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s .6 A, V :d-3!S?-5Ca-- " THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. V. Is. THOMAH. Krflter. BED CLOUD. NEBRASKA. The Palace fTratfc. In the ancient Silurian ages, Ere.Troth had retired to her well, When mortals, with candor refreshing, Their innermost thought used to tell. Dick, bored by the wearisome waltzes, Mid the swallow-tailed group at the ball Stood, quite the limp Caryatid, Supporting hi part of the wall. "With a fond, inordinate longing, He dreamed of a rubber at whist, And sighed at the club to be shrouded In the folds of a nicotine mist. Remarked to him, Jones, "You're an ass, sir, Ill-bred as Ill-looking, I own, Bu tl'll 'knock you down' to my sister, "Who's been sitting for hours alone." "The deuce !" replied Dick, "whata nuisance 1 ft would bore me to kick up a row ! To be sure, I have shunned her all winter, But I see no way out of it now. "Ah ! 3Iiss Jones, I was thinking of leaving, When snared by that brother of yours; I suppose I am stuck for the evening, As I hear you are the greatest of bores "That you wither unplucked by the wall-side, And put up with the callowest youth." (Would you like to be living, Miss Wallfleur, In this charming old Palace of Truth?) "Dear me 1 so you're dragged up at last, sir; Not much to your credit; I've heard That you dance like a camel with spavin; That your pretense to birth Is absurd; "That your evening suit reeks of tobacco; That your manners and speech are uncouth !" (Would you wish, old man, to inhabit This glaring old Palace of Truth?) Harvard Lampoon. ROYAL NUMERALS. We lighted the other day, in Mr. R. B. Smith's Lectures on "Mohammed and Mohammedanism," on the following curious passage: "People call the conquerer of Con stantinople, 800 years later, Mohammed the Second. But I do not think they Ver speak of the Prophet as Moham m 3d the First; and perhaps the uncon scious homage thus rendered to him b 7 a world which ostensibly, and still v Ty lately, did him such scant justice Is the highest tribute that can be given to his greatness." A malicious reader ventured to parody Mr. Smith's reckoning, by saying that "people call the King of England who began to reign in 1727 George the Sec ond, but that they do not ever speak of the patron Saint of England as George the First" It is certainly odd if Mr. Smith never heard of Sultan Mohomet the First who, if not a man quite on the scale of his grandson, fills no unim portant place in Ottoman history. But it does certainly sound as if the pane gyrist of the Prophet fancied that, as Napoleon the Third was third without any Second, so Mohomet the Second was Second without any First Some ingenious maker of Latin verses might parody the lines of Horace Unde nil majus gencratur ipso, Nee vigct quidquam simile aut secundum in favor of the man whose greatness wan tutj uuier way, ana consisted, not in having no children to be second after him, but in having no fathers to be first before him. The whole thing becomes yet more funny when we look a few pages back and find Mr. Smith quite aware of the existence of Sultan Ma homet the Fourth, which suggests that on Mr. Smith's reckoning, the odd Mahomets are, perhaps by some uncon scious form of homage, left out Ma homet the Second was really great enough to count as two, like the "very fat lord" whose vote, counted as ten, gave us the Habeas Corpus Act But one hardly sees why such a privilege should be extended to Mahomet the Fourth. Still, if Mr. Smith chooses to count bis Sultans in alternate rows, like the houses in some London streets it does not concern us. His numera tion has set us on a little train of thought, and so far we thank Mm. There is certainly something remark able in the way in which, while some kings are best known by some surname or nickname, in the case of others the mere numeral has itself become a kind of surname. It is like some of the great dates of history, where the mere number of the year becomes clothed with a kind of living being, and the m )re figures call up the picture of some great event with its long train of c roses' and consequences. If we speak 11 Charles the First Charles the Fifth Charles the Twelfth, there is no need to explain that we mean the First of England, the Fifth of the Empire, and the Twelfth of Sweden. The names speak for themselves, even though there was nothing to point out of what line of sovereigns we were speaking. A pic ture of Charles the Fifth, a coin of Charles the Fifth, if mentioned in the most casual way, would convey to every one the notion of the Emperor, not of Charles the Fifth of France or of any other country that may number five Charleses. There are to be sure excep tions to every rule, and we can remem ber how, when a questiou was set in the Oxford Schools, "Give notices of the City of Rome from Charles the Great to Charles the Fifth," a candidate came and asked his examiner