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The Norcross Advance. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY SIMMONS & VINCENT. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one year ------ $2.00 ; Five copies “ “ ------ $8.60 Ten 44 44 44 $15.00 —ADVERTISING RATES:— o Spacejl w 2 wi mi ni 6 ml 2 m 17nch|$l 00 $ 1 50$ 2 50,$ 450 $6 001 $lO 00 2 “ 150 2 50| 4 50; 725 ilO 00j 18 00 3 “ 200 300 5 001 9 005 15 001 22 00 4 “ 2SO 3 50' 550 11 00i 18 00 27 00 V 001. 3 (X) 1 425 6 50! 14 00! 25 00 35 00 U “ 550 800 12 50 25 00! 40 00 50 00 I “ 10 00l 15 00 15 00: 22 00“ 62 00j 100 00 Advertisements less than one-tourth of a column to be charged for by the square —for first insertion $1 00 and for each sub sequent insertion 50 cents. Special con tracts er n be made where short advertise auents are inserted for a longer period than thr e months. One inch shall consti tute a s< .rate. >L» i; ge notices and obituaries, ex ceeding six lines, will be charged for as advent enirnts. Personal or abusive communications will not be inserted at any price. <*<-mnninleatinns of general or local in terest, under a genuine signature, are respectlully solicited from any source. SIMMONS & VINCENT, Pub’s. J. £ ALLEN D. C. JONES £&&&s■ LOW PRICES! HAV’N just received a new stock of goeds, we mean business when we say we intend to sell them cheap for cash. Our stock is now complete, and we would respectfully ask our friends and the publie generally t.) call and examine our goods before purchasing elsewhere. We call especial a" tention to the following lines of goods, which we have priced to suit the times. DRY GOODS. Calicos Bleaching, Shirting and Sheeting, Osn.d urgs, Drilling, Jeans and Cassi meres, Cambric, Poplins, Japanese Cloth, Black Alpacca, White and Bed Flannel, Opera Flannel, Bed Ticking, Stripes, Shawls, and Gloves, Hose and Half Hose, Lady’s and Gent’s Collars, Coats’ Thread, Balmorals Towels, Sash, Belt and Trimming Ribbons, And other things too numerous to mentior . GROCERIES. ! j' Bacon. Flour, Meal, Molasses, Syrup Sugar, Coffee, 8. C. Harns, Lard, Sult, Soap, Sinoldng and Chewbig Tobacco, Kerosene Oil, Starch, Soda, Pepper, Can dy, Mate h< s, < 'andles, etc. Table and Pocket Cutlery, Crockery and Glasswaie. SHOES. Gent’s Calf Boots, Gent’s Calf Shoes, Gent’s Kip Bools, Boy’s Kip Bregans Gent’s Kip Brogans, Boy’s Buff Shoes, Lady’s Cflt Short, (pegged), Lady’s Cloth Gaiters, I -uly’sCulf Shoes, (sewed,) Lady's Half ('lot' Gaiters, Ladys Morocco Shoes; Children’s Whose. A nice assortment of Men’s, Boy’s and Lady’s Huts. We rare also on hand a aelirt assort ment of Drugs, which we are offering cheap. * Give ns a call at Lively, McElroy & Co’s ohl stand, end bear in mind that it is no trouble t.i show our goods. But we sei, only for rash. sept 19U< ALLEN * JONES. L. A. JACKSON, DKALEIt IN DRY GOODS, ('ROCKERY, TIN WARE. CONFECTIONERIES and other articles usually found in a eouu- ; ry store. Everything sold at “SMALL PROFITS.” I ~* • I Everything sold as cheap as the cheapest. ! Country | tod tee taken in exchange for ' fftOCXtilE S ! or anything in my line of business. A literal tmronage solicited from those I "ho wish u- buy to the best advantage. Matvosses! Matresses I I will keep constantly on hand, for sale, j M itreom* made of the' best materia!, and I of anv ata* A gmxt fort' qmuna matress fvrs.\M). ind other sbea priced accordingly ! O.di r» .vsbevlfnlh wslleiUaL L A. JA OK SON. Northwest <w. FtHH'Mree atiwt Norvroes, G*. i July 11. ISTA TO IBB* OB FOB The undersigned offer* to rent or sett ! hi* houwe ami l«»r, in the town of X crerre*. situate on the Xortherst oirwr of l'ea< U. tree and Mtt.hr fl Street*, t v.wnt store rwotn "I 1 the corner connected with the j dW*dlhut*h«*ua<K Dwetlhu has six rooms ' w ilh three Stv-places. This is mw of the . test stand* to sell gvsxla there 1- In the * place, it teU»g. ua the street the tttoal at < the trade .'omes In at. and fat emuisli > from the railroad ao Ute va-'iae will m i scare the ImheV horses. Any «isi*. ia.c iv imrehnte rent »»««* do a oil u». ghc me a call. John *. JiMK*. Xorvro**. Octoier i«. THE NORCROSS /ADVANCE BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. -NORCROSS, GA., I'IIIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 187:;. VOL. 1.