Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 29, Number 22, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 February 1887 — Page 7

WEEKLY OOtmiER

JASPttt. IKDfAXA nfo ffiMWaVfl tJ JfjfC mV aVC XMMll Mam MM, ABimiMiirXwl Ate Tta ford m teMkrft. a MmTm yean Mr twwttMMt wtta Wr MriMM , Wfc. T AMr-MTi mtttta Omm wick)r awl ta Ka4 aarattM Tm yaanaaat Awl walBhia M M aty wjr to twa; tfjT HWt'Oj MWk0Ci SflMI MMt ffMMl WU aewawaa la mm of imm: sanaamaajp1 OakO) un(P)jr Sawa) ( TM JPean MO Tm am me amea at tt mm. Im im im mkM at ta Marc iMt tMr jwrtkM Imm at let; That are teat amta mf fcm.mi gtew tm yaw i OlKMlktMHNK sW0SH VoWtK UK? Sme)W ma4u fJ8J4Ha JPwaa?a JHrtte ml om ctoni of frat. a4 Uwa XT fM mU Ml irtth kamr Man; Far I was Vat a Wjr, yaw kaew, JPfTtdhJJg JfoktjflQff jft MrvH 0f)rm)na ME LITTLE DILLS. Bcara Journey wrthThnm to The DiUs were very poor. They had at ways aeea poor. JLney uvea oa a poor, marshy little farm out in Iowa. The farm produced splendid weed, but nothing ease. This was partly hecanse Mr. Dill was what the neighbors exiled shiftless, and partly because Mr. Dill teM tite truth wha he Mid, is a dfceovraired kind el a toe, that it was "mot at awful poor piece of lead." The hoe in which the Dills lived was a very old and shabby, uapaiHted fritme Mttldinf of het two room. Btit white etrtain huar before the two smuM. windows or either side of the door. The small, square panes of glaeg ia these windows were always very etean, aad one eouhl back of theml rows of plants in neailyppered tin eaas. A express ria: was tralneil over the low door. The yard and the door-step were always swept rery clean, and there were Mute beds of ragged rebtat, tcli--not aad marigolds festeed around with sticks aad barrelstares to keep the eWekens away, for there was hardly a whole panel of feaee om the Dili farm. Marcia Dill had put up the white certain, swept the yard and pleated the Hewers. None of the other Vi lis weald hare thought of doing such things. Jdrs. DiH sat ia a corner atxi sawked for "aearology," and said Marela "wasted aa awful sight of time." Mr. Dill ky oa his heek under the trees and said the same thing. Maroia was the eldest of the children. She was twelve. The came Zebby, a sickly boy of ten. Katie, a pretty attic girl of serea, came next, and the haby's name was Sammy. lie was a ateadid little fellow, two years oW. Marek said she loved htm better than her Hfe, and I really think she did. Poor Mr. Dill was killed while crossing railroad track one rainy day. The neighbors said he was too lazr to get eut of the way of the approaching train. Bat neighbors are very uncharfcabie sometimes. Soon after this Mrs. Dill fell 111 of a fever, and lived but tea days; and there was Mareia left ieae with her little sister aad brothers. The only relative she knew y a brother of her father's, who lira! far t in Western Kansas. Mareia thought 11 r amy to write and tell this uncle ef the death of her parents. She wrote very sisnpU), touching little letter, aatt Um was a part of it: we are left very poor. Father was never able to get the farm all paid n, mm ii m a poor pteee ot Lromul. iye think we eoukl do any thing Aansasf Of course I am only one able to work hard. arotner Zebby is sieklr, bat he hi real willina to h wka h rn B ean drop corn for most two hottrs a anse. Katie can do more than Mttki girls of her age, aad she's -ys real wilting to pilch in. The J a good, healthy ehiU, and I wt hint to be a farmer. May be we ?u Te fty dollars left when the soW aad evety thing paid up. xainer was in debt a good deal, and te funeral bins are Wg. I want to eareawaadeah and horse aad whether we stay here or not "ye think there woaW be any show r as eat there, we eotUd come ia the I wouldn't be afraid to, aad we wouUVt have eaoagh money to JJAe ears. I've heard about Goreramtnt or some body giving way real good land oat there to anv Jejr who would improre it. Do you lanMexMM Md thatwayf They say you doa't hara to be grown r aetoMt k. aad T tk W Hand sea- abaLJI: f barfaur the eUhkat Wrr ep." . r.J!? f iiwrt, sot, gray. ""aW lsft awaMnU ,YnBBB an uuaJ - tfremaamylwTWasfe apiafnij aissnd mm oid wrsdimdayaaarsa

