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Religion in Common Things.
A SERMOX BY TALMAQZ,
- “In all thy ways acknowledge Him.”—
Proverbs, iii., 0.
There has been a tendency ip all
lands and ages to set apart certain
'days, places, and occasions lor spec
ial religious service, and to think
that they formed the realm in
■which religion was. chiefly to act.
'Now. while holy fiay3 and holy
places hare their use, they can nev¬
er be a substitute for continuous
exercise of faith and prayer. In
other words, a man cannot be so
good a Christian on the Sabbath
that he can afford to be a worldling
all the week. If a steamer start for
Southampton, and sail one day in
that direction, and the other six
dSys sail in other directions, how
long before the steamer will get to
Southampton? Just as soon as a
man will get to heaven who sails on
the Sabbath day toward that -which
is good, and the other six days of
the week Sails towards the world,
the flesh end tire devil. You can¬
not eat so much f t the Sabbath
banquet that you can a: cord relig¬
ious abstinence id. the rest or the
week. Genuine religion is not
spasmodic, does not go by fits and
starts, is not an attack of_chills
and fever, now cold until your teeth
Chatter, now hot until your bones
ache. Genuine religion marches
bn steadily, up st.eep hills and along
dangerous declivities, its eyes on
the everlasting hills crowned with
the castles oi the blessed.
they see engaged iu
whe* there may be no religion at
fell I have noticed that in propor
lion as Christian experience is shale
low, men talk about funerals and
hearses, and tombstones, and epi.,
iaphs. If a man have the religion
ot the gospel in its toil power in his
Soul, he will talk chiefly about this
tvorld and the eternal tforld and very
little comparatively about the insig¬
nificant pass between this and that.
Yet how seldom it is that the relig¬
ion ot Christ is a welcome theme.
If a maa full‘of toa gospel af
goes into a religious circle and be
gius to talk about sacred things, all
the conversation is hushed, aud
things become exceedingly awkward.
As ou a summer day, the forests full
of chirp ai.dcaroi, mighty chorus cf
tiird lmrtnoaies, every branch an
orchestra—-if a hawk appears is the
kky all the voices are hushed. So I
have sometimes seen a social circle
that professed to be Christians si¬
lenced by the appearance of the
great the art of God and religion.—
-Now, my friends, if we have the re
ligion of Christ in our soul, we will
talk about it in an exbiliarant mood.
It is mow refreshing than the water,
it is brighter, than the sunshine, it
gives a man joy here and prepares
toim for everlasting happiness before
the throne of God. And yet if the
therm of religion be introduced in¬
to a circle everything is silenced;
silenced unless, perhaps, au aged
Christian man in the corner of the
room, feeling that something ought
to be said, puts out one foot over
ihe other, and sighs heavily, and
says, 'Oh, yes, that’s so!’ My friends,
tbe t eligion of Jesns Christ is not
something to be groane'd about, but
sc mething to talk about, and sing
•bout with your face irradiated
The trouble is, that men professing
the faith of tbe gospel are often so
inconsistent, tk’srt they are afraid
their conversatiou will not harmo¬
nize With their life. We cannot talk
the gospel unless we live the gospel.
You will often find a man whose en¬
tire life is full of inconsistencies,
filing his conversation with such ex¬
pressions as “We are miserable sin¬
ners,” “The Lord help us,” “Tho
Lord bless you,”—interlarding their
fconversation with such phrases,
wbickare mere canting-in the worst
kind of hypoerfs/. If a man have
the grace of God in his heart domi¬
nant, he can talk religion and it will
seem natural; and men, instead of be¬
ing repulsed by it, will be attracted
f>y it. Do you not know that when
tiwo Christian people talk as they
ought about the things of Christ and
Heaven, God gives special atten
iidn, and He Writes it all down?
Bfelacbi, third and sixteen: “I hen
t’hey that feared the Lord spake of¬
ten one to the other, and the L'ord
Hearkened and heard, and a book of
remembrance was written.”
