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4 JAMES C. QOYLIN, Publisher. The Wadesboro Messenger and Vadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated Ju!y,1l833. PRICE, SI.5o a Year. NEW SEKIES TOI. I.!L NO. 41. WADESBOKO, N. C, THUESDAY, JANUAEY 23, 1890. "WHOLE NUMBER, "492. ' j 1 . , - - r DB. J. T. BATTLE uao His PDftmiioOTnw t onsv PEOPLBOF WADESBORO - 'V - EAPIIAEL ALLEN, Barber. TT-11 CUTTING, BHMPOOr .VG, u?? &c- Jon with neatness end ouop near Mr.- Broiler's Bakei ty. W. A. GENERAL ISURACE GFaT. Represents the laaipg Fire and life ( fnsor- uoo iompaniea. - J Office Martin Street, Wadesboro. Wl C. 6 HE DIAMOND BUTTON FROM THE DIARY OP A LAWYER AND THE NOTE BOOK OP A REPORTER. I will co, too, Bald Holbrook, who was strongly attracted by Wessing. "As you please," rejoined the ser reant; then tarninff to an officer he said: Watch the body; I will send a utter to Lewiston journal on as soon as I can.' I . . WITNESS AND JUDGE. Divinity Does Not Hedge a Squire In Maine. By BARCLAY NORTH. Copyrighted, x88o, by O. M. 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HE place was Union square; the time, an hour after midnight. Three men, leaving three different points on the square, met a little north of the monument Of Washington. One of them left the corner of Fifteenth street and Fourth avenue, and walked in the direction of Fourteenth street and Broadway; an other left the corner of Fourteenth street and Broadway, and walked in the direction of Fifteenth street and Fourth avenue. These two met closely, having walked on the same line in opposite di rections. The third left the corner of Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue and walked in the direction of the park, on a line with the monument. When the other two met, the third had only reached as far as the iron rail ing which insures the father of his country the uninterrupted enjoyment of that ride upon which he set out some thirty or forty years ago; he had loitered along with the air of one who had no purpose in his walk, smoking with leis urely puffs. ' The other two walked briskly. But the third, having the shorter dis tance to go, wasmear enough to see the man who had come from Fifteenth street and Fourth avenue stop short as he was about to pass the other, catch him by the arm and. peer sharply in his face, and heard these words: "It is you, is it? Then take this." At the same moment, the man at the railing saw a glittering flash in the night, an uplifted arm brought down Bwlftly, beard a blow a groan, saw a body fall ing to the ground, and a man quickly disappear into the park. . Dazed by the rapid action of this trag edy, enacted almost at his very feet, he clung to the iron railing and shouted, "Murder! Murder!!" The square, which but a moment before- seemed to have no occupants but the three, was quickly thronged. There were hotels and drinking saloons on two sides, cabmen sleeping on their boxes and tramps, plenty, in the park, for it was a summer's night in August. These produced a crowd, while a po liceman came running from Fourteenth street. "Who did this?" demanded the officer, casting a glance at the fallen man. Ho one answered. He examined the body. ; "The man is dead," he exclaimed. " He lifted the arm of the victim. "Heavens! The knife is still sticking in him. Did any one see this?" "Yes, I did," said the man who had first shouted 'murder." Then he told what he had seen. "Stand here till I can take your name and address," said the policeman, "but I must have help." He rapped several times on the pave ment with his long night club; the sig nal was promptly answered from differ ent quarters; among others who came was the sergeant. After he had heard all that could be ld him he dispatched an officer for the coroner. Then he asked the name of him who had given the alarm. "Albert Wessing," was the reply. "Well, Mr. Wessing, I suppose you will not Eke it, but you will have to go with me to the station house. Don't, leave. You are a valuable witness the only one who saw the deed committed. Before the valuable witness could re ply two things occurred. From each side a man forced his way to the spot where lay the body. One, who came from the Fourth avenue side, bad a loose coat thrown over his night shirt; his bare feet were thrust into slip pers, and his suspenders were gathered around the waistband of his trousers like a belt; he had evidently dressed with great haste, As he came forward he said: "No, not the only witness, for 1 saw the blow." "Where were you?1 sharply queried the sergeant. "Looking out of the window of my room," replied the newcomer, pointing to the Union Square hotel. "I was pre pared for bed, but I threw on some clothes and came down." - Then, perceiving that the sergeant scru tinized him, he added: "Have no fear concerning me, ser geant; I am well known in the city. 1 am a practicing lawyer; my name is Henry Holbrook; I have lived a long time at that hotel. The night clerk will vouch for me." "Yes," said the man beside him, "he gave the alarm in the hotel as he came rushing down stairs." This satisfied the sergeant, for he rec ognized in the man the night clerk of the hotel. ' ".. "Bat why have you not searched the park for (he murderer?" asked Holbrook. "He ran in the direction of Seventeenth street auu Broadway. I followed him until he was lost to my eyes in the trees. As he ran he threw off a coat."