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Newspapers DOmestically Considered.

Too low an estimate is apt to be set on
the domestic value of newspapers. After
reading them, and putting ourselves,
through their agency, in mental cores
pondence with the world, they are thrown
aside and forgotten. But to suppose their
usefulness bounded by their news columns
and the waste-bag is thriftless mistake.
In the first place, there are the house
hold recipes, to be found in stray corners,
often excellent, and deserving a refuge OH
the fly-leaf of the family cookbook. Then
come the pretty verses, the strange and
drOll stories, the brief biographies and rem
iniscences which, pasted in a scrap-bOOk,
are a source of never-ending pleasure, not
only to those who do not care for richer
intellectual food, but to those who have
only odd minutes for reading.
Notwithstanding the squibs jOcular jour
nalists have penned on the use of newspa-
pers for bed-clOthing, we know from eXpe-
rience that these are not to be despised.
They may not be as comfortable as your
blankets, but CT rtainly they keep out the
cold. Two thicknesses of paper are bet
ter than pair of blankets, and in the case
of persons who dislike the weight of
many bed-clOthes, they are invaluable.
\ spread made of a double layer of
papers between a covering of calico or
chintZ, is desirable in every household.
The papers should be tackled together with
thread, and also basted to the covering to
keep them from slipping. An objection
has been made on account of the rustling,
but if soft papers be chosen the noise will
not be annoying, especially should the
spread be laid between a blanket and the
cOunterpane.
As protection to plants against cold,
both in and out of doors, nothing is better.
If newspapers are pinned up over night at
a window between pots and glass, the
flowers will not only not be frozen, but
will not even get chilled, as they are so
liable to be at this season. In the same
way, if taken to cover garden-beds, on the
frosty nights of early autumn, they will
allow the plants to remain safely out
doors some time later than is common.
One of the oldest services to put our
Journals to is the keeping of ice in summer.
An ingenious housekeeper recently dis
covered that her daily lump of ice would
last nearly twice as long when wrapped in
newspapers, and placed in any kind of
refrigerator. This is very convenient,
since it is possible to have the best and
cheapest refrigerator constantly at hand.
To polish all kinds of glass after washing
except table glass, no cloth or flannel is
half so good as newspaper; and for a
bakers dozen of other uses, quite foreign
to its primal purpose, it is without rival.
-ScTJbneT's for March,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-05
Fashion VS.. Food.

An observer, writing about the English
factory-girls, gives an amusing descrip-
ton of the manner in which one of them
passed her dinner hour. Crowds of these
girls had assembled outside of cheap
cook-shop during the half hour allotted to
dinner. Among them was a ragged,
scantily-clOthed child about fourteen years
old. She stood for long time in front of
the cOOk-shOp window looking longingly
within. All the others had gone, and the
poor forlOrn child still remained there,
rattling few halfpence in her hand. AT
last, with longing look at the tempting
viands, she paused moment at the open
door and then dashed off down the street.
The observer followed her, thinking that
she was in search of cheaper cook-shOp,
and pitying her hard fate. But she soon
reached store where secondhand finery
was for sale, entered, and returned in
few moments with faded but gorgeous
bunch of artificial flowers, containing a
tull-blown rose, a poppy or two, and fair
sprinkling OF wheat. With a glow of tri-
umph on her face, old before its time, she
looked eagerly around to see if any one
observed her. Then spying, close at hand,
the secluded gateway of a lumber-yard,
she darted across the road, and crouching
in corner, was quickly observed in re-
trimming the battered old hat which rest
ed on her knees
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-05
Short Credits.

