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DIR. J. g. AYERS INSANITY.
A Terrible Warning to Adver-
tiSerS.

The insanity of DR.. ]. c. Aver, of
Lowell, affords terrible warning to
advertisers. Here was man en-
gagged in the manufacture of pill,
not differing much from a hundred
other pills that may be obtained at
any drug store. In an unguarded
moment he made up his mind that
he would advertise, not in the plea
yune style of the ordinary dealer,
but in comprehensive sort of way,
by which he could reach every pos
sible purchaser of pills. He started
with the idea Of devoting half of
his profits each year to advertising.
The result might have been fore
seen. He accumulated money so
rapidly that he did not know what
to do with it. When he had rolled
together fifteen million dollars and
had vainly striven to find'some out
let for his ever-increasing profits,
his mind gave way under the alb
sorbing cares of his vast business,
and he is now a patient at an asy-
lum for the insane. How easily
this calamity might have been avert
ed! If he had stuck to the conser-
vative methods of many of our
merchants and refrained from adj
vertising, he might have been pass
ing quietly through bankruptcy now
instead of being loaded down with
his unco1nted millions. 1t is q
dangerous experiment for a man
who does not want to become rich
to advertise. Or if he advertises at
all he must advertise grudgingly
and at long intervals, lest his profits
should grow out of all proportion to
his requirents, and he should find
himself burdened with wealth. Adj
vertising, conducted on the princi-
pie of devoting half the profits of
business to it is, we repeat, a dan
gerous experiment. 1t precipitates
fortune upon the advertiser so sud-
denly that the chances are even
that he will not know what to do
with his money. The multitudinous
pleasures of bankruptcy, insolvency
and "shinniny around" for the
wherewithal to meet a note are psT-
manently denied to the man who adj
vertises. There never was in Eu-
rope or America great advertiser
who did not accumulate a great for
tune. Let those who desire to live
unburdened by the cares of wealth
take warning.-Mobile Register.
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Too Muchee She.

The Hartford Times has discov-
cred a polite Chinaman. AS a
street car was making its way along
Asylum avenue, lady after lady en-
tered and seat after seat was re-
signed by gentlemen, until, a Chi
naman was the only representative
of his sex who was not hanging on
to the straps. Soon the car stopped
again, and the Oriental, who had
been all along expressing by his
looks a profound contempt for the
chivalry of the Americans, yielded
his seat to simpering school girl.
The Celestial chung to the strap
with a frightened grip until he
reached his destination, when,
reaching the sidewalk and meeting
an acquaintance, he exploded, TOO
she"
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Had a Right to Laugh.

There is legend affirming that
one day nearly a hundred years
ago the snow was seven feet deep
on the streets of Detroit. On that
day not a woman was seen down
town, but next day, when the snow
had settled foot OF so, they were
abroad as usual. They were out
yesterday, wading through the
slush and jumping pools, and one
of them fell "kersplash" as she
passed the Soldiers Monument.
A man standing thirty feet away be-
gan laughing uproariously. He got
red in the face, tears came to his
eyes, and his hat fell off as he
and cried out;
"Went right down like bag of
sand-slush a foot deep-starched
up to kill-never saw anybody look
so cheap-oh! no! no! hor'
"You are not gentleman, sill"
remarked a man who had witnessed
the mishap.
Cant help that-ha! ha! no"
laughed the other, bending almost
double.
"You haven't the first instincts
of gentleman, SIR" continued the
other growing very mad.
81 know, but no! hol hop
screamed the other. 81 know just
how she felt as she went down
carrying all that style, and Ina!
ha! ha! whoop!p'
81 don't see anything so very
funny in it, growled the other.
mo you don't, but - And
he hung to the lamp post and
laughed till his legs weakened.
When he recovered his breath he
explained to the crowd:
''She was my wife, you see. She
probably wanted a pair of shoe
strings or two cents worth of silk
twist and it took her three hours to
curl and twist, and powder and fix up
to come down here and wade around
Then to fall fat with all her best
buds on, and to be helped up by a
rag buyer, and to hear the boys
yell out, why, it just takes all the
no! no! no! muscle right ha! ha!
out of me r'-Detroa Free Press.
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How to Sell a Tramp.

