BLOWS A WIT.
There were three of them-Kitty, Mary.
and little Tommy the children of the
station-master at Black Kiver Junction,
on the Great Southwestern Railroad.
ntctfui alone on the mwn
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prairie, miles and miles frnm anywhere
in particular. Black river flowed
through, the mountains, a hundred miles
away to toe norm; ana on sunny uays,
the snowy mountains could lie seen
glimmering on the grassy horizon.
The line leading to the Black river
met the Southwestern here, and thus it
was the rlace was called Black River
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rrka utntirm.mn.Ktar and his wife and
three children lived in the little depot
quite happy, out mere was not an
other family within ten miles in any di
reibiuu.
At times the children thought it rather
lonely. There was nothing in particular
to be done except to watch the trains
that stopped at the Junction several
times a day. Once in a while, a freight
car would be left on the side track, and
the children Boon found that an empty
freight car makes a capital play house.
They could keep house in the corners
and make visit, or sit by the open door
and mako believe tuey were uavmg
One morning they were awakened by
Kiiriniiit hnmiuinor sound out of doors.
and they all scrambled up and looked
out of the window, .now uie winu am
i.inurl Tt whistled and roared round the
house and ployed on the telegraph wires
upon the rooi as upon a uuge imiy. as
the wires were fastened to the roof, the
a Great music box. with
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the children inside. After breakfast the
morning trains arrived, but the wind was
40 high that the passengers were glad to
lmrrv from one train to another as quick
ie, ao. tuissiblo. Then the trains went
away, and the great wind harp on the
roof sang louder than ever.
The station-master said it blew a gale,
and that the children must stay in the
house, lest they be blown away into the
1 lm lost. The station-master's
wife said it was a pity the children must
fitAv in the Louse all day. mere was u
onmtv frfiiffht car upon the side track
thev micht play in that. The
station-master thought this a good idea
1.2 tinlr Kittv bv the hand and Tom
my in his arms, while Mary took hold of
his coat, and they oil went out into
the empty car. wnewi now it am
Mnwt Thev enrtainlv thoncrht that they
would be lifted up by the wind and
blown quite into the Bky. me empty
car was warm and snug, and, once in
side, they were quite out of the way of
the wind.
Mary thought the rear end would be a
Yrrvl nlfipn to keen house, but Tommv
preferred the other end, so they agreed
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to keep nouse at doiu euu oi iuc emiuj
car. This was a nice plan, as it gave
tlinm n. ehance to visit each other, and the
open part by the door made a grand
promenailo to want on.
T.nndpr and louder roared the cale.
Safe and snug in tho car, they went on
with their play and thought nothing of
the weather outside.
H.ifiiinnl v the car seemed to shake, and
they stopped in their housekeeping and
rau to the door to see wnat nau nop
"Why, it's moving! Somebody's push
ing it," soul Mary.
"They are taking us away on the freight
train. Come, we must get out."
"I didn't hear the whistle," said Tom
my. "I guess something is pusinng me
oar."
The girls leaned out of the door to see
what had happened. Why, where was
tl.o nlntfnrm ? What was the matter
witi. ti.n xntinn ? It was movinir away
No, it was the car. It had left the siding
and had rolled upon tne main line aim
was moving faster and faster along the
"Oh, we must get out! They are
taking us away!"
"No, no," said Kiity. "We must stay
here till the brakesman comes round. I
didn't hear them when they took us on
the train."
"There isn't any train," said Tommy,
looking up and down the line.
"Oh, it's the wind! It's blowing tho
car away. We must put on the brakes
and stop it."
This was o good plan, but how were
thoy to carry it out? The break wheel
was on top of tho car, and they were in
side. Faster and faster rolled the car.
It began to rattle and roar as if dragged
along by a swift engine. In a moment,
Tommy began to cry. Mary tried to
look brave, and Kitty stared hard at the
level prairie flying past. It was of no
use. Thoy all broko down together and
hod a hearty cry alone in the empty car
as it rolled on and on before the gale.
The station-master's wife rolled up her
sleeves and put the house in order while
the children were safely out of the way.