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aame ota May aaasaafca I uWak she btaarad hasaarm bar w wf vmavaBi wPfas nam aansai naatiy mansdadceaiiea dee, her plaia white neck-handkerchief, her knag; black silk apron aad her plain straw bonnet, titan m any tWag she ooald The Nvtie eid man read thelettar to the old htdy aa they drove ntowly hemsward oyer a dusty country read, X earner of the oM lady's black silk apron went to her eyes many tiaaes while the letter was being read; aad the owl man, not haviag oa any biaak THc apron, aad haviag JorgecUa Ids "baakereher.M used his yeUow Uaea eoat instaad. Oaee he drew the baek of Ids rough brown hand across his eyes, and when he dropped it by his side there was a long wet streak oa it. The first thing he said was: "I don't see how brother WilKam eouhl be so shiftless with a child Hks that in the "She's a regular growed-up little woman," said the old lady, solemnly. "Think of her wri tin'. 'bout bavin' 'the ehildrea to bring up,' and her not thirteen yet." i A week later Marcia reeeived this letter: "Dere Kees: Your let or come dooly Ui ban aa kontents dooly red. You don't kno howsory meenn your ant Cindy feel for you awl i rite this to let you kno that we want yoa to aome rite oat to kanoas, for they is the best kind of a sho f or you to git along, i wieht i could send munny for you to eoate on the kars or that i ooald eome after you, but i cant just now an we want you to eome right off. Since readin your later I aint afraid to have yoa eome alone. I bleeve you could go to the north poal if you set out to. Yoa must sell your waggon an the critters and come on the kars. Send word when you will start an your ant Cindy and me will meet yea at the depo 90 miles from here, yea will be walk am to the best we got And Cindy sends a kiss to the baby and sez she will be glad when she kin hug it an all the rest of you, an so" i am your unkel until deth Jonas Dill." Marcia Dill was Tory glad to get this letter. She read it aloud to Zebby, ami a smile came into his thin, pale face. "O Marcia!" he said, "we'll go, won't we? " "Indeed we will,' said Marcia, promptly, "but I don't intend selling the horse and cow. I s'spoe that's what Uncle Jonas means by the ' critters.' We'll need them if we take up a farm out there, and we couldn't sell them for much. You know obi Baliy in't a very good horse, ami he's worth more to us than to anybody eke." Poor old Bally wasn't really worth much to anybody. He was away up la the teens when it eame to age.' He was blind, and had a sbambHnr rait. ami there never beforewas quite such a tooee-iointed, knobby okl "eritter' as Bally was. The wagon old Bally had drawn around for so many years was what the neighbors had long called "Dill shaeklyfied okl cart" It Was x small rattung okl vehicle. So two of its four wheels seemed to be of the same sine, and Zebby Dill once quaintly said that it "made him cross-eyed and crooked for a week after, when be rode a mile in that cart." "But it's all we've got, and we mast make the best of it," said Marcia, bravely. "And I know from Uncle Jones's letter that he and Aunt Cindv wont be aehamed of us, if we do come an old cart with a horse like Bally." The neighbors all said that they "never heard of sueh a thing," when Mareia told them of her plans. But they knew that Marcia Dill was the wisest little girl of twelve years in all urn country rouaa about: ami some said that there -were "growed Hp wim men who didn't have the good sense Marshy Dill had." It was the first of July before Marcia was ready to start, and it was a sorrowiui, loriorn-iooKing little procession that drove away from the shabby obi house. First came old Bally and the cart, with Zebby driving. By his side sat Katie, wearing a big pink sun-bon net. Baby Sammy was lying on a pile of bed-olothes under the canvas cover Marcia had bought for the wagon Mareia, also wearing a pink calico sunbonnet, walked behind, driving the cow and calf. Back of Marcia came okl Tobe, an ng'.y, useless, okl yellow dog. Mnrda said she "couldn't bear to leave him behind, because father had thought so