While so many papers are DISCUSSING
whether or not the country should return
to specie payments, it should not be for
gotten that there is a large class of per-
sons whom we owe who are not at all par
ticular whether payment is made in specie
or in greenbacks. Most of us have debts
owing to us, and we would no doubt as
soon have these debts paid in greenbacks
as specie. ANY kind of payment is salts
factory to those who want money, and
that is the case with most of us just now.
One of the worst of our farming troubles
the past wear or two, is the debt most of
us have had to carry. Our crops have
either failed, or else been so very produc-
tive that they brought little price in mar
ket. We have thus not been able 10 pay
our debts. and much of the embarrass-
ment which so many feel comes from this
fact as much as from anything wrong in
public affairs. Ifthe result of our troubles
should bring US nearer to cash payments,
it will be of more influence on our pros
perity than either greenbacks or specie
payment under highly extended credit
system.
Of course perfect system of agricultur-
al operations on nothing but a cash sys-
ten is impossible. Thousands of men
now own farms who would never have
owned a strip of land only that they
bought it on mortgage; and borrowed
money has often helped man in busi-
ness, besides doing good to the one who
loaned. Hard cash for everything means,
with most persons, hard work for life and
little at the end; but the man who goes
heavily in debt should remember that hard
times will always come in turn
with good ones, and then it is
that debts are so hard to pay. No
one should contract debts without
thinking of the possibilities of bad times,
and what means will be at hand when one
source of income fails.
No doubt these pinches make many a
one resolve never to go in debt again, but
such indiscriminate resolutions are never
kept. If small bills are kept paid, as they
generally can be, and this kind of cash
payment be brought about, the advantage
es OfjudciOus debt Will always remain
the same.-Fo7ney's Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-05
A Lesson for Americans.

Mr.. Joseph Medill, eX-Mayor of Chicago,
writing from Paris to the Tribune, of the
former c$y, speaks of he economy the
French. He says:
But that in which the French more par
ticularly eXceliS economy. Compared with
these French people the Americans are
wasteful, imprOvident, and eXtravagant.
1t seems to me they live on just about one
half what the Americans do. They have a
knack, so to speak, of making little go
great way, and extracting subsistence
or comfort from things Americans would
throw away or never notice.
1t NAV be instructive to point out a few
of the matters to which reference is here
made. In the first place, not one ounce of
food is wasted in harvesting or preparing
for market. In the next place, not one
ounce more of vegetables, flesh, fish, or
fowl, groceries or liquids, than is really
needed, ever goes into the pot or kettle, or
is placed on the table. The wife of every
French family knows to anicety what guam
tity of each kind offood is the least that will
suffice to make comfortable meal, and not
a particle more than that is cooked or
served. There are no slop-buckets full Of
victuals left on the table after breakfast or
dinner, to be thrown on the street or ma
nure-heap, or flung to the dogs or swine,
as in America. No pieces of bread or meat
or vegetables are thrown away; such guam
titles are not bought as to become stale or
spoiled in the cellar or pantry. Servants
are never permitted to waste or steal food
for poor relations, as in America. The la
dy of the house looks after the marketing,
her kitchen, and her pantry with sharp
eyes and unfiagging care.
The economy in the consumption OF ful-
ell for cooking and hOuse-warming Is inl-
mense as compared with that in our waste
full country. One reason, of course, is that
wood and coal in France are scarce and
dear. They cost at least double the price
paid therefor in the United States ; but the
domestic consumption is not One-quarter
as much. Paris contains between four and
five times the population of Chicago but
1 find that the fuel CONSUMED in it is less
than in Chicago. 1t is true that the climate
is much warmer for six months in the year
in Paris than in Chicago but after making
the due allowance for that it still remains
true that only one-third to twO-fifths as
much fuel is consumed per capita in Paris
as in Chicago; and, as far as my observa-
ton and inquiries extend, the same proper
ton holds good throughout all France.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-05
Tree HabitatiOns i'm the South Sea Is
lands.

Among the papers presented to the Brit
ish Parliament relating to the South Sea
islanders, is a report by Captain G. III.
Simpson, of Her Britannia Majesty's ship
Blanche, giving an account of his visit in
1872 to the Solomon and other groups Of
islands in the Pacific Ocean. While at Isa-
bel Island, Captain Simpson, with party
of officers, went short distance inland 20
visit one of the curious tree VILLAGES, pecu-
liar, ne believes, to this island. He found
the village built on the summit Of a rocky
mountain, rising almost perpendieulaTiy
to height Of eight hundred feet. The
party ascended by a native path, and fond
the extreme summit mass of eBermous
rocks standing up ike castle sHlong
which grew gigantic trees, in the branch
es of which the houses OF the natives are
built. The stems of these trees rise per-
fectly straight and smooth. without d
branch to height Of from fifty TO hun-
dred and fifty feet. In the one Captain
Simpson ascended, the house was Just
eighty feet from the ground; one close TO
it was about one hundred and twenty ieet..
The only means of approach 20 fheee
houses is by ladder made OF a ercepeT
suspended from a post wiEhie t9e 19asp
and which, Of eouss<z can = hli,slstl 'sp tE
will.-GaLary for Nrfch- -
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-05
A Prayed-Out Saloon Keeper

