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Cheap Goods.

Do not buy cheap clothing; 1t Is moi
an economical plan. A strong. fine.
textured, well-made article viii out
wear at least three of poor material,
aud it does not really cost as much,
considering the amount of wear, to say
nothing of the shabby appearance Of
faded Cloth-the vexati0n of having the
garments continually breaking to
pieces, the necessity Of daily repairs,
with the unsafe feeling when one steps
. little high, or puts on an unusual
strain. A scarcity of means is the gem
eral excuse for buying such goods as
this, and we know it is . hard one to
meet. But it is better to make
the old coat last little longer,
and put all the money into the
rest Of the suit, and when The
money one will soon have to find to sup
ply another cheap suit 10 at hand, get .
good coat. As . wise and economics!
rule, one should never purchase any
thing but q good article. The care Of
clothing is . very important matter It
makes . great difference in the looks
and wear of hat or cost whether it is
thrown down on the lounge or chair
when taken of, or carefully hung up.
Properly brushing and cleaning clothes.
and mend;ng them - soon IS required,
rather than waiting until the threads
rayel out, or the tear has grown too
large to be neatly repaired. add greatly
to their durability. -1sehcSge.
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An Essay on Wood.

There are various kinds of wood
hard wood, soft wood, dry wood, wet
wood. would. you would, and lots of
others who would. too. if they got .
chance. Beams of the eye are made
out of would. Ships are built of hard
wood, which accounts in measure for
the great hardships sailors are called
upon to encounter, I've an ocean. A
ship constructed of soft wood entirely
would be q soft thing for somebody.
but it wouldn't be the mariners who at
tempted to navigate it. Wood is not
an ore, though an oar is generally wood,
and can be used Ger and Ger. once
saw sailor use one O or his shipmate's
head, and it took two policemen to
make him give Der. Maple wood is q
favorite variety with Juveniles on &C
count of the sugar it yields. 1t is .
mistake. however, to suppose that ma
ple sugar grows on the tree in cakes.
already crimped around the edges. The
cakes have to be carefully gathered first
by means of . patent picker (never
shake the tree) and CT mped afterward.
II any kind of wood would please tho
children, maple wood.
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LATER.

