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RY THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. \ VOLUME I. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, „ the Jaeltwon County l ft ut>li*liing JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO ., GA. ( FF , cE , n. w. cor. public square, up-stairs. MALCOM STAFFORD, " MANA ouio ANI) BUSINESS EDITOR. One copy 12 months $2.00 .. “ 6 4 1.00 u “ 3 V 30 toJ-For every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex trtfOPJ* *f the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Ojte Dollar per square (often lines or less) for*fti(Hirst insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will he published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. ggrßusiness or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Seven Dollars per annum; and where thev do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. ('ontract Advertising;. The following will be the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases: Squares, l . l in. 3m. m. 12 m. 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Prompt at tention given to all business entrusted to their tire. Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly WII.KY C. HOWARD. ROB*T 8. HOWARD. HOW VICl> A IIOWAKD. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Jefferson, 6a. Will practice together in all the Courts of Jack son and adjacent counties, except the Court of Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist'7s }} A. W KLLIAJISiOA U WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. At Dr. Win. King’s Drug Store. Dcnprce Block, . Athoas, (la. All work done in a superior manner. , tad warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi , hr fly CASH. Julylo-6m. “STANLEY'& BOSON, JEFFERSOX, GA., INHALERS in Dry (foods and Family Grocc -4 ' ries. New supplies constantly received. [ (’heap for Cash. Call and examine their stock. •nine IP ly . a .1. MRS. T. A. ADAMS, Broad Street) one door above National Bank) K ATHENS, GA., LEPS constantly on hand an extensive stock of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS, in part, the latest styles and fashions ■ Ladies* Hut*. Koimetis RibbonK, tatees l'lowers, (nlores Ac., which will be 4 a ( reasonable prices. Orders from the coun r> promptly filled. Give her a call. dlß3m || *'• MOFFORH, Attorney at I Jin, lf ' BELTON, GA., ill practice in all the adjoining Counties, and ?' c P r °mpt attention to all business entrusted to care. Collecting claims a specialty. J ne 19th. 1875. ly John g. o vkes, w HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA. nnd good baggy' and wagon harness always ;' UUf 6 Repairing same, bridles, saddles, Ac., " ac °n short notice, and cheap for cash. JUUeI2— ly * J - J- TLIYD, | j. B; su.MAN, ' Jefferson, Ga. MYl> & WLJUA, \... . ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. a. 111 practice together in the Superior Courts of counties of Jackson and Walton. JHnel2—ly \\ *• I‘IKE, Attorney at Ijiw, t> ' ' . JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. p ICes ln all the Courts, State and Federal. an d thorough attention given to all cotinu e ° al business in Jackson and adjoining Ues - June 12, 1875 Medical Notice. lJ J' HI IVr having located in Jetfer respectf n*" le P ur P ose °f practicing Medicine, lis ten ' * ten( 4crs his services to the citizens of ortho 1 f count y bi a H the different branches ®oiini' rofess ' o “' After a flattering experience h* j, 1 ' ;en years, he feels jnstitied in saying that di s ,.. P r, ‘P ar ed to successfully treat any curable Dtscilt ,l i culent to our climate. He is, for the win • hoarding with Judge John Simpkins, but his family here sooa. vvith Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey. Xij . ,/ e L enee can be seen in the office of T. H. ibl ack, Esq., c. S. C. octlfi I'EXDEHGRASS & HANCOCK, M respectfully call the attention of the 1 'lie to their elegant stock of R, D t ry &oods of all Kinds, Fi\ IM " n 4 ~E CLOTH I TO, K CASSLMERES, hats, caps, Obtainim * Ladies’ Bonnets, Hats and sJl*' Hardware, Hollow' Ware, Earthen °Pes *pi 100 B°oks, Paper. Pens, Inks, Envel t!l * all k'i Ur r i^ ea ß Bacon, Lard. Sugar Coffee, Us, iaJJ v f 111 s .’