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A SOLIUKKN I'liEACHEfi. The History ot Sam Jones, Who Is Waking Up the Georgia Churches. It is not an uncommon thing, writes a Macon, Ga.. correspondent 10 The Philadelphia Times, for a man not worth a thousand dollars, who lives in a small country town in a plain house not fully paid for, to refuse the arit'tof a 10,000 house in a large city, and yet that is what Sam Jones did the other day in Nashville. And who is Sam Jones? Written on the conference minutes it reads: "Samuel Parkes Jones, agent Orphans' home," but nobody writes him reverend and everybody calls him Sam. He is 36 years old, was born in Alabama, was brought up in Georgia. His father was a lawyer, and his moth er a sensible, intelligent, and excellent woman. Sam was a precocious boy. He was always ready for a lively time, a dog-tight, fisticuff, a fishing frolic, or a speech. When he was 5 years old he was booked for a speech at a school exhibition. He ended his speech with the prophecy: Some day yoiTll bear in thunder tones The famous name of Sammy Jones. He went to the best schools and took in what he learned by absorption. No body saw him stud', but he knew more than any of his fellows. The teachers loved him, laughed at him, and lathered him. He was full of mischief, and was about 16 years old when he began to fall into bad ways. He was no vagabond, never a gambler, a thief, or a coward, but he would get on sprees, much to the grief of his gooil mother and father. His father took him into his office and Sam soon was "S. P. Jones, Esq., attorney-at-law." He had no practice and no money, but he met a bright Kentucky girl and married her. He ran an engine and drove a dray to make aliving. One day Sam, who was em ployed in running an engine which was connected with an ore-crusher at a furnace, was much annovcd by those who fed the crusher putting pieces of rock into the hopper and throwing the whole of the machinery out of gear. Sam declared very emphatically his intention to knock the head off the next man who did it. It was done di rectly, and by a burly Irishman. Sam seized a hammer and knocked the Irishman down. Next day Sain was coming from his cabin, and in an open space, some distance from everyone, stood his antagonist of the preceding day. "Ye struck meyisterday," said Pat: 'no moil ever strikes me net who does not strike me again n "Now, pat," said Sam, "we are about even. You did what I told you not to do, and I knocked you, as I said I would; I don't bear malice; let's drop the matter." BuL the Irishman declared his deter mination to have a tight then and there. The Irishman had only sue eye. Sam looked at him with perfect coolness. "Pat,1' fa said, "I don't want to fight you; I can't; you could whip me in a minute;: but I tell you what I will do, you've got but one eye, and if you Jay jour hand on me, sure as j-ou are living, I will gouge your eye out, and you will be as blind as a hat." That settled it. Pat knew his man, and muttering, "The nion that will gouge is a .coward," left Sam alone. One day iCapt, Jones fell sick, and in a little'whrtethe prodigal Sam stood Dy a dying tether. He wits broken with remorse. The father died and a great change ame over Sam. He gave up hie bad habits, and in two weeks he was getting ready to preach. That fall I -saw 'him for the first time a sallow, thin-laced, slouchy little fellow, with alkeen black eye; .He came to conference for a circuit. He got odc He went c it. He did not know much about theology then, i? truth, he doesn't 'know much now, but he knew men ami lie knew their needs, and fee began to preach what he knew. He made men Hough and he made men cry and be 'made men angry, and one day he lost his temper and came.very near whipping a blacksmith who angered him. He was rather unmerci ful to niem whose religion was all mouth or all 'tears. In two year we took Sam intoithe conference, and settled it that he would do. Since then he has won 'his way. He cam draw a larger audience in Atlanta to-day than Gough could, or Edwin Booth did. He went to Memphis, to Huntsville, teiKno&ville, to Brooklyn, and at last te Nashville. They built him ;a great itent there. They abused ihim, placarded ihim, threatened him, and rallied around hi. The result 'Of three weeks' meet ings was one thousand new -members to the churches and two thousand .con versions. Sam Jones' sayings have .become common property. They are 'his own. They are gathered from all sources, they always have point. "Brother Jones,"1 said a nervous brother, "what makes you chew tobacco?" -"To get the juice out," said Sam. Sam .Jones is like no one and m one is like ihim. He is simply Sam Jiones, who loves the good, scorns the mean, and helps the weak. A Reformer. A slim man with a canning fac5 fend been found guilty in a New Yorkeoitr.t Df picking pockets. The jude said: "This is your second offense. I will give yoe three years in the peni tentiary."' "I deserve it, judge; I want to have r chance to reform." "You will get it." I will come out of the penitentiary a better man than when I went in. Do E have to go there at onc?" "Certainly." "That's bad. I bate to be shtstup just at the time when this BarthoUii circus is in full blast. If had a fair chance you bet I'd work the crowd for all it Was worth." 