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0 t. DAT, AI.BEKT JON ES
DAY & JONES,
Manufacturers ol
SADDLERY, HARNESS, COLLARS,
TRUNKS, j-c.
No, 13S W. Baltimore street, Uallimore, Md.
ne'-ly
B. F. KINO, WITH
JOU.VSOX, SUTTON k 0,,
DRY GOODS.
Nos. 27 and 29 South Miarp Street.,
BALTIMORE MO.
T. W JOHNSON, R. M. SUTTON.
t. I. R. CKAUIIC, U. J. JOHNSON
aol-l'y •
H. U. MARTINDALE, WITH
WM. J. C. DULANY k CO ,
tftationers' and Booksellers' H'are
liouse.
SCHOOL BOOKS A SPECIALTY.
Stationery af all kinds. Wrapping Paper,
Twines, Bonnet Boards, Paper Minds.
132 W. BALTIMORKST., BALTIMORB, MD
B. J. ft R. K. BEST, WITH
KERRY SO.WKli'lltN k O.,
WHOLFSALK CLOTHIERS.
Hanover Street, (between German and
Lombard Streets,)
BALTIMORE, MO.
B. SONNKSON, B. BMMLIKE
47-ly
C. W ATKINS. I I W. S. ROBERTSON
0. L. CO I'TRELL. / \ A. S W ATKINS.
HAIkINS, COTTRKL k CO.,
lasporters and Jobbers of
HARD W
1307 Main Street,
RICHMOND, VA.
Agents for Fairbanks'* Standard Scales,
nad Anker lirand Bolting Clotb.
Aagast 16, 18»o.
J NO. W. HOLLAND, WITH
T. A. BUYAM k 10.,
Maakfactarers ol FRENCH aud AMERICAN
• CANDIES, in every vatiety, and
wholesale dealers ill
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GARS, ,jc.
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ttf Orders from Merchants solicited.
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WILLIAM DEVRIKS k CO.,
Importers and Jobbers of
Ftreign and Domestic Dry Goods and
.Notions,
212 West Baltimore Street,(between Howard
and Liberty,) BALTIMORE.
J. W. MENEFEE,
WIT*
PEARRE BROTHERS k CO.
Importers and Jobbers of Dry Goods.
MEN'S WEAR A SPECIALTY.
Woe. 1 And 4 Hanover Street,
Augusts , 'So—6m. BALTIMORE.
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It W POWERS k CO.,
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Dealers in
PAINTS, OILS, DYES, VARNISHES,
French and Amerioan
WINDOW GLAHS, PUTTY, &C ,
CIGARS, SMOKING AND CHEWING
TOBACCO A SPECIALTY.
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August 26—6 m
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BLANK-BOOK MANUFAOTERERS.
T7lB Mainrtreet, Richmond.
A Lar/t Stock o/ LA W BOOKS always on
ael-Ca hand.
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with
WIRGO, ELLETT k CRUMP,
RICHMOND, VA.,
Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, AC.
Prampt attention paid to orders, and satis
faction gauranteed.
pK~ Virginia Slate Priton Goods a tptnalty.
March, 6. m.
ES T A BUSHED Tim.
8. T. DAVIS
—with—
T.J.MACRUDER&CO.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
. BOOTS, SHOI6 AND BROUANB,
No. 31 Sharp Street, BaKimore Md.
August 141 (79.
OBSERVATIONS OF R EV. OA BE
TUCKER.
You roa.y notch it on de palin's as a mighty
resky plan
To make jour judgement by de clo'es dat
kivers up a man ;
For I hardlj ne«da to tell jou how jou often
come ereroßß
A filty-dolUr fuddle on a twenty dollar hois,
An', wukin' in de low-grmin's, you diakirer
a« you RO,
Dat de fineß' shuck may hide de meanes' nub-
Idn in a row I
I think a man has got a mighty poor cbance
for Heben
Dnt holds on to hia piety but one day out ob
»eb»n ;
Dat talks about de sinner* wid a heap o' sol
emn chat
An' tiebber drape a nickel in de missionary
hat;
Dot's foremost in de meetin'-houte for raising
all de chimes,
Rut lays aside his 'ligion wid bis Sunday pan
taloons !