much of him." Some of the neigh bors had said that Mr. Dill had reailv thought more of the okl dog than of any of his children. These poor, forlorn, homeless little Dills felt very badlv when the time eame for starting. Jtven Marcia, brave though sbewas, cried mnnytimes when she felt sure Zebby was not looking. They had risen very early. and gathered ill the roses there were on Marcia's treasured bushes. She had a few pansies, and a handful of daisies also, and these were out with the dew still on them. Then Mareht took Baby Sammv in her arms, Zebby led Katie, and they all walked half a mile across the shining fields to the lonely little cemetery in whkh their father and mother lav buried. The towers were laid on the graves; then they knelt in a half-eirele, aad even Baby Sammy put up hk shabby hands, whik Mareia said a short and fokmn and wonderfully sweet Mt-J tie prayer. it was not more than seven o'clock whan they softly cloned the door of the HUkoW house, and tarned their backs k. ' The neighbsri atone the road eame out to say "Geod-bye," and ail Meagwt team kindly Mttk goodwIHeaVrlag. Oat had roasted a plump

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another when Mareto that first night, she found, hidden away ma clothing, a Utile parse containing tn dollar. She felt are some one had dropped k, aad said sorrowfully that they would have to go baek next day and find the owner. a second seareh revealed a bit of on whtoh was written a few words saying that the money was "the gift of friends" to "the bravest aad best Mttk girl they ever knew." "I wonder who they msanf" Queried Mareia, sisspiy. "Saauuy isn't a kttk girl." "WTty! Don't yoa knowf" asked Zebby. "They mean yew." "Mer Marek was ataased. "Yes ; and they knew what they're talking about," said Zebby, stoutly. Maruia had to cry a little over this, even if Zebby did her. What a hard Journey that was for those poor littk Dills t They had no trouble in finding their way, for Mareia would ask in every town. "But it was so hot and so dusty that summer, and okl Bally did drag along so slowly. "He looks so tired and feeble 1 can't bear to have you whip him up," Marcia often said to the impatient Zebby. For Zebby still drove, and Marcia still walked behind in the hot and dusty road, driving the unruly eow anil ealf. Her feet became very tired and sore, for she could not afford to wear her one pair of okl shoes; but she trudged wearily along without a word of complaint Little Sammy cried much after the first day, and sometimes he would put hk little arms out at the back of the wagon and beg so pitifully to be carried that Marek could not say no; and carrying Sammy was very hot and hard work. They would camp under the trees at night, and always near a house, if possible. The people along the road were always very kind when they found that the children were traveling alone. Women often came across liekls and down wide, green lanes to where the littk okl cart was on. quiet summer evenings. Tliey always made what Zebby called "a great fuss" over Sammy, and sometimes there would be tears on the littk fellow's cheeks after the women had ki-el him good-bye-tears that did not come from Sammy's big blue eyes. It was late in August when the littk Dills found themselves far ont on the dreary Kansas pkuts. A weary, woebegone let of little way-farers they were by this time. It woukl have made your heart ache to have seen them. Sammy had grown so thin and pale. The bkom and the plumpness had gone from hie cheek, ami he cried so much Katie was pale ami thin too, and often impatient. Zebby had never been strong, and Marcia could see that it was only through effort that he was able to sit on the wagon-seat and hold the lines. She could how lie some times laid his head wearily against the wagon-cover bow, and he dkl look so sick and thin some days. Poor old Bally looked ready to drop in Im tracks at any moment, and some days Mareia woukl, turn the old fellow out on the parched, brown grass for half a day, whik she and the other children sat in the little shade made by the wagon, for they .were now in a Hat and treeless land. bometHnes they