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Year: 1878

applications of electricity, and ex-
plain the principles upon which the
devices You enumerate work.


Is. What is the specific gravity of
block of fine wood weighing nine
teen pounds in air if, when attached
to mass of iron weighing twenty
four pounds in air and twenty lone in
water, the wood and iron together
weigh only nine pounds Z Give full
solution.


is. Name such machines as you
have in mind in which some part has
a rectiline or reciprocatory movement
directly functional in the accomplish
ment of the result; and state the part
and the object of the movement in
each machine.


IL. What is invention, as distin-
guished from other modes of arriving
at improvements SENTINEL.
Year: 1878

LIBERAToR BILL.-A queer looking
craft sailed into the port of Bayou
Sara on Thursday morning last, and
cast anchor at our wharf. Upon
making inquiry we found that she
bore the colors of VIM. johnson, the
celebrated Yellow Stone Scout, better
know as q Liberator Bill - Accept
ing an invitation to partake of bis
rude but open hearted bospitalities,
We followed Bill into the cosy cabin
of his little boat, in which he has
trayersed so many miles of inland
sea, /" and from him We learned the
history of his voyage.


johnson started some time last
September from point on the Yellow
Stone river, and when he finishes his
voyage at New Orleans, he will have
travelled near 5000 miles. He is TAX
ing sketches as he proceeds, and in
tends writing and having published
history of his voyage, together with
the thrilling events connected with
his previous history. He was a scout
in the command of Gen. Miles and
was about Is miles from the scene of
the Custer massacre at the time of
its occurrence. He is a native of Gal
weston Texas, and will proceed to
that place so soon as he completes
his trip to the Crescent City.


-Feliciana Sentinel
Year: 1878

A tutor can absolutely not fulfill
his important duty, if he thinks
himself infallible, if he blames his
pupils for their bad habits and for his
own vain efforts to correct their faults.
With indignation he will look at his
boys; their appearance produces a
| disagreeable sensation; their youth
| full looseness will insult him. Often
he will suspect tricks and malice in
their most Innocent remarks and be-
lieve himself surrounded by naughty,
reprobate young people, instead of
blessing his fate that he has been
| charged with the most confidential
office of which man can be possessed.
How burdensome his daily task must
be to such teacher; how harsh his
voice; how perVerse his conduct to-
wards his young friends, and how
apparent his failure. Anxiously we
see him longing for the time when he
will be able to change his former oc-
cupation to another one, which, we
may hope, he will administer more
conscientiously. That time will come
and for moment he will feel happy,
but soon new unpleasaptnes will
cross his path, his expectations will be
disappointed, and, because it has al
ways been his fault to blame Others
for the result of his own conduct, he
renews his old complaints. The
beginning of wisdom is self-knowl-
edge;n where it is wanting, you will
find neither wisdom, nor equanimity,
nor content.


Ny young friend, if you intend to
conseerate your life's exertions to the
education of youth, be strong and
resolve, should you discover faults
and bad habits in your pupils and
not succeed in correcting them, to
look for their reasons in your own
moral and mental nature. Surely
you will find many irregularities,
which you did not expect to behold,
and if found, be cheerful and in
earnest to remove the weeds. You
will succeed and then-then, what a
pleasant change! The children COM
mitted to your charge will appear un-
to you in an entirely different light.
Their liveliness will amuse you, their
follies and looseness will not insult
you, but you will treat them with
more indulgence and fofbearance.
The harshness and bitterness of your
voice will disappear; the frown on
your face will be smoothed the emo
tions of anger, to which you may be
inclined, will steadily decrease. You
will renoHnee many unbecoming com
forts of which you were fond: you
will cast off many bad habit, that
made bad impressions upon your
boys; you will endow your delivery
with mole vivacity aud pleasantness.
IF you have thus corrected yourself,
what will the result be? You will
have educated yourself to hecame a
good tutor. Your boys will reward
yon with their love aud confidence
they will anticipate and obey youl
every wish Your efforts will succeed
by and by their faults and bad habits
will yield to better conduct. Then, il
in some cases you are not able to
master the enemy-if you can not re-
move the evil inhuence-well, you
have tho comforting conscience ot
asserting: | have honestly accom-.
plislled my duty and the failure o
my efforts is not my fault.


