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4 1 II jl M if i fS H i i n :f I If ft k t 14 if If- 1 p ADVERTISING KATES : " i J - " - -. - f One inoh, one insertion................. ft 00 One iiicb, each ubsequent insertion... CO Quarterly, Semi-annual or Yearly con tracts will be male on liberal terms. - Obituaries and Tribute? of respect charged for at advertising rates. So comranhications will be published un- lers accompanied by the fall name and ad dress of the writer. These are not requested for publication, bnt as a guarantee of good faith. All communications for the paper, and business letters, should be addrewed to RulherforiUa, H. A SONG FOR WOMEN. Within a dreary, narrow room. That looks upon a noisome street, ' Half-fainting with the Btifliny heat, A stnrving girl works out her doom. Yet not the less in God's sweet air The little birds sinjr free of care, - And hawthorns blossom everywhere. Fwift; ceaseless toil scarce winneth bread; From early dawn till twilijrht falls, Strut in by four dull, ujrly walls. The hours crawl round with murderous tread. And all the while, lnfsomo 6till place, . Where intertwining boughs embrace. The blackbirds build; time flies apace. With envy of the folk who die. Who may at last their leisure take. Whose long-ed-for sle?p none roughly wake, Tirctl hands the restless needl3 ply. . But far and wide in meadows Kreen ; - The golden buttercups are seen. And reddening sorrel nods between. Too pure and i roud to soil her soul, Or stoop to basely gotten gain, By dRys of changeless want and pain The seamstress earns a prisoner's dole. While in the peaceful iields the" sheep Feed, quiet; and through heaven's blue deep The 6ilent cloud-wings stainless sweep. And if she be alive or dead . That weary woman scarcely knows, : But back and forth her nosjdle R-oes, In tune with thn.bbing heart and head. Lo! where the leaning alders part -White-bosoraed, swallows, blithe of heart, Above still waters skim and dart. g O God in Heaven! shall I, who share I hat dyinir woman t -womanhood, Taste aflth-? summer's bounteous good, Unburdened by her weight of care? The white moon-daisies star the grass, , . The lengthening shadows o'er them pass, The meadow pool is smooth as glass. A. ilathasoiK in Macmiihin's Mayazinc. 1 ORIGIN OF POPULAR -PHRASES. Bosh. The derivation of this word, which is applied to anything nonsensical or trashy, is variously accounted for. It is traced by some to the Dutch bosch, corrupted from BoiS-le-Duc, the name of a town in Holland. , It is probablj a Turkish work, however, meaning empty, .Vain, worthless, bous, in short, and was imported into Lngland some twenty-live years ago by British soldiers who had served in the Russian war, and had picked it up from the Turkish soldiery with whom they had ben thrown in contact. Trodden the Wine-Press. This very beautiful and commonly- used quotation is from Is&iah, ixiii, "1 have trodden thewine-press alone.'" An interesting fact. in connection with the line is, that in Italy the same primitive process of trending the wine-press that prevailed , in Egypt in patriarchal days is in oper ation at the present day. " The grapes are thrown into an enormous vat, where the juice is tramped out oi them by the b:jre feet of the peasants. Hanker. Probably a corruption of "hunger." It is always used in con nection with the word after, as "we , hanker after something." The text in Matthew v., G: " Blessed are they which do hunger ami thirst after righteous ness," shows the affinity, even if it does not establish the identity of the two words, "hunger" and "hanker." Run a Much . This is an old phrase for . attacking madly and indiscriminately. "Muck" is a Malay word. In the island of Ceylon, cock-fighting is carried on to a great extent. The .Sum itrans are ad dicted to the use of dice, and gaming is strongly characteristic of the Chinese and Siamese. This is notably true also of the Malayan. After having resigned everything to the good fortune ot the winner, the Malay gamester is reduced to a horrid state of .desperation. He then loosens a certain lock of hair, which indicates war and destruction to all with whom he meets. He intoxi cates himself with opium, and working himself up into a fit of frenzy, he bites and kills every one who comes in his way. But as soon as this lock is seen flowing, it is lawful to tire at the per son, and to destroy him as soon as pos sible. This is called "to run a muck," the phrase being first introduced in En gland by sailors. Dryden writes: "Frontless, and satire-proof, he scours the streets. And runs an Indian muck at all he meets." And, too, Pope says: " Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet. To run a muck and tiltat'all 1 meet." The Halfjs Better than the Whole. The author of this proverb was Hesiod, . an ancient poet whose learning was not drawn from books. It was given in the . nature of an admonition to nis brother, to prefer a friendly accommodation tp a litigous' law-suit, and has fixed a para doxical saying often applied. Evil ' Communications Corrupt Good Manners. This line forms part of the 33d verse of the 15th chapter of lstCor - inthians. It was borrowed by St. Paul, from Menander, the Grecian poet, and is found in -a fragment of one of his comic productions for which he was noted. ' Nemesis. "Grecian mythology" tells ' us that Nemesis was ' a female divin