*atent Medicines, in fact everything lu a General Store. Prices to suit Jefferson, June 12, 1875. tf ■I IIE FOREST NEWS. The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. MIXED ITEMS. It is said to be a sign of a submissive hus band if his back is so sensitive that he can tell when a fly lights on it. The small boy is now saving his pennies in order to purchase a horrible caricature valentine to send to his big brother’s best girl. The Baptists of Scotland have doubled their numbers in the past six years. They now have seventy churches and three thou sand members. Gen. James Chesnut, of S. C., has been chosen to deliver the annual oration before the Literary Societies of Princeton College, New Jersey, at the next commencement. One hundred and thirty persons have been baptized by Rev. Dr. Hatcher, pastor of Grace street church, Richmond, Va., within a few weeks. Providence seems to watch over the little man with a big wife, and teaches him that one of the principal conditions of domestic tranquility is to always keep his dander at low tide.— Brooklyn Argus. It is said that some people have what is called “spontaneity” and some haven’t; but nobody' ever sat down on a pincushion yet without manifesting something surprisingly like it. —Brooklyn Argus. The Southern Presbyterian Assembly enu merates 871 Sabbath-schools. Their united contribution's amounted, lasty*ear, to $30,000 ; the average attendance of teachers being 5,000 and scholars 35,000. Preserve your walnut timber. A man who recently purchased a farm of 250 acres near New Albany. Ind., for SIO,OOO received an offer of $9,600 for 120 large walnut trees growing on the place. There is a one armed negro in Cairo who can cut his own timber and split 300 rails per day. A blind negro makes a comfortable living by tending the railroad tank here and doing odd little jobs !—Thomasville Times. Nashville is undergoing a general vaccina tion crusade, a dozen medical men being employed to go from house to house to look ifter those who neglect the great preventive through poverty or ignorance. A school boy had just got his face fixed to Jug, “Let us love one another,” when a snowball hit him in the mouth, and so con fused him that he yelled, “ Bill Sikes, just do that again, and I’ll chaw your ear off.” Washington was once asked to dine with Judge Jones. The chair in which he would have sat, if he had accepted this invitation, will be exhibited at the centennial. —Norwich Bulletin. There was a curiosity' at the Union depot yesterday, in the shape of a negro woman with sixteen children, all her own. She came from Alabama, and stated that she had five more youngsters at home, making twenty-one in all. —Augusta Chronicle. *My son,” said a stern parent to a seven year old hopeful, “I must discipline you. Y'our teacher says y T ou are the worst boy in the school.” “Well, papa.” was the reply', “only yesterday she said I was just like my father.” Some parties seining in the Ocktahachee Lake a few days ago, killed an old well known alligator, which measured twelve feet in length and weighed near four hundred pounds. This is the largest one ever known in this country. “ Stranger will you try* a hand with us at poker ?” “ Thank you, gentleman, but there are seventeen reasons why I cannot accom modate you now.” “ Seventeen reasons for not playing cards ? Pray, what are they ?” “ Why, the first is I haven’t any money” “ Stop ! that’s enough ; never mind the other sixteen.” He sat in a railway car. His head was thickly covered with a mass of red hair. Be hind him in a seat sat a man with hardly any hair on his head. He said to him. “I guess y'ou wasn’t round when they dealt out hair.” “Oh yes, I was,” replied bald head, “but they' offered me a lot of red hair, and I told them to throw it into the ash bin.” No poor man in Michigan wants to be Governor of that State because of the salary, which is one thousand dollars a year. The inaugural message always costs more than that. The Governors of the State have for some j*ears been rich men, to whom the glory' acquired is worth the large amount which their honors cost them. The judge of a court in Maine recently sentenced a culprit to twenty-five y'ears in the State prison. The {Jact was communica ted to the prisoner’s mother, who was struck at the magnitude of the sentence. “ W hat did they do that for ?” she exclaimed. “Twen tv-five years! Why, he won’t be contented there three weeks.” A lady’ who had just lost her husband was weeping and lamenting : “ Ah, mother,” she cried, raising her eyes to Heaven, “I should o-ladly give half my life to be eight days old er.” “Why, my child?” asked her mother. The bereaved one, regarding affectionately the photograph of her dead husband, answer ed, “Because, then I should no longer be grieving over uiy loss.” JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, FEB’Y 5, 1876. SELECT MISCELLANY. Hill and Yancey. THE TRUE STORY OF THEIR COLLISION IN THE CONFEDERATE SENATE. An article is finding free circulation which states that Mr. Yancey did not die (as has been supposed by Dr. Hill