We had the pleasure, recently, of talk
with a Mr. -, who came to this city from
Macarthur, VintOn county, Ohio, where he
had sort of a club room where game OF
cards could be played, and a drink OF
whisky taken. He was driven out BY the
wOmen's war against whisky and cards.
Mr.. G-'s description of the war, rs he
saw it, is good. He says:
'sThev climbed up to my place week
ago last Friday night, tifty-fOur of them,
young and old, rich and poor, some in rags
and some in fine harness. Each Of the fifty
four women came up personally and spoke
to me and hoped I'd get new soul. OF
course had to treat 'em politely. There
was only one lamp burning in the room
when they came in. so | lit another for
them, to make it lighter. Then they took
out their hymn-bOOks, andall sang tOgeth-
er. One or two of 'em led, and the rest
Joined in. After they had sung fifteen
minutes or so, they all got down on their
marrOw-bOnes and prayed. There was one
woman there thGt could pray loud enough
TO be heard all over the village, which has
only eight hundred inhabitants. A woman
would pray, and the rest would join in
with an amen, long and loud one. One
of the women that prayed was seventy
years old. She prayed so long and strong
that she got herself all of a trcmble. and
had to be lifted to her feet and carried down
stairs. One time they called, all got down
on their marrOw-bOnes, on the outside, and
sang and prayed"
Reporter-YO on closed up, finally?
Mr.. G.-There was nothing else to do
when they were carrying on that way.
They closed everything in the village
down to an oyster saloon were the folks
were in the habit of playing game OF
cards to see who'd pay for the stews, a
place where there wasn't drop of liquor
sold.
Reporter-How do they treat a fellow in
their prayers?
Mr.. G.-They are very kind in their
prayers at first. They pray for fellows
soul, and then stick petition before him.
If he don't sign to quit, they pray for light
ming to strike his shOp.-CmeiHHa COM
nerciaI.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-05
TOO LATE.

The wind is raving. the night Is chill,
Drearily drips the rain;
Yet all alone by the windov-siD,
NV face on the frozen pane, -
dream OF the days that were 9nos 81
Days that are now 80 sorry snu
And wish for them back IN Naih'
sT,r.s unsar tiose slms I saw him last,
Sfridfnc in wrath away
Ara ss ne shsd0w the sunset passed
4 urouig noS bid lin stay,
Ta,,, t,.-k sffl1 more from the rosy light,
- ~ nv fsce he should get n sight,
50 Jroud was thst day.
am humbled since love, my yiovel
M could see you now,
fnould feel so blessed that the blessed above
such bliss could hardly know,
And the gem which my folly flung away
Would be held 20 a happy heart to-day:
An God that IL were so
We both were erring, we both were wrong,
But the greater error mine;
For knew, though bitter and harsh youI
tongue,
That you loved me all the time;
And you thought me heartless, you thought m,
high,
Though an the while was nothing but shy.
And frightened 10 own me thine.
All many year has sped since then
(lIearkc1 the storm-gull's cry y
Yet still sit by the window-pane
And watch for your coming by
And watch and weep and wait In vain.
Only 20 see you smile again,
AHd kiss you before die
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-05
Lead Pipes and Water Supply.