ity who was regarded as the personifi cation of the righteous anger of the ' gods." She "s represented as inflexibly . severe to the proud and insolent. Ac cording t o IIes:.od, she was .the daugh ter of Xight, though she is sometimes called a daughter of Erebus, or of Oceanus. The Greeks believed that , the gods were enemies of excessive human happiness", and that there was a powtr that -preserved a proper com peusat'on in human affairs from wh'ch it was impossible for the sinner to es cape. I his power was embodied in Nemesis, an ! she was in an especial manner the avenger of family crimes and the humMer of the overbearing. There was a celebrated temple sacred to her at Uhamnus, one of the bor oughs of Attica, about sixty stadia from jWarathoni, The inhabitants of that place considered her the daughter of Oceanus. Acco.nliug to a myth pre served by Pnu-anias, Nemesis was the "mother of Helen by Jupiter, and Le la. the reputed mother of Helen, was only, in fact, her nurse. But th's myth seems to have bf-cn invented in . later time to represent the divine vengeance which was milicte 1 on the Greeks and Trojans through the instrumentality of Helen. - " ! Dark m Egypt, s Night. The origin of this phrase is found in-the 10th chap ter of Exodus, the 21st, 2M and 23d verses: " And the Lord saidunto Moses: Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness that may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt ESTABLISHED IS4S. for three days; they saw not one anoth er, .neither rose any one from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings." Lynch Law. This terra, as common ly in use in the United States, is a per sonification of violent and illegal justice. According to some authorities, the term was derived from a Virginia farm er named Lynch. But it can be traced to a much earlier date in Ireland. When, in 1493. James Fitzstephens Lynch was Mayor and Warden of Gal way, he traded largely with Spain, and sent his son thither to purchase a cargo of wine. The young man squandered the money intrusted to him, but suc ceeded in running in debt for a cargo to a Spaniard, by whose nephew he was accompanied in the return, voyage to Ireland, where the money was, to be paid. Young Lynch, to conceal his de falcation, caused the Spaniard to bo thrown overboard, and was received at f-;home with great honor. But a sailor revealed' to the Mayor of Gal way the crime which his son had committed. The young man was tried before iris own father, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged. His family and others dstermined to prevent the execution. The father, finding that the . sentence could not be carried into effect the usual way, conducted his son to a. window overlooking the public street, with his own hands fastened the halter attached to his neck -to a staple in the Avail and acted, as his executioner. In the council books of Galway there is said to be a minute that James Lynch, Mayor of Galway, hanged his son, out of the window, for defrauding and kill ing strangers, without martial or com mon law, to show a good example to posterity. Archimedes'1 Lever. The famous' Greek philosopher Archimedes was the author of the apothegm: ."Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough and I will move the world." The saying arose from his knowledge of the possible effects of machinery; and however much, it might astonish a Greek of his day, would now be readily admitted to be as theoretically possible as it is practically impossible; for, in the words of Dr. Arnott: "Archimedes would have required to move with the velocity of a cannonjball for millions of years to alter the position of the earth' by a small part of an inch. This feat of Archimedes is, in mathematical truth, performed by every man who leaps from the ground, for he kicks the world away from him whenever he rises; and attracts it again when he falls." Steal My Thunder. This saying or iginated with John Dennis, an English dramatist born in 1657, and who died in 1734. The incident connected with its origin is found in Biographical Britannicse, vol. v., p. 103: "Our author, for the advantage of this play (Appius and Virginia), had invented a new species of thunder, which was ap proved of by the actors, and is the very sort that at present is used in the theater. The tragedy, however, was coldly received notwithstanding sch assistance, and was acted but a short time. Some nights after, Mr. Dennis being in the pit, at the rep resent ati of Macbeth, heard his own thunder made use of, upon which he rose in a violent passion, and exclaimed, V7ith an oath, that it was his thunder. "See," said he, "how the rascals use me! Ttiey will not let my play run, and yet they steal my thunder." TheiDie is Cast. When Coesar, after anxious deliberation, decided on the passage of the Rubicon, rousing himself with a start of courage, he committed himself to fortune, with the above pro verbial expression on his lips, used by gamesters m desperate play. Having passed the Rubicon, he exclaimed: "The die is cast." A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush. This saying orignated from the following circumstance: WillSomers, the celebrated jester to Heary Vlll., happened to call at Lord Surrey's, whom he had often, by a well-timed. jest, saved from the displeasure ot his royal master, and who consequentty was always glad to