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I VEGETINE
hirijiet the Bloody Renovates and In
vigorate* the whole System .
Its Medical Properties are
[alterative, TONIC, SOLVENT AND
DIURETIC.
VrOF.TiN'E is made exclusively from the jui
„„ of carefully-selected horkß, roots and herbs
no strongly concentrated, that it will effect
inlly eradicate from the system every
alnt of Scrofula, Scrofulous Humor,
'umora. Cancer, Cancerous Humor,
Jrysipelas, Salt Rheum, Syphilitic Diseases,
junker. Faintness at the Ston ach, and all
diseases that arise from impure blood. Scia
tica, Inflammatory and Chronic Rhumatism,
fpura'gift, Gout and Spinal Complaints can
only be effectually cured through the blood
For Ulcers and Eruptive diseases of the
Ikin Pustules, B’.onhes, Boils, Tetter, l Scald
lead ahd Ringworm, Vegetine has never failed
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)ropsy, Female Weakness, Leuoorrhoen, aris
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ForCatairh, Dyspepsis, Habitual Costive
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iervousness and Generous Prostration of the
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and possesses a controlling power over the ner
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The remarkable euros effected by Vegetine
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their own families.
In fact, Yegetine is the best remedy yet dis
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Blood Purifier yet placed before the public.
PREPARED BY
If. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.
What is Vegetine ?—Tt a compound ext-rac
ted from barks, riot* and herbs. It is Nature’s
Remedy. It is perfectly harmless from any
bad effect upon the system. • It is nourishing
and strengthening. It acts directly upon the
blood. It quiets the nervous system. It gives
yon good sweet sleep at night. It is a great
panacea for our nged fathers and mothers : for
it gives them strength, quiets their nerves,
and gives them Nature’s sweet sleep,—ns has
been proved by many an aged person. It is
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plaints.
VALUABLE INFO RMA 7ION
Boston, Dec, 12, 1869.
Gentlemen— My only object in giving you
this testimonial is to spread valuable informa
tion. Having been badly afflicted with Salt
Rheum, and the whole surface of my skin be
ing covered with pimples and eruptions, many
of which caused me great pain and annoyance
and knowing it to be a blood disease, I took
many of the advertised blood preparations,
among which was any quantity of Sarsaparilla,
without obtaining any benefit until I commen
ced taking the Vegetine, and before I hod
completed the first bottle I saw that
I had got the right medicine.
Consequertly, I followed on with it
until I had taken seven bottles, when I was
pronounced a well man, and my skin is smooth
and entirely free from pimples and eruptions.
I have never enjoyed so good health before,
and i attribute it to the use of Vegetine. To
benefit those afflicted with Rheumatism, I will
make mention also of the Vegetine’s wonderful
power of curing me of this acute complaint,
of which I have suffered so intensely
C. H. TUCKER, Pas. Ag’t. 0. R. R.
48-lm 60 Washington Street, Boston.
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Vol. 3.
National Democratic Platform.
ADOPTED AT FT. LOUIS.
Wo, the delegates of the Democratic
party of the United States in National
Convention assembled, do here declare
the administration of tho Federal gov
ernment to be in urgent need ot reform;
• he T, 7 e,, j.°' n u P on the nominees of
this Convention, and the Democratic
party m each State, a zealous effort and
co operation to this end, and do hereby
appeal to our fellow citizens of every
every former political connection to un
dei take with us this first and most press
ing patriotic duty.
For the Democracy of the whole conn*
fry we do here re-affirm onr faith in the
permanence of the Federal Union, our
devotion to the constitution of the llnl
ted States, with its arrfendwonts nniver
sally accepted as a final settlement of afl
controversies that engendered the civil
war, and do hero record our steadfast
confidence in the perpetntity of liepnb—
licin self governient; in the supremacy
°t the civil aver military authority ; in
the total separation of the church and
Slate for the, soke alike of civil and
religions freedom ; in the quality of all
citizens before tho just laws of their
own enactment ; in the liberty of indi
vidual conduct unvexed by sumptuary
laws; in the faithful education ot the
rising generation, that they may pre
serve, enjoy and transmit these best con
ditions of human happiness, and hope we
behold the noblest products of a hundred
years of changeful history; but while up
holding the bond of onr union, and the
great character of these, onr rights, it
helicovea a tree people to practice also
thrt eternal vigilance which is the price
of I'berty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild and es
tablish in the hearts o’f the people of the
Union, eleven yeais ago happily rescued
from the dangers of corruot centralism,
which after inflicting upon ten States
the rapacity of carpet-bag tyranies, has
honey-combed the officers of the Feder
al goverment itself with incapacity, waste
and fraud ; infected States and munici
palities with the conlamination of mis
rule, and locked fast the prosperity of an
ndustrious people in the paralysis of
hard times.