and others in Montgomery,) of inflammation of the kidneys, a disease from which he had been suffering for years ; but that his death was produced by a collision in the Confederate Senate with Mr. Ben Hill, of Georgia, who, when assailed by Mr. Y., in secret session, in a discussion of the navy bill, for giving him the lie, broke his back, from which he drooped away and died, an utterly' disheartened and disappoint ed man. The man who got up that story, we modest ly suggest, would be a model reporter for the New Y r ork Herald , the Harpers, or the Illus trated Neivs. His talents will be wasted on the “ desert air” of this miserable Southern land. Mr. Yancey and Mr. Hill did have a diffi culty in the Confederate Senate, not, how ever, upon a discussion of the navy bill, but of the Supreme Court bill. Mr. Y. had spoken; Mr. Hill, in reply, reviewed Mr. \ ancey’s record in a style which was regard ed as offensive by Senators. Mr. Yancey arose, when Mr. llill had taken his seat, and remarked that as other Senators desired to speak on the question, he would not consume the time of the Senate then, but that at a proper time he would endeavor to do justice both to the Senator from Georgia and to him self. He desired only to say then, that the assertions of the Senator from Georgia in re gard to what he was pleased to term his auto biography were false, and he knew them to be false when he made them. Mr. IIUI responded quickly from his seat, that he threw the falsehood back in his teeth. Upon motion, the Senate went into secret session. Mr. Y ancey' was then appealed to adjust the matter, but reiterated what he had said, and took his seat. Thereupon, Mr. Hill threw a heavy glass inkstand, which struck Mr. Y. on the side of his face, bruising it and causing the blood to flow profusely, but not knocking him down, or doing any serious in jury. Mr. Yancey rushed at Mr. Hill, but was prevented from striking him, and here the fight ended. A committee was appointed, and retired to report what was due the Senate for a breach of decorum. A\ hilst they r were out various speeches were made to reconcile the parties. Mr. Yancey was, for a long time, inexorable, but when appeals were made to him as to the effect such a rupture would have upon the jause. he was disposed to yield to the impor tunities of friends. To aggravate the matter, the committee reported, censuring both par ties—Mr. Yancey for the language he had used, and Mr. llill for throwing the inkstand. Mr. Yancey protested against the report to the last; but it was finally accepted by the Senate, and was afterwards re-considered, and withdrawn, upon condition that he would not prosecute his claim fyr personal redress any further, lie reserving to himself the right to reply to Mr. Hill’s speech in public, which he afterwards did, in a powerful and most overwhelming effort. The Senate was en gaged from about noon till midnight in the settlement of the affair. Members were bound to secrecy, and no correct statement could be obtained except from some of them since the fall of the Con federacy’ has made all things public. The authentic report is probably among the pri vate papers of Mr. Y.. but our statement is sufficiently accurate for present purposes, be ing had from the memory' of a Senator who was an eye-witness, and is generally* careful of facts. It is thus apparent that this difficulty had no effect on Mr. Yancey’s rapid decline in health. In fact, abundant testimony could be adduced, if necessary, from his physicians here, to show that he had been a prey to dis ease for y'ears. lie had a violent attack of a spinal disease while he was canvassing for the Washington Monument after the Presi dential election in 1856, from which it was long doubted whether he would recover, and this completely racked and distorted his erect and small but powerful frame. He was af fected for many years with the disease of the kidney, from which he died. During his last illness his pains were most excruciating, but he bore himself like a true Christian states man, as he was, through all his sufferings.