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PROFESSIONAL. CARDS.
SHANNON & WORLEY,
ATT ORNEYS A T LAW,
ELBERTON, GA.
\YJ ILL PRACTICE IN HIE COURTS OF
* \ the Northern Circuit and Franklin county
attention given to collections.
J. S. BARNETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELBERTON, GA.
.IO!3\ T. OSKOR\,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
ELBEkTON, GA.
WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS
and Supreme Court. Prompt attention
to the collection of claims. nevl7 ly
Ij, j. cartrell,
AT T O 11N E Y AT L AW,
ATLANTA, GA,
PRACTICES IN' THE UNITED STATES ClR
cuit and District Cos arts at Atlanta, and
Supreme and Superior Courts of the State.
ELBERTON UI SIVESS LAUDS.
J. A. WREN,
PHOTOGRAPHIC.ARTIST
Hus located fora short time at
DR. EDMUNDS’ GALLERY,
ELBERTON. GA.
WHERE he isprepaiedto execute every class
of work in his line to the satisfac
tion of all who bestow their patronage Confi
dent of his ability to please, he cordially invites
a test of his skill, with the guarantee that it he
does act p iss a critical inspection it need not be
taken. mch24.tf.
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Copying & Enlarging Old Pictures
T. J. BOWMAN & CO*,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
ELIIERTON GA.
\T7 ILL attend to the business of effecting
VV sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE
as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS.
Applicatiors should be made to T. J
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LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES, j
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J. F. -ATILT)
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ELBEIITOft, GEORGIA.
WITU,GOOD \YORKMEN!
LOWEST PRICES!
CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTIONS TO
BUSINESS. AND AN EXPERIENCE
OF 27 YEARS,
lie hopes by honest and fair dealing t.o compete
any other manufactory.
Good Buggies, warrantod, * $125 to $l6O
REPAIRING AND BLACKS MIT lIING.
Work done in this line in the very best style.
Tlie Best Harness
TERMS CASH.
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J. M. BA n FIELI>,
TH i: REAL LIVE
Fashionable Tailor,
Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s 3toro,
ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
BtaTCall and See Him.
TLIE ELBERTON
DRUG STORE
H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor.
Has always on hand a full line of
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
Makes a specialty of
STATIONERY and
PERFUMERY
Anew assortment of
WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES
Plain and fancy. just received, including a sup
ply of LEGAL CAP.
CIGARS ANII TOBACCO
of all varieties, constantly on hand.
F. A. F. NOBLETT,
mmim mason,
ELBERTON, GA.
Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK
anywhere in Elbert county [jel6 Cm
CENTRAL HOTEL
MRS. W. M THOMAS,
PROPRIETRESS,
AUGUSTA GA
w. H. ROBERTS,
CARPENTER & BUILDER
ELBERTON; GA.
I HAVE LOCATED IN ELBERTON WHERE
I will be prepared to do all work in my line
a3 cheao as any good workman can afford. Con
tracts respectfully solicited
gfgg- Shop on the vest side of and near the
jail.
eoffitiK Made Order.
THE GAZETTE.
New Series.
POETICAL.
the game of cards.
This life is but a game of cards,
Which mortals hare to learn ;
Each shuffles, cuts and deals the pack,
And each a trump doth turn ;
Some bring a high card to the top,
And others bring a low,
Some hold a hand quite flush of trumps.
While others none can show.
Some shuffle with a practiced l and,
And pack their cards with care,
So they may know when they are dealt
Where all the leaders are.
Thus fools are made the dupes of rogues,
While rogues each other cheat,
And he is very wise indeed
Who never meets defeat.
When playing, some throw out the ace,
The counting cards to save,
Some play the tfiuce, and some the ten,
But many play the knave ;
Some play for money, some for fun,
And some for worldly fame,
But not until the game’s played out
Can they count up the game.
When hearts are trumps we play fur love
And pleasure rules the hour,
No thoughts of sorrow check or joy
In beauty’s rosy bower;
We sing, we dance, sweet verses make,
Our cards at random play.
And while our trumps remain on top
Our game’s a holiday.
When diamonds chance to crown the pack
The players stake their gold,
And heavy sums are lost and won
By gamblers young and old :
Intent on winning, each his game
Doth watch with eager eye
How he may see his neighbor’s cards
And beat him on the sly.