Reform is necessary to establish a
sound currency, restore the public credit
and maintain the National honor. We
nenounce the faihie for all these eleven
years to make good the ju’omise ot the
legid tender notes, which are a changing
standard of value in the hands of the
people, and the nonpavmeet of which is
a disregard of the plighed faith ol the
nation. We denounce the improvidence
which in eleven veare of peace has taken
the people, in Federal taxes, thirteen
times the whole amout of the legal ten
der notes, and squandered four times
this sum in useless expenses, with out
accumulated any reserve for their re
demption. We denounce the financial
iichecifity and immorality of that party
which during eleven years of peace, lias
made no advance towards resumption,
that, instead, has obstructed resumption
by wasting onr resonrees and exhausting
all our surplus inccme, and while annual
!y professing to intend a speedy return
to specie payments, has annually enacted
fresh hindrances thereto. As such a
hindrance we denounce the resumption
clause of the act ot 1875, and we here
demand its repeal. We demand a judi
cious system of preparation by public
economics, by official retrenchments, and
by wise finance which shall enable the
nation to assure the whole world of its
perfect readiness to meet any of its prom
ises at the call of the creditor entitled to
payments. We believe such a system
will be devised and, above all, entrusted
to competent hands for execution, crea
ting at no time an artificial scarcitj of
currency, and at no time alarming the
public mind into a withdrawal of that
vaster machinery of credit by which
ninety five per cent of all business trans
actions are performed ; a system open
to the public and inspiring general con
fidence would, from the day of its adop
tion, bring healing on its wings to ail our
harassed industries, and 6et in motion
tfe wheels of commerce, manufactures
and the mechanical arts, restore employ
ment to labor and renew in all its Na
tional sources the prosperity of the peo
ple.
Reform is necessary in the sum and
mode of Federal taxation to end and
that the capital may be set free from dis
tress and labor lightly burdened. We
denounce the present tariff levied on
nearly 4,000 as a master piece ot injus
tice, inequality and false pretenses. It
yields a dwindling not yearly rising rev
enue ;it has impoverished many indus
tries to subsidize a few ; it prohibits im
ports that we might purchase the products
ot American labor; has degraded the
American commerce from among the
first to an inferior rank upon the high
seas; it has cut down the sales of Amer
can manufactures at home and abroad,
and depleted the returns of American ag
riculture or industry followed by half
of our people; it costs the people five
times more than it produces to the Treas
ury, obsuucts the processes of porduclon,
and waters the fruits of labor ; it pro
motes fraud and fosters smuggling, en
riches dishonest officials and bankrupts
honest merchants. We demand that all
custom bouse taxation shall be only for
revenue. >
Reform is necessary in the scale of
pul l.c expense, federa', state and munic
ipaL Oar Federal taxation has swollen
from sixteen million dollars in gold in
1860 to seven hundred thirty million
dollars in currency in 1870, or in one
decade from less than ffve dollars per
bead to more than eighteen do Haiti per
CONYERS, GA, JULY 18, 1876.
I head. Since the restoraton of peace the
> the people have paid to thoir tax gath-
I ores more than thrice the sum of the
nulioual debt and more than twice that
sum for the federal government alone.
We demand a vigorous frugality in ev
ery department, and from every officer
of the government.
Reform is necessary to put a stop to
the profligate waste of public lands and
their diversion from actual settlers by the
party in power, which has squandered
two hundred million acres upon railroads
alone, and out of more than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of less than one
sixth directly to tillers ot the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omis
ions of the Republican Congress and the
errors of our treaties and our diplomacy
which have stripped our fellow citizens
of foreigu birth and kindred race of
protection, and have exposed our breth
ren of the Pacific coast to the incusions
of a race not sprung from the same great
pat ent stock, and in fact now by law de
nied citizenship or naturalization as being
neither accustomed to the traditions of a
progressive civilization, or exercise in
liberty under equal laws. We denounce
the policy which thus discards the lib
ertyioving German, aud tolerates the
revival of the Coolie trade in Mongolian
women imported for immoral p irposes
and Mongolian men hired to perform
servile labor contracts, and demand
such modification of the treaty with the
Chinese empire of such legislation by
Congress within a constitutional lim
itation as shall prevent the firther im
portation or immigration of the Mou
golien race,
Reform is necessary, and can never be
effected but by making it the controlling
issue of the elections, and lifting it above
the two false issues with which the office
holding class and the party in power
seek to smother it—the false issue with
which they would enkiudle sectarian
strife in respect to the public schools, of
which the establishment and support be
long exclusively to the several States,
amf which the Democratic party has
cherished from the foundation, and re
solved to maintain without particularity
or preference for any class, sect, or creed,
and without contributing from the Treas
ury to any; ttie false issue by which
they-seek to light anew the dying embers
of sectional hate between kindred peo
ples, once unnaturally estranged, but re
united on one indivisible Republic, and
common destiny.
