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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.