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Use Your Ashes.

Ever farmer has more of less ashes
every year. Many just allow them to be
thrown out without making any effort
to use them 70 the best advantage. Old
bones, hats and shoes are allowed to go
to waste, while if they were gathered
up, the bones broken up and all dis
solved, it would make an extra good
fertilizer for special crops. Very few
farmers make any spec al effort to save
poultry manure or to utilize house
waste, when they are the very best fer
tilizers we can possibly secure, and
could be saved and used to the very best
advantage. One of the principal items
in good farming is, as much as possible,
to increase the fertility of the soil, and
this can only be secured by turning
every thing of value as a fertilizer to
the best advantage, - cheasssall FertfI-
iSer.
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TORNADO PREDICTIONS.
A Channel in Which the Signal Service
Could Make Itself Useful.

A Channel in Which the Signal Service
Could Make Itself Useful.
There seems to be ground for the de.
sire SO generally expressed that the Sig
nal Service should give some warning
of the probable occurrence of tornadoes,
at least in such way that the inhai-
tants of towns in the exposed districts
may be on the lookout for the approach
of the dreaded funnel cloud. The re-
ports state that in the open country
there was little loss of life, as the storms
came by day, and persons generally saw
them in time to take refuge in the tor
nado cellars with which nearly every
farm in that region is provided.
But in the towns, where per-
sons remain more indoors, and
where clouds near the horizon are
not easily seen, tornadoes too
commonly arrive unperceived till the
roar of their winds tells that there
is no time for escape, and here some
early intimation of the impending
danger should be given. The warnings
based bn the conditions shown in the
morning weather map might be an
nounced as experimental for season,
SO that public trial of their value could
be made. Towns at least could be
reached by telegraph and telephone in
ali parts of the Mississippi Valley by
noon on the days of danger, and the
saving of lives in some places would
compensate for good deal of needless
anxiety caused by warning towns thai
escape destruction. There seems to be
no way whatever of saving property
that lies upon the path Of the storm. =
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HlET HER RIP"
How Daniel Webster Amused Host OF
His Ardent Admirers.

How Daniel Webster Amused Host OF
His Ardent Admirers.
On one occasion some Boston friends
sent him as a present an enormous
sized plow to use on his place. Webster
gave out word that on certain day it
would be christened. The day arrived,
and the surrounding farmers for miles
came to witness the event. A dozen
teams with aristocratic occupants came
down from Boston. 1t was expected by
every one that Webster would make a
great speech on the occasion, reviewing
the history of farming back to the time
when Cincinnatus abdicated the most
mighty throne in the world to cultivate
turnips and cabbages in his Roman
garden. The pillow was brought out and
ten oke of splendid oxen hitched in
front. More than two hundred people
stood around on the tiptoe of expecta-
ton. Soon Webster made his appear
ance. He had been calling spirits from
the vastly deep, and his gait was some-
what uncertain. Seizing the plow-
handles and spreading his feet, he
yelled out to the driver in his deep, bass
voice:
.Are you all ready, Mr.. Wright"
"All ready, Mr.. Webster" was the
reply, meaning, of course, for his
speech.
Webster Strengthened himself up by a
mighty effort and shouted:
"Then let her ripr'
The whole crowd dropped to the
ground and roared with laughter, while
Webster with his big plow proceeded to
rip up the soil.- Chicago Times.
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A BARBARous FASHION.

