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1 have advanced. Indeed this is no wonder, since
they are not my views, bat his 00R, and the views of
men Of his own stamp. My aim only is to get them
applied to 0r agriculture that they will be so even
tually, { have not the least doubt, but the sooner, the
better, and if can contribute in any way to their ear
ly adoption, | shall consider my pains well repaid.
The importance and true value of drainage is per
haps no where better explained than in the evidence
of Mr.. Josiah Parkes, consulting engineer to the
Royal Agricultural Society of EngIandD before the
Lords Committee, when asked, els there a good
deal of difference Of opioion whether the wafer should
be carried off rapidly or not? H. says, there has
been a difference of opinion, but | find many people
giving way on that subject. My opinion is, that one
of The greatest sources of fertility which nature has
provided, and the management of which she has put
partly at our command, is rain and that one great
object we have to accomplish is to make use of all
that rain, and TO make it 60 through the ground, that
it may operate in its various ways. both physically
and chemically The object Of draining is to make
rain our friend and not our enemy; to cause it to des-
Cend through the soil then to remove it, after it has
done its work, and before it can do any ham. All
this is effected by an efficient system of drainage.
Land in a fair climate can scarcely be too humid, but
water ought never to stagnate upon or in it," In
answer TO the question, will you explain what you
mean by saying that clay is kept moist by drainage,
he gives in other words the explanation, which will
be found lSewhere, and which | will not here repeat,
although would fain have my readers acquainted
with Mr.. Parkes's own words. which they will find,
amongst other places, in the No. of the Agricultural
Gazette of London, for August 9th, 1916. Again,
MI. Smith OfDeanston at a late meeting of Agricul-
turists at Dumfries, said, & he was quite sure that
observation would teach the farmer the advantages
of draining the driest land he possesses. For, indie
pendently of taking away the water, abe drain opens
, 1873-05-17
NOTICE..

FOR use at the Fort in Christian
sted are wanted 2 good large
sized Is hands strong Ponies, not
below 5 and not above z years old,
and suited for riding and driving.
Parties wishing to offer such po-
MES for sale are requested to bring
them to the Military Station at
KingshiIl on Saturday the 9th inst.
IL O'clock a. m, to be examined by
the Commission appointed for that
purpose.
Presidents S~ecretary's Office St.
Croix 10th May 1878.
s. w. VAN BRAKLE.
, 1873-05-17

most ardent wishes for the prosperity Of an
institution which has done probably more
than any other institution in this country
in helping us to prepare for the difficult
but necessary work Of the future, I beg to
couple with the toast the name of your
President.-IHe Wea Indian.
, 1873-05-17

Mt the request of Lawyer P. Lem
III ming in behalf of Frederikstods
Dealing Court as administering the
bankrupt Estate of Planter r. G..
Knight eStock-Estate belonging
to the said
T VALLEY
, 1873-05-17
HOPE & ARTONH HILL

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B sub Mr.. 7 ad 8, II, IL & Is.
MED ALT TILBEHOR
blive opraabte til Bortsalg i Oyer
eenstemmelse med PIacat af"22de
April 1917.
A%uctioncrne afholdes
lste Auction L0rdagen den 7de
Juni 1878.
2nden Auction Lordagen den eide
Juni 1878.
3die Auction L6rdagen den ste
JUL 1878.
allie ON Formiddagen III. 70 sIet raa
AuctiOnscOntOiret.
Auctionsconditioner, Vurderings-
forretning og 0vrige Documenter
ere fra Bite dennes til Eftcrsyn paa
Procurator p. Jennings Contoir.
Christiansteds AuctionscOntoir den
I3de Mai 1873.
II. A. JTRS.
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NUMBER 3s.
Browns wooden wedding.

