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Mr.. RoHell, quite young man, has
charge of affairs at White Plains. In
the midst Of his very unfavoreble sur
rounaiugs, We could ascertain but ve:y
little about him as teacher. He is
young and affable, and with better facil-
.ities might do:good work. How can he
do good work theref How is it that he
doesn't get disgusted with the whole
thing and run? He occupies the same
old, miserable hut that we have grum-
sbled about 80 often before. It is a dis
grace to that community. There are
good people in that community: they
are surely ashamed of that house.
There is perhaps not neater church in
the county than the one standing near
the thing called school-house. Tell me
those people can't build good school
hor1se7 Stuff It is not pleasant to us
ftosbe continually quarreling about that
house, but it is our duty to look after
these things and we propose to do it
regardless Of consequences. Last sum-
smer in company with one of the leading
educators of the State We rode by that
thing they call school.house. The gen.
:tlemsn, seeing the children, said !:
. What are those children doing thereT
NE told him with no little reluctance
that It WAS q school; ga school!~ said
he. Yon don't tell me that is the kind
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Remedy for Chicken Lice.

will give you new as well as valu-
able method for the destruction and exter-
mination ofthat great scourge ofthe fowl
house, (which would recommend as the
simplest and one of the best-if not the
best. It is this: If you are troubled
with lice, simply arm yourself with m
axe or hatchet, march to the woods and
cut nice, large cedar limb. On arriv-
ing home, nail the branch to the side Of
the poultry house and closely note the
result. If about to set one or more hens,
the best thing in the world would be to
go to planning mill aud get all the cedar
chips you can carry. After wetting them
thoroughly place them in the nest which
you are to set the hen. Another good
plan is to have the nest boxes made out
of red cedar, but that would be the more
expensive of the two. For laying hens
I would recommend either the cedar nest,
cedar chips, or good plan is to
20 to turning mill and have
all the nest eggs you want turned out of
cedar wood.-American Poultry Journal.
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they rounded the curves. Nearer and
nearer, the speed of each increasing
Then they flew at each other in Nigh
ty, tiger.like rage, as if there were blood
to be shed and nerves to be torn asun>
der.
The crash shook the hills. A great
roaring cloud of steam burst into the air,
while another of dust and debris boiled
up and mingled confusedly with it. Then
the shattered ends of cars shot out here
and there from the smoke, and a grind
ing, cracking mass rose up. Quivering
in the air a moment, it reeled, and then
went crashing down the embankment
into the ravine below. When the steam
and the dust cleared away, there were
the deep, ugly furrows in the road5ed,
and the splintered ties, and the bent and
broken rails, and the nameless fragments
of an utter wreck, to mark the scene Of
the herce encounter.
The gallant engine was hopeless ruin,
but it had done noble service. 1t had
fought battle in which hundreds of
lives and untold interests were at stake,
and it had won it. Not a life of that
precious company was lost not member
of it hurt by so much as scratch. Be.
fore they saw their peril, they were
rescued from it; and yet their rescue
had hardly been completed before the
full and awful nature of that peril burst
upon them, and stirred them in their
inmost being.
With tears of joy and gratitude they
blessed the engineer, whose quick wit
and daring plan and instant execution
had saved them from fate that at one
moment it seemed beyond human power
to avert. And to the poor locomotive
that lay dismembered and useless on the
rocks below, there went out kind ard
tender feeling, as if, in giving its life to
save others, it had shown something akin
to the love and bravery and sacrifice of a
noble human soul.--EanE II. Hill, in
Congregationalist.
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Made Crazy by Terror.

