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Untidy Habits.

If two boys apply for a situation, one of
whom comes neatly washed, his hair brushed,
his clothes tidy, his shoes we'll BACKED and
tied snugly, while the other is the reverse Of
all these, which do you think will be the most
likely to get the place? VIII not the Stevens
chances be very slim?
If boy wishes to succeed well in the
world, and get the good openings when they
occur, he must study neatne8s in his per-
sonal appearance. His clothes may be Of
homespun, so they are neat. If he has no
body at home who can or will mend them,
and sew on missing bnttons, let him learn to
do it himself But above all, let him wash
his face, hands, and neck thoroughly twice
a day at least, and have pocket comb al
ways at hand, with which to keep his hair
decent. These are not little matters, as
they may seem, but vital matters as regards
your success. l knew a man of great learn
ing and most profound mind, who could
rarely obtain, or if he did obtain, could rare
ly keep a situation as teacher, though he
was qualified for prOfessOrship in a college.
The reason was his sloyenly habits. He
usually wore shoes, which, as a good old
lady used to say, seemed "always to have
their soles on the top of his foot" His
sandy hair looked like a shock of corn, and
his whole appearance cOrrespOnded. He
was a good Christian man, but he failed to
follow the command, Let all things be done
decently and in order" and no person had
the courage to tell him of his fault. He
would have taken it kindly, l know, and
might have prOfted by it.
So, if you grow up in untidy habits, no
one will be likely to tell you what the mat
ter is when you fail in one after another of
your applications for a situation. So be
careful to form the right habits now, while
there are so many to help you, and l know
you will be thankful for it a thousand times.
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Fun in Sunday Schools,

We have long since been convinced of the
injury which our Sabbath Schools are sus-
tanning from that class of clOwnish speakers
who impose their funny yarns upon the chill
dren for the purpose of laughter and amu8e-
ment. They will tax their fund of anecdOte
and dramatic awkwardness to the utmost in
order to bring down the house, and thus play
the buffoon before the children. And that,
too, when they are speaking on the most
solemn subjects.
1t is time that this class of Sabbath School
workers should reform. Pastors and Sab
bath School superintendents must protect
the children from those characters by look
ing to a better class of speakers to do their
work. We heard pastor in this city say a
few days ago, that he "did not wish one Of
these Sabbath School clowns to come within
a hundred and fifty miles of his Sunday
School" We have no objection to good
laugh in the right place and at the right
time; but we never did like much laughing
or any rapping in church. The Sabbath
School is in the church, or should be-sO con-
sidered A speaker who has not something
to say to children about Jesus, his command.
ments, heaven or hell, has no business to
talk to children. He has mistaken his yo-
cation. We see no time or place for fun
upon so serious subjects. We do not object
to incidents, anecdotes, allegories, suitable
figures of all sorts for the purpose of illus
trating and simplifying truth for the chill
dren. But when the evident purpose is to
create merriment, it is offensive and insult
ferable in a Sabbath School Our pastors
and superintendent must be guarded in
their invitations of speakers. Aud Sabbath
Schools clowns must be discarded from our
schools. The salvation and not the amuse-
ment of the children is the object of Sunday
School work.
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Central Dresbptuian.
TIE r M S
Office No. 1015 Main street, nearly opposite
the Post Office.

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ments made within the first tco months from date
of subscription, will be considered in advance.
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The BEST MODES OF MAKING PAYMENTS are here
put down according to the order in which they are
preferred:
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listers of our Church authorised to act as SUCH
2. A BANK CHECK, or Posi- OFFICE MONEY ORDER
may be sent by mail without risk of loss.
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in registered letter. Under the new regulations
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Money sent according to the directions above is
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UGnce.
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vel species, as follows /:
No. of eggs.
Weight of fish

Sea or river salmon migratory yield on
the average little less than thousand
eggs for each pound weight; and Shad not
less fifty thousand per fish.
These numbers, however, fail to convey
to the mind an adequate idea of the possible
consequences implied in them. A simple
arithmetical calculation may assist US.
Take, for instance, the salmon, whose
powers of reproduction and rate of growth
are better known than those of most species,
remarking, however, that the salmon is
among the least fecund of the larger fishes.
Let us now assume that female salmon will
at the age of four years produce seven thous-
and eggs at one spawning "a very moderate
estimate,) and that all the eggs hatch, and
all the young arrive at maturity, the sexes
being equally divided.
Commence with a single pair. The female
lays 1000 egge. At the end of four years
the first brood has arrived at maturity, and
numbers I, 900 salmon; and half of these, or
$500 are females, and each of them pro
duces 1000 eggs, total, 24,500,0 eggs /;
and these eggs in four years more have all
become full grown fish, forming the second
brood. Atthe end of twelve years from the
start the third brood arrives at maturity,
numbering IS, 750,OOO,OOO. At the end of
the sixteenth year the fourth brood, number
ing 300, 125, 900, 900, 000-salmon enough to
cover the whole State of Maine hundred
feet deep.-CharleS g. Atkins Commissioner
of Fisheries, Name,
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How I'm fell Good Horses.