whether the Charles the Fifth that was meant was the Emperor or the King of France. - As the Emperor certainly had some thing to do with the City of Rome and he King of France had certainly lotting, the doubt can be set down yelj as one of those singular instances ot perversity which we do light on iver and anon. Charles the Fifth the Cmperorisso completely Charles the Fifth that people seem sometimes amazed to find that he was not numeri cally Charles the Fifth in all his domin ions. We have seen him spoken of as Charles the Fifth of Spain. With this reckoning, .the description of a later King of Spain as Charles the Second must seem as mysterious from the other sJds as the description of Mahomet the Secemd seemed to Mr. Smith. Charles the Fifth is so completely and ex clusively Charles the Fith. that in rissali he has a form to himself shared with him by no other Emperor or King, but only by a single Pose. The Emperor who is most famoen for the Golden Ball is "Charles Qoatre." the Emperor Who is most famous for the Pragmatic Sanction is "Charles Six"; but their more famous namesake who comes between them is "Charles Quint" balanced by the no less renowned Pon tiff "Sixte-Quint" The two most fa mous Emperors of the name have, in short bad the one bis surname, the other his number, tacked n to his name, and it only needs one step fur ther to write "CharlesquinF to match "Charlemagne." The number in this case, though it is a mere number and in itself simply records the fact that four Emperors before him had borne the same name, is in effect a surname. Charles the Fifth stands out as a de scription with a meaning. But many people might have to stop and think who Charles the Fourth, Charles the -Sixth and Charles the Seventh were; and Charles the First Charles the Sec ond, and Charles the Third are so uni versally speken of by surnames or nick names that no one would know with out a moment's thought who was meant by either of those numerals. Charles the Twelfth again is almost as famous as Charles the Fifth, and his name is doubtless familiar to many who would have to guess that there must have been a Charles the Eleventh, and that there may have been a Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth. But among the Swedish Kings the process of guess ing backwards would be a little danger ous. It is safe to guess a Charles the Eleventh, a Charles the Tenth, a Charles the Eighth and a Charles the Seventh. But he who shall rashly go on to guess a Charles the Sixth, still more he who shall dream of a northern ''Charles Quint," will find himself plunged in a quagmire of difficulties and complica tions. In any ordinary list of Kings of Sweden the Charleses begin with Charles the Seventh. This fact would exactly suit Mr. Smith. It must have been more than an unconscious homage which should start a man after this mystical fashion with the sacred and sabbatical number; but it is a grave fact that Charles the Twelfth only by a reckon ing of Charleses the first of whom is placed at some unfixed date between the year of the world 2045 and the year of the world 2704. Between those dates and before Odin, reigned Charles the I. In one famous legend the first Karl, together with the first Smith, were both called into being by a special exercise of the creative power of Odin ; but here Odin himself is less ancient than Karl Our English fashion has rather gone the other way; we have dropped our royal reckoning ef kings whom we might fairly have counted. The first Edward after the Conquest was in his own days called Edward the Fourth; and the first Charles Stewart might with more reason have been called Charles the Second, on the strength of Ceorl King of the West Saxons, than the real Charles the Sixth of Sweden was called Charles the Twelfth on the strength of six doubtful or imaginary Karls, one of whom came before Odin. Frederick the Second again is an Emperor who stands out by his number quite as distinctly as if he had any de scriptive surname. He was indeed "Stupor Mundi," as Otto the Third had been "Mirabile Mundi"; but the name has not stuck to him as the red beard of his grandfather had stuck to him in all tongues. Still there is all the differ ence in the world between Frederick the Second and Frederick the Third, This last Emperor the world seems pretty well agreed to set down as No. 3, though there is sometimes a certain wish in Austrian quarters to make him No. 4 on the strength of that Frederick of Austria who disputed the crown with Lewis of Bavaria. The Ottos again are always counted from the first Saxon King of the name, though there were not wanting"ome who were anxious to reckon Otto the Great as "Otho the Second," on the strength of Marcus Sal viusOtho. Such a way of reckoning might have given Mr. Smith further ground for musing. But the gap which this reckoning makes between the first and the second Otho is only a few cen turies wider