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Bucephalus.

We sometimes hear, or see in
print, a horse spoken of as Buce-
phalus. Children learn from their
school-books about the first of that
name, belonging to Alexander. pre-
vious to his being called Alexan-
der the Great, whose father, King
Philip, was the ruler of Macedonia
335 years before the time of Christ.
This little sketch from the School
Journal is worth remembering as
showing how a boy won by kind
ness a horse that men could not
CONCUR eby force.
One day there came to Philips
court a beautiful. high-spirited war.
horse as a present to the King.
The animal was pure white, with
the exception of black mark, the
shape of bulls head, on his fore
head. Now, in the Greek language
Bucephalus means bulls head, aud
so was the horse named. Bucepha-
lus was led to one of the parks
which belonged to King Philips
palace, and the courtiers and the
King followed 20 examine him.
The grooms attempted to mouBt
him, but were each thrown in turn.
some breaking their limbs. Then
the most experienced horsemen
tried, and the daring young no
blemen, but they all gave up, for
no one could conquer the unruly
horse, who became more and more
-estless. Ia those days there were
10 stirrups or saddles, and it was
lot an easy matter to mount a vi |
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Out West the snow plows came
back battered and defeated from
their battle in the late storm.
West of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, the
drifts were fifteen feet deep. Wires
came down in all directions, blew
across the track and were carried
by locomotives for long distances,
the storm being so thick that the
engineers could not see the wires.
Near st. James the snow blew so
thickly that people could not see a
foot ahead of them. A freight train
got stuck in the snow and men went
back with their red lanterns to sig
nal the following train. The train
dashed on, although one man held
his lantern on a pole above the cen
ter of the track till the engine
knocked it away, and the other
flung his lantern at the cab window.
The engineer could see nothing in
the binding storm, consequently
there was a smash up shortly after.
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Educating Children.

Ialmage.
There are children turned out
from the schools who once were
full OF romping and laughter, and
had cheeks crimson with health.
who are now turned out in the af-
ternoon pale-faced, irritated, asth-
matte. old before their time. 1t is
one of the saddest sights on earth
An old mannish boy, or an cid
womanish girl. Girls ten years of
age studying algebral Boys TIVE I've
years OF age recking their brain
over trlgonometry! Children u nae
quainted with their mother tongue
crying over their Latin. French. and
German lessonsi All the vivacity
OF their nature beaten out of them
by the heavy beetle of Creek lex
icon! AND you doctor tn EN- for
this and give them a little medicine
tor that, and you wonder what is
the matter with them. l will tell
you what is the matter with them.
They are finishing their educat ion
In my parish in Philadelphia a lit
tie child was so pushed at scho oil
that she was thrown into a fever,
and in her dying delirium, eli
night long she was trying to reel tie
the multiplication table. In my
boyhood | remember that in cur
class at school there was one lad
who knew more than all of us put
together. If we were fast in our
arithmetic he exceIled US. When
we stood up for the spelling class
he was almost always the head of
the cIass. Visitors came to his ia
theE 3 house, and he was always
Drought in as a prodigy. At
eighteen years of age he was an
idiot. He lived ten years an idiot,
and died an idiot. not knowing his
right hand from his left, or day
from night. The parents and
the teacher made him an idiot.
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YOUNG MEN

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loss of memory or vitality impaired by the
errors of youth, or too close application tc
businessoT work, may be restored and man
hood regained.
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The Man With the Wheelbarrow.

New York World: Charles III.
Katts, Democrat, made bet on
the election with 6 orge Fielder, a
Republican, living at No. 2OlO Ev-
ergreen avenue, Brooklyn, in which
the loser was to carry the winner in
a wheelbarrow from the corner of
Yates avenue and Myrtle to the
steps Of the City Hall, distance of
about two miles, and there make a
speech. When Katts found that be
had lost he offered Fielder $50 to
relieve him. Fielder refused, and
last evening at s o'clock Katts and
Fielder appeared at the corner of
Myrtle and Yates avenue, wearing
campaign caps and capes. They
had an ordinary wheelbarrow, and
were accompanied by a fifer and
drummer, who, when Mr.. Fielder
got in the barrow, began playing a
lively air. The journey then began.
The men were followed by a con
stantly increasing crowd, which, by
the time the City Hall was reached,
numbered several thousa persons.
Katts assembled the steps and made
his speech.
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Fashionable Farcies.