would drive twenty miles without meeting any one, and the nearest houses were miles distant, for it was many years ago that these poor little ihils made this long, hard jour ney. They were a long distance from any house one burning day during the last week m August Poor Sammy had lwen sick all day, and had cried feebly most of the time. Okl Tobe had lain down by the road-skle and died that morning, and the children had cried when they drove away and left him there. Zebby had been so sick the day be fore that they had stayed all day on the flat banks of a sluggish, rrecntah-ve1 low stream, in which obi Bnllv had stood most of the da;,' fighting the flio. I heir provisions were almost gone, and what they had left was dktasteful to them all. Sammy coukl not eat it at all, and the cow gave hardlv anv milk. Marck's money was nearly all gone, bne hnd to have a doctor for Sammy several times on the road, and medicine was so expensive. At the close of thk hot day, thev found a lone and almost leafless tree, nnder whkh they camped. Bally had just been turned loose, when, to Marcia's utter dkmay, the poor okl horse had suddenly fallen over dead. Mareta unite broke down under this crow mug woe, ami cried a longtime. But after she ami Zebby and Katie had eaten their coarse breed aad drank their black coffee, she had something else to think of, for Zebby; with a littk cry of "O Marcia!" fainted away in her ii l ml arms. Marcia coukl not revive him. She brought water ami bathed hk burning face, but he only moaned and rolled hk bet head from side to side. Night eame on and Zebby was growing worse. t began to rain a littk, and Marcia never Knew now she got Zebby into the wagon beside the fretful Sammy. A littk after dark, she put on her sunno n net and sakl very firmly to Katie : "Katk, dear ; Brother Zebby k very sick, and sister must go for help. Lk down by Sammy, ami sleep if you ean, ami don't kave the wagon, fif Zebby jaJejnkaaJ auavaa Ia atja MAfAe ammf MAaW aamll WrWaeak WVIRl aF snra ctBW PaHl mne ar him where I hays gene." Then Marek put a oandk in her tin an torn, ami huar it on a wheal of tint

Her oaly hope was ia house before the agat went That house was five miles away. Marcia's brown feet were sore blistered before she left the wagon. They were bleeding new, aad bar heart as wall as her limbs were aehiag. She erkd softly walk hurryiag over on her ragged sleeve. She prayed steadily that the light would not go (sJa aaal at alSL aaPta, JnamaV4ann a' P(aa JnVw midnight when poor Marek it. A family named Barnes lived in the littk one-roomed house. One of the three children was ill; and Mrs. Barnes was sitting up with him. Ko sooner was Marcia's sorrowful story tokl than Mr. Barnes set out for the wagon, with Marcia behind hhn en hk horse. On her arm was a littk basket of food Mrs. Barnes had given her out of her own scanty supply. Mr. Barnes and Mareia watehed all night by Zebby. He knew tliem in the morning, but was very ill. Mr. Barnes thought it best not to move Zebby foi a few hours, and went back home, promising to return during the day and take them all to his house. But about nine o'cloek a big green-snd-red farm wagon came rattling merrily along over the road. A short, stout old man with a round, red face sat on a high spring seat By his side sat a littk okl lady, peering eagerly through her glasses towards Marcia's wagon. "That's them, Jonas, I do think," said the old lady. "Hope so," said Jonas, briefly. And a few momenta later he jumped down from the high seat and caught ragged, amaned Marcia up in hk "You're my neiee, Marshy Dill, an' I know it," he said, kissing her on bath clieeks. "Unek Jonas!" gasped Marcia. "The very same," cried Jonas, "an' here's Aunt Cindy. Now where' & Zebby an' Kitty an' Sammy ?" "I want Sammy this minnit," piped out the old lady. "Zebby's so sick, and so k baby, and We're all s tired," cried Mareia, and then she actually fainted away in Aunt Cindy's arms. "The waj we came to find you was this," said Aunt Cindy, later on. "We got hold of a" Topeka paper two days ago, an' read a piece in it 'bout four youngsters pas in' through there bound for our