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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
*. N. WOULKV. THOW. C. CAIIETON.
WORLEY & CARLTON,
’ Attorneys and Counselors at Law.
ELBEBTON, GA.
"Windup of ostateH and Criminal Law a specialty.
Office tn the Courthouse.
& N, CARPENTER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ELBEBTON-, GA. >
unoriLt practice wherever employed, either in the
W State or Federal courts. Advice to udnnniMru
tor, rxecutorer and guardians a specialty, 'vufin
ireatljriita titles to real estate unrl personal
collect claims, and g<ve prompt atteptioL to all busi
neas entroted to him. ‘ ; j *_
L, J. riARTRELL, •'
ATTORNEY AT la AWT
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
PRACn ’8 IN THF, UNIT®® STATES Cfß
' call ad District Court? at Atlanta, .and the Bu
<prcra<* and Superior CVmrta of the State. y
a.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
BAAtJBLSVI I.L|, GA.
Wiit practice wherever All buarnoss Mi
nuted wW receive strict attention.
RHILIP w. DAVIS,
attorney at LAW,
ELBERTON. GA. * t
IrTTJI.T. practice in hi? the conriS of the Northern
fW circuit and also Franklin and’ Clarke of the
W.-ftem aud the U. S. District conrt, Ail liuaim ss
It intruded ®* hi* care will receive pAnipt attention.
Tiosley-W, Rucker. Geo. C. Oregon.
STOKER & GROGAN,
ATTORNEYS AT LANA
ELBERTON, GA,
JV" Will practice wherever employed.
JOHN P, SHANNON.
ATT OR N E Y AT I. AW
EiBSHTOK, GEORGIA. -
WILL practice in all the com-ts of th
Northern Circuit and Franklin county
3. S. BARNETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
HLBHRTO?t,-GA.
R. 11. JONES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELBSHTON, GA.
special attention to live collection of claims
QHAS. W. SEIDEL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Hartwell, Hart Cos., Ga.
BUS IN ii S S CA It DS,
lIGHT CARRIAGES & OOOGIiS
&
Carriage Jj'flaniifact’r
E I, B E RTOMJEO RGII.
WITH GOOD WORKMEN!
LOWEST PRICES!
(CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION
TO BUSINESS, and AN EXPE
RIENCE OF 30 YEARS,
He hopes Ay honest and luir dnrling to com
pete with any other manufactory,
PRICES GREATLY RtiRCED!
liVSEND FOR PRICE"LIST.
REPAIRING & BLACKSMITH ING.
Work done in this line in very best style
Th Best Harness?. .
Tl£ftMS CASH
sew Millinery aud Dress Making
establish mk’ ; r.
.LADIES* EMPORIUM
■ • OF
#Astijroisr.
Hn. CORNELIA GAIMtRCKT rc- iTnlly an
nounces that ah. l* n*‘\v at her new aouae prepared
■expressly for t>er, oil Heard St..< PPite l>r. lleadwy
lerV, ready >o do ailpvoik i* her line tlint ahe may lie
■favored wiA
A iiewanu complete stock of Millinery and Dadiea'
Fumixielnu flood* will he received iu ah.ont t\yo weeks,
an iid'pectloii of which is respectfully solicited.
C, Nornmn. Win. McDuffie.
NORMAN & M^DTTFEIE,
C ontractorS
FOR
PLASTERING,
BRICK WORK
BRICK MAKINU,
KALSOMINING
VND
GENERAL HOUSE REPAIRING.
All work soli cited.
March IS. IS7B—U
J. I. WESEMAN,
Practical Millwright;
Allas located at Elberton.
Building and repairing
FLOUR AND GRIST MILLS
A specialty.
Cotton Gins and Tresses,
Turbine Wheels and
Engines
let up and pin in working order
Will turnisli Mill Machinery, Millstones, Smut Ms
'hincs Turbine Wheels and Engines, of the latest ini
p -oved patterns, at manufacturers’ prices. -
Wliefer by permission to my former patrons.
Dissolution.
The firm heretofore known in Klbcrtou as Adams
A Itlackwe.il is tins day dissolved by mutual consent.
The "books, notes and accounts of the old firm will
be found in the hands of 1). H, Blackwell, and he will
always be ready to wa t upon any one wishing .to li
quidate liis indebtedness.
DIN ADAMS.
Jan 10,18 SO 1). K. BLACKWELL
■n ■ afi CURED Promptly and Perma
§ 1 § S neatly. I send a IxMloot my cel
i H brated remedy, with a valuable
■ treatise ou tills disease, free to all
P® B fl ■sufferers who send me their F. O.
fl H I _ laud Express address.
