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Treating o Cow Like o Lady.

A man came into the office on Tuesday
with black eye, strip Of court plaster
across his cheek, one arm in q sling, end
as he leaned on crutch and wiped the
perspiration away from around lump
on his forehead with red cotton hand
kerchief, he asked if the editor was in.
Being answered in the affirmative, he
said:
"Well, I want to stop my paper" and
he sat down on the edge of chair as
though it might hurt. Scratch my
name right off; you are responsible for
my condition" "Can it be possible ?''
we inquired. eyes," said he. II am a
farmer and keep COWS. l recently read
an article in your paper about q dairy
mans convention, where ono of the mot
toes over the door was, Treat your COW
as you would LADY, and the article said
it was contended by our best dairymen
that cow, treated in polite. gentle
manly manner, as though she was o ccm-
panion, would give twice as much milk.
The plan seemed feasible to me. l
had been hard man with my stock, and
thought may be that was one reason my
COWS always dried up when butter was
forty cents pound and gave plenty Of
milk when butter was only worth fifteen
cents q pound. / decided to adopt your
plan, and treat COW as would q lady.
I had brindle COW that never had been
very much mashed on me, and I decided
to commence on her, and the next morn
ing after put on my Sunday suit and q
white plug hat that l bought the year
Greedy ran for President. and went to the
barn to milk. l noticed the old COW
seemed to be bashiui and frightened, but,
taking of my hat and bowing politely, !
said MADAME, excuse the seeming i'm
proprie.y ot the request, but will you do
me the favor to hoist9' At the same
time tapped her gently on the flank
with my plug hat, and, putting the tin
pail on the floor under her, sat down on
the milking STOOL"
"Did she hoist 2" said we, rather anx-
ious to know how the advice of President
Smith, of Sheboygan, the great dairy
man, had worked. "Did she hoist
Well, look at me and see if you think
she hoisted. That COW raised right up
and kicked me with all four feet, switch
ed me with her tail and hooked me with
both horns all at once, and when l got up
out of the bedding in the stall, and dug
my hat out of the manger, and the milk
ing stool out from under me and began
to maui that COW, forgot all about the
treatment of horned cattle. Why. she
fairly galloped over me, and never want
to read your old paper again."
We tried to explain to him that the
advice did not apply to brindle COWS at
all, but he hobbled out the maddest man
that ever asked a COW 20 hoist in diploma
tic language.
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well in hand, SO that at any time, whether
.nua prevails or the dust is binding, you
g cen direct your labor wisely and employ
~ prohtably. They know the instant
tney are put to job to kill time. and
nine times out Of Ten twill be done
IApect and require an honest days work.
inalherence on your part at any time re.
suits IN unfaithfnl laborers. Earnestness
OF purpose vii! always prove the con.
trary. Be prompt in settlements nart;c.
u'af,y "hcn you are indebted, and 90
CONDUCT your transactions that YOU nav
WIN 'helr confidence. Remember. too
ina. their estimate of your integrity is
MADE up from small transactions. Have
distinct understandings as to duties to be
performed and as to pay to be given
Allow such wages that they cannot afford
70 Sc the position, or that will draw it
when needed; and experience teaches
me that fair wages are not only lust, but
oest. Yet, We farmers of South Caro-.
iina' according to the Agricultural Re.
port for the year 1880, gave, as an aver.
age, 1872 per month for our labur-less
tnan any Stats in the Union. No won.
ger so many of our ancestral laborers
have recently emigrated to Arkansas
and elsewhere. A years work here re-
suits in $8S; in Arkansas it is sl4O. in
Texas it is Sl45. Is is 80 that our farm.
ing operations are less remunerative? /
think not. A discussion here would be-
very natural and satisfactory to me to
follow up the question just raised but I
am circumscribed, and will return.
Better pay results in permanent, relia.
bic and satisfied laborers. You will get
better work and more of it. IF not vol.
unfairly, you can consistently require
more. Besides, where you are spending
or giving largely, your own interests will
require more intelligent attention on
your part, which will always result in
larger profits or in having more work
done, and is to be commended not only
for its effect upon the laborer, but be-
cause your own attention is better Sc
cured. "The eye of the master is worth
more than both Of his hands"
The profitableness or unproftableness
of labor is in the hands of each one of
you. The management cE ;s,:sns=aagu.
ment of labor is question of fairness,
firmness, liberality aud tact. Study the
idiosyncracies Of your laborers. Hold
yourselves above everything that is little
or mean. Be as indulgent of short.
comings as is consistent, and the result
will be an abundance of tractable labor.
1t will put stop to emigration and
make you masters os the situation.
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= The gypsum beds of Texas are about
400 miles in extent, and contains the
largest deposit of this mineral to be found
any where in North America.
The success of st. Jacobs Oil through
out the civilized world is without par.
Va.) Southern Planter
and Fhrmcr.
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Soon MATED.-In Houston, Ga, not
long ago, company of young folks met
10 enjoy game Of whit. There was
occasion for one Of the young women to
remark that she would never marry a
man so like Oscar Wilde that he should
fall to the aesthetic depth of wearing his
hair 10 horse-tail. Her interlocutor
bantered the fair Georgian to marry him,
and as much to his surprise as to that of
the company, she accepted the offer.
The party Of the first part was rather
elated than crestfallen, however, because
the party of the second part happened
TO be as wise as she was witty and aa rich
in purse as she was rare 10 personal at.
fractions. Cards were abandoned a
courier was sent with quick heels for a
marriage license; judge was summoned
as witness; q clergy man was hauled from
his study and with q quckness that
almost look away the brides breath, she
found herself wife, AS the betrothal
took place at 10 O'Clock and the mar.
riage at II, one hour only was consumed
In this romantic way Miss Maybelle
Clark, daughter of Judge Clark, oI
Americus, was welded TO Henry L
Sandlin, worthy and well.to- do mer
chant of Houston County.
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A Wonderful man.