- 'Yes," said a frowsy tramp, "I saw a man running through the park when I was woke up' by this ere feller hollerin' Murder.'" "Two of you search the park," et- dered the sergeant. . "That. should have been" 1 "Great Heavens! Jt is Mr. Temple- ton!" . , .-.:.v. This interruption came from the one who had come' from the Broadway side; he had been bending over the prostrate body, and as the two officers moved off at the command of the sergeant, they had opened the ranks of those crowding about, thus enabling the light to .shine upon the dead man's face. "Who are you?" demanded the ser geant, grasping the arm of the new comer as he straightened up. The policeman who had come first at the cry of murder recognize! the speaker, f Sliding up to the superior officer ho aidi "He's all right, sergeant; I know him; head barkeeper over here on the corner -Morton house." Then, moved by the recollection of sundry sly imbibations, he added: "A perfect gentleman." "Oh!" said the sergeant "Who fa Mr. Temple ton? What do you know about him?" "Not very much," replied the bar keeper. "Comes into our place pretty often Usually stops in on his way up town of an afternoon. Sometimes comes in at night, but not often. He was in our place half an hourago." 'Had he been drinking?" "Not much in our place." "Was he intoxicated?" "Oh no, he never gets drunk. Very careful drinker. I here were Borne friends with him. They all went out to gether." "Was there any quarreling among them?" "No, very friendly and jollv." "Still it might have been one of them who knifed him." "No," said Holbrook, "I saw this man standing on the corner of Fourteenth 6treet and Broadway. He parted from them and came this way; the others went down Fourteenth street toward the North river. The arc lights made every thing clear to me, and there were few people in the square." "Yes, that is. so," remarked Wessing. CHAPTER IL THE COUOJTEB TAKES CHARGE. SHE coroner came . . w, ma up at this mo ment and the ser geant gave him all the facts in his possession. The official, who was a physician, examined the body. "Death was In stantaneous," he said; "the knife passed between the ribs and pierc ed the heart; a powerful bl6w, The two police men who had gone into the park return ed. They brought with them a pair of trousers, a coat and a hat; they had been found at different places, but on a line with the supposed night of the murder er; first the coat, then the trousers and lastly the hat tossed on one side or the other, on the grass. The coroner closely examined them, and then handed them to the sergeant. There was nothing whate ver m the pock ets. They were of cheap quality, such as you see in front of Chatham street cloth ing stores on wire frames, marked six. eight and ten dollars the suit. Apparently. they had never been worn before, for the creases, which come from being folded in piles on the counters, were still in them. Worn for the purpose of being thrown off," commented the sergeant. "Where Isthevestr "We didn't find any." "Look again." The two officers moved off to obey the order. "Has the body been searched?" asked the coroner, "No." Then search it" Little was revealed. A handkerchief, a pair of kid gloves, a card case filled with cards, bearing the name of "James Holroyd Templetoh, a receipted tailor's bill, a wallet containing memoranda, de scriptions of real estate in various parts of the city, a gold toothpick, ninety-one dollars in bills, less than a dollar in silver change, a gold watch and chain, a few cigars. These articles were placed In the hand kerchief, tied up, and given to the coro ner. "The body may be removed, sergeant," said the coroner. "Have the clothes taken to the station house. Have you the names and addresses of the wit nesses?" "Yes; also the names of those who were last with the deceased." , "That is welL" "Except the address of this matt,1 turning to We6sing, who had never left the side of the sergeant t "I am a stranger in the city," he re plied. "I live in Philadelphia; I came from there this evening." "You came last night" "Yes, since this is the morning, a new day." ' . . . . "Where