Nh. Corr took the oath Of office - secre-
tary Of the Navy on the 7th ami participated
In the meeting Of the Cabinet.
TIE County Poor House near Dover. N. H.,
took fire about daylight on the morning Of
the 7th, aud WAS totally consumed. There
we're 100 persons in the building, and list
OF thirteen who are missing shows that that
number were suffocated or roasted alive.
The pecuniary loss was about $1,000.
TEE deadlock In the Indians Senate con-
ttnued during the 7th. The entire day was
consumed in futile efforts to elect Secretary
and door-keeper.
EUGENE HALE was on the 7th nominated
BY tie Republicans for United States Senator
from Maine, to succeed Mr.. Ham.in.
THREE of the five Irish Land Commission
ers have recommended to the British Govern
ment the adoption of fair rent, free sales, and
fixity OF tenure. Kavsnagh and the O. Conner
Don dissent.
In his message to the Illinois Legislature
Governor Cullom recommends that provision
be made for submission to the people of .
proposition which will allow the Illinois q
Michigan Canal to be turned over to the
United States On proper conditions. He also
recommends legislation to prevent the intro-
duction and spread Of infectious diseases
among animals, and such amendment o: the
sections of the criminal code on the subject
Of aduiteration OF food - will secure their
better enforcement
Two BoILERs in the vitxiol department Of
Bslbsch q sons smelting works at Newark,
N. j.. exploded on the morning of the 7th,
instantly killing the engineer and three
workmen and seriously injuring two other
persona Three buildings we're destroyed.
A SEAT in the New York Exchange was
cold on the 7th for 5000.
TIE Irish constabulary have been instruct
ed to attend fairs and markets and prevent
+" Boycotting"
GENERAL WALLER, of the Census Bureau,
com utes that ip 1880 the United States will
have population Of g. l67, 900
GOVERNOR LoNo, Of Massachusetts,, was
re-inauguratsd on the 9Th. In his message
he urges the more thorough enforcement Of
the Liquor laws and fsvors the proposal to
give propsrty-hoiding women the right Of
suffrage. The State debt 10 about $780,
OOO.
liz the United States Senate on the 7th the
Vice-President submitted request from the
Secretary Of War that the item Tor recruiting
in the Army Appropriation bill be increased
to eo1,0M A petition from w. J. Moore, Of
New Orieans, alleging that he had been
brtbed TO vote for Senator Kellogg and ask
ing that he DO allowed to testify to the
fact, was presented and referred. The
Consular Appropriation bill was considered.
Adjourned until the 10Th. In the House a
tary OF State for the fullest information in re-
gard 70 the Halifax award. A bill was lassed
for the relief Of Wlnnsbago Indians In Wis
| co0sip.
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hundred and sixty thousand dollars,
which sufficed for its ordinary oxpendi-
ture. The first President of the Re-
public After itS foundation was Martin
Pretorius, and Paul Kruger, be it OBJ.
served, was in his time q member OF
the Executive Council. After the resig-
nation and death of Pretorius, Mr.. Bur-
gers, who had been . preacher, and
whose head was full Of cfotchets, was
chosen Chief Magistrate. The dissatis-
faction caused by his extravagaut inno-
vations was one of the pretexts for
British interference, but the conserve
tive Beers. headed by Kruger, would
have proved quite competent to deal
with the Burgers policy in . legitimate
way at the next ele ction.
The Dutch burghers of the Transvaal
have never resigned themselves to the
loss of independence. The protest that
followed Sir T. Shepstone's proclama-
ton of annexation in April. 1877, re-
vealed an overwhelming preponderance
of sentiment. Out Of the 8, doc electors
or enfranchised citizens in the sup
pressed Republic, no less than 6,591
signed memorials against their incorpo-
ration with the British Empire, while
only 5S7 subscribed memorials in its
favor. From that day to this their pat
riotic ardor has been unquenched, and
the present determined effort to reas-
sert their liberties is but the natural
sequel of the declarations made year
ago at the great Wonderfontein meet
ing. on the second anniversary of the
detested annexation. If any of our
readers are in doubt on which side their
sympathies ought to go in this Trans
vaal business, it may be we'll to note
the pledge taken by the Dutch settlers
on that occasion. 1t will probably
strike most people as the oath Of
men who are to he respected, and
whose unfaltering assembly the other
day at Gutenberg was, in its humble
way, as admirable as the Continental
Congress. The covenant ran as fol-
lows: I'm the presence of Almighty
God, the Searcher of hearts, and pray
ing for His gracious assistance and
mercy, We, burghers of the South Afri-
can Republic, have agreed for us and
for our children to unite in holy cove
nant which we confirm with solemn
OATH" The pledge goes on to recite
that lit is now forty years since our
fathers left the Cape Colony to become
q free and independent people. These
forty years were forty years of suffer-
ing and sorrow. We have founded Ma
tai, the Orange Free State. and the
South African Republic, and three
times has the English Government
trampled on our liberty. We cannot"
they concluded, "endure this, and we
may not. 1t is the will of God that we
should deliver unto our children, I'M
blemished, the heritage of our fathers.
1t is for this reason that we here unite
and give each other the hand as men
and brethren, solemply promising to be
faithful to our country and people. and,
looking unto God, to work together
unto death for the restoration of the lib
erty of our Republic. IN y Sun.
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A Tale Of Love and Sacrifice.
"But, papa"

