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thatbhd bo* Who Was N$t‘so 8ad Is the Broth' or Who-Remained at Home and Worked. Da, Tai.maok Showing Up the ’Wickedness op the Industrious Son-—Painting Him as a Liaii AND AN EnV.^DS, JeAIOU^, AND Al, Together Odious Person—The pATF.NT-LRAt^jER SINNER’S PeNNV. J; Bkoom.v», 1 March 14—Services fa the Tabernacle opened this morning with the Binging of the byjpf*—^ "'f£e morning light is breaking, j T^e darkness disappears .” Mr. Talinage's subject was, “The Pouting Son,” and he took his text from Luke xv., 28—“He was angry kid would not go in.” The dis tinguished preacher said: Many times I have been asked why I never preach t£3 elder Son of the great parable All of ns preachers are accustomed to pur¬ sue the young son. You can Sear its rags flap in many a ser monic breeze, and thd sound of the crunching pods for which he is an unsuccessful contestant, Bat I confess never until to-day could J train the Camera ofericura upon the elder son. I could not get a good sbghtive for the photograph. The light in the gallery was not suffi¬ cient or the chemicals were defec¬ tive or the kisteif moved in the pic¬ ture. I believe I have bird how; hot a side face or a three-quarter of the burst, but a full-length por ski he appears to irie: The father in the text had not much to brag of in his boys; The one was a rake and ihe other a churL Some like thb other, but I Ifee neither. There is nothing chivalric in the dissoluteness of the one, nothing admirable in the a< r d sobriety of the btlieri The one goes down over the starboard side and the other goes down over the larboard side. • Frofff Sil the windows of the JtqmeStead burst the minstrelsy.— T be floor qtiakes with the feet of the rustics, whose dance is always vigorous. The neighbors had hVard of the arrival of the adveUtu rer and had come to greet Him.— I think the house Was crowded with congratulatofs. The table must have beeh loaded, and the one kind, of {heat announced must Have fik'4 its concomitants. Clap goes the symbols, thrum go the harps, click go the chalices, and up and down go the feet indoors, while is a sorry spectacle orit cfoors.— The old son stands there a frigid phlegmatic. He liad just returned from the fields in a substantial garb; He e sees the wild excitement aborit the mansion, and asks of a servant who is hasteping b'y with a goat skin of wine on his shoulder what all this fuss is about. When told that his brother had got back _^ou would have thought he would have hastened in to see him after so long an absence, and, if not con scientiously opposed to. dancing, would have joined in the Oriental Schottische. No; Ms brow lowers and his face gets dark arid Ms lips contemptuously, and he stamps the earth in indignation, The odors of the feast which come out on the air do not s| 4 ram' appetite, nor does the lively music put spring into his step. be is in a terrible pout’.' i.r He criticises the expenditure and injustice and the morals of the entertainment. The old father rushes out bare-headed to coax him in. 'yhe’souV his invulnerable. scofis his bfoth- He scolds' father, at er and makes a scene. He says: ‘Father, you put a premium on va gfancy. You never gave me a par¬ ty". I staid home on the farm and worked, and this scrapegrace went o^f with good clothes and came bjick time not fit, make to be seen. him. What# He T ’OU over breakfyuur That heart—you calf to whjci? pay y?e hind’ had for it. been giving extrej fegcf would not have been so fat and sleek as, he is if I had known yqu Were going to make this absurd use of it. Tjiat vagabond ought to Jh&ve beeri. coite hided, instead of banqueted; veal is foo good for him/ That Eight/' after 'the guests had departed and fhe Jieeri son sat andf tellihg about where he had wliat .he had seen, and asking About had oceur eJ on the old place since his de¬ parture, the elder son went to bed’ disgusted, and.slammed thts dbor after him, The elder' sbjt still livpjj. You may see Mm almostaHy the' 1 h'unday'; ' jea, every day of week. At a meeting' of ministers in Germany some one asked who was the elder son of a parable.— Rrummachor answered 1 : ‘I khotf hfyi'very well. I met him day/ And- when asked who meant ho answered : ‘Myself.