But I remark again : We ought to
bring the religion of Jesus Christ
ffll 6 ‘ oar ordinary employment.—
‘Oh !’ yon say, ‘that is a .good theoi.
ry for a mail who manages a largo
business, who has great traffic, who
Holds a great estate: it is a grand
thing for bankers aud for shippers,
K
m D, 1
> / 4
S. B. Burr, Proprietor.
for the iiothchikls and the Barrings,
but in mv thread-and-heridie store,
in my trimming establishment, in
my insigmncant . . .. . work . , of , life you
cannot apply these grand^ gospel
principles.’ Who told you that?
Do you know that a faded leaf on
a brook’s surface attracts God’s at
tention as certainly as tho path of
the Mazing sun? and that the moss
that creeps up the side of the rook
attracts God’s attention as certainly
as tue waving tops o. Oregon pice
and Lebanon cedar. ? amj. that
-emclrlrSgMf dn'aldci'eatflr'a cows
hoofs sounds as loudly in God’s ear
as tlie ? and s,ap that of a the world's most coDlpg.it- msigmfi
tion
cant thing of your life is of enough
importance to attract tho^Lord God
Almighty? My brother, you cannot
i be called ,, , to , do , anything .. so ms.gmfi- . -
cant but God will help you in it—
If you are a fisherman, Christ will
stand by you as He did by Simon
—j* *•«*“• /r
you a drawer ot water? He will be
with you as at tae well-curb Men
talking with the Samaritan woman,
Are you a custom-house officer?
C 1 rrr-r U T
iQ leceipt of custom, .he
man who jas oiuy a day s wa^es
in his pocket at certainly needs re
ligion a.i he who rattles the keys of
a bank and could abscond with a
undrea thousand hard do.ki.s.
And yet there are men who profess
leligion, who do not brin git into
r’ovmmitr ploym-nte. Th There e °r a CGP are r-'T in the T church- 1 T
es at this day men who seem very
devout on the Sabbath who are far
try met chant arrives m tae city, ana
he goes into the store to buy goods
of a man who professes religion but
has no grace in las heart. Thocoun
asSSSCJk exnaustect logo Home that \uei<, ue
tarnes m town. On ,Sabbath he
goes to church for consolation, and
what is his amazement to find that
the poor-^ox man who^ carries " around ^^ the
died him. ts l l>ot ” e v er netei ^" c nuna. the
deacon has his black coat on liow
and looks solemn, and goes home
talking about that bW sermons!
ins ians n r un nj. ou< mgs
during the week. 1 cat mail does
not realize that God kndws evc.y
dishonest dollar he has in hw pocket;
". day , • of „. judgment , ^ . * e ’ , n and m
toe is coming,
that “as the parn-idge setteth on the
eggs and hatcheth them out, so he
that getteth riches and not rightly
suau leave ttiem ,n ine midst ot nis
days, and hm end shall be a fool.”
But how many (here are who do
not bnng the religion of Christ into
the i.. every dav ft, occunation Thev i
in re ig, n is or „ un aj.
uuppose you were to go out to
fight lor your country in some gieat
contest, would you go to do the bat
thug at Iroy, or at Springfield?
No, you would go there to get your
swords and muskets. Then you
would go out in the face of the ene
my and contend for your country.
Now, I take the Sabbath day and
the church to be tlie only armory
battle of life*Td Sbautfidd
is Thurscay, Monday, Friday Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Saturday,
‘An.oclb” and “St. Martin’s,”
week. A cermon is of little account
if we cannot carry it bebiqd the
counter Sabbath and day behind is of the plow.’ The
no Value if -it last
would do that; if I could have lived
in the time of Martin Luther, if I
eould have been Paul’s traveling
companion, if 1 bad come great aud
should imoIppficaS^iThaf I
you Say.” must admit that the ro
mance and knight-errantry have
gone oat ot life. There is b it very
little of it left in the world. The
eriLo^miSfosto£e V classtomSo S fi
at Ashland has been cut up icto
walking-sticks; the muses have re
treated before the emigrant’s ax and
the trapper 3 gun, and a Vermonter
mjght go over the Alleghany and the
«:7“ u 7“ 1 pT d
where tho gods used to dwell have
been cutup for firewood, and the
andictw-atwfc and gr at scenes tor action will not
sr'srfJSiKz would God if bad
yon Serve yon a
great Him sphere. small If you do not serve
on a scale, you would not
on a large scale. If you cannot,
yb Suppose & u ondure'th soldier 0 brcatlfot'a basilisk ?
a should say ‘‘This
is only a skirmish, and there are
only a few enemies—I won’t load
my gun ; avail until I can get into
FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1880.
some great and general engagement.”