"But, papa"
"Not another word. I'm wildcat
when my backs up. and don't you for
get it,
The speaker was hard-visaged man,
dressed with an elegance that ILL
accorded with his evident want of cult
ure. She who had addressed him as
"papa'' was q fair-haired girl of
eighteen summers. Reared on the
knee of luxury. she had never known
what it was to have her slightest wish
thwarted. Her father. plumber, was,
from the nature of his business, man
of iron will, but he was not devoid
of pity or generosity, as many .
debtor whose house and lot he had
taken in part payment for fixing the
water-pipes. letting the balance of the
account run along for two months,
could testify. He had surrounded Cecil,
his only child. with all that wealth
could purchase. looking forward to the
time when she would marry the eldest
son of Niagara Falls hackman, or
some person of fortune commensurate
with her own. But she allowed her
heart to be ensnared by the wiles of
Cupid, and that morning had asked her
sire's consent to her marriage with a
q poor but proud young man whose ag-
ricultural operations on the Board of
Trade had not been attended with sue
cess. 1t was this request that produced
the answer given above.
Again Cecil pleaded with her parent
not to crush the love that blossomed in
her heart. The old mans mind went
back to the happy days when he had
told her mother Of his love, and how
they commenced life with nothing but
strong arms and willing hearts. Placing
his fan-like hand ON Cecirs shoulder,
the old man looked at her tenderly and
said: "Look We, my lass. You say you
love this man aud cannot live without
him. Mebbe not. I have promised
You q sealskin sack this winter. Let
us test your love. If you become this
mans bride I shall not buy the sack.
In my hand is q check for $500. In tho
wheat pit over on the Board of Trade
is your lover. Which do you choose?
Without raising her head she reached
out convulsively for the check.-Chicd-
90 Tribune.
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The Boycott Business.

What is the process known as "Boy.
cotting," and which is fast taking the
place Of the shillelah and the shotgun
among the instruments of Irish protest
and resistance? It is species OF social
ostracism, enforced with pitiless severi-
ty in the minutest details, as we'll as in
the large concerns of life. The pres
ence of Boycotted person is not &C
knowledged by q word, a look. gest
ure. Not only is there no intercourse,
but no business is directly or indirectly
transacted with him. Nobody will buy
his grain, his fruit, his garden produce.
his horses. cattle, fowls, or anything he
has tosell; nobody will sell him pound
of meat, an ounce of flour, . gill Of
whisky, or an hours work. No one
will give or lend him assistance in sny
way, and no money will tempt man to
approach his dwelling. Under such
circumstances, q Boycotted persoB
must stock his house as if he were
going ON an Arctic cruise, for other
wise, no matter how large his bank ac.
count, he may starve In tho midst Ut
plenty. Even when supplies have been
procured from distance he would lead
the life of castaway on some desert
island, with the singing consciousness
that, in his case, solitude bore constant
witness to the hate and loathing Of
every human being within reach Of eye
or ear.
In a word. Boyootting means musih
the same sort of compulsory isolation
as that to which lepers were subjected
in ancient and medieval times. In
deed, the Irish process is, in some ~
spects, . harsher one, since, even
among the Jews, the kinfolk of lepOr
were allowed to bring him food and
clothing, provided they laid the articles
on the ground at . certain distance. 1t
is not at all impossible, on the other
hand. that under the stern application
of tho Irish proscriptive measure some
landlords may be made to feel the same
pangs of hunger which their tenants
have 20 frequently experienced. 1t Il
certain that threat of Boycotting Is
already regarded with peculiar dismal,
and that this impalpable engine Of Gu
ercion has already proved more effec
i've than overt acts Of violence.-M z.
Sssa.
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Dr.. W. B. Jones writes from Herndon
n the Atlanea Considerations In sev-
eral issues of your paper of late you
have had occasion to use the word
"Cracker" ~" Georgia Cracker" It
would be interesting to some of your
readers to know the origin or deriva-
ton Of this epithet - applied to !" in
digenous'' Georgians. It certainly be-
longs to the country. in contradistinc-
ton to town folks, and is OF ancient
origin, coming down from the first or
earliest history of our State. 1t GER
tainly began In the city of Savannah.
Immediately after the war Of 1776, an6
was used, II not in ridicule, for some
distinguishing habit or feature of our
ancestry who traded in that city. As
it is now "the crackers have come to
town." The children even recognized
and used the word when wishing to
handy an epithet of ridicule, or to call
attention to their own importance over
the country boy or girl ''You are q
Cracker" Probably a little sting of
this kind (when quite child) most in
delibly impressed upon my mind led
me to often inquire the derivation of
the word. One would say it was be-
cause the country people. in coming to
town with their wagons and teams, used
long whips which they crack to the dis
turbance of the city people. But this
was not the origin of it. and l have
found no. clew to the word save in Rev.
w. B. Stevens History of Georgia.
And I think it is explained in that
work, though he does not refer
to it or use the word. In
describing the extreme restitution of
the few "Whigs'' who held out in that
struggle, how about three hundred and
fifty men in Burke and Wilkes Counties
were kept from their homes, scouting
about to avoid the Tories (for Savannah
and Augusta were in the hands of To-
ries and British. and the whole State
was overrun) the women and children
remained in the secluded forest, at their
little huts, and cultivated with much
difficulty small patches of Indian corn.
their only means of food. There were
no mills to grind their corn. and they
parched and cracked itas best they could,
and ate it. They ate parched corn
apd were emphatically "corn crack
ers." An old citizen of revolutionary
fame here has been heard to relate the
description his r,other gave him of di-
viding crop of corn among some Sis
tiers who made it, she covering her pile
with q cow-hide until she could get some
place to store it, the men not being able
to build pens or barns. When the war
closed and the singular looking people
visited the celestial city" of Savannah
to trade, they must have presented q
striking contrast to the more fortunate
colonists, who were well fed and clothed
With British gold. and it was q good,
appropriate epithet to call them Crack
ers.' If this be the origin of the word.
it points period of self-sacrifice and
suffering, Of heroic endurance and de-
votion to principle, evinced by peo-
pie and parents Of whom Georgians need
not be ashamed.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