than the gap which sepa rates the first and second Tiberius. This last reckoning again can hardly be justified, for the Emperor whe is commonly called Claudius was just as much Tiberius as his uncle, and we dare say that we might find others if we were to look through all the Imperial pranomina. But the names and numbers which we would specially commend to Mr. Smith's care are those of the Philips, whether of Macedonia, France, or Spain. Nobody doubts for a moment who is meant if we speak of Philip the Second ; it is he of Spain and nobody else. The French Philips are so well provided for by nicknames that we almost forget their numbers. It would take a little thought if we heard of Philip the Second and Philip the Fifth, to see that the Princes meant were those who are so familiar by the names of Philip Augustus and Philip the Fair. But Philip the Second might have started Mr. Smith's dufficulties with much bet ter reason than Mahomet the Second. It is much easier in reading Spanish history to forget that there wan Philip the First than to forget in reading Otto man history that there was a Mahomet the First Charles the Fifth seems at first sight to be all aunts and grand fathers, without any parents. His father died so soon, and his motherwas se long before she died, that both seem to pass out of sight One is sometimes really tempted to ask whether there ever was a Philip the First If, by any good chance, the patron Saint of Spain had been 9t Philip and not St James we might easily be driven to Mr. Smith's theory, and conceive that the ultra Catholic King was No. 2, the Saint him self beiagNal. There are, we believe, some very scrupulous people who speak of the John of France who at Poitiers as John the Second, on the strength of a little John whose life was to very short that be slight easily be forgotten. Bat as there never was a John the Third, the question as to his number became of no practical imps tance; otherwise, if John of VaMs lived on in history as John the Second, we might easily be driven to seek for John the First as we may easily be driven to seek for our first Philip, and as Mr. Smith is driven to seek for his first Mahomet Lastly, there are those princes who have different numbers in different parts of their dominions. We have al ready spoken of the difficulties arising from the Emperor Charles the Fifth being also Chart the First of Castile; and we certainly would not undertake to say off hand what was his number in each of his endless kingdoms, duch ies, and counties. To say nothing of the Henrys of Reuse, who are beyond us, the Imperial Henrys sometimes get a little puzzling on account of the dif ference in the German and Italian reck oning. The Germans naturally count and the Italians as naturally leave out the- first Henry of Saxony, whom we used to call Henry the Fowler, till we lately had orders from his own Duchy to call him so no longer. In our own country, when the late King came to the crown, some ingenious person re marked with perfect truth that be was William the First of Hanover, William the Second of Ireland, William the Third of Scotland, and William the Fourth of England. The ingenious reckoner did not go on to add that in the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alder ney, Sark, and a few still smaller, he was undoubtedly William the Fifth Duke of the Normans. So the William last before him was no less plainly First of Ireland, Second of Scotland, Third of England, Fourth of Normandy, and Tenth of Orange. To be sure the Orange reckoning is not quite undoubt ed. The Princes of Orange are reck oned in more ways than one; bat the one who is common to Orange and Eng land was the Tenth according to the reckoning, and it is the number that sounds beat And the Princes of Or ange have one advantage; a piece, per haps not of genuine history, but at least of genuine legend, provides them with a Saint as their first William. But the difference of reckoning among .his suc cessors would seem to show that there were some among the genealogists of the House of Orange who felt towards William the Saint as Mr. Smith feels towards Mahomet the Prophet, and who from an unconscious feeling of rever ence shrank from speaking of him as William the First London Saturday Review. The Oriental Basisess. A good citizen of Croghan street was reading, the other day, of a good Persian gentleman who always walked about with a smile on his face. When this Persian was asked why he always looked so happy when other men looked sad, he replied: "I smile because it may be sunshiae to some poor soul surrounded by shad ows." It was very nice in the Persian, and the Croghan street man said he'd be hanged if he couldn't outsmile a 'Per sian or anybody else walking around on two legs. He at once began to smile at his wife. She stood it for a few minutes, and then observed: "What's the matter, William got the colic again?" "I smile because