^hat man would be unfaithful in
^ a P here ' If a ma! J. " llt
servQ his country in . a skirmish, ho
w ;u not in a Waterloo. And if you
are not faithful, going out against the
single handed misfortunes of this
*°" ld
^ soul. n itlery came rolling ctown Tver’the
This brings mo to another point,
We ought to bring the religion.of
' U™? lose
our f onaM> y eoce gv sa! , t rou >,! id 6
hlaet like the tempest, than we go
"Clot! for comfort; bet yesterday in
the little annoycnees of your etcre,
f or comfort ? My brother, it is the
little annoyances of life thet # are
souring your disposition, clipping
your moral character, and making yon
less and less oi a man. You see him
mak ; a | iece of scu ] ptur<? vv'iib
.
bis mal!et anci h ; 3 cilk . el ^ goe ,
click, click, and yon can hardly see
from stroke to stroke, that there i 3
sjKSstfwifS ^ W hy don’t Jr ike
< you hard
er?’‘Oh!’be replies, ‘that would
shatter the statue ; I must make it
jn this w-ay, stroke by stroke.’ And
mao
that enters the studio is facinated.
Well, I find God dealing "with some
map He is shapiug liimf or time,
“ d .^ a P* n gJjf eternity. I
t for the oS^kmily c ha^
that man next world?’ God
says: ‘That’s not the way I deal
with this vaan ; it is stroke after
° foTaugcls
au d » g!ad speclaeie and
mcn • Not by one great stroke, but
misfortunei.aie by ten thousand little strokes of
men fitted for heav
Z.l’SZtV&KSi in small ot ^ Z the
sum3 E ne y, and
estate of Ghrl«tiaa charaos
ter is sometimes entirely lost, by
these small depletions. Do not say
. uk ghip Que la ;f
g a _ 0 er match
may destroy a temple. A Queen
got her death by smelling & poison
jus lose. The scratch of a six-pen
Iffi
Piunciseant convert, came to
discovery of a new world. And
there is a great connection between
j,at God for ^
SU pp OS0 t cares your
insignificant friend, sorrow’s ? Why my
tliere is nothing insignificant
m your life. Dow uare you taue
whole universe is not ashamed to
take care of one daisy? I say,‘What
are you ^oumefere doing down there in the
£ ‘ ’ Arl vounot
afr „ i(} ight s ? You die with
thirst 5 nobody cares for you; you
will Buffer, you will perish.’
ovei JNoy” ] t to-night, says a start ‘•I'To, “IIT ’says watch the
elolld > “I’ll give it drink.” “No”
says the sun, “I’ll warm it in my
bosom.” If the heavens bend down
to such insignificant ministry an
that, I tell you God is wilfimr sine? to
bend down to your case, He
is jnsfc as careful about she con
structure, of a spider’s eye as He is
in the conformation of flaming ga
lp V i PS .
_ ^ n _
Bboeb Her Rib.— lie was about
leaViDg ber The O , mo)u r 0 ,. some .
thing) clock on the Parisian marble
mantle had just rrtng eleven upon a
silver bell. The fire cracked in the
bul . n i U g gfato. It was a very im
“ M >- da ' lin S'" <**
he, “when shall I look again-into the
blue depths of your eyes?” and he
put his arms around her. “Comeat
tbe earliest possible moment, my
kh.g,’ said She. Than he. drew her
towards hun, hugged her just a little,'
and a kiss broke softly on the air.
The sumptuous apartment was just
flooded with bliss, when on the q net
soene > he clasped her to his hoar.,
there rang out a sound iike the crack
of a rifle and he felt something un
der hia right arm. “Qh, jewhittaker,”
!)e yelled, as lie rushed out of doors
“Tvo broke her rib, by jingo,” and
he streaked it down the street, while
there floated alter him a pleadsng
voice! “It was only a corset bone !”
