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BY BREWSTER & CO. • DIRECTORY- STATE GOVERNMENT. James M. Smith, Governor. N. C. Barnet, Secretary of State. J. W. Goldsmith, Comptroller General. John Jones, Treasurer. Joel Branham, Librarian. John T. Brown, Principal Keeper of the ’ Gustavus J. Orr, State School Commis sioner. J. N. Janes, Commissioner of Agricul t u re. Thomas D. Little, State Geologist. JUDICIAL. BtUS RIDGE CIRCUIT. Noel B. Knight, Judge. C, D. Phillips, Solicitor General. lime of Holding Court. Ghbrokee —Fourth Monday in Febru ary, and first Monday in August. Comb—Second Monday in March and November. Dawson—Third Monday in April and second Monday in September. Fannin—Third Monday in May and Oc tober. - . . Forsyth—First Monday in April and fourth Monday in August. Gilmer-—Second Monday in May and October. Lumpkin—Second Monday in April and first Monday in September. Alllton—Fourth Monday in March and third Monday in August. Pjckrnh—Fourth Monday in April and September.. Towns—Monday after fourth Monday in Mav and Octpber. Union—Fourth Monday in Mav and Oc tober. COUNTY OFFICERS. C< f M. McClure, Ordinary. Regular court first Monday in each month. J. W. Hudson, Cltrk Superior Court. M. P. - Mbriis, SherilF. i X-G; (Jrainlmg, Deputy Shorin’. Jahn G. Evans, Treasurer. Wm. N. Wilson, Tax Receiver. Joseph G. Dupree, Tax Collector. Win. W. Hawkins, Surveyor. Win. Ramptey, Coroner. JUSTICE COURT—CANTON DIS. Joseph E. Hutson, J. P. K E. Daniel, N. P. H. G. Daniel, L. C TOWN GOVERNMENT. W. A. Tcnseley, Mayor. J. W. Hudson, Recorder. James 11. Kilby, Jabez Galt, J. Al. ITvr du, J. M. McAfee, Theodore Turk, Aider men. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Janies O. Do'vda, President. James W. Hudson, Comity School Com missioner. Prof James U. Vincent, Examiner. Joseph M. McAtee, .Allen Keith, Joseph J. Maddox, John R. Moore. Meetings quarterly, in the court-house. QKEROKEE TE\CHERS’ ASSOCIA TION. Junies O. Dowda, President, M. B. Tm’gte, Vice-President. C. M. McClure, Secretary. JuW. AUawsy, Treasurer. Jolpi D AJ ta wav* Ceasor Morum. Frol Jfamts U. Vincent, Association Cor rotqiondent. ’ Regular meetings every second Saturday in each month, at 10 a. in. RELIGIOUS. Baptist Church, ‘Ch nt oil Ga., time of sot vice fourth Sunday in each month. Rev. M. B. Tuggle, Pastor. 41. E. Church, time of service, preachers Im charge. Rev. R R. Johnson, first Sunday. Rev. B. E. Ledbetter, second. Rev. J. M. Hardin, tliird. MASONIC. Canton Lodgb, No. 77, meets first find third Mjindhy nights in each month. Joseph M, Mi'Afee, AA . M. B. E.] Ledbetter, Secretary. Sixes Lodge. No. 282, meets first and third Saturdays, 2 p. in. C. O. Wi?l Hitman, Secretary. GOtAD TEMPLARS. Carton Lorkus, No. 119, meets every i»*inrd »v, b p m j/ihra Galt, W. C. T. AY. H. Copp ige, Secretary. GRANGE. Canton Grange No. 225, Cauton Ga. Jaber. Galt, Master. Joseph M. McAfee, Secretary. ~ Livery Stable ! N.- J . GA R R 1 S O N Has opened a Livery Stable in Canton, end is ;wepared to furnish Horses, Buggies, gnd Wagons to the public for reasonable Compensation He will also do Hauling to and tnnn Hid railroad and elsewhere for tlu'se desiring such *.**<vice. The starting ot a livery stable in Canton i» only an but Mr. Garrison hopes by attemten to busiuess and satisfac tory charges to make his experiment a sne yqdcilukmg. 23 JAMES O. DOWDA. Attorney at Law, 1-- - GEORGIA. lUILb practice in the 8 ' 'r Courts ' V <>! t'bvmkee and n«lha counties. Will faithfully and prompt! ■ <id to the TcolkMfioct of all etatets put tn hands. < Irficr in the courl-house, Cauton. Ga. fc aur 4 1 ly @ljc Cljerohec Georgian* A CONSTANT READER. The overworked scribe of the Mudvillc Gazette Sat wondering—moneyless wight— If his office would ever be cleared of its debt, With the times so deplorably tight, When the tread of old leather was heard on the stair And a stranger stepped into the room. Who asked with the “Don’t let me boU'W yofi" air, Which the bore is so apt to assume: “How are ye ?” The editor rose ’with a smile And pleasantly yielded his chair — Placed the visitor’s sadly unbeautiful tile (Which exbi’ ited symptoms of wear) On the top of the desk, along side of his own (A shocking old plug, by the way,) And then asked, in a rather obsequious tone, “Can we do anything for you to-day ?” “No—l jest called to see ye,” the visitor said : “I'm a friend to the newspaper man” — Here he ran a red handkerchief over his head, And accepted the editor’s fan — “I hev read all the pieces you’ve writ for your sheet, And they’re straight to the p'int, I con fess — That ’ar slap you gin Keyser was sartinly neat ; You’re a ornament, sir, to the press 1” “I am glad you arc pleased,” said