-N0- 15. ' '' n T—- I. .. . ■ .... AN OLD. SONG AS GOOD AB NEW. A correspondent of the New York Eve ning Post to mind the following verses, which were written some fifty-eight years since, when the Congress of the United States undertook to pass a law in creasing the salary of its members to twelve dollars per day. The reproduction of the song may please some of our readers, and will show to the young generation what a shining light was lost to our ancestors in not having Ben. Butler to advocate their cause: Ob! wont you lit-ar What roaring cheer Was spent by Johnny Congress, O! And how so gay They doubled their pay, Aud doubled the people’s taxes, O! There was Clay the scold, And Johnson the bold, Who did not shoot Tecumseh, O! And Ormsby and Lowndes, A.II as eager as bounds On the scent of the loaves and fisiies, 0! Arrah ! by my soul, it would make your heart leap for grief to hear the poor sol diers begging for their pay, the widows tor their pensions, aud the officers for new loans, while all the members are drinking and singing merrily. '1 welve dollars a day, Twelve dollars a day, Twelve dollars a day’s the dandy, O! There was Clay in the chair With bis flax-colored hair, A singing tlie tax bit 1 cheerily, .O! And smiled as the rabble So loudly did gabble, The audience scarcely slumber, O! It was aye, it was no, ’’Twas too high, ’twas too low— They ayes will rise, and the Speaker, O! And quickly arose Two eyes to a nose, And the salary bill was carried, O! Yes! by my soul! they unanimously dis agreed upon every question except the salary bill. Gentlemen, order. This bill proposes to give us all a yearly salary of fifteen hundred dollars, and myself three thousand. Shall it pass ? Ay! ay! ay! The ayes have it, therefore they aSI begin to sing, I'welvc dollars a day, Twelve dollars a day, Twelve dollars a day’s the dandy, O! But och! by my shoul. They all star’d like an owl, When the people all hissed the ditty, O! Said Clay, we’re all broke, They don’t relish the joke tt The devil has got in the rabble, O! We have put on their backs ? A mountain of tax, An army, a bank, et cetera, O! Which so tamely Uiey’liore, ’1 hat we all could liuve swore They were perfectly broken to the halter, O! How shall wc creep out of this scrape? says one. Says Clay, I will pei-suade the people that twelve dollars a day is too little to support myself and my wife. Says Hardin, I’ll turn the thing off in a joke. Bays Ormsby, 1 beg pardon of my constituents, and promise' never to do the like again. 44 Well done, my lads!” says Johnson, and so they all began to sing again, Twelve dollars a day, Twelve dollars a day, Twelve dollars a day’s the dandy, O ! [Savannah Morning News. A BEAUTIFUL STORY. There is a beautiful story in ancient poetry. A great warrior, the hero ol Troy, clad in tierce armor, stretches out his arms to embrace his child before lie goes to the field of battle. The child is afraid of the dazzling helmet and nodding crest, and stern war like aspect of his father and ! shrinks back in terror and alarm, j But there is a loving, tender I heart beating within that p:ino j ■ ply of steel. The father unbinds ; ■ his glittering hehuvt; lays aside ' i his fierce armor, aud comes lo his child with outstretched arms ' I and tender words of love. Th ■ I child shrinks from him no lon* ! ger, but runs' lo his "arms, pillows I its head upon his bosom, and re I ceives his parting embrace and , kiss. So men are afraid of God j when _he appears in his majesty and terribleness. They think of | his omnipotence, his glory, the ' lawfulness of his throne, the ter ! twsof his justice, and shrink back | j front him. But as this father laid aside his fierce armor, and came ' to his child in all the tenderness of paternal affection, <o God veils his glory, and splendor, and awful* nvss, and reveals himself to his ' I children in the sweetest aspect of I love. A drug clerk who put up poison | i for quinine took the matter very coolly, saying that the victim was : old and would have died in a few j years any .teh,.*.*,-J- 4rfiiii.ij Ai' * Tuk married ladies of a AVes tern city have formed “a Com tv home husband club.” It is about four teet long and has a brush on the eml of it, Norcrcss SaMith School Association. A GRAND GALA DAY. A NEW ERA IN SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK INAUGURATED —ENRAPTUR- ING MUSIC HON. H. P. BELL’S ADDRESS.’ L•‘•st Friday was a gala day with the people of Norcross and vicinity. The heavens were cloudless, and the superfluous glory of a Southern sun mellowed the? gentle, breezes that were waft d from the crystal waters of the Chattahoochee. As early as eight o’clock the sound of horses hoofs and carriage wheels greeted our ex pectant citizens from every-street. Crowd after crowd came; Sabba‘h Schools rallied around their exquisitely wrought banners, and at ten o clock a column of s?lx or seven hundred people were seen marching and counter-marching along Peachtree street. A little later they gathered at the arbor prepared for the occasion. Each Sabbath School occupied separate positions. On the right of the rostrum was Prospect School, with banner inscribed 44 HE FIRST LOVED US.” In front and to the right was Trinity (three schools under one banner) with motto: “(SOD BLESS THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS.” I'irectly in -front was Norcross School with motto: “the LORD IS OUR SHEPHERD.” In front and to the right was Winter’s School, witliout banner. Directly to the left was Warsaw School, with motto: “in the name of our god we set up our BANNER.” At ten. apd a half o’clock Hon. 11. H. Vl alker, President of the Association, • arose upon the rostrum and announced the i programme. first was singing by all ■ the schools.c TWb’ sang “ Beautiful River,” led by Mr. NV«mich, of Prospect—one of the best singer/ we have ever heard. Think of three or fiiiir hundred men, women and children standing amidst forest oaks pour ing forth their voices in perfect accord on the exquisite “Beautiful River.” Not a semblance of affectation could be detected. It was nature’s noblemen pouring their whole souls into the song, aud how en* rapturing the harmonies as they rang out and echoed amid the forest oaks and adoivn the valleys. Succeeding a brief but excellent address of welcome by Rev. G. E. Gardner, the lion. 11. P. Bell, member of Congress elect, was introduced. We regret onr inability to give his mo t excellent address in full. We attempt a synopsis of his leading ideas, as follows; Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlcm n : i am glad to be with you ou this au s spicious occasion. We meet not to cele ( I brate but to inaugurate one of the grandest - eras in the history of Sabbath School or t ; ganlzations. We meet around religion’s s ■ consecrated altar, where denominational ( | distinctions are obliterated. We meet to , ! identify our efforts and interests, and from I. . . I I this identification will spring the exaltation of our Sabbath School labors. My friends, we live in an eventful age— eventful in inventions and discoveries; eventful in thought, in material and mental advancement, and in the grandest human achievements ev r known to the world. We have lived to see the Pacific united to the Atlantic—“to see the globe bound in : the ‘mystic meshes’ of the telegraph, and thought speed on the lightning’s wing over continents and under seas. Our neighbors | stand on the Pacific coast and read the I great speeches of Gladstone and Disraeli j hours before they are delivered in the I Biitish Parliament.” Our age is eventful in great problems in politics, science, society and church. I Change and discontent mark even- phase I of our era. The volcanic powers of human passion are struggling for an outlet, and ■ revolution sudden and wild ca*ts its shadows ! | thick and fast over the entire inhabited I world. Witness, here in our own land, the I grandest fabric of Republican government I merging into a deS|M>tism —the encroach- i ments on Constitutional Liberty, and grasp I j the great problem here of equality of races. ; This last comes hnmc to ns for sohition, and I, for one, am for their separation by j a gulf as wide as that which separated Dives from Lazarps, In some of our States legislate n has ! meddh'd with the sacred bonds of mar- , ring'. The preaa amusee itself more with j divorce cases than with the causes pro- j I duetivc of social and moral reformMion, I and yet, to us, these social and moral qnes-! j lions are paramount. Huxley, Sj>encer ' and Darwin are endeavoring to rule God i i out of tLe universe*, and put instead thereof i j a cold tn at erial iwn—a blind force that ’ ■ would undermine our social fabric nd an \ i uihilatc our social iu.>iitution of marriage. i which is the bond that unites Mx-ivty to- ! ; getber, and which must be pn served, i transru-tted and perpetuated. I AH reformaiioa inNtate or ehurdi spring | from a corrvapoudlng social and moral re fonualkrtj; h< nee if we would reform our ; i government and church we mu*t primarily I use tte instrum nU iti>.» found in the' ' parental relation, and to this subject I In- i ! die y w attention. God has b!'