Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 December 1884 — Page 4

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. [Gmtinued fro* Pint Page.] be taken to secure a place of safe deposit for these valuable collections now in a state of Insecurity. “The funds with which the works” for the improvement of rivers and harbors were prosecuted during the past year were derived from the appropriations of the act of August 2, 1833, together with such few balances as were on hand from previous appropriations. The balance in the Treasury subject to requisition July 1,1KB, was $K»,021t<HJ.55; the amount appropriated during the iis al yegur 1884 was |1 ,$19,634 ,627, and the amouut drawn from the Treasury during the fiscal year was $8,228,703.54, leaving a balance of SUlUSjM in the Treasury subject to requisition July 1st, 1884. SEABOARD CITIES. Tho Secretary of War subm ts the report of the Chief of Engineers as to the practicability oi protecting our important cities on the seaboards by fortifications and other defenses abie to repel modern methods of attack. The time has now come when such defenses can be prepared with confidence that they will not prove abortive, and when the possible result of delay in making such preparation is seriously considered, delay seems inexcusable. For the most important cities, tliose whose destruction or capture would be a National humiliation, adequate defenses, inclusive of guns, may be made by the gradual expenditure of $60,000,000, a sum much less than a victorious euenjy could levy as a contribution. An appropriation of about one-tenth of that amount is asked to begin the work, and 1 concur wito the Secretary of War in urging that it be granted. guns; The War Department rls proceeding with the conversion ot ten-inch smooth-bore guns Into eight-inch rirtes by lining the former With tubes, of forged or of coiled wrought Iron. Kitty guns will be thus converted during the®'ear. This, however, does not obviate the necessity of providing mfcaqa for the construction of guns of the Highest power, both for the purpose of coast defense and for the armament of war vessels. The report of the Gun Foundry Board, appointed April 2d, 1883, in pursuance of the act of March 9th. 1883, was transmitted to Congress in a special message of February 8tltvl8S4. In my message of March 26th, 1884,1 called attention to the recommendation of the board that the Government should encourage the production of private steel works of the- required material for heavy canifon, and that two Government factories, one for the Army and one for the Navy, should be established for the fabrication of guns from such material. No action having been taken, the Board was subsequently reconvened to then determine more fully the plans and estimates necessary for carrying out its recommendations. It has received 'information which indicates that there are responsible steel manufacturers in this country, who, although not provided at present with the necessary plant, are willing to construct the same and to make bids for contracts with the Government for the supply of the requisite material for the heaviest guns adapted to modern (warfare, if a guaranteed order of sufficient magnitude, accompanied by a positive appropriation extending over a senes of years, shall be made by Congress. All doubts as to ,the feasibility of thouplan being thus removed, 1* .renew- my mminmendation, that such action be taken by Congress as will enable the Government to construct its own ordinance npo,u its own territory, and so to provide the armaments demanded by considerations of national safety and honor. ,

THE NAVY. » iThe report of the Secretary of the Navy exfibits the progress which has heen made on die new s eel cruisers authorized by the acts ■C August 5th, 1882, and Marah Sd, 1881. Of the our vessels under contract one, the Chicago, >f 4,500 tons, is more than half finished; the Atlanta, 8,000 tons, has been successfully aunci.cd, and her machinery is now fitting; :he Heston, also of S,000 tons, is ready lor launching, and the Dolphin, a dispatch pteainor o 1.500 tons is ready for delivery. Certain atlverse criticisms upon the designs jof these cruisers are discussed by the Secretary, woo insists that the correctloss faf the conclusions-* reached by the , Vdvioory Board and by the Deimrlmout has s been demonstrated by (recent developments iu shipbuilding abroad. The machinery of the doublerurreted monitors, Puritan, Terror and iAmphitrite, contracted for under the (act oi March 3d, 1883, is in process io£ construction. No work- has been done (during the past year on their armor, for