I nebber judge o' people dat I meets along de
way
By de places wbar dey come Puin an' de hou
ses whar dey stay;
For de bantam chicken's awful fond o' roost
in' pretty high,
An 1 de turkey-buzzard sails above de eagle in
de sky ;
Pe\ ketches little minners in de middle ob de
sen,
An' you finds de sraallcs' 'potsum up de big
gfa' kind o' tree 1
—J M Macon in Scrikner Jor July.
A Bid* for Life.
[From "The Boy's Own Paper."]
Iu the tnoath oi March, in the } ear
18—, when tho snow lay deep upon the
giourid, Lawrence Temple, a olerk at a
lumber camp oa the head waters of the
Ottawa Rivar io Canada, wax dispatched
by the "tio~a" lumberman to Ottawa City,
a dii'anoc of some two hundred miles,
to report to (be agent of the company
the quantity of timber that had been got
out, aud to bring uack from the bank a
sum of money to pay off a number of
tb« lutubermei
Several of these were about to take
up laud in the new townships that had
b'-en receutly laid out on tbe upper Ot
taw a, and aa Lawieoue bad wun the con
fidence of (he onuipany, he was comuiis
»i ineJ to tiring back the money for mak
ing the payments Owing to a prejudice
on the part of tbe men against paper
money, he was directed to prooure gold
and silver. He was to ride as far as the
town >f Pembroke, about half way, and
leaving his horse there to rest, was to go
to Onawa ia tbe stage. He selected for
the journey the best animal in the sta
bio—a tall, gaunt, sinewy mare of rather
ungainly figure, but with an immense
amount of ge in her.
He reaohed Otuwa safely aod trans
acted his buMstse satisfactorily. Hav
ing drawn the money from the bank,
Kr.glich sovereigns and Mexican dollars,
Lawrence set out on his return journey.
At Pcmbioke he mounted again his
faithlnl steed, for bit ride over a hand
red utiles to the camp The silver be
carried iu two leather bags in the holster
of the saddle, and tbe gold io a belt
around his waist. He also earried tor
defenoe one ot tbe ucwiy invented Colt's
revolvers
The weather was bitterly cold, but the
exercise ot riding kept bim quite warm
The eutire winter had been one of un
precedented severity The snow fell
early aod deep, and remained all through
the season Deer were exceedingly nu
merous, even near the settlements, and
at the oarnp furnished no inconsiderable
portion of tbe food for the men, varied
by an occasional relish of bear's meat.
Towards the close of the seoood day
he wat approaching tbe end of his jour
ney aod indulging in pleasant anticipa
tion of the feast of vension he should
enjoy, and of bis refreshing slumber on
the fragrant pine bought, earned by con
tinued exeroise in the open air. Tbe
moon was near the full, but partially ob
scured by light aod fleeoy clouds.
He wst approaobing a slight clearing
when be observed two long, little ani
malt tpriog out of tbe woods towards
bit horse He thought tbey wsre a cou
ple of tkoae large shaggy deerhounds
wbiob are aometiaiea employed near the
lumber camp for hunting oaribou—great
powerful animals with immense length
of limb and depth of chest—and he
looked around for tbe appearance of tbe
hunter, who, he thought, oould not be
far off He was surprised, however, rot
to hear the deep mouthed bay oharaoter
istio of thoee hounds, but instead a gut
tural snarl, wbioh appeared to affeot the
mare io a most unaccountable manner.
A shiver seemed to convulse her frame,
aod shaking herself together she started
off on a long swinging trot, wbioh soon
broke into a gallop, that got over the
ground amazingly fast.
Hut her speed could not outstrip that
of tbe creature* wbioh bounded in long
Isapa by her si (ft, occasionally springing
at her hams, their white teeib-giietemog
in the moonlight and snapping, when
they oloeed like a steel-trap. When be
oaaght the first glimpse ef the fiery
flashing ot their eyes there eame the
DANBUUY, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1881.
blood-curdling revelation that these were
no hounds, but hungry wolves that bore
hiui auoh sin imer company. All the
dread hunters' tales of lone trappers lost
in tho woods, aud their gnawed bones
discovered in the spring beside their
•teel trups, 0 tehed through his mind like
a thought of horror.