Ru* he wa’s uonp '
_
io ,“
htt egnl ow a lobster casts his
»hell when he had outgrown it.'
yon f have outgrown !-\V^ y your ° a d °, clothes? w 1 hen
ir-^T
------
Sonic of the farmers along tho
line of the Savannah, Florida aud
Western Railroad are goino* heavily
int0 watermelon bustoess this
sea3C,n - There will be two hundred
acres planted near Owsley’s sta*
lion between Quitman aud Valdos
ta . 1
“ONE THOUSAND A YEAR”
LETTER FROM A SPIRITED AND SENSIBLE
GIRL.
And volt want me to tell you
whether 1 can live on one thousand
dollars a year, or rather-—as I have
been asked to do, whether a girl can
marry and live on it. I will be
hons.ri, with you as you wish this
raafctw Patton, and state
that any woman, no matter how
high her position or how elegant
her tacter, eaa live comfortably
and happily on that amount, ,igi pro'
***.«* ». man
for a husband, and that they both
truly ieve each other after mai
You see I have emphasized
S ome of my words, ’ and in them
F ou - 11 - ind secret of the whole
affair.
Although young in years ^par
j 021 m V E0 t f,.iiw „ 0 .,
->*— »— ■*
know), I have cfadded human na
ture enough, and the lives of young
married couples sufficiently, to feel.
snre that over one half cf those
tLat are ^appointedin each
other afterwards. This is a most
unfortunate state of affairs, but
both are oqually to blame, the one
for Eot Bhowing a tru9 nature, the
other for not understanding it, be
fore marriage. Women, I am sor
ry to say, are more giyea to deceit
r, e f ore marriage then men, and
brutel treatment is frequently them
reward. .If girls were only more
natural, there would be lacs troub
le, but women daily raarry who n:e
eyea worse—mvahdS; who bnng
to their- husbairds all the cares end
trouble-of perpetual aeknees anrde
tick.
lets iove, „ woman whois a constant
burden tc him, and who knowingly
deceived him, at the altar? Before
women enter, .the marniage 'state
iSfaench tort it S
trials that ore to follow. Men
rarely deceive in this respect
They sometimes decoke a woman
ixl regard to their financial ability
to*support her handsomely, and
this its downright wicked, for it
ma ^ y take a girl away f .-om a home
f t d j f y ,
bitterness and ultimate divorce, or
worse
17or tllat re!WO n, a man Vtlto tells
a woman honestly how much he
can afford to give -her, without
building‘castles in the airy’ which
fade before the honeymoon, ought
to receive her. respect 1 and confi.
dence, - for , these ,, are grand , fottnda- n ,
toons to build on. I contend that
no happy condition of married life
cane^ifit ? ^ without them .And vet 5
h ° W &a “ y glrk , man ’ 7 eyery wee,r ,
without knowing anything about
their husbands, save that he is
‘splendid % and so handsome,’ and
wake to , find „ that what they „ need
is not a ‘P re % b °y with a dainty
moustache.’ but a max— a solid
f sh f d blo f’ with an
honesc heart, a clea, heaa, and will
ing hands to labor for one he loves.
That is idea of a huBband -
Su * * ”7 wW °u y
deceive , a woman, never be guilty
mt5annes ses uliat cornipfc so
many men’s natures. It would be
paradise to live with such a man
“none thousand dollars a year to
existing with one on ten times that
‘ lmour, t- This may read like ro
mauce > hut it is a stem reality.—
If girls will only take the trouble
to mves^e for themselves, they
wnl See ffifct money does not al
wa y s bring happiness with it.—
‘Happiness, our being, end and
aim ’’ aB P °pc so truthfully express
ed it, for what is the world to a
wom an if nei husband ,s not her
haver, her friend, her counsellor,
her reliance in the hour of trouble
and the sharer of her joys when
her anxieties are o’er
the good husband; let us look ou
the opposite picture. Of all things
most likely to ruin a woman’s life,
:2S!5SS: , . .
- 7
is, ‘Girls, never marry a man who
drinks, if you value your happi
neB8 -’ A very dear friend of mine
came to me once and said : “What
do yon think;? I smelt liquor on
Charlie when I kissed him . I un¬
mediately advised her not to mar
*7 him, for I argued, if a man will
.not respect a woman enough to ab»
stain while engaged, he will not do
so after marriage. And so it prov¬
ed. She thought she couldn’t do
without him; and so they married
and moved iyto an elegant man
sion. He rich; but how long
did it last ? Just, three years. And
now she is a widow, with a sickly
child, and living on her parents!