part of the country ; an' we knowed right off that it meant you. The paper was three week ld, an' we hitched up an1 put right t)-Sc to meet you, an' knowin' you una be nigh, onless you'd got into trouble, an' so you had. But now you're all right. We'll be at our house soon, an' there's plenty there for all of us, an' it's stkkI, too. jjiis country aint Jiati so baa m it looks. It'll come out mightily some day. There'll be a railroad right over our farm, an' you an' Zebby'll both have laud of your own, an' we'll all be so happy an' prosperous together." All of which literally came to pass in after years. J. L. Ildrbmr, in Our YouUt. MYSTERIOUS COINS IaaaaSiaaBaMNI &f tll6 RnHa1 JnlnrnVa 9U4M Itollars aatl Halve ef 18. "There is something curious about the American stiver dollar and half dollar of the coinage of 1804," said a well-known numismatist of this oity. "In that year something like 90,000 of the dollars were coined, but it k a singular fact, as k now kuowa, that not one of them was known to be in circulaiion. Yet the most valuable of all American coins are two 1904 dollars which are in well-known collections. They are valued at $2,000 each. It has lieen determined to the satisfaction of ever' numismatist that those two dollars were not coined until 1833, although they were, struck from the original 1804 dk. They were secretly made, although such a procedure k a penal offense, for some one high in influence and authority, who desired them for certain coin collections. It has never been positively ascertained bow the surreptitious work was accomplished, but there is no doubt that it was done. Why the dollar of 1801 was never seen in circulation after leaving the mint is one of the unsolved Government mysteries. "A still greater mystery surrounds the half dollar of 1804. Of that coin nearly 190,000 were struck. Not one was ever discovered in circulation. Tim quarter dollars of 1804 are numer ous enough so plenty, in fact, that a fair specimen can be bought forM, and their coinage amounted to less than 7,000 pieces. A curious thinr has been discovered regarding the hah! dollar of 805, which is not a rare coin, except in the case of those, possessing the ettiostty 1 speak of. which in ere the value ton fold. This k that the figure 6 in 1801 has been struck over a figure 4, showing that the coin was reailv one of the undiscovered minting of 1904. What became of the lare issue of 1804 half dollars? Ko one knows or ever will know; hut it k evklent that all of them were not keued from the mint. and thk belief that there was soma reason for not desirinr the coin to cit onlato k st rengthened by the mint obterating tlw date on what was loft hr making 1806 half dollars of them. There was no silver dollar ksned from the mint in 1806. ret Sfl wera owned, and are hi the hands at eel ketors to-day, fust as ther eame from thank, Xe itoUam were eoiaed by ma Government after that an til 11H"--

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lien, aad that acids thrown oat at aaitivatioai for a few years will he m aJs a5(sneattsfcj Bri wamat aaafr mMMP maf Thk we taiak k a mba JamaVafal JHfaSvrftwa) ial MTsfMMKnr aMaMMMni J oa aa arronoeas view af the facts ia the case Formerly thk beKef was more prevalent than it k now ia amgiaad, where summer fallows ia oommoa ase wars based upon it, aad it k still widely prevalent in the South, whore the oM field system k ia vogue, aad k really a most pernicious aad costly error. Ia tlsw JfortJfc atftfat iMa4Sa Jam?l lMflMd abandoned, and ia the West it has not yet eome under eonsiduraHou, because the time has not yet eome for it In Kagiaad it has kagbeea supposed by farnters that the land needed a rest at certain intervals, aad so oae yaar was devoted to what was called a summer fallow. Bat if we suppose that thk fallow was a rest we should be greatly mistaken, for on the contrary it was a period of most laborious ensure, two or three pk wings and several intermediate borrowings being given to break tip the soil aad reader it fiae and mellow in preparation for the sowing of a wheat crop. In some eases a very liberal " application of manure was pkwed