I want to carry sun shine to your darkened soul," he re plied. She wanted him to understand that fifteen minutes at the woodpile would help her more than all the grins he could grin in a straight week, and when he went into the kitchen to smile some sunshine at the hired girl . the wife followed him and raised a row that put dinner three-quarters of an hour behind hand. However, one can't get the hang of Oriental business in a day, and this man tried it again ou the street car as he came down town yes terday. Opposite him sat an old wo man with a basket and he undertook to smile the shadows from her heart She watched him for two or three minutes, growing mad all the time, and presently she asked: "Do you think you know me, that you are grinning across the aisle like a cir cus baboon?" "I smile,madam, because because " he stammered, forgetting what the Per sian said. "I smile because" "You are grinning because I've got sore eyes!" she shouted. "No, madam. I smile that I that I" "111 not stand it!" she exclaimed, and she hammered him with the basket until he escaped off the platform. "Now grain over that will your she called after him as she shook the bas ket in the air. "The Persian who went around smil ing was a fool, and I'm his first cousin I" growled the man, and he quit smiling and picked a fight with a maker. Detroit Free Press. A young man applied at a newspaper office the other day for a situation. "Have you ever had any experience as an editor?" inquired the newspaper man. "Well, no, not exactly" replied the ambitious aspirant cautiously. "But I've been cowhided a number of tames, have been married quite awhile, have worn borrowed clothes for three years, and never had a cent of money, so I thought I might work in." He engaged. - A drunken man is like a drowned man, a fool and a madman; one draught above heat stakes him a feoL the second trds him and the third drowns him. iVfaakapeare. The bliss of the drunkard is a visible picture of the dying AtlieisC, who hopes no more than to lie do wa in the grave with the -beasts that pert."-Pane Porter. nut world or science. 4 Ovsmte rkvMt ff Svlpfcar. People who take sulphur in spring wiathcir. sftrr tneUme-booored method prescribed at Dotheboys Hall, rosy be interested in the fact that the parity of their Beedkine is open to a doubt Mr Hanks recently exhibited to his fellsw members of the San Francisco Micro scopical Sxaety specimens of the spu rious and the genuine flowers of sul phur for comparison. The real article is obtained by subliming sulphur, ami except that there is with it usually a little sulphrous acid, the product is al most chemically pure. But a great deal of what is sold as the sublimate now turns out under the microscope, to be merely crude brimstone, ground to a powder. Instead of "flowers" it should, be called flour ot sulphur. Of course the spurious article contains many im parities, which make the raa with treacle slightly nastier. StaaaB Trtawiyt. The English are very thoroughly in earnest about the use of steam on tram ways. By the bye, the word -tramway," to designate the tracks in the streets which Americans describe by the round about phrase "horse-car railroads," is itself an improvement that might well be adopted in this country. The bill in Parliament drawn by a committee, which is to authorize "the use of me chanical power on tramways," imposes the following restrictions: The ma chinery is to be concealed or protected from view ; the engines are to be as little as possible given to producing smoke, vapor, or noise; the brake power must stop engine and car within their own length when going at eight miles per hour, the speed is limited to eight miles per hour in the cities and twelve miles outside of them ; machinery com plying with the restrictions may be licensed for trial purposes for three months. Deep Ho r lac la Loatloa. Famous as is the sub-Wealden boring in the annals of English geology, the interest in it is for a while likely to be eclipsed by another deep bore carried on in the heart of London. The object of the new bore is purely commercial, but the scientific results of the opera tion are carefully noted and preserved for geologists' use. The intention is to sink a well for the use of a large brew ery on Tottenham Court road. At 150 feet the clays and giavels were passed, and the upper chalk began; from 400 to 812 feet the work lay through hard lower chalk and marl ; at 840 feetgault; at 1,004 feet "greensand," which is a solid stone. The upper greensand has already been penetrated, and fifty or sixty feet further will pierce the lower greensand. The expectation is that the water supply will then be reached and there is intense curiosity as to the suc cess of the project The work is done with a diamond drill. One crown of diamonds has cut 400 feet ; but the strata have proved of very varied hardness, and the flints in the chalk have occa sionally delayed