A long, "pot-bellied" horse will always
be found deficient in powers of endurance,
while horses that are round or barrel-chest-
e." are invariably more muscular and endur-
ing, having what is termed more "bottom"
than those first alluded to. Scientific sports
men are, in a.great measure, guided in their
opinion of horses racing qualifications by
his girth just behind the shoulders. By this
test well-known jockey told the reputation
and proves of the celebrated racer "Pleni-
potentiary," almost from the period of his
birth. Cattle-dealers and butchers, in like
manner, judge by the chests and shoulders
of COWS and pigs what amount of fat they
are likely to gain in the process of feeding
All animals that have large lungs are re-
markable for the vigor of their appetite and
for the facility with which they appropriate
their nutriment. Such animals will feed
upon the coarsest hay and straw, while their
less fortunately. constructed companions are
fattened by no kind of food. An amusing
anecdote is told of smpleton, who, in try
ing to sell his horse, declared that "the ami
malls eating was mere nothing" The in
telligence would, contrary to intention. have
suficed to ruin the prospects of sale, but
that the buyer, with rare discrimination,
inferred from the horses chest that the
capacity of his appetite had been unwittingly
misstated. He bought him on the hazard of
an opinion, and he had no reason to repent
his Judgment Working Farmer.
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Ansbandrg.
Gleanings.

A writer in Hearth and Home Says, that
according to the best analysis and practical
experiments, four hundred pounds of beets
are equivalent to one hundred pounds of
the best English hay, at twenty five dollars
a ton.
OIL CAKE as an article of export is be-
coming very important to the port of Balti-
more. 1t is brought from the West, over
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and
shipped from the company's wharves at Lo-
Gust Point with very triaing expenses in
handling. The quantity shipped hence the
past year, reduced to tons, was Is, $40 against
6,616 tons in 1867.
THERE IS SAID to be carried off from the
soil nine pounds of lime in twenty five bush
els of wheat, nine pounds in fifty bushels of
oats, and fifteen pounds in thirty eight bush
els of barley. There are thirty-fve pounds
of lime in two tons of clover, one hundred
and forty pounds in twenty-five tons of tur-
nips, and two hundred and seventy pounds
in nine tons of potatoes. Some soils con-
tain an abundance of lime for thousand
years, while other soils require an occasional
application Of lime as fertilizer.
The SAN FRANcIsco papers complain that
the yield of wheat in California has fallen
from forty bushels an acre down to twenty
bushels; and that, if the present improvdent
style of farming continues, the crops will
not average over twelve bushels an acre.
The old custom of burning stubble and straw,
instead of turning it into compost, has re-
vived. If the practice is not abandoned,
the worn out wheat fields of California, it is
asserted, cannot be restored without great
expense and the application of the best ag-
ricultural skill.
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A Good Word for the Mole.

Some interesting experiments have re-
Gently been made in the grounds attached to
the school of Saint Remy, France, as to the
useful qualities of the common mole. On
the 23d of July mole was placed in a piece
of shrubbery, and was given wornils and
grubs for food. In four days he ate 432
wornils and $50 grubs. Another mole was
placed on the 7th of August in large wood
en- box, and in II days he ate $40 grubs and
S72wornils. From time to time vegetable
matter, such as was believed to be his usual
food, was placed before him, but he never
touched it except to make his bed upon it
A third, which had lost foot in trap, ate
$50 wornils on the first day. 1t is now
argued, from the results of these expert
ments, that the devastatons in the soil COM
mitted by the mole are more than counter
balanced by his destruction of noxious in
sects
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Medical Missions in Scotland.