lack lof the necessary appropriations. A fourth Imonitor, the Monadnoek, still remains un(finished at th% navy yard in California. It ia ;recommended that early steps be taken tbl complete these vessels, and to provide alsoc tin armament for the monitor M.antoiioinuliV The recommendations of the Naval Advisory Board, approved by the department, comprise the construction of one steel cruiser of ■4,51)0 tons, one cruiser of 3,ooo tons, two heavily armed gunboats, one light cruising gunboat, one dispatch vessel armed with Ilotehiciss cannon, one armored ram and three torpedo boats. Tue general designs, all of - which are calculated to meet the existing wants of the service, are now well advanced and the construction of the vessels can be ’undertaken as soon as you shall grant the necessary authority. THE JEANSETTB VICTIMS. The act of Congress approved August 7, 1882, authorized the removal to the United States of the bodies of Lieutenant-Com-munder George IV. Delong and his comjpauitms of the Jeannette expedition. This •removal has been successfully accomplished by Lieutenants Harberand Sebuetxe. Fl'lie remains were taken from their grave in the Lena Delta in March, 1883, anil were retained at Yakutsk until the following winter, the season being too far advanced to admit of their immediate transportation. They arrived at New York February 20, 1881, where they were received withsituable honors. THE LIVELY RELIEF EXPEDITION. In pursuance of the joint resolution of Congress, approved February 13,1881, a naval expedition was fitted out for the relief of lieutenant A. W. Greedy, United States Army, and of the party who Irad been engaged under Iris command in scientific observations *lt Lady Franklin Bay. The fleet consisted of the steam sealer Thetis, purchased in England; the Bear, purchased at St. Johns, Newfoundland, anti the -Alert, which was generously provided by the British Government. Preparations lor the expedition were promptly made by the Secretary of theNavy, with the active co-operation of the Secretary of War. Commander George W. Coffin was placed iii command of the Alert, and Lieutenant W. H. Emery in command of the Bear. The Thetis was intrusted to Commander YYenlield S. Copley, to whom also was assigned the superintendence of the entire expedition. Immediately upon its arrival at Upernavik the fleet began the dangerous navigation of Melville Bay, and, iu spite of every obstable, reached Littleton Island on June 22d, a fortnight earlier thau any vessel had before attained that point. Un the same day it crossed over to Cape Sabine, where Lieutenant Greeiy and the other survisors of his party were discovered. After taking on board the living and the bodies of the dead, the relief ships sailed for St. Johns, where they arrived on July 17th. They were appropriately received at Portsmouth, N. H.,ou August 1st, and at New York on August 8th. One of the bodies was landed at the former place, The others were put on shore at Governor's island, and, with the exception of one which was interred in the National Cemetery, were forwarded thence to the destination indicated by friends. The organization and conduct of this relief expedition reflects great credit upon all who contributed to its success. A STRONG NAVY NEEDED. In this, the last of the stated messages that t shall have the honor to transmit to the Con-gress-of the United States. 1 can not too strongly urge on its attention the duty of restoring our navy as rapidly as possible to the high state of efficiency which formerly characterize l it. As the long peace that has lulled us into a sense of fancied security may at any time be disturbed, it is plain that the policy of strengthening this arm of the service is dictated By considerations of nss, economy, of a just regard for our future tranquility, and of a true appreciation of the dignity and honor of the Republic. THE POSTAL SERVICE. The report of the Postmaster-General acquaints yon with the present condition and the needs of the postal service. It discloses the gratifying fact that the loss of revenue from reduction in rate of letter postage as recommended in my message December, 1882, and affected by the act of March 8,1883, has been much less than was generally anticipated. My recommendation of this redaction was based upon the belief that the actual falling off in receipts from letter iiostage for the year immediately sue- - ce-ding the change of rate would be $),000,COO. It has proved to be only $2,275,000. This is a trustworthy indicator that the revenue w ill soon be restored to its former volume by the natural increase of -sealed correspondence.