-ss*-d parents with children, j No nejM’**iWl?ty is so littk appreciatad. j The utiFs. rv iss not only the matrix of mea j and womeig but it is also the matrix in ’ i which arc. Wm ideas and character- i istfes that distwgnish mtn and women as 1 good and had. I will give a “few simple! ■ ■" " " ■ ■■ I I I' ur ni „ ■ rules to be observed in the nurseiy, as it offers the best field for mpral and social reformation. First. Begin at an early period It is a mistake to wait three or four The child a month old is a miniature man or woman. Second. Subordinate the will of your child to your will. Demand Those who have obeyed know how to com mand. Your authority is supreme. Never dispute with a child, or you yield the con test. A boy that never obeys v ill, «hen a man, disregard the" laws of GoTf and con temn the regard of men. Third. Set a good example. Never do a thing not commendable.' Children watch your every movement, and naturally imi tate you. Fourth. Never deceive j air children. Reward if you promise to; if you promise to punish. Fifth. Cultivate familiarity with your children. Answer their many little ques tions. Play with them, no odd', how sim ple their garneS. IL. merry with them; you thus give them at home what they seek from home, and what they- generally find in bad association. Sixth. Don’t deny gratifica tion. Children have hopes. They “castles in the air,” which hould not lie crushed by parental indifference. They put all their affections on little idols, which should not be denied them. We old folks remember when our hearts were crushed by our parents refusing to give us some little toy. Get your boy a pooLet knife or I a tool chest. Get your daughter ribbons or a set of furniture for her play-house. It loops your children to you.' Nothing i else will answer the purpose. '“Train up a child in the way he shoukl go, etc ” Proper discipline in the nursery gives the government law abiding citizens. The Sabbath School is in impor tance to the nursery. It has superior ad vantages. What are they ? First. You can carry your children to Sabbath School when they are very young— too young to send to secular schools, hut ' not too young to receive lasting impres sions. Second. It is the cheapest school. It is literally without money aud without price. Third. It makes available the associa tions of time and place. As to plact', men I don’t feel in the ball room lik -th y do in 1 the church. In the Sabbitb School we meet around God’s altar—where';!, sweet est reminiscences and pur. st thinights cltis- i ter—where our happy hearts beat in unison j with the happy hearts of Dur dehrest | friends. The atmosphere Ifs If is piwus. : As to time, in the me t [ on the Holy Sabbath memories gather about us. W ■ think of the crucifixion of Christ; we think of His ' great mission; we see God building crea tion and caring for its end. We read <>f > the disciples and of the good of old. Such : thoughts d -velop our moral nature :uud pu rify •our I eing. Fourth. The text book used in Sabbath . Schools is without equal. The demoustra- j ' tions of Euclid, the reasonings of Locke, I and the speculations of Bacon, are of no 1 ’ avail in death. The Bible is the oldest history, the wisest philosophy, the best law and the sweetest poetry known to men. 1 This is the text book of Sabbath Schools, 1 and it is a shame that the Cincinnati Board of Education has ostracized the Bible from the public schools. My judgment is that i there would be fewer wrecks of manhoixl ' ! and womanhood if the Bible were a uni -1 versal text book. I recapitulate then by sa ing that the grandest auxiliaries of social and moral re form are to be found in the instruction of the niwsery and Sabbath School. In con clusion I congratulate you on this effort in behalf of Sabbath Schools. It is a united • effort. There are here no denominational I distinctions, but “in the name of our G d we set up our banner.” This organization lis based iqum a common platform. Let us not be content with its inauguration, j but let us resolve to perpetuate it. Now, children, what can I say to you I You are in the hey-day of joyous youth. ' In life’s journey you’ll find thorns, trials | and troubles. Character is formed and i destiny sealed in early childhood. Bad ' men and bad women come from dtsobedi- . ent children. The boys who fish on th? ■ , Sabbath, who swear and lie, who disn gnrd : j their parent’s advice, and mock at the ! warnings and admonitions of the aged, make the men who fill our jqijs and hang . upon onr gallows. Let uot the aua< ou;la coils of vice encircle you. Plant youiwlves < : upon the granite foundation of truth. ; ! 1 emptations overcome will straigth. n you It is not all of l.fe to live*. Get all you can 1 i and keep ull y-uget is miserly. It woHt • do. Our hearts must be Open to eluu itab’e l impulses. Our hands must b? ready for good deeds. We are identifi 1 in al! onr intent's. We must org.miz-.