under aad thoroughly mixed with the soil by the subsequent tillage. Ia fact, the popular adage "tillage ia manure" was the fundamental principle of the practice of the bare fallow, so that the idea of resting; the knd or of leaving it to recuperate by rest from cultivation was no part of the Englkh. system of farming. The old field system of the South k really one of resting from' cultivation, but it is not at all consistent with the klea and belief that the land, galas fertility by resting. The Southern old fields are abandoned to weeds and a natural growth of timber, aad it k the accumulated debris of several years of this growth which really fertilises the soil. When land is thrown out of cultivation and all vegetation k suppressed, ami the surface k not disturbed, it wastes and loses fertility. The surface, hardened by the beating rains and Imked by the scorching sun, absorbs little water, and k washed by that whkh falls upon it and flows from it to tlte nearest streams. The Southern streams are discolored by thk washing after every heavy rain, and thousands of tons of soil arc carried off from the upland ami deposited upon the overflowed bottoms, which are thus rendered exceedingly fertile. It follows, of course, that thk access of fertility to these bottoms k gained at the expense of the uplands thrown oat f cultivation ami left to rest. But when an okl field has borne sev eral crops of the prevalent weeds the broom sedge, crab grass, pennyroyal and other plants which spring np upon it or has become covered with years' growth of timber, the gradual accretions of organic matter thus made contribute a large quantity of plant food to the soil ; and this in its decay produces available nitrogen and mueh carbonic add, which exerts a solvent effect upon the mineral particles of the soil, and thus, both directly and indirectly. this sort of rest increases the fertility of the soil. It k not rest ; in reality it is simply a change of crop, and exem plifies the truth of the ancient belief referred to by Virgil, who wrote "Thus also the fields rest, the produce being changed : but" he adds, "there k no favor to the unplowed land," and. thus showed that ia those times the practice of a bare fallow without tillage was not considered a good practice. Sir J. B. Lawes and several other experimenters whose competence aad carefulness are not questioned have shown that the bare soil constantly loses fertility by the paseage through it of the rain water, which carries off: the dissolved matter as soon as it k formed by the slow decomposition of the mineral particle. The modern practice of good far men, has shown conclusively that the soil does not need a rest; that cultivation effects a constant reduction of a portion of the soil to a solulde condition in whkh it may liecome fit food for plant. Moreover, it has lieen long believed that the separation of oxygen from the atmosidtere by certain effects of a finelydivkled soil releases ait eaaivalent ikVtkn of the nitrogen, which forms fourfifths of the bulk of the air from its mixture with the oxygen, and that this nitrogen becomes available, at least, ia some part, as food for plank. Then it follows that a cultivated crop, such as roots, corn, beans, potatoes, cotton, tobacco, k restful to the soil to a certain extent if an rJWwwa? 4JHMmBltjr jf HMw nura k supplied to make ap for the direct demands of it upon the land; or if clover or grass k grown, that thk scop also rests and refreshes the knd by its effect upon K, whkh leaves a residue of fertility after the requirements of the crop have been sanaMsd. -.V. 31 Tim. If you wkh to marry awkahly, marry your equal. OmW. Matrimony a worW-wRhout-ead barjH.mmcaaesrs. The wife safest and seemliest, by her We pardon mfidelHie, hat we da act forget them. Mm. $k LfftH. Wife and child those prsckas motives, those strong knots of level IWwMWNSt "XtyMT WMhm KtaMI