ua* ' r. i rtwrAtiE, I confidently repeat, therefore, the reeommentation of my last annual message that single rate postage upon drop letters be reduced to one cent wherever payment of two cents Is now.required by law. Double rate is only expected at offices where the carrier system is in operation, and it appears that at those offices where the carrier system is In operation that the increase in the tax upon local letters defrays the cost not only of its own collection and delivery, but of the collection and delivery of all other mail matter. This is an inequality that ought no longer to exist. • EXCEPTIONAL DISPATCH. It is the opinion of that officer that It is properto provide means whereby exceptional dispatch in dealing with letters in frf*e. delivery offices may be secured by paying extraordinary postage. This scheme might be made effective by the employment of a special stamp whose cost should be commensurate with the expenses of the extra" Service. In some of the large cities private express companies have, undertaken to outstrip the Government mail carriers by affording lor the prompt transmission of letters better facilities than have hitherto been at the command of the Post-office. It has always been the policy of the Government to discourage such enter6rises, end in no better way can that policy e maintained than In supplying the public with the most efficient mail service that, with-due regard toits own best interests, can be furnished lor its accommodation. usrrr OF WEIGHT. v I approve the recommendation of the Post-master-General that the unit of weights in the rating of first-class matter should be one ounce instead of one-half ounce as It now is. In view of the statistics furnished by the department it may well be doubted whether the change would result in any loss of revenue. That it would greatly promote the convenience of tqe public is beyond dispute. The free delivery system has been lately applied to five cities, and the total number of offices in which It is now in operation is 159. Experience shows that Its adoption under proper conditions is equally an accommodation to the public and an advantage to the postal service. It Is more than seU-sustaln

..*- tag. *.nd tor the reason* urged by the Post-master-General may be properly extended. ATTOBNE T- GENERAL'S REPORT. ^ The Attorney-General renews tbe recommendation contained in Ms report of last year, touching the fees of witnesses and Jurors. He favors radical chanires in the fee bill, tho adoption of a system, by which attorneys ami marshals of tbe United States should be compensated solely by salaries, and the oreotion by tbe Government of a Penitentiary for the confinemon t of offenders against its laws. THIS INTERIOR DEPART*! ENT. Of the various Governmental concerns In charge of tbe Interior Department the reports of its Secretary presents an interesting summary. Among the topics deserving particular attention, I refer yon to his observations respecting onr Indian affairs, tho preemption and timber culture acts, the failure of railroad companies to take t itle to lands granted by the Government, and tbe operations of the Pension Office, the Patent Office, the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Kducntlon. THE INDIANS. Allusion has been made already to the circumstances that both as between different Indian tribes and as between Indians and the whites, the past year has been one ol unbroken peace. In this eireeunstance tbe President is glad to And justification for the policy of the Government in dealing with tlie Indian question and confirmation of the views which were rally expressed in my first recommendation to the Forty-seventh Congress. The Secretary urges anew the enactment of a statute for the punishment of crimes committed on Indian reservations, and recommends the passage of * the bill now pending in the House of Kepresentatlves for the purchase of a tract of 18,000 square miles from the Sioux reservation. Both these measures are worthy of approval. I con cur with him also in advising the repeal of the -pre-emp-tion law, the enactment of statutes resolving the present legal complications touching lapsed grants to railroad companies, and the funding of the debt of the several Pacific liailroads under such guaranty as shall effectually insure its ultimate payment. UTAH. The report of the Utah Commision will be read with interest. It discloses the results of recent legislation looking to the prevention and punishment of polygamy In that Territory. 1 still believe that if that abominable practice can be suppressed by law it can only be by the most radical legislation consistent with the restraints of the Constitution. I again recommend, therefore, that Congress assume absolute political control of the Ter-, rltory of Utah and provide for the appointment of a commission with such Governmental powers as in Its judgment may justly and wisely be put into their hands. FOREIGN TRADE AGAIN.