The principle of Medical Missions is ex-
tending. An institution of this description
has been established in Glasgow, and it held
its second annual meeting in that city few
weeks ago. There was large attendance.
The Rev. Dr. MacEwen presided, and he
stated that the objects of the Mission were
three-fold--to elicit a missionary spirit
amongst the medical students, to cooperate
with other societies in supporting medical
missions abroad, and especially to try to do
some medical mission work in Glasgow
The society was doing great deal of good
amongst the working masses of the people.
DR. read the directors report for
the report stated that Mr.. Dal-
ziel, me time assisted DR.. Prize IN
the dispeusary, had been appointed medical
missionary to the new Gordon Station in
Africa; that the society having now fully
proved its title to become permanent, the
directors believed the time had arrived when
they were justified in looking out for man
of God willing to take up and carry on the
mission as his life work, and that in order
that the directors might be able to carry out
this intention, sum of not less than $500
would be required to be put at their diSpo-
sal during the coming year.
DR.. Prize, the Medical Superintendent,
next read his report. 1t stated that the
number of consultations at the Dispensary
during the year amounted to 1870; of
these, $500 were with persons who came
but once, 5000 persons who came twice, and
the remainder who came from three times
and upwards. About one-third were chill
dren under ten years of age, whose mothers
accompanied them and swelled the audiences,
though they did not add to the patient list.
As was usually the case in all the charities
of the land, the Irish Roman Catholic ele-
ment very largely mingled with the appi,
cants for advice, and thus an opportunity
was afforded of declaring the glad tidings of
justification by faith--a simple doctrine,
which the agents could plainly see was new
and startling to most of them.
The Rev. Mr.. Mcleod, in moving the
adoption of the reports, thought it would
be a grand thing if we had in Protestant
Scotland and Protestant Glasgow, Protest
ant sensible Christian women trained as
nurses, by medical men, to be connected
with our hospitals and asylums, and to en-
gage in such work as was conducted by the
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Synod of Kentucky.
Central Obio-Robert Bell,


Central Ohio-Robert Bell.
Synod Of Memphis.
ChickaSaw-J. H. Gaiard, Coonewa, Miss.
Memphts-Geo A. Russell, Someryille, Tenn.
North Mississippi-Edwin Cater, Oxford, Miss.
Western District.-J. o. Sullivan, Humboldt, Tenn.
Synod of Mississippi.
Central Mssissippi-J. Hunter, Jackson, Miss.
LOuisiqnd-A k. Graves Baton Rouge, La.
MssiSsippi-R. Price. Port Gibson, Miss.
Neu Orleans-H. NJ Smith, New Orleans La
Red River.
Tombeckbee-A. H. Barley, Charlottesville, Miss.
Synod Of Nashville.
Holston-S. B. Campbell, Leesburg, Tenn.
KnoruiLle-J X. Hitner, Cleveland, Tenn.
Nashuille-J. ". Neil, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
North ALabama--W. Il. Vernon Cornersyille, Tenn.
Synod Of North Carolina.
Concord-J. D. Parks, Charlotte, N. C..
Fdyetteriue-D Farley, Manchester, NC.
Mecklenbug-W. A. Mcdonald, Charlotte, N. c
ORANGE. 81. Smith, Greensboro, n. c.
Wilmington-H. A. Monroe, Brown Marsh, N. G.
Synod of South Carolina.
S. Carolina-John McLees, Greenwood, s. G.
CharlestOn-W. e. Adams, Charleston, s. c.
BetheI-James 81. Sage, Lewisville, s: e.
HarmOny-D. Mcqueen, Sumter, S. G.
Synod Of Texas.
Brazos-R. F. Bunting, D. D., Galveston, Texas.
Central TeraS-S. A. King, Waco, Texas.
Eastern Texas-C. NJ. Shepperson.
Western Teras-J. F. Martin, San Antonio, Texas.
Synod Of Virginia
Abingdon-J N. Naf, Dublin Depot, Va.
Chesapeake.
f. Hanorer-W. A. Campbell, Powhatan c. e., Va.
Greenbrier-J. II. Leps, Frankfort, West Va.
Lerington-W 4. Baker, Stsunton Va.
Aontgomay-W. W. Houston, Salem, Va.
Roanoke-J. B. Shearer Black Walnut Va.
Vest Haaorer-E. Woods, Charlottesville, Va.
Winchester-M. W. Woodwork, Burlington W. Va
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ployed in his picture the graceful folds which
could alone satisfy him; vexed at his failure,
he was about to put the painting away, when
a servant entered the studio, and, putting to
rights such things as fell in his way, he
threw his masters cloak across the stand; ii
fell into the graceful folds so much desired
by the painter. So an artist, in despair Of
imparting the expression of the excitement
and heat of the chase to the noble horse he
was painting, flung his brush impatiently
away it splashed upon the nostrils of the
horse, and represented at once the foam,
which was all that was required.
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Committees of Education and Publication.