/ TO BE CONTINUED.


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The law compelling jurors living
Year: 1878

DO YOU think your father is going
to move out soon ? inquired the own
er of rented house of the son Of his
tenant. Reckon so, was the reply,
we've begun using window frames for
ire wood
Year: 1878

l wouldn't give ten cents a yard
for all the pedi gree in this world if
a man has got level head on his
shoulders, an honest harte in his body
he has got all tie pedigree l am in
search oy.-Josh Billings.
Year: 1878

A man may face death with com
posure and adversity with smiles, but
the chances are that he will hop and
swear when he discovers that a twen-
ty,cent silver piece has been palmed
off on him for a quarter.
Year: 1878

Tie sermon 0! the best preacher in
the world will not make as much i'm
preston upon congregation as the
sudden pattering of rain on the win
dow panes OF a church containing two
hundred spring bonnpts.
Year: 1878

were once supposed to have had an or
sanism and sustaining vitality Of their
own, but the constant decline in business
has made nearly all Of them bankrupt,
and thrown most Of them as so many
dead weights upon the hands Of the great
guarantors.


What is to be the end Of this threaten
ing state Of afairst Scott is pressing
upon his stockholders the necessity Of
foregoing 8 portion Of their dividends
from this time on, and devote 1t
to the uretirement Of their immense
nou.diyidend paying liabilities. Either
this or bankruptcy is the thinly dis
gu,sed alternative which he presents to
them. This proposition, they lansh
to scorn, pronounciDg lit atopian-de-
claripg that It would take hundred
years to carry it out and awhat profit
hath man in all the labor which he
taketh under the sun" that far in the dis
tant futureH Perhaps they think that
repudiation Of all these obligations will
be shorter cut to 8 solution Of the difi.
culties by which they feel themselves en-.
yironed. Reputation is getting to be SO
much the fashion Of our day that tits no
longer q matter of surprise to see itetop-
ping out anywhere.
Year: 1878

The Postal savings bill prepared by Mr. Phillips, of Kansas, and ap- proved by majority of the House Committee on Banking and Currency makes every money order post office a depository for money in sums as small as twenty five cents, the depos itor to receive passbook like those given by savings banks. When the deposits by one person amount to ten dollars or any multiple of ten dollars he is entitled to receive a bond for that amount to he entered in his passbook as debit to offset the same amount of credits. These bonds are to range from ten dollars to one hundred dollars in even null tiples of ten up to fifty. The rate Of interest is to be 3 65 100 per cent, that particular rate being adopted convenience of calculation. since the interest on one hundred dollar bond will be exactly one cent per day. These bonds are to be ex- changeable at the pleasure of the holder for regular four per cent bonds of the government; but in this form the government is to take no special superintendence of them. But the holders of the 3 65 100 bonds and of passbooks in which sums are entered can draw money from the Post Office very much as deposltors do from savings banks. Of course the sums which are merely entered in the passbooks will bear no inter est. A special form of legal tender Treasury notes is to be issued for redeeming the new bonds at the money order post offices.

 This bill may be found on exam ination to be susceptible of useful amendments; but whether amended or unamended we earnestly hope it may become law. If the system of postal savings is once adopted it will be so popular and beneficent that it will never be abandoned, and all needful amendment would be made in due time, as the necessity for them should become apparent If this bill becomes law 1t will prove to be the wiscst and most sal utary act which Congress has passed in long period. It will encourage habits of saving everywhere and create them in large districts where savings banks do not exist. The absolute safety of the deposits will relieve the laboring classes of all anxiety respecting their money, and the perfect sense of security will cultivate more and more the dispo- sition to save. We hope no captions objections may be made to this use ful bill. and that it may be allowed to have fair trial. Such defects as may be disclosed by experience will be easily remedied.
Year: 1878