In the course of tliis communication reference has more than once been made to the policy of this Government as regards the cx tention of oar foreign trade. It seems proper to declare the general principles that should, in my opinion, underlie opr National efforts In this direction. The main condition of the problem may be thus stated: ’iVe arc a people in meehauieal pursuits and fertile in invention; \\ c cover a vast extent of territory, rich in agricultural products and in nearly all the raw materials necessary lor successful manufacture. We have a system of protective establishments more than jsurticient to supply our own demands. The wages of labor are nowhere else so great. The scale of living of our artisan classes is sueh as tends to secure tlicir personal comfort, and the developments of those higher moral and intellectual qualities that go to the making of good citizens, ttur system of tax and tariff legislation is yielding a revenue which is in excess of the present needsofthetiovernment. These are elements from which it Is sought to devise a scheme by which, without unfavorably changing the condition of the working men, our merchant marine shall be raised from its enfeebled condition, and new markets provided for [the sate beyond our borders of the manifold fruits of" industrial enterprises. The problem is complex and can be solved by no single measure of innovation or reform. The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are, for the United States, the natural mar-* ket of supply and demand. It Is from them that we should obtain what wo do not produce, or do not produce in sufficiency, and It is to them that the surplus productions of our llelds, our mills an<K our workshops should flow under condition^ that will equalize or favor them in comparison with foreign competition- A four paths of policyseem to potnttothls cud. First, a series of reciprocal commercial treaties w ith the countries of America, which shall foster between us and them an unhampered movement of trade. The conditions of these treaties should be the free admission of such merchandise as the countrv does not produce,1n return for admission freo or under a favored scheme of duties of our own produets, the benefits of such exchange to apply bn these goodscarried under the flag of the parties to the contract. The removal on both sides from vessels so privileged of all tonnage dues and national imposts, so that their vessels may ply unhindered between onr ports and those of the other contracting parties, though without infringing on thereserved home coasting trade; the removal or reduction of burdens on the exported products of those countries coming within the benefits of the treaties (and the avoidance of tl\e technical, restrictions and penalties by which our intercourse with these countries is at present hampered, Secondly, the establishment of the consular service of the United States on a salaried footing permitting the relinquishment of con sular fees, not only as respects vessels under the National flag, but also as respects vessels of the treaty nations carrying goods entitled to the benefits of the treaties. Thirdly, the enactment of measures to favor the construction and maintenance of a steamcarrying marine under the flair of the United States. Fourthly, the establishment of an uniform currency basis for the countries of America, so that the coined products of onr mines may circulate on equal terms throughout the whole system of commonwealths. This would require a monetarv union of America, whereby the output of the bullionproducing countries and the circulation of those which produce neither gold nor silver could be adjusted in conformity with the population, wealth and commercial needs of eaeh. Asmanyofthe countries furnish no bullion to the common stock, the surplus production of our own mines and mints might thus be utilized, and a step taken toward the general remonetization of silver. C1VU. SERVICE REFORM. . On the 29th of February last, X transmitted to Congress the ttrst annual report of the CiviT Service Commission, together with communications from the heads of the several Executive Departments of the Government respecting the practical workings of the law under which the Commission had been acting The good results therein foreshadowelX have been more than realized. The system has fully answered the expectations of its friends in securing competent and faithful public servants und in protecting the appointing officers of the Government from the pressure of personal importunity and from the labor of examining the claims and pretensions of rival candidates for public employment. The law has had the unqualified support of the President and of the heads of the several departments, and the members of the Commission have performed their duties with zeal and fidelity. Their report will shortly be submitted, and will be accompanied by such recommendations for enlarging the scope of the existing statute as shall commend themselves to the Executive and the Commissioners charged with its administration. NATIONAL BANKRUPT LAW. In view of the general and persistent demand throughout the commercial community for a National bankrupt law, I hope that the differences of sentiment which have hitherto prevented its enactment may not outlast the present session. CHOLERA PRECAUTIONS. The pestilence which, for the past two years, has been raging tn;the countries of the East, recently made its appearance In European ports with which we are in constant communication. The then Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of a proclamation of the President, Issued certain regulations restricting and for a time prohibiting the importation of rugs and the admission of the baggage of immigrants and of travelers arriving from infected quarters. Lest this course may have been without strict warrant of law, I approve the recommendation of the present .Secretary that Congress take action in the premises, and I also recommend the immediate adoption of such measures as will be likely to ward off the dreaded epidemic and to mitigate Its severity In case it shall unhappily extend to our snores. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The annual report of tire Commissioner ol the District ol Columbia reviews the operations ol the several departments ol its municipal government. I aslc your caretul consideration ol its suggestions in respect to legislation, especially commending such as relate to a revision of the civil ana criminal code, the performance ol labor by persons sentenced to imprisonment in the Jail, the construction and occupation ol wharves along the river front, and the erection ol a suitable building for district offices. A PENSION FOK CHANT. I recommend, that In recognition ol the eminent services of Ulysses S. Grant, late General of the armies of the United States, and twice President of this Nation, that Congress confer upon him a suitable pension. I am certain of the measures that seem to me necessary and expedient I have now in obedience to the Constitution recommended for your adoption. As respects others of no less importance, I shall content myself with renewing the recommendations already made tOiCongress without; restating the grounds upon which such recommendations were based: The preservation of forests on the public domain; the granting of Government aid for popular education; the amendment of the Federal Constitution so as to make effectual the disapproval by the President of particular i tems In appropriation bills; the enactment of statutes in regard to the filling of vacancies In the Presidential office, and the determining of vexed, questions respecting Presidential inability, are measures which may Justly receive your serieflos consideration. As the time draws nigh when I am to retire from public service, X cannot refrain from expressing to the members of the National Legislature, with whom I have been brought into personal and official intercourse, my sincere appreciation of thei r unfailing courtesy, and of their harmonious co-operation with the Executive in so many measures calculated to promote the best Interests of the Nation. And to my fellow-citizens generally I acknowledge a deep sense of obligation for the snpport which they have accorded me In my administration of the Executive Department of the Government. [Signed] CHESTE H A. AKTUUE. WASniNdTON, D. C., December 1,1681.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Sorghum-seed, as a fat-producing food for hogs, is pronounced to be excellent. —Dried bark of sassafras root put up around dried fruit will protect it from worms.—Toledo Blade. —Don’t work by fits and starts. The even-going individual is always the most comfortable. —Leaks in roofs, about chimneys and elsewhere may be stopped by tliickening white-lead paint with fine clean sand.— Albany Journal. —It is a good plan to keep merino sheep in small flocks. They do much better than when a large number are together.—Cincinnati Times. —Ordinary newspapers are very impervious to cold. If apples are to be shipped during winter, line the barrels with two or three thicknesses of paper, and the apples will rarely freeze, if properly protected. —The average cost to the fanner in the Northwest to raise wheat is estimated at forty-eight cents per bushel, for which at present prices be realizes from thirty-five to fifty-five at the home market.—Denver Journal of Commerce. —The State of New York has 241,050 farms of over twenty acres each, while all New England has bnt 207,232 farms ►of twenty acres and over. Only two other States have a larger number— Ohio has 247,189 and Illinois has 255,741. —Fried ham for breakfast is particularly nice when the slices are cut the night before and are allowed to soak all night in a cup of water to which a tablespoonful of sugar has been added. This softens the meat and:takes out the oppressively salt taste.—Boston Budget. —One pint of oats, with a like measure of bran, is a day’s ration in two feeds for a breeding ewe. A week after lambing the ration should bei increased by adding one-fourth of a pound of oil meal. She should also receive as much cut hay and straw as she will eat.— Troy Times. —Salt is necessary to the hitman system. About twelve grains a day | eliminated from the body and that amount must be taken in some form if health be maintained. Sail; aids the decomposition of the albuminoids. If the white of eggs be introduced into the intestines of an animal it is quickly absorbed if salt be present, but no part of it is absorbed if salt be absent.—Tlif Household. i —Those farmers who planted their roadsides with apple trees fifteen or twenty years ago are now reaping a rich reward, the increased crop, on such trees often making the roadside the most profitable land on the fafm in proportion to the ground occupied. Oa much traveled highways the droppings of horses add cattle are washed into low places on the roadside, and there applje trees are almost uniformly very productive.—N. Y. Herald.