The question whether water is poisoned
by flowing through lead pipes was lately
discussed in the French Academy of Sci
ence, with results that are calculated to quiet
the apprehensions of those who get their
water supply through such pipes. NJ.
Dumas stated that in his chemical lectures
he had long been accustomed to employ
a very simple experiment for the purpose
OF OfshOwing that water corrOdes lead only
under special conditions He takes dis
TILED water, rain water, spring water. river
water, ETC., and drops into each pieces of
lead. 1t is found that only the distilled
water acts on the lead, the salts of lime in
the rest of the specimens preventing the
reaction. NJ. Belgrand read to the Acade-
my memoir giving the results of his in
vestigations into this subject The an
cient Romans employed lead water pipes
on a large scale, but yet no Latin medical
writer says anything of lead-poisoning
produced by the water. According to NJ.
Belgrand, sne-sixth of grain of calcare-
GUS salts TO the quart prevents the disso-
luton of the lead. He exhibited to the
Academy pieces of lead pipes which had
been in service from the time of Louis
XIV, without showing any sign of cor
rosion; and analysis of water that has
passed through a long line of lead pipes
showing the complete absence of Lead
GoL0zg for March.
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all around them half dozen times before
he asks for them. We cannot tell how
this affects God, but we do know how it
affects men. We know that the Saviour
said that the kingdom of heaven suffereth
violence, and the violent take it by force,
and such usually move on straight lines.
When will we learn that in childhood are
the best analogies of Christian life? and a
fair induction from the SaviOur's words
makes Christian life a glorified childhood.
And children never want directness in
their petitions for the qualification of their
wants. What child ever prefaeed the eX-
preston of a want by flattering utterances
for about five minutes, and then, by a cir
cumlocution of about three more, asked
for piece of bread? Many spend min
utes in what seems as much like adulatiOn
as alteration, before they begin to pray at
all, or by naming and dwelling on attrib-
utes which they never have understood,
perhaps never will, and may not exist
J.eSb4ffey%i0n
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rough word don't hurt him, but kind one
he can't stand" And this was true. His
soul was fortified against hatred and con-
tempt, but kind voice, or gentle caress,
seemed to wound him so that he would
sob like an infant.
As he recovered from his illness he con-
tinued gentle, kind, and shrinking, to a
fault BY the operation of some spiritual
law that l do not fully comprehend, he
was, after his recovery, one of those who
win a strange affection from others. His
influence seemed like mild fascination.
1t was said of him in after years, that he
wasmOre truly loved, and by more people,
than any other man or woman in all the
settlements round. Children loved him
with passionate attachment, and the wO-
man of child-like nature whom he made
his wife is said to have died of grief at his
death. He departed this life at the age of
thirty-eight years, and he sleeps on the
edge of the great valley, with his mother
and his wife beside him.-AtLantic for
March
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Mistaken Identity.

A ludicrOus case of mistaken identity
occurred in Montreal, recently, through
the unfortunate resemblance oftwO young
gentlemen. One of them was recently
married, and the other is still a bachelor.
The married person went to dinner party,
while the unmarried one went 10 a con-
vivial entertainment, and, owing to a
miscalculatiOn of his capacity for wine, he
spoiled his nights amusement. While a
glimmer of reason remained he endeavOr-
ed to get home. By the time the young
man reached a cab-stand his mind had be-
come so confused that he was unable to
remember his own name or the street in
which he lived. AS he was engaged in
gesticulating to the cab-driver, a friend of
the married gentleman noticed his plight,
and, confounding his identity, pushed him
into the cab, whispered to the driver, and
continued on his way. The result of this
act was the conveyance of the unmarried
man to the home of the married man,
where his condition created anything but
a pleasant surprise. The wife was, of
course, mortified. Subsequently the faith
er-in-iaw entered the room to demonstrate
with him. After wasting much good adj
vice, the father-in-law discovered the mis-
take, and was in the act of trying to per-
suade his daughter, probably muchagainst
her will, that the young man was not her
husband, when the real husband put an
end to the dispute by letting himself in at
the hal-door with a latch-key.
Boston has champion belt ON exhibit
ton. which took the hidesof one hundred
oxen for its construction. 1t is needless
to say it is not intended for the prize-ring,
but is TO be run by three hundred and
fifty horsepower engine in a factory,
where there will be great danger of its tax
ing more hides.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-05

PoLTENEss is ike IN air cushion; there
may be nothing in il, but itesses you won
derfully.
The New York herald., 1874-07-26
JERSEY CITY. HOBOKEN, HUDSON CIT]
AND BERGEN REAL ESTATE.
PROPERTY OUT OF THE cry FOf;
SALE OR TO RENT.

Y PAMRAPO-DELfGHTF SEA BREEZES. z
a minuesi eight cents per trip, from foot Of Liberty
ttreet: monthly instalnents received for ard
lots; why pay rent when you own year own house
fishing boa ing Inqre of anitor s5 Wall -
The New York herald., 1874-07-26

An ELEGANT RESIDENCE, MINUTES WALK
from landing, Clifton Sta ten Island fronts on the
bay; hne beach; carriage house and porter lodge ;
inciy shaded GROUNDS Of the most delightful resi-,
nences on the island Sls,0W; $1,000: TO close
estate. DARRTN. 50 Broad street
The New York herald., 1874-07-26
W est sidc.

