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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
The Brooches Bible.

Mr.. w. Il. Hubbard, of Hamilton,
Mass, has in his possession an inter-
esting old Bible. The title page of the
Old Testament is torn away; but tho
title page of the New Testament reads:
"The New Testament of our Lord Jesus
Christ, translated out of Greeke by
Theod. Beza; with brief summaries and
expositions upon the hard places by
the said Author Isac Camar and p. Lo-
salcr Villervis. Englished by L. Thorn
son. Together with the annotations of
FIR. Inndus upon the Revelation Of st.
John. Imprinted at London, by Rob-
ert Barker, Printer to the Kings most
excellent Majestic, 1909" The blank
page ut the beginning of the Old Test
ament has the following inscription:
Jacob Averell, Junr. His Bible, had it
Bound June ID, 1861, prise &c. los. Cd"
"Jacob Averell, Junr. this hand and
pen of mine which may Let you know
that / was born in the year 1928"
civilian Hubbard's Bible Bought at
Auction April 9th A, d, 1913. Daniel
Bixby, auctioneer, it being the property
of Jacob Averell, Deceased. This edi-
ton of the Bible is that commonly
called "The Bishops Bible which was
first published in 1868, forty-three
years before our present version, which
was first published in 1911. 1t has the
distinction also of being called "The
Brooches Bible" on account of the word
"breeches" being used in the 7th verse
of the 3D. chapter of Genesis, instead Of
the word "apron," used in the present
version. The old version reads as fol-
lows: "Then the eyes of them both
were opened, and they knew that they
were naked, and they sewcd fgge tree
leaues together and made Themselves
breeches." This is accompanied by q
queer marginal note. The Goth verse
of the same chapter says: And the
man called his wiues name Heua, be-
cause she was the mother Of all liuing."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
GETTING OUT OF THE ARMY.
why Young Men Enlist, and Why They
Wish to BE Free Again.

Washington Letter In Philadelphia Rccord.l
Mothers and fathers are constantly
applying to the Secretary Of War for
the discharge of their sons from the
army. As result he has to talk to q
dozen or two agonized parents every
day. As rule they represent that
their sons were under lawful ago when
they enlisted. If they can prove this
their sons are discharged. When they
can't they complain that it is unjust to
hold q young man to contract which
he concluded impulsivcly in moment
of desperation. Sometimes it was the
result Of money troubles, sometimes of
love troubles, and sometimes of family
troubles. You would imagine, if you
heard all these tales, that this was the
popular method of committing suicide.
Most of our young soldiers appear to
have taken up arms because of sea of
troubles. In almost every case tho
young man is just about to desert. He
sees nothing before him in the army
but the slavish monotonous life of q
soldier without u cent and without a
future. He sees about him, if ho
is in the West, as he usually is,
splendid possibilities for young
man. They want to get ont Of tho
army. They want to get at the posi-
bilities. So they write to their people
in the East that they will desert I'M
less they are honorably discharged from
the army by certain day. Thereupon
the half-frantic mothers and fathers
and uncles and aunts flock to the War
Department. The War Department
holds on like grim death to the few sol.
diers it has. The army grows smaller
day by day. A years assertions deci-
mate it as n battle would There are
only 10000 men in all. They are drop.
ping out by twos, threes, dozens every
day. The fascinating recruiting agents
do not charm enough recruits to max,
up for the losses. So the War Depart
ment fights for its soldiers MS its sol
dicrs ought TO fight for it, When they
desert they are chased, if enough sol
dcrs remain in the garrison. If the
desertcrs are caught they are tried by
court-martial and sentenced to two
years Imprisonment at hard labor il
the military prison at Fort Leaven
worth, Kan. At the expiration of hi,
term of imprisonment he is dishonora
bly, discharged from the service of tn,
United States. | would advise young
men to keep out of the army, until a
least the army grows better. Perhap
it will never grow better unless the,
grow better, and unless more OF then
90 into it.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
Bacteria,

