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PROFESSIONAL CAROS. rT27j€mses7~ ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTON, 6ft. Special attention to the collection of claims, [ly . SHANNON & WORLEY, ATT ORN E Y S AT L AW, ELBERTON, CIA. WILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF the Northern Circuit and Franklin county g@“Special attention given to collections. J. S. BARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTON, Eft. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, elbekton, ga. WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. nevl7,ly A. E- HUNTER, M. E>. PRACTICING PH VSICIAN Office over the Drug Store, ELBEKTON, GEORGIA. WILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL casc3. [Ang22,6m ELBERTON BUSINESS CARDS. LtSHf^CARRiAGES^&ByGGSES^ J. F. A TJJ.D (jABBIABEjffiABUFACT'E ELBERTON, GEORGIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST PRICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO • BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE ‘4; *'• V f ♦*, .%£ .*■ T r*—'‘ \A* i .In in.t,‘.. * J. M. BARFIELD, ’HHP : T H E REAR LIVE Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift ft Arnold’s Store, ELBERTON, GEORGIA. and See Him. T. M. SWIFT. J- R- SWIFT. THUS. Jl. SWIFT & CO., Dealers in culm iiMEmi At the old stand of Swift & A'mold, ELBERTON, GA. RESPECTFTLLY SOLICIT a CONTINU ance of the patronage hitherto awarded he hous , promising every eflort on their part to merit the same. jan.;> THE 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 D PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES Plain and fancy, just received, including a sup ply ot LEGAL CAP. CIGARS AND TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. NEW STORE|NEW GOODS! I. Gr. SWIFT, Will keep on hand FLOUR, MEAT, LARD, SUGAR, COF FEE, HAMS, CHEESE, CAN NED GOODS, &e.&c. And other articles usually kept in a first-class Provision Store, which will be sold Cheap for CASH and Cash Only. F. W. JACOBS, HOUSE I SIGN PAINTER Glazier and Grainer, ELBERTON, GA. Orders So licited. Satisfaction Guaranteed. CENTRAL HOTEL MRS. W. M THOMAS, PROPRIETRESS, AUGUSTA GA OEND 25c. to G P. ROWELL & CO., New York Ofor Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing l it; of 3,000 newspapers and estimates showing cost of advertising. ly THE GAZETTE. jSTew Sei ies. ROMANCE IN NAPLES. From the London News.] Our correspondent at Rome writes : Miss Vernieri, still in her teens, has lost her father, and lives with her mother in Salerno. She is beautiful, clever, and accomplished, and inherits 120,000 du cats, or about half a million lire. Her mother is completely under the power of the family physician, Dr. Cosimati, who poses as protector of the widow and or phan. Eligible offers of marriage are made to Miss Vernieri, but are skillfully staved off by the doctor and bis dupe, the mother, their object being to enjoy the administration of the young lady’s means, of which the mother was simply the depository, and of which the pros pective son-in-law would become abso lute master. At length Miss Vernieri attained her majority, and her guardians anticipated her intentions of matrimony by proposing to her as her fiance her first cousin. This young gentleman, re sided in Naples, and thither the mother, daughter, and family doctor repaired to arrange the nuptials. The youth, how ever, found no favor, in the eyes of Miss Vernieri,who, on the contrary,became des perately enamored of a young advocate whom she met under the roof of an aunt in Naples. Her passion was reciprocated, and the mother's opposition made the daughter only more resolute in her de termination to marry the young advocate. So doctor and mother together changed their tactics. One morning Madame Vernieri said to her daughter, “Are you really determined to marry him ?” “Yes,” ; “Then, as I can’t bear to see you unbap- j py, I give my consent ” The young lady fell on her mother’s neck and wept with ! joy, til!, gently disengaging herself, j Madame Vernieri said, “Now, as your ! lover qnd Lip family.live at Naples, it is eft he. xfyfptyaStfiagf, reaSfy** '• l[ i , dfngfy>. a'ntl took] #pptirtml£its * at*, tine Hotel Jriori,. near thq Eiortihi Tk&ajter, • rttfyhfiing-to tprke st hoiLsfffiffthe' ccftmttyr ftMlreTnsu ’iiffi siimnlcr* (file tflaai'iagn* fiavihg been avrshgedTor the* Arijfl of, ad?map. They Deejx only TtVoyiayA to l! ia hotel;, epffie a Signor Sffla-aglif, wWgiv •flsifir&sftflted ,as--rii ecjuslt. cril his,*&‘jjs‘r'c d:.3?rous ffirnv.rg Miss Vernieri’s acquaintance. The visit | Seemed one of pure courtesy. The young lady chatted pleasantly enough on cur rent topics with the new comer till he took his leave, and she