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-It k oae of ! saerkae to baawl aha eyes of wocldlj : To iaghy nataral birth at a wa have eary about C.000 jr. J. Itk arr the world have iaceaaeed hi 17S.OOtt.000 to 480,000,000, mere awl remain 1, There are ia the State of JFaw York 41 Baptist assoektisns, 84 churches, 790 ordained mmietors, 117,Itf members, 78 Saaday-i easels, 1.7SS teachers, 10,081 scholar; eeairibations last year, 81,174.flO; value at church property, 88,113,561. JT. T. Triimm. Aeooralag to the Jkfsrfer the total namber of scholars ia the rYeahrtenast Sabbath-eehool k 707, Me, aad the average attendance, 474,408, or a Httk more than 87 per eeet Of these the average number attending the ehnroh services was, last year, 900,778, or 42.3 per cent. The Welsh Presbyterian Church ia thk country k a growing inaljlutkn, especially ia the West. There are about 10.M0 eoaamaaieaata aad 18,000 adherents scattered over the States. The eharoh has six synods aad a geaeral assembly. The first chareh was established in Oneida County, K. Y inlSSS. Chcsnffan Union. Dr. George F. Pentecost advocates ia the Xew York Jhrfsnsnrfsarf aholkh ing -the week of prayer." He deekree .1 & 1 t .r, i . , . . v uaa iv naa Become a "jeaasaiaa ' aaa an idol, and should be broken in iMsese. Chttrebes postpone their work titttha first week m January. Hit knot mom suceejsful, they postpone it until the next January. The nfteehaaicel programme laid eat by the KraagaMaal Alliance destroys liberty, formalism, kilk spirituality. One of the strangest of religions sects k that which eaUs itsetf The Xew and Latter House of Israel. Its headquarters k in Chatham, Bag., M whtoh town its devotees are baMdlng an immense tompk which wiU cost 850,000. They believe that they will not dk and that they are the remnant of true Israelites who wlX reign with Christ for a thousand years. Their founder was a man named Jeariel, who k now dead. Hk death was a great shock to the believers, bat hk wife claimed that it was aa acci dent aad declared herself to be hk ; cesser. JEWELS IN THE MfftE. tin ta OMr : " You would be surprised," said a well-known offal contractor to a reporter recently, "at the large number of valuables found in the etty's Jump ing-grounds. Although the men in charge of the dnmps deny that any thing of value k ever found, I ana vouch that they don't always tott the truth. Miscellaneous artkks, sueh at silver teaspoons, knives aad forks, shoes aad clothing, in good aad had condition, are picked up daily, bat it frequently- happens that gold watches and diaiwrmilj ara aaaaadf tha vaWabla found. an aaasaal are only found ia the ashes refuse. Ladies washing? drop rings in the swill, aad. by aba time they have missed them, the swat will be on its way to the damping ground or the piggeries. Dkmonds from ear-rings and rings are lest h at same manner. In London the eontract for examining ashes aad twill k awarded to the highest bidder. The method employed by the eon tractor to ascertain whether any articles of value are contained in the rubbish k a novel one. The carts are dumped oat oa a screen whkh. after having heesms filled, is elevated into the air. A doaen men, dressed m rubber salts. without pocket, are set to week ea ine screen, ineee men go over tnc ashes and offal carefully, and, in ease any thing valuabk k found, H k tamed over at once to the contra ot or or fHtperintemtent. As the workmen wear pookeuess clothing, they secure notking about tttear After the ashes have been thoroughly screened, they are covered, and a let examined. "Some veers ago, a tractor, who had charge of the work, published a list of articles found ia the dumping-grounds. The net ineluded every thing imaginable, aad filled a pamphlet of twenty Jaraaaawa llmalt MJw WWWWTV tSWmwi vo A Preeeber's On one occasion, an exWemely hat day, Dr. Waddy, of the British Weskyan Conference, was preaching m a ahapel to a small eoagiagation whtoh, m spite of an oxcelknt sermon, shewed a general disposition to go to sleep. The aeotor, perceiving that all bat thi'M or four ware ia a somnolent ditiou, eoaeatred the idea of increasing the knjrth of Ink nam at, of speaking in a perfect moniken towering the pitch, until Sanity im the i inieriavwei Ho tmm took has bet i ouintrr ueaarted aneaiaaT taatn a wluaai law vrara not awr to may

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