**. jf#f ffprif vol v salisbury n 0 sept 2 1870 no 35 printing press for sale the undersigned offers for sale nn excel lent ram auk printing press bed 85x2 inches prints a form 20x80 and down to a single line it is in ro.nl order and always ready for any find ol printing price very moderate address j j llui nkh salisbury valuabltproperty for s aisu ! i will sell for cash at the cuurl huuse in mocksville davie co n c , on the 4th day of october being tues day first week superior court the well county l_l\f property j which is me of the best country btands for merchandising in western n ('.. being situ ated 2,'l miles from salisbury on lh wilkes boro road 16 miles from statesville in a fine neighborhood with a good two-story storehouse with all necessary warehouses for a general trade also guud dwelling house out houses ice huuse good orchards and some two or three hundred acres of very j toracco i a b and is upon the whole one of the most de sirable places in the country any one wishing tu examine tho property c will dense call ou j v il kay or the j messrs stimpsons who are now iu 1ms | iness at that place and for further particu ! lars address ine at eagle mills iredell co n.c " t n cooper july 83-29 11 w phillips a uieoteif.k two vaults above the court house on ain street return their thanks to the public for.the very liberal patronage en ; joyed by them during tho past year and hope i by fair dealing and strict attention to business to merit a continuance if not auincreaso ofthe same we will enntinne to keen on hand n good sup ply of ramhy axloc v.t(._.es in eluding rre-.li and salt fi-.li — of every variety whiskeys brandies hum gin ts-c dbo a ls0 boots shoes domestics | piece goods yankee notions in fact almost everything usually kept in a va ' riety store all uf which we till sell low for cash or country produce at thu high est market price phillirs & brothers feb ih 1870 "—:( 1,000 reward de-sing's via tug a cures all liver j kidney and bladder diseases organic weakness female mictions general de bility and all complaints of the urinary or gans in male and female 1,(m will alsu be paid for any case of blind bleeding or itching piles that de bing's pile remedy fails to cure debing's magic liniment cures rheumatism pains bruises and swelled joints in man nml beast sold everywhere send for pamphlet laboratory — 142 frankliu si l.alti more md apr22-ly william valentine the barber returns his thanks to his "/./) fill i:\ds and the public for the liberal patronage heretofore oxtendml lohim lo now informs them that he biwlittudup a new and coniinudiuii shop in dr h.ndcrsons brick building com io _., where he would he pleased to see them he guarantees to give sati.l'uctioii i;i everj case i he has in his employ of the best hair dressers in western north can liua lie requests a call from all salisbury x c deo 17 i8fi0 50 tf o00_0s~g0ikg down ! goods going down ! ! v wallace nd 3 granite row s liu-wry n c has jubt arrived from the north with a full and well selected stock which he offers to the public at prices lott-.-r than any house in llie market having pur chased ihem lining the decline iu the north ern markets all i desire is a call and i am confident that yuu will nol leave my store without be ing pleased nut only t.iih the goods but with the low fb.xcbs my stuck consists iu part of ladies dress goods trimmingsofali kinds gen t i k m k n ' 8 furnishing goods hats caps boots & shoes and a full line of groceries and a great many other articles not hureonu me rated tr come and eramlnn my sto ■!. of i loods before purchasing olsewhoro v w'ai.l ace no h granite row s trisomy n t june 10 in 0 i jim mansion iioi.'sk charlotte n 0 this wdl known house having boon tjswlv fi-knisid-.i and u.:rrni:i in every depart is now open for tho accommodation of travelling public firomiiilais at depot on orrival o(trains.'*qn {,.], l-t •' " *''•' ' i ■ ■''■■ i north carolina ) superior court davie county $ spring term 1870 ellxebeth sprouse assignee plaintiff against 1st george 1 sprouse of yadkin county a brother of robert sprouse deceased 2d erne h carter hubert daniel and wife hannah david kendrick and his wife harriett l.ucy hollingsworth chil dren of amelia sprouse dee'd a sister of robert sprouse 3d a thomas jones george jones and two other children of sally jones dee'd who was a daughter of martha sprouse dee'd a sister of hubert sprouse : 0 jas sill ith and two other children of jane a daugh ter of said martha sprouse , petition for partition . » to george lt curler hubert daniel and wife nancy george v kelly and wile , hannah david kindrlck und wife harri ett aud lucy hollingsworth obildrenand ' heirs at law of amelia sprouse and thomas jones george jones und tt-o oth er children of sally junes whose are un known and james smith and two other children of jane smith dee'd uou-resi detits you are