Bacteria have their name from their
rod-like shape. They are vegetation so
minute as to be visible only by the aid
of powerful microscopes. They multi
ply by division, each rod separating in
to two parts. Then each part speedily
becomes complete whole, but soon
divides into two parts.
1t will he seen what countless num-
bcrs must result. The view has been
extensively adopted that these micro
scopic negotiations are the actual poison
that produces most infectious diseases.
Prof. Lionel Beale, L. r. S., knighted
for his attainmenls in microscopy and
medicine, is not prepared to accept this.
We present condensed statement OF
his views.
The tongue is constantly covered by
whole forests of bacteria. Millions
pass into the stomach whenever We
swallow. 1t is the same with all ami
mails. Every vegetable and fruit and
leaf also contains countless numbers.
So does the air we breathe and the
water we drink. All disintegration and
decay facilitates the growth of this mi
mute Vegetation.
1t is certain now, that bacteria in large
quantities are constantly passing into
the alimentary canal of men and ami
mails without doing harm. There is
probably not part of the body of any
one of us, one-quarter of m inch in
diameter, where their germs are not
present SO small are they that they
pass freely into the substance Of every
organ. They exist within us, even in
the blood, without disturbing us in any
way.
In disease their numbers are vastly
increased. 81 have seen every part Of
the stomach, the small and large intes
tines, filled with curdled milk which
when placed under the microscope
seemed to be almost composed of bac
terra. But this probably did not origin
ate the disorder, but resulted from thu
prior diseased state of the secretions
1t is still an open question whether in
fectious diseases originate from SOM
special kind of death-carrying bacteria
or from practices wholly Independent
of all such organisms. Though som
evidence has been adduced in favor O
the first hypothesis, many new fact
must be discovered before the problem
is solved
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
Government wit.

The following is the formal report OF
young pension examiner, presented in
all seriousness, on pension claim. It
need not be stated that the letter critic
of the division returned it with instruc-
tons to the writer:
Sir: In the claim for invalid pension, No.
$50 H3, of jacob Fresh, I'd independent Ohio
cavalry volunteers, the claimant alleges that
he was engaged in hand hand fight with
his saber for distance of five miles, near
Huttonville, Va, July 2, 1853, and that, while
In said fight, he was cut In the right arm and
shot in the left arm and leg. The claim is
inadmissible without further and more def
mite information. The claimant Is therefore
required, with the return of this letter, to
sta @, under oath, what caused him to get
into fight with his saber; what kind OF O
saber was it he got into fight with; how he
happened to have hand hand fight with
it; whether he had hands, whether there
were any witnesses present during the
fight; how ne managed to get shot while
fighting with his saber; whether 1t was O
shooting sabcr; whether he believes the saber
shot him; whether 1t shot anybody else;
whether he shot IL; how many shots were
fired who fired the first shot; whether the
soldier was in the habit Of fighting his saber
how long time he fought 1t, and whether
he had ever fought any other saber. II
should be shown by competent testimony
whether the soldier shot the saber or the
sabcr shot the soldier. 1t should also be
shown whether they fought for distance Of
FIVE miles apart or the saber was five milel
ong Very respectfully, yE~,wv7
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05

ADULTERATIoN of food is growing
disgrace in the United States where the
people eat more impure and unwhole.
some matter than anywhere else in the
world. AS long as the black art was
confined to the luxuries it made little
difference, but the necessaries of life are
now tempered by some of its most Gun.
ming tricks. The many authorizations Of
flour and sugar represent vast amount
of vicious enterprise. Startling analyses
and repeated exposures of these frauds
seem only to Increase the daring energy
of their Preparations The baby born
in poor American family to-day starts
life with the prospect of eating far NOR,
than the proverbial peck of dit said tC
be destined for every human stomach.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
Lincoln In Richmond.