A Hartford newspaper tells how
lady of that city plays it, on
tramps, through the agency of the
spurious money known as "advertis-
ing greenbacks," and which, to the
casual observer, appear genuine.
The lady, with studied carlessness,
puts bill of this kind under the
mat at the back door and waits the
approach of the innocents. Up to
the door comes trampy, and his
greedy eyes at once alight on the
money. In flash it is transferred
to his pocket. and without stopping
to knock and beg, as he intended to
do, he hurries out of sight, radiant
with the JOY of one who unexpect-
eddy strikes good luck. When at a
safe distance he looks at the bill,
and as the extent of the deception
dawns upon him, he clutches his
hair, ami with a wild, despairing
cry of "Soldp crawls into a con
venient rat hole TO die. He does
not die, however.
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Rather Mixed.

A young man having been re-
quested ut a dinner to reply to the
time honored toast of Woman -
closed his remarks with the familiar
quotations from Scott:
go woman. in thine hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please"
Here his memory failed him; but
after little he continued in tri-
umph;
"But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity then embrace
1t is very rare that Scott and
Pope have been so fehcitously con
founded; nor would any one believe
that the last couplet, designed for
Vice, could be so fifty applied to
Woman. The sentiment is not
quite gallant; but who can deny
that man meeting a woman he
does not instinctiyely like, is after
a while thus carried from a passive
to an osculatorily active state?
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Planting for POsterity.

A poor old man was husily en-
gagged in planting and grating an
apple tree, when some one rudely
asked: "Why do plant trees if you
cannot hope to reap the fruit of
them?'' With great calmness the
old man raised himself up, and
leaning on his spade, replied, "Some
one planted trees before | did, and
1 have eaten the fruit; l now plant
for others, that the memorial of my
gratitude may exist when L am
dead and gone" l should think
that the old man was once a kind
boy.
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The Granger.
Straw.

We give the experience OF several
eminently practical and successful
farmers, and to much of which we
add our testimony, as to the value
of straw, or rather how it can be
made valuable forage. In England
the straw crop (hardly noticed
here) is regarded of nearly as much
value (perhaps as much) as is the
hay crop of this State. We have
frequently heard the remark, not
only as to horses, but cattle, that
"they would only eat straw because
they could get nothing else"
If the wheat is cut before it is too
ripe and is threshed and put in
barn before it has been caught in
the rain, horses and cattle will eat
and thrive on it without being
forced by starvation. Every farmer
can save more or less in this man
ner every year. We have known
colts and young cattle to keep in
good order on straw thus saved
without other food. They had good
stabling, however.
The most successful method of
making straw of great value was
given us by a South western man,
and we know it is true, to-wit: mix
ing straw with fresh-cut grass, or
more especially clover. Many farm
ers thresh their oats in the spring,
and waste or throw away the straw
as of little value. Many have large
quantities of good wheat straw left
over in the spring, which is wasted
or scattered on the land. All the
straw, and especially oat straw, not
solutely necessary for winter feed
ing, should be well kept under cover
till the time of moving. AS soon
as grass is cut it may be put up in
ricks or in barns in alternate layers,
beginning with straw, sowing a
sprinkling of salt on the green
grass. Clover should be left to
wither, say half day, in the sun.
The straw absorbs much of the sap
and flavor of the grass, and this
process is greatly aided by the dis
solving salt. The straw and salt
prevent the grass and clover from
spelling, and the whole mass is
made into valuable forage most pal
atable for horses as well as cattle.
This need not be called an expert
ment; it has been tested and meets
a want often felt by those farmers
who find pleasure and profit in
stock raising.-[Lynchburg (Va.
News
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The "high" farmer is the farmer
of the future. He will cultivate less
land, put on all the manure he can
get, and reap large returns on less
labor, and thus make big profits,
and this will ennoble the avocation
and greater interest in farming.
Farming that is worthy of the name
does pay, but requires an expendi-
ture of brains as we'll as muscle to
secure the largest returns.
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Love at First Sight.