CINCINNATI, Feb. N.-Blanchester,
Ohio, the Means neighborhood, six miles
Southeast of this city, is noted for its
wealth and intelligence. The people take
pride in their blooded stock, fine farms,
and educate their children at the best
schools. One of the most prominent
families is William Means, relative of
Governor Foraker, whose father resides
near by. Last Thursday evening the
young ladies of the neighborhood gave
leap year party at the residence of Mr..
Means. The girls assembled some time
before the gentlemen we're expected and
were having merry time, when two of
their number, the Misses Storer, viva.
.cious, fun-loving girls, slipped away, and
covering their faces with dough mask
and their forms with sheets, suddenly
burst in on the group of laughing girls.
With scream most of them fled in
terror, but four of them fell in faint on
the floor. Two of the young ladies were
speedily restored to consciousness, but,
the other two, Dora Eakins aud Lizzie
Chancey, could not be reused, and for two
days they remained in stupor, only to
waken hopeless maniacs, who scream and
veil. in the most agonizing manner.
Their condition is such that physicians
say that they can live only short time.
The Misses Storer, whose thoughtless
prank caused the awful affair, are them.
selves prostrated with grief. One is in
the delirium of brain fever, and her re-
covery is regarded as doubtful. The
whole neighborhood is in mourning over
the sad event, and tho hestphysicans have
been employed.
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A Brave Man.

When famous man performs noble
deed, the whole world is sure to learn Of
it. We all know the story Of Sir Philip
Sydney, who, when mortally wounded,
gave his glass of water to dying soldier,
saying: "Tby necessity is yet greater
than mine" In the ordinary walks of
every day life, one not infrequently hears
of equally noble deeds. For example, a
New York gentleman of the name of ST.
neon A. Bernheimer, died last Sunday, of
whom it is related that on one occasion
when everybody fed into terror from a
man stricken with smallpox, and crying
out for drink of water, Mr.. Bernheimer
went to him and assuaged his thirst,
justifying his act by saying: "What is
my life worth when compared with
helping this poor fellow" Brave actions
like this one make us feel that the world
is not so bad as some pessimists would
have us believe.-Neao York Epoch.
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Capt. Peterkin's Method Of Preparing
the Land for his Cotton Crop. 8;

I will tell the way prepare for cotton, Il
where cotton was planted the year
before. If there are large stalks, use two
mules; if the stalks are small and on
light land, one mule or horse can do the
work. After racking the stake / nse
broad shovel, say FIVE or seven inches,
and plough the stalks out Of the first fur.
row. If the stalks are large I pull OF
pick up the stubble and burn them. II
now consider the hard work of preparing
complete. 1t is done when the groundis
moist and the horse and ploughman hayegS
good ground to walk on. The usual wsy
is to leave this furrow for the last one.
.I.then lap two furrows back on the stalk 8
furrow and clean out the middle. IfsI
wish to plant on the level, I throw two s
turn plough furrows on the fertilizer inls
the alley, board off and plant. s.
This is level culture; but i'll wish to-
plant below the level, I throw two light;
or small bull-tongue furrows instead of
the turn.plough. Cotton should not be
planted on the stalk bed or in the same
place, because the middle of the row
is left from year to year without fertili.
zers. By continuing this process from
year to year, it is equivalent to broad
cast cfertilizipg, and will improTs lands,
but to plant on the same furrow Tor
succession of years the land does NOT im:ls
prove. q
This mode of preparing may be an old
custom with some Of our farmers. I have
never seen it or heard of it until pracs
ticed on my own farm, and I consider ig
a good thing, and want my brothg
farmers to know it.
WhenI get a good thing, or thinT
have one, am going to tell You o
Some of my friends say like to see M
name in the papers, and am only doiI
it to sell my seeds and book. In reply ytoS
such, will say that if can do good for
myself and no harm to others, I am going
to do it. am now in receipt Of q letter
from a friend with an order.for seed, ,say-S
ing that I had done the country q great
harm. My seed aud the big blow aIl !
over the South about them, he said, had )
run the people wild, and would increase
the next crop one million bales, andneR g
you have come out with abook telling
them how to make cotton at 8scents per-
pound. He says should keep this to-
myself.
In regard to that matter / will say to5
every farmer who thinks he has 8 good i
thing, to publish it. I. helps othes
farmers, be helps the papers, he puts new
life in the country, he causes young men
to take an interest in farming, it makes
them sober men instead of drnnkardss
Give the young men plenty Of work sand
they will grow up with good habits and
make useful citizens. Don't be afraid Of
overstocking the world with cotton. IT.;
never has been done and never will be-
done. We can plant large crops and
make small ones. We can plant small
ones and make large ones.-J.A.. Peter
lin, in Weekly Ne,Os and Courier
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That Georgia Well.