thought no more about him. Forty eight hours afterward, the doctor proposed a drive into the country, at which the ladies were de lighted, and all three were soon in a car riage bowling along the Via del Campe. Miss Vernieri asked many questions as to the palazzi and villas they passed till they approached a grand edifice whose magnificent site awoke her admi ration. W hose was it ? The doctor, as if suddenly struck by an idea, ordered the driver to stop. “Here,” he said, “is precisely what you want, a country res idence till the close of November. This palace is divided into suites of apart ments. Come in and let us see how you like them.” They alighted and entered; the doctor asked for Mad Floureus. An iron gate was then opened, admitting to a couityard, from which they mounted two flights of stairs, and then they were ushered into a drawingroom where they were politely received by that lady. Dr. Cosimati then intimated that Miss Ver nieri wished to take apartments for the summer in the palazzo, and would like to be shown t rough the various suites. Madame Floureus was only too delighted, and offered her arm to the young lady, who mechanically took it. Then the: mother raid languidly, “You can goj alone, my dear, and make your choice, ! which is sure to satisfy me. lam tired, ! and will wait here with the doctor till ! you ccmo back.” Madame Flourens and j Miss Vernieri then moved off, and the moment the door closed behind them the mother and doctor slipped stealthily through a private passage, gained the staircase, and were soon in the courtyard. Meanwhile Miss Vernieri was making the tour of the appartments, and it was not long before Miss Vernier; learned that she had been left in an asylum for lunatics. After her discovery. Miss Vernieri asked Madame Flourens, the lady super i intendent, how she could have consented to become an instrument in such a base conspiracy. The lady smiled sadiy. •Triglia mia! were I to believe all those who say they have been brought here as the victims of a conspiracy, I should have few patients on my hands 1” “But,” remonstrated Miss Vernieri; “what legal proof have you that I am a fit subject for an asylum ?” “The doctor that came here with you,” replied Madame Flourens, “applied to me for the admission of a patient. I j i flu him he must first have a certificate ] of the patient’s madness, signed by the di tector of the establishment, who is the first alienist in Naples, Dr. Miraglia,” ••-lb,” broke in Miss Vernieri, to vjhhfh tii■- name was a revelation, “the perfidi ous plotter ! That cousin of his, whom Dr Cosimati presented to me, was Dr. Miraglia, then! But how could the I doctor certify my lunacy ? I talk ration illy enough. Oh ! the monster!” ••Lriglia mia ! behold my justification,” a\d Madame Flourens produced the certificate of the alienist, Dr. Miraglia, the director of the asylum. Thereupon Miss Vernieri addressed herself to the task of devising her extri j.tion from the Flourens Asylum. Vig ilantly watched, she succeeded in getting t a letter convoyed to her lover, and he ESTABLISHED 1859- ELBERTON, GA., OCT’R 11,1876 0 went straight to work to rescue her and bring her persecutors to justice. He got the Procurator of the King to send forthwith’to the asylum an instruct ing judge and a notary. These gentle men obtained immediate access to the young lady, and examined her with the most painstaking minuteness, putting questions of every kind, laying traps for her and taking down her answers. She came out of tiie ordeal triumphantly, and the result was the immediate order from the Proctratore del Re for her release and criminal proceedings were at once taken against Dr. Cosimati, the widow Vernieri, and Dr. Miraglia. No sooner set at iiborty, than Miss Vernieri lied to the aunt at whose house she iiad met her fiance. Their marriage took place immmediately. Meanwhile the conspirators, whose object it had been to prevent the mar riage, and to invalidate Miss Vernieri’s right to the control of her fortune by making her "out mad, were put upon their trial at Salerno. They had already taken legal steps to complete to their nefarious design, when the young lady's release upset everything, and turned them from appellants into defendants. The section of accusation (as the Italian phrase goes) acquitted the mother as dupe of Cosimati. Miraglia was admit ted to Lave acted with bona tides, and he, too, was declin ed guiltless before the law. The doctor was fully convicted. The Public Minister demanded, as bis sentence, three years imprisonment a year for each day during which his victim was immured in the asylum, and that sentence was pronouned by the Judges. Dr. Cosimati appealed, and the term of imprisonment