Girls don’t be afraid to test your
lovers, if they are true aud manly,
they will noise out ‘like refined
gold.’ G»4Ais opinion on all the
sutqoets tia&CQacern yotj inarried
happiue-aTwHon’Iiartict te> his do
mg as you wish after marriage, you
had better find out whether hie
lfites and (liatiVes suit you before
hand, for married life is made up
of mutual concessions, aud yon will
have to do your share of giving
way, which, for that cue that truly
loves you, n aet be, indeed a picas-'
are. Anoflier thing, if you d.onft
like tobacco, never marry a man
who smokes or Chews, for I know
3 woman uaosa husband made her
life a terror to ber by these disgust
ing practices.
I don’t iatend giving you any
figures aodut -fcs housekeeping
business, for people’s tastes
Some would be content to live in a
twelve dollar liorise and keep a
eplendid ; others v, otdd pre
fer a twenty dollar house and live
on plaine?*feod.
There is no trouble about a man
and wife living comfortably on one
thousand dollars a year, if the wife
has any practical sensa A foci or
a sloven cf-a’t do it. ‘How is a
man going to find such a woman
‘Yery easily. The fool vdl betray
herself by her* nonsensical replies
to any nensble questions on this
subject that you may ask her, and
fecfcions m her toilet. A nloven s
kair is never tidy or TTeh combed,
Aeituer will tho brush her teeth
Carefully. If she is too lazy to do
her fTTT y ^enerrdly will be
•
body can sea is neglected, v/hai
can wo expect of that which ic hid
don?/■ n untidy girl generally has
Outyarrs. If ohe rendu this she will
wash them, for a week—perhaps!
A cleanly man will notice these
things v/itliout being told, but a
slovenly will not; so as the Bible
vhy sfill, and so will his wife, and
hia children, and theif children.—
Editor, and don’t
consider that I have taken up too
much apace. This subject is a glc
n°ua one, for it qoncerca the to¬
tare welfare and-kappineatsa of the
whole world,
A Practical Girl.
r»
The Wat Tiibv Week SilencUl'.
—Tho sand lot orators in -Califor¬
nia have had ihrir day. The pow¬
erful order has cone forth-that law
must be obfervetC and-the leaders
have obeyed. Kearney whimpers
that ho is ready (to be made a mar
tyr, and Mayor Kr.Ueeh li as issued
a proclamation UiyiLg nri,sja5ged, tho working¬
men have been and
they have no idea df inducing riot
and revolution. This is somewhat
different from tie angry howl of
these ' two worthies some weeks
ago. Then it was, they advocated
taking the few in their own hands;
proclaiming death to tho Chinese
and destruction to those who cm
ployed the h They were rife for
pillage. 1 joy received a hint very
quietly that-,wit!: the cognizance of
the better citizenjs a vigilance comn
mittee was being-formed by those
who had previously managed them.
Their power a^l determination
were known. Tl^ey Lad previous¬
ly made their mark on the Kear
neys and the KaUochs of former
years and were ready to assume
again similar responsibility. As a
consequence, the worthies who
were stirring up strife, quietly ceas
ed their inflammatory liarrangues
and subsided into- whines and as¬
surances of peace. The fumor of
the vigilants accomplished this
much desired result.
Aii editor in Iowa has been flood
$250 for hugging a girl in meeting.
‘Cheap enough,’ says another of the
fraternity—rivo once hugged a girl
in rueetingf’ aud it has cost us a
thousand dollars a year evor since.’
Bidet sister (to little one who ap¬
pears to take great interest iu Mr.
likibbons)—-‘Come,"’ little pet, it i :
lime your eyes were shut in sleep.’
Little pet—‘I think not- Mother
told me to keep my eyes open when
you and Mr. Skippir,*ere togeth¬
er.’