see him, was on this occasion ushered into the-aviary, where he found his lord amusing him self with his birds. Somers happened to admire the plumage of a kingfisher. "By my lady, said Surrey, "my prince of wits, I will give it you." Will skipped about with delight, and swore by the great Harry he was a most noble gentleman. Away went vm with his kingfisher, telling all his ac quaintances whom he met that his friend Surrey naa just presemea mm with it. Now, it so happened that Lord North amDton. who had seen tlriVbird the dav nrevious. arrived at Lord Surrey's iust as- Will Somers naa Jen, wun the intention ot asKing it oi surrey ior - i- a nresent to a lady friend, threat was his chagrin on finding the bird gone. Surrey, however, consoled him with say ing that he knew Somers would restore it bim if he (Surrey) promised him two another day. Away went a messenger to the prince of wits, whom he found in raptures with his bird, and to whom he delivered his Lord's messaare. Great was Will's sur prise, but he was not to be bamboozled by even the Monarcn mmseii. "Sirrah," said he, "tell your master that I am obliged for his' liberal offer of two for one, but that I preer one bird in the hand to two in the bush. Hence originated this oft-repeated say insr. S- Louis Globe-Democrat. The disappearance of- $1,000 from a bank at Parsons, Kansas, three years rn nit Va anwhinterl for bv the cashier, and, as he had been living rather recklessly, it was believed that thief. He lost his place, es Ciped arrest by paying $1,000 to the hink. and remained ruined in reputa tion until lately, when a porter impart- ed to a companion in a moment ui rimnVen nonfidfincG the secret that he had stolen the money. The porter has Unoe maaa ft ;ttU oonjeaww. i V PUBLISHED AT RUTHERFOttDTON, N." C E VERY FRIDAY . MORNING A Flying Ship. Almost every one has read of Ezekiel Green and hf flying t machine, and a great many bpya and men have been quite sure that,1 they could manufacture wings that would enable them to fly. As long ago as the reign of James-IV. of Scotland an Italian who pretended 'to be able to change common" metals into gold, and who wasted a great deal of the King's money in this way, but all to no purpose, "took in hand to fly with wings" as far as France, and to be there before the King's ambassadors, who traveled in the ordinary way. He had a pair of wings made of feathers, and when these had been fastened upon him he flew bff the wall of Stirling Castle, but only to fall heavily to the ground and break his thigh-bone. The Abbot of Tarryland (for so ha had been created by the credulous King) declared that the blame of this failure should be laid upon the fact that there were hen feathers in the wings, and that hens are more inclined to the barn-yard than to the skies a very in genious way of defending himself; but it cjuld not quiet the twinges in his broken limb. Another experiment, which was made three hundred years later, was more successful. It was tried on a convict from the galleys, whose life was not thought too valuable to risk, and when ready for flight he must have been an object capable of frightening all the birds of the air. "He was surrounded with whirls of feathers, curiously inter laced, and extending gradually at suita ble distances in a norizontal direction from his feet to his neck;" -When first launched from a height of seventy feet, his feelings could not have Deen envia ble, and the great mass of spectators watched him in 'almost breathless si lence. But instead of falling, he went down slowly, and landed on his feet, with no inconvenience except a feeling of sea-sickness. Nothing seems to have come of it, as men are not Hying through the air yet; but the Flying Ship may possibly have led to the balloon. This strange scheme made quite a sensation in the year 1709, and the first account of it was written in Portugese. It was invented by a Bra zilian priest, who wanted the King of Portugal to adopt it. In an ancient document purporting to be an address made to this monarch we read: "Father Bartholomew Laurent says that he has found out an Invention, by the Help of which one may more speedily travel through the Air than any other Way either by Sea -or Land, so that one may go 200 Miles in twenty four Hours ; send Orders and Conclu sions of Councils to Generals, in a man ner, as soon as they are determined in private Cabinets; which will be so much the more Advantageous to your Majesty, as vouiDominions lie far remote from one another, ; and which for want of Councils can not be maintained nor augmented in Reveruies and Extent. "Merchants may have their Mer chandize, and send Letters and Packets more conveniently. Places besieged may be Supply 'd with Necesasries and Succours. Moreover, we may transport out of such Places what we please, and the Lnemy can not hinder it." Thi3 remarkable ship was made as nearly in th eform of a bird as possible ; the tail (not quite true to nature) being the stern, and the head the figure-head of the vessel, i At the bottom were two queerly shaped wings "to keep the ship upright ;" at the top, the sails, which rounded over like the body of the bird; the light body of the ship was scalloped at both ends, and in the cavity of each was a pair of bellows, to be blown when there was no ' wind ; and there were globes of heaven and earth, two load stones, and fa good riumber of large amber beads fastened in an iron wire net, which, by a secret operation, would help to keep the ship aloft." 