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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 26,1872.
Number. 11.
CITY GOVE UN ME ST.
Mayor— Samuel Walker.
DojrJ ol A'Jermen—F B Mapp, E Trice,
T \ Caraker, Ja ob Caraker, J H McComb,
jlenry Temple.
(jleik and Treasurer—Peter Fair.
Marshal—.1 B Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle.
Deputy Marshal aud Street Overseer—Peter
Terrell.
Sexton—F Beeland.
City Surveyor—0 T Bayne.
(i'j Auctioneer—S J Shield-.
Finance Committee—T A Caraker, Temples.
Mapp.
Street Committee—J Caraker, Trice, Mc-
C'o.nb.
Laud Committee—MeComb, J Caraker,
Trice.
Cemetery Committee—Temples, Mapp, T A
Caraker,
Board meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights
in each month.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
juiVe M R Bell, Ordinary, office in Masonic
Hull. n
\> Ij Fair, Clerk Sup’r Court, office iu Ma
sonic Hall.
Obadiah Arnold, Sheriff, office iu the Mason
ic Hall.
0 P Bonner, Deputy Sheriff, lives in the
country.
j„sias Marshall, Rec’r Tax Returns—at
Post Office.
L N Callaway, Tax Collector, office at his
II Temples, County' Treasury,office at his
Isaac Cushing, Coroner, res on Wilksonst,
Jo.'iu Gentry, Constable, res on Wayne st,
iirar Hie Factory.
MASONIC
Benevolent Lodge, No. 3, F A M, meets
li,\-t and second Saturday nights of each month
ar Masonic Hail- J C SHEA, W, M,
(i D Cask,secretary.
Temple Chapter meets the second and
iViuik Saturday nights in each month.
S O WHITE, If* P,
G D Case, secretary.
Milledgeville Lodge of Perfection, A A S R
meets every Mondav night.
SAMUEL G "WHITE, S.P. (J, M*
Ge<» D Case.Exc Grand See'y.
I. O. (r. T.
Milledgeville Lodge, No 115, meets in the
Senate Chamber at the State House on every
r Hday evening at 7 o’clock.
C P Cra'.v.'-ord, W C T
F. 1‘ Lane, secretary.
fluid Water Templars meet at the State :
ll'iusc evi ry Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
CIS IK LSI MKECTOBY.
Farmers, Please Notice.
W E are in receipt of
300 bushels Red Clover SEED.
100 - TIMOTHY.
300 “ Kentucky Blue GRASS.
200 “ Orchard GRASS
200 •* Red Top or Herds GRAFS.
-o *• Alsike and Sapling CLOVER.
These SEED have been selected and pur
chased by us in the West, directly from the
growers, and are fresh and pi;;
We keep a complete stork of every c’ass of
IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY and SEED,
which we would be pleased to have you call
and examine.
ECHOLS Sr WILSON,
Jackson Street. Augusta, Ga. and Broad
Street, Atlanta, Ga.
September 5, 35 tf r
LOVE 1 ILL D!H FI!.
A TIIItlLI.IA'O SKETCH.
T HE undersigned respectfully informs the
citizens that they are prepared to furnish
Timber. any amount and size, at their Lum
ber Yard in Milledgeville, at low rates Call
on our Agent. Mr. C. B Mundy, for terms and
prices. N & A CARMANNEY.
decl9-tf
NATURE’S
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Service 1 st and 3d Sundays in each month,
at 11 o'clock a m and / p m.
Sabbath ichool at '.U o’clock a m. S N
Boughten.supt. Rev D E Butler, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH
Hours of service on Sunday: 11 o' clock, a
in. and 7 p m.
Sunday school 3 o’clock p m—W E Frank-
hind, superintendent.
Prayer meeting every Wednesdav at 7
p in. Rev A J Jarrell. Pastor,
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Services every Sabbath (except the second
in eaeli month) at 11 a m and 7 p m.
Sabbath school at 9 1-2 a m T T Windsor
superintendent
Prayer meeting ev-ry Friday at 1 o’clock
P m-
Rev C W Lane, Pastor
■'t lie Episcopal Church has no Pastor at
cresent.
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Health-destroying Drugs us
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turely lost, prevents Headaches, cuies all hu
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up in a pannel boitle, made expressly for it
with the name of the article blown in the glass
Ask your Druggist for Nature’s Hair restom
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Proprietor.