— When, yesterday, I heard of the salvation of a very obnoxious in tin, I,‘felt irritated.’ First, the aenior b'rotlicr of the text stands for the sMf grutulatory, self-satisfied, self worslnVnl man. The fellow bursts lit» broth v' s ♦ Jnrt w\ / t § I \! AfA 4 . r V ... S. B. Burr, Proprietor. er; and panegyric himself. Like other self righteous people, he wae full of faults. He, was an ingrate, not appreciative of the home bless¬ ings he had enjoyed. He was dis¬ obedient, for when his father asked him to go in, lie staid orih .He was a liar, fot he says the yoqng e£t son had devoured lather, .hie father's living, when the so fax from being rained by his recreant bey, had cattle at the barn, had rich wardrobes, had jewelry, had .mus¬ ical instruments; arid instead of a pauper wae a prince. Yet the sen¬ ior brother; with all his faults, be¬ comes tiie merciless critic of the junior brother. The only perfect people I hate found have been ut forty obnoviods'. I Was never so badly cheated in all niy life as by a perfect man. He had got clear dp in his devotions until he was above the ordinary rules of common hon esty. Wheii Died go Crowding about prater-meetings and places of business, telling how good they are, you had better keep your hand on your pocket-book.— The more genuinely good a man gets the more humble he is. The Mississipi river makes less tioiSe than a brawling mountairi rivulet There are stores and shops that have more in the Show-windows than they have irisicte oil the shelves. This Setiior brother stood hugging himself at the Poirier of the hotiSe: We heat ft great deal now it dayS ifo'otft higher life.— The orie is admirable and the other disgusririg. The one makes the man more charitable for the faults of others, talks but little about hint self and more of Christ and beaten; does not bore prayer meeting® with long prayers, becomes Mote lovable and kind and itseifril,' until some day his so Hi puts out a riing and soafs aviay %o eternal. rest. The iiffier higher-life man carries a Bi¬ ble under his arm most conspicu¬ ously, talks constantly about what he himfelf has felt, runs about from church to church as q sort of general own’ evangelist, is a £tfi&ce home fc his , pastor wliep at and to other parties when abroad, rushes up a man whilst running up a line -nirifriher of figures or cowriting ou't a of bill® and asks him how his soul is, makes religion a dose of epicacuanka, when addressing a religious meet¬ ing tallrs patronizingly, rit tftorigji ordinary Christian's’ vler'e so far be neatk him, that he had to shout at the fop of his voice to make them hear, but still encouraging them to hope that if they continued to climb they may some day get with¬ in sight of the place wh’efe he noW is. A roaring, roysterm’g, bouch* ing siririer jri riot so offensive to me as that higher life malformation. — For the former there’ is hope of re¬ pentance; but for the latter there is no hope, for I never knew one of them to give up his Phariaism.— The prodigal son saw his faults and came back, but tl?e seriib^sciri, oblivious of his deHriqiiericy; stands outside, provonricing his own eu> blame Ionium. How much easier it is to others than it is to blame our selves! Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent, the serpent blamed Satan, the senior brother blamed the, younger/ and nbrie of thenrblafobft the fh^p’telyps.,, brother r stands < • Again, elder for those who are faithless of the reformation of the dissipated, die olnte. In the very sojfod of his toice you find thiA elder son does not think his bre^he/a^information is genuine. Has whole manner says : “He has onljr coH>e back for more money. He got his one third ; .he wants another. He Will never be content windfall' to sta/ Oil the farm. He away. If I thought Ee would 7 -brihave himself, I would cofofe and joifiln the mirth, but this whole thing Ik a sham.