The curative value of the place for
some diseases is very remarkable. Rheu-
matism, dyspepsia, paralysis and some
forms of nervousness were signally re.
lieved in individuals coming under my
personal observation, One young man
from Mccormick, S. O., who had been
protracted for seventeen months by de-
ranged digestion was cured thoroughly,
gaining eighteen pounds in one month.
An elderly gentleman from Penfeld, Ga,
who had been partially paralyzed en- one
side for eight years, arrived at the Shaft
in the same hack with myself. His right
hand was disabled, and he walked with
great difficulty when he arrived, but
after six days in the Shaft he could write
letters to his family and he walked with
comparative ease about the grounds.
Many such cases are reported by reliable
persons familiar with the history of the
place.
Now, as to the remedial agencies at
work in effecting these wonderful cures,
I must speak with more caution. A
common impression prevailing at dis
tance is that the relief afforded partakes
of the nature of the "faith cures" of
which We hear so much; but no one can
remain long at the place without being
convinced that this hypothesis is indie.
fensible. In many cases relief comes to
the incredulous. and in spite of all the
laws of faith. The prevailing theory
among the visitors at the Shaft is tina.
the effect is produced from electricity de-
rived from the walls and earth floor of
the rooms. To test this belief in some
practical form I made the following ex.
pertinent Two No. 16 copper wires,
each 12 feet long, were inserted into the
walls at opposite corners of Shaft No. 1.
In the absence of scientific galvanome-
ter I introduced into the circuit of these
wires several of the most equsble and
seifpoised patients who were present, to
see if they could detect any current from
the wall through the wires. Six persons
were introduced in succession, and all
except one claimed to feel in the wires
the same tipgliug sensations which they
derived directly from the wall. Of
course, excited imagination and nervous
irritability are unknown quantities which
cannot be eliminated from this problem,
so long as the human system is employed
in its solution, but it is scarcely credita.
BILE that so many reliable and sober per-
sons would be mistaken in indentifying
the sensation derived from the wires with
the sensation given by the walls.
There is much difficulty still remaining
in this problem as to the origin of the
electricity, the irregular, ftful way in
which it acts, and many other points
suggested by the abnormal conditions Of
the case.
Among the,remedial agencies at work
the excellent mineral. water cannot be
overlooked indeed, I was at frat dispos.
ed to ascribe all the cures chiefly to this
agent, which is obtained in abundance
from pumps in the corners of the shafts,
and freely used by the patients.-Prof.
j. r. Blake, sr., in Greenwood Tribune,
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plete information of the manner in which

plete information of the manner in which
his houee should be built and heated and
ventilated and otherwise made sanitarily
perfect; that cookery had become one of
the exact sciences that he was able to
avoid the effects of extreme heat
cold and moisture; that, in word, he
had nothing to learn in regard to The
best way Of living so as to preserve him
self from all morbofc causes; supposing
all this, and I admit that it is not very
likely that he will for ages upon ages
acquire the almost God-like omniscience
necessary, death would be impossible and
the eternal life to which we are told he
was born would again be his.
From consideration of these points
we perceive that people die.
First. From ignorance of all the laws
of life.
Second. From willfulness in not obey
ing the laws they know.
WILLIAM A. HAMMOND.
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= Paschal Porter, the wonderful child
revivalist of India, who is now only elev-
en- years old, recently preached sermon
in the Baptist church at WilliamstowD,
KY, and astonished everybody who heard
it. The pastor of the church says that
he has read sermons on the same subject
delivered by the ablest preachers, but not
one of them could compare in power or
in elegance of diction with the boys ex-
hortation.
= Japanese papers tell of a native girl
only twelveyears and five months old who
stands eight feet high and weighs over
270 pounds. Her hands are nine inches
long and her feet fifteen inches.
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The Shepherds Dog.