The "India Rubber Man." who has
been q source Of astonishment to medical
men in Germany and England, arrived
here on Tuesday, and was yesterday af.
ternoon the subject of an examination
by physicians and surgeons at the Ash.
land House, where he is stopping. NJ.
G. A. Farini, to whose care the "Gum.
mi-Mensch" was consigned, acted rs his
introducer and interpreter, for Herr
Heinrich Haag, the curiosity in question.
who il q native of Nuremberg, is a
simple. minded upholsterer, innocent of
any other language than German.
Herr Haag is lightly built German
with reddish brown hair, sandy nous.
tache and whiskers, and blue eyes, and
weighs only $50 pounds. The most criti-
cal observer, seeing him in state of
repose, would fail to find anything queer
about him. But all the medical men
gasped when, seizing the skin of his
throat, he hauled it up so far as to com.
pletely mask his +. ;e up TO the eyebrows.
Then he drew down the skin over each
eye 30 as to lay over on the cheek, pulled
the skin at the point Of his nose
down to his chin, clutched the skin of
his breast and hauled it cut good seven
inches from his body, reached over his
shoulders and dragged up flaps of skin
that looked from the front as if he was
pulling an India rubber blanket over his
back and seizing the skin of his knee,
drew it out go far that he twisted it up
in knot as one might a wet towel.
Whenever the skin was let 60 Il glided
back smoothly into place without a
wrinkle, and looked like anybody else's
skin.
The doctors crowded around the India
rubber. skinned man, .ugging his cuticle
in all directions. held lights behind the
broad, loose flaps Of It, and slightly
scorched it in their eagerness to see the
circulation Of the blood in the delicate
blood vessels Of the skin.
Mr.. Haag showed large scar on his
right arm, where Prof. Leube, of ErIan-
gen, cut out piece of skin to get at the
bottom facts about it. The scar has not
grown fast to the flesh underneath, but
pulls six inches away, as if it was merely
patched or darned spot in loo-e gar
ment. Prof. Leube found that there
was no sub cutaneous fat, that there was
strange lack Of tissue between the skin
and the flesh, and that the porous pro-
cesses fixing the skin to the deep fascia
are loose and long.
The doctors agree that his is surpris.
ing case of dermatolysis, or "slippery
skin. ."-Ne'c York .Sun.
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- Tke mean man who has lived mean
all his life and gives to the, poor by will
after his death, is not what the Lord
would call a cheerful giver. He would
take his money with him IL he could
and the reward he gets for generosity is
In proportion to the cheerfllness of his
giving.
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MISTAKEN KINDNESS wa.
gons took sunhowers along with them on
their way to Utah, and Iowa farmers
have a hard time fighting the pest. A
single Scotch thistle planted in Victoria
the Scotchmen there had q congrat.
ulatory dinner over it twenty years ago
has covered tens of thousands of acres
and been the destruction of farms. The
scattered grain empted from the bags &C
German troop-ships in the Revolution
knocked millions off the value of our
grain crop for all time to come by bring
ing the Hessian fly. r careless man set
out French grape cutting a few years
ago with phylloxera on it, and the pest
is now pprinEled along the Pacific coast,
creeping inland. Its ravages in France
have cost $400,000,000. A man with q
taste for peppery greens planted water
cress in new Zealand, aud the little plant
has spread so that the local legislature
has Inappropriate a round sum yearly to
remove the water cress out of existence
and the water courses. A kindly, mis-.
guided man brought over to New York
basketful of sparrows, not twenty years
ago, and the little wretches have already
driven half our song birds into the woods.
In South America the same thing was
done, and the birds are cleaning out the
fr,it crop. They will be here some day.
Natural selection is occasionally wiser in
finding place for men aud animals than
men.
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Lets Illustrate it," hiccoughed a
political orator. "Its beautiful. You
see, an old farmer comes to town loaded
with new wheat, an he goes home loaded
with old rye"
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= Colonel Samuel Wallingford, of In.
diana, the apostle of Greenbackism in
Abbeville county, delivered a speech at
Ninety-Six, in that county, on Saturday
last, in support of his peculiar theory on
this subject. The Abbeville Press and
Bonner says : The crowd. from actual
count, numbered twenty-three white
men, five boys and four negroes" The
conclusion arrived at by the reporter of
the Press and Banner, after hearing the
speech, is that Ninety Six can be put
down as solid for Democratic Govern
ment, Home Rule and white supremacy"
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Now to Control Lahor.