was re duced to oho year. Not content with this remission of the sentence, the doc tor-j-always,. be it, remarked, enjoying 'pAvisic flal -liberty; thesis, nofr-hirpris bned Jl*e- tkurrt of Catr sojti&tf - luitlris pjlea was rejected.. Then ho* the..Kufg’s xnjircjffirßuL £>ignq£vrigliana, fate Minister of Justice, refused* him that also. The 17th‘ of Marnh-came, and, ♦ith'rit, the Left power. Tli£:.appea> to' the \vats?rehtwed, and his ]\'§triesly was 1 yitsed- to •grant;.it. conJ'- •nnfttTtbf'.toi- inielnPjfteti’J; in q, IjJrescpib- 1 eu krwriity from Kay to NoveiuW* months, as Farfulla puts it, of Villeg giatura. So much for Itatain justice! HOW TO OTfKF. A BAD MEMORY. Your memory is bad, perhaps ; but I can tell you two secrets that will cure the worst memory. One is to read a subject when strongly interested. The other is, to not only read, but think. When you have read a paragraph or a page, stop, close the book, aud try to remember the ideas on that page, and not only recall them vaguely in your mind, but put them into words and speak them out. Faithfully follow these two rules, and you have the golden keys of knowledge. Besides inattentive read ing there are other things injurious to mem One is the habit of skimming over newspapers, items of news, smart remarks, bits of information, political reflections, fasnion notes, all in a con fused jumble, never to be thought of again, thus dilligently cultivating a hab it of careless reading hard to break. Another is the reading of trashy novels. Nothing is so fatal to reading with prof-; it as the habit of running through story after story, and forgetting them as soon as read. I know a gray haired woman, a lifelong lover of books, who sadly de clares that her mind has been rained by such reading. A help to memory is repetition. Nothing is so certain to keep your French fresh, and ready for use, as to have always on hand an interesting story in that language, to take up for ten min utes every day. In that case, you will not “forget your French” with the ma jority of your schoolmates- St. Ni Lolas. ♦<£>♦ A DISAPPOINTED MAID. Miss Stockes considers work veiy unladylike, and kitchen labor “perfectly shocking.” But when an industrious and sensible young man began to occa sionally drop in and spend an evening she very wisely refrained from expressing these convictions, after hearing Lrm on several occasions denounce the frivolity and indolence so fashionable at present, w.th many of the young ladies of Phila delphia. Entertaining a high regard for the young man, she determined to surprise him by some great feat of her industry and perseverance, and last evening as they were seated together on the par lor sola, after the conversation had be gan' to flag, she artfully allowed a sigh to escape her. “Are you unwell?” he tenderly in quired. “No, I am quite well.” “But you sighed,” he persisted. “Yes ; but I suppose it was because I felt so tired.” “Have you been busy ?” “Oh ! yes, indeed,” was tire reply. “Why, would you believe it, I cut out a towel and made it all by myself to day.” There has been a coolness between the parties ever since, the reason of which he has never been fully able to' explain, but she angrily remarked the next morn ing that some men were foolish enough to imagine that a woman ought to be able to do more work than a fifty-horse power steam engine.—Blade. GOSPEL AND GROCERIES. 1 From the. Gillmon (111.) Star.] | The name of Elder Oloyes has become [ a household word in this State, and all his acts are imitated and his words (quoted as freely a3 Shakespeare’s. I His front name is Henry, and when |he puts his John Hancock on a hotel ; fegister, it is plain Henry Cloyes, writ j ten in (not with) a modest hand. I Henry Cloyes was born at a very estrly ■ age. Perhaps it would be proper to say ; it was the beginning of age, at the very 1 onset of life. He never did anything | Tory wonderful in his youth, except to cut down a cherry tree, and then ! accuse his father of doing it. This iso pleased the old gentleman that j bo sent Henry to school, intending to j make a preacher of him ; but, ns time \ advanced, Henry changed bis habits, and ; with some natural ability entered as a j Chicago missionary, traveling through ! this State selling teas, coffees, spices, j and other articles too numerous to men ! Jion. The scholars, while Henry attended j school, called him elder, because they i knew his father intended him to be a | minister, and this title clings to him I SUII, and he is known far and wide as Elder Cloyes. He once took a trip to China, and on his journey painted a panorama of scenes in that celestial country, and on his return traveled through tho States giving exhi | bitions. In