hereby notified that a sutnraonst in the above entitled case has issued agaius you and the complaint therein was filed in the superior court of davie county ou the 29th day of july 1870 you are also notified that the summons in the case '_, returnable to the judge of our su j perior unit tube held forthe county of da i vi , ai the court house in mocksville on ihe | second monday after the third monday of september 1870 when aud where you are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint — in default whereof ihe plaintiff i will apply to said cotlrt forthe reliefdeman | ded ill the complaint witness h k austin clerk four said j court at office in the town uf mocksville on the 20th day of july a i 1870 h h austin clerk superior court davie county aii g 5-3l:0w pr f.e»15 north carolina . iu the superior caldwdll county $ court i m a bernhardt executor of henry smith i dee'd against lewis s hartley mul wife clarrissa d vv pressuell aud wife elizabeth maria hi'.ys rufus smith ephrinui smith willis stan j ly and wife selena john moore and wife emily w w barnes and wife caroliue marcus smith marion smith phillip w barnes harilie barnes and ida barnes tu ephriain smith william stanly and wife selena john m and wife emily non resident defendants in the above entiled pro ceeding you are hereby notified that summonses in the above entitled proceeding have issued a^ftii.st v-'.i „,,.{ tin complaint tliet»-in was filed in die office of lhe clerk of the superior court of caldwell county ou lhe 11th day i july a d li-70 you are further notified that the sum mons in this proceeding is returnable to | tho office of the clerk of the superior court of the said county on the 1st day '• ot september next when and where you are required lo appear and answer lhe complaint — in default whereof the plain ! liff will apply to the court for the re i lief demanded in the cnmpiaiut witness r r wakefield clerk of • lie superior court in lenoir be llllil ; day of jul v a i 1870 it it wakefield c s c 30:gw-[pr fee si 0.j ciieittumokis stags lines mjl warsaw i eavb warsaw for fayetteville daily ex j j ccpt sunday if you are in western n carolina gn to raleigh and procure a through [ ticket to fayetteville for 8 ; through tickets from qnldsburo via warsaw tu uyettevllle jiii through tick o.s from woldoii to fayette ville ftlo through tickets from wilmington via warsaw to fiiyettiiville.ffl ril i l.tittl to v7_\de8bouo leave charlotte after trains rum lialcigh mul colunibiu via monroe for wttdusboru tuesday thursday and sal unlay leave wu de-liiiru tuesday thursday and saturday,af ter arrival of trains and stage from wilmington read of chatham ttail hoad to jonesboro n . c daily except sundays leave head of chatham bail road aftor ar rival uf train from raleigh leave jonesboro after arrival of train from i-'ayellc.ille cleiiiitinii accommodation line between salem and high point will charter stages at all hours cheaper than the cheap est office at butucr's qotol salem n c e t clemmons oct 1 1860 tf contractor charlotte female institute chablottee n c tho llili annual session of this institution cuiinnciices the iuili september and continues antil tbe 30th nl juno 1871 an accomplished corps uf teachers has hecn employed iu all branches usually taught in first-class female s inane . fur circular and catalogue containing full particulars a to terms kc address kkv it l._.rwl-l s05t ch rlulte x cl llki-kkkncks i it ii roberta esq lexington n 0 rev i ii johnson ■ hr e nve hutchison charlotte n ('. i rev fln'is phillips li d davidson college n c : prof j k ulake " v a richardson " " " ! ex iov /. il s'ance charlotte n c july 22-21 im i v hliohoit.il housk fayetteville stkeet /,■ i /. /-; / a it , 2v o . having nn connection with any otbor hotel in raleigh i shall iiiakothu yar borough house till it it 11 as iikkn tin mill pint cltth/t hull i iii lln city j iff blair maroh uj tf pninrietor cider mills & cotton gins bend in mitchell allen v i co newborn n c for circular i july 39:1m ffijjc©ranortij state i'liblishen weekly by l e w is if a n e s editor and proprietor rates of nl.'hch-vtion one veau payable m advance 3.00 six months " " 1*80 5 copies t.i one address 12,50 10 cupies to one address 20,00 hates of advertismq one square first insertion 1,00 for each additional insertion 5u special notices will e charged 50 per c*nt higher than the above rates court und justice's orders will be publish ed at the same rates with otlier advertise ments obituary notices over six lines charged as advertisements contract rates i o h h s 0 a i o . 