A Style of Cruelty which Girls May De-
eide Against and Render Unproftable.
Iwish could persuade you, dear
girls, never to wear bird on your hat,
nor even bright wing to set off your
rosy cheeks. If you realized how the
cruelty of fashion which trims ladies'
bonnets with song-birds is robbirg the
groves and woods of their music; if you
thought of the fact that in many locale
ties price is set on the little feathered
beauties, that they are trapped by the
thousands and sometimes actually
skinned alive, that their plumage may
look the richer for your adornment,
you could not wear bird at such
price.
Once had lovely fan of swans
| down, with robin red-breast mount
| ed on the center. The robin, stuffed in
very life-like manner, and with his lit
tie mouth open, seemed just ready to
sing, and, the fan having been gift
I kept it as a parlor ornament with
some pride. One day tender-hearted
baby girl, three years old, was looking
at my fan, when suddenly the little
lips quivered and the brown eyes filled
with tears. wondered moment at
the grieving look, and was very much
touched when the little one said: "Poor
birdie! The last song came froo herer'
pointing with her tiny finger vt the
open bill.
When we think what a glad, buoyant
life birds l'fe is, and remember the
sweetness the birds bring to our homes,
the melody they make in the morning,
the sweethaunting vespers which dream
away and faint in silence in the sum-
mer dusk, we can not feel happy in re-
fecting that for a caprice Of fashion
the song-birds are murdered by whole
J sale. 8a
Do not forget that you as an individ.
ual, Kate, Allie, Grace, Mabel, Emile,
can do something to make this barbar-
!, GUS style thing of the past. Refuse
to adorn yourself with a dead bird.
The power of the unit is never more
visibly shown than in a quiet persist
enee in doing right and making q
. wrong unpopular. If girls decide
: against it this style of cruelty will
: cease to be profitable. -Inteltsgencer.
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CHANGE OF WORK.
a Very Satisfactory and Benefcent Foru
of Recreation.

of Recreation.
Change of work is one form of recre-
alton, because, it may be presumed, the
new employment occupies a different
portion of the brain, and the one that
has worked obtains rest. Monotony OF
occupation is always irksome, no doubt
because certain portions of the brain are
exclusively occupied. A hard-worked
man should think no form of recreation
beneath his notice; he is fortunate if he
has really satisfactory hobby or two.
Talleyrand's s representation Of the kind
of old age that awaited the man who did
not know whist, is full of truth, if it be
applied to amusemerits and hobbies in
general. Perhaps its author would
scarcely have recommended whist for an
old man had he been able to foresee the
bewildering notifications which have
been made in the way of playing the
game. In this, as in other things, the
tendency is to turn play into work.
Let us hope, however, that some OF our
simpler forms of recreation may
be permitted to survive at least
for our time. Books remain,
and we may be thankful for the
stock we already possess. Reading offers
the most available means of recreation.
Dean Hooks practice in this respect also
is worthy of adoption. He tells us him
self that he always had novel in hand.
| It'lasted him long time, ''but when a
man has much to do little time thus
spent does the mind good" Books,
however. should be suited to the occa-
sion. AS Bulwer tells us, ''when taken
Unfortunately they are no cure for the
diseases and Affections of the mind.
There is world of science necessary in
the taking of them. l have known some
| people in great sorrow fly to novel or
the last light book in fashion. One
might as well take a rose-draught fol
the plague. Light reading does not dc
when the heart is really heavy" BY all
means let the recreation be conformable
to the tastes of the individual and adapt
ed to his condition. When a man ovel
sixty, who has led sedentary life, sud
denly and vehemently takes to tricyclins
he may feel pretty sure that he ha
failed to catch the meaning of the tern
recreation and that very differen
process will certainly develop ITSELF
| HIo1fniobtI,f Re7,je3D
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shipwreck on the African coast, had
been captured and sold into slavery.
and after such suferings as killed all
his companions, he had escaped. and at
last reached home again.
The brief period Of welded life which
these two enjoyed was happy. They
were bound up in each other, so much
SO that have fears that their religious
duties were not always performed with
becoming zeal. Did not MY humility
prevent / might also suggest that the
marital fondness, which frequently ex-
cluded any attention to another person,
although that person was vigilant
everywhere in her household, was re-
markably selfish passion. More than
five times Ito be precise) during the first
year of their welded life did Faith Con-
verse assure her husband that they
were tievermore to be parted.
II could not live without you now,
dear Earl,' she would say, land think
you would be lonely without me. But
be of good cheer; we shall never be
parted; within the same hour we shall
seek a higher happiness in better
world. I know it. / have seen it in
sleep. When or where or how it will be
I can not tell, but that we two shall die
| together is as certain as that we shall
die"
What visions are given her to see now
may know some day, but that in the flesh
she saw the future as we can not see il
is proven by what l have written and
have yet to write. On the night of Au.
| gust z. 1859. furious storm came in
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AN IMPERIAL ISLE.
The Charming Retreat Owned BY the
Crown Prince of Austria.

