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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25

slant restraint of the check-rein is a
very cruel thing. sin throwing him.
self nto the collar the horse will always,
if not prevented, project his head for
ward, the action aiding him greatly in
his work. And indeed, it may be safely
asserted that the greatest results from
the exercise of the horses power in any
way, can only be attained when the ami
NAL has unrestrained use OF his head
and neck"
To prevent Jorers injuring young APP
pie trees take equal parts of blue clay,
green cow manure and soft soap and
make wash SO as TO be put on with a
brush or old corn-broom. Make the
ground dishing around the tree, then
tie birch bark or paper (such as car
penters use under clap board), draw
dirt around the bottom of the paper and
YOU need have no trouble SO long as the
paper lasts. If bOrers are already in,
and you can't get them out, bore in with
a small bit slanting near where the de-
DESTROYER is and fill the hole with kerO-
sene and plug it, and he will die pretty
soon. This plan worked well with me
anu tlIu uOl lliJtlAC AhO bAOOo' NV' ~ Il =
Tribune.
STORIES of prison torture in Sing
Sing New York; are again being given
to the public through eX-convicts. One,
who is just out of Sing Sing, says they
have returned to the paddle in that in
stitution, and that it is now used with
more vigor, if possible, than ever be-
fore. BY way of illustration, he stated
that delicate boy of 10 years was first
placed in a dark cell for five days and 4
half on bread and water; was then re-
moved to his own cell, and after three
days was subjected to the paddle. The
number of strokes the boy received he
does not give, but says he has known of
a prisoner having received one hundred
and twenty-one. The offense of the
victim in this instance was refusal to
work when he was really unable to do
so. The Warden, as usual, denies the
story and invites scrutiny. There is lit
tie doubt, however, that the punishment
is too severe, in fact that it is sometimes
brutal. Every prisoner, on being re-
leased, testiies to the fact-they dare
not do it while incarcerated-and more
than once have the more tender-hearted
of the employees admitted it.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25
Eastern, Central, and Western Texas.

! Texas may be, for convenience sake,
divided into eastern, central, and west
ern sections. The first, or timbered
portion, has the Trinity River as awest-
ern boundary. This region exceeds the
area of the State of New York. Central
Texas may be defined rs including all of
! the vast prairie lands from the Trinity to
the Colorado, leaving beyond Il territory
larger than both of the former, and eX-
ceeding the size of any four of our or
. binary States, as the western portion.
The first named is the oldest in point of
AnglO-SaXon civilization. The prairie
loan lands are in condition of evolu-
ton or progression, and, being the most
fecund, the great centers of population
which multiplied generations will pro-
duce will be located within the boun-
diaries given. Much of the far western
land is arid and uncultivable. The
Staked Plains are the most notable ex-
ample. Western Texas will be invaded
in time by the miner; for its mineral
wealth, as already revealed, is consider
able. The tide of immigration to this
section will doubtless reverse the general
order of things, and move eastward
through Arizona. Railway cOmmunica-
ton from the Pacific will materially con-
tribute to this result. Atpresent the ex-
IRENE point of eastern encrOachment is
the city of San Antonio, which is only a
city of the Anglo-Saxon by virtue of
conquest, and marks the limit of a dar-
ing, brilliant, and intellectual civiliza-
ton, whose impulse was eastward, and
which built a garden in the plain about
the time that the French took root in In
diana, and the good people of New Eng
land were exercising themselves about
the Salem witchcraft delusion. 1t is
reasonable to assume that history may
repeat itself in this instance.
The wooded country of Eastern Tex
as yields a rich variety of useful woods
yellow pine, cypress, red and white
oaks, live-oak, hickory, pecan, and &C.
dar predominating. The Trinity, Sa-
bine, Neches, Angelina, San Jacinto,
and other rivers afford rafting facilities
and water-power at times, although wa
ter is an uncertain commodity in the
State, and nearly all mills have steam
engines. A new road will soon bisect
the lumber districts, springing from
DenisOn, near the Red River, and trav-
ersing the State to Sabine Pass, which
is GO miles east of Galveston, and al
ready an important numbering point.
The transcontinental division of the
Texas and Pacific, as well as its main
line from Marshall westward, affords an
outlet for the n, r5hern section, while the
International and Great Northern road
passes through its western tier of coun-
ties, and a road toward New Orleans
connects Orange on the Sabine, with
Houston. Before the construction of
the railroads one of the greatest difficult
ties which the prairie settler had to en-
counter was the scarcity and extreme
cost of lumber. 1t sold Is high as $50
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25
A Warming to Girls.