CHAHLlBTON.^.C,
Four years of’ih** fourteenth cen
tury hat! passed away. All Austria
was plunged into dismay ami
luston. Albrecht, emperor and king,
and equally tyrant and despot, had
been slain by a baud of desperate
nobles, of whom Ruffoph von der
Watt was the chief.
Agnes, the widow of ihe murder
ed Kaiser, vowed vengeance, and
k a pt her vow. One by one the
conspirators were honied down.
Last of all, Rudolph was doomed ;
and on the fair morning on which
our brief story commences, he came
firth to die.
Knight and noble were ranged in
a glittering circie around the impe
rial throne raised on the execution
ground, and on which was seated
the empress. Her haughty face was
set in pitiless hate and triumph, as
she marked the sombre scaffold op
posite, topped by ihe dreadful wheel
on which the criminal was to be
bound, and guarded by the red robed
headsman. The soli mn loiiofihe
chinch bells lei 1 heavily on the ear
as the guard, with the prisoner in
their midst, neared the scaffold.
Greedily ihe empress watched
him as he mounted the stair. His
haughty lace was rigid with repose,
and his blue eyes were glittering as
steel. His brow flushed angrily as
the headsman roughly’ tied his hand.-;
but a sneering laugh from ihe em
press seemed to restore his calm.
Agnes looked on triumphantly as lie
was bound to the wheel, and a ihrill
ran through all the great assembly
as the executioner lifted his iron bar,
and let it fall wiih a sickening crash
on the limbs of his victim.
He gave one moan of agony, and
was silent. The torture that tor
hours would be bis he knew, and
steeled himself to bear. Before ihe
eyesof.his deadly enemies, Von der
Wart resolved he would wait the
bitter end in silence.
There was a yielding of the vast
crowd round the scaffold, and a n ur-
mur of sympathy, unchecked, even
by awe of the empress. A woman
passed swiftly up the scaffold, and
paused for a moment ns she glanced
at the criminal stretched on the
wheel above.
She was very beautiful. Her
golden hair fell in thick ringlets over
her rounded neck, and her dark blue j
eyes anil sculptured lace were of j
rare loveliness. She was Gertrude!
von der Wart, come to soothe her j
husband’s agonies to the last-.
The empress laughed in bitter!
derision, and the supple courtiers!
around, taking their cue, launched j
shaft after shaft of biting derision |
and coarse double entendre against
tin- woman who dared to cling still
to a traitor. Her fair face crimson
ed for « moment, but she crushed
down her woman’s torture at the
voices round her, and looked only
on her dying love.
“Water 1” he muttered, “Water!
this thirst burns.”
Gertrude glanced around, and
saw near by a tank which fed a
fountain. Swiftly she swept down
ihe steps, and taking off one of her
shoes filled it with water. Then,
reascending, she ciimbed slowly up
to the aide of her husband, and
heedless, in her lofty love and sub
lime calm, of the venomed tougues
around, pressed her lips passionate
ly to his face, which worked iu ag-
ony.
He scarcely seemed to feel her
lips on his brow at first, lor he only
mutteied, “O, death, death, end this
slow agony ! Come, come—welcome
death!”
“Rudolph, ray own !” she whis
pered and placed her shoe to his
quivering mouth, which seemed to
cling to the welcome waters.
He glanced at her with ineffable
fondness and strove to raise his head.
But there was no need, she pillowed
it on her bosom. And the empress
laughed a harsh laugh. But even
in her sycophants’ breast was some
touch of shame, and they were si
lent in the presence of such noble
constancy and truth.
The sun sloped iu the west, and
its red rays fell on the damp brow
of the dying man. His w ife kept her
marble calmness, and with cease
less care her iiitle hand wiped the
drops from his forehead, and wet
his blackening lips with the water.
“I prayed for the coup de grace,"
he whispered, “before thou earnest,
darling, but I am content to linger
now.”
“So perish tinitors!” said the
peri
empress.
Gertrude von
4
lor Wart looked
arou.iG in si!< nee. Her beautitu
fa. . showed n-* quivering or emo-
ijot,; tm’, with inexpressible ten
derness, she bent over her husband,
and cooled with the water drops his
burning face, over which the las
shadows were creeping.