The station-master, feeling sure the chil
dren wero safe in the freight car, sat in
his office nearly all the morning. At
last, tho beds were mode, the dinner put
on the fire, ond the mother wondered
how the girls were getting on in their
play-house on the track. She threw a
shawl over her head and went out on the
platform. At once, the wind blew the
shawl over her face, and she could not
see exactly where she stood. Turning
her back to the wind she legan to call
the children. How loudly the wind
roared through the telegraph wires!
Perhaps they could not hear in all this
din. May be they were inside the car
oi.t of hearing. She walked along to
ward the siding. Not a thing to be
seen! She wondered if there had not
been a mistake? Perhaps the car was
on the other side track? No, the rails
were unoccupied as far as she could see
in every direction. Whot did it mean ?
What had happened? She staggered
back into the station and startled her
husband with a cry of despair.
' 'The car I The children ! "
The station-master ran 'out npon the
platform and looked up and down the
lino. Not a car in sight! It had been
blown away before the terrible wind,
and was perhaps at this instant rolling
swiftly onward with its precious load to
destruction. What would hapjen to it ?
Would it meet a train or run into a sta
tion ? Would the children try to get
out, or would they stay in the car tilljt
was wrecked ?
He sprang to the door of the depot to
telegraph the terrible news down the
line, but jnst as he opened the door he
saw a faint white clond on the western
horizon. It wa a train- Help aa
coming. At the same instant his wife
appeared with new grief and terror in
her eyes.
"I cannot get a call in either direc
tion. The wires are blown down."
"This only added to the danger, for
there was now no means of sending word
in advance of the runaway car. It must
go on to its fate without help or warning.
"Help is coming, mother. Here's a
train bound east."
Nearer and nearer came the train, and
the father and mother stood watching it
as it crept along the rails. It seemed as
if it would never come. At last, it
reached the platform and proved to be a
passenger train bound up the Black
River Road and not intended to go in
the direction in which the car had been
blown away. The instant it stopped, the
station-master ran to tho engineer and
told his terrible story. The mother,
with quicker wit, found the conductor
and demanded that the engine be taken
off and sent after the children.
The conductor was a man of regular
habits, and such a bold request struck
him as something extraordinary. Take
the engine off, and leave tho train and
passengers waiting at this lonely station?
The idea was preposterous! Some of the
passengers gathered near and asked what
was the matter.
Three children lost, blown away in an
empty car. Some one said: "Yes, go at
once. We can wait till the engine re'
turns." The conductor said he must
telegraph for instructions; but some one
said the wires are down," and the people
only cried out the more, "Let the engine
go? so the mother ran to the tender and
began to pull out the pin, that the engine
might start.
"Hold on. marm." said a brakoman.
"I'll cast her off. You jump aboard if
you want to go, too. Fire up, Jack, and
make hor hum.
It was all done in a moment, and away
flew the engine, leaving the conductor
and the station-master staring in surprise
at this singular proceeding. Tho station
master did not feel very happy. He had
half intended to go with the engine, but
it would never do to leave his post.
"Fire steady, Jack," said the engineer
to the fireman. "It s no use to get ex
cited, for we're in for a long race."
"It's enough to make a fellow excited,
to see that woman, said the fireman.
The engineer turnod round, and there
by his side stood the mother, her eyes
strmmng ahead down the lino m searcn
of the niissincr ones.
"Oh, sir! open the throttle wide. Don't
trv to save coal at such a time as this.
"We must keep cool, marm, ond go
steady, or we shall run out of coal and
water and come to a stand-still on the
line."
The woman said not a word, but nod
ded mournfully and leaned against the
side of the cab for support, and then the
fireman gave her his seat, where she
could look out ahead over the line. How
the engine shook and roared! The littlo
fingers of the steam-gauge trembled and
rose higher and higher as the steam pres
sure increased over the raging lire. The
engine seemed to be eating up the track
in front, ond behind the track spun out
like shining ribbons in the sun. Ihe
station and train had already sunk down
out of sight, and the grassy horizon on
either side seemed to fly away in a kind
of gigantic waltz. The wind died owoy
to a dead calm, and in a few moments a
littlo breeze sprang up and blew in at the
front windows.
"We are beating the wind," said the
engineer. "If we can keep this pace up
we shall soon overtake them.
"How long have they been gone?"
shouted the fireman above the roar oi the
engine.
"I don't know," screamed the woman,
without taking her eyes from tho hori
zon, where the rails met the sky. "It
may have been two hours or more. They
were playing in the empty car."
