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The Hen Business.

A pen and ink wrestler has un-
tied a book and let it loose upon
the patient people, which book
bears the title s'How to make $500
Year from Twelve Hens We
tried this getting rich out of the
hen business last year, and while
it looks nice and pretty in gilt let
tiers on blue binding to save $500
year from twelve hens, our expe-
rience was different. We secured
last spring a collection of six lady
hens and a male companion, and
domiciled them in an extensive hen
pasture in the rear OF our premises.
We figured it all out that with six
eggs a day, and occasional vaca-
ton which would be paid for in
chickens, we would soon have
money enough to go to Europe or
run for office. Early in the season,
the bro Leghorn troops fought
nobly, and we began to look around
with the idea of getting a safe to
put our egg money in. Just at
this juncture corn stepped up to 81
bushel, and our hens ceased lay
ing and turned all their attention
to their appetite.
During the interim (interim is a
word that we found in the office
when we bought it, one of our
hens had succeeded in presenting to
the world dozen little brown balls,
which imagination told us would
make excellent chicken pies along
in December. Imagination lied to
us, however, for in less than four
weeks every one ofthe little brown
darlings had been referred to the
interior department of COMPOUNDED
skunk, and there was seven weeks
lost time to be charged up to that
hens profit and loss account. We
forbear telling of our midnight ram
bles in the dewy mazes of our gar
den, clad in modesty and a night
shirt, with revolver carrying33l00
cartridges and a heart filed with
luminosity toward that skunk. We
draw a curtain DER that scene.
When fall came, and after we
had bought eggs to, feed ourselves
and corn to feed our hens for a
while, we retired from the hen bust
ness, and we have made up oul
minds that it takes something more
than a book and a dozen hens to
make $500 year. Of course there
are hen artists who can play the
game for all it is worth, and make
1t pay; but for a greenhorn to think
that twenty-four hens are worth {
cool thousand year to him is fol
| ly. If you could make hens lay ev
cry day, and bring chickens up on
bottle in some secluded corner
where skunks could not get a
them, it would pay for novices tc
establish hen dairies. As it is
however, we novices had better save
our money from buying such books
as the one described, to buy egg:
with, and let those who understand
egg harvesting do the work. There
is too much responsibility; too
much getting up nights to shoo'
shunks, and too few eggs in the
business, to offer inducements tC
amateurs.-I Marathon Independent
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A Hint for the Girls.

A good pullet Of either Brown
Leghorn or Black Spanish variety
costing IS cents, with proper atten-
ton, good feeding and comfortable
quarters will lay twelve dozen eggs
a year worth an average % cents a
dozen or SO. Six pullets can be
just as easily attended to and will
bring in eggs alone SIS; or if half
the eggs are Matched early in the
spring 50 that the chicks will come
in on the first spring chicken mar
ket, the profit would be much larg-
er. Say you take off SO young
chickens in February, with proper
attention you should have for mark
e by the middle or latter part OF
March at least so spring chickens
that would bring 80 cents apiece or
$I5; take the value of the five doz-
en- eggs Matched, $1.25, from the
SIS and it would still give you
$I6.75 worth of eggs for the market,
add this to the SIS tor your spring
chickens and You have the snug
little sum of $3175 for your own
pocket. Every farmers daughter
can do this, it would be not only
pleasant but profitable employment.
Spirit Ct the Farm.
When the Fool Killer comes
around again we'll not be for the
old ticket. He has let that Union
City Herald man live till yet. Heal
him:
Elder Dalton baptised Mr.. Pass
more in the day of the evening o.
rest last; and we understand this
baptismal performance took place
near bIr. Hale's to the salvation
of several converted from darkness
to the lightning liberty Of him who
came in the world and made flesh
to set drink and sleep rs in ordina-
~ among humanity.
Weather Letters the Boston man
who originated the idea of watering
the mountains with a huge wheel
from the falls of Niagara, and a ge-
NOUS of Jackson, Tenn, for turning
the Tennessee river into South
Forked Deer, ale the subjects of as
constituent of the Louisville expo
sition, agricultural PROCESSION and
marriage by elopement.
Moody of the Cleaner preached
out free agency on his last occasion
in the part Of his prerogative, but
his false teachers adyocate it for
chicken stews and marriages, for
such is life in the broad horn de
partment
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q u Rn n. - people are alwRys on the
WISE &: s; !. ::::;: i:
those who dc not improve
tier opportunities remain in poverty. We
offer great chance to make money. We
want msny men, women, bows aud ria 10
gorE Tor Us right in their oxn locslitios.
ANY one can do the york properly from the
first start The business viii pay moro than
ten times ordinary wages. Exren6i 70 outfit
furnished tree. No one y no engages faiA- to
make money rapidly. You Can devote y.ur
whole tins TO the work, or only your snare
moments Fall information snd all that "a
needed rent free. Address sfIESe n q co.,
Portland, Maine. mar22-Iy.
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The Widow Of a Great General.