2'ex'it Si flings. A Dubious Idea. The publishers of an English weekly newspaper offer to pay $500 to the heirs ot any person found dead with a copy of the paper on his person. This advertisement will attract atten tion and raise a good deal of discus sion, for it does not appear on its face whether the offer is in the nature of an insurance against death, or simply puts a premium on .murder Boston Advertiser. Thieves ac Weddings. "Thieves are not up to the tricks here that they are in the East," re marked a Central Station detective in the course of a conversation last evening. "How's that?" NOTES FOR THE FARM MD HOME. inquired a Daily News reporter. "Why, they are not so 'fly,' and there are many tricks they do there that I have never heard of being done here, notably the sneak-act at big wed dings, when valuable presents are on exhibition." "That's where you are wrong," interrupted a grizzled policeman, wno has, since his first connection with the force, acted as patrolman, detective, lieutenant, and patrollman, again. "That game's an old 'un here; and many's the good time I've had a watchin' 'em. Why, ten years ago there were two or three clever confi dence men and sneak-thieves wlic worked that game pretty successfully, but they were compelled to abandon it and leave the city, as they knew we got onto 'em. They came here from the East; had traveled extensively: lived in London a number of years and knew manv of the notables; had gam bled at Monaco, rested in ihe Champs Agatha. mjotca ut Anus, auu, iu weie men who had 'blood' in their veins and had seen the world. They soon became favorites and mingled in the best of society. American society is manufactured anyhow, you know, and not very hard to get aiong with, so that a man can be a mechanic the first few years of his life and end it up a'sas siety man." Well, these young fellers, as 1 said, got into society, and when ever there was a swell wedding they always managed to get an invitation. It also got to be a regular thing for some of the most valuable of the pers ents to be stolen or 'sneaked' during the eveening, but no one could im agine who were the thieves. The thing became so regular, however, that an other officer and myself were detailed to work it up. We had to go to the weddings and wear swallow-tails, just like the rest of 'em. We spotted thes e foreign high-flyers the first night, but did not catch 'em taking any jewelry, although some was missed. "We spent the next few days in finding out who they were, and the next wedding had the table holding the gifts placed in front of a closet door. This door we left open just wide enough to see the table. My partner worked on the out side and I did the closet business. At a certain time two of the foreigners approached the table. There was a crowd of guests around it, but I saw one of 'em pick up a diamond solitaire. I gave the signal and both of 'em were nabbed. We searched them catefully, but it could not be found, and we were compelled to let 'em go. The lady of the house was very" indignant and did not believe that" they were guilty but I was sure of it. The next day they skipped, and a week later I received a short note. It was signed by a noted New York thief and said: 'You dashed fool, I am the foreigner jou searched the other night. Had you examined a small pocket in one of my socks you would have found your precious bauble. I sold it yerster day for 200, Many thanks.' The last time I heard of hiin he was in London. "At another time, on Wabash ave nue, t caught a yoang aristocrat who had always borne a good reputation and whose father was wealthy. He had suceeded in 'nipping' a valuable bracelet. The matter was hushed up, though, by the property being return ed, and the young man was sent away from town." "Do you have many requests for de tectives at big weddings?" was asked one of the heads of ithe detective de partment. "Very rarely," be responded. "A policeman generally does the work by watching on the outside, and sneaks have no chance of getting in. J have not heard of a loss at a wedding since I have been in the detective depart ment. Chicago Seme. Household Information, Gixe. Can prepare a glue that will resist damp thus: Dissolve glue in boiled linseed oil; or, melt one pound of glue in two quarts of skimmed milk ; add four ounces of shellac, and one ounce of borax boiled in a little water, and evaporated by heat to a paste. For Children. Try the