"How did bIio get out of the siding?"
(He meant the car) .
"Its one of the new switches," said tho
engineer. "Cars can easily jump out
upon the main line."
Ah! something ahead. Was it the
runaway car! No, the next station,
What a'terrible pace! Twenty miles al
ready! "nli don't Rton! " cried the woman, as
she saw the engineer put his hand on the
throttle-valve.
"Tmnst. nmdnm. We are eettincr out
of water, and perhaps we can learn
something oi the runaway.
The sudden arrival oi a solitary engine,
nnlnininir two mon and a woman, start-
lod the station-master, and he came out
to see what it mpant. He seemed to
guess at the truth, for he said:
"After the runaway car I
"Yes. yes. There were three children
inside."
"nli marm. I'm sorrv for ve. It went
past here, going twenty miles an hour.
It came down-grade an tne way, dm me
up-grade begins about two-miles out. I
war inxidfl when it passed, and didn't see
it till it had gone past the door."
How long it took to fill the tender!
The engine stood hot and smoking by
the water-tank, and the water came out
in a slender stream, while the poor
mother stood looking, tearful and im
patient. "Oood-bv! I'll put up the. pipe.
Heaven help ye! the up-grade '
The rest was lost, for the engine shot
ahead, on and on out over tho prairie.
The water-tank seemed to sink down into
the earth, and the shining rails stretched
loncer and longer out behind.
Ah? What was that? A cloud of steam
on the horizon far ahead. The engineer
took out his time-book and studied it
carefully.
"Freight No. 6, bound west, stopping
on the two-mile siding.
How swiftly freight no. o rose irom
the gras3 anil grew big along the way ?
T.iHten! A whistle. The enjrineer whis
tled in reply and shnt off steam. Their
engine quickly slowed down, and mey
could see men leaning ont from the other
engine, as if to speak to them.
" It s tn minutes back, itunning slow
l main-line road clear "
"Thank Heaven !" said the woman.
The enjrineer said nothing; but at that
instant the engine gave a great leap and
shot ahead at the rate oi nity miles an
hour, up the easy grade. How long the
minutes seemed, and yet each meant al
most a mile!
Ah! A sjieck a black dot on the hon-
mn The car? les. it was uie car. it
grew bigger and bigger. Now they could
. . h .in V I'.Tlt lha AM t MnT VI hOM
were they? The fireman sprang out
through the forward window and ran
the
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to
slacken its terrible pace, and in a mo
ment it struck the car witu a gonue
Mil ettrtriAs)
The fireman thought himself a livoly
man, but the woman was before him and
sprang up into the car.
There thev lav, safe and sound, in the
corner oi the car fliary ami xommy mav
asleep, and Kitty watemng over uieui.
"Oh, mother! I know you would come
Marv and Tommy crieu tnemseives
to
nltum And T T '
Nobodv could say a word. The fire
man triod to rub his ryes, and onlj
marked his face with black streaks. Tin
mnthnr 1 unfiled and cried all at once
Tl.a nncineir nicked un tho littlo ones
and quietly took theui into tho cab of the
engine
"Tlioro now mv lieartieR. vnn hav
had a risky ride; but it's all right! Cornel
We re more than tnirty nines ironi uomo,
and it won't do to be Into to dinner. Fire
up, Jack.
"Aye, ayo, sir," said Jack. Cfiarle
Bernard, in SV. Mehotatfor July.
Where Clocks ond Watches are Made.
This trade is considered ono of the
highest rank in all the branches of manu
facturo as being at the same time an art
and an industry. Ihe necessity of an
accurate knowledgo of the exact time has
becomo so great in these days of railroad
and rapid sea voyages that these instru
ments have become almost indispensable
to every one. and. consequently, tho
tradn hns crentlv increased of late veora
Some very curious facts connected with
tho business are worthy of notice for in
stance, the delicate movements oi mo
minute instruments known as ladies'
watches are executed by the rural popu
lation of Savoy and the trench and
Swiss Jura with a dexterity quite aston
ishing. The development of production
of this branch of manufacture has been
very great, and the statistics of the trade
in general will not be without interest
for the reader, r ranee stands at the
head of the list. She produces chrono'
meters, watches, timo-pieces, clocks, an
nually to the value of 05,000,000 francs;
then comes Switzerland, with watches,
(0,0(K),000 francs; Amorica.in watches and
Dutch clocks, 32,000,000 francs ; England,
chronometers and watches, 10,000,000
francs; Austria, time-pices, 10,000,000
francs; Germany, in time-pieces, ond a
few thousands of watchos, 25,000,000
francs. Those figures give a total con
siderably over 200,000,000 francs for tho
whole clock-making trade of tho world.