His only safety, he know, was in the
speed of his mare, and she was baodi
caped in this race for life with about five
and twenty pounds of silver in each bol
eier. Seeing that she was evidently
flagging under this tremendous pace, he
resolved to abandon the uioney. "Skin
for skit., yea all that a man hath will he
give for bis lifoso bo dropped both
bags oo the road. To bis surprise
animals stopped as if they bad been
highwaymen, seeking only bis money
and not his lilo. He could hear theui
snarling over the stout leather bags, but
lightened of her load, tbe mare sprang
forward in a splendid haod gallon, that
oovered tbe ground io gallant style.
He was beginning to hope that he had
fairly distanced the brutes, when their
hurrid yelp and melancholy long drawn
howl drew stronger ou the wind and
Boon they were again abreast of tbe
mare.
He now threw down h';a thick leather
gauntlets, with the hope of delaying
tbeui qut it only caused a detention of a
low miiiu'es while they greedily devoured
tliem. He wax rapidly oearing the camp,
if he could keep them at bay for twenty
or thirty minutes more, he would be sale.
As a last resort he drew his revolver,
scarce hoping in his headlong pace to
hit the bounding, leaping objects at bis
side Moreover, tbgy bad both hitherto
kept on the left side of the rnaro, which
lessened hie chances as a marksman
The mare, too, who was exceedingly ner
v OUH, could never stand fire, end, if he
should mies, and in tbe uiovement be dis
mounted, be knew that in five minutes
tbe maw of ravenous beasts would
be in bis grave.
One of the brutes now made a spring
for the mare's throat, t)ut failing to tcrasp
it, fell on the right side of the animal.
Gathering himself up, he bounded in
front of her, aad made a dasb at the
rider, catchiiig and clinging to the mare's
right shoulder. Tbe white loam fell
from his mouth and flecked bis dark and
shaggy breast. Lawrence could feel his
hot breath oo bis naked hand The
fiendish glare of those eyes lie never io
all bis life forgot. It baunted him for
years iu midnight slumber, from which
he awoke trembling, and bathed io the
cold perspiratioi»of terror.
Lawrence felt that the oriiioal moment
had come. One or the other of them
must die. Io five minutes moie he would
be sale io camp, or else —and be shud
dered. He lifted up bis heart io prayer
to God, and then feltstraugely calm and
celleoted. Tbe muzzle of bis revolver
almost touched tbe brute's nose. He
pulled the trigger. A flash, a crash ! tbe
greeo eyes biaied with teofold fury, tbe
huge form fell heavily to the ground, and
in the same moment, the mare reared al
most upright, nearly unseating her rider
and shaking his pistol from his hand,
and then plunging forward, rapidly oov
ered the road in her flight.
As Lawrence bad ezpeoted, tbe other
famishing beast remained to devour its
fellow. He galloped into tbe camp, al
moat fell from his mare, whioh stood with
a look of almost human gladness in har
eyes, and staggtrud to tbe rude log
shanty, where tbe blazing fire aod song
and story beguiled the winter night,
scarce able to narrate bis peril aod esoape
After light refreshment—lor he had lost
all relish for food—he went to bed. to
start up often through the night under
the glare of those terrible eyea, and to
reoew the horror he bad uodargooe.
Io the morniog, returniog with a num
ber of tbe meo to look for the roooey,
he found the feet, tail, muule, aod scalp
of the slain wolf in the midst of apatoh
of gory snow ; also the skull and part of
the larger booaa, bnt gnawed aod apttt
io order to get at the marrow. They
fouod, alao, some distanoe back, the
straps and buokleaof the money bags,
aod the ailver coins scattered oo the
ground and partially oovered by the
•now.
SIT DOWN, ROBERT —Elder Traverse,
who lately died io Buffalo, waa once the
most noted damp meeting leader ia
Eaatern New York. Of splendid phya
ique, be made ahort work of interrup
tera. Ooee a notorious rough, "Obica
go Hob," iaterrupted tba ooogregatieo,
while aingiog, by erowing. ''Sit down,
Robert," aaid Traverse. "Chicago Bob
•its down fer oo one," eried tbe bully.
"Sit dowo, Robert," onoe more aaid the
Elder. Robert'* reply waa a movement
to throw off bia coat Ooa uoder tbe
ear caaie deftly from the Elder' followed
up by another, and another, and another,
aod Chicago Bob retired unooosoiout.