FEEDING FOWLS. Th© Advantages Resulting from the Us© of Dry Feed. My practice of giving p;6ultiy drjj-, finely-ground feed is not founded on any theory, but the result ol much experiment. I was never yvhat; is known as a “fancier,” though I have done much in the past in the way of breeding. I imported, several years agcj>, one of the finest strains of Silver-Gray Dorkings ever in the country, and I have had a good many other choice fowls of one or another breed. I made the business pay in a small way, but I had so much trouble with unhealthy fowls that I gave it up entirely long ago, and have since only kept fowls for family use. I tried portable houses, and all the various schemes that I ever heard of for counteracting the tendency to disease, but I never hit anything tUl I adopted this method of feeding. I was feeding wet feed, a,lid became greatly annoyed by the gluttony of ia few of the ruling hens, They would stand over the feed and drive everything else away till they gorged thepiselves so as to be good ter nothing. I got a lot of old tin pans and set a fruit can weighted with stones in the center of each, so they could not git into the feed, but they would travel around it to drive the others off. I was at the time experimenting in a small way with several breeds ol hens, aryl crossing them with a Brown Leghorn [ found very soon that the gourmands were not nearly so prolific layers; that their eggs were not so fruitful, and that the chicks were not so hardy or Iso healthful as those of the victims who were compelled to stand back and get a mouthful of food here and there as they could catch it. There was an old unused sink among the rubbish and I drew it out, put a little roof over and put a quart of cor nmeal in the bottom of it anti two quarts of fine wheat bran on top of that, leaving them to do the mixing. 1 soon after filled up. more boxes and from that time to this 1 have pot wet any fetal for hens. At that time my hens were sorely troubled withjscaly legs. It was only a little while before every sigh of the d isease disappeared, except a few old scars, and I have never seen any of it since. I imagine it is due to their scratching in the meal and bran. I do not objeet to corn or wheat or any other kind of unground feed, per se, but only to the manner in which the hens eat; it. They must eat the dry ground feed slowly and can not gormandize it. I In my experience they do not overeat when so fed. When running at large they avoid it altogether if tuey can. There is scarcely anything else that they do not prefer.—0. S. Bliss, in N. Y. tribune.

KM.LY AND FLCWERS. The Foolish Extravagance Indulged In by Many Persons at Funerals. The tribute of flowers on mortuary or nuptial occasions is so common and profuse that they smother sentiment often out of sight and are actually offensive to good taste. A sentiment is touched by either event, and flowers are the embodiment of frrief or joy. The modest and beautiful bouquet that was deemed sufficient in lormer times is superseded by floral displays rivaling a floricultural exhibition, and incongruous piles of devices, hardly regarded and perhaps not known save in the reports of the gentlemen of the press, crowd the mourners or the mated with such profusion that it; becomes a puzzle what to do with them. It is the fashion to do it, and florists are taxed to produce original pieces, not so much to express respectful or more tender grief, but for the sake of getting up something new. At funerals ’is this excess most manifest, and whole carriages are at times devoted to bearing to the grave the various lyres, baskets, pillows, broken shafts, gates ajar and what not, that are but half seen through the mourner’s teais, and subject to the curious, who Speculate on their cost and criticise their construction or appropriateness. The latter criticism often obtains where deBq^ns are sent that have little or no relevancy in their meaning, as was the case some time since, where a spectator said, regarding the floral tributes for one who had led a life that would not have met the approval of the angels: “Why, the designs were elegant, and among the rest was a beautiful gate ajar that was very graoeful.’’ A modest old lady, who had heard the oulogium of the flowers, and knew the party honored, replied; *‘Whi«fc gate?"— Hartford Post,

TEA DRINKING. , An American Method of Showing Hospitality In Colonial Hays. The French officers who came over to assist our fathers in the War of Independence soon discovered that a teaparty was the American method of showing hospitality. Tea-drinking was a novel experience with them, for * they had been accustomed to drink black coffee, and to take tea only as a medicine. Several of them, soon after their arrival at Newport, R. I., took tea by invitation at the hospitable mansion of John Wanton. Though they did not relish the beverage, yet" their politeness forced them to swallow the contents of the often replenished cups. At last, one of them, dismayed at the flow of the capacious tea-urn, turned to Mrs. Wanton, and with a naivete which caused her to smile, said: “I sail vish to send dat servant to a very bad place for bringing me so much hot water to drink!” In Philadelphia theSe was a singular custom by which guests protected themselves from over-indulgence in the cup that cheers. The Prince de Broglie refers to it in his diary, while narrating a visit he made, in the company of the French Minister, to Mrs. Morris, the wife of the great financier of the Revolution. He wrote: “I partook of the most excellent tea, and I should be even now still drinking it if the Ambassador had not notified me at the twelfth cup that I must put my spoon across it when I wished to finish with this sort of Warm water. “He said to me it is almost as illbred to refuse a cup of tea when it is offered as it would be indiscreet for the mistress of the house to propose a fresh one when the ceremony of the spoon has notified her that we wish for no more.—Youth's Companion.