Tho amount assumes tho greater impor
tance whon the fact is remarked that,
differing from nearly all other businesses,
the raw material enters so slightly into
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tne prime cost, mo expenditure ueiug ar
most exclusively in labor. The appro
imoto number of articles produced is as
follows: France, about 1,000,000 pieces
annually: Germany turns ont more, some
2,000,000, but they are of a much infe
rior overage price. I ho same may be
said of the American manufacture, which
provides commorce every year with 700,
000 to 800,000 objects. As far as watches
are concerned. Switzerland heads tho
list with an annual production of 1,500,
000. Franco follows with 500,0X); the
United States produces from 300,000 to
350,000, and England some 200,000, but
these are of very superior quality. Tho
enormous total is that 2,500,000 watches
and 4,000,000 time pieces ore annually
dispersed to tho four quarters of the
globe. Qaliynani's Messenger,
Railroad llulldliig tn the West.
The Railroad Age culls tho wonderful
activity in the building of railroads in the
West "a reiuarkablo and inspiring spec'
tucle." During the first six months of
this year over three thousand miles of
road have been completed, a much great
er number finished during the first
ttian has been half of any
year sinco tho panic, and the second half
of the year will show still greater pro
gress. The Grand Turk extension and
Vandcrbilt schemes have infused life in
to Michigan ruilroad enterprises. In
Ohio and Indiana many narrow gauge
roads are being built, and the network of
trunk lines is being perfected us rapidly
as possible. Illinois has alreudy greater
mileage than any other State, but a new
narrow gauge is being pushed across the
whole width of the Slate. From Chicago
and Milwaukee the three main roads lead
ingtothe Northwest are pushing vigor
ously for the Black llilla country
and constructing feeders to all important
lOints within the reach or their lines, in
Imnfit!i there is tliH greatest activitv.
The St. Paul and Pacific system, recently
reorganized, is extending a long arm up
tho lied River of the North, and pushing
several connecting links toward comple
tion, and work on the Northern Pacific
does not Hair. The Chicago & Alton have
just opened 100 miles of roud to the Mis
souri, and west of the .Missouri tne ex
treme of activity in railroad progress is
now to be witnessed. Kansas and Ne
braska are alive with new enterprises, and
no less than half a dozen branches to the
Pacific roads, over 200 miles in length, are
in progress. In Colorado the Denver &
Rio Grande have issued bonds to con
struct 5o3 miles to Leadville, San Juan
and Albuqneritie,ttnd no lesse nterprise is
shown in Utah, New Mexico, Texas or on
the Pacific Coatt. The most inspiring
things about this new life infused into
the railroad business are that the cost of
construction is now but a fraction of what
it was in 1871-73, but notwithstanding
the use of better material, and the lines
beina built are not wild speculative!
schemes, but enterprises having a solid
foundation, and promising to do a paying
business. This is certainly a substantial
evidence of national prosperity.
A Hcmmixo-Birh's Nest. Recently a
humming-bird's nest was found by some
Dersons who had sufficient natural curi
osity to overcome their compassion, and
who captured the nest, two young hum
mers and the old one, took them home
and had them stuffed. Thev are also to
oe sent to the museum of natural curiosi
ties in London. The nest is built on a
little twigjind scarcely the size of half an
I.dl'IisIi walnut. liih nest and twig are
covered with little patches of lichen un
til it is almost iinposKibie to tell one Irow
the other, and the nest looks like a
kind of natural excresence on the twig.
The nest is pliable, like a tiny dp of vet
vet,and the inxide is lined with w hite sub
stance, as rich and soft as white silk. The
little bird are about the size of bumble
bees, very pretty, and they sit on a little
perch jiict outside the nest, witb open
bills, while the old bird hovers over them
to fted them. GUxhrtk (A. J.) JanrwiL
alone the entrine and down upon
Co-Operatlm la Uoasekefplnf.