— lie was at times delirious with internal agony, and would make most eloquent speeches, and imagine himself in line of battle charging triumphantly on the enemies of his country. He never despaired, or for once faltered in his devotion to Southern independence ; but thought Mr. Davis wanting in forecast, vigor and popular sympathies for a great leader. As to his continuously' crying to be put out of sight, that is simply made out of whole cloth, and very thin texture at that. Mr. Y'ancey died, as he lived, loyal to his convictions. He forgave his enemies, and prayed God to forgive them for the miscon struction of his motives and his conduct. A simple marble slab was put over his grave, not because he wished his resting place hid from view, but because time was required to erect a suitable monument. —Montgomery Ad vertiser. A Mississippi planter stopping at the Arlington house, Washington, was bragging about the very superior quality of some grapes that he raised on his premises. Sena tor Morton happened to be standing near at the time, and carelessly putting in his oar, observed : “May I take the liberty of ask ing, sir, what kind of manure you use?” The Mississippian surveyed his questioner a few seconds, and then gravely replied: “Dead niggers.” The horrified senator fell back in good order, hauled a little blank book out of his coat pocket, and promptls made the following memoranda : “Speech— amnesty* impossible—south unconquered— democratic barbarities—Massacre of blacks ; dead niggers—Hamburg grapes.” —Brooklyn Argus. A Hawkinsville man named Joe B. King can play* the violin with his toes, pick the banjo, and play upon a harmonicon at one and the same time. An Affecting Scene. An exciting scene was witnessed in a New Orleans court-room the other day, the leading actors of which were a mother and her child! and a charitable lady. Some five months ago, Mr. Charles Astelle picked out of the street a half-naked and half-starved little girl of about seven years of age. This little waif of humanity was seemingly drifting about the city, without friends or a home. She was kindly cared for by Mrs. Astelle. and became warmly attached to her and her family’. About three months ago the mother of the waif came to the surface and visited the child. At first she was satisfied to allow her to remain in the home she had found, but as time passed on she desired the possession of the child. Mrs. Astelle raised no objections further than to advise that she be allowed to remain where she was. The mother was inexorable and determined to have her. In this she was foiled, as the child refused to go with the mother, and the mother was not strong enough to take her by force. Asa last resort, the mother, Pauline Gravies, applied for a writ of habeas corpus for her child, Cecile. During the hearing of the case in court, last week, the child broke out into violent sobbing, and, with tears streaming from her eyes, begged the Judge, in piteous tones, not to give iierto her mother. The little one, through her tears, said that her mother drank whisky and beat her, and that she was afraid of her. The Judge’s sym pathies were with the child, but he felt that he must obey the law, and so decided that the mother should have her child. The child sprang from her chair and fled, screaming with terror, to the Judge. She grasped his arm and clung to him, sobbing, begging, pleading that he would protect her. The Judge could stand it no longer. Ilis humanity overbalanced his respect for the law, and he reversed his decision, and com manded the child to be placed in the charge of the young lady who had brought her into court. A Canadian Hermit. The Toronto Globe describes a remarkable character in that vicinity, who about forty' years ago conceived the idea of leading a hermit's life. The y r outh from his early' age had showed symptoms of derangement, and this proceeding on his part was not consider ed strange by his friends. The chosen place of his hermitage was about three-quarters of a mile from his parental homestead, in the recess of a dense bush, where he erected a small hovel and furnished it with an old log canoe, which he used as a couch to sleep in. Divesting himself of all clothing he has ever since remained perfectly nude, with the ex ception of a tattered remnant of a shirt, which his fancy leads him to retain. In this nude state, for forty years lie has lived, walking in the depth of winter through the snow, and yet he has never been known to have received a frostbite.! When he requires a drink he walks deliberately into the river, it mattering not to him what season of the year it may be, and wades out till the water reaches his waist, and then he stoops and quenches his thirst. Ilis food is brought to him by his friends, and when given to him is eaten with the voraciousness of an animal, which lie now re sembles more than man, Ins body being as heavily coated with hair as that of a cow.