Let your manuers and general deport-
weut DO such as to command the respect
~ those under you, which with superior
formation as to your business, and You
nave at once made It easy to influence
'a0ae around you. Keep your business
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THE DATE OF THE FIRST EAsTER.-
Just now there is great deal Of discus
sion in the religious press as to the date
of the first Easter. One author of a
leading Bible commentary maintains that
the old idea that our Lords pas.ica and
resurrection occurred in A. D. So (giyen
i'll most Bibles which have dates in mar
gins) was founded on the traditional be.
lief that He was about thirty. three years
on earth, combined with the idea that the
date of His nativity was four years later
than it really was (the actual date of the
event being, in all probability, B. @. 4l.
Tho only real doubt about the date Of
the resurrection is whether it was A. D.
20 or 80. Now astronomy tells lis that
the full moon, which would be Pas
chal in the former years, fell on a Sat.
urday = April 16 = which Is inconsis-
tent with the circumstances nara
ted. But in A. D. 80 the full moon was
on Thursday, April 6, on which the Pass.
over meal was eaten, and our Lord suf-
sered the next day lin our reckoning the
same day in Jewish Jon which other obser.
vances connected with the Passover were
still to be kept. This, then, without a
doubt, was the true year, and, If so, of
course the first Easter was on April
9th, which day the Christian world this
year celebrate.
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HERDS GRASS

=
!. . well adapted to lands too wet for cul-
sa'anon. There are hundreds of acres of
~" pipe clay lands that are fitted for no
!. O,ner crops, that would yield good crops
EOi this grass. Grows we'll also on rich
aa''and. It is more of a hay than pas.
'u.e grass, as the aftermath is rather thin.
IN with veil set winter pasture on fer
'''o iand to supplement our usual short
supplies of food for winter, with crab
. grass broomsedge and stubble fields for
.a'o "a spring and summer, our stock viii be
cneaply and abundantly provided for.
lfovide also clover patch for hogs,
sua . short corn crop with high prices
.Os neat In the future will have no terrors
for you.
Mote.-See Howard's Grass Manual for
.u'' particulars of the above grasses and
many others. / asn indebted to him for
much of the above.
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BETTY AND HER BABY.

The Betty and the Baby fund has
reached seven thousand dollars. Mrs.
Mason deposited to-day one thousand
five hundred dollars in Riggs bank.
She and her relatives are disappointed in
the amount of contributions She does
not wish her husband pardoned if 1t re.
suits in keeping him in the army to serve
out bis enlistments, as she wants him to
use his money to buy Virginia farm !;
$4,000 arc expected to- morrow from Phil
adelphia. The Sergeant states that he is
we'll treated at the prison.
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sage.
Approved, February 25, 2sSa.