Fair brown sugar has been manu-.
factufed from k0uisiana CINE in Drew
County, Ark.
Out of total of 10000 railway
employees in Great Britain and Ireland
4.OOO are either killed or injured every
year.
San Francisco has been in the habit
OF importing the Goldfish consumed ON
the Pacific coast. 1t now appears that
IN lieu of deriving her supply from the
East she will soon be in q position to
export the article. In 1865 seven YES
sells caught AGO, 400 fish; in 1875 seven
vessels caught 5O4, 600. while during the
season OF 1880, just closed, eight YES
sells conveyed to San Francisco the
large number of 1.2O6.0OO fish. The
chief source of the supply are the
Choumagin Islands and the Okhotsk
Sea.
Prof. T. Sterry Hunt, estimating
the production of pig iron in this coun-
try during the past year at 1000, 900
tons, expresses the belief that the full
realization of the country's POSSIBLE
ties in iron manufacture will not be at
tanned until iron shall be found side by
side with the coal and limestone needed
for its manufacture. From his expe-
rience in the valley Of the Hooking, in
Ohio. he is of the opinion that that Sec
ton will be the main place of supply
of both pig iron and steel, the ore, coal
and lime being found there in close
proximity.
The projected ship canal across
France, from the Atlantic to the Medi-
terranean, will have q uniform depth of
273 feet and q width of from lis to $50
feet. The great majority of the French
iron-clads will, therefore, be able to
pass through the canal in sea.goine
trim. though few of the heaviest ar
mored ships will have to be lightened
before making use of it. The total
length of the canal from the neighbor-
hood of Narbonne, on the Mediter-
ranean, to Bordeaux, will be PIG
nautical miles, and it is calculated that,
including the time taken to pass
through the locks, q ship will be able to
traverse the whole length of the canal
in forty-eight hours.
"A paper-manufacturing firm pur-
pose converting 10000 acres of timber
land in Somerset County, Pa, into
paper. A large gang of workmen has
been sent to the tract to begin improve
ments. There will be erected shanty
fifty feet in length, twelve feet in width
and eight feet high. The shanty once
completed work will be begun on q
large store building, thirty dwelling
houses and an enormous dipester. for
the cooking and steaming Of wood in
the manufacture of pulp, and huge
building to be used in the manufacture
of paper sacks and wrapping paper.
All these preparations are preliminary
to reducing 10000 acres of forest to
news, book and fine writing papers.
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A Farmers Blunder.