GJD BACH.-BEAUrIyuLLY IoCATEn srBURBAN
tD1 - LOTS So down; balance next january; rurrent
price Is 500 eech; obliged to sell Address 5. Z,
box IS Herald office.
The New York herald., 1874-07-26

II RidgeheId, NJ y. 0n the Northern Railroad, " mn.
ntcs IRON loot OF Chambers street, elegant large house.
with modern improvements Two acres; all kinds OF
fruif ornamental rounds, Kitchen garden &C good
wafer; high ground view for 80 miles from piazza good
md stable tour horses, minutes walk IRON
depot every hing TO make desirable country home
az The year found ncr lived IN Il seven wears; viii
now srH decftea
EASY. FOR parficuiars appy to y. CVLTON 53 East
tnirnensh street ntaT Broadway.
The New York herald., 1874-07-26

11OR SALE-ONE LOT AND TWO HOUSES. 25Xll3
/ teet, between Sixtynntn and seventieth streets.
First avenue terms easy; Drlee o.. .59J - .x
The New York herald., 1874-07-26

ITO LEr--A HANDSOME FRONT BASEMENT FUR
niture new lor nnurnished, with convenenccs, gas
ana hathroom $5 weekly furnished also hall Bedroom,
street 80.
The New York herald., 1874-07-26
REAL ESTATE TO EXCHANGES.

MO BUMBUG. 40 WORTH 5000; NEW THREH
IN story Store Is rooms ssx fii lot 30 foot sveAue
rents S66 bargain; Butcher Baker Saloon; large
Corner Grocery cheap or exchange; stock. Fixtures
City.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-03-04
wise 10; sales 269; spinners so; stock
IA. 924

SuRaERY.-Cataract Operated for,
Artificial Pupil. EncantAus, Ercanthus,
Ptosis, Pterygum.-T -Tumors or polypus
ID tho ear, nose and eye removed; en-
larged tonsils, watery eyes and sore eyes
cured; discharges from the ears and deaf
ness cured; hare lips operated for; club
ieet made straight; crossed eyes straight
ened in old and young, and the sight
made perfect. All delicate and difficult
surgical operations performed off.hand
ny DR.. Jones. Diseases of the throat
and lungs cured by his new method of
inhaling, which directs the remedies to
the spot, the only sure, quick and plea
SAINT way OF reaching this insidious and
heretofore fatal disease by DR.. Jones,
who has prolonged his stay at the
Wheeler House, Oolcmbia, 8. c., until
the 18th of March.
Or. j. is graduate of the best medi-
cal colleges of Europe aud America;
his diplomas from the same are sus.
pended in his Office at the Wheeler
House.
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names are Menare Anthony Barli and
Peter Tarchini. They were formerly
in with another named Sicardy. Barii
did not attend properly to business,
which was the source Of repeated quar-
rels between him and the other parties,
who bought him out two months ago.
Barli and Tarohini met week ago, and
quatreled. They did not meet again
until this morning, as they were going
to work. They quarreled again, when
Barli drew revolver and shot Tarohini
in the breast, after which he shot him.
self in the head; both men being in
stantly killed.
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Sale of Securities.
BY 6EIBELS & EZELL, Auctioneers.

Sale of Securities. af
BY 6EIBELs & EZELL, Auctioneers.
In compliance with instructions from tho
Carolina National Bank OF Columbia, s. O..
We will sell, on THURSDAY, March IL
next. at our Office, at II O'Clock A. H., on
account Of whom it may concern, the fol-
lowing SECURITIES, viz:
Blue Ridge Railroad Company.
$4,000 Of Second Mortgage Bonds OF the
droanville and Columbia Railroad COMPANY.
*6W go OF Coupons OF said Bonds OF the
dreenvllIe and Columbia Railroad Oompsny.
aS,Ss5 OF Bills OF the Bank Of the State Of
80, 267 80 OF Coupons OF Bonds Of the Lau.
rens Railroad Company.
Sale positive and without reserve. Terms
after the day OF sale, ksh OK
In addition to tho above, we will sell At
t the same time and place, without reserve,
collateral for Payments Of certain claims
IN our hands: $4,000 First MortgsSs RIca
Ridge Railroad Bonds; $18, 900 Past Due
Coupons, detached from Bonds.