the speed of the work, though not wholly stopping it When there are no mishaps the progress is fourteen or fifteen feet per day. The value of the diamond crown of the boring tool is about r00. Since the above was written, later advices have been received, stating that water was struck below the greensand, and the flow is abundant Maa's Daseaat from the Lower Aalmals. An argument for the hypothesis of man's derivation from the lower ani mals has been found in the structure of the eye. Dr. Herman had discov ered that the crystaline lens is so con structed as to form distinct images of objects that are as much as 00 deg. out of the line of the optic axis. That is, so far as the crystalline lens is con cerned, we ought to be able to see side objects plainly whenever they are within the field of view, no matter in what direction we are looking. This power is called periscopism. Prof. Joseph Le Conte, of California, has pointed out that the human eye is not wholly periscopic, while the eyes of many lower animals among them the ruminants possess this quality fully. The cause of the deficiency in the hu man eye, which makes it impossible for us to see clearly the outline of anything at which we are not looking directly, is that the retinal images are only distinct when given by objects directly in the focal axis. In other words, the human retina is not periscopic Therefore, ar gues Prof. Le Conte, the periscopism of the crystalline lens is almost useless to man; to other animals it is extremely useful, as they have also a periscopic retina. This peculiarity of the lens comes to mankind by inheritance; it is a mark of descent from the lower ani mals. It is not wholly lost in man . because its presence is not hurtf uL On the other hand, if our eyes had contin ued wholly periscopic we should never have been able to concentrate our vis ion, as we now do, upon single objects. PreC Ball's Talaabaaa New facts are discovered in the prac tical use of Prof. Bell's speaking tele phone much faster than theories can be framed to meet them. At present he uses only permanent magnets in ope rating the instrument; there is no bat tery need at all to give the current it beiag obtained solely from ordinary and not very large horseshoe magnets wrapped with fine wire near each of the poles. Strangely enough, the mag nets work equally well, no matter which pole of either magnet faces the other in the circuit Instead of tie usual ar rangement of poles, ,4, these may may be placed ,, and yet serve the purpose of the telephone completely. Great electrical resistance such as that by the interposition of sixteen holding each other's hands as part of the circuit interferes little with transmission. As the resistance is in such a case nearly twenty times that ot the Atlantic cable, there seems to be reason for the hope that the sound of the hmmaa voice may be readily trans mitted between Europe and America. The BeR telephone is strangely oblivi- lo sosse kinds of eVfeetir eoadme- Uon and sensitive to others. Thus wet weather, which interferes with ordina ry telegraphy, has do perceptible effect on the telephone; but imperfect joints ualtias; the lengths of wire are a grave impediment to the wurkiag of the new Instrument Three curious sounds are hemrdin the telephone when used with the ordinary wires between two dties: these sound are fainter than those which the instrument especally trans soils, and make a sort of undertone of sound. The moat distinct of the three is the ticking of the Morse signals and the like. These can sometimes be dis tinguished a the signals of separate letters and words, but in general they are confusing by their number. Tbey are produced by the vibrations of the telegraph poles from all the other wires that may be fastened to the poles that carry the telephone wire. There is a low crackling sound which is believed to be produced by the rubbing of im perfect or rusty joints of the telegraph wire. There is also a faint continuous, bubbling sound, for which no sati facto ry explanation has yet been offered. The Mechanics' Institute, of San Fran cisco, sent a gentleman to Prof. Hell to induce the latter to apply the telephone in mines, so as to give prompt and com plete communication throughout the mine and with the surface. The ordi nary telegraph docs not at present work well in the majority of mines, for vari ous reasons. But to that and many sim ilar applications for the use of the tele phone, though backed by most liberal offers. Prof. Bell has invariably replied that he has not yet finished his experi ments nor ascertained all the conditions necessary to the faithful service of the instrument Nevertheless he has one, in constant use, connecting the work shop of some makers of electrical in struments with his own laboratory, and "chin music" travels over the interven ing half mile of wire without difficulty or mistake. A tfrtrek Fsseral. The Constantinople