I I I Id . H. C. ROOT, No. IS3
111 V#l’earl Street., New l ink.
New Series, VOLUME,VHI. j
,mi Series, VOLUME XXL \
<ii ■ **" t " J)
; BRICK! ■
CHEAPER thauSVE R
—-—-di 4 r v,
The .iqilurslgued will ■>,!■ . .
as goon as soon as the weather will permit. We ask
competition no odds. Wc will sell
As CliScip' cts tlis CLioa.pos't
Respectfully,
NORM AX, McDUFFIE & HEARD.
A. M. ADAMS,
CITMCTfIR
AND
GENERAL MECHANIC,
ELBERTON, GA.
CWPnrtiee contemplating bnildiug wii! find it to
their interest to consult me.
A General Line of Lumber
j
Will be kept conotmiUy in stock*
j- „ J±. _ KEOUG x-f,
1
Practical Jeweler, Elberton, Ga.
if you vvf iit il Heionp FLJ.iRI D A 03 AND ES
and nice jury AIM’LKS. or niioru-J.pl.tiu i‘d
Fre?i\d CANiIIKS go to'
0. W. Butt © Cos.
VARIETY STORE
where they are driving fresh every day or
two
j Or if yon want any tiling in the NOTION
•or HOSTEItY lino, that will be tlie place to
! get 'it.
We also carry a linn of GLASSWARE.
! Anything in the glassware line, that yon mnv
| want, and that we have not got in stock,
will order it for you.
We would espeeia'ly invite your atvtsntion
to the fact that we are agents for the famous
BOSS COFFEE lOT. which w. would he
pleased to have you call and xhftiiuc wheth
er -veil wish to purchase ll o'
We-pa,- cash- for LD IRON. BRASS,
COPPER ar.d l: Af vn
r. Wi BUTTS & CO.,
A’orth side Public Square.
j j etn now prepared to do all work in the
TAILORING
line in the laics' style and in the best -man
ncr. Anvtl.ing from
aTTOTTIXTCa
•up (o making ‘he finest dress coat I have a
j line of samples that 1 invite the public to see,
| and 1 guarantee perfect satisfaction '
CLEANING & REPAIRING
\ promptly attended to.
! Coat 50 cts., pants 25.
Up stairs over Jones’ Store.
A. J. W LAND.
The Best owing machine
Ever produced, wh dliur for Family use or Manufacturing, is the
DOritLE-TtSKiMI), LOCR-SITTIIS LICIST-RIA’XIXG
S
l
IT WILL LAST A LIFE-TIME, j
What the Davis Vertical li’eeu will do Without Basting-.
Plain and scallop binding.
Bind dress • oods with the same material, either
scailops, points, squares or straight.
Bind folds without showing the. stitches.
Bind folds without showing the stitches, and sew
on at the same time. •
It wtll put on skirt br.ftM mid. sew on facing at one
operation, without showing the stitches.
Make French folds. Make French folds and sew
on at the same time,
Make ndi lii. -in" told* wit it diifmut color* and pieces
of goods St one operation, and sew mi at the same
time.
It wiii gather without sewing oa- It will gather
and on *t the same time.
II will gather between two bauds, showing the
stSelies on the right side, at one operation.
It will make plaited trimming, if will make plaited
trimming and sew on at the same time.
lt will make plaited trimming cither scalloped or
straight.
It will turn a hem and stitch’on trimming atone
operation.
It will make'wi le and narrow hems, hem all maimer
of bias woolen goods, as suit, merino, crape, or goods
diffieult to hem on other machines.
It wij fold hems with cords enclosed, and stitch
them down at one-operation.
It will cover the cord and sew it between edges at
tbo same time.
It will do felling, bias or straight, cither ou cotton
or woolen goods.
For sale by Q- r IJITCHI CSTS, Fiber ton.
THE GAZETTE.
45 Years Before the Public.
THE GENUINE ;
* BR. C. McIAHE’S
CELEBRATED. T. A. ‘
LIVER PILLS,
FOR THE CURE OF
Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
of a Diseased Liver.
15Al¥ in the dght side, tmder the
edge of the ribs' increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side;, the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain is
felt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss of appe
tite and sickness; the boweb in epn
eral are costive* sojpaetimes alternative
with lax; thd. hofJ. is troubled with
pain, accompaniea with a dull, heavy
sensation in the back part. There is
generally a considerable loss of mem
ory, accompanied with a painful sen
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
A sliglxl. dry cough is sometimes an
attendant. The patient complains of
weariness and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
i nd he complains of a prickly sensa
tion of the skin; his spirits are low;
and although he is satisfied that exer
cise would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the abs’fe
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them ex
isted, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the liver to
have been extensively deranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
Dr. C. McLane’s Liver Pillc, in
cases of Ague and Fever, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathankjjp can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them a fair trial.
For all bilious derangements, ar.d as
a simple purgative, they are unequaled.
9IEWABE OF IWITATIOX.S.