3 * * k k * ? m space a 2 s e 8 -* ° _ r "^ 7 | c ! f . i 1 square i r?2 50 l 7f 5 00 8 50 l.'l 00 2 squares i 4 50 0 25 8 50113 00 22.00 3 squares 0 00 0 00 12 00,20 00 30.00 4 squares 8 001100 15002 00 37,50 j column ii oo hi 00 20 00 30 00 45,00 i column 18 00 24 ml 30 00 45 00 75.00 1 column 28 00 40 00 50 00,80 00 130,00 a farmer's experience with a detroit pickpocket a short time since while our reporter was visiting a town in the interior he made the acquaintance ofa well-to-do far mer who alter making some iuquirlob in regard to the growth und prosperity of detroit inquired if there were any pick pockets in that city the reply was of course iu the utirruative the farmer laughed quietly and then said : 1 don't often tell my first experience in seeing the lions of your city but 1 uin not us sensitive over it nuw as i used to be and i'll tell you about it some years before my faiher died he went to new york ciiy on business and while there lit bought liim a gold watch he wore it as long as he lived and when he died a few years agu he gave it to me of course 1 was strongly attached to the watch antl not a little proud of it especially whin 1 nut it ii uv nock.it upon tl oeoa-rton i my first visit lo detroit i haven't any doubt that i looked at it a hundred times a dav anil you will uot be at all surpris prised when 1 tell you lhat i had not been in lhe city two hours before it was gone chain and all i informed theclerkof the hotel where i was slopping of my loss and as i did not remember being jonscled by any one and could give no clue to the thief be aid there was no use iu calling iu au of ficer he advised me to offer a large re tvaid for the return ofthe walch and ad ded that no questions would be asked — i put such au advertisement in the morn ing papers and during the afternoon re ceived a note informing me lhat if i would be at the corner of b and i streets that evening at 7 o'clock with the reward si 00 my watch would be return ed to me the note also stated that i i must come alone and if during the day 1 i made any attempt to inform an officer the i writer would not meet me that i would [ be watched all the time and the only way that i could recover my watch whs by do ing precisely as i advertised u 7 o'clock i was at the spot indica ted and after wailing a few moments a well-dressed man iu passing me asked me what time of day i replied that it was 7 o'clock at that he asked me to walk along wiih him a short distance and as f walked he inquired it i had brought the 100 1 replied in lhe aliimativc when he handed die my walch received lhe money and was about to leave me when i stopped him and told him i would git-e liim 10 more to tell tue how lie man aged lo pick my pocket sh !' said be placing bis finger on bis lips you prom ised to in k no qnesiions but i wuuld show you if it wasn't fur that man stand ing over there on lhe corner ii is a de tective officer ami knows me antl the man pointed across the street i looked in the direction he had indicated but could see no one that looked like an officer though there were plenty of people standing ill that locality that lull fellow with lhe stove-pipe hut ou is the one i mean ; but i must be off good-byo the ni-u hurried off and 1 saw him disappear a round a corner then i again tried so see the lull fellow witli a stove pipe hat but if be had been there be bud disappeared and i i laid d for the hod 1 happy in again j possessing mv father's lasl present to uie at ihis thought i put my hand in my vest pocket where 1 had placed tho watch hut a moment before hut tho next instant you i could have knocked nu down wiili a straw for lhe pocket was empty lhe 1 thief had shown ine how it was dono i didn't advertise for il again and i ciiine home without lolling the hotel clock about '. ihat evenings experience — detroit post the knni villi whig says hast ten i ne sen has raised litis year 000,000 i bushels of wheal and will have a surplus of 3,000,000 bushels for sale more than has been raised in that section for twenty years some ingenious chap has invented a machine to make a man rise early in the morning hut it is said there is nothing more reliable than a sin mouths old baby jim smiley's frog mark twain's masterpiece wc make no apology for publishing jim smiley's frog it is a production that is destined to go the rounds for ma ny years as oue ol the richest specimens of american humor jim smil el fltor he c.