After the train had left Mechanics
vile the rain came down in tor
rent, and the roof of the car sprang
leak. A young lady, tall, grace
full, dark eyed, lovely, moved uneas-
lily in her seat; the water dripping
from the roof was spelling her
handsome dress. A young gentle
man, also beautiful, looked up from
his newspaper, and, overcome by
the radience of her glance, offered to
exchange seats with her and to
take the wet corner himself. With
a sweet smile and a musical "Thank
you, sir" the change of base was
effected. Then they edged their
way into conversation, and soon
there was splitter of confidential
whispers. Finally there was an
awkward pause, broken by the gen.
tleman saying: "Here is a Troy
paper; perhaps you would like to
read the news?'' Thank you,"
was the tair ones reply; 81 should
like to hear the news very much,
but 1 can't read. Troy Press
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COLUMBIA DISTRICT TEN
NESSEE CONFERENCES
Sd Round of Ouar'Iy Meetings,

Culleoka and Hurricane Sta, at Hurricane,
March 81, April l.
Pleasant Valley Station, at Pleasant Valley,
April7, S.
Trinity CT, at Aspen Hill, April IA, Is,
Elkton STA, at Midbridge, April 81, %.
Prospect CT, at Mt. Carmel, May 5, 6.
Richland Ct. at Shiloh, May II, IS,
Lynnville Ct, at Hebron, May 10, 20.
Mt Pleasant CT. at BigbyvIlle, May %, q.
Columbia Sta. May %, 81.
Nebo & WilliamsPort, at Jones' Academy,
June 2, 8.
Pulaski Sta, June 8, 10.
Mt. Pisgah CT, at Blooming Grove, j une 5
16, IT.
Giles CT, at Phelps Chapel, June 16, II
Marcella Falls CT at Enterprise, June %, "a.
District Conference at Old Lynnville, April
26-29. Bishop Keener will preside. Open
ing sermon by Rev. S. P. Ghitten, Thursday
night, April, 20. Preachers and people in
vited. Let every member of every Quarterly
Conference in the District be sure to attend.
WELLBORN MOONEY, P. E.
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Foot Evil.

ITO the Editor of the Courier-J ournall
MONTGOMERY, ALA, May %, 1877.
Some one of your correspondents
wishes to know a remedy for foot
evil, or runaround on a horse. Mix
well hcg's lard and sulphate of zinc
in equal proportions, wash the
horses foot well and apply the
salve. If not a very bad case, one
will be sufficient, and
two or three will cure the most OBJ
stinate case. The remedy is equally
good for scratches. 1t never fails.
f. G. b.
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A Weeks War News.

On Monday morn the news arrived,
There had been bloody work,
But no one knew which lied the most,
The Christian or the Turk.
On Tuesday morning Russia claimed
A victory for her side.
On Wednesday, from Turkish source,
The victory was denied.
On Thursday each side swore it had
TheJother put to rout,
And Frlday's news the fight confirmed,
Withou. the slightest doubt.
On Saturday twas whispered round
The whole affair was small,
And Sundays cable news declared
There'd been no fight at all.
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a Repository Of Fashion, Pleasure an
Instruction"
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MOTHER.

The name of motherl sweetest name
That ever fell on mortal earl
The love of motheri mightest love
Which heaven permits to flourish here,
Dissect mothers love and see
The properties it doth contain
What pearls of love, what gems of hope
A mothers heart beats not in vain.
A mothers love- 1t never wanes;
What if her boy an migrate seemss
The beauty of that wondrous love
Around thu thankless offspring beams;
Though in the path of shame he walks,
Though crime hath driv'n him to the bowl
mothers care can yet avail
A mothers prayers may win his soul.
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The Oldest City in the World.