Next day he appeared among the repent
ant ainaere. "Are you ia earneat,
Robert T" mildly inquired tbe Elder.
"I am." "Really aeeking for faith f"
"You bet! If faith help* a man to get
in bia work as quiok aa you did yeater
day, I'm bouad to have it if I aell my
bat." He orowed oo more.
There ia a "tied " in the affaira of
men that leads oa to baby oarriages.
Accidental Discoveries.
Valuable dieooveries have been made
and valuable- inventions suggested by the
veriest accidents. An alchemist, while
seeking to discover a uiixture ot aarihs
that would make the most durable cru
cibles, one dfcy found that he had made
porcelain. The power ef leases, as ap.
plied to the telescope, was discovered by
a watchmaker's apprentice. While
holding spectacle glasses between his
thumb and finger, he was startled at the
suddenly enlarged appearance ef a neigh
boring church spire. Tho art of etch
ing upon gjass was discovered by a Nu
remberg glass cutler, By accident a
few drops of aqua fortis fell upon bis
speotacles. He noticed that the glass
oorroded and softened where the acid
had touched it. That was hint enough.
He drew Ggures upon glass with varnish,
applied the corroding fluid, then cat
away the glass around tho drawing
When the varnish was removed the fig
ures appeared raised upon a dark ground.
Mezxotinto owed its invention to the
simple accident of the gun barrel oi a
sentry becoming rusted with dew. The
swaying to and fro of a chandelier iu a
cathedral suggested to Galileo the appli
cation of the pendalum. Tbe art of
lithographing was perfected through sue
gestions made by aocident. A poor mu
sician was curious to kuow whether mu
sic could not be etched upon stons as
well as upon oopper. After he bad pre
pared his slab bis mother asked him to
make a memorandum of suoh cloths as
she proposed to be sent uway to be wash
ed. Not having pen, ink and paper con
venient, he wrote the list on the stone
with tbe etching preparation, intending
te make a copy of it at leisure. A few
days later, when about to clean the stone,
be wondered what effect aqua fortis would
have upon it. He applied the acid and
in a few minutes saw tho writing stand"
ing out in relief. The next step was
simply to ink the stone and take off an
impression. The composition of which
prioting rollers are made was discovered
by a Salopian printer.— The Aye of
Steel.
We Lore Our Country.
"1 feel," said the fat passenger, as the
train crossed the Ohio line, "that I am
in the land of statesmen. There is (he
smell of a postoffice in the air, and the
low sweet sound of a consulate is heard
in the dewy distanoe. 1 see the shady
forms of Marshals yet to be, and out of
the dreamy gates of Impossible I see
the sad procession of Never to be Su
preme Judges It is a dear and favored
iaad, this grand old step-mother of Pre
sidents."
' We all love our country," said the
sad paseeuger, "and we fight, and swear,
and work, and lie. sweat and shout for
tbe privilege of administering her finan
ces. Oh, America, America, what would
a country be without offices ?"
"It would ba like a oat without a
voice," the man on the wood-box eaid
"Or a cigar without a match," the
croee passenger said.
"Or a room without a bed," said Endy
mion, the sleepy passenger.
"Or a bar without whisky," said the
tall, thin passenger, whereupon several
voicee immediately asked what that was
"After all," the jetter said, "politi
oiana are no woise than they used to be,
but there are more of them ; and therein
is all evil. Grasshoppers are no more
voracious in one seaton than another,
but, in the year when they multiply
cpneus by countless millions, they
are able to do infinitely more misohief
than when there are barely enough of
them to furnish fish-bait tor the indus
trious citiiens of the republic. And all
tbe misohief in the country isn't done
by the politicians. Tbero are lawyers
who would honor the bar by being kick
ed out of it There are editors who dis
grace journalism. There are ministers
who profana their pulpit*. There are
several people ouuide of polities who
need a little killing There is J*
And, seeing that his audienoe had
gone to sleep, the jester prepared to fol
low their example.— Burdette on hit
Traveli.
It ia oot the fashion for ladies to kise
eaoh nth«r byway of friondly salutation
now. They only touch each other's fin
ger tips, faintly muruier "So glad to see
you" aod pasa oa. There is no longer
say danger of their oomplexioo being
kissed off in spots.