the writ er, “indeed ; But you praise me too highly, by far— Just select an exchange that you are anx ious to read, And, while reading it, try this cigar. By the way, I’ve a melon laid up fora treat I’ve been keeping it nestled in ice, It’s a beauty, sir—fit for an angel to eat - Now, perhaps, you will relish a slice ?” Then the stranger roiled up half a dozen or more Os the choicest exchanges of all — Helped himself to the fruit, threw the rinds on the floor, Or flung them at the flies on the wall. He assured his new friend that his “pieces were wrote Tn a manner uncommonly able”— As he wiped his red bands over the editor’s coat Thai hung at the side of the table. “By ’he way. I’ve neglected to ask you your name.” Said the scribe, as the s’ranger arose ; “Thai’s a fact," he replied, “I’m Abimatech Bsnie; Yon hev heeril o’ that name, I suppose? I'm a-liviu’ out here on the Fiddletown creek, Where I own a good house and a lot; The Gazette gets around to me once every week—■ I’m the constantest reader you’ve got!" ‘Abimnlech Baine,” mused the editor; “B-a-ni-c”— [Here his guest begged a chew of bis “twist”] “I’m sorry to say your mellifluous name Doesn’t hiqqien to honor iny list 1” “ S’ pose not,” was the answer; “no reason it should, For ye see I jine lots with Bill Prim — He’s a reg’lar subscriber an’ pays ye in wo< ><l, An’ 1 borry your paper o’ him !’’ The Crosses Christians Bear. Some do not (car personal danger so much as responsibilities for others. To be a de cided Christian is to be a niarkeil man, whose errors arc a scandal to the weak, a burden to H e tender, and an excuse to the wicked. But the same burden is upon the shoulders of everj’ living man; and it only presses especially upon the Christian be cause he has a second and a deeper life to live. There is no little child whose behav ior doesnot make ill-behaved children eith er ashamed or shameless. There is no young man or maiden whose very look has notan effect upon the words and acts of some com rade, since God has allowed the cruel frost of utter isolation to cl<»" over so human heart. The merchant influences the moral ity of trade; the lonely student cannot deepen the flood of thought without also cleansing or defiling it. To dread respon sibility is to dread life. It is only a statue that sets no example to creatures who have hands which can help or binder, and cy<« which can flash with rngc or soften into sympathy. You will not be a Christian be cause yon shrink from danger or responsi bility. Then why have you submitted for so many years to lie alive? To l»e a Christian is to labor. A cross has to be borne, a race has to be run, there are unearthly enemies with whom to wrestle, therefore, men shrink from the din of battle and the dust of pilgrimage. But yet the sap and salt, the freshness and the vigor of our daily life, would be lost if there were no contest, no campaigns, no vietores. AV bat names are great in history? whose monuments are sacred ? Those which be longed to men who scorned delights, and lived laborious days; soldiers who slept on the ground, and hungered and bled; writ ers, who Unit the lofty line in solitary days and sleepless nights, with painful thought and deep experience; reformers, who stood alone against the world ; martyrs, whom they burned. These arc the men whose lives were applauded. But even the most ignoble and dishonorable life is full of lalxir and wxation. To rvfiiso all toil is to groan under the hatred of strangersand the re proa< ties of kinsmen; to indulge every ap i pelite L t » writhe under a hundred disca'. CANTON, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1876. Virtue and Intelligence—The Safeguards of Liberty. The reveler of to-night aches and frets to morrow. Indolence never knows the joy of bounding pulsesand a well-braced sys tern. No man is so heavily laden ns he who bears no cross ; nor so miserable as the man of pleasure.—[Exchange. The Spider’s Web. The question has often been asked, “How does a spKiei- Kake it: wtb, the lines—some of them—crossing at the center, are carried to the surrounding objects, while others are fastened to an outer circular line, made evi dently before the outer circular lines of the woof are formed ?” Also, “Where does the spider place itself when it ejects the lines which form the spokes of the wheel ?” To these queries the Scientific American replies : “The extreme outer line surround ing the web, to which the spokes arc fasten cd, is by no means always circular; this de pends upon the position of the surrounding objects to which the web is fastened. The spider first extends lines from one point to another by the shortest route possible, en closing a sufficient space to build its