are you stopping?" - Wessing hesitated. This made the sergeant suspicious. "The truth is, sergeant," said Wessing, "I have not taken lodgings yet Mx va lise is over there at that hotel," pointing to Fourteenth street "I was about to take a turn in the park, smoke my cigar and then go back to take a room. "Urn. WelL I will accommodate you with lodgings for the rest of the night" Why," said Holbrook, "he sw no more than I did." "That may be," replied the sergeant. grimly, ''but he may know more than you do. At all events, he must give .a better account of himself than he has yet done." . ; . . .rr. This made Wessing smile. . . "That I will do, but I prefer doing it at the station house rather than in this crowd." - .. ; "WeiJ, let us po." . you Arriving at the station house, after all bad been excluded except the coroner and Holbrook, Wessing gave a straight forward account of his coming Into the city from Philadelphia the night previ ous, and his determination not to regis ter himself at any hotel until after he Jiad taken something to eat; that having eaten at an eating house on Fourteenth street and lit a cigar, he thought he would smoke it in the park and cool off before he returned to the hottl. He gave names and addresses In Phil adelphia whereby his statements could be verified by telegraph. The sergeant however, determined to hold him until verification could be made. To this Wessing acquiesced so readily that Holbrook was convinced he had nothing to fear from investigation. So expressing himself, he remarked to the sergeant: "Be careful you do not have a suit for false imprisonment 'on your hands." This made the sergeant uneasy. The coroner laughed, but would say nothing to relieve the officer. "Have no fear," said Wessing, "you are only doing your duty." This complaisance secured for wessing the captain's room for the night rather than a celL Holbrook, having nothing to .detain him, went away. When he reached the square he went over to the spot where the murder had been done. He had no purpose in going there; an irresistible impulse a strong fascination drew him thither. The square was deserted again and quiet reigned. The revelers had gone back to their haunts, the tramps to their benches in the park, the "night hawks" slept again on their boxes, while they awaited the belated ones who might re quire their services. The moon shone brightly. The silence was oppressive; un broken only at intervals by the snatches of drunken song in the distance and the occasional rumble of the trains on Third avenue. Holbrook meditated on the uncertainty of life. The man Templeton was young, strong, in health, and in a moment he had been struck down and tfas dead He walked the streets late at night himself at times, and the same fate might as easily have been his. But this manifestly was not a murder for the purpose of rob bery. And was it a wanton blow struck in sheer wickedness through lust for blood? Hardly such things do not occur in our civilization. There was a motive for the act, a strong one doubtless. The discovery of the motive would lead to the discovery of the murderer. The first effort of the police would doubtless be to discover that motive. As he st)od something sparkled, under the sudden flaring of a distant electrio light, at his feet ' He picked up the shining object It was a cuff button a round, gold button with a diamond imbedded in its top. Holbrook looked about him. The murdered man must have lain upon it "When was that lost?" he muttered to himself. "Does" it have any connec tion with this murder?" Pshaw," he added, "it may have lain there all night But stop! The street sweeping machine passed over this spot twenty minutes or less before the two met and would have swept it away." tie examinea it closely. "The button belongs to ttagi who commands money and is particular in his dress. Good! Bar keepers and po licemen do not wear diamond buttons of this kind, nor cabbies, nor tramps sleep ing m me parK, nor indeed many law yers. It belonged either to the mur dered man or his murderer." He felt pleased with himself and thought he would make a shrewd do tec tive. Perhaps it belongs to the coroner." ha said aloud. "Not probable," he added, on another thought "A coroner awak ened in the middle of the nic-ht to view a body recently killed would hardly ar ray himself with diamond buttons. At all events I suppose I must turn it qver to the authorities. In the meantime I shall go to bed." He put the button in his purse and en tered his hotel.' It was a curious coincidence that at the moment Holbrook picked up the but ton a young man of fashion, who had just returned from hfa club to bis apart ments, nan a mile distant, took off his coat and discovered that the buttonholes of his right cuff were torn out and his cuff button gone. He looked at it a moment muttered an oath and asked himself, "How was that done?" Then he proceeded with his disrobing. An amusing scene was recently enacted in a country court room in Maine. The trial Juctice, a big, pompous official, with a voice like a trombone, took it upon himself to examine a witness, a little, withered old man, whoea face was as red and -wrinkled as a smoked herring. What ia your name?' asked the Justice. Wy, Squire,' said the astonished witness, 'you know my name as well as I know yourn.' Never you mind what I know, or what I don't know,' . was the caution given with magisterial severity. 