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ptiMlill. I SUBSCRIPTION. Be year.. $2 (K) W months 1 oo ■lt Kb MONTHS 50 ■ CLUB RATES• I T R COPIES, or leas than 10, each 1 75 ■N COPIES, or more, each 1 50 Brums—Gash in advance. No paper sent Eil money received. &11 papers stopped at the expiration of time, Cess renewed. 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 o effect a permanent cure. For Pains in the Back, Kidney Complaints. )ropsy, Female Weakness, Leuoorrhoen, aris ng from internal uleertion, and uterine diseas h and General Debility, Vegetine acts directly ipon the causes of these complaints. It in igorates and strengthens the whole system, cts upon the secretive organs, allays inflam aation, cures ulceration and regulates the bow ls. ForCatairh, Dyspepsis, Habitual Costive iess, Palpitation of the Heart, Headache, Piles iervousness and Generous Prostration of the ferrous System, no medicine has ever given uch perfect, satisfaction as the Vevetrao. It unifies the blood, cleanses alt of the organs, and possesses a controlling power over the ner jvons system. The remarkable euros effected by Vegetine have induced many physicians and apotheca ries whom wo know to prescribe and use it in their own families. In fact, Yegetine is the best remedy yet dis covered for the above diseases, and is the only 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 the great Blood Purifier. It is a soothing remedy for our children. It lia relieved and cured thousands. It is very pleasant to take: every child likes it. It relieves and cures all diseases originating from impure blood. Try the Vcgetine. Give it fair trial for your com plaints ; then you will say to your friend, neighbor and acquaintance, “Try it: it has cured me. Vcgetine for the complaints for which it is recommended, is having a larger sale thro 'gh ont the United Stat -s than any other one med icine. Why? Vegetine will cure these com 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. VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. SECURE AN AGENCY and S3O or SIOO per week. “the ever beady and never out of order” HOMESTEAD S2O SEWING S2O MACHINE FOR DOMESTIC USE WITH TABLE and FIXTURES COMPLETE ONLY S2O. A. perfect and unequalled, large, strong and durable machine, constructed elegant and solid, from the best material -with mathematic al precision, for Constant Family use or manu facturing purposes. Always ready at a mo meat's notice to do its day’s work, never out of order, and will last a generation with moderate care; easy to understand and manage light, smooth, and swift running, like the well regulated movement of a fine watch; Simple, Compact, Efficient and reliable, with all the valuable improvements to be found in the highest priced Macines, warranted to do the samo work, the same way, and as rapid and smooth as a $75 Machine. An acknowledged t riumph of ingenious mechanical skill, essend tially the working woman’s friend, and far in advance of all ordinary Machines, for absolute °“ en jjth> Beliability and general usefulness; will Hem, Fell, Tuck, Seam. Quilt, Bind, Braid Cord, Gather, Ruffle, Shirr, Plait, Fold, Scal lop, 8011, Embroider, Bun up Breadth, Ac., wiffi wondtful rapidity, neatness and ease, and case, sews tie strongest lasting stitch e< l”*Uy fine and smooth through all kinds of goods, from cambric to several thicknesses of broadcloth or leather, with fine or coarse cot- Wn. lmen. silk or twine. Gives perfect satis raction. Will earn its cost several times over ma season in the work it does, or make a good living for any man or woman who desires to use it for that purpose; worts so faithful and easy (he servants or children can use it without damage. Price of Machine with light H.iV uUy^ui * and f° r fa m>ly work. t‘Z O. Half Case, Cover, Side Drawers and Cabinet ~e * c h ** correspondingly low rates' bate delivery guaranteed, free from damage pamphlets illustrated with engra ■■gftg ssjafca-aCb w “° delusive Agencies, furnished Addreua John H, Kendall & Cos. WO Broadway, New York. “y. gjfMafe Jfrjiwlcr. 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 - TANARUS METOiit Advertisements. First int-ovtion (per inch spaco) 00 Each subsequent ingjrtion Cfl'A liberal discount allowed those adver- Using for fi longer period than three months. Card of lowest rates can bo had on application to tho Proprietor. * Local Notices 15c. per lino first insertion and 100. per line thereafter. , Tributes of Respect, Obituaries, etc., pnb lished tree. Announcements, $5, in advance. 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."