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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The oldest Presbyterian Church in
the world, the Waldensian, sends out
more missionaries from her highland
valleys than all her ministers at home.
Three thousand five hundred church
es have been built in this country dur
ing the past fifteen years, and more than
one for every day in the year during the
last twelve months.
"A candidate for teachers certifi-
cate in the recent examination at FL Do
RADIO, gave as reason for the length
ened DAYS of summer that they were ex-
panded by the heat. Of course they
contract in the winter
Times.
Rev. Miss Anna Oliver says that the
ideal Christian woman its the salvation
of the Church, and expresses the belief
if women lose faith in the Church and
Christian religion in its general outlines
the whole fabric of modern theology
will fall apart.
"A Hindoo mother, after listening
hour after hour to the lady missionary
as she explained the way of free saliva
ton, exclaimed: "Tell me more" AT
last when the long talk must close the
old mother drew from under her veil
the thin, gray hairs, saying: ..These
hairs have grown white waiting for
such words as these"
The industrial schools are having
an apparently good effect upon the In
dians. The red men have begun to
work well and to take a pride in their
work. General Armstrong believes
that within five years, with the 100 In
dians at Hampton, Va. and the 800 at
Carlisle, Pa, and others under intruc-
ton elsewhere, all the shoes and har-
Aess needed on the plains can be made
by the young men at home.-Ghsedgo
Journal.
Mr.. Spurgeon, while in Scotland.
recently preached in the grounds of
Kenmore. A temporary pulpit was
erected on the lawn, and Mr.. Spurgeon
addressed an open-air congregation of
nearly 5000 people, who had come in
from "all the country side,'' many per-
sons having walked over ten miles ex-
pressly to be present, for the austere
Purltans of this part of Scotland would
regard driving on such an occasion as
a ..Sabbath desecration of the most
he:nous nature.-N Y Posi-.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27

land will make much OF it. And poor
Egypt must pay for the destruction of
Alexandria, which was British work, and
for her conquest by the British; all this
out of her destroyed crops, and her poor
agricultural laborers. With the mill
tary prestige gained by this war, will
not Great Britain be looking about for
other countries to conquer? Will she
not be arrogant and dangerous? But
Great Britain has had military success
in several wars, in her recent pursuit of
m imperial policy, which has not been
profitable in the outcome. and it may be
so in this instance. After all this mill
tary glory, the thing passes to the realm
of diplomacy, and the other powers will
claim to have finger in the pie of
Egypt. The outcome may be sort of
joint arrangement which will be humil-
iation to the conqueror, and will be
worse in the matters of national and
commercial security than that which ex-
listed before the British destroyed it by
making war.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
What is Soilings


The soiling system is that by which
stock of various kinds are excluded from
pasture fields, and the food prepared
and fed to them regularly. The soiling
system is always associated with what is
known as Is high farming" which has
for its rule 1.-THE largest return from the
smallest available space" and it is to
this point we are journeying on our road
to perfection in agriculture. 1t is a
system, however, that demands extra
labor and close attention, and one that
entails great expense. 1t calls for con-
stant examination of the condition of
stock in order to prevent injury to them
from confinement; but usually cattle
seem to thrive well under the soiling
system wherever practiced AS none
but the most progressive farmers have
ventured on the plan, it is safe to say
that success is due more to good judg-
ment and care than to the system itself,
so far as the health of the animals is
concerned. but that it is the only true
way of keeping farms in high state of
fertility cannot be denied. But few
fences are required in soiling. This is
source Of considerable saving. The
food can be of variable character, and
it undergoes careful preparation, in ac-
cordance with the capacity of the ami
NAL, and whether the desire of the
owner be for milk, beef or butter. The
system takes into consideration the
question of shelter, likewise, and the
animals are as tenderly treated as they
are well fed. 1t calls for the selection of
the best stock. of the breeds suited for
the purposes desired, and no other; and
the improvement of the stock every year
is a paramount object, no expense being
spared to accomplish it; nor is the
manure overlooked, for every ounce is
not only saved but well preserved.
There must not be any loss of ammonia,
no teaching from rains nor exposure to
the sun. It is treated as an article of
the greatest value, and fitted for proper
assimilation by the crops which it is to
nourish. Great as the interest of the
farmer may be in his stock, yet, with
all his care, he does not cease until the
ultimate object is attained, which is to
increase the productiveness of the soil,
and every year the stock becomes more
valuable, the dividends larger, and the
soil richer Less land is required under
the system, and no energies are wasted
over broad fields. but time, labor and
money are concentrated on the smallest
possible space that can be made to sup
port the amount of stock required,
manure is spread thickly, and when it
is all taken from the barnyard not
another acre is touched outside of the
area the manure covers except for green
manuring. The crops are put in just
where they do best, and no land re-
mains idle, for green crops are turned
in, proper system of rotation is fol
| lowed, and the best manual skill and
| the best machinery are called to the as
sistance of the farmer in making every,
thing pay. In fact, soiling, properly
conducted, is scientific farming. g.-PhtlG-
| delpLia Record.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
Tne oldest InhabI.ant.