The Charming Retreat Owned BY the
Crown Prince of Austria.
The Crown Prince Rudolph of AUS
tria, in addition to many other desirable
pomps and vanities, has an island of his
own-Lacroma, in the Adriatic, oppo-
site Ragusa; and there in the midst Of
lovely scenery, surrounded bya a trans
parent sea, he is convalescing after
recent indisposition. The isle, three
days steam from Trieste, is as beautiful
as Monaco, and quite out of the world;
for while the owner is in residence no
one is allowed to land without special
permit. Lacroma formerly belonged to
that most unfortunate of monarchs.
Macmillan of Mexico, who was much
attached to it, and wrote several little
poems in praise of its charms. After
his terrible end the island was possessed
by succession of ordinary people, by
one of whom it was sold to the Arch
duke Rudolph in 1878. The future En-
peror of Austria lives at Lacroma in the
greatest simplicity. When Maximilian
bought the isle the only available resi-
dence on twas an old monastery which
udu uotu gong W luin ioi nliA o
century; and in this building the Crown
Prince and Princess live their simple
lives. There are but three good rooms
in the house-the drawing-room, the
ancient refectory, used as a salon de
musique, and the drawing-room. The
imperial bedrooms are of very meager
dimensions, while the long-titled Dukes
and Duchesses of the suite have to be
content with the cells of the vanished
monks. The plain whitewashed walls
match the rough, serviceable furniture.
The monastery is said to have been
built by the citizens of Ragusa as a
thanks-offering for the stoppage of a
great fire. At the beginning of the
present century it was partially de.
stroyed by an earthquake, and has
never been thoroughly restored. The
scenery of the island is entirely roman
tic. Beneath a sky which is rarely
clpuded grows a luxuriant tropica
vegetation-groves of orange and myr
| tie, of aloes and figs; true "lant
where the citron blooms. ."-London
Life.
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VOL. TX.
ON THE ROAD.


Upon d twelve months trip he'd gone.
And when four weeks away,
A telegraphic message came
That made the young man gay.
Yon are father, john" 1t said,
And then went on to tell
That every thing was quite serene,
With wife and baby doing well,
1t made different man of John,
1t lit his face with Joy,
To have the merchants on the road
Inquire about his boy.
A family man." said John. with pride,
E" Has much to think about"
And then he'd count the months from home
Before his trip was out"
fhus time ran on, one month remained,
And John was Wild with Joy,
TO be at home to see the wife,
And hug that great big boy.
One evening when his work was done,
With one more week to stay,
This telegraphic message came:
The baby died to- day."
Merchant Traveller.
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LITTLE CROSSES.
How to Rise Above Carking Cares and
Troublesome Worries.