the show business he was : not altogether a success, as he advertised to show his moving panorama free to the poor, and on these occasions there were few willing to acknowledge that they were rich. While he was wander ing around with a “busted show,” his aunt died in Maryland afid left him $40,- 000. He took this money, bought a lot of peas, and after burning and grinding fcnem, traveled over the route be had Si own his Chinese panorama, and sold tl cm for coffee. He has become im mensely rich, and sports a SIOOO diamond fastened to his shirt. S, Having introduced our subject and his peculiarities, we will now tell our story. One of Elder’s patrons had a very good anil a very religious mother, and this patron conceived the idea of ; ’ vying a iok-e.on- bi% goo.el mother and the elder, so he fold her, bn - Saturday] that he had invited Elder Cloyes, of Chi cago, to dinner next day. Sho was do-( lighted with the idea, and made strehir- ’ ous efforts to have things about as grand and suitable as the occasion would ad mit. Sunday came, and tho son intro duced the elder to his mother. The three sat down to dinner, and the mother asked the elder to say grace. As the elder never did such a thing, be begged to be excused. During dinner, the elder, who is a fluent talker, entertained mother and son by rehearsing his extensive trav els, and the manners and customs of the Chinese. After dinner the son slipped out and left the elder and his mother together. Th® mother was much inter ested in the elder, and when, his story being done, she asked if ho went to China as a missionary. “Well, yes,” said Henry. “Have you a charge in Chicago, or are you still in the field?” “Wall, now,” replied Henry, beginning to see that lie was taken for a preacher, “I may say both, madam, both. My partner does the charging, and 1 do the field work.” “Oh, you are a sort of a Moody and Sankey. What is your opinion of thorn? Are they doing good for the blessed cause in which you are engaged?” con tined the lady. “I think they are, madam. They bring a great many sinners to repentance. This decreases the demand for whisky and increases the demand for coffee. We carry a splendid line.” “What is your opinion of the future salvation of man, elder?” “Wall, I will tell you, my dear madam,” replied the elder. “If we don't have a corn crop, saltpeter won’t save him. Collections are wretched; yes, ma’am, abominable.” “You should hope that all was for the best. Have patience.” pleaded the wid_ ow, “have patience ; remember how pa j tient Job was.” ! “Ah, yes, madam. I often think of i Job. He was a patient man. Yes, ! ma’m, Job was, but ah! madam, Job ; never sold groceries in Illinois.” i “Sold groceries !” exclaimed the wid ; ow, in astonishment. “Sold groceries ; why, what do you mean ? Are you hot an elder anc? a preacher?” “No madam, lam no preacher. I ara too proud to deceive you. Your son has undertaken to deceive us both, but I : scorn to represent goods in a false light, i Our coffees, madam, are made from the ! best navy beans, aud our teas are im | ported from the willow swamps of New j Jersey, and will sell you any amount on j sixty days. An revoir ?” Elder waved his lily white paw to the lady and van quished. As he leaned over the back fence he saw the paternal widow drag ging her son around the woodshed by the hair. Letters from Gen. Garfield to' the Con gressional Campaign Committee, ex press the evident defeat of the Republi cans in Indiana, and tho Urgent necessi ty of concentrating all possible efforts on Ohio by sending campaign documents in abundance and all the material aid that can be got from all the officers and em • ployes of the government departments ; j also corroborating Carl Schurz’s ex pressed opinion that tho Germans are nearly solid with the Democracy. Vol. V.-No. 24. RUEUS CHOATE’S FENCE. I suppose that the story about Rufus Choate’s hadwriting has been told often. It seems that Mr. Choate, while living on a farm down in- Massachusetts, wanted anew fence around the home lot. So he called in his carpenter and bad a talk with him about the work, and the next time he went to Boston he got his orchiteet to make a rough sketch, showing his ideas of how he desired the fence to be built. On the day appointed for tho work to begin Mr. Choate was summoned away. Just as ho was about to start the carpenter appeared, and Mr. | Choate pulled the plan out of his vest I pocket, and hurriedly delivered it and then drove off to catch the train. Re turning after an absence of two weeks, on approaching his home, he was filled with amazement, and led to doubt whether he knew where he lived : his home lot was surrounded by a zigzag fence of most extraordinary design. When he saw