following simple remedy for constipation in chil dren. Soak a tablespoonful of fine bran in milk, warm it near the boiling point, pour it on bread and give it night and morning to each child. Dried figs eaten freely are very good for this trouble in either children or adults. Freckles. A preparation commonly used for removing freckles is thus made : Sulpho-carbolate of zinc, two parts; distilled glycerine, twenty-five parts, rose-water, twenty-five parts, scented alchohol, five parts. Apply twice daily for from half an hour to an hour, and wash off with cold water. This is said net to injure the skin. For To Preserve Flowers. Put par affine in a vess.il over the fire and heat it until it melts, but do not let it get heated beyond the melting point. Into this dip the flowers one at a time, hold ing them by the stems and moving them about for an instant to get rid of air bubbles. The flowers should be free from moisture before being immersed in the parafnne. To the person who asks for a remedy or preventive against snoring, I would say : It is only with the mouth open that snoring can be accomplished dur ing sleep. Awake, if the nose is closed by the thumb and fingers, by taking a forcible breath, it is possible to snore, and the same result may be accomplish ed with the mouth shut and the nose open. The only preventive against snoring is to bandage the jaws so the mouth cannot be opened during sleep. Cleaning Matting. To clean and freshen old matting, rub it with a cloth wet in salt water, being careful not to allow any drops of water to dry in the matting, as they will leave spots difficult to remove. Heavy, varnished furniture should never rest directly up on the matting, for even good varnish, becoming soft in warm weather, will stain the straw. Matting may be turn ed if the loose .ends of the cords are threaded in a large needle and drawn through to the other side. Ointment for Wounds. Take equal parts of parsley, plantain leaves, groundsill and chick weed; well bruise the whole, extract the juice by squeez ing it through a muslin or flannel bag; get a piece of fiay from the pork butch ers, beat it well with a rolling pin and then put it in an earthenware vessel near a slow fire, and melt it down with out salt; when you have it done suffi cient, strain it into a clear gallipot and put the juice of yonr herbs with it, stirring it ; let it stand by the fire and gently simmer one hour, then stand it aside. When cold it is 'fit for use. This is an excellent ointment for scald head. A Dreaded Plague. Few persons are aware that ijeprosy still prevails to a certain extent in var ious parts of the wrld. The Chinese are popularly believed to be the only people especially subject to it. Medi cal writings show. Itoowever, thatt it is not only widely distributed in India, China, some portions of Europe, the Sandwich islands, and the West indies, but that in this country there are sev eral centers where eases have been ob served. One of these leprous centers is Louisiana, where the disease has ex isted for over a century. It was at i one time so prevalent that in 1785 a leper hospital was erected at New Orleans. Within a few years past j quite a number of cases have been .re- j ported in' lower Louisiana, and five or six years ago an official investigation j was ordered by the legislature. iOn the Bay of Chaleurs, in New i Brunswick, there has .been a leper I hospital for many years. The disease ! has been considerably restricted by j governmental supervision, and seenas j in a fair way of soon disappearing there altogether. The disease has been imported int Minnesota by Norwegian .emigrants, but is said to be on the decline in that State. In California it is reported to be frequently among the Chinese. No j reliable statistics of its prevalence there aire, however, available. In this city several cases of the dis- ; .ease hare developed within the past i ten years. Cases have been reported in the medical journals by two of our j physicians, who have made a careful investigation into the subject. One of the cases has never fceen away froru j the city, showing that the disease was acquired here. Whether leprosy is contagious or not ! is a mooted question. Physicians dis- : agree upon this point, as they do on so many others. The weight of evi- -dence is to the effect that there is great danger from eontagion. Leprosy is ; absolutely incurable by any method ot . treatment known to the medical facul- j ty, and it is fortunate that it is as rare as it is. Baltimore Times. j Kalsomine. Soak four ounces of white gluo over night in cold water and in "the morning heat till it is perfectly dissolved. Mix the whiting with hot water, stir the two thoroughly together, anfi have the wash the consistence of thick cream. Apply warm with a kal somine brush, brushing it well in and finishing it as you go on. If warm skim milk is