correiondent of an Edinburgh paper refers to the death of his washerwoman, as follows: "A few hours before the funeral the body was placed in a bath filled with wine, and there washed hy the priest and his deacon. The corpse was afterwards dressed in the best costumes of the deceased, and laid, face uncovered, in the oofiin. This being done, the priest recited several prayers, and sprinkled the coffin with holy water, and this was also done by the relatives and their friends. The corjtte wan then can ied out by bearers, and on reaching the door of the cottage the person the most dear to the deceased approached, tear ing a cup full of white wine and a sponge, and after having had them blessed by the priest proceeded to wash the mouth of the dead woman with the wine, as a symbol of washing away her iniquities. This done, the cup was thrown on the ground, trod on, and broken in many pieces, and it frag ments hastily covered over with earth or thrown into the sea. The funeral precession was then fdrmed, and started in the following order: First came the deacon, carrying the lid of the coffin, and accompanied by three friends of the diseased one carrying a tray cov ered with numerous small glasses, an other with a tray with small bits of toasted bread, and the third carrying a large bottle of wine. These were followed by the choristers, the priest the body the face uncovered and lastly, by the relatives and friends. In this order the company paraded through all the streets of the village, the women of the family, assisted by the profes sional weeping women, crying and loudly lamenting, and all afterward re turned to the house of the deceased. There the corpse was laid for a few minutes on the ground at the entrance, and then taken up and held high in the air by the bearers, the relatives and friends thereupon passing under the coffin as a token of respect for the dead. The funeral thereafter proceeded to the church, where, while Uie usual cere monies were being gone through, the wine and toast were banded round, and each person partook of them, saying In a loud voice, 'May the Lord receive her,' the deawn answering each time, 'Amen,' and ineeming the speakers. A fresh collection was made for the family, aud then the funeral started for the burial ground. There the corpse was despoiled of its finery, the coffin covered np and laid in the earth, amid the fresh lamentations of the women. Sweetmeats were then thrown on the grave, and each assistant was bound to pick one up and eat it saying afresh, May the Loid receive her.' The fu neral having thu3 concluded, the family and friends retire to the nearest cafe. where I had the satisfaction of seeing the husband of the defunct washerwo man consoling himself by getting glo riously drunk on raki,' a kind of white brandy, which is largely drunk by the lower orders in this country. Three days after the funeral, plates of boiled barley covered with sugar, called coli vas were sent round to all the ac quaintances of the family, and eaten in memory of the deceased. This latter custom in the richer families is renewed three months and nine months after the death.'' The minister dropped in very sud denly at Deacon Ophi I tree's, and found that excellent man sitting at a table with that wicked Jim Laverick. trying to hide a handful of cards in his pocket Near the deacon's elbow there were four straight chalk marks on the table, and near Mr. Laverick there were six. "Ah! Good evening. Eldergood eve ning," said the deacon, with great cor diality. "We were just looking st the new shades in red and black; odd sam ple cards those print bouses send out, ain't they T But the elder sighed, and said he didn't snow much about print booses. The bunting costume affected by young ladies is probably a hint to the lads not to I their eonxage flag. rati, Giit5 am wersmoL. TW Tmlr Trm tae4. This Is something that err ry swm hr nt fKn f&aallr narht tr ft.1T ft bASU In keeping la order, for all derive a great source, of pJeswar from It If H !b what it ousht If It b proprrty planted and tended, each family can hare an abundance of choice, f rrah vef etablea each dav for all uw at cote peratirely an insignificant outlay, ad ding to th health of th family a well as saving tniny a dollar that would otlterwlse go to the Krocer aad butchr, if not to the doctor. Wtth plenty of sovxl land and finr locations for garden, the wbolr fatally should pride thenrMlrwi ujon a well kept and productive jranlrn. In laying out your garden for revrUblra U ought to.be arranged where row wu!J be lone, so as to afford a chance to use the plows and cultivators Treely. thus saving a vast deal of ialor. and rie much better crop than in the pent up rows of the old style garden. It b as tonishing to sec how few gardens are really made profitable and a comfort to the family. In IVaston. New York, and other cities, large, powerful, draft thrt are selling at very