An awful case of the consequences of
refusing a young mans honorable love
is reported on the West Side A really
nice young man fell in love with hand
some girl, the only daughter of a hand
some and well preserved widow of So,
and offered her marriage. She ridiculed
him because he was %, and Said he was
old enough to be her father, and so on,
and with her taunts goaded him to such
pitch of frenzy that he swore he would
be fearfully revenged. Accordingly he
proposed to and married the wretched
girls mother. Now that wretched girl
has to wear stout leather boots two sizes
too large for her, and 90 to bed at 8 p.
M, and eschew the theater, chocolate
caramels, ice-cream, and, in fact, every
thing else that makes life worth living
for, her stepfather's nominal object be-
ing that when she grows up she may be
as splendidly matured a woman as her
mother, the compliment implied in this
inducing the mother to second him en-
Enthusiastically; and when young man
comes round to see that wretched girl
her stepfather bOunces him down the
front steps and throws his hat after him,
and tells the wretched girl that the young
man is not fit companion for her, and
that he is as solicitous for her future as
he would be for that of his own child,
and altogether in the kindest manner
possible he makes that wretched girl
even wish that she were dead as many
as hundred times day. Let all other
beautiful girls who are ever tempted to
refuse the matrimonial offers of eligible
young men be warned by her unhappy
fate -Chicdqo Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25

AT the Scientific Convention at Sara
toga, Prof Wilder described case
where dog removed burs from cats
tail. The cat and dog were intimate
and on the best of terms, and they ate
and slept together. The question is
whether this was an act of benevolenee
on the part of the dog toward the cat,
or whether the dog simply removed burs
from his companion because of nerv-
Gus irritation about and dislike of burs.
In the process of this removal, to which
the cat readily and willingly acceded,
one bur stuck fast, and the dog, persist
ing in his efforts to pull off the bur, ac-
tually pulled up the cat by the tail. Both
of them appeared surprised, but the cat
did not doubt the kindly intent of the
operation. The dog then held down the
cats body by means of his foot and thus
proceeding extracted all the burs. Al
though at first sight it looks as if the
whole performance were benevolent,
Prof. Wilder is inclined to view it mere
ly as an instance of dislike TO burs in
general on the part of the dog.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25
A Wandering Heir.

The Boston Herald publishes highly
interesting story, of which the following
is the substance: In 1869 there disappear
ed from the City of London boy of four
years, named Harry Gilbert Stratton.
Since that time until yesterday, the
whereabouts of himself and his only sis
ter has been unknown, although for the
last nine years persistent search has
been made for the children, both in
Europe and America, the British Con-
sul-General at New York having been
deeply interested in the case. 1t should
be stated that the children fell heirs,
nine years ago, by the death of their
parents, to considerable property in
London. Harry was found in the
tramps' clearinghouse in this city yes
terday, and told reporter his story,
which is that he was kidnapped by one
D'Atalie, a noted circus performer, who
died short time since. He was brought
by D'Atalie to this country, and, al
though but five years old, subjected to
fendish system of training for
the profession of a contortionist. The
inhuman trainer began by bending his
tender back over his (the trainer's)
knees to make it supple, and interrupt
ed his experiments only to fog the poor
child for not yielding readily enough.
Among other courses to which poor Har-
~ was subjected was being hoisted high
in the air by his teeth, and whirled
around at the end of strap. He natu-
rally became proficient, and travelled
several seasons with Barnum and other
circus proprietors. He will doubtless be
remembered by many as. the boy who
used to stand on cannon held by
woman. The woman was D'Atalie's
wife, and is now married to a man
named Austin. One day Harry made a
break and secured his freedom, since
which time he has been on the tramp in
the Middle and Eastern States. He is a
very bright lad, and is overjoyed at find
ing that some one has an interest in him.
He states that his sister lived, at last adj
vices, at Upper Kensington, London.
To-day he was given in charge of the
British Consul General, and will at once
be sent to England to claim his new
found position among civilized beings.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25
How q Brave Lad Killed Panther.

A few days ago, says the Lockhaven
Pa.) Democrat, while Mr.. w. II. Hig-
gins, living about two and half miles
from Remove, on the dividing ridge be-
tween Paddy's and Druid's Run, was
working in his field making hay, he saw
an animal in distant part of the field
making off with hen. He thought it
a fox, and called the attention of his
son George, a lad of fourteen, to it.
George is fond of hunting, and, getting
his gun, he started off for the fox, ac-
companied by his five-year-old brother
and a hound. They had not been gone
long when Mr.. Higgins heard several
continuous yells of the most terrible
kind The animal had been freed by
the dog, and its half-human shrieks rent
the air with terrible distinctness, flike the
shrill, agOnized voice of a woman in
dire distress. The excited father and
his field hands at once made for the
point whence came these fOreboding
sounds, and ere they had reached the
spot they met George dragging huge
female panther, measuring five feet one
inch in length, and standing two feet
high. The boys had followed the dog
to big tree, up which the panther had
gone about sixty-five feet. When the
eldest lad saw the animal, crOuched and
glaring above, he felt that it was either to
be dead panther or a death-struggle
between it and himself and little brother.
He was good shot generally, but here
was to be the severest test his young eye
and nerves had ever been put to, and
one that might well have tried an older
and stouter hunter. He drew the bead
and fired, feeling, as he did so, he says,
as if he had been lifted clear off his feet
But there was the hungry brute yet,
crouching on the limb, its eyes fairly fit
to burst in there malignant glare. Bang
went the gun of our brave young hunter
just as the panther sprang. Itseemed,
said the lad, as though the animal sprang
out from tho tree. about % feet, then
came straight down, lighting on the dog
about 16 feet from the boys. The young
hunter again thought he had missed.
Clubbing his gun he advanced upon the
brute to strike it, but it rolled over dead
before he could do so. Examination
proved that his first shot had struck
about four inches back of the heart, the
last one in the heart. 1t was bravely and
well done, and but for the steady nerve
and true aim of the lad he and his little
brother would doubtless have fallen vic
tins to the animals ravenous hunger.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25
A Cheerful Wife.