1 he strange vehicle : wa3 supposed to accommodate ten or eleven men "be side the artist,1 and this last personage, by the help of the celestial globe, a sea map and compass, takes, the height of the sun, thereby to find out the spot of and over which they are on the globe of the earth'.' It was arvery funny af fair, but quite ingenious, considering how little the laws of gravitation-, and many other things connected with the art of flying, were then understood ; ylt no such object has been seen makine, its wav through the air, and a flying ship would be verypt to find itself on the Vjound or in the water. Harper's Young People. Ballooning. We are now within a sinrrle vear of the centenary of the first ballopn, which was sent up on the 5th of June, 1783, hv fh brothers Monttrolfier. Their bal loon was inflated, with heated air, but in the following August JU. unaries em ployed hydrogen gas tor tne same pur pose. In September the Montgoltiers attached a card to a fire-balloon, and placed in it the first aerial travelers a sheep,1 a cock and duck. Ine cock s leg was broken by a kick from the sheeo. but otherwise the strangely-as sorted trio sustained no injury. In.Oc- tober tne nrst human aeronaut, iu. Francois Filatre de Rozier, who was afterward killed in an attempt to cross from France to England, made his first ascent in a " captive" fire balloon teth ered to the ground by ropes. In the following months, accompanied by the' Marquis d' Arlandes, De Rozier ascended in a free fire balloon: and ten days later MM. Charles and Robert ascended in a free balloon inflated with hydrogen gas. The first balloon was bent up from En gland about the same time, and in Feb ruary, 1784 the first which crossed the channel, while in August of the same year the first human ascent from British ground was made by Mr. Tytler. Thirty-seven years e'apsed before there was any definite advance on the achieve ments of the first two years of aero nautics; but in 1821 Mr. Green showed that hydrogen might be replaced by ordinary coal gas, ; and that a balloon might be inflated and dispatched wher ever there was a gas manufactory capa ble of supplying the necessary quantity. London Times, i , The New York Star feels sorry for Tira MTnATMHiRA it is such a spiritless Tf 1 J: 1 1 i ?l i A Family Newspaper; Defoted t Borne Inkrcsts A. Mngharibee Bedaween Devotion, .- ' H The Arab race is cotamnly divided into two sections . The aAl iladr," or "dwellers in towns," anl the "iAhl Bedoo," or "dwellers in jibe open." From the latter words is I derived j the well-known name Bedouii or B.edaween. The latter are the best known to Eu ropean travelers, and have fjsualiy been described with great xaggeration. Among them all, widely; dispersed as they are, community of rigin. anjt of modes of life results in producing a per tain similarity. In person' the Bt)da ween are rather undersized, active, and enduring, with well-formed eatires. Like all pastoral tribes vbich. lef,d a roving life, frequent quarrels eirise among them. The loneliness of,the desert, and the absence of fixed lay; or civil order, render it necessary thatj ev ery man be always ready to assert his rights and defend bis person, Yef the raids on travelers which have made; the name of Bedaween almost ynonyivjous with brigand are comparatively tare, and are regarded by them as a kinft of customs dues levied on those who twill not pay for protection. In Asia most of the Bedaween pay little attention tel the precepts of the Koran, and their religi ous belief is confined merely to- a pro fession of faith in the unity of "God.i' In Africa the tribes which wander a6n the northern border of the Soudarf f and the Algerian Sahara are mixed with ,0th ers which are not of genuine 4xab blood, though they spent the Arab" tongue and call themselves Arabs. 'Crike the genuine Arabs, thtjy dearly .love their horses, and on horsebapk theyi are indefatigable. Barelegged., and bare footed, with their white imrnous wrap- Eed round them, its hood.; over their ead, the Bedaween as he walks in, un conscious dignity is a striking object. In Africa they are more religious than in their native land, and countless sects, under the protection of countless saints, extend their branches through the coun try. Some of these fraternities,'? like those of the Aissawi, practice still bar baric rites ; others adopt or, retain the ordinary forms of Mohammedan Wor ship. The poitures of the Mohammedan at prayer are striking and reverent. His face to the eat, he stands or kneels on the ground, with his hands held up as though the palms were a book "rom which he is reading. At the naffte of God he prostrates himself Kin such a manner that seven part-of bis body "head, hands; feet and knees-i-toucjj the earth together. These genuflections form a part of every act, of prayer, which alwaj's begins with the.first words of the Koran : "Praise be to GodJ the Lord of all creatures, the most nerci ful, the Lord of the day of' jadgrijent Thee do we worship ; Thy aid wf im plore. Guide us into the right way the way of those to ;whom Thci shoejwest mercy, not of thos with, whom ,Thou art angry, and who go astray." War per s Bazar. l . Broken Down Yomg Women! It will be universally conceded tjiat too many of our