Brown, who lives in Cambridge, had
the fifth anniversary Of his wedding oc-
cur about a week ago, and his friends
determined to celebrate his wooden
wedding by a surprise party. They
commenced by sending servant with 8
team 20 take Brown and his wife out to
ride about Z. Then they began to come
in with presents and materials for sup
per. There was little party OF FIVE
came first, an laden, hands full. They
all got nicely inside the garden gate,
which shuts with a spring. when
Browns big mastiff, who is always left
unclaimed in his masters absence, came
round the corner and surprised them.
One woman stepped ON her dress, and
in her fall 50 demoralized q fragile
black,walnut bookcase she carried that
it was afterward done up in bundle
and presented as kindling wood. An
other fellow got safely out of the yard,
all but part of his pants, while old
Smithers, who weighs two hundred and
twenty pounds, plunged wildly, with
the eight gallon pail Of Zoe cream he
carried, through Browns glass hot
house in the corner of the yard, and
surprised some thirty dollars worth of
exotics. Finally they fixed things up
and got into the house, and as it was
about time for Browns return they
commenced laying the supper table.
They got down a tea set of rare china
that friend of Browns in the trade
had loaned him a week before, and
broke swo pieces, so that Brown has
since been obliged to mortgage his hon
honse and buy the set and the COM
ments of Mrs. Brown, when she saw the
condition of the carpet, were sarcastic
In the extreme. Finally, as q crowning
touch, they tried to hang ont Chinese
lanterns, with the word % Welcome -
on them, on the porch over the front
door. They succeeded in hanging two
lanterns, and when they had saved the
house from the fiery fiend, there wasn't
enough porch left to pay for the trouble
of trying to hang out any more. Then
they sat down and waited for Brown
and his wife to come home. We draw
the veil over the scene that followed
their return Some scenes are too joy
GUS to be described in cold, cold words
Boston Traveller.
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Japanese Bed.

Dinner over, siesta on the soft mats
is next in order, These mats seem made
for sleep and indolence. No booted
foot ever defles them. Every one leaves
his clogs on the ground outside, and
glides about in his mitten-like socks,
which have each a special compartment
for tho great toe. My waiting damsel
having gone out, and there being no such
things as bells, do as the natives, and
clap my hands. A far-off answer of
he-i-i is returned, and soon the shuf-
fling of feet is heard again. The house
wife eppears With the usual low bow,
and, smiling 50 as to again display what
resembles a mouthful of coal, she lis
tens to the request for pillow. Open
ing the little closet before spoken of,
she produces the desired article. It is
not a tioking-bag of baked feathers in
closed in dainty, spotless case of white
linen, but little upright piece Of wood,
six inches high and long, and one wide,
rounded at the bottom like the rockers
of a cradle. On the top, lying in a
groove, is a tiny rounded bag o; calico
filed with rice chaff about the size of
sausage. The pillow-case is piece Of
white paper wrapped around the top,
and renewed in good hotels daily for
each guest. One can rest about four or
six inches of the side of his os Occipitig
on a Japanese pillow, and if he wishes
may rock himself to sleep, though the
words suggest more than the facts war
rant BY sleeping on civilized feathers,
one gets ont of training, and the Japa-
nese pillows feel very hard and very
much in one place. The dreams which
one has on the these pillows are charae-
teristio. In my first some imps were
boring gimlet-holes in the side of my
skull, until they had honey-combed It
and removed 50 much brain that felt
too hght-headed to preserve my equi-
librium. On the present occasion, after
falling asleep, thought that the pillow
on which lay pressed its shape into my
head, and the skull, TO be repaired, was
being trepanned. Ny head actually
tumbling of the pillow was the cause of
the fancied operation being suddenly
arrested
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A Natural Curiosity .


r. z. G. Stearns of the California
academy of science, gives description
of a newly discovered zoophyte, found
in Buzzard's Inlet, Washington terrific
~. known IS PaUoaarta Blankef. A
form much resembling the specimen
described by Mr.. St0arns Is found at
Oban, on the coast of Scotland, and the
genus was so named from the fancied
resemblance to a peaeoek's feather. Il
is about six feet IN length, the central
stalk being about as thick as common
lead pencil, with the feathers on ono
side stripped entirely of, and the featls-
ers on the other side removed for about
one-fourth of the length Of the quill.
from its lowest part. Suppose the
whole to be covered with thick coat Of
transparent pink wax, and the surface
OF each side Of the remaining feathesed
portion divided into two hundred and
City sligbt1v elevated rows Of ridges,
which run obliqueiy and upward from
the stalk or axis Of the quill towards
the outward edge OF the feashered part
this, reckoning the two sides. makes five
hundred rows, and each row is COM
posed Of from ten to fourteen small
flowers with petals resembling fern
leaves; thus we have q total Ct about
five thousand tiny flowers on single
stalk or plant, or feather. Each one Of
these small flowers is an animal. fixed
stationary in It's place in the row, and
the whole combined form q compound
animal with ducts and circulAtory ar
rsngements running through its entire
length. The food secured by either
one of the tiny flowers or Polypes helps
10 nourish the whole The stalk or axis
is the only hard portion, and resembles
bone in texture. Il snstains the entire
colony and structure in an erect on per-
pendioular position al the bottom Of the
sea, the lower part being planted in the
mud or sand. This wonderful curiosity.
as beautiful as It Is wonderful. belongs
to the zoophytes, an Is related to the
sea anem0nes and coral snimals- Each
one Of the Eve thousand flowers Is q
miniature sea-anemoae.-San Ffaacfseo
Bulletin.
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Wasted Tears.