Willieu Bassett, an aged negro living
in Ca<sden, N. j., last May celebrated
his 10th birthday, and is without doubt
the ssoldest inhabitant" of the new
world. Bassett was born in Delaware
in 1855, where his parents were slaves,
for many years owned by the Bayard
family. During the Revolution Bassett.
then young man of twenty-one or
twenty-five, was working for a farmer
by the name of Wilson. While there
he married, and became the father of
large family, each member of whom he
has outlived. Upon the death of his
wife Bassett married again. When the
war broke out in 1872 he became body
servant to Col. Morris, CT Jackson's
army, whom he accompanied to the
front at New Orleans. He married his
third wife upon his return from the
South, and had by her quite numerous
family, all but one of whom died prior
to the civil war. For the last eighteen
years he has been taken care of by his
children and grandchildren, spending
the time between Camden and Moores-
town, to and from which places he has
travelled on foot many time. The last
trip was made early in the fall of 1881.
His death is now looked for daily.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
Predictions Verified.

Senator jackson, of Tennessee, was
reminded not long since by friend who
was at the University of Virginia with
him of the curious veriication of predic-
tions made thirty years ago and more.
jackson, Thomas Malone and Charles
e. Fennor occupied contiguous rooms
in the University of Virginia. They
were fast friends, constant companions
and the foremost men in their class A
brother student sketched the three in a
group one day. "What shall put un-
der each figure ?" he said, when he had
completed the drawing I" Put under
mine, said jackson, Jackson address,
ing the Senate of the United States. %
''And under mine" said Malone, " de-
hvering lecture to the students of the
University of Tennessee. ssAnd Under
yours, Fennor? "Oh, .Fennor an
nouncing decision from the Supreme
bench of Louisiana" The Subscriptions
were appended. jackson is to-day in
the Senate of the United States, Malone
is at Vanderbilt ,Universit- Tennessee,
and Fennor is member Of the Supreme
Court Of Louisiana.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27

About two miles from town he sud-
denly checked his horse, gazed intently
on the ground and said: "Some fellow
has lost his saddle horse here this MORN
ing"
There was no advertisement on any
of the trees Offering reward for a lost
horse, and as there was no lost horse in
sight we were at a loss to understand
how, if a horse was lost, our friend
could know SO much about it.
The doctor inquired: "How dc you
know that a horse has been lost?,
81 see his tracks"
Are there not hundreds of horses
pasturing on the prairies, and how do
you know that this is not the track of
one of them?''
"Because lie is shod, and the horses
herding on the prairies do not wear
shoes
"How do you know that he is q
saddle-horse and lostP'
- see rope track alongside his
trail; the horse has saddle on. and the
rope hangs from the horn of the saddle"
''But why may he not be horse that
some one has ridden over this way this
morning, and why do you insist that it
Because, if a man had been on his
back he would have ridden him on a
straight course, but this horse has
moved from side to side of the road as
he strolled along, and that is plain
sign that he grazed as he went and that
he had no rider
''After that it would not surprise me-"
said the doctor, IF you were to tell us
the age of the horse, and the name of
the owner
"Wcll, that would not be very hard
to do. There are signs that have told
me the owners name, and there are
other signs that, if / had time to exam
inc, would tell me his age. / know he
is one of old man Pendegrast's horses.
Pendegrast has large bunch of horses
down in the bottom, and an old nigger
down there does all his shoe ng. and
shoes no other horses except his. So we
know his shoe track just the same as we
know his brand"
After this conviction on circumstan-
tial evidence it would not have seemed
extraordin d. : if the Remnant had given
us his opinion of the life and character
OF our great-grandmothers, drawing his
conclusions from an examination Of
some of our physical peculiarities.
1t is wonderful how expert these men
become in reading what they call
''signs" on the prairie or in the woods.
No sign escapes their practiced eye; all
manner of tracks, trails and marks are
to them data on which to base conclu-
sions. The peculiar movements of an
animal will indicate the presence of
some other animal in the neighbor-
hood. A broken limb of tree, "a
crushed weed, the debris around a
campfire, the flight of a buzzard. and
other such signs are to the cowboy and
the frontiersman what the sign boards
and advertisements are to people who
live 10 cities.-Je1ns S:fiin0s
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27