The shepherds dog, in his own depart
ment, is a perfect miracle ofintelligeuce.
He understands the sign, the voice, the
look of his master. he collects scattered
sheep, at tie slightest signal, separates
any one that is indicated from the rest OF
the flock, drives them wherever he is told,
and keeps them all the while under per.
feet control, less by his active exertions
than by the modulation of his voice,
which expresses every tone from gentle
instructions to angry menace. These are
his ordinary performances, visible every
day In thousand pasture. But be can
do greater wonders.
1t chanced one night that seven hund-
red lambs committed to the keeping of the
Ettrick shepherd broke loose from his
control and scampered away in three di-
visions over hill and plain. ''Sirrah, my
man." said Hogg mournfully to bis collie,
meaning it for au expression ofgrief, and
not for direction, "they're away" Silent
ly and without his masters knowledge,
for it was too dark to see, the dog left his
side and commenced sseemingly fruit
less se0rch after his wandering charge.
At the dawn, while the shepherd
passed the hours tillmorning in the weary
dread of day, he was about to turn home
with heart full Of despair, when he
caught sight ofSirrah guarding at the bot,
tom of deep ravine, not, as he first
supposed, one division of the lambs, but
the whole of the flock without solitary
exception. "It was" says James Hogg,
"the most extraordinary circumstance
that had every occurred in my pastoral
life. How he got all the divisions collec.
ted in the dark is beyond my comprehen.
sion. The charge was left entirely to
himself, from midnight until the rising
of the sun, and if all the shepherds in the
forest had been there to have assisted him,
they could not have effected itwith great.
er propriety.
On another occasion the same famous
shepherd saw dog, when it was utterly
dark, put upon the path ofa eve that had
been lost by her owner near neighbours
farm, and which was supposed to have
mingled with her fellows that were in
the surrounding pasture. "Chieftain,"
said the master of the dog, pointing to
the spot from which the sheep had gone
of, "fetch that; I say, Sir, bring that
back" And away he went and back he
brought it, in half an hour, the identical
sheep.
A sheep stealer who was q: last discov-
cred and hanged, used to carry on his
trade by secretly siguifying the particular
sheep that he desired out Of a large flock
as he viewed them under pretense of pur-
chasing, to his dog, who, returning by him
self distanceo of several miles at night,
drove the selected sheep, which YVES un-
doubtedly the fattest, to its fastidious
owner. Both Scott and Hogg relate this
picturesque story more circumstantially
from the annals Of the Judiciary Court
in Scotland. Sir Thomas Wilde knew an
instance in which three oxen, out ofsome
score, had mingled with another herd.
"Go fetch them," was all the instruction
the drover gave to his dog, and he in
stantly brought along with him those
very three.
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Alleged Finding Of Large Amounts 9
Money In Virginia.