web ; then he extends a line across where he in tends to have the center of his web. He next fixes the center by fastening a line th«-rcto on the central line, and carrying the line at right angles or nearly so to the first line, hitches it to the nearest object, whether that be the outer line pf the web, or anything to which the web is fastened. It will be observed here that the spider ejects all the spokes of the wheel (except the first line across the center of the web) from the intended center, placing the first lines at right angles or nearly so, and divid ing ‘.he distance each time a line is extended from the center until a sufficient number are put up, always stretching the lines alternate ly in opposite directions until the spokes of the wheel are complete. He then places his left forefoot on the center of the wheel, and hitches the first end of the circular line of the woof to one of ihe spokes of the wheel, and rnyves round the center, fastening his thread to every spoke as be goes along, measuring the distance from one line to the other by stretching bis right hind foot to secure the web to the spoke, with his left forefoot one line toward the center and moving spirally along from one spoke to the other, until he gets his web sufficiently large for his purpose.” We are selfing cotton goods in Lancas shirc, England, better than are made there and at a less price. AVe arc also undersell ing Manchester in China and on the west coast of South America. American saws have almost a monopoly in England, and A’ankce axes arc confessed to he superior to all forc : gn articles of that kind. For years they have had a superior character abroad. In many kinds of tools for machinists, Amer ican mechanics have long enjoyed a certain pre-eminence in the Old Workl. While our manufacturers and mechanics are thus upholding the fame and character of the United States in foreign countries, our agri culturists and shippers are putting wheat into England in such quantities and at such prices as to interfere in a very serious man ner with the grain export trade of Russia. In 1867 Russia sent to England forty-four per cent, of her total grain imports, the United States only 14 per cent. In 1873 the quantities were changed, the United States sending forty-f >ur per cent., and Rus sia only twenty-one per cent, of the grain imports of Great Britain.—[Fhila. Times. — Cotton Manufacture in India. —Alto- gether there are twenty-five cotton mills in India in full operation, working 600,000 spindles and 7,000 looms. The spindles produce about 130,000 pounds of cotton thread a day, of which about 50,000 pounds arc used to produce cloth. These mills are chiefly in the Bombay Island, where a new spinning mil], just opened by a wealthy lliudoo, and working2s,ooo spindles, makes a total of seventeen working mills. Up country there are several others —one at Surat, two at Broach, two at Ahmedebad, one at Jugaum, one in the native State of Bnownugger, and one at Madras. Exten sions arc also rapidly going forward. Eight extensions arc in course of construction at B >mbay, chiefly tuusharc capital, and these wi’l provide at least for'the.xyorking of 40,- ak) more spindles and 1,315 looms-.- Man chester must take into account, in calcula-’ lions for the future, the rapid development of cotton manufacture in India. There is not an ingot of silver in Heav en's treasury, which has not been in the furnace on earth and been purified seven times; there is not a gem which the Di vine Jeweler has not exposed to every sort of test; there is not an atom of gold in the Redeemer's crown which has not been molten in the hottest coals, so as io r;d it of its alloy. It is universal to even’ child of God. If you are a servant of God, you must be tried as gold is tried. AVhy should the gloom deepen as we near the sun ? Why should the unthinking speak of the downward sloix? of life? Why walk backward all our days, with our faces down hill, and gloomily speak of the down ward slope to the grave? And yet bow true it is that most < : ua do so. The Centennial Appropriation Bill. DR. FELTON’S SPEECH IN OPPOSITION. On the 21st of January, the Centennial Appropriation Bill being befine the House of Representatives, Hon. W. 11. Feltoi made the following remarks. We quote from the Congressional Record : Air. Chairman,! have but a few minutes to speak on this subject, and I desire til st, to | say as a Southern man, I ?.!P opposed to i thia bill ; but I am influenced by no vote] this House has given upon the question of amnesty. If this House has seen proper to perpetuate a wrong, that is no reason why I should vote against my convictions. Aly opposition to this bill is not, opposition to the