Says the New York Times. The man
who, to an inquiry how he came to marry
an Irish girl, replied that marrying an
American one would have compelled him
to hire an Irish girl to take care of hor,
showed what is coarsely known as "horse
sense," if he looked only to tho question
of getting necessary work done; for, by
some unexplained law of compensation,
it does not seem to be practicablo to get
brains and muscles in the same body.
Tho dexterity, nimblcness, readiness in
emergencies, aud tact, which are cliorm
ing iu tho woman of to-dav, ore obtained
at tho price of physical strength; what,
in New England, is called "faculty" has
lost much of the endurance that onco
made it effective. Miranda knows per
fectly how to do, with the utmost of neat
ness and good sense, and nt the minimum
of labor, every detail in domestic life ;
but her strength is insufllcient, so she
must call in Bridget to crucify hor doily.
She is the brain; Bridget is the muscle;
but tho musclo will not obey. Bridget
is can't, won't ond don't personified. She
has been dimning tho eyes, flecking the
hair, thinning tho hands, clouding the
brightness and shortening tho days of
her American sister during the last
quarter century.
Tho race of servants if it is really
writtou in tho order of creation that
there shall be such a thing is still a
barron ideality; events have not yet pro
duced it. There is no relief except in
lesseuing tho dependence on servants,
by so reducing domestic work that it
may be done by very small families, and
that upon oil it may bear less severely.
There seems to lie less opportunity for
applying in practice the co-operative
principle, which is simply to do ill ono
place, with esecial facilities, some of
the heaviest portions of work as if done
by the gas companies distributing tho
results and concentrating tho moans.
Tho first step should lie to make more of
tho laundry. Instead of doing the
severest part of work, to which only
robust women ore equal, on a small
scale in thousands of scattered houses,
unite tho work and thus enlargo the
facilities. The cities are full of so-called
laundries, which consist of a cellar or
equivalent place, whore somebody uses
on a small scale- the familiar old imple
ments; but, except in the great hotels,
there are very few establishments to be
found which carry out tho idea, which is,
to utilize machinery and dispense with
muscles, as in everything else that is
dono economically. There has been a
laundrv in Trov for manv vnura which
receives and returns articles by express
chicny collars and cuffs over quite an
area of country in three States at least.
Iu towns sufficiently compact it might
Ik practicable to extend the plan further
to cooking. Tho late M. Mot devised a
schema of that sort in both New York and
Brooklyn, but it failed, for some reason
we do not now recall. In using the word
co-operative, however, we do not moan
that tho scliemo should necessarily bo a
mutual one, liko a co-oiHrative store-
only that it shall secure concentration.
Better administrative ability would bo
necessary, and more practical difficulties
might arise in carrying out the mutual
plan than in letting private ownership do
everything. On tho other hand, tho
partly co-operative scheme, if it onco
conquers success, has manifest advan
tages. It is impossible to deny, how
ever, that any way which should dispose
of tho washing and ironing, and lighten
the cooking, would go fur to change
domestic lifo for American women. Co
operation has left housekeeping alone
hitherto. Is there not a reasonably
promising field thero for giving a now
turn to it?
fasiiio.vn rtncit.H.
Charming ornaments for the hair aro
now mado from flshscales, held in posi
tion by silver wire.
Something new (and old) in tho jew
elry line is earrings, necklaces and ban
gles composed of Bilvcr coins.
Largo jet or ebony crosses, suspended
from the neck by a band of narrow black
velvet, aro quite generally worn by tho
leaders of fashion.
Jet is much used on hats, costumes
and mantles. All kinds of liead trim
minus aro worn, and the pretty clair-do-
luuo trimmings have been revived.
Knitting of gentlemen's socks is now
the ritiro in tho best circles of Englund.
Tho material used is soft untwisted silk
in all tho mode colors. Tho sock is warm,
soft, pretty and strong.
Silver jewelry has been used as half
mourning jewelry by some of the ladies
at the English court. Necklaces com
posed of graduated beads of sterling sil
ver, unpolished and resembling dark
pearls at a distance, have been worn with
black costumes.
A new method of attaching the um
brella to the belt is copied from the
quiver of the toxophilite. A small
sheath is hung by a chain to the twit,
and through this tho umbrella is passed,
so that it assumes somewhat the position
of a rapier as carried by gentlemen of
tho olden time.