A witness on the stand in an illegal
liquor aale oase. The oouaeel was try
ing to find out in what kind of a glass
•he liquor was banded to the witness,
and at last exolaimsd : "What kind of
a looking glass was it ?" "Begora, sor,
it was not a looking-glass at all, it was a
tumbler."
What tbe Bashful Clork Wanted.
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
Old Pinehem sat in bis private office
the other day figuring up his pnfits for
May, when his head clerk, looking as
pale as a sheep and as red as a cow by
turns, entered and began:
„Mr. Pinehem, I—1—"
Have you got those goods off for
Kalamazoo ?" interupted the old man.
"Yes sir, ihey »re off. Mr. Pinehem
I have long—"
" And about that order for starch?"
" That haß been attended to sir. M r
Pinohem, I have long wanted to spesk
to you."
"Ah ! speak tome. Why I thought
you rpoke to me fifty times a day."
"Yes, sir, I know, but this is a private
matter "
"Private? Oh !Ah ! Wait till I see
bow much ws made on that last 10,000
pounds of soap Six times four are
tweniy-four; five times two are teo, and
iwo to carry are twelve; three times
seven are twenty-one and one—ah, well,
go ahead; I'll finish this afterward."
"Mr - Pinehem, I have bueu with you
ten long ears."
"Ten, eh ! Long years, eh ? Any lin
ger thaa any other years ? Go ahead."
"And have tried to do my duty "
"Hare, oh? Goon."
"And I now mnke bolJ—"
"Hold ou! What is teere bold about
il ? But never mind—l'll hear you out."
"Mr. Pinehem, I want to ask—ask—
I want to ask—"
"Well, why don't you ask then? I
don't act why yon don't ask, if you want
to "
"Mr- Pinehem, I waat to ask you for
—for—for—"
"You want to ask for the hand of my
daughter. Ah! Why didn't you speak
right out? She's yours, my boy ! Take
her and be happy. You might have bad
her two years ago if you had mentioned
it. Go ' bng now—l'm busy."
"Mr. Pinehem "
"What,you here yet ? Well, what is
it ?"
" I wanted to ask you for, for—
"Didn't I give bertoyou, yon rascal!"
+ „Yes, but what>l wanned to ?sk yon
was, Dot tbe hand cf your daughter, but
for a raise of salary."
"Oh, tbat wa*> it, eb ? Weil, sir that
is tn entirely different matter, and it re
qudres time for serious though and earn
est consultation. Return to your work,
and-aome time next rail I'[l see about
giving you a rise of a dollar a week.
Six times four are twenty- four aud two
to carry; aud three times—"
•
Power of Wind.
In a paper before the American So
oiety of Civil Engineers, Mr. C. Shaler
Smith gives the result* of many years'
observations of wind pressure aud its ef
fects. He has personally visited the
tracks of destructive storms ae soon as
possible after their oocnrrence, for the
purpose of dstcmining the maximum
force and tbe width of the path of the
storm in every instanoe. The most vio
lent storm in bis records was at East St.
Louie, in iB7l, when the wiad overturn
ed a locomotive, tho maximum force de
yeloped in *o doing being estimated at
no less than 03 lb* per square foot. At
St. Charlei, in 1877, a jail was destroy,
ed, the wind force required being 84.3
lbs. per square foot. At Marsbfield
(Mo ) io 1880, a brick mansion was le
veled, tbe force required being 58 lbs.
per square foot. Below these extraordi
nary pressure* there were sundry case*
of train* blown off rail*, and bridge*,
etc., blown down by galea of wind of
from 24 lb*, to 31 lb*, per square foot.
Mr. Smith observes that io all hia ex
amples h* ha* taken the minimum force
required to do the obaerved damage, aod
has considered this a* tho maximum
foroe of the wind, although, of oourse, it
may have been maob higher. Some of
the harrionne* were very destructive,
the one at Marshfield having out down
everything along a path 46 milee long
and 1,800 feet wide, killing 250 people.
"Doctor," aaid one of our beet yonng
m*n ia aooiety—"doctor' there i* some
thing the matter with my brain ; I know
there ie. What thall Ido abont it?"
And the dootor oalaly bat firmly aaid
ke guessed it needed a little exeroiso aa
rnuoh aa anything else. And now the
yonng man goes around aayieg tbe doo
tor is a fool.