used instead of water, the glue may be omitted. Before the wash is applied all holes and crevices should be stopped with plaster of Paris mixed with water. Colors to tint the walls may be procured at any paint store. If zinc white is used instead of whiting, it will last white for years. The first ex pense is more, but the investment pays. Use first a sizing of white glue. Paint. The odor of fresh paint, though very unpleasant to some people, is said to be harmless. "Neither metal lic lead nor any of its many compounds used in painting are sensibly volatile at the (temperature of the atmosphere. Dry white lead is inodorous, and the paste of white lead smells only of the oil in which it is ground. The smell of ordinary paint is not the smell of the pigment, nor of the solid color ing matter or the body of the paint, but simply 'of the linseed oil and tupentine. " We quote from an authority. F. W. need not hesitate from any fear of poisoning from white lead to occupy her house while painting is going -on within it. South Auatralia is coming into competition with Soatu Africa as an ostrich-farming region. Th feathers thus far produced are ot superior quality and bring high prices: moreover, tue euicKens seem h arrive &i Agricultural Miscellany. In some parts of the country corn stalks are mever stacked or taken into account. In a few places yet the corn itself is never husked or harvested, but left standing, while cattle and hogs are turned into the fields in Winter to help themselves. In Virginia 10 per cent of the crop, or mearly 3,000,000 buseels, was left in the field over Winter last year; in Tennessee, 5 per cent, or 3,286,000 bushels. Kentucky and Ohio had each nearly . 000.000 bushels, while Illinois left 17,118,000 bushels unhar vested. Thrifty Kansas left 23 per cent of hear crop, or 21,905,000 bushels, un gathered, while ia the whole United States 110,811.000 bushels were left to mercy of Winter weather under this primitire form of husbandry. The food exerts a great influence up on the quality of the butter. Cotton seed meal makes hard butter with a good color but a disagreeable flavor ; linseed meal makes soft, greasy, light colored butter. The best quality of butter is made from yellow cornmeal with one-third its bulk of coarse mid dlings with the bran in it. Clover hay should be fed for butter, nnd pea meal is thought to he the richest food for making turner. no doubt it it were plumfvuearing much earlier tuan at the cape. I mlxl m e1uaI proportions with fine yellow corn meal and coarse middlings the mixture would make the finest and most butter. If one doubts the effect of food upon milk, and necessarily upon butter, he may feed some wild onions, cabbages, turnips, or ragweed hay, when he will soon be convinced of the fact. As a rule it is best to plow in manure, but not deeply so as to bury it. It does the most good when it is mixed with the soil, as it is absorbent of moisture and helps to keep the soil from drying. It is also then in the best condition for decomposing and helping to exert a fa vorable effect upon the soil to a far greater extent than if it were spread on the surface and dried by the wind and sun, and therefore inert in every way. Besides, when it is well mixed with the soil by plowing and harrowing it fur nishes food to the roots of plants in precisely the place where they can find it. while if it is on the surface it is out of their reach, as the roots as a rule do not try to go that way. Dr. John R. Woods, of Virginia, tells how he makes extra fine hams. At the outset there must be the right sort of a hog, perfectly fattened. This does not mean any hog fed on corn, but one which has a well developed ham to start with, and then the animal must be kept healthy. The Doctor gives plenty of charcoal, which keeps the stomach in order and the digestion perfect. Then he believes in sulphur and ashes to cleanse the blood, and salt also, as the hogs seem to crave it. Hams made from hogs selected and fattened in this way, and all of the flesh, "will be greatly su perior to that of hogs carelessly fatten ed," and when corn is the principal food "it is better worth 60 cents a bushel than 20 or 25 fed in the usual mode. Franklin D. Curtis, Kir by Homestead, N. Y. r"' Good Bales . The following rules are commonplace enough, but we can assure our readers that if they will observe every one of the rules, they will be anything but commonplace men and women : Don't stop to tell stories in business hours. If yon have a place of business, be found there when wanted. No man can get rich sitting around stores and saloons. Have order, system, regularity, and also promptness. Do not meddle with business you know nothing of. Pay as you go. A man of honor respects his word as he does his bond. Help others, but never give what you cannot afford to, simply because it is fashionable to. give, Learn