— This tattterdemaliah is a confirmed inebriate ajjd ed now'there is in aR our churches great incredulity in regard to the reclamation of the recreant. They say he has been a hard drinker, but I say hh has reformed/ And they also shake their'heads apd look hi gubrious, and aay» They'sU/:" ,‘I hqpe ’Bo are not mistaken.' not make too glad'a time at this convereiion, for the urioonveriod. first tiling you. know lm will bo not have t«o big a party at the prodigal’s return, nor strike timbrel too Iona, and kill the that has been half-starved op common, rather th«n the one has been luxuriating in the pad* FORT i. VALLEY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APtflL rtf & 1880. dock.’ The one reason why more prodi gals don't come back is because the church is full of rank infidelity on a possibility of their not standing first. Bo yori not kriovr that there is hot a house on all the streets of heavea which does hot hold a prod igal who got back afid forever staid hornet A list of hundreds of thousands of. prodigals permanent ly and foreV-el reformed could be made up. Who is John Buoyant AjS^bqigftl. Richad Baxtqjr? A frodigal. JohnNewtont A prod igal. George Whitfieldt A prodi gal. 1 can go tip any of thes 8 aisles and find on either side those who, far astray once, have for many Been faithful, and their etern salvation is as sure as if they had been ten years in heaven. Yet some of you are entirely faithless the reformation of the lost. know not how to shake hands with them: You know not how to for them. You know not how treat tHerii. They are trying to out into a warm gulf stream of sympathy, and you are the against which they, strike shiver. They are prodigals I but you are the sour, un frigid, censorious, sa and cranky elder brother, if you are going to heaven I think some people wodld be to go to perdition to get rid you. Hunters say that When a deer is shot the others push it of their oompany. The common feeling is; out With a man when sin has wounded him. But I say the Soke bones a man has broken fife rriorie need he has of a hospital, and the more bruised aud cut sin a man is the more need to be carried into human and divine sym¬ pathy—for elegant sinners there is plenty of help. For sinners in velvet, in satin arid laces, for high salaried siririefs, for kid gloved patent-leathered siririers, for sinners fixed Up by the hair-dresser, for pomatumed and laVefe'cleried and coioghejl and crimped and and curled and banged sinners, plenty of room. Such sinners we give good seats to. We usher them into the church With' Ohester fleldiqE? gftllaa'tries, arid put a soft ottoman under th'Cir feet and a gilt prayer-nook into their hand, and pass this contribution box before fheffT with an air of apology, they, the generous souls, open their exquisite and Parisian pprte monnaie, and, With di'a’m'oned fin gefs, pfash down among the ten dollar gold pieces and delicately pick out a deposit rt*5 aH expression Of gratitude—their Sabbath offer¬ ing to the Lord—of one cent. Plen¬ ty of room for such sinners. But When a Q&n’ has. been drinking his coat threadbare, and his face in erysipelas, and his wife’s wedding dress is in the pawnbroker’s shop, and his children, who ought to be &{ ifchbol, begging cold victuals at the basement doors of the city, and the man is on fire, body, mind and soul, with the flames that leap' the scathing/ eoaliirrig, blasting, scorching,' blistering, consuming c\Jp, which the drunkard picks up trembling; agonized and affrighted to pr'estf to his' parched lips and his cracked tongue and his shrieking, immortal spirit, not so much room for him. If the junior . bTothef the, parable had’ not gone so’ and spent less money, and had gone into such low wassail, tire pro¬ test would not have been so sharp, having pitched headlong off the precipice, the hero of my text WriB'ftbg'ere|I and would not go in. be not too hard with the fallen lest thou thyself also are tempted, Do you know who that man was who, Sabbath before last, disturbed' on r service, aifle staggering up and down the until the service had to stop’ building till Jhe was removed from the A fallen minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, belong¬ ing to a sister denomination. Hd administered at , the altar, he had baptized candidates nnd bro kefi the bread of the Holy Sacra* ment. From what a height 10 W8AT A DR ^ TH ’, A m*n satonthe beach, an inva lid'in Sbufh America, one summer day, and he saw Something crawl ing; and wriggling iip'tho beach, and'ho ii 'might wonc^erel what wild beast, be eOpimg toward him, and-ho took out his pistol for self defense. When he found it was not a beast, but a man, an immortal man, a man made in God's own im* ago, with filthy shock of hair, un" shaven Said horrible; he had reduced to great poverty, and was living in a boat, and cravling up to the invalid, he asked for some strong drink. He turned out to be a Scotchman, who had once been a merchant in Edinburgh. The in valid said: ‘I used to know a mer* chant^in; if Edinburgh;’ giving the name, He pool: man answered, ‘I am that man.’ Again, the senior brother stands for the ejiirit df envy and jealousy. He took the reception of the ju niot Mother as a wrong to himself, He had done so well he thought tliat the banquet ought to Kaye been spread for him, the .music for him, the dance for him, -qn 4 the congratulation for him. Oh, mean and dastardly spririts of envy and HoW they have come down through all ages! Cain and Abel, Saul and David, Esau and Jacob, Haman andMordecia, Othel lo ftfid Torquatus, Cassar and Pom* pey, Columbus and the Spanish courtier; Camb’yseS; Who slew his brother Siiierdes because he was a better marksman; Dionysius, who slew Philoxenus because he was a better siliger. Jealousy among painters—Klostermari and Geoffrey, Hudson arid Reynolds. Francia wanted one of Raphael’s paint in[ gg) Ba W it and died of jealous grief; When Lee Soeur died, his contemporary, Le Brun, said: ‘I fg^l I have had a thorn from my foot.’ Jealousy among authors— how seldom contemporaries recog* nize each other< jEnophoU and Plato lived at the sacoie time; but from their writings,’ you might think they had UeVer heard of each other. Religious jealousies—the Mohammedans prayed for rain during the time of great drouth, arid the rain came riot. The Chris tian prayed and the fairi immediate¬ ly descended. The Mohammedans said the reason the fairi did riot descend while they were praying was because God loved to hear their supplications so much that He kept the dfriuth on iri order to coritinrie tlreir devotions; but that wheri the Ohristiaris began to pray the rain came immediately, because God did ript Warij- to hear any more o| their cries'. Among the basest passions of the soul- at first ap¬ pearance of envy let us stamp it out. In all departments it appears. Aqg. ageient Theogenes, Wrestler the was prince |e'jeal¬ of of that after his death when statue had been set up to his honor, his antagonist went out and WUESTLEB WITH THE STATUE till he flung it, but flung it upon crushing him to death. So erivy is not only absurd, but killing to body and soul. How seldom you hear a merchant speak well of another merchant in the same line of goods, or physicians in the ^atiie block, or clergymeri of I^hy this folly? This a large’world, and there iri room all. Let us rather rejoice in each other’s successes.' The next thing to riding in a splendid equipage is to stand along the road and admire the passing span. The best thing to having a banquet in honor of ourselves is to come in the back door and rejoice that our long absent brother is receiving it. Nay. if we do not get as much hon¬ or and attention as some others, let us argue that we escapg much'as¬ sault which comes to those in high position. A French General was riding at the head of Mr army, who were on foo,t and overburdened; complained at one of his soldiers his haying to walk while the Gen¬ eral rode. The General dismount¬ ed’anti compelled foe complaining private to mount bis horse., Pass ing through a ravine, a bullet from a sharp-shooter wounded and slew the soldier on horseback. Then the General drew a moral, that it was sometimes not so safe to ride as to go afoot. s Again the senior brother for those Cfoatian peoplo who spends their life in religious pout* ing. While the song and the laughter and the innocent ^convivi¬ ality Went on inside, the man in text stood with the edrhers of mouth drawn, dowp, arid his curled, looking as lie felt miserable. I am glad to know his lugubrious physiognomy and groutinesa of havior did not stop the joy indoors. So there are professed who spend their life in they do not like the music church They do not like