reraunerallva price, consequently many might be brM by farmers who have no inclination to raise Uotters. aud a more useful race of plow teams would thus be brought into existence. There are at tills present time a great many mamt which are comparatively small, but which would breed fine stock from our great draft stallions. There will soon be an In creased demand for these boron In con sequence of their exH)rtAtiou to Kg land, which has already begun, and tr cause the great railway companies find these heavy horses are far more suita ble for moving cars through cltim from one depot to another. Besides this, there is a growing tendency to use more substantial agricultural implements aud a riding sulky-plow is now being msde to the number of thousands in the West ami these are pretty weighty and will require strong horses to work them. There are already a great many stallions spread over the West and in Canada, and stallions are advertised to b. sold or let for the season, so doubt less the services of horsn will U ob tainable by every one who may Uike a little trouble. The United States is at the present day improving her agricultural live stock of all varieties in a very rapid manner, and it only requires a letter system of managing grass land and of restoring fertility to the over-cultivated and over-cropjKil soil to insure a long period of agricultural prosjwrity. Okokok Uakhnkil MAklng Sotfp . Having good soap ts an imitortaut item in household economy, but sis every one has a way of making it and as, generally speaking, each one thinks her own way lMt, I shall not give mine. But a numter of years ago then) w;ui a recipe sold in this part of the. State. It was published once I know, but I think it is worth telling again, and so here it is: When your soap is done just ready to take off, for every 11 ve gallons of soap put in one pound of sal soda, one pound of resin and live gallons rain water. The reoie said when it came to a boil it would be as thick as before the water was poured in, but I always had to boil a little whll. But it makes a superior soap, taking stains and streaks out of clothes with less rubbing than soap made just with lye and water, and it don't eat the hands. A good recipe for washing flnid in to take one pound of sal soda one-half pound unslacked lime, and simmer in Ave quarts rain water till the soda is dissolved; then drain off. Put the clothes to soak over night when practi cable. The recipe for it claimed no washing was necessary, before boiling, but we always wash the soiled pieces. When ready to boil, put a few spoonfuls of the fluid in each boiler of water be fore putting in the clothes, and boil thoroughly; 1 think it saves at leant one half the rubbing, and does not in jure the fabric The washing for a large family is a heavy item, and it stands every woman in hand to use all available means to make it as easy as possible. Mai:v II. Thou.vk. Fatlcalac AnlttU A very common error among farmers, which needs correction, is the opinion that animab may "be fattened in a few weeks and fitted for market by heavy feeding, or, as it is termed, by pushing. Many farmers do not think of begin ning to fatten their hogs or cattle for early winter market until autumn has actually commenced. Their food is then suddenly changed, and they are dosed with large quantities of grain or meal. This sudden change often deranges the system, and it is frequently some time before they recover from H. From ob servation and inquiry we find that the most successful managers adopt a very different coune. They feed moderate ly, with great regularity, and for a longer period. The most successful pork raiser that we have met with com mences the fattening of his swine for the winter market early in the preceding spring. In fact he keeps bis young swine in a food growing condition all through the winter. He begins mod erately, and increases the amount grad ually, never placing before the animal more than it will freely est With this treatment and strict attention to the comfort and cleanliness of the animal, his spring pigs, st ten months, usually exceed 900 pounds, and have sometimes gone as high as 450 pounds, and pigs wintered over-reach a weight of 500 or eoo pounds. The corn, which is ground and scalded before feeding nets him. on an average not less than 1 per bushel average not less loan i per when the market price for pork is rive cents per pound. CArief ten Union. rMiii-WaM asS StawTWy Orav-TSa Peanut!, or, as they are popularly aswsjftJ KBOw la tfc South, r3r. rw t arwad. rooU of tfe pUat ructly TV stalk and Imrm of J Uet ! hil TTmZi CXmn. ftSKl J uU when rif Wv p?oM ar ot of W rrwrd. t sn firmly to tercet. Thrat with the ffTour! nuU I ly& -rking whkh ha to be do by fcoad. cfela baYtej yt bn ll ih work. thtJoah It would 4 machine, la U ibap of a cotak3hi NftMj!y tsresiHt! Uhor i cheap In th placen w&n ar crown, which ar la U Ibjht wiU of Teanewe