* and uaite al! ' our fore sin the cans, of the go-4 aiwl the true. Duty's path leads o happintw. By { I following it in death we will bj happy that, i we can give up a gotxl life. This is biff a partial syn psis of C June! : Bell’s speech. The Lmgu.g. is ours, but : the ideas are lt:s. lie sp >k.: only fifty-one : i minutes, but every s<a‘ u v. pr. _r:::ra. .. i with thought, and every g •stare promptwi ‘ I by- burning pathos. Whan Iw eor.i-hule.i t the largr* amlience showed th it thev re- i garded the orator of the d y more tfen ' equal to the occasion. The Colonel has “an army of the reserve.” Tn bis gr al st • efforts he seems fajiheaX from exlmuttiou. ' After his speech <Mtme the big basket » dinner, after which the audi. i.< re-as-, m- , bled, and the schools alt mated in gingu»g t icir choice-I songs. This teporter iu- 1 tended to listen at'entlvely and here give i the palm to the school tha' excelled ; but < just as the singing began he was informed ! that the President wished to see him upon the rostrum. lie went up, wh reupon he ! was informed that in fifteen minutes he 1 would be oal'ed upon to make a fifteen ‘ minute’s speech. What! a newspaper re- * porter eiiflpd upon ujth only fifteen minifies warning to make a fifteen minute’s speech to an assemblage of some seven or eight hundrid people? Y'es, and he w;g> called, ( and it scared him so badly that he remcm- * bers .nothing that occurred afterwards except Rev. Mr. Wooten, in ins speech, said something about a *s.tmon in an augur hole, and lion. J. P. Simmons’ remark that the thought that had engaged his at tention .most during the day w„s that there were so many pretty girls present. MOSLEM AFRICA. When the Romans conquered Cartilage they were assisted by the native chiefs; andattirstit appeared as if Africa would be come a civilized province in the fashion of Spain and Gaul. Ber ber regiments served in the army; Berber princes were educated in Rome, and soon became distin guished as historians and philoso phers, But the desert was im pregnable,and contin’ually poured fresh hordes upon the Tell, or cu] tivated land. In Algeria, the Ro mans were strongly established, and the ruins of tin ir outposts are yet to be seen far away inland. But in Morocco they were set tled on the coas 4 . Algeria was wisely and temperately govern ed under the republic; and ('iuyro describes it as a peaceful prov ince ; but when the bad days of the empire came.it was degra ded to a corn Geld, and was forced to feed, at its own expense, the Roman lazaroni. The governor:'. ; biteame satraps, the great land owners were accused of <-ouspifa cy, that their estates might es-j cheat to the crown, mid tli<> peo ; i pie were liillde agricultural serfs. ; Moreover, the wi'd region be- I tween the Tell and the Sahara i contained the game,-j>L serves of I Rome. The lion wa-da rdyal boast; : licensed to feed on the c.itt'.e of i :he and on the shopherd ( himself if it preferred him. When the Arabs invaded Afri ! ca. they did not merely settle on the coast. This people, neemstom | ed to deserts,conquered the whole country; but they also added persuasion to force, recognized J the Berbers as their .kinsmen, de- j dared them to be Arabs i’» their 1 origin, and allured them to accept 1 the mission of the prop’iet. The , two races mingled, and thus the ination of the Moors was formed. ! At that tune the Jews abounded in Barbary ; their brethren across the straits were being persecuted ' by the Christian Goths; and the African Jews, it is said, instigated the invasion of Spain. The Moors treated with indulgence the Eu ropeaus whom they conquered, and acquired the arts of the Ro mans and the Greeks. Andalu sia civilized Africa; and the city of Morocco became the rival ol Cordova and Seville. Between the literary men of the two coun tries an amiable, uuntrover.-y ; would often arise as to which i might claim pre eminence in the ( learning and the arts, and it ap- ! pears to have been allowed that Morocco was not inferior to Spain. , The existence of a civilized North Africa soon made its inllu- i ence felt across the (.eserl. The 1 1 camel was unknown in Cartilage, and but rarely employed in lhe|. Roman days; but now tkese ani-i, ma’s were introduced in thousands ’ and the Sahara voyage could be 1 made with comparative facility. 