A Miraculous Cure
Miss Jennie Smith, of Dayton,
Ohio, told a Methodist congregation
in Cincinnati a week ago, bow she
had been miraculously relieved of
diseases wiiich had afficted ber all
her life and precluded her walking
and using her arms, except from el
bow to fingers. She thought, at first
that an unusual exertion of her own
force of will would effort a cure, and
she endeavored to concentrate ber
mind in this way, bat the effect only
reduced .her strength. Her miod
was, at ibt» time, not clear ai to
God’s purpose in respect to her. She
felt often that she was not really
submissive to the divine will,
was too earnest in her desire to be
well. She preyed earnestly for
wisdom and a more humble cjfirit,
and her petitions were at last grant
ed. She felt that, while earnestly
desiring to be cured, ehe could sud
mit cheerfully to whatever Provi
dence might have in store for her.
Finally, one evening in April, sue
became convinced that the time had
come whom she must either arise
from her bed, cr be reconciled to
continue a hepless invalid. This
conviction seems to have boon a defi
nilo impression bclopgiog rather to
the fadings'than to the reason. She
had been for sometime in an Eastern
city under the care of physicians.
Her room was the place of frequent
meetbigs for prayer snu social con¬
versation. On the evening in
question a number of friends an¬
nounced that it was their purpose
to visit her. She asked them if
{hey were willing to prayand wait
v.’itii heir n.til daybreak if b«.
She never, she remarked, understood
the phrase ‘waiting upon the Lord,’
she understood it that
Tho time was consumed in earnest
^.n*-*.*-*
t ; D g quotation from Sciipture. Sud
dealy she saw, ao in a picture, the
man with the withered arm. stretch*
h.,, it forth at the command of Jesus,
•iwi-tn™ ^
conld not explain crcvon describe,
strove to exert a similar faith. At
that instant she felt a new strength a 3
arfdden as a shock of electricity, and
those about ber exclaimed at tho
change in her appearance. She rose
up in her reclining chair withont
assistance, aud when her feet were
placed on the floor fonnd that ghe
could walk with several steps,
and was ab'e to kneel down and
rise withubt assistance. From that
moment she steadily recovered the
use of all her senses that had been
impaired.
Nine Points of the Law.— ‘You
see, hoes, dar’s a nigger libin’ Up
my way who orter be tocken car’
of,’ said an old darkey to the Cap.,
tain at the Central station in De¬
troit.
‘What's lie been doing now ?’
‘Waal, E-ah, las’ Fall I lent Lina
my axe, and when I wanted it back
he braced right up au’ tole me dat
possesshun was nine pints of the
law, an’ refused to gib it up.’
‘Yes.’
‘Waal, de odder day I sent do
ole woman ober an’ she borrowed
his buck saw', and when Julius cum
for it I tole him iiat like he answer¬
ed me, an’ stood on my dignity.
Well ?’
‘I had nine pints 0 ’ law, didn't
if
‘Yes.’
‘Ax.' ho-T many pints urn <Jq law
composed of ?’
‘I don’t know exactly/
‘Well, dat’s what fcoddors me,
fur dat nigger saw dem nine pints,
shet up dis lof, eye fur mo, pitched
de ole woman ober a bar’l and
walked off wid his saw, an’ my
snow shovel to boot! If I had nine
pints he mus’ hev had ober twenty,
an’ ebon den lie didn’t half let him¬
self out I’
One Asfect of Leap Year.—
‘Leap year gives young ladies a
gentleman’s priveleges in making
love.’ Perhaps it does. But no
respectable young man will have
anything to do with a young lady
who takes a position on tho street
comm and not only winks, p-t tho
gentlemen as they pass by, but al¬
so quirts tobacco juice on their
coat-feiils. Nor would it look well
for a c 1 oz§u or more young ladies
to loaf nqound in front of a chuich
an hour told a half on Sunday
another’s nights, sparring, off, and knocking one
hats and dancing a
tra-la-Ja on the side walk, in order
to kill time until \ho congregation
is dismissed, and tVn buckle up to
a young man aud csoqri him home.
Not any.