TSJvwgenuine are never sugar coated.
B>#y box has a red wax seal on the lid,
with the impression Dr. McLane’s Liver
Pills.
The genuine McLane’b Liverßills bear
the signatures of C. McLane and Fleming
Bros, on the wrappers.
' rrmttt wjJfflßT"having' the genuine Dr. C.
McLane’s Liver Pills, prepared by Flem
ing Bros., of the market being
full of imitations of the name McLain ,
tpelled differently but same pronunciation.
Marble Yard
TA T Eh BEII TON,
JyOi’th. feide Public Square.
Harvingr opened here, I will be glad to see to all who
are in want of
TOMBSTONES
all styles, including plain
HEADSTONES, HEADSTONES IN BASES
carved in all the latest styles,
Base & Cradle Tombs, Monuments
of all or plain.
GRANITE WORKED.
Ail marble bought directjjfrom the quarries. I feel
ible to suit all, as Thave been engaged iu marble for
22 years at Anderson, S. C.
I will sell as cheap as any dealer.
THOS. M. WHITJO.
L. X. ARCHER, Agent.
Dr. Theo. BRAWN ER
DENTIST,
Offers his professional services to the cit’zens of
Klbert and adjoining comities. All work gnarahteed
and charges reasonable, Will work at Elberton by
appoint mentr. Calls promptly attended to at residences
Address me at Elberton. [jo 14-‘Jin
Ji-P i- <i r ir<inu~n ")Yr.ntl<C^Tay it,
UUAlvfcili CITY oiALVANIC CO. I’hiludclphia , Ta.
BUILDER
WJAV
It will fell across seams on any goods.
It will sew over uneven surfaces us well as plain.
It makes a moie elastic stitch than any other ma
chine.
It doqs not change leng'h of stitch on scroll work.
It sews front lace to leather without changing stitch
or tension.
For tucking, cording, braiding, quilting, rtilHing.
fringing, embroidering, shoe fitting, tailoring, dress
making and family use, it lias no equal.
Tho Davis Vertical Feed, Shuttle Lock Stitch Sew
ing Machine is, beyond question, more desirable for
all kinds of work than any other machine in use, and
is st combination of simplicity and durability.
The Davis presents these advantages: It' prevents
fulling nr gathering of goods, will sew over thick
scams, or from one thick' css to another, without
change of Hfiicli nr Tension, and makes the most
Elastic, Durable and Uniform Lock Stich of any ma
chine before fire public.
The Davis is the only practical Machine for hem
ming bias Alpaca, Poplin, 01 other goods of this de
scription, without basting, and is especially adapted
to Press-making in all its branches. Pitas obtained
the highest Premiums w herever exhibited iu competi
tion with other machines.
The Davis lias the inost complete attiichiuints ever
applied to a sewing machine, and will do every range
of work with incomparably greater ease and facility
than any other.
it is without a rival In simplicity, strength and du
abiiity.
ELBERTON, GEqaGIA, FEBRUARY 18, 1880
Cwrreepondence Cinci-iuati Star.]
THE HEW GIANT MOTOB.
New York, Feb. 4, 1880.
I sentryou an account of,ibe new
Motor that is creating a sensation
amoD" engineers and capitalis 3 of this
city. *Accountsof its remarkable qual
ities_ have been published from time
to time in our local press, and the
thing ha§ been examined ?rit caliy by
experts, who pronounce its
tatots extraordinary. A has
jm>t been formed iu this city, with a
capital of $5,000,000, and sen e of the
very soundest business* New
Toff: arc 'Tepresenfod T among
whom Hepry F. Hamifl} of rf-e Deis
fflater Iron Works (President of the
Uompany), John L. Douglas, Win M
Force, of Newark, N -J., Vibis Van
Tynce, James H. Rees, of iLteburg,
and other solid men.
Tbe company will inangombe their
great invention by a public exhibition
of its qualities under the am -bees of
President Morton, of the Stevens In
stitute, of Hoboken, N. J., aud * steam
boat has been purchased for :tie pur
pose, which is to be adjusted nd the
public test made immediately. The
extraordinary properties of bisulphide
of carbon have been long kno-rn, but
no one has hitherto discovered tbe
means of utilizing its forces r. 7 til re
cently whet its union with petroleum
solved the difficulty. By its usd in the
manner now applied it may b-3 used
with the ordinary steam engine with
out any change whatever nor even tire
turning of a screw further ti-'.a- the
addition of a condenser to con
dense the vapor after it bn- been
passed through the engine cylir der by
connecting a pipe from the exhaust,
and also connecting Another pq • from
the escape or safety valve w: JPtbe
condenser. In use the bisub.! de of
carbon is stored in a tank u* ? the
condenser; the water is lilled the
boiler the same as for steam, ..f l nb
ed a little more than lake 7;; say
140 to 200; then wherfpower - want
ed the pump is set in motion t nject
the bi-sulphide of carbo* i1 • |(> the
heated water in the boiler. Tt instant
ly vaporizes and fills tho. steSnl iham
her, and k thenceforwai and acts pr-.cisely
as steam, only more dense, an : with
greater force. A full head of power,
say from 60 to 150 pounds to tbiiinph,
may at any time be obtained ialthrerf
minutes, and turned off at will. It is
claimed that three fourths of til' fuel
required foy steam is saved by if use,
and that the vapor acts like hydraulic
pressure rather ’ than explosive like
steam cm gunpowder. On inroad
‘locomotives at one sweep it r- tiers
water tanks useless, a
er dfice niled can rua to Oalil'mia
aud back without change or replenish
ing, and the same on ocean steamers.