After Richmond had fallen into the
hands of the Federal forces the Cabinet
room of the Capitol was kept in exactly
the same condition as when occupied
by JEFF Davis. President Lincoln, ii
will be remembered, arrived the day
after the surrender, and while walking
through the building, inspecting the
headquarters of the Confederacy, came
to this room. Cooley Weitzel, who
was in charge, said; "Mr President,
this is the chair occupied by President
Davis" and motioned the President 70
sit down. 1t was trying moment, ana
those present expected to see look OF
triumph in his face rs he performed the
net which signalized the complete down
fall of the Rebellion. Mr.. Lincoln APP
preached YEARLY, sat down without a
word, and as his great head fell into his
broad hands there was mn oppressives 81
lence. His mind seemed to be wander.
ing back through the dark years OF
bloodshed and carnage. He saw visions
of deotb of broken family circles, loss
Of treasure. and the little mounds that
dot the South under which sleep the
Northern dead. He did not utter a
word. but heaved deep sigh, and even
to this day the warriors who stood in
his presence at the time tell the story
with tears in their Washington
letter.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05

IT is cold comfort to talk of money,
but this country has 80 many rich men
that they constitute one Of the staple
themes of gossip. Everybody knows
about the Vanderbilts, the Astors and
jay Gould. In the class of sma lei for
tunes are some names worth mention
ing The wealthiest men in Philadel.
phia are said to be Frank Drexel, /. v.
Williamson and William Weightman, the
quinine monopo list. w. w. Corcoran,
of Washington, is known everywhere for
his charities Giving with lavish hand
has not left his fortune less than a, 0OO,-
600. Josepo Willard ranks next in the
District of Columbia, and scrupulously
conceals the amount of his lucre. Fred.
Ames, of Boston, is credited with 500
100000, and John NJ. Forbes, of the
same city, scullles along on $l5, 900, 900.
Cleveland has her John ID. Rockefeller,
with Sl5,0OO,OOO. Cyrus Mccormick,
of Chicago rates along near those fig
ures, and j. II. Wade, of Chicago, has
about half as much. Some people say
Phil Armour is the richest man in
Chicago, but he galubles heavily and his
figure is uncertain Alexander Nit
chell, of Milwaukee, flies among the
king bees with $40, 900, 600. Henry Shaw
leads the st. Louis list with $4,000, COO,
and is a bachelor. David Swinton, of
Cincinnati, has as many millions as he
has fingers on his right hand. John
Hill, of st. Paul, counts to nearly Sl0.-
100000. The south furnishes very few
millionaires. The richest of these is A.
S. Abel, of the Baltimore Sun. who must
have nearly s2O,0OO,OOO. Ross Winans
has hardly less. The richest man in
Richmond is james b. Pace with $l5,-
600, 900. W. b. Smith, of Charleston,
has over a million Joseph L. Brown of
Atlanta, is put down at all figures from
s. 100000 to S5,OOO,OOO. Ed. Richard
son, of Mississippi, is the largest cotton
planter in the word, and has SIS, 00O, 900.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
The Effect OF Chicago Sand.Bagglng

81 have case of pulsating ex-oph-
thalmus at the Michael Reese Hospital
said DIR. Boerne Bethman to reporter.
"There have been but ten cases of the
disease reported in America. Very few
pbysicians ever met with case.
have been fortunate enough to see one
patient before this. My subject Is 2
yonn0 man who was wayhid ana
sand. baoged. He has suffered most
from the fhrobbing in his eyes and the
veins running back over his forehead'
which are greatly distended, and the ter
rible pains in his head. Both eyes are
abnormally swollen and protruding, and
The left one is turned toward the nose,
causing him to see double. l account
for his suffering and present condition
on the ground that ex-ophthalmus
was produced by the blows he received
on the back of the head. The internal
carotid artery, which carries blood to
the brain, and the large vein which
carries blood from the brain to
the heart run closely together for
about an inch at the base OF the skull.
Well, where the blows were received q
slight fracture Of the skull took place,
and q spicula OF bone was driven through
the vein and artery, so that the blood
from each obstructs the flow OF nutr1ivs
blood to the brain, ON the one hand. az ~
the exhausted blood to the hear tss ~
thar The stagnation thus plvus
obout is responsible for the e. p. aweiIips
" d1 the veins, Etc Unless sh's ds a u spc.
~ ~ r r the patient wall oio - ~
,ls.v "--O chicago Ns'es
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05

The Chinese Minister at Washington
says he has received many tenders of ser.
vice from ex-officers of the union and
confederate armies, but he has told them
all that their acceptance or rejection rests
with the home viceroys. He does not
think the trouble with France admits Of
mediation, which would naturally result
in compromise. China, he says, can.
notaccept a compromise in a case that in
wolves the integrity of her territory and
the control or her own subjects. His
country, he adds, does not dread wal
with France. Her army is vel differed
by European soldiers Of experience and
capaci y, and its equipment is up to
modern standards. he reported medi.
alton of the United States is, therefore,
believed to be INSTRUMENTATION. China
is probably ready tofght, and shecounts
no doubt, on long war and the creation
of expenses that the French people vii
not be apt to stand up to.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
Texas Fever.