AN ACT to provide a contingent fund
for the State Board Of Health,
for quarantine aud other purpo 'es.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the
Legislature Of the State Of Miasiss-
ippi, That for the purposes defined
in sections eighteen; nineteen twen-
ty-one and twenty-thrce OF an net
approved March 4,lss0, entitled, An
Act to amend the statutes in regard
70 boards OF health" ihe sum OF forty
five thousand dollars. annually, is
hereby Nppr opriated, said annual
appropriation 10 remain in force I'M
til repealed; the warrants for said
appropriation to be issued in the
mode, and tho appropriation to be
expended on the terms and condi.
tions and for tho purposes prescribed
in sections eighteen, nineteen, twen-
ty.one aud twenty.three OF said act.
SEC. 9. Be it further enacted,
That all acts and parts Of acts in
conflict with this act are hereby 70.
pealed, and that this act take effect
aud be in force from and after its
passage.
Approved, February 81, 1882,
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1882-04-07

Under the circumstances strapge
things sometimes occur. A few
months ago o young Jewish girl. an
orphan, arrived ip Olesss. int uding
as many young JcwOsses do. to OBJ
tain o situation as assistant houss
keeper in q jewish family: Whilo
looking for place. she was recomen.
ded to stay With o respectable mid
die aged married woman; whose
young husband was away for q few
weeks. Tho middle aged Jewess
soon found herself into the confidence
of her guest, and ascSrtained tha {
the young girl would have . dovry
OF 600 rublcs Whenever she married.
Thoreupon sho formed o whole design
She persuaded tho girl TO marty in
stead Of going into service. promis,
ing to procure . suitable husband;
an undertaking not uncommon
among Jews. When hos Husband,
returned from bis journey she impsrt-
ed to him her plan. He was TO di.
vorce her, marry the young Jcwess,
secure her 5O) rublcs, and, thou di.
vorcing the new bride, return to his
arst spouse. After seeing. g.thtprom-
ised bride, tho husband sgreod. The'
divorce was given; the marriage took
place; and then tho husband, per-
iec!ly content with hi, new partner.
refused to divorce l.or. Furious at
this breach Of promise. the. divorced
wife summoned him boforo the Chief
Rabbi, Schabacker. He, however.
pronounced the divorce binding and
and the marriage valid. But as o
solatium he decided]that the disap-
poi nted woman Was entitled 10 d
commission OF twenty-five rublcs, or
S per cent OF tho dowry. for having
acted as schadchen,' or marriage
broker!
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1882-04-07

Gen. NJ. @. Meigs, late quarter
master General Of the army, has been
making some novel experiments with
archers, with . view to introduce
the primitive bow and arrow as q
part OF the paraphernalia OF the fire
department Of cities. The expert
ments mado develop the feet that
there is no difficulty in throwing an
arrow, with the end Of line attach
ed, clear over the flagstaff, about
eighty feet high. With a little prac-
tice, any fireman will be able 10
throw the end OF a line into win
dow sevcnty.fve foet sbove the pave
ment, or throw a small ball OF twine
us high as the Washington monu-
ment. Such twinc will hold the
weight OF one hundred feet OF rope
largo enough to support a ton.-eb'
server.
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visors OF his county. heretofore or
hereafter givou for any breach Of
such bond resulting in injury or dam.
age to tho county. and the taxpayer
thus sueipg shall be responsible per.
sonally for all costs incurred; and no
suit which has been, or may be bore
after brought by any taxpayer as
aforesaid, shall be abatcd or dis
missed for want of authority in such
taxpayer to see. on such official
bonds.
SEC. q Be il further enacted. That
all acts In conflict with this act are
hereby repealed, and that this act
take effect and be in iorco from and
after its passage.
Approved. February 27, 1882.
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1882-04-07
A Mean Husband.

st, Jamcs' Gazette: Many OF the
singularities OF the Jewish question
in Russia are due TO the autonomy in
some respects enjoyed by the Jewish
communities there. For example,
they have their own marriage laws
the marriage laws OF tho Talmud,
that 10, and Of the ancient Hebrews.
In accordance with these laws di.
voroe is very easy matter. Hus.
band aud wife have but to sgreo to
separate attended before the Rabbi
and the thing Is done; tho ceremony
consisting solely in tho handing o1
"biIl OF divorce to the woman
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1882-04-07