Avery important peculiarity of this
vapor is that when a sudden need is
felt for additional power, for instance,
on an upgrade on railroads, this is not
procured by an increase of the fire, but
by injecting an increased quantity of
bi sulphide into the boiler by means
of tho pump. Thus, in oije minute’s
time the power can bo raised by the
engineer one hundred" pounds and
taken off at pleasure. Bi sulphide of
caibon vaporizes at 110, degrees of
heat; water at 212. It is claimed that
the New York elevated railroad cars
can be run without fife at ail, lugs of
heated iron to be-applie<l at either end,
J’ielding abundant heat for the supply
ing of the requisite vapor.- Noincrns
tation of boilers takes place with this
agent, as is often the cse nr ordinary
steam boilers.
As soon ns the public test shall bave
been made by the Stevens.lnstitute on,
a steamer, a locomotive is to be fitted
up, and- its adaptability, to railroad,
purposes -‘will be shown. Of course
the gentlemen composing the com--
pany,' and who put their money into
this have witnessed its : op'crations and
know what it will do The American
Engineer lately published an account
of its mprits,' and the Tribune has also
had a short account of it, but the
public will be certainly surprised at
the radical revolution it ii destined to
make all kinds of motive power
thrat now use steam, whhn full accounts
shall be made of its operations in the
public trial that is coming oft’. A
meeting of the directors.was held last
evefiing at Farleys Hotel, and steps
taken foe making the public exhibition
of the invention so thorough as to
satisfy all cavilers. •
Blood Upon tee South— The fol
lowing is a sample of how some of the
Northern papers vill'ify and malign the
South:
‘ The Yankee burns slow, but he
has been heating up all these years of
wrong, cruelty and perfidy, and, un
less we are greatly mistaken, people
of the North are well nigh the boiling
point of impatience concerning the
South ; if she won't live under law,
then let her die under law ; we'are all
sick of her loathsome shape; her
hands dripping with the blootld of the
feeble and ignorant, her -everyday life
a tale of murmur and fraud ; the olive
branch has.been stretched out in vain
year, after year ;. her poverty and sick
ness have been the signal for lavish
generosity on our part; she grasps
the olive branch only long enough *to
divert our attention and then tries to
beat our braia out without a bind
geon ; it accepts everything; it ren
ders back no sign of reconciliation or
obedience to law, and the North in
sheer despair says, give us once more
a Republican Congrees to make our
law operative, and a man like Grant
to do hit, plain duty, instead of quib
bling how he can dodge it, and we will
yet have either some respite from the
reign of terror at the South or a des
ert; the South had better be barren
as Labrador than as hellish as equato
rial Africa.”—[Rutland Hera.d .
“Couldn’t you lend me $5 ?” “Yes,
I could, but I won’t,” “Then do you
think I wouldn’t pay you back!”
“Yes, you would, but you couldn’t.”
EVERY MACHINE WARMTH).
ESTA: s >LISBIED 1859.
A VERY QUIET GAME.
There are some folks who think it
awful wicked for husband and wife to
sit down together of an evening and
play cards, while others can’t see
where the harm comes in.
“Why,” said the Colonel a few days
ago when the subject of card-playing
was under discussion, “does any one
pretend to say that my wife and I
can’t play a few games of euchre with
out disputing and arguing and getting
mad over it? Loafers cAn’t, perhaps,
but we could play for a thousand
years aud never have a word—yes, we
could.”
The others shook their heads in a
dubious wty, and the nettled Colonel
walked straight to a stationer’s aud
bought the nicest pack he could hud.
That evening, when his wife was ready
to sit down to her fancy work, he
produced the new pack of cards and
said:
“May, I was told to-day that you
and I couldn’t play,cards without dis
puting aud*'getting into a row. Dar
ling, draw up here.”
“Dearest, we will not have a word
of dispute—jnot one,” she replied, as
she put away her work.
The Colonel shuffled away, dealt
and turned up a heart.
“I order it up,” she observed, as she
looked over her cards.