Damascus is the oldest city in the
world. Tyre and Sidon have crum-
bled on the shore; Baalbec is a ruin !;
Palmyra lies buried in the sands of
the desert; Ninevah and Babylon
have disappeared from the shores
of the Tigris and Euphates. Da-
mascus remains what it was before
the days of Abraham-a center of
trade and travel; an island of ver-
dure in desert, ga predestined cap
ital;" with martial and sacred as
sociations extending beyong thirty
centuries.
1t was near Damascus that Saul
of Tarsas saw "the light from heav-
en-, above the brightness of the sun ;"
the street which is called Strait, in
which it is said he "prayeth, still
runs through the city; the caravan
comes and goes as it did one thou
sand years ago; there is still the
shiek, the ass and the waterwheel;
the merchants of the Euphrates and
Mediterranean still occupy these
"with the multitude Of their wares"
The city which Mohammed
surveyed from neighboring height,
and was afraid to enter, because it
is given to man TO have but one
paradise, and, for his part, he was
resolved not to have it in this
world" it is to this day what Julian
called the Eye o: the East" as it
was in the time of Isaiah the Head |
of Syria"
From Damascus came our dam
son, or damascens-our blue plums
and the delicious apricot of Por-
tugal, called damasco; damask;
our beautiful fabric of cotton and
silk, with vines and flowers raised
upon smooth, bright ground; da-
mask roses, introduced into Eng
and in the time of Henry VII; the
Damascus blade, so famous the
world over for Its keen edge and
elasticity.
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IN YOU have weak voice, subject % hoarse-
ness, and throat often sore; II yoL have
- weak lungs; II you have weak back; If
you are troubled with eonstip patton or
piles, prolapsus ami, or hernia; ifcontinued
speaking, singing, riding or walking fatigues
or exhausts You. your abdominal Inuscles
have relaxed, and you need upholdlng. II
you will enclose me three cent stamp, the
enect1al remedy will be pointed out, aud in
formation how 10 obtain il with or without
money. 70; prolapsus uteri, woman's weak
ness, an infHllible cure. Address
J. p GRAVES,
Editor Of "The Baptist, )" Memphis, Tenn.
Having sutiered, compassionate the suffer
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ERRORS. OF YOUTH!

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years
u from Nervous Debility, Premature Decay
and all the effects of youthful indiscretion
viii, for the sake Of suffering humanity, send
free to all who need it, the recipe and direc-
ton for making the simple remedy By which
he wae cured. sufferers wishing 10 profit by
the ADVERTISER experience cal Dc 30 by ad-
dressing in perfect confidence, JOHN Il. OG-
DEN, ~ Cedar St., n. Y. iar.II-6m
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TO CONSERVATIVES.

THE advertiser having been permanently
L cured of that dread disease, Consumption,
by simple remedy is anxious to make know
TO his fellow sufferers the means Of cure. To
all who desire it, he will send a copy OF the
prescription used, (free Of charge with the
directions for preparing and using the same,
which they will find a sure cure for Consump-
ton, Asthma, Bronchitis, etc. Parties wish
ing the prescription will please address, Rev.
Z. A. WILSON, 194 Penn St., williamsburg,
New York
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A farmer in Virginia is said to
have seven hundred acres planted
with tomatoes, which is probably
the largest plantation of the kind
in the world. He grows them for
the canning establishments in Bal
finOra
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TUFTS PILLS

A distinguished physician of New Yorh
ays:
1t is astonishing how universally DR..
rutts Pills are used. In my daily rounds
hear of them not only among the poor
out their virtues are heralded from the man.
'ions of the wealthy and refined. Know
my the inventor from his long connection
with the medical profession, 1 have great
confidence in their merits, and of late have
often prescribed them with the happiest re.
suits in cases where / desired to make de
;ided impression on the liver"
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A Maine dairyman reports that
be has a COW giving milk so rich
that one pound of butter is obtained
from every five and one-eighth
quarts of milk. 1t is, perhaps, I'M
necessary to state that the COW is a
pure Jersey.