-itcbed a frog one day and took liim home nnd said he cai'lated some day to educate him ; and so he lever done nothing fur three mouths but sit iu his back yard and learn th rog lo jump — and ynu bel be did learn him too he'd give bim a little punch behind und be next minnie you'd see lhat frog whirling in the airliko a doughnot — see him turn a summerset ami maybe a couple if he gut a guud start and come down flat foot ed and all right like a cat lit got him so in lit matter of catching flies aud kepi him iu practice so constant that he'd nail a fly every time as far as he cuuld see him smiley suid that all a frog wanted was education und he could do most anything and i believe him why i've ban set daniel webster down here on the floor — daniel webster was the name of the frog — and sing out flies daniel flies uud quicker you could wink he'd spriig up \ and shake a fly offn the counter there ! and flop down on the floor again as solid as n gob of mud and fall to scratching the side of his bend with bis hind foot is in different as if he hadn't no ide he'd done anv more'n than any frog might do you never see a frog so modest and str.ight for'aid as he was for ull lie was so gifted i and when it come to a lair and square jumping on a dead level he could get over ' more ground at one straddle thai uny an ' imal of liis breed you ever saw jump ing on a dead level was bis sttong suit : you understand and when it come to that smiley would ante up money t him as long as be had a red smiley was mon strous proud of bis frog and wei he might be for fellers tbat bad travelled and been everywhere all said that he hid laid over 1 anv frog that they see well smiley kepi the beast in a little lattice box and lie used to fetch it down ' town and lay for a bet ouc a feller — a ' stranger in camp he was — came across j him with bis box am says : what might it be that yoa'vc got in i your box v j ami smilay says so tw indifferent like it might be a parrot r it might be u ! canary maybe ; but it ain't iis uuly just i a frog and the feller took it aid looked at it careful and then turned it around this i way antl that and says j h-m so tis well what's he good ! for . ' well smiley says easy and careless i he's good enough for one thing i should ' think — he can out jump my frog in jal ! veras county i'he fellow took the hex again and took another long particular liok and gives it back to smiley and bays very deliberate ly i well i don't see no points about the frog that's any better'n and any otlier frog ' maybe you don't smiley said may be you understand frogs and maybe you don't understand em ; uuybo you ain't only au amateur as it were anyways i've gut my opinion and i'll risk forty dollars that be can out jump uny frog in calaveras county and tho feller studied a minute or two and then says kinder sad like : well i'm only a stranger hen and 1 ain't got i no frog ; but il i had a frog i'd bel you and then smiley siys : thai's all right that's all right if you bold my j box a minute i'll po and gut you a frog ' and so the fellow took the box and put : up the forty dollar's along with smiley's i and sat down to wait so he su lliere a good while thinking i to hisself and then lie b 0 ' i 1 ' frog out nnd pried open bis mouth aud took a tea spoon and tilled him full of quail shot filled him pretty near up tu liis chin and set bim uu iiie floor smiley bo went out t the swamp and slopped around in thouuid for along time 1 and finally he ketched .. jrog and fetched bim 111 and give him to the feller and says : nuw if you are ready set him along side uf dan'l with his forcpaws even with ! dan'l and i'll give tho word then be says one twn — three jump and bim nud tho feller touched up the frogs behind and lhe new frog hupped off lively but dan'l gave a heave and hisl.ed up bis shoulder so — like a frenchman but it wasn't no use lie could i'i budge be was planted as solid as an anvil and be coud'nt [ uo more stir than if liu was anchored out smiley was a good deal surprised and he was disgusted too but he did'nt have no idea what the matter was of cruise the fellow took thn monoy ami started away and when ho was going out of tho i door be sorter jerked bis ihumb over his shoulder ibis way at dan'l and says | again very deliborntp well i don't beo 1 no oilier points about thai frog that's any betler than any other frog 1 smiley he stood scratching bid head and looking down nt dan'l a long time imi al i i-l hu said : 1 do wollder what iii the nation that frog throwed off for / — i w lor il there ain't something tlio mat '< ter willi him ( he pears lo look mighty ! baggy somehow ;" and he ketched dan'l b the nan ol iho neck and iui d bi m up says why blame my cat if he don't weigh live pounds !' and he turned him up | side down and be belched up a double handful of shot and then ho seen how it was and he was tho maddest man he set tho frog down and took after tho fel ler but ho never ketched him mr j billings on marriage marriage is a fair transaction on tho face ov it but there is qui'.o too often put up jobs in it it is au old institushun older than the pyrnmids history holds its tongue who the pair waz who first put on llie silken harness and promised to work kind in it thru thick and thin up hill and down nnd on the level rain or survive or perish sink swim drown or flote but whoever they waz iliey must bave made a good thing of it or so many of their posterity would not have harnessed up since and diovo out thurc is a great moral grip to mar riage it iz a mortal lhat holds the soshul bricks together bui there ain't