When clubs are trumps, look out for war
On ocean and on land,
For bloody horrors always come
When clubs are held in hand ;
Then lives- are staked instead of gold,
The dogs of war are treed—
Across the broad Atlantic now, ,
See, clubs have got the lead 1
Last of qJH-is when the spade'
Is tnrrted by hand of Time;
He always seals the closing game
In every age and clime.
No matter how much each man wins,
Or how much each man saves,
The spade ..ill finish up the game
And dig the players’ grave.
SMITHEESON.
A military looking gentleman got off
the train at Vaiden, the other evening,
and stepping up to a party by the name
of Johnson, who was standing near by,
eagerly inquired :
“Excuse me, sir, but is your name
Smitherson
“No sir, my name is Johnerson.”
“Do you know of any Stnithersons
hereabouts ?”
Smitherson, Smitherson—can’t say
that I ever heard the name before.
Step over with me to Bell’s saloon, and
perhaps well hud someone there who
can give information.”
Over to Bell’s they went. The bar
room was full, and the inquiry went
round
“Bell, do you know any Smtherson ;
Tom do you know one Smitherson ?" and
so on. Not a single acquaintance of
Smitherson’s could be found. The
stranger seemed very anxious to find
Smitherson ; and, as he left the saloon,
a crowd followed him, rumor having
got afloat, (no doubt taking its rise
from the military air of stranger,) that
a revenue officer was in search of a
Government defaulter, or a crooked
whisky man. Up the street the crowd
wended its way, stopped in front of
Hirsh’s Hotel. By this time the entire
town was aroused. “Smitherson” was
on every lip. Mothers clasped their
breasts and rushed towards the hotel.
Negroes gazed anxiously at each other,
and contorted their lips into the sem
blance of an old-fashioned wdod burn
ing engine funnel’ dissipated by a late
collision, in their endeavor to pronounce
the word “Smitherson.” Almost the
entire town was now gathered about the
stranger, and, as he opened his lips,
you could have heard a hog’s br’stle
light on a bale of cotton.
“Friend,” said he, “is there not a
single man, woman, or child, in this
assemblage, who is acquainted with one
“Smitherson “?’’
A dead silence followed.
“No one knows Smitherson, eh ?
Then my mission is at an end. It’s of
no consequence ; I merely asked out of
curiosity. I was once looking over a
New York city directory, when I came
across the name Smitherson. Seemed to
me a strange name and I was curious
enough to find out if any one by the
name of “Smitherson” existed in these
parts. I am now inclined to think that
there is not.
When the crowd ascertained that the
stranger was merely a Bohemian ed tor
on a drunk, they dropped their brick
bats and allowed him to go in peace.—
Carrollton Conserrvative.
Half the people who are making this
uproar over the exclusion of the Bible
from the public schools couldn't tell on
their own responsibility whether the
book of Genesis was written by St. Paul
or Hamlet.
ESTABLISHED 1859.
ELBERTOY, GEORGIA, FEB'Y 23. 187.*.
PRESIDENT DAVIS’ REPLY TO GENER
AL LEE'S LETTER RESIGNING
HIS COMMISSION.
Richmond, Va., Aug. 11, 1863.
Gen. R E. Lee Commanding Army of
Northern Virginia:
Yours of the Bth has just been receiv
ed. lam glad that you concur so en
tirely with me as to the wants of our
country in this trying hour, and happy
to add that, afler the first depression
consequent upon our disasters m the
west indications have appeared that onr
people will exhibit fortitude which we
agree in believing is alone needful to se
cure ultimate success.
It well became Sidney Johnson, when
overwhelmed by a senseless clamor to
admit the rule that success is the test of
merit, and yet there has been nothing
which I have found to require a greater
effort of patience than to hear the criti
cisms of the ignorant who always pro
nounce everything a failure which does
not equal their expectations or desires,
and c,n see no good results which is not
in the line of their own imaginings. I
admit the propriety of your conclusions,
that an officer who loses the confidence
of iiis troops should have his position
changed, whatever may be his ability,
but when I reau the sentence 1 was not
at all prepared for the application you
were about to make. Expressions of
discontent in the public journals, furn
ish but little evidence of the sentiment
of an army. I wish it were otherwise,
even though the abuse of myself should
be accepted as tho result of honest ob
servation.
