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V Volume LIII. TUB southern • BT 3, A. HAERISON, OEME & CO. T:rm~, $2.00 Per Annum in Advance £itii Diccctorn. 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. Free from the Poisonous and Health-destroying Drugs us ed in other Hair Prepara tions. No SUGAR OF LEAD-No LITHARGE-No NITRATE OF SILVER, and is entirely Transparent and clear as crystal, it will noi so l tne finest fabric—perfectly SAFE, CLEAN and E FFI C IE N T—d-sidmaiums LONG SOUGHT FOR AN D FOUND AT LAST ! It restores auJ prevents the Hair from be coming Gray, impans a Soft, glossy appear ance, removes Pa druff, is cool and refreshing to'.he head, checks the Hair from failing off, and restores it to a grout extent when prema turely lost, prevents Headaches, cuies all hu mors, cutaneous eruptions, and unnatural Heat. JS A DRESSING FOR THE II4IR IT 15 THE BEST ARTICLE LV THE MARKET Dlt. G. SMITH, Patentee, Groton Junction, | Mass., Prepared only by PROCTOR BROTH ERS, Gloucester, Mass. The Genuine is put 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 ive, and take no othei. For sale in Milledgeville by L. W. HUNT | & CO In Sparta, by A. II. BIRDSONG & CO. p July 2 lv K FehTS ’7 I ly. A LUXURY OF THE PERIOD. the great- blood-purifier PR0PERTIES&A PLEASANTER! NK. ALL SKIN DISEASES&£RtfPTI0 N S . "DYSPEPSIA S-GENERAL OEBILITY. NERVOii S DISEASES:LIVER COMPLAINT SESOfTHE KIDNEY BLADDER ARE COOD fORTHE MENTAL ORCANIZATIO N THEY WILL RESTORE YOUTHFUL VIGOR -IRREGULARITY Of THE BOWELS. CURES NEVER’ WELL PEOPLE Xh» grand Panaeea for all the ills of life. » Staniari BITTER S/^-Jji THEa TRACES. In Yonagor Old, Ml 'or Single, these Bitters ‘equalled and hare often been means of saving life. TRY ONE BOTTLE. MILLF.R. B:s-TLL & BURRUM, Whole sale Ag-nt end Wholesale Gn-eers and Corr- mis-ii.i, Men hams, 177 Brocd Street, AG- GUST A, GA Cotton Food. A FERTILIZFR specia l}- for COTTON. i' n 1 tor circa ar before purchasing- “U it. Try it, and yon will neierrcg et it. A. F. 6KINNLR. \g. nt Milledg viHe. F. W. ; l is, General Ap-nts, , R l. 6 oil: r Savannah, Ga. /jjf..v fKi Hit wsiffiffir The Great Southern Tonic, —AND— Universally Popular St3'.achic and Appetizer. BETTER TONIC THAN QUININE. Popularity is a pretty good guarantee of merit in this scrutinizing an intelligent age, and tried by this critenond SUM PER BIT TERS stands first among the invigorating and regulating medicines of the pres* it- day. OLD PREJUDICES ARE DYING OUT. Everybody savs SUMTER Bll i'EKS Cures Dyspepsia, Preve-its Chills and Fever, Creates Appetite, Restores the Nerves, Cures Debility, Purifies the Blood, Restores Tone to the Stomach, Pleasant to the Taste, Exhilarating to the Body, And is the most POPULAR BITTERS For sale by L. W. HUNT & CO., Milledgeville, Ga. For sale by A. H. BIRDSONG & CO , Sparta, Ga. jan—9—r p DARBY’S PROPHYLACTIC FLUID rpiJiS invaluable Family Medicine, toi purify in. T cleansing, removing ba odors in all kinds of sickness; for i>urn- sores, woui.Js, stings; tor Erysipelas, rheumatism, and all skin diseases; tor catarrh, sore mouth, sore throat, diptheiia; for colic, diarrhoea, cholera; us awash to soften and beautify the skin; to remove ok spots, mildew, trim slams, taken in fernallv as well as applied externally; si highly recommended by ;il 1 who h'ive uset« It—is for sale by ail Uugtrsts and Coun- y Merchants, and may be ordered di rectly of the "DARBY PROPHYLACTIC CO 161 William S reef. N. V P Dee'24’70 iy. rMa> 2 n.Jnne3 ly CHARLESTON HOTEL. E. IS. JACKS*!'. 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.