The widow 0f Albert Sidney
johnson and children reside in Los
Angeles, California, where they
have resided some years. The
general left them comparatively
poor on the frontier of Texas, where
he located certificate upon $40
acres of land near the head of
Brazos river, which has upon it a
valuable coal mine. Mrs. Johnson
has had many opportunities to sell
since the war, but always refused,
as she knew of the coal mine, which
is now worth 100000.
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4-L---Lsi
FARMER,

sixteen pace ugricl nal rl7ac PUBLISHED Fl Wayne
Ind aud ghirh Is rp as taig a one The leading eg
the intesgats ,tla ITe-, sock rcSief Da lyman Gard
and their industry
nected with that t a'ron a. "a psna Of tie word, ths
Farncr Ila esc rtua l.l.et g 80 f. = per ear Farm
her nl.ads ,saes's tt- bow to tsta y a proft @
fal. ac fu'F e1i is cyecas. Aapy, and the dem
1goRtIe i41l-
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One acre of good meadow grass
properly cured into hay will FUR
nish food for a COW or steer during
the five or SIX months of winter--it
will be found that three or four
acres are devoted to pasturing one
COW or steer during the warm sea-
son. Every stock breeder knows
that it takes mare food to keep an
animal in cold than la warm weath-
er. This statement shows the
great waste incident TO pasturing
and the value of the soiling system
where one acre OF land may be easl-
" made 20 feed as much stock
rs will four acres af pasture.
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1t is proposed to erect an emf
grants home OF New Orleans SINH
lar to Castle Garden ia New York.
1t will operate greatly TO tGPn some
Of the foreign emigrants into that
port. They all now come through
Castle Garden. Commissioner Nc
Whittier has bees 10 New Orleans
to investigate and the matter will
be considered by the Southern I'm
migration Bureau.
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TERMS:
COTTON STORAGK

I IBERAL CASH Advances on all cotton
Il stored with us. Full insurance guaran-
teei. Protect your cotton from weather and
aoeidorr. Charges nominal.
seh22.4s - PDFORD BROS
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Drop the Reverend.

Editor North Texan
Will you please excuse me, but
the term Reverend" is found but
one time in all the books which &C
to make up the Bible, and has refer
ence to God; see Ps.39:-"He( God
sent redemption unto his people he
hath commanded his covenant for
ever; holy and reverend is his
name" There was an age in which
the clergy seemed to take pleasure
in high sounding titles, and the
teachers of the gospel fell into the
foolish habit; but in the face of the
fact that the great family over which
Jesus Christ is TO preside are all
brethren, may 1 ask that "Rev." be
dropped from my name2 May the
God of love permit the time to soon
come when the ministry, with all
the rest of the church of the first
born, will be content with their own
merit, arising from deep-toned NOR
ality, and religion which com
mends itself to the people in the
good it does.
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ANTlDOTE TO F7ALARIA,

HE FEELS LIKE A NEW MAN.
81 have had Dyspepsia, with Constipa-
ton, Two years, and have tried ten different
kinds of pills, and TUFTS are the first
that have done me any good. They have
cleaned me out nicely. My appetite Is
splendid, food digests readily, and now
have natural passages. feel like a new
man." W. D. EDWARDS, Palmyra, o.
soldeverywhere, 25c. Office, A Murray st. NY.
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1854.
EAsPEa's YOUNG PEOPLE.