Were you capable of stooping to it,
you could easily surround youiself with
those who would fill the press with
your laudations, and seek to exalt you
fox' what you had not done rather than
detract from the achievements which
will make you and your army the sub
ject of history and object of the world's
admiration for generations to come.
lam truly sorry to know that yc u
still feel the effects of the illness you
suffered last spring, and can resdily un
derstand the embarrassments you expe
rienced in using this eyes of others, hav
ing been so much accustomed to make
your own reconnoisances. Practice will,
however, do much to relieve that em
barrasment, and the minute kuovdodge
of the country which you had acquired,
will render you less dependent for to
pographical information.
But suppose, my dear friend, that I
were to admit, with all their applica
tions, the points which you present,
where am I to find the new commander
who is to possess the greater ability
which you believe to be required ? Ido
not doubt the readiness v.ith which you
would give way to one who could ac
complish all that you have wished, and
you will do me the justice to believe
that, if Providence should kindly offer
such a person for our use, I would not
hesitate to avail [myself] of his services.
My sight is not sufficiently penetra
ting to discover such hidden merit, if it
exists, and I have but used to you the
language of sober earnestness, when I
have impressed upon you the propriety
of avoiding all unnecessary exposure to
danger, because I felt our country could
not bear to lose you. To ask me to sub
stiute you by someone in my judgment
move fit to command, or who would pos
sess more of the confidence of the army
or of the reflecting men of the country
is to demand an impossibility.
It only remains lor me to hope that
yeU will taxe all possible care of 3-our
self, that your health and strength may
be entirely restored, and that the Lord
will preserve you for the important du
ties devolved upon you in the struggle
of our suffering country for the inde
pendence which we have engagedin war
to maintain. •
As ever, respectfully and truly,
[Signed] Jkff’n Davis.
[Mobile Cycle.
SHOULD ANY MAN SWEAR.
We can conceive no reason why any
man should swear, but many reasons
wby he should not:
1. It is mean. A man of high moral
character would almost as leave steal a
sheep as swear.
2. It is vulgar and altogether too low
for a decent man.
3. It is cowardly—implying a fear of
not being believed.
4. It is ungentlemanly. A gentleman
is too well bred, and refined. Such an
one will no more swear that throw inuJ
with a clod-hopper.
5. It is indecent, offensive to delicacy
aud unfit for any human ear
8. It is foolish. A want of decency is
a want of sense.
7. It is abusive to the mind which con
ceives the oath, to the tongues which ut
ter it, and the person at whom it is
aimed.
8 It is venomous; it shows man’s
heart to be a nest of vipers, and every
time the man swears, a viper sticks his
head out.
9 It is contemptible, forfeiting the
respect of the wise and the good.
10. It is wicked, violating the divine
law, and provoking the displeasure of
Him who will not hold him guiltless who
taketh His name in vain.
A Buffalo man dreamed that he was
going o/er the Falls, and he had his wife
by tlie throat when he woke up. Next
night she had a dream and broke his
nose as she struck at an Indian.
TRYING SITUATION
Mr. Bilderback, we feel authorized to
state, says the Burlington Hawk-Eye,
will not attend divine service this morn
ing. The old gentleman is, we are
pained to learn, laooring under a very
distresing frame of mind, being greatly
incensed against churches on general
principles. He doesn’t like to talk
about this matter, but we learned all
about it, despite his reticenee. It
seems that last Sunday morning he
was dozing comfortably in his pew, in
the clinch of which he is one of the
main sleepers, when he became aware
of an apparition gilding solemnly down
the aisle, with a collection basket
in his hand. Mr Bilderback braced up
into an erect position, cleared his throat
in a ponderous tone of Roman firm
ness, as one who should say, “Who’s
been asleep ?” and as the basket was
extended toward him he felt in his trous
ers for his wallet. It wasn’t there, and
as he withdrew his hand and felt in the
other pocket he felt that the eyes of the
whole congregation were upon him and
that was all he felt, for he certainly did
not feel any pocket book He nodded
the basket man to wait a secand, and
leaned over to tlie left while lie
felt in the right inside pocket of his
coat, from which, in his increasing nerv
ousness, he drew half a dozen chestnuts,
which rolled over the floor with a rattle
that sounded in his ears like the thun
ders if the Ajocalypse, and made tnern
hotter still. Then lie leaned over the
end of the pew and felt in tlie other
side coat pocket and drew oat a bundle
of letters, a lot of postal cards, a circus
ticket, a photograph of an actress, a
funny story printed on a card, a pocket
comb and a long string, and his face
grew so hot his breath felt like a hjt-air
blast Then he squared his elbows and
went for his vest pockets, anil strewed
the pew cushion with quiil tooth picks,
newspaper scraps, street car checks, a
shoe buttoner, some lead pencil stubs,
and crumbling indications of chewing
tobacco, a bit of sealing wax, a piece ol
licorice root about an inch long, and
three or four troches. Then he leaned
forward, and stung to madness by tire
smiles which were breaking out all
around that church worse than the
measles in a primary school room, dived
into his co ;t tail pockets and drew
, ViYh a red silk handkerchief, two apples
a spectacle case, a pair of dog skin
gloves, an overcoat button, and a line
assortment of bits of dried orange peel
and lint. Then he stood up, devoutly
praying that an earthquake might come
along and swallow up either him or the
rest of the congregation, he didn’t care
much which, and went down into his
hip pockets, aud from which he evolved
a revolver, a cork screw, a cigar case, a
piece of string, a memorandum-book
and a pocket-knife. By this time Mr.