1 Arab travelers of piety and learn- j * ing took up their abode in Ibe Soudan, and the Moslem mission work commenced. Mo. que* aud i 1 scl:o ds. palace-i with glass win dows and painted walls, spraug 1 , up on the banks ol the Niger, 1 1 and the glone of Granada were i • reflected at Timbuuloo. I . Negro nations were speedily ’ converted ; crusades were waged ' against the paeans; and negro i Moslems, in turban and tobe,con- 1 verted pagaii kingdoms, as the < ‘ Arabs had con verted Tiinbuetoo. I 4 ihits the work was continued | Irani century to century, and thus i , it is still going on. fn Cairo ami ’ Constantinople Elam may appear ' to be decaying; but in the heartJ <l of Africa it is young, vigorous.. a victorious, as in the early days. ; iae negroes, mi ler the influ-! n ence of thi« and its ac companying laws, appear to be an altered people, Restric tions are placed on polygamy and slavery ; the position of the wife is elevated; drunkenness and gambling are abolished; clusters of wretched huts have given place to with’mu nicipal governments; immense regions have been opened up to travel and to trade. A large part of the Soudan has, in fact, ceased ’ to be African, and has become Asiatic. The inhabitants are black, but their laws, manners, and religion, are no longer those of the negroes, but of the Arabs. Their minstrels are men who go about chanting verses of the Ko ran through the nose; their fet ishmen are saintly adventurers, who travel from chief to chief and from city .to city, writing phy lacteries and charms. Thousands of pious negroes make every year the pilgrimage to Mecca. Many perish on the road, and many re turn.from the Holy City in a very ; unholy frame of mind; for, as the Tartars say of Mecca, “ The torch is dark at its foot;” and it was written by the Ovid of Arabia : “I s?t out in the hopes of lightening my sins And returned bringing home with me a fn-sh load of transgressions.” Bui the very wickedness of Mecca deepens real enthusiasm into severity and wrath; and ev-, ery year there is a steadv back water of bigotry into Tartary, British India, and the Soudan; the most distant lands being al-, ways the most devout, as in Ori ental empires (he outlying prov inces always pay most taxes to the crown. Vfinwood Geade'a .1 frican SAetch-bcok. In the year 1785, the captain of a Greenland whaling vessel found himself at n’ght surrounded by icebergs, and had to “lay to” until morning,expecting every moment to be groiwi 1 io pieces. In the morning he looked about and saw a ship near by. He hailed it, but r. ceiv .d no an.s'wrr. Gutting into a boat with some of his compan ions, he pu died out for the m/s --torio.is craft. Coming alongside the vessel, he saw through the port hole a man *at a table, as though keeping a log-book, fro zen to death. The last date in the log book was 1772, showing that t ie vessel had been drifting for thirteen years among the ice. iiie sailors were found, some irozen among the hammocks and others in the cabin. For thirteen years this ship had been carrying its burden f corpses- a drifting sepulchre maimed by a frozen crew. Cupboards and Pantkies. —Pantry shelves should be wiped off every day that no ciuralis of bread or cake be left there on which the Hut may feed and thrive, Let them lie neatly (overed with clean paper, fancifully notched and made to look tidy. Tiiis cunning little fashioned that originated with our nice German help is a yin-tty device, and well worthy of imita tion Don t let anything stand long in your ( upb< art’—cook but a litt.e at a time in hot weather, aud let that be nutritious, Cooling and binlthful. And keep nothing on yonr pantry shelves that you do not tw daily. If an old funnel, or a broken t-ipot, or damn ;od fruit can stand there to mak<* roost for tWe dozing flics, carry it off to the wood shed or th- play bouse and let civan space be where it was. If your shelves are “f'uttcred ” just go to work now, much of the rubbish accumulated there is worthless. A Remaenable Coincidence.— she Nitshville Hanner says But ler, of B >ston, ami the Balloon at Brooklyn, “busted” the same day, there being too much inflation in etch case. The difference between Butler andthe B tlloon.i; that But ler “went up,” and the Balloon didn’t. A man addicted to snoring re marked to his bed-fellow in the monii’ig that he slept “like a top,” -I know it.” said the Other—“like a humming' top.” “JL><>n*t worry about my going away darling. Absence you know, makes the heart grow fonder.” "Oi somebody else,' added the i dailing. An Olii-i jury cf jnqwst rendered aver- I .lict that a suicide came to his death “by ■ voluntarily drowning hiius-If,’’ If he had , tone it involuntarily, they npght have let > , rim off, j ( t are not for that which you can j ] icvcr possess. • < THE FAMILY LETTER. HOW THE MATERIALS ARE PROCURED —HOW THEY ARE USED—WHAT BE COMES OF THE RESULT. I’roni the Danbury News. ] The family letter is written on Sunday. The reason that day is selected is not alone because of the leisure it presents. The quiet of the day—its relief from all in fluences that irritate or agitate, frees the mind from irrelevant and antagonistic matter, and makes it pre-eminently a fit oc casion for communing with the loved ones. In nine cases out of ten the letter is writt en by the head of the family, and of those sent an equal proportion is ad dressed to his wife’s folks. We don’t know ndiy it is a man so rarely write.