Reform is necessary in civil service.
Experience proves that efficient econom
ical conduct of the governmental busi
ness is not possible if its civil service be
subjected to change at every election ;
be a prize fought for at the ballot box ;
be a brief reward of party zeal instead
of posts of honor assigned for proved
competency, and held for fidelity in the
public employ ; that the dispensing of
patronage should neither he a Lx upon
the time of all our public men, nor the
instrument of their public ambition.
Here again the professions falsified in
the performance attest that .the pa:ty in
power can work out no practical or salu
tary reform.
Reform is necessary even more in the
higher grades of public service. The
President, Vice President, judges, cabi
net officers, these and all others in au
thority, are the people’s servants ; their
offices are not a private perquisite, they
are a public trust. When the annals ot
this Republic show the disgrace aud
censure ot a Vice President, a late
Speaker of the House of Representa
tives, marketing his rulings as a presid
ing officer, three Senators profiting se
cretly by their vo'es as law makers, five
chairmen of the leading committees of
House of Representatives exposed in
jobbing, a late Secretary of the Treasury
forcing balances in the accounts, a late
Attorney. General misappropriating pub
lic funds, a Secretary of the Navy en
riched or enriching friends by percenta
ges levied oft the profits of contractors
with his department, au embassador to
England censured in a dishonorable
speculation, the President’s private Sec
retary barely escaping conviction upon
trial for guilty complicity in frauds upon
the revenue, a Secretary of War im
peached tor high crimes, and confesses
misdemeanors, the demonstration is com
plete that the first step in reform must
be the people’s choice of honest men
from another party lest the disease of
one political organization infest the holy
politic and thereby, making no change
ot men or party, we can get no change
of measures and no reform. All these
abuses, wrongs and crimes, the product
of sixteen years ascendency of the re
publicans themselves, but their reformers
are voted down in convention and dis
placed from the cabinet. The party
mass of honest voters is powerless to re
sist the eighty thousand office holders,
its leaders and guides. Reform can only
be had by a peaceful civic evolution.
We demand a change of system, and a
change of Administration ; a change of
parties that we may have a oliange of
mcD.
‘Oh, my dear sir!’ said a poor suffer
er to a dentist, ‘that is the second wrong
tooth you've pulled out 1’ ‘Very sorry,
my dear sir,’ said the blundering opera
tor ; ‘but there were only three when I
began, I‘m sure to be right next time.
If men are tbe salt of the earth, wo
men are the sugar. Salt is a necessity;
sugar is a luxury. Vicous men are the
salt petre; hard, stern, men the rock
salt ; nice family men tbe table salt.
Old maids are the brown sugar; good
natnred matrons the loaf sagar, prettty
girls, tbe fine pulverized white sugar.
Pass tbe sugar, please J
truth.
THE RELATIVE CONDITION OF THE
NORTH AND SOUHU.
IN NKW KNOT.AND THERE IS IDLE MACHINERY
AN’) IDLE l-KOPLE—THEY LOOK TO THE
FUTURE WITH DAUK FOREBODINGS OF
SUFFERINGS —IN THE WEST. EVERYBODY
IN DEBT WITH NOTHING TO I’AY WITH—
THE POVERTY OF THE SOUTH IS THE POV
KRTY OF THE FAST.
People have so long been accustomed
to regard the South ni a poverty stricken
country W'hile tho North was healthy
and prosperous that, to say that to-day
tho South is really better off than the
North, sounds liko an absurd statement.
Probably, too, the people who would be
most incredulous ot the truth of such an
assertion are tho Southerners themselves.
True it is that there would appear to a
merely superficial observer that the i
Northern people were reveling in luxury •
while the Southern people were decaying
in poverty. Tiavelors from the South
are apt to misjudge tho state of affairs
from their limited scope of observation.