— He never shows a dangerous disposition, and chatters in monosyllables. When people cross his path he invariably’ begs for tobacco, for which lie has an evident partiality, and in chattering tones will utter “bacca” until his request is granted. Ilis hair is long, gray and unkempt, falling far over his shoulders, and his beard, which is similar, reaches down below his waist. He is now between sixty' and seventy years of age, and is possibly the only living being ever known to have lived year after year perfectly naked and exposed to all the inclemencies of weather which mark the Canadian winter. Giving Does Not Impoverish. Christians might confirm their faith if they were observant of God’s dealings with them. For our own advantage, as well as the benefit of others, we should record the goodness and faithfulness of God as they come under our observation. It is pleasant to record such an incident as the following, which happened a short time ago. A gentleman sent five dollars to a benevo lent enterprise at a time when he could scarcely spare the money. The mail brought back a letter which was not only an expres sion of thanks, but a prayer that God would bless the giver. The statement was also made that prayer had been offered that he might not be a loser on account of his generosity. The thought that his little gift had awakened prayer in his behalf stirred the heart of the giver. lie felt it deeply*. He wondered if the particular petition would be answered.— This was toward the close of the week. On Saturday* afternoon he arranged to pay his hands according to his ordinary' custom. In an envelop addressed to each he placed the account of time and the money due. He hail scarcely returned to his office after passing through the shop, giving to each man his en velop, when one of the men came in, saying that he had, during the summer, at various times, lost an hour or so, of which no account had been taken. He had just reckoned up and found that the total loss of time amount ed to five dollars, which he handed over to his employ'er and withdrew. Here was just the sum given away, returned in an unexpect ed manner, and from an unexpected source. With his mind full of the praver, he could not help feeling that the answer had come. —New York Observer. IhP’A Recent visitor to the Dismal Swamp describes it, in Forest and Stream, as having lost none of the characteristics which gave it its name. Bears are not so plenty’ there as when the region was rarely' penetrated by man, yet they still afford sport for bnnters, Lake Drummond, once believed by the igno rant to be bottomless, is really not in any place more than fifteen feet deep. Its water, impregnated with the juices of juniper and gum leaves, is of the color of wine, and is drunk as a remedy* by oonsumptivos, LdP’Stnve to learn from all things. Do Not Sing That Song Again. BY HUGH F. M’DERMOTT. Do not sing that song again. For it fills my heart with pain ; I am bending to the blast. And it tells me of the past, Of the years of long ago, M hen my days were young and fair, And my heart was light as air— When one feeling tilled the breast, And one image gave it rest, In the long, long ago. Do not sing that song again. I have lived nay years in vain. And my* hair is thin and gray’, And I’m passing fast a wav ; On the dark and downward streams I’m a wreck of idle dreams ; And it puts me on the rack At the weary looking back. At the ebb and at the How In the long, long ago. Do not sing that song again, There’s a tear in it’s refrain ; It brings sadly back the time AN hen my* manhood felt its prime; AN hen the comrades, dear and true, Closer, warmer, fonder grew. In the hour of friendship's proof, AN hen the false ones stood aloof. And their friendship was but snow, In the long, long ago. Do not sing that song again, It distracts my weary brain. Ah, too well, alas ! f know It is time for me to go. And to leave to younger eyes The nrld myst’ry of the skies, And this mighty'world I tread, And the grander age ahead. There’s a mist upon the river. And there’s bleakness on the shore. And in dreams I pass forever, AATiile soft music wafts me o’er. “Stubborn Truth.” The Talbotton Standard slashes at the State Government in a very* indiscriminate manner : “Asa matter of stubborn truth we propose to mention a few of the terrible extravagances that characterize our “local self-government” in Georgia, showing at once that we are ahead of Egypt “or any other sea port town” in that line : Beginning with our Governor, we find that he occupies the chair at four thousand a year, which was once occupied by the best men the world ever saw at from two to three thousand. He lives in a mansion that cost the State SIOO,OOO ; but by a Rad ical, tis true, yet the present government does not seem inclined to sell out at a bar gain and practice economy, becoming our peo ple, by putting their servant in a smaller house. The Attorney General, the grandest sinecure ever perpetrated, wraps himself around $2,000 a year, when before Bullock’s reign such an officer was never heard of.