Ono of tho new and successful styles
of dress now worn in Europe is the
Caraco, a style with a name unearthed
from somn old-fashioned magazine. It
is made of any rich material, such as
silk, velvet or a woolen material, and is
looped up in a panicr style over a thin
underdress.
Oxb Cax Testify to his owk A;e. The
Supreme Court of Massachusetts has re
cently decided that a person is a compe
tent witness to testify to his own age. Ihe
case was Henry Hill and others against
William X. r.lunilge, brought in Uie
Superior Court of Norfolk county. Action
was brought to recover for goods sold to
the defendant, whore defence wss in
fancy, and that the goods sold were not
necessaries. At the trial in the Supremo
Court, without a jury, the defendant was
a witness, and under the plaintiff's objec
tion was permitted to testify that when
thegoods were purchased be was sixteen
year of age. It appeared that the de
fendant's father was dead, but it did not
appear whether the mother was living or
not, and no oilier eviuence wwi ouereu.
The Supreme Court found for the defen
dant, an J exceptions were taken by the
plaintiffs. The Supreme Court has now
overruled the exceptions, holding that
the evidence wss admissible. It is de
cided that a person may testify to his own
age, and such weight msy be given to his
testimony as the court or jury trying the
case may think it entitled to receive.
Jlixton Adicrtiner.
Debts of the loutberi Mates.
tumorous inquiries as to tho debts
of other Southern States, thoir
amounts, and compromises mado,
will be best answered by giving all
tho information we possess ou the
subjoct:
Tho dobt of Alabama in 1878 was
$!),452,0C9; real and personal estate,
tax basis, $117,180,581; tax, 70 cents;
amount raised by tux, $S27,3'.I0.
Arkansas, debt, 81,153,035; un
fundod debt, $13,007,012; lax basis,
(94,000,000; tax, 00 cents; amount
raised by tax, $457,450.
Florida, dobt, $1,343,272; tax busis,
830,000,000; tax, 00 cents; amount
raised by taxation, 8225,000.
Ueorgia, dobt, $10,044,500; tax
basis, $235,059,530; tax, 50 cents;
amount ruisod by tax, 81,129,900. In
1872 GoorKia annulled $10,477,000
clearly fraudulont bonds, leaving tho
dobt at that timo 811,550,500, recog
nizing $5,793,000 of tho Bullock
bonds.
Kentucky's dobt is only $1,852,-
811; hor tax busis, 8357,320,013; tax,
40 cents.
Louisiana's dobt, 1878, amounted
to $12,000,443; tax basis, $174,500,
000; tax, $1 45. Tho amount raised
by taxation in 1878 wns $2,473,629.
Mississippi, debt, $2,954,458; tax,
50 conts; tax basis, 812,700,000;
amount raised by taxation, 8034,701.
Missouri's debt iu 1S79 was 810V
758,000; tax basis, ronl and personal,
u littlo over 80,000,000; tax, 40 conts;
amount raised by taxation, $2,843,953.
North Carolina, debt, 1878, $27,
120,223; tax busis a littlo over 8148,
000,000; tax, 38 conts; amount ruisod
by taxation in 1878 $533,035.
South Carolina's debt in 1878 was
G,739,G9G; tax basis a littlo over
$125,000,000; tax, 45 cents; amount
ruisod by taxation, $715,982. Tho
debt statement in 1874 was 8 17,017,
051, of which 89,540,750 was bond
debt; $2,079,293 floating dobt, and
$4,797,008 contingent liability. And
this statcmont did not include $5,095,
(100 bonds issuod for convorsion of
Stulo securities under the act of
18G9, which oven a llcpublican Leg
islature declared issuod without
uuthority. Tho amount givon as tho
dobt in 1878 is that loft after a fair
judicial investigation by a court ere
utod for that purpose
Texas's dobt in 1878 was 85,073,
8G1; tax basis, $257,032,000; tux, 50
conts; amount raised by tax, $1,
350,170. Virginia's dobt in 1873 was $29,
350,820, hor tax basis, real and per
sonal, $322,509,031; tax, 50 conts;
amount ruisod by tax, $2,500,000 por
annum. Sinco that time a sottlomonl
has boon proposed which is abso
lutely demanded by inability to puy.