A mortal wrench of pain sho >k hi-
every limb for a space, but he set
his teeth hard and made no sign.
Then he caught Geitrude’s wrist
and looked at her with the last long
gaze of unutterable love radiant in
bis dimming eyes.
8he drew his head on her bosom
and clasped it, as if those twining
arms could have guarded him from
death. And she heard him say,
with such gratitude in ins tone as
i could only be syllabled by lips to be
stiiled forever in a moment’s time—
“Gertrude! my Gertrude! This
is indeed love till death !”
Good*on Butler.
A rather amusing story is in cir
culation at the expense of the emi
nent gentleman from Massachusetts,
commonly called, ‘Old Strabismus.’
At the President’s levee the other
night, which was densely crowded,
an old lady from the interior some
where, in a fainting condition, re
quested her husband to get her an
ice.
‘Can’t be did,’ responded ‘huh,’
in some irritation ; ‘there ain’t no
refreshments here.’
‘Don’t believe it. Didn’t we get
plenty at Belknap’s the other night 1 ”
the good woman said angrily ; ‘now
go and get me an ice and some lem
onade.’
‘I tell you now don’t hi* a tool ;
there ain’t no refreshments ; every
body says so,’ grunted the lord and j
master.
‘You are quite mistaken, sir,’ said i
the Hon. S. S. Cox, who happened
to be near, and who never loses an
opportunity to put in a joke. ‘The
President always provides substan
tially. There is his butler, whose
business is to show ladies to the
supper room,’ and the Hon. little
j-’Ster pointed to Gen. Butler. ‘You’ll
find him a little stuck up and cross,
but you mustn’t mind that ; tell him
to get you terrapins, ice cream, lem
onade, or whatever you warn, with
a silver spoon to stir it with.’
This was said so gravely that the
two struggled through the crowd to
where Gen. Butler stood talking to
some ladies.
‘1 say, mister, I am told you are
the buffer,’ said the mat..
T.m Gjm. Butler,’ replied Old
Strabismus, pleasantly, thinking the
two some country people filled with
admiration of his greatness.
‘I don’t care whether you are a
general butler or not, but rny wife
wants some terrapins and lemonade,
with, a silver spoon.
‘Sir!’ snorted old B. in amaze
ment and disgust.
‘On ! don’t take on airs, old cock.
Come now, hurry up those terra
pin*.’
‘You must be drunk, sir! you
must be drunk !’
‘No he ain’t,’ screamed the wife.
‘He’s a Good Templar; he ain’t
drunk, but l guess you arc.’
Roars of laughter greeted this, in
which S. S. Cox was forced to join.
Gen. Buffer reddened to the face,
and began puffing his cheeks out in
the most violent manner.
‘1 don’t understand this extraor
dinary conduct. What do you want,
sir—w hat do you want ?*
‘Terrapins, l tell you.’
‘What do you take me for, you
cussed foolroared Benjamin.
•You call me a cussed fool, and
I’ll hit you on the snout,’ screamed
the man.
At this juncture an officer of the
police seized the belligerent hus
band and led him away amid much
laughter. Butler, turning suddenly,
saw the mischief maker.
‘I say, Cox, did you do thatP
‘Well, yes, Pm afraid I did.* .
‘Well, 1 owe the terrapins, and
I’ll pay you, nuud that—I’ll pay
y°u-*
And the two walked lovingly
away.
A Soul Outsujb of the Body.—
There lias always been.some specu
lation on the question whether a
man’s soul actually leaves his body
during sleep, or at any other time
before death, but evidence to solve
mysterious questions is rare. There
is a story told in Louisville, howev
er, ol a merchant of that city, who,
while traveling on a sleeping car in
Mississippi, had a vivid experience
as of visiting his home and seeing
tiis wife and children asleep and no-
:icing that the eight day family clock
had run down, he wound it up and
set ii going. He then returned to
his berih, which was rattling along
ai ihe rate of forty miles an hour, in
a sleeping car, saw his own body
distinctly, and resumed his place
within its well fitting encasemen*.
On writing to his wife abouL it, he
learned that the clock had been mys
teriously wound up on the night ol
his spiritual imagination.
When Lord S dmouth once smd,
•My brains are going to the dogs this
morning,’ his friend ejaculated, ‘Poor
dogs!”