to think and act for yourself. Washing Flannels. An English journal gives the follow ing practical hints on the subject : "Take as much good washing soap as seems requsite ; pare it up fine, pour over some boiling water, and let it stand till the soap is quite dissolved, stirring it 'Occasionally. If left to stand for some hours, it will too found to be a hick jelly. Add to this sufficient warm water to wash the flannels in one fey one. Knead them about well, but do not rub any soap on the flannels, and do not rinse them in plain water, but have ready another lather, warm and well blued, in which rinse out the flannels. Do not wring them at all tightly. A m ringing-machine does them much more effectually than the hand. The freer from water you can get them the softer they will be. Hang them out, if fine, immediately; if not, dry them in front of the fire. If left to stand wet, the flannels invariably shrink. The great mistake in washing flannels is, 1st, washing them in too hot water they should never he put into hotter water thorn you can comfortably bear your hand m ; 2d, rinsing them in cold water instead of a good warm lath er ; ard 3d, letting them lie in ihe tub instead of at once hanging them to dry. Many persons efbject to flannels being ironed. For my -own part, I always run a cool iron over all shirts, petticoats, etc., with gathers and plaits i, but not others. Those that are to be iron ed I fold up for an hour or two when slightly damp. The remainder I shake out several times when drying, which makes them softer, and tales out any creases. I never use either soda or any kind of dry soap in washing blankets or flannels, as it has a tendency to discolor them:; but I use mame than twice as much blue as I should do in washing linen or calico, though great care must be taken to mix the blue well in the lather, or it will be streaky. 'Colored flannels should always be washed last, and be rinsed in a plain, warm lather without blue. Recently we washed fourteen blankets, with the use of a machine, following the direc tions given above, and they are beauti fully soft and white, not having shrank at all. I may add that blankets should be taken down when half dry, well shaken, and then hong up till quite drv." Fashion for Hair Dressing1 for 1885. Agreed by the Hair Dealers' Association. The spring and summer fashions for ladies hair dressing will not change ma terially from the styles which have pre vailed during the winter; the hair con tinues to be worn high, the bow knot on the crown of the head, with a few waves and short curls tapering toward the neck, being almost universal for ordinary wear. The front half is worn very fluffy in Pompadour shape, a per fect rrest of short waves and ring curls ; many ladies use a small Pompadour roll to heighten the front hair, and pin their front coiffures. These styles are worn by young ladies also, but there are many ladies, particularly those whose hair is turning gray, who do not think these curls are dignified, and who pre fer to wear the hair parted in the centre and waved in large waves at the sides, "Madonna style." The straight bang is still worn by aJ forf Mlt civi f.t fiia lit.f.la nodi irivlo il fancy stores have adopted this style, this fashion is on the wane. Fashion able hairdressers' stores are filled with different styles of ornamental hair goods, all intended to save the ladies the trou ble of arranging their own hair. Never was additional hair so much worn as at present, although it does not appear so, as it is not fashionable to wear bulky chignons. But the front coiffures which often cover almost all the head, are so artistically made that no one would suipose that they are mere conveniences, removable at will. A fashionable lady can thus appear as a blonde or a bru nette, or with golden auburn locks, as it may please her fancy, as many do. Shell pins, plain, are used altogether for arranging the loops of hair. Fancy shell pins, silver and Rhine stone orna ments in endless variety, are worn in the back hair. For evening wear, pufls ol flowers and feathers. For young ladies, knots of flowing ribbons. Seeding to Grass. As the seeding to grass is a costly operation, anil also an important one, it should be done in the best manner. It is not the best way to sow the seed on Fall grain and leave it to grow or die as it may happen. It is the best way to prepare the soil well and sow the seed by itself, and this may be done after a grain crop is removed in July or early in August. Clover thus sown with tim othy or orchard grass will be strong enough before the Winter to stand the exposure, and will be equally forward tho next year as if it had been sown in the Spring on the grain. The old fashioned way of seeding to grass and clover should be abandoned and every possible care be taken to get the soil in the best condition for the seed, and to