centennial exhibition; for that exhibi tion 1 wish success. I trust it will be the means of sending to the ends of the earth the story of Ameriem genius and the tri umphs of American industry. Alore partic ularly, I desire it may be the means of fra ternizing the too-long estranged sections of our common country. But when Europe and all the world assemble in Philadephia, i I want them to learn lessons which will be ■ valuable in all after life. The gentleman from ATaine [Mr. Frye] on yesterday stated that we bad challeng'd the world to come and compete with ns in • our material industries. This is right. When they come, if they learn that we make the best mower and reaper, that we manufacture the be t sewing-machine, that we turn out the best plow, that we can ex hibit the best specimens of manufactured ! iron, that we have the richest and most inex haustible resources in the world, mineral, agricultural and commercial —when they learn all this, as they will, they will learn that which is valuable to themsJvcs and to us. But, sir, as they study ami profit by flies'* lessons, I want them to learn anoth- r great truth, namely, that Imre is the bes-t govern ment the world ever saw. When Europe, Japan and China, and other nations gather next summer in the biilh place o( American freedom, we must teach them this lesson. ! J think it is one of.the grand missions of the centennial year to teach this grand lesson to all European and Asiatic monarchies and despotisms. They have been reared up to believe that it is impossible to carry on any valuable enterprise without the intervention r of the government. They have been in structed, sir, that the government must fur nish the money for every interest in which the nation is concerns 1, or which is of in terest to its people. In old Romo if a gladiatorial show was demanded as a Ro man holiday, the government arranged the programme and footed the bills. In Spain if a bull-fight is required for Spanish rccrea- [ tion, the government is the principal stock holder in the enterprise. The result of all this is the exaltation of the government and the political degradation of the people. Now, when they come to Philadelphia to attend this internal exhibition, this centen nial report of political freedom, let them learn that here government is dwarfed, and the people “are nil in ailthat the intel i gence, the wealth, the industries, and all the material and intellectual glory of the nation is deposited with the pcop’e. In my judgment if you pass this bill, if you associate the government pecuniarily with this enterprise, making’ll the principal stockholder, you will sacrifice the only dis- j tinclive badge that givesit prominence and , significance as the centennial exhibition of a republican government. A'ou subordinate the people and their Individual wealth to i all the wealth and power of the Federal i Government. You exhibit to ail Europe ; tendencies to the same centralism under ■ which they have been trained and by which I they have been crushed. I am opposed to this aopropriation be- . cause it is in direct conflict with the previ- ’ ous action of this House. One of the first . . acts of this Hou<e was to pass a resolution [ declaring it unwise, in the present financial ; condition of the country, to vote any ap-; propriations of money or lands or bonds in ' aid of any private enterprise. Was that ? vote mere child’s play ? Was it intended j as a pleasant fr md upon the tax-payers ot the country? Or was it given with a mental ; reservation in f .vor of thi’ measure, or has ■ the financial condition of the country so far; [improved since tl.at time as to authorize a liberal departure from its provisions ? Wr ; i gave that vote in goo<Y4hilh,an l ’be r< na try r ccive I it a- i most :nng of the Forty-so th Congress.’ Th was a contract between the Representatives ' i the House ami "their constituents, ratified , by universal approval. Shall we break that , contract to-day? If violated in one part, it . ( is violated in all its parts, and you open the i doors of this House to every scheme which seeks partnership with the national Trcas- < ury. i J This is a private enterprise, managed j and controlled by private corporators, in the interest of individual stuekh' filers and ' in my judgment we have no constitutional * i right to vote the public finds for such a . purpose. lam no lawyer, but the gentle-! ; men from Pennsylvania [Mr. Cochrane] [ |and the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. [Tucker] yt-stealab.->Bit- Iy ex’.. »u.;’. 