but darn few pholks who put tl ir money in matrimony who could set down and give a good written opinynn whi on airtb tbey cum to do it this iz a great proof that it iz oue ov them mitral kind ov acksidents that must happen jist uz birds hy out ov the nest when they have feathers enuff without ; being able tew tell why sum marry for buty and never discov ; er their mistake tliis is lucky sum many fur money and don't b'eit sum marry for pedigree and feel big for six months and then very sensibly ! cum tew tho conclusion that pedigree i ain't no better than skim milk sum marry bekawse they have been higlisted bttmwhere else ; tbis is a cross match ; a bay and sorrel pride may make it endurable sum marry for love without a cent in their pocket nor a friend in the world nor a drop uv pedigree this looks desper ate bui il iz the strength of tbe game if marrying for love ain't a success then matrimony iz a dead beet ! strange robbery by gipsies for some time past there has been an j encampment of gipsies at rutland last 1 saturday two women of the tribe called on mrs hubbard iu rutland aud en deavored to sell her some baskets she i declined purchasing but they entered in to conversation with her and one of them ! observing that she had a small bunch ou ! her furehca 1 , proposed to remove it mrs hubbard informed them tbat it originated from an injury which she received some 1 years ago and that as it had affected the i bone it could not be removed ; whereup on one of the gipsies made a pretenco of ! examining the bunch and commenced passing her hands over mis hubbard's face this is lhe last thing she remem bers of what occurred she subsequent i ly regained her consciousness but the wo ' men had gone the next day wanting | to use money she went to the place where : she was in die habit of keeping it but j could not find any und upon further ! search it was usceit lined that besides the i money a dozen silver spoons and some ; other articles were missing she made ! up her mind that the robbery had been | committed by the gipsies and started to ' procure a warrant with the intention of searching the camp she was probably ! watched and on her return from the jus 1 lice's office the two women came into the house left a bundle on a table nnd . iui i ply remarking that it was all right they ! had only borrowed it or something to 1 tbut effect went away upon opening ' the bundle all lhe missing articles as well i as the money with the exception of some two or three dollars which was iu silver were found it is supposed that tbe wo i men noticed mrs hubbard going to dif i lerent places and thinking lhat she sus ; peeled them of the theft und not having bail time to properly uecrete the articles took this ineiliod to avoid a prosecution troy times two amiable nieghbors j the lyons france papers tell a good story tbo b.'d-cluimbcreof two wealthy i gentlemen who belong to different social i ciicles are adjacent untl as usual nuw-a 1 days ihiu partitions divide lliem one ; spends his nights ai bis club house never returning before half past five in the morning his neighbor rises ut six and j sits down at once to liis piano winch he does not quit until dinner the former i complained to the commissary of police : who laughed in bis luce and told him lo keep belter bonis as lie bad a lease for i six years he could not change his apart | mcuis he thought of sending a chal lenge to his neighbor bis neighbor was paralyzed in thu lower limbs me had bis walls lined wilh thick hair mattresses i still the sharps penetrated into bis i room he made his servants play the j french horn — his neighbor bad bim lined j by tlio police ; lliu french horn cuiinui be played except during tho jours gras he made his servants lake a hammer and rap against the wall his neighbor waited un til ho was tired and then began in play ' iii then bought a largo hand-organ whioh i was sadly out f tune anil ordered a tur.i spit which wuuld iniu eight days without being wound up and which he had fitted to the organ the turnspit was put in motion after it and tho organ had been placed next lhe chamber wall the pi ano player bure the organ for nineteen hours at lhe end nf that time he sent a letter of truce ho was told tbe olub-huu tor bad gone out of town uud wouldn't be back for q week the pianist sold his lease lhe organ is still going ! jehial slab's remarks christians often think god grievously displeased with them when they are only bilious tho tongue of the gossip — tho barbed arrow of the savage bo like the birch — though it has noth ing but a perpendicular precipice of rock to root in it still manages to grow up right it is well to bavo a spirit of meekness under trial and persecution but 1 have found that thus far that some things fight down much better than they live down do uot put off being a christian because you have some