Coat basques of plaided wooden
goods are worn.
Beaver hats and plush bonnets
are leading styles in millinery.
Languedoc, Breton and woven
point d. Alencon are the new laces
Tor trimming white dresses, ties, etc.
Among stylish fabrics are the new
reversible satins, black on one side,
and gold, cardinal and heliotrope
on the other.
Bonnet strings are a yard long
and are tied either in front or be
hind, although it is considered most
dressy to arrange them in one long
Topped bow low on the back hair.
Among dainty trlfles are sleeve
buttons and scarf pins, hand paint
ed on pearl, after the manner of the
costly dress buttons of the day.
The gossamer rubber waterproof
becomes more and more popular.
and is the favorite garment for wet
weather. New styles are in dclman
shape, with long pointed hoods.
Floral pockets for evening dress
es are basket shaped punches of
blossoms--roses, heliotropes, dal
sizes, forget-me nots, etc.-~with han
dies of twisted stems, supple vines
or flower wreaths.
New bonnets recently imported
are in the small capote shape.
Much bead embroidery, soft che
mile and thick ostrich featb ers.
Persian tinsel and plush, with bril-
liant ornaments, form the trimmings.
The Foster kid glove continues
extremely popular with elegant
dressers. The popularity of this
glove is the fastening, the glove be-
ing laced, not buttoned, and thus
adapting itself to any sized wrist.
The latest thing in evening gloves
is the sara Berrhardt, twenty five
inches long. The glove fastens
only at the wrist and above that
wrinkles stylishly on the arm to the
elbow.
New hosiery is of Isle thread and
silk in all the fashionable shades.
with open clocks and embroidered
more or less deliberately. Vertical
stripes in cardinal, etc, are novel.
while the OLD fashion of horizontal
stripes is revived in many attractive
combinations.
The newest fabrics of the Cheney
silk manufacturers on the Surah
brocade Is self colors, or two shades
of the same color, the figures being
darker than the ground. They are
rich and pliable, and are beautiful
for sashes and draperies. Other
novelties are Persian broeades in
Oriental designs and Egyptian fig
ures.
Colored underwear grows in ia
vor with fashionable women.
Among elegant corsets some are of
satin, in pink, light blue. dark blue
stitched with cardinal, black with
cardinal and cardinal with black.
Others less expensive are of santeen.
IN the same shades, and all are
trimmed with lace and satin rib
bons.
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Our Young People
MADE UP FROM THE BEST CLIPPINGS
Caught in a Wolf Trap.

Some years ago a trap was
placed near deserted footway, the
usual warning precautions being
taken.
The same day young man left
his home a little before sunset, and
for the purpose of shortening the
distance he had to go, took his
way across the forest, and came
exactly on the track where the trap
was set.
The night was nearly dark, and
he failed'to observe that several lit
tie pieces of string were swinging To
and fro in the breeze from the
branches of the thicket near him.
Suddenly he felt a terrible shock,
accompanied by most intense pain,
the bones of his leg being apparent
ly crushed to splinters.
He was caught in the wolf
trap.
The first few moment of pain
and suffering. over he must have
comprehended' the danger of his
position, and had, it is presumed,
endeavored to open the serrated
iron jaws which held BIN fast.
But the trap refu sed to give up
Its prey.
At each movement of his body
the iron teeth buried themselves
deeper in his flesh. His agony
must have been OF exquisite de-
scription.
He probab ly shouted, and would
have contin ued to shout, however
hopelessly, for help, had it not
been Tor The fear OF sttracting the
wolves that might be lurking In the
neigh1orhood.
he had under his coat small
Ratchet; and with this he trusted
to defend himself. As the night
heightened, theomoon rose and shed
her pale light over the forest.
He may now be pictured i'm
movable, with eyes and ears on the
qai ViVe, his body in the most ex
cruciating torment, listening and
waiting.
All at once, far, very far off. re
hears indistinct sounds.
Approaching with rapidtty these
sounds become cries and wells.
They are those of wolves on the
t-ack-demons, which in a few
minutes would be upon him, car
ried direct to the spot by trails set
Tor the destruction of destroyers.
A few minutes more and he was
surrounded by a Gordon of yellow
flames from the eyes of the 5rutes,
the animals themselves, which he
could scacely distinguish, sending
forth their terrible yells full in his
face.
On, the following morning, when
the unfortunate forester who set
the trap came to examine it, he
found 1T at the foot of the oak, del
uged with blood, the bone of hu-
man leg upright between the iron
teeth, and all around, scattered
about the turf and the path,a guam
of human remains.
Shreds of a coat and other arti-
cles of clothing were discovered
near the spot.
With the assistance of some dogs.
which were put on the scent, three
wolves, their heads cut open with 81
hatchet, were found dying il adj
jacent thickets.
When the venerable cure of the
village, after previously endeaver-
oring in every possible way by
Christian exhortation to prepare
his aged mother to hear the sad
tale, informed her that these re-
mains of humanity were all that
was left of her boy, she laughed.
Alasl it was the laugh of mad
ness; reason had fed.
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LADIES COLUMN.
Some Lively Fashion Notes.
By GEORGE W. PECK.