How to Rise Above Carlxing Cares and
Troublesome Worries.
1t is the petty cares in our everyday
lives, The little losses ands crosses, that
wear away the youth and sweetness
that ought to be part of each heart
and life. When great trouble comes
or sore grief, even the weakest soul
can gather strength to meet it, To
most natures severe Affections are
humbling and refining, but there is
othing heroic in bearing the petty,
wearing cares and crosses that come to
us daily. Yet there is lesson in every
one if we heed 1t.
Last week, while trying to mako
"auld cloes look as weel as new" /
was surrounded with old garments,
when in walked strange lady to wait
for her train. We lived opposite the
depot, and the rude waiting-room was
filed with loungers. had to assume
a courtesy, for | thought her coming
an intrusion, but she talked to me so
pleasantly, and showed me how to
clean black goods of all description in
so simple manner, thatI had to thank
her for her coming.
| When mother is absent, and every
thing goes wrong, or we feel it bore
to receive visits from dull or old peo-
pie, it might be we'll for us to remem-
ber there are few persons who can not
help us in some way. Sometimes when
the tired feet have gone all day long,
and the headaches are almost unen-
durable, it is hard to bear the little
sneaking cares that come to us, but
blessed be the one who can treat the
chance visitor with courtesy, and catch
all the wisdom that may fall in his
way. 1t is one way to rise above thu
carking cares and troublesome worries
that beset us.--EHo M. Guernsey, i,
, 81. Louis Magazine.
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The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers has $40 divisions in the United
States and Canada, and membership
Of about 10000. Over ninety per cent.
of all the engineers of America are
members.-M r Mail,
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Certain portions of New Mexico
abound in petrifioations of various
kinds. 1t is no uncommon sight, to
see trees three feet in diameter And
fifty feet long petrified and often crys-
talized. The crystals--red, yellow,
black or white-are often very beauti-
ful. and would make handsome orna-
ments for Eastern narlors. Bgfaas
Erpress. II
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READING FOR THE YOUNG.
DO AT ONCE.

Come little folks are apt to say,
When asked their task to touch;
y I'll put 1t of, at least, to-day;
1t can not matter much"
Time is always on the wing;
You can not stop its flight;
Then do at once your little task1S
You'll happier be at night
But little duties still put of
VIII end in Never done;"
And by and by is time enough
Has ruined many one.
--WeU Spring.
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think OF these things we are prompted
to exclaim with the poet:
Nv heart il awed within me when think
OF the great miracle that still goes on
In silence round me; the perpetual work OF
Thy creation
Finished, yet renewed forever"
IN. Y. Observer.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-08-11

Resolved. ID the Democratic party OF
the county d Rankin in convention
assembled. That we heartily endorse tne
ADMINISTRATIVE of President Cleveland
and congratulate the country upon
having chief magistrate who possesses
the ability and courage when uroVei
cleveland has shown since his elevation
nv the people to the Presidential CHAIR.
Resolved, That We look with pride
and approval upon the course OF our ~
Senators, Messrs. George and Waitha's,
in resisting the arbitrary reEoiutioua.s
purposes of the Republican majority IN
the United States Senate, when sou
10 deprive the President OF bis cons1i.u
tional right and powers.
Resolved, That we cordially indorse
| the course of our immediate Represents
| tive in Congress, the Hon. +. Barksdaie
who has shown by his votes in Congress
that he is in thorough sympathy WITH
the great masses of the people upon al
the important questions OF the Ga,
affecting their rights and interest.
Resolved. That reposing the fullest con
6denee in his Judgment, in his INTEGRITY
his fidelity TO tie people and ms Demoef''
icv We hereby instruct our delegates 10 IN
Congressional Convention to cast thel
votes for Elhelbtrt Barksdale, first, las
and all the time.
Resolutions eulogistic Of the life an
character Of Samuel }. TIiden and iahleh'
ing his death, were also adopted. a. wa
the following in reference to the kiiiroa
Commission
Resolved, That the action OF the ha
road Commission in raising the tarlh
freights on the railroads throughout u
state, deserves the condemnation oil an II
, people who are not IN favor oil ASSIST
monopolies to Cypress the producing ella
of our people.
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Internal Taxes.