overpowering infirmity — nothing you can apply to it will be so healing as the grace of god if the conduct of others fails to suit us there is generally one unfailing consola tion it is seldom uny of our business never compare conditions with those above you so long as there are lower con ditions that you cuii be thankful at being kept out of always believe a man sincere when he says he will put you in the way of ma king five thousand dollars if he has first found out that your travelling that way will make ten thousand for him parents may flat'er themselves that harsh words unkind looks and other dis plays of temper in the family will pass for nothing on the minds of their children will they . place a soft stone under a tiny but constant stream of water one week or month makes but little differ ence the stone like tho child stays there aud says nothing but go back to it at the end of twenty years and ten chances to one you will find a hole drilled clean through it men wear religion a great deal as they their clothes here new-fashioned there old-fashioned here neat and glossy there patched and threadbare here black and somber there with all the tints of the rainbow in thein and i don't know as it matters much solougas the fabric wash es clean and holds well together human sacrifice among the indians of alaska it may be unknown to your readers that the indians of some portions of this territory have been in the habit of sucrifi cing the life of one or more slaves on the death of any f their chiefs or medicine men this custom is based on lhe sup position tbat in their spirit laud the ser vices of such slaves are necessary to the comfort and well-being of the departed i and lo avoid the trouble of employing such iu that happy hunting ground tbey dis patch one of his human chattels at the same moment the spirit of the warrior chief takes its upward flight an instance of this occurred here three weeks ago — about ten o'clock at night the sentinel on the palisade gate leading to iudiantown was attracted by the wailing cry of a squaw inquiring the cause of her dis tress she gave him to understand that her son was then tied up preparatory to be ing stabbed — the usual mode of dispatch ing ihem — for the purpose above mention ed the commandant of the post was noti fied and au officer was sent to rescue the intended victim of such barbarity on the officer's arrival a strange sight pre sented itself on a bed lay the dying chief an intelligent looking boy of ten or twelve years of age bound hand and foot looked the incarnation of despair ; around him with drawn knives stood the rela tives of the dying man at whose signal they would he buried in tho vitals of the trembling youth the sombre gloom of the upunmeiit lit up fitfully by the smoul dering lire ; the wild unearthly sound of the tin-tin and wailing death cry of tbe tribe outside the house made up a picture to be appreciated only by a witness of the scene the officer immediately released the boy and brought him to the ganison where he was kept until llie family ofthe departed warrior promised not lo molest him iu future tbis bus been tbo second instance of the kind occurring here since our occupation of the territory — sitka correspondent san francisco bulletin —■ — — -■_— — i — - — — krom the london news a shocking execution dublin thursday night — andrew carr convicted of murdering bis para mour was executed tliis morning within richmond bridewell the drop allowed was fourteen feet from the trap and when the bolt was withdrawn the jerk was so great that the head was instantly severed from the body and tho rope recoiled with force to the trap at the inquest which followed the governor of the prison de posed that the surgeon of the prison was responsible forthe length of the rope used it was used against the governor's own opinion a witness after llie drop fell observed lhe recoil ufthe rope and believing sume accident had occurred went and looked i into the trap anil saw the body lying iii the yard beneath decapitated the bead was iving several feet from it and the blood was pinning iu torrents from the bead and trunk tbe surgeon dr min ebon deposed that he feared the rope was fastened too light ruiiud the neck and this gave greater force to the fall he would not attribute the accident to the thinness of ibe rope although the head wiib as tl anly severed as if by a knife '. but he rathct attributed it to tue tightness of the fastening there was no disease i of tin neck the machinery was in per i feet wi r'ting order . tbe chaplain deposed that tho prisoner complained of the tightness of tho rope saying will you strangle or choke me before my time ?" the jury returned a verdict that the mishap was tho result of accident ■ — _ tt persuasion bettek than foncb ■ deal gently with those who stray draw them back by love and persuion a kiss is worth a