1t is stated that a fashionable
Milwaukee lady appeared on the
street the other day in suit made
of bed ticking; and now the fashion
reports announce that yellow fau-
mel is being worn ct the East for
dresses, with an immense sunflower
at the throat for ornament. These
things show that the tendency of
the fashionable ladies of the coun-
try is toward something different
from what is usually put out by
those who set the fashions. The
great study of the fashion-makers
seems to be to spoil whatever a lady
already has, so she will be Obliged to
procure something new. One season
seal-skin sacques will be worn long,
the next season they must be short,
and the next season long again. 1t
is the same way with dresses, and
with ladies' hats. Last spring the
Frenchman whose business it was
TO design u new shape for ladies'
hats studied over the matter for a
week and could not think of any
new shape. He would design a hat
and then find that it was Just like
one they had before. The time was
growing short, as the style would
have to be got out in the next
twenty four hours, and the French
man became desperate. He studied
and contrived, until at last reason
| toppled on It's throne and he be-
came a raving maniac. He threw
the hat on the floor and jumped on
it, and in his delirium. thinking it
Was snake, he seized the fire.
shovel and beat it for an hour, un
I'll he was exhausted. Then, with
the cunning that is peculiar to in
sane persons. he picked up the hat
and took IL TO the leading Paris
milliner, who was TO pass upon its
merits, and she said it was perfect
love of nat aud paid the man
double price for the design. And
that it is the kind of hat that the
ladies Of two continents have
been wearing all the past sum-
mer. We are not surprised that the
ladies of the country are beginning
TO throw off the CALLING yoke OF
fashion, are appearing In costumes
of bed-ticking and yellow flannel,
with only n modest sunfower Tor
ornament. 1t is the harbinger of a
new era, the dawn of brighter day,
and there will be general rejoicing
that the somber black cashmere is
to give place to the golden hues of
orange colored flannel and the heav-
emily blue stripes of the light and
cheerful bed-ticking. We are. as
people, too much given to melan-
choly. What. we need is brighter
colors, less toll, and more holidays
and amusement. We want to live
to see the day when women will
walk the street in chandelier suits,
made of three cornered glass prisms,
with gas jets burning all over them,
supplied from a gas holder con
cealed in the hustle, and with a To-
connective headlight for a diamond |
breastpin, with a turban of rag car
pet on their heads and with no 9th
er ornament than a modest winter
sqash or a nice large watermelon.
What is wanted is progress. A
great people cannot do anything I'M
ess they are progressive.
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Farm and Home.
AND USEFUL REFORMATION.
Eggs as Food.