“I was going to take it up any
how,” growled the Colonel, as his
chin fell, all his -other cards being
black.
“Play to that,” she said as she put
down the joker.
“Whoever heard of anybody leading
out witli trumps?” he exclaimed.
“Why don’t yon lead out with an
ace ?”
“O, I cap play thj£<lund.”
“Yon can, eh ? Well, I’ll make it
the sickest play vou-ever saw! Ha!
took all the tricks,.eh? I thought I’d
euctoufage you a little. Give me the
cards--—it s my deal.”
“You dealt before.”
“No, I didn’t ?”:
you did ! We have only
played one hand.”
“Well, go ahead and deal all the
time if you want to! I’ll make two
off of your deal, anyhow. What is
trumps?”
She turned up a club, lie Lad on
fly the nine spot, but he scratched his
head, puckered his mouth and seemed
to want to order it up. Iho bluff did
not work. She took it up and he led
the ace of hearts.
“No "hearts, eh !” he shouted as she
trumped it. “Refusing suit is a regu
lar loafer's trick. I’ll keep an' eye on
yon. Yes, tak* U—pf>d
that—and all of ’em ! It’s very queer
where you got all those trumps! You
stocked the cards on me, did you!”
“Now, dear, I played fair and made
two, and if I make one on your deal
I’ll skunk you.”
“I’d like to see yon make one on my
deal!” he puffed. “I’ve been fooling
along to encourage you, but now, I’m
going to beat you out of sight. Dia
monds are trumps.”
She passed and he took it up on
two small trumps. He took the first
trick, she the next two, he the fourth,
and whefl he put out his last trump
she bad the joker.
. “Skunked ! shuuked !” she exclaim
ed, as she clapped her bauds iu merri
ment.
, “You didn’t follow suit!”
.“Oh, yes I did.”
“I know better ! You refused to,
play to spades.”
. “But I hadn’t any.”
. “You hadn’t, eli? • Why didn't you
have tiny ? . I never Saw a hand vet
without at least one spade in it.”
“Why, husband,,l know how to play
carets.”
“Aud don't 1 1 Wasn’t I playing
euchre when you .tvero ■ learning to
walk.l I say you stocked the cards
on me j”
. “No, I did not! You are a very
poor player; you *did not know how
to lead.” „
“I—l—why, maybe I’m a fool,, and
maybe I don’t know anything, and so
you cah play alone and have all trumps
every time.”
He pushed back, grabbed his paper,
w.beeled’around to the gas, and it was
nearly thirty-six hours before he smil
ed again. Nevertheless, no Dae . else
ever had a dispute over cards.
WILL.
Old Eph took- a notion the other
day that he mast make his will, aud
called to consult a lawyer for that
purpose. The attorney gathered a
pencil and a piece of paper and pre
pared to make a schedule.
“Well, Rpb, what property have you
got ?’*
“Well, sah, dar’s dat onery bob
tailed neber sleeps, or if he
does he’s alius talkin' in it. Leabe him
to dat heffy of mine, i neber liked dat
niggah.”
“All right,” said the lawyer,. “there
g.oes the dbg.”
“Den dar’s dat hazel splitteii sow.
Leabe her to whoebber ken ketch
her.”
“The sow is disposed of,” said the
lawyer.
“Be baccy box an’ pipe kin go to de
’boy soon’s he gits old enufftospit
from his* teef.”
“It is so recorded,” answered the
attorney.”
“De house and lot goes to my dat
er.”
“But there’s an incumbrance on the
house; Eph.”
“Wuat’s dat you say?”
“There’s an incumbrance on your
house.”
“Ob, deream, aih dere? Denl’se
wuff good deal more’n I was. Leabe
de cumbrans to do old woman for to
live on-”
♦
It very frequently happens that the
girl who has the mestbang to her hair
has the biggest holes to the heels of
her stockings.
UNCLE WILLIAM.
A year ago there was a quiet funer
al on Wilkins street, and when it was
over an old man called “Uncle Wil
liam” was left without home or friends
and with no means to help himself.
Strangers said that ho would have to
gs to the poorhouse, but when the
trembling and half blind old man wip
ed tears from his eyes, a neighbor
said:
‘I will take him into my home aud
care for him for at least a mouth, any
how.”
“And then I will take him,” added
another.
“And then my roof shall shelter
him,” said a third.
So the old man found friends One
took him and then anothei, and he was
well used. They were far from being
rich. Their tables were lean and
their beds cold, and sometimes the
little that Uncle William ate was miss
vd by the hungry children, but no one
ever spoke unkindly to him not hinted
that he was a burden.
One night last week, after the old
man had sought his bed and the chil
dren were asleep, a husband and wife
sat down to say to each other that
werk was scarce, the rent behind, the
fuel nearly goue, and—.