V0I.-9 No. 33
His L*st Fight—a Rural Romance
Michael Kelly, or Mike as he was
usually called, was an eccentric old
farmer living in one of our subur
ban towns. Bom of poor parents,
by industry and perseverance he
had become possessed of one of
the finest farms in that section, of
which ho was justly proud; but no
prouder was he than of his own
physical strength and agility, that
had assisted him in accumulating
Mb property ar.d made hirtfa most
excellent boxer and wrestler, and
J Ho had it corresponding' ccnteiapt
for men cf inferior powers. One
, spring, when help was unqsually
plenty, ho determined to Lave the
j farm run that year by a strong
team. So, when a man ure^enied
himself and asked for work, after
inquiring of the man as to Lh lab
its, fete.,, he v 7 ould finish by raking
him to fight. In this way Le dis¬
posed of quite a number of agpli
cants, and was beginning to des
pair of getting bis 'strong tsars,’
when, one morning, as ho was
standing in. the bam door, a young
man came up the road, and, seeing
called out:
' ‘Good morning, cir.’
‘Good morning,’ gfdCy.
‘Do you want to hire a hand to
woi’k yotsr farm, sir V
•IhiL.y. -Jtv.antlo hire oat?’,
‘ Yes, sir ; I hfri locking for a
job.
‘WLat can you do ?’
‘All kinds of farm work, sir; I
was born on a farm.’
‘Can yon fight ?’
‘What, sir*’
‘Can you light, I kny ; can you
lick me ?’
‘I don’t blow, sir, whether I can
or not; but I can
And Le did try. The first thing
Kelly knew he '.fas on Lis back on
the floor, with two teeth down his
throat; the next, the man was
astride tie stomach, with a fist in
each eye, and his noce was bleed
just picking up his bundle to start
off, when he was called back and
set to work, and ho proved to be
as trusty and industrioc i as he
was bravo. The farmer's daughter
needed just suck a man a hus¬
band, and now ho may be seen any
day superintending the wefk tqj
the farm, while- Father Kelly sit*
in the arm-chair and tells to his
grandchildren the story of his last
fight.
How to Mako Hens Lay
A correspondent informs us that
while on a visit in the fall to a friend,
ho wan surprised to see the number
of eggs he daily obtained. He hid
but sixteen hens, and the product
per diem avefaged 13 eggs. Ho wus
in the habit of giving on every al¬
ternate duy atcaspoonhil and a quar¬
ter of cayenne pepper, mixed with
soft food, and took care that en$!i
hen obtained her share. The exper¬
iment of omitting tho pepper -whs
tried,when it was found that the
number of eggs was reduced each
trial from five to six daily. Otar
correspondent believes that the mod¬ oily
erate uoe of this stimulant, net
increases tho number of eggs, ljut
efiectcally wards off diseases to vvhjch
chickens are subject. L
Iu a Virginia City court the de¬
fendant in an assault aud battery ciiee
r.roso, and with a great show of dig¬
nity said.
“Your Honor, the complaining
witness in this case does not desire
to prosecute. Ho desires to with¬
draw the complaint.”
His Honor replied; “I am sorry to
disappoint you, sir, but when a com¬
plaint is sworn £ 0 , the complaining
witness caunot withdraw it.”
“I’ll bet you twenty dollars he
kin!” shouted the excited litigant.
IIisHonor thrust his hand inibhis
pocket for the money, but remem¬
bering himself in time, he said, /'Sit
down, sir!"
The chagrin of IIis Honor in; not
being able to take so soft a bet/was
so great that he committed thei jin
fortunato man to the county jail for
twenty l’onrboui-3 for contempt.
-— 1 — -
A g.ectleraan sent his servant up
to his room for a pair cf boo^Aand
at the same time told him to be^ure
and get mates, as there weto two
pairs in the closet. Patrick return¬
ed with two boots, but odd enes.
’Why, don't you see that tlies^ arc
not alike—one is a long top md t!,j.o
other a short one?’said the gaitio
man, out of patienco with the follow.
•Bedud, your honor,’ said Pat in
apology ‘and it’s traftior ye-, hat thin
ttie oth-.i pair was just ao, too.' •
“A
*A nd *2&t k
■^BTr-d^Si that
pretend to tell us \
knot? what' a crapping
is?’