Bilderbaek’s face was scarlet clear
down to his waist, and he was so nerv
ous and woaked up that he nearly
worked his clothes off, while the man
with the basket couldn’t have moved
away, if he had died for staying.
And when Mr. Bilderback, in forlorn
despair, once more rammed his I anil
into the trousers pocket where he began
the search, the congregation held its
breath, and when Mr. Blanderback drew
forth the very pocket book which he
had missed in his first careless search,
and had since all but stripped to find,
there w r us a sigh of relief went up from
every devout heart in that house. But
Mr. Bilderback only dropped into his
seat with an abruptness that made the
windows rattle, and registered a mental
vow that he wasn’t going to come out to
church again to be made a fool of by a
man with a long-handiecl dunning bas
ket.
*
Musical Clock —An eight day clock
has been exhibited in Paris, which chimes
the quarters, plays sixteen tunes, playing
three tunes every twelve hours, or at any
intervals required. The hands go round
as follows: One once a minute, one once
an hoar, one once a week, one once a
month, one once a year. It shows the
moon s age, the rising and setting of the
sun, time of high and low water, half flood,
and there is a curious contrivance to
represents the water, which rise and
falls, lifting some ships at high-water
tide as if they were in motion, and, {is it
recedes leaving them dry on the sands.
The clock shows the hour of the day, the
day of the week, the day of the month,
tlie month of the year; and in the day of
the month, provision is made for the long
and the short months. It shows the
signs of the zodiac ; it strikes or not,
and chimes or not, as may be desired ;
and it has an equation table, showing
the difference between the clock and the
sun for every day in the year.
There is a sect in Schotland “calling
themselves Christian Isrilites, who claim
to have received a revalation from God
that thay are descenilents of the lost
tribes of Israel, whom the Lord is thus
gathering from among the nations,
according to His promise by His pro
pbets. They keep Sixth-day night,
and also the hour from 10 to 11 a. m. of
First Day as saered time, by special
revelation. They practice circumcision,
and will not use mixed clothing, food
and seed.”
The number of persons who attended
the recent religious services of Messrs.
Moody and Sankey, in Philadelphia, is
estimated at 875,000. The wife of the
former was an active r and zealous co
worker in the enquiry meetings.
Vol. IV-No. 43.
A MICHIGAN GIANT.
The Simple Story of the Simple Hearted
Strong Man.
Charley Freeman, along back in the
30s, appeared for the first time among
a gang of laborers on the Flat Rock and
Gibraltar Canal,-and he moved among
ordinary men like a sort of Anak. He
looked eight feet high, at least, and
three feet across tlie shoulders. His
arms sprang from his cheat as large as
any middle-sized man’s body, and taper
ed down to a hand three inches thick,
and when doubled into a fist, as big and
hard as a railsplitter’s maul He gave
out his age as seventeen, and he was
growing. He hired for the wages and
work of an ordinary hand, but when he
seized a shov.il it went through the clay
like a breaking up plow, and the handle
soon came off’ if the blade held. An or
dinary axe was but a feather in his
hand. It sank to tlie eye in the wood,
and the helve splintered. He dealt out
strength by the wholesale, and lie could
not weigh out his force in the measure
of ordinary men. When he stood among
a gang of laborers the contrast made
them look like children. The strolling
Indians would stare in amazement a few
moments, and then with a deep “ugh 4 ’
get out of sight of him as fast as their
dignity would let them. He was put to
do the work of three pairs of oxen.—
That, was, removing the trunks of trees,
cut in ten or twelve-foot lengths, out of
the way of the diggers, not hitched to
them like oxen to snake them away, but
with his right hand under the end, rais
ing it from the ground, then balancing
it across his left fore-arm he shot the
saw logs far to one side with all the
ease that a skillful workman piles his
split cord-wood. And thus day after
day the giant moved until the canal was
built.