women are riot byfany means robust. They marry, and in a few years they break down physically under the cares of motherhood and housekeeping. Young men &re. hotlow to observe this, and theii knowledge of the fact may be one of tie predisposing causes of that reluctanceto marry Which is said to be a growing characterise of American men. But why is it' j that numbers of our women fail in health so early, and become, not fancied invalids like the fine ladies of a generation kone by, but really incapacitated for theper fect performance of those duties hich are distinctively and properly jtheir own? The answer lies it hand, ft is a faulty system of educationthati' re sponsible, if not for all, at least for Jvery many of the ills from which they suffer. Leaving aside altogether as not perti nent to the subject under consideration the much vexed question of the relative capacity of the sexe3, there remain the fact that our girls are expected tj ac quire the same information r-ftt school that is imparted to yoing .men., f .But they are heavily handieapped. -ifhey are "finished," and enter society t an age when their brothers are just bout entering on a college course.; . In ther words they have from three t four fewer years for study, and ? necessarily are compelled to study much harder. This involves prolonged indoor confine ment at a critical period of Iheir fexist ence, and an almost total neglect ojf cal isthenics. The growing girl, tjust bud ding into perfect womanhood, jjieeds light, air and exercise. What wopder, if she does not get them, that'she emerg es from her college or her convent school a weak, muscleless creature, $th a mind stored at the expense ot her fody, and a painful consciousness that f she has learned much, one thing at leat has been more indelibly impressed upctn her than any other, and that thing th& fact that her back is too weak io hold her body erect without the, aids of cctrsets. Boys are more fortunate. . Tfhey afe not expected to acquire so much in so sjiorta time, and they have far more leisure for exercise. If it is necessary that women should acquire all that men do, tor-charity's sake let them have an eanal time in which to do so. If, however, thy are to leave school at seventeen or. eigjiteen. a proper consideration for .Hheir'future and for the welfare oi tne generation ot which they will be the mothers Should prompt such a curtailment' of jl their studies as will leave them ample time for indulgence in healthgiving exercise. Chicago Herald. It has been flecided in England that 1 1 . i . i e . . . , me texepuoue uusmess oi viae cwuniry shall not be exclusively managed toy the T ' - 1H Tk I i 1 1. irost-omce xcparcmem wnicn now con trols all the telegraph lines, and $ will be allowed to remain in the hadds of private individuals and corporations. iV. l. Herald. r I s - Hugh McCann, a laboring man of Albany, N. Y.. had been in the habit of sleeping with his right arm. under him. luesday mornin? he awoke ana discov ered that that arm was paralyzed, and the surgeon tells him that,-5t is doubtful if he ever regains the use- td it. j- Agriculture is tbe financial barome ter of the United Suites., Londop Tele- 1) and General Itw , Success With Turnips. Turnips or rata bagas need a rich, rell-drained, mellow soil. It can hard ly be too rich with well -rotted barn-yard manure, and if then some phosphate or bone dust is added it will like; ly increase the crop. The condition of the soil, as regards moisture at the time of sowing nas much to do with success. A large yield will depend very much on having an even stand all over the field. The soil must not be too wet nor dry. In either case there will be many vacant places. If rather dry, work the land with the cultivator, roll and sow immediately all in the same day giving no opportunity for dry in before the seed is in the ground. quite dry plow again and roll just be fore sowing. If sown on level ground always roll before sowing: One to two ponnds of seed for an acre. Some pre fer to ridge the land. This is done with a shovel or common plow, then put on a roller and the ridges will be flattened so as to allow the drill to be used. It is easier hoeing tho first time when ridges are made, and when thus flat tened they will not dry out more than level land. A rich soil and moist seed bed is the best protection against the fly, as a quick growth will soon get the plants beyond damage from its attack. The first hoe ing should be attended to with prompt ness. In this case "a stitch in time saves nine." There are few cultivated fields in this State so free from weeds as to afford the turnip-grower any respite from Adam's curse. As soon as the turnips are well up, the weeds are well up, too, and working can com mence. A sharp, thin hoe drawn along just beneath the surface on each side of the row will do good work. Some of the new hand cultivators are fitted with teeth or small shovels so as to work close to the row. When the plants are two inches high, with a com mon hoe cut out its full width across the row, h aving two or three plants' in a place, to stand for a few days longer. They seem to grow better when there are a few together than when singly, while the" are small; but it will not do to let them stand in this way too long, or they will grow spindling ; and when they are thinned to one plant it is weak and tender, and will not