Better than gold to man is a cheer
full wife. But he must do his part to-
ward making her cheerful. 1t is easy
enough for a man to marry happy
woman. But the bride expectant, when
she thought how happy she would be,
never contemplated the picture of hus-
band coming home cross as a bear, and
going to bed without speaking to her {;
she had never thought of the long even
ing when he wouldn't come at all; or
his bringing some one home to dinner
without warning or preparation; or his
awful profanity over so trifling a matter
as her little bill of expenses. She had
no idea, in fact, there could be any thing
but happiness in married life, and she
had determined to be happy, and to dis
tribute her happiness to those about her.
1t is not often her fault if she doesn't
succeed. Men, as a rule, do not exert
themselves to secure their wives happi
ness. They know that itrequires con-
slant and great effort to possess prop
ertv and be secure in its value in the
midst of constant commercial changes.
The cheerfulness, the happy, hopeful
character which every woman displays
at the beginning of marriage, is not so
easily lost as fortune; it requires but a
small share. A word to the girls in this
connection is in order: Beware of the
man who doesn't know enough about
cheerfulnesS to understand its value in
daily life. Such man would improve
the first opportunity to grind the cheer
fulness out of his home, to brighten a
sunbeam into a shadow, and then Won
der what is the matter. Such is no bet
eer than no husband at all; and when
you want husband 90 find somebody
else-somebody who will give you at
least some chance to be happy far into
the life beyond the honeymoon.-St.
Louis Post DISPATCH.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25
The Objects of Study.

The duties of the teacher are tersely
set forth in the New York School Jour
nal as follows:
His business is to develop, discipline,
and train the powers by which knowl-
edge is gained; besides, in performing
this work he will lodge in a secure and
disable form all the useful knowledge
possible. He will make as his great
leading object the training of the mind !;
he will next direct the pupils attention
to his own mental processes, TO show
him when he thinks accurately; this is
sometimes called teaching to think; he
will teach the pupil TO arrange and
classify his knowledge; he will teach
the pupil to give good expression to his
knowledge. These being the objects
the teecher aims at, he requires study in
order that he may secure these objects;
they may be set down as the objects of
study. And if a person has no teacher,
he still needs all of the above effects,
and to produce them he uses study. 1t
is plain, then, that study is the indispen
sable means to be employed to obtain
education.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25
Don't Write with q Pencil.

Writing with pencil on postal cards is
attended with danger. A man recently
wrote to his mother in Chicago in this
way, and during its transit through the
post-office some rogue got possession of
it, erased all the writing except the sig-
nature and filled it up with a request
that the sum of 500 should be sent to j.
Rogers, who had loaned him that
amount. The mother, upon receiving
the card, Immediately sent money or
der of the amount to the address men,
toned and wrote to her son what she
had done. He Immediately telegraphed
to stop the order, and luckily the dis
patch arrived in time to save the money.
The rogue called at the Office for the
money, but was told that the order had
been stopped, and hastily deeamped.--
Boston Journal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25

and $40 per thousand feet, and was often
hauled hundreds of miles by OK teams.
The Texan lumberman finds his market
toward each of the cardinalpo points of the
compass. The cleared lands in the val
leys yield a good quantity of cotton, to
the extent of a bale of 500 pounds to the
acre. Some rice is grownupOn the low
lands bordering on the Gulf, as well as
the staple known rs Sea Island cotton.
-Frank II. Taylor, in Harper's for Oc-
tOber.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25

A FARMER has experimental with ma
nure taken from his barn-cellar under
cover and exactly the same kind of ma
nure dropped just outside the cellar and
of course exposed to the weather. The
crop from the former was just about
double that from the latter.-Lo1ceH
Courier.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25

A LITTLE boy being asked, "What is
the chief end of man?'' replied: "The
end what's got the head on
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25