1. ihe a’-gument demonstrating the unconsti tutionality of the bill. I was amazed, sir, and interested by the line taken by the gentleman from Maine, [Mr. Frye]. That gentleman seemed t> sneer at allusions made to the Constitution. It was to him a matter of amusement that there should be reference to that sacred in strument of the government. IT* 5 asserted that it was a cover under which every de feated party was in the habit of taking Shelter. I know, sir. that it has beet the custom in Uris-Li'iuse to sneer at the Con stitution as some hing otisoieic. JJjd, sir, let inc te’il the gentleman that, while it has lain there lifeless, bleached like the dry bones i f Ezekiel, the people of tbi< country have once more breathed upon these bones, and it will not be long, sir, until .you sie bone coming to bone, until you see sinew and flesh and skin, and the principles of that old Constitution shall stand up a living arinv, to do battle once more for human freedom. [Applause ] This money is not intended to develop anj’ of the resources of the country ; is not intended f>r protection or for relief. The financial stringency now felt th rough .-nt the country is in p ■.ralle’ed in its history. The pressure upon labor and all of our in dustries is intolerable. ALmnfncturing es tablishments are suspended; merchants are failing; agriculture is unprofitable; and general bankruptcy threatens the land. In the midst of this univt rsal distress yon are asked to vote a million and a half of the tax payer’s money for a mere exhibition. But we are told the character of the na tion is involved, and that Hie glory of the Republic is to be measured by the success ' of this international exposition. Sir, I trust j we are too well established to be affected by such cheap display’s of our we d h or such pompons publications of our “stock in trade.” The glory of this nation consists in the freedom of the people, in its adherence to constitutional print iplcs, and the intelli gence, morality, and material prosperity of its citizens. Give Yotjr Child a Paper.—We clip the following from an exchange and would urge every parent to read it with care: We know of nothing so well calculated to assist in the education of a child as a good news paper; suited to its wants. Parents are too careless on this point. They cither furnish their children with trash, “dime novels,” etc., or else with nothing nt all, and then wonder why Johnnie don’t love his book, or Willie won’t stay’ at home. The idea is this; create in your children a desire for r ading, by furnishing them with proper matter, and they soon acquire a habit of reading, that wdl do as much for their men'al training as anything else. A child beginning to lead becomes da lighted with a newspaper, because he reads of names and things which are familiar, and he will progress accordingly. A newspaper in one year is worth a quarter’s schooling to any child Every father must consider that information is connected with advance ment. The mother of a family, being one of its heads, and having a more immediate charge of the children, should herself lie instructed. A mind occupied becomes for tified against the ills of life and is braced by emergency. Children amused by reading or study are more considerate and easily governed. How many thoughtless young incu have spent their earnings in a tavern or grog shop, who ought to have bean read ing. How many parents who have not spent twenty’ dollars for books for their families, would have given thousands, to reclaim a son or daughter, who had ignor antly, thoughtlessly’, fallen into temptation. Old Air. Fruits and old Mrs. Fruits, of In diana, mav well be called “ he first Fruits of the earth,’’the one being 113 and the oth er 111 years old. The old gentldtnan nei ther sinok< s nor chews, which goes to show, as wise men have long contended, that the true secret of health and long life lies in a total abstinence from the use of tobacco, and we beg the young reader who is fond of the weed Io make a cote of the fact. This venerable couple have lived and loved and cut up and quarreled together as man and wife for 8-5 years. The old lady has been an incessant smoker for 60 years, which shows the absurdity’ of supposing, as some blockheads contend, that the use of tobacco is injurious to health and short ens life, and the young reader who is fond of smoking or chewing we congratulate up on the fact —[Courier-Journal. Tiiu New Testament revision in En gland. . w .in which quite a number of ■ eminent ... . iCS ar- engaged, has now been g-H! 5 >:• five years, and tocoir.pl te it pro- , bably five years more will be required. The revisers arc ieported having entirely ' completed their work upon ‘he four gos- ■ pc’s, excepting so far as two questions are ! concerned, which s’ill causes a difference of opinion, and are yet to be decided. The number of disputed points is very great, and requires a vast amount of research to ■ satisfactorily settle many of them. The grand essentia is to human happi , n ss are, something to do, something to b >pf f<>r, and something to love. VOLUME 1.