the old carpenter pound ing lustily away, he felt reassured as to the identity of the place, but most puz zled by the marvelous fence. “Hello! ’ he shouted. “What are you doing. “Doin’!” said the old carpenter, smashing ; n a tenpenfiy nail with one blow. “We’re doin’ some pooty tall work. We’ve just slung up this fence to gether in a little bit less time than any similar slingin’ was ever done in the ’Co m m onwealth o f Massachusetts ! ! We’re two days ahead of contract tinio now!” “But, for Heaven’s sake, what kind of a fence is this t” “Don’t know. Thought whsn veu gi’ me the plan it was thedarndest fence ' I ever heard off, but I supposed you knew what you wanted.” “Plan !” said Rufus, “plan? Lot me j see the plan !” and when , the carpenter j handed it over the fence, Mr. Choate' realized that in his haste he had felt in the wrong pocket, and handed him, not j the plan, but a note in hri own handwrit ing. RATHER HARD. The Chicago Journal tell3 the follow ing on a wqjl Toledo conductor 'on a road tlyit-rnTs.into jßtikfoity , He was a tramp, bonrff. Chicago ward, and as he boarded the couples at tI)C rear of an incoming engine just across the line in Indiana, one recent dark and chilly night, he had faith to believe that he had a soft thing of it for a cheap ride. But the conductor, with his eagle eye and railroad lantern, soon espied the moneyless passenger on his uncush ioned and comfortless seat. Did hs or der him off? No; he had and deeper plot. He let him remain, while on and on went the train, from station to station, until it reached a great tank where the engines stop to water up. “Now for him,” grinned the heartless conductor, as he passed to the front “New for him, ’ he maliciously contin ued, as he grasped the water trough from the firemen's hands and directed it over the back end of the engine. “Now for him,” he fiendishly grunted, as he heard a Noah’s deluge pouring over the head and down the back of the luck-! less tramp. All grew still and the conductor or dered his train on its way, convinced he | had drowned the tramp, or at least flood j ed lain so far away that he could never j get back again. But when that conductor drove into the depot in tho early morning, there was a surprise in store for him. “Be you the conductor ?” inquired a shivering voice at his elbow, as he stept on the platform. “Yes,” said he, looking around and gazing upon a bedraggled and cinder covered man “Then I want to ask you why yer don’t run around the end of the lake in cornin’ inter town?” “I do,” said the conductor. “Yer do?” exclaimed the man. “Certainly,” was the reply. “Wall, I gosh !” muttered the stran ger, in a bewildered loffe, “blest if I didn’t think yer swum through the lake!” Then the conductor knew that this tramp still lived and was water proof. CHAMBERLAIN’S TRICKS. James Canton and P. H. Blackwell ar rived at Aiken on the 30th ult., from Co lumbia, under authority, they said, from Chamberlain and U. S. Marshal Wallace, for the purpose of making up a report of the Ellenton troubles. Both being government officers, it is believed that they were sent there in the interest of the outrage mill. They were discovered in a back office of tho village taking the testimony of negroes, and a request was at onco presented that the whites should be heard before the report should bo made up. This was reluctantly acceded to, and a number of gentlemen who were present at the beginning of and at dif forenfc points throughout the riot prom ised to appear and give a sworn uarra five of the entire affair. The Radicals will thus ho prevented from spreading false and partisan statements before the country, as iff the Hamburg matter, with out the whites being allowed to fell their eide of the story. The Graphic calls upon the Republican leaders to “charge along the whole line ” and the Worcester Press says: “That’s ' just what tli.yare doing—charging two per cent.” GOOD ENOUGH FOR H. ME. “Why do you put on that forlorn old dress?’ asked Emily Manners of her Cousin Lydia one morning after she had spent the night at Lydia’s house. The dress in question was a spotted, faded, old silk, which only looked the more forlorn for its once fashionable trimmings, now crumpled and frayed. “Oh, anything is good enough for home !” said Lydia, hastily pinning on a soilded collar, and twisting up her hair in a ragged knot, she went down to breakfast “Your hair is coming down,” said Emily. “Oh, never mind it’s good enough for home,” said Lydia, carelessiy. Lydia had been visiting at Emily’s I home and had always appeared in the I prettiest of morning dresses, and with neat hair and dainty collars and cuff’s ; but now that she was back again among I her brothers and sisters, and