The General Assembly resolved that the Chairman
of the Presbyterial Committees on Education anC
Publication should be regarded as a corresponding
member of the Assembly's Committees on these
subjects. We give below the names of such members
as have been appointed by the Presbyteries.
EDUCATION.
Synod of Alabama.
East Alabama-G. L. Petrie, Auburn, Ala
South AlabamG-J. R. Burgett, D. D., Mobile, Ala.
TuScGlooSG-D. D. Sanderson, Eutaw, Ala.
Synod of Arkansas.
ArkanSaS-I. j. Long, Batesville Ark.
Iadian-C. C. Copeland, Wheelock, G.. Nation
Ouachita-Geo. E. Eageton, Mt Holly, Ark.
Synod of Georgia.
Atlanta-M. D. Wood Decatur, Ga.
Augusta-C. w. Lane, Greensboro Ga.
Cherokee-S. E. Arson, Rome, Ga.
FlOrida-J. E. DuBose, Tallahassee, Flor
NacOn.-A. A. Gamble Cuthbert, Ga.
SavGnnah-A. W. Clisby, Thomasvillei Ga.
Synod of Kentucky,
Central OhiO-R. Morrison, Coverings, Ohio.
Synod of Memphis.
ChickaSalD-F. Patton, Oxford, Miss
Memphis-D Fl. Cummins, Covington, Tenn.
N. MSSiSsippi-Edwn Cater, Oxford, Miss.
Western District-E. S. Campbell Humboldt, Tenn.
Synod of Mississippi.
C. lfssissippi-J. McCampbell, Lexington, Miss
LOuisianq-W. F. Gillespie, Liberty, Miss.
MtSSiSSiDpi-R. Price, Port Gibson, Miss.
Ne,0 Orleans-R. Q. Mallard, New Orleans.
Tombeckbee-A. 81. Barclay, Charlottesville, Miss.
Synod Of Nashville.
Holgs Tadlock Bristol, Tenn.
k MeCallie, Chattanooga, Tenn.
NGs Davies, GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
North - w E. Caldwell, Elkton, Tenn.
Synod of North Carolina.
Concord-G. W. McPhail, Davidson College, N. C.
FayetteviUe-H. Mclean, Shoe Heel, N. C.
Mecklenbng-R. Burwel, Charlotte N G.
Orangs-E. Hines, Sassafras Fork, N. c.
WilmingtOn-B F. Marable, Clinton, N. c.
Synod of South Carolina
Bethel-William Banks, Hazlewood, S. c.
CharIeStOn-W. K. Boggs, Columbia, S. G.
Harmony Mcqueen, Sumter, S. G.
South CarOlinG-J. O. Lindsay, Due West, S. C.
Synod of Texas.
BrazOs-R. F. Bunting, D. D., Galveston, Texas.
Central Texas.
Eastern Teras-C. NJ. shepperson.
Western IeGos-J. F. Martin, San Antonio, Texas.
Synod of Virginia.
Abingdon.-T. Brown, Abingdon, Va.
CheSdpeGke-R. B. White, Gainesville, Va.
East Hanorer-E. II. Rutherford Petersburg, Va
Greenbrier-M. D. Dunlap, Academy, Va.
Lerington-C. S. NJ. See Fishersvile, Va.
Montgomery-P T. Penick, Thaxton's, Va.
Roanoke-J. II. Davis Charlotte c. H., Va.
Vest Han0ver-B NJ Smith, D. D., Hampden Sid
ney, Va
Winchester-D. H Riddle, Martinsburg, W. Va.
PUBLICATION.
Synod Of Alabama.
South Alabama-G. W. Boggs, Selma Ala.
East Alabama-G. l.. Petrie, Auburn, Ala
Tuscalodsa-C. NJ. Hutton, Pleasant Ridge, Ala.
Synod of Arkansas.
ARKANSAS. W. Davies, Augusta, Ark.
Ouachita-E. McNair, Pine Bluff, Ark.
Indian-C c. Copeland Wheelock, c. N, Ark.
Synod of Georgia
Atlanta-J Stacy, Newman Ga.
AugustG-J. D. Burkhead, Athens, Ga.
Cherokee-S. Z. Arson, Rome, GA.
j. Mccormick, Gainesville, Flor.
Macon-J. L. King Lawrenceville, Ga.
Sarannah-D. a. Porter, Savannah, Ga.
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see many ways in which this application of
steam power could be advantageously made.
The ladder might be replaced by railway
up and along which carload of bricks or
mortar might be made to roll, which track
might be joined to and made continuous with
a..horizontal track, by means of an easy curve
at the summit, the whole being adjustable to
suit the progressive nights of the wall as
they advance towards completion. 1t would
require little genius to adjust the detail, and
the cost of building would be greatly lessened
by dispensing with the nod carriers.-Sci-
entifc american.
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Annual Collections.