From the Fayetteville Democrat.l

 After careful survey of the field it is our opinion that the contest for the United States Senate in this state will finally narrow down to three of the gentlemen mentioned in that connection-Johnson, Baxter and Walker; and it is with great pleasure that we note that the latter, so far, leads in the race. Without the least disparagement to the abili- ties of the other aspirants, MT. Walker IS the most competent and best man for this high and import ant position, being just in the prime of life and man of giant intellect. Liberal in his views, yet at the same time as firm as a stone wall, he is calculated to render valuable service to the people of Arkansas in the chief council of the nation. With Garland and Walker in the Senate, it could be truly said that Arkansas is represented in that branch of the general Government by her best tai ent-talent that will compare favor ably with that from any other State, We have such an abiding faith in the wisdom of the Democratic party of Arkansas that we feel almost con. fident that its selection for Dorsey's s successor will be Hon. J. D. Walker.
Year: 1878

cers, who never meet the collector to

 pay the pitiful amount assessed as

 poll tax. The benefits arising from

 we'll conducted government are theirs; as much so us to the heaviest tax payer. The Courts, tue free

 Schools and other public instruc-

 tions, are open to all alike; and most assuredly it is but right, shat all

 Voters be required to comply with the law in relation to the payment

 nf taxes. In some counties, the class

 of voters referred to control the cleo tions. No man competent to cast q

 ballot can justly plead inability. The time is approaching when the citizens of Clark county will be call ed upon to decide who shall repre-

 sent them in the State Legislature, and we believe that it is the will of the people that representatives be

 sent, who will advocate such Consti

 tutonal amendment, as will debar from voting, all those who do not

 pay their poll-tax.

 An effort was made during the

 deliberations of the last Constitution al Convention, to embody this sub feet in the Constitution, but certain squeamish politicians succeeded in crying the movement down. It re- mains to be seen whether the next

 Legislative body, will possess the requisite amount of nerve to make

 the proposed change. Southern Standard.
Year: 1878

We do not think 1t premature, to present for the consideration of vot- CTS generally, and candidates Tn par, tieuar, the question as to withhold ing the rights of suffrage from non

 tax payers. By the term non tax

 payers, we do not mean to include those citizens who are not blessed with snperabundance of the goods of this world, but we do intend it to apply to those who fail, or rather refuse, to contribute their mite to- wards deflaying the expense of the State government. There are thous- ands in Arkansas, who exercise the privilege of voting and thereby have a voice in the control of the affairs of the State and the selecting of off
Year: 1878

Our GLoBE.-If l were in danger of
becoming skeptical, says II. Starr King,
believe that vivid apprehension OF the
revelations concerning our globe would
appal me into faith TO think of this ball
whiring and spinning about the sun, and
be an atheist TO feel that we are at the
mercy Of the forces that lash it like top
around the ecliptic and of the raving flames
that heave and beat for vent; not more
than an eighth of its surface nhabitable by
man; seas roaring around him ; tropic heats
shifting his brain polar frosts threatening
his blood hurricanes lowering in the sky
earthquakes slumbcrirg under our feet; the
conditions of life dependent on tho most
delicate powers, over which the wisest man
is helpless-to think of these, and not to
have confidence in power superior to these
pitiless forces, not to have faith that the
land is sheltered by ceaseless love from
the hunger Of the elements!


Go, learn that you are house less, without
the sense Of God as overarching you by his
power, twisting the furious forces of i'm
mensity into protecting tent for your spirit
home.-Erchange.
Year: 1878

GA woman is mighty handy thing to
have about the house. She doesn't cost any
more to keep than you'll give her, and she'll
take great interest in you. If you 90
out at night she'll be awake when you get
home, and then she'll tell you all about your
self, and moro too. Of course she will
know where you have been and what kept
you out so late, and will tell you yet right
aftor she gets through telling you that, she
will ask you where you have been and what
kept you out so late. And after you tell her
she won't believe you; you mustn't mind
that and if after going to bed she says she
hasn't closed her eyes the whole night and
then keeps up the matinee two hours Ion
ger, and won't 60 to sleep when she gets a
chance, you mustn't mind that either; its
her nature.
Year: 1878

THE CHUFA.-The chufa is species of
nut grass but unlike the terrible garden
pest, it does not survive the winter. The
planting seed must be gathered, dried, and
housed. After you save what seed you
wish, just turn your hogs into tho field and
they will do the harvesting.