Ii the town of Salem. In Massachu-
setts, said Bob Billingsby, :" thinks she
has had the onliest witches In this coun-
try, all I got to say about it is that she
is simply mistaken. Now, there was old
Brother McGraw and old Sister Hut
ton"
Bob's story, in short, was thus Old
Brother McGraw and old Sister Hutton
were members of Philips Bridge Church.
Brother McGraw was a consistent mem
ber, but old Sister Hutton, to say the
truth, was regarded somewhat as a
heather. and even addicted to witch
craft. A calf OF Brother McGraw's, of
uncommon promise, dwindled in spite OF
uncommon pains, and finally died, and
the good man, persuaded In his mind
that his neighbor, although spiritual
sister, had bewitched it, set out in his
wrath for her house, and, taking her by
the hand, gave her violent wrench.
Sister Hutton reported the case to the
church, and, at the conference one Sat
urday, Brother McGraw, being mildly
demonstrated with, went so far as to say
that he would have to think about it.
The moderator blandly suggested to him
to withdraw for a few moments, retire
into the woods, reflect and pray over
the matter. He did so. On returning,
the moderator and the brethren were
grati6ed to observe the calm regret that
was visible upon his countenance. This
moderator was man of power, both as
to intellect and character. It was Silas
Mercer. Then this dialogue ensued:
Mr.. Mercer Well, Brother Nc
Graw, see you've returned, and think
you've come to just conclusion in the
matter about which you have been re-
hecting."
He looked inquiringly at the aged
brother, and the aged brother answered
his inquiring look with meek silence.
"I think you feel sorry, Brother Nc
Graw," suggested Mr.. NJ, in kindly,
leading tone.
eyes, Brer Moderator" answered the
aged brother, "wery sorry; I'm very
sorry"
Yet there was some gruffness In his
tone which led the moderator to doubt
the nature of his regret.
''Brother McGraw," said he, "will
you let the church know what sort of
sorrow it is you feel? Is it a godly sor-
row, Brother McGraw ?"
Then the aged brother lifted high his
head, looked the moderator full In the
face, and answered: "Brer Moderator,
I'm sorry-I'm sorry-that I didn't
break her neck. ."-Eaditor'S Dras0er, IL,
Harper's Magazine.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
Flash Words.

I think there is one habit said to
one company day or two afterwards-
worse than that of punning. 1t Is the
gradual substitution of cant or flash
terms for words which characterize their
object. / have known several very gen.
teel idiots whose whole vocabulary had
deliquesced into some half dozen ex-
pressions. ALI things fell into one of
two great categories, fast or slow. Mans
chief end was to be ''Drick." When
the great calamities of life overlook their
friends, these last were spoken of as be-
ing ga good deal cut up" Nine-tenths
of human existence were summed up In
the single word "bore." These ex-
pressions come TO be algebraic symbols
of mind which have grown two weak or
indolent to discriminate. They are the
blank checks of intellectual bankruptcy ;
you may fill them up with what idea
you like; it makes no difference; for
there are no funds in the treasury upon
which they are drawn.-Otiuer Wendell
HOlz72eS
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
WIT AND WISDOM.