AN Illustrated Weekly-l6 pages.
Suited to boys and girls of from six to Elk
teen years of age.
Vol, Y, Commences Nov. 8, 1883
HAPPENS You've people is the best week
ly for children in western
Christian Advocate.
All that the artists skill can accomplish
in the way of Illustrations has been accom-,
pllshed and the best talent of the country
Jas contributed to Its text.-New England
Journal of Education, Boston.
In its special field there is nothing that
can be compared with It.-Hartford Post.
TERMS:
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE,,
Per Year, Postage prepaid, 81 sc
Single Number, Four Cents each.
Specimen copy sent on receipt of three
cents.
TIE Volumes of Hgrpsr's Kouhg People for
1881, 's2 & 'S3 handsomely bound in illuml-
mated cloth, will be sent by mail, postage
prepaid, on receipt of IS 90 each. Cover for
Young People for 1882, IS cents.
Remittances should be made by post-of1ee
mGpeY order or draft, to avoid chance ofloss.
Newspapers arc not to copy this adver-
tisemept without the cypress order of Harp
or q Brothers. Address,
HARPER q BR IS, New York.
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r. WALLACE OFFIcI R.

N. " ALLACE OtFICI X.
The above comes in with a refresh
ing amount of good hard sense.
Now, if some of the other preachers
will give Mr.. Officer a gentle remin-
der about parting his name in the
middle, we will feel that it has been
a good work-that of the North
Texan. North Texan.
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Frank James is said to be far
gone in consumption.
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From these sources arise three.fourths OF
the diseases or the human race. These
symptoms indicate their existence Loss Of
Appetite, Bowels cOstive, Sick Head
ache, 1ts11ness after eating, aversion to
OF food Arrttabillty OF temper, Low
spirits, A 1ee11ng OF having neglected
some duty, Dizziness, Flute ring at the
heart, Dots Oel0re the eyes, highly coll
Ored Urine, CONSTIPATION. and de-
mand the use of a remedy that acts directly
on the Liver. AsaLiver medicine TUFTS
Kidneys and Skin is also prompt; removing
all impurities through these three 80 scav-
enSers OF the system,'' producing appe-
tite, sound digestion, regular stools, a clear
skin and vigorous body. TUFTS PILLS
cause no nausea or gripping nor interfere
with daily work and are q perfect
AMTRn0TE tn ERAW ABA
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"a SKEPTIC SAID

ugly blotches and stubborn blood sores. Eliminates
Boils, Carbuncles and Scalds. ~ Permanently and
promptly paralysis. Yes. It is n charming and
heathful Aperient. Kills Scrofula and Kings EVIL,
twin brothers. Changes bad breath to good, remov-
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Ing the cause Routs bilious tendencies and makes
clear complexion. EqualIed by none in the delrIum
of fever. A charming resolYent and matchless
laxative. Il drives Sick Headache like the wind.
E1Contains drastic cathartic or opates Relieves
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ANDERSON, S. c., THURSDAY MORNING, April. 10, 1883

no regular hours for them. Job speak.
eth of the dark watches Of the night
when deep sleep falleth upon man, but
II don't fall upon weary mother with a
frettul child when it is cutting its front
teeth and wants to nurse the livcloug
night. When she is sleeping she is
awake, and when she is waking she is
half asleep, and the morning brings no
rest or refreshment, and | was thinking
too OF what would become of the farm If
the boys were not walked up early in the
morning. Not many boys will awake up
themselves, and they must be called and
in course of time have habits of waking
forced upon 'em. A family that SLEEP
late will always be behind with farm
work | do not believe in getting up
before day and eating breakfas by candle
light, but do believe 10 early rising. l
don't know how long my children would
sleep if | did not call 'em, for I never
tried it, but don't call Mrs. Arp, of
course don't, though she SAYS had lust
as we'll, for stamp around and slam the
doors and whistle and sing until there is
no more sleep for her. She wants me to
build her little house away off in the
garden, where she can sleep enough to
make up tor lost time. and be alwavs
calm and serene, and l think l will.
BILL ARR.
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Ha,chfng Sllad by Hand.