Here they lookod at each other in a
shy way, ns if ashamed of their
thoughts. The cold wind whistled
around the cottage as if hungering to
nip little toes, and the wife shivered
and said.
“He is so old and feeble—lot us
wait a few deys longer!”
“I haven’t a dollar left,” mused the
gentleman as he glanced at the cup
board.
“But bo eats only a very little,” pro
tested the wife.
“Wo have only a small house.”
“But he sits in a corner.”
They looked at each other a long
time without speaking. A vision of a
poor old man battling with the lierce
winter gale came to either and stood
between them with hands crossed in
supplication.
“He shall stay !” they whispered to
gether as they rose and made leady
for the night, and the gala banged at
the doors as if it had been cheated of
its prey.
Morning came with its meagre
breakfast. There was not enough for
four, but it must do for seven, and the
father forced a •smile to his face as he
opened the old man’s door and ' called
Imn : ■ *• ’ '
“Come, Undo William, you shall,
have the warmest place and the big
gest dish!" . 7
Tho'ce was-no response,"nind ween
they bent over the old man they fouud
that no man would ever again find him
a burden.
“See!” said the wife, “ho may have
heard our whispers, for there is a tear
on his cheek!”
“But he knew the resolve of our
hearts, for he died with a smile on his
face,” added the husband.
“Oh ! he’s dead-poor old grandpa
is dead !” cried the children. “How
glad we are that God- wi.l let him have,
a big, warm corner and lots of every
thing to eat!”
“If we could have done’ more for
him !’’ sighed the wife as her tears fell,
aud yet their charity ,was greater than
his who had subscribed his thousands.
TEE BOSS* LIAR.
“Gentlemen!” I interrupted, “did
you ever hear how I went to prayer
meeting at New London, Conn., in a
rain storm?”
They said they had not.
“Well, gentlemen,;’ I continued,
“one day I started forjtho, New Lon
don prayer-meeting on Lorse-back.
When I got about half way there
came up a fearful stbrm. The wiud
blew a hurricane, the rain fell in tor
rents, the lightning gleamed through
the sky and 1 went and crouched down
behind a large barn. But pretty soon
the lightning struck that barn, and
knocked it into a thousand splinters,
and sent my horse whirling" over into
a neighboring corn patch.”
“Did it kill yo.u Mr. Perkins ?” ask
ed Mr. Twain, the teals roiling down
his cheeks.
“No, it didn’t kill me.” I said, “but
I \yas.a good deal discouraged.” 1
“Well, what did you ;do then, Mr.
Perkins ?”
“What did Ido ? Well, gentlemen,'
I hardly know what to do,’ but to’tell
you the honest Connecticut truth, I
went light out iu the pasture, took off
my coat, humped ijp my back, and
took eleven clips of lightning right
on my bare-backbone, and drew the
electricity all out of the sky, and then
got on to my horse and rode into New
London in lime to lead at the evening
prayer-meeting.”
Arise and sing ! Eli Perkins.
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Prepared for Heaven. —Some time
ago one of Arkansas’ most widely
known statesmen, who is now dead,
was passing along a street in Litllo
Rock, when an old colored man, who
had once belonged to him, approach
ed. took off his hat and passed a hand
over his white wool, as lie said :
“Marster, please gin de ole man fif
ty cent:.”
“Dan,' you are a robber.”
“How?” asked the astonished dar
key, opening his eyes, m ound which
rough-shod age had walked.
“Didn’t you s~e mo put my baud in
my pocket 1”
“Yes, sah.”
“Well, yon old rascal, yon have
robbed mo of the pleasure of giving
you money without being asked for
it.”
The old man received a dollar.
Bowing almi st to tbo ground, while
tears came out and coursed through
the age prints around his eyes, he re
plied :
“Marster, wid sich a heart as you
has aud wid Abraham aud Isaac an'
do Lord on your side, I don’t see what
can keep you out of hebcii.”
Number 42-
SILENT MEN.
Washington never made a speech.
In the zenith of his fa ne lie once at
tempted it, made a failure, and gave
it up confused and abashed. In fram
ing the Constitution of the United
States, the labor was almost wholly
performed in committee of the whole,
of which Washington was chairman.
He spoke twice during the Cu riven
tion ; but Ids words were so few that
they could not fully be termed speech
es. The convention acknowledged
the mater spirit, and historians affirm
that had it not been for his personal
popularity and the sincerity with
which ho spoke, "the Constitution
would have been rejected by the peo
ple. Thomas Jefferson never made a
speech. He couldn’t do it. Napole
on, whose executive ability was almost
without a parallel, said his greatest
trouble was in finding men of deeds,
rather than words When asked how
he maintained tiis influence over his
superiors in age and experience, when
Commander-in-chief of the army in
Italy, ho said, “By reserve.” The
greatness of a man is not to be meas
ured by the length of his speeches, or
their number.