We paused this morning, says the
Peoria Review, to watch lonely hearse
pass along the streets. Over it nodded
the sable plumes, and siilen curtains
hid from curious eyes the casket Of the
friendless dead, and bullion fringe and
silver lace work could not detract from
the solemnity Of death. No carriages
followed the hearseto mans last resting
place no stifed sobs burst from tho
lips Of stricken mourners; no eyes
turned pityingly upon the scanty fune-
raj the great heart Of the city throbted
increasingly on, and the roar and clam
OF Of traffic hushed the hollow rumble
of the catafalque. Buried alone, ala,
when might it come upon us, thas to
pass from the present 10 the eternal fu-
ture, 10 commit ourselves alone, 10 the
bosom Of the river whose wateFs lave
the hither shore IN the dark, chill bit
terness OF death, and thithersard are
forever yelled IN clouds Of the mystic
which human eye hath never pierced.
'ris dreary fate to ponder Ger. and
this friendless man should have at least
one mouner. 50 with bated breath and
uncovered head whispered the driver,
- who is, OF was the lonely dead ?" aud
the driver said, dead noshin' I'm
Just talin' the old bone trap over 70 the
shop 70 get her springs fixed. She
bounced the last stiff We took ont in her
clean out o. the coffin. Whoa, Bill !
blast ye. OF I'll cut yer hair with =
black-snakeP' We ceased weeping.
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Wooden Pavements.
c. Nevs and 0ourier.I

lCharleston News and Cour1er-J
Charleston may congratulate herself
hat the embarrassed condition Of her
city finances has thus far prevented her
from venturing on any extended scale,
upon the costly experiment of wooden
pavements. We may take a profitable
lesson in this matter from the expert
ence of the rich cities cf the north and
west. OF the even, pleasant noiseless
surface presented by the wooden pave
nents when new there can be no ques-
ton. Bat they lack the 6rst requisite
of a good pavement; they viii not last.
st. Louis is the latest city that has
voted them a failure, if not nuisance.
The mayor, in a message to the common
council, embodies the results of twelve
years trial of this kind of pavement.
he says the fact is clearly shown that
wooden pavements are not suited to
streets used by heavy traffic, and It is
expensive under any circumstances. BE
saws that the average wear of such a
pavement is six years, and the cost Of
repairing Is one dollar and a half per
hneal foot. In Phiiadeldhia the wooden
pavement averages only three or four
years, and IS voted to be comparatively
worthless. In Pittsburgh insestisa-
tions are IN progress that are likely to
result In q similar verdict. New York
has long since found ont that it is the
most costly and worthless Of all kinds
of navement.
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OUTSIDE THE FOLD.


am waiting. ever waiting, FOR the days that never
come;
sitting, worn and weary, nidst LIES shadows,
drear and dun;
Memory DER the Past a. mourning and the Futures
all untold
Earth has grown 30 strangely gloomy. Take me,
Lord within the fold.
Evening-shadows gather round me, darker shadows
ehroud my soul;
There is but one rift Of sunlight streaming from
that fdr-on goal;
Shall ever reach that portal 2 walk within those
ssreeta Of gOid2
Tor I'm weary -watching-waiting. Take me, lord,
within the fold.
Through the night dleam Of Heaven, and my
loved onea waiting there
But, alas It s but dreaming for wake to anxious
care.
There know there comes no aighdng,-only peace
and bliss untold.
Lead me in those sun-lit pastures. Take me, LORD,
within the fold.
Is there room for one poor wanderer who has, wan
ton, strayed away2
And forgiveness for lost one, wandering farther
Tender shepherd, wilt thou hear re7 I am lonely
am cold.
With those sheltering arms support me- Take me.
Lord within tho fold.
Hark hear the kindly welcome. Can dare to
enter iu ?
I who am so prone to evil who bIindly grope in
SIM
Now the peans Of the blessed vibrnte on the harps
Of gold;
! can hear the angels singing. Take me, Lord,
within the fold.
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pARYA DoMus-sLAaNA ouIEa