THE WIFE OP CIRL SCHl’RZ.
An Interesting Incident of the. (trail
Speech of the Missouri Senator.
WOBDi A.\D itEin t 'i.^.
A W ashington letter to the New
Orleans Times says :
The effort made by Carl Schuiz
will be long remembered as one o
the most remaikable exhibits of ora
tory ever witnessed in a chainoer
famous for such display. Those now-
living who can look back w ith knowl
edge to the day when Webster, Clav,
Calhoun and Cor’.viu were Wont to
charm the ears of hearers in that
forum, readily admit that this effort
of Senator Schurz towers above them
all. This is saying much, for the
natural inebriation is to exaggerate
the past. The orators of a former
day were remarkable, but i his one of
ours is a wonder. Senator Schurz
lias a remarkably clear and rather
piercing voice. He speaks with a
great command of language and
somewhat German accent, but so
far as choice of words and construe
lion of sentences are concerned, in
the purest English. For hours he
held that vast assembly, and v lien
he closed lln re was a strange ming
ling of reliel aud regret such as one
feels at die end of a beautiful anil
tragic opera, when the last strain
poors out as the curtain drops.
I happened to be witness to a little
scene of domestic beauty that w as
to me exceedingly touching. Mrs.
Schurz, wile of ihe Scnalor, is one ol
the most beautiful ami accomplished
women in Washington. Her expe
rience in social life lias not dimin
ished her sw'eet German nature that
is as impulsive and gentle as a child.
f?lie had read, as 1 subsequently
learned, die attack made by Senator
Conkling on her husband, and wbte-
like she thought it terrible and un
answerable. On the Tuesday Sen
ator Schurz was to reply she wan
dered about restlesslv, and, at last
unable to control herself, about 3
o’clock went to the Capitol. She
thought he would have concluded by
that time, and all for good or bad
must be over. At the first entrance
she found ihe doorkeeper with his
head thrust inside. She asked tor
her husband.
‘Oh ! madam,’ cried the man,‘lie’s
making such a spei ch ! Come in;
ail .’.'.ac Indies arc <m ilio
SYie held back, and a page hurry
ing in, brought out Senator Sumner.
‘Do come in,’ begged ihe Massa
chusetts orator, ‘and hear your bus-
h.nai iu the grandest effort that ever
fell from human lips.’
Over persuaded, she was led
through the crowd toa corner, where
she (flopped into a seat kindly of
fered her. She dropped her fair
head into her hands, Hiding her face,
and we can imagine heard that dear
voice in vindication—arid in such an
earnest appeal to the American peo
pie for justice to ourselves and puri
iy for our institutions, while the im
mense audience responded in deep
silence or wild applause. When
that voice ceased and at last she
looked up, her eyes were wet with
tears. Woman-like, she had found
relief in weeping.
The Real End op the World.
—A correspondent, wriiing from
Henry Lake, in Montana, describes
the locality as a scene of wonderful
grandeur. The lake is situated iu
the Rocky Mountains, at an altitude
of five thousand feet above the level
of the sea. Looking from a high
peak near this body of water, he saw
the panorama of the most wonderful
region known to man. For within
scope of the eye from that point—
having their origin in Henry Lake—
are the sources of five of the grand
est rivers on the face of the globe,
born, as it were, in the same little
lake, and drinking all from the same
small spring. Here the Yellow
stone, Snake and Green Rivers, as
well as Clark’s Fork, Wind River,
Madison and Gallafin, slart together,
leaping and bounding in great cata
racts, and rushing in every direction
to empty themselves inlolhe Pacific
and Atlantic Oceans. Beyond a low
mountain to the southeast, the eye
falls upon the spectacle of the steam
ascending from the ’scape pipes of
purgatory, (sometimes called gey
sers,) to mingle with the clouds.—
‘This,’ exclaims the correspondent,
in a burst of enthusiastic wonder
ment, ‘this is the real end of the
world.
As sometimes small evils, like in
visible insects, inflict pains, and a
single hair may stop avast machine,
the chief secret of comfort lies in noli
suffering trifles t*» vex one, but in;
prudently cultivating an under |
growth of small pleasures, since very
few great ones are let on long leases.
A happy pair made choice of the
29ih of February as their marriage
day, and were reminded by the offi
ciating clergyman that their silver
wedding could be celebrated inj ist
onf hundred years.