Allerton, the Chicago cattle dealer,
denies that there is pleuro-pneumonla
saws: "They have been locking up cattle
in native yards or fields formerly occu-
pied by tick. covered Texas steers; when
the texas cattle are shipped 10 the East
many of them are covered with little
nests of ticks or bugs, and these in,
scots fall off to the ground and crawl
over the grass. If the herds are changed,
as they usually are, it often happens
that the native cattle get into the Texas
pastures. The native cattle cat the
grass covered with these poisonous
green ticks, and in short time get
sick and show symptoms OF what Is
termed pleuro- pneumonia. But 1t Is
not pleuro-pneumonia 1t is easily
cured. Give q steer a lot Of green corn,
and see how quickly this dreadful thing
they talk about will disappear,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05

October are wonderful. Fresh beef,
which in the same month last year,
amounted to 100000 pounds, runs up
to nearly 100000 pounds. Bacon
shows an increase for the month 90, OOO-
900 pounds, or total of 27,OOO,O 900
pounds, while the export of hams is
three times greater than that of last
year, or over 100000 pounds. The ex-
port of pork in October was 100000
pounds, rs compared with 100000
pounds in 1882. Tallow shares in the
general increase. During the month Of
October there were 100000 pounds ex-
ported, an Improvement of 1000, 900
pounds over the corresponding period
OF last year, and for the twelve months
there were $1,000 600 pounds exported,
an increase Of 100000 pounds over
that of 1882. The total value of pro-
visions and taliow for the twelve months
ending October 81 was nearly 800 ,00O,-
600, while for 1882 it is $S6,OOO,OOO.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05

ACCORDING to General adeau, our
minister to Cuba, the trade relations be-
tween the little island and the United
States could not be in a worse condition.
Owing to our nearness to Cuba, Amer
lean merchants should have almost a
monopoly of trade, but the existing tariff
rates practically shut them out, while
Great Britain and Germany get every
thing. As an instance of the effect OF
the unjust laws against American goods,
he states that flour from this country is
first shipped to Spain, thence to Cuba,
and sold for considerable less than thai
which is sent direct to the island.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
oarre'S IN Augusta county at prices rang
ing from $50 to 81 per barrel.
ON account Of the droutb. which soor,.

oAiie'S III Augusta county at pricesr rang.
ing from s1.50 to 50 per barrel
oN account Of the drouth. which seems
10 DE prevalent all over the country, the
orange crop of Florida ismaturinp slowly
ana the fruit is somewhat smaller than
usual but the prospect for good crop
Is considered excellent. The yield is ex.
pected obe muchlarger than last wears
CHATTANOOGA Times: At Dayton the
Coal and Iron Company have struck il
rich by discovering six new veins of coal
Each oil ese veins leads into the center
OF the mountain, where it is almost n
solid mass of fine coal. About 2OO. 600
bushels per day will be taken out of these
veins.
New ORLEANS claims to be the best
portin the United States, and the papers
OF that city do not hesitate to mention
that fact occasionally. The jetties are
supposed to be in successful operation {;
at any rate they have provided channel
through which the steam hip Silverton
passed the other day, drawing twenty.
five feet Of water. The Silverton car
ried out cargo equal in bulk to "a, $50
bales. The Silverton, by the way, has
been engaged to lay the new cable for
james Gordon Bennett and ]. w.
Mackay. We
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05

THE fret ground was broken in Pull .
man, Ill three years ago, and nowit ha,
5000 inhabitants. 1t has lesson TO,
Atlanta in its waterworks and its sewer.
age. The system of sewerage is admir-.
able. The refuse of the town flows to IN
immense cistern under the water tower.
The steam power is used to pump the
sewerage to the town farm of 1900
acres which is thus irrigated and en-
riched. The profton the farm under this
system of culture when it had only sixty
acres was $500. This land was consid,
cred exhausted and worthless. The sue,
cess of this experiment suggests new
use and value for city sewerage.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
COMMUNISM IN AFRICA.
Some OF the Pleasures OF Living Where
There Is Free Ownership of Land.