'I ask the question in my official capac ity and you're bound to answer it under oath.' With a contemptuous snort the witness gave his name, and the ques tioning proceeded. Where do you live!' 'Wal, I shumf ejaculated the old man. 'Why, he continued , appeal ing to the laughing listeners, 'I've lived in this town all my life, and so's be,' pointing to the Justice, 'an' b' gosh, to hear him go on you'd think' . "Silence I' thundered the irate Mag istrate. 'Answer my question or 111 fine you for contempt of court.' Alarmed by the threat the witness named bis placo of residence and the examination went on. What is your occupation!' ' 'Huh?' What do you do for a living!' 'Oh, git out, 'Squire! Jest as if you don't know that I tend gardens in the summer season an' saw wood winters I As a private citizen I do know it, but as the court I know nothing about you,' explained the perspirinj Justice. 'Wal, 'squire,' remarked the puz zled witness, 'if you know somethin' outside the court room an' don't know nothin' in it you'd better get out an' let somebody try this case that's got hoss sonse.' The advice may have been well meant, but it cost tho witness $10. Farming East and West. Baltimore Sun. Since Judge Knott's article on the abandoned farms of New Hampshire and Vermont, and subsequent com munications in the Eastern papers on the. unprofitableness oC farming in Now England generally, other writ ers haye been discussing the subject of the profitableness of farming even in the new States of the West The most interesting paper on thepres ent condition of Wee tern farming is one from Mr. S. M. Cook, which is published in the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Mr. Cook has recently returned from an extended tour of observation of the condition of the Western farmer on lands that have been occupied for thirty years or more, as in Kansas and other prairie States, and for a lesser period in the two Dakota? and Montana, Premising that his observations cover a period of more than twenty years, being re newed from time to time through all that interval, he states that Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, young man," while it may have been good advice in the time when given, is no longer so, the conditions have been so greatly changed. Twenty-five or thirty years ago good land could be bought for a dollar and a quarter an acre, and with Indian scrip for less, Since then all the best land has been taken up, except the tracts held by the railroads, at from two dollars and a half to five dollars and upward according to location. Anything at all desirable of wild land will now cost the settler eight hundred dollars for one hundred and sixty acres, sum that would buy," he says, "quite a respectable farm, with fair build e T -ri iners. in manv pans oi new ii.nK A Novel Mode of Warfare. Western Electrician. A New Jersey inventor thinks he has hit upon a method of establish ing peace permanently upon the earth by means of electricity. He does not propose to remodel human nature, but expects to make warfare so deadly that it will be sheer mad ness for one nation to attack another According to his plan, warfare would result in the substantial extermina tlon of all who ventured to engage in it. The inventor describes his idea thus: "In a word, my scheme is to produce artificial lightning. Thus far the experiments have been confined within narrow limits, but with the use of a small dynamo attached to my Invention a slight shock can be produced, effective enough to kill the flies in a 20x20 room. I claim, -with the use of powerful dynamos, under my plan, a flash of lightning can be directed againt an army a mile or more away and without injury to the party operating the gun, scattering death and consternation among the troops. With powerful dynamos thousands of soldiers pan be killed at a flash, and a number of flashes are enough to destroy an army. It can be used at any time except on rainy or damp days. If the effect of giv this discovery would be, as I hope, to put an end to war, I should feel re paid, but I dread to think of