Wo huvo not tho details of that sou
tlomont at hand, but it is much more
favorable to tho holders of tho bonds
than that of Tonnoesoo.
Tonnossoo's dobt and interest is
$24,857,115; tho dobt as scaled will
amount to a littlo ovor $12,000,000,
tho intorcst to about $500,000, re
quiring a lax of less than 35 conts on
tho $100, in addition to tho amounts
from other Bourccs, such as privileges
and tho $100,000 from railroads,"to
puy this and ordinary cxponscs. Tho
tax basis in 1878 wus $223,212,153,
and tho amount ruisod in 1873, wus
$G2G,529.
It will bo soon at onco from this
that Tcnncssoo will boar after this
scltlomont lighter burdens than any
Southern Stulo, oven aftor Louisiana
socures hur reduction of interest to 3
per cont. for 15 years, leaving tho
principul intact. 'Tho question por-
tains to ourselves solely. What is
right, just, und tho best policy for
ourselves, is tho solo question; but if
anyono chooses to look to other
Stutos for light, ho will find that
everything points out tho reception
to this settlement as tho best possi
ble courao to take Nashville, Venn.,
American, July 18th,
Anecdote op Govebnob Ai.lev. Sov-
eral years ago, when the building of the
Hcioto Valley ltoad was on the tapis, a
delegation of prominent citizens of
Columbus, Circlovillo and Portsmouth
met in the parlor of one of our hotels, in
conjunction with a number of our own
citizens, to consult as to tho best means
of pushing the enterprise to completion.
To give moro than usual eclat to the
gathering the Old Governor wos in
duced to attend ond give his advice
(Chillicotheons wore alwayB fond of
"showing him off" to strangers). After
the business portion of the meeting had
been dispatched, the conversation turned
npon general topics, and finally some
one asked the Governor why ho did not
re-enter politics and become a candidate
for the Presidency. This was enough to
set tho Governor going. Taking up his
personal history from tho earliest days,
he recounted in on impressive manner,
step by step, the events of his lifo, until
from a poor boy ho had served this dis
trict as itepresentative and the State two
terms as Senator, " having for coniiecrs
such men as Clay, Webster, Calhoun and
Benton. Leaving the Senate, gentle
men, I went to my home and gave my
self to study profound study, deep
studyand after twenty-five years of
companionship with my books, I came to
the conclusion, gentlemen, that to do
President of a littlo patch of territory
on this third-rate planet, by G d, was
unworthy the ambition of statesman
and a scholar."
How do the evolutionists account for
the fact that the genus shark bas for ages
worn his mouth on his most inconvenient
side (himself that is). According to the
development theory it should gradually
have worked round so that he would not
have to turn over on his back to eat his
dinner.
AGRICULTURAL MATTER. '
I.lm.
Mr. Donald G. Mitchell, of edgewood,
has found according to the latest annual
report of the Connecticut Experiment
station that "o soggy and nearly worth
loss hill slope has become dry and valu
able for pastnre, mainly the result of an
application of lime."
Clover.
According to Wolff, the amount of nu
tritive snbstances in rod clover at begin
ning of flower is 11.20 per cent ; red clo
ver in full flower, 13.04 er cent. Bed
clover hay, cut ot beginning of flower,
contained 55.43 per cont of nutritive
matter, while tho same cut in full flower
contained 40.07 per cent.
Hot Wtathfir.
Bowaro of drinking too much cold
water whilo yon are working in the sun,
and do not plunge suddenly in a cold
bath. If you are near a brook wet you
head, put leaves into your hat and fre
quently put tho hands into water, letting
them remain there for a considerable
time. Tho effect will be soothing npon
tho whole system, and it will reduce
thirst.
1 oa Iu Very Ueavy Cattle.
Of late the demand for choice very
heavy beeves, weighing from 1700 to 1800
pounds,ha8 fallen off, and stock fed to
perfection of that weight hardly realize
as much as those of 1400 to 1500 pounds.
The latter weight seems to be the ex
tretno wanted by those purchasing our
best cattle, and some then are a little too
heavy. Sales were made hero of a lot of
Durham bred steers, having all the Gne
points necessary to make them desirable
to tho purchaser in fact, as handsome a
drove of steers as has been offered here
for a long time; but they weighed nearly
1750 pounds too heavy as a lot for the
exnort trade and brought only five cents,
w hile another lot of 1500-ponnd steers, of
excellent quality, which found favor in the
eyes of several buyers, brought $5 12 per
cwt. Feeders will do well to realize that
thero is only an occasional demand for
stock .of those extreino weights. Bitfah
Lilt Slock ltoview.