Our General Assembly has appointed the fol-
lowing as the times for the annual collections for
its benevolent schemes:
For Sustentation: On the first Sabbath in JAN
uary.
For Publication: On the first Sabbath in March,
For Foreign Missions: On the first Sabbath in
May.
For Education: On the first Sabbath in No.
vember.
For the Relief of Disabled Ministers, and the
Widows and Orphans of Deceased Minister'S
On the first Sabbath in July
In cases where it is highly inconvenient to take
up collections on these days, the Assembly enjolns
that they shall be taken up as soon as possible
thereafter.
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INSTITUTIONS AND OFFICERS
oFTHE
Presbyterian Church in the United States


CLERKS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, D. D., Stated Clerk, Au.
gusta, Ga.
Rev. William Brown, D. D., Permanent Clerk,
Richmond, Va.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF sUsTENTATIoE.
Rev. J. Leighton Wilson, D. D., Secretary Col
umbia, s. G.
Rev. Prof. James Woodrow, Treasurer, Colum-
bia s. G..
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Rev. j. Leighton Wilson, D. D., Secretary, Col
umbia, s. G..
Rev, Prof. James Woodrow, Treasurer Colum
bis, s. G.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION.
Rev. E. Thompson Baird, D. D.. Secretary, Rich
mond, Va.
G. Gennet, Esq, Treasurer, Richmond, Va.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF EDUCATION.
Rev. E. Thompson Baird, D. D., Secretary, Rich
mond, Va.
c. Gennet, Esq, Treasurer, Richmond, Va.
TRUSTEES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Thomas G., Perrin, President.
Joseph q. Wilson, Vice President.
Jesse Lindsay Secretary and Treasurer
FOR ONE YEAR.
Robert Adger, Charleston, s. C.
Hon. j. A. Inglis, Cheraw, S. C.
J. A. Ansley, Augusta, Ga.
John Whiting, Montgomery, Ala.
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer, D. D., New Orleans, La.
FOR TWO YEARS.
J. Hartman Brown, Baltimore, Nd.
7. j. Kirkpatrick, Lynchburg, Va.
D. N. Kennedy, Clarksville, Tenn.
John Handy, Canton, Miss.
Rev. Samuel Mckinney, D. D., Austin, Texas.
FOR THREE YEARS.
Hon. Thomas C. Perrin, Abbevlle, S. G..
Joseph H. Wilson, Charlotte, N. c.
Jesse H. Lindsay, Greensboro, N. c.
James Hemphill, Chester, S. C.
Rev. George Howe, D. D., Columbia, s. G.
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How Should we Keep Bees?

We have temperate climate, most con-
genial, we should think, to the habits and
preservation of this wonderful and useful
creature. Bee food and the material for the
construction of the comb is abundant. The
pabulum for the production of honey can be
increased to any extent. The great enemy
of the bee keeper in the South is the moth.
We are quite familiar with most of the de-
vices resorted to by those among us who
raise bees to prevent the ravages of the moth
and worm. But none of these have struck
us as successful. We throw out this hint.
1t may be true that we have not seen wild
hives enough ia ken to establish fair induc-
ton upon which to base practice. But we
take occasion to say that we never saw a
hive of bees taken from forest tree in which
there was the slightest sign of moth. Again:
We have been told by friend that his faith
er was successful bee-raiser in Cincinnati,
keeping his hives in an attic room in the
city. From these examples we have thought
that we would advise that some of our read
ers who are willing to take the risks of the
experiment should place some of their hires
in garrets or in Clubhouse lofts, and let US
see if this will not be remedy for the de,
structive working of the moth.
We all know that the moth, before it de-
posts its egg, is fitting about near the
ground, and we believe never scars to any
height. The value of the wax and honey
used in this country is something very re-
markable, and their use in our families should
be as general as the use of poultry and but
ter. No family residing in this country
should be stinted in the use of honey or wax
raised on its own soil.-Plantation.