Love reckons hours for months, and
days for years, and every little absence
is an age.-Dryden.
The proper way to check slandef
is to despise it; attempt to overtake and
refute it, and it vii outrun you. George
Eliot.
"A thick corn-husk is not sign Of
hard winter, as some folks think. Il
makes no difference to corn-husks what
the weather is--Detroit Free Press.
"A man has been arrested in New
York for counterfeiting theater tickets.
His villainy has put him in .'a box" but
he sighs for the family circle.--Steubefa-
Uille Herald.
1t is said that the debt of the world
is over S23, 600. .0oG out so long as it is
not in shape of > tsntested will the law
yers may gnasf their teeth In vajn.-
Detroit Free Press.
-. Yes, SIR" says the oldest resident,
the first trip / made from Lowell to
Boston was over the old canal. and
worked nv passage on the canal beat.
"Worked your passage? HowP" in
quired his audience. II led the horse"
solemnly remarked the ancient mariner.
-Fogg has got an idea at last, and he
says there's millions in it, as it meets .
long-felt want 1t is nothing less than
a revolving house, which is to turn upon
a pivot, so that the best rooms shall al
ways face the sun in winter and be in
the shade in summer Fogg has great
head.-NeW HaUe,a Register.
"A student of human nature was the
Yankee schoolm' am who undertook the
care of school out West, where her
predecessor, q man. had been tossed
through the window by the rebeliious
pupils. She got along splendidly; and,
when asked how she managed it, re-
piled: s'Oh, easily enough. l thrashed
the lutte boys and mashed the big
ones"
A coachman calls upon the doctor
to ask what can be the matter with
him. MY good man. said the prince
of science, you've got dropsy-that'- :
what ails you-'' ''Dropsyl Whas s
thatP'' "It's a morbid collection of
fluid in the serous cavities within the
body--in your case, take it thydroperi-
toneum caused by cirrhosis ofthe liver.
but durable by paracentesis.
know, but what is it in Englishp'
"You are all full of water inside" !"
"Water? Oh, that's nonsense" (Re-
fleets moment) THAT scoundrel OF
saloon keeper must have watered his
liquor, and yet he swore to me he
didn' t."-Cttcago Times.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27

Girls. as well as boys. need 10 under
stand about kerosene EXPLOSIONS. A
great many fatal accidents happen from
trying to pour little kerosene Oh the
fire to make it kindle better. also by
pouring oil into lamp while it IS light
ed. Most persons suppose that it's the
kerosene itself which explodes, andt
if they are very careful to keep the oil
itself from being touched by the fire or
the light there viii be no danger. But
this is not so. If can or a lamp is left
about half full of kerosene oil the oil
will dry up-that is. sevaporafe' Ia
little and will form, by mingling with
the air in the upper part, a very explo-
sive gas. You cannot see this gas any
more than you can see air. Buff it is
disturbed and driven out. and blaze
reaches it, there will be a terrible explo-
sion, although the blaze did not touch
the oil There are several other liquids
used in houses and workshops which
will produce an explosive vapor in this
way. Benzine is o1e; burning fluid is
another; and naphtha, alcohol, ether,
chloroform NAV do the same thing.
In New York workshop lately, there
was a can of benzine, or gasoline. stand
ing on the floor. A boy sixteen years
old lighted cigarette, and threw the
burning match on the floor close to the
can. He did not dream there was any
danger, because the liquid was corked
up in the can. But there was a great
explosion, and he was badly hurt This
seems very mysterious. The probabil-
ity is that the can had been standing
there a good while and good deal OF
yapor had formed, some of which had
leaked out around the stopper and was
hanging in sort of invisible cloud over
and around the can; and this cloud,
when the match struck it, exploded.
Suppose girl tries to fill a kerosene
lamp without first blowing 1t out. OF
course the lamp is nearly empty or she
would not care to fill it. This empty
space is filled with a cloud of explosive
vapor arising from the oil in the lamp.
When she pushes the nozzle of the can
into the lamp at the top, and begins to
pour, the oil, running into the lamp,
fills the empty space and pushes the
cloud o. explosive Vapor up; the vapor
is obliged to pour out over the edges of
the lamp, at the top, into the room out
side. OF course it strikes against the
blazing wick which the girl is holding
down by one side. The blaze of the
wick sets the invisible cloud of vapor
afre, and there is an explosion which
ignites the oil and scatters it over her
clothes and over the furniture of the
room. This is the way in which a ker-
osene lamp bursts. The same thing
may happen when girl pours the oil
over the fire in the range or stove, if
there is a cloud of explosive vapor in the
upper part of the can. or if the stove is
L. Ill
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
Honest. But not Reliable.