the rities of the young. They do not like anything^ POUTING, POUTING, POUTING at society. Pouting at the govem foerit. Pouting at the newspapers. Their spleen is too large; their ljver don’t work. Their digestion is broke down. The only two cruet 6 in their castor sur.e to be full are vinegar and red pepper. Oh, quit that mood. Store a little of the saccharine iri Jour disposition. Ab¬ sorb some of God’s sunshine. Dq not imitate the junior son who went off into abandonment, nor the senior who stood pouting,at tile corner of the house,,but the father Who had welpoirie for the repentant wanderer, and coaxing and beseech¬ ing words for the pouting malcon¬ tent. Go in and sit down with the banqueters, and take a good big piece of the fatted calf, and after¬ ward, while you sit with oae hand in the hand of the returned broth¬ er, and the other in the hand of the. rejoicirig father;, let your heart beat time to the clapping of the cymbal chid the mellow voice of the flute. It was meet that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found. - j ~- _ __ Tidings from' Liberia, George Shaw, a well known ored man, formerly of this county, brit. now in Liberia, writes friends in Augusta warning colored people not to go to that nighted region. He says the try is mountainous and sterile, the climate very Sickly; AU necessaries of life are very inferior, and high in price- The letter fur¬ ther says: “Wrong statements have been made to the colored ple of the South about Liberia, which cause many a poor soul to come here and suffer. Liberia is a ceftain death for all the American people who come here, and the na¬ tives—who think we are just out of slavery—look on us with suspicion and scorn. If the true facts about this country were generally known it would save many a poor soul from' dying, Which a large majority do wh'o land on those burning shores. There is no machinery in the country, arid farmers cannot keep out of debt from one season to the other. The much talked of bread fruit ^.nothing, like bread yon have iri the States; it is a peculiar kind of fruit growing on large trees, aud very insignificant.” Shaw, with several others from this section, shipped on the Azor from Charleston, .about two years ago.—Augusta News. - ■# m — Long Words; “Rob,” said Tom, “which is the most dangerous word in all the Eh glish language to pronounce 1 ” “Don't know,” said Rob, “unless it is a shearing word.” “Pooh!" said Tom, “it is stum¬ bled, because you are sure to get a tumble between the first and the last letter.” “Ha, ha!” said Rob; “now I’ve one for you. I found it one day in reading the paper. Which js' the longest word in all the English' language?” “Valetudinarianism,” said Tom 1 , promptly. “No,, sir; it’s smiles, because there’ri a whole mile between the first and last letter.” “Ho, ho!” cried' Tom, “that’s nothing; I know a word that has over three miles between its begin¬ ning and ending,” “Now, what’s' that ?” asked Rob, faintly, “Bfeleaguered,” 1 cxclaimod Tend', A setting Sit. , Arnold l’armeY,with a house foil of boys, was one day tuggibg away at a large piece of timber. Finding it to,he rather hard work, he called his boys one after anqlher, at the top of His voice, but received no reply. Fi nally, after he had no need of them, they all came. , “Where,” said he, “have you been, and what have mo,.call you bean doing; diUn’t.yog hear 1 ” iri the shop,' Beltin' the saw,’| “And you, Dick?” continued the old fanner.,. > ,, , “Out in the bnxn. settin, the hen.’ “And you, Jack?” . ■ “Up iu Granny’s room sottiri clodk.” “ Ancfvou, TotnT’ j.- j “Up Iri the gairet, sottiri the trap. “Aud now Master Fred, where were.you settiu’?” asked the farmer, amused at the peculiarity of the rc*> plies. “On ___ the doorstep, * settiri i still;” replied the youngster. “ ■ . Rainfalls and Forwfs-— ^According to a paper in.. Polybiblion, the fol¬ lowing are the laws of meteorology as affected by forests: 1. It rains more abundantly under ether identi oal-circumstances, over forests than non wooded ground and mos abund antly over f« wiffi trees in a green condnion 2. The degree of saturation of the air by moisture non-wooded :a greater af ground forests and much than great- over er over pinus sylvestris than over masses of leaved species. 