Doubtless those who are known as
"book farmers" have given occasion
for the sneers of their more practical
neighbours. But the laugh is not always
with these sons of the soil whose boast
is that they have "no book larnin'" to
farm by. As matter of fact it is true
that many of the triumphs of modern
agriculture are due to the experiments
of those who farmed on scientific prin-
ciples. Even their mistakes, and they
have been costly ones, benefited their
less enterprising brethren by teaching
them what they should not do on the
farm. An incident that occurred in
Scotland, not long since, shows that
ignorance is sometimes as costly as it is
laundering:
A Scotch farmer. living near the sea-
coast, saw the shore on the morning
after storm strewn with jelly fish. He
knew, in a sort of general way. that fish
made good manure. and supposed that
one sort of fish was just as good IS an
other. So, blessing Providence for
dumping such a lot of fertilizer so
handy to his farm, he used all his men
and horses that day in carting load
after load of jelly fish to his fields.
Great were his expectations of large
crops. But a neighbor, who had q
little "book larnin','' blighted his
hopes.
"You've been watering your fields.
instead of manuring them," said the
neighbor, who knew that the jelly fish is
largely made up of water.
The farmer rose, "a sadder and q
wiser man." from that chat. For he
learned that jelly fish of two pounds
contains only thirty grains of solid mat
ter. and that in spreading four tons of
the fish upon his fields he had added
but sixteen pounds of fertilizing matter
thereto.
The eccentric David Crockett, when
asked for his autograph, used to write,
=" Be sure you're right, then 60 ahead.
And there is another good saying,
uttered by some unknown: "When
you don't know what to do, don't do
you don't know what
If we all. farmers included. should
act upon these notices
ut wad frae monte u blunder free uS
And foolish notion"
-10sIth's Companion.
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Tns Raaroad Gosette Of recent daAe gives
. total Of las railroad accidents for last No
vember, by which 10 persons were killed and
166 injured. Twenty-three accidents caused
the death Of one d more persons; a. caused
injury to persons, but not death. while in 90
cases. or ass per cent. OF the whole. there was
no injury serious enough for record. As COM
pared with November, 1879, there was an in
crease OF 50 accidents, Of 81 in the number
killed and 10l in that injured, an extraordinary
increase on Ill points.
For the year ending with November the REQ
ord 10 - follows:
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I'm these nights Of bitter cold it win
not b amiss TO remind the poor that
two or three newspapers pasted to-
gether will afford as much warmth ~
an additional blanket. The paper
should be placed between two thick
nesses Of other covering. Paper cover
lets are now manufactured ID England
seven feet BY five, and sold at thirty
cents each. They have been in use in
China sand Japan for Thousands Of
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Ar the meeting Of tn . Illinois Board Of
Agriculture on the 4th . resolution was
adopted requesting the General Assembly 70
pass laws 70 put an end TO the manufacture OF
talIow and grease into compounds which are
sold ,or butter.
Bishop ATKINSON, Of the Episcopal do
cese of North Carolina, died recently at VIII
mington.
DuRlNs the recent polar disturbance .
party of eight nat-boatmen were found frosen
70 death on their craft, near Port Royal, g. C.
In the region west of the Missouri River
the production Of the precious metals during
\APast rear was e83. 52A 1S9 gold, elO.0OS,-
oe4 silver, 81 75a, 800 lead, and ssoa 900 cop
A FEW eys since MIRA Harriet N. Cooper,
snegress ~ hing 90 pounds, lis years old,
and the mother of twenty i've children, died
ct Cheltenhsm, No.
TIE Ohio Legislature convened On the eth.
Governor Fosters message recommends the
iseue Of four percent bonds 10 the amount
Of 1000 000 In provide Tor the payment Of
the State debt maturing july !; suggests the
need Of reform in the ungraded school sys-
tenn, and proposes the adoption Of measures
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-Skobelef. the young Russian Geh-
eral. Is fond Of risking his life, and the
odds against his living to m old age sre
considered very great
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The Wheat Crop Of 1880 and 1879.

Mr.. CHARLES WoRrHINGrON, Statistician of
the Department of Agriculture, has completed
his final investigations and compilations in
regard to the wheat crop of the United States
for 1850, as compared with that Of 1873, Is fol-
Iowa:
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Perpetual motions motion to adj
journ, which is always in order. Ros-
ton Transcript,
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Nine per cent. Of the Yale College
graduates during the past ten ye6Ts
have become clergvmen.
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Remaining.

II the domestic requirements shall DO s7s,-
100000 bushels during tho current year, there
will remain 205, 600 bushels for export, or
$4,000 900 more than in the preceding year.-
Chicago Tribune.
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The Kentucky Court of Appeals has
decided that an ordinance publish .
on Sunday is not legal publication.
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JAMES BUCHANAN, President Of the
United States, made an election bet in
1919 and lost it, and the deed by which
he conveyed the land that he forfeited
Is. in his own handwriting, on file 1t
Warren, Pa.