with her parents, sha seemed to thing anything i would answer, and went about untidy j and rough in soiled finery. At her un cle’s she had been pleasant and polite, and had won golden opinions from all; but with her own family her manners were as careless as her dross ; and she seemed to think that courtesy and kind ness were too expensive for home wear, and that anything was good enough for home. There are too many people who, liko Lydia, seem to thing that anything will do for home. Y'ouug men who are polito and pleasant in outside society are some times rude to their mothers and sisters ; and girls who among strangers are all gay (fly and animation, never make any exertion to please tlieir own family. It is a wretched way to tiirn always the smoothest side to the world, and the roughest and coarsest to one’s nearest and dearest friends. AN AMUSING CENTENNIAL SCENE- Among the crowd collected around the machinery in the Government Building, showing the process of manufacturing cartridges, last Saturday, was a young lady and her beau, both evidently hailing from the wilds of Jersey. Unnoticed, he hail quit her side, in or der to obtain a better view, and was then standing a few feet to the left, eagerly watching the movements of a young mechanic, whose nimble fingers seemed a portion of the machine itself. While her gaze was also riveted at the interesting eight, a dark liued Turk liac? paused by her side, also gazing in tently at tho scene. Suddenly the maid, without lifting her eyes, clutched tho sleeve of the Turk, gave it a vigorous jerk and exclaimed, “Oh ! look, Charlie ; can you oeo ?” Surprised at co£ receiving an answer she turned quickly, etill, however, re taining tho Turk’s cleave in her grasp, gaje a startled glanco at the swarthy isiog •.cffiayf uttered a hJwTsarifllq t wquscjp? r*, fallen to the floor if tho outstretched arms of the Turk had not received her. As they hastily walked away Charlie tenderly inquired whatjbad alarmed her so. “Oh ! Charlies that horrid man,” was the faint reply. “Why, you hcfecfa’tbave been so afraid of him. He was nothing but a Turk.” “Yes, 1 know ho was a Turk. But, then, Charlie, you know that Turks have so many wives, and I was afraid that ha might want me.” Charlie muttered something about having to pass over his dead body, but we didn’t hear exactly what it was, but, however, it appeared to please her very much.—[Philadelphia Times. A SCOTCH STORY. A certain minister, Laving become much addicted to drink, his presbytery Lad to interfere and get the minister to sign tho pledge. The result was that the sudden reaction provedjtco much for him, and he became so ill that the doc tor had to be sent for. The doctor said that he must just begin aud take his Socldy again. This the minister said he could not do, as he had taken tho pledge. The doctor replied that be might get a bottle or two quietly, and that nobody but {heir two selves and tho housekeeper would know it. “Map” said the minister, “iny housekeeper is worse than all the presbytery put together, so that would not do.” However, it was arranged that the doctor was to bring in the whisky and sugar, and that the minis ter was to make up the toddy in his bed room with the hot water that he got for shaving purposes in the morning. Tho result was that the minister speedily got well; and one day, on going out, tho doctor said to the minister’s housekeep er, “Well, Margaret, your master is quite himself again.” “There’s nao doubt about that, sir,” she replied ; “he’s quite well in the body ; but there is something gane wrang wi’ his upper story.” “What’s wrong there, Margaret?” asked tho doc tor. “Weel, sir, I dinna ken, but ho asks for shavin’ water six or seven times a day.” Make Home Pleasant in Appearances. —How many unsightly homes there are in houses standing stark and stiff - liko some sentinel, with scarcely any trees or shrubs or flowers, to break the monotony* and rigidness of the {scene. Plant tress and flowers; let order aid ffeatness' icign about your dwelling, making it look more like a home than a shelter for a night. Within, also, lot beauty ar.d neatness dwell. Pictures and ornaments that need not be costly, may bo had. Do not live in the darkest part of the house, reserving the sunniest for occasional company. In tins sunny world let us live in heaven's free light and sunshine. Say not, “It don’t pay.” Better fill tho cars of the young with sounds of instru ments and singing, than for them to leave home for the noise aud bustle of the busy town. An old bachelor who died recently, left a will dividing all his property equally among the surviving women who hau refused him. “Because,” said he "to them I owe all my earthly happi ness.”