He appeared again on the boats that
plied along the Huron river, Michigan.
He was engine and tackle to handle
heavy freights. What others could not
shove or roll, he could pick up and carry
or toss. When the heavily freighted
boat struck on the ripples he just step
ped out of the stern and boosted her
over. Nobody would have felt sur
prised if he had taken the whole boat,
and cargo light under his arms, as a
woman carries a dough-tray, and march
across by land when they came to long
bends in the river. Nobody ever said
he did this, because they never wanted
to exaggerate his feats any more than
we do now. But navigation did not pay,
and that stopped too. Some of the
“fancy” heard of the unceh brate l giant,
and took the notion that there wa <
money in him. He was as simple as a
child. Anyone could lead him. It never
got through his skull that he was re
markable. The sharpers meant to keep
him so and speculate on his prodigious
power. They coaxed him off Eastward.
At Buffalo they sent him into a dock
saloon with a sixteen hundred pound
anchor under his left arm, just as a
chopper carries his axe, to pawn it for
drinks, and the keeper was glad to treit
him for carrying it out again. Thus he
and his friends traveled on his muscle to
the sea coast and across to England.—
They intended to get a soft thing on
some English champion. They had too
much of a good Ibing. A friendly spar
ring, as an experiment, with a profes
sional boxer, showed that a match with
any living pugilist was impossible. Tlie
giant’s face could not be effectually
reached. Blows on the body might sis
well have been planted on a sand-bag
W 1 len his unskilled hand come down it I
came with the force of a pile-driver, anil
no matter what it met the obstacle went
to the earth. By the ruse of represent
ing him as large and strong, but groer,
they made a match of science ami skill
against power with a noted pugilist.—
The parties came on the ground, but at
first sight of him his opponent turned
away, saying: ‘ I come to fight with a
large man, not with a mountain.” Se
conds, referees and all declared the
match fairly “off.” Finding nothing
could be made out of him, his sharp at
tendants deserted him. From Michigan
to Liverpool the route had bec-n one of
continued dissipation, and he contracted
the seeds of disease. Deserted in a
strange land, he was uncared for; an
object of awe and curiosity, useless to
anybody else andfielpless to care for him
self, he soon died of consumption, and
was buried in a pauper’s grave. Thus
perished perhaps the most magnificent
specimens of physical manhood that the
United States ever produced He never
learned a letter; he never felt a refining
influence ; he never had a real friend.
God’s highest gifts—talent, beauty,
feeling, imagination, power—they carry
with them the possibility of tho highest
heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure
that it is by that which is highest in you
that you may be lost. It is the awful
warning, and the excuse of evil, that the
light which leads astray is light from
heaven. The shallow fishing boat glides
safely over the reefs where the noble
bark strands ; it is the very might and
majesty of her career that bury the
rook deeper in her bosom. There are
thousands who are not lost (like the res
pectable Pharisees) because they had no
impetuous impulses—no passion—no
strong enthusiasm, by tlie perversion of
which they could be lost.
Young women should set good exam-!
pies for the young men are always fol- j
lowing them.
;he believes the papers now.
“Gimme your hand ?” exclaimed a
somewhat excited individual as lie bound
ed into the Chronicle office last evening.
“You re right, you are; and 1 ct.mo
down to tell you so! It’s hue, every
word of it.
“Yes,” murmured the local, with a
gratified air; so he motioned the old
gentleman to a seat, thinking, no doubt,
it was his last article on intemperance
that had fetched him
“Yes, sir ; it's just as you say, I didn t
use to b’lieve in the newspapers, but I
do now, an’ i come in to tell you about
it. 'Twasn’t a durned thing but a brok
en lock, d’ye see, an’ we sent out for the
ni a:est carpenter to come and fix it all
light. Well, that fellow come ; lie look
ed at the door, turned the useless knob
a couple of times, and said something
about ‘them mortice locks,’ and then
we it away. In about an hour he came
back with a little arrangement ho called
a ‘pick,’ and which he kindly informed us
was ‘genuine,’ ono of the regular kind
used by burglars. He put that arrange
merit in the key hole, turned anil twist
ed it for half an hour, then gave 11s the
valuable information that that lock had
been brokeu ever since it was put on—
in fact, they often done them that way,
these second class mechanics. Ho guess
ed the only thing for him to do was to
take off the facing, so he would go and
get his tools. About this time tlie old
woman came down stairs and wanted to
know if she was ever going to be let
get through that doorf Now if tnore s
anything Ido hate, it is to get tho old
lady to growling. She don t growl easy,
but when she does commence, oh, Lord!