thousand kicks a kind word to the lost is more valuable than a mine of gold think of this who would chase to tbo grave an erring brother we must consult the gentlest manner and softest methods of address ; our advice must not fall like a violent storm bearing down and making those to droop whom it is in tended to cherish and refresh it must descend as the dew on tho tender herb or like melting flukes of snow ; the softer it fulls the longer it dwells upon and tho deeper it sinks into iho mind if there are a few who havo the humanity to re ceive advice as they ought it is often bo cause there ure few who have the discre tion to convey it in tho proper way and who can qualify the harshness and bitter ness of reproof against which human na ture is apt to revolt to probe the wound to the bottom with all the boldness and resolution of a good spiritual surgeon and yet with all the delicacy and tenderness of a friend requires a very dexterous and masterly band an affable dtportmeut and complacency of behavior will disarm the most obstinate whereas if instead of calmly pointing out their mistakes we break out into unseemly sullies of pas | sion we cease to have an influence a theory of thunder r s mershon writing in the scientif ic american bays the cause assigned in the text-books for the phenomenon com monly called thunder is neither satisfac tory nor correct in substance it is tbis : the electricity in passing from one i cloud to another or to ihe earth makes a vacuum along its course and what we ' call thunder is the result of the subse quent collision of the divided atmosphere this is perhaps true if we accept it as a statement of a result but i think it af fords a partial explanation only my theory in regard lo this phenomenon is this : the electricity in passing from one cloud to anoiher or to the earth decom poses the water in the cloud iuto its com ponent gasses and the great heat of the electricity ignites and explodm these ga eb and reforms them into waler if something like this does nit occur f an explosion does not take place — i cannot understand why the mere passage of electricity either through the cloud or thu open air should not be quite as noise less as the passage of any sound body would be through either or both of these media the violence of the explosion depends on the volume of the electricity set free and the amount of water decomposed or if a volume of electricity pass through a perfectly dry medium ihere could be no decomposition of water and consequently no de lon a tions and may not the fact that we can see electricity at all depend upon the combus tion of gasses evolved iu the'decomposi tion of water iu the atmosphere . persuasion better than force deal gently with those who stray — draw them back by love and persuasion a kiss is worth a thousand kicks a kind word to tho lost is worth more than a mine j of gold think of this ye who would | chase to the grave an erring brother we [ must consult the gentlest manner and soft ] est methods nf address ; our address must ! nol fall like a violent storm bearing down and making those to droop whom it is in i tended to cherish and rcli-eeli it must i descend as the dew on the tender herb or ' like melting hakes of snow ; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the dcaper it sinks into the mind it there are few who have the humility to receive udvicc as they ought it is often because there are few who havo the discretion to con to convey it in the proper way and who can qualify the nurshncss and bitter ness of reproof against which human na ture is apt to revolt to probe the wound to the boltom with all the boldness and resolution of a good spiritual surgeon and yet with all be delicacy and tenderness of a friend requires a very dexterous and masterly band an affable deportment anil complacency of behaviour will disarm the most obstinate whereas i ii'tead of calmly pointing out their mistakes we break oui into unseemly sallies of pas sion we cease to have any influence a disappointed heiress a cali fornia millionaire recently died and it was supposed bad b li all his property to his only daughter but when the will was i read it proved that he had cut her off without a shilling whereat she become ; so enraged ihat she seized the document . and lore it to pieces it seems that when i she married bomo ten years ago her fath er sworn never to foi give her and while iu this passion made bis will tbey soon became reconciled but it is supposed that be forgot or neglected to destry the old : will antl make another the woman has been indicted aiid is now awaiting trial tho arrangements of nature are ndiuirnhlc exclaimed u young ludt during the hue high winds the mini wind which disarranges our dresses blows dust in the eyes of the wicked young men who would lake advantage of our confusion she was a very philosopicsl girl