Genevieve Ward i* shocked beyond
all expreesion because men and woman
are oninpelled to ileep in tbe *ame
sleeping-ear. It i* dreadful. We have
often worried over the same thing, and
been afraid to go to sleep, lest aome
woman should chloroform a* and kite us
in our dreams. No man is safe in a
mixed sleepieg oar— Hnrtington Hawk
eyt.
NUMBER 2,
The Dead Letter Office.
A visit to tbe dead Utter division of
the post office at Washington ii exceed
' ingly interesting to strangors. Mere all
Icters aud packages that the department
had failed to deliver, either for the reas
on that the; were unclaimed, unbaila
ble, misdirected, or upon which the
postage is not paid, are returned "dead."
Mail matter ot thiß class originating
in foreign countries included in the pos
tal union is returned to the country of
i origin unopened. The remainder is
' opened and delivered io all cases where
any elew to the identity of the writer
can bo discoverd. Of tbe letters of this
kind opened during the last fiscal year
23,400 were found to contain money to
the amount of 842,336.13, of which
j 19.305, containing 837,279.81, were
aftewafd delivered ; 21,311 coLtained
drufts, cheekes, bills of exchange, cto , of
! the value of $1,454,210.65, of which
20,121, containing $1,451,587.44 were
delivered; 34,771. containing receipts,
paid notes and canceled obligation of all
sorts; 30,957 containing photographs;
67,849 containing postage, tbe most of
winch were deliverd. Of the numbetot
letters passing through tbe mails it ap
pears thai the department fails to deliver
but one in every 289; the success of our
servioe io this respeot is vory gratifying
From official statements it appers that
Qreat Britain fails to deliver one io
126, and Germany one in every 456;
this last is, however, scarcely a fail com
parison, as a very much larger propor
' tion of registered matter passes through
the German mails, the delivery of which
is almos inevitable. Before the depart
ment building became so orowded a room
was set apart as a musement where straa.
1 gers were shown a variety of unclaimed
artickle* from bottled tarantulas Blaok
•tone's Commentaries. Now theaitiolea
; are stowed away and every year or two
J disposed of.
I Love lighteos labor, as tbe man said
when he saw his wife doing bis work for
! him
An old bachelor suggests that births
1 be published under the head of 'new
| musio.
B.)bbs thinks that instead of giving
| oredit where credit is due, the eash had
I better be paid.
The water power of Niagara Falls ii
calculated to be equal to four and a half
j millions of horse-power.
The New York Mail says the only
remedy for a lady of abort stature is to
get eplioed as soon as possible.
"Will the coming man fly 7" lie
■ probably will when the coming woman
gets after him.
Good morning, Smith; you look
sleepy. Yes, replied Smith, 1 was up
all night. Up where? Up stairs in
bed.
A Canada man sued a country editor
I for libel and got twenty-five cents dam-
I ages and then the editor went off and
| mads an assignment.
A lazy fellow once declared in a pub
lic oompany, that he oould not find
bread for his family. "Nor I," replied
an industrious man; "I'm obliged to
work for it"
At a conoert rsosntly, at the conclu
sion ot the song, "There's a good time
coming, a farmer got up and exolaimed :
"Mister, you oouldu't fix the date, oould
you
A fall of one inoh in ten miles in a
river will praduoea current. The slope
of the rivers flowing into the Mississippi
from the east is about three inches per
mile; from lbs west six inches por mile.
Potatoes, or any other root orops, may
be grown ia a young orohard. It would
not do any injury to grow corn, but
grain crops should not be attempted.
They take from tbe soil tbe very ele
ments which the trees require.
By immersion the stems of which
roses ia red and green ink they may be
oolored green, pink and flesh oolor.
They will look as if nature had done
the work, and it only takes ten minutes
to obange the oolor.
A western editor appeala to hit delin
quent subscribers by saying: "This
week we have taken in potatoes and
pickles on subscription. Now, if jou
will bring in some vinegar for the piok
les and some woou to roast the potatoes,
we oan live till artichokes get big enough
to dig."
What greater thing is there for two
hum an souls than to feel that they are
joined far life —to strengthen each other
io all labor, to rest on eaoh other ia all
sorrow, to minister to each other in all
pain, to be one with eaoh other ia sil
ent, unspeakable memorise at the mo
ment of the last paiting.