get to growing again for several days. The after cultivation should be fre quent and thorough, especially if the weather is dr They will not bottom much till cool weather, but if well worked will by that time be ready for growth. A hand cultivator on a small plat, or in a larger field with the rows thirty inches apart, a nice light horse noe with sharp steel teeth will do the work with a horse attached, a great sav ing in hand labor. Michiqan Farmer. Soft Soap. According to Census Bulletin No. 28$. summarizing the amount and value of hemicals manufactured in the United States, we learn that, this country pro duces annually 34,494,100 pounds of soft soap of the value of $358,280, or a rirle over a cent a pound. UI course we do not expect the census to be more than approximately accurate, but when it undertakes to reduce the amount and value of soft soap to such insignifi cant figures as are here furnished, its conclusions must be antagonized by the experience or tne most ordinary oo- server. lhe consumption ot soft soap is as universal as the consumption of water, though not always for the same mrpose. In our intercourse with the world around us we come in contact with many a rusty hinge of human ac ion that can be aiected by this luon cator more readily than by anything else. If tins will not move it, we mav conclude that it is immovable. Soft soao is not alone an article of com merce: it is an article that erives to the wheels of commerce freedom of move - ment and overcomes friction, it is a part of the equipment of the mau whose capital is largely in his powers of per suasion. The book agent carries it witn lim into the farmer's family, and it freouentlv enables him to loosen the rustiest clasp or the tightest purse strings In seasons of speculation it is invalu able to the manipulators of stocks and bonds and miscellaneous invest ments. The boa constrictor covers his victim with saliva before swallowing it, and the suave and considerate dispenser of bonanza sroods anoints the lambs with soft soap before he shears them, and frequently gives them a fresh ap plication thereafter to prevent taking cold. The lobbyist carries it about him in larsre quantities, and we should say a cent a pound would be dear for it at such; a lavish i-ate as he bestows it upon tne representatives of the people, though he not unfreauentlv mixes it witn "soap" of a more substantial character. and when he makes advances with such double action he is an almost invincibly attractive fellow. We are a Nation of 50,000,000, and from the tramp upbn the street who used all his soft soap uoon others to the President m his un easy chair, there is a daily expenditure of soft soap by almost every individual, and np census official need tell us that any thirty odd million pounds a year will answer the purpose. We may find some of this evident deficiency ac counted for under the head of "Taffy," but that will argue a defective system nf flassifieRtion. Taffv is milder in its effects, and is, or should be, used in less nrtrent situations. That it is indis-i pensable we will allow, but it cannot be depended upon for extraordinary ser vice, where a quick and powerful agent) is required, as certainly as the stimulus! we have been discussing. We are sorry ; the census cannot enve us any more trustworthy figures on this point, for an accurate gauge of the consumption or all kinds of soft soap would be of great metaphysical, as well as material, in terest. Boston Post. There are but few places in the United States where water is more valu able than petroleum. Garfield, the new Pennsylvania oil town, is perhaps the onlv such locality. There is no waterw and the supply for human existence has to be brought from a spring some disf tance from town. It costs sixty cents a barrel, while oil is pnly worth fifty-six, and the water venders wui not. give barrel of water lor a barrel of oil TEUS-fiti Per Aim Borrowing Tools. The needs of modern farming demand . . . . . . ... a great variety oi tools; indeed the greatest difference between the farming of to-day and of twenty years ago is to be found in the great improvement in all kinds of tools, and the gJgt saving of labor that their use accomplishes. Many of these tools are expensive and require considerable skill in their use and care to keep them in good repair, so that the small farmer who has only occasional use for them, and can ill afford to own them, is placed in the di lemma of not being able to do without them nor to buy them either; in his strait he is fain to borrow. Now, if he will but be careful to ob serve two or three rules in borrowing, , he will have little trouble in any good Christian neighborhood, in getting any tools he needs at any time the owners are not using them; but by neglect of them he will become an annovance to the neighborhood, and unable to supply his needs without buying. First of. all no tool should ever be bor rowed without the knowledge and con sent of the owner, nor without an un derstanding as to when it is to be re turned. Second, any borrowed tool should be, returned immediately when it is no longer wanted, or when the owner requests, and in case of any dam age the owner should be mlormed and satisfaction given. Simple as these rules are, and strange as it may seem that any one should neglect them, there is probably no one source of trouble between neighbors