Eggs are an article of cheap and
nutritious food which we do not
find on farmers tables In the uuan-
tity economy demands. They are
very convenient to take to market
and this is the disposition which
too many farmers make of them.
They probably do not comprehend
how valuable eggs are as food; that,
like milk, an egg is a complete food
in itself, containing everything nee
essary for the development of q
perfect animal, as is manifest from
the fact that chick is formed from
1t. 1t seems a mystery how mus
cles, bones, feathers and everything
that chick requires for its perfect
development are made from the
yelk and white of an egg; but such
is the fact, and it shows how com
plete food an egg is. 1t is also
easily digested, If not damaged in
cooking. A raw or soft-boiled egg
is always as easily assimilated as is
milk and can be eaten with impu-
nifty by children and invallds. The
average egg weighs a thousand
grains, and is worth more as food
than so much beefsteak. Indeed.
there is no more concentrated and
nourishing food than eggs. The
alhumen, oil and saline matter are.
as in milk, in the right proportion
for sustaining animal life. When
eggs bring no more than twenty
cents per dozen, it is much better
economy to find a market for them
in the family than at the store
Two or three boiled eggs, with the
addition of a slice or two of toast
will make breakfast sufficient for
man, and good enough for king.
An ordinary hens egg weighs
from one and half to two ounces.
a ducks egg from two to three
ounces, the egg of the sea-gIll and
the turkey from three to four ouncs,
and the egg of goose from four to
six ounces. The solid matter and
the oil in the ducks egg exceed
those in a hens egg by about one
fourth. According to DR.. Edward
Smith, in his treatise on Foods, y
an egg weighing an ounce and three
quarters consists of I20 grains OF
carbon, and eighteen and three
quarter grains of nitrogen, or Ii, 25
per cent. of carbon, and two per
cent. of nitrogen. A writer in the
Scientific Farmer estimates that the
value of one pound of eggs, as food
for sustaining the active forces of
the body, is to the value of one
pound of lean beef as 1854 to 900.
As flesh producer, one pound of
egg is about equal to one pound of
beef.
A hen may be calculated to con-
sumo one bushel of corn yearly, and
to lay ten dozen or fifteen pounds
of eggs. This is equivalent to say
ing that three and one-tenth pounds
of corn will produce, when fed to
hen five-slxths OF pound of eggs.
But fve-sixths of pound of pork
requires about five pounds of corn
for its production. When eggs are
one shilling per dozen, and pork
five pence per pound, we have a
bushel of corn feed, producing ten
worth of eggs and four
of pork. Judging from
these facts, eggs must be economi-
cal in their production and in their
eating, and especially fit for the la
boring man in replacing meat
| Proyisiouer.
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and are bought, sold and eaten by
their better halves. There was one
New Britain young woman who re-
belled at her matrimonial relations,
whereupon her husband said he
could put her to better use, and
straightway killed and ate her. I'm
fortunately, according to the same
authority, the eating in New Brit
ain is not confined to wives. The,
natives are fond of missionary meat
and think the English are unutter-
ably stupid because they are un
willing to feast on such a delicacy
as the human thigh, prepared with
cocoanut milk and dressed with ba-
mana leaves. Mr.. Powell does not
advise women to emigrate to New
Britain.
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cious horse, and those who tried
to subdue the fiery Bulls Head
had to give it up. aad King Philip
ordered the animal TO be taken
away.
All this time the young Prince
Alexander, the Kings son, had
stood by Waiting the motions of
the horse, and thought that he
discovered the reason of Bucepha
lus' strange behavior. The Prince
was an intelligent young man, full
of energy and spirit, and of re
Elective and considerable turn of
mind; his teacher was Aristotle,o one
of the great Greek philosophers,
and from him Alexander had stud
led until his powers of Judgment
and calculation were much i'm
proved, and above that of the gen
eral Grecian youths.
"Father," said Alexander, ''let
me try and mount the horse"
King Philip would not hear OF
this, but Alexander begged again
for the favor, this time with success.
The young Price stepped to the
side of Bulls Head, patted him up
on the neck, turned his head to-
ward the sun, and, leaping quickly
on his back; rode off at a high
speed, holding in perfect control
the once fiery horse. He had found
that Bucephalus was frightened at
his own shadow. King Philip was
pleased when his son returned with
the now-tractable and docile horse,
and said, proudly:
alexander, you deserve a larg
er kingdom than Macedonia to gov
ern."
Bucephalus became the Princes
fayorite war-horse, kneeling at Al
exander's command, in order that
he might mount more easily; and
when he died, at the age of 30,
Alexander had him buried with
great ceremony on the banks of tbe
Hydaspes, and city founded il
honor of his memory, and called
Bucephalus
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The weather Of the Future.