electric ity being used in war under my plan. The consequences would be euor mous. It means nothing less than extermination to the opposing army. Before going any further with it, I wouli ask your opinion as to the ef fect upon war of an instrument such as I have hinted at. Would it retard or facilitate war!" the sections he describes. H is ad vice to such as are restive and desire to try their fortune In the West is to stay at home and cultivate their lands to the best. of their ability, with schools and churches close at the hand with social surroundings that are congenial. It may be a dosirable thing, he says, to import Scandina vian colonists to occupy the deserted farms of Near England", for they con stitute the very beet element of our immigrant population, but it would be much better, he thinks, if native Americans could be induced to take the vacant farms and apply to their improvement the same labor and en ergy that they would be compelled to exercise at the West THE FUTCI1E LANGUAGE. to the How the English is Forging Front. St Louis Republia The language in which Shakespeare and Milton wrote was the language, of less than 6,000,000 of human be- in tra. and when Washington was President less than IC.000,000 of peo ple used the English tonge. At the same time (time of our .first Presi dent) French was the mother tongue of at least 30,000,000 of people, and by some writers it Is said that 50,- 000,000 of French speaking people were living at the time of the revo lution of 1789. This state of affairs is now completely reversed. Be tween forty and fifty years. ago the English language equalled the Ger man in the number of those who spoke it, and now the latter is left far behind in the race. German is now trooken by 10.000.000 persona iu the Austro Hungariaaempire; by 46,- 000,000 in the German empire; .by 40,000 in Belgium, and by about 2, 000,000 in the little Alpine .country of Switzerland. Besides the coun tries mentioned, in which German is a quiet little place in the Santa Cruz I usually classed as the native tongue. mountains where the simple inhabi-1 it is Bpoken by about 2,000,000 per- tants lived f oryears with no law at all. J sods in the United States and Cana The dread policeman's star did not da, giving a total of about 60,000,000- shine out in the dark nights; there I who use the German language. How Law Led to Crime. San Francisco Chronicle. I wonder whethes really crime or law came first. Law canie very early in the history of things. If I remember aright, Adam and Eye were instructed not to eat fruit in the garden of Eden. So it would seem that law came first and led to crime, and it still eeems to. There is was no court hou3e, no jail, no use for them. They were happy, inno cent people. One day the office seek ers found out this Arcadia and made a dead set for it. The profit went to the discoverer, I suppose, and he grabbed With French the case is much the same, but ine gain during tne pass century has been smaller than that of German. French is now spoken by the 38,000,000 inhabitants of France, by 2.250,000 people of Belginm, by all of the offices, ne became deputy 200,000 in Alsace-Lorraine, by 600,- A Good Bargain. Temperance Banner. A schoolboy defined strong drink as "the stuff that causes the most human happiness by lettin' it alone." Here Patrick seems to crive credit to the rumseller by a similar back-handed process of reasoning: At a temperance meeting where Death and Sorrow. Herny Ward Beecher. A plow is coming from the far end of a long field and a daisy stands nodding and full of dew-dimples. The furrow is sure to strike the daisy. It casts its shadow as gayly, and ex hales its erentle breath as f reel v. And i i j, . i - - l - ovri remreu meir experiences, a 8tands as simDle and radiant and ex 1 W m mi numorous insnman was acanowi- i nectant as ever: and vt thtr.,Bh A A v .u i-i-e , xt I - " 1 " t,JO tuie- peaer. ine furrow, which is turning and naa on a pair oi nne new boots. Said turning other8 in it8 course, is draw- no, wee aner x signed ine pieage ine nea- and in a moment it whirlg i met an oia iriena, ana ne says, the heedless flower with eudden re xuciu o a uu yair ui uouwj you nave Yersal under the sod. And ah in lhA on.' 