COLUMBIA, April 10.-Mr. C,J. Huske.
assistant fish commissioner, returned to.
day from the State shad hatchery OF tbs
t.disto River near Jacksonboro', Colleton
County, where he has been engaged with
SIX assistants for about six weeks. He
reports the taking this season of ,OOO,-
600 eggs, and the Matching and release in
the Edisto of 705,000 young shad. Last
season only 7OO,0 900 eggs were taken, and
44o,O0O fish hatched, so that this year
the Matching has been much more sue.
cessful.
Mr.. Huske attributes large part of
his success to his use during the latter
part of the season of the Mcdonald
Matching jar, which is capable of hatch
Ing out ~ per cent. Of the eggs, instead
OF the old apparatus. The weather was
as favorable as could have been expected
and the catch of shad was an average
one. Mr.. Huske remained until every
fisherman had left the river. He was
told by the fishermen that they had ia
ken number Of small shad this season,
and as they had never before caught any
of that size they attributed it to his re.
lease of small fry last spring.
AT Raccoon Island, some twenty miles
below Jacksonboro', two Northern COM
panies are engaged in catching sturgeon
in strong "gill nets" stretched across the
river. The sturgeon become entangled
in the nets aud are removed at every tide
to floating pens. These pens are cleared
OF fish twice week and the sturgeon
butchered. They are cut up in strips,
packed in ice and shipped to the North.
Sturgeon steaks" from the Edisto are
sold in The New York and Philadelphia
markets at good price. The roes OF the
fish are prepared and salted into caviare
on the spot and also shipped to the
North where they sell when canned at
fifty cents pound. The sturgeon fish
cries are very profitable.
Over 5000 young California trout,
hatched in Columbia, are now in the ex-
hibition room of the Department of
Agriculture and are daily visited by
numbers of people. They are the first
ever hatched in South Carolina. Occu-
pying n large, smooth trough through
which - stream of water eonstsutly flows
they are now, twelve days after Matching,
displaying their peculiar characteristics
in trying to swim up stream. The trough
is full of inch-long trout all breasting
the current and dartipg vigorously at
fragments of hard-boiled egg fed to them
down the tide. Mr.. Huske will in few
days take them to we'll adopted pond
on the place of Dr. Fahnestock, four
miles from Walhalla, where a trout
hatchery will be established and the
streams of the up country supplied with
this game fish Of the Pacific slope Cor.
repondcncc News and Courier.
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Gambling Made q Felony.

MEMPHIS March 3O.-About noon to-
day telegram from Nashville brought
the intelligence that the bill! before the
Tennessee Legislature making it q felony
to keep gambling house has passed on
its third reading in the Senate, aud only
waited the signature Of the Governor to
become q law. The telegram referred to
was most laconic, and was sent by a
Memphis sporting man to friend of his
in this city. 1t stated simply: I'VE
arc gone up, the bill has passed."
The news spread like wildfire and crea-
ted sensation here. a strong lobby
had been sent from this city to defeat the
bill, and yesterday it was given out that
they were hopeful of success. The pas.
sage Of the bill this meeting was there
fore unexpected by the fraternity in
Memphis, and they are feeling very de-.
spondent over the failure. Gambling in
:5is city has been FREQ and open to all
except minors for several years. The
gambling houses-threei in number-have
been under police surveillance only as
far as regards dealing square games No
brace houges have been allowed to be
opened and there has been no attempt
made to run other than square games,
The city authoritieo have also derived q
revenue Of $50 per month from each,
house, which was collected through the
police court, the amount in every insta uce
having been put up by the proprietors
and forfeited to the city by their nom
appearance. No attempt has been made
by any of the officials, either of the
State or Taxing district, to blackmail
the gamblers. They were equally pro,
tected with those %he played against
them Every order of the officers Of the
law y in regulating games has been
promptly complied with, and this policy
on the part Of the officials has in meas.
ure kept the subject in the background.
The freedom that WAS enjoyed by the
professionals was, perhaps, never
thoroughly understood BY the public al
large. The result Of the new law will
be to close up all houses and cause an
emigration Of those following the pro.
fession. IL is hardly probable that any
atiompi viii 6e made 10 ihwart tne op.
Grafton of the act. The exact time fol
the law 20 60 into effect is not known
here and all the houses are open to night
as usual. 900 F.'sfis' y
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Dynamite Wenponas