The two most eminent and auda-
cious prognosticators of the age,
Mr.. Tice, of st. Louis, and Mr..
Vennor, of Montreal, have made
out their weather programme for
the winter. Mr.. Vennor predicts
tremendous snowIalls as far south
as Washington" Mr.. Tice, "heavy
rains in the south and heavy SHOWS
In the north with extremely low
temperature" The latter, casting
his prophetic eye still further ahead,
says also that we have entered
upon period of unusual perturba-
tions, of which the maximum will
not be reached before year from
next fall.
All of which signifies that if
these weatherwiseacres know what
they are talking about, we may ex-
pect to be buried in snow this win
ter and washed out with floods in
the spring; TO be convulsed with all
sorts of elemental irregularities for
year or two longer-be shaked
up with earthquakes, perhaps, swept
with cyclones, frozen into ice
blocks, and blasted with thunder
bolts. Therefore, the Post sug
gests, in the language of the preach
er, that those who have houses had
better be putting them in order.
Such is the Perversion OF the
present generation, however, that
even these oracular utterances Of
disaster will probably give it no
concern. It is more than likely
that people will go on as usual,
marrying and giving in marriage,
making money and making merry,
scheming for "soft places" under
the new administration, and lobby
ing STAT jobs through congress, al
together unmindful of the mischief
that Jupiter, the arch disturber of
the planetary family. may be con-
cocting for their special edIfication.
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The Value Of Wives.

The value OF wives varies in diff
ferent countries. In America they
are often expensive companions,
but Ia the higher regions of the riv-
er Amar, and on the Ussuri, in ST.
IBERIA, according to information fur
nished TO the British Scientific As
soeiation, by the Rev. Henry Lans-
dell, the price of a wife is eight or
ten dogs, sledge, or two cases of
brandy. In another part of the
world, according TO evidence fur
nished TO the same association by
Wilfred Powell, IN New Britain and
the neighboring islands on the east
coast of Guinea, the wives are the
abslate property of their husbands,
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Measur;ngIa,5

To find the number of acre. of
land in rectangular field, multiply
the leagth by the breadth and di-
vide the product by I6O, if the
measurement is made in rods. or
by 43,560 if made in feet. Exam
ple-How many acres in a field
which is 100 rods in length by rs
rods in width? Solation-IOOx75-l
equals 1900; 7,5O0-160 equals As.
l4-I6. Ans. To find the contents of
rectangular piece ot.land having a
rectangular corner, multiply the
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District, Tennessee
Conference.

FIRST ROUND OF QUARTERLY MEETINGS.
Lynnville ct, at New Lynnville. Oct 80, 81 +;
Olivet sta, Nov. 6, z; Culleoka sta, at Guile
Okla, Nov IS, IA; Mt Pleasant sta, at Mt
Pleasant, Nov 20, 81; Bigbyville ct, at Big
byville, Nov 81, 2s; Giles ct, 81 Phelps's
Chapel, Dec 4, 5; Trinity ct, at Cedar Grove,
Dec IL, IL; Pleasant Valley ct, at Hebron,
Dec is, 10; Prospect ct, at Prospect, Dec 25,
%; Rich Valley ct, at Midbridge, Jan l, q;
Pulaski sta, Jan s, 9; Bee Spring and Shiloh
sta, at Shiloh, Jan Is, 16; Elkton sta, Jan %,
%; Mt Pisgah ct, at Blooming Grove, Jan
20, 80.
The district stewards will meet at the
Methodist Church in Pulaski at ~ O'Clock,
Nov 10, 1880.
JAMES A. ORMAN.
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Bob Brown, did you say that
my father had not as much sense
as Billy Smiths yellow dog?"
mo, l pever said any such thing.
L never said that your ia ther had
not as much sense as Bnly's
yellow dog. All 1 said was that
Billy's yellow dog had more sense
than your father; that's all L ever
said" "Well, it's well you didn't
say the other, tell you.
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