-NUMBER 26’ AM. FOR FUS. A heavy income—The entrance of an elephant. T«o heals are better than one, especial ly in a barrel. Husband and wife arc of one mind—* when bi th wish to govern. Oregon has a town named Pay Up, and they arc tvlking of calling it See-y’ou-to morrow. A veteran, asked if he could “Bleep on the point of a bayonet,” replied, No, but he bn( i on a P i,n of A lady asked a h° w old was. He replied, “What you <fo thing.” AVhat was his age ? XL. A Miss Tanner, who recently married a widower named Hyde with eleven children, says she has given up tanning, and is now dressing Hydes. “Ala, will pa go to Heaven ?” “Yes, my daughter, I reckon so; but why do you ask such a question ?” “Because I thought he couldn’t leave his store.” “Now, then, children,” said a parish schoolmistress, showing her children off on ex minat o i day, “Mho o e> all men?” “You, missus,” was the unexpected reply. S <id a lady to a steamboat captain, while wat. h ng an alligator, “Captain, is he am phibious ?” "Amphibious, no ’he would e. t a hog in a minute,” replied the captaix* “Brudder Jones,” said a colored elder to his white pastor, “couldn’t you preach once widout rich talk about lyin’ and stealin’, a>d gib us one di y to rexl comfortin’ reli gion ?” A man never knows what it. is to feel alone in the world until he has grabbed at a nickel in a show-case window, and dis covered that it is fastened to the lower sur face of the glass. “What object do you now see?” asked the doctor. The young man hesitated a few moments, and then replied: “It ap pears like a jackass, Doctor, lut I rather think it is your shadow.” A school teacher was explaining to the children that usually all words ending with “let” meant something small, as streamlet, rivulet, ham’et, etc. Whereupon a smart boy asked if “hamlet” meant a small ham. Mark Twain, apropos of a new portable mosquito net, writes that the day is coming “when we shall sit under our nets in church and slumber peacefully, while the discom fited flies club together and take it ont of the minister.” They were sealed at a late dinner, when the door-bell rang and the servant banded a card to Lavender’s wife. “Why, good gracious! it’s our minister, and I’ve been eating onions!” she exclaimed. “Never mind,” said Lavendei, “you needn’t kina him to-day.” “Why is it that everybody in Texas thinks it necessary to carry one or two re volvers?” “Well, stranger,” said the Tex an, “you mought travel around here a good long time and not want a weapon, but when you do want a pistol in this country, you want it bad.” A Frenchman, learning the English lan guage, complained of the irregularity ot the verb “to go,” the present tense ot which some wae had written out for him as fol lows: “I go; thou startest; ho departs; we make tracks; you cut stick; they ab squatulate or skedaddle.” A man who cheats in short measure is a measureless rogue. If in whisky, then he is a rogue in spirit. If in falsifying, then he is an unaccountable rogue. If he gives a bad title to tend, then he is a rogue in deed. If he gives short measure in wheat, then be is a rogue in grain. "Pompey, I hear you arc a gteat preach er.” "Yes; de Lord do help me powerful sometimes.” “Well, Pompey, don’t you think the negroes steal ?" ‘Tse mighty ’fraid day does.” "Then, Pompey, preach a sermon against stealing.” “You see, dat wouldn't never do, ’cause ’twould trow such a coolness over de meetin’. The late Hon. Sam. Galloway of Ohio was a remarkably homely man. On one occasion, white dining with a personal and political friend in Cbilicothe, the seven year-old daughter of his host, who hail been intently studying Galloway’s face, said, loud enough to be heard by all at the table: "Ma, didn’t that man’s mamma love children mighty well ?” "Why so, my dear?” asked her mother. “Oh, Juel ’cause she raised Ann /” If there is a man so heartless and gruff that he doesn’t love children, bin stony ven t icles would have been softened had he stood on Vine street and seen and beard a sweet little cherub of three bright summers weep and howl and pound its little buggy with its little footsie tootsies, and yell and ramp and rare and swear and call names and bite and sqneal and shriek and sob and screech, because they wouldn’t give it that big railroad sign of the I. C. and L. R. R. Co., ninety feet long, to play with. And if the sign hadn’t been fastened at the second story of the building, we believe the young rooster would have had it.— {Satunlay Night.