'i h y come North to buy, not to sell. It
is the reverse with Northe.m commercial
travelers going South. Their objective
plans require a strict investigation in:o
the present resources and future pros
pects of the South. Tho Southern buyer
simply selects what he wants and takes
them home. It is ot no speoial conse
quence to him whether the merchants
who have filled his orders or the manu
facturers whb have supplied them are
making money or on the verge of bank
ruptcy. To know the true condition ot
the North one must see more than the
always bustliug throng in the streets of
New York. ’Go to their homes and see
the unpaid bills for rent, food, and gas
that nighly haunts the stylish New York
business man as lie enters his brown
stone resideuco on a fashionable street
on which is a heavy mortgage that is
tormenting its owner. Go away from
New York into New England, the great
bee hive of the world, and see the idle
machinery and idle people looking to
the future with dark forebodings of dis
tress, suffering, and starvation. Go to
the West and one finds every one in
debt with nothing to pay them with!
The farmers arc overburdened with pro
visions that the warehouses want, but
have no money to buy, and yet are
dreading the sheriff with the foreclosures
on their homes for which they owe some
one who must have his money. Such,
in brief, is the harrowing picture at the
Nortti that is presented on going behind
the scenes. The worst feature is that
I fie end is not yet. From year to year
times have been going from bad to
I worse. Each year have the people hop
ed that the next year would bring better
times, but their hopes have been disap
pointed. More depression of trade, and
more thrown out of employment have
followed. There seems nothing in the
immediate future to arrest their progress
towards ruin. The next succeeding
years are 'ikely to see the same sceucs
re-enacted.
The South, on the contrary, has beeu
growing better off. Few people there
cannot but say that they have more cf
the necessaries of life now than they did
six years ago. Their rum came sudden
ly. They started from that position to
retrieve themselves. They could be no
worse ; they have become better ; they
haye become better, although the im
provement has become so gradual as to
t>e imperceptible to them. They are
hardly ready to believe it. So long have
they been accustomed to feel themselves
a ruined people that any other condition
seemed impossible to the present gener
ation at least. Though the people at
the South do not have the appearance of
wealth that one sees at the North, what
they do have is paid tor. The cash sys
tem, though it came very hard at first at
the South, has been ot vast benefit.
The people can feel that when they do
get a little money it is theirs, not their
creditors. Then there is no vast army
of idlers at the South threatening bread
riots, organizing strikes, and adding to
the general fear and lack of confidence
in the future. Then, better than all, the
Southern people can look forward to a
blight future, while at the North the
prospect is dark. The poverty of the
past; that ot the North is the present
and the terribly dreaded future.
There is a strange sound to an appeal
lor aid from the North to the South, yet
the North really needs the aid of the
South. She has no room lor her popu
lation ; the South has. The North can
no longer give them maintenance ; the
South can. The Southern people can
give them land to cultivate. They can
find many ways of employment for in
dustrious and frugal people. The South
has great resources that have never been
developed. The North has capital lying
idle which is rapidly melting away on
the owners bauds in necessary expenses-
Which is really the worse off? Or, per
haps, the querry should be, which will
he the worse off ? The only relief lor
the North is in the South. Sooner or
later both must find it out. Unemploy
ed capital must be employed as much as
undeveloped resources must be develop
ed. Put to a test of endurance and the
South has the advantage. United effort
on the part of both, however, is the de
sideratum. That will hasten the rise of
the South and retard and avert the fall
of tin Norik.— New York South.
A Wisconsin family, not long since,
sold their only stove to get money to
pay tor circus tickets, aud rode twenty
two miles behind an ox team to get to
the show.
Don’tthhslmtfilloutthiscolurannicely ? ?
No. 1.
Mothers ot Distinguished Men.
Joliu Randolph, of Roanoke, was
deeply attached to his mother, aud her
death had a melancholy and sinking
effect upon him evi r afterwards. She
was hut thirty-six years old when she
died. Gut off in the bloom oi youth and
beauty, lie always retained n vivid re.
mciubruuce of her person, her charms,
and her virtues. lie always kept her
portrait hanging before him in hits chain
her. The loss to him was* Irreparable.
She knew him—she knew the delicacy
of hits heart tho waywardness and irvitu
bihty of liis temper. “I am a fatalist,”
said he, “I am all but friendless—only
one human being ever knew me. She
only knew me—my mother." He always
spoke of her in terms of the warmest af
fection. Many and many a time during
his life did he visit the o'd ohurchyard
at Maloax, in its wasted solitude, and
shed tears over the grave of liis mother,
by whose side it was the last wish of
his heart to he buried.