Some of the New York reporters have
been interviewing Professor Chandler, of
Columbia College, upon the character of
the terrific explosives which the alleged
dynamite fiends are supposed to possess.
ODonovan Rosa and patriots Of his
stripe have been bcasting for years that
the party has chemists in its employ who
have invented explosives of unheard OF
power and destructiveness. Professor
Chandler doubts anything of the kind
for several reasons: First, because un-
known men are not likely to do more
than the leading scientists of the world
secondly, because no chemist of eminence
is likely to engage in any euch business
to oblige O'Donovan or any of his kind
thirdly, because if chemist employed
in such work discovered I'D explosive OF
great value, he would, like true Fenian
patriot of the Rossa school, hasten to sell
it to the highest bidder.
According to Professor Chandler,
nothing more powerful than nitro. giycer.
inc has yet been invented. It is easy to
make it by treating glycerine with nitric
acid, the result being colorless, oily
fluid which explodes with force equal
to eight times its own weight in gunpow-
der. Next to nitro.glycerine comes dy-
Mantle, which is nitro.glycerine mixed
with an absorbent earth to make it solid
the liquid being liable to leak out of It's
cans with terrific results. Dynamite is
prepared by mixing this earth with nitro.
glycerine, one pound of earth soaking up
about two pounds of nitro. o.glycerine; it
looks very much like moist brown sugar,
and has the power of the nitro.glycerine
in it-about one third less than the same
weight of nito.glycerine. Gun-cotton
comes next on the list, with force about
four times that Of gunpowder it has the
advantage over dynamite Of being less
dangerous to handle. The other explo.
sives known to science are combinations
os salts with picric, or fuIminic acids,
forming picrates and Eliminates, the for.
mer being too easily exploded to be
easily handled, and the latter being large.
ly used only to explode other substances,
such as gunpowder OF nitro.glycerine.
Both the picrates and Eliminates are far
inferior to dynamite In power. These
compounds, varied by the Introduction Of
scores of other substances in various pro.
portions, are the explosives with which
the cable Is SO busy. y
Professor Chandler estimates that 10
destroy the houses of Parliament would
require about one hundred pounds oi
nitro.glycerine applied where It would dc
most harm.-Ne,cs and Courier.
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Tie Rad Boy Again.

We'll, you arc the meanest boy ever
her of soid the grocery man. "But
wi Vt about your pas dancing clog.
dance in church, Sunday. The minister's
hired girl was in here after some Goldfish
yesterday morning, and she said the
minister said your pa had scan
dalized the church the worst
way" cob, he didn't dance in church.
lie was little excited that's all. You
see, pa chews tobacco, and its pretty
hard on him to sit all through the sermon
without taking chew, and he gets ner-
vous. He always reaches around in his
pistol pocket when they stand up to sing
the last time, and feels in his tobacco. box
and gels out a chew, ana puts it into his
mouth when the preacher pronouuces the
benediction. He always does that.
We'll, my chum had present on Christ
mas of music box, just about as big as
pas tobacco-box, and all you have, to
20 10 ;o touch spring and it plays
Shes Daisy, She's Dumpling." |
borrowed il and put it in pas pistol
pocket, where he keeps his tobacco. box,
and when the choir got most through
singing pa reached his hand iu his pock-
ct and began to tumble around for
chew. he touched the spring. and just
as everybody bowed their heads to receive
the benediotion, and it was so still you
could hear a gum drop, the music. box
began to play, and in the stiffness it
sounded as loud as church organ.
Well, thought ma would sink. The
minister heard it, and looked towards pa,
and everybody looked, and pa turned
red, and the music box kept up She's
daisy and the minister looked mad aud
said Amen, and the people began to put
on their coas, and the minister told the
deacon to hunt up the soutre Of that
worldly music, and they took pa into the
room back of the pulpit and searched
him, and ma says pa will have to be
churched. They kept the music.box, and
l have got to carry in coal to get money
enough to buy my chum q new music
box"
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JUST TO SEE How HE LIKES IT.
Not long since, Tom Yerger, cousin of
Col. Percy Yerger, paid the family of
the latter visit. Tom is from Virginia,
and his manners are rather free and easy
for Austin, where the young ladies are
proverbial for their modesty and inno-
cence.
One morning Tom Yerger actually had
the inipudence to stroll into the room of
Susie Yerger, young lady of sixteen.
She was very indignant, aud she asked
him, angrily
What do you mean, sir, by such con.
duct? Done you know that it is improp-
pei for yon to come into q young lady's
room without knogking? Some morning
! !;ntsna C walk ;ato, Jout, room while
you are dressing just to see how you like
it!'-7eras SiffIgs n.'e '@