AS regards planting and cultivating, first,
lay off the rows three feet apart, put in
barn-yard manure or some kind Of good
fertilizer, bed on, say two burrows, open the
bed as you would for cotton, say, two inches
deep, as they grow near the surface. Drop
one nut at intervals of about IL inches
apart, then cover. Plant about the 18th
Of April. Should moles destroy any they
can be drawn as slips and reset, they never
wither for being reset. reset half an acre
last year and do not think one died.
Keep clear of grass and weeds, and plow
about twice The yield is about 300
or 400 bushels per acre; hogs prefer them
to any other food


There is no comparison between corn and
chufa; tho hogs fatten faster on chufa, and
we do not have the trouble and expense of
gathering them. They do better on light
soil.--R. B. Noodle, in Rural Messenger.
Year: 1878

sure of seeing the day when every
thing in which he had trusted
should betray his trust, and, in
short, Of coming eventually to
hopeless misery. He would break
down, at last, as every great for
tune, as every dynasty, as every
civilization does. In place of this
we have death.
Year: 1878

old and young. every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIsT belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire ous business men to nske a note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


Wsuso our best efforts to keep our columns
free Of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tiainsi for many good people seeing an ad-
vorti'sment in a paper. especially their
church paper, take it as a guarantee of re-
SpOnsibility. Such confidence should not to
abused when 1t Can be helped. We want.
therefore,


The Advertising Patronage
Of such business men and Arms as We can
recommend to our friends and the public
without compromising the character OF the
paper.


Our Terms Shall be in Harmon


with the Business Outlook.


Send in Your FavOrs.
Year: 1878

IT WILL BE SEEN from the report in
another column, that our refugees of
the Commune have temporarily suspend
ed their warfare against mankind gener-
ally, and are now engaged in the m ore
praiseworthy work of sxterminsting
one another, 1t is to be hoped they will
figl t it out on this line all winter
Herald.


RoBERr DENNEY is an exception to
the general failure of the peach crop,
his orchard, situated at the mouth of
Duck Creek, producing this season near
1000 baskets. The crop has been sold
mostly on the wharf of the steamer
"Clyde" at fom S1.30to S1.50 per basket
S4nlrnd Times.
Year: 1878

HIS FIRST CASh.


Mayor Almond tried his first case this
morning-a man arrested for drunkenness
He was fined so cents and costs, but as he
had no money to pay the penalty with, he
was afterwards discharged.
Year: 1878

The use Of some active fertilizer early
in the spring will be beneficial on almost
all crops. When used with discretion
these are very profitable. But at this
season only those that are perfectly
soluble will be found available.


KEEP stock off pastures while they are
soft. The poaching will cost ten-fold by
summer, what the stock may get of the
very early grass. There 10 nothing to
gain, but much TO lose, even il only the
pasture 10 concerned. The feed will not
Be lost if allowed to grow little longer,


To MAKE unproductive fruit trees
bear cut from each limb close TO where
IL DIVORCES from the trunk, a piece OF
bark about four inches round the limb,
one inch in width, and Immediately re-
plsce by tying 1t on with a rag until it
adheres. This mcst be done early in
the spring, or just as soon as the sap
rises sufficiently for the bark to slip or
skin.


ONE often hears that such and such a
one is q good farmer. How is good
farming TO be testeds Certainly not by
the raising Of one or two good GRO s..
He is the good farmer who uniformly
increases the aggregate product of his
farm from year to year. The surest,
truest test Of good farming is a con.
stantly increasing production of the
Doil. -..