'They are,' says I, "and by the daisy, with no power of thought, so same token 'twas the saloon keeper are ten thousand thinWino- nHr,. Who gave them tO me.' . flowers of liffi hlnonnmino- That wab SAnArmia rf hfm ' oqvq I . ...... b w ji0 nern. ana yet lainitiiie mat no furrow of disaster is running in to- be " 'It ways,' says I, 'but I made a bargain with him. He was tb keep his drink and I was to keen mv money. My money bought me these fine boots. . I got the best of the bar gain, and I'm going to stick to it' " ward them, that no iron plow of trouble is about to oyerturn them. Gratifying to AIL The high position attained and the universal acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs, as the most excellent laxative known, illustrate the value of the 'qualities on which its success is based and are abundantly gratify ing to xne- uaiitornia Dig bvruo For sale by McLeadon & Parsons, Druggists. - . . St. Helena, Napa Co., CAL.,May 1, '83 To the citizens and afflicted of tho Valley : I deem it my duty to give this recommendation without any solicitation on the part of the dealers in saia medicine, in St. Joseph, missouri. i was amictea witn an ag. gravated case of kidney trouble, and by accident 1 was offered a drink of Wm. Kadam'8 Microbe Killer. After taking one gallon in four weeks I felt like a new man. . I can freely -recom mend it to any one having'the above trouble. H. E. Robinsoit For sale by L, J. Huntley & Co. Druggists, land." After buying the land a houso of Iocs or sod has to be built Thous ands put up such houses years ago, expecting soon to be able to build af terwards of frame, as in New Eng land, but thev or their children still occupy the same, or others like it. 'I am now speaking," he says, 'of section of the Northwest settled long er than I have indicated, much of bv New England people, and more attractive in its natural features and resources than the average Western country." A few years ago wheat would average twenty bushels per acre. Iy constant cropping ine av erage has been reduced to fifteen bushels, and the farmer, by hauling his crop anywhere from ono to twen ty miles, can get sixty-five cents -per bushel. The question is then asked, With wheat at sixty-five cents, corn at thirty cents, oats at twenty cents, potatoes at fifteen cents and hay five dollars per ton, how much profit can tho farmer make!" But the land, it is argued, must be in- creasing in value. To this Mr. Cook replies: "I will answer by citing cases in as favorable a location as the average of farming communitiesl certainly. The section is a very fertile one, and the original settlers almost entirely from New England. The writer; sold land there fifteen years ago for $15 per acre. , Other land alongside was sold by other parties at the same time to New England settlers and mortgaged at a rate of lo per cent. The purchasers after hav ing struggled for a dozen years in vain to lift the mortgage gave up, and the land can be bought today for $10 per acre. Tho buyers were in dustrious and not weighted by in temperate habits, sicknesss or unus ual misfortunes. Land on that prai rie today, with considerable Improve ments, can be had for what it cost the owners 20 years ago, and there are two cnurcnes near ana scuooi houses, in these respects a far more desirable locality than the average. The young man's prospects for bet- tering himself in rising values do not seem very nattering. Twenty nve years ago what the farmer had to sell brought much more than now. There was a market almost at his door and prices were good, for the influx of immigrants and the absence of rail roads rendered the demand equal to the supply. The conditions are now all changed the many producing and comparatively few buying for borne consumption. "Biding through the country one sees but few new painted houses; he will see many. painted years ago, when times were better, sadly in need of a new coat now; churches, generally assisted by the home missionary societies of dif ferent denominations, wearing too often a sadly dilapidated and deserted look, and the appearance of the peo pie, far ottener in my experience. than at the the Ji.ast. indicating an absonce of hopefulness for the future and a sort of dogged resignation to the inevitable. Do not forget that am speaking of the settlers in scat tered settlements on the prairie and in timber. Many a time, entering their dwellings, I have found well educated women from Eastern homes and many times have put tho ques tion, 'Do you like Western better than Eastern life!' and the answer has been, I wish I were back East. I do not recall an exception." The pic ture Mr. Cook gives of farm life among the isolated communities of the newer Western States is a sad one, and there is no reasou to doubt that it is true. The conclusion' he draws from his personal observations are that farmers in the Middle States, and even in New England, if they are industrious and thrifty, are far better oil thau those of the West in coroner and justice of the peace, and being tho surgeon, the community was at his mercy. He had hardly taken office before there was a fight. He had first, in his capacity as a surgeon, to attend to the wounded men ; second, he had to attend to thft assaulter in his capacity of 000 ?n Switzerland, 1,500,000 