Vrgts aJ X Carolina In tats wintry. Iaa abo lanrely crown In Africa. I ItnilL and o4hT plxcrtL TlSVN" r&bed In the valley of tbtUtrmr ( r.L in Afrlea-ftfid rlekl tanrfiJ Un of ott This product ien propeiy prvxlucotls esteemed equal to olive el; but It Is also url In woolen masufs. lures. In soap tnaktn. tn Umr. ad jf lubricating machinery st year ti crop in the tnlted iftates w a fo lows Tennese.:j3iviiy" the?.. VI gtnU, JMU:. North Carolina, ioitfo Tnelmrort from Africa but verw ?40JCX bushels, of which IknUm ported SSjnoO and ,Vrw VotkUiXil, average of the new crop WiJ yrr somewhat larger than Uvatfdf tut and the yield uroralSM wrjt'b Mae generally llxlLml sai lured than for the jkmI two yrri h of flser quality, The pt yrr we) marked by fewer changm than at former one , by a moderate- pl :ot consumptive demand, by an abrw.f speoilatten. aud by the small nrxi lion of choice white nutx Teen peanuts are put up tn burlap ?.o k four or five bushels capacity, an-t vcf sold by the pound, the ffra" bin r sjecUvely Inferior, prime, rh&cc a fancy. The crop year betfina C hUJv & and ends Septeuitwr 30 of Artuulnj year. The new crop will come f.irw r 'under very favorable auspice. n previous crop having bem h-ell v. 1 stock are light h the hand of itt mission merchants and dealrra. llfUtac 0'a Work. To drive, or Ihi driven. Is what mk-4 or mars in all avpcatlunk C W -ti i 3. lifT" vr -..!. 11.. ... ...H.,...14Slw. tn 1 w farmers who Uik time to re.-wl Jour'iI devoted to their calling, are, m a c'amC the one who keep ahead of theb n:l and drive It instead of IrUlng it drlvs them. It Is true, untoward !her o: luickward seasons will often throw Uh labors of the farm twhlud but nerr thelens, the reading farmeraue h is also a thinking man. will at surf; times 15 devising warn and mans fu? for wanting his work when the vtralhr Incomes Urn, and will tlnu j-Iar him self and his fields In advance of hi more dilatory neighbors who do tuw read, and who depend ujon walchin; tin? time when the morn thoughtful farmer begins. The prtttpect now Is In favor of a Ul-J eriibly eaily and fruitful Aon. but! howevi r large the crop, with thrt.re-; ent warlike complications in Kurup, III will all be wanted, and at remuneraUte prices. An immense wheal crop wi sown last fall, and advices report Iht crop generally looking well. Of spring ( grains, a full breadth of lapdjM l-n I sown, and the weather has been most f-. vorable for Its germination and growth.) A very considerable quantity of atwI is 1 now ready for com. and every team and every plowman Is busy preparing for I the crop. It is half mada jshen first I cultivated; for the weeds once dtroy ed, while yet the corn is young.lt la not a dllllcult matter thereafter te keep ahead, and hold the soil In good tilth. Here Is where reading farnjrn?grt the advantage of non reading one. They appreciate the imjorlal;re of this early culture, knowing that If a rainy sjell ensues, the crop is in the bet con dition for standing wet weather, af&I when dry weather comes their crop is not bo swamped with weeds fb tt pre vent the fre? use of corn plows. The probability now is that the Wet will this year cultivate the greatoK. breadth of com that was ever before raised. A little extra labor in driving j work may make the yield ejbr of th j largest ever known per acre. It l!l I heal! wanted. With our pfssent fad 1- j Ities for transportation, and our export ! demand, all that can not be fed on the farm ougnt to bring fair jmer. A little forethought and extra driving will bring it abwat Russia usually ex porta about 25,00,000 bushels of grain yearly to England and other European otn tries, and Turkey about tff).hm bush el. This extra UjM.CfM of busheU. must during a war, cornerotn the I 'nited States. We already export 100, 000.090 worth annually. With a good season it will not b bard to in this fifty per cent This surplus come from the Vest It will b easy to meet this extra demand if out farm ers drive ahead, and havftft reason to match their energy. A Brave 31 esteaerrls W Mr. Gladstone writes: "A sister and four brothers, the four of counall armed, are making a pilgrimage or ex cursion to a church. The fUs ot war with the Turk being normal, we ned not wonder when we learn that they are attacked unawares on theisjmy, la a pass where they proceed in single fll. by seven armed Turks, who announce themselves by shooting dea4 2xH of the brothers and dangerooarrotifed ing the second. The odds arefrful, but the fight proceeds. The wounded man leans against the rock, and, though he receives another and fatal shot kills two of toe Turks before he dies. The sister presses forward, and grasps his rile and his daggetTu last all are killed on both sides, except her- aeir ana m iinrM inrr ma M-rnr "Sa raerrr mad h nrmaliM it a aaw TC f1 .... -,. I--- ... . m off his guard, she stabs afm with the dagger. 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