Cashmere colors in bead embroid-
cries and arabesque designs completely
cover the crowns of some of the import
ed bonnets.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25

Gov. SPRAGUE's mansion at Canon.
chet contains 92irooms.
, 1879-12-27

Tue New Yori, Comasrc;a! Bulletin says:
Engineers, marine underwriters AMI others
are deeply exercised by the regent success
ia She application of the giant mo;or Oh
tanned from bisul?hide OF carbon mixed with
petroleum The patent taken out by =
Pittsburg firm last April promises to revo-
lnti"nize machinery. The motors method
consists in the transmission OF the ahuve
chemical agents from the chamber OF the con
denser To the boiler OF an ordinary n4nccn-
densing steam engine. The boiler being
filled with water heated to about 2o0 de
grees, pressure as high as 200 pounds per
square inch is rapidly developed from the
vapor thus generated which is easily CON
t-oiled
, 1879-12-27

An EDITOR IN TROUBLE. E.-Ireland, Of
the AStoriq', not content With the II
sponsibillty entailed by the publication of
a first class daily and weekly newspaper,
has recently got himself elected mayor Of
Astoria i newspaper man up here thinks
ne has his work eu' out for him in con-
Quoting his paper without running FOX
office. Success TO You, Ireland, and may
You always he able to claw of Ice shore
, 1879-12-27
OHr Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, d. c, Dec. 10, Isl

W iSHiNGItN- II. -, itt. H. iCl'-
EpIroR STATESMAN The house yes
terday agreed to ad journ on the 18th for
the holidays The senate is yet to act on
the resolution, which is ofcnurse concur
rent and many believe an earlier day Will
be fixed The adjournment will be till
the 9th Of January.
One OF two of the minor regular appro-
priation bills may be ready By the 18th.
The military academy West Point biil
is one of them.
The fertilization bill is another These
bills provide for very small amounts, and
very little from year to year But the
adjournment, whether un the 10Th or
18th viii preeede action Oh the bills IN
the house. The more important appro-
priationS, such AS those for the army, and
navy, the post office department, the lie
partlnent Of justice, etc, cannot possibly
be reached before the holidays.
Senator Call, OF Florida, desires a cor
rectIJn of report, lately made, that ne
had said hc thonght the radicals would
have chance of carrying the state. He
saws tie state is Soiidly democratic, and
that nearly every intelligent voter added
to the lists whether by immigration or
otherwisc, increases the democratic vote.
Of the many constitutional amendments
proposed lately IN congress, one Is Of par
ticuiar Importance. 1t prohibits general
legislation on regular appropriation bills.
Another makes the presidents term six
wears, and forbids reel .ction at the end
Of the term The common SENSE Of the
country is against Unnecessary OF frequ nC
changes OF the organic law, and certainly
no good REASON Cal be given for submit
ting to the people or the states these two
productions.
The benefits Of the first my be cured
by amendment Of the rules If the twn
houses of congress In favor Of the other
proposed amendmentno nothing can be urged
now as matter ii theory tina; was no.
urged at the adoption "f the constitu;iu:,.
So lar as the working Of the government
Fare concerned, they have undoubtedly
been as satisfactory as they would have
been under longer presidential -errn
Senators Bayard and Voorhees,, the ole
demanding the elimination of the legal
tender quality from greenblckS, aud the
other that the existin. financial status
remain undisturbed except thai the COIN
age of silver be made free, represent the
only differences now existing III the dem
ocratlc party OF the country, and this sub
ject will IN al probability be - c,mpara
lively light Importance i'll few months
( An evening paper Of this city sly 'i'e
eight sitting justices Of the siP's=ine court
are equally divided on t':e question: 81 The
consti,utjunaiity of the federal election
laws. ihes. are the laws that democrats
have been denounced during the ear past
as - dlsioyal etc. for attempting - Ie
peal. DEW.
Tue New YORK Commsrcia5 Bulletin says:
, 1879-12-27

Persons UyzapLoYED.-There is quite 4
rurnb.r Of m=n in this city who have little or
II, money 10 nee. theic daily needs Some oi
these persons have come in from the mining
jis.rie.s and not anticipating much Q: i winter
did not husband their means closely enough
There ;s quite a number, too, Who came IN la-e
N +b, seasu from California, and not being
flush with means, they are casting about, seek
ins employment by which they can MAKE the
ends meet. But il is an unfavorabie season II
the wear to obtain employment, and, Indeed,
cold as the weather has been Tor 4 ie" Gay ;
hut little ont oor work could he done by reason
of the weatn rs severity
, 1879-12-27

The IpA o SrArEsMAS.-This irSt-ciaSS
paper comes 70 us now IN an ehiarSeu
form and With such pretty new dress
that II ;s e,ident the Statesman Is on the
high road 70 prosperity Long hte ana
continued success - IL