so fruitful as care lessness or wilful neglect of duty' and common decency in these matters. It is extremely anroying, when in need of a tool to be unable to hnd it, and espe cially so when one does not know which of two or three careless neighbors to blame for the annoyance. I know a man who makes great pro fessions of religious faith, and whose sincerity I do not. pretend to judge, who has had in constant use, for a year at a time, tools which belonged to a neigh bor, and which said neighbor had to re- )lace, not knowing where they were ost; but when he found out at last who was at fault, it made a great deal of hard feeling, which was a good deal worse than the loss of the tools. It is a good plan to brand all tools with the owner's name, which will serve to remind honest j persons where they belong and will often prevent th6ir being neglected. It is also a good plan to keep a slate and pencil in the tool house on which a memorandum should be made when a tool is borrowed, and erased when it is returned this Avill serve to remind the owner where to look for missing tools. With such pre cautions, and among decent neighbors, the farmer who owns good tools need not fear to follow the teaching "from him that would borrow of thee, turn thou not away-" Thpro .ro, hnwevor. neighbors and neighbors, and any one who wishes to keep his tools, where he can find them when needed, will have to discriminate between the careless, unprincipled borrower, who never re turns a borrowed toot tin it is sent ior, and the careful, conscientious man who always returns whatever he borrows, promptly and in good order. It is often difficult, where several men are employed on the tarm, to pre vent their borrowing and lending tools without the knowledge of their employ ers; this is one of the most fruitful sources of trouble, and needs careful attention. No hired man should bor row or lend any tool witnout Knowi edge of his employer and of the owner of the tool in question. W. D. Phil- brick, in New-Enqland Farmer. The Office of Resinous Matters in plants. It has been difficult to make even a plausible conjecture of the uses of the proper mices ' or plants, in meir production a large amount of nutritive material is .consumed; and for the most part they are stored up irretrievably m the plant, not being reconverted into nutritive material. This gave some color to the old idea that they are ex crementitious. But besides that under normal conditions they are not excreted, why should a pine tree convert such an amount of its assimilated ternary mat ters intoturpentine, which is merely to be excreted? Or, if it be a by-product, what useful production or beneficial end attends the production r it excremen titious, the tree should be benefited by drawing it off. But, as De Vries -re marks, and as the owners of the trees very well know, the process is injurious, and if followed up is destructive. It goes almost without saying nowadays that the turpentine is of real good to the tree, else turpentine bearing trees would not .exist. De Vries has made out a real use; which he thinks is the true function of the resiniferous matters in Coniferae and in other resin-producing plants. Resinous juice is stored in the tree as a balm tor wounds. It isjtored up unuer tension, so that it is immediately poured out over an abraded or wounded sur face; for these wounds it makes the best of dressing, promptly oxidating as it does into a resinous coating, which ex cludes the air and wet and other injuri ous influences, especially the germs or spores which instigate decay; and so the urocess of healincr. where there is true healing or reparation, or oi neanny sep aration of the dead from the living tis sues, is favored in the highest degree. 3"he saturation of the woody layers with resin, in the vicinity of wounds .and fract ures (as is seen in the light 'wood of our hard pines) is referred to as effectively arresting the decay which parasitic fungi set up, this "lat" woodbeingim- pervious to mycelium. Latex or milky juice is a more com plex product, of which certain portions have been shown to be nutritive; but as to the caoutchouc aud the waxy matters they contain, De Vries insists that they: subserve a similar orhce, are, in iacr, rercedv a protection against decay, natural provision for the dressing of wounds, under which healing may most favorably proceed. American Journal oj Science. It was the custom among the Amer- ican Indians to burn up the wigwam of a deceased brave to prevent his relatives craarreline over his property. In civil j ized nations the property of the dead i I handed over to ine lawyer ior similar i reaiou.AU' Maytn Begutir, TIBUS F SVBSCBIPTlOar. Oae Tear 00 Six Months... V CO Special Bequests. 1. Ja writing on buaineis be sure t give the Postoffice at which you get your mail ' matter. 2. In remitting mouey, always give both name and Postoffice. 