Henry Clay, that great man, the pride
aud honor of his country always expresed
feelings of profound affection and vener
ation lor liis mother. Habitual oortes
pondenoe and enduring affeetiou subsisted
between them to the lust hour of life.
Air. Clay ever spoke of her as a model
of maternal character aud female excell
ence, and it is said that lie never met
his constituents in Woodland county,
after her death, without some allusion to
her, which deeply affected both him and
his audience. And nearly the last words
uttered by this great statesman, when lie
came to die, were, “Mother, mother,
mother." It is natural for us to feel that
she must have been a good mother, that
was loved and so dutifully served by
such a hoy, and that neither could have
been wanting in rare virtues.
Benjamin Franklin was accustomed to
refer to liis mother in the tendercst tone
ot filial affection, liis respect aud af
fection for her were maintained among
other ways, in frequent preseuts, that
contributed to her comfort anil so'hco in
her advancing years. In one of his let
lei’s to her, for example, he sends her a
moidore , a gold piece of tho valpc of
six dollars, “the chaise hire,’’ said,“ liiat
that you may ride warm to mcct’iigs
during the winter.” In another, lie gives
her an account of the growth and im
provement of his son and daughter—
topics which, as he well understood, are
ever as dear to jthe grandmother as to
the mother.
Thomas Gray, author of “Elegy in a
Country Churchyard, was most assid
uous in liis attentions to liis mother
while she lived, and, after her death, he
cherished her memory with sacred sor
row. Mr. Mason informs us that Gray
seldom mentioned his mother without a
sigh. The inscription which ho placed
over her remains speakes of her as “the
earful, tender mother of many childien.
one of whom alone had the misfortune
to survive her,” How touching is this
brief tribute of grateful love! Volumes
of eulogy could not increase our admi
ration of the gentle being to whom it
was paid—her patient devotion, her
meek endurance.—Wherever the name
and genius pt Gray are known, there
shall also his mother's virtues he told for
a memorial of her. lie was buried,
according to his directions, by the side
ot his mother, in the churchyard at
Stoke. Alter his death, her gowns and
wearing appearel were found in a trunk
in his apartment, just ns she had leftthm‘
It seemed as if he could never take the
resolution to open it, in order to dislri
bute them to his female relations, to
whom, by his will he bequeathed them.
Amos Lawrence always spoke of his
mother in the strongest terms of verier
atihn and love, and in many letters to
his children and grandchildren are found
messages of affectionate regard tor his
mother, such as could have emanated
only from a heart overflowing with filial
gratitude. Iler form, bending over his
bed in silent prayei, at the hour of twi
light, when she was about leaving him
tor the night, was among the earliest
and most cherished reccollections of ln'
early years and his childhood's home -
Sergeant S. Prentiss. From his
mother Mr. Prentiss inherited those
more gentle qualities that ever character
ized his life—qualities that shed over his
eloquence such bewitching sweetness,
and gave to his social entercourso such
an indescribable charm. A remarkably
characteristic anecdote illustrates his filial
affection, W hen on a visit, some years
ago, to the North, but after his reputa
tion had become widespread, a distin
guished lady, of Portland Me, took pains
to obtain an introduction, by visiting the
steamboat in which she learned he was to
take his departure in a few moments.
“I have wished to see,'’ said she to Mr.
Prentiss, “lor my heart has often con
gratulated the mother who has 6uch a
son," “Rather congratulate the son on
having such a mother,’’ was his instant
and hearty reply.-—This is but one of the
many instances in which the most dis
tinguished men of all ages have been
proud to refer to the culture of
the promptings of virtue, as the aspira
viens of piety, and to tho-influence of the
mother’s early training.
Francis Marion. General Marion
was once a plodding young farmer, and
in no way distinguished as superior to
the young men of neighborhood in which
he lived, except for his devoted love and
marked respect for his excellent mother,
and exemplary honor and truthfulness
In these qualities he was eminent from
early childhood, and they marked his
character through life. W c may remark,
his character through life. We may re
mark, in this connection, that it is usual
to affect some degree of astonishment
when we r< a 1 of men whov after fame -
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presents a striking contrast to the hu
mility ot their origin ; yet we must reo
effect that it is not ancestry and splendid
decent, but education and circumstances,
widen form the man. It l 8 often a mat
ter ot surprise that distinguished meu
have such interior children, and that a
great name is seldom perpetuated. The
secret of this is as evident: tne mothers
have been inferior— mete ciphers in the
scale of existence. All the splended ad
vantages procured by wealth and tho fa
ther's position,'cannot supply’this one
deficiency in the mother, who gives char
acter to the child.