MARRIED MAN'S INDICATOR
The inventor that will be remember
ed when all others are forgotten is a
party named Mickley of Boston, who
has just rendered his fellowmen an in
estimable service by producing an ap
paratus called the “Married Man’s In
dicator,” or the patent “Domestic
Barometer.” This ingenious device
is simply a wonderfully sensitive) ar
rangement of the ordinary barometer,
which infallibly detects the most min
ute alterations in
conditions. The married man return
ing late from the alleged “lodge” or
other locality contraband of war, in
dulges in no fearful speculations as to
his reception. Ho simply takes his
“Indicator” from it ; case and inserts
its projection arranged for the purpose
through the keyhole. Instantly the
domestic temperature within is record
ed on the dial. If it marks S. E.—
set fair; S. A.—sound asleep j or even
C. S.—cross but sleepy, ho brings his
propitiatory box of fried oysters well
to the front, chews a clove and enters
boldly. If, however, the faithful little
instrument reports S. B.—storm brew
ing; or Y. S. L.—very squally, with
lightning, Ire doesn't lose any valuable
•time in warfare, but flies him to the
..qearest hotel and sends - an “up all
flight with a sick friend” note, with
freme matinee tickets and newJrom et
.-bflftufl in morning. Truly, Defence
keeps on this way this world will ho
quite a comfortable place to live in
after awhile.,
NEYT TORE INrEREST LAW-
At the present time, and for many
years past, tbo legal into of interest in
| New York has been G per cent. But
j by a law passed at the last session of
! the State legislature, and which goes
into effect on tbo first of January, the
legal rate of interest is reduced‘to G
per cent., with a stringent usury law
imposing penalties for any excess of
interest over that rate. It is said that
the New York national banks will con
tinno to charge seven per cent., as by
so doing they conform to tho State
law as it was when they became na
tional banking institutions. There is
some doubt, however, whether they
will persist in charging the seven per
cent, rate, although the national bank
ing act provides lor tho corporations
organised under it a very mild penal
ty lor usury, and thus relieves the na
tional banks from the forfeitures, and
its officers frun tho penal consequen
ces prescribed for such an offence in
the State Jaw. There is one poiut
they do not- appear to have consider
ed : Assuming that they can ignore
the State law, they are certain to
bring themselves into odium by char
ging a higher rate of interest than tho
State allows individuals to take. It
is questionable whether they can af
ford at this time to give offence in
the way they contemplata
To accomplish the seemingly incred
ible act of putting an egg into a bot
tle requires the following preparation :
Put au egg.in vinegar, and iu course
of lime its shell will become quite
soft, so Hint it may. "be extended
lengthwise without breaking ; then in
sert into the neck of a smuli bottle,
and on pouring cold water upon it, it
will assume its former figure and
hardness. This is really a curiosity,,
and baffles those who are not in the
secret to find out how it is accom
plished. .Scientists have looked at
the bottled egg with wonder and
amazement.
The best of all letters is that which
conveys the moat information in the
fewest possible words. A lack of spoil
taniety destroys the charm of a letter.
Ladies have two favorite epistolary
manias in their ordinary correspond
ence, namely, writing across lines and
indulging in postscripts, to say noth
ing ot their almost universal practice
of underlining words—this is a con
fession of weakness. Among celebra
ted letters is a brief one which occurs
to us, while we write, from the pen of
the Italian poet, Politan, to a friend :
“I had a great grief, and I have a
great joy—because you were sick, and
because you have recovered.” How
brief aud how significant!
*<£>♦
An army officer is retired when lie
goes out of service, and a wheel is re
tired to go into service again. When
a sheriff releases a prisoner lie loses
possession of him, and when ho rt leas
es a house 110 regains possession of it,
and this is a howling old language of
ours, ain't it ?
A man named Smith died recently
in Australia, leaving one hundred thou
sand dollars. If any person by the
name of Smith sees this he may hear
something to his advantage,
waies. ■
An lowa woman lias a.
nphone.
Anything while is said to be
in lact is snow color.
A Dublin newspaper says : ‘A
of deaths arc unavoidably postponed.'
Sportsmen never object to bnn^
' Leadvillc is overrun with bankers^
l’aro.
A Philadelphia paper warns wintir
against sunstroke.
A water com sc — a series of tompenuu o
lectures.
Schoolboys who get “wlnih and ’ do a d< al
of blubbering.
Flattery is like cologne, water — to bo
sniffed al, hot swallowed.
Gruci fully arched eyebrows are beau
ty’s triumphal’arches.
Two heads arc better Qian one, espe
cially on the penny you “snap up.”
There arc baggage scafes'at every weigh
station on (lie railroad.
This world without \voman--3bvely wo
man—would be. like a black sheet oi pa
per—not even ruled.