Such were Lia pretsfeptfH boMB
‘Then you are n 6
the old man continued
you something about it.'. A'*
pingmortgage,well,I gin <j»*< m - -
chimed things once myself, cA.
way of it was just ibis :~ h
I allers pianaged to Khesp.
money ahead to buy a 'few d?
things we needed on the gfe#
and I generally went down..;
little town to buy them* cf a
week. Well; as I was down Yfi. u
a trading one week the fpiokeEei
he says to mo, oez he:
‘"What’s the use of you
ing along this way every, weejf
ing out your small change? crkppiii^ Mort¬ WEp
don’t you give me a
gage and then send down when
want anything and lgtvme put if
the books, wi&or,i Tbofefc
the" change, aid then tiheh
crap comes m yon can edMa|
bag o’ cotton and pay it
one sv.oop,’ "it
‘Atoll, didn’t lo
idea—sorter sounded
I tolThim I thought I’B tfi> I
he filled out a crapping awa
which he had idreRdy printed,
as I couldn’t reod very well I
edit on Ms word that it wi
right.y f I7c!l, sir, crcppiny^nM
item.
gages is emious things. iJefa
got T.df my horaa witMi afr jM
got to studying ^afcou.. it. As s
as I signed it the storelceepeii
told me that’now my namm
goed in his store for i-ighttB an^B
wanted, and to send -dfl
I pleased. That' v;«s
studying' about, and tJfl :
soon I got to studying jS
X wn :, od cr<1 vtoit I .
■
something else, mr.de
things that I hnd ftevc^ wanted
fore.. You see, I had always fought
shy of debt all my life, but all the
neighbors v/as a trying their hands
on crapping mortgages, and I
though t I'd go in a little too’—*
Well I did sure. v
‘I kept on wanting tilings: We
all got along fine, and but stored
keeper sold the old woman lets of
good things that we never wanted
before, but that we was bound to
have after I signed >ae crapping
mortgage. They bres^Wants, thqy.,
do.’
JEVWI M- OC'V>..
sett p L ’ rio 0 dovm to
Bt ? x0 th * cra PP» n *?
. **•
8 ” s ®’ “ li Ut ao ‘
wn,< • &ovtn mothe * bde-thdt
wasn’t enough. Next I sent down
all tfie cotton I had, and Anally all
my corn aqd fodder, and as it still
wasn’t paid, the old wosaari got up
all her chickens and ducks and
turkeys and sent them down—still
that miserable crapping mortgage
wasn’t satisfied ; bo I went down to,
see about it. The storekeeper said
it was ail right; all paid but about
two hundred dollars, aild that
■didn’t make any difference; I could
still have whatever I wanted on it.
‘But, fir, ccir.eliow or oilier I
didn't like hew things was a gain',
so I took out my wallet and paid
the balance on that crapping mort¬
gage, and took the blame thing
home with me,’ though 7 CotddnT
help thanking the storekeeper for
offering to let mo have goods after
my crap was all goto. When I
got home me and the cld woman.
wo put on our specks and took a
look at that mortgage, ftnl what do
you think? Why, I’ll bednd (nirffs
ed if that crapping mortgage
hadn't been spread ail over my
lands, ray horses, my mules, my
cattle, my farmin’ utensils, my
household and kitchen furniture;
everyfifiing ! had iu the world - was
flung ijito t, end if it had staid
there ampthcr; e fit itohtohey
crything .t ir ’ - M gottiT
through it. Weil, lei mo tell yoa:
—don’t never sign one,’ Yovn
will get through paying it,
when theni store fellows : ; tel
how easy it is to get, thingp;
and pay for them iu the, falL ;
remember what I tell you atari
crapping mortgage.'
And having finished his' di
tion of these little engines of'op-'
pression, I 10 pulled a twist of
home-made tobacco, that looked
rich and brown as walnut
cutoff a cliow with his horn
die knife, put it .into his mouth?
put the knife and tobacco back in-’
to. his breeches pocket, and walked'
away. He turned round after he'
had ■ ilked a little way and said*
reflectively;
‘Don't you never sign one in the
world ; if you do you will not get
through paying it off,’ He might
have added: ‘For the reason that'
you will be sure to buy hundreds
of things that you would get along
without buying, did you have to
pay the cash down.’ That thing
called ‘good credit is a remirkable
thing!— Exchange.