A narrow home, but very siiu it seemeth
silent home, no stir or tunult here,
Who wins that pillow Of no sorrow dreameth.
No Whirling echoes jar his sealed ears
The tired hand lies very calm and quiet
The weary foot no more hard paths viii tread,
The great world Ina5-rcyoive n clash and riot,
To its luud summons leaps nor heart nor head.
The violcls gloom above the tranquil sleeper,
The morning ceNs fail gently on the grass,
Amid the daisies kneels the lonely weeper
He knows not when her lingering footsteps pass.
The autumn winds sigh softly DER his sllraser,
The winter piles the snoV-rifts Ger his rest;
de does not care the dyinE years TO number,
The narrow home contents its silent guest.
No 5sded hope can haunt, no doubt perplexcs,
No parted love the deep repose can chafe,
No petty care can irk, no trouble vexes,
From misconstruetiun his hushed heart is safe.
Freed from the seariness Of worldly frelting,
From pain and failure, b0otiess toll and strife,
From the dull NTretchedness Of vain regrettine
he lies, whose course has passed away from life.
narrow home, and far beyond it heth
The land whereof no mortal lips can tell
We strain our sad eyes - the spirit dieth.
Our fancy loves on hesven's bright hills to dwell.
God shuts the door, no angel lips anclOses
They whom Christ raised word of guidance said,
Only the cross speaks where our dust reposes.
a. Trust him who calls unto his rest our dead
AL ths Year RoHad.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-09-18
Enrlish Fable Wines


King James I. took the trouble to
import Ter his own drinking the strong
Greek wines, strange to English pal
ates of the seventeenth century, which
had once been sufficiently abundant In
the cellars of the knight Templar. On
the table of the Scottish Solomon might
have been seen dusAy TASKS of cypress,
with its strong tYang, due to the pres
enee of tannin to excess, and yellow
Malvoisie from cara, and purple Chios,
and that rough AM red Tenedos with
which British fleets of later day have
been supplied. The Puritans, Who de
thrOned and beheaded his successor
although by no means averse to ale,
brandy, and Geneva, were no great pa
irons OF wine, liquor which vas, in
deed, held IN one time in suspicion. as
that In which malignants were won't In
secret to pledge one another to the hap
py return of the "youn man. That
long-looked-for event at length took
place, and wine was once more first ia
vorite. Sack was now no longer in
fashion, and claret was the drink of
polite England, though some of the
more dashing young bloods about the
kings court affected champagne, the
merits of which Charles had probably
learned during his Continental Odyssey,
but at which It is more than likely that
the old cavaliers, who had fought un-
der Rupert, looked with some contempt.
Champagne was not, under either the
Stuarts or the early Georges, what it
has since become. At the Regent PHIL
ip's famous supPers, the gorgeous
leckeys uneocked a dozen TASKS of
Burgundy for every bottle of the spark
limo crr0ua IT1faa of EtYNo1Dou
The conclusion of the Methuen treaty
brought port wine into fashion among
our great-grandfathers, and elaret was
displaced to an extent which would have
been mischievous indeed to Gascon
wine growers, had not the latter, fortu-
nately for them, found new market,
that made up for the partial loss Of Eng
l1sh custom. The Marechal de Richie
lieu, sometime governor of Gascony,
really believed TO the end of his life
that he owed the ere-establishment Of his
health to the good vine of the district,
and his praises of the southern growth,
and his influence with Louis XIV, made
Bordeaux fashionable. Up to that time
the more costly wines consumed in
France hal come from Burgundy and
from the Rhine, while hundred petty
vintages, thin and sour for the most
part, supplied the demand for q cheap
beverage. In England, on the other
hand, port was a usuper that rose on
the ruins of its older rival, claret It
came to be considered, economical ques-
tions apart, as a Brit0n's duty to stick
to port. The punch-bowl had assumed
the dignity of a national institution, but
wine was still needed, andit wasthOught
better to buy it from our allies than to
deal, through the agency of unscrupu-
lous smugglers or suspected neutrals,
with the natural enemies of our glori-
Gus constitution This port, to the
great encouragement and diffusion of
gout and other ailments, came to be
drank to indiscretion among us, and
claret gradually grew to be looked on as
an expensive luxury, and to be charged
for accordingly.-AUth the Year Round.
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A Specimen German School.

