, and is a better insula tor of heat and electricity than gutta per cha. Caustic alkalies and concentrated hydrochloric acid do not attack it ; but concentrated sulphuric and nitric acids attack it as they do gutta percha. Scieu -tific American. The Population of the Earth. -The fifth publication of Rehm and Wagner's well known "Population of the Earth,"' makes the nnmlK-r of the earth's human inhabi tants for the current year 1 ,1-1 , 1 4-,.'J00, au increase of fifteen millions over the es timates of last year. The increase is at tributed partly to natural growth, partly to exacter knowledge due to recent cen suses. The distribution of the populath n among the grand geographical divisions is as follows: Europe, H-J'MSO; Asia, rtll , 000,000; Africa, 20. 19,500; 'Aiutraitia and Polynesia, 4,411,'JOO; America, cV 110,000, A man in Detroit has recently invented an apparatus for arresting and extinguish ' ing sparks. Are the -iris going to .tand that J HAR1 times; 11., the New loik correspondent of the Raleigh Observer,11 in a ;Jewui letter Ikis the following to say to tbosy ;vho are crying out about hard 'times', riiiidtheic is sound philosophy aud comiuou,. fjense in it: '"" ' " ..V" "Tlie times are Jum!, are they ? Stop a minute and think if it is not 'a great deal more iu our speech than iu our ex perience. You have a fair salary f Yes. Pretty god clothes? Yes. laveas wel! as usual? Yes. Pay your debtf Yes. Eujoy your work f Yes, Livof peaceably with your family and neighbor! Yes. Sleep well ? Yes. Ary you mt"a . isciple ' of the "sand-lot" orator T . Then don't talk "haixrtimes longer. "Kojjg- m ill help so much to the relief, of 'chronic discontentment as to turn Wie'alk m "good times." A spirit of nou-cpjnplain- ing is house, food, clothing, friends-to c'verj Isslr. Theoretical Reformer. i Speaking of the swarm of coitfidpntbut ill-informed theorizers vh -pieaujued To represent the workingmeu of tlieuintry before the Congressional Committee for investigating the "labor questionn ses sion in this city, the Trihuue saxtisieally, et not unjustifiably, remarks' hat "it is a curious circumstance that thonn who do not own a dollar of capital, amLnever, except upon compulsion, do aday' work at any kind of labor, arc the ones who un derstand better thau anybody elsehe re lations of capital aud labor, aud are the most comietcnt to adjust each to tieoth--er and to the., State. Curiously, enough, too, tlie men who own capital aul the men who live by labor are so ignoijjnt 1 the whole subject that they cauuot b. permitted to arrange their own business. The capitalist cannot negotiate yih the i workingman for the labor winch piakes capital productive, nor the woikiugniau treat with the capitalist for the ecjiange of his labor for pecuniary rewardTwith out the interferenc of other men h not ouly do not labor nor employ labor, but who have never studied this or auyvother question, and have hardly reflected sober ly upon its most snpcrliical aspects, And these latter are the ones who speat with authority." 4 It is a pity that so many political k wk papers and politicians-mistake the v;itor-in-s of such idle-theorizers for the views of workingmeh. Our sober-minded and practical artisans and- mechanicsr-ami they constitute numerically as well as in dustrially the real working r -las -are not given to such crack-brained scjieiu.es for inaugurating-the millennium by govern ment proclamation. r . t Viintiixj in Japan. The advantages possessed by the .art of printing with movable types are incontes table. For Europeans, whose alphabet is composed of a small number of letters on ly, nothing is more easy than to.,foriu words. Rut it is a djti'crcnt thing vptire Iv in countries which, like ci.iiii.innd J- pan, have a parlicu'.ir haiHi teKto e.x- in i'ss everv idea everv word. . Aceor- i '. ding to the correspondent of a Join mil from which we have bellowed these de tails, the compute collection of Japne.-c types comprise 5,000 characters, of which 3,000 are iu constant use, nd 2,000 are employed occasionally. These are ar ranged in a Japanese composing room on shelves like the books in a library) the compositor is thus obliged to be continu ally ou the gowhile collecting his types. The great uuinber-of tlrcir characters for printing has th'is far prevented the Chi nese and Japanese from correspoiidjiigby electricity ; the telegraph, that in-M ui -.a-i.i. of civilization, having remanimd in the hands of foreigners. It i v no w '.ider then that the telephone-has leen received hi Japan with the greatest favor. i,c ;joi - dc lie ta Scirncc. .r: m , A Source of Hard Times,. ,. Speaking of the vast ami . toji -great -extei t avoidable destruction of pr-Ojx r ty by fne in this country, the Fireman says that fires aie increasing, ioth in numlH'i-s and de.striic4iveness, tav more rapidly than the increase of wealtjf-juid production. It is computed that .from itn annual loss by tire in i of ?:i.3,0(XJi;0', the annual loss, exclusive of exceptional tires such as Ronton ami I'huagi (if -Jhey may lv called "exceptional"') has increas ed to UH),000,0;)0. Tliei'uU significant-" of this sfatemcut eaniwt be. realized, un less analyzed. This loss is the inenu-di-able loss of human product and industry. It is the conversion of human blood, bruwii and muscle, necessary t; create 1 00,()0, -(MX) of value, into ahesaud smokc ,;As. suming the labor that produced 'this yalmj to be worth .per day, this loss i the loss of more than the coiulnned labor of 1 00,0! XJ men for one entire year. . Then, too it mast Ik; remembered that thi is surplus production. It has lieen accumu lated by producers after earning iiyi'11" hoods for themselves and families, and paying their share of the cost to the gov ernment and their propoitioii to the bur dens of society. It would require, t lien, tho labor of RHl.OoTl men for iO years to replace by sarpl is production thuannu . . - i . - i i. al loss. I is not only so -iiii-cut-m ;yiii subtracted from the resources of the coun try, but it is tlie loss of the productive power of so much. capital.