Well, in about half an hour the fellow
appeared again. He had about forty
tools of different kinds, now scattered
around. He jammed a mammoth screw
driver in between the door aud facing,
and pried on until the facing gave way
in half u dozen places ; then lie took an
other instrument, and with a hammer
succeeded in smashing tho catch of tho
lock, rendering it perfectly unfit for
further use; then he gathered up his
tools and remarked that it was too late
to do anything further that night.
“Hofforgot to return next morning,
and had to be sent for. The messenger
was informed at lus shop, that ho was
not*ic, but would come over as soon as
he'retnrned. In about two hours ho
again appeared upon the scene, took tho
measure of the lock, and disappeared.
“After another half hour of suspense
ho brought the new lock ; then worked
around the door, blessed a.l other car
penters in general, cut the mortice to lit
the lock, and then found out that ho
had a left-hand lock when ho want
ed a Jght-hand one. The old lady came
down again about this time, and said
the next time I wanted a lock lixel she
would move out for a couple of weeks.
“Finally, after defacing tho moulding
all round, getting the knob a little high
er and the keyhole a little lower than
originally, or so as to leave uUpainted
spots showing, he gave us the cheering
information that his work was finished,
and lie would send up the bill.
“Now, I hadn’t believed what 3 on had
been sa3 T ing about plumbers and their
hills; but when I saw that bill it con
vinced me. To one mortice lock $4 50;
removing old one, $1; half dozen screws,
25 cents ; time of carpenter and assist
ant. $4.75; total, $10.50, to which I
might add, spoiling two yards of Brus
sels carpet, $5 ; defacing mouldin ; etc.,
s2 —and irritating my wife past all re
demption.
“It’s fact, truth, every word of it, and
you can count on my believing all you
say hereafter.’—[Washington Chronicle
o *
AN UNWELCOME VISIT.
Miss Pillsby is a maiden la ly, border
ing pretty close on to forty years of age;
but owing to care, regard habits, good
taste and a painstaking dentist, Miss
Pillsby is no ordinary looking woman.
So thought Mr. Munn, who is doing a
very good business in the vending of milk
which he carries to his customers in a
large can, every morning. The other
morning, after Miss Pillsby bid com
pleted her toilet, apd was ready to de
scend and await the coming of Mr.
Munn, whose industry and frugality to
gether with a inustach that does honor
to the times in which we live have made
a favorable impression upon her, Miss
Pillsby discovered that the glass of wa
ter in which her teeth were resting had
frozen solid. She hurried down to tho
kitchen with them to thaw the ice, in
trembling wonder if sho could succeed
before he cams. Engrossed in her task
she did not notice the kitchen open, and
was only made aware that it had by the
cheery voice of Mr. Munn, at her back
“Good morning !’’ said he.
Miss Pillsb3*, suppressing a scream
with great difficulty, impulsively whirled
around, while her hand closed over the
lumber as if with a spring. And there
she stood the picture of abject despair,
while her admirer again said, although
somewhat feebly.
“Good morning.”
Still she did not speak. Her lips we.ro
shut so tight together as to give her a
most uncompromising aspect. Mr.
Munn scratched his chin uneasily.
“I hope I havn’t offended yon, mam,"
he ventured.
She did not move.
“If it’s the milk," he added, brighten
ing up a trifle, ‘l’m sure it's no inten
tional fault on my part, and I’m williim
to do what I can to remedy it again."
Slowly his face went down again.
Miss Pillsby not only refused to open
her mouth, but had reddened in the face
to a degreee that was painful ; besides,
she waved her hand as if sho would have
him begone, but did not consider that
he was worth trouble of putting tho re
quest in words. Mr. Munn took this
view of the case at once, and snatching
up his can, he significantly observed
“Tnere’s just as go >d fish in tho sea
as ever was < aught.” And hugging this
pi p liar do'nsior, ho tumblid himself off
in high dudgeon.
The teeth were thawed out, but Mr.
Munn shows r.o disposition to thaw
worth a cent, wo learn.—Danburg News.