The packet, Golden City, en- route
from Now orleans to CINCINNATI, was
burned at the Memphis wharf on the
3Oth of March--between 20 and 30
lives were lost. Out OF twenty-three
ladies on board, only two we're saved.
One OF the watchmen let his lamp
fall among o lot Of jute causing the
fire.
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1882-04-07

Columbus Dispatch: The Clarion
will not probably pay any attention
to our request, but We would Just
like to know upon what political
principle it suggests that ex.Gov.
Alcorn be sent to Congress, provided
Chalmers will not be candidate.-
The Clarion suggests that the people
(of course white people) lay aside
politics and send Alcorn to Wash.
ington. in q spirit Of liberality. We
would make o suggestion more par
tizap, but at the same time moro sen.
sible. politically: Let the Democrat
10 party, whatever the complexion OF
the district nominate q straight
out Democrat for Congress, throw
the mock scntimentality OF liberality
to the dogs, and elect thcir man il
they can.
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1882-04-07
Women Wanted.

Wyoming's want is women. We
want women here, partially to even
up tho population and partially To
marry. Our territory is suffering
more now for choice style, Of young
and middle.aged women than for
anything else. We need them in ell
departments OF industry where
women may DO employed, and also
in our homes and by our fresides.
There are hundreds OF lonely mon III
Wyoming who are doing well financi.
ally and who would willingly.rush
into matrimony il thore were enough
matrimony to go around. 1t is tho
sadlest feature Of our wide Western
country at present. The ovor popu-
lated East, where ayrung man ma!
pay for ice-cresm or oysters for threo
girls at q time, ought to contribut6
,o, "a, ,,,.,,h cr oirIa IN rhH
desolate land, whore thero is
only ono woman to five or six men,
and where life is hollow mocstfy.
We sometimes wish that nature
had designed us for q hired girl in
stead OF an editor so that...we could
have been independent. ln this
country "a hired girl' is only another
name for affluence and financial sta
bility.
twenty-five dollars per month and
board make the poor, criuging editor
green with envy. And yet there
are not enough girls 10 this country
to do half the work. A man lives
out half his days and at last secures
q wife, only to find that tho latter
part of his career will be devoted 10
securing a servant girl for her:
It's tough,
Life is too brief to be triaed
away in this manner. One friend Of
ours who has been reared in luxtry
has been without girl for two mon.
tbs. aud although be has offered oil
kinds Of inducements, he has been
compelled TO make tho beds and do
tho chamber work, while his wife
did the washing and cooked tho
meals.
Let tho man who mover tried 1t,
rise at 6 o'clock, dress Eve childre Il
in the subducd light Of early morn
ing. then cook breakfast, eat II 80
down town for o,uple Of months.
and no " III allow the girl that will
work for him the use OF his upright
piano and take her with him to tho
theater. Why, it has arrived at
such q stage here in Laramie that
when o mau asks one Of his neigh.
bors il he knows OF . servant girl
that ho can get, the mob turns loose
at him and laughs at him till he
wishes he was dead.
It is an uncommon occurrence for
q girl to como West, work at regular
wages two or three SSars. and thod
as an heiress, marry o bloatsd capi-
tslist aud settle down.
1t is o horrible fact that unless
something is done to prevent the
Capitalization Of capital among tho
servant girls OF Wyoming, q rstolu-
ton cannot be avoided.
There ID not 0 man within tho
sound Of our voice that will not ad'
NIT with tears in his eyes and both
suspendor buttons trcmberling and
totlorins to tboir worry foundation.
that such Is tho case.-Boomorang:
,
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1882-04-07

Another Case Of smallpox has de-
veloped in our city. The pa,iont is
q msn who came to our city by tho
Cannon on Thursday morning. BE
was appar emily well when he got OF
the boat here, and tho disease has
since developed itself. Arrangements
have been made by Health Officer
lingo TO send him to the quarantine
hospital, where also will be sent
Nelson Davis and his wife. The
former con nvalescing from an attack
of the small pox, while the latter is
suffering with varioloid, contracted
while nursing her husband.-Natch.
ez Democrat.