put the seed in in the best manner, covering it with a brush harrow and by rolling. Low Water in Wells a Cause of Typhoid Fever. Dr. Henry B. Baker, Secretary ci the Michigan State Board of Health, has collected statistics throughout the State regarding the cause of the great prevalence of typhoid fever during part of 1881-82. He finds a close relation between the prevalence of this disease and low water in wells. The theory is that when the water is low it is less pure, and the germs of typhoid fever develop more abundantly and become more concentrated in the well. The remedy would seem to be thorough fil tration and other purification. Shal low wells are equally as dangerous as where the water is low. Some facts regarding the impurity of shallow well water have been made known by the analysis of the water in 418 of them in England. They certainly show, as a rule, a frightful state of contamination, the organic nitrogen to .070, in 100 000 parts of the water. One of the purest shallow wells contains only .053 organic carbon, and .003 organic nitrogen, whilst a very bad specimen contains as much as. 931 organic carbon and .940 organic nitrogen. The enormously large proportion of the latter points distinctly to animal contamination, and this sample is, indeed, a great deal worse than any one of the seventy-six samples of land drainage from sewage farms. In many places in our own country shallow wells are to be found, and there can be no doubt they are a frequent cause of disease. Invest on the Home Farm. Many a ruralist would greatly aug ment his prosperity by devoting more means to personal and other improve ments upon his farmstead. Somebody has said, and we think sensibly, that one of the greatest leaks on a farm is the practice of robbing it to get money to put into a savings bank. In such a bank of deposit four or five per cent, interest may be secured if the cashier don't happen to be operating in Wall street or speculating elsewhere while the same money put back on the farm in the way of improved stock, machin ery, better buildings, underdraining. fences, orchards, etc, would, after a very few years, return dividends of fifty per cent. Money in the banks don't usually show until it comes up in the adminstrator's hands, but in good stock and well cultivated farms it will give returns speedily and with certainty. There is another way in which some, if not many, farmers "miss it" by in vesting in the wrong place. For ex ample, many a grasping and ambitious farmer lives penurious! y, depriving his family of a decent home and various comforts, in order to purchase more acres. Possessed with the insane idea that he must "own ail the land that joins him," or as much thereof as possi ble, he governs himself accordingly. To accomplish this selfish purpose he lives in the old house long after it is un fit for occupancy, makes slaves of him self and family and neglects the proper education of his children. Were he to invest the money thus hoarded to buy more land (whish he does not need) up on his home farm his rural home and its occupants himself and family would soon be the gainers in both prosperity and happiness. By expending his hard earned and miserly kept surplus in im proving his farm, stock, etc., and mak ing home comfortable and attractive, he would not only be quite as prosperous, but enjoy life far better and keep his children from leaving the roof-tree, disgusted with a slavish, miserly mode of farming, to seek other ahd uncertain employments. The Atlanta Constitution says tnaf the temperance reform has made more substantial progress in the South than any other section of the country. "It is far easier to buy a drink in a total prohibition State like Maine than in the ; local option counties of the south. ; Our planters were carried along with the temperance wave, and many who stood out against it, as a matter of prin ciple, finally yielded because they found that liquor demoralized their labor system. The testimony of all Northern travelers and correspondents places the South at the head of the temperance procession." These statements seem almost incredible but they are well substantiated Brother Gardner on Matrimony. "I should like to spoke a few re-r marks to Brudder Skinner," observed the President, as the dust began to set tle in Paradise Hall. Brother Skinner, a youngmanof 23, with a mild eye and a lilac necktie, ad vanced to the front, and the President continued: "Brudder Skinner, de news has, reached my ears dat you am about to mar'd. 1 trus' dat de report am true, bekasel believe it amdedootyofebery young man who kin support a wife to take one." "It am true, sah." "Den let me compliment you widone hand, an' spoke a few remarks to you wid de odder. Gittin' mar'd has ha werry serious side. Fur instance, am de gal gwihe to marry you bekase she loves you, or to spite her folks bekase dey