3. The leafage and branches of leafed trees intercept one-third, and those of resinous trees the,half of the rains w *l 8r i .which,, after paid returns to the,atmosphere by evaporation, On tha other hand, these same leaves and branches restrain the evapora tlon of water which reaches the ground ; and that evaporation is •early four times less under a mass of leafed forest than ini the open, and two and one-third times only .under a mass of pines. 4. The laws of the change of temperature out of urider wood are similar to those which’ result from the observations M. Mathieu. The general con¬ clusion seems to be that forests reg¬ ulate the function of water,and exer¬ cise on the. temperature, as on the, atmosphere, .an effect of ponderaticn and eqailibrium. Will He Succeed In nine.cases out .of ton,, a man's life will not, be a success if he does not bear burdens in childhood the fondness or the vanity of father or mother has kept him from hard work: if another always helped him out at the end of his ro w; if instead of taking his turn at pitcher off be stowed away sill bis time—in short if what was light fell to'him, and what rias heavy about the work to some ono else; if he has been permit¬ ted to shirk; until shirking has be¬ come a habit, Unless a miracle been wrought, hm life will be a failure, and ,the blame will.not half so much his as that of bis weak and foolish parents. On the other hind, if a boy has been brought up to do his part, nev er allowed to shirk his, responsibil¬ ity,or to dodge work whether or not it made his head ache, or soiled his Kanos until bearing burdens has be¬ come a matter of pride, the heavy end ot the wood his choice, parents, as they bid him good; bye, may dis¬ miss their fear. The elements of success are his, and at some time, arid in some way the wc-rld will rec¬ ognize his capacity. » Ammonia, m Rain Liebig says that any one may sat¬ isfy himself of the presence of am¬ monia in rain by simply adding a little sulphuric acid to a quantity of rain-water, and by evaporating it nearly to dryness iri a clean por¬ celain basin- The ammonia re mains in the - residue in combina¬ tion with the acid employed ab‘d may be detected by the addition of a little cholorid'o of platinum, or more simply, by a little powdered lime, wMch separates the ammonia and thrfs renders its peculiar pun* gent smell sensible. The sensation’ perceived 7 on moistening the hand with rain-water,, so different from that produced by pure distilled wa tej 1 , and to winch the term soft¬ ness 7 is commonly applied* is caus¬ ed by the presence of a* carbonate of ammonia. The first African Baptist Church Richmond, Va, has 8,000 members; but this immense aggregation of Gh ristiannity does not prevent a terrible church quarrel, which is shaking the congregation to its foundations. It seems that two sisters were found fighting their for dear su¬ premacy in the favor of paster, and summed’ this is bow a pious old for brothe* up - the.platter “De the Commonwealth:* members is still consequenclng on Holmfes, ‘bout dat ar affar wid .winJin, but as yit.no reoeedins hev bin’ meuced giri ‘im. .De feo bowsomdover, dat if de sisterin gin deir evidence dat she’s g lilty, dere is plenty folks in de church what will go for bouncin’ Holmes, suah.’ *■4’ Little Edith (who has heard h r mamma speak of blighted think affection) —“Mamma, and you *1 a per¬ son is really and truly ire love- it would be.wiokcd her to deprive >ns?” ber of the object of affecti Mamma-—“Why, certantiy, Edith dear; but wberuin the world did yoj learn nil that?’ , ‘ Edith—“I heard you tell it to Mrs. I’m Jingiejaw to-day. in lovo And with mom¬ that ma, awfully iu the cupboard.” It i» loaf of cake needles* to say that Edith aud the objoct.ofhor alleotiona were immad* i«t«ly iititied. V0I.