ONANcocK, Feb. %, 1885. Report
have reached here Of the finding Of q hid.
den treasure in the lower, part Of Acco7
mack county by one Lorenzo Mears, who
lives as tenant on farm that fronts on
Nandua Creek, broad and bold estuary
of the Chesapeake Bay.
The place is ..one of the Oldest settle
ments on the eastern shore of Virgins,
and was once the seat of the Queen Of
Nandua, who held sway over tho Indian
tribes of that region nearly three huns
dred years ago. A tradition has long
been rife in that locality thata wealthy
Englishman lived there at the beginning
of the Revolutionary War, and that, not
being in sympathy with the colonies il
their struggle against the mother.count
try, he buried his horde of gold and sil.
yer and went back to England, where Ihd
soon died, without having revealed ID
any one the exact spot where he had
hidden the treasure.
1t is we'll known, however, that many
years afterward and in the memory of
persons now living, some Of the descen-
dants of this wealthy Englishman cams
to Accomeck aud spent much time and
money in looking for the hidden treasure.
At last they gave up their fruitless quest
and returned to England, leaving in thia
country an old negro. the former slave Of
the Revolutionary proprietor of the farm
whom they brought over from England
and who to the day of his death main,
tained that his old master had buried the
money somewhere near the house and
close to the banks of the beautiful e.
water creek.
But the old negro died many years agd
and nothing further was heard aboutth3
hidden treasure till several days .agS
when it leaked out that it had bee;
accidentally discovered by Lorenz
Mears while planting some fence post
around the old colonial, house. Meal
tried to keep it secret, but his littl
nephew, who lives with him, went to tn
neighboring village of Pungoteague yes
terday and told some persons there ths
his uncle Renzy had found an iorn po
so full of money that it required tn
strong men to carry it to the house,
Mears is still reticent about the matter
but he has shown some of the coins
several of his neighbors. They are oil
English coins, some of them bein
stamped with the image of Charles q
and others with that of George III
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Fire at AbbeYille.

ADDEyILLE S. G. March 1.-The resi-
dence of Mrs. K. @. Perrin was burned
this morning. The fire was discovered
about five o'clock, and is suppose to have
originated in the kitchen. Nothing was
saved except some of the parlor furniture
and a box of silver. The family were all
away on visit in Augusta, Ga, except
Col. II. T. Wardlaw, who was sleeping
in the house and narrowly escaped with
his life, losing, all.personal effects. Mrs.
Perrin Is expected home to-day. The
house was insured for 81 500.
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A trade circular, under the title,
-"What will the Coming Girl WearY"
contains o description Of the articles
likely to constitute the wardrobe of the
future. It is a description sufficient to
convince anybody that what the coming
girl will chiefly wear is hole in the
pocket hook OF The man who supports
her,
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1t is cowardice to wish to get rid of
everything which we do not like. Sick
ness and sorrow only exist to further
mans education in this world. They
will not be needed in the future.
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Although the United States stand.

ing army is comparatively Insignificant
from the point of view of numbers, We are
not in defenceless position. The States
have 94,736 trained and we'll drilled men
in their military organizations, and care.
ful estimates put the number of men in
this country as available for military acf-
vice at 8,021 sos.
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AtPrinceton, Mr.. Harris is commander
in chisf. The house, inpoint Of comfort,
il: above the average, but, with little
Work, could be very greatly improved.
INF: Harris has two black boards and uses
Sfhsm. The seats are poor, very poor.
How easily those people could make 9
few nice, mfortable seats and desks for
their children. Will they do i'll
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Though the school at Hopeweil is not
under our jurisdiction, We took occasion
10 pay the teacher and his pupils q visit.
Nj. Hamlins seems to be getting along
well. His pupils are attentive and
prompt and gave US evidence of Substan.
tiai work son the part of the teacher.
MI. Hamlin uses his blackbo to great
adYantage.
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AGHERs Rs'G0LU LUMN.
j J.GsgLINKsCALEs, q EDITOR.
II Is what you are. rather than what
asou ssem To- be, that impresses your
pupils.
Have you ever taken time to think
how much yonr character is being i'm
s. pressed os,sd upon your pupilsy Stop now,
and tbink. What are you doing?

"a making up your subscription
schools, bs sure to haye it understood
with your patrons that your vacation
must occur when the Institute is held.
/ The Institute will take place some time
during the summer.
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We are very glad to learn that efforts
are being made to run Miss zslla Camp.
abepsschool through the summer. II is
sapity for 8 school that is doing 50 much
good % be- cut short at the very time
when. the children need it and are be.
ginning ito appreciate it. Though young,
Miss zslla has had considerable expe.
srience asa teacher and ranks as one OF
sonr best. We commend her to her
patrons and hope tney will support the
f1D0l !. - s.sS n.