Calhoun’s Love of ’Possum. “Somehow or other all these great ■ men had their peculiarities about what they wanted to eat. There was Mr. Calhoun, who always had his ’possum and sweet potatoes when he could get them. He used to say to me: ‘Now, Steve, you get me a nice fat ’possum, cook it the day after it is killed, parboil it, then put it in a hot oven with boiled yam potatoes laid around it in the oven and then let it slowly brown. If you can get a coon, Steve, you make plenty of coon gravy, very brown, and pour it over the ’possum, and don’t fail to have the ’possum well flavored with pepper, salt and sage. Well, sir, you just ought to see Mr. Calhoun sit down to a dish of ’possum with coon gravy. He wasn’t a big man, but ho was mighty thin, and there was plenty of room about his vest. He would make that ’possum very sick before he got through with it. He used to say that it reminded him of old South Carolina to eat ’possum, and that’s the reason he liked it so well. Many a time he’s told me about going out ’possum hunting at night with colored boys and dogs and an ax, treeing the ’possum, cutting the tree down and roasting the ’possum before a log fire.—Baltimore Herald. —Fifty cents was the sum handed over bv a St. Louis citizen to the man who saved his life, but he was probably an editor. They all bank their money, and carry only a little change around for street-ear fare.—Detroit Free Press. —A Marblehead man has a maltese cat, thirty-two years old, deaf, and blind in one eye.—-Poston Olobe. - Josiah Davis, North Middletown, Ky., writes: “ I am now using a box o£\H»;nry’s Carbolic Salve upon an ulcer. My ulcer was caused by varicose veins, and wakpronounced incurable by my doctors. Henry's Carbolic Salve is effecting a cure.” Latest from the Conundrum Club: Q.— “When is a window like an over-lmllasted i balloon?” A.—“When it won’t goup.”— N. X, Journal. Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, Sexual Debility.cured by “Wells’ Health Kenewer.” $L Milk has this peculiarity, the more it is doctored the worse it gets. “Hough on Coras.” 15c. Ask for it. Complete cure, hard oir soft corns, warts, bunions. It takes Terv little expedition and energy to catch a cold.—Loir ell Courier. Pike’s Toothache Drops cure ini minute,25c. Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beautifies. 25c. German Cork Remover kills Corns A Bunions. Grape-shot ought to be made from musket-tells. Tested b y Time. For Throat Diseases, Colds, and Coughs, Brown’s Bronchial Troches hive proved their efficacy by a test of many years. Bold only in boxes. Texas laments the cattle feTer, and many Texas steers are dropped in consequence. “Bough on Pain.” Porous Plaster, for Back* ichc. Pains in the Chest, Rheumatism. 25c. A woman’ seldom writes her will. There is so much of it that she can’t. Stinging, inflammation, all Kidney and Urinary Complaints, cured by “Buchupaiba.” $L The cash system is a no-bill art.—Her* ehont Traveler. “Bough on Coughs.” Troehes,15c; Liquid, 25o, tor Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness.

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