There Is Free Ownership Of Land.
The traveller coming fresh from
Europe into Damaraland, says G. G.
Bintner, in the Popular Science
Monthly, is struck by the complete
communistic freedom with which every
man appropriates the land and its
natural products. Roads have been
worn through the thickets by footmen,
and the heavy OK wagons, and the chief
villages are connected by kind OF
highway, but no one is obliged to keep
the road if he does not want to. They
are of no more significance than the
zebra or rhinoceros tracks which led
to the drinking places before man APP
peared in the country; and there is no
reason why the traveller should not
make new road Mt pleasure. The
pasturage is free for the Transfers
hungry cattle, the wood for the fire
needed to cook his supper. If stray
spark sets the grass on fire no one
thinks Of complaining; if hunter CON-
mits devastation among the game, the
native may grumble Mt the waste, but
he will not imagine that his rights are
trespassed upon, or venture to interfere
with the proceedings. The game is rs
much the strangers rs his. If one sees
a spot that pleases him he is at liberty
to settle upon it and build himself a
house there. If any objection is made
to the stranger, nothing worse happens
than that something unreasonable il de-
manded Of him i'll the same way that
people iii other parts of the world are
not ashamed to overreach strangers;
this is not so easily done, however, il
the intruder is native or n member Of
the same tribe, and even if a stranger,
if he does not allow himsclft be scared
away, is at last permitted to remain I'M
disturbed Whoever settles in any par
ticular spot must, however, expect that
other persons, finding it well supplied
with water and pasturage, will bring
their herds there too; and it is the
practice of the Herero, when they wish
to get rid of an unwclcome neighbor,
Notwithstanding their communism, to
bring up 80 many herds and establish so
many cattlerangcs about his house that
he becomes Disguised with the frequent
intrusions and is obliged to go away
from the exhausted tract. Some of the
Herero chiefs have recently begun tC
drive single settlers away by force, but
they are actuated by Interior political
views. The people are not disposed to
grudge a stranger the particular spot Of
land he occupies, but they wish to drive
foreigners out of the country altogether.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

JHE watera around Florida, the Med.
iterranean and the Bahamas supply most
OF the sponges. The Florida p nge is
coarse and cheap. That from the Med.
iterranean is used in surgery, but the
finest and costliest sponge is from the
Bahamas. The harvest of sponges last:
about eight months in the year, and dur.
ing that time skillful divers make as much
as no a day each gathering them. 1t
requires from twelve to fourteen months
for asponge toget its growth.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05

WHILE cotton and grain are moving
ACROSS the water as rapidly as at some
other periods, the exports Of provisions
are UNPRECEDENTED, and there are no in
dioations of adecreased movement Inc
e1norts of fresh beef are more than
doubled, while there has been nano'
some increase in the amount of bacon
and hams exported. Lard and PORK also
show increased figures, The totals To-
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05

"TnH Chinese must gol" is now a
Salt Lake City shibboleth. An ordi-
nance is before the Common Council for
compelling the wash-houses to remove
outside the city limits. John explains
the matter thus: "Chinaman no tend
own business; he washce clothes, and
he hab no one, two, three wives. ale same
Mormon; Mormlon he wanteo us away
80 we makee no money, sabe2 Wante""
tax us lilpe church waaee ny ''dl'hsS
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
A NEAT RETORT.

Mr.. Falls, a well-known Irish sports
man, happened one day to ride down q
bound. The irascible but witty master
attacked him in no very measured Ian
guage. .,,, .. Won
recollect that l am Mr.. Falls, OF Dun
Cannon" a., ,,,,. AVN
u Won are Mr.. Falls, OF Niagara, you
sba'n't ride over my hounds"