kept her away from de skat in ' rink? Am you gwine to marry de gal fur love, or bekase her father has some wealth which you hope he'll shell out for your benefit? "Ijove am a powerful emoshtm, Brudder Skinner, but love widout pork and 'tatars to keep it goin' am like de froth on top of sodawater. "Doan' marry a gal hopin' dat her father will set you up in de barber bizness. Most fadder-in-laws not only want all dey has got, but am willin' to struggle fur another S20,000. "Doan' sot down an' figger dat fo' taters, a loat of bread, half a pound: of meat, an' a quart of applesas an goin' to run you for a week. You will want all the salary you kin aim, an' you had better look aroun' an' find somebody who will lend you a. dollar now an' then. "Doan' flatter yerselves dat all yoxt hev got to do am to hug in de honse an' kiss ober de gate. You'll be hun gry fur co'n beef an' baked beans; your cloze will w'ar out; your flour art' but ter will waste away, an' a bill fur two months' rent will send a chill down yer back. De man or woman who spects dat mar'd life am a green an' shady lane, lined wid orange blossoms? on one side an' $10 bills on de odder am gwine to wake up some day an' find de rats leavin' de place in disgust. "Think of dese things, Brudder Skin ner. You kin get a wife in about five minutes, but it takes five y'ars to git. shed of some of 'em. Expeck abotrt . one day's sunshine fur a week of cloudy weather. Reckon on house rent eomin due de fust of ebery month an' de gro cer an' butcher keepin' an eye out fur you each Saturday night. It will amaze you how de woodpile decedes an' how de flour gifts outen de bitr'lsio soon. Doan' walk into matrimony like a lobster into a box, but figger on' whether de bait am wuth de risks. It you conclude to mar'y you kin depend on dis club attendin' de obsequies in a body, bringin' along a bounteous sup ply of ham sandwiches. If you decide not to, it am probable dat you will soon be promoted to someposishunof trust an' responsibility." The Plague of '3 m. . j .- i i ,p r xue LcnuiB oi me jciiuw icci plague at Philadelphia, in 1793 are thus graphically described in the second volume of Prof. McMaster's History of the United States: "The patients died by scores. These medicines was rarely admmgtrrwf," their food was scanty and ill-prepared, their persons were never washed, .tlieh filth was suffered to stand for.- ?la?s;hi the very rooms where they lay. Such was the popular horror of the pest house that, rather than go into itr tltif; afflicted hid the first symptoms: f their malady as long as. they cooSd, and, when unable longer- to do so. locked themselves in their rooms- or rushed out of the city, and perLshl under haystacks and in ditches-- 3fer did those who quitted the city in x.inr fect health fare much better. For, once out, it was almost impossible to go on. At every seaport along the whole coast a quarantine was laid on packets and sloops from Philadelphia. Some towns forbade the stages to pass through them. The- inhabitants; of one burned a wagonr loaded with, furniture, on the high-way. Those another fired on a stage-coach . Ot here put up rude huts on the outskirts, where each stranger was carefully ex amined before he was suffered to goon. At everv ferrv stood an armed rasxd to keep back suspected persons. If li. hungry fugitive begged for food a!t a farmer's door, he was given a crust the end of a pitchfork and bidden to hurry away. Postmasters wowid handle no letters till they had been seized with a tongs and steeped in i vinegar. Inkeepers would admit no traveler till he had shown beyond a. doubt that he did not come from the -infected city. But the saddest of all sights were the little children who,, hungry, orphaned, and homeless., -wandered through the streets. No one would feed them. None wouldgo near them. One, half dead from starvation, was found in a deserted blacksmith shop." St. Louis is getting the love-making-business down pretty fine. A young man who was caught flirting with the female pupils of Kirkwood Seminary has been fined $20 and costs, notwith standing some of the young ladies ap- E eared as voluntary witnesses in has ehalf and testified that the fun ol seeing him dressed in a swallow-tail, coat and crawhng through a hole in the back fence afforded them so much merriment that it lightened the labors of the school-room for a full month- Miss Rosa Warren, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Noble Warren, itas been attending school at Aldenburg, and the sisters of that institution, as well as the young lady herself, claim that she has been cured by prayer of " spinal meningitis. She was removed from Aldenburg to the convent at Indianapolis to be treated by Indian apolis physicians, but on the night of her arrival there she spent some hours in devotions, and rose a well person, the physicians not even having seen-her.