— l his was created to fill up by some thieving Radical, and it is still retained by his econom! ical (?) administration. Next we have the Clerk of the Supreme Court with liis fat sal ary of $4,000 a year, when there are thou sands, as competent as he, would perform the duties for SBOO. Then we have a keeper of the public buildings witli a salary of $2,000 and an appropriation of $20,000 at his dis posal to keep things in order. The public printing has an appropriation of $20,000 a year, which is outrageous. The most gigantic frauds of all contain themselves in the De partment of Agriculture, State Geologist, and State Board of Health, which are supported at a cost of $25,000 a y’ear, and are worth about as much to the State as the office of Attorney’ General. The next we mention is enough to make any pure patriot cry out with pain : the Public School Fund, which is $150,- 000 a year. A grander swindle was never perpetrated upon any people, as it is operated. A public school system properly' managed is no doubt a beneficial thing, but the way ours is operated, we defy any' man to show us the good accruing from it. Our Legislatures cost us jnst $115,000 per annum, and the last one was not worth fifty cents to the State! The members receive a salary of seven dollars, when our best men once served for four, in day's of marked prosperity'.” Ahead of the Sea Serpent. At the extreme southwest of the wild coast of Clare stands the romantically situat ed Loop-Head Light House, in the vicinity of which are mighty rocks stretching ont into the Attic. One of these awoke the other morning to find itself famous (says the N. Y. TVorld.) for from it was seen a creature thus described : Its head and neck resemble a horse, and are of a reddish line ; it has short round ears and flowing mane, and from the poll extend two branching horns like that of a stag, underneath which wore eyes glaring and protruding. It made derectly for the narra tor, who was on the side of the steep rock. He at once ran out of reach of the monster, whose approach looked anything but friend ly. It then rose high out of the water and plunged with such force as to cause the water to fly so far and in such quantities as to drench the observer to the skin, he stan ding forty feet back from the water at the time. It remained near thirty or forty* min utes, never disappearing a moment from view, but rearing its huge body partly* out of the water, anrl giving a chance for further observation. It was observed to have the tail of a porpoise and two large fins from the shoulders, and on the breast were two large fatty lumps, which shook with every motion of the extraordinary creature. Young man, go to India ! It is the custom there for parents to pay men to marry their daughters. In Calcutta, recently, a rich Hin doo paid a man who came from a family of considerable distinction the sura of three hundred thousand dollars to marry his daugh ter. The fellow married the young girl, a mere child in years, and pocketed the money*. Within two years he had gambled away all this money and was in debt besides. In this strait he sent the girl to her parents’ home, demanding one hundred thousand dollars more as a condition of living with her longer. The proposition was indignantly rejected, and the discarded wife now remains at her pa rental home. It is a stigma upon a Hindoo family if the daughters are not married be fore arriving at the age of thirteen. S TERMS. $2.00 PER ANNUM. ) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. Important Case In Alabama. The following case, tried in the County Court at Huntsville, as reported by the Hunts ville Demodyti, will attract the attention of land owners : “ Sam Perkins, charged with removing mortgaged property, was acquitted. In this case, the question of the relation of landlord and tenant, and of tenants in common, was forcibly presented by Solicitor Davis for the State, and Messrs. Paul Jones and Irvine White for defendant. The evidence showed that the owner of the land furnished defend' ant work animals, farming implements ancf provisions to make a crop on shares, the own er of the land retained a mortgage on the crop to secure his share, and defendant re moved the crop without giving the owner his share. The owner prosecuted him under the statute forbiding tenants from removing crops until they have settled with their landlords. Solicitor Davis contended that the relation of landlord and tenant existed between the owner of the land and the defendant. Comv sel for defendant maintained