® to his own folks, but as it is not the province of this article to treat on that subject, we will pretend we don’t care. The hour being selected for indit ing the letter, the first thing is to find the paper. There is always a drawer in every well regula ted family for keeping such things. It is either in the table or stand. Here the writing pa per and old screws and “fiddle strings and broken locks and fish lines aud grocery receipts are i kept. There may be other things, if there are he will see them.— Ihe sheet of paper is finally found,the fly stains neatly scraped off, and search commences for the ink and pen. The former is inva riably found on the mantle next to the clock*, and is immediate ly laid on the table convenient to the perspiring man, who sarcas tically enquires if the letter is to be written to day or next Sun day. This inspires the good wile with new zeal in the search.— She goes over the drawer again, because she knows he wouldn’t see anything if it was right un der his nose, but the pen is not there. Then she looks over the top of the bureau, and lifts every thing on the top of the front room table, aud says it seems so sin gular it can’t be found, when she saw it only the day before, and thought about the letter. Tiien she goes into the pantry, and af ter exploringJhe lower shelf in vain, stands up on a chair and carefully goes over the top shelf, wheie tire medim-He bottles aud unused cans are stationed. Af ter sho has done this she starts and pretty soon returns with the pen, and take-* it to the sink to wash the grease from it, but does not succeed in quite effacing the delicate scent of bergamot.— Tiiis leads him to observe that anybody who takes a pen-holder to lift hair-grease from a bottle is too pure and innocent for this world. Everything now in readi ness, good humor is restored, the wife takes a seat opposite, with her elbows on tlie table, and her chin in her hands,and assumes an expression of conn enance that is mysteriously calculated to both encourage and repress the writer; and lie grasps the pen tightly be tween his fingers, and stares at the paper witiian intensity that is entirely unnecessary. The date line starts off glibly, and then suddenly ceases as it reaches the date itself. He puts the hold er in iris mouth and immediately spits it out again,making up a face that is no wise suggestive of ber gamot and pettislrly asks her if she knows the day of the month. Os course she does. It is the 13th - or it is the—but no-it m ist be. She hesitates, starts at him, wa vers, and is She don’t know whether it is the 13th or 18th, but tne almanac will tell, and she at once starts to hunt it up. This occasions a delay of fifteen min utes, during which he makes nine ty-five passes at one fly. The date having been satisfactorilv se tied upon,and the things which roried over the floor as that stand drawer unexpectedly fell out, having been restored to their place, the date line is completed and ‘Dear Mother” started. The pen is a home pen of bashful mould, and whenever it starts a line it requires half a dozen pas to make it give down. All home pens do this. And all home -neets of paper have weak spots which tlie ink refuses to cross thus creating some remarkable di vision ol words, and considerablo contusion among sentehcea, spots are two inches in diamotor, and anybody in tiie next room can tell the moment tlie writer comes to them, just as well as if <in Was over his shoulder. ” hen ih i le ter is completed, wfiich (generally occurs at the iend if t ie fifth hour from the I commencement, it is carefully read over, and supplied with ab sent words, and then gone over again an 1 ar.isficaliy fuuvhcrd up r v ' J, h the pen at lhe bn re places. Lien jt is folde.l up reiifly for the envelope, m jf | there tlie dis covery is made that there is no envelope in the house, and tho letter is tucked in behind the clock until the waul is supplied.