-9 No. j 34. " K ..'i ; I MY WIFE’S BRIDAL TOUR BT MOSE SKINNER. When I married my second ghe wa8 Mt about “ ; for a bri(laI tol , r . p told h r 8Wd het ter wait six months or a / year, and p<J to with he ba ghe 8aid she - d ralllef g d alone _ when a wo . man tra7eli lan waa an 0Ut . aQ( j out humbug r So j gavo ber 8 ev ^ t y-dve cents and , old her to g0 off and have a good time . j nfever b ^g r< i d g 0 ^on. ey where my wife’s happiness concerned. My first wife never could com) .lain of not going any where, for I'm dreadful fierce to. go 0 ff on a good time myself; and al¬ waya waS- j don>t pretend t0 68J , how maDy timftsI took her out t0 see the engine squirt, and there was no en d to the free lectures I let her g0 l0( The neigbbo r 3 used to say . “It dobs beat all how the Skinners Wneu Signor Blitz was- in Shunk ville wjth his • Qnderful.canaries he gave myi wife a complimentary ticket. 1 not only sold that ticket for my wife, bat I gave her half the money. I don’t boast of .it; though; L only mention it to show bow much I thought of my wife’s happiness. I don’t think any man ought to, get married until -he can his wife’s happiness only second to his Own. John Wise, ft neighbor of mine, did thusly, and when I got married I concluded to do like Wiijfi. . , , ., But the plan didn't work in the cose of my second wife. No, I should say not. I broached the subject kiedly; j ... - - ‘Matilda,’ Isaid, ‘I suppose you are aware that I am now your lord and master.’ ‘Not much yoa ain’t.' ‘Mrs. ■ Skinner,’ I replied, ‘you are fearfully demoralized; you need reorganizing at once. You are eranky.’ Aud I brandished my new sixty twp-cents umbrelly wildly around her. She took the umbrelly away from me and locked me up in the clothes press. I am quick to draw an inference, and the inference I drew was that I was not a success as a reorganizer of female woman. , After this I changed my lacjics. I let her have her own way, arid the plan worked to a charm from the very first. It’s the best way of man¬ aging a wife that I know of. Of course this is between you and me. So when niy. wife said she was bound to go off on. a bridal tour, I cordially consented. ‘Go, Matilda,’ said I, ‘and stay as long as you want to, then, if you feel as though you would like to stay a little longer, stay my dear, stay- , ( i She told ac to stop talking and go up stairs and get her red flannel night-cap and that bag of pennyroyal for her Aunt Abigail. My wife is. a very smart wpman. She was a Baxter, aud the Baxters are a' very smart family, indeed. Her mother, who is going on eighty, can fry more slapjacks now than half those primped-up city girls who rattle on the piano, or else walk tlie streets with their furbelows and fix¬ ings, pretending to get mad if a youth looks at them pretty hard, but gettiug mad in earnest if you don't notice them at all. . , ... Ah! girls ain’t what they used to be wheu I was young and the fel¬ lows are worse still. When I went courting, for instance, I riever thought of staying after 10 o’clock, and only went twice a week. Now they go seven nights - 1 “ the week ana cry because there ain't eight. Then they write touching notes to each other during the day, ‘Dear George, do yon love me as much now as you did at a quarter' past tvv’elro -last night? Say you do, dearest, and it will -give me courage to go down to dinner left and tackle them cold beans over from Well, well, 1 suppose, they enjoy themaelvcs, and it uin,t for us old folks, whose hearts aro. a little cal¬ loused by long v/ea», to iu‘erfere. Lot them get together aud court if they like it—and I think they do. l was forty seven when I courted ray present wife, but it seemed just us nice to eit ou a little cricket at hor feet ahd let' her smooth my hair us it did thirty'years ago.. Ah I said beforejmy wife is * very smart weman, but she could not be anything She else, and be a Baxter. Wo¬ men's u»oa Right*, to giro and in lootures place on where one *hj lectured title a L. big D., colli ge couforre l the of L. ou tier: But she wouldn't take it. • ‘No, gentleman,’ j she said; ‘give It to the poor. > She was always just so charitable. She gave my boys permission to go barefoot ail winter, and insisted up¬ on it so much in Khr kind way that they wouldn’t refuse. Slie fairly dotes on my children,’ and I've seen.fiet pockets many and a time take go oat to their trowser o their pennies, and after they'd the got to sfoep, pat them in bureau 1 drawer for fear they might lose them daring the night. *•»* ***• **** **** I started to tell you