that,under their contract, they did not occupy the relation of landlord and tenant, but of tenants in com mon ; and. therefore, one such tenant could not commit the offense defined in the statute, against his co-tenant. ,1 udge Pichardson sus tained the latter view, and discharged the defendant. The principle ts a very important one to owners of land, and it will be well for them to keep it in view in making contract* With parties to work their lands. We Must Act. During the short and precious time that is allowed us on earth, let us hasten to employ ourselves. \\ hile it remains to us, let us not fail to consecrate it to goodness. For, when everything else shall have vanished forever, the works of the just will follow them, even beyond this life. “We have been created in Jesus Christ unto good works, that we should walk in them that is to say, pass a whole life in this happy employment. Do good ac cording to the means which Clod has given, witli discretion ; because while charity ex tends its efforts for the Glory of God, it also regulates its exertions by the nature of the work, and by the condition of him who un dertakes it; it avoids disproportionate de signs. A\ ith courage ; not to weary in well doing. \\ ith perseverence ; for weak and yielding spirits very soon begin to turn back in their course. Occasions to do good are everywhere ; they surround us : it is the will that is needed. The deepest solitudes, when we have the least communication with others, will furnish means of doing good to our fel low beings, and of glorifying God. Home. A man went out to India to live there. lie had a very pleasant house, with a large gar den, and he and his wife and children lived very happily. At last, as the children grew up, the heat made them ill, and they became thin and weak, so that one day the doctor said, “If you wish your children to live, you must send them to England.” The poor man could not, leave his work in India, so he was obliged to send his wife and children away by themselves, and lie was left alone. The day after they had gone away a friend called upon him and said, “ what a pleasant house you have !” “Yes,” said the poor man. “but it was a home yesterday; now it is nothing but a house. My home is where my wife and chil dren are.” Home is not bricks and mortar, nor stone, but a place where our best friends are.— Heaven is our home, because Jesus, our best friend, and God, our Father, are there. His Lucid Explanation. A Chicago woman who had been reading about the whisky frauds in the paper, turned to her husband last evening and inquired : “My dear, what do the papers mean by saying that the man has ‘ squealed ?’ ” “ M hy,” replied the man loftily, *• they mean that some member of the ring has ‘peached’ on the rest.” “ Peached on the rest?” exclaimed the wife ; “ now what does that mean ?” “ Why, it means that he's—lie's ‘ blowed* on ’em.” “ Plowed on them.” “ Yes, you see he’s ‘given ’em away/" “ Given them away ?” “ W hy, of course—dammit! Can't yon understand anything ? Do you think I’m an unabridged dictionary ?” continued the hus band impatiently. “It means he's—he’s "let out on ’em'—‘gone back' or. his. "pals’— ‘ squealed’—you know ?” The woman did not seem quite satisfied with the man's lucid explanation ; but, not wishing to appear ignorant in her hnsband’s eyes, she remarked, “Ah, yes; I see L" and forbore further questioning.— Chicago JonrmiL Whose Child are You? Two cousins were on their way to school. It was a sharp morning : and the snow \fas crisp under their feet. Do yon want to know what they said ? ‘*l am going to try to do my best to-day, and all the days,” said one little cousin. “ I too,” answered the other; “for God wants ns to, doesn't He ?” “ W e are Satan's children if we are cross,” said one. “We are God's children if we are humble, and love good,” said the other. What a lovely temper to begin tfie day with ! BP Uncle Ben, a pious but practical old darkey preacher, with an eve to business, is doing a lively trade at Jacksonville, Fla., in the soap line. During his revival services, he says to his sin-burdened hearers: “Hre deren, dis unctions lubricator am called by 1 Laron Gill de Johnson’s patent borax soap. It am no use a talking, yous can’t be good Christians unless you am clean. De htb of God ain't a gwyne to penetrate skins dat am crusted wid de dust ob ages. Dis vea soap will scrub dc barnaelesob sin from your dirty hides, an wash you clean ashore on de rock ob ages. So pass up your stamps, brederen, and give de ole man a fair chance.” Orange culture has been tried in Georgia with success, and the fruit is said to rival that of Florida. NUMBER 35.