I.Uht Welch t Pork.
There Is a necessity of growing hogs
that will make lean, light bacon, such as
is wanted for shipment abroad. It has
also been held that there is more money
to the breeder to briny any hoys to a
state of fatness at young ages, rather than
to keep t'uem to full maturity. The
Dmitri Journal upon this subject says :
A short time ngo it was deemed essential
by breeders of both cattle and bos to get
as much weight and fat as possible, to the
almost utter neglect of symmetry and
stylo. A notable fact, and one worthy
the special attention of breeders and
raisers of hogs, is that light, evenly fatted
and fine bo nod swine, averaging a little
over 200 pounds in weight, are the only
grade of our hogs that has proved satis
factory to our British cousins; and
heavier weights do not stand the long
journey and confinement on shipboard as
well as the stock or lighter weight ana
less fat There are several English
houses here, as most of our readers well
know, that are almost exclusively en
gaged in the curing and shipping of
English cuts ; and, as is generally a well
known fact, to meet the requirements of
this trade, hogs must not be too fat, but
compact and well bred.
How lo Vaka Beoa I'ajr.
Wo produce the following practical arti
cle, which appears in the Uermantown
Telegraph, from the pen of J. M. llieks, an
Indiana boekeoper :
I will soy to all who contemplate keep
ing bees for honey or for stock, I would
rccommond for use a good movable frame
beehive, of which there seems to bo many
various Kinds and styles, as well, I might
say, many more that are wholly worth
less, having used twenty-threo different
movable frame hives, all of which I laid
aside some eight years ago, and am now
using a hive that has no loose honey
board or boxes to misplace before seeing
your bees and brood, which is so often
neglected and let go to ruin through uttor
negligence. But since I have used the
hive I have adopted as the one for future
use, I have not lost a stock of bees with
the moth, from the fact that I can 0en
the brood out to full view and see each
and every brood comb, take out every
worm in three minutes and close up my
bees ready for work. This advantage
alone is worth to the beekeeper at least
the value of 'i'i stands of bees in the old
box. The value of time In attending bees
Is of more consequence than most persons
are aware of, as it too often takes up so
much timo in handling your bees that
they get to fighting and robbing each
other before you can replace all the rat
tletraps and close up your bees for busi
ness again.
But let me further say, that if you have
a hive and feel confident it possesses the
proper proportions that go to make up a
good beehive, I would not udvise you to
make any change, as here is where too
many failures are made in changing, and
too many kinds of hives in your apiaries,
which should be avoided. Therefore, I
would say, never use but one style of
hive, ond let that be a first-class movable
frame hive; and have all your frame
hives made exact inside measure as your
sample all of which should be well
made and painted two good coats of paint
and linseed oil. This hive business is of
more Importance than most people think,
and is too often overlooked by many who
make thoir own hives, often, too, from
lumber not as dry as it should be, and of
an inferior quality.
Now, let me say, in conclusion, got the
hive as above, and have all your bees
transferred into the same; and do, for
justice's sake, look after their interest
once in awhile, and your reward will be
plenty of honey, as well as good strong
stocks, with a good prolific queen in each
hive, and you will have the gratification
of having your bees pay you from 600 to
800 per cent. Now is the time to feed
your bees a small quantity of syrup in or
der to have them ready for swarming,
which should always be done artificially.
This little life-boat of an earth, with
its noisy crew of mankind, and all their
troubled history, will one day have van
ished; faded like a cloud-speck from tho
azure of the sky. What then is man ?
He endures but for an hour, and is
crushed before the moth. Yet in the be
ginning and in the working of a faithful
man is there already (as all faith, from,
the beginning gives assurance) a aorce
thing that pertains not this death ele
ment of Time; that trumps overtime,
and is, and will be, when time shall be
no more. Tlujinaa Cwrlyle.
It is of little consequence by what
name yon call the first Nature, the di
vine Iteason that presides over the uni
verse and fills all parts of it. lie is still
the same God. .Vneca.