From Richard Gr.mi While’s m-w
volu ne bearing ihe above litle, u*
i qu >ie a few paiagraphs showing
J nice sense of disciimination IouiiJm!
I on practical views of die sunjet t :
Aggravate. This word shoal :
never be employed in refer* nee u
persons, as it means merely to aiiff
weight to—lo make an evil more op
pressive; injury is aggravated in
sult. Sometimes irnpropeilv us d in
die sense of irritate, as, ‘l w.i- ver\
much aggravated by his conduct.’
Balance, in the sense of rest, re
mainder, residue, remnant, is mi
abominal : on. Bilance is irietapho
rically the difference between tun
sides of an, account—the amount
which is neo ssurv la m ike inn-
equal to the oilier. Ye: we contin
uuliy hear ol she balance of this or
that ihing, even the balance of a
congrega i->n or ihe bal nice ol an ar
my.
B'ltmliful is nplpic.ihle
o ily. A giver may In
but his gift cannot—ii
called plentiful or large,
fill slice’ is absurd.
Fetch t xpresses a double motion
—first from and thru toward the
speaker; it is exactU equivalent lo
•go and bring,’ and ought to be used
in the sense of bring alone.
Calculate, Insides il< - denial usi-
for think or suppose, is sometimes,
iu the participate ealcul md, put for : _>eiiily in the teir.
likely or apt. ‘That nomination is Tne Squire looked non-plussrd
calcu'aied to injure the jiartv.’ it 's tor a moment but seeing a police-
calculated (designed) lo do mo such ! m in or Constable in the distance,
thing, though i may be likely to ire. ibis face suddenly brightened, and
Citizen should not be used except he struckan attitude of happy le-
wl.en die possession of political ! Heel ion.
rights is implied. Newspaper re i Calling to him the minion o ihe
(rollers have a bad habit of bringing | law, lit? said:
it out on ali occasions, when ‘per-j ‘Arrest dut trggar wid de possum,
ons' would express their meaning I and hrung hole into my cooit at
lo jiersons
bourn iful,
should be
A ‘bo mi i-
How an Arkansas Magistrate Grat
ified, his fanctj for a fat ’Possum.—In
our neighboring city of Helena re
sides a “gernman of color” named
Mn.ue, who rejoices in ihe double
distil.t tion of being a magistrate and
of having a weakness concerning
the quadruped known as ’possum.
Ju-t across the river, in Tunica
county, resides another “cullu.l
gernman” who, while not a magis
trate, is none the less soft on the
’pns um question. His name is
Clem. Clem has a trained, fat
possum which follows him around
ike a dog. Having some business
in Helena recently, he crossed over
(here accompanied, as usual by his
pet companion. Meeting ’Squire
Moore on one of the boulevards of
that metropolis he exchanged with
liim l!;e greetings of the day, when
the fGlowing conversation ensued:
’c?qu're Moore—Look ye re, Clem,
w’ai you lake fur dat yere ’pos
sum?
Clem.—Wal, Squa 1- , I don't care
to sell him, but if you want him
lul
l’ll let you have him fur five
lars.
’Squire M.—Git out nig't:
gijb yon wun dollar.
Clem.—Cati’i sell him fur
nohow.
Saying which Clem wenl his w iv
down ihe boulevard, the possum,
wlio-r -h-ekness attracted the eve
of ihe magistrate, trotting along
I'll
dat,
much belter.
Couple applies to two things ffiiii
are bound together m some way.—
A ‘couple of apples’is h correct, tw<
tipples is what is meant.
Ihrt means film, and is not syneny
mous with dirt or soi’. Yet peopl
The minion aforesaid did as or.
den d, ami soon Clem and his pos
sum trembled in the presence of the
mighty Moore.
‘Clem,’ said ihe magistrate, ‘you’s
accused of being drunk and disor-.
sometimes speak of a dirt road or derly. \Y r at’s youse got to say fur
of packing dirt around roots of trees j yuselfr’
they aie selling. Tney mean earth Clem stammered his innocence
Execute. When a mniderer is j and protested against the charge,
hanged his sentence is executed, the ‘No yuse talking, Clem," 1 said the
man is not. A man cannot be exe- magistrate, ‘dis yere ccort neber
culed—tbit is followed out or per makes a mistake, and isn’t gwine to
formed. ? ^ *1 > r» /lu^n p.ro»vj I ’
Expect looRs always to the future. 6a ying which the learned exro-
You cannot expect that anything lias : neni ol the law turned to a gr asy
happened or is happening, but only 1 looking ebony statue in one corner,
that it will happen. | and said !