in the United States and Canada C600.P00 in Hayti, and by 1,500, 000 in Algiers, India, the West Indies, and Africa; in all 45,000,000. English is spoken by all but less than 1,000,000 of the 38,000,000 m the British Isles; by probably 57,- justice of the peace ; but to his chagrin 000,000 of the 60,000,000 inhabitants the wounded man did not die, and he couldn't sit on tho body as coroner. And over since that little Arcadia has become a riotous kind of place, and the officers haye quite an income. now believed to be in this country; by 4,000,000 persons in Canada; by 3,000,000 in Australia; by 1,700.000 West Indies, and perhaps, by 1,000,- 000 people in India and other British colonies, bringing the total to near 100,000,000. Who Can Best be Spared? The Jledical Record. Young men, this is the first question your employers ask themselves when business becomes slack, and when it is thought necssary to economize in the matter of salaries. "Who can best be spared ?"' Tho barnacles, the hirks, the makeshifts, somebody's proteges, somebody's nephews, and especially somebody's good-for nothing. Young men, please remem ber that theee are not the ones who are called for when responsible posi tions are to be filled. Would you ike to gauge your own a position of prominence ! Would you like to know the probabilities of your getting such a position! Inquire within! What are you doing to make yourself valuable in the posi tion you now occupy! If you are doing with your might what your hands find to do, the chances are ten to one that you soon become so val uable in that position that you can not be spared from it; and then sing ular to relate, will be the very time when vou will be sought out lor promotion for a better place. Do the Dying Sailer Pain ? St Louis Republic The rule is that unconsciousness, not pain, attends the final act. A natural death is not more painful whence we know not Painlessly we go; where we know not Nature kindly provides an anaesthetic for the body when the spirit leaves it. Previous to that moment, and in preparation for it respiration becomes feeble, generally slow and short, of ten accompanied by long inspirations and short, sudden expirations, so that the blood is steadily less and less oxygenated. At the same time the heart acts with corresponding debili ty, producing a slow, feeble and of ten irregular pulse. As this process goes on the blood is not only driven to the bead with diminished force and in less quantity, but what flows there is loaded with carbonic acid gas, a powerful anaesthetic, the same as derived from charcoal. Subjected to the iufluence of this gas, the nerve centers loose consciousness and sen sibility, apparent sleep creeps over the system, then comes stupor and then the end." Rye as a Green Crop. Country Gentleman. The use of rye, to plow under as a green manuring crop, has some spe- cial advantages. It may be sown any time in autumn, after the crops of potatoes, corn and other growth have been removed, and even during mild days with open soil, in winter. Land which otherwise would lie. idle is thus employed in producing a useful growth. Inquiry is made as, to the best time for plowing it under. There are two periods, according to the ob- future for i8018 tended. If it is to be plowed under in spring betore it nas inane much growth at this season, and the greund is to be planted with early crops, less benefit is obtained from it as an en richer of the land, than if allowed to grow a few weeks. Tho best time, however, is just before it is heading out If left till the heads are fully formed, or till the seeds are formed and ripening, the straw baa become harder and more woody, and does not fully rot In the soil till an other season. The earlier it is sown in autumn, the stronger the growth becomes before winter, and the more ready it is for early spring plowing. But this is of less consequence if the rye is to be allowed to grow till the middle of May or later, and then plowed in for corn or fodder corn, or millet. We have sowed rye during open weather in February, and had a moderate crop the following summer, and it will occasionally happen that this may be done to advantage, if for plowing in during the latter part of May or in June. It is important that plenty of seed be used not less than three bushels to the acre, in or der that a copious growth of the rye and its roots may be secured for turning under. San Marcos, Tex., Sopt 17, 1SS7. Mr. Wm. Radah: Dear Sir Tho Microbe Killer, I find, is a splendid thing. Can I get the Agency here! My little boy that was affected with worms is cured and getting fat and rosy. My father is also using your medicine, and is im proving very fast. Very respect. 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