We lived in Dresden for over six
months, and our experience of the
schools was the same as your CORES
pondent's, only matters were worse
with ms than he writes. The school
our boys attended was recommended by
the banker. It was one Of the largest
and most popular In the place. There
the German boys swore and fought,
and woe to the boy who would not
fight, or who was deficient IN strength.
The under-masters kept sticks, with
which they hit the German boys onthe
head, thing Of daily occurrence. The
big boys, in their turn, beat the smaller
ones. One small fellow, an American,
lying sick in bed, was struck by big
German in the face, so as to make the
blood flow. The principal of the school
took no notice of it, although he had
previous knowledge of it, until the
mother of the boy was also informed of
it by me. The food was insufficient In
quantity, and very poor in quality. It
consisted of black bread, which, how
ever, is common in respectable fami-
lies, tough beef, half-cooked ham, and
suasages always. The sleeping rooms
were crowded with as many beds as
they could contain. In winter there
were double sashes, and at night the
doors of the bedrooms were shut, and
the opening over the doors closed. No
air could get in or out, for they never
have any fre-places, always stoves. To
make things worse, soma of the boys
smoked in bed, while the teachers were
gone to the theatre. Here the boys
painted for breath, rolled up in some
thing like feather bed, no sheets or
blankets, except they we're especially
provided for. Other condition of things
were simply barbarous, quite destruc-
tive of all refinement or good manners,
for at the table both teachers and
scholars would comb their hair and
SHE hunks of meat and sausage at each
other.-NelO York Observer.
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what the wa Cogt Franco.

War indemnity, 5000, 200, 600 francs;
interest on the same for two years, 300, :
600, 600 francs; the keep of the German
troops, 573, ,637, 900 francs; acquisitions,
327, ,5S1, 600 francs; value of objects
taken without requisition, 254, IL, 600
francs war contribution Levied on
Paris, 200, 600, 600 francs, and so on nm
til the account forms a total of $685.
81, 900 francs. But this enormous sum
is exclusive of pensions to the army,
the damage done to material, and the
expense of reorganization, which swell
the total to Is, ,O00, 600, OoO francs. The
average value of days work in France
is one franc and a quarter and thus it
would take one man 1O, ,OO0, 600, 600 days,
or one million of men thirty years, to
work It out.
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The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph ftllusl mean that youg sub
seriptior IS oat or unpaid. and tlfat
yon are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and pattons.
but cash alone VIII pay expenses and
We are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope y0u viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit yo'lr faver.
H8- We enter no new names on our
isuols without the money ia s'i'- = sse
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PERsoSs who do not want to become
dvspeptie, should avoid the habit Of
gormandizing outside regular meals.
Give the stomach an occasional rest,
and IL viii stand ont the longer under
the repeated pressures Of huge meals,
and iRdigestible confections. All We
ask for the stomach is occasional rest.
We ask no more, because We fear that
If we asked more, We should get less.
Hearty meals and incessans lunches
furnish ample hypothesis to account fol
any amount Of dyspepsia.
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MORE TROUBLE ANTICIPATED FROM
ISD1ANs.-The report Of Genl. Sheri-
dan that arms of the most approved
patterns had been sold TO the Sioux In
dams seetnssto be correct, and the inte-
rior department has instructed the agent
in charge of that AGENCY 70 keep a vigi-
liant watch on any suspicious cllaracters
and have arrested and held in custody
any person upon whom in his judgment
a reasonable suspicion il this regard
NAV fall. Additional trouble is entici-'
pated with this tribe, as having broken
the treaty of 1868, in which it was sti-
pulated that they should not make war
either on the whites or any neighboring
tribe. The government, in view Of Il
recent Pawnee massacre, has decided to
withdraw from sltsm the privilege OF
hunting along the Republican fork in
Nebraska. The Indians viii resist, ana
more outrages are anticipated. Both
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail control up
wards Of 5000 warriors, and in their
peace, talk had in Washington some ten
years since, rigidly exacted as guar
antee Of peace the right 70 hunt on the
reservation about to be taken from them.
Il has been, however, the intention OF
the government to dispossess them OF
the privilege, as the settlers IN Nebraska
have made frequent complaints of the
depredations committed on their annual
f,.rv4