In early spring all trash should be
raked of and removed from the lawn,
and while 1t IL rather soft and pliable,
run the roller over it we'll. This will
torres back any reots or tufts of grass that
the frost has lifted and fll up the
cavities. The first moving should take
place a. soon - there 10 anything to
uiip, - this win oause ths grsss plants
p spasad ovse yacAat plaen and pEoducs
- -
Year: 1878

DO not buy yeast powder or baking powder
of short weight. A manufacturer that de-
frauds by short weight will not hesitate TO
make aduiterated goods You can always
rely on DooLEY's YEAST POWDER being
full weight and strictly pure.
Year: 1878

No trait of character is more valua-
bic in a woman than the possession of
sweet temper. 1t is like the flowers
that spring up in our pathway, reviving
and cheering u.s. Home can never be
made happy without it. Let man 20
home at night wearied and worn out by
the tolls of the day, and bow soothing
is work indicated by a good DISPOSE
ton. It is sunshine falling upon the
heart. He is happy and the cares of
life are forgotten. A sweet temper has
a soothing influence over the minds of
the whole family. Where it is found
in the wife and mother you observe
kindness and love predominating over
the natural feelings of a bad heart.
Smiles, kind words, and looks character
ise tho children, and peace and love
have their dwelling place there. Study,
then to require and retain sweet tenn
per. 1t is more valuable than gold,
and captivatss more than beauty, and
to the close life retains all its powers.
Year: 1878

A resident of Sacramento county, who
has peculiar faculty for training ami
mails, has educated three cats to serve
the purpose Of dogs, as retrievcrs. When
he takes up bis gun and calls them from
the house, they follow with a grand
rush, mewing and whining excitedly.
When bird is shot they enter upon
the liveliest kind Of race to retrieve
it; and if it is not in sight they hunt the
ground thoroughly, never omitting to
slap at one another viciously whenever
they come within reaching distance. No
matter which of the trio finds the bird,
the carrying to the shooter is generally
done by a patriarchial Thomas, who
"plays roots" upon the others very cum
ningly, and scratches and bites if one of
the other cats gets the game first and
does not surrender it on demand. He
carries the bird to his master, and
stands guard over it until it is taken
from him and bagged.
Year: 1878

During the session Of an Episcopa
convention in Boston, the bishop o.
Louisiana, in crossing the Common,
met boy whose face he fancied, and
calling to him, asked if he had any.
thing to do just then, to which he said
no. care you a good boy ?" The lit.
tie fellow scratched his head and re.
piled, II am not very good boy. ]
cuss little sometimes" That candid
answer inspired the bishop with con-
fdence, and he then said, after giving
his name and address, II want you to
60 to a certain place and get bundle
for me, and bring it to my hotel: There
will be charge of So here is the
money to pay it, and half dollar
which you may keep for doing the err
rand" On his return to the hotel the
bishops friends laughed at him for his
credulity, telling him that he woald
never see the boy or bundle or the
money again ; but in half an hour the
young chap returned, bringing the
bundle and a receipted bill for $3.50,
the bishop having made slight mis-
take as to the amount that was due.
"Hou did yen manaee to pay the a1tra
half dollar ?"' he inquired. II took
the money you gave me for the job. I
knew you would make it all right"


And "all right, it was made, and no
doubt the confidence that was reposed
in that boy, because ofhis truthfullness,
will do him good as long as he lives.
Year: 1878

A lonesome looking boy was yester-
day hanging around a woodward in the
northern part of the city, when the
owner of the yard, having both charity
and philanthropy for boys with tears
in their eyes, asked the lad why he
didn't peddle apples or do something to
earn few shillings. The boy replied
that he had no capital, and the wood
yard man took out nickle, and said :


"Now, my boy, I'm going to start
you in life. Take this nickle and 20
and make purchase of something or
other. I'll buy it of you for ten cents
no matter what it is. Come, now, let's
see what sort of a business head you
have on you"


The boy took the nickle and went
on, but in ten minutes was back with a
gallon jug which he had purchased
with the nickle.


"Well, you are q keener," replied
the man. II never saw one of those
sold for less than fifteen cents to any one.
1 want just such a jug, and here's its
fair price. Go now and lay out your
fifteen cents in apples, and I'll buy
half your stock"


The boy did not return. Perhtp
he fell into sewer somewhere; but
you can't make the woodward man be-
lieve so. When he lifted the jug frcu
under the table where the boy had care
fully placed it, he found hole in the
bottom large enough to let in n black,
and tan terrier.-Detroit Free Press,