Sam Houston's mother was an extra
ordinary woman. She was distinguished
by a full, rather tall and matronly form,
a lino oarage, and au impressive and
dignified countenance. Sho was gifted
with intellectual and moral qualities,
which elevated her, in a still more strik
ing manner, above most of her sr>|
Her life was purity and benevolence, and
yet she was nerved with a stern fortitude
which never gave way io the midst of
the wild scenes of the frontier settlers.
Mrs. Houston was left with the heuvy
burden of a large family. She had six
sons and three daughters, but she was
not tho woman to succumb fto misfor
tune, and she made ample provision, for
one in her cicumstances, for their future
care and education. To bring up a large
family of children m a proper manner, is
under the most favorable circumstances,
a great, work , and in this case it rise in
to sublimity; for there is no finer in
stance of heroism thau that of one parent
especially a mother, laboring for that
end alone. The excellent woman, says
Goethe, is she who, if her husband dies,
can boa father to her children.
Fixed Up,
A wild-looking old man, with a con
tused nose and an ugly-looking scratch
down his ictl cheek, went iuto a drug
store on main street last Friday and said
to the olerk: *1 am goin’ to, git set up
ter - day ; cuss mo if 1 don't. Gimme
somethin’ that'll make trie's ugly as Sa
tan—whiskey, kerosone, anything' so's
l can git up courage enough ter pertect
myself from my wife. Great Scott, I'd
like ter cluw giant powder, rend rook
powder, dynamite, or suthin’. I'd like
ter be as strong as a steam ingine, and
I'd make things different m my house!
She's wus‘u a pirit.’ The clerk said
‘Will you take your oath that you'll
uever tell it I give you something strong
enough ta rend the ramparts of the
world V The old man bowed his head
and solemnly made the promise. Tho
olerk gave him a glass of plain soda, and
the man went out to chaw, up things.—.
Boston Courier.
‘Your visits remind me of tho growth
of a successful newspaper,’ said Uncle
Jabez, leaning bis chin ou his cane and
glancing at William Henry, who was
sweet on Angelica.
‘Why Y inquired William Henry.
‘Well, they commenced, on a weekly,
grew to a tri weekly, and havo now
become a daily, with a Sunday supple
ment.’
‘Yes,’ said William Henry, braoiug
up, ‘and after we are married wo will
issue an extra— ’
Sh —h,’ said Angelica, and then they
went out for a stroll.- ,V. O. Times.
The two Websfccrs.
When Mr. Webster visited England,
after he bad attained fame enough to
precede him, an English gentleman took
him one day to see Lord Brougham,
I’hat eminent Briton received our Dani
el with sucl coolness that he was glad
to get away and back to his rooms. The
friend who had taksn him at once re
turned lo Lord Brougham iu haste and
anger.
‘My lord, how could you behavo with
such unseemingly rudeness and discour
tesy to so great a lawyer and statesman ?
It was insulting to him, and filled me
with mortification.’
‘Why, what on earth have I done, aud
whom havo I been rude to ?’
‘To Daniel Webster, of the Senate of
the United States,’
’Great Jupiter, what a blunder ! I
thought it was that fellow Webster who
made a dictionary and nearly ruined the
English language.’
Then the great Chancellor quickly
hunted up the American Senator, and
having oilier tastes in common besides
law and politics, they made a royal night
of it- —Editors Drawer in Harper's
Magazine for June.
The latest story of a brave though
childlike form, faithful at the post Of
duty, conies from Ohio. He was tho
son of a village editor, and having dis
covered a broken rail just outside of the
town, sat for five hours on,a /cnee near
by waiting for the train, so that he might
be the first to' carry tho particulars of
the accident to his father. Such devo
tion to the paternal inteiests is very af
fecting.
‘How much did he leave r said a lady,
on learning of the death of a wealthy
citizeD. ‘Everything,’ responded the
lawyer, ’lie didn‘t take a shilling with
him.’
A bridal party was gathering in Onei
da, N. Y. and everything was ready for
the ceremonv. Then the young women
quit the room, and soon afterward the
following note was handed in t “Arthur
You will wait for me in vain, for the.
longer you wait the fur ther away J’ll be
I shan’t many you to-night. You went
back on me a year ago and I'll get even
with von now."