3. Send matter for the mail department on a separate piece of paper from any thing for publication. f 4 Write oemmanieationi only oa one atde ef the theeU WIT ASP WISDOM. j Every man is occasionally what he ought to be perpetually. ' Fond wife: "How strange! Every tame ireter comes home irom his lodge he comes to bed with his hat on. But I suppose it is some more of those Mason io doings." ; An exchange says that our navy is still in its infancy, which would jus'tify the assertion that the vessels are seldom seen out of their slips. Yonkers States man. S When the man averred that he had seen a trotting match they didn t niina it much, but when he said " A lemon neighed " they threw him under a grip- . car. Chicago Times. When a doctor who claims to cure by laying on of hands reaches Missouri, he either quits business or starts for the woods with a crowd after liim. 1 here are some swindles Missouri i can't abide. Detroit Free Press. Cause and Effect: Eminent Provin cial Tragedian Come hithorr, sweet one! Your mothorr tells me that you shed teorrs during my soliloquy in exile last night. Sweet One: Yes, sir. Moth er kept on pinehing me, 'cause I was so sleepy! Punch. When he was eating fast and furi ously, piling in the food as farmers do hay into the barn on the eve of a .thun der shower in June, the head waiter stepped up and said: " Beg pardon, sir, but there's no train out to-night." "I know it," said the man with his mouth ful, " and that's why I'm hurrying to catch a good night's sleep!" Hotel Mail. An old story in a new form Is go ing the grand rounds, and tells about a young man at table d'hote at one of the rural hotels, where " lady waiters" are employed. He wanted a beverage jwith his roast, and summoned the maiden, to whom he said: "Have you any porter?" Yes," she said, " we have three or four, but they are all colored." Where ignorance is bliss it is the height of abi surdity to be intelligent. A. county rector called rather early in the morning on one of his parish ioners. One of the children saw him coming, and ran into the house to tell 4iis mother. The little fellow soon re turned to the front and resumed his play. The clergyman inquired: " Is our mother at home . " JN o, sir, re lied the child; "she 43 out at pres ent. " Tell her when sheTeturns that I called," said the clergymen. "I did tell her," replied the little boy. Chi cago Tribune. The little fellow had just had the dust and grime of the day's play washed off him, and dropped on his knees at the bedside. "Oh, God, make me a good boy to-night, amen." " Is that all?" asked his mother. "Don't j-ou wont to bo good lojr to morrow. too? You can't help being good when you're asleep, you know." "1 wish I could," was the response, with the twinklingist twinkle in his ' eyes. Wasn't that a "clear boy?" New' Ha ven Register. i A. T. Stewart's Charity Failure. 4 Mr. Stewart was a very gifted shop keeper, whose rare talent in a single line gave him both fame and wealthy But he knew as little of charity as he cared for it: and when he came, at the close of his life, to attempt something in that direction, he blundered with a fa cility and self -confidence which 'ought to be endunngiy instructive. it had been urged upon him that he owed something to the working girls who had done so much to build up his fortune;, and so, tardily and ignorantly, he set about a ; scheme ,in their behalf. He built a huge structure, capable of hous- ing a thousand people, jvery ieature of this structure, in view of the" purpose for which it was. designed, was a glaring incongruity- and then, when he had completed it, he condescended to asK the counsel of experts as to carrying his scheme into execution. He was informed by those whose counsel he ought long before to have sought that the very character of his building prohibited it from being useful. He was shown that to assemble one thousand young women under one roof in a working-woman's house, was to necessitate one of two things : either a police so vigilant and so intrusive as to be to any decent girl intolerable ; or else, a laxity so provoca tive of evil as, almost to guarantee it. He was shown that he ought to have built a series of small houses, each with , , m . a matron or nouseKeeper oi lis own, and each to contain a dozen girls, at most, where the surveillance could have been constant without being obtrusive, and where something like domesticity would have made a home in, name a home in fact. But Mr. Stewart believed supremely in Mr. Stewart. Successful men generally believe in themselves. He showed this in his architecture, which was hideous, where it might as easily have been graceful and pleasing. He showed it .in his charitable plans, to which he gave but little thought, and in which he chose to be sufficient to him self. And so his great wealth.ha3 re sulted in no service to his fellow-townspeople and in scanty honor to his memo ry. It is a story which may profitably be read by other rich men. Century Maaazine. A scandal so horrible that it is al most impossible to believe it comes from Cape May. The report is that a I'hrla delphia lady,, who had every appearance of being cultured and refined, has out raged' every sensibility and cruelly mor tified those who had the misfortune to be considered her friends by appearing in one of the very dresses she wore last year, and worse than all. the dress had been turned. N. Y. Graphic. A German at St. Paul, Minn., sent a letter to the Emigration Commissioners at Castle Garden, directing therri to se lect a Scandinavian girl not more than twenty-five years of age for a wife, and forward her to bim. He stated - that among her requirements she " must haf a litel monney, and also dress and boota and mantel, because clothing are very dear -in Wsaxesot&,"'Chicago Tribune, : ! i ' I 1 4 i
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