about my Wife’s bridal tour, but the fact is I never could find oulr inijefc about it myself. J believe slie had a good time. She came back improved in health, and I found house out before she had beetv in the twenty-four BoVirs, that she'd gained in strength also. I don’t say bow I found it out—I simply gay I found it out. ! In conclusion, I would s .y to alj ; young first, men: and Marry your debt second wife keep out of by all means, even it'you have to bor¬ row. the money to do it. ■£ ■ r‘ ' ' ' ' , The Chinese . question - has cor. tainly assumed some. curious fea¬ tures iq California, h One of the. queerest things is the difference that the Californians pretend to discover between the Chinese and Japanese. While’ the former are hated, the latter are extremely pop • ular and liked, and a distinct invi¬ tation has been extended to them tojsta-y; There are several thous¬ and Japanese oh the Pacific Slope, but it is said that they fall into. American ways at once, dress in. our fashion and soon become thor¬ oughly Americanized. The puzzle in California is- how to legislate against the Chinese and - yet not against- the Japanese. They are. botlj Mongolians of the same race, amS so alike that it is often difficult to tell the two people apart. Tail Accident to the Obelisk.— Lieut Seaton Sohroender, who is with Lieutenant-Commander Zar* rifige in Egypt,on the work of ship • ping the obelisk to this country, has been granted three months ad¬ ditional leave of absence by the Navy . department The. accident which has occurred in lowering the monolith, has left it in such a po¬ sition that before the work can be finished a jack specially manufac-. tured for the purpose will have to be made. As this jack will be made in England, there will be; considerable delay. Information through naval sources states that the obelisk will not reach New York before October next. Governor Colquit has granted a respite of Sam Hill’s sentence for. two weeks. The general impres¬ sion is that his counsel will- proceed to have a regular trial for jury be¬ fore the ordinary on a writ of luna¬ cy. There is a statute which em¬ powers the governor to hear evident cc in cases where lunacy is set up as a plea after conviction, but. in this case the trial will be held be-’ fore the ordinary, and a regularly im pannelled jury if it is had at all. ■ Atlanta correspondence Albany Advertiser: The political situation in Georgia is on the eve of some great changes. Since Governor Colquitt’s return from the Cincinna* ti excursion bis truest friends out¬ side of Atlanta have had long con. ferences with him, and one made free to tell him that ho could not get the democratic nomination. To¬ day,|he 27 t*yit is quite freely assert¬ ed that Colquitt will run independ¬ ent. The_ members of the Georgia Med¬ Sooiety, in Savannah, protest' against the increase of po wer given the National Board' of Health by several congressional bills, and sug¬ gests the holding of a convention, in which all the Atlantic and gulf states' should be requested’to participate, in order to frame a bill wherein our common, weal should" be explicitly provided for. , --- am * m - Messrs Richard and William Ber rie of Glynn county, and their Florida relations, are about to secure from the, United States government' about .$5,000,000, in settlement of an Berfie oldEpahish have been claim. offered The each Repays $94,* 000 for their claim by Secretary but they prefer .to wait and get it all, about $150,000 each.. Some guns taken from'the Georgia Military Institute have been return¬ ed to Marietta in the name of Con¬ gressman Felton, thiis balking Gen.' Young, who ivanted tkem to go his name. They had been placed with condemned cannou, and are* said to bo dangerous to fire. —-—. .». « ■ —-— • | Iu connection with the ‘boom’ in iron, nails, $ have gone p’iious up from $3 * keg to 6 . These indicate,, also, building great throughout improvement in -sh^, the whole country. - • ■ • „ <>- 4 " * ** II , % ia>reportod built that house au ablo bis states-. |»-, man who a out of kor winnings said that his residence was built on a bluff. Mount Vesuvius is troubled with, eruptions, and they don’t know whfct to do with the crater. -v