Whom the gods would destroy they .
first fill full oi confidence Quit it is not.
j loaded. a
| Chicago has a Inut ** *!
i “Plows vs. Plows.”. Op.uioi** are di
vided, share and share alike.
The barber sends his eliildrcn to the
carpenter’s for shavings, and tUc/eboema
ker sends bis to school for whacks.
How soon popular songs become old,
j Even now “My Clock’
may be classed among the old timepieces.
Some people never know when to stop.-
The editor of tbo Buffalo Advert
writes of a very deep lido without .;
j tom.
With one hand ho held heiy’aoautitiff
I golden head above the chilling wave, niitf
| with the other called loudly for assistance,-,
reads a recent romance. , >-.•
If your son has no brains, doi/i* send!
him to college. You cannot make a pah
ace out of a shanty by putting a.Trenc!a 1
roof on it.
Domestic bliss— kissing the msid.of aIU
work.. Domestic blister—when your with
surprises you in the act.
‘Shall 1 hereafter darn your stockings
is said to be the fashionable language for. l •;
young lady to use when making aleapvyear
proposal.
Young man, if it is II o’clock am! ' Ac
goes to the piano and plays a few !>*>■ of
■The Sweet Dye. and' Bye,.’ yotnuaycon
j sider the seance over for the night.
The best book reviewers nre thos&wlio
have the curiosity to read a bock tjnj] see
if it is anything like the notice they [have
already written and published- about It.
Doctors now say that boiled cow’s milk
is not good lor babies, it is
[Ex, The doctors nre rig' 'uh riWcow
gives better milk than itfyo.. •’. one.
The Jonase.- bad just left the
‘Ma,’ asked little Miss Smith, ‘does Mrs.
| -lungs buy Ibifjrts of flapaP *X .dwt’ii
j know, dear,’ replied her mother. *vVby
Ido you ask?’ “Cause, lie was so polite,.
you know., uia.’ *'•}£ : V
“Why am I made a sapdwidr/* said!
young Snobson, plaintively, as a lady sftfa,
down on either side oi him in the
j car. "Because we are better bred lhat!j|
j you are,’ said one oi the damsels
and Snobson mustard courage to squeeze.;
! out to the platform.
A Nevada man who has tried both says,
j lie would rather be pricked with a bowiu
; knife than stung';by a lee.
The boy who kikes deliberate aim nl a
■ bird and lets fly and blows bis bead oil
I will be heard from shortly.
No mail who hasn’t had a blind boil
between bis shoulders knows how it {feels
to reach alter the unattainable.
No matter how hou-est or upright tho
small,boy may be, bis,,mother prclers to.
keep ti e pantry Containing the pies ufljdcr
lock and key. if : Y
The fellow who swore off swearing off
j calculates that lie is about the only uuuii
who is sticking to his first ot Jnnntnry ,
| vow at present,
A philosopher who went lo a church
j where the pcoplo came in late, said it was,.
‘the fashion for nobody to go till dVcry
| body got there.’ , •’ I JH
Men are beginning to fed u4*rtnift
as to the policy of wedging a maple tooth*
pick between their teeth ami it
oil - for the sake of dislodging a bit of salt...
pork.
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A WEATHER PROPHET.
A pleasant anecdote is told of Pgr*
! tridgo the celebrated almanac maker,
|ln traveling on . horseback into the*
| country he stopped, for his dinner nt
lan inn, and afterward called "ibr bis
bur.se lit at ho might roach tbo next
town vhei'o lie intended to sleep.
“If you would take my rt.TynJWWmA
said the worthy holstcfjf ns if&'fsjff
about io mount his horse, ‘‘yG#7®|
stay where you are for tho ; nightMp
you will surely be overtaken by a jMQ
“Nonsense, nonsense,” sai<§ thelß
manac-maker, “there is a six pencofkH
you, my honest, fellow, and good afcj§
; noon to you.” <■
•Ho proceeded on his journey In
sure enough he was well drenoh*J|||
! a heavy shower. Partridge was JA, JW
with the man's and W
always intent, ni.d was
holster with a broad grin.
“Well, sir, you see I was n'gfcwSSYJr
all.”
“Yes, my lad, you have
here is a crown for yon ; but/1 I ||
to you on oonditiou that y<|
how you knew of this
“To bo sure, nir," >o t >W
i why Urn truth is wo have n alm anai l
in our house called ‘Partridges Al ma
nac,’ and the follow is such A notorious
liar, that whenever ho promises n n
1 lino day wo always know that it will
,bo Iho direct contrary. N[ ow
Imn r. this, the 21st of June, V rmt
down in our almanac in-doors ns ‘Lr.
j tied lino weather, no rain.-* J lpiaAi
at that before I brought yottr
mif. and so was enabled to nut
your guard.” PUt JOU 0#
-V body’s Child I illa ,lh© eon