Not long since lady called on Nose
Schaumburg, to find out if colored
woman, who had formerly been servant
at his house, was honest, she having
given him as O reference.
ssShe vas honest, too honest to suit
me, put she vas not reliable.
Sc How In the world can that be?"
ssVell, YOU day leaves a five tollar
pill on de floor, and dells Matildy to
sweep dot room out. I shoost want to
see if she keep dot pill.
"Well, did she keep the bill ?"
"No, she brings me dot pill pack. |"
ssThat looks very much as if she a.
reliable"
s'No she vas not reliable, for dot pill
vast counterfeit. I vas In hope she
dakes dot pill, and den I would never
have paid her dot twenty dollars I owed
her; put she's fooled me py bringing me
dot pad pill pack, so I cannot say she
vas reliable. but maybe she vas honest. :"
--1eras Sutisaas.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
Chinese as Printers.

A Chinaman offers his services to the
publisher of monthly paper in this
city, to set up all the forms of his paper,
send him proofs of each article, and
make the corrections marked In the
proofs when returned, and convey the
forms to and from the press-room for
seventy-five cents column. There are
forty EIGHT columns in the paper, each
column twenty and one half inches long
by two and one-quarter inches wide.
The offer was declined, whereupon the
Chinaman said he was doing the same
work for two other periodical in the city.
They learned the business in Hong Kong
and Canton, where papers are published
in the English tongue, and where China
men are drilled into the work on account
of the scarcity of white labor.
Fr0ncjsco Bulletin.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27

A NORTH CAROLINA correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution writes "I sup
pose Morehead City is the only city in
the world without wheel in it. do
not think there is wagon or buggy
horse in the town, and very few in the
county. Everything is done in boats.
There is not house in the county that
q boat can not get within a mile of. Not
a doctor or a lawyer in the county owns
q horse-they practice in boats. The
people go to funerals in boats, and when
they arrest a man they carry him to jail
in boat"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27

JUDGE HILTON, who refused Banker
Seiglman entertainment at the Grand
Union Hotel, Saratoga, because the lat
ter was an Israelite. now offers to give
SIC, 900 to exiles fund for the benefit of
Russian Hebrew refugees. Several gifts
and subscriptions offered by Judge
Hilton to different Jewish charities have
already been refused. DR.. Brown, OF
the Je,cish Herald, thinks that the So
ciety for the relief of Hebrew exiles
should accept the gift.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27

New YORK Herald: Cetewayo, says
London Truth, objects to the barbarism
of taking different kinds of food on the
same plate. and insists upon having his
vegetables served separately. What
would he think Of beauty at cele-
brated watering place hotel, who had on
her plate a roast, two entrees, mashed
potatoes, succotash, and several sauces
and juices, and then, pointing her jew
eled finger at dish of wine jelly, said
to the waiter, Bring me some of that
liver?"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27

Mr.. Lor, who accompanies Herbert
Spencer on his visit to this country, told
Buffalo Courier reporter that instead of
getting better Mr.. Spencer has grown
worse. His trouble is in the nature of
insomnia. He is not able to sleep ex-
cept by fits and starts. Night after
night he tosses about, and the day
comes only to find him more fatigued
than he retired
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27

A WAR which has probably cost Egypt
the agricultural production Of one year,
and hundreds of millions besides, and
has put Great Britain to enormous ex-
pense to send 80, 900 men to Egypt. and
to gather transportation from all the
world for their campaign, ended at the
first real touch of arms. with . victory
in which the heroic victorious army lost
thirty killed and 12Q wounded. Eng
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27

A GENTLEMAN writing from Georgia to
friend in Washington, says that Coy
ernor Colquitt will probably succeed the
late Senator Hill to the United States
Senate. The election of Senator will
take place at the next session of the
Legislature to be held this fall.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
The value of property in the Unite,

The value of property in the United
States is held to be fully $4,000. 000,-
600, making it the richest country in the
world. England. the next richest. has
S44, 100, OOO. 900. and France comes next
with S37. 200, ,000, 900. The average to
every inhabitant in England is abous
81, 800 and in the United States but
81, Chicago Herald,