Col. Hooker says that the Democratic
platform demands that the Internal tax
on tobacco and whisky shall berepealed,
and that, therefore, he favors its repeal.
Maj. Barksdale says that the Demo
cratic platform demands that the tax on
whisky and tobacco shall be continued
so long as the war debt remains unpaid,
and that when the needs of the govern
ment will permit the tariff on articles of
necessity shall be reduced or repealed
before the tax on whisky and tobacco
shall be repealed.
President Cleveland, speaking of the
bill to tax oieomargarine, says: '.Those
who desire to see removed the weight of
taxation now pressing upon the people
from other directions, may well be justi-
fed in the hope and expectation that
the selection of an additional subject of
internal taxation so we'll able to bear it,
will, in consistency, be followed by leg
islation relieving our citizens from other
revenue tariff burdens rendered by the
passage of this bill even more than here
tofore unnecessary and needlessly op-
pressive."
Col. Hooker does not agree with Mr..
Cleveland. Maj. Barksdale does. Which
is on the Democratic platform?
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From the TuskAIoosa Gazette.l
Tuscaloosa Female College.

This Institution has been for ten years
owned and controlled by Professor Alonzo
Hill, one of the most accomplished gentle
men and devoted educators OF young ladies
we have known. Under his judicious man
agement the Institution has advanced to a
degree of prosperity and excellence unsur-
pa-sed in the South. Its catalogue shows
a corps of IL instructors, and an attend
ance of more than 200 pupils the largest
number enrolled by any female college in
our State since the war. The rapidly in-
creasing patronage has rendered necessary
the enlargement of the buildings, and
rooms for 50 more pupils will be finished
and furnished in time for the next session.
The school is strictly independent, and is
not supported by Trustees or by any relig
ious denomination, bat relies fer success
on its merits alone. The teachers and Of
6cers are all members of some Christian
church, and the influences Of the schael
are of decided Christian character. We
can cordially recommend this Institution
to those who have daughters to educate.
See card in another column.
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The Late H. II -!
the Oxford Bar.

At meeting held at Judge r. A.
Hill Office in the town OF Oxford, Miss,
on The morning of the 10th day of August,
1856, composed OF the members OF the
Oxford Bar and United Ststes States and
county officers at Oxford, Honorable B. L.
Kimbrough was elected Chairman, aud A..
g. Smith, Secretary wherenpou the fol-
lowing preamble and resolutions, offer
ed by Judge r. A. Hill, were adopted unan-
imously. TO wit:
WHEREAS, Within less than three days
past, HAMPTON NJ. SULLIVAN, one OF our
teIlow-citiz-ns, and one OF the prominent
members of the Bar Of the United States
and State Courts of I'll il State, and citizen
fully identified with all public interests OF
the people OF this State, in the full enjoy
ment of health and full of hope aud prom
iSe tor the future, has suddenly passed from
this world to the great beyond, and whoss
remains are now in the cold and icy en-
brace of DEATH
ResolUed, That this sad event casts 8
gloom over our entire community and Ii
one not soon to be forgotten.
ResoJred, That we deeply sympathiz'
with the widow and orphan children of tbs
deceased, made so by this sad event, an,
to whom We tender our deeply-felt condo
lence.
| ResoIred, That as mark OF respect fo
the deceased, we in a body this morning
attend his remains to the tomb-their fna
resting place.
Resoired, That the Secretary OF thi
meeting be requested to furnish The famil
OF the deceased with copy OF this preanl
| bic and these resolutions; also furni~
copies of the same for publication in th
Oxford papers, the Jackson CLARION an
Memphis Appeal.
B. T. KrMBRoUGH, Chm,
A. G.. SMITH, Sec'y.
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Polygamy.

Col. Hooker, while member of Con-
gress, in 1882, voted against the existing
law to suppress Polygamy in Utah Ter
ritory. 1t was the system of Polygamy
which Representative Cassidy was de-
scribing when he said pending the bill:
at knows no allegiance to the Consti-
tuition. 1t defes our laws. 1t condones
perjury. 1t justifies murder and assas-
sination; and, finally, it exalts the vilest
of social evils above the decencies
and proprieties of life as taught by
every civilized community on Gods
earth"
Is it not surprising that Col. Hooker
could get his consent to vote against the
law for the extirpation OF such sys-
TEN? President Cleveland, in his first
annual message, took occasion to urge
upon Congress the enactment of still
more heroic treatment of the monster
abomination. Cleveland and Hooker
differ.