GrcUneans to obtain, not to pos-! ‘Mister Klerk, dis darkey am fin-
sess. ‘They have got bad manners.’ jed fibe dollars and costs, lor drunk,
Why will people persist in intio-1 toxication, and breech of de peace.’
ducing the word in such sentences i Clem said he didn’t have the
as those, where it is so evidently su- : money, and asked permission to
perffuous ?• cross the river and gel it.
The magistrate objected, but ti-
Important Discovery at Jeru- I nally consented on condition that
salkm.— An important discovery ! Clem would leave ‘de possum’ a =
lias been made at Jerusalem by Mr. ] security till his return.
C. Schick. Captain Warren, while j And that’s how Squire Moore,
conducting the excavations made at j the black jurist ot Helena, got his
Jerusalem by the Palestine Explora- | possum.—Memphis Avalanche.
tion Fund, explored a remarkable ■»-«■ »■ ■ —
rock-hewn passage leading south- j GOLDEN GRAINS,
ward toward the Temple area from I He is rich who has God for his
the subway at the Convent of the i friend.
Sisters of Zion. Mr. Schick has
found a continuation of litis passage,
or rather acquaduct, as it is now
proved to be, toward tfie north, arif
has traced it from the Convent l<> the
north wall of the city, a little e^st ol
the Damascus gate. At this point
the aqueduct has been partially des
troyed by the formation of the ditch,
cut in solid rock, which lies in front
of and communicates with the well
known caverns; it is therefore older
than these, and can hardly be as
signed a later date than that of the
Kings of Judah. Mr. Schick was
unable at the lime to follow up his
discovery, but the Palestine Explo
ration Fund have taken the matter
in hand, and hope to find the source
from which the water was derived.
The existence of the aqueduct lately
discovered is a strong argument in
favor of the belief that t fie City of
David occupied a portion of Mount
Moriah, and it may possibly enable
us to identify the pool, or some source
near it, as the Upper Gilion, and
Silvaur as Gibon in the Valley.
God Counts.—A brother and sis
ter weie playing in the dining-room,
where their mother placed a basket
of cakes on the tea-table and went
out.
‘How nice they look !’ said the
boy, reaching lo lake one.
His sistet earnestly objected and
even drew back his hand, repeat mg
that it was against their mother’s di
rection.
‘She did not count,’ said he.
‘But perhaps God did,’ answered
the sister.
So he withdrew from the tempta
tion, and, sitting down, seemed to
meditate.
‘You are right,’ replied lie, look
ing at her with a cheerful yet serious
air : ‘God does count, for the Bible
says the hairs of our head ate num
bered.’
Let reason go before enterprise
and counsel before action.
The best hints are obtained from
snarling people. Medicaments make
• lie patient smart, but they heal.
A good opportunity never waits.
If you are not ready some one else
will be.
Many troubles, like waves of the
ocean, will, if we wait calmly, only
break at our feet and disappear.
Man is a thinking being, whether
he will or no ; all he can do is to
turn his thoughts the best way.
They who respect themselves will
be honored ; but they who do not
care about their character will be
despised.
If a man has any religion worth
having, lie will do his duly and not
make a fuss about it. It is theemp-
y kettlt that rallies.
Life, ike war, is a series of mis
takes ; unci he is the best Christian
who wins the most plendid victories
by the retrieval of mistakes.
Bible promises are like the beam
of the sun, which shine as freely in
at the window of the poor man’s cot
tage as at the rich man’s palace.
Death is as near to the young as
the old ; here is ali the difference :
death stands behind the young man’s
b ick, but before the old man’s face.
It is not a good plan, after you
have driven a nail in a sure place,
instead of’just clinching and leaving
it, to keep hammering away till you